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ADVANCE
EDITOR AND PUBLISHEI
GAY TIIJ~TSON, A~ISTANT EDITOR
NORTH DAKO*I'A, BY~Y THURIDAY
D ""
akota, on May 8, 1908 as second
class matter
STAT]~ EDITORIAL ASSOCIATIONS
South Dakota, Montana and Minnesota
other st~ttes, $2.50.
CITY AND COUNTY NEWS~PAPEK
. "WH~ TWO AUDITS ?
employes a full time auditor
North Dakota, mill and elevator
state industries, and that gentleman did a good
Grand F~rks~titution, after the governor
him removed before he under-
Now, ordinarily, folks would suppose
Lt state eo~ense would be sufficient, but
a~dit, by private ~rs, is being made simultane-
the mill and elevator, ~upposedly at the behest of
and undoubtedly at state expense
R there is no legal ~tuthority for any examin-
by the State Auditing board.
autorized audit has now been made public and there
and elevator interests tried
to suppress it. The report is so full of showups of
deals ~4 of how the state industry has 4been used
nes~ of the governor's newspaper, of two
how its empleyes while drawing big
but travel the state building up a
how the state industries have paid
advertising in the Leader that pri-
flour is sold for less outside the state
and a host of other irregularities that
It is little wonder, then, that
necessary by the powers
GOOD WORK
The Nonpartisans who me~ at the court house last Sat-
the old standbys of that political faction ever
formed, and they are the men who were
deal a few days before at the county
Langer's hired man and factotum
a few others. The old timers
Saturday and read out of their
the present member of the
at all representing anything
could do no less, and it is
has the courage to
of men the greatest ma-
ever seen. They. will have the backing
thinking citizens, whether or not
sympathy with their platform.
come when the taxpayers, the better ele-
. must band together in the interest of
well that so vigorous a protest has been
raping of the state employeE and the
working in the CWA for the agrandize-
executive and his band of hfgh-
titlinois supreme court recently handed down a[
unless reversed or modified, to open l
of the penitentiaries to hundreds of murderers and
been convicted in Chicago, among them
gang. The Illinois law provides
23 from the box for grand jury
the jury, but in Cook county (Chicago)
practice, because of the crowded condition
to draw 100 names and pass them on to the
select the grand jury from the list.
this decision several hundred indicted men
not be tried and those already tried
under recent indictments will be released from
or allowed to go free, to avoid
involved in retrials anal delays be-
pending cases.
authorities have moved for a rehearing
which will be on for argument in April,
cases are held up and these
for the time being, or until new
can be secured. It does
get all the breaks.
ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL
the National Republic says: "It is difficult
another nation to let in products
help any, if commodities
will destroy an American in-
domestic goods in the
the more quickly and
of production has been increased
weeks and
we may stimulate our foreign
other words,
money, with which to buy
we have had so much bitter
plan with a great show of
i deal is another idea that
ends, just as does enforced reduction of agri-
and the building of dams
farmers. In other words
be cut for the benefit
army of farmers, which doesn't seem quite
the mental gear of those experi-
the county commiE.
treasurer to in some degree forget
to the e~ arrival of
this mone3
THE BEACH, N. D., ADVANCE
THURSDAY, MARCH 8,
eveze aACe
a
GANG RULE "
As an aftermath of the "late unpleasantness" of the
county convention held last week to elect a delegate to the
Nonpartisan state convention, it is said on the best of author-
ity that the chairman of the executive committee of the
party he represents went out to precinct caucuses and had
the presumption to preside and try to dictate the proceed-.
rags, which he had no right whatever to do, as it was the
duty of the precinct caucus to elect its chairman from among
the people resident of the precinct, no outsider having any
authority whatever on the premises. Neither had said
chairman authority to assume the chairmanship of the con-
vention held here, as the law provides that the delegates
shall elect their own chairman and other officers and proceed
without dictation from anyone.
