The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 11, 1932, Page 3

People’s F Forum at which offend. good play will be retu writers. All letters sign the pssudonym fi fiat rand our own name begeath ad you spect, such Taquesta, We the right to delete such letters’ ae ‘may be, nec conform to this policy. ers dea troversial religio tac] individuals ‘To Readers of The People’s Forum In recent weeks The Tribune has re- ceived numerous letters to the edi- tor asking us to reprint articles which Have come to their attention. Us- ually they are so long that it is im- Possible to do so without taking space ordinarily given to other news. For the present, The Tribune has adopted the rule of rejecting these offerings because of lack of space for them. Where possible we have tried . to indicate their contents. But this is the people’s own column. ‘We must put a reasonable limit on its size but in every way possible we ‘want it to conform to the desires of Tribune readers. You will confer a favor upon The Tribune by giving us your opinion as to what we should do with these contributions. We do not like to reject them and yet we rarely have space for them, Please let us hear from you. ‘THE EDITOR. JUST THIS ONCE Werner, N. D., April 1, 1932, Editor, Tribune: Enclosed find a clipping from the but there are not so many of them. Salaried people such as government and state employees, would hai ‘pay more for their supplies but would plus, would have a small deficit, but people could: pay their taxes so there would not be the billion dollar deficit there is now and it could be met by a nation on its feet while now we have a large deficit with a nation poor shape financially. I believe the plan which would bert best would be something on this ler: Have the department of agricul- ture make an estimate of the amount of crop in summer, also estimate the mount of surplus on hand and de- cide what part of it would be needed for domestic requirements. Have representatives of farmers, agricultural colleges and perhaps others, set the price for one year as nearly as possible in line with other prices, and perhaps with the consent of congress, this price to be for the per cent which is used in this coun- try. Then have the farm board state the price at which they would endeavor to handle the surplus. Suppose the domestic was $1.50,and surplus price 40c for wheat. ‘Then if you take a load of 60 bush- els of wheat to the elevator, 75 per cent is rated domestic and 25 per cent surplus, you would get $1.50 per buskel for 45 bushels or $67.50, and 40c per bushel for 15 bushels, or $6.00, making $73.50 or an average price of $1.22, transactions between elevators. and mills, etc., to be carried out on the same basis and the final buyer to Killdeer Herald, a letter from Russia. I would like to see it in print on the front page so that people can see how lucky we are here yet, even if we only get five cents for 12 big hen's eggs and 16 cents for a big pound of | ,, butter and around 50 big cents for 60 bought by the mills. There is noth- ‘pounds of wheat. Yours very truly, J. J. DAHLKE. Editor's Note: The Tribune is sorry it cannot publish the letter in question, since the People’s forum is intended as a place for publication of our reader’s own opinions and we cannot undertake to publish all the data upon which those opinions may be based. The letter in question was writ- ten to John Bohlender, a farmer living near Sawyer, and was or- iginally printed in the Minot In- . dependent. A daughter of Mr. Bohlander said, according to the story, that food and money sent to their relatives in Russia never have been received, since any- thing of value is confiscated by the authorieies. In order that readers of The ‘Tribune may know the tenor of the letter, however, we reprint the following paragraphs: “We are going through a hard time and for this reason, I can’t write all that I would wish to write. “We have nothing in the house but a few potatoes. We haven't seen any bread since Christmas, and neither have we got any corn turn over the per cent of surplus to the order of the farm board. This would be a simple, workable’ plan and easy of administration, for ied Farm Board would only have to’ p track of the amount of wheat ing that would teach us farmers to cut down acreage like getting that small price for the surplus. So you see the supply and demand people and we weuld be working to- _— THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. MONDAY. APR THEY’LL RALLY DEMOCRATS ON JEFFERSON DAY These democratic “big guns” will marshall party forces for y dinner in Washington April 13, New York's presidential ri Alfred E. Smith, are shown above. Below, left to right, ai Senator James Hamilton Lewis of illinois and Harry F. Byrd, former governor of Virginia. apartments, buys four suits or gowns, runs four cars—and it would surprise