The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 15, 1922, Page 4

| PAGE FOUR THE “BISMARCK. TRIBUNE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - - a - Editor Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH 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 loca wews published herein, All rights of republication of special dispatches herein kre also reserved. 4 MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year. : oe eeee 87.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) wale as ciel We, Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).. 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota..... soseceee 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) SEBO Now that the Mandan Pioneer has promised to deliver the I. V. A. Jamestown convention to Sen- ator McCumber, .together with the Joe Doyle! Democrats, the problem is less vexatious. GRONNA’S ANNOUNCEMENT’ 3t was not in the cards for Asle Gronna to step aside and permit the I.,.V,,,A..fusion party to name sole candidates for the Republican and the Demoeratic primarics.to:,eppose Senator Mc- Cumber. Like “Bill” Shakespeare’s “Bottom,” unless Gronna can play the role he:wants there won’t be any. show and the mammals can “go hang” if you please. feregl Until Ladd was nominated at, the last Nonpar- Mention, Gronna. was a strong adherent of the Nonpartisan League. His great heart throbbed for the “farmers’ program.” But the name of Ladd not Gronna came out of that convention and Gronna joined the ranks’ of the I. V. A, taking the stump and telling the farmers | what an iniquitous organization was leading them to destruction. He followed his attacks up through the recall election and denounced. es socialism much that the league proposed. With the stage set for a senatorial election in March, under an initiated I. V. A. election law which regular republicans defeated as well as regular democrats, the I. V. A, endorsement looked good. The law lost, but} Gronna stuck to the band wagon of the I. V. A.| organizatibn with the usual tenacity of a con-| firmed office seeker. As the time drew near for the Jamestown con- vention, Gronna asked for a “show-down.” ‘The former juniozasenator wanted to know what the I. V. A. whs going to do for him. As a senatorial prospect, Gronna was not as attractive as some other aspirants. There was Jerry Bacon at Grand Forks about whose head the bee has been buzzing persistently not to mention a host of other I. V. A.’s who would like a seat in the United, States senate. Several of these demanded that Gronna devote his. time at home here developing the “farmers program,” suggesting that he could do more for the North Dakota farmers program at Lakota! than at Washington. But Gronna wanted to face McCumber in a| battle to the bitter end and would not be placated with anything less than the independent support. | Then came the split in the Nonpartisan League over the balance of power, an opening much to Gronna’s liking. It is suggested that certain ele-| ments in the league were sympathetic to Gronna| and he went to the Courier-News and anounced | himself. f | One has to read his announcement closely to| determine what Gronna is really running for. Aj hurried reading of his statement, would indicate that he was a candidate for a state office. There | is no mention of his stand on national issues and | no reference to his record in the. United States | senate, a record which the Republicans of this | state failed to endorse, at the recent primaries. | Kresge Bldg. 1 —| prices are based on the same level, balanced. No {hundred thousand dollar mark. |States draws only seventy-five thousand dollars a monster, which’ probably would be as long as a Pullman caf and 15 feet tall. : | More interesting would ke to return to earth 100,000 years from now and sée how the human bedy will be changed by advanced civilization. Probably huge heads and spider legs and arms, provided germs leave any humans alive. PROSPERITY The chairman and president of the Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company say: in their annual report to stockholders: ‘ “We are certain high freight rates are the principal factor in preventing a royirn to normal conditions, not only in the steel business but also in the general business of the country.” . | This is equally true of rents. | No general prosperity on a big scale until all balance until high rents and high freight deflate. They will be the last to drop, the hardest to ge down. ‘ Billy Evans’ asking the people to pick someone for Dempsey to fight will result in a complete census of our landlords. The ex-kaiser says he wants'to be friendly with America. Sorry, but we are broke. ° ; EDITORIAL REVIEW «? Comments. reproduced in: this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tfibune. They are presented here in order that our readersmay'Mave both sides of important insues Which are being discussed in the press of the day. i WHAT FRENCH TERROR