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It also calls upon Christian employ• •era everywhere to beware of this movement tov' deny organisation to. workers and foresees disastrous In dustrial conflicts as a result of such activity. "When, for example," ?ays the coun cil, "an applicant" for wrrk is compell ed to sign a contract pledging him self against affiliation with a union, or when a union man is refused em ployment or discharged, merely on the ground of union membership, the em ployer is using'coercive methods and Is violating the fundamental principle of an open shop.5 Such action is unfair and inimical to economic freedom and to the- interest of society, as is corre sponding coercion exercised by labor bodies in behalf of the closed shop. "It seems incumbent upon Chris tian employers' to scrutinize careful ly any movement, however ^plausible, which is likely to.result in denying to Sthe workers such: affiliation as will in itheir judgment best safeguard their interest and promote their welfare, land to precipitate disastrous industrial Conflicts at a time when the country «nueds gqoduwilk and co-operation be tween employers, and employees." The^tftftelr.t'rUBt* as yet has been lin kable to aattwer'tbe charges brought by th# surVe^ 'of conditions among its nonunion ^etaplbyes. A feeble at tempt has been made to offset it, how ever, by, s^jaAt^ping broadcast a boot licking sermon by a minister of a fash ionable. J3p^ftn.itfiur,fih on the topic of Judge i.Gar^...^i$i}es and the impu 'dence of employes. Gary's privately owned«clergyman could even, indorse the trust's elaborate spy and gunman system, which includes spying- in our ,federal government. .. FARMpiyBcte^ERY UR Farm macM&rjrtiiefolers have been notified by the International Harves ter company of a 15 to 20 per cent in crease over the 1920 prices. Dealers are advised to put on a campaign of education as to why the prices have to. go up. The ''professors" who prepare khese educational courses will, of course, ^^jOTer^htag but the trtuh. A SENSIBLE (RrSH SOLUTION. |t. The British Labor party, whose spe cial commission to investigate the Ir :Jsh question has just completed its work, suggests the following solu tion COUNCIL OF CHURCHES Of CHUB? EXPOSES OBJECT OF'OPEK SHOP' There should be an election in Ire land for tber-selefctron of members of a constitutional convention. This con vention should then have power to work out an Irish constitution, subject to conditions protecting Irish minor ities, an*.-Ateaw-safeguarding England from a -menace, hy Ireland in a naval" or militaryv^?ay.,,.^,.y.^ The'military danger to England of an independent^-Iceland has been giv en out as cue ol CMtcfiief reasons for the English attitude toward Ireland, but it ought,ne^j to take great imagin ation to see'that conditions might b's imposed, acceptable to Ireland, which would rendef neV no more harmful to England in a military way than Cuba, iis to us at the present time. "4 The British Labor commission re port declaresv4h#t there has been a -large amount bfc~ violence by English authorities in Midland and defies the British government to disprove the information which it makes public. "The situation," says the report, "is nothing short of a tragedy. There are 50,000 soldiers,'. Quartered in Ireland, Siscipline ost of them young and inexperienced, is Ala& and the youths be come brutalized and demoralized, sphere are things{being done in Ireland which must make Great Britain stink in the nostrils of the whole world." MILITARY EXPENDITURES. Mondell, Republican floor leader, de clared with considerable applause -from the congressmen that we shall 'neyer be able to make adequate ap propriations for internal improve ments or other constructive work un less we reduce the enormous total car ried in the army and navy bills. Warns Christian Employers That Aim Is" Closed Shop Against All Labor Organization—BrWish Labor Party Proposes Real Irish Home Rate—Mondell Balks at Military Budget-Russia Replies to Martins' Deportation With Cancellation of Orders Here— National Board of Farm Organizations Indorses Farm Storage. WASHINGTON, D. C—That the al leged open shop movement really has' for its chief purpose a closed shop to [all organized workingmen, is the warn jing sent out"bjjf the Federal Council jof the Churches of Christ in Ameri jca." He pointed out'that appropriations this year were. 1845,000,000, or more (Ban three times' as much as in any pre-war year.