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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-10-23
CARD OF THANKS

rhe Bashara family wishes to thank
their relatives and friends for their
messages Of sympathy, assistance
ana floral offerings during their
recent bereavement in the loss OF
their beloved husband ana father.
MRS. JOHN BASHARA,
MAMIE HELEN
rNORGE SARAH
MABEL
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-10-23
LABOR LEADER DIES

Fargo, Oct. Conrad Meyer
IS, former president Of the North Da-
kota Federation Of Labor and prom
inent In the Fargo Typographical
union for many years, died Saturday
in his home here. He had suffered
from an extended illness.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-10-23
LANCER DECLARES
ROOSEVELT SPEECH
IS DISAPPOINTING
Governor Expects Farmers to
Be. Displsassd With Pres
idenfs Attitude

President Roosevelt's talk to the
country Sunday night brought an ex-
preston Of the most bitter disap-
pointment on the part Of the farmers
Of this state" from Governor william
LANCER Monday.
II can see nothing but the most
bitter disappointment on the part Of
the farmers Of this state In Presi-
dent Roosevelt's speech. and I say
this with the utmost reluctance be-
cause Of the warm admiration have
for the president personally" LANCER
said.
The president, LANCER said, failed
to explain why millions Of bushels Of
rye have been allowed to be imported
from foreign countries. He expressed
disappointment over the presidents
discussion Of the farm debt.
The declaration OF an embargo by
the president against importation Of
foreign grains would cause the price
Of grain to rise even more rapidly
than It has recently, LANCER said as
he emphasized that since North Da-
kota's wheat embargo was declared
"there has been a rise Of Is cents per
bushel In the price Of dark spring
wheat and 20 cents per bustel In
the price Of amber durum."
Doing His Best
'There isn't the least doubt but
that the president has q tremendous
Job and that he Is trying to do the
very best he can" LANCER said.
THE farmers Of the northwest were
looking in that speech for two deft-
Mite things" the governor said as he
criticised the presidents failure to
mention foreign importation Of rye
and the presidents discussion Of the
farm debt.
"Sorne explanation as to why those
millions Of bushels Of rye have been
allowed by those In authority in
washington to be imported from Po-
land, Hungary, Canada, the Danube,
and Argentina" LANCER declared, lin
direct competition with the rye and
wheat farmers Of the northwest was
looked for by the farmer.
This question the president ig-
nored entirely.
Industry Is protected against COM
petition by the tariff. The president
has authority to increase the tariff
on rye by so per cent under the tar
If act Of 1880. This would add ~
cents a bushel to the present tariff
Of Is cents. making the tariff 22h
cents.
Il Not Using Powers
"There are further broad emer.
gency powers to halt importations sci
forth in the farm relief act. However
the president gave no intimation that
he would use the powers Of his Of.
flee and raise the tariff to keep thi.
foreign rye out Of the United States.
Secondly, the farmer Is not in.
terested in securing more credit. HI
cannot refinance his debt unless 1t i
scaled down."
LANCER said he knows the presi'
! dent is in. sympathy with the scaling
down Of debts, land clear state.
ment to that effect would have has
tremendous weight with the CREDITOR
Of the farmer"
1.-THE creditors" he explained
might as we'll realize that the farm
ers cannot pay the full amount o
their mortgages and that they vii
have to take less than the amour
due on mortgages In the overwhelm
ing number Of instances
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-10-23
Ambassador Ordered
To Return to Japan

Washington. Oct. 23.-(R)-Ambas-
sador Debuchi Of Japan received or.
ders Monday from the Japanese for
eien office to return to Japan ut his
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the negotiations with washington
bearing "a the Manchurtan dispute
and there have been frequent rlmof1
he would be recalled.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-10-23

II we do not pay for the schools. we
will pay for the jails.-Judge Flor
ence z. Allen OF Ohio.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-20
Russia On Disarmament

While many powerful nations respond to Germany's withdrawal from the League of Nations with moves toward increased arm ament, Russia responds with plea for real disarmament. In reply to an urgent mes- sage from Lord Robert Cecil, asking their attitude toward continued disarmament dis cussions. the Soviets replied, through the president of the council of commissars as follows:
 Notwithstanding that not all neighbors of the Soviet counwy are carrying on a policy of peace. Russia is bent on continuing negotiations. For more than ten years the Soviet government has been independent of rapidly changing international conditions. It has not failed to propose general disarm- arient. as real guarantee of peace. Now. when the menace to peace is really pereeiv- cd by all populations. the Soviet government
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-20
Thrifty Giving

