The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 28, 1920, Page 4

BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1920 THE BISMARCKYRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second f Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN : - 5 G Representatives PAYNE COMPANY .. DETROIT 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 eredited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ‘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.. 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Daily by mail, per year (in state outs ymarck) 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota............ 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) o ED A WORD TO THE WOMEN Vale Within a very short time the women of the nation are going fo have complete privileges of suffrage. It is unfortunate that they cannot par- ticipate in the primary June 30 as fully as the men. Their vote would assist mightily in defeat- ing the socialistic regime, just as it defeated N. C. Macdonald and elected Miss Minnie Neilson, one of the most efficient superintendents of pub- lic instruction the state has ever had. But the women want to make themselves felt in this primary to the extent permitted by law. They have a vote for superintendent of public in- struction and no women in Burleigh county should neglect to vote. The number of women votes polled next Wednesday will be indicative of the interest women take in suffrage. But this is not as material as the fact that Miss Minnie Neilson needs every woman vote in Bismarck. She is opposed this year by Miss Ruth Johnson, who is Townley’s candidate against Miss Neilson. Considerable work has been done by league or- ganizers for Miss Johnson and the drive has been confined largely to putting over Lynn J. Frazier and Miss Johnson. They need another vote on the board of university and school lands. This board controls the forty million dollar school trust fund which the league hopes to secure as the result of the primary. Miss Minnie Neilson, Kositzky, Langer and Hall now stand between Townley and his major ambition. Hence the reason why red stickers have been prepared for automobile wind shields featuring Frazier and Miss Johnson. . The league is putting. up a much more deter- mined fight for Miss Johnson than they did for _ Macdonald. Miss Neilson needs the support of every’ woman who is opposed to having the schools Towhleyized and socialized. Get out and support Miss Neilson. She has been fighting bol- shevism courageously during her term of office and cannqt be spared. Protect your children against a pollution of the schools by. socialism. Remember the date, June 30, and don’t fail to cast your ballot for Miss Minnie Neilson. Editor Forei G. LOGA! a 3 It.is clear enough that nobody guarantees Rus- - sia’s territorial integrity. TRAILING While America is losing man power because im- migration has fallen off and emigration increased, other nations are deliberately adopting policies that are attracting workers. 7 By stationing agents in the principal European cities and by paying bonuses to steamship offices for selling passage tickets some South American countries, Canada and Australia are aiding immi- gration.’ : South America is busy developing industries that will provide employment for foreigners. Bra- zil and Argentina are specially active. : New Zealand has arranged with the shipping companies for, reduced fares for desirable immi- grants. Numbers of Italians, Spaniards and French are going to Argentina, where there are many of these nationalities already located. Free land is being given to newcomers. Naturalized citizens are exempted from militafy service for 10 years. This is a distinct inducement to immigrants from “compulsory service” countries of Europe. Brazil is not only paying passage for 'immi- grants, but takes care of them on arrival, and transports them free to their destination, pro- vides them with tools and.seeds, and supplies them with free medical care for themselves and families. Chile is inducing immigration by giving 100 acres and implements to each immigrant. The countries to the south of the United States, together with Australia and New Zealand, seem destined to take the place that the United States has held for the past hundred and fifty years as the “land of hope” for the immigrant. When we have a woman president, none but the rude will refer to the form of government. PARK THE BABIES? Every now and then, in this hustling, bustling world, there peeps up a little note of much needed humanity. In the struggle and strife of dollar- chasing someone pauses and gives thought to other things than greed and profiteering. Recently there was an instance of this in Lima, Ohio. An attorney, William Sutton, startled councilmen and a small lobby of citizens with his plea for the city’s babies. ‘ He wanted only a bit of space in the shopping district set aside as a parking place for baby.