The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 10, 1928, Page 8

a i j ‘ Pe ea Ee ee ag mans } } } tigate and find‘ Message of Governor A. G. Sorlie * to Special Legislative Assembly Continued from seven) ‘ the Chamber of Commerce hy Monat atiacked the Equity Co-operative Exchange and the St. Paul Grain Exchange. « The Trade Commission found that all of the propaganda Caged against the Equity Co-operative Exchange was » and published with the evident intent to destroy the farmers’ cooperative marketing agency. ‘the Commission further found that in order to induce the daily papers of the city of Fargo to publish some of these articles, the Chamber of Commerce would place an order with such newspapers for 1,000 extra copies, on condition that the newspaper should print certain articles, and that jn the event such articles were not printed, the order for extra copies would be canceled. It;was further found that the Chamber of Commerce in Jess.than one year collected more than $57,000 for what they termed “educational purposes,” which money was used to send out information and articles against the Equity Co-op- erative Exchange and the St. Paul Grain Exchange. The Federal Trade Commission further found that to elim- inate competition of those engaged in cooperative methods of marketing grain in Minneapolis and surrounding territory, the Chamber of Commerce of Minneapolis combined and con- spired to destroy the Equity Co-operative Exchange and to destroy the business of the St. Paul Grain Exchange. As a part of their plan to carry out this purpose, the Chamber of Commerce of Minneapolis persuaded Fred Schmidt, J. Emer- son Greenfield, and Samuel Crumpton, holders of one share each of the capital stock of the said Equity Co-operative Ex- change to bring in their own names as Plaintiffs against the president and secretary of said exchange, a p! jing by mandamus to obtain data from the books of the said Equity Co-operative Exchange upon which to base another subse- tt action to have the said geen Co-operative Exchange declared insolvent, adjudicated a bankrupt, to have a receiver appointed and its charter annulled. That, accordingly, com- mencing in 1914 three lawsuits were instituted by these plain- tiffs, that the Chamber of Commerce induced these plaintiffs to bring these actions and that the Chamber of Commerce not only paid the expenses of the litigation but hired the attorneys to bring this action for and on behalf of these plaintiffs, that the Chamber of Commerce hired Judge Ed- ward Engerud of the firm of Engerud, Holt & Frame of Far- go to bring this action on behalf of these plaintiffs and that the Chamber of Commerce paid these attorneys for their work in bringing such action. The Federal Trade Commis- sion found that the Chamber of Commerce succ in having their own specially appointed auditing firm to audit the books of the said Equit; -operative Exchat and the St. Paul Grain Exchange, that as a result of such action in the District Court, the attorney general of the state of North Dakota, Haney J. Linde, was persuaded by the Cham- ber of Commerce to ng action to cancel and annul the char- ter of the said Equity Co-operative Excha: and that the said attorney general for the state of North Dakota engaged the said Judes Engerud to prosecute the said case on behalf of the state, when as a matter of fact, the said Engerud was at. that time in the employ of the Chamber of Commerce of polis. The Federal Trade Commission found that all costs and disbursements of these suits, including the ¢k- of Edward Engerud, attorney for the Chamber of Goermerce, plus the expenses attendant upon the examination ks were paid by the said Chamber of :Com- of the said bool merce of Minneapolis. The Federal Trade Commission further found that the Chamber of Commerce hired People to go out among thé banks and customers with which Equity Co-operative Ex- cha: did business to spread false information and to ask queations which would lead such banks and other supporters of the said Equity Co-operative Exchange to become wor- ried and lose Sentidence: in the management of the Equity Co-operative Exchange. : Knowing these things to have ha in the past, being the findings of a disinterested unbiased commission, a part of the Federal Government, we cannot but wonder and ask whether or not there is any connection at this time be- tween the persistent onslaught against the industrial program enacted by events of North Dakota and the attempt by the le “ nie Dakota to establish their own terminal mar- facilities, * Suggests Need of Another Investigation Would it not be well also to appoint a committee to inves- it from what source the money comes that is being supplied and has for the past three years been sup- plied to iad for all the, nda and publicity used not ‘opagal only against our state industries, but, indirectly, against our state as well? In connection with the report of the Fact Finding Com- s