The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1916-12-15
zoo ATTEND
CLUB BANQUET
At M'KENZ|E
Annual Affair To Mark Close of
Years Work and Lay Plans
for Future
GOVERNOR HANNA AND
CRAWFORD ARE SPEAKERS

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cial club and their guests-including
members Of the board Of regents, the
state budget committee and the board
of c0ntrol--t0 the numebr of 200 dined
this noon at the annual banquet held
in the Mckenzie hotel. m
Such cooperation in the develops
ment of our wonderful natural re-
sources as must make North Dakota
one of the greatest states OF the
Union was advocated this afternoon
by Governor l.. B. Hanna in his nd.
dress to 200 Commercial club mem
bers. The governor again declared
his all-abiding faith in the brilliant
future of North Dakota; he called at
tention to our great wealth. OF coal
to our clay deposits and to the fact
that oil and gas are now being devel-
oped in quantities sufficient to sup.
ply great industries, in the western
part of the state.
Favors Road Development.
Every time yrail is built across
the state inestimable benefits result
to North Dakota, in that tourists are
brought through the land at the sea-
son when it is most fruitful and when
visitors must carry away with them
the most favorable Impressions. He
referred to the ferry in operation be
tween Bismarck and Mandan as the
only break in the Red Trail from Sc.
attic to Boston and predicted that
the time is not far distant when the
Missouri will be spanned here by a
suitable wagon bridge. He expressed
the hope and the belief that the next
legislature will take steps to raise
North Dakota's appropriation for state
highway work to a point where it may
avail itself of the fund offered under
the ShackelfOrd federal aid act, which
would give North Dakota, $4,000 in
1916, and gradually increasing sums
each year thereafter. He advocated
utilizing the proceeds from the sale
of automobile license tags rather than
appropriating this highway endow.
ment from the general funds of the
state.
state Needs Industrial Agent.
"In North Dakota" said the gov
ernOr, 1--WE need one man who will de-
vote all Of his time to bringing into
North Dakota industries not now es'
tablished here; who will interest out.
side business men in North Dakota s
opportunities, and procure the invest
ment Of new s,capital and new capa.
bilities here.Ra = ssrg&
This Industrial agent, the governor
suggested, might be employed either
1by the states6r through a united ef
fort upon the part OF the commercial
clubs of North Dakota. VII
7 7 "a Believes IT, Rriquetting. -.
The governor again expressed con
viction that North Dakota Ignite can
be successfully briquetted and he nrg
ed that, instead of sending our chem
lists to Germany tO@be educated, we
bring here from the great briquetttng
Industries Of; Germany chemists OF
thorough training and general expert
ence, who can give North Dakota the
\ benefit Of their practical knowledge
E.HX. spfophesied that in time to come
Instead of the state sending out mil,
lions Of dollars each year to pay for
other states coal, other states will be
sending their millions into North Da
kota to buy our Ignite briQuettes.
Town and Country.
The town and country must cooper
ate; each must strive to remove from
the mind of the other prejudice, and
suspicion. The, opinion prevailing
that legislation is enacted principally
for the benefit of the cities is unsup
portable, said the governor. Twenty
six millions OF the school funds OF
North Dakota are invested in farm
lands, for the benefit of the farmers;
5,0OG. 900 is loaned at 5 per cent on
farm mortgages, and but $7O0O,O00 OF
4 $S,O00,OOO is invested in municipal
bonds. and school bonds, and Of the
last named many are in rural dis
tricts.
Crawford Optimistic.
The Hon. Lewis F. Crawford of Sen
tinel Butte, chairman of the state
board of regents, brought to the Com
mercial club message OF optimism;
of faith in North Dakota, in it's laws
in its people, it's public officers and
it's moral fibre.
Commercial clubs, he stated, JUST
fled their existence principally in that
they served to impress us with ou1
neighbors' viewpoint, and to broaden
both our neighbors and ourselves. The
envy which we feel for the "other tel
low the jealousy which we may on
terrain for rivals in the same line
Of business or profession are elimi
mated to large extent by rubbing
shoulders and joining in concerted
effort for the paner:ll o0nd fhr0up Oh