The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, April 18, 1921, Page 2

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Civen "foruh?uu eewaa‘:afi%“'m% A Talk With Our Readers BY OLIVER S. MORRIS, EDITOR One of the biggest things that has happened since the Nonpartisan league was first organized is the present movement among grain growers for co- operative marketing of their season’s crop. The Leader certainly wishes pro- ducers the success they richly deserve. Whether the joint marketing movement will be successful or not will de- pend, of course, upon two things—whether the right plan is adopted and whether the right men are in charge of it. The Leader believes that all farm- ers are entitled to the fullest possible information on both phases of the question. * * * * * United States Senator Ladd explained the “Committee of Seventeen” plan in the last issue of the Leader. In this issue Chairman C. H. Gustafson goes into further details. b Some objection to the “Committee of Seventeen” plan has been voiced by farmers because of the provision for a five-year contract. We may be right or wrong, but it seems to us that this is a matter that depends principally upon the men who are put in charge of the national sales agency. If such men can not be trusted by the farmers the whole plan mxght as well be abandoned right now. If they can be trusted they should be given a reasonable amount of con- fidence. Jealousy and distrust have broken up more organizations than any other causes. * * £ * * The “Committee of Seventeen” plan is largely modeled after the marketing plans adopted by California fruit growers. The grain growers, therefore, should know just what the California fruit men have done. In this issue of the Leader we are telling about the experience of the California peach producers. In the next issue we will try to find space to tell about a still larger co-operative marketing movement—the marketing of California raisins. Wylie M. Giffen, the president of the raisin growers’ marketing system, has written the story of their fight and success—a story that will interest grain men especially at this time. 2 i . . < ¢ Although the “Committee of Seventeen” plan goes much farther than any- thing that has been attempted before, grain growers have actually been co- operatmg to a large extent in marketing their product for some years. In going into the new plan farmers ought to know the difficulties that have been faced by the pioneers in the grain co-operative movement and how these diffi- culties have been surmounted. Therefore the Leader is arranging for one or more articles, to be printed in early issues, telling in detail the fight that the co-operators of the grain belt already have made and the success they have won. * * * * * In the last issue of the Leader we asked our readers whether we should ask Dr. Ladd (who is Senator Ladd now) to write us regular letters from Washington, D. C., telling what is going on at the national capital, especially what is going on that affects the farmers. Apparently everybody wants Sena- tor Ladd to do this. So we have asked the senator to write us regular letters and the senator has said that if the farmers want him to do it he will do his best. So look for Senator Ladd’s letter in the next Leader. * * * * */ . A lot of farmers never knew what gasoline was until they read a recent article in the Leader and found out that it was half kerosene. They also found out how North Dakota was meeting the situation with its “pure gas” law. There is another substance in pretty general use about which the ordinary man knows comparatively little and that is Portland cement. With nearly every state spending millions of dollars for hard- surfaced roads it is going to be increasingly important to know what cement is made of. Maybe we will have to have a “pure cement” law as well as a “pure gas” law. Anyhow, the Leader in an early issue will tell something about the cement question that we think will interest every reader. g * £ % * * - Here is some good news for Leader readers—we will have more of John Baer’s cartoons. John has been having some trouble with his eyes but he writes us that he has a pair of new specs now and will be able to give us more drawings. We have a few less cartoons than usual in this issue but we will more than make up for the difference in the next two or three numbers. * % * 3k * ¢ "There is nothing that the editor of the Leader appreciates more than the letters from farmers from all parts of the United States. Sometimes we get lefters from farmers as far away as South Africa and Australia. We think the readers of the Leader like these letters, too, and we try to