The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 2, 1924, Page 2

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE SSE anc ale ek See OR IE MR iuntered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. ., as Second Class | Matter. | BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Publishers | CHICAGO Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not olucrwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. Ail rights of republication uf epecia! dispatches herein are also reserved. .MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSGRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year... bial OU a eee SURO Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck).......... 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota. . seeps OOD THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) DECEMBER WATER BILLS It was the only logical thing for the city commission to do to take off the thirty-five per cent increase in water rates allowed by the federal courts pending a trial of that issue on its merits. The city commission waged a vigorous fight against the increase and properly no time was lost in ex-| empting the people from the charge. The water work stem should be conducted on the theory that only sufficient be charged in rates to care for operating expenses and the financing of that portion of the system that is not being cared for by special assessment. This is the theory that obtains in all enlightened city gov- ernments. /frue, water. cost in excess of what is paid} monthly must be met through special taxation until the plant is paid for but with wise management, the time should, come in marck when the price of water will be in line with what other cities pay and a force toward promoting plans for the ultimate beautification of the city. There are certain civie responsibilities which the elec- iorate willingly meet even though it means parting with hard earned dollars and that is for the support of an ade- quate, pure water supply and efficient schools. These bur- dens necessarily come hard upon a generation shouldering the civic expense through periods of expansion when de- mands for improvements come faster than there are people or property value to bear them. Most American cities are in the same boat with Bismarck. People demand high grade service from their public servants and these are not wholly to blame when tay soar. The Tribune publishes on this page a very able editorial from a recent edition of the Saturday Evening Post which properly places the responsibility for high taxes upon the people who are demanding more and more each year and of course in so many instances the demand comes from thousands who while they do not pay taxes directly always pay their tax share in the form of increased rents, increased cost of living, for taxation is most perfectly and scientifically shifted. The man who does not receive a tax statement from the collec- tor, gets his in another manner however remote and skill- fully disguised the “touch” may be. ‘ The Tribune publishes today this very timely editorial which should act as a deterrent to foolish and unwise civic expenditure. Civic vision, however, was_ reflected secured control of the water works system. As clear a vision some day should bring under the same control the other and more profitable and as essential a utility—the power and light company; upon the regulation of whose rates depends largely the future of Bismarck’s commercial growth. DETROIT | Kresge Bldg. | ag when Bismarck WONDERFUL ‘RESPONSE Nearly every daily and weékly paper in the state has made reference to North Dakota’s First Corn Show to be held in Bismarck this month. Leading farm journals of the nation are endorsing it and attentidn of thousands of farm- ers over the nation is being focused upon this state ‘as a place where corn can be grown successfully. Every paragraph written about corn and diversification affects North Dakota favorably and is worth vastly more than the columns wasted yearly in fruitless political dis- cussion. | Let us sell North Dakota’s fertile prairies to the world! Here is room for thousands of farmers and city builders! North Dakota has land in abundance, a glorious climate and coal*deposits untouched! | All that is needed is vision, a more economical adminis- tration of government —a chance through low taxation to develop; for the land of high taxes nowhere is a prosperous land. = Boost for the corn show. } Let there be marshalled here in Bismarck the kind of an exhibit that will reflect North Dakota’s best effort in cort | culture.