The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 6, 1919, Page 1

t ‘ q ‘ , ; te n \ ' + ! gi 1 a "y » *% is hy a + cs paid. Pent MoE CoEreme cee: THE WEATHER Fair tonight. |THE BIS THIRTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 32. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA THURSDAY, FEB. THRIFT MUST FINISH WORK YANKS BEGAN Finances for Rehabilitation of America Must Come from. Savings of People EDUCATION CAMPAIGN OF American Citizens to Be Taught One Great National Vir- tue They Lack / Thrift must finish the work so well “egun by the Yanks over there. Thrift must make America a nation sufficient unto itself. Thrift, by creating new capital here at home, must replace the millions which we have annually drawn from the old world, a world which now has no funds for foreign investment. Thrift must be established as the newest and the best of national vir- tues. These are some of the points which Dr. George N. Bauer, professor of mathematics at the University of Minnesota, now serving as vice di- rector of the Ninth district war sav- ings division of the national war loan organization, pressed home in address- es delivered Wednesday before each house of the general assembly and to county chairmen representing the War Savings organization’ of the south- western district of ‘North Dakota. He also spoke at a luncheon at the Grand Pacific Wednesday evening. Campaign of Education. The war savings organization has undertaken a campaign of education. It hopes to inculcate in the American people one sterling quality which they have lacked—thrift. It hopes to breed a new generation in whose cos- mos thrift will form a vital compo- nent. It hopes to pave the way for/a permanent and systematic savings which will enable America in the fu- ture to stand on its own feet, to fi- nance its own railways and industrial projects, buy its own government and commercial bonds. It is looking to the day when America can sign a new dechration of .independence—tinan- elally, commercially and industrially. He Tells Some Stories. In addressing the legislature Dr. Bauer told some pat stories. One was of two boys. with equal educational advantages, one endowed with many acres of ferltile land, and other per: niless,- but blessed with haics of thrift. He told how jhe one gradua}- ly lost -his echaracter.with the fortune which had come to him an? how the other while building up fortune through ‘thrift at the same time built up a strong. character «which, made him a man among men. He declared the call for patriotism today greater than at ‘any time during the war. : J When the war was ‘iipon' us our em9- tions were fed daily by news trim the front, by: farewells to. devarting’ sol- dier boys, by heroic: déeds performed by them‘across thé seas. We were at the peak; standing on ‘the heights. ‘Now we have none of that excitement, none of the emotional appeals to the senses, only a strong, firm demand for steady, sane, constructive patriot- ism. We Must Yet Pay. The war is won, but its cost.is not America is now spending two billions a month. Dr. Bauer endeav- ored to impress upon his hearers the magnitude of this sum by stating that if a string of ‘box cars oaded to capa- city with two-dollar wheat were to be stretched from the Pacific to the Atlantic it would represent in money FINLAYSON LOSES FIGHT TO ESCAPE PRISON SENTENCE Supreme Court Denies Bismarck Blindpigger Rehearing on Appeal Frank Finlayson, after being twice convicted in the Kidder county dis- trict court for violations of the North Dakota liquor laws, tailed in his last effort to escape serving the two-years prison term imposed when the su- {Preme court yesterday denied his pe- tition for rehearing in the appeal which the supreme court recently de- cided in favor of the state, uphold- ing the judgment of the lower court. Wioile Finlayson was ‘Kidder county on two separate counts {and was sentenced to serve two years junder each conviction, the court de- creed that the terms should run sim- ultaneously and not consecutively,, CONFISCATION, SAYS KOSITZKY OF TAX PLAN State Auditor Opposes Classifi- cation Putting Big Burden on Land Official Quotes form Experience | and Expert from Theory \ Before Committee COMES BACK STRONGER. Prof. Roylance from the land of somewhere who has veen sum- moned into North Dakota to help tax its citizens and whose num- ber State Auditor Kositzky | se- cured early in the session, has amended his pet measure provid- ing that all city lots valued at more than $2,500 shall pay tax on a valuation of 100 per cent and sixty per cent ‘under that figure. It is just another attempt to shift the taxes onto the city property holders, ! ( erty proposed by Prof. W. G. Roy- lance, the league's tax expert, would: result’, in men’s. homes small farmers. and to own his home in. Bismarck. under, the proposed classitication. He op; grounds of its alleged constitution: ity and because he held it to: be con: tax-levying machinery of the state. The state auditor pointed to the fact that property in this state is as- sessed only in odd numbered years and that land now assessed as unused would so stand on the tax rolls until 1921, even though its owner might break it this spring and put in & crop. Kositzky, in the case of city lots. Such a lot, now vacant, might be assessed this spring as unused land, while dur- ing the summer a workman might erect a home upon it. He would, how- value but. one billion dollars, and Uncle Sam is paying out twice that) sum every month. | This stupendous expenditure must | be financed by the people here at; home. Uncle Sam must have money j{ to pay his own bills and to loan thej crippled. nations of the old world to} enable them*to pay theirs. He must: finance starving Europe in order that | it may buy our wheat. The money saved at ‘home and loaned abroad will) return to us in payment for our pro- duce and our manufactured articles. | It will act as a stabilizer on the price! of wheat and other food stuffs, on the| high standard of wages established | during the war. Hi _ What Thrift. Will Do. | The speaker told of many things; which may be accomplished through} systematic savings; of the ease with which families in poor circumstances ; may lay aside a small-sum each year to provide for the education of their children; or to acquire a home. The nusiness man who saves $1,000 per annum through additional thrift can hire with that amount $20.000 of cap-; ital to work for him a whole year. =; He spoke .of ‘the national develop-; ment which will follow greater thrift, | of the expansion which will be pos- sible here at home, in North Dakota, whose bond issues must be bought largely by its own people, because; the capital of other states is being employed at home. He declared that he had recently heard an address by a it. man who classed the humble thrift stamp as one of the three great (Continued on Page Four.) ever, re required to pay taxes on the lot for two years ag “unused. land.” !There would be a never-ending com- plexity af adjustments and abatements as_a result, said the auditor. Roylance defended: ‘his. ‘plan; al- though he admitted that it was entire- ly new and altogether theoretical. He confessed that no American State had adopted such a plan ‘of classifying property for taxation. Senator Mees of Morton supported the state audi- tor’s contentions. Auditor Kositzky attacked some ot the other league taxation bills which are before the committee. He ob- jected to the plan of creating the of- fice of county assessor, which he de- clared would add 53 public employes to the payroll in the state and would complish nothing which cannot now be accomplished through the office of the county auditor. He declared the | state was adopting a plan which would | result in spending most of the taxes in order to collect them. The state auditor promised the committee that if the league plan of taxation went through the state would be compelled to confiscate for taxes at least 200 lots in Bismarck which classed as unused land and assessed at their full value, would cost the owners in taxes more than they would ever be worth. THREE BURNED. Feb. 6 —Three persons to death in a fire Seattle, were burned which destroyed a lodging house in; lower Seatle today. Twelve were in- dured. TO TALK RECONSTRUCTION: : AT OMAHA CONFERENCE Omaha, Nebr., Feb. 6.