The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 2, 1917, Page 4

»¢ Ampaggable. | performers are entirely new. ‘+ again to the fundamental principles _ “Knock as you please, there's nobody THE TRIBUNE Entered e Postoffice, Bismarck, N. ISSUED EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY GUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE on ae mail per yes 1.50 “Member Audit Bureau of Circulation THD STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) LOCAL WEATHER BULLETIN. For the 24 hours ending at 12 noon, January 2, 1916: Temperature at 7 a. m. ... Temperature at 12 noon . Highest yesterday . Lowest last night Precipitation ..... S Highest wind velocity . Forecast For North Dakota Fair tonight and probably Wednesday; no decided change in temperature. “Temperature Calgary .. - 18 Chicago 22 Galveston 62 Kansas City . 34 Moorhead o4 Pierre ..... + 22 Prince Albert .. - 12 St. Paul ... » 6 Williston . 16 Winnipeg .. se 6 ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorologist. ‘CLEAN THE WALKS. Drastic steps should be taken by ‘Commissioner Best of the street de- partment to sté that some of the main thoroughfares are put in better shape. The sidewalk on Broadway east of Fifth street is a disgrace. This is the approach to the auditori- um and should be cleared of snow and ice at once. If the property owners neglect to clean their walks in the downtown; district, the city should see to it that the work is done and the charges properly assessed. Crowds going to the Auditorium last’ evening either took the middle of the street or else slipped and stumbled over snow and ice. A start has been made in removing snow from the downtown streets, but the sidewalks in many sections are Let's get a little action. — The biennial show is on, the same oldshow, but the ringmasters and MONROE DOCTRINE. President Wilson’s participation in the peace overtures of Germany threatens to change the traditional policies of the nation and brings us laid down in the Monroe Doctrine. It was: the late Senator Bacon of Geor- gia, who said: “The Monroe Doctrine is part of ‘Mpwritten Constitution of the United States” : ‘There should be no direct particl- pation in the peace conference’ by the|~ United States. The belligerents can settle their own quarrels without the intereference of neutrals. Abraham Lincoln took this position during the Civil war. When Euro- pean nations offered to mediate, he Politely told them to mind their own ‘Dusiness. He also took steps to force the French out of Mexico in accord: nce with the Monroe Doctrine. he’ old: and.jthe new, worlds have n’ linked’ mauch-'closer ‘since the days of, George’ Washington, but it stilt holds good'that: “With the con- cerns: of Europe. we have none, or a very remote interest.” If our rights are violated by the ‘belligerents, the remedy is apparent. But it is anoth-; er proposition entirely when we seek directly or indirectly to tell any bel- ligerent that it must lay down the sword. .; ron Public opinion is almost unanimous that the position of Washington and Lincoln is a precedent to ibe followed by President Wilson in this crisis. | The American people do not de-| mand that their president act as Peacemaker. They are willing that he lend his assistance when asked, but they are not asking him to take the initiative. A Chicago man attempted to dis- robe his wife in court, to prove that she wore expensive lingerie. And, just think, a Chicago judge stopped him! ; NOTHING NEW. ‘The present generation often plumes itself upon the originality of its slang. One writer, in “The Edi- torial,” has pulled down his classics and finds that much of our vernacu lar bears an ancient date. For in- stance, Pope “beat us to” this nearly two hundred years ago: “You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come. at home.” In Job, for instance, we find sanc- tion for the following expression, classed often as slang: “I am escap- ed: by the skin-of my teeth.” ‘To quote: ye «7 “The. most quoted sources. in. the Fagitsh isaguage are the bible, ani _{dren and fooles cannot lye, while a 5 true,’ temporaneously with the Immortal Bard. Here are found such well well known expressions as, ‘Rome was not built in one day,’ ‘Better is half a loat than no bread,’ ‘Nought venter, nought have,’ ‘New brome swepth cleene,’ ‘A penny for your thought,’ ‘You stand in your own light,” ‘Might have gone further and fared worse,’ ‘Small pitchers have wide ears,’ ‘One smallow maketh not summer,’ ‘I know on which side my bread is buttered,’ ‘Love me, love my dog.’ Here also one reads that ‘Chil- contemporary of Heywood’s, John Lyly, in ‘Endymion,’ says, ‘'Tis an old saw, children and fooles speake ‘Heywood asks, ‘Who is worse | shod than the shoemaker's wife?’ while Robert Burton, writing at the same period, says, in ‘Democritus to the Reader,’ ‘Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.’ “From ‘Love's Cure,’ by John Beau- mont of the Beaumont and Fletcher alliance, one learns to ‘Hit the nail on the head,’ and later a character ex- claims ‘I find the medicine worse than the malady.’ Francis Bacon in his essay on Seditions, declares that ‘The remedy is worse than the dis- ease.’ “T smell a rat’ is commonly cred- ited either to Samuel Butler or Ben Jonson, as it appears in both ‘Hudi- bras’ and ‘Tale of a Tub.’ However, {t is also found in ‘Blunt, ‘Master-Con stable by Thomas Middleton. ‘On| his last legs’ is also a product of Middleton's pen in ‘The Old Law. ‘One ear it heard, at the other out it went’ ishanded down from old Geof- frey Chaucer in ‘Troilus and Creseide’ of the ‘Canterbury Tales.’ From the same source one is adminished that ‘Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese.’ In the Imitation of Christ,’| Thomas a Kempis says, ‘Of two evils, the lesg is always to be chosen,’ This expression, however, is of even great: | er antiquity. It appears in the ‘Chron- icle of Battel Abbey’ and in the ‘Vis-| ion of Piers Ploughma ADVANCEMENT. Somebody has got to lassoo and hog-tie ‘Science, or the world will be removed from American men of 40 years of age or upward and they'll find themselves enmeshed in a lot of new-fangled entanglements, so to speak. Note the propositions seriously con- sidered by that American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science! First, they propose to adopt the metric system of weights and meas- ures, and then you'll buy your bacon by the yard and your eggs iby the ounce. Why, those foreigners, like the Parisians, have got the thing fig- ured down so fine by their metric sys- tem that you con go into the markets and ‘buy chickens’ feet and heads by the kilometer, or some other meter, If you're hard pressed for soup meat; land there . are’’ places where ‘the ‘charge for your bath. is ‘based-on the weight of the soap you use. Then there's Scientist Prof. John- son, who gets right up in meeting and declares that sexual immorality is eugenic in results and that if all of it should cease, an important means of race progress would ibe lost. Again, take your 7-year-old boy on your knee and ask him to read from: his dear little, red-and-white Christ- mas book. Does he tackle those) those words with an alphabet? ‘He} does not. He puckers his mouth and blows, or mumbles, or buzzes, or hiss- es, and you find coming out of him words like “denunciation,” “procrasti- nation,” etc., like molasses out of a jug in August, and you remember that at his age you were stuck on the} word, “cat.” because it didn't begin} with a “k.” Gents who are at the top of the! hill or slipping down the farther side, ‘Science is changing everything. Your ounces will be grams; your yards «will be meters, your immoral: | ity will be eugenics, your reading will ‘be a buzz or a hiss. | But it only means that it’s your turn to be a has-been. Consider the things which you did that your father didn't. That which was isn't. You've written your part of the story in the book of life. The leaf will be turned over and on the new page will be new writings. And the new writings may be much better than those that went | before. Honesty and love alone may not be rewritten to mean better} things than now. All our notions, our | views, our purposes as to material} things may change, and Science itself is more or less a falsifier, a repudi | ator, an ingrate and a flirt. | | GRAND FORWS FOLK HERE. | ‘H, A. Bronson, former senator from the Seventh, and who is to become first assistant to Attorney General William Langer; Luther E. Birdzell, | associate justice of the supreme| court, and J. F. T. O'Connor, repre-| sentative from the Sixth, are expect-; ed down this evening from Grand | Forks. J. ‘F. T. O'Connor, one of the few Democratic‘Non-partisan mem: bers of the house, is a brother of William O'Connor, a former North Dakota legislator. “J. F. T.” is hailed as the real orator of the coming ses- sion. He has the genuine Irish gift; was on the Harvard