AMOUNTS TO Frank Vanderlip looks into, the-mental ailment that has overtaken Fratice ‘and diwell8 ‘sadly ona contrast between her indomitable courage in war and her “state of chattering terror in peace.” Other visiting world doctor's have felt that France is furtively trying on the shoes that Germany was forced to discard. ‘The distance between these extremes of opinion is considerale and the truth must be somewhere along the way. : There probably are politicians in Franc2 not averse to places of power in a France that might dominate the continent, Yut Germany’s poor luck in the business of bossing has not been lost on Frenchmen who have continued to think. And| probably there are other powerful persons in| ‘France who lose sleep over the, outcome of the present ferment in Germany. But we wonder whether Mr. Vanderlip is not mistaken in assum- ing this terror of a few frightened Frenchmen to be the general fecling of the people. One by one twenty-three governments decided during the war that the aspirations of Germany warranted a declaration of war.. France must ‘know that if the same aspirations are resurrected in Berlin these governments will not have changed their minds. The terror tale hardly holds. water. We wonder if it is not more a question of francs and marks, with France in a mercenary muddle over deciding whether she: wants to forego the advantages of full indemnity or is willing to as-| plete reparation. Nation for nation Germany is richer than France in men and physical resources, but there is no occasion for “chattering terror” if France knows, as many Frenchmen do, that the world is with her as long as she marches along with the world.—Detroit Journal. “BABE” RUTH’S SALARY; : “Babe Ruth,” baseball star, is‘‘to ‘receive a salary of seventy-five thousand dollars this year, with an additional five hundred dollars for every home run he bats out. On the basis of his last}: season’s record this should bring his income for the coming eight, months’ work up to well over the To many this will seem arf Sijitétice, They, will point.out the fact that the President of the United, His statement is merely ‘a’ reiteration of the; league platform, a bait for votes. Gronna knows} that as United States senator he can have little; or nothing to do with the handling of the state! owned industries, | The voters of the state when it comes to’ the, nomination of a United States senator will want to | know what he is going to do with the national issues pending and doubtless as the campaign goes | on Gronna will indicate ‘his stand and. tell the| voters what this state can gain by supplanting al McCumber for a Gronna. It,is to be hoped. now that Gronna has first -his position equally as clear on national issues. BRAINS A “moonshine” vender was arrested in Omaha. Police Judge Wippick made him this offer: “If you drink a glass of your own hooch I'll turn you free.” 5 lget that they are living in America. ne ; , ‘free land and it offers opportunity for advance-| made his stand clear on state issues, he will make |ment-to every citizen. What better proof is need-! year; that the Secretary of State gets but twelve; thousand; that the salaries of most of our gover- nors and college’ presidents average around ten thousand dollars a year. These are vocations that | require years of training, of research, and the} hardest kind of work. ‘ ng Yet, along comes a baseball swatter with no special intelligence, and gobbles up a salary great-| er than that attached to the greatest office in the land. Critics of “Babe” Ruth’s salary should not for-! This is a! ied than these very facts about “Babe” Ruth. An jorphan, with no parents to guide his steps and yet |with all his handicaps he is raised to the seats of | jthe mighty; with a salary that exceeds those of ithe mighty. “Tl go to jail,” the bootlegger decided quickly. There always were more real brains behind the jhas trained. He has made himself the baseball! |swat king of America. His name is known from} \coast to coast. His admirers are legion. | sist a neighbor, whom she despises rather than a fears, until the neighbor is prepared to make compen and a mockery to say to the in-|° It cannot be luck. Ruth has specialized. He, » SIC ’EM, FIDO! | INITIATIVE LETTER (By Justice J. E. Robinson) March 14, 1922. March’ 29th is the st day to file initiative petitions. It ‘s just ninety days before the primary. It is not safe to put off anything till the last day. Who wants a roll of pe- titions to circulate and return by March 26th? The initiative ameagutes now in cir- culation have’ been well advertised and considered, .. Their main, purpose is to reduce taxes’ which dre‘ uajust and éppressive,\iHegal and )¢onfisca- tory. During each of the past three yearg the assessments and tax pee have been: thredi‘times’ that!’ of any former year. At, each election the people have p: the taxes and vainly hoped for somé relief from those who tere) glected to make the laws.