you how the youngsters can stretch a $100 salary to cover a pretty good car and keep it all polished up—and keep it running a pretty good sized stream Assoctated Pr 1932 drive at the annua Gov. Franklin 0. Roosevelt (left) Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, The’ buying of the lower income classes is what keeps business good. When salaries of $100 or less are cut, the people who are effected can’t get beyond buying coal and spuds—when these are paid for they are through— while just a little more would enable us. gether instead of fighting. Believe if wheat and cotton were stabilized, livestock and most other things would find their own adjust- ment. This plan would not make any more money but the laboring man would work and eat and we could buy and enjoy the products of industry. I will send a copy of this to several of the larger papers of the state and perhaps they will print it. Would also send copies to several interested congressmen. Now perhaps you think you are too busy putting in the crop to do any- thing, but I believe it is really as im- portant to try to get a fair price as to put in the crop. HUGH REDINGTON. P. 8—The farm board could sell what they could of the surplus on the world market and what they couldn’t sell could be held for times of great calamities such as the Mississippi t meal—nothing to eat. By “Every day during the month of January my “children went out ; in the fields to hunt for corn, which is sometime left scattered about after the harvest. We had to have it to keep from starving to death. My children are always frozen because they have no clothes to wear. They still go out in the fields and hunt for corn, i but there isn’t any more to be found. “Living is so terrible for us it would be better if the dear Lord would end our lives and would take us away from this sorrowful world, “We had a lot of wheat, but ev- erything was taken away .... And plan which was made is now finished... . “If we say anything about bread, or tellthem we need bread, then the answer they give us is ‘go out in the field and hunt your- Self some bread.’ This is almost impossible to stand any longer. When we think of how we worked hard all the year round... and now has to starve to death. You can’t possibly imagine what not only us but the whole settlement. must go through in our suffer- ings.” A PLAN FOR R FARM RELIEF Wilton, N. D., April 4, 1932. Editor, Tribune: Many tell us that everything goes by the law of supply and demand but there are others who do not : see it that way. The tariff was built up right in the face of that law, just like a snow fence put up stops the natural drifting of the snow. Now it is a poor rule that won't work both ways. If others can charge a high price at home and sell at’ much cheaper prices abroad why can’t we farmers do the same? I am writing here of a plan of farm relief which seems reasonable and I see pieces sent in by other farmers along the same line, Now one or two here and there will not get anything done, so if those reading this who are interested will send me their name and address and a stamp I will make a list of all those sending in their names and send a copy of the list back to each one; then you can find names and ad- dresses of others interested close by and you would be able to bring it up at farmers’ gatherings and perhaps local organizations could be formed 4 and these would let each other local i organization know if anything were i done and perhaps a state or larger i one could be formed from these. If 4 any locals were formed perhaps they | could send delegates to meet to- i gether at the time of the state fair in Fargo and plan further. 3c postage rate so perhaps you better send that much if you care to write. T believe if the farmers could agree on some plan and present it to con- gress we would be more likely to get action than if we first ask for help. ‘They say coffee valuization wouldn't work for Brazil nor rubber price fix- ing for England, but that is no argu- as for they Sxppoled 10 reap from nation so we will be on thi as other industries. products we could buy the products of industry so we would be better off. The storekeeper or dealer would be better off. The manufacturer would be better off and his employees would be better off. Now who would be worse off? The grain gambler and the grain exporter, i I believe congress has passed the! fore being voted into effect. In re- ducing the incomes of the lower sal- aried workers, business is cutting its own throat. This will be seen in thinking of the paying of, say, $400 per month to one man. This wage rents one house or apartment, it tuys one family dinner a day, buys and runs one car, radio, icebox; pays for gas and oil for one car, whereas, the paying of 100 per month to four dif- ferent people in salaries, rents four he Hurt In Fire Associated Press Photo One man was eee ind sont others injured a, Neb., when exploding and 3 resulting fire wrecked a tower of | + the Allied grain mills, which wae grinding wheat into feed and i" for the Nebraska-South Dakota drought area, Lees was estimated at $350,000. STUDY THE SECOND PRIZE For the next best 5 answers, *500 each . . For the next best 100 answers, #100 each . . them to get some satisfaction out of living, make them happier, and above all else, make business move for all of The $400 or over man is usually on a diet anyway and he spends the sur- Plus on the New York stock market, TL 1). 