The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 22, 1920, Page 4

=r { Te dee ee FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE kM ODT I REE Entered. at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN ° Editor Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN. PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO eee lie jarquette Bldg. ‘ 8 3 agin PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - : - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. de ih rr A OS SSE 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 in, pers sights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. a 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’ Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota..........-- 6. THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Se cad PROHIBITION “T hate the word prohibition,” said Lady Astor, American-born member of the British Parlia- ment. She tells why. Ls “Prohibitior! does not seem to me a good de- scription of what ‘has happened in America, be- cause it was not the arbitrary ruling by a de- spotic government, but an act of self-denial passed with’ the support of an overwhelming ma- jority of the people.” There is that distinction between self-denial and prohibition. An autocrat may cover his country with “verbotten” signs; none of his sub- jects has anything to say about the matter; he prohibits. But in such a democracy as this ev- ery voter may have a hand in the framing of self-denial legislation. In the United States the majority, acting for all the people, signed the anti-liquor pledge, made a resolution to abstain from intoxicating drinks, and as long as the ma- jority feel that way about it, the national reso- lution will be kept. Lady. Astor truly labels it: prohibition. } But it is self-denial for the whole nation! Self-denial, not KILLING OLD TYPHOID It is fine news that control of the scourge of typhoid has reached such a satisfactory point that the certain elimination of the disease from these United States is in sight. ‘ _ Since the opening of this century one city after another has taken up the attack on typhoid, until now there is no city of any size whichis not cam- paigning against it through. the water, supply auid' by means of sanitation. For several years past ‘the Journal of the American Medical association has presented an annual survey of typhoid mor- tality to the physicians of the country. The sur vey for 1919 is now announced, and the figures are nothing less than amazing. » The honors go to the cities of Chicago, New York, Boston and Cleveland, in order. The aver- age deaths from typhoid per 100,000 population for the peridd 1905-10 in Chicago were 15.8; in 1919 the average was 1.2. In New York, 1905-10, average deaths per 100,000 were 13.5; in 1919 the record stood two. Boston reduced the mortality from 16 to 2.2 in 1919. Cleveland reduced from 15.7 to 2.4 in 1919. r There are other cities where the mortalities are as low or even lower—for example, Spokane, without a single death—but the honor cities. have very large populations, with great numbers com- ing in and going out every day,:making. control of any disease difficult. i In Chicago the value of the great engineering work of turning sewage away from Lake Michi- gan is beginning.to tell. The drinking water of Chicago is today probably the purest of any city. in the world. In Cleveland the great results are mostly. due to water filtration and liberal use of chloride of lime,’ 4 ‘There are some interesting exhibits from other cities. Ten years ago the average typhoid mor, tality in Columbus, Ohio, per 100,000 was 40. In 1919 it was 3. Louisville, Ky., was 52.7; now 11.2. Pittsburg was 65, but Pittsburg has cleaned it lift up his eyes to the eternal hills where the glory and the majesty of creation are displayed. Clouds piled up miles high; glowing with life colors; mighter than’ any mortal mountain range; more wonderful than any earthly architecture; jclouds above us, sometimes almost enfolding us, sometimes almost enfolding mankind with their marvels, and the only time man notices them is when it rains and he has left his umbrella at home. The wonders of God are common; so common | that many waste their reverence on the imitation pasteboard settings of clever men, and give more praise to the painter of a puddle than to the cre-, ator of an ocean. \ Schroeder says the wind drove him backward 200 miles an hour while he was travelng forward 100 miles an hour. This sort of progress is hard to understand unless one studies the senate. Secretary Baker made a mistake in his income tax report. If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the wicked and ungodly appear? Palmer says the republic isn’t in danger. Neith- er are the profiteers. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinions of The Tribune. They are pre- sented here in order vhet our readers may have a sides of im) int issues which are being discusse: the press of the day. THE GRAND DUCHESS OLGA The-finding of Grand Duchess Olga, sister of the late Czar of Russia, ragged, hungry and liv- ing in a box car in Southern Russia, is a fresh reminder of the tragic fate that swept away near- 'ly the whole of the Romanoff family. The Grand |< Duchess belongs in truth today to the nobility— not that which hangs upon, the accident of birth or station, but that which is denoted by an unsel- fish devotion to the weal and comfort of hapless ones who always, perhaps, have consorted with poverty and known its pangs. ! Olga, now the wifd of a soldier and discarding the title that she might still use, goes hungry with the hungry, ragged with the ill-clothed, and sheltered with: those. who have not that which might be-called “home.” In this pitiful company: she is doing what she can to relieve distress, un- mindful of her own personal comfort. Whether her husband and her two children still live, the Red Cross workers who found her do not make known, but it appears that the woman who dared, to defy the conventions of the Russian court and to reveal’ ‘otherwise the impulses ‘ofan’ independent spirit has laid hold at last upon the best of her womanhood and put it to use in ways that must -yield to her a happness, even in her down to 6.2. Scranton, Pa., was 31.5, but is now next to Chicago with only 1.8. The worst place in 1919 was Memphis with 58:4, an increase of 23,1 over ten years ago. \ LIFT UP YOUR EYES The city stodd amazed; out in the velvet night massed throngs stood in silent ecstacy; preachers with their congregations stood in unvoiced awe gazing up; mariners on the broad decks of ten thousand ships stood at their posts bathed in quiet reverence; men and women everywhere caught the contagion of the revelation, looked up and away from the ret of routine, and were caught in the spirityal exaltation that glimpses: the infi- nite at work. For high above the little world of men was a heaven filled with other worlds; worlds upon worlds; glowing with all the rainbow colors in procession; immensities on immensities parading before the hosts of heaven, and calling to every fibre of the universe’ “Glory, Glory, Lord God Almighty, Heaven and Earth are full of Thee, Heaven and Earth are praising Thee, Lord God Most High!” When was this? Oh, this happens every night, so far as the heavens are concerned; the only lacking element in the picture is. that poor, blind, benighted man keeps bowing down to wood and stone, and doesn’t hardships, that she. never knew as the, daughter of a.dynasty. . fs Adversity is not without some good influence, 4 let the circumstances be what'they may. In the case of Grand Duchess Olga it has summoned to action the best of her qualities and given her an insight into human life that reflects back benefi- cently upon her own mind and character.—Min- neapolis Tribune. : FARMERS TO COMBAT LEAGUE SOCIALISM The socialistic and radical efforts of: the organ- izers and rulers -of the National Nonpartisan league, who through ‘manipulation, first of farm- ers, and later of laboring men, are endeavoring to establish government by class, and overthrow de- mocracy, planting © socialism in its place, has aroused the farmers of other parts of the country, who are preparitig to, combat, the socialists and check the spread of such propaganda any further. The national grange, largest organization of inde- pendent farmers in America, will carry the fight against socialism into the league stamping ground according to the announced plans. Thesg plans state that the new officers of the national grange intend to.extend the grange as much as possible during the next two or three years, and particularly in the so-called weak grange states, which are those bordering on the Dakotas, and including North and South Dakota. That section has become the stamping ground for the National Nonpartisan league, an organization whose leaders ate socialistic, and whose tenden- cies are radieal. Some.of these leaders have been convicted, under the espionage act, of trying to interfere with the activities of the United States during the war. The Nonpartisan league is insid- ious socialism, and it has already thoroughly, dis- turbed the state of North Dakota and made great strides in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Montana. Other