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PLANE CRASHES INTO Taland, Killed st least five persons Wednesday, ine, Purmult, plane, TSF ied CITY SHOP KILLING & us a ‘Two Pilots, Three Children Die; Three Houses Burn in Japanese Tragedy ‘Tokya, ‘March 18.—(?)—Crash of Japanese naval plane in: the pig of Kurume, a city on northern Kyushu UlRom the crash destroyed three ‘Three children were burned to death and it was feared the ruins might hide other bodies. This crash brought to 13 the num- ber of dead in seven naval plane crashes since March 1. New York City has a total of seven women professional blood donors. Of this number, one is a chambermaid and the other six are nurses, 2 The New 1936 Ward Electric Refrigerator 6% CU. FT. DELUXE: Illustrated Above and ot Right $159 Others as low as $94.95 up to 40%! It costs Wards that much less to sell! No exorbitant national advertising, no mid- dleman’s profits to pay for at Wards. Come in and see it today! Compare! MONTGOMERY WARD 300 Fourth St. Bismarck, N. D. Phone 475 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1936 REV. HIRAM FRAKES |RooseveltSupport Grows|| Pinter ior] WILL PREACH HERE) As Borah, Knox, Landon Lead in Republican Race By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, the Associated Press, Washington) Kentucky Mountain Pastor to Talk at Methodist Church Service Thursday Rev. Hiram M. Frakes, founder of the Henderson Settlement Schools at Linda, Ky., and revered as the “Sky Pilot of the Cumberlands,” will be the guest speaker at a special service in the McCabe Methodist Episcopal vada starting at 7:30 p. m., Thurs- ‘Ys Reverend Frakes will come here from Mandan where in the afternoon he will speak before a sub-district meet- ing of the Methodist Episcopal churches in the Charles Wesley Burns church. k He comes highly recommended by Rev. Walter Vater, pastor of the local church, both as a speaker and an ed- ucator. Rev. Frakes founded the Henderson settlement school in 1925, about 20 miles south of Pineville in an isolated and inaccessible region of the state. Since it was organized the school has grown rapidly until today there are almost 200 students enrolled. The ptoperty consists of 435 acres of ground, a. large school building, chapel, boys and girls dormitories, of- fice buildings and farm buildings. Besides preaching and teaching the Word of God, Reverend Frakes edu- cates the*students and mountaineers in farming practices and programs of improved land tillage. From Bismarck he will go to Dick- inson to address a meeting Friday and return through here on his way to Jamestown, where he is scheduled to speak Monday, March 23. People’s Forum (Editors Note) -The Tribune wel- comes letters on subjects of inter- ere Ing with contre. indtvida unfairly, or which offend good taste and fair play Till be returned to the writ: tere MUST be signed to use a pseudonym, donym first and your beneath it. We reserve letters as may bi conform to this epee’ fi quire publication of a writer's name where justice and fair play make it advisable. All letters must be limited to not more than 600 words. The anwer to the question of im- proving farm conditions cannot be given in a nutshell or by adding one’s voice in the usual yell to the govern- ment. And to be “considerate, kind and optimistic” in this matter seems to me to be nothing less than a moral crime. It is a fact—and it cannot be denied —that the farmers themselves are mostly to blame for their precarious condition. This condition is based on greed and grab, lack of foresight and planning and an incredible credulity. The two first can be excused. They are human and based on a natural desire to improve one’s condition, but the rest... The pity is that the advices and promises the farmers got from their readers” and counselors” and the “high-pressure salesmen,” wolves in sheepclothes or sheep in wolfclothes j—take your choice—went in the opposite direction from where the promised “Quick-rich - Wallingford” was standing. The soapbubble began to be formed 16 years ago, in 1920, and its inflation continued until it broke —like all soapbubbles do. It was then the use of “Power farm- ing” began to gather momentum. In the last 16 years the method of farm- ing in the U. 8. has been transferred from horses to machinery. Well, isn’t that progress? Alas, no. There is something that is called a false prog- Tess. What, then, is true progress? It is to follow behind the times and to fill the imaginary holes the times dig and leave behind; that is to adjust one’s self to the demands and neces- sities of our own time. But the farm- ers did not do that. Wolf-yells and fox-calls lured then miles ahead of the times. There they are now and they ask fearfully: “Where are the permit violations of their laws. The farmers must retreat and humbly put themselves behind the times again and march on. Then they will have found the solution of their problems and can trustfully hope they are mov- ing toward true progress and wisdom. No, the times are not lenient toward those who transgress their laws! Look at the history of the men who were ahead of their time and you will find the same pitiful epitaph over them all: “He died misunderstood and in poverty.” When the times caught up with them they got the under- standing and honor their own times had denied them. The farmers have learned it now, but not yet realized it. How did the transformation of the U_ S&S. farm industry happen? The times did not demand it and the proof of that is the