The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 18, 1920, Page 4

i PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE SAS i me oT Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - : ° . Editor Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO (DETROIT Marquette Bldg. URNS AND are Bldg. NEW YORK" NE, BURNS AND) eeipitth Ave. BME. _———_————— 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, . tere rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. miso: eSCr VOU eS et Me EMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE D $7.20 | "7204 ) 5.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) aE DEB'S NOMINATION It was necessary to have one candidate free to campaign, so Kate Richards O’Hare was not named as the running mate of Eugene Debs. : She had several instructed delegates for hek at the National Socialist convention, but the inexpedi- ency of having the entire ticket in the: federal penitentiary seemed impressive enough to swing the presidential nomination to Stedman, a lawyer who has been busy, the last few years keeping socialists out of jail who opposed the war poli- cies of the nation. The socialist presidential candidate is much more radical this year than the platform. Direct action to accomplish social reforms is not recom- mended, but rather it is suggested that the fight be made through the ballot box. Public owner- ship of all land is dropped from the platform, al- though such a condition is the ultimate aim of all true socialists. This major issue in past years probably is not incorporated in the platform for fear of losing the farmer vote where A. C. Town- ley is still a power. \ Of course the socialist party split last summer in Chicago when the extremists bolted and form- ed the communist labor party and the communist party. There can be no question but that the socialists still persist in their anti-war position; the nomi- nation of Debs proves that. ‘ Martin Freerks seems to have the league quali- fications for the judiciary. ' BIRD STUDY Big folks and little folks can add to their pleas- ures by careful study of the birds. Everyone may become interested in it. Naturally bird study is a hobby best followed out of doors with our feathered friends in their; proper environment. Good eyesight and careful observation is necessary to gain the best results. A pair of field or opera glasses will assist in “bringing the birds up to you.” Time spent in the outdoors will be a physical aid, too, so one has both a physical and mental string to his bow while following the birds in their flight—their names, their diet, their mating, their quarrels, their colors, their; nesting and their economic value. For something easy, learn about the robin. Note his song. Listen as he sings in the early dawn. Note the difference from that of sunset. Notice his rain song. Notice that he does not hop, as one might:suppose, but runs swiftly. Note his nest building. Note how he uses his breast as a towel to smooth the interior of his mud- plastered home. Note his rough weaving. Introductions to the birds generally is followed by lasting friendships. Get acquainted. Sonora’s great problem appears to be that of feeding federal troops who are deserting to assist her. : BIGGEST OF ALL What’s the biggest industry in this country? Steel? Railroads? Mining? Manufacturing? None of them. The greatest of all American industries is the growing of food. : If all the farmers in the United States should decide to go out of business, sell their farms at present values, dispose of the crops they will’ raise this summer, they could take the proceeds and buy all the railroads, all the mines, all the manufacturing establishments, and all the quar- ries in the 48 states. American farmers could take their annual gross income (what they get for one year’s crops) and pay off the entire national debt, something like 25 billion dollars. The total investment in agri- culture amounts to about 80 billion dollars. Yes, indeed; the American farmer is a pretty large personage, financially as otherwise. Beside him the Steel Trust and the oil monopoly and Wall street sink into significance. 5 If he can afford shoes at present prices, he is a profiteer. If he kicks about the prices he is a Bolshevik. PREACHERS’ DAY Bishop James E. Wise of Kansas has asked the Episcopal church to set a minimum wage for the clergy. A shortage of clergymen exists, according to Bishop Wise. This, he asserts, is due to inade- quate salaries. Preachers are compelled, by the high cost of living, to desert the pulpit for other vocations, better paying jobs. Most of them are against Lynn J. Frazier, the socialist governor, married and have families to support. They can- not bring up children upon less than the common laborer’s wages, and that is what the average preacher’s salary is. ; “The laborer is worthy of his hire.” which is just as true today as it was when the words first were spoken. Can you, dear, reader, think of a laborer more worthy of his hire than the pastor of your church? This doesn’t mean: Is he worth what he kets? It medns, rather: Does he get what he is worth? Worth to you? ‘To your chil- dren? To your community? If he isn’t getting that, he isn’t getting a fair deal from the mem- bers of his congregation. You can’t blame the preacher for leaving the starvation-pay pulpit. The blame rests upon those who, placing him in the pulpit, refuse to pay an adequate wage. Newberry demonstrated his ability as a buyer, but isn’t it about time to cell? THE CHURCH’S STAND What does the church stand for? You’ve heard that question asked often. The Methodist church has made clear where it stands. ops of the church at the quadrennial general con- ference, meeting in Des Moines, Iowa. “The church will stand,” said the bishops, “in unflinching, uncompromising denunciation of all