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THE BEACH REVIEW Smart for School or Work in Office When a girl leaves tim tmuse be- fore nlne every nmrning, whether she's off to school or to work. she needs at least one well-tailored frock in her wardrobe, one tlmt will take her smartly through long busy nears and bring her home at night lool:tag am fresbly dressed as when she s:art. ed. Designed ahmg tailored lines, this frock adds a becoming "little boy" collar to Its youthful yoke and tops its smart front bodice pleafs with buttoned-down tabs that look for all the world like two perky little pockets. The sklrf boasts a panel in front which ends In two inverted pleats, and there Is another Inverted pleat at the back. The full back gathered to the yoke Is the last word In chic. Pattern 2085 is available only In elze~ 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Size ]6 takes 2% yards 54 inch fabric. sewing In. 8end FIFTEEN CENTS 15c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this pattern, Write plainly name. addrUs and stylenumber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Sewing Circle Pattern Department, 243 West Seven. teentb Street, New York City. ....... i ,i, TROUBLE RELAYED Hubby~Well, I guess if the worst cornea to the Worst we could go and live with Your parents. Wlfey~Tbat wouldn't be possible, thee're living with their people.-- Pearson's Weekly. Explained *'You nay you have driven a car ten years and never had any trouble wlth a back seat driver?" "~£hat's right. You see I drive a hearse." A Saving Idea Robert, etght,~ad prayed long and ardently for a b~by sister but with- our results. One |tight l|e added: "I~ yon have a baby almo.~t fin- ished don't wait to put in the ton- sils and adenoids, 'cause they'll cut 'era out anyway." WNU--Y I OGEES BI~V~I~L~ 1-11L,L~.~Well all I know is Just what 1 was reading in the news- prints, or what 1 see hither and yon. 1 was a setting around home a week or so ago, and it all at once dawned on me that Mrs Rogers and Mary were coming in from a Mediter. ranian Cruise off the the beautiful boat the "Rex" so i hops me a sky rattler and away I hies myself to N.Y. to meet em. They beat me to the hotel by an hour, and they have a l~pt of news to tell me of their trip. They been gone Just one month but they have covered a lot of land and water. Gibraltar, ports along the Riviera of France, ports in Italy, then across over into the Holy Lanld, Jerusalem, Palestine, Mount of Olives, Ninevah, Bethleham, and .well, maby you have read the book. They said that ~Jeruaslem was pretty dirty, and that they worked the Great Shrine of Our Saviour as pretty much of a rackeL That it took a lot away from the impressiveness of the place. But anyhow it was great, even if a lot of it was evidently faked. I circled the town in a plane one time, but 1 never was there, in fact I dident think you could land there, but Mama and M~ry says they flew out of there to go to Cairo, They must have found an awful big fiat rock to take off from. They say Mr Rockefeller has done a lot of fine work there, that he has built a great museum, and a Y.M.C.A. and a lot of things, and that there is a fine hotel there. But the Y.M.C.A. dident turn out so good on account of it having some sort of religious tinge to it, and that there was constantly an argument over it. Can you imagine Our Saviour dying for all of us, yet we have to argue over just whether he dident die 2or us personally, and not for you. Sometimes you wonder if his lessons of sacrifice and devotion was pTetty near lost on a lot of us. Well Just think of being on such hal- lowed ground. I felt a thrill Just flying over and circling iL Then she said they went to the Dead Sea, Galilee, and River Jordan. Then imagine flying acrbss into Egypt, where in Biblical Times they were months and years marching out of. That was my trip too by air, but | was coming all the way from China on the plane I was on. 1 only stayed one night in Cairo, and then flew to Athens, Greece, but they were there longer, and Mrs Rogerm flew up the Nile to Old King 'ruts Tomb. She said that was the greatest trip she had, that the Nile and its very fertile valley, and its surrounding desert was a great sight. Said they told her the King of EgYpt owned a great many of the find farms along the Nile. You remem- ber away back in biblical times it tells of what they raised along the fertile • valley of the Nile. She said there was- ent much In the Tombs now. that most of the stuff hw~l been removed, and was down in Cairo in the museum. But on account of it being their Xmas, (it was then in March) the museum wasont open. People shouldent be allowed to have Xmas at time like that. She claimed the planes over there are not so hot, in tact the one from Jerusalem to Cairo two days later than her trip went down and killed three. You know some day folks will realize that we have the greatest aviation sys- tems in the world. Well to get back to their travel talk. they were to go from EgYpt to Greece, but Greece was having their annual fry, so they landed at an island of ltalys and they are on the boat that picked up Vent- zealous, the oI~ Premier and revels. tionary leader of Greece who was fleeing to Italy. SIle said they had aim and about 150 of his omcers on bOard. No one was allowed to see era. Then of course she and UOLI IAV Mary had a lot of gabbing about Rome, Naples, and Genoa. She says that Mus- solini is going to make Genoa the finest port in the World. that be Is making all a new barber, and new buildings that you will see as you come in. She said all the Italians are very proud of their great boats, and all that has been done to make their country what it it. Its very clean and all looks great. Its kinder as I heard a very learned American man one time say, "Dictator. ship is the greatest form of Government there is. prov|ded you have a good l/Is- tatar". Well ours is doing bett~r ~tl~an a lot of fblks think. They accept every- thing he does for em. but they dent think he does enough. 