The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 9, 1921, Page 1

| >=</THE BIS CK TRIBUN FORTIETH YEAR BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1921 a Last Edition PRICE FIVE CENTS - BUSINESS MEN | BEHIND EFFORT. TO BOOST LAND Hundred Business Men Attend Dinner at Which Immigra- tion Work Is Talked | WANT , OPTIMISM | STATE! ASSO ear] Speakers Assert That Perma-, nent Optimism Is Necessary " —Want County Agent One hundred business and profes: | sional men of the city voiced their! approval of the Bismarck Immigra- | tion Association, formed by real es-~; tate men of the city, at an Opeu Forum dinner held at the Grand Pa- cific-hotel last evening. It was one} of the largest Commercial club dinners ; held in several months, and the pro-; posal to make an organized effort. to bring settlers to the Slope country was received with énthusiasm. i A permanent state of optimism was! decreed by the business’ men attend-| ing the dinner. Utmost confidence was expressed in the future of the Slope country, Examples of men who had come into North Dakota to settle! on farm and had made good were’ pointed out. H ‘President Young, of the Commer- cial club, introducing the . speakers, | declared that a better feeling. ‘be- tween town and country was an abso, lute ‘necessity and urged a permanent spirit of optimism, | Thinks It Bect Place. \ Olbert Olson declared’ he was firm in the conviction that there are more. possibilities in. North Dakota than in any other state in the union. (He de- clared that North Dakota people as a whole are in better financial shape than most states. He said he haa seen statements of eastern states, in- cluding amounts of farm mortgages, etc., and that none of these state- menta were as good as that of North Dakota. D. T. Owens declared that “Bis- marck will not grow unless you de-| velop the country. If the country goes back this town will go back.” He asked business men generally to get behind the organization-and to keep the boosting spirit when pros-' -pecuve settlers are brought to town: He cited statistics comparing the and Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, TELL OF ELECTION PITFALLS _ LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS | SEEKS ELECTION REFORM | Future Influence of Women in Politics Hinges on Action Taken; i i at National Convention at Cleveland ‘ | | | | | i | i | | | i | Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, above; Mrs. A. B. Pyke, at left, | right. ‘ 1 : | ATCONSUMERS STORES 10 G0 THEIR OWN WAY Would Leave Consumers Co-op- erative Organization If Judge Approves THREE®STORES CLOSED Status of Consumers Organiza- tion Being Considered in Court ‘Hearing —Asserting that stockholders Minot, Ap! he represents in 2 of the 3¢ ed Consumers Stores company scattered through- out North Dakota, R. A. Frazier, of Crosby, was prepared to go Into the district court of Ward county today to opnose the appointment of W. G. Johnson, as receiver of the company.. Frazier, a member , of the Nonpartisan Icague, Is clerk of court. of Divide county. This unexpected opposition to plans worked out by officials of the company, who had brought ap- plication for appointment of a receiver hetore Judge Moellring, . resulted in postponement of the hearing until this aiternoon, Frazier Is prepared, he says, to demand the appointment of C. W. Retchert, of Carrington, a 3 partsan league state legistator, as receiver, .Frazier and his backers charge mismanagement on wart of company officials, The content is that the Faro. of- fice of the comzany has been mainta‘ned at a cost, * $4, 4 month, whieh the: sive. Another element which entered the case was anneyneement by two creditors of: the. :company from Garrison, N. D., that they would oppose appointment of a re- ceiver on ground that the com- pany Is solvent, Fargo, April 9.—Stockholders in 12 of the 37 co-operative stores in North Dakota of: the Consumers United Stores company have made arrange- ments to break away from the, parent organization and continue business as independent units. Alfred Knutsou, J at least 50,000 spectators and will be’ WOMEN NOT SUBJECT TO SCHOOL | POLL TAX, SAYS JUDGE ROBINSON WORLD FISTIG BATTLE 70 BE STAGED JULY 2 Rickard to Pick Site for Demp- sey-Carpentier Match in New Jersey | | i | vides Every Person May Live Without Paying Head Tax TALKS OF COURT WORK H Chief Justice Robinson, in a Satur- day Evening Letter, says: | April 9. 