neighboring states are also materially in- fected. ‘ There have been many occasions recently, includ- ing the convention at Grand Rapids, when the grange has taken a strong position against class government, class domination and the usurpa- tion of legislative power by; special organizations and classes. The national grange insists upon the equitable distribution of taxes. It insists upon co-operation between the workers and employers, and it is ab- solutely opposed to special privileges for any class. It represents a healthy, old-fashioned con- servatism, and it is the proper organization to offset the mischief being done by the Nonpartisan league, and to counteract the insidious movement toward the substitution of class domination for the true, representative democracy.—Hillsboro Banner. BISMARCK ..DAILY TRIBUNE THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME f PEOPLE'S FORUM > . 4 PLEA FOR EQUAL TAXATION The Tribune; There has been a great deal of com- plaint, (and in many instances th2 complaint has been just) on account of’ the high taxes, resulting from the 1919 assessment of city property. From an examination of ‘the 1919 assess- ment, it will be seen that the assessor in making his assessment placed the valuations on some kindy of property. entirely; too high, and in other! in- stances the values were much lower | than they shouldbe. The proper dis- tinction has mot been made between the value of business and residence lots, and it ig( this feature of the as- gessment ‘where most ‘of the harm has. been | done. \ As it will'be soon time for another assessment, ‘an. examination, or com: parison of ‘the, 1919 ussessment and tax levy, with the previous year 1918, | will be of interest ‘to’ tax ‘payers of | this. city. Ay earn ation of all property in the city of: Bismarck, for the year 1918, was $2,625,219. The tax rate was 71.6 mills, or $71.60 on the 1000 dollars’ valuation. The total fax budget. for the year 1918, was $187,965.67, whtich does’ not include special assessments for that year. Dis- tributed the 1918 ‘taxes for the city | were: oh 1 State taxes )...... County, ‘including ae e0$ 11,288.44 two e mills tuition ‘tax. 46,991.42 City of: Bismarck 71,405.95 Bismarck School tax .. 58,279.86 Total ....ee sees eens $187,965.67 For the year 1919, the total assessed valuation of the .city was $7,635,605. The tax rate was 36.40 mills, or $36.40 on the 1000 dollars’ valuation, mak- ing a tax budget on city property of 3,612.82, as follows: State tax $22,754.10)less $4,323.20, being 25 per ‘ cent rebate: of state general tax <.,..... $ 18,480.90 County and one mill tui- tion tax 65,818.92 City of Bismarck. » 101,171.77 Bismarck Schoo] tax .. 88,191.23 Total. \....0..40+++-$273,612.82 Adda to the above tax the 1919 ‘ {that could be enumerated showing the ‘To Ppr You To BY JAMES HENLE N. E. A. Staff Correspondent. New York, March 22.—What is .the | next big step forward? next change that will’ be made com: parable, say, to the introduction of steam pdwer, which revolutionized so- ciety. . Many sctentists believe that this wili come when we convert coal into elec- tricity, at the mines and transport POWER instead of COAT’ to’ consum- ers. Walter N. Polakov, a consulting en- gineer of nation-wide prominence, is | one ‘of those who believe this change willand must be made. Nor is: the idea as fantastic as,it sounds. Con- gress at the present moment is con- sidering appropriating: $250,000 to be used in determining the practicability of! the proposal. ¥ i the scheme is carried’ out every facfory smokestack in this! land: will disappear, — Railroads , will ‘wastul coud} only for domestic uses. |, Power. will be ‘supplied over high-voltdge wires from ‘electric plants at “collievies in each) industrial zone ‘of the country. | These stations will be located in: the various rich coat fields’ of ‘the. na- ion. » 3 | this property was raised to $ 19,425. The 1919 taxes are ‘consolidated. tax. $707.07; paving, etc. $262.50; total tax $969.57. "An increase in the consol- idated tax over the 1918 tax of 170 per cent. These are a few of the many cases injustice of the 1919: assessment of ; city property, and the excessive taxes resulting therefrom, A. pige of The ‘Tribune. could be filled with similar instances show- ing the injustices done property own- ers, but time or space will not permit of going any further at this time. The 1919 assessment in a great many instances is entirely too high, and in other cases it is a great deal too low. What is ‘needed is a djustment of property valyes in the ely of Bis- marck, go that! all property can ve placed on a more equitable, basis for assessment purposes. le You DONT SToP CRYING VM. GOING What is they’ ; of an enormous ® —A TAXPAYER. SMOKELESS ERA COMES WHEN POWER, NOT COAL, IS CARRIED FROM MINE Here are the benefits that, Polakoy says will immediately follow; from the introduction of this system; 1—The railroads will he relieved burden? Coal at present forms 30 per cent of the freight of the country. This method would eliminate all but a very small percentage of coal-carrying. 