The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 27, 1922, Page 4

iy ———— EEE PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, '22 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN : : : : Editor Foreign Representatives ‘ G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH 1 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. 5 y 4 All rights of republication of special dispatches herein ave also reserved. “MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Baily by carrier, per year. $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bis: eats 20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).. 5. Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota...... eveeeee 6,00 i A AER SPENDS RS SLR THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) <i FLYING FISHES You can’t fish from an airplane now. Later you will—when inventive genius discovers how| to make a flying machine stand still in the air. | But the airplane even now is being used in the! fishing industry. ‘ In British Columbia, salmon fishing adopt the} seaplane for rapid inspection of hatcheries, ! spawning grounds and waters. | Also, the seaplane carries salmon eggs from | hatchéties to lakes and rivers far distant from the| coast. i This permits a strategic distribution of baby | salmon. It is like increasing the ‘acreage planted! in corn or wheat. ‘ The airplane, eliminator of distance, time and geography, thus puts new life into the salmon in-; dustry.’ The help arrives in the nick of time. The! salmon “catch” has: been nearly cut in two since 1905. — Strange times we live in with fishermen using flying machines instead of ships and with man regulating the number of salmon born each year, usurping one of nature’s functions. Quite naturally, we comment, “How mighty is| man!” , Watch one: of natiire’s mysteries! A sockeye! salmon hatches-in one-of the lakes of the Fraser | watershed. It remains in the lake a year, then| swims down the rivers to salt water. For three years it completely disappears in the ocean, no man ever having been able to figure out where he goes. fee Then, matured, it always returns to its birth- |them a quart. Both are dead-now. Similar cases ton, former adviser of the Russian-American | Chamber of Commerce. tour of the Lenin-Trotzky domain. What he predicts would be a logical reaction. | Human nature runs to extremes. : No abstainer as rabid as an amateur drunkard the morning after. In time, though, he reacts, tries the poison again. BELLBOYS LICENSED | In Los Angeles all bellboys are put under police control and have to have police licenses. This is another experiment toward prohibition enforce-; ment. ! It is also a monument to American recklessness. Two prominent manufacturers had a bellboy get | by the thousands. With these precedents, the/ man who buys liquor from a bell-hop or any other unknown source needs examination by a brain! specialist. He has lost his balance-wheel—his judgment. BRYAN AND THE LAW William Jennings Bryan, champion almost-but- not-quite, says: “If a government is bad, either in its laws or in the enforcement, it is either be- cause the people themselves are bad or indiffer- ent.” : Absolutely correct! The American government is flexible and responsive to ballots. At all times, it is a mirror of the American people, a composite —good or bad—of the nation’s spirit,and brain... In government we get exactly what’ we' want— excépt when we are indifferent. STEERAGE ‘ In the old days of unlimited immigration, ocean steerage accommodations were far from inviting. Scarcity bred indifference. 7 Now, with immigration restricted, the steam~ business, and steerage accommodations have been revolutionized. Much has been said for and against competition. This much is certain—without competition there’s very little service for the public. ‘ EDITORIAL REVIEW 7 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 sidey of important issues «which are being discussed in the press of the day. BREAKFAST IN THE VILLAGE Just what had brought the old man from Idaho to a garret in the village for Sunday morning breakfast it would be hard to say. Perhaps he had place, and never’ fails to get home, though the learned that the village loved to talk, and in turn journey often is 2000 miles. * Back home, the sockeye salmon spawns. listen to talk. At any rate, here he was ina little Re- ‘ccop south of Washington Square, feeling not one turning to the ocean, it is purse-netted and trap-| whit out-of place and unfurling very proudly the ped.’ The next stop is a tin can in your kitchen. Why does the sockeye salmon, generation after generation, always remain in the ocean depths for| the same length of time? | How does it find its way thousands of miles back to its birthplace? | These are mysteries of nature. Beside them,! the use of airplanes by fishermen is rather a dull) and tame event. : : | WIRELESS STATIONS Seven hundred thousand amateur wireless re-| ceiving stations in the United States—200,000 of} them installed within the last 90 days. That is the estimate of companies that manu- facture the wireless outfits. H ; It seems marvelous now. In 1930, wireless will! be a leading industry and sales of 200,000 outfits | in 90 days will be considered dull business: What sales managers call “the’saturation point,” | will-net come for decades. Improvements will be! repid