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BOUNTIFUL BUT DUMB
Many comparisons have been made between Eng
lish and American methods of handling public pro
blems, and between the progress of recovery here and
in Great Britain. Such contrasts mean nearly nothing,
and it is a waste of time to make them. Conditions
are entirely different in the two countries, and so are
the people who live in them.
One small difference makes all the difference in
the world. The English statesman or politician doesn’t
have to worry about the farmer’s vote. There are
farmers in England, but not enough to create a public
nuisance. There is a farm problem in England, but
the government isn’t expected to get down on its knees
to it.
In the United States the farmer is a chronic head
ache to Congress and the Administration That mak
es him a pain in the neck to millions of his fellow citi
zens. It also makes him an expensive luxury for the
taxpayers, who put up the money to support the farm
er in the style to which he is more or less accustomed.
The biggest department of bureaucratic management
in the United States is devoted to coddling and fondling
the American farmer The good-hearted government
owes nearly everything to the farmer except blow his
nose and sing him to sleep at night.
The farmer’s health, the farmer’s family, the farm
er’s mortgage are all matters of worry in Washington.
The Federal government helps the farmer milk the
cow, plant potatoes, dig a well, fix a fireplace- or raise
rabbits for the better-class fur trade If he muddles
his financing, as he frequently does, a bureau is invent
ed to save him from bankruptcy. If he can’t pay his
debts, as he often doesn't Washington finds some suck
er who will.
The National Government will buy the farmer’s
surplus wheat and cotton, or lend him more money on
it than it is worth It tries to guarantee a profit price
for his product, it restricts production, so that the
farmer won't be worried by uncomfortable competi
tion And it tells him what he musn’t grow, and pays
him for not- growing it.
So, the average farmer, very naturally, believes
that there is a Santa Claus and that his other name
is Uncle Sam.
All tins makes fairly easy pickings for the farm
er, though the average hayseed wouldn’t admit it. Gov
ernment benevoience whets the appetite for more.
There may come a time when the solution of the so
called farm problem will be to pay every farmer $5,000
a year, or more, for sitting on the porch, and talking
politics to the hired man. Special arrangements would
have to be made, of course, to give the farmer time off
on Election Day, so that he could go to the polls and
vote a straight Administrative ticket. And when he
got there he would probably vote for somebody else.
He usually, does, which accounts for most of the sensa
tional upsets in American politics.
It is fair to say that the farm population is a favor
ed class in the American economic and political system.
Perhaps it should be. Though this a great industrial
nation, about half its population lives on the farm. And
the agriculturists can easily outvote any group of their
industrial neighbors, if the farmers get together on a
grievance.
That is why the farmer is the fairhaired boy in
Washington. Everybody loves him at election time.
No political platform is complete without a promise for
the farmer.—The Houghton Line.
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TELLER NEWS
(Special Correspondence)
Teller, Alaska, May 27, 1936
The ice left the beach in Grant
ley Harbor yesterday afternoon
and has moved out of sight to
day. The channel has cut out
as far as the Mission and the
open water toward Pt, Spencer
can be seen from town so that
Port Clarence should be free of
ice within a week. This is the
earliest break-up for some years.
The cars have been running
between town and Deese Creek
for the past two weeks. The
road is in very good condition
for this time of the year, there
being no snow on the road at all.
B. W. Vallat, who has been
quite ill for the past week is ujj
and about again.
Mining activities have already
started and things are expected
to hum in this vicinity from now
until freeze-up. The drilling on
Gold Run is progressing nicely.
A dam was built and the dredge
floated. They expect to ' begin
dredging in two or three weeks.
N. B. Tweet and Sons are busy
with their dredge on Deese cheek.
The dredge wintered without
any damage and is already clear
of ice. They are going to install
a new diesel engine, which is to
arrive on the first boat.
Albert Bernhard, who had been
building a tug for the Lomen
Commercial Company, reports
that it is about completed and
that he will be moving to “Nook”
in a few days.
Edith Thompson and Mattie
Levan walked to Gold Run last
Friday to visit with May Thomp
son, who is cooking at the Drill
Camp.
Mr. Folger of the Lomen Com
mercial Company has been tak- j
ing inventory at the dredge on
Swanson Creek, recently acquir
ed by the company.
E. Baker of Taylor made a
business trip to town with pilot
Hermann of the NAT airways,
last Monday.
Word has just been received
from Juneau that the radio-tele
phone for Teller will arrive on
the Steamer Victoria. The tech
nician is to arrive on the same
boat to install the set after which
we expect to have communica
tion with Nome the “outside”
again.
Clarke Bassett
Of PAA Goes To
Juneau Service
Clark Bassett, well-known and
popular traffic representative of
the Pacific Alaska Airways, left
Fairbanks May 22nd on the Lock
heed Electra plane for Juneau,
where he will be in charge of the
traffic office of the Airways.
Mr. Bassett thus terminates 3
years of residence here, during
which time he was airport mana
ger of the Airways until recent
ly. when he was given charge of
the traffic office here. He came
to Fairbanks from Anchorage &
previously was in Nome. Mrs.
Bassett recently left for the sta
tes and later will join Mr. Bas
sett at Juneau.
Mr, and Mrs. Bassett's depar
ture is deeply regretted by the
many friends they have made
during their residence here.—
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
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STARTS JUNE 5th.
Opening the twice-weekly pas
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to Fairbanks for the summer, a
train will leave Seward Friday
morning. June 5.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Saturday Games
New York 6-0; Brooklyn 9-3.
Pittsburgh 7-11, Chicago 5-7
Cincinnati 10-4, St. Louis 1-7
Philadephia 5-9, Boston 4-6.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Saturday Games
Washington 1-1, New York 7-6
Chicago 3-3, Cleveland 4-11
Boston 4-6, Philadelphia 6-2.
St. Louis 5-5, Detroit 3-0.
COAST LEAGUE
Saturday Games
San Francisco 3-12. S. Diego 5-7
Sacramento 11-3, Portland 10-7
Los Angeles 5-5 Mission 10-6
Oakland 6.7, Seattle 7-5.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Sunday Games
Boston 4. New York 5.
Chicago 5, Cleveland 7
Washington 6, Philadelphia 4
St. Louis 11, Detroit 10
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Sunday Games
Cincinnati 7. St. Louis 3. Game
lasted twelve innings.
Philadelphia 5. Boston 6. Game
lasted 11 innings.
New York 3, Brooklyn 4.
Pittsburgh 7. Chicago 8. Game
lasted ten innings.
COAST LEAGUE
Sunday Games
Oakland 5-4; Seattle 8-16
Sacramento 5-0; Portland 0-2.
San Francisco 5-5; S. Diego 3-2
Los Angeles 8-7, Missions 4-5.
Mass. Student
Kills Classmate
Himself
fBv The Associated Press!
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., May
Mental derangement, due to over
study preceding the final examin
ation period at Williams College
in Williamstown, is declared to
have caused Lewis Jack Somers,
Jr., 19 years old, a freshman stu
dent from Meridian, Cann., to
shoot and kill one of his class
mates. wound another and then
commit suicide.
Robert Henneberry. 18, of Chi
cago, who was a classmate of So
mers, was the student slain by
him.
, William Hartz, 18, also of Chi
cago, is the wounded student.
Hartz could give no reason for
the shooting, which took place
late yesterday in the dormitory
of the college.
President Tyler Dennett of the
institution said overstudy evi
dently caused young Somers to
become mentally deranged.
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