mittee, I ask that you call in all the men connected with the State Mill and Elevator and ascertain from them if there has been any dishonest dealing going on, as some of the pers have intimated. Mr. Webster, the grain buyer, and Mr. Spencer, the manager, have both been placed under suspicion, and I think that in fairness to them, and to me as general mai r, this cloud of suspicion should be cleared away, or else have us proven guilty of some wrongdoing. T have the report of the Fact Finding Committee to submit to you, and in connection therewith I am submitting the re- port of the audit made by Poole & Schantz relative to the deals with Josephs & Co. and Midland Grain Company. \ Our marketing facilities in North Dakota are too vitally important to’ us to permit them to be used for a political football. We should at all times try to keep them on a basis where they will serve as markets for our products, and clim- inate the politicians who so enjoy playing with them. ‘The State Mill and Elevator, as a marketing agency for our grain, is the best investment North Dakota has ever made, and if politicians would leave it alone it could be made to function = it deal better than it is functioning now. The Bank of North Dakota has not been used as a political football in the last three years, roneronety: that institution has made a direct profit of 16 per cent during the last year. ‘The Mill and Elevator has shown a great deal larger profit than this, but it is indirect profit upon the premiums we have been getting on our wheat, and the saving on flour consumed in North Dakota. * i Let me ask you why it is that potato growers in McKenzie County get three times more money for their potatoes: than = in Cass County? The answer is that McKenzie ty people have sold the people on the superior quality of their potatoes, and because they stand behind the quality of their product they are able to market them to advantage. Why is it that North Dakota Rural Credit Bonds aré today selling on a 4% ae cent basis at a premium, being eagerly sought by bond buyers, and rated as the best bonds on the American market, whereas in 1923 our bonds were begging for payers at 5% per cent? The reason is that we have created a market for our bonds our own bankers in our. own state, and as soon as the people found that we had a market for them, they became very keen to buy our and have been offering premiums to get them and want Other Menicipalily Owned Projects people of North Dakota were not the first to discover into practice municipal and state owned projects. cite you a few instances. The city of Norfolk, in a grain elevator and docks invested $5,000,000 been Byte en since 1921. This _jodanty has city, producer solve his Problem of ail a Mt m, the more you will help solve the ture. Missoarl River Diversion Project I want now to call your attention to the Missouri Diversion Project in connection with the Missouri River Flood control proposals. A resolution has recently been introduced by Sen- ator Frazier in the U. S. Senate which reads as follows: ‘Whereas whatever may be the ultimate decision of Con- gress as to the plans which will be adopted for flood control and utilization of the waters of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and ramifications, it is evident that fromthe many plans that have been and will be advanced for consideration, much time will be consumed before any ultimate decision covering the entire subject-can be arri at; and “Whereas in the Riker spillway roject for control and utilization of the waters of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and ramifications, or in any other practicable plan which may be formulated for that purpose, the control of the floods which annually proceed from the headwaters of the Missouri River is an essential factor; and a: _ “Whereas in considering the vdlue of this essential factor in flood control from this source to the Gulf, it becomes es- sential that Congress at this time ascertain from the Legis- lature of the State of North Dakota, which has been called in sige ts session for January 10, 1028, if that State will provide the land and mises which would be necessary and used in connection therewith, excepting Indian lands and lands owned by the United States; ai “Whereas to that end it is essential that a dam be con- structed across the Missouri River at a point about eighty miles northwest of Bismarck, North Dakota, which will pro- vide a storage revervoir by the backing up of the waters of this river for about one hundred and thirty miles and have a capacity of about one thousand billion cine feet, and which would be amply sufficient to control floeds equivalent to any which has ever passed that point; such a restraint of these flood waters, and their liberation uniformly when desired, would prevent such flood waters meeting the flood waters of the Mississippi in the future as they have in the it, and prevent the ravages that