The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 19, 1920, Page 4

PAGE FOUR BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter, 5 GEORGE D. MANN - : B Be Editor Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN. PAYNE COMPANY DETROIT Bldg. Kreage Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH ORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. ated Press is exclusively entitled to the use tion of all news credited to it or not otherwise for pub! credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. : All Tights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year. sient $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in marck - 7.20 ily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) 5.00 lly by mail, outside of North Dakota............ 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) <i WOMEN AND VOTE , Although the suffrage amendment has not yet been ratified, it is estimated that more than 10,- 000,000 women will vote for president this fall. This vote undoubtedly can play an important part in determining the victory. at the elections. Public opinion and issues have changed during the past four years, and the women will demand clear-cut declarations on matters they consider fundamental, such as child welfare, education, high prices, public morals, women in gainful oc- cupations and independent citizenship for women. IN 2081 B. C. Hammurapi was a king in Babylon, who died in 2081 B. C. le Hammurapi formulated and posted a written code of laws which is preserved in nearly com- plete form, and has been translated into English. They were simple laws of eye-for-eye justice. If a builder built a house, and did not construct it properly, said the law, “and the house which ‘he built falls in and kills the owner, then the builder shall be put to death.” One may rasonably imagine that the houses were well built. ; The law fixed the amount of a surgeon’s fee for a successful operation; if the patient died from the operation the surgeon’s life was the for- feit. y : Eight gur of corn was a year’s wages for a field laborer, fixed by law. yearly wages of ox drivers .and herdsmen, the rental of oxen and cattle, and the wages of aiti- sans,such as potters, carpenters and rope makers. Two sheckles for each sar of surface was the legal price for building that house which the con- tractor must build properly, if he hoped to live to build another. There was no chance to profi- teer in house building. Recently, in this country, there has been a growing sentiment for government regulation of prices, and for laws to prevent profiteering. Any- one who thinks such regulation is new or novel should get out his ouija board and put in a call for old King Hummurapi! Scandal in brief: Bergdollar. Prices still talk, but they have little to say to a poor man. i A mere private must seem very conspicuous in a Mexican army. ’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.—Tennyson. Wilson’s successor will take over a lot of unfin- ished business, including a war. The Reds need no better argument than. the fact that Newberry is still at large. The wets need not despair. Bryan will'furnish an abundant kick at the convention. Beaches that stand for one-piece suits should be careful.’ A fig leaf is all in one piece. The advance of Poles is not surprising when one considers how all lumber has gone up. Just when one begins to think man is indeed the noblest work of God, he meets a loafer. One discovers that his god has clay feet about the time it begins to talk and expose its ignorance. Labor could do something for the country by standing solidly for the closed bucket shop. ‘This back to the country movement might do better if there were chorus girls in the country. Don’t expect too much from the overall move- ment while silk socks cover a multitude of sins. Some things one can’t avoid. But now is a good time to avoid worrying about coal next win- ter. What with Palmer’s bull, and dark horses, and the profiteers collecting goats, this will soon bea stable government. When some genius figures out a way to run cars with alcohol, somebody else will come along and insist on using grape juice MARRIED LIFE Much free advice is about to be offered those who in the month of June embark on matrimonial ventures, for better or for worse. And it would be well if in the hands of every couple there could be placed a copy of the writings of Dr. Thomas Fuller, a renowned English moralist of the 17th century, who in his time was regarded as a spe- cialist on marriage and related problems. “Marriage,” he said, “is not like the hill of Olympus, wholly clear, without clouds. Yea, ex- pect both wind and storm sometimes, which, when blown over, the air is clearer and whole- somer for it.” He advised against choosing wives for beauty alone and, in this connection, told of a floating island in Scotland that swam away with ships that were tied to it. And he added: “So are they served, and justly so, who only fasten their love on fading beauty, and both