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Tmuraday, May 15, 1919
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BVIU TO HIM
WHO EVIL THINKS
"8ome
m«n would rather be
fight than bt president other*
would rather be prealicnt, with
a gentroue legislative appropri
atien for salaries and now
building, than to be right."
That la the manner In which
the Kept press assails Pres.
I.
F. Ladd, of the State Agri
cultural College and Pros. Thos.
F. Kane, of the State Univer
sity, because they approve of
the new educational Bill.
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Tho trouble with tho old gang
Is that its press and Isadora
Judgo tho present by the pqsL
The ovilo they themselves coun
tenanted and did, they expect
to find In this new day. They
cannot conceive of there being
a state administration that will
euffer capable men to hold high
positions in our educational In
stitutions, if it should happen
that those men did «iot agree
with the administration in
political beliefs.
That is something new. Wo
still remember that President
Worst was removed from his
position because he insisted in
eaying that the farmers were
being robbed. We still remem
ber that Pres. E. F. Ladd was
slated for removal because he
disliked the robbery involved in
the wheat grades. Yet both
men stuck to their guns, despite
threats of toes of position,
salary and appropriations for
buildings.
It is the same Dr. Ladd who
today favors the Educational
Bill who yeeterday stood against
the rotten grain grades. He
has not changed. If loss of
place and ealary would not
terrorise him then—it doee not
affect him now—when neither
threat nor menace is offered
him.
Evil to him who evil thinks.
The political ring that does
business by ruling or ruining,
can see no other way of secur
ing obedience or support. There
is another way—the Nonparti
san League way—and thie is
the doing of buoinc3S on an
appeal to the senee of right
and Justice in every man's
heart whether college preaident
or farmer.
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FARMERS BAR
POLITICS HERE
Administration of State's Bank and
Other Enterprieee in Hands of
Experts Without Regard to
Political Affiliation.
The old doctrine of "To the victors
belong the spoils," is going the way
of
many of the other political dogmas
and party shibboleths, now that the
farmers of North Dakota have taken
hold of the government of their state.
Instances of this crop up every day,
when men who have not hitherto been
affiliated with the League are chosen
to fill important positions solely be
cause of their expert knowledge of the
enterprise they are selected to man
age.
A case In point in the selection of
Emile E. Watson, of Ohio, to prepare
the schedules of the insurance rates
and compensation allowed in compli
ance with the Workmen's Compensa
tion Act, a measure by which the state
acts as an Insurance company, pro
tecting the workman in case of injury
or death and the employer from suits
for damage and expense in maintain
ing and supporting crippled workers or
the dependents of workers killed in
pursuit of their daily labor.
Mr. Watson is the man who compiled
the figures on which the U. S. govern
ment entered the insurance business
for its soldiers and sailors. In addi
tion he is at present in full charge of
the actuarial and underwriting work
of three state funds—Ohio, Maryland
and Idaho—and has computed the in
itial rates for the state of New York.
The employment of such a man not
only augurs well for the success of
the state's new enterprise, but it shows
the sincerity and singleness of purpose
of the farmers' administration to avoid
partisan or political conditions in the
carrying out of its projects.
Mr. Watson says of North Dakota's
new law: "North Dakota has the most
broad and humane workmen's compen
sation law enacted." That, from a
man of liis experience is not light
praise for the farmer legislators who
enacted the measure. Even the enemy
press cannot withhold its approval and
one of the leading old machine daHles
says: "Mr. Watson is recognized as
one of the best posted men io the
United States on the question of state
workmen's compensation insurance,".
Another instancy is the selection
of
F. W. Catfiro, of Bottineau, as direc
tor general of the new Bank of North
Dakota. He has had twenty years ex
perience in the banking business in
this state, was the first president of
the State Bankers Association and a
pioneer of the state, coming to Bot
tineau in 1886. Following that ap
pointment with that of H. L. Wilson,
of
the First'National Bank of Fargo,
as assistant in the organization work
of the new bank, was a clincher, if
one were needed, to the argument that
the farmers' administration has barrel
politics when it comes to the business
of the state. The First National Bank
of Fargo can scarcely be considered
friendly to the farmers' program or
to be in line politically with the pres
ent administration.
The people of the state, regardless
of party lines or occupation,, will
watch with interest the new day In
state government dawning, when men
are chosen for their fitness and effi
ciency for service rather than for the
political principles they profess or
their friendliness or enmity to any
party platfoijm. The farmers have
learned, first, that politics and busi
ness can not be mixed.