1921. In this letter we are | Tequested to advise the assessors. and | the people if women are subject to a ‘school poll tax of one dollar a year, |The answer is no. Neither men nor | women are subject to such a tax. The constitution provides as follows: Secion 174: The legislative assem- Bly shal! provide for raising revenue : sufficient to pay the expense of the oon pare! anean ay. aver .| State for each year, not exceeding in constricted arena will) not be an-|2?¥ one year four mills on the dollar nounced until Tater but selection of! ° the assessed valuation of all tax- : t je | able property *in the state. Se NGoani pe pied te stent | Section 175: No tax shall be levied, This was officially announced there! °x¢ePt in pursuance of law, and every this afternoon by Tex Richard, who; imposing a tax shall state dis- will have sole coutro).of the arrange.|tinctly the object of the same, to ments and presentavion of the match.) WHich only it shall be applied. Rickard will inspect sites in allj, Section 176: Laws shall be passed three cities during the next few days: taxing by uniform rule all property and decide on the one which offers; 2¢cording to its value in money. the greatest advgntages for handling’ Section 179: All property (with a what is expected to be the largest as-| 3Pecial exception) shall be assessed in sembly of boxing enthusiasts that) tHe county, city, township, town, vil- ever witnessed a_ pugilistic bout,, lage or district in which it is situated, Wherever located the arena will geat|in the matter prescribed by law. Section 180: The legislative assem- close to New York. bly may provide for the levy, collec. Dempfey, as heavyweight champion | tion and disposition of an annual poll of the world and Carpentier in the! t#x of not more than one dollar and role of challenger and title holder: fifty cents on every male inhabitant will compete for 60 per cent of the) Of this state over twenty-one and un- gross receipts, der fifty years of age. pS aren, i What Revised Codes Provide, | The revised codes provide: GREEKS SUFFER *| Section 1224: The county auditor |of each county shall at the time of making the annual assessment and DEPRESSION IN (levy of taxes levy a tax of one dollar Government Statements Are {on each elector in the county, for the | support of the public schools. . Meager! News Being Kept From People WILL SEAT 50,000 PEOPLE New York, April 9.—Jack Dempsey and George Carpentier will battle: for; the world’s heavyweight pugilistic! championship within the state limits | Section 1961: Each male person be- tween the ages of twenty-one and fitty | years shall be, subject to a poll tax ‘of one dollar ‘and fifty cents, which must be paid in money or by one day's labor in eagy year on the public highways within his road district, at ithe time and place directed by. the road supervisor. | You will note that Section 180 ot | the constitution does not authorize the Athens, April 9.—(By the Associal- Declares That Constitution Pro- ‘ “Action sia will be taken to deter- By Newspaper Enterprise. Poievelond April. 9.—The. future in- mine whether a fight shall be made on i for passage of a separate bill estab- fluence of: women in politics, througn reforms in election laws and methods, lishing independent citizenship , for women. Today a wife’s ciizenship is will be ‘largely determined by the de- cisions of the National League of Wo-| determined by that of her husband, jf she marries a foreigner, she loses yield per acre of. North Dakota with other states, In 1919 North Dakota’s corn yield per acre was 33 bushels, to 16 tor Kansas. 26 for Nebraska and 38 for South Dakota. Time ia Rive. Major Frank Henry said that the organizer of the company, announced ites today. The Consumers United Stores Palin abana oh is it fe went into voluntary receivership 18° |’,agylaties inflicted upon them by thc month h Turkish nationalists have caused The 13 stores have made arrange-| great depression here. Official: state ments with W. G, Jonson, secretary | ments are very meager and are in- treasurer of the company, and {8 |terpreted to mean that the govern- levy or disposition of any poll tax, only males between the ages of twen. | ty-one and fifty years. The prior sec- tions above quoted contemplate that all. property shall be ‘taxed- by uni- | form rule and that it shall be assessed ENGLAND CALLS , VOLUNTEERS T0 COMBAT STRIKE | “Safety Workers” Also Asked as Government Settles for Big STRUGGLE 2,000,000 MEN INVOLVED Signs of Revolt Against Execu- tive Workers Committee May Change Conditions London, April 9—(By Assocl- ated Press.) — Premier Lloyd- i George, according to both the Pall Mall Gazette and Evening News has made a new peace proposal to the triple alliance, It Is un- derstood he asked that a proposal be submitted to the miners that where “safety men” were unavail- able the government should be al- supply the labor necessary to supply and labor necessary to safeguard the coal pits against permanent ruin, London, April 9.