The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1937, Page 3

BSE cer earsceryren pause meron mee EROTIC ORI ORME $521,962 REPAD FSA BY FARMERS INNORTH DAKOTA ! 1 Repayment Record Since 1935 é Fair, Says Maddock; $5,- 684,192 Loaned Repayments on the $5,684,193 loaned North Dakota farmers by the Farm Security administration, since the fall of 1935, total $521,862, Walter Mad- dock, state FSA director, announced ‘Tuesday. i “Desipte the very difficult, condi- tions under which state farmers have labored since the program was ini- tiated, we find a fair record of re- payment,” Maddock declared. “Most ot the 4,852 standard loans are ex- tended over a five-year period, so & large amount of the money loaned is not yet due.” He said the repayment record in- dicates there is a definite desire to repay as soon as possible and that farmers realize it is important to have the farm enterprise set up to allow some income the year around. “Local supervisors estimate there are 3,922 potential standard loan cases who have not yet received FSA aid,” Maddock asserted. Loans to state co-operatives, includ- ing the Farmers Mutual Aid corpora- tion, which received $50,000, totaled $260,142 during the same period, Mad- dock declared. N. D. to Be Stop on Imaginative Tour North Dakota will be one stop on ‘an imaginary national trailer tour to be taken by 300 student members of the history club at Waukegan, Il. Gov. William Langer is preparing an answer to a letter written by Miss Jeanette Miller, general chairman of the club’s banquet committee, to gov- trnors of 48 states. He will outline scenic points of in- terest, detail of the state's resources and production and send for place- ment on the “North Dakota table” samples of lignite coal and Dakota ‘Maid flour. With a suitably designed and in- atalled loop antenna, the pilot not only has a means of finding his di- rection and position but also the ability to receive aural signals nor-) Mmally available with a conventional antenna. Acousticon Institute of Bismarck Hearing Aids, Parts and Accessories . BONHAM BROTHERS 110 Fourth St, Bismarck ust an Ol/-Iy Blended of 21 choice Highland whi \— whiskies so rare thet they Rive Stodart’s a favor that won highest award at the London Distillers’ Exhibit. Ail over 8 ery old. A favorite in Scot. ad for 10s years. 86 prook THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1937 Track, Injuring 23 ae ‘Two passenger cars, an express car and a mail-car ly:ng along Pere Marquette railroad tracks near De- troit, Mich., after leaving rails from undetermined cause. Twenty-three passengers and trainmen were injured as the coaches rolled down a five-foot embankment. Yeager Praises State’s Fertility AC Plant Wizard's ‘Valedictory’ | west. Sketches Agricultural Possibilities Raise berries in North Dakota on a commercial scale? You think it can’t be done? Ask A, F. Yeager of Fargo, secre- tary of the North Dakota Horticul- tural society, what he thinks about it, and maybe you'll change your mind. And the North Dakote Agricultural college plant expert should know what he's. talking about. He has ex- perience to back up his claims. For years he has specialized in de- velopment of hardy plants that will withstand the rigors of the severe North Dakota climate, with success that has brought him and the college national recognition. From his laboratory—or rather, out of his experimental plot—have come plants that have become standard | and popular varieties in the North- ,*. Vegetables, Too Not only is North Dakota a good spot in which to raise strawberries, plums and other fruit, but it is equal- ly well-adapted to commercial pro- duction of vegetables and to the rais- ing of beautiful perennial flowers, \Yeager points out in his December |news letter to members of the state horticultural society, To quote Yeager’s own words: “Fruits, vegetables, flowers? Say, do you know this is one of the finest places in the union for raising of per- ennial flowers? The closed winters bring the plants through perfectly. One ¢an revel in blossoms from frost to frost and plant flowers only once in many years ... And they can’t do that farther south. 3 Fruit Acreage Doubling “Fruit? Our fruit acreage is doub- ling every 10 years. While people in the middle states often are caught by the frosts, we escape. We can raise more plums to the acre than any place in the Mississippi valley and raise & cropevery year. Our usually cool, | pleasant summers hit currants just right, “And if you give strawberries and raspberries half as much irrigation and care as they give them in the Hood river valley you can raise more dollars worth of. berries on an acre than a section of wheat could buy. “Vegetables? Any one who can’t raise enough vegetables to lay a streak of fat on his ribs every day of the year on half an acre of ground in the Dakotas would starve to death in Florida. Farmers Should Investigate “There is room for a commercial horticultural planting near every town. in the Dakotas. Many a farmer would do well to look into his own possibilities along that line...” Dr. Yeager resigned from the staff of the Agricultural college a little over two months ago, his resignation to take effect, Jan. 1, stating: “To anyone familiar with the situation at the AC my reasons should be obvi- ous.” His reference to the “situation at the AC” was interpreted as refer- ring to recent dismissals of co-work- ers and other faculty members early this fall. Dr. Yeager has recently accepted a Position at Michigan State college. While a faculty member at the AC, Yeager developed sunshine and gold- en gem sweet corn, Red river and bison tomatoes and numerous other fruits and vegetable varieties which have become standard throughout the Great Plains, An custom 4 "Canadian Club” RARE CAMADUN WINSKEY ‘The most famous fine whiskey in the world! Aml ibassador of good will to 87 countries of the flobe ‘The eboice of the con noisseur 90.4 proof ULE, | teresting Fem leaf ssiern Distilled from grain. RAILROAD WEST’ 