—The trans- Mississippi readjustment congress to he held in Omaha, Feb. 18 to 20 will: chart the course of business in the west during the readjustment period. Leading business men, professional men( agriculturists, city officials ana | governors from every state west of the Mississippi will meet in over twen- ty group meetings to outline a plan of re and create the machin- ery for putting it into action at Wash- ington and elsewhere. The Omaha congress will have the active cooperation of the chamber of. commerce of the United States which organized the industrial east at the Atlantic City congress or group meet- ings including Harry A. Wheeler, president of the chamber of commerce of the United States; J. Ogden Ar- mour, David F. Houston, secretary of agriculture, and John Barrett. director general of the Pan-American Union. agricultural, manufacturing and good The same would hold good, said Mr.j convicted in| |Special. taxes, were adopted by the; STIFF TAXES | IMPOSED BY Federal General Increases to Pay for the War \ | WILL GO AFTER INCOMES Nation Must Raise Six Billion During Next Fiscal Year | | transportation, amusements, tobacco, club dues, and luxuries, stamp and conferees on the new tax budget. The principal rate increase agreed to in conference were to raise the co poration income rate of 1920 from 5 | Per cent as proposed by the senate to {10 per cent, and an increase of 60 to (65, per cent in the second (bracket) or iSHding rates on corporations’ excéss | profits for this year. The 80 per cent ‘war tax tor this'year was adopted and ,extended to 1920, but to be made ap-| ! it TILTS WITH ROYLANCE, jual exemptions of $1,000 for single and! plicable next year on profits only from government contracts, The bracket rates for 1920 also were “approved, Retains Surtaxes, In the important income tax section, the bill retins all surtaxes proposed herein. | It fixes the rate for subsequent normal rate on individual incomes earned last year, and 8 per cent pay- able in 1920, are retained with individ- $2,090 for married persons and an ad- ‘ditional exemption! of $200 for each {dependent minor. | Also are adopted | Principals shall only pay 6 per cent! i next. 2 | Extending the Reed bone dry prohi- State Auditor Kositzky assured the, bition law to the District. of Colum- committee on taxes and tax laws.yes: | bia. terday that the classification of prop-| Tncrenping Heine s 25 tor $100 fhe tak posed the Roylance pill not only onsale ‘and usetof: this year. The surtaxes ranging from 1 per centon incomes between $5,000 and $6,000 to 65 per cent on more than $1,000,09 also were ‘approved. Of the important general legisla: tion and “riders” the conferees adopt- ‘ed the following: Levying a prohibition tax on prod- uets of child lavor. Pro!War Rates. Restoring pre-war. rates. and postcards . effective on letters duly 1st on those'dealing in‘ intoxicants includ- ig “stills! in='prohibition’ territory. For taxation iof salaries of federal confiscating many. work- Officials including the president and | the property of! Sa i. For tax’onvall’government, contracts He declared that he | hy contractors on demand of. the ,in- could not himselt afford to continue) ternal revenue collector. judiciary. but. not of state officials. In the treagury véstricting ‘the Establishing “aw adyisony, tax board PE fen strengtli- Kening the Harrison drug act. fiscatory in its nature, but he also| k c declared the scheme so complicated portation effective April 1 largely fol- that it would confuse and congest the, lows the existing ‘Té&.'on Tickets. The pyoyisionh for taxes on ‘trans jfrom 10 per cent to 8 per cent the levy on seats, berths, and stateroom ac- | comomdations in parlor cars or on ves- sels, fixes rates on telegraph, tele- phone, and radio messages at 5c on those costing lic to 50c and to 10¢c; on those above 50c, and impoges a new tax on private or leased telephone and telegragh lines, wires, of 10 per cent of rentals, In fixing the transportation rates, the commutation trips are exempted. With the submission to congres to- day of the long delayed war revenue bil) the American people were pre- sented with their 1919 tax budget something over six billion this year and four ‘billion hereafter subject to revision of Hext congress. The cénféfericé’ report was regarded as sure of‘tdoption by both house and senaté. It thus promises to be the tuture American ‘tax yield which’ is year’s tax ‘levy of six billion’ further | treasury need to be raised by bonds ; introduced ‘Tuesday. are estimated at 12 billion. Except for slightly increased war excess profits and corporation income «Continued on Page Rieht NEW MEASURE Budget Provides for Washington, Feb. 6.