The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 3, 1921, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK\TRIBUN Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter, GEORGE D. MANN - - c B Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Av MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIA D PRE! The Associated P. 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 here 4 All rights of republication of special dispatches herein erved, MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Editor Daily by catrier, per year... $7.2 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) . 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismare « 5,00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota + 6.01 THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) BOND SALE ' Restricting bond sales to the immediate needs | is a wise precaution. It may be necessary to issue Bldg. Zo assignats. worth sonly one-thousandth; of their face value. So even the French government refused to accept them. The wastepaper man carried them away. | It will be interesting to watch how long it takes before the value of the German paper mark ireaches the vanishing point. | Germany now has in circulation about, 95,000,- '000,000 paper marks. Ninety-five paper marks \have about one mark in gold back of them, You have heard that you can be certain only of 'two things—death and taxes, Add a third—the! ‘certainty that the German mark never can return| to par or anywhere near it. | History repeats and the German mark ‘is fol-| lowing the downward path to join the French) | | A day of reckoning may come, when the brakes jwill be put on and the whole issue of German jmarks called in for replacement, with, say, one jgold mark issued for each 200 paper marks. The Wall Street Journal, recently said that| jbankers say, “In all probability the mark will de- cline further and may eventually cease to have} ‘any value whatever.” vkeep my caree some state securities to liquidate the various|; Anything that is inflated sufficiently usually THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE “SPINSTERS — THEY’RE: BRIBAIN’S F GREATEST INDUSTRIAL PROBI They’re Pushed Out of Jobs by Younger Women, Says Miss Manicom By NEA Service. —"The woman st industrial prob- he isn’t married.” m is speaking— 120 pounds of pink and white Eng- lish femininity, She represents the International. Federation of Work- ing Women at the arms conference. “It's practically come to this: That there’s no p for the unmarried woman of 30 who hasn't means “There's little chance of marriage for her and she’s being pushed out of the business and industrial world ‘by younger wamen with less respon- sibility who can work for much less money. Plan Relief. “We've got to do something for these Women. We must keep employ- ers from ‘ousting them from. their jebs.” Miss Manicom’s 28. She: was an organizer of English women’s unions before she was 21 e's the one outstanding { figure in woma s industr jage? “That would have heen much more ideal,” she says, “but I shall have to Many women like world. socialistic schemes as well as to proceed wtih the, expansion of state ownership as laid down in the} Devils Lake platform, but the fewer bonds issued | the better for the taxpayers. That the new administration is making haste, slo} ly. is encouraging and it is. to be fervently! hoped he Wing still unconvinced of the futil-; ity of state ownership will not be the dominant ; and deciding voice in settling the policies of the, administration. { There is a growing sentiment against state ownership, however, cleverly it may be disguised. Socialism under any name is the same sorry at-; tempt to reverse the natural laws of economics. The people of North Dakota want relief from taxes, state, county and municipal and the leader- ship that can bring about that will survive. Any, policy that continues to pyramid taxes will be, short lived and the only way to reduce taxes is to! ‘ reduce. Excessive bond issues mean more taxes; if the money is used for state owned enterprises. ' Even an extensive farm loan business conducted | by the state is fraught with dangers. Rural) credits has been used as a magic term by politi- cians, but the possibility of piling up taxes under the administration of such a department is great.; North Dakota can never recover its economic balance until it gets out of every kind of business.! The farm loan business may be the least objec-| tionable of all, but with the federal farm loan} bank making loans cheaper than any state agency | and with many privately owned banks unable to; show a decent profit for the service they give a) community, the state can bettter aid, and foster the farmer and businessman through the passage of just laws than to enter into competition with them. i There is a great swing away from