The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 17, 1921, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUN Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. E in his classes, he was dismissed. Got his job , back when students struck in protest. : Free speech and suffrage cannot be permanent- Editor |ly shackled, even in imperialistic Japan. Oppos- “ing them is like fighting the law of gravity. | GEORGE D. MANN Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT | ; Marquette Bldg. Sa cnctee Kresge Bldg. ! WORK NEW VOR NE: BURNS AND Se Ave, Bldg. Not more than 2,000,000 workers are jobless, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS reports the National Industrjal Conference Board. he Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use| _ Only ‘a few months ago, the number of unem- tion of all news dispatches credited to it or ployed was estimated at 3,500,000. | credited in this paper and also the local . a i ‘ 7 F news published herein, a ; Situation is this: One jobless, to every 19: All rights of republication of special dispatches herein ‘gainfully employed. Fly in the ointment is that) -imany who are working are on part time. But; are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU. OF CIRCULATION. .... times are getting slowly better. Unemployment: ‘ie mostly in town and city. Too many people| SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year.. «$7.20 | Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). » 7.20 | there. { Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck)... 5,00) Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota... 6.00 ! THE STATE’S. OLDEST NEWSPAPER. | TREES ; 1 (Established 1873) | A gold prospector, returned from the Yukon, | <> jsays the most remarkable thing he noticed was; ON THE RIGHT TRACK ‘that Indians never kill a tree unless they have to.! | Even when fofeed to strip bark off, to scrape the! In addressing letters to the chairmen of the inside for food, Indians in the Yukon bind the; various county commissions urging them to re- bark back cn the tree with vinés. | duce public expenditures to the minimum so that} With our forest supply vanishing, the Indian| the people of the state will be relieved from ex-jcustom should be made compulsory among _ de-| cessive tax burdens, Governor Nestos is on the:structive white men. If you chop down a tree, you} right track. He should be given the earnest co: | must plant at least’ two, would be a good’ rule. operation of every public official, regardless of ; ————-—- political affiliation. The demand for retrench-| CAROLS ment in’ the expenditure Of public funds is urgent.| Christmas carols will be sung by organized A saving can be effected in the various state choruses in 550 American cities, on the. eve of departments chiefly through a curtailment, of the Santa Claus’ visit this year, reports the National public ownership program and by dispensing with| Bureau for the Advancement of Music. the services of unnecessary employes. Consid-| These serenades, by roving bands of carolers Scere erable progress has been made, in this direction |in city streets, revive an ancient Christmas cus-| “ already, but economies effected by the new indus-!tom. It is a comforting reminder that the world, trial commission cannot bring about the reduc-|in the machine age, still clings to illusions and‘ tion in taxes that would result were all the politi-/ quaint customs that add spice to life. : j cal subdivisions in the state to emulate the This would be an awful world without Santa coe set by Governor Nestos and his col-| clays and the Haster bunny. leagues. | Steps to meet the losses incurred under league | SALES administration mean eventually additional state} Exports of American goods this year will Gaal taxes whether the deficits are met through bond about $7,000,000,000. Thai's about: $2,700;000,-| issues or levied directly through the usual yearly | ggg bigger than in 1913. A long way to fall yet, | ? steal ” i eae 4) budget. By the practice of economy, however; | pefore ‘we reach normal. such as Governor Nestos urges, the burdens can! f be lightened