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March 8, 1934     Golden Valley News
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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