The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 27, 1934, Page 3

OLSON FOR NORTH DAKOTA GAME BIRD HUNTING Executive Shortens Season; Finds Fowl in Danger of Extinction Sargent, Dickey, LaMoure, idder, McIntosh, Stut , Emmons, jurleigh, Morton, Stark, , Cass, Barnes, Logan, et Ransom, Sargent, Dickey and La- ‘Moure counties, the season is set from October 27 to November 2, with allowed from izg8 af ay z Ei Verret Needs More Time toj=" Prepare Brief of Weeks’ make a living except through public Argument ‘The diversity of their jobs shows flexibility of the FERA’S Emer- gency orks Division aod its adapt- Final submission ability to special drout writs” between Acting Gor Ole a Wells are being dug to supply water f a & Nd 4 Hl Repay 5 i i i Hf gee! H iil i i E. g fe il : li SETS DATES This is the second of four ar- ticles giving comprehensive de. tails of the great campaign which the federal government is waging for drouth relief, in which $750,- 000,000 will be spent. ( BY wun DUTCHER m" (Tribune Washington Correspondent) (Copyright, 1934, NEA Service, Inc.) no time at all they decided to remedy the old paradox which found millions starving and great piles of foodstuffs the farms begging for a market. Federal Surplus Relief Cor- Poration was formed to take over pork and other food to help feed 20,000,000 on the relief rolls. Today the Emergency Relief Adminis- and the Agricultural Adjust- Administration are working to- gether more closely than ever before, the Federal Surplus Relief in the great federal Programs of direct relief and work relief all through the rural drouth area—and even helping feed it 600,000 persons in that area! and other limited use. Streams are dammed or diverted and lakes tapped for life-giving water sup- Road-building aid of agriculture as a whole Plan for “a nation-wide glean- ing of the fields” in which work » oat straw, wheat forage and fodder to help amel- od the grave shortage of livestock FIELDS TO BE GLEANED This e: scheme to set U.S. Cans Huge Stock of Meat to Prevent Winter Food Shortage People everywhere to gathering waste; ; THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1984 material will employ tens of thou. sands at harvesting, baling, and trans- Porting. State relief directors are eae, available sources, with spe- cial reference to cornstalks ordinarily left to rot. Farmers with fodder crops which they might not harvest will be sup. plied with relief workers to garner the stuff. Thus far FERA has received $100,- 000,000 from the $525,000,000 drouth appropriation for its shipment, pas- turing, and processing of cattle, its feed purchases, its direct drouth re- lef ‘and drouth work program. Its feed activities include a recent bid for up to 150,000 tons of soya-bean hay at $15 a ton. Hopkins has spent the summer in Europe, studying social security sys- tems. In his absence, his assistants, Aubrey Williams and Lawrence West- brook, have been supervising FERA drouth relief while Jacob Baker has directed the FSRC—of which Hopkins is president—in cooperation with Col. Philip G. Murphy, chief of the AAA Commodities Purchase Section. BUYING ON HUGE SCALE The huge, fast-moving AAA-FSRC livestock operation is likely never to be duplicated. It involves the buying of at least eight or ten million cat- tle and about five million sheep and goats. The great majority will be oe or cured for relief consump- ion. Tt is estimated that more than 1,000,000,000 pounds of beef and 150,- 000,000 of mutton eventually will be distributed through federal channels. Most of the cattle are shipped off by FSRC, which takes them over as soon as the AAA buys them, but but many are left in the same state for canning or other local needs. Some, of course, have been killed on the spot as unfit. Cattle not slaughtered for pro- cessing at once areshipped into the 20 or more states where state relief directors have arranged for pasturage, usually with the idea of slaughtering them later. FERA remembered that hundreds of thousands of small farm. ers needed cows to help make them self-sustaining and it tries to leave its cattle—all branded with