The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 18, 1920, Page 8

he Z/ Wl LAHR MOTOR SALES Co. DISTRIBUTORS 300 4th St, Phone 490, Bismarck, N. D. GIRL WRITES OF FLIGHT BEFORE SOVIET. FORCES Sioux Falls Nurse Says Civilian Retreat in Poland in ‘Pitiful Sight Sioux Falls, ,S. «D., Aug. 18—A ‘thrilling account. of her experiences during the red avalanche in, Poland, where she has been with the Red Cross forces, has been received by South Dakota friends from Miss Len- ora Gilley, formerly an instructor in Red Cross home nursing in Bon Hom- me county. The letter is dated at Warsaw. It is in part as follows: “We have just gone through the most / thrilling \ yet heartrending ex- perience of our young lives. I am assigned to a military surgical evacu- ation hospital, just about 50 /miles from the front, so that we received our patients shortly after they were wounded. This hospital was beauti- fully located on a slight elevation oit the quiet river Wilnie. - Hagpital Evacuates. “On July 9.the blow came in the form of a report that the bolsheviki were advancing at“a rapid rate and that they would possibly be in Wilna within two days. Just as soon a8 news came that the situation was critichl we began evacuating patients, getting, out supplies (we even took out all\the bathtubs and disconnect- ed all plumbing, so as not to leave anything for the reds. We naturally were a wee bit anxious to get out, but among the 50 Red Cross person- nel there was not oné who became panicky—everything went off smooth- Jy, and save for the panic stricken Civilians, one would scarcely have known that the reds were so near. Poles Flee Reds. “This was the heartrending sight. We Americans were well provided with food and had transportation out, but the poor Poles( without food and transportation, carrying a few clothes, were fleeing on anything they could—horses, cows and on foot. One could see trains dotted with both men and women hanging on boxcars, and even on engines. “On our way to Warsaw we stopped a day at Bialystok. This is where we have a large orphanage and hos- pital. They have about 4,000 children and they expect about 5,000 refugee children within the next 10 days. Here is where the American Red Cross is doing noble work. “We have received orders to hold ourselves in readiness to leave Po- land on short notice, should the need arise. an armistice is signed soon, Polan: will merely be, a thing of the past. OOOO PHONE 909 4061, Broadway ——ooOooOoOooSS———— FALL AND WIN: TER SUIT AND OVERCOAT from $32.50 to $100.00 FRANK KRALL All wool and good fit;.Guar- anteed, or money back. ‘$85,000 BOND | NEEDED BEFORE PONZI ¥ OUT Officials Continue Inquiry Into Affairs of Exchange Scheme King 'FUNDS MAY BE HIDDEN Boston, Aug. 18.—The inquiry into every ramification of Charles Ponzi’s spectacular financial activities again occupied the attention of state and federal officials after their week-end respite. Ponzi’s counsel centered their ef- forts today on attempts to obtain the bail necessary to effect his release from the East Cambridge jail where he is held by the federal government on a charge of using the mails to de- fraud. Should a bondsman be found, the sheriff was ready atthe jail with a warrant upon which Ponzi would be re-arrested for the, state authori. ties on a charge of larceny. The bond required by the federal court ts 25,000. Second Bond Needed. To gain his freedom from the com- monwealth, he then would have to supply a bond of $10,000 on.a three- count larceny charge standing against him and whatever additionai bail may be asked on the fifty-three count larceny charge that has not been served upon him. ~ Ponzi probably will have to obtain | a total surety of $85,000. A heavy guard remained around Ponzi’s home at Lexington and sev- eral of the men accompanied mem~- bers of his family whenever they left the house. Threats are said to have been made against Ponzi by persons who were attracted by his offer of “50,per cent in 45 days.” Search for Hidden Funds. A search for possible hidden funds entrusted to the Old Colony Foreign Exchange company which was com- pelled to close last week, was made today by officials engaged in tracing that firm’s operations on a “100 per cent in six months” basis. Charles M. Brightwell, Raymond Meyers and Fred Meyers, the three officers of the company who were locked up 02 charges of larceny, are held in de- fault of $50,000 bonds each. Bank Commissioner Allen announ- ced that the audit of the liabilities of the Hanover Trust company was al- most completed. KANSAS COURT TO STAND TEST IN HIGH COURT Decision Holding Industrial Court Unconstitutional Does Not Affect Legality. TA pale te hol Topeka, Kan., Aug: 18.