The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 6, 1921, Page 2

PAGE TWO « THEBTEMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Boatettice, Buinarek, N D., as: Second latter. GEORGE. D. MANN - - - - Editor | Fottign Representatives } G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO 2 DETROIT Marquette Bldg. 3 Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE-ASSOCIATED PRESS | . 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 republication of special dispatches herein are algo reserved. z bch MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION | SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. - Daily by carrier, per year........- Ns eis BA wt Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck). . 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota........+0-+ 6.00} a THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) iB : a WHAT WE WOULD-DO What would the reactionaries do? “This is the question the Grand Forks Herald asks The Tribune? First and foremost, it would not spend more than a million more to finish the state elevator} and mill at Grand Forks. If necesSary, it would! let that mopumental folly stand there to remind the people of the fallacy of state ownership. The $900,000 spent might profitably be charged ‘oft now—for when a million or two more of the peo: ple’s money is invested at Grand Forks in the state owned mill and elevator, it does not: take much:.business acumen to predict what will hap- pen. / One mill and elevator at Grand Forks which is not even a terminal market, will have as much effect upon the grain and flour business in ‘North Dakota, as a similar elevator located at Kalama- z00, Mich. = : Of course the pork loving propensities of ‘the average politician dictate an immediate comple- tion of the Grand Forks enterprise. The Non- partisan League, however, has found how hard it is to coax private capital to enlist in state owned enterprises. Probably the I. V. A. through some financial legerdemain can secure the money to finance the dream of state owned enterprises. The Herald claims that the people are entitled to have the experiment of. state owned mills and elevators made “in good faith and in an adequate “manner.” . Is it the belief of the Herald that one comibina- tion mill and elevator at Grand Forks can test out the operation of state owned industries “in good faith and in an adequate manner?” Every. thinking farmer and every grain man knows that the pork barrel at Grand Forks into which $900,000 has been salted away will not bene- fit the people of the state one penny.- It will give - the politicians something to play with and in-| crease the overhead cost of government,’ that is all. The Herald naively remarks: “Tt believes that when the affairs of the state are placed in the hands of trustworthy men, the mill and elevator should be completed and operat- ed, that the management of this business should be divorced entirely from political control. and should be made to stand on its own feet.” It is evident that the Herald is demanding the impossible. As long as: North Dakofp, stays in any business for profit, just so long will the enter- prises get.deeper into the political mire. The Grand Forks Herald knows this, but ‘it has,a. big state enterprise under construction’ and a strorg local demand that it: be completed.. No one can fail to sense the political expediency ‘of the’ Her- ald’s position. as The Tribyne would not. complete the white ele- phant at Grand Forks. It would get out of every business the state has dabbled in as fast as-possi- ble. It would not even invade the banking busi- ness as the-I. V. A. proposes or the league. has’ already done. It would as‘one great publicist has written have “no more government than is: abso- lutely necessary to protect society, maintain indi- vidual. and vested’ rights, and assure the free ex- ercise of a sound conscience.” .: . 