The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 13, 1932, Page 2

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1932 IN CATTLE, SHEEP | SEEN LAST MONTH “Weather Conditions Not Favor- ©. able, Federal Statisti- cian Reports A further decline in the condition of cattle and sheep occurred during March, according to the April 1 range and livestock report issued by the federal statistician at Fargo. Weather conditions were not favor- able to livestock as the average tem- perature for the month was 3.8 de- grees below the daily normal of 31.5 radical change should come about. Our money system should be con- trolled and operated by the govern-, ment for the benefit of its people and | our economic trouble will be solved. | I will say in the later years the Trib- | une has been more fair to all than the rest of the state's daily press, and I hope it will continue so. C. P. PETERSON. SUGGESTIONS ON SAVING Editor, Tribune: | Reading the article of Mr. Meyer jof Baldwin, “Let the People Rule,” in in the open forum, saying that his township had made a big cut in the expense in both salaries and road work, I wish to say our township did likewise this year to the tune of about 25 per cent. However we did not cut, out the road work because we need roads in the rural districts to get in! and out as much or more so than thev do on these state highways and we! do not volunteer any work free of} jcharge as long as they are spending | millions on these tourists’ roads for How Townships The story in figures of how 715 fh One-Vote Precinct Slashed Budgets townships in 28 North Dakota coun- ties slashed their budgets nearly 30 per cent for the next fiscal year is given below. number of townships reporting for Included in the tabulation are levies for 1930 and 1931, the 1932, the 1932 levy as of townships reporting, the corresponding township levy in 1931 and the reduction, County Corr. Twps. 1 REPORT DISCLOSES FEDERAL DEFICIT NOW TWO BILLION | Shortage is Highest Ever Piled up by Government During Peace Times Washington, April 13.—(#?)— The {government's deficit went above the jtwo billion dollar mark on April 11 when it amounted to $2,017,858,745. On that date the government had jcollected from all sources $1,629,961,- 527 and had spent $3,647,820,272. In the general fund the government, had a deficit of $1,988,233,585 having [On TISTATE INSTITUTIONS | "PLAN RIGID ECONOMY ports in Chicago | |Reduction of 20 Per Cent in > Maintenance Costs Pre- * dicted by Sauvain | , Chicago, April 13.—(#)—One | Voter in the middle west Tuesday | had everything his own way. | | ‘ Julian Dojmoeich was the-only legal voter in the 15th precinct of { the township of Worth on Chi- | ago’s far south side. Dojmoeich acted as his own clerk and judge of election, made out his ballot in his home, which was designated as the polling place, and then solemnly reported to election commissioners the out- come of the “struggle” in the pre- cinct. His wife ig not naturalized and | | most of the territory in the pre- i | ¢inct is occupied by cemeteries. | Plans for reduction of maintenance [costs aoe ocak by approxi- mate! © cent nex! a gressing favorably, Nelson Sauvain, chairman of the state board of ad- Iministration, said Tuesday. Conferences have been held by members of the Board with the heads faculties of four teachers col- leges, while similar meetings are to be held at the University, the agri- ultural college, the Mayville teach- Srey oouees, ane ee genoot for the feeble minded at Gra: Faculty members have reduced the degrees. The average precipitation of ‘both road work and bridges each year -80 also was below normal. to contractors. In some instances it Stock is deriving but a very smail jooks like extravagance and excessive. Portion of its feed requirements from. at our town meeting someone asked the range and pasture. Stockmen feat me if the bonding of the township a further decline in the condition of jofticers is not too high. The premium herds and flocks before grazing canon state bonds amounted to $20 or become general. '$95 for the treasurer, clerk and as- Livestock reporters in general stat-|sessor for a surety of $3,000, or about ed that the cattle and sheep were cor high as old line life or fire in- siderably thinner than normal except! surance. We have never heard of a in the eastern portion of the state.!town or school officer skipping out Calf and lamb prospects are not SO and this department paying a loss. For favorable as they were a year ago, due|this reason there must be a big ac- to the thinner and poorer condition of; cumulation of moneys in the state many of the breeding cows and ewes.