A few years ago the City of New
Orleans voted $25. .0,000 with which
to construct publicly owned terminal
elevators, warehouses, docks and belt
line railroads and now the City of New
Orleans
Is
spending $10,000 a week to
advertise the resulting benefits. New
Orleans must be prospering as a con
sequence. Yet the Minneapolis Cham
ber of Commerce mouthpieces say that
state-owned terminal elevators will
bankrupt North Dakota. Why won't a
system that evidently has worked in
New Orleans work equally well In
North Dakota?
The fat gentleman who is so dread
fully worried because the farmer will
pay more taxes this year than last and
who does not hesitate to overstep the
bounds of truth in his anxiety for the
poor farmer, betrays an unusual inter
est. That interest is either spurred
on by political motives—he wants to
destroy a political opponent—or by
mercenary motives. The shadow of
the state Income tax hangs over his
head and he would prevent the coming
event which the shadow portends.
The City of Minneapolis—the home
of the Chamber of Confmerce—is
bonded for nearly $30,000,000. Yet
you never hear the I. V. A. bewailing
the fact that Minneapolis "is bank
rupt." Bjit when the people of the
entire state of North Dakota vote $17,
000,000 bonds, the Minneapolis milling
combine almost have apoplexy. Why
isn't sauce for the goose also sauce
for the gander?
STRIKE AT MINOT STILL ON
S. S. McDonald, president of the
state federation of labor, who was
appointed to the workmen's compen
sation bureau, has returned from Mi
not, where he endeavored to settle
a strike among the workers of the
power company. This corporation is
owned by the same eastern interests
that own the ed River Power Co.
of Grand Forks. The manager stated
to Mr. McDonald that the strike in
Minot would not be settled until the
strike at Grand Forks was settled.
Read the great serial story, Jac
queline of Golden River. Starts soon.
PUNT IS a POSSIBILITY
(Continued from page 1)
of the Western Dakotas as a whole
rather than this particular locality
—so that you will learn to use the
lignite,—so that in time you will pre
fer the lignite,—so that the State of
North Dakota will in time be inde
pendent on the subject of fuel,—so
that in another tight place we will not
not be confronted with the fear that
some of our people would be frozen
in a long, cold winter. It is for this
reason that the present bill is a per
fectly proper bill for Congress to take
up as a whole, though our lignite
beds are largely in the West, mostly
in Dakota and your neighboring state
and another large bed in Texas. For
a number of years theDepartment of
Mines has done work in your line.
Some seven or eight years ago I look
ed over some' plans for the burning of
lignite submitted by your project en
gineer when the plants was first put
in here at Williston. The Bureau of
Mines has done a little investigating
on the combustion of lignite, purely
in a laboratory manner. The Depart
ment The Department Hs
merit has co-operated to some extent
with Dean Babcock of the University
giving a little Department money
each year in order to keep in touch
with your work, but at no time here
tofore has that resourse received the
attention that it should.
The Bureau of Mines waned an in
vestigating laboratory, perhaps sta
tion, at Pittsburg, and the Bureau
now has a million dollar plant in the
city of Pittsburg, and that plant is
devoted largely to the study of fuel
problems. But since the early days,
it has developed, and now we have
some fifteen stations scattered over
the United States, with some four
others authorized by the Government
The intention is to establish three
each yearar. One of those stations
I have hoped would be a lignite stat
ion. There was talk of that before
the last Congress. The last Congress
slip by. It didn't appropriate for the
establishment of" the usual three stat
ions for that year, on account of the
Briquetting Plant- galley 3
war—aperfectly right thing to do..
But we are looking forward to the es
tablishment of more stations, and I
am still hoping that one of those
stations will be a lignite station. That
station wil have an appropriation of
$25,000 a year, and it is theintention
to continue these stations year after
year. Imention this to show what I
think lignite should have. It should
have continued, consistent help and
investigation, so that in time it would
be the preferred fuel in many of these
districts. Now, that matter was up
last year and was a little bit confused
in the minds of some with the present
$100,000 investigation. This investi
gation is to cease, and we are obliged
by the bill to sell the plant or what
ever tangible assets there are after
a certain period. Mr. Darling and I
have gone over the State of Texas
pretty well, and find some very inter
esting locations there. We have been
to Grand Forks, Minot, Williston, and
are going to Glendive, New Salem,
Bismark—any more, Mr. Darling?
Mr. Darling: "About a dozen!
((Laughter.)