huve been caused by this annual bat flood in the Missouri River below Montana, and where practicable by similar control of floods in most of its lower tributaries would permit the Missouri River to be made nav- igable from the Missouri to the Montana line because of the lesser inclination of the uniform flow of these waters to form bars and cause snags in the river: Now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That it shall be ascertained from the State of North Dakota if the State of North Dakota will provide the lands and premises, excepting public domain, lands be- bi, to the United States, and Indian lands, which will be util , covered, submerged, inundated, and necessary for the construction and maihtenance of a dam about two hundred feet high on the Missouri River, in the State of N Da- kota, at 8 point about eighty miles northwest of the city of Bismarck. * ‘he Program in General In general you have heard about the proposals to divert the Missouri river so as to lessen flood waters and better control and conserve the waters of the Missouri. I will not beMa pe to state with any definiteness the specific program, ut in general it oie Gates diverting waters from the Mis- souri river somewhere ween Washburn and Sanish and taking them into Devils Lake and thence through a chain of Jakes into the Sheyenne river and thence into the Red River of the North. This program involves not only retaining flood waters, re- storing lakes in our State and stabilizing the flow of the Missouri river, but it has within it the possibilities fully ca- ee of realization that both the Missouri River and the River of the North may — become navigable streams capable of being used as arteries of commerce for the trans- Portation of our native products. . Not only from a ere! nat of conservation and of flood con- trol but as a matter of marketing transportation, the whole scheme is of tremendous importance to our state, affecting cvery part and portion of the entire state. It is no idle dream to view the Missouri river as a navigable stream transport- ing our cate southward in the line of trade like the barge line service now from Minneapolis and St. Paul and for ‘the Red River of the North again to be navigable as once it was to transport the grain of our fields tributary for Terminals on our eastern border northward into’ the Hudson Bay, pee the ocean waterway now being constructed by the Canadian Government from the Red River of the North and Lake Winnipeg via the Nelson river north. When we come to think that these tial waterways are so much more adequate than the Erie Canal and other similar governmental enterprises, we ought to have no hesitancy in devoting our serious consideration to the problem, and right now. is the Proper and appropriate time and not at some later date. I do not desire to speak at further length upon this topic. T\recommend your fullest cooperation with the Federal Gov- ernment in the entire Missouri River project with icular devotion to rendering the Missouri river and the River of the North both available and able to be considered as arteries of commerce for our products with the considerations involved of our State becoming entitled to cheap water trans- portation and lesser freight rates in consequence. Urges Grain Rate Investigation I want to call your attention to the fact that in view of the National attention now being devoted to railroad rates on farm products and the et position of agriculture, I rec- ommend the adoption of a Joint Resolution by the Legislature to the fact that the North Dakota Board of Railway Commis- sioners make invéstigation and prescribe intrastate the low- est possible rates for grain and grain products, consistent with a fair return to the carriers with a view to building up marketing facilities and terminals within our state in- dustrial tions on suc! ‘in. to dockage, manufac- tured feo andl to foster milling Tadustee wicks our State, I want to recommend to this session that they provide a law by which cities can acquire ground on which to establish airports for commercial purposes as well as passenger pur- poses. We are entering into a new field of. transportation and should have facilities to take care of such transportation. For some time I have been working with the three raliroads that pass through our State ‘with the idea of having them cooperate with us in marketing our State, and have finally come to an understanding with them that we put on a North Dakota train sometime during the middle summer and go into the sections that we would like to to live with us — this section being rpovsie ~ Wisconsin Indiana, Southern Minnesota and South Dakota. They have agreed to put in $25,000 apiece, or $75, if the Si will put in $28,000, making $100,000 for North Dekote train, showing North Dakota products and the possibilities in North Dakota for new . I want to sincerely recommend to you this kind of a project and want to ask to make an