* The press of the state deserves the gratitude of every citizen for its generous aHowance of space for only by the endorsement of this agency can the corn show give its mess- age to the,world. AY-WALKERS blame —auto driver or pedestrian? Do he kettle back, kee. There e due to otorists. f persons Which is mor Seems to be about according to a clos it was found that carelessness of p In New Yor killed in stree ~ Safety Fi at auto drivers. Hal ‘olks on foot, for thei; i An old f Repre- 'sentatives nges in their office! e floor of the House. we don’t ig a phy- e should the heart! ity, claims mmission h and other foducing re- B as fast as jon has in- j any voter—yourself. | vote—and in that case you have no EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced tn this column may or may not express the oppnion of The Tribune. They te Dinechtedl here. in OLder thay our readers have both sides issues which are in the press of of important being discussed the day, YOU ASKED FOR IT ty of those who are pro. testing against the high cost of liv-! ing have no real cause for camplaint. | They asked for it, voted for it, or| assented to it by not voting i When you elect free-and-easy | spenders to office, you must provide | plenty of money for them to spend, | The only way in which this can be | done is by taxation, There are tax- | exempt bonds, but no tax-exempt cit- | in Soak-the-rich taxation times does soak the rich, though not nearly so hard as our legislators | hoped and planned, but it infallibly | sweats the poor. | some Last week we had something to say about Vederal taxes, but state and city taxes are quite as deserving of attention. When there are three rings under the big top in which stu- pendous and death-defying feats are being presented at the me time, the 3 of the spectators are naturally focused on that ring in which the | feats seem most stupendous and} death-defying, But though — the | somersaults in midair of the Federal Troupe keep one gaping, the stunts of the State Sisters on the slack wire 1 the juggling with knives by the y Fathers are no less hazardous. has long been opted a commonplace that a nation of home is a strong nation and that in the tand m. s for good ; citizenship. But our i ily driving home a new lesson. | is that the man who owns the} in which he lives is a fool. | | | ne as It house It is true that taxation is invariably passed along to the at t a hope for by jum from city to suburb, and suburb to lower hi aunothe renter, but he and a chance ng from house to house one from nother he may at There is, of cour: surer and less troublesom: way to a¢complish this purpose, but the average voter is usually too stu- pid or too lazy to look into it. In- stead we d of angry householders storming city halls to protest against increased real-estate assessments and es, of mass meetings of indignant citizens who are enraged at the pri commodities. They can protest y are purple and resolve un- use up ‘all the whereases in the dictfonary, and they will get no- where, ‘Th These groups are largely composed of men and women who went to the polls and voted for higher prices;- or who stayed away from the polls | and iso assented to them; or of boost- rs who are merrily boosting the cit- es of their affections along the road towards confiscation, The booster, isy cheering for the im- clopment and overdevel- opment of everything, is America’s most expensive and wasteful citizen. Now at a time when the country-is staggering under a burden of un- avoidable Federal tion, due to the war, when every common-sense consideration calls for sound finance, retrenchment and careful examin- ation of all new expenditures, we find Congress half-willing to pass up a nee to cut taxes and almost open- ly eager to pass measures that will increase them. We fing the states planning overambitious projects that call for new s and great bond issues that finally must be met by still further taxation. We find the} cities virtuously asserting one year that there will be no raise in tax- es, but that assessments must be | jumped; and the next year declaring | piously that thete will be no radical changes in assessments, but that the tax rate must be increased. So up Ro assessments, up go taxes, up go rents, up go prices, and up into the air goes the worthy citizen. Taxation is the keystone of the high-cost-living arch. There is no chipping here and picking there at Brices until that keystone is loosen- ed and brought down from its proud eminence. Only intelligent voting can do that, though watchfulness and firmness can accomplish something, even now. For another election is coming, and where the fear of God will not move a politician the fear of { voters will—when enough of them! stand together for more than a few days at a time. Heretofore every class, except the taxpayer, has lined up at one time or another for some selfish class purpose. When the tax- payers—and that means everybody stand together for the single pur-! pose of reducing taxes, we shall get | them reduced, These temporary spasms of rage against the confiscatory taxation of | real estate are usually an affair of the owner, not of the renter of prop- erty. But we heard the other day of an intelligent woman who bore down an assessor to protest against an increase in the valuation of a house that she was renting, because during the past ten years the rent of that house had been increased from fifteen to cighty dollars a month following periodic increases in assessments and taxes, The woman renter had