The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 26, 1931, Page 6

8 strata sonchecrn 8 ta SUE RONAL ~- LAWMAKERS REST | FOLLOWING HECTIC re cisive Defeats Members of the North Dakota house of representatives took things easy Thursday after a hectic Wed- aesday session during which all mea sures originating in the house were disposed of. Breaking through the majority fences, the Nonpartisans came off with a number of victories to still further diminish the effectiveness of L. L. Twichell’s leadership of the ma- jority faction. * Twichell took a number of decisive {defeats but also won some victories. Efforts to reconsider a bill to give the governor authority to appoint the H state printer failed with the chief ° executive looking on. O. E. Erickson, minority floor lead- er, charged that Governor Shafer had been brought into the chamber in an effort to intimidate the major- ity into falling into line. If this was the fact it proved in- effective, however, for two I. V. A.’s refused to jump when the whip was snapped and the vote on a proposal to reconsider ended in a tie. The governor blinked in surprise en the vote was announced. The result of-the vote was an- nounced as 57 to 55 but the authenti- city of the count was challenged and ‘ check showed an error which made the final result 56 to 56. The motion to reconsider lost, therefore,-for lack of a majority. Traynor Bill Passes A measure introduced by Edwin Traynor, Ramsey county I. V. A. amending the present hail insurance act to permit voluntary hail insur- ance and separation of hail taxes from general taxes, passed with the bare constitutional majority of 57 votes after several roll calls and motions. A congressional redistricting meas- ure, introduced by H. F. Swett of Kidder and William Crockett of Cav- alier, passed when the Richland county delegation of four members voted with the solid Nonpartisan mi- nority. The vote was 58 to 54, with a “clincher” motion attached. An attempt to place the Swett and Crockett bill at the foot of the calen- dar to give preference to a measure introduced by John K. Olafson of | Pembina, failed when the Richland | county members, Holthusen, Lynch, Morgan and Worner, opposed it. A roll call was then taken on the Swett- | Crockett bill and it passed as the{ Richland members again supported the bill. Later Olafson moved for in- definite postponement of his bill. Pierce in East District Pierce county in the east district, in addition to the counties originally al- lotted in the bill, Pembina, Cavalier, ‘Towner, Ramsey, Walsh, Grand Forks, Nelson, Benson, Eddy, Foster, Griggs, Steel. Traill, Cass, Barnes, Stutsman, Logan, McIntosh, La Moure, Dickey, Ransom, Sargent, and Richland. In Olafson’s bill the counties of Burleigh, Kidder and Emmons, placed in the west district of the measure passed, were included in the east district The Swett-Crockett, bill places 24 counties in the eastern district and 29 in the western, with the eastern dis- trict about 18,000 greater in popula- tion. ‘The hail insurance measure on the/try normally to pay; and, of far high- first roll call failed as a result of a 56 to 56 vote. On reconsideration, however, Fred A. Mau, Ransom, I. V. A., swung over to his party's side to give it the necessary majority for passage. J. H. Henrickson, another Ransom Independent, voted against the bill in all counts taken on it. Other Measures Approved Other bills to pass provide for re- apportionment of the state's 49 leg- islative districts, licensing and inspec- tion of gasoline pumps and coin weighing machines, elimination of the secretary of agriculture and labor and | superintendent of public instruction as ex-officio members of the state board of administration, that grain storage charges in elevators be paid yearly, that hail insurance depart- ment be placed on a budget basis, for refunds by the state hafl insurance department to hail tax purchasers) paying taxes for which they were not liable and prohibiting any warehouse from selling grain stored within ex- cept as provided for by law. Tt was necessary to stop the house clock to complete all business before the fiftieth day passed. Each legis- lative day must terminate at 2 p. m. the following day, and to comply with this rule the clock was stopped. At 3:40 p. m. the necessary business was finished and the clock again set to ticking. Western Area Is Advising Solons To Back Measure (Continued from page one) County Herald; I. L. Doherty of Killdeer, publisher of the Killdeer Herald; J. E. Phelan of Bowman, and many others. The Killdeer Town Oriers club was said to have adopted a resolution ask- ing Senator W. E. Jones of the Dunne. Mercer-Oliver district to stand for the interests of western North estes and to’ support ‘the redistrict- i ng bill. ‘The'fact that each .of these.men is widely known as an adherent to the 1 V. A. faction cast a shadow on the argument of Cass county leaders that | they have the best interests of the state at heart,.and particularly interests of the I. V. A.’s in western North Dakota. when they urge that congressmen be elected at large. The argument, in brief, is that the I. V. A's in the western part of the state have never had a chance to elect @ congressman and that the election of congressmen at large would give tion if the Majority Leader’s Status Is/sion and the Nonpartisans do like- ‘The Nonpartisan proposal places | the | gion were active supporters of Sin- clair. Senators H. A. Field and