The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 10, 1920, Page 2

PAGE TWO BISMARCK: DAILY TRIBUNE DAY, MAY 10, 1920 TAX COMMISSION IGNORES COURT ORDER ON BANKS Assessors Have Been Instructed to Assess Institutions as in the Past Assessors hav@ been instructed by the state tax commission to assess state and national banks in the usual manner, regardless of the recent de- cision of the United States district court to the effect that national bank stock cannot be assessed in a rate in cess of the moneys and credits rate of three mills, eff ve last year, but which is not in eff this year. ‘The tax commissioner, George Wal Jace, takes the position that hereto- credits act, and that the old law pro- ‘Mrs. Florence Davis, city librarian, will diréct the campaign upon her return Sunday from Fargo, where she } is attending a meeting of librarians of the state, The city library was closed today because of her absence, The “Books for Everybody” fund is to be used to carry on the work done by the library association dur- ing the war, in furnishing books to soldiers, sailors and marines. It is hoped to extend the peace-time wor to include the placing of books where the present library facilities are not sufficient. At Fargo today the proposed coun ty library. law, taxing an entire coun- ty for the support of a central and perhaps. branch libraries. and. mak- ing delivery of books to farmers, was discussed.. The next legislature will be asked to, enact such a law. WOMEN TO SPEED VOTE ON RIGHT fore, bank stocks were not included as r r a “stocks and bonds,” or “moneys and 2 5 credits,” as defined by the moneys ana | H viding for the assessment of the banks end permiting them to charge off up to 60 per cent of their capital for real is in effect, the old law, the difference between th and the lue of its at the rate of while under the bank stock is to be a ed at 109 per cent of its value. State banks are paying on the 100 per cent valuation basis for 1919, but are prepared to protest assessment in 1920, contend- ing that when the legislature repealed the moneys and credits tax, the ex- empted ‘stocks and"bonds” form taxa- tion, the legislature exempted bank stock from taxation. National banks have been relieved. by a federable court decision, of paying a tax in ex-} cess of three mills on the dollar of their capital stock, surplus and undi- vided yrofits total, that bejng the moneys and credits tax, whereas the state has attempted to apply the gen- eral property tax to money invested in, bank capital. tion law, the SEEK $283.14 FOR LIBRARY FUND IN BURLEIGH COUNTY Citizens of Burleigh county will be asked to subscribe $283.14 to the “Books for Everybody” campaign of the American Library association. : ‘ TIRE SNAPS $26.00 28.00 0 0 x44 Republi 48.20 ot —34x4%% Republic Plain 49.80 32,00 LAHR MOTOR SALES COMPANY Bismarck, N. D. eat When you need a Sign || PHONE 909 The Bismarck Sign Co. 4061, Broadway Consumers } Dray and Transfer |! Co. Phone 270 Ice and Teaming | that Suffragists Hope to Get Louisi- | ana, North Carolina, Vern\ént and Connecticut to Act BY GEORGE B. WATERS N. E. A. Staff Correspondent Washington, May 10.—-The National Woman's party has mapped out its program for the immediate future, in: the event Delaware completes ratifica- tion of woman suffrage, The next, step will be to get ‘Louisiana, North Carolina, Vermont and Connecticut to ratily and make sure that the loss of Ohio, in case of a referendum in that state, would not upset quick ratification. The next thing on the program will, be to fight in the courts against a referendum in Ohio, ‘New Mexico and Oklahoma, where the question is up. The third and important step will be to get congress to put, through a law putting, the amendment into ef- fect. 'No state could disfranchise wo- men, even without the law, as it would be unconstitutional. want congress to set forth in detail all the rights of women to the ballot, with a penalty for anyone who tries to interfere with their voting. With only the amendment in effect their right to vote, in case some state questioned it, would have to be es- tablished by civil litigation. The women expect some opposition to this law. But they will keep on the trail of congress till it passes one. SEEDING OF SMALL GRAIN COMPLETED IN SOUTH DAKOTA Season Two Weeks Late and Un- fess Warm Weather Comes Quickly May Be Loss Aberdeen, S. D. May 10.