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Horsehide mitts, wool lined Double palm chopper mitts fi; Woolmix union suits, fine quality Army wool undershirts or drawers Army hi ts, worth U. 8. A. working shoes, chocolate color Officers® chocolate colored shoes, special Four-buckle, all rubber overshoes ... Ay, ‘ool Tiis; G0ubls biosEre. .. rmy, wool finish, . . Australian wool double blankets, 5 pounds 0., D. wool breeches, sale A 0, D. wool trousers, long, heavy, gale ..., Include postage. Send draft or money order. Reference: Capital National Bank. U. S. SALVAGE COMPANY Wabasha St. E. Cor. 10th, St. Paul, Minn. FARMERS AND TRAPPERS: ATTENTION! Don’t sell hides and furs under prevailing low market, us-tan them either into fur sets, robes, coats or leather and use same to a good advan- tage instead ot sacrificing them at the present low prices. Send for free price list and tags, If you pxr-lefar selling we always pay the highest market i ce, ARCK HIDE & F o e B‘-vs-Bhlurek. N. D. a% oa FREE cziive EASTHAN Pack Camera, for seiling 24 1: colored mnwflpk’al:mnrdaat @ATES MFG. C0., DEFT. 500 HOMESPUN TOBACCO—10 1bs., $2.50; 20 1bs., $4.00; Mention the Leader When Writing Advertisers Mr. Taft Apologizés to Macdonald . Former President of the United States Withdraws Attack | on Former State Official Elected by League ORMER “PRESIDENT WILLIAM = HOWARD TAFT has issued'a com- plete retraction of state- ments which he made in a newspaper article last December, attacking - Neil C. Mac- donald, a former North Dakota state official. S In the article published last Decem- ber Mr. Taft stated: 2 : “The League had put in"at the head of the schools 2 man who abused his power by . introducing a textbook and as propaganda some very pernicious doctrines with reference to the family .and he was finally beaten for the place by, & woman: who had attacked his ‘course.” The attention of the editor of the Leader was called to this statement. We wrote Mr., Taft, pointing out, that he very plainly referred-to Mr. Mac- donald, who. was' elected state superin- tendent of schools by the League in North Dakota in 1916, being defeated for re-election in 1918 by Miss Minnie J. Neilson, and calling Mr. Taft’s at- tention to the fact that he had made a misstatement.- In reply we received a letter from Mr, Taft, stating that he had been given the information used in his artieles on North Dakota by per- sons in whom he had placed confidence, but that he would investigate and if he found he was mistaken, he would correct his statement. Mr. Taft has eévidently diseovered that he had been grossly misinformed by enemies of the League. In his re- traction he quotes from his former article (as quoted above) and adds: “This was part of an extended re- view by me and an attempted explana- tion of the last November elections in North Dakota. * * * The passage quoted does the grossest injustice to The facts are, as every Leaguer knows, that an investigating commit- tee appointed by the house of repre- sentatives of North Dakota, consisting of three Leaguers -and two anti- Leaguers, one of whom later became the anti-League candidate for gover- nor, issued unanimous findings in the case in question, declaring that anti- | League members of the legislature who had insinuated that unfit ‘books. were in- the library had. refused to make such'charges when brought be- | fore the committee. ~Furthermore it .turned out that a majority of the works of Ellen Key, the writer whose books were called “immoral” by the * anti-Leaguers, had been placed in the " state library, not by the League but | : professor.” by the former anti-League adminis- tration. - ; : . GETS FALSE INFORMATION FROM LEAGUE ENEMIES . Mr, Taft has previously gottem into trouble by accepting the “dope”. of anti-League interests in North Dakota as true. A few months ago he re- ferred to Senator Ladd as “a political After Dr. Ladd had been elected to the senate Mr. Taft spoke ' of him as a “very able man.” The editor of the Leader has writ-. | the then assistant superintendent of- schools, who was beaten in the election of 1918. That gentleman did not seek to introduce any textbooks or inau- - gurate any propaganda of the charac- ter described. An issue had been made in the politics of the state against the state government on the. ground that an official in another de- partment of that government, engaged in the purchase of books for the cir- culating state libraries, bought and- put into them books of the character above described. This resulted in an investigation and the resignation of the official charged. - MR. TAFT STILL GETS SOME MATTERS WRONG -“This matter did not, however, in- volve the then assistant superintend- ent of schools in_any way. I wish, therefore, to make the fullest apology and retraction possible for this confu- sion and inexcusable mistake on my part and for the very grave injustice done to a gentleman whose standing as an educator is excellent and whose character is high and unimpeachable. I have sent him an apology and the expression of my deep regret that I should have made such & statement. “The gentleman is now a respected member of the body of ‘graduate-stu- dents pursuing their studies in the de- partment of education in a great uni- versity and adequate inquiry gives full _assurance of his profegsional and per- sonal standing.” i In making this correction and re- traction Mr. Taft conveys the insinua- - tion that there was some truth to charges that unfit-books were placed in the state circulating library, though he admits that his former charge, that such books were placed in the schools, Wwas incorrect. . Moreover, his wheat, threshed from, ‘wishes, © - - It will be noted that in the state- ment of correction above My, Taft speaks of Mr. Macdonald-as “assistant superintendent of schools.” . He was state superintendent, and not assjst- ten Mr. Taft, thanking him for his manly retraction, and-suggesting that if-he desires:to get the: FACTS about North Dakota, instead of fiction, he write to us to get the information he - SMUT FAN SAVES MONEY From an insurance rate amounting to $80 per thousand to nothing is quite a drop, but E. J. Doneen, president of the Whitman County Farmers’ union of Oaksdale, Wash., asserts that the smut-collecting fan devised by the ‘ex- perts of the United States department of agriculture has done that for him. very smutty grain, sold at @ discount of only 1 per cent. - Addressing a farmers’ meeting at Walla Walla, Wash., Mr. Doneen told his audience: “I started threshing on the worst place on my farm, where the grain contained from 17 to 20 per cent smut heads, and by using the smut fan ran the smut out through a pipe 10 inches in diameter. At first the smut was simply scattered over the field, but later we put the end of the pipe under the stack, thus preventing the spread of the smut spores. ; . “We ran the machine for 31 days and had no fires or explosions, al- though there were 16 explosions in the district last year. I sold the wheat at only-1 per cent discount, whereas without the smut, fan I would have been docked ‘at least 10 cents a bushel.” SACRAMENTO TRIES NEW PLAN By a vote of 7,962 to 1,587 the city of Sacramento, capital of California, has addpted a new city charter provid- ing for the city manager plan of gov- ‘ernment and for proportional repre- * sentation. Sacramento is the largest city in the United -States to adopt pro- portional representation, which gives- every political group representation in the city ‘government in proportion - to the number of votes cast. This makes _minority rule, - which often occurs when three or more political groups contect for offices, impossible.... 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