The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 31, 1917, Page 4

i f f a THE TRIBUNE , the fight for a censorship is the ap- Gateret Pestoffica, Bismarck, N. bss wecond Class Mattar. (SUED EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY RATES PAYABLE IN : ADVANCB Dally, by mail oF carrier, Per Month .....ceseseeereeee O 50 Daily, by mail, one year in North Dakota ....-. secseree 4.00 Daily, by mail outside of Dally, b Peal outelde of by outside of North Dakota, three months. Daily, by mail in North Dakota three months ........sseece 1.25 Weekly, by mail, per year ..... 1.50 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation THE DEST NEWSPAPER STATE etabtiebed 18TH) 6.00 1.60 WEATHER REPORT. For 24 hours ending at noon May 31: Temperature at.7 a. m Temperature at noon . Highest yesterday .. Lowest yesterday .. - Lowest last night .... Precipitation ... Highest wind velocity . Forecat For North Dakota: ye! tonight and Friday; warmer Friday and extreme west portion tonight. Lowest ‘Temperatures Fargo ... . a8 Williston . Grand Forks . “peep (Winnipeg . Helena .. ‘Chicago Swift Current Kansas City . San Francisco ORRIS W. ROBERTS, ’ Meteorogolist. vt ‘Fame “has “an ‘giddy: thy, Say?" But to'live in the hearts of the people—that is worth .something.—Ouida. Soe eee ee ee o SS OSMO_ ee oese POLITICS BE HANGED. According. to Washington Corre-| spondent Gilson Gardner, Congress has decided that Woodrow Wilson is a candidate for a third term as Pres- ident. Of course, to spring national poli- tics or to permit national politics to have any bearing on action at Wash- ington, at this time, would be but lit- tle short of sedition and downright villainy, but, nevertheless, a condi- tion is approaching such as has, on several occasions, since Washington's time, set the nation to boiling, polit- ically, regardless of all important| non-political matters on hand. j This condition’ will be aggravated in the case of Wilson. The chief objection to a third term is danger of autocracy. President Wilson not only has all the power of official pat- ronage, but practically absolute con-; trol of our martial, financial, bust- ness and domestic interests. In fact, he's already more kinds of an duto: crat than was Grant, Jefferson, Madt- son, Monroe, or any other two-term: er. But, just now, there’s more sense and fun in discussing war potatoes and beans than the campaign of 1920. A bas politics! Congressmen are of three kinds— men, dodoes and kaiser helpers. LOOKS AND TASTES FINE. If there's a bacterium of pacificism still lurking in the recesses of your skull, here's. where we coax it out. .., Aggording to" autheritie ' statement, the “daily,.ration‘!.for each, United Slittes' Woldier’ is "to be: “Bread, 18 ounces. Potatoes, 16 ounces. Bacon, 12 ounces. Beans or peas, 3 ounces. Rice or hominy, 2 ounces. | ~ | her Generally fair | ing about the male persuasion either, day's work plus a war garden. It's mother we're talking about. Mother always did do a day’s work plus a score of chores she couldn’t crowd into the period men call work- ing hours. The word let-up isn’t in mother’s vocabulary. And as an achieved fact it is only too often real- ized not until her strength gives way, outspent, not in service of her- self, but of others. Now, mother doubtless hasn't given vacation a thought and won't. There- fore, it’s up to you, father, and to you older children to do mother's va- cation thinking for her. Start early with the plan, for mother is too busy a woman to have things sprung on sudden-like. Talk the idea up, get the plece picked out where moth- er is to find rest and quiet, and per- haps belore the summer is over she can be persuaded to leave you folk to shift for yourselves a couple of weeks. And snother thing: Maybe would be as happy as mother if you thuught less of your own comfort an! more of the comfort of others. [i's to remind you of this opportunity to gain % measure of happiness, quite as much as to give mother an outing, that we open the subject of vacations thus carly. you Don't over-eat; don’t under-eat. That's the way to make best use of the food supply ———S Ss i UM—UM! As the sun grows stronger the luscious strawberry shortcake be- | comes a product of the north, as well jas the south. It opens its summer en- gagement at the “ten-twenty-thirty” circuit of eating houses. As the tem- perature rises, the number of ‘berries allowed to each slice increases. But what a sorry travesty on’ short- cake is the hotel and restaurant im- itation built of plain cake, and a sprinkling of whole berries cemented. together with a mixture of condensed milk, eggs and glucose billed as whipped cream, and ready to be serv- ed “at all hours.” How different from “the kind that mother used to make” --and still makes, if she is a real mother. Recall that three-story condensed toothsomeness, 's mound of ed, in 83 snow, and fresh touched with'a delicate tan ‘from the oven) ‘Récalf it dripping the-rich, red juice of the crushed berries.’ Then ventember the ample square:that was your portion, and the pitcher of “heavy, buttery gream that went roundyvthe table to hely{t on its way. And that sweet sense of’ satisfaction that came wher vou turned’’away from the last rem- rants with a sense of duty well done’ When ‘the gods on Olympus ordered ambrosia it was because the straw- berry, is. a, native of America, aud they knew it not. : rding wom- © Jalan Eltinge, in dis ade. Falling birth rate alarms Germans. 'Nowever, a good guess is that’s not the biggest of their worries. ‘Why not? Daylight saving? Day- coal is mighty valuable just now. Pershing wants to bar correspond- ents rom sailing with his first §25,- 0007. What, Jack, after all the nice things we've said about you? GIVES UP CONGRESS TO JOIN THE ARMY Sugar, 3.2 ounces. ? Jam 1 1-2 ounces. { iAndivtea, salt, butter, cheese and | condensed milk. Its a menu calculat-| ed to convert many pacifists into fire-| caters. Of course, we're not quarrel- ing with it. Our soldiers ought to be the best fed on earth. It would be good war policy to have copies of our martial bill of fare dropped from aeroplanes upon the German armies to impress upon them our deadlines | of purpose and thoroughness of prep- aration. Eut the United States sol- dicr should be given to understand } that he hasn't got to eat all that daily. There's such a thing as being | tou fat to fight. It would be simply glorious if every family in this coun- try could be assured 18 ounces of ‘bread, 16 of potatoes, 12 of bacon, and all those other ounces of beans, rice, sugar, butter and cheese, daily. We guess that some recruiting offi- cer got up those “daily rations.” Any- how, kindly regard for his stomach need keep no pacifist out of the ranks. One of the amusing things about parent ‘belief in some quarters that Germany's spies get their-information frcm the newspapei = SPEAKING OF VACATIONS. | Perhaps it's a little carly to be| speaking of vacations. But any time is the right time to bespeak a let-up for : those ‘who scarcely know what ¢.,.A .P.GARDNER It is Colonel Gardner now. He was representative from Massachusetts and fought for preparedness. Soon after declaration of war, he resigned his seat in congress and enlisted as ‘up means. And we are not talk- [colonel in the officers’ reserve corps. busier now than ever, what with a a square pan, light as cotton, flaky |: light saving means coal saving—and | DOINGS OF To MEET MY Me. DUF FRIEND, MR. BLANK PERHAPS You PREF BLANK - SIT DOWN, Nov’RE NOT GOING A STAIGHT CHAIR, MR. THE DUFFS. IT’S NOT NEVOUSNESS, TOM Tom, | WANT You | DELIGHTED, Fe How Do You 4 Do MR BLANK? Won'T You HAVE A CHAIR? No, NOT |] SA HELEN, THS THANKS: He Won’r SIT DOWN AND BE SOciABLE GONG BUT I'D|| BLANK 1S.A NERVOUS | "TOM, THAT HE JUST RATHER REMAIN | | SORT- HE’S NOT ENLISTED IN “THE CAVALRY On MY FEET, || GoING HOME BUT . By Allman me.| Yov MpsT REMEMBER, (Editor’s Note) This: column is open to Tribune readers ctor expression: of opinion von mattersiof: Views ex- hipressed here: ci the opinion of The Tribune. STATES HIS VIEWS To the Editor of The Tribune: There having been some complaint and criticism because the contract of the City of Bismarck with the Ford Paving Company does not. provide for the paving of the streets around the Court House, and it having been stat- ed that the city commissioners can- not provide for this pavement with- out again advertising for bids, and many ,fajse,reasons and excuses hav- ing™béé “given by the city adminis- tration pvhy ythis part of the paving grélebt va jt of the contract, I desire to threw, some light on the an’s élothes, joins the no-waistabrig-{ matter! ¢f-j “the éounty commissioners have no authority over the streets of Bismarck and have no power to control or influ- ence the city commissioners of Bis- marck relative to paving improve- ments either where property of the county abuts thereon, or otherwise, except that the county commission- ers may, under the