The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 15, 1920, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE 25 A eA SS 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. ——$—$— << 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 erein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. tk tA de eee ae MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year..... 0 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) . Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota....... seeee 6,00 aarirEE $30,000,000 IN TAXES ‘ATE’S OLDEST NE c THE ST. istablishad 1873) Our State Bank of North Dakota announces - with a flourish that its assets will pass the $30,- 000,000 mark this week. : Meaning, of course, that $30,000,000 will have been! collected in taxes from the people of North Dakota. ‘i Just keep on coming, boys, and you'll hit the $35,000,000 mark yet. This was the figure The { he cannot read. But many assert with satisfied Forum predicted would be collected in taxes, and ' . smiles that they know nothing whatever about the 58 Townley-Brinton newspapers’ nearly had ‘ art.” \ apoplexy denying it. : Artists lose by.that. But the one who loses Also, it means that .a large part of this $30,- must by any person’s failure to understand an art 000,000 is withdrawn from circulation in the is that person himself. Painting, ‘music ompietry state. Some of it is on deposit in New York, or exist to give pleasure. The one who shuts his Chicago, or the Twin Cities. Some of it is lying mind to an art deprives himself of the pleasure idle in the local banks, the local bankers not dar- iM others find in it. ing to loan. it out. And only Waters and Cathro i . ‘The greatest pleasures are not always those know where the rest of it is, for the state auditer i which cost’ most. One man may obtain greater |'8 not allowed to investigate the affairs of the { pleasure from a visit to an art gallery than an- bank, even though a law has been passed making other, who’ lacked understanding, might obtain x a apes pull dal oeen em aerate oss on life-long possession of pictures worth $100) ers is afraid to have the truth told about what he is doing with the $30,000,000 of taxes he has on deposit.—Fargo Forum. : ; ; The money that used to make the mare go now turns the auto’s wheels. In the spring the young man’s fancy does not turn lightly to thoughts of daylight saving—but his employer’s does! * Editor , Russia is to pay with platinum money for im- ports from other countries. Some future Bryan may have to rescue a world from a “cross of plat- inum.” : EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinions of The Tribune. They are pre- sented here in order \hat our readers may have both sides of, important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. a ART “Painting is a mode of expression as vivid as writing,” says John Sloan, president of the So- ciety of Independent Artists. “No one, even if illiterate, would. wish to admit On the day railroads were returned: “Eastern railroads oppose government project of enlarging St. Lawrence river to increase water transporta- tion facilities.” Be bh MESSAGES FROM HOMES Some ‘politicians, the liquor interests, and all the powers of vice and drunkenness, insist the “drink question” is the leading issue in the com- ing political campaign. They profess to believe a majority of American voters want a return to the saloon, the gutter drunkard and evils that | went with the rum era. That’s what, they think about it! But it isn’t what the home folks. think. Nor what they want. And the home folks outnumber the-saloon: gang, ten: to onef | aad Hey _ A Chicago newspaper. prints these letters: from its. readers: | “T will not tolerate a whisky paper in my home. j Your attitude will greatly please the rum traf-|People, especially the working classes.” i . fie” - Gorky, in common with other revolutionists, | “The majority has spoken; I am one of the ma~ has been forced to admit that revolution does jority. Booze is dead; why stir up the corpse?” “Not make men more honest.” In other words, “We are sorry and ashamed of your stand on it does not alter human nature. That is the stern, the liquor traffic. You evidently think millions immovable psychological fact that revolutionists of our poor women and children should suffer insist on ignoring as they paint their glories be- rather than the man of the home should be de- fore their dazzled disciples. ° ; prived of his drink. Let the poor souls—the! New and theoretically perfect orders have fas- wives—and children—Jive and have their chance,” cinated the minds of men for four thousand It took the honest, right-thinking ‘men and years. They have assumed diverse forms and | _ women of America many years to ban liquor from frequently, both on small scales and on_ large | American life. They finally succeeded because scales, have actually been tried out. Uniformly an overwhelming majority of Americans came to they have failed. The elemental fact which de- agree with them. What they did will never be stroyed them ‘all was the fact that human nature undone by'a small handful of liquor thirsty, even is not to be changed by the: passing of a law. though that handful is led by a governor of New Gorky’s assertion that the Communistic experi, Jersey. : ment in Russia is coming to grief through butting its head against this hard fact is only a new af- H Including the states protesting against en- firmation of an ancient truth.