The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 8, 1922, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE MONDAY, MAY:8, 1922 THE BISMARCK TR IBU N Eltrue respecting alleged violation by law in the Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN _ - - A 3 Foreign Representatives The Tribune hopes that every guilty one will . LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY e Tri » hopes it ev y SLO DETROIT, lbe brought to the bar of justice and punished for Marquette Ble. se BURNS AND suiTH * leach and every violation of the law, but just why “4 Sits is y Fifth Ave. Bldg-/) grand jury was called to secure through indi- NEW YORK lag jury w : Ir MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS jrection what direct action would do as well is a The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use | question that puzzles. Probably the attorney gen- or republication of all news dispatches credited to it orjeral’s department and its special assistant can not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local! ,,.wey the question to the entire satisfaction of neal renee Jhoublication of special dispatches herein|everyone but in any event the explanation would jbe interesting especially to an already tax over- are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION burdened electorate. i : ! Ig the real answer that there is not sufficient SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE : d Daily by carrier, per year -$7.20\Jegal talent either in the attorney general’s de- Bay by Feel ner ee Eee ate Bismarck)... [partment or the Cass county states attorney’s Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota......-.+++++ office to draw up complaints against common cul- THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER prits and that there have’ been so many legal fail- (Bstablished 1873) ures in this case to date that a grand jury and a ER special prosecutor must be hired to get results. ——_——_———— —__———_———|Succh a frank admission on the part of Attorney COMMON HONESTY SHOULD PREVAIL General Johnson would clear the atmosphere ana There is now before the supreme court a case answer a very pertinent inquiry. involving the letting of thousands of dollars of | LESS CLO election supplies. Under a decision of Judge Nuessle, it is not necessary for the county audi- tor to ask for bids. Of course common honesty, Comments reproduced in this column may or may not should dictate the same course in Burleigh county exprEQtmens, ceproduced tn his column mayor may not i in many other counties—The call-!] inorder that our readers may have both sides of importart iseues that is followed in many ing for bids by advertisement or request on the} bleh are, being, ctcuneed Jp tis, Bee rice ner Lael the cqunty, aud y whether the law is -WHERE IS THE BENEFIT? explitit or not.” : If the voters of North Dakota ever sit down It Seems att a court pie is em and ask themselves seriously “what benefits a determine what common honesty, dece ;we getting from all the money that has been an publig policy should dictate. The Tribune and/j, ein squandered ‘in state industries?” they other. printing establishments in Bismarck are|will wipe the slate clean of these enterprises. not agking for this work, but merely the right to|- Jt is admitted, for example, that the Bank j these supplies which at least|of North Dakota has cost the taxpayers of the Bits and pects One con-| state some $600.000. What have they to show cerns in Bi fare equipped 'to handle.” ° |for it? What has,the Bank of. North Dakota But orders for these supplies paid for-by the|aceomplished that could not have been accom- taxpayers of Burleigh county have been placed by plished by a very simple rural credits depart- County Auditor Johnson with a Fargo printing | ment? What banking founction does it perform plant not as well equipped as some of the Bismarck '+hat could not be performed by the privately publishing plants and WITHOUT ANY PRICE. owned banks? What has it done for the state |policy of prosecution as regards the Scandinavian jbank scandal. Editor CHICAGO EDITORIAL REVIEW i i kN. D. Becond Scandinavian bank cases. Both the state and the) Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D. as \Cass county officials. are comntilteea Vere eeecun| RUTH HITS A NET BALL AND { ADVENTURE OF | | THETWINS PSI Reece ns Saat By Olive Barton Roberts Nancy and Nick are Twins. One time the Fairy Queen gave them each a pair of Green Shoes, Under what appears to The Tribune a rather| strained interpretation of the law (but as a lay- | man it does not presume to ériticise the decision | of the district court which in denouncing the; except to tié up public funds in long time loans, and almost ruin the state’s credit? What has it profited the taxpayers? Has it made money any cheaper? Has it made it easier for the farmer practice upheld the contention of State Attorney joy for the businessman? Has it. helped to solve McCurdy that County Auditor Johnson.was with-|the problem of .any: man or any class of men in in the law) a hair line distinction is made between | North Dakota, even in the most modest way? election supplies_and other supplies paid for out) Qr take the Drake mill. What has it profited of county funds. In the case of most supplies the'the average citizen of North Dakota?