The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 5, 1937, Page 3

Ww Crop Insurance - Proposes to Help Farmers Beat the Weather| SPEND $10,870,000 ‘Wheat Raiser Is First Concern of New Proposal to Guarantee Agricultural Income in U.S. During Adverse Years prepare rae ok tebe crop prepared at the request of Wallace discusses : of Agriculture If houses never burned there would be no need for fire in- surance. If acres planted to crops. produced consistently each year there would:be no need for crop insurance. But we know that drouths, floods, hail, and other manifesta: | tions of bad weather occur somewhere every .year—and in recent years have affected numerous farms over vast areas. The re- sult is that the question, “What will the harvest be?” is a very real one with farmers throughout each producing season. We have seen production of many crops swing from heavy surpluses with prices at starvation levels to small output with prices relatively high, I believe that most of us have been in the farm production pendulum and we have wondered why something was not done to balance off the bad years with the good years. Crop. insurance has been brought forward as a device to @ com- the case of those crops where the swings in production are most ked. Would Start With Wheat Crop failures, either resulting from drought or other catastrophies, mean that will suffer; that often they in the most acute need and that the it must grant as- sistance to tide them over. The ex- af i i ite through feed loans, seed loans, relief, or by other methods, have become very high. ‘The president's committee gave very careful study to the whole sub- Ject of crop insurance. 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In bad years, they would get back cash or wheat. o98 H - WIN fiat 4 Hint ee > Shaw Admits He’s Not Modest Man as,I have been writing.” Dr. Henderson, of mathematics at Chapel Hill and author of such books as “Is “Bernard Shaw, Playboy and Prophet,” declared recently Shaw's “boastfulness and H peg tism” resulted from “a split per- LEMKE SUPPORTS ACT BERORE COURT Defends Constitutionality of Moratorium on Farm Fore- closures at Hearing ality of the revised Fraizier-Lemke farm moratorium law. nig Lane ot North Dakota, co- suthor of the legislation and Union party presidential candidate last No- vember, appeared in behalf of the measure, He was joined by Elmer McClain of Lima, Ohio. Those who assailed the law were T. X. Parsons of Roanoke, Va., and 8. V. Kempt of Lynchburg, Va. The litigation was brought by Ro- bert Page Wright of Bedford county, Virginia, against Wright wanted the law upheld. McClain said if the law were held unconstitutional it “would drive farmets to the cities to compete with laborers for their jobs.” ‘The original Frasier-Lemke act, granting a 5-year moratirium, was declared unconstitutional two years ago by unanimous vote of the court. ‘The present act authorises the three- year delay on foreclosures. Morgenthau Studying Rail Retirement Plan Washington, Mar. 5—(?)—Secre- tary Morgenthau said Thursday he was. continuing studies of a proposed new railroad retirement plan to de- termine possible effects on govern- ment finances. ‘The program, voluntarily negotiat- ed by committees representing man- agement and labor, now is before the railroads Ne for ac- ceptance or rejection. Under it, taxes starting at 2% per cent would be levied against both em- ployers’ payrolls and employes’ wages. This would be increased by small fractions annually until the rate reached 3% per cent. Premier Primes Self stored grain due him which sell.as he saw fit. But he would bear any storage costs after the time set for settlement. That the basis of two factors—the loss ex- perience on the individual fatm in-| 4a) sured and the loss For Talks With FDR Toronto, Mar. 5—(#)—Prime minis- ter W. L. MacKenzie King, invited to a White House tete-a-tete with President Roosevelt, primed himself Thursday for a discussion of what he termed “Matters of mutual inter- est to the United States and Canada”. The Canadian executive declined to elaborate on the subjects likely to come up in the White House talk Fri- Y= Informed sources, however, sug- gested the prime minister and the | ¢ might talk about trade, threats to world. peace and the St. Lawrence seaway project.. Avers Morgan Feared | ‘Sour’ Security Issue Geoed Glasses—Honestly Seld : Special Discount te Capitel Employees Dr. MacLachlan Medicine Co. Herbs for Health-——Nateral Remedies Cut-Rate Eye Glasses . 118 Fiest Bring this ad with vou. Greatest Peacetime Expendi- ture in History of Empire Planned by Britain Mar. 5 —(?)— Britain’s “mechanized and modernised” army told parliament Thursday. its esti- mated expenditure for 1937 “in de- fense of the empire and discharge of international obligations” would total $410,870,000, almost half again as much as for 1936. ‘With Wednesday's 1937 naval esti- mate of $525,325,000, the total army and navy figures comprise the big- gest armaments bill Great Britain ever has known in times of peace— $936,195,000. The air force estimates are still to come. Alfred Duff Cooper, secretary of the state for war, told the house of commons $95,270,000 of the $131,465,- 000 increase over the 1936 expendi- ture would be raised by loans, leav- ‘The army personnel, he said in dis- mete for the budget. ‘The army personnel, he said, in dis- cussing the army’s share of Great Britain’s greatest peacetime rearm- ament program, would be increased to 168,900, exclusive of units in India, as compared with 158,400 in 1936 and 186,400 in 1914, The increased expenditure, he ex- plained, was due mainly to “expan- sion and acceleration of the pro- gram for bringing our-military pre- Pparations up-to-date. “Our joint aim,” he said, “is to pro- duce a military force which will be order in the empire and provide for a force to support the policy of his majesty’s government in defense of the empire and the discharge of their international obligations.” 125,000 OUT OF WORK A. Benson, preparing to leave for a ‘Washington conference with the pres- ident on WPA continuance, learned Thursday from relief officials that Minnesota. unemployed now total 125,000. of Pred eR Ta SEU Weather Maker Crossed Norris Washington, Mar. 5—(7)—Sen- ator Norris of Nebraska, who started the business of holding inaugurations on Jan. 20, was double-crossed ‘Thursday by the weather man, If it hadn’t been for Norris’ constitutional amendment, Presi- dent Roosevelt would have start- ed his second term Thursday noon, What the weather experts said about Jan. 20 having better weather in general than March 4 may. be true, but-Jan, 20 this: year was cold and rainy. Thursday, it was sunny, even ' Old-Time Taste—: Schlitz in “Steinies” Foor exe delicious, old-time tase that recalls bygone days and rich mellow beer in deep, cool stone steins ... taste Schlitz in “Steinie” Brown Bottles. 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