The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 18, 1921, Page 4

PAGE Four THE BISMARCKTRIB Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second | Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN : - : OGAN PAYNE COMPANY G. LOGAN PA DETROIT CHICAGO Marquette Bldg. : Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - : : - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - Editor The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use| for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or} , ; \telligently directed expenditure of more than|\’ not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. mee. 4 All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year.... 7. Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota......+++++++ THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER i THE BISMARCK TRIBUNs UN E tributed to diversified causes —from mechanical defects to individual failings in the personnel. But to the man with his feet on the ground it ‘looks very much as if official confusion were to ‘blame. Since signing of the armistice Congress has ap- | propriated $135,613,000 for the army and navy ‘air service, and of this approximately $20,000,000 ‘has been for work intended to make aviation safe \for the aviator. | To the average taxpayer it looks as if the in- jthan have been obtained. America never will be safe without an able air jscrvice. Aviators cannot defend the nation until they themselves are defended against the elements that make peacetime flying unsafe. The World War found America—the birthplace (Established 1873) ‘of the airplane—behind other powers in aviation. a oa PRETTY SOFT A caravan of 100 people is on its way from: Brooklyn, N. Y., to Idaho, where its members have bought farms. They travel in autos and motor trucks, cook on! gasoline stoves and camp at night in portable can- vas houses. If you could turn the clock back 100 years, you'd see pioneers making the same trip westward in “prairie schooner” wagons drawn by horses or oxen. | Those early settlers had a rough life while they | were on wheels. And it wasn’t much better after! they reached their journey’s end and built log cabins. Suppose one of those pioneers, with prophetic) vision, had said to his neighbors: “I see a caravan traveling west in 1921. Its wagons run without animals hitched to them. In camp at night, they bring out a wooden box that talks and sings.” Such a seer would have been taken to a doctor —and later to the lunatic asylum, if he persisted in his prophecies. The contrast, then with now, shows you how a century has changed the mode of living in our country. Can your imagination picture the changes that another century will bring? Compared with -the past, we live in an age of ease and comfort; And, our nerves on edge as a result of modern city life, we frequently are dis-; satisfied with conveniences that only a few gener- ations ago were denied kings. | That dissatisfaction is what gives man modern conveniences. It’s what will bring more and bet- ter ones. . Progress is the child ‘of dissatisfaction. You press a button and electricity floods the room. Grandma had to wash the globes and trim the wicks of oil lamps. Her mother patiently made tallow candles, for progress had only begun to con- quer the black night. : An old Indian chief, shown over New York, was asked what he considered the greatest’ wonder. He pointed to the spigot from which came running water. It is only a few hundred years since there were no sewers. That caused the frightful plagues of the Middle Ages. You can count on your fingers the generations that have passed since France had a tax on win- dows and poor people spent their nights in dark- ness and foul air. A city is bad enough at times, but, when you are inclined to bay the moon too loudly, just con- sider the hardships you missed by not being born 200, 100 or even 50 years ago. We are making progress, all right, in this world. Sometimes it seems discouraging. But the jour- ney, though slow, is ever onward to better things. FIRE WATER Nearly a million quarts of whisky were with- drawn from bonded warehouses and distilleries during June. i This makes you grin and reflect that, for a dry country, we're still rather wet. Or possibly the! ational health is very low. But the stream of liquor is gradually drying up. In the first six months of this year, only 5,-| 949,224 quarts of whisky were withdrawn from! bond., Same period a year ago, withdrawals were| 20,682,392 quarts. Only a matter of a few years until whisky will be as scarce as. opium. OUR AIR FORCE It still lags behind. If the recent naval airplane tests off the Atlantic) | Coast showed anything, they showed this: THAT ARE LARGELY OBSOLETE, For forts with guns that can shoot surely to the mark only up to 10 miles or so, cannot defend companied by airplane carriers laden with war planes with a flying radius of a hundred miles or more. Our national defense requires an air force large