The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 22, 1932, Page 4

ana eee People’s Forum Editor's Not ‘he Tribune w. comes letters on subjects of terest. Letters dealing with con- troversial religious subjects, which attack individuals unfairly, or which offend good taste and fair play be returned to the writers. All letters MUST be signed. If yu wish to use a pseudonym, sign the pseudonym first and your own name beneath it. Woe will re- spect, such requests. We reserve the right to delete such parts of letters as may be necessary to conform to this policy, DOESN'T LIKE HOOVER Bismarck, N. D. June 18, 1932. Editor, Tribune Whence are we drifting? An agricultural bulletiu of Aug. 31 entitled “The Agricultural Situa- tion” shows the business situation in the U. S., for the t year among other things how wages were being cut to adjust them to a lower level. This unjust situation has been brought about 1 will destroy the purchasing power ness. On the other hand, all fixed incomes are tax exempt and will therefore be of no 1e in the pro- motion of better tin All these earnings will be reinvested in tax ex- empt secu Congres rado states th 090,000 invested in fed: tax exempt securities and $30,000,000,000 addi- tional are found in 1¢ll Hull of Colo- e $38,000,000,000 nt conditions power and the rich” nd mislea has under doubled in expression of absolutely ur ing. In 1930. able to the writer with a yearly of $3,670,000 each, while 4,000,000 wo: ie aged an income of $6 thermore, c come of over figures it wil ers are bei: sold for mortgages and taxes, and their jobs gone. Destitution has be- come ram; land of plenty I may ask in all When are the people goir The state co! Connecticut report conditions exi industrial e ton, Conn., working 55 of slavery jout the el- girls week for the Some of rela- hours per $1.97 and other tives that they must help for exist- of them have parents ence. At Willamantic ¢: as learners wo! for just 10 c employed 55 hours per week t ie ali- told to ‘ough noon hours and stopped to eat their lunch were discharge for s girls they g obedience of rules. ‘Wm. Green, president of the s that fcan Federation of Labor, sti he can no early improvement ahead. : “Soaking” the rich is a wail by our ing the two are get- f in huddle to get of our people. for the therefore hough con- t little pro- 3 and con- Hoover having the n can be had for In 1924, as . Hoover wrote 'y of commerc a letter to Representative John J. McSwain during a hearing of the house committee on milit affairs advocating a bla president to fi compensa suspend habea him absolute fications ove letter shows pla ors, He wa: ity to the nsportation, etc. To and The r cole to th ic control as sec- As former food dministrator he had absolute con- used etary of commerce. nployed as an engineer for ish companies in China, he had orial power. As secretary of ‘commerce he was thrown in contact with the bi liy and in- irially me their ser ssful, admini ant. held Ta- ever since, ton. ne en- it Be cratic rule Gen. John J. warning voices, bu’ ing, are sounding seems that the American public will not heed them. recent convention of the n Revolu- hes were made advocating ranchisement of all citizens of n birt ese American women dants from im- rope who came edom from tyranny. the dis fore’ migrants from here to gain { to our very life. . All at in this con- speech-making > was d ied upon. enlightenment being thrown the desire of money. Ai this is to continue the time will ‘come when a revolution will become necessary to clear the atmosphere. In 1930 one per cent of our popu- lation controlled 90 per cent of the country’s wealth, bringing 99 per cent of the people down to practical serf- dom. In the late European war about 4,000,000 of your youth were drafted to serve overseas. They had no choice and the writer remembers well how cheerfully they entered into the spirit. They came from every ‘walk of life, except that the rich were not represented, they being turned down by the examining board as un- fit. Hence they escaped the carnage from explosive shells and machine gun fire. Thus being exempt, they, with their wealth, entered into the business of coining as much addition- al wealth as possible, and so founda- -|Ogden L. Mills, the present incum- and cripple busi-/ ave about $8,000,- | e various states. | their homes | this dis- | Ny - prominent committee assignments as their) betterment of! giving i that their methods | did... When congress now wishes to! raise another $2,000,000,000 