The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-06-26
LEAGUE FOES USING
%CHAUTAUQuA PLAl
lohbera Of Duluth and Twin catio
Promote New Assault on
honpartlssn Farmers.
81 " HAVE SIGNED UP
Vaudeville Entertainment and Artists
to Draw crowd-camoufiaeed Spell.
binders to Put Out Propaganda.

to Draw crowd-camoufiaeed SPELL
binders to Put Out Propaganda.
The latest plan for fighting tho Non
partisan league farmers is a wide
spread adaptation Of the chautauqua
idea. The a%ntt-league propaganda will
be In the hands of smooth-talking lee
turers sandwiched in between various
forms OF popular entertainment. Book
lngs have been arranged for 81 North
Dakota towns and the total net cost
to the hackers for that state Is esti-
mated at 100000.
Who the hackers are az we'll 90 the
details Of this attempt to prevert .
popular institution, Is described in the
March 81 number OF the Billboard. Q
theatrical magazine published at New
York City. The hackers are the job
bers OF the Twin Cities and Duluth
and the local merchants.
Jobbers Pay Part.
1T is a big and worthy work." do
clares the Billboard article. Seventy.
five per CEN Of the cost is borne by
the merchants themselves. The re-
naming 25 per cent is cared for mu-
tually by St.. Paul, Minneapolis and
Duluth jobbers."
I'VE hear q great deal about the
Nonpartisan league of North Dakota
these days. A dozen other states are
beginning to fight this Nonpartisan
league idea. Editor Norman B. Black
Of Fargo, N. D., recently passed
through the city Of Chicago and while
there he gave the newspapers some in
~teresting stories about the way this
league Is working in his state. He
started of with this thought: The
North Dakota idea ID the real menace
to this country
How are they meeting this situa-
ton? The lyceum and c%hautauqua
idea being a very flexible one It was
made to fit this field and set to work
to solve this problem. The, following
was taken from a report prepared by
the manufacturer and jobbers' trade
extension branch of the St. Paul As.
%socfatton of Commerce, and it sets
forth many facts that are worthy Of
profound study by every business man
and every amusement purveyor in this
country:
1.-THE Federated Community Life
Development association, F. P. Mann,
Devils Lake, president; Alexander
Karr, Fargo, secrstary-tressurer, was
organised early In 1913. through the
efforts Of tho North Dakota Retailers
association In cooperation with other
business organizations Of the state.
81 rowns Signed Up.
"'Bookings are made by advance
agents Of the association and for 1919
81 towns have been signed up. The
agents make the arrangements with
the merchants Of each town. who guar
antee their cooperation and financial
and moral support
after describing how It 10 the duty
and responsibility OF every st. Paul
travelling man who works in North
Dakota to boost for this organisation
and to watch it, activitiss.' the BILL
board story concludes:
"'Thers ass now four systsrns OF a.
fractions on the road hlline engage.
msRts for THE association. They cen.
slst 81 oonesrts, lsotursss and snt>r.
tainsrs. They stay two dsys In each
town, They give two oonosrts and .
lecture, and hold q buslnsss confer
snee In which oil possible angles are
discussed and plans laid fsr the better
development 81 their purpose 70 bring
towaspsopis and farsnsrs toesthsr
Extension 70 othse otatea.
"'Thsy wind up ths second ulGAl
with q dance and sort Of social soirse.
aud It oil leaves tho losal community
longing and waiting Tor the next
event. which will b about Stx weeks
iaksr, whom q different ct of oatee.
tanners, musicians and lect1rass oones
to that same town for aoothQ tva
days Of pleasure and profit % oil.
s1yceum and eAAutauqaa ae&sAo'
lions ore given 50 to - week contracts
md never get beyond the bouads Of
Tt one state. How long VIII 4 taha
% cover the United States e IN ateyae
ton worked each state % thoroughly
% North Dakota II 64lnG WORKED
The last paragraph evidently hits
what the Twin Cities jobbers are hop
Ing to do. The e1psnss Of 'educat.
tng North Dakota farmers, with
nearly 400 separate days Of pleasure
and profit to ALL must be consider
able-certainly not less than 800, 600
altogether, Of which the Twin Cities
and Duluth pay % per cent, OF $25, 900.
But the ultimate intention undoubted.
" Is to cover the United States as
thoroughly .as North Dakota Is being
worked"
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