provisions of sec- tion 3704, C. L. 1918, on behalf of {the county, join with other owners to make up a majority of the property liable to be specially assessed for such proposed improvement, within fifteen days after the first publication of the resolution of the city commission de- claring such improvement necessary tobe done. In no other. way-is_it.the duty or within the, p, T, of the coun- ty commissioners west te ai tion of the necessity advisability of making the said improvement. The city commission is the only body that has full power over the streets and can say that there is a necessity for a public improvement and order it done, - The property of the county of Bur- leigh (as is all property except prop- erty belonging to the government of the .United States, which is exempted | by section 3726, C. L. 1913) is liable |to be assessed for such improvement under the provisions of said last nam- ed section. The fact that the board of county commissioners, or a major- ity thereof, refused to sign a petition requesting the pavement was no le- gal reason why the provision to pave should be left out of the contract. Under the law such petition would be immaterial. The refusal of the commissioners who declared that they were against the signing of a petition simply expressed their views, and certainly those county commis- sioners who represent outside districts should be congratulated by their con- stituents for not joining in such an enterprise as would place so great a {burden upon the taxpayers he rep- resented, who would receive so little benefit from it. the action of the county commission- ers, it had no legal force or effect to manner whatsoever. pre It simply ex- ed the views of the county com loners as to the necessity of the improvement. However, for some rea- son not’ given in the minutes of the city commission or expressed by any commissioner of the city at a public meeting, the city commissioners de- liberately left the streets surrounding the court house out of the contract made by the city with the Ford Pav- ing Company, although the same city commissioners passed a resolution declaring it was necessary to have paving done on those streets, and in- cluded the same in the plans, speci- fications and estimates, and also in the advertisements for proposals for such work. Why these streets were left out of the contract has never been disclosed by the city commissioners, though several reasons have been giv- en on the street by their so-called | the streets in front of the court house | But whatever was) bind the city commissioners in any | friends and defenders. It is neces- sary, to gness, why this, was done, as the minutes. of, the, city,,.commission- ers do not give any!reason. , One rea- son is ‘because thé:‘county commis- sioners did not ask*for the pavement. As county cannot’ be assessed for costs of this improvement and there- fore the burden would fall upon the city at large,.as it does in case of lands of the»fjmited States., A third reason is of A, political nature, namely that certain /ofthe city ‘commission- ers( and théir master) desired, as it was expressed, “to throw it into the chairman of the county commission- ers, 4 That the first reason is'not the true one is evidenced by: the fact that the same cityicommissioners insisted up- on putting pavement down in front of, propenty sown gy b asa’ who did le- Bally fle protests, a jo even tried to érijoii'the city by uits hoth in the state and;federal courts, and in front of protesting owners whose property was almost a mile farther from the center of the city than the court house property, and where ve- hicular travel is in the proportion of about one to one hundred. So it could not have been for the first reason. The second reason—+-because the property of the county was exempt from this assessment—could not have influenced the city commissioners, be- cause if the county property is ex- empt, then the property owned by the state is also exempt, but the city commissioners did not leave the state property out of the contract, nor the school property, etc. So it could not have been for the second reason. So it must have been for the fhfra reason, namely, that the city com- missioners, or their master, wanted to “throw it into somebody.” The fault of leaving the pavement of the streets around the court house | is the fault of the city commissioners, and any attempt to put the blame on those county commissioners from the country districts will fail. Of