—(By the Associat- ed Press.)—Recruiting of -volunteer workers and “safety workers” was energetically begun by the govern- ment today and other plans were per- fected to meet the threat of a wide- spread strike and involving direct'y about 2,000,000 workers, Meanwhile, however, reports from various parts of England, Scotland and Wales indicate that the triple al- lance, executive board may have more to do than the mere issuance of its strike decree in order to bring about a general cessation of work by the 'Jgilway men and the transport work- ‘ig who, with the miners, make up the inembership of this big labor organi- zation. From the Glasgow, Liverpool, Car- diff, Edinburgh Union of Railway Men comes word that the rank and fije are challenging the right of way men’s national bait, y. call a strike without balloting by. the men. GUARANTEE OF DEPOSITS 'S TURNED DOWN men Voters on proposals to be sub- mitted by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt | to the league’s second annual conven- tion here April 11. Mrs, Catt, as chairman of the lea: gue’s committee on election laws and miethods, is counted on to supply the, surprise of the convention. , real estate men were trying to “bring in new blood, new spirit, new enthusi- asm, new settlers.” i “There is no’ doubt but. that the people in Iowa, southern Minnesota,! southern South Dakota have come ta. the conclusion that they ‘had better quit paying rent and come to North; Dakota and buy homes of their own.| * A veil of deep mystery has been’ If the people of Bismarck boost Bur-; drawn over the proposals to be made | leigh county land we can sell it.” ; by her with regard to election re-| i we E. Haney, employe by fhe nev fornia, while outlines of the Tenorts ly formed association to go to South) of all other committees have been! Dakota to seek settlers for Burleigh’ submitted to headquarters, Mrs. Catt, cone cf nis inet a on has declined to give any indication of | ration art-i the nature of her report. i ment, and he said that within the last Jt is Lente: Lawaree that the! year hundreds of farmers in the in-, recommendations may deal first with ieee pine sstion hed mare the plans for greater participation and in- Gore. Wek toward Nou Dakela Y* fluence by women in local political af- Uraing @ reeves ‘tit of town town! irs. This is an off year in national | and eonntry, he said ‘the country ‘had and: state elections, but, 1 ive: year not forgotten when townspeople went when the: majority of municipalities into thé fields during the war aud and counties elect their officials. helped save the crops, nor many other! Increase Power, { By concentrating on obtaining a instantes of co-operation. on 0 Mr, Young called on numerous men larger share in local election matters this year, it is suggested, the women her American citizenship. If a for- eign woman, marries an American she becomes, automatically and without ‘any naturalization, an American citi-| zen. Some. believe action may be ob- tained best by an amendment to the naturalization laws, but the more ag- gressive favor a distinct and inde- pendent law dealing only with the subject of women’s citizenship. Men to Speak. Although it will be a women’s con- vention, several men will address the committees on matters under ‘consid- eration. Senator W. S. Kenyon, author of the packer regulation bill which died at the last session, will speak on “the Government and Public Welfare,” Houston Thompson, chairman of the 1 Trade Commission, will speak vernment of Monopoly” and Dr. 'c. C. Pierce, assistant surgeon gen- eral of the Public Health Service, will discuss problems of social hygiene. | Words of warning, from two women | experienced—as woman's experience ; tt i | | i i goes in matters political, will be sound | * —land was sold for less than at the dinner for short talks: will be able to present demands more “Less than It is Worth.” father Hiltner spoke of the lack of: effectively next year when they come forward with their program for re- inflation of land values in the state, and declared that North Dakota is’ forms in state and national elections, one state where he actually believed While Mrs.