The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 22, 1919, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUN Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. - + Editor GEORGE D. MANN, = = = Foreign Representatives G, LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, u CHICAGO F - . - Rone Big juette lg. - - - - resge , ak PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK, ace Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein, All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year iiss wecce ste: Daily by mail, per year (In Bismarck). a 1) Daily by mail, per year (In state outside marck) 5.00 Daily by_mail outside of North Dakota........+-.+ 6.0 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER, (Established 1873) THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING The proof of the pudding is in the eating of it. There has been much argument for and against the pudding which President A. C. Townley of the National Nonpartisan league and his socialist sa- tellites have prepared for North Dakota. Now we are about to sample it, and soon we shall know very definitely whether or not it is to our taste. Bismarck took its first nibble Monday evening when City Assessor Morris advised the city com- mission that the assessed valuation of Bismarck would be $6,000,000 for 1919, as compared with $1,500,000 in 1918. The difference between $1,- 500,000 and $6,000,000 is $4,500,000. Property values have not increased to that extent in a single twelve-month. But the basis of assessment has been multiplied four-fold, and when tax-bills for the year are made out they will be computed on this new basis. WHY? Because the league administration must have more money. Had our government been content to maintain the ship of state on an even keel, there would still be need for more money for administrative pur- poses, for the high cost of living affects the public as well as the private purse. But the administra- tion must needs seize upon this critical moment in the history of state and nation to make our com- monwealth a laboratory for socialistic experi- ments. And these experiments, even should they ultimately be attended with success, are certain to be expensive in the making. So, to pay ordinary state-keeping expenses, which have mounted rapidly under the present ad- ministration, and to finance these experiments, our general state tax levy of four mills must be made to yield somehting like $4,000,000, instead of the $1,612,000 of a year ago; and to do this it is necessary to increase our general assessed valua- tion from the $385,000,000 of a year ago to over $1,200,000,000. In addition, from the same pock- ets which furnish this $4,000,000 through direct taxation, there must be extorted indirectly $415,- 000 in a gross tax on oil; a million more in income tax; a quarter of a million in corporation excise tax, all of which are original with the “New Day” in North Dakota. : BUT, someone will say, these other taxes come from the big corporations and from moneyed men —they will not affect the average taxpayer. Will they not? What has been the effect of the gross tax on oil sales? An increase of one cent per gal- lon in the cost of oil and gas. And who has paid this increase? The consumer, of course. And the same will be true of the corporate excise tax and to a large extent of the income tax. However just these taxes may be, there is no overlooking the fact that the ultimate consumer, the people in the mass, finally pay the bill. And this economic phase of the league pro- gram, which affects us directly in our pocket- books, is but one feature of the pudding which we are’soon to sample. Rear Admiral Grayson appears to be the one man living who can always have the last word with Woodrow. AN EXPENSIVE PROPOSITION Cats are an expensive proposition. It’s not because they eat so much food, or be- cause they carry germs which start disease and entail the employment of a doctor at a fancy sal- ary, or because a high bred cat costs a young for- tune to buy in the first place, or anything like that. No, it’s for an entirely different reason than any of the foregoing that cats are expensive. It’s not because they eat canaries which have cost a pretty penny themselves; it’s not because they fly around through gardens upsetting plants which have been made to bloom at enormous ex- pense of time, attention and thought; it’s not be- cause they get into fights with neighbors’ dogs and claw out extensive hunks of dog hair making necessary the employment by the neighbors at your expense of a veterinary surgeon to rehabili- tate the hound, or anything like that. It’s for none of these reasons that cats are expensive, but for an entirely different reason. Cats are not expensive because they sharpen their claws on valuable lace curtains, or because they lap up the cream that was designed for use on the breakfast table or anything like that, Cats are dawgone expensive because—and pretty nearly everyone will‘agre on this—because you use up so everlastingly many shaving mugs and tubes of tooth paste and pairs of old shoes throwing at ’em at night to keep them from thei: eternal, sleep-destroying chorus practice on the back fence! The closing of the United States employment office at this juncture also helps. The war cost us thirty billion, not counting the care of its progeny now raising cain east of the Rhine. In the old days the poet was driven by the Muse. Now he