The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1923, Page 4

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THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) EQUITY IS ASKED Public utilities enjoy a singular immunity from the hazards of business life among the business institutions of In North Dakota, as in many states, the rail- sion is charged by law to fix rates which will enable the utilities to earn an 8 per cent return on the in- If business is bad the rates are increased, if ex penses rise as they have in the last few years the utility treed from the necessity of altering its course of business the nation. road commis: vestment. the rates simply are increased. | THE Kresge Bldg. | Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or Tepublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- PAYNE, BURNS AND SMI’ | song of a si the gros: business men. He also has EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express thé opfiion of The Tribune. They are pg sented here in order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. GOOD WHICH KORETZ DID Doesn't the Koretz case afford the banks and investment houses splendid opportunity to emphasize the vale of safe investments? Hl The flight of Koretz has dramatiz- | ed the geterich-quick phase of hu- man activ Everybody is talking about it. $verybody is thinking | about it. erybody is just a little | bit more amenable to the persuasive © six per cent. With few exceptions, the men and | women victimized by Koretz were of more than ordinary wealth, Every one of them figured he had the in- formation and acumen which made | it safe for him to take what we are | prospect for investment | houses und no doubt was solicited | of times a year to buy sound stocks and bonds. But why ee around with 4 1-2 to 6 per cent in- terest when it was so easy to get 60 | per cent, which Koretz was paying | in many instances? Why, this ral no gamble! It was a cinch. were the dividends to prove Leo Koretz has demonstrated that st swindles are perpetrated on the people who are presumably | the keenest—on lawyers and shrewd | given us | Here | | another proof of the soundness of |the ndage that it’s better to be satis- | fied with 6 per cent and safety than to “invest” in a supposedly sure | thing in order to get 10 or 15 or 50 The Esch-Cummins railroad law against which many |or 60 per cent, | complain is, in theory, a “piker law public utility law. weaker roads. per cent. fixed at 6 per cent. The public utility regulation idea or sin under Senator La Follette, then governor. underlying idea which prompted it \ was rampant in the granting of fra: Curiously enough, after the idea had , and there was a reaction among the utility magnates who fought to su: North Dakota, the public utility laws were put on the statute states books by the utility owners. i turn for a virtual guarantec relle! from the dangers and h: utilities were expected by law to forego anything more than The law says what this shall be, and therefore it is not un- reasonable for the people of Bismarck or other cities to expect |‘ that their rates shall be no higher than is ne utility to earn the return provided by law. by the city in hearings that the Bismarck Water Suuply Company had built almost its entire plant out of surplus The accountants’ report of the Hughes Electric capitalized at $100,000, shows a surplus of some- thing like $400,000, showing that the plant had been built almost wholly out of the earnings from Bismarck consumers. Under the Esch-Cummnins law this would not be possible, for the earnings above the return permitted would have been earning Compan. taken away. The consumers have a right to demand, and it is the business of the railroad commission to see, that no utility through a juggling of its books is permitted to violate the spirit of the utility law and squeeze out excessive profits. More than a year ago the reports of the local electric utility showed that on the basis of its own report and admitted valuation it was making something like 18 per cent; when the law permits but an 8 per cent return. After a threatened investigation had been postponed one year through court action by the utility, its books showed a very different net result though its gross earnings increased. The recent investigation showed that two officers who so far as is known have absolutely no connection with the op- cal utility draw $2,400 a year salary. salary of the ‘vice-president was increased four-fold in one One of the most bitter complaints registered by local citizens against the former railroad commission was that it ordered good salaries paid to directors and officers who had little or nothing to do with the conduct of the busine: The consumers have the right to demand that the rail- road commission shall not permit “dummy directo! utility protected by law to mulct the consumers, that the ission shall not permit any officers of a utility to saddle his personal donations to charity or for political purposes upon the consumers of the city. the law virtually guarantees the