The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 14, 1933, Page 2

RECORD PRICE SET | FOR ANIMALS SOLD BY YOUNG FARMERS, 4-H Club Champion Lamb Brings $3.55 on Auction Block At Fargo Fargo, N. D., Dec. 14—(#}—Daniel | Cossette of Wild Rice in Cass county sold his 131-pound grand champion | lamb at the annual North Dakota 4-H club livestock sale to the Midwest! Stock Yards company, which will es- tablish a Union stock yards at West Fargo next year, for $3.55 a pound. or $464.05, the highest price ever paid for a 4-H club animal in the history of these sales. The bidding for the top lamb was, the strongest ever experienced, Swift and Company, Armour and Company and the Midwest Stock Yards enter- ing into a real battle for it. | The whole sale went with excep- tional celerity and with keen rivalry between bidders. Henry L. Finke of Minot was auctioneer, as: ed by W. P. Chesnut, secretary of the Fargo chamber of commerce. | Grant Dadey company of Fargo| bought the top beef at 25 cent pound from Ruth Apland of Cavalier, county, three cents higher than the| top beef brought last year. Grant Anderson of Wild Rice re-| ceived 42 cents a pound for his top! hog, a magnificent 413-pound Poland | China which was bought by Armour and Company of West Fargo. | ‘The price paid for the top lamb! was 30 cents a pound higher than| the previous top price, $3.25 a pound, | which was paid to Roy Anderson, also of Wild Rice, in 1931. | Reserve champion lamb, shown by} Roy Sorenson, was bought by George M. Black of Fargo at 50 cents a} pound for the 101-pound lamb, $50.50. | The reserve champion beef animal, @ 776-pound Aberdeen Angus, shown by Victor Anderson of Ramsey coun- ty, went to the Fargo Forum at 14} vents a pound. It brought $108.64. Hotels Bid Strongly The Powers brothers, owners of the Powers, Gardner and Fargoan hotels, | bought the third beef animal for their | Powers hotel at 12 cents. It was) :club meeting in Fargo. All New York not hav things looked her tip-s} the sightseers were seeing thing: evening for e Baby Beef club, is attending the 4-H Her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Albert Johnson, went with her. Misses Margaret and Eunice Davis shown by Howard Jabs of Benson SPent Sunday evening with Miss Elsic county and brought 12 cents and $107.52. | Fourth beef animal was bid in fo W. E. Quinlan of Dickinson, propr tor of the Villard hotel and Quinlan’s | Ktause. cafe at Dickinson, at 14 cents. This| Coleman. Mr. and Mrs. spending a few Kuntz's parents, Mr. and Mi Frank Kuntz are weeks with Mrs. . August Staton Davis and Oliver Tosseth was a Stark county product, shown Pent Saturday evening at the Bert by Raymond Schnell, weighed 1,009 | Hedstrom home. pounds and brought $141.26. Owen Davis spent Monday evening ‘The reserve champion pig, weighing |in Bismarck. 402 pounls, owned by Edwin Ander-| O. W. Backman and sons spent Fri- son, brother of Grant Anderson, |day in Bismarck. who had the grand champion, was! bid in by Sears-Roebuck company for 16 cents a pound and $64.32. Among other animals sold were the | following: Frederick Molzhon of Mountrail| county sold to Leland Parker hotel) of Minot, weight 1,145, 8 cents, $91.60. Marelyn Johnson of Burleigh coun- ty sold to Armour’s Creameries, weight 926, 10 cents a pound, $92.50. | Leslie Egger of Mountrail county) sold to Armour branch house, Fargo, | ea 1,009, 8 cents a pound, 76. | Alvin Stanley of Burleigh county, sold to North Dakota Metal Culvert company, weight 1,154, 9 cents, $103.86. Marvin Rothi of Kidder county! sold to Bismarck Kiwanis club, weight 1,135, 8 cents, $90.80. { Former Dakotan Head| Of Army Chaplains| Lieut. Colonel Alva J. Brasted, for- | mer member of the artillery unit of | the North Dakota National Guard at | Lisbon, has been named chief of all chaplains in the United States Army by President Roosevelt, according to information received here by Major | A. C. Young. | Ueut. Colonel Brasted has been thaplain of the Third Infantry at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. He moved tw Fort Snelling in 1931 from Fort ‘Logan, Colorado. He entered service in the army 20 years ago and has had a variety of | experiences at many army posts. He | ‘pent 10 months in France in the) ‘World War and served in the Philip- nines for several months. At one time he was division and post chap- lain at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Lieut. Colonel Brasted was a pri- vate from May 2, 1907 to Dec. 20, 1909, in the Lisbon unite of the North Da- kota National Guard, according to| Major Young, and was a second lieu- tenant in the unit from that time until May 26, 1910. | Evangelical Bishop Speaks Here Tonight Rev. George E. Epp, Cleveland, 0., ‘bishop of the Northwest Area of | Evangelical churches, will i speaker at a special service to be| held at the First Evangelical church ‘Thursday evening at 7:45 o'clock. The | public is invited to attend by Rev.