The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 27, 1926, Page 1

leave: ~ youngest two years old. WEATHER FORECASTS Fair tonight and Wednesday; warmer Wednesday. ESTABLISHED 1873 HOUSE WILL LEHR FARMER SUCCUMBS TO HIS INJURIES Neck Was Dislocated When Auto Turned Over Near Napoleon Sunday WIFE Is I She Was Severely Cut_ About the Head, But Injuries Are Not Serious Philip Fink of Lehr died at th jismarck hospital sterday after- noon of injuries received in an auto~ mobile accident near Napoleon Sun- day noon. His wife is at the hospi tal eee from severe cuts sbout the head which she received in the same accident. Mr. and Mrs. Fink had church in Napoleon Sunday morning and-were cn route home when a spring on their automobile. broke, causing the car to run off the grade and turn over. Mr. Fink was pinned beneath the machine and his neck was dislocated, A passing motorist took the injured people to Napoleon where they were treated by a local physician and were then brought to ee hospital late Sunday night. Mr. HOSPITAL attended nk was 39 years of age and besides the widow, five chil- dren, the oldest being 13 and the The body was taken to Lehr today and funer. al arrangements will be complete later. Mrs, Fink’s injuries are not con- sidered serious, although th will ae her in the hospital for several jays. TODAY MAJOR DARWIN’S PLAN. BAD NEWS FROM PEKING. SHAKESPEARE’S BIRTHDAY. WHY OXFORD LOSES. BY ARTHUR BRISBANE. (Copyright, 1926) Major Darwin, son of the great scientist, head of a British society that seeks to improve the ‘human race by careful breeding, advocates forbidding more than two children in} go5, poor families and forbidding chiidren entirely among the unfit. The rich, whose doctors tell them how to avoid having children, have few; as a rule, But there is no need to worry about dearth of population. Some things divine wisdom puts b yond man’s reach, Major Darwin’s plan for dipiting poor families to two children woul have kept Carlyle, Napoleon, Caruso and many as great out of the world. Royalty and wealth have their best | children at the beginning, while the husband is still interested in the wife. Poverty has its best children in life, when the husband learns to respect the wife and relies upon her. The quality of children, unlike that of race horses, and prize dogs, de- nds on the husband's affection for ‘is wife and ber respect for the fath- er of her children, Disagreeable news from Peking, yesterday Manchurian soldiers con- trolling the city, drive people from their homes, with unpleasant killing _ of men and attacks upon womeh. The three Changs, leading victori- ous invaders, cannot control theit soldiers, or don’t take the trouble. * Pray that western Europe and both Americas know how to keep out Asiatic invasion. Several“times Asia came close to conan and possess- ing Europe, ‘when her deh came afoot and on slow ponies. ‘What thoy might do with flying machines if they had able leaders, even one man o: commanding genius such as Genghis Khan, would not make pleasant read- ing in future histor . This country ought to have flying machine equipment for defense, but, for some mysterious reason, appears , unable to accomplish it. Fortunately Europe possesses air fleets. They might help poor Uncle Sam, burdened with his load of gold, and his sound-asleep statesmen, if “the worst happe! si Z Yesterday in many places was cele- brated Shakespeare's 362nd birthday, and that should comfort those who believe that children not sent to col- lege miss their chance in life. Shakespeare’s genius would not have survived a modern college course. That fortunately doesn’t: mat- ster, because in this scientific and in- dustrial: age, no Shakespeare could possibly be born. Such an education as Bacon had in re’s day, or as Milton hada er, would have destroyed Shakespeare. ‘It might have made him great in some other way, but there would. have begn no Shake- speare. : i It is impossible to create genius with education, very y to stunt or destroy it with over-education or un- wise education. | * Oxford University has failed tis- erably in all recent athletic contests, beaten in every event by Cambridge. Wise men decide that Oxford men, richer as a rule, use more automo- biles and thus weaken their legs and ~ Jower their physical