The producers news. [volume], June 28, 1918, Page 6, Image 6

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.By Ouaý
Washington, D. C., June 26.-The
announcement that the government
has taken over the -management of
the stockyards of the country is
being hailed as one, of the most
significant steps in tablishing war
elliciency that has been adopted by
the government. The president is
sued his proclamation under power
granted him by congress last Aug
ust to control food products in the
interest of National security and
defense. Under the new order the
Secretary of Agriculture is given
control of the stockyards much as
Mr. McAdoo now has charge of the
railroads.
This measure is in line with the
demands of the Nonpartisan League,
which has maintained through its
newspapers and its speakers that it
was necessary for war efficiency
that not only the stockyards, but the
packing plants, as well, should be
taken over and operated by the gov
able agitation for the latter, and,
ernment. There has been consider
whether it will follow is a question
which time alone will determine.
Recent government investigations
disdosed that the largest of the
stockyards *ere under the same
ownership as the packing plants,
which gave to large buyers undue in
fluence in the market. One fact
which shows how arbitrary their
rule has been is the action of the
commission merchants .who declared
in favor of government operation of
the stockyards at their recent con
vention.
ORNAMENTAL ONES
ARE CUT OFF
Railroad presidents who held their
jobs because they were close to the
large financial groups of the money
.centers have been dismissed by Sec
retary McAdoo, railway administra
tor. Instead of presidents at $100,
000 a year these men will become
managers at not over $20,000 a year,
if they know anything about rail
roading. If not their places will be
taken by vice-presidents who do un
derstand the business.
There is grim humor in this re
moval of the presidents from their
financial thrones. Mr. McAdoo tells
them that railroads must be run
hereafter by woi Jngmen who under
stand railroading and intimates that
thq dollar-a-year idea will appeal to
them, now that the railways are a
part of the government service.
The railroad- world is full of good
executives ready to take the jobs at
the salaries offered, men who under
.itoid the business, and who will be
more concerned in making the gov
ernment operation a success than
they will be in drawing their sal
aries.
One of the apparent stumbling
blocks at the beginning, in the way
of successful government operation
of railroads, was the open hostility
or the halfhearted cooperation of
the railway presidents , to the new
polic. In many cases they acqui
asced in government management,
and accepted it as a policy during
the war, with the understanding In
their minds that as soon as the war
was over everything was to go back
to the old standards and that they
were to be handed back-the prop
ertie* which, they had mismanaged
after the government had put them
on a firm financial foundation and
had given them a raise in rates and
renewed equipment.
NOW NEARER
PERMANENT OWNERSHIP
Every move made by the govern
ment for economy and efficiency
makes more certain the permanenty
of government management of the
arteries of trade and communica
tion. It is certain that the country
will never again subi* to the tax
on its transportation by, the payment
of salaries to those high-priced or
nsueetal figureheads.
At the present time there is an
sdhoace in freight rates owing to
the unusual conditions which pre
van' but after the war business will
be pat on a systematic basis and
ms c has es regulated by the cewt
sp As the cost wiv be mater
'let)mipesd by the unification of
theWe ed the .1mntino all
:- iii expenses, the fraght rat
Moo #Y,- -te `cwig
*Wt LtI m ~ o ~
stockho4 r. Mus #be stete e
am4not 1111111 r W tV v
to tbik ip m s.ftt new_ aer,
and so may xessared tleunse
that everything was to be ,pat bth
to where it was before the war, by
trying to Six s it for jwv erninet
operation. But every y bainq
new d oee hpments which tend to
fasten an th -coim the policy. of
public ownetship.
NONPAMPSAN MAN
A USEFUL MEMBER
one of the busiest men in ti
gress is John M. Baer, the Nonpar
tisan League member from North
Dalkota. Farmers and representa
tives of farmers' organisatiofhs from
all parts of the country come to him
to consult him on farmer legisla
tion and to enlist his services in
farm measures. There are many
memberh in congress from 'districts
that are almost exclusively devoted
to the farming industry but Baer
is recognized as the one dependable
member to whom they can entrust
matters relative to agriculture. His
cartoons are in great demand or
every side.
Nearly. all of Mr. Baer's even
ings are taken up with chalk-talk
lertures before soldier, audiences is
my camps anid occasionally he
goes out to address a farmers' meet
ing in a nearby state. He is in
great demand at entertainments for
9 oldiers and his telling hit. always
bring' applause as he pictures the
spirit of the age in war cartoons,
and punctures the frauds of the day
with his versatile pencil.
Political forecasters believe that
Mr. Baer will not have to bear 4th
burden of representing the farmers
alone in the next congreps; that
there will be a group of men of his
way of thinking from the agricul
tural statA of the Northwest at the
next session.
GOOD NEWS FOR THE FARMERS
The Following Message Has Been
Received by Food Administra
tor Alfred Atkinson, From
Washington, D. C.:
The advance in freight rates on
Jane 24 will in justice to the farm
ers necessitate an advance in the
price of wheat at the principal Mis
sissippi valley and eastern terminals,
a few goets per b8"). The ad
vance will be w&.:ed out so as to
equalize as far as may be possible
the loss that the farmer would other
wise incur through the increase in
rates. Details of rate advances will
probably not be known until June
`5, at which date we are assembing
i committee of traffic experts to
,onsider what actual advance in price
is necessary in compensation. It is
impossible to complete such a plan
r a few days after the above date.
It is our intention as far Is the pe
muliar character of the rate advance
enables us to do so, to work out a
plan that will leave the farmer in
the same intrinsic position that he
was in before that date."
(Signed)
Herbert Hoover. .
NONPARTISAN SOLDI=R WRITES
Young Man, Now a Lieutenant in U.
S. Army, Relped Organise N.
P. League in s CeuutyA
U. S. A.P.O.A.E. F.
May 19,1918.
Mr. Oscar Collins,
Outlook, Montana.
Dear Sir:
Just a note to 1et you know I
haven't forgotten the pleasant days
when we used to rale Wver Sheri
dan county in a Ford, -patting 'em
on." I have ofteo wondered what
the outonas of League affairs in
Montana wa and bw -yu were
making it. I wigk( yes wedl write
me at the * abudnmM sad let me
knew.
Ha.e bees pa # alsamt n
in the od4 a aty 4 " .1
tor. .isr d ~ gii
~ion 'and I 0st Im a Oe
1,1 w~ ~R~ ~t ~ini §6-u
my - wil ~ -.g
WHWE *OTED
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FLAX W!LT RESISTANCE.: s
Diseases of Sax have been given
much attention. Ecpepted failures of
ftax, on old land, in North Dakota
lead Prof. $. L. Bglley of the North
Dakota Experiment station to be
lieve the failireg were due to a dis
eased condition aid made possible
through a specific organism. This
marked the di covry of "flax wilt".
Studying the life habits of the or
ganasm, and tf behavior of individ
ual plants attacked it was evident
not all plants re effe~ted equally
much. This discovery opened the
possibility of.. selecting plants that
seemed to viithatpnd more the at
tacks of. the diaeae. It was the ori
gin 49t wilt mresat nt strains of flax.
Through this method of selection and
isolation of Individual plants has
come the strain grow extensively
in this coity, p- rpwn as N. D.
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