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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-05-19
Wells County Wants
Is Dams Constructed

A request for surveys for 10 dam
sites In Wells county has been pre-
sented to Governor William LANCER
by delegation Of AZ men from that
county. Otto G.. Kruger, Fessenden,
headed the group.
The delegation, with A. L. Netcher
as temporary chairman and A. N
Beiseker, Alloys Wartner and l.. B.
Molander of Harvey as speakers, en-
phasized the interest of Wells coun-
ty and neighboring communities in
the water conservation program. The
governor was told enough dam sites
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-05-19
Proves Fishing Is
Good at MetiQOshe

Evidence that fish in North Dakota
are biting was offered Friday by Mel
vim Steen Of the state game and fish
department on his return from Lake
Metigoshe near Bottineau.
He exhibited a nine pound Great
Northern pike. His catch also includ-
ed a five pound northern pike and
the legal limit Of perch and wall-eyed
pike. He obtained the legal limit Of
perch In 20 minutes.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-05-19

Dance at the Heart River
Pavilion, Mandan, Saturday,
May goth. Pied Pipers.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-05-19
Husbands Are Guests
At Club Dinner PARTY

Chapter L Of the Sponsor Mothers
club entertained their husbands at a
Z o'clock dinner Thursday evening IL,
the Terrace Gardens Of the Patterson
hotel as tho final event Of the club
year.
Bowls OF cherry blossoms and pink
tapers decorated the tables where
covers were placed for 28 guests.
Afterwards bridge was played with
Mrs. Ray Robinson and E. l.. Schlech-
ter holding high scores at the close
OF the evening.
The party was arranged by a COM
mlttee which included Mrs. Paul Ho-
man. chairman, Mrs. ]. M. Shrek,
Mrs. N. L. Lillestrand, Mrs. P. j.
Schmidt and Mrs. Charles Rue.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-05-19
Matilda DIETRICH to
Be Bride of J. E. Goar

complimentary to Miss Matilda
DIETRICH, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
John DIETRICH, 3l4 Ninth st., who will
be married June Is to James E. Goar
Anaconda, Mont, Miss Mary Lift en-
tertained with miscellaneous shower
Thursday evening at her home, 2l7
Seventh st.
Guests were II intimate friends OF
the bride-to-be. Bridge was played
and score awards went to Miss Mary
Fortune and Mrs. B. Aughney.
The guest Of honor found her gifts
IN q decorated wishing we'll" Nina
ture wishing wells conferred the tables
and powder puffs, to which were at
tached streamers bearing cards with
the date Of the wedding, were at each
place. Table appointments were in
pastel shades Of green, pink and
peach. Spring flowers were used In
decorating the rooms.
X Y X
Mrs. Rose Hoffman Of the Rose
Shop will leave Sunday for San Diego
Calf, to spend a month with her
mother, Mrs. J. B. Flanagan.
4 4 II
The Crusaders, young mems class
OF the McCabe Methodist church, will
be hosts at weiner roast and picnic
supper this evening at Pioneer Park
for members of the Harris Hustlers
class OF the church. Members OF the
two classes planning to attend are
asked to meet at the church at 6 D. m
.
Mrs. Forrest M. Davis, president OF
the Thursday Musical club, and Mrs
J. E. Davis, 831 Eighth st., plan ia
leave Saturday morning for Minnea-
polls where they will attend the BIZ
ennial convention Of the National
Federation Of Music clubs, which will
be IN session there all of next week.
4 =
Robert Conger, Mondovi, Wis, who
has spent the last week here with his
uncle, Henry Halverson Of the Grand
Pacific hotel, plans to leave the first
part OF next week for his home. Con-
ger is former Bismarck resident
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-05-19

are available to keep 200 men busy
for six months.
At a meeting with State Engineer
r. E. Kennedy the delegation was ad-
vised that the proceeding whereby the
dam sites could be surveyed is to be
approved by the federal government
and that the type of dam and the
methods Of construction also must
await federal approval.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-05-19