—Seed- ing of ‘small grains in northerm South Dakota is approximately 85 per cent completed and the work is’ progress- ing very slowly. ‘Rainy and cold weather has hindered the spring farm operations to such an extent that many farmers are cutting their acre- age of small grains becausé of the lateness of the season. Thé season is two weeks behind that of last year, it is estimated by farm experts. Little of the wheat is out of the ground and it fs feared unless warm weather comes quickly much of it will not come up. Farmers. have started plowing for The acreage of corn will be corn. Fy ew OU can produce Auto Color is required, er's bill to pay. Refinish Your Car the Berry Way on your car at @ nominal expense with BERRY BROTHERS’ and be your ewn finisher—no skilled help These auto varnishes are made in all the = ||# standard colors and black and white, so that if you can get exactly the color combinatién. ||? you prefer with quick service and no finish- By adopting the “Berry” way instead of {8 a show room finish Varnishes +4 sending your car to the repair shop you can i get’a fine finish and perhaps save enotigh —_[{t3! on the operation to buy a liberty bond. # V/ Come in and get an illustrated folder W : \ giving color coribinations and quanti- 1 ties of material required, and simple directions for the amatuer finisher. LOMAS HARDWARE CO. Main Street But the women j {enough to care tor the present needs. |= month are paying from $75 to $80 i per mile. i New York.—Mis: thor, is actually mar ie Hurst, au-} d, though vir-| tually free, through a peculiar agree- She has just ment with her husband, revealed that she ried to Jacques S, H and composer five y on, Pianist sO. It was the couple’s plan that they meet, only by, appointment, maintain separate tudio apartment and try out the ial marriage” for one year. It has ted for five which is vanced by The failure of the state supreme court to declare the Brinton news: | paper grab law unconstitutional has proluced a storm of protest from the country weeklies in the state, whose very existence is threatened by the terfs of the law. ; It was this law, which gives the the power to pick one paper in each county as the medium where all legal notices must ‘be printed, that has caus- ed several of the country weeklies to suspend publication. On the other hand, it is this law which has enabled the Townleyized press, designated as legal papers, to maintain any kind of a Circulation. Some of the country weeklies voice their indignation that the law’s con- stitutionality is made possible by only two votes out of ' five by the supreme court. The Emmons County Record, for instance, says: “Only recently, he (Justice J. E. Robinson) held the newspaper law constitutional, not claiming that. it didn’t violate the constitution, but claiming that it was O. K. ‘because it won in the referendum election. “Following the judge's erudite rea- soning, we must be led to believe that should the people vote to hang a socialist, {he same would be: constitu- tional. Or, should they endorse the burning of persons suspected of witch- craft, we would be back to these good, old days.” The Emmons County Record then shoots some more darted shafts at Jus- tice Robinson, ending up with: “And along with Robinson's sigges- tions, let ps add another:. We move that recall petitions be prepared and circulated in ‘North Dakota to recall Justice Robinson of the state supreme court.” . The Aneta Panorama says: “Ts it fair to compel a man to have his legal notice published in a paper | sea increased this year for two reasons, first, because of the rapidly increasing herds of hogs which will he fed, and second, because of the abandoned small grain acreage be- cause of the late season. There will be great activity this week in pre- paring for the corn crop if the weath- er. remains fair. Labor is plentiful a month for help. $80,000 WILL BE SPENT ON ROAD IN DICKEY COUNTY Will Link. Ellendale With Lud- den and Cost $4,000 a Mile Says Engineer Ellendale, N, D., May 10, — The county commissioners, sitting in special session the fore part of last wéek, made formal application Tues- | day morning through H. K. Crax, maintenance engineer of the state highway- commission, for 20 miles of dirt road, to extend east of Ellendale and to connect the county seat with sudden. It appears that the highway com- mission estimates the building of a road in Dickey county which will meet the state and federal requirements, will cost between $4,000 and: $4,500 This calls for a'dirt road, crowned, 24 feet in width, not gravel- led. Dickey county has credit in the state funds, through automobile fees, and the only way this money can be put to use here is ‘by making use of the state and federal aid plan. Be- cause of this credit, Dickey county is | now in a position to build some s'x- teen miles of road by paying for 25 ber cent of the cost of construction. By the time the funds will become necessary it is anticipated that enough more money will be avail- able so that the entire twenty miles | can be ‘built. The application for state and fed- eral aid which the commissioners made through Mr, Craig is merely the formal way of getting the work started, and there is no doubt but that the application will receive favorable consideration by the high- way comm on, During the coming summer and fall surveys of