The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 1, 1921, Page 4

or Pay PAGE FOUR Game THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered. at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D.; as Second Class Matter. ix, GEORGE D. MANN - = - - Editor, Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT + Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg.| i PAYNE, 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. H 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) «2 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck... 5.00 Daily by mail, optside of North Dakota ............ 6.09 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) - <> THE SCARS OF WAR Yow’ll be interested in this: Official report of London register-general re- ports birth rate per 1000 of total population in England and Wales during 1920 reached the highest. figure ever recorded, being 25.44. And too, this will be worth your reading: The War Mothers and Widows of Italy have offered to decorate the graves of Germans who fell in Italian battles, suggesting. in there mes- sage to Berlin women’ that they decorate the » graves of Italian soldiers’ buried in Germany, "year. and that the mothers and widows of each coun- try “remember the fallen ones of the other in their prayers.” The scars of war quickly heal when nature and the human heart combine to effect a cure. YOUR INCOME AND YOUR CAR The question that thousands of American fam- ilies in convention assembled, are asking right now is: “Can we afford to own a car?” A maga- wine foy motorists, has tried to answer that question. That answer divorced from details, is that a man with an income of $1,600 a year, a little over $30 a week is entitled to at least run a car cost- ing $600, the upkeep of which is fixed at $400 a That estimate is figured on a country basis, where one keeps his car in his own garage. The evpense of.the same car in the city is listed at $700, demanding an income of $2800, and the : whole business being based on an estimate that a man ‘is entitled to spend one-fourth of his in- come on car maintenance. In the suburbs a man is expected to have an income of $2224 to pro- perly maintain a flivver and in country $1936. The magazine says that it will require an in- come of $2380 to keep a $1200 car, at an expense of $595 at home; an income of $4884 to keep a : $1750 car; an income of $7880 to keep a $2500 ear, and an income of $9064 to keep a $4000 car car in the city. ANOTHER GOA¥’ FOR WOMEN The National Woman’s party is going to try “to remove legal discriminations against wo- men.” ‘ . In the past one never knew whether he had to dodge a brickbat or a bouquet when Alice Paul’s =; Pepful followers rallied ‘round the picket ban- ‘pe Be % i . e Ee | 4 i 5 i 5 j PS { i a 4 oe i aaa | j ner. Whether one agreed with them or not as to their unprecedented methods of campaigning, nobody questioned their courage. Many things entered into the late suffrage victory. Years of patient, educational work on the part of women whose hair is now white and whose feet move haltingly, laid_a firm founda- tion. > : , They suffered the ridicule that comes to pion- eers, . They had the steadfastness of purpose to keep right on when there wasn’t a ghost of a show of theiraminning out? ‘ Slowly im opinion changed to favor “the cause.” ryouiikk, tirst. state to grant. equal suffrage, adopted it largely as the result of a joke. But from Wyoming to Tennessee, the “perfect thirty sixth” there has been no turning back. ~ 5 Eight years ago Alice Paul, a young Quaker, oe a group of progressive women. about ner. “Let's concentrate our fire on Congress,” was her call to her clan. real The rest is history, or at least, first page pub- licity. But the battle is not yet done. ‘ “To remove legal discriminations ‘against woman,” the new task the Woman’s party has cut out for itself, is no small one. The most ultra-conservative can find nothing objectionable in that goal. But when it comes to altering laws already on the statute books there are several ways of doing it, none of them easy. MEETING AT THE GATE City people will have to meet their country cousins at the gate, insists J. R. Howard, presi- dent of American Farm Bureau Federation, “if; city consumers wish to profit by rural co-opéra- tion. Farmers are not, he intimates, especially concerned with lowering the cost of living for the city man. Rural marketing programs are intend- ed to bring better returns for farm produets. Being human the farmer is thinking most of himself, and his own problem. He is organiz- ing,.in a large measure, so that:his. produce-will THE BISMARCK TRIBU: | bring him the cost,of production plus a fair pro-| fit. He has learned that this cannot be done if, he confines his attention solely to production ; he) must have a hand in the marketing, But he believes, according to Howard, that! his marketing problem is ended, as far as he can solve it, when he has delivered, his product to the mill, butcher and grocer. From thence on it is a city man’s problem. If the city consumer is content to have waste- ful delivery: systems, duplication of stores, cost: | ly credit appendages, and other extravagances which add so highly to the cost of food, that is, the farmer asserts, the “city man’s funeral.” | By “meeting. at the gate’ the Farm Bureau, Federation means'that city consumers should or-| ganize cooperatively, eliminate waste and useless | hands, take the food from the producer’s hands} at markets and terminals, and distribute it in a more scientific, thrifty, manner than ever has been! done before, i The fatmer is serving notice on you that he is| not going to solve your cost of living problem.