The nonpartisan leader. [volume], November 29, 1917, Image 15

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TOT SEED CORN EARLY. GREAT
•nprtage of early corn. Limited amount
1 Northwestern Dent, North Dakota
Special, Northern Golden. Dent, North
kota White Flint and Squaw Flint,
10 per cent germination at $6 per bushel
tqr ear seed. L. N. Crill Seed Co., Eik
Point, S. Dak.
fexTRA SELECTED EARLY OHIO AND
Early Six Weeks seed potatoes. 150
bushels to a sack. $4 per hundred
pounds. Supply of this quality limited,
BO place your orders early. Cash please,
.^lexandria Nursery Co., Alexandria,
a, «RIM ALFALFA, COMMON ALFALFA
and Sweet Clover seed for sale. Grim
took the first prize at the county fair
and the Montana state fair this year.
V. E. Smith, Harlem, Mont.
4URTJM WHEAT RAISED ON BREAK
ingr, recleaned. If interested send ten
cents for sample anli price. L. P.
Andrews, Peltin, N. D.
Business
Opportunities
NEWSPAPER IN TOWN OF OVER
400, only paper, doing a good business
In a live town, carrying from 13 to 17
columns of advertising at 15 cents per
Inch. Address 150, Nonpartisan Leader,
Fargo.
IHSNERAL STORE FOR SALE. DOING
business in Northeast North Dakota,
for land or cash. Address Box 161,
Leader.
Lumber
Lumber, shingles and fence
posts at money saving price. Farmers'
trade our speciality. Send, your bills
today for free estimate. Robert Emer
son Company, Box 1156-N, Tacoma,
Washington.
iiTJMBER—POSTS. WRITE US ABOUT
prices delivered your station. Send list
for estimate. Pay after unloading.
Kirk Company, Box 1138-N, Tacoma,
Washington.
Help Wanted
SfANTED GIRL OR MIDDLEAGED
woman for general housework on farm.
Steady employment to right party. Do
not answer unless you want permanent
employment. Box 15, Spiritwood, N. D.
MEN—WOMEN WANTED. $90 MONTH.
Government clerical positions. Hun
dreds vacancies. List positions free.
Write immediately, Franklin Institute,
Dept. 48, Rochester, N. Y.
Autos and Supplies
NEW GEARS FOR ANY MAKE OF CAR.
10 per cent to 50 per cent less than
manufacturers' list. Send old gears for
duplication. Illinois Gear Works, 105
W. Monroe St.. Chicago, DIs.
AUCTION
Are you going to have one?
If so, Phone or Write
J. W. LUND
The Auctioneer
Alexandria Minnesota.
DUROC JERSEY BOARS
From N. D. A. C. College Herd. Write
for particulars. G. E. Brunsdale,
Mayville, N. D.
POLAND CHINAS
AS I
Big bone—well bred. Write
River Stock Earm, Mayville,
ite Goose I
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Uncle Sam
Wants You
and will pay you well. Are you a
stenographer, ..bookkeeper, or engi
neer? If not, send for our general
or gas engineering catalog at once.
Fred Holwegn'er, our student, has
Just been appointed at $1100—not
student has failed to pass. Write
Aaker's Business College, Fargo
and Grand Forks, N. D.
A GOOD SCHOOL
•xperlenced teachers, modern appliances,
fiiorough courses Bookkeeping, Banking,
Shorthand, Typewriting, Civil Service,
Preparatory. The only business college
Chat guarantees satisfactory work or re
funds tuition. Our demand for office help
fzceeds the supply. Write for catalog
jbday.
INTERSTATE BU8INESS COLLEGE
Sons of Norway Bldg., Fargo, N. D.
W. H. Bergherm Props. O. C. Hellman
FARMERS AS BANKERS
5 per cent on savings acdotmtd.
cehton time certificates. Chei
accounts, insurance.
Open Saturday evenings.
First Farmers Bank of Mlnot.
FARM LOANS AND CITY LOANS
THB.SAVINGS LOAN & TRUST CO.
Sorts'of Norway Bldg. Mlnot^N. D,
The Leader's
Book Reviewer
New books sent us for criticism
A BOOK FOR FARMERS
KITE as is the phrase, "High
Cost of Living," it will have
new interest for farmers and
workers as the title of a book
just published by Frederic C.
Howe, commissioner of immigration of
New York. People often shun articles
with this heading, for it has become a
stock phrase of all newspapers, but
they will miss something if they fail
to read Mr. Howe's newest book.
Frederic C. Howe is renowned as a
student of marketing, of co-operation,
public ownership, and economics in
general. He has written several books,
but none of them surpasses this one,
which is packed full of information
useful to all farmers and others who
live by labor. It contains 271 pages,
is printed in large, clear type, and is
easy to read.
Here are some passages that show
the fundamental grasp of the author:
"The feeding of the nation has been
left almost wholly to chance and to'
unorganzed, uncontrolled agencies.