appropriation out of the General Fund of $25,000 to make up this $100,000 investment for the of increasing our population. We have room for a Eilon more le here that we can make happy and contented and it will make us more happy and prosperous to have them with us. I want to ask you Senators and Special Session to forget about poli and Politics and devote your time sincerely to what I have rec- done for our people, “Our Stats it ee at Gores ae ‘ is one important ag- ricultural states and hi agricul: tural probleme nt bese no HY to belp solve our > THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE > % | sizi %jalways exists at rail Si crossings, stressing the fact that Q| drivers of highway vehicles must K {look out for the cars and not the %ithe grade crossing record? ~|may be a reason for all of these Kl accidents and someone no doubt is Beg Smith For Mercy sara race Their tears apparently moved Governor Smith but little when Mrs. Margaret C. Logan (1), Judd Gray's sise ter, Mrs. Margaret C. Gray (2), his mother, and Mra, Josephine Brown (3), Mrs. Ruth Snyder's mother, at- tended the Albany hearing at which last appeals for executive clemency for the doomed slayers were heard. Governor Smith indicated that he would not interfere with the executions, scheduled for January 12. “IT am not concerned with this psychosis business,” teplied Governor Smith to the assertions of Edgar F. Hazelton, counsel for Ruth Snyder, that his client was in “the twilight zone” between sanity and insanity when she and Judd Gray slew Albert Snyder. The governor and the chief appellant for executive clemency for the condemned pair are conspicuous in this general view of the Albany hearing. $\ger has been killed feel that after Sitheir long saftey campaign it is a reflection upon their ‘opeirtion. If %| the comparatively few passengers killed is a good recofd, what about There %|to be held responsible. “Various individuals, church or- % ganizations, daily and weekly news- papers, civic societies, educational departments, railroad companies, | this commission, and others, have carried on a safety campaign with- out intermission, especially empha- the potential danger that ~jcars for them. 59$SS9SFSSS99SFF5SS55559SS9SS9SS9V5S FOGG SCO OOOO CDCPSS SOE X | sibility wu ~| way vehicle: who’ knows ‘that his | vehicle is of lighter weight than that %|of the locomotive, and is no match Driver Is Held to Blame “Our state supreme court has in substance said that the driver of the ¥ | highway vehicle is at fault ‘should ${an accident occur at a so-called open %} crossing where the: view is unob- % | structed for.a reasonable distance on either side of the crossing. A very recent decision of the United States: supreme court appears to have placed the greater, if not all, respon- the driver of the high- in a grade crossing contest. He to bring his vehicle to a stop ata grade crossing than for the loco- to get out of his vehicle to determine % Rend thie advertising fete in.The whether or not it was safe for him to proceed across. “While each of the above decisions appear to have absolved the rail- roads from a legal responsibility in so far as liability for damages to life and property are concerned, where highway’ and railroad meet at grade, the questions of adequate crossing protection and the apportioning of installation cost wUnighway cagioners employed by e em federal or state Hpnway depart- ments and engineers employed by railroads are continually rerouting highways to avoid railroad grade crossings wherever possible. Fed- eral, state, and county authorities in many instances are going to the extent of invest enormous amounts of money to eliminate grade crossings. In the face of all of these enormous expenditures and the ae y ee main aia nape nui : crossi is on the increase. Fras it iiekooves all those interested in the campaign of safety at railroad grade crossings to stress, through their various organizations, the necessity of cau- tion at these crossings, and to appeal to their public officials’ in eir atte ‘to. decrease the num- ber of poses crossings.” NN. D. PRODUCTS FOR N. Y. SCHOOLS knows that it is much easier for him| Washburn.— The . Dakalite Prod- ucts company of Minot have been awarded the contract to furnish ay motive engineer to bring his engine|of the schools of greater New York| to @ full stop.'