The producers news., 1922-11-03
North Dakota Awake


North Dakota farmers are paying
dearly for the victory of the anti
League candidates in the recall elec.
ton. Seventy-fve cent wheat of
course is something neither Leagua
nor anti-League administration cou1d
have avoided although it is not he.
yond possibility that if the Leaguers
mad won the Washington politicians
would have been scared into stabil-
lzlng the wheat price at cost of pro-
duction for the present year. Poli-
ticians according to history give little
notice to q farmer protest when their
votes go the other way
But what brings the situation close
home to every farmer is the knocking
out, OF the North Dakota grain inspec-
ton act. Under this act the League
officials provided for accurate grading
at the county elevators. These eleva-
tors either paid for or returned the
dockage that could be removed and
they set cents a bushel as a reason
able margin for the handling of wheat
through the elevator. Now the line
elevators are charging from cents to
Ia cents a bushel margin; they refuse
to pay for or give back any dockage:
and they grade according to their con-
science, which is to say that farmers
are being badly misused by under
grading.
Every wheat raiser, thus, has
splendid opportunity to compare nor
malcy with what the anti-League call
Socialism and the comparison is not
at all favorable to normalcy.
Another thing which has opened the
eyes Of North Dakota farmers is the
failure of the anti-League administra-
tion to make any serious use of the
bank of North Dakota in their be-
half. There was a flourish of making
real estate loans before the primary
but most Of these have been held up
or turned aside to private mortgage
brokers. North Dakota las put less
than 4 million dollars of mortgage
money into the hands of the farmers,
while South Dakota. working on the
League system, has loaned 42 million
dollars. Such a sum would mean a
tremendous help to North Dakota at
this time. The Leaguers also plan
ned to bank so that it could make
loans on warehouse receipts. Thus,
at the present time if the League pro
gram had not been SO seriously inter-
fared with by the I.VA's there would
be several state owned storage eleva-
fcyer in naI II
would be able to advance the farmers
money on the wheat stored in these
elevators.
They would thus be able to hold
their wheat off of the flooded market
and would have orderly marketing
about which so much is said at the
present time. With these facts being
driven home as never before, Frazier
is sure Of election as u. S. senator
Shipping Boards Latest.
The Shipping Board has sold for
S750,000 Uncle Sans feet Of wooden
merchant ships that cost the people of
this country $300,000,000 ONE
FOURTH OF ONE PER CENT.
Tucked away in the bill Of sale is
this cute little "joker": NONE OF
THE SHIPS MAY BE USED To
TRANSPORT PASSENGERS OR
FREIGHT
If that provision had not been in
serted the ships would have brought
a much larger sum, and tie public
treasury would have benefited accord,
ingly.
But in that event The boats might
have entered into competition with
vessels owned by the international
shipping combine and thereby reduced
the combines handsome dividends
Perish the thought!