The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 13, 1921, Page 2

PAGE Twu. THEBISMARCKTRIBUNE| Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second! Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - Editor Foreign Representatives \ G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO D Marquette Bldg. i PAYNE, BURNS A NEW YORK - = MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ETROIT. Kresge Bldg. ND SMITH Fifth Ave. Bldg. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use| for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All. rights of republ are also réserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION ication of special dispatches herein SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. | the roads for a year or attending church regular- Daily by carrier, per year......... ae Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) Daily. by mail, per year (in state outsi Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota. THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) a HIGH TAXES We are beginning to realize in this country what high taxes mean. And when we are told by those who are in the best position to know that there is little or no relief in prospect for some years to come, it certainly adds nothing to the joy of living. But we are so much better off than the people of England that by comparison we: are lightly taxed. ‘ On top of the British income tax of six shillings to the pound—about 30 per cent—the county. and municipal taxes, known as local rates, have climbed to dizzy heights. In some cases real estate is tax- ed as high as 90 per cent on the assessed’ valu- ation Thousands of real estate owners, unable to pay their taxes, have thrown up their hands, so to speak, and the government is in a quandary. Its only recourse is to take over the property—mostly the homes of middle class people—and ‘sell it for what it will bring on the market. © ; England is seething with irritation and protest against what in many cases amounts to. confisca- tory taxation, and the Lloyd George government, which is held responsible, may soon have to face an election in which lower taxation will be the issue. 7:20 ek). SUGAR It is. estimated that 2,000,000 tons of sugar will be carried over in the United States this year. This amounts to six months’ consumption, ‘The Cuban, Louisiana and domestic beet crops are all unusually large. If consumers do not’ greatly benefit by still further reduction in retail prices it will be because somewhere along the line be- tween producer and consumer there is profiteering. That the men engaged in the sugar trade are quite capable of profiteering was shown when they took advantage of the scarcity, not so very long ago, to run the price up to 26 and 30 cents-a pound. t The public was gouged to the limit when sugar was scarce. Now that it is pentiful it should get the full benefit. GOOD. START Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board asked Congress for $125,000,000 to meet deficits for the next five months: The congressional committee to which the re- quest was referred is talking about cutting the $125,000,000. to $45,000,000. That’s a gobd start toward econmoy in shipping, board operation, providing it isn’t just talk. But Congress and its committees have the bad habit of talking loudly about economy and then quietly making extravagant appropriations. If all the money that Congress has talked about saving during the past few months were actually saved, nobody would have to worry much. about taxes. EE aa FAIR ENOUGH! When Congressman Johnson of Mississippi in- troduced a bill to prevent women from smoking. in the District of Columbia, he started something: that he is going to have difficulty: in finishing. * Twenty-five women attended the first hearing: on the bill and 24 of them made a vigorous pro- test against its passage. x A small minority of the 24 are.smokers but they: based their protest on the ground that if a wo- man wanted to smoke in public it was nobody’s business but her own. Sound argument we'd say! OVERSUBSCRIBED Recently the treasury department offered $300,- 000,000 worth of short-term certificates of ‘in- debtedness bearing 514 or 5!4 per cent interest, according to maturity date. They. have been oversubscribed more than 200 per cent, the total subscriptions being about a billion dollars, | This proves two things—that there are still a lot of people who aren’t broke and that they have unlimited confidence in Uncle Sam’s financial in-; tegrity. ELIHU ROOT Although the United States has not joined the World Court for the peaceful settlement of inter- national disputes, the news from Europe is that, Elihu Root is mor2 prominently. mentioned than; gmali wonder many’ of theni are inclined to. sneer, any other mag for the presidency of the court. }hiving in a'rented house, subject to the whims and portant business on the program. for the. assembly | of the League of Nations which meets, for the! ‘second time, at Geneva early next month. i —_—_— CAMP FIRES ‘only many years can replace. H Raising trees can’t be rushed. | Camp fires are a frequent cause of forest fires.