| That's up to you, he believes. He will though, | Howard promises, earnestly cooperate with con-| sumers who will cooperate with each other. WITY DON'T YOU PLAY? When Edward Bok, noted editor, retired from | business, he did so, he said, to play. Playing| to him, meant: “cultivating diversions, amore!| time for good friends, fine sportsmanship, good | health, and the satisfaction of his stored-up long- | ings and dreams of many years,” years when bus-| i iness did not give him leisure to play.’ i But-he is one of the few persons who can work to take up play. He can retire from ness... To the great majority this is impossible. But it ought not be impossible to take off some hours of Every day to play. ~ ; We can be wise, within the limits of business. | We can play, in our leisure time; sensibly, pro-} fitably. oe before. It is hailed as the great national topic, a medicirte. j Walter Camp urges one kind of play—regular health exercise. To Sir Edward Grey, fishing; and, hunting are indispensable. * Field Marshal Haig withdrew in the midst of intolerable pressure on the western front, from time to time, and played golf on the quiet links: of France. | If Haig could do that, why must you keep, your nose to the grindstone all the time? Theodore Roosevelt played. Harding does. Wilson plays, when his health permits. Bur- roughs, and Ford, and Edison play. Why don’t you? : i But all these men do something themselves: when. they play. : 5 They are not content to sit down and watch a Ruth or a Dempsey, or to follow a Chick Evans about the links, or Man O’ War going round the track, They play actively themselves. Labor saving devices, shorter hours, and the closed saloon are producing more leisure time, in all our lives. Ina city of 10,000 there are four} times that many leisure hours. ‘ How will they be spent? In what kind of play | or diversions, or satisfactions or hobbies? A national organization, called Community Service, with headquarters in New York, has) heen organized to assist communities all over the' country to put into the leisure hours of life abund- ant chances for all the people to enjoy life with play and profit. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy! Or man! It, too, maketh of Jill a mighty dull! lady. - drop busi- | | | | It'll soon be warm enough for the young lady | down the stréet. to worry about, the street light illuminating the front porch hammock. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column ‘may or ‘may: || not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are i presented here in order that our readers may have both eldes of -important issues which are being dis- cussed in the press of the day. q 7 ONLY ONE WAY OUP The North Dakota league farmers ought to see| by this time that the reason checks and drafts | issued for the current expenses of state, county, | city and township government are returned from the Bank of North Dakota, not paid, is that the state administration has spent the money raised for other purposes in ‘building houses, flour mill, elevators and loans on real estate not due for thirty, years. The administration now blames “Big Business” and big bankers and. Wall Street. for this condition, but offers no plan to repair cr restore the losses which are certain to occur, : Soon there may be a stoppage of the wheels of the state government, and salaries will be paid only in warrants that may not be cashed for menths to come. The payizent'of the 1920 taxes is not going to be very prompt or very large. The state industri se tet going ahead, sal- ‘aries of state officers and legislators’ are not} paid, and salaries of other state employees may not. be forthcoming very long, although the in- stitutions can run on credit for a time; but the, schools may not be able to do so as long as the penal and charitable institutions. There is only one way out of this hole and that is to back out, and the sensible law abiding peo- | ple of the state unite to remove the source of; the obstructions, by cleaning house and putting, the state back on a business and cash basis and | stopping the waste of money and the enormous) ‘ taxes.—Jamestown' Alert, Play is today being preached as never | News Note—Senate votes $10,000 to make the grapefruit squirtless by crossing with the tanger‘ne. PEOPLE’ Editors Notes~-Communications relative to the proposed — recall election are earnestly solicited | the Tribune irom members of any political faction ov from readers who have no special political ai- tion, These communications ould be kept within 409 or 500 words and be signed 2s an evi- dence of good faith, but names will not be used if the contri buter does not desire it. That Recall Eleetion Personally 1 am not in favor of re- call elections in cases where the of- ficers sought to be recalled are elect- ed for a term of only two years. Such recalls neccessitate spedial ,elections, We have now two many state wide elections, and spend‘too much money to elect our public servants. There are other reasons why I con- sider that we should go slow in rush- ing into a recall election, In the first place, such a. campaign will be a most bitter one. The class hatred which Townleyism started will not dic if we permit the fires of hatred to be fanned by another campaign so soon.. In the second place the gospel of truth which the Independent