The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 19, 1921, Page 3

SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1921 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNT, 7 am 5 ‘ n q | tess time on idealistic schemes and use of Jabor-saving, machinery and: ; | theorigs, they would have rendered/ from bringing into, cultivation new x a greater contribution-to the peac areas, of fertile lard. We can not and orderliness and happiness of t keep up this gait in the future. Con- ‘ » people of the earth. jsumption has almost overtaken pro- BIG BUSIN SS WHO HAS NO VOICE _~ Search For Outlet (auction under normal world fondit hak Now, as to this present situation, ' tions. if | x 7 surely the duty of the Department of Fertile/Soil_ Taken Up i Agricultture is evident. We should: Most, of our fertile land which can ‘ ' L { raf ie evetything posible to find an out-|be farmed profitably without expen- . ~ / pA UPL E | let * tu! ,for this great, food surplus. sive reclamation has been taken up. should: search for w: to roduce We still have large areas of swam - Webb Brothers land and cut-over land, n not be pfofitably | i . . be ‘eh y cheg 7 7 4 Henry C. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture,-in Qpening State- 0'¢, US" Pie a Oar Pea ean i q ment on Agricultural Situation Says Growers Have en. surplus crops We should help develop! veglaimed and;farmed unless we can “i Of 4B! i > a ROWSE Be |, more efficient marketing — systenis, depend ypon higher, relat @ prices for The Home of New Styles” ay / \ Receiving Less Than Cost of Prodyction for Years and” That! straightening curves and lowering! farm, products than prevailed’ before the grades between the producer and the war.’ So, also, we can greatly in- the consumer. It is a time for every crease the productive power of a large fe . 1 | man whg can help to take fold. As; area of lan in surplus producing | Prices of Farm Products Are Below. : ‘in the dds when we dragged our fire States provided’ we can depend upon ‘ engines by hand to the scene of the prices which. will cover the’ increased | a \ fire and every good citizen rushed aut expense. Under our system of farm- The statement of Henry C. Wallace, the new secretary of and.took hold of the long rope and. ing we have produced far more per agriculture, in an extensive review of the agric situation did his bit, so we must do now. Every/man then ‘almost a . ture, f) the agricultural situat good citizen, no matter‘in what busi-/ but we have not. pyd issues a warning to the country that present abnormal:conditions tees, he my be engaged, should de much per acre as ig th H ua in relation to prices for farm products and the cost.of their pro-' what he cin to help the farmers Western Europe, for example. | duction must be alleviated before sound prosptrity“can. be ex-| through this period of depression, , Seatest increases of food production { ———— a pected to return. ‘not for the sake of helping the farm-'i the future must come from incre . ‘ i ¢ ing our; acre yields, but t ~ “Prices of Farm products,” says Mr. Wallace, “have dropped 1, ucne: but for the sake of helping Te onde upon guises which iit aca . out of all proportion to the prices of other things, as well as out of i] i i . A We can not hope to reach normal) the increased cost. ieee | all proportion-to the cost of production.” conditions urftil we arrive on a_ price No Voice in Price | a The The statement of Mr. Wallace fol- level which will be to all our peo: oy; Nae is the one man engagel | lows in full; his money has prospered. ‘The five Ple and all products. Farm products j,, fixing thecpree ot be had ng yo hel Let me speak first of the agricultur-| years prior to 1920 were profitable anust come up in price and other pro- produces, He has been alte te al situation in general, I think if) years especially to the grain farmer ducts come down until the normal re: t) take whatever price: he coat ‘e t. Peet we’can.get an understanding ‘of this,| who was so forvuuate as to have gagd lation between them has been restor- His cost of production has fon vi get. | the proper ‘work of the Departmet of] crops. If he,exerciged ordinary intel- ed. This, talk of bringing prices ieime been ‘conshewed Hretiieed any | Agriculture will become apparent.| ligence he made more money than he; Ra k to pre-war normal 1s morally this price. In times of smal avons We must approach it from two an-| ever before made at farming. Those Wrong and economicaly impossibe.’ yicos have sometimes been high al gles, \first, present conditions, which| yecrs were not so profitable tothe! We incured a heavy national debt On times of large crops prices frequently | aredecidedly unusual, and, second] livestock farmer. The ma: who grew the inflated prices. .