The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 16, 1933, Page 9

9, People’s Forum — “ )—The Trittune wels on subjects of inter= Tat! dealing with contro- tad celrtone, subjects, which attack individuals unfairly, or which offend good taste and fair play will be returned to the writ- ers, All letters MUST be signed, If, you wish to use a pseudonym, stn the pseudonym first and your own name beneath it, We will re. spect such requests. We reserve the right to delete such parts of Vettera ag may he neceauary ty conform to this policy. THAT PRAYER PROPOSAL McClusky, N. Dak. Nov. 5, 1933. T noticed in your issue of Qct. 26th, 1933 an article headed “Prayer for “Buccess of Diversion Proposal Urged by Works Board,” and I have won- dered why there has been no re- en for the resignation of that As I understand it, the government at Washington, D. C, has the power and authority to build the dam and divert the waters of the Missouri! tiver, and the cost is or has been estimated at at sixty-five million dollars. If that is correct, then the resolu- tion asking people to pray for the order to start the work is equivalent to proclaiming the officials at Wash- ington as being gods. and that cere tainly is against the Constitution, ince that document plainly stands for the separation of church and state. Furthermore the resolution {s as ebsurd a piece of medieval asininity 28 could be found anywhere in the annals of the modern world. Why pray for “divine guidance” ta saddle the people of the U. 8. A. with Qn expense item of $65,000,000? If these men were egpable of any kind of logical reasoning they could have 2s well asked the people that fall for uch grandstand plays, to pray for the diversion’ of the waters direct. and if they could possibly make one step in reasoning they could ask for the necessary rain fall whcih would make the diversion of the Missouri unnec- essary. “No. more important {ssue affects fll peaple of North Dakota. than the question ef water supply, the resolu- tion said,” so I read in the article mentioned. Well, is not the drouth end the consequent shortage of water n direct result of the section of that “divine guidance’? If not, who is running the show anyway? And who pre the neople, or officials in Wash- ington, that haye the power to take 2 65 million dollar monkey wr: end change the course of the so- immutable laws of, that “divine guidence?” | I read somewhere that if twa or/ three prayed, thev could get what- | scever they wanted. If that be true, why docs this “board” hypocritically | throw the burden on the people, in- stead of performing the act them- selves? Certginlv there must be at Teast three on that boar?, and that should he sufficient to produce re-| fults. If they had any faith in their | ition thev would not be anxious to share the glery. The diversion of the Missouri river waters is a jcb for men, not for rhentems. or witch destors. 1 The same kind cf medieval nop-| sense is always seen in articles dis- cussing religicus tolerance. Always the sentence reads “the right to wor- hin according to his .ewn dictates,” ‘This is gress error. There can be no religious tolerance unless the right rot to worship is included. The | free man does not ask for the right | in lords, therefore the right ip does not mean tolerance * | I have an amulet here that 1) should like to cffer to the “beard”! for the sum of $5000 guaranteed to net the diversion, project started if| used according to directions. Send ip your certified check. | H. A. PETERS. | FARMER'S GRIEV- | ANCE Bismarck. N. D. | Nov. 13, 1933. ‘THE WHEAT Editor. Tribune: What with the government arrang- ing to loan the corn farmer 50 cents ner bushel, and the payment of the ratton farmer for each acre destroyed, *he wheat farmer is beginning to feel he is left holding the sack. | For, after all, the wheat allotment ‘lan only pays on 54 per cent of the basic crop raised, while the others ove getting a much lerger percent- age. In the case of the wheat farmer tye ‘subsidy.’ as so many term it, amounts to less than 15 cents a bushel. aa_the total crop raised, The processing tax, and incidentally the allotment fee, should be increased until it regches parity with other hrices which the farmer must pay. Just a word about the hog processing tax. It is mighty ubfair to compel a farmer to pay this tax when he kills and dresses hogs which he sells to near by towns, and right there, if we mistake not, is: where the whole scheme hit 8 snag, and a big one. To compel a farmer to pay a tax on his own products smacks much of Euro- vean imperialism, and not the democ- racy of which we proudly boast. ,. Hogs, dressed, are at present bring- ing the producer around five cents per hound. How much will be left after the tax is taken out? A Farmer, Bismarok, North, Dakota. -Editar’s Note; The same question is asked by the big packers, in a much louder tone of ‘ voing though voice, THOSE BARNYARD yous : Nav. 8, 1933. Editor, Tribune: Being a reader of The Tribune I per to express many readers of the federal “barnyard loan” made to the farmers this year. Here is my opinion: We, the Amer- ican farmers, are not asking for barn- ATTENTION All who wish to oper te Tournament, "which "will if men wi wi played Nov. 24th, must secure their reservations before 6 P, M. Friday, Nov. 17th. Dr, F. B. Strauss, Chairman. NOTICE—School and coun- ty w ts will be taken at tar io tendo for any merehan- Minneapolis Police Seek Name of Strange Woman Who Lost Memory Minneapolis, Nov. 16.—()—Min- neapolis police were helping a Mysterious, much-travelled wom- . 