The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 20, 1920, Page 4

! } ~ giving the Federal Goverment control over these fe cr one et tered at the itoffice, Bism: . D. ni at Platoftics; Bistiateh, N 4 a8 Second Editor > GEORGE D. MANN - . , . Representatives G, LOGAN PA COMPANY ® anqoete Bld Krenge Bid 4 g- PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH Curses = - Fifth Ave. Bldg. = The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for poblication of all news credited to it or not otherwise cred sched in this paper and also the local news published .. _ All rights of publication of special dispatches = also reserved. petal cata Ca nS FS MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION . = _ SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year. $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in B - 7.20 Daily ‘by mail, per year (in state outside B: ymarck) 5.00 = Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota. seeee 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER = (Established 1873) Forei REE herein are CUT TAXES—AN EXTRAVAGANCE To keep to a minimum, consistent with progress and good government, the taxes of the state and every political sub-division is the plain duty of every public body. Thirty-eight county auditors, appearing before the state board of equalization yesterday, expressed a universal sentiment against the present high taxes in the state. While it was to be expected that these auditors would seek all possible favors from the state board for their counties, yet they doubtless expressed the conviction of the people in their own counties when they said that the present taxes are a bur- den and asked reduction through lowered valua- tions. One auditor told the board that in some towns there are many vacant lots which may be had for the payment of taxes. The tax has been delin- quent for several years. Another, living near the state line, represented that the taxes are injuring the saleable value of property. In the last four years the people of the state have witnessed the creation of new bureaus, new offices, and mounting expenses of government. The old adage, “The best government is that which governs least,” is forgotten. The state govern- ment is entering into every phase of life—its op- pressive presence is affecting not only business, but’ the individual. Vast power is being centered in a small group of men, and it is costly. Tax Commissioner Wallace’s plan to abolish the state tax levy means but'a shifting of the method of collecting the taxes. The people of North Da- kota cannot go ahead multiplying governmental offices and expect to escape payment. Directly or indirectly, the cost is felt by every person in the state. : We need good roads, good schools and effective administration. We do not need a multiplicity of bureaus and offices. Extravagance is not the se- quel of efficiency. It follows loose government and inefficient methods. : 4 Comparison begets little. Taxes generally have increased. North Dakota has not received full value for her increased expenditures. The voter of the state controls the purse strings and there are strong signs that he is beginning to come to a full realization that he is not getting his money’s worth. IS AN AMENDMENT NECESSARY? Senator Pomerene wants the Senate special committee for investigating campaign expendi- tures to recommend a constitutional amendment, matters. As the constitution now stands, the people do not vote directly for President, but for President- ial Electors, who are under the direct authority of the State Governments and not of the Federal . Government. - The Ohio Senator does not see any way in which * Congress can enforce reforms in Presidential prim- aries and elections, unless it is clothed by a consti- tutional amendment with more power than it now possesses. Such an amendment would provide for Federal determination of the qualifications of Electors. And yet the Senate committee of which Senator Kenyon is the Chairman and Senator Pomerene a member, has already, by the power of the pub- licity it gave to the spending of money in behalf of candidates in the primary campaign, profoundly affected the deliberations of both National Con- :. ventions. Had it not been for the publication of the testi- mony taken by the committee, it is altogether probable that either General Wood or Governor Lowden would have been named at Chicago, while Attorney General Palmer’s chances at San Fran- cisco would have been much improved. It would appear that publicity, together with the restraining influence of public opinion, is quite equal to the task of preventing undue expendi-| tures. Both National Committees now stand committed to the policy of frequent publication of their accounts. Warsaw is badly named. Why the past tense? At present it’s much safer to know how to spar in Spa. 3 ; : Even a political machine has a succession of backfires. Charles Chaplin dodged the annoyances of a, other two of the three to whom he owes his nom- divorce suit by going to Salt'Lake City where "BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE ' FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1920 “) Mormon