‘Catt’s proposals for a program of election reform laws, be ed by Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton and Mrs. A. B, Pyke.’ both of Ohio. Mrs. Taylor, vice chairman of the executive committee of the National Republican committee, and Mrs. Pyke, temporary receiver by which they each | ment ig holding the truth from ‘the! by law, and that all taxes shall be pay their share of the general indebt- edness of the company and assume local debts, Mr, Knutson said. This arrangement for breaking away from the corporation is subject to the approval in a nearing on the receivership by Judge Moellring, iu Minot, N. D. today. Three stores have been closed. They are the ones at Langdon, Rugby and Strassburg. The stores which will operate. in- dependently are at Hillsboro, Lari- more, Aneta, Cooperstown, Kulm, Pet- tibone, Carrington, New Rockford, Fessenden, Turtle Lake, Powers Lake, and Sherwood. The action is accepted asa decision to abandon the general plan of organ- ization of the Consumers Stores. COUNTY SHOWN ' IN GOOD SHAPE BY REJECTIONS People. Mobilization is proceeding slowly it being reported that only 25 out of !for taxation in the manner provided Minnesota Senate Refuses to Re- ; levied on property or property valua-| consider Vote of Postpone- tions and not on persons. Hence the| | Purpose of Section 180 was to author- ment every 100 men have answered the call! ize a Mmited head tax on certain male; gecTRL RAD to the colors. 1t is sald in many parts, persons; but neither Section 180 nor; gt. Paul, April 8.—By a vote of 17 of Greece there has been, flat refusal | any other section does authorize 8 to 42 the senate refused to reconsider on the part of reservists to respond, second or a third head tax. Hence) the vote by which thd Welch vote, a to military call, ithe statute imposing an annual head! compulsory bank guaranty measure. | Funeral Services for Rev. Will Be Held Monday Rev. Charles Hamilton Brown, rec- High commanding officers are blam-/ tax of one dollar on each elector of | passed in the house recently, was rec- ed for many tactical blunders. | the county, regardless of age or s€x,; ommended for postponement by the | male or female, has a right to live; St. Paul, April 9.—The senate today ‘and prosper without paying a head by a vote of 24 to 31 continued the Now with regard to the progress of; nesday, our supreme court, you should know | —_——— OF 64 YEARS: Tuesday | WOMEN’S VOTE :each month Ten days before the com-| |The calendar is arranged so that on | | each day, two, three or four cases are} tor of the Episcopal church at Man-| guments it becomes the duty of each! ! following an illness of ten days. | mit to the other judges an opinion on, ( : by | Rev. Brown was well known in the| the cases alloted to him, and also to| Tennessee Supreme, Court ;Sus tains Governor Roberts —_—_-—___ is void. Excepting as provided by the senate committee on banks and hark- MANDAN RECTOR | tax or tax on his or her life. | special order on the tonnage tax con- the court now holds mon | mencement of a term the clerk makes! IS UPHELD BY {set for argument and the attorneys | | Episcopal church in the state, and! consider all opinions submitted. On’ ! constitution, every person, wheth27| ing. : DIES AT AGE | Progress of Court, i wtitutional amendment to next Wed- \ commencing on the first Tuesday of Brown a court calendar of all appeals on file. | {are notified. On conclusion of the ar-| COURT ACTION | dan, died last night from pneumonia, judge to consider, formulate apd sub-| | st Sa many leading rectors in the church! Tuesday and Friday of each week the member of the Democratic National/Government Crop Loans Not) are expected to attend the funeral! judges meet in conference and discuss it is cause they involve the whole future of women’s influetice at the polls, is the center of interest, the coming conven- tion will deal with many other import- ant issues touthing women’s affairs. Plans will be laid for continuing | the a for laws to help the house- wife’s fight against the dost of living. Includéd in these are: Federal laws for the regulation of the meat packing industry; for great- ‘er appropriations for studies and in- worth. ‘Thomas Hall declared that people know that we have good land, know that the farmer who farms well and systematically will make a success, and urged the diners not to let their wave of enthusiasm ebb-with the end of the end of the meeting, but to keep boosting all the