The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 30, 1919, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE poration aaah Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D. as Second ebaa ey Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN, - = = + Foreign Representa’ G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Editor rquet . * bel - Gh Tes; . i PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW_YORK, - + 1 - 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 gredited in this paper and also the local news published erein, 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 000 087.20 Daily by mail, per year (In Bismarck)............ 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (In state outside Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by mail outside of North Dakota. ....++. THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) —__——— THE BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION The state knows very little of Messrs. Totten, Muir and Casey, or of their ability to act as stew- ards for the millions of dollars worth of public property which has been entrusted to their care. The appointment of three men to the state board of administration was a supreme test of Governor Frazier’s ability to discriminate, to exercise inde- pendence and to use good judgment. Whether he has done any one of these things is open to ques- tion. He has made his appointments purely polit- ical. He has selected men who have served the league and for whom rewards were demanded. The Tribune fears that the governor in making his selections had more in mind the future of the Nonpartisan league and its welfare than the well- being of the great state which he has been elected to represent. Had the governor selected even one of these three men from the ranks of the several thousand able citizens who have not affiliated with the league, he would have done a manly thing. But Governor Frazier has never lost an opportunity to show his contempt for the political minority in North Dakota. In not a single instance where he could help himself has he selected for any state office within his gift a man who was not pledged to eat out of the hand of Mr. Townley. Messrs. Totten, Muir and Casey are not repre- sentative farmers. None of them has had any broad or successful business experience. Not one of them is a student of or an expert in penalogy. They were selected not because they possessed any qualifications which would lead any man of judg- ment to commit to their care and control the public school system of North Dakota. They were picked solely because they were Townley men, and Governor Frazier has availed himself of another opportunity to prove true to his trust—to Mr. Townley. Under the old regime provision was made for minority representation on all public boards. In North Dakota’s most hide-bound republican days there were always democrats on all of the state commissions. And that was as it should be. The minority may be misguided and misled and lack- ing in judgment, but it does not, because it chances to differ with the views of the majority, entirely forfeit its right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But that isn’t the league idea. WANTED: 200 HOMES Is Bismarck to become a city of the homeless? Is the splendid development of our city to be retarded and stunted because we are not enter- prising enough to solve our housing problem? Cities have spent millions of dollars to bring in industries that would bring in more people. Bismarck, for the lack of a few hundred thou- sand dollars expended in homes, is turning people from its doors every day. There isn’t a home in Bismarck today that can be rented which hasn’t a waiting list of at least a half-dozen. The Tribune knows of fifty men who are in business in Bismarck who are homeless because they can find no roof to shelter their family. This is an unwholesome condition. There is a remedy. A city which can invest three-quarters of a million in paving within the course of three years and which can during the same period pay several millions for liberty bonds and war savings certifi- cates, isn’t so near broke that it cannot produce funds for the building of homes. It is true that the Nonpartisan league tax scheme has penalized owners of rental, properties. . But we will not have the league with us always, and the league’s tax program is most likely to precede the organization itself to limbo, And, even at the worst, any man who will put money into a home can rent it for more than enough to break even until the dawn of the better day when sanity and reason return to our state. Let’s call a town meeting and talk this over. Let’s see whether it would not be possible to or- ganize a home-building association that would club together and build at least a dozen dwellings to house the strangers at our gates who are clam- oring for a place to rest. If Bismarck