J* r'X -i S^ 'J£ VjX^i FALLSPRE5S bega nto look a»^f there were only with his constitaents than any other dark days ahead. m^n who ever represented the district. 4.**& He has responded to «very appeal for Some Figures. ANDSO What it means to agriculture*To be the consideration of matters concerning, the interests of his constituents, in a position to spread the marketing H, J. MINER, Editor iM MmH of its output over a longer period whether such appeal came from the humblest citizen or from the most of time is indicated by the difference ten* at the Post Oflee at btcnatlmul Falls, Ww, aa Sceaad-Claas Matte* 5-Passenger Touring Car important industrial organization. It in the outlook for the Corn Belt "farmer in October, 1921, when the. is conceded by political friends ai^d SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2,00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR War Finance Corporation began intensive political enemies alike, that Congressman Larson has already achieved remarkable operations in that section, Northwestern Representatives -4 AilT«rtiiin( and in February, 1922, when those success during his first term. Minnesota Select List f. o. b. Factory 7M Excitant* 21S9 Almost immediately upon entering Bank South Cth Street operations had had time to make St. Paul Minneapolis congress he took an active interest themselves felt. In October,! corn and played an effectual part in advancing was- Selling, at country elevators in FARMERS NEED MORE buying p^wer of the grower seriously Nebraska and Iowa at about 20 cents the country's greatest water ST. CLOUD, MINN. TIME, SAYS EXPERT impaired, the whole cotton producuig a bushel. In February it had risen transportation project—the moving of section of the country was diHstrously the Atlantic ocean west to Duluth a to fifty cents and reports indicate1 Present^ Conditions Rush Him to a affected.- The way to relieve that farmers were^etting the equiv^ distance of fifteen hundred miles. Oscar Market That Is Not in Favorable the situation was to put the producer lent of eighty to ninety cents for J*. Larson has attained a conspicuous Condition. in position to market his crop Over corn marketed. through live stock. place amongf and aggressive a longer period and at the same The man who is in a hurry to sell foresighted men of the country who Look this car over before you Is War Finance Corporation Points Out time, to go on with his regular operations. at a great disadvantage. And' this have advanced this wonderful project Method to Relieve Hard Pressed With this end in view, the has bee nthe customary plight'of" tfffe to a point where ultimate si^ccess buy. As good a car as there Producer. War Finance Corporation financed agricultural producer. As soon as seems assured. under its export powers the shipment he has a crop he, is under pressure The people of the northwest are intensely By Eugene Meyer, Jr., Managing Director of considerable quantities of is on the market at the price. to sell. Either he has to meet a note interested in a realization of War Finance Corporation. cotton to foreign warehouses, tjie^re given to- cover his last ^productive the St.—Lawrence-Great Lakes water Editor's Note: Eugene Meyer, Jr., to be sold to foreign buyers for Jfcsh effort, tar: he needs ready: money to w^y..x" It must be advanced with aH of £«. managing director the "War as it was needed This action buy supplies: and equipment for 'his possible legislative speed. The pre* finance Corporation, an organization [ll!l!ll!l!!H|ill!i!lll!!IIWlllliPpilS foflowed by a loan of $5,000,000 Id a tfyat did much to help relieve1 a situation next operation For orie reasons or sent national administration strongly :V,:'lr that, at one time threatened Mississippi co-operative marketing another, the necessity has" been almost favors the project.' President Harding, more than "hard times" to the entire association to finance the,-carrying of imperative to market his output SOLD BY with sledge hammer logic, has nation. agricultural interests of the 100,000 bales in public warehouses as soon 'as possible after harvest. given it his unqualified approval. The His investigations have led him to W. A. WIRT & CO. in the United States until it could be marketing At harvest times the national market Eighth congressional district of Minnesota beieve that present metliods of are shipped abroad in an orderly way. and financing the farmer is crowded so to speak with will be the terminal of this A to not satisfactory and are injurious Within a short time similar arrangements great seaway line of transportation. farmers anxious to sell. Products the best interests of the entire economic had been made with other cooperative are abundant and prices relatively Duluth will become the' New York of structure. PHONE 343 associations, and these low. Six or eight months later when the middle west—one of the greatest transactions, in turn, were followed the consumer is beginning to think cities on this continent. Every man Between the farmer and the man 722 8th Ave. Interhational Falls by agreements to make large advances and woman in this territory, engaged about supplies for the rest of the who eats the farmer's wheat and on cotton to other co-operatn year prices are up and the farmer in whatever vocation, will be immediately potatoes, or smokes his tobacco, or marketing organizations and to usually has little to sell. It would beneficiaries of this marvelous makes his cotton into shirts, there 33! KR banking and financing institutions be better for the farmer if he could acomplishment. stands an intarfgible but formidable throughout the South. spread his marketing over a longer The people of this district cannot barrier—time. Over ninety per cent period because in the long run he now afford to hesitate for consideration of the wheat in the United States Is When it became clear that the would probably get more for Ms of political experiments when cotton grower would. have time to harvested! in June, July