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The nonpartisan leader., 1921-05-16

vision is attempting to eliminate unneces-
sary middlemen by reducing the number Of
transfers between the producer and the
consumer. This is complex problem, in
volving packing, handling, grading, stand
ardization, guarantees of quality and guam
tity, transportation, commissions and fees,
reliability of dealers, storage, boarding,
forestalling the Market. dealing in futures
and many other factors.
The most fundamental and far-reaching
remedy in this phase of the work of the
division of markets will come through Or
ganization. This should be the first line
of attack The secret of the unfavorable
position which the farmers occupy in re-
spect to the business men with whom they
deal is that they are not sufficiently organ
lied. 1t is because Of this that they arc
unable to keep watch and thus prevent the
passage of laws unfair to them and it is
because of lack of concentrated organ
lied effort that they are unable to eXer-
else the necessary pressure to have favor
able laws and decisions enforced. -~
= The second line of attack upon the prob
lem, which will be simpler and more effec-
tive, but less obvious, is to remove the ad-
vantages that come from the monopoliza-
tion of natural resources. The advancing
value of these resources is not due to the
owner, but to the growth and activity of
society; and therefore society should share
more largely in this increase of value. This
requires no radical change in our laws or
procedure. The so-called Nolan bill now
pending in congress is a step in the right
direction.
But our state legislatures are nearer to
us and can be reached more readily. They
are our first instruments for relief. Here
the answer to the problem is the same, to
reduce the profits of monopoly. The ef-
fective method Of doing this is to, remove
the burden of governmental expense more
The nonpartisan leader., 1921-05-16
ATTEMPT TO STIR UP
PREJUDICE is FOOLISH

How foolish then are those who are con-
tinually seeking to win cheap applause by
stirring up prejudices between those whose
interests are Identical.
Factories are closing or running with
reduced help in all parts of the country
Can not the farmer see that this is under
mining the market for his products? II
he hires help cheap this summer, it will be
because men are out of work in the indus
trial centers, and this will mean that the
market for his produce will be slow and
prices low.
Now as to the remedy. If our foreign
markets appear to influence the farmers
prosperity, this is primarily due to de-
ficient buying power of our own people.
We should rearrange our economic life so
as to make our domestic markets the de-
termining factor in production.
And the remedy for our disjointed state
of affairs is to give each worker the full
product of his toll. To illustrate:
If the workman's product for a day is
the equivalent of four pairs of shoes, and
The nonpartisan leader., 1921-05-16

live from hand to mouth
Hoarding money does not help the busi-
ness of the country. l am not advocating
extravaganza or foolish expenditure, but
1 am advocating comfortable standard
of living for both people in the city and in
the country While it is good for the
farmer for the wage-workers to live we'll,
it is also good for the city laborers that
the farmers family is demanding better
clothing, better furniture, more books and
pictures, automobiles and labor-saving ma
chinery for himself and for his wife. The
workers must suffer when the farmers can
not buy The two classes are bound to-
gether in prosperity and adversely.
The nonpartisan leader., 1921-05-16
Shows Close ECONOMIC Relation Between
Farme and City Worker-What Can Be Done?

if, through our economic system he is allowed to
retain only three pairs their equivalent he can
purchase from the farmer only three-fourths OF
what the farmer produces On the other hand, if
four bushels of wheat or it's equivalent represent
the farmers products for a days work, and If
through our economic system he is allowed to re-
tain only three bushels he can purchase from the
workman only three-fourths of his product.
And this is not far from the true situation. When
the pays So for cloth for which the producer
receives only 81; when the workman pays 80 cents
The nonpartisan leader., 1921-05-16
BY EDWARD NORDMAN
Director of Markets, State of Wisconsin

problems can not be under-
stood unless we consider the economic
relations between the farmers and the
city workers. And by "city workers"
I mean every one who furnishes or
The nonpartisan leader., 1921-05-16

