The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 10, 1932, Page 2

BWOUURURD BooUeHER nearer weep ere mun Valley City Editor Fights for Bismarck Percy Trubshaw Attacks Percy, Hansen; Says Jamestown Man Is Bull-Headed One of the interesting sidelights of the Jamestown proposal to obtain the State capital is a private word-bat- tle which has developed between | Percy R. Trubshaw, publisher of the} Valley City Times-Record and ‘Percy | M. Hansen, publisher of the James- | town Sun. Hansen is generally regarded as the heart and soul of the Jamestown movement. It was he who organized it and propagandized for it through his newspaper and he is the official Manager of the Jamestown cam- Paign. In his dual capacity as editor and capital-removal chieftain, Hansen wrote a long letter to Trubshaw Pleading that the Valley City news- Paper support Jamestown. The rea- sons given were the same as those which failed so signally to impress the members of the legislature here last winter. ‘Trubshaw printed the complete let- ter and then expressed his views in an editorial as follows: “The above is a letter received this | morning from the editor of the Jamestown Sun. We do not blame Mr. Hansen for trying to bolster up one of the most bull-headed endeav- ors to move the state capital to Jamestown. Mr. Hansen stands prac- tically alone on the proposition. He has not a leg to stand on and very little support in his movement. His | mileage figures are distorted and not in any way correct. Every member of the legislature coming from the west and northwest would have to) pay more mileage to get to Jamestown should the capital be located there. All west of the river would have 105 miles each way more to travel to get to Jamestown as against Bismarck. ! ‘They would have to go through Bis-! marck and the people of Burleigh | county, Morton, Starke, Golden Val- ley and so on down the line would have that much more mileage to travel. The people from Minot now reach Bismarck across country in 120 miles. Should they go to Jamestown and come by way of Bismarck they would have the additional 105 miles; each way or if they came by way of Valley City they would have over 100 miles each way. Of course, Barnes, Cass, and Grand Forks counties and a few of the eastern counties | would not have so far to travel but| when you figure it all down there is little saved either way. Many Nearer Bismarck \ “As a matter of fact all members! of the legislature in the counties of | Divide, Burke, Williams, Mountrail,| Ward, Renville, McHenry, Kidder, Mercer, Oliver, Dunn, Stark, Morton, | Burleigh, Hettinger, Grant, McLean, | Emmons, Logan, Sheridan, Adams,} Bowman, Wells, Bottineau, Pierce, } McIntosh, Golden; Slope McKenzie, Valley, Billings, Sioux, are a great deal nearer to Bismarck than they| are to Jamestown and the same is’ true in many of the other counties) not named. Since good roads have! been provided, there is little differ- ence, so the matter of mileage can be; left out of the argument. “In a personal letter to us Mr. Hansen says we wrote him a letter; ja year ago stating that most of our) objection to the location of the cap-| ital at Jamesown was because we were afraid it would hurt Valley City. Mr. Hansen is correct—it would. And the only reason that Mr. Hansen is working so hard is! te get it to Jamestown and not be- cause of any love for the ‘dear peo- | le.” “ B “Outside of our personal interest in the location of the capital we are! sincere in the belief that it should: remain at Bismarck for the reasons; given in a previous editorial to which, Mr. Hansen takes exception. It is! ‘better located in its present situa-j| tion, it has a lot of state money in-| vested in buildings belonging to the; state and the people of Bismarck | who have invested their money would lose most of it were the cap-| {tal changed—and we can see no| need of doing all this to please Jamestown. It is but a short time ago that the Jamestown people came down here to get Valley City people to go to St. Paul to fight the North- ern Pacific because the company was! moving some of the division men, from Jamestown. The railroad com- | pany saw where under present condi- tions and the way it was losing mon- ey it could save by consolidating di-| visions—but Hansen did not send up! @ wail like the last sad notes of a! dying swan trying to help the rail- roads—it would save them a lot of money—but he is willing to wreck the city of Bismarck for his own selfish ends. Mr. Hansen and his fellow state capital wreckers were per- fectly willing to have us down here} fight the railway to retain a few) families at Jamestown but he is mighty willing to wreck Bismarck and waste millions that have been invested in that city. His attitude is| one of bull-headed selfishness and inconsistency. | “We do not need any charts or! graphs—all one has to do is to get & map of North Dakota, look at the location of the various counties and see for themselves—that is the most convincing argument as against graphs and charts gotten up by especially selected experts of Mr. Hansen.” Too Much Cottonseed Cake Said Dangerous Watford City, N. D., Feb. 10—(P)— ‘Caution must be used in feeding cot- tonseed cake or meal to hogs, E: A. Hendrickson, McKenzie county agent, has warned farmers. ‘The meal contains a toxic sub- stance, he said, which sometimes “proves fatal to hogs. He recommend- “ed that the cottonseed product be limited to about 9 per cent of the to- * tal ration fed the swine. The most economical method of feeding it, he eaid, is to mix it with tankage, lin- seed meal or alfalfa meal. MOUNTRAIL.AGENT BUSY ‘Btanley, N. D., Feb. 10.