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THE BEACH. N. D.. ADVANCE
THURSDAY,
MAY 24, 1
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OFFICIAL CITY AND COUNTY NEWSPAPER
THORESEN, CAIN, LANGER
In his speech at Valley City last week, when opening his
campaign for governor, Mr. Thoresen more nearly adhered
to the platform of the Jamestown convention than he had
been quoted in other talks. His declaration that before any
more state industries are taken on there must be a demon-
stration of the success of existing plants and need of more,
will meet with hearty accord by those who question the ad-
visability of any state industries; and his exposition of views,
fairly conservative, as to the functions of the Bank of North
Dakota will be approved by the same class of thinkers.
And his view points as to moratoriums, embodying a de-
mand on his part for an investigation of every case of pro-
posed foreclosure and allowing the merits of the individuali
case to govern, would, if practiced, restore confidence in fa~n
loans and uplift the credit of those who deserve it. i
Mr. Thoresen says the boast of Governor Langer that he I
had saved the people $5,000,000 is bunk, that at the most the
1
savings, and these were mostly by the legislature, are not~
more than a million, while Senator Cain, Independent Repub-1
lican candidate for governor, says the savings are not more.
than half a million, and cites the records to prove it. I
There are many features of Mr. Thoresen's platform as
announced at Valley City that appeal to the free and unbiased
thinker, and between him and Senator Cain the people of the
state are being truthfully enlightened on the exact situa-
tion.
And in this connection it may be said that the talks about
state affairs Senator Cain is giving in his campaign are most
convincing, as he is citing figures, backed by the records,
that completely confound the bumptious statements and wild
assertions by the governor as to the many benefactions he
has brought to the taxpayers.
There is a difference, too, in the character of the crowds
attending the meetings of these three candidates for gover-
nor. Aside from those who attend out of curiosity the gov-
ernor's gatherings are composed of Langerites brought from
other places, many of these same people being seen at all
the governor's meetings. These camp followers are made up,
generally, of payrollers who ought to be doing the work of the
taxpayers at points far distant from the speechmaking.
On the other hand people of all degrees of political
thought are attending the Thoresen and Cain meetings. They
go because they want to know all sides of the issues, and are
not the employes of the state who would rather form the
entourage of royalty than do the work the people so lavishly
pay most of them to de.
WORKING AT CROSS PURPOSES
The government has within the past year poured mili-
ions of dollars into the banks of the country, and has even
become a partner in many in order to strengthen them and
give them power to accommodate their customers and
build up the financial structure, all of which was com-
mendable. So we were rather astonished the other morning
to hear a postoffice official at Washington broadcasting the
beauties, safety and general blessedness of the postal savings
department and urging deposits in the postoffices of the
~oUntry.
In other words that official was busy tearing down the
work that the reconstruction fellows had been trying to build
up through strengthening the banks, for, if the money de-
posited in the postoffices of the country was in the banks
there would be no need of all the labor spent by the govern-
ment to build up the banking facilities, inasmuch as the
~Sta] savings department is sucking the lifeblood out of
banking.
So it is with agriculture. The allotment wen~ over, as
did many other similar propositions, to reduce products of
various kinds, hundreds of millions being spent in the crop
reduction plan. Then thegovernment spends as many more
millions building Boulder Dam, the Columbia river dam, and
the Missouri river dam over at Fort Peck, all projects to
gr~H,, increase productive acreage and tremendously ill-
" ~r~as~ the crops of the country.
In fact there is scarcely any government project for
helpfulness but has a half brother that violently opposes the
merits of the first proposition.
Much of the twaddle about recovery seems but media
for spending a few more billion dollars and building up an
army of federal employes that will fight to the last ditch any
proposition to end their particular part of the political layout.
IT WAS A GREAT DAY
The outpouring of young and old from all parts of the
county last Friday to take part in, or witness, the athletic
field day held here is a good sign of vitality and enjoy.ment of
healthful, clean sport. As "into each life some ram must
fall," so into each life some pleasures must be mixed with the
humdrum affairs of our daily existence, else we will fall into
the rut of grouchiness and pessimism.
And, aside from the enjoyment of the sports, there was
the intermingling of the people from all sections, when old
acquaintances are resumed and new friends made, all of
which is well worth the trifling expense of such gatherings.
