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

© THE BISMARCK’ TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. “ GEORGE D. MANN, - : . . Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, CHICAGO, “ - - - DETROIT, Marquette Bldg. : : - 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 pubsication of special dispatches hereia are ‘glo reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU “OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year . $7.2 Editor pudding of renown. jout since the war. ° Daily by mall, per year ee pismare j 12) the state, still they assert that they are alive, and pay by mail’ wetside of Nosth ‘Dakota... vi esee 6.06} desire a chance to appear on the census returns THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER jrather than the casualty list. (Established 1873) ings, or THE SPECIAL SESSION i The special session has done little that is im- portant other than to confirm North Dakota inj the conviction that the league is a perfect ex- emplification of bossism and to place upon the statute books a number of vicious and dangerous acts designed to meet certain political emergencies which the league itself may clamor to repeal at the next session. Under the guise of reducing expenditures, the league practically abolished the office of attorney general, and greatly reduced the efficiency of the state auditor’s and secretary of state’s depart- ments. The majority removed the state auditor) from accounting and auditing boards upon which this official always had served, and to which the people elected him, and it took steps .to further block any effort which the people may make to discover how the Bank of North Dakota, | the mill and elevator association, the home-build- ing association, the workmen’s compensation, bureau and other Townley handle millions of the public’s money are operated. There are many who believe that this was North Dakota’s last example of a league legislature. | If} our people possess the intelligence with which they have been credited this prediction shou! be borne out. Certainly never has a majority in} power so abused the confidence of the people and; so selfishly and intolerantly set aside law, consti- tution and precedent to accomplish the ends) sought by its masters. the swee know the j To be ys of re-birth. the pitfal cess; tru pool of youth. The re to be undergoing a change. tenant’s Not now. And a Not again. Not much! ant $10. LANDLORD AND TENANT ation between landlord and tenant seems We can recall when the landlord considered it a pleasure to mow the awn, or to clean the snow from his walks. dessert of death; for us*the greasy soup of criti- cism; the cold fish of disesteem, the soggy bread of failure, and the watery boiled potatoes of mis- fortune; they wait until we have our shroud all fitted, and then they bring in the small black of friendship, the velvety creams of laudation, and the rich sauces of public praise for the steaming | Occasionally some lucky fellows get a chance; to live after their biographers have done their best, and more of these favored ones have cropped We notice that four California soldiers are ask- | ing the courts for re-birth certificates; officially dead, publicly buried with the garlands of heroes, 0! their relatives honored with golden scrolls from! Officially dead, they must be officially re-born before they can become heir to their own belong- yefore they can marry, vote or pay taxes. Fortunate indeed these four, since they know ts of kindly remembrance and will soon born again at the age of 25 or 30; to start in once more buttressed by experience, knowing Is and understanding the secrets of suc- y a mark which many arrows have flown at long before Ponce de Leon, sought his private | because the landlord raised the rent! But he has an argument even if he is called a profiteer. His taxes have advanced. Maintenance has gone up. Keeping a house a going concern isn’t what it once was, he will tell you. He will! enterprises which cite the elevated cost of a new roof; of plumbers’ bills ; of re-painting and re-decorating bills. But the tenant feels that he is being squeezed. | He doesn’t give the landlord credit for anything |: ;much except a desire to put on all the traffic will d bear. He admits, usually, that SOME things have} advanced. But he argues, and probably he’s more | than half right about it, that when the landlord’s expenses advance $5 a month, he soaks the ten-| Can’t we have a little arbitration on that rent} | f OUT OF THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE oy | f ONE DERN. THING AFTER)~ ANOTHER» \ Et, Wor? / a Sees —& | PEOPLE'S FORUM TO THE MEMBERS OF THE NON PARTISAN LEAGUE. has been repeatedly mentioned in connection with certain books in the das | have publ 'y de in the state library of the deba against the dismissal of ‘Mr, Stange- land. Te advance? Can’t we arrange it so landlord and} I consider Mr. Stange ; ig aistal ‘ “na . fe AE = * 9 sal as cruel injustice him, and a { IN REAL LIFE tenant will be a little more friendly? Can’t wel #0 sc ot moral coward:ce on'the part Not one of our best selling fiction writers could have woven such a love plot as the one we're going | to tell you about. If anyone of them had done it, you and the rest of the reading world would have agreed that it was “too imaginary.” However, it ‘did happen. ‘Mrs. Florence A. Robinson was loved by two smen. One was her husband. The other, Grover Gordon, appears to have won the husband’s place} in the wife’s affections The husband went away. The other man, however, was not entirely satisfied that he was secure in the woman’s love. Ina jeal- ous rage he shot her. A moment later he re- gretted the deed. At the hospital he twice gave of his life blood for transfusion into the woman’s veins. Physicians believe his blood saved her life. “T love her,” Gordon said. “I will give all of | the blood in my body—my life—to save her life.” That sounds as romantic as anything the fiction | writers put down. But let us continue— “I am through with Gordon,” the woman said.| “My love for him, has turned to hatred.” use the word “only”? a melting pot. it hot for them. pe THE WORST TO COME its distance: # INHERITANCE TAX The latest recruit to the inheritance tax move-} ment is none other than Will H. Hays, chairman! ‘to women voters of New York, he said: “There should be a large inheritance tax on the very large inheritances.” This would result in the breaking up of mdm- than other taxes. The inheritance tax would not interfere with any, person’s ambition to acquire wealth. It would not take wealth from the wealth producer, for it steps in only after the producer has left his wealth behind him. The fair inheritance tax would never take a cent from the widow or other dependents that they | ‘needed. It would confiscate the excess, which| rightly belongs to the society from which it sprang. i BEING BORN AGAIN * Doubtless every man has a secret hankering to ‘read his own obituary. | : However harsh our critics may be while we keep our health they always manage to find a lot of fine ‘things to say about us when we're laid out stiff jand dressed up for our last ride. _ Politicians become statesmen after death; fat tbrokers become eminent financiers; gentlemen of ‘great wealth who were roundly cussed by the pub- B lic, and soundly trounced by the department of Justice, emerge from their mortal bonds to dis- ‘cover that they were men of genius, builders of expect to pay for the show.” 4 Most 6fis/however, never wet a chance at the —look out!—Grand Forks Werald, 2 ap eae A on In Tientsin, China, a news service informs us, | Stangeland. the American dollar is worth only 76 cents. Why Tf the coal shortage ties up all of our industries, |the action of our radicals can die happy and hungry. Our radical aliens understand that America is| C2" "edeem hims They can’t object if the pot makes | wit ipresent situation in North Dakota as seen from| pygmic “The North Dakota legislature, in more nearly exact if unofficial terms Mr. Townley’s Nonpar-|tempt to serve as props of the totter-| tisan league legislature, now in special session, is passing bills diminishing the powers of the ‘insur gent’ state officials who rose against the majesty cof the republican national committee. Speaking | of Mr. Townley, and made impertinent investiga- tions into two of these mystic and wonderful banks that exist for the benefit of the league and the envy and despair of mere commonplace keepers of the rules and precedents of banking. moth fortunes when the builder of them has North Dakota, under the sway of Mr. Townley and passed away. Such a tax would not destroy in- the other apostles of the league, is a peculiar and itiative. It would not be a tax upon business. It sacred community, such as the world has never would not be a tax easily passed along to the ulti-' seen before; and an attorney general and a state mate consumer. It would be collected at less cost} auditor blind to the blesings of a romantic gov- ernment that has held peculiar views about bank- ing must expect to be shorn of authority, “The East has not yet heard what punishment has fallen upon the head of Associate Justice Rob- inson of the state supreme court, who dared to ask the legislature the other day to reduce the excés- sive assessments and tax levies of this year. There is no possbile justification or excuse for them, he said. The assessment is four and one-half times that of any prior year in the history of the state. No doubt. In no prior year has the state rushed merrily into all sorts of business enterprise. If North Dakota is to be illuminated by the great Socialist light of the Nonpartisan league, it must The Times is mistaken in oft particular, ‘The increased taxes levied by the state government in) Nbrth Dakota this year are not due, except in- directly, to the establishment of new enterprises. Out of the levies made for the current year only an insignificant fraction of the amount called for was for the financing of the state’s new business enterprises. Most of the increase-is due to waste- ful extravagance in the employment of unneces- sary people and.in the payment of the state’s good c ires, Sovereigns of sagacity and doers of great}money to misfits and, ‘ifcompetents, When the ‘ real work of financing’ the new enterprises beg’ get back to the old basis where the “profiteer”|of the men immediately responsible comes over through the snow with a bow, cleans the snow from the “victim’s” front porch? for this dismissal. It is reported that Mr. Totten, !chairman of the board of adm! tion, does not approve of the stand taken by the board with regard to Mr. This I, sincerely hope to be true, as | entertain high regard as a man of both ability and honor, I have also been made to under stand that Governor Frazier sanction: he board of admir tration. If this is so, I greatly regre to say that I am forced to term G ernor ‘Frazier a moral. coward, f only by speedily removing from off if they com in his appointive power, the men causing Mr. Stangeland’s removal. leaders Your that the movement is bigger tha y Sam tte eeeeef | Min, and that j\rsonal considera- WITH THE EDITORS et er er nea {tions must be sacrificed for the good [lor the cau is a false and dangerous do tine. No movement is \If the men in the movement repeated- The New York Times has this comment on the ly stoop to questionable expediencies, will soon. become mora) and the moral fibre of the movement itself will soon be such that no man can support it, though Pygmies may continue in a futile at- these inr structure, What shall it profit the nonpartisan leawue ic itma ntain its’ control ot North Dakota, but lose its, awn soul? it is nearly 18 years since I came to the state. During the last eight years I have worked in this western nart of our commonwealth as a min: ister of the gospel, serving for six years one of the hardest mission field in the Norwegian Lutheran church. If you i ired you, w find that I hav yet faithfully, and with loyal tion, the cause of Christ. When the nonpartisan league came ° Cuticura Is The og * Soldier’s Friend After long hours of hiking or guard- ing, when his feet are swollen, hot or blistered, the ‘soldi ill find wonderful relief ina Cuticttra Soap bath followéd by a gentle dnointing with Cuticura” Ointment. “These fragrant, super-creamy,emollients soothe and heal eczemas’ rashes, stop itching, clear the skt jim: les, the scalp of dandruff the! |: ands of chaps and sores, “Also for cuts, wounds, 'stin sunburn or windburn. ett In view of the fact that my name} books, I wish to make a public protest! i for Mr. Totten, and look upon him” frequently tell you a bigger than the men composing itt ents in the ‘ountry. 2 an opportunity te rene, the great- y of inthe leagu the low est of all friends of the common peo \ple, who never flinched in His fight against the damnable system of capi- ave supported the league from} i i and sha con: | shall also continue | and measurees 1 therefore, harm: And by the Grace of God 1 hope !tinue jto point out men consider wrong and ful. L \fear or favor. | (Signed) ismarck, IN, D. RING a . Dec. 9th. 19. ‘k Tribune. s of much profiteering 1, during the time of the sion fo call the attention H Bis {Editor of Bisma In these Lit-may be w | » mercer in Golden Cheap- id. It ts dated Deeemher | and runs: ‘ y came to anchor against a shippe from W s, of which ther ghout the Ci © Wind of © to the Bank § ainded a mighty Price for his] hich was more than the people i Ile was summoned be- Hiffes and admonished, but being a stubborne Fellowe steadfastly refused to hear Reason. Thereupon x Robert endish, oure Bur- ordered Assize to convene, waich done, and the lowe was judged a Malvfactor and was hanged publicly on Tower Hill this morning, it being rainy a great crowd ‘present to’ see him.” $ You ys to; be able to do this without] Vi MEXICANS AND VILLISTA ‘FORCES IN HOT BATTLE Eagle Pass, Tex. Dee. 12.—Five hundred Mexican troops Sent by spe- cial train encountered the —Villista force that raided Muzquiz, state ot Coahuila, and fighting was reported in progre: 5 y according. to inform: today, The | Villa. force comprised nearly 400 men. THREE FIGHTS ON TODAY ss, Tex., Dec, 12.—Fighting xican federal troops and were reported’ at’ three today in the vicinity: of Muz-! Cohauila. Reports that 1,000 Villa men were engaged were denied Villistas were iz. by “Carranza sources, reported. still- holding: Muz |) < Other * reports, which es ‘confirmed were’ that. Villistats were approaching Piedras Negriig the Mexi- can town opposite here and were with- in‘ forty miles of the town and that '}the rebels had blown up two troop trains, It was officially announced in Mexi- ean sourees here that General Fran: cisco Murguia had arrived. at Baro- n where the Mexican National raii- y branches off to Muzquiz about wwenty miles away and with him were “{nine train loads of Carranza troops. As Influenza is an exaegerated form of Grip, LAX- ATIVE (BROMO QUININE. Tablets should be taken in larger doses than is prescribed for: ordinary Grip. A good plan is not to wait until you are sick, but PREVENT IT by taking LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tab- lets. in tim ‘ We can save you money by getting your cylinders reground, fitted with new pistons and VINCENT: WEHRT. Bishop of; Bisma EVERETT TRUE | DD You sce tings. Write for prices. Bis- .|marck Foundry & Welding Co. BY CONDO YES =! THE FELcow BUMPED INTO Hat CRIPPLED SOLDIER AND NEVER’ GVEN_GAVE HIM A SECOND OOK ~—_ AND THEY (4 mic) THE FAT Feccow a SOAKED: HIM! HERGe'S ‘Your HAT, MisTeER. AGINK, BUT HE DOESN se ; dropsy and bad. blood, i When the ead feels thick aches, when aN \ fe, SS Pw f-sorts—per- aps a coated tongue—it is the signal that: poi- sons are accum- ‘ulating in the system, and “should be clean- eed out at onco. . Sleepiness after meals, bil- iousness, dizzi- ness, acidity of the stomach, heartburn, offensive breath and allied ailments résults from auto- intoxication or self-poisoning. ) Take castor oil, or procure at the drug store, a pleasant, vegetable laxative, called Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets, com- posed of May-apple, aloes and jalap. Kansas City, Kans.:—“Dr. Pierce's Pleasant: Pellets have been my favorite family — medicine for many years. I raised quite a large family and > from the time my chiJdren were small I alwa: ave them the ‘Pleasant Pellets.’ They were easy to take and pleasant in every way, never causing dis- tress. > For~ slug- gish liver, sick-headaches, constipation or biliousness there is no medicine that can equal the ‘Pleasant Pellets? I found them a great help to’me in bringing up my family in as much as they have many times warded off sick spella‘my children would otherwise have S feels all.out- had.” —MRS. MARY E. BRADLEY, 932 Homer Ave, ALLENBY STOPS GRAFT OF TURK Persecution of Armenians andj Confiscation of Property Pre- vented by English Officer. The most arbitrary city boss tn the world, !t seems safe to say, as well as the most unscrupulous politician of! “modern-times, has turned up in Alntab, Armenia, to judge from an official re port.recently made by Major Stephen Trowbridge, under Gen. Edmund H. 2 Allenby’s orders, He {sa Turk named Bes!m Bey. Untl) the Near East Relief agents stopped him, he practiced upon the terrified Armenians such forms of super-graft as might well make evéry other cor- rupt politician in'the world green with envy, and suca*truélties as make all »| other héarttess “rolers, from Nero down, seem sweet, and gentle char acters, His office ‘was that of Munic Ipal Chlet Accountant of Aintab; but, as all dishonest office-holders know, it isn’t the job that matters, but the sugar-plums that go with !t. Besim Bey plucked sugat-plums with both hands, night and day, Even inspired city bosses have thelr day. Besim Bey's. came when tae Near East Rellef agents found that no thorough Armenian‘relief work could be done {n that city while such condl- tions of terrorization existed. , General MacAndrew ordered the arrest and’ removal of the six worst Turks in the ring that ruled the city, and Besim Bey qualified, as usual, for first place, Odorous Epidemic. and his family immune from influenza in a district sorely smitten by eating spring onions.”—Glasgow (Scotland) Bvening Post. Sick 17 Years, Relieved By Taking No. AO For ‘the Blood “For 17 years I: was troubled with I took every kind of medicine that was _recom- mended to me, without benefit, untii I got a bottle of Number 40 and it helped me so much that,1 got two more bottles. and* since taking the second- bottle, I am: feeling fine. I wish to recommend Number 40. to anyone needing a blood medicine: as I beleive it is as good as recom mended: ‘Mrs. Jane Goodwin, Gid- eon, Mo.” Number 40 is demandea in depraved conditions of the system, health. In chronic enlargement’ on the spleen or liver. In chronic ma- larial poisoning. Removes the causes of disease by stimulating the removat of wasté, thus ‘encouraging nutrition. Employed with sunccess in. blooa troubles, chronic rheumatism, ca- tarrh, eczema and skin _ diseases. Made by J. C. Mendenhall, Evans- ville, Ind., 40 years a druggist, Sold by Joseph Breslow. woescccescccoocccooocces. WE WILL PAY YOU TOP MAR- KET PRICE AT ALL TIMES FOR LIVEAND DRESSED © POULTRY OF ALL KINDS * CALL AND SEE US ‘OR WRITE BEFORE . SELLING. a Northern Produce Co. : . BISMARCK, N. D. » “A friend of mine has kept himself ° especially of the blood and general —