The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 5, 1917, Page 4

i i i . -’ 4g little bantam has asked the lezis- THURSDAY; APRIL 5, 1917..: THE TRIBUNE Ratered at the Postoffice, Bismarch, N. D., as Second Class Matter. Daily, by mail or carrier, Per month ......seeeeeseeess B 50 Daily, by mail, one year in North Dakota ...... sssseeee Daily, by mail outside of North Dakota, one year ..... 6.00 Daily, by mail outside of North Dakota, three months. 1.50 Daily, by mail in North Dakota three months ....... we 1,25 ‘Weekly, by mail, per year ..... 1.50 Member Audit Bureau of Circulatioa THU STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Hatablished 1873) | = LOCAL WEATHER BULLETIN. For the 24 hours ending at noon, April 5, 1917: Temperature at 7 a. m. - + 26) ‘Temperature at noon 42 4.00 Highest yesterday - 54] Lowest last night - 24) Precipitation None Highest wind velocity - - 20-W Forecast: For North Dakota Fair tonight and Friday; not much change in tem- | perature. Amenia Bismarck Bottineau Bowbells Devils Lake Dickinson Fessenden Grafton Grand Forks Jamestown Langdon - Larimore Lisbon Minot Napoleon Pembina Wahpeton Williston ...- Moorhead .. ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorologist. Ce a a a a a & I made all my money by * @% never buying at ‘bottom @ and never selling at the top. —Lord Rothschild. o OP OP PSST ESO SO AAS the COLE’S DEFEAT. There should be an exchange of condolences between W, J. Prater and Ed. Cole of Fargo, both of whom nave found that the sociatistic propagan is not sufficiently disguised by its non-partisan label to carry city elec- tions. Mr. Cole of Fargo came to Bis- marck ‘with a cigarette bill in his in- ner. pocket. This measure. had be- hind it a strong. lobby, plenty of loose change, ‘and it bore Mr, Cole’s name. It may ‘havéybeen only a coinck dence....But. Mr. Cole upon. his-arrival became a pronounced friend of the Non-partisan league. His entire time was devoted to courting the leaders and pouring forth his florid oratory in its behalf. People wondered. It was not the Ed Cole they knew. He swallowed every “ism” Townley and Coates fed him, even to the extent of delivering Speeches rehearsed the evening be- fore in the secret caucus. All the time that cigarette bill was tucked away in his pocket. It was guarded, but as the day for its con- sideration approached, Mr. Cole be- came more and more a convert to the socialism of Coates and Townley. He eulogized Frazier and wept tears of remorse for his own past political sins and Bourbonism. Finally the cigarette bill made its appearance. Cole threw himself up- on the league members, but they turned a cold shoulder and his pet measure went out the window, People who wondered at Cole’s sud- den conversion to the league plat- form began to see light. Then came the other Cole bill, making public utilities the football of every ward politician. Cole evidently was look- ing ahead to the Fargo election when, as president of the commission, he ‘would hold the destinies of the pub- lic utilities in the hollow of his hand, provided, of course, his utility bill passed. It failed, too. His new polit- ical friends were helpless or indiffer- ent. Tuesday, at the Fargo city election, (Mr. Cole sought the support of the constituents who sent him to Bis- marck to represent them. How well he represented them is told in the returns. He was defeated by a vote of two to one. Was it the cigarette bill? . Was it ‘this support of H. B. 44, or was it his ‘bill to put the thumb screws on every public utility in ‘North Dakota? Mr. Cole’s entry into the ranks of @ocialism may have been sincere, but jhe welcomed more, In proportion to population, ‘Vermont has far outclassed all the rest. “We always have done more than our share, you know,” says the gov- ernor, with simple pride. The record s 80, and it begins with Ethan Al- and some of Stark’s men and len runs straight, fine and true American all the way down. “More than our share.” That's a ‘good word, “More than our share,” says Vermont and makes no fuss about it, but starts in to do it. If all the rest of us had the same resolute, ungrudging, ready-to-serve spirit how long would the old beast of Prussian autocracy survive to curse the world? Sixty days? Anyway, salute little old Vermont! Old and always young! The gover nor says it believes in action, not in words. Then salute it again! Salute anybody that holds such a doctrine and gets busy on it. Carranza has not yet declared how Wilhelm’s proposition to take Texas, New Mexico and Ari- zona. SOME MORE UNREST. Meagre reports, through sources more or Jess reliable, strongly indi cate that