*’“But'no felief was given. The result was the recall elec- tion and it was won; by exposing and denouncing the unjust taxes and the system of state banking and state in- dustries. The recall has given the state a new administration which is logically bound. tq..undo the wrongs against which it protested. The ques- tion is how toado dt,/Surely it cannot be done by talking, speechmaking or pounding ~ thé Devil on the back. Words are not acts, Wordscundo no wrong. When a“threefoli ‘tax has been levied against the people their only proper remedy is to reduce the In ‘such a case. it.js,a mere in- jured party: Be good, pay your un- just tax, and in the future we prom- ise you a square deal. When the National, banks appealed to the courts or a showing that their tax was ex- cessive, jit was promptly reduced. When the state banks appealed to the supgeme court on a showing that their tax pwas excessive and illegal it was reduced fifty pen cent,or more, and no one‘made a Wow] against it. If the owners of land and tenements were organized like the:banks so they could appeal to the courts and obtain relief in one suit, assuredly they‘would get a preper reduction, But with the farmers it is every man for himself. For, him to pay an unjust tax is in general cheaper and safer than to go to law and contest it, And now, by: reason of crop failures and other conditions many thousands of good people have not the means either to pay or to contest the tax?. Unless they get relief without going to law, they must submit to robbery and confisca- tion. Some object to a reduction of the unpaid ‘taxes of 1919 and 1920 as unfair to those who have paid their taxes. We answer: the fact that one has been robbed is no reason why another should be robbed.” Another reason is that with few exceptions those who have paid were able to pay, and those who have not paid have not the means to pay. They live on the verge of want, and, as the taxes have been more than doubled, ‘any person who pays half the original tax does his full duty. Now it is half or noth- ing, and half a loaf ig! better than no bread. ae The bad laws which we. seek to undo were passed by the Legislature jat the general session of January and February, 1919. Since then we have had the special session of December, 1819, and the general session: of 1921, FROM td COUGHS | COLDS, CROUP Tickling Throat ested and denounced | é SAN, ae Sa “— SAWING WOOD (Florence Borner.) Oh, why should tha:spirit of mortal be sad, When ’tis so much better to always feel glad? Like the coming of tempest across a clear space, Is the frown of displeasure that darkens the face. Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be blue, When a smile all the day will help carry you thru? The Misfortune may knock she can never come in, _ If we rise up to meet her while wearing a'grin. Too much we are given to mourn and lament, Too much we are prone. to indulge discontent; ( O’er trifles we worry and sorrow and fret, : And spend half our lives in the vainest regret. Arise from this mooning, for endless despair, Has ‘never yet gotten mankind anywhere; 5 Just tackle each problem the way that you should, And let the world know you are still “Sawing wood.” i 07n~“aeorerrrernreseneeeeee ees and ‘each session has failed to give any felief. At each session the public burdens were increased. Men are al- ways too lavish, with the money. of others, Agsuredly itis the part of wis- dom for the people to make their own laws and to limit the power of those who dispose of the public money. Un- der any administration, if the tax were double, it would be all squandered. If the tax were reduced one half it would still suffice for all purposes. he tax receivers would not come to waat. They have no excuse for play- ing the part of little Shylocks. Hence we commend the measyre3 for a legal and just tax reduction, and the measure for a just assessment of real property so that for a term of years its net use or profit may aver- age five per cent on its valuation. Now is the time for those of every party—the Leaguer and the I. V. A— to stand for the right, to sign for those gocd measures. It is much bet- ter to submit the same to the vote! at the June ‘Primarythan;at,the gen- ic ! The tree is od tree doet not bring forth evil fruiti¢’ ° JAMES, E. ROBINSON, Most of the fa: comes from! Syria. |Jike to fill tnefr homes with archaic ~——__- <9 | A THOUGHT FOR | | TODAY | “e My sons, be not now. negligent; fo! the Lord hath. chosen you to stand be- fore Him, to s¢rve Him.—2 Chronicles 29:11, The lessons of the moral sentiment are, once for all, an emancipation from that anxiety which takes the joy out of alj life. It teaches a great peace. It is that which, being in all sound natures, and strongest in the best and most gifted men, we know to be im- planted by the Creator of men.—Ralpn ‘Waldo Emerso! fg ON Smee LEARN A WORD | EVERY DAY o— — Today's word is ARCHAIC, It’s pronounced—arkay-ick, with ac- cent on tie second syllable. 