The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 24, 1930, Page 7

» GHAINS IN CONTROL 4 a oat f ¥ 4 b « 4 ‘ } ‘Ftettendant evils as represented by the YY BANTLE FOR RIGHTS a OF LV, A, CLAIMS - NONPARTISAN CHER Thoreson Claims Opponents Not Sympathetic to Farmers’ Co- operative Organizations Charges that the Independents, as represented- by Governor George F. Shafer, are controlled by chain in- dustries and corporations and have negiected the interests of the farmer and-of farmers’ cooperative organiza- tions were made late Monday by T. H. Thoresen, Nonpartisan campaign manager, ‘Thoresen’s statement follows: “We contend that the Independents fhave failed in this campaign now about to close to satisfactorily show to the people how they have reduced ‘the taxes when the records show that the present administration is spend- ing “more money than any previous administration. As proof we pint to an appropriation of over nine million dollars by the present administration. “We contend that they have failed to show their interest in, and sympa- thetic cooperation towards, the farm- ers’ cooperative organizations. Their every official act shows the contrary. Every important appointment made has been in sympathy with corporate chain systems. The present adminis- tration is irretrievably aligned with chain banks, chain centralizers and creameries. Their stand has been challenged and to date no denial or explanation has been offered, but on the contrary, the charges, more con- clusively, have been established when John F. Sullivan, the attorney for the centralizers, spoke in defense of the chain banks, chain centralizers, con- trolled commissioners of agriculture and dairy er. Says Power Firms Protected “They have failed to denyorexplain ‘why they refuse to permit proper and necessary laws to be enacted for the taxation of power companies. “We contend that the governor has. proven both by his annual report and by public utterances during this.cam- paign that he is lacking in sympa- thetic understanding of the true , functions of the state terminal mar- ket at Grand Forks. He does not seem to realize that this institution is for the purpose of serving the farmer and not to follow the price level of the chamber of commerce. ‘That this institution should not fol- low, but set the pace and lead. “On the other hand, the progres- Bive candidates of the Nonpartisan ‘League are pledged to a platform full of help for the people of the state. In our platform, we contend for proper regulation and taxation of public utilities in order that they may bear their fair burden the same as the business man and the farmer. This the boss-controlled Independ- ents, with the assistance of corpora- tion lobbyists, have fought in two ‘pessions of the legislature. “We stand for help to true cooper- fatives for the marketing of farm pro- ‘luce. We believe that the state gov- ernment should be free from en- angling alliances with the. chains, icates or combinations. We be- F that the state should be in a position where it may, if deemed ‘Qecessary, regulate and control these. _ __ Would Consult Merchants We believe that the pure food and weights and measures laws should be forced so as to guarantee to the er the protection to which he entitled. We propose, if successful this campaign to call together the (heads of the Rétail Merchants asso- Piation and together work out a pro- Bram of taxation and regulation Which will give the local merchant “equal opportunity of fair and reason- -eble competition, not only for the benefit of the business man but for the development of our state as a whole. “We believe that terminal market- facilities should be encouraged. ‘We believe that the Bank of North {Dakota should be made to serve in a ‘more complete manner the independ- ent banks of the state as well as the ndividual citizen. ) “In short the issue in this cam- {paign is, on the one hand, a corpora- ‘ion controlled government with its HIndependents, and on the other hand @ government by the rank and file of the people of this state for the it of the average citizen wheth- er he be a business man or a farmer. Do not be misled~by glib promises. If you want a government truly rep- Tesentative of the people, vote for E. ‘H, Brant for governor, and the other Progressive candidates.” URGES FARMERS 10 Candidate for Congressman Raps ‘Sidewalk Farmers’ in Radio Talk EE a | doesn't tell the truth. The farmers are losing