and August crop9^ it would be better for the there is so much at stake of vital concern but it may take a year for it to get market his output, that th^. crop' railroads, because it would mean a to this and all future generations. would be adequately financed, and into the bakers' ovens. Over ninety, more even use of transportation facilities that he would not have to dump it per cent of the tobacco is harvested Congressman Larson is working in it would be better for the in August, September ,and October, on an over-loaded market in order to entire harmony, as one of the leaders consumer, because h^ would have bu the smokers puff away as hard in meet his obligations, the whole business more asurance of getting supplies with the administration forces that January as they do in October. And outlook of the Southern States have it in their power to enact legislation was changed. Depression gave way at stable prices throughout the year. so it is wit hmost of our staple agricultural for the -construction of the St. products between production to hope and confidence, manufacturers PROGRESS OR POLITICS? Lawrence-Great Lakes waterway. and consumption there is an and merchants who had held The experience he has already had back began to buy, the fear began to interval that may stretch out to a (Hon. D. M. Gunn of Grand Rapids, will be of inestimable value in the whole year or even longer. go out of the situation, and the resulting member of the Republican congressional Here is-.» a fundamental factor in immediate future. The work he has improvement was reflected committee of the Eighth district, in the marketing of the farmer's output so ably undertaken should not be interrupted. throughout^ the Cotton Belt, as well a letter discussing the congressional that perhaps has received too little as in other sections of the country. situation, makes some pertinent comments Lakeside Ice Co. attention. The American producer Oscar J. Larsfcn should receive approval As to Live Stock. and suggestions, which are embodied has grown accustomed to disposing arid be returned to congress. in the following editorial.) In the financing of the live stock of his crop shortly after the harvest, —Grand Rapids Herald-Review. industry in the West, the normal leaving to some one else the task ot The Eighth congressional district is length of time required to bring providing storage facilities and the A Permanent Organization with one of the most important in the MINNESOTA MAY LAND growing sheep and cattle to maturity necessary financing ior carrying it United States. Its incomparable iron GOVERNMENT STATION has not always received sufficient a Large Investment until needed by the consumer. Such deposits its great forest products consideration. a system may work smoothly so long its vast1 stretches of rich agricultural A bill for the establishment of a When the Agriculutral Credits Act as those who assume the burden of lands its many water powers, developed A Complete Equipment to Serve government owned experiment station was passed, August, 1921, the situation taking care of the time element in and,undeveloped its inexhaustible either in Minnesota, Wisconsin or confronting the live stock industry Our Customers the marketing process are fairly sure fuel' beds of peat its various Michigan has been reintroduced in was decidedly acute. The breeding of good returns. But^it may break manufacturing industries, and its port both branches of congress and will herds were being sacrificed and down whe nthe farmer needs it most, of Duluth, soon to be connected with be passed, in the judgment of E. G. young stock not ready for market We Are Here to Stay when, because of uncertain markets the ocean, combine to make this district, Cheyney, chief of the state university's was being sent to the block, endangering and unfavorable business conditions with its varied and potential division of forestry, if the friends our future meat supply. But generally, his bank calls in the note wealth, second to none in industrial of agriculture and forestry will request the Act gave the Corporation adequate And HOW the prices came down on which he has secured funds for greatness in the whole country. It is their members of congress to funds and authority to deal his producing operations. The farmer doubtful if a carefully prepared statistical support the measure. The bill has since we got in the game with the problem on a comprehensive then is left to hold the bag. He may report would not place the ./! been approved by Henry Wallace, scale and during the past four have cotton, corn, cattle or other Eighth congressional district at the secretary of agriculture, who says it or five months it has authorized advances products sufficient under ordinary very forefront of all others. This is is in full accord with the settled WATCH OUR GREEN DELIVERY WAGON on live stock aggregating conditions to meet his obligations essentially an industrial section. policies of the administration. When nearly $605,000,000. Under the law, but he needs time to market them If there is any justification for the the bill is passed, Professor Cheyney loans may be made for a period of Ksaa an orderly way. And because, in the existence of a congress of the United H. A. LEVIN, Pres. DEL BERTHIAUME, Mgr. believes that Minnesota's claims and not to exceed one year, and these good years, he! has depended largely States, that justification rests in the advantages, if properly presented will loans may, in proper cases, be extended on others to take care of the time ability of individual members to represent secure the station for this state. for an additional period of element, he has, on the whole, developed the interests of the districts not to. exceed two years, thus giving no adequate machinery for taking from*which they are elected. No congressman the stockman time to carry through care of it himself when adverse can do justice to his duties his operations without the necessity conditions make it necessary for