what is called “the spirit of unrest” is hotly boiling among the people of Spain. In these times of volcanic action by peoples, it would not be surprising should the Spanish go in for revolu. tion. ‘They are near neighbors of republican ‘France and of Portugal. whose king is a refugee, and they have the recent splendid example of the Russians. Again, they're awfully hungry, by reason of Germany's unre- stricted submarine warfare, and they know that their own autocrats side with Germany. Spain may not yet be fully ripe for revolution, but she’s another country whose masses are being reduced to starvation ‘by the German autocracy. Germany is actually starving peoples into revolution, and if we were a Spanish autocrat, we surely would get down off the neutral fence, It certainly is better to get down while the getting'’s good than to have your head pulled off in being brought down. Says the big black German auto- crat to the little brown Russian revo lution, “We're ready to deal with you, since you've kicked out your auto- crats.” And what the little Russian revolution says to autocracy is going to ‘be listened to. ‘Von BeéthmanmHolttweg: = “Ger- many does not desire war against United States today.”.. All right, say when. Barnum said the American people liked to be humbuggea. And yet thrice the American people refused to elect War Referendum E'ryan pras- ident. The rice supply should hold out de. spite its use as a substitute for the high-priced potato, Waste of rice at weddings ban of the new London. has just come under the food controller in As war economy, Texas women's clubs declare for simplicity of dress. To save our lives, we can’t help but think, occasionally, that war has its compensations. Over 8,000 Germans and Austrians have applied for citizenship papers in Chicago since February 1. It makes the stork an also-ran in the matter; sided or of the probate of the will. of producing Americans. Saith Bryan, in his Miami “appeal to congress “The dispute with Germany has passed beyond the do- main of diplomacy. * * * Let us try my treaty plan, which Germany refused to approve.” Somebody down there in Florida has put something in Bill's grape juice. We warn the kaiser that the fel lows whose duty it is to see U-boats in the Pacific have been mobilized. SUPREME COURT u FROM CASS COUNTY. Howard Moody, as Executor, tioner, Peti- vs. Otto A. Hagen, Elina A. Skarderud, Emelia Mattison and All Other Per- ‘Martin 'A. Hagen, Deceased, Re- spondents, and The Tax Commis- sion of the State of North Dakota, Intervenor. Syllabus: (1) Section $977 of the Compiled Laws of 1913, which impos- es a tax of 25 per cent on the inher- itance of non-resident aliens as op- posed to a tax of one and one-half per cent on the inheritances of citi- he discovered last Tuesday that the Yrewards were anything but substan- tat iam Favorite pastime of Mr. N.. Roman- Off, ex-¢zar, is’ shoveling snow: There's no wife so mean that she ‘won't let hu¥by have a high old time VERMONT’S SHARE. ‘So far as numbers go, Vermont is ‘& small state—360,000 people. Only six states in the union have fewer. Bat the governor of this trim, fight- ‘Asture for $1,000,000 that Vermont “may bear “more than its share” of zens and resident aliens residing in the United States, is not in violation of Section 20 of Article 1 of the Con- stitution of North Dakota, which pro- vides that “No citizen or class of citi- zens shall be granted privileges or munities which upon the <a is shall not be granted io all citi- zens.” Nor is it in violi:ton of Sec- tion 11 of Article 1, which provides that “Laws of a gene-al niture shall have a uniform operation.” Nor, where the decedent was « citizen of the United States and residing there- in, is it in violation of Ac-ivle 6 of the Treaty of Amity an Cou.merce ‘between Norway and the United States and which provides that “The subjects of the contracting parties in the respective states, nay fuily dic-| J. pose of their goods and effects either ‘by testament, donation or otherwise, in favor of such persons as they think ther { Ganos DOINGS OF THE DUFF. —— Nes, | SUPPOSE WILBUR, | WANT TO WE'LL SOON HAVE To NOSE, [NOTICE HERE IN THE PAPE(e THAT A BABY IN ST.LovIs GAINED TWENTY PopNDS IN ONE WEEK ON ELEPHANTS MILK [| ELePHANTes MILK? | DON*T BELIEVE By Allman TOM AND WILBUR GET ALONG SO WELL TOGETHER HoW UNFORTUNATE — He’s INHERITED YouR| WELL, !’M EVES AND Nour. Tom- GLAD He DIDN'T [ wneer NYovrR 7 Iv WAS A BABY ELEPHANT ee! ard, Bismarck, Attorneys for Inter- venor and Appellant. Fowler & Green, Iargo, Attorneys for Respondents. in person or by their attorney, wiih on to take out let- ters of natura The: sher- itances, as well apitals and ef fects, which the subjects of the two _——_ parties, in changing their dwelling | q——————-—_-__----—- shall be desivous.of removing from READERS’ COLUMN | the place of their abode, shall be Bs Oe empt from “AN diityy called “droit de SAINS . rp at : detraction” oy the part of the govern- AGAINST. BRITISH DICTATION. ments of the. two states, respectively.