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NORTH DAKOTA NOW
IN FARMERS HANDS
PROGRAM OF STATE-OWNED
UTILITIES PLANNED TO
FIGHT SPECTATORS.

The government of North Dakota
Without an inaugural ball, devoid of
all pomp or ceremony, Lynn J. Fra
zier, who ten months ago was un-
known outside his own precinct, took
the oath of office as governor the
other day. Prior to that time he had
farmed ever since he was graduated
from the University Of North Dakota
II years ago.
Governor Frazier is the first gov
ernor to be elected by the Farmers
bipartisan league, which captured
every elective office except one and
elected three justices of the supreme
court, who have Endorsed the pro-
gram of state-owned utilities. The
tillers of the soil control every
branch of the state government ex-
cept the senate, where the conserva-
tives outnumber them by three votes.
The Leagues Program.
GISuty pei CCAJ VI IAC AhCAA
bers of the lower house of the legis-
lature are committed to the leagues
program, which Governor Frazier
outlined in his message. 1t provides
for:
Erection of state-owned terminal
elevators, packing plants, flour mills,
cold storage plants and warehouses,
insurance law upon an acreage basis.
Exemption of farm improvements
from taxation.
Rural credit bank operated at
cost. ::
Abolition of political parties.
The league is secret organization
and only actual tillers of the soil are
eligible for membership. 1t has
$4,000 members in North Dakota
and is spreading to Minnesota, Iowa,
South Dakota and Montana. A. G.
Townley, the president. says in time
the whole Northwest will be in the
political control of the farmers, and
then they will carry their fight to
congress.
To Fight Spectators.
This revolt, which has called many
a Cincinnatus from the plough, is pri-
marily a protest against the Juggling
of grain prices and the speculation
lin food prices by the chambers OF
commerce. The league proposes to
put the speculative markets out OF
business through cooperation OF the
state and the farmers in the distribu-
ton Of land products.
The Neutrality-suspicious. propose to
hold a constitutional convention as
soon as possible to raise the debt
limit of the state from 100000 to
an amount that will permit putting
through the various socialistic
changes. There is school FUND OF
some $12,0OO,000 which they hope
to use in floating bonds.
Howard Wood, of Deering, for 81
years a cultivator of a 1,2OO-acre
grain ranch, was elected speaker.
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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON.
Jan. 12.-Anew stump pullingdevice,
by which the cost Of clearing land
can be greatly reduced. has been in
vented by F. X. Kristen, assistant
professor in the electrical engineering
department of the University OF
Washington.
The new stump puller Is station
AIRY and has this advantage over older
machines: Ten acres can be cleared
without moving the new puller. The
machine consists of bell-shaped
drum, a long cable and long steel
arm. A stump is shaved down until
it will allow the drum Of the machine
to fit over it. This is used as an
anchor from which the cable is at
tached to the stump that is to be
pulled.
A long steel arm is attached to the
drum and horses are hitched to the
arm. The cable tightens as the drum
is turned by the horses and in the
end the stump is pulled from the
ground. The pulling power of the
horses can be multiplied to any de-
sired amount by increasing the length
of the arm.
Prof. Kristen has used the new de-
vice on his own Pierce county farm
and finds that it works well. The
machine is simple and does not have
to be moved about continually, as &c
many Of the older machines. 1t VIII
cost about SIS when placed on the
market.
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State of Washington, for Thurston
County.
In re Estate OF N. p. Berlin. deceased.
Notice to Creditors.
Public notice is hereby given to all
persons having claims against the said
~ p. Berlin or against his estate to
present the same supported by proper
vouchers to the undersigned admins
tratrix of his estate at the office of Geo
n. Funk in the Funk -Voland Building
in the city of Olympia, Washington.
within a period Of one year from and
after the date Of first publication Of this
notice or the same will he forever
barred
ANNA BERLIN.
Administrators.
Date of first publication January 70.
1917. 1-2-5
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ganization. With the organized
community, many advantages are to
be gained First of all, greater in
terest will be taken in the proper
methods of breeding, feeding, etc,
, with the result that a definite COM
munity type will be established and
the members will work together in
maintaining that ideal.