| Don’t leave the camp fires burning! | HELP | Five young men in Washington, D. C., were \eonvicted of stealing auto supplies. ‘gave them the alternative of breaking stone on \ly for the same period. They talked it over 5.00/ among themselves and finally promised’ to go to’ |church, That’s one way to fill the churches. | UNEMPLOYMENT Official reports from Berlin as to unemploy- |ment are significant as showing the rapid strides, |which Germany is making toward industrial nor- malcy. In four of the leading industries the job- léss on July 15 were 657,000 as compared with’ 742,000 a month before. During the same period | there was.a reduction from 175 to 167 in the num-| ber of applications for every, hundred jobs in all| i i | i Forest fires destroy every few days wealth that, The judge | THE RISMARCK TRIBUNE SAPURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1921 | | | i t t | { i | industries, | AIRPORT i Amsterdam, long famous seaport, is winning! a name as an airport. vag: ; | Within two weeks recently “270 passéngers' passed in and out of a single airdome there. There’ are regular air schedules between. Amsterdam and} |London, Paris and Brussels. “| Speed the day when the United States will] have regular airplane service between all its large cities, ; , is | POOR PROQF | Senator France, at Riga, just out of Russia,| accuses Dr. Ed. W. Ryan, ‘American Red Cross commissioner in the Baltic Statés, of having insti- gated the Kronstadt revolt against the Bolshe- vists, last: winter. Thesenator says he is going to. prove it by officials of the Bolshevist foreign office. : - If that is the only proof France can offer to support his charge we should say that Ryan need} not worry, om | i ARGUMENT Congress. has temporarily shelved the proposal to instruct the president to withdraw the Ameri- can troops from the Rhine. The proposal should remain shelved until. after we have made a peace treaty with Germany. It will be easier to make. a satisfactory treaty’ with, ‘the soldiers there, and we shall probably: find, as France has, that soldiers are. the. best pos- sible arguments in enforcing the treaty after it’ is made. ; | YORK Senator McKellar of Tennessee asks Congress to. make. Sergeant York a captain on, the retired list with pay. York is the greatest hero of the world war, but he faces eviction from ‘his farm at Pall Mall, Tenn., because he can’t meet the mort- gage. York could have paid: the mortgage if he’d ac-! cepted vaudeville and movie offers, but patriotism: and religion wouldn’t permit him to capitalize the reputation he had won, jp sis country’s: service. Congress should pass: the. McKellar bill. Bal ‘We may need more Sergeant: Yorks; it's well, to show 'we appreciate them. * ° : i i ee : QUR HOMELESS. ‘AMBASSADORS - The government of the United States is made ridiculous in the critical’ eyes of France “by: the practical eviction of its embassy ‘in Paris. This great government is, represented, in one of the first capitals of Europe by a plenipotentiary ‘gnd. suite eccentricities of a landlord; and until the formali- ties. of a. new: lease are completed Ambassador Herrick must submit to the indignity of being homeless—an invited guest of the French govern- ment. i It is almost as bad everywhere: . We have one or. two permanent ambassadorial homes in the world capitals, but the opposite is the rule. Where the diplomatic representatives of other govern- ments are housed permanently and in circum- stances befitting the national dignity, the ambas- sadors and ministers of the greatest and richest nation on earth are lodged in temporary. and sec- ond-rate quarters, subject to leases and all of the belittling and discommoding surroundings ‘and accompaniments. Foreigners must’ judge largely by externals. We need not put on frills or indulge in unnecessary and extravagant display. But for the sake of our dignity our embassies should be housed: above re- proach: Without other means of knowing, for-' eigners appraise the United. States to 9 measur- able extent by its representatives in their midst. at us after remarking the parsimonious neglect of , The organidhtion of this court is the most im: ~~ jour high diplomatic officials—St. Paul Dispatch., Editor of thé Tribune: | mail edition you carry an article Head- ling to, be a nation-wide survey made ‘by the Bank, of America. ‘mis-statements about the condition of {States ° have : We'll take you: home,” “Yes,” nodded. one of the green birds. “‘That’s what they call us. Poll- parrots, But where are all the rest of them?” “The rest of who?” asked Nancy curiously. She hadn’t got far enough in school to know that she should have said “‘whom.” “Qh, the cockatoos, and hornbills, and bitterns and the other birds, ‘We're out