¢ we could force y | 6 prices pack t o pre-war normal— “While Wages and Commodities Are Above Pre-War Normal qvisite Blouses Attractively Priced sf \ Simplicity of design, liveliness of colors, and remarkably’ téw prices we been ruinously low. Very large make this showing of spring blouses unusual indeed. conditions which may develop in the| his own live stock and cwn grain or ; 4 crops, as a rule, give the farmer fewer H Only personal inspection can give you an adequate idea of the many which we Canaot—it woud be equival- charming varieties. Many of them are hand made. All are of that future, . fed his grain, to the live stock, on hoe dollars than small crops. Farmir I doubt whether the people of the] the whole, made mney, although not ent to, just about doublingthatdebt | eos to be business in which large | ; Bnd < ete East realize just what has happened} as much as it he had sold the grain in; ve can Day oe our denis ogee a Production is always p ed. Zl ne enliRe Rhys rte eo And at this eres | stead of ing it. “fhe man who if we mainte c % ret thr i st : to the farmers of the producing sec-| stead of feeding it. “fhe man who hearly ‘the level at which the debts o doubt, when we get through this ' % tions. Take the grain and live-stock| bought the live stock and bought the f aes ibd of world readjustment and get aS : producing country of the Central West] grain and fed the grain to the live) Were incurred, Of course, the exces’ squared away on an orderly DAE © sively high prices which prevailed! there will be a gradual increase in for example, and J.speak of this be-| stock, on the average lost, money.' 4 but cause it is the region with which I am|-When hogs were selling at $20 per hun during the war can not continue, but the value of farm land, provided our most familiar and also because it is} Wredweight everybody seemed to think if we should try to bring spout 4 national Policy is fair to agriculture, J the region which gives us our great) the hog feeder was growing rich, but) level say 70 per cent above ue pre: but th increase will be much slower . . ‘e surplus crops. ..We have the finest] most of the time when hogs were sel-, War normal, everybody would be bet- than in times past. The speculative Winsome Veils Easter Hand Bags rural. civilization, taken as a whole,| Jing at those high figures the men who. ter off. - i value has been taken out of the land- ‘ ioe : : the world has ever seen; our farmers| had to buy the grain to.feed the higs, ‘Will Get Through Period ~ | The farmer can no longer depend yp- 3 We will get through this period.'on the increase in the value of Wi It is remarkable how very be- The handbag in particular re- average very high in intelligence; | lost money. i a 4 A bankrupt. is S ye tlley have adopted the most adrancel a ‘Drop out Of Proposition The ‘Nation’ is nat Sine ae iy it mt ae male good losses suffered coming a well chosen veil can be flects the tone of one’s taste. To sy: ‘ ive f ing yet de- second cause of the farmer's e farn Boro q ‘ is farming operations year i i i s¥stem of e‘xtensive farming yet e_ secon e ne erie gay gone to lig down Ohiby year. Fakmesgt crons must sail —what a difference it makes jn set off a- costume properly the one’s appearance, — frequently handbag should be irreproach- veloped. Nowithstanding- all this trouble is this: Prices of: farm pro-,' they are now in a most trying period |-ducts have dropped out of all propor-| their job. Gradually fa prices will higher relatively in the future than in adding the subtle note that des- able. j a hy was. i her the past. and are suffering Severe financial loss| tion to the prices of other things, as be brought in fair création with ot! r past. : 2 ‘ es, Farmers throughaut the “Nation | well as out of all proportion to the/ prices and we will Bo ahiend spitting ee seem to have been going on th ‘ignates a costume quick. We be- Our present display of handbags especially those in the South and | cost of production: on all cylinders. isut there is er d cory + at the fertility of our soil, lieve 'you will find in our stocks embodies all the late style fea- West, are experiencing exactly the} For example, the price of corn and/ thing in the long run—a more eer especia ly in the great corn and tame tl ited t ae fi 5 borek bac hi same trouble. The cotton farmers of} oats today on the Iowa faim is about; ant phase of our agricultural prob lem, grass country, is inexhaustible. To one exactly sul 2 0 you, an ures and to'chose your ag here ich we have been slow ion this is a most dangerous you must. see it. assures a style that’s correct. We must set about in earnest the South, the rice farmers, the cat-| 20 per cent below the normal price; wyi aa tle and shéep growers of the Far West| of these crops before the war. The’ ing: Est me skoten Deny the de he ave ae ent in earnest € i : ny pric fat ca f£ hogs! ment of our agriculture. | : : : ra the fruit growrs; all are pas3ing| present price