The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 8, 1920, Page 4

ee fa THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - a . Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY tian PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK 7 : : : Fifth Ave. Bldg. 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 DETROIT Kresge Bldg. here ghts of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. EMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year........sesseeseeeee + $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) .........00. 7-20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota..........++ 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) THE SUPREME COURT DECISION For the benefit of those who have been inclined: to be critical of the North Dakota supreme court’s decision in this matter, it may be enlightening to learn that the Illinois supreme. court has just handed down a ruling in which exactly the same construction is placed upon the Illinois presiden- tial preference primary act, which was grafted bodily into North Dakota's statutes in 1917. “Women may not vote for delegates to the na- tional convention, or for party committeemen at the primary election on Tuesday, April 13, it was announced at the office of Louis L. Emerson, sec- retary of state, today. THE TWO WOMEN WHO HAVE FILED PETITIONS AS CANDIDATES TO ATTEND THE NATIONAL CONVENTIONS MAY MAKE THE RACE, HOWEVER,” reads an Associated Press dispatch from Springfield, lll. This should set at rest any doubt as to how the Illinois statute is construed in Illinois, and, inas- much as North Dakota has appropriated the Illi- nois law extending a limited franchise to women, it must, in common usage, accept Illinois’ inter- pretation of the act. The question of whether women may vote for national delegates or committeemen was not raised here, and the court did not reach forth and drag in this issue. Therefore no formal ruling has been made on this point. The accepted opin- ion here, as in Illinois, however, is that: women : Editor from this side of the water is finding concrete ex- pression in events and possibly in plans. The United States generally is as unpopular in Europe now as it was in the days when the allies were shedding their blood and paying their mil- lions to United States munition manufacturers, protected in their commerce by thé British fleet. Charles Palmer has just beén elected to Parlia- ment /ver a government and a labor candidate. He ran on a British national platform and made anti-American speeches in his campaign. ‘Every newspaper in’ Canada has grounds for hostility to the United States through the fact that American publishers were getting the print- paper right from under the’ Canadian’s, noses. International enmity is expensive and wasteful. Concord between the United States, England and Canada costs only some self-restraint and a de- cent appreciation of the other fellow. RULES AND LIVES Competition and self-sacrificing devotion both grow out of the same human nature, and both are necessary for happiness and welfare. Human be- ings want to compete in work and play—to meas- ure themselves against their fellows in a hundred ways—and the doing of it helps them to discover where each is weak or strong, and who is best in various respects. They can work together better when they’ know; and, if the rewards of labor are measured strictly by the work accomplished, they learn, as they surely must, to play no favorites and to respect the stern realities of the material world. i But the other side must, not be forgotten—the deep human desire to give as well as to get; the patience, cheerfulness or self-control that is not sold in the market place, though it costs more ef- fort than making marketable goods; the rewards that mean far more than money, such as recogni- tion, fellowship and the consciousness of work well done; and the larger relations of life in which any rule of bargain and sale is too despicably small to be considered. What mother feeds or clothes her children at so much an hour or so much apiece? What great soldier or-statesman or philanthropist. ever insists on a full measure of payment for his services? And who would think of applying the rule of equal pay for equal work to the disadvantage of the sick, and the disabled? Human lives and human relationships are vast- do not have the right to vote for these candidates. The supreme court holds “it is obvious that, in the absence of law or other competent regulation to the contrary, those who would act for the party in a regular convention could place their delegate credentials in the hands-of anyone in whose abil- ity and faithfulness they would repose confi- dence.” me ’ Under this construction there is nothing, so far as North Dakota’s statutes, by which the supreme court is bound, are concerned to