The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 3, 1919, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ——————— Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - = = st Editor G._ LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative FK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette i DETROIT, Kresege OLIS, 810 Lumber Exc! MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not other- Biss ‘credited in this paper and also the local news pub- in, ‘All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. ‘MEMBERS AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year ........ -$7:50 Daily by mail per year (In Bismarck - 1.20 Daily by mail per year (In State outside of Bismarck) 5.00 by mail outside of North Dakota... - 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. Established 1873) ei IT IS DONE : With each day bringing forth more radical and! more vicious class legislation, everyone in North; Dakota who loves fair play and ordinary honesty must rejoice upon learning that the Sixteenth general assembly finally adjourned at 1 o’clock Sunday morning, after devoting 48 hours to an effort to throttle immediately the independent press of North Dakota and to read out of the state members of the minority who possessed sufficient manhood to condemn acts of the majority which they believed to be wrong. It is doubtful whether a parallel for the Six- teenth general assembly can be found in the his- tory of civilized law-making. We had here a body of men supposedly elected under a representative form of government to exercise legislative powers delegated by an indpendent, ,intelligent, free peo- ple, and we find them blindly accepting dictation} from one man or a small coterie of men, exercising no initiative of their own, displaying no independ- ence of thought or action, bereft, apparently, of the power to think and to judge; deprived of all inclination to ponder and weigh and determine for themselves, doing things directed by others, re- peating phrases placed in their mouths by others, leaving behind them a recerd which cannot but rise up some day to shame them or their children. * * * SS League legislators came here to enact into law & program clearly defined in the platform of their party and acknowledged and approved by their constituents. Insofar as their legislative acts tended to fulfil these pledges, they were above criticism. But the law-makers found upon their arrival here, as they did two years ago, an entirely new program for them to sponsor, and tis pro- gram went: far beyond anything that the people had conceived. It was not a program prepared by the people for the people, but a scheme cunningly drafted by socialistic manipulators in the capital of another state, perhaps with advice from forejgn capitals. And to the shame of the Nonpartisan majority it must be said that less than a half- dozen members had the manhood to reject this outside domination and to stand firmly and:fairly for the program which their people sent,them here to carry out. Be) tee i So we find. measures enacted purely for the ‘punishment of enemies of certain leaguers, not opponents of the movement as a whole; we -findy bills made into law that disrupt the whole educa- tional and penal and charitable system of the state to make a job for, one man—and that one man a candidate for favor at the last election who was repudiated by a large and convincing majority. We find on our statute books, signed by the gover- nor within an hour after it had passed the last house, iniquitous Senate Bill 157, which gives to a newspaper trust controlled by Job W. Brinton, one of the large flock of agitators drawn into the league movement through the opportunities it has offered for personal profit, a monopoly of all the legal printing, both private and public, in the state, a monopoly which must be worth at least $800,000 per annum. * * * The people were not taken into the confidence of the league managers as to their plans for a Bank of North Dakota until fully a month after election, and then the announcement came through the in- dependent and not the Nonpartisan press of the state. : The assembly has given the farmers machinery with which to establish a system of state-owned terminal elevators and flour mills, but it has loaded up the system with so many side-lines that the success cf the main project may be endangered. It has authorized the issuance of $10,000,000 worth of state bonds with which to establish a state system of rural credits, but it admits at the same time that it cannot loan this money at less than seven, and in all probability eight percent will be the minimum, while a previous legislature had already taken steps to make available to the farmer some $30,000,000 of the university and school lands fund at five percent. 