Rainey and Representative Byrns, the
floor leader, assured Roosevelt that
the house would be ready to adjourn
by May 81. Senator Robinson Of Ar
kansas, the senate leader, said the
outlook on his side was promising and
that he was still counting on June lC
as the adjournment date.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-05
DANGER AHEAD

IF there has been any one lesson which the
depression has taught discerning observers,
it is that there can be no such thing as per-
manent prosperity under capitalism without
maintenance of adequate purchasing power on
the part of the masses of industrial workers
and farmers
1t frequently is asserted that the main
reason for the coming of the great depression
in 1929 was the orgy of speculation in the two
preceding years. This is true only in part, and
indirectly.
The fundamental reasons for the depression
we're: Cd The steady and extreme deflation
of American agriculture in the interest of the
credit economy of the speculative international
bankers and CD the failure to turn sufficient
fraction of the national income back into
wages to insure sufficient and permanent pur-
chasing power on the part of the industrial
workers.
If the farmers and the workers had received
a fair break in distribution of the national
income in the ten years before 1929, such
enormous sums would not have been available
for SPECTATORS but American farmers, workers,
and productive business would have been
in a healthy state of moderate prosperity and
prepared to go on therein for an indefinite
period.
If we ever hope to get on our feet again
and to stay there, it should be apparent to
any one willing TO face the truth that such a
result can be achieved only by raising wages
to an adequate level and keeping them there.
Therefore, anything in the present situation
yroip riIyo Of TOM of pXict
American wage levels must be exposed relent-
lessly and the dangers therein made clear.
There can be no doubt that at present the
stress of special circumstances is bringing
about depression of wages to degree scarce
ly matched in the days of the old sweatshop.
Half-starving people, not able to get adequate
relief are willing to work for anything which
will keep body and soul together
This situation may be exploited to the bene-
fit of society by public spirited employers or
it may be taken advantage of by economic
wolves who will seize any opportunity to de-
feat the achievements of a generation of
struggle by social reformers and labor leaders,
An employer who would not be able to run
his factory at all if he had to pay normal
wages, but sees the opportunity to open tenn
porarily and give employment at low wage
level to a considerable number who otherwise
would be near starvation in ideness, may be
regarded as public benefactor, provided he
frankly recognizes that this is only temper
airy eXpedient related more to the relief of
suffering than to the permanent conduct of
industry
On the other hand, an employer who at
tempts to make a profit out OF his ability to
depreSs wages to a starvation level on account
of the helplessness of the laboring public and
aSpires to take advantage of This situation to
break down all standards of decency in the
laboring world is not ethically fit for the firing
squad
1t Will require an alert journalism and
public conscience to see to it that there is a
careful discrimination between the public
benefactors and the wolves
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-05
SHOULD WOMEN BE HANGED {?

A RIzONA'S state board of pardons and pa
roles has refused to recommend Glenn
ency for Winnie Ruth Judd, convicted MUIR
deress, and unless new court action proves
more effective than anything her lawyers have
tried heretofore the young woman must be
hanged on April 81.
And this brings up again the old question:
Is it proper public policy to send women to
the gallowS?
Under our modern ideas of sex equality,
there is little that logically can be said against
it. Equal rights bring equal responsibilities;
If women are to enjoy the same status as men
they must face the same penalties for their
transgressions
The time when the mere fact of woman S
sex could win mitigation of her punishment
seems TO be past
Yet the spectacle of woman going to the
gallows is not pretty one. Is it simply a
holdover of out-moded sentinentalism that
makes some of us feel that it is wrongP
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-05
LITTLE, BUT OH N.Y.