course if the city commissioners want to do their duty they can still remedy this wrong. The county com- missioners will not petition for this pavement. They never have and will not protest against it.. The remedy still in the powerof the city com- missioners to make use of is simple. The resolution of necessity, the plans, specifications and -estimates, and the advertisement for proposals for said} work all provided for the paving of| the streets around. the court house— so that the only place that provision is left out is in the contract of the city with the paving company. The said contract contains a clause that work thereunder may be increased, and such increase paid for according to the quantity actually done and at the price estatilished for such work as agreed upon it’ the contract, provided such increase}does not exceed 15 per cent of the original contract. The paving of the streets in front of the court house does not exceed 15 per cent of the original contract. Con- sequently all .the city commissioners ;Heed do is to order the Ford Paving ! company to pave the streets around | the court houge—and it should be re- membered that if they do this the city commissioners would be doing only} what they declared in their resolu-! tion was necessary to be done, and the Ford Paving Company would be ; doing only what they estimated to do when they bid on the job. EDW. G. PATTERSON, County Commissioner, 1st District. 0 oe eT TO | WITH THE EDITORS af o-. — Y HUMAN AND PROPERTY RIGHTS. (Grand Forks Herald.) Attorney General “Langer, in at- tempting to justify his course in vio- lating one law, in order that ne might enforce another, talks of the differ- ence between human rights and prop- erty rights. Be it known that Mr. Langer is a friend of the Peepul, and| he doesn’t care who knows it Hu- man rights are sacred to him, and for property rights in comparison he cares ‘hot a fig. This sort of twaddle is ‘older than Mr. Langeri#9A:-good many dema- gogues beférw tit have. talked in the same strain? ‘Overi‘andover again men of his typéthakellissues of dis- tinctions which do not exist. Human rights and property rights, what are they, and what is the differ- ence between them? The only rights that exist, with which human beings are concerned, are human rights. Property has no rights. It can have none. Human beings have rights, and those rights cover many fields. The only thing that can be de- scribed as a property right is the right of the individual to.possess prop- erty. The proper elf is insensate. And the Fi ihe individual ito possess |) y imply a human right. It belongs to the individual, together with his right to life -and liberty.;..Jt is as sacred as either of thesé, for without it the others would be worthless. It would be idle to con- cede to the individual the right to live and to move about if we denied to him the right to possess the property necessary to his sustenance. That which lawfully ‘belongs to a man he has the right to use and enjoy, sub- ject to the regulations which society has found it necessary to make for the maintenance of order and the pro- tection of the equal rights of other persons. It makes no difference whether this property consist of the individual's farm, his cottage, his automobile, his cow, his railroad or his telephone ex- change, so long as the property is his, hiihas ‘the right to possessiand use it, and it is one of the fundamental principles of our government that no man may be deprived of his property without due process of law. When he is so deprived, the person responsible for the act commits a crime, and the crime is all the more odious when committed by a public official who. ted sworn to obey and defend the jaw. BIDS WANTED FOR REMOVAL OF GARBAGE. : Sealed bids for the removal of gar- bage, in water-tight boxes, to the; city dump ground, will be received by the City Commission until June 11th, 1917, at 8 o'clock p. m. Such bids must be made on the basis of employ- ing either one man and team or two men and team on the work. These bids must be accompanied by a cer- tified check for $200, payable to A. W. Lucas, President of the City Commis- sion. The City Commission reserves the right to reject any or all bids. C. L. BURTON, City Auditor. (5—31; 6—6) SUMMER SESSION OF THE PUB- LIC SCHOOLS. For the sole purpose of assisting those pupils who for various causes fail to meet the requirements for the year, and do not make a passing mark in one or more studies, a summer term