The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 13, 1923, Page 4

PAGE FOUR ee eee THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1923 ” THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Clase Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. ‘Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Publishers CHICAGO - - DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - : Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exciusively entitled to the use or! republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other-! Jited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. \ MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE | Daily by carrier, per year “ a fos des $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)....... fi « (20) Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) .... 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota 6.00 ‘ THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) NORTH DAKOTA’S LOAD Until taxes in this state get in line with other states which are bidding against us for settlers and industries, North Dakota cannot grow as her splendid lands and location justify. The Legislature: has within its power to lighten the load and unless it does the people will do the job them- selves sooner or later. Former Senator Gunderson, president of the State Tax- payers’ Associatfon has pointed out that taxes in 1922 for various govermental activities in this state were $18,000,000 more than in 1915. This is out of all proportion to increase in population and osts. Taxable property has not increased in any such ratio, so there has been a'pyramiding of taxes in this state prob- vbly unequalled in many commonwealths of the land. State administrations..while great offenders have not | seen the sole cause of the increase. Every political unit in | the state has been exceeding the speed limit in public expen- diture Naturally the state enterprises initiated have added | F to the taxes and will continue to do so until leader- | hip arises in the state fearless enough to wipe out the sorry | mess and strike a new balance on the public ledger. i If the state is to continue in business, taxes inevitably must be high. Losses incurred at Drake, in the Bank of | North Dakota, at Werner and by the Homebuilding Asso- ; ciation must be met and there seems to be no other place to go than to the taxpayers purse now sadly flattened by | incessant assaults of the collector. | The first step that should be taken is to wipe out all, unjust tax discriminations and exemptions imposed while | class feeling was at its height. Then should follow a com- | plete readjustment of the real estates assessments. Each | patitical unit should be forced to spend only as much as is | needed by the application of rigid economy until North Da- kota can liquidate its many losses from state enterprises and provide some insurance against those we know not of, but know must come before the people realize that there is no merit to state ownership. i ‘ihe farmer and the businessman in this state are carry- ing all the load they can. To impose a heavy income tax in addition to what Uncle Sam exacts, is to drive capital from the state as is now being done in Wisconsin by the} political taxmasters who seek merely to serve their own | S| sh interests. Finding new ways to tax is not reducing taxation. corporations and individuals are to be taxed to the sky on! an income basis everyone will feel it as badly as they do now | the various property taxes. It is hard to designate in temperate words the folly of | taxing so-called luxuries in times of peace. These excise taxes have no place in state taxation and create a resent- | ment in the electorate which is not conducive to orderly | government. ( ' Rrobably the wheels are oiled for the passage of the in- |! come tax bill. The plan, so its apologists say, will ease the levy on real estate. But it will pile up the indirect tax in the way of rents and prices generally and the ultimate con- sumer will be the goat as usual. é \ Former Governor Hanna in his Mandan speech laid down aéscheme of economy if followed would bring greater pros- | perity to the state. His regime as governor made the tax | Idad light and the state saw greater development in more: libes that has been the ease since. *- North Dakota must realize that in face of the increased overhead in the.various departments of government in every séction of the state, the volume of government business eared for has increased hardy at all. Under the Hanna regime,'the bonded debt was practically wiped out. \ | | 3 STAGE \ : William A. Brady, theatrical producer, claims our critics | are overestimating the players from Moscow Art Theater | who have made quite a sensation in New York. | Brady champions the American stage as second to none in the world in the number of fine artists it has produced. He thinks the Moscow players took better largely because they come from abroad. Psychologically, this sounds plausible. Peculiar trait of Americans: Everything looks better at a distance. We! have the world championship ‘at panning ourselves. j RARE A single postage stamp ,issued by a postmaster before the first government postal issue in 1847, brings $631 at auction. It would have sold for $1750 if it hadn’t had a crease and a too closely trimmed margin. Yet the stamp itself-is absolutely useless. | ¢ Value depends on utility, beauty, sentimental associa- | tiéns and—as in the case of the stamp—on rarity. The de-| sige to possess something rare is sheer vanity. That’s why , so many people over-value their own importance. 