Press has been spreading for the last two years has not yet reached the rank and file of the good honest farmers of North Dakota. years, every organizer who poured tle poison of hate into the ears of the honest farmer, took particular pains to tell his victim that the Forum, the Grand Forks Herald and the — Bis- marck Tribune were controlled: by the enemies of the farmer. A great mi. jority of those victims read nothing except what they read in the Townley papers. : ; 1 have another reason against a re- call at this time. For'l really believe that none welcomes ..2. recall today more than Frazier and Lemke. I be lieve that the Townley program is ‘| by a state official: 4 For the last four} Hail Insurance Editor, The Tribunes i The following letter was received Hl Malden, Ill., Feb. 21, 1921 Dear Sir: This letter is in regard to the flat and indemnity hail insurance as as- sessed in North Dakota,on real estate. Jan this assessment be made again- st land that is owned in your state when not applied for by the owner My land is a quarter section of un- improved land situated in Sec. 9 Town ship 134, Range 92, Hettinger county, N. D. near Mott. Part of this land 80 acres is raw prairie land. I am enclosing last years tax re- ceipt’ showing that. this hail tay amounted to $17.20. This year my taxes aré $94.58 showing that the hati tax is probably higher this year. I have never applied for any si i surance and do not want it. I expect to haye it refunded both for last year and this year also, and if your reply is not favorable I will appeal to the federal government at Washington. This land. cost me $25.00 in trade when T enlisted in the navy in 1917! or $4,000. | _L would be pleased to know why they have reised taxes on it from $39.00 then to $94.58 for ghis year? ; We heard much about. the help in obtaining lind while in the servi and after in the golden west, where | ABOUT RECALL. In their consideration of a recall election many of the I. V. A. oppon-} ‘ents of the Nonpartisan crowd, are continuing the talk that something} must be done to save the mill and elevator for the farmers, Isn't it a fact that it is directly the mill and ele- vator problem that put, the bank in such deep; water? Wouldn't the bank »ve stood.a much greater chance of | succeeding ‘had ‘its- manager. ignored { "work and patience and some money| | they would be tickled to death to pass/ jon John Steen? beginning to “smell” so badly, that) the mill and elevator? Isn't it pos- sible that the mill and elevator and Homebuilders. Association program is the cause and the bank only the ef- fect? Why dispose of the contagion and retain the disease? To a fair- minded person in this part of the state, the burden to othér shoulders. Why ; should we force the putrid corpse up;) But if a recall must come, I do not) | i | Squirt WHERE | \T MAY, EH, WoT? , | > ele snight award.us in time with a litte | house and place. I have my land paid for without! help from any of these gift mad en | thusiasts of yester-year. | ‘The taxes on 80 acres here in Il-; inois is worth $400.00 per acre or! $16,000 amounts to less than the; taxes on my raw piece of prairie pessibly worth $4000. I have made strenuous efforts to sell! it at this figure without results. Is it) any wonder investors and homeseck-| ers are steering clear of North Dakota | when in every state you, hear of the! state sucialism and the _Townley!| League there? Where confistication | is tne reward for patient sewing ana.) industry. Socialistic and anarchistic| methods can destroy without the use; of fire or mombs, but with other meth-| ods almost equally damaging. The} American Legion stopped this propo- ganda in Kansas and Oklahoma less than two months ago. | This letter is very accurate in re-| gard to: sentiment through the east} and as far south;as Kansas,City where | I spent» the months of Nov. and Dec. of last year. Regaraing your state. 1 am not acquainted | farther south. If you are interested in your state} you will be interested in my: letter, of inquiry. Please answer it by return mail 1s! my tax statement says they are due Feb. 28. This is Feb. 21 or only a} week away. ; Very truly, WARD R. MORRIS. vith sentiment | What State Papers Are Saying of Recall the majority will object to sending | good money after bad money. But it! is probably the thing to do to submit} the matter of a bond {ssue to complete | the mill to. the people. If they don’t | want it they can-say so by their votes. | Then-there is the rural credits law! and the non-political ballot law,” We have no doubt of the passage of these}! laws. : x The plan to hold a delegate conven- tian is the only sensible way, one | matter, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1921 The! legislative sessions: closes this week, and not a single measure look- ing to the relief of the state;has been | passed. An honest investigation of | uhe sfate bank and industries has dis- closed colossal loses; the bonds which {Were authorized two gears ago have not been sold and wiil not:be sold un- til certain radical’ changes aré made in the state government, changes which amount to a repudiation of the, industrial] program in fact. We honestly believe that the great majority of the voters are by this time thoroughly convinced of the fal- lacy of attempting tu solve any of the farmers problems by socialistic meth- ods, and feel that*it is a good idea to again submit the question of issuing bonds for the mill and elevator pro- jects. If they stand for them, all well and