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

PAGE FOUR RIsMARGE DA DAILY TRIBUNE Oki THURSDAY, OCT. 28, 1920. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D.MANN - =) 2's = Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. AYNE, 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 credited 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 Bismarck) . 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck: 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.. wee 6,00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) A WILDERNESS OF LIES When :Townley selected Neil C. Macdonald to make a drive on Miss Minnie Nielson, he deter- mined that his enmity to this woman should know no bounds. Instructions were issued to get Miss Nielson’s scalp at any cost so that the fingers of the soviet plunderbund could close around the school trust fund and employ that money to finance the wild economic dreams of the bank- rupt socialist. The litigation to oust this woman from office is now a matter of court record. Miss Niel- son tis! vindicated! at every turn of the road by a supreme court sympathetic to the league, en- dorsed by the league and elected through the grace of Townley and Lemke. Those sinistey forces still at their work of slander and inuéndo continue to ‘lie about Miss Nielson’s qualifications. They know that they dare not go to the court decision concurred in by every member, of their own supreme court, but they take portions of the evidence in the casé of McDonald vs. Nielson to injure her standing as an ‘educator and to accomplish her political ruin. Voters interested in the truth need only go to the supreme court decision where the case was appealed by Ed. S. Allen, nonpartisan league candidate for states attorney of Burleigh county, who was one of the attorneys selected by the Townley cohorts to aid i in the persecution of Miss Neilson. This is the unanimous decision of the North Dakota slipreme court pon the qualifications of Miss Nielgon: “It appears from the record in this case that the defendant, Minnie J. Nielson, on November 27, 1900, received from the superintendent of public instruction a normal certificate under the provision of Section 738. The result of the, ex- amination taken by her is endorsed on the cer- tificate. It appears therefrom that she was ex- amined in 24 different subjects, including meth- ods of teaching, history of education, pedagogy and psychology. It also appears that in the sub- Editor ae jects enumerated. she_ received very favorable; marks, J@ wt “The ford also fiscloses that on December 8, 1902, the then superintendent of public instruc- tion issued a professional certificate to the de- | is paramount to any other, as he states it. ‘President of the National Nonpartisan League, on May 80, 1918, sent the following telegram to Washington: ‘Do not be misinformed by politicians. The farmers of the Northwest cheerfully acquiesce in your decision fixing wheat prices on the basis, of the 1917 crop.” Townley asserted that he represented 45,000 | farmers. The bill failed to pass thavHouse. The price of wheat remained at $2.20 per bushel at the terminal, which is approximately not more than $2.15 and as low as $2.11 at the county elevators of Minnesota. The farmers of Minnesota lost hundreds of millions of dollars in 1918 and in 1919, largely because the efforts of labor and the advice of A. C. Townley to keep down the price of the farmers’ wheat were successful. These are documentary facts which cannot be | disputed. Gas has been struck in the midst of Buffalo but it may be old-fashioned political enthusiasm, so long suppressed, has burst forth. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being dis- cussed in the press of the day. : SOCIALISM AND THE INTELLIGENT One of the slick things in the Socialist propa- ganda has been its sophistry in answering the appeals of ambitious persons. , “What will become, under socialism of the arts and sciences?” the Socialists are’ frequently asked. The stock answer has been: “We shall encourage them more than ever. All persons of talent will have opportunities to develop. The State will care for artists and wrigers,:who often under the pocividualsie system’ are driven into sordid work.” aid Mr. H.:G. Wells, who is a Socialist"as well as an artist, has} beentin Russia watching :socialism’s practical test. His first announcement on com- ing back is that unless the outer world provides a refugee colony for men of science, art and the other learned professions the Russian intelli- gencia will be exterminated, Mr. Wells says Russia can never be regenerated or governed