3 The league has committed the state to a public indebtedness of $17,000,000, upon which the inter- est and income for thirty years will average $1,- 100,000 per annum; it has, as a matter of record, paved the way for an increase in the tax burden from $21,497,000 per annum to $25,800,000, with a| great liklihood that the aggregate may go to $29,- 080,000. The farmer’s tax burden has been increased from 30 percent on the actual valuation of his land to 100 percent, placing him on a level with the . railways, other public utilities, corporations and : institutions. New. boards and. commis- and departments have been created with a np rege apedpe area he reap hereby iticreased by some two million per annum, and substantial appropriations have admittedly been made for purposes of propaganda only. * * * referended. The league by amending the constitu-| tion has made it difficult through its emergency and referendum clauses to give the people an op- portunity to vote on these questions. The major-|, ity flatly refused to incorporate in any of these radical bills a section specifically giving the people this right. It was only when Governor Frazier found senators of his own party insurging against the high-handed manner in which ‘Townley was committing the state to an unlimited socialism that the chief executive appeared before the upper | house to give his word that he would call a special | election for a referendum vote on the most impor- tant measures if petitions containing 15,000 repre-| sentative signatures were filed with him. The|’ league’s emergency amendment would require that 30,000 signatures be filed within 90 days and that these signatures, representing a third of the entire! voting strength of the state, be secured at a time| of the year when the task is most difficult. | What the final verdict of the people will be it is difficult to predict. The people have been united in their demands for some of the basic reforms which the league promised. But the league in making good that promise went so much further than any of the people asked or contemplated that the wisdom of its acts may well be questioned. i LEAD THIS SORT OF A DOUBLE LIFE AND YOU WILL LIVE LONGER When we put a non-skid chain on our automo- bile tire we hang the chain loosely, never fastening it so that it will hit the same spot on the tire twice consecutively. First the chain hits here; then, there, always touching a bit of rubber it didn’t touch on the last revolution. of the wheel and touching it from a slightly different angle. That’s why tires are not worn to shreds by the chains that keep them from.slipping. | If we chained automobile tires as some of us chain our lives, tires wouldn’t last more than a few days; a trip down town and back home would use up the best tire made. But some of us don’t display as much wisdom| in the arrangement of our lives. We hit the same spot all the time. Those of us who have that fault, that misunderstanding of how to put non-skid | chains on our lives, may well take a leaf from the daily diary of Louis Rgoul Riendeau. We ‘should lead a’ “double life’~as ‘Riendeau does. We should live two lives instead of one and by living two lives simultaneously, live each life longer than if’ we'lived but one. This double life which Riendeau lives has noth- ing in common with the so-called “double lives” which play. such prominent roles in divorce court} -proceedings..and.-breach..of..promise..cases. Pos- sibly, the real meaning of “double life” may be more“fully: disclosed by reading .a page, of ,Rien- deau’s life: tp ass, 23 : ‘Arise at 5:30; avork ‘at 7;.quit work at 3; practice :singing: ‘two ‘hours; singing in choir or elsewhere that evening.” From early mcrning. until late. afternoon Rien- deau works among chemicals, cameras and rout- ing machines in a photo-engraving shop. From late afternoon until late in the evening Riendeau studies and sings. 