0 search for her name Thursday. The woman first appeared Wed- weather, by attendants who an- swered tM night bell at Univer- sity hospital. ital?” she asked. tit was. “Will you please try to find out what my name is?” she asked. She was placed under medical care and Thursday her mind re- mained 4 blank as to who she was. Although police believed her to be @ trained nurse or a social worker, she could give them no clues along that line. She was dressed well and car- yard or seed lonns or federal land bank loans, because borrowed money ts a debt that beara interest. Each rather works a hardship, inatead of being a benefit or a meaaure to bring Prosperity to the farmer, because such loans must be repaid, and wherewith ‘will the farmer get the manegy to pay? Not by keeping on borrowing more maney and paying interest. We American farmers are asking today as we asked in the past: “Pay us the cost ef producing the products we raise with a little clear profit above such cost, and we will get along without borrowing money, and will ably take care of our farming busi- ness, unless natural elements destroy our crops as they have for several years, so that we have nothing to sell. ly opinion Is that the present barn- yard loan beara tao high a rate of in- terest. To.my knowledge our govern- ment is not charging as high a rate of interest when it loans money: to other industries, manufacturers or railroad companies as it charges: to agriculture. The latter is the foun+ dation of all prosperity te all people. Take the man, his plow and cultiva- tion away from American soil, let him cease to raise food and material for clothing, and our country, with all its gold and silver, its well-built cities and achievements, would crumble in- to ruin and wilderness. People must have food and clothing to exist. Why then must the farmer pay a higher rate of interest than other groups? Under the system the farmers are laboring under now, the barnyard loan ch |is not carrying with it the blessing to led |the farmer that some people antici- pated. My reason for this is: IT hada good cow to sell. She tipped the scale at 1200. I wanted two cents per pound, the buyer said he could give me only one and ons-half cent. Later I had two cows to sell and wanted one and one-half cents, the buyer could pay but one cent. The same with hogs. I wanted three cents per pound. They were not runts, as two tipped the seale at 1000 pounds. I received two and one-half cents. This left me $17.20 short of money needed to pay interest due. From where shall I raise the shortage? As long as farmers raise grain and ltvestoek and desire to sell. such’ pro- duets, and the other man has the li- berty to put his price on them, not considering-the farmer's cost of pro- duetion, er the money he should re- ceive to pay off his interest, and debts. How under the sun will farmers be enabled ‘to pay oif the barnyard loans? Let aome readers point out the way it can be done. To my knowledge there ig no other concern in business that puts out something to sell and lets the buyer put his price on it, and continue doing business and make money, as is required of the farmers of America. Yeurs truly, M. H. Ortmann. SKINNING THE FARMER Editor Tribune: The faxrger his hide hangs out on the fence to dry s0 everyone can see it—in other ; words the wheat allotment is begin- : High quality, Do Your Carving With & y dise in tore, Alex Rosen dine be our. shore € Tied a purse marked with an ini- tial “L,” in which were found $6, & return ticket from Winnipeg dated 1982; & bus ticket to Mele rose, Sauk Center, West Union, Osakis, Nelson. Moorhead, and Fargo, dated Nov. 15, 1933 and a return bus ticket from Minneapo- Ms to Fergus years old. Wer hair is black, she has dark eyes, olive akin, and is about five feet, four inches tall. ‘Her purse also contained a clini- ¢al thermometer and a small gold locket, in which were the pictures of @ man and a woman. Detectives visited the bus depot with the tickets found in her purae and found that ahe had boarded a bus for Fergus Falls, but had changed her plans and asked for & refund of her ticket. Falls. Ghe was believed to be about 30 - cumatances, how the farmers to be helped, either. Not knowing either the acreage or the production, there is nothing whatever to go by and it looks as if they are to ke left hold- ing the sack, Had a different method prevailed, Say merely requiring the acreage on the farm and a certain amount per- mitted to be planted to wheat, it would have been lots ‘better. kven if that acreage had been set at 75 per cent of the land undor plow. That would at least have given every farmer @ chanoo and a let more would have signed the contract. But, as it is, everything is over but the fireworks =and we. look for them when. cur farmers see what has happened to their wheat allotments, Personally we think before the matter is settled satisfactorily a whole new method will have to be arranged to include the farms that had had their wheat acreage cut to the vanishing point. Maybe it could be arranged by add- ing up the farmers who know and, after they get their share, divide the balance of the county allotment money among the rest—but, would there be any left? And, if so, how Argentine Farmers | May Abandon Crops Buenos Aires v. 16.—()}—Farm- sis noar here were in a state of un-| rest Thursday, influenced by a cam-j| paign urging them to abandon their | creps and not replant in an effort to improve prices, | To combat Governor Martinez De Ho; an agricul- | jtural manifesto against joining the| movemont and outlined again the! iMethods being taken to aid ranchers | and farmers, | The governor argued that crop | abandonment would merely aggravate conditions and prejudice the nation’s | petential riches. He promised imme-| ‘diate aid to relieve the, situation, Women’s Conference | Called for Capital Washington, Nov. 16.