The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 12, 1921, Page 4

PAGE FOUR FHEBISMAR CICERTBUNE Dera ere e area reece ere a eae acerca ace eee a= GmnS oR aaeee @htered at ‘the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Clase Matter. GEORGE D. MANN : - - Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO ‘ism: - The Pribune--feels:that:such-will not be the case and that if bond issues are continued to keep ‘the state im business, it is futile to arouse in the minds of the tax payers any hope of immediate relief. | The Tribune has always consistently opposed ‘state socialism in any form regardless of the aus- Marquette Bldg. BURNS AND SMITH ‘pices under which it operates, Someday this NEWYORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. /stand will be vindicated. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS aaa But whatever plan Mr. Nestos honestly pro- tone Agrociated Frets ie wa dispatches eredited to it or poses should be given a fair trial if that plan is aot otherwiae ‘credited in this paper and also the local’ not socialistic in nature and has for its object the vews published herein. - ‘alleviation of economic conditions through easing AUR HERES of republication ithe burden of taxation and showing the world that are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION | North Dakota has ceased chasing the rainbow ‘and is prepared to restore the orderly functions CRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ‘ ‘ ‘ pie carrier, per year. ...+++++++ ‘i +9720 of government such as obtained in the days when Daly ty mail Serene dn Bismarck) jj Bismarck),, 6.00|the credit of this state was gilt edge and her gov-! Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota...+.++++++++ 6.00;ernment had less spread of sail but more of| THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ballast. (Established 1878) | Mr. Nestos can only lift the burden of taxation| Bo iby declaring absolutely against state socialism| jand calling upon the farmers to function through LIMITATION OF ARMAMENTS cooperative societies in their fight for better mar- Equal in importance to. the Versaiiles confer-, kets and improved conditions in the great term-| ence which sought to perfect world peace is the|inals of the nation. 1 gathering in Washington today for the purpose} Governor Preus sounded the true keynote when of discussing a limitation of armaments. The'he urged cooperation as an antidote to state 20-| first task is to allay national prejudices and sus-cialism. .A leadership that can follow that advice| There are multitudes of issues that will. veil be endorsed by the people of the state who! - Editor DETROIT Kresge Bldg. of special dispatches herein icions. taka to crowd out and becloud the chief object of! pay the freight, regardless of the emotions of the! this session. |self seeking politicians who are still baiting the’ The discussion of navai armament is to have|farmer’s vote with Townley’s platform. i first place but the advisability of restricting | Se aE EEE nena other modes of armament is to be considered also. | ROLL CALL SUNDAY | It is hoped also that a solution of the Pacific; Congregations in churches of all denominations | and Far Eastern problems will be found so that!in the states of Illinois, lowa, Nebraska, North| any possible friction may be eliminated and the!and South Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, Wiscon- peace of the world relieved of these disturbing sin ‘and Wyoming are observing November 13th! , and menacing issues. |as Roll Call Sunday according to the announce-' resident Harding in his address to the mem-|ment from Central Division headquarters of the’ behs of the conference voices the appeal of the| American Red Cross, in Chicago. péople for relief from the economic burden inci-|_In accordance with the request of President: dent to vast public expenditures for national de-| Harding, who is also president of the American fense. He made it clear that he did not speak as;Red Cross, the day has been set aside to consider 2 pacifist, but with a reasonable expectation that the “gospel of service.” Ministers and priests all progress will be made in limiting armaments. The |over the country have been requested to bring the time is deemed opportune to approach the issue.) Work of the Red Cross and its great humanitar-| The desire to limit expenditures for armaments is |!