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attack individuals will be own name beneath it. spect such requests. letters as may FOR THE RURAL Editor, Tribune: at M sit ot unwise. We hold no brief against economy. People’s Forum ‘a Note.—The Tribune wei- comes letters on subjects of in- terest. Letters aling with con- troversial religious subjects, which unfairly, which offend good taste and returned to ‘writers. All letters MUST be signod. If you wish to use a pseudonym, sign the pseudonym first and your We will re We re the right to delete such pa be necessary to conform to this policy. CHILD or fair the Bismarck, N. D., i January 10, 1933, The report of the budget board has been printed and is ready to be * submitted to the appropriations com. mittees of the state legislature. Tt is an interesting booklet of fig- ures and from it many facts may be gathered, some of which are en- couraging, but some of which seem There is no argument against mea- sures which will reduce the heavy tax burden which has been piled up- on the small farmer of the state ity during the last two decades. Land, which at one time was our greatest asset, was at that time made the source of greatest revenue, by the heavy tax laid upon it. Land, due to circumstances which we as a people could not control, has become a liability, s its cultivation. @ change. qualified to say. for the economist, the ok OW HH oP mate outcome. by a sales tax. evegs & tt and t tax ex) AXeS . Upon it are many times greater than the revenue which is obtained from Such conditions work a hardship upon our citizens and should not be tolerated longer than it takes to make Just what changes are to be made, how they are to be made, we are not Such problems are pert. one who understands and is able to project the pian into the future, that it may have no ill effects as an ulti- Some states are solving the problem | Thus the tax burden | is shifted from the static to the dy-| namic, for a sales tax is upon ex- change and not upon land values of a quarter century ago. Certain we are that the smail prop- | erty holder should not be penalized as is the case at the present time. | In glancing over the report of thej budget board we see that the only Soe ste ing list. ” ‘They ai can not care for themselves. must give them the best we have. Our boys and girls at the state drastic cut is in the public school expense of the state. We admit that the unfortunate of the state must be “cared for, we must care for the blind, the deaf, and the feeble-minded. “These institutions have a long wait- They are over-crowded. taking care of a group that We training school, homeless, misunder- stood, many times abused, many - times the victims of broken homes, * must have at all times the wise lead- ership, sympathetic and careful guidance which understanding now turns them back to the state as edu- cated young people, trained workers, and good citizens. as eyed men and women. their last chime. These derstandings, or opportunities. absolutely necessary. not look ~back now. child, the sta the capitol. our hand to the plow. We have a@ state hospital for the twisted wrecks that once were clear- we ‘must cure if possible—if they are incurable they must be made com- fertable until the jangled bells ring Our penal institution is one of which we may be proud. + shine camp, no floggings, no chain gangs, but a chance to walk like ® man if the desire is there. For all these we must give and give, we must pay without murmur the bills for these people. not take from these unfortunates omy of the necessary comforts, un- No sun- We must Against none of these appropria- tions do we hold a brief. They are We have put ‘We must Our care for the unfortunate must go on, and against none of it do we speak, but we ask for the rural ‘We speak for the little boy who, in broken shoes, worn out overshoes, Tagged overalls, last year's coat and a hand-me-down cap trudges down the prairie road to school. He is the country chiid, he and his Uttle sister, with her skimpy dress and thin stockings, her old coat and worn mittens, and they make up six- ty-five per cent of the children of te. His father it is who is building His father is paying the! tax bill which cares for the unfor- tunates. His father supports the in- | | away. into now, with all incentive removed, we cannot presume to picture. tified. Read your budget bounty. ir sheep's clothing, and most of them east of the river. out that the rural children were be- ing offered meager high school ad- vantages. the august body. “What's this, high school for rural children? Ridiculous nonsense. . . Cross out state aid for high schools, cross out high school inspection, cross out all possibilities of student and teacher load. . . Cross out all that but give us $50,000 for wolves.” We must have hog inspectors; we must have