violations of law; against all. murderous child la- bor; all foul: sweat shops; all unsafe ‘mines, all deadly tenements; all starvation wages, all exces- sive hours for those who toil, all profligate luxury. all standards of wages and life below the living standard, all unfairness and harshness of condi- tions, all brutal exactions, whether of the em- ployer or union; all overlordships, whether of cap- ital or labor; all Godless profiteering, whether in food, clothing or wages; against all inhumanity, injustice and blighting inequality; against all class-minded men who demand special privileges or exceptions on behalf of their class. “In this materialistic day, the church. seeks spiritual ends, with the eternal value of human life in view.” kel A worthy platform to stand upon, isn’t it? Any carpenter can tell Governor Edwards that a wet plank makes a bum job. The kangaroo hops. Perhaps that is the reason he has a kick. EDITORIAL REVIEW . Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinions of The Tribune. They are BS nted here in order vhat our readers may have both rtant issues which are being discussed im the press of the day. LANGER OF NORTH DAKOTA William Langer, attorney general of North Da- kota, has been endorsed by the republicans of that state for governor at a meeting held in Minot Wednesday and Thursday of last week. The endorsement of Mr. Langer by the repub- licans means he will get in the primaries the votes of all those in the state of North Dakota opposed to socialism, whether republicans or democrats, and he will contest for the nomination whose chief. distinction thus far has been acting as a rubber stamp for A. C. Townley and his so- cialist tourists gathered from the ends of the earth, ‘ Langer is a fighter. In Columbia university he was a football star as well as a student who attained distinction in his studies. He is a per- sonal friend of Nicholas Murray Butler, head of the university, who has been quoted as saying that “Bull Neck Bill Langer never lost a battle here.” Mr. Langer cannot be said to represent the re- actionary element in the republican party. He was elected on the republican ticket as a repub- lican, but endorsed by the Nonpartisan league. He was not one, like Frazier, who was a Nonpartisan, sneaked onto the republican ticket. On the other hand Langer is to run on a plat- form favoring almost all of the original Nonpar- tisan league ‘program, which included state grad- ing of grain and proper accounting for dockage; state-owned terminal elevators and warehouses, but he is absolutely opposed to the’ socialistic platform which Townley and. Walter Thomas Mills have evolved out of their original proposals. He will oppose the dictatorship of a lot of outside socialists ; oppose the high finance being indulged in by the Townley-Frazier gang in plunging the state into millions of dollars of indebtedness for establishing a socialistic experiment station. He will, if nominated and elected, limit the amount which the state can invest in certain lines of business and he will chop down the unheard of expenditures being made by an army of Townley created commissions. Langer does not say what he will do with the Bank of, North Dakota, but it will not likely be necessary for him to take action further than to check up its loans and close its doors, if they are still open when he enters office. k The Independent hopes for the nomination and election of William Langer. He is an able man, belongs to North Dakota and loves the state. He pays taxes there and expects to make his home there whether elected or not. His victory will mean the downfall of Townley’s rule in the north- west. It will be a repudiation of: the socialistic gang of red-flaggers who stole the republican or- ganization in North Dakota and have been bleed- ing the state white for the last two years. This was done in the address of 34 bish-’ TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1920 ‘ COMING DOWN cece tact nt tt tt ct rte tr Zr. 7 \ae a Kye | ¢ pad Pets te tette ottmete tot oY tt ett ate et tt eterna stoma wh io Uy Mh ML /\ -SATIER Hh _ The Workmen’s Compensation Bureau, Politics and the League By L. J. WEHE : ; li work I have done and been as suc- j cessful as I have been? Perhaps, | j about $2,500. i Attacks Frazier | Don’t you think that Governor Fra- | | zier has shown himself to ‘be a migh- y small man for so big a public posi- The two major charges that the governor. makes against me in that} when I finished the above three cases | letter he signed, and which was pre- pared by George K. Foster, et al.. the alleged Nonpartisan for the district judgeship of this: dis- trict, against, ‘Judge (N. L. (Nuessle. (Messrs. Foster and Marr, et al, are the attorneys for Townley and the governor in the matter, and let us give them all the credit due them for their crude and puerile advise), are that I have ‘been practicing law some since I was appointed commis- sioner, and that I used some time of the stendgraphers of the bureau, and some of the office stationery for my own private benefit; and the rest of the minor charges are childish tattle from discharged employees of the b' reau, and some “I won’t workers”, who wish to lay down on the job for the salaries paid out of the employ- er’s premiums. Recent Reunion When I was appointed a commi sioner on March 81. 