The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 19, 1929, Page 2

Coulter Shows PI FOREIGN PRODUCE | IS DEPRIVING U. 8 ~~ GROWER OP MARKET At Same Time American Agri- culture Is Piling Up Sur- plus in Grain Crops A 20,000,000- ACRE MARGIN Dakota Expert Tells Ways and Means Committee How to Readjust Farming Fargo, N. D., Feb, 19.—Tiie scrvice the Northwest Agricultural Founda- tion is rendering to Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Montana in bringing to congress t viewpoint of the spring wheat area on desired arjustments of agricultural tariff schedules and an interpretation of tariff revision as an aid to agricul- ture were outlined to a forum meet- ing of the Fargo Chamber of Com- merce last night by Dr. John Lec Coulter, president of the North Da- kota Agricultural college. As presi- dent of the Foundation he returned last week from Washington, where he appeared before ways and means committee of the house, now holding hearings on the tariff preparatory to the special session of congress. “The first preliminary survey,” said Dr, Coulter, “showed two things: (1) that science had been the greatest single factor in bringing about the present distress, and (2) that the second greatest factor is the surplus farm crops and products from countries of low labor costs, low land values, and low transportation costs, which, dumped into this country over Jow or no tariff duties, enters into | 000, competition here and displaces our own farm products. Buying What Could Raise “The. tariff committee found that if those farm crops and products which are now imported were grown on our own farms they would dis- Place not far from 20,000,000 acres of our surplus crops. Furthermore, it appeared that on account of high rail freight vates to seaboard our corn from the center of the corn belt could not compete with imported corn; mo- lasses was imported for purposes of industrial alcohol; tapioca, cassava flour, sago, and other starches were coming in to displace home grown products; poultry and dairy products SIDE GLANCES - - - - By George Clark (©1929, By wea service, nc. AES. U. $. PAT. OFF. “We're getting the indorsement of were imported approximately 700,000,- | of beef, veal, mutton and lamb. 000 pounds of oil seeds which would Produce at least 200,000,000 pounds of additional oil. These seeds were acted at something more than $28,- “Thus we imported something more than $60,000,000, or roughly at the rate of 5 pounds of oil per capita at a cost of 50 cents per capita. In the mea: time we are forced to export approxi- mately 700,000,000 pounds of lard each year. In other words, we are at the present time importing vegetable oils and oil seeds in approximately the; same amount as we are exporting lard to other countries. Since the foreign invoice values of these oils 000, it must be clear that if substitute oil-bearing. seeds were produced in this country it would require from 2,000,000 to 4,000,000 acres to produce these seeds. “Not so many years ago starch, both displaced poultry and dairy cattle, thus displacing a market for corn. If these and other forms of compe- tition were controlled it seemed that @ domestic market would be created for the corn from some two or three million acres, thus putting that great branch of agriculture essentially on ® domestic basis. With dairy prod- ‘poultry products and meats (exe from our markets if a prop- erly adjusted tariff were secured.” Farm Animals Displaced “In 1910 before the advent of the automobile, the delivery truck and Gasoline engine (three recent Products of science) there were 3,470,- 000. horses and mules in the cities, towns and villages of the United States, according to the official gov- ernment census. The number of mules on American farms @ total of 26,436,000 at the World war before mechanical substitutions be- actively available to displace on the farm. Thus the total United States was approxi- 30,000,000 horses and mules 1917-18. The latest estimates » Placed the present total at slightly More than 20,000,000. This is a de- crease of approximately 10,000,000 animals. On an average it takes two of land to produce the corn, and hay for each horse. Thus market for the feed from approx- imately 20,000,000 acres of land dis- appeared with the advent of oil wells and interna! combustion engines. “The increase in acreage of