The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-01-11
TEXT OF MESSAGE
REVEALSPROGRAM
HE Will SPONSOR
Urges Changes in System Of
Taxation; Promises Contin-
uation of Moratorium
RELIEF NEEDS EMPHASIZED
Asks for Cooperation Of All in
TackIing Adverse Condi-
tons in State

TackIing Adverse Condi-
tions in State
The text Of Governor Thomas H.
Noodles address to the legislature
follows:
TO the members of the twenty
fourth legislative assembly:
have the honor to submit to you,
in accordance with constitutional pro-
visions. a message as the incoming
governor OF the State of North Da-
kota.
May I assure you at the outset of
an honest and sincere desire to CO.
operate with the members Of this leg
when it must face and intelligent.y
dispose of many grave problems
touching the welfare OF North Da-
kota.
May we togeth-r approach these
problems, not in the spirit Of political
opponents, but as servants Of the
state elected by the people and
charged with great responsibility.
In that spirit may We recognize
and manfully face the fact that
100000 of our people, or more. In APP
proximately $4,000 families. at this
time are upon federal relief rolls.
May we recognize that these are times
of social and economic crises, not only
in North Dakota. but throughout the
nation, which demand the most un-
selfish service, the most kindly con-
sideration of the plight of the I'M
fortunate, the keenest and closest
analysis. and vision and planning
which will fit the needs of the times
and the condition in which approx
mately one-third OF the people OF
North Dakota find themselves.
Need Cooperation of All
May we hope that as we honestly
and resourcefully face this great
human problem we shall have the
support and cooperation of all the
people and that splendid spirit they
have ever demonstrated. May We be
guided by the principle that the well
fare Of the people must be the first
concern of the state. Upon the
honor and integrity Of the individual,
and upon his individual resourceful-
ness, much depends at this time in
North Dakota.
The relief situation in North Da-
kota is largely the result OF forces
which the people cannot control, such
as continued drouth, crop failure,
low prices for agricultural products
together with unemployment, which
finds upon our registered unemployed
lists more than 10000 people in the
states towns and cities.
The results of these conditions are
pitiful in the extreme. They are q
challenge to cooperation which
should submerge all merely partisan
considerations and invoke not only
sympathy but constructive action
since the social and moral conse-
quences of these conditions are clearly
evident all about us.
May the same splendid spirit which
has sustained the people through
continuing ye.rs OF crisis inspire the
officers Of the state to the highest
sense Of duty, to a realization that
political situations should never rank
above human considerations. and
that as North Dakotans We must
resolutely 60 forward to better days
and to the honest and constructive
solution of the many vexed matters
with which we are now confronted.
am confident we shall have this
corporation. and for my part ]
cheerfully pledge 1t to the members
Of this legislature and to the people
Of the state.
Farm Prosperity First
North Dakota is an agricultural
state with a fixed destiny. Basic to
the prosperity of every interest in this
state Is the interest and the welfare OF
the North Dakota farmer. May this
fact always be borne in mind in the
shaping and passage Of economic leg
islation by our legislature. I stand
firmly for the cooperation Of the
state in assisting farm co-operatives
in disseminating education which will
make available to our people the tre-
mendous recent results Of scientific
research. So far as it is within the
province Of the state to do so, It
should continue to take an active in
terest in the farmers marketing prob
lem, and to support every well-con-
sidered measure which will safeguard
his interests In the field OF market
ing.
There has recently been created
under federal supervision, and is now
functioning, state planning board
It Is directing study to intelligent and
co-ordinated plans for the fullest de.
velopment Of all the states resources
It Is my understanding that 1t will
give special attention to q land use
program which I am convinced is the
place Of beginning for the solution Of
many Of our agricultural problems
May I hope for the fullest co-opera-
ton from the legislature for this body
and for its work.
In addition to the land use pro.
gram 1t win give special attention,
am informed, to the subject Of watel
conservation which has become o,
outstanding interest in North Da'
kota. The planning board will alst
take up may other matters within tt
iegitimate field.
The theory under which It Is or
ganized and work which it Is under
taking follow like actior In othel
states which has already had splen'
didly constructive results.
Change Tax System
From my limited opportunity to BE-
como familiar with tho financial sit
aatton Of the state am convinced
that the most important matter which
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