—Minneapolis Tri- _ forcement of prohibition you might add the state bune. ; : | of intoxication. : A RADICAL ON RADICALISM _ What Gorky has to say about the methods of the soviet government has no small weight. Gorky has always been a radical, and, when the Bolshevists assumed the reins of power, he con- cluded to work with them in cordial co-opera- tion. With the Bolshevist aims he is, or was, in full sympathy. His comment, therefore, is di- rected rather upon their practical accomplish- ments than upon their published purposes, and of his freedom from any anti-Bolshevist bias there cannot be the slightest doubt. Gorky says “The revolution has proved itself unable to make men more honest. Men . in power now are just as brutal as those in author- ity under the imperial regime, and send as many men to prison. Bolshevist leaders, driven by am- bition, are performing experiments upon living JUST TWO TICKETS : ON SNEEZING By the withdrawal of the candidacies of N. Mc- When a fellow starts sneezing in these flu Kellar of Fargo and W. S. Shaw'of Minot, for po- /times he rushes to the drug store for quinine or sitions on the republican delegation to the Chicago some.other household remedy. Then he. drinks convention, the issue at the polls on the 16th will something hot, goes to bed and awaits results. jbe materially simplified. As the tickets have In so doing, he responds in part to good medi- been prepared in the official publication and as cal advice and in part to an inherited fear. From they will appear on the ballot there will be 22 time immemorial sneezing has been regarded as names in the republican column. Ten of these a sign of bad luck, especially in European coun- represent the Townley-Lemke element who seek tries where to this day a man is wished good to commit the republican party in the state defi- health when he sneezes. s |nitely antl permanently to the policy of Socialism. Isaac D’Israeli, father of the famous Earl of The other 12 candidates, together with several Beaconsfield, wrote an essay on the legends asso- others, were nominated by two groups of: repub- ciated with sneezing. It seems that the fear of licans and before the time fixed for the comple- SR A the sneeze started with an ancient flu epidemic in which many died. The sneeze was regarded as a cause rather than a symptom of the disease, so that there grew out of it a vast amount of superstition. : Ancient Greeks believed that sneezing before a naval battle was a sign of impending defeat. , There is a legend that before Jacob, the son of ‘Isaac, all men died by sneezing and that Jacob was the first man to die from other causes. In a certain tribe in Africa it is the custom to salute the king with loud cries when he sneezes. The cries are taken up on the streets and pretty soon there is a great tumult of shouting throughout the community. Thus, it is believed, the bad luck is frightened away. And if you‘don’t believe it’s bad luck to sneeze —too much—ask any one who has had the flu. And any doctor will tell you you’re out of luck if tion of filings this number had been reduced to 12 by withdrawal of several other candidates. In order to simplify the issue Messrs. McKellar and Shaw have announced their withdrawal from the race, and the voters will be enabled to choose di- rectly as between two distinct groups of 10 candi- dates each. _ The men who have voluntarily withdrawn their names have shown a high degree of disinterest- edness. The position of delegate to one of the great national conventions is an honor which any man may properly desire, and the fact. that these men have voluntarily declined in order that the spirit of harmony may be promoted, and the re- publican party in this state may have an oppor- tunity to place itself squarely and unmistakably on record for the things for which it really stands, is a matter which must gratify every real repub- lican in North Dakota and one upon which these you are too close to a fellow who is sneezing these retiring candidates are to be warmly commended. days. —Grand Forks Herald. BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUN: MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1921 0 | AWARDING OF CONTRACTS FOR MISSOURI RIVER j | WAGON BRIDGE PIERS WEDNESDAY TO MARK BIG : THE NORTHWEST ieee ee ___SEP FORWARD FOR SLOPE AND Ever Undertaken in the Northwest. _ \ length; that at the Mandan side wili be 402 feet long and will curve to the north. 3 ENGINEER'S DESCRIPTION The awarding of contracts for the piers which aré to bear the Bismarck- Mandan Missouri river wagon bridge superstructure is set for 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, when the coun-| The following description of the ty commissioners of Burleigh and Mor-| pridge details is furnished by one of ton will meet jointly with the state| ne engineers interested in the sur- highway commission, in the latter's | veys for this project and is of unusua: office at the’ capitol to, coordinate and | interest because it is authentic in ev- mality Judements ehich the en bod-| ery particular: ies wi ave already arrived at sep- 7 arately. Thig action will ‘mark, tha oN, CHIBE BARRIER i The Missouri river forms the great- first positive step in the realization = of dreams which have been entertain-| €8t barrier to the intercommunication between the eastern and western por- ed for more than a quarter