@" undertakings to the attentions of their congre-| universal and only national jealousies can prevent |gations. ; ; a sane solution. Following the opening of the Fifth Annual Roll: But deeper than the surface issues of the con-|Call on Armistice Day, this prayerful considera-| ference is the yearning from a war weary world tion of the work of the American Red Cross is| that steps be taken to'prevent the recurrence of lexpected to result in increased membership. These | war on any such scale as this generation has suf. annual memberships provide funds not only for fered. There must be a general. desire for peace| ue community undertakings but service to| among the conferring nations before the peace of bus war veterans and their families, who be- November 10, 1921. The die is cast. The League has lost—and it-may be all for the best. Assuredly, it is not the end of the ‘League or the League program, which is to curd monopoly and exploitation and to better the conditions of the people. The causes of the defeat are easy enough to discern; some reflec: tion on the causes may open the eyes of the leadets—they may see thin: in a new and. better light. At pres ent it seems they have lost a marvel- ous opportunity for good and for a continuance in power. They have too closely adhered to the old Henry was that. t the world is assured. Those who control the ‘des-|2¥Se of illness or injuries incurred in or result- tinies of this conference fraught with such great|/"% from the war are unable to care for those de- possibilities must strive diligently to remove the pendent upon them. Memberships also furnish catises of misunderstanding: J .,, [funds to carry on recreation to.and service for : th i i insti- The world powers gather at the invitation of e men in hospitals and other government insti tutions. Thi i i President Harding., That every nation responded |... service ek ie Tate ee wounded readily is a tribute to the position America has : i | Communities in which there is an industrial taken in world leadership. The United States is| 4, i ‘ ? regarded as the agency that can stabilize condi- epression are relying on the Red Cross to provide “ Yat * 4 | for the vari d. izii tions and promote.a spirit of friendship that will this pibhehaed ey eneeat ke ‘e a“ permeate the four corners of the globe. that of any previous years ie Do your part willingly when the Boy Scouts call on you. ‘ PLENTY OF ADVISERS R. A. Nestos and his colleagues have plenty of! advisers. “What North Dakota Needs” is being told daily from the editorial sanctum sanctorum. The governor-elect, however, should be given an opportunity to solve some of the problems as the exigencies dictate. Those’ who expect a complete, turn over when the new administration takes the | wheel are bound to be disappointed. he first duty of the new administration fol- NOT A DEFEAT BUT A PROTEST lofting an examination of the state’s books is to| Since election, it has been a rather popular tell the people how the state corporation stands.|comment that “the laws were beaten and that An intelligent financial statement might reflect;means the people want the league program more eloquently what North Dakota needs thanjcarried out by a new set of officers.” a mass of sophomoric suggestions. If The Tribune sees the result of the recall election correctly, the people want relief from |Speaker. : taxation all down the line, both state, city and| But can such an interpretation be placed on the county. There is hardly a political subdivision |result ? j cece in the state that has not exceeded the speed limit.| On this contrary, The Forum feels that the Net all the taxes are attributable to league con-|laws were beaten by the extreme opponents of trol. It is time to prune excessive levies from|the socialist program. the top down—that means from the state budget | Everyone knows that there was a considerable down to that of the lowest political subdivision. {faction in the state which took the attitude: Mr. Nestos must select one of two policies. _|“We have had encugh of compromises.” At least First: A complete abandonment of the state cne daily newspaper voiced the sentiments of this industrial program and the liquidation of that/faction, and it cut a big figure in the vote in economic folly. several counties in the central part of the state. Second: Continuance of the state’s industrial; Their attitude was that the program of the in- Frogram as originally promulgated by the nonpar- dependent voters was only “another compromise tisan league. jwith socialism” and they were opposed to it for If he selects the first policy, he can reduce taxa-|that reascn. They demanded an end of all ex- , tion. Little or no bends need be issued to bu#den'Periments in stateowned industries. the people with additional taxes. The