The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 31, 1919, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postattics, Bismarck, N. D., as Second ah Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN, - = = = = = Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Mee. . . . - as te larque 3 68h Chee resge . i PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK, ee 1 oe 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 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...........5 $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (In Bismarck).......ese0+ 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (In state outside Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by mail_outside of North Dakota............ 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) —_ THAT BEAUTIFUL PRESS LAW Herman Hardt of odorous fame and Fay A. Harding, both members of the last house, both in their official capacity as representatives of the electors of their district ardent supporters of the Brinton newspaper trust bill, are to have their turn at the pie counter. Herman has organized a “Farmers’ Press” in Logan county, and Fay has one in Emmons. In Logan the plan is to buy out the Napoleon Homestead or the Burnstad Comet. In Emmons Editor J. M. Stewart, publisher of one of the two Linton papers, has gone over to the bunch with the swag. In each instance the “Farmers’ Press” with the farmers’ money will buy a newspaper already established in order to acquire the legal status which will enable them to pocket the nice slice of public patronage which Messrs. Hardt and Harding voted into their own pockets last fall. The owners of these established newspapers can command their own price, for they have some- thing which, Messrs. Hardt and Harding must have. But Messrs. Hardt and Harding should worry so long as the farmers put up the money in exchange for preferred stock, while the organ- izers retain the common stock and the voting con- trol of the companies. Burleigh county has a “Farmers’ Press” oper- ated on a trifle different basis. Its owners have been challenged to produce a single farmer stock- holder, and they have failed to do so. But this organ is the “Farmers’ Press” with the official sanction of the league. ’Tis a great life, if you don’t weaken, and they say the first hundred years are the hardest. BUILD A HOME “You should worry a lot and build a home!” Yes, you should. Acquiring a lot may entail some worry. It may mean fewer luxuries, less extravagance, a closer guarding of pennies and nickles and dimes. But it can be done, with surprising ease if you but make up your mind to do it. And once the lot is secured, you will be further agreeably surprised to learn how far your building and loan association or your banker will go toward financing your actual home-building operations. Say that you pay $1,000 for a lot and that you invest $3,500 in a modest cottage of six rooms and bath. The probabilities are that you can borrow of the rotten service it has been receiving, and of the prodigious boost in rates it has had to pay. Maybe the thing will be settled by there being no railroad business to bother about. The hampered service of the railroads these last two years has so greatly increased the tonnage of auto truck lines, the good roads building pro- gram is so greatly being enlarged, that local freight for railroads may soon become a mere memory. Already most of the farm produce and supplies for the farms in many big districts is almost ex- clusively handled by truck lines, and every day sees the expansion of this service, and the lessen- ing of the necessity for the freight car. Our transportation system is being revolution- ized, and the trend is all away from the steam road, and towards the mobile, efficient and eco- nomical truck line, operating past the farmer’s door on a hard boulevard. ON THE DESERT Western fruit growers are getting rich this year; that is, rich for farmers. We note that one strawberry rancher cleared more than $3,000 from six acres, and expects to clear twice that next year, when his plantation gets into full bearing. That’s fine, and we were all enthusiastic about this back-to-the-soil movement for the family. And in the next column we read a short note, to the effect that the government was furnishing free transportation to 250 Montana dry land farm- ers to get them to the harvest fields of Nebraska, where they could get a job to support their fami- lies. ‘These 250 were a few of the hundreds cleaned out and dried up by the western drought, and a day’s work in the harvest field was their reward for all their investment and effort and waiting. And that gave us pause. We have a fairly adventurous spirit but this farming game, that gives one chap a profit, and that sends 250, 500 miles to look for a job, is a bit