The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 13, 1920, Page 4

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Editor Foreign Representatives | G oan PA COMPANY Marquee Bldg rope Bldg a ge ‘ PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEWYORK += + - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. ‘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 ‘All rights of publication of special dispatches h hlso reserved. aes, | 16) rein are pean ahh od MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year........+-.+ $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)..... . 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismartk) 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota............ 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) ' i eho THE SOVIETS Says Bainbridge Colby, secretary of state, whose mind presumably “runs along” with Presi- dent Wilson’s: “While this government has no desire to in- terfere with the internal affairs of the Russian people or to suggest the kind of government they should have, the existing regime in Russia does mental and kept it playing long enqugh he woud, have literally torn you to bits. If that is a “hunch” to some scientific crimi- nal—let him make the most of it. Fundamentals are not the easiest things in the world to find. If people could not vote until the age of: fhir- ty-five, it would be a waste of time to grant wom- en the privilege. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in thts column may or may not express the opinions of The Tribune, They. are Be sented here in order vhat our readers may have both aes of important issues which are. be! discussed im e press OF the day. - TO CUT DOWN THE SOUTH’S SEATS One of the important problems for the next Congress is reapportionment; The growth of population in the last decade as shown by the cen- sus will be the basis for a, new distribution of seats in the House. States that have not kept pace with this growth naturally object to losing any of their seats. Con- gress has usually increased the size of the House, in order to grant additional seats to those states which the census shows to be entitled to them. This process has gradually enlarged the House until it has reached the unwieldy number of 435. The result has been to slow up legislation, not represent the will or consent of any considera- greatly increase governmental expense and de- ble proportion of the Russian people. It repudi-| prive the House of its proper weight in the gov- ates every principle of harmonious and trustful relations, whether of nations or individuals, and is based upon the negation of honor and good ernmental machine. The House itself has been obliged to curtail individual freedom of action, to magnify the powers of its committee chairmen faith and every usage and convention underlying | and the inner circle of managers, and to transact the structure of international law.” The difference between melon and lemon is in the arrangement of ‘the letters or the books of the company. “HELL’S KITCHEN” Willie McCue wasn’t the “toughest kid Hell’s Kitchen.” So finds a New York Supreme Court jury. Willie was just the son of poor parents, and lived in a tenement home, and didn’t have ex- pensive clothes to wear, nor an automobile to ride about in. He didn’t go to the seaside resorts for the summer. He did play ’round the streets, there being no backyard and no nearby play- ground. : “Hell’s Kitchen” isn’t noted for its cleanli- ness. The wealthy owners of tenement build- in : business under repressive rules. ‘ It would seem that the limit of enlargement of the House has about been reached, and that state pride and the fears of individual congressmen for their own political fortunes would have to give way to larger considerations in the new appor- tionment. But the obstacles in'the way of a really fair and efficient arrangement are admittedly almost insurmountable. One ‘radical plan will be considered by the House Reapportionment Committee, according to the announcement of its chairman, Representative Isaac Siegel, of New York City. This involves the reduction of the representation of the Southern states to correspond with their suppression of negro and other votes. While this plan is called radical, it is neverthe- less expressly directed by the Constitution... Ar- ticle-XIV, one of the reconstruction amendments adopted after the Civil war in 1865, provides that ings have been more concerned about collecting . representatives shall be apportioned among -the rentals than planting trees, grass and cleaning up| states according to their respective numbers of the district. Into this district came “social service investi- gators” for the Russell Sage Foundation, They were going to tell people who live in nicer homes outside Hell’s Kitchen about the “Boyhood and Lawlessness” of the children of these very poor. They did tell. They printed a picture of Willie McCue, labeling the lad “the toughest kid in “Hell’s Kitchen.” It wasn’t true. Willie wasn’t tough. He was a choir boy, by the way, and had never been arrested, nor even charged with delinquency. But he was guilty of being the son of poor parents. He was convicted by the Sage Foundation of living in the midst of poverty and want. This was in 1914. Willie, having grown into young manhood, sued the Sage Foundation for calling him the toughest kid. The jury awarded him $3,500 dam- ages, And the