The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 3, 1934, Page 3

, /Co NTINUE from page one D Moodie Greeted by Capacity Audience, Wins Real Ovation Points to Better Days Poverty is the most ancient trag- edy of mankind and its oldest prob- Jem, Moodie asserted, but it can be by marshaling the resources peg state and by intelligent, unified One of the first steps, he said, is water conservation, looking forward to the time when every drop of rain which falls in North Dakota will be conserved that water levels may be raised and the productivity of the soil restored. More important ‘still, he said, is a land classification program which will help to locate people on really pro- ductive soil. In Mc! ing the total cost at $72,000,000, he up of political machines and the danger to good government which they represent, Moodie said the his- tory of Langer’s 18 months in office Proves that in 1920 he was “merely mulling over the blue prints” of the Political machine which he sub- sequently set up in the state. Tt he is elected, he said, he will not have any night riders on the road from Bismarck to Grand Forks to make illegal collections from the state mill and elevator for prepaid advertising in a political newspaper and he will so conduct himself that it “will never be necessary for the good wife to become a candidate to vindicate the official record.” Commenting on charges that he has not lived in one place in North Dakota long enough to really under- stand the problems of the state, Moo- die to spend the time be- tween election day and his inaugura-| tion, if elected, “taking a course at an eastern finishing school” so that he might properly equip trimself for the office. Relief Out of Politics Declaring that a Republican can Get just as hungry as a Democrat “and our friends the Communists can apparently get twice as hungry as either,” Moodie demanded that relief be kept out of politics and asserted that Langer’s lust for power and lust for money is what got him into trou- ble. The result he declared to be ‘an excellent demonstration of “poetic Justice.” The Democratic platform declara- tion on the moratorium, he said, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1934 don the prohibitionists to their foolish yes for repeal. Yours very truly, New Voter. A REVIEW OF POLITICS Mercer, N. D., - Nov. 1, 1934. Editor, Tribune: Election time is drawing near. Today we were handed a voter's guide card and were told to vote it straight. It had on it the names of candidates of the Langer faction of the Nonpar- tisan League. ‘This reminds us that the voters of this state have a very polls this year. For on their decision at the polls rests the welfare of the people of North Dakota. Let us compare the two tickets that are in the field this year. ers. on that have been a real tt?) dreams and be progressive by voting | knockout During the past four months or so the great five per cent Leader put jout by the All Oscar Trio has been very busy criticising and tearing down the New Deal. This is the way they tell it: “The wheat allotment is all hooey, The corn-hog allotment is all fluey, the cattle program is all graft, the summer fallow loans should never have been issued, the feed loans are not necessary.” In fact they tell us that the New Deal is a misdeal and has dealt to us from the bottom of the important duty to perform at the | pack. Now we believe that the average farmer is satisfied. That the program being put on by the Roosevelt admin- istration is an honest attempt to aid agriculture. We know that this pro- Heading the Democratic ticket as cendidate for gaveene= ws have Tom Moodie, who is well qualified in every Way 00 Til ite pec ew ct. man who, in addition to such qualifi- cations as €ducation, experience, honesty and a record for clean living, has an abundance of good, honest, every day common sense, which, after all, is the best qualification that any candidate for office can have. We have all seen men in high office who were gifted by nature in intelligence and were even brilliant in some ways but who failed because they did not have enough good common horse sense to keep them on an even bal- ance. Let us take @ look at the Republi- ‘gram is not perfect in every detail. ;We know that some changes and ad- justments will probably be neces- sary. We know that its failure to pointed out that the government had/means just what it says. No one spent $41,000,000 in cash in this state|shall be moved from his home during during the last year and it seems only|these stringent times. It is not only wise to attack the underlying prob-|good public policy but constructive Jem rather than attempting to me-|common sense, he said. diate the effects. Those who approve of Langerism The way to begin on the diversion |should vote the Langer ticket program, he said, is to send Henry |straight, Moodie asserted, while those Holt to the senate, W. D. Lynch and|who are opposed to it should “vote can column of our election ballots. ‘We find that candidates of the Lan- ger faction of the Ni League have sole possession of the Republican column. Go back with me, neighbor, to the you will no doubt remember these same candidates wearing the “Al Presidential campaign of 1928 and|Langer Smith Derby” and whistling the|firmly Gus Lamb to the house. They have/the Democratic ticket from top to the