The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 4, 1920, Page 4

GE FOUR RISMARCK’ DAILY TRIBUNE . MONDAY, OCTOBER’ 4, 1920 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Kintered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D, as Second ‘ Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - - * maa Representatives COMPANY Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH WEW YORK: - - ~~ Fifth Ave. Bldg. ae ha SE SS 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 rein, ‘ kr All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are: wlso reserved. ierbi tthe ee MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year.....+-sseseececevescers Daily by mail, Rae vane (in Bismarck).....+++++++ 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota........++++ 6.01 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Forei G, LOGAN PA €BICAGO : : FULL OF PRUNES Behold the lowly prune! * In days gone by anathema to every boarding house patron! Doubled in production for export in two years and its export value increased five times. Introduced to America by France a half cen-| tury ago, the one big coast state of California | now produces three-fourths of the American sup- ply, and more than all the rest of the world to- gether. Exports this year are 114,000,000 pounds and as much consumed at home. ¥ Te at of fruit for boarding house tables a few years ago, the prune is now a dish for kings and a standby of dieticians. Six for breakfast each morning will head off the need for calomel, castor oil or kidney pills! With a frothy whip superimposed, a dish to set before royalty. % Time was when prune was a term of derision. And _ plum was a thing much to be desired. Be it’known, that evrey prune is a plum. But not every plum can be a prune. And if you doubt that it is a superior grade of plums, indeed, that become the prunes of com- merce, ask your grocer the price of prunes today. MODERN MARVELS Guests on Marconi’s yacht, cruising in the Med- iterranean, danced to the wireless music of an orchestra playing in London. Well, well, this opens up possibilities, -doesn’t it? | Main-st-in your village, it may be that they have suddenly ‘caught the wireless output of some Broadway cabaret. If Mrs. Jones of Kennebunkport drops the breakfast dishes and spends the day with Mrs. Brown at the continuous movies, it may be that her husband’s dinner is preparing by fireless, If you:bee a man dnd maid cheek-dancing along |' science and our honor on our own hearths. Upon that principle, and because our conscience and our honor are still ours, I favor an association of free nations, and I care not what it be called or who has furnished the name. Uta “I know that the mothers and wives of America do not wish to give theri sons and husbands for sacrifice at the call of an extra-constitutional body like the council of the Paris league. I know that the mothers and wives of America will give them only at the call of their own hearts, and honor, and conscience. “I stand for a world association of free na- tions. I stand against an association of nations in which we will be under the flag of a world 0! super-government, and no longer under the Amer- ican flag. To serve mankind, it is not necessary to subject our country to foreclosure by the sheriff of internationalism.’ We stand for na- tionalism. We do not aspire to be citizens of the world| I, with the men and women of America, am, proud that I, as long as I draw the breath of life, can say ‘I am an American!’ ” HARDING GAINS STRENGTH The ferocity of Governor Cox’s charges has done much to strengthen the prestige of Senator Harding. , On all sides it is the common belief that the: Demogyacit nominee has pitched the level of his campaign too low. In North Dakota the wild charges have aroused little interest. Another stage of the campaign, however, is here. or two out of Cox’s closet and doubtless he will be kept bust explaining his own-campaign contri-| burg. « butions which seem to be badly tainted by what he has heralded as the banal -influence: of big business. ; Governor Cox probably: has‘ found out that it|m is dangerous to start slinging mud. , The supply is usually unlimited in political campaighs."' ‘The Democratic nominee has, been unable, to, besmirch Senator Harding, but:é has‘laid himself'opén' to a vigorous attack and invites a most searching investigation into his own political past. What has been revealed to date is hardly complisnen- tary. The New York Sun sums the situation up ac- curately in the following: “Candor compels us to say that such a succession of puerilities and futilities has never been witnessed in a Presidential cam- paign since the American stump was a two inch sapling. They measure the man. They are fast reducing to absurdity his case be- fore a public tolerant in many ways during seasons of political’ activity, but ‘especially impatient in the presence of crude damfool- inshness.” © MILLERAND. |, When European premiers have accomplished conveyed from Mrs. Robinson’s cooker at Yuma.