The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-06-19

for the good of the great Northwest"
Headed Upward
Joseph F. Kelly, Chicago Daily
News:
From my observation Minnesota
5 in as good condition as any section
f the United States. The states Of
Oregon and Washington have no serI-
Gus complaint. The only area that
is a little subnormal is covered by
the states of North Dakota and Mon
tana. When you get the real facts,
as have got them from people who
know them, these two states are
headed for better times. The men
who are advocating diversified farm
ing in these areas should be suppor-
ted. The time has passed when the
farmer can wisely concentrate on
any one grain, such as wheat. What
helped Minnesota so materially will
help her sister states. | have seen
nothing to worry about in this area.
Mr.. Hill, Mr.. Budd and Mr.. Kenney
Of the Great Northern, certainly are
TO be commended for This truth-seek-
ng and truth-gathering trip"
Lauds Truth
Reid Byron, city editor, Gazette
Times, Pittsburg:
perhaps the most amazing thing
about the northwest to the eastern
visitor is the wholesome lack of So
phistication. When the northwest
erner tells you that his city has the
largest of some special thing, he tells
you plain, unadorned fact. There
is nc need for establishment"
Rich AS Ever
H. F. Wheeler, managing editor,
Traveller, Boston:
"The territory in the Pacific north
west, especially the states of Mime
sofa, North Dakota and South Dako-
ia, is as rich in nature resources as
ever it was. The people have opti-
mism and faith. What is happening
apparently, is the elimination of the.
unfit. Eventual readjustment gives
promise of a greater northwest than
ver has been known. Incidentally
the Great Northern railway, by its
action in asking eastern newspaper
men into the country, performed an
educational service for the people
that shall yield a rich return"
Fundamentally Sound
Earl Mushlitz, Indianapolis Star.
'The facts and data gathered by
the truth-seekers' party along the
line of the Great Northern demon
strates in my opinion, that the whole
country from the Mississippi to the
Pacific coast is in fundamentally
sound condition and may look forward
with confidence to a period of steady
growth. The solution Of agricultural
distress lies in Investigation of
crops. 1t would appear that this is
the opinion of community leaders in
every district we have visited. The
agricultural colleges are doing a
tremendous work in bringing farmers
to q realization of the monetary value
Of scientific methods. To these in
stitutions, as we'll as to the determi-
nation Of many thousand of sturdy
farmers, the Great Northern and
northwest states owe such recovery
as they have made, and these same
influences will produce a new period
of profitable production in this vast
region, which truly is the bread bas- {
ket of the world. If ever the north
west was down-hearted there are few
traces Of gloom now"
No Big Problem
Edwin G. Pinkham, Kansas City
Star:
eff there is anything wrong with
America it is wrong nationally and
not %sectionally. The part of the
northwest I have seen from the Great
Northern railway cannot suffer per-
manently from any conditions that
do not affect the whole country. Tt
is not to be believed that a region
possessing, if in undeveloped form,
all the resources of a self-sustaining
empire, can present an economic
problem because of one or two bad
crops, and I do not see any such prob
lem in the northwest"
Completely Sold
The special writer for the Mime
apolis Tribune said:
Thirty new and important friends
of the northwest are completely sold
the proposition that the future
of the great territory which stretches
from the Mississippi to the Pacific
along the northern border is pushing
forward to prosperity under a terrif-
fic impetus.
"They are eastern publishers, edit
ors and writer's, who were the guests
Of L. w. Hill, chairman Of the board, /
Budd, president; and w. P. /
Kenney, vice-president of the Great
railroad on a tour which has
taken them through Minnesota, North /
Dakota, Montana and the Pacific /
northwest states to see for themselves !
what the northwest has to offer in !
an agricultural way.
Most of the members of the tour :
entered it with little or no know I