enough, well enough equipped and properly trained to defend every mile of our coast line. We can’t achieve this until we have accomplish- ed flying safely in times of peace. It’s decidedly up to the Harding administration and Congress to coordinate the development of every branch of government aviation and the com- mercial airplane industry,,f0 MAKE AMERICA SAFE. ~ 95% | ALASKA Grandpa will recall the great public protest that rose when Uncle Sam bought ‘Alaska from Russia in 1867. Alaska cost us $7,200,000. That was less than two cents an acre. But Alska hadn’t been ex-| plored in those days. Now comes a government report that Alaska last year yielded $23,307,757 in minerals. More} than three times as much as the whole thing cost! us originally ! Alaska has paid for itself 25 times in fish alone.| As often happens, it has taken time to prove} that what seemed bad judgment at the moment) was really good judgment coupled with farsighted| vision. Have you an Alaska in your life — something, you ‘are banking on despite the sneers and jibes) of your neighbors? GREENS Too many Americans are living out of boxes and cans. We need more grub fresh from the garden. . } It would be good for our brains and good for our bodies. Dr. E. V. McCollum, professor of biochemistry, John Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, says we’re paying the penalty by premature old age. { Men and women of 40 look like 65. Mother, let’s have a fresh salad for dinner. | EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in thts column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. ere || presented here in order that’ our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being dis- cussed in the press of the day. B INSTRUCTION IN MATRIMONY Now for a course in matrimony! This is what} Judge Harry Lewis of the superior court advocat- ed to the board of education in Chicago in an open 1 letter. A course in matrimony should be a part of the curriculum in every high school, is the opin-! ion of the judge. | “The number of cases wherein children have| contracted marriage without ever having been: informed of the magnitude of their obligations) appear so often that I want to see some way of; overcoming this danger in the coming generation,” | he said. Successful matrimony has become scarce, judg-| ing from the number of divorces. And these do} not tell the whole story. It is not unreasonable to; consider the married state open to improvement' through scientific study of the obligations. This! Airplane accidents in government service are on the increase. | This increase in loss of men and machines is out} of all proportion to any increase in flying activi- | ties. | Between Sept. .1, 1917, when active training for! war flying began, and the signing of the armistice, | Nov. 11, 1918, there was one fatality for every | 3072 hours of flying. Following the signing of the: armistice and! cessation of intensive training, the aviation mor-| tality rate increased, so that from Nov. 11, 1918, | to March 15, 1919, the rate was one fatality for idea is perhaps contrary to prevailing opinion, be-| cause sentiment is considered the prime factor in| bringing about a conjugal relationship. And quite} often those who have the knowledge of what con- tributes to happy and successful married life make} the most dismal failure. j There are so many contributary causes to un-| happiness that cannot be foreseen. A study of the conditions underlying harmonious functioning of husband and wife might improve present and; future conditions. Judging from the way things are going, the family is in a state of disintegra- tion. Science and invention have been largely re- each 2208 flying hours. | sponsible for existing conditions. This does not} Today the death rate closely approximates one| death for each 1000 hours of flying, or three times the casualty rate of our air service in the war. unscientific handling of domestic affairs. In our eagerness to excel in commerce and industry, the vital part — the home — has been overlooked.— aviation fatalities. may be. at- The santana: Omaha World-Herald. ~ athe !$135,000,000 should be productive of better results| OUR IMMOBILE COAST FORTIFICATIONS ¢ our harbors and cities against enemy fleets ac-|Water as shown by numbers, | the extravagance of the state admin-! This map’ shows the difficulty the American Red Cross Commission will have in getting\food into the Russian ‘amine area. This area is shown shaded. Relief outside this zone also is urgently needed ‘in Petrograd, Mos- cow and Vologda. \. , There are two foules, and which the commission will attempt to get food supplies into the acute famine belt: 1: From Petrograd by rail to Mos- cow, 400 miles. By rail to Yaroslav and by river boats to Simbrisk, the center f the famine area, 1000 miles. By rail to Vyatka and Perm, northern section of famine area, rail FOOD ROUTES TO FAMINE BELT 1200 miles. BY THE POT BOILER, Three candidates in the recall elec- tion proposed