and the counties and cities more | aa rts eee se on ne yi Lape sete especially can share in the glory of. the public 2" H cee outa 4 ‘ oh t eo nage 20 aa economy-which the administration urges if they | Tet PrOnL 18 Near ys Snoug aU, give, a $20 go | only will. |piece to every man, woman and child in the coun-; a jtry. Collecting it from abroad is no’ Reds Steele county commissioners in a recent session| » Fe eee. cut the 1921 levies by $22,000. The budget as! RECKLESS WITH HEALTH A | originally drawn was slashed $23,000, making 2) Three million Americans seriously ill -at’ all reduction in the grand total of $45,000. If every times. That was the report, in 1909, of Roose-| county in, the state reduces in the ratio Steele | Joit’s. commission on flational vitality. : \ county has, what a saving would result. That huge sick ist has been cut to 2,460,000, | If the appropriating bodies throughout the says a-similar commission appointed by Herbert! state do not join hands with the state administra- | Hoover. ‘ \ tion in curtailment of public éxpenditures, results! H ; . : ealth is not onl - cannot be secured. Mr. Nestos is placing the re-| = not only ge rting, Betien sey peste sponsibility where it belongs. He has shown that Po" Duy five: years: havesbeen added eosthe aver: ee ‘ iage life since 1900. the state officials will do thei t, but t! ire; eix part, bubsthe entire This means the average Ameri¢an now is sick responsibility is not theirs, but rests heavily upon | : county, city and township boards. jabout eight days a year. At least 40 per cent of pes ‘our sickness is preventable. ON THE JOB AGAIN Get plenty of exercise. Don’t eat too much. “Bob” Flint’s first warning to the farmers of Be a glutton for fresh air. Guard against taking the state is a timely one when he cautions against col This program will surely keep you healthier han the average. ,Chances are, it will keep you ‘'the “promiscuous organization” of creameries ; % , Ca and cheese factories. There are many “sharks” | 70M being sick at all. " A weakened body Hs easy. in the field who fatten on promotion schemes and jPrey for germs. their activities are not restricted alone to the creamery business. The Blue Sky Board could well join hands with Mr. Flint in issuing a warn- } ing to prospective buyers of stocks in, ventures , that have a fine prospectus but little chance of ; returning profits on the investment. Mr. Flint’s return to the dairy departmentof | the state should have a stabilizing influence upor ; -the industry. All forms of farm activity have passed through a perfod of speculation and ex- ‘ 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. y; DEEPER IN THE HOLE The more we learn about the national govern- * ploitation rf ment’s experience in the shipping business, the) The contenti ¢ i ‘ worse the situation is disclosed to be. The offi- ; e contention of Mr. Kitchen’s department | cial report of the United States Shipping board (that the farmers are frequently enticed ‘into bogus! shows that revenues from the operation of ships enterprises is borne out by Robert T. Muir, mem-! ¢rom the beginning of the board to June 30 1921, ; :ber of the state board of administration, probably | were $1,461,458,904, while expenses of operating as ee an shor upon the question aS ANY-/the vessels were $2,250,384,700, the loss being one. Ina recent address Mr. Muir said: “| g7gg.995,796. When a report of the same kind Farmers are being gulled into joining this and was made a year ago, it showed that the loss up that program, each of which offers a cure-all for|to June 30, 1920. wax $185,125,037, In the year the farmers’ ills but all of them first want a mem-| ¢yom Jane 30, 1920 ies Jane 30, "1921 the tabs ake bership fee of $5, $10, $15, or $25 a year.” di parently was inebeased $603,800,759. : Mr. Muir has been closely identified with the| . ., Ge u i i has had a close-up view of how the farmer is fre-| auently farmed by a multiplicity of organizations, |“"2" $600,000,000 a year, it soon will eat up all Sach one oF ae 2 ithe assets, which are figured, on paper, on the carr aene Of them promising him both