1919, 1 was pra ticing law at Devils Lake, N. D., and took the oath of office and qualified and explained to the governor and the rest of them that I had a law prac- tice which had to be wound up, and could not be entrusted to anybody else. I was advised to wind it up as much as possible at once up there and finish the balance down here. ! had pending at that time two appeal cases to the supreme court, and in one I had about completed the prepar- ation up there; and the other a very important case, the Streeter v. Ar- cher, et al, case involving something over $20,000.000, the brief of which I had to prepare after I got down here, Besides these I have only han- died two justice court cases prior to November 1, 1919, and have turned all other cases down since then. When some one mentioned it in October last I took my sign down, and have made no attempt to practice law by getting any new business; but I have been winding up all old business as fast as possible. Did they want me to desert Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Archer whom J. B. Streeter was attempting to skin out of $8052.00 in cash in the purchase of their homestead of 240 acres valued at $12,000.00? The Ar- chers were then good Nonpartisans, and who write me now: “Is Gover- nor Frazier trying to remove you be- cause of my case for winning it for me in the supreme court and revers- ing Judge C. W. Buttz?” and “did he want you to drop it and leave me in the lyrch, when you had this case and tried it in the district court and were taking the appeal when you were appointed to that office’ and some more to that effect. I’ will ad- mit to that extent that I have prac- ticed law, but that I have not used the bureau’s time. Sixteen Hours a Day ‘Last spring and summer I put in for about six months, sixteen hours per day, working.for the bureau, and; according to the rules of the bureau for employees only an eight hour day is required, but the employes down there kick on that and only work six and a half and seven at the most, since S. S. McDonald said they did not need to work according to the rule of the bureau passed by the commission. Now I handled three supreme court cases for the league and_the bureau on recommendation of Mr. Lemke and on. resolutions adopted by the bureau, the Amerland v. Bureau; State, Ex Rel, Sterns, Bureau v. Olson, Treasurer; and S. S. Mecdonald, Bureau v. J. M. Han- ley, Judge; and in preparing the briefs I had to work all day Sundays and all my evenings for about two months and over to prepare them and present the cases to the supreme court; and the stenographers worked with me Sundays and evenings to get them, out ‘on time, as each came up for hearing, and it was on this ac- Here’s success to “Bull Neck Bill Langer” of} count that T had to give my own time unhappy Nexth Dakota.”—Helena Independent. over to the bureau. which should have been spent in the preparation of lof the tw candidate | issues on April 5, 1919, at Bismarck, N. D,|f0 me if | | tion as governor of a great state to stoop to so small and mean an action to listen ‘to Messrs. Hagen and Jonald, the radicals, and other guers higher up” to put his name case in the court below, so:I virtually| to such a letter and have it served won all three, I turned my attention| by special messenger upon his friend to the Streeter-Archer case and had| of 25 years standing, and giving him a right to use some of the time of! three days to either resign or answer the bureau to get out that brief, andj it, and then before the time is up, they all conceded that right.to me! and soon as the. letter is issued give at ‘that tiene for the overtime I had| it. out to the league papers for pub- put in for the bureau. The time [| lication. the next morning? Such ac used for.the bureau can never .pay| tion on a governor’s part can not be me back for: the extra time, which| condoned or excused, even if I: had was four times as much, I put in! been‘‘all, he charged. No," there is for the bureau. . The bureau is indebt-' no mistaking the fact that North Da ed to mo for time and not I to! kota needs a governor and a real one it. If the burden’ pays me-for my} at-that very badly, and as she has Jegal services performed as a lawyer| neyer needed it before in her history. practicing law, and not as a comm The governor has shown the crudity sioner, and which neither Comm and servile side of his. nature, as sioner Hagen or McDonald could per-! never. shown before, and. I have been form, before the supreme court and astotinded to look at him and view otherwise, it now owes me over $1v-j{ him as he really is. y If I am a means 000, to say the least. What would/ of assisting in getting a. real gover you have had to pay Messrs. ney nor who wills and functions at Bis the brief in the Archer case. Then and had won two of them, and one| ‘ Sterns case decided the din the Judge Hanely} | | | rence & Murphy of Fargo, attorne marck, N. D., and instead of at St for Amerland, and. who lost the ¢ Paul, I will be well pleased and well if they had’ handled all the! paid. I have no ill feeling towards ! | TIME TELLING ta‘scts | 2—The First Recorded Sun Dial | Permission of Robt. H. Ingersoll & Bro. ‘And Isaiah, the prophet cried unto the Lord and He brought the shadow ten degrees backward by which it had gone down injthe dial of Ahas.” oI Kings 20:11, These words from the Bible were written about eight centuries B. C. ind are the first historical reference to the sun-dial. Even at this early jay the art of time-telling had made great strides from that remote period when the prehistoric cave man marked the moving shadow of a boulder. Incidentally, civilization had become more complex and men now needed to record the hours with greater accuracy. * the governor, but think he is a mis- take in the position he occupies and does not possess the qualifications to fill it properly. Respects to McDonald Coming back to the governor's main charge of having a private law practice and using the time of the bureau, I, wish to remind him that he neglects his own office and is away a great deal of the time stump- ing the state for the league; and does he deny: that he uses an occasion postage stamp and some stationery and the stenographer’s time in writ- ing some personal letters, and which are not official. If he does, why such puerile charges against me, as I