The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 3, 1920, Page 4

hate a8) af ae cites my a tes ett HRS Tea 731 | | sath: ae 2 ent zee BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE 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 crecited in this paper and also the local news published rein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year..... cele aarete : $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). . 12 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) ag CLEVER GIRLS Commencement, or graduation day, with all its anticipatory joys and troubles, is but a month or so away. To the young woman, like her wedding, it is an epoch in her life. The young man accepts the situation as a matter of course, and, in his graduating class, is a little more than fringe or decoration. But the sweet girl graduate is on pins and needles from the day the invitations are ordered from the engraver to the delivery of the last one of them on her list. And, ever since there was a high school from which to graduate, the matter of clothes has been a mountain over which barrels of tears have been spilled. High school graduating classes, due to the lev- eling influence of the public school system, are most democratic in their make-up. The wash woman’s daughter is on equal footing with the banker’s daughter. And the tears come in when she tries to keep up that equality of footing when it comes to clothes on commencement evening. But, thank goodness, all over this great country, sensible girls in graduating classes, the members of which are already planning graduation gowns, either by silent acquiescence or hy public accla- mation, have taken a stand against undue extrav- agance. Reckless spending on gowns for a one- night splurge are being discouraged. And was there ever a better time for the elimination of all kinds of extravagance! It doesn’t take costly raiment to make the girl graduate look sweet. A simple gown, not costly, one that she and her mother made, perfectly, is enough. Editor Tha appointment of Greenwood as chief secre- tary for Ireland won’t be popular with the Or- angemen. FISHING It’s fishing time. Some think fishing an idle sport. It isn’t. But the angler may be an idler. Such one drops in a baited hook. Then, if he catches nothing, he goes home at last, saying, “The fish didn’t bite.” A more resourceful man, not getting a bite, would seek out the fish in another part of the stream or lake. Or he would try other sorts of bait until he found one the fish would take. But perhaps they would not take any bait. What then? Temagami is a lake in Canada visited each year by many from the United States. One such tourist engaged a guide who took him out in a canoe for bass. The bass were not feeding at the usual place. They could be seen lying in the clear water of the shallows. There they would take no bait, either artificial or natural. But the guide had a reputation to maintain. It was a reputation for getting bass if bass were to be got. : The tourist handed over his rod. The guide be- gan casting the bait in front of the fish and drawing it away. The fish was a big fellow. It waq not hungry. But the movement of the in- truding bait annoyed it. This annoyance was continued until the fish dashed at the bait to de- stroy it. And was hooked. Then was landed. A lot of truth is in the old saying, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” Salesmen, and men in other callings, frequently are successful because they do not give up easily. These are not content to return empty handed with an explanation which matches the one that “The fish weren’t biting.” Being a literary gent, d’Annunzio should have known that his sword wasn’t as mighty as Wil- son’s pen. PROFITS A business that pays 10 per cent net to its stockholders year in and year out is considered a pretty fair investment. A business that yields 100 per cent profits is one that anybody would like to buy into. But what is to be said of a business that pays —| cholera, and its use, as demonstrated by the de- its stockholders several times 1,000 per cent all; the time, and whose stockholders number over 100,000,000? That is what the stockholders—the people of the United States—are getting in profits out of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, according to Secretary Meredith. f “The Department of Agriculture makes for its stockholders—the people of the United States— —a profit of several times 1,000 per cent per year on all money invested in it,” declares the sec- retary, “As evidence that it.is paying big re- turns I will give but a few typical items out of a large number that could be cited. We spent $250,- 000 establishing Durum wheat in this country. The Durum wheat now produced here is worth $50,000,000 a year. We spent less than $200,000 introducing a rice and establishing the industry in California. The rice crop in that state is now worth $21,000,000 a year. We spent $40,000 in- troducing Egyptian cotton, breeding it up and es- tablishing the industry in arid regions of south- west. The American-Egyptian cotton crop is now worth $20,000,000 a year and is increasing every year. We discovered a serum that prevents hog partment, has reduced losses from that disease by $40,000,000 a year.” | It is sometimes said that governmental activi- ties lack initiative and cannot be run as well as private business. Having the league meet in Rome doesn’t tickle the Jugo-Slav. He is afraid i wtill do as the Ro- mans do. : A new German cabinet was formed quickly when Berlin ran out of gas. : So that’s what a cab- inet member is for.