4 ~- _HIFALUTING i A big store in New York City advertises “canine accoutre. mts.” The old way of putting it was “dog collars, muzzles, i ade description is becoming obsolete in our age of | Vase factories are masquerading as “pottery studios.” : The plain store has become a “shoppe.” Poltical rings call themselves “blocs.” i dts a great.age for verbal four-flushing—BigTalk. my TAXES a — \ If the approach of March 15, first income tax payment. ing an alum taste in your mouth, the sugar coating xe pill is that you’d be a lot worse off in E: e a sinsle man. If his income is national income tax in the: United On $5000 income the American pays $160, Eng-' And so on uw} igeo. income th ore ee iM ; Bible to mark the point raised by ; WHeywood Brown in.the New York jare not now being dealth with so | That these tendencies shall be re ;certain just why a child has be-! EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced inthis column may or may not *express the opinion of The Tribune, They are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day, THE DIFFICULAY OF SIMPLICITY “It is very simple,” said Coue yesterday after xplaining his method, “It is too simple. It is too simple to understand, But it works.” And we were reminded of one of | in stor, to the Bible the greatest j nticipated which seems h just this difficulty of the little man from Nacy. thinking of the stor and the pro- phet El L The fifti chapter of the Second Book man, hosts of the King a great man th his im: nd, honorable, be by him the Lord had given de’ ance unto Syria; he was also a mighty man in valor, but he! was a lepe This has xlways seemed to us just about the most skilful begin- ning of any story in the Eng language which we know. The story goes on to: tell how a little captive maid from Israel sent word to the great captain that he should go to the prophet in her land. ‘The chonicle continues: | So man came with his horses and with his chariot, | and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, “Go and wash in Jor- | dan seven tin’ nd thy flesh shall come in to thee, and thou be clean.” But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, “Behold, I thought, he w out to me and st on the name of the I God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, ri s of Damascus, better than all the wate Israel? May T not. w: them, and be clean?” , turned and went away in a | rage. And his servants came near, and ke unto him, and sa “My father, if the prophet bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? How much rather then, when he said to thee, Wash, and be clean?” Then he went down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the say- ing of the man of God; and h flesh came again like unto the Fate had seen fit to mold the life of qeennol a IEG em chiNanilaite | BARRY HOUSTON into tragie We have no hesitation in re- | molds atric Sgr the murder ace jprinting this passage from the 3 pen TOM LANGDON, and acquitted be- Cone, because we are entirely com- | 4 Vee SHON, Hecctan ne eather fident that the story is no longe: niente Re eetaithie generally known. We tried to get Can vey bed somebody in the audience which | }') 00m 2 aan heard Coue to tell us where he| PoWnes in Mabernacie only ne could find the passage we wanted |, Condition that a high output b and we received no help. Nobody Oataciods | Acciden tata eanes ill remembered it. The audience was hued) this candMunouston composed of publishers and editors ar fom Bowue dda Wi he of New York newspapers. Per-) bee Boekel be at s We might have fared better if | PAs. been | Petra y had waited for Coue’s second | irep THAYER. a audience, which was composed of remttihaven a reporters. At any rate, the libra- rian at the Newspaper club informs us that the book most in demand among the members is the Bible.—- is burned down and then Houston is deprived, by a forged lease, of the rights of his timmer lands. With the aid of BA'TISTE, RENAUD, an eccentric World. French-Canadian, whose life has —————SSS heen saddened by the double SCIENCE AND YOUTH of his son's death in OFFENDERS and the unsolved murder Surely the young whose lapses of | Gr jis wife, Houston continues various sorts bring them into court| tye fight. During his stay in Tabernacle, Houston has been at- tracted by MEDAINE ROBINETTE, owner of neighboring timber lands. He tells her that Thayer's statement successfsully as to exclude sound suggestions for an improvement, whatever their source. A happy union of the forces of the law and{ jthe forces of science is to be; that he was accused of murder is brought about in the proposed! ¢yu6, clinkc., The