Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.
"AGE, TWO TO BOOST THEIR CREDIT English Find This System Aids in Stabilizing Exchange _ “g i London, Feb. 5.--The English are yeginnine to believe their habit of usirg checks more and more, and cash less und less, to pay their way through «life h. been one of the factors in the recent spurt of the pound in its race to catch up with the dollar.“ Of course, it has not seached the point where people write hecks indiscriminately, just as a aatter of national pride, but all the ewspapers have been giving serious ynsideration to the though that the reck-writing habit, ever becoming sre common, helped improve e financial situation. The idea appeared in print the er day when the London Bankers’ saring House announced that of he sums now paid into city banks y seven-tenths of one per cent come in curren and coin, all the being transfers: of credit by ck. Not many years ago the per- | tage of cash deposits was several | es higher than today has been pointed out frequent- | of late that the use of checks in- ad of allows banks usefully smploy perhaps larger sums than srwise might be possible in piling stones upon the nation’s eco- aie structure. he English, so their newspapers are more given to the check | pit than other people, and this pite the fact that each check is sd two-pence. A check-book c: for the asking, as erica: it must be bought and paic Even housewives make gencrai of checks when they go to mar- and as many of the larger banks! e hundreds of branches, there is| ally a bank within walking dis- ce of the home The high fees postal money orders make it sper to remit by check for| ounts over one pound, and this,| has in , has. encouraged the check habit | 4 ‘sychologically, some observers | stion whether the habit is a good/ » from the standpoint of thrift, | ‘ce many people who would think ice before spending a certain sum | t of their pockets do not hesitate write a check for the emount; at as it often seems easier to tell store clerk to charge a purchase | , one’s account than it is to shell) t the actual coin. But others con- 1d that the increasing bark clear-| ‘gs they amounted to more than )00,000,000 pounds sterling in Len- yn alone last year—show not on nomic betterment, but also that: aut the average Englishman has pre- erved his own honesty as well -as tis belief in the honesty of his coun- trymen. JSECHECKS = | le: THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE SCIENCE PROBES KISS ‘And Learns Man’s More Emotional Than MR. AND MRS. 0. W. WILSON CHART BELOW $ (AT TOP) AN SON'S JAGGE CORD ( BOTTOM). By Gene Cohn ss Staff Correspondent Berkeley, Cal., F -The time- worn theory, women more em tional than men, is tucked y in moth balls. For the “truth machine vincible recorder of the slightest human emotion or reaction, is” re- cording the contrary in a seri tests now being made by Prof John A. Larson, University of Cali fornia criminologist and inventor of the machine. Larson is, a member of the fam- ollmdr super: of, Berke- d recently was offered “scientific sleuthship” by Chicago police. In preliminary experiments this almost uncanny device has shown the male “emotion wave length” to be considerably more ritated” and “fluctuating” than that of the female. are being that in- ops” a Close-Up of a Kiss Incidentally, there has been se- cured for the first time, a close-up the means for methods by which counties shall taxes to care for patients in ne hospital, the feeble mind- institute and the _ tuberculosis sgnitarium’ providing for quarterly payment, feturn to undue charges ing systematizing ——— ——__—_,_ | Senate Calendar | ——— FFF v 'W SENATE BILLS 3. ere 263, 264, 266, Kretchs:| mar (Ind.) McIntoshs—Group of pills aimed to tighten up the laws relating to the operation of banks and banking and extending the pow- ers of the Guaranty Fund Conmis- sion. §. B. 263 provides that stockholder of any bank stock shall | be exempt from assessment and do- ing away with all exemptions ex- cept the absolute exemptions grant. ed a head of a family or on personal property. S. B. 264 gives the bank- ing board or the Guaranty Fund commission the right to make an in- vestigation \as to prospective incor- porators, stockholders, or organizers ‘of new banks seeking charters, also | the power to determine whether the field is such as_to warrant another bank being started, and tae deter- mine whether collateral is sufficient to werrant opening a financial isti- tution. 