- EDITORIAL REVIEW ttt att en an ce ttt te ttt teenie enna Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinions of The Tribune, They are pre- sented here in order shat our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being disci the press of the day. | DESTROYING THE SECURITY MARKETS Representative Baer of North Dakota, nominal- ly a republican, but really representing the Non- partisan ring which is at present exploiting that unhappy state for its own advantage, has intro- duced a measure in congress which, under the pretext of regulating the stock exchange and pro- hibiting speculation, would automatically destroy any open market for securities. This congressman geems to be the sort of per- son who tries to pass through a revolving door with an open umbrella. His proud crest is a fool, rampant, in a theater crying “Fire!” and his fam- ily motto is “Didn’t know it was loaded!” He is absolutely ignorant of the very meaning and ben- eficent use of speculation, or the enormous ele- j ment of value in securities, government bonds or anything else, which an open market for them provides. It is hardly likely that congress will take him seriously, but its capacity for regulatory folly has never been gauged. Many years ago an altruistic reichstag passed a law forbidding short selling on the Berlin bourse. The result: was a panic in highly reputa- ble securities, the. enforced, closing of the ex- change to prevent a run upon the banks, and the permanent removal of a large part of Berlin’s le- gitimate business, including all that in foreign securities, to the exchange of London, Paris and Amsterdam. The German parliament repealed the law in haste, and got some of the business back at leisure. Some of it never came back. The congressman’s proposals are not worth serious discussion, and it need hardly be said that he provides the usual club for the denial of freedom—the prohibition of the use of the mails. If the measure passed into law it would create a panic which might easily close savings banks and like institutions all over the country. It would open the way to incalculable frauds, in which the innocent investor would be utterly at the mercy of every rascal who chose to take advantage of an unenforceable law. : More intelligent and respectable reformers, who want to burden the stock exchange with politi- cal regulation, should take notice—Wall Street Journal. A JOVIAL DRY Mr. William E. Johnson, affectionately known as “Pussyfoot,” is back in his native land after his adventures and triumphs abroad. With undi- minished good nature he jokes at the glass eye which is a memorial of the unintended barbarity of the London Ben Allens and Tom Sawyers, and foresees a dry world. “Probably in another ten years England will be dry.” France is growing drier. Esthonia is‘“on the wagon.” Even India, among whose woes we scarcely remember to have seen alcohol included befgre, will be rescued by government prohibition before long. In short, everything is for the best for the best of causes. It is mighty well, and the radiant optimism and immitigable cheerfulness of Mr. Johnson are be- yond praise. One likes him and his joyous tem- perament so well that it is almost rude to remind him that, in his regretted absence, a strong reac- tion against his favorite doctrine has manifested itself in the United States. To combat that reaction a good fellow like him may be more successful than the stern and rock- | bound advocates who are so numerous. He is the kind of a prohibitionist that the most devoted opponents of prohibition have a fondness for. He has an ample sense of humor. He is as gay as the gayest old-fashioned bacchanalian song. He can take and give a joke. No heckling ruffles him. If anybody can persuade and win the wick- ed, it is a man of his type. For years the late Sir Wilfrid Lawson, the famous foe of drink, was the wittiest man in the British House of Commons. Why should the devil have all the good tunes? He doesn’t so long as there is a “Pussyfoot” John- son to temper the rigor of those prohibitionists who are a bit too good for human nature’s daily food.—New. York Times. MO) Y, MAY 3, 1920 1 EP,—-HE'’S GOING TO "-§ NCISCO The Workmen’s Compensation Bureau. Poli- _ tics and the League By L. J. Since Governor Frazier has created | such an upheaval in the Workmen's Compensation Bureau, the public is entitled to know about the inside his- tory and organization of the same. The Bureau was organized for busi- ness April 5th, 1919, and had until July Ist, 1919, to put the insurance feature into operation. On the day the Bu- reau was organized, Mr. S. S. McDon- ald, one of the two active Commission- ers, stated to Mr. Wehe that he “want- ed” the outside work in connection with the Bureau on the road report- ing claims, etc., and giving as the rea- son for his request that he could not stand inside office work and that he had never done that kind of work, and that it would kill him if he had to work in an office. In other words he admitted. his incompetency at the start to perform the required duties of organizing the Bureau. From. that day on the real organization of the Bureau was taken up and performed by. Mr. Wehe; and any credit which ts due for putting the Bureau into opera- tion and keeping it in operation is due to him, and not to Mr. McDonald who acknowledged himself as incompetent to handle the big things in connection with the. Bureau. It was at his re- quest that Mr. Wehe took charge of the whole office work of the office force