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THE BEACH. N. D., ADVANCE
THE BEACH ADVANCE 'rascals out," and generally plenty of reasons are found in
t every case, whether the open season for investigat~.cn is
w. F. CUSHING. EDrrOR AND ~Jm~sznzg I carried on by Republicans or Democrats.
NOB~R DAKOTA, E~RY 'I*HVR~DAYI Look back over past history in North Dakota: Nestos
postoff!ee at Beach, North Dakota, on May S, 1908 as secondI showed up the iniquities of Governor Frazier's regime;
class matter t Sorlie "pointed with alarm" to the poor stuff that Nestos
EDITORIAL ASSOCIATIONS I pulled off; Shafer had plenty to say about Governor Sorlie's
Dakota. South Dakota. Montana and Minnesota. i acts, and &anger never tires of calling attention to the crude
$$.00. To all other states, $2.50.
efforts of Sharer to safeguard the people, standing in the
OFFICIAL CITY AND COUNTY N]~VS~ZAPI~g
corner like the saint of holy writ and exclaiming, "Thank
God I am not like other men," in misdeeds. If there wa~,
WHITHER ARE WE DRIFTING ? grafting in the letting of contracts under the Hoover regime,
few people will believe the grafters reformed simply because
While the great majority of theAmerican people, and of a change of administration. They are not built that way.
admire the courage and devotedness And if recent contracts are investigated no doubt similar
to bring back prosperity, conditions will exist under the present regime, but singularly
uneasiness over the very decided trend enuogh the back-tracking seems to be only along old trails.
of the present government and few can Business flocks together in community interest; farmers
"Whither are we drifting ?" do the same at a school leasing so that competition for certain
;here were who dreamed any congress tracts will not boost the lease price; and every line in life's
despotic powers as have been endeavors seeks self preservation and personal interest by
Roosevelt. But all these grants have been whatever means seems feasible.
guise of an "emergency" and as such the And as for lobbies, all interests have them, and the test
more or less content. But creeping out in and pay of the lobbyist is largely upon his success in winning
the evidence that in the minds of those points for his employers, whether by fair means or foul, and
planning their ideas the beneficiaries of his work have never been known to
an emergency character, and even a fifty-year squeal over his methods, but pay well for his putting them
and doubtless is being formulated over.
r at the proper time, which is a long way off the Business, agriculture, airplane, shipping and other
emergency program, interests have lobbies at Washington, and under the consti-
has tremendous faith in President Roose- tution they have the right to be heard. But that right is all
' more than it has in many of men whom he has too frequently abused, however, there would be no lobbyists
in position of power--and the docile obedience of at legislatures and in congress if some interest did not send
plans has in general been satisfactory until them there, and those who send lobbyists are responsible for
one of the former governing bodies their acts.
and Germany, bodies constituted to obey orders from As Teddy Roosevelt once said, "There are good busi-
and finally abolished altogether as no longer neces- nesses and had businesses, but all business shouId not be
of the ruling power, punished because a few are rotten."
restrictions .have been sloughed over in No one political party has all the virtues, nor all the
the powers of government impressed on cussedness, and in this age where the dollar is a precious
private enterprise is gradually being absorbed jewel, old time virtue is a laggard in fbe race against it.
that not only put private investment
but at the same time reduces the number LITTLE BUSINESS AND THE NRA
the taxes. There are a few men in
future for our country that is not making Latest developments at Washington indicate that the
They resent the loss of initiative the constitu- action of the administration in providing for the right of
as one of the three great powers of small business to appeal to the Federal Trade commission
they demand that legislation emanate from against any alleged injustices of application of the NRA
than from the White House. codes has not entirely ended criticism. Senator Gerald P.
of this trend the Mandan Pioneer quotes Nye, one of the severest critics of the NRA's effect on small
' of North Carolina as voicing a large number businesses, has introduced a resolution in the Senate asking
in Congress who are slipping away from many the names of all persons employed in responsible positions
projects. In opposing the pet project of Mrs. under the NRA with present and past business connections.
to have the government build a furniture and sis- together with a list of the industrial codes they have been
to supply government needs, Senator instrumental in preparing. It asks also~ for a complete list
of the names of all code authority members to see just how
am not for the socialistic conception of this govern- many representatives of "big business are contained therein,
every step in the direction of socialism in and seeks to find out the NRA code officials who have re-
I think we might as well come to the issue tired to private life, what they are doing and whether they
later. There is no doubt about the fact that the way are engaged in the business of administering the codes. But
,, we are going to have to meet that issue and the resolution failed to pass.
to meet it today. On the same day Senator Steiwer introduced a resolution
g here to justify any further expansion seeking information on the personnel and activities of the
this government by way of encroaching surplus relief and commodity credit corporations under the
and if anyone takes the view that AAA; the Federal Housing corporation; the Tennessee Val-
to solve our problem of unemployment, I am Icy Authority's electric home and farm organization, and the
it is also the way to destroy the RFC.