good, but few have little faith in them and if they pass it will be more fcr the purpose of saving what we can out of the wreckage than be- ca ise of a desire to make any further efforts along industrial lines. With the situation confronting the People our only hope of the restora- tion of the state to a normal condi- tion is through’'a recall. How badly we need this restoration every citizen in North Dakota knows without a fur- ther recital of our deplorable state. League. leaders are promising that if recall petitions: are circulated they will also start recall action against independents. So.much the better, for the independents in office will be a source of strength to the rest of the ticket which may be named. °, If there ever was a need for the submerging of personal ambition for the careful selection by the independ- ents of the state of candidates who are men of probity, and men oi ability, irrespective of any other. considera- tion that need exists rignt now. Can- didates for attorney general, gover- nor, commissioner of agriculture and labor and at'}ehst’{wo members of the supreme hott ‘bE ‘Nelected with the greatest care. a ‘The name of R, A. Nestos\of Minot is most frequently mentioned in con- nection with the governorship. He is clean cut, capable man, was a for- idsble candidate last spring when he gave ‘way to Mr. Langer. Lewis fF. Crawford of Sentinel Butte, Wesley McDowell of Marion and Senator ‘Steel of Jamestown have -been men- , tioned. There is plenty of good, | strong material, men who should be drafted for the job, rather than men who are office seekers. If we are going into this contest, let us profit by mistakes of the past. Let’s not forget that the campaign is on from this hour; that it is not a three or four feeks’ affair. The Non- partisan league makes its campaign twelve months in the year, and if the league organ advises its. farmer sup- porters to summer-fallow, and fight, there are just.as many anti-league far- mers who can do the same thing, while for the business interests, it is just as well to remember that until this rotten situation in North Dakota is cleaned up there can be no busi- ness worth while. Uur first and most important business is to cut out the cancer that is undermining tie state. —Mandan Pioneer. SEES BIG FIGHT. If the recall election is going to take place—Mr. Townley ‘says it won't— but then he is oly expressing the hope that it won’t—it will not be held until avout the last of June we are in- formed by those who are in a position to know what they are taking about. The facts still remain,; however, that those who have this idea in hand should go slow an2 careful in this It means a very pitter fight to recall, state officials and once the fight_ig on there wilt be no chance to let ‘up {intil the polls are closed. The . Jeaguers will retaliate by putting over a recall election on independent offi- craig and thus we will probably see the whole official force, of the state ad- | ministration under the gun this gum- mer. It is too early yet to toll who will head the independent ticket as a | candidate for governor but the man most talked about in this connection is R. A. ‘Nestos,.of Minot. Mr. Nestos has-been most fortunate in keeping out of these political scraps and should he be the man selected can go before the electorate of this state with a clean record back-of him. ‘(He is well qualified for the position and shauld- be successful and ought to make the state a fair minded, cap- able official, George Schafer, Watford | City, is most talked of for attorney general. We know very little of him. where candidates can ‘be named, men ; These are only conjectures, of course, nota the Eeople demand to serve] snq we are further told that a dele- fem and pull them out of the hole,/ pate convention is to be held soon to and not necessarily men who are am- bitious politically. It is going to be aj man's sized job to restore the state to | "ace in the event this election is cal led. ‘The only thing to be considered choose the men who are to make the, jany Committee of “21”. 1 think the decision should be left with frankly. state that | have:no more respect for |some of the leaders of the Independ- ation than 1 have for Townley, Frazier or Lemke. 1 ‘am not referring to the rank and file’ of the Independents, I speak of only those who seem to think that they have a mortgage upon the independent thought of the state. Before any Recall petitions are cir- culated, and before and Recall elec- tion is called, I believe that there should be called a sreat State-wide convention. I believe. that Judge Spaulding, as State Chairman of’ the Anti-Townley Republicans should i sue such call for convention. In t call, each County, in the State wou be asked to hold County conventior formed by elected delegates from each voting precinct in‘the county. The County convention would elect dele- gates to the State Convention which should be called at\some central par I suggest that the State convention be held at Jamestown. When the State convention would meet, it should first decide whether or not to hold a fecal election. The delegates would bring to that conven- tion the consensus of opinion from the several counties. “Such convention should also decide upon what officers should be recalled. And further such convention could decide upon whit laws, if any, should be initiated. If such convention decides upon i recall, then there should be pla nomination the best men of the And a campaign organization pert: ed. If such a