mental traits which,| 4 «light gasp traveled over the on appearance in the youthful, | cause careers to go away and con- | tinue in more or less serious con- | flict with the public well-being have been long under study. Tei- dencies in specific directions have | been charted, classified, reduced to | something like systematic order. of Medaine, still by the window. Ba'tiste, his features old and lined, reached out with one big hand and patted the man on the shoulder. Then for a long time, there was silence. Eet is the lie, eh,” “Ba'tiste,” Houston turned appeal- ingly to him, “as I live, that’s all I know. I ne saw Langdon after he took that mallet from me. Only one shred of evidence was presented in my behalf. It was by a woman who ad worked for about s months for my father—Miss Jier- don. She testified to having passed hat may give good results in on@} jn a taxicab just at.the end of our case may only accentuate causes Of | quarrel, and that Langdon had the omplaint in another case. To as- | mallet.” “Miss Jierdon is the same one who s out here?” ‘ “Yes.” “She testified in your behalf?” “Yes. And Miss Robinette, if ou’ll only talk to her—if you'll only ognized early is highly important. That they shall be neutralized, changed in quality. given new and | better objectives, is also of high im- portance. Much has been done in this department of research. Tem- | peraments differ so much that come delinquent and to apply to) his case the precise agencies in| training and environment which) have been shown to work the best | in a great number of other like | cases is the purpose of the psychi-j ask her about it, she'll tell you the tric clinic.—St. Louis Globe Dem- ; story exactly as I've told it. She ocrat. | trusted me; she was the only bright spot in all the blackness. I may not be able to convince you—but she could, Miss Robinette. If you'll only—” “Would you guarantee the truth of anything she should tell me?” “Absolutely.” “’m—I'm » sorry.” She turned again to the window. Houston went Sorward, “Sorry ?’ Why? There’s ‘nothing—” “Miss Jierdon has told me,” came in a strained voice, “that she did pass as you were struggling. That she saw the blow struck—and that it was you who struck’ it. “Miss Robinette!” “That further, you confessed to bee and told her why you had killed Langdon—because he had discovered something in your own father’s life that would serve as blackmail. Th: she loved you. And that because she loved you, she went on the stand and perjured herself’ to save you from @ conviction of murder—when she knew in her heart. that you were. guilty!” XES MUST BE CUT The North Dakota Legislature, | if it seeks popularity, must do something other than create new-| sources of state revenue. The Independents went before the people in the last campaign on a very definite promise that they would reduce ‘taxation, The Legislature must redeem those pledges, and there is onlyi one way in which that can be done. Appropriations must be curtail- ; they must be reduced to the} point where it hurts. The Forum believes it speake the thought of the people of the State when it says that the Legis-' lature will be supported in. any} program it may adopt that brings i about real tax reduction provided | such program is founded pn equity | as between all of the various ac-j tivities that will be affected by cur- | tailment. i A tax on amusements and a tax on tobacco an@ a new income tat and an increased tax on gasoline, will operate to take taxes off the a CHAPTER XI It was a blow greater, far greater roperty. They will not reduce|than. one that could have been tae sum total of taxes Gollected,! struck in mere physical. contact, r i ie what the people of| Houston reeled with the| effect of 1 éemand. = Fargo ii vhe gasped, he ggled’ aimless- Rog (ong -futiley, for, swer it. HIDE THE ee eee << DS, now Ta I NEED 1S iv Vaguely, dizzily, Houston started to the door, only to be pulled back in the gigantic grip of Ba’tiste Renaud. “No! No! You shall not go! You tell Med: “It. is” Houston heard his voice as though coming from far away, “but I don’t know how to answer it. Where is Miss Jicrdon?” “Miss Jierdon,” | Medaine Robin- ette answered with an effort,” went back to camp last night.” ‘They drove on in silence. Ten minutes later, Houston leaped from the buggy and knocked at the door of the cottage. ine that is a lie!” “I want to see Miss Jierdon,” he Htold the codk who had opened the door. | The cook bustled back into the| house, to return with aled enyel- ope addressed to Houston. “Dearest Barry: “Hate awfully to run away like this without seeing be heped. Have an of tion in St, Louis that I can’t ver; well refuse. Will write you from there. but it ¢ a pos “Love and kisses. “AGNES.” Ba’tiste slapped the reins on the horse's back. “She is like the Judas, ch?” he asked quietly, as they’ went back to the cottage. Ba’tiste soon went forth into the night. Later came a scratch onthe door, It was Cole- mar, followed a moment later by a grinning, twinkling-eyed Ba’tiste. MATCHES EN, ALL SOMERING CFF Wil alert, ami! The pencil aad the paper He slumped into a