It As by the assumption of such unauthorized powers
that gangsters hold their sway and manage to defeat the will
of the people. But the mandate to all state:employes and
pay roller's was to capture the conventions. "They seen their
duty, and dun it."
WHY NOT SELL THEM?
Views Of The Press
ADVERTISE OR GO BROKE
Hilisboro Banner: A recent ed-
itorial in The Banner entitled "Who
Pays for Advertising?" showed that
merchants who do not advertise are
paying the advertising bill of those
who did, by reason of lOSt business
and profits.
But that isn't half strong
enough. Not only does advertising
pay, but it is positively a lifesaver,
and the only sure method by which
merchants can survive in business.
According to a recent statistical re-
port given out by Bradstreet, New
York, 95 percent of all business1
failures in the United States areI
found among non-advertisers. Un-I
believable, perhaps, but true, and l
food for thought for every business]
man.
Take another slant at the subject.
• On all sides one hears the old story
It has been suggested a number of times that the state [ that business is falling off, and that
mill and elevator be sold to some private concern competent]celiec~ions are poor. But how can
to handle such industries, and particular stress has been I one explain that during the month
of August a certain mail order house
placed on the suggestion that the outfit be sold to the[. . -
Farmers Union. This latter organization is a going concern, increased t~ business over a year
It has made a success of its various endeavors and if it could ago by $3,000,000, and all for cash?
Here's how. The mall order house
particular point and kept there. To
these people the purpose of regu-
lating the exchanges is to force
prices upward. They overlook the
obviovs fact that to the extent that
the movemen~ succeeds buyers will
be driven from the market and the
market will therefore cease to func-
tion. Fa~ners with grain to sell will
have to dispose of it at the price
the country elevator owner will of-
fer, and this offer will be low be-
cause he in turn will have no assur-
ance that any one in the terminal
market will give him a fair price.
So far as stocks are concerned, if
regulation leads to artificially high
prices there will be no buyers, and
the man with a security to sell will
have to peddle it around as best he
can. The central market will have
been destroyed and the business will
be beyond all po~ibi~lty of regula-
tion either by the brokers them-
selves through the organized ex-
change or by the government. The
security business will have been
driven up alleys as the liquor busi-
ness was under prohibition.
In the main the exchanges are
honestly run. Few if any of the
members are always buyers or al-
ways sellers. Accordingly it is in
their own interest to make the rules
fair alike to both sides of the mar-
ket. Some of the rules can be im-
proved, perhaps, and the enforce-
ment of other rules might be made
more stringent by government ac-
tion, but it can safely be said that
unless Congress moves with far
greater wisdom and care than it
ordinarily displays in dealing with
matters in which passion and pre-
judice are involved the regulation
imposed will do vastly more harm
than good.
Services of the commodity ex-
changes are essential to orderly dis-
tribution. Without them the price
of farm produce would fall sharply
when the crops are harvested be-
cause the supply would then far
outrun the demand. The result
would be that the farmer who could
not afford to hold his crop would
get the lowest price of the year.
Moreover, the range of prices thru-
out the year would be lower because
anyone who did venture to buy
wheat, cotton, eggs, butter, or any
of the other commodities for which
the exchanges now provide a mar-
ket would have to carry the full
risk of loss should prices decline.
As, it is. the miller, the owner of the
grain elevator, or any one else who
buys and stores a listed commodity
can assure himself against loss by
hedging his purchases on the ex-
change. Knowing that he will not
lose if the price declines, he can
pay a higher price for what he buys
and charge only a storage fee for
what he holds.
WHY SO BASHFUL?
Fargo Forum: Mr. Townley--the
modest Mr. Townley--has now pre-
sented his formal petition to the
federal government for $4,384J,86.7~
on behalf of the State of North Da-
kota, the land he so deeply and
touchingly loves.
Mr. Townley is too modest. Why
couldn% he have made it around
$4,384287 instead of $3~84~86.747
That extra 26 Gents Would come
in mighty handy.