3 If the Grand Forks Herald’ calls this reaction- ary, why there is nothing to prevent..it: from: ad- vocating a continuation of: state socialisri, more especially when it brings political pork to Gftand Forks. ' are REAL BOYS Sir Ernest Shackelton is going to take two Scotch Boy Scouts with. him: on -his coming’ trip to the Antarctic. ree We hazard the opinion that every other Boy Scout in the world is envious of those two Scotch/we: have what may: be called the Anti-Saloon youngsters. : S Dangers? Of course,. lots of,them. = But what does a real boy care about danger? CURRAN Curran, who is the fusion candidate for mayor of New York against Hylan, the Tammany can- didate, has just introduced himself to the country at large in.a way that marks him as aman of com- mon sense. In his first speech as a candidate, he urged that all expenditures for war memorials be postponed until after every wounded and disabled soldier has been cared for. ‘An unsuspected readiness among Congressmen to recognize a man’s home as his brewery as, well ———-——- * |per cent return o1 as his"castle has caused great excitement among iT the lobbyists of the Anti-Saloon. League. = FINE FEATHERS _ E. J) Heinz of Seatgle sails for‘Laysan Island,| 700 miles northwest of Hondlulu. There he ‘will| salvage 40,000 tons of bird bones,. for fertilizer. | It’s all that’s left of a paradisé of sea birds so/ numerois that 300,000 were killed in 1909 alone, | for their’ feathers. ' oe Women who wore the feathers probably didn’t | know that they could be obtained only by killing, the mother birds in the nesting:seagon. Ne That’s how the aigrette or white heron: was’ almost exterminated on our Atlantic coast, untill protected bylaw. wel {7 j ‘ PROFITS. : Capital hereafter must: becontent with a 10! its. investment... That’s. what) the National ,Hay Association is.told by Walter Lichtenstein. of the First. National Bank, Chicago. It’s going to be a very lucky and exceptional business. concern that doesn’t lose 10 per cent in-; stead of making it this year. i 7 Congress should think that over. It has an|_ inflated idea. of taxes that'can be raised from 1921 profits. y eenen aE You: can’t get blood out of turnip. | Step harder on the economy brake! COFFINS Having failed to. make ‘much of an impression | on the high coSt of living, the U.S. Department | ‘of Justice is now going-to try its hand at.the high cost of dying. tH a Teal Its investigators have been getting facts about, the conspiracy that is:said. to..exist, among. the} coffin manufacturers, distributors,and the under: takers.of the leading cities of the country. ."Thiése facts are said toprove' violations of the Sherman: anti-trust law Aridi outrageous: gouging of. the public. law af ’ , Coffins costing $20 to manufacture are being sold by undertakers for from $300 to $400 and $30 coffins for $600. < § The sum total-of this ghoulish profiteering dur- ing the past few years runs into the millions. . re By. The Pot Boiler The Minot Daily news, has this com- ment to make upon the I. V. A. plat- form: cinctly-from’ the standpoint ‘of the modified socialists: so R. #® Nestos has reiterated his de- termination, if elected, to endeavor to secure‘the completion and placing in operation of the state mill ard eleva- tor at Grand Forks. Mr. Nestos: pledg- ed' himself to this course following hig unanimous nomination at the Dev- ils Lake*convention. His attitude. is SESS ae el eeet After seven years of Government control Great Britain‘ has returned:its railroads to private hands. Two years were-enough for Uncle Sam. kota’ citizens want to see a stateown- ed proposition of the kind carried out on a really. large scale in order to.dem- onstrate to. the’ satisfaction ‘of intelli- gent citizens, the practicability or the reverse of ‘a stateowned business: en- terprise. Whether, the experiment is successful of,,mot is another. matter. No’ administration can’ gurantee suc- cess. The pest it can do js make an honest effort. That Mr. Nesfos is pledg- ed'to do. ’ His ‘program’ offers: a far Congress may waste wind and the government generally: may: be rather inactive, but the situa- tion compels life and movement. in prohibition enforcement: circles. Henry Ford's railroad, which lost honey be- fore he bought it, has earned: $500,000 in six months. Perhaps the chief trouble with the rail- roads is the lack.of Henry Fords to manage them. ieee A protest is said to be expected’ from’ Great Britain. in. consequence of the extension of the three-mile limit in order to seize the liquor schoo- ner, Henry..L.. Marshall. enterprise than’ the’prestht 'state re- gime. ‘ Thé ‘Frazier administration is bankrupt ‘and discredited.:') Work’ on ithe state plamt has been suspénded for resumtiig ‘it .ynder the present align- ment. ete eS “A part of the program of Mr. Nestos And the independents is the raising of @ new bonded fund to clear up debts and pull the state out of the fin- ancial hole in which it has been mired for so long. This program would mean’ early resumption of work on the Grand Forks plant and a speedy ‘trial of the experiment. Thinking North Dakotans, even’ of the’ Nonpartisan league, who want the plant completed realize -that Mr: Nestos offers by far the best prospect of seeing the desired end accomplished, and will vote