problem and will be able to enlist the support of the national administration, he asserted. ‘Chiseling’ Turning his attention to the con- dition of state government, Moodie declared the state cannot afford the corruption which accompanies the five per cent and the two per cent collections, no matter by whom attempted, if he is elected. The crowd laughed as he read from book, printed in fighting the Non- each liam Langer speaking.” After read- ing passages dealing with the setting Weather Report ° | FORECAST ismarck and vicinity: Partly somewhat For Bi cloudy toni~ht, Ge: kota: fair tonight and pi Sad Sty "hed a junday; warmer east portion . i want a friendly supreme court. | want @ just court.” bottom,” and thus end the “exploit- ae of ignorance, misery and dis- ress.” Asks Burr, Nuessle, Morris Reinforcing a plea by John Moses, who also spoke, Moodie asked support for W. L. Nuessle, A. G. Burr and James Morris as candidates for the state supreme court, asserting they are clean, honest men who will serve the people without regard to politics and without fear or favor. Moses, pointing out that C. G. Bangert, one of the Langer court candidates, has traveled with the con- victed governor throughout this cam- paign, pointed to the attack made on the court by Bangert and by A. F. Bonzer, Jr., because it held the North Dakota moratorium law unconstitu- tional. Then he quoted from the official senate record in which both Bangert and Bonzer,, explaining their votes on the law, each asserted that he knew it to be unconstitutional. Pointing out that Mrs. Langer has asked for a “friendly” supreme court, Moses asked: “Friendly to whom? Friendly to a political faction or friendly to the people? We pg? je The only way in which this “bare- faced and brazen attempt” to subvert justice and throw the court into po- campaign tune “The Sidewalks of During the Hoover administration you will remember them, as they put on a vicious tearing down program, Program of mud slinging and bitter attacks of criticism much of which was unjust. In every conceivable way ithey tried to discredit the Republican administration. In the campaign of 1932 they sup- ported such political mavericks and fanatics as General Jacob Coxey and others of the same kind, but in the state of 1934 these same political fence crawlers are Republi- cans, such good Republicans, sigh- ing for the good old Republican times again, the RURAL CORRESPONDENCE Douglas, North Dakota, October 22, 1934, it all to the millionaires and forgot to give the common people any of it. Some of these Langer Republicans, who have had their shirts torn off their backs a good many times by slip- Ping through political party fences, even have the nerve to say that Tom Moodie is not @ Democrat because he once upon a time wrote a Republican editorial for a Republican newspaper. Heading these Republican st H ~E nf te i A & i i 5 ! i i z litics; Moses asserted, is to vote for Nuessle, Burr and Morris. Need Civil Service Law Pointing to the need for a civil service law, Moses said all depart- ments of the government under Langer were shot through with po- lites. He cited numerous bills pres- ‘extreme ented by highway department work- ers to show that political work was Be arreysiooee tee Ee pert Ae gia Sin okey Piseatrerviad ree sout rain or snow ; ag headings as cleaning culverts, cutting mn; in east! weeds and smoothing Sie ed urkeh etns [paran p GENERAL CONDITIONS ‘The barometric is from the Gulf ‘States. north northwestward to north Pacifi with cen. 8 Ba oe 181 Low- High- est est Pet. BISMARCK, N. D., cir 36 59 02 Teer ite 20 i RED » Cay 0 ROURSHRBSNSSHRRMNNSERRTEEsEeNEroRRNENsHSSEsESES gussssaeuaoaenesnsesarnssuseuannenasaaresszesa BeSSSBReEbeSeacshbssarssaskssessssReeskses' surface. The The Democrats, he said, will esta- blish a civil service system which will require of minor state employes only low |that they do their work and stay out = {Of politics. This, he said, should both People’s Forum (Editor's Note)—The Tribune wel- comes letters on subjects of intere est. Letters dealing with contro- versial religious subje which individuals un: ly, | oF 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- pect 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, FROM A NEW VOTER Golden Valley, N. D., Nov. 1, 1934. Editor, Tribune: Mrs. Bascom, in her letter to the s Forum, has apparently closed People’ her mind to any of the advantages of ability and also their willingness repeal. For instance, just who invest-ichisel on and otherwise plunder the ed the one and a half billion dollars? Surely not the government. And the $236,000,000 the government did re- jceive represented that much more than the nothing it had received the Previous year. She has apparently forgotten the wave of gangsterism, lawlessness and easy way to wealth. She has for- tel prohibition killings by men crime _ prohibitiori/ and caused, with the illicit trade in alcohol Public Dance, FF i g Es & ¥ [ & : | i campaign the good League for “Lydia Langer” if he could only get them to forget about ‘Husband Bill” while they were casting their i i i 7 i ru = : 3 i Yi & + i: ty a 8 gtk 3 ii lag § 5 3 % a pil 4 E E E E zg & fy 5 bE pa i ee aBa* fui 4d] Hl ig E = 5 if 8 fF E i i i 2 5 2 3 5 8 3 ig Py givelze He A g We hear much about Langer saving homes. Many homes have been saved by federal money, but