wheat, tye, corn, oats and barley, the five grain crops, each of which is nm an export basis, showed an in- crease during the period in question Bmounting to 15,500,000 acres. Fur- thermore this 15,500,000 acres now produces. the entire exportable sur- for table and laundry use, as well as in’ paper, cloth, mucilage, glue and the industries, came from American- grown corn and potatoes. At the present time wroot, Cassava, sago and tapioca, all on the free list, enter this country to the extent of 116,000,- 000 pounds per year with a value of $3,370,000, representing the product of 100,000 acres. “During the calendar year 1927 about 245,000,000 gallons of molasses were imported, valued at more than $10,000,000. Some of this was used for livestock feed. On the other hand it displaced about 40,000,000 bushels of corn, or the product of 1,000, acres, in the making of industrial cohol and other by-products. A proper adjustment of the tartff in this as in many other cases cited would open a market for millions of bushels of our home farm-grown products, Potatoes Need Protection “Because of the very high freight rates from the four states. represented by the Northwest Agricultural Foun- dation to the southern states along the Gulf of Mexico, millions of bush- els of seed potatoes are carried by tramp steamers with low freight rates from the eastern Canadian provinces to the southern states. It would seem as though this market might be for our American growers, In contrast other millions of bushels of hood, and we'd like to have your name on the list.” G. ND, A. STAGING " ANOTHER SERIES OF BREED SIRE SALES First Carload of Several Vari- eties, Beef and Milking, for Garrison Feb. 26 Continuing their efforts to provide the stock breeders of western North Dakota with purebred sires to head their herds, the Greater North Dakota association today announced the first of @ series of sales in the vicinity of McLean county. A carload of animals will be moved into Garrison for an Offering February 26, in to demands from farmers in that lo- cality. The shipment includes teef and milking Shorthorns, Guernseys, Here- fords, Angus and Holsteins, They were personally selected during the Past several weeks by Martip Apland, stock buyer for the association. Many of these animals are from famous herds from North Dakota and Minne- Sota. Six. head of high-class Aber- deen-bred cattle have just been pur- chased from the Hartley stock farm at Page, and at least two of these will be offered for sale at Garrison. Short- horns to be seen will be from the fol- lowing breeders: W. W. Brown, Ame- nia, W. C. Byram, Casselton, and Jas- per Haaland, Grandin. Holsteins rep- resent both North Dakota and Min- nesota herds which are well known, as do many head of dairy stock, includ- “‘horns and Guern- Sho: seys. John Husby, former state dairy commissioner and now buyer of dairy all the merchants in this neighbor- If the tariff on cattle and sheep were adjusted there is no reason why our fermers should not increase their livestock another 50,000 to 1,000,000 herd. This in turn would call for a million acres or more devoted to feed and five to ten million acres for pas- ture purposes. This would greatly re- duce the acreage devoted to wheat and help to eliminate the surplus problem. Flax Imports Increasing “During the last three or four years the acreage devoted to the production of flax in our four states has been steadily decreasing, at the same time lot. and oil seeds are not for from $70,000,- |(e amounts of flax and linseed oll Imported have been on the increase. At the present time because of low tariff and high freight rates we are unable to ship American grown flax- seed to the crushers in our coast cities, with the result that foreign fl points. A proper adjustment of the tariff would protect the domestic market for the farmers of our coun- laxseed is used entirely at seaboard try and not only would flax growing be made more profitable for the farmers who are now producing, but two or three“million acres additional might be devoted to this important “We are importing more than one billion dollars worth of produtes which we could very well produce within the United States. On the basis of $50 per acre this would oc- above but which I overlooked for the moment. Three or four million acres devoted to sugar beets and farmers in the development