It might be enough for Mr. Town,
Icy to d~tst off and set in motion
the Drake mill or the Home Build-
ers association, two of his original
dreams which sort of walked away
from him.
At the last reckoning the good
will of both could be bought for
get the mill at a reasonable price doubtless would also make
a success of that and remove the expensive luxury from the
shoulders of the taxpayers. If in private ownership the
property would be taxable and would be an asset to the state
rather than the incubus it now is. With a general house-
Cleaning of the political hangers on that now infest it, such
as would be done by a private company, the property could
be made to pay, but it will never reach that much-to-be-
desired status so long as it is the shuttle cock of politics.
My, my! A congressional committee has actually
asserted that it has more power to legislate than the secre-
tary of war and intends to maintain that right over any of the
governmental bureaus, and that an investigating committee
will be named to inquire into how the war department has
been spending national defense money. Other members said
the war department had been letting airplane contracts with-
out competition, (which when done by the Republican secre-
tary was a high crime and misdemeanor) and that this
practice might be responsible for the recent airplane death
toll. We have often said that politicians are politicians,
regardless of what party they belong to, and that a change
of administration did not create a new bunch of saints.
It did seem a rather peculiar proceeding for the NRA to
.call a conference of objectors to that part of the government
works and then have the head of the department get up,
before the prctestors had a chance to say a word, and an-
nounce what' the department intended to do, and further to
s tigmatise the arguments of the protesting interests as
"just more 'dead ~ats'." However, General Johnson mag-
nanimously said that if he could find any life, so to speak,
among the dead ones that the reason they were alive would
be investigated.
It would be a joke on the taxpayers of North Dakota
who are handling such matters at Washing-
aid to their
North Dakota a
such action should by any
law
about an
advertises--constantly keeps I t s
name before the public, and as k
result gets a profitable business.
To many small town firms adver-
tising is just a form of charity do.
hated to keep the local new~paper
Just two Jumps ahead of the aheriff.
Advertising is the life preserver
that keeps buainees men today
float~mg safely on the stormy sea of
business. And all about are un-
counted struggling firms, deliberate-
ly drowning themselves with help
so pitifully near. The sooner the
majority of business hous~ rek2ise
that consistent advertising is their
only salvation the sooner will their
io~es cease and their profits come
into being again.
HANDCUFFING THE MARKETS
Commercial West: With the
shadow of inimical legislation hang-
ing over-them grain markets of
Minneapolis and the nation are
marking time, Meanwhile farmers
are offered a daily choice of around
85 cents a bushel for their wheat,
less freight and commissions. The
farmer is the sufferer and stands to
be a still larger victim of circum-
stances ff Congress listens to pro-
posais of advocates of stringent reg-
ulation of the grain exchanges of
the nation.
There have been abuses of both
stock and commodity markets, but
if the abuses are Permitted to cloud
the immense services of both types
of exchange and lead to their des-
tructlon the nation will pay a heavy
penalty. The danger is not wholly
imaginary. There is an immense
number of people in the country
who believe that the price of a stock
or a commodity can__be set at a
The prospect of
the armed
considerably less than ~8 cents
and have enough left over to do
something about that white ele-
phant on the outskirts of Grand
Forks, sometimes known as the
State Mill and Elevator.
SF~M TO N~RD NO NRA
Finance and Commerce Magazine:
Previous depressions have cursed
this and other countries, and exper-
ience teaches us that recovery fol-
lows when the depressions have
"reached bottom" and business could
decline no more. The "busine~s
cycle" goes Its way with small re-
gard for what we do about it.
The Bank of Montreal has been
making a survey of world condi-
tions, gauging them by the state of
industrial production. It finds that,
measured .in this way, the gain in
Canada in the last year is 25 pe~-
cent, in the United KAngdom 8 per-
cent, in France 17 percent, in Ger-
many 19 percent, and in the United
States 15 percent.
