The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 13, 1920, Page 11

s o e i <, o S R 2 (R i o i R A v % 3 o .. £ o 4 o 1 g 2 3 A i o o gL i 'z W ] Y 1 o v ’%‘f“ 3 S New York Hails Doctor Ladd “Marked Addition to the Senate,” Says Metropolitan Paper —Readers Appreclate Fairness LTHOUGH northwestern papers refuse to give the farmers credit for elect- ing to office men of the high type of Governor Frazier of North Dakota, Governor-elect Blaine of Wisconsin and Senator-elect: Ladd of North Dakota, New York papers are not quite so un- fair. The New York Evening Post, in an editorial headed “From ‘Sockless Simpson to Doctor Ladd,” said re- cently: “After March 4 next the Nonparti- san league will be represented by its - first .United States senator—Doctor E. F. Ladd takes Gronna’s place for North Dakota. The ghost of Justin Morrill should be there to see the first presi- dent of a land-grant college. enter the senate. Doctor Ladd’s election illumi- nates two important facts: The leader- ship won by teachers of agricultural science, whom. farmers distrusted two decades ago, and the new character of the exponents in politics whom so-call- ed ‘radical’ farmers are choosing. “The day of the Jerry Simpsons, Pfeffers and Mrs. Leases is forever past. . Doctor Ladd earned his place in North Dakota politics not by agitation but by scientific work that has added tens of millions to state wealth. He and his associates showed farmers how the system of shipping their grain outside, instead 'of milling it near home and using by-products to feed stock, was costing enormous sums by reduc- ing soil fertility. He showed the in- Justice of the Minneapolis grain grad-- ing by which wheat was priced accord- ! ing to arbitrary classifications, not ac- cording to flour value. Hence the movement for home elevators, mills and state laws upon grain :grading. He fought the unjust freight differ- entials. All the while he and other: experts were helping farmers produce more by improving flax strams, propa- gating better wheat and ralsmg live- stock standards. GOVERNOR FRAZIER IS ALSO PRAISED “Governor Frazier of North Dakota is an agricultural college graduate. So is Premier Drury of Ontario. So is a large part of the ministry which the United Farmers swept into office with Drury. There are indications that. the farmers will resume a’ prominent part in politics, and the new type of well- educated leader is needed. Doctor Ladd is a marked addition to the senate. He will represent not so much the Nonpartisan‘league as the whole farming population of the Northwest. | ; This population has emerged from the war with a feeling that in definite ways it is not getting a square deal, and it -should ‘have its voice in Washington.” That the fair-minded public appre- ciates a square deal for the northwest- “ern farmers is shown by the following letter which appeared in the columns of the Post a few days later: “To the Editor of the Evening Post: 3 There are many people, I believe, who, though ta no part in any active ef- fort toward i ved economic or so- cial conditions, arémevyertheless deeply gratified at such evid as is exhibited in your edithal on the National Nonpartisan league’s candidate for the senate, Doct Ladd.> - “In the welter of the partisan’ and % the inspired criticism of the Nonparti- . san league, which (with a few rare ex- ceptions) has been the only side of the : that take to express a fair judgment on this mu(,h misrepresented American farm- ers’ movement for the ehmmatlon of the food speculator. 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Now the cycle of a new year looms ahead, and we must prepare to gather the fruits of 1921, It is a time when conservative manufacturing enterpmses and business houses are reviewing the past, taking stock of . resources, and building future campaigns. Leaks are stopped, needs are reckoned with, and plans are made thh extreme care, Winter is the best time in most sections for complete farm inventory, for overhauling machines and making repairs, for accurate reckoning of profit and loss, for plan- ning crop changes, for dlscardmg old habxts and considering new methods. Every farmer knows this. It is good to see that there is more and more definite planning of full year’s work at the close of every December, on the farms of America. It is so easy a matter to slide through the comparative resting - period of Winter, and then Spring with its hundred duties bursts forth and finds many important matters and details unattended to. - We are glad to note this trend toward busmess-farmmg because we hope to be allied with Agriculture many more - years and because our interests are so closely mingled with the interests of the farming world. So then, while we are setting our own house in orderfor 1921, we pause to publish the hope that you, the reader, may set forth into a new year of farming enterprise with all plans laid for amost profitable twelve-month. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY OF AMERICA ; 5 USA CHICAGO (1NcoRPORATED) aseuv scnool. OF uonsEMlmtlm“ Ohlo Mention the Leader When Writing Advertisers » ol