with which to pay the men for their service to, | their country in the time of dire need, Hoover says, “No. If you pass an- other bi) without my authority I will promptly veto it.” That's Hoover's jSquare deal. Congressman McFadden of Penn- sylvania says: “If the tax law had been enforced there would be no need for new tax laws.” He says that he called his discoveries to the personal | attention of Andrew Mellon, former secretary of the treasury, and to |bent, but has found no disposition on their part to correct existing evils, to collect back taxes or to bring this jcondition to an end. Individuals and corporations not only escape full pay- ment of their share but are recipients jof large tax refunds. There exists, jhe says, an alliance between tax jevaders, attorneys, certain public ac- |countants' and treasury officials which operates to exempt from taxation} jthose best able to pay. To get at |the facts is nearly impossible, as all information is being withheld. We can call that political racketeering. |The sham of the administration was |so completely exposed when the sen- ate was voting on balancing the bud-/ get. Holland says in his poem: For while they rabble with their thumb-worn creeds, Their large professions and their | little deeds, | Mingle in selfish strife; Lo! Free- dom weeps, Wrong rules the land and wait- ing justice weeps. i | _T am fully convinced that our North Dakota voters will use all the care at |their command in selecting men for es this fall, but I wish to point joul the extreme extravagance prac- jticed by the I. V. A. Shafer admin- istration, by which excessive taxes ‘were being loaded on to the farming |section and property owners in gen- | Now Shafer goes over the state tell- ing people of his wonderful achieve- ments as executive. About the only thing he has done is to veto the bill |reducing the allowance for sheriff's mileage to 10 cents because the sher- iffs wanted him to. Of course, Sha- fer is much interested in the salary }as a senator, as this is not to be sneezed at, though now reduced to $9,000 per year. One can perhaps not. jblame him very much, we have one |seat-warmer down there now, but we will soon be at the parting of the w with our $15,000 per year family |Tom. Every red-blooded North Da- jkota voter must go out this fall and | vote his or conviction. | I feel it will be a calamity to the |country if Hoover is given another at the white house, Like- if North Dakota people send Shafer to the U. S. senate, we will jcome to a standstill in all govern- |mental affairs bearing on our state. On the other hand if we send Mr. ain to Washington, which he . he will be given some very Ki this year the country will elect a Progressive president, house and sen- ate which will be fully pledged to re- |store to the country the people's in- jterests which have now been 80 fla- \erantly disregarded. A SINCERE VOTER. CONVINCING ARGUMENT NOT ENOUGH Bismarck, N. D, Tribune: reprint from the New York Time ‘Mood of the Mid-West” in last Tuesday's Tribune, aptly shows the mind of the great eastern centers | toward agrciultural conditions in this |part of the country. Being a large city daily, no doubt the Times is con- servative as well. But, when it says [that the ideas of the farmer as to | bettering his condition must not be | ridiculed, but dealt with with convine- jing argument, it doesn’t appreciate the attitude of the embattled farmer. Too long have smug, self-satisfied pol- | iticians and bankers attempted to sat- jisfy the farmer's demand for justice jwith “convincing argument.” Too long has the farmer listened to them and received nothing but platitudes | and empty promises. Too long has he |wallowed in the slough of despair | while others grew fat upon his labor. jIt is time for the farmer to assert himself and to demand his just por- |tion of what he produces. | The Times says it takes 1,200 bush- |els of wheat to pay the interest on a {$10,000 mortgage, and in 1920 it only took 240 bushels, yet it would satisfy |the farmer by telling him the credi- | tor must be saved at his expense. AS jlong as it takes two dollars worth of produce to pay back every dollar bor- | rowed, so long will this country have depression. Put the farming business back where it once was and other in- dustries will follow it. Are our poli- jticians too dumb to see and realize this, or is it they just don’t care? There is a lot of hullabaloo about | balancing the country’s budget. How, and when is the farmer's budget go- ing to