conditions. hundred thousand yearn ago, oF earl a ago, oF earl- ior, ‘when some More Magnen, ‘tribe be- 3 Hiding around on tame buffaloes. The same tir 2 will be said more yaphatically 4 re bite when lor, inces exceed- ore y Continued on four.) 4 Commissioner Frederick A. Kenning (above) of the District of Columbia is accused of misconduct in office by Representative Blanton of Texas, who has demanded his impeachment. THE BIS Under Fire Fenning has announced that he will welcome a full investigation of his official acts. FIREWORKS T0 BE REGULATED BY ORDINANCE City Commission Considers Law Limiting Sale or Use to June 25-July 10 It will be unlawful to manufacture, sell or use fireworks of any kind in the city of Bismarck June 26 and Jul: fireworks ordinance: its first reading at the ly meeting of the city commis: last night, and between the mentioned’ date¢ only firework: der a certain specified size and of certain descriptions may be soid or used. Sale or use of blank cartridge pistols, revolvers or fire-arms will be strictly prohibited under the or- dinance and. iftwill. be against the law to discharge fireworks of any kind within the fire*limits of the city. Penalty for violation of the or- dinance will be a fine not to exceed cept between 10, i ion bove ‘#. petition presented by property owners residing on Eleventh street was presented, asking construction of a sidewalk on the west side of that street in front of the following lots: Lots 5 to 16, block 96, lots 1 to 16, block 73, and lots 1 to 68, block 68. McKenzie'and Coffin’s addition; lot 1 block 61, Northern Pac second ad- n, The petitioners stated they were de- sirous of connecting with the of the sidewalk on Eleventh street so that there will be a continuous sidewalk to the down town district, and also so that there would then be a likelihood of being able to hav their mail delivered to them at th homes. The signers were Mrs. C. Mills, John Nathan, Martin Brieher, George J. Roessler, B. M. Beers and Albert Papacek. Central Heat Proposed . oe et, repfesen Hughes Electric company, suggeste to the commission that inasmuch as the central heat mains are to be ex- tended to serve the new Quain & Ramstad clinic building to be erectes rner of Thayer and Fifth it might te to the city’s in- terests to arrange for connections by which the aity hall and city library could also be heated in that manner. He estimated the cost of installation at about $1,800 and said that the cost of heating under the new plan would be approximately the same as at present, Clarence Larson requested the com- missioners to give consideration to a Proposal to install automatic stokers in the city hall furnace, in the event the central heating project was not favored. He said that with an auto- matic stoker in the city hall furnace | the library could be heated from the same plant and a reduction in fue! costs would be possible. He also suggested automatic stokers in the city auditorium heating plant and the waterworks plant furnace. The commissioners agreed to tuke both proposals under advisement. Rheumatism Forces Theodore Roberts to Cancel Engagements; St. Louis, April 27—(#)—-A slight relapse of sciatic rheumatism forcéd Theodore Roberts; film actor, to cel his\appearance at a local theatre after opening a week's engagement Sunday. Roberts is confined to his room at the Hotel Statler and whether he will be able to resume his; engament is held problematical. ° Free Picture Show at the Auditorium ‘A large audience is expected at the, city auditorium tonight to see the six-reel motion picture “Lest We For- get,” which will be shown under the auspices of the educational depart- ‘ment of the “Anti-saloon league of: q a “atthe request of the sere sanene tee. “eS ictura Rev. Thomas W: srinteBdent of the league ote, will deliver a ghort juestion. C wi oie in address on the prohibition ‘The show will ‘will be free to ried rt at 8 o'clock ate CONS! \ CK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1926' DE DEBT-FUNDING PROBLEMS ARE NEAR SOLUTION Belgian and Italian Pacts Both Ratified and: Await President’s Pen |LATVIAN DEBT IS NEXT i | | ench Debt Awaits Answer to Request For Further Instructions | Washington, April 27.