A critical reappraisal of the virtue ot thrift is needed today. says Harold s. But tenheim, setting forth in the Survey Mid monthly his view of The New Philosophy of Giving" It was not wise thrift, he sug- gests, which in the years before the depres- sion diverted too large a percentage ot cur rent income into savings. The savings, in turn, went too largely into stock-market gambling, into land speculation, into capital investments in unneeded factories. maehin- cry, skyscrapers, filling stations and other excess facilities for competitive manufac- ture and trade" There are persons who say we were extravagant in those years, yet ex- penditures for current needs and enjoyment did not keep up with the capacity to produce.
 Individuals or families with large incomes cannot consume all the goods and pleasures their money would provide, while those with small incomes cannot purchase all of the things they ought to have. The time may come when every human being will have ample purchasing power to meet his own wants. Until that ideal state IS reached, giving which combines wisdom and generosity may help little to bridge the gap.
 Anyone who has for the time being all the shoes radios or books he needs or wants would do well to help others get some of them. Says Mr Buttenhein: The buy ing of shoes for the barefoot, or radios for the blind, or books for the public library. produces just as many jobs as if the same funds were spent for personal use of those already amply supplied. Similarly, contri- buttons to welfare and religious organiza- tions which make possible employment that contributes to physical, spiritual and eul- tural well-being. are just as beneficial in providing jobs as though the same funds were spent on non-essentals for the speakers own benefit and the community values are vastly greater Giving. under such philosophy. isn't SO much being generous as seeing to it that spare cash in the community is most effectively put to work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-20
The County System

County government" as substitute for township governments interwoven with the county organization, gets more support lately. Several states this fall have it on their bal lots. There is more disposition to agree with Alfred E. Smith when he says, I can think of nothing so ridiculous as our present county government and with the remark of President Roosevelt, who pronounced it no more fit for its purpose than an OK cart would be for modern transportation
 Opposition to the new idea has come mostly from rural sections which are afraid of undue outside interference with their local administration. There are always objections raised, too, by the smaller municipalities, whose office holders fear displacement in county system. There are easy answers to most of the objections in counties that are not predominantly rural. The waste of du- plicated offices and facilities in counties con- taining dozens of independent political units is obvious. and local autonomy can be pre- served where that is really important It is a question of putting into public business the same efficiency that has been striven for in private business.
 The movement is helped along at present not only by the general desire for more ef- feiency and economy of administration, but by the new trend of city population back to the country. City folk carry with them the idea of larger organization.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-20
Strikers And Shirkers

It is easy to get wrong slant on two troubles that have been much in the public eye lately = labor strikes and evasion of NRA codes. Secretary of Labor Perkins does not take either very seriously. Speaking in Chies~o the other day. she explained why.
 Most of the labor disturbances. she says, have come from workers who never had chance before to bargain collectively, and didn't understand what was going on. That was the case with the Pennsylvania coal miners. They just wanted code" she says. They became convinced that their employers were fooling them with delays. That's why they struck without having any demands for wages or working conditions"
 As for MIRA offenders: "The big news of today is the thousands who adhere strictly .to the MIRA and treat their erNployes de- gently. We hear less about them than about those who violate its principles" Exceptions are always conspicuous. It's careless and misehievous to mistake the exception for the rule.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-20
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1888
Germnay's Showdown

There are two ways of looking at almost everything, and the current war scare Tn Eurpe is no exception. If you like, you can consider Germanys withdrawal from the League of Nations calamitous step, threat to the peace of the world and har- binger of exceedingly stormy weather just ahead. It certainly looks like that, on the surface; certainly 1t has produced more war talk than anything that has happened since 1918.
 But it is also possible to see in it one of those sudden shocks which occasionally jar a chemical solution into specialization. Tor there is this about 1t: into meeting ot statesmen who came to talk disarmament without having any very solid intention ot doing anything concrete about it there stalked one man with nerve enough to toss a put-up- or-shut-up proposition on the table.
 What Herr Hitler said, in effect, was sim ply this: We're here to discuss arms reduction, and under the Versailles treaty all hands are pledged to do little reducing. Since you don't seem to be doing anything about this, Germany is out, It was, in other words, something very like the calling of bluff. Whether this was Hitler's motive in taking that step may not be clear; that, however. is what it seems to amount to.
 If the Allied nations are shocked and worried by this drastic action, they have only themselves to blame They devised. in the Versailles treaty, a sure-fire means ot keeping Germany's mind on the gains that could be had through successful new war. They pledged themselves to cut their own armed conference after arms conference and lot each one fizzle out in a froth of empty words.
 During the years since the war Germany had succession of very moderate govs ernments - governments which were de- voted to keeping the peace. Concessions on treaty revision or arms reduction could lave been made to those governments with safety They were not made, although they were requested over and over again. Now Germany has jingoistic government which uroposes to have showdown. Menacng as the situation appears. it may be that this showdown will. in the long run, help to clear the air and remove the sense of unreality from the whole disarmament question.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-20