United action is brought about in
the prevention and eradication of dis
ease, combined action along this line
being far more effective and econom-
ical than individual effort. The
good effect of combined action on the
part of the breeders of community
in preventing the spread of such a
disease as hog cholera, for instance,
can readily be appreciated. Much
can also be accomplished in similar
manner in stamping out contagious
diseases among other classes of live
stock. and by the adoption of proper
sanitary methods further outbreaks
in the community can be avoided. A
reputation for sound, healthy stock
is most desirable and valuable
asset.
Additional advantage is obtained
in marketing the surplus stock. The
individual breeder is compelled to
seek his own market. A further
drawback is the higher freight rate
and lack of railroad facilities, owing
to shipments having to be made in
lots of less than a carload. With the
organized community the market is
established and freight charges are
reduced by carload shipments,
which may be made up of stock be-
longing to several persons. Ship
ments made in this way insure bet
ter railroad service, and the small
breeder shares with the larger breed
er the benefit of reduced transporta-
ton charges.
The successfully organized COM
munity centralizes the matter of
buying. and purchasers will pay bet
ter prices than would be the case II
they were compelled to go to the ad-
ded expense Of travelling from place
to place in order to get the required
number Of animals Of the quality
they desire. These satisfied custom
ers will be an additional agency
whereby the reputation Of the com.
munity and the quality of its live
stock will be spread to other sections
and states.
+ Additional publicity is to be gained
through advertising. Attractive,
well-prepared advertising judiciously
placed is an important factor in
drawing attention to the community
as breeding center and attracting
customers.
Through the regular meetings Of
the association the members are
brought in contact with each other,
matters of general interest are dis
cussed, spirit of friendly rivalry is
stimulated, and more neighborly
Feeling prevails. These meetings
will also have much to do in MAIN
tanning the proper enthusiasm SO es-
|sential to the success of the organi-
cation and the good Of the commu-
nifty in general.
The history of the associations and
districts mentioned is one of contin-
ued success. Their growth and in
fiuence have been marked. and their
example can we'll be followed by
other sections where such organiza-
lions do not exist.
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Did You
Get Slice
Of Melon

This bank paid out $4,000 in
interest on savings accounts for
last year. !
The husband, wife or child Of
every family should have had i
share of this money.
The way to become interested
in these dividends 10 to start =
bank account in the savings d.
partment.
Then the interest VIA be paid
to you or compounded twice each
year, In July and January.
Instead Of paying out interest,"
draw interest BY being one Of tho
savings depositors at tho
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VALUE OF LIVESTOCK BREEDING ASSOCIATION

SUCCESS COOPERATIVE EFFORT DEMONSTRATED
COMMUNITIES IN PARTS COUNTRY--HOW AS.
SOCIATIONS ORGANIZED SUGGESTIONS FOR
CONDUCTING THEM Nssassax ss.A LII. | III 81 III
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erty and improvements and, therefore,
their owners should pay proportionate
taxes. They overlook the obvious fact
that according as in a given neighbor-
hood protection is given or perfected,
so land values rise. The possessor of
personal property and would-be con-
structor of improvements, therefore,
pays sum proportionate to the de-
STABILITY of the neighborhOod for the
privilege of being there with his
personal property or constructing his
improvements, and should not pay
doubly.
Nor for variety of reasons space
f0rblds me to enumerate, should mere
evidences of ownership of property,
like mortgages, notes, stocks, etc., be
taxed Suffice it to say that taxes
upon them do not stay where put but
are passed on to the borrower, making
his progress in the race of life more
difficult. We might add that since the
failure during the Middle Ages of the
forceps and the thumb-screW, no
efficient method of collecting taxes
upon intangible personal property has
been invented which did not make the
wrong man ultimately pay.
Many working farmers of the counties
fear that a tax on land values only
would increase their burdens. Not so.
Only so far as he held land idly would
they pay more. l have pointed out
that improvements and other products
Of industry, either created by them or
purchased, would not be taxed. 1t is to
be added that though farmers hold
broad acres, the centers of land values
are in the cities. One acre of land in
New York City is worth more than the
value of many entire counties in Mary
land. A couple of acres in Baltimore
is worth more than the assessed value
of whole counties.