of fat cattle and of hogs $) the United Statestnolicy Which will senable: te:-te feet ’ through this same valley ,of discour-| is from 20 to 26 per cent above the! The farmers _0: 5 eoenable - agement and financial stress. pre-war normal, if we .take Chicago'during the past seventy vears have, our people at tale ices nd, at the Depression Serious prices, but on the farm the prices of on the average, produced and sold ba dines a aint e fertility of our - ; People who are not familiar, with| both cattle and hogs are down to pre- grains and jive toe, a less | than tho Gest greatest national matérial a Gl agriculture figd it hard to understand | war normal. cost of production if we Lainie ate § the SIMitonS They refuse to believe Wages Still Up consideration all the factors which abe inerease in tenancy has aroused loves (Now note the prices of some of the properly enter into production costs. great concern. Many people seem to Lags i ‘armer think that t is in itse i i that if the farmer at tenancy is in itself an evil. Gleves that are sure to improve any hand, ‘imparting a graceful, beautiful appearance are most conspicuous in our Easter showing ngw ready for your inspection. that the depression is as serious of 4 ; a Deo seen is really is, They point to he high! things the farmer must buy; ‘Wages a in 1S : 7 ie ri A value of our land, to the high pri ati of farm hands are about 10) per cent would practice a ‘ound system of Not necessarily so. As land advances ‘ i ; i : ir in- tenanev increases. which farm products were selling pri-| above the pre-war normal, railroad business economy, pareing a fair in ev increases. This or to this heavy drop, to the large! rates are from 7 to 9) per cent terest on the capital invested has always 1, both in been true everywhere and it is not number of automobiles’ owned by| above prewar normal, such basic com- his farm and hie farm equipment, 8 | fan Hants bad phine in ele Th ‘farmers to take seriously what’ the] modities as pig iron, coke, petroleum, far nee ao Fae anit er ve. capital ean far batter ied Ap one farmers say concerning their troubles.) lumber, Portland cement, Mra ents from the ;marketire of his, than to own after the land has reach- » Pipes ‘ There are two causes for this wide-| above the prewar normal—from a 0 ed-ataivly stable value bas c ae i i 5 PASO! el it will be found that h2 has note irly stable value based on it spread agricultural depression. One 150. a0 In HoereareretY es bs for them enough to cover 2Foductive power. Men are willing io “ is the high cost of production last c! 4 ’ inves au M sear} at ave include all the factors} wages and raiJroad wages are both he f tice at ie acinit tte “i bal Se money int een see * which properly enter into the ar more than 100 per ent above the prov apne “treet, i nition of his capital the security of the ‘investment, but production, we find, for example, that} war nor. i 1 ~~. and which he has marketed in ‘there are evils which: grow out of th the cost of producing a bushel of core Incothett words, while the ferme! aps Bue which we will simply throw fenaney, system which must be cor. is rected. in Iowa, the greatest corn State, was) is selling the things “he produces at ¢ ‘ 4 tl Be i i — a . = as : : more than 90 cents. This includes the] prices no higher and, for great surplus PORTA seine pr aoeiehgeee orig If we are to make this a self gus , i Home of sland cost, the labor cost, and every-| crops, lowér than the prowat normal, -""to be maintaincd, JI know that'taining National agriculturally, a: The Best President Harding put it in one of hi : ; in Photoplays THEATRE ; thing else which ought to be included.| he must buy practically everything ‘iw Ieind is ‘made sang reer ena seed he neat a prices frome) io. 150 Many Eoaiiy en it. ney think spceches yihete no time to be’ lost de he land at an inflated price. You] per cent above. the prewar no! . Mae acer cy in studying these great problems, It & aes ‘a not, do that. The farmer did The severe agricultural depression i of intlividual aaarmers hom oceaulit not a quest ion ot production alone, ary ‘ not. pay that price for the land. ‘He} inevitable as long as such a condition’ very well to do, but 1 am speak it, is a question of the farmer being | Last Time Tonight exists and this depression will Cer: in."o¢ the average farmer, the farn ble to sell what he produces at a his actual costs, Tonight wants dividends on water.” ities Tantad. “sta ladusary es hich will j : Advance Not Great __| taiily be communica ed to are s, and the statement {price which will ju: A “ It is true that the land charge is| and business generally. have i Fr we ‘an absolutely truth-| tinuing to produce. : Wesley (Freckles) Barry Eil n P considered on the basis of its value a] It is a situation which should chal- statement which has been abund (producers in the world but our sale: ¥ ~ 4 L ee a ercy tem is very bad indeed. We mi ; ear ago, butt i is also true, that the] lenge the very best thought of the en-//"11) corroborated by scientific in- in _ Xvanee in land prices Was not near-| tire Nation. If it contiues the trouble antly _comobera od by istudy _ everything a inbeone _ly as great as many people suppos?