|g national purpose by means of ruthless diplom- If the Reverend Mr. Psaltery rebukes your/acy, it is the custom to replace them by more absence from the morning service, you can claim] sauve statesmen. M. Millerand’s elevation to the that you caught it by choirless. Maybe blowouts and punctures will all, be| mier: presidency’ of France is his replacement as pre- In his new post he will be a figurehead. promptly.:prepared by: tireless, conveyed from) Succeeding premiers will not have to rouse inter- Akron. b)x oh, national antagonisms as M. Millerand has done. _ And maybe, at some time in the future, po-| It will be their task to smooth the ruffled feelings litical campaigns will be conducted’ by liar-less!| of France’s allies. THE MORTGAGE But the policy which the Millerand ministry has established will not be changed for the pres- “Shaking hands with the sheriff” was, in the] ent, M. Millerand, as prime minister, sought to old days, the whimsical way in which the victim create a new grouping of continental powers, with tried to bear up and express it when the sheriff | Fyance at the head. He succeeded. The French came from the county seat and foreclosed the hegemony in Continental Europe is now an ac- well-known mortgage, which usually was held by the town’s skin-flint banker. Most folks have the fear of death of a mortgage. And it has been a popular institution without end, nevertheless. In fact, the real estate mort- gage is the oldest investment on earth. It dates back as far, at least, as the days of Babylon, say 2100 years before Christ. Perhaps one doesn’t remember the Egibi family? They were the Roth- childs and Morgans and Rockefellers all rolled into one of the period some 600 B.C. They made their money by loaning on city and farm -prop- erty, taking mortgages as security. And fore- closing in the good old way that wipes folks out when they can’t pay. The-system is old. Only the method differed from now in a way. Then, there was no paper upon which to write the details—no banks with safe-deposit vaults, no county recorder for legal filing. But the mortgage of the bankers of Babylon were recorded on a brick and for safe-keeping deposited in vaults made of huge jars buried in the earth. The fel- lows who invented interest and the mortgage wére far from being financial fools. THE DIFFERENCE Senator Harding in one of the most eloquent of the many addresses delivered from his front porch has summed up the difference between the Republican and Democratic attitude toward our foreign relations. He was speaking last week on “Social Justice” when in the following language he laid down the major issue of the campaign: “Here is the difference between our opponents and ourselves. There is no difference between us in our desire to help. But those who seek to induce America to join the Paris league would have to pledge ourselves body and soul. We and the American people, the fathers, sons, wives, daughters and mothers, reject the hazard of fore- closure on America at the will of others. We in- tend to hold our resources in our own hands to be given, not taken. It is for us to keep our con- ‘ complished fact. M. Millerand did it. His suc- cessors will continue fo keen his success secure until it becomes demonstrably a futile effort. Neither hegemonies, international cross-cur- rents, diplomatic ‘finesse; high‘ soundiby lj ances will serve as ‘substitutes for workt “The, imagination may be excited by dreams of national greatness accomplished by signatures to magic treaties. But national greatness was never so impossible without work as now. Great Britain is indifferent to French, hege- mony ini Europe, because the Anglo-Saxon intui- tion realizes the only way to help the world to its feet is to do more work.. Great Britain has little thought for European alliances because she has so much thought for paying her debts. The French nation is on a different scent. It was started by M. Millerand. It will be followed for some time longer, until France discovers it leads to nowhere. Then, France, too, will discard inter- national intrigue and will attend to her finances. The Republicans have dragged a skeleton | Cogswell. UNITED FORCES BACK O’CONNOR IN FALL FIGHT ‘Continued trom Page One) _ Twventy-seventh—C. 0. Kell, Mc- Kenzie. Twenty-seventh—L. D. Bailey. Twenty-seventh— Arena. Twenty-ninth—Metka