judge—Justice Ford—said: “That ‘is the trouble with these movements (such as the Sage Foundation). They think that where there.is poyerty there is criminality.” Isn’t it because ‘so many other social service organizations believe as does the Sage Founda- tion that so little good is accomplished by them? The Department of Justice is unable to locate Bergdoll. Doubtless he is masquerading as a profiteer. STRENGTH OF SOUND It wouldn’t be such a difficult job to “shake the earth to pieces.” Experimenters have often built little card- board and paper houses in their laboratories and knocked them down with music. A scientist has said that if he could place a bassviol on every floor of the Woolworth build- ing, tune them exactly alike and stationing him- self across the street with another instrument, he could in time “play down” on‘ building—leave not one stone on another. When a heavy truck rumbles by your house, sometimes the windows rattle and the dishes in the cupboards. Now suppose there was a sound that would make every single thing in your house move in sympathy with it. Pretty soon the dishes persons in them, but adds: But when the right to vote at any election * * is denied to any of the male members of such state, * * or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in ‘he proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear. jto the whole number of male citizens, Despite this plain provision, the’ reapportion- ments of 1900 and 1910 ignored the suppression of votes in the Southern states. Thus in 1916 the single state of Illinois cast more votes than all the eleven states of the solid South with Oklahoma added. Yet these twelve states had five times as many representatives us Illinois. In the South as a whole only one person in seventeen votes, while in Indiana one in four votes. In South Carolina and Mississippi one per- son in thirty votes. . Nor are the negroes the only citizens disfran- chised. The Southern system also results in shutting out large numbers-of whites, mostly of the working class. The result is that these states are controlled by select white oligarchies, which accounts’ for the reactionary attitude of the South on most political questions. It was fear that these oligarchies might be overthrown that led all of the Southern states to reject the suffrage amendment. One authority declares that of the men sum- moned by the selective draft in Virginia five out of six were not voters. He adds that Virginia is governed by 150,000 men out of a population of 2,250,000, that a hundred thousand of these are Democrats, and that the whites to whom the vote is denied exceed the negroes disfranchised by a hundred thousand. . The South carefully counts every negro for de- termining representation in Congress, and then with equal care denies to the negroes and a large number of whites the right to vote. The question involves the decision of the presi- dency, too, for electoral votes are apportioned to the states on the basis of their representation in Congress—one electoral vote for each Representa- tive and one for each Senator. With an appor- tionment in accordance with the plain provision would waltz to the edge of the shelves and topple | of the Constitution, Wilson could not have been over. . The shelves, rattling to the same note, | elected either in 1912 or in 1916. would pull from their nails and the chimney bricks loosen in the mortar and slip down. There is such a note for every thing in the world, It is called the “fundamental” and.it dif- i | On the other hand, a reduction in representa- tion in obedience to the Constitution would result in rapid expansion of the voting privilege throughout the South. It would stimulate educa- fers according to the size, shape and material of | tion, so that more voters might be trained to be- the thing. You could destroy life itself with sound. You have heard a note, sometimes, on a church pipe- organ that pounded and throbbed “inside” until it actually hurt you. That was because that or- gan pipe was very near the fundamental note of your body. Had the organist struck the funda-| come good citizens. It would break up the Bour- bon conservatism of thé South and lead to pro- gressive measures and policies. Courageous action by a Republican Congress along this line would not only reduce the size of the unwieldy House, but would lead.to vitally imsj:wonder how the farmers could have | portant political reforms.—Minneapolis Journal. BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE : MONDAY, SEPT. 13, 1926 \ ay HE Costs ABOUT Nice AS aghads ine HELLO» Ot Ahead ttn ttm ote tt S-BACK AGAIN | TIMER, DONT ‘You REMEMBER The Nonpartisan League ~ | | As Seen by the Wife of a North Dakota Farmer I never shall forget the first time j for fleecing the farmers equal to a league organizer called at our) home. For some time we had been j hearing- about a new organization | springing up- ‘amongst the farmers, | but somehow the farmers themselves, seemed reluctant to give any inform- ation about it, merely saying that the organizers would soon call on us and then we would know all about it. So one Tuesday, just at noon we saw a tin “Lizzie” coming down the lane and John said: “I'll bet that's | the fellow who has been working in our neighborhood for that new organ- | ization” His surmise proved cor-j; rect, but before John would hear what the league man had to say, he declared we would eat dinner, and, of course, we