Tribune} There was but one way in which these voters has contended that the election placed such a man- could show their ¢is:~pzoval. They could not date upon him. Deubtless Mr, Nestos and his |consistently vote for the present administration. advisers will hold differently and honestly so from|They are compelled te acccpt the “lesser of two their view point. evils,” as they view it, in the matter of candi- It is likely that the administration will continue|dates, and they voted for Nestos, Johnson and the so-called industrial program. If that is done|Kitchen. But they could express their feelings taxes cannot be lowered. Mr. Nestos may reduce | when it came to, the laws and they did so. They the force now employed at the Bank of Northijoined with the league voters in opposing these Dakota and restrict its activities so that the over-/laws, and in sufficient numbers to defeat them. head will be reduced materially, but there is the| Among any 10 independent voters today it is _ Drake Mill and the Grand Forks industry. These | Possible to find from one to three who will ad- doubtless will be continued. If they are, bonds| mit that they voted against some of the initiated must be issued to finance them. The chances are|laws, at least, and the reason invariably given it: that losses will be continued if the state persists|“We’ve had enough of these fool Socialist laws; in staying in business for profit. We trust Mr.|it’s time we ditched all of them.” Nestos and his colleagues on the new industrial} The defeat of the laws wasn’t a victory for fommission may reverse the experiences of this|the leagne program so much as it was a protest gnd other states in the experiment of state social- against compromises,—-Fargo- Forum. “ y EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. had one, according to the viewpoint of the That is interpreted as either a good sign or a! George theory which i j way to make-men rich and happy is ‘to tax their’land to its>full rental |value. Accordingly, in 1919, 1920, and 1921. they;did more than double the lend valuations and taxes and in’ ad- dition they .laid on personal property, on incomes, on business and on most everything an enormous state tax, amounting to over ten million dollars a year. And the several counties and municipalities were permitted to. put up their tax levies so that the total amounted to over $30,000,000 a year. But the purpose of it all was good. The Leaguers had by law created a great’ bank and made it the sole de- positary ‘of all tax monies and given three state officers absolute con- ‘trol over the bank and all its moni and over the state enterprises. I purpose was to use the bank @ Aladdin’s lamp to build nice ¢ homes, to. buy or build and ope flour. mills and other enterpr ‘and also to make loans to needy peo- ple. But in a short time, the peopie, by means of the initiative, repealed the law making the bank a solc depos ‘draw from the bank most of the pulsory deposits, and the bank ‘ou it quite impossible to refun the monies which it had disbursed iu mak- ing loans and building homes. anda mills, Thousands of checks and d turned. with protest fees charge the same. h m feel quite like going into the swear- ing room, against the League. |bad. management the bank and the {state industries proved 2 sad failure. ence™the recall of the Industriai Commission, Frazier, Lemke and Ha- gan, and the eloztion of Nestos, Jo son and Kitchen. And the chi of it all was three years of © taxes and of poor crops and lo and extortionate railway tates. high tax is a thie? and a robbe an unmitigated curse; it is the est of all evils, next to robbery bs common carriers. Those dooin ges tio scrimping vitude. In ‘North Dakota, as well {in South Dakota and Minneso!.a, au ing the past three years, the have been 2 monstrosity. — Thi well enough to denounce Wall Street and Big Business and: to pound the Devil on the back, but those agencies ing 09 do with high taxes have nothing t Sear ‘Wo. must learn to give due and to give unto Caesar th which is Caesar's. The blame has been justly placed on the League { ers and on iinmiesion. Unwittingly the: evil that ‘good might come. Excess wer is a dangerous thing. It des too often blind the eyes of the wise and pervert the judgment of the righteous. The League too much power. Special Election Resuit In 1919, at a Special Election Towner county, the fight was on the high taxes and it went against the League. At the special session in did in plea for a general tax reduction 0 fifty per cent, result” 4 merely 2 twenty-five per cent redu tion of the state tax time passed, it v ‘ bad laws and ru esa to the ruin of the League. Hence to undo the wrongs and to remove the cause of complaint the Governor is urged to call a spe¢ial session in June, 1920. Any good law then pass- ed would havo had; And that made some men/ the state industrial | first day of July and in time to pre- vent disaster at the coming election in November. but nothing was done. hen. at the: general election in November, 1920, the League majérity. of two to. one in each house was reduced so that hon- ers were e At the next session the Governor said to the solons.