A couple of acres In Baltimore is
worth more than the assessed value of
whole counties.
A couple of letters serves scarcely to
outline this great problem of taxation
in which, though sinners, the counties
of Maryland are not so more than other
counties of the United States. Let US
turn to other matters about which we
should speedily act in the State of
Maryland.
JACKSON II. RALSToN.
Hyattsville. Md, March 2, 1917.
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WITHOUT AGlTATORS
INDUSTRY FLOURiSHES
Figures Show Big Increase In Wages
and Factories In Queens.

Wherever labor agitators are few,
there industry flourishes and workers
are prosperous. This is the lesson to
be cleaned from the remarkable indus
trial growth in the Borough of Queens,
New York City, as shown by the fig
ures recently compiled by the Bureau
of Census fer the year 1914.
The figures record a decided gain
not only in the number of new facto-
ries, capital invested in manufacture.
ing, and the value of manufactured
products, but also in the sum total of
salaries and wages and the number Of
salaried employees and wage earners
since the taking of the last census in
1908. From percentage standpoint,
the increase over the several items
was as follows:
Salaried employees, 62.7 per cent; sal
aries, sos per cent; wages, 80 per cent;
wage earners, 30.7 per cent; capital in
vested, 20 per cent; number of facto-
ries, 26G per cent; value of products,
SIS per cent.
While complete figures have not been
published as yet for al the cities and
States, still from the figures that are
now available it is evident that the
Borough of Queens for the year 1914
exceeded in the value of its manufac-
tured products many States of the
Union, such as Vermont, Delaware,
Oregon, Florida, and Wyoming; it ex-
ceeded, also, in this respect every CITY
in New York State, with the exception
Of Buffalo. In fact, there were not
more than fifteen or sixteen cities i'll
the United States which produced man.
ufactured products greater in value
than those made in Queens for the
the year 1914.-Industridl Conserua-
ton, N. Y.
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UNITY NEEDED TO HOLD
TRADE AFTER THE WAR
Labor Must Join In Effort to Meet New
Competitive Spirit In Europe.

Employers and workers must unite
to meet the conditions that the restora.
ton of peace il Europe will bring"
says Eugene II. Outerbridge. president
of the New York Chamber of Com.
merce. II think there is no single ele-
ment in industry before this country
today OF such vast Importance as the
matter Of bringing these two cOnstitu-
ents into mutual confidence and under
standing in a real spirit of co-opera-
ton.
IN the world conditions now pre-
vailing the peoples of the belligerent
nations have. under the stress of
compelling necessity, developed de,
gree Of cooperation and efficiency in
production of which they never be
fore knew themselves capable and
which has never been approached any
where else in the world.
The war has produced many I'm,
precedented conditions. This IS only
one of them After it is over there
will be many we shall have to meet
and many changes TO which we shall
have to adapt ourselves. Some cannot
be foretold or fOreseen. but 1t appears
to me inevitable that the conscious
ness of the efficiency and productive
power thar has been developed In the
European peoples will lead them not
to turn to previous methods or lives
Of incidence and ease. but that they
will turn their newly developed pow
ers to production in peaceful pursuits
and that We then shall have to meet
in foreign fields. and perhaps in do
nestle trade, the force of competitive
production organized on n degree of
efficiency which we have never before
had to combat."-IndustriGl COnserUd-
ton, ". Y.
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After the European war is over the
prosperity Of the country will depend
on the willingness of labor to cooper
ate with capital in fighting destructive
competition from abroad This is the
consensus Of opinion among men Of
affairs who have made a close study
of conditions in the industrial and eco
monte world.
During the reconstruction period
that must follow the termination Of
the war, these men say, labor and
capital viii be shipmates. and if there
is going to be any mutiny among the
members of the crew the result will
affect the wage earners income. In
this connection George Roberts. vice
president of the National City Bank Of
New York. says:
q cannot get rid of the conviction
that there will have to be a period Of
readjustment for the general business
situation soon after the war. There
is only one way to maintain high
wages, and that is by increasing the
efficiency Of industry. We have to
convince our own people Of the advan-
tages Of large scale. economical pro
ducuon. and we have to satisfy our
wage-earners that they are interested
not in restricting production, but in
increasing production. They must be
brought to see not only that wages are
dependent upon production, but that
an increasing supply of all the com
forts of life for the masses Of the peo-
pie is dependent upon it."-Indu8triql
Conservation, n. Y.
