The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 6, 1919, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second BI ____Class Matter. GEORGE D, MANN, Editor Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, CHICAGO, - - - - DETROIT, Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAY! ITH 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 eceritee 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 .. $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (In Daily by mail, per year (In state outs: oy Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota........ iets THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) NE, BURNS AND’ SM —— = A SENSIBLE SUGGESTION State Treasurer Obert Olson’s suggestion that the trustees of the teachers’ state retirement fund withdraw from the Bank of North Dakota a cash balance of $54,000 and loan this sum, through the board of university and school lands, to the farm- ers of North Dakota, will meet with general approval. The board of university and school lands loans its funds to the farmers at five per cent. It is necessary for the Bank of North Dakota to charge six, in order that it may pay expenses, which are heavy, and interest and sinking fund charges, which will be by no means light during the form- ative period of the institution. On the other hand, the Bank of North Dakota can pay but four per cent on time certificates of deposit, while the teachers can obtain direct from the°farmers five per cent, and there is no better security in the world than a first mortgage on a North Dakota farm, which the teachers would have as collateral. By following Mr. Olson’s suggestion, the trus- tees of the teachers’ retirement fund will make it possible for at least 54 farmers to obtain low- cost loans of $1,000; the board will save the farmer one per cent interest per annum on this $54,000, as compared with the rate which the farmer must pay the Bank of North Dakota, and the teachers’ fund would earn one per cent per annum more than it is now earning in the Bank of North Dakota. Inasmuch as it is a public department which is not operated for profit, the board of university and school lands functions very economically. The $54,000 which Treasurer Olson would have the teachers loan the farmers through this board is more than double the aggregate of $25,472.05 which Director General Cathro reports the Bank of Nérth Dakota as having loaned to farmers up to October 15. The teachers’ loan through the board of university and school lands will be handled without cost to the farmer or to the teachers’ fund, while Director Cathro shows that the Bank of North Dakota during the three- months’ period when it loaned $25,472.05 to the farmers of North Dakota paid out $18,506.74 for the appraisement of farm loans, and incurred gen- eral expenses of $11,328.09. The cost of appraising loans is paid by the farmer, whose application for a loan from the Bank of North Dakota must be accompanied by a preliminary fee of $5 for each $1,000 which he wishes to borrow. Other expenses of the bank are paid out of its earnings or from the appro- priation made by the last assembly or from the proceeds of the $2,000,000 bonds which the state has issued to finance this institution. Being, :as Judge Nuessle has recently held, a private bank and not a public institution, the Bank of North Da- kota, although it has shown profits of $47,000 for its first quarter, could not be expected to compete economically in the business of loaning money to the farmers with. the board of university and school lands, aH of whose members except the commissioner are elective officials who serve on this board Without pay, and whose operations are |” not expected to return a profit above actual expenses. THE PUBLIC'S THE GOAT During the great war, when all of us were keyed to a high'pitch of patriotic fervor and eg10- tion, labor and capital clasped hands and marched forward together to a face a’common enemy. They were optimists who predicted the war would be followed by a new era of good feeling in America. But they reckoned without human nature. No sooner had the armistice been signed, no sooner had the danger to our civilization been abated, than the old quarrels about economic and industrial conditions began all over again. Fierce battles began to be waged over working hours, wages, the right of collective bargaining, all the familiar bones of contention between or- ganized labor and organized capital. These disputes when followed by strikes or lockouts are injurious to both parties. There is always a distinct economic loss. Capital loses in curtailed production. Labor loses in cutting off of its pay envelope. But after all their suffering is nothing com- pared to that of the third party at interest, the innocent by-standers, the great American public, composed of millions of men and women and their ‘children who are allied to neither party to the geomet. |. “If there is a great steel strike which goes on ( long enough, all business, a!l normal life is un- settled, because steel is the basic material of our modern, complex, highly industralized existence. We feel the lack of steel in a thousand ways from the inability to complete the construction of a necessary building or bridge to a shortage in plows and other farming implements. : If there is.a