him who represents special interests to of sacrificing his immature and breeding to do so. I the exclusion of all other matters of animals. A New Situation. equal or greater importance. The man Falls Lumber & Coal Co. One outstanding development, already During the past two years the agricultural who represents the Eighth district an acomplished fact, is the producer has been confronted should be broad visioned and possessed establishment of new live stock loan with a new situation—a situation of resourceful ability to an extent companies in the principal stockgrowing *brought about by the war and the that will enable him to do justice to States. The Corporation has changed economic conditions resulting the vast industrial activities within encouraged the bankers and business International Falls, Minn. from it. He and his banker have its confirms. It is a' big job, that of men in these communities to form been forced to asume a considerable of our congressman, rightly handled, such companies each with substantial part of the burden which in ordinary and one that can be of great benefit capital, in order to make Its resources times is distributed all along the line, to all classes of fcitizens, provided the readily and effectively available of carrying and financing his products representative is capable of getting Headquarters for Paint in the emergency. for a longer period until the results as a national legislator. There American jobber, wholesaler, manufacturer In the Corn Belt. ig much to be done for the Eighth and retailer, or the foreign In the Corn Belt, many farmers district through its congressman. The Our Certain-teed Prices buyer, are ready to take them make it a regular practice to buy problems to be solved and the projects Cotton is our1 greatest agricultural young live stock, and feed and fatten to be developed are essentially .export commodity and the market them with corn and other field products of a business nature. In the last House Paint PerG.1. Per Per Per for it depends largely upon the demand in other words to send their Gal. Quart Pint analysis it matters but very little to Outside White $3.50 Universal Varnish $3.70 $1.25 $0.80 from abroad. As a result of crops to market "on four feet." Normally, (No. 448) the people of this district whether Dark Oak Varnish Stain .85 developments growing out of the about eighty per cent of the .55 Bungalow Brown (No-hm) 3.00 their national representative belongs Ivory Interior Enamel 1.25 war, European buyers changed their corn grown in, the United States is Pt. Barn, Bridge & Roof 1.80 to ofte political party or another, provided buying practice. Theyi had been accustomed fed to live stock. And this process he is big enough to represent to take eighty per cent of takes time. For instance, it requires this big district na manner worthy QERTAIN- TEED paint is sold on the their annual needs in the first six from eight to ten months to( fatten of its importance. This is not a district cost plus basis—you get the benefit of months of the cotton year after the one-year-old steets for market, and that should be represented by every economy in manufacturing. If the war they began taking only fifty per calves as long as a year. The "farmer socialism, alcoholism or any other color you want costs less to make than cent in the same six months. On account with his barns full of corn, needs considerable 'ism. Capital, labor, industry, development—all some other color, the saving is yours. of fluctuations in the rates of time if he is going to turn should be trn* the program exchanges, they were unable to it into beef, pork,or mutton. of the man who goes to Washington That is why we can sell such high quality calculate, with any degree of accuracy, The corn crop in the last two years from the Eighth district. paints at theseprices. whether they would gain or lose has been extraordinarily large the Oscar J. Larson was elected to by buying ahead cotton which Would total production amounting to approximately congress two years ago and will have Try Certain-teed paint this time, and you have to be paid for in American 6,300,000,000 bushels.. And served one term at the conclusion of will say it is the best paint you ever used. dollars and sold in terms of depreciated the collapse in commidity prices the present session. He became a It spreads easier, and covers more surface European currency. So, tied up! the banking facilities in the member of the lower house at a time to the gallon. It lasts better, too. instead of laying in the greater part Co^n Belt and make it impossible when international affairs and the of their annual supply shortly after for the farmer to finance his feeding adjustment conditions following See us before' painting--it will pay you# the harvest, they bought only to operations in the usual way and in Certain-teed the world war .were the all absorbing meet current needs, spreading their the normal volume. He had been prpblems of legislation. Most unfavorable purchases over the year. This left accustomed to feel that when he had opportunities'were presented iffr several million bales for the American a good crop most of his troubles were during the past two years for securing producer to take care of until over, but he suddenly foilnd that they consideration* of local and sectional they were wanted abroad. He had to were only beginning. He was not in problems. Notwithstanding this fact, wait from one to six months longer position to. finance the marketing of Mr. Larson has made a splendid record ftig for his money He had not calculated his commodity over a longer period. in congress. The affairs of his OIL CLOTH MINT •.VARM1SH RELATED PRODUCTS on this waiting.' (, He could not get even his usual accommodation district have been carefully looked i' "... Thai Cotton Action* in the way of funds for after in every detail. It is said that With the economic activity and the purchase of feeder stock and it he has kept in closer personal touch A-' ihs *-r I JiT