The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 11, 1919, Page 1

a et THIRTY-NINTH YEAR, } 182. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1919 PRICE FIVE CENTS AMERICA’S GREATEST PHILANTHROPIST DEAD SYSTEMATIC WRECKING OF MISS — NIELSON'S OFFICE BEGUN BY REV. ~ GEORGE TOTTEN AND HIS CREW Formal Demand Made This Morning That Records and All Pere- quisites of Certification Clerk Be Turned Over'to E. P. Crain, Macdonald Man—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Relies on League Promises and Awaits Legal Opinion Before Acting. rae s The state board of administration this morning made a formal demand on Miss Minnie J. Nielson, state superintendent of public instruction, that she surrender to E. P. Crain, friend of Neil C. Macdonald, all records and appurtenances relating to the office of certificate clerk, through which the certification of teachers. has been handled by the state superintendent of public instruction as far back as memory runneth. Miss Nielson, while she is preparing things in this department for a transfer, following the checking over of accounts by the state examiner and the state auditor, will not actually make this transfer until she is advised as to the legal phases of the matter. The de- mand follows the action of the board of administration last week in removing from Miss Nielson’s office the certification of teachers and the examination of pupils for the eighth grade and high schools, and turning these duties over to E. P. Crain, certificate clerk under Neil C. Macdonald, when the'latter was superintendent of public instruction, and, since Macd@nald’s retirement by a jury of more than 70,000 North Dakota electors, employed in several minor capacities about the state-house. League Version of Truth. The Golden Valley Progress, the Brintonized league organ at Beach, at a loss for filler last week, unfortun- ately threw in a column of league plate from the ‘Nonpartisan press propaganda bureau. Dated March 3. and headed, “New Educational Bill is Progressive,” which contains the fol- lowing enlightening assurances: The claim has been made that this bill (the board of administra- tion measure) was aimed at tgk- ing away the powers of Miss ‘Minnie Nielson as state suoerintendent of public instruction, and a great cry has gone up through the state how the legislature and the Non- partisan league were practicing unfair tactics against the ‘Lone ‘Woman’ holding state office. “The facts are that the measure Increases the powers and duties of the state superintendent, and makes this office more of a factor .In the ‘educational. plan of the state than ever before. 5 “One provision of the act itself refutes the statements that have been made by-gang newspapers of. the state that the bill: caleu- lated to curb the duties of the state superintendent of public in- struction. This provision is as follows: “(The powers and duties of the state superintendent of public in- -etruction as heretofore provided by law shall be subject to the su- :, pervision and control of the board of administration only insofar as such powers and duties were by _ law subject to the supervision and control of any or all of the boards mentioned in section 5 of this act.” The boards mentioned in Section 5 of the act included the state board of education, which the board of ad- ministration absorbs. The board of education had never interfered with) the office of the state superintendent of public instruction, The certifica- tion of teachers and the preparation of examinations for the eighth grade and high school never ‘had ‘been con- ducted through any other department than that of the state superintendent. Takes Over Everything. In its motion this morning the board of administration removes from Miss iNielson’s office and concentrates in the hands of E. P. Crain, the board’s new certificate clerk, all matters per- taining to the state board of educa- tion as well as the records and files of the certification department. These records are an essential part of the state superintendent’s office system, and if they are removed to the ‘base- ment quarters of Mr. Crain, Miss ‘Nielson and her aides will be com- pelled to hie themselves thither whenever it may ‘be necessary to con- sult these files. Cayses General Resentment. The treatment. which Miss Nielson has received at the hands of the siate board of administration, the pledges, which it is alleged have been vio- lenced, and the silence of the league organs on this matter have caused un- ‘rest and disquiet even among some 0i the league office-holders at the state house who have been most loyal in| the fealty to Townley. Among the pub- lic general there is a deep and general and burning resentment such as has (been occasioned bby no other act of the league goverment. RAMSEY COUNTY BANKS LOSE $121,885.85 TO NORTH DAKOTA BANK Devils Lake, N. D., Aug. 11.