continues to sit still and twiddle its thumbs it will suffer for it, for there are other cities which will not remain idle, and they will reap the harvest that Bismarck scorns. Chicago needs a peace treaty and a league of nations. Or perhaps it’s a Teddy Roosevelt in the mayor’s chair that is lacking. Nobody loves a packer. TREES) «) When a tree is cut down, plant its place—somewhere, anywhere. It costs little or nothing, but it will mean much in wealth and comfort to the next generation. Within the last few years some of the finest maple groves in the world, located in northern Ohio, have been cut down and made up into backs for hair and scrubbing brushes. This is all right—these trees may be of more social value in the form of brushes than standing timber, but— ‘ Not a tree has been planted to take the place of any that have been cut down, and where, for instance is the next generation in the brush indus- try to get its maple lumber? While extending a principal thorofare recently in Cleveland 24 fine elms were cut down. This had to be done as a matter of public neces- sity, but not an elm was planted along a side walk or in a park, or anywhere to take their places. * * * If any of our children left a room and the light burning, or the water running in the bathroom we would duly correct them; for it is a matter of immediate waste it can be clearly seen now, with- out requiring any vision or imagination. But in our failure to plant a tree when one is cut down we waste the time in which another tree might be growing and at no expense, and for the benefit of the next generation in wealth and com- fort. another to take * * * The railroads in the country are bitterly com- plaining today of the scarcity and high cost of cross ties. If the railroads would replace one-tenth of the fine oak trees that they cut down and burned up, as a matter of necessity in clearing their original rights of way, why, they would have grown enough cross ties by now for all their extensions and replacements, with enough lumber besides and the sale of which would contribute most liberally to the reduction of their bonded debts. * * * In many states there are departments of for- estry which supply sprouts of all native varieties of trees, at no cost or small cost, to any citizen who will plant them. If there is not such a department in all states there should be one. We forget that while a baby.is growing to maturity a tree can be grown to maturity, and for that baby’s benefit as a unit of society. Replacing a tree for one cut down should be done as a matter of public conscience rather than as a matter of statute law. It should be done out of consideration for the wealth and comfort of the next generation. The woods are filled with wild fruit. At'the same time we are paying exorbitant prices for fruits shipped in from points hundreds of miles distant. We have seen June-berry bushes literally black with dried fruit which was never harvested. Soon there will be a wealth of wild plums and grapes; the thorn-apple bushes are loaded down, and there never has been such a plentiful crop of choke-cherries. Are we not overlooking a good opportunity to reduce the high cost of living when we fail to devote a few hours each week to a berrying expedition? WITH THE EDITORS | GOING BACK Some day when we get our things together and dodge our creditors we are going back to the good old U. S. A. A few months ago we were in the army that was supposed to be fighting for liberty and democracy. It was and we believe that it was. But the day came when the war was over. We, like 99 per cent of the rest of the boys, then had happy dreams of getting out of the army and getting back to natural living again. Every boy’s eyes turned in just one direction, that was toward his old home, for he thought that was the greatest spot on earth. There seems to grow within everyone a love for his home state. We were no exception to that rule. And the name of North Dakota sounded mighty good to us. We had read a great deal about the terror of the bolsheviki in Russia and in other European countries. and how the property of the thrifty and prosperous had been confiscated by these anarch- ists and given to the lazy and shiftless. This made us glad that home was in the good old U.S. A., the country that our forefathers fought for that all might have the right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. But when we got home we found things had changed. Thriftiness and ambi- tion were put under bonds. Our own business had been confiscated by the followers of a bankrupt socialist leader who was undergoing a trial for traitorous utterances in. another state. We found our own neck of the woods in a state of chaos, legitimate business in/ general being wrecked and all:the power of law being put in the hands of a few radical politicians. We believe that some day the state will right itself and that the people will become normal again. We feel it our duty to stick by and help bring that condition about, but the lure of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness is strong to one who is just beginning to live, so we have de- cided to go back to the United States and make another beginning. Whether it will be east, south or west we are not sure, but the odds seem to be in favor of west.