for this fall were in| Fargo recently, and all expressed: themselves as confident of victory. it is a peculiar phase of politics or rath- er part of the psychology that goes with campaigns that every candidate thinks he is going to win. Every campaign waged against the league and by the league has brought; forth cock-sure statements of victory. Confidence of victory feeds the fires of| enthusiasm and authough after the votes are, counted and the candidate hits terra firma -again, recovery is surprisingly rapid, i This feeling that victory is corraled | ere the votes are tabulated helps to] lubricate the machine and keeps can- didates good-natured. ; Following) the Fargo conference, Mr. Nestos issued the following state-} ment: , H “There is ny longer any doubt that the people of North Dakota ‘want the! recall electiof#,” suid Mr. H 0 Nestos. | “From all parts of the state |, receive reports to the effect that the senti-| ment is rapidly changing against the] present administration, mostly as a! result of the waste’ and the lack of system in the branches of business under the control of the. industrial commission, and also on account of istration. es ee “The Bank of North Dakota is one of the best agencies in the state for the*success of the recall campaign. The funds which have been tied up from time to time and the hundreds of checks which have been registered during the past few months all carry their special convincing message to people of sound judgment and great influence in the various districts. “Also, it becomes plainer to the vot- erg every day that a general clean-up of, administrative affairs in Bismarck is necessary for the rehabilitation ot} the state and the restoration of credit} and confidence. The Independent army is on a victorious march, and I don’t think my friend J. F. '. O’Con- nor was too’ optimistic when he in a recent interview prophesied un Inde- pendent victory in the November election by a 25.000 majority.” : 8 Sveinbjorn Johnson, Independent candidate for attorney general to suc-} ceed William Lemke, expressed him-! self equally confident that the Inde pendent voters would win hands down} in the fall. “I have as yet not been around) very much, but | have received many encouraging reports as to the change} of sentiment against the present Lea-! gue administration,” said Mr. John-! son. “I talked the other day with al RECALL CAULDRON | Laws and regulations governing these! cannot make} | EVERETT TRUE representative for one of the biggest loan companies doing business in, the state, a gentleman who so far has been very friendly to the League, and he told me, that the Independents, in his best judgment, would win by a big majority in November. “This man had just completed a 4,000-mile trip throughout the state. mostly in the northern and western part, and everywhere he found the sentiment changing against the mem- bers of the present industrial com- mission.” * 8 8 Joseph A. Kitchen, Independent ez didate for commissioner of agr' ture and labor was asked for his opi ion regarding the “millions” the Lea- gue managers claim to have savel the farmers of the state. “As far as 1 am_ personally con- cerned.” he said, “Ladd’s ideas on new grain grading Jaws, etc., have not saved me or made me one cent. In our own co-operative mill in Sentinei Butte we instructed the miller to make a run of No. 1 wheat, and then, a run of feed D wheat to learn what there was to Dr. Ladd’s statement; we found it did not pay, where we could get No. 1 wheat, to monkey with feed D wheat at any price. The mill does not want it; the proportions of bran, middling, shorts, reddog, etc., to what best grade flour is taken from place the onus on science, but rather upon our! feed D is large compared to No. 1 wheat. “Practically each town in North Da- kota, kas a Farmers’ co-operative ele- vatof Which is built and governed by farmers; they can and do sell grain. to their best possible advantage. 2: From Novorossusk, on. the Black Sea, by rail via Rostov, Liski, ‘and Pensa to Simbirsk, 1200 miles. 3: (Which because of. rail condi- tions may prove about the only way of getting supplies’ into the famine district). By rail from Poti to Bakn, transhipping to vessels on the Cas-! pian Sea for carriage to -Astraka and up the Volga to Simbirsk,’ 1600 miles, 4 and 5: Rail lines to Omsk, Si- berian Russia. If any grain supplies can be centered at Omsk they will he carried in over these routes, but the supposition is whatever surplus; of food is available at Omsk already has been secured and digtributed by the soviet authorities. co-operative elevators a cent of extra profit for them; it is the old idea of legislating prodpdity; it has and can never be. done. cys «5 “Will some one tell me what the originators of ‘the League ever did for farmer co-operation until they claim- ed they started a.Farmers’ movement. Did Townley, Baer, Walters, Seaman, Smith, Bowen, Brinton and all. the others, who hailed from Golden Val- ley county, ever