TITIES overwhelmed by soaring taxes debts
~ and utility rates, may learn things from
the story of Washington, little city of 1000
souls in Indiana.
1t seems that thirty years ago Washington
bought up for s83. 29l a private electric light
plant. That was six times what it was worth,
but at that it must have been bargain.
For, according to an account by Washing
tons Mayor Mccarthy in Public Ownership"
the little plant, now worth 81 100000, has been
hopping up the city's financial worries.
1t has, we learn, not only repaid the orig
inal cost OF the plant but retired a debt of
$4,000 and paid, from surplus earnings, for
$4,000 worth of extensions and improve
ments. 1t has reduced rates from 10 cents per
k. W. h. maximum to cents. 1t has lifted
$1,000 debt from the city hail.
It's earnings have helped reduce city taxes
from Slip in 1880, to 49, cents this year, by
pouring $125,oOO into the general fund in
three years. These earnings have built
$4,000 office building to house the electric
plants Offices and those of newly acquired
city waterworks
From these earnings the city has set aside
$7,182 for street and alley improvements. From
them also has been taken S13,500 for unem-
ployment relief. Finally, from these earnings
the citys jobless also have been helped by
investments of $275OO by the plant in two
privately-owned factories which thereby were
enabled to continue operations
All of which, it must be admitted, is some
thing for the Hoosier city to crow about.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-05
TWO JUDGES

FORBIDDEN by constitutional limitations
L to reduce federal judges salaries by law,
congress last year broadly limited that these
jurists might do bit of economy legislation
on their own and take voluntary cuts in pay
Only two judges took the hint. The rest
of the forty circuit judge continue to draw
their s12,5O0 and the Isl district judges their
$1,000 stipend. Possibly the federal judiciary
agrees with labor that salary slashes are de-
dationary and unsocial. Possibly they have
other thoughts.
The rest of the country will wonder why
underpaid government clerks must take Sc
we're cuts in the name of economy while life
tenure federal judges need suffer no effects
from the governmental economy drive.
1t is too bad the treasury withholds the
names of the two judges who reduced their
own salaries. monument should be erected
to the unknowns.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-05
RUSH REPEAL

A NTICIPATED ratification of the prohibi-
l. ton repeal amendment this month by
Michigan and Wisconsin conventions. follow
ing the election of delegates in those states
Monday and Tuesday, has encouraged the
wet forces.
But they should not mistake victory in two
easy SalientS for eventual success There is
much yet to be done before the fight is Won
In fact there is a disturbing slowing down
in the preparations for repeal. Only twenty
four states have set up machinery for the
election of delegates to conventions. In nine
additional states only one house of the legis-
lature has acted The remaining fifteen states
have done nothing.
Time is an important element here For
one reason, the state legislatures are adjourn
ing; some already have done so. In such
states action may be postponed for year or
two years Obviously, it is desirable to act
now, while the public is ready.
This does not mean that those who press
for speed will be forcing action without
thought The general voting public already
has made up its mind.
After years of thought and observation of
the prohibition experiment the voters ex-
pressed themselves in November. That was
a popular referendum in favor of repeal
If democratic government is to operate
sefhciently, that popular mandate of last No
venber should be translated into legal repeal,
through ratification by the necessary three
fourths of the states without long months and
years Intervening
The usual custom of long -drawn-out rati-
. fication of constitutional amendments offers
no precedent in this case. because of the un-
usual November mandate.
An added reason for prompt calling of
state conventions is that the entire liquor
control situation is becoming increasingly
chaotic. pending ratification. Legally, the old
system still exists; actually the temper of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-05

A LII these agitations correspond
IA exactly to the whims OF the
adolescent child who will fly off at
the most amazing tangents before
he settles down TO any permanent
level of common sense.
And certainly all evidence proves
that psychology still is in an adde's
cent state, experimenting with chill
dren and with life SO, after all
these schools have had their day, we
mothers will come right back to the
plain old methods directed by COM
mon sense, which a good many Of us
have never abandoned.
You may have some general rules,
but so long as every baby is an in
dividual right from the start, you
can't bring him up like you bring
up any other baby.
Each husband, you know, takes
particular kind Of management.
And so does each infant.
1t always is better to study the
favorite baby more than you study
the favorite psychologist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-05
WEDNESDAY. APRIL S. 1888.
L. S. S. AKRON