too much of a gamble for even our sporting spirit. Maybe Uncle Sam will discover in time that there are wide areas in his domain that are not suited to farming, and he will prevent good citi- zens, faithful workers, eager agriculturists, from venturing their all of health and fortune in such fields. : We believe there are still enough farms in this country, where the chances are reasonably sure for a safe reward for the honest worker; enough so that the deserts and the swamps and the wilds need not be dared by individual effort. A real, sure-enough, worth-while farmer is too precious a national asset to risk on a desert these days. To feed at the trough one must first be trained to eat out of Mr. Townley’s hand. Moses doubtless had a hard time convincing the Israelites that the Ten Commandments would work. If they expect the league to be a life raft for If you hear a:rumpus over at the court house this afternoon, come over and see how the county reporter are coming on.’ This morning, after waiting from 9:30 when “we” were sup- posed to meet until 10:45; when we really: did gather, the roll was called and Whistling Eddie, Com- missioner No. ‘1, Commissioner No. 2 and the reporter were present. < Opening chorus: | Whistling Eddie—Are you the. representa- the world, they'll have to quit using it as a political platform. from $2,000 to $3,000 of your total investment, and the interest on such a loan will range from six to eight percent, depending upon conditions. If your building and loan association should loan you $3,000, it would cost you $45 per month to pay the interest and retire the principal in about ten years. It is very likely that if you are living in this type of home today you are paying not less than $40 per month, and all you will have to show for the $4,800 you will have paid out at the end of ten years will be a bunch of rent receipts. Pay five dollars more into a building and loan associa- tion, or set it aside in an interest and sinking fund to reimburse your banker, and at the end of the same period you will have a nice home, bought and paid for, and which in all liklihood will have appreciated in the interim at least $1,000. Don’t take our word for it. Drop in tomorrow and talk it over with your banker, or with the secretary of your building and loan association. Ask the man who’s buying a home or who has bought one. If you find a single one who will tell you that he’d rather go back to renting ask “information” for the Fool Killer’s number. THE AUTO TRUCK Wall street perked up its ears and rejoiced greatly when news came of the return of the rail- roads and the telegraph lines to private ownership. “Well, that ends that dream,” said Wall street, and immediately the industrial stocks took strength on the market. But these early visions of profits appear to have been too optimistic. For no sooner do these great businesses start on their journey back to private ownership, than labor troubles of new magnitude threaten not only all profits, but the very existence of these proper-] ties. And, when the long smouldering fires of the workers have been blanketed, if blanketed they are to be, there will be state legislation, and new re- striction, and additional exactions that have too been held up by the war and governmental owner- WITH THE EDITORS | THE TROUBLE IS GETTING IT We predict that sooner or later the farmers of this state, who wish to make a short time loan to| ° help them out, will find out just what a splendid thing the Bank of North Dakota it. * * * * Here is one of the provisions of this law, quoted word for word: “But it shall not make loans or give its credit to any individual, association, or pri- vate corporation, except that it may make loans to any individual, association or pri- vate corporation, secured by duly recorded first mortgages on real estate in the state of North Dakota in amounts not to exceed one half the value of the security.” Now, just listen: Suppose a farmer wants three, four or five hundred dollars during the summer months, how is he going to get it through the Bank of North Dakota? It is a well known fact that, while a farmer may be worth thousands of dollars, and is perfectly responsible financially, he probably has a first mortgage loan on his farm, as by placing this kind of a loan he is able to get cheap money? Then if this is the case in order to get a cent from the Townley bank, he would have to take up his first mortgage loan, possibly pay a bonus to get it released, furnish a clear abstract, put it up to the bank, and they in turn hand it over to the board of university and school lands, and in the course of a few weeks they would send out an appraiser, and if conditions were just right in the course of a few months Mr. Farmer might get a loan of fifty percent of the appraised value of his farm. In the meantime