join or help? time is now here wien farmers are doing their own thinking and not ac- cepting wild theories from those who mislead them.” ae ee) You can turn to any issue of the North Dakota Leader and find the; same confident attitude toward the re- call election. Under an, editorial cap- tion, “The Fight Is On,” those inter- ested ‘in hearing both sides of the is- sues will.See in this the line of cam- paign to be used against the I. V. A. attack. ‘This editoriai bristles with the typical league argument and is in- teresting .merély.as.a lead on the twist the. state: campaign is to take. The “Pot Boiler” assumes no. respon- sibility tor the editorial, but merely in the interests of fair play prints the league side of the story: “The Minneapolis Chamber of Com- merce has jumped into the fight against the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc.-; the Chicago Board of Trade propa- ganda is everywhere virulent against the new organization, branding it es socialistic, balshevistic, Townleyism; the Forum and other 1. V. A. papers in North Dakota are constantly snarl- ing, refraining from open attack only because they fear the political effect. “The same tactics will be used in fighting the U. S. Grain Growers that were used against the Nonpartisan League. The Grain Growers will be overwhelmed with objurgation. and ridicule; it will be accused of being unpatriotic and un-American; those who support it will pe boycotted and blacklisted; every inducement in money and in political and business ambition will be held out to its offic- jals to betray it; every mistake it makes—and it is bound to make mis- takes—-will be magnified many-fold; its failure immediately to remedy the evils of generations of corruption in The! THE SALES TAX THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, ‘21 the grain trade will give its enemies opportunity to brand il as a failure. 8 6 “Just so long as farmers can be kept divided by the methods used in fighting the Nonpartisan League, just so long will they remain the prey of the gamblers and big bankers, Farm- ‘ers must learn to have the utmost |-contempt for the opposition of the big interests. They must consider it an honor to be overwhelmed with epithets Kby such creatures. ‘They must expect that mistakes will be made, and de- | lays encountered, in an enterprise so vast as that of establishing a new marketifig system. They must not be surprised when men in whom they have put their trust prove traitors, tor human nature 1s weak, and the temptations the opposition is able to hold out are exceedingly persuasive. “As to the officials of the U. S. Grain Growers, they should not permit themselves to be siampeded when they. bear themselves described as ‘socialists’ and preachers of ‘Townley- ism.’ It is true that many of these farmer leaders have been considered highly respectable in the past. Through i ignorance many of them have even joined in the thoughtless vituperation ot the Nonpartisan League that they picked up in their newspapers and jfrom their banker and business ‘friends. It is going .o shock many of jthem to learn that they are as bad ; as Townley. i | «The lesson they have to learn is that ‘Townleyism’ isn't as bad as it | was pictured in the big business press. When they see their own movement i misrepresented, they will come to realize what the Nonpartisan League has meant by the ‘kept press.’ Maybe they will take the trouble to study ac- tual conditions in North Dakota. If they do, they will find that, but for tthe boycott by Wall Street, aidea ano abetted by many North Dakota bank- [ers, this state would be in better con- dition today than any other state in the Union. r “The Nonpartisan League is on the Tight track, just as the U. S. Grain | Growers is. It has made mistakes, jas the Grain Growers will, and it has put confidence in men who have be- trayed it, just as the Grain Growers will. But it has been and is fought, not because of these mistakes, or be- cause it trusted these men who proved false. but because of its program for a new and better marketing system. |» “And the U. S. Grain Growers is be- | ing*fought now, for exactly the same reason, and with exactly the same weapons of misrepresentation and abuse that were used against the Nonpartisan League.” Expesition of the Theory and Practice of This Form of Taxation BY HAZEN J. BURTON President Tax League of America. Chapter VI. Q Why does the Tax League advo- cate a specific exemption of $6,000 ‘annual sales in advocating the gross sales tax? A. The reason for fixing the exemp- tion at $6,000 is that this will assist small dealers and\farmers,and eucour- age thrift and entdrprises among busi- ness beginners in their struggle with competiton.. It was felt that there should be some’ exemption and $6,000 was fixed as a proper amount to ac- complish the ends mentioned. Q. Dr. Joseph McCoy has given us what is considered the most reliable estimate of the yield of a 1 per cent tax covering sales of