|honding department from all town, Losses to livestock are increasing! school, county and state officers. That due to the weakened condition. par-iseems like an excessive drain from ticularly of the cows and ewes Of/those funds, Will the state bondine breeding age. A very smail carry ever of feed 18| columns of this paper? reported and that omiy in the eastern)” we have also another drain from por of the state. Soil moisture | jie school funds each The work- conditions are becoming more favor-! men's compensation bureau takes & able a5 75 per cent of the reporters |ioi1 from these funds, for what I view it. However, much additional | ;now not, but I have yet to see where moisture is needed in the northwest-| our school has ever received any ben ern and west central paris of the state efit for any moneys so paid out what- before conditions can be termed “fa-!soever, And there is still another vorable.” drain from the school funds. The Ranges teachers’ insurance and retirement North Dakota ges are in faltitoll, This is also compulsory (same as condition, remainin' 3 per cent of! the workmen's compensation). A normal, the same as a month ago, but/teacher must pay a certain per cent well below the condition of 75 pet of her salary each month which the cent a year ago, and 77.2 the five-year? | school clerk holds cut no matier if average. ‘the teacher wants it or not. If a Cattle and Calves teacher does not teach 25 years sho North Dakota cattle and calves fell never hears of this money so paid out. off a point in condition during the | This law makes for higher wages for month. The present condition of 74 teachers which comes indirectly from per cent of normal compares with 75! taxation. per cent a month ago, 84 per cent 4{ Then there is another drain from year ago and 83.0 per cent, the fives |the school funds: The county directors’ year average. imeetings each year where the whole Sheep school board, including the clerk, car North Dakota sheep condition also! attend and come home after singing declined during the month. The pres-/4 few songs and collect $7.00 each. It ent condition figure is represented bY !ceems one representative from each 76 per cent of normal as compared | school district ought to be enough for with 78 ner cent a month ago. 84 Per | these meetings. Here is something ¢ent a year azo. and 85.2 per cent. the ‘the taxpayers should look into before Regional ciosing any common schools and re- five-year average. The Livestock office at Denver states that quiring children to travel from four to “Sheep on the western ranges have |ci< miles to a school house in the ‘department please advise through the | $29) 841,143 1,21 ‘North Dakota Townships NAB RUM RUNNER ing Fired Upon by Customs Men Near Northgate Minot, N. D., April 13—()—With bullets spurting at the fleeing ma- chine, two of which crashed into the car, two U. S. customs officers ran down and captured a liquor-laden automobile and its driver a few miles south of the international boundary line near Northgate. Halvor Carlstad, Minot, who was driving the liquor machine, was ar- ested on a charge of \smuggling liquor into the U. S. When arraigned before U, S. Commissioner Thomas B. Murphy in Minot, he waived a hearing and was ordered held to await the action of the federal grand |jury. He furnished bonds of $2,000. Canadian officals, hearing of the apprehension and the seizure of the Canadian liquor, started an investi- gation which resulted in Harvey Swenson of Northgate, Sask. being arrested on a charge of violating the Canadian liquor laws. He was fined | $50 and costs. The allegation against Swenson was that he furnished the Uquor found in the automobile cap- ; tured by the U. S. customs officers. | IN BORDER FIGHT | An average reduction of almost 30 Minot Man Captured After Be-! Per cent was made in budgets adopted | experienced the most severe winte fn many years... . In sections wher. ewes are thin the lamb crop will be short. If April and May weather should .e sev will be heav Early lambs from the warmer states. Kansas, City for these early averaged $2.00 per hundred & year ago. are being marketed Prices at lambs ss than People’s Forum Editor's Note.—The Tribune wel- comes letters on subjects of in- terest. Letters dealing with con- | troversial religious subjects, which | attack individuals unfairly. or which offend good taste and fair play will be returned to the writers. All letters MUST be signed. yu wish to use a pseudonym. sign the pseudonym first and your own name beneath it. We will re- spect such requests. We reserve the right to delete such parts of letters as may be necessary to conform to this policy. SEES NO COOPERATION Bisbee, N. D.. April 7th, 1932. Editor, Tribune Referring to your editorial of April 1st, “Our Kaleidoscopic Politics.” In regards to our economic unrest we farmers have been up against that so long we are getting used to it. The City People did not stretch out their hands to help us. Now. when this eco- nomic unrest has hit the better class of people than the farmer is supposed to be, it is a different ‘hing. No doubt the City People would be pleased to think the farmers had beer: lulled to sleep and had forgotten ali the insults heaved on to them