and wireless fans will continue installing | better equipment, discarding the old. | The uniyersally-used pocket wireless, small as a watch, igjust ahead in the darkness. WHAT IS NEXT? So far, the wireless sends only sound and elec-| tric waves. Next discovery will be way to send! sight waves through the air. Then you'll look into} a glass on your wireless receiver and see what’s happened thousands of miles away. | Hindu jugglers call that “crystal gazing.” i It seems impossible now. _ So did ‘the whole! wireless idea, a couple of decades ago, when Mar- | coni announced his discovery. | _ i WHAT ONE WORD MEANS The one word, “prices,” for nearly two years} has been shaking the world to its foundations. In its wake is so much destruction and suffer- | ing, that it has family characteristics of its par- ent-word, “war.” Each period of history can be summarized in one! word. The word always’ is obvious — so obvious that most of us hate to admit it. ' After “prices,” world will be governed by “in- | |banner of early days of Idaho. But he had as competitors a gentleman consid- erably younger, with an accent slightly French, and a Canadian globe trotter who was eager to impart to his hearers that he had just returned from Russia. What could a grand old man from the American timberland do against such comers? For the village, when it gathers at its lengthy Sunday breakfast to give -and exchange ideas, does not wish to hear about pioneer struggles in the far west. What to the village that a man who had helped promote one of Idaho’s first newspa- pers and superintended one of Idaho’s fir schools sat in its midst? That smacked too much of that Main street from which it was celebrating escape. But a messenger ‘from the intelligentsia Washington Square—ah, there was the word with which it could relish its cakes and sausage and jimagine its coffee a delicious liqueur! Suddenly, like a professor weary of his class, the old man got up, and the brave old pioneer days the stairs. An expression of guilt appeared on the faces of New York’s intelligentsia. They had \listened, but with not too much respect; to one of America’s gravest and oldest. Who knew but that they had allowed to escape them a veritable jewel! But this was only for an instant; then the breakfast party nestled down again at the feet of Europe.—New York Globe. THE “SUBJECT” RACES A column of discussions appears in the London Times under a heading of which this is one line: “OUR OBLIGATIONS TO SUBJECT RACES.” We might as well begin right with our thinking in this period of reconstruction. So long as we talk of “subject races,” or think of races as sub- ject, just so long we shall be planning for trouble no matter what we do, There is something fundamentally objection- able in this notion of subject races. No race in while many attempts have been made to hold as vention,” which in marvelous forms will revolu-|ers of their times. tionize our whole system of production and distri-| bution. Man is on the verge of working in four dimensions. in the United States if we do not watch out, for we are related to several races that can be forced RECREATION IN RUSSIA Russia is in danger of swinging so far back from, collapsed communism as to become the most thoroughly capitalistic-controlled nation on earth. This is the observation of Charles Philip Nor- \into the “subject” class. This is a good time to. ibe getting back to foundation principles and to know far better than we ever have known the fundamental truth underlying our declaration that “all men are created equal.”—Des Moines’ ‘Register. He is back from a long ship companies are fighting each other for the |. ‘| PEOPLE'S FORUM - .|to these fvho pay far of France and Russia to. the’ intelligentsia of, became but the sound of departing footstéps''on, all history has ever looked upon itself as subject, | ‘subject races that now are regarded as the civiliz-| We are likely to fall into this sort of talk here} | ay Bismarck, N. D., February 24, 1922. Editor, Bismarck Tribune, i Dear Sir: i After reading over Judge Robinson’s eleven proposed laws it occurred to! me that when the people assume the | function of a legislative body it 1s fitting and proper that there be a pub-; lic discussion of preposed anactments. I request the courtesy of your peoples’ column for, the. expression of my views. I In 1900 taxes'in North Dakota were less than one-fourth. ofthe present burden or exaction per head: How- ever unscientific and; unskillful may have been the taxation systam-at that pericd, the mis¢hief..ani..the burden was comparatively) inggnsiderable. With the tax burden. quadrupled the difficulty of obtaining.goed methods ‘of imposing. it. has. been greatly in- the, bad methods in. creased and with, the, bi vogue in this state, at.the presen. time, the mischiefs resulting have be- come intolerable,,, i The money. sagcrificss of’ the people cannot be measured by receipts in.o the public treasury. The general pno- perty tax system in North Dakota combined with thé many and varied special taxes have had a grave dis- turbing” effect on the natural course of private industry. | Private enter- vrise has insisted on larg profits to \suard against the risks of an uncer- tain and fickle governmental policy. Uapital, or private enterprise, never knows what to expect in Nprth Da- kota. Wo pay high rates for foreign