The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 29, 1934, Page 2

2M SSL. BUABREEE OF LOSES TU wREM trae ‘*- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1934 PROJECTS TOTALING SMS APPROVED FOR WORK PROGRAM McKenzie Gets $23,677 of To- tal Announced by FERA Administrator by Frederi {weekeewe ee A Condensed Chapter From the Authors New Book cJ.Haskin wkeekaekank McKenzie county Monday received 26 projects totaling $23,677 out of a giand total of $54301 in new and amended programs approved by E. A. Willson, state federal relief adminis-| trator. Eighteen counties were recipients of | cther projects. Two programs asked at the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks were rejected on grounds they would not employ relief labor. ‘The two university projects con- templated research work on manu- scripts and government documents. Approved were the following pro- jects: Benson-Eldon township, amended project, graveling and grading, two, @iditional miles, $920. Bottineau—County. amended pro- ject, community garden, City of; Bottineau, $85. } Burke—City of Columbus. gravel-; ing and grading half-mile of street | nd road leading to park, painting} ‘and repairing grand stand and land- scsping park additionai $300. Burleigh—Ccunty. potato handling, $650. Cavalier—Trier township. amended project, graveling and grading, $1,020, arditional. Divide—Writing Rock school dis- trict No, 23, painting and varnishing interior, and general repair of consol- idated school. $400. Emmons—Lipp township, graveling two miles, cutting down hills, $4,000; county, construction of earth dam and reservoir, amended project, additional $860; county, recreational program, $845. amended project, Logan—County, additional Surplus cattle program, $1,460. McKenzie County McKenzie—County, amended pro- Ject, repairing bridges, road, $700 ad- ditional; county, amended project, gtaveling and suriacing, additional mile, additional $3,000; county, amended project, graveling and sur- facing, two miles, $2,000 additional; county, amended project, graveling end surfacing, $1,200 additional; county, amended project, additional road improvement, $1,000; county emended project, auto passes, grav- eiing and surfacing, additional $1,100; county, amended project, grading and scoria surfacing, additional $1,350; county, amended project, cleri¢4al, making out feed loans and applica- tions for Schafer relief office, addi- tional $1,700; county, amended pro- ject, 7 miles scoria surfacing, gravel- ing, $1,717 additional; county, amend- ea project, grading and building Liidge, additional $1,200; county, sur- facing and graveling. additional $1,200; county, amended projects, grading and scoria surfacing, Charl- son-Keene mail road, $1,000 addi- tional; Marquis township, graveling and surfacing additional one mile, $7,000 additional; Grail township, mended project, grading and sur- faving roads, additional $1,500; coun- ty, amended project, scoria surfacing seven miles, $1,600 additional; Persh- \ng and Bear Creek townships, finish- \ng grading and surfacing, $1,400 ad- ditional, THE FEDERAL POWER COMMIS- SION has general control over all water- power sites on the navigable waters | cation, design, construction, and oper-| ation of power plants upon such sites. No power plant can be erected on} public lands or navigable stream with-| out its license. Applications are thoroughly investigated to determine whether the project proposed can be economically developed, will furnish necessary service, and is best adapted | to a comprehensive scheme for de-; veloping the water resources of its’ region for irrigation, navigation, flood control, and water supply, as well as power. Plants are maintained and efficient operation assumed by reserve funds which the companies must set | aside for renewals and replacements. | Customers are protected, and the fin- ancial stability of projects preserved, by regulation of rates, services, and securities of licensees in states which have no such regulatory agency, or where state authorities are unable to agree. In most cases, however, rates | are fixed by state commisisons; the| rights of the states are carefully safe-| guarded. | “Recapture” of power plants by the; public is provided for in the Federal Water Power act. This provision re- serves to the United States. or to any state or municipality designated by the commission, the right to take cver any licensed project, upon exes piration of the license, by payment! to the licensee of the net invest- ment, not to exceed the fair value of the project. Projects are usually licensed for’ 50 years, the longest period which the law permits. To preserve this option of recapture, and protect consumers from unreasonable rates, the Commission is required to deter- mine currently the actual legitimate cost of projects constructed under license, and the fair value of licensed projects constructed under previous authority. Net investment is re- duced, as are also the recapture and rate base, by the creation of amortiz- ation reserves in excess of a specified reasonable rate of return. Three new and important duties have recently been entrusted to this commission. President