by the city people and the poison hinder the farme a better economic No, the farmers have not forgotter: when they were told to go home and slop their hogs. No. the farmers, their wives and children have not forgotter. when Freelove Burtness, with others heralded over the state and nation that the farme: of North Dakota were radicals and freelovers got his seat in congress for this great statesmanship and the city people arc | still voting strong for him, so they can not have changed mucn in favor of the farmers. No, we have not forgotten. and neither are we going to forget the traitors in our own ranks when elec- tion comes around. The farmers voted for the reten- tion of the capitol at Bismarck, for fair play and business principles, not because we had a greater love for the citizens of Bismarck, as the majority of them are just as bad as the rest of the city people in our small towns, voting against the farmers and their pregram as the last election will ver- ify. Tecan not see that the Bank of North Dakota is such a foolish experi- ment. It has made money from its beginning and if it had not been for the amendment the Bankers got tacked on to the law it would have saved hundreds of thousands of dol- lars of vublic funds that have been lost in closed banks. ‘The Bank of North Dakota could be of greater benefit to the people of the state than it is now and it should be, as the foreign institutions called banks we have now are draining the state of every penny we have. That is the I. V. A. program and the majority of the business men are upholding it. and of course the kept press, backed up by the financial interests in the east. spring sheep losses! cold. The arrest of Swenson was made by \Constable Wilson of the North Portal {department of Royal Canadian Mounted police. | U. S. customs patrolmen, Mitchell | and Charbonneau, of the Portal unit | |made the arrest of Carlstad after a RAitor reihunes \five-mile chase over prairie trails. What is the idea of leaving out the/The trunk on the liquor laden ma- EMIL MOSES. Rock Hill Township. Wing, N. Dak. HELP! WE'LL DO IT Bismarck, N. D.. April 11, 1932. | Reduce Budgets ‘Survey Discloses Reduction is 715 Subdivisions Totals 30 Per Cent March 15 by 715 townships in 28 North Dakota counties, according to statis- tics recently presented by the Fargo Forum. This economy move will mean a saving of $376,132 to taxpayers in the 28 counties during *eBudgets fixed udgets fixed March 15 totaled only $841,143 compared to $1,217,275 for the same townships a year ago. Heaviest reductions occurred in the most populous areas, with Cass re- Roe the sharpest decrease, $55,761. lercer county's single organized township failed to reduce it udget. Bottineau county, in the northeast- jern part of the state, slashed its bud- get by $23,000 while Sargent county, in the opposite corner of the state, cut its expenditures by $22,472. Township funds are expended in the main for roads and bridges and main- tenance of highways. Officers con- visors and an assessor, paid as @ rule at @ rate of so much for each meeting. The assessor is paid for each day he works, The saving in practically all the townships was effected through elim- ination of road work, reducing costs of road maintenance, and cutting the small wages of township officers. On an average, the townships spent $2,075 each in 1930, $1,702 each in 193i, and in 1932 levied $1,176. Nels Berglin, night marshal here since April 1, was killed Tuesday night in an exchange of shots with two bandits | who attempted to rob a filling station. the next fiscal) ‘Sist Of a treasurer, clerk, three super- | |collected $1,607,726,897 since last July 1 and spent $3,595,960,482. ifor the major item of decrease, {amounting to $859,523,350 compared [with $1,511,704,722 in the same period jlast year. | Expenditures amounted to $2.033,- | 788.340 compared with $1,748,772,385 last year. The postal deficiency had piled up to $145,018,810, an increase of $41,- 000.000 over the same period a yea> age. The $2,000,000,000 deficit was the highest ever piled up by the govern- ment in peace times. | During the war it went above that figure twice. In 1918 it amounted to $9,611,482,739 while in 1919, the rec- ord. it amounted to $14,197,760,281, The deficit for the present year to {date already is twice that of last year |when it amounted to $903,000,000. | —— | Avsafety rug now on the market will {not slip on highly polished floors be- jcause of a rubber cushion on which ; the rug is built. | Income tax collections accounted} \Railroads Cut Rate On Auto Shipments ) | averaging around 20 per cent in rail- road rates on automobiles and trucks shipped in carloads from the Twin Cities and Duluth-Superior to all |points in Minnesota, North Dakota ‘and Wisconsin will be put in effect at ee by railroads serving the terri- ry. The lower rates were proposed by jthe carriers through the Interstate {Commerce Commission as a move to ;meet the competition of trucks and trailers that transport cars to Twin Was ‘warehouses from the head of the I DETROIT CUTS SALARIES | Detroit, April 13—(/)—The city jcounell has balanced its current year’s budget with an ordinance reducing salaries of 18,000 municipal employes 33 1/3 per cent, St. Paul, April 13.