8. B. 266 gives the state pank examiner the power to order is assessment upon bank stockhold- rs under the double liability act, and further gives power to the state officials to sell the stock of suca pérsons as fail to pay such assess- inent. The measure is aimed espec- ally at the non-resident stockhold- ers of shaky corporations who have, it ig claimed, in many instances | arrendered: their stock but refused | + pay double liability. (Banks and | Banking.) | S. B. 265, Kretscama the present law which gives the ad- | jatant general salary from several fands to total $3,000, and sets the salary at that figure to eliminate 7 useless red tape bookkeeping. (Mil- itary affairs). : S. B. 267, Majority of Committee om Banks and Banking:—Relates to administration of insolvent banks aad is aimed to clear ug present cénditions as to winding up affairs ef closed banks; gives supreme cgurt jurisdiction in liquidation proceedings; creates the po: ‘@preme court commissioner provies for appointment of receivers and ap- propriates $10,000 per year to carry owt the provisions of the act. 68, 269, Tofarud, (Ind.) —Relate to trial proceedure. ‘Tie first provides that in cases jury. may have awarded eater than sued for by the int the supteme coyrt has the abe is judgment. 8. B. to adjust would permit of recesses in the progressof trials. In case a trial is held and some evidence cannot be i} ; ‘Thorson, (Ind.) Grand walls for a constitutional Sats pte of (os, eos “the terms ve secratary ‘of state, audi- Peng age ents ture Poe | bce: sn, Clarifies |B and providing that the state treas- urer shall draw upon the funds of |each county in the sum payable. , Martin, (N.) Morto te “grain storage Would er dis- | tricts” from combinations of town- ships or counties 5 legal voters. would have the power to buy or build elevators, and grain stored therein could be given as collateral for loans from the Bank of North Dakota to 80 percent of the market, value. The measure further _pro- vides for bonding of such distric SB. 274, Martin:—Giving the board of trustees of the state re- form school the right to establish rules and regulations for the parole of inmates who were committed to the institution when under 18 years upon petition of Such districts | of age, 277, Lynch, (Ind.) La- he first provides for the repeal of the act authorizing the is- suance of $2,000,000 of Homebuild- ers association bonds, the second calls for the liquidation of the home- builders department. It gives the industrial commission full power to wind up the affairs of the depart- ment, and among other things pro- gest a pmedy Prominent. in, t saxophon Woman! BIG COMPANY; his latest success, “Tip Top,” he will have the syppert for the lar- most cleveres¥ musical co- ization’ ever assembled. army of merry- melodious Brown the K R AN OFFICIAL. THE ¥ REACTION Dd, CTION RE- photograph of a kiss! It is in the gentle art of kissing that thé first emotion tests n made. During the: past two rs the du- ties of the “truth machine” were confined to the trapping of crimi- in lies by their pulse beats, heart throbs, blood pressure and other reactions recorded by the sen- ve invention. Recently Larson broadened the scope of his experiments to the en- tire field of human emotions. For the “kiss emotion” test the first subjects were O. W. Wilson, criminology student, and his’ new bride, Tests were made early in the honeymoon before the business of sing had become a perfunctory nily obligation. The “truth mac to a subject at the wrist, h t and arm. Thus the pulse beats, heart throbs and blood pressure are re- corded, Through extremely itive ap- paratus internal emotions \are in- stantly recorded on a revolving drum, is harnessed se’ I IS, inability to home vides that in case of yeach an agreement with a owner or holder puilt by the state, three arbiters sHall be named, one by the industria] commission, one by the home holder and the third by the supreme court. Sets forth furth- cr that all actions against or by the Industrial commission in connection in with liquidation must originate Buteigh county. S$. B. 276, Byrne, (N.) Williams: tablishes a fee,of $5.00 which must be paid by an attorney seek- ing a continuance of a case from one court term to the next, the author declaring some cases have been on calendars for years, and he would have such litigants penalized for tination. . 271, Baird (Ind.) Stark:— Empowering and requiring the state railroad commission to establish and arrive at a pew:maximum schedule of intra-state freight rates on lig- nite coal shipments. S. B, 278, Garberg, (N.) Adams:— Amending Sec. 3718, C. L. 1913, to permit villages, cities, ete., to spread ai ments for water main im- provements over twenty years in- stead of the limited 30 years as at present. 