The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 4, 1932, Page 9

'H. SS People’s Forum Editor's Note—The Tribune wol- comes letters on subjects of in- terest. Letters dea! LA ‘with con- troversial religious su! ject, which othe ned. to use a pseudonym, udonym first and 7 iF eneath it. We will spect euch requests. We rese! the right to deiete such parts of letters as may be necessary to conform to this policy. ey Editor's Note: The following letter, written to the secretary of the Tax-Reduction Club, Inc., at Los Angeles, was submitted to The Tribune by its author for publication. Ordinarily letters gone bad. If high cost of govern- ment was due to this cause in pros- Perous times without wrecking us, why should it do so now? Wasteful- ness and reckless expenditure in pub- lic business is as unpardonable as it is in private affairs and has been condemned always. I bring this up, not to condone such practices but to ‘point out that to put so much em-. terms and conditions that the inter- Phasis on those lesser contributing evils is to camouflage gnd deceive the! People as to the real causes mention-; ed above, There seems to be two distinct) schools of economic thought with re- ference to spending or retrenching in| times of depression. Your attitude is! to retrench, to save at any cost. Car- | itled to extremes either policy might) money back and pays 2, 3 and 4 per be disastrous. To curtail very mate- rially the expenditures for public kK BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1932 have within recent date been issued} question that is to come before the to @ few large banks in a few large/electors for their franchise verdict cities in the east. There was not a|should be previously presented for penny of gold or silver connected with the transaction. When the big boys get it it is not fiat or soft money—but when the soldier boys or the farmers ask for 2 billion of these federal reserve notes on the same national bankers get them, then the international bankers and their in- telligent followers begin to yell fiat money and soft money. It is sound money when your government gives it to the international -banking clique for the cost of printing, and then when it gets four or five billion dol- lars in the red, borrows its own cent interest, then it is sound money in the minds of unreasonable people. their consideration. that person or initiated measure. The franchise is a guarded personal privi- duty of every citizen of America, and the only moral or political right I have to interfere with my neighbor's protected prerogative is to see that he gets the facts on both sides of the controversy. In June'we initiated measures that reduced salaries and fees of county officials and intended to administer the same wholesome remedy to the I have always contended and still contend that no individual or group of individuals has any right to tell the voters. to vote for or against this or lege and a strictly private citizenship ments, issue bonds and that is mort- gage No. 2. The county decides to build a more modern court house or meet the challenge of the state and federal government to match them with funds for extensive road build- ing, arid to make the immediate pres- sure less felt by the taxpayers, bonds the county and that is mortgage No. 3. The state gets ambitious to make @ great display of progress or goes into some utility or business enter- prise and bonds the state for the funds and that is mortgage No. 4 on my already thrice mortgaged prop- erty. Then the government assumes debt obligations and sells bonds which are nothing else but mortgage No. 5 on my property and yours. Are we to be forbidden to check this orgy of debt making? A mora- torlum on bonds as well as taxes is ; Thanksgiving Turkey Deal. solution of seawater, dioxide, lactic| acid and boric acid, which was de-| veloped by Dr. Vera Koehring and/| Dr. H. F. Prytherch will cause the oyster to relax and open its shell. This not only facilities the operation but also is much more pleasant for the oyster. Armour Creameries offer you A. Partnership in Armour’s} HEAR U. S. SENATOR “HIRAM W. | wave about in space forming a fric- tion reducing mat between the two | $5,841,060. The loan would be The more worm | 50 years, at three per cent interest. ‘WORMS’ IN New York—Oil molecules, says W.| &f E. Campbell, of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, frequently consist of| READY FOR BAY PORT Miami, Fla.