debating team against Yale in his college days, and is generally regarded as quite some fellow. re. A very fruitful source and : To Cure.a Cold.in One Day. i i ‘BROMO Both Houses Get Organization Under Way TWELVE PER CENT INCREASE 10 BE ASKED BY BOARD Budget Boost in Taxes Necessary To Cure for Expenses GOVERNMENT COST STATE $1,400,000 IN LAST YEAR A twelve percent increase in the general state tax levy will be asked by the budget board, according to an announcement made last evening by Treadwell Twitchell, chairman of the house appropriations committee of 1915. The increase, Mr. Twitchell states, will be necessitated for several reas- ons, among which may be enumerated the following: To bring the National Guard up to the fifty per cent increase in efficiency required by the Hay bill adopted by congress last summer, $50,000 will be required. To mect the requirements of the Shackleford post roads bill, adopted during the last session of congress, there is required from the state, to meet an equal appropriation from the United States government, a certain levy of approximately $76,000. Detielt Much Less. In spite of the unusual increase in the high cost of living which has “occurred” during the past year, the deficit for 1916 is less than $45,000, as compared with about $165,000 for 1915. This is a “mitigating circum- stance” which renders the demand for increase in revenues about $100,000 less than it would otherwise be. The twelve percent “horizontal” in- crease which will be asked by the budget board January 12 is not near so dangerous as it may seem. The 1915 legislature decreed a flat 20 per cent reduction in assessed valuation. jand there was prescribed a further cut of approximately ten percent on all property values by the state board of equalization at its last meeting, during the fall of 1916. So, even if the present assembly approves the “horizontal”—can anyone tell why it should not be, vertical?—increase of twelve percent, Flickertail property- holders still will be paying approxi- mately eighteen percent less for the privilege of owning North Dakota property in 1917 than they did in 1915 ——and it is extremely doubtful wheth- er any property-holder would on this day and date accept that much less for his holdings. And, there is the possibility that some $50,000 of the state’s possible expense for 1917 will be eliminated, as there is a probability that North Dakota's soldiery upon its return from the border, after having been drilled and worked to a frazzle, will refuse to re-inlist for the six years provided for by the Hay bill. Believes in. Titles When: me. of ‘M. A. Hoghaug of the.2ist is.called, there will arise from Devils Lake a member of the lower house who will command at- tention, not only ‘because he previ- ously has.served. in that. legislative body, but because he is considerable of a man in his own right. (Mr. Hoghaug, even without the pre- fix, “Representative,” would attract attention in any ordinary gathering of citizens. Back of his personal ap- pearance he has a constructive legis- lative record. Probably the most Meritorious of Mr. Hoghaug’s bills which the-ourteenth legislative as- sembly ‘saw fit;to enact“into law was | Commission Considers’ jhe has achieved Our New Lynn J. Frazier left the farm to become “the farmers’ governor’ of North Dakota and, if possible, to put into effect a system of state owner- ship of all grain elevators, packing and flour mills. Bearing the endorsement of the re- cently organized North Dakota Farm- ers’ Non-partisan league, with its 50,- 000 members, he was swept into of- fice as the Republican candidate by an overwhelming vote, polling ap- proximately 80.000 of the 110,000 votes cast. x Faces Heavy Program. When he takes office tomorrow, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, he gil face a heavy legislative program’, a Program endorsed by him after it was drawn by the ‘Non-partisan league “to break down the present obnoxious system of produce marketing,” to in- crease the profit to the producer and to lessen the cost to the consumer. As the majority of the members of the legislature were elected with the endorsement of the = Non-partisan league, the new governor is expected to receive the support of the state law-making body in putting through the league’s legislative program, which includes public ownership of the principal agencies concerned in the collection and distribution, of farm products. ‘Was Little Known. Comparatively