H. Laskowski, Morwich. Twenty-ninth—W. H. Hayes, Dou- glas. Twenty-ninth—Bessie L. Edwards, Minot. Thirtieth—B, L. Surface, Mandan. Thirty-one—Y. . Reals, Dickinson. Thirty-one—E. D. Culver, Gladstone. Thirty-sixth — Philip Hiimerich, Streeter. Thirty-sixthAndi eas Erbele, Lehr. , Thirty-sixth--John Geiszler, | Ash- ey. Thirty-seventh — Louis Wohlwend, Lidgerwood. Thirty-seventh —J. HH. Barnes. Thirty-ninth — C. Beach. Thirty-ninth—Oscar A. Olson, Bow- man. ‘ Forty-two — Lewis Hagen, Pleasant Lake. Forty-two — Simon Bosch, bridge. Forty-sixth—Frank A. Vogel, Cole- harbor. Forty-seventh—W. J. Beck, Elgin. Forty-eighth—Chus. M. Whitmer, Yucca. Forty-ninth—J. H. McVoy, Selfridge. For Senator district — Walter rank J. Prater, Busching, W. Heckaman, Tun- First, Neche. Fifth—Henry G. Link, Niagara. Eleventh—Charles E. Drown, Page. Thirteenth — Richard McCarten, Welford, Fifteenth—L. Noltimier, Valle: Seventeenth—C. J. Morkrid, City. ‘Twenty-third — N. E.. Whipple, Jamestown. Twenty-seventh--C. D. King, Meno- ken. " Twenty-ninth-— Carrie May ‘Seed, inot. ia, ate Thirty-one—Adam A. Lefor, , efor. Thirty-seventh —G. 0. ,, Sanden, Wyndmere. eS Thirty ninth—Gust Wog, Belfield. oa INCREASE CITY WATER” RATE IN STATE’S ORDER oF (Continued irom 2aze one) the accumulation of silt and sediment- ed matter may require. Notice of City Action The order: further says: “Inasmuch as the commission is re- quired to take judicial notice of the action recently taken by the city com- mission of: Bismarck in instituting proceedings: to cancel the franchise of the water company and condemna- tion proceedings for the purchase of the plant “and property of the Bis- marck Water Sipply’ company, it therefore shall require ‘that the instal- lation. specified and provided for by orders Nos. 4, 5 and6 (which are put- ting in 18-inch main, install filtration plant and install stand-by pump as above described) shall be completely installed and in place for rendering 3ervice nine.months following the ter- mination “of the proceedings herein referred to, provided the property of the water company is still in the hands and under the management of the said Bismarck Water Supply company. “That the said Bismarck Water Sup- ply company be required to keep a full and accurate account of the rev- enues and expenses of the company and file a full and complete report thereof with this commission at the expiration of each month not later than the 20th day of the month next succeeding, after the effective date of this order which report shall be in addition to any other’ reports required by law, and that the commission fully retain jurisdiction over the party to this matter or change or modify the rates and charges upon the evidence and facts before the commission: to- gether with such other evidence as may be offered by any interested party or by the Bismarck Water Supply company.” eters~} adrid; Wet the “‘laundrywomen of Madrid: are probably the finest of their profession in the world. Nowhere else does the linen come home so d2- lightfully clean and it is all accom- plished’ with cold water. of the windows of King Alfonso’s pa- lace any. day of the week, including Sundays, may be seen acre after acre of snow-white linen spread out to dry along the banks of the Manzanares. In the turbulent water of this creek. for it is nothing more in spite of its sonorous name, Virtually all the wash- A closer co-operation than that of; the Madrid. washerwomen can scarce- ly be conceived. Sone of those work- ing -here have been in the profession | over 40 years, not always as past- mistresses, for they. have to serve apprenticeship lasting many years | fore they are permitted to undertake ervoir is‘ located which seriously af- fected the force line of the water main ing it. At times the cost of maintaining this line of pipe was upwards of $7,000 a year. There also was difficulty in maintaining the intake in the, Missouri river because of revetment work in- stalled on the west side of the river, which ‘caused a shifting of the current and sand bars were built up around the intake. The N. P.'had difficulty in maintaining its first pier on the east side of the river for this reason, it is stated. The railway company at- tempted to correct this with a tunnel system.