Mr. Hood: "Now, we find that in
every place there is a special prob
lem. We have on cut-and-dried, blue
printed plan to set down for any
particular locality. We are spying
out the land to find that position
where it seems to us a success will be
most easily achieved. This matter
has been tried a number of times,—
that is to say, there is nothing es
pecially new in this problem of get
ting more out of fuel than simply raw
heat,—burning the raw material. It
is a problem that has been forced up
on other people that had a limited
supply of coal. I am told that in Ger
many they have almost prohibited the
use of raw material. I am in hopes
the time wil ocme in this country
when it will be just as unusual to use
raw fuel as it would be to see a man
when he is hungry go out and catch
the first cow and begin to nibble the
raw meat.' Of course, that looks a
long way ahead, and it is a long
ways ahead. But Mr. Darling has
stated a fact when he has said that
our raw fuels that have valuable
mterials in them, the total value of
the products that may be taken out
of these fuels is such as will make
the present fuels—the selling price of
the present fuels look ridiculous.
"The ammunition of Germany, the
dye industry, the development of
medicinals—those are the three legs
of the tripod on which Germany de
veloped her military state. She look
ed a long ways a ahead and knew
that in time of stres these three could
be converted into military industries.
We have nothing of the sort in this
country.
"Now, oone of the thngs—this pro
gram is not particularly new—it has
been tried in this country, and the
time seemed hardly to be ripe the
amount of cheap fuel available in this
country did not make the briquetting
process successful. A number of the8e
have afiled,—there is one in your
State that did not get along very
well. In the last two or three years,
however, some of these plants in the
East have begun to pay very well.
The rise in the price of fuel I believe
has come to stay. We don't any of
us like it—but we have to face it,—
and there is a splendid thing about
and look into the power plants, you
will find it a region of cheap fuel,—
that. As you go from place to place
you wil find cheap machinery, cheap
operatives inefficiency. When you
go into the region of higher fuel costs
you will find better machinery, high
er cost men and greater care for ma
terial, and the over-all cost of the
power is not so very much greater
than in the place where the fuel is
very cheap. Now, that is a good
thing, to overcome shiftlessness, and
as a matter of training people in ef
ficiency and carefulness there is a
value in this rise in the price of fuel.
While we don't like it, we will doubt
less adapt ourselves to it, and in the
end will profit by it.
"These dreams such as Mr. Brug
ger has had, are not impossible
dreams, and it is in the hope that the
time is ripe for making them reali
ties that we are trying to find a place
where we can do it.
"This $100,000, we might say, has
no strings on it. It is not limited as
to time we are told how we shall
use it it is up to the judgment of the
Engineering Bureau as to how it shall
best be used. We can spend that
$100,000 in doing some very desirable
work in the laboratory, and wind up
with a nice report—or two or three
reports, for tha tmatter. But we are
doubting whether, any more of this
kind of information is needed just
now. We are in hopes that there has
been enough of the investigative work
to form a basis of at least a trial, and
we do believe this one plant, some
where in th ecountry, can be put on a
commercial basis and a report turned
out that will show a balance of pro
fit, and that when that report falls
into the hands of business men who
have been dreaming this dream, they
will put their money into this busi
ness and develop products that will
make our little $100,000 look small.
"That is the problem before us. In
working with this problem and put
ting it oh a comercial basis, we labor
under some difficulty. We are go
ing to try and go into this business,
as it were, under this handicap, that
we can spend money freely, but we'
can't take any money back. We can
buy lignite, for instance, pay for it,
put it through a process, pay for the
labor,—we can sell the product,—but
the money can't come back to us. The
money goes directly to the United
States Treasury—and wil not be cre
dited to our account! Therefore, the
more business we do, the more we
will be out of pocket!
"In order to realize this plan that
we now have, we must get around
that in some way. There must be
some co-operating organization that
can do the buying and selling for us,
that will allow us to spend our money
for the investigating phase of it—
and relative to the new industry we
must measure things, weigh things
W1LUST0N GRAPHIC
we must know, which would not be
necessary if it were an old establish
ed business. We must do a lot of
investigating work, work of an in
vestigating nature, that would not
accompany an old and established
business. We are looking for a lo
cation that will establish a' co-opera
tive organization that will see us
through on the business end.
"There is another thing. As Mr.
Darling has told you, the output of
this plant will be a solid fuel which is
the equal of the coal that would com
pete with it. There would also be a
considerableof good gas, such gas as
would be acceptable gas as industrial
gas for boilers, or burning brick, or
anything of that sort, but which is
really too good for that and should
be used fo rcity gas. We are looking
for a location where this main by-pro
duct can be sold, where we can get a
market for it, so as to help this in
fant industry get a balance on the
right side. Of course, we are looking
for the usual business location, that
is to say, it is something like build
ing on another fellow's land—we
would at least like to own the land on
which it was placed. We are figuring
now in units of about 200 tons a day—
that means the receiving and deliver
ing of that tonnage, and that would
make it necessary to be on a railroad
somewhere. We are looking for a
place, of course, where the help would
be housed, where there would be the
usual facilities of the industrials
plants. Those are the elements of
the problem that we are dealing with.
