The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 13, 1919, Page 4

-fHE.BISMARGK TRIBUN Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter, GEORGE D: MANN, : - 5 E Foreign Representatives G, LOGEN BAYNE, COMTANY, CHICAGO, Marquette Blig. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW_YORK, - - 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. cee MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION’ SUBSCRIPTION RATE PAYABLE IN ADYANG E Daily by carrier, per year 2 Daily by mail, per year (In Bisn Daily by mail, per ta Daily by mail, outside of N rt Dakota... THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER - (Established 1873) _ DETROIT, WHO CONTROLS OUR PUBLIC FUNDS? Who controls the public funds of North Da- kota? The Bank of North Dakota is responsible for some twelve or sixteen million of them—we forget the exact figures, but ’tis a small matter anyway. Visibly Mr. Arthur C. Townley, a resident of St. Paul and president of the National Nonparti- san league, hasn’t a thing in the world to do with the Bank of North Dakota, or its public funds. Mr. Townley is not now a citizen of North Dakota; he ig not an office-holder in the present farmer administration—he isn’t even an imported job holder with any official connection with Mr. Frazier’s government. Then why in the world should “PRS,” cashier of the Scandinavian-American bank of Fargo, re- cently closed by the state banking board, address Mr. Townley of St. Paul as follows: “MR. HAGEN TELLS ME THAT YOU WERE TO GET US $500,000 IN ADDITION TO THE STATE DEPOSIT WHICH WE RECEIVED AND URGES THAT YOU GIVE THIS YOUR IMMEDI- ATE ATTENTION AND ASSIST US PROMPT- LY.” We can understand why “PRS” should write to Mr. Townley for assistance, because “PRS” says: “The fact that we have assisted the league and the Consumers’ United Stores Co. to an amount of $200,000 naturally depletes our available that much. While we are glad to be of assistance, the time has come when we must have assistance, if we shall get through the summer without diffi- culty.” But surely Mr. “PRS” couldn’t have expected Mr. Townley, living down in St. Paul, and not an officer of the Bank of North Dakota, to dig down into the public funds of this state institution and dish up $500,000 of the people’s money to SQUARE MR. TOWNLEY’S OBLIGATIONS to the Scandinavian-American bank of Fargo. The money in the Bank of North Dakota is there for the farmers’ benefit, to be loaned to the farmer to reduce his rate of interest and rescue) him from the loan shark. To date about $12,000 of the Bank of North Dakota’s $16,000,000 actually has been loaned to Mr. Farmer, and $287,000 of it was in the hands of the Scandinavian-American bank of Fargo when the doors of that institution were closed. AND THE SCANDINAVIAN - AMERICAN BANK SEEMED TO HAVE SOME REASON TO BELIEVE THAT MR. TOWNLEY WAS GOING TO GIVE IT $500,000 MORE. The half-million which the Fargo bank didn’t! get from the Bank of North Dakota combined with | the over a quarter of a million which it did get, would just: about have equalled the three- quarters of a million in excess loans which state bank examiners claim they found in the Scandi- navian-American before its doors were closed. Will Mr. Townley please explain? “FARMERS’ BANK” WRECKERS How broadly is the Townley interpretation of “farmers’ Bank Wreckers” to be applied? Mr. Townley’s 55 kept newspapers told their readers with great diligence last week that Messrs. Langer and Hall were “Farmers’ Bank Wreckers.” Mr. Townley’s conclusion is based upon the fact that Messrs. Hall and Langer—both, by the way, elected as Nonpartisan leaguers—as mem- bers of the state banking board directed the clos- ing of the Scandinavian-American bank of Fargo upon a showing presented by two deputy state bank examiners, also serving under a Nonpartisan league head (a farmers’ administration, if you will) that the Fargo institution was hopelessly in- solvent. Messrs. Hall and Langer, whatever may have been their political motives, if any, acted as they had given their bond and sworn their oath they would act under any similar circumstances.. And because they did so, they were “Farmers’ Bank Wreckers.” To what extent will this definition of bank wrecking be accepted? The public is interested in knowing. On petition of the Scandinavian-American bank, represented by Mr. William Lemke, Town- ley’s most confidential lieutenant, the supreme court of North Dakota has stepped in and, tem- porarily at least, halted “bank wrecking” such as nk wrecking” until after October 15, when Mr. Townley will ask the supreme court to make his temporary injunction permanent. this matter for an opinion which will forever set- tle in the public mind the questions which Mr. Townley has raised. If post-dated checks are good collateral, many of us would be glad to have our bankers know it. If the packing of a bank with post-dated checks as collateral for loans Many times, it has been alleged by state bank examiners, in excess of the bank’s lending power, is good, legitimate banking, all of the banks in North Dakota and the public should be advised. If our state banking board, which is composed 6 | of the governor and the secretary of state and the attorney general, all elected directly by the people, has less power than one man, the state bank ex- aminer, who may be appointed today by the gov- ernor and removed by the latter tomorrow, with no accounting in either instance to the people, then we should be so informed. If no credence is to be taken, by the state bank examiner or the state banking board, of repeated reports from deputy state examiners to the effect that a bank is hopelessly insolvent; if to note such reports and to take action which may reasonably appear warranted for the protection of the deposi- tors is bank wrecking, for goodness sake let us so brand it. We are looking