1 got to get back over there some day and see whats it all about. (~ I~].5. 31cA'~gt#t Syndics/e, /zc. Animals' Weapons The giraffe attacks his enemy, wbe, necessary, by clubbing him soundly with his hc~td, which, one might imagine, would hurt the giraffe nearly as much as his enemy. The elel)hant stamps and crushes his enemies to ~th with hL~ mighty forefeet. The llama bites and spits and kicks In a i~rlmlttve sc,~ of lash!on. q~ ]FARMERS NATIONAL GRAIN CORPORATION SELLS ELEVATORS The March, ]935, issue of the National Grain Journal, Minneapolis, Minn., (the Journal devoted to the interests of the grain trade) carries the following article: "FARMERS NATIONAL TO DISPOSE OF N. D. ELEVATORS" "Backed probably by tile Co-operative Banks. it appears the Farmers National Grain Corporation is disposing of some of its country elevators. Many of these elevators in the first place were handed over to the political setup, and now they are to be paid for by farmers all over again upon a 10-year plan. In the meantime .we presume the Farmers National (as a co- operative institution) will have them bound by contract to deliver all grain into its system. "Then. when the ten years are up, and the farmers have paid for the plants all over again, there will be advanced another scheme to rid them of their right and title. No wonder farmers are beset upon by slickers. They are never easy prey. "Already co-operative elevator com- panies have been informed at the fol. lowing points in North Dakota for the purpuose of purchasing the elevator facilities of the Farmers National Grain Corporation, and are expected to take over these facilities on July 1: Aneta, Buffalo Springs, Burt, Dazey, Elgin, Enderlin, Hensler, Litchville, McKenzie, Nortonville, Pickardville, and Pickett. "Similar co-operative companies will soon be formed at other points, it is understood, where the Farmers Na- tional owns elevators, and other ne- gotiations completed in time to handle the 1935 crop. In these sales no cash down is required, and payments are to be made in equal installments over a period of ten years, with interest at three per cent." (Comment by Farmers Union Ter- minal Association, St. Paul, Minn.) Farmers National are offering to sell their country elevators to local co-operatives on terms more liberal than any we have ever heard of be- fore. No cash down, payments ex- tended over approximately a ten-year period in equal installments, interest at 3 per cent per annum. Co-operative marketing history has proven without doubt that a grain elevator operated on a co-operative basis is more beneficial to the grain producers that patronize it, than the one owned privately. It is probably this fact that disturbs the National Grain Journal, representing the grain trade, more than any other thing. The grain trade does not have one sound argument as to why they should own and operate the grain elevators and handle the grain of the producer as against the producers themselves do- ing so. Who, Mr. Editor of the National Grain Journal bas a better right to market their own agricultural prod- ucts than any other man or woman who produces these products? The Grain trade no doubt feel that they have the "G~d~,iven" right to do so, but that does not make it right. There are thousands of grain eleva- tors in the country owned by the pri- vate organised grain trade. If lt~wse unprofitable to the trade to own these properties, they no doubt would have tried to unload them onto the farmers long ago. As a matter gf fact, eo-op- ertalves in certain localities in this northwest territory have tried to pur- chase some of the elevators from the owners (old line elevator camp&hies) in the past 13 months, and have been unable to do so either because the owners wouldn't sell or they asked a price for their elevators that were out of line with their actual value. Why do they do this? The only an- swer must be that they are profitable to their owners. The Facts Regarding Privately Owned Line Elevators Why, Mr. Editor! we believe that if you were permitted to present the facts to your readers, you would have to publish something like this: "Line Elevator Companies owning country grain elevators in many parts of this northwest area represent an original investment of thousands of dollars. "We have handled the grain of the producers through these elevators for a number of year?: "We have paid the producer a price for the grain delivered to our eleva- tors, said price being fixed by the dif- ferent grain exchanges in the United States of which we are members. "In every case, when purchasing grain, we fixed the price at the coun- try point so thaf we would be assured of having a profit of an amount at least equal to the regular commis- sions