The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 12, 1920, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Re OE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN sry one : = Editor Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO PETROIT Marquette Bldg. 8, x ND SMITH | NEW york? #8 BURNS AND SMiith Ave. Bldg. i aA th nd A 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 ‘also reserved. —<— EMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per _year........... a «$7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) 1.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) 50 Daily by. mail, outside of North Dakota.....+...... 6 THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) eS> IDLE HANDS Not a single divorce case in 13 years! Sounds like a fairy tale, but it’s true. Where? On Zanzibar Island, off the east coast of Africa. More than 100 white coupies live there. Di- vorce lawyers starve tg death. Judge Percy Shearman-Turner, on his way through South Africa to England for a vacation, told the no-divorce story: “Morals are on a high plane among the white people in Zanzibar,” said the judge. “Much higher than in Rhodesia or the Congo. There is plenty of good fellewship. Husbands and wives are pals. Besides there isn’t. much work the ‘men have to do, and practically none for the women. Native help is cheap.” : This seems to indicate that idle hands do not always ‘get into mischief—not in Zanzibar, at least. Not when husband and wife are pals. wed publicatiop- of special dispatches herein are The average son of toil didn’t have horny hands until they got that way holding a steering wheel. ‘'" THIS IS. THRIFT, Recently the economically inclined women of Atlantic City,\N. J., determined to do their bit toward ending the awful wave of extravagance. They made up their collective mind to inaugurate an epidemic of thrift which would-tumble the cost of living. Their meeting lasted quite a while, The ‘report of their speeches and resolutions makes old Ben Franklin look like.a spendthrift. (Finally they got down to brass tacks,’ ' They had talked of economy. They would economize, ~Unanimously they voted in favor of asking the stores not to sell any more silk shirts to. their fathers, husbands, brothers and sons. Then they adjourned. - ‘ Why, not even:Attorney General Palmer could have thought up a better scheme to swat old Hi Costa Living! -- ‘ : And everybody’s happy but father and the boys. The politician rants about the ship of state, and the voter worties about the state of the ship. 90 YEARS AGO You don’t hear, of two congressmen, politicians, candidates,. or private citizens getting angry ‘at each other and going out to fight’ a duel about it. For this is the year 1920. Not a century ago. John Randolph,’ in a speech, called the administration of President John Quin- cy Adams a “puritanic-diplomatic-black-legged administration.”. Henry Clay, then secretary ‘of state, felt called ‘upon ‘to defend the administra- \ tion. There was but’ one way to do it (April 9, 1826). Clay challenged Randolph to a duel. The duelists fired two shots each. Clay’s first bullet passed through Randolph’s coat. | Clay missed his second shot’ and. Randolph fired straight up into the air. Then the two men became cordial friends. One of the biggest improvements civilization has made in the last’ 100 years has been placing duelling upon the shelf. Heinje says he will’ never forget. Why, man, the mafks are diminishing rapidly. | | , ‘“BATTER UP” “Play ball.” That means something. And all that follows it means something.to those who ¢fol- low the great American game, a game which will open what appears to be an’ auspicious season on many grounds very shortly.) . é Once the big leagues get in motion, /scores) of little ones, not to say a thing about thousands. of games between amateur individual clubs, will be on their way. The outlook is for a bumper year. Folks are simply searching for amusement. And the ball game will provide a lot of it. , - The ball game provides a thrill/that nothing else will. The fellow who stands up in the stands where all may see and hear, and cries out: “Paste him in the ivory, Bucky,” isn’t‘crazy. Far from it. He’s “talkin’ to ’em,” just like the crap shoot- er does when he says: “Come on, you little Joe. Baby needs new shoes.” The baseball fan is soon to come into his in- nings. At heart he is the same whether he is one of thousands that throng the stands tier upon tier, or whether he is sitting cross-legged, tailor fashion, ‘along the first or third base line in some country hamlet where the usual thrill is no‘great- * ver than that supplied by going to the postoffice “for the evening mail. He is the guy who wants the center field bleachers or hits Brown's cow pasturing far away in yon meadow. With two out, a man on.third and “two and three” on the batter and.one run needed to win, provides a thrill beyond which it is hard to con- ceive one greater. ah Hasten the day, Mr.’Umps! Hasten the day! t} i