THE loss Of the U. S. S. Akron and its gal
u liant crew is national tragedy
Under the, impulse of horror and grief. the
public is doubtful of the wisdom of expert
ment with more dirigibles But judgment
should be suspended until all the facts are in.
After a thorough Investigation of the Akron
disaster, the navy and congress will have the
tack of deciding whether further experiment
in this type OF aircraft is justified in terms
Of national defense
The fact that there always has been dis
agreement both in commercial and naval
c..ci-s as 10 the value Of the dirigible type
is not especially important because all new
inventions have to win their way against
thosa who say 1t can't be done"
Il is important, however that many years
OF experiment by several nations has been to
date almost uniformly disastrous. Germany,
with her globe -encircling Graf-zeppelin and
the German built Los Angeles which is now
out of commission, are the exceptions.
Death often is incident to pioneering in
science, as IN other exploration. Courage is
required for such progress. But sometimes
even greater courage is required to turn back
from false trail and start again in a differ
ent direction.
Great Britain had that courage after her
last dirigibe disaster, when she dismantled
her remaining ship. Following the failures
of Great Britain and of their own, France and
Italy have gwen up the experiment, and Japan
never has tried
The Akron tragedy will force our govern
mont to give new thought to it's rigid airship
policy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-05
Shopping for Old AGE

before plunging into the sub
- ject up to my grazing temples I
wish to call attention to the fact
that this native folk drama has a
working title at union rates. that
this is definite indication of better
times, that the uptrend is no longer
seven-letter word meaning "Sez
you'll" 'Nertz" and Tell it to Lord
WitherSpoon Sweeney"
Well, if am going to have an old
man on my hands it is nice to know
about it, and I can do no less than
start now to make things agreeable
Tor him around the manse "a deriv-
ative from the Latin "maneo"
meanign "shanty'). Wait a min
ute! Yep, that's right. I've been
copying it out of a book.
1t would be rather exciting if YOU
could shop around for the kind of
old man you wanted yourself to be
II, as fantasy, you could walk into
Time, Future & Co., dealers in Spent
careers, look over the stocks, point
to particular model and say. Give
me that guy at the age of TO-"
l am not sure what kind of old
man 1 would like to be. Mr.. Cor
nelius McGillicuddy of the Athletics.
Is one of the incest old men know
but shouldn't like to spend nv final
innings sitting in a chicken COOP
waving cardboard and yelling
'yoo-hoo" at outfelders. What
would people think?
l wouldn't like to be old Mr..
Rockefeller, either, because people
are always asking him embarrassing
questions about Roxy and Radio CITY
and the future Of the show business.
You get tired of that stuff after
while, even if you are a born
trouper.
Mr.. Shaw is altogether too fast
and frivolous for me. At his age he
Just has started stepping out with
the Hollywood set. De Wolf Hopper
Is more comforting hope. At Is he
CALAMITY observed. It's been a good
lie, and there is plenty of it left"
There hasn't been a male Fannie
Ward yet. Maybe I can make that.
Copyright 1893 r r-i-7eet
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-05
M.E.TracySays:

