The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 22, 1921, Page 4

PAGE POUR . THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE) building costs. A dollar spent in the building Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D, as Second ''2des now represents a lot more actual construc: ve elas Matter,” tion than in 1920. ata aig im GEORGE D. MANN Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO Editot | | LET HIM FOAM ; Ludendorff publishes his third book explaining Marquette Bldg. DETROTE ‘why Germany lost the war. Its name is “Krieg- Subies PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH fuehrung Und Politik.” Recommended, for read- NEW YORK 2 Fifth Ave. BUS. ing to writers of funny columns. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED. PRESS {Reg Sages x The AssociatedPress is exclusively entitled to the use | Ludendorff says he made no mistakes, and that for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or/Germany lost because her diplomats bungled be-' bot sobherwine, created gis this paper and also the local ying the lines—and because German ‘soldiers: and news published ‘herein, 1, de haeaeed . i All eeht of republication of. special dispatches herein civilians were not Prussian enough! are also rved. Ludendorff admits he loathes democracy} boasts | MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION of it, He stands four-square for restoration of SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE | the monarchy. Daily by carrier, per year +>. 87.20 | POG Sing i ‘ Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). . +-%.20; When it comes to explaining how “everybody's Daily by mail, per year (in state outside «. 5,00} . - Gres | Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota 6.00 jout of step but. me,” a defeated general always j wins the tin badge. , THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER t | (Established 1878) | Let Lundendorff foam. If the precedent of| iim |history is worth, anything, his efforts toward’ a} | restoration of imperialism are a futile attempt to UNLIMITED GOLD set fire to asbestos, _ Are we on the verge of discovering a method tasted the republican form of government never for manufacturing gold in unlimited quantities? | &° back permanently to monarchy. tt was tried Inventor Edison says startling discoveries in the!" France, and failed. Democracy is one pendu- direction of transmutation of metals have: been |!um that never definitely swings backward. made ‘recently. 8 | RED INE ae Gnawa In London, a Frechman claims he has discover- | ed how to turn mercury into gold and radium. | Kresge Bldg. UP-TO-DATE Are you up-to-date? Chemists says the samples he submits back up|’ .If you're not you're missing the best things in his claim, prove it, if the samples are bona fide. “The result of such a discovery? Just'a matter, ef arithmetic. pound. Gold costs, roughly, \life. ¢ \ You’ve got to be up-to-date to succeed at any-! | dancing. ; oud | ‘ Deln Murphy has just refused a pardon from | Suppose’ some one does discover how to turn|the South Carolina penitentiary. He has been mercury, lead or some other substance into gold) there 30 years. eee —the lqng-sought goal of-medieval alchemists. “I’m so far béhind the times. that I wouldn’t | Theworld: immediately would have a financial! ee eee ot they let me out,” says Mutpity. | i Would mak i ics ike! pany ae) panic tliat Would’ make previous "panies look “i | ‘Murphy’s mistake is that he thinks he couldn’t boom times. | < For the whole money system, being based on get up-to-date. You re never too old to learn. » gold, would topple. & An interesting problem would arise for us. Gold | Captain Aylmer Branden, credited with having | held in United States now totals about $3,500,- ,, 000,000. That is about 40 per cent of all gold ... known to be above ground ‘in the world: 5 $25 an ounce. i} i { land, was jobless and down to his last dollar in| ‘New York. E. W. Gaffney, oil man; read about it y tee, Be _ {and telegraphed, offering Branden a job in Texas. Gold and money are separate things. Gold is He accepted. , % the trick mechanism by which you can control’ Note that Branden didn’t get a job in his own money, says Edison. i i \country: Ingratitude to returned soldiers is in- Edison thinks’ humanity and the products of \ternational. Be the soil should. be the bage of money. |; “| Fleeting is fame—especially ‘military. Fear caused gold to become the basis of money. | ‘ R All men have the desire to get rare things. One: POLITICIANS of the rarest is gold. Its scarcity brought it into; A White Plains, (N. Y.) woman sues for di- use as a measure of values, as a medium of €X-| vorce from her husband,..saying- that he has change, as.a sort of guaranty that commodities 4 a : % achieved so much success in-politics that it has received would be paid for on equivalent commodi- | tuned his head. .. Now: she complains life. with aston eenvice: ‘him is unbearable. 