| St. Paul Dispatch. a carriages—a‘spot where tired “widthers, with their babies in cabs, could stop without being pushed and mauled and cursed, perhaps, for get- ting in the way of the hurrying, business-mad throng on the sidewalks. Sutton urged that council give at least as much consideration to the babies as it did to the autos, for, said he: “Babies are more important than automobiles, and should have at least as much consideration.” Sutton’s point of view was new for some of those present—and, very likely, for some of us. i Did you ever stop to think of it just that way? Of course not. But isn’t he right? PAYING THE FIDDLER The secretary of the treasury calls attention to certain leaks in the family pocketbook. He tells where money goes when it isn’t spent for neces- sities or put away for the rainy day. These figures were gathered by treasury ex- -|perts from tax returns and other sources of in- formation, and cover the period of one year. Here they are: Chewing gum . Candy --$ 50,000,000 1,000,000,000 Cigarets . . 800,000,000 Soft drinks, including ice cream and soda.. 350,000,000 Perfumery and cosmetics . 750,000,000 Cigars o. sern scien: 510,000,000 Tobacco and snuff. 800,000,000 Furs 300,000,000 Carpets and luxurious clothing. Automobiles and parts.. Toilet soaps 400,000,000 Pianos, organs and phonographs. +» 250,000,000 So went eight billion, seven hundred and ten million dollars. Averaging that up among some 25 million fam- ilies in the United States and you have a per- family expenditure upon luxuries of $848, or near- ly $7 a week. ; And don’t forget this, the labor and capital em- ployed producing those luxuries might otherwise have been turning out necessities, clothes, fuel, shoes, houses, food. In other words, the nation might have had more bread if it had had less cake. And, as is always the case, the dancer is pay- ing the fiddler. In this instance the luxury-con- sumer is paying a higher price for his necessi- ties because he is abnormally consuming luxuries. +» 1,500,000,000 seeeee, 2,000,000,000 Very likely that “d” in d’Annunzio stands for a word seldom. used in polite society. Even in Mexico prices are outrageous. are bidding 100,000 pesos for Villa’s head. They No one has noticed any effort on Europe’s part to keep from breaking the heart of America. The profiteer’s head is thick, but the constant drop of prices wears away the hardest bone. A lot of the presidential timber is casting furi- tive eyes in the direction of the tall timber. Why go to France to weep over the ruins when you can stay at home and shed tears in the mint bed? EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may not express the opinions of The Tribune. The; sentéd here in order what our readers may sides of im ~ the press of wwe. bot rtant issues which are being discussed may £5 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 different. 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 $18,313,870 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 disposed 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 50 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 owners may, under the plan considered for North Dakota by the Townleyites, come 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 millennium 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 neighbors. _| ment shows that two mortgages were ee One investigating the mortgages placed on record in various counties by the Bank of North Dakota might wonder why it is that a league paid organizer or the uncle of Congress- man Baer’s wife or others friendly with league powers are able to get farm loans, while hundreds of appli- S S Ssss OWNLEY FLAYS CARSON PROPLE IN HIS SPEECH (Special to the Tribune) Carson, June 28.—Arthur C. Town- ley became his old, violent self here Sunday. And he lost votes. During a vitriolic speech here, a man interrupted at one time with to speak louder: “If you'd wipe the dirt out of your ears you could hear me,” said Town- ley. : There were 1,000 to 1,200 people in the crowd, and about 850 had on Langer-for-Governor ‘badges. They listened quietly but the badges seem- ed to irritate Townley. ‘He spoke in a low voice, He continued his attempt to stir up hatred between the people of the towns and the country, and many farmers deplored this. He called the people in the town of Carson “parasites” and said the town “don’t have a house a farmer would live in.’ ’ LEAGUE ORGANIZER GETS. LOAN ON GRAZING LAND WHILE FARMERS WAIT FOR ACTIONS ON THEIR APPLICATIONS cations of farmers without a high and mighty are denied. The Morton anti- Townley campaign committee has is- sued a statement showing another er: ample of the workings of the Bank of North Dakota under the present ad- The statement follows: Mandan, N. D. ministration. Mr. Tax Payer:— This committee has recently had numerous inquiries as to a loan made by the manager of the Bank of North Dakota to one R. R. McKaig, better known as “Preacher” McKaig, a form- er resident of the Ft. Rice section of Morton County. To answer these questions we have had a statement prepared for us by an official’ Abstract Co., and this state- given by McKaig to the Bank of North Dakota on Feb. 2, 1920, as follows: One for $3,500 on S% NW & SNE & NSE 30-13: ee NW 29-135-79. One for $3,800 on SWSE & ENE & NESE 22-135-79. Lots 5-6-7 27-135-79. W, NE & NWSE 27-135-79. ; ‘ The assessed valuation of the first piece is $5,600.00 and of the second piece, $3,593.00, a total of $9,193.00. This under the present law is the true and full value and McKaig could have legally secured on this land not to aaa DRIFT TOWARD LANGER SHOWN (Continued from Page One) Rev. Birchenough said: “The red flag sympolizes a state in which private business is demoralized, private prop- erty confiscated, school systems pros- tituted, home life desecrated and Christian religion destroyed.” Henry Nelson, turned down a Town- ley endorsement for clerk of court, says a dispatch from Ellendale, be- cause he did not “propose to be a henchman to A. C. Townley and his mob of socialists.” Nelson was wound ed at Chateau Thierry, fighting for his country. From Halliday comes the story of how the Bank of North Dakota had taken the school funds of Dodge on deposit and then when the school authorities wanted a loan of money to build’a school house the bank wouldn't lend money. The people of Dodge can’t understand why a land speculator should be loaned $50,000 on Gold- en Valley land and a community denied a loan to build a, school house. A report from Fessenden shows the decline of the league vote. The re- port says: “1916 election, Frazier 1,647 votes. McArthur, 325 votes. Townley’s majority, 1,222, In the 1918 primary election Frazier received 1,134 votes, and John Steen 538. Townley’s majority, 596. In the 1919 referendum election the vote on the Townley printing bill was as follows: Yes, 1205; No, 894. Townley’s majority, ONLY 311 votes. It looks very much like the voters are closing faith in the promises of Townley.” Senator Fred Mees, whom Townley told to “lie like a horse thief.” told audiences in McIntosh and Logan counties how the “legislative. bureau” operated by Townley and Lemke work- ed. He told how the “legislative bu- reaw” prepared bills and then gave the league representatives in the legislature first knowledge of them in secret caucus. The Dickinson Press tells how Frank Lefor, brother of Adam A. Lefor, league candidate for state senator, proved he wasn’t following Townley. P. D. Norton told a crowd that “98 per cent of the’ leaguers are opposed to Townley bossism. Lefor jumped to his feet and said: “I’m not a Nonpar- tisan leaguer. I'll bet you $1,000, I'm not.” Norton shook his hand and | said: “T'll bet you are an honest man. The Beach Advance tells of the evas- ive replies made by C. W. Heckaman, league candidate for the legislature in the 39th district, in answer to Ameri- can Legion inquiries. In answer to whether he approved of Governor Fra- zier’s activities in helping free Kate O'Hare after her slanderous remarks, he said:' y “J do not believe in slanders speech, | exceed $4,596.00. But he did secure $7,300.00 or: $2,700.00 MORE THAN HE WAS ENTITLED TO. | Further this land comprises 712 acres and on this he pays a 3c Hail Insurance of $495 showing that the whole tract contains only 165 acres of tillable land, for you know that all land whether in crop or not much pay this 3c tax if the land can be tilled. Therefore, McKaig secured a loan from the Bank of North Dakota on 712 acres of which only 165 acres could be cropped. Does not this sound a little like “BIG BUSINESS?” Do you wonder why this was—do you who may still be waiting to hear from your application for a loan, an application with which you sent your $5.00, wonder why you do not hear from it? Or if you have been one of the lucky few who have received a loan do you wonder why you bor- rowed on a 50 per cent valuation while the Reverend gentleman got in one case: $3.800 ON 312 ACRES ASSESS- ED FOR $3,593.00? Would you be inclined to think that the Bank of North Dakota had favored a man who had a “stand in” because he was on the regular pay roll of the Nonnartisan League, in preference to @ plain ordinary farmer? : After thinking it all over, do you think this man ever intends to repay this loan or does he con- sider that it IS WELL SOLD TO THE STATE OF NORTH DA- KOTA. Yours very truly, Morton County Anti-Townley Campaign Committee. unless it takes such to explane facts.” He was asked if he favored the an- tired flag law, and evaded by saying the only flag one could live under peaceably under was “the star spangel- banner.” In answer to a question as to wheth- er_he favored legislation to curb the 1. W. W. and other un-American organ- izations he evaded by replying: « “I believe in no organization that advocates, and practes, mob law.” (Note—The spelling in Mr. Hecka- man’s answers is his own.) There