—(?)—Reductions | maintenance costs through a 10 per cent salary reduction for all em- ployes, and reduction of teaching |staffs where necessary. ‘While the conferences deal primar- ily with reduction of next year's ‘budgets, the various institutions are effecting substantial economies this year, according to Sauvain. si ‘At the state hospital for the in- sane, Sauvain said, a saving of ap- proximately $1,500 a month is being effected through reduction of the cost of maintenance. Price of Gasoline Increased One Cent Chicago, April 13.—(#)—The recent advance in crude oil prices in the midcontinent field was reflected Wednesday in an_ announcement from the Sinclair Consolidated Oil company of a one-cent-a-gallon in- crease in gasoline for tank wagon and service station delivery. The Wistonsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Budapest is on both sides of the Danube river. Buda is on one side and Pest on the other. | | is rig and South Dakota. kerosene also was advanced @ cent @ gallon. The price of! ! new price is effective immediately in| priced brands. North Dakota Boy Is Accidentally Killed Sherwood, N. D., April 13.-()-Ziby Hoeffer, 14, living on @ farm 20 mile northwest of Sherwood, was kille when he grabbed for a gun which haj slipped from his hand and the weapoy discharged, the bullet striking neq his heart. ‘The victim was accompanied by 4 younger brother. The accident hay pened a short distance from thei] home. | In addition to the parents, the Ms is survived by three brothers ai three sisters. —_—_—_—_——X—X—X—X\—mKavX—***_*_== BAKING ‘POWDER SAME PRICe 40 YEAR® Guaranteed pure and efficient. USE less than of high ht, Ca Forest Lake, Minn., April 13.—()— | 103,500 Mil | product “Barbs?” I looked all over tonight's paper, but couldn't find tiem, so I concluded that you discontinued these writings. I urge you to continue them if possible, in the future. I always read and enjoyed and I think everybody else di “This Curious World” also interest them, id_ too. me. Hoping to see the “Barbs” in print again, I remain, | SILENT READER. ‘Commission Hearing | Sugar Tariff Fight | Washington, April 12.—()—Opposi- tion to an increase in the tariff on re- fined sugar was marshalled before the tariff commission Wednesday by American importers of Cuban refined sugar and Cuban growers and re- finers. | Their main contention was an in- jerease would add from $70,000,000 to | $100,000.00 to the American sugar bill, and that American refiners now are making a substantial profit while {Cuban producers of the raw material ‘are suffering losses. | American refiners, cane and beet growers Tuesday asked the commis- {sion to recommend a higher rate in- asmuch as Cuban refiners could ship into the United States by paying a ‘duty of $2.12 while they must pay $2.14 on each 107 pounds of the raw required to produce 100 pounds of refined sugar. They also | testified Cuban interests enjoyea cheaper freight rates to important consuming points. Sell Floating Power To French Auto Man Burtness ! Andre Citroen, frequently referred ! to as the Henry Ford of France. has secured a license to use the “Float- ing Power” method of engine mount- ing, according to the M. B. Gilman company, local distributors of Ply- mouth and Dodge. | Announcement was broadcast in ;Paris that all Citroen cars now are ‘fitted with the trunnion type, rub- ber-cushioned engine support, accord- ing to the license granted Citroen. Arrangements to this effect were con- summated some time ago, but the in- troduction of the new system in Eur- ope was held back until existing stocks of cars were sold. The license applies not only to cars built in France but also to those as- sembled at Citroen’s foreign branches. This type of floating power is used in Dodge Brothers and Plymouth cars, according to M. B. Gilman. Scandal Uncovered In Big Ohio County Cleveland, jTeaching functions of the Cuyahoga county treasury (Cleveland) which annually handles approximately $80,-, , 000.000 were threatened Wednesdat ; With the possibility of a temporary jtie-up to permit a state investigation of alleged discrepancies amounting to April 13. — () — Far-} ‘chine, it was reported, had been con- verted into an auxiliary gasoline tank j with a capacity of 30 gallons. ' Small Victorious in Illinois G. O. P. Race Chicago, April 13—()—Len Small, j Bearing the end of man's three score and ten, has broken down the first barrier to the pinnacle no one has reached; three times governor of Illi- nois. And with Small once again, in the jreturn to Republican power, was Wil- liam Hale Thompson, thrice Chicago's mayor. Returns