ct into a pocket of hi bring forth a sheets, to stare studiously to m. “Eet is—the copy of “The copy? The bid?” “From the Blackburn mill. is no one around’, Ba’teese, he go through a window. M’sieu Houston, he too will bid. But he will make it lower.” “But what with, Ba’tiste? We haven't a mill to saw the stuff, in the first place. This thing we're set- ting up now couldn't even begin to turn out the ties alone.” “Ah, oui! But the man who drowning, he will, what-you-say, grab at a haystack.” And together they settled to the making of a bid that ran into the millions an overture for a contract for which they had neither mill, nox timber, nor flume, nor resources to complete! CHAPTER XII Time dragged after that. Once the bid was on its way to Chicago, there was nothing to do but wait. December came. February and then— “Eet come! Eet is come!” Ba’- tiste, waving his arms wild! i spite of the stuffiness of h mackinaw, “Eet open eet—I can we shall have the contract! Ah, ou oui! oui! oui!” et say five thousand dollars cash, and the rest in a bond!” came enthusiastically, from Ba’tiste. “Ba’- teese he have the friend in Denver who will make the the bond.” “But how about the machinery; we'll need a hundred-thousand-dollar plant before we’re through, Ba’tiste.”” “Ah!” The old French-Canadian’s jaw dropped. “Ba’teese have not think of that.” “Tomorrow morning we take the train to Denver, and from there I'll go on to Boston. Yi raise the mon ” air and dived red shirt, to of — seribbled them, striving e out the writing. the bid!” mass There “Bon! Good!” he exclaimed. “Now money some way.” EVERETT TRUE WELL, AFTER ARGUING THE POINT OVER WITH You AT SOME CENGTH, YEU ABMIT YOU'RE RIGHT. BY CONDO RIGHT $ Hud, OF COUR SG .'Mm }RiQewe s yo Kwow WRAT Ml vie TACKING AGBOVT IL | Dying: hy 4 i | it qt | KNOW, Too = YouR SELF i? iil Be | me ] seek out the few friends Ba'tiste | possessed, to argue one of them in-| loan of ten thousand dollars | to a on the land and trustworthy quali+ ties which formed the total of Ba’-| resources, to gain from the! tits other the necessary bond to cover the contract—a contract which Barry They went on to Denver, there to! ! Houston knew only too well might | . never (be fufilled. i HE a 4 Came Chieago and the technicali- | f¥9ny new soft drink names, ties of ironing out the final details | ; ‘i of the contract. Then, dealer in mil- aii care lions and the possessor of nothing,! i DUS REOHN \ UNO ean Houston went onward toward Bos- ? H ie | Europe seems to think peace will He wandered the aisle of the | t#ke French leave. sleeper, entered the smoking com-| a partment and slumped into a seat in| The man of the hour seldom lasts a far corner, smoking in a detached ; longer than that. . manner, often pulling on his cigar} = long after lengthly minutes of re-| Only thing certain about February flection had allowed its ashes to cool.! weather is its uncertain. About him the usual conversation | raged. With sudden interest, Hous-} A Montreal man can lift 539 ton forgot his own problems to lis-| pounds. That is two kegs or nine ten. jeases. “Speaking of grucsome _ things,”| — the talker had said, “reminds me.| Isn't it strange that golf is a I'm a doctor, former interne in Bell-!Seotch game and so expensive. ‘ey strand Hospital in New York, | pad They've a big room on the fifth! The nffin who tells a girl he would floor where somebody is always dis-|qgie for her wouldn't be so rash if seeting. One Sunday night T hap-!ho had ever tried it. pened to look in ands saw a man in gai there, iaeal another one with & Our Kick against the futyre is it wooden mallet. j : mae ab awe: urdering him?” ‘The doctor oVes #8 fast as we do. laughed. i ; “Well, I should have i, acting}, People Sal bilabas ela hin out a murder. You can't very well thing usually worry about nothing murder a dead man. The fellow hel] | EHS, SVRAMIAITg eHIPeA ay conse leet pee: Some men would rather stay home “yea. Heal han go to church, ot would | “Just what I'm sa: big doctors, 1 learned, | summon. Of course it knocked the corpse down-—I'm telling you, it was gruesome, even to an interne! The last I saw of them, the doctors were working with their microscopes | evidently to see what effect the blow had produced.” “What was the idea?” ver found out. You see, op- | posite sides in a trial are always | carrying out experiments and trying | to keep the other fellow from know- jing what’s going on.” “You—you don't | men were?” Houston, foreing him- | self to be casual, had asked tho question, The young ‘doctor shook his head, “No—except that they were from Boston. 