5 During the day,” he explained, “I think about my work, That keeps my mind off my musical studies, and I feel refreshed and rested when at’ 4 o’clock I go back to my singing lessons and prac- tice. Then all evening 1 think of singing and never a thought ccmes to me of the daily grind of work. It is as though I was, living another life.” We don’t know {whether singing by night makes Riendeau a better engraver’ by day, or whether, in the future, engraving by day will make hima better singer by night, but we are certain that a combination of the two make life more interesting tohim. ~~“ ne The man who lives with his work all the time lives a shorter and narrower existence. He wears out toc quickly, He doesn’t live to the fullest while he, lives.,. He carrjes his, work in his brain all day. He carries it to his meals. He carries it home with him, and nurses it during the evening. He scarcely can lay it aside for a moment to kiss his wife or smile at the baby. He lives but one life. * That man should take a lease on another life —singing, painting, drawing, carving, gardening, anything different to’ that which takes up his workday. The man who is a crackerjack banker or mechanic by day ought to be an enthusiastic something else after his’ day’s work is end@. His ambition to be a successful business or profes- sional man would be more easily and more surely reached if he linked that with an ambition to do another thing in his off hours. Life is short at best, so why not lengthen it by living two lives at the same time. Raoul Riendeau pcints the way. Statesmanship seems to require a lot of mouth- ing. Nobody knows that the league will work. But every decent instinct prompts us to try it out. The country is sound.and the future is bright. The only real danger is an epidemic of hysteria. If Taft’ really said that he wouldn’t trust those senatorial knockers over night, they must be bad. indeed, for Taft in 1909 to 1913 was a very trustful f | ' Some of these measures *undoubtedly will be; | - LEAVING THE “JAM” TO’ THE OTHER FELLOW | gO / wi AY it Awd SOW wes MH {tn erty FIFTY SERBIANS DROWNED IN. WELL UNDER LESKOVATZ CHURCH BY BULGARS BY LIEUT. COL. HOMER FOLKS American Red Cross Investigator As- signed by \N. E. A. to Write of | Conditions in the Balkans. Leskovatz, Serbia.—In Leskovatz there is a chure:i. | Under the church a well. % 8 | In the well the bodies of 50. citi- zens of Leskovatz were found— drowned. ( Their arms and legs had beem tied and ‘they “had been thrown into the water by the Bulgarians when they: swept over’ Serbia, a n of the; town of Leskoyatz told me. ‘He also gaid ‘that a good many of leading . citizens of Leskovatz, school teachers and such, had pported—as those left. behind understood—into. Bulgaria, But~ that just lately they had been finding inj the foothills, of ,the. mountains ‘over which the road went, graves in whic many of thése citizens had been bur- ied, after having Leen tortured, and killed. i In LesKovatz before the war stood one of the few large: factories in Ser- bia. * It had been making woolen cloth fr army uniforms and: aiso, linen cloth. t y The buildings had been filled with A TWO SIGNAL DEFEATS FOR LEAGUE. MARK CLOSING OF 16TH. GENERAL. ASSEMBLY ‘ (Continued from Page One) line to ‘connect with the Soo line tracks at Tenth. street, which would have enabled the state to dispense with“ wagon hauling of fuel and other supplies now, costing several thou- sand dollars per annum, was‘killed in the house. It is believel that mis action was a result of the brush: be- tween State Auditor Kosiizky and President A. C. Town on Vriday evening, for the bill w obby of the state auditor's’ and was intros duced at his request. Paterson was, Peevev. i ‘A peeve on the part of tive Del Patterson of Renvill | resulted in the loss of the public atil-| ities’ bilf. . Rep. -Burtnes:s on Satur- day afternoon brought: the situ before the house in-a motion that new conference» -committee. be ap: ; pointed to consider the amendments | on this measure made by the senate. He declared the house. conference committeo had declined: to meet with! conferees from the senate. “The house ‘committee was appointed a! week ago,” said Burtness, “and we have ‘had no’ report,’ understand that). house members: of the conference committee have refused to mect with; the’ senate conferees.” “IT object’ to. these kinds .ef state- ments,” shouted Patterson. “Lf nave been antagonized and abused on th floor all I'm going to be. J we stand for it, and Vm ready to bi that up here or anywhere anytime. I'm ready to go into conference on this bill, whenever ‘the, other: mem- bers of the cominittee are.” H “Well, then go to, It,” suggested Burtness. f te if Twichell declared it-‘seemed to be the policy of the house'to kill all pub- lic_utflify bills. He ‘said: he had in- troduced: one that: Had sheen so jokered in committee that it would have beeu a farce had he not. dideovered the jok- ér in: time and secured’ its elimina-| tion. + ORE Ss 38 This brought Patterson, to his feet again, fairly frothing with. rage: “1 don’t intend to: sit here and be| brow-beaten by men who come here to loot the state? °he bellowed in tones which