The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 3, 1923, Page 2

the prblems of this business the re- / Time to make arrangements to ti- ane PAGE TWO =: Finahce Problems of! Mill, Bank, Home Builders | (Continued trom Page 1) for at the recent biennial session of the legislature should be thoroughly revised, as it works a great hard- ship upon a large number of politic- al subdivisions of our state and is necessarily shifting, undependabld, and unsatis tory. 1 trust that it will be possible for you to work out some general plan that will ndt need to be revised each legislative ses- | sion. The impression gathered from those who deal with the practical administration of this problem would | seem to indicate that one of the! methods by which this evil might be remedied would be by reducing the | perceritage basis of assessment from; 100 per cent to about 50 per cent, j ‘Wou™are familiar’ with the fact | that during recent years been no tax imposed by . upon the stock of our state banks, | and that no tax has been imposed | upon moneys and credits, and I would recommend to you that during | this session you impose a just and/ fuir tax upon these banking institu- tions and also that you impose a reasonable tax upon moneys and credits, “It is also important to seek new sources of revenue if in doing so| you can bring relief to some of those upon whom the burden is resting too heavily today, and I would suggest that you impose a tax upon luxuries, | believing that those who feel that they can afford these luxuries will | he glad to pay a reasonable tax for| the support of our government and | state institutions, and I believe that | this is @ proper tax, as a good share | 0? it will be paid by those who other- wise are contributing but little to} the support of the state and its in stitutions.” i Vants Longer Terms Turning to the question of length- ening the terms of office of the of- fice ale of the state, the gov- ernor said: saan “The experience of offi, Mbbites has shown that both efficiency and| economy may be attained by a rea-| sonable lengthening of the term of | public officials. I believe that the} State of North Dakota ought to make | the term of its state, county, and/ district officials four years, those! of the members of the house of rep-| reserttatinves four years and of the senators eight years, with legisla- tive sessions but once in four years! unless a special session is called by| the governor. About half of the states of the Union are now electing their state officials for a term of four years, and in those states tho change has met with general satis- faction and approval. I do also be- lieve that at this session you ought to adopt a legislative reapportionment act sin@@ none was last sesdion, and | n doing so, the membership of the senate ought to be reduced to not ‘more than thirty and the member-| ship of the house to not more than| venty-five. I believe that both ef- ficiency and economy would be at- tained by this change. I would also suggest that the laws of our state be changed so that not more than two railroad commissioners and twe judges of the supreme court be elected at a single election, and | believe it would be still more ad- vantageous to have the laws so} changed as to provide that but one of these should be elected at each election with terms of six years for the railroad commissioners and | a term of ten years for the members of the supreme court. “These and other essential consti tutional changes advocated here in might be adopted in the form of separate amendments or by provid- ing for the holding of a constitutior- al convention for that purpose. “In view of the number of states which haye adopted provisions. for four year term for state officials, | believe that very soon the necessary federal changes should be made to provide for the election of members of the national house of representu- tives for a term of four years, and members of the senate for terms of eight years, and thereby enable the states of the union that have four year tegms of state officials, to pro- vide fo® an election but once every four years and thus save the expense of so large a number of elections. “Until such time, however, as na- tional elections need be held but once in four years, you should if you adopt the provisions for a four year term for all but federal offices, hold these state elections in the year in which there is no presidential elec- tion, thus making it possible to set- tle state matters without reference to the solution of national prob- lems.” iS Governor Nestos laid before the “legislature recommendation for legis- lation with respect to the Grand Forks Mill and Elevator, the Bank of North Dakota and the Home Builders: Mill and Elevator “There are no problems to come before you at this session that are of ‘greater impértance than those which deal with the management of the public business of this state. The legislatoin you adopt should be such as to promote the efficient management of that business. “I would urge upon you that you adopt a law providing