time. W. E, Holbein said that the Minot immigration. organization had raised $5,000 for advertising purposes, urged employment of a county agent, citing struction in home economics} for cold committee and the first woman dele- ; gate ever selected to a Democratic | convention, will spedk on “Pitfalls in} Politics.” Discussion of these pitfalls may g0 far toward shaping the decisions on Made in Many Cases Because of Lack of Failure services, which will be held Monday.! and consider the cases and the opin- Born in England, Nov. 18, 1857, Rev.' ions formulated. When three or more Brown came to the United States and| judges concur in an opinion, they sign | settled ‘on a homestead near 'Park/! it and it is filed with the rlerk. Un- Nashville, Tenn., April 9.—The Ten- | Nessee supreme court today sustained | legitimacy of the process by which | Governor Roberts certified to the fed- ‘eral state department ratification hy Mrs. Catt’s recommendations for elec-| tion reforms which, it is expected, will disclose not only pitfalls but real traps for women in present election procedure Mrs, Carrie Chapman Catt, above; | Tt ‘aga f applicati f B Fa River, Walsh county, in 1882. He was Isighacounty {armors for. theteueral | Cobuey county auditor of Weleb cone: seed loans has lessened in the last’ 1¥ fOr nearly, aaa ave _ jder a ten day rule a judge who does; the legislature of the woman's sut- frage amendment to the constitution. {not concur has ten days to dissent. ‘When the majority of the judges have; ‘The court affirmed the action of few days, according to Frank John- son, county auditor, A large number of applications of | Burleigh county farmers have been) | ‘Brown came to Mandan five years’ ,; . i leo 2 signed an opinion, there is no rule ¢f; Chieg Jusice Lansden in issuing writs i . senatorial courtesy by which any} under which the governor acted. | Judge may hold up the case for more} During his residence in Mandan,; Rev. Brown took great interest in the | than ten days, Formerly a judge dis- Masonic lodge, being a member of all } senting might hold up the case for a |JURISTS CHOSEN | rejected, because they cannot qualify) \fagonic bodies there, and also of El Zagal temple, of Fargo. The funeral services on eee ton Erne Mrs: Har-' ander the government regulations. | The regulations stated that only farm-| jers who had crop failures last year can get loans, and very few farmers} examples of the growth of the potato raising industry in Ward county through the efforts of the county agent, and declared that within two tyear or-more. Thus it is possible to Monday | conclude the business of one term be- will be in charge of Bishop Tyler, of fore the commencement. of another. Fargo. ; When the April term commenced all TO CHANGE TEXT OF THE COVENANT storage regulation; protection of co- operative associations; for extended work in social hygiene and for the regulation of conditions affecting wo- years North Dakota would have the best good roads. law of the nation on the statute books. “The trouble with North Dakota,” he said, “is that there has been a line’ of demarcation drawn ‘between the town and country. It is wrong.| There is the town business man and the country business man—and the age fegitimate co-operative associa-) farmer is just as much a_ business| tions; to establish more uniform laws _ Man as the man in tqwn.” ; for marriage and divorce; to equal- men in industry. State Action, y State action, along uniform lines, will be urged to restrict profiteering and the hodrding and waste of food; to establish public-owned markets, abattoirs and milk depots; to encour- U.S.STARTSON BUILDING PROBE Chicago, April 9,—Three hundred} werkers and contractors were sum- | yield in, 19: in Burleigh county had crop failures The section of the regulations under which most applications from Bur. leigh county are rejected is convained in a paragraph of a form Ictter, as follows: , “Your application shows & 20 which cannot be consid- ered a failure. In general we cannot approve applications which show a yield of more than five bushels crop! of; The funeral will be held from the|the busines of the March term was church. ;completed. The slate was clean; Rev. Brown was very active in civic| there was nothing left undone. And affairs, and was known throughout! in the same manner we hope to con- the Slope country. !elude the April term, and each suc- Two daughters and a son survive.| ceeding term. e i JAMES E. ROBINSON. LISTS NEW FRIUTS, Brookings, S, D., April LOCAL BOXER 9.