The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 7, 1932, Page 3

Agriculturists Began Move- ment Because They Are Facing Hunger ‘This is the fourth story in a series of five by Bruce Catton, staff writer for NEA Service and The Bismarck Tribune, who was sent to the midwest corn belt to find out what the “farm strike” is all about. (Copright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) Sioux City, Ia., Sept. 7—The con- servative farmer of the northwestern corn belt—where the soil is both rich and heavily mortgaged—is 5 for the first time, to think about the danger of going hungry. That ex- plains the surprising “farmers’ strike.” This is the opinion of Wallace Short of Sioux City. Short has been cl Fear of Losing Propert Prompted Farm Holiday it’s time they began wi about thelr own wives ead children first” | MANDAN NEWS | STUDENTS ENROLL IN. SCHOOLS OF MANDAN Seven Hundred and Sixty-Three Pupils Register During First Two Days Seven hundred and 63 students reg- osely | in touch with the strike from its be-|‘iered in the Mandan city schools ginning—indeed, he helped pave the |Monday and Tuesday, way for it by a decade of preaching ;C. Gould, superintendent, the farmers’ needs for unity—and he to J. The it was record- probably knows as much about the ed at the high school with 253 pupils Problems of the farmer as any man in northwestern Iowa. “The conservative farmer,” Short says, “is beginning for the first time to think about hunger. These farm- ers know that 60 per cent of them may be dispossessed of their farms at any day. That puts them face to face with the danger of actual hun- ger.” Short was mayor of Sioux City for six years. He has been a member of the state legislature for an equal pe- riod, and still is a member. He is Publisher of a weekly newspaper, “Unionist and Public Farmer.” Right now Short is interested in demonstrating that the farmers’ strike is not a radical movement at all, but an affair that has enlisted the support of the most conservative members of the farming community. “I was talking only yesterday with the leaders of this group,” he says. “They told me this: ‘We want to be so completely right that no right- minded group can condemn us. We don’t want any irresponsible fellows who are just looking for excitement to join us.’ So far they have lived ‘up to t aim very well. “Anotl conservative farmer told me this: ‘I have never seen any- thing like this in all my life. These farmers are making their appeal from what is legal to what is right. They may have forgotten what is legal, but they do know what is right and they mean to get it.’ * * * “Look at some of the things that are happening around here and you will understand how the corn ‘belt farmers feel. “There was ® case here just the other day in which a farm landlord forced a sale of his renter’s crop in order to pay a claim on last year’s rent. Get that—last year’s rent, not this year’s. “& day or so ago I met a man who had just sold five 200-pound hogs. After expenses incident to the sale and transportation of the animals had been met, he got a check for about $20. That man is deeply in debt. If he had sold those five hogs at the time that he incurred his debts, his price would have been around $75 in- stead of what he actually got. Can you see what he's up against in trying to pay off his debt? “I know another man whose mort- gage was foreclosed just recently. His entire year’s crop wouldn’t even pay the interest on his indebtedness.” Short believes that the legislature eventually will have to recognize the Towa farmer's plight and enact legis- lation to meet it. Such legislation, he believes, should include a provi- sion for a moratorium on debts until cultural loans; a very drastic reduc- tion in taxes and some provision for getting foreclosed loans back into the Ebiey i 4 g A F Sm cea school was next in 1 hebepar at by the junior hgh and the Syndica! gest 117, : e le registration was not compl iy Gould said that the most noticeable drop was noted in the freshmen class of the high school with only 95 en- rolled as against 130 last year. The sophomore class was expected to be the largest in the school, with non hand on opening of school. e seniors it raged Sy Juniors enrolled 97 egular classes started Tuesday morning after students had signed up in short sessions Monday. Students living in rural commun- ities near Mandan are expected to Swell enrollment figures somewhat after threshing operations are com- Pleted, Gould said. Pleads Guilty to Liquor Law Charge Christ Hoff of Mandan was sen- tenced to 90 days in jail and fined $25 and costs after he pleaded guilty in district court to a charge of engag- Sitee perry . Try suspended the Jail sentence and fine after He palate <i loft had if was arrested Baturday night after Mandan police and federal