The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 26, 1925, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT - FUND SECURED | T0 FIGHT BIG. RUBBER TRUST Americans Plan to Battle, British Monopoly That Rules Industry | BY BRUCE CATTON NEA Service Writer Akron, 0. June 26-—Half a billion dollars for a war chest to fight the British rubber monopoly This, in all probability, will be the answer fo America’s tire and rubl manufacturers to the sky-high ri in crude rubber prices engineered by the British growers. It will be accom ed by stringent efforts to cut America’s rubber re quirements down to the bare essen tials. This will be mplished partly by cutting down pre ardizing tire size and by | increasing the ue made-over” | rubber. The fight against the monopoly has not yet taken definite form, but im nt developments are due Ss now seems ce r much fruit for ne tain, it cannot by years. | No Immediate Relief | For the plain fact of the matter Hl | | that there is no immediate relief in sight. Here is the program for th as outlined by authorities here: The American manufacturers will | invest approximately $500,000,000. in| their own rubber plantations, to be located in the Dutch East Indies, free | sh domination, and with as- | surances of a friendly, helpful atti- | ht, tude on the part of the Dutch gov- | ernment. Right now the Dutch plantations in the east produce a fair percentage of | America’ But this percen-| tage is nowhere near large enough | to counteract the British monopoly’s | hold on the market. Starting a rubber plantation is a long and difficult proposition. Ten years is the minium time be- fore new trees can make a fair yield. So even if the American investors went to work toda: of supply would not be open for a long time. But eventually the grip of the British monopoly would be broken. And that is the goal of the rubber men. ( The Rubber Association of Amer- fca, to which most of the important | rubber manufacturers belong, was for a time divided into two factions. Willing to Fight n, in which Harvey Fire- stone was perhaps the most notable figure wanted war to the knife, with American rubber men boldly striking out to establish a supply independ- ent of the British. The other, backed by W. erford, president of the ass British, hoping that the Br ers might be induced to relax the Stevenson law and permit more rea- sonable prices. The latter policy was tried most of this year. Officials of the British Rubber Growers” Association who promised two years ago that the law would be relaxed as soon as prices got inor- dinately high, have been deaf to American pleas, however. Consequently many manufacturers are swinging to the estone faction Firestone, in cofijunction with Hen- ry Ford, has been experimenting with a rubber plantation in Florida re- cently. But it is not expected that the solution of the problem will come that way. And here's why: In the far east, where most rubber plantations are located, owner: a get coolie labor to work their for a wage of about two cents an hour. In America no one could hope to do it for less than $5 a day. And since the labor cost is neatly 45 per cent of the cost of producing raw rubber, it is easy to see that that just about lets the United States out. But negotiations have been under way with the Dutch. The Dutch have ssed their desire to aid if Amer- want to start plantations on their territor: Hoover Urges “Make Over” Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover is loud in his pleas that man- ufacture! turn more and more to used rubber that has been made over. A chemical process has been per. fected whereby good rubber, nearly as good as that fresh from the tree, can be made from used tires. At present this method supplies about 20 per cent of the rubber used in this country. Hoover believes it could supply 40 per cent, and the next few months undoubtedly will see the making-over plants expanded. Tire men are conferring with auto- motive engineers looking to stand- ardization of tire sizes and styles This, they say, will save a great deal of rubber. But for the immediate future there is little relief in sight. America’s answer will take time— and meanwhile the monopoly will go on collecting. AUSTRALIAN GIRLS EAGER TO BECOME GOOD COOKS Brisbane, Australia—(P)—-A do- mestie science school on wheels is one of the recent innovations of the Queensland government designed to reach people living in the “back- woods” areas. Three special railroad coaches, i which the domestic science classes are taught, have al- ready been equipped and started on the road in charge of capable teach- ets. Others