of six weeks will be operated in the Will school, beginning prompt- ly at 8 o'clock Monéay morning, June 11, and continuing thereafter each school day between 8 a. m. and 12:15 p. m. This work will be open only to pupils who are now in grades 4,5, 6, 7, and 8, and who have failed in one or more studies for the year. Pupils who pass in their work to the next grade will not be admitted, and pupils in these grades will not be per- mitted to “skip” a year by attempt- ing to make up 36 weeks’ work in) a brief summer session, or by priv- ate work in the summer. The nature of this work, and the fact that it is free, make it necessary that every pupil. be prompt ‘and punctual in at-. WANLY UNCOVERS BIG SYNDICATES WORKING TO LOOT EGG MARKET “Buy Now, Sell Next Winter, Realize Enormous Profits,’? Is Slog- an of One Concern to Take Profit From People EGGS NOW BUYING TO SEE AND GRASP OPPORTUNITY IS 10 OPEN WIDE THE GATES To WEALTH Buy Eggs Now—Sell Next Winter REALIZE SOME OF THE ENORMOUS PROFITS FOR YOURSELF—OTHERS DO IT—S@ CAN YOU ies aver presented to you to invest Be rene, Two HUNDRED. HS Usano DOLLAR SYNDICATE 0 bu Ww when cheap and hold them for the high prices which cach winter "Th n ot anceuary fru oo inte deta rexuriog the mai suffice to say that you are al ly aware betas fr peng . jear by those who are far sighted enough to take Kavlne’ when cage afe around from twenty-five to thaty canis par deoes, holding them for » few months, and selfing them for from Ffty to sixty conte ver dosen, making an actual prot of twenty to thirty cents on cach denen. HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN THESE BIG PROFITS You now have the opportwty 10 participate in these tremendous profits iy iss ce te ves ene oa Since eoyry ered have in eggs. Remember you can buy one case or i permit” We eronly avin you to bey a bear ot yom ete for with liberi rats, (eit ef your purchaser, quakes coe of the most desirable, safeet, and by all ncane the mont profible investzoent proposition poseible. WHAT WE WILL DO fety in which you can invest and receive such enormous returns om your money? We don’t think 1o—in fact we know you can’t. . FOR SURE, BIG, HANDSOME RETURNS ON YOUR MONEY, BUY EGGS—NOW—TODAY Remem! syndicate will soon close, 90 if you wish to excephonal money maet, Ua ws have your erase RIGHT inonee TODAY. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION WRITE OR PHONE US WwooD & DENMAN INVESTMENT BROKERS 537-8-9-40 Andrus Bldg. MINN. MINNEAPOLIS, Photographic copy of a circular sent out, promising enormous profits to those who enter a proposition to .hold eggs off the market, then sell them at high prices. By BASIL MANLY. Chicago, May '31—In my tour of the vital food centers for the Tribune I have heard reliable reports that in addition to speculation in foodstuffs carried on by dealers, large syndi- cates are being formed’ to corner markets and reap large profits from the dining tables of the people. Advertising matter put’ out . by Wood & Denmen' of Minneapolis tells the whole story of many such syn- dicates, planning to buy enormous quantities of eggs now, storing them until next winter at profits that may run as high as 250 per cent. It is*said: formation of this “syndi- cate” has been ‘conducted’ with great ‘secrecy and circulars were sent.only to :persons: who answered: an adver- tisement in newspaper classified ‘col- umns. and! who. were believed “safe.” I. was. able-to: secure’a copy of the circular. 4 In the circular the “syndicate” of- fered to advance 60 per cent of the purchase price. of any number of cas- es of eggs and led “investors” on by promises of apparent profits of $300 on an investment of $180. “Is it possible,” asks the circular, “to find any other investment that is surrounded with absolute safety, in which you can invest and _ receive such enormous returns on your mo- ney?” The answer is “No.” But the per- ‘son who falls for the game will find, !say those familiar with this kind of “investment,” that he will: not hav $300 profits. Before he gets started he may ex- pect to find there is a commission to be paid on the purchase: of the eggs, a commission and interest to::be paid on the 60 per cent advanced by the “syndicate,” ‘storage charges to be paid’on the eggs’ and other:‘charges and commissions, to be paid’ to the “pyndicate.” i Thus; a large part of the expected profits may be taken by the “synd!