all kinds by traders, manufacturers, mines and farms of $1,100,000,000. This estimate is considered by Treasury officials as being one of the most reliable that has been made. Mr. Burton says experts estimate a 1 per cent rate will raise around $3,000,000,000. Who are these experts and what is the basis of their estimates? A. The been made: Tax committee, National Association of Manufacturers, $6,720,000,000. Roger Babson, statistician, $5,000,- 000,000. Bache Review, April 1920—$5,000,- 000,000, following estimates have BY CONDO YES, (T WAS A PRETTY FAIR Come BACK HERE anb Raise HE SEAT OF THIS CHAIe YOu VACATED! IT FoR YOU BUT Tim NOT STRONG ENOUGHIM I'D. Do Business Men's National Tax com- mittee, $3,000,000,000 Dr. Thomas 8. ke r man Advisory Tax board, United States government, $2,000,000,000. Joseph S. McCoy, Treasury depart- ment, United States government, $1,- 700,000,000. i It will be noted that the estimate made by Dr, McCoy is the lowest of all. It is therefore safe to assume that the tax would reach $3,000,000,000, since some of the careful estimates made reach $5,000,000,000. Q. If the government requires $4,- 000,000,000 and a 1 per cent sales tax will produce around $3,000,000,000, is it not a dangerous and unwise move to | have the government relying on a sin- gle tax for a large portion of its rev- enue? Again, is it not a fact that the yield of any tax fluctuates with the changes occurring in the object to which the tax rate is ‘applied, thus causing the national revenue to be un- certain? A. The widespread application of this tax is one of the strongest points in its favor. It is universal in its scope and therefore does not mean that the government is relying upon the tax upon any one commodity or group of commodities. Furthermore, if it found that 1 per cent rate would raise too much revenue the rate could be made one-half of 1 per cent. It is true that the yield of any tax fluctu- ates with the changes occurring in the object to which the tax is applied, but the national revenue could certainly be far more reliable than it is now under the existing profits taxes where there is much revenue one year and little or none the next. —From The Minneapolis Tribune. A political ring can’t be squared. , That step to success isn’t a side- step. Men who sleep on the job never get up. ‘ There doesn’t seem to be any rest in peace. Prohibition is one-half of one per cent enforced. New hair styles show some little pictures had big ears. { Alimony is a shorter name for matrimonial reparations. Ireland can’t understand why they prefixed “John” to Bull. “Industry” is'a great word. Jump “in,” raise a “dust” and “try.” In the international’ game, kings, queens and jack are“all wild. Briefly, the Russian tale is: brag- nation, stag-nation, rag-nation. ean The Girl Next Door says these drug store bills make her red in the face. | The first expedition after missing links was headed by a golf player. Eve would have had a hard time tempting Adam with an apple at the present price. A wife wants divorce because hub- by takes stenographer in swimming. Regular bathing suit. ae SES | ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS By Olive Barton Roberts “Yes, sir!” nodded Wally Wood- chuck. “We're all packed to take our vacation and I-came to ask you to make the weather nice, Mr. Sprinkle- Blow.” “What's the difference to you, Wal- ly?” asked Sprinkle-Blow, “when you can travel by subway as easily as you can above ground.” “Why, that’s easily explained,” an- swerel Wally. “We're going to see the world, and how can we see it It we're under the ground all the time. Of course, at night it’s different. We expect to. save hotel bills by digging in when it’s time to sleep. But Mrs. Woody and I don’t sleep much these days, or nights, I should say, as we sleep our heads and tails nearly of in the winter-time. But daytime, we expect to travel ‘cross country—also top country—and see the sights. I’ve always wanted to go over and see that blue mountain over there with the white top. Would you tell me if it’s buckwheat blossoms that make it so white?” Sprinkle-Blow’s eyes _ twinkled. “No,” he said, “it’s frosting.” “Frosting!” exclaimed Wally. “Then my missus was right. She’s always said that mountains were cake. I'll have to tell her that she was correct. We shall start right away on our va- cation. You see we always wait un- til harvest is over before we start, be- cause we can’t bear to leave the nice, sweet wheat ’n oats and things, while jthey're growing. But when they are ; gone, we may as well live there as |here, or here as there, whichever you | please.” “what kind of weather would you | like?” asked Nick. | “Dry weather!” answered Wally. |“Mud’s too hard to walk through. Be- | sides, we like to run in the gutters | beside the road and when it’s wet we get all splashed up. The automobiles j splash up.” (To Be Continued.) (Copyright 1921 by Newspaper Enter- PriBe?) otayod A A | TRIBUNE WANTS—FOR BESUi4S Jains ONE. |