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The article focuses on the impact of the 900-acre refinery of petroleum company Standard Oil Co. located in Mandan, North Dakota on the refining and marketing operations in the U.S. Upper Midwest. It notes that the opening of the refinery marks a trend in which smaller refineries are serving local markets and making use of crude oil coming from developing sources found in the Williston Basin and Canada. Reasons behind the change in marketing and refining patterns are given, one of which is advances in refining technology.

Presents several letters to the editor. Impossibility to produce a large modern paper without "privileged interests" patronage; Petition for naturalization presented in the United States District Court; Plundering of the farmers of North Dakota.

The article focuses on the discovery of oil in Williston Basin in North Dakota. Williston Basin is considered to be North America's largest basin of deposition where marine and vegetable life had died and decayed in an ancient sea bottom. On April 5, 1951, Amerada Petroleum Corp. made an oil strike in the basin. One interested party in the oil field is Northwest Bancorporation which has 20 affiliated banks and 18 bank branches in North Dakota and Montana.

The article looks at the reasons for bank failures in the U.S. Northwest as of March 1924, as some banks blame the Federal Reserve System for their incompetence. It claims that the failures are mainly due to poor banking and too many banks, not rigorous deflation. John H. Rich, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis in Minnesota, notes that, based on the ratio of population per bank for the U.S., North Dakota had five banks instead of one, South Dakota four, and Montana three.

Discusses the political impact of the Nonpartisan League, the league of farmers in North Dakota which has become a political force of substantial power. Assertion by the organized opponents of the Nonpartisan farmers that it is the purpose of the League to establish free love in the state; Issue on a book by Ellen Key, "Love and Ethics" which was put into the library at Bismarck.

Presents information on the political party Nonpartisan League in Minnesota. Report that the collapse of the political tactics of the conservatives in the recent extra session of the Minnesota legislature has left the way practically clear for a Nonpartisan League victory in that state in 1920; Statement that the Nonpartisan League was not only nonpartisan but it was in effect bipartisan; Discussion of the instructions given to members of the League; Focus on the victory of the League in North Dakota; Statement that the League will control the Republican party as a result of the 1920 the old bipartisan machine has not surrendered.

Focuses on the charges of disloyalty made against the Nonpartisan League, the farmer's movement which started in North Dakota. League's admission that the opposition has been able to cause them trouble on the disloyalty issue; Incorporation of practically all the program of war economics advocated by the League into the nation's war policies; Impact on the organization of the attitude of some of its members immediately prior to and following the entrance of the United States into the war.

Focuses on the Farmers' Union Progressive Alliance, founded by the Farmers' Union at a two-day conference in Jamestown, North Dakota on June 7. Report that the Alliance will support progressive men and issues, irrespective of party; Information on the history of the progressive movement in North Dakota and the recent developments in the state; View that the farmers are losing faith in the leadership of the political parties.

The article focuses on the use of lignite deposits as fuel to produce cheap power in North Dakota. The state's recoverable lignite reserves are equal to 165 billion tons of bituminous. Studies have been conducted by Vern E. Alden Co. to assess the cost of producing power under specified conditions. The company figured that a private firm would need 120 million U.S. dollars in capital for an aluminum processing plant that burns 4,920,000 tons of lignite. Lignite is said to be a source of tars and light oils that could be removed by carbonization.

Focuses on the hold of a caucus by the North Dakota Legislature to come up with a solution on the seed and feed problem of farmers. Decision of the legislature to enable the counties to issue bonds and lend the proceeds to the farmers for the purchase of seed and feed. Request of the farmers for a solution to their problem; Inability of farmers to secure credit from banks; Need for the farmers to reach its quota for the year.

Six months is the longest one may live in Montana without making the decision whether one is "for the Company" or "against the Company." Even some members of that ever-growing stream of automobile pilgrims which enters our hot sage-brush plains from North Dakota's prairies and threads its way westward through the irrigated valley of the Yellowstone are frequently to be found enlisted in one camp or the other before they have zigzagged down from some pass over the Rockies and crept along a narrow ledge above a roaring stream through the canyon into Idaho. The all-pervading and unrelenting nature of the struggle admits of no neutrals. Since the territory's admission to statehood in 1889 the struggle has continued.