bd - FORGIVABLH FIBBING When Mary Pickford got: her divorce— She said she didn’t inténd to marry again. That was a fib. She said she didn’t intend to marry Douglas Fairbanks. That was another fib. But we'll forgive her. : Struggling movie actors like Mary and her new husband need the publicity. Vi j And, anyhow, she didn’t fool anybody. The letter X represents ah unknown quantity and America’s foreign policy. \ The president now has)a full set of ‘souvenirs from Europe. He has the treaty. \ Conditions are back to normal in Munich. A general strike has been proclaimed.: | ———_—__|_ t -People don’t care how much a candidate spends if they know whose money he is spending. ¥ ay Relief ships sent to Russia will carry undesira- ble aliens, thus affording relief going and coming: Local campaign managers won’t: be able to round up many votes with hair tonic and patent |- medicine. ~ 1 The House favors an army of 300,000, but ‘will that be enough if the senate keeps' on twisting i the lion’s tail? It may be observed as a political truism that a country isn’t ready for self-determination: until it gets the bath habit. ) A Americd insists on keeping Turkey out of Eu- rope, but: won’t say anything about keeping Eu- rope out of Turkey. : od General Hindenburg. may be. the most popular Anstitution in Germany, but General Strike will run him a close second:)~ é The regular dyed-in-the-wool conservative will neverbe happy while aycommon working man is permitted to express his opinion in public. | EDITORIAL REVIEW | . Comments reproduced in this column may or, not express the ions of The Tribune. bere are) pre sented here in order hat our readers may. are ath sides of ii it issues whit ing Hides or ratog ene which are being disci _. HIT OR MISg |. , While we are Eastering in Bismarck, which we é now doing—that. is, while. you are reading this—we are going to take'a ride on the Tooner- ville trolley that takes the governor, and others more or less important, including George Totten, Sr., to. and from the state house, just to see how it feels to ride in a trolley car again.’ The last time we were on the thing we,were talking ‘with Thomas Allan Box, and then: he was working up a scheme—in which he, maybe, wanted to sell us some stock—whereby differentials < could be placed ‘on trolley cars so that they! could \turn corners without upsetting a fellow’s w.:k. diges- tion. A peculiar thing about the Toonerville trol- ley at Bistharck is that it has rolling motion to it that seems just like the ocean. In fact, we al- most imagine we are on the ocean, until we get to the state house and see all the birds and other wild animals there—Thomas F. McCarthy, in Devils Lake Journal. | THE SUFFRAGE OUTLOOK Defeat of the Nineteenth Amendment in Dela- ware reduces suffrage hopes’ to Vermont and North Carolina. - In thé former state the legisla- ture has shown by, an emphatic vote its approval of equal suffrage—one chamber was able to pass a state suffrage measure over Governor.Clement’s veto. There are optimists wha believe that under pressure from the legislators, the women, and na- tional party leaders Governor Clement may. yet call a special session. In North Carolina, Govern- or Bickett will call a special session’ in July and has endorsed the amendment. Upland legislators may fall into line behind him. But North Cato- lina had a negro population in 1910 of 700,000 in a total of 2,200,000, or nearly one-third, and only, one staté with a high proportion of negroes—Ar- kansas—has thus far_ratified. ~To lose the right to vote in the primaries is re- grettable enough ; for women to fail by one state of the national amendment before November would be tragic. The consoling fact’ would re- main that the great majority will be-able to vote for president anyway. More than half the states ave granted complete suffrage. or presidential suffrage, and many of the very populous states— New York, fllinois, Missouri, California, Michi- gan, Iowa and so on—are in the list, But. the women of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts, Texas and other important states which have rati- fied the federal amendment would not have the ballot. It would be deplorable for one woman out of every three who wishes to vote this fall to find that she cannot because the United States is not yet abreast of England, of Scandinavia, or Aus- 4 -to see Bucky. paste:the.pill.so far-that it-lands in tralia, or Germany.—New York Post. -| sing ‘shall not Saat ra) | SATURDAY | Kaas, ‘By Justice J. April + 10,...'1920.'