—Under requirements of the law creating the; state bank of North Dakota, County ‘Treasurer Powell has transferred from twenty-two, city and country banks in Remsey county the gross sum of $121,- 885.85. BANK CLEARINGS LAST WEEK NEARLY $200,000 Bank clearings of Bismarck ‘tanks for the week ending August 9 amounted to $191,930. This makes a total of $608,170 for the month to date. The daily clear- ings last week were: Monday, $40,720; Tuesday $36,930; Wednes- STATECLOTHIERS IN FIRST ANNUAL MEETING HERE Retail Clothing Dealers Gather to Hear Interesting Trade Discussions WELCOMED BY C. L. YOUNG Given Freedom of City—Lunch- eon at Grand Pacific at Noon—Golf. Tonight ° mm 4 Tuesday's Program. 9:30—Question Box, ‘round ‘ablov| discussions. : a ‘ 10:30-—“A Well Dressed Commun- | ity,” E. 'M. McMahon, general | secretary St. Paul. Association. | of Commerce. . ‘Noon lunch, | 2:00—Unfinished business. Election of officers. CG | Selection for next conven- | tion. Adjournment, . aR ee | | ° The first annual convention of the North Dakota Retail Clothiers asso- siation was opened this morning at the Commercial club with an address of welcome by C. L. Young:on behalf TOWNLEY ORGANS TO RECEIVE BIG BONUS SELECTED League Newspaper in Every In- stance Selected by Nonpar- tisan Majority COUNTY SEATS IGNORED Comparatively Few “Official” Publications Are at Seats »of Government Officta) . neysPaper® Were: ‘selected for forty-nine. of North Dakota's fifty- three counties Saturday, afternoon’ by the, new state printing..and publica- tion commission, consisting of S. J. Aandahl, chairman of the state rail- way commission; John N. Hagan, commissioner’ of agriculture and la- bor; and Thomas Hall, secretary of state. The counties left ‘without official newspapers are Grand Forks, which was left open at Hagan’s request; Kidder, and Richland. It is under- stood that the obstacle in the way of selecting an official newspaper for Grand Forks county Saturday was the fact that the Grand Forks American, of which Hagan is president, and which he is expected to pick, has not yet attained its first birthday and can- not, under an old law, become a legat newspaper until it has rounded out a full twelve month. Kidder county and Richland were left open for similar reasons. In the former the league overlooked the fact that the old print- ing laws, which are not repealed, re- quire that a newspaper must have printed at least one page at the of- fice of publication for one year prior to its selection as a legal newspaper, and only a few weeks ago the Liggett press bureay bought the Dawson press and transferred it to Steele. In Richland a similar mistake was made in recently buying John Andrews’ pa- per, the Lidgerwood Farmers’ Press, and moving it to Wahpeton. Townley Men Firm. In most instances the vote Satur- day was two to one, the two Town- ley men standing pat on the selection of a league newspaper in every coun- ty, while Hall voted in the negative. The newspapers appointed are: Adams county—Adams County Rec- ord, Hettinger. Barnes—Enterprise, Sanborn. Benson—Farmers’ Press, ‘Minne- waukan. Billings—Pioneer, Fryburg. Bottineau—Courant, Bottineau. Eowman—Farmers’ Leader, man. Burke—Tribune, Bowbells. Burleigh—Burleigh County Farmers’ Press, Burleigh. Cass—Courier News, Fargo. Cavalier—Independent, Osnabrook. Dickey—Sentinel, Forbes. Bow- Divide—Divide County Farmers’ Press. Dunn—Du>n County Farmers’ Press, Dunn Center. Eddy—Farmers’ Provost, New Rock- ford. i Emmons—Free Press, Linton. Foster—Record, Carrington. Golden Valley—Progress, Beach. Grant—Grant County Leader, Car- son. Griggs—Sentinel-Courier, town. Hettinger—Pioneer Press, Mott. LaMoure—Mail, Edgeley. Logan—Comet, Burnstad. McHenry—Farmers’ Press, Towner. McIntosh—Tribune, Ashley. (McKenzie—McKenzie County Farm- ers’ Press, ({McLean—Independent, Garrison. Mercer—Star, Hazen. Morton—News, Mandan. ‘Mountrail—Sun, Stanley. Nelson—Nelson County Observer, (Lakota. Oliver—Republican, Center. Coopers: of the city of Bismarck. Mr. Young spoke briefly of the many plans followed in this city to place it in the front rank of progressive cities of the northwest, laying stress on the paving project and the beautiful homes here. A luncheon was tendered those del- egates present at the Grand Pac'fic hotel which was followed ‘by the after- noon session at the Commercial club. Vardaman on Merchandising. ‘The principal speech made was that delivered by Ben R. Vardaman, asso- ciate editor of the National Clothier. Mr. Vardaman xvoke on “Modern ‘Merchandising” and outlined the prog- ress the business. world has made through representatives of the vyari- ous lines of business meeting annual- ly at conventions such as the present one, j “The ‘benefits that you men derive from this meeting,”s aid Mr. Varda- man, “are not only those gleaned from the interesting talks and messages de- livered to-you, but by rubbing should- ers with. men’ who are*in the same line ‘of ‘biisiness