—(#)—More flatiners availed themselves of the mervices of the Mountrail county ag- tural agent last year than ever records of C. A. Fiske show. the year 5,342 calls were made ‘agent's office by farmers in re- to farm and home problems. projects of Fiske in 1931. relief activities were the People’s Forum —Ti Tribune ts Of en! with con- troversial reli which attack individuals unfairly, or which offend good taste and’ tair play will be returned to the writers. All tetters MUST be signed if yu wish to use a pseudonym, sign the pseudonym first and your own name beneath it. eo will re- spect such requests. We reserve the right to delete such letters gs may be nece conform to thie poll THIS IS GETTING WARM Steele, N. Dak. Jan. 30, 1932. Editor, Tribune: I have often wished I had the abil- ity to write, but always have been afraid it would be confined to the waste basket. But the letter from “Little Farmer” is 50 opposite to my ideas that I will try to express my- self on prohibition. I think the let- ter should be headed: “Little Farmer on Prohibition,” instead of “Napoleon on Prohibition,” as I am sure the ma- jority of the good people there are opposed to his ideas of the subject. | I am like “Little Farmer” in one respect. I read the letter from the Dickinson lady. But unlike him I agree with what the lady said, as in saloon days I have seen it as she de- scribed it and even worse. -I have| seen more drunken people in one day | |in saloon days than I have seen al- together in North Dakota since North Dakota became a state. If I was a betting man I would be willing to bet you could not find hom: brew in 10 per cent of the homes, let alone the 90 per cent. He must have bought some drink; in saloon days as well as now to know the difference in price. He says, “Open the saloons and give the idle! some work.” Why he must know that | all the help that would be, would be to have the idle hang around the sa- | loons and spend what little money} ; they have in drink instead of some- | thing for the family. He talked about half-starved chil- dren. Who ever heard of spending} | money in a saloon to help starving | | children. | He thinks that only for prohibition {we would get higher prices for our barley. Do you know that even if the price is so low, we are getting twice as much for barley as we did in the depression in 1893-1894 when | the manufacture of drink was going| full speed. No, there is money in the saloon system for the large brewers but, money out for those who patronize! the saloon. { As fas as dunces in Washington are concerned I think they could do much better. According to Senator Brookhart, as far as the drinking is concerned it is doing better. “He said he was there for a week in 1895| and saw more drunk people about the} capital in that time than he has in the last nine years.” Prohibition has done a great deal; for this country but would have! helped much more if it was not for the abundance of money spent by men for selfish interest. Do you know the head of the wet grganiza- tion gets a salary of $10,000 per year paid in advance by Dupont and one other? Do you know that three Du- ponts pay in this fund $34,000? (These figures are taken from a Senate Com- mittee report.) This is a good and glorious country we live in, even if it is not what it should be, but I am hoping for it to become a better and a drier country. | OLD TIMES. “WELFARE” COMES BACK Bismarck, N. D., Feb. 3, 1932. ditor, Tribune: A few weeks ago the writer wrote an article in The Forum in regard to licenses for highway commission cars and found out later that I wes in er- ror in regard to the $1.00 license for cars belonging to individuals employ- ed at the highway commission. I was not the only one that misunderstood that particular point. I apologize to the readers of The Tribune for that error, Nevertheless my article brought out its point. I have over- heard conversations on it*and must say that some of our state officials called “Welfare” some fancy names that any man with any self-respect would not utter either in public or io himself. This party was not Mr. Graham, as I think he is a very fine man, if he would hang on to the reins and not let his mind run away with I have nothing against him him, even for that, but his entertainment would be more