ends of the) asis of cost of the ships, at $3,070,503,518. The present time is not opportune to initiate} Forty-eight per cent of the government’s mer- * “new enterprises., Factories are far from operat-|cantile fleet was lying idle June 30, 1921, eating ing at their peak in this state and Mr, Flint is|UP revenue frcm ccs. 0” maintenance. The num- right in urging more herds and. the perfection | bet idle probably has been increased since then. of those now in existence as the main considera-| The latest report, shows that revenues from: ; ,tion, When the supply has been increased, there Sales of ships up to June 30 last amounted to will be sufficient ‘facilities to ‘turn the raw ma-|$293,907,429. A year ago such revenues were terial into the finished product. ‘reported as $296,515,344. More than $2,500,000 has' disappeared somewhere in the intervening 2 JAPANESE year. A year ago the cost of all vessels sold was Japan has 57,000,000 population, but only 3,-|given as $339,083,676, while now it is reported as 000,000 of them are allowed to vote. Cannot |$327,965,264. vote over there unless you pay a land or business | It was testified at, a congressional hearing a income tax equivalent to $1.50. With only 8 in 57 | year ago that the board had no accounting system paying income tax and voting, Japan has a big/worth the name, which may explain these discrep. poverty ‘problem. jancies. It is difficult to trace financial operations ._ These facts are from a speech by Dr. G. E.|when more than $1,100,000,000 was paid out with- Uyehara, teaching political science in Meiji Uni-jout any vouchers to show what was received for versity, Tokyo. For discussing universal suffrage |the money.—St. Paul Pioneer Pres. i \ | dering taxes. CHRISTMAS EVE ? (Florence Bornet.) = The stockings are hung by the chimney, The fire on the hearth blazes bright, - The children in bed ‘snugly For Santa is coming toni All day they kept asking To ‘satisfy every desire; “How could Santa come Without getting burnt by “Did I think there was a Where did Santa Claus k sleeping— ight. ¢ me questions$ down thru the chimney,” the fire? Seat ay Mrs. Santa? eep all his deer? Why. didn’t he visit us often, Instead of just once in each year? “Why didn’t he come in the daytime, And give them their presents, instead “Of waiting around in the darkness Until they had- all gone to. bed? Oh, dear little children, be patient; Dream on in the fancies ‘ (By Justice J. ‘Dec. 17.—The* question is on squan- Doth Job serve God for naught,—or doth he serve for lucre or loot? In North Dakota, since 1919, ‘there has been @ head tax of $15 a {year on lawyers. ‘It is paid to the state treasurer and kept as a bar fund. It amounts to The disbursements amount to That is the sum paid for trying to make a few bad lawyers be good. There is a Bar Board of whom the Chieftain is a distinguished lawyer at, Jamestowh. For ‘per diem and expenses he has received from the fund “$1,758.11, In 1921 he re- ceived from state treasur- $19,128.73 9,006.27 er on’ five. Dilla.......... 658.00] No. 21-23, receiveg on con- test case hefore supreme COUTE Lecce cece reece 400.00 and expense of room: and board at the McKenzie. or per diem and expense in November the Chieftain’s bill, not yet allowed is... . 104.27 December 5-7 ......3...+.- 49, Here are some items of the Novem- ber bill: ~ Nov. 21—Railroad fare, James- town to Bismarck No, 21-23—Room and meals 23—Bismarck. to Jam marck Amount Thus it appears that for the three days of the groundless contest at Bis- marck the Chieftain received $400 and board and Ipdging at the McKenzie, and for the same ‘three days he has charged per diems and railroad fare and hotel. Will of $47.84. When the Chieftain has some matters before the supreme coert or elsewhere it seems he has‘a seance of the Bar Board ana charges the state with a per diem and expense as in the contest case. Here is day and date of seances and of arguments before ‘the supreme court in some big cases: Tuttle v. Tuttle, first case, argued September 8, 19:0. Meeting state bar board Sept. 8, 1920. Wenzel v. Taylor, argued Dec. 7. 