—Sykeston News, | THE GREAT .AMERICAN QUESTION AND ANSWER = Santertelt> ° SLOPE COUNTY TO |WOMEN ARE NEEDED TO WORK ON FARMS IN BURLEIGH COUNTY PAY BIG PREMIUM INTO HAIL FUND Farmers Object to Paying In- surance When They Have Nothing to Insure Marmath, N. D., July 28.—One of the results of the laws being imposed upon cur state is to be realized in full by Slope county farmers this year; when, vt tax paying time they are compelled to pay into the state hail. insurance fund a total of $11,604.24 plus their proportionate-‘share: of any’ deficiency. experienced: by the state hail-losses in‘ the Red and Sheyenne: river valleys where crops are good and hail’ losses are heavy. - 4 Were. it not.for the compulsory hail insurance it is doubtful if one cent would have been spent for hail in- surance in Slope county this year. As it is, for each tillable acre in the county three cents must be paid into the state fund; and unless the land fund he must pay his proportionate share of all. excess losses. In our county approximately 60,000 acres were withdrawn, this being done prin- cipally by the farmers living near to the county seat, but these sixty thou- sand acres must ‘still pay the three cents per acre but without having any insurance to show for it. The reports of the assessors show- ed that there are 189,185 acres in crop and 197,623 acres of tillable land in the county. Combining this land makes 386,808 acres upon which a straight tax of three cents per acre is levied and will be sent to Bismarck. The amount of this three cent tax is $11,604.24. Slope county pays this much toward the state hail insurance this year. Besides this mount all land cropped, which was not with- drawn from the hail insurance pen- alty, will be subject to a direct tax as needed to cover thé afl ‘losses of the state. This latter tax may not exceed “There is a shortage in this county of women to work on farms,” state Miss Elsie Stark, home demonstration igent for Burleigh county, today. Miss Stark is engaged in helping to set girls and women for farm work and to help especially through the can- aing season as well as through haying and harvesting. Those wishing to help with this kind of work can get n touch with the office of the county home demonstrator. Organizing Local Clubs This office has been active recently in organizing local clubs at various points in the county which have not as yet been entirely perfected. This work pertains to methods in solving household problems including help and simplifying ways and means for the farm. women. To Find Places for School Girls Girls who are coming to Bismarck this winter to go to school will be as- sisted in finding places to work for their board and rocm during the com- ing school year, announced Miss Stark, and school girls wanting such places and women looking for this kind of help are asked to notify the home demonstration office. This office re- ports several places as wanting help on farms, and they also have had calls for help in the city. Drouth Conditions A letter was recently. received by | Miss Stark inquiring into the grass- hopper and drouth conditions in this county. In some of the neighboring counties and in Montana the condi- tions are serious. In Golden Valley county people are suffering from their fourth successive failure, while here- tofore they have had some small re- ‘turn each year. It is reported that the average for Golden Valley county will not be one bushel to the acre, and this means that there will be many families in distress. Since this state of affairs does not exist in Burleigh county, the house- wives throughout the ‘county are ask- ed to see that no vegetable material be allowed to go to waste. It is as urgent as a wartime measure that all the vegetables that connot be eaten, be either canned, brined or dried sc that the commercial product may be used by those less fortunate than our- selves. 