bee inspectors; we must have bovine inspectors; we must give a favored few silly little cooking and sewing lessons and spend endless amounts to teach a girl to make a fifty cent apron she can buy for forty-nine cents—all these we must have. We must have roads where we never had roads before, two bridges must grow where one is used, we must inspect poolhalls, elevators, restaurants; but cross out the schools. conclave to pass the wolf bounty and we doubt not but it will be passed. But out in the rural districts the men and women of tomorrow. who are going to pay the bills for all our folly, are toliing along down the cold road. exploited, abused and neglected—our country child. All we will take with us in our cold hands when we leave is what we give away, but that which we withhold when it lies in our power to give will count against us, until the very stones will cry out at the injustices being done the country child in the name of false economy, in the name of the slimy god of politics. ELSIE SMITH PARKER, State Rural School Supervisor. 1926-1932. ONE WAY OUT Bismarck, N. Dak., Jan. 10, 1933. Editor, Tribune: Our idea is that the muddle into which the state .#is gotten itself through the rural credits system of the Bank of North Dakota could best the land owned by said bank over to the school and university lands and henceforth operate them under ex- actly the same rules and conditions. That is, prohibit these lands to be rented for any purpose except hay and pasturage. Do not permit them to be cropped. This will not only help reduce the surplus crops, it will put these lands exactly where they belong—since they pay no taxes. We would also suggest the early sale of these lands at prices cor sponding to present values of farm products. This might seem to work a hard- ship on the renters of said lands but no more so than the present system which compels the township to edu- cate every child in its precinct, whether taxes are paid or not. In this community there are 16 farms which belong to the Bank of North Dakota. Not only must the tarmers educate the children on these farms—they have to pay mileage to some and tuitions to others who at- tend nearer schools. What can we do about it? This is @ vital question, albeit a touchy one, and it must be settled. Since the bank pays no taxes it is unfair to permit it to rent these it can out of them for grazing or hay purposes. If this is impossible, then compel the bank to pay taxes on its property the same as other landholders. If it is to be permitted to rent its farms it must pay taxes to help sup- port the township. We cannot bear the entire burden alone. As it is now, the bank rents its farms, gets a share of the crop, extra pay for grazing and hay lands, and doesn't pay a cent-of taxes. Unless a remedy is applied every rural town- ship in the state will go broke, sooner or later. We hope the legislature will evolve some plan which will be fair to all concerned. stitutions of higher learning, but Nj this little child we give nothing. We promise him everything but we pro. | Editor, Tribune, vide nothing. cational advantages. portunities for advancement. fer many things in the name of free government. But this for bread and we give him a stone.) Theoretically we offer equal edu-} We offer op-/| We of- little child holds out his brown hands and asks Consider with me his school: A seven-month term in the interest of tax reduction). A cold, cross-lighted frame build- ing little or no pay. A county superintendent, An inexperienced teacher, (cut to six) receiv- put in office by politics, kept there by poli- tics, and removed from office if he 80 much as dares protest against | revealing that wages as low as four land five dollars per week have been conditions. Ff 58 3 Hy 8 ventilated. iy fee it il i x Sgsk sys. | hardship, 2 & é ta larger child|hood and who, because they know three | that four and five dollars a week is Rise 7 iL a i E iit 2 : A Farmer. FAVORS MINIMUM WAGE January 12, 1932. Conditions were bad enough before. What they will degenerate If such drastic steps are necessary, it the only way we can exist as a state is by robbing the children who/ed jointly with the company in the can not speak for themselves, it may be excused but it never can be jus- report jilar charge, to which the Woolworth {again and note this: Not a cent for jthe rural child but $50,000.00 for wolf ‘guilty, the company was fined $1.00 Born and raised in North Dakota —west of the river too—and never &@ wolf has been seen excent wolves/in the first case. | Not content with dealing a death!and sentence was deferred until to- blow to the elementary schools of;day. At that time a third charge the rural districts, some one found/of the same nature was dismissed “This will never do,” says | of uniformity. of correct graduation, | So the legislature is