asked the stranger to have dinner with us. After dinner we repaired to the sit- ting room and John asked the organ- wer to tell jus what it was all about. So for the first time we heard about this wonderful new movement whith was to bring prosperity to the farm-: ers. Now, right at thé beginning I was a wee bit suspicious. More than once we had been taken in by smooth! talking strangers. A long list of can-. celled checks from nursery agents. picture agents, peddlers, etc., will at- test to this and in all of these we had come out second best. But I could see John was interested from the beginning, and was merely waiting for the organizer to tell him to “sign on the dotted line.” One reason John was “ripe for picking” was that that very morning he had hauled a load of wheat to our local elevator, and had been fined twenty pounds. per bushel for dockage. No doubt there were good and sufficient reasons for this high percentage of waste, such as foul seed, dirt etc., but that organizer actually -made ohn believe it was due to a thieving ang of cut-throats down in the twin ues who preyed upon the poor be- nighted farmer. Show me an individ- ual who does not like to be told he is getting the worst of a deal andI_ will show you the eighth wonder. So af- ter talking for | another half hour about the benefits to be derived froin the organization the stranger depart- eu ana yonn was left behind—a full-| fledged leaguer. a Some one has said the farmérs are all easy-marks. Be ‘that as, it may.} the farmer is the most unsuspicious person there it. He will not believe a man is a crook until it has been prov- | ed to him, and them he will often make exeuses for the offender. I believe this is why the league had such easy sailing right at the start. After signing the “bill for freedom” each farmer was warned to keep this -to himself, and time has proved that this was done to a remarkable ex- tent. So with the farmers keeping! quiet and nothing leaking out it was | not strange the movement succeedetl so well. A few business men had heard a little about these strange men going through the country, but when the farmers were asked about it, they replied these men were sell- ing w new-fangled washing machine. So North Dakota must have been; prett thoroughly cayvassed before the’ business men awoRe to the fact that something more important than washing machines were being ped-| died-~ But then it was too late; the farmers had had their dose of propa- ganda and nothing could shake their convictions. United they went to the polls and, as the farmers constitute the great majority of our population. their candidates were all elected, and for the first time in our state’s his- tory, republicans and democrats wert to defeat, because -they fought on party lines while the farmers voted together. Just about this time the} Socialist party departed from the} state in a body, altho the league of- ficials claimed then and still claim it is not socialistic. Looking back’ on these things [ been 80 blind, for we must givd Town: | ley credit for hatching out a scheme none. But with the promise of term- inal elevators, flour mills and cold storage plamts, and also state hail in- surance, what wonder that the farm- er swallowed the bait hook, line and sinker? TI still believe the original league program as mapped out would have been a good thing for our state. Undoubtedly, there were many ,inju tices practiced in grading and mar- keting the wheat crop. But to plunge the state into such an orgy of spend- ing as was never dreamed of before, is not, to my mind a correct solution of the farmers’ problem. : Had these thiygs been gone at in a correct manner, taking a few things at a time and assimilating-them, be- fore venturing in deeper, would no doubt Nave made for progress. But to plunge headlong into a thousand en- terprises at: once, certainly can have but one effect, utter and absolute ruin. « a Is it any: ‘wonder the bankers and more conservative business men arg beginning to wonder whither we are drifting, and using their utmost pow- er to bring order out of chaos? What is good for the farmer conductive to his well being is the farmers prosperity ¢ health of the business wor untoward conditions hh as drouth, excessive moisture, pests, ctec., are immediately effective on the business world. In a good farming year business is booming and in a poor year business is stagnant. Why then, if the Non- partisan league is such a good thing } for the farmers, are the business men so against it? Is it because, as the Teague offi- cials claim that business men are all subservient to the big interests, or is eee EVERETT TRUE “ 4ND TF. THAT WAS GOING TO BUY My CLD CAR, BUT HO « wl | it because they know what the farm- er does not, and they fear that his lack of vision will cause the complete yuination of his business and theirs also. I should not like ta think that my home town business men were inter- ested only in my ‘pocketbook, that they had no use for me except for | what they could get-out of me. For, remember - this, the busmess men were your friends long before Townley and his crew were ever heard of, and they will be your friends long after Townley has left for parts unknown. Don’t’ you re- member how in that winter a few years ago your grocer trusted you for your groceries when you didn’t have a cent? How your merchant told you to buy what you needed and pay for it when the crop was threshed? What stands beside