domestic arrangements may make his own seem mild in comparison. The fellow who failed to succeed can tell you how to succeed. The daylight saving plan doesn’t seem to ham- per the footpads. By the way, what’s become of the old-fashioned second-story worker? ‘ Honesty is said to be the best_policy, but some men would rather play politics. ' For a reformed bandit, Villa is talking very brash about fighting the gringoes. This fall the kids are trifling with death if they steal any apples from the man with a thirst. pe ei NE Bk EE When women come into control, will they use the rolling-pin as the emblem of all parties? When the Chaplin divorce suit is tried the bail- iff had better search the witnesses for custard pies. Uncle Sam is advertising for saxaphonists to play for the army of occupation. Another horror of peace. The strange thing about it is that they can actually find four or five men to run for the vice presidency. Harding could fall off his porch and break a leg and not get as big headlines as Ruth when he dislocates his knee. A telescope has been invented that is a quarter of a million times more powerful than the human eye. Then high prices may, be located after all. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or not express the opinions of The Tribune. auey are. sented here in order vhat our readers may have aides of im} nt issues which are being the press of the day. ' TAMMANY FOR COX Tammany today basks in the sun of national Democracy’s favor. Mr. Murphy is the only Tam- many chieftain who has accomplished the thing so remarkable for his.organization. A Democrat- ic Presidential nominee owes his nomination to Tammany. ; Before he acquired respectability by bringing about the Ohio Governor’s nomination, Mr. Mur- phy could plume himself on being the most suc- cessful boss Tammany has had since:-Tweed went to prison. Not only has he carried Greater New York around in his vest pocket, but the State of New York has reposed the last two years in his other vest pocket. 3 There have been Democratic Governors before like. David Bennett Hill who were hand in glove with Tammany. Mr. Murphy elected one hench- man governor who wouldn’t stay hitched, and he had to get him impeached. But Tammany smelled as bad as Sulzer. In 1918, however, Mr. Murphy elected a dyed-in-the-wool Tammanyite Governor, a man who remained a good Tammanyite while contriving to make a fair Governor. And to this pitch of state-wide ascendancy Mr. Murphy had brought Tammany from the depths of political moral bankruptcy. . Murphy has become the Democratic Party of the State of New York. Samuel J. Tilden rose to national leadership of the Democracy by reason of his assault upon Tammany and his destruction of Tweed. Grover Cleveland turned his broad back upon Tammany and his blunt nose up: at Croker, and owed his renomination in 1892 to the love he had inspired throughout the Nation because of the enemies he had made. Mr. Bryan was more diplomatic; he might trade with Tammany, but he never would acknowledge the debt. Mr. Wilson, be it to his credit, has no dealings with Murphy and has never recognized Tammany in appoint+ ments or favors. Mr. McAdoo even:tried to or- ganize against Tammany in New York City, and Mr. Murphy in revenge deprived the President’s son-in-law of the nomination at San Francisco. Mr. Murphy has a bona fide Tammany man as Governor in Albany. He may have a bona ‘fide friend in the White House after March 4, 1921, if things go well. A Tammany boss for the first time since Tilden’s day sits in the inner national Democratic conclave, and there may be a Demo- cratic President who will counsel with the Tam- many chieftain, recognize Tammany in appoint- ments, confirm New York State’s vassalage to the New York City spoils organization. That would mean not only more power for Murphy but an ac- colade of respectability. It would be like knighting a successful pirate. Can a leopard change its spots, can ‘the stripes of the Tammany Tiger be faded? Mr. Murphy thinks they can. Hence for the first time in fifty years Tammany Hall is seen bending every muscle to carry the Empire State for a Democratic Presi- dential nominee. Mr. Murphy knows what he is doing. He will get value received. He knows his man. And the Ohio Governor is a man after his own heart, as he} is after the heart of Mr. Taggart the boss of In- diana, and Mr. Brennan, the boss of Illinois, the ination.