The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 17, 1922, Page 2

PAGE TWO BOISE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF “GRIERS’ CLUB New Officers of Organization Named at Meeting Held at Phone Company Plant’ INSPECT PHONE PLANT Town Criers Learn Something Of Magnitude of the Tele- phone Business The Town Criers club held its regu- lar meeting at the plant of the North Dakota Independent Telephone Com- pany last night, inspected the plant, and held a business session at which officers for the ensuing year were elected. New officers of the club were chosen as follows: President—Spencer Boise. Vice-president—William Neal. Treasurer—Arthur Bolster. Secretary—George Keniston. Member-at-large Board of Govern- ors—Clyde Bonham. Two new Criers were received into membership. They are R. P. Logan and John Hoffman. Members of the club learned some- thing about the magnitude of the tele- phone business, the progress ;:being made inthis field’ through'!tiew in- yentions,.and the troubles-of the telephone girl. Under the guidance of L. S. @rasswell, district manager; J. L. Vachon, local manager; B. Dunn,-wire chief, and Gertrude Ring- heim, chief operator, the member of the club inspected all parts of the plant. Much interest was expressed in the repeater apparatus, in which use of the principle which has made _wire- Jess telephony possible is applied to the telephone. Through this appara- “tus calls of great distance, such as trans-continental calls, are made pos- sible. Without them the voice would not carry over the wires in sufficient. volume to be heard across the conti- nent. Every 15 to 200 miles the sound waves enter the “repeater” station, where the sound waves which have decreased in intensity are “stepped up” to the same volume as at the sending station. The result is that the voice is heard as loud at the end of the line as a few miles away from the point at which the person is talking. 13,000 Calls a Day The Criers learned that there are 2287 telephones handled by the local company, that 36 employes are busi- ly engaged in maintaining the local and long distance system, that ,13,000 local telephone calls are handled daily and that 1,100 toll calls are put through in one day. . The busiest period for the tele- phone operator, they learned, is: be- tween 9 and 10 in’the morning when housewives are getting in their morn- ing calls, and the next busiest period is between 7 and 8 in the evening when appointments are being made. The busiest period of long-distance transmission, however, is between 1 and 2 in the afternoon, accounted for in part by the transmission of a grain report at that time. The Criers were amazed to learn that one experienced operator will handle duting the busy period of the day 300 telephone calls an hour, or-five a minute, without difficulty. . ._ Mackintosh’s Visit During the meeting there was dis- cussion of the forthcoming visit of President Mackintosh, of the Associ- ated Advertising Clubs of the World, to Bismarck Thursday night, May 18, to make an address. His topic will be “More Retail Sales.” It was em- phasized that every business man is invited to be present and is urged to have all of his employes present to hear Mr. Mackintosh, who is complet- ing a tour of the United States dur- ing which he has had, perhaps, better opportunity than any other man_ to study, business, conditions. Ee HAS MESSAGE POR RETAILERS President Mackintosh of Cc. Of W.N. Makey Addreatbgre _There are certain expenses connect- ed with the operation of a retail store ‘which go-ahead, regardless of the vol: ume of bisinegs the store’ does—such as rent, heat, light, insurance, jnter- est or invested capital, etc. Therefore, say the members of the Town Criers club, if a-store can, through better advertising and etter salesmanship on the part of its employes, increase its volume, its owners can make more while also selling merchandise for less. In such a case, each dollar of sales income carries a smaller load ot expense. The Associated ‘Advertising Clubs of the (World, whose president, Charles ‘Henry Mackintosh, of Chicago, will speak at the American Legion hall, Thursday night, at 8 p. m., are work- ing toward the reduction in the. cost of getting goods from the maker to the user, through (better advertising and through the training of retail sales people. When he speaks here, members of the local organization say, he mwill explain in detail, the great educational plans of the advertising clubs, and the mem- bers expect that business men not be- longing to the advertising club will attend and learn of the, important work the association is doing. LA MOURE GETS AGENT LaMoure, N. D., May 17.