| will be communicated to every one. “rhe farmers have been able and, both production and p . mu ry 4 99 * 4 Whey hear of the occasional sales at] We are brothers one of another. ANy-' willing to sell their crops at les than |!ook into the matter of competition | $400 or $500 an acre and assume] thing which hurts the farmer will tile netial cost of production because, from farmers of foreign lands where, oO an e that that’ represents the average.| very soon be communicated to all-of frst they have been willing to accept the agriculture is still being exploit- | , A : Nothing of the sort, The average| our citizens. The farmers represent tne value of the farm as a home, a: ed and’ where the standards advance in the value of our rich| probably 35 to 40 per cent of the popu- their children. as a/ate-very much below the st: corn belt land was only about 60.per|letion. Anything — which seriausly part of the substantial reward for | Which we demand for our people. We affects their buying power will bring their work; and, second, because as must look into world conditions both * “Why Trust Your Husband?” also > This is your last-chance to see this sensational pho- toplay of the most astounding newspaper mystery ever pictured. 6 : cent above pre-war values. It must c be S cuhebed also that in the prin-| ttrouble o the people who make OF /@yy poulation has increased there has of supply and of demand and prodice | = cipal corn States over half the land | deal in the things the farmer buys. | heen a steady increase in the valne o mores amelligently and nude our eee “So; f ” 5 s f ti . Rear e os crops ¢ probable needs. is farmed by tenants and these ten Indictent of Civilization the farm land. In times past, there- WO crht icok iuto the ad ration Commencing Monday no! Tarzan It is a terrible indictment of our, fore, the woung farmer who could get seas cede basis of the advahced land values. It! modern civilization whic! is great enough ahead to make a very small) |, pata y th be 9 ve is true further that if we omit the land| country is in the period of what al-/ payment on a_piece of land—enough | contr the finances, of the 2 ant al charge altogether, the price which the} jost:mignt be called economic chaos | to ‘give him a foothold— and who had) 2! wie ae in their power to influ-| farmer can get for a bushel of corn) because of our great surplus: food in jot of hard work in him, and wh« entes eit! en aires iy or indirectly, the is still considerably Welow what ‘it! supply, while across the seas, in both|had a good wife, as most of them ony nsion ot ered it oan exercise ic . cost him to produce it. The largest] directiohs, almost half the world is have, has been able, by living very. rge amoun of 20) ro! E the item of costt in corn producion is not| suffering for want of food. If our) economically, denying himself and his Priees farm. products. i he same statesmen had given more thought to wife the luxuries. and many of th thing is true of the administration of | Jand but labor. ri A tion sv! - ‘4 be s ; = d ec- 4 hang on, paying jour transportation system: Through The man who has been farming] getting the world back on a souné © comforts of life, to aney pees Mt the simple device o6 regulating the i ed. ic | , and perhaps had spent out on the farm and O his own land and who has saved) onomic pasts and: pernap ‘growing into a valuable giece of prop- flow of sare the prices ot iam ue J Aberle, who asked the men to leave Kauliuss Chosen, oo erty. iducts can be sent up or down at the! Shortly afterward Fr. Aberle went c, ‘i be During fall this period we have | will of those who exercise such con- L PY to his partments to eat his ainner a: R.. Kaulfiigs, aaslstane) state et - —— beerr'a great surplus food producing tral, ite ied some ¢ stly experien- ra and after drinking a cup of coffe gineer, was named by the board of jthan our ow 0) . : spt - he became distressingly ill and re-| attend the national conventién at Buf- ‘As a result we have had to compete, In short, the people of the Nation = y mained in this condition for more] falo, N. Y., in July as representative ‘with the farmers of the world in the|must come to understand that our 1 < = # nati th iakot reat consuming markets and take | prosperity as a Nation depends upon FATHER ABERLE than Poe aU Pru aT te See eee ba romaine Get cus beauld : Bes ct 1 ral en 7 ee 6 prices fixed by that competition. An-|@ Prosperous and wholesome agricul J particles that had been placed there. © society. / er result of this great