Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-08-04

Victory medal, which has been man
ufactured by carloads and which will
he awarded to all honorably dis
charged soldiers provided they make
formal application for it.
An official statement dated July 81
declares that although the depart
ment was prepared to issue about
$4,000 of these medals each day it
received only $4,000 applications in
the first month after the delivery be-
gan. Apparently the soldiers don't
care much for this kind of souvenir
of their experiences in the camps or
overseas.
One veteran explained that since
the getting of medal involves the
giving up, temporarily, of a mans
discharge papers, the men are salts
fed to hang onto the discharge pa
pers, (which are their most valuable
souvenir of the SERVICE" and let the
medals stay in the hands of the gov
eminent. Anyhow, the men are all so
busy with their own jobs just now
that they are forgetting the wars
glamour.
OF the first $4,000 medals issued
there were 4,094 with one battle clasp,
1924 with two battle clasps, $685. with
three, 3,169 with four, 1897 with five,
149 with six, 16 with seven, with
eight clasps, with nine clasps, / with
ten clasps and 1 with fourteen clasps
OF those who did not take part in
major operations 1859 served in
France, 3 in Italy, 80 in northern Rus
STA, 11S in Siberia and 1850 in the
United States.
PUSsYFOoTING FOR PACKERS
Under the caption, North Dakota
Planning New Industrial Reforms"
this cautious criticism is printed in
the editorial pages of "The Producer"
the official organ of the American Ma
t1onal Livestock association, for July:
Following the decision of the Uni
ted States supreme court upholding
the constitutionality of the measures
already put in operation, North Dakota
now is planning to extend it's program
of socialistic experimentation in state
government. Among the new ven
lures scheduled by the Nonpartisan
league for realization in the near fu-
ture are state-owned stockyards, pack
ing houses, grain elevators, mills and
mines.
THE people Of other common
wealths will watch with interest the
outcome of this laboratory work. It
is reasonable to assume that the hand
ling of such strong chemicals will not
pass off without burnt fingers. It is
also not impossible that eventually,
out of battered theories and shattered
illusions. something will be evolved
that may prove helpful in solving our
multiplying politico-economic prob
lens. New Zealand fumblingly CROPPED
her way along similar lines and is to-
day prosperous and contented."
This grudging admission Of what
New Zealand has accomplished is
balanced, on another page of the
same issue, by an editorial blast at
Meat Control in Australia" A par
agrarh from their Australian CORE
spondent's letter is quoted, showing
IudI VIC N&uCcAolduu 6ONoluM0uL udS
made an agreement with Swift and the
other meat export companies that the
government shall take 20 per cent of
the frozen beef and Is per cent of the
mutton from their 1920 output, to be
retailed through government butcher
shops. The government is to pay 6
cents per pound for fresh and chilled
beef, : cents for frozen beef and 9
ceL's for mutton.
'liow long" asks the Producers
editor. "woold the livestock producer
in this country continue in business
If he had to sell his product on the
basis Of such commandeered prices?'
The American National Livestock
association has been under packer
influence, to considerable degree, for
the past year or two and has refused
to support William Kent's demand fol-
government ownership of stockyards.
Senator Kendrick of Wyoming, its
president, who began, by supporting
the federal trade commissions pro
gram for smashing the packing com.
bine, is now so far from that attitude
that there seems to be little objection
from business quarters to his return
to the senate.