The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 2, 1921, Page 2

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, 1. D. as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MAN! : @. LOGAN’ PAYNE laravett: “ice i: wei iat a4 BURNS AND SMITH : Newiwor! § ST? BURNS AND SNIR Ith Ave. dg peri: era eS 2 jociated Press is exclusively entitled to the use wee uhearion of all news credited to it or not otherwise hed in this paper ‘and also the local news publis! All Fights of publication of special dispatches herein are tatives MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year .........beccccseevecses Daily by, mail, per ‘year (in Bismarck) '........4... 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck... 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota .. THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER . (Established 1873) * > : THEY MADE YOU FREE One hundred and forty-five years ago ‘this Fourth of July, a group of “down-east Yankees” put their heads in a noose by signing the Declara- tion of Indeperlence. That document gave birth to the United States. It fgrever ended rule of Americans by kings. To it you owe your political independence and re- publican self-government.” When the Declaration of Independence was signed, July 4, 1776, the battles of. Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill, had been fought, and Washington had taken charge of the Continental army. i : ; With that much of a start toward independence, it would seem that the Declaration would have gone through speedily. . But Congress was nearly as slow in those days as now. ae The first resolution of independence was. intro- duced June 7 by Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia. It was debated; referred to commtitee, and nearly a month went by before it was adopted: As with ; first opposed, to severing British rule hed| V28 delegated to write the formal Declaration of| ‘4 “The second day of July will-be the most mem- walked“the streets of Philadelphia in solitude, borne down by the weight of care and unpopu-! larity,” _, Of the delegates from the 18 original colonies, | ‘| those from Néw York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, | were at! ‘ Maryland, Delaware and South Caroll Thomas |Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia and| ; Independence. epee eae mae He went about it leisurely—rented a room on a second floor in a quiet neighborhood and had a carpenter make him a special desk three feet high) and 14 by 10 inches on top. On this table, he’ penned the Declaration, probably with his collar off, for that June was hot. ' The document came within an ace of going into the waste basket. Jefferson was gloomy as it was! debated. Ben Fianklin sat at his elbow and tried to’ cheer him up with funny Stories. ‘ Meantime; the public, cursing Congressional! delay, melted up lead plate into bullets and shot their way toward freedom. ae \ x July 2, not the Glorious Fourth, is réally Inde- pendence Day, for Lee’s resolution severing us; from, England was passed in secret session the second of July. Jefferson’s elaborated and formal document was passed and signed two, days later, and was-not made public fintil the sixth, ==” “Phe date doesn’t make much difference. What really counts is the Declaration’s great principles of individual freedom, ‘The best com- ment Was written July 3, 1776, by John Adams‘ to! his wife: orable epoch in the history’ of’ America. I am.apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. ‘It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliver- anée, by solemn acts of ‘devotion to, God Almighty. It ought, tb be solemnized with pomp and parades and shows, games,~sports, guns, bells, bonfires | and illuminations, ftom one end of this continent | to the other, from this time forward forevermore.” ees vided, * John Adams, who for two years had been bold- ly advocating independence, wrote: all big questions, the public was di- “I was SATURDAY EVENING LETTER , (By Chief Justice Robinson:) What say you of my path waylaid, My way: given o'er to ambuscade. What think, you of this report from Mercer County: °.... hg “Mr. Judge Robinson. * Hazen School District with 30 stu- dents taking High School subjects has, during thé year 1920 and 1921 spent in salary for high school teachers the sum “ot $5.150.00, of $171.66 for each student. ~ Fa ‘Stanton School District with 16 stu: dents taking High School subjects, has during the year-1920 and 1: spent in salary for High School tea ers the sum of $2,675.00, or $167.00 for. each student. A In addition to this salary the Hazen District spent $8,375 for salary for grade teachers. Stanton