8. B. 279, Van Camp, (Ind.) Pem- bina:+Introduced at request of the N. D. Livestock Sanitary board, mak- ing the tresspass gr estraying of # bull other than putebred animal un- lawful, authorizing the de-sexing of winsome and magnetic White Si ter the Sixteen London Girls, dancers extraordihary, the famous Globe: ravishing beauties. in himself, is a frenerse: Charles Dillingham, WITH FRED STONE Palace and sghorus of ey aaty Fred ey whole host of fun and entertainment, but his} bi provides for him the--strong- for imposition upon the such a bull. 8. B. 280, Lynch, (Ind.) LaMoute: |—Clarifies the present statutes on | directed verdicts and settles a dis- puted question in the supreme court by amending Sec. 76430.L.L1913 to include thet “The ruling on the | motion for a directed verdict shall not be reviewable in the sapremet court unless a motion for judgment | notwithstanding the verdict or a} jon in the alternative. for suck } judgment or for a new trial was first | made in the trial court.” | S. B. 281 Whitmen, (N.) Oliver:— Provides that any banker refusing to pay a g¢ertificate of deposit upon | glemand shall be sentenced to 90, days, in the county ji . B, 282, | Whitmar, would provide that any ; bank officer who shalt refuse to pay | check when fypds are sufficient to i nps “payment re- fused” or “N. S, F.” ete. “when such 4 statement is untrue or false shall) be “guilty of a felony and shall up- | on conviction be sentenced to the | state penitentiary for life.” i 3, Hamilton, (N.) Me-; Is designed by the author| to specifically define what constitutes burgla iming that the present | statute definite. The measure d by Judge Lowe of owner of | i S. B. 284, 285, 286, Baird, Baldor, | .) “Barberg, (N.)—Group of measures endorsed and re- sed by the North Dakota tion. The ‘first reduces | the lawyer's license fee from $15 to $5.00 per*annum; the second adds to the required qua for cation of an ap-| admittance to completed at least three plicant that he years of weeks each either in the University of North Dakota law school or in some law school of equivalent standing; the third pro- vides, for ment of the state Mie Se publication costs and distribution of the annual re- port of the state bar association, which latter is created by legisla- tive enactment, | Passed in Senate 67—Requires registration in 5 and non-registration in vil-| lages prior to elec S$. B. 89—Clarify’ what funds“Thay be ca solidated tax account. S. B. 169—Permits a thajority of the stockholders of co-oyerative as- sociations to change constitution and by-laws instead of requiring | two-thirds majority as at present. 8. B. 160°-Empowers éities to pur- chase gas works. 8. B. 32 es villages the same rights as cities in regard to bond- ing for the purchase of city audi- toriums, baths, ete. S. B. 204—Fixing time of making annual report by attorney general. S. B. 28—Permits’ cities, towns, villages, to use funds in installa- tion of equipment for hookiny up with high tension electrid subply } lines. : S. B, 64—Regulating flying, pass- ed to meet house amendment. H. B, 43—Extends the recall tion to city officials under mayor and city council plan of government and to city park boards. H. B. 42—Provides that crop and chattel mortgages must ~be mad? separately and cannot be ‘consoli- dated. H. B. ping terms of B. the ried as con- law on 47—-Provides for overlap-| Hage officials. i | — ——-——_—_* House Calendar {| New House ‘Bills | H, B. 184, 185, L. A. Larson, (Ind.) | Pierce—The first measure seis a fixed two percent as the maximum shrinkage an elevator may charge on grain stored. H. B, 185 defines persons authorized to buy or sell/ grain within the.state, providing for | icense for such dealer of $5.00 annually;. requiring bonds in s#¢ms from: $5,000 to $15,000 to be approv ed by the railroad commissioners. Designed to protect the owners. of stored grain as well as the holders of mortgages, liens, ete. H. B. 186, Johnson, (Ind.) Pembina —Provides that purchasers of pieces of land or the assignee of any tax sale certificate, while the tract re- mains unredeemed, shall pay subse- quent taxes and be protected by~a lien upon such property fixes the limit of interest at 10 percent col- lectible. 5 { i | k tlie 7 as under 1917 law and est possible supporting, eompany and the most ‘lavish scenic investi- ture that money can secure. “Tip Top” is declared to be an extra gance of the’ most -to-date and novel type and Stone seen his sof the animal and providing a penalty) — lee | ¢ — “SOVIET WON’T Says J. P. Goodrich By NEA Service Indianapolis, Feb. 3.