The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 2, 1923, Page 4

_PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1923 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Efitered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. - - - Publishers Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - - - - - Marquette Bldg. pe PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. 4 All rights of republication of speciab dispatches herein are also reserved DETROIT Kresge Bldg. = MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year.......... bor , $7.20. .,Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) : p ; : aha ; i ‘ : i; 1. 120 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) . 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota............... 6.00 2 THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER : (Established 1873) ° A GREAT OPPORTUNITY * Another legislative session has convened in North Dakota under wholly different auspices than has obtained in the state for the past six 5 If surface indications 1 be relied upon, both political factions are in a mood to give and take to the end that ‘something of a constructive nature may beraccomplished for North Dakota. “While economy must needs be the watchword, there mist be a liberality of view in applying the remedy. Many blunders are committed in the name of economy — it must L@ rational economy. Doubt! ome of the legitimate functions of the state nist be curtailed to provide revenue for the loss already- ineurred in the operation of state industrialism such as the Bank of North Dakota, The Werner Creamery, The Home- batilder’s mess, Drake Mill and the yet unknown losses of thé Grand Forks venture. ©*Provision must be made to clean up some of the losses. There is only one purse from which to pay. Taxes cannot betreduced if the industrial program is to be given the trial | the administration has promised and upon which pledge it wen its spur. There should be no misunderstandings on thig.issue. Unless there are wholesale cuts right and left, to provide funds to indulge in state ownership North Da- kota’s taxes will hit new high levels. How there can be any decrease in face of the budget thati must be raised is a problem for the earnest study of this s ion. | ‘There must be some remedial legislation so as to pre- vent the state from losing any more money than is neces- sary to experiment with the governmental fallacy to which the-administration is committed. Much legislation of a remedial nature is pressing. There should be team work along this line. Both factions should The one selected as speaker must establish a reputation for fairness. He should have the confidence of both wings and be able to so direct legislation that this session can adjourn with a record of fine accomplishment. -Bismarck welcomes the legislature to the capital. This city wants to make their brief sojourn ‘here as pleasant as possible. The latch string is out and every courtesy will be accorded the men who have so difficult a task before them and so great a service to perform for the welfare of North Dakota. es : REMEDY THE LAW OR WIPE IT OUT more especially electric and central heating plants is oppor- tine at this time. The legislature is in session and it can very easily pass the necessary remedial measure and put both teeth and validity in the law, if it lacks the latter while all know that it is wanting in the former. = Bismarck is suffering under excessive rates, a fact estab- ished by the accountant of the State Railroad Commission. fts efforts to secure action have been checked by an attatk upon the constitutionality of the public utility laws. = If we are to have state, regulation of public utilities, lat us have something that is worthy of the name. Give the Commission sufficient funds upon which to operate and put into concise and clear language their powers. It is ad. Mitted in‘ several quarter's that the present law is inadequate and defective. The legislature should formulate a code of | _2 aprocedure that will compel public utilities to give certain | service and that will throw about the consumer adequate protectioti' against excessive and profiteering rates. | Members of the Railroad Commission and their experts | should after an experience of some seven years with the present law be able to point out its defects. \ If state regulation of steam and electric utilities is to ¥emain a farce; it would be well to restore the power over these corporations to the cities. | + = Here is an important emergency confronting the legis- ature. Relief in Bismarck is necessary and the legislators have.it within their power to aid without delay. GET THE BOYS AN ARMORY Regardless of the merits of the various suits started | lative to Company A’s armory, Bismarck has some obliga-| tions to the militia and ex-service men in its midst. Opin-| fons handed down in the state supreme court remanding| the suit to the district court for retrial may be meritorious. | At least one point was settled that there has been conversion | ef property belonging to men who left their jobs to fight ross the seas on Flanders field, while many staved at home | and piled up dividends and fattened while these boys fought | and bled: \ it would be unseemly for The Tribune to comment upon | » the.case now pending in the courts to determine whether | Company A has any claim. for property, but there is a] ; ge body of citizenry in Bismarck eager to get Company | ¢ D teebeship an adequate place in which to drill. i Some kind of a building which could be used for an! mory, gymnasium for the youth and as club rooms for the nerican Legion boys is necessary. There are no recrea- ‘ional facilities-of this type. It might be feasible to com- ne'an'armory and Y. M. C. A. building situatéd advan- eously. : Bismarck ct. of. some : [ v belonging to Company A has been set aside. Two ‘Giasented, but a majority held that certain testimony Seapets, and-did not establish a proper valuation . Anot! it. must develop a program along these lines. A $7,000 secured for alleged conversion of i trial ‘doubtless willbe held, an appea! ; within the next year or so, the question es for conversion will be decided. In the mean- ‘A. is without funds to carry on its work of men to be upstan , better American citizens. be better than in this way? How. unfor- ‘memory is so quickly dulled and advantage so jnamed Casimir L; ‘burned, his ashes put in a cannon and shot into the air to- ‘inside her corset, at the command of her employer. ‘with those old days, and no argument is needed that we’re | STRIKING realize that in earnest cooperation only can results be obtained. < | 4 Probably the attack on the law regulating public utilities | 7 easily taken of those whose names were cheered to the echo but a few short years ago. Let not their services forever be unrewarded? Bismarck has an urgent duty to Company A and: the American Legion boys aside from the merits or demerits of the various legal actions pending. Probably relief by a legal route is impossible, but surely Bismarck with its en- terprise in civic matters can at some opportune time start a movement in behalf of these men. | TERRIBLE DEATHS A mildewed old document, dated 1689, is discovered in Poland. It describes the execution of a certain gentleman ynski. After death, his body was ward Tarta This happened in Warsaw, and was an event not unusual in those days. Casimir’s crime was denying the existence of God. Today he could deny it until he talked himself blue in the face. All intelligent people would pity him for his vanity, ignorance and stupidity. But no one would think of execut- ing him. A few would argue—possibly convince him of the truth. f Compare then with now, and realize progress. It is only 183 years since counterfeiters were considered guilty of treason and often burned alive in England. The, law was repealed in 1790. | A heart-rending instance was a little girl, only 14, sen- tenced to be burned at the stake in 1782. The House of Com- mons stormily debated her fate. When Sir William Mere- dith pardoned her, the fagots had been piled up for the fire: . She had been convicted of concealing counterfeiters’ dies *, Executions for witchcraft were common in the old days, 3000 being “put away” in England during Long Parliament. ¢ As late as 1716 Mrs. Hicks and her nine old daugh- ter were hanged at Huntington for “selling their souls to the devil and raising a storm by pulling off their stockings and making a lather of soap.” The authority, Barrington, estimated that 30,000 were executed in England on witchcraft charges. country It’s a terrible past that we have come out of. We're not ; entirely out yet. Superstition and injustice still have their | « poisonous talons in humanity. \ getting better. Progress is certain, and the struggle is not hopeless. It