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Show H REQUIREMENTS OP CIVILIZATION K - A; F. Haines vice president and general Wk j manager of the Admiral Line, in a recent H I j address on steamship day celebration in B : i San Francisco, said? B , ' There are three primary factors in the M I scheme of human existence, first, agricul- M f ture; second, "transportation; third, man- M ) ufactuing. No one of tliese alone can H : , make ports, build cities, make prosperous H ; f peoples nor civilization each is depend- M eht on the other, and each is necessary to i the other.'"" M . Mr. Haines pointed out that land and H ; water transOrtation were dependent on H each other for the fullest development, f i and the county was dependent on both. 1 ! Continuing he said: "Water routes bring M : to our ports, banks manufactories, disti- M ' butors, importers, exporters and mer- H ' chants, These make cities, but not with- : ! out water lines radiating over the sea to I; fetch and carry. One of the most import- j -ant problems of .American "shipping is f i- 1 nances. Ships do not finance themseives, I neither do they develop trade territory without a guiding hand. We gained a large volume of foreign business during the war. If we keep this business and enlarge en-large it we must develop our foreign trade relations with our own ship lines. Ships built by the government under war conditions and costs must be sold at the going market prices if American lines are to' use these snips and hold the foreign , i trade which lias already been developed. : raw f PAYING THE BILL 1 ) The Nonpartisan League in North Da- H ; kota is fighting for its existence. As H i with all socialistic tlieories which seem so i beautiful when the agitator is explaining H ' them, somebody must settle when the bill M comes in and the people always pay. f North Dakota farmers have had" the H , .of putting up millions for tne H League activities and its state-owned ei m " terprises. Mr. Townley, the leader of H the league, says the farmers have been. H saved twenty-five million dollars a year, H ' 'Just how he figures it he does not explain M ' but the farmers are beginning to realize B j that they are selling their wheat, hogs and cattle for the market price the same H . as in other states anl that they are out H the millions in additional taxes they have M ' to pay for carrying out the league pro- H , gram. H k State bonds have gone begging on the H ' market because investors are afraid of H the rule of the political experimenters m who have had control of North Dakota. |