from two-thirds of the state | indicated the Kankakee farmer-bank- ; et would have a plurality of at least 85,000 over his nearest opponent, Omer N. Custer, former state trea- surer. Next November, Small’s final foe | will be Probate Judge Henry Horner, of Chicago, Backed by Mayor Anton J. Cermak and the county Democratic | organization, Horner smothered na- | tional Committeeman Michael Igoe in the party's greatest outpouring of | voters, | Like all of Small’s battles, the pri- ; Mary campaign this spring ‘vas bit- jterly partisan. Five party leaders | sought the toga. The incumbent Re- |publican governor, Louis L, Emmer- | son, who defeated Small in the 1928 jprimary, did not seek a second term. ‘Heydler Asks Delay Of Season Opening Cincinnati, O., April 13.—(4)—John A Heydler, president of the National League Wednesday announced his in-- tention of urging that opening base- ball games of the season be delayed “for two weeks at least.” to avoid the weather jinx so often interrupting opening schedules. “The major leagues,” he said, “have come to the point where they musc seriously consider the advisability of moving down the season openings for two weeks at least. Experience as to April weather in the last two years shows us that there is but one chance out of ten of having good weather in this month.” Livestock Starving In Ash-Covered Area Buenos Aires, April 13.—(4)—Starv- ing livestock throughout a consider- able area in western Argentina where the grass is covered with voleanic ash Wednesday formed the chief problem remaining from the volcanic erup- tions of the early part of the week. INDIAN MEETING CALLED OFF Sioux Falls, 8. D., April 13.—(P)— | Because of the inability of federal In- dian department officials to reach here in time, the proposed two-day meeting of Indian service officers of the northwest was called off. The ‘meeting had been planned for Tues- | $679,482, The county treasurer, L. G. Collis- ter, last night asked State Auditor day and Wednesday. VICKS COUGH DROP .,- All you’ve hoped for in a Cough Drop— medicated with ingredients of Special Values WASH DRESSES 2 for $1.00 Sizes to 52, include values to $1.00 LADIES’ SHOES 50c Pair Closing out a group at this bargain price FIBRE SILK STOCKINGS An Interview by ROBERT J. CASEY Chicago Daily News Reporter Carrol Edgren, insurance man of St. Paul, talks about transpor-. 15c Pair All sizes for children, as- sorted patterns. 35¢ val. SILK DRESSES $2.95 Just received from New York, newest spring styles. BED SHEETS 59c 81x90 Come Here for Bargains BISMARCK ARROL EDGREN, insurance man, stood beside his Pon- tiac parked in front of his St. Paul home, to add 40,500 and 63,000 and note that they totaled 103,500. “That's not the census of the Twin Cities,” he said as he dis- played the result to the inquiring reporter. “It’s my mileage on Iso- Vis Motor Oil .. . And I'll bet the cars in last year’s road tests never came anywhere near that figure.” “It’s all Iso-Vis mileage?” de- manded the reporter. ¢ Mr. Edgren nodded. “All of it,” he stated with some emphasis. “The 40,500 miles is on the speedometer of the Pontiac right here. The other 63,000 was the total on my other Pontiac when “A car to me isn’t just a sort of perambulator that you use to give the kiddies the air. It’s nothing but transportation. And I make it work. “I started to use Iso-Vis the first day it was put on the market in St. Paul. My friend at the filling station gave me a sales talk on it and I took it for what it was worth.. , Then my repair bills began to give me a sales talk and I’ve stuck to it ever since. You can quote me on tation—tells Casey how to drive 103,500 miles with minor repair bills, that if you want to. And get the total right — 103,500 miles.” od ° ° Mr. Edgren’s 103,500 trouble-free miles prove again what Iso-Vis has demonstrated in laboratory tests and in A. A. A. tests on the Indianapolis Speedway — Positive Lubrication Protection. Iso-Vis (a Standard Oil product) will not thin out from dilution. See the Ball and Bottle Test at Standard Oil service stations and dealers, wt I S 0 50% put Dileries sentir: ‘ I can see no harmony or co-opera- Joseph T. Tracy to take over the of- tion between se, Hones ee and | fice ba conduct an examination of the farmers, unti e business mes |its affairs, are down to the level with the farm-| The spotlight of investigation thus , er, and at the rate it is going now he |far has revealed numerous illegal | goon will be, as the javeranons! | Practices including alleged “loans’ | fenkers and financiers whom ;amounting to $186,366. made to po- businessmen have been supporting in- ' litical associates and oth: I turned it in. I figure I’ve covered the entire 103,500 miles in a little more than four years. BARGAIN STORE 114 Fifth Street stead of the farmer, are seeing to of holding uncashed ch that. They will get us al! unless some in pay |ment for taxes. by means | | STANDARD OIL COMPANY