century b. a ar tions of North and South Dakota. far-sighted citizens of the Missourt| t) 4 valley who, have been able to appre-| From Williston to Pierre there are at ciate what a retarding influence on| resent, no highway bridges and be- the development of the Slope country | {ween' these points there are but two the barrier offered by the Big Muddy | railroad bridge crossings. During the has been. winter months, the river is frozen and " . traffic on the ice is safe. In summer In speeding this glorious day for) ferry’ boats provide transportation. the Slope country, the county commis-| But during the break-up of the ice in sion of Morton, the Bismarck city and | (he spring and prior to its formation the Burleigh county commission, the | in the fall, the river is nearly impassi- commercial organizations of the two! pie for the ferry boats and any at- cities, the state highway commission, | tempt to cross on the ice is danger- the federal bureau of roads, the North | oy3, Dakota state assembly, Commissioner | For years there has been talk of pro- of Agriculture and Labor John N. Hag-) viding a suitable bridge to take care an, Governor Lynn J. Frazer and such! of not only the large local traflic be- public-spirited citizens of the twi'| tween the cities of Bismarck and Man- towns, of the Missouri as J. H. New-| dan, but also for the convenfence 0: ton of Mandan and Capt. I. P. Baker’ the many tourists who motor to the of, Bismarck all have had a prominen¢ | great Yellowstone National park on part, and it'is only erent ine Ber their summer vacation. monious cooperation of all these ‘fac- : tors thatthe goal has ‘finally been ‘iene AL eee onl reached and.a result looked upon only of many states, basses through Bis- jive years ago as impossible achieved. | otek and is still dependent ‘on ferr) THE PIERS transportation across, the river. The The piers for which contracts will | {ravel across this ferry has amounted pe awarded Wednesday afternoon wil| ‘0 many hundred automobiles in a be four in number and will be 481) day. ; Fy feet apart from center to center. The} Becayse.cf the width and volume of approaches to the bridge will be over|the river, and the shifting nature of a gracefully curved viaduct at either| the silt overlying the firm deep. clay end, giving the whole structure the| sirata, bridge foundations must be appearance-of a: huge letter “S.” Tho| déep and are expensive, a fact which viaduct on the Bismarck side wll curve| accounts for the delay in providing to the south and will be 144 feet inj the main line of the Northern Pacific TYPICAL MARCH |"wiri’tmavie cry bluff overlooking the river to Rosser |crossing is made possible by this | street, where a curved approach leads | cation. gracefully on to the bridge. A de this public.convenience. APPROPRIATIONS FOR BRIDGE |the Northern Pacific bridge abov: In the spring of 1919, the countiesiAny ice flow capable of passir $180,000 toward thé construction of a ‘Pacific bridge aboye will easily pa |, bridge to mee¢t the urgent demand for | through the openings in the new stra a suitable crossing between Bistnarck | ture which are nearly seventy fe and Mandan. In the fall of the same year, the state legislature appropriat ed‘approximately $220,000 toward this project. The balance of the needed furs are obtained {rom the United States bureau of public roads under the provisions of the federal roadac.. Proposals for preliminary engineer- ing design were advertised for in 1919, and the C. A. P. Turner Co. was selected as consulting engineer foz the bridge, tq act for the-counties and to cooperate with W. H. Robinson, state engineer of North Dakota, who | is in charge of the whole improvement including the road and its details and special features. An old rule made by the Missourt river commission requires that. all bridges across the Missouri river must | be raised high enough to leave a} clearance above average June high water of at least 52 feet, and the U. & army is charged, with the duty of see- ing that proper clearance is provided. Largely through the active efforts of Capt. I. P. Baker; representing the navigation interests of the upper Mis- souri, the war department was induc- ed to modify the old rule and accept | park. a design providing 13 feet less clear- The work willbe executed .und ance. This reduction in required |the supervision of the North Dako clearance is a great help in’ securing |State highway commission, of w a crossing at a reisonable cost. }Gov. Lynn J. Frazier is. ex-offi SITE SELECTED ‘chairman, and W. H. Robinson, chi The site selected for the bridge. is The oth between four and five thousand feet below, the present railroad bridge, where reliable foundation material is found. The road will start from Maia | poleon, street in Bismarck, will cross under | marck. are to be of reinforced concrete. The bridge trusses are of the ‘Tur! er sub-divided. Warren type, for whi. ed construction with no increase weight over that of the older pin co: nected I-bar type. provided. wearing surface. AUTO CLUBS INTERESTED ant link in the great Red Trail is loo bers of the aytomobile clubs throug’ out the northwest, | idea of the appearance of the structu: | when completed. jreau of public roads, which rende |ciated by the automobilists in |trips to the Yellowstone Nation engineer “and secretary. Mr. and Mrs. Jewell moved to this; have.a number of friends in this cil | city last summer