—L, L. Lee, city man- 2 EO molecules in the oil the greater is it ficiency. chain-like group of atoms. These| ager, has been authorised to ask fo: molecules are often more active at|a $6,000,000 loan from the Recon- | one end than at the other, like the/ struction Finance Corporation witt | Suckers at the worm’s head. Metal| which to build the proposed inter- wit surfaces of a bearing attract these(national airport in Biscayne Bay active atoms and the less active tails|Plans for the port are nearly ecm metal surfaces. j pleted, and call for expenditure State officials and employees, but some must be addressed to the editor wise critic discovered a technical flaw Again, the national bank notes are to be eligible for publication but we are waiving this rule in this instance. ‘WRONG PREMISES’ Bismarck, N. Dak. Oct. 27, 1932. works and all government activities’ would surely aggravate the problem of unemployment which is serious enough now as a result of retrench- ment in all private enterprises. One of the laws initiated by the: North Dakota Taxpayers’ association | cuts the valuations for the purpose of Dear Mr. Wright: Receipt of your communication as! of the 12th inst. with copies of your) publication, “Tax Reduction Club,” is hereby acknowledged. | Since you solicit my opinion on the’ subject, I shall gladly submit the! following brief statement: The tax reduction idea is rife the country) over. We have a similar movement, taken by President Hoover and our] farmers’ flax would go up to $3 and here in North Dakota, very actively engaged in this work. Five tax-reduc- tion measures were initiated and passed in the recent primary through! the instrumentality of our associa-| tion, | There’ is no question but that the! xXes, a relic of the senseless infla-{ ta: la | tion of the war period, are too high tions have done excellent work in! federal reserve notes secured by first and entirely out of all proportion to; our ability to pay. However, firm opinion that the tax problem is not the fundamental source of the economic plight the world suffers to- day. It is only a symptom, an inci- dental of the real cancer which has cure of the economic cancer we must, SfVe notes—to use as a revolving been slowly but inexorably dest ing the economic life of all the civil- ized nations. That cancer is exce: sive interest, too easy credits and the abuse of it, superinduced high | pressure salesmanship, the result of it being that scarcely a single po-! litical subdivision, from township! unit to the nation, exists without a bonded obligation hanging over it. The interest is out of proportion to the earnings of the people. We hear so much about the wealth being con- centrated in a few hand: This is So lcng as we permit the great interna- tional bankers and master financiers| to control all money and credits the! result is inevitable. The capitalistic system with its at-| ecountable ‘for a bankrupt world. That the evil is man-made is proved by the fact| that no primitive people ever suffers from the disease—it is wholly a prod- uct of the devilish ingenuity of so-| called civilization. In your “Booklet No. editorial “Véters to Decide Tax Prob- lems at Polls,” the subject matter of} Which is that “the first big task” of | the voters is to ‘carefully scrutinize! every candidate for public office andj their ballots weed out the “goats”! is a leading | | Editor, Tribune: |tion in the United States, but as aj taxation from 75 to 50 per cent. This, it is claimed, will imperil our schools. Also it will be tantamount to repu- diation in some cases of budgetary cbligations, since we operate on a! biennial budget. It may be impos-: sible to go through with plans al-j} ready adopted and contracted for.! Such a policy is contrary to the view; national congress, when they increas-' ed taxes in order that the budget may be balanced and our national; credit saved at any cost. { To reduce taxes we should first cut our expenditures and not our tax in-! come after expenditures have been incurred. The tax clubs and associa- educating and arousing the public to} it is my| the importance of wise spending of, ity on earth. tax monies, but nevertheless, in my! | opinion, it is attacking the lesser} fated or increased the money in cir- evil instead of getting at the root of; the matter. To expect any lasting eradicate the growth, which means: that the privilege and power to issue and control money and credits must be taken away from the private | t0ok two billion dollars away from us in banks and financiers and given to the government, where it belongs. ; Why continue to fight this monster | on the wrong premises® Yours very truly. S. A. OLSNES: Commissioner of Insurance. THE FRAZIER BILL Fargo, N. D., Oct. 29, 1932. ' | 1 The administration at Washington | and the international bankers have} led unthinking people to believe that if the Frazier bill were passed there; would be too much money in circula- tion. Our present miserable condi- tion is due entirely to the fact that there