spent fo! Srade teachers $5,825.00.” ) Surely there’s such a thing as pay- ing too much for book-learning, It is not anything that one can eat. It does not feed the hungry, clothe the naked or’ give’ financial credit. In general, the benefits of a high school education do not equal a good’ trade. And. how is this‘to read, consider and keep for reference. = a The following statement: shows. the amounts collected in the funds named | by the State Treasurer’s Offize during the year 1920 and also the: first fir months of 1921; * General Fund Tax ....... ‘Money and Credits Tax Inheritance Tax Income Tax . ‘Oil Tax. State Bond Interest ...i. State Bond Sinking Fund Soldiers Bonus State Hail Insurance Motor Vehicle Tax ........ Attorney General's Inspection Bank Bond Interest ‘Mill and Elevator Bond Interest taxes of 1919, with penalties ahd costs, the lands were offered for ‘sale and sold or bid in by the counties, In November, 1919, ‘at a, ‘special election in Towner County, the ques- tion was on the excessive taxes, and the League candidate, was defeated. Then at the special stetioi ot the Legislature in December, 1919, the state tax levy was teduced twenty-five per, cent, when ‘there should have been a general reduction of all. taxes. At the general election in 1920 ‘the | | ‘main issue was on the excessive taxes and the League majority of two-thirds was reduced to fifty-fifty. Now atthe next primary, election in June, and at the next géneral election of 1922, it seems the issae will st{ll be-on the ruinous tax, the state bahk and the state industries. And what ‘must we do to be saved? The ‘answar is: we must try to Bndo the Wrongs and 20 far as possible to Paduce the ‘taxes, liquidate the Dank and ‘the ‘state in- dustries. i ‘ ‘Now the State Board of (qualiza- tion is the Governor, WiiHam Lemke, Treasurer Steen; Commissioners Ha- gan and Olsness. The Beard ‘meets on the first day of August to equalize the assessments and levy the mill faxes of the state. It can reduce the assessments a8 ‘much ‘as they were boosted in 1919 and in that way put RRR An May 81, 182 lay 31, : “3 pita 1920 + $2,418,023,62 56,149.07 74,637.15 485,095.87 3,253,195.81 691,520.40 _ |, 88,748.36 201,700.06 129,388:44 Counties Care of Insane, Feeblemind ed and Tubercular .. Car Line Taxes ‘ ‘Home Builders Bond Payment Fund Workmen’s Compensation . oe Toatl... You will see at a glance Yhat near- ly evéry item represents a hew-fangled tax imposed by the laws’ of 1919. Prior to’ 1919 ‘all property ‘was as- sessed for taxation in the manner pre- scribed by law. The procedure was simple and inexpensive. Then all tax levies were based ‘On assessed’ valua- tion, and the state fax levy, and all of it was—as it is now—limited to four mills on the dollar of’ the as- sessed valuation. (Constitution. Sec. 174, 176). But now all constitutional limitations are disregarded.. The state levies an income tax, ‘motor vehicle tax and several otehr. kinds of taxes wholly unknown to the: constitution. In the same manner it -may l€vy, a special tax on ows, horses and on everything that you can touch or.see, and the worst of it all is that under the prevailing tax commissioner and tax supervisor system property has. been quite uniformly assessed, at far more than its true and productive. value, and at three times that of any year prior to 1919. Then to that as- sessment the State Board of Hquall- zation added about forty per cetft in 1919 and the same rule was continued in 1920. Thea, in eaca-year, the state and the local tax lev'e3. were boosted to correspond with te“ increased @s- sessmenty, and to this thére was add- ed all the new-fangled taxes as shown ‘by the above statement. The result is that for the two yeor3 a large part, of the taxes—about thirty per cent— 463,562.43 . weetpegevene, 0? 80,618.20 | 560,796.88 00,543.62 . $9467,19798" © '$4,807,003.14 remain unpaid, and for the delinquent some Amit on the Jocal tax levies. But it, cannot deal with “the ‘new- fangled taxes not based on’ any’ as- sessmgnt: That can be done. by. the people at the first state election. By good initiative measures ‘the people can undo all’the tax laws of 1919 and the: recent act+the Devilish Act providing for an expensive and’ in- just acreage valuation and assessment of lands. The prospéct of a. -poor crop, a poor price and exorbitant rail- way rates seem to: indicate that the people must ‘soon attempt to. throw off some of their burdens—to reduce}. all the state and local taxes; to.can- cel all penalties and costs..and all tax sales not. made..to actual pur- chasers for cash. / i* At the last. general session of the Legislature I prepared and submitted bilis on ‘all of those