great railroad srike, the suffering does not fall alone on the holders of railroad stocks nor‘upon the men who work on the roads. The American public bears the brunt in the curtail- ment of its food, its fuel, its clothing, of every- thing that enters into transportation by freight cars, . If there is a great coal miners’ strike, a blow is struck directly at all of us. Factories shut down and we lose our jobs. Lighting plants shut down and we have no light. Gas plants shut down and we have no gas. We freeze in our homes. Our boasted civilization is knocked out of joint. Now the continuation of such conditions is in- tolerable. It is un-American. It is, to put it bluntly, uncivilized. The trouble can’t be cured by repressive legislation. It can’t be abatted by passing laws forbidding strikes, for the right of workmen to lay down their tools cannot be taken away from them. It can’t be abated by passing laws forbidding lockouts, for the right of owners to close their plants can’t be taken away from them. Some new way must be found; some method not copied from the experiments in Europe or Canada or Australia. There must be an American way of settling industrial disputes between Americans. That way must be one in which the great American public will be a deciding voice and fac- tor, because when all is said and done the great American public is the goat in all these disputes. disputes. Aeroplane freight must consist of precious merchandise. <A plane is flying from New York to Cuba with $100,000 worth of fountain pens. Per- haps it will bring back $100,000 worth of sugar. | eee WITH THE EDITORS | JUDGE BIRDZELL’S OPINION The dissenting opinion of Justice Birdzell in the Scandinavian-American bank case, just de- cided by the supreme court by a vote of three to two, makes interesting reading. Judge Birdzell was nominated for the supreme bench at the Non- partisan league convention at Fargo in the spring of 1916. He was supported with enthusiasm by Nonpartisan league workers, and’ was elected by league votes. He was not a compromise ‘candi- date, and no other party or faction had anything to do with his selection. His election was hailed | as a signal victory for the league forces. During his incumbency he has aided in the decision of many cases, and his decisions have frequently. been in accord with the contentions of those who have represented the league in, itigation. And yet Judge Birdzell, with a warmth of lan- guage which would subject a layman to punish- ment for contempt of court, denounces the action taken by the majority of the court as “fundamen- tal and far-reaching,” and striking at the very foundations of judicial due process of law. He finds it subversive, not merely of statutes and constitutional provisions enacted in response to current, and perhaps temporary need, but of the principles of human liberty laid down in Magna Charta, which antedates by centuries the Ameri- can constitution itself. The dissenting jurist finds that disposition of this case was made without trial, and he calls at- tention to the fact that it is against this very summary procedure known under the term “gov- ernment by injunction” that most strenuous ob- jections have been raised. And yet he declares the court decision to be one which makes govern- ment by injunction an accomplished fact. In connection with Judge Birdzell’s opinion it is worth while to recall that his colleague, Judge Robinson, in his characteristically informal man- ner, expressed himself with much emphasis on this bank case, declaring that the bank had re- ceived just the sort of jolt that it needed. Basing his actions on different considerations, he seems to have proceeded on the theory that the bank, having been improperly and unsafely conducted, ! had been checked in its dangerous career, and might be expected, if given an opportunity, to mend its ways in the future. He voted, therefore, with Judges Bronson and Grace in favor of the} decision so roundly condemned by Judge Birdzell. | Faction and party have no proper place in, the affairs of our courts. But our socialist manipu- lators have made party. and factional. issues of everything pertaining to them. On those issues they have elected four supreme court justices. One of these judges in the opinion just published sustains entirely the contentions of the attorney general that the procedure under which this case was decided was without proper trial and in de- fiance of law and justice. Another has over his own signature declared in substance that the course pursued by the management of the league bank was unwarranted, unsound and unsafe, but has been willing, on general principles, to give its authorities a chance to better their records. If the managers of the bank, or the politicians who have made it a political tool, can extract any comfort from this situation, they are welcome to it.