The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 9, 1921, Page 4

i i i i i PAGE FOUR _THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE TH E BISMA RCK TRI BUN KE ‘knight of the key." So were Frank Munsey,| fe Mar St a A eae utered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, wW. D. as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN : : : OGAN' PAYNE’ COMPANY G. LOGAN PAY. curcacs’ “OGAN DETROIT Marovett tl. ¢ 4 YNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEw YORK : - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. The A fog publication of all news credited to it or not otherwit ercllited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. —<—— MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year .. $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bi 2 4s Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bisma: . 5.00 Daily by mail. outside of North Dakota .......+++++ 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPEB (Established 1873) fa MORALE The government, in establishing a welfare de- partment for postal employes, is applying a lesson learned in the war. It was then demonstrated clearly that morale plays an extremely important part in fighting and in business. The spirit considered essential to the winning of battles will win business con- tests. Yet how many Bismarck employers have neg- lected to profit by this lesson of the war! OVER-STUDY Princeton University reports that only one of its students has died from overstudy in 40 years. And he didn’t die because he exercised his brain too much, but because, while applying himself to study, he exercised the rest of his body not at all. We quote Ben Franklin: “I fear not too much - Editor labor of mind, but I fear for the body that doth | not exert itself in due proportion to the mind.” This is good counsel for all who work in offices. If you haven’t time for any other kind of exer- cise, try walking. ACCOMPLISHMENT A year ago it seemed impossible that war be- tween Sweden and Finland could be avoided, so determined was each nation to have its way in respect of the Aland Islands. é Ultimatums had been exchanged and the arm- ies were on the march. Then the League of Na- tions interposed. Reluctantly both nations con- sented to give the league a chance and to commit no act of war while. the league was performing its function of taking testimony and rendering a judgment. . The pledges, given in good faith, were kept and what threatened to be a war that might easily again have set Eurepe on fire, merged into a judi- cial proceeding. The question whether the League of Nations can prevent war is no longer an academic one. It has answered the question in the most prac- tical way possible by doing it. WATCHING THE DIET According to Prof. E. N. McCollum of Johns- Hopkins University, the average American should eat about half as much meat as he does if he would live to a ripe old age and keep his pep. More greens and milk are the substitutes recommended. The professor speaks as a health expert, and if his advice were heeded, there isn’t a bit of doubt that the doctors and undertakers would have a lot less to do. Y Kresge Bldg. | erent ociated Press is exclusively entitled to the use; William Gillette, George V. Hobart and Andrew) Carnegie. | “My Friend From India,” one of the best | American comedies, was written by a telegrapher| | Harry Desouchet. You know the “Evolution” ‘poem which starts, “When you were a tadpole and I was a fish.” Written by Langdon Smith,| sonce telegraph operator for the United Press, Hl So they go, on the roll of fame, into the thou- sands. \ i | A veteran operator was John M. Carnahan, who| | | | began handling a key in 1861. In 1876 he was! operator at Bismarck, N. D., then the farther. ‘west wire station. Stopping for only brief inter-; vals, Carnahan sat at his key for nearly 80 hours) and “sent” the story of the Custer Massacre, al \time feat that, it is said, has never since been) ‘duplicated. | ; At the time of the great Galveston flood, wires| | were down and there was no way to get relief ap-| | peals to the outside world. | | Richard Spillane, a former telegraph operator, | now a business writer, was managing editor of | | Galveston newspaper. In an old steam launch, } ‘assisted by a‘cotton broker, Spillane defied the jhurricane, rossed the bay and, reaching land, tramped on through the night into Houston. There he got to a key and for hours wired ap- pels for help, followed by news stories. He had made the trip in carpet slippers. Their} dye soaked out and poisoned his feet, which were| so swollen that when he finished telegraphing ye |had to be lifted out of his chair. | The details of Spillane’s dash for help make the} movies seem tame. But it’s typical of the men who have given the world its telegraph news and; ‘personal wire messages since Samuel Morse in- vented the telegraph in‘ 1837. } | 1 | The concert of nations is a howling