paternalism | in governmental affairs. A state or a nation | usually gets the kind of government it deserves, | but there is every indication that the people are| cured of state ownership in this state and are; merely waiting to acclaim a leadership that will| place government where it belongs and restrict) its functions. Coupled with this must come the movement to-| ward government by party. The movement to wipe out party expression in North Dakota gave! rise to many of the ills now suffered. Party action based upon the fundamentals of represent- ative government will finally restore normalcy in North Dakota. ‘Nhe program of state ownership is fundamen- tal wrong and the more the state experiments the ‘greater the taxes. Less politics in business and more business in politics will help North Da- kota to its feet. That day may not be here yet, but it is coming when party rule will be restored and it will be the: function of government then iport in the world. jand adventurers of our day are business men. Night. ‘are not often shown up so plainly. other special favors that more than offset the ‘explodes and disappears altogether. | ADVENTURE ' The trans-Atlantic liner, St. Louis, will sail/| next January, carrying an exhibition of American | manufactures. She ‘will visit every important i | 4 i Adventurous youth will envy the several hun-| dred crack salesmen who will travel.on the St. | |Louis. Even Columbus, Balboa ‘and Magellan} when Nick would be jealous of them. The great explorers | 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. CONCEALED COSTS | Perhaps the. greatest evil of state socialism is! that it conceals costs under the head of taxes, | and places the legitimate competing businessman in an unfair light. When the homebuilders’ ‘enterprise was! launched, the various men in the building trades, for the most part, frankly admitted: they could} not compete with the. absurdly low estimates | furnished.by the state. ; | “Perhaps the state can build for those figures, | but we would lose money at it” they admitted. And the purchasers rather’ gleefully felt that they were getting the best of “the profiteers.” * But now comes the other side ofthe story. | The estimates are shown up in their true The actual costs ran from 50 to 100 per cent above the esitmates, and uniformly higher than the prices the private contractors would have charged. The taxpayers will be compelled to meet losses of from $4,000 to $5,000 on each; house constructed by the state. i Unfortunately the losses of state enterprises Too often! the taxpayers are kept in the dark about the subsidies they pay for publicly operated enter- prises, through the medium of taxes. Perhaps a municipal water plant charges: ridiculously | low rates and makes up its deficit in heavy hydrant rentals or other forms of concealed sub-| sidies. Perhaps a municipal streetcar line oper-| ates on a low fare, and gets tax exemptions or difference between its fares and the fares a privately operated company would charge. Even jour postoffice— the most frequently cited ex-! ample of successful public ownership — is sub- sidized with free office buildings ‘dnd a deficit to govern and restrict its operations to those for-| gotten fundamentals laid down in the constitution | assoriginally adopted and under which North Da. kota thrived. May that day speedily arrive! MONEY BUBBLES German money these days should be measured | in pecks and bushels. For a few good old Amer-, paid by the taxpayers. ‘ ; It is seldom that we get a fair. comparison | between a state owned enterprise and private cor- \porations in the same line of business. Always, ‘there is the concealed “joker,” even if it is only jexemption from taxes for the state ‘industry. | ‘Seemingly we like to be fooled believing that /our state enterprises are as efficient as privately-| ‘owned enterprises. | For that reason the lesson of the home-| door to Crookabone.” ‘blew a shrill ican dollars you can get enough German paper |builders’ association should be valuable. Perhaps money to fill a waste basket. lit will be well werth the $250,000 it will cost us. Speculative gentlemen, who bought German \Here is perhaps the oldest business in the world. currency, are asking: “Will the German mark!There is nothing. mysterious about it. There is ever come back? How high can it go? Was I an{an unlimited amount of accumulated experience easy mark in buying German marks?” As usual, history has a similar situation. Back in 1789, French revolutionists needed | money. They printed 400,000,000 francs of treas- ury notes. The first issue of these sold at par. By 1793, about 4,000,000,000 of these -paper francs were in circulation and their value had de- preciated four-fifths. French authorities did everything possible to restore their paper money to par. They passed | laws, making it a death penalty