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*•**&*. ktuL\ .'• H.. FIRST PRIZE SECOND PRIZE THIRD PMZE FOURTH PRIZE Days of Steam About Endzct: Electric Pome®talake Its Place Poor, old fashioned, clumsy, and in efficient steam power! It had a hard day. .yesterday, and its hardest: days are still ahead, in the opinion of Dr. C. -B. Steinnjetz, the 'Edison" of the insiders in the electric field. Besides being chief, electrical engi neer of one of the greatest elctrical concerns of' te-warifij Dr. Steinmetz is also responsible for a. Hit of- pat ent rights. Hardly four feet tall, wearing the samer fierce black, beard and wire like pompadour and the same pierc ing gray eyes that* alone would make any passerby turn and stare, -he was even more impressive as he leaned on the back of his chair yesterday and in the most commonplace tones, re divided the periods of civilization in to the time before and after the de velopment- of- electricity., re-named the mest important date in American history, as- the time when electrical 5 LECTURE SJllllSllt Presents for All That Will. Write Answers to Our Problems. To Every School Pupil Under 19 years of Age That Sends an Ans wer The Leader Will Send a Beautiful Christmas Gait* Free. HERE ARE THE PROBLEMS A North Dakota farmer took, a wagon load of wheat contain ing- 62 bushels to an elevator where the wheat was. graded No. 4 and docked 6 pounds. Two days later he took another wagon load, 52 bushels, of the same wheat to another elevator and it was graded No. 2 and paid for at the price of No 1, while it was docked only one-half pounds. Between the price recei%ed for the first load, and the net price received for the Second load, allowing for fluctuations of the market meanwhile, was a net actual difference of §9.87. Suppose the total wheat crop of North Dakota to ba 110, 000,000 bushels. Suppose it all to be put into wagons containing 52 bushels each. Suppose that because of misgrading and. dockage there is lost to the farmers that raised it $9.87 on every second wagon load. HERE-ARE THE QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED: 1. What would be the-total amount of loss in dollars to the farmers of North Dakota in Dockage and Grading Alone? 2. How many automobiles at $460 e$ch would that amount buy? 3. How many boys and girls would that amount send, to col lege, for four years at $400 per year? 4. If it costs' §100 for a month's vacation for a farmer's THE NONPARTISAN LEAOER development work was undertaken, and predicted the end of human drudgery, slums and steam railroads. Electricity Changing Wdrtd "Gentlemen," he said, in address ing-the members of the Eleetric club Jovian league at "the Hotel Sher man. "can't you see the face of the earth changing before your very eyes? It is changing the city, the factory, and the home, just as radi cally as steam changed it. "Steam built up our great: cities with our congestion dnd slums. Elec tricity. will break them down and seat ter the population evenly over =the continent, because electricity can be transmitted anywhere by sin-.pl« traifcttMseien wires* Steam must be used where generated, and where there is a large labor supply. Chap. Land to Decide "With full electrical development, the labor supply need not be right iat the factory door. It can be moved cheaply and quickly morning: and evening. There will ba„ no. necessity for locating near where the power can be produced the cheapest, as in the steam factory, because the power can be carried over the wires. The factories will then go where the Iannis cheapest. Bleetricity will run errands in the home. 5 Sfcfaoal Ses&ien* will'be held each afternoon at 2:30 and evening at 7iS6, fbr fiv»- coneeeuttve days, Monday to Friday, inclusive. Theseadtasl* will: he definitely. locsted and: dated, when at least fifty sttLttBtshawfr bwen etwolled for a Scfaooiin a certain locality. Special cash prizes: will' be given away for the best papers on various* sufejeets, as outlined in printed literature. A complete course of study will be furnished, to teach farmers How FaArmers can Co-operate to Increase Farm Profits. READ THIS ALL YOUNG PEOPLE Twenty Dollars in Gold, Ten Dollars- in Gold Five Dollars in Gold Three Dollars 2 tend 1 W wife and three children how many such mothers would be able with this amount to enjoy a, vacation of travel and recreation? 