success. Congress don’t argue over a bill as long as some husbands do. EDITORIAL REVIEW | Comments reproduced in this column may or may | not express the opinion of The Tribune. ‘hey are | presented here in order that our readers may have i both sides of important issues which are being is- cussed in the press of the day. A DRAMATIC BEGINNING That was a dramatic scene. in Washington,, when Mr. Dawes, director of the new budget sys- tem, brought together before the President and| the cabinet more than 600 bureau chiefs and other| officials who spend Uncle Sam’s money: for the; first conference in the interest’ of economy of administration. | The President “opened the meeting” with the| statement that “there is no menace to the world today like growing public indebtedness and| mounting. expenditures.” This conference, he said, was an evidence of the necessity of adopting extraordinary methods to meet extraordinary; conditions. | With this introduction from the President, Mr.; Dawes sprang from the platform where he had) been sitting with the President and identifying himself with the official group, addressed the President and the cabinet members. Speaking as one of them and yet as their leader, he pleaded i with, threatened and advised the official group, and then calling them all to their feet and raising, his hand as if taking an oath he recited this pledge; to the President: { | “These men, of whom.I.am one, realize the per- ; Commissioner of Insurance, fees. | EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO | PT AE EY TTRAT ;REMINDS ME OM THIS EINSTEIN THEORY mHET MaKe So MUCH (USS OvcR. IT'S SIMECG ENOUGH » EVERETT.) FOR INSTANCE, ON THIS! \ ? o EARTH T WEIGH NE XT WERE: ON THEE Civ ISS Pounos, BUT CE Planet Jueitée ---- July 9, 1921. In. the letter of last Saturday wo gave a detailed statement of the tunds by the state treasurer for the year 1920 amounting to $9,466,187.98, and 1921 taxes collected during the first five months amounting to $4,437,453.14. The following is a continuation or an additional statement of monies collect- ed by the state treasurer fur the year 1920 and 1921: Secretary of State, fees. Secretary of State, incorporation tax. Clerk of Supreme Court, fees. Com. of Agriculture and Labor Land Department, fees . State Examiper, fees Grain Inapeftion .... Experimental, Creamer, Total About 25 per cent of the taxes for] 1920 remaigg,uncollected. By adding this to the®Bum collected you will find that for the yeay 1920 the total state taxes was In ‘excess of thirteen and one-half millfon dollars. You will readily.see that is twice the sum of a reasonable state tax. For these two years the regular state tax levy was based on the assegs:aent of the years 1919 and 1920; and in those years Governor Frazier and) Wm. Langer were in control of the. State Board of Equalization. By adding a large per cent to the assessed valuations they boosted the state and local tax levies. We must learn to place the blame or responsibility where it belongs and to give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. In the year of Our Lord, 1921—in August—GOVERNOR FRAZIER ANL) | WM. LEMKE Will be in contro} of the. State Board of Equalization and wiil levy the regular state tax which are based on assessed valuations, The question is, “how much will they re- SATURDAY EVENING LETTER (By Chief Justice Robinson.) shall be listed and assessed in the county, town, city or village in which it is situated in the manner prescribeé by law. All property shall be listed and as- } sessed at 50 per cent of its value on the first day of April preceding. the as- sessment. \ Sec, 2. Personal property shall be listed and assessed in the county, town RRR RR eee at any time during the year 1981 with- out interest, penalty or costs. Sec. 2. All sales made to the state or to any county for the delinquent tas for the year 1919 shall be ‘cancelled and held void and within three months from the time of this act takes effect all and‘any delinquent taxes for the year 1919 muy be paid without inter- est penalty or cost. AN ACT IN REGARD TO THE TAX- ES OF 1920, Be It Enacted by the People of the State of North Dakota: Section 1. The unpaid real estate taxes for the year 1920 shall not be subject to any penalty whatever ex- cept interest at 6 per seems a few public spirited citizens might well incur the small cost of printing a few hundred copes of such bills and obtaining signatures to the number of 10.000 and then filing the bills in the office of the Secretary of State during the month of July. That would make a beginning. As it seems the proper thing is for the League Managers to submit well considered measures to reduce taxes and to liquidate the state bank and re- organize.it on a basis similar to that of the Federal Reserve Banks, and to reorganize the State Industries and put the same on a business like basis. “Xenophon became as famous for a masterly retreat as for a great vic- tory. Some of the greatest generals and statemen have been wise enougk to save themselves and their follow- ers by a timely retreat. .To invite ruin by persisting in wrong is folly and madness. The high taxes and the new fangled taxes, must goz und, as now organized, the state bank must go. Its depositors will assuredly tire of pay- Ing on their checks protest fees to the amount of $100.00 a day. That is no banking. I do know how my friends of the League may save the Ship of State. They must throw overboard half the tax burdens and several Jonahs. JAMES E. ROBINSON. ge ree | Remarkable Remarks | o—_—_—__—_———___--—_—_--¢ America is the ground of divorce.