Roosevelt, by executive order, August 18, 1933, di- rected the commission to make “a survey of the water resources of the United States as they relate to the conservation, development, control, and utilization of water power; of the relation of water powet to other in- dustries and to interstate and for- eign commerce; and of the transmis- sion of electrical energy in the United States and its distribution to con- sumers,” and on the basis of this survey to “formulate 2 program of public works” Survey of Power and Electricity McLean—Horse Show Valley town- ship, cutting down hills, making fills, placing culverts, amended project, Bdditional, $1,000. Morton County Morton—Amended projects: Beaver Valley School No. 45, exterior paint- ing, remodeling barns, $155 addi- tional; Crown Butte school district, Painting and constructing buildings, additional $100; Amublant Butte school district No. 32, painting and repairing nine schools end improving Grounds, additional $200. Renville—Colquhoun township, @taveling and grading, amended pro- dect, $300 additional. Sheridan—Amended projects: Lin-! coln township, gravelinz, $374 addi- tional, Fairview and Schiller town- ships amended projects, graveling, $750 additional; Berlin and New German- town townships, amended project, re- Pairing levies made in 1933, and Prospecting for springs covered in mining Coalmine lake during past years, between Dockter and Sheyenne Jakes, additional $95. Slope—Yhite Lake township, fill- ing, graveling and grading amended Project, $1,327 additional; Cedar Creek school district, amended pro- Ject, painting and re-shingling two schools, general repairs, $150 addi- tional; Rainy Butte school, reshingle, Congress by joint resolution, on April 14, 1934, directed the commission to investigate, compile, analyze, and report the “rate charged for electric energy and its service to residential, rural, commercial, and industrial con- sumers throughout the United States, by both private and municipal cor- porations.” The National Power Survey and the Electric Rate Survey, now in pro- gress, are the most comprehensive ever made in any country, Determining the nation’s power re- quirements, and how they can be most economically and advantageously sup- plied, is the primary purpose of the National Power Survey. Markets are considered, as well as power sites that can be developed at reasonable cost, either by governmental enterprise or earth dam, non-relief foreman, $180; ccunty, surplus cattle program, amended project, $6,120 additional. | Stutsman—Rose and Gray town- | Ships, graveling three miles, $4,740. | Ward—Mandan township, amended Project, grading three miles, sub- grading, and graveling, $1,525 addi- tional; Gassman township, amended Pioject, leveling dirt and graveling road to township hall, fencing grounds, $2,000 additional. | _Williams—Village of Alamo, amend- Plaster, repairing two schools, addi- tional $328, Stark—Grand Meadow township, Supplemental project, construction of ed project, grading and graveling . (streets and road in village and one- \half mile north and south of com- ‘munity, additional $1,500. DON’T FORGET TO VOTE | The Tribune that expect to be absent from the county such pants Apply now. Cast your county auditor. He will send you an structions for voting it. i Prints herewith an application for an absent voters. ball everyone may cast his vote at the election on November 6, ie ‘Those who ‘on election day have the right to cast ballot as you see fit for your own best Send the attached application blank, Properly filled out, to the absent voters ballot, together with in- APPLICATION FOR ABSENT VOTERS BALLOT 1, shee Township or Village of Residence, Street and No. Precinct of Ward ...........s000000, County of knowledge tsesecessererecesseesseees State Of North Dakota, and belief entitled to vote in such precinct at the next General steeeveccsey @ Guly qualified elector of and to my best Election, and expecting to be absent from said County on the day for hold- ing such General Election, for an official absent voters Dated .....scseceeeeres. viz., Novel ballot to Bismarck’s P.O. Address . Largest Garage Business mber 6, 1934, hereby make application be voted by me at such ietien Oldest and jbrivate capital. possible rates. can best be supplied. Electric rates all over America are {being compiled so that, for the first time, fair comparisons will be possi- |ble, and regulatory commissions will |have a better basis for rate-making. |Some 15,500 communities in the Unit- ed States enjoy electric service. Only 473 cities of 20,000 or more popula- tion, are covered in the Edison Elec- tric Institute's annual rate book. | Statistics have never been available {concerning nearly 15,000 communi- |ties, chiefly small towns and rural iregions, which pay the highest rates. These figures the new survey will sup- SF EE TEEN TS? Rate-making, at present, is aiderived its power from the vast {maze. Each company makes its own,| energy in the falls at this point. His ;with numerous variations, Experts jestimate that there are, in all, per- |haps 100,000 rate schedules in this country, covering industrial, commer- cial, residential, and rural