must have been Satan who invented the expression, | “the good old days.” iy an indefatigable prosecutor of the | trusts, none the les: | testified to the vigor and the value Butler’s services a9 a Spe-) istant Attorney General in Comments reproductd in this column may or may not expres: the opirion of The Tribune. They are presented here in order that our readers may have bosh sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day, inst the “p2cke | pointed Attorney General. | It “corporation lawyers.” ROOSEVE Ellswozth, afte | py all odds the most intimate, |of the United States, told Jeremiah | tificates. \interesting and vital collection of Evarts, the father-of William M.,| velt, | Whose conse Ous soul was disturb: : y yc ted after he came out of Yale by |which has been printed since his the question whether a lawyer nell jdeath, is in the current Saturday! ought to take the “wrong” side, | |Evening Post under the title \“any cause fit for any court to hear |“Roosevelt’s Talks With His Phy-/js fit for any lawyer to present on | jsician.” They give a clear close- | either. sid Mr. La Follette and | lup picture of many sides of the|the others, along with our omnis- man as he was in his final illness. | cient “intellectuals,” don't want| ‘unstudied utterances of Roos |ture, of his son’s maternal ances-|of labor cases and cases against| | tors, of the Kaiser, of Clemenceau, | corporations. ithe peace conference, Rockefeller, | jhis own and other religions, of| firmed before. | Wilson and other things, ago Chief Justice Taft urged the | Aside from the mere subject of | Ju ry Sub-committee to do| Rosevelt this article has a peculiar | symet! ' jcharm because it is wholly about Supreme Court finds it hard to keep ;him and not devoted to displaying up with its work, as it had only| ‘the wisdom and importance of its | seve: tive members. Since then | writer, as has ‘been the case with |the tc retire Associate Justice lether volunteer commentators on | Pitney has been passed and signed. | his Hfe. The general quality of it|'The appointment of his successor | {may be glimpsed in two quota-j should not be delayed.—New York jtions. Asked how he was feeling | Times. jone morning after a period of in- |tense pain, he. remarked: | “If this left wrist were a little better I would like to be | left alone in this room with our great and good President for about fifteen minutes, and then 1 would cheerfulfy be hung.” | TURKEY AND THE LEAGUE | The dispatches say that there is prospect of the admission of. Tur-| key to the League of Nations if; the negotiations at Lausanne result | in the conclusion of peace. The} transition from the status which; Turkey has occupied to that of; full-fledged membership in the) (Hardeman of Atlanta, in a jury charge recently. So the Atlanta of Number Number holding professional But compare modern times Number holding first grade Normal school gr es mping toh ‘ollege graduates ound. “Why T’ll_ be stary time. Why, there’s not certificate honey in the trees any more. | Number holding second ¢ can’t find a bit. What'll T do?” | Number holding profes Normal school graduate -q, | College graduates He was © a5 | Numbe and he ‘has |Number holding Number holding professional sution of the Government | that the : 'North Dakota hav hard to have any patience | graduates teaching with the continual bleating about |five of every seven normal school ‘As Oliver }gtaduates and a larger pi ‘ard Chief Justice |of teachers holding professi per reve Only 10 Per Cent of Cash ft He talked of mustard plasters, of | Judges with a judicial mind. They | Coxt, the dw his drinking, of medical schools, of | want Judge committed by belief | Cinnamon Bear diet, of a snake dance, of litera-jand habit to seeing only one side|who loved honey The appointment of of his large footpri Mr. Butler ought to have been con- | snow Nearly four weeks side, straight for some rocks where ng as soon as possible. The ground lool On another occasion, on which he expressed the belief that the Protestant churches showtld give especial training in a righteous Americanism to immigrants, he added: “Doctor, I believe in organ- ized religion, and I think our Protestant churches need re- organization, I think it should, be made in such a way that doctrinal considerations are left to the individual. I think the essence of the Christian religion was expressed by M‘cah, and it is from him that I get the fundamentals