are now being construct- ed. The traveling school will remain from five to ten weeks in each cen- ter, according to the population and the interest the local girls show in the adventure. » Cooking, laundry work, needlecraft and housekeeping are taught in these ‘schools. Fifteen girls may easily be taught in each class. In the “cow” country many of the girls come to the school on horseback, often riding 15 to 25 miles, while others use buggies, automobiles and even travel rome distance on foot. Free cook books and pamphlets on hygiene, sanitation and other crafts of in- terest to the housewife are also is- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE NOT BOOTLEGGERS —,, Mis m Ruth Anderson . who were M an 20 and equitted by general courtmartial of the ¢ Miss Kath “y, navy harge of attempting to import intoxicating liquor on their return from duty at Guantanamo, Cuba. SEEING OURSELVES AS THE EAST SEES US FOLLOWING VISIT OF Marquis James, a staff eo New the West upon | sident Coolidge's Centennial in the the occasion visit to the Twin Citie Ther Norse people in the North ident Coolidge to Minnes. story of the prod version of the old something like this: the Northwest has bee and political i the second circumstance being the offspring of the first. But it has cured itself of its ecohomic ills by improving its farming methods, and this, ipso facto, has led the way te a return to political conformity. To nnounce this to the world the North- west exerted itself to honor the titular and actual leader of a school is to modify the 1 son. The new narrative goes of conservative political thought against which it lately had rebelleé so alarmingly. The — once- r Northwest killed the fi feast Mr. Coolidge, by this m pudiating its vivid Farmer- Nonpartisan League past, as already it had repudiated the economic con- ditions which had given birth and rise to that political phantasmago “Thus formally is written anend to by the agriculture.’ The dial reception of Mr. Coolidge may be accepted as ceremonial notice that that great farming region, proud of its sobriquet, ‘bread basket of the a s come back to par, which means that it has profited by the recent unpleasant experience, be- And ‘money crop'—wheat. other ills Radicalism a Hard Times Crop “When the pressure of post-war deflation came it could not stand the strain. It caved in. To call what happened sion is to employ a euphemism. temporary obliter basic industry over larg tive areas in the and Minnesota, outeroppin; elsewhere. The situation reached the proportions of a national crisis: Northwestern banks failed by the hundred; local business, commerce and industry generally were in the grip of calamity. ‘DoHars looked as big as stove lids, a Fargo, N. D., merchant remarked to this’ corres- pondent. This state of affairs 0: pied attention at three sessions Montana of “The political manifestations did more than anything else to advertise the Northwestern farmers’ troubles. t the two old parties were either responsible for the adverse conditions, or not cap- able of alleviating them, new par- ties sprung up. They flourished and mark of a seasoned old politician w ducked a spell of oratory at the Dem- ocratic National Convention here last summer in favor of a smoke outside the hall. “Why listen to that hot air about the platform? he asked. ‘There never has been but one political issue in this country since the Civil War That is good times. We are having good times now. Mr. Coolidge gets the credit. If we were in, the credit would be ours. But the Republicans are in. It will be hard to get the voters to consider anything else.’ “As long as the financial pinct lasted the Nonpartisan League anc the Farmer-Labor Party were strong. andthe old political organizations had hard sledding in the Northwest. When the worst was passed and good times began to return, there was + quick retreat to the folds of the orthodox political faiths, and. that was topped off by giving a cordial recdption to the President in a lo- cality which had very positively re- jected his party not long before. “While the hard times and)the po- litical rifts in the Northwest have been widely advertised, the North- west’s return to economic and poli- tical normality has effected itself al- from-the Northwest. sued free by ihe government and distributed by the teachers. {Coal Burns! — Electricity Gives Heat! Oil Makes 8 Flame: But Gas is eombusti- _ ble. Use The Super-Fuel, By so Fe ER ree caine acs enna price had something to do with But it is not the most ' importa: thing. Furthermore, that crop price was not an unmixed blessing. “One of the main