utility business, the utility | must be allowed to earn the, profits allowed by law and no eration of the | year. railroad comm. more. AIRPLANE HEA It’s coming at last—the airplane hearse. in the world will be put in service by John Petruzzi, “funeral king” of the East Side in New York City. John is a progres- He invented the musical hearse, with a sort of caliope attachment, to save money for patrons who otherwise would ithe edge. “Mercy me on us. Why, insist on brass bands at funerals. The airplane hearse, Undertaker John argues enthusias- tically, would do away with present; funeral delays due to sive. taffic jams. impartial in their applause. France. through athletics. MULTI-MILLIONAIRE A Maine lawsuit involves a man named Benjamin F. He’§ described as the richest New Englander. Estimates of his wealth run as high as 75 There’s certainly a lot of money in the, country, when a man can be worth that much without being famous. He gets into limelight by contesting a will leaving him only $10. Maybe you remember the days when a million- Smith. Ever hear of him? million dollars.; aire was unusual. : REBUILD BY 1926 ‘The war-devastated regions of France will be completely --pebuilt by 1926, the French finance:minister promises. Gradually the war is wiped and war debts are not as easily as:compared to the | For when the railroads earn beyond a} stated return, the surplus is taken away and given to the savers or investors, In many states, too, a fair nated in Wiscon- In * $3,000,000—$5,000,00 It was charged talking about?” asked Nick. “Is it a secret?” “Look and see for yourselves, Secret! I should say not! It’s the mill! Poppleton Bun, the miller, promised me that he wouldn't grind so much |as a mustard seed while I was away and he’s broken his promise. There will be chaff and flour dust over trusted to me.” everything in the plaee and Mother ! | Goose will be terribly peeved, | just finished sweeping upjthe w | place before she went away, and! j her last words were, ‘Now, Daddy) that you have never gone to places | Gander, I'm leaving everything in|/where I would not want you to go your charge. I want you to keep everything as spick and span as you} know how. And don't let that fat miller-man run his mill, and don’t let the sandman spill any of his |mussy said.” In short, since said Nancy. it’s too late now,” sighed Daddy Gan- der, “I should have stayed at home and looked after things, but I have the worst memory! I forgot!” The first one magie dustpan stopped, and they were just about to jump off when | Daddy Gander happened to look over jwe're on top of the church steeple!” |he cried. “A single step would kill us! Duster,” he scolded, “what's di a n neré U getting to be the matter with you? Speed enthusiasts will hail it as the eighth t's bad enough for me to be getting wonder of the world. Many of them have felt for some time that the auto hearse is too slow. MEET IN GAMES French and German football teams recently played a game at Mayence, Germany. Spectators were described as The captains of the opposing ..teams shook hands warmly, forgetting political differences. When it comes to playing — sports — nations meet in friendly rivalry without bitterness. Germany will not participate in the 1924 Olmpic games in Considerable might be done toward reconciliation. absent-minded, without you. Now jtake us out of ere and put us down |in front of the Christmas-Tree House |that I fixed up for the Twins to |live in, You know where it is! Next door to Bo Peep’s and right across the street from Missez Sprat’s. A you fix up with lights and doll fur- niture and put under a Christmas Tree.” It’s regrettable that! The magic dustpan gave a wiggle and wiggled itself off the steeples. | And after they'd all gone, the tin| which way the wind blew, flapped his wings and crowed loudly and in- dignantly, “Such an insult! To be treated like street and deposited them in front ans are not a nation of nd we never have been. Koretz may have done some good by helping us to real- We Amer And the basis of fair return is fixed at 514 lize the age-old truth that affluence, return for utilities is on the verage, is the result of thrift and safe investment. Perhaps that lesson has now been thoroughly absorbed by the men and women who surrendered thejr money = to ond the graft that to Leo Koretz, Every one of them s in large cities etrated into many he people, it was lost to K ain the idea. should have been a buyer of sound investments in large quantities. No- body seems to know how much was etz. It may have been perhaps even we $10,000,000. If all that money now in safe securities, what dif- ference it would make!