he is sitting on the anx- ious seat not knowing whether he is going to get the money needed or not. To sum the whole thing up the Bank of North Dakota proposes to loan a farmer money, if he gives a first mortgage real estate loan—but how many farmers want to take the trouble of going through all this rigmarole to get a few dollars to help him out through the sum- ship. We see no primrose path ahead for the rail- roadswf «the country. isso. es fies We do know that the public is somewhat wea: mer—when he can make a real estate loan right at home on just as good or better terms, provided he _{ wants;to give.a tae wane on'his land. What a jokewDevilgi Lake Worl tive of The Tribune? Reporter—Yes sir. Whistling Eddie—Well, I rep- resent Burleigh county and I want to inform you that you are not allowed to attend any more meetings of the county commis- sioners or even enter the court house. Reporter: Very well, sir. By this time it was necessary to get back to the office to get the news over thé wire,.so the re- porter retired, but first returned and asked the Big Boss of Bur- leigh county if the reporter could- n't even step inside his perfectly commissioners’ and The Tribune (His neck is still very sore) TRIBUNE REPORTER GREETED AND SEATED; TREATED ALMOST HUMAN The Morning and Evening of the Second Day Were Not Like Unto the First, Barring, of Course, Solo Performance by Very Good Eddie : nice court: house where he had so many good friends among the splendid county officials and their assistants there. But Very Good Eddie was insis- tent. Nothing doing about en- tering those pearly portals. Might polute the grasshopper. poi- son, or something. But still if the commissioners don’t do any harm, can not see how one lone little reporter who carefully wipes his shoes before entering the building could do any damage. Sorry we couldn’t try out Ed- die’s scheme for keeping the court house free from all pests that bother his whistling. But we are going back this afternoon and if the noise reaches your ears, be sure and come over. And cordial invitations are extended to all by the reporter to his funeral. When it happens. The atmosphere was .more spring- like at yesterday’s meeting of the county commissioners at the court hhouse. : It sure was. E. G. sounded a “Howdy” when the awe-stricken re- commissioners’ porter entered the = —TSECL (ME, THAT wou COVE MG, Tece ME SWEETLY, SOFTLY AS OF OLD; Tego ME —— — ___ BY CONDO FACIAL MASSAGE 3f 7) SWEETHEART $f FINISHING THAT TENDER LOVE ‘SONG WITHOUT PULLING YOUR MUG ALL OUT OF SHAPE CIKE THAT, OR RECGIVNG A GOOD, PERSONALLY CONDUCTED TAKE YouR CHalc™ If-- EITHER FIGURE ON China made nine requests of the Peace Conference ’ council chamber. In fac‘, the report- er almost forgot to acknowledge the implied acknowledgment of equality. But he managed to utter a blurb so at E. G. and his assistants knew he heard the greeting. Yesterday we tackled the county assessment rolls. Don’t think for a minute that the reporter has risen to such lofty heights as to ‘share equality with the commissioners in their deliberations, but seeing that he has to camp on their trail and seeing that he has been ‘officially welcomed to the conferences for’ the promotion of Burleigh county’s .tax assessments, #ie assumption might be excused. When The Roll Was Sounded Let's g0—E. G. Commissioners Nos. 1 and 2 and the reporter all present when roll call wasl sounded. But wait a minute, Remember the day before how the poor weak-kneed reporter had to stand up for over the longest hour that daylight ever saved? Well yesterday he was awarded a seat, the same kind of a seat as all the other commissioners were swiv- elling around in. (Did you pipe the “other” in that last sentence?) Yep, right at the thead of the table, or maybe it was at the foot. Depends’ how you look at it. And right on E. G.’s hefty left hand. But the pre- caution wasn’t necessary. Everything was as merry as the annual conven- tion of mortuaries. Definition of mor- tuaries is undertakers. Rather dank, like Tuesday’s weather, or the way a Bolshevik feels when he has to shake hands with a pump handle. Greeted And Seated. But to get back to where we start- ed (but switched off so that the un- official records of the Burleigh coun- ty commissioners should contain the fact that a reporter from The Tri- ‘bune was not only greeted, but was actually seated at their august coun- sels. That must be recorded. If it were not, we should feel like a Pack- ard being passed iby a rattling good fliver on a smooth stretch. And that’s some humiliation. Let's see where were we? Oh yes, roll call sounded and the assessment books awaiting the verdict. Each Unto His Own E. G. immediately hauled a couple of copies of the wealth of Burleigh county towards him and the covers innocently displayed the titles Fort Rice and