of this tremendously important farm crop. “In the discussion above I have not taken time to discuss special items such as screening and mill feeds which are now shipped in from Cana- da on & tremendously low tariff basis and which take the place of approxi- mately 1,000,000 acres Pro-|t4 early potatoes for the February, |i, March, and April markets are shipped into the United States from the West i likewise might be produced in country. OUT OUR WAY. Fy E feb fH : ul of imported into try in our coast in the and soft drink Poultry by Imports “In other the it from i E iH g29 e § tatearl HOW CAN YOu? HES 3SO0 HO CU HUTE AND HEL PLUus. g 4% |The Day in Bismarck -_—_—_ OO BRUTELNUSS tT’ DUMB INNOQSUNT: AwIMOULS. stock for the association, is engaged t present in the buying of some Min- nesota dairy cattle, which are to be shipped to western North Dakota for early sales. At Garrison A. L. Norling, county agent of McLean county, and John Husby will have charge of the sale. A local committee of business:‘men who took charge of the arrangements.con- sisted of E. L. Vorachek, J. E. Eckert and Otto Schneider. The committee Program to improve Stock on the . arms of The severe weather of January, combined with impassable roads, slowed down. € stock, but Fel expected to witness the sale of a num- ber of carloads, Mr. Groom states. | Today in Congress } and March are (By The Associated Press) TUESDAY House considers bill to extend life of radio commission; sen- ate Edge resolution to authorize survey for Nicaraguan canal, Sub-committee: of senate ju- diciary committee investigates nomination of Irvine Lenroot to be member of court of customs onpeale: 2 L louse foreign affairs com- mittee has before it Porter resolution to empower president to establish embargo on muni- ; tions in event of war, House meets at 1, senate at 2. Bill to check sale of malt products to be considered by house. Dog tax bill listed before com- mittee of the whole in the house. Senate to consider guaranty. fund law repeal, also appropria- tion for House of Mercy, Fargo. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ] THIS HAS HAPPENED The body of “HANDSOME HARRY” BORDEN is found by his secretary, RUTH LESTER, one Monday morning, sprawled beneath the airshaft window of | his private office. Ruth is en- gaged to JACK HAYWARD, whose office is just across the narrow airshaft from Borden’s. She rushes to tell him of the tragedy. Finding him out. Ruth searches for his pistol, which he purchased at the same time he bought an identical weapon for her to keep in her desk. His gun is gone! She knows Jack hates Borden on her account and, cold with a horrible fear.. recalls’ Jack's strange behavior of the previous Saturday afternoon. MeMANN, police detective, - learns from the elevator bova, ies MORAN and OTTO FLUGER, that Saturday aft- ernoon passengers to the sev- enth floor were BENNY SMITH. Borden's office boy: MRS. BORDEN, his wife and mother of his two children, who called for her monthly slimony check: RITA DUBOIS, night club dancer, and Jack Hayward. When McMann finds foot- prints of a pigeon in dried blood both on the window ledge and . on the floor, whieh indicates the window was open during the murder, he says the “joh” was done from the inside and turns suspiciously to Ruth. She an- swers all questions and tells of the pistol in her desk. McMann looks for it but it, too, is gone! Jack admits the office across the airshaft is his and explains to McMann he returned Satur- day afternoon for theater tickets left on his desk. He also tells of his automatic. McMann goes .to look for ‘it. He returns to an- nounce the pistol ig gone! He is accompanied back by BILL COWAN, real estate man and friend of Jack's, who says he heard Jack utter threats against Borden Saturday morning when. he saw Borden's attempted far miliarity with Ruth. Cowan says he telephoned Jack Saturday afternoon and was plugged in on & busy line. CHAPTER XVIII Jack. Hayward shrugged angrily. “Then maybe Cowan can tell me who uses my phone in my absence. The bills are outrageous. I’ve told you before, McMann, and Miss Lester has corroborated me, that I rejoined her in the dining room of the Ches- ter Hotel at 10 minutes after two. It is obvious that I could not have been talking over the telephone in |my office at the same moment, Cen- tral probably. gave ‘you a wrong