for him’ and, his Hemet forsthat reason. y ‘‘ : It is a questionable pfece of ‘state financing: to’ bond the state to pay up the losses incurred’ by the orgy in state: ownership. Why assess. future generations for the'errors of-the pres- ent? In admitting that a bond issue is’ necessary to liquidate the program of the New Day, the I. V. A. practically concede the impossibility of state ow- nership’ of public utilities for profit. ‘The honest thing to do if the I: V. A. ‘ NO “GROUP” DELEGATION ° ; ‘It is announced from Washington that Mr. | Harding has no intention ‘i appointing. a‘ “labor” representative or a “wortin” ‘representative or any “group” representative as such on the Amer- ican. delegation to the” Washington Conference. That hescouldn’t and. wouldn’t make such appoint- ments was: elemental. The wonder is that any- body should ask or expect that he would. The delegation will represent the United States, one and indivisible, the.whole people and not any one “class” or sex. It is a curious irony of “progress” parities Roan oeingon rsd that altogther too. many people. in the United jot the assets of state owned utilities as States have revived: and extended and applied un- ie pone SE ee ten ee der new names the division of a people into separ- | general tax budget. Not a must a ate social and economic entities that the French, ca” be paid at once. Phe losses col ss Revolution was supposed to have abolished. eeeiceqoeercnrind et aphettco of Jn, spite of our formal: popular representative strict economy ‘in all departments of Government there exists, constantly in effort, and atate’ governuicdl, too often in fact, a government by classes or es- \tates. There is the Organized Labor Estate. There is the Farmers’ Estate, manifesting. itself. so pow- erfully in the present Congress. Some women.are pining for the Women’s Estate; and so on. Spe-| ctal exemptions and. privileges are sought and isometimes obtained by statute by the Farmers’ Estate’ and the Organized’ Labor Estate. Then * TheN. V. A. program presents a par- jadox that is quite anomalous in politi- cal annals. It proposes to bond sev- eral millions to continue the league program within restricted limits’ tc demonstrate to the people of the state the soundness or the fallacy of stat ownership: of mills, elevators and banks. In the same breath it proposes ‘to bond for another amount to meet the losses of those same enterprises under league janagement. © Why charge any more off to experiment and experience? Is not the bill large enough now? What purpose can be served. by putting a bond burden on the people to absorb the losses and then slapping on top of it another bond issue to continue the losing ven- tures? What guarantee have we that I, V. A. political management of the industries is gaing to- be. less politica’ and. more business like than the lea- gue’s? Does: history show that polit: ical control of public ownership en terprises varies much in the net re sults. League Estate, almost a branch of the Govern- ment, gayly overriding the Bill of Rights. There used’ to be an American people, equal under uni- versal. suffrage, animated. with a national. con- sciousness. That hateful exotic “class conscious- ness’ is trying to supplant it. “Group” represen- tation, “group” parties, “group” government have made their appearance, Rave developed a certain strength, which, if not resisted and_ overcome, twill contain dangerous potentialities of evil. ~ | They will be overcome if government of the |People, for the people, by the people, is not to per- fish from the earth. Mr. Harding has given a use- ful, if rudimentary,. lesson to the advocates of these selfish and disintegrating theories. The) | American delegates to the conferénce will be se- jlected for their qualifications, not for their mem-| ibership of a “group.”—New York Times. ... a ee Which all brings us to the story the negro south of the Mason and Dix on line: who regularly sold his vote as many times as there were factions. “Well Sambo,” asked a friend, “how much did you get for your vote.” “One ole boss paid me $2 and an- other ‘done gave me $1.” answered whosgavesivou $2.00,” vfrientd. _RECALL CAULDRON .. It sums up the situation suc-! |that a large proportion of North Da-; better hope to the friends of the mill! moftiths; atid there: is: no -prospect’ of | “Of; course you voted for: the. boss : his: “No siree,”-rejoined Sambo,.I done. |voted for the fellah that paid”me $1, | because he was less corrupt.” | Th I. V. A. is asking for support !upoti much the same basis. They want to shoot to the birds for experimental | purposes just-about one half what the league would venture for the cause of the farmer. They pose -as being “Jess corrupt” in the handling of state lowned’ industries, but once inthe sad- idle and the machine. starts up, the |people of the state will. have the whole ;mess fo clean up sooner or later. i One faction has the:gky as the limit and the other fixes the “ante.” jthe game is gambling with the public’s | credit just: the’ same and disaster al- j ways attends such an orgy. ‘oe Ernie Peterson of the Di¢kinson Press has been reading the I. V..A. and league literature so long that when it comes to- appreciating a really inde- pendent stand, it is impossible. He bubbles! over:-this week. and pictures The Trjbune truculently grasping at ithe crumbs that fall from the table of the Nonpartisan League gang. He de- cides in his sanctum sanctorum that The Tribune, in taking a stand against \state socialism im any form, is actuated by a desire to secure a mortgage on state printing. Brother Peterson should read the minutes of the state printing commis- sion. At a recent’ session The Tribune’s bid was not even recorded. It was turned down cold. That looks like ithe crumbs were’ falling our way “Ernie.” oe Also the award’ on Third and Fourth class printing was properly given to Senator Chorson’s plant at Grand Forks; thé Normanden, because it_was low bidder. Mr. Stutsman, I. V, AY attorney: and author of most of the initiated’mess propagated by the I. V. A, tried to oust Thorson another perfectly good’ I..V. A. worker, and se- cure the printing for another plant. Why, can only be-left to the imagina- tion. id bv Ne 4 The Normanden,-a paper su} ting Nestos: and’ the I. V..A. program most vigorously and militantly was aw rd- ed the state printing by a compe sion dominated by Nonpartisan ie mémbers. Now why in the name of all PROPOSITION; IN. VR ; Now, oO! see You. AN ORDER FROM Tou. yy Vi, Wp iy) (fe Wrne wl But} HR TRUS, | HcARO You SOMNPANY HAS VAST RESOURCES GBCHING IT, iH. G. Boiler was a setret:’ But), why «the » “‘Pot Boiler’ may be George Mann, editor of the Tribune,. or he. may be Paddock or perhaps William | Lemke, of whom the sentiments and ideas @xpressed in the column savor |so strongly. ‘Be that’as it may. He‘ has shown his hand in thé-recall: cam- }Paign as clearly as if he -had laid his’ jeards on the tale and he is found jaligned with the. peanut politicians of |the state instead’ of the people whom ithe paper serves, We care not who he jis, he stands self convicted in the eyes of his subscribers, He Has sacrificed \that is political, “Ernji did not lpi” Lemke and John Hagan shoot | these: crumbs over to the Tribune and [help the Pot Boil. 4, Of “course, Peterson, the Pot [Boiler reglizes that you have been {down ‘in Miami near Job Brinton’s !sisal ‘farm where Townley’s crocodiles ;make-faces at “Job's and Marse Jim’s \erocodiles,” and consequently you ‘are not in close contact with ‘the’ facts. It is too much to expect that you be informed. But jcome to Bismarck and look up the jrecords of the state printing commis- ision and see where the crumbs are 'going. Maybe you ‘could pick up a icrust or two. Probably Gov. Frazier will start that state printing school ‘you recently petitioned for. |Brother Thorson will give you some lof the league crumbs that have gone into his perfectly loyal IaV. A. institu- tion. You never can tell, Ernie? ake The Dickinson Press has this refer- ence to make which in view of the facts of the case, that paper is still yielding to its. political disappoint- ements: , “The policy of the Tribune has been to ride the fence despite its editor’s weak assertions to the contrary. It \has pretended to be a paper that was opposed to the league and yet it has stdod hard by to-pick the crumbs from off the political, table of the league gang in an effort to secure a mortgage lon the state printing. If the editor of that shect has ever felt bitterly to- ward the league he has never shown it, In fact, when ‘other independent papers were carrying the facts regard- ing the condition of the state's indus- tries to the people during the last ses- sion of the legislature, the Tribune was almost as talkative as a clam. The same characteristic has prevailed in the handling of practically every is- sue of a political nature that has ever come before the people. “‘Pot Boiler’ goes ever farther. In addition to censuring the Press for its criticism of his attitude, he edeav- ors to outline the policies he would have“us follow. But -Who is the ‘Pot |Boiler’?, Why-the mystery? While in Mandan the other day thé editor made ‘a vain attempt to uncover his identity. In: fact, one in close touch with the "business and editorial end of the Tri- bune gave gut the delightful informa- tion that ‘the identity. of the Pot - BY CONDO WERE INTEESSTED & DRove OUT HERE To AND 3'D LIKE To GET Ly] Soge Sa € VAST aesuaces” — TAKE THAT! | - HONK OF JUNK AWAY FeOM IN FRONT OF MY RES- Maybe! jal right to consideration: He is bound and from an editorial stand- | point, the Press is through with the: | Tribune. In- the futdre we shall shun ida. scourge’ or pestilence ye ihe same contempt that we do tor the Courie.