.: CONFESSION— honest; confession. they say.:.is . good) for the soul. .He that covereth his : 2 Hut he that 1 ‘ruly, once! a .week or month évery man Ww state, and: draws,a;good:salary, like the’ Director Genefal, : should - confess to the people and give an account of- his, stewardship. : Mr.. McGovern, the millright, .should,.I think, ‘give an ac- count of what‘he has done or purposes to-do, with that 000. Mr. Justice Bronson, 1, think, )was_ elected. on condition ‘that .during the business hours Of each dayhe would give all his time to the duties, of his) office. ' ‘Will he confess and’ try to excuse his‘ frequeht and long continued absences from court for one-third gf his time? ; I wish that. the state officials would | all do their own confessing. Carl Kositzky — he should vouch’ for him-| self, ‘tell his own story in regard to . the expenses of his office and the time he gives. to his office: de) Kasitzky, Hagan, Olson, Langer and the Governor were the members of the State ‘Board of Equalization in Aug- ust apd September, 1919. Then, in- stead of reducing the assessed valua- |' tion of property; as ‘they should have done, they boosted aad marked up all the valuations to about five times that - of the prior year. Thén they made a state tax. levy of three mills, which |'was equal to twelve mills on the as- sessed valuation of;,the year 1918. ; EVENING E. Robinsor Property. and .the Joss and.’ expense Paid out’ of- the general fund: ofthe - state. > = From July 1, 1919, to ‘April 11,,51920,: the: amount ‘col- pas lected‘ on, this’ tax was. $496,920.08; 67.343, The,sum paid ‘for; expenses and loss was The balance on hand, in the State ,Treasury. is. For the general, ckpenge oz the state there is an’oil:tax—a taxon the sale of oil. . The amount received. on the | same for’ one: ‘year commencing March, 1919 “is:........ 2: 8857,871.41 There is an inheritance. tax.. For one year, commencing April, 1919, the amount received into the Treasury (CSS, nie Win be: Re, $56,161.43 Then there is the corporation fees and license ‘tax and: for one ivear: it TRS RSSriacinrn etnies ah 3. $257,000.00 The state income tax must not be} ik overlooked. It varies from one to ten , Per cent and: it may amount to|more! terest. The land ¢wner who risked his jthan ‘tour mills on the dollar of all) time and money in plowing, cultivat- taxable property. , occupation tax of $15 a year, Thus far the sum is:-) «$10,582.50 And there is ther similar tax levies which’ we do not stop to mention. Thus dt appears the new- fangled side tax levies are amply suf- ficient, and more’ than sufficient,’ to pay all the necessary expenses of the state. And there is ‘no reason for try- ing to excuse the three mill levy by, were the only ‘he great:bulk of } | Prefects X-Rav to « HOW AND WHEN — TTOTAKE ASPIRIN First: cee that’ tablets you take are marked with the ‘. “Bayer Cross.” av So get quick relief follow carefully the safe and! proper directions in each unbroken package of “‘Bayer Tablets of Aspirin.” This package is plainly stamped with the safety. “Bayer Crogs.” The “Bayer Crogs” means the gen- “| ‘uine,:--world-famous Aspirin, prescrib- ed ‘by ‘physicians for over e‘ghteen years, |); i “Bayer Tablets of Aspiri” can be taken safely for colds, Headache, Toothache, Earache; Neuralgia, Lum- bago, Rhefmatism, Joint Pains, Neuri- tis, and Pain generally. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets| cost but a’ few cents. Druggists also sell ~ larger “Bayer”: packages, Aspirin is the trademark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetjcacidester of Salicylica- eid. i stitution fixes a definite limpft to the Btate tax levies, which is four mills, and not twenty-four mills, on the dol- lar. The limit cannot be fairly or honestly exceeded by any, side taxes or any device whatever, We must have. an ‘extra session to kick out of the way. the nefarious and, illegal taxes and to prepare the way for The New Day... ! JAMES E. ROBINSON. ' Test Out Steel ‘Cincinnati, ‘Ohio, April’.12—In_ a lecture at-the University of Cinncin- nati recently, Fref. S J. M. ‘Allen, of ‘the. physics department, university. dedlared he had pretected’ the\ X-ray to such an extent that #e could de- termine the. strength and perfection of steel, with it. 7 4 Dr, Allen’ also’ declared that he could measure the length of the wave of the radiation by the spectrascope. Through this method jhe ‘said he could "calculate the atomi¢ ‘weight .of the various metals. SN gel ee f A Mere \Nothing Departing Pupil — Ah, professor, how ‘can I ever thank you? sverything/I know to you. Professor—Madam; please do ; not, atinot: be too ly. ‘den for: their exces- sive levies$ but:the: lécal: levies would ‘bee ig re it not for 1:072,157,858 07,000,000. all the ex: harvesting 2 f wheat is the avaflable cash: crop.,’:In*1919 it was 2,000,000: bushel: uality. | <It:wasnot to. pay “interes! an fe fertility. ' Figure itias you ‘may, the land was ‘assessed at’ twice its produc- tive value. That ‘is, specially true of land in the -western part of the state, where the annual precipitation is abdyt ‘sixteen inches and where’ the farmers must often seed twice to reap once. In ‘1919, by“reason of drouth which preVaileq over the western, nvr of the state, the land was of no value. It was a detriment; it did not pay. in- ing and seeding the land got no re- labor and expense. ‘In any year, the capital which pays no interest is and a tax against it is dead wrong, Hence ‘at the extra’ session the tax