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Defiant to Public Sentiment.
JOANNEs

To the Editor of The Republican.
This Government is a model and alone,
standing out without its fellows over
the worlds plain. 1t derives its right to
act from the consent or the governed
and the exercise of its functions is in
the will of the majority. Once in four
years Is an expression of that will by
the election of president for term of
four years next ensuing, under constitu-
tional restraints. Students of states
croft watching our progress upon the
highway of experiment from the view
point of the foreigner, are never able
to discover how it can happen, after
such intensity of feeling and acrimony
of arrangement INDUCED in presidential
campaign all, as if by common consent.
settle down in submissive tranquility as
soon as the wish of the majority is
spoken at the polls That will is. the
court of higher appeal established in
the jurisprudence of the Republic.
Safety of today and security for the
future lie in steadfast allegiance to
that will and departure from the beaten
way made clear to US by the wisdom of
the fathers, means peril. At this hour
of public uncertainty and dangerous
menace what are we hearing from the
legislative halls at Washington? Never
in high places has the hand of opposi-
ton been so boldly and so effectuallv
lifted against the public will and the
common safety.
In the last month of the life of the
64th Congress, the President of the
United States appeared before a joint
assemblage of that body and, pointing
out the cloud drift of worlds war to
our shores, earnestly asked in the
emergency that added powers be vested
in him to defend, if necessary, the
rights of the nation on land and sea.
The country listened from ocean to
ocean in answer to that call; legislatures
of MANY states, influential bodies of
citizens and leaders of the best thought
from most every quarter and class
vigorously urged their representatives
in both chambers of congress to grant
the asked for power and support the
executive in great crisis. The pulse
beat of the land could bear but one in
depreciation and congress moved in
such ready response as to show that
embers were still living in the ashes of
1776. But little minority of little men
IN the upper house, subordinating par
liamently rules to an abuse of privilege,
defeated the vote for national defense
and honor. If this mere handful of men
OBJ tructing an extraordinary measure
FOR patriotic purpose had been actual
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ed by conviction to oppose such grant,
surely each in a negative vote could
have registered opposition to the meas
ure. But they strained their privilege
under the liberality of rule to throttle
an enactment loudly demanded by power
full najorties and acted, as if glad to
strike from the government means of
national defense in the face of chal-
longing foe. If this is true as to the
attitude of these senators in an hour of
anxious trial, it will be viewed from
every hearth and home of a brave
people as a crying, burning, blushing
shame. Somewhere distant IN the twi-
light of gone ages, it is recorded of a
certain rose, that, after inficting the
death penalty upon an arch offender he
was buried and then, by an memorable
law, every passerby once a year must
cast stone upon that burial spot until
a monument of erection rose. And,
were 1t possible for like purpose, the
Republic might bury this unhappy
history under the shadow of its capitol
dome, where the GODDESS of popular free
dom may not only daily look down in
pity, but where every recurring year
congress may pass in stately column,
each member casting stone over that
dead and discarded memory.
RELLIN.
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EVANSVILLE.

Mr., McHenry, assistant State Bows
Club Agent, visited the Grantsville
schools on Tuesday last where the for
mer gave very interesting talk on
the Corn and Potato Club subject. A
Boys Club was organized here with
Harold Miller, President; James STAN
ton, vice president; and Guy Stanton,
secretary. The boys will hold their
initial meeting in the school at an early
date, and it is believed a number of
local youths will join the club, both IN
order to promote agriculture and social
interests, and to compete for the
prizes in the MARYLAND contest for DO
tato and corn growers. The visiting
gentlemen were Hospitality entertained
by Mr.. and Mrs. H. P. Miller, of Stone
House farm.