4 , fi 3 We don’t know the gentleman, but we’ll say he’s A Chinese wanted to buy Arabian horses. Said no politician. the Arab: “How do I knod you'll ship me back The fellow who’s a real politician keeps. his some silk in exchange for my horses.” |home constituency satisfied. That means. the Said the-Chinese: Here, take this handful of wife and the kids. the rare substance, gold. You know that; to get! ::ty valuable gold back, I’ll have to send you the! silks.” \ : That is the principle on which our money sys- tem is based—distrust, fear. . Elimination of the gold standard would depend {,on arousing in the people as great confidence in _ America’s natural resources as they now have in "gold and silver, represented by paper money. Something like that would become compulsory : if a chemist discovers how to turn lead into gold. ! { 1 1 i ‘ { QUAKERS |but they have set out to get 1,000,000 barrels of; flour for Russian famine:sufferers. If all Amer- jicans helped on the same basis of population, Rus- isia would get 535,000,000 barrels of flour. | Quakers, active as a good influence in the world, have carried on their creed nearly 300 years. ;They have been unfaltering champions against ; war, slavery and, swearing., Too bad we haven’, 200,000,000 instead of only 200,000 of them. om et AMAZING 1c The Hudson river will be bridged at Manhattan Island. Engineers used to say it was impossible. : The impossibility of today is.the accomplishment | § \of tomorrow. te If Hendrik Hudson could come back to life\and | e New York’s brick canyons, he would refuse to i believe it was the same place. He would decide ¢ he had wakened in another world, and, after try-| ting to. get used to speedy. 1921 ways of living, ; would want to»go back to‘the grave. If you come back 500 years hence, it wouldn’t ke much to convince you that you had awakened ,n Mars. Anything you would recognize? Prob- ‘ably not—except taxes. rf EDITORIAL. REVINW Comments reproduced in this’ column may or ‘may not express the opinion of The Tribume. 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. THE SOUTH DAKOTA STATE MINE *Never in the history of the coal industry; has} there been so many irregular shipments of coal, that is the‘ impression" gained by -The. Retail Coalman, after making,a general survey of coal jconditions throughout the country, It is the re- ‘sult of unsettled economic conditions, and while ‘naturally to be expected, nevertheless is very de- RESEARCH moralizing to the retail coal business. It is well Research sounds like a hard word. One thinks| for all retailers to remember that there are “snow-| ; of long-whiskered gentlemen in laboratories prob-|birds” from the operators’ point of view, and, * ing profound mysteries. Some persons have said/ every time a retailer patronizes these people they! : they thought “a lot of this research stuff is the | are doing just as much ‘to, tear down ‘the regular! , bunk.” jchannels of trade as are those operators who ship| :* But agricultural nesearch is vindicated in Ohio. | direct. As an‘illustration, the South Dakota state| ; From_1850 to 1890 the corn yield in Ohio averaged lignite mine at Haynes, North Dakota. _ 883 bushels an acre. Then the researchers got! { ; busy, and for tMe past 10 years the average has|hetween the Dakotas? ‘The state of South Dakota} been 37 bushels. | owns land in North Dakota. et Haynes, where lig- *i The wheat yield has been increased by research nite is being mined by its alleged owner. How, one/| {from 12.2 bushels an acre in the 50’s to 17.3 bush-| State—even a Dakota—can own land in another | “els for the past decade. \state, is a question that does not seen to disturb; ;_ Anyone can profit by doing a little research “the .socialistically-inclined people cf those states. - Work on his own hook. ~All that means is getting \Investigation reveals considerable difference of -at facts and applying them. jopinion in reference to the finances of the propo- | i ‘sition. An investigator reports that South Da- ‘ HOMES | kota has already an operating loss of $128,000 on :” The housing shortage is gradually disappearing.|the proposition, while Coal Commissioner E. 0. The 44 leading cities report new construction so/ Roush, who goes out soliciting car-lot orders, con- ifar this year totals around $700,000,000. This! Siders the profits to be $5,000 a month. The tis 15 per cent better than in 1920, Property only contains 200 acres, with possibly | ,. Of the total, 58 per cent was spent on new / lignite under half of it. In a regular mining field ‘homes, against 36 per cent last year. The gain! it would be known as a “gopher hole.”