WOINeI oPcIlCo I110oo 01 'f1H'
wages for his current living expenses. And he is
right in doing so for he seldom earns more than
enough to support himself and his family comfort
ably and to properly educate his children II ne
saves much under present conditions it is only at
the expense of deprving his family of proper liv-
ing, and his children of proper education.
Many men selfishly gnorantly are gorifying
the virtue of saving, under conditions which mean
making the wife slave to the home, and stunting
the education and development of the children. The
bankers the preachers and teachers fail to appre-
The nonpartisan leader., 1921-05-16


Again. much toll is taken from the people through
Transportation and public utility monopolies, often
with bond fotations and watered stocks TAR beyond
their legitimate value, and upon which the public
are compelled to pay exorbitant interest and dlvl-
dends and perhaps those should include such quasi
public and monopozed activities as the meat pack
ing business, the steel trust and others.
But above and beyond all of these as a successful
toll ll-taker is the monopolization of natural re-
sources. The land; the coal, iron, copper, lead and
oil deposits; timber, waterpowers, dockage and
wharfage facilities; choice business locations and
so on The mere ownership of these permits the
taking of toll to the extent of thousands of millions
of dollars yearly, for which nothing is returned
either in product service.
It is this unnecessary toll taking that explains
why the farmer and the city workman must each
labor four days to obtain three days product OF the
other. And since the producers are chiefly the con-
sumers, we can call it toll levied on production,
leaving the producer three-fourths or less OF what
he produces.
"DISCOVER THE TOLL-TAKERS
AND THEN ELIMINATE THEM"
Did you see farmer who was not pleased
to see his farm advance in value? do not mean
the improvements but the selling value of the land
And yet such increase in value is actual damage
to the farming community The farm will raise no
better crops because of the advance in PRICE: But
it makes it more difficult for his children and grand
children to secure farms. 1t drives the young peo-
pie into the cities to compete with city workmen
for the overcrowded positions, tending further to
drive down wages. The increased capitalization re-
Quires rent from tenants and renders them
less able to become owners, and compes them to
live upon lower scale. In other words, increased
price of farm lands is a part of the toll-taking
- which becomes burden on the public.
The real problem, then, is to discover the toll
takers and to eliminate them. The marketing di-
The nonpartisan leader., 1921-05-16

pictured here what has happened with the feezp
credit The railroads caught the
business and limited "But what will happen if the
out too quickly?" Baer asks. Will even the bridge be
carried away in the spring freshet?
The nonpartisan leader., 1921-05-16

A few weeks ago Secretary Of Agriculture Henry G:
Wallace forth his the Leader the subject
what is wrong with agriculture today. Mr.. Nordman
discusses the subject from somewhat different
Other students of the situation will contribute
articles to future issues of the Leader.
The nonpartisan leader., 1921-05-16

dluS Ill oAy
product or service, so under the term
"city workers" I would include busi-
ness and professional men.
The situation of our country is un-
satisfactory, and growing worse. We
may as we'll look the facts in the face.
The farmer is producer of food
stuffs and wants good prices for his
product At the same time he wants
the hired help at low wages. But gen
eral low wages and a good price for
farming products at the same time are
impossible.
Labor on the whole will gravitate
to the places where the wages are the
highest. The farmer should not worry
too much when he fnds hired help
scarce and dear, for this means that his
best customers, the city laborers, are
we'll paid and prosperous.
The city worker spends most of his
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
YOUNG MRS. PAGAN
/ In SECLUSION AGAIN
Mrs. Stevens Insists Daughter
frcsSes. for Annulment of
Marriage to Student.
RECONCILIATION DENIED
HeireSs to Lose No Part of Her
Inheritance From Father
and Grandfather.