to the North Dakota supreme court for enlightenment on these subjects. THE GENTLE ART OF MAKING A TOUCH We can quite readily see that-we are bunglers in the gentle art of making a touch. Now if we, as bankers, had accommodated a man to the extent of a half-million dollars of funds which depositors, believing in us, had en- trusted to our care, and if we discovered that we couldn’t get along and save ourselves from “em- barrassment and disgrace” and our depositors from possible loss of their savings without this half-million dollars, we wouldn’t think of ap- proaching this man on our knees and of humbly begging him to do something. No, our work would} be coarser than that. We’d go out and get that money, some way, and we wouldn’t be over-careful | of the feelings of the man who had got us in a} bad hole. But “H. J. H.,” president of the Scandinavian- American bank, if we are to believe the files of that institution, has a much gentler way. He merely trusts that a gentleman who seems more or less responsible for “this dangerous period’ will devote just a part of his time to hridging over this dan- gerous period, “that we may not fear embarrass- ment and disgrace.” Now we'll all have to admit that is much nicer, and particularly when we wind up our nicely sugar- coated letter with an extra-gooey paragraph read-|s ing: “Trusting that you will be successful in your noble work that you are now engaged in, LIFTING HUMANITY INTO A HIGHER SPHERE OF CULTURE AND ENLIGHTENMENT, WHICH RESULTS IN A LIFE OF COMFORT, ENJOY- MENT AND PEACE, I beg to remain,” etc. ete. What is that “higher sphere of culture and en- lightenment, which results ‘in a life of comfort, enjoyment and peace”? Ask H. J. H.—He is basking in that sphere at} this very moment. And what is the noble work that H. J. H.’s cor- ‘respondent is engaged in? Artemus Ward would refer to it as “Doing his friends good.” Not an ordinary letter, you will say. No, it is not, but this letter was written to Mr. Arthur C. Townley. Yes, that IS different. Pegg |B THE PRESIDENT’S ILLNESS even in normal times is the most terrific job in the world.’ And the times have not been normal. President Wilson is the kind of man who will not and cannot spare himself. Guarding his re- sponsibility with an almost religious zeal, he has shouldered a load in’ excess of his physical strength. Typical of his attitude toward gigantic tasks was his going to Europe personally to conduct peace negotiations. All major state papers have been from his pen. He has patiently added each new problem to his burden. The effect of such overwork on his highly or- ganized mind and body was inevitable. His tour in behalf of the league of nations, top- ping a long series of crises and responsibilities, brought on a nervous collapse. The country appreciates that the overwork was in its behalf. It sympathizes twith the president and prays for his early and complete ‘recovery. Judge Gary says the open shop is the sole issue in the steel strike. We thought something was said about one day’s rest in seven. : Have we reached the point where a great na- tional issue can be decided by the crowd able to throw the most eggs, cats and decayed vegetables? Senator Wolcott made a speech of 20,000 words Mr. Townley declares the North Dakota banking board has practiced. At this moment the hands of the state banking board are practically tied. There will be no more in which he said that four months may be required | | for discussion of the treaty. If every senator has 20,000 useless words in his system, four months won’t do it. bg ie, Utah GS ime deel May we hope in the supreme court’s decision on) The job of being president of the United States | |* N her new special greatest group of stars motion picture. The of Dreams.” PROGRESSIVE WEDDING le Is INEERST? ATE AFF AIR) | 1 | Caldwell, Idaho, Oct. One of the} most unique weddin: er performed | | | in the Northwest v lemnized_re- cently on either side of the Idaho-Ore- bn boundary. Rev. B. W. Rice, of Caldwell called to a home south of P marry Roy Redmon, of Caldwell, telegraph operator, and Vera Pulliam of Boise, a nurse. ss pr dived on the Oregon t She inside 0 thought she lived in lad: county. , Rev. R fore the nouncement. ceremony u nspécted the license be- He proceeded with the to the point where he was _ to “JT pronounce you hus- band and wife.”. Instead } ounced that, as the license was obtained in Idaho, the ceremony could not be com- pleted in Oregon. line was only a mile away. The sug 1 chord, / The edding repast was lis. posed of, the bridal party motored into Oregon and the knot was tied without further incident. ~ t The marriage was the culminati ident. Redmon was |taken s to a hospital shane he regained his health, thanks to the tender care of the nurse who is now his wife. 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PEOPLE'S FORUM | N.'D., Oct. 111,719 well that your readers Five prominent. f the British Labor Party, Mr. Robert Smillie, have the following protest to the Tt may be ion of. the ac- has been ned to be ny has been pledging her-' enormous indemni- but the ba ae sustenance ‘ople. in fact, been forced the impossible. Had she lone so, the food supply on which rer people depended would ithlessly cut off. In other , we put the women and child- |} the firing line, and the Ger-| had to give in. One hundred and persons, mostly women and ve already perished since ice as the result of the blockade. Our government was, and is, prepared to sacrifice countless more, to treat the German or any other recalcitrant nation as one vast In any event, one of the fe the Peace Treaty will s, who, by on of cows, to be de- prived .of their milk, Thousands of others will perish as their fathers find’ themselves deprived of the means the or has had no part in the mak- of the‘treaty. 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