several, matters, phat it did not séem possible for, the lawmakers to deal with the matter. By means of the initiative the. people have power to make their own laws and to correct every wrong. . James, E.Robinson. , Don’t forget the big Fourth of. July picnic at Yegen’s Greve. Free’ Autos’ ‘at’ North’ Ward School, Will: Schoel, Wachter ‘School and Everybody come. aH \ Dawes says Congress has given him a tooth pick to tunnel Pike’s Peak. scribes the budget. ~ : “Peak” aptly de- b le Remarks No ‘waatler what other nations may $2,350,000,000 a year 40 maintain and Dulld “ait thstruitient’ for war and’ de- struction.4-John H. Mason, president, Commerctal Trust Company, Philadel: phia, \ - a : Battleships in the next great ‘war will be shrouded in huge gas masks. In gas warfare battles will be shorter. and more decisive—W. Lee Lewis, chemical.department head, Northwest- ern\ University. , 1 Ct a ee We: are, mow at the turning of the ways, the status quo or the rupture of the federal contract, annexation: to the United States or. independence.— Premier :Taschereau, Quebec. e..e s o ue ‘ 4 Separate the sheep from the goats on the other side and you will abolish 90 per cent of. our immigration trou- bles.—Frederick. A. Wallis,. immigra- tion commissioner, an eo 8 8 | No man has a right to lay down his jowa rule for the determination of the patriotism of others and to condemn them if:there is:an honest ditference of Opinton-—Senator Kenyon, Iowa. Sa eo. _ We. have ‘no. interest in. the Jap- anese-Ainerican-matter, except general interest 4n the peace of the worla.—- David ‘Etoya George, British ‘premiet. e 8 ‘Women ‘themselves are. responsible for the alarming growth in disrespect for ‘womeh.—Bishop Thomas. Nichol-. ‘fon, Methodist ‘Episcopal, Chicago. ......., organize and to bargain. collectively.— | The Rt. Rev, Joseph Schrembs, Roman Catholic bishop of. Ohio. ~.. ea as RATHER than to contemplate an (international) confict,-I would sit at a table:and settle it in advance.—Pres- ident Harding, 3 s i i s e AMERICA 1s on the sea to stay.— Admiral Benson, chairman, United States Shipping Boant. _.-” . e cf 4 _ IR. THERE to be a vote on ‘whether we should have the old ‘saloon back with all ‘its vice, or just wine and | beer, ‘i. belteve-the old saloon would wit.—William Jennings Bryan, ‘4 : e i * e WE NEED divorce. laws cutting down the number of grounds and de- ‘Aning the exact meaning of cruelty ‘and gross heglect of duty.—Mary B. ‘Grossman, Cleveland woman candidate for judge. < ef : 18 IMPOSSIBLE. to boss the Irish people—F. D: Acland, British. ‘member of parliament. , e e i aS aek The time seems to have come’when individuals and concerns which con- template. building need delay no Jon- ger.—Noble Foster Hoggson, New York builder, ‘ EP xe . Meje ‘Wander our present divorce laws all ‘of our marriages amount to nothing more than trial marriages.—Judge Brough, Toledo. , : Unionizationofithe steel industry 18 mecessary because in the stéel_ mflTs there is no freedom for the workers. Matthew Woll, vice president, A, F. OL j Passage of the emergency tariff bili would be ‘® pojitical Mi8take and an ‘do, America cannot afford to spend 5 : | had! no thought‘that he was’ setting his LABOR HAS an inalienable right £014 THE FINISHING TOUCHES. Real Chari icterg Poseid For Art ; Piece That Won Willard a Fame ‘By Dr. Wjltlam ‘E. Barton, When Archibald M. Willard set out to make 8 picture of a fifer and two druiimers'as'a recognition of the Cen-| tennial of “American ‘fidependence, he! foot upon the'threshdld of tame. | He meant 'to add another to his lon: list of humoroua‘pictures. ~ : But -he painted. the. most popular Patriotic picture ‘nat America has ever | known. .... an. “The Spirit.of °76.” . ‘Wifard a Soldier. ~ , Willatd had always liked to draw. Im his boyhood. days, no; fence was sacred to, him. . As a soldier in the Civil War he ‘made sketches and sent them back’to the folks at home. After the war he established him- welf at Wellington, ,Ohid, as a. painter in a carriage manufactory.: . * ‘Those were the days of the chromo, and Willarg proceedéd to make many pictures, which. were reproduced by J, F. Rydér, 8° Clevelaitd “art dealer, | ‘afd sold to their mutual profit. i) y Real Characters, - The Centennial year was approach- | ing, atid Wélard undettook \wiiat he hoped would be his most popular hu- morons: picture, “a burlesque on the! old-farbiotted Fourth of July cleebra-| 4 - He hed bis. characters near at hand, | His ‘fer, was Hugh Mosher, a soldier! of the wes Harry Devereaux, of Cleveland. | For the central figure, Willard. got-his/ father to ‘poseS \ i The old preacher was himself noth- ing.less.than heroic. He