Attorneys for Mrs. Kate Stevens
Pagan. daughter OF Mrs. Jessie T..
Stevens of Sea Gate. and of the late
Calvin Amory Stevens. denied yesterday
that there is t" be reconciliation be-
tween MRS. Fagan and her eighteen
year-oid husband. Richard Fagan, Dart
mouth student, with whom she eloped
last April. Equally emphatic denial was
offered that Mrs. Pagan Will lose any
part of the immense bequests left to
her by her grandfather and her father.
Mrs. Fagan's mother said the daugh-
ter is in seclusion while she presses for
an annulnnent of marriage which she
realizes was impursfve and mistake
Her husbands youth made It impossible
Cor him 10 assume the responsibilities Of
married life, so Mrs Pagan left him and
went to Reno. it was asserted. Existence
there was disagreeable, and after aban-
The New York herald., 1921-09-25

doning a plan TO obtain her freedom In
Paris she has found a more agreeable
base for her legal operations.
At no time, Mrs. Stevens said, has
there been any prospect or desire for
reconciliation. The fact that Mrs. Fagan
and her boy husband were seen together
at the Biltmore not long ago has no
significance. it is stated. Mr.. Fagnn has
left the country to travel for year and
half.
A report that Mrs. Fagan might lose
her share In the wealth OF c. A. Stevens.
whose estate may run to s2o0O0,o00. was
denounced by lawyers representing heirs
other than Mrs. Fagan. She will receive
the entire estate. in equal shares with
her mother, and will get one-haif of a
trust fund from her paternal grand
father, Calvin A. Stevens. For time
a contest over the estate OF the elder
Stevens was threatened. but this now Is
considered unlikely. The elder Stevens
left his large fortune TO three children,
Calvin Amory Stevens. the late Rather
inc A. Stevens and Mrs. George H.
Richardson. AS Mrs. Richardson Is the
only surviving child. she will receive one
half of her fathers estate, and Mrs.
Pagan. the only child of her father. will
get the other half.
Mrs Stevens receives nothing from the
estate OF her father-in-law, but benefits
heavily as beneficiary of her husbands
wealth, for the younger Stevens piled up
a much greater fortune than his father
Besides his investments in timber and
mining properties, his attorneys say his
estate owns some of the richest manga
nese mines In the world. An indeter-
inmate value has been placed on the
Stevens holdings because a detailed in
ventory has never been undertaken.
The New York herald., 1921-09-25

for $4,000 for breach OF promise against
Julius zltenfeld. president of a taxicab
company. who already has wife. His
defense Is based on the allegation that
Miss Diamond already knew he was
The New York herald., 1921-09-25

long before you and ! are one. regard
less of what people think" one letter
said. Another announced: when think
how happy we will be 1t inspires me to
work like hell"
The New York herald., 1921-09-25

married when she entered the common
law compact with him.
Her complaint includes letters alleged
to have been written to her by Mr.. Ziten-
field. 1.-THE way things look 1t won't be
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
SUES UNDER COMMON LAW.
Roberta Diamond Asks $4,000
From julius Zitenfeld.

After two years of common law mar
ried life. Miss Roberta Diamond of sos
West 139th street started suit yesterday
Evening star., 1921-08-28

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Bearoom Chair-A very extra
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Bedroom Chair; strongly con,
etructed, with turned legs and
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Kitchen Chairs-wooden seat
and straight back; very conven-
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WOODEN seat Chair.-Rounded
back: strongly made. e0 Sn
September 6/sOV
Sale Price ...........
siusmons Foldlng Chafr-Natura1
finish; folding compactly. to lie
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High Chairs-Reed High Chair:
White Enamel finish on wood:
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COllapsfble High Chaar-Con-
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Evening star., 1921-08-28
LABOR DEMANDS REMEDY
FOR UNEMPLO OYMENT EVIL
Predicts Failure to Solve Problem
Will Produce Starvation Con-
ditions as in Europe-