an “ERA” —with farmers on relief or with other farm families which need more milk. Such cattle are distributed into Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, and the southern states—where FERA aoa looking for more good grazing nd. STAMPED AS RELIEF FOOD About 50,000 heail of cattle are be- ing slaughtered each day and pro- cessed in packing plants built or rented by FSRO or in commercial Plants under contract with it. All the cans are stamped as relief food, so they can’t get into the commer- cial market. But it has been pointed out that if meat prices go higher this winter and next spring than the government thinks they should some of the FSRC/ and been been directing the Federal Surplus Relief Corpora- tion, has been aiding them. the program while Hopkins has Most commercial plants are pressed | sewing centers will make into mat- to capacity by government orders, as! tresses on which the folks on relief they're processing about three-fourths | may sleep. of the FSRC animals and doing an| The entry of the government into unusually big business of their own. | mass Production and distribution such In general, the poorest and skinniest as has been heretofore reserved to the of beef animals are being bought up| friend of private business has caused —thus far at about the ratio of three! some squawks from certain industries. of every 10 cows viewed by federal| VALUE OF PLAN REALIZED agents at an average cost of $13.65. But there has been little complaint Recent figures showed that 441,000) about the cattle and meat program, head Had produced 277,000,000 pounds! for it is realized that if any other jof dressed meat, which would mean a/course had been followed, millions of little more than a third as much|cattle now salvaged would have died canned meat. on farms, a stampede of other cattle The sheep program has not yet!would have glutted the market and gone into effect. caused disastrously low prices, which HUGE STOCK OF FOOD SAVED | would have resulted in even more The AAA and FSRC had had pienty | damage to the cattle raisers, of experience in buying for the needy| Thereafter, a meat shortage would unemployed before the drouth came | have sent prices so high that millions along. Since last October the FSRC|of families on the dole couldn't af- has taken ovér 350,000,000 pounds of| ford to eat meat. pork, more than 50,000,000 pounds of Incidentally, the money with which butter, 6,000,000 pounds of cheese, and] all this relief meat is bought doesn’t much coal, blankets, apples, eggs, po-| come from the relief funds at all. It tatoes and other food and material. |comes from $150,000,000 appropriated In California, 10,000 tons of cling) by Congress in the Jones-Conally Act peacher are being canned which other| for a beef and dairy cattle adjust- wise would have rotted on the trees,; ment program. and bids have just been asked by eee FSRC for 50,000,000 pounds of rice. NEXT: The consumer—what he And 25,000 bales of cotton are being] faces and how the government plans food might be put into trade. Mandan and Bismarck Beer Firms Are High stamp purchases ranged from $5,054.57 to $3,008.08, were Dickinson Bottling Works, Dickinson; Dakota Beverage Pago: ‘W. Halon, Pargo: ohn C. jo; W. H. i . Anderson, Minot; Hannsher and acquired from the big cotton surplus, | to protect him from profiteering and which 60,000 women in 2500 FERA | rocketing prices. Van Meter’s Bloody Trail Ends | Back-Tax Collections In County Show Gain|== Reduction of Current Receipts Fails to Counteract Good Increase in Delinquent Payments; Financial Condition Is ‘Healthful’, Says Einess A $75,830.10 increase in delinquent tax collections for the first eight- month period of 1934 as compared with receipts during the same period last year was reported Monday by Ernest Elness, county treasurer. Opposed to this was a $10,571.47 decrease in current tax receipts reducing the gain to $65,258.63. Despite the drouth year, the remarkable increase in the delinquent tax collections has placed Burleigh county in a “healthful” financial condition, Elness said. Federal loans have made possible the payment