established by ourselves, be- cause we are members of the Minne- apolis Chamber of Commerce, and it made no difference to us whether or not you received anything for your grain as long as we had a profit. *'We have made, from the handling of your grain, all of the fixed over- head expense, our operating expense, interest on our investment, deprecia- tion on the properLies, all of the up- keep expense,, and enough besides that so if we applied our net earnings from your grain against the invest- ment, we have received our invest- ment back, "We still have the title to the prop- erly, we are going to keep it, because we can make more money from the handling of your grain. "We further fdel that you do not know how't0 market your own grain even if you do know how to raise if (we wouldn't bother about that) and you are such 'easy prey' for us that that you will always market us, and accept, what. you. a title to it. Pay for ours through your patronage, but we will alwayz market your grain with us, and ac- cept whatever we wish to pay you. "All you have to do is to deliver Your grain to us--- we do the rest, We raise the market one minute and low- er it the next. "Supply and Demand?~works so fast that in July, 1933, the market changes on wheat were so rapid that after about two days, we had to close down all of the privately owned grain exchanges where we fix the prices on your grain. We then arranged it so that the price changes wouldn't be so great. We almost frightened you to death in July, 1933. when we low- ered the market so fast that you were 'out' about 17 cents per bushel on your wheat from the time you left your farm in the morning and until you arrived at our line elevator at noon. We do not want to do that to you any more because we do not want you wheat producers to die from shock, we need you to raise more wheat to bring to our elevator. "You know we thrive on volume and starve on scarcity--we must have enough volume to keep all of us line ~levators and commission companies in business. We do not know how to do anything else but handle your grain and always get a profit at least equal to the regular commission which we establish ourselves." And so you could go on and on-- never ending. l JUNIOR COLUMN i Directed by Mrs. G. H. Edwards, State Junior Leader. Dear Juniors and Juveniles: This is to be a story of a visit to the home of our own Farmers Union business activities in St. Paul. Giants of industry, (and we have our cooperative giants, too) would only be clumsy inert bodies if it were not for the "mind" that directs them. You will find the mind of industry in the offices. So first I find the Minne- sota building where our offices are. Mr. Syftestad, who is general man- ager of the Farmers Union Terminal Association and the Farmers Union Central Exchange, invited me to the office to tell about the Wisconsio school but first thing we knew we were talking about Juniors and the possibilities that we find in them, then about the business activities, and the grain business in general, and it concluded with an invitation to Join the cooperative school students on their tour. Meanwhile Miss Hoist. who is Mr. Syftestad's secretary, brought word from Miss Bley that I was not to go before I had stopped to say "hello". Miss Bley remembers me. as she does many of you Juniors who will read this, because I wrote letters to the Junior Page of the Herald which she helps to prepare for printing. And then in the summer of 1932, I stopped with Mrs. Edwards to see the St. Paul office force. The offices utilized the whole o~ the 12th and 13th floors of the Minnesota Building then. This time when I arrived at the 12th floor where I expected to find Miss Bley, Mr. Ricker, and the res~, an arrow sign told me~"Farmers Union--Up- stairs." Well, what I started ~o say is that I wish all of you might have au oppor- tunity to see the offices a[ work. They welcome a visit "~rom the field" and I know ~f no more gracious reception committee than Miss l]iey and Miss Hoist I sat down to chat with them, and Mrs. Schneider and Mr. Vierling, both of whom have been employed for quite some time here. While still at ~he offices of the Publishing Co. (Mr. Rtcker was in Washington at this time) Mr. Egle);, beginning to look more like himself again, for i~e has been very ill, came in. He would like to have more of you request books from the Farmers Union Livestock Commission company, lie will buy any book you want, send it to you, and all you need to do is to pay the return postage on it. It will be your own bad luck if you don't require him to spend every cent he has allotted to this circulating library. ,, We also meet Francis In~,erson of the ell department of the Exchange, He is in charge of the co-operative sclmol and is one of the instructors. We are interested in the offices of the Exchange~there are many more clerks and stenographers employed in this department than we had thought. Typewrite~ and adding machines are clieklrlg busily. The O~l~Ce where on .