- Has it cost of which amounts to more than $300, the law|made flour any cheaper? Has it brought about states bids must be called for. Under'the con-|any better prices for wheat to the farmer? struction of the law as regards election supplies, | Ryeryone knows that it hasn’t. Even its most such printing is placed in a special class to be/ardent supporters no longer claim ‘that it has. given: out at the discretion,of: the county auditor | ay that it has done’is'to lose $80,000 in two years’ and the sky is the limit as to the price. operation. : As'both Judge Nuessle and County Attorney! Oy take:the homebuilders’ department. What McCurdy pointed out, the practice is a vicious one,|has it done for the people of the state? It has but even though against policy and precedent ac-|pyilt some 53 houses. Every one of them cost cording to their views there is nothing in the law |from $1,000 to $5,000 more than the price agreed to prevent such a practice and unless the supreme upon between the state and the purchaser. in} court applies the brakes the bars are let down’ for those cases where the purchaser has not thrown graft-in the purchase of such supplies. lup his hands, abandoned the house and charged County Auditors who pretend to manage the|off the money he has in it to rent, he faces a business of their offices as private businesses are|Jawsuit. It will cost the state several hundred conducted ask‘ for bids to determine what is : |thousand dollars and nobody has profited by it right and proper charge for such service. In Bur-'except the employes. Where is the benefit in leigh county those institutions equipped to do the|that? work are discriminated against and the money| Or take the state mill at Grand Forks. Al- goes to build up other cities and to persons not|ready it has cost the state hundreds of thousands tax payers or interested in the upbuilding of Bur- \of dollars more than it should have, and we have leigh county. te |nothing to look forward to but another Drake Regardless of what the decision of the supreme |mill on a vastly bigger scale. What good: will it court.on the matter will be, common honesty, de-jdo us? Will it sell flour for less than the pri- cency, and public, policy should impel every county |vately owned mills? Everyone knows that it auditor to’ eal} for bids or prices on all work in| won't. Will it pay more for wheat? Everyone excess of $300 for that is the spirit of the law in \knows that it won’t and there isn’t any use fool- the fe Sanaa of county supplies, whether tech- 'ing ourselves on either of these points. But Ge Wane nealanes ae a wae poe every sane businessman expects it to lose thou- les i princl- jsands or hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly. Y : And for what? What benefits will we get « ONWHY A GRAND JURY? from it? None has yet successfully answered the query} The Forum has never made any secret of its why a grand juty was necessary in Cass county |attitude toward all the stateowned indstries. It to probe into the affairs of the malodorous Scan- | Would “turn the key in the door of the bank ;” turn dinavian American Bank. The recall election ithe Grand Forks mill over to ‘Senator Ladd’s surrendered the attorney general’s department |Political followers, if they would take it, and per- over to Sveinbjorn Johnson and put in his posses-|/mit him to run it on the plans he has so frequent- sion every instrumentality of law to bring those |ly outlined whereby he can save or make untold suspected of criminal acts to the bar of justice. millions. It would sell the Drake mill and close The states attorney department in Cass county /out the homebuilders’ department at the earliest is still functioning and is in complete accord with \possible moment. the attorney general’s department and can di Governor Nestos and his associates do not everything a grand jury or a special prosecutor |favor quite such a sweeping program, unfortun- can do and at less expense which was the keynote |ately. On some features of the socialist program of the campaign made by ‘Attorney General John-|they favor further experiments, not from convic- _son. jtion that they are justified, we believe, but be- Arrests have been made. Information drawn {cause they feel the majority of the voters of the and preliminary hearings held. Trips to Cali-/State have not yet had their fill of the experi- fornia have been made and alleged culprits have|™ents with the state in industry. been returned to the jurisdiction of the state all) But every day brings forth proof of the folly, at a heavy expense. The Nestos administration |thg expense and the utter futility of the state has employed Arthur LeSeuer, socialist attorney, |industries, and sooner or later the demand to and J, W. Brinton, to aid in bringing alleged vio- Scrap the entire socialist program will become lators in connection with the defunct Scandinavian |S0 insistent that it cannot be denied. Meanwhile| American bank to the bar of justice. Most of the the Nestos administration is doing an excellent | cases started have evaporated into thin air. |job of salvaging. While it is in power the tax-| Now a grand jury is in session with a special \Payers may feel assured that no new experiments | attorney general employed to go over the same/Will be:tried, that the homebuilders’ mess will be ground which has been traversed by Cass county |liquidated, that the bank’s activities will be held| officials and the attorney general’s department.