*:$*/• i"It is mu^ntore," said Mondell, "than we shoaWSppropriate for the cbming fiscal |rea(fc and yet the war de partment is a for $567,000,000 |s»ore." $ BUSSIAN I '"Cancel all jabme back at ,^hlch Russia* order of Sec: {Hurting its !banks." CANCELLED. in America and is the message In reply'to the Labor Wilson tie ized ambassador. 4-There is something in our handling qi the Russian trade matter not ex I plained by our official and unofficial antagonism to so-called bplsne?ism, Resident Wilson has withdrawn re sfrictlons several times, but always has left something fthat really prevent e$[ trade. ,,* ^Only last ween it was announced _•._ it ,—*m**fmmir* S'rr that all restrictions were withdrawn except that the government mints would not assfcy the tainted gold. Busi ness, of course, needs the government' stamp. Then the only man Who could'' do any trading here for Rtissia was ordered deported. Senator France of Maryland charges? that the administration has been play-? ing into'the hands of the British trad-: ers to the detriment of Americans. If Senator France is" correct, the real re sponsibility lies with the Morgan finan-j ciers who are so heavily interested1 now in English business. Morgan is also probably anxious to spoil the •Vanderlip deal with Russia. A large number of American busi ness men riave been, clamoring for trade with Russia: It Is not only a question of selling goods but of help ing our credit. Every dollar of gold •which our federal reserve system takes in enables it to put out up to |$25 In credit. The present Russian government holds as public property, available' for ^outside buying, not only the gold tak en from the semi-public and privatte banks but considerable virgin gold mined since the Soviet regime started over three years ago. The XJral moun tains rank next to South Africa and Alaska in gold production. Unlike other countries Russia now has practically no use for gold except in trading with nations that prize the metal. INDORSES FARM STORAGE. The National Board of Farm Organ izations, made up of the more conser vative organizations is the latest group to indorse official farm storage of grain first suggested by the Non partisan league. Like the League farmers" the lead ers in this group are struck by the fact that grain is good security for credit after the farmer sells it but not before. The National Board, hoW ever, appears to be still too afraid of being galled radical ,'tql indorse the more important measure of state owned elevators. "Our suggested plan for such legis lation is," says the National Board, "that the department of agriculture be empowered -to utilize the agencies now existing within the department to make a farm survey of storage facili ties and that certificates issued by jthese government agents"to individual farmers setting forth the quantity and .kind of agricultural product found stored in insurable bins or granaries under government seal upon the Jiold ,ers' arm shall be recognized as a bas ils for credit by the federal reserve Another important step taken by this body at its recent St. Louis con vention was to denounce the Poindex ter bill which, as jockied through the senate, forbids labor strikes with se vere penalties. WALL 8TREET FOR TARIFFS., Congress is probably so anxious to iCome to the rescue of the farmers with tariffs, because this supposed conces sion to the farmers is a splendid pre lude to. the real show. Chairman Fordney of the ways and means committee ,now prophesies as jfollows: "I expect to see congress re^ enact either the Dingley or the Payne* Aldrich schedule." Thus what the conference^ of the American Farm Bureau.federation at Indianapolis started as its one definite demand for the farmers, Wall street plans to finish. And the finish will be of a kind of enable eastern trusts to charge the western farmers more for products made here. Hightertariffs on European manufacturers will also re duce the amount of farm products which these fSuropean peoples can buy of us. One dollar's worth of relief to the farmers to $10 worth} of new bur dens is about what can be expected. Canadian wheat has figured promin ently in the tariff discussions, but re cent government statistics ?how that our imports of Canadian wheat for the first 10 months of 1920 exceed our ex ports to Canada by only 360,000 bush els. It is the Imports from nowhere— the paper wheat Of the .gamblero— that raise the devil wfth the wheat market. But congress is not anxious to put an embargo on such imports. 