is not enough money in cir- culation to do the money work. There ought to be $50 per cap%ia in circula- matter of fact there is not over $2.50 per capita in actual circulation.! These unreasoning people, parrot! like, use the administration's and Wall Street's expressions and talk glibly about soft money and fiat money, when they have not the based on debts and not on gold or silver, Wall Street is careful neverj to explain this to its unthinking fol-| lowers. They think that these notes! are based upon gold. The truth is/ that all that money is a unit of ex- change—a yardstick—with which we measure the muscular and brain} energy of the people, and there are not enough yardsticks to measure the energy of our people at present. Ninety per cent of the homes and public buildings in this nation needs | painting. If the owners of those buildings had money enough to buy that paint and hire the painters the $4 a bushel over night. Therefore, we are for the Frazier bill, which provides that the United States government shall refinance existing farm indebtedness at 1 1-2 per cent interest and 1 1-2 per cent principal on the amortization plan— not by issuing bonds, but by issuing mortgages on farms—the best secur- During the war the government i culation by giving us an additional 2 billion dollars—mostly federal re- fund with which we bought 22 bil- lion dollars of Liberty bonds, and then in 1920 and 1921 it deflated and the short space of eight months and wrecked the prosperity of the nation. When it gave us those two billion to buy Liberty bonds with it was not fiat cr soft money, but when we ask for two billion dollars now to use as a revoly- ing fund with which to refinance 2 1-2 billion dollars farm indebtedness then it becomes soft money in the minds of Wall Street and its unrea- soning followers. | Just why any person who is fairly well informed on what money is and its functions should be fraid that. if| the Frazier bill were passed that then there would be too much money in circulation, when as a matter of fact the average individual that par-| rot like repeats the expressions, “fiat! money” and “soft money,” has Not | got $2.50 in his pocket, is more than; we can comprehend, If these people| would only open up their eyes andj look about and calmly view the wreckage—whole communities with- out banking facilities—90 per cent of! the homes and buildings in this nae tion unpainted and in sad need of re- pair—millions out of employment and millions more starving, and all |Percent cut in our incomes and it in the construction of the measures and they were thrown out. Knowing that the taxpayers of the; state find it extremely difficult to, meet their tax burdens under present | conditions, the county officials have | accepted the cut with apparent grace | and dignity as gentlemen should. Now! ‘we come before the voters of our state with the fair and impartial proposi- tion that state officials be given the same rate of salary reduction. We: believe that the county officials! should join us in this effort, since it | can be reasonably assumed that when prosperity returns and the cost of living has so risen that an advance in| salaries is necessary to meet the exi- | gency the county officials would then | be assured the cooperation of the} state salaried men in adjusting their; salaries to their needs. The measure) affecting public printing is merely! asking the same rate of deflation that | we ask of the officials. We farmers have been compelled to accept a 75 doesn’t look at all rash or unjust to me to ask the printer men to accept | a 20 percent one. | The oft-repeated statement that the initiative power of the people was in- tended at its inception to be used) sparingly is a false statement. At the} time the wave of progressivism firs: seized the people of our state, that re- sulted in the initiative and referen- dum, the recall and the primary elec- | tions, I was in a position to not onis | know the impressions of the common | People but also the trend of thought that gripped official North Dakota and I know that no such thought pre- vailed either in private or official cir- cles. The intent of such false propa- ganda is to use the psychological ef- fect of making the voters believe that by voting for any number of initiative laws they are being uritrue to their former selves, and thereby defeat the measures by default of the voting public, Some disgruntled beneficiary of public funds are still affronting the intelligence of the voters by telling them that when they voted to reduce property assessed valuations last June they unwittingly shifted the burden of taxation from the railroads and public utilities to the shoulders of the farmers. In the good name of