| ___ Dickinson, N. 1).. April 3, 1917. (2) The right to inherit or to take| Editor Bismarck Tribune, Bismarck, N..D. by will and the right to devise and Gentlemen: Why is it that all you to bequeath are not natural and in- alienable rizhts nor are they guaran-} Self-styled American patriots arz Fo anxious abont Groat Britain? e sta : federal constitu- ‘A teed fy, the slats or: lederal const? I believe there was a similar class —?> tions. (3) The alien, in the absence of {4% 1775. . oe permissive legislation, has never been| , Why is a man, who thinks much of his country and tries. by all fair allowed, as against the sovereign state, to lake by descent or even by will. (4) Statutes which change the common law and which allow aliens to take by,,Wil} or to inherit are not to be looked, \ipon in the light of a recognition. ox,,extension of any pre- viously existing, right belonging to such aliens, but rather as a fresh grant or a right or a statute of grace which the state chooses to confer. (5) There is a wide distinction ‘be- tween a tax on the right to export or to carry out of a state property after it has passed to an heir or legatee W. R. VEIGEL,. and has become his and a tax on the = property before it passes to him, or a THINK FARMERS HELPED tax upon his right to receivé or of|Editor, Bismarck Tribune, the deceased to devise and bequeath. Bismarck, N. D., (4) A citizen of a foreign country} Dear Sir: Sometime ding therein, in the absence of express treaty right, no reason to complain that his inheritance is taxed means to keep it out of a disgraceful war, called a traitor in your paper? If we must. fight, can’t fight our own war? British dictation gives me pain. I always thought we Americans were good. sports, but sneaking in behind “Johnny Bull” and “kicking the under dog in the ribs is not sport} nor anything’ to Be proud of. I always felt that I was a good American citizen, but since reading some of your late editorials [ am very much in doubt about it. Yours ‘truly, during Townley or some other leader of the i | | | The | oe as, aera : past week I noticed an interview with | S0 I'm just licking him now to have “League” that they had purchased 100 !Ford cars through the St. Paul agency in organizing Minnesota. interview was Paul Da This reported in the St. ‘ews of Tuesday the 27th, 1 can remember. In this interview ‘Townley also. stated that they nad signed up*but. 16 members in Minnesota to date, ‘uck me, if I read the interview vtly that 100-Ford cars for use in Minnesota would cost about $36, 000. That with the few members they had secured to date this money had to come from somewhere, The con: clusion is that the farmers of North Dakota have sent $36,000 down ‘into Minnesota to aid Townley. Yours truly, *, SLB Not Much. he Romans’ Thanksgiving was ded- icated to Ceres, goddess of the harvest. yas a day of sworship and. rustic * Times havent, changed much! =New York Telegram. . vy Looking to the Future. “What are you whipping Runt for?” asked Mrs, sop, “What has he been doing “Nothing, that T know of,” replied Mr, Gap Jonson of Rumpus Ridge. “But I'm going to town this evening, and he’s sure to cut up some devilment before I get back, it over with.”—Judge, TRAGEDY DUE TO TOOTHACHE French Monarch Tormented by Agony When He Signed Revocation of Edict of Nantes. That the failure of a king to take proper care of the teeth, with the re- sulting toothache, was the cause of a step that made torrents of blood drench the soil of France, seems to be an historical faet. Louis XIV. who on October 17, 1685, signed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which action took from the Huguenots, their right to freedom of worship, and provoked the uprising of the Camisards, Who for nearly two decades ‘withstood the armies of the king, had teeth so unsound that before middle age, all those in the upper jaw had been lost or reduced to scraggy stumps. He naturally became a victim: to severe dyspepsia, and during the me- morable yéar of 1685 the royal dentist, we learn; was sometimes with him for a whole day. , Inflammation once re- sulted from the removal of a root be- heath which an abscess had formed. This was said to be during the very time when he was apparently wavering between his conscience