—(@— With machine-like regularity the senate today put its stamp of ap- proval on the debt funding agr ments negotiated by the Ameri- can debt commission. __ After short ichate it first rat- ified the $6,000,000 debt agrec- ment with Latvia, and then, in short order, it approved the $1 | $30,000 agreement with Esthon | and the $41,494,310 settlement with Rumania. today despite the temporary lull in the renewed French negotiations. With approval of the Beigian agreement by a decisive vote late yes- terday on the heels of its ratification of the Italian pact, the senate had cleared its calendar of the two set- | ments which have aroused the nost vigorous objections thus far nd was ready to dispose'quickly of the Latvian, Rumanian, Czecho Slo- vakian and Esthonian funding ar- rangements Although Senators Reed, Democrat, Missouri, and Howell, Republican Nebraska, with others, opposed the Belgian agreement as “saddling” heavy burdens on American taxpayers through the liberality of its treat- ‘ment of interest on the §417,78C,000 obligation, it was ratified in less time than had been thought likely by a vote of to 20, and the Latvi settlement immediately was given right of -way. Bills Await Signature Senate action on the Belgian debt, as was the case ith the Italan agreement, advanced them to the point where only the president's j signature was necessary to put them into effect. His approval was a foregone conclusion, and the Brussels nd Rome governments already have. Tatified the agreements. The hous had acted on all of them before they were sent to the senate. Negotiations for settlement vf the $4,000,000,000 French debt apparently hinged chiefly on the outcome of Ambassador Berenger’s request to government for further instruction The situation was given considera- tion yesterday by Prem Briand und his advisers, with indications that little or no delay was to be ex- pected. France’s plan to start payments at $2! ,000 a year appeared to be the main stumbling block encountered by the American debt commission in con- sidering the Ambassado: proposal. The Caillaux mission last summer of- fered to begin with annual install- ments at $40,000,000 and the bas- sador. was asked to revise the new program along lines more acceptable to the Ameri s who, meanwhile, turned their ai tion to renewed negotiations with the Jugo Slavian cgmmission. — JThe American commission held 4 f session today and decided not to meet again until Ambassador Ber- enger has received further instruc- tions from Paris. Meanwhile, Secre- tary Mellon conferred with a r sentative of the Jugo Slavia mission which is endea' ng to reach an agreement on their debt. Weather Report | oo Temperature at 7 u. m Highest yesterday Lowest last night . Precipitation to 7 a. m. . 0 Highest wind velocity .. 36 eather conditions at North Da- kota points for the 24 hours ending at 8 a. m. today: ‘ Temps. tation 4 Precipi' in inches Amenia Bismarck . Bottineau . Devils Lake | Dickinson .. ; Dunn Center . | Ellendale . | Fessenden Grand Forks j; Jamestown . fasran ie Larimore . Lisbon . ee : fapoleon . Pembina 33 0 Williston . > 60 26 0 Moorhead, Minn. .68 32 0 WEATHER FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinit: tonight” and Wednesday; Wednesday. | For North Dakota: and Wednesday. Somewhat tonight extreme southeast portion and rising temperature northwest por- tion. Warmer Wednesday. Seeseglowest coccoce 192 $s £2) loudy coe Re cl P. SSSeee eocse over Saskatchewan this morning and colder weather prevails over the northern Plains and over the north- ern Rocky Mountsin region. El: where over the West temperatures are moderate. 'Warm weather accompan- ies the low pressure area centered over the Mississippi Valley. Precip- itation occurred at scattered | places over the eastern: Mountain aane and in the middle beens fe Valley er while elsewhe: generally fair, Valentine Mailed 17 Years Ago Is |i Just Delivered || ] PROHIBITION BILLWILL GBT QUICK ACTION House Suspends Rules For Consideration of Admin- istration Measure Manitowoc, Wis,, April 27.) —“Be My Valentine.” It was a coy little missive, which bore the name of a Milwaukee maid, |! and thet: was a slight flush on the weuther-beaten brow of John Franz of this city when he puil- ed the message from its enve- lope. Then Mr. Franz glanced sur- fi reptitiously at Mrs. Franz, whose |, name is not Bertha, the’ name written below the valentine sen- timent. The letter stirred the ashes of a romance that died 17 years ago. cack Crag dest vet reason |, incle Sam's mail men = 3 ¥ 3 layed delivery. The’ potusck |. Bill Would Give Bureau Status showed the letter was mailed in |, Milwaukee on February 12, igyo, |! to Prohibition En- Mr. Franz vividly recalle eitha, f, i he admitted to Mrs. Franz, Ber. forcement Unit tha now also is married and lives BD Washington, April (P).