—The | Has Origina) Homestead. jize the property rights of wives witn. moned before the United States dis-| Judge W. L. ‘Nuessle told the diners} those of husbands and provide joint’ trict attorney when the government | that he believed he held a record’ guardianship rights over children; ex-| took a hand in the building probe| among those present. He said that! tension of mothers pension laws, and_ here. - | wheat per acre in 1920 or an approx-' imate equivalent of other crops. These equivalents would be about 8} or 10 bushels of barley, 10 to 12 IS SUSPENDED | South Dakota Agricultural college hay | Published a néw bulletin listing the (fruit and tree creations and discov- ‘eries of Prof. N. E. Hansen, especially adapted to condtions in North and Geneva, April 9—A committee of jurists was chosen to consider amend- | ments to the text of the covenant of the League of Nations. |POTATOES FALL IN MICHIGAN Travers City, Mich., April 9,—Pota- toes sold for 18 cents a bushel on the market here. It was the lowest prico reached in many years and was due to the receipt of thousands of bushels growers had been holding for higher he still had the homestead he took; fyller co-operation beiween state ——_——_—_—_—_ : | - + itt iu c 4h Is of flax. (Continued on page 2) | committees on American citizenshir. WAR RISK HEAD Rees oe ote faoe that “oans can B y COMMISSIN South Dakota. | prices since last fall. : AAS, | ‘only be made to those who had crop | . EFFORT 10 CHANGE ENFORCEMENT IS REAPPOINTED Washington, April 9.—Reappoint- | ment of Col. R. G. Chalomley-Jones as | director of the war risk insurance bu-| reau was announced today by Secre- failures in 1920 on account of drouth,, you cannot qualify.” FIND MISSING NAVAL BALLOON i Finlayson Draws Ire of Montan- i na Men After Being i _ Knocked Out SOUTHERN PLANTATION OWNER IS | HELD GUILTY OF SLAYING NEGRO OF PROHIBITION BRINGS SPLIT some prohibitionist, and on the other hand, has been declared a champion of prohibition by friends of his home state, Ohio. i | tary Mellon. | | \CANADA IS HIT | Washington, April 9.—Representa-| tive Wood, of Indiana, caused a split in the house of representatives when Miles City, Mont., April 9.—The’Cus- Panama City, April 9.—The naval|ter county boxing commission last baloon which has been missing with | night ordered the suspension of BE. five men since it left the Pensecola| Finlayson, a Bismarck, N, D., boxer, Li BY SLEET STORM he announced the introduction of a Ve bill to take enforcement of the pro-| *Those who argue for a change to re 5 hibition law from the internal revenug| the Department of Justice hold that it} Winnipeg, April 9—As a result of! bureau to the department of justice. | is* not the function of the internal|a severe sleet storm throughout revenue bureat, which collects fed-| southern Canada which extended Drys are expected to vigorously op- | { pose the transfer of the enforcement] eral taxes, to be engaged in enforce-| across the international border into work to the Department of Justice.| ment work, and that the enforcement) some sections of the United States) Attorney-General Daugherty has been| properly is a part of the work of the| telephone end telegraph wires are | declared to have liberal views ty! Department of Justice. down. i in the gulf late yesterday by a fish- ing bought and brought here today. No trace of the reew was found. Within an area of less than 12,000 square miles, Belgium has 1,500 miles of waterways. | naval station March 22 was picked up| on ground that in asserting himself \to be the light heavyweight champion | of the navy he was guilty of misrepre- | sentation. Finlayson was knocked out lin the first round of a bout with Sil- |very Perry, of Miles City, last night. |The suspension, it was stated, auto- j matically bars him in 17 states. | Covington, Ga. April 9—John S Williams, plantation owner was found Buily by a jury here today of murder in connection with the Jasper county peonage cases. The jury récom- mended mercy. The verdict carries with it automat- ically a life imprisonment sentence. Williams was arrested as a result of investigation by federal officials of aljeged peonage on Georgia planta- tions, Williams admitted on the wit- ness stand that he was guilty of peonage under the federal interpreta- tion, as he bonded out negroes, but he said that other Georgia farmers were guilty. ‘He denied the murder. <A negro farm boss, however, told the jurr how 11 negroes were killed by being thrown into the river weighted dowa with stones.