ground. They ate working hard, but low prices for grain and high prices for machinery make {t impossible for @ farmer to prosper. Fellow farmers, we must band to- gether for protection. We must light- en the terrific tex burden that has been placed upon farm lands. We must not forget that agriculture is down and out and thet we must fight for our own rights. No More State Industries “The Independent candidates have been asking us Nonpartisan candi- dates to come out of the woods and state our position upon more state industries. That is very easy for me to do. My position on more state in- dustries is the same as it has been for the past 10 years. At this time I am not in favor of any expansion of our industrial program. I do not favor bonding the state for any purpose, except to make farm loans at a low Tate of interest. My record in the state senate will show that I have given my support to all our present state industries. I want to see them succeed. I do not want to see the key turned in the Bank of North Dakota, which made 14 per cent last year. I do not want to sell or lease the State Mill and Elevator as proposed in the Independent platform two years ago. No, I vant these industries to have a fair chance to succeed. We have enough state industries at the pres- ent time. If we manage and oper- ate those we already have so that they give the people the greatest service, we have done enough. Says Dairy Farmers Hurt “The governor has declared time and again that he is opposed to state industries. He is against state in- dustries which interfere with the huge profits of the outside insurance com- panies, which interfere with the prof- its of the chain banks, which inter- fere with the profits of the old line elevator companies. And he says SHAPER URGES GAS TAX BOOST, REPEAL OF BANK FUND LAW Decla Game Head Should Have Bismarck Office, in Lecture at Minot Minot, N. D., June 24.—()—Repeal of the state guaranty fund law, and approval of the four cent gasoline tax ‘and one-man game and fish commis- “There are three be submitted to the voters at the pri- mary election, to which I wish to make special reference at this time,” he said. “The first is a bill passed by the last session of the legislature to re- peal the state guaranty fund law, which has been in force since 1917. As everyone knows, this law has proven a complete failure, and the small fund now made available under the assessment powers can never even pay the interest on the total unpaid deposit Mabilities of the closed state banks which now exceed $25,000,000. | In 1917 nearly 700 state banks and| trust companies paid assessments into this fund, whereas now only 258 state | banks are subject to its assessment provisions. In the interest of fairness to the remaining state banks, this un- workable law should be repealed. Office for Game Head much about the dairy farmer. He claims to be for the dairy farmer. He is opposed to state industries which may compete with private business— with milling companies, with old line elevator companies, with chain bank- ing. But he favors those state in- dustries which hurt the dairy farmer. The state reform school at Mandan has a large dairy herd. They sell the milk in competition with the dairy farmers in Morton county. . Yes, they sell the milk and turn around and buy oleomargarine for the growing boys and girls who are unfortunate enough to have to live there. The reform school sells milk in competition with dairy farmers and buys oleo for the inmates. “The same practise is in vogue at the state penitentiary. There they have one of the finest dairy herds in the state. That is fine. But the milk is sold in competition with the dairy farmers of Burleigh county, and the state buys oleo to feed the inmates. Sells milk and buys oleo. I ask you, Mr. Dairy Farmer, how sincere do you think the Independents are in their ery to help the dairy farmer. Why don’t these institutions make butter instead of selling the milk in compe- tition with the dairy farmer and buy- ing oleo for the inmates. The other state institutions also buy oleo. The Independents have declared for a tax on oleo, but they buy oleo for’ the state institutions which they control. “As I said before, we have enough state industries now. Until this spring I was in favor of the state construct- ing elevators within the state to help the farmer keep his grain off the market. .I would have done as they are doing in Canada, I would