few persons knew of Mr. Frazier when he sprang into prominence as the Non-partisan league’s candidate in the primaries. He never had been in any but local Politics, always subject to the re- strictions of his farming activities, with which he had been occupied for 15 years. Football Fans Remembered. Then football followers of the Uni- versity of North..Dakota remembered Governor the Lynn Frazier of 1899,1900 and 1901—Frazier, who had starred on the gridiron for the ‘varsity, and had cap- tained the team the last two years. But except through the sporting pages he never had appeared large to the public eye. Was Called to Farm. It was in 1901, his senior year at the university, that the deaths of his father and older brother necessitat- ed Mr. Frazier’s return to the farm to assume its management for his mother. He gave up his ambition to enter a profession, an ambition he had fostered since his graduation from the high school at Grafton, N. D., at the age of 17. Mr. ‘Frazier obtatned his grado school education in the rural schools of Pembina county, N. D., where the Fraziers settled in 1881, after moving from ‘Rice county, Minn. where the governor-elect was born, in 1874. Was Schoolmaster. ‘He taught school for two years af- ter finishing his high schoo! course and then entered the Normal school at Mayville, N. D., were he graduat- ed in 1895. In order to provide mo- ney with which to further his edu- cation, he worked for two years be- fore entering the University of North Dakota. ’ Became Progressive Farmer. From the’ time’ he took over the management of the family farm, Mr. Frazier has expressed himself as in- tensely interested in the betterment of the economic condition of the farmers of the Northwest. The pres- ent day marketing system, he holds, is faulty and he insists it is the duty of the state to amend, so far as lies within its power, the rules by which land products are sold. one providing for the establishing of titles to lands which reverted back beyond territorial days, when all ti- tles were invested in the national government. Personally, Representative Hoghaug has two hobbies—farming and life in-| S - So 'M. A. HOGHAUG, surance—in both of which vocations | unusual success. For eight years his. fellow. citizeris of Ramsey county insisted that he serve them as register of deeds. Then they named him their representative in the house of representatives. Aside from these two important essays in public service “M. A.” has been quite con- tent to remain a private citizen, in which capacity, as in his service to his county and his district, he has proved a most gatisfying success. Any man equipped with Mr. Hog- haug’s chin must necessarily have a mind of his own. And the member from the 21st has given every indica- tion of the possession of that attri- bute. BIGGEST LITTLE MAN IN STATE 18 LOOKING FOR LEGISLATIVE 108 Geordie Fisher, Veteran Servant of Statesman, in Field Again “Geordie Fisher" of Cavalier, the biggest little man in the state, is now present, and the elgislature may pro- ceed to convene whenever it is ready." For the last seven sessfons “Geordie” has been a prominent feature of the senate, where he has served* foul years as watchman and three years as janitor. “Geordie” stands four feet, four and ahalf inches in his high‘heel- ed shoes, and it must needs be a brave cock-roach that would seek to make off with the senate furniture when he is around. f A ‘ “Geordie’s” heart never failed him but once. That was the tiem the sen- ate commissioned him assistant ser- geant-at-arms and sent him ‘out to bring in Senator Emtl Movious, who was tardy. Emil then weighed about 250 and Geordie a scant 113 but he tackled the job. Luckily the belated senator arrived before Georgie could apprehend him, and there -was no bloodshed. Mr. Fisher is a candidate for his old job in the senate, and his friends are endeavoring to see that he lands it. LOCKWOOD HIGH SCHOOL DESTROYED BY FLAMES Mohall, N. D., Jan. 2—Fire destroy- ed the Lockwood central high school at Lockwood last week, with all its contents, including the teachers’ per- sonal effects. The school was built two years ago. The loss is about $15,000. i SS The Tug of War! ‘Vmetber from the 23rd district, and *|Dakota infantry, writes from Merce- LEGISLATORS STAND GOOD CHANCE 10 GET FULL PAY FOR WORK State Treasury Is in Better Con- dition This Year Than Ordinarily Tho legislative session which opens today will cost the state $112,000, if