found the source of her, trouble. If she will analyze her other living costs she will fing that taxation is the largest single factor in their advance. Take any city—your city. Take Take any elec- tion—the last one. What happened? Either you did not register and cause for complaint about anything that is happening to you—or if you did vote the chances are ninety in a hundred that you voted for exact- ly what you arc getting. Only a few of those who went to the polls had any real, information about the fitness of their party candidates or by whom, how and when they were selected; or they voted on the theory that easy spending, even with graft and waste, is “good: for business.” When you went into the booth and examined your ticket’ you probably found on it a proposed loan bill for anything from a hundred thousand to a hundred million, aceording to the size of your community. The chances are that you had not studied and analyzed that bill: in advance; that you voted yes anyway, because it was for public improvements that you thought would be paid for out of some vague fund or impersonal bond issues, The chances are that) ’ Good Hu 7 the items were not separated in such thing a way that you could approve some | throw and disapprove others. You had to One take as a whole or leave them. You voted y Ey the “They always vote 3 glimmering of the facts about t: tHat®anyone can afford to in nowadays. would suppose that even a ation would stir everyone of voting as a cynical politician put it age to try to protect his pocketbook. other day, “hecause it does not occur} But many people are mentally too to them that they are going to pay|lazy to try to comprehend these for these improvements out of their | things and physically too lazy to own intensely personal pay envelope: and bank accounts.” AAP tains Public improvements are a good! try is thing, but before you order them| respective you should ask yourself the same j called questions that you ask when you are | led by considering a private purcitase: Do | voters |J need them and can I afford them? If you decide that you can afford the public improvements it is up to cures, walk to the polls. voting strength of the coun- divided into three groups, ir- of party. First, the so- machine politicians. Controll- them is a strong body of organized and held together by office, promise of office, sine- jobs, favors, more or less “honest graft” and various forms of you to see that you get your money’s | easily understood self-interest. No worth for you will personally be| matter how competent a candidate putting a large percentage of your! may be, he must usually, especially income into them. The voters’ at-|in our large cities, compromise to titude has been that the|some extent with this group if he country is rich and that it can stand | wants to hold office. It is the minor- it. Are you rich enough to stand it?| ity group between elections, but al- For you are the country and you| most always the majority one at the pay the bills. The rent that you pay for your house is affecteq and raised not only by municipal ta: but by Federal |ear—men who strut proudly forth state ones well. Also thej to the polls at the turkey call of the | of steak is unfavorably ip-| orator, or to the beguiling notes of fluenced from the buyer's point. of |sthe political, propagandist. view by the gasoline tax, the anthra-| ‘The second—and it is the majority cite tax, the mercantile tax, the per-| group—is made up of the unorganiz- sonal-property tax, the income tax, | ed, inarticulate anq too aften un- the ‘corporation tax, amd all those| registered. It includes those who other taxes that the butcher must pay either directly or indirectly, add to his overhead and pass over to You the ultimate consumer and ultimate goat—wrapped up with your three- pound sirloin. You reply that your, butcher does not have to pay either | a corporation or an income tax. Per- | aps not, but the packer does. Ahd a part of every tax that he pays is added to the cost of every side of beef that goes into the butcher's shop. He, in turn, must hand over to you with every steak and lamb | chop a part of those taxes and a part of his own, plus a little extra lation sional The Europe, but it ha prinfaries, taxation and our duty to our town. polls, because all its members vote | to order and carry | a’ number of fathcads who vote by along with them are too proud to vote, too busy to vote, or too stupid to vote. to work from the top down and not from the bottom up. a4President, but not for a council- mpn. H is passionately concerned over the League of It tries I will vote for Nations, cancel- of war debts It is swayed by profes- reformers and theorists, but a businesslike proposal by a business man that would better the condition of everyone legves it cold. members of this group may be either Democrats or Republicans, in the shape of taxes is the only | but it does not make much difference | for good measures. A little extra | EVERETT TRUE OH, % SAX, MISTER, A SMOKE A PIPE,T00, At TIMES. Wes! ano THere ARE