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Land Commissioner Leo Swanson has aroused, the ire of some of bis colleagues, especially Secretary of State Harry Swanson, by demand ing th'.t they pay the bill for water used m improvised c \ ling systems. The ».♦.—%tary of f.nie says he is willing to do so b'i‘ he wants a meter installed so he’ll know what • l,o bill really is. The news travel ed fac rad wide whe; the lniK^com missioe *> shut off the secretary of state’s water, and tl * New York Times went so far as to wire for pictures of the principals ir, tv.c be* weather friens Lieutenant Governor Walter II. Jurgensen is keeping his mind off the heat by figuring ways and means of assuring a “better and more equitable distribution of wealth in the United States.” Mr. Jurgensen declares we are threatened by the tyranny of or ganized greed—the centralization and encroachment of wealth. “There is nothing as cruel and heartless as organized greed,” he says. “Trace back history as far as you can and always you will find nations that passed into ob livion when wealth passed into the hands of the few.” Richard O. Johnson, republican nominee for attorney general, is bearing the brunt of the republi can speechmaking so far in the campaign. The republican com mittee found out two years ago that Mr. Johnson has the knack of making friends of the audience and garnering votes without saying harsh things about his opponents. Robert G. Simmons, republican nominee for United States senator, in a recent radio speech suggested three ways to meet the federal treasury deficit. He would de mand rigid economy of expendi tures by the federal government; in crease /taxes onjtholse best able Ho pay them;und bring the govern ment back to a sensible spending program as individuals and private gram as individuals and private business have to follow when they are having financial difficulties.” Past experience has shown that once you get on the Nebrasku supreme court, you have a job for life, but indications are that the custom may be upset this year. Frank Peterson, experienced Lincoln attorney and jurist, is out to give Judge Rose some real oppo sition in the First district. Inci dently Judge Rose has never prac ticed law in private business life and has been on the supreme bench since shortly after the turn of the century. In the Fifth district, Mayor Frank A. Anderson of Holdrege. is a petition candidate opposing Judge Bayard H. Paine of Grand Island who seeks re-election. The latter was unopposed in the primary, and the entrance of Anderson into the race is seen as a punitive gesteure against Paine for the recent su preme court decision damaging the Tri-county cause. Paine did not take part in the decision, however, as he has land in the aera affected by the court’s ruling. While government expenses were considerably higher during the fis cal year just completed than for the same period a year ago, few variations are found in county as sessments, and collections have made a big gain. Last year’s expenses of state government totaled $22,274,287, compared, with $19,950,173 for the 1934-35 fiscal year. The increase was due primarily to state assist ance which required $2,131,889, while nothing was spent for that purpose in the previous year. Miscellaneous collections in sev eral state departments declined last fiscal year, but the net total de rived from these sources showed an increase of approximately $285,000. The net total was $1,302,084, and the increase was due mainly to liquor control funds which amount ed to }1,138,007 in receipts. From the 1935-30 liquor fund is deducted an estimated $700,000 for state assistance activities for the year now' starting. The remainder of the miscellaneous collections fund will be deducted from the ! amount to be raised by taxation when the state board of equaliza tion determines this year’s state levy. The automotive business in Ne braska is looking up with 11,649 more motor vehicles of all kinds registered for the first six months of 1936 than for the same period of 1935. License fees totaled $1, 648,933, or approximately $117,000 more than last year. There were 295,290 passenger cars registered for the six months’ period, as against 218,369 in 1835 Commercial truck registrations jumped from 18,474 to 20,809; local trucqs dropped from 7,600 to 6,964; and farm trucks went up from 18,886 to 19,309. New car registrations last month were 3,732, compared with 3,540 a year ago. Commercial car regis trations jumped from 508 to 536. Chevrolet holds the lead by a con siderable majority over Ford in both new passenger car and truck registrationss. Gasoline tax collections also have been on the upgrade this year. Collections for June totaled $1, 076,684, or an increase of $161,574 over June, 1935. This was the sec ond time in history gas tax Col lecetions in this state have gone over the million dollar mark. Fourteen Nebraska counties in the Republican river watershed will be subjects of n federal survey starting about September 1. From these aerial maps, federal author ities expect to be able to decide whether conservation of a region would be best served by reforest ation, irrigation alterations, etc. Over the County INMAN NEWS Threshing is on full blast here. Grain is averaging as follows: Kye 15 and OHts from 30 to 35 bushels to the acre in most places. Mrs. A. G. Clark left Saturday night for New York city where she was called on account of the death of her mother. Mrs. Clark fxpects to be gone several