"I can only say that Williston pre
sents to me one of the most interest
ing posibilities that we have run
across ((prolonged applause) in that
at this point ther are really two pro
lems. Williston is a town, just like
any other town. The lignite is here,
and John Bruegger here has a dream,
(and there are men with money to ih
vest,)—and that will be carefully
considered. But there is also another
unusual problem here, and that is that
the Government itself is interested -n
business, the Government is conduct
ing a business itself, the Government
itself has a mine, a property here,—
and whether these two things can be
made to bolster up each other, wheth
er they can be made to strengthen
each other, is a very interesting
question.
"We have found on this trip some
thing that will make every American
feel good, that will make his chest
swell out We have found among
the people we have met not only in
terested in their locality, not only
loyalty totheir own location, not only
a keen desire and proper selfishness
that is should be their place, but we
have found that bigger thing,—that
is, an earnest wish that this plan that
we have should succeed, and that if
theirs is not the fortunaae place,
that we have their "God bless you"
anyway. And that is one of the finest
things that anyone can find. I don't
know about any other country—the
United States is good enough for me
—but it is a wonderful spirit, and
something to be proud of.
Perhaps I will take you down a bit
after lifting you up, by telling you
what your competitor has. We have
been in Texas. Texas has a lot of
and will last as many hundred thous
the same number of billions of tons
lignite. I don't know whether it has
and years as yours—I don't know as
to that, but if I was asked which town
had the most water, Boston or Chi
cago, I would say that either has
enough. So it is with Texas. Texas
has enough lignite. Either place has
enough lignite. But I was greatly
surprised to find what industries are
developing and growing in Texas to
day. I had thought of Texas as a
State of long-horned cattle, but I
found things were the other way, that
there were all sorts of sky-scrapers
down there, all sorts of industries.
One town had the usual sky-line of the
western town, and it had one 22-story
building that sticks up in the air and
is referred to as 'Woco's silo." It is,
however, a busy, filled up office,
building. There are a number of lo
cations down there each with its
special problem, each a possibie loca
tion for this sort of thing.
"Wherever this plant is placed, if
it succeeds—we are optimists, but
don't dare to say too much about
that,—we think it is going to succeed,
and if it does succeed it means the
duplication of plants of this sort in
all these areas, in het Texas area, in
the Dakota areas. But I think it is
something that we can both work at
whole heartedly, a possibility based
on what may be accomplished through
this Department and this great in
dustry. I thank you." (Prolonged
applause.)
NOTICE OF REAL ESTATE MORT
GAGE FORECLOSURE SALE
WHEREAS, Default has been made
in the terms and conditions of the
mortgage hereinafter described by
which the power of sale therein con
tained has become operative, and no
action or proceeding having been In
stituted to recover the debt secured
by said mortgage or any part thereof,
and upon such default the mortgagee
having elected and hereby declared the
entire mortgage indebtedness due and
payable as authorized by the said
mortgage, now therefore,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
the certain mortgage, made, executed
and delivered by Joseph Evans and
Nancy C. Evans, his wife. Mortgagors
to T. L. Beiseker, Mortgagee, dated
the 20th day of December 1913 and fil
ed for record in the office of the Re
gister of Deeds of the County of Wil
liams and State of North Dakota on
the 4th day of March 1014 at 2:15 o'
clock P.M. and there recorded in Boek
"98" of Mortgages at Page "487" will
be foreclosed by a sale of the premises
in such mortgage and hereinafter de
cribed, at the front door of the Court
House, at WiliTston, in the County of
Williams, in the State of North Dakota
at the hour of Ten o'clock in the fore
noon, on the 11th day of June A. D.,
1919, to satisfy the amount due upon
such mortgage on day .of sale.
The premises described in such mort
gage and .which will be sold to satis
fy the same are situated in the County
of Williams and State of North Dakota
and are described as followi, vis: Lots
Three (S) and Four (4) and the East
Half of Southwest Quarter (E1-2SW
1-4) of Section Nineteen (19), Town
ship One Hundred Fifty Three (153)
North, Range One Hundred Three '.108)
West of the Fifth Principal i'.tered'an,
containing 160 acres more or less ac
cording to the Government Survey
thereof.