of my religion. ‘Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of river of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgres- | sion, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He hath showed thee. 0 man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do just- ly, and to love mercy, and walk humbly with thy God —Chicago Journal’ of Com- merce. ASSOCIATE JUSTICE BUTLER Senators La Follétte, Norbeck and Norris must be deeply grati- fied by the result of their labors to prevent the confirmation. of thas been League of Nations would be a; rather startling one, but things as | strange have happened. In the ar- ;Tangemert there is room for the/ suspicion of the quid pro quod.| Turkey wants recognition as a sov-! ereign member of the family of na-/ tions. She has resented the posi- tion of guardianship to which sho! subjected by the other | The other powers demand | certain things of Turkey. The! present apparent . willingness of Turkey to concede in principle the, more important of these demands have been induced in part by the| suggestion that after this pending | settlement is made her application for membership in the Leage wilt be favorably considered, and that; as a member of the ‘League she! jcan with good grace submit to ac-! tivities of the League which would | have been intolerably humiliating | | otherwise. ! |. Turkey can scarcely be said at} this time to be desirable timber for a partnership. But Turkey is | there, and is likely to remain for) some time. Her existence involves | ; Problems which must be met. It) may be possible to deal with those | Problems more satisfactorily if) Turkey has bound herself to civil- | ization by compacts such as those’, which members of the League make with each other.—Grand j Forks Herald. ' powers. | Pierce Butler as Associate Justice |of the Supreme Court. Thev were | joined at the test by five Demo- ‘cratic Senators, including, of ‘course, the irrepressible Mr. Hef- | lin, in opposing Mr, Butler’s con- | firmation, Presumably these Dem- ocratic votes were due to the pros- eure of that tolerant and useful tribunal, the Ku Klu_ Klan. Mr, Butler is guilty of beine @ Catholic, as Associate Justice Mc-. Kenna is, as Chief Justice Tanev and Chief Justice White were. The “charges” against him were tenu- ous\in the extreme. He was & {“oorporation lawyer,” a “raiirced lawyer;”.in other words, a highly capable lawyer in large, pricties.' UThis. wae the offense against'|college graduates. “Mr, Wickersham when he was 2p-| -The education and certification of Few Among the Rural Teachers North Dakota’s teachers who He college graduates ‘are quite largely! centered in the towns and cities of the ite while few of them find their way into the consolidated schools almost none at all'into the’ one room school house. According to. statistics just published by the state department of education North Dakota had 4,243 teachers who were high school graduates,.1849 who were normal .sehool graduates and 888 College Grads | and a pipe form the chly safe triangle for any “A wife, a dog Christm: mplete is tflangle. Picture shows Judge Hardeman, Mri he teachers in the diffe orl . Goodness gracious, why?) | schools “Oh, because, there were! alw Teachers ta lot of s ps left— bits of cake and) of sandwiches and bread and when I think of the ni juicy s of ham. tim yum. 1! 1 v so I do. Do you know 1s become of the picnies? Vil tell you I y “Jack Frost h Snow and picnics do’ ther, You'll have ts open'next summer and then {will come again.” “Next summe pieces iy school nal school ge grad hol certificate Sumber holding second grade certificate Ds certificate ‘Teachers in graded school the in cried Buster, and Jigh school gradunte 264 * said Dusty Coat, ag and taking out you sniff up a u'll go st dreams “Listen Buste: opening up his a little powde little of this magic snuff sleep and have the lovi all winter long.” “About — pieni certificate nal certificate ..... Eee Graded schools in towns and High school graduate: + and ham, and holding fi de rte Fa certi’ ond grade ive me some right now.” (To be Continued) certificates certificates | Byes tes The fi demonstrate | :/97 Per Cent Chance y and town schools of = all of the coltexe| -"Ng Lose in Wildcat in North Dakota, above centage ional cer- vested Is Used for Drilling, ADVENTURE OF Probe Shows » THE TWINS By Olive Barton Roberts By NEA Service. Fort Worth, Tex. Jan. 2.