| Ira _E. Herzberg, pastor. Bishop Epp gave an address at the Bismarck high school at 3:15 o'clock Thursday afternoon, included Bismarck in a tour which he is making through several states and also will visit a number of near- by cities. Minesweeper Seeks For Arthur Airplane San Diego, Cal., Dec. 14—(7)}—Ef- forts to recover the navy plane which Mr. and Mrs. Nick Holgerson and family spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Holgerson’s mother, Mrs. Oscar Sundquist. ' Brittin By O. DUTTON Miss Lucille Milman, former teach- er in Telfer district, is making a two weeks’ visit with friends in the com- munity. Emmanuel Wohl of Linton was a visitor Monday with relatives at the Dave Kershaw home. Elvin Hoover and nephew, Roy Hoover, shopped in Bismarck Satur- day. Miss Irene Dralle was an overnight guest Tuesday at the Geo. Kun home. Friends are glad to learn that Mrs. Giovannonoi is improving nicely at a Bismarck hospital. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Kimball, Mrs. M. M. Dralle and M: visitors in Bismarck Thur y. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Day left Sun- day by motor. They will v: t home of their son, S. R. D: neapolis, from where they |tinue to the Hot Springs in Arkar where they will remain for some tim Miss Twila Dralle spent the week with cousins at the L. Blens) home in Bismarck. Mrs. Dave Kershaw and Miss Lucile Milman motored to Bismarck Wed- nesday. Roy Dutton spent Saturday night with Russell Dralle at the W. S. Trip- lett home. Miss Alice Mauk spent the weck- end with relatives in the Moffit vicinity. BROW) Chicago, Dec. Louis Browns today purchased out- |fielder Ray Pepper from Rochester of the International League. Pepper, a big right handed hitter, played a few games last season, with the St. Louis Cardinals, who sent him to Rochester. erybody ... . O, Dutton were | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1933 Return of the Good Old Daze gone on a bender to cele brate repeal, but in the eyes of some of the natives round the library on Fifth avenue, They'll tell the cockeyed world! Even The dizzy whirl of big city life, you know. east side. west side and all a~-ROUND the town' - Anyway, it was a big > | People’s Forum (Editor Note)—The Tribune wel- comes letters on subjects of inte! est. Ls dealing with contro- ‘ious subjects, which which offe play will be returned ers. All letters MUST be signed. If you wish to use a pseudonym, nd your requests, We reser to delete such parts of as may be necessary to conform to this policy. MR. BRANDT ANSWERS Bismarck, N. D., Dec. 6, 1933 Editor Tribune: In the issue of your paper under © of December 2, 1933, there ap- an article captioned “Dis- With Brandt” signed John el, Editor Dakota Free Press, which for him was written by some congenial soul, kind and good, taking issue with some of the statements by me made on November 20, 1933 at a luncheon of the local Lions Club, at which I was an invited guest, having consented to give a talk concerning conditions in Soviet Russia as I found them during my visit to the Soviet Un Being of the newspaper fraternity, IT am not naturally in the habit of|F. L. Brandt was for a short time in) reshing into print on personal mat- ters, but attempts made in the col- umns of your paper to attack or ques- tion the t3 publicly c, should not and will not pa challenged. The gentleman above na in referring to me, glib- ly sta’ one of the G an smarck,” thereby attempting to e the imp: ion there are several German language newspaper in Bis- There is only one German guage newspaper printed and pub- lished in Bismarck of which I am {managing editor and which located here nearly a quarter of a century i newspapers in 0. The attempt by this person is made of putting into my mouth words I did {not utter at the gathering above res | ferred to nor, for that matter, on any jother ocacsion. I did not say that I }found prosperous the villages of | Russia visited by