was a big anti-Townley pic- nic in the Killdeer mountains Sunday. A. J. Gronna and P. D. Norton spoke. People came from distances of fifty miles to the meeting. A paid league agitator at an inde- pendent Republican meeting near Holmes tried to break up the meet- ing, saying he had “been offered $50 for his vote.” KE. O. Nelson, of Hatton, immediately challenged the statement, ; demanding to know the name of the man who was supposed to have made the offer, and offering to give $50 to the agitator if hé could name him. The igitator disappeared. J. A. McNabb, league county man- ager in Ransom county, is quoted by S. D. Adams, chairman of the anti- Townley committee, as making a speech in which he said: “Of course, we're against the red flag and that’s why we're going to vote ‘no’.” The eague chairman knew that to vote ‘no” on the anti-red flag bill is to| P vote against Old Glory, Mr. Adams says. .To vote for the initial measure prohibiting the display of the red flag of anarchy one must vote “yes.” JAPANESE TRADE WAR DRUMS FOR PLOW AND SHOVEL, WRITER SAYS BY K. S. INUI, Department of Political Science, Uni- versity of Southern California. In 1877 Japan saw that militarism and internal reconstruction would not hitch. Se decided to lay down her war drums and take up plows and shovels. Instead of theorizing she went to work. . But her diplomatic ex- periences with the west have given her militarists and imperialists ample op- portunities to seek their own advant- ageous ends. Japan’s success in the Chino-Japan- ese war divided the west into two camps. One* group proudly assumed the role of an elder brother in’ the growing importance of the new sister of the east. In this group were U. S. and Great Britain. The other group considered Japan as their sworn ene- my of all the days tO come. Russia and Germany led this faction. When Japan and China met in 1895 at the peace table, China ceded to Japan Liao Tong peninsula. But Rus- sio, Germany and France jointly “ad- vised” Japan to give up. for the sake of the peace of the Far East, the cov- eted territory for which she sacrificed | thousands of her sons. Thereswas no other course left for i STORM CAUSES * HEAVY DAMAGE Jamestown, June 28.—Heavy losses by hail Saturday in LaMoure and southern Stutsman céunties were re- ported today. Many crops were to- tally déstroyd, as grain was heading out. The storm aggregated an area of about 24 miles long and 6 miles wide. Wind also blew down several ANTI-TOWNLEY CAMPAIGN! Pas near Millersville. FUNDS LAID BEFORE PUB-|GAME STOPPED LIC IN ANSWER TO LEAGUE BY CLOUDBURST ORGANS’ FAL SEHOODS A cloudburst Saturday, in James- an town, put the crimps on the aspira- tions of the Bismarck Athletic club for a victory over the Jamestown club. A telephone call early Sunday morning informed the local players that as a result of the cloudburst, the diamond was flooded and that there was absolutely no chance of staging the game scheduled for Sunday. This was the first game hooked up by the local team with an outside nine. It is not known when the Bis- marck team will be able to take on the railroaders at Jamestown. MARKETS CHICAGO LIVESTOCK Chicago, June 28.—Cattle receipts, 20,000; beef steers opened slow, bulk early sales steady. $17.00 paid for (Continued trom Page One) ty, nor the manner in which every dollar of it was expended, has been in any respect secret. These matters have been given full publicity to ev- ery one in the. state interested in raising these funds, or the expendi- tures thereof. So far, on this joint campaign fund, there had, to and inchiding June 25th, been received from every source and expended in this campaign by the three organiza- tions above named, a total of $52,- 735.50, every dollar of which was re- ceived from contributions collected in the several counties in North Da-|* kota, under the apportionment here- tofore shown. Not one dollar of funds contributed to this joint campaign fund has been solicited or collected e—> by any one working for or under the] yearlings and heavy steers. Cows, campaign committee, from business} cutters and. butcher bulls ‘steady. outside of North Dakota, or from per-| Veal calves 25 to 50° cents lower. sons other than farmers and others engaged in business in this state. The fact that the organizations opposed to socialism have been short of funds with which to carry on this campaign has been well known to the Nonparti- san league leaders and to the Courier- News; within the last few days the handy man in the Nonpartisan league headquarters at Fargo, advised sev- eral girls employed by the Republi- can headquarters andthe I. V. A. in getting out literature, not to continue in their employ, telling them that such organizations had no funds with which to pay them for their labor. Have Been Handicapped “As a matter of fact, the men in charge of the Anti-Socialist cam- paign in the state have been handi- capped for lack of funds with which Stockers and feeders dull. Hog receipts, 40.000. Mostly 10 to 25 cents higher. Top $16.30; bulk, 315.90 to $16.25. Pigs, 25 cents higher. heep receipts, 15,000, Lambs, year- lings and sheep steady to higher. Best native lambs, $17; bulk, $16.50 to $17. Prime yearlings, $15.75. Strictly choice heavyweight ewes, $9. SOUTH ST. PAUL LIVESTOCK South St. Paul," June 28.