—The deci- sion of Judge W. H. McCamish up- holding a motion that the Kansas in- dustrial relation court act is uncon- atitutional. because “the subject of said provision is not clearly express- ed in the title,” does not yet jeopard- ize the activities or legally of the court, according to Judge W. L. Hug- gins, presiding magistrate of the court. Members of the court and Attorney General R. J. Hopkins, who will ap- peal the Wyandotte county decision to the supreme court, expressed them- selves as confident that the law was enacted will stand the acid test be- fore the high court. It is pointed out that the appeal of Alexander Howat, head of the Kansas miners’ union, cited a similar point when he appealed to the su- preme court from a decision of the Crawford county district court. But 'he attacked) it at a different angle. His contention was that the law was not constitutional because the. title was not sufficient to indicate the es- ‘tablishment of an industrial relations court and the taking over of the powers of the former state utilities commission. The supreme court overruled Howat, upholding the law Unless the Allies come in oF aa enacted! Judge McCamish contends that the title of the law itself “is not germane to what is expressed therein” relative to the criminal features of the court act. While the court in itself has no criminal jurisdiction, it is obligated by the court act to have violators of the law presecuted in any court of competent jurisdiction. This might be in either a stata or federal court. The case before Judge The Bismarck Sign Co. || mccamish was that of a switchman arrested on a charge of agitating. a strike and endeavoring to persuade others to quit work in an industry recognized by the industrial relations court as one necessary to the public welfare. ‘ “Even though the supreme court should knock out the section of the law pertaining to the Wyandotte case, it still would have plenty of ‘teeth’ left to be effective in such cases,” said Fred S. Jackson, former attor- ney general, attorney for the indus- trial court. “The point at issue is a mere technicality. Should it be necessary, the legislature by amend- ment could remodel the title of the law, but I anticipate that the law { will stand the test in every re- spect.” | FRAZIER POLICY IS UNDETERMINED The course of Governor Lynn J. Frazier in national politics this year, a subject of discussion among many politicians, is still undetermin- ed by the Governor. Governor Frazier has considered himself a Republican in national pol- itics, but he does not entertain a very high opinion of Senator War- ren G. Harding. Asked what course he would pursue, the Governor said: “If they (the national organiza- tion) support this fusion ticket in . BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE if in which 13 were killed and mo tempt to execute John Neville. mob and police. chests, taken from a shop that SAVED FROM MOB IN BELFAST . BELFAST, Ireland—An incident of the rioting in Belfast, re than 300 injured, was the at- He was taken from his bed by a laced against a wall to be shot—but was saved ‘by the ‘he picture shows him holding two bullet-riddled tea was wrecked. this state, certain I will not support them.” ~ Senator Harding and the Republi- can platform appear to the Governor | as “rather rea jonary,” he said. BEAT RENT HOGS BY CO-OPERATION Finns Build and Occupy Own Apartments for Only $26.35 a Month. H. G. L. IN-FOR REAL BATTLE Co-Operative Bakeries and Dairies Are Soon to Be Erected—Communi- ty Club House and Co-Operative Restaurant Big Success. New, York.—In these hectic: days. of frenzied family finance when the life of the average New Yorker Is just one moving van after another, envious at- tention is directed toward a certain group of thrifty citizens who are re- siding.calmly, comfortably and cheaply in their own apartment houses, Thelr leisure hours are never invad- ed by landlords and real estate agents, their, sleep is undisturbed by. night- mares. of sudden..evictions, and their eyesight 18 unhurt. py. constant contact with: the daily “to let” columns. They live in attractive, sunny -homes, con- taining... the latest ‘Inspirations. in plumbing, the newest styles in’ win- dows, .and the hottest kind of heat. For ‘all. of these Juxuries they pay about $30 per family per month, with