- Me. in Milwaukee, ures to tighten rather than mod! prohibition enforcement — held center of attention today on capitol ill, House rules had been suspended to permit quick action on an adminis tration bill to give bureau status: to the prohibition unit, now technically | @ part of the internal revenue bure ana to the customs service. Meanwhile, with a sheaf of supple- mentary bills designed to put more jtecth in the Volstead act submitted {to the senate through Chairman {Cummins of the judiciary committee, General Lincoln C. Andrews, the en- |LIMIT PUT ON DEBATE TROOPS GUARD COURT HOUSE DURING TRIAL the; } forcement commander, hus added his ‘endorsement to the deportati 1 eported by the house immigration ; Committee as another measure to help prohibition, i Would Eliminate Congestion | Holding that the “preponderance of { law violations came from the foreign born element,” he expressed the opin- ion that the bill would provide for a house cleaning to rjd courts of a ingestion of prohitttion cases.” Alien gunmen and narcotic peddlers, funder“ its provisions. would be sub- ject to deportation “as soon as guilt as been established,” and ,a jail sentence of one year or mor r a series of shorter sentences to 18 months, would be made a ba: Negro Goes on Trial Today For Attacking Gir—Two Others to Follow + April 27.) ig, Negro, went on trial here today charged with attacking a 16-year-old white girl\of Mobile, Ala., on April 7 and two other negroes,} Nathan Bard and Columbus Hollis, indicted on the same charge, will be tried immediately after Fleming's case is completed. Troops of the y National Guard numbering 200 patroled the ni ity of the court house to pred serve order, expulsion, 1 bill before the house, ating a prohibition bureau, would give formal legislative sanction to the practical divoreement of the present junit from the internal revenue bur- is for y Indications were that all three} 7 would be completed by Wed- night. i cau already effected by the treasury in the reorganization of enforcement | agencies, House leaders arranged for consid- eration of the bill under suspension ‘of the rules, limiting debate to 40 | minutes, shutting off amendments {from the floor and requiring a two- “BACK WHERE WE STARTED,” ONE ORGANIZATION SAYS ;. Washington, April 27-(AP)—The Negroes Still Ordered to Keep} beard of public morals of the Metho- j dist Episcopal church, through its Off Streets—Many Es- | publicity organization, puts the result . of the recent senate wet and dry corted From Town | hearings this way: “Well, the hearings are over, and we are back just about’ where we Carteret, N. J., April (#)- Ra-jwere when it started. The-wets haven't cial ill-feeling ‘engendered by the| the votes and they cannot get. the killing of Johnny Carroll, a popular! votes without convincing the people, young boxer, by a negro, which led! and they haven't the facts with which to the burning of a negro chyrci in’ the people to be convinced. retaliation, apparently had subsided "sy prohibition will probably stay today, though all negros in Carteret y jittle longer, and let's hope that ail still were under orders to keep off! good citizens will stand back of the the streets and the entire town police / Yaw until it is repealed, if ever.” force of 23 men was kept on duty to The statement said theré was no Prevent new outbreaks. A number Of! rea) neecssity for the hearings, but negroes were driven out of town and| that the wets insisted so that they more than 100 others were escorted! could “use the opportunity as a Ve- ous by She petiee. sun. | hicle for propaganda.” Senator Reed, Carroll was stabbed to death Sun- | of Missouri, who did most of the cross day, and Ralph Johnson, his compan-! °\ \uining. came in for, consideruble ion at the time, is in a hospital with | EXAMINE: tame ee tr sisting that a tab wound beneath the heart. He | TTch or his questioning seemed to be will recover. Robert Ducaest 27, a} (uch negro, is charged with the murder | ‘"'V!