have voted to give the farmer @ place’to store his grain, But the federal government has taken that off our hands. For many years we were ahead of the federal govern- ment in progressive legislation. But last year congress passed the farm board act. Under this act the gov- ernment is loaning large sums of money to cooperatives to construct elevators right here in North Dakota. I do not know whether any injunc- tions will be served on Uncle Sam to prevent this aid to the farmers, but I am for the five terminal elevators which the cooperatives are building in North Dakota this summer. with federal aid. The federal government has caught up to North Dakota in that respect. Yes, it has passed North Dakota in doing something for the farmer so that he can store his grain and keep it off the market. Asks Merchants 5S: “You farmers and merchants whose interests depend upon agriculture will vote on Wednesday. You farm wom- en who should have modern equip- ment in your kitchen but who do not have it because of the depressed con- dition of agriculture will vote on ‘Wednesday. You can vote with the chamber of commerce, with the chain banks, with the old line elevators. Or you,can vote with the farmer. You can vote the farmers’ ticket. You can Srogressive in te ‘primary election Progressive its the other day. You can do like Min- nesota did. It went Progressive. It gave Schall, that blind senator of Minnesota, a majority of- 269,000. That shows the temper of the voters. Are you going to get out on Wednes- day, you farmers and merchants, and put North Dakota in the Progressive column? ‘You can show congress, you can show the chamber of commerce that you don’t like present conditions. ‘You can do that by voting Progres- sive. If you elect the Progressive you express your disap- proval of 69 cent wheat, of 30 cent butterfat. You can protest against the low prices. What are you going to do?” MARSHALL FOR CONGRESS —Pol, Adv. Vote for Jos. L. Kelley, sher- iff—Pol. Adv. —————— Notice: Confident that I can conduct the office of county auditor economically, efficiently and courteously, 1 respectfully solicit the support of the people of our capital city and of Burleigh coun- ty. {shall appreciate your good- will and your vote June 25, 1930. Alta B. Herman Ves FOR SUNDAY MOVIES WED. JUNE 25 (Pol. Adv.) “The second is also a bill passed by the last session of the legislature providing for the establishment of a state game and fish department at Bismarck under the direction of a full time game and fish commissioner. Under the old law, there is no office at the capitol where the business of the game and fish department can be transacted. The said ofifce of tne department is at the home of the present secretary of the commission | at Beach, and the location of this office is changed to another place in the state every time there is a change in the office of secretary. The old method is very unsatisfactory as well as very expensive, and I trust that the bill to create a full time department at Bismarck will meet with the ap- proval of the voters. “The third measure was initiated by the county commissioners of the state, and, if approved by the electors, will increase the gasoline tax from three to four cents per gallon. The increased revenue that this law will produce is badly needed to speed up the building of the federal highway system in North Dakota which is now about 45 per cent completed. There is an overwhelming demand from all parts of the state for the early com- pletion of this highway system. Highway Requests Great “The state highway commission re- ceived requests for the improvement of 2,500 miles of federal highways this year, being more than double the amount of construction work which the department can do, unless more funds are The United annual allotment for federal aid in the building of these roads from $1,200,000 to $2,000,000, _ beginning July 1, 1930, but this $800,000 annual increase will not be available to us unless the state matches it dollar for dollar. “We can readily and fully match this latge federal appropriation by adding one cent more to the gasoline tax. If this is done, we can increase highway construction throughout the entire state about 60 per cent above the present rate for building several miles of new highways each year in each couny where the federal system is not yet completed.” 