fail together.” He described the ideal life as one “who never crosseth her husband in the springtide of his an- ger, but stays till it be ebbing water. And then mildly she argues the matter, not so much to condemn him as to acquit herself.” “Her clothes,” he said, “are comely rather than costly, and she makes plain cloth to be velvet by her handsome wearing it. Our good wife sets up a sail according'to the keel of her husband’s es- tate.” And of the good husband, Dr. Fuller wrote: “He alloweth her to meet maintenance, but meas- ures it by his own estate; nor will he give her less nor will she ask more. “Knowing she is the weaker vessel, he bears with her infirmities. He is careful that the wounds betwixt them take not air, and not be publicly known. Jars concealed are half recon- ciled.” “ All of which is as good advice in 1920 as it was in 1620. But, though it was offered 300 years ago, there still are a powerful lot of folks who haven’t taken it yet. At any rate, none of the party platforms are made of Red wood. i A good party man is one who never looks a dark horse in the mouth. People raise cane in order to get sugar and then raise cain to get it. The law also fixed the} In political circles the one-step has been discarded in favor of the side-step. Tf the Senate doesn’t vote according to its convic- tions, it may be better than people think. The trouble is that people with an itch to reform the world always start on the other fellow. No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunk- en sober.—Samuel Smiles. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or not express the opinions of The Tribune. The: are pee sented here in order vhat our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed im the press of the day. WHAT HAVE THEY GOT FOR IT? As long as the Townley gang was able to feed its North Dakota constituency on rainbow prom- ises, majorities were not difficult to obtain, but now that the constituency has a few results to go on, the story promises to be somewhat dif- ferent. Specifically, what. Townleyism means to the North Dakota farmer—or what it means, among other things of the same kind—is an added tax burden of 54.45 per cent on the farmer’s land. Our correspondent, Mr. A. L. Evans, writing from Bismarck yesterday, showed that the taxes on farm land in North Dakota under Townleyism are just $18,318,870 more than they used to be. This, of course, is not the whole load that Townley has placed upon the North Dakota grangers, but it is interesting as showing specifically the burden that has been placed upon the farmer’s chief as- set—the land that he owns and works. You cannot dance without paying the fiddler. North Dakota is just beginning to get the first bills. The New Day program has not yet got un- der way. Litigation over it was only recently dis- posed of, so that the increases in taxes to which we refer do not represent what the tax payers of the state will have to pay when the various projects of the industrial commission are begun. It is perfectly fair to assume that the money needed for these things will add another fifty per cent to farm taxes which in some cases might well involve confiscation. Here it is, of course, that the socialist idea of communal or state ownership of the land comes in. Farm property taxed out of the hands of its own- ers may, under the plan considered for North Dakota by the Townleyites, comes into possession of the state! It will only be necessary to make the taxes sufficiently high to bring this about— and a great step toward the socialist milennium will have been taken. : North Dakota is reported to have had enough. The farmers of North Dakota are declared to be about to turn Mr. Townley .and his oppressive taxes out of the state. It is inconceivable that the farmers of Minnesota will provide a haven for him here after the experience of their neigh- bors.—St. Paul Dispatch. ; _ SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1920 BULLETIN CHICAGO:— POR VICE-PRESIDENT Uncle Sam: CENTURIES TWO Still a Holy City, Says Corre- spondent, With — Ineffable Charms of Orient Still in Evi- dence, Possessing the Most Beautiful Mosque in the East- ern Country Adrianople, ‘Thrace, June 19.—The | decadence of the two centuries, pres- ent political and economic disintegra- tion, wars without end, and an uncer- tain future, have been unable to de- stroy the ineffable charm the Turks! originally gave to this city of eighty | odd thousand souls. Adrianople is still a holy city in.faith and.in appear- ance. Romance ‘still abides here. “The Orientis the only place left: to Europe where cities seen at close | range are beautiful,” remarked: Jules Sebotin, a French aviator, while vis- iting the most beautiful of all mos- ques, Sinan’s masterpiece here, the mosque of a thousand windows but one, erected at the order of Sultan Se]im II, in the 16th’ century. The first impression of the city had been one of infinite beauty. Arriv- ing from across the lofty Balkans in an airplane, the city had been seen