—The Rev. A. V. | Magee, British clergyman. oe 8 I am in favor of the short skirt. It fs neat and healthy.—Mrs. : Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, president, Mills Col- ! lege, Oakland, Cal. * ae . Americans are a dangerously unin- 'gardig the Negro.—Robert T. Kerlin, ' English professor, Virginia military institute. oo ! The passenger automobile business is 10 per cent above the general, aver- age’ of business conditions. —Alfred Reeves, general manager, National Au- tomobile Chamber of Commerce. ee ne Our demand is the complete emanci- pation of woman because we. know that in no other way can the human race attain its highest development.— Mrs. Sheffield Coates, British suffrage worker. 1920 1921 to May « -$. 25,648.18 $ 5,759.95 81,837.01 5,903.07 324,319.52 363,828.85 1,476.55 615.10 1,264.76 507.75 10,759.50 8,799.50 50,404.26 15,114.40 625,883.09 392,111.75 56,076.35: 5.340.10 3,868.13 2,034.91 24,022.19 762.00 8,088.63 . 3,261.92 8,315.00 6,875.00 88,304.96 21,611.47 41,584.70 35,714.01 vs. $10,818,989:81 °- $5,325,692.73 _ Section 1, For the purpose of tax~ ation. all property not by law exempted or taxing distriet.in which the owner resides or. where it may be found and located between the first day of April and the first day df June. Sec. 3. Each atid every assessment shall be made by the local asgessor and not by or linder the directions of a tax supervisor or any other person or persons. Every assessment equal- ized by the County Board of Equaliza- tion shall be presumptively correct and it shall not be increased or dimix- ished by the State Board of Equaliza- tion in excess of 10 per cent. Any increase or decrease must be for th2 purpose of equalization and that only, and not for the purpose of increasing the taxes. A bill to reduce and cancel all pen- alties and sales for the non-payment of taxes for the year 1919. Be It Bmacted by the People of the State of North Dakota: Section 1. Any taxes remaining de- o— ot TELLS OF VISIT | TO EX-KAISER | —___—_— oe. By Newspaper Enterprise. Copenhagen, July 9— Frederick Poulsen, a physician, has a letter from a Dutch professor who described a visit to the former kaiser in exile at Doorn, The former emperor has aged con- siderably, the letter says. His hair and beard are snow white. He speaks nervously and his eyes have a rest- less expression. Speaking of the German revolution the former emperor declared that “the splendid German soldiers” would nev- er have revolted had they not been subjected to “some low influence.” The ex-kaiser seemed intensely in- terested in revolutionary movements in all parts of the world. - One barrel of cider requires from seven to twelve bushels of apples. Cork is the bark taken from a spe- happy hunting | formed and misinformed people re-! Heat makes beach-nuts. Knockers build hardships. The grape crop is liquidated. Reformers spell it sin-copation, Matrimony is pay-enter and pay- leave also. Prices must precede. winter coal to the cellar. Women pay double for staying young overtime. “Old people can always remember when it was hotter. The Turks say they will teach Constantine to get out of the reign. The park policeman reports that the majority is against disarmament. Dawes should remember that laws pealne cut-outs do not apply to his job. The “gun that wasn’t loaded” is equaled by the “water that wasn't deep.” Chicago's spook epidemic is prob- ably caused by spirits that have not departed. The old “mash” caused heart- breaks: but the new kind causes headaches. If Russia’s new silver coins are like the paper money, we predict a | freight car shortage. It is rumored that the woman who Spent $5,000,000 in Paris stopped at an American hotel. A news item says the Senate will work during its vacation. The change will do them good. It's a wonder they don't catch cold; changing from a summer dress into a hot bathing suit. A news item says Russia seeks peace with all nations. Probably means piece of all nations. America spends a billion a year for soft drinks; but you never heard of “The face on the drug store floor.” Immigrants rushed in to beat the 3 per cent law; tourists are rushing out to beat the one-half of one per- cent law. —_—__—________—__¢ | MANDAN NOTES | OO Mandan Visitor. Mrs. Gradine of #ismarck was a Mandan visitor Thursday and Friday of the current