with you in various parts of the state. “In this way vou discuss each oth- ers’ problems, what seems a grave dif- ficulty for one is easily explained by some merchant who has been face to face with the same problem and has met it successfully. The Personal Contact. “Progress can only be maintained | and obtained by these close personal! contracts with one another. You learn better methods of merchandising, how best to serve your customers, how the other methods of appeal, how each one of you have met the difficulties and barriers which crop up almost daily m your work. “It is by this meeting together that you will continue to progress, that your business will continue to expand, {that you will be able to serve your customers better and more thoroughly. “It is only a short time ago that a business expert was unheard of yet to- day he has a firm and secure place in the business world. We can not get along without him. Modern merchan- dising demands his guide and directing hand. And when a number of mer- chants gather together, as we are gathered here today, the result is that tiuch valuable information is” obtain- ed by each one of us. And this infor- mation will mean increased business, larger volume and more satisfied cus- tomers.” Hugo Stern Responds. Hugo Stern, the popular secretary of the state association, responded to Mr. Young's address of welcome and suid that although this was the first meeting of the progressive retail cloth- iers of North Dakota yet the attend- ance and interest manifested spoke well of the organization’s future. He thanked Mr. Young for the many in- yilations extended to the association during its sojourn in Bismarck and said that the delegates would leave this city with their hearts full of the many kindnesses and courtesies they met with here. Chief Justice Christianson of the supreme court was scheduled to de- liver an address on “Law and Busi- ness.” Following the business session this afternoon the members will be taken on an automobile tour of the city where the many points of interest will be shown to them. A visit to the capitol and the offices of the state officials will be followed by a short automobile ride through the country adjacent to the city to show what crops are raised in this county. A chicken dinner at the country club and a twilight golf tournament will terminate the first day's activi- ties. Peace Conference Changes Attitude Toward Rumanians Paris, by the Associated Press, Aug. 11.—The peace conferene, it beccame known today is changing entirely its attitude toward the Rumanian army in Budapest. The conference. it is learn- ed, is not disposed to ask the Ruman- ians to leave the Hungarian capital immediately, despite the fact that the dav $25,350; Thursday $22,400; ; Fridey $38,560; Saturday $27,870, Pembina—Chronicle, Cavalier. (Continued on Page Bight.) supreme. interallied council asked the Rumanians not to enter Budapest, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg . Branch libraries in New York city ... Scotch universities .. Carnégie- Institute, Washington, D. C. THE LAIRD OF SKIBO ANDREW CARNEGIE, MAN WHO GAVE AWAY MILLIONS, DIES AT SUMMER HOME--WAS WIZARD OF INDUSTRY ‘Die Poor and Avoid Disgrace” Was Laird of Skibo’s Advice to Millionaires—Cities All Over America Indebted to Him for Libraries and Other Public Buildings—Began Life a Poor Boy—Acquired Greatest Fortune Ever Won by Foreign-Born American. _ Lennox, Mass., Aug. 11.—Andrew Carnegie died at his summer home “Shadow Brook” here at 7 o'clock this morning. The cause of death was bronchial pneumonia. SHE WILL INHERIT CARNEGIE RICHES CARNEGIES CAREER. Andrew Carnegie during the latter. Period of his life undoubtedly ranked as the greatest American spender of endowmertt jand philanthropia mon- eys. That is, the amounts of cash which he donated to enterprises. of a public or quasi-public nature exceeded : those of any other American philanthropist. In supstance, using the slang of the CARNEGIE BENEFACTIONS cE Qwie.siact- Margaret Carnegie. When the engagement of the daugh- ter of Andrew Carnegie to Ensign Koswell Miller was announced in No- yember, 1918, it was said that she would be the richest bride in America. , Miss Carnegie was then’ 21. Miller was ; assigned to a submarine chaser and the wedding date was not then fixed, Hg abe ie $22,000,000 YORE “5,200,000 * 10,000,000 ; 24,000,000 Carnegie Steel Co. employes’ benefit fund. 5,000,000 BERIT eT Carnegie 'Héro Fund Commission ............... 5,000,000 SPECIAL Ni} | N St. Louis Public;Library «..3.........- «vee 1,000,000 Carnégie Hero Trust Fund, Scotland . 1,150,000 / Hero Fund, France sr 1,000,000 DOPE ALL WRONG Hero Fund, Germany ... 1,500,000 5 Carnegie Dumfermlie Trust... Hague Peace Temple .. United Engineering Society Municipal library buildings Foundation for Advancement of Teaching United States, Canada, Newfoundland KOSITZKY-: WILL DISCUSS LEAGUE IN GOPHER STATE North Dakota Auditor One of Principal Speakers on Min- nesota Program St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 11.