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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1918
Page
3
A column mix of civic sabotage guidance urging readers to undermine local merchants and promote outside press, paired with wartime economic analysis. It contrasts small town decline tactics with a broad discussion of US and German war finances and postwar debt, noting resources and debt scales.
Article notes the Patriotic Farmers Fund in New York aiding small farmers with hard loan credit during WWI. In spring and early summer, $284,842.68 was lent to support 34 367 acres planted across oats, corn, potatoes, beans, buckwheat and garden produce. Loans financed seed fertilizer and labor, enabling roughly 3.5 million dollars in crops.
G R Secretary McAdoo calls on local draft boards to educate drafted men about the soldier-insurance law. Boards receive literature to aid outreach and emphasize the policy as a just, humane provision protecting soldiers and their dependents. Every enlistee should obtain the insurance to be covered by the Government in danger.
William Dudley Pelley argues in the July American Magazine that bankers ignore moral risk when lending. A man seeking credit is judged by his family’s stability and wife’s prudence, not just assets, with the wife and children serving as a near moral guarantee.
The Orpheum will host a busy week with Sirens of the Sea on Friday and Saturday, plus a Wm. S. Hart six reel feature The Bandit and the Preacher. The Whip returns for Monday and Tuesday with special orchestra music along with Allied War Review news. William Farnum stars in The Plunderer on Saturday, and Marguerite Clark appears Monday and Tuesday in Bob's Matinee Idol. Sessue Hayakawa leads Hidden Pearls on Wednesday in an all star Paramount program.
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