There will be due on such mortgage
at the date of sale including a prior
first mortgage of $1,000.00 due Jan
uary 1 ,1919, and recorded in salt!
County and State in Hook "113" of
Mortgages at Page "472". also two de
linquent interest coupons on said first
mortgage each for the sum of J60.00
and due January 1st, 1918 and 1919,
respectively, and interest on said mort
gage and copons, also including the
real estate taxes on the said premises
for the years 1918 and 1917 in the
sum of $73.34, and interest thereon,
which mortgage, interest coupons and
taxes the mortgagee herein has been
required to pay and has paid in order
to protect his interests In the mortgage
unaer foreclosure, the sum of One
Thousand Five Hundred Twenty-one
and 17-100 ($1521.17) Dollars, exclus
ive of costs, disbursements and attor
ney's fees allowed by law.
Dated this 24th day of April 1919.
T. L. BEISEKER,
Mortgagee
ARTHUR. L. NETCriER.
Attorney for the Mortgagee, Fessen
den, North Dakota.
46-6t
NOTICE OF SAI.K
State of North Dakota, County of
Williams, ss.
Ill the Police Court, Before N. B.
Ludowese, Police Magistrate for the
City of Williston, North Dakota.
City of Williston. a municipal corpora
tion, PLA1NTTFF.
vs.
John Doe, true name unknown, being
the owner of said impounded horse,
DEFENDANT.
Notice is hereby given that by vir
tue of judgment and order of the
of Williston, North Dakota, the proper
ty herein described will be sold on the
,ity herein described will be sold on the
24th day of May A. D. 1919 at two
o'clock P.M., by me at the city pound
at the Great Northern Livery Barn in
the City of Williston, North Dakota, to
satisfy the amount of fees, costs, and
charges against said property. The
Ptra'ted'
1919'
GASOLINE FERRY NOW CROSSNIG
MISSOURI RIVER
The gasoline ferry formerly owned and
run by Mr. Adams is now in operation
again and is crossing the river one mile
West and a mile South of the city at the
landing used by the ferry last summer.
The Best of Service is Assured
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property which will be sold is descri
bed asuollowB:
One iron gray stalion colt, about two
years did, weight about 900 pounds.
There will be due on said horse on
the date of sale the sum of Twenty
one dollars and twenty cents, besides
the expenses of sale.
Said horse was Impounded on May
3rd. 1919, and will be sold under the
provisions of Ordinance No. 103 of the
City of Williston, North Dakota.
Dated at Williston, North Dakota,
May 13th. 1919.
JOHN J. NOLAN,
Chief of Police, City of Williston, N.D.
48-lt
NOTICE OF PIIBI.1CATION
Department of the Intflor, U. ST.
Land Office at Williston, N. D., May
7. 1919.
NOTICE! is hereby given that Clar
ence Halphlde, Springbrook, N. D., who
on Mav 8, 1915, made homestead entry,
serial, No. 021275, for Lots 1 and 3
SW 1-4 NE 1-4, S #, 156 N 09 W„
SE 1-4 SE 1-4, Section 34, Township
157 N.. Range 99 W.. 5th P. Meridian,
has filed notice of intention to make
three year Proof, to establish claim to
the land above described, before tho
Register and Receiver, U. S. Land Of
fice, at Williston, N. D., on the 16th
dny of June, 1919.
Claimant names as witnesses: George
Dewy, Henry Bartles. Louis Lee,Wil
liam Glrton, all of
4S-6t
rbrook, N.Dl
W. E
BYERLY.
Register
TO HE SOM) FOR FEED Bllili
NOTICE IN IIEHEHV GIVEN, tha*
I have had In my possesion for a period
of six months from November 1, 1918
to Mayl, 1919, a certain two year old
black "steer owned by Fee Welntz of
Springbrook. N. IX, iind that I have
provided the care and maintenance of
said steer during that time that there
Is due me for the keep of this steer
the sutn of Forty-five Dollars: and
that he will be sold at public auction,
in front of the post office at Spring
brook, N. D. on the 24th day of May
1919, to satisfy my lien on the steer
together with the coats and expenses
of publishing this notice and other ne
cessary expenses. Above steer will be
sold subject to a chattel mortgage
held by the First State Bank of Ep-
at Williston, N. D. May 10,
J. W. LEWIS.
48-2t Springbrook, N. D.t Route No I.
DOG and a damsel are
by no means unusual in
New York City, but
they lead a young man through
a series of as strange adven
tures as anyone ever experi
enced, ending in the snow
country of the North. Of
course there is a romance that
adds to the charm of the stoiy.
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