you. when your dear ones are lowered into their last resiing place? Is it Townley and his crew or is it your friend the local siness man? At ete tot et ts tenors montane, 4 | Then came I to the wide free crest a ing lg a Miles Minter ture, coming to the Eltinge theatre tonight for a two day run. in. this—heautiful pic- MY TROUBLES, I took my troubles.up the road Xl All on a summer morning; i The sun from out its blue abode 1 The meadows was adorning. \ My troubles were a sorry pack; They clung like care ypon my back, ‘And there was Doubt, a dubious thing, And there was foolish Fretting; And there was Sorrow, with Its sting, And hollow eyed Regretting, A grjevous brood to bear along Wheh all the air was filed with song, With naught but sky above me; A soothing wind my: cheek caressed; Methought it seemed to love me; And: there breathed upward from the earth : The fragrant messages of mirth. And seeing far below me roll The lands so green and spactous, My troubles lifted from my soul, And Ife again grew gracious. And so I trod the downward road Without a trouble for a load! —Clinton Scollard in New York Sun and Herald, DOG’S HOT-WEATHER NEECS Let the Pet Have Chance to Exercise and See That He Gets Plenty of Water. A dog must have freedom and ex- ercise or he cannot be well and happy. If your dog must be chained a part of the time, fasten a wire from the cor- ner of the house or barn to a tree or a post, or between two trees. This wire may be 30 feet long. Suspend from the wire a chain or leather strap by a-ring, which must be large enough to run easily on the wire. The oth- er-end of the chain must have a fast- ening which can be attached to the dog’s collar; then he can/run up and down the length of the wire and get some exercise, and.also get into the shade when the sun is hot. It should be so arranged that the dog can get up or, Hie down or’ run without danger of being tangled in the chain or leash. . Never tease or torment a dog. It Is likely to, make him'il-tempered. If you treat a dog well, he is one of the best frignds you can haye. Dogs do not perspire through their skins, aswwe do, but you may often see the water dripping from their tongues. They need to drink often. A dog should never be muzzled so that he cannot drink or put out his tongue, as he naturally would in hot weather. —Humane Advocate, -- Dog Died at His Post. He was just a dog, a black and tan cur with tattered ears and’ no ‘pedi- gree. namé, answering to the general appel-| lation of “Pup.” But he died as a hero when his master’s car was, burned on a road seven miles from the city. Pup was left In the car while his master went away on an errand, and admonished to remain;in the ma-| chine. Pup remained, Even when the flames started by a leaking gaso-| line tank ‘in the battered car began to) scorch his paws and singe his hair, he stuck to his post. * When the smoke fumes blinded his eyes and choked his yelps for assist-| ance he hung grimly on. He met the most glorious death that can come to) > ° > HOW yA GIRL TELL? Suppose a girl has two lovers. Of j course, most girls have more than i that, hut pose this particular two. And she really just mM. both, one because she has own him. all her tite and she’s so used to him, the other because she’s j met him and he's a wonderful pvelty. Now how can she decide which one to choose for her, part- yr in that merry dance called mar- age? One certain method of ‘find- ing out the exact state of her heart is to pointa gun at gach man. The one she jumps in front of to protect is very likely the one she’d like to live with, since she’s willing to diz 'for him, At any rate, that is the method used to help the heroine of “A Cumberland Romance” to read her own heart. Don’t fail to see Mary By Condo SAW THE FELLOW L MUST INTERRUPT YOU, PATTERSON $ WHILE You'RS TALKING WITH A MAN DON'T BE FUMBUNG WITH THE . THINGS IN HIS Vest | a_dog—that of making the supreme sacrifice in the service of a beloved master. A-charred. and stiffened fig- ure surmounting the ruined car was all that met the master’s gaze when he returned. He was only a dog, a black and tan cur with tattered ears and no pedigree.—Richmond Evening News. ‘ AN ILLUSTRATION. “A epigram is a short sentence dat sounds light, but gives yer plenty to ‘tink about. De judge’s “ten day” is one, Isn't it?” Firm Gives Away Pianos, In accordance with its annual cus - tom, a Philadelphia piano firm re- cently distributed 50 square pianos among deserving poor families in the Quaker city on the fifty-fifth anniver- sary of the founding of the firm. This distribution is made possible through a memorial fund to assist worthy peo- ple in developing musical talent, which wag established in 1907 in honor of the founder of the firm. Quite Particdlar. Romantic Youth—Why do you hesi- ' tate, darling? We could easily run and get married. His Fancy—My dear boy, you're too impossible! Why, the only .photo- graphs Tecould leave behind me were before I had my hair bobbed.—Passing Show. ' ,His Defense. “Remember, my dear boy, a rolling stone gathers no moss.” “That's because it knows it won't get anywhere if it’s a mossback.”— Boston Transcript. PSSA eS eS ‘ Costs Much to Run New York. The government of the city of New York costs more to maintain than does thet nf the whale Tanonese emnire. The people of India speak about 150 different languages, amare di- vided into 43 distinct nationalities. He didn't even have a regular, ‘ % vanys