The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-07-24

conflict between the interests Of the
farmer and the city dweller. From
these figures 1t would seem that there
is some justification for the charge,
but the conflict is between the holders
of the big land values who are able to
cut down the purchasing power Of the;
city worker by high rents based on
high speculative land values, and the,
working farmer who has produce to
sell and finds his market restricted by
the above-named factors. The worker,
in the city and the working farmer in
the country have a common enemy In
the landowner speculator.
Employment Service Hit.
After = sharp struggle in both
houses Of congress, during which It
seemed for a time that the United
States employment service would be
forced out Of existence by denial Of
any appropriation, this branch Of the
department of labor has been allotted
100000 to continue it's work during
the current fiscal year.
John B. Densmore, director general
Of the employment service, states that
only a skeleton organization can be
maintained on this figure, but hopes
that the Kenyon-Nolan bill, providing
for the establishment Of the service
on a permanent basis, will soon go
through. In the meantime the work
Of the service must be greatly cur
tailed. Orders have been, issued to
close all but rs of the most important
branch Offices and 1t is apparent that
the organization will be able to do
comparatively little In furnishing men
for harvesting the wheat crop in the
north central states.
Political Economy.
Under the excuse Of economy"
which is trotted out in congress now
whenever the interests Of big business
+ threatened, the senate ~appropria-
lions committee last week attempted
to wipe out the United States tariff
commission and reduce the a~ppropria-
ton Of the federal trade commission
by 100000. This attempted action
was taken at the behest Of Senators
Smoot and Warren, than whom. It
would be hard to find two more hard.
ened reactionaries.
The vicious attack on these two bu-
reaus, both Of which have won un-
bridled hostility for their brave fight
In behalf OF the people, vas happily
defeated by the outspoken stand of
the progressive group, Senators La
Toilette of Wisconsin and Kenyon of
Iowa being particularly active In COM
batting the Tories. The National Con
sumers' league, the representatives OF
the farm organizations, and q small
section Of the press threw their
weight into the breach and the appro-
priations Of 100000 for the tariff
commission and $1,000, 900 for the fed
eral trade commission are now secure
for another year.
The hollowness of the pretense that
the federal trade commissions appro-
priation should be cut 100000 'be-
cause of the necessity Of economy" is
seen in the fact that this sum is just
about n onethundredth of the cost Of
q modern ~battleship. Billions for de-
tense but not n cent to stop internal
aggressions on our people seems to
ba| the slogan Of q very large and
powerful element in congress.
N. D. Victory Alarms.
The Review, q new and ultra-con-
sentative weekly published in New
York City, is much worried over the
sweeping referendum victory won by
the Nonpartisan league in North d.
kota.
Being, apparently, very uncertain az
to what the Nonpartisan league is
about anyway, except that it is "some
sort Of state socialism" the journal
contents itself with being bitter at the
expense Of Mr. Townley.
The political methods Of A. G.
Townley," It says, ARE so well known
that mi Is right to be suspicious of
proposals from him which ~centralize
authority. To Offset his ir-
regular methods Townley has long
used the arts Of the spellbinder, and
he has succeeded In capturing the
imagination Of the state.
The purpose Of the Review, in it's
own words, 10 TO resist the unthink-
Ing drift towards radical innovation"
The eight issues which have appeared
so far indicate that any alteration
whatsoever IN the status quo Is rad
ical Innovation to its editors.
Hanging Pictures.
It Is easy to make mistakes In the
hanging Of pictures. Observing the
following as q guide. you will make
fewer mistakes ii this respect. First,
= plain paper for the room Is almost
Imperative. This will give you an OPP
p~ortunity to ! All the pictures, no
matter what they are. Soft grays