weeks. E. R. Rogers and family, who have spent the summer here with relatives, returned to their home at Harrison, Nebr., Friday. Mr. and Mrs. C. I*. Hancock and sorts, Robert and Marlin, of David City, were here from Tuesday until Friday visiting at the home of Mrs. Mary M. Hancock. Mr. and Mrs. William Spence spent Sunday with relatives at At kinson. M is. H. C. Mapes, of Tecumseh, spent several days of last week here at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Outhouse. Mrs. Jack Alexander and little daughter, who have been visiting at Sioux City, returned home Fri day night. Mr. and Mrs. M. 11. Claridge, of Stuart, spent Friday here as guests of Miss Gladys Hancock. Mrs. Horace Wills, who has been here for a month visiting her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Outhouse, left Tuesday for her home in Seattle, Washington. C. M. Fowler, who has been spending several months in Ohio, Illinois and Iowa, returned Thurs day night. Mr. and Mrs. John l’ilz, of Nor folk, were in Inman buying hay last Monday. Miss Sara Conger returned home Monday after visiting relatives and friends at Chambers and Amelia for two weeks. Mrs. John J. Hancock, of Casper, Wyoming, is here visiting at the home of Mrs. Mary Hancock. George Colman, Sr. is quite critically ill. On Tuesday ht was ! taken to the hospital at Norfolk where he will receive medical at tention. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Gal lagher, at the O’Neill hospital, a baby gill on Tuesday. July 28. Miss Gladys Hancock, Mrs. John J. Hancock and Wayne E. Hancock were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Cone near Page Tuesday evening. METHODIST CHURCH NOTES Sunday school 10 a. in. Morning worship 11 a. in. Ser mon subject, "Two Ways.” Evening service on the lawn at the church. Community singing. Sermon subject, “The Heavens De clare the Glory of God.” The Union service last Sunday evening in the open was well at tended. The band, under the di rection of L. M. Durham, played several numbers which everybody enjoyed. G.O.P. Platform:' Restore Liberty! -- | Strikes at Dictatorship of New Deal; Landon’s Position Clear. Cleveland, Ohio.—Almost a complete reassertion of the Constitution of the United States, in the face of three long years of attack upon it by the New Deal, was the platform adopted by the Republican Na tional convention here. To its re statement of the American prin ciples of a national liberty based upon personal liberty was added the vigor of a telegram from Gov. Alfred M. Landon of Kansas, mak ing clear his interpretation of cer tain important planks as the unan imously selected nominee of the party for the Presidency. The platform roundly condemned the New Deal for the President’s usurpation of the powers of con gress; flaunting the Supreme court; violation of citizens’liberties; countenancing dangerous monopoly; passing laws contrary to the Consti tution; violation of the Iilll of Jtights, and repudiating the sacred obligations and Iraditions of the na tion. It deplored federal waste and use of public funds to political ends; unfair investigations; Intim idation of Industry; coercion of vot ers; appeals to class prejudice and destruction of public morale. A summary of the platform fol lows : Constitutional Government and Free Enterprise Wo pledge ourselves: 1. To maintain the American sys tem of Constitutional and local self government, and to resist all at tempts to impair the authority of the Supreme court of the United States, the final protector of the rights of our citizens against the arbitrary encroachments of the leg islative and executive branches of government. 2. To preserve the American sys tem of free enterprise, private com petition, and equality of opportu nity. Re-Employment. The only permanent solution of the unemployment problem is the absorption of the unemployed by in dustry and agriculture. (To this end, the platform advocated aban donment of all New Deal restric tive, competitive and coercive pol icies—-especially those which re strict production.) Relief. To end confusion, partisanship, waste and incompetence, we pledge: 1. The return of responsibility for relief administration to non-politicnl local agencies familiar with com munity problems. 2. Federal grants-ln-aid to the states and territories while the need exists, upon compliance with these conditions: (a) a fair proportion of the total relief burden to he pro vided from the revenues of states and local governments; (b) all en gaged In relief administration to be selected on the bnsis of merit and fitness; (c) adequate provision to be made for the encouragement of those persons who are trying to be come self-supporting. 3. Undertaking of federal public works only on their merits and sep arate from the administration of re lief. 4. A prompt determination of the facts concerning relief and unem ployment. Car iiritvi -- We propose ti system of old age security, based upon the following principles: 3. Pay-as-you-go. 2. Every American citizen over sixty five should receive the sup plementary payment necessary to provide a minimum income sufficient to protect him or her from want. 3. Each state and territory, upon complying with simple and general minimum standards, should receive from the federal government a graduated contribution In propor tion to its own, up to a fixed max imum. 4. To make this program consis tent with sound fiscal policy the fed eral revenues for this purpose must be provided from the proceeds of a direct tax widely