surplus of ture ‘ ane as to stimulate our Industrial I cannot no wspeak in detail of the oo ‘develdpment and to build up. our com-|many lines of work in. the Depart- Men Taken Into Custody at 4mercial enterprises of all kinds until | ment of Agricultur We have here Las i inow more than one-half of all our, of men and a Dickinson Accused of |people live in the cities and industrial ep We are going icenters. |to try to use the scientific and prac- Crime ~- 4 — The steady increase in the value of |tical knowledge of these men where- : ee ‘ ‘our land and the relatively low prices ever it can best be used to promote ‘Tne three army deserters, which fe ;the agriculture of the Nation. ~ | Chief of Police Martinson arrested ‘i 3 e ants mostly had to pay rent on the Coming Tuesday “HELIOTROPE” ‘Dead Men Tell No Tales’ Comranion Picture to “Humoresque” It You Can’t Read Because your eyes bother, our glasses will again make reading a pleasurg. * Have Your Eyes Examined. fo Ee, = oy jfor fam products has. caused : con: jstant drift of young farmers to the Tay this week and were taken te Ft. i itowns and cities where they thought From Mandan, lling, Minn. tried to poison Rev. ‘ BONHAM BROTHERS \they could secre beter pay for their Dr. Harris and Mr: Harris of Man- soe nee Dickingon, decoraine to - : . |labor and could see better opportuni- | dan spent yesterday in Bismarc the Dickinson Press, which carries the The clothing man says J JEWELERS & OPTOMETRISTS ities to advance themselvés in a ma- | following aha . e ey jterial way. In some our heavigst| ag, Ot Buynis Trp. Chagrined because they were re- he sells suits at prices producing States there are not as/ Philip Webb, Jr. left Wednesday | s,seq shelter for the night three tran- VU ss 9 imany people on the farms today as evening for the east where he will sients, wearing uniforms and said to A Hh, lower than he can re- there were thirty or forty years ago.) spend several days purchasing attrac- ji - ‘e is - pid ere serter' the it Stat This movement from the farm to the; tive-garments for the ready to wear bee phat ha oe haronee by place them for. Why city has been a perfectly natural department of Webb Brothers’ stere. pjaci legit the the sueat ua : ! movement and fuly justified by condi- ioc ; pol ene ks fe meen iused ae j h! \ » doesn’t. the wholesaler tities offer” Be ee aerat sonar Death of Christian Oster. Aberle, pastor of St. Joseph's church i) MN b these stocks? 5 The death of Chrstian Oster occ:!*-| jn South Dickinson, Monday evening. q j 4 uy up these stocks : greater opportunities for advance: ; ss S ue j i . f§iment, more comfortable living condi red at his home at 1418’ Sweet street phe poison was detected when Father y We have just peeled a ‘tions, and better, social, educational,’ py aa day Ofer neon at ia ale Aberle became ill immediately after ia yy yy shipment o: e famous and religious privileges. It is the in- ie Ss. +. partaking of the evening meal. After F yy YY’, Adeiral Bi a Tet Pp autabie result of economic conditions aS 59 years of age, is survived by! committing the dastardly act the men Vii All WE. ask is a mires Kind nd ia ond no amount of talk extrolling the his widow and two sons. | went to the study of the priest, where HY g Yy ‘ * ; the right kind and su’ 7 : be yyy, fair profit on our YY 2 Nor | Funeral services, which will be con-' the safe containing the chalice, and stantial Bicycle all boys has this relative decline in the pro- ducted by the Seven Day Adventist other valnables ve ‘church “we ilori should have. A complete tailoring. ducing population been a very serious church group. kept. Their actions while there line of Bicycle Tirés and tainly it has not been seriov matter up to th: present time. Cer-/ —-—— arous ci oF 2 from. Ice Out At Ft. Yates roused the suspicions of Fathe! supplies. the farmers’ viewpoint. We have O. W. Roberts, weather observer, ; yy YY) made great advances in methods of received word last nigat that the ice FARMERS q YY production. The development of Ja- in the Missouri r had gone out at TRAPPERS ATTENTION VOL. , bor. ing machinery has enabled us i veste However, the ice pont SELL HIDES AND FURS ON’ 2 L sti solid a ismarck today and THE PREVAILING MARKET ni P to increase our production per man, Notwithstanding our increas? in total ing up north of | Use ent Wa gon nave ve ins , population and the decrease in farm The river has fal- fq ine tan them ‘inte f ets, j Tail & Cl ‘pr duction. ; _have, vat Nery, te: len slightly since yesterday instead of; s dither, "Send. for 2 . or eaner eadily increased food produc- rising, so that there appears no danger | \ f I 5 |tion per thousand of total population. of floods if the ice gocs out within HO eg ae ene, mane a co. ‘This increase has conie both from th2! the next few days, BISMARCK, N. OD. 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