We have got to make our choice. I can Another senator attacking the NRA on the theory that
more dreadful, nothing worse for the it aids big business at the expense of the little fellow is Sen-
than for the collector of the taxes of aor Capper. In a recent radio address he declared that the
competition with them by way of those small industry and the small business man, were "the for-
situation, gotten people of the New Deal." He asserted further that
propose to locate people on the land by way some of the NRA codes appeared to be written "in the inter-
we shall go all the Way through the process est of big business and against the interest of the little
government has taken charge of every business." Continuing, Senator Capper said:
the United States and a majority of the people "If the abrogation of the anti-trust laws for those who
They will then perpetuate themselves have signed the codes means that big business is going to
people who live on salaries paid by the grow still bigger; that ownership and control, instead of
be the masters and the minority not paid being more scattered over the country, is going to be central-
be the servants, and we will have an ized still more--then either Congress made a terrible mistake
of free government. We will overturn in repealing the anti-trust laws for that purpose or some one
ever was carved out by the human race is making a mistake that amounts to an economic crime in
destroy every monument of that liberty." administering the codes."
A HOME REMEDY SALVAGING THE STATE
Fargo Forum: And, in the last few weeks, we have had
Gazette: The trouble with this country is, beer inspectors, food inspectors, road inspectors, oil inspec-
enforced under-cosumption, tors, gasoline inspectors, hotel inspectors, bank examiners,
not enforced. It can Bank of North Dakota collectors, game wardens, State Mill
is, to a considerable extent, a simple and Elevator employees, tax collectors, etc., in the field,
Views Of The Press
ARE THEY TI~V[PORARY?
Grand Forks Herald: But the
present attitude of the people is
dependent on the belief that the
extraordinary powers which have
been taken over by the government
and the unusual methods which it
has been necessary to employ for
the time being are temporary ex-
pedients, to continue only until the
conditions which they were intend-
ed to meet have been relieved; that
even during the emergency there is
to be as little interference as pos-
sible with normal processes; and
that as soon as possible the opera-
tion of those normal processes shall
be restored.
Summary and arbitrary action by
the government in one field of busi-
ness leads necessarily to the thought
that no other field may be secure
from like interference, and that
without warning any other line of
activity may be subjected to injuri-
our or even destructive administra-
tive action. "The prospect is not
pleasant or reassuring.
organizing for the precinct and the county conventions.
' of dairy products. There is in this" If Langer doesn't get the indorsement of the Valley City
million pounds of storage butter, meeting, then nothing short of a miracle has happened for,
Kansas when no particular fight is being made to control that con-
; 80 million pounds of butter. Almost vention, and with the Administration using every means at
its commandwfive percent collections, State mileage, State
that Americans do not use enough postage, and what not, there can be no other result. At least
forms--milk, whey, cream, cheese and so it would seem from this distance.
each farm family would But the satisfying thing about it all is the fact that the
pound each week the present surplus Valley City meeting doesn't necessarily mean the Republican
~onths, And butterfat prices nomination assuming the opposition to the Governor unites
families use oleo. If every dairy on an anti-Langerism basis, a thing that is feasible. Today
t~cluding his own, to the issue in North Dakota is between the present State
e surpluswould dis- Administration and the rest of us. We'll have to forget
a half. And the continued use of "Saving the League" and we'll have to forget "Saving the
prevent the surplus from Independents," and dedicate ourselves to the job on hand.
Involved here is something bigger than the mere salvag-
this butter business is lazy ing of political units: the welfare of all the people of North
cook. They get stuff out of cans. Home Dakota, the Government of the Commonwealth, are at stake.
ls~ of much milk, cream,
you buy your pies and cakes and TIMES ARE PECULIAR
vegetables out of a can, and
or if women of the family Art Townley with his "army" of ten men, who, all but
the kids at mealtimes one, were never before heard of, statewidely, in North
sack of hamburgers or Dakota, has set sail for Washington in "mass formation" to
milk do they consume. And they pay bring pressure to bear on the government to loan five million
protect.good health, dollars to this state for another phantasy of the great
if given to the dairy emancipator's brain. This non-resident of the state and his
T and wise. ten unknown men go forth to try to saddle another loan on
is l our people, who are lying awake nights wondering how they development of privately-owned
are going to pay the taxes already assessed against them. lands.