without the class he wants to save. But all that Soviet Russia promises them is starvation or execution. Another gold brick is tested—New York Her- ald. teat DO WE LEAVE OR DOES MR. TOWNLEY? So it is to be a question of who will be per- mitted to remain in North Dakota—Mr. Townley and his horde of Socialist office holders, or some 55,000 independent voters and their families? That is the issue Mr. Townley, with the assist- ance of Governor Frazier and William Lemke, is presenting to the voters at the coming election. The independent voters haven’t made the issue. They are willing that Mr. Townley and his Socialists shall remain in the state. All we want to do is to separate them from the public payroll and have them go to. work for a living. But Mr. Townley has made the issue, and it He CHART T SHOWS HOW SOCIALISTS ARE THE CONTROLLING POWER OF N. P. LEAGUE EXECUTIVE COMMITTER)- B.C. DORMAN & M, EISELE EUGENE TEUTSCH’ Q, 8,-RIRKPATRICE LELAND L. GRIFEITR | NATIONAL CONMITTEEMAN. ARTHUR LESUEUR BOVE—A reproduction of the let- the socialist party of ter head of North Dakota in 1914, just ‘before the Nonpartisan league was organized. i i { Below—Facsimile signatures showing tow the former socialists stepped into the Nonpartisan mportant. posts in 4\ -azue. fours ve! “tly, vo Secfe ead’ WATIOWAL NONPARTISAN LRAGUt NATIONAL NONPARTISAN LEAGUE, ORGANIZATION DEPARTMENT SOCIALIST PARTY or NORTH DAKOTA acres is below iving area and ‘crease of labor and the reporters com crease in the number of farm cause for alarm. more efficiently and at less coat concentration im ow $1,000 or more.” Im other words, the farm of less th BEURETARY-TREASURER;, GO. 8. YOUMANS: ‘STA’ ORGANIZER: ©. OC, DORMAN RAY 1. COOPER ehcp shenome aha nave receded ‘and forced ship in other lines of ‘There were twenty-six men on eighty bor tere farms apd only one of them made a labor iocome of #1000, Of thé twenty-five men on 160-acre farms one in five made io the point of profitable operation. Thi nce income It ja rather © sign that land is being that the same produc This is a complete confirmation of the: Socialist theory of concentration, but scarcely carries comfort to the: small farm vner who is being forced into the ranks of tenants and hired fendant. This later certificate was concededly the. ,frankly and cold-bloodedly threatens that if he highest certificate issued in this state at the | is defeated he will return to this state and drive time it was issued, and at all times between that ' out of business and out the state, the men who date and July 1, 1911.” ‘lrefuse to support him and his money digging Every member of the court signed this de- | enterprises. cision which in addition pointed out that Miss All right. Nielson had acted under this certificate for a Let’s accept that issue. period of 16 years before she was elected to the Surely the self, respecting farmers of North office of superintendent of public instruction, and | Dakota are not going to follow. these Socialist during this time the validity of-the certificate | carpet beggers into such a battle as that. It was never questioned. isn’t really a question, therefore, of whether the The court had the following to say about Mr. | independent voters will stay in North Dakota, Macdonald’s motives at that time and it applies | or not. We are going to stay whether Mr. Town- with equal force now to Townley and his hence-|Jey is victorious or defeated, and we are going men who\are relentless in their fight on Miss|to keep right on fighting him. But the real Nielson: question is whether a man who will make such “If the plaintiff in good faith believed that the | threats, is going to be permitted to have any- certificate held by:the defendant was invalid-and| thing more to say about the government of the properly subjett to revocation, why did he fail! State of North Dakota. to institute proceedings for revocation while he If the voters of this state are not a flock of was at the head of the educational department | rabbit hearted cowards; if they have an ounce of of the staff? His failure to act then is somewhat | pride and fighting spirit in their makeup, a threat significant and might well be held to estop him | like that will merely make them fighting mad. from speaking now.” ’ Such impudence on the part of, this convicted The political knaves who are going about the|seditionist, this bankrupt grain gambler, this | state questioning Miss Nielson’s qualifications | itinerant Sccialist politician, ought to make every’| should be silenced by the decision of the Townley | citizen of the state resalve that he will get into | elected supreme