—The Re- A people who have once | 2 Mercury costs about: 70 cents. a\ thing, whether it be ‘business or play, ‘Jabor: or | fi ‘shot down the first Zeppelin which flew over Eng-|- {State Bar Boi | Only about 200,000. Quakers in our country, |. ; tai What is the Constitution of the United States |; Habe Yipopbse entre ineet eee JUD GE ELIS Jamestown, Deg. 22, 1921. Editor Tribun I ncte in your issue of December 17th.the latest “Saturday | Evening Lette-” of J. E. Robinson. When this “venerable jurist” in his wisdom gees, fit to enter the newspaper field and publish his utterances in the form\of lett . he, lays aside the judicial ermin2 and cannot complain if ‘he spoken of as plain “Mr.” instead. of Judg+ or Just: I ndte. also. yiu ‘and your invitaljon teymembers.of the ‘4 to appear in your columns-with “any.defense of the pres- ent system that they may desire to give.” It is notny purpose to defend the present system; or in fact to. as+ sume the defensive on any point. The pre: was devised by’ the Legislature, and not by the*State Bar Board.’ /I do not think thatyit requires defense any, more thany our. system of Courts re- quires it. “As far°as. ‘Mr. Robinson’s letters are concerned it would be a waste of time apd paper to attempt to overbear his preposterous state- ments, I do not, indulge in wrangles with childish and sons; and jt is not my usual habit as r aditorial comment a newspaper. ‘Saturday Evening of December 17th, contains certain false and impertinent state- ments evidently intended to. apply to myself, I will ask.you in fairness to admit this statement to your colum I seem to be the person referred in this letter as “Chieftain of the Ba Board.” This soubriquet, however, like some of the statements of the let- ter, a badly mistaken’ one, I am not President of the Bar Board, but one of its undistinguished . members. Mr. Richard Goer of Devils Lake is presi: ferit of the Board and Mr. M. C. Depuy of Grafton is the other member. The duties of the State Bar Board do not consist as stated in the letter of “trying to make a few bad lawyers rbe good.” Under the law of 1919, the State Bar Board fs now charged with were ‘performed by two other boards; one a state examining board appoint- er a disbarment committee appointed by the State Bar association. Concerning the .prop! of the appointment of a s bodies I have nothing: to It isa measure that was approved by the} legislature and. probably by the bar! of the state, It must occur to reasonable person that the very nec- essary duties of examination and dis- ine of the bar can be more satis- torily and economically conducted ane body of three persons than by two ‘bodies consisting of six or more members, 4 Your editorial seems to agree with WORTH-ISSUES unreasénable per- |? to! the duties which prior tc that time | ed by the supreme court, and the oth-}) to take over: the duties of these two! anys) { “|sicn ‘that $400° was paid to me from STATEMENT ON BAR BOAR RR RRR aaa compensation can 3 varcely be of-“serving for lucre or loot. ame time was devoted to or- professional services, he would e@ several times much. The State Bar Board a self gov- erning body. It. fixes thre time of its meetings and exercises its discretion at this, ¢ r whether the license fee is larger than jag to the number of meetings neces- t should be, are questions entire de from the present discussion. he le: j licen: If tax and abolish the State . Bar Boi entirely, it can unquestionably :do so. The d ‘be performed either by it‘or, ‘one, or one that can be entirely elim- uties of this board must'ithe first.and second other | month, tor di ‘boards, and it is childish to say. that for a ‘yi the expense of operation is a-needless i state Lar board and supreme court are in session’about the same time; and]N_ a At has been its custom during he greater part of the past two years slature sees fit to repeal theito hold a meeting each month on the rst cr second Tuesday. «It happens hat the Supreme Court has selected weeks in each osing of cases ready hearing. This being .true,. the ‘inated. The question then is, are any|{t sometimes happens that .members ‘of the members of the present State; of the board devote one or two hours Bar Board using the State Bar Fund unlawfully or extravangantly. The statement that the State Bar |lBoara is paid out under the direction lof the State Bar Board is incorrect. i'This fund is deposited with the:State Treasurer and is disbursed ‘througlt;time from the stat t system.of Bar Administration | Wat-auts drawn by the State Auditory of jutder tle approval of the State “Audit jing beard. The same are drawn around other publi apply to this. There is nothing left to consider then, other than the s direct or implied of Mr. Rob- inson in referring to’the writer of this rticld Just why so much clamour has ‘been sed by Mr. Robinson ovér the ‘oper- jntion of this very necessary board is |hard to explain\ The impressions are ha i £5 | Board ig an expensive luxury’ whic dequate return for its expenses. A jlittle investigation of the charges {made and the motives displayed by ‘Mr.