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THE BEACH REVIEW
Smart for School
or Work in Office
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she's off to school or to work. she
needs at least one well-tailored frock
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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
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tops its smart front bodice pleafs
with buttoned-down tabs that look
for all the world like two perky
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panel in front which ends In two
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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.
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]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.
At Cleaning Time
Before whitewashing a ceiling or
the upper parts of walls you'll find
it a great boon if you tack a strip
of thin leather 2½ inches wide on
to the brush. Thls forms a cup when
the brush is inverted and so pre-
vents liquid running down the brush
]nd on to the arm.
Double Action
Faffh removes mountalns -- and
~reates them.
l(chiag.roughness,_
¢.r~ck~ng.easily relieved lF//l
Write for Prices
Dairy Feeds. Baby Chick~ For $1.00yo~
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IN GIRLHOOD
Mrs. F-. C. Thompso~
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HAcgLq~tY CLEmmO
006 N. P Ave,