the pro- posed project will ‘be made, blue prints and specifications drawn up, and work will begin next year, league dominated printing commission |. pear | HUBBY SAYS HE NEEDS NO ALIBI | AND WIFE SAYS ALL IS HAPPY | VACOUE.S S. DANIELSON Miss Hurst as proof of her belief that she has found the habitation of the duat Gods, Success and Happi- ness. “If anyone wants to know how I feel about it, let him ask some mar- ried man of five years how he’d like to have a night out without ¥ ing to the hackneyed ‘sick friend alibi.” So says Jacques B, Donaldson, pian- ig mposer and husband of Fannie Hurst, to whom he was married sec- retly five 's ago. They have lived apart, meeting only by appointment, and both agree it is the ideal mar- riage. : COUNTRY NEWSPAPERS PROTEST COURT RULING ON “BRINTON” GRAB LAW; IS “OBNOXIOUS LAW” SAYS ONE WEEKLY not popular in his own community. Quite often do we have people call at this office to read their legal notices published in a paper not considered a home paper. If need be we can fur- nish a list of names of farmers who hold to the sarhé view as we do.” The LaMoure County Chronicle says: = “While the law may not contravene | the constitution in a legal and techni- cal sense, it is contrary to every dic- tate of common sense, business fair- ness and the great economic principle embodied in the Sherman law ‘that private business should flow freely and unobstructedly” * * * * * But such one paper official medium does not ey the end of giving full and wide spread county publicity to the proceedings. | But the gross and manifest injustice in principle of this law in its dicta- tion of-the disposition of private busi-{ ness of lawyers, cities and school dia- tricts in which there is only one con- sideration, that ig'simply the right to place the business, where most converi- ient and where it: belongs—in the com- munity where it originates and where the people most interested and effect- ed are located.” The Cogswell Enterprise says: “The tinie’is fast coming when this obnoxious law will be wiped from the statute books: of?'the state and the press of the great commonwealtn again ‘be placed in the free and un- trammeled list. We rather think the voters are going to retire enough leg- islators this year to insure the repeal of this laf.” In speaking of Justice H. A. Bron- son’s action in disqualifying himself on this case, the Carson Press says: “If every representative who owned stock in a Townley newspaper had been as ‘fair as Justice B on, Brin- ton could not have reached first base with his graft measure and this unjust law would not be on the statute to- day.” GRAND FORKS HAS NEW IDEA MEETING! HOUSE SHORTAGE Flat Building to be Built by Men Who Will Occupy Finished Apartments Grand Forks, May 10.—A flat. build- ing to be built by men who will each occupy one of the flats, is one of the} plans being considered as a.means of relieving the house shortage at Grand Forks. The plan, which was submitted by Joseph Bell DeRemer, local architect, at the meeting Tuesday of the hous- ing committee of the Commercial club, can be carried out only by men who have sufficient money to guaran- tee the payment of the cost of one] unit of the building. However, it will mean that the houses now occu- pied by those who will move into the! new building will be released for the use of others, The building will contain 28 flats; 16 of them will each have five rooms and bath, and 12 will have six rooms and bath. There will also be a gar- age for each flat. A company will be formed with 28 stockholders, each taking stock amounting to the cost of the partic- ular flat they wish to occupy. It. is estimated that this method “of home building will be about 25 per cent This tenor duet by and Burr is a tender . the long ago telling a pickaninny’s memories of his mammy on the Mississippi. 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Cowan, a financial broker of Fargo, spent Tuesday here and completed details in which the new Lucky Strike Coal | Mining men are interested |has secured a right of way for a! new spur which will be built to the | mine. Outside capital and prominent | in the new company and modern machinery,’ run by electricity will be installed. | As the plans now stand everything | 3 will be in working order by August, 1, and it is estimated that the new! mine will have a daily output of about |i 400 tons, with a monthly payroll of} between 312,0000 and $18,000. About 50 men will be employed at} the beginning and the number in-| creased ‘as fast as working conditions permit. | i For every 53 cents expended in the administration of the internal revenue laws during 1919, the dncernal ey enue Bureau collected $100. At least ‘ten states Are carrying -on during May a stay-in-school dgive éo help show pupils the value of stay- ing in. school. 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