—Russia will not join in a war agains France cr other country unless driven to it, decldres James P. Goodrich former governor of Indiana. And Goodrich knows Russia, He has made a careful study of condi- tions. in the soviet republic as a trustee and member of the execu- tive committee of the American Re- lief Administration there. “Russia naturally is somewat friendly to Germany,” Goodrich says, “because Germany is the only first- s power with which the soviet rnment has made a treaty.” + Hatred of France A bitter hatred toward France ex- ists throughout Russia, Goodrich added. “I found this hatred to exist, not only in official classes but down to the very peasants,” he said, “As a result of this feeling it would be natural tendency to do everything possible to embarrass France. “Despite these facts, I believe the only kind of war in which the Rus- sian peoplé would engage would be a war of defense and not one of aggression. Tired of War “Russia got out of the world war because the people were tired of war. They are still tired of war. “Not only is Russia tired of war any ES gov 7 H. B, 187, Sproul, (Ind.) Cass—| Makes it the compulsory duty upon the owner or tenant upon land abut- ting public highways to cut and keep cut all noxious weeds to the middle of the road and within time fixed by the township board. Failure to comply calls for cutting by the township board orders and assess- ment of costs upon the owner of the land. A H. B, 188, McCay, (N.) Sioux—Cre- ates a‘state board of dental hygien- ist examiners of five members to be appointed by the governor “and hold office for staggered terms of five years. Defines a dental hygien- ist as differentiated from licensed dentists; permits such hygienists to be employed by public schools etc., to remove accretions or calcerous deposits on teeth and~inspect teeth and administer mouth washes; must have been assistant to a dentist for three years or studied oral hygiene for 32 weeks in some # accredited school, H. B. 193, Trubshaw, (Ind.) Bar- nes—Bill relating to the auditor's notice of delinquent tax sales. Is aimed to cut the possibilities of padding--reports or bills to a mini- mum, prescribes that tax lists shall be set in not over one column mea- sure; that it shall be tabulated and sets forth the kind of headings; names abbreviations which must be used to reduce type-setting space; ‘ixes “six point type solid” as the type to be used; and in general con- forms to the demands of the county commissioners, county auditors and the suggestions of the legislative committee of the North Dakota Press association. Estimated will cut pub- jlication costs of tax lists from 50 to 70 percent. H, B. 194, Hanson, (Ind.) Grand Forks—Renacts and rewrites the present statutes governing the re- quirements of public depositorie:. This is the so-called administration measure designed to tighten up re- gulations concerning redeposits by \the bank of North Dakota, or de- posits made by any political subdi- visions, increasing the protection af- forded and calling for the appoint- ment of publfc depositaries after examination. and upon competitive bid as to interest paid; requiring bonds in the amount of deposits, etc. H. B. 192, Jackson, (Ind.) Ramsey —Rewrites the present Workmen’s Compensation commission. Cotn- pletely revises the law and accord- ing to the author the new bill is a comifhation of the salient features of the Minnesota and New Jersey industrial commission department acts, Makes the commiasioner of insurance and commissioner of ag- riculture and labor ex-officio mem- bers, and provides for the appoint- ment of only one commissioner who shall be acting manager. H. B. 195, Freeman, (Ind.) Grand Forks—Provides that the adminis- trator of.an estate shall determine the amount of the estate to the best of his ability and deposit in escrow the approximate amount of the tax to be paid. It removes the penalty now accruing against estates where delays in administration are un- | avoidable, and provides a final ad- jJustment on final settlement of the estate, H. B. 196, Rustad, (Ind.)—Rich- land—Permits privaté insurance corporations to compete with the Workmen’s compensation bureau and permits employers to insure in such private companies upon showing that such insprance being excused from paying the state department fees, Measure has the approval of the Associated Indus- tries of North Dakot: 197, Hoople, (N.) Walsh— Provides that school districts may levy 30 percent more than the aver- age of the three preceding years and upon an ¢lection carried by a majority vote “may levy 50 percent more ‘than the limited amount, of the average three years preceding. By House H. B. 98—Appropriations Com. Appropriating $12,648.48 to aid stamping out venergl disease. Vote 100 to 4. ~ §. B. 25, Kelsch—Validating bonds vated and issued by school district where the gebt limit was exceeded, to 7. 