the budget is not exceeded, and the state will have the money to pay. The treasury of North Dakota is in much better condition than it has been at the opening of any other gen- eral assembly in recent years. When legislature convened in 1915, the state owed in current bills $199,- 000, and it had in the treasury, $6,- 252.29. Yesterday, the state had on hand in its general fund after paying all bills presented between $1,500 and $2,000, and there were outstanding current obligations of only $44,102,-25. Before the first pay day for the legis- lators arrives, the state should be tens of thousands to the good. In 1916, January collections totaled $153,- 689.44, and they will be at least as great for the current month. Then, if the session runs for the full sixty .days, there will be the February col- lections to help out. There is no question ‘that the legislators will re- ceive their per diem on the dot. As an experienced statesman has said, “The bloomin’ difficulty is with your per noctum, don’t you know.” Jorgenson Shows Standings. Retiring State Auditor Carl O. Jor- genson last night gave out some in- teresting figures on state finances. The cash balances for each New Year's day for the last nine first days of Jan- uary have been: 1909, $3,066.09; 1910, $315.98; 1911, $70,910.02; 1912, $2,121.- 50; 1913, $60,940.33; 1914, $19,082.04; 1915, $6,352.39; 1916, $208.58; 1917, $1,500 to $2,000. While there was a comparatively large cash balance January 1, 1913, the state at that time owed about $300,000 in unpaid bills. By January 1, 1915, the unpaid bills outstanding had been reduced to $199,999 and this year finds the total less than $45,000. January 1, 1913, the bonded indebt- edness of the state was $936,000. Jan-| uary 1, 1917, finds the bonded obliga- tions of North Dakota reduced to ap- proximately $466,000. The constitutional bonded debt limit of the state is $200,000. The excess is accounted for by the institutional bonded debts which were taken over by North Dakota when it became a state. This additional obligation does not come under the constitutional pro- vision. “FIRST CATCH YOUR NIGGER,” ADVIGE IN SOGCE MURDER Chst Supreme Court Holds Fact Murd- ‘ered Infant Ever Lived Not Established The “old” supreme court in revers- ing the Towner county district court in the case of the State versus Rogn- hild Sogge, Elmer Jones and Betsy Sogge Jones, on Saturday ruled that the prosecution had not established the “corpus delicti”; that it had not established the fact that the new-born infant alleged to have been killed in a revolting manner was born alive; nor had it proven the manner of the child’s death. The harrowing details of the Sogge murder case, originating near Minne- waukon with the alleged slaying of. the new-born infant of Betsy Sogge on October 19, 1914, are too well known to necessitate repretition. The three defendants, being Betsy Sogge, her mother, Roghhild Sogge, and the alleged father of the child, Elmer Jones, were tried in Towner county, and the last two named were found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree and sentenced to five years, while Betsy was convicted of man- slaughter in the second degred and given. one year. It is probable that a motion for a rehearing in this case will be made by Judge E. T. Burke, retiring associate justice. Mr. Burke, who did not sit with the supreme court in handing down Saturday’s opinion, reversing the lower court, is a brother of State’s Attorney Burke, who prosecuted the case, and he will act for his brother in the petition for rehearing, it is stated. ‘This petition will bring Judge Burke for the first time in a private capacity before the tribunal with which he has been associated during. the last six years. REPRESENTATIVE WRIGHT HOPES TO ARRIVE BEFORE GENERAL ASSEMBLY QUITS Writes From. Mercedes That He Will Leave About Middle of * the Month When war interferes with legisla- tion,,legislation must wait. Rep. Dana Wright of Jamestown, also Major Wright of the First North des,.Tex., to his old friend and col- JANUARY 2; 1917. wait till Major Fraser got ever, as we are ordered home it does- n't make much difference: As soon as our regiment reaches Fort Snelling, 1 will ‘beat it’ for Bismarck, be sworm in, and return, if I have to, to Fort Snelling for muster out. “1 would have liked to be there for the beginning of the session but it couldn't be. I hope they will be able to accomplish much of real benefit to our state. I shall endeavor to co-oper- ate to the best of my ability.” Elected in Absence. Major Wright is probably the only member of the present house who was elected during his enforced absence. The major came to Bismarck for the concentration camp when orders were issued in early summer, and left in July with his regiment for the border. If his political defences needed attend- ing to, so did the frontier defences of the Union, and le deemed the latter of more importance. In spite of his absence, Stutsman county gave him a whacking big vote, and he is expected to prove one of the constructive mem- bers of the house during the Fifteenth assembly. 