met in solemn) being a kicker and a knocker, be-|Cid the people derive from it gener- be straightened out by turning all; farms to be cropped. Let it get what|be enough potatoes to keep all seed sentenced in Ward county district court today to pay a fine of $100 and ,|$145 costs as a result of heing found guilty by a jury of a charge of em- ploying female help excessive hours, and C. C. Simmonds, manager, charg- has violated none of his God.given rights, despite anything the seed commissioner may say to the con- trary. Well, some say, what a little thing this ten thousand dollars for two years is to quarrel about. We will admit that it isn’t much but in the aggregate all these little things that are being foisted upon the tax- payer will in the end engulf all he has. Not only that—if this thing of Putting out inspectors and commis- sioners continues for 10 years, we will not have a privilege at our homes that is not shared by some high-toned ‘graduate from the Agri- cultural college, which is the biggest. white elephant this state has to deal with. It is eternally spending more than its budget and to my knowledge has been repeatedly admonished at each meeting of the legislature that if it does not stay within its allotted budget its deficits will not be made up; but despite that fact, at each session we have a deficit to attend to. If you will read this potato bill, you will see that it is only another infringement of the state's rights by the U. 8. Government: Section 15 of this bill provides “that the com- missioner may and he is hereby au- thorized to cooperate with the Uni- ted States department of agricul- ture.” This shows beyond question or doubt that it is only another scheme to spy upon the farmers. We, as a nation of people, struggled along for 100 years without a department of agriculture, but at long last it was case, was fined $50 and costs. “In a second case involving a sim- company and Simmonds pleaded }and costs, as also was the manager. The plea of guilty to this charge was entered after the jury had reported “The first case was tried at the ; November term of the district court, upon motion of Paul Campbell, then ,State’s attorney. * “The complaining witness to the ‘charges against the Woolworth com- rany and its manager here was {Grace White, a former employee.” | Although this is the first actual prosecution called to our attention, resulting from our hearings last fall, {it does not represent, by any means, jthe results that can be accomplished through a more conversant under- istanding of the orders in effect at jthe present time by the parties in- ‘volved. Copies of our seventh bien- {njal report, just completed, may be jbad on request of the undersigned. | J. G. GARBERICK, Sec'y, | Minimum Wage Department. A REAL ‘FORNINSTER’ determined that we had to have one { Steele, N. Dak. |and now it has grown to such pro- Dec. 31, 1932, | portions that last year it cost the peo- Editor, Tribune: ple of this government the neat little The writer bears the reputation of {sum of $225,600,000. And what good THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. MONDAY, JANUARY knowledge, information and belief he |done they would not know just how prosperous the farmer was, we got the ‘Smith-Lever act, which provided that the U. 8. government would help fi- nance the county agents so they could make out such reports. Hence the flock we now have to support from the agricultural college. Some people believe that if the gov- ernment pays the bill they are some- how miraculously relieved of the re- sponsibility of that payment. do not seem to realize that the only difference is that the expense is be- ing taken out of the left hand instead of the right hand trousers pocket. The people are the government and re- gardless of how or where tax money is secured, the people pay it. Stamp out these unnecessary political jobs and see how soon taxes will come down. In 1905 the writer was paying, and did pay, taxes on the BE% of sec- tion II, in township 144. range 81, Mc- Lean county, N. D., and the same was just a little less than $14.00 for that year, and the following two years. The Same land had to pay $36.50 last year: This land is not worth as it was then, so why this big dif- ference in taxes? Let me answer that question. Wel did not then have an army of county agents, welfare nurses, commissioners, game and fish wardens, barberry bush ' Ross; hunters, potato inspectors, domestic homemakers’ clubs, homemakers’ eco- ‘nomic clubs, boys’ and girls’ clubs and numerous other people around tell- ing one how to scrub baby’s teeth or how to cook our meals so as to get the last vitamin of the food to dis- close its life-giving strength, and yet. we lived. Why all this great commo- ‘ause at times he takes delight in|ally? It has taught improved meth- exposing to the