A. F. Bon- zer Jr., Richland county, are expect- vd to follow the precedent established by the Richland house delegation and {support the Swett bill in the senate. I V. A. senators from western North Jones of the Dunn-Mercer-Oliver dis- “trict. q | Dakota include J. P. Cain, Dickinson; | nN) | William Martin of Morton and W. E. If these vote for the east-west divi- | Wise, the result will be to give the bill a clear majority in the senate. |. One of the difficulties encountered large” idea in attempting to draw | Political tines on the | Statement of Attorney General James | Morris that it should not and could not be placed on such a basis. Morris Statement Recalled The statement was made numerous times by Morris in speeches in west- em North Dakota in the last cam- | paign in behalf of I. V. A. legislative candidates. As a result, the voters of that area have a partial pledge from the I. V. A. organization that the reapportionment matter would ke’ considered along sectional rather than political lines. The attitude of many western North Dakota I. V. A.’s is that they do not want to be saved from their present political miseries by the Cass county organization, preferring to get along as best they can rather than accept an uncertain brand of salva- tion. This is expressed, according to in- formation from Bowman, in a tele- gram sent Wednesday night to Sena- tor Jones by J. E. Phelan, I. V. A. warhorse in the southwestern part of the state. In this telegram Phelan is said to have stressed the fact that both tradition and necessity demand that western North Dakota have a congressman. Similar Fate for Measure Expected When Senate Acts (Continued from page one) and in need today in common witn many others of our people. These, like the others, are being provided the |basic necessities of life by the devoted eommittees in -those parts of the country affected by the depression or drought. The government: and many em- Ployers are giving preference to vet- erans in employment. Their welfare is and should be a matter of concern to our people. “Inquiry indicates that such care is |being given throughout the country and it also indicates that. the number of veterans-in need of such relief is a minor percentage of the whole.” Hardship For Wives The president also said that to al- low-veterans to borrow to within 50 per cent would work a hardship on the wives and dependents of veterans who will have used the value of their lcertificate -and thereby deprived of jmecessary insurance. “The need of our people today is a |decrease in the burden of taxes and junemployment, yet they (who include the veterans) are being steadily forced toward higher tax levels and lessened employment by such acts jas this.” he said. Terming the legislation of grave importance itself, the president said ‘of much graver importance is the {whole tendency to open the federal [treasury to a thousand purposes, {many admirable in their intentions {but in which the proponents fail or do {mot care to see that with such begin- nings many of them insidiously con- |sume more and more of the savings ‘and the labor of our people. “In aggregate they threaten bur- dens beyond the ability of our coun- er importance, each of them breaks the barriers of self reliance and self Support in our people,” he added. President’s Message Given |by sponsors of the “congressmen at | issue, is the | today in common with many others of our people. These, like the others, are being provided the basic neces- sities of life by the devoted commit- tees in those parts of the country! affected oy the depression or drought. | The government and many employers | jare giving preference to veterans it employment. Their welfare is an should be a matter of concern to our People. Inquiry indicates that such care is being given throughout the country, ani it also indicates that the number of veterans in need of {such relief is a minor percentage of ; the whole. | Utility Exaggerated | The utility of this legislation as re- { lief to those in distress is far less than has been disclosed. The popu Jar assumption has been that as the | certificates average $1,000 then each | veteran can obtain $500 by way of a | | Joan. But this is only an average, | , und more than one-half will receive : {iess than this amount. In fact over | 800,000 men will be able to borrow iess than $200, and of these over 200,- | 000 will be able to borrow only an; average of $75, Furthermore there are 100,000 veterans whose certifi- | cates have been issued recently who | under the proposed law will have no! loan privilege until their certificates , are two years old. It is therefore urgent in any event that local com- | mittees continue relief to veterans, ' {but this legislation would lead such |1ocal committees and employers to assume that these veterans have been provided for by the federal treasury, and thereby threatens them with greater hardships than before. The breach of fundamental princi- ple in this proposal is the requirement of the federal government to provide an enormous sum of money to a vast majority who are able to care for themselves and who are caring for themselves. Among those who would receive the proposed benefits are included 387,000 veterans and 400,000 depend- ents, who are already receiving some degree of allowance or support from the federal government. But in addi- tion to these, it provides equal bene- fits for scores of thousands of others who are in the income-tax paying class, and for scores of thousands who are holding secure positions in the federal, state, and local governments and in every profession and industry. I know that most of these men do not seek these privileges, they have no desire to be presented to the American people as benefiting by a burden put upon the whole people, and I have many manifestations from veterans on whom the times are bear- ing hardly that they do not want to be represented to our people as a group substituting special privilege for the idealism and patriotism they have rejoiced in offering to their country through their service. It is suggested as a reason for mak- | ing these provisions applicable to all veterans, that we should not make Public distinction between veterans in need and the others who comprise the vast majority lest we characterize those deserving help as a pauper class. On the contrary, veterans in need are and should be a preferred class, that a grateful country would be proud to honor with its support. Adoption of the principle of aid to {the rich or to those able to support themselves in itself sets up a group of Special privilege among our citizens, Principle Is Accepted Principle that the nation should give generous care to those veterans, who are ill, disabled, in need or in distress, even though these dis- abilities do not arise from the war, has been fully accepted by the nation. Pensions or allowances have been Provided for the dependents of those who lost their lives in the war; al- Jowances have been provided to those who suffered disabilities from the War; additional allowances were Passed at the last session of congress to all the veterans whose earning Power at any time may be perman- ently impaired by injury or illness; free hospitalization is available not The text of President Hoover's message vetoing the veterans loan bill follows: To the House of Representatives: I retura herewith, without my ap- Proval, H. R. 17054, “An act to in- crease the loan basis of adjusted service certificates.” In order that it may be ciearly understood, I may review that the adjusted compensa- tion act (bonus bill) passed on May 19, 1924, awarded to 3,498,000 veterans. approximately $1,365,000,000 further compensation for war service. To this sum was added 25 per cent, said to be consideration for deferring’ the payment until about 1945, the whole bearing 4 per cent compound interest. Immediate payment to dependents upon death was included, thus creat- ing an endowment insurance policy represented by a certificate to each veteran showing the sum payable at the end of the period—the “face value.” After paying the sums due of less than $50 and payments in full to de- Pendents is $3,426,000,000 held by 3,397,000 veterans or an average of about $1,000 each. Describes Planned Burden ‘The burden upon the country was to be an amount each year sufficient as a yearly premium to provide for the payment of the “face value” of these certificates in about 1945, and to date las involved an appropriation averaging $112,000,000 per annum. The accumulation of these appro- priations is represented by govern- ment obligations deposited in a re- serve fund, which fund now amounts to about $750,000,000. A loan basis to certificate holders was established equal to 90 per cent of the reserve value of the certificates, such loans now in the sixth year being author- | ‘ized to 2213 per cent of the “face; value.” F ; *When-the bonus act was passed it was upon the explicit understanaing .0f the, congress that, the matter was | closed and the government would not, be called upon to make subsequent | renlargemerts. -It is‘now proposed to enlarge the loan rate to 50 per cent .0f the. “face yalye,” at a low yate of interest, thus imposing a potential cash outlay upon the government of ‘about $2,700,000,000, “if ‘all veterans | themselves of the privilege under this bill will require approximately $1,000,- 000,000. There not being a penny in only to those suffering from the re- sults of war but to large numbers of temporarily ill. Together with war- risk insurance and the adjusted com- Pensation, these services now total an annual expenditure of approxi- mately $600,000,000 and under exist- ing laws will increase to $800,000,000 Per annum in a very few years for World war veterans alone. A total ay tp thousand millions of dollars en expended upon such l~ ices since the war. ue Our country has thus shown its Sense of obligation and generosity, and its readiness at all times to aid those of its veterans in need. I have the utmost confidence that our serv- ice men would be amongst the first to oppose a policy of government as- sistance to veterans who have prop- erty and means to support themselves, for service men are as devoted to the welfare of our country in peace as ture dangers of embarking on such a Policy. It could but create resent- ments wihch would ultimately react against those who should be given care, It is argued that the distribution of the huadreds of millions of dollars Proposed by this bill would stimulate business generally. We can not further the restoration of prosperity by borrowing from some of our peo- ple, pledging the credit of all the peo- ple, to loan to some of our people who are not in need of the money. If the exercise of these rights were limited to expenditure upon necessi- ties only, there would be no stimula- tion to business. The theory of stimulation is based upon the anti- cipation uf wasteful expenditure. It can be of no assistance in the return of real prosperity. correct, we should make government. | loans to the whole people. Statement Is Incomplete It is represented that this measure merely provides loans against a fu- ture obligation and that, therefore, it will cost the American people noth: ing. That is an incomplete statement. A cost at once arises to the people When instead of proceeding by annual appropriation the government is forced to secure a huge sum by bor- towing or otherwise, especially in the circumstances of today when we are compelled in the midst of depression to make other large borrowings to cover deficits and refunding opera- tions. An increase rate of interest which the government must pay up- ‘on all long-term issues is inevitable. veterans unemployed and in need/ 4n war and as clearly foresee the fu- | | If this argument of proponents is | === | | { people. Celivers Loan Bill Associated Press Photo veterans’ loan bill was de- livered to President Hoover by Mrs. Geraldine Davies, secretary to Rep. Guy E. Campbell. The President will return the bill to congress with a veto. structive industry and commerce. ‘It imposes a great charge upon the in- dividual who loses such employment or continues unemploy- ed. To the veteran this is a double loss. Falls on People ‘When he has consumed the value of his certificate he has also lost the op- portunity for greater earnings, There is a greater cost than all this: It is @ step toward government aid to those who can help themselves. These di- rect or indirect burdens fall upon the People as a ahole. The need of our people today is a decrease in the burden of taxes and unemployment, yet they (who include the veterans) are being steadily forced toward higher tax levels and lessened employment by such acts as this. We must not forget the millions of hard-working families in our coun- try who are striving to pay the debts which they have incurred in acquiring homes and farms in endéavor to build protection for their future. They, in the last analysis, must bear the bur- den of increasing government aid and taxes. It is not the rich who suffer. When we take employment and taxes from our people it is the poor who suffer. There is a very serious phase of this matter for the wives and children of veterans and to the future security of veterans themselves. Each of these certificates is an endowment insur- ance policy. Any moneys advanced against them, together with its inter- est, will be automatically deducted from the value of the certificates in case of death or upon maturity. No one will deny that under the pressures or allurements of the: moment, many will borrow against these certificates for other than ab- solutely: necessary purposes, The losses to meny families means the destruction of the one safeguard at their most critical time. It cannot be contended that the interests of the. families of our country are conserved by either cashing or borrowing upon their life-insurance policies. Discusses Human Aspect I have no desire to present mo- netary aspects of the question ex- cept so far as they affect the human aspects. Surely it is a human aspect to transfer to the backs of those who. toil, including veterans, a burden of those who by position and property can care for themselves. It is a human aspect to incur the danger of continued or increased unemploy- ment. It is a human aspect to de- prive women and children of protec- tion by reckless use of an endowment policy. Our country is rich enough to do any justice. No country is rich enough to do an injustice. The patriotism of our people is not @ material thing. It is a spiritual thing. We can not pay for it with government aid. We can honor those in need by our aid, and it is a fund- amental aspect of freedom among us that no step should be taken which burdens the nation with a privileged class who can care for themselves, I regard the bill under considera- tion as unwise from the standpoint of the veterans themselves, and unwise from the standpoint of the welfare of all the people. The future of our world war veterans is inseparably bound up with the future of the whole People. The greatest service that we can render both veterans and the public generally is to administer the affairs of our government with & view to the well-being and happiness of all of the nation. The matter under consideration is of grave importance in itself; but of much graver importance is the whole tendency to open the federal treasury to a thousand purposes, many admir- able in their intentions but in which proponents fail or do not care to see that such beginnings, many of them, insidiously consume more and more of the savings and the labor of the In aggregate they threaten burdens beyond the ability of our country normally to bear; and, of far higher importance, each of them breaks the barriers of self-reliance and self-support in our people. HERBERT HOOVER PIMPLES Strong, Powerful Yet Safe, Moone’s Emerald Oil Has Astonished Sufferers Here is a wonderful antiseptic oil now dispensed by at tri- fling cost, that will do more towards helping you get rid of unsightly spots and skin diseases than anything you've ever used. Its acticn is little less than magical. The itcning of eczema is DISTRICT MEETING Territory Will Meet in Jamestown, April 16-17 Fargo, N. D., Feb. 26.