In the name of giving employment to our people the The success or failure of Norm
bad works requiring skillred and Dakota to secure sev.eral national
md as we have none of these in the parks, the start of a more extezmlve
for such would go to imported system, will be based upon the state
government's ability to provide the
STRANGE BUT TRUE
Fargo Forum: The Administra-
tion is spending millions of dollars
to convert marginal lands into more
fertile acres while there already ex-
ists a surplus Of fertile land. One
of the oddest things about our pre-
sent agricultural program, is the
fact that reclamation is being car-
ried forward on so wide a scale to
bring new acres into cultivation,
while every energy is being expended
to take acres out of cultivation in
the older farm sections.
In this respect, the agricultural
plans just don't make sense. Why
should the Government spend mil-
lions in opening up new farm la~d,
even though this new land might be
more productive, when we are de-
manding curtailment of production
on all farms even to the point
where there is discussion of the
probability of putting into effect a
plan for compulsory reduction of
production. Also, the Government
is spending something over twelve
million dollars to promote the pro-
duction of flax in an area that has
never hitherto produced flax. At
the same time, if the demand for
flax and the price were sufficient,
the farmers of the Northwest could,
as they have in the past, supply all
of that demand easily.
JAPAN'S BABIES
Detroit Free Press: Every year
makes it increasingly plain that the
basic problem in Japan is not mili-
tarism, or industrialism, or West-
ernization, but babies. More than
two million were born to the sixty-
six million Japanese last year, giv-
ing the nation a net increase of
more than a million. It is the
necessity of finding food and work
for its growing population which
drives Japanese leaders along their
present path of conquest.
Back in 1871, when the first of
the modem census reports were
made, the population of the islands
was thirty-three million. It had
been around thirty million at least
since 1721. But with the coming
of Western ideas and Occidental
ways, opportunities to live in Japan
grew wider, and the population
swelled to meet it.
Now a new saturation point has
been reached, and social customs
are beginning to change to conform.
The population which doubled with-
in sixty years will in another decade
or two reach a new level of stability
at around eighty or ninety million,
experts say. But in the meantime
the struggle for survival grows
keener every year, and the pressure
to develop trade abroad, in Man-
churia, in China, in the Philippines,
in South America, becomes mor~
and more insistent. It Is i~e babies
who are expansionists in Japan,
really.
DREAM NEAR REALIZATION
Dickinson Press: The 14-year-old
dream of the Roosevelt Memorial
National Park association, of North
Dakota generally and the ~urt
Slope in particular, can be realized
this summer if the state machinery
can be put to work In behalf of the
program advanced by the national
parks system.
The inspector who visited Medora,
Dickinson and Killdeer the first of
the w~ek was admittedly enthusias-
tic over the scenery and the historic
significance of the Maltese Cross
ranch and Killdeer mountain sites.
The national parks system has
at its disposal a large contingent of
the civilian conservation corps and
four or five camps are to be avail-
able to North Dakota provided that
state-owned lands can be provided
at the chosen sites. The policy of
the national parks system prohibits
action is necessary
in that the CCC camps
the respective states
later than. the middle of April.
times, however, that state ~on laws of ~ V~ovtde
that the board Of University and
school lands may appropriate
THURSDAY; MARCH 1, 1934
ing use of this opportunity, l prevailing. It was regarded as
The Badlands, already nationally[thing temporary, to be
famous as a tomqst attraction, need lwhen prosperity again returned.
only these parks as a tourist ob-I Fear increases of eventual evil
jective---some definite, interesting,~ the continued concentration of
historic and scenic place to go to,fairs in Washington. Eminent
and come back from~to attract ad- mentators recently have
ditional thousands of visitors to fear of one-man authority on
North Dakota every season, larger scale. The feeling is
lng. Creation of the two
POTENTIAL MENACE
Richard Washburn Child, former
ambassador to Italy, in Chicago
Herald-Examiner: The menace of
a mobilized army of the unemployed
in the Civil Conservation Corps and
the Civil Works Administration may
be turned into a compelling benefit
if the administration will, at once,
enlist the whole force of the army
not only to command and control
the unemployed, but to act as edu-
cators and trainers of organized
c~tisenship.