1932 while the before mentioned four $100 per month men spend at home, build up the home community and New York never enters their heads as a place to send money to, Who was the wise guy who said the worth of a na- tion was not determined by the at- tainment of its 10-talent men, but rather by the gradual rising to a higher plane of thought, action and living by its hosts upon hosts of one- talent men. A salary of $125 would stand a 5 per cent cut—a salary of 150 a 10 per cent cut and when you get to $400 or over cut them 50 per cent—wow— wow—hear them holler. “Can't get good men at that price.” Now would be a heck of a good time to try—there are lots of good men who will do quite a bit for $250 per month. Fact of the matter is they will be better fellows to try it for a while. will at least learn what a small salary means—and perhaps will not be so dead anxious to cut the little fellow, or to tax the little fellow, which is the game now. Business is mighty blind that it don't step in and kill that idea of the great buying public taking such an oversized share of the burden—no wonder business js para- lyzed. Another matter that you hear com- ment upon in every public place now, is the married woman whose husband draws a good salary from public funds, getting another perfectly good salary from the same public funds. Men, taking on their wives as helpers in private business—O K with the public—but it sure takes a whole of a lot of nerve to do it on public funds. The bla, bla in this ceases to be a joke—why don't some taxpayers club or something act on this so the prac- tice will be stopped? You hear some of these perfectly level-headed women saying, “Well, there isn't anyone else who can do my work in that office,” and they are so earnest in saying it that you get the idea that they have actually kidded themselves into be- lieving it. Some of us middle-aged bozos would like to see some of those same women tackle the jobs our mothers did or, for instance our wives—cooks—nurse — home doctor— teacher—financial manager — laun- ‘They ' articles in this part of the Tribune. In dress. If the home women couldn't sit at typewriters and click it off with a little practice we'd be willing’ to eat our shirts. Now would be a: h— of a good time to try at least to find someone to take the place of these married women with function- ing husbands, nourished by the pub- lic funds, Let some woman taking care of her family alone have a chance at it. What's the big idea in letting Jackie have all the plums, just be- cause he happened to get his finger into the public pie—why not let Willie’s widow get a little break? A CITIZEN. WHO CAN ANSWER THIS? Falkirk, N. D., March 31, 1932. Editor, Tribune: I have read with much interest the fact it is about the only ere thing now being printed. The subject I would like to see dts | cussed and opinions of different read- ers given is: Why does our state game and fish commission spend so much money in trying to preserve wild life, even going so far as to deny us the privilege of hunting a few wild ducks until it is time for them to fly south, and then let the crows, the most vicious enemy of all game and small birds, increase in numbers as they have the last few seasons? It is common knowledge that crows ; destroy more nests of all species of birds than any other vermin. A crow will whip a turkey hen from her nest and destroy all eggs, to say nothing of ducks and smaller birds. Why not pay a small bounty to the boys and let them destroy this pest? There is no use of planting pheas- ants as long as there are thousands of crows fiying around. What's the matter with the Walton; League? Or are they also blind to! the harm these crows do? Why not have crow hunts? Let's hear what others think, as the crows are to be exterminated. There is absolutely no use to try to Preserve wild birds as long as crows are allowed to prey about unmolested. SILENT READER. E What lively suds! ND washboard scrubbing forever. Rinso soaks out dirt— gets clothes | whiter, safely. Cup for cup, Rinso gives twice as much suds as puffed-u; j even in hardest water, Rich, lasting suds. Great fordish- some drastic measure must be taken if| ¢8-_ Get the BIG package. iP soNpe— a. 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