be balanced? It makes the farmer hopping mad to have bankers and other big-mon- eyed men tell him he is so much bet- {ter off than the man in the city out jof a job. To be sure, he gets enough to eat, but when he tries selling his j Produce he finds he is outside look- ing in, Who will dispute the fact that, while groceries, machinery and other | Necessities have lowered some in price, {they still are far above what they should be, taking into consideration the fact the farmer has lost almost if not fully 75 per cent of his income? How far does a dollar go? How many hides, cans of cream, hogs, poultry and other farm products does it take to pay interest and taxes? And what excuse is offered for the juggling go- ing on in farm prices, while staples vary but little in price once they en- ter the market as finished products? No, convincing argument will never appeal to the farmer again. He smells a “nigger” in the woodpile, and he is going to smoke him,out. He is either going to receive a fair price for his products or he is going to compel oth- ers to share his loss. He is no longer going to shoulder the whole burden and let his creditors and the big- Editor early "70s. at Girard, Fort Scott and Fort Hays, while at Fort Ha: ordered to Chicago in October, during the big fire in that city. they remained for several weeks, do- ing police duty and protecting prop- erty. Sixth Infantry was Buford, Dakota Te up the Missouri river from Yankton on the steamboat “Sioux City” to Fort Buford, 1873, the ‘government made an ex- ploration of the Yellowstone The steamboat “Key West” was char- tered for the work. General Sandy Forsyth commanded the expedition. When the “Key Wes Buford, two companies of the Sixth Murdock and Ames, joined the party. Murdock’s company. went up the Yellowstone as far as the mouth of Powder river. Larson’s company took part in run- tions were being laid for additional|Moneyed interests profit to the tune fortunes. Being at peace at home in| of 100 per cent while he and his fam- the pursuit of more money, which| ily go without the necessities of life. they acquired, they, first of ali, should! And, if the farmer in the Mid-West be more than willing to pay the in-| has raised kick enough to cause the debtedness of the war and in a meas-| dust to be seen in New York, as this ure reward those boys who endured | @rticle indicates, it only proves what ‘the tortures of hell in the trenches|® Powerful fellow he is when fully France. of . Many of them never re-| aroused. |. Others came bac! A CITIZEN. for life and there are instances where ears they were utterly unfit to engage in Bismarck, N. D. any whatsoever. cannot pay for this, and we, as a nation, should do ajl in our power'| the oldest veteran living in Bismarck, Money | Editor, Tribune: i Mr. Louis Larson, 416 Third 8t., is to see to it that they are properly! Mr. Larson, who is over 85 years of ‘treated. But humanity is very frail | age, enlisted in Company I, Sixth its memory is short. United States Infantry, near Fort gress to provide | Scott, Kansas, in December, 1870, General W. B. Hazen was in com- shady bankers, discredited stock|mand of the regiment. ‘brokers, nimble financiers and dou-| Mr. Larson saw active service on |‘ ple-dealing directors. And congress|the Kansas and western plains in the THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1932 — ea OUT OUR WAY needed more and started on gasoline. However, this was not quite perfected until the state government changed By Williams hands in 1923 and they levied a one- cent gas tax on every gallon of gaso- line that was shipped into the state of North Dakota for sale, to defray the running expenses of the state. See Sec. 2259a2, S. L. to 1913. I think that is about all that the state needetl for running it before the gasoline tax law was enacted. I would like to ‘know from the state treasurer how much this one-cent gasoline tax amounts to. It would give me an idea how much gasoline (in gallons) is sold in North Dakota. The oil com- ; pany pays that one cent and charges it to the consumer. Then we pay three cents motor vehicle fuel tax and soon the U. S. will charge us one cent, so we will pay five cents taxes on gasoline. When they needed more money they enacted a law, 1927 ses- sion laws, Chapter 106, providing for the sale of cigarettes and snuff and bg laws providing for an indirect ax, It does not matter whether it is a direct tax or an indirect tax, it is put upon the public and we must pay it. When I started my