—Rates on! provisions that ; law, -but .reduces | except press | He’s Head of the Public Service Division 1 i | MAX | THELA a | | One of the first things that Director} | General Hines of the U.S, railroad ad- ministration did was to appoint Max {Thelan, a former railroad attorney and more recently chairman of the | California railroad: commission, direc! or of the division of public. servic ithe railroad adminfstration. APPROPRIATION | BILLS ALREADY | | Industrial Commission and Bank ito be no precedent which can be safe-! !ly followed in the present instance. | | their negative vote by stating that LANGER DOUBTSIONE-THIRD OF PEACE , NEED OF EXTRA’ CONFERENCE WORK DONE: EMERGENCY VOTE) LITTLE NATIONS WIN POINT | Oana 3 ; Attorney General Expresses the’ Gain More Seats on Committee—Want Uncle Sam Opinion, However, That i Roll Call Is Advisable to Police Ottoman, Powers—Turkey Makes | Request ‘ LEAGUE BILLS OUT SOON ee Sn ’ Hl - Paris, Feb. 6.—The society of nations committee has virtu- covered 1-3 of its path, it was announced this afternoon. p The supreme council, on receiving the acceptance of the Rus- sian Bolshevik government to attend the conference on the island, agreed to send two representatives to meet them. | Gains Four Seats Attorney General Langer gave the, In addition to winning four additional places, it seems prob- house as his opinion Wednesday that! able that the lesser powers will be granted adequate representa- under the emergency amendment to/tion in the executive bodies of the society. The smaller powers the constitution a separate vote is not ‘are insisting upon a greater voice in the deliberations. Nineteen j ally of North Dakota Measures Due Saturday iTequired on measures carrying an! small belligerent nations won recognition by the granting of four emergency clause and which receive aj seats to the small powers, increasing the number to nine. The two-thirds vote. The attorney general! five great powers have 10 seats. suggested, however, that to be safe The American delegation to the peace conference has received a separate roll-call should be had. In/ several petitions from territory under Ottoman rule asking to be the state board of regents case of! placed under United States protection. They want United States 1917, the supreme court divided even-! to be the mandatory power to look after Constantinople. ly on this question. and there seems Even the great European powers are urging America to accept the responsibility, as she enjoys the confidence ofall the peoples involved. Salvatore Barziali, member of the Italian delegation, has said that by participating in the war, the United States has under- taken such moral obligations that constitute international duties. O’Connor to Be Victory Orator Plans have been completed for the The question was put up to the at-j torney general as a result of the vote on the emergency clause attached to{ house Bill 55, providing for state mine inspection. The bill ‘proper re- ceived more than two-thirds of the vote in the house, but the emergency clause fell ‘short, menibers explaining A statement was issued stating that the principles underlying a léague of nations have been decided upon: The supreme war council will meet jat Versailles Saturday to impose up- they believed the mines should be iCompilation of Measures Not In-! cluding League Industies | Reaches $6,088,127.21 | | | A tabulation of dppropriation bills | ‘introduced up to Febru 4, prepared | by the state budget board, shows a total of $6,088,172.21 called tor to | nance the’ state- during the ensuing |} biennium, ‘exclusive ‘of several}, appro: | priations of $100,000 and $200,000 pro-| vided ‘for in bills creating the: state} jindustrial commisison, immigration | jcommnission, ‘Bank of North. Dakota, jmill and’ elevator: association, home j building Association and/*¢ther utili-| \ ties’ and’ enterprises.’ Anthony Walton, |who is.a member ‘of the’ board, as | chairman ofthe. approprfations. com- mittee of ‘the 1917 house, estimates self-sustaining, will reduce the whole amount to be levied by about $1,000,000 ‘and he hopes that ‘appropriations, ex- ‘elusive © of ‘those provided: far the league. program, may. he kept, within | $5.000,000.. This’ would give -a grand aggregate,for the ensuing two years, , including league appropriations, of $6,-' 900,000, which is fifty per cent’ greater. than the whole budget for the last~bi-: hennium, , | p(Phe total of $6,088.127.21. includes | ‘auch ‘items as $40000 for the board of} }such items as $40,000 for bovine tu- |berculosis' indemnity; $100,000 for} |transportalion in consolidated school; districts; $50,000° for the contingent tfund; $3,029.517.97 embodied: in the {general omnibus bill including execu- tive, legislative, judicial and school ‘expenses; $210,565 for the ionstit tion for the feeble-minded at Grafton; | i insurance: premium 0,060 for the state hail insurance de-; partment; $60,000 for the maintenance of the state militia; $100,000 for voca-; tional training, and $106,000 for mem- orial monuments. Some of the appro-} |Priations bills comprising this total ‘of $6,088,127.21 already have heen : killed. e \INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION | | TO RUN OUR STREET CAR i us i ! Control of the state trolley line in Bismarck is -transferred ‘from the {now ‘about $4,370,000,000. Beside’ this; board of control to the state indus- | trial conimisison. by Senate Bill 175, The industrial ‘commisison is authorized to make ‘such extensions as it may deem neces- sary. Twenty thousand is appropri- jated for the use of the commisison. FIRST PICTURE OF SYNDICALIST RIOTS IN COPENHAGEN on Germany the full demand of the ; Allies because of the refusal of Ger- many to carry out the terms of the armistice except upon certain condi- j tions. Members of the Bolsheviki govern- ment announce that they are willing |to recognize the financial obligations jOf the nation toward the entente gov- | ernment. allowed time to prepare to place the act in operation. ivery important league measure before the assembly carries an emerg- ency clause, and it is probacle that under Attorney General Langer's | bifurcated ruling a separate roll-call| will be had on each of these emerg-' encies. There is said to be some sen-} “iment among leaguers to defeat the/| emergencies on thes measures in or-! der that ample time may be allowed / the people to familiarize themselves | big victory meeting at the Auditorium Sunday evening under the auspices of the Knights of Columbus. J. °F, T. O'Connor will on give an oration tnat the, appropriations which will oc, | with the provisions of these measures before they become effective. Two of the most important league {bills will come before the house Sat- urday, when H. b. 17, creating a state ‘owned utilities. and enterprises, and Ht, B, 18, establishing a Bank of ‘North Dakota, will be reported out of the istate affairs committee. Both of these bills carry.an emergency clause. There is a growing belief that H. B. 17 will be amended to increase the membership of the-industrial commis- ion: which in the original. bill is con- fined to the governor, attorney gen- eral and commissioner of, agriculture | i a tives have presented themselves al- and labor, EQUITY SOCIETY TO HOLD ANNUAL MEETING HERE National President of Great Farmers’ Organization Will Address Dakota Branch The North Dakota Equity will hold its annual convention in Bismarck next Wednesday and Thursday, when the national presi- jdent of the organization will address the Flickertail members. Because the assembly is now in session and because the Equity society is. much interested in pending legislation, a large attendance is promised. Pres)- dent Anthony Walton of Minot is al- ready in the city, serving on the state budget board, and he is making prep- arations; for the big meeting. The sessions will be held in the Commer- cial club rooms. Major A. W. Lucas will deliverthe address of welcome Wednesday morning, and the govern- or will speak. ii This is the first picture received in America of the Snydicalist rioting in Copen- hagen. Street cars were stopped:and red flags were everywhere’ during the demonstra- roads problems will be among the im- | portant phases considered. tions. “Observe the agitator addressing. crowd from the top of a street car while he holds a red flag in one hand and émphasizes' his’ worda.with the other. as eee Society of; ds F. T. O'CONNOR, “Victory” and there will be orchestra {music and community singing led by jMrs,,John Graham. There will also | be arsola,by Mrs. Graham and a duet by Messrs Humphreys and Halverson. The public is invited. There wilf be no admission. The meeting is staged} to celebrate the event of world peace | and also to commemorate victory in the world war. UNCLE SAM TO PAY SOLDIERS | DURING STUDY’ | i i |Government Will Send Yanks to, i School and Give Then | | $65 Per