to put the Bureau across. John B, Brown Hired as Secretary. | At that first meeting we hired Mr. John B. Brown as the secretary of the bureau to take effect May 1st, 1919, and this was the first big mistake made by the bureau; and it was not long before its was apparent that he was not cut out for so big a job, which required a great deal of executive abil- ity. Mr. Brown made’a fair newspa- per man but a poor secretary. He wanted to be a politician; and his po- liticial activities did not work well with the bureau, for the work required of him was one of steady and close application to facts connected with the most complicated kind of insurance there is. Mr: Wehe objected to Mr. Brown's political activities in connec- tion with the bureau, and wished to keep the bureau out of politics. Be- sides this Mr. Brown’s views were too extreme and socialistic for a secre- taryship of the bureau. Mr. McDon- ald being a radical labor man, and en- tertaining much the same ideas as Mr. Brown, it was not long before there was a noticeable union of action on their part for the control of Bureau force and control of the office. The first fall down on the part of Mr. Brown came when the actuary notified the bureau that he could not get out the rates in time prior to July Ist, 1919, so as to have the premium notices sent out and premiums collect- ed into the fund to meet any conting- ent losses. These communications all came through his hands, and ‘these he “neglected” at ledst to bring to the attention of Commissioners Wehe and Hagan, until Mr. Wehbe insisted on seeing all the communciations and then for the first time found out the deplorable condition of affairs which confronted the bureau. On June 9th, 1919, Mr. Wehe informed Commission- er Hagan of the condition, and that! night a meeting was held ag to what was to be done. It was decided that a telegram be sent to the actuary with an ultimatum that rates must be at Bureau by June 20, or we would get some one else to compute them for us. Gets Results This brought results, and the rates were received and adopted June 23, 1919. The premium sheets were sent out and the ratings made; and the first payments from premiums were paid into the insurance fund June 30. Plans Devised by Mr. Wehe Mr. Wehe devised the plans as to how the premiums were to be collect- ed and paid into the state treasury, as adopted July 7th, 1919. and also the plan as to how the funds were to be paid out upon voucher-warrants of the bureau, which was adopted August 9th, 1919. He drew up the resolution for the payment of the first claim for compensation to Chas. A. Stearns | adopted August 14, 1919; and planned out the mandamus proceedings against State Treasurer Olson to force the payment of the Stearns voucher-war- WEHE ’ rant drawn direct by the bureau upon its own fund. The supreme court:has sustained Mr. Wehe as to the nature of the fund, and the plans he mapped out for the bureau to pursue along; these legal lines. Mr. Wehe was di- rected by the Bureau to handle the case in the supreme court at its mect- ing on August 29th, 1919, and did handle it alone before that court]! against the Attorney General's office; appearing for State Treasurer Olson, and won .the same in October follow- ing. They all seemed to have great confidence in Mr. Wehe’s legal ability at this time, and heaped all the re-] sponsibilities of the bureau upon him. Constitutionality of the Act Attacked That when the constitutionity of the Act'was attacked by H. Amerland of Fargo, the Governor Lynn J. Frazier, Mr. Wm. Lemke, Emile E. Watson, Actuary for Bureau, Commissioner John N. Hagan and S. S. McDonald, and a score of other Leaguers, all be- lieved Mr. Wehe was the proper legal man to handle it; and the bureau on August 14th, 1919, passed the follow- ing resolution giving him full author- ity to represent the bureau: “Moved by Mr. McDonald and seconded by Mr. Hagan that Mr. Wehe be and hereby is authorized to represent the North Dakota Workmen's Compensation Bureau in the case to come before the Su- premo. Court testing the constitu- tionality of the Workmen's Com- pensation Law; and that Mr. Wehe, also be authorized to hire any legal talent necessary to’as- sist him in the preliminary work of preparing the work (case) for presentation.” Mr. Wehe handled the case also from the beginning to the end, and hired n stance, and presented the | same before the supreme court, on the| part. of the bureau and won it. Since! he won that case in the supreme court,’ he has had many requests for a copy of his brief; and has received many compliments on his ability shown in drawing of that brief from some of the highest authorities in the United States on such matters. The Hon. John B. Andrews, attorney and secre- tary for the American Association for Labor Legislation, of New York City, wrote for a copy of the brief, and an- swered as follows: “This is to acknowledge with thanks your brief on the consti- tutionality of the North Dakota Workmen's Compensation law, which I-have read with great in- terest and found a valuable con- tribution.” Even “Bill” Lemke congratulates and writes Mr. Wehe: “Received your supplemental Brief, and wish to congratulate you upon getting this brief out, because it certainly brings the matter up to date. Also confident that the case will be determined in your favor in the near future.” So it was with all the “good Leaguers” then who read the brief prepared by Mr. Wehe, and said it was @ great presentation of fact and legal reasoning upholding the constitution. ality of the act and