interesting if he did not dance around the ring so fast. I also want to impress upon Mr. Gra- ham’s mind that he must have been} {talking about the wrong fellow when {he told what he thought about me. I i happen to be one of these “dumb” ex- |service men that served 20 months across the sea and came out of the privilege of voting and am considered an honest man among my fellow citizens. wife and three children, which I con- sider a privilege above everything else. I have not been employed all winter and will assure those that were made mad over my articles that I am not looking for their jobs by any means, but if I ever get to work for the state of North Dakota, I as- sure you gentlemen that-my position will be treated with the highest re- spect. Leaving the $1.00 license alone, and for which error I have apologized, I do not have anything to apologize for when it comes to po- litical pull in public office. We have @ fine state and a fine government and if our men in public office would exercise their duties accordingly we would have a government more like the one Abe Lincoln spoke of when he said, “A government Of the people, by the people and for the people.” I hope that this letter will not cause any doubt in any one’s mind but that it will also serve its purpose as have my other letters. But, dear reader, let us remember this one thing, and thet is to always try and do the right thing. POLIT- ICAL PULL ts the wrong thing; we ;all want to save our state unneces- (sary expense. Vote intelligently at the next primary end general elec- {tion and results worth while will fol- low. “WELPARE.” HERE'S SOME DRY HEAT Barton, N. Dak., Jan. 30, 1932. . | Editor, Tribune: Since the proponents of prohibi- tion are, on the average, more reti- I am still privileged to live with my| cent in expressing their ideas than are those of the opposite view, the er- roneous impression is sometimes created that the latter are in the ma- jjority. This is far from being the case and when a communication so |full of inconsistency and error as jthat of “Napoleon on Prohibition” is ; Published, it calls for a bit of correc- tion and refutation. | In the first place I wish to verify ithe statement of the North Dakota woman. There is not a fraction of {the drinking now that there was prior |to the 18th amendment. I remember jdistinctly the little town in Minnesota |in which 1 spent my boyhood; a town jof about 300 people in which there jWere four saloons, Not a day passed {but there were from one to a dozen lor mye drunks staggering around the streetS or lying in the gutters wal- lowing in their own vomit. Nor was ‘the drinking confined to adults. I jrecall sceing boys and girls seven or eight years of age too drunk to stand. Since prohibition I have been in | towns of all sizes but have never seen janything approaching this condition. | As to the young people carrying flasks nowadays, does this informant {mean to insinuate that that custom was not practiced formerly? Not only did they carry flasks but they could and did go into the saloons any time they wanted to and get booze in any quantity desired. For, although there was a law against selling booze to minors the saloonkeeper never lived who had the least regard for law. Booze is essentially an outlaw and the nature of the business cannot be changed by disguising it in the cloak of legal respectability. We are brilliantly informed that if we reopened the saloon the unem- ployment situation would be relieved, yet ninety per cent of the people are engaged in moonshining, so we are told. I don’t see how the saloons could improve much on that. Nor is it made clear how the price of rye and barley would be enhanced by a re- turn to the saloon if more booze is {being made and drunk now than was the case when we had the saloons. The writer laments the fact that a young man of his acquaintance died from drinking poisoned brew. Is he not aware of the fact that alcohol of any kind is poison and that anyone who indulges in it is killing himself just as surely as if he took a gun and blew his brains out? Personally I can work up no sympathy for the young man referred to. As far as he himself is concerned he is better off dead, and he certainly is no loss to society. Prohibition is the greatest national issue that has confronted the Ameri- can people since the days of slavery, and this nation can no more continue to exist half dry and half wet than it could half slave and half free. The solution is not to be found in turn- ing the country over to the liquor in- terests but in a stricter enforcement of the 18th amendment, together with a national campaign of education. As I see it there are just two class- es of people who advocate the return of the saloon: The distillers, brew- ers, and saloonkeepers on one hand, and on the other the morons who in- sist on polluting themselves with booze. Repeal of the 18th amendment would be a serious backward step in ocial progress. The law