service. All |these must be collected, ply. the Flectric Rate Survey. Earliest Source of Power ‘Water was America’s earliest source of power. Grist. mills were driven by sah wheels, common in the colon- les. 1639 in New Netherlands, and per- haps earlier in Virginia. close of the Seventeenth Century mills operating in New England and other colonies so seriously competed with the English textile industry that Parliament in 1700 prohibited the ex- Portation of water-power machinery for the manufacture of textiles in America, The interest of the colon- ists in water power expanded with the years. Leading them ail in recognizing its importance was George Washington. As a surveyor, traveling far into the then West, he was impressed with the value of land and water power. He, in fact, became “hungry” for, land, and acquired in the course of his life hundreds of thousands of acres, 80 that in the matter of land he became one of the richest men in America. He always had an eye open for land with water power pcssibilities, and when he acquired title made a| notation, “Valuable for water power.” | At Mount Vernon he operated a dis- tillery with water power, and a gris: mill, and his iron plant at Great/feared nothing and talked volubly| stitutions of Norway. {Falls was operated by a mill which after drinking. i —> ——+ Water-power devel- | opment is not the only element. Steam j Washington, D. C.. Oct. 29.—Cre- | 4nd Diesel engine plants are also ron- ated by congress in 1920 to administer |S!dered. One purpose is to establish the federal water power act, reorgan-/"nd maintain that balance between ized in 1930, with five whole-time Steam and hydro-electric power which commissioners appointed by the pres-| Will give America the most depend- ident, the federal power commission |@ble sources of encrgy at the lowest Power resources, de- veloped and potential, are being pre- and on public lands and reservations |Sented with a graphic picture of the of the United States, and over the lo- nation’s power demands, and how they collated, jcompared, and analyzed. That will give some idea of the task involved in Legislation concerning them dates back to 1638 in Massachusetts, By the . Resigns Under Fire People’s Forum (Editor's Note)—The'Tridiine wel- comes letters on subjects of inter= est. Letters dealing with contro- verstal religious 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, sign the pseudonym first and your own name beneath it, We will re- spect such requests, We reserve the right to delete such parts of letters as may be necessary to conform to this policy and to re- quire publication of a writer's name where justice and fair play make it advisable, AGAINST INITIATED BILLS Bismarck, N. D. Oct. 24, 1934, Editor, Tribune: The Bismarck Ministerial associa- tion at its meeting held Oct. 23, 1934 unanimously agreed that every min- ister bring to the attention of the congregations under his charge the two initiated measures, which we be- eve are a menace to all decent citi- zenship. ° We refer specifically to the Initiated Bill entitled “An Act Making It Law- ful to Operate Moving Picture Thea- tres and Theatrical Performances Therein, for Profit, on Sundays, and to Repeal any Law That Now Makes. Such Acts Unlawful.” And to the Initiated Bill entitled “An Act Re- Pealing the Statutory Prohibition Laws of the State of North Dakota.” It is our opinion that the Initiated Bill repealing all. Statutory Prohibi- tion Laws would completely abrogate every law regwlating the traffic in intoxicating liquor. within the State, without providing any substitute’ regulatory legislation. .The result would be complete moral. chaos, and would lead to unmitigated vicious con- ditions, making our Btate the most deplorable in this respect in the union. The initiated measure making it lawful to operate moving picture thea- tres on Sunday, would, first of all, vio- Albert Sarraut, minister of the interior, resigned from the French cabinet following severe criticism of police for their failure to pro. tect King Alexander of Yugoslavia “| and Foreign Minister Louis Gar- thou of France when the two were assassinated at Mareellle. ated Press Photo) (Associ- interest, however, was chiefly in the mechanical use of the water wheel. General “Light Horse” Harry Lee, his compatriot, saw further, and vis- ualized the possibilities of Great Falls as @ great industrial center, drawing :|The Norwegian farmer has never been a “fairy-tale” in a nightmare dream. |All historical evidences point in the direction Mere Langer is talking y at, 1 ‘ Norway has had a law in force even before, when its real history begins, at least 1300 years ago, for the pro- tection and security of the farmers. This law is in Norwegia called “Odels Loven,” it is as superior to the Langer Moratorium as the sun is to the moon, !Under financial difficulties when land is sold it can be redeeried anytime in- aide 20 years at appraised value, not ‘only by the owner himself but in rotation by any member of his fam- Uy. This law has been fundamental iin Norwegian history and is today. reduced to peasant in the usual Euro- pean sense of the word. This law has had no equal in the world, prior