-News, ‘I'ne Rip- {Saw and the peai-.y Reason’ and jumess we miss@ur guess ine ‘Pot |Boiier’ will find himseif more despis- ed and rejected than ever afier the | coming election.” » es * In conclusion, the Pot Boiler de- sires to refey to a very interesiing decision by the New York court of ap- peals in ruling that the payment of a soldiers’ bonus is unconstitutional. While the court recognizes that the relief of the defenders of the Repub- lie is most praiseworthy, the broad principle of pledging the public credit for the benefit of a certain class is in- volved and the court has the following {to say which might be read with profit by both Nonpartisan League and I. V. A. adherents: “Great. expenditures may be lightly authorized, if payment is postponed. To place..the burden’ on our children is easy. Nor do we scrutinize so close- ly the expenditures to be made if that is done. The pressure which’ will comg-when the’ obligation matures is | ignored. “Conscious of this human weakness, ta: guard against public bankruptcy, the people thought it wise to limit the legislative power. Thea courts “Must see to it that their intentions are not frustrated or evaded. And this is true even if the action questioned seems to be approved by the voters.” Unfortunately North Dakota has no such constitutional safeguards as New York. The sky practically is the limit. But consistegt action, cool heads, ab- olition .of personal ‘invective and the tule of reason will some day assert it- self in’ this state. A leader will one day rise up strong and big: enough to ignore class or group’ consciousness and come out for a program of govern- mental action that will make for a government of the people for the peo- ple and by the people. But cheap pol- litical expedienits merely aggravate the disease. Straw lids are down—and almost out. , The only Silesian export is crises. America now sings “How Dry Am Lae | All the modern cook needs is a can operter. \ At epresent prices laundries are cleaning up. The best girl’s finishing school is “Matrimony.” ¥ The,school of experience stays open. all night. i Coming school days cast their shad- jows before. i It’s strange how gemptation picks i on married men. Ct ee || ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS i By. Olive Barton Roberts After Sprinkle-Blow had gone, | Nancy hunted up the biuss-polish and stove-polish and silver-polish and | floor-palish And window-polish and set to work a’shining up the fairy- man’s house. Nick beat rugs aftd | moved furniture and did chores: of all | sorts, and soon the place shone like | Aladdin’s lamp.’ Wouldn't Sprinkle- | Blow be strprised, though, when he j returned from his vacation to find ) everything so spick and span, with- out arly trouble to himself at all. Eyerything was done at last and Nancy, arms akimbo, surveyed their work with pride. ow, what'll we do, Nick.” she asked,,smoothing down | her apron. “What else can we clean?” Just then her eye fell om the key {to the house ofthe Nuisance Fairies, .| hanging on the nail in ‘the wall ‘where | Sprinkle-Blow had left it, and an idea | popped into Ler head. She had for- | gotten what the fairyman had id jabout not touching it. “Oh, Nickie, { lot's. clean house for the Nuisarice | Fairies, too, poor things,” she ‘cried, don't suppose that anybody does anything at all for them and I’m sure | they’d like to be scrubtedeup.” | Nick thought it a good idea. “But,” | said he, “how can we get in without opening the door, and if. we open the | door they'll all get out at once, and if they all get out dt cnce, the earth will have forty kinds of -veather. Then ‘what would Mr. Sprinkle-Blow say?” | Nancy was thoughtful. “Ill tell you,” she answered slowiy. “We'll ask our: Magic Shoes to make us little | enough to crawl through the key-hole. !That’s easy enough!” | “But then we can’t take the polishes along,” declared Nick. “No, that | Won't do.” * “Then,” said Nancy firmly, | “we'll | just have to use the key and be quick ‘about it.” as eed |seerecy? Is he aspargenyot WHI, |