week. En‘ Route to Twin Citles, Mr. and: Mrs. J.. D. Beery of Mott were in Mandan on Thursday, while en route to the Twin Cities. _ Go to Detroit. Miss Ruth Nead, Miss Buelah Saw- tell and Miss Lila Peterson have gone to Detroit, Minn., where they plan to spend three weeks of summer vacation at the surrounding lake resorts, Mandan Visitors. Mrs. BE. F, Underhill and Miss M. R. Elliot are Mandan visitors over the week-end, from the Cannonball. . Mrs. Cndernil is having dental work dore ere, On Western Trip. The Misses Cecelia and Florence Connolly leave Sunday night for an extended western trip, a part of their, itinerary consisted of the Yellowstone Park tour. They will be absent for a The dinner table is a fair deadlier place than/ plexity of your position—realize that the business! duce the assessments and the tax lev- ies?” Will they make a reduction the battlefield because the vast majority of people| of the country is prostrate, that its working men) cual the advance of the former two cannot resist the temptation to eat too much of|are out of employment, that we are faced with) years? wind out of the recall. what appeals to their tsate. the inexorable necessity of reducing expenditures, | This is particularly true during hot weather,|and we propose, just as wedid four years ago} when, if one is as interested as he should be in| when we undertook to win the war, to make every} enormous figure? possible effort toward reducing expenses.” keeping his body and mind in top condition, he : Mr. Dawes says he is not going to run a detec- should eat sparingly of the heavy ‘concentrated | foods. And above all, during hot weather, forget | the alcohol and drink plenty of cool, not iced, wa- | tive bureau or hunt for information from a wash-; erwoman or a vice president, but that the Pres- If so, it, would knock some Do you know why it is that the state uta the local taxes amount Ly suc. au Do you know why the state appoints, tax commissioners !and tax supervisors to build up such la collosal system of taxation? The reason is that those who. are in office and who levy the state and local taxes prefer to handle a large sum rather than a small sum because there is a linquent for the year 1919 may be. paid] cies of oak tree. ADVENTURES By Olive Barton Roberts OF THE TWINS month. Invitations Received. Invitations have been received in Mandan from Miss Mable Gray of the {Letterman General Hospital of San Francisco, to attend the graduation ex- ercises of the Army School of nursing. Miss Gray is a member of the 1921 class of this institution. ter. Drink it with your meals, slowly, and be-/ident has a right to the information as to the ex- tween your meals. Start your day with a glass-|penditures of the government, just as the pres- ful and finish your day the same way. ident of a business corporation has the right to The following of these simple rules will pay know what is being done with the company’s} greater chance for part of it to stick |to the fingers of themselves or their | friends. | body's business it is nobody's busi- ness. Nobody cares to assume the bur- den of a pu accounting or of cali- health dividends and greatly improve your dispo-!money; that the responsibility belongs to the; ing indignation mectings to expose the sition. | ‘all the facts. As aman thinks so is his car. fs jing: “T have the powers of the President to get KNIGHTS OF THE KEY | the facts and they will ke exercised.” You recall the days when the arrival of a tele: Mr. Dawes knows all about the disposition of gram frightened a woman so much she was scared | bureau chiefs to get from Congress all the money to open it, afraid some one was dead. |Congress will let them have, for, he said, I have ‘officials, he showed his teeth, so to speak, by say-| ‘President and he is entitled to full knowledge of| wrongs by showing exact figures. Few, And then, turning to the bureau! if any, know where to place responsi- | bility, where to turn for rellef and how to obtain redress, i The political leaders. who demand 3 | recall talk against high taxes, but they {do not point to any means of reliet. iqhey do not denounce the big state nurslings.and the appropriations, Their general talks amounts to nothing. The tax maladies call for specific remedies. |The law-makers of last session all de- This fear is rapidly dying out, says a Western | been a bureau chief and I have done the same) nounced the high taxes and yet they Union official. Telegrams are common. Night thing. But now it is going to be different. His} letters total millions'yearly. |reputation, he said, it at stake and he is going to The most marvelous or fearful thing grows |Cut the $225,000 appropriation made for the esab- common-place through wide usage. ‘lishment of the budget system 25 per cent if it Telegrams have become so ordinary that few | costs him his salary. of us ever give a thought to the telegraph opera-} The press accounts do“not report any refer- tor. His seems