do you hear any- one about saving these homes? Federal money is even sav- ‘When Mrs. Langer makes the state- ment that if elected governor alone, will be governor—and no else—we can not help but feel on the see ure of “Husband Bill,” who looms up LES. SRE AREY 0. FED SORE Langer horizon, men who, during the Langer administration, have shown Ses state. We really think that this kind of politician would like nothing bet- to have a woman in the governor's chair. Tt has been said that the Langerites have overlooked nothing in their SESE bee Hit Te u ef Lik Hr big R 2 i AL bi seg sity eke Ee eH ONE MAN’S STORY Bismarck, N. D., Oct. 27, 1934, Editor, Tribune: As we sat beside our radio listening in on the Farmers Union convention held recently at Jamestown, as we heard its national president, Mr. Everson, in a tirade of abuse and censure heaped against the present adminstration in Washington, and as we pictured in our mind’s eye the hundreds of farmers gathered to- gether, as we heard the rounds of ap- been |Plause given the speaker, somehow, we could not help asking ourselves why it is these things must be. And then we looked back to only a few months past, as conditions were then, and we wondered still more. As we thought over all these things we could not help asking ourselves just what the New Deal has meant to us as a farmer and what it has meant to us as a citizen of the state of North Dakota. We do not feel that we have been unduly favored by the Roosevelt administration. We know dozens of farmers who have received far more than we, yet it would be im- | possible to measure in mere dollars iq | 20d cents the things that have come to us through the New Deal. j|. In the first place, had it not been/|bread for the benefit money received from our wheat and corn-hog allotments we would not have received a cent from our farm this year, for like so many Others, our crops were a total failure. And yet, because of this money we will be able to provide for our family and stave off our most debts. Tt means the difference between want and comfort to our family. A few weeks ago we were hands at a price higher than we should have received from regular market channels. This alone has) Meant more than I can express be- cause I am sure that had the ment not done this many of as well as countless others crops and normal conditions return. And, along with this settlement, government advanced the money necessary for the repair and repaint ing of our farm buildings which, cause of lack of capital, I had forced to let run down. And here I want to say that, as one els over the county and state, one not help being impressed by the hi amount of repair work being done our farms. In a year of total failure more improvement work is be- ing done than for years practically every cent of it comes from the government. Through government assistance we have also had our chattel mortgage largely reduced, something unheard of before. Our son is a member of one of our CCC camps. A recent ter from him speaks of the bountiful food and warm clothing furnished boys in camp. He also speaks of good times enjoyed after work EEL 86 3 is e% 38 i gE Flee Sibaleeer 5 d i i E iE d ll 3 z [ r Ay ig Hg i i f a8 § go aze Fi [tier i | i ij fF ri Hq i 5 : i HR g a f hi i Bz = i F 5 E g : ! : i ik : a i tne ry a a2 ; i g25 fF. g + fi i 1 3 RE iB r E E tied z ee t Ex & ri i i whereby no return is made for the money received. open in order that our children may receive an education. It is paring wi i measured? Some ago enterprising farm- ers openly that the wheat tors mulcted the farmers out Tonight, Dome of not less than 10 cents a bushel on their wheat. For at that time the wheat combine fixed the price of wheat. The » dockage, mix- ing, warehousing and even the shunt- ing of cars at the terminals was regu- lated by them. No account was taken of protein. All the farmer had to do was to produce the wheat, deliver it to the elevator and ask no ques- tions. Naturally wheat farmers became dissatisfied—hence the mill and ele- vator, thanks to Professor (later, U. 8. Senator) Ladd for demonstrating and emphasizing the value of protein a8 a constituent in hard spring wheat. As long as the mill and elevator, however, are under the control and management of politicians it will be their football and its real value and Purpose made a secondary consider- ‘They should be placed under young men and young women for sal- aried jobs, but to educate farmers and the public as to the intrinsic value of North Dakota spring wheat for as well as to on its merits, ent independent of all speculative and gambling As an educational institution it is in a class with the experiment sta- tions and, educationally, is compar- able with other inati- tutions. i tit: i g i é I ‘ & it Eg i E i i i i i i fe g é i 5 E He $ i i bee i i f iit ili ay #8 A 3 8 & Re i i g & i | ; z il i : é | | g : i i i 3 5 | & i : HE & E ti : Hotel Restaurant Rendesvous for Best Foods Sunday Dinner Roast Goose with all the trimmin’s ROAST YOUNG TURKEY CHOPS ...-..... 6D ing from the influence of the mill and elevator, and $1,000,000.00 is worthy of consideration. But how about five or ten million dollars, mere possibilities. Tt is but fair, however, to give thought to the possible but intangi- ble results arising from a very small increase price of a bushel of wheat multiplied by the millions of bushels that are exported. Moreover, farm- ers are justified when in self defense they run contrary to “rugged indivi- dualism.” - J. H. Worst. Editor's Note: The writer of the above letter is a distinguished North Dakota citizen. A former president of the State Agricultural college, he is one of the real builders of North Dakota. The Tribune long has advocated that management of the mill be taken out of politics, entirely away from the politicians, and placed under the control of the farmers themselves acting through a responsible farm or- ganization. This, by the way, also is Tom Moodie’s plan. AN EDUCATOR SPEAKS Jamestown, N. D., Oct. 30, 1934, Editor, Tribune: Eternal viligance is truly the price of liberty. If a people ever needed to be on the alert, it is now in watching the movements of the liquor sharks. For five successive times they have sought to dethrone the high purpose and rating of the people of our state by initiating measures to destroy the legitimate safeguards which our state constitution provides and which a thoughtful legislature, chosen by the people, from time to time strengthened by necessary regulatory senshhip and youth with the nefari- ous liquor traffic, or it would seem that they are employed by and rep- resent the liquor interests which have always driven roughshod over [the rights and happiness and well of our citizenship for selfish of them, the bill proposes to repeal? Every citizen would have to sit for at the polls to even simply through the measures referred to by number, which from time to time enes, what wisdom these petitioners expect from us all! It would take a Philadelphia lawyer weeks to wade through the mass of laws which this Petition sweeps aside by one fell blow. Or can it be that they thought that by such wholesale slaughter of is so frequently stated, that we have too many laws? But in this particu- lar it is infinitely better to have even too many safeguards than to have None at all, and to allow the liquor to flow unhindered like a devastating flood over the state, with no revenue to the state, with no power by the state or the federal government to Protect our youth and homes, or to Punish the bootlegging openly carried on with no laws. I have always been opposed to the state or the national government making money through the debauching of our citizens, espe- clally our youth who are all too easily influenced by circumstances and by men and women of bad habits, but I want to call the attention of those who do believe in revenue from the sale of liquor that the little check Let Your Be Served at the or call which license imposes to the selling of liquor (which advocates of revenue claim exists) would be removed by the enactment of this petition into law at the coming election, Shakespeare says that when An- thony infected the people with the virus of mischief, he shouted, “Mis- chief, thou are now afoot, take thou what course thou wilt!” Let liquor once get “afoot” through this nefari- ous initiated bill and nothing can stop whiskey, brandy, rum and wine from polluting our homes, endangering our highways, desecrating the precincts of our schools and churches, debauching our girls and boys, robbing our child- ren of their rightful heritage of love and care, destroying the peace and comfort of our firesides, and making every city, village, and crossroad a carnival of riotous drunkenness, with crime and misery and want and suf- fering in their train. If we ever did any careful thinking as citizens we should do it now as we stand at the Polls to exercise our inalienable right to vote. Let it be an emphatic, NO, as we so unmistakably registered our disapproval at the June primary and sent. the liquor devotees back to their haunts defeated by over 31,000 ma- jority for law and order and decency. As an educator of youth for over 26 years in this state, it has been a mat- ter of pride to be able to say that the liquor question has not been a serious Problem in college administration, but I tremble as to what it will be if this bill were passed by our citizens. Let us keep this state safe for our youth, that they may have a reasonable op- Portanity for decent growth and right- eous development. Vote, No, on Nov. 6th, on “An act repealing the statu- tory liquor laws of the State of North Dakota.” B. H. KROEZE, President, Jamestown College. Irma Rudser Awarded $15 in Essay Contest Miss Irma Rudser, 925 Fifth St., Saturday was announced as the win- ner of the $15 first prize in an essay contest sponsored by the Murphy In- surance company. The subject for the contest, open to all eighth grade school pupils, was “Safeguarding the Home Against Fire.” The contest was one of the features in the recent observance of Fire Prevention week. Loring Knecht, 906 Seventh 8t., won the second prize of $10. Other prize winners were: John Solberg, third, $5; Jean Speaks, 1310 Avenue B; Joe Sirnechek, 410 Avenue B and Mt Forister, 413 Second &t., mention, $2 each. Judges in the contest were Miss Henricka B. Beach of the Provident Life Insurance company; E. J. Tay- lor, supreme court law librarian, and C. G. Carlson, local insurance man. Presentation of the prize to Miss Rudser will be made at 10:45 a. m., Monday at the Will Junior Hig! school by H. T. Murphy of the Mur- phy agency. 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