of the delinquent taxes and in @ great measure account for the remarkable gain ‘over the 1933 re- ceipts, he pointed out. Approximately 85 per cent of the money applied on these taxes comes either directly or indirectly from the government's recon- struction program. March Collections Low March, a month that ordinarily top8 all other 30-day periods in tax re- ceipts, this year fell $102,912.45 below the mark set in 1933. Decrease of the March collections was due primarily to the default or only partial payment of the utility and railroad companies’ current tax assessments. These moneys are being held in escrow by federal district court pending the results of the utility companies’ case testing the consti- tutionality of the new North Dakota tax law. Comparative collections for the first eight months of 1933 and 1934 follow: 1933 Current Delinquent Total 1934 Current Delinquent Total Jan. .. 3,302.46 = 1,847.19 —_ 5,239.65 19,112.86 = 11,241.55 30,954.39 Feb. ... 98,448.64 4,273.22 102,721.86 159,517.26 16,766.24 176,283.50 March . 221,497.01 9,065.43 230,562.44 104,135.16 23,514.83 127,649.99 April .. 6,087.95 5,123.27 11,211.22 16,437.95 11,475.37 27,913.32 May .. 4518.00 3,001.83 7,519.63 12,900.08 14,791.81 27,700.89 June .. 6,575.85 5,641.65 12,217.50 13,441.02 16,536.62 29,977.64 July ... 5,834.16 4,200.88 10,125.04 9,853.50 10,123.48 19,976.98 Aug. .. (7,364.17 5,387.23 12,701.40 “7,739.96 9,360.90 17,100.86x. 353,718.24 38,580.70 392,208.94 343,146.77 114,410.80 457,557.57 x] te. Increase in Delinquent Collections ... Decrease in Current Tax Collections. Increase of 1934 Collections ............ aeassacsaseseseeed $65,258.63 Since June 30, 1933, all Burleigh county warrants issued on the general, salary, road, bridge and poor funds have been registered and the first call for payment of the registered warrants was made Nov. 1. The total number of warrants registered to date is 4,807 of which 3,002 have been called for payment, leaving 1,895 warrants unpaid. Unpaid Warrants $86,665 Warrants registered to date amount to $229,117.56, of which $142,452 have been paid, leaving outstanding unpaid warrants amounting to $86,- 665.36. Amount and dates of warrant calls: Nov. 1, 1 150 Warrants Totaling $ 6,344.79 Dec. 6, 1933 200 Warrants Totaling 16,142.12 Dec. 21, 1933 100 Warrants Totaling 5,090.91 Jan. 11, 1934 150 Warrants Totaling 8,298.83 Feb. 1, 1934 200 Warrants Totaling 8,782.10 March 15, 1934 500 Warrants Totaling 14,555.63 April 1, 1934 780 Warrants Totaling 31,177.01 May 1, 1934 450 Warrants Totaling 19,523.99 June 12, 1934 150 Warrants Totaling 15,896.66 1034 250 Warrants Totaling 8,192.30 Aug. 3, 1034 102 Warrants Totaling 8,447.96 3,002 $142,452.20 in Bismarck in May, 1879. I had read the Tribune since 1876, as I had an older brother who lived there and who lused to send the Tribune to my |father at our home in Jefferson county, Missouri. My brother, Richard Baldwin, was one of 150 who left St. Louis for the |Black Hills and arrived there in July, 1876. I also went to the Hills from Bismarck but was often back there, as I was a teamster for a freight out- fit owned by Alanso Gots, formerly of Bismarck, and was well known by a number of the old timers there at that time. During the hard winter of 1880-81 a number of freighting companies left Bismarck and went to Fort Buford and Poplar Creek. I was employed by the Leighton and Jordia freight ‘company at Fort Meade and from there we went to Bismarck and then to Buford and Poplar Creek. It was that winter that Sitting Bull and his outfit was taken in, but he got away and over the border into Canada. In the of 81 our army went over tention. A family which had given the border and brought him and his Special care to a number of friendly | hand, consisting of 37 lodges, to Bu- robins were greatly distressed when| ford,’ where part of his other tribe & neighbor's cat made a meal of their | was located. Later in the season they feathered friends. were all taken by boat to the Stand- I can appreciate the feelings of this| ing Rock reservation. family as we, too, have cared for! What I wanted to say when I