That the unemployment problem in
America. unless dealt with efficiently
during the coming winter, may pro-
duce in this country situation SINH
lar to the starvation conditions of the
old world is one of the official state
ments of the executive council of the
American Federation of Labor re-
ceived here from Atlantic City YES
terday.
The executive council declares that
the unemployment situation in our
land is nearing a dangerous crisis"
Inc time has passed for mere
phrase making" says the official
statement. The time is here for ac-
tion. Following false economic prin-
clples. reducing the purchasing power
of the wage earners, throwing our
industrial order into hostile camps,
do not make for confidence and sta
bi!Ity in our productive processes"
Demands that both the federal and
state governments Immediately con-
Germ themselves with putting into
operation processeij of production for
public Improvement of buildings.
roads and similar projects are Off
cially made by the board in the state
ment. The board also calls upon the
wage earners,- nnorganized and or
SaniZed, to resist attempts at wage
reductions and urge all the people to
Join in the demand that our processes
of production be stabilized and that
the well organized and concerted ef-
fort for the further reduction of
wages of men. who even today can.
not live in decency and comfort, shall
come to an immediate end"
The executive council also took op-
portunlty to brand the attempt to in.
troduce coolie labor into Hawaii as
the interlude to a greater drive, de-
pending upon the success of the ini-
tial attempt.
Evening star., 1921-08-28

From the government printing Of
fee. where he had worked before en-
listing for active duty in the world
war, the funeral of Private Charles
a. r. Jacobs of, the United States
Marine Corps. who fell while fighting
with the marines in Belleau Wood,
october, 1918, will be held Wednes-
day at noon.
Full military honors VIII be pro-
Nided. \ military escort from the
Marine Corps. representatives of the
George Washington Post of the Amer
lean Legion, former service men of
he c'ice and representatives of pa
f-'o--.' organizations will be grouped
ahrnt th- 'ca:'ket during the services.
~he memorial will mark the first
service of its sort to be held in
government department since the
close of the war.
Requested by His Mother.
Arrangements We're made and COM
Plettd at the request of Mrs. r. e.
Jacobs of the Cairo, who old Public
sons life was centered at the gov
trnment printery before his entry
INTO the service and that she beIjey-
ed no better tribute could be paid his
memory than a funeral from the Of
nee in which he and his friends had
WORKED A-''N
Steps were taken Immediately to
make such arrangements and Mai
y" X Metz. superintendent of the
huiidinG. and +. Fl. Morehead, fore
man of printing. finished work on
details yesterday.
Ihe body will arrive Tuesday aft
ernoon from New York. The casket
vii VIII lay in state until Wednesday
Noon. Durlng the night watch will
De kept over the bier by guard
of marines.
AZ noon Wednesday. employees of
tne office. former fellow EMPLOYEES Of
the deceased. will gather at the main
marble staircase and in the rotunda
OF the office for the services. More
man three hundred former service
me- OF the office will be present in
UNIFORM A band from the Marine
barracks will render suitable selec-
TONS Addresses will be delivered nv
ofhcials of the office.
Veterans of Other arsInyited.
=. The Spanish War Veterans and the
Grand Army of the. Republic as well
MS the American Legion have been
invited to be represented at the
public funeral. A floral tribute is
being prepared and will be placed
on the bier by representatives OF
employees of the office The inter-
ment will take plaP in Arlington.
me funeral cortege going direct to
tne cemetery from the government
printing office.
years of age at the time of his death.
He was born ard educated in this
city and entered the government
service at the government printing
once May %, 1914, as messenger
boy
He is survived by his mother. two
sisters and brother.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-27
GEORGIA CITY HAS FIRE:
 LOSS IS FOUR MILLION

ATHENS, Ga., Jan. PA large part of the business section of this city is a mass of charred ruins to- day as the result of a fire which destroyed many blocks on Tuesday. The flames spread so rapidly, fed by gasoline from numerous explo- sions, that it was impossible for the department to control the fire. The loss is estimated at four million dollars.
 There were many narrow escapes from death during the fire, but no lives were lost.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-27
FACE THE FACTS