vulgar gaze of the actment of new laws if they were|the U. S. A. would help the necessary, and, if succeeding appro-|finance their county agents. Priations were never to exceed the| Many, many years before we had initial appropriation; but experience|the Smith-Lever act in force, farm- has taught us, as it has many others, |ers were fairly bombarded with ques- that the first appropriation is only|tionnaires to be filled out showing a feeler—a trying out of the public |how many acres of each kind of crops —to see if they will stand more. If|they had out, how many cattle, horses, no kick is made, at the next session |sheep, hogs and other livestock they {of the legislature some representative, |had, and this was kept up until the who happens to be more fortunate|farmer got tired of filling them out than his neighbors and who has ajand threw them in the waste basket. tew meals ahead of the sheriff, will|Then, when the U. 8. government take the responsibility of increasing|could no longer get information for the number of deputies and stenog-|the board of trade in this way and Taphers that the new commissioner|saw that unless something else was may have in his office, and the first | @—____. thing you know the dear little mole- hill has grown into a mountain, Let|| Weather Report NN tay us take H. B. No. 215—sponsored by FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: cloudy tonight; Messrs. Plath and Sax of the 1929 ession of our legislature, and analyze t POTATO INSPECTION. An act Providing for establishing potato grades, appointment of inspectors, fixing of salaries and providing op- erating expenses, authorizing the es- tablishment of local shipping points at which inspection service may be established. authorizing the inspec- tion of potatoes, and providing for the issuance of certificates of in- spection, for establishing a schedule of fees for inspection and certificates, authorizing the making of rules and regulations concerning the inspection and certification of car lots of po- tatoes as to grades, and making an appropriation.” The above is the caption or title of this bill, taken from Session Laws of 1929, verbatim. You will note that in this bill there is no mention made in its title of oiker produce; just potatoes, rising tempera- ture. For North Da- kota: Partly cloudy, not quite so cold northwest fair, with slowly rising temper a- t ure. For South Da- Cloudy, colder southeast sate Portion tonight; Tuesday partly cloudy, with slowly rising temperature west and north Portions. For Montana: Unsettled tonight and Tuesday; rising temperatu! nan and north-central portion to- night. The vid Minnesota: pes snow ring Ree cold wave in east portion tonight; appropriation for carrying out the partly cloudy Tuesday, with slowly provisions of this bill is the sum Of | rising #5 ten thousand dollars for the bien- re PEE: PE NEA EERE nium, July 1, 1930 to July 1, 1932. At the next regular session of the leg- islature, in 1931, we find that this} An extensive high pressure area is bill is considerably enlarged, so as|centered over Saskatchewan this to include “other produce” grown onjmorning and cold weather prevails farms. Note the sagacity of this,,from the northern Plains States will you? For fear there would not} westward to the western Rocky Moun- tain slope. Temperatures dropped 20 to 40 degrees in the Dakotas, Wyom- commissioners and deputies busy, not ing, eastern Montana and over the to mention graduates from the agri- cultural college who may be out of ier lg egret re ra cored employment, there is incorporated in| weather, is centered over the upper the new bill—which, by the way, re-| Mississippi Valley. Snow occurred Peals the old one—terms that when|from the upper Mississippi Valley Properly interpreted will take in all) westward to the north Pacific coast, farm produce, excepting small grains| with the greatest amount (6.0 inches) that are already included in other|at Bismarck, N. Dak. measures. This new bill is so dras-} Bismarck station barometer, inches: tic that if it were to be enforced to} 28.38. Reduced to sea level, 30.31. the letter a farmer could not sell Spat cabbage, lettuce, onions or even gar- NORTH DAKOTA POINTS lic without the ald and assistance of 7 one of the agents or deputies. This ; bill (S. B. No, 214) was gotten up iby Messrs, Brunsdale and won |state senators, and is entitled “In-| yomesto spection, grading, ete., potatoes and semen, ig ‘other produce.” Grand Forks, The appropriation is the same as| Minot, clear . jin 1929, but you will note that the | powers of the seed commissioner are GENERAL CONDITIONS BISMARCK, snow Devils Lake, cldy. . Fargo-Moorhead, tion about one’s health? What sane man believes that it all comes from ods of farming to such an extent that/ humanitarian motives? public some of the unwarranted ex-|only a