Folly can be no greater than
mobilizing the unemployed so that
they in their misfortune become
conscious of their political force as
voters or, worse still, conscious of
their power to make their protests
effective in a manner outside of law
i and order.
No government in the history of
the world has done more than ours
in the last few months to create
and organize human beings in reg-
iments of discontent.
No government has a greater op-
portunity than has this administra-
tion to turn the defeat of constitu-
tionalism and of law and order into
a spiritual victory. It can do so
only by one method.
Turn the mobilized unemployed
over to the training of the army,
and of every competent group of
active and reserve officers which
can be summoned for the task.
Take this mobilized army of dis-
content out of the hands of l~liti-
clans and give it to the leadership
of patriots.
Teach it what its obligations and
duties are to the taxpayers who
pay to keep that army well
happy.
There is no menace greater to-
day than the Red leadership certain
to come unless this administration,
a~ a crisis, will furnish to the mobil-
Ized unemployed a leadership of dis-
cipline and patriotism.
IS IT A REMEDY?
Chicago Herald -Examiner: Our
forefathers had a homely saying~
"The remedy is worse than the dis-
ease."
Senator Black's committee at
Washington, which has been "gun-
nine" for the air mail and ocean
mall subventions, disclo~d some
ugly evidence about certain air mail
contracts.
Accepting this evidence at face
value, it was what lawers call prlm~
faeie evidence~until the other side
was heard, the case was one-sided
and incomplete.
Moreover, this evidence did not
apparently affect ALL aviation
companies having air marl con-
tracts.
Nonetheless, the administration
abruptly and arbitrarily canceled all
domestic air mail contracts--on
prinm facie evidence, without a full
hearing.
Aviation requires government sup-
port for its development in the na-
tional interest. That support is one
wing of the industry; the other is
private enterprise. And airplanes,
like birds, cannot fly on one wing.
Getting rid of crookedness is one
thing. But demoralizing a whole]
essential industry because some ofI
its members are suspect is DEPOT-I
ISM.
J
H the federal administration hadI
sufficient warrant for its dra~IcI
and unprecedented action, public J
duty requires that the public be in-
J
formed. The government should at
least have disclosed its reasons
BEFORE action so arbitrarily and
not AFTERWARD.
THE FIFTY-Y]g&R PLAN
Mandan Pioneer: From a third
point of view, the idea will seem
ominous. Since first the admink-
tration tOOk Office, there has been
a small, silent element, viewing with
ooneern the granting of unpreced-
ented powers to the president and
other government officers. ]t4h~h
public sanction has been given on
the theory that since desperate dis-
eases require desperate remedies, the
country, in emergncy, had to be
brought along, and individual power
to act was necessary. Few have
accepted the idea that the country
had permanently given Itself to ad-
ministration entry into private bus-
iness and the lives of the people, on
the far-reaching, intimate scale now
dollar stabilization fund, that is
be operated in secret, and
under one-man direction, and
more recent arbitrary order
lng the air mail, have
It is not necessary to be an
ist to see that Public thought
turn apprehensive.
A fifty year development
gram would, of course, be no
than a plan for congress to
Congress would not have to.
it. But our government is
a Union of States. The plan
gests that the administration.
far over towards the idea that
areas permanently should.take
ance less from the
or the people direct, than from
administration in power. It ts
farther leaning
of government in Washington.
NO TAXPAYERS BILLS
WILL BE
Bismarck, Feb. 26.~Barring
foreseen developments, the
Dakota Taxpayers association
not initiate any legislation for
June 27 primary election,
of the organization said
At its first board meeting for
year, the members decided to
augurate a campaign to
the people with tax
brought about through efforts
the taxpayers association.
Dr, R. R. Hogue, IAnton, ,a,
~ber of the beard, said ',
politiclans are taking credit:' for
tax reductions brought about by
taxpayers association Dr~gram,
it is proposed to compile
showing the reductions
from the organization's program.
He emphasized the Taxpayers
sociation is not in politics, but
its officers believe the people
entitled to know what
were brought about and by
Largest Spider
The largest species of spider
the bird spider, which has a
two inches long and a leg
sometimes seven inches or.
1~ found in Brazil and often
small bh.d~
IT COSTS SO
TO RIDE
IN COMFORT
On Your Next
Try the Train
EXAMPLE
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Glenctive- - - 0.84 $ I~9
2.42
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3.62 6.52
Fargo - 7.49 13.4@
10.49
Duluth - - 12.53
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coache~ 10-day ~ limit.
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Northern Pacific ix~nt~
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