com- mon sense would they explain how. I am still asking the question that none would answer before the pri- maries. How in the name of good horse sense could the changing of greatly needed. Sherman Hickle. POOR LITTLE OYSTERS Washington, D. C—To pry open an oyster’s shell is as painful to the oyster as removing a human's ap- pendix with a butcher knife. A mild Marie Huber | Candidate for Second Term County Superintendent Burleigh County North Dakota Your Support Will Be Appreciated Pol. Adv. Elect Elness Treasurer of Burleigh County Pol. Adv. JOHNSON” OF CALIFORNIA Discuss the Issues of the Campaign over NBC Net- work Stations, 10:30 P. M. Cc. S. T. Tonight. Fred Swenson Carididate for Reelection Register of Deeds Burleigh County Efficiency, Economy and Courtesy Your vote and support will be appreciated. (Pol. Adv.) I. C. DAVIES County Judge Burleigh County Candidate for Re-election The Interest of Your Heirs De- mands a Law-Trained, Experi- enced County Judge Pol. Adv. Vote for Vote for H. F. Tiedman ... —] Candidate for Commissioner in the Fifth i District—Burleigh County NOV. 8TH GENERAL ELECTION “For Lower Taxes and Rigid Economy” Your vote and support will be appreciated (Pol. Adv.) TALKS ON MORATORIUM AND CROP MORTGAGE LAW FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4 KFJM, Grand Forks, 7:45 p. m—A. J. Scott WDAY, Fargo, 8:00 p. m.—Walter L. Stockwell KFYR, Bismarck, 7:30 p. m.—C. E. Danielson 8:15 p. m.—Rey, Fr. Slag (German) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5 WDAY, Fargo, 6:45 p. m.—Hon. P. B. Garberg SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6 KLPM, Minot, 10:15 a. m.—Carsten Woll (Norwegian) MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7 KLPM, Minot, 8:15 p. m.—Senator D. H. Hamilton Let the Welfare of Your Country and Your Conscience Be Your Guide ROOSEVELT TICKET Cut this Ballot and take it with you to the Polls and undesirable incumbents, select- lew and Fe-enacting it ust as it was \y e “best obtainable” etc. ‘The inferonce is that the trouble of! h taxes is ascribable to extrava- nt and inefficient officials. Since When was this discovered? I cannot} agree that our present crop of in- cumbents should have so suddenly —_______.._.. faintest conception of what money is; : r * and what its purposes and functions! enough yardsticks—with which to|!@W and Sor oeeene ie ‘hee aoe pi are. Patrot like they repeat these| measure “the muscular and brain/!" every other particular word and words without knowing what they|energy of our people, then they | Phrase, in any manner mal i mi abe mean. | would realize that we have not) ‘liscriminatory in favor o acne If these critics would stop and) enough money to do the money busi-|f taxpayers? Until tag Ue sited think and inform themselves on the| ness, and that is why the nation is/Satisfactorily answere Feely) subject of money they would then| stalling in the midst of plenty. individual sue reiterates rt 5 ah oe : discover that our government prints, WILLIAM LEMKE. Beare ey one Here . federal reserve notes and gives them| — Meza Agia _ TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY | to the federal reserve bank for the! FAVORS INITIATED MEASURES |_ There are, I Peiiee ten alta HARRINGTON'S SUPERCULINE| international banking clique at 7-10, Sanger, N. De noted fees yn pale na sty play: Bismarck. N. Dak. Phone 782. of one cent per bill—the cost of z ' Oct. 29, 1932, | son y ‘Pa: live steam permanent, no electricity, |Ptinting—the bill may be for $1 or for | Editor, Tribune: ition. because we have not enough money— ete sl Soe Democratic tas eae . H. COSTELLO W. D. LYNCH Roosevelt W. H. PORTER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS Democratic Principles UNITED STATES SENATOR REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS P. W. LANIER W. D. LYNCH natural waves, real comfort, done in two hours, $5.00. Electric meth- ods in combination, croquignole wringlet ends, $3.50 to $6.50. Steam Superculine exclusively at Harring- $1,000, and it can keep it for one year} or for a thousand years. They would discover that at present their Uncle | Sam has outstanding and printed ap- ' proximately three billion dollars of {this paper money, which the inter- So much has been said and done! in an effort to defeat the taxpayers’ | salary and fee reducing measures, |Voters last spring to outlaw crop from attempted theft of the petitions just before they were filed to actions The three-year moratorium, repu- diation of the law enacted by the mortgages, and repeal of the prohibi- ition provision in our state constitu- State Government. For a New Deal in National and To lift the burden of Taxation. from VOTE FOR TWO NAMES R. B. MURPHY GOVERNOR HERBERT C. DePUY ; |tion, : __ton's. Phone 130. national Tee Serene ree nene | eines firsts murarieoeenices An LIEUTENANT THE CALIFORNIA WAVE "NOOK| bankers get through the federal reserve bank from Uncle Sam specializes in Combination waves.