Month | | Harry W. Jones, district vocational officer of the federal board for voca-{ tional training, division of rehabilita- | tion, addressed both houses Wednes-, day on the government's plans for | the rehabilitation through vocational jtraining of soldiers and sailors who! ; Sustained peramennt injuries during | ithe war. The board, stated Mr. Jones, intends | to offer to any soldier or sailor whose ; incapacity .is of a degree of ten per-| ! cent or*more vocational or industrial | training in any standard school, col-| lege or university, or in an industrial j Plant. for, such a number of years as jmay be required to prepare him to {assume a useful place in the world. ' During this period of training the gov- ernment will not only pay tuition fees but ‘will allow the student $65 per } month for his board and expenses, | “There is no reason why any in- | jured soldier or sailor should waste {his time ftooking for a job.” said Mr. {Jones. “The government is prepared | to take care of him at once and to prepare him for a better position than | jhe ever was capable of filling when! WOULD CONSIDER IRELAND. Washington, Feb, 6—The house for- eign affairs committee today ordered jfavorable report on”a resolution ex- pressing the hope that the peace con- ference would “consider the rights of Ireland as to the self-determination of ; nations.” TO OPEN ASSEMBLY, |" | Amsterdam, | Feb. 6,—Friedrich Evert, the German chancellor, will ; Open the first sesison of the newly j elected German assembly~at, Weimar. Advices state that many representa- rady. PASS UP RESPONSIBILITY. Berne, Feb, 6.—The _ international. socialist congress today settled the. responsibility for the war and the fu- ture attitude of the German socialists in the congress, by declaring the con- gress had passed over.the responsibil- ity kuestion. , A strong tendency to exclude the German majority socialists was made in the early discussion. Herman Mueller today declared that the German socialists always had opposed militarism. “The young republic of Germany is ready to consent to a general dis- armament on the condition that all other countries do the same.” Legislator Riled At Rev. Finwall After the anti-moonshine law was revived and passed by the house by a vote of 62 to 38 today, Rep, Hardt j introduced a_ resolution asking that the legislative activities of Rev. C. W-. Finwall, formerly connected with tho North Dakota Law Enforcement league be investigated. He declared that Rev. Finwall was intimidating legislators. Rep. Hardt Jed the fight against H. B. 66 which , makes it a crime to be found in pos- sesion of liquor. STRIKE E: NoiNG, London, Feb. 6.—The first step in the threatened extension of the rail- road strike was taken last night when some of the drivers on the Brighton roads were called ont. The passenger trains ran until midnight. Early trains to the suburbs were not started this morning. The government today continued its atitude that it could not interfere in the strike situation, as they were solely industrial measures, The fourth day of the tube strike found many thousands of persons in line awaiting for the busses. In this situation, the war office mobilized more than 1,000 motor lor- ries along the principal routes, to supplement the busses. It is estimat- ed they will be able to carry 250,000 persons daily. No fare is charged and varticular attention is paid to work- | sound. | Paris, Feb. 6.—Germany is pictured asa land of grave yards by Lieut.Col. ‘Harris of the U. S. medical reserve corps who has just returned to Paris {after having investigated conditions. He said the German nation is bank- rupt and that probably no one will ‘ever know the casualties suffered by Germany. There are no eggs, no meat and no butter. Shop girls have lost from ten to forty-five pounds, while everyone shows a lack of vi tality. “I. found children going to. school,” he said, “with paper sandals to which wooden soles had been add- | 5 ing girls and women. ‘GERMANY IS A LAND OF GRAVEYARDS, SAYS PHYSICIAN ed. Tuberculosis ig increasing and skin diseases due to lack of soap are prevalent.” _ One of the good results is that it has helped many who were over-eat- ing: Bright’s disease has disapepared ‘as well as diabetes,’ but intestinal trouble has increased. ¥ .@Mny women and children will ‘die starve, but mot the women | rea dred. “Hungry” ‘not : good neighbors,” he said.