8. B. 68, Kelsch—Validating school warrant indebtedness where a debt limit was exceeded 85 to 18. : 50—Porter, Defining legal providing. newspapers candidates whall enter, tion, 68 to 42, » _ Killed’ in Howse i. B, 36, Carr—Repealing law re- qui ister of deeda to furnish which are primary elec- deftnibely postponed, Sithiiar bill in senate, . 1 H. B, 144, Morton—Prafiding ‘tor registration of warrants and meth- : abs payments. a is taken thus’ AID GERMANY” | / After Russian Trip 2 femme = N e MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1923 ‘Champion on His Honeymoon World’s welterweight champion Mickey Walker recently took himself a wife. Here is the boxér and his bride s~ending’ their Ii ynoon at Atlantic City. : unto JAMES P. GOODRICH 2 | but it is not in a position indus- trially to conduct a war or to maia- tain an army on the field. | “I believe these things overbal-| ance any tendency to war that would result from the hatred of Russia toward France.” S$. B, 18; Stevens—Raising quali-| ficatidns necessary for entrance in- to nursing training school to seven | high school credits. Failed of pass- age 23 to 83. i | H. B, 78—Repealing present re-| quirements that absent voters bal-| lotf be printed on colored paper. | H. B. 177—Changing rate of pay for election officials. | H. B. 126—Providing amendments | or changes in laws shall béNprint- | ed in Ifalics in volumes of the ses- | sion laws. i H. B, 64—Providing that tornado and hail insurance may be written by, domestic companies only. MANDAN NEWS. | The jury in district court return- ed a verdict’ in favor of the defend- | ant Friday in an action brought by | Mathias Grewer against Kaspe | | | | | shows French Hugo Stinnes, the Teuton Croesus. “ Mobilize ‘Tanks at Stinnes Plant This picture of the French occupation of Dortmund in the Ruhr inks ‘mobilized in front of one of the factories owned by Schaffe of Hebron to recover the | cost of a tractor sold the defend- | ant. Action was brought when Mr. | Schafer refused to pay the amount demanded by Mr. Grewer on the grounds that- the machine did not give satisfaction. Funeral services for Philip Barta, age 88, who passed away at his home Friday were held this morn- ing at the Catholic church at 9 o'clock, His death was due to com- plications resulting from advanced age after an illness of several weeks He is supvived by four sons, John, Matt, Michael, and Thomas, all farmers near the city, and two daughters, Mrs. Ifoll of this city and | Mrs. Martin Beehler of south of Mandan, Mrs. F, Auliff has returned from Livingston, Mont., where she has gone about ten days ago to attend | funeral services for her sister, Mrs. | Joseph Kellogg. She was accompan- | ied home by her mother, Mrs. Sara| MeWhirk and her nephew, George | Clark of Livingston, Mont., who/| will spend the balance of the win-| ter at the home of Mr, and Mrs. McAulifé. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thorberg and | Mr, and Mrs. E, W. Tobin enter-| tained a number of friends at a dinner party and cards Thursday evening at the home of the former. Miss Lillian Froelich was crowned carnival queen Thursday evening at the C. O, F. Carnival and also given an Ansco camera as a prize. The Forresters realized quite a sum from | the affair, and will turn the money Joseph’s church and sehool. Mrs. Elmer Carter and son, Ells- worth, arrived in Mandan Fri night from Stéwart, Ohio, whe: they have been visiting since, ‘July | at the home of Mrs. Carter’s par- ents, @ Mrs. L, E, Reko of Oakes is ex- pected to arrive in Mandan shortly to join her husband who has been associated with the Lewis & Clark barbershop for the past month. Mmes. E. R. Griffin angLee Ni- chols entertained a company of wo- men at a igs luncheon Saturday at the home of Mrs. Griffin Sixth Avenue northwest, on Mrs. J. P. Hess. atid Mrs, Lloyd. Erickson entertained 16 couples at a dinner party Saturday eventhg at the home ofthe: former. ith . In- vith sprieree records. In- Relieves Headache head Seay trace A 35 ts G5c, Jara & tibes; hospital size, $3. | Kaosh ell over the 11000;miles out from New York. \schooner were restyed.and brought to New York by the S. S, Empresa over to the building “fund of St.| of Scotland. 5. Thrilling Rescue at Sea ‘Phe schooner Clintonia is shown here just,as she sank in the Atlantit, The badly battered crew of the little |. ° John. D.' as Photographer