home I paid $8.00 per one quarter section taxes. Now I am paying on some of my land $80.00 per quarter. Did our fore- fathers mean when they enacted the constitution that such land which the state acquires by making a loan (not from school money) should be ex- empted from taxation and those taxes put upon those people who have a home left? Those two major po- litical parties in our great state which have been exchanging power between themselves, have they done to others as they wish to be done to them? Can we trust them? How long can we keep our homes at this rate of taxation under present prices? JULIUS MEYER. “ORWILLAMS e-22 i Editor's Note: If, as Mr. Meyer 0.1992 BY NEA Si suggests, the People’s Forum is Mr. Larson was stationed ning the States and Canada, known as the | |Boundary Survey, and his company | his company was! marched on foot from Fort Buford to| 1871, {the summit of the Rocky Mountains’ where | and back to Fort Buford. | In May, 1875, Mr. Larson’s company was transferred from Fort Buford to Fort Rice, and on Dec. 13, 1875, at Standing Rock, Dakota Territory, Mr. Larson received an honorable dis- charge, and on the next day he came to Bismarck. Since that time, Dec. | 14, 1875, he has been a resident of | | Bismarck. | i ‘ansas, until the summer of 1872, and f 187M@part of the ordered to Fort itory, and went In the summer Mont. In the summer of river, Sam Cling is another veteran. He belonged to Captain Sanger’s com-| jpany of the Seventeenth Infantry. Cling was with the Terry expedition that left Fort Abraham Lincoln, Da- kota Territory, on May 17, 1876, st” arrived at Fort commanded by Captains Jacob Horner is another veteran. | Horner has the distinction of being | Bismarck’s only veteran of General Custer’s old Seventh Cavalry. There | are quite a number of the old Sev- enth Cavalry boys who took part in Mr. Larson belonged to Captain The “Key West” During the summer of 1874, Mr. line between the United] are living. Chip Creighton of Man- dan is one of the survivors. Editor, Tribune: don’t announce themselves in your paper? lishing too many of those letters in the should know the facts. struction how to vote from both par- ties that have been in power since 1919 and each party is telling how good it has done, also how much more good it power. they have done? in the constitution. which reads in part, “not to exceed in any dollar of the assessed valuation of all taxable property in the state.” that mean a reduction of 25 per cent? Certainly not. the Little Big Horn tragedy who still searing the politicians, we should say it has proved to be a valuable instrument in the public welfare. W. A. FALCONER. FAVORS TAX BILLS Sanger, N. D., June 17, 1932. DAMNS THE POLITICIANS Baldwin, N. D., June 16, 1932, | Editor, Tribune: The June 16 issue of your good na- per carried the comment of the Het- tinger County Herald on the initia- tive measures in this way, “Vote No and Let It Go,” instructing the peo- ple to vote against laws which may be of some benefit to them. Farther on in this same piece of scandal the writer makes the statement that through the initiative is not the proper way in which our laws should be enacted as we have representatives by whom our laws are made. | Still he contradicts his own state- ments by saying it was too bad the gasoline tax was not passed when voted on at the presidential election in March, a law voted down both in the last session and also last spring by the voting constituency of the state. It is a question in my mind whether a man of this caliber knows exactly what he wants. Why is it that those politicians | It must be that you're pub- People’s Forum. The public This writer has now received in- ill do when it gets back into Why do they not tell us all The state tax levy is provided for See Sec. 174, y one year four mills on the Does leclass of this state know as well as any one what they want is tax re- duction and believe they are very foolish if they do not vote yes on all initiative measures. In the case of schools, as I under- stand it, under the new law of low- ering valuation any school district which wishes to do so or go in debt farther may double its levy and raise as much money as is needed, or tax the district to their own liking. You can see plainly that lowering the val- uation will in no way hamper the op- eration of the schools. Efficiency is another great talking Point for the present office holders. Remarks of this kind, should wages be reduced, we are bound to get in- efficient