reproduce as many as possible. For the last few weeks, however, the letters have been piling up at a frightful rate. In this issue we print as many as we can, and we think they are about the most interesting, part of the paper. Keep on writing us and we will try to make the Leader what it should be—the voice of the farmers of America. * % * * * Readers of the Leader have been doing splendid work in helping the Leader get new advertisers. For some weeks we have made no reference to this campaign. There was a reason. The supply of cartoons that we offered to readers who helped us ran out. But now we have a few extra cartoons in, both by Baer and Morris, and we are going to renew our offer. This is—to every reader of the Leader who will write some business firm that has products to sell to farmers but does not advertise in the Nonpartisan Leader, and will tell this business man why he should advertise his products in the Leader, we will send one of these original autographed cartoons. Send us a copy of the letter you have wrxtten the business firm so we can see what you said. Many readers of the Leader write us that they give their copies to nelgh- bors as soon as they are through reading them. Some mail them to friends in other states. This is fine. Wouldn't it also be a good idea, after the friend or neighbor has had a chance to learn what the Leader is hke, to subseribe to it for himself - Suppose you suggest that the next time you pass your Leader on. Two copies of the Leader will do just twice as much work as one copy. PAGE TWO ADVERTISEMENTS Easy Now to Rld YourFarmofRats Wonderful Discovery by Noted Scientist Kills Every Rat Within a Week’s Time— Not a Poison. Rats cost farmers over two hundred millions of dollars a year; through the destruction of grain, poultry and build- ings. Farmers need no longer suffer this loss because they can now kill off all the rats on their farm in less than a week’s time. This is possible through the remarkable discovery of E. R. Alexander, a Kansas City chemist, who has perfected a virus which kllls -rats, mice and gophers as though by magic. This product is not a poison— it can be eaten by human beings or any animal on the farm as safely as their regular food, but means quick," sure death to rats This wonderful rat virus, which is known as. Alexander Rat-Killer, is merely mixed with bread or meat scraps and placed where rats, mice or gophers can get to it. hours after a rat has eaten Alexander Rat-Killer he gets a high fever and suffers a terrible thirst. He leaves the barns and nesting holes and goes to the -open fields in search of pure air and running water. Rats and mice affect- ed always die away from the barns and houses, so there is no odor. It is a scientific fact that one rat affects others and soon the whole col- ony leaves the buildings and dies. And though this virus is absolutely deadly to rats—chickens, hogs, cattle or any farm animal can eat it and not be af- fected at all. So confident is Mr. Alexander that Alexander Rat-Killer will kill every rat on your farm in less than a week’s time that he offers to.send, as an in- troductory offer, a regular $2 00 tube for only §1.00. Give it according to directions, and if at the end of a week’s time you are able to discover any rats, mice or gophers on your farm, your money will be refunded. A big Kansag City bank guarantees that Mr. Alex- ander is reliable and will do as he says. Send NO MONEY. Just write to E. R. Alexander, Alexander Laboratories, 118 Gate- way Station, Kansas City, Mo., and the tube will be mailed at once. When it arrives, pay the postman only one dollar and postage,on the guarantee that if not absolutely satisfac- tory your money will be returned without ques- tion. Write today—a postcard will do—and stop your rat losses now. From Factory to Farmer Now at Pre-War Prices Auto trailers at $38.75 and up. Flare bodies l'or Ford rnadsvers and Model T Chassis, $9 $10. Farm wagon boxes, 1l4-inch single, $I8 50, 26- inch double, $24.75; 32-inch triple, $31.75. ~ Write for free circular and full de- scriptive matter, Hoof Manufacturing Co. Plato, Minnesota . o Eels, Mink, Muskrats and aAlcC other fur-bearing animals 3.ip large numbers, with the New, Folding, Galvamzed Steel Wire 'h'an. It oatohes thems liko & By trap caconen s, |t e it allsizes. Write for escr ptivegrice list, and free klhe‘ on beut bait known for attracting all kin . F.Gregsoy, Dept. 255 Lebanon,Mo. prsmsse il bt bt ndlh L woris vy s irpnd Fleming’s Actinoform, for L“mp Jaw J“m:.gistnnmud %g back i{ it hlla SendlorFREEVelt ock t e sy el Veterinnr Adv:ar De- MIIIG IROTNER..S“M Stock Yerds, Within a few’ Mention the Leader When Writing Advertisers