pro- hibition authorities confiscated a saeaey, of liquor in a raid at his jome, Child Is Injured In Auto Accident Jackie Senn, three-year-old son of oe, Mrs, peng) Senn, lies in coness hospital suffering from injurfes sustained when he struck by acar in Mandan Monday. ue a was injured when he ran ront of an automobile dri Leslie McDonald. _ owe He is suffering from lacerations to the scalp and @ fractured bone in his eB. His attending physician said the child’s condition was gdod. Red Cross Board Will Outline Year’s Plans Plans for the coming year will be Outlined at the annual meeting of the board of directors of the Morton county chapter of the American Red Cross Sept. 19, J. P. Hess, chairman, has announced. Officers will be elected and reports of commiteees read. Relief programs for the winter also will be outlined. Members of the chapter have been invited to attend, Hess said. Admits Slaying But * Can Give No Reason Boston, Sept. 7.—)—Dr. Towneley Thorndike French, 57, graduate of the Harvard Medical school, class of 1896 was held for hearing. Wednesday on charges of slaying his wife. Dr. French walked into a police station Tuesday night, laid a pistol on the desk and said “I have killed my>wife.” He told officers they would find her in bed and explained “there was no controversy, no fight. Perhaps the Bereho = analises ean explain why J Confesses Shooting Of Nebraska Officer Lincoln, Neb. Sept. 7.—(#)—Tom Hall, 20, confessed to police Wednes- sie fi 4 lets Ht 8g alu ae LH FebaE i : i ii Baas i i a Fea = fF | z HA Bs 8 H Publish Estimate of Canadian Wheat Yield Winnipeg, Man., Sept. 7.—(?)— Western Canada’s wheat fields will Produce 426,813,000 bushels this year, according to the annual estimate of peg crops compiled by the Winni- Free Press. Saskatchewan's ex- pected yield is 217,602,000 bushels, Al- berta’s 168,120,500, and Manitoba's 41,090,500. Canadian Railroad Makes Payroll Cut nesday. brings the total of of- nga shed in interests of economy Among the officers retiring are C. peels er—pamnage ol ghia Tribune Want Ads Bring Results / *lineluded the Bismarck PROPOSAL DESIGNED TO HELP TRADE IS | State Federation Would Have State Purchase Supplies For Entire Year (Tribune Special Service) Devils Lake, N. D. Sept, 7—An emergency resolution designed to stimulate trade and alleviate unem- of Women's clubs at the 36th annual convention here Wednesday morn- ing. Approximately 100 delegates were The resolution as adopted by the federation requests that Governor George F. Shafer take steps to see that all state instituions purchase their eyar’s supplies within the next three months. The action is in ac- cordance with a resolution passed at the biennial convention: of the Gen- eral Federation in Seattle this sum- mer and similar recommendations will be made: at the state federation conventions in each: ofthe 48 states. Another resolution approved by the convention changes the term of office for officers of the federation from two to three years, with no reelection at the close of the three-year term. Resolutions presented by Mrs. E. L. Simmons, New England, included changing the number of federation directors from six to eight, in order that each of the eight districts in the state may be represented; the merg- ing of the office of the vice president and auditor; the creation of an ex- ecutive committee which will transact business between the meetings of the board of directors; and the joining of the offices of corresponding and re- cording secretary. Present Reports Mrs. H. W. McArdle, Fargo, federa- tion director, and Mrs. J. A. Manly, New Rockford, fifth district president, presided with Mrs. A. E. Jones, Lis- = State president, at the morning ion, Reports of the following officers were presented: Mrs. John Knauf, Jamestown, vice president; Mrs. O. A. Stevens, Fargo, recording _ secretary; Mrs, W. 8. Parker, corresponding secretary and chairman of the mem- bership committee; Mrs. John Keoh- nae, Beach, treasurer; Mrs. C. A. Cross, Dawson, auditor; and Mrs. A. M. Powell, Devils Lake, historian. Seventeen new clubs, with a total membe! of more than 200 were affiliated with the federation during 1932, Mrs. Parker's showed. Seven of these were located in the seventh district; four in the third dis- trict; two in the second and eighth districts; and one in the first and fourth districts. Bicentennial Clubs New clubs were designated as “Bi- Centennial” clubs and will be formal- ly presented to the Federation presi- dent and its founders at a special ceremony and reception in their hon- or Thursday evening, when each is to feceive a certificate of membership. During the last four years the fed- eration has welcomed 59 new clubs with a total membership of 800, Mrs. Parker reported. She called atten- tion to the nine master clubwoman certificates