0 SCOUTS BOOKED FOR CAMP OPENING Rotary Clubs of Bismarck and Mandan Planning for Pic- nic With Boys Sunday Camp Chan Owapi will officially open for the summer when 50 Scouts from the Missouri valley area arrive there. These scouts come from Bis- marck, Mandan, Coleharbor, Butte, Washburn, Steele, and Raleigh. The camp is operated by the Mis- souri Valley council camp committee consisting of H. O. Saxvik; J. P. Wag- ner, J. N. Roherty, of Bismarck, and F. P. Homan and H. C. Schulte, of Mandan. W. G. Fulton is in active charge of the camp and A. C. Van- ‘Wyk has been appointed director of camp activities. This first period of camp will con- tinue for one week and is backed by the Bismarck and Mandan Rotary clubs, which are planning a picnic of their families next Sunday, June 29, at which time they will be shown the camp and its work. ‘The remaining three periods are gradually filling up and it is hoped that 50 boys will be registered for each of the four periods. Mandan scouts are concentrating on the third period. Scouts are expected to at- tend from Hazelton, Hettinger, Ree- der, Linton and other communities outside of Bismarck and Mandan, during either the second of fourth period. : The following is the list of scouts who will attend camp the first period: | Bismarck — Melvin Ruder, Joe Wright, Hans Thoresen, Charles Shearn, Delain Ward, Ralph Ward, Walter Ward, John Wallace, Howard | Byrne, Lynn Byrne, Clinton Bailey, |Buddy Preston, Walter Zimmerman, Mrs. L. Edna Heaton Putnam For | Register of Deeds Burleigh County Your vote and support will be appreciated, (Pol. Adv.) provided. States government has increased its| Candidate for Oliver P Candidate for tion for Please May I Have , Your Support? ol. Adv.) county judge: them much trouble and expense. John L. Monroe SHERIFF BURLEIGH COUNTY Primary Election, June 25, 1930 (Political Advertisement) State Superintendent Public Instruction NORTH DAKOTA (Political Advertisement) E. J. Gobel Candidate for Reelec- CORONER of Burleigh County I. C. DAVIES COUNTY JUDGE, BURLEIGH COUNTY CANDIDATE FOR REELECTION The interest of your heirs demands a law-trained, experienced ‘Because he supervises the distribution of your property to them after you are gone and if he is not highly competent, he may permit injustice to be done to them or“€rrors to be made which will cause (Political Advertsement) A Bakken two grain elevators, lumber yard, Monday in a Joe Harrison, Oecil Nelson, Toin Cul- hhompi 2 Freeman : CRCODRite Praline Cleber tas, wie ea pete elle has almost F a> bape ic Faaigg Paralyzed from the neck down. “Be i, * s- farmer stockholders. dove from a dock in Lake Lizzie near pe Seek Vk aotheaigd Mae B oi ee oO; Hee, yal re LE. im Bro! en eck Pellean Rapids, ‘Minn. mer, James ey, ‘Carroll Bratcher, Joe Steiner, and George Baker’ Thomas Dohn, Delbert Perry,|Roecker ‘were elected directors at| Fag, N. D., June 24—r—His!| weteet Jos. L, Kelley, sheriff, Russell Saxvik, Geotge Shafet, Jr., Richard Shafer, Ronald Erickson, Bob Gussner and Homer Corwin. Butte — Spencer Overholser and Donald Nabseth, Coleharbor—Clark Robinson, David Vogel, Donald Carlson, Carl Saldin and Vernon Zook. ‘Washburn—Leonard Norling, Rob- ert O’Brien, Gordon Weber, Orville Holton, Sammy Starbuck and Ralph Lewis. | Steele—Ed Rosen and James Ryder. Mandan—Bill McClelland and John erson. Raleigh—Irwin Frost. Cooperative Equity Exchange at Mott to | Pay Usual Dividends Mott, N. D., June 24.—Stockhold- ers in the Cooperative Equity Ex-' change will receive the usual five per cent agnual dividend, and a one per, cent patronage dividend is in order | following the annual meeting and ciate dinner of the Exchange held ere, The Exchange, which was organ- ized in 1912 and does an annual busi- ness approximating $500,000 in its the meeting here. A. M. Bannon is| "eck broken by a dive into manager of the two elevators, with| Water, Woodbury Freeman, 20, . M. Bannon as assistant. G. A. Galloway is manager of the lumber, machinery, and bulk oil station, with G. H. Rounds as assistant. MARSHALL FOR CONGRESS Pol. Adv, S. S. McDONALD acane Candidate ‘oR Commissioner of Agriculture & Labor In Favor of Cooperative Enterprises 19 years on the farm Pol. adv. Voters and Friends of Burleigh County T presume by this time that you know that I am a candidate for register of deeds. Owing to ill health, I am somewhat handicapped to make a house-to-house campaign, but by these means I hope to be able to get my message to nearly every voter in the city and country precincts. During