of the Zoo, you know. Old Whizzy Tornado blew down the bars and carried us all away. Greenle and I landed in the bushes there and seeing this. hole, crawled in. It’s very dark, and we're hungry and we'd like to. go home.” 2 n Bynny mopped his. brow again with his ttle red hanky. “You don’t wish, it as much as I do,” he cried fervently. “I can’t find you another sunflower seed! Do you happen to know if any of my family found its way to the Zoo?” “Oh, no!” answered the parrot hapghtily. “There's nothing so com- mon as rab— No, we're sure that your family isn’t there.” In your issue of Aug. 9th in the ed “Three States Only Fail To Give Ex-Service Men Benefit Is Claim,” with a New York date line purport- This article ig so full of half truths, un-truths and honuses, etc. of the eX-service man that’ it demands an answer. H In the first place this is just part of @ propaganda being put forth by the| Bankers and others who made enorm- ous profits from the war and who do, not care to: see justice done, as long | ag there is, any chance of it touching; their ill-gotten war profits. | This article states, that only three| states have fafled to’ pass legislation, authorizing aid to veterans in exemp-| tions or benefits of some kind. Then) it goes on and states “the bonuses: Tange from $10 to $25 per month,” The statement is misleading. The) Delaware legislature, for instance, “took action” on the bonis question. | It defeated it. But it has authorized; a state medal for Delaware men in; the ‘service. Dées the Bank of Amer- ica include this in its list of “legisla-| tlon, beneficial to. Veterans”? Does it) include Virginia’s law for the record-| ing of veterans’ discharge certificates The argument is, of course, that if} the states are providing for the fi-| nancial. handicaps suffered by the vet- eran by reason of his service, why! should the Government be called upon} to adjust compensation? Because the: man who went to war went in defense. | not of Massachusetts, not of Alabama. / not of North Dakota, but of the United States. If he served in the Regular Army, he served in the United States Army. . If he- served in the National Guard, he served in a body of troops officially federalized for United States service, not of the Michigan constab- | ulary, but of:the National Army. Even | these distinctions disappeared when) all were made the United States Army.! Further, in leaving the compensa-' fion question to the mercies of the States, the Bank of America bettafs an optimism that has no foundatign in hope, let alone in fact. Fourteén passed* compensation ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS By Olive Barton Roberts.» | EVERETT TRUE ON ACCOUNT OF THIS HOT SUMMER, WERE GOIN’ T HAVE ‘TH ————} ABOUS"THIS TIME OF THE YEAR | mal (GOIN T BE... SEST_ LIKE TH WINTER. sald Nancy to the pollies. Ben looked relieved. “Then I'll have to start out in the. world. to hunt them,” he said, “and I’m afraid that you'll have to hustle for your own sunflower seeds, Good-bye, every- body, I’m off.” ‘And away hopped Ben without onc looking behind him. “We'll take you home,” said Nancy to the pollies, and takin a bird apiece, the twins wished themselves at the Zoo. In a few minutes they were there, but what a sight met their eyes! | Doors were down, bars were broken, roofs were torn off and destruction was everywhere. Not an animal or a bird was to be seem. Old Whizzy Tornado just what Sprinkle-Blow would do, “made two years’ for somebody.” had done said he work “Where do you suppose everybody | has gone?” wondered Nick. “Dear knows!” sighed Nancy. “We'll have to help Mr. Sprinkle-Blow to find them.” (Copyright 1921 by Enterprise Newspaper bills, five by legislative action, the other nine by popuar votes that showed. ma- porities ranging from not quite two to one to five to one. Compensation measures are pending in ten states; they have been defeated in the Leg- islatures of eight others. State compen- You BeTcHa! FORECASTING | NEXT WINTERS. | WEATHER. sation measures passed and pending, therefore, total twenty.four—exactly Jone-half the country. It is a fifty- \tifty proposition whether you live-in la compensation-paying state or no— jit you don’t you are just out of luck. | That is the obvious moral of the Bank ,of America logic. | The case for adjusted compensation ‘has been conceded by Congress. The practicability of meeting the obligation {of adjusted compensation has been | stated in the majority report of the ! Senate Finance’ Committee of the Six- | ty-sixth Congress as follows: | “The general assumption that the enactment of this bill into law will |immediately load upon the backs of an already excessively tax-burdened | public an immense sum of money is NOT WARRANTED.” | In this same report there was sum- ‘med up in a few words the whole | argument for compensation. Like most i great principles, it is simply stated— ;and unanswerable: i “Leaving out of the question every ivestige of sentiment, every element ‘of gratitude, and applying only the | rigid rule of mathematical calculation, we cannot deny that, by allowing the |man who fought for his Country, who; placed his life in pawn for his Country, the increase in his compensation pro- ided by this bill, we are still giving jhim for his service, with all its risks and hardships, a compensation much below that which the common laborer ,in the United States received during ‘his absence. Can a grateful country ido less than this?” _ Hoping that you will give the same publicity as you gave to the other article, I remain, Respectfully, A. H. IRVINE Commander, , Post No. 54, American Legion. | INSTANTLY KILLED, Sharon, N. D. Aug. 13.—Ole Far- land, 28, was almost instantly killea when the auto he was driving, ca- reened at a sharp turn, and over- turned, pinning him down with the running board across his chest. Death resulted from strangulation. Farland’s wife and little daughter were thrown clear. Mrs. Farland tried vainly to lift the car or relieve its pressure on her husband’s chest, and then, at his bidding, ran for help. When she obtained it, death had en- sued. The wife and the daughter survive. BY CONDO WANX Some THE ADVICE tS: N MEMORIZED SPEECH I = =| THUS, WAY To THe DIS! AND-AS You CASS WT rEx@erT “!l TALK CIKE A. HUMAN BEING fx 2 TIN To Give You ADVICS EVER SELL MG ANYTHING UNTIC you bres Tae WRITTEN BY SOUS | Dan R. Richardson, {HOSKIN [LEONARD HAD } ; || | GIVEN UP HOPE OF RECOVERY | Grand. Forks Man Suffeted’ For | 26 Years Before At Last \ Finding, Relief | “The best investment I ever made |in my life is what I paid for a few | bottles of Tanlac, for this medicine | has done what all the other medicines |] have taken in the past twenty-six | years failed to do,” said J. P. Leon- ard, 209 Cottonwood St. Grand Forks, | N. D. “Nobed, {ing all these y | matism was. worsd , | others wud was espe {ing damp wezther. 1 was aimost heip- ; lesa when I started. talking ‘samiag, tor, ! 1 just had to hobble arouid vu erutch- | es, and my legs were drawn wp and my finger joints were swollen to al- {most twice their natural size. I[ couldn’t even get out of my chair without help and it hurt me to put my foot on the floor, My stomac: was out of order, too, and, the little 1 | managed to eat’ would lie like a lump of lead in the pit of my stomach. “I never dreamed that Tanlac way going to do me so.much good; In. fact Ihad_ given up, hope of ever get- ting rid of rheumatism, but there was something in this medicine that just | seemed to drive rheumatism out of my system and build me up at the same time. For a year now. I, haven‘t had « trace of rheumatism and my. stomach, jis. in first-class condition. 1) eat meats and vegetables that I didn’t dare to-touch before. and I sleep: like & log. and wake up, feeling fine... 1 am willing to testify anywhere to any- body that for rheumatism and ston:- ach trouble Tanlac beats any medi- cine. | ever saw or heard of.” “Tanlac is sold by leading druggists everywhere.” Every “cat has his: night. Taxes threaten, disarmament. It’s a short road that has. no holes. A fool and his money seldom. meet. “Curz-on, Curzon!” cliffe. says North- Eve had the leaf on; her daughter has the leave-off. Masquitoes are, becoming good bare- back riders. The most favored watering place is the water cooler. A wise man changes his mind; a ‘wise woman her face. | “Reds Free Americans”—headtine. 'But they wish they were. | Congress isn’t passing any more bills than the rest of us. Many a man is fenced off from success by his own railing. When many a man steps into his jear he is getting into debt. The prodigal sun is at the beach turning fatted calves brown. “Music is the sunshine of the |soul;” jazz, the moonshine. When opportunity knocks many. a man is out burying his hopes. Don’t be driven to. drink! You'll need your money to ride home. One thing’ about a woman, with gray hair is you know it’s natural. There is some doubt about who won the war; but not about who is paying for it. It has gotten warm, enough for Eskimos to bathe. Wonder how many pair of socks they find? A crime school has been. found In Philadelphia. Every Bismarck kid thinks any school is a crime. EX-LABORER GETS BANK: POSITION Of: special:interest isthe employ- ment of Walter True bythe Farm- ers State Bank, Ottertail, Minn. Not long ago Mr.: True was.a rail- road section hand. He wisely took. a friend’ s advice to getacommercial education at Dakota Business Col- lege, Fargo, N. D, The results speak for themselves. : D. B. C. pupils come from farms, stores, factories, kitchens, public schools to be trained for business life. Thousands have made good. “Follow the Succe$$ful.’” Enrolk for Fall Term. Write. F. Eb. Wat- kins, Pres., 806 Front St., Fargo, N. D., for information, KODAK WORK Done For The _AMATEUR Reasonable Charges — We are known’ everywhere for the expert we ne aay Oniere Giye) i mpi ‘ion. BOEEINS, Inc. Bismarck, N.-D. 5