for a nonpoli- tical board composed of men, versed in the grain and milling’ business to assume the management of the mill and elevator, enterprise at Grand Forks, making possible the appoint- ment of men who are willing and able to give to the consideration of red time and attention. : ‘It will-also be necessary at this nance the operation of the mill. I am sure that you all realize that during certain seasons of the year thé management needs to purchase ‘store a large amount of wheat “the use of the mill during the when wheat shipments are siso that the flour pro- ps ae The following were made by Goverror R. A. joint session of the North Dakota Legislature here today: Farm Loan. Department has as 943 loans amounting to $3,042,434. Has the papers recorded on 411 additional loan amounting to $1,341,750. @ne unit of the Grand Fi unit is ready to be tested and the third unit is to be completed this moth, $2,200,000 of bonds have been issued to pay for the Mill and Elevator and $225,000 additional now is needed and $150,- 000 additional will be needed to complete the mill, making the total cost $2,600,000. Interest on the state debt is be pro money o Asked that legislature seek to bring level of taxes on farm lands down level of other taxes. Uregd revision limitations Asked passage a law taxing banks ard also moneys and credits, Recommended a tax upon ; Recommended four year term of office for state county, district officials and members of the House of representatives and of senators: eight years, Urged legislative se: ions _ Would reduce membership thirty members and of house Recommended that no an election, Recommended that the terms of Railroad Commissioners be six years and a Supreme Court Judge ten years, Would hold the state Urged non-political board tor, Urged fund of $750,000 to $1,000,000 for and Elevator at Grand Forks. Asked Non-political board for control of Bank of’ North: Dakota, Asked revolving Asked liquidation of placing the collection affai Urged diver upon farms and i make possible obeying of the mines, \ legislature. number of people. for their children, Asked passage of legi Asked that either fund of aid in salvaging assets Compensation Bureau Law. hail warrants. ked consideration ion and of the health Recommended a separate ard consider only the welfare vision must be made by this legisla- tive session. Bank of North Dakota “While not quite so important be- cause of the fact that the principal business is transacted at the state capitol, I feel that it would be bet- ter also to provide a nonpolitical board of management for the Bank of North Dakota; composed of men that understand banking, and especi- ally such as are experienced anid well informed in regard to’ sound development of a farm loan business and who would give to this branen of the public service the efficient management required in ‘order to insure its largest possible success. “Here also must be provided a‘re- volving fund for the handling of the farm loan business. During the past six months, there has been uSed of the funds of the Bank of North Da- kota a sum varying from $600,000 to $1,000,000 and averaging about $800. 000, and it is estimated by the man Ruin 7 the mill must temain in’ jarehouses for a few weeks in before it is teally suit- ‘and that to /fi- will require HIGH LIGHTS IN GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE atement of fac ded to make certain that the State Treasurer has this hand to meet interest payments promptly. I more than Justice and one member of railroad commission be elected at ( ¢ elections in the there is not a presidential election. A fund of $600,000 to $1,000,000 for use of the Farm Loan Department of the Bank of North Dakota. the Home in one of the other departments. fied farming upon agricultural interests. Favored co-operative enterprises. Favored, if possible, a law allowing warehousing of grain uance of receipts therefor: Asked change in the law regarding mine inspection to Asked appointment of a commission to study educational costs and efficiency with regard to taxation to report to next Asked laws to extend use of the library to the largest Asked dencminations to arrange for religious instruction lation that may be needed to en- able State and federal officials to enforce the prohibition law. Asked legislation to enforce collection of money owing Board 0° University and School Lands where it is shown that debtors have not been acting in good faith. other funds be placed at disposal of State Banking Board to of closed banks. f Would clear up ambiguous provisions of Asked law to make Soldiers Bonus Claims as salable as i Would apply motor vehicle tax and oil tax to buildings: | state system of roads. \ Asked regrouping of regulatory laws of the state. of the report of Asked repeal of nine o’clock polling place law. institutions ‘and one for educational organizations. ' Asked that the legislature will forget group affiliations of Reli recommendations before the or Nestos in his addre ned to State Treasurer orks mill is running, a seéormd 497.50 and funds must