very few farmers, living on] ‘Take away the salaries and then Penditures of public money; and we| the most fertile farms, and exercising} see how long they are interested in want to say in prefacing our remarks|the most business-like ability, can/our babies. Take away all of those nent this subject that we are proud | keep from starving to death. It has/human parasites and you will see i the name. As we have said before | #1so seen to it that we got the Smith-|t<xes down again to the level of 1905. we at no time would criticize the en. |Lever act passed, which provided se We live in hope, and may die in ‘ates | despair. During the last two or three months / greatly increased. As noted above, we have all listened to arguments.|.we have now included all farm pro- pro and con, as to whether or not/duce and if you refuse to have it law is necessary, equitable to alljtrom $100 to $500. Classes of female occupations, work. In this case, like with your bees, able, or whether this law should not;where is your authority over your be repealed at this session of the|cwn property? In order that you legislature. From the few inspection| may know just how serious this deal and investigating trips this depart-jon potatoes and other produce has |ment has been able to make, because ot the very limited appropriations /14 of this act, which reads as fol- for the work, we have become con-|jows: Enforcement and Prosecution.) clusively convinced that the law isiThe commissioner shall be charged necessary. This feature has beeniwith the enforcement of the pro- forcibly brought to the front by ex-| visions of this act and of the regula- amination of payroll reports and tes-| tions duly made thereunder. Upon the North Dakota Minimum Wage inspected you are lable to a fine of | Boise, Idah become, let me quote for you Section | Helena, Mot timony of certain types of employers,| complaint made by the commissioner alleging violation of this act or of the regulations duly made thereun. der, it shall be the duty of the at- torney general and of the state's attorney in the county where the case arises to cause appropriate legal Proceedings to be commenced and Prosecuted in the proper courts with- out delay, for the> enforcement of paid to full-time waitresses and kit- chen girls; girls who are living alone }and who are absolutely dependent upon their own earnings for a liveli- better than nothing at all, are forced to remain silent, not reporting these violations of the law to the depart- ment, simply because they know they will be immediately replaced with other “unfortunates” if they choose te exploit what to them means actual Only five occupations in the state of North Dakota are now Provided, however, that no prosecu- scheduled from $10.80 per week for | dence, epprentice mercantile workers to $14.- appearing in the January of the Minot Daily News, quoted: Prince Albert, Qu le, Roseburg, St. Louis, Mo. St. Paul, Minn. Salt Lake City, Marie, the penalties provided in this act;|8. 8. Seattle, Wash. aSSSssse seesseassesssusyssci 2 ro eo seeesse 16, 1988 — HOLD FINAL RITES — |e ee vrs asm POR SLOPE JURIST ‘The omission fessor Walter Rautenstrauch and oth- Judge T. H. Pugh to Be Buried Monday At Dickinson; 12 ‘3 on Bench They Beach Congregational dickinson, \N.D. Jan. 16——| Officers Are Elected Pugh of Dickinson, who died at his Beach, N. D, Jan. il 1¢—Tuesday the FE much now Following are the officers chosen to serve for the 1933 term: Clerk, A. C. Magle; treasurer, W. W. Mills; dea- cons, C. C. Hollstein, John Blencowe; trustees, A. J. Beier, L. R. Menke, W. ,W. Woodhull, John Blencowe, ec 3 achool superintendent Mrs. Chas. Holistein. DeMolay Officers Installed at Beach Beach, N. D., Jan. 16—The locai chapter of DeMolay recently installed officers for the coming term. They are: Master councillor, Wally sentor councillor, Jack Mil- latin. EAE Waters cevate ie ° i. lor Economic Committee : At the same time the DeMolay Ignores Technocrats| smothers club met and elected offi- New York, Jan. 16.—(?)—No tech- President, Mrs. E. D. Evans; vice pres. nocrat was named to the commission | ident, Mrs. C. E. Langberg; secretary. of 17 which Dr. Nicholas Murray But-| Mrs, V. G. Morris, and treasurer, ler has announced will investigate the tl #5 Beatrice, Neb., Jan. 16.—(P}—Ted ‘Wells, 26, self confessed bootlegger, today faced a one-to-ten-year prison sentence following his conviction by a jury late Saturday on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the Geath of Chester Mason, federal pro- hibition agent of Omaha. Mason, who formerly lived in North Dakota, was killed last Nov. 12 dur- ing an attempt to arrest Wells on a liquor charge. STAINL Same formula-Seme price. In original form, FOR SEVERE COLDS ? widow he leaves a son ter. Yours truly, J.N. 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