1 suppose the other was a district attorn “You never learned der case it was connected?” No.” “Pardon me for asking. I—I- come from Boston and was trying | to recall a ease, You don’t remem- i ber what time of the year it was, or how long ago?” “Yes, I along about two or two and a half years ago.” Houston corner. | But once in his berth, the picture continued to rise before him: of 2 slumped back into his i Had it been Worthington, the de- termined, over-zealous district at- torney, who had struggled to send him to the penitentiary for life? Yet—if that had been Worthington, if those experts had found evidence against him— Why had this damning evidence } not been used against him? (Continued in ‘Our Next Issue) | | BY THEODORE E. BURTON. U, 8. Representative From Ohio, Twenty-Second District. I was walking to the House one { autumn day and I noticed an old, white-haired darky putting coal into | one of the ‘government office build- ings. As I passed, he smiled and said: ““Mornin’, senator.” . That flattered me a little, since I wasn’t a senator, so I stopped and asked him his name. “George Washington, senator,” he answered. f “H’m, George, Washington, eh? Seems to me I've heard that name somewhere before.” “Very likely, senator, very likely; I been doin’ this sort of thing ‘round here now for about 25 years,” THE PAST By Berton Braley. irls ain't the same ag the girls } | knew,” ;_.The dowager says, and sighs. | ees old-time maidens would never { jo | A thing that would cause surprise.” | But she failed to recall, in a large | degree, Some things which she saw occur— irls ain’t the same ag they used to he, i “And they never were! “Men ain't the. same as’ the men of i old,” ( The old man said, with a scowl. But he didn’t know that the cave man bold, Had put up.a similar howl. And they both were*right in their | sad decree, To which we can still’ demur, | With, “Men ain’t at all what they used to be, And they fever were-” The past is ever a, golden time, When its’ many a year away, And tle folk’s who're pretty well past their prime Are always aghast at Today! ‘ And they're right, of course,-as you plainly "4 In the judgments that they aver, But, “Times! ain't at all’ what: they used to be” ~ > if And they never were! - i (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service.) * i *& know who the/ man | ith what mur- | 1 from \Bos- | ton, They had taken a cadaver from | the rand stood it in 2 certain po Then the one man, had struck it on the head with the! , mallet with all the force he could|is you can ask the judge to pity | | | Pretty | rather go to church than stay home. A man can be pretty start, ‘but never both smart and pretty. Nice thing about having a family them when you get arrested. Moving all the seasons up thre» months would satisfy everybody. A sure sign times are getting ter is skin game men are bei jeaught with bigger hauls. With 18 hours a day to worry {some people spend it all worrying about how they look. Quickest way to begin a thing right is to begin it right now. Our favorite, toast during these * dry is buttered. You can't be a howling success simply howling. The fine thing about having a hu: band is you can tell hit who else you could have married. “Raise them not to dance chee! to cheek” advises a writer, Sure, do, It was in the summer, | fed them on onions or garlic. Longer winter lasts the longer it will be before we have to try to open street car windows. man “killing” another with a mallet.| . transplanted pig eye is liable {get a si { ing w Reader asks if the boy se to No, y in it. All of us wonder where on earth , our money goe ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS | By Olive Barton Roberts “Goodness!” exclaimed Nancy one day when she was helping Mr. ° Stamps, the fairy postman, to sort j the letters in the hickéry tree post- j office. “Here's a letter for me! i looks like a valentine. Yes, sir! It's got hearts and flowers all over 14. Who do you s’pose it’s from?” She read it over to herself and then, called to Nick and Mr. Stamps and'’ Mr.’ Stridealong ‘Longside, the other little faify, to hear it. Here's what it said: : - “Whose hair is like the morning sun? ; Whose sweet blue eyes are full of fun? Whose mouth is curved like Cupid’s bow? Whose skin is soft as fallen snow? Why, Nancy's! “Who's busy all the livelong day? Who laughs at work and laughs at play? ee Who’s kind to everyone she meets, And everyone she passes greets? Why, Nancy! “Whose heart is brave and knows no fear, | Whose eyes are bright and know no tear, Who aids the weak strong, And helps the fairy folk along? Why, Nancy! “Who travels ’round from Moon tc Mars, A-keeping order ‘mongst the stars? Who goes with Nick far out to sea, Then back ‘to land in time for teu? Why, Nancy! » “Who'll be my valentine. I pray, And come to visit me some day, And talk about the news and weath- er? What splendid times we'll have to- gether! Why, Nancy—I hope.” against tho Now then who do you s’pose sent me that?” wondered Nancy. “I'm not at nice as that! My hair isn’t like the sun and my eyes aren’t like—well what it says.” ‘ “I know who sent it. I know!” sang out a voice from a tree-top nearby. It was Tweekanose the gnome. I was hiding in a chimney / last night,” he said, “and I saw® someone tiptoe. over to the hickory tree and drop in a letter and tiptoe away ogain. It was Mr. Peerabou! the Man-in-the-Moon!” “Dear old Mr. Perabout!” laughed Nancy. “He’s one of my _ best friendy. Nick, we'll have to go, and se him again,soon while we have our Magic Greén Shoes,” “Ded and ‘we will,” said’ Nick. ‘(To Be Continped.) (Copyright; 1928, NEA. Serviee.) iit 7 ” « om 1?