5 It means—old-fashioned, antique, out of date, belonging to a past age. It comes from Greek—“archaikos,” old-fashioned.’ It’s used like this—“Many people jurniture.”* uy] 0 Ec The hand that knocks the cradle is than hand than ruins the world: Some people won't be satisfied until the Japs get out of Nippon. “The sun of prosperity is shining,” says Mr. Gary. Lots of us can’t see it for our umbrellas. You can’t tell whether some mea are making a garden or digging bait. A Mr. Gallagher offers $10,000 re- ward to the finder of his lost wife. Let ’er go Gallagher. This doctor in the cabinet ought to ‘be secretary of the interior. Once they were “somewnere in France;” now they are “nowhere in America.” About the scarcest thing on earth pre ex-henpecked husbands. Denver iceman finds $10,000 in a flower pot. In Denver they leave the ice money out early. Bryan is demanding the repeal of the Darwin théory.: : “Boxing teaches politeness,” says ‘a trainer. Yes, When you can fight, your friends are polite, (Half tae shows fail. All.work and no play makes a dull show: é Mr. Yell is a Tennessee postmaster. Dr. Work is his boss. Work and Yell speed the mails. ' : Li pre ok Nothing rufns an old.car_like the neighbors getting a new one. ‘(Russia could pay by sending over some of her sleeping sickness for our saxophone players. You've got to look sharp. when things are dull. Harding asks $50,000 to contro] the wild wireless waves. There's mis- chief in the air. Egypt is free, so maybe we can sell ner some Egyptian cigarets, ' One fairy tale a boy doesn't believe is a “No Swimming” sign. Women in,a Chicago factory are striking for men’s pay. We thought they always did get the men’s pay. Dr. Bishop says “Fast walking helps your circulation.” These tips to edi- tors are very nice. Only man who can. say your head needs washing is a barber. — [ ADVENTURE OF | THE TWINS | > By Olive Barton Roberts Kip, the Brownie, soon returned from the Sorcerer’s Cave to the place where the Twins and Mr. Pim Pim were waiting for him in Brownieland, down under the earth. “Here are the galoshes!” he an- nounced proudly. ‘We found ’em.” With a wave of his hand he indi- * cated a crowd of Brownies dragging the shoes behind them; for they were so small, the Brownies were, that it took a dozen to each shoe. “Oh, thank you ever so much,” de- | clared Nancy, and Nick, too, said he was much obliged. You,may be sure they lost no time in putting the ga- loshes on over their Green Shoes. “Now then,” said Mr, Pim Pim, rubbing hig hands together, “I shall take you to a secret door which opens out into daylight, right at the foot of ‘the Electric Mountain.” You can go over it with safety now,.as the elec- tricity cannot shock You through the rubber soles of your.overshoes. But remember, you must not touch any- thing you: seé—tio matter how much you: want it.” Pim Pim took them each by the hand and led them to a three-cor- nered room with a trap door in the ceiling. Nancy and Nick scrambled up a ladder that stood there and lifted the little door without a mite of trouble. “Goodbye,” they called down through the hole. “We're ever so much obliged for helping us.” * “You’re quite welcome, my dears,” answered Pim Pim. “Here’s wishing you a safe journey and a happy re- turn. If I can help you again, let me know.” Then suddenly he was gone, gone was the little trapdoor and every sign. of Brownieland. It all seemed like a dream. % But there were the galoshes! Be- hind them in the dim distance was the Glass Mountain! There was the prism glistening and blazing in the sun! “ Right ahead was another moun- tain. It was the Electric Mountain Pim Pim had told them about. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service) Relieves Rheumatism Musterole loosens up stiff joints and drives out pain. A clean, white oint- ment, made with oil of mustard, it ‘usually brings reliefas soon as you start torubit on, It does all the good work of the old- ast fashioned mustard plaster, without the blister. Doctors and nurses often'rec- ommend its use. FH Get Mustercle today at your drug store. 33 and GSc ia jers cad tubes; hospital size, $5.00. CETTER TiLN A MUSTARD PLASTER: bar than on the brass rail side when it came to; America cannot cry down the salary “Babe” liquor. {Ruth gets. His work is measured by his follow- jers, and it is the people who indirectly pay him.) : : MONSTER . \He is the best in his field. America teen sim- | Argentine scientists are excited over a report {ilar opportunities in every line to every citizen, | from seemingly reliable sources that a prehistoric ‘and should not be afraid to boast of it. As Emer-' monster is roaming in Patagonia. It’s the sort son so aptly put it a generation ago: | scientists find in fossil form, supposedly extinct) ‘If you can make a better mousetrap than your millions of years ago. ineighbor, the world will make a beaten pathway An expedition will be sent to try to capture the to your door,”—Minneapolis Journal. | #4 Whooping Cough. Bronchial Cough Hoarseness, ete.