If NRA is to be credited with the
gain in this country, to what shall
we attribute the greater gains in
countries where she has no Juris-
LITTLE FELLOW'S, BURDEN
Waish County Record, Grafton:
A lot of good has been done by
the NRA. Of that there can be no
question. It has effectively ended
child labor in the mills and factor-
ies of the nation. It is compelling
un~rupulotts employers to pay
their workers a wage. It ~ abol-
ished the long work day. For all of
these things and many others, it is
entitled to full credit.
There is more truth, than poetry,
however, in Senators Nye and Bor-
a war between Russian and Japan, and
while to be lamented, may accel-
behalf of the farmers of
: wheat and.~ prices for
ah's charges that it is
small business concern.
stance, since the NRA
fective in the paper industry, 1
has been a substantial
the price of the better
paper. Until recently, the
package for paper goods has
the ream and all prices were
on that standard of
If less than a ream was
there would be a small
breaking a package. If
reams were purchased, there
be a small discount for the
quantities.
Now, however, the standard
age in the paper industry is
ream but the carton, which
contain four. six or eight
The cost of paper in carton
der the new system is from
percent less than in ream lots.
So far as The Record is
that is a considerable
us. The Record is one of the
largest printing concerns in
Dakota and all of its paper
purchased in ca~on lots. But
about the newspaper man and
er in the smaller
it is not practicable to buy
large quantities? Anyone can
that, by buying our stock
to 40 percent cheaper, we
distinct advantage over such a
petitor. (The Advance buys in
ton lots.)
I have no suggestions to
about what should be donS.
merely releate the facts and you
make your own deductions.
LANGER FIRED FOR
Mandan Pioneer: The
March started ou~ rather
ously for Gov. Langer.
First came a revelation
O. B. Lund of payment of
the Grand Forks mill for
lng in the "Leader" for which
invoice was rendered. This
addition to itemized charges for
vertising in Langer's paper
lug ~75.00 a month. Attention
also called to a rebate made
discharged workman for the 5
cent levy against his salary
tribution to the Leader fund.
rebate it w~ charged came out
the mill fund and not as a
from the "Leader."
The worst body blow
to Gov. Langer came from
ington. Mr. Hopkins, head of
CWA administration, his
called to the governor's action
forcing highway workers to
tribute out of their meagre
5 percent for the "Leader
didn~ stop with a criticism of
methods, but promptly "fired"
governor from the relief
tion, placing it all In the hands
Judge A. M. Christlanson.
CWA administrator in
such action, intimated the
could not be trusted.
How much less a crime is it to I
unfortunate working-men Of a
of their wages by the governor
state than it is for some
employer of sweat-shop labor
gouge the last penny from the
ow and orphans forced to take
is offered them. The federal
ernment should not ~ stop
throwing Langer off the-board;
should proceed against him in
criminal action to make
to those he has forced money
In fact it comes within the
of the administration to
Langer's resignation as governor
foreiably eject him from his
It is bad enough to gouge
from his appointees on stat~
but if they accept places with 1
understanding that they must
the 5 percent permlty that's a
ter between the governor and
Job holders. But to rob the
working on the highways of
paid them by the CWA to
a profit for his newspaper,
his personal property, well,
ust one ugly word that we
to such transactions.
And yet Gov. Langer will go
and down the state, cursing
Street, the big capitalists,
road~ and everyone eke
down on the unfortunates who
compelled to take th~
them, while at the same
bleeding the unfortunate
mn without regular
who are working on the
tnd other federal projects,
lar leech on the 812.00 to $15.00
week paid for their hard
Now that the federal
has taken the measure of
"thrifty" governor it is a
conclusion that his endorsement
the Towrdey plan for a five
dollar industrial program to
"administered by the governor,"
be given scant attention. The
and the Roosevelt admlntstratoin ',
out to get the chiselers, the
the petty larceny men and
Langer should consider
tunate if he
the federal
~lasses fltte~
r~mr aml Thres/
the fl~mst