OVERNOR HERBERT LEHNdAN'S fight for
~ legislation in New York state that will re-
move the control of beer from politics is based
on a sound conception of public policy. Those
who accept the change of sentiment that has
taken place as justifying a revival of the boss
ism, corruption, and lobbying which did far more
than liquor to bring on prohibition, are mistaken
The people of this country have had all the
politics they want in connection with liquor 1t
was disgust with the alliance between tinhorn
politicians and liquor interests that drove them
to adopt the eighteenth amendment The same
kind of alliance beween tinhorn politicians and
bootleggers caused the present reaction.
Unless this kind of a relationship can be
destroyed the country will just go on oscillating
between prohibition and wide-open traffic.
If beer is allowed to become a political or So
cial nuisance all thought of repeating the eight
zenith amendment might as we'll be dismissed.
What the vast majority of people want is some
thing better, not something worse.
THERE is no reason why the liquor trade
l. should dance to the tune of partisan politics.
or why minor officials should be given opportu-
nifty to make it the basis for patronage on the
one hand and punishment on the other
Everything however, depends on the legal
setup. The state legislatures have chance to
legalize this traffic restore it as a political
football. If they choose the latter course, they
only will reopen the cesspools of graft and cor
ness, and the inevitable growth of an adverse
sentiments
Ward-heelers who regard modification of the
Volstead act as grand thing because it enables
them to provide a new feed trough for 1.-The
boys" should be ignored. They do not represent
the desire of average people
in fact. they do not represent much Of any
thing except narrow minded, ignorant greed
WHEREVER the beer trade is sanctioned it
w should be under a control which is abso-
lutey free from partisan influence and with
which machine politicians can not interfere
Beyond that, it should be permitted to operate
like any other trade as far as possible
Such questions as whether beer can be sold
over bar should be put aside. If beer is to
possible number of ways and in the greatest pos
sible number of places.
Restrictions only make an excuse for peace
collect price for not interfering That is exactly
what many politicians would like to see but it is
not what most people want or will tolerate
The assumption that we have finished the
battle against Volsteadism is erroneous 1t barely
has begun, and great deal depends on how it
is carried on in the initial stages
The rush to grab control of patronage and
gain other advantages from a purely political
standpoint is about the worst thing that could
happen at this time
1t not only confirms the prophecy of drys but
shocks other people. The thought that we may
De jumping out of the frying pan to fall in the
fire already is having dampening effect.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-05
RECOVERY MUST BE WORLDWIDE

TYNE things which are attracting the most
A attention at Washington these days are
the spectacular developments in domestic
>policy-the banking measures, the farm relief
proposals, the work relief projects, and SO on.
But in the long run the most important
steps NAV be those to which we aren't paying
a great deal of attention right now-the prep
arations for long, patient, and involved ne
gotiations with other nations which have as
their goal the restoration of international con-
f1dcnce world trade and general prosperity
1t is we'll known that the administration is
making elaborate plans for this work But the
subjects to be covered are so complicated, so
far removed from the obvious bread-and-b butter
requirements of the moment 50 difficult, in
fact for the ordinary citizen to comprehend,
that most of us have paid very little attention
to them
Yet whether prosperity is to return to us
may depend easily in the last analysis, on our
governments foreign policy rather than on
its domestic policy
Whether the depression came chiefly be-
cause of things that happened in America, or
whether it was caused by developments over
seas, one thing is pretty certain: We can't get
full prosperity back again unless all nations
have a share in it,
The world has grown small in the last
generation that there no longer is any such
thing as complete economic independence. We
live too close to our neighborS; sickness is one
house is very apt to mean sickness in every
other house-especially so since our ideas of
economic sanitation are of the sketchiest and
no such thing as an adequate quarantine is
possible.
And in the long run, whether we like it or
not, we must admit that prosperity has to be
pretty much worldwide affair
The measures proposed at Washington for
setting our own house in order are vitality i'm
portant, of course; but unless international
trade, international credit and international
confidence can be restored we aren't likely to
come to the end of our troubles
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-05

THE American mother, according
Il to authorities, is indeed a fear
some figure. All the crimes Of man
kind are laid on her doorstep. Some
times I marvel that she remains so
calm under the constant barrage
from psychologists, the doctors, the
child experts, and the professors.
For We are, they tell us, the ogres
that destroy and the saints that save
humanity. If We love our babies
too much, they are doomed. If
We love them too little, the same
fate awaits them.
If we look well after their physi-
cal wants, their souls probably suf-
fer. If, on the contrary, we con-
centrate on their souls, we'll neglect
their vitamins They'll be ruined
if we spank them, they'll be ruined
if we don't.
Discipline your children" cries
one professor. Give the child his
freedom" yells another.
Like poor Alice, We are asked to
do six impossible things every day
before breakfast.
Happily INST mothers who actu-