5. How many membership^ in the Nonpartisan League would the amount pay for at $6 each. How many at $10 each? 6. If the farmers of North Dakota were to establish their own elevators would they not eliminate the loss they now sustain in dockage and in grading by privately owned elevators? 7. What is a parasite? 8. How many newspapers now published in the state of North Dakota have advocated the abolition of the present system of dockage and misgrading of grain? Why have not the others done so? 9. If the farmers, who comprise 73 percent of the population, stick together, can they or can they not change the laws of North Dakota so that they will retain for themselves and their families the money that is now taken from them by the present system of docking and misgrading of grain? HOLES AND CONDITIONS OF THE CONTEST' Write plainly. Give name, po&ioific© address, county and state. Contest open to all school boys and school girls under the age of nineteen ynars. All replies will be considered that reach the office of the Nonpartisan Leader in Farge n»t later than 12 o'dwk noen on December 15. Each contestant will be allowed to send but one set of answers.. Neatness in writing and brevity of statement will be favor ably considered. Write on one side only: o£ the p*per.. Mail Answers to "Contest Editor',' Nonpartisan Leader, Box 919, Fargo, North Dakota. Names of the winners will hie printed in the ^Leader of December 29. We invite all our young friends to enter this contest. All awards will be strictly on merit. The cost is all that is standing in the way. But the high cost is due to the limited use of the electrical motor rather than any natural disa bility. It is as simple as an alarm dock, and should and would be as cheap if it were used as generally. All we need- is better distribution. .The more we use the lower the-cost per unit and the more electricity will supplant steam. and hand pow •esr," just as steam once supplanted hand* power. Br. "Sfceinmetz also, paid hie re spects to the plan of- an advisory Hoard of civilian inventors for. the riavy. "G&Kgrew would geir mueh better results in titer longrun if it gttye alii the money to the expert naval board and let them spiend: it. unhampered. If the board, needed any help it could invite the men in industrial A^ork to submit ideas." IMPOSTAttT ELECTIONS Eight states held elections Tues day, November 2. Municipal home rule, income tax, the referendum, woman suffrage and prohibitin are ^arnong the important constitutional issues voted upon in five states, New York, Tvlassachusetfs, Maryland Penn sylvania and Ohio. Vafogfteity,NvD Argusville, N. D. Velva, N. D. Fargo, N. D. and Treas.?MmotN. D. S S RURAL CREDITS CHARTERED 1915 CO-OPERATION =5*' PARMJERS RURAL CREDIT ASSOCIATION! BnraL Credits, Farm necessities, Ptodiution, Marketing, Taxatiim, Go-operation, Farm Organizational Financing, Farm Busing W E S SO N 2 Vi re A A E S S O AN S it I Me A£ $S9(M)89 MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA 5= .. I am in favor of Farmers Schoote to teacfa Farmers how to .' .• Co-operateta Ineronee Farm Profits Eh^y mail me full particulars. Name Address '^r- Governors were elected^ in four states, Mississippi, Kentucky, Mary land ad Massachusetts. And in six states, New York, Miss, issippi, Maryland, Kentucky, Massa chusetts and Nfew Jfersey state legis latures are to Be ©levied, in whol£ or in part. People, who laugh at the. idea of the farmers' organizing are the first to sneer when they don't. Write and tell a friend in some other state about the Leader. Tell his' to subscribe* For years the. farmer hath tried, to separate WILD oats from his seed with fan ning mills and grad- Wehave ere yet in the fell fflf learned' lf"W f-r. that it takes a V^Cllo special separator to do this perfectly. We are now putting on the mar ket what is known as the Cotton Flan nel Lined Drum, highly recommended by agriculturists and seed men, Did you see it on demonstration at your State Fair? Write for catalogue today. Address, Hoilnnd Wild Oata Separator Mfg., Fargo, N. Dak. ©veB Under the Direction of This Association FREE HMFQMMEHIM BLAME Farmers' Rural Credit Association, Write name and address plainly, cut oi»t, then mail in for free information covering Farmers'Schools. 4 S 4 if* U*.*" c.% 't 1 JK.r •. A Strl