number, as: well'as a busy number, Cowan. If you think you recognized ao voice, you’re mistaken—that’s al “I didn’t say I recognized your voice, Jack, old man,” Cowan pro- tested unhappily. “I merely told Mr. McMann that I heard Borden giving you the devil—” “Borden!” Ruth and Jack ex- pelines simultaneously, incredulous- ly: “Yes—Borden!” McMann repeated itriumphantly, “From what Cowan }says, there's not a’ doubt in the {world but that you called Harry {Borden on the phone and that your guarrel with him ih that way, rather than across the airshaft.” “And shot him over the telephone, too, I suppose?” Jack retorted con- temptuously, “Very ingenious of me, I’m _sure.” : A “Please, Jack!” Ruth begged, her voice piteous with terror. “Mr. Cow- an,” she asked tremulously of the embarrassed witness, “isn’t it very x * * NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY |torted feri: to tell Harry Borden what he can do and can’t do?’ Is that the truth, Cowan? words you heard the receiver?” ek *& The harassed real estate man mopped his brow again. I can remember—yes.' “You distinctly heard the speaker call himself Harry Borden?” 3 ° Mann insisted. “Yes, I did, for a. fact,” Cowa admitted unhappily. “I said to my- self that there’d be trouble yet be- tween those two, but I never orwell ie is ell, less my case Pretty clear,” McMann broke in, smiling with grim satisfaction. “Saturday morning, Hi are, you ae ie! you’rg en; struggling in - den’s' arm: You threaten to kill Bor- den if he lays hands on her again. Cowan has to hold you by main strength to keep you from trying to jump across the airshaft to get at your man, You meet Miss Lester 1:20; she comes back to her office for her forgotten bank book, has an- other gm with Borden, who bruises her lip in kissing her—” “I’ve told you that is not true!” Ruth cried. a McMann went on as if she had not spoken. “You find her at the eleva- t: with tears in her eyes and her lip swelling, and it takes all her strength and threats of breaking the engagement to-keep you from killing Borden then. You two go to lunch to- gether, she confesses that Borden had manhandled her—” ‘That also is not true!” Ruth in- terrupted furiously. A *“eMann ploughed on imperturb- ably. “You're so angry with Borden, Hayward, that you leave the hotel dining room in the midst of your luncheon and hurry back to the Stary bridge Building, determined to have it out with him, possibly with your mind already made up to kill him. You call him on the phone—” Jack laughed contemptuously: “That's likely, isn’t it? If I had wanted to telephone Harry Borden T could have done so from the Ches- ter Hotel without making a trip to the Starbridge Building.” “But you couldn’t have shot him from the Chester Hotel!” McMann re- angrily. “Maybe you did for- get your theater tickets, as you say you did, and had to come back for them. Maybe you didn’t intend to kill Borden until after you quarreled with him over the phone. “It’s not up to me to figure out just why you telephoned Bor- den before you shot him. All I’m concerned with is that Harry Borfen was shot as he stood in front of that Phone, that you had a Fp which is missing now, and oe window of your private office is directly :oppo- site the wind aed at which Borden was standing ‘When he was killed. That’s enough for me!” “But not for me, Mr. McMann!” Ruth cried, her eyes flashing as she shook off Jack’s restraining hand. “And I know enough about criminal law and criminal court procedure to know that it will not be enough to warrant Mr. Hayward’s arrest. Re- ren bed I'm Colby Lester's daugh- in the world, Miss Lester,” McMann answered with surprising 4 e \. “But I’m also remembering that years engaged to be married to Jack “I'm not going to have you inter-|told me that in my affairs! Who are you,|Hayward’s o! and why. were alone in Mr, " it there to him wha‘ Are those substantially the found ‘nt ‘bere Te . It was easy to deduce before you hung up!how you had spent those minutes— id your rai sweetheart had killed your employer, and you looked for his ‘pistol, to sure. You didn’t find it—and came to the same conclusion that I did.” s* & “You're wron, n {Ruth blated. “T did there, at least!” find that his gun ‘was gone, but I know Jack Hayward did not kill Harry Borden!” “And how do you ed Lester?” McMann ask “Because the - Borden was in thi one across the