for refusing to accept money at face value. These laws had no effect. King Finance had no respect for the sharp edge ofthe guillotine. Late in 1796, there were 45,000,000,000 paper francs’in circulation. Their face value was $9,- 000,000,000, but the total purchasing power of the whole lot was less than $9,000,000. These paper francs, known as “assignats,”-were t from which the state could benefit. House building is no new enterprise. No new bookkeep- \ing systems were needed. There are dozens of! contractors within.20° miles of Fargo who do al | bigger business annually than the homebuilders’ | association “did, and they have accurate cost-| accounting systems. | Yet the state probably never will know just! |what any one house cost, and two years after| |the work was begun no contracts have yet been, tendered any of the purchasers. Only the limited | size of the enterprise kept the state from losing (millions instead of about $250,000. It was the most ghastly of failures, viewed from any angle. Nobody profited from it except the man who drew ‘Salaries. The purchasers paid more than they jwould have paid private contractors. The state lost $250,000. And the private contractors were | to wear the scalps of their con- quests on their belts. “But’—with a little smile—“I jshall feel my life has counted fer | very little if T never-have a -child of my own.” ADVENTURE OF | i i { THE TWINS By Olive Barton Roberts ' | ———/ where Crooka- as told “across the} street from th himneysweep, and next door t) the toymaker.” And/ when he asked where the toy-maker lived he Was told “across the street from the chimncy-sweep and (next bone lived he | When’ he asked how big Crooka: yone’s ‘cellar was he was told tol “multiply the length by the width, | as far above the as below the ceil- He tried once more. “Where's Kip?” he asked, just as Nancy had done. “Above his shoes!” came the answer at once. And of course the gnome who said it thought that he! was telling the truth. But something happened. The cat's eye over the gate! that had been glaring down at them| with a baleful green light, suddenly turned pink and then rel. Crook- avone jumped to is feet. “That’s notj the truth, Jigabump,’, he said, so you'll have to give Nick a forfeit. That cat’s eye says so, If Kip isn't above, his. shoes, something has hap- pened. . Kither he is hurt or he is bending ‘over. ;.Jf he is hurt, we must help him, and. if he is bending over. ‘that means that he.is hunting for the key to the Enchanted: Cupboard hid- den under the, coal in my cellar. And he mustn't find it, Come on, gnonies, come one, come all,” and Crookabone ast on his whistle. Instantly all the ugly gnomes wer@ struggling and scuffling after their leader, leaving Nancy and Nick alone in the middle of Gnome Village. The cat’s eye had ‘turned green again and gave tho only light Visible in this un- derground place, “Let's follow!” whispered Nick. “No don’t,” said a new voice at their elbow. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1921, NEA Service ue ee | PEOPLE'S FORUM ,; Se EXTRACTS Prof. E. T. Carmichael. Burnstad, N. Dak. PUBLIC EDUCATION IN RUSSIA Public education as seen by Mr. Davidoff has much to do with the es- tablishment of kindergarten schools and a. solution of the national’ prob- lems by the people has in the last‘two years been something more ‘than purely negative results. The greatest work is being done ; among children who are not old enough to attend the public school. ‘The means of extending dducational training to them is done through the establishment of kindergarten schools. Mr. Davidoff writes. the following which is reported in the- Novy Mir (Berlin); which was taken from the Russian Educational Commission in Berlin. The following shows much when observed’ from a psychological standpoint. =, \ Kindergarten training which is the basis of good training and national unity was on a very low level be- tore the October Revolution. Russia was the most backward country in this respect. At the present time the question of the education ig not regarded from the philanthropic point of view, as be- fore, but from the scientitc-pedagog- ical viewpoint. The question of edu- cating those younger than the school age, becomes one that must be con- sidered scientifice\ly. | What jhas been accomplished in this domain in the last few years is attested by the following figures: . In 1914 in the Samara government there were three institutions that looked after fifty children; in’ the Vitaka government there were such institutions that had 500 children under their care, In the 600 homes. formerly under the super- vision of Empress Marie, transferred to the Commissariat. of Public Educa- tion after the revolution, 'there were 30,000 children; now there are 3,000 homes and care extended to, 360,000 evhildren. All together in Russia there are 