prevent North ‘Dakota republicans from naming as their dele- gates to the national convention citizens of an- other state. The national convention is a judge of the qualifications of its own members. In 1912 two delegates from California were deprived of their seats because the republican national con- vention held that they were ineligible. The con- vention to be held in Chicago next June will have the same right to rule upon the eligibility of every delegate elected by North Dakota in the presiden- tial primaries March 16, whether such delegate be @ man or a woman. As the attorney general notes in a supplement- ary brief which the court declined to consider after its opinion had been handed down, the call for the national convention provides that “dele- gates shall be duly qualified voters, men or wom- en, of their respective states.” . Whether North Dakota women, having the right to-express a preference for president, in the election of presidential electors, thus ‘become qualified voters, insofar as participating in the actual nomination of their party candidate, in na- tional convention, is concerned, may be threshed out on the floor of the republican national con- vention in Chicago next June, if that body cares to interest itself in this matter. Probably, for policy’s sake, any woman elected a delegate to that convention will be seated without quibble, for the reason that with 17,000,000 women hav- ing the right to cast a vote for president in No- vember, it would be rather poor diplomacy for any party to affront one of their sex. BAITING THE LION The baiting of Great Britain in the United States is bringing a kick-back from the United Kingdom. It suggests that unless there is some specific benefit to be’gotten from twisting the lion’s tail, it might be well to call a halt in Con- gress and in the columns of certain papers. Not because we love the British, not because we want to be friends generally, but purely because it is money in our pockets. Of course, the United States does not fear. Great Britain. Nor does: it fear the Japanese. The combination of the two, with a merging of naval strength at a giant base at Shanghai for war possibly against the nation which indulges with equal freedom its remarks about two proud peoples, rather alters the situation: Add Canada to the combination with 4,000 miles of frontier; add Mexico with the backing of South and Central American republics, sore at the patronizing Mon- Toe doctrine, and there is quite a husky hostile combination. , And why the speculation? Simply because the British resentment of entirely unnecessary flings ly more complex than any of the tules made to govern them, and it is sometimes hard to remem- ber that it is the lives that matter. INSURANCE Let’s suppose that, in 1914, you took out a $1,000 insurance policy onéyour life for the pro- tection of your wife and children in case you died. Let’s suppose that you have died in 1920—a rather unpleasant thought—and that the -prin- cipal has been paid to your wife and you have been safely buried, The'$1,000 that the insuyance company. pays to your widow now will purchase only as much as $500 would purchase in 1914, due to the “50-cent & BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE tern reer nren torn tpcentntentamnttmnttmtin Hl ——— Tir SAY OFD { MAN BEES, be) BEEN WORKIN cer | HOPE FOR AMERICA STILL WHEN PEOPLE WILL OPEN THEIR EARS TO THE TRUTH, SAYS T. J. TULLY From T. J. Tully. i 2186. Green St., Philadelphia, Penn. aie ona March 8, 1920, Dear ‘Tribune: “ \ Long before :you were .a “Daily,” I read and believed in your doctrine on Americanism; I listen for the mail man to. ring the bell every morning and when disappointed, I feel dull in- deed, and lay the fault on the weath- erman. This’‘morning you brought m¢qa goodly .account,of the speeches of Attorney. General Langer and Sen- ator Johnson. 'This copy I will file away for “keéps.”’ I’ knew of these gentlemen’s Americanism’ before; and was sure their expressions would be all right. But. what I feel so glad about is how the people appreciated the truth—the sound sense, that was explained to them—and I exclaimed dollar.” Thus, as a matter of fact, your wife and children would be cut off with only half of what you had planned to leave them. It’s worth thinking. about, isn’t it? It frequently happens that a candidate doesn’t know what he believes in until he tries a few sug- gestions and observes how the people take them. 6522, * EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinions of The Tribune. They are ~ sented here in order that our readers may have both sids of important issues which are being discussed in the ‘press of the day. e GOVERNOR COOLIDGE’S BACKBONE Many kind things have been said of the sturdy courage shown by Calvin Coolidge in his handling of the police situation in. Boston, but a more