2—Enormous quantities of coal would be conserved. If our consump- tion of coal continues to increase at the present ratio, enough only for a hundred years more is left, Electric plants at collieries’ will double the yield in electricity per ton of coal. 3—The colliery electric stations will be equipped to save the valuable coal by-products, which ordinarily are wast- d. Thesé include ummonia, benz0!, tl tar and gas., According to the figures of the United States National Museum at Washington, the nation, because of its present extravagant methods: of burning coal,/ wastes an- nually $2,000,000,000 of these by:pro- duets 4—The colliery stations could pro- vide infinitely cheaper power, which in turn would mean cheaper commodi- ties, for more goods could be produce at lower: prices. | OO ees DENVER SPECIALIST CONDUCTS HOSPITAL FOR SICK CANARIES Denver, Colo, March 19.—H. R. Smith, specialist, conducts a hospital here for sick canaries. Mrs, Smith is his assistant, acting in the capacity av nurse. In the canary. hospital. are downy singers who have lost their voices, have caught cold, contracted asthma, have rheumatism or scurvey, or other ailment. Mr. ‘Smith ‘said slight variations: in temperatures, improper diet, smokey or foul air bring iiness or death to a tanary. According to Mr. Smith there are 10 000,000 canaries in cages and aviac- ies. in America, and_more than haif are not given proper attention. : special assesssments. Cluster lights ........$ 1,690.80 Sewer tax .. 20,544.49 Sidewalk tax . + 8,065.04 Parking and grading .. 6,230.04 Paving tax .......... 52,018.93. Total oi. cc. cecese ee $ 83,549.30 Making. a. total: tax of $357,162.12, that is assessed against property in the city of Bismarck, for the year 1919.-, It will be seen that there ix a raise of $85,647.15. in the several tax bu S for the year 1919 over the previous year, which does not in- clude’ special assessments, being an increase of nearly\ 32 per cent over the 1918 tax. Now if the assessment for the year 1919 had been assessed equally on all property in4the city, each tax payer would havée'an increase of about 32»per cent. in his 1919 taxes, over and above of what he paid in 1918. Now let us see} how this works out. Mr. Joseph Dietrich paid in 1918 on four 25-foot. lots, the home he lives in, and a small bungalow, $208.72 con- solidated tax, paving etc. $107.56, total $316.28, which Was certainly high enough.” In 1919; hig assessment on the same propérty: was boosted to $10,435. His 1919;taxes are, consoli- dated tax $374.48, ‘paving etc. $135.80, total $510.28. “Here is an increase of not #2 per cent a8 it should be, but of ‘nearly 80 per cent. over his 1918 consolidated tax. 0 Another ease: Four 25-foot lots, an old house, built in: the early days. on the corner sopth of the Methodist church, residence property. The 1918 tax on this’ property was, consolidated tax $397.52, paving, etc, $196.78, total tax $594.30. In 1919 the assessment on this property was raised to $19,- 725, The 1919 takes are $717.99 con- solidated tax. Paving, etc. ATL. Total tax, $9" consolidated tax of 1918 of over 80 per cent. © Another case, and this one is a peach. Three yacant, improductive lots, on the corner of Sixth and Broad- way. The tax on these lots for the year 1918 were $261.92 consolidated tax; paving, etc. 274.03; total $535.05. In 1919! the assessment on 70, An increase in the }, EVERETT TRUE j 7 By Condo 'MONDAY,. MARCH 22,.1920 , "HAZEL MINER. | HEROINE © | By P. W. Thurston Center; N. D. . Hazel Miner, 16 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Miner, farm- ers of. Oliver county, who lost: her life-In the snow storm Tuesday, March 16th, proved herself a; heroine, whore devotion and self-sacrifice is rarely equalled by one‘of her years. + She, with a little brother .11_ years old; and a sister 9, became lost on the prairie while.returning from school about two miles from their home Mon- day afternoon the 15th. Wheni .the three ‘© found at about the same hour Tuesday after- noon the older girl was. dead and the ‘| other. two would have been but for the terrible vigil she kept and the noble | sacrifice