The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 26, 1929, Page 2

i ! d d 1 « ‘ 1 1 § RMOXA<rwOMe eS sO MMA HS MHA mR an * stated today that innumerable ways PAGE TWO LOWDEN DISCUSSES AGRICULTURAL ILLS T0 6000 DELEGATES Former Illinois Governor Be- lleves No One Measure Can Give Farmers Full Reliet SUGGESTS TAX REFORMS Also Argues Stabilization Cost Should Be Paid by Equaliza- tion Fees on Unorganized Milwaukee, June 26.—Frank 0. Lowden, ex-governor of Illinois, dis- cussing the agricultural situation be- fore 6,000 delegates and visitors at- tending the thirteenth annual con- vention of Kiwanis International here, to restore the proper balance between agriculture and industry could be found if people in general would take @ new attitude toward agriculture. “No advocate of legislation has be- lieved that any one measure could sc- cure economic justic for the farmer,” he stated. “There is a growing con- sciousness on the part of all classcs that the problem is in no sense the concern of the farmer alone, but in- volves our whole complicated social fabric. This is one of the most prom- ising signs of the times. “There has been an _ fmmense amount of discussion over the prob- Jem in recent years. In the carlier stages of that discussion it was de- nied by many that there was an ag- ricultural problem; or, if there was, they insisted that it was gradually solving itself under the operation of economic laws. This view is no longer tenable,” he said. Hints at Equalization Fee Farm organizations, Mr. Lowden went on to explain, were early thought to be excellent associations whereby farmers could assist them- selves. “Organizations for this pur- pose have made considerable prog- ress,” he declared, “for it gives farm- ers a bargaining power something like the power of those with whom they have to deal. However, cooperative agencies entail expense, and those producers who are not members of the cooperative organizations have, of course, received the benefit of the higher prices, but have been exempt from the added costs incurred by the organizations. While the members of the cooperative have received high- er prices than they would have re- ceived without such organization. it has been found difficult, if not im- ible, to maintain the morale of in organization where the non-mem- bers profit more than the members do themselves. “Some of us have sought a device to overcome this weakness. It has seemed to use that where a substan- tial majority of the products of any commodity wish cooperatively to handle that commodity, so as to put them upon terms of equality with the highly organized purchasers of the commodity, and thereby incur an ex- pense for the benefit of the whole, all the producers of that commodity should share equally in such expense. It is a device which has been applied in other lands. In principle it does not differ from the method by which ‘we compel a reluctant minority in an f Weather Report ] ‘Temperature at 7 a. m. 50 Highest yesterday thest wind velocity .. State of |Etighest S888 [Lowest North Dakota— 12 12 67 69 64 72 69 E SSASSRSSSSsSosssesstss “What'll he say when I tell him I've lost his hat?” “Oh, just find another for him; after we cleaned it.” I told him he wouldn't recognize it improvement district to bear its fair share of the cost of public improve- ments. It does not differ in prin- ciple from the method employed by many states for the eradication of tuberculous cattle. However, the Re- publican convention, at Kansas City, last year rejected this way out, and later its action was ratified by the people of the United States. The President now has recommended a farm board, with power to create stabilization corporations, which it is hoped will effect some degree of sta- bilization of farm prices, avoiding ex- treme fluctuations which always oper- ate to the disadvantage of the farmer. I earnestly hope that all classes will cooperate whole-heartedly with the proposed stabilization corporations, so that they may be given a full and fair trial. Holds Farmers Unequally Taxed “There are some measures of relief upon which the representative organ- izations of business and the farmers’ organizations agree. With the phe- nomenal growth of intangible prop- erty no method of direct taxation has been devised by which it can be made to bear its just share of the bur- dens of government. Thus it has come about that in the absence of an income tax, land bears the great burden of the increasing cost of gov- ernment. The farmer's capital in- vestment is largely in land and prac- tically all of it in some tangible form. The National Industrial Conference board has repeatedly called attention to the growing burden of taxation to the farmer. The Business Men's commission emphasized this injus- tice. Yet, I know of no responsible body representing the business of the country which has sought to justify the present method of taxation as it affects land. “Here is a point upon which busi- ness and agriculture and the econ- omists all seem to agree, and yet whenever and wherever an effort has becn made by the farm organizations to equalize this burden through a re- vision of the taxing laws, I have heard of no chamber of commerce nor other