difficulties with the Northwest had been too much at- tention to wheat and too little atten- ucts of the s COOLIDGE T0 NORSE CELEBRATION oil, The attention given growing was the dangerous Pp upation, such as a gambler be- upon a ga of chance on which he has staked his shirt. pntril ar i ng, a ha to wheat far quai of that soil ai that the gra’ the moisture yields have na and thi n in amo st of thi dian which b tudinally may most without cultivation while land continues young and strong and plowing—merely be counted on. Non-Farmers Look to Farming wheat fa puted mer—of the type heavily to the cent difficulties led He worked about 100 and nature did the rest; the fall or spring rvest the ensuing sum- bout all there need be ning in any of our west- country as long and there is ade- The native qualities re so favorable to wheat in can be produced al- the is right. Enormous been produced in Mon- e Dakotas without re- disking the seed ng the old stubble. at one hundredth meri isects the Dakotas longi proper rainfall usually | Consequently, | cause agriculture. in the prairie | homesteaders came by thousands. Not ; Northwest, flush war and pre-war | more than half of them were ordinary ding, was never be- | farmers by occupation, and light soil, Congress, became the subject of | the Montana boom. Land values soar- Presidential message, brought on|¢d. Everybody had money. Credit conferences and. political | Was to free. Overexpansion followed. declined, and gave point to the re-| most imperceptibly. Of course, every- body knows about last year’s wheat crop and the high prices it*brought— and has gained an impression that that is why there are no more wails The wheat crop the soil will stand more punishment than west of that meridian, where the rainfall progressively diminishes until ‘the divide is reached. There special methods must be pursued and hundred-day wheat cropping becomes a speculative proposition. But special methods were not pursued in this section until after the crash of 1920.1 The result is that hard times r catastrophic proportions west of the | middle Dakotas. “One has heard much about Mon- |tana in that connection. The wheat astward—almost of its own initi- There was a great advertising ign for homesteader: dry farme were rarer than that.| | In an official survey by callings of | the inhabitants of the bench country | one finds in one township cobble | bookkeepers, actresses, school teac ers, Y. M. C. A. secretaries, denti motormen, soda water dispensers— not pursuing their regular vocations, ming, on, perhaps I should say, ing wheat. They were making money, too, because from 1912 to 1916 ‘there was a phenomenal vain- fall in that western section, and the wheat yields were astonishing. “People thought this would last forever. They even thought the rain- fall would last. The story one hears in so many new countries was repeat- ed and believed, that the ‘breaking’ and cultivation of the native sod works a permanent increase in the precipitation. Government weather records fail to support this conten- tion. But this and many other things were lost sight of in the heyday of The Soll Rebelled “Then descended three crop fail- ures in a row—1917, 1918 and 1919. |The previously ample rainfall drop- ped off and the 100-day farming methods in vogue were not équal to the situation. The country was in a desperate fix. Banks had to lend more money after each failure to en- able the farmers to put in another crop in the hope that the proceeds would cover earlier as well as current loans. The crop of 1920 also failed. Thousands of settlers left, and one bank in every three in| Montana failed. “Extend that situation in modified form over the Dakotas and Minnesota and one can vision the elementals of what happened in the Northwest. In North Dakota there was no sudden collapse. All of the older localities had reserves to fall back upon. “Because of ruinous farming meth- ods, wheat yields had been declining for years in North Dakota. Farms were without cattle or dairy stock— without anything except wheat, the money crop. Farmers did not even produce their own butter and meat or work vegetable gardens.. Things like that mean labor—not for three months a year, but for twelve. They grew wheat, sold it and bought such items as eggs and potatoes, which many a city suburbanite produces for his own use on a plot of back yard. These farmers had thousands of acres apiece, some of them.’ But they were wheat farmers. They would not even let their women folks milk cows and feed hogs. That was not a wheat farmer's work—or his wife's. “The soil rebelled against abuse. Yields fell off and profits fell off. The farmer felt there was something wrong withthe wheat marketing sys- tem. |There was. Commission men got big profits to which they were not entitled, in the opinion of the land owners. Jed to an- ached | and! Dakota and Iowa. Their instrument was the Nonpartisan League. The league got control of the state and inaugurated a colorful experiment in state socialism. It failed, but not until $13,000,000 had been added to the bonded indebtedness of North | Dakota. |_ “The phantasies of the Nonpartisan | League kept eastern capital away from the state during the flush per- jod preceding the depression and stopped the land boom at North Da- i kota’s borders. That was an_excel- jlent service. It saved North Dakota | people something—though probably not $13,000,000. In Iowa, Minnesota, parts of South Dakota and Montana {land values were inflated out of rea- json—a few good crops added to the | general fictitious war prosperity did jit. Farm land, which had been sell- |ing for $100 an acre in Iowa and | Minnesota, went to $400 and $500. ‘No farm land is worth that much lyear in’ and year out. The prices ‘and yields of its products cannot | sustain such values. So when yields land prices slumped and on top of that came the depressing influences of post-war deflation, those values collapsed. Banks and others who had underwritten purchases at such were stuck. ‘armers and Methods Changed “An odd situation now exists in the Northwest with reference to land A St. Paul banker put it to s way: ‘Land has no money value out here.’ By this he meant sale value. Land in southern Min- nesota, which during the boom sold for $400 an acre, could not be sold today for $75—not because it is not worth it, but because there are no buyers, In Montana one farmer, who has come through the hard times, ing intelligently, industriously and profitably, will ‘not sell for $26 an acre. 'The fhrm next to him may be | abandoned. The bank which has fore- closed it or the owner who has de- serted it will sell for $5 or $10 an acre, according to how badly he needs the mone “It is easy to be wise after the fact. That circumstance has enabled this writer to sketch in the foregoing paragraphs an outline of the ills of agriculture in the Northwest in such a manner as to suggest to a layman the remedies for the situation. For the farmers on the spot during the dispiriting time of the collapse it was another matter. But, with their backs against the wall, they sized up the situation, developed a courageous and able leadership and prescribed the medicines which have put them on their feet and assured their future. “There has been a turnover not only in farming methods but in farm- ers. In the light soil belt west of the 100th meridian the Napoleonic 100-day wheat farmers—the dentists and soda clerks—have largely given place to agriculturists of the 365-day a year variety. Wheat is still the main money crop, but it is grown scientifically. The land is summer- fallowed and worked before and after planting. Besides, wheat acreages everywhere have been diminished. Crops are rotated and diversified. Rye, millet, alfalfa and flax have been introduced; dairy and beef herds established; poultry, bees and vegetable gardens cultivated. When wheat fails, as it must sometimes de- spite precautions, there is something to fall back on. Thus the light soil belt is turning the corner, though there is still a road ahead to follow. “Further east things are easier. Older communities have greater re- cuperative powers.: Cooperative mar- keting ie working magic in Minnesota and is spreading through the Dakotas and into Montana. Briefly, it enables the farmer, who is both planter and dairyman, to increase his profits on nation,’ has come back from one of|!and boom in Montana began about jhis produce without increasing the the most serious agricultural slumps | 1912. It was found that wheat would! prices to the consumer. It is the suffered within the present century.