The Saturday press., March 31, 1934, Image 1

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ATTFMTIftkIfI If YOU live in Minneapolis and call it your
' HI ICHI IVfffl “HOME TOWN” why spend money with Wall
MTI7CIIC T Street owned CHAIN STORES? Every cent
ng spent In a Chain Store enriches Wall Street
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Jfte Saturday ipre&A
Vol. 11, No. 25
Gov. Olson’s Appointee, Mr. Rarig,
Dashes to Defense of Chain Stores
Executive Secretary of State Emergency Relief Administration, Frank M. Rarig,
Jr. Declares His Sympathy for Well Street-Owned Chain Stores—lnsists That
Chains Are Being “Notoriously Burdened” With Taxes. He ‘Personally Feels’
That It’S AH Right to Boost Chain Stores and Break Independent Merchants.
Boy! How these politicians
can hop when the steam’s turned
on!
There’s been enough publicity
given the chain store favoritism
racket in this state and especially
this city, to foment six revolu
tions in any Latin-American
country, but our state and city
politicians “never heard of it”
until little The Saturday
Press opened the valve and let
the steam heat the swivel chairs.
'Gosh, how they got to their feet
a&A:
Began contradicting each
other.
Before you read the last peri
od of this sermon, you are going
SOLVING THE “FARM PROBLEM”
WITH PROCESS TAX AND BONUS
The Republicans Tried li With a “Raise ’em Big and Often” Program and Look
What Happened to Hoover! Now the Democrats Say, “Slash Production and
Reduce Crop Acres and We’ll Give You a^Bonus —and a Processing Tax.” The
Landlord Gets the Bonus and the Tenant Gets the Hook. Looking at the Ten
ant Cotton Chopper’s Future Through Northern Binoculars
When the republicans, during
the Coolidge and Hoover ad
ministrations were “helping the
farmer” (sink further into debt)
they were ridiculed and derided
by their opponents who consist
ed of progressives, radicals, con
servatives, democrats, (there
was an occasional one to be
found that long ago) socialists,
whigs, tories and what have you.
The national pastime was throw
ing bricks at the republicans, and
it was grand sport. I tossed a
few myself! The targets were so
thick and pot-bfllied one couldn’t
miss!
But no republican administra
tion ever went at the business of
“helping the farmer” by taking
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to understand what a jovial
bunch of damliars you have in
office. If they understood “co
ordination” and would hold a
few official “get-together” meet
ings and rehearse their parts, it
would be difficult to trip them.
But they are afraid of each
other! TTiat’s where they’re de
ficient in grey matter —and po-
Last week I published a tele
gram I had received from
Farmer-Labor Congressman F.
H. Shoemaker. A lot of you
anti-F.-L. folks don’t like Shoe
maker and a lot of Farmer-La
bor party members don’t like and
more of ’em do like, Shoemaker.
the sod-buster by the neck and
emptying his pockets with a
processing tax! When the re
publicans “helped a farmer” they
sold him more land and increas
ed the mortgage. If he was rais
ing a hundred bushels of wheat
the republicans told him to make
it a hundred and fifty. If he
was raising fifty hogs and only
had ten brood sows, the republi
cans sent a corps of “farm ex
perts” out to get a drink and
mailed (via franking privelege)
a set of bulletins showing the
farmer how to increase his hog
herd without having the bacon
too fat:
If he happened to be a cotton
farmer and the boll wevil bugs
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., MARCH 81, 1984
But that’s neither here nor
there. The fact is, I asked F. H.
Shoemaker to wire me whether
or not there had been an order
issued by the federal relief ad
ministration in Washington, for
bidding so-called “discrimina
tion” between Independent mer
chants and Wall-Street-owned
chain stores in the filling of re
lief orders. I had a two-fold
purpose in making that request
of Shoemaker:
First, I knew I could depend
on Shoemaker’s word; second, 1
knew that the oily-garcy of the
F.-L. party would hardly call
Shoemaker a liar—and get away
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were chewing the long fiber crop
to shreds, the cotton farmer re
ceived instructions on how to
raise fewer wevils and more cot
ton. And so it went all down
the line. The republican party
might have kept its spoon in the
noodles but it told the farmer,
the producer, that he was short
on foresight and shy on crops.
He might not understand the
tariff question but he wasn’t
alone in that. He had republi-*
cans, democrats, socialists, mug
wumps and all the rest of ’em as
boon companions. No one un
derstands the tariff question.
But when the farmer decided
that he’d had too much repub
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WHO RE-SET THE FIRE?
State Fire Marshals and Civil Service Commissioner
Alone in Vacant Building for Half Hour » Fire
Breaks Out Where Fire Did Not Exist Before. Who
Set It? Was it a “Frame,” or Did Firebug Operate
in Same Building with Marshak, Without Being
Discovered by State Sleuths?
B r H. A. GUILFORD
Who touched off the “re-kin
dle” fire at the old Club Kongo
location, 718 6th avenue north,
on the night of March 20th?
That’s a question a lot of firemen
would like to have answered. At
about ten thirty on the evening
in question an alarm was turned
in, and the fire laddies wended
their hurried way to the vacant
shack which once housed a por
tion of the north side night life.
On an open porch, at the rear of
the second floor, a pile of debris
was smoldering.
Firemen extinguished the
smudge, inspected the building
for other signs of fire, and left.
Organized Labor
And the NR A
Both Overlooking a Bet. Chain
Stores Operating With
Hardly a Half Force; Ad
vertising Free Parking
Space to Attract Customers
And Ignoring Labor and
the NRA
Organized labor and the NRA,
the latter with more “codes”
than there are combinations of
the alphabet, and the former
with more avenues of publicity
and opportunities for education
than any other organization,
seem to have overlooked some
thing in the matter of chain
stores. As for example:
The Wiggling Pig outfit—oc
casionally referred to as the Pig
gly Wiggly chain stores em
ploys barely enough clerks to un-
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SINGLE COPIES FIVE CENTS
The arson squad of the Minne
apolis department arrived just as
the fire fighters left. Two inves
tigators of incendiary fires, Wil
son and Short, went over the
ground carefully. As they left,
the state deputies arrived, ac
companied by Amie Flikeid,
member of the civil service com
mission. These two deputies,
Lund and Harry George, togeth
er with Flikeid, were the sole
occupants of the building for a
half hour. Then George and
Lund found another fire—in a
mattress in the basement. Flik
eid did the “Suitcase Simpson”
act and stamped out the fire.
Now the ‘re-kindled’ fire is proj
ected on the screen at the great
civil service commission investi
gation into the incompetency of
the local fire department. And
the members of the department
would like to know who set the
fire. Flikeid is not under suspi
cion, but the open averments of
local firemen are that either
Lund and George dropped a
match when Flikeid wasn’t look
ing, to further the interests of a
framed case, or that someone
sneaked in and fired the mattress
when none of the three were
looking, thereby proving the in
competency of the state’s crew of
arson investigators.
This is all part of the horse
play that is costing Minneapolis
a bill of expense—the quiz into
fire department shortcomings.
Launched with a-fcang, follow
ing loud and blatant charges by
Ward Senn, insurance man and
jaw-warrior, held high in the
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