—LaMoure becomes the thirty-seventh county in the state to have a county agricultur- al agent employed in coop2ration with the state extension division and the federal department.of agriculture as a result of the recent action of the di- rectors the LaMoure County Farm ‘Bureau, who vated to-appropriate suf- ficient money to care for the county’s share of expense for maintaining an agent for a period of six months. THE BISMARCK TRIBU: ~~ $390,000 FARM MORTGAGES ARE PLACED ON FILE M. This Amount Sent to State Treas- urer’s Office on Which Bonds May be Issued. EXPLAIN THE Low TOTAL Farm mortgages totalling approxi- mately $390,000, of which about $90,- 000 were loans made by the former administration, have been certified to the state treasurer by the’new admin- istration of the farm loan depart- ment of the Bank of the North Da- kota. The farm mortgages are certi- fied in lots of approximately, $100,- 000 on which bonds are issued. Because of the fact that a great amount of bonds already sold to Spit- zer, Rorick and company have not been taken up by the state as yet be- because farm loans have not been made in sufficient volume to take up the bonds, it is not necessary at this time to sell more real estate bonds. The $90,000 of mortgages certified to the state treasurer were in process of completion by the former admin- istration and were completed after the new: administration took charge. Explanation for the disparity be- tween the amount of mortgages cer- tified for bond issues and the reports of the total amounts Glosed is said to be that many persons to whom loans are made delay thei closing by not promptly signing papers and furnish- ng satisfactory titles. ‘he bi-monthly -report of the farm loan department says: For two weeks, May 1st to 14th, 1922, 'No. of Loans | Amount New Applications Received ....... 79 $297,450 New Loans Ap- praised .......... 172 718,900 New Loans Approved for ‘Closing « 136 462,950 Approved Papers, Papers sent for execution .......117 439,700 Total Applications ap- praised to May 14.651 $2,909,050 “Papers are sent for execution im- mediately upon approval of applica- tions approved at face, and as soon as acceptances are received on all re- duced approvals. All loans are being handled and paid without delay just as soon as the borrowers sign the papers and furnisH satisfactory titles. “There is at all times a substantial volume of appraisal reports, recently received, in transit through the De- partment, being summarized, checked for errors and held for collateral in- formation. “Loans are appraised, approved and paid every month in every county of the state.” / yweene From FOOLISH: WIVES” UNIVERSAL MALION DOLLAR, PICTURE, Several hundred prominent San Francisco society folk played roles as humble “extras” in ‘Foolish Wives,” the million dollar picture to be seen at the Eltinge Theater today and to- morrow. The “millionaire extras” used to give tone to the prome- wepe nade scenes which picture the weal- thy crowds surging along the walks Families of two striking miners at Filbert, Pa, Their home was a two-family company house. _ FIRST PICTURE OF MINERS’ EVICTIONS! Uniontown, Pas, May 17.—Bvictions of the striking miners and their fami- lies have begun in the Connellsville coke region, which has been only re- cently organized by the United Mine Workers of America, Eviction ig one of the most power- ful weapons of the operators in mine wars. In Fayette county, of whicb Uniontown ig the county seat, the process works like this: The operators own most of’ the houses, They rent them for from $6 to $10 a month under a Iease in which the miner agrees to give up posses- sion upon leaving the company’s em- ploy. When the miners strike, they all lay themselves open to eviction. While the companies have ful] legal rights to throw thousands of people out of their homes, they haven't yet gone that far, To date theyhhave asked the county “prothonotary,” whose duties are those of a probate officer, for about 125 evictions. Once the pa- pers are issued it becomes the thank- less duty of the sheriff's office to see that the furniture is either moved or set in the street. About as often as not, the strikers sit tight until a mov- ing van and a force of deputy sheriffs come around. Then they watch their houschold possessions carried off com- -pany property and laid in whatever spot is hatldy. DRY OFFICERS RAID MARMARTH, MAKE ARRESTS Marmarth, N. D., May‘ 16.—With one more ¢all to complete a “clean- up” of Bowman county, the Federal prohibition enforcement officers mo- tored into Marmarth on their way in- to the west river country, of Bowman coynty, and, after putting their car up, meandered down the street with their noses in the air and their ear to the ground,—if onc‘may imagine such a pbsition being maintained by an of- ficer. Before walking the length of Main street, the squad bumped shoulders with a happy party sitting in an auto- mobile and enjoying the contents of a partially emptied bottle. Coming to a “point” the officers asked assist- ance in securing a quantity of. thi same beverage, which was accorded them pronto. “Shadowing” the willing assistance to the “moonshine” lair the officers located the haunts of the “mule;” and after paying their two dollars for the “short” pint waited for morning to’ come. 3 Monday morning they sccured a Federal search warrant for the pre- mises of Ed. Jensen on the corner of Sceand Ave. W. and First St. and proceeded to makg their search. They found a gallon- of liquor. This. they confiscated, and armed with an affi- davit from the purchaser of the night before, they arrested Jensen and took him to Amidon ‘where he was held pending the arrival of the U. S. Marshal with a federal warrant. Owing to their great” extent, the famous Shoshone caverns at Lime Spuhr, ‘Mont., haye never been fully explored. , SOCIETY LEADERS PLAY AS “EXTRAS” ASS and terrages at Monte Carlo. The Universal’ Film Company, in order to reproduce these scenes, built an immense set at Point Lobos,. near Monterey, California. The ocean side pf Monte Carlo’s famous casino, the bandstand, and the seaside nades of the Riviera resort fyere du- plicated, Inset are Mrs. Katie Oleska (ieft) and Emily Molek (right), , in the (Connellsville region, being moved out of their home by deputies after eviction proceedings. the wives of the two evicted miners. ’ GRAIN FUTURES ACT NOT VALID USE OF POWER ‘Supreme Court Decisions Holds Act Is Violation of Taxing Power of Congress OPINION GIVEN BY TAFT Washington, May 16.