The weather clerk has not been good to us this spring,
but hope lives on for better conditions soon, and instead of
rank pessimism being the prevailing expression, the visitors
spoke of their anxieties as one of the things that come to all
at times and in no instance was anything said that did not
have a background of confidence that conditions would change
and the future brighten with promise of crops and other bet-
terments that lead to prosperity and happiness.
WHAT DID WE GET FOR IT?
W"nen we recall that in 1917 the state owed less than
$200,000 on its indebtedness and that now that indebtedness
is over $43,000,000 with little or nothing to show for it, and
that we are today paying annually more for principal and in-
terest on our bonded indebtedness than it took to run the
state government a year in those lucky days, we cease to
marvel that our taxes are so high.
It is interesting if not comforting to know that we have
paid in principal and interest on our industrial program the
neat sum of $19,495,898.67 since the inauguration of these
projects, and we still have about $40,000,00 principal and
nearly as much interest to pay. About the only ones that are
known to have profited by these enterprises is the army of
state employes hired to run them. Had these been private
would have been in bankruptcy court long
ago, ] ' state institutions the people can always be bled
Johp Barrgmore
5TAt2, OF :20~C, ENTORy POS.{ES.f-
F__S AIV EG6 5HF_.LL I0.000,000
YEAP, S OLD. ITI5 VALUED AT,
OVER A MILLION DOLLARS/
says, on American farms. That
may be true. but the fact remains
that rye is a direct competitor of
wheat as a breadstuff and of corn
as a distiller's grain There can be
little doubt that if the importation
of foreign rye had been halted in
time the consumption of wheat and
corn in this country would have
been increased, to some extent at
least.
Mr. Wallace does not hesitate Lo
experiment in the destruction of
food. and no scheme of acreage re-
duction can be too fantastic to meet
with his approval, but he shrinks
from taking a step which can only
result in a decrease, however slight,
in the surpluses which are depress-
ing our markets. Millions for de-
struction, he says, but not one cent
for increased use.
A PERSECUTION, NOT PROSECUTION
The press of the nation, as a general rule, approves the
action of the federal grand jury in finding no true bill against
Andrew Mellon, accused of trying to defraud the government
out of income taxes.
That jury was composed of five laborers, two engineers,
two mechanics, two farmers, two clerks, a carpenter, plumber
and a writer. A jury like that could hardly be charged with
being unduly favorable to a millionaire. It was an average
American jury, a jury that refused to indict a man simply
because he was rich, or at the behest of an attorney general,
whose entire performance in this matter smacked aloud to
heaven of politics. And that it was a matter of politics seems
to be the belief of those who think a man should have justice,
regardless of his wealth.
And this exhonoration of Mellon proves the buncomb of
Congressman Lemke's preelection pledge to "have Mellon
behind the bars" pronto, if the people of North Dakota would
only send him, Lemke, to congress to do the job.
All the advance stuff the attorney general put out about
this case plainly shows an attempt to besmirtch Mellon's
character before a hearing in the case. It has cost the ad-
ministration much prestige as placing politics before justice.
We believe this is the first time in the history of the
country when an attorney general has announced, before a
grand jury met, that a criminal indictment would be
sought, and its effect was to brand the man so persecuted as
a criminal without giving him a chance to defend himself.
ANOTHER SHOT AT OUR DEMOCRACY
While undoubtedly the federal administration is moti-
vated by high ideals as to the proper thing to do under these
trying times, there is a growing impression that all too rapid-
ly are we drifting to a real dictatorship in government.
We agree with Senator Borah in his attack on the re-
ciprocal tariff bill, which places in the hands of the president
the power to reduce tariffs at will, as unconstitutional and
taking from congress powers the constitution gives it to reg-
ulate such matters.
This bill is just another step in destroying the power of
congress and making the president superior in the lawmaking
line, a thing never contemplated by the early framers of our
democracy, and we predict that this measure will bring more
havoc than anything yet done to American industry and to
American agriculture, for it leaves dictatorial powers in the
hands of the president over the well being of both.
REVERSING THE ORDER
(-
It used to be a theory of government that all legislation
should originate in either one or other house of congress.