unanswerable from a legal stand point. ‘They were all then only too willing to let Mr. Wehe have a free hand in fighting the bat- tles of the bureau in the courts and in i the press; and all had great confidence in his ability to pull the bureau through it darkest days; and at the same time take all the blame for any mishap should he have been unsuc- cessful in putting the bureau on a firm basis. Andrews Comments The outside world has been watch- ing Mr. Wehe's work here with the Bureau, and after the narrow minded and radical element have turned upon him and are seeking to crush him in return for the good he has done, the Hon. John B. Andrews writes: “*** In addition we are ,plan- ning to give essential facts of your courageous stand in the interests of justice towards labor, publicity where it will be the most effec- tive. Permit me to congratulate you upon your sucess in overcom- EVERETT TRUE =)" SO CHARLIE AND MG PLAYS POKER UP THERE TILL HALF -PAST By Condo Two, AND I WINS LAPSE THINKS SOME PON TWO SECONDS MORE. NING BUCKS OrE’N HIM OF 5 a OF AN? HERE'S THE FUNNY PART OF \vt— AFTER T WINS THIS HERE =—— NING PLUNKS HE SAYS "LOOKEE HERE, FRANK SHAVING. MUST Wut WAIT TILL YOUTRE THROUGH ME AND THEN You CAN TH YOUR FRIGND ON MOUR OWN TIME eer . ing, afmost super-human obstac- les.” It was a mighty dark period for the bureau ‘during tie months of July, August and September, with the con- stitutionality of the Act attacked, funds tied up by the State Treasurer and mandamus proceedings pending against him to force him to let the bureau draw upon its own funds, and state Auditor and Treasurer would not pay the salaries and expenses of the bureau for three solid months. It was again at this point that they all turned to Mr. Wehe for advice and action. Even Johnnie Brown was whining about his salary, and all the force were thinking of quitting, and S. S. McDon- ald said he would have to have some money to meet the payments on his house and keep his family, and some- thing would have to be done as he could not live on nothing. when Audi- tor Carl Kositzky refused to pay the salaries, etc., out of the Bureau’s ap- propriation. The bureau would have gone to pieces right here if Mr. Wehe had not devised the plan to raise the funds to meet all the salaries. He got passed the resolution on August 9th, 1919, transferring the bureau from drawing upon its appropriation fund to its own fund accumulated from premiums paid in and on deposit with the state Treasurer as custodian, and the authorizing of the bureau to draw its own voucher-warrants on its own fund; and then by another resolution passed August 14th, 1919, redeeming all salary warrants which had been issued by tho Auditor on the “Collec- tion Fund,” of the Bureau, which the Treasurer refused to honor, as there was no such fund. so he claimed. These warrants had been cashed at the various banks in the city and all came for nonpayment. Mr. Wehe laid his plan before each of the Bankers of Bismarck of issuing the | Bureau’s own voucher-warrant in pay- ment of each of the warrants issued and not paid, as collateral to the notes of the Commissioners and employees, and in this manner financed the bu reau for three months and over till the cases were decided in the latter part of October, 1919, when the banks were reimbursed for interest and all by the bureau. The banks of Bismarck had enough confidence in the plan devised by Mr. Wehe to advance the funds close to $8,000.00 during that dark period. They came to the bureau's assistance and deserve credit for it. Insisted Upon Efficiency Mr. Wehe insisted upon efficiency in the bureau, from all employees. Some had been in the habit of coming to the office just whenever they pleased and around about-Ten a. m., and going down, town for ice cream and soda water in the afternoon and staying away an hour or two at a time, and visiting friends in thé parlor of the hotel, all during office hours and tak- ing the time of the bureau. This was due a great deal to Mr. Brown's lack of management. To remedy this Mr. Wehe got a resolution passed on Aug- ust 14th, 1919, fixing the office hours from 8:00 a. m. to 12 m. and 1:00 to 5:00 p. m., except Saturdays to 4:00 p. m., and insisted that it be lived up. But Mr. McDonald interfered and on his own say told the employees not to report till 9.a.m, Thus arose the first disagreement over the office force and. the working hours. The majority of the Commissioners had established the office hours, and he would not obey them and advised the office force not to do so. Instead of working with the commissioners he joined forces from that time on with the office employees. It was during the latter part of that month while Mr. Wehe was away on his wedding trip that Messrs. McDon- ald and Brown signed up the office employees to join the union, and to strike and protest against the eight hour day in the office. They could not get all the employees at that time and it failed for the time being. (To be continued.) IRISH CLASH IN FRONT OF JAIL London, May 3.—Sinn Fein sympa- thizers and opponents engaged in a street fight before Wormwood Scrubbs prison last night and mounted police had to charge the crowd before it would disperse. Stones and clods of earth were hurled and several persons were slightly injured, Announcement was made tonight that three more hunger strikers had been released making a total of 13 men taken out. of the place since they began refusing food’10 days ago. Luxuries can no longer be im- ported into France. 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