re- cent exhibition of that same courage has passed more or less unnoticed. RA It became necessary to make quite a readjust- ment in Massachusetts officialdom as the result of eliminating a large number of commissions with which the state has been burdened. Naturally the number of plums was materially reduced and there was a wild scramble for those left. Every kind of pressure was exerted upon him, every conceivable wire was pulled and the gov- ernor of Massachusetts was, indeed, & hunted man, but in the midst of the turmoil’ he worked out a comprehensive programme—eliminated men of considerable standing that better qualified men should succeed them and in the end nominated for office as goodly a list of intelligent, honoroble and efficient men as has. ever, been evolved in any state. J ; r Had Mr. Coolidge attempted to quibble and wabble and compromise he would have been in a sorry predicament, but he worked along with the same resolute courage he had shown in the police strike and while the wails of the disappointed rise now even unto the heavens, the fact remains that Mr. Coolidge once again demonstrated the fact| Get Dr, Edwards’ Olive Tablets that his backbone is as rigid as his fine old‘New ‘That is the cry England conscience. : Lar Dr, eutute Sn Ne We do not know at this time what possibility i) sults from these plessa t there is of making Calvin Coolidge president, but Hite tablets. ”‘They sta Gs They we do know that if he is made president the Unit-| never force them to unnatural action. ed States will have a real man in the White House| Dr, Béwards, Olive Tablets oe and one who will never be impelled by the exigen-| mixed with olive oil.” bad treatls cies of any situation to compromise with the spe- pa eit ae pated <r cious or insincere elements in our national life.— bilious m sour find aoe Olive | Burlington Daily, News. “there is hope for North Dakota” when she awakens from ‘the trance. The: Nonpartisan leaguers have put her in. I ardently hope there will not be a third party in ‘the field. We have still the democrats of Jefferson, and the republicans of, Lincoln. These two, parties are quite sufficient. The no-party idea must be squelched! The next ‘election will give us back our old tried-and-true; that will stand for an America for Americans, and let Europe take care of herself. I wish you to print the conditions as the poet summed it up. “If vice and corruption .. Spring up from the seeds The No-party planted And ffourish like weeds, *Til the thorns and thistles Unmolested and free Shall choke out our freedom, Whose fault will it be?” (the Voters) “If Vice isin velvet And Virtue is clad In sackcloth and ashes And Envy is glad, _ If Freedom is. in prison And Hate has,the Key To open his dungeon Whose fault will it.be?” (the Women Voters) “If Malice is blatant And Mercy is hushed, If Scorn’s outspoken And Charity crushed; If worth is in bondage, - And the Bolshevik free To scatter their poison, Whose fault will it be?” < (the, Farmers) “If Right shall, go gown To perdition for lack of Enough sturdy. voters To stand at her back; That Wrong’s ghastly kingdom Exalted. may be— While Honor is humbled. Whose fault will it be?” % A (the Electors) QUICK RELIEF FROM CONSTIPATION { “If Tnnocence suffer— } While Justice is stone; If Truth, mounts the scaffold, And Error-the throne; If Wisdom is fettered: And “Kate” is’set free, To work: out hey mischief, Whose fault will it be?”. (2 an 2) “If Ignorance, Squalor— pe tes And Cruelty. strain The ‘Masses, and Want ce Claims. the rest that remain; WhileMolock: and Mammon Are sacred to thee—. . And ye gloat in his worship— Whose fault will it. be?” bya (the No-Party) “Tf at morning—at eve— , Or early or late, Descends on our country The shadow of Fate; And Lincoln looks -down On our rim, to see Our lost constitution— — *) Whose fault will it be?” } (the Socialists) A NEW MOTTO Conspicuous at the desk of the Reno, Ney., sergeant of ‘police, where every prisoner ig taken to answer question: before being escorted to his cell, is a printed doctrine, adopted by the police department as its motto and entitled “An Invitation.” It strikes straight ¢_¢ ee _| from the shoulder, says the) Reno Jour- nal, and is a message. to. which every red-blooded American subscribes, With Reno's first I, W. W. disturber in the of the desk serge “To All Anarch: Radiga G | Soreheads and Murderr treated better in the United States than you ever were anywhere else in rid; you have more liberty, more and more to eat; you live bet er than you ever did ‘before, and you | have more oppe ies for advance- ; Ment. Do not criticize and abuse our ; Government and our Allies. If you iddon’t like the way our “Goyerninent {is run, go back to your own country, jit i will let you. Why did you come ; bere? You are not needed and nobody here has any use for you. You are La cootie on