Production and distribution have been
permitted to evolve from the condi
tions of a half century ago into the
highly complex relationships of a whole
nation, if not the entire world, with but
little official concern for either the
producer at one end of the line, or the
consumer at the other.
'Before the coming of great cities
each community sufficed for itself.
The market man or local grocer barter
ed for food with the neighboring
farmer, and the laws of demand and
supply regulated production and kept
prices at a reasonable figure. This
was the condition up to a few years
ago.
"Cities grew. The nation became a
market. The Northwest entered into
competition with New England. Cali
fornia and Florida were the local truck
garden. The steamship widened the
market into the world. Canada and
the American northwest, Russia, Aus
tralia and South America produced
for the industrial workers of the world,
and the prices of cereal and meat prod
ucts were fixed in London and Liver
pool.
"Only in a few countries—notably
Australia, Denmark and Germany—
has the control of food been viewed as
a matter of government concern or
subjected to a unity of direction in the
interest of the producer and the con
sumer. In most of the other countries
and in America in particular, the sub
ject has been left to the unregulated
license, not of the producer, not of the
consumer, but of the distributing
agencies which have it in their power
to control, not only prices, but produc
tion as well. Unregulated private
banking and usury have contributed
still further to the disorganization
which prevails, while no official con
cern has been shown for the economic
foundations of agriculture, the rela
tion of the people to the land."
The book is a splendid constructive
effort that should be read by every
farmer in the United States. It may
be had from Charles Scribners' Sons
Fifth Avenue & 48th St., New York,
N. Y., by sending the purchase price
of $1.50, on receipt of which it will be
sent postpaid.
A WASHINGTON BOOSTER
Anglin, "Wash.
Washington State Headquarters,
National Nonpartisan League:
I .am deeply interested in the League
although I have not seen any of your
literature, have noticed how anxious
certain parties are to start a "back
fire" against it and what an "angelic
name" they have given it. Okanogan
county farmers are getting, a deal on
their- wheat now that ought to make
them take some notice.
Kindly put my name on your mailing
list, arid send me any literature you are
sending out. "Will get in touch with
any organizer that comes this way,
and will do all in my power tor the
LOUIS STAFFERON.
IN THE GOOD FIGHT
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ADVERTISEMENTS
AMERICAN
ROCHDALE UNION
Educational Organization Developing Business Co-operative and
Following Up With Education Teaching
Co-operation
To those who are or may be interested in co-operation and have given it
any study we want you to realize the importance of a Centralized plan of Co
operation that is National in character and eventually International.
If you will compare the plans of the American Rochdale Union with those of
other "Would-be Co-operative plans," especially some of those that have been
working in the last ten years in Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakotas, which
it appears to us and we have good reason to believe were more interested in
the promotion fee than they were in the success of the institution, (yet there
was some excuse to be made for that kind of work in the past, but with the
opportunity for knowledge on the successful Rochdale System of Europe there
can not be any excuse made for a continuation of that kind of work). Our
conclusion has been arrived at from the fact that we find wreck after wreck
scattered all over these states that were promoted by these same institutions.
And we could bo of great assistance to such stores and in a good many
cases save them from destruction if they will give us the opportunity.
We believe that you will comprehend after carefully comparing the plana of
the American Rochdale Union with those of the English and Scottish wholesale
Societies and local institutions as developed under the plans of those Rochdale
Pioneers of 1844, (and those of the past would be co-operative plans) that you
will be readily convinced of how near we have consumated the plans of the
European Rochdale System, and you will discover a very small semblence of
the Rochdale System as carried out in a practical way and applied in the plans
of the Co-operative Stores that have gone to the wall, and those that are strug
gling to maintain themselves.
We have heard some say that plans can be changed by a co-operative store
if the one they start out with don't prove satisfactory. Brother Co-operators
don't try this—it is too dangerous. We have found it so from our experience
in Montana, from the fact that the stock-holders arc not familiar with Co
operation in the first place and they figure that a change would be a guess, and
what will follow that condition doesn't speak well for co-operation.
For information and literature, write or call at National Headquarters—
AMERICAN ROCHDALE UNION
The Co-operative Wholesale Society of America
We are occupying more than one-fourth of the floor space on the Ninth floor.
Pioneer Building, St. Paul, Minnesota.
WATCH US GROW
Special Cooler
.IT FITS YOUR
Ford Reo Chevrolet
Overland Hudson Chandler
Studebaker Cadillac Chalmers
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fit
Eddy, Mont.
Editor Nonpartisan Leader:
I have received two editions of the
Leader and am more than pleased with
it. It tells of conditions that no other
paper mentions, it exposes the glaring
hideousness of the capitalist and poli
ticians.
I am working to defeat the move
ment to transfer all our public, water
power to private interests. I am going
to try to interest my neighbors and
get them to write our representatives
in congress.
M. B. COAN.
Mention Leader when writing advertisers PAGE FIFTEEN Mention Leader when writing advertisers
Starters
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