4 The major undoubtedly: will have some ideas relative to the national guard, insofar as the state have any power to regulate the same, Speaking of the First, Mr. Wright says: “There never was a finer lot of men in one regiment than these same fellows, and they have done their work splendidly.” HARMONY REIGNS IN UPPER HOUSE (Continu from page one) the speaker of the house that the sen- ate organization had been completed. Asks for Co-operation. In his address to the assembly, after he had taken the oath of office admin- istered by Judge Hanley, Speaker ‘Wood declared for a business adminis- tration, asking the members not “to play horse,” and urged them to co operate with him, thereby making his duties as easy as possible. ‘Wood was nominated for speaker by Representative Walton, the motion be- ing seconded by R. L. Fraser. On rolt call there were 103 ayes, nine not vot- ing. Then followed the election of W. D. Austin and Edward Wood as assist- ant clerks, It was then moved that the balance of the house employes be elected on roll call. House Employes Named. The house staff was named in one resolution, adopted without opposition as follows: Speaker--Howard R. Wood. Clerk—A. E. Bowen. Assistant Clerks--W. D. Austin, Edward Wood. Enrolling and engrossing clerk—-O. S. Wing. Bill Clerk—Paul Nelson Proof reader—W. B. McLaughlin. Journal clerk-—Lester M. Smith. Calendar clerk—Mason B. Stowers. Sergeant at arms—O. Sommervold. Assistant—P. M. Casey. Messenger—J. W. Smith. Doorkeepers—Rohert ‘Kees, Warren » Postmaster—J. A. Lawler." Mailing clerk—Frank Geiger. Chaplains--Bismarck clergy. — ~ Janitors—Bernard Helwig, William Meyer, Nick Weiler. Lady attendant--Emma Cooper. Phone messenger—J. O. P. Drocher. Clerk on, state affairs—E. C. Heck- enliable. Clerk on appropriations—Gunder 8. Reishus. Clerk on judiciary—J. V. Randall. Bill room clerk—W. L, Caddall. Stenographers — Ethel _ Maddock, -— Thelma O. Bruhjell, Muriel LaSchelle, Florence Gahagan, Pearl Paulson, Bina Steinmetz. Pages—Mose Rosenschqeig, C. G. Coy, Melvin Hagan, A. D. Pickard. HANNA HOTEL READY FOR OCCUPANCY JULY 4 Mandan, N. D., Jan. 2—That the new hotel being erected here by Gov. L. B. Hanna, will be ready for occupancy July 4 was the prediction made today following the starting of excavation for the work. WALTER MARTIN IS DEAD AT KENMARE Kenmare, N. D., “ Jan. ‘' 2—Walter Martin, 15-year-old son of Theodore Martin living southwest of Sherwood, died at the Kenmare hospital yester- day as the result of an illness last- ing several years. BISMARCK AMAZED BY SUDDEN ACTION The incredible action of simple lav- optik eye wash is startling. A school boy had eye strain so badly he could not read. -A week’s use of lavoptik surprised .his..teacher..so. much that she used it for her old mother. ONE WASH showed benefit. “A small: bot- tle lavoptik is guaranteed to benefit EVERY CASE weak, strained’ or in- flamed eyes. The INCREDIBLE re- sult is astonishing. Pure aluminum eye cup FREE with each bottle. Jos. Breslow, druggist. ji fr carrie marxers ST. PAUL. HOGS—Receipts 2,300; 5c to 10c pt range $9.50@$10; bulk $9.60 .80, CATTLE—Receipts 800; killers, steady; steers $4.25@$10.25; cows and heifers-. ¢4.25@$7.50; ‘calves, steady, $4.50@$11.75; stockers and feeders, steady to strong, $3.50@$7.75. John SHEEP—Receipts 25; steady; lambs $7.00@$12.75; wethers $6.00¢7 $9.50; ewes $5.50@$9.00, CHICAGO. HOGS—Receipts 74,000; slow; bulk $9.90@$10.30; light $9.40@$10.10; mixed $9.30@$10.40;" heavy $10.05@ Sk rough $9.90@$10.00; pigs $7.50 CATTLE—Receipts 20,000; firm; native beef steers $3.25@$11.80; west- ern ‘steers $7.25@$J0.00; stockers and feeders $5.25@$8.25; cows and heifers $4.25@$10.00; calves $9.00@$13.00. SHEEP—Receipts 21,000; firm; bepre $9.15@$10.25; lambs $11.25@ Expert Phonography and Typewritin ia Qe 5 ty D 4 ’ . .