'Chicago anjd Minneapolis traders can Taise more wheat in a day than Ar gentina, Australia or Canada can raise in a year. A LAND BANK IN DANGER. Since the work of the* federal land •bank .was suspended because of' the suit by the Farm Mortgage Brokers* association, bankers have been quiet ly^ working into tge-farm loan system as its* local agents. At^ a state confeience of agents ,In [Minnesota reeenttjTtt was found that ]Over 70 per cent of the local agency work had passed t» the local bankers. If the farm loan bank survives the' -salt and -efforts' to 'its enemies to get joker. legislation from congress, we wonder if it cap survive local, manage iment by men with i^teres^^ a rival nature? And can "the local banker Jwho wants to play fair resist the pres sure of the money trust 011 bis own 'business? -v*- iu. w.1 ^^4&&*&as%& jjjf %. JOHNSON ^ITES 'MM EVERETT.WASH.hereidemands tTells of Climate Conditions and Former Kandiyohi County Residents 3622 Oake Ave., Everett, Wash., Jan. 4, 1921. V. E. Lawson, Editor Willmar Tribune. I promised you and- your readers that I would write you now and then about my impressions out here and so I will begin at the beginning of the New Year. Personally speaking, it is a won derful experience to me to pass 4 win ter in this climate. We hatfeijhad considerable rain lately—so they say here anyway—yet I have not felt it disagreeable so far. Of course I am not out in the rain working, or mov ing about much, yet those who are do hot seem to mind IL. The great fea ture about this ramy weather out here is that it is always mild when it rains and especially just after, be cause as the storm moves east over the continent the balmy Pacific ocean air moves after it arid warms up what would otherwise be a cold and damp atmosphere. Altogether this climate suits me. We have a large 6-room bungalow witlf no storm doors or win dows and only one moderate sized wood heating stove. We can heat the house h* 10 to 15 minutes. We never keep fire at night yet the house is coriifortable never less than 50 de grees above In the morning, indoors: or outdoors, wherever you are in mo tion-you are corinfortable, but a small fire night and morning to take the dampness out' of the house, rf you want to sit downi is necessary nine weeks out of the year. I notice-that it is necessary espe cially for newcomers to keep them selves properly clothed and their feet warm arid dry. With this proviso I believe the climate is very healthy. ,The main ailments here are rheuma tism, catharr and bronchial asthma. Still, some who were troubled with these ailments in the interior get well when they come here. If they acquire these ailments here in a chro nic form they usually have to move up east of tho Cascades. The people as a rule look rosy, healthy and plump, more so than any other place that I have seen in this country. I lay that to the equable climate tnat permits outdoor life the year around. The nervous tension so notable in Minnesota and the Dakotas is also absent, and people out here are not rushing about like they are in Min nesota. I really wonder at myself how I can be contented to p'ass the time without rushing about. Of course, I am not fdle entirely, as I go about the city and' country, and read all my spare tim.e, as we have an excellent public library and I have had a chance to review literature that I am inter ested in. And time passes, O, how quickly. Last Sunday, Jan.-2, 1921, we,and another f%mily, Neis Hampens, for merly of Belgrade, Mina., were out visiting at Olof Walin's, three miles •out on the Snohomist Interurban line. The Walin's used to live in Roseland and are well known to the people and related to several families at Svea and Willmar. They moved in this fall from Alberta, Can., to their pres ent home, a beautiful and spacious house on a 5«cre ranch, 3 miles from Everett. Well, wie~ had a glorious time at the Walin home and felt as if we belonged to one family. Some of Minnesota people may think that a five acre farm is nothing. Yet I will venture to say that the Walin's will soon make more net profit out of their 5-acre farm than the majority of farmers will out of 80 acres in Kandiyohi Co.- However, don't jump at conclusions that everybody out here is getting rich on 5-acre lots, because the majority of them are not, but some are, and the Walin's are of that class. It is here as in Kandiyohi County, some farmers=. are thrifty, prosperous and efficient, and some axe not, and so of everybody else. The John -j£ Fahlftrom lainily for merly of Kandiyohi and Willmar also live herey 2l0€y:State Street^Everett^ Wash. ^They are valued friends of ours, and together with all the Treat of thef Kandiyohi Co. Colony here makes us feel veryinuch at home, not to mention our nqgr found friends and neighbors. The"n 1 persuine you have heard of Seattle, a little suburb of Everett, up the sound