of tax levy law. ’ luxuries. once each four years. of the senate to not more than to no more than seventy five. one Supreme Court years in which for running of Mill and Eleva- running the Mill Building association, law by North Dakota Lignite Guaranty Fund Commission or Workmen’s Children’s Code laws. board for penal and charitable of the State. jagement that approximately the same amount of money will be needed for the prompt and efficient handling of this business as during the years to come. I beseek your careful con- sideration of this whole problem, and the thorough revision of the laws with reference to the Bank of North Dakota and the Farm Loan depart- ment to the end that this branch of the public business may be man- nomical manner. In connection there- with I trust that you will authorize and empower the state treasurer to set aside from the accumulating funds of the farm loan department that portion of the amortized inter: est payment which has been added for the purpose of defraying the ex- penses of running the business, and also that you will increase’ the amount of farm loan bonds that may | be issued by the state; provide that the interest and the funds may be paid at some bank or trust company j ious Wartare THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE “Go to Work,” Hubby Orders | Jin the city of New York and also lclothe some official or board -with ‘the power to pay taxes, insurance, | Premiums, foreclosure costs and other items of. expense that will be | necessarily incurred in connection | with the management of this busi- ness during the years to come. “Until sufficient funds shall have accumulated in the farm loan depart-{ ment so that there may be returned to the Bank of North Dakota the _ portion of the interest added to p: | the expense of operation, an ap: | propriation ought to be made for the} purpose of taking care of this ex- pense. | “When the present managers took charge of the Bank of North Dakota |the amount of private or individual | deposits amounted to only $26,897.55 ‘and at the time of the last monthly | statement of the bank, it was but $13,960.40, and I believe today as II have stated before, that it would be policy to abolish the private or individual deposit feature so as to jrelieve the bank management of the jduty of maintaining this department jand thus save them the extra labor, | trouble and expense connected there- | with. \ { The Home Builders | «You are all familiar with the un- (fortunate condition resulting from the mismanagement and extravagance {in the home builders department, | causing our taxpayers a loss, the \estimated amount of which depend- ling upon the decision of the court in pending litigation, will vary from about $25,000 to $315,000, I would suggest that you enact a law provid- ing for the liquidation of the Home | Builders association, and that you place the authority to make collec- tions and complete the business in one of the other departments, and that you amend the law so as to lauthorize the issuance of bonds up- on the security of these contracts |just as soon ‘as legal and binding ‘agreements have been entered into with each of the purchasers of these | state houses.” \ PROSPERITY OF GERMANY IS “GOLD BRICK” {Must Buy Nearly All: Raw} Materials Formerly Pro- duced by Her PAINTS GLOOMY PICTURE} | | s | Herr Felix Deutsch Sees Lit-| | tle Hope of Relief Under | Present Conditions: | | BY MILTON BRONNER, | NEA Staff Correspondent: | Berlin, Jan. 3—“Germany’s so-{ {called prosperity 1s no more real’ |than a brick painted with gold is*a genuine gold ingot. It is appearance | without substance,” The man who said this to me was! no German politician, talking “about jteparations, but Herr Felix Deutsch,| lactive head of the greatest single| business concern in Germany—the famous Allgemeine Elektriche Gesell- | schaft—hughest electrical trust in the world—and president of one of Ger- many’s biggest banks, ~ “To illustrate,” continued Her Deutsch, “how present prices and conditions affect people: “Take a business man with small {capital who formerly bought a ma- {chine for his factory for 10,000 marks. He put aside a 2,000 marks | yearly amortization fund, so that enough to buy a new one. If the; same machine costs him today 400,- 000 marks, even if he can pay -the purchase price, he cannot put aside the amortization fund. When the machine is worn out, he is through. “Or say a man has 1,400,000 gold marks capital in his business, Ap- parently he is doing splendidly, earn- ing 100 per cent on his capital, but with the fall in the marks value his present capital and earnings to-| gether are worth only 400,000 gold| marks loser. “People say the great industrial enocerns have money abroad. This! has been greately exaggerated, “True, big undertakings haye to have dollar credits, Since the Ver- sailles treaty, with its, amputation of. territory from us, Germany does not produce many raw materials. She has to buy not only copper, lead, wool, cotton and flax, as before the war, but iron, zine, coal and a great deal more of