—Grand Forks Herald, BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE at ee ee nn Mi OF MYSTERY MAN | iss Dorothy Harris of St. Paul Declares That Initial “C” on Father’s Personal . Effects Which He Would Never Ex-; plain Is Key to Long Puzzling | “J. C. R.” Case St. Paul, Minn. Nov. 6—A pretty! St. Paul girl Miss Dorothy Harris, 281 | West Seventh strect, claiming to be R.” and backeil With chronological re- | cords Which bear a striking resem- plance to the police discoveries on the case, today added the most colorful and startling chapter to that famous, identity puzzle. For 12 years police of! the Northwesthave been puzzled by the tangled web of claims and coun- ter claims involved in the mystery, the man having completely lost mem- ory and a fortune of $250,000 await- ing his heirs. st. Paul police said to day that the disclosures of Miss Harris and her mother, Mrs. L. V. Bert, are expected to solve this long-standing mystery.) Miss Harris hopes not only that she can establish a right to the fortune,’ but, more important still she says, prove that “J. C. R.” known as the “Man of Mystery” is her father, who disappeared from-home while on a! fishing trip 12 years ago. “J.C. RB." is now at Dickinson N. D. He Jost both memory and the pow- er of speech from paralysis resultant from a blow on the head believed to; have been struck by thugs in June 1907. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER _IN- VESTIGATE The story of the mother and daugh- ter, adding the most startling phase to the unsolved riddle which police pri- vate investigators and attorneys have Sought for 12 years to untangle, police assert, comes after an unceasing inves- tigation by the two women covering more than half ‘a decade. The ef- forts of the two to trace the missing man have been only equaled by ~the efforts of the authorities to establish his identity. The first clue to the identity of “J. Cc. R.” came in June 1917, when he, after being found partially paralyzed from a blow on the héad in an out- building by a watchman at Waseca, Minn., was thought be Jay Allen Caldwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Caldwell, who were murdered on their ranch. near Dickinson by Mick Chu- mick, who later confessed to the crime. When attorneys from Chicago at- tempted to establish his identiy as that of the murdered rancher’s son’ the court brought out a verdict that the man was an imposter, and also would not allow the claim of Mrs. May Moran of Dickinson, who alleged that “J.C.R.” was her brother and ‘BETTER DEAD Life is a burden when. the body. is racked with pain. Everything worries and the victim becomes @ANBLEM Oy despondent and downhearted. To GIRL WHO CLAIMS TO BE DAUGHTER CONFIDENT THAT HE IS HEIR OF LATE J. C. CALDWELL | brought suit to recover $150,000 in farm lands which she alleged was due her from the estate. I! “T.C.R.” RAN AWAY. Shortly after J. C. R. ‘ran away from a hospital at Rochester where he had been taken with the hope that:an operation would restore “his memory and was found in Chicago. Attempts which were. unsuccessful were them mide to identify him he ‘son ‘of Mrs H. EB. Pitkin, of Nebraska. Running parallel almo: dates are the events which curred\in the lives of Miss Ha Xact mysterious Case of “J. CG. BR.” and by, which they: hope to establish” the identity of the Man of a that of James Philip Ha missing father, Interwoven with the order of events are the activities: of a mysterious man ‘called ogers”.“ who from time to time has offered Mrs. Bert a “package of money foi the s, the gir ‘chronological for $1,000 if she would sign her name to a paper, These with the mysterious} sell her Some automobile stock in Chi- ‘ago made Mrs. Beri. velieve an at- tempt is being made by some one to cover the whereabouts and identity of the missing father, MARRIED WHEN 17 YEARS OLD Mrs. Bert begzns her story 19 years prior to the finding of the injured man in June, 1917, Then a little 17-year- old country girl, staying with relations in Duluth she met and married James Philip Harris, 20 years her senior, “He was wealthy and I lived in every luxury,” She said today: “Life fulfilled my every wish and we had no trouble of any kind until just two weeks prior to his disappearance when a woman came to me in Duluth and EVERETT TRUE YES, & ERTAN REFORMS B <= ‘The national remedy of Holland for over 200 years; it is an enemy of all pains rc- culting from kidney, liver and uric acid troubles, All druggists, three sizes. Lock for the name Gold Medal om every bez and accept ne ir “yy 6. is and “ the daughter and, sole heir of “J. C. hey’ mother which link them ‘to {he: asse baby girl” ‘and an offer ofa check| actions of a woman who attempted to| STRANGE IB fou HAD WORKED You HAVE AT FIX! OURSELE I'D SHAKS Sour’ HAND: AND YOU ON THE BACK #! po SANTERFIE|D = took me by the throat and told me things about him.” “She said that she knew him well and that terrible things would happen to me. I asked him about it when I got home but he only patted me onthe head and toll me not to worry about it.” “A few ( later while on a_fish-| ing trip-he got a telegram undera dif; ferent name and tore it up before any-} one else ‘could read it. When I. asked him ‘about it he said it was a matter of ‘business’ that he would attend to later.” ‘% i WENT: FISHING; NEVER RETURN- 9 5 On: June. 7, 1907, he went on. the fishing’ trip from whith he ~ Mever On-June 12, five days Jater, GOR” was found at Waseca, ‘police rted.today, i I rs. Bert characterized her former is) Sbeing : very ‘refined’ and nglish in, dress, speech and He was about 40 years old_when she married him, she says. Shé later: moved to St. Paul and after \ obtaining a divorce imarried Pudley Scott, an actor.