The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-06-13
GOVERNOR SnAFER
! PUTS JOLLITY into
Dinner OF DEALERS
Executive Serves as Toast.
master and Gives Everybody
His Share Of tests
WATCH GIVEN PRESIDENT
Former Governor Devine Drops
Into Farm Talk and Would
Forget Debentures

Three carefree hours were allowed
themselves by the North Dakota Re-
tail Merchants. wednesday evening.
in the association banquet marking
the peak of the present annual meet
ing here. held at the Grand Pacific
dining room.
Governor George Shafer presided
as POSTMASTER of the evening and got
a lot of fun out of the role. as well
as distributing a lot at the expense
Of the luckless wights whom he in
troduced. That was the way the
evening was intended to work out.
North Dakota's big butter and egg
men wanted a frolic and the gov
ernor saw that they got something OF
that kind.
There we're just two serious mo-
rnents in the proceedings. One was
when o. J. Sorlie, of Buxton, called
on to make a talk, worked around to
the point of lauding T. P. Garnaas.
reti, ing president, who has given the
association his free services for a
year, and wound up by presenting him
with a small leather case, which on
being opened was found to contain a
fine gold watch.
Devine Impatient With Dcbenturc
The other was when former Gov
ernor Joseph M. Dcvine, speaking on
the natural resource wealth Of the
state, adverted to the farm relief bill
in congress and suggested that the
debenture feature should be taken out
OF it. Farm relief for this state, ne
suggested, lay in q tariff OF 63 cents
q bushel on flax. which would cut
out Argentina and Russia: and IN a
56-cent duty on a gallon OF cream,
which would eliminate the COMPETE
ton of Holland and Denmark, and SO
on. He said it made him impatient
to note the attitude of the lawmakers
on these questions affecting agri-
culture at a time when North Da-
kota is on the way to SO splendid q
future.
The state, said the former governor,
has few Of the disadvantages that
make for disappointment. Gods
greatest gift to man was land. next
water, and. third. coal. North Dakota
has As, CCO. 900 acres Of the former. a
great navigablc river and almost in
exhaustible deposits OF fuel. These
made 1t possible for it to approach
its great destiny. He intimated q
little judicious legislation might help
this along, but not that Of a deben-
ture character.
Kitchen Praises Healthiness Of N. d.
Joseph A. Kitchen. commissioner Of
agriculture and labor in the state,
praised the. retailers association for
the part it was taking toward the
eradication Of the barberry bush
which causes black stem rust IN
wheat. From that he went on to the
glories Of North Dakota as he learned
them while a citizen in the Bad Lands
country around Madora. He spoke OF
the connections Of Marquis De Mores
and Of Theodore Roosevelt with west
ern North Dakota and credited the
Medora country with giving Roose.
welt his robust health of later years
the health that enabled him tc
serve SO strenuously as president.
What made this health-giving quail.
jty Of the state, he said, had beer
very POLITICALLY stated by Jimmy Foley
the North Dakota poet. and he closed
his talk by reciting the lines. THE
Freedom Of the West"
Other talks were made by G. H