The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-09-20
WAR RECORD OF
NORTH DAKOTA


cal fixers and zip" loyalists, backed
by the profiteers and grafters, the
war record of North Dakota was set
before the nation admirably in a
recent speech in congress by Rep
resentative John M. Baer.
North Dakota is governed by the
Nom Partisan, or National party and
certainly has good record for good
government and loyalty to the ma
ton. Mr.. Baer said:
North Dakota is proud of it's rec
ord in response to the selective serv-
ice law. The reports of Provost
Marshal General Crowder reveal that
the record for North Dakota is $1.55
per certified man, as against an
average of $4.23 for all the states.
when our government asked that
wheat for our country and our allies
be taken at fixed price of 1921 per
bushel, and at a time when such
wheat was actually worth over a
dollar more than that in the open
market, the farmers of North Dakota,
complaining not and without send
ing any delegates to Washington to
protest, loyalty and willingly accept
ed and received the price fixed for
their product and quickly delivered
it to the nation.
Whenever our government has
asked for financial response to our
Liberty loans, North Dakota, even
though impoverished by severe crop
failures in the years 1916 and 1917,
nevertheless has gone over the top
upon every request with magnificent
oversubscriptions.
an active support of the Red
Cross, North Dakota continuously
set record of high loyal devotion
and worthy achievement. In sup
port of the Red Cross magazine
No tn Dakota led the states of the
Union with an oversubscription of
800 per cent. Furthermore, through
out the state, here and there and
everywhere, Red Cross acres may be
found donated by the farmers as to
the proceeds from their crop pro-
auctions.
when again the government re-
quested that every effort be made
to increase our crop production, to
aid and maintain our boys and our
allies at the front, North Dakota,
upon it's own initiative, Immediately
took action to insure as greatly an
increased acreage as possible. Gov
ernor Frazer, the executive head of
the Non-Partisan administration,
realizing that the crop failure in
1916 and 1917 in various parts of
the state had not only greatly i'm
poverished the farmers but in many
counties had left them without the
necessary seed for succeeding crop
and without credit to obtain seed,
called into special session the leg
islature, proposing the enacting of a
seed and feed act for the benefit of
the farmers and the nation and to
enable needy farmers to borrow
money to secure sufficient seed
and feed for crop production in 1918.
This act was adopted by the legis-
lature and became law practically
as proposed.
"The increase in the wheat acre
age was 10 per cent and in rye
100 per cent. The increase in total
acreage of all crops in 1918 over
1917 is 100000 acres, or in round
numbers 10 per cent increase. The
operation of the seed and feed act
enabled the farmers to seed more
than 100000 acres. This is one
of the factors. The other is this:
There are thousands of acres of
land IN the state vacant, tlllable, idle
and unproductive; many of these
acres are owned by nonresidents,
many by spectators who have been
holding them as an investment for
increase in land value as the sur
land is broken up by actual
farmers and made productive. In
North Dakota the council of de-
tense, operating under Nom Partisan
administration. has taken noteworthy
steps to aid in crop production.
at enacted a regulatory order
providing that any farmer of the
state upon showing being made
that there were idle, vacant and
tillable lands which he could utilize
for crop production could secure a
permit from the council to enter upon
the lands and make them productive
for the year 1918 for raising flax
md for tho war; 1910 Co.. ,o;c;,,o.