Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-02-28
GOV. .NORBECK.
Given An Enthusiastic
Greeting
CONCLUDED from last week
State Hail Insurance.

mass such a law. SO 1t has submitted
If TO the people to vote upon at the
next general election. l don't claim
the state can enter every competitive
business successfully. but l don't
see why the hail insurance business
would not be a success. The moraI
risk Is eliminated in hail insurance
The state could save the expense OF
the insurance companies In their
large force of agents. / think it is
sound and safe.
Public Lands On Easier Terms.
Another proposal is to offer pub
lie lands In the State OF South Da-
kota on better terms. We have
sold only a small part of our pub
lie lands. We have large tracts of
institutional lands in addition to
the school land. Our boys growing
up. see the advertisements of Cana
Ola Offering them aid in getting
started and off they go. They leave
because our terms of sale are so
stiff 1t is hard to get started. Twen-
itv-fve per cent down and twenty
five per cent in five years are not
terms easily met In the beginning.
Are you willing that our public
lands should be sold for 10 per cent
tChSt1 WIN unity StdIS liHlc LOI tHS
remainder of the payment. In my
opinion these terms are Just as safe
as those now in effect, when the
state holds deed for security, And
besides, we give the boys a chance.
we have got thousands of boys in
the training camps now. They will
he back in a year, two years, maybe
longer. But they will be back, and
we ought to be ready to say to
them. Here, we have looked after
your interests while you were gone.
Here Is Your chance to buy your
own farm on easy terms
Terminal Elevators.
But the real problem of the
farmers is the distribution and mar
ksting of their crops. You say you
arc 10Y getting good prices for
farm products. That is true. But
why shouldn't the farmer get full
value for his crops. Over ninety
per cent OF our grain crop is shipped
out OF the state for outside con-
sumption. We must therefore wage
a continual fight to keep the freight
rates down. And In this fight
South Dakota has not been so for
tunate as some of the n~eighboring
states. We have no terminal eleva-
tors within IL boundaries. To
reach the terminals our wheat must
De shipped across the state border.
n freight rates are therefore be-
You'd the jurisdiction Of the state
railroad commission and subject to
The ruling Of the Interstate Commerce
commission. So we have to be con
tinually on our guard to sac that
someone outside does not get too
Dig a slice of our wheat and other
grains.
Commission Investigating.
we want terminal elevators II
they VIII serve a good purpose. The
last legislature passed a bill pro-
vldlaqg That, the governor appoint a
commission of three to investigate
the question of terminal elevators
and report on locations, railroad
rates obtainable and all data of In
terest. in connection with such a pro.
1ect; and also to report on the
building Of Touring mills and pack
Ing houses. That commission has
been appointed and is. at work, and.
one OF Its members is John T. Relk
or Henry, your own president. When
the time comes for action this in
v~estigation will have. secured valu-
ads and accurate information for
a guidance Of the voters and the
legislature.
one OF the biggest drains on the
state is fuel. We have in our w
state n In North Dakota. large
stores OF coal. 1t is true this coal
Is lignite, but we are, going to md
out what It is good for. 1t has been
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