#" and two other negroes are held us Seer ua 104-YEAR-OLD Maes bad.wuite eycame tases ita WOM AN T AKES TRIP IN AIR here. Excavations in Believed to Be Oldest Person to Fly—Pilot Was 15- Yucatan Reveal | Ancient Temples: Year-Old Boy ~] material witnesses. Washington, April 27—-P)—Dr. John C. Merriam, president of the Carnegie institution of Washington,, told the National Academy of Sciences | here last night that recent. excavi tions in Yucatan, Mexico, have ri Indianapolis, April 27--)—Mrs. vealed what is believed to have been! Mary Huffman, 104 yeurs old, of In- an ancient astronomical observatory,' dianapolis yesterday sent what was probably the first ever built on this! believed by local flying officals to be continent. \ ‘ } a world’s record for the age of a per- The building, he said, was found in} gon riding in an airplane when whe the ruins of Chichen Itza, great re-; made a 15-minute flight. She was igious capital of the Maya people, by; piloted by Farnam Parker of Ander- . Sylvanus G. Morley, director of; son, 15 years old, the world’s young- middle-American archaeology for the est licensed aviator. In the plane Carnegie institution. He said the institution has received a cablegram from Chichen Itza an- nouncing that buried deep under a temple already excavated another and| more beautiful temple has found. This discovery, declared Dr. Merriam, indicates middle American civilization was even older than archaeologists had believed. reat-grandson Carroll. ELOPMENT NEEDED rk.—If properly developed, old great Di New I the rubber, coffee and hemp con- ed in the United States, J. M. Switzer, former president of the Pa- jal Company, say Public-Meeting Safety Conference Bismarck Municipal Auditorium Thursday, April 29, 1926, 8 o’clock p. m. PROGRAM . Mayor A. P. Lenhart will preside Selection ............ .. Bismarck. High School Orchestra Brief address, “The Value of the State Safety Conference” Hon. A. G. Sorlie, Governor of North Dakota Soprano solo .......... .+...Mrs, Frank Barnes . Mrs. A. K. Tice at the piano Brief. address, “The Need for Safety Education and Present Conditions”—Hon. S. J. Williams, director, safety section, National Safety Council, Chicago, Ill. lection . -Bismarck Male Quartet Rev. Paul Wright, Dr. A. W. Ai Movie, Film, “The Dangers of vi ‘Public cotdially invited —Free admission lenry Halverson . ; with Mrs, Huffman aws her five-year-| 0 been! the mihett Islands gould produce | ¢h : A REAL SMILE aE The camera caught the first lady ef the land just at the climax of a great big smile when Children of the American Revolution greeted her in Washington. Mrs. Coolidge is shown w Ann Pierson of Round Bay, Mich. (left), and Suzanne Preston of Erie, Pa. : U.© LOSES CLAIM FOR INDEMNITY ico Is Held Not Liable to Damages For Killing of 16 Americans TODAY IN _WASIITD Senate considers 1 House tukes up | bureau bill, 5 Tariff comm IN n debt. vition sion investiga Jugo BUREAU WILL GET DATA ON | HAIL STORMS May Be Able to Predict Num-: ber of Storms Which Will — Strike the State Mey Mexico City, April the United s demnifieation for the ates for in- killing of 16 American mining engineers by Villa anta Ysabel in January: ded adversely claim of bandits & ican Predictions as to the hail storms which ma be expected to strike during uny growing s accurately made in the movement in which the insurance department i ing works out as planned The movement, launched by the N tional Storm Insurance Bureau, > York City, has for its object the ing of districts for weather coverage on the same basis that fire underwrit ing bureaus now sct fire insurance rates for cities and districts. i The co-operation of the state hai department consists in furnishing the! bureau with its maps and claims for! study by actuaries of the bureau urposes of the Bureau H Outlining the sof the bur eau in a letter t rtin S. Hagen head of the state department, th New York organization it is a “rating bureau er humber of Member of th reasonably | orth Dakota! son may be} future if a state hail co-operat test cuse fe various American 1 Perry, nd Attorney H. . Basham, adviser to the American , disputed