—The Non- partisan league will be discussed by Carl R. Kositsky, state auditor of ‘North Dakota, at the fourth annual meeting of the National Association of state auditors, controllers and treasurers which will take’ place August 12-14 in ‘St. Paul. Auditor Kositsky. was one of the leaders of opposition to the league legislative Program in North Dakota. State Auditor J. A. O. Preus, in charge of local arrangements for the meeting, late today made public. the program for the convention. Ad- dresses and exchange of ideas toward promoting economy, efficiency and uni- formity in public accounting and. in the handling of public funds will oc- cupy the delegates. Citizens interest- ed in state financial problems, and es- pecially municipal officials, public ac- countants and corporation auditors, are invited to the meetings. ‘Conference headquarters will ‘be at the Saint Paul hotel. A banquet will be served Wednesday night when sp2-} cial guests will include, Governor Burnquist, Mayor L. C. Hodgson of ‘St. Paul, Mayor J. BE. Meyers of Min- neapolis, Lieutenant Governor Thomas Frankson, W. I. Nolan, speaker of the house of representatives and repre- sentatives of Minneapolis and St. ‘Paul civic organizations, SECOND PAVEMENT DANCE THIS EVENING The second of the series of pave- ment dances given by the Bismarck lodge of the A. O. U. W. will be held this evening on Broadway between ‘Second and Third Streets. The funds realized at the dance will be devoted to the band which this organization has’ formed. At, the first dance, two weeks ago. a large crowd attended-and it is said its popularity induced the A. O. U. W. to hold a series of dances. The money raised will be used to secure a com- petent instructor for the band so that it will be able to give concerts next year, Pi Ase wie Ds a . 8,500,000 ..» 1,500,000 .» 1,500,000 0,000,000 16,250,000 SAYS FRAZIER Governor Declares Press Got Suffrage Committee “In Bad” With Its News [Battleship With Prince of Wales Off Newfoundland His Royal Highness About Fif- teen Miles From Shore at 8 This Morning DENIES WILLISTON STORY Says Nobody But The Tribune Ever Called Extraordinary Assembly Governor Frazier never said noth- ing to nobody about no special session of the North Dakota assembly. Mr.. Frazier very positively so in- formed a ‘press representative | this morning. . Mr. Frazier denied having stated at Williston, in addressing a farmers’ plenic there, or at Ray, or mid-way between these two points, as the case may be, that he had found a special session necessary. “I never said there was going to be a special session,” the governor growled when asked if he could not fix an ap- proximate date for the extraordinary assembly. “You said there was going to be,” continued the governor, “and you got those ladies in bad, too.” (Those Ladies) were Mrs, Elizabeth Darrow O'Neill of Fargo, representing the North Dakota Votes for Women league, and Miss Shuler of New York and Mrs. South of Kentucky, members of the national congressional commit- tee of the suffrage asociation, who re- motored to Bismarck Saturday on cently called upon Governor Frazier business and pleasure. |to urge him to call a special sesion Mrs. Genner is a former resident of at which the national suffrage amend- ths city and is the daughter of Mr. ment could ratified, Mr. Frazier did and Mrs. Matt Marsh and the niece not explain just how “those laides” of Captain Grant Marshall all pio- were getting in bad. The press repre- neers of this city and vicinity and sentative did not explain that the in- well known here in the early days. jttem in which the governor said got St. Johns, Nfd., Aug. 11.—The battleship Renown bringing the Prince of Wales to ‘Newfoundland, was sighted at 8 a. m. local time from St. Frances light house at the southern entrance of ‘Concep- tion bay. The Renown and her escort, the cruiser Dragon, were abolt 15 miles away proceeding slowly. Crop Conditions Around Washburn Are Fairly Good County Treasurer Declares Far- mers Will Get Good Re- turn After All County Treasurer and Mrs. Fred Gehner of Washburn, ‘McLean county, (Mr, Gehner stated that in spite /them in bad came from his (Mr. of the grasshoppers and drouth, |¥razier’s) own office. crop conditions around Washburn “We are sorry to ‘have got those were good. He stated that the /Jadies’ in bad,” the humble scribe in- county had spent $80,000 on grass- | fermed his excellency. “Our intentions hopper control and that the farm- | were good.” ers consider the work very effect- “Yes,—your intentions are always ive, Poisoned tbran was used, he | good,” grumbled his excellency. said. | “In any event,” the now much The premium paid by McLean coun-' chastened reporter pleaded. with the ty under the state workmen’s compen: governor, “we'd like to have