me. I did say, to e contrary, that I found conditions | were rather poorly. Nor did the Trib- | une in its issue of November 20, 1933, te that I had so described the con- j ditions. The report in the Tribune cf necessity very brief and touching only upon some of the salient fea- tures of my talk, correctly reflected as to the points covered. I did say and reiterate that in the villages visited I found no evidence of starva- tion, no evidence of religious persecu- tion, no evidence of atrocities. I did \say, and state gain, that the dis-j| \stuntled clergy and the larger land| jowners, being hardest hit and suffer- | ing most in consequence of the inaug- uration of the new order of things jin Soviet Russia, are responsible for jmost of the untrue stories or’ propa- ganda circulated—and by no means | wholly without reason, as pointed out jin my talk, When in Russia, com- monly known as one of the most backward of European nations, church and state were separated and churches {and ministers of the gospel thusly no | longer subsidized and salaried by the | government, the new order of things |certainly worked marked and many | hardships for them also insofar as ; they had to look for their support to | their respective congregations. And ; When, also in consequefice of the new \deal, the government confiscated all |land of the owners, large and small, | distributing it pro rata, and for use jonly, as to souls, it can readily be jeonceived that land owners became ; enraged, bitterly opposed the new {order of things and resorted to every jmeans in the attempt to bring about {4 |the downfall of such government. | The person above named and dis- agreeing with me, states he was born |and raised in Russia; that in the spring of 1927 he leit that country be- ;cause the government was intolerable, ‘ard that during the summer of 1927 |the vicinity from which he came.| Whether or not it is true he came} to the United States in 1927, or six cf statements by me | years ago, I do not know, but true it} 1927 1} icinity from | lis that in the summer of visited not only in the |Which he came, but, indeed, his very . L. Brandt, editor cf native village, finding there one of} the largest and most beautiful | churches—in this instance one of the Roman Catholic faith—it has been my Pleasure to sce and attend in the many villages visited, with a seating capa- \eity I estimate at about one thou- sand, There, as wherever I visited and attended services, I found abso- lute freedom of worship and there, as practically in all villages, the min- ister was desirous of personally meet- jing me, and in company of mine host of that particular village and another member or officer of the congrega- tion, I called at the parsonage, surely received a very hearty welcome, had refreshments, a talk with the reverend gentleman and all present enjoyed the conversation. Now, if this person disagreeing with me and in stating I had visited in the vicinity from which he came and which he had left because he found conditions in- tolerable in consequence of starvation and religious persecution of which I, coming a few months after his de- Parture, failed to find any evidence, attempts thereby to refute or disprove any statements by me made, he not only failed in the attempt, but surely INDUSTRIAL AND CITY USES 18% HORSES AND MULES I7% AND 17 Imo — 191 (OGS now consume nearly one- half of the annual corn crop in the United States. Most of the corn e of eleven released by the decli million head of horses and mules the farms and in the cities during the past tw:nty years has been verted to hog feoding. This chart digates tha necessity for an adjust- ment in corn production, at least suf- ficient to correspond with acy THE USES OF CORN SEEF CATTLE SHEEP % 4 1924 — 1929 duction in hog nvmbers. A sub- stantial reduction in corn—the main feed supply for hogs — will help bring the supply of hogs into better balaace with effective demand and it will help raise the purchasing power of corn. It corn production is 4!