CERTAIN OTRE TIMES & LAY oFF . OF \T ees) BY CONDO nti’ !! : | what they are. Under the stre too high- a boss they some unusual outrage or handed abuse of power by may rise and rave, or even voter in numbers, but this is not ofen, ber cause the boys usually fai circumspect and ¢ government than we deserve or have right to’ e: When ther | or a governor, with trolled council legi ure that promptly proceeds to hamstring the executive, if he is worth the trouble, or mposing front of a moving-picture Then there is the submerged tenth a small but increasingly active group working inside the parties on. v lines, that is tired of bunk and rns for busin sense in govern- ment, They know t before the primaries is more import- ant than what happens after them; be more important than pens what hap- nd‘ state representatives as President. They are 't up an informed electorate a voting machine. shocked nor surprised and the cost of living go up. good and not when ‘ know that as long as we remain so ignorant economically, and in- | different politically, we are simply asking for it--Saturday Post PROPERTY SOLD. Francis McDoaald, aéting as ad- ministrator of the estate of the late John Wynn, sold to A. C. Storey the two frame buildings occupied by the Delmonico restaurant and the Kinzel-Wilson vulcanizing and serv- ice shop together withs the 60 foot |lot on Second avenue N. W. for a | consideration of $5,000. ! CALLED BY ILLNESS Valentine Mus! who has been at ; Los Angeles for some months, has [returned to the city, called here , by the serious illne: of his father, Stanley Mushik, city street supervis- or. MARRIAGE LICENSE. A marriage license was issued by County Judge Shaw to Lester L. Mundy and Miss Ada Belle Carrick, | both of w Salem. 1. LICENSE ISSUED. A marriage license was issued by County Judge Shaw to Miss Winni- fred Brown of near the city and. M. A. Hart of Jamestown. H FAREWELL PARTY. | The membens and f nds of the Methodist church held 2 farewell party for the R. S. Johnstone fam- ily in thé church parlors. Mr. and Mrs. Johnstone ond children will {leave within a few days for-Tacoma, Wash., where their son Edgar John- stone is employed SHIFTING OFFICES. Dissolution of the firm: of Drs: Nickerson, Altnow & Aylen, effective today was followed by complete ré- arrangement of the offices on the second floor of’ the’ Greengard build- ing.. Dé. Aylen will have two. offic with Dt:'L. ‘RB. ‘Priske; dentist, separate practic@. Dr. C. C. Smith j formerly of Beulah, who will take | partnership with Dr. B. S. Nieker- | son arrived in the city and the of- fice rooms to be shared by that firm are’ being. ré4arranged? Dr. ‘and Mrs. Altnow will leave about the | middle of the month’ for Cambridge, Mass. | ° wom 4 3 NEW SURGEON NAMED. | ‘Dr. Wi. Cy Aylen-received forma} | notification .of. His - appointment - as. | special surgeon for the Northern Pa- | cific railroad employes with Dr. G. | H.. Spielman as: alternate surgeon. ‘The appointment ig:made by Dr. h H. Beach, chief surgeon head of the » us much better} or leaves him to stew in his own juice if, as is often the case, he is simply @ pretentious sham, with the rooms ‘dnd’ Will share a waiting oN the place’of Dr. H. 0. Altnow in! { LETTER FROM PRESCOTT TO SYDN JOHN EY CAR- TON, CONTINUED I am wondering, -Sydy that I am not more the tuation. ome other’ man’s why should that other man Why why furlous should advice it 7 Li ig| thing just as you advised me. ar| Woman can understand the complex ie| heart or mind of man. and | think ALDEN | he had to write to tell her'to go and} see his heart stood cablegram. been less still is something | ut what happens? prouse at the top; and that it is quite his si as\important to get able councilmen °!d hou: | MANDAN NEWS | 4 i in most te will use her to get him out of aj ture will tight scrape. |their wives than they have had in I have the gi st contempt for|the past. It will take something myself, Syd, every time I think of | more than a wedding ring to take that episode. them t they are-obliged ‘to live I know she was not only greatly |on in ci nees which spell un- disappointed in me, but the fact that | happiness r them.” she 1 to tell her father some This man was a bachelor, Syd, but trumped-up exeuse or by telling him | he ns to have had the right dope he truth, explain that s had mar-| Probably you, « bachelor, thor ried a man who was less “hono the same thing. That is the ® than she had thought, must have | neither of ve ever married. almost broken her heart. (Copyright, » NEA Service, Inc.) N. P. hospital at Glendive. Dr o. d Aylen will succeed Dr. Altnow who | Dr As al the s been loe: i road own: attorney: I don’t mind’ telling you that my|you’ know of course that a’ wor that} who ha Of course the first thing | could hay jI thought of was Leslic w Jing of getting a diyorce from But I really could not see ‘any r json for that, for I have been per- | Leslic \fectly true to her ever since marriage, and while I have perhaps | pendent attentive to {might have be@, surely s! ‘understand that afte beside moonlight and