—()—Dates for the district meetings of the North Dakota Federation of Women’s clubs were announced here today by the heads of the various districts, follow- ing a meeting of the board of direc- tors of the federation. ‘The fourth district, of which Mrs. J. H. Movius of Lidgerwood, is presi- dent, will gather in Lidgerwood, April 14 and 15. The eighth district will meet in Jamestown, April 16 and 17. Mrs. a H. Cooper, Courtney, is presi- lent. On May 13 and 14, the first dis- trict will convene at Lakota. Mrs. A. C. Wehe, of that city, district president, will preside. ‘The second and third districts have both chosen May 21 and 22 for their meeting dates, with Bottineau and Mohall as places of meeting. Mrs. J, J, Kehoe, Cando, is president of the second district, and Mrs. George Keup, Columbus, is president of the third district. Bowman will be the scene of the seventh district convention, with Mrs. Harve Robinson, district president, presiding and the Woman’s Study club as hostess. May 25 and 26 are the meeting dates for the sixth district. Napo- leon will entertain the delegates and Mrs. D. W. Crabtree, president, will conduct the meeting. When the fifth district meets in Napoleon, May 26 and 27, Mrs. J. A. Manley will be in the chair, and the Napoleon women will be hostesses. One or more of the eight depart- ments of work of the federation will be stressed at these meetings. Labor saving machinery with three men does the work of 40 men in Cali- fornia rice fields, the state industrial department estimates. DATES ARE CHOSEN Clubwomen of the Bismarck oP Additional Society | oe Child Welfare Laws Is Topic of Speaker Mrs. Minnie D. Craig, member of the legislature from Benson county, described methods by which children of the state are protected, in a talk before members of the Business and Professional Women’s club Tuesday evening. She reviewed laws which have been passed for the well-being and shield- ing of children, mentioning legisia- tion now pending. The state's pro- gram is a constructive one, Mrs. Craig asserted, and pointed out means by which the best qualities of the delin- quent child are brought out and ways in which the crippled or of handicapped child is taught some useful trade or occupation. ‘Work of the children’s code com- mission, resulting in the forming of @ state children’s bureau were men- tioned by Mrs. Craig, who emphasized the work it carries out in teaching the child to become a responsible citizen. Following the address Mrs. Ray Stair sang a group of numbers, ac- companied by Miss Jessie Streigl. The committee in charge of the program were Mrs. Berta Baker, Mrs. George McCay and Miss Bessie Bald- win. Christians compose about 26.9 per cent of the world today, including 10.7 per cent Protestants and 16.2 per cent Cathglics. Seven per cent of the world population are Jews, 18 per cent Confucians and Taoists, 10 per cent Animists, 15.4 per cent Moslems, 12.8 per cent Hindus, 84 per cent Budd- hists, and 1.4 per cent Shintoists, Harry Jack, Red Bluff, Cal., farmer, months it had grown to a height of 16 feet with a diameter of four and one-half inches. The first western steamboat was the Orleans, with a carrying capacity of 100 tons. She made her first voyage in 1812, averaging about three miles an hour. planted a castor bean and in five!Palazzo Chigi, WORLD DECISION EXPECTED SOON Employes of New York News- paper Militantly Resolved to Keep World Alive New York, Feb. 26.—(7}—Employes of the New York World, the Evening World and the World, num- bering 2,867, were themselves making news Thursday in a militant resolve that the three Worlds should wot come to an end and that the will of them to the Scripps-Howard syndi- cate for an estimated $5,000,000. In an enthusiastic meeting at the Hotel Astor Wednesday evening, the employes formed an ition to be known tentatively as the World Employes Cooperative James W. Barrett, city editor of the ‘World, was elected president. A res- olution uppealing for public support of their efforts was adopted and pledges totaling nearly $675,000 were announced. British and Italian Naval Heads Meeting Rome, Feb. 26.—(#—The four men who head the fe offices and navy departments of Great Britain and Italy met at a table in the , once Office of Mussolini, Thursday to seek a formula which will permit full Italian ad- hhesion to the London naval 1c nat pact. The two Britons, Arthur Hender- association. Jord of the admiralty, believed they have found the formula, built around an agreement reached at Paris earlier this week specifying a Franco-British naval relationship. Sitting with them were Dino Grane di, youthful bearded Italian foreign minister, and Rear Admiral Guiseppe Siriani, naval minister, both known to enjoy the confidence and trust of Premier Mussolini, who may .sit in the final phase of the negotiations himself, either late Thursday or Fri- day. Selection of smut-free seed’ and thorough treatment of it with reliable fungicides is the only way to avoid smutty spring wheat, the U. 8S. De- partment of Agriculture reports. Of- ficials of the department conducted survey of 700 wheat fields in Minne- sota, the Dakotas and Montana, last spring, and found that wheat from untreated seed was twice as smutty as that from treated seed. Fifty-three members of the next Montana legislature are classed as farmers and ranchers, outnumbering other professions nearly two to one. All blood-sucking insects are pro- vided with stilettos, or lancers, with which tissues of their victims can be Pierced. 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