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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 ~rom Rmmd Glenctive- - - 0.84 $ I~9 2.42 1.30 3.62 6.52 Fargo - 7.49 13.4@ 10.49 Duluth - - 12.53 These are for coache~ 10-day ~ limit. Corresp~dLng low fe~s to Northern Pacific ix~nt~ H. W. Blair, A4~nt l~ach, N. ~2 MA TiND COAL OPE~~ THE WINTER CO~L ~.40 1~g "TON ~ the mine. We ~liver ia Beseh, ~ ~t ~ ~ow ~. l~dy Corl~ mlm~ e Is the