flowe Of course I know I hurt her p» ibly when I sent hersto her | s jfather for money. No woman wants to confess to her not only married ant surgeor when I read her that She s, but one w’ amil 1 surgeon rson who servi Altnow n to Dr work will serve consulting? surgeon an engineer of the Railroad company, oldest active motive pilot of the system, wa a chance of recovery poisoning contracted on his neck burst Northern to have in the Glendiv CONDITION IMPROV! Sidney Cohen, manager of the Ar cade Variety store who | for the past few weeks residence, 2nd Ave de improved ov’ re age limit. The of house ‘warming, you might that what happens at the bottom may |f" the and Jack ty little Mother Goose was but Dadd He the Her been railroadi: a h IMPROVES ' Frank Blanchett of this city, veter- | Mr Mr. t e ng to the Lewis & ¢ tired next fall upon reaching the loe He al inwardly Pacific hospi m' 1s ho ed as Northern Pacific ° d s think-| masculine sex, our} much surer oftherself, much Jess de- than Ij opened that shop here in tows must | om. | At when carbuncles , Blanchett, who has | r 51. ye ‘S s been N.W at the Lan; is much all Cohen and sons are SELATAN ADVENTURE OF ' THE TWINS By Olive Roberts Barton as to be a k hotel ter, had. just moved’ from their on Pippin Hill to the pret- secret cottage ving to build Named “in honor of Mother Goose. Jack thought they ought to change! They are neither the name of the street to “Dust- on’ Broom nde e y so Street, much, Gander wouldn't hear to it was bad enough ign that ahged ’rou turned to ) one secret to keep without an- Evening other ohe to worry him! about the jand Tom Tinker had ¢ the sign which said Land!” He nieant he nd Mother Goose They, had it over and printed.“Daddy Gander His Land” on the other side. Well, anyway, the partyin Jack's | House’ on Broom Street was going to be a wonderful affair. \ Peter Peter Pumpkin and to use h re empty every one and put provided z t he ter helped s own words, as he had pumpkin growing lobsters, he k 0? Lantern faces on inside, Maker to shells dles ick Candle-: would donate them for nothing. that, growing lobsters wouldn’t have any pumpkin-shells? not, they would leave empty lobster- What's shells! How stupid of me! my déars? Why, of But 1 decorate, than he Vitty course do believe you knew what I meant, all the time. But to get back to the party! we don’t stop talking about decora- tions and lobster-shells and so on, | the And Mi will be won't be any grateful fo: to get a nice new dress, offered to | make some pumpkin pi ill say the ,Peterses did th part to make the. party a succes: And the Bakerman, sent word Sol the over and Twins as there would likely be a few like Jack Horner, who didn’t ‘pumpkin, he would. be most. happy | \to bake a big mince pie and mark it |with “J” instead of “T”, say whether the “J” ; honor of Jack or Jill or Jack Horner. care -for | He didn’t was’to he in| But perhaps it was for all of them. That for pies! And there was to be cider! The apples grew so thick and juicy on Pippin Hill- that Jack's: mother had j had" several.-barrels., pressed cider, into! And, , indeed; . it’. was ‘reported chat’it was her own good -cider-vine- fr that had cured too! éad when, he fell. Ahd they had ice-cream @ the refreshments first. s (To Be Continued), (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) Aes eee o THOUGHT | ithe little boy's md cake, But there! I'll have to tell you bout the party tomorrow. I've be- n at the wrong end and told about o Who can find. a virtuous, woman? far her price ig far above. rubies.— Prov. 31:10. Virtue alone is, It keeps the key-to gl heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in then. all, eet socicty, --Emerson. rs will be } | will marry you for spite | rty in’ the Jack Built! A> sort | say was just. finished, | nd his mother and Jill, there | room to tell about it. 2 Peter, who was no end helping her t | made gir | Eb If that | |man will marry almost anybody. If I thought she would understand I would tell her the whole blamed No To tell the truth, we don’t under- stand ourselves. » I am quite sure Leslie has made a confidant of Ruth Ellington and Aived with Harry Ellington very little respect for the 1 don't know exactly what Ruth has said to Leslie, but I do know is much more independent, upon me since Lath has I am beginning to suspect she is 1 the while thinking, “If Ruth e a success in: business, I A man at the club the other id, in sp x of Ruth Ellington's new business venture, ‘Now that wo- men have found out they can sup- port themselves, the men of f uve harder work to keep ims ’ Year leap before you Our Leap advice to women i look The best way for a girl to pro pose fo a man is to sit on his knee until he proposes. Ask your-parents to object to your fellow during Leap Year. Then he Run your finge h Use flavored 14q Propose in the dark Keep the p: es down p Year sirl lost chance because the shades were uj many comfortable sofa, A sof goes a long ways a suceessful Leap Year. Buy a fortable toward com= Good jights have ruined many Leap Year xrