The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 16, 1919, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Satered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., aa Second Class Matter GEORGE D. MANN, - - - - Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, CHICAGO, : . DETROIT, darquette 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 or publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise redited in this paper and also the local news published rerein. All righta of pubiication of speciai dispatches hereim are sigo reserved. EMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Uaily by carrier, per year : «$7.20 Daily by mail, per year (In Bismarck). : -. TN Daily by mail, per year (In state outside Bismarck) 5.08 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota........- oe 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) EBD EDWARD WILLETT There are both—heroes and slackers—in peace as well as war. There is the man who sacrifices. And the man who shirks. They live side by side, in all walks of life, in all lands, and are of all colors and races. And here, by the way, we have— A husband and father who deserted wife and six children in mid winter, leaving them without protection against the wolves of want, becaus “it took too much work to sup- port them.” There are many such men, juvenile courts and others will tell you, men who are slackers in life, men who so selfishly place their own wants and comforts ahead of all else. And, the next minute we read of— Edward Willett, hero. This man fought a famished wolf with his teeth to save his wife and child from death. They were home from Port Burwell, Ontario, when a of ferocious timber wolves attacked them. quote from the news dispatch: “Willett immediately entrenched his wife and child high up on the seat of the wagon, tied his horses to a tree and rushed out to met the wolves with an ax. | “The pack circled about for a moment, when two of the bolder animals attacked. With two swinging blows Willett clove their skulls with his ax. From then on the fight resolved itself into a tangled mass of gray wraiths flitting about on the snow and one grim man describing gleaming circles in the moonlight with his ax. A born woodsman, none of his blows missed, and he would have escapéd with only a few minor injuries had not the handle of his ax broken and the blade flown far beyond his reach. But even then this man didn’t desert. “It was then that the leader of the pack, the only animal left to fight, sank its teeth into Wil- lett’s shoulder. The man savagely bit into the wolf’s throat, clutching for the windpipe. The’ struggle continued for fifteen minutes. Finally the wolf began to weaken. Willett’s teeth had penetrated his throat, and the animal was soon dead.” There’s a man for you! A real man! A\man like that gives one a renewed grip on life’s battles, doesn’t he? It strengthens our arms and our courage in our own fights with wolves we meet in everyday life, wolves of vice and crime, wolves of hunger and want, wolves of selfishness and idle- ness. Editor The reason lightning never strikes twice in the same place is because it makes a Bolsheyik para- dise of the place the first time. NO APOLOGY DUE : C. E. Stangeland, in a flowery letter of resig-' nation addressed to the board of administration, makes it clear that he does not feel any apology due from him to the:board or the governor or the people of North Dakota for the type of literature which Stangeland has placed in the traveling li- braries of the state, and which, so far as the pub- lic knows, may still be in these libraries. No consciousness of guilt has been displayed at any time by Mr. Stangeland, by the board of ad- ministration or by Governor Frazier, the man who is really responsible for the whole business. In fact, while some North Dakota citizens might ex- pect 4 statement from the governor, he has not made public a word in defense of his board or in condemnation of the prostitution of the state li- braries. : The legislature carefully refrained from taking any censorious action. The report of the special committee named by the house to investigate fre love, anarchism and syndicalism in the public li brary was a clear case of whitewash. Where it could not deny or gloss over the facts, the com- mittee was non-committal, and the house major- ity, in spite of all the high-sounding oratory of Walter J. Maddock, its floor leader, was content with that report. The Nonpartisan league leaders in this state stand convicted of condoning the action of the board of administration and C. B. Stangeland in filling the traveling libraries of North Dakota with such stuff as Upton Sinclair's “Profits of Religion,” and with placing in the hands of felons whom the state is attempting to “reform” so- cialistic preachments designed to convince them that the “system” whose laws they violated, and not they, is to blame for their condition. Are the people: of- North Dakota content. with ice sac Lt BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUN such a state of affairs? Will they sit back and say nothing while this expose, like so many others |which have tended to show the real trend of the ‘league movement, is hushed up and forgotten? WHY TAXES ARE HIGH North Dakota farmers who in spite of the 25 per cent refund which Justice James E. Robinson thas forced the league administration to make them, will still pay from 75 to 150 per cent more taxes for 1919 than they did in 1918 cannot close their eyes to the fact that the increased expense which necessitated such an unprcedented boost in taxes has nothing to do with the “industrial pro- gram,” with which the league has been dabbling since it came into power three years ago. The visible factors in this “industrial program” are today the Bank of North Dakota, which had at last reports loaned about $58,000 to. farmers and had charged them nearly half as much for the appraisement of loans; the home building associa- tion, which has under way one $5,000 cottage, whose cost of supervision will almost equal the cost of construction, and the 125-barrel flour mill ‘for which the state paid $20,000 td be taken out of $36,000 which Drake citizens will subscribe for mill and elevator bonds. Not a single million of the $19,500,000 worth of state bonds which the league proposes to issue has yet been sold. These bonds, many of them, have not even been printed. The only serious essay at selling any of these securities was that made by the Bank of North Dakota, which suc- ceeded in inducing state banks, under fear of logs of prestige or patronage, to subscribe for about $116,000 worth, and these bonds, wa understand, have been recalled. So the doubling of state taxes has no connec- tion with the league’s industrial program. It has been rendered necessary wholly by the reckless extravagance of an administration which has been forced to add $300,000 per annum to the state pay- ‘oll in order to make places for faithful hench- men, from this or other states, and which has never had enough experience in any business, pub- lic or private, to recognize the value of a dollar. When the state begins paying interest on the $19,500,000 worth of bonds and when it com- mences the accumulation of a sinking fund, then we will learn something of the direct cost of the league’s industrial program, which in taxes will} amount to $1,500,000 per annum, or an increase of | about 50 per cent’ over the $3,000,000 in state taxes levied this year. In the meantime we must not permit ourselves to be deceived by believing! that one dollar of our for 1919 is being invested in anything that bears the least resemblance to the “farmers’ program” out of which the league is making its capital. Lodge hopes for early action on the treaty. He reminds us of the man who deliberately stepped on another's corn and said he was sorry. a ES WITH THE EDITORS | tt ttt tt tne tt nenmenfs THE LEGION FOR US There are two papers published by returned sol- diers, besides the “American Legion Weekly”; one is called the “Sailors, Soldiers and Marines’ Weekly” and the other “The Dugout.” Both of, them are more or less antagonistic to the Ameri- ,can Legion and favorable to the War Veterans’ association. In looking over one issue of “The Dugout” which we have on our table we noticed therein a speech given by a minister of the Peo- ples’ church. of St. Louis on Eugene Y,,Debs, the Red Socialist, who is now serving a ten.ye term in the federal prison as a traitor to his own coun- try during the late war. In this speech the reverend gentleman made the following statement: “The only differnce be- tween Eugene V: Debs and Christ is that one is living and the other is dead.” If that is the kind of stuff which organizations unfriendly to the American Legion believe; if the Head of the greatst organization for moral uplift since the dawn of creation is the same kind of be- ing that a self-confessed Red Socialist and theoret- ical atheist is; if any organization, whether a sol- dier organization or not, publishes or subscribes or acquiesces to such a doctrine, it is time that the public should know about it. , There is too much of that kind of stuff under various disguises being paraded around the world \in these later days. It is time to put a stop to it. The American Legion stands for God, home and |country, unsullied all of them. That is enough ‘recommendation for anyone.—Killdeer Herald. ee AANDAHL AND HIS TAX | Railroad Commissioner’ Sam Aandahl was here /yesterday and left for his farm. He expects to leave next Monday for California to visit over the holidays, Mrs. Aandahl and the boys having gone out there some time ago. Sam was in a reminis- cent mood yesterday and of course his vision re- iverted back to th promises made by the league ‘about the benefits of the new day that we are all trying out, and as his mind wandered back to those \days of promise of greater things his hand stole gently into the inside of his coat pocket and he brought forth a tax receipt he had just gotten from the county treasurer, and as he gazed pen- sively at the figures, which were several hundred tly increased state taxes |\ Yy is LZ, | PEOPLE’S FORUM —___________+ AN OPEN LETTER TO MR. FRAZIER The Sp i Session of the North Dakota Legislature which adjourned a WL 0, brought to a clos most disgraceful, the most deb: 4 the most unAmerican session of any legislature that has ever been, held any State of the Union. Every mei that made for anythin “lof 100) percent Amer voted: down by the Non-part league majority “in that Who and what was that m: That majority consists of men a lutely under the domination of a pol tical boss, Whose record is a stench 1} the n nt ¢itiz not. only in North Dakota, but in t nation, a man not only financi bankrupt, a man who to furthe political ends, advises his followers to “lie like a he ” to the farm: ers whose inter so dear to hi ure heart. a man now under jail senten! for ccnspiracy against the mili Jaws of his country, while that coun- try in a deadly struggle to. keep “Old Glo democra dust. Threugh the dictated appointees of this man, aided by a weak-kneed, servient Governor, we find the will of the people of t State as exp by a majority of 7,000 or more majo} given to Miss Minnie Neilsen whom the citizens of this State, particularly the mothers, wanted to haye charge of the education of their children, nulli- fied, and the duties of State Superin- tendent of Education placed in the hands of a former minister, was in turn placed in charge of the library of the State which furnishes boots to the school children throughout the State, a man who had been in jail, charged with trading with the ene- mies of his country during war. This man caused to be pluced in the library, where it would be possible for the school children of this State to obtain and read Ellen ‘Key's filthy, loathe- some writings on Free Love, Upton Sinclair's vile attacks on all religions, the Bolshevik teachings of that de- spicable character, Leon Trotsky, and many other books of similar character, all tending to break down law and or- der, ridicule religion and the sanctity of the marriage yow, glorifying illegi- timacy, advocating the nationalization of our wives, daughters and sisters, CUTICURA HEALS SKIN. TROUBLE On Face, Itched and Pim- ples Came In Blotches, Face Was Disfigured, “T saw black spots on my face, and then they got on my nose. They started itching and pimples cane. The pim- ples came to a head and were large and hard, and were in blotches. My face was disfigured. “saw an advertisement for Cuticura and sent for a sample. I bought more, and 1 used three cakes‘of Cuticura Soap and two boxes of Cuticura Ointment when Iwas healed,’ (Signed) Joseph Tellone, 927 Loomis St., Chicago, IL, Aug. 21, 1918, 35-Cuticura Toilet Trioma Consists of Soap, Ointment and Talcum. Usethe Soap, and no other, for every-day toilet purposes, with a little Ointment now and then as needed to soothe and heal the first signs of skin or scalp troubles. Use Cuticura Talcum for dusting your skin. Itis an antiseptic, prophy- ” the emblem of liberty and higher than: those of last year, he stretched, yawned and said, “Oh, hum, well, good-bye, Trub,’”” \-Valley City Times-Record, g lactic, cooling, soothing powder of fascinating fragrance), Hs Fete a, i reas post-oard : id everwhere. Televi Be ee Wet Yy ZZ VY LLL Dhl seegy 10. B. Bi jall things decent, but the’ insincerity from being trailed in the ¢ d yemain on that board just so long the BITTERED SWEETS Tye KH TUESDAY, ‘DEC. 16, 1919 libeling the Presidents of the Unite.t] ates, and the t of the! nited Slates Supreme The storm of indi tion whieh broke over this entire State when Mr. : a representative from| one of the small bund of | Americans in’ phe Jlou: of Represent this scandalous: condition “tv Grand: Fo {100 perc | Dakota ‘brought gue leaders ranks, ‘They, well know ing that the ‘responsibility for those fithy books rested on them, made a yain attempt to. save to themselves some shred of common. decency which to wrap their hideous nakedness gaze of an outraged people arging the ‘ollice bay C. land, and with their lips only, wochimed their undying devotion te of their devotion and protestations S shewn when ‘the Non-partisar ty came to vote on the nreto the State Superin- endent of Kilucation, Miss Minnie: J ielsen, the rights given her under th ss, they voted to kill the bill, there- putting it within the power of the former minister to circulate . this t some later date, vernor of this} ble for this ing for he has ; 1d did appoint minister to the Board of Administration, and so long as Lynn J, Frazier permits that man to this former people of this State have the right to and will charge him with being a’ will- ing party to, and an abettor of all this, filthiness. Lynn Je Frazier, all decent people demand (that you at once remove George A. Totten, from any and all connection with the educational matters of this State, and that you immediate- ly restore the control of the schools to the. duly elected State Superintendent of Education, your failure to do sc. Will be regarded proof that you are cither afrald' to exercise your constitu- rth}or. two gentlemen, {league members of the Tlouse of Rep ht, caused panic in the Non-partisan se: loflice, a discredited, di .{niajority in the House of a SeNrEREE|D a tional rights, or that you fully believe in and sanetion the filthy books placed in the lib y of this State by an] through your appointees to office, and instead of attaining your ambition to you be President, (which ambition fave as much chance of realizing now Non-partisan ntat but y, were ving the’ State in another capacity) the decent people of ‘this State. irre- spective of party will Hurl you out of ed and dis- honored servant who has proven, false to his h of oflice. i The Jast crowning act of insult perpetrated by the Non-par presenta tives, was the killing of the ‘bill in duced in the House, making it’a crime any but the American Flag lag of our country in public. The Flag that.led the s of hundreds of thousands of noble American moth- (kate Richards O'Mare'’s “brogit sows") to glorious nythe Ar- goune, and gt Chatteau Thierry. The Flag that is ished posses- sion of the loyal nerican Legion, every member of hich is ready to pre- tect “Old Glory” with his life. The Mlag that for one hundred and forty- three years has been the emblem of Justice and Freedom. Thon shalt not raise any other Flag than the Stars and Stripes. If this com- mand is an insult to any man or con- stituency, as some of the Non-partisan league members of the House of Rej- resentatives claimed the passage or consideration of the bill would be, then it is time that the Department of Jus- tice at Washington, D. ©. looked into that constituency, as it should look in- to the record of every man who. vote against the consideration of that Dill. 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BONNY, Dee. 15, 19. ——— ANENT FREE LOVE, Dear Mr. Tribune:— The writer took down from a li- ®rary shelf yesterday (Sunday) after- noon for the purpose of dévotional reading a copy of “The Twentieth Century New Testament” and’ com- menced reading at the beginning of Paul’s first epistle to the Church at Tessalonica and after a bit fell upon the following lines whieh make very interesting reading in the light of recent events-—a la ‘Free love, etc. : Advice Upon the Daily Life. “Further, brothers, we beg and ex- hort you in the name of our Lord Jesus to carry out more fully than .| ever—as indeed you are already doing —all that you have heard from us as to what. your daily life must sbe; if it is to please God.. For you have not forgotten thedirections that we gave you on the authority-of our Lord Jesus. aaah eocy y “For this is’ God's purpose—that you should be pure; abstaining from all immorality; each of you recogniz- .jing the duty, of taking: one woman for his wif, purely and’ honourably, and not for the mere gratification of his passions, like: the Gentiles who know nothing of God; none of you over-reaching or taking advantage of his brother in such matters. “The Lord takes vengeance upon all. who do, such; things, as we haye al- ready warned you and solemnly de- clared. For God's: call to us does not permit of an impure life, but demands purity. Therefore, he who disregards this warning disregards not man, but God, who gives you His Holy Spirit.” Yours for reflection, VERITAS, AN APPRECIATION BISMARCK LOT NO. 1199, B. P oO. TR. Bismarck, North Dakota. 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