| row there in favorable years just: only answer to declining yieics. and The Northwest not only has come| as it once grew on the plains to the the greater expense of administering the diversified farm—and experience has shown that this is the only kind of farming it is safe to try. “Farmers have organized cooper- ative associations—stock companies managed by experts—by which the machinery for marketing butter, eggs, cheese, poultry, potatoes, and so forth, has been taken from the com- mission men and wholesalers and re- stored to the farmer. The profits which formerly went to these middle- men now go to the farmers. The Minnesota farmer once sold his cream at the county seat for the current price of the day and that was the end of it. Now he owns stock in the con- cerns which make that cream into butter or cheese and markets it in Boston. Profits‘which used to go to others now are his. Cooperative wheat marketing is being undertaken, but there is no widespread tendency to compete with millers in the manufac- ture of flour. The purpose is only to enable the grower to market his wheat methodically during the mil ing season instead of being obliged to dump it at the close of harvest at the going price of the day. “In connection with the spread of the cooperative movement, a poltico- economic map of Minnesota shows some significant things. It happens Paying for the Home “Up to two years ago my money all went to doctors and medicine for my stomach trouble. I was constantly filled with gas and no medicine help- ed me permanently until I tried a bottle of Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy at that time with excellent results. Now I am using my money in paying for a home.” it is a simple, harm- less preparation that removes the catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and allays the ~ inflammation which causes practically all stomach, liver and intestinal ailments, includ- One dose will con- ing appendicitis. vince or money refunded.—Adv. ™ ‘ learned his lesson and is now farm- j that the potato cooperative first w tried out in counties where the farm- ers in preponderant numbers had gone politically irregular. Two years ago Magnus Johnson received his strongest support from some of these potato raisers, who were fighting the depression with discouraged tenacity. Then the cooperative‘eame along and showed the farmers how to grow and market potatoes at a profit. It gave them new hope. So that last fall these same men helped to retire Sen- ator Johnson to private life and gave Mr. Coolidge the heaviest pluralities of almost any rural section of. the state. “Furthermore, the depression has resulted in more capable management of the indjvidual farm. The farmer, through his interest in cooperatives and in other ways has become a busi- ness man and learned business meth- He is also a scientist in his and assisted by the experiment stations of the state agricultural colleges is taking that aspect of his calling more seriously. The result is that his labor counts for more, yields killed today when a down near here. Alma Stevens, GIRL HOBOE! KILLED WHEN HIT BY TRAIN —(#)—Two Alcester, 8. Ds, June girls dressed in boys’ clothing and beating their way to their South Dakots homes in the company of two youths of Beresford, S. D.. were Chicago and Northwestern freight train ran them The girls were 5, of Beresford, and Gladys Keston, 1 1 Centervi 7, of ONE KILLED, SEVERAL HURT IN “L” CRASH Chicago, June 26.—(4)—One man was killed and a number of passen- gers injured in a rear end collision of two elevated trains on the south side line of the Chicago Rapid Tran- are better and less money slips| sit Company near the 35th , street through his fingers or is lost on ill-| station toda conceived ventures foredoomed to failure. “Then there was last year’s banner wheat crop. It played a big part in the recovery. When between summer and autumn the price jumped, it-sup- plied farmers with cash to pay debts and working capital with which to give practical application to the les- sons learned during the lean years. The only trouble with this sort of thing is that it will lead a few weak members astray—back to wheat gam- bling. “By the means described the North- western farmer regained his legs gain, Agriculture has been placed on a dependable foundation. It has been given an elasticity of structure sufficient to weather cconomic shocks which would have prostrated it here- tofore, and did prostrate it in 1920. “Such are the terse economic fac- tors behind the cordial reception the acters. WEBB WINDOW DISPLAY GIVES JOY TO “KIDS” An unusualiy ciever window dis- play may be seen at the Webb store this week, in which “Gasoline Alley,” Uncle Walt, Skeesiks, the. Teenie Weenies and other famous inhabi- tants of Gasoline Alley are seen. The window is full of dolls, mod- eled after the Gasoline Alley char- Felix, the cat, as the proper underarm decoration for flappers, is a thing of the past and Uncle Walt succeeds. Then, too, the window will be a big treat for the kiddies and -will give them a better chance than ever to become acquainted with the popu- lar enteptainers. President received in St. Paul, which — RUE ith its twin, Minneapolis, is the hub| HARDY NORSEM! Of the vast prairie Northwest, Ths