have been buying my stamps and’ legal pa- per too. Then there is Mr. ‘John N. Hagan who does not devote all his time to the duties of his office. He has neglected to attending the meet- ing of the workmen’s compensation bureau, and has only attended one- third of them up to April 12, 1920; and does not spend enough time with the bureau to become competent to pass upon the important matters which come before it, and at its meet- ing has on most occasions displayed a woeful ignorance on its matters. He runs around the state stumping for the league, when he should be tending to business, and he in an underhanded way has attempted to pass upon my qualifications. This same man always came to me for in- formation about the bureau, when he wanted reliable stuff to act upon. Then, why should the governor let Mr. McDonald_stay on the bureau, for he has not devoted all his time to the bureau; for he has been using the time of the bureau as ‘head of the state federation of labor attending meetings in Minnesota, Montana, Fargo, Grand Forks, Minot, etc., be- sides this he has used the bureau of- The “Dial of Ahaz” was probably a flight of curving steps tpon which a beam of sunlight fell, eps Upon fice at a meeting place and as his headquarters as president of the state federation’ of labor, and day after day he has had his consultations with the various labor leaders of the state and from other states, until it. be- came a nuisance at the bureau office. He resigned that position while un- der fire to the governor and Hagan, et al. He was working for the league and that made it all right with them. Resides this he charges me_ with others that I have used the steno- graphers for outside work not belong- ing to the bureau, well, how will he answer the charge that Miss Hazel Farkasch, an employee of the bu- reau, reported the doings of the la- bor convention held at Fargo, N. D. last fall, and transcribed her short- hand minutes at the bureau on the time of the bureau under the mi- nimum wage act? I saw her running it off on the machine in stenograph- er’s room in office hours, and she told me that it was the proceedings which she had taken of the labor convention at Fargo, Why then should the gov-- ernor be so one-sided and only able to see the trumped up charges against me. The only difference is that the finishing up of my. private law prac- tice was not working for the league, that I can see. If I had not done twice as much as any other commis- sioner in putting the bureau in oper- . ation, and worked faithfully and hard for them all, and as far as I could and maintain myself respect, 1 would not say a word; but when it came to things requested of me by some of them which interfered with my in- dependence as a man, I drew the tine, hence they proceeded: to remove me with the intention of, no doubt, of-put- ting a tool in my place instead of a man. I came to the conclusion that a break was better than con- tinuing under such circumstance, and that 1 would force them to make the break, so they could not holler that worn out tail of“'traitor”; and. then I would fight for my rights in court, and if I won I would continue as a man and rot as a tool. i Practiced For League I practiced law for the league and them all, when they sent for me by Attorney Vincent Day, the league at- torney of St. Paul, and he got me at the Patterson dance hall at the third house dance, and he stated that they wanted me at once on an important matter at room 500. I left at once my friends at the dance and went up there, and found a gloomy lot of state and league officials ~eated and stand- ing around, to-wit, Governor Lynn J. arazier, Wm. Lemke, John Hagan, Chairman Walker of the legislative special investigating” committee, in- vestigating the library and free love charges; Mr. Johnson of the same committee, and’ others. I was infor- med that they were in a bad fix on that hearing, and- that Hon. Frank O’Connor was running away with the committee of which he was a mem- ber and that he must be headed off, and that they wanted a lawyer or an attorney to. head him off and re- present (majority of the) committee, and they asked me T would do it for them, and that they had decided on me to do it. I told them I would see what I could do for them if they. got the house to empower the com- mittee to hire a lawyer. This com- mittee went before the house and got a resolution giving them power to hire me. I took charge of the hearing and after spending three days with them and a half of a day in drawing up the findings with Mr. Day, they all conceded that I had saved the league again and ‘pulled them out of a bad hole.” I never got one cent of pay for this, and yet 1 practiced law for three days and a half for the governor, and the league, et al, away from the bureau and on wureau’s time. ‘Maybe that is one of the governor's removal charges, as he had not specified how I practiced law and where I prac- ticed. Aren't they a lovely bunch to hand a fellow a package like this; and appreciative too, Will they pay me for my time thus spent, now a3 they are attempting to take my posi- tion away? 1 came down here to Bis- marck under a three year. appoint- ment to this office, gave up my prac- tice at Devils Lake, and purchased a house here on the strength of the governor being a square man and as such would give any man square treatment; but he is attempting to rob me of reputation, and professional - standing as a lawyer, besides my good name without even a hearing. Will the courts allow him to do it the way the law reads or not? There are two lines of decisions, and the better decisions hold that, that the governor's act, in such removal pro- ceedings as this, is judicial in nature and that the party is entitled to a hearing and then a review in the courts to see if there was a. “legal cause” for such removal. \ ‘