|t0 2 minimum and the expense reduced to the We were told in the recall election that there would |!ewest possible figure, and that the mill experi-| be no more special assistant attorneys general. |™ent will be conducted at the lowest possible cost! Grand juries usually are called when judges, t© the state. Perhaps that is the best we can| which were magical. These shoes could. take the Twins anywhere on the earth or off of it, indeed, for that matter. They could go anywhere in the sky or-in Fairyland By just wishing. They had many wonderful adven- tures and proved:a great help to the Fairy folk who Yooked after the Fairy Queen’s Nine Hundred and WNinety- Nine kingdoms,':from helping Mr. Rubedib to spring-clean the birds and anjmals, to. assisting, Mr, Sprinkle- Blow in making;the weather up in the sky. : AG Their last ‘adventure was to settle a dispute between. the Diddyevvers and the: Korsknotts in Fairyland, where a: wicked: Sorcerer, called Twelve Toes, hadi caused trouble. Now they have; feturned home over the Seven. ‘Mountains and the Seven Valleys and aré ‘gtéeted hy the Fairy Queen inher: Palace where they re- late thejr adventures. h Y Their next adventure is*to be “A Trip to ‘the Moon.” f i eee \ ‘ The Fairy Queen was waiting for he Twins wiien they arrived at her Palace after a. quick trip over the Seven Mountains. They just wished themselves ‘back and whijzz—they were there! 4 Everybody crowded dround to hear the news, first of all their friend, the Magical Mushroom, who had gone with the children on so many of their travels. Then there wag Mr. Rubadub, and fat Mr. Tingaling, and thin Mr. Scribble-Scratch, and funny Mr. Fllppety-Flop, and Mr. Sprjnkle-Bow, and Cap'n. Penny- winkle, who had come. on business from his country under the sea. Indeed, ail of the Fairy Queen’s helpers were there, all ears to hear about the Twins’ last wonderful ad- venture. You Know they had been to the Land of Deddyevvers and the Korsknotts to settle some trouble about two kings. 78 “You are certainly wonderful chil- dren!” smiled the good queen. “Whatever would I do without you? I hope you didn’t have very much trouble. Are you tired?” “Not a. Dit!” deci: Nancy. “Goodness no!” id Nick.” It was a lot of fun: Old Twelve Toks the Sorcerer did all he could to stop us, but our magic beat his every time.” “Would you like 'to help me some more?” said the Fairy Queen, thoughtfully. “Oh, yes, indeed,” cried both Twins together’ “Do you have another er- rand?” “Yes,” answered the Queen. “I have just had word from Mr. Peerabout, the Man-jn-the-Moon, that he’s so busy this spring he can’t get along without help. The four winds are very handy aiid do all ‘they can, ‘but what with some folks wanting a full moon, some wanting it dark, some wanting a wet moon, and some wanting it dry. even the winds aren't enough. He'd be ever so glad to have you for a while, I’m sure.” “Then we'll go,” “won't we, Nancy!” (To Be Cont:nued) . (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service) v7 answered Nici, ‘o— at i | Pulse Of Business _| o—— - =a . WAGES RISE, Factory workers’ wages in New meter, have been rising mildly f days. They now average about and the war-boom peak of $28.93. AUTOS SEL! is activity. Body builders and parts makers are swamped with orders. ' About three-fourths more cars dre _be-! ing turned out by the factories than a year ago. Rubber industry is creep-} ing toward capacity output, especially tires. RADIO GAINS, ‘states attorneys, and attorney general’s depart- hore for until the state has sunk some more money |_Wircless industry continues its ments are unwilling to.act. But,the,opposite is-i2 the Grand Forks mill.--Fargo:Rorum.~». bee ee ee Ee Saas yeeetvang York state, considered a notional faaro- | week, against $12.50 before the war} Auto industry is developing feverish | OH, MY LACE CURTAINS: i | 1 THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME sets a day, and expects to double it: output by July. Lamp factories are be- ing converted to make radio’ tubes, and the trade hopes to catch up ‘with the tube demand by summer, TDBACCO. Tobacco stocks. held by manufac turers and dealers now total about: 16 pounds for every person in the coun- try, a gain of nearly 200,000,000: pounds; since first of the year. The weak may be driven out during the cigaret price war, but there is nothing in the trade situation to warrant a return‘to ‘high prices, iS \ STEEL GAINS. Steel output continues gaining though badly, crippled by coke short- age. Ingot production is nearly 48- 000,000. tons a year, against a pre- war normal of about 80,000,000 tons..| Outlook is that mills will be over- sold-in many semi-finished lines by June, i CANADIAN MONEY. (Discount ‘on Canadian money’ is down around 1 .per cent. That ts; Canadian dollar is worth 99 cents ‘in American ‘money: In February, 1920; it reached, its lowest, 83 cents. |The gain reffects the rise in British’ ex- change, also Canada’s more favorable position’ in world trade. 