a humdrum, mechanical exist-|ences to “hell and Maria,” but the language used ence. Yet no trade or profession ever produced by the budget director gives assurance quite as more unique, useful and devoted characters. ‘complete as his more picturesque utterances on You owe a lot to the telegraph operator. For another occasion that he is the man for the job. one thing, the.telegraph news you read in The|He has staked his reputation on carrying it Tribune. ‘through to a successful conclusion. There is as { nothing the country wants more today than that, Often you read about some telegraph operator | and what will happen to Mr. Dawes if he succeeds who has risen to the presidency of a railroad. _it is a little early to predict. Mr. Harding may i ‘Thomas: Edison, the inventor, for years was al Want two terms.—Minneapolis Tribune. ~ -) State of North Dakota. | boosted the taxcs by making excessive | appropriations and they refused to | consider remedial tax legislation. The next regular session of the law-makers | will not be until 1923 and their laws will not take effect’ until July, 1923 That is two years from the present time; and even then there is no assur- | ance of any good laws. ; As I view the situation, aside from such relief as may be given hy the Governor and Wm, Lemke there is no available remedy, only by the submis- sio and passage of some good initia- tive measures at the next state-wide election in June, 1922: But as there is a chance for a state-wide election jin November, I submit the following: “An act to provide for the assess- ment of property for taxation in ac- cordance with the former simple anc inexpensive methods As the tax question is every- | Be It Enacted by the People of the For all Howly Thunder and Jumpy Lightning are such terrors, | folks kind of like them. For all Howly Thunder and Jumpy Lightning are such terrors ‘n’ all, folks kind of like them. And for all, Mr. Sprinkle:Blow was racking his poor worried brains for a plan to catch them and lock them up again, and Nancy and Nick were doing their very best to help him, there were plenty of povple who were tickled mest to pieces to hear those two row- dy fellows up in the sky, It had be- ;gun to rain (Nancy and Nick bad to crowd under Sprinkle-Blow's umbrel- Ja and the drops came so thick and fast that puddles: appeared every- where. Under his pile of stones, Sam Snake wiggled his tail delightedly. “Why, there’s the first thunder of the season,” he declared. “Now 1 can go out safely and look around. Howly promised that he'd beat his big drum for me when it was safe to go out. You see if I go out too soon, Jatk Frost is likely to be snooping around, and he'd play 2 trick on me sure ‘as anything. He'd blow his breath on the ground and freeze it solid, then blow, his breath on me and I'd have no place to! go. . Sam crawled out of his hiding hole and. slid into a puddle. “Ocwo! Keee! That feels good!” !wonder if Chip Chipmunk-or Tillie Toad or Bill Blackbird are anywhere | near, This certainly gives me’ an ap- petite!” Up in his tree Cob Coon was say- ing, “Well, I declare, there's’ thun- der. That means corn-planting time isn't far away. Besides, thunder means hard rain and a muddy creek. | Fishin’ ought to be good twnight, |’specially when the clouds cover up| the-moon.* t Chris Crow also thought of the| corn and chuckled. Mrs. Robin and | Mrs. Bluebird said, “Thunder's a sure | sign of spring. We can scon raise our families!” Lots of people were happy. (Copyright 1921 by Newspaper Enter- prise). he gurgled. “I| | | | | i Return From Visit. Miss William Maas and children have returned from a short visit wiih Mrs, Mas’ mother at Lidgerwood, N. D. The Maas family will leave very shortly for Detroit, where they will occupy their summer cottage for the rest of the heated season: Ask Appropriations, The Mandan Commercial club and Town Criers club have joined in re- questing the Morton County Commis- sioners to make an appropriation to cover premiums and expenses for the ‘amnual show of the Missouri Slope Poultry Assoication to be held.at Man- dan next January. The poultry exhibit is deemed most important. more especially in this sec- tion and the municipal clubs feel that every encouragement should be offered exhibitors, To Meet Daring Fair. The town Criers have issued invita- tions to other advertising clubs in the state to hold their convention here during the first two days of the fair. The convention, which was to have been held in June was postponed by reason of the delinquent train service during the washouts on the Northern Pacific. Replies have been received from sev- eral clubs indicating their willingness to send delegates at any time, but defi- nite arrangements will not be made until all the clubs have been reached. Originally, rubber grew only in the Para district of Brazil. The average depth of the Atlantic ocean is 12,060 feet. Lake Superior is the largest lake in the world. TRIBUNE WANTS—FOR RESULTS