and pressure brought by the more radical of his ad- visers as to compliance with the lat- ter’s demand that the Huguenots be suppressed. The two Colberts, Seignelai and Croissi, and even the young Dauphin, urged delay, but the king answered them in such a tone of irritation that they were silenced, one of them saying to the others: “His majesty 1s tor- mented by toothache; we may not in- trude.” And so the edict of Nantes, which had heen granted by Henry of Navarre, as Henry IV of France, and had as- sured pence and calm throughout France for more than two-thirds of a century, was abrogated, religious strife broke out again, and thousands of Huguenots were driven from thelr na- tive land. Boosting for the United States. Miss Annie S. Peck, mountain climb- er, lecturer, author and expert on South America, has recently returned from her sixth visit to that continent. Miss Peck’s tour was of a unique character, as she is undoubtedly the only person who has visited South America for the purpose of promoting friendship and trade by means of illus- trated lectures in Spanish and Portu- guese on the United States and Ameri- can industries, The lectures given by Miss Peck comprise a series of three, covering New York city, Washington, Niagara Falls and our national parks of the West—the Yosemite, the Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, t together with information as to some of our leading industries, such as pe troleum, coal, cottonseed oil, with views also of some of our various im- portant manufactories, of pianos, evap-, orated milk, Sewing machines, kodaks and typewriters,“as well as facts in regard to our great skyscrapers, docks, bridges, railway stations and our lead- ing» cominercial organizations—New York Telegram. No Better Food Than Milk. Milk is an animal food. In nature its use is universal as food for the grow- ing young. ‘This means that milk makes growth, does more than merely maintain the body. Milk possesses the elements of growth, not only in the butterfat but also in the skim milk, There is no better food than milk, You will find more of the leading People of North Dakota registered at the Radisson than at any other hotel in the Twin Cities. more than that of a fellow alien who resides in the United States, but not in the state where the deceased re- (7) The wealth and prosperity of California or of any other state in the Union is of vital importance to the people of North Dakota. A statute, therefore, which discriminates in the matter of the amount of an inherit- ance tax between a citizen and re! dent of Norway and a citizen of Nor- way residing in California or any oth- er state of the Union. is not for that reason void on the ground of class legislation. (8) Article 6 of the Treaty of Am- ity and Commerce between the Unit- ed States and the Kingdom of Nor- way is only applicable to the estates of decedents who were citizens of Norway leaving property in the Unit- ed States and citizens of the United States leaving property in Norway and those inheriting from them, and is not applicable to the estates of decedents who were citizens of the United States. (9) The term, “droit de detrac- tion,” means a tax which is levied on the right of removal of property from one state to another and does not in- clude an inheritance tax, which is merely a tax upon the right to devise and to inherit. {10) The general rule, that treaties should be: liberally construed so as! * to carry out the apparent. intention of the parties to secure equality and reciprocity bétween them, does not justify a state court in judicially leg- islating as against the right of the state and its taxing power, and in adding words to a treaty so as to make it applicable to the estate of citizens of the United ‘States in the United States, when by its terms it is only applicable to the estates of aliens or ‘to the estates of citizens of the United States who reside in a foreign country. Appeal from an order and judgment of the District Court of Cass County reversing an order of the County Court and fixing the amount of an in- heritance tax. Pollock, J. Intervenor appeals. Reversed. Opinion of the Court by Bruce, C. Robinson, J., Dissenting. Birdzell, J., being disqualified, did not participate, and Hon. A. G. Burr, Judge.of the Ninth Judicial District, }eatin his place. + =: J)» George E. Wallace: and-F. EB. ‘Pack- Soom dota; ac. TO ARMS! LY BEATS FOOT TRAVEL HOW ITALIANS ARE MAKING WAY THROUGH ALPS. System of Cable Railways Has Proved Invaluable for the Transportation of Troops and Ammunition During War. The teleferica, or cable railway, that the Italians have contrived to supply their