following Mr. Jew-, who will be sorry to see them leave. ell’s return from France where he - abe RNS served with the famous Rainbow divi- + MOTHERS’ UB y ; iller, He une BLIZZARD GRIPS | FOR WASHINGTON |sop tes arene rayon! | th athe cy wet - his return to New York, Mr. and Mrs, {“@y afternoon. at the home of. \ Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jewell of 223 Sec- ra) Jewell were. married at that city, Jewell, who has resigned his position as chief clerk of the farm loan depart- ment of the Bank of North Dakota, has a-responsible position at the Pacific | coast city. Mr. Jewell is of one of the pioneer families of this city, “his father being [1:0ST—Check he well known as editor’ and owner, of County, Center The Tribune. Mr. ‘and. Mrs. Jewell to Tribune Oitice. Howling Wind from Northwest Brings" Burden of Snov{, Turning to Slush \ In Spite of Moderate’ Tempera- ture, Great Loss of Live- “ stock is Feared Following ‘a week of balmy spring weather, a typical March blizzard swept down from the northwest last night on thewings of a40-mile anhour gale, covering the entire state with a dampy, heavy snow, partially tieing up, rail traffic, endangered the lives of thousands of ‘cattle on the prairies and covered the country as far south “Sic ’em Wapi, Stop -and ‘Wapi ee tore at her as Iowa and as,far east as the Great them! for Lakes. , 2 F The storm started last night about 5 , 10 o’clock with a light fall of rain, ke” Bmp enemy which was quickly turned into a snow my sake : G a r storm followed bya strong wind’ vary- ing in intesity from 36 to 40 miles an hour. The storm. covers an area in- cluding Montana, North and South Da- kota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin an! ‘ lowa. The weather bureau predicts that it will continue all day today and tomorrow with lower temperatures. y WILL HAMPER CATTLE A heavy fall of snow is predicted during the blizzard, which will have a demoralizing effect on range catile. With sparse feed, the death toll is expected to ‘be the greatest during this winter. The effects of tut bliz zard in the country are most severe, it being impossible to see 100 yards because of the gale-whipped wind. The thermometer this morning hovered around the freezing mark, but the weather bureau predicts lower temperatures tonight and tomorrow, although the mercury will not drop much below zero. The present snow fall is not exceptional, O. W. Roberts, local weather bureau chief, states, as thie records of. his office show that more snow falls during March and April than during all the rest of the year combined. °, i | ‘PROMINENT, RESIDENT OF ‘STEEL DIED HERE MONDAY! ‘AFTER LENGTHY ILLNESS, Mrs. Annie C. Tortner, prominent’ resident of Steele, died here this morn ing following a lengthy illness. Mrs.! Tortner was 52 years of age and was one of the best known residents of Kidder county where she has resided ; for many years. | The deceased is survived by her husband, F. B. Tortner. The body will be taken to Williamsport, Pa., Mrs. a Tortner’s birthplace, tonight. \Funer- ' al services will be held at Williams- | , port Wednesday or Thursday. | e | Then See This Special. The extraordinary storv of Dolores, the swimming girl of the Canadian wilds, and- “Wapi, the Killer,” the great dog who fights the fight of his fighting life to save her from men of prey more heartless than the beasts of the forest. “BACK TO GOD’ ~ COUNTRY” ADAPTED FROM THE STORY “WAPI, THE WALRUS,” IN ‘(GOOD HOUSEKEEPIN JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD ay THE AUTHOR WAS WITH THE COMPANY DURING THE MAKING OF THE FILM Featuring the Brilliant Swimming Star ST. GEORGE'S SALE Home-baked_ pastries and* other’ foods, fancy work of all kinds anid attractive needlework will feature the | sale to be conducted by St. George's | guild at the Bismarc! ic. Co.’ T T store, Third and Broadway, on March | oday & omorrow 27. ELTINGE IN HOSPITAL | R. L. Best of the clothing firm of Best and Huyck, is confined in the St. | Alexius hospital. hi ‘ | ADMISSION - 35c McCoy, ‘secretary of the club, The Mandan-Bismarck Missouri River Bridge as It Will Appear When Completed—The Biggest Engineering Project of Its Kind railroad, and will follow the top of the | lightful view, of the valley below the o- The bridge will consist of three main spans, opposite the openings in e) nS of Burleigh and, Morton appropriated | through the openings of the Northern ss ic et, wider. Both approoaches to the bridge tie ch is-claimed all the advantages of rivet- in n- The trusses are thirty feet centers, giving ample widin of roadway, and twov sidewalks are The floors are of reinforced concrette with’ a bituminous: asphalt The early completion of this impori- Ke ed forward to with great interest by the people of North Dakota, and mem he The accompanying cut gives a fair 1e The financial aid of the federal bu- Ts his project feasible is highly appre- the jnorthwest who are planning vacation at er ta. ‘h 9 ef er members of the commission are John |N. Hagan. commissioner of agricui- ture and labor, J. J. Marquart of Na- and .Frayne- Baker of Bis- y, ond street will leave Bismarck Wednes- i i day. morning for Seattle, Wash.,| Where Mrs. Jewell was born and rais- 615 Sixth street. ‘An interesting pro- | where they will make their home. . Mr. | ed. gram has heen arranged and all mem- ¢ 2 bers are urged to attend. 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