shook the. room. “Louder! Louder!” came cries from all parts of the room. | “I move that the getitleman’s re- marks be printed in Journal ‘said Burtness: fends that this mittee five imported from expensive machinery Austria and Ge ny. When the Bulgarians came they put n to enter- 3 and many carry tags or are h the. nies: of the prising ¢ of the ® marked Ww: sstul, bidd 2 ey had not been #xble to trans- port’ all ofthe machines :before the fans. came ack, though ad been moved, but. all; those ould not be removed had been almast beyond pos: of repai All the engines, all the various, ma- chines: for ‘the manifold; operations re quired in ‘the manufacture. of cloths. had been damaged at some vital. spot. All the. leather: belts. and even, the cut away. . The boilers had been jmade useless. +! 3 Hed It. is an open question’ whether, the machines san be repaired ,and if .re- pair were posstble,,as to.whether it would not cost more than.to take a fresh start. : t . most melancholv ‘satisfaction in hav- ing us see how his life work had been destroyed. He seemed too old, too broken, and. too discouraged: to take a fresh start. - Pi AR RR ee he’s crazier than I think he is,” kind- ly offered Twichell. 3 The upshot of ft was that the com- mittee got busy with the bill, which had been secured from the speaker's desk only an - hour before, and the measure finally was agreed upon. Just a Small Mistake. take, a matter’ of a trifle more than $100,000, in Senate Bill. 64’s total, and it amended this omnibus bill..to read correctly as’ $4,101,527.50, instead. of something over, ’$3,976,000. The sen- ate concurred in,the amendment. Senate Bill. 156, \ providing for bill must, be hel Gays before 5 “It Mr. Pattersop: ehad on. it a grea’ leather attached to rollers had) been, The owner, one ofsthe few capital-| ists of. Serbia, seemed to take 4n al-; The house discovered a small mis- |* HOT SKETCHES ABOUT TOWN HOW'S ALK THE FRE Can YO TALI FRENCH 7? eos?” | ARE YU HOME FOR GOOD! Go71a RON GOT ANY SOUVENIRS? cr over® acain i WHAT KIND fe ' eT ae | TREAR aon yet ‘Gu Gone ? ¥: wet TAL LONG was “U Get ENOUGH To Eat? courts of conciliation, was killed in the house. Senate Eill 201, providing for Sun- day baseball ‘fith a nominal charge for admission, met the same fate in the house. This bill during the week was a subject for a special investigation by the governor to whom Supt, Watkins of the Law Enforcement league and Elizobeth Preston Anderson, presi- dent of the North Dakota Women’s Christian, Temperance! union are al- leged ‘to’ have’ represented that the bill was improperly railroaded through’ through the senate, that the roll was incorrectly called, and that there were other irregularities,” Governor Frazier dismjssed the charges after consulting with? Lieut-Gov., Wood and Secretary Prater, ,;who ;assured him that, every- thing had. heen -regular. . The house concurred. in senate amendments to House: Bill 121, which. ,will. provide $200,000, far. memorial /history build- ing... bite. PR ‘a _ Intimidation’ Fail to! Get i ——$_$—— (Continued ‘from Page One) eniergency yesterday and I voted once} in ‘favor of the bill,” ‘said “Frederick. son, explaining:his vote: “I think this emergency ‘has’ had. a. ‘fair trial, and 1 am not in favor of‘taking it\up again. ‘T-vote NO.” i Johnson Pceved. oI Johnson of Steele. was_ highly peeved to think that Rep. Burtness should object to /his conferring with Brinton.over this bill gr any other subject. The gentleman’ from Steele said he frequently was in conference with Erinton and that he had even ; Sone so far as to talk to Townley. i He heard a Voice. Kunkel, who voted against’ the {emergency Friday and -who was re- portey ‘early Saturday morning to have had a change of heart, voted for reconsideration,* explaining that since registering fs vote agatust the’ mi¢as- ; ure Friday he had been’ hearing funny noises and-had received a number of \ NCH GIRLS ? j would, give ‘Emergency’ on ‘Press’ Bill wires from: home: pegple “whose good opinion he valued and that while his principles remained the same, he his: conscience sa sleeping potion and yote with the majority. Dyta Nathan Not Bribed. — Natban of Sheridan in registering bis vote against reconsideration, warmly resented the implication made vy A.C. ‘Townley when he charged Carl Kositzky, state auditor, with hav- ing influenced tie two Nathan He declared that nobody had “fix him and that no one could fix him; that he opposed the bill Friday on general principles and that he had not been induced to change his mind.” They Find Kreuger. Kreuger, who ad stated prior to the opening of the afternoon Session that