The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 5, 1932, Page 8

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY JANUARY 5, 1932 People’s Forum Bditor’s Note.—The Tribune wel- comes terest. Letters f, troversial religious subjects, which ja individuals unfairly, or ‘which offend good taste and fai will be oO use A DI jeudonym first beneath it. W. such reque: ight to delete such parts of ers am may be necessary to conform to this policy. LIKES THE CLIMATE Underwood, N. D., n December 28, 1931. ; Editor, Tribune: 4 Anent the reporting of a party hav- ing seen crocuses in bloom recently on in public office today, the next election in each and every one of these above named offices would be entirely a different kind of election than it generally is, Let the public get busy and dig into some of these things and make a cleaning. Are the people going to allow these public de- Ppendents to continue to eat out of the public trough and drain the public funds to the last drop without know- ing why? Why not start digging now and find out where the trouble lies, then correct it and nut men in there who are really worthy of a good job and keep them there, and the unem- ployment situation would not be fac- ing us the way it is today. AN UNEMPLOYED CITIZEN. THE MILLENIUM HAS COME Dickinson, N. D. Cin North Dakota, the writer wishe = to impart some additional informa- | t'on to Inform the general reader of | other states that North Dakota is| ‘uch a bad state after all, as of- | is pictured to people in general. | Noy. 11th ult., dandelions were | 7 som in profusion gn some of the lawns of the town of Underwood. ; also in the ‘o farms. More, a rural carrier had dif. } ficulty in keeping from running over ¢ & gopher in the road, Dec. 18th and! j another party shot a gopher on Dec. 24th. It had come out to celebrate the Christmas season with the ng-! tives. Not so bad. { Cc A Subscriber. | WANTS PUBLIC ACTION | 4 Bismarck, N. D. | bi Dec. 29, 1931. fe Editor, Tribune: 4a I am just an ordinary man with- ¢ out work and unable to get work. I 4, have always been a silent partner in 4; anything that has pertained to public welfare of any kind, but I believe now ri that silence is what causes a lot of Ne things to come about that should not i) be and could be avoided. I am going 4, 0 be very plain in expressing myself, @, £0 if the shoe should happen to fit ‘anyone who reads this article, please | wear it. 0 Nowadays, it is unemployment that «. 1s foremost in the minds of everyone | (5 but a few, it seems. We hear this} and that and the other thing in re- gard to how to remedy this situation e€* and the more we hear, the worse it a gets. I will agree that a large per- centage of unemployment cannot be avoided, but if common sense was i practiced instead of crooked politics ‘1 in employing people there would be Ma large number of married women out of work, who now are working and whose husbands are dragging down a nice salary also, and these people are holding public offices, mostly, if you please. As I said at the beginning, I am just an ordinary man without work and unable to get work. I have wife and three small children to support. I have been in close touch with a certain state department for at least five months to go to work Place of this kind as people have se- cured jobs in this department since keep in touch with them the fact that myself and married men who have to get in with this same depart- have each and every one of us that we were first on the ‘8 Job because of so and so and FARR la Bros @ people by name, both state offices right here Bismarck who are em- Plenty of people out of their own family in public office where they can secure plenty of competent help married men who are without work and keep their women at home their household duties. Would not this plan seem to relieve hap today? Sit down and figure it out.! But we never hear anything along these lines, because it might help to atir up something. But, I tell you, that is what we need today, a real good stirring up as these political pots have been left unstirred so long now that they are actually rotten. If the unemployed continue to listen to the old line of stuff that things getting better where we really know better, we cannot expect any- thing else. Don’t we all know that some ent man in public of- fice has a friend who feels he or she tm 82UFE LER ES "at ae © “does go to work and gets a real nice job. at that? What is the answer? POLITICAL PULL. Can you imagine _ anything that