There is always temptation in dimes like these, says the Pacific Fisherman, to ignore the more sim ister phases of the outlook, and seek comfort in various sophistries that offer an appearance of en- couragement; but it is useless to try to deceive ourselves as to the pres ent conditions in the canned salmon business. It may be possible to dis guise the situation for a while, but the time comes when it is necessary to face the facts.
 The facts are that the markets of the world are badly overstocked with salmon; consumption is at q minimum; and the costs of packing are so high that operators cannot make their product except at a heavy loss.
 Labor costs and packing costs have mounted skyward for five years and there must be a marked reces- sion before we can get anywhere. Consumers cannot and will not pay the prices necessitated by the ex- isting level of costs. It would be practically impossible at present to name price that would move any quantity of fish; the fact is simply that, at the moment. the trade does not want it. The onlN apparent solution of the problem is to limit the operations for year-at least, on Pinks and Chums-until costs and market conditions reach new adjustment.
 Another pack next season like that of last season would bring still lower prices, with virtually no re- duction of costs-and that would spell disaster for the entire salmon industry. The packer in Pink and Chum districts who does not oper- ate in 1921 will merely minimize his losses, giving the markets of the world a chance to recover their equilibrium, and allowing time for operating costs to get in line witt, the market. It takes no extraordi- nary acumen, but just ordinary business sense, to see the wisdom of radical curtailment, if not actual suspension of operations for the coming season.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-27
FAIRBANKS NOTES
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MT. and Mrs. George Moody have received wire from Napa, Califor- mia, announcing the arrival of an eight-pound grandson at the home of MT. and Mrs. Reed Harris. both of whom are we'll known in Fairbanks. Mrs. Harris was Miss Daphne Moody and taught school here, and her husbanb was a member of the local pcstofice staff for some time.
 Miss Betty Bilsen. until recently employed at the Merchants cafe, is enroute to Juneau to act as se.- retary to Senator-elect E. P. Col lins during the coming session of the territorial legislature. She left for Nenana on Tuesday and is ,akins the trip to the coast with M. Mel fish. She expects to remain in the channel town indefinitely, hay. ing been offered a position which she will accept at the end of the legis- lative session.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-27
CONGRESSIONAL JUNKETERS
 SELECT BASES FOR NAVY

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27- The joint congressional committee which visited the Pacific coast for the purpose of investigating sue- gested sites for the fighting craft of the navy, has announced the fol- lowing selections: Alameda selected for a naval fleet base on thePacific i; San Diego approved as a submarine base; Sand Point, Washinton, ap- proved for an aviation base.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-27
GERMAN WILL LOSE HEAD
 FOR KILLING AMERICAN

COBLENZ, Jan. PC 10 t Mains, the German citizen who was found guilty by a German court, on the charge of murdering an American soldier last April, has been sentenced to death by the guillotine route. It is said that the German robbed the soldier after killing him with his own pistol.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-27
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRE-

prospecting on one of the nearby creeks with Bob Toussaint, return ed to his work this week, after a brief vacation in town.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-27
JAP GOVERNMENT IS WILLING

TOKYO, Jan. 27-Visco Ochida, foreign minister of Japan, says the Japanese government is ready to consider the restriction of armament, should the proposal come from another nation. He expresses the belief, however, that there is little hope at this time of any real toward disarmament.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-27

Luther Schooling is leading in the Curling club contest with score of 1000. Dr. J. A. Sutherland is second on the list with TIA. and Kelly and Weber are tied for the cellar position, each having three goose eggs.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-27
AFFIDAVIT MAN TEsTIFIEs

NEW YORK, Jan. 27--S. A. 1chik, general auditor of the Beth lehem Steel corporation, appeared before the Walsh committee yester- day and denied that any part of the amount shown on the expense voucher of Charles M. Schwab, re-
 ferred to by earlier witnesses, had ever been charged to ship construc- tlon or paid by the shipping board.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-27
PERSONAL
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Assayer Paul Hopkins, of the fed eral bureau of mines station, came down from Fairbanks on Tuesday to make coal tests for the Alaskan Engineering commission, to ascertain the ash and moisture content of the coal now being used.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-27

Andy Irwin, who has a farm near Nenana, returned to the railroad town on Tuesday, after short visit here.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-27

Charles Updyke is a recent ar rival in town from the Beaver dis trict.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-27

Dewey Burnett driver of one of the fire trucks, to fill the vacancy re- sulting from the resignation of Driver Williams.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-27

PRESERVED SPINACH FATAL
 GRAND RAPIDS, Jan. 27-Two are dead, three are dying and sever- al others are in a critical condition as a result of eating of preserved spinach.