he was opposed to the principle of Senate Bill 157 and that he had voted {for it only because sometning Repre- sentative Kelley had said had made him mad, was not present when a roll call of the house was demanded. “I can tell you where Mr. Kreuger is,” Said Carr of Barnes. “He is at {this moment around the corner in the lobby, talking to Mr. Brinton” “fT move, Mr. Speaker,” said Rep. O'Connor of Grand Forks, that Mr Kreuger be notified that his presence is required in the house, and th Mr. Brinton be requested to desist ifrom. lobbying long enough to giv an opportunity to vote on this bill | Kreuger Welches. It may-have been the reswit of this conference which was rudely :nter- s, or it rupted by the sergeant at a may have been for some other reaso2 that Kreuger proceeded to act strangely. He voted against the re- consideration’ of the bill. Then when this motibn carried and the house was voting on the final passage of the bill, Kreuger asked that he be ex- cused. In voting against reconsidera- tion Kreuger declared he did so.as a “believer in equal rights for all and special privileges for non, le de- clined to disclose his reaso: -not desiring to vote upon the hill itself. ‘He declared these reasons were of a private nature which he vouid not ai- vulge, Unanimous. consent was re- fused, Herbert, Keitzman, Harris and others objecting to Kreug effort to escape. placing. himself record. There was some: distussion as to what should: be done with a member who would not vote and vho would give no’ reason’ for his ‘reéisa!. Mem- bers of the majority defended Kreuger and after le had’ squirmed and twi ed miserably for fifteen minutes o7 more a motion was put and carried that he be allowed to pass. Harris For Justice. Rep, Harris, one of the prominent lea, rs' who voted“‘against the bill, explained that his district was pecul- jarly situated; that it was all new country which was opentd up by the extension of the Northern Pacific several years: ago, and that bright. thriying ‘towns had sprung up and had induced’ tewspaper men to come fit and establis)’ papers to 4 m boomiiig’ the country. Very few ‘of these men came of their own volfiton, said Representative, Harris. “We now haye sixteen or, seventeen good local newspapers. in‘ my disirict, and the . eMgct, of this ‘bill would be to obliter- até-a, majority, of them,” Roquette’s “Explanation.” Roquette in voting for the bill-said: this bill, has any y than it had yester- day when 1’ yoted, agafnst.it, but 1am voting aye.) og, 4 ‘i . jo Most Important. Bill. * O'Connor of, Grand Forks. refrained from voting until Kreuger/had classi- fied himself. Then he said: “Gentle- men, I-am not ‘going 'to refuse to vote on one of) tie most’ important meas- fures that.ever has come ‘before this assembly. ‘‘Ivote NO.” »: tere or, po. Messaged to, Senate. Senate Bi 107, which was qmendel in the house by substituting the chairman of the koard of railway com- missioners for the commissioner of university-and school lands as a mem- ber. of the printing and publication commission, was promptly. messaged to the senate, which concurred in th» amendment. # iHow They Voted. On Walker's motion to reconsider the Vote was: d Ayes: Arnold, Alberts, Bailey, Brady, Brostuen, Bratsberg, Lryat Bjerke, Byrne, Caddell, . KcKert, Fer- guson, Haines, Hardt, Harding, Hoare, Ivers, Johnson of Dickey, Johnson ot Steele, Kamrath, Kell, Kellogg, Keitz- man, Klein, Kunkel, Larson of Ran- som, Larson of Stutsman, Larkin, Le- zier, Maddock of Mountrail, Maddock of Benson, Malone, '’Ganuson, Mar- shall, Martin of Slope, Martin of Bot- tineau. Maxwell, McDonnell, McLarty, MeManus, ‘Miller, Moen, Murtha, ‘Nes- vig, O'Brien; O'Connor of Pembina, Olson of Barnes, Opland, Patterson, Prater, Riba Renauld, Koquette, Sher- man, Strain, Strom,..Uglum, Walker, Weld of Wells; Weld of Kidder, Whip- ple. Wog, Yeater, Stair.—63. Nays: Bollinger, Burtness, “Carr, Donner, Durkee, Engen, Frederickson, Hammond, ‘Hanson, Harris, Herbert, Humphreys, Johnson of Cass, Johnson of Pembina, Johnston, Kelly, Koller, * Larson’ of>Pierce, Lowe, McGauvrain. McLaughlin, Mikkelson, Nathan of Sheridan, Nathan. of Logan,. ‘Ness, O'Connor of Grand Forks, Olsen of Ramsey, Olson of Ward, Olsgard, Pet: eran, aeeeenee, Reid, Reishus, uSCh, everson, Wateson—s1 qarner, Twichell, Absent: Eurkhart, Cleven, Eckert Gunhus. Hall, Kelder. Nims, Randall. On the vote on the pill proper, Frederickson returned to the major- ity, Kreuger secured ‘permission to Di and Turner was.absent, making the final vote’ 64 to 39-- f Are you insured? If not, better see J..B. 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