—Minneapolis Journal. DING) =< HI0'S FAVORITE SON ELECTED GY 102,373 | Woman Suffrage Fight Is Traced Step by Step—Women Vote in 21 Countries Colonial. period — Under | several colonial governments women voted. American Revolution—Women de- manded to be included in govern- ment. Abigail, Adams wrote to her husband, John: Adams, “If women are not represented;in this new republic, there will be another revolution.” In 1848—Woman’s rights convention at Seneca Falls,.New York, arranged by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the first big suffrage demon- stration in this country. In 1872—Miss-Susan Anthony made the test in 1873;of:yoting at the polls. She was arrested, refused to pay her fine, but was never jailed. In. 1875—Miss Anthony drafted the Woman Suffrage amendment, which reads: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by anystate on account of Bex.” In 1878—Amendment introduced in Senate by Senator Sargent of Califor- nia. State Campaigns—By the end of 1912 women had won the right to) vote in nine state. Wyoming (1869), Colorado, , Utah and Jdaho (1894). Washington (1910), California (1911) and Kansas, Arizona and Oregon (1912). * \ In 1918—The. women of Illinois won state and presidential suffrage. Jn 1914, the women of Montana and Nevada were enfranchised; in 1917, the women of New York, and in 1918, the women of Oklahoma, South Da- kota and Michigan. ‘s , Organization of the National Wo- man’s party—When the National Wo- man’s party, then called the Con gressional union, was organized in 1913 to concentrate on a campaign for federal amendment, no action or even debate on. the federal amend- ment had taken place in Congress since 1887. Politicians were opposed and political party platforms silent about the amendment. Within seven years every politica party had included in its platform an equal suffrage plank, President Wilson had publicly appealed for the passage of the amendment as “a vi- tally necessary war measure{’ the amendment had ‘been passed by both houses of Congress and ratified by 36 states, while political leaders vied with each other for the credit of the victory. t The National Woman’s party from the beginning adopted the policy 9 holding the party in power responsi- ble for the fate of the amendment and brought pressure on that party through the political power already in the hands of the western women. Most spectacular of the demonstra- tions was the picketing of the White House, which began in January, 1917. and lasted until November, 1917. During the picketing between ‘400 and 500 women were arrested for the 2 to prison ree days to ss were isement and sentenced terms ranging from th seven months. These later declared by the District Court” of Appeals ‘to have been illegal. ET SM a a Nurse Saves Two Peo- ach with tors seemed unable to vised the knife. “A friend who had ommend it to my patients, which 1 did. Both are now entirely well. 1 ommend it.” and allays the inflammation which pendicitis, One dose will convi money refunded at. all druggists. crime of reminding the president of his responsibility for their enfranch- ple From Operation “T had two patients that the doc- their medicines and in both cases ad- tried Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy for Stomach trouble proposed that 1 rec- am very glad that 1 was able to rec- It removes the catarrh- al mucous from the intestinal tract, causes practically all stomach, liver and intestinal ailments, including ap- or MAJORITY WOMEN’S STRUGGLE.FOR BALLOT DATES FROM COLONIAL PERIOD In 1918, January 10—Two! weeks after the last pickets were released from jail, and one year from the day the first. picket line went out, the federal amendment passed the Low- er House of Congress. In 1919, June 4—The Senate pass- ed the amendment with two votes to spare. The House had repassed it on May 21, 1919. In 1919-1920—Special 29 legislatures had to be ci ure the necessary 36 ratifi all but five of the 36 states campaigns upon either the ‘governor of the Leg- islatures were necessary. In the first month after the pass- age of ‘the amendment by Congress, sessions of nine states ratified, Wisconsin, Mi- chigan, Ohio, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Texas. The three states which ratified June 10; Wisconsin, Illinois and: Mi- ‘chigan, fought for the honor of first place on the ratification rolls. Kansas, the first full suffrage stato to act, set a new record on June 16. The members of its Legislature, at their own suggestion paid their ex- penses and met without salary in a special session. New York was the second state to mect especially ‘for this purpose. and then Texas, desir- ing to be the first southern state to act, met. June 28 The ratification on Nov. 1 of California. The most difficult campaigns oc- curred in the last few states, partic- ularly;in New Jersey, West Virginia and Delaware. The opposition re- sorted to every possible device to de- feat ratification or to substitute 2 referendum, In West Virginia the amendment was. saved by one vote, that of Senator Bloch, who rushed from California by special train to turn the scales. Nations in Which Women Vote Isle! of Man Hoes al A88k: EVERETT TRUE Yes, 1 KNow 1 PROMUSED You, BUT WE USY, AND MY MEN ARE ALL REPAIRS. I CAMT D within a few hours of each other on} n special session ony ' alf mark was passed by the SHOWING HIM THE FACTS : .. Reid in the National Republican New Zealand Australia .. . Finland ‘Norway .. Denmark Mexico Russia Poland Ireland Scotland . Wales Austria Canada Czecho-Slovakia . Germany Hungary England Holland Belgium British East Rhodesia . .. Luxembourg Iceland Sweden .. United States . FARM MARKETI SUBJECT OF BIG COAST JOURNEY Chicago, Aug. 20.