court. Arthur C. vouched for} this fight as he never did in any previous cam- these men and wanted them on the bench and placed them there. Even though their decision on Miss Minnie Nielson’s qualifications does not conform to Town- ley’s rule of justice, The Tribune believes the voters of the state will take the unanimous find- ings of the supreme court in preference to the wilderness of lies in which the league speakers seek to obscure the real truth. TOWNLEY OPPOSED AN INCREASE An interesting second chapter of the fixing of the price of wheat is presented in the amendment of Senator Gore to the Agricu!tural Appropria- paign. \ Any man who won't resent this slap in the | face, hasn’t the spirit of an American citizen. } He doesn’t deserve to live under the flag of free- | dom. Johnny Baer was go: g to “raise so much Hell | in North Dakota” he woul make us wish we had | | sent him back to Congress. 1!>w Townley, Lethke and Frazier have adcpted the same platform. Well, the independent voters of ihe state, men’ and women, may do a little Hell-raising on their | own account. If we know anything about the average. American voter, he is a rather easy- going person who may be led at times by honeyed tion Bill before the United States Congress in| phrases and empty promises of political spell- May, 1918. This amendment was to fix the price | binders, but he’s a most difficult person to drive. of wheat at $2.50 per bushel under the Lever | He doesn’t submit to browbeating a little bit, and Food Act for 1918-1919 crops. The Gore amend-|it is our guess that 55,000 independent male ment passed the Senate by a two-thirds vote, for | voters, and 60,000 to 65,0000 independent women making the price of wheat $2.50 per bushel at| voters are not going to let one lone political the elevator. agitator blackmail them into voting for him on The bill was then sent to the House with good} penalty of being put out of business and driven prospects of its being passed, until A. C. Townley, !from the state if they refuse—Fargo Forum. tary. ‘Weare for the Sou Order of Phings, SATONAL NONPARTIUD LEAOE NR Lora. | ‘THE NOUPARTISAS LEAGUE,' BS p ager Consumans: uurreo STORES COMPANY . (00 ooent ovaeey ¥ ] Dibfmon, mi ale H H Office Manager ornece or erate cxamiNER STATE.OF. NORTH DAKOTA Oinwancn i The Experiences | Of Hiram Wise | & INTRODUCTION “Hiram Wise” is a farmer of the old school who believes in the “emancyashun o’ humanity.” Be- ing a forward looking man, he is one of the first to join the Non- partisan league when its organ- izers visited his community. While his varied experiences are told in story form, practically ev- ery one of them has been dup- licated in ‘real life. “Bobs’” speech has been writ- ten in dialect in order to carry out the general idea. It is “Hir- am” who is doing the talking, tell- ing the reader of his experiences with the Nonpartisan league in emancipating North Dakota. —The* Author. XVH—THE FRUITS OF INIQUITY. “At the time you joined your orgau- izashun,” continued Bob, “you were told that you were bein’ discriminated | | against in the market place, that you Were bein’ cheated an’ victimized, an’ you believed it. The men in charge of | ; your leag promised you that if you } would give them your support at the! election, an’ placed them in power, they would correct these evils. They would build you a terminal elevator !an’ packin’ plant, they would lower your taxes. Your elevator is still a j hole in the ground, your taxes are higher than ever before, an’ your rur- al credits bank is at present mixed ap | jin one* of the rottenest political schemes that wuz ever pulled off in any state. “The men who were «placed in| charge of it are being openly charged th embezzlement, an’ the way ‘t is bein’ managed is a scandal un’ grace—if these things are true. In- stead o’ bein’ a benefit to the people of our state, as it was intended it should be, it is a political stink nole, whose fumes arise to the high heav- ens an’ call for vengeance on those who have so foully betrayed the peo- dis: |: ple. The ones who should be singin’ its praises, are busy takin’ apologies fer continuin’ its existence. an’ one o’ the , biggest dailies in the state has said the key should be 4urned in its lock, as it has ceased to be an asset an’ is only a liability. In short, my friends, the Bank of North Dakota should be rechristened ‘The Bunk of Townley an’ Lemke.’ “Nearly four years have passed ‘The Socialist viate the condi ‘What Socialism Will Do for the Farmer. Party proposes to do all in its power to alle ion of the fa ho sow works with his own at it is et ioe: te the fact: ate of wealth on the farm shall jon with thoae of the i fctory to obtain the ownership of the Notera-Carl , D. Thi oon ‘f the’ Information Det Nation Socal taedand ay the ne had iblatty-operated + toon Program adopted at our tional Convention plfdg the party to the enactment of a series of measures espefi derigoed to aford relict to the great clss-ol workers 0 2, ‘The Socialist Party demands that the means of trans [ tige! and storage aad the plants used in the manufacture of products and farm machinery shall be socially owned and democratically managed. 7 2 To geevent the holding of tand out of cae and to eliminate tenany, we demand that all E®@) ° The supreme court, in its ballot case decision, officially found that the Socialist party. had disappeared as a party in North Dakota. Where did it go? “CORNS' Lift Right-Off ‘Without Pa‘ Z Doesn’t hurt a bit! Drop a little | “Freezone” on an aching corn, in- | stantly that corn stops hurting, then | Shortly lift it right off with fingers. Truly! Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of |“Freezone” for a few cents, sufficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the calluses. without soreness or irrita- ion. work has been her slogan. Moreover, whatever. position she has been called upon to fill, even her enemies must acknowledge that, that position has been filled with credit to perself, and with all honor and fairnegs to others. A READER. Editor Tribune: Kindly let me give a comparison of farming Seventy-five years ago there lived a farmer named Prunty. in the immediate neighborhood of where I was born. Mrs. Prunty excelled at raising calves. a pet calf and’it was a beauty. She took. it to the faimand sold it for three pound-fifteen shillings; dteabout $18 of our money, pocketed the''cash and went home. The calf was home nearly as soon as she reached there. She took it to another town and sold iv for 4 like sum, with like results. Altogetlier she sold the calf 20 times. But at/last she; was arrested. Vic- tims swarmed to prosecute. She hired’ a lawyer and told him she’d give him one price of the calf, or $18, to get her out of the difficulty. He agreed. and she,,pot being preposses- ‘sing, he told she to act the fool in the matter, which she did to perfection. Her attorney told her when any of the lawyers or the judges asked her any question to look foolish and say “Him —Nabocklish.” She did as ordered, and after a long time the judge ad- vised the jury to bring in a verdict of not guilty, because she wasn’t re- sponsible for her acts. Th€n her law- yer went to her for his fee, She smiled and said ‘“Him—Nabocklish” and maintained her point against. the man that saved her. Now our farmers are ‘on a par with Mrs. Prunty’s victims. They should forget the $18 and when Townley ask- conditions. The accompanying illustrations show very plainly. Nearly every matr-€d-tliem for a-véte'say “Him—Nabock- who was active in the Socialist party when it was trying to, put over its] ideas in North Dakota, and could get a scant following among the farmers, ‘for their own benefit, lighten our tax- in the state, now is in office or power in the Nonpartisan league. A. C. Townley’s name appears as state organizer for the Socialist party. Tkere is ‘the name of A. E. Bowen, Jr., , Arthur Le Sueur,.who is now cam- paigning for the league, Carl D. Thompson’s name appears as the national campaign manager for the Socialists Bank of ‘North Dakota to “solicit funds” and he is now in the state campaign- h ing for the league. in 1916. He was empowered by the There is the name of O. E. Lofthus, state, bank examiner, and others. A score of other Socialists of three or | destines of North Dakota. Will the farmers, who rejected Socialism urider the party name now accept the Socialist leaders and doctrines under another name? since you first elected your men to office, an’, what has been accom- plished by your organizashun? By this time you should have a fair sam- ple o’ what you can expect in future years. To be sure you have what one ‘o’ our supreme court justices facet- iously called ‘the hinky dinky mill at drake,’ an’ another fellow said -if it had a handle he could pick it up an’ carry it off.’ But how has that solved your wheat problem? It seems to me | that in four years you have a right to expect more than that for the money an’ time you have spent on. your or- ganizashun. “In skort,’ friends, if there is any man here tonight whe feels, that -hethas actually been bene- | fited’ by the present adminigtration I want him to-step to the front o’ this stage. I want to see him!” Fer fully,a minute I saw each farm- er Jook’ aroun’ at his friends an’ na- bers. I felt that it wuz a critical mo- ment. I knew that each man there wuz like myself, searchin’ the inner- most depths o’ his heaft fer the an- swer—an’ what did he find? It wuz all embodied in one big question mark. (To Be Continued) | PEOPLE'S FORUM | oo Eran ied et ea MISS NIELSONS QUALIFICATIONS Editor Tribune: Im the vicious attacks “on the quali- fications of Miss Nielson, we see the chief spokesmen for the N. P. L. riding rough-shod and blaring, defy- ing even the unanimous opinion hand- ed down to us by the’supreme court ‘of North Dakota in the case of Mac- donald vs. Nielson, Oct. 10, 1919. In this case it is proved to the sat- isfaction of the court that Miss Minnie J. Nielson is the holder of a profes- sional certificate, $Certificate of the Highest Grade,” required by superin- tendent of public instruction, in our: state. ; tional department of the state? four years ago now are directing.the provisions of section 738, supra. Th ‘result of the examination taken by her is endorsed on the certificate. It ap- pears therefrom, that she was exam- |jned in twenty-four different subjects, ‘including methods of teaching, history jof education, pedagogy and psycho- ogy. It also appears that in the sub- jects enumerated she received very favorable marks. The record also | discloses that on Dec. 3, 1902, the then {superintendent of public instruction issued a professional certificate to the defendant. The certificate refers to ¢|the previous normal certificate issued to the defendant, and recites that she has spent two years at the state unt- versity and. performed twelve years of successful work as a teacher. The jcertificate states that the defendant has given satisfactory evidence that she possesses the necessary qualifi- cations of moral character, skill an.J education to instruct and properly manage any high school of the state; and that therefore, the said superin- tendent of public instruction has granted to said Minnie Jean Nielson the professional certificate WHICH SHALL BE VALID FOR LI.” “Records show :that Miss Nielson had been actively engaged in teaching, and as superintendent of Barnes coun- ty schools for sixteen years before intendent of public instruction, and {during that time the validity of her certificate had not been questioned. The court-goes on to say that: “The statutes provide & plain, speedy and adequate method for revocation of teachers’ certificates. If the plaintiif (Macdonald) in good faith believed that the certificate held by the de fendant was invalid, and properly suh- ject to revocation, why did he fail io institute proceedings for revocation while he was at the head of the sage is failure to act then is somewhat signi- ficant, and might well be held to estop him from speaking now. Judge Christianson, in giving the opinion of the court, goes on to say. “lt appears from the records in this case that, the defendant, Minnie J. Nielson, oh Nov. 27, 1900, received from the then superintendent of pilb- tic instruction, a certificate under the BEAR OIL for pe fae INDIAN'S SECRET t 0 0 ae ones suececi te ote aaldnets | fallin en recy Own fs on, waorad futile. . $300 Guarantee at a ing sults in gases considered Hopwiess indian Bee ag be Y et remain bald if you can tae bane gee Nave. conguere aanire, ot ston! ‘otalko, why may rot ye ureoTa Ko ‘at any busy drug store cents, silver or stamps. for BROC PaROOF BOX of Kotalko to “Inasmuch as we are of the opinion _ that the defendant (Minnie J. Nielson) is possessed of the qualifications pre- scribed by Sec. 1105 C. L. 1918, it be- comes necessary to express au cpinion upon the constitutionality of that sec-, | tion. The judgment appealed from must be affirmed. It is so ordained.” Judges Birdzell, Robinson, Hanley and Christianson CONCUR IN THIS RESULT. The foregoing is the final opinion of the supreme court of North Da- kota in support of the qualification for superintendent of public instruction of Minnie J. Nielson. In addition to the above, it may not be amiss to make clear to the friends of Miss Nielson that, after receiving her normal certificate in 1900, it was wholly consistent with the character if Minnie Nielson not to be satisfied until she reached her goal—a. profes: sional certificate in 1902, earned by giving the necesasry time to study at J.B. Srittain, Inc,, Station F, New Yor... the university: All her life, study and ' And live your life alone she was elected to the office of super- ; the right people in of- ep the money at home lish” and pu ‘fice, that will] es and give a square deal to all. T. J. TULLY. 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