6,000. kindergartens that serve 350,000 children. Particular attention is given to the selection of teachers and_ preparation of teachers who.are specialists in this 'pranch of education. There have been organized about 100 special courses, with an attendance of over 5,000 stu- dents. And still there is a lact of experienced directors of such educa- tional institutions. Mr. Davidoff gives the number of orphans and other children main- subjected to grossly unfair competition—Fargo om as a (asa tained by the government of Petro- grad: In February, 1917, they numbered jmore. And what v 7 “THERE (5 No PLACE FoR Th UAMARRIED WOMAN of —THIRIy oto Has Meads, SATURDAY EV : (By J ustice J. 4 {i December 3, 1921. To be or not te be; to live or not to.live. ‘This is the question, A new broom sweeps clean. The new administration ‘starts with a promise of reducing expenses, look .ing after the odds and ends and try- ing ‘to avoid and undo the mistakes of predec Those mi: were mainly the result of numerous bad laws passed at the legislative ion of 1919. “The greatest wrong ssulted from booming the assess- ments and tax levies so as to contis cate the rental value of property Certain it is that during the years farm and city property has not paid a net sum of two per cent on its assessed valuation. while , railroads and othe: properties are making and have a guarantee of six per cent, or. is. good for the goose should be good for the. gand If. the government is to continue guarantee. to the carriers, and its di nations of'a half ‘a billion dollars every few months, there, is no good reason why it should not treat the producers of wealth in the same man: ner, Under the constitution there cin be no. levy of a state tax unless it is based on ‘an ‘assessed valuation, and the total’ state tax must mot’ exceed four‘ mills ‘on ‘the To evade the constitution, sin “1919 laws were: passed levying state taxes on most everything:—(1) A state t ax pn, automobiles, amounting to about a million dollars a year—enough to pay all necessary expenses of the state— and that’ illegal tax has been largely squandered. (2) For the accidental insurance of wage earners there has been levied a state tax on city indus- tries amounting to five times the sum necessary for insurance. (3) A state tax of $15 a year on poor lawyers, to be squandered by an appointive bar board, (4) A state tax on incomes. (5) A state tax on pool and billiard tables, theaters and such like, to be completely squandered by a license 3.784; in October, 1917, 4,890; in 1918, 20,000; in 1919, 37,000; in 1920, 69,000; and at the present time there are about 70,000. Special attention is given to defective children and jivenile de- linquents. The public schools have been di- vided into two classes, first and sec- ond: Of schools of the first class. (gram- mar schools), there were, according s|und state enterpris: far th past] a J ency. lar-in. any year. |’ MISS KATE MANICOM ENING LETTER E. Robinson.) board under the attorney’ generai. 46) Other taxes, so that in 1920 the , State tax amounted’ ti nearly thirteen Wulhons, as per items given in former lette:' to state board of equalization fon July 2, 1921. § ‘The new administration ta! heritance or suce proven a dism ully wrong. They>aré political lke Gogs that nobody owns. The ue folks regard and cherish those; a political asset. The new) stration, the I. V. A.’s, must) regard them as a political curse and} a drain upon the taxpayers. Certain | it is that as‘at present organized the! state industries and the. ‘Bank can! never be made a success, because in| the public service there is no éffici-' There: is boundless waste and} extravagance, There.-is no just ‘su- pervision or accounting. In the public service Most every persons becomes aj skulker and a time-stealer, which is; much: the same as.a thief. There is; no observance of business . principles, | 0 close accounting and monthly bal- ance sheets, To make a state enterprise a suc-| s it must be conducted by a joint} tock company witha union of, public nd private capital and control,va daily, Weekly or monthly accounting: similar to that of the Federal Reserve banks. At the primary election, in June ‘the people can use the initiative procedure and pass laws to reorgan- ize the State Bank and the state, en- terprises, to reduce the assessments. and tax burdens and to repeal the bad laws: Until then it isthe part. of wisdom for the new administration to cut down. expenses, issue no bonds, preserve the state property and cut the coat. according to the cloth. It is mere folly to talk of testing or try- ing out programs or means that have nraven end must ever prove, a dis- mal failure. —JAMES E. ROBINSON. | ——— OOOO i $55, in which 3,000,000 children were | taught with 74,000 teachers. In 1918- | 1919 there were 63,317 schools of the ; first class, with 4,800,000 