- cate” before the “investor” gets into the game. The evidence in this particular case has been turned over to the Minnesota committee of safety, which has almost plenary powers, and brought to the attention of the fed- eral district attorney. But there is evidence that this is only one of a chain of get-rich-quick schemes to corner food markets and trim suckers. As the Iaw stands, federal action against such schemes can be had on- ly under the Sherman act, with all the delays and technical loopholes for which it is famous. Protection against such schemes could be provided if tlie president were. granted by congress full power to control food distribution, which he has asked. tendance. ceived after the end of the first week:: Parents intending to’ take advantage of this. school will please see that children..enter, promptly on the open- ing day. We offer this opportunity to children-.who need this help so that they may make up the work, if possible, and enter the next grade in the“fall.-We.do not®* guarantee the -Promotion: of-any child,-but will do all in our power to bring’ it about by hard and, careful work, We-hope this work willbe the means of raising the Standard of the school and of reduc- ing the number of failures. Mrs. Cas- selman will be in charge of this sthool, with probably one assistant. J. M. MARTIN, 5-26-1t:6-2-1t City Superintendent. NOTICE OF REAL ESTATE MORT-: GAGE FORECLOSURE SALE. Notice is hereby given that that cer- tain real estate mortgage made, ex- ecuted and delivered by Andrew Ha- gen, unmarried, mortgagor, to Inter- state Securities company, a corpora- tion, mortgagee, dated September 8, 1913, and filed. for record in the office of the Register of Deeds within and for Burleigh county, North Dakota, on the 12th day of June, 1915, at 4:00 o'clock’ p. in,, and duly recorded in Book. “123”. of Mortgages at page “510," with the power of sale therein contained, will be foreclosed by a sale of the premises in said mortgage and hereinafter described at the front door of the. court ‘house in Bismarck, Burleigh: county, North Dakota, on Saturday, the 30th day. of June, 1917, at 2:00 o'clock p. m., to satisfy the amount due on said mortgage at the time of sale. The prentises named in said mort- gage and which will be sold to satisfy the same afe situate in Burleigh coun ty, North Dakota, and are described as follows; to-wit: Southeast quarter (SE 4) of sec tion six (6), township one hund.ed thirty-nine (139), range eignty (80) and the east half (E %) of the north- west quarter (NW %) of section four- teen (14), township one hundred thir- ty-nine (139), range eighty-one (81). Said mortgagee has paid certain New pupils cannot be -re-f.suins; thereo! Dh 8 towiti Interest due wpon:a@ prior:lien/.whichiwith interest sthereon, will, onthe day of sale, amount:to ninety and 35-100 dollars ($90.35) and which amount is includ- ed in the amount hereinafter claimed be due at the time of sale. This foreclosure and sale is for past due installments only and is subject to all installments of said mortgage not yet due. There will be due on said mortgage on thé‘date of sale the sum of one hundted"twenty-eight dol- lars ($128) besides attorney fees and the costs of this foreclosure. Dated at Minot, North Dakota, this 15th day of May, 1917. INTERSTATE SECURITIES “COM- ‘PANY, Mortgagee. | FRANCIS MURPHY, Attorney for ‘Mortgagee, Minot, North Dako’ 5-28 : 6-4-11-18. 7-2 PUBLIC SCHOOL KINDERGARTEN —SUMMER SESSION. The public school kindergarten, having taken its long vacation in Jan- uary, February and March, will con- tinue during the summer without in- {terruption until August 17, at which time the regular two weeks’ vacation will be taken, corresponding to the Christmas and Easter vacations taken by teachers in the other grades of the school. The kindergarten will be in charge of Miss Matilda Williams, assisted by Miss Laura Keenan, both graduate kindergarteners, the former of the Chicago Kindergarten school and the latter of the kindergarten de- partment of the Mankato State nor- mal. Children may be started June 11, provided they are over four and under six. It is expected to operate this work for the summer on the lawn of the north ward school, and indoors in the same school when the weather will not permit the use of the lawn. Parents interested please communicate. by phone with the city superintendent or the ‘principal, Miss Matilda Williams,’ whose phone num- ber is’ 38, rad J. M. MARTIN, City Superintendent. 5-26-1t:6-2-1t 11 | | Says f ' , j i wales » \ i } ’ ‘ ‘ ne ry y ( nue © a 5 ted my. ’ ' 4 Wes