to the settlement in America. Nowhere in- Europe were the nobility so se- cure in possession of their land as the farmers in Norway. This state- ment can be verified by anyone who is well informed in ‘Norwegian his- tory. The Langer statement is worthless, unreliable, apparently a fabrication without any foundation of fact. It is| used for self glorification to impress the voters as to his influence in for- eign countries, which are not acts but exist only in his fertile mind. Langer has proved that he does not know the difference between right and wrong, in more than one case. All Langer’s propaganda is intended to win votes among the American citi- zens of Norwegian ancestry with state- ments that have no truth to support them. In conclusion let me say that the moratorium is not an invention or dis- covery of Langer. It was applied in various forms and times 3500 years ago by the Jews. It was used by the three to two in the second, they now|to be decent would not be completely thrust on us two more measures in|overrun. It seems that by this ree jwhich they were defeated within the| peal measure, Mr. Stone is te lgst: two years or thereabout, and @sk/Sweep away every vestige of law and @ suffering tax-imposed public to vote a % ; . With legalized beer, drunkenness again on these measures or measures involving the very things in which the|has increased to an amazing degree, Increased road accidents and killings proponents were defeated, and this less than six months after a vote was|have caused our roads to ‘become had on one of the measures. I repeat,/shambles of death. Now Mr. Stone I am wondering if it is not high time!/and his self-appointed repeal com- to give these proponents such a sting-| mittee are trying to open all the ing defeat at the November election | fiood-gates to intoxicating liquor and turn the state over to bootle; that they will be ashamed to try the gers and illicit distillers and that with- trick agnin. We talk repeatedly about reducing}out even providing for any revenue therefrom. It will be seven months taxes, and Unendir ae a eit is SF @ set of men, doubtless em= lore any law passed by t! selves good citizens, who are loading/ lature is likely to take ater sen taxes on the voters of our state twice|the legislature should fail to adopt every biennial election to the tune of | regulatory measures, and this may easily happen, it will be two more thousands of dollars, and yet we su- Pinely submit to being robbed of hard-|years that the state will have no earned money in order, if possible, to} protection against liquor lawlessness. let men, who do not care how quickly | Should this measure be adopted and our sons and daughters are debauched | all restraint be thereby removed, the state will enter upon an orgy of and driven to present and eternal wreck and ruin, have a wide open law-| drunkenness and road accidents un- paralleled in her history and the less state and rake in filthy lucre at the expense of honest fathers and/ public will lay much of the blame up against the beer taverns. mothers, who ere prematurely grow- (Rev.) F. L. WATKINS, ing old because of financial worries LIKED FARMER’S LETTER and pressure trying to keep the home together so that their sons and daugh- ters may have a decent start in life. Are we going to stand for such in- defensible procedure any longer? ‘We believe in initiative and refer- endum procedures, but there comes a time when men who repeatedly thrust on a suffering public the same measures, or measures involving the same issues on which the voters have expressed their decisions, have lost their equity or exhausted their rights in the matter, and we certainly are convinced that the proponents of these measures to be again voted on T wish to oom to commend you on your edi- torial of Oct. llth, relative to “A Farmer's Letter,” and to say that the Farmer surely hit the nail on the head in his letter. It is high time some- thing is being done, and gambling surely should be included in with the drinking of those who are receiving relief. There is plenty of both going Romans and many other civilized na- tions in time of-panics, both in time of war and time of peace. If anyone wants to know the truth of Langer’s statement he may tele- graph the U. 8. Minister at Oslo, Nor- ‘way. late the sanctity of the Lord’s Day; secondly, it is contrary to the trend of modern social legislation which) would raise the moral and economic status of labor; thirdly, it would con- flict with the functioning of the Christian Church ‘by diverting the attention of people into the field of Secular amusements on the Lord’s Day. Therefore, we urge every citizen in the State of North Dakota to vote jagainst these proposed measures at the election to be held on the sixth day of November, 1934. Signed, Rev. Ellis L. Jackson, Pres. Rev. A. W. Heidinger, act. sec, NORWAY. AND THE MORATORIUM Alamo, N. D. Oct, 23, 1934. @ map of such a city. The vast pow- er in the falls is still going to waste, although the national capital is hard by to use it. Cost is the great de- terrent to developing the Potomac river for power service, a survey or- dered by congress estimating it from $50,000,000 to twice that sum. Wash- ington uses the Great Falls area as @ picnic ground. School Glee Clubs Rehearsing Operetta - The boys’ glee ciub of Bismarck high school is rehearsing an operetta, “Melinka of Astrahkan” which will be given jointly with the girls’ glee club December 7, according ‘to Clar- . ion Larson, director of the boys’ club.