-| not reduced by an amount sufficient in| to compensate for the reduction in hogs, corn supvifes available for other purposes will increase sub- stantially; corn prices will decline on re with respect to other livestock, and eventually production of more live- stock will be stimulated to higher and less profitable levels. But th Agricultural Adjustment Act seeks @ net reduction in agricultural pro- duction, not a shift. Acreage of corn, therefore, {s the important key to the corn-hog production problem. ‘The soun¢ solution 1s to scale down the production of both corn and hogs. did himself no good. I understand this person had gotten himself into trouble with the government by dis- tributing anti-Soviet literature. It is with some degree of reluctance I make this statement, for personally I do not know whether or not it is true, but if it is, it would readily explain just) why he found conditions and the gov- ernment intolerable. Some people in this gomparatively small mundane sphere take themselves altogether too serious and I can easily, if it be deemed necessary, ascertain whether or not these reports relative to this Person are true, There was then and is now absolute freedom of worship in that particular village and in all villages of the vi- cinity from which this person came. Mine host at that time in that vil- lage was then and is now the accred- ited correspondent of my paper, and I have such also in other villages of that vicinity as well as in many others in different parts of Soviet Russia. About 50 regularly furnish reports to my paper, the writers being well and personally known to many thousands of the readers of my paper. They re- port now, as they have for a quarter of @ century last past, of marriages performed in churches, of baptismal services, of burial services and so forth, giving the names of persons concerned, as the files of my paper readily bear witness. These corres- pondents also report names of per- sons arrested for this or that offense if any are committed, the punishment inflicted, names of exiled persons, if any there be—in short the readers ot my paper have a true picture of things going on. This person disagreeing with me jthen in a way that is as vague as it is typical, is pleased to refer to a let- ter “of a certain person living in the Volga district’—neither name nor place given—stating that “several per- sons of our village” were found guilty of and sentenced for stealing or hid- ing wheat, and that the punishment inflicted was severe. Now, although the report is vague, it is very likely | true that the offenders received severe sentences. But what of it? Under the new deal in Soviet Russia the wheat is government property. What happens to persons in any country, ours included, - to persons. found guilty of stealing governmel CLEAR COMPANION erty? Whether or not people over here or over there like the new order of things, is beside the point. As to letters received here from relatives in Russia begging for help in order, as often therein stated, that they may not starve, be it stated I receive many of them and there is no doubt but that | there is suffering and starvation. Our accredited correspondents in Soviet Russia: clergymen, teachers, farm- | ars, and so forth, report of such con- | ditions and thousands of the readers of my paper, having relatives and friends there, are well and truthfully informed. But, remember, suffering and starvation is by no means con- fined to Soviet Russia. It is quite jgeneral in many other countries and we have similar conditions, as a mat- ter of fact, also in the United States, and it is by no means attributable solely to governments or forms of such, Permit me to also concern myself with only one sentence from the letter which the person disagreeing with me claims to have received stating: “snd it is estimated that since Jan- uary 1, 1933, up to harvest of this year, 350,000 people have died of starvation in the Volga Republic.” This also is typical of all such and similar re- ports and estimates circulated dur- ing the 12 years last past. The public in general heard and read of them. No definite place or names of persons were ever given, but many people may have believed all of these statements to be true. Since I have |been in Soviet Russia at least a short time during the period in which all |these things are supposed to have happened, coming there in personal contact with many thousands of people in villages and cities, and since with receptive mind and open eyes I did not find any evidence of them, I have good reasons seriously to doubt the truthfulness of such reports and estimates. But, believe ‘me, I also sin- |cerely and fervently hope they are not | true or at least grossly exaggerated. | It may be stated for the informa- tion of your readers and the public in general that in several instances when I printed in my