The Northman., May 27, 1920, Page 15, Image 15

THE NORTHMAN
was the yegend: “A long-distnace the date when the government pays
you in full for it, you do not need to
kitchen shortens life.”
worry if, in the meantime, the price
is low one day or high the next. You
and
Uncle Sam are living up to your
Ordinances authorizing the pur­
with each other, and neither
chase or condemnation of five play­ agreement
lose by it.
ground sites was placed before the will
On the other hand if you sell your
city council Wednesday morning. One Liberty
now, you will find that
ordinance providing for the purchase the man Bonds
you
sell
it to will not give
of a tract of land in North Portland you a dollar for every
dollar you paid
was withdrawn by City Commissioner for
The price has been brought
Pier, because members of the city down it. because
many people are
council have not yet viewed the prop­ offering to sei so
their
If the
erty. The districts in which sites are market is flooded with bonds.
tomatoes,
you
to be considered are: Woodstock, 15 can buy them cheap, but if everyone
acres; Montavilla, 11 acres; Rich­ is clamoring for tomatoes, and there
mond, two blocks; Clinton Kelly, ten are few to be had, the price goes up.
acres, and Mount Scott, nine acres.
The same is true of Liberty Bonds.
Short-sighted people are dumping
them on the market, and wise ones
are buying them.
The best advice that can be given
Beautiful designs in wreaths
to the owenr of a Liberty Bond is
this: Hold the bond you bought dur­
ing the war; it is as safe and sound
as the United States Government it­
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UNDERTAKERS AND
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25 years Portland's renown
Palmist and Clairvoyant.
Teaching spiritual read­
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375 Taylor Ave.
CORNER WEST PARK
Author of
“Palmistry Made Easy”
Sugar is going up!
But not enough th cut down the
quality of our Baking • Goods.
When you taste the product from our
bake-ovens you will know that the
ingredients that have made our
bakery goods preferable to you
are still the same.
Saturday is our Coffee Cake Day
Orders for “Julekager” and “Viener-
br0d” filled any time.
YAMHILL BAKING CO.
N. R. Jensen & F. R. Wegner, Props.
244 YAMHILL STREET
(Betw. 2nd & 3rd) Phone Main 3947
elevators. It was failure of the old
guard legislature in North Dakota to
obey the popular mandate of a con­
stitutional amendment twice passed,
by an eighty per cent vote of the
people, which gave the Non-Partisan
League its chance to break the old
guard’s grip.
“The farmers, today, are still wait­
ing for their mills and elevators.
There is no state-owned elevator
operating in North Dakota. There is
but one state-owned mill (at Drake).
The League’s publications claim that
this mill has paid farmers an average
of 12 cents a bushel more for their
grain than privately owned elevators
in the same neighborhood, and has
sold mill feeds at a price $5, a ton
below that of the private mills. I did
not visit Drake, and I am not able
to check these figures. Theoretically
the Drake mill can afford to buy at
Minneapolis rates plus the cost of
freight haul from Drake to Minne­
apolis; to sell at Minneapolis figures,
"minus the cost of that haul. But the
mill at Drake, regardless of the ac­
curacy of these quotations, is too
small a venture to go far toward
proving any theory. Its capacity is
not more than 250 barrels a day, at
most. What has blocked the more
ambitious plans of the League has
been the difficulty of placing mill
and elevator bonds until the constitu­
tionality of the legislation has been
passed upon by the federal Supreme
A CEMETERY—AND A SERMON Court. Several thousand dollars
worth of bonds have been sold for the
It was a neat little country ceme­ erection 'of mills and elevators at
tery, much like most little country Grand Forks. But the program, as a
cemeteries, yet there was something whole, awaits the action of the
queer about it. There was the rached Court. The Non-Partisan administra­
gateway and the customary weeping tion has put its promises into law.
willows by it. The clipped hedge was Litigation ties its hands.
like most cemetery hedges. The
“Above all else the Non-Partisan
tombstones were about the average League remains the instrument of a
run of tombstones. But, withal, there living faith for many of the hundreds
was something queer—even shocking. of thousands of farmers who are its
Then you discovered what it was. members. These men and women
These were truthful tombstones. Con­ have seen enough anti-League litera­
soling platitudes—“Too pure for ture, been warned by enough anti­
earth,” and that like—found no League speakers, to suspect that the
place. Instead, there were such epi­ organization to which they belong is
taphs as these: “Mother—walked to neither entirely efficient nor ideally
death in her kitchen;” “Sacred to the Democratic. Their faith has been
memory of Jane—she scrubbed her­ severely tested. Doubtless they are
self into eternity;” “Grandma — convinced that the League has made
washed herself away;” “Susie—swept mistakes. If they are still loyal it
out of life with too heavy a broom.” is because they believe it also has
The people who saw that cemetery
progress. That is something,
—and there were thousands of them— made
in their eyes, which the Democratic
may have been shocked for the instant, and Republican parties failed to do.
but they came away with the thought For years those parties had their op­
that one might be better for seeing portunity, in North Dakota, to sup­
such a cemetery. For, you see, it
the radical program which a ref­
was a miniature cemetery, 3 feet port
erendum twice adopted showed the
square, and it was part of an exhibit farmers
to he waiting for. Consist­
at the Montana State Fair. Such ently they
scorned that opportunity.