the pleasant knowledge that the rent never can be raised unless they per- mit it. Are Not Plutocrats, Either. They are not wealthy. They are hard-working 4 people—carpenters, Painters, paperhangers, tailors, type- setters and sh¢p keepers and their fam- iles—who are hot often found. dwell- ing in luxury when the rest of the world !s putting up with all sorts of inconventences. S How do they do It? \ Well, in the first place, they live in Brooklyn. But { that does not explain ft. ‘Brooklyn is not Immune from the high éost of liv- ing any more’ than any other town. But they are Finns, and that A lains a great deq!. For the Finns are\an ex- tremely thrifty lot. They coma from a country where Ife is a constant, bat- tle with a harsh climate, and where survival is largely a matter of econo- my and co-operation. As a result. the aggressive instinct is highly developéd inthe Finn—he never stops fighting for life. So it happens that while most na- tive | Americans have heen around deploring the high cost of liv- | ing but. meekly paying exorbitant | prices for food and rents, the Finns of Brooklyn have been forming co-opera- tive societies and forcing down their living costs to the lowest possible min- imum. Besides two cv-operative apartment houses, they own a com- munity club’ house, a co-operative res- taurant «and plots of ground upon which co-operative bakeries and dai- ries soon are to be erected. / First came the club house, which fs always the first social move of the Finns wherever they go. It is an at- tractive building, with coffee and game rooms, smoking parfors, women’s. club rooms, and an anditorium where put- | lic meetings, dances and theatricals are held. To the Finn drama is al- most-as essential as food,.so that the people do not consider it dn-extrava> gance to employ a dramatic coach for their-young people. Across from the club house Is the co-operative restau- rant, and nearby ‘is a lot which some day, when building conditions become a trifle more stable, is to support a co- operative moving picture house. The chief activity of the club house: goon became the voicing of discontent with living conditions. The Finns, hav- ing’ come to America, the land of op- portunity, see€ing relief from a stern and exacting environment, were frank- ly disappointed. They found them- selves crowded Into crimy tenements, } sitting | | with Insufficient heat and water and j light and air, and unable to earn enough to obtain anything better. The wages which had appeared so high to them from the other side of the ocean seemed to shrink visibly as they were doled out for food and rent and clothes, } America Worse Than Finland. “After all,” declared one of the Fin- nish apartment house dwellers the oth- er ‘day, “it was just as bad as in Fin. land, only in some ways it was a little worse because it was all strange—the country, the language and the ways oy the people. In some of the tenement flats the kitchen was the only room thaf was heated, and it was not large enough to hold all of the family at once.. The children caught colds go- ing: from heated rooms to unheated ones,and talf the time in those old houses the water failed to.run from the spigot, so that it was hard for us te keep. clean. . It {8 ‘still so, When you tell the landlords, they say they cannot afford to make repairs.” But thé Finns were not, ‘satisfied merely to. discuss eonditions. They decided to change them. The carpen- ters and the painters. and plasterers and the. paperhangers among them knew a good deal about building, and | they finally, suggested the Idea of a co- operatively owned apartment house. They realized that it would be a huge undertaking for families with so little (capital, but experience-in Finland had taught them the value of: co-operation. In tlie beginning, 20, families ‘were terested in the project, but when ‘It actually came to the stage of signing cohtracts and buying ground and bullding materials, all but six-became discouraged and dropped out. Six families, however, refused to re- linquish_ the .project,, and saw it through to the bitter end. They pro- posed to build a 16-family apartment house, and found themselves facing the problem of raising $45,000. A treas- urer was appointed, and each family paid weekly installments to the com- munal. treasury until they had $8,000 in a box. With this ‘they bought a | national curren¢y, “In union there is building plot. ‘The rest of the money j strength.”