the truth sation law was nape bat seiner stat of this special session matter.” ed. He also said that McLean county f ¢ ie | “Gurrump!” was Mr. Fraziets char- would ‘soon have some of the best acteristic reply. roads in the state. The county, with the aid of the state highway commis- sion, will build 40 miles of dirt roads It was just before the noon hour. Long tables were spread in the executive office for the Monday luncheon, From le, ae cost. Sppren matey, Manns Sane the lower regions was wafted the de. the cost of instruction, he said. jlicious aroma of Mexican Hairless Some rust has made its appearance hot dogs, which were {to form the among McLean county crops, Mr. piece de resistance. Again, the gov- Gehner said, but it is hoped that most ernor was dictating, and he may have of the crop will be cut before any found the novel sensation so enjoyable great damage results. i] (Continued on Page Four.) day, he might have been: called the champion philanthropist. It might al- so be correct to characterize ‘him as the foremost teacher of frugality and thrift in America during the past two decades, He was best known in two fields. Steel—where he made money—and public libraries—to which special field he gave money to an unprecedented and sensational extent. ‘Born in 1835 in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland, he came to the U.S, A. in 1848 and took a job at a dollar a week as a weavers assistant in a mill at Allegheny, Pa, Next he was messenger boy for the Ohio Tele- graph Co. in Pittsburgh and soon was a telegraph operator for the Pennsyl- vanio railroad, mounting upward and onward—for his was an upward and onward career e pluribus unum—till he became superintendent of the Pitts- burg division. ’ The Woodruff Sleeping Car Co. an investments in ofl lands near Oil City, Pa., were the mediums through which he laid the foundation for. a fortune with which to begin operations in the steel game, where he made his. way to supremacy. ‘He jntroduced: tha Bessemer process in 1868 atid a string of Bridge, iron and steel plants: were ‘brought together in 1899 ‘in the Carne- Bie Steel Co. ct SOLD OUT TO UNITED STATES STEEL The United States Steel Corpora- tion paid him $300,000,000 for ‘his en- tire holdings of steel in 1901. What is told as the bitterest experience in his life, is a conversaton between J. P. Morgan and Carnegie on an Atlan- tic liner leaving New York after closing up the biggest steel deal in human history. It was over the morn- ing coffee and Mr, Carnegie said: “Do you know, Mr. Morgan, I have been thinking it over and I find 1 made a mistake. I should have asked you another hndred mfllion {for those Carnegie properties.” Morgan answered, should have paid it.” Financial journals told this anec- dote as authentic. It is certain there was then involved the most daring industrial strategy and the most curi- ous psychology of financial rivalry that American economics had ever witnessed. Bridge and tube corpora- tions, owned largely by Morgan in- terests, had been planning to manu- facture their own billets—a field dom- inated by Carnegie. He sent out word he was going into the bridge and tube business and would build his own rail- roads from Pittsburg to the Great Lakes on the west and to the Atlantic seaboard on the east. Surveying par- ties were rus.ed out to find the routes. Other preliminaries made it look as though the canny Scot at Pittsburg was making no ibluff at all. A price of $300,000,000 for his steel properties—actual and physical value estimated at one-sixth to one-fourth of this figure—arranged the matter satisfactorily all round. “Andy,” as his friends all called him, then went in for writing books and giving library buildings to any town that would raise for itself a sum of money equal to his benefaction. In 1912 alone he bestowed $130,403,000 on any and all various interests. WROTE AND SPOKE ON RICH (MAN’S FORTUNE, He wrote and spoke often on topics raising the question, “What shall a rich man do with his money? Is it possible to formulate a science of wise beneficence?” Triumphant ‘Democ- racy, The Gospel of Wealth, The Man and His Work, are suggestive titles of books he wrote. (Medals and pensions to heroes win- ning awards from the Carnegie Hero Fund commission were intended to stimulate human courage. The en- dowment was in 1904 for $5,000,000. The Carnegie Institute of Technology, Carnegie Institute of Washington, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, were all forms of lavishly endowed enter- prises planned to attack human ig- norance, human incompetency, and the issues that weave in and out of world folly and misery. “DIE POOR AND AVOID DISGRACE,” SAID CARNEGIE. “The aim of the millionaire should be to die poor and thus avoid dis- grace,” wrote Mr. Carnegie in 1913. “If you had, I “The highest use of great fortunes is in public work and service for man- (Continued on Page Four.)