children and | 150,000 teachers. H The progress in the recognition of | secondary schools, which now consti- tute the second class, is not so rapid, | according to Mr. Davidoff, who fur- ther states: | The aim of the secondary schools | to the last census under the Czar, 47,- EVERETT TRUE (NO,.3tR, T.AAVS ALC THE INSURANCE T LQAN ATFORD to F= i — is to draw the youth into productive | | BY CONDO] BYT, MR. TRUS, THIS POLICY WE H ARE OFFERING Now (S ---A-- : | SEESCT THAT WHEN WHATEVER "3 CAN HAVE A POLICY, TOO, AND IT'S TO THE (ARE YOU WON'T TAKS "NO" FOR AN JANSWGER THEN HE'LL HAVE TO TAKS RoWND COOSS AN INSISTENT BIRDS FIND ING EM », SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3 ‘of-the: country, by means of vis- itsyto factories and mills, by way of personal ‘effort,"tmeaning by it to be- come acquainted, not with the tech- nique of the work but with its very process, which aim can be achieved jonly in large Russian centers.. In the provinces or Russian states they resort to the reconstruction of primitive shops. In this respect the so-called ‘demonstration schools have {played a great part. But in general the situation with the secondary {school is pretty good. The Commis- sariat of Education had to its very which did not -correspond to the \school of the naw. type, and therefore it was necessary to begin from the \very beginning. The average num- ber of pupils in the secondary schools has considerably decreased in recent years, as ‘compared with. the period before the revolution. ,At the present time there are 250,004 pupils in the secondary schools, while there are more than six million children of school age in Russia. It’ is true that to some extent the void is filled by clubs for youths, organizations of young workmen, federations of Com- ; mun’st-youth, but'this of course fs not. sufficient. ; _Towthing upon the state of higher j education, ‘the writer’ says: | There are now in Russia sixty-sev- jen higher technical educational in- |stitutions, with 39,000 students. |There are nineteen universities, with foundation the old secondary school, . manner of the:r orgamzation is| 100,000 students, of which more than 50,000 are medical students. All med- jical technical students are’ militar- jized, s e As regards higher pedagogical edu- jcation, the situation is as follow: ;At present there are fifty-eight high- ‘er pedagogical institutes and two jacademies, in which there are 12,000 {students. There’ are 160 three-year |courses, With 20,000 students; 100 one |year courses,’ with 7,000, students, and {300 shoft ‘courses, i Workmen's universities, which are {attached to some regular university, number, according to latest statistics, |fifty-nine, with’ 22,500 students of whom 82 per cent, are workmen and peasants who were not sufficiently {prepared to enter directly a higher i Institution ‘ot learning numtpred twelve in 1919, twenty-eight in 1920, cjand sixty-four in June, 193.): E._ J: CARMICHABL, <sBurnstad, N. D. _Looks like international complica- tions have set in. “After, Christmas, what?” asks a ade journal. :Seo dad; he knows. Auto lights and not drivers should be lit after dark. Pockefeller: is taking up r skating. but won’t cut much ice. “When a, hen, Jays a mickel,.egg she has ‘a right. to,.cackle. Dr. ‘Bishop says exercise will kill all germs. The trouble is in getting the little things to exercise. A man often takes a girl for an an- Sel because she dresses like one. ‘While new dances may not broad. en ane feet they often thicken the ead. About as much paper is being wast- ed in discussing the German marks as in printing the things. Among our most prominent missing people are several mail robbers. _One trouble with corn for fuel is you can’t eat coal. About all you can do with a nickel is pay the preacher on Sunday. This disarming means a good deal if a square deal; if ‘not, a’ new deal. Most evening gowns: seem next to rothing. \ Thousands of moths specializing on women’s clothes have starved. A St. Louis man finds talking bees. We saw a spelling bee once, A lengthy dispatch says the Prince of Wales Walked a mile alone. He is only 27.55. bon Those collecting bootlegger income tax mustn’t take it out in trade. It's strange, this love shortage— and so much hve is being made. Worst thing about punctures is one never stays close to a garage. People who jump at conclusions get the wrong ones. It must be great to be so rich you don't have to pay your bills, Not that we favor Ruth, but it looks like Landis knows “A good man |is hard to fine.” ‘ Only five more months. before one- piece bathing suits. Public Stenographers. Busi- ness Service Co. First floor, | Hoskins Block. Phone 662. FREY SER w BISMARCK. NORTH DAKOTA w Known all over the Northwest for Quality © MAIL US YOUR FILMS > CAPSULES MIDY Sexcesshl Each Capsule ” Lears name &D Beware of counterfeits|