| The tunnel has resulted in a reduction of the slide in the hill but has not entirely eliminated it, the re- port states, / In 1907 a new Intake was installed Order a Long One The order of the commission, ¢over- ing 76 pages, of legal sized paper, type- written, goes into the history of the case, valuation of the plant and other matters. It recites the petition of the city commission of Bismarck, filed June 24, 1919, in the form ofa reso- lution passed by the commissign,,com- plaining that the water service was inadequate, water impure and ‘that rates are excessive for home corisump- tion, lawn and gardens, setting: out other complaints along this line. A hearing was held, extending from Dec. 2, 1919, to January 19, 1920. Briefs then were-filed. The attorneys appearing wére H. F. O'Hare, city at- torney, and C. L. Young, special coun- sel, for the city, and for the water company: L, A. Simpson, R. L. Fra- ser gnd Miller, Zuger and Tillotson. The history’of the company was re- cited.. It was incorporated in the state of West Virginia January 27, 1898. The charter expires in 1948, a franchise was.granted by the city May 26, 1886 to the Bismarck Water com- pany, ‘which was succeeded by the Bismarck Water Supply company. Slide in Hill The commission engineers reported that for yéars, and at the present time, there is a gradual slide toward | 1,800 feet below the old intake, which extends from the channel of the river to a suction well, The supply line from the pump to the reservoir was changed, and instead of being installed in a-straight direction that would carry it dipectly.up the hill to the res- eryoir it was installed in such a man- ner that it encircled the hill and leads to''the resser'vior' from ‘an easterly di- rection: By ‘installing’ thist main in thijs_manner.,the company avoided the difficulties previously encountered in the breaking of the line because of the sliding of the hill. Other changes in the system are de- scribed by the commission. Valuation of Plant tirThe final values of the ‘city as ai basis for rate making .were as fol- lows: City—Value of .physical property, $198,701.50; overhead, $21,755.33; go- ing value, none; working capital, $4,- 000—total $224,456.83. Company—Value of physical prop-; erty, $651,477.19; overhead, $77,200; ! going values, $55,150; working capital, } $13,000—total $697,657.19. Within sight | »Reproduced by permission New York Tribune, Inc., Copyrighted 1920, WASHING FOR MILLIONS IS DONE MADRID BY RIVER MANZANARES; WOMEN HOLD MONOPOLY OF WATERS work on their own account. A woe- i ful reception: meets any newcomer coming with a bundle of line to wash. All kinds of insults are hurled at her ; by the regulars; her linen. disappears as if by magic and is found again only after long search. Any man not an ordinary dirty linen porter is in even worse case. He is splashed with | Suds and is lucky if he escapes witn his clothing intact. { The experienced laundrywomen as- | Properly until she has passed 40 years of age. Till then she must work 28 ing for the million or so inhabitants; understudy to others, earning only ,of Madrid is done. the small pittance of one peseta daily while doing so. When she sets um for herself she at once takes appren- tices and rapidly amasses a modest fortune. er retire to enjoy their riches, for the call of the tub is too strong for them ever to desert the Manzanares until the final call comes. the river in the hill on which the res-!tion less.accrued depreciation) $395,-, 000; going value, $47,000; working | capital, $4,000. Total $446,000. and caused great difficult in maintain- |, Question of Adequacy Regarding the question of adequacy the commission recites tests made showed that during the operation of the centrifugal pump it failed to sup- ply the city by an amount of appoxi mately 260,000 gallons of that required, which would be approximately 6,000; gallons per hour. The commission says it is of the opinion that the com- pany should be required to install a pump of sufficient capacity to supply the maximum needs of the city. Another charge made by the city was against the booster pump. The commission holds that the charge of inadequacy was not fully proved. The commission found ‘the main failed to and that the pump could not be ac- celerated to the point necessary to furnish the service required. The remedy, the commission holds, is to increase the size of the main supply line from ‘the reservoir to the: city. This installation is requirew. It would be an unreasonable’ order to require the company to install) re- serve power for operating its pumps the commission holds.*The charge ‘made by the city thatthe. present mains in the distribution system are inadequate will be entirely removed by the installation ‘of,a larger sup- | ply line’ from the reservoir to ‘the! city. 4 5 Charges Against Water i All of the charges made by the city against the purity of water will be re- moved by the installation of an ade- quate filtration system, the commis- sion holds. The’ commission. found that with the introduction of chorina- tion whereby the water is treated with liquid chlorine, bacillus coli, has been entirely removed, with possibly one exception, in the spring of 1918. The commission found that special Commission—Cost of reproduction, ; total property including 14% over-' head, $470,000; going value, $47,000; | working capital, $4,000. Total, $521,-! 