1S STORY OF BUILDING OF NORTHERN PACIFIC Construction Engineer’s Daugh- ter’s Account Interesting But Lacks Vigor “Railroad West,” the name of Cor- nelia Meig’s novel published by Little, Brown and company, which deals with the building of the Northern Pacific railroad, was taken from the sign marking the path for the railroad through the northwestern wilderness. Built around the history of the early west, the book brings in such characters as General Custer, Sitting Bull, Bishop Whipple and Jay Cooke, greatest financier of his-day. It is plotted much along the lines of a con- ventional “western,” with Philip Fox, young surveyor-engineer as hero; Jack Barron, another construction en- gineer, as the dark vilian; and Anne Arnold, sister of the head engineer, Gen. George Arnold, as the woman with whom they are both in love. The book begins when the Northern Pacific is being dreamed of by Jay Cooke. Philip Fox joins the construc- tion crew at the time headquarters are located in Carjton, Minn., Fargo is described as a city, three-fourths of canvas, when the head office is moved there in the winter of 1871. After saving the site of Bismarck in the spring of 1872, work on the railroad progressed until a continuous line of track reached Bismarck that winter. The journey of the surveying party in the summer of 1873 under Custer’s protection is, perhaps, the most inter- esting section of the novel. But even here the characters fail to breathe as real people. A few flurries with the Indians are described, the major one being Custer's first meeting with Sit- ting Bull at the intersection of the Big Horn with the Yellowstone, a few miles from the scene of his massacre three years later. Are Married Returning from this expedition Philip finds Anne quarantined by diphtheria and after her illness they are married, The end of Jay Cooke's dream has come and with it a finan- cial panic, The final chapter of the book deals with the next 12 years, ending when|: the final spike is driven in the rail- road. A slight discrepancy occurs in this chapter when the author tells of the story of Custer’s massacre being read in Washington, D. C., late in June. Word of the massacre, which occurred June 25, was not published until July 6, when it appeared in the Bismarck Tribune and in the New York Herald, a bulletin having been sent to that paper by the Tribune. As a whole, the book lacks the vigor that a novel dealing with such an un- dertaking should have. The charac- ters, while not weak, are far from out- standing. General Arnold is the most, carefully drawn. From_the standpoint of interest in. state history in the work done on the railroad, the novel is interesting, Miss Meigs had a first-hand account from, her father, Montgomery Meigs; who was employed by the Northern Pacific as construction engineer. It is in- to note on the original plat of Bismarck made Jan. 3, 1874, at the time it was known as Edwinton, that the streét mow named Thayer was then Meigs St. SUPREME COURT MAY REVIEW TRADE ACT Way Cleared for Direct Appeal of Minnesota’s Unfair Practices Law Minneapolis, Dec, 21.—(#)—Agree- ment to dispense with further prelim- inary proceedings Tuesday cleared the way for an early final decision on validity of Minnesota's unfair trade practice act, The Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., challenger of the law, and the state agreed findings of a special three- judge federal court will be appealed recy to the United States supreme court. The law, adopted by the legislature early this year, forbids sale of mer- chandise below cost, or discrimination between localities of the state in prices charged, except for difference caused by freight rates, An important element in the A. and P, argument was that the law does not permit price variations between stores according to the type of service each store renders its customers. The ef- fect of the law is to make a store where customers wait on themselves on @ cash and carry basis charge as much for a given item as an “old line” store giving full service, including charge accounts, sales people and de- livery service, A and P counsel ar- gued. Soil Conservationist J. T. E. Dinwoodie of the North Dakota Agricultural college extension division is -executive secretary of the state soil conservation com- ‘Democrats Had All the Answers’ Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 21.—(7)—A city engineering inspector testified today in a councilmanic investiga- tion that he had passed his civil service examination with answers given him “at Democratic head- quarters” before the quiz. Under questioning by Frank Raichke, Jr., counsel for a com mon council committee investigat ing city affairs, George J. Blank- enberg, an inspector in the city division of engineering, admitted ha had used prepared answers to obtain his job. He took his examination in 1935, he said, during which time the Democrats were in control in the city government. CASE EXECUTIVE DIES Milwaukee, Dec, 21—(P)—W. B. Brinton, 87, Tucson, Aris., former vice president of the J. I. Case Co., died in a sanitarium here Sunday. Soap is the result of combining an alkali with fatty acids. a eae TOCHECK ORDERS - BY USING SAMPLES State Will Make Sure Supplies Come Up to Specified Stan- dards in Future Samples of all supplies purchased on contract for state penal, chari- table and: educational institutions qwill be held to insure exact duplication of the articles ordered, W. B. Falconer, state purchasing agent, said Monday. Institution officials frequently com- plain that certain supplies delivered on contracts do not come up to speci- fications, he explained. To avoid re- currence of this trouble, Falconer notified all firms that samples sub- mitted by successful bidders will be checked by the purchasing department. against supplies when delivered. Bids on contracts to meet the first quarter requirements for 1938 are be- ing ¢abulated and contracts probably will be let next week. 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