—Frederic J. Haskin in Chi- they obtained from a.co-operative so- | clety’s bank in the form of first and second mortgages. Much of the building was done by |} the men of the six. families, all of ! whom took a special pride in their “work and strove frantically to outri- val one another in painting and plas- tering various rooms... Their task com- ! pleted, the co-operators moved in, " heavily in debt as it might. seem to the | nnco-operative. Actually, _ however, | they were paying Interest on their own j debts, and not on the debts of some landlord. ‘That interest, together with { Substantial monthly payments on prin- cipal, taxes, general upkeep, and oth- er expenses, amounted to considerably | less than’ they would have paid in rent for apartments of the same size. Each family had a_ light, five-room apartment, with all modern improve: ments including telephone, hot and cold water, a bath room and a kitchen (not a kitchenette) and for these ac- commodations they pald into the com- mon building fund $26.35 a month. Then Came the Rush! As it became known that such homes j could be obtained at such a remarka- bly low price, the first six co-operators were overwhelmed with. applications from other families, who wished ‘to join the ‘movement. “The house was soon full of tenints, but so'great was the demand for similar, accommods- tions that another co-operative group was organized to build’a second apart- ment hotise. This time the co-opera- j tors were not so timid in risking their Money, and decided that their nouse should be even bigger.with even great- er conveniences. Incidentally, it was, to’ cost $50,000 more, due not to, the added: improve- ments but to the increased’ cost of building materials. The. cost of the latter rose’ so rapidly that a third group, which swas’on the point of or- ganization, decided. to- defer building until conditions became a trifle less chaotic and the cost of bricks went down. Envy of Less Enterprising. This was two years ago. . Today, these progressive, co-operative, Finns are,thé envy of all{their less enterpris- ing nelghbors, They are enjoying WEDNESDAY, AUG. 18, 1920 Donce BRoTHERS MOTOR CAR Number 499,999 in now on display in our salestoom M.\B. GILMAN CO. 212 Main Street é BISMARCK warm, Comfortable “and “convement homes at 1-small cost ata time when many individuals are redaced to un- comfortable makeshifts and all are de- pendent on the none .too tender: mer; cies of their landlords. Each‘family is permitted to: pay off its share of the principal as rapidly as possible,: and several of them have nearly achieved complete owhersh!p of their apartments. Others, moving to other cities, Have been compelled re- luciuntly to part with theirs. Only one restriction fg placed og the sale of | an apartment, and that is the provi- sion that only one apurtment may be owned. by each family—in order to maintain the true co-operative nature of the colony. ‘Thus, the Finns have shown us how to make the most of tle motto on our cago News. ARMORED CARS IN HOLY CITY \Sir Herbert Samuel, High Commie- sioner, Enters Jerusalem With __ Guard. Constantinople.—Dispatches from Je- rusalem'recelved here assert that when Sir Herbert Samuel, high commisston- er in ‘Palestine, entered Jerusalem June 80, he was escorted by eight ar- mored cars bearing machine guns, The dispatches add that the streets were cleared to prevent a demonstration in opposition to the establishment of the Jewish National home. According to dispatches there are many eyidences that the Arabs are prepared to offer armed opposition to the French in Syria. It is:reported that the French land- ed 12,000 troops at Alexandretta on June 30, half of whom, it 1s alleged, are destined for Adana in ap effort to relieve’ the Cilician situation, which {6 said to be daily growing woree. “ Flapper,’ Give Up Seat,” _ Say Women of London London.—"You may have my -seat, sir,” Is what the “flapper” should say when she finds a tired, overworked businessman . standing near her in a London train or bus. This revolution in feminine deportment is suggest- ed not by the men but by Eng- lishwomen who gbject to their husbands surrendering seats in public conveyances to girls and women returning home after frivolous errands. \ $10,000 LOSS WHEN CAR BURNS Word has been received from W. A. Peterson, of Mandan, who left there for southern California a few days ago, saying that the car in whi ‘| he had" shipped his household goods| plements. The loss’ will bein the was destroyed by fire in transit. 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