is more frequently driven by the need of a new casing on the off hind wheel. The unspeakable Bernstorff is trying to win Italy’s friendship with a tale of what Germany would have given her. Italy will do well to remem- ber what Germany did give her. The Courier-News Peeping Tom appears to be on the job again at the capitol. Either this, or Attorney General Langer has been so unfortunate as to include an unprincipled spy in his office force. The publication of private correspondence to which the Courier-News so frequently resorts hints of a well organized espionage system. Lawns and trees about the state house show a lack of water. Many trees are dying. The grass is sear and brown. In other dry years the capitol grounds have been a beauty spot to which the community always could turn. It is unfortunate that through lack of money or enterprise or for any other reason this park, upon which so much has been spent, should be permitted to lapse into bare, dun prairie. Someone in authority is sadly lacking in aesthetic sense. Hot winds and drouth do not appear to affect Bismarck’s magnificent weed crop. The Tribune would respectfully suggest that our new park board may find an immediate field for its endeav- ors in our boulevard weed-beds. The very least that could be done—the cutting of these weeds— should be insisted upon. The park board may find that supplying public spirit for an entire commun- ity is no light task, but it will have the necessary authority, and it should exercise it. ——————+ WITH THE EDITORS | THE RED AUTOCRACY America will not be poisoned by the virus of Bolshevism. There is no concrete danger that a virile democracy which by herculean endeavor has saved itself from crowned autocrats will fall vic- tim to the toxin of autocracy in a new and hideous form. The American Legion and the 100 per cent Americanism it represents are an infallible anti- dote for Bolshevism. Having had considerable to do with throttling the dominion of the imperial Hohenzollern autocracy, those who were in the service will not weakly evade the issue of an autoc- racy of imported ignorance and alien viciousness. Autocracy is autocracy whether exercised by right of princely inheritance or by dint of conniving usurpation. No matter what its source of inspira- tion it is the foe of democracy. The unbalanced temperament of virulent Slav radicalism can introduce no ideals of social conduct or government which Americans will care to ac- cept. And let the disciples of the new red autoc- racy not mistake patience for indifference. That was the mistake which brought such sharp disas- ter to the old autocracy—American Legion Weekly. : BUY NEWSPAPER SPACE TO SELL THE BONDS The Pioneer is in receipt of a circular letter from the director general of the Bank of North Dakota bearing information on the sale of state bonds, the proceeds of which will furnish the working capital of the bank. While there is no request that this circular, labeled Circular No. 9, be published, it was probably sent out to the press of the state with the hope that it be given space gratis, for it reads just like the press-agented stuff that burdens every newspaper man’s mail. Surely they don’t expect the independent press publishers to buy. We don’t wish to cast any reflection on the desirability of the bonds. The circular says they are backed by two billion dollars worth of property in North Dakota, but the point we wish to make is that if this state has two million dollars worth of bonds to sell now, and will have other issues to sell later, the way to sell them is through advertising space bought and paid for. The state is rich enough to do this and not impose on the newspa- pers or appeal to their patriotism or use any other specious arguments to get space free. Then again it is presumption on the part of the administration which decreed that there shall be one “kept” paper in each county which shall collect for all the state, county, city, school, probate and district court advertising. But Mr. Cathro and other officials of the bank know that the independ- ent press reaches the men with means to buy, and we are not surprised at the desire to reach these men through the independent press. If the state is going into banking and industry it must apply the same methods used by bankers and industrial concerns to get to the people, name- ly, buy newspaper space. The 2 1-2 per cent pre- mium charged for the bonds if invested in space in the leading newspapers in the state would soon TAT WEAVY 1s. IT SLM P | CITY NEWS Are at Fargo Mr. and Mrs. Burl Carr of Valley City, left yesterday for Fargo to at- tend the home-coming day and inter- state fair this week. Off on Vacation Gus E. Wingreene of the Bismarck theater, has gone on a vacation among the Minnesota lakes and will not re- turn to Bismarck for some time. Rural Carriers’ ‘Examination A civil service examination for rural letter carriers will be held at Bismarck and Max on July'25. The position in- eludes Garrison, Max, Russo and Wil- on, To Fargo-on Business. Theodore Koffel, the attorney, left Sunday for Fargo on a business trip. Mr. Koffel_-will also visit Reed eHights, S.: D., and will probably re- turn to Bismarck on Friday. To Visit at Falkirk Miss: Gertrude - Eichorst, assistant cashier at. the Soo offices, who recent- ly. underwent an.operation for appen- dicitis, has gone:to her. home at Fal- kirk to recuperate from her illness. Victory Button Blanks Ready Private John L: Webb, ofthe army Teeraiting. station, announced today that he had. received ten blanks for securing the war department’s victory buttons and that honorably discharged soldiers should bring their discharges to his office if they want this button. Webb. expects a large supply of these blanks in the next few days. Visiting in Bismarck. Mrs, C. A.’ Yaeger of Valley City was an arrival in Bismarck today on No. 8, and will spend a week or more visiting with her daughter, Mrs. Marc Harkins, Woodmansee apartments. Mrs. Yaeger was accompanied to the city by Mrs. Harkins and little daugh- ter Jane, who had. been visiting in Valley City for a short time. New Deputy County Auditor. Frank Johnson, deputy county auditor, assumed ‘his new duties this morning at the court’ ‘house. Mr. Johnson was formerly connected with the First . National.. bank. ...He. takes | of the book this is not surprising. The the place left vacant through the ill- ness of Glenn Peck, who has been at EVERETT TRUE come BACK teRS A MINOTS « THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME ! Naw | (98a the Bismarck hospital for some time and whom his physician advises to re- main on his farm to recuperate. Job Awaiting Fighter Mike O’Leary, the pugilist with the broken nose, will not have any trouble getting a job on a Burleigh county farm. O’Leary wrote The Tribune a few days ago about farm work heve, and after his story was printed in the paper a number of peowie caieu aud said that they would be glad to have Miguel around the place. So Bismarck can prepare now for the reception of its prominent guest. Return From Vacation. County Superintendent of Schools and Mrs. Wi E. Parsons returned to Bismarck on Sunday after spending a vacation lasting several days at Minnesota lakes and Fargo. Mr. Par- sons said this morning that two rains visited Fargo last week and that crops from that city west to Steele were in excellent condition. From Steele to Bismarck the crop will ve fair if rain visits. this country in the next week or ten days. “THE SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS” COMING TO THE AUDITORIUM. Harold Eell Wright’s novel has made a great photoplay. To all lovers story is’ filled’ with dramatic ‘situa- tions: and scenically the magnitude of God's own handiwork is ever before us, The woods and the hills always appeal to a real.man or woman and in this play the really great things of life are brought to our understanding as clear as the water from the moun- tain springs which are ever before our eyes. It is the visualization of the story of the.Ozark mountains and their humble dwellers. The story of the man who took the trail that leads to the lower ground and the woman who found her way to the sunlit plains. A story of rough times be- fore the coming of the railroads; the period of “huskin’ bees” and “house raisin.” Rough and ready settlement ment of disputes with the fist. It is a virile play and yet one that carries with it a deep message. It is full of wholesome phisolophy and has many unique characters. . Mr. Wright has directed the work of this photo-play which has been a year in the mak- ing. It is shown in ten reels and forms an evening’s entertainment. It will ‘be at the Auditorium Wednes- day and Thursday nights this week. BY CONDO move the bonds.—Mandan Pioneer. ry nS NOT AS, “park AS ‘You (CARRY YouR doKES { at TIRED, | THE PERCOLATOR ——— e THE other day * 8 WE went riding oe @ IN a well bred Leiba} e8 FORD rattler se @ & AND we rode around se 8 8 AND came iback here “eee AND I got out to 8 BUY some tobacco oe ® FOR my good old pipe rr ed AND at the curb 8 * ‘WERE many Fords see AND of them all oe I couldn’t tell * WHICH was the one es 8.6 T had ridden in * 6 AND in that flivver see I left my pipe . WHICH I have had eee FOR many months se @ & THROUGH army days ss 8 8 AND it is strong Par SO very strong ee ee I never feared se @ @ WHEN it was with me se @ @ BUT now it’s gone se @ @ ON a Ford joy ride oe 6 8 AND that’s awful se 8 @ FOR a respectable pipe ee ee AND if the man **2* © @ WHO drove’me around ee ee ‘SHOULD read these lines se ee I wish he would * 2 GIVE me my pipe se @ @ WHICH is my friend oe @ FOR it’s a good pipe ar ears * AND not used to riding sees N anything but * 2 @ @ REAL automobiles s+ I THANK YOU of F. 8. BURLEIGH COUNTY SCHOOLS IN NEED OF GOOD TEACHERS Superintendent’s Office Has Re- ceived Only Two Contracts for Next Term ee There is a serious scarcity of teach- ers for Burleigh county schools, ac- cording to the lack of applications filed with the county superintendent of schools. Up to the present time, only two contracts have been filed and there are over one hundred va- cancies in the school. 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Each township in the county must submit a statement as to the number of children between the ages of six and 21 that reside in the county and who attend school. On the basis of this census, the county and state apportion their funds for educational purposes. The total amount cantriduted. by the coun- ty and state annually is usually around $10 per child of school age en- wmerated. As it cost $44.32 per child last year for educational’ purposes, ap- proximately $35 must ibe raised by each township by, taxation. Tribune Want Ads bring results. SET OUT IMMEDIA’ TH AMAZON RIVER woeY POR ’ ON REACHING RIVER TIE HOOK AN BAIT TO END OF ROPE AND Ro! ABOUT “THUSLY ; EVENTUALLY FISH WILL Orr BAIT, PULLING TOOTH. CITE:ON