start- these sweet singers throughout the/ eq out to write this was that the Trib- entire summer months and are already | une is the oldest paper in the state lamenting the fact that, all too s00n,! and has always been nearest to the the ‘flight of the birds’ will begin./ people of the state. If the people would have paid more attention to the of helpless young robins, just trying | old settlers, of whom the Tribune was out the use of their wings, being g0b-|the mouth-piece, the state would be People’s Forum (Editor’s Note)—The Trib comes letters on subjects est. Letters dealing with con! versial religious bj ln} wi infairly, J or fate writ. ned. attack — individu: which offend good taste ani play will be returned to t! ers. All letters MUST If you wish to use a sign the pi own name beneath it. pect such requests, Wi the right to delete such letters ae may conform to this policy quire publication of a name where justice and fair play make it advisable AGIN THE CATS Bismarck, N. D. Aug. 23,1934. Editor Tribune: In your issue of Aug. 22, and under the caption Cats vs. Birds Te- late an incident of bird life destruc- tion by cats which attracted my at- Yours For Better Days, CHAS. BALDWIN, 420 E. 4th Ave. Olympia, Wash. GOVERNMENT LAUDED BY GOVERNOR OLSON North Dakota Executive Praises Federal Administration for Efforts ise atl z BE i ais EF 3 i 8g 2 d #2 the federal g rg HE H H Fi geil EE. LAST WORD IN AAA POLICY, SAYS DAVIS Administrator Urges Greater Cooperation in Speech at Des Moines Des Moines, Aug. 27.—(#)—Chester C. Davis, administrator of the AAA, Monday promised the farmers of America that they shall have the final word on agricultural policy. cs In an appeal to the men who the fields and harvest the crops, national administrator urged a great: er cooperative effort along whateve: lines are suggested by the farmers themselves, He boldly tossed politics out of the Picture with the statement “I con. fess I do not care much what the Politicians say of the farm ,” and made his promise with these words: “No agricultural program will be adopted or long continued unless it is a farmers’ program understood by them and carried forward by them. The final word on agricultural policy when it is spoken will be said by you.” Davis was the principal speaker on the farm bureau day program at the Towa State Fair. Throughout his address Davis stressed the importance of @ coopera- tive undertaking of crop reduction and controlled luction. Citing difficulties in the adminis- tration oe the act and tracing the progress the various campaigns, the effect of the drouth on the re- duction program, Davis said: “We are passing out of the emer- gency phase of agricultural adjust- ment... . Excessive supplies will be wiped out in the case of many com- modities by the end of the current crop year, and the it prob- Jem be complete before the conclu- sion of the 1935 program. The fu- ture problem confronting the farm- ers of America, therefore, will not be one of continual reduction but of cooperation in adjustment of pro- ductive effort to supply the current market at home and abroad at a fair price to the farmer .... “During the rest of 1934 and 1935 it will be up to the farmers who are now marching in step in this great Cooperative program to assist in the development of a well-rounded gen- eral plan for the future. That plan cantare results will be yours if you want it.” Alaska Fliers Will Stop Off at Minot Edmonton, Alta, Aug. 27.) Enroute back to Washington, D. C. after nearly six weeks in Alaska, two af heavy 1.16% to 1.24%; No. 1 dark northern 1.15% to 1.22%; No, 2 dark northern 1.14% to 1.20%; No. 3 dark northern 1.13% to 1.19%; No. 1 north- ern heavy 1.16% to 1.24%; No. 1 northern 1.15% to 1.22%; No. 2 north- ern 1.14% to 1.20%; No. 1 amber du- Tum hard 1.11% to 1.50%; No. 2 am- ber durum hard 1.21% to 150%; No. 1 amber durum 1.20% to 1.29%; amber durum 1.19% to 1.29%; mixed durum 1.17% to 1.44%; mixed durum 1.16% to 1.44%; L ; 7 iH i i. ity lie bi Hi 4 E Gil HI i E Hh fe j i i [ [ l = : l iv Ht vb i : I » i i i i { li : t i i fet trio, B. Kein 3 } f L d i gs 2 & 2? | é : i P