— The best thing you can do is to pass the appropriations and’ go home. Others said: Pass no appropriations until the assessments and tax ‘levies are reduced t:) a proper basis. Well, as you know, nothing was done ti set matters right and’ the result of it all was the recall. ‘Twas ‘ever. thus since childhood’s hour. ‘The lesson is so drastic and. expens- ive it should serve as a warning to the bosses and the lawmakers of, this dnd. of other states. It may well ‘be said that the League managers, have many excellent credits, as well a8 many. excuses for their mishaps.. They had. proven themselves pheno- monal political organizers and doubt- less they thought themselves compe- tent financiers and businessmen, capable of ‘running all the affairs of state, and, as a m: side. issue, or- ganizing and managing a great bank and the other state enterprises.. The task would have been too much for a James Hill or a Cecil Rhodes. The Program of League The League program is all right, but, their method of procedure is all wrong. The reason is that in public service there is no efficiency. There *:servance of business methods. { | | of. bad. organization, bad laws, and} Managers had| \ | | 1 { December, 1919, there was 2n urge ut nous. taxes must} | taken ‘effect on the| is a continual and lavish expenditure of time and monay. There is no ob- Those who serve the public steal their time, soldier and neglect their duties. That litary. Then a rush was made to with! i, true of noarly all judges and even the nine Judges of the U. S. Su- preme Court. Indeed. the Big Nine are the chief sinners. They steal their time, take long vacations, continue ‘lin the ruts of ages and hold only bi- j ennial terms of court. Instead of on the bank were dishonored ant re pushing their work and keeping their | EVERETT TRUE It was the last chance; | SATURDAY EVENING LETTER (By Justice J. E. Robinson.) | course that is not business. | Supreme Court, they hold up most! docket clean, like the North Dakota | appeals for two or three years. Of} - In New Zealand, banking and must every public utility is operated by a stock company. There is a union of| public and private capital and control, ; and that has proven a grand success. In that way the ‘Federal. Roserve| Banks are organized and operated. In| each bank the government owns one-/. third of the stock and names three di-| rectors. The member banks own the} rectors who give all their time to the! business of the bank. But our friends! of the League were bent on trying a new method, which was to’engage the! state in certain business enterprises at the expense of the taxpayers and under the direction and absolute con-: trol of three state officers, regardless} of their business qualifications. ing the I. V. A.’s with the power dele gated \ta the, Industrial .Commissiqa such power should never bo truste to-any man or set of men. The Initiative The Leaguers have given the state in the simplest and best form the in- itiative, the referendum and the re- call, for which they may well claim| credit to. the amount of. several mil-! At the primary elec- 1922, the woters may use the initiative to redress all their legal wrongs, to reduce the assess-) ments and to throw off all excess tax! Lions of dollars, tion in June, | Nothing improves:theloutlook like a square meal. 5 rest of the stock and appoint six di-| where the new island was, No} good Leaguer’ ever thought of trust-| ATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12 Peace is three years old and small for its age, s Soft ‘coal prices are hard? This joy of living 300 years will probably be given to rich relatives Better go broke than not go at all, It may be true the strongest rope is made of cotton; we smoked it for tobacco, t Peer may not be good for an ill- ness; but illness is good for beer. A bee sting is short but to the { point. There’s no fool like a cold fool. | It’s a wise-acre that stops before |you see a dentist. Aviators say the barking of a dog jean be heard four miles high, and we | know the dog. | i | New York's fat