capital because of the general fear of what North: Dakota may do. Private prosperity depends upon public condi- tions. Bad methods pf raising rev- enué have swelled the cost of taxes beyond what they produce to the public- treasury. We are paying a high price for ignor- ance and incompetency in connection with the raising pf revenues. When tremendous revonues are necessary, Science, and skill in the art.of taxation become necessary. If the revenues: 'must be raised, it is -mecessary to learn the art of gently relieving the taxpayer. Due to constant irritation and an- noyance of silly taxation laws the voters of this state have become in- tensely interested in public expendi- tures and taxation methods. Judge 'Fobinson is taking advantage of an arouse] public sentiment to attempt |the passage by the initiative of some cf the most foolish and vicious laws ever conceived in this or any ther state, The judge has eleven proposed laws. The ninth proposal is: ‘. “To reduce by fifty per cent all un- paid taxes of the past three years; to canc2l all penalties and costs of all sales for the taxes of 1919 and 1920, except to good faith purchasers; to permit the first half or first ‘install- ment of the tax of 1921 to be paid at any time before the end of Septem- ber, with interest at 1 per cent‘a month from the first of March, and on such payment to cancel all taxes for 1921.” ‘ It is te late to lock the stable door éfter the horse is stolen. We can’t wish back the money we heave spent and we can’t legislate it back. The time to practice economy is before the money is spent. Do the people who are holding unpaid county war- rants, city warrants, schol district warrants and stat? hail warrants want their money? Do the people who have bought municipal bonds in good faith want their money when the bonds are due? They most certainly do. The mony has been spent even though a llaree arrpunt of taxes are delinquent. The very proposal of such 4 law jas already impaired the credit of the state. The passage of such a law would Irave North Dakota as isolated \fnancially as is Russia. Grav hairs |40 net_necessarily mean wisdom. but the judge knows the value of adver- jtising, Pronaganda against some of ithe existing laws may-be justified but let us take car> that we are not heing Jed drarer into the mire. Tf we wenld sond men of ftement. disena- Won ard hustvecs ability with ait, tla n-cecsary logal talent to the les- [folate if wronla not ha navaceary ta finte and refer foolish laws every monte The neannced law is the met revolutionary att>mnt ever made tin this state, If we ‘ninkt we can re- WINTER SPORTS we cre mistaken. als shows them either foolish, vicious ‘or not important enough to warrant a state wide initiative election: 1. The dog tax on lawyers may be foolish bat nobody objects but the iawyers, Let the next legislature reuedy this if it is foolish. &. rhe pool hall statute is unwise and the department has been used as a political machine and a place to squander money. However, it is aardly important enough to demand a state-wide initiative. election. 3. To repeal the motor vehicle lic- ence law means the crippling of. our good roads program. . If the state is wasting money thnough the highway department it would be more sensible to reorganize the department than to » building roads and to incidéntally npt automobile owners from taxa- sio1 ‘They are demanding good roads —I:t them pay for them. Good roads re chzap insurance on the life of a car. ae 4. To repeal the tax commission law means a step backward in taxa- .ion. If the legislature would pay pme attention to the» recommenda- tion of the tax department which they rcated, our revenue laws would not be in such a muddle, If we import a few more long-haired boys from Utah husiness might as well close up shop ‘n this state. 5. The income tax law is a compli- sated theoretical jumble with all of the bad features of every income tax aw ever written. The income tax is vy far the fairest and most equitable ‘ax of any ever devised and is rapidly veing introduced all over the country. The pres2nt law in this state fs un- ‘air and unequitable but the principle of income taxation is not condemned thereby. The judge thinks any law is incpnstitutional that he doesn’t per- 30nally approve. 6. The coal mining statute was en- acted for the protection and welfare of the coal miners. It doesn’t add a dollar a ton to the price of coal as stated. by the judge. Do the coal min- ars want it repealed? we ‘heir men, condemn it? It compels he mine owners who do not care [EVERETT TRUE ‘pudiate our debts and stay in business Nas about the safety of their men to com. pete on the same basis as those that A brief survey of the other propos: | do. i | A scarcity of ex-unemployed is re- ported. Many a sharp lives in a flat. Judge Landis will give all his at- | tention’ to baseball. Our office boy plans to do the same. The charge of the tight brigade is abeut ten a quart. A “blankety jblank” is an income tax blank. Womeh who roast others are not always. good cooks. Movie pipe organs have about 500 stops, but seldom do. A man raising seven children on $65 a month has bee~ found. Might |get his to raise: the bonus. Why do some men marry for a home and stay away from it? The man with money to ‘burn has a hot time. Fine motto: Watch your step, but don’t look down to do it. When your