with a rush, a place of spires, and slate domes and red roofs,. planted at the intersection of three rivers. It had been a welcomed sight. It had come at the end of four hours ride and it was journey’s end to a tired aviator. Seen from aloft, the city, surround. ; ed by poplars at its outer rim, its | house gardens within the city show- ing green vines and flowers, its out- lying fields bare, aroused memories of Mardin on the mountains, Diarbekr by the Tigris and hosts of other Turk- ish cities, always sleeping in beauty, whether visited by sunshine or moon-! light. The longer the stay in Adrian ople, the more the charm of this beauty grows, a charm that is as great afoot as aloft. Adrian ople is a city that has the tone of country friendship about it not unlike a county seat of the south. The center of the agricultural ex- change business of eastern and west- ern Thrace, ‘it is frequented by peas- ants and traders of Turkish, Greek, Bulgarian, Jewish and Armenian na- tionalities. There is record of but one American ever having done business in the city, and he came there from Paris and bought up all the brooms. While no day knows what the next may bring forth in the way of political strife and crime, today the city pre- serves this tone of friendship and or- der. Strangers as they go along the streets, or visit the shops, are treated with kindly concern. The Turkish of- ficers salute courteously and there is no glint of hostility in the eyes of the Turkish soldiers carrying their new rifles, recently distributed them by Colonel Djefer Bey. His martial law, is administered with gentleness, tho there is no doubt that the silken glove hides the mailed fist. ‘The decadence of Adrianople goes at a dignified pace. There is little or none of the seething squalor and dirt and noise and poverty of Constanti- BIG FARGO FIRMS “PICK WINNERS” Because their auditor, cashier and head bookkeeper all graduated from Dakota Business College, Fargo, N. D., the Union Light, Heat & Power Co of that city naturally called on D. B. C. when a capable bookkeeper was necded recently. Mr. >. Eckman was sent. 1 Big firms are keen for employees with the get-ahead spirit that D. B. C. training gives. Every wholesale house but onc and every bank in Fargo employs D. B. C. graduates. “Follow the Succe$$ful.’’ Enter school for summer term. Write F. L. Watkins, Pres., 806 Front St., Fargo, N. D, Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge Im mobiles. and calm. ties of Asia Minor. is fraught with charm. ae week I promis: preme Court i work and rea July and August. Do you care for election. state sheriff act. vote a big no. other citizen. or privileges to mobile around OF TURKISH DECADENCE FAIL TO DESPOIL ANCIENT CHARM OF ADRIANOPLE nople. There is none of the clamor of Constantinople’s street cars and auto- There are a few ragged beg- gar children who besiege the stranger but for the most part Adrianople en- dures its shabby gentility with pride Here there are none of the fallen houses and dusty streets which characterize the majority of-the ci- Any day’ the city may surprise the { the suns world by tremendous massacre, but meanwhile its life goes on as smooth- ly as the flow of the rivers. Fraught With Mystery. Prayers are called from the minar- a a ce June 19, 1920.—In the letter.of next to show how the Su- completely up with its; lead to corrupt practises. The act for the investigation or smelling committee of five persons is too much like the Spanish inquisition. ; The committee is authorized to act as ; €rand inquisitors or a star chamber i I j court and to pry into the private af- the investigation committee act, the; fairs of the citizen and to make a lot On each you should; of needless costs and taxes. In those days of auto- mobiling a woman who desires to vote can readily go to the polls, mark} her ballot and vote the same as any; In exercising the right of a citizen there is no good reason why a woman should be given rights different from citizens; there is no good reason why a notary public should be permitted for a vacation during! how you should vote on the statutes referred to the. people .at the next It is the absent voters: act, | of Sultan Bayzid. | broken i the flagstones, mosque t correspondent abide with you.” By Justice J. E. Robinson party or the other. my opinion as to ionable. enforce prohibition. the same. political advantage. state too many boards, the country and ets, as of old; also the old and new bazzars do a slender business in sell- ing American and European calicoes and homespun cloths and Turkish sil- ver-mounted pipes and cigarette hold- ers, rugs, junk, to passing peasant cus- temers; or else, when these are lack- ing they swap with each other, after ! the happy. manner of all the Orient. Decadence seems to have heightened the beauty of the majetsic old mosque The windows are the locks are rusted in the : doors, the grass is growing up between the fountain in the court no longer splashes its waters in ine and the interior of the self is slowly