The Grantsville Boy Scouts are grow
ing in numbers and hold regular weekly
meetings in the hall over Bonigs store.
Tenderfoot examinations were held on
Feb. 23d, and buttons, badges etc. are
being provided for the boys. The pre-
sent officers are j. A. Carney, Scout
Master; w. c. Stanton, assistant scout
master; Lee Beachy, secretary; Daniel
Hershberger, treasurer. New patrol
leaders will be elected to take the place
of Asa Miller and Lee Custer who have
gone away. The boy scouts expressed
their sympathy to two of their mem
bers, Roy Zehner and Henry Bong, Jr.. Z
by purchasing beautiful wreath of
lilies and carnations upon the death of
their grandmother, Mrs. Sophia Bong.
last week.
Miss Leota Stanton, who has been
attending a business college at Ypsil-
anti, Mich, is now staying with her
aunt and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Loechel.
Gilead Broadwater attended the in
auguration OF President Wilson. at
Washington, and also visited his
daughter, Mrs. Eva Bevans, at the
Gainesville sanltorium.
Lee Custer and Asa Miller left for
the West last week and have found
employment at Akron, U.
Miss Leota Pope, of Sutton, Md,
spent week with her aunt, Mrs. John
Zehner, and also spent few days with
Mrs. Mahlon Miller, near Grantsville.
Charles Lowenstein, of Johnstown,
Pa, Mrs. Mary Petry, of Elk Lick, Pa,
Charles Bong, of Cumberland and Mrs.
Frank Paterson, of Rockford, Mich.
were among the out-of-to relatives
present at Mrs. Sophia Bonig's funeral,
The crowd of postal telegraph line
men staying at the Victoria hotel,
Grantsville, left for Philadelphia, Pa,
this week.
CLEANING AND PRESSING-I am
prepared to do all kinds of cleaning and
pressing Of gentlemen's suits. Orders
taken for suits made to measure,
Robert Price, agent for Ernest c,
Liller, Observation-Disclosures.
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from it, for there are many whose
lives are above reproach. who would
scorn to do dishonest, act to gain a
dollar and who would blush at the
thought of trying to lead employees to
do what would not stand the light of
the judgment day. Is it a common
thing now days when one enters com
mercial life, to be told that whatever
you sell. you must not sell your con-
science nor violate the law of God, and
that money gotten by wrong doing are
like paper balloons inflated with hydro
gen gas.
| wish could impress it upon the
mind of every one that money gotten by
fraud or sin of any kind will be a curse
for the breath Of a rlghteously, indig-
nant God will be blown upon it sooner or
later. the result Of such accumulation
will be scattered to the winds. Or sup
pose you enjoy it in life, how can they
meet death with such load on their
Conscience 14CAS WOulu swing lUG
red light to warn those entering COM
mercial life. Some time ago near my
old home the express somewhat beIated
and running at high speed rushed upon
an open switch and was fleeing over a
trestle. 1t was the work of a moment
yet some were killed and others were
mangled and bruised, l have known
moral. physical. social, financial and
eternal wrecks in that same community
which made no impression on the public
mind.
I've known Young men to make fear
full wreck of their prospects, happiness,
and future success, and go down to
dishonored and untimely graves, yet
no one seemed to lay 1t to heart. Young
women with bright prospects before
them have by their folly dashed them
to earth and disappointed the hopes of
friends and out of the depths of their
wretchedness and misery they wished
they had not been so heady, but had
needed the advice of friends.
Look well to the headlights, watch
the switches else you will dash into an
open one. If you ever find yourself in
place where they are teaching their
employees to be sharpes and dishonest,
where they require what God forbids,
get out of it at once. There are places
and firms where they teach young men
to be an honor to their friends and
country and young women to be indie
pendent and true and if you can't be in
a place of that kind don't be in any.
Stand by principle and right at all haz-
yards, then if they ask for your resigna-
ton or tell you when they give you
your wages some evening, that you
need not come back, you can go out
with the consciousness that you have
not violated conscience or your sense of
honor. You can look your fellow men
in the face and boldly approach the
divine throne.
Better be right than own the biggest
establishment in the country or be
president of the greatest system of
rail roads.
JOANNES.