reducers are work-* | ing like our tax reducers. Some have | gained. i Making skirts longer was the most unkindest cut of all. Divorces:show many married folks ‘with but a. “pele thought. PPPS ans |The average oyster may live only 110 years, but' the soup. variety ‘lasts a restaurant much longer doctor shortage and: need a patient shortage. : We have a { H | _-One strong argument against fight- iing the Japs is we can’t pronounce their generals’ names. / i 2 i London is planning rubber streets. {On windy days we have rubber cor- | ners, gcc negN cet ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS By Olive Barton Roberts Yes; sir, one old. sea-gull knew “I happened to be: hunting for my dinner,” said he, “and was just about to dip my. beak. under. the waves | where I saw a shiny little fish, when suddenly there was a roar and a bang and the water shot up like a porch- | pillar, only higher,,and drenched me completely, I thought for a moment that Iwas gone, but. when I came to my ‘senses there I was lying high and | dry, on. some, hrand.new, rocks. Ne, I,, wadtt any i ‘was very wet! But I was alive and that was enough. | The sun soon dried my wings and I | was able to fly away, but I was dread- fully puzzled about the whole affair, for such a strange thing had never happened to me before. Do you know anything about it?” Nancy told the old sea-gull what Cap'n Pennywinkle had said, and ex- plained how volcanoes sometimes blew up from the bottom of the sea, niling great rocks on top of each burdens. In making assessments andj other until they reached the surface levying taxes the better way is to re turn to the simple inexpensive and; constitutional methods which provail- Then the tax} on a good quarter section of land was not over $40. Now it is $100 or more, and the land income is not one per cent net in its assessed valuation. people | themselves if they do not reduce thelr i an make such other laws as may be nec- essary to insure their success and | ed a‘dozen years ago. It will be the fault of the tax burdens (io a proper level prosperity. For good luck the initia. tive petitions should be filed with th Secretary of State on St. Patrick’ Day in the morning. —JAMES E. ROBINSON. BY | of the water, “Yes,” put in Nick, “and the worst of it is that sailors don’t know the new island is there because it isn’t marked on their maps, and they are likely to run their boats right into it in the dark!” “Well, well, well!” said the sea-gull thoughtfully, “What's to be done?” “We'll go back and tell the fairy policeman at once,” said Nancy, con- fidently. “He'll fix it some way. wl knows a lot about everything.” Nancy was right- Cap’n Pennywin-}! le sent a thousand electric eels to': | illuminate the island that night, and {in the meantime sent word to the | Fairy Queen about the whole affair. |. The Fairy Queen had her helpers | build a fine lighthouse, which is there: ” 1o this minute. (To Be Continued.) (Copyright,-1921, NEA Service.) eee PEOPhE’S FORUM | oo ———_—1.| ditor Tribune: | At the request of Mr. W. W. Merry- mon, I take~pleasure in giving you the following results of his recent } magnetic observations at Bismarck. | He oecupied two staticns on the court Ouse grounds, one 14 feet from the outh walk and 93 feet from the west | walk where observations had been imade in 1914, and the other 25.8 feet , West of north from the first, near the station of 1907. The resulting values ! of declination were as follows: | Station 1—August, 1914, 15 degrees, | 08" East; July, 1921, 14 degrees, 51° ' East. Station 2—September, 1907, 14 de-, j grees, 29’ East; July, 1921, 14 degrees, | 30’ Bast. : | While the difference in the results |at the two stations shew the presence jot local disturbance, yet the compari- son. With previous observations indi- jcates that there has been no material “change in the local conditions, as Mr. Merrymon’s and earlier observations j.at other places show that in that part ‘ef the country east declination was in- yereasing up to about 1915, but has been decreasing since. ‘The declina- ition at station 2 appears to be about | the normal value for the vicinity of ! Bismarck. | It js noted that in the reprint of our leaflet which appeared in the Tribune jfor July 19, the amount cf diurnal | variation is given as 15 degrees in- | stead of 15 minutes. As a result of |Mr. Merrymon’s observations during the past summer it should be noted that east declination is now decreas- ‘ing throughout the northwestern part |@f the country, the annual change at Bismarck being more than 2 minutes, We R. L. FARIS, J sa it abE-Gouditic Survey.