-Robinson’s letter, is therefore, ‘pertinent and timely. For the work.of examination, inves- \tigation and ipline, the members rate of $10.00 per day for tim ent jin the’ work of the board. ‘Their: nec- i ‘home are also charged agai tate bar.fund. This is’ the only ie ion that is paid the memb \the board for’ services. A practicing i i { i | essary expenses while absent’ ¢from] per. t. the!'tents of this check book \¢ -| light whatever upon the affairs of a of] member. of the state bar board. 1 ters 0) in a day to‘the argument of cases: be fore the supreme court. This in each. {case is.done ‘before or after the neces-) sary duties of the’state bar board for the day have been discharged. This does not take nearly so much e’s work ag a judge he supreme, .court abstracts, who long Saturday ing Let- “rummages the records of the Auditor's. office or those of the His orical Society. in purely personal matters. ~~ Just ‘why a justice of the supreme court, paid by the state a-salary of $5,500:00° per year, and charged with important duties which should. take his time exclusively during the busi- ness hours of tlle day, should spend this time belonging to the state, in jgiven from reading his letters that the ;excursions to the McKenzie Hytel to ‘examine accounts paid by persons t the fund creat-} who are attending directly to their ed for its support without giving any} own business, for room. and meals; or to-examine the stubs of check books either lost or stolen is a myg- tery. To thus use the state’s time for ma ious spying into private affairs is’ not creditable to any. state official. If a book“of check stubs obviously be- longing’ to Mr. Laird was found by fof the State ‘Bar Board are paidiat the} any honest or honorable person, he would return it to the owner without publishing its contents in a newspa- However that. may be, the con- throws no By innuendo this letter of Robin- wyer who’ performs these services| son’s intends to convey the impres- )WHAT WAL ou the €onclusion of Mr. Robinson that a state bar board isa wholly unnec- ; essary expense. lf the duties that it performs are unnecessary this should be tru Hewever, the examination ot applicants for admission to the bar, the vestigation of their characters, and general qualifications, and the pline and sanitation of the bar are about as necessary as public edu- cation or even the work of the courts To. dispense with the supreme court at one sweep would be a great saving of expense to the tax payers. But is is the slightest reason for eliminat- ing a Very necessary institution of government? Except, for a period of about four years prior to the enact- ment creating the state bar board, the entire ‘expense of examination for ad- mission to the bar, of investigation of charges against members of the bar, and proceedings cf disbarment were paid by the attorneys of the state. During the four year period mention- ed, the expenses of investigating charges and conducting disbarment proceedings were paid by an appro- priation made from the fund raised by general \taxation.. There is, there- fore no particular hardships in paying these charges from a fund realized by levying a license fee upon lawyers. Whether the law creating the State jis.much larger when: you make-allowance-for lower |tail-Coalmany..- «202 eo pusaybeay: - see ce : Sih RB many oa leu IR Bar Board-is a proper micasure, or Have, PLEASE? GIMME A SAND- WICH AN' A CUP jmarried life I became public funds for services in the “Con- test Case.’ The impression sought to be created is absolutely false: and Mbelous.. The action in question was brought by private parties and paid for by them. The amount of payment is wholly and entirely the private business of these parties and the .at-' torneys. and has not the slightest con- cern to Mr. Robinson. Further than this, an attempt is-made to show that the sum of $66,00 paid by Mr. Laird to the McKenzie Hotel. included my expenses for room and board ‘on No- vember 21st, 22nd, and 28rd. This ly- ing statement is published as glibly us though the writer did not aspire to the honor which is supposed to at- tach to a judge of. the supreme court. The '“Contest Case” was entirely closed so far as the writer was con- cerned on November 21st. My hotel expenses were paid by myself as the records of the McKenzie Hotel and the receipt attached to the expense ~{account filed ‘with the state auditor, will show. Mr. Laird was accompan- ied by several other persons who were at the hotel for several days; and ifs he gave aCheck for $66.00 it was to pay these expenses and not. mine. Further than this, the busy and im- pertinent intermeddler who vents his . spite in “Saturday. Evening Letters,” went to Governor Nestos immediately after bis inauguration and stated that my entire account for the month of November, containing a number of items other than’ those charged on November 23rd, was fraudulent and should not be paid. Shortly after, he published the libelous letter contain- ing the statement that the state bar fund was “squandered by an appoint- ive bar board.” By his activity be- fore the state auditing board he has succeeded in holding up my accounts for beth» November and. December, stating that they requiréd invéstiga- tion. His purpose seems to be to ob- struct and prevent the work: of the e bar board regardless of the fact it.is as necessary and just about as important as that of the supreme court. The reason for this conduct on his part is animosity arising out of the writers ‘criticism of his frequent unjudicial practices as a-justice of the supremé-court, aera ‘The writer ‘together,.with,many oth- er members of the bar of the state, \ believes. in a high standard for the supreme judiciary. He has openly ex- pressed his disapproval ef a judge of the supreme court insisting upon sit- ting in the hearing of an action agai the state in which he had a direct pecuniary interest (State ex rel Langer vs. Kositsky 28 N. D. 616); or cases in which he has expressed a stron; prejudice against one of the parties, (Tuttle vs. Tuttle 181 N. W. 898). He also disapproves of judicial opiniens couched*in language go in- decent that they are unprintable by the. newspapers: (State .vs. Nelson 36 N. D.: 564; 163 N. W. 278); or those whicn cast aspersion upon. the entire womanhood of the state’ (Leiferman ys. Daniels 176 N. D.-9). +He has also criticized the. continual violation of judicia} confidences paraded in ad- vanc2 opinions. upon undecided .cases of the supreme court: in “Saturday Even’ng Letters.” |The writer's opin- ion in these.and other incidents *in Mr. Robinson's judicial...career has evidently been conveyed by. some means te the letter writing jurist and has roused his spleen. Hence the slanderous*statements to Goyernor Nestos, the libelous publication in two of the state newspapers, the\ fre- quent excursions to the Auditor's of- ° fice, and communication with persons who find lost articles and do not re- turn them to their owners. How far, however, statements from such a source go to establish in the minds of reasonable people an opinion that eithe:-myself or other members of the state bar board “serve for lucre or loot” is a question which I leave to the honest judgment of your read- ers. % ‘ dt seems to me that it is about time that a long suffering public should be relieved from this series of scurrilous “Saturday Evening Letters.” There has never been a time that their pub- lication has served’ any good or use- ful purpose; and usually they have been made a vehicle to; convey to the Tubliz_ the private’ spité and. malice of the author. It is atter.of con- siderable surprise to’ its readers, Mr. Editor, that a newspaper of the es- tablished reputation and well known aspirations of the Bismarck Tribune should open its columns to such stuff. But. the writer is not disposed to vie with Mr. Robinson in producing literature of this sort even though the time taken for that-purpose is his cwn, and not that of the state. _ This writing ig intended merely to €Xplain cegtain statements in thes“Satarday Evening Letter of December 17th, which have been intentionally involy- ed. in obscurity, For statements in this letter or that. published on De- cember 3rd, which are intentionally and maliciously false and libelous, there is another .remedy which, if necessary, will be exercised at the prop +v_time. —S. E. ELLSWORTH. HAZING IS VOTE TEST. , Aberdeen, Scotland, Dec. 22—Three candidates to the students’ represent- ative council of Aberdeen university .|\Were elected without a dissenting vote. They had gone through a-bom- bardment of over-ripe fruit, part of a horough hazing, wihou flinching, BAN KITCHENER FILM. London, Dec. 22.—The. 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