The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 12, 1937, Page 6

An Independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper Published 8 ‘The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- 5 oa. ear ax toe porottion ab Biscnactk as second class wad matter. i Mrs. Stella 1. Mann President and Treasurer Archie O. Johnson Kenneth W. Simons Vice Pres. and Gon'l. Manager Secretary and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for tion of the news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise c in this mewspaper and also the local news of spuntaneous origin pub! d herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. tepublica- d in thi Economy ‘ North Dakotans, though faced with the continuing effects of drouth, are in favor of governmental economy. i They are willing to accept and endorse a governmental policy which puts into effect the dictionary definition of' the word, This, in effect, would require the government to make wise expenditure of the money which it must continue to pour into this area and to so manage its affairs that recurring ex- penditures will not be required in the future In all frankness, the government hasn’t been doing it. The reason it hasn’t is that North Dakotan’s haven’t insisted |t upon it. They have been unable to agree on any definite pro- gram of rehabilitation. Both the government and the people have, in the main, closed their eyes to demonstrable facts. They have accepted the gospel of reconstruction but have avoided the practice. ne Bismarck Tribune Washington practices. 3 At the end of a long period of seem- ingly calculated attril the nomic division of the federal trade commission will be overboard after signs to it a special investigation. This Boe een lan tale packers and stockyards and commodities exchange act, It made the sensational public utilities inves- tigation of a few years ago and also the investigation of chain stores. In its recent milk investigation it of producers For example, everyone agrees that much of western North | that tieid. _ Dakota should be returned to grass. Many farmers have failed in a cultivated agriculture. The soil is blowing away and should | be nailed down. Farmers who have been struggling there have gotten deeper and deeper into debt and there seems little rea- sonable hope for them. fe Yet there are many in the area, both farmers and busi- ness men, who voice the plea: “Just give us. more help and ‘we'll come back.” They favor returning much acreage to grass but oppose the measure necessary to put it back to grass. The reasons for this attitude are rather obvious. Noone likes to write off what he hoped was a good investment. Land is different from paper security which has a definite value, day by day, on a public market. - If it isn’t worth what you think it is worth, land is worth whatever you can get for it. The case for those who ask only that the government con- won wheat went cars conto baanal one minute and 5 cents. down the nex tinue to keep people on tHeir farms is most sbly put by. various paver alto duck real estate agents who, because of the nature of their business, |from Tennessee, has dislike to accept the idea that much of the land in: southwest- |” ern Norah Dakota is sub-marginal. They point out that many persons have investments in farm homes; that the land has produced in the past and that the decline in production is due wholly to the lack of rain. They speak of returning the country to grass and of water conservation but they refuse to admit that a shift in the farm population is necessary to make these things effective. In the background is the fear of many communities that a re-distribution of the farm population would affect their com- mercial interests. They want the farm population to remain where it is so they can continue to do business on the same ei basis as before. That is perfectly natural, but what they WANT and WHAT is THEY ARE GETTING NOW are two different things. Lee Beatty, Farmers Union director, may or may not have been correct when he told ‘a group at Mandan Thursday that 30 per cent of the farmers have left Southwestern North ‘Dakota and that 30 per cent of those who remain want to leave ean but are unable to do so. : But that many HAVE left the country is indisputable. Some say the best farmers have left many areas. Others contend that the worst farmers have left. ‘correct is not the decisive factor, however. What is important «is that every farmer who leaves the country reduces the volume of business that potentially can be done there. This has been a natural process and there has been no stopping it. The tendency has been only retarded by the pay- ment of huge sums of federal money-in relief grants. The drouth committee recommended that certain things ‘be done to stabilize this area in its report, filed earlier in the|’ year. That report is a clear-eyed appraisal of conditions as they exist. It points the way to a sounder economic basis for this region. : The trouble is that the recommendations made in that| report are not being carried out.. Farmers and businessmen alike agree that they SHOULD be carried out but nothing is being done about it. Instead of taking definite steps to\CORRECT the situation _ the government is continuing to keep people alive on a pitifully + small allowance, spending a greater total in so doing than would be necessary to put them on a self-supporting basis. V ; That, as Assistant Secretary Brown commented Thursday _ @t Mandan, cannot go on indefinitely. _,. Everyone has known that. Left-Handed Tribute It is getting so that no prominent American who makes Speeches can claim to have attained any distinction at all unless something that he says has made Herr Hitler's Nazis raise an ( lon was most recently attained by Dr. Robert A. Millikan, the Nobel prize-winning physicist pap stesir | Tech. In 8 speech at Copenhagen he was quoted as saying that “the world has not known for 800 years a reaction similar to that prevailing today, attempting to lead mankind back to an suthoritative irrationality and unscientific superstition.” As you might expect, this drew fire from Germany. The Nazi newspaper, “Voelkischer Beobachter,” deplored the “tact- Nessness” of the remark, and predicted that Danish public opin- on: “will value tact and courtesy’ enough to disapprove such misuse of hospitality.” __ Mild enough, as Nazi protests go. 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