Lincoln. Anybody guessing where E. G.’s farm lands are located will receive the $5 in Mexican money. Quit your shoving and keep in line. Commissioners’ ‘Nos. 1 and 2 grabbed the books that contained the figures which represented jtheir worldly Boods from a tax assessment stand- point. The reporter, not to ibe outdone be- cause fhe didn’t own half the land in the county and another vote besides his own, opened his notebook and computed the distance from Bis- RE-BIND YOUR OLD BOOKS They will look like new after our experts get through with them. We have the only Book Bindery in this part of the State, and we make a spe- clalty of bindery work for other Printers, Mail Orders re- ceive prompt atten- tion; send in your work and we will make you an esti- mate on the cost. BISMARCK TRIBUNE BINDERY DEPARTMENT marck to the moon, via Fargo, Osh- kosh and the Panama canal. A “Souper’ Government. Intense interest,''pencils working furiously, sheaves of paper cover- ed with figures and the net result that each commissioner present as- sisting Whistling Eddie in perfecting the “super-government,” with the ac- cent on the soup, felt sure that some people in Burleigh county acting as tax assessors ought to be selling pale pills for pink people. ‘Oh yes, E. G.’s whistle was work- ing again today. In fact it was much, improved. Must have ibeen tuned over night. Something sounding like “Over There” came trickling out from beneath that raven black moustache, But after a few bars, it got stuck—something like the old Missouri—and it ended in that pa- thetic fireside ballad, “Where is my wandering $900 tonight?” Much pathos and ingrowing tears. After we had done a little more intensive figuring—somehow that “we” will always crop into this un- official record—Commissioners Nos. 1 and 2 began to tackle other books. ‘Many discrepancies: were discovered. That is difference between what was down in black and white and what was down in the commissioners’ heads. Some Boosts In Sight. Right now is a good time for The Tribune to predict that if Commis- sioners Nos. 1 and 2 follow the same line of reasoning, yes we reiterate, reasoning, as they did yesterday sev- eral assessments are going to be boosted a notch or two. Butas E. G. failed to express himself on these sundry. items, being too engrossed in the books containing Fort Rice and Lincoln township assessments, we do not promise anything. Merely predict, just like the weather man. Draining Long Lake Just to relieve the coagulating minds of the strain of looking at the assessment ‘books, the draining of Long Lake was injected into the con- ference. Commissioner No. 1—I think that’s a good scheme. E. G.—I'll never vote for it. (That ought to swing the sportsmen’s vote solid behind Whistling Eddie). Inquisitive reporter to Commis- sioner No. 1—How do you stand on this matter, Mr. Ward? Commissioner No. 1—Never studied the proposition over. Inquisitive reporter to Commissioner No. 2—How do you stand on this matter? i Commissioner No. 2—Fellows down there ought to know what they want. Which. is our idea of artistically passing the buck. Other Fellows’ Ideas. Inquisitive and insistent reporter to ‘Commissioner No. 2: Don’t you think the other people inthe county ought to be considered in a matter of this kind? ‘Surely you don’t look at it as a purely. local. affair. Commissioner No. 2—Oh, know, perhaps some. 4 Taking oné long guess, a bet laid on Commissioner No. 2 harboring ‘Long ¥ his. particular little world ought. to ibring home the ber- ries. We adjourned at ‘5:15 yesterday just like we did the day before. You know. Something like this: Whistling Eddie: Whadayer say about quitting.” Commissioner No. 2: me. QGhorus by all four of us: Let's quit and exit. Nobody will suffer from headaches for the work ‘done at that meeting. It worked as smooth as anything ever did that never did anything or got anywhere. Maybe it. was only a prelude to a big day today. Maybe, we said, That’s entirely non- committal. I don't That suits Goethe Memorial at Weimar. The genius of Goethe and Schiller | characterize Weimar in many forms of civic beauty. Goethe, some years before his death, laid out a large pub- lic park in the form of a garden and without an enclosure of any kind. There a quaint relic of its originator remains in the stone altar round which a serpent climbs to eat the votive bread. Uyon the altar is an inscrip- tion to the “genius hujas loci.” Ny GERMANS AIDED U. S. New York.—Alwin Grothe, above, and Alfred Scholz, below who aided the American offensive by giving informa- tien gained from other Germans taken | prisoner, are now in fear for their lives. Brought to this country, they are being held by the government until they can be released ‘with’ saféty to themselves. Wearing German uniforms, they mingl- ed with other Germans in the military Prison in France,