she made for them. The father had gone on horseback to the consolidated school at about 2 o’dock in the afternoon, on Monday. to see that the children got safely home, He had tied his horse near the school house and hii dd up the one the children were driving, intend- ing to lead it behind his. After gei- ting them into 'the sled and telling them to wait for him, he went for his saddle horse, but on returning found them gone, aud because of the bjind- ing storm could not see them nor make them hear him. Presuming they had {gone homeward, he followed only to find that they had not reached there. A geipral, alarm. was given and neighbors searched) the surrounding country unti] well into the night when the blizzard atd darkness forced them to give up until morning. t Tuesday morning volunteers from Center joined the other searchers and covered a larger territory, with the result that the children were found: about two miles from the school house, but in a Routherly direction, wherbas their home was due north. . It is presumed the otherwise faith j ful old horse found it impossible to face the storm, so turned and went. with) the wind. When found by the searchers the sled, a short one with a canvas top over it similar to that of a covered wagon, but shorter and with no back curtain, was found turned on its side with, the children all huddled inside the top. : The two younger children were well tucked in with blankets over and under them, with their dead sister by their side. between them and the storm, both arms holding the blankets aroun:| and over them as she had in life, she, destitute of other protection than the | clothes she had on, Her heroism is best told! by the brave litte brother who survives. While waiting for their father to | | > return with his horse theirs hecame impatient with the storm, and being driven with only a halter instead of a bridle, they were unable to hold After drifting about the & him back. prairie) until neally dark they Into a low place filled with snow, water and the tugs became unhitched. Hazel, getting out to rehitch them, stepped into ice and siush that reached to her _wagst. She led the horse out of this and continued to lead it until she was nearly exhausted, when the boy took her place for sometime, In their search for shelter, which lasted, none will know how long, the sled turned on™its side where it was afterwatds’ found, and the children were «unable to right it, The open top thus formed a perfect tunnel, with both ends open and one end to the face of the gale. The heroic girl placed one blanket over the opening of the top and fought he storm to keep it there until cold and fatigue forced her to He down with ‘the other chitdren, she spending the remainder of her waking hours in. ministering to. her brother and sister, cautioning them against falling asleep, and admonishing them to keep their hands and feet’ moving as much as their cramped circumstances would permit. When the drifting snow, form- ed a@ crust about the little bodies until the younger children could not move, she broke it. which act she continued to ‘orm throughout the leng night and well: into Tuesday, it being be- Iteyed she succnmbed about. noon. ‘When found the younger children were slightly wet from the melting of the snow caused by the bodily heat of the three, and gave evidenc of it) :| being partially frozen, but both were awake and fully ‘conscious and: have since almast fully recovered, The herofe acts of Hazel Miger will long live in the memory of all familiar with the tragedy, and as the younger children grow to more fully realize their debt of gratitude to her, remembrance of sister Hazel will depict to them ‘one’ of Goll’s noblest || heroes. Far away on'the ocean are billows, ~ That never will break on the beach, Andi have had thought in the shadows 100 sacri, to tender, for speech. —Byron, Unstinted credit is due the search- ers who, hoping against hope, for hours fought the storm, themselves risking life in the cause that meant so much. The awful plight of all is best re- alized when it is known that the driy- ing snow almost immediately formed a frozen mask over the eyes that made sight impossible, and the prob- ability of themselves becoming lost greater than that of finding the chil- dren, KEEP THAT CARD The war risk bureau has been send- ing identification cards to men hold ing government insurance, but many recipients have returned the cards. The director of the bureau wants it known that these cards are to be kept for identification purposes in case of sickness or accident. =o Consumers Dray and Transfer Co. Phone 270 Ice and Teaming —