The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-07-14
BIG PUBLICITY
DRIVE PLANNED
BY n. D. BODIES
Boosters to Raise $750,O0O
Fund TO Finance Great
Advertising Campaign
TO AID PARK PROJECT
Will Advertise Advantages
of State in Selected
European COUNTRIES

European COUNTRIES
North Dakota farmers, business
men and bankers will organize a
campaign to raise $76O,00O to adver.
tise North Dakota in the most elab-
crate development project launched in
the state. w. F. Cushing, president
of the Roosevelt National Park asso-
citation, announced here today.
Mr.. Gushing. editor of the Beach
Advance, stopped off at Bismarck on
his return from a joint meeting Of
boards Of directors Of the Greater
North Dakota association and the
North Dakota Auto association which
yesterday announced a five year mer-
ger.
I'VE are going to collect $750.OO0 to
do things for North Dakota" Gushing
declared. ito get more tourists. to get
more settlers, and most Of all to put
the story Of its fine homes. excellent
crops and genuine prosperity before
the world.
Start This Year
with one of the greatest money
grain crops in the history of the
state in prospect, but without waiting
for it to come to harvest-as COM
paratively immaterial-the group
meeting here decided that it is most
important that the promotion of a
new knowledge of a new and greater
North Dakota be started in earnest
this year.
"The decision is the upshot of a
years planning and laboring by lead
ers in the state. With the completion
of the meeting, every detail in the
campaign for the raising of the mon
ey had been worked out.
"Here are some of the uses to
which the $7b0,OOO is to be put:
Advertisement in selected Euro
pean countries Of the soil, climate,
productivity and low land values of
North Dakota.
Advertisement nationally of the
same thing.
"Coordination Of all development
effort in the state.
"Securing of a great national park
among the yellow and red canyons
of the Bad Lands.
ITO make bid for tourists as the
best immigration agents state may
have.
Rivalry Dropped
"The program was adopted after the
two important development agencies
of the state dropped rival campaigns
of organization and amalgamated.
These agencies are the Greater North
Dakota Association and the North
Dakota Automobile Association. The
name of the new organization for the
present will continue the two names
with the addition of the word com
bined.'
~. r. Carley. president of the
First National Bank Of Grand Forks,
was named president; Arthur johnson
of jamestown, Herman Stern of VAL
ley City, C. E. Danielson of Minot
and Major Stanley Washburn of Viii.
ton, vicepresident; Fred A. Irish
of Fargo, treasurer, and T. A. Toilet
son Of Dickinson, member Of the exec
utive committee. Mr., Stern and Mr..
Danielson were the presidents of the
two organizations forming the ANAL
gamation. James S. Milloy Of Fargo,
former secretary of the Minot Asso-
citation Of Commerce, who has been
secretary of the North Dakota Auto
mobile Association since leaving MI
not in May, was named executive Sec
retary while H. p. Wickham Of Min.
neapolis will be campaign director.
Headquarters In Fargo
Headquarters Of the new body will
be in Fargo. Already an organiza-
tion campaign is under way by which
some $500 solicitors for funds will be
ready to canvass prepared lists of
prospects throughout the state in the
seconO week Of September. The
$760,000 will be raised as $l5O,0O0
cash for 1925 and pledges for $3.50, 900
for each of the next four years.
"County directors, as well as q list
of directors-at-large are being se-
lected by the executive committee.
"The undertaking is by far the
most ambitious advertising program
ever attempted for North Dakota, and
in money to be spent exceeds most
efforts Of other states or Of munic-
ipalities.
A Story to Tell
1--WE have q wonderful story to tell
and we should 60 about the telling
W ~ 80 = OJCtSUuOVsS 0uV S4ASCttVS
manner" Mr.. Carley said. "Certain
European countries from which much
Of our population originally came now
are having economic difficulties and
Il Is particularly the year to flash
North Dakota across the pages of for.
eign newspapers and magazines.
Last year our low priced land
yielded q prodigious crop and this
year 1t is to repeat. In certain areas
OF our country, more rental an acre
is paid for land than our own land
can be purchased for.
Agriculture Is entering a new
phase; that is II Is being compelled
to stand on it's own feet; land is
worth only what it will produce; the
great immigration tides and land
movements Of the past no more can
be relied upon to give an artificial
value to land.
I'm this new phase, land Of North
Dakots comes to the front Of the
stage. It never went through the
boom Of few years ago. II is valued
on what It will produce in dollars and
cents, and many farms last year, as
they will this year, produced
this value in single year."
I HANDS OUT 5000 RIFLES
Z Tokyo.-The War Office is plan.
ming to distribute $4,000 rifles tc
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