paper, as is always done, telegraphic news com- ing from our various press associa- ‘ions reports of atrocities, of people ing been killed in uprisings and #0 forth, and when time and names of the places were definitely stated, our correspondents at such places refuted im their reports to my paper such uews stories, The files bear witness also to that, These reports, as a mat- ter of fact, were quite a factor in in- ducing me to visit also Soviet Russia. Now, if one would take pains as I have done to add up the number of people reported during the 12 years last past as having been shot down or executed, of starvation and so forth, the entire exhausted, wiped out if you please years ago. In closing permit me to state I have received offers, financially very tempt- of Russian, British, German and tries, I have turned down all of them, Jor my trip was one of personal char- acter merely arid not for mercenary purposes, I would not and will not commercialize it, An exhaustive re- port was by me written, copyrighted and published in the German language im my paper exclusively. But I stand ready, publicly if the time at my dis- posal permits or privately to give in- formation relative to my experiences im any or all the countries visited. Very fortunately and happily, I think, with the recognition by our government now of the Soviet Repub- lics and the establishment soon of dip- lomatic relations, a very perceptible falling off of all propaganda, pro and con, can safely be expected, because any such may soon easily and offi- Cally be traced to its source and it will be a comparatively simple pro- cedure to determine its truthfulness or falsity, as the case may be. That will be an inestimable blessing. ‘BEWARE’ SAYS MEYER Baldwin, N. D., Dec. 6. 1933, Editor, Tribune: In your daily issue of Dec. 2nd in the “People’s Forum” the letter writ- naving been shot down or murdered, ef having died of starvation, of hav ten by John Brendell regarding Rt sta I believe is tru believe ayer last we yg a letter from Russia aA Flained conditions in Russia just as Mr John Brendel does, and this very same letter opposed government own- ership. It made my nerves shake when I read this letter from Russia and John Brendell’s letter in the “Forum” even thou I am no native of Russia but have relatives by mar- tiage that live in Russia. The infor- mation that ~ receive fi #8 having died in exile, as having died | by SAYS LAW VIOLATED Bisbee, N. D., Dec, 10th, 1933. Editor, Tribune: I was much interested in reading “A Letter of Warning” in The Trib- une of Dec. 7th, signed Subscriber. It during the open season on partridges vou would see cars driving through the woods with men on each front fonder with guns. It was a slaughter, not hunting. No protest was heard from the wardens, but that is not sur- prising if the story in The Tribune during the hunting season was cor- rect. The game department, supposed to be the protectors of the game, pro- tected the illegal hunters instead of the game. I refer to the three hun- ters caught hunting on the game Tefuge east of Bismarck, If we are going to have any game to nunt in years to come it is about time for the members of the Izaak Walton League and sportsmen of the state (If we have any left) to wake up to this condition, The one-man game department has not proved a success and never will with politics controlling it. A game and fish board, selected by the sports- men of the state for the protection of vur game, without political interfer- ence, can be made a success. Think it over, sportsmen, and get busy be- fore our next legislature. But be careful whom you select to draw an honest and true bill. Yours for the Protection of the State's Game, Ward’s Dramatic Values Pre-Holiday CLEARANCE] Now $16.88 Now $12:88 Now $8.88 ANCE SUEDE SHOES. “MONTGOMERY WARD Former Value $24.95 $16.95 $12.95 Former Value Former Value This fell Wards have sold more coats, and offered better values than ever before in our history! In order to do this we bought early «+. carried tremendous stocks. Now we're re- ducing prices on these same smart styles in an early sale event. Shop and save now! Buy at Wards today and wear your coat all winter! BLACK, BROWN AND COLORS FOR WOMEN OR MISSES GIFT SUGGESTIONS Children’s Blanket Robes. . .$1,98 Ladies’ Silk Negligee ......$2.98 Ladies’ Silk Quilted Robes. .$3.98 Former Values to $2.98 $1.98 300 Fourth Street Phone 475 _Bismarek, N. Dak. eS | : : E { r