distributed. All will be benefited and all should con tribute. We propose to encourage adop tion by the states and territories of honest and practical measures for meeting the problems of unem ployment Insurance. Labor. We pledge ourselves to: Protect the right of labor to or ganize and to bargain collectively through representatives of its own choosing without Interference from any source. Prevent governmental job hold ers from exercising autocratic pow ers over labor. Support the adoption of state Jaws and interstate compacts to abolish sweatshops and child labor, and to protect women and children with respect to naxlmum hours, mini mum wages and working conditions. We believe that this can be done within the Constitution as it now stands. Agriculture. Following the wreck of the re strictive and coercive AAA, the New Economic Highlights Most dread word in the Middle Ages was "plague!” Today, in our richest farming acres, the word “Drouth” is equally potent in in spiring fears. There is no question but that the last two great drouths—those of 1934 and 1930— have been trem endously destructive. There is a question as to whether they were more destructive than previous droughts. In other words, have modern methods of news presen tation tended to exaggerate drouth conditions? No conclusive answer can be given to that query, but there is good grounds for believing that recent drought constitute a more serious problem titan did those of the past. Since 1889, every section of the nation has, at one time or another, experienced water de ficiency. In that year, the North western section of the country was worst hit. In 1894, the great Middle West was as arid as a desert. In 191U, drought came to the Middle west, the northwest, the southwest and ranged as far west as California, though the Pacific northwest was not touched. In 1930, the middle and northwest escaped drought for the most part, while the Pacific northwest, Cali fornia and part of the east looked futilely for rain. In 1934, one of the greatest droughts in history encompassed the northwest, middle west, and southwest, did a little damage east of Michigan, and struck California. This year, the Atlantic seaboard and the Pacific coast did not suffer the depriv ations of drought. But the middle west, northwest and southwest did. And so did the south. Results of the 1936 drought can be briefly detailed. North Dakota’s spring wheat crop—princpal source of cash income for farmers of that state—was mot e than 90 per cent destroyed. South Dakota found herself in a similar position. In Montana and' Wyoming grain char red in the fields. In the greatest corn producing states, Iowa and Ne braska, close to 50 per cent of the crop was ruined. Same thing was true of Illinois. And in the south, the cottotn and tobacco crops were cut tremendously from the spring estimates. In some states, notably the Da kotas, a plague almost as bad as that of drought followed—grass hoppers. These insects ate what little grain \yas left, then turned to fence posts, trees, anything they could find for sustenance. In the same areas, thousands of starving jack rabbits presented another problem. Temperatures in the worst hit areals were the highest since weather bureau records were started, half a century ago. The federal government took immediate action and gave work to afflicted farmers. But this, of course, is simply a temporary ex pedient, and will solve no perman ent problem. Big question in this connection is: What is the future of the drought area—of the states which have most often suffered from rainfall deficiency? And the answer to that, according to the experts, is far from optimistic. These experts say that a large part of the United States—includ ing the area where our principal dry wheat farming is carried on— j are basically unfit to main i tain life. To make them fit, meas | ures must be taken to preserve , that scarce necessity, moisture. | When these areas were first devel oped, the land was moist enough— from years in which it was not used for production—to survive a number of droughts. But now that reservoir of moisture is gone. Here is how News Week puts it: “For a few years the moisture stored in the soil by centuries, com bined with unusually heavy rain fall, preserved the farmers’ in vestments. But by 1934, the twin dust bowls of the Dakotas and their southern sisters—Oklohoma, Kan develop. During black spring and summer storms, winds whipped great clouds of rich top soil from the denuded earth and swirled it eastward as far as the Atlantic. Plain citizens and scientists alike began to shake uneasy heads. How many droughts like the 1934’s bon fire could the west endure . Solution, according to these same experts, is for middlewestern and northwestern farmers to use less land for dry wheat farming, to al low more land to grow to grass. This grass helps prevent evapor ation of precious moisture, and also fights against the blowing off of top soil by wind or the running off of top soil by heavy rains. In the meantime, other experts are busy guessing at how much of a loss in crop return the farmer has suffered. Some authorities place total loss at more than $50,000,000. In un afflicted sections, such as the Paci fic northwest, farmers will benefit through higher prices for grain. Moral Courage Is Key to Character Chicago, 111.