- whose death came a few years later from consump-| tion. She then established a small dress- making shop on Elevénth street until she married Mr. Bert. \4 MAN OFFERS MONEY It was durihg. this time, she as- serts, that hse was approached by the mysterious man called “Rogers,” who offered her money in small sums for the baby Dorothy. She says that she yefused the money each time telling him that she could not accept it until she knew its kource. The man later came to her and offered her a check for $1,000 if she would sign a paper, according to her story. When she asked him who he was. and why she was to get the money, he said: “You sign here” and he poin' to the lower corner of the’ paper “and' I'll tell you about it.’ She refuse, to sign. she says: and the’ man, went, | M husband* ted. jbecillity, because it has been _ built ure depend on womanly What is it that makes our American wo- men often pale, sallow-faced, with dark cir- cles under the - eyes, and very often old at forty-five when they should be in their prime? Women suf- fer in girlhood ws from back- ache, spine-ache and headaches, followed by irregularities and as a result of the womanly organs are more common than any one but @ physician in active Practice gould suppose. After lon; rience in the treatment of women’s di , Dr. Pierce evolved & vogetable tonic and corrective which he galled Dr: Eiens's Favorite Prescription. ‘is is a purely vegetable preparation, atliodl a particle of ‘alcohol contained in it. | Bivten a woman complains of backache, dizziness or pain—when everything looks black before her eyes—a dragging feeling, or bearing-down, with nervousness, she should turn to this “temperance” herbal tonic. It can be obtained in almost every drug store in‘the land and the ingredients are printed in plain English on the wrapper. Put up in tablets or liquid. Dr. Pierce, of Invalids’ Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y., will'send a trial size of the tablets for ten ‘cents. a@ well dréssed woman came toi her apartment and offered to sell'her some automobile stock: “I asked her‘to let me see the stock, and she told ‘me :it was at her hotel and urged me to come down and see it. I was afraid then and have been afraid since of foul play.” , ’ She and her daughter stated today that on many other occasions they have felt that they were being watch- ed and followed by both women and men and tell of a woman who rented a room at their’apartmnt and asked many mysterious questions about Dorothy. te ‘The girl believed, as does her mother that her father was the son of the wealthy rancher, Caldwell. She ex- pects to partly establish proof of this by an ivory covered hair brush which her husband used which was marked with ‘a large “C.” He would never explain, the: initial‘on the brush she says. * Repeated attempts according to the mother, to gain information as to the dgseription of “J. C.. RA” (ORRGNSE DE TARA: Ry Yb 2 PEOPLE'S FORUM | » THE LEAGUE. OF NATIONS Instead of repéatiiig publ@ations of hatred in régard’*to” the: “Huns” as some of our newspapers. delight to call the German people,:it would be well to publish sometimes, at least, state- ments from the leading English news- papers and magazines,’ The ‘“Manches- ter Guardian” :” (weekly ed.’ 1. 10.) writes: “The forced ‘ces8ion of dis- tricts, of the Austrian. Tyrol, part of them as Austridn’as Kent is English, te Italy isthe most complete depar, ture from. the'principles of the League cf Nations to be found in either treaty, It is no more to be: supposed that any really ‘Austrian part of the Tyrol will remain Italian fifty years hence than that Alsace-Loraine could have re- nuained German fifty. years longer’? The London Saturday Review, (No. 82332) writes: “We predict that in a year or two the greater part of the Treaty: of Peace will be jettisoned as impracticable. and that) in ten, or twenty years not a clause of it will, remain, The next generation will look , jon the Treaty asa monument of! im- ‘With immense labor upon’ a foundation gf. theories and.dreams.” away. A few years later in°Chicago| BY- CONDO KNOW Xx PROMISED to SUPPORT SPORE XY WAS SLECTED) To ommice, BUT —----- | y HALE AS HARD TOSS REMSRMS AS NG UP'AN ACES! FO! 1 ASAT US, % CAN ONLY :|:the ‘bowels “with the digestive juices Vincent. Wehrle. Bishop ie i. of Bis- mark, 5} . AS INFLUENZA BP, is an.exaggerated form of Grip, LAX- ATIVE. BROMO . QUININE . Tablets should be taken in jlarger doses than is prescribed for ordinary Grip. A good plan is not to wait until you are sick, but PREVENT IT’ by taking LAXA- * TIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets in time. a _ BIFF! Sia jolting Liver and Bowels ,. .Avith violent, drugs, but take ‘‘Cascatets.”’ Prs0tnesiansnaneneutie ile,;out of your sys- ind. other ‘sickening purgatives is all wrong. Salts, Oil, and Cathartle “Waters act by flooding ‘which are yital to, the stomach: Cas- carets “are different. They act as a tonic ‘to the bowel muscles, which is the only sensible way to relieve a bili- ous attack, a sour, acid stomach, or constipated bowels. There ig no grip- ing or inconvenience. You naturally return to ‘regularity and cheerfulness. Cascarets cost very little and they work while you sleep. ‘ Phone,453 for Wilton Lighite.° This Coal does not clinker, and contains less Sulphur and Ash than ‘any other Lignite mined in North Dakota. |Washburn Lignite Coal Company oe