was tall and ‘grfm ‘and of Revolutionary blood,. and hé.imparted to the -picture- something ‘whteh from .the.first made it: difficult to, treat it in the spirit of‘the comic. ‘ St All Over. «> * > One’ day, afer many.attemipts to sal isfy himself.,.with: the himorous_ pic- ture, Willard threw it aside:and start- ed‘ anew. He transferfed his three tnusicians from the hayfield and: rus- every suggestion of the comic yanish- ed. te Ris father was taken-sick, and nev- er recovered. ‘Willard worked by dayé} ‘on his painting and by night watched beside Ais. father; and evér} day he put more.of his father’s character into tlre face and figure of\the old man, ‘The painting was completed, and ex- | hibited “at Philadelphia. “He called it |< “Yahkee Doodle.”., But the people re- named it, “The Spirit of.’76.”. It made Willard famous as the foremost Amer- ‘4c@m patriotic painter. It put wagon- painting far behind him., ‘ It did not 6ccur to Willard when he ‘made his famous painting that_ the tht'ee characters in it might be taken |. for nom) father and grandfather, bu other. le were quick to think of it, and WAlard liked -the idea, hough he told me it was one he borrowed from the lovers of the picture, and not his original thought. ‘Willard died in Cleveland in 1918, and Is. buried in Wellingten; where he painted wagons and. rose. to fame. A,.pile of gold leaf-one inch high ‘economic. blunder—William C. Red- Held, former: secretary: of commerce. | Would Contain 300,000 ‘sheets if all werexbammered as thin as possible. ~ vil, War; the boy drummer! , Cre MADE FOR SISAL CO. 1 \ (Continued ‘from Page 1) “Well, I was ‘engaged as one of the managers or men tolook into the Sisal Trust and shortly after that time we were informed by Mr. Townley that there was a shortage of somre ten or twelve thousand dollars in the Scandi- Tiavian-American bank funds tMat had been taken out of the institution and placed in the Sisal: Trust.” The defense was seeking to prove the embezzlement as a part of Brin- ton’s charge that Money was taken from the Bank of North Dakota ta the Scandanavian-American. bank and there embezzled.’ The court ruled the evidence wa8 admisSable ‘as a part-of the defense effort to prove this. Sisal Trast Prominent, The Sisal Trust figured prominently in the testimony of Brinton,~on the witness stand all day yesterday for him- self, toward the close of the long ses- sion, which continued until nearly 6 P.M. \ : .Brinton sald that he and: J. R. Wat+ ers took over the management of the Sisal Trust fox Townley from, J? J. Hastings and. Thomas ‘Mien Box. A letter from J.) J. Hastings to Thomas Harvey at Miami; Fla.,-was introduced. which, Brinton said represented “his credentials from Hastings in turning over the Florida Sisal property. v iMISTSR-TRUGS;,, ICAN 5 PLEASE avoided like, a man infected with leprosy, and/“SPIRIT OF '76” BEGAN AS A-COMIC-AND BECAME aoe "AMERICA’S MOST POPULAR PATRIOTIC PAINTING = WILLARD'S FAMOUS “SPIRIT OF '76.”" BELOW (LEFT): ‘HE PICTURE, AS FIRST MADE IN COMIC FORM; *RIGHT) AS WILLARD CHANGED IT FROM COMIC TO PATRIOTIC, BEFORE~HE PUT IN [ eee | BRINTON “TELLS OF LOAN] Further endeavoring to connect the Sisal Trust with the leagues leaders, the defense introduced a.leter. written from Jr J. Hastings, as'vice president! of the Scandinavian-American bank, ¢o’ Harvey saying, among Qther things, that Harvey should try and sell stock as heavy loans ,were being carried and saying “it Mmakes.an awful load for us to-carry.” Hastings wanted him to gell stock to touriXts in Florida, adding “I sure hate to keep on going | North Dakota farmers.” A claim fof Hastingsfor services in the Sisal Prust was read, and Brinton said Townley told him “I guess we'd better pay it.” hae Another letter which excited interest) was from Mrs. Elida Lundin, of Brook- out and borrowing money from. our lyn, N. Y., widow of Ernest Lundin, | whom Brinton said was a former _em-; Ploye in the management of the Sisal enterprise and who died in St. Paul. The Jetter was addressed to “J. ‘W. Brown,” which Brinton said was the saame by which he was known to her. The letter was dated October 23, 1920. It said in part: “I did not see Mr. Townley.-but his attorney, Mr..Paddock and through him Mr. Townley treated me nice. “Mr. Townley: paid the hospital and the doctor, bought the coffin and sent Lundin’s body to Miami. I got: my | i os place in Silver Palm was mortgaged for $1,200, and so it was, He ptoi ised that it would be paid, and that should not- worry over. the mortgage, he mentioned it at least three or four times, ; . “He. sald:;that) Mr. Townley was looking after my. interest and I would haveemy share in the Sisal enterprise just, the same, but how; m or ia jwhich way he did not flay.) °%),.... (0 * Slown Watewent. y Brinton. said that Townley had shown him a statement of the Nonpar- tisan Publishing, company with the ex- planation that “I..don’t want you to | thing that: I’m using money, in Florida jthat don’t belong to-‘me.” Brinton said that Townley told him that it had | been agreed by “Lemke and the boys” | that Townely was to have.the- publish- jing company, which published the | Nonpartisan League Leader. ‘ The examination léd Brinton up ta | telling the jury how a_shortage exist- | ed.in the Scandinavian-American bank .| of something like $11,008, which hé al- leged existed and was created hv, Hast- { ings. It was this shortage which Brin- ton alleged’ he gave a $11,000) check to cover, with the consent of 0. B. Lofthus; 80° timt a showing coutd be. made to the supreme court for the Scandinavian bank, then closed, ,and which check Brinton alleged *was held for 11 days until the funds were rais- ed to meet it. ve Details of ‘this connection with vari- ous Nonpartisan League enterprises were given by Brinton to the jury. Packin= Plant Note. Among the statements in the.case In addition to previoas testimony before the house committee Jast winter: was a declaration. by Brinton that funds of the Equity Packing ‘company, of Far- go, had been ‘used “for the Scandinavi- an-American bank:~Brinton said that | the Equity company had. aWout!$100,- 000 in certificates of deposit: which they did not need at the file in the | summer of 1918.’ The Equify company | allowed ‘the Scandinavian-American bank to use them ‘and Brinton took them to Twin Citiés and borrowed §73.- {000 for the Scandimavian-American bank, he.said. Brinton testified he did | this at-the direction, of J. J. Hastings, | then vice president. He said Hastings told him the bank had to get cash even if he had-to offer them “at: a liberad | discount.” i i oy 1: {',, Another bit of finance of the Con- sumers store was related by .Brinton. | He*said ‘that the Consumers Store3 contract required that $10,000. be put | back in each local store.. The organ- | izers obtained chiefly notes from farm- ers for stock, he said, and the direc- tors of the store’ ‘enterprise -“con- { strued” the.contract to mean that the ; money realized from $10,000 of 1fotes | should be put-back.. He said that the | notes usually were. put‘up as collatéer- al, and asually two to;one, go that a)- though they had.$10,000 in notes, prob- ably only ‘$5,000 would be: put ‘back in | the. store. ts Golh Y Nad “THE SKY. - AT THE ELTINGE “The-Sky Pilot,” written by Ralph Connor is the ‘story “of a ‘young min- ister, who is sent into the«Canadian ranch country to spread the :gospel ; among the covgboys. His trials and | tribulations, his fights, his hope are portrayed by John. Bowers who plays the title role with Colleen Moore as | the girk” How ‘the pilot, unpopular at | first, wins a place for himself: in the hearts ofthe cowboys, who ‘surprise him on Christmas morning by leading him blindfolded down 4 snow covered trail :to show him~the“.little frame church they have built without his knowledge, forms the human note of the story which is featured by several | thrilling scenes. “The Sky Pilot” with Kinograms and Topics of the Day be- gin a three-day,showing at the Eltinge, Monday, the 4th of July. ‘Elaine Hammerstine . At The Rex The Girl From Nowhere,” a.new Selznick picture starring Elaine Ham- merstein last night provided the feat- ure film entertainment at>theRex. Tonight will be ‘the last ‘night for this splendid photoplay for the Fourth of. July “Slam: Bang Jim” with-Wil- fare back, and $75 or $90 in cash, 1; Ham Russell ag the star is. the Wcreen db not remeber exactly how much: “Mr. Paddogk seemed to know. thar ~ BY CONDO | “WHAT SH 1 Go TO THE TA GARS WCTH THI UP To (T'S = ABYSINGSS ie tic’celebration to the battlefield. Then |, : weer, % BUT .TIM GOING ALONG TO SES THAT THe VERY S, You_CAN GQ, ==\"NoU Don't CHANGE YoUR MIND i i; feature at the Rex. : To give an additional dressing for the day. an, O'Henry story “The | Church With an Overshot Wheel”. will | De presented. be || "The Japanese rickshaw is sal@’ to | have been invented by a Yankee miis- | lonary. HOW WOMEN “OF MIDDLE AGE May Escape the Dicaded Suf- Minn. — “During Change of hot flashes and suffered for ears, | saw fegetable Com- cag taking it. 1 recom- mend your medicifie you may publiss ro yu iis this fact ana. testi menial:”’—Mrs.Ros-. sai that not one women Ifyou have the slightest doubt tat Lyd, ©. Pinkham’ Vassieohe ‘Com- | pound will help you,, write to Lydia BE. . ham Medicine Co., about-your health. ' and held in strict confidenc