~hat July day. give you three years ago, Lee Abbey sat at his desk surrounded by grain samnles Just as I had seen him in the movies, is no longer there. He. with many others of the grain department is now em- ployed by the Farmers National Grain Corporation. It is now time to start the tour. The See Line elevator is first. I have seen the high concrete tanks of this elevator many a time and did not know that it was "our" elevator. We drive around to it over boulevards skirting Minneapolis, and pull up be- side the unloading tracks. Chaff-- yellow, powdery, itchy chaff- settles down on us as it has settled on every- thing about. Mr. Syftestad looks up the superintendent who takes us into the office and shows us a chart of the tanks, all numbered. You can tell by looking at this "ground plan" how many bushels of grain are in each one. Every cubic foot of space is util- ized. The circular tanks are filled, and the concave spaces between them are also storage bins. Somewhere I got the idea that this space was used for no purpose whatever! Dust or no dust. we are going to see the whole thing. The great cables, pulleys, conveyors, cleaners, and pits are too fascinating to miss. Chutes and spouts, ropes and trap-doors all about. I don't know how high this elevator is. If you want to go to the top you can take your choice between the cage-like, dilatory elevator, or the circular stairway--we try both. While the first group of students goes to the top, we look over the ground floor. The pit and machinery below are too dusty and draft-swept so we do not go down. We look at the tracks and pits. The superin- tendent tells us fhat twelve carloads of grain can be unloaded at the same time. The pits can hold a carload each and then some. In order to weigh the grain, it is elevated to the top and loaded on the scales which are really huge hoppers balanced on beams. Lights and-check devices en- able the workmen to know where the different unloadings of grain are be- ing transferred, and when the weigh- ings are out of the way of each other. From the scales the grain is let down into pits where it is again ele- vated back up to the top and fed out on great conveyor belts that run on tracks that are built on top the great concrete tanks. You who have seen the pictures of the terminal elevators in the Herald know that there are two division~--the square block-like build- ing and the adjoining storage tanks. The building houses the machinery and cleaning equipment~the largest of its kind in the cit:es. The tanks are storage bins that hold thousands of bushels, a~d we try to get an idea of their immensity by dropping hand- fuls of wheat down the apparently bottomless openings. We wait a good many seconds before we hear it strike the grain below. Only by walking on the top of these great bins, and see- ing the three-foot wide conveyor belts, and the electrically operated machin- ery, can you get any picture of the immensity of this elevator. I recall pro-drought days when I. a brown and energetic youngster hauled grain, wagon-load by wagon.load, to the local elevators. We all grew and harvested grain out here, and took it to the local market where the eleva- tor manager loaded it on cars billed to the Twin Cities. Once grain leaves the local elevator, its marketing grows to gigantic proportions. Witness this terminal. The brown kid of years past, grown up, is standing high in this co-operatively - owned elevator looking over the cities the grain built, remembering the hope of the spring, the heat of the harvest and the dreams of northwest farmers. This great thing is ours~yours and mine. We built it. "The farmers built all these terminals, the elevators, the cities," Mr. Syftestad reminds me. "They own a very small part of what they built, and do not realize how much they are capable of doing for themselves co-operatively." There is still more to be told of this story. Do you think it interest- ing? To me it is a story of high ad- venture, tragedy and triumph, and there is no man-made story more thrilling. The best part of it is that it is a true story and we all have a part in it. Next week we shall "drive out" to the new compounding plant the Ex- change has built. Do you like to ex- plore new buildings? We will look our newest one over. Fraternally yours, MARY JO WEILER. The 6th of April this year is the eighteenth year sine the United States stepped into the World war, and the completion of eighteen years finds us facing another war situation that holds dynamite. On this date we re- call that the Congress of the United States adopted a resolution declaring war on Germany against which only six United States senators had the courage and vision to vote "No". It was nothing short of traitorous action then, but post-war years have taught us the wisdom of their action. Among this handful, was A. J Gron- na from North Dakota, who with La. Foliette of Wisconsin, Lane of Oregon and others, registered their protest against entrance into war. We are proud to claim for our state one of this valiant group, who did all that lay within their power to prevent a war, that like all wars, never settled anything, and brought only untold misery and suffering to humanity. All i ] An Ironing Help Do you' have difficulty In Ironing tiny garments on your regular iron- ing board? Did you ever stop to think that the sleeve board would be a great help to you? The next time you have any dresses or romp- era td iron, try using the sleeve board and see how much trouble it will save you. THE HOUSEWIFN. Oopyrlght by Public Ledger. Ins. VeNU Service. BOYS! GIRLS! Read the Grape Nuts ad in anothee column of this paper and learn how to Join the Dizzy Dean Winners and win valuable free prizes.~Adv. 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