The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 29, 1921, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT if i BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE a THREE JOBS ARE ADDED THROUGH SENATE MBASURE, Upper Body of Assembly Passed Bill Broadening Poo! Hall Inspection All efforts of both independent and league members to convince the ma- jority of the members of the body that amendments were necessary in S, B. 18 designed to increase the scope of the attorney general’s licensing de- partment, proved futile. Senator Whitman of Grand Forks. who owns and operates a soft drink bottling works objected to the inclu- sion in the revised measure of “places where soft drinks are manufactured { or sold, or where cigars or tobacco) are gold,” and moved to strike out} that section of the bill. He insisted) that bottling works were already in-| spected both as to the plant and as to; haying its productg tested by the pure) food aepartment. Senator Nathan moved to indefinite- ly postponeaction on the bili, A io: tion to table this motion was killed, but the motion for postponement was, also killed 24 to 18. Senator Nathan then moved to! amend the bill to make it read “or) places where cigars, tobacco or cig: arettes are sold.” saying that while; “I don’t eat or chew or smoke to-| bacco. those that do ought to be al-| lowed to choose their own kind of tobacco.” This was killed. | The original Whitman resolution | wag debated at length and killed 31! to 18. “Whitman then moved that the/ words “are manufactured” be strick- | en from the bill and this was killed by a vote of 32 to 15. | Senator Bond of Minot moved to| change the bill to-provide tor appoint- | ment of two deputy inspectors as in the present law, inszeda of five. This | was also killed. Senator Ingerson declare: his opinion the cities and Villa should have the right to licen regulate their own places of amuse- ment, and moved to amend the bill} so as to repeal it. He was ruled out| of order by the chair. | On the vote on the final passage, | the measure as amended in the ways | and means committee was carried 35 | to 14, The clincher was applied. | The bill calls for the appointment | of five instead of two deputy inspect-) ors. | BISMARCK CLUB ENGINEERS ASK. FOR MORE MONEY Association Passes Resolutions | | Protesting Against Budget | peak Sea | The Bismarck club of the’. North Dakota Chapter of the American’ As- sociation of (Engineers : last: -night| adopted resolutions asking for more; money ‘for, the :highway department, not in’ the? past: spentany .great' sum for the next. biennial: period. They also went on record in ap- proval of the resolution introduced in the senate asking permission of con- gress to use the trucks and other ‘army equipment for other ‘purposes than highway building. | another from Deadwood to Spearfish: The resolutions follow: : To the Board. of Directors of the; North Dakota Chapter of the’ Amer- ican ‘Association of Engineers: The Bismarck, Cub at the regular | monthly meeting Jan, 28th, 1921, en- dorsed the following resolution: Resolves, that we, the Bismarck ‘Club of the American Association of Engineers do hereby petition the State Chapter of the ‘American Asso- ciation ‘of Engineers to protest against the inadequate budget for the State; Highway Department as reported to; the legislature by the Budget Board,| agreement whereby concerted action for the following reasons: 1. The budget is insufticient, The| best way to get such action is to put design and construction of highways when done economically and efficient- ly requires the supervision of compe-| tent engineers. To build up’a_per- manent organization ° of experienced engineers competent to supervise the building of highways that will be am asset to the state, salaries must be| hicles which make general use of the paid equal to those paid by similar | yignways, is perhaps. most prominent. organizations in other states. The salaries for supervising engineers, as recommended by the Budget Board, ; é 4 | tem of highways and a county system. than those paid by any! rhe federal-state. system would em- are lower ‘ looking a beautiful garden. noand named for the senator thay a wireless tower, Harding is expected to cruise until Febru: | Dakota’s highways. will come.in for | their share of legislation atthe pr eee These scenes show where President-elect Harding is | the left is the entrance to the Ponce de Leon Hotel, at St. Auguatine, Mla! The “Harding witg’ is shown on the right, the arrow ring indicating Harding's suite with balcony over- s the luxurious yacht Victoria, owned by Senator Freling- 88 tect long and has two 50 h. p. en- of the hotel gines anc Below WHERE HARDING IS SPENDING VACATION spendi s eldest daughter. It the Ponce de Leon for most of that month. % SOUTH DAKOTA “10 IMPROVE _ TTS HIGHWAYS Graduated License Tax on Vehicles Suggested. to Bring Revenue Sioux Falls, $8. D.. Jan, 29-—South ent session of the state legislature is expected. But whether the law makers take action or not, something is expected to be doné by the state early ini‘the year, in’'the:-way of pro-, viding, for the. construction. and -mai tenanee, of good roads: Ye Comparatively;’.South, Dakota: has of money for: highways.::!Ji:the’ Black Hills, where highways must'be:ca out! of, solid roek, approximately. 