sins find you out they wait for you. i ttt inet Collecting bills is easy; all of sus have a collection of them. 4 Too many people with fire insur- ance have that burning desire. A divorce suit is th union suit. f anno oe Money won't get you into society; * {but lack of it will get you,out. - Many a man who is a good shot ‘in this world hopes h thedneee e will miss fire in 7. Workmen’s compensation is rignt | Harding, they say, is the 1 inyprinciple. I am not an expert, how- | dressed man in Washington, We est ever, and cannot pass on the merits jbe because he doesn’t pay rent, of the-present law or the injustice of | Ba 7 the present rates. s you ever hear of a golfer » f 8. It is impossible to pass legisla- jing to the links for eeerciee? Famalk tion that will enable a man to realize | vent partly on himself and partly on |which guarantee a return of five and the mine |“ owners, who eare for the safety of a profit of five per cent jon real es- tate. What he will realize is depend- God Almighty. 9.. The ninth proposed law was dis- cussed above, 10 and 11. The:tenth and eleventh proposed laws attempt to dictate to the United States government by leg- islation. The courts have already de- gided that intrastate rates of railways must conform to federal ‘enactments one-half per cent to common carriers, It is needless to say that these two measures are silly. , The judge is attempting to capital- ize ‘existing discontent. People are signing his petitions for spcert.or be- cause they are thoughtless. Two of the most important nezds in this state at the present time are: 1. Economy:and efficiency in the administration of the public business. 2. A mpre just and equitable system of taxation and assessment. To secure these things it is neces- sary to elect public officials with busi- ness ability and integrity and to elect a legislature with intelligence enough to abolish some of our foolish as- sessment laws and taxation laws and to adopt an assessment system which is fundamentally sound. A majority of cur special: state taxes should be repealed. What we need is (1) An equitable and fain general property tax without the present foolish exemp- tions, and (2) A fair and equitable in- come tax law that will raise a reason- able amount of revenue. i —A TAXPAYER. London University, in England, with 20,000 students, is the largest in the world. Haydn composed his ‘Creation’ during a storm on the English chan- nel. ‘ BY CONDO Gee, | A man gets into trouble marrying two wives. Som | marrying one. ome get into trouble I} hweNn eee i|| ADVENTURE OF | | - THE TWINS aan ae By Olive Barton Roberts Twelve Toes The Sorcerer, in the at Nancy aad, Nien eyoat Sane lean! in bis even k with a wicked “Now scrub,” he cried. “Scrub and scrub and scrub for a-thousand years: | That stuff will never come. off the floor of my cave, and the Pieces of the Cloth of Dreams that you hold in your hands will never wear out. sind you will not remember so much as your names ag long as you hold it, where you live, the errand you were Sent upon, or anything, “As for me, I have your magic pa- per and the magic feather. No more | Messages will you get from the Fairy Queen, no more directions—” “All this time he was changing slowly back into this’ fayorite form of a dragon, and now his words end- ed in a hiss. : Then something happened! A buc- kle on one of Nancy's goloshes be- came loose and a gleam of green showed through the flap. i Twelve Toes knew’ at once then’ ‘hat he had the prize of all prizes, the Magic Green Shoes, Without a ‘word he reached out and pulled all four goloshes from the feet of the Twins, and in a second more he had the Green Shoes off too, “and was stretching them over his.own. enor-. mous claws with grunts of joy. ¢ dewn jon their knees, rubbing and scrubbing at ‘che horrid sticky mess on the floor, wondered dully what it {was about. The words of Twelve Toes were true. They remembered nothing. “And now,” cried Twelve Toes, “the dream of my life has come true. At last I can cross the Seven Mountains and ‘the Seven ‘Valleys, and with so much magic to help me I can get the Diddyevvers and the Korsknotts into my power and marry the Princess Therma myself.” Away he galloped, waving his horny tail and leaving a trail of smoke be- hind, (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service.) | POETS’ CORNER a c ORNER- % WONDER WHAT HERE! But PRICES II! ote FINISH TYING. Ue AND “THEN You Can (INVESTIGATE THE MATTER! SOMETHING DROPPED ALC RICHT, \T was NOT ‘ou MY STUFE PASQUE FLOWERS (Erroneously Called Crocuses) . Long ere the. the winter's cold is past They vome, these fur-clad friends of ours, Glad heralds of the welcome spring, The purple, downy grey Pasque Flowers. No gaudy, tinseled garb they wear, But well prepared for snow and shower, For North Dakota’s spring, they know, May change with every passing hour. i Though wild the stormy March winds blow , And chilly fall the April showers, To North Dakota spring: has come, When bloom the warmly-clad Pasque Flowers. Then why despair, though dark the sky, And dreary seem the winter hours! Know, summer's on the heel of spring When bloom’ the plucky, grey Pasque Flowers. | (Huldah Lucile Winsted, State Normal Schocl, Minot, N. D.) |; Political government originated with the Greeks. James Fenimore Cooper wrote 70 t0ks in 30 years, All’ the while Nancy and Nick,