Reports from Washington to the effect that small employers in small towns pres entity may be exempted from the NRA re- employment agreement indicates that mueh- needed flexibility is about to be injected into the program. It already has been dis covered that living up to the NRA agree ment can be terrific handicap for the little fellow the small town man who runs a little restaurant or barber shop. Of filling station, or little grocery store. A lot of such employers with the best will in the world, simply cannot afford to comply with all Blue Eagle requirements.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-20
Here, There And Every1Dhere
ENGLISH BIRDS AT THE
 MUSEUM

The bird walk of Lord Grey and Theodore Roosevelt in the New Forest twenty.three years ago has AT, instructive and delightful me- morial in the bird habitat group, the gift of Mrs CarIl Tucker. now on view at the American Museum of Natural History. The wood. land vista, the work of the artist Francis Jacques, gives the feeling of c page of Tennyson, with the bIuebeIls and primroses by the rivers brim. Tn this setting are arranged, as naturally as may be, hfty-one species of English birds. The annotator has 6 playful ex- pIanation of the large roll call in the presence of tawny owl, an enemy that all lesser birds in the vicinity assemble to berate.
 The group may carry q touch of fomesicknegs, as well as cheerful reminder, to British visitors. To uAtraveied Americans familiar with English birds only in song and story the reward of curiosity is here. It is interesting to see how little hte English robin redbreast resembles the American robin; 1t is more like bluebird without the blue. And the renowned nightin- gale might pass for . minor non- descrjpt thrush. The cuckoo that lays in ohter birds nests looks. in- deed, like a bully, quite in con- trast to the slim elegance of its well behaved American namesake. Here, too, the home-keeping American sees q set of woodpeck- CTS strange to him and . score of new acquaintance such as the stonechat, the chafiinch, the wry. neck and the hedge sparrow. Of ali the species the wren and the woodcock, at least to the unprac- ticed eye, look most like our own.
 Many of these New Forest resi- dents will seem like old friends to readers of Gilbert White. of sel- borne, and of John Burroughs' Fresh Fields" They can readily be memorized by a real bird fan in an hour or two of study, so that he can keep them accurately and permanently in the minds eye.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-20
A Book e Day
 by BRUCE CATION
Americas Golden
 Age Of Romance

Beyond Law" by Frank B.. Lind erman. is a novel which dips back to the golden age of the American west-those days cen- tury ago when fur traders risked their lives along the Yellowstone and Missouri to trade with In- dians who, so far, were almost un- touched by the white mans civ- ilization.
 IL deals chiefly with Lige Mounts, one of those frontiersmen who, as Stewart Edward White has pointed out, found the west uncomfortably crowded at time when t still officially was described as "unex- plorcd."
 The thread of the story is per- haps c little slight. Mounts works for the American Fur company, goes far up the Yellowstone to establish q new trading post, adopt a tiny orphaned Indian boy he finds on an island in the river, combats the treachery of a Scotch company official, takes his young ster on c perilous canoe trip through hostile Indian territory, and finally gets the lad back east But 1t isn't the plot that counts. somehow. For Mfr Linderman re- marks that these great days on the western plains nourished our most romantic tradition. The rov- ing Indians of the old days were knights errant; the age of chivalry lived among the Crows and Blnch- feet and the Cheyennes, as truly as 1t did in Arthur's time.
 A golden light still remains on those plains. lowering over q so- ciety and c freedom which the advancing whites methodically and jubiIantiy put to death. That light giows in this book, as 1t does in all these stories of the old west, evcn in the DOT ones.
 What I'm trying to say--as xou may have gucssed--.is that "Bc- yord Law" Is a most readable and persuasive sort of story. Published by the John Day Co, ] 1t. is priced at S2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-20
Stadium Slump