25 miles of highway have: been builtat a cost of $50,000 per'mile, One of these roads leads from Deadwood. to Lead; {and various sections of other -high— ways—tunnels, ‘cuts; etc—make up j the total mileage. Pi Many plans have been presented to the public for the construction and maintenance of good. roads. Several counties have had. the question before | the voters in one way or another dur | ing the past few years. But no accept- jable plan has been found thus far. Now, however, leaders of various groups are inclined to pool their ideas | and interests. and to come to some lean be taken; and it is believéd the the matter before the entire state jn one single proposition. | Of the various features of several plans madepublic, the Chambers. plan to do away with the present individ- ua] tax on. motor vehicles and to place a graduated” license tax on all ve- Another proposal contemplates. the establishment of.a federal-state: sys nt | state in the union having an efficient | 1. a+ teast one east-and-weat and highway department. one north-and-south highway across ’ | 2., ‘The budget system is detrimen ie state, each of which would con- tal to the welfare of the highway de- partment. (a) It is’ inelastic. En-| gineering costs are directly propor- tionate to the cost of the work done. ‘The majority of the State Highway commission are financed by the ap-; propriation of a fixed percentage of the money collected for uae Ae provement and maintenance. By this means of appropriating money the Highway Commission can pay salaries adequate to secure the type of engin-| eers needed for the work contemplat- | ed. If the work called for high priced! talent the commission can secure it./ (b) Good engineers demand good | pay and will not work forever on pay “that is not commensurate with their abilities. ‘To build up the desirell es- pret-de-corps in the highway depart- ment the employees must be made to feel that they will be rewarded for efficient service to the highway de- partment. Good. roads cannot be! built hy a political organization, 2 | MORE OIL "USED IN 1920, Washington, Jan. ,29.—Oil produc: | tion in the United States in 1920 to- taled 443,402,000 barrels while corm sumptiow of. oil in the United States; reached the unprecedented total of) 531,186,000 barrels. Despite the excess of LER aRTnRRIO oyer production the end of the year showed a net increas- ed in petroleum stocks of more than 10,000,000 stocks. 4 ‘The figures on oil for the year 1929 were announced today by the geologi-| cal survey. nect the highways ' of neighboring states: This system would be con- structed :and. maintained by. the state, with such aid from the federal gov- ernment as may: now or later be pro- ———— If you are not H you do great care must-be taken, as starting a motor cold condenses gasol out hearings, runs down batteri our heated ¢ Corwin Motor Co, . vided. The county highway system | would embrace all those highways not included in the federal-state sys- tem. |The pregent township system would \be eliminated under this plan. ‘Next to the question of financing the. choice of surface has been the subject of most debate. Nearly: every kind of surface’ has been‘ tried out. at one time. or another.. This: problem will probably be le to experts, al- though one proposed bill would ‘spec- ify that all highways constructed must be, hard surfaced. WILL REFUSE ANY ALCOHOL Chicago,’ Jan. .29.—Ralph” ‘Stone, prohibition director for this, dist announced that henceforth no more alcohol would: be delivered to five or more! well-known , patent... medicine manufacturers, | ‘Tradition’ says’ that the. Civil N wes ‘hatched. in -the’ old ’St. 'Charles hotel in Washington,” 3 e 4 202 4th St. Standing Out in the Snow Tonight? |... ng it this winter, would you} be. willing to pay ys $10.00 to-store it till spring? Or would you rather let the ice-and rust get in their deadly work? DO YOU USE YOUR CAR AND KEEP IT IN A.COLD GARAGE?’ re.on the Ground Floor in a. Private Stalland-Deliver at your home.” ~ Phone 700 ‘ his pre-inaugural vacation. 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Wilmot, who has been in | Bismarck since curing the war, will j leave this week for Chicago where he | will beccme district passenger- agent for the Northern Pacific railroad, with ' Chicago and Chicago territory under | his sunervision, Mr, Wilmot was with the Northern | Pacific in Milwaukee before the war, | and during the war was assigned to | Bismarck, to handle troop movements 'and transportation of drafted men ‘from the state. Later he was named |. special represenative in North Dakota | before the state railroad commission ‘by the United States railroad admin- ‘istration and has been with — the | Northern Pacific since: that time. like it, ‘but this country { 8 on | i the cli ; mate, and Bismarck, is a remarkably tyous. I like the people an nice city in which to, Hve.”” WILL’ LOAN TO. ~ HOME BUILDERS FROM PIERRE Bill to Remedy House Shortage Pierre, S.,D., Jan. 29.—Governor W. H. MCMasters home building program for South Dakota will be contained in a bill to introduced within a few days to ine festa, A home build- ing amendment to the constitution was given a substant majority by the people of the state at the last general election in November, and it now lies with the legislature to formulate and provide’for way. whereby the state may loan money at a low fate of in- terest for thig purpose. The proposed bill will create a home building department at Pierre. which will loafi money to accredited citizens, in sums;up to $5000 for the purpose of building, homes in the varfous towns .and cities of the state.’ The borrower will be required to own the lot upon WITH BLACKMAIL wien the home fs to be built and to Beulah, N..D. ‘Jan: 29.—Sander| Cotlow, a Bewlah lawyersis under ar} rest. on’ blackmail" charges. preferred by P..S. Chaffee, a banker of tl\ey place.’ i / Mr. Chaffee alleges jthat Mr. Cot- low threatened ;use-an> affidavit. charging that he had. ingde indécent, proposals: to: a woman,.unleds Mr. le money. . ‘the-imoney, Mrj: /,argested. i } i Instead , of payin have in cash a percentage of the-cost of the builling. hi Upon:making application for 4 loan, the municipality in -which the home is to be erected investigate the (Zh affee. had: the atiorn T/ Phone 951 Sy burns wuretar in a | Co ’ | “I rather hate to leave North Da- ikota,”, said Mr. Wilmot. “When I | came out here I didn’t think I would South. Dakota Will Introduce SATURDAY, JAN. 29, 1921 7 need of the proposed residence, the character of the borrower and his abllity to meet the obligation. A re- port of this investigation: will’ be ‘for- warded to the home building depart- ment. The department ‘in turn ill carry on a similar investigation and if this report is favorable will recom- mend ghat the money requested , he loaned? qj The bill will provide that the state assume no responsibility regarding the loan, after it has completed its inves- tigation and provided the money, the possibility of loss reverting to the municipality in which the loan was niade. A provision for small monthly pay- ments; about equal to moderate rentals {is made. At the end of 12 years these monthly payments will complete pay- ment of both the interest and prin- ciple on the loan. ° $1,233,880 IS ‘PAID TOSTATE | Carrying out the decree of Judge | Woodrough, of United States district court, the railroads operating in North Dakota have paid to the state treasurer, $1,233,880 for taxes. The .case arose out of the increased valuation made by the state board of equalization on railroad property. In the decree Judge Woodrough held part of the increase ‘valid, and part confiscatory. 4 It was announced at the time that the railroads were satisfied with the decision and would pay the tax. The town of Koenigsberg, Germany, in 1558, celebrated bologna sausage a8 the national dish by making one 600 feet long. DROP US A CARD On that card just ‘say that you are interested in insurance, Sign your name and give your address, We will calyand tell you about Hartford Fire In- surance and talk your — specific, _ insurance quesgion. Only the safest and best insurance companies gain representation through our office. Send a card today—or ‘phone. MURPHY: ‘The man who knows insurance” Bismarck, N..D. LAST TIME TONIGHT Gladys Walton “PINK TIGHTS” Here is really a big picture—because it strums a strain in harmony with the heart-strings, big because it touches depths of pathos and attains heights of sympathetic ‘humor seldom reached through silent shadows.. 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