the legality of the requested another hear- avio set September hearin, Ernest B. s the date for WILL RESUME ATTEMPTS T0 ‘! Exact Location Is Not Known —Buoy Marking Spot Has Drifted Away y rs of inten-! sive study and research with meteoro-; logical, climatological and insurance data covering long periods of time., eae, The first two kinds of data are obtain-| |New London, Conn., Apri ed from the records of the U. S. Wea-; With a fleet of boats carry ther Bureau and the third kind from! pert naval men ‘aging mate insurance companies and from the, tal. the navy aj sk records of state departments of in-' today of attempt surance.” The letter further e scientific weather rating is based on! with : data which are| iness fs developed th d statistical and: the position of the sunken hulk was | unknown. The bud plains that prepared mathematical analysis. The state department has sent for such analysis its noti losss for! ub: the year 1924 together with the storm the disappes ; maps made up at the time for use by! til the selvage ve state hail adjusters. $6.0. hae, Complete Record Kept the bottom. These maps show by townships the} dates on which losses occurred and} | Mercury Drops the-number. The state department! 2 maps. the Slightly Below king the spot where k had drifted and s not noted un- rived ready trawling ‘ourse of each hail storm! reported during the summer, regard-! less of whether or not losses are re- ported. As a result, Hagen said its data probably is the most comp ‘Temperatures throughout | North Dakota dropped close to and even slightly, below freezing during last operates ax a mutual organization it! ide aa Menaee pe Sashgh ts would be in position to make little) yeading for Bismarck last night was use of weather hazard ratings worked | 3) "above zero one degree below the out by the bureau, Hagen said. It) freezing mark. The lowest tempera- wouldsbe of benefit to have such data| ture reported was 26 above zero. two covering the state, however, for scien-! cities having that + if for no other reasons, he/ and Willistpn. Dickinson reported Another factor is that it might| 29 above for the minimum, while at enable old-line insurance companies! Jamestown the minimum was which still are writing hail insurance | point ubove freezing. in the state to more accurately gauge | ‘air tonight d the probuble~ losses in any district) warmer Wednesday,” is today's pre- and hence to set their rates with! diction. grehter accuracy than they. can with; the limited information now avail’ Man and Wife Held able. Forest Fires Are j Raging in Canada i Winnipeg, April 27.-(#)---Forest | fires are ‘raging north of Poplar Point, Manitoba, in the marshes by Lake 'Winnipeg,“and menacing bunt- bg: lodges and farm hous leavy winds sree the blazes eust- | ward. Large fire fighting crews were patched to several widely scatter. ed points, Hibbing, Minn., April 27.- Mrs. A,..Norrest Page, ae » ulently passing checks said: to worthless on similiar to that her husband. She is charged with erty valued at more than $1,200, ~Jed upon the sound the United | x Freezing Point'—“ The minimum} remedy will be ‘mark—Langdon | one Wednesday, on Charge of Fraud 22-year-old bride of the man arrested at Roseau, Minn., snd returned here for fraud- be ibbing merchants, has b¥en placed under arrest on a chatge preferred against being a party to the conspiracy to de- fraud Hibbing merchants out of prop- a PRICE FIVE CENTS R THREE FARM RELIEF BILLS | _—— COMMITTEE IS | UNABLETOGET AN AGREEMENT Measure Reported By Tincher of Kansas Is Endorsed ~ By Sec. Jardine AID COOPERATIVES Other Measures to Be Con- sidered Are Haugen and Curtis-Aswell Bills | Washington, April 27.