50 cents per acre. Up to the present time hail claims while it is generally predicted that not more than one-fourth of the losses to ibe experienced for the season have been reported. North Dakota is right im the midst of the hail season and claims are going in rapidly. Experts ure already busy figuring on the prob- able mutual assessment with the result that it is generally predicted that the assessment will reach the limit of 50 cents an acre, NOTICE TO CREDITORS. State of North Dakota, County of Burleigh. In County Court before Hon. I. C. Davies, Judge. In the matter of the estate of John WHATIS SOUR NUR Ff WELL, THEN, ON YOUR X Saw You ABOUT TEN MINUTES AGO STANDING ON THE CURB WATCHING A STREST FAKIR DOING. A CARD “TRICK WY} BY CONDO XL WANT TO MAKS THE Siew way |i} J. Vossbeck, deceased. \ ‘Notice is hereby given by the un- dersigned, Frances M. Vossbeck, ad- ministrator of the estate of John J. Vossbeck, deceased late of the city of Bismarck, in the county of Burleigh and state of North Dakota, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said deceased to exhibit them with the necessary vouchers within four months after the first publication of this notice to the said administratrix, at the of- fice of the attorney for the adminis- tratrix, F. E. McCurdy, in the city of Bismarck, North Dakota. Dated this 22nd day of July, 1919. FRANCES M. VOSSBECK, Administratrix. First pwolication on the 23rd day of July, 1919. 7—23 30; 8—6 13. BIDS WANTED. Bids for contract consolidated school Otto Creek Township, Grant county, 28x32 feet with 10x20 en- trance, full basement to be completed ‘by October 1. Plans may be seen at the clerk’s office and a certified check of 5 per cent of amount of bid is required as a guaranty. Reserve right to reject any or all bids. Bids will ‘be opened at 2:00 p. m. August 15.. MRS. M. T, BANNING, Clerk, Flasher, N. D. July 28 29 30 31, Aug. 1 2. St. Alexius Hospital. Entered July 27: Mrs. Wm. Morris, city; Mrs. E. V. Bergstrom, city; Fred Voight, Bismarck; Mrs. Anna Kessel, Belfield; Mrs. G. Cooper, Moffit; Mrs. L. J. Dorfenkenper. July 28:—Henry Overman, Tappen. July 29: Miss Esther Albright, Tem- vick; Miss Minnie Ranbon, Ft. Rice; Eaby Margaret Benke, Beach; Mas- ter Ben York, Selfridge. Eorn—A boy, to Mr. and Mrs. Cooper of Moffit. IN STEELE. State Examiner O. E. Lofthus is ai Steele on a business mission. Whole Family Sick: “All of my six brothers and sister, as well as myself, have suffered since childhood from stomach and liver trouble and bloating. I thought it ran in the family and that I could never be cured, but, thanks to Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy, since taking it nearly a year ago I have been enjoy- ing the best of health and feel like a@ new person. I have no trouble from anything I eat.” It is a simple, harm- less preparation that removes the ca- tarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and allays the inflammation which causes practically all stomach, liver and intestinal ailments, includ- in appendicitis. One dose will con- vince or money refunded. | GAINED 15 POUND Thompson Was Couldn't Walk Without Help— Tanlac Builds Him Up. “I commenced taking Tanlac just fifteen days ago, and have gained exactly fifteen pounds so far, which gives me an actual gain of one pound a day,”.said Peter Thompson, who for the past six years has been connect- ed with the Kansas City park board, and lives at 409 Chestnut street, Kan- sas City, Mo., a few days ago. so Rundown He » “When I began taking Tanlac,” he. continued, “I was so weak and run down that I couldn’t walk a step un- less I had somebody to lean on, but I can get out and cover a good many blocks now, and am getting ready to go back to work. Sometime ago I had a bad spell of typhoid pneumonia, and it came very near finishing me up. I pulled through, however, but I had never been able to regain any strength, and my appetite was so poor that I couldn’t eat enough to keep me alive hardly. My head ached all the time, and I would often have dizzy spells. 1 also suffered from norvousness and never got a good night’s sleep. (My stomach was in mighty bad condition, too, and every- thing I ate disagreed with me and [ would have the worst sort of attacks of indigestion. I was certainly in bad shape, and I had began to think that I would never find a medicine that would get me started up hill again. “I'had been reading the different statements about Tanlac, and one day I saw where a lady whom I knew very well, had been greatly helped ‘by taking this Tanlac, so I made up my mind right then and there to give it a trial myself. I commenced to get better right away, and it is just simply remarkable the way I have gained in weight and strength. Why, I can go anywhere I want to, now, and I can just feel myself getting stronger every day. My appetite has come back, and I eat all right. I never have indigestion or any kind of stomach trouble any more, and my nerves are so steady that I sleep like a log every night. The headaches have left me, too, and so have those dizzy spells, and in fact, I just feel fine all the time. Tanlac has just simply fixed me up all right, and that is why I talk so much about it, and am always recommending it <0 other people.” Tanlac is sold in Bismarck by Jos. Breslow; in Driscoll by N..D. and J. H. Parrette, and in Wing by F. P. Homan. Advt. ~~ ‘NOT ENOUGH GO0BS TO GO 'ROUND.SAYCLOTHERS | TRY “HROESEN'S ROFFEE HANES.” PANTS MAY CUT UNIFORM LENGTH IN ORDER “TO SHOW NO PAR: TALITY TO ANY, OH WELL-EVERY CLOUD HAS ITS SILVER LINING ! TULY' 36, 1919. IN FIFTEEN DAYS 4,