The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-06-19
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many of what he terms Sudden far
mers" would have done better in the
retail peanut business or on the stage
idea that anyone in the northwest is
starving and that its future is behind
it,"
All Express Views
The special train which took the
writer's on their long tour, returned
to st. Paul Thursday, where they
were guests of the city's officials and
several civic clubs. Their story of
the northwest, the vastness of its nat
ural resources, its great productivity
and it's opportunities were told at a
formal dinner given by st. Paul bust
ness men at the Minneapolis club in
that city. The texts of their state
ments are as follows:
II cannot convince myself that I
am qualified to speak with authority
as to conditions in the northwest as a
result of a fortnight spent in rushing
through it and some years absent
study of it, but I do believe, however,
that none eve was given a better OPP
p~ortunity for observation and fair
study in so short a time than has been
accorded by the Great Northern"
said Glenn Griswold, Chicago Jour
nal of Commerce.
81 do know that the east does not
understand the vastness and the re-
sourcefullness of this great country,
nor does it know the abiding faith
and energy of it's people.
'The east must learn that this
country has advanced from the bot
tom of its depression, which never
was as deep as we thought, and is
building on a stronger foundation
than ever before"
Recmomends Exodus From East
Willard E. Carpenter of Lincoln,
H., publisher of a string of town and
rural publications was emphatic in
recommending the immigration of
farmers from the congested, high
priced, tenant lands of other sections
to the more sparsely settled and
cheaper but equally or more produc-
tive areas of the northwest.
Returning home from the splen-
did trip accorded us by the Great Nor
thern railway officials, in order that
eastern and midwestern publishers
might better familiarize themselves
with the true conditions of the great
northwest, instead of accepting what
has been sent out by special writer's
in a tragic effort to have their copy
used, we realized fully that the truth
would have been more acceptable"
said Mr.. Carpenter.
'"The evident desire of congress to
rule all states from Washington is a
disturbing factor and should be
squashed before more commissions
are added to the nearly 400 now di-
recting affairs of the states, which
states are well able to function them
selves. All this is q great tax burden
on the individual farmer. The north
west is suffering no more than the
east and southwest, each having their
problems of a similar nature, but in
accordance with the crops they pro
duce. Thousands of bushels of Flo
rida's most delicious oranges and
grape fruit were spoiled on the land
this season because of the marketing
condition. Many of the cotton and
tobacco raisers of the south admit
they are bankrupt, and they, too,
have the same problems.
"There is only N solution for the
future and that is to exercise econ
omy, judgment, and to live within
ones means. A genuine farmer is
out of place in a barber shop, and a
barber is uot of place on a farm.
The great northwest today is, and al
ways will be, a great breadbasket
which supplies grain and other neces-
sary provisions, and which must have
rket. 1t must be raised economi-
cally and the nation needs to join in
one steadfast movement to work, and
less talk"
Too Few Press Agents
'It was a very wonderful expert
ence," declared Rud Rennie of the
Herald Tribune, New York. 81 never
have seen so much land with so few
persons living on it. I should say
the northwest needed some selected
immigration. 1t is a district with vast
possibilities and too few press agents.
The Great Northern performed a ser
vice to the nation by conducting the
tour.
It was a case of east meeting west
and the west conquered when the
party of eastern and central news
paper editors, publishers and writer's,
visited the northwest aboard the
Oriental Limited as guests of the
Great Northern railroad.
Real Revelation
j. d. Barnum, Syracuse, N. Y, /
Post-Stnadard.
The determination of the people
comprising the four states of the
northwest, through which the special
of the Great Northern railway has
naccod in IL dauc is q ronI ,.o,rnln+inn