WHALES IN DISTANT President went to St. Paul and Min- neapolis to pay tribute to the Norse immigrant’s part in the making of the Northwest. The Northwest made it its own occasion for announcing to the rest of the country the return of prosperity to those regions. By im- plication it gave Mr. Coolidge much credit for this happy consummation. This was more than courtesy because Mr. Coolidge, and the Democratic leaders at Washington as well, did about all they could to help the Northwest when it needed help. But neither Mr. Coolidge nor any one else at Washington is responsible tor the main surgery which has cured the ills of Northwestern agriculture. The Northwest largely worked its own cure, as in the beginning it con- tracted the careless habits which brought on the malady.” Yellowstone season around South Shetland and Georgia has been very successful, as ANTARCTIC WATERS Oslo, June 26—(4)—The whaling in the Antarctic’ waters South far as the Norwegians are concerned. The whalers secured 166,000 bar- rels of whale oil from South Georgia and 166,880 barrels from South Shet- land, this being an increase in the amount obtained last year of 50,000 INSURE! | boy ever Gardner, Arena Director; Max Thiele, kota set out They went tion to other products and by-prod- cA + other until the farmers shortcomings politically irregular where—notably in Minnesota, South - One thing in North. D: to adjust thes by _ political much further th brethren els ction. an their LET’ER BUCK Mr. Jardine will ypeak at 11:15 p. m. uptown July 4. No Park , Geason Jane 18 — September 18, >, Only $293" 0 from Bismarck Ask for our low rates to other cities W. A. McDonald, Biomarck, N. D. HOW ARE YOU FIXED FOR LAMPS? B.K SKEELS . 408 Broadway iMANDAN ROUNDUP JULY 2-3-4, 1925 "YU, S. Secretary of Agriculture | WM. M. JARDINE | ‘WILL SPEAK JULY FOURTH ON “FARMINGS FUTURE” THIS IS NORTH DAKOTA'S GREATEST SHOW — The Third Annual Gathering of the best punchers. the wildest horses, in the Northwest Bulldogging, broncho busting, races, dikmg, call roving- soreey veers or oY sBadlands But Bary, if 7 Geo. F Yours Truly, Cleaning 24 Hour Service on Mail Orders. We Call For and Deliver. MA Figure it out Every year it costs just so mucix to produce your crop. Every year you face the probability that a ctop which gives promise of yielding a profitable harvest may ‘ve suddenly wiped out by @ hail- storm. Your ex- pense for matérial ‘and labor is a total loss. Hail- insurance written by H. T. Murphy is a reliable means of offsetting this loss. Ask ‘us for information and rates. MURPHY “The Man Who Knows Insurance.” Bismarck, EAGLE TAILORING & HAT WORKS Pressing | Repairing Remodeling Dyeing LADIES AND MEN’S CLOTHES Hats Cleaned and Reblocked Phone &8 ANDAN ie FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1925 Real Energy-Food SHREDDED HEAT ‘Most food | for least money newly built tankers with cookeries. It sails practically over the whole of the globe, and it has about 4,000 Norse sailors engaged in the trade as whalers, Any Fuei Will Give Heat. — But: Gas Stands Highest in the Important Tests of a Fuel. barrels. At South Orkney 54,000 bar- rels were obtained, while off the Mexican coast Norwegian whalers got 22,000 barrels. The total for the Norwegian com- panies this year has been 410,000 bar- rels, while other nations have pro- duced 257,000 barrels. The Norwegi- an whaling fleet consists of first class vessels equipped with radio, and For healthful complexions eat foods made with CALUMET THE WORLD'S GREATEST BAKING POWDER Is leavening means light bakings— perfect digestion SALES 2'/, TIMES THOGE OF ANY OTHER BRAND |Real Bargains In Used Cars 3 Ford Tourings. 1 Ford Coupe. 2Dodge Tourings. | 2 Willys-Knight Tourings. 1 Studebaker Coach. 1 Buick Touring. 1 Case Touring. 1 Reo Touring. 2 Chevrolet Coupes. 8 Chevrolet Tourings. 1 Chevrolet Roadster. 1 Chevrolet Sedan. 1 Oakland Sedan. i Above cars are all late models and in A No. 1 shape. CORWINMGTORCO = = pe HE BANK rox VOU YOURS) THE SEMBLANCE OF SILK By’ dissolving wood pulp and cotton “linters” (short cotton fibre) in chemical solutions, a fabric can be made which bears a close resemblance to genuine silk. . This is a perfectly good fabric, but it looks like what it isn’t. By spending money as fast as you earn it, you can present a semblance of prosperity— but it is not real prosperity. The latter can be created only by saving part of: what you earn. Have you a Savings Account here? \ (20) BIGMARCK, P. C. Remington, President. J. A. Graham, Vice President and Gashier. P. C. Remington, Jr., and A. V. Sorenson, Ae#t. Cash. NO, DAKOTA “y o