1920. Meeting of bar board. Dec. 8, 1920. Western Electric Co. v. City of! Jamestown, argued December 7, 1920.; Meeting of Bar Board, Dec. 8, 1920.; (Bill for three days’ services and ex- penses, $50.) Borkkings. v. N. P. Argued Dec. af 1920. Meeting Bar Board, Dec. 38, 1920. You may; wonder how we got onto the payments in the contest case. Well now, George Laird was the treasurer and disbursifig agent of the contest fund. He stopped with his attorneys at the McKenzie. He lost the stub of his checks. . It was ‘found. The show= ing was he ‘paid each attorney $400: For Christinas will lose’ half its pleasure, When you have discovered ‘he*truth. of youth; SATURDAY EVENING LETTER E. Robinson.) oa for the expense at the McKenzie, $66, sand he had a nice balance for him- self. Well, that is a, mere prelude. In the Bismarck Tribune of December 8, 1921, the Chieftain and another mem- ber caused to be published a retrac- tion notice as follows: : “You will take notice that thé un- dersigned are members of the State Bar Board of North Dakota and. to- gether constitute a majority of .the membership of said State Bar Board. “That in the issue of -the daily pub- \lication of The Bismarck Tribine for Saturday, December 3, 1921, there was printed, published and publicly; dis- played on page four of said issue: an article’ headed and designated by one .J..E...Robinson éontaining ‘with other matter, the following clauses, towit: ‘To evade the constitution in 1919, laws were passed levying state taxes on most everything * * * (3) A state tax of $15 a year on poor law- yers to be squandered hy a appaint- ive Bar Board. EVERETT TRUE (Ee THE CRAKE SHOULD SNAP, THE DANSSR To TRAFFIC € BSE CRAMPED: peewee ll! . ID Yo INTEND TO CEA STEEP GRADE LIKE THIS WITH ONLY THE BRAKE Str TO HOLD (ITE ~ "ou |ICRAMP THG FRONT WHEELS £ AW, THAY BRAKS HOLD. ALC RIa@NT, EvERetT. THAT WOULDN'T HAPPEN ONCE IN A THOUSAND YEARS) AND DON'T TAKS A NHOVSAND XGARS TO “You are now and héreby notified that said article in the parts herein- before quoted, is false, scurrilous and _| defamatory and is maliciously design- ed-and intended by the author thereof to expose the undersigned as members of said State Bar Board to publi¢ hatred and to deprive them as state Officers of the benefits of public con- fidence.” Of course when Judge Robinson wrote of levying a head tax to be squandered his language was neither scurrilous, malicious nor personal. He does not dealin that kind of lit- erature. He was preaching against the illegal head tax.and-the way it was. used, and in the same connection he preached against the illegal state pool tax and the way it: has been squan- dered—and it js awful. His purpose ‘was to show that those taxes and al! other. illegal and newfangled taxes must go, and the sooner the better. There must be a stop to the’ lavish waste or expenditure of public money The assessments, taxes and tax sales must be‘cut down, reduced and liqut- dated’to a normal and pre-war basis. The people must have a chance to live and prosper and secure the epmfort; of dife. At the next primary electiou the initiative shouldbe so used as to undo all the bad Jaws.. The present administration starts out with a prom- ise of going slow., reducing. big sal- aries and expenses. In every depart- ment of state there should be more publicity, .with- a strict. and acchrate accounting. The taxpayers are -en- titled to know. just how their money is expended or squandered. The squanderings of the Bar Fund is a small matter compared with that of the pool hall fund. URE ae J. E. ROBINSON. ——{—— TO STOP COUGHING AT NIGHT When anyone is suffering from a bronchial affliction or has a:cough that lingers on and grows worse at night, the loss of sleep tends to weaken the sufferer and gnows serious the longer it is neglected. “Mrs. M.