convention upon a recall election, T will t my coat and roll up my sleev enter the campaign with enthus But some how or other I cannot en- decides thuse under the leadership of Everson; and Nelson. | Yours truly, \ JOHN A, LAYNE, Chairman 1 Campaign Comm ®- against which the recall petitions will] * be directed. i we are confident that Lynn J. Frazier ; the mill and elevator at the most, i have not and would not: offer relief to the south and south west portions ate; while the Homebuilders tion activities have been con- centrated in Bismarck and Fargo. If | the farmers of the eastern portion of | the state still feel ..ey want the mill end elevator project, let the state give them the hel’ finished industry. It would be cheaper by fav than to ac teinpt to operate them on a political basis. There is no reasva to velieve that the Independents wouid succeed with these industries any better than the party which had fathered them and when the designers and promo‘ers | of state industry fail in its manage: _ment, it szems about time to boist it out of the state program. A change in officiais-is no more desirable than \a change in the program which the officials will be expected to carry out. Marmarth ‘Mail. THE RECALL ELECTION. | The decision of the Committee of, 21 to hold a recall electién does not come as a surprise, for with the ex-; posure of the manner in which state officials have handled the peoples’ money, have-disregarded all law and{ common sense there was but. one course to pursue. We are for a recall. We want, to clean up the stdte, and we don't be- lieve this is any time to advance the personal political ambitions of any- one. ‘Sor that reason we again ap-j prove of the plan of the committee! to draft candidates to fill the offices If personal ambition had not been allowed to rule last spring, wouldn‘t be governor today. There is little question but that the: ed laws which it is proposed to submit to the peop'e, which are cor-| rective will pass. We heven't as much! confidence in the pa ge of the mill and clevator’ law, for wa, believe the * gocd people of the state_are sick and an orderly government after the pres- ent administration has turned it into/ a shambles. And it isn’t going to be the easiest thing to convince the kind of man that is really needed for the! job that he ought to give up his time to the state. ‘ And in picking out candidates, theré is only one consideration, that is fit- ness for the place. The question of party affiliation, nationality, creed, oc-\ cupation or location needs be thrown} to the discard. The one idea is to get a big enough man for the job, for | every office that we propose to change, And after the experience the state has gone through, we are confident the voters will ratify the choice made on just the simple ground of fitness— Mandan Pioneer. THE BUSINESS OF A RECALi. ‘North Dakota will be the tirst-sicte in the union to invoke the recall egainst its governor and certain other state officers. The recall is a meas-' ure that needs to be most sparingly employed. It is in certain emergen- cies a peoples’ safeguard, but it can be made a mischeivous and dangerous weancn. There are many extenuating cir- cumstances in applying the recall atl this time, and it may not be amiss to- recount them. By their vote on really crucial questions of state policy last fall the independents won; the vote showed that no longer were the ma-} jority of the voters in sympathy with! the so-called league program and the} a The initiated laws) were carried by from 10,000 to 20,000 and this in reality represented- the Strength of the independent vote.) Only the fact that the league candi-) dates profited by being in the Pisfub. lican Colim 1, wnder the names of, Herding and Coolidge saved them from being retired with the same vote as marked the loss of league meas- ures. In, the legislative’ contests the! independents were successful anl only the holding ,over of a few senators, prevented the legislature from being, .i tired of the state industries and that! antileague in both branches. ‘ t this time is is to whether it is ™d- Visable to call this.election or to wait until the end of the present term of she state officials now, holding down the jobs. Many level headed men, who have studied the situation, think that to call an election at this time is foolish, claiming that the people will have had. enough of this bunch, by the end of this term and that it will be easy to beat them out at the next’ general election on account of the poor record they are making. On the other hand many other well post- ed men claim that the only way to settle things in the state and to re- store confidence is to go to it and turn the rascals out and there you are. Anyway' there is going to be a big fight on in this state this summer and. you cannot get away from it.—Valley City Times-Reccrd. Combings from coilies and other long-haired dogs have teen made into yarn and garments. WIRES OLD SCHOOL FOR BANK STENO One of the first things F. Sv Dundas did when elected cashier of the Security State Bank, Fairview, Mont., was to wire Dakota Bus- iness College, Fargo, N. D,, fora capable stenographer-bookkeeper. Mr. Dundas was himse'f a pupil of this old-established school which has graduates in nearly 600 banks. Over 200 ex-pupils have become bank executives. Big firms in all lines prefer. Dakota-trained employes. “‘Follow the SucceS$$ful.’? Write F. L.. Watkins, Pres., 806 Front St., Fargo, N. D. Ask what is gaine ed by enrolling for Spring Term.