The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-25
Bismarck Is ReQdu
To Welcome Scouts
THORESEN ATTACKS
LANCER ECONOMY
IN ADDRESS HERE
Large Audience Hears Candi-
date for Governor Endors.
cd at Jamestown

cd at jamestown
Salaries Of so to 500 . month for
school teachers ito whom We entrust
the care of our children during the
first IS years Of their lives" while
pool hall inspectors receive $50 q
month was q policy Of the state ad-
ministration attacked by T. H. H.
Thoresen, Republican candidate for
governor endorsed by the anti-Langer
faction Of the Nonpartisan League at
mass meeting held before q large
audience at the Bismarck auditorium
Thursday evening.
The meeting was sponsored by the
Burleigh county Thoresen for :
Governor club. Appearing on the
speakers platform with him were
his wife, John Nystul, chair
man Of the state executive committee;
John HUSKY, commissioner Of agrt-
culture and labor: Ole Olson, lieuten-
ant governor; Alfred 8. Dale, state
treasurer; s. A. Olsness, insurance
commissioner: and william johnson,
chairman Of the Burleigh county ex-
ecutive committee. They were intro
duced and spoke briefly to the au-
dience.
Preceding the meeting. 16 cars,
bearing the banners Of the candidates
for state offices and Congress en-
dorsed by the jamestown convention,
paraded through the city streets.
Ridicules Salary System
Anyone who has observed the an
tics OF the present chief executive Of
North Dakota must wonder II he un-
derstands what economy In govern
ment really MEANS" Thoresen said.
He analysed government as a COM
pulsory cooperative enterprise entered
into by the citizens for the purpose
Of promoting general welfare. True
economy, he said, must mean well
planned and regulated government to
the end that the greatest amount Of
service may be rendered at the least
possible cost.
In North Dakota at present, he
said, presidents Of the university and
agricultural college are paid 5000 q
year: beer commissioners get $500.
Deans and full-time professors Of our
higher educational institutions get
salaries not to exceed 81 800. and they
have spent a large portion of their
lives to become qualified for their
work, whereas inspectors in the regu-
latory department who, in most In
stances have no qualifications except
political loyalty and whose work con-
sists in inspecting beds In the hotels,
are paid $4,000 q year"
Does this appear to be well planned
and regulated operation OF govern
ment?" he asked. rs that economy"
Taxpayers Receipts Show
He said the administration claim
Of saving the taxpayers 100000 was
false and that, according to the fig
ures quoted by his own newspaper"
the reduction was about 81 .0OO.O 900.
Look at your tax receipts for proof
as to whether you have received any
tax reduction" he challenged. Il be-
iieve you will find you did not"
He advocated an old age pension
law which would not be ''mockery" Of
the elderly men and women lacking
the bare essentials Of life. He at
tackled the governors use Of his ap-
pointive power as an instrument
which he had used to build . per-
sonal political machine. He said the
chief executives veto on the indus
trial commission appeared to him to
be & contradiction Of the evident in
tent Of the statute creating the COM
mission.
Pointing out that $3.50 has been
taken from the funds Of the state
elevator Ito support . personally
owned and politically conducted news
paper" he continued on the subject
Of the state mill to criticise the serv-
Ice rendered to the farmers Of North
Dakota.
Mil CHARGES Too Much
"There has been much said about
the service the farmers receive ct
the state mill in the exchange of
wheat for flour" he said. and con-
tinued to show with figures that dur
ing 1888 there were about $1,000 bar
rels Of flour exchanged for wheat,
most on the basis Of seven bushels Of
wheat for . barrel Of Dakota Maid
flour. It takes ~ bushels Of wheat
TO make 4 barrel Of flour. That left
~ bushels to the mill. The average
local price Of wheat at Grand Forks
Is Is cents which meant 4l18 profit
on wheat. TO this We must add u
pounds Of mill feed from the wheat,
worth on an average Of s. cents,
which brings the total to @2.l3, q
32.23 after 70 cents had been deducted
for the cost OF sacks" He charged
that the farmers were paying this
profit TO the min while New York
firms buy the same flour 1t = loss 70
the mill Of o cents.
Expressing himself In favor Of Q
moratorium On foreclosures In . time
q emergency, he charged that the
governor had vetoed = wise and good
law" passsd By the legialatairo O. The