*Suter, 647 \Longbrook Aves Stratford, Conn., writes: “Foley's Honey and Tar has given me great relief from a severe ‘attack of bronchitis.” No medicine stands higher throughout the nation as a family remedy. for colds coughy and cnoup. Ad Vv. nr rer ro BY CONDO CAR OF IN AY WHY DON'T — mn we er “As far as we can see, they have jquit rolling their stockings. s Trouble is easy to borrow; but hard tio pay back. Treland has plenty: of loose bricks for reconstruction, The most important step some peo- pio take is the shimmy and éven then they feeel shaky. f Pay day is father’s day. Evo invented’ the first loose-leat system. ‘Why worry? Only-one person in 1200 is murdered and less than that Get into the. movies. To forgive and forget’ is fine; give and forget is finer. to A service flag in the window means daddy's gone a-hunting. y That, pavament of good intention’ in hell won't ‘last long after the speeders gét there. Many of tham are be'ng sold for. a sng that are not songs. «+ Difference between “Pres{dent?:and “Vice President” is we have no babies named Calvin Coolidge Smith. Same people go about. athing while others, talk about it. “Ireland Standa Firm,” says a head- line. ‘No doubt, she woul move to a better neighborhood if she could. A friend in'need is a seed. satin triéad’gone to ’ When. a flowery fellow meets a green fellow the time is ripe for a rotten deal. It’s easy to Jearn figures on a windy corner. pier ts + Anybody can swear off :smoking af- ter Christmas cigars. There may be’ merchants who ¢pn't advertise, but you never hear of them. Even an optimist can’t see much fu' in missing a street car. a The war veteran who shot'a Chica. go packer must have discovered .who invented canned corned beef. It's never tog late to spend. Mary Garden says “The most beau- tiful. thing isa leg.in a- black silk stocking.” Mary mustn't believe what every man tells her. “* me ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS By: Olive Barton Roberts After that things went pretty well. Nancy and Nick bade Whizzy Tornaco farewell ahd thanked him for his-great kindness. B “Kip. isn’t) the only“ one who. has made up for his mischief, I think,” said Nick gravely. “I think you have, too. I've heard that it's an ill wind that blows nobody good, so it must be true that it’s a good wind that blows everybody good, and that’s what you are doing now.. Goodby, Mr. Whizzy.” “Goodby, my _ dears,” answered Whizzy. “I’m going to take my wim ter nap by my big fire now. The only trouble is that whoa I sleep all win- ter, I'm 99 full of spirits in the spring that I'm like a skittish, horse that's been stabled for-months. ’{‘just have to act up and carry of; @nd‘then I'm always ashamed of myself afterward. But Ill try to do better next’ year.” “Please, Green Shoes, take us back to Mr. Pim Pim in © Brownieland,” wished Nick, when he had). shaken ‘Whizzy’s big hand. i Instantly they’ were at Pim Pim's side and that gentleman was: 80 sur- ; prised at their sudden and unexpected appearancé:that his big hat fell off and he turned: tvi3° somersaults. : -“My, oh, my!” he cried out in de- light. “Isn't this wonderful! - An@ you've got the key to the ‘Enchanted Cupboard, too! $ “Welt, well, well! They always say that the darkest hour is just! before the dawn and I guess it must be true for 1 was feeling as blue as the last tub on Monday before you came. Christmas only a: week away and not a thing done. .’ “But we can hurry and I'm sure that everything will qome out all right. Nick, take your key and unlock that cupboard and get out the two magic shovels that are leaning against the wall. We'll start to dig- the shiny stuff for tree toys at once.” They set to work with a will. (To Be Continued) |. (Copyright, 19,1, NEA Sezvice) HOW TO SAY IT WITH FLOWERS | e pad “When you need special advice-as to the kind of fiowers to send your sweet- heart or some other woman to whom you want to send flowers, this advice given by one of the funny men of a daily newspaper may come in’ handy. If you'consider her a wise girl,.say it with sage. If you think her cold, say it ‘with snowdrops and freesias. Té you desire to marry her, say it with a poppy. If you know she has a sweet tooth, say it with candy tuft. tat she impresses you.as a sad girl, say-it with rue. If she is of a happy, joyous nature, it with gladiolas. If she seems a prunes and. prisms sort of a girl say it with primula. f-you.think. her. a sour, sharp-ton- * a, at with, snap- i century ‘plant.