Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-07-01
WHY THIS CONDITION

According to newspaper reports
John F. Delaney, investigating for
the International News Service, has
found a billion dollars worth of food
stored in Chicago alone. After going
through the cold storage and dry
storage warehouses of Chicago de-
clares the food spectators through
the boarding and manipulating of
food supplies, are reaping a finan-,
cial harvest unjustified by any
shortage. Chicago is one of the ma
tons main food centers. Delaney
saw miles and miles of white and
brown cliff and lodges representing
sacks and sacks of flour. sugar, cof-
fee and other food. He found flour
in abundance everywhere and over
flow lots that were rotting on the
docks. More than a million pounds
was found dust-covered and rotting
on the B~urlington's wharf where it
had been for upward of 2 years. Mil
lions of pounds of boarded coffee,
tea, and sugar also were discovered.
At the Central Cold Storage Ware
house, Delaney found SO million dol
lars worth Of foodstuff alone, includ-
ing 33 millions eggs, 4 million
pou11Nlo OAC1 poA y A1111lOl
pound of frozen chicken, 5 million
pounds of steak and 1 million
pounds of cheese. In the Ontario
pounds of tea. He found at the Mon
arch Refrigerating Company's plant
80 million eggs, $4,000 pounds of
cheese, and 2 million pounds of
poultry. Millions of pounds of candy
we're found at the Chicago Cold Stor-
age Warehouse; SO million dollars
worth of sugar, flour, canned goods
and eggs at the 500 Terminal War
house, also a SO million-dollar
stock of food at the Booth Cold Stor-
age plant. These millions of dollars
worth of food are being held off of
the market while the prices of food
stuffs r soaring higher and higher.
Our late Congress- instead of passing
laws that would make the food
stuff and reduce the high cost of
living passed laws guaranteeing the
bloated bond holder of Wall Street
returns upon millions Of. dollars Of
stock back of which there was no
real value. There is no better argu-
ment than this which shows clearly
that what this country needs most in
Congress is not quite so many politi-
clan but a good sized number of
farmers and laborers as members of
that law making body. We have al
ready had too many politicians in
Congress. Men who, like John M.
Baer, have stood by the people are
what are needed in this trying time.
Observation-Disclosures excitement
prevails in Billings county " the
shooting Of the S-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Carl Gunkel. The boy was
shot through the leg from ambush. A
short time afterward the hired mar
was fired at by someone from behind
bushes near the house. Officers are
trying to locate the guilty parties.
Bismarck.-Harry Sebastian, sen,
fenced to the penitentiary from Rich.
land county in September, 1919, FOL
manslaughter, and who escaped from
the state %penitentiary in May, is still
at large. Sebastian was to have been
paroled the day following his escape
but if he is recaptured will be com
PEELED to serve all of his sentence.
Grafton.-Officials who have inves
tigated the death Of Mrs. J. Koukel
aged 81, whose body was buried under
the shed Of their home by her agei
husband, according to his ewn state
ment, are satisfied that she died o.
natural causes. An investigation b!
physicians resulted in the finding o.
no evidence Of foul play.
Grand Forks.--The case of Mrs
Anna Ross; widow of John Ross fol
whose death MeLain Cooper was tries
and acquitted on a charge of murder
will be heard at the term Of the dis
trict court opening. Mrs. Ross ask
$4,000 damages for the death of he
husband. The case has been pending
several years owing to the inability o
serving papers on Cooper until a few
months ago.
Forman.-An encampment for boy
Of Sargent and Dickey counties lis be
ing held thls week, An elaborate pro
gram was arranged by +. A. Green
wood, county agent.