3 MORE, COAL. Céal production is climbing, as mere non-union mines begin opening to handle orders. But bituminous pro- duction still is around 4,000,000 tons a weck, or about half as much’as a year ago. FREIGHT TRAFFIC, Freight traffic continues slightly, ahead of a year ago, though coal ship- ments lag, Bituminous coal normally makes up 80 per cent of freight ton- nage. (Number of idle freight cars April 15. was 419,513. Lo | =) i] > i Rm S Ee] o > Today’s word ig PSYCHOLOGICAL. Ttis pronounced — si-ko-1oj-i-kal, with accent on third syllable. It means--relating to psychology. tha science of the mind, being per- most frequently seen as part of tha combination “psychological. mo- nent,” that is, the occasjon when any r —Anna L. Barbault.| | EVERETT TRUE ‘BY CONDO EVERETT ED UKE TO === BORROW ‘ouR CAR FOR THIS EVENING; MING'S iw THE REPAIR SHOP AGAIN action or event is most. certain to have full effect on men's. minds, It comes from—Greek “psyche,” soul, mind, together with the suffix “logy” also from tthe Greek, “mean- ing a word, discourse, doctrjne, the- ory or science. ~ It’s used like this—“Dr. Sun Yat Sem, southern Chinese leader, ex- pects to enter the struggle between Generals Chang Tso-lin and Wu Pei-| Fu at the psychological moment.” ANSWER WILL BE MADE TO LEMKE ORDER Answer will be made to the order of District Judge Lembke to Governor ‘Nestos to certify records in the Cahill s) in district court at Hettinger on May 13, it was said at the office of the attorney general. The order will not be ignored or evaded, it was said, although attorneys will contend that the case ought to be removed to Bis- marek; ‘that’ Governor “Nestos 1s en= titled to. be sued in the place of his residence and that all matters con- nected with the case should be! thrashed out in Burleigh county. The cas already has been in district court in’ Mandan:and is now pending in Bis- marck. Attorney General Johnson was here Sunday and conferred on the case, ("A THOUGHT | | AT | For lo, the winter is pasts the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear! on the earth; the time of the singing | of birds is come—Canticles 2:11-12. sweet daughter of a rough and stonmy sire, Hoar Winter’s blooming child, de- |‘ lightful Spring! Whose unshorn locks with leaves And swelling buds are crowned, Sweet is thy reign, but short—the . red dog star Shall scotch they tresses, .and mower’s scythe Thy grene, thy flowrets all, Remorseless ‘shall destroy, the | |any one. the Bjble every day. “|ghost. chased him 40 blocks. ‘MISS. MARGUERITE K. 0’ LEARY, of, Reading, Pa. who says she has gained eight pounds and can hardly find words to express her praise for Tanlac for the good the medicine did her. “I am so happy over what Tanlac has done for me I can hardly find words to express my praise,” said Miss Marguerite K. O'Leary, who lives with her parents at 1238 Chestnut St., Read. ing, Pa. “I wasn't.exactly what, would be called sick, "bu for a year I had been all run down and sometimes felt so weak and miserable I could hardly hold up my head. I was so nervous the telephone bell or a door closing would startle m2 so I would tremble liko a leaf. “T' needed something to build me’ up'and give me strength and energy, and that, is exactly what Tanlac did, It gave me a fine appetit?’ and im: proved my digestion. 1 °gained eight pounds, the color came back to _my face, my nerves became normal and I soon felt as well as I ever did in my life. It is simply wonderful that medi- tine could make such a big change in ‘My friends and neighbors are surprised when they see me now, and no wonder, for I look like a dif- ferent person. Tanlac is grand and I never intend ‘to miss a chace to say a good word about it.” Tanlac is sold by all druggists. live cheaper than one single man jn love. Two married people can 7 In England a Ford ficense is more than $100. They don’t like a joke. ‘Money doesn't talk as much as people who have money. Any boy can tell you that’ an apple a day won’t keep the doctor away if it is a green apple. With a war in China, that famous open door is marked “Exit.” Days are so long now you can fee three picture shows before dark. “Where ‘do liars go?” is puzzling Doyle. Perhaps they-go where they are often told to go. It seems that several futuristic schools of art have let out, Battle cry of the antisbobbing cru- saders is “Long may it wave.” If summer comes, can the filles’ b far behind? One paper prints a chapter from It is news, and good News, to some people. A man may be down, but out unless he is-dewn-in the mouth. If the ‘coat’ stetuef keépg up there will be a slate shortage. Fact that there are bootleggers ‘s proof they don’t drink the kind of stuff they sell. E In Paris, they have a dog bath house. Bathing gone-to the bow- | wows. Boardars_ realize there’s no place like home when they see strawberries ene. market and prunes on the table. 3 Oysters are Noted for sjlence, and they get a four-month vacation. In New Jersey, a man claims a host Pro- hibition, where are you? , Our idea of a fine thing not to do is laugh at a policeman’s wife. for a new must make their old Educators looking Shakespeare jone do. In North Dakota, a man has whiskers 17 feet long, Aiclean shirt must last him a month. Some of them dress as if they in- |tended being wrapped in slumber. You can’t’ make loose ends meet. When a politicjan sits on the fence you can tell where he stands by watchihg where he lies. SPONGE BATH. A woman, who does rather stren- uous work, finds she rests better and sleeps more easily if before retiring she takes a sponge bath in equal parts of Vinegar and-camphor. This is, of course, ‘the process only on days which hdve been particular hard, never > Oy eat | e