the, back of Uncle Sam and’ will soon b2 scratched off. Go iback to the’ scum from whence you oozed, If you-are just’n natural born uble maker, or if. you have/no coun then go to hell, wherd you be- > = : —o | AT. THE. MOVIES, ve (Ret ies ° THE REX. Here’s a woman who isy’t afraid of mice! ; Alma Rubens isn’t and says she never was. She didn’t inherit. women’s { proverbial fear of rodents. She can j look, one right in the eye and never scream, It all came out during production of Miss. Rubens’ picturization of Leona Dalrymple’s prize-winning story, “Diane of the Green Van,” which is shown at the Rex today and Tuesday. THE ELTINGE When Douglas Fairbanks began the filming of “His Majesty, the Ameri- can,” says the management of the E!- tinge theatre, where the big picture will be run tonight and tomorrow, he broke away from every production’ tra- dition that he knew. This new film was to be Douglas Fairbank’s first re- toils, this “invitation” is the eynosure|| lease through United Artists Corpora- EVERETT TRUE POoLYGAMOUS” REPROBATE ! “By Condo ‘ : I SE THE SULTAN OF TURKEY IS GOING To GET RID OF SOME OF HIS WIVES To: REDucS E-HIGH COST-OF UVING, THE SECKISH © HE'S GOT THE RIGHT (DEA, YUU. SAE = RIGHT —ANO HE'S Goin] IN THES DIREGTION $ FoR PERMANENT PI? PEACE, Too, ( Pce THINK !! we MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1920 tion—the “Big Kour’-tand inasmuch * if | ag it was to be his, bow as a genuine +> independent producer and distributor, “Doug” took “the lid off the cash-box,’” i= ’ THE ORPHEUM Tom, Tom, thé famous Moore : Always Plays in the Hit that’s “Sure,” | The - |,He’s Proved the Public’s Worry-Cure _ ‘Tom, Tom, the' Famous Moore. { This Strongest of the Stronger Sex Has Made a Hit in “The Gay Lord / Quex.’ His Brillant Acting Will Endure— ‘Tom, Tom, the Famous Moore, ut You'll like the “Gay Lord QUE) for its pep and its punch. At the pheum tonight and tomorrow. y > a | ONLY ONE WEEK | MORE FOR YOUR | INCOME REPORT | > o> Washington, D. C., Bren 8.—Your income tax return must he filed'with the collector of internal’ revenue of the Dakota: district, on or lpfore March 15. You have just seven days left for filing it. vi And you must be ready to pay the a first of four instalments of the tax due at the time you file the return. ! The second instalment is payable June 15, the third, Sept. 15, and the fourth | 1 ‘ Dee. 15. Having made the deductions an exemptions to which you are entitled j under the law, this is the amount of tax you have to pay: . On the first $4000 of taxable in- ot come, 4 PER CENT. was 6 per cent.- On net income over the first $4000 thegrate is 8 per cent. Phd ate |.Then ig-imposed the. surtax, of ad: ditional tax, which is IN’: ADDITION TO the normal tax, and is imposed at graduated rates upon the ENTIRE ? net. income in excess. of $5000, as fol. lows: ¢ One per cent on .the net income be- tween $5000 and $6000. Two per cent on the yet income bhe- : tween $6000 and $8000. ae a Three percent on the net, income between $8000 and $10,000. Four per cent on the net income between $10,000. and. $12.000. The surtax ineredses 1 per cent for each $2000 up to $100,000.. In other words, on a net ‘income between $88.- a 000 and $100,000 the. rate is 48 per cent, Here are some examples: SINGLE PERSON A Y (Net income of $1500,) BBR ast * Net income r Personal exemption Last. year it e Subject to normal tax . At 4 per cent a tax of. ...... ‘ NGLE . PERSON t income of $6000.) L Net income Personal. exemption Subject to normal tax......... $ tax, aoa Normal cent. Normal ‘tax, $1000 at 8 per: cent. ;Surtax 1 per cent -on $1000... $4000, at 4° per 80 10 Tota)“ tax to pay MARRIED_ PERSO) \ DREN (Net. income of $6500) ! Net - income «8 6509 Persona] exemption 20008 , Ne ghey 4500 at ‘ 160 40 15 «$240 NO. CHIL- — Subject to normal tax .. Normal tax, $4000 at 4 per cent Normal tax, $500 at 8 per cent. Surtax, ,1 per cent on $1500 2$ 215 1 PERSON—TWO = CHIL- DREN ~ é Total tax to pay ...... MARRIED. “(Net income of $3000.) Net income Personal exemption Subject to normal tax .. At 4 per cent a tax of . M4RRIED PERSON—TWO, CHIL- . : DREN , [iat (Net income of $7500.) Net. income » $ 7500 .* Personal exemption 2400 ae i Subject to normal tax ........ $ 5100 Normal tax, $4000 at 4 per cent $ 169 “py Normal tax, $1100 at 8 per cent 88 Surtax at 1 per cent on $2500 Tax to pay’.,.. COLONEL BITZING OUT. gs: OF MILITARY SERVICE Mandan, March 8.—Word has been feceived from Lietitenant Colonel Bit- hee * zing, who is stationed at Camp Zachary ' Taylor that He has been relieved trom service his discharge to cpme on March 10 and he expects to be Back ‘in? Mandan ‘by the middle of the , - month. x : Mrs. Bitzing and children and Mrs. } ‘| Agnes Lang: who have been visiting them for a short time will return at the same time. @, ; ». 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