presented in the state this year in recognition of attendance at three club institutes. For the third time the seventh dis- trict, Mrs, Harve Robinson, Dickinson, president, was awarded the gavel for the largest number of new clubs fed- erated during the year. The district will now have permanent possession of the gavel. Recommendation that clubs make a record of the family history of a num- ber of our prominent citizens who were born across the sea, was made by Mrs. Powell, historian. She sug- gested that a written record of the place where related families came from, together with the names of the ships they came over on and the places where the newcomers first set- tled in North Dakota, be secured by the club women. . She reported that a portfolio’ of past presidents of the state federa- tion had been prepared, with the his- tory of their service and the out- standing events of their administra tions. Mrs. James H. Cooper, Valley City, retiring president of the eighth dis- trict, which includes Bismarck, sum- marized activities in her report, Not- able among the district projects was relief work, in which every club par- ticipated. , Especially commended for their work along these lines were the Pan-Attic club, Bismarck, which out- fitted 10 families; the Winfield-Spirit- wood Mothers’ club, which donated 700 pounds of clothing in addition to large supplies of bedding and toys; and the Mercer Study club for large contributions of clothing and food. Clubs undertaking special activities ‘Thursda: Musical, which sponsored the observ- ance of music week; the Wilton Wom- an’s, which gave a motion picture show; the Washburn Study, which Published a cook book dedicated to the pioneer mothers of McLean coun- ty; and the Dawson Fortnightly, which opened a public library of 500 volumes. Throughout the district clubwomen cooperated in a program of exceptional service to their com- munities, Mrs. Cooper said. Still Unconscious | Unconscious for 13 days. after an automobile accident, Jeanette Richard, six-year-old Wilton child, still was in a coma Wed- nesday, a victim of concussion of the brain. Critically ill, she has shown no improvement, her attending phy- sician said. The child was injured Aug. 26 when an automobile driven by her mother, Mrs. Ted Richard, plunged through the railing of a bridge six miles northeast of Wil- ton. Except for brief periods of lousness, 3 o accident, Four other persons, slightly in- FAVORED BY WOMEN} {a national park. sn cape Dewey Moorh ee & se # i | | (Tribune Special Service) saving the life of his “buddy” three times in France, was buried her with military services. Moorhead, who is credited by Dan Panko, World War veteran from Solen, with having saved Panko’s life three times, died at. his home here Aug. 28. A firing squad from Fort Lincoln, present for interment services at the Flasher cemetery and a buglar played taps as the body was lowered into the grave. Moorhead enlisted with Company F, of the 164th Infantry, at Fort Lin- colin May 5, 1917, and landed in France in November, 1917, In the company with him were Panko, “Tommy” Thompson, Ernest Utter, Carl Tullberg and many others of the first North Dakota men to enlist. Upon its arrival in France, the er World War Veteran Gassed Twice Fighting in France Flasher, N. D., Sept..7—A World |transferred to the 26th Infantry of War veteran who was credited with |the First Division. U. S. army post at Bismarck, was/6' * ne ae & ead Was Hero * e# & ene first North Dakota regiment was The Flasher man first saw service in the trenches March 7, 1918, on the Montsac front. He later fought on the Mandidees and Cantigny fronts, Soissons, St. Mihiel, Argonne woods, and Sedan, ending his service as a member of the army of occupation in Germany. He was gassed at Soissons and Ar- one. Returning to the United States in September, 1919, he became a mem- ber of the Gilbert Furness post of the American Legion at Mandan. Several members of the Lloyd Spetz post at Bismarck attended the fu- neral and burial services here. Pallbearers were members of the Sioux county post of the Legion, all of whom saw service in France. were Panko, Fred Patchel, Homer Hinton, John Hillburg, Lesile Ewert and Henry Arndt. | People’s Forum Editor’s Note.