against all: such lands should be abated and cancelled. and of course the: penalties on' every tax should be abated. . A, penalty of five per cent because of a failure’ to ‘pay on a cer- tain date is a barbarism. The con- Api dead Thus they made it easy for all’ the+ local boards and grafters to double! the local taxes. When given a chance they were sure to do it, and it was done in a year when in the western part of the state there was almost a total failure of crops;'so the land was | a@ loss and not a benefit. Now will some member of that Board confess and point out the «party or parties most responsible;for the marking up of the valuations? Was*it done by order of Townely or Bishop Lemke or any of the Big Wives or, was it done by the members of their own motion for the purpose of making sure of the hig appropriations ‘which they had secured?'* Surely the people have the right’ to know. } By the constitution the yearly total state tax'levy is limited’ to four mills on the dolldr of the cash value of all. taxable property. But in 1919 on the valuation as’ made in the prior year the state tax levy was twelve mills, and in addition. there are several side levies ‘not authorized’ by’ the constity- tion.’ These amount to another twelve mills, making in all’ twenty-four mills. Let us consider them:— The motor vehicle is a/state levy ap- parently for .good roads. (Laws, 1919.) For the yearly expense of the State Highway Commission it is given by statute the enormous sum of $150,- 000! The balance is to be divided equally: one part is apportioned to the several counties and the other part to the Commissibn for road pur- poses., \ ‘ From July 1, 1917, to July 1, 1919 the receipts from thig * state tax were............$1,074,000 ‘Will the Commission tell how it was used and the amount actually used for thé. betterment of\highways? As I think, it was: a very small amount and it was very ‘poorly used. The Highway Commission. should. know and should explain.~ i Then there is levied a state tax to compensate workmen for accidental! injuries incident to their - business. With the exception’ of-farming: the} tax is laid on all who attempt to do any business, though the business may involve no risk whatever. It is’a tax on industry. Hence, it is a state tax and as such it should be levied ‘onal? 1 ; walt ‘hl EVERETT TRUE MISTER PROPRIETOR, LOOK AT THES INSIDE — } THAT'S A FAIR SAMPLE OF THE FOaD YOU SELL HERE Y) in ite : =—===—=| To Da,’ AND IM ALSO GOING To MASSAGES THS SOSCY | gare HUNK Of DISPERSIA IN AND =| AMONG YOUR HAIR AS A SOUVE=4 NI OF THIS OCCASION ff SEE THAT EON THE ~ OUTSIDE IT GOOKS LIKE CORNBREAD, BUT THAT'S (EXACTLY, WHAT TI GOING | + | A MASS OF DOUGH !f SO-caiced “AND CHARGE JUST ‘mention such A trifle-—Dallas (News. , .? Murder Will. Out . Lester ‘Ledfoot=This, floor is very. slippery. It is hard'to keep on your feety curses end ‘His Dance Partner—Oh! Then you were really. trying to) keep on) my feet? I thought. it was accidental —- Boston Transcript, ©... « ~ Why They Bidn't See It The Browns: ..father ana daughter) had been doing Italy. On returning. Brown,, relating his adventures, was asked if they visited Venice in the course of their travels. : “Tsay (Mary,’, he asked his daugh-- ter, “did we go.to Venice?” “Why. no, dad; don’t you remem- ber? ‘We got to the station, but there was a flood on, so we(didn’t get out.” —Tit-Bits, My INJURIES PROVE FATAL Wargo, April 12.—Blood poisoning developing jfrom a’ self-inflicted gut wound resulted in the death of David Chilberg, 16, son of L. M. ‘Chilberg of. Valley City, at St. John’s hospital, Friday. The boy, employed''as a mes- senger by the \,estern Union, was accidentally shot in the chest while Even the poor lawyer has to pay an| turn, not even enough to pay for his|>Jaying with a number of his com- nanions on the western outskirts of the city last Sunday afternoon. The injured boy, with several of his little friends,. was brought to Fargo in an auto by Otto Wendt, 1422 Front street. The wound did not’ sez serious and Chilberg was discharged from the hospital Monday and went to his rooming house. * Tetanus de- veloped and he was rcturned to the hospital: last Thursday night. The body was sent to Valley City yester- day morning. ; es AME OFFICERS Dickinson, IN. |D.. ‘April 12—The stockholders and directors of the Town and Country club here held their annual meeting. Tuesday even- ing, April 6, at the Elks’ hall. There was ‘a large attendance and those Present were enthusiastic in their Plans fox the coming season. It was decided to add trap shooting to the sports at the club and the: by- ‘aws were also amended so that mem> bers may be admitted to the club without buying stock, _olullicers were elected: for the ensu- ing year as follows: #. L. Roquette, president; ‘H.C. “| Perry, vice president; John Reuter, Jr., secretary; William ; Kostelecky, treasurer; M. ‘L. McBride, Ws F. Bur- nett, 'W. L, Richards, Guy Hunter and Ww. J. 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