must be not nly retained but strengthened. EDGAR VICK. WOULDN'T KILL MILLIONAIRES Baldwin, N. D., Feb. 3, 1932. Editor, Tribune: In your Ground Hog day issue ap- pears a “Free Silver” reader from Steele, N. D., who says to “unmake millionnaires is a joke”. This writer does believe in a high income tax and not so much in an inheritance tax. It is foolish to try and find a way to legally kill off a millionnaire. Not every man has the ability to make money, but when the successful man gets too rich, then he should be stopped. But he should not be stopped in his business nor killed off for the inheritance tax. No, he should pay an income tax so he would still have a little profit and he should do this with pride. This writer believes in government control. If John D. Rockefeller would have to pay an in- come tax, due as a multi-millionnaire an he, for that reason, would raise his gasoline, the government should use its right and tell him what gaso- line should be sold for. This writer can not see why a millionnaire should not pay a high income tax to lesson the taxes on the poorer people. A ae aa Japan’s Emperor —Tssaciated Press Photo Emperor Hirohito of Ja ‘DO YOU WANT A CLEAR COMPLEXION? Janesville, Wis.—“My mo- ther always took § Dr. Pierce’s Fav- orite Prescrip- tion when she felt rundown and in need of some- thing to give her strength,” said Mrs. John Fri- dendall of 424 N. River St. “When 1 became old enough she gave it to me and I have taken it off and on ever since. As a tonic and nervine, a | Medicine that will give a woman strength, clear her complexion and benefit_her in every way, I recom- mend Dr. Pierce’s Prescription.” Liquid or tablets. All druggists sell Dr. Plerce’s Prescription Associated Press Photo. ., This Associated Press telephoto shows a typical scene of wreckage on San Francisco street in Santiago following earth tremors which spread destruction in that city in southeastern Cuba. Damage was estimated at between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000. tory for 1932-33 was being circulated in the twin Missouri river cities Wed- nesday. Each city has a separate section as heretofore. The book contains 236 pages and is crammed with information on per- sons and business institutions, telling not only who lives here now but who has moved away and where since the last edition. It also shows if the per- son listed owns the home in which he lives, the marital state of both men and women, names of the officers of corporations and the partners of firms, whether one is an employer or an employe and the first names which hide so persistently behind initials. A classified section contains busi- ness information and advertisements and another section gives general in- formation about the two cities, in- cluding a directory of governent of- ficials. Four major name groups occur in the Bismarck sectfon with the John- sons leading. There are 53 persons of this name listed. The Petersons and Andersons tie for second place with 46 each and the Smiths can crowd into the deadlock also ‘if the Smyths are counted. There are 44 Smiths and two Smyths. In Mandan, however, the Ferderers are in front with 25 names while the Knolls are second with 21. Others in the running are: Hoffmans, 19, Smiths 18, Schmidts and Kuppers, 17 each; Larsons 16, Petersons and Johnsons, 15 each. If the Schmitts and Schmitzes are added to e Schmidts, the total is 24, giving them second position, while if the Smiths Johnsons Lead Bismarck in Point | Of Numbers, New Directory Shows The Bismarck-Mandan city’ direc- | jare added as a variation of the same name, the total is 41. Mandan has five Laws but Bis- ment, has none. In addition, Man- ‘dan has 13 persons named Fix, giving that family eighth position. Strange to say, Bismarck has only one Bride but he is a man, not a woman. It also has only one House, one Lien, one Neighbor, one Maw and one Patient. Included also are six Fortunes, one Dollar, and one Seven. One also can find two Beers and get Litt three times. The book also car- ries two Spares while in Mandan one can pick up two Pinns and one Crum. The new edition will give informa- tion about Bismarck to many persons throughout the country since it will be placed in approximately 500 di- rectory libraries maintained by cities in the United States and Canada. The directory is published by R. L. Fulton and company, St. Paul. STUDY DRESSING WELL Valley City, N. D., Feb. 10.—(®)— How to dress well on a clothing bud- get of $50 a year is the problem which 4-H club girls in Barnes county are attacking under the direction of Mary E. Laycock, home agent. GARRISON GARAGE BURNS Garrison, N. D., Feb. 10.—A garage owned by Dr. E. C. Stucke, state sen-. ator from McLean county, burned here Sunday night. a ro Mae eT Use the Want Ads marck, the seat of the state govern- |. ‘SMALL DAMAGE DONE Started When Gasoline Heater Is Overturned in Seventh St. Store Smoke caused only slight damage in @ fire at Scott's Grocery at 311 Sev- enth St. at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning, according to Harry Thomp- son, chief of the Bismarck fire de- partment. The flames, which were started were extinguished before any damage was done by fire. BOWMAN HAS CLUBS Bowman, N. D., Feb. 10—(?)