—()—-Wide- ‘ly different plans for solution of the | surplus crop problem were submitted |to the house today by members of {its agriculture committee, which has jbeen delving into the situation for several months without reaching an ; 8ereement on any single measure. j The plan which has the endorse- | ment of Secretary Jardine was report- jed by Representative Tincher, Re- publican, Kansas. It would provide ag with a $100,000,000 loan fund to aid cooperative market- ing associations in dispo: of sur- plus crops and thus, Mr. Tincher said, | “bring about stablized prices and the orderly flow of farm products into | consumptive channels through ma- jchinery set up, operated and manag- ed by the farmers themselves.” Representative Aswell, Democrat, | Louisania, presented the Curtis-As- ; Well commodity marketing bill, which jcalls for an appropriation of only 10 million dollars to establish national | and subsidiary sectional matketing ; ussociations owned, controlled and | operated by farmers. This plan, he argued, provides for permanent rather than temporary relief and contem- jplates a national rather than sec em of organization. nan Haugen, of the commit- ntroduced his bill to authorize a revolving fund of $375,000,000 to stabilize prices of basic farm com- modities. He said it was evident the farmers could not at this time acquite |funds necessary for the purpose, The Tincher Bill Tincher asserted that the ad- istration proposal “places at the isposal of farmer-controlled agen- cies additional resdurces of the gov- lernment, and will stimulate their {development along sound and con- | structive lin “The whole history of legislation , Within the field of agricultural pro- duction,” he said, “demonstrates that the most effective n is that bas- xperience of the | farmers themselves. In productive (efficiency the American farmer has jcome to be substantially on a par. with the industrial producer. The problem now is to put the governmeat powerfully behind ,the farmers’ own. efforts to achieve orderly marketing and stabilized prices, without at the time imposing government regu- tion of farm business. The disposal | of surpluses, is, at bottom, a question of merchandising. . “This bill follows the principle ithin the marketing field of recug- ng the most successful farm ex- | perience to date and opening up the | oppertunity for wider distribution | of that experience. If we can foster a distribution of merchandising effi- ! ciency in agriculture comparable with its modern efficiency in product | if the farm can meet other grou | the markets on terms of equality— | the surplus problem will no longer | exist.” } The Curtis-Aswell BHI Mr, Aswell, in listing the merite {he claimed for his bill, compared them with disadvantages he ascribed | to the other proposals. His bill, he | said, proposes: “Farmer control and management |—not governmental control of farm | marketing. “That the farmers elect their own | office: t to throw the selection into political campaigns. “Continuous service for efficient officers—not that administrations periodically change officials. “To control production and curb urplus; not to encourage over-pro- duction. “Repayment of loans by commodity assessments—not an equalization fee assessed by a federal board. “To stablize farm products under economic laws—-not to establish urti- | ficial federal price fixing. ' “To protect the consumer—not to { allow exorbitant price raising to the consumer. “ | “To absolve the unnecessary profits of useless middlemen—not to increase ‘the handling costs. “To prevent gambling and speculae | tion—-not to continue it. “To establish true cooperation—not state socialism, To recognize economic independ- not to establish paternatism.” The Haugen Bill {| Chairman Haugen in his report dis- cussing the farmers’ bills, said: | “The best judgment -is that the found in carrying | products over from fat years to lean | Years and equaling a price based on {supply and demand oyer a period of | years rather than for one year, and in managing the surplus so as to {make the tariff on agricultural pro- | ducts effective. “In their eagerness for relief the | American farmers have asked the ; government to establish by law the | machinery by which they may contribs ute to this fund through a small fee | collected on their crops. But the com mittee felt it unwise to provide for the immediate imposition of the fee { without allowing the propdsed fed- jeral farm board time in which te j test out its operations and to ar- | range the mechanism. For these rea- sons provision has been made. that collection of the equalization. fee» should be deferred for two years and™ the operation of the board during that time financed from funds dra’ from the revolving fund provided. the government,” EARS ‘he report adds that “the pri is well established that the ment shall assume the risk of (Continued on page six.)