—('P)}—An esti. {mate from Secretary Perkins that an additional 85,000 persons had found has been ‘skinned and’ ROASTERS That Give an Added Tenderness. - $1.00 u large size aluminum and enameled double ‘the lowest price that roasters of this type have‘ever been offered. : ning to function, and, inatead of 9 15 Per cent reduction, a lot of farmers are finding out they will have to re- duce 60 per cent up. Why? Because, | in spite of the fact that the farmer wes teld leniency would be shown! in every case where rio figures were| available for the year or years of the basic period, the three-year aver- | age has been taken and no figures) given meant that the year was counted in just the same, making the total production acreage and produc- tion that much smaller, In other| words the man who had just one year’s figures to go by has been com- pelled to divide it by three. What do yoy think of that? and, naw, our gueas is those same farmers, if they do aign the contracts, will find them- selves practically out of the wheat- raising game and largely because they | had been expected to give in aver- ages in production and acreage cover- ing years when they did not farm| the places they are en. And now we! will ask once more, “What Price | Wheat Allotment?” Feraonally, we} think it is too dear for @ lot of* us to pay. : | Some months ago we wrote a let- ter in the People’s Forum calling the attention of the public to some of the injustices and discriminations of the wheat allotment plan, and we called especial attention to that part of it Pertaining to the getting of. basic Production and acreages over the three year period. At that -time, we| said that tenants and others wha had no infarmation were going to find themselves up against it, and at that} time we were told by our county agent | that we should go ahead and fill out the applications and that all leni- ency would he shown. But this being @ governmental scheme and not one of merely staté or county, we in North Dakota had to abide by all the rul- ings and regulations. The deeision to Permit those who wished to, to take. the county average production instead of their own is good, but it is not going to help the farmer who doesn't | know the acreage put into wheat on | his farm over the basic period. And, we actually can’t sec, under the cir- Catching # Nose & Throat ry in the ‘dickens would the money be} divided on a fair basis. We confess it in the biggest puaale we have ever heard of. A Farmer. call of a White House conference on rslief for women, to be presided over by Mrs. Roosevelt. Harry L, Hopkins, emergency relief end civil work administrator, an- nounced the White House parley as art of the administration's effort to put 4,000,000 men to work by Decem- ber 16, Hopkins said that at the White fiouse conference on November 20, Mrs. Rooseveit wiii give ospevia: ate tention to the question of aid for single women, Montanan Killed in | Crash With Brother Great Falls, Mont., Nov. 16.—()—A headon collision of automobiles driver by two brothers on the Ulm highway early Thursday brought death ,to one ‘of them, Joseph Young, and serious injury to the other, Ben | Young. . Eight persons were injured in the | mechanic, | « impact, which demolished both ma- chines, Falls carrying a load of dance guests to their homes. His brother, had been. here on a similar errand and was re- turning to Ulm when the accident oc- curred. Jrges Farmers to Visit Wheat Board Farmers desiring to base their wheat allotment-acreage reduction bonus on their actual production rec- ords aye urged to confer with the! count? allotment board should they be in Bismarck this week-end. | H. O. Putnam, county agricultural agent, says many farmers have not submitted sufficient evidence regard- ing their actual production. The} board is notifying these farmers that | Joseph Young was en route to Great |* More evidence is necessary and must be submitted immediately. Members of the county board, meet- ing here this week to clean up de- tails in regard to the federal pto- gram, are Axel Soder of Wing, chair- man, William B. Falconer of Bis- marek and John Benz of Driscoll. || Voted for Lincoln; _| | » Natunalized at 94° a re ree~—-wio e . Somerville, N. Valentine Swody, 94, for Lincoln in 1860 and who has been voting ever since, became a naturalized American citizen Thursday. . Until he applied for an oldsage pension rocently, Swody didn’t know that, through ail the 73 years in which he yoied in Amer- ican elections, he was a German subject. Suppose they do | FLATTER Bismarck, North Dakota ‘Here's Quickest, Simplest Editor's note: { The perfect plan seems as [| scarce as the perfect man. Also the government cannot be ex- pected to compensate for the dere- lictions or disabilities 6f those who deal with it. This newspaper supported the allotment plan on the theory it is the best thing offered. It still thinks so. When the checks come in (they're due soon) a lot of farmers will agree. Judging hy the acreage signed up most of them do already. | Strike Vote Is Cast | _By St. Paul Workers; 1 Take 2 Bayer As- 2 Drink full gas ets. ei Be arin Tablets je Repeat trea South St. Paul, Noy. 16.—(4)— Members of one union and officials of Armour & Company here were ne- gotiating Thursday following a vote to strike by the former. | Members of the Packing House Workers’ Industrial union decided to} walk out if the company refused to] increase wages 10 cents per hour,! provide a 32-hour week, and recog-/ nize the organization. | The union does not include all the plant workers. Definite calling of the strike was, left to union officers. in this Way Thesimple method pictured above is the way doctors throughout the world now trest colds. Tt is recognized as the QUICK- EST, safest, surest way to treat a cold. For it will check an ordinary cold almost as fast as you caught it, — 1 SUPERIOR MEN ROBBED Superior. 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