—Hog re- ceipts, 10,000. Steady to 10c highe:. Range, $14.50 to $14.90. Bulk, $14.75 to $14.80. Cattle receipts, 4,000. Killers weak to 25 cents lower. Fat steers, $7 to $16. Cows and heifers, $5.50 to $13. Calves steady, $5 to $12.50. to carry on a proper campaign. They] Stockers and feeders, slow and have been unable to do’ many things| weak, $4 to $15.50. that should have been done had they} Sheep receipts, 200. Steady. had the funds. As against this finan- : cial condition of the opponents to Socialism, the Nonpartisan league leaders have apparently had money to cover every conceivable need in the campaign. They have even been able to go to the expense of having stickers printed for each precinct in the state for Republican precinc' committeemen, 200,000 stickers in all; this not‘to aid the Nonaprtisan league in electing their ticket, but in order to retain control of the Repub- lican party in North Dakota for the presidential campaign this fall. “The undersigned, L. L. Twichell executive secretary of the Anti-So- cialist, | Anti-Townley Republican campaign committee, hereby offers Lambs, $6 to $15.50. Wethers, $4 to $8. Ewes, $2 to $7. WEATHER REPORT For twenty-four hours ending at noon, Monday, June 28. Temperature at 7 a .m. Higrest yesterday . Lowest yesterday .. Lowest last night.. Precipitation ...... Highest wind velocity. Forecast For North Dakota: tonight and Tuesday; change in temperature. Lowest Temperatures Partly cloudy not much y Fargo .. 58 to personally donate to any, Fargo > charity, which may be designated by | Williston 50 Boss Townley or by William Lemke,} Grand Forks 48 president of the Courier-News, .the| St. Paul ........ 66 sum of $500 upon proof that any part! Winnipeg 58 of the campaign fund collected by| Helena 50 the joint campaign committee was| Chicago 72 collected outside of North Dakota | Swift Current 48 or that the joint campaign fund sc] Kansas City 74 ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorologist. ' JUST JOKING | No Cause for Alarm Traveling man — “Some that. night. barn?” Phlegmatic Farmer—' found the durn thing ye' Legion Weekly. Must Be a Genius “He seems to stand well with his wife’s relatives.” “They consult him on questions per- taining to books, music and art.” “T see.” “But they merely look at him and sigh deeply whenever money matters are mentioned.— Birmingham Age- Herald. collected and paid over to the treas- urer of the joint campagin fund committee for these three organiza- tions, to June 25, 1920, exceeded the figures hereinbefore given. “L, L. TWICHELL, “Executive secretary Anti-Town- ley, Anti-Socialist Republican cam- aign. ~ “Fargo, N. D.” tornado was we had around here last Do any damage to your new ASSISTANT COOK WANTED-—at Bis- marck Hospital. 6-28-3t Dunno. Hain't ‘American except to return it to China, silent but with grudging resentment. No sooner had Japan restored it to China than Russian appropriated it for herself. Germany took Kiao Chao. England and France also had their fingers in the huge Oriental pie. The Russo-Japanese war left Japan victorious but with an empty excheq- uer. The people began to taste the bitter result of the war. “Enrich the nation and strengthen the army,” cried some. But she was not to be hoodwinked a second time. “Enrich the nation through com- merce and indust cried louder still the business men of Japan, “that will strengthen the nation.” indeed, for the first time in the history of Japan mer- chants and manufacturers were knighted. In 1913 the alien land law was en- acted in California. That afforded an acid test for Japan whether she should keep step with armaments or progres: with the time of the hammer and an- vi Here again sound council prevailed and the weight of industry tipped t scale of the army and navy. It e: plained that war settles no questicn especially hetween America and, pan. NO WAR TROPHIES London — The town of Ealing has refused to permit a German rifle tra- phy to hang in one of its schools. “We don’t want to force on the minds of the children any remembrance of the horros of the war.” one councillor said. Another described the trophies as “rusty masses of iron.” BELL HOP MARRIED Los Angeles, June 28.—‘Mickey” McCollister, world famous bell hop. who “hopped bells” for , President Wilson, Taft and for Bryan and King Albert, married Miss Hattie B. Miller, daughter of a wealthy cattleman here. He met her in the Hotel Ambassador, Atlantic City. The kilowatt hour is urged, rather at gold, as an absolute standard of value. Ten per*cent of the farm employes f Kansas, who joined the army, have urned to the farms. \