my term of office there have been more banks and other corporations that have gone into the hands of receivers than since the county was ure until I took office. Many of the banks that failed owed for services rendered by me as register of deeds and I paid into the county treasury out of my own pocket every dollar that these defunct banks owed. I was informed at the Registers of Deeds convention recently held at Minot that I am the only register of deeds in the state that ever paid such losses. Word has reached me that some of my opponents are trying to ride into this gffice by defaming me. I trust the voters and my friends will not be misled by such po- litical tactics. Victor L. Anderson Candidate for SHERIFF of Burleigh county at the primary election. June 25, 1930 A Former Representative of Burleigh County Your Vote and Support Is Solicited. Mabel Johngon Engeseth Candidate For REGISTER OF DEEDS Burleigh County, N. D. Born in Bismarck. Graduate from: Bismarck High school, Valley City Teachers Col- lege and a Saint Paul Business College. Abstracter of Titles for six years. Deputy Register of Deeds in Minot. FRED SWENSON Five years De Deeds under Taxpayer. Understands the office—Can save you money. Pol, Adv. Buty, Register of (Political Advertisement) ‘red Swenson. bs (Pol. Adv.) ere To the Voters of Burleigh County: VOTE with the Legislature { hereby announce myself a can- didate for the office of SHERIFF at the primary election to be held June 35, 1! Your vote and support will be appreciated. Albin Hedstrom (Political Advertisement) Repeal of Depositors’ Guaranty Fund Law You sustain the legislature’s repeal of a useless, un- sound and worthless law. You avoid prospect of a continual agitation for a big bond issue or special tax. ‘ on Referendum Ballot June 25th. (Political Advertisement) SUNDAY MOVIES WED. JUNE 25 (Pol. Adv.) Do YouWant a New Capitol Bldg. in Bismarck? We are sure that you do How Shall We Proceed to Get It? FIRST. Let us give you a bit of legislative history. Through the efforts of Gordon Cox, Martin J. Olson, Jr., and J. M. Thompson, your representatives in the last legislative assembly, an appropriation totaling $650,000.00 was obtained to assist in building this new capitol building. There was already, in round figures, the sum of $950,000.00 in the capi- tol building fund, from the sale of lands. In Order to Proceed Further With the Plans for a New Capitol Building, it will be necessary to pass a Capitol Commission Law, creating a Capitol Commission. The purpose of the Capitol Commission is to arrange for all the details in the con- struction of the new building. The Capitol Commission Bill will be before the coming legislative session. In order that this capitol commission bill receive proper attention, it will be abso- lutely necessary that Burleigh county return to the legislature, Gordon Cox, Martin J. Olson, Jr., and J. M. Thompson. THESE MEN WILL CONTINUE THEIR EFFORTS TO OBTAIN A NEW CAPITOL BUILDING FOR THE STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA AND BISMARCK. If these men are defeated, you will simply delay the building of the CAPITOL for an- other two years. Every property owner, every business man, professional men and very particularly every laboring man of Burleigh county is directly interested in the building of anew CAPITOL here. It means the spending of several millions of dollars and this will be of direct benefit to this community. These men are in full sympathy with GOV- ERNOR GEORGE F. SHAFER, and his administration and will cooperate fully with him. You are going to give GOVERNOR SHAFER A BIG VOTE OF CONFIDENCE on WED- NESDAY in reelecting him as GOVERNOR. It is just as necessary that you give the same vote of confidence to MESSRS. COX, OLSON and THOMPSON. It.is to your inter- est to do this and we are taking this opportunity of calling to your attention the vital ne- cessity of electing all of these men to the LEGISLATURE. Your community rates this, and your interests demand it. In conclusion, we are going to ask that you vote for GOV- ERNOR GEORGE F. SHAFER for his second term for GOVERNOR and the entire IN- DEPENDENT STATE TICKET. Do not be misled by anyone. Vote for your interests and the interests of Bismarck and Burleigh county. ’ Burleigh County Independent Republican Campaign Committee (Poiitical Advertisement) organized. As a matter of fact there was never a fail- - died | Burleigh county.—Pol. Adv.