—The call to moral courage in rebuilding the Ameri can dream is the one note to be found in all Gov. Alf M. Landon’s addresses and acts, Philip Kinsley writes in the Chicago Tribune. Mr. Kinsley takes as characteris tic of Governor Landon his utter ance before a convocation of min isters at Topeka in January, 1933: “In the recent past we worshiped false gods and neglected too much the true and living God, whose precepts have guided mankind through the centuries." Mr. Kinsley also quotes from an address by the governor in 1935: “For some time—several years in fact—I have been of the opinion that we will not have a real, solid, genuine recovery in this country until we have a moral recovery. And by moral recovery I mean character, integrity, upright hon esty and square dealing. There is an old-fashioned phrase that I re member my father and mother using, as a boy. It is somewhat out of date these days, but describes what I mean. It is: 'He is a man of principle.’ " i*ew ueai /uas foreigners to Steal Home Market From U. S. Farmers. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Im ports of foreign farm products, | aided by the Roosevelt crop re duction and free trade policies, displaced 33,436,336 acres of American farm lantj during the year 1935 alone, an analysis of the department of commerce re ports over that year reveal. This is approximately one and one-half times the amount of land in culti vation in Iowa, a leading agricul tural state. This estimate is based upon the ten-year average yield of the acre age necessary to the production of the same crop in the United States. It is also estimated that the United States rural population denied the opportunity for self-support by the 1935 importations is 1,7-11,000 per sons. This does not include the 1,000,000 southern share croppers and farm hands thrown out of work because of the administra tion's, cotton curtailment program. Pork Imports Leap Up. Imports all down the line grains, meats, hops, milk, butter, eggs, vegetable oils and their sub stitutes, lard substitutes, edible mo lasses and many others—have mul tiplied, in some cases fifty or 100 times, under fhe New Deal. In the first four months of 103G the United States consumed 10, 151,102 pounds of foreign pork, al most seven times tin; volume im ported in the first four months of last year, and more than twenty times the imports of two years ago. The rapid rise of pork imports was accompanied by a largd increase in live hog imports. In the four months the United States received 5,18G, o7G pounds of live hogs, as com pared with only 35,953 pounds in the corresponding period a year ago, and 2,SOO pounds two years ago. Canned Meat Imports Soar. Hog raisers fear tlmt these big Imports will eventually cause a col lapse of home markets similar to that which occurred in cattle, al though production in this country is yet far below the requirements of the nation. American producers have lost many millions of dollars of trade to foreign farmers as a result of the scarcity program1 adopted three years ago. In lbur months meat valued at $7,951,000 was brought in from other coun tries. April imports amounted to more than $2,000,000. Two years ago they were $350,000. Canned meat imports rose to 34, 807,453 pounds this year, compared with 25,613,001 a year ago and 9,718,137 two years ago. Col. Knox Is Energetic Foe of Administration Chicago, 111.—Col Frank Knox, j Chicago newspaper publisher nomi- | nated as Gov. Alf M. London's run ning mate on the Republican ticket in the November elections, is no ex ception to the unity of purpose which has characterized the Repub lican convention in Cleveland and the campaign itself. Determined to campaign vigorous ly as a candidate for the vice-pres idency, Col. Knox wired Gov. Lon don: "I gludly place myself un der your orders and will undertake to discharge every assignment you give me with all the vigor ,-tnd ability I possess. We go forward to victory.” □ Considering how fine this J railroad transportation is » nowadays, you can’t travel g Jr any cheaper. Fares lowest / I in history—substantial sav 'x) ings on round trip tickets. So why not take the train? It’s safer. It’s more dependable. • You can’t beat the im proved travel comfort in coaches and sleeping cars. It’s a good thing movies don’t have such restful seats — most folks would sure fall asleep. • Ever hear about the new Free pick-up-and-deli very of less than carload freight? It’s a great con venience to shippers and re ceivers alike. Western railroads pick up at the door, ship by fast freight, and deliver to door at no extra charge. • Railroad trains are running on faster schedules these days. Seems like the iron horse wants to show these new streamlined diesels that he can step out, too. Both passenger and freight schedules have been speeded up. • What’s more, the railroads believe in “safety first.” Last year not one passenger was killed in a train acci dent on western railroads. • Talk to your local railroad agent. He’s full of information about traveling and shipping. • We are proud of railroad achieve ments, appreciate the public’s good will and increased patron age, and pledge continued prog ress. WESTERN RAILROADS cad THE PULLMAN COMPANY U. S. Imports Exceed Exports for First Tirnd* Washington.—Since January, Amer ica has been buying more goods and products from abroad' than it has sold in foreign countries, ac cording to estimates of experts in the United States department of commerce. Imports, encouraged by the free trade treaties of the administra tion, have increased each year since 1933, until they no’.v exceed the nation's exports. 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