-—Hun- dreds of thousands living in every state in the Union holders or sdendily are becoming holders of stock in “wildcat” Texas oil. promo- tions. And their chances of total loss of their investment are at least 97 per cent, concludes E, A. Schwab, spe- cial investigator for the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, after weeks of probing into the methods of more than 300 promotion- al companies operating here. In the last two years, Schwab esti mates, Texas promoters have har- j vested mere than 0,000 from | stock sales, “Fly-by-night” compan- ies operating from Fort Worth alone have come and gone by the thou- sands he says. ‘The promoters, says Schwab's re- port, share their loot principaily with expert publicity men and brokerage concerns.. »They often re- ceive as much as 50 per cent of the gross proceeds of a stock-selling campaign. That means 50 cents of the in- vestor's dollar goes to the publicity are and Nick went with Dus , to hunt for Buster the little bear boy cy er easily because ts in the soft They led up a steep mountain They found B Buster loved to loaf among the trees. Buster was sitting on the cold g lonesome and forlorn. His funny feet with their long toc: and patent leather soles sticking straight out in front of him. sharp little peering eyes were look- ing miles away at nothing. “A penny for your thoughts, Bus- ter,” cried Dusty Coat. “Gimme -ten cents and I'll tel! you,’ ’said Buster. “A penny would not buy the wooden ,box off a hon- eyeomb nowadays.” “All right,” smiled Dusty Coat. “Pll give you something better still if you'll tell us what you were think- ing about.” was wondering,” said Buster promptly, “what had become of -all the picnics.” Senaneenanetene toaeenmnnananaaaaae EVERETT TRUE _BY CONDO GES, BuT HS MACS ME MAD !!- AT First I SHOUGKT HE Was ONLY POOLING, aw HE GAVS M& 4. SHOVE LIKS “THAT, AND > ? : SY HS TOOK Bote HANDS AND GAVE ME A BoD,’ STIER PusH LiKe THaT — Here’s a Safe “Triangle” bar presented him with a pipe and a dog for Oi] Promotions: {the small dealer is the opinion of ASPIRIN Say “Bayer” and Insist! Unless you set the name “Bayer” on package or on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer product prescribed by physicians over twen- ty-two years and praved safe by mil- lions for Colds Hendache | Toothache Lumbago i | Earache Rheumatism man,” declared Superior Court Judge RN. | Neuralgia Pain, Pain Accept “Bayap Pablets of Aspirin” Hardeman and tho other. “angles.” | only. Each unbroken package con- | tains proper directions. Handy bo-- | es of twelve tablete cost few cents. an and broker before the company| pruggists also sell bottles of 24 and vee Bete \ 00. Aspirin js the trade mark of a Se ae 8 take Ween Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetica- Eatin dOmpee (eentsOtNTNSNECUER Cees Cee poe a ubseriptions are devoted to actual | oil operations. “Getting oil is the average pro-| moter’s last thought,” says Schwab. | Even when these promotional com- ies drill successfully ways usual- | ly are found to deprive the investors | of his share.” EXPECTS OIL COMPANIES T0 PROTEST LAW Independents Don’t Like Oil Inspection Law, Says Tax Commissioner Sometimes we get mad and think the only prices that have dropped are the. prices of 1922 calendars. A. $300,000 school burned in Belle- ville, N. J., which was quite a Christmas present for the kids. Our idea of a good job is being a professional Santa Claus and work- ing only tWo weeks each year. Be very careful in trying to un- derstand women. The insane a: lum is full of men who were not. pea / Among modern home inconve ences are gas heaters around wh That the independent 0 companies of North Dakota will come before the present sess'on of the ie : lature asking relief from some at |” ound Ney ieeewerse the provisions of the present oil ‘n-; There are too many nights in a spect’on law which they believe |week to stay out every one of them. operates to the advantage of the | Standard Oi! Company and against legis- | Charity should begin at home, ihe \orphan’s home. It is estimated a great many peo- ple will get strong exercising to keep warm this winter. State Tax Comm ssioner C. C. Con- verse who has been negot’at ng with the independent companies over the payment of delinquent taxes, ‘This will be their course, in the op'nion i \ sieees | Winning an argument by calling™a Ifriend narrow-minded doesn’t count. i cf the Tax Commissioner, rather than take the case through the | Officially, thrift week begins Jan. courts. + 17, It really began Dee. 26. A settlement with the companies has been effected, accord ng to Mr, |. Congress threatens to broadcast Converse in a statement today, this {it arguments by radio. settlement following the lines of a | : ' Austrian doctors charge tha previous settlement with the Stan- dard Oil Company on a former law. {edivalent of a loaf of bread per ivisit, but specialists will want jam M. Converese’s statement follows: » “A number of independent dealers |0" theirs. in gasoline and Kerosene have for | oa oe ; 4 The mails were a third heavier many months been refusin i the vil tax which has been assersed (this Christmas, which may be due to aga'nst them, wth the purpose in |M@ny people sending coal. view af contesting the constitution- aes Alityatotintte, law tnacedacal eee | vain Pinehurst, N. C., a boy of 12 During recent weeks, however, nego. |Played nine holes of golf in 42, so tiations have been proceeding be- ;When he grows up he may make it tween such companies and the tax |in nothing. commiss oner. with the result that a bas's of settlement of all oil taxes | Dr. Coue says good ideas overcome has been arrived at which ie satie, (bad ideas, indicating this is another factory to the tax commissioner and |°#8¢ of minority rule. has been accepted by tne oil dealers | and requires only the approval of | y the beard of ony one become |the Adirondacks, the driver probably | effect ve. mistaking him fot a pedestrain. “If the tentative settlement “is | approved, the taxes assessed will be pad in full, together with 6 per cent interest thereon, the balance of A bear was killed by an auto in | The holiday’s brought many bank robberies, not the least of which |were dads robbing babies’ banks. the interest and penalty’ bei == i waived. The amount involved i= |_ Central American conference is set something over $27,000. The inde. {for 1926. When we saw the date we rr 1926. thought it was about the bonus. pendent dealers in these products contend that the oil tax law in un- : 4 constitutional, because there is ar-| A bridge over Sani Francisco kay bitary discrimination in the rates | Will cost $6,500,000, being almost as imposed. upon various «grades of |¢xPensive as auction bridge. gasoline not based upon ther re- | lative efficiency, and that such -ar- bitrary discrimination results in a discr minaticn aga nst the indepen- dent dealers and in favor of the Standard Oil Company. “Thdse who follow events closely will recall that in 1919 the Standard Oil Company brought an action in federal court to test the constitu- tionality of the o'l tax then in effect, A missing Cincinnati boy found asleep in a soap factory evidently didn’t know where he was. i i WELL, NO WONDER You WERE, THOROUGHLY AROUSED IY! Chew a few Pleasant Tablets, Instant Stomach Relief! fore Christmas. a making a similar contenton. in 3 former law discriminated against the Standard Oil Company ‘and - in | it is now claimed that the present | ~ law d'scriminates in favor’ of . the | “ INDIGESTION | the independent dealers: The suit e instituted by the Stan Oil Com- | a basis s:milar to that now reached with the ind vidual dealers, except est, That no blame attaches to legis- | lature is evident from the fact that | Only 12 more shopping months be- other words, it was claimed that the | GAS favor of other oil companies, while | 5 SOURNESS, Standard Oil Company and against pany was compromised in 1919 upon that the xd didnot pay inter- independent dealers ‘didnot object | to the enactment of the present law until it was tried out in actual prac- tice, and then they:learned for the | f'rst time that its*résults were, they claim, d'scriminatory. ‘WANTS STEAM HEAT: LOWERED Request that he be permitted to| Acid stomach, heartburn, fullness. intervene in the case involving the | !f you feel bloated, sick or uncom- am heat rates charged b ythe | fortable after eating, here is harm- | stern Electric company of James- | less relief. «“Pape’s Diapepsin” set- town ‘was made of the state railroad commission by Arthur Knauff, James- town attorney. Mr. Knauff also asked that the commission order a 50 per jeent detrease in the steam heat rates in Jamestown . ach. \ This guaranteed stomach corres- tive costs by & few cents at any fe store. Keep it handy! gn tles the stomach and corrects diges-’ tion the moment it reaches the stom- \Y 4