mountain troops quickly and eas- fly with ammunition and provisions, is one of the most interesting inventions that the war has brought forth be- tween high mountain and low moun- tain, The steam railways, says a writer in the Railway. Age Gazette, run in the valleys at the foot of the Alps. The freight, however, has to be picked up and distributed by wagon or automo- bile truck, and it must go up the high- er mountains on mule and man’s back, and finally on man’s back alone, bit by bit. But here the teleferica steps in and says, “Let me do it. I'm quicker and surer. I can go in all weathers, Avalanches can’t stop me.” Along the 400-mile front the tele- ferica daily does the work of an army of at least 240,000 men—or 120,000 mules, The last figure is interesting when It is considered that there are only 175,000 mules and horses used for transportation purposes in this entire army that the Italians, have organized to fight the Austrians. According to the official statistics there are 125 miles of teleferica scat- tered along the front, with a total daily carrying power of 3.600 tons, Each teleferica built can carry rough- ly 30 tons, There are some 120 dif- ferent stations, each with a line a mile or so in length. The one I saw reached a height of 11,000 feet on the side of | Monte Adamello, in the central Alps; {t did the work of 2,000° men every day. The operation of the teleferien {s not much more difficult than that of an electric elevator in a “skyscraper.” Once the heavy motors and machinery are got up the mountain sides and the three-quarter-inch steel cables strung across deep valleys and chasms and rivers, the mounting of the car upon the overhead cable and the attaching of the pulley cable are simple enough. We had been coming up all morning by burro from the valley, the Alpinist colonel and J, riding along narrow roads built on the, side of a huge moun- tain. We came at last to: a small shack that blocked the road. The colonel dis- mounted, greeted the officer in charge of the station, and Iet me take a look round. I saw a couple of heavy mo- tors with cables. My. eye followed those cables, however, and they, kept: going across the valley and up the side of the opposite mountuin until the eye; dazzled by the’ snow, could follow no longer. “Well,” remarked the col- onel, as he cheerily knocked the snow from his thick, hobnailed boots, '“sup- pose we go up.” We climbed Into the basket, four feet long by two wide, with side rails not more than six-inches high. Wheels began to whir, and our car ran smooth- ly out into-space. I held on for dear life to those low sides and fervently hoped the colonel would not rock the boat. “This thing wouldn’t pay in peace times,” I said. The car ran upgrade on a 30-degree incline for a couple of minutes and stopped, for we had completed the first telefericn section @f the three that would take us to our destination, In seven minutes we had traversed a dis- tance that on foot required an hour, Rats in the Trenches, As rat catchers in the trenches no animal, not even the ferret, can com: pete with the terriers and spaniels that have been taken to the front in large numbers by the French. Some months ago an army order announced that each soldier fetching a rat-catching dog to the trenches would be entitled to two extra days’ leave on his next permis: sion, and since then nearly every man going back to the front has taken o dog of some description with him. Be- sides the two days’ leave the owner of the dog is entitled to five centimes ot one sou for each rat that his dog kills and it is said that some soldiers have made a good thing out of this as 8 “side line.” Graves of European Soldiers. In the first months of the war a man was commonly buried tlose to the place where he fell. Wherever there has been hard fighting there are many low crosses sticking out of the ground —in the fields, in cottage gardens, in corners of farmyards and orchards. even on roadside strips of grass. Where the ground has changed hands good deal you may see, quite close. the gabled cross of the Germans, with “Hier ruht in Gott" (Here rests in God), and the beaded wire wreath of the French with “Mort pour la France” (Died for France), and the plain lined cross of the English “in loving memory” of one or more officers and men, A Warning. “You limit your conversation to an Occasional coo,” commented the eagle. The dove agmitted the fact. “Well, you'll have to talk a great deal more than that If you hope to keep up your reputation as a peace pro moter.” on a Result. he car I was traveling in wae telescoped in the collision.” " “What happened theaf® .' 1 “Teaw stars”: _ mar - *)