—A co-operative marketing tour, regarded here as the most extensive ever undertaken by farmers of the middle west, is now on its way to the Pacific coast. Rep- resentatives of seven state farm bu- reau federations make up the party ‘The aim of the tour is to obtain in- jon to be laid before the an Farm Bureau Federation in its consideration of plans for co: operative marketing of grain and livestock. The party will be taken in autos through California to see first hand the work of the various co-operative associations. The California trip be- | z = 5 = 3 8 a 2 [EDWIN LEONARD JSAYS HE IS NOW | FULLY CONVINCED. “I have gained eighteen pounts~ since I started taking Tanlac and am now aswell and sound as anybody,” recently said Edwin Leonard, Seventh St., North Bronx, Minneap- olis, Minn. “I was in a week, run-down con- dition due to‘a bad case of. stomach trouble that had worried me nearly two years. My appetite was fairly | good but what I ate disagreed wita me. I would bloat all up with sour gas and have the worst sort of pains in my stomach. I suffered also from constipation and my nerves were on edge all the time an I was never able to get much sleep. I fell off in weight an was simply playing out altogether. “Tanlac has built me up until { feel like a different man and I am as strong as I ever was,in my life. 1 have an appetite like a wolf an my big gain in weight shows how well what I eat agrees with me. I am not constipated now and my nerves are so strong and steady I sleep all night without waking up once. I am never troubled in any way whatever now and couldn’t ask to be in better health.” Tanlac is sold in Bismarck by Jos. Breslow, in Driscoll by N. D. and J. H. Barrette, in Wing by H. P. Ho- man and in Strausburg by Straus- burg Drup Co. —advt, te. Missouri, lowa and Nebraska are represented in the tour. The party is made up of John Brown, Indian- apolis, president of the state farm bureau federation, and County Agent Bosson of Indianapolis; Murray j D. Lincoln, Columbus, -Ohio, secretary state federation; W. G. Eckhardt, Chicago, in charge of. grain market- ing for the Illinois Agricultural As- sociation; C. R. Weeks, Manhattan, Kan., secretary state federatibn; Prof. E. G. Nourse, Iowa State Gol- lege of Agriculture, Ames, lgwa, chosen by state federation; Hj D. Lute, Lincoln, Neb., secretary state federation, and A. G. Meyer, Colim- bia, Mo., secretary state federation. ESTIMATES VARY. 26,000,000 BUSHELS ON KANSAS CROP thee Topeka, Kan., Aug.’ 20—Morel ligh: on the size of the Kansai or third largest—is row when the Kans: Board of Agriculture issues. its monthly esti- mate. Question has‘been raised by a difference of 26,000,000 bushels; be- tween estimates of state and feieral authorities. The discrepancy turns on different means employed in calculating acre- age in wheat, according to a state- ment from the Kansas agricutural board. The state board says it based its report on the wheat acreage as sown by figures turned in this year by, as- sessors of the 105 counties off the state. The assessors returng in- creased the wheat acreage estims last fall 1,574,964 acres. In_ ils estimate the state board used tp) tal acreage shown on the iat! reports, 8,943,098 ‘acres. The of the federal statistician issu August 10 used the acreage estimated last fall, 7,725,000. This makes ¢ dif- ference of 1,218,098 acres. Hi “It is the custom of the federal sta- tisticians not to accept the asserfor’s’ acreage figures until the final ré¢port on the yield, after threshing is tom- pleted” said Secretary J. C. Motler of the state board. “This differenge in acreage practically accounts fur the discrepancy at this time. I am cer- tain that later reports on the, crop will not show less than 150,'90,000 bushels.” , } Meanwhile Clyde M. Reed, a judge of the state industrial retions court, who is supervising the gtrug- gle the state is making to furnish grain cars with which to hadl the 1920 wheat crop to market, nas made gins next Monday, when the party of} public an estimate, based on thresh- farmers arrive in Riverside, and con-] ing returns, that the crop wifl ex- itinues until September 2 at Sacra-} ceed 156,000,000 bushels. | mento. From there the party will go} The record Kansas wheat crop was !to Portland, Seattle, and Spokane.} grown in 1914. It amounted {9 180,- returning home about September 7.} 924,885 bushels. Thus, Segretary Indiana, Ohio, Wlinois, Kansas,] Mohler claims, this year’s cropjis the - second largest.on record. J'ederal Crop Statistician Edward (j Pax- Bv Condo] tows August report said thig was RE'so OUT ON OTHER i HERE «. FIT THIS MAN WITH A PAIR O = OVERALLS — HE'S GOING TO DO Some REPAIR WORK FOR MEI! the third largest crop, his estinpte of 143,049,000 bushels being smaller than both the 1914 crop anf last year’s yield of 146,000,000 _hishels. The state board gathers its: crop’ sta- tistics. from 2,200 correspoxdents. practically one for every town of 36 square miles; the federal statis- tician has 1,800 correspondents One variety of Japanese fan is made of waterproof paper, ;whica can be dipped in water and greates coolness by evaporation. } Accept “California” Syrup: of Figs only—look for the name California on the package, thenyou are sure your child is having the best and most harmless physic for the little stom- ach, liver and bowels. Children love its fruity taste. Full directions on cn bottle. Yau must say “Califor- aga (S$ ae —