organization representing business lending its support. Upon the con- trary, they have very generally been found in opposition. This I believe to be not only unjust to the farmers, but a shortsighted policy on the part a of business itself. “Population is increasing rapidly throughout the carth, largely owing to the discoveries of medival and sani- tary science. The problem of the fu- ture is to feed these multiplying mil- lions. I am wondering if the time isn’t fast approaching when the world will have to give a better way of life to those who supply them with their daily necds. Real wages in industry, not only in this country, but gener- ally, are higher than they ever were before. And contrary to their expec- tations, industrial leaders are attrib- uting in part the prosperity they have enjoyed in recent years to the more generous wages labor is receiving. Isn't it possible that a similar revolu- tion is pending in agriculture? Isn't it | Stumbled over in the Two Brothers! probable too that if agriculture were Prosperous throughout the world, it would enhance the prosperity of all other classes?” COPPED THE PRIZE A crowd was telling tales. They were becoming more and more in- credible, and at last only two racon- texrs were left. Said one of them: “When I left New York last month a fellow dived in off the harbor and followed the liner all the way over, arriving at eoharonton. five minutes ahead of us.” And the last man said, with a nod: “He's right. It was me.”—Tit-Bits. : Daily Cross-word Puzzle ACRUSS: 9 : 1. pledge Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie at Kort - book of 1m, Saere 27. Insects 28. 1 initials of n former presi- fe 2%. Colaiy 80. Grow old 31, Three-toe loth 59, Mriun slowly ra 1, Rouses P 52, Hattie of the $6, Those who orld war throw tightly 8. ood with he to Kind of tree Short for ed Downs [olo [eS MMs [alc Micli [eys) [alulele@eole|) Maalalelal nage Oon moo lolwle[s Male [r ie slejalc} me $3. Noun saMx deo Rot ey anoo & Bey entry vated rall- ‘ways coling. Bs 60, Point of the compass THE BISMAKCK TRIBUNE SYNOPSIS: . Peebles is startled by Mrs. Lundy's revelation that Alex Peterson—the counterpart of the murdered Andrew Ogden in Skull Valley—had shot her husband 30 years ago. She tells the story of Peterson, who came to Torridity with $10 in his pock- ct and amassed great wealth. De- scribing her husband, she men- tions his eight-sided cye-glasses. Pecbles is intrigued by the possi- ble connection between Lundy's glasses, Furie's powerful eight- sided lens, the marked cards in Ogden's safc, the “poker game that cracked the town” and Peter- son's shooting Lundy. CHAPTER 32 WHAT ABOUT “JERRY”? “Joe and Peterson ruled Torridity,” Mrs. Lundy went on, “much as po- litical bosses rule our cities. Joe hated Peterson because of his success and his good looks. Joe wanted to ruin Peterson and I suppose that shooting came out of his hatred. The town was too small for both of them, and Joe would be a dangerous enemy. . +. Is there anything else, Mr. Pce- bles?” Her question disconcerted me. It implied that she had little more to tell. I was bitterly disappointed, for actually she had told me nothing that illuminated the problem of An- drew's death. “I was only there a week,” she went on, reading my thoughts, “and thankful to get away. I always re- call that week with loathing. After my return to Los Angeles I heard nothing from my husband.” “But when he was brought back you surely heard what had hap- pened?” I exploded. “About the shoot- ing, I mean. It’s dreadfully impor- tant, Mrs, Lundy.” She shook her head sorrowfully. “Joe came to me on a stretcher. I have had him ever since. All I know is that he was shot—by Alex Peter- son.” “Who brought him to you?” lity was abandoned about that time and Joe was taken to Pes- kella by his men. One of the men telegraphed me from Peskella that joe was therc—that he had been ot by Peterson, and that a doctor who had becn working as a miner had attended him. I had Joe brought to my home and I have since heard nothing from anyone who lived in Torridity at that time. And I don't want to!” I meditated a moment. “You men- tioned Alex Peterson's brother, Jerry,” I said hopefully. “Can you tell me anything about him?” “Very little. I only saw him once. He had his brother's lean face and ar- rogant eyes, but I heard that he was wild and undisciplined. I shouldn't be surprised if the boy came to a bad end.” I could not answer for I was think- ing of what Deacon and I had mine. “Didn't the size of that check Og- den gave you surprise you?” “Yes, it did,” she said frankly. “I had been soliciting subscriptions along the avenue and I met Mr. Og- den at the gate. He didn’t seem in- terested until I happened to mention my name. Then he looked at me sharply and asked me if my hus- band’s name had been ‘Joc.’ I said it was—that he was still alive. He looked at me hard, then he invited me into the library. His first question was the one you asked me. Was I the wife of Joe Lundy who kept a resort in Torridity 30 years ago? The question angered me, but he promised me $100 for the cause if I would answer it. So I told him what he wanted to know.” “How did he take it?” “He seemed dumbfounded. And when I told him that my husband had not died in Torridity and that he was still alive, his face crim- soned and he began to pace up and Minnesota Realtors Interested in Dakota Minnesota and Iowa land dealers are becoming interested in North Da- kota farms, J. M. Devine, commis- sioner of immigration, reported today. They are attracted, he said, by the low price of Dakota land and the large financial returns from it, as compared with the high priced lands of their own state. Hardly a day passed, Mr. Devine said, that there are not several letters of inquiry coming to his office. These are in addition, he said, to those com- ing to throughout the state. Farmers of North Dakota, he said, have invested more than $10,000,600 in Dakota land in the,last two years, largely on lands adjacent to their Present holdings. The average price paid was $33 an acre. There have been added to the state by mm has been 360,000, and their purchases have to- taled dollars. f AT THE MOVIES i CAPITOL THEATRE Binds; ie ws GOLD BULLETS By CHARLES G. BOOTH down the room, muttering to himself. Then he sat down and wrote me that check for $1,000. You may imagine my surprise. He asked me for my ad- dress and showed me out.” “Where is your husband now?” I went on. “At our home in Los Angeles.” “Is he able to get about?” “Yes,” “Mrs. Lundy, have you ever heard of a poker game played for a man’s | life?” She frowned. “Yes, Ihave. My husband has talked about such a game in delirium several times.” “Has it ever occurred to you that | the shooting of your husband and | that poker game he talked of in de- lirium were connected?” “Yes.” she admitted. “It has oc- curred to me. But I don’t know. And I don’t care—now.” “Mrs. Lundy, vou did not recognize Andrew Ogden?” “Recognize him! I never saw him before.” Her face became thoughtful. “No, I am not sure, now you speak of it. There was something familiar about him. His face, his voice, his manner—I don’t know which.” “You haven't guessed why he gave you that check?” Her nostrils quivered a little, but her face was calm. “He gave it to you,” I said slowly, gripping tensely the edge of my desk, “because—30 years ago—he was Alex Peterson.” She stared at me, becoming ashen of face. “So that was it!” she cried. “A thousand dollars to pay for 30 years of misery! The best of my life given to looking after a broken hulk while Alex Peterson grew rich! Well, I am glad he is dead! I wish my hand had driven that dagger into his neck!” But as I stared at the woman, shocked by her venomous words which, in the intensity of their bitter- ness, I had never heard equaled on human lips, her face was slowly trans- formed. “No,” she said, in a rapt voice, lift- ing up her spiritualized face, “I didn’t mean thate I should thank him, for through him I came to the Truth.” And as I marveled at the trans- forming power of these mystic beliefs she dropped her eyes to mine. “You self-complacent people with your traditional creeds think our faith absurd. You call us neurotics. You say that we are afraid of reality, that we are trying to escape from life. We are. And can you blame us, when | reality has made life unbearable? My faith has anchored me to sanity.” ts! stood up. “Is there anything else?” “Only this,” I muttered, subdued of spirit. “Go down to police headquar- ters and tell them what you have told j me. If you don't, the first policeman | you meet will take you up.” I let her out through the front door and gave her the lilies Mrs. Moffit had left on the porch. When she had gone I.stood in the hot sunlight thinking over what she had told me. Andrew, in his Alex Peterson days, had shot the resort-keeper, Joe Lun- dy. Was this why Dillon had black- mailed him? If it were—and surely it was—no wonder Andrew had given the woman a check for $1,000! The irony of being blackmailed 25 years for a crime one hadn't committed staggered me. Poor Andrew! Had he become blind with fury and revert- ing to his former reckless character, attacked Dillon and been killed by the man? Perhaps. But why had he shot Lundy? And what about the man, “Jerry”? On the threshold of my den I stopped with a shout of joy. dressed in standing at the French window, hand in hand! And Deacon was behind them. (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) . Jerry and Lucy are back! Jerry makes a startling revelation in tomorrow's chapter. for very little in talking pictures, and for that reason made all of his cast selections in Hollywood instead of New York, where \he has long been proeninen tty, identified with the the- atre. Hail Damages Crops In Mountrail County Reports of hailstorms east of Wil- liston came to the state hail insurance department today. Three counties— Mountrail, Ward and Williams—were hard hit, apparently, Martin Hagen, commissioner, said. The storm oc- curred June 24. Bowman county also reported a hailstorm, June 22. Estimates of the damage from this storm were difficult to make, it was said, as the reports !have been late in arriving because of Plan River Soundings For New State Bridge rman plans are undér way in Office of the state highway com- mission for soundings in the Missouri Bo you THK MOU'RE GOIN’ TO UKE To WORK OURIN!' 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