levity with the most solemn thing The Nonpartisan
accepted it.
that mankind knows, could not be The League was League
party of revolt
justified merely on the theory that the against existing a conditions.
things said were true—but those who sands of men and women were Thou
saw it came away with the belief that to accept it indiscriminatingly ready
on
it was pustified by way of keeping
single score.”
just those things from being true. And that
matter what may be the result
that was the purpose of the exhibit, of No
the
present campaign in North Da­
placed there by the agricultural ex­
and other states where the non­
tension department of the State Agri­ kota
partisan movement is active, good will
cultural College of Montana. It was come
from it just as good came from
meant to emphasize the need for home the
Farmers
’ Alliance, the Populist
conveniences, for lack of which many and other revolts.
a farm woman has gone to her grave
before her time.
YOUR LIBERTY BOND.
There were other exhibits designed
to drive home the same hard truth. The United States government bor­
One was a model showing a bleak rowed money from you to finance the
farinhouse on a bare hill. At the war. You hold the government’s
bottom of the hill ran a little stream, promise to pay you back. This prom­
and by the stream were barns and ise is called a Liberty Bond or Victory
cattle. Struggling up the hill to­ Note. On this bond is stated the con­
ward the house with two heavy pails ditions under which the government
of water was a bent old woman. And borrowed the money from you.
the legend was: “Convenient for the
For instance: If you hold a bond
cattle—but not for mother.” Then of the third Liberty loan, it states that
there was a farm house with the water on April 15th and October 15 of each
supply as it should be, the woman in year until maturity, you will receive
the yard sprinkling her flower beds interest on the amount you paid for
with a hose. And the inscription read: the bond. Other issues bear other
“Convenient for mother—and the cat­ rates of interest and other maturity
tle, too.” Another model showed a dates, all of which are clearly stated
kitchen as it should be, and another a on the bond.
kitchen as it should not be. And there
Now, if you keep your bond until
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managers, are making claims, of
course, but no one knows any better
than a newsboy who will be nomi­
nated in Chicago.
“As for the democratic nomination,
it looks as if McAdoo has the best
chance.
“As to the condition of the country
it simply looks too good to be true.
There is no unemployment^ no hun­
ger, no want, and yet people are dis­
satisfied in all walks of life. The
curtailment of credit by the federal
reserve bank will prick a few buoy­
ant bubbles in the next few months;
the people themselves are not buying
now with their former riotous ex­
travagance. In a little while things
will begin to return to normal. How­
ever, I see no hope of any permanent
lowering of prices, simply because
the retailers are cutting. The man­
ufacturers’ cost must first be re­
duced.
“Restricted production was partial­
ly responsible for the high cost of liv­
ing, and this does not mean merely
that the workers restricted their ef­
forts. In the south a strong propa­
ganda was spread to restrict the
acreage of cotton. Of course, re­
stricted production means compulsory
and premeditated poverty and bank­
ruptcy.
“I look for the farmers to reap a
golden harvest for the next few years
at least. We are a great industrial
and manufacturing nation and folks
must be fed and clothed and lessened
acreage means higher prices for those
who remain and work the land. It
will not be long before the city fellow
will realize that he had better be on
the farm.
“No, I have no political plans of
any kind. I will always take part in
polities, first because I like it and
second because it is every citizen’s
duty. I shall return to Seattle to my
family and be glad to get back.”
Probably the most interesting as
well as the most intense struggle of
the present campaign, will be between
the forces directed by Senator
Gr0nna on the one side and the Non-
Partisan League on the other in the
state of North Dakota. The relations
between Senator Gr0nna and the
league have been supposed to be
friendly heretofore. But in the re­
cent convention in North Dakota, A.
C. Townley, head of the league,
read Gr0nna out of the organization,
and Senator Gr0nna, in a telegram
to his political followers, reported in
kind. Senator Gr0nna announced he
will not follow the leadership of
Townley, and says: “I feel it my
duty to do my bit to help restore a
just and safe government for North
Dakota.” The league organization
has selected Dr. E. F. Ladd of the
North Dakota Agricultural college to
oppose Senator Gr0nna. This war to
the knife between Senator Gr0nna and
the league is expected to have far
reaching political effect in the states
of North and South Dakota, Minneso­
ta, Montana, Nebraska, Idaho, Wash­
ington and possibly Wisconsin, where
the league is reported to be strong.
Charles Merz, in a survey of the
Non-Partisan League published in
the New Republic says:
“Probably, in the eyes of the
farmers who put the Non-Partisan
League into power, state-owned grain
elevators and grain mills were the
most important items on the pro­
gram. The North Dakota farmer was
confident that an interloper—-“Big
Business”—had stepped between him
and his market. “Big Business,’’
specifically, was the Minneapolis mil­
ler. The farmer believed that the
great men who purchased his wheat
did not grade it fairly, did not give
fair credit for “dockage” (screenings,
etc.), and managed, through their
control of elevator facilities, to buy
when the market was glutted and sell
at their own high pleasure. The
farmer wanted state-owned mills and