help to manipulate our pub- lic offices. The state of North Da- kota has a $40,000,000 debt and the U. S. government has a $3,000,000,000 deficit. It appears as though our ef- ficient public servants we have now are moving in the wrong direction. I would like to hear others’ opin- ions on these subjects. WALT M. STAIGLE. Editor's Note: The history of the gasoline tax increase proposal is that it was beaten by the peo- | ple two years ago, approved by the legislature in 1931, referred to the people and beaten by them again last March. + HOT FOR PROHIBITION Bismarck, N. D., June 21, 1932. Editor, Tribune: What is there to the claim that le- galizing the sale of liquor would help the unemployment situation? The statistical abstract of the U. 8. tells us that brewers employed 178 Wage earners for every million do}-j lars invested in the business, while other industries on the average em- Ployed 318 wage earners. Anyone knows that money used to support brewers can’t be uscd to support! other industries, and the above fig- four times as good employers in pro- | Portion to investment as the brewers. | Then -there is the retail end of the, business. It doesn’t take as long to| Serve a beer as to serve an ice cream soda. In proportion to customers | served, the soda fountains are better employers than liquor retailers. Every Person employed by liquor retailers will take jobs away from more than! one soda fountain employee. | MAYBE SOME ONE WILL ANSWER | Bismarck, N. D., June 20, 1932. | Editor, Tribune: | The trouble with repealing prohibi- tion is that every other plan of con- trolling the liquor traffic has been tried and has failed. Take the Canadian plan. The Mon- treal Star says that drunkenness there among women has increased 53 per | cent. Remember this when some one | tells you that more women are drink- ing under prohibition. In Alberta, one cannot purchase li- | quor, except from bootleggers, without a permit. Permits to the number of In 1919 the party then in power} I am of the opinion the common they are © Milder ! YOU'RE RIGHT... there’s one thing that stands out about Chesterfield. That is... they’re Milder. This means Chesterfields aren’t harsh. It means they’re not strong or heavy. Early in the day or late at night you'll find that Chesterfields are always pleasing. They are mild and yet they satisfy. What's more they taste better, too. That's it... milder and better taste. These are the two out- standing merits of Chesterfield. Plus...a third important advantage. Chester- fields are as pure as the water you drink... as pure as science can make them. Chesterfield Radio Program MON. &@ THUR. TUES. @ FRI. Boswett Aux Sisters Gray © 1952, Licesrt & Myzas Tonacco Co, 60,000 Were issued the first year. The third year the number had grown to 144,000. The provincial board of liquor con- trol of British Columbia expresses the opinion that as much liquor is sold by bootleggers as in government stores The statistical department of the Dominion of Canada reports that ar- rests for drunken driving have in- creased 1300 per cent in six years, Why should anyone who favors temperance vote for repealing prohibi- tion, when every other plan has been tried and has failed? A CITIZEN. ¢—________——-e Barbs o¢————___—_-—_+ Andrew L. Mellon is a bigger figure jin London than he was in Washing- ton, a cable dispatch says. Andy never tried knee pants in Washing- ton. At last we've found out why cadets at West Point and Annapolis feel so superior to ordinary college students. They get a job along with their di- plomas. Jimmy Walker went to Detroit tc attend the meeting of mayors dis- cussing the unemployment problem. Of course no one will believe that the Seabury investigation had anything to do with Jimmy's interest in un- employment. * An Ohio politician is advocating that horse racing be placed under state control. What is the man thinking about? He must want to destroy the last vestige of confidence in the honesty of the tracks. Political writers are having a lot |to say about what congress has done |tor the “vets. Haven't they gotten “vets” and “votes” confused? (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) ures show that other industries 9¢¢ | You don’t have to pay a cent down to get an elec- tric refrigerator nor even sign a sales contract. Sint- ply pay 5'4c per meal—the amount you usually pay for ice. GAMBLE STORES 0. A. CONVERT Candidate for CORONER of BURLEIGH COUNTY Your vote and support will be greatly appreciated. (Pol. Adv.) No Question Ab