—Chicago "a very good profit Journal of Commerce. s of busines: nme DOUt ADVENTURE OF | 222! insist upon knowing how and I nd where my wife goes when THE TWINS she leaves her home.” ’ I shalhk spend most of my time at the telephone then By Olive Roberts Barton and you will have to have an. extra to take the des recre Away went the Twins on Daddy my magic dustpan to Daddy Besides, Gander Land. jt hey could see it long before they meet arrived with its funny, lovely houses, and its dear, queer streets, and its wil odd, delightful lanes, Possibly I may stay over another i ‘There was the house that Jack hours | built, and the school house of the Ten-o’Clock-Scholar, and everything. rage. “ll wire your his eyes from the sun and a wor- are not c Gande: Suddenly Daddy Gander shaded ally ried look gathered upon hi: good-natured brow. “Y: it as sure as you're ali wu. answered Daddy Vell, you can’t help it, can you?” “Yes, at least I could have, but At that minute they arrived. The Christmas-Tree House is a house rooster that swung on a rod and told “Well, I declare!” he cackled. a door mat! It's high time Mother Goose was coming home!” In the meantime the dustpan had taken the travelers down to the of the Christmas-Tree House. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) Ground for Complaint. Harriett—Plenty of cheek, has she? Agatha—Yes, she uses our tele- phone to invite guests to a party, and doesn’t inelude us in the invita- tions.—Selected. . THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE |home if you want to.” Jack strode jout the door. (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) MANDAN NEWS MANDAN GETS STATUE FROM DR. HENRY COE Announcement that ‘a gift of a ent bronze equestrian statue of Theodore Roosevelt would be de- livered to Mandan and in time for an unveiling ceremony about July 4th was formally made yesterday to’ a group of directors of the Mandan Commercial club and other business men of thé city by Dr. Henry Waldo Coe of Portland, Oregon. ; The unveiling ceremony will be a big feature of wifut is expected to be the greatest week in the history of Mandan, when scores of state and national notables will be here. | The American Legion convention of | North Dakota will be held so that the last day of the convention is the first day of the Mandan Rewndup and it on this date that the beautiful bronze statue will be unveiled. A special committee of the Commercial club will be named to make arrangements for a base and a location of the Coe gift to the city. The statue which Dr. Coe is pre- senting to Mandan is a bronze cast from the working model made by A. Phimister Proctor, the great Ameri- “Mr Proctor worked ¢ LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT | without consulting me?” “Oh, what's the use , Jas unreasonable a being a what you. thiak| You know as well that damn picture “IT cannot help ” barked Jack. I than, while son here in the up an awful scandal. Un, thats it, is it? gotten to the crux of the 'matter. You have been disturbed over this and son Bobby accompanied en and Homer Brownawell you should be, except that o safeguard the name of your friend, Sydney Carton.” “I want nothing of the kind. course I haven't the slightest idea hat little Jack is the son of Sydney That is just a figment of Just because some- one leaves a baby on our doorstep my best friend should be its father nor why some moving picture actress who has story of a deserted baby in her pic- ture should be its mother. t seems to me that a friend would probably be the last one to saddle! a baby on a friend. should be glad to know that as pret. ty a girl as Paula Perier and as de- cent a chap as Sydney Carton were the parents of our child.” “You have said that before, Jack. It isn’t necessary to repeat “Well I do repeat it because to impress upon your mind the ugli- ness of all this gossip. a fresh start if you leave the city. People will say you have gone to get a divorce from me. ou have been informed that She is going to leave on the tenth coming home on that day. your silly brain. John Peterson this winter. Jack was now beside himself with mother that you I can't keep you fron insulting thing but after you had’ sent clared, “and he promised me he,me to my father for a great deal o. wouldn't. Wat would I do if Moth-|money and I had brought it back to er Goose were to get back before ! That's wir.ng m he desl youseheos| probably will be you, I surely think you are making & mistake to wire my parents that you will not allow their daughter to Of course what you ywire them will make no difference e ..|to me for I want you to underst: Gander. sack, that Iam going and more th that I am going to do anything Thave a mind and Up to date I do that I please. supposed to use it. not think I have made any more mis- takes than you in the management of those affairs that have been en- can sculptor. for two years upon this statue of Roosévelt, and it is a marvel of per- fection in detail as well as a noble representation of that great Ameri- can, Theodore Roosevelt. Can’t you see it | impossible for either of us to leave until that picture is off the : mean to tell me, Leslie, She! that you are going to certain places, hole | whether I like it or not.” “Do you mean “I have nothing to do with ‘the picture, Jack, and you insist that. it thas nothing to do with you. going to see my mother and father Scalded by Steam.’ Richard Key, Northern Pactfic roundhouse, is on a forced vacation due to scalds from escaping steam feceived while at work on a locomotive Tuesday night. Luckily only hig, hand and a smaller scald on the arm were the only in- “All right, all right! EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO juries received. for about two weeks. He will be off duty Home From Schoot. Kenneth McDonald returned home Wednesday morning from St, Thomas college and St. Paul to spend the holiday vacation with his parents, and Mrs. Chas. McDonald. I NOTI¢@E THAT WHEN@VER You GET THE. CHANCES YOU. SHOVE AS MUCH OF WouR- WORK AS Yo CAN ONTO THS OTHER OFFICES HELP AND You SIDGSTEP EVERYTHING THAT COOKS UKE WORK. YOURE SIMPLY CAZY, AND THE The second basketball game of the season will be played Friday even- ing at the high school gymnasium when the Beach high school team comes to Mandan. Here for Xmas. James. Hanley, Jr., arrived home this morning from Faribault, Minn where he has meen attending Shat tuck Academy to spend the holidays with his parents. Holiday Vacation.” E. A. Horrobin left Wednesday evening for Minneapolis to spend Christmas with relatives. Daughter Born. A daughter was born Wednesday morning to Mr: and Mrs. J. G. Ag- new at Portland, Oregon, according to word received in the city. OH Best THING Hook WORM f News of Our Neighbors -WILD ‘ROSE Mr. and Mrs. John’ Peterson of Wild Rose announce the birth o: daughter at the home of Mrs. terson’s parents~Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Felthrim at Braddock, N, D. {Miss Ellan Jager, teacher of Wild schaol No. 1 will leave Friday jgmarck' where she’ will spend holidwys af the home of her “J. McCormick. , Hl. Brownawell|) ‘ahd Howard spent with “Miss “Hope) very nicely entertatued-gonamber of | before Christ _Mr. and: Mrs. Ass No. 9—Doubling Combinations and “Pat Hands. The table of doubling combinations is as follows: Three or four of a player's Own Wind—Double total score. Three or four of any color Dragons —Double total score. Hand all of one suit, except for winds and dragons—Double total score. Hand entirely of one suit—Double total score three times. Hand entirely of Winds and Drag- ons—Double tétal score threc times. ‘As you will notice, some of the above combinations’ were given a scor.ng value in the Score Table in my last article. This score counts in addition to the doubling value, and is added in prior to such doub- ling. For example, if you held three dragons in your exposed hand, you would add their scoring ie (4 points) to the other points scored, then double the total. “Triple Doubles.” Hands which centain combinations which “double three times” are reck- oned as follows: total the score, double this total, double the result of the first double; double the result of the second total. Thus a hand with a three-times\ doubling combi- nation and a score of 20 would to- tal to 160. Shoul@ a hand contain more than one doubling combination, it doubles for each such combination. Thus a hand with three dragons and the balance all of Finds and Dragons would double four times There are three “pat” hands, all very difficult to obtain, the Hand from Heaven, the Hand from Earth, and the Lucky 13. J.P BABCOCK: © FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1923 ON he value of these hands’ depends upon the limit. Owing to the al- most unbounded scoring possibilities of Mah Jongg, it is necessary that a limit be set. If the standard game, this limit is 300, and unless a dit- ferent limit is expressly agreed upon prior to the commencement of play, it is tacitly understood when sitting down to a game of Mah Jongg that you are playing with this limit of 300. As East always loses or pa double, he will, if he complete limit hand, collect 600 from each o the other players. Similarly, if he loses to a limit hand, he will pay th winner 600. Three Big Hands. 1¢ The Hand from Heaven is possibe only to East Wind and is, in shor! a Mah Jongg ‘hand on the original dra’ It scores the limit, 300; but as East wins double, each of the other players must pay his 600. The Hand from Earth is possi! to any one except East. It is ob) tained when any player can by puny ing East's first discard complete his hand for Mah Jongg. It scores onc half the li The Lucky 13. After East has made his first discard, any player (including East) can declare his ir tention of frying for Mah without discarding any of his 15 original tiles. joker player would term it, ands pat on the original draw.” Should he suc- ceed in completing his hand thus, he scores one-third the limit. A player trying for the Lucky 1% hand is allowed to change his p at any time without penalty. But he must announce that he be no longer playing the Lucky 13. Brownawell, who is ill at the G. W Synder home in Bismarck. Mike Glovias and Jake Voll trans- acted business in the Capital City Saturday. Mr, and Mrs. O. L. Peterson and son Arthur and daughter Mrs. Sam Gooding spent Monday in Bismarck visiting with Arnold Peterson who is ill in the Bismarck hospital. Miss Florence O'Dill, teacher of ‘|the Cherry Grove school, will leave Friday for Balfour, where she will spend the holidays with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Brownawell by Hel- motored to Bismarck Saturday to take in the “Covered Wagon” at the auditor- ium. Miss Louise Feyerheisen will Icave Saturday for her home south of Braddock where she will spend the holidays. Miss Feyerheisen is mak- ing her home with Mr. and Mrs. The infant daughter of Mr. and the home of Mrs, Kurtz’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. Mandigo Saturday. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon and interments made in he Braddock cemetery. CLEAR LAKE TOWNSHIP Miss Ciara Lien spent Thursday and Friday at the home of: her si ter @Mrs. C. A. Newcomer of Driscoll. B. F, Paslay and nt callers at the George Carlson home on Thursday evening of last week. J..M. Lein spent Friday until Mon- day attending to business matters at the county seat. Mrs. Frank Shaffer, spent the past Friday visiting at the home of her daughter Mrs. Harold Hargrave. Rosella Berkvam, the little daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Berkvam was taken to Bismarck on Friday and entered the Bismarck hospital where she underwent an operation for an abscess on her throat, She, was accompanied by her parents and Mrs. M. J. Brenden. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Olson and Mrs. Ole Newland spent evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dallas: Berkman. ~ Mr. and Mrs. A, M. Bruschwien ‘an- nounce the birth ofa baby girl on Thursday. Dec, 13th. ‘Mrs. John Merringdahl and chil- dren departed on No. 8 Saturday for Dawson to spend their Christmas vacation. Alfred Arneson motored to Bis+ marck on Saturday, returning home on Sunday. Miss Genevieve Otson who has been a hired hand at the M. J. Am- bers home is spending her Christ- mas vacation at the home of her par- ents Mr. and Mrs, Tom Olson, Homer Nelson, Clarence Olson, Hezel Nelson, Viola Hargrave, Nora Olson and Mrs. L. B. Olson were pleasantly entertained on Friday evening at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Alden Nelson. Lars Thompson seen on the busy streets of Bismarck one day of last week. It is, understood that Lars returned home in a new car, which he purchased while in the city. Mrs, John Birkeland and daughter Mi returned home on Satur- day evening from their trip at El- dridge. Mr. and Mrs. B. F, Pasley enter- tained at Sunday dinner Mr. and Mrs. E. A, VanVieet. é He god Mrs. “Alden Nelson, and daughter Ruth, were: Sanday gu of Mr. and Mrs: Ciiftord ‘Nels! Mr,.and Mré,Granuilla.-Salland ie r i} Mrs. Paul Kurtz passed away at Angeles, but not for parking his sled friends last Saturday ‘evening at their home. The evening was spent in the usual social manner, after which Mrs. Selland served a delicious lunch, The guests numbered thir- teen. Ke Miss Myrtle Christinsen spent thé first of the week at Stecle consult- ing ’a dentist, had as their company on Sund@ evening. Mr. and Mrs. George Shal fer and son Leo of Steele, Myrtle Christensen, Vivian Shaffer and Homer Nelson. gu All these funny looking objects be- ing found in Tut’s tomb remind us 3o much of Christmas presents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold a | Now is the time to get out your broken resolutions and patch them up to start off 1924 right. When the weather’s balmy so are }the people, but winter doesn’t seem to make much difference. Bryan favors a soldier bonus. We hope the American Legion will not let this discourage them. Politicians lead a hard life. Get up every morning and spend the entire day in a quandary. Ford for president. He ung There is talk of drafting a conscientious objector. These European squabbles remind us of a ponnle in which no natio} can quit while winning, is the time of peace however, is one thin not made in Germany. London hints the Prigce of Wales’ taste in girls is not so\good. Girls should use flavored lipsticks. H. G. Wells lost in the British elections. Now his enemies will say all’s well that ends Wells. News from Mexico, Fighting around Jalapa, All -we know is the name sounds Kke a horse race. Naval aviators/will try to fly to the north pole, which is the old home town of janitors, “Lone Bandit Gets Watch”—head- line. Loan bandits do the same. Prince Youssoupoff, an art critic, probably got his name from a line of soup-cating ancestors. News from Russia. Something wrong with Trotzky’s stomach, Couldn’t be he has nothing in it. a a Every government has its good points. In Moscow, they are putting all the gamblers in jail. American girl in Paris hit it oY lucky. Man couldn't steal her hea’ so he stole her jewels, A kidnaped Canadian teagher's mind went blank, s0 maybe she thought she was a pupil. Los ‘Angeles bank” runner spent $15,000. He may have mistaken himself for a movie star. “What a Wife Learned” is a new movie. If complete, it would be the longest movie ever made, Santa Claus -got arrested in Los by.a fire plug. ~ é Auto owners will enjoy learning ;, ttle garage keeper was fin for ui ing a stored car. They are trying to get the vets out-of the bonus by Christmas. . Only a few more shopping months " Chrtatmay bills ace paid.