conditions as we see them today; ruinous and the farmers submerged in debt. The farmers were Ht it by outside pressure Barly bird delegate selectio ns for the national political con- ventions have developed few surprises. . Roosevelt remains virtually alone in the field of Democratic candidates having visible support. Borah, Knox and Landon continue to lead the Republican procession, followed by an inter- esting line of dark horses. The Democratic question now, is whether any appreciable strength at all will muster behind any Democratic candidate against the president. If anything, the early primaries have encouraged the Roosevelt leaders to strengthen their predictions that the renomination will be voted almost by acclamation. For the Republicans, the critical months will be April and May. The June 9 convention may be just around the corner before the situation is much clearer than it is today. Presidents Hard to Beat The overwhelming Roosevelt trend of Democratic pre-convention politics is hardly regarded as news by those experienced politicians who know how hard it is to stop the renominations of any president. At Democratic headquarters, the Roosevelt lop-sided victory in the first Georgia counties to vote was spoken of as merely confirming that Gover- nor Talmadge will get nowhere with his candidacy, even in his own state. The “bandwagon” impression is further deepened by the selection of Roosevelt-instructed delegates in the New Hampshire primary, by indica- tions that the anti-Roosevelt delegate effort in Massachusetts will be dropped, and by such announcements as that of Senator Tydings of Mary- land, who says he will support the president although he disagrees with him about many things. Colonel Henry Breckinridge re- mains entered in several primaries, but the Liberty league emphatically disavows any connection with the en- terprise, and the colonel’s friends are complaining gf lack of cooperation from anti-Roosevelt Democrats. Landon Boom Grows The swift-blooming Republican boom for Governor Landon makes headlines daily in many states. It is quite evident his friends are counting heavily on support from the unin- structed delegations which many of the old-line party leaders want to elect from east, west and south. It also is apparent, however, that the supporters of Colonel Knox, who have been at work more quietly for months, believe they have cause for hope from these same uninstructed delegations. Thus a struggle of un- suspected ferocity is developing un- der the surface, and there is no sign it will cease before convention time. Meanwhile Senator Borah is widen- ing the theater of his campaign against the whole uninstructed-dele- gate bloc. He will seek strenuously to crush Colonel Knox in the Illinois primary on April 14. The state is crucial for Knox, because it is his home state. Borah himself faces a crucial test on May 12 in the Ohio primary, where he is the only leading candidate en- tered, and is battling a determined old-line leadership which desires to keep the delegation foot free by pledging it nominally to a favorite son. Landon, staying out of the pri- maries, will face his test in the con- vention itself. Hoover Talk Absent The inevitable logic of the Republi- can situation is causing endless talk ot dark horses. For the moment, former President Hoover does not figure prominently in these discussions. Even in Hoo- ver's home state of California, Gover- nor Merriam is trying to pledge the delegation definitely to Landon. There is much talk of Senator Van- denberg, some talk of Senator Dick inson, a little talk of Senator Stei- wer, But all of it, at this statge, is nothing but talk. The Republican outlook remains as confused as the Democratic outlook is clear-cut. but not from the farmers’ side, and their “counselors” and “leaders” did not see it. Not a voice was raised in a word of warning. Then the orgy of expansion began. But what was it based on? On imagination, illusion and hot air; on propaganda—“busi- ness.” Lord! What have not the “leaders” and “counselors” cost the farmers! I recall one of them. Right after the war he splashed for several weeks across the front page of his farm pa- per: “Don't sell your wheat before the price is $3.50 a bushel!, Don’t sell, don’t sell!” A song was sung in his honor: “Mister N. N., our leader, Mis- ter N. N., our leader.” But the price went down, always down. . How many millions that “leader” cost the farmers is not easy to say, but a year later it was all for- gotten, and the man was again recog- nized as a leader and prophet. Henry Ford has talked as much; a mixture of wisdom and trash. During the high conjuncture in 1928 he stated in an interview: “We have cars because we are prosperous; we are prosperous be- cause we have cars.” In the same year Hoover declared in a speech: “We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever be- fore in the history of any land. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a chance to go forward with the Policies of the last eight years, we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation.” And in October, 1929, when the nation’s canoe \—with Hoover at the paddle oar—was on the. brink of an economic Niagara Falls, he stated: “The fundamental business of the country, that is, pro- duction and distribution, is on a sound and prosperous basis.” The farmer has always had an abundance of misleaders and false prophets but those have never been practical men of the soil, in his own tank and file. But the farmers have always had to foot the bills. FRED KNUDSEN. THE GERMAN VIEW Bismarck, North Dakota. March 11, 1936. Editor, Tribune: One September evening five years ago, I was leaning on a spade stuck into the soil of a small field of pota- toes on the outskirts of a little city in East Prussia, Germany. I was help- ing my uncle dig up & patch of tub- ers and between spurts of work we were discussing recent political de- velopments in Germany. My,uncle, who dabbled in politics, ‘was quite voluble about what he deem- ed a new disturbancd on the German political scene, namely Hitler, the near-God of the National ‘Socialistic Party in Germany. (For those who do not know it, Nazi is a contraction of the words national socialistic.) As we talked a cloud of dust ap- peared on the road a quarter of a mile from us. Out of it emerged a convoy of trucks, heading to the south toward Konigsberg. In the trucks, standing like packed sardines and shouting | like maniacs were scores of the flower y|hear Hitler. I have always of German youth. They were going to||| the large East Prussian metropolis to regretted that I didn’t go to hear what this man had to say, for it was on this memorable occasion he uttered those Prophetic history making words— “and heads will roll in the sand.” Already this man’s powerful appeal and challenge had so struck into the heart and imagination of the growing generation that even youngsters of 12 and 14 were greeting each other with so. |“Hell Hitler” and recounting promises salesman. That was what is called “business,” of his many speeches with fire their souls. Today it is half a decade later and in {nations and a power to be reckoned with, What is it that has made this pos- sible? A human zero, a nondescript Aus- trian, a corporal, comes out of the German army and makes himself the head of what, before the war, was the greatest nation in Europe. Coula anything be more fantastic, more woven of the thin stuff out of which dreams are made? No one who does not lose himself in the German point of view can possibly hope to under- stand in what desperate straits this nation had fallen and what desperate measures were necessary to rescue it from doom and oblivion. Nor can he understand in what a state of apathy the German people lived until the ad- vent of Hitler. A drowning person questions not the quality of the straw which he grasps in his frantic struggle for life. And so with this people. In their midst appears a man who fired their imagination, who made them want to live again and who painted, in thundering, convincing words, a pic- ture that seemed to live and breathe It all, somehow, made sense, and so millions followed where he led. That he was an outsider and a com- mon person, except for his magnetic Personality and power to sway by speech, did not make any difference. All that mattered was that here was one who had the courage to point the way and the magical something tha: made people follow him wherever he pointed. In unity there is strength and so it was that even men of wealth, of Position, of power turned to him, and Joined him. They offered and gave th Power of money, press, and endorse ment because he was symbolic of what they desired, a united behind a solid front, capable of mak- ing demands and reestablishing a na- tional sovereignty. What has happened the whole world knows. Germany again has taken over the job of governing itself and all that it implies. In his latest move the Germans are with him al- most to a man. A rather thorough knowledge and understanding of the German spirit convinces me of this. A proud nation is marching on to greater and better things. JOHN GERLITZ, Sheep skins are sold by furriers une der more than 50 different names, 10c. Forge can Ee Use site Eiaex and White Skin Soap for best resul| P. F. ROBERTS * # & DRAGGED BY HORSE, P. F, ROBERTS HURT Amidon Pioneer and Former Trail Rider With Teddy Roosevelt Recovering Amidon, N. D., March 18.—(?)—P. FP. Roberts, pioneer rancher of west- ern North Dakota who once rode the trail with Theodore Roosevelt before the latter became president, was re- covering at his ranch near here Wed- nesday from injuries received Tues- day when dragged by a horse. Roberts, owner of the Cottonwood Grove ranch, eight miles southwest of here, was breaking a horse when the animal fell. The. veteran rancher’s foot caught in the stirrup and he wes dragged for a distance by the horse. He lay on the prairie for some time until regaining consciousness. He caught the horse and rode it home, where, after unsaddling the horse, he fainted. He received a number of serious bruises and cuts, but unless complica- tions arise from severe shock, is ex- pected to recover. Roberts was a trapper on the Can- nonball and Missouri rivers in tho "80s, and knew the late Theodore Roosevelt and the Marquis De Mores of Medora intimately. Edward Edmundson, Mandan Pioneer, Dies Edward Edmundson, 74, died in Mandan Wednesday two months af- ter the death of his wife. Born in Norway, Edmundson came to Mandan 40 years ago. He was a former mem- ber of the Sons of Norway lodge. Sur- viving are four children, Mary and Bryan of Mandan, Josephine of Bis- marck and Edward of Fargo. Funeral arrangements are not complete. NOTICE The following prices and hours go into effect in the ¢ity of Bismarck on March 23, 1936: Haircuts—50c Shaves—25c Week-Day Hours Shops open at 8 a. m. and close at 6:30 p. m. Saturday Hours Shops open at 8 a. m. and close at 10 p. m. 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