000.° Present value (cost of reproduc- | rates for. water have been granted the government for Fort Lincoln ,the city schools, Indian school, McKenzie, Soo and Northwest hotels, Northern Pa- cific railway, St. Alexius , hospital, sert no woman learns how to wash! It seems, however, they nev- | supply an adequate amount of water| ! CEDAR RAPIDS MAN DECLARES IT WAS “SIMPLY AMAZING” “Tanlac was surely the medicine I needed, for it has not only relieved me of all my sufferings but has built up my whole system,” said Ambrose Hickabsugh, 1657 South Second street, West Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “I had suffered from stomach trou- ble for four years. My appetite wag very poor and I had indigestion so ‘pad I could seldom retain a thing on my stomach and there was a bad taste in my mouth all the time. After eat- ing there was a feeling like lead in my stomach, and jf I ate anything the least bit hard to digest, I had terrible cramping pains, would bloat up dread- fully with gas, have severe headaches, and such awful ‘dizzy spells I just had to sit down: until they passed off. “I had but little strength or energy left, my nerves were so badly un- strung and my sleep so broken I could not get the rest I needed. “After reading several statements about Tanlac, I decided to try it my- self, and after finishing my first bot- tle the results are really astonish- ing. My appetite has returned and I can eat just anything I want without suffering a particle afterwards. “I no longer have headaches or dizzy spells and I sleep like a child all night. In fact I am a well man in every respect and owe it aX e Tanlac. "i Tanlag 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 Strasburg by Strasburg Drug Co. —advt. ———————— Hughes Electric company, city of Bis- “1 No Speclig Bates The commission orders: that these special: rates be discontinued, except that as large users of water these con- sumers' shall have the benefit of the regular scale for larger users. The commission holds. special rates to users of water, because of the amount used, should be open to all consumers and not to special consumers. Free water service such as has been given to officers of the water com- pany, former employees, attorneys for the company, churches, the city hall, Auditorium and street fountains is or- dered discontinued. : The salary of the superintendent is inadequate it is held. The commis- sion orders his salary increased ap- proximately $1,000 a year. A salary of $500 each for the president and sec- retary-treasurer is granted for 1921. The commission estimates the rates will provide a return of 8 per cent on the capital of the company. This, based on a valuation of $446,000, re- quires ah annual return’ of $35,680, to which must be added return for taxes, tc. making: the necessary gross Mbinount to prodace 8 per cent, $45,336. The order’’6t the commission is ‘signed by Comifiissioners Aandahl and Dupuis, Commissioner Milhollan dis- senting. TM-TOWNLEY STATE TICKET | Governor— J. F. T. O'CONNOR Lieutenant-Governor— _ JOHN F. McGRANN Secretary of State— THOMAS HALL State Auditor— 1 CARL KOSITZKY State Trensurer— JOHN STEE! se Attorney General— RHEINHART J. KAMPLIN ‘Commissioner of Insurance— {|., G. 1. SOLUM,, ‘ Commisisoner of Agriculture and ' Labor— J. T. NELSON Commisisoners of Railroads— | W. H. STUTSMAN E. J. KRUEGER H. D. ALLERT Supreme Court— A. M. CHRISTIANSON Superintendent of Public Instruc- ! tion— MINNIE J. NIELSON H Burleigh legislative ticket— | Senator—Lynn Sperry. { | Representative—Victor Ander- | son, Harold Semling and L. B. i Heaton. low & ~> JUST JOKING | ©. The Patient’s Pun Doctor—Be sure you drink nothing but pure water. Patient--But, doctor, can’t I. drink just a little vichy-ated water?—Bos- ton Transcript. satscrolol Like a Kimono He (in motor car)—This lever here controls the brake. It is put on very quickly in case of an emergency. She—I see, something like a kimo- no.—Automobile Journal. » What’s in a Name? Diner—Here, what d’you call this? Beef or mutton? Waitress—Carn’t yer ference? Diner—No! Waitress—Then why worry about it?—Sydney Bulletin. tell ‘the dif- WILL ROGERS (HIMSELF) Jakes by ROGERS WELL -. IM GLAD THEY'RE ‘ OF THIS INCOME | TAX THING — GONNA TAKE CARE 1 SEE HERE WHERE GOV. Cox [SAYS RES GONNA LOWER IT fog Ae ee WHAT'S NEWS TODAY? Drawings by GROVE SuURE- THEY LL HAVE “TO LOWER IT- PEOPLE AINT M AKIN’ ENOUGH