Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-11-15
NelD PIdntO Build IN the City
By Drifting Out Businessmen
Is Urged By Socialist Editor

Business men Of Grand Forks.Mere
enthusiastic today over the new plan
for boosting the city and cutting
down the high cost Of living which;
was advocated In last nights issue OF
the local Socialist organ. Vln$s ~
II the plans Of the Socialist genius
are carried out, Grand Forks will un-
doubtedly become a rival Of such
trade centers as Merriaeld or KellYs,
1t wa pointed out today.
The. plan Is SO simple that only the
we'll known blindness Of the Grand
Forks business men to their own best
interests accounts for their not hav-
ing hit upon the scheme before. All
that Is necessary is to put at least 80
of the 3S grocery stores now operat-
Ing here out of business. NJ Z
AS everyone knows, the only sue
cessful way to build up q city Is to
drive as many business men and other
citizens as possible out of town. The
ideal to be striven for Is that of Ojata,
where n store takes car Of the
need OF the entire community. +,
Ojata of course Is the ideal. To
hope that Grand Forks will ever have
the same population, and do the same
amount of business as that thriving
metropolis may seem vain, but If the
advice of our Socialist contemporary
Is followed it should in time become
a reality.
We would Of course at the same
time eliminate as many dry goods.
clothing and other stores as possible,
thus causing the population to de-
crease by leaps and bounds.
Stats Should Take Charge.
The general sentiment seems to be
that the few stores we find-it impos-
sible to do without should be oper.
ated+ by the Socialist state administra.
ton. This would enable us to rid our
selves of what few business men per-
sisted in remaining, in the city, and
put the business in the hands of the
heralds of the new day who have sc
successfully operated the Consumers
Stores Co. to the greater. glory-and
proft-of A. C. Townley and the other
self admitted saviours Of North Da.
kota.
Martial Law? r
There is a general demand that the
governor extend his policy Of MARTA.
law SO as to drive put such business
men as fail to recognize the manifest
advantages of the plan, and still stick
! to the obsolete idea that they have q
right to conduct legitimate business
Tax Nigh Help.
There still remains the delivery
problem. Fortunately h vice presi'
dent of the Socialist organ, A. G. Sor.
lie, is a public spirited citizen. 1t II
hoped that he may be persuaded tt
resurrect his consolidated delivery
system which he put into effect a few
years ago, but which died a painless
death from lack of support. If the
state took charge of the matter, how,
ever, it would be a s to levy a. ta1
on the farm acreage of the county tc
maintain the enterprise, and the
ability of Townley's trained governor
to levy taxes is too well known to re.
qufre comment. a. b.
So todayabusiness men Of the cit,
werefhopeful that the Socialist pro.
gram will be carried out and that il
the not too distant future we may see
only two business enterprises located
in Grand Forks. a state conducted
store and a Socialist paper, the lattel
being necessary of course to keep the
population of the city informed as t.
the great benefits he is receiving from
the new day.