deteriorating. Few worshippers come here but on the drowsy Friday afternoons, the Mus- ssulman’s day of worship, come a de- { voted band of musicians and singers. Undoubtedly the life of Adrianople! The aviator and the Associated Pres: that deep mystery which seems to cling inevitably to the sinful, idle ,sleepy Orient but of this | of the red fezed band came and saluted mystery the .stranger sees only the 8 stumbled upon this group as they turned to go away, one with the lovable simplicity of the Turk and said “Allah esmarladik,” May God SAT URDAY EVENING LETTER ttt tte tt csc gather up the votes of women for one Surely it would I hold ; that such an act is not constitutional. The state sheriff act is. very object- Our court has held void an act under which ex-Justice Corliss was appointed a state prosecutor to The principle is If those acts be sustained other; it will add largely to the taxes and give to.the party in power a direct There are in the CUTIGURA HEALS BABYS HEAD Face, Neck. Scratched AndCried. WasDisfigured. “‘My baby brother hadacrusten his head and the top of his head was a solid scale. His face end [ie neck got red and irritated and water would fun from co little blisters; and baby would cry most all the time. He would scratch his face until the blood | came. The eruption caused disfigurement. “We bought a cake of Cuticura Soapand a box of Cuticura Ointment and by the time they were gone, he was healed.” (Signed) Miss Janie B. Dobson, Koleen, Ind. Cuticura Soap and Ointment are all you need for all toilet purposes to keep the skin clear. Cuticura Talcum Powder Do not fail to test the fascinating fragrance of this exquisitely scentec face, baby, dusting and skin perfum- ing powder. Medicinal and toilet. Soothes and cools the skinand over- comes heavy perspiration. Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Talcum 25 cents eacheverywhere. Sample Each Free by Address: “‘Caticera,Dept.R, Malden.” EF Cuticura Soap shaves without mug. overhead charges and expenses. The first act of the next legislature should be to reduce the number of such board and to cut out new-fangled and quest- ionable tax levies. As Governor Lowden has said: All taxes of every kind are passed onto the people and by the time they reach the people they have been doubled or trebled. Cut the cost of government administration and you cut the taxes; cut the taxes and you cut the cost of living. The oil tax and every tax on a sale is passed directly to the consumer. For the wage-earners insurance tax the employers and the people do pay fully ten times the sum necessary for the insurance. They pay one million for insurance of $100,000. It drives some people out of business and some out of the state. State, ex rel. Arnot v. Flaherty. ROBINSON; J.: (Concurring Speci- ally): I concur in the opinion of Chief Justice Christianson. The pur- pose of this suit is to enjoin the coun- ty auditor from reducing the excessive Bismarck Tax levies to the limitations provided by statute. (Laws, 191 Chap. 214; Special Session, 1919, Chap. 61). By Chap. 214 the annual tax levy of any county or political subdivision thereof (or therein) must not exceed by more than ten per cent the amount that would be produced by a levy of the maximum rate on the assessed valuation of 1918. By Chap. 61 the annual tax levy in any county, village, town or city must not exceed by more than ten per cent the amount that would be provided by a levy of the maximum rate on the assessed valuation of 1918, x By the office of the Attorney Gen- eral. it was held that the limitations of Chap. 214 did not apply to a city, because it is not a political subdivis- ion of a county. That construction was entirely too narrow and it was corrected by Chap. 61, though the cor- rection was needless, as the obvious purpose of the first act was to make a uniform limitation on all tax levies. Under the narrow and erroneous con- struction given to the act, tax levies were made in excess of the limitations. Then there went up a great and con- tinuous roar against the excessive tax levies; now there goes up a similar roar against reducing the erroneous levies to the limitations of the statutes. It shows how some good pople are anxious to levy excessive taxes in violation of a plain statute and then to impugn the law for per- mitting them to do the wrong and then’they curse the law which forces them to correct the wrong. However. the law must prevail. The wrongs must be made right. J. KE. ROBINSON. CHUM’S DEATH BRINGS SPEECH Danville, Il, June 19.—After, being 1 | i THAN Youn KEER RIGHT ON GOING ff —— THAT FELLOW'S A CARECVUU DRIVER, BUT HE WON'T BE ABLE To MISS You_ IF Xou STAY out HERS AND DODSE AROUND CIKEA WHIRLINGS Deevisyi! \) Of i Ct speechless for several months, Miss Hazen Southworth of Allerton, Ill, suddenly regained her speech when in- formed that her friend, Earl Blanchard had lost his. life by drowning. The trdgedy occurred at the reservoir on the farm of Harvey J. 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