Aside from minor bills all measures are now manufactured
by the appointed brain trust and sent from the executive
branch to congress with orders to pass them or there will be
no pie in the dessert of the opponents thereof. Thus we have
legislation conceived, not by the congress~the regularly
elected representatives of the people~but by a collection of
theorists, unfamiliar with trade and commerce, none of
whom, save the president, were elected by the people, hence
the country is being governed, not by its constituted author-
ities, but by a bunch of appointive officials. However, that is
probably just another angle of the New Deal.
The government claims that the wheat allotment, when
the second installment is paid, will bring the price of grain
up to parity with other commodities. It is lucky for the far-
mers if this is the case and we wish 'era Good speed, but at
the same time Wish that some benignant government would
bring our print shop income up to parity with other years.
Still we are always pleased when others are in luck, even
though standing on the side lines waiting for ours.
As an old Pen_nsylvanian we are pleased to note the de-
feat in the Republican primaries of Governor Pinchot of that
state as a candidate for United States senator. Years ago
when Pinchot was national forester under Teddy Roosevelt
we thought him a world beater, but since that time he has
been little else ~.han a trouble maker and a crab, with a heap
of chin music :~,d little of ...... "~ ~m~nt.
i Views of the Press
HIGH HONOR FOR CONGRESS-
MAN StNCL&IR
Mandan Pioneer: It was a tri-
bute to the high regard in which he
is held by fellow members of con-
gress that Congressman J. H. Sin-
clair of North Dakota was chosen
trom among the representatives of
eight states in the Middlewest and
~Northwest to head a committee on
drought relief. While the house is
strongly Democratie and ordinarily
a Democrat would be selected as
chairman of any house committee
the fact that Mr. Sinelair, a Repub-
lican, was chosen as the new com-
mittee's head indicates the confi-
dence which members of the house
have in hsi ability and in his fair-
ness in administering the allocation
of drought relief to be voted by con- ]
gross. Only through long serviceI
and through those intimate contacts [
which such service brings, and be-I
cause of a splendid record and a J
thorough knowledge of the agricul-|
tural needs of the West could one
from an unimportant state like
North Dakota have won the recogni-
tion given Mr. Sinclair. To dispense
with his services as a representative
would be sheer folly.
PLOW UP WHEAT BUT IMPORT
RYE
Chicago Tribune: The Secretary
of the Treasury, Mr. Morgenthau,
has declined to place an anti-dump-
ing tariff on rye imported into this
country from Poland. The Polish
government pays what amounts to a
bounty of about thirty cents a bu-
shel to grain exporters, Under our
law the Secretary of the Treasury
in the face of uch a situation, may
impose a duty equivalent to the
bounty in addition to the usual duty
of fifteen cents a bushel. This Mr.
Morgenthau declined to do, and, in-
credible as it may appear, he was
supported in his refusal by the Sec-
retary of Agriculture.
Mr. Wallace held that imports of
rye have not done significant in-
jury to American grain farmers.
There is no great surplus of rye, he
REPORT OF N. R. A.
Valley City Times-Record: So far,
as the working of the NRA is con-
cerned, few small business men1
need any report by a special com- All of the sea turtles are
miL~ee to make up their minds about I of the tortoise race, and the
the effect. They have already someI head attains to four feet in
of shell, and to from 250 to
very fine evidence that it has been
an extra burden put on them with
but ~ew compensating features. The
grea~ claim tha~ NRA would put the
millions of the unemployed back to
work has been only partially true;
we still have vast armies of men
i without jobs, and while business ]
, shown some upturn there is no~
mand for labor to such a degTee
i~o make the future look for
rosy
, unemployed. If we were to
out of account the men on
merit pay, whose wages must
out of bororwed money, we
have but little improvement to
in employment.
And so far as the agricultural
of the country is concerned,
has been a great dfiappoi
because of the jump in retail
The effort of the Admin
¢o care first for the workingman $
to increase his wages has
reult of big increases in the
farmers have to pay for all
buy, and whatever new demand
been created for the farmer's
duce has been more than offset
the heavier cost to him of
articles he must purchase for
family.
Turtles Weigh 350 Pounds
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Phone 18 --- Beach, N. D.
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