The way the fight for control waging between the Nonpartisan League and its opponents in North Dakota has been widely and triumphantly heralded by the press of the U.S. The North Dakota State Government has never been able to sell the bond issue of $17,000,000 authorized by the 1919 legislature to finance the industrial program, adopted by the State as a result of the organization and political success of the Nonpartisan League. The constitutionality of the bonds was attacked early in 1919 by suits in the State and Federal courts, but upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The article discusses the importance of including the bridal dress in reporting wedding stories. According to Frank Hornstein, Editor of Pierce County Tribune in North Dakota, clothes are important to women and what they wear on their wedding day. The wedding accounts in that issue of the paper of Hornstein carried full details of the bridal garment.

Comments on North Dakota's issuance of bonds to help in the operation of a state bank. Sentiment of the investing public towards the bond issue and the creation of a state bank; Interest of the state in the financing of agriculture by loans from a state bank; Arguments that the establishment of a state bank is a step toward a differentiation of financial functions required by the common interest.

Reports on evidence in the Northwest states that the Democrats and Republicans are moving towards a coalition driven by the Nonpartisan League. Destruction of the Democratic party as a political force in North Dakota and Minnesota; Struggle in Minnesota between the Democrat-Republicans and the "independents" or the Farmer-Labor party; Strategy used by the foes of the Nonpartisan League in the primaries; Conditions that dictate the tactics of each state.

Presents several letters to the editor. Discussion on capital levies; Information on public debt of the World War I; Criticism of an article on Americanism in North Dakota, published in the journal "The Nation."

The article focuses on the plan of North Dakota Senator Bill Langer to run for re-election in 1952. After being convicted and sentenced to 18 months in prison for extracting political contributions from public employees, Langer was ousted as governor in 1934. He was also famous for introducing a bill to issue a special series of stamps to encourage mailing of good-will letters. Highlights of his campaign are discussed.

The article says that returns of the Independent Voters' Association initiative measures, intended to restrict and denature the farmers' industrial program are being compiled in North Dakota. The most important of them calls for the liquidation of the Bank of North Dakota, the most promising and to date the most successful part of the North Dakota experiment. If carried, a new State department will take over the rural credit functions of the State bank, but the rest of the bank will be closed. The Independents promised to give the State mill and the terminal elevator projects of the State a fair trial, but one of the important initiative measures cuts down the amount of bonds that can be issued and the amount of capital that can be invested in these experiments.

In the States of the Northwest one sees buttons in coat lapels and danglers on watch chains which bear the figure of a tired, abused and rebellious goat. Beside the animal is the inscription: "The Goat That Can't Be Got." It is the unofficial emblem of the National Nonpartisan League. "A goat is an animal that works with his head when attacked," Governor of North Dakota, United States is reputed to have said in explanation of the device. That's why the Nonpartisan League adopted this animal as its emblem." For a long tine the U.S. farmer has been a goat at last he is beginning to butt back. He has perfected a butting technique that has dislodged the two old political parties and installed a farmer administration in the capital at Bismarck.

Reveals the factors that affected the performance of state-operated enterprises in North Dakota founded by the state's ruling Nonpartisan League. Effect of the great depression of 1920-21 in the Middle West; Opposition of large banks and grain traders; Farm loans of the Bank of North Dakota.

The article presents information on the Senator Gerald P. Nye. When Nye, senior Senator from North Dakota, goes before the voters in the Republican primary on June 27, 1944, he will meet the opposition of the very forces that elected him in each of his previous campaigns. In former days Nye was a progressive leader in a progressive state. It was the Non-Partisan League that first sponsored Gerald P. Nye and that elected him to the Senate in 1926. Time after time it has rallied to his support. Now it is against him. During recent years the League has grown mote conservative and many of its younger farmer members have turned from it to the Farmers' Union and the cooperative movement. But whatever their political and economic divergences, all three groups are now united in their opposition to Nye and in their support of Usher L. Burdick, one of the state's two Representatives.