—Nine- teen Bowman county 4-H clubs fin- ished their 1931 work 100 per cent, a report by R. L. Olson, county agent, discloses. Eleven of the clubs carried Projects in livestock and crops, while eight groups participated in home economics activities. Olson pointed out that 7 per cent of the 4-H clubs in the state which made a perfect score on completing projects were in Bowman county. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY . EUGENIE COMBINATION Wave $3.75, Fredericks Combination, $6.50, Oil tonic combination, ' $5.00, Perma- 1 IN FIRE. AT GROCERY = Tons of Decre: e From Total of Previ- ous Year Shown; Valued at $2,247,624 a Gl 1 North Dakota mines produced} 1,552,144 tons.of lignite coal, valued at $2,247,624.65, for the year ending Oct, 31, 1981, according to the annual report of Edwin Rupp, state coal mine | tor. ‘The production was 296,002 tons less than the previous year, when 1,849,144 tons were mined and valued at $3,266,830. During 1931, 396,438 tons were used locally, and 1,155,804 shipped, while in 1930, 458,766 tons were for local use, and 1,390,378 shipped. Decrease in Vassalesas ih Mire ae ib by Ru to tl ma, eases an unity mild winter, the continued opening of non-commercial mines throughout the western part of the state, and further introduction of natural gas as well as use for fuel of thousands of loads of wood hauled from the Missouri D Has Effect “The general depression that has / affected so many branches of Amer- ican industry,” the report says, “also | has registered its effects on the lig-| nite industry. The lignite deposit | through all of western North Dakota has been a godsend to the thousands | of drought sufferers in the northwest- ern part of the state, who availed themselves of the opportunity to mine their own coal.” For the annual period covered by the report, three fatal and 190 non- fatal accidents were experienced. The fatal accidents equal those of the pre- vious year, while the non-fatal acci- have been reduced from 301 or 37 per cent. The Knife River Coal Mining company has been the main contributor to the decrease by the reduction of their non-fatal acci- dents from 87 to 34 or 60 per cent ‘under the previous year. There has been one fatal accident to every 517,- 404 tons mined and one non-fatal acci- dent to every 8,169 tons mined. Undergroupd Mines Better “Generally speaking,” Rupp says in the report, “underground mines are in better condition from the stand- point of sanitation and safety. Many of the smaller mines have been di- verted from the single entry system when a gasoline heater overturned, |to the double entry, consequently the GENUINE HONEY & TAR COMPOUND | Period covered. river woods. \t “Mines Produced 1,552,14 Be es at Ligaie Con o ines are better ventilated. I did not Fave any complaints reflecting on poor working conditions during the tae there were 200 ‘The report shows there wel mines in operation during the year, these including , 190 underground mines, and 100 stripping mines. ‘Twelve new mines were opened, and 10 closed. There were no mine fires during the year. The report shows a gradual increase in lignite production since 1908, when the tons mined totaled 320,742, By 1915 this increased to 528,078, and in 1920 to 878,969 tons. In 1925, produc- tion increased to 1,357,408. The peak was reached in 1929, when 1,902,583 tons were mined. Pore nE ey ke CARD OF THANKS ‘We wish to express our thanks to the Masonic Lodge and our many friends for their kind sympathy, serv- ices and floral offerings in our late bereavement in the death of our father and grandfather, Martin Wick. Mrs. Anna Stebbins ahd Family. es Science says that the cold germ is a dangerous ulivavirus ... gets deeply into the system and mul- tiplies before it shows up in eneez- ing, coughing, headaches, con- gested areas and feverish condi- tions. The infection must be promply destroyed and eliminated from within. Millions of people all over the world have proved that a few tablets of BROMO QUININE is the effective remedy. LAXATI UE BROM QUININE Webu ron THis & Gm LY, SIGNATURE Try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound izing pain and robs her of y mares beauty. taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Ve, le Compound Tablets, cramps are relieved, JACKRABBITS WANTED We can use a quantity of Jacks. @ market. Bring them in now while we have Highest Prices also paid for Cow Hide, Horse Hides and all furs. “NORTHERN” HIDE AND FUR CO. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA A rivet ‘missed Red hot ...a nor tennis! OLD GOLD’S A cigarette OLD GOLDS Nor coughs to “You'll like ’em, sure! 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