The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-02-21
Equity Head Addresses
Students and Faculty
Normal School Rudget)
ellis head is long,
His legs are thin,
But he's a durn good man
buC ne 8 a uurn gOOu man
For the shape he's in"

Champion Of the farmer producer
and the city consumer, and foe OF
price manipulation, John NJ. Anderson
of the class of 1908, president of the
Equity Cooperative Exchange, St.
Paul, took occasion last week while
attending the annual meeting Of the
State Society of Equity in this city, to
visit the Normal school and address
the students and faculty at the gen.
eral exercises Thursday morning. Mr..
Anderson was introduced by President
Mcfarland as one who has and is
taking prominent part in the at
fairs of the world"
He is the same John N. Anderson
whose cartoon appeared in the Bud
get two weeks ago, and the same John
NJ. Anderson, who in his student days
recited orations from the top of a
soap box to Miss Amidon in the base
ment of the old main building. No
wonder he turned to her several times
during his address Thursday morning.
In opening his address, Mr. Ander-
son alluded to his student days at
the Normal school, and then, he said,
he discovered, as the students of to-
day will discover, that it is one thing
to plan what you are going to do,
and quite another thing to put those
plans into execution. We must not be-
come possessed of the idea that with
large fund of information that
things will go easily. He said that he
found that after he was graduated
from the State Normal school here
that the world didn't seem to know
that he was out of school.
Mr.. Anderson referred to the time
when he discovered that there were
a few things not as they should be.
He found that the price Of wheat
Was subject to large fluctuations
that in the fall when farmers bills
fell due. the price of wheat was low
est and in the spring when the crop
had been disposed Of the prices rose.
The welfare of the farmer depended
not alone on the amount of his crop,
but on tn price also. This was the
first proposition to be impressed up,
on the farmers.
The second proposition was to in.
duce farmers to hold their crops for
the higher prices The third propo-
s.tion was to induce farmers to or.
ganize their own elevator compa MES
because the difference in the price
of wheat ranged from Is to Is cents
a bushel higher at the terminal mar.
ket than what the farmer received
for his grain. The freight was not
more than eight or ten cents bush.
ell. A fair profit on bushel of wheat
should not amount to nearly the diff
ference.
To correct the evil was the. lot OF
the Equity. This organization did
not come into the field to fight When
1t was necessary for it to do so, il
was thrust upon it by other interests
But gradually the society has gain
ed confidence, credit, and the patron
age of the people. It has banded men
together to correct a system Of mar
keting. These men, Mr.. Anderson
said, are thinking men. They are 10y
al to the government and out of the
movement has sprung the present
Non-Partisan League in this state
Mr.. Anderson called attention to the
fact that the Equity stood not only
for a square deal to the farmer but
also to the consumer.