The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 26, 1920, Page 11

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Reference: Security State Bank, or tropolitan Bank. for our free catalog containing thousands of bargains. “Deal with Pleason and be pleased.” PLEASON ARMY MARKET 358-360 Market St., Desk P. ST. PAUL, MINN. Saws 25 Cords a Day ' The Ottawa Lo, z Saw falls tiees or cuts off stum, Ps level with ground, Saws up logs, cuts: uiv branches. entwr, runs pump jack and otherbehmnc hin, Mounte wheels. aay to move nng::ere 10 Yenr Gnnnntee UDlyn te for Free Book and Cashor Easy Terms. O“I‘AWAMFO.GO- 2341 Wood St., Ottawa, Kansa. RMY GOODS BY MAIL 100 Bargains—Send 4 cents for'Circulars ST. PAUL SALVAGE BARGAIN HOUSE Dept. E, 219 E. Seventh St.. St. Paul, Minn. Mention the Leader When Writing Advertisers ] S of. He was in North Dakota in 1915 when the League first statted, study- ing condltlons, and spent con51derab1e time in the state in 1916, watching the movement. Since then he has made several trips to the state and kept in close touch with all its activi- ties. He writes with an mtlmate, first-hand knowledge. Mr. Russell has searched court leg- islative, congressional, government and other public records. He has stud- ied the program, activities and ac- complishments of older farmer organ- izations which preceded the League or were functioning when the League started. The mass of evidence con- cerning the mill and elevator and financial combines brought out in leg- islative and congressional investiga- tions for 20 years back, while the farmers were groping for a way out of their difficulties, has been studied by him, and all its important facts are presented to form a part of his in- tensely mterestmg account of busi- ness and economic. conditions prior to the coming of the League. This is the strength of his book—its painting in of the background out of which stands the Nonpartisan league in the finished picture. The story of the formation of the League and its history to date are told in the concluding chapters, in- cluding an able and complete analysis of the laws passed in North Dakota to carry out the League program. It is in its study of the League laws also that the book is invaluable. But one really needs Mr. Gaston’s book also. Mr. Gaston makes no attempt at full analysis or interpretation of economic conditions existing prior to the League, and contents himself with merely summarizing the League laws. But his “running story” of the League, his narrative of. events, is more com- plete and perhaps more interesting than Mr. Russell’s. Mr. Russell’s mission was to make the economics of this great organized farmers’ move- ment interesting and understandable, even to those whose learning does not go beyond the ability to read the Eng- lish language. Mr. Gaston’s was to tell the story of the formation and ac- tivities of the League, and the activi- ties of its enemies, as a reporter on the ground would write of a battle. Both have succeeded. ANOTHER BOOK ON LEAGUE (EDITOR’S NOTE: Mr. Thomason’s ok, reviewed below. can be purchased, paper bound, for $1, from the author, 0 3 Thomason, Box 2072, Minneapolis, Minn.) O. M. Thomason, Nonpartisan league lecturer and organizer, is another who has written a book on the farmers’ movement, called “The Beginning and End of the Nonparti- san League,” published by himself. He has produced a unique work—a sort of half-fiction, half-fact story. The first part. of the book is really and frankly a novel, based on the life and experiences of A. C. Townley prior to his organization of the League. The hero is Arthur C. Parker, plainly meant to typify Mr. Townley. And there is no attempt to disguise the fact that Bert Owen is meant for Al- bert E. Bowen, one of the original or- ganizers of the League with Mr. Townley. This part of the book, while taking the novelist’s liberty of occasionally suiting the facts to his story, instead of his story to the facts, nevertheless gives a lively and intimate picture of farmer experiences with adverse con- ditions. The spirit of it is true to life and it is written with no little literary merit. Bowen (Owen in the story) never lived in Golden Valley county with Townley (Parker), but Thomason makes him a neighbor there, and he has otherwise taken liberty with the facts. In the latter part of the book Mr. Thomason briefly sketches the career of the League and describes its pro- gram as enacted into law in North Da- kota. Some of the events and facts are not stated carefully. The author had a big idea in the plan of writing a novel based on Mr. Townley and the League, and one can not help but wish that Mr. Thomason had carried the idea out throughout the book, instead of starting as a novel and ending as a sort of history. Even in the frankly fiction part of the book many real names and places are used, marring the unity and consistency of the work. Mr. Thomason is well known among Leaguers as author of the humorous “Rip the Reporter” stories which have appeared in League publications, and it was undoubtedly in his character of humorist that he made his title, “The Beginning and END of the Nonparti- san League.” There is no prediction of the “end” in the book, and the title is doubtless a practical joke on League opponents, who will naturally want to buy ANY book that predicts the end of the farmers’ movement. Mr. Thomason’s book is well worth reading and undoubtedly will have a large sale. IMPORTED ALFALFA SEED A warning that much of the alfalfa seed now on the market is of foreign origin and is inferior to good domestic varieties has been issued by the gov- ernment. Since July, 1919, more than 15,000,- 000 pounds of alfalfa seed have been imported, about one-fifth of which has come from Turkestan, in central Asia. In: the central and southern states our native varieties are said to pro- duce higher hay yields, and in the northern states the Grimm alfalfa is decidedly superior in hardiness and hay yield to the Turkestan variety. Consequently if it is bought the price should be decidedly lower. - Commercial Turkestan alfalfa can be most easily recognized by the pres- ence of Russian knapweed seeds, which are slightly larger than our al- falfa, chalky white in color and slight- ly wedge-shaped, which distinguishes them from the notched seed of other species of knapweed. The department of agriculture, Washington, D. C., has issued a bul- letin on the subject and its seed lab- oratories offer to inspect samples of seed sent in for analysis. STUDYING POLITICS TOGETHER Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Please let me offer a suggestion to the League members in general. I find it good policy to read the political articles in both the daily and week- ly papers to my wife. Why? Be- cause some day soon she is going to have the right to vote and in the past she has taken very little interest in things political. And by reading the articles to her I can so much better comprehend their full meaning. An article read aloud appeals to both the reader’s and listener’s intel- lect with almost the same force as the spoken word of a lecturer. Just try it, fellow Leaguers, and feel the sat- isfaction of knowing that your wife can go to the polls this fall and vote just as intelligently as you can, if not more So. J. S. CHANDLER. 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