| for the cost of printing—7-10 of one Spiral tops and ringlet ends. Com- cent per bill. Plete $3.50 and $5.00, 102 3rd St Begin Selling Armour Your Country Dressed TURKEYS NOW! You will receive an additional 8c per bird on fancy country dressed turkeys. Highest prices obtained by Armour for your turkeys. WHY? No Hunting for Customers—No Commissions—No Jobbers—No Rehandling—No Armour’s System—Direct from Dressing Plant to Branch House, Outside Agent. Direct to Retailer. Advance prices on down payment as follows: NO. 1 YOUNG HENS ...... NO. 1 YOUNG TOMS ...... NO. 1 OLD HENS ......... NO. 1 OLD TOMS ......... Have your Turkeys in early for Free Custom Dressing. Sell Now. Armour has done away with Dangerous Specula- tion on your part. ARMOUR CREAMERIES ITHE 1933 PLYMOUTH SIX IS HERE One billion 125 mil- Mon of these federal reserve notes! is being said in defense of the mea- sures, therefore I beg leave to sub- mit a few thoughts for the considera tion of the voters. I believe that both sides of every i ... 18e .+..12¢ ... .08¢ i teed to me by our federal and state | constitutions. S OS from the people in dire dis- jtress. The old adage that anything jis fair in times of war is still true. Self-preservation is still the first law ‘of nature. Saving the farm homes of North Dakota to the tillers of the soil is of vital importance to the fu- ture well-being of our whole state. I would not attempt to defend it on the grounds of honesty or righteousness. As I said before it is a war measure, designed to save the homes and al- leviate the sufferings gf the farm peo- ple of our state, and I affirm that no higher purpose could actuate the en- actment of any law. I know by actual experience that, under existing conditions, it is a mis- fortune for any farmer to be able to Place a mortgage on his crops. To grow no crop is better than to grow one that returns you nothing and puts you deeper in debt. I see no reason why the farmers, after outlawing crop mortgages in the June election, should at this election repudiate their own former action. A thing that causes men to neglect their homes and families, a thing that induces young boys to make fools of themselves in public places and leads young girls to throw themselves on the mercies of a merciless world, is necessarily criminal in nature and should be placed in the category of other forbidden crimes. I have lived in North Dakota for $2 years and during all that time the prohibition provision in our state con- stitution has never once restricted my Personal liberties nor deprived me of a single pursuit of happiness gueran- I can think of no sane reason why I should now vote for the repeal of that provision. The frenzied cry that is now going mental agencies. culture profitable. up all over the state that the people by their right of petition are crippling of our fair state belongs in the dump- heap where all the dead calamity howlers of the past repose. These Pessimistic calamity horn-tooters have for years tried to make us believe that. our common-wealth was on the verge of ruin, they have numbered the days of our great republic and set the day of doom for the hu- from achievement to unprecedented achievement. What of it if the state can’t issue bonds. Bonds are nothing more nor less than political mortgages placed upon the property of our people. An individual has a mortgage on his farm or his home. That is mortgage No. 1. The city, village or township, in order to make some public improve- the credit and destroying the honor | man race and yet we march on|f J. W. GUTHRIE For State Senator 27th District Political Advertisement the bowed back of Agriculture. To simplify and make economical our National, State and County govern- To re-employ Labor and make Agri- Vote the Democratic Ticket For Justice and Prosperity for All GOVERNOR R. A, JOHNSON SECRETARY OF STATE STANLEY F. CASEY STATE AUDITOR STATE TREASURER ATTORNEY GENERAL “COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE ‘COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE AND LABOR RAILROAD COMMISSIONER STATE SENATOR Sith DISTRICT GRACE HOOPES WILLIAM M. SCHANTZ = SCOTT CAMERON PERRY R. BENNER JOHN MAGILL ARTHUR L. CHAPMAN J. W. GUTHRIE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2ith DISTRICT VOTE FOR 3 NAMES C. A. ANDERSON J. H. RILEY J. M. THOMPSON J. M. THOMPSON For State For State . Representative 2ith District 21th District Democratic Central Committee, Burleigh County. CORWIN-CHURCHILL MOTORS, Inc. _ Dak.-Mont. Distribatera