..The supreme court | with Dakalite wood stains for their) Executive committee of western further stated in substance’that if/ manual training departments for the the view ine feietage ata wane ensuing year. These include crossing it migl necessary for| publ the eee of the highway vehicle Pat rent be pp ol ger ane the number near 1,000. a it NEWS BRIEFS | $$$? Los Angeles—February 1 was set as'date for re-trial of Charles West- cott, whose conviction of charge of killing his father, Charles G. West- cott, formerly of Minneaj:olis, was reversed recently. | St. Paul—Four trainmen were in- jured, one re fatally, when an Omaha road mail train and a Chi- cago Great Western passenger crashed near depot yards here. Minneapolis--John Revinsky, want- ed in Tennessee for slaying of May Goodwin of Memphis, Tenn., and who has broken out of four jails, was arrested here. | x Senate orders new injuiry into Teapot Dome oil leases covering activities of Continental Tradi: (seta Ltd., of Canada, in whic! Harry inclair. was interested. Mrs. Mary Ball files suit in Los Angeles court in answer to hus- band’s divorce petition, charging his sisters, Mrs. Jesse Ball DuPont and Mrs. Elsie Ball Wright, with alienat- ing his affections; her attorney says suits of $1,000,000 will be filed soon against two women. | “Scarface Al” Capone is in Miami, “If he behaves himself he can stay as long as he likes,” says Police Chief Qise. | states’ Smith-for-president organiza- 700 | tion meets at Falls, Idaho, and receives reports from 12 western states and ‘Aaska, telling of increas- ing support for Governor Smith. .. . About Advertising ore ‘the buying of worthy, merchandise 14 N, D. SCHOOLS TAKE PART IN NEW CONTEST First Contest Will Be Held To- morrow—Washburn School Is in List Emporia, Kan., Jan. 10,—Eleven North Dakota high schools are com- ting this year in the Every Pupil Bcholership contests which have been conducted annually for the past three years under the direction of Dr. E. R. Wood, head of the bureau of educational measurements of Kansas State Teachers college of Emporia. The date of the first con- test is Jan. 11. North Dakota schools participate ing include Ashley, Bowbells, Buf- falo, Cooperstown, Crosby, Grafton, Hope, Kensal, Turtle Lake, Wash- burn, and LaMoure. Exactly 717 schools from 21 states had ordered tests up to Jan. 6 for the first of this year’s contests, Orders add up to the astonishi total of 200,088 tests and rec forms. Kansas Leads List Kansas leads the list of states in number of schools participating. This is due to the fact that the idl aed contest idea is well es- tablished in the Sunflower state and that this is the first year that the scheme has keer much beyond its borders. The number of Kansas schools is 431, of Arizona 5, of Arkansas 12, of Idaho 6, of Indiana 15, of Colorado 43, of Iowa 34, of Missouri 18, of Nevada 2, of Minne- sota 1, of Montana 39, of Nebraska 26, of New Mexico 2, of South Da- kota 20, of Oklahoma 7, of Oregon 18, of Texas 11, of Utah 2, of Wash- ington 9, and of Wyoming 10. ese Every Pupil Scholarship contests, which are an outgrowth of the State Sonettell? meet held an- nually at Emporia Teachers college, are unique. Although 140,000 high school students competed in two held last year and although it appears that over 200,000 will compete in the first one this year, not a student will leave his own classroom in his own high school. Neither is it neces- sary for high school authorities to disrupt the regular class schedule. Teachers Give Tests Printed tests, fomniled according to suggestions #nt in by school- men of Kansas and other states and based upon the subject matter us- ually covered'in the first semester, are mailed from Emporia just be- fore the contest. Teachers give the tests in the regular class periods and the papers are scored under the direct supervision of each high school superintendent or principal, using keys which are sent out with the tests. Subjects offered on Jan. 11 include biology, chemistry, gen- eral science, physics, algebra, geom- etry, English, Latin I, Latin II, cone stitution, and American history. Results from each high school are sent to the bureau of measurements at Emporia. Here they are tabu- lated and a printed summary, which makes it possible for each school to determine its standing in each sub- ject with relation to every other school, is sent to all schools that participate. Schools that wish to compete with one another or with any group of schools in either a single subject or group of subjects jay do so by naming their oppons ents in advance. A second Every Pupil contest will be held April 11, preceding the State Scholarshoip meet on May 5, Stu- dents participating in the state meet are required to come to the oa aga College at Emporia to 10 50. A Word From the Publisher fy The products you see consistently advertised in this pa- per are:Worthy of. your confidence. It takes two things to make a consistent advertiser. , One is a strong conviction that he has a product that ‘will hold its place in public favor despite competition. ‘ The other is actual proof of that . . . the increasing popularity of his product. If his product.will not stand the test of comparison he would simply be throwing his advertising invest- ment away. If the buying public rejects: his product after it his been offered in advertising he has thrown his advertising investment away. =| \ That’s why the manufacturer who advertises his mer- . chandise consistently is very sure of his quality... and ‘ -- why you may be sure of it, t6o. —.