airshaft. & shot could have been fired from window one oe Miss uietly. n eho killed office, not in the Oh, I know ugh the other, but there are two excellent, irrefutable fs that the person who killed jim was in this office either during or after the murder. First—the body was robbed of $500—' “Just a minute!” McMann inter- rupted. “We have no proof that Bor- den was robbed, the fact that to someone before his death?” “He gave Mrs. Borden a check!” Ruth flashed. “And he had no other visitor except Mrs. Borden until Rita Dubois came. according to the evi- dence of the. elevator operator, Micky Moran. ... Oh, yes! Benny Smith was here, too, about half-past one, but surely you can’t imagine Borden’s making his office boy a nt of $500! Can’t you see that it isn’t fair to Jack to convict him natural. in in your own mind until you've talked with Rita Dubois? We know she was here—” “And that she didn’t see Borden, in all probability, if we're to put the tion on what she said to Moran, the elevator operator, about Bor tden’s having ‘stood her up.’” McMann pointed out patiently. ’s ridiculous!” Ruth cried, forgetting tact in anger. “Thi natural supposition is that she referring to Borden's having failed to meet her at the station, to take her awa: Winter on the week-end trip to ven as they “Why give her the ben had planned. efit of the doubt when you've been so ruthless with Mrs. Borden, Jack and myself? Oh, please be fair! Don’t you see how likely it is that it was Rita Du- bois who—who last saw Mr. Borden ‘alive? Since for some reason he fail- ed to keep his appointment with her, he would be expecting her here. “Probably. she telephoned him and he asked her to come, or she simply came to see why he had ‘stood her window, that he had -been heard de-|R fying your threats over the tele- > office, of The girl's interru ard, and I believe he'killed the | ¢! man who insulted and mistrea' you. I'm mighty Mor cael “Please listen to me for possible that you're mistaken in| the thinking you recognized Mr. den’s ‘voice over the phone? “Oh, sure! Of course Bor- Cowan succumbed instantly to the appeal in| M: those blue eyes, But McMann was of sterner stuff. | M “Look here, Cowan! You told me you heard a man’s voice, which you rec- ognized.as that of your friend, Han2 ty Borden, shouting, in grea’ GOT A You LISTEN, MISTER, Yor SOB ACT THERE , SOME TIME TLL c TRACKING UR CLEAN FLOORS By Willigtns WONDERFU Algt LLP myself as pl tis absolutely all that hap- fr. Borden and my-| Broadw ~| turned for my bank book, and I was (Lapis $e scavince Mr. Hayward that y was not responsible for bruised lip.” :: bi atective shifted'in his chair. wandering. One of the endless this Mazda Lane is thi i . "fine folk the, wa iter from, the Chester Hotel, sir. (To Be Continued) The waiter’s testimony is even more damaging to Hayward. He tells about a key. “You had a good teacher—the best | > t IN NEW YORK | | anger outburst was y Birdwell. “Phillips, > 19—Broadway’ the clock, with hi ted -& of year and the: particu- sector, in which one carge to be fascinations of jis everchang- you will see in the morn- ing are not those you‘will come rush away with the Paychol psycho! for two or three |stir ilitone can minutes this morning, when depression to an indi mans various grit and heedlessly. who jindedly the scene. after all, are armies of hu- 1 eee and troul a) doing it so ‘hectically| * GILBERT swAN. | (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) { Legislative Calendar > ¢ { ° BILLS PASSED BY HOUSE to join with county in memorial killed in the World war. BILLS PASSED BY SENATE H. B. Fogg teakerintee committee :In- creases fees of members of boards of sanity commissioners from $2 to $5 a H. B. 32—Tweet of Divide: Elim- inates rural school inspectors in de- partment of public instruction and provides instead, for a rural school director. | Daily Lenten | Fy] cle BS 5 fit It is estimated that British workers spend, $150,000,000 x first of dusk, and some of those | ” — ig hours of thelr daily who spend lives get Ask tic amusement ning: le. {see its lights, m what they think of: jay and they'll shrug their thoroughfare seldom It carries no glamour or are merely It mi in its center or 9 financial th i yearly in traveling SAYS HE NEVER SAW ITS RQUAL “I spend most of my time telling Sargon JOHN N. LONZO like the way it tock! hold of may. ’