tends to rob the public money than political pull? figure out that it is not a Tob a public office of its funds through political pull? cannot for the life of me figure out those so-called political jobs allowed to continue as such, honest working men out of T Editor, Tribune: The last legislature in its supreme wisdom foresaw the coming hard and passed the Motor Vehicle tion law, wherein it provided free board of 30 days at the county's expense for the first offense and six onths free board for the second of- nse, of driving old Lizzle, Buick or what not on the public highway, with- out a 1932 license after Dec. 31, 1931. So, if anyone after midnight of Dec. 31 has not procured the license plate for 1932 should be on the highway, they will get a 30-day or six-month free ticket for board at the county ex- pense. One can see no need for Red Cross aid when it is so easy to avoid all red tape and delay to get comfortable quarters. In explaining the new 1 one of the solons said that so far as he knew there never was a law passed that was observed and enforced, so they thought they would put one on the books that would appeal to everyone during these times as affording re- lief and they knew this law would be popular. Those who have not paid their personal property taxes or gro- cery bills could, with a vacation in the county jail, have time to get on better terms with the sheriff and pet haps could, in that length of time, duce him to cancel their personal property tax too. The only uncertain thing about it is each county jail holds only an ai erage of 15 to 20 people, but they ex- pect the county commissioners to rent all vacant houses or condemn a few to accommodate the overplus. There is no law since the home building law passed by the Nonpar- tisans that will be as popular as this motor registration law, and in some respects this is far more socialistic, in that it provides both board and heat, at the county's expense. So if the old cupboard is rather scant, and the fuel low, just ride down No. 10 after 12 p. m. Dec. 31, 1931, witHout the 1932 license plates, and secure your reservations for 30 days. Then if you like the accommo- dations, take another trip with the same credentials, and stay another six months. The millenium has come at last. ‘The Magna Charter has been sur- passed. . ADMIRATION. AGREES WITH RUSSELL Reeder, N. D., Jan, 2, 1932. Editor, Tribune: What J. E. Russell saw, is practi- cally what I see. Just before the fall of the Roman Empire there existed & condition similar to the one now confronting the American people. Five per cent of the people of the Roman Empire owned 90 per cent of the property. In the streets of Rome was heard the continual cry of the peo- ple, BREAD and CIRCUS. Morality had dropped to such a low level that gladiatorial contests, where the con- testants were always seriously wound- @ lot of the unemployment facing us! ed and often killed, were delighted in by both men and women. The crime was rife in the land, those crimes promoted by poverty, hunger and human distress. That cry of BREAD) and the CIRCUS sounded the death knell of the Roman Empire. Today we hear a cry in the streets of America, BREAD and EMPLOY- MENT. We also hear the cry of low-, ering morals. Again, the cry of greai crime waves and commissions to in-' vestigate. True, there is an increase in crime, but a study thereof will show that it is the same as in Rome, crimes that are a result of enforced idleness and poverty, crimes that, come from deprivation of right to honestly live. Uriless a remedy is provided to) meet the present emergency, the cry of BREAD and EMPLOYMENT is’ going to be the death knell of this) republic. No remedy has been of- fered by either of our political par-| ties, not even temporary relief. ‘The present financial system is re- sponsible for the appalling situation fe need a house cleaning in all our public offices and that means county and state. If the ordin- man really knew what is going SIDE GLANCES wire ee annoy - Qvene cv>ae Gon d> nod Oo” Bd Beer is but one remedy, a change that will remove the cause. A FARMER. - By George Clark IESOLVED — THAT ANY MAN WHO BELIEVES ANY WOMAN OR ANYTHING THAT ANY WOMAN SAYS =~ OR ALLOWS HIMSELF ‘TO FALL IN LOVE WITH A ‘AN IN A PADDED CELI UNDER ‘THE CARE OF A SKILLED PHYSICIAN UNTIL CURED - WHY NOTE | Ef] WICKER, IT's GOOD To SEE YOU BACK. YOURE LOOKING FINE. \S OUT~YOULL JUST WANE TIME TIX (TL BEFORE DINNER we find this country in now. 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