| Editor Tribune: The newly elected officers of the} In the Republican Campaign speech boys’ glee club are Carl Gutsche,|in Alamo, N. D., on Oct. 20, 1934, president; Robert Watts, vice presi-| William Langer made the statement: dent; Ted Boutrous, secretary; Mil-/That his (Langer’s) moratorium law ton Rosen and Ben Jones, librarians.|/had been adopted in Norway under Other members of the glee club-are|the name of Langer law. | William Tillotson, Lenn Lasken, John| There is absolutely no evigence or Wright, Frank Fuller, Harold Sloven,| foundation for the truth of his state- / Sidney Sloven, Justin Moellring, Asle|ment. Neither the Norwegian press Lewis, Roland Wright, Milton Lip-|nor the Norwegian American press pert, Hugh Jessen, Jack Sanborn,|have ever made such statement and Corliss Nelson, Kenneth Satter. I do not believe Langer can produce a | single proof or evidence to verify his ‘Whisky was believed to be a concoc-/ statement. It is absolutely unreliable. jtion of hearts and tongues by the|It shows that Mr. Langer is entirely North American Indians, because they | ignorant of the history, laws and in- His statement is apparently a fabrication of fiction, At last, may I recite’a fairy tale. ‘There was once a poor helpless woman who owned a herd of sheep, but she had no shepherd and she wanted to get one. A wolf came to her, pleading in the most pleasing manner to be al- lowed to take care of the:aheep. She; was captivated with his“ good looks, good prottiises and fine pleading. She accepted him as a shepherd. The wolf made a feast of all the sheep. Whether or not he called in ail his relatives to the feast, is not re- corded. J. O. MANGER. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH Underwodd, N. D., Oct. 16, 1934. I wonder if I might not have some space in your People’s Forum to bring some burning facts to the attention of your readers. Here they are: Iam wondering if the citizens of our fair state are satisfied to have a set; of men, who are willing that the pub- | lic shall be robbed,. keep thrusting) initiative measures upon the voters at| every election, and this at the expense of thousands of dollars every time. It is reported that the initiative meas-| ures proposed at the primaries last! June cost McLean county alone near- ly twenty-five hundred dollars. What must it have been for the entire state? And when these unprincipled men were voted down to the tune of about four to three in the first measure and ,| Editor, Tribune: at the November elections have ex- hausted all these rights. - By a subscriber. and regular reader. Rev.) F. W. Greas. more than they ever had before, and still aren’t satisfied. It seems the ones who have had the least before can do the most kicking now. I hope borer “A Farmer's Letter” will be given con- AGAINST REPEAL sideration by the relief board, for I'm Ashley, N. D. | sure it expresses the opinion of many Oct. 15, 1984. | hundreds of honorable citizens, Editor, Tribune: Mrs. R. P, Sisco. In an article that appeared in the Bismarck Tribune, dated September 2ist, the following statement is at- tributed to Mr. ©. P. Stone of Fargo. “Stone said headquarters are being established in Fargo to direct::the cempaign for the law which would repeal all state dry laws, except those prohibiting sale to minors and In- dians.” I have a copy of this initiated measure and have checked it with the state prohibition law and this measure if adopted by the voters at the November election will repeal the law that ‘prohibits, gift and. sale of liquors to: minors. This is Practically the same’ bill that was before the 1933 legislature and after careful study, they turned down this measure, ‘This initiated measure will also repeal the law by which a person drunk in a public place may be arrested. It repeals the law pro- hibiting drinking on a train. It re- Deals the law allowing a conductor to arrest @ person who is drunk on his train and turn him over to a officer at @ station. It re the law that prohibits gift or sale of liquor at a public sale and the law that re- quires officers of the law to enforce liquor laws. High School Girls . Organize Glee Club For the first time in several years a girls’ glee club has been organized in Bismarck high school. Membership has been limited to 20 who were chosen after try-outs by over 75. Rehearsals are held twice a week under the direction of Miss Mildred Hoff. Besides being an accomplished pianist, Miss Hoff was a member of the well-know St. Olaf choir while at- tending that institution and has had previous experience in directing glee clubs, The membership of the glee club is as follow: First Soprano— Ruth Christianson, Betty Jacobsen, Bernice Ulmer, Marian Wilcox. Second Soprano — Virginia Cayou, Mary Davis, Cynthia Dursema, Ele- anor Lewis, Mary MahlIman. 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