Will the costly stadiums scattered over this country revert to the status of the Ro- man Coliseum, from which they drew their inspiration? This question is inspired by recent survey of the stadium situation in American Cities.
 Dozens of these huge structures, financed from public bond issues or by subscription, are turning out to be Jonahs. A sport writer in the New York Tribune refers pa- thetically to two of the greatest monu- ments to civic ambition and pride, name ly the Philadelphia and Cleveland stadiums, which rear their high walls against the sky as the winds moan through their tunnels and iron work" Neither has been filled more than once. The latter has been de- serted by the Cleveland ball team. after one season, on the ground that it is too big and not adapted to baseball
 Tt is hardly likely" says the Tribune writer, that any more large stadiums will be built in this country within the lives of people now living Colleges that plunged into this alluring form of extravaganza are especially unfortunate. Most of their sta- diums are not yet paid for, and there is serious doubt whether many of them ever will be. Yet you never can tell. Another industrial boom, accompanied by a new burst of athletic enthusiasm. and most of them might make good The best use for the municipal stadium seems to be dramatic and musical events and civic festivals. In cit- ies that continue growing they may justify themselves.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-20

more than at any time before is convinced that complete or maximum disarmament is necessary to reduce this menace. and it is sure this necessity is quite obvious to the populations of other countries"
 Unfortunately facts that are obvious to the populations of countries often appear not at all obvious to the statesmen of the same countries. If Russia is sincere in her statements-and after all, what nation has the right to doubt her?-history may re- cord that Russia showed the way to true world peace, but the other nations were
 slow to understand and follow that way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-20

The foreman of grand jury in a mid- western city recently startled the law enforce ment officials of his town by initiating his own investigation into the activities of rac- keteers and gangsters. Among the things he sought to find out was why the police were not readier to move against criminals for possession of firearms. The police chief" he pointed out, must know 50 racketeers and criminals who go about the city carrying guns or accompanied by body guards who carry guns. Why can't these men be arrested and prosecuted for carrying concealed weapons?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-20

creased; the space for shelving and the capacity for digesting and ab- sorbing this gargantuan mass las far behind"
 Librarians frankly admit that they do not know whence the money nor the machinery for con- quering this ever-increasing prob- iemis to come; they only know that new leisure, greater need for understanding among the people,, wider sympathy and knowledge. demand books and more books and more and more libraries. The de- mand Is at their doorstep During the last three years, the secretary of the association reports. there has been an increase of about ~ per cent in circulation of public library books throughout the Unit cd States and the addition of from four million to i've million library borrowers.
 The unanswered questions which face the public libraries of the. country as c whole are facing the Hartford. Public library. Crowd ed, understaffed, with scant empty shelving space, yet with a book collection below the need of the community, the Hartford Public library recognizes the pressure for expansion. It cannot see the means to 1t. Economy is still the watch word where redoubled efforts to supply the demand should have al- ready ushered in the recovery and the extension of library oppcrtun- ities for the people.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-20

, in fig time overwhelming orders for the NRA. Biggest was one for 57,50O.00O copies of the con- sumers' statement of cooperation with the MIRA. (Eight million of these were mailed in one day, making quite a nice little job for the postofiicc, tool.
 The c. P. 0. ran of 5000, 900 copies of the presidents blanket code, and 100000 copies of foI- low-up literature. It printed and cut a little matter of 22,000, 0,000 consumers cards, and 30,000, 900 forms for the agricultural ad- 1ustment administration.
 Public Printer George H. Car ter says this beats even the print ing of the draft notices during the World war, sets new rec. ord for emergency printing, and that no private 4blant in the coun- try would have had the resources to turn out such colossal jobs in such short time.
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 Makes Midas . Piker
 An ingenious press agent of the public works administration fig- urea tHlD Ouc Outs IT tnat 1oI0VVs' 100000 to be distributed for pub lies works were put on train fn New York, and . million dollars in gold shoveled off every mile crossing the country westward there still would be lots of gold aboard when 1t reached San Fran cisco .. that gives you some idea. A guest arrived late at the White House the other night for q state dinner given for Pres. ident Arias of Panama ... that's unheard of in Washington ejtquet but you can bet 1t was all right this time-the late conner waa General Hugh S. Johnson. {. An enormous fve-foot tarpon beautifully mounted as though fin the act of Ieaping out of the wa. ter, now adorns the wall of tho presidents executive office. . It's the gift of Florida fshing club to 6 fellow sportsman, F.. D. R. Copyright, 1032. NEA Service, Incl .,frff
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-20

One of the most startling bits of news of the year is the assertion by an airline offi-- cial that the mysterious crash of a passenger plane in Indiana recently. in which seven lives were lost, was caused by bomb which had been concealed somewhere in the plane before the take-off. This announcement was made after portions of the wreekage had been submitted to tests by scientists at Northwestern University. How the explo- sive could have been planted in the plane to begin with. is a mystery; so great mys- tery, indeed, that the superintendent of the last airport the liner visited asserts flatly that no explosives conceivably could have been smuggled into. the plane at that point.