her food. “This excess of imports over ex- ports doesn’t betaken prosperity. A nation, like an individual, which buys more than it’ sells, is getting deeper into debt or consuming’ its capital. “Much industry you see in Gér- many is supply German needs. They are paid for in paper marks but the-raw material is bought in foreign currencies. “Between Berlin and Vladivostok are 300 million human beings who need .our manufactured goods, but can’t pay for them. There are lands | | which can pay bat iave put ‘up a wall against as—high tariffs or anti- 5 | | might be i | | | ‘When Mrs. Effie Price Graham, New York, was wed, she believed hey | husband able to supgprt her richly. But, she sets forth in a suit for db vorce, he told her she’d have to work if she’d eat. She objected, hence in South America and to some ex- tent in Asia. f “We haven't the gold to pay the allies and we can’t pay in goods— they lock us out, “References are made to the of unemployment jh Germany. lack “Employment is valuable to a countré only when adding to its wealth. Remember the coal and other materials we have to supply to the allies. So far as Germany is con- cerned the men go. employed might ag well be jobl AN “Neither the German government nor business men want to depreciate the mark. If Germany sold more abroad than she buys abroad, there something in the claim, but with imports exceeding exports, the cheaper the mark the worse for Ti Strange Monster Is Reported Lima, Peru, Jan., 2.—The tidal waves which recently devasted parts of the coast of Chile cast upon the jbeach at the same time a strange denizen of the deep whose like has not -been seen in these waters in many, years. It would appear to be a cross between a whale and a tut- tle. Fishermen at Lurin, 25 miles from Lima;! reported a huge. cetaccan floundering’ in the shallow waters of the bay. Then they sent out word it was an unknown monster of the sea, and that they had killed it. The director of the natural his- tory. museum of the University cf San. Marcos and the official taxi- dermist made a trip to Lurin for the purpose of studying ‘and classify- ing the strange visitor. They found an annimal with the body of a whale but with a head and extremities re- sembling those of a turtle. After ex- ‘amination they came to the conclu- sion that it belonged to the family of “Balaenidae”’ cetaceans, inhabit- ing the South Pacific waters, It is gupposed that it was carried along jwhen the machine wore out he had|y the Humboldt current and thrown up on the beach by the tremendous surfs following the tidal waves of the Chilean earthquake. ‘The specimen will be brought back to Lima for mounting and will be preserved in the university museum. Dowager Empress ‘ Prolongs Visit Copenhagen, Jan. 2-—The Dowager Empress of Russia, Maria Feodorovna who is now in England on a visit to her sister, Queen Afexandra, ma: prolong her visit well beyond the limits’ originally set for it . First the suit. ; dumping laws. I mean England,|it was said the widowed qucen, who France, the United. States, Czecho-|was a Danish princess before she Slovakia. We still have a marke.| married the late emporer Afexander III, would return to Denmark in five or six weeks; now it is rumored in court circles that her stay may be indefinite. Maria Feodorovna crossed the channel at Ostend. She was accom- panied by the Russian Mrinces: Dol- goruki and Viazemcky, Countess Mengen and the well known Cossack Jachechouk, who used to carry the little lame son of Emporer Nicholas in his arms in the days before the executions at Ekaterinburg over three years ago. This little boy was Maria Feodorovna’s grandson. It is understood locally that the empress will be followed to England shortly by her daughter, the Grand Duchess Olga and husband Colon Koulikovsky, and their children. INJUNCTION OF ELECTRIC C0, IS DISSOLVED Judge Nuessle Holds Com- pany Has Other Method of A Remedy in Tax Suit MUST PAY 1919 TAXES In an order handed down in dis- trict court, Judge Nuessle vacated the temporary restraining order issued in favor of the Hughes Electric Company of Bismarck at the time George H. Wallace, tax commissioner, ordered the sheriff to proceed to sell the property of the company because it failed to pay taxes for the year 1910, In the order Judge Nuessle held as conclusions of law that ithe plaintiff electric company “has a Plain, speedy and adequate remedy at law and that this court has therefore no power to grant relief by means of the equitable remedy of an injunctional order, and the court does therefore, on motion of Gordon V. Cox, attorney for the defendants, order and judge that the temporary restraining order ‘be forthwith vacated, and that the defendantg have judgment against the plaintiff for the dismissal of this action, together with the costs and disbursements to be taxed and allowed by the’clerk.” _ The tax which the Hygkes com- pany said was assessed Wrongfully for 1919 was $13,895.77. The - Gives Employes His Business charge by the \nonks of the order of > Tipe jwiy golden dessert ? Sweet, delicious, peac es | ‘What appetite could resist this tempting ‘ full-flavored peaches that add zest to every recipe in which this favorite fruit can be used. i | For the flavor of King’s isthe flavor of freshpeaches > “ING: are the choicest of tree-ripened peaches. They have every cooking quality of the fresh fruit. Dehydrated PEACHES’ . | Only the water has been removed by é | King’s dehydration. Serve King’s Peaches in tarts, in pies, in ‘ cobblers, shortcake, and a hundred different | ways, The results will always be pleasing. In handy, sanitary cartons— | amount offered was $5,789.90, ac- |cording to the record. The Hughes company claimed the assessment of its property for 1919 was above, in proportion, that of other utilities in Bismarck. The | court held this to be true, but de- cided the electrict company had a remedy in law by paying taxes un- der protest and bringing action for relief. In the record of the testimony, the case was started forthe Hughes company by C. L. Young who said j With regard to the assessment: {That the city assessor of Bis- } marck assessing the property fixed the value of the same at the sum of $160,870; that such assessment Wag approved and ratified by the city board of equalization of the city; that the county board of equalization increased the assess- ment 140 per cent, and fixed the assessed value of the property at the sum of $387,388, and as equal- ized certified the assessment to the, state board of equalization and that the state board of equalization fixed and approved the assessment at $382,388; that the board of rail- road commissioners of the state of North Dakota in a proceeding duly instituted before it heard evi~ dence upon the value of the pro- perty owned by plaintiff and upon ; such hearing the board determined that the physical value of such | property, as of July 1, 1919, for} rate making purposes, was $31,959; that such value, after such deter- mination, and throughout the year for which the taxes were levied and | assessed. was the basis upon which | plaintiff was permitted by the board of railroad commissioners to, earn returns.” | | The company offered to pay taxes i j upon the same valuation as was | fixed on the plant by the railroad; said was $322,606. {The valuation of the plant fixed recently ‘by the railroad commis- ed by court action to prevent the| railroad board from fixing rates | on this basis, was about $387,000. | The state was reprsented in th case, the record-shows, by Georg: E. Wallace, then state tax commis- | j sloner; Gordon. V. Cox, tax com- | mission attorney; Attorney-Gen- eral Johnson and F. E, McCurdy. TOBEWRECKED Paris, Jan. 3.—The Saint Lazare prison for women, which is both fa- mous and notorious in the annals| of French history, has been ordered | torn down by the municipality of Paris. It was in this prison that} during the general war certain well, known women spies in the pay of! Germany were detained, often pre- vious to execution. Mata-Hara, the Red Dancer, spent her last days in the. building. ri Before the war the grey walls of this ‘old convent held in bondage! such women as Madame Caillaux,! who shot and killed M. Calmette,, edi tor of the Figaro; Jeanne Weber,| the’ strangler; Therese Humboldt, charged with one’ of the greatest: swindles known to recent. French! history, and a'long list of other wo- men. involved in th® criminal annals of nineteenth century France. When the walls of this prison have been replaced by a sting garden -there! will.have disappeared one of the most remarkable buildings of France, from the point of view of historic association. Founded in 1110 as a-leper houte, five centuries\ later it’was taken in Z commissioners for 1920, which ne ; Sion engineers, which was follow-|* SAINT LAZARE A6 oz, 31 makes 6 to 8 portions, Use cianeet aes at one time; the rest will keep for future use. mo Just phone your grocer. 4, today for King’s Fruit W TUE! and Vegetable Cook Book. KING'S FOOD PRODUCTS CO! Originators of Practical Dehydration ed the leper ng aint ictor who abo house feature, and use the buil as a monastery. During tlfis periow of the building’s history the reai military and _ liter: figures of the France frequented Then, for a brie was used as a pol i with the coming of the French r lution, in July, 1789, during the fam- * ine, the place w: broken the mob, looted for food a Under the Ter again become a 1 thg detention of men and women of prominence previous to their tion. Shortl fter that building converted man’s pr into by L cus wo ison, RHINE TROOPS London, Jan. the British Germany on November Ist was officers and 8,138 men of other r aceordnig to Walter Guinnes, under secretary to the war dep: The total cost of maintenance, clusive of accommodation and m cellaneous services, from the armis- tice to July 31, 1922 amounted to 54,658,000 pounds’ sterling. GIRLS! USE CLOTH ON HAIR Try This! A Gleamy Mass of « Luxuriant Hair In a few moments you: can trans- form even plain, dull, ‘flat hair, You can have it abundant,’ soft, glossy and full of life. 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