—Section four of the future trading act and those parts of the act which are regulations affected by the so-called tax imposed ‘by that section, were held unenforce- able by the supreme court in an opin- ion by Chief Justice Taft, to which Justice Brandeis dissented. '” The section was held unenforce- able because it Was not a valid exer- cise of the taxing power of the fed- eral government in that it attempted to regulate transactions over which the federal government. had no con- stitutional control and was an inva- sion of the police powers of the statc. Tax on Future Traders Section four imposed a tax of £0 cents a bushel upon, future trades in grafn when made.upon cxychanges not designated as “contract markets” subject to the federal trol = or when not made, by actual owners of the grain or by. the owners or the renters of land upom which the grain is to be grown... »" iy e While. the decision stated that a number of the ‘sections. of the act were valid, Senator Capper, Repub- lican, Kansas, one of its‘ authors, de- clared the decision “a ‘ knockout.” which “practically destroyéd the vf- fectiveness of the act.” : y “The ‘decision will be a great sur- prise to the lawyers who assisted in framing it ‘and who were confident of the power of. congress to make such use of, its taxing power,” said Senator Capper.. “I am very. much disappointed: We- must look around and sec what can be done by future legislation effectivély to accomplish some! of the things we,sought to do in the future ‘trading act.” Regulation. Purpose of Law The purpose of the statute was primarily to regulate future trading in grain so as to compel the \larger} exchanges to admit to membership cooperaitve — farmer. , organizations. This was done by providing thatthe! heavy’ tax . would’ be imposed upon; all such exchanges which did not become “contract™ markets requiring | and admit the farmers’ cooperative organizations to.membership. r Sales for future delivery in grain | exchanges are not of themselves’ in-} terstate, commerce, the court de-| clared: Secticn 11 of the act provid-; ed that should any section be de- clared invalid that section should not affect ‘the validity of the remaining sections...Chief Justice Taft declared section 11°did not“intend the court to dissect an: unconstitutional meas- ure and reframe a valid one out of it by inserting limjtations it does not contain.” Certain Sections’ Valid “This | is legislative work \beyond For Your Better Hea Ith He ss idaey tale Ty owe kde P Fat ‘Mra, Browner, of Cleveland, “Tean thank Folcy Kidney Pitis that I: detiels muchettongerthanin Zoyearae Joba F. Brooks. Omens, Neb. When cuffering from, Backache, Rheumatism, Lame Back, Ki WEOLEY Z/ KIDNEY PILLS Tonic in Action Quick to Give Good Result Francis Jaszkowiak Well Driller. Dealer in Wind Mills, at Gasoline Engines, Cotton Wood Lumber, Hard Wood Lumber, |FAll kinds of Stove and Fire wood. | Call or Write. | prome- | | {#421 12th St. Bismarck.§| the exchanges to amend their rules|_ the power and function of ‘the court,” he said. 3 The court found,, however, that there were sections of the act which must be held valid, such as section nine, authorizing investigations bby the secretary of agriculture and his publication of results. Section three also was declared valid. That section imposed a tax of 50 cents a bushel on transactions known to the trade as “privileges,” Obrigewitsch, aged 7 his home in Sout! WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1922 6 years, died at|Tuesday at St. h Dickinson after| church, being conducted by Father a serious illness of but two days.|Geo. Aberle, and interment was made The funeral services were held on! in St. Joseph’s cemetery. 5 Joseph’s Cstholic: “bids and offers,” “puts and calls,” “indemnities” or ups and downs.” Such a_tax was held to be clearly within the congressional power as it was not regulatory. While the court stated it ‘may suppose that it was intended by con- gress to suppress such transactions, we cannof under. our previous deci- sions treat the section as other than what it purports to be “a tax.” AGED MAN DIES AFTER ILLNESS OF TWO DAYS Dickinson, N.° D., May 17.—Joe : Your neighbor wit eet you eins OMEWHERE in your neighbor- hood there is a man who installed Arcora last year. Ask him how much Arcora saved him last winter in coal. Then look at the money-bags above. They represent the cost of ARcova. See how its price is the lowest this Spring, NOW. that it has ever béen. Don’t wait for the rush next Fall. 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