—The Tribune comes letters on subjects terest. Letters dealing with troversial religious subjects, which attack individuals unfairly, or which offend good taste and tair play will be returned to the vriters. All tetters MUST be signed. If y.u wish to use a pseudonym, sign the pseudonym first and your own name beneath it. We will re- spect such requests. We reserve the tight to delete such parts of letters as may. be necessary conform to this policy. SUPPORTS LIGNITE Bismarck, N. D., Sept. 2, 1932. Editor, Tribune: May I use a little of your space to jmake a few suggestions? When our leity commissioners decide on the kind ‘of heat to use in the city hall and jlibrary we hope they will take into consideration the good of the com- munity. Lignite coal may seem to cost @ little more but they should re-. member that the money spent for) coal is kept in,our county and state. If the merchants and business men of Bismarck want to help end the de- pression in Burleigh county, they jwould use lignite coal and see that every state employe here did the same. Practically every cent spent for lig- nite coal is kept here. The owner of the mine, miner, truck fee = ie ined atte mgd ashes, makes me and spends Three officials of Northwest Air- money here. It is used to pay taxes, ways, Inc., were visitors in Bismarck clothe and feed his family and the overnight. {community gets the benefit. They were Colonel L. H. Brittin, I have been told that about 10 per executive officer, St. Paul; Walter cent of the money collected for gas is Bullock, St. Paul, operations manager; used here as wages and the balance and C, R. Dalrymple, Fargo, traffic sent to the home office outside the manager for the North Dakota divi- state. Why not a slogan: Burleigh sion. = {county coal for Burleigh county con- Brittiti and Bullock flew to Minot sumers? ‘Wednesday forenoon in a plane piloted | TAXPAYER. by Bullock, where they expected to sire pick up U. S. Senator Gerald P. Nye WILL ROGERS AND THE JUNIOR AIRWAY OFFICIALS VISIT IN BISMARCK Will Take Park Director and Of- ficial on Flight Over Bad Lands and proceed to the North Dakota COLLEGE Bad Lands, Bismarck, N. D., At Dickinson the trio was to meet Sept. 6, 1932. Horace M. Albright, director of na- Editor, Tribune: tional parks, Congressman J. H. Sin-| Just as the junior college question clair, M. H. Connolly, New England is getting warm along comes that publisher, and a representative of the genial philosopher, Will Rogers, and Greater North Dakota association. ‘holds forth on the well known dis- ‘The group plans a survey of . the crepancies of our modern up-to-date Bad Lands from land and air to es- school stuff. Read him and weep. timate possibilities the area has for| “Say, any of you that have kids in schools, either grammar, high or col- Dalrymple returned to Fargo Wed- lege, it don't make any difference, but nesday afternoon. lean any of you parents get head or With the airway officials here tail of what they are doing, what Tuesday afternoon was Joseph Quig- they are taking, what they are learn- ley, professional aerial photographer ing? This modern education gag has from St. Paul, who took several pic- sure got me licked, I cant tell from tures of Bismarck, including the ex- talking to em what its all about, All cavation for the new state. capitol, the kids I know, either mine or any- from the air. He expected to join the bodys, none of em can write sd you Parks group at the Bad Lands, can read it, none of em can spell so you can read it, cant figure and dont ii , but tl al Find Fargo Barber |ittng"some of the carat inns Dead in His Garage | potiticai science, international rela- Fargo, PO Tatin’ greek art, ON Lord’ the things Sept. 7. harles A. Hu- |Jatin, greek art, some, eal was found dead in his they go in for runs on by the hour! cl garage Tuesday night by his! ‘But its as I say, not only our wife when she returned home from brood, but none of em that I have work, He was 53. seen can write, spell, figure, or tell ©. J. Hanson, Cass county coroner,’ You what bounds Corea, Everybody pronounced death due to asphyxia- as swimming pools, but nobody has tion and declared no inquest would be 60¢ ® plain old geography. Gymns- called. Mr. Husome 1s believed to|Siums to the right of you, and tennis have entered the garage sometime |COUrts to the left of you, but not a during the afternoon, started: the mo- |8Pelling book in @ car load of schools. tor of the car and sat down on the| Then they got another gag they floor of the garage. edits.’ If you do anything He had been a Fargo barber many | thirty minutes twice a week, why you Y | trom Godthaab, Greenland, for Ang- years. |get some certain ‘Credit.’ Maby its Be lamp shade tinting, maby its singing, maby its a thing they call ‘Music Ap- HUTCHINSONS RESUME TRIP |0'clation’ that used to drive my Ottawa, Sept. 7.—(P)—The “Flying cowboy gon Jim pretty near ‘Nuts.’ Hutchinsons’ took off Wednesday te never could see how that would aid you to rope a calf. They give out these things at schools for anything that anyone can think of. Some of em you get more ‘Credits’ than for maggalik on Greenland’s east coast, continuing their flight from New York to London over the Arctic route. The party of eight includes two children. {Just string along and do the best we less why it gives you more credits. ‘There is none at all for the things that we thought ‘constituted ‘School.’ “You could write, read, spell, figure, and give the capitol of Rhode Island, and they wouldent give you a ‘Credit’ in a year. But you tell where a Latin word was originally located, and how its been manhandled and orphandised down to the present day, and say they will claim that you have the nucleus of a ‘Thesis,’ and you are Hable to get a horde of ‘Credits.’ Now who cares about the word, or what it has contributed to the welfare of Nations that never minds to them? “You have got yourself the family tree of a word. Course you cant go MAINE POLITICIANS PREPARE FOR VOTE G. 0. P. Takes Dry Side in Pro- hibition Battle; Oppon- ents Are Wet CAPITOL Portland, Me., Sept. 7—(#)—In a campaign in which the prohibition is- sue has been stressed by several cane didates, Republican and Democratic leaders marshaled their forces Wed- nesday for the final drive before the ‘y. state election next Monda: A governor, three congressmen, members of the state legislature and county officers are to be elected in this—the first statewide election of e fall, Although leaders of both parties. have had little to say about the oft- repeated phrase “as Maine goes, 20 goes the nation,” they have evidenced | their interest by the manner in which they have tossed out-of-state speak- ers into the fray. In all the congressional contests the issue of prohibition is clear-cut, They | with Congressmen Carroll L. Beedy and John E. Nelson, and former Gov- ernor Ralph O. Brewster, Republican candidates, contending the voters of the state have not yet indicated they favor any change. Their Democratic opponents— Joseph E. F. Connolly, Edward C. Moran, Jr., and John G. Utterback— are out-and-out repealists. Lewis J. Brann, Democratic nom- inee for governor, also favors repeal, COMING THURSDAY cnoconaiia || Novarre Crashes A Stellar Stunter Girl’s Heart— = a HIS GREATEST ROMANTIC ROLE! out and get a job on it, but these old Professors value it mighty highly. Some of these days they are going to remove so much of the ‘Bunk and Hooey’ and the thousands of things that the schools have become clogged with, and we will find that we can educate our broods for about one- tenth the price and learn em some- thing they might accidentally use after they escaped. “But us poor old dumb parents we can, and send em as long as we are able, because we want them to have the same handicaps the others have. ‘We dont know what its all about, we just have to take the teachers’ word. They all say education is our salva- tion, but you could turn ten college presidents loose in a forest with noth- ing to eat, or nothing to get it with, and then ten old so called ‘Ignorant’ backwoodsmen, and your presidents wouldent last a week. “The smarter a nation gets the more wars it has. The dumb ones are too smart to fight. Our schools teach us what the other fellow knows, but it dont teach us anything new for our- selves. Everybody is learning just one thing, not because they will know more, but because they have been taught that they wont have to work if they are educated. Well we got so many educated now, that there is not enough jobs for educated people. Most of our work is skilled and requires’ Practice, and not education. “But none of these big professors will come out and tell you that our education might be lacking, that it might be shortened, that it might be improved. They know as it is now that its a ‘Racket,’ and they are in on it. You couldent get me to admit that making movies was the bunk either. None of us will talk against our own graft. We all got us our ‘Rackets’ nowadays.” | ONE OF THE “DUMB PARENTS.” Bulgarian Cabinet Quits; Is Renamed Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 7.—(?)—Pre- mier Nicholas Muschanoff and his cabinet resigned Wednesday, but King] HARRINGTON'’S SUPERCULINE Boris commissioned him to form a new government immediately. M. Muschanoff submitted the same Personnel except for the ministry of agriculture and public works in which Gheorghi Yordanoff was replaced by Virgule Dimoff, political secretary of the Agrarian party. M. Yordanoff previously had re- fused to resign voluntarily, despite the insistent demand of the Agrarian leaders, Aga Khan’s Entries Sweep British Race Doncaster, Eng., Sept. 7.—(?)}—The Aga Kahn, wealthy Indian potentate, sent four horses out for the classic St. Leger stakes Wednesday and they fin- ished first, second, fourth and fifth, Mrs. C. Rich’s Silveremere getting in third to split the entry. The St. Leger is one of the five “classics” of the English turf and the most important stake of the fall meetings, being worth sbout $60,000 others. If a thing is particularly use-to the winner. MRS. DREAR AND MRS , . CHEER @ Have you tried this new washing scsp? 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