about 25 or 30 miles. There are ever so many Kan diyohi Co. people, Corteledgesy Hud son's, Sperry*s, D. C. Abbott's, Krauses Stendahl's, and others too numerous to mention, who when they come to town call upon us. Twenty-five to fifty miles east of us I can see as I write the Cascades covered with a mantle of snow. They say it is 10 to 15 feet deep. Outside of our bay window the flowers bloom and the grass is green and the air is spring like. I notice the young rasp berry stalks are shooting out leaves. Yet, let no one suppose that this TS Paradise. Nature here as in Minne- Our Job Work Advertises Itself sota yield* only Ber Mte* to those, Vho^ylbwltt^wwu^atd m&^&^^^S^1* I an of the opinion that Nature out more brain and brawn for a quid pre QUO than that of tire soil of Kandiyohi County, Mmn. Af ter motoring over- 2000 miles- and ob serving dry farming and Irrigation farming I am more than ever in" favor of the Kandiyohi County system of farming. I understand some-of,your farmers are grumbling, and I do not say they have no ground for it, but Xt they could now see: and talk to th£ Montana and Eastern Washington dry farmers as I, have done, or some of the famous Yakima Valley apple! farmers, with millions of dollars worth of apples-on their hands, rotting, they would feel better I am sure* they would feet that ^Kandiyohi County lajgds are veritable gold mines comi pared with other'lands in this coun-^ try. For young healthy active people there is better prospect right now. for money making, yes^ "money making," on Kandiyohi* County farms Hian any thing else that I know off. If any df your readers think I am too emphatic! on this point, I will ask them to tell rde where, in the whole" world, they* can point to ariythmg surer or better.! I defy thenl to do it. Well1,-1 know am right, and I just wanted- to tell, my old friends, the farmers of Kan diyohi County, that they are in the garden spot of the-world. Don't sell your farms in Kandiyohi County. If you are tired of the hard winters let the boys*L till the farm andr come here to the Puget Sound country to rest up and enjoy eternal spring. But for the average healthy young folks, stay ill Hsmdiyohi County on the'farm. I have to tell you that the Everettj High School football team is thfej champion of the U. S. A. Do you hear? We had the Cleveland, O., the^ eastern football champion teftm out here at a cost of $5,000 and on New. Year's Day we licked them on Ever-: ett's athletic field. Our team won at Long Beach, Cal., in"December arid thus became the Champions of the West, and the West beat the East on New Years Day., Now that is the way we start in on the New Year. I have many other things I would! like to tell your readers, political^ in dustrial and municipal, but space for bids. Yours, etci, Dr: Christian Johnson. (Come again Doctor. (Our readers will appreciate your. letters.-^Ed.) RINGvlLIJ^ORGEAlLLE"" Jan. 10th—^The annual meet ing of the stockholders of the Farmers State Bank was held last Tuesday. The following officers, were elected-5 /^Presi cjeirt, E-, O. Sansfcegard,. Vicie president, S^ EJ. Lohn, Directors Ben Chelmcm, Dan Schultz, Nygard, and Lewis Larson. «lfet Nygard was re-relected-eashier. Russell and {Clifford Jerde returned from, the citi«e last week and mltrmake their home with Martin Iverson. Miss Luella: Schultz was a guest at the G.^E. Larson home last week. •, Miss_ Etta Son^tegard visit*' ea at the Rasmus Olson home last week. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Reistad were^visitors at P. O. Sbnster gard's on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Elias Moen of Canada are making an extend ed visit at the latter's parental home here. Thorvald Iverson is working for Peter Bergum. —If Olive Bros, can't repair your watch, throw it away 315 Third St. tft S E ffective anuaVy sC the price *is reduced 28 ier cent on all automobile starting and lighting types of Jan. 10T-Schoor opened in District 51 here Jan. 10 after a two weeks-vacation during the holidays and is progressing nicely with Miss Hannah Knud sbn as the teacher. Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Norsten returned from Chicago last week where the former had spent the 'holidays and the lat ter nearly two months. Their daughter Ella was married there on New Years Day to Ray Ullman. The John Knudson family and Mr. and Mrs. Carl John son were entertained last Sun day at the August Moller home Mrs. A. E. Hahn left for her home at Lake Florida last Sat urday having spent Christmas with her daughter, Mrs." Wm. Peterson, near Twin Lake. David Foline from near Nest Lake/has leased the J. H. Mar tin farm, the Adolph Nelson family plans to "locate near )Wauban. They have leased the J. H. Martin farm for 13 years and their many friends regret to see them leave. i^p Printers Moving An expert will be here in the morning to superintend the moving of the linotype mach ine to the new Tribune build ing. Our next paper will be put in-type in the new place. —Mrs. P. J. Gibson of Rose land and Mrs. Oscar Walquist and daughter left Tuesday for a visit with relatives at Pay nesville. —Mrs. Peter Bonde left on .Wednesday for Watertown, S. D., where she will visit Miss Bdrghild Sandved, who is ill at that place. FOLKS WE ALL KNOW BATTLERIE5 %ix\ The quality remains the same, giving you the maximum combi nation of power,- dependability and long life. K*'- «3«*RO«- Don't pity this Poor Fish. It serves him Bight for coming home Without a Copy of this popular Family Jour nal for Friend Wife. Eleven .times has he been Warned, and now he is Going After It. Ladles, If your hus band is an Absent Minded Man, flbo* him this Li'l Picture. ion A DESCEN FR0» GaTS Wrtt^AMiefts Scotamsn Are a Uatt in' Denying StdriM of Their {-v#-^ Saxoa Origin, x^ It was that deadly flower of Saxoa Chivalry. Edward I, who caused the early records ot, Scotland to be de stroyed. Fortunately, the Irish Celtic annalists' writings remain, and as his torians none were more competent «r able to form an impartial Judgment of Scotland's early history than they were. Nowhere in their annals do they make the slightest mention of the silly theory of the Saxon origin of the peo ple of southern or eastern Scotland, and they also know nothing of the fictitious division of Highlanders and Lowlanders.. Hector Boece is also si lent on the supposed Saxon descent of the Lowlandcr and the expulsion of the Celt. Instead he says we who have our abode on the confines of England, through much commercial intercourse and wars, have learned the Saxon speech, and have forsaken our own. Our place names prove the essential Celticity of Scotlaud, as the Celtic forms outnumber the English by ten to one, and t^e latter are mostly modern or corruptions of the Gaelic. The Eng lish language pushed out our native Gaelic, but neither Saxon nor English displaced the men.itnd any outsiders who-, fifteen hundred years ago were permitted to survive, withie »ur bor ders would soon be fused Into .the whole, and today we are a nation or race or breed second to none, and as Professor Keith, the eminent ethnolo gist, says, "the Scot Is the. fertilizer of the British empire.**—Edinburgh Scotsman. A QUESTIQJ4 "Better be careful." "What orr» •Ths worm will turn.1* "What can a worm do If hs doss turnr* HOME IV-W'h" I'NDrin ST\TK .SUPKI} UVO N JanaW *F Your Financial Year Perfect Carbon Copies -^T. O. Gilbert was a1 twin city-visitor Wednesday. —Miss Olga Is«nbei Tuesday for Atwater* —Wm. Nordstrom alio! Nels Christenson of Atwater ^e|e Willmar callers today. \. —Mrs. H. C. Jonnson left on Tuesday for a few days yisit in Minneapolis. 1f^•'* Use checkbook on the Fanners Secur ity State Bank as yourfinancialyear book. It's the hnsinesslihe way an^-ynu wiOfindit almost indispensable to your financial success in 1921. Farmers Security State Bask Willmar, Minnesota -^X-' To' obtain perfect carbon copieli MULTIKOPY it will give clear, clean-cut and legible copies that will reflect the per* lection oi your origh^ letters. 1 Vi Let.us know your requirements and our^ aalesmaa will gladly call with samptet. left :"':f' —Mrs. John Frteese and her daughter returned to: their home Raymond Wednesday*, —Mrs D. E. Armstrong left Wednesday for a visit At her parental home in Raymond. —Misses Inez Normile and Josie Murray left Wednesday for a visit at Spicer. —Mrs. Minnie Gray left on Wednesday for a short visit at St. Cloud. —Miss Mabel Peterson left Wednesday for a visit with Mrs. And. Stene in Kerkhoven. —Lewis Nofdgren of Min neapolis arrived Wednesday for a visit. —Mrs. D. F. Dugan left oh Tuesday for a visit- in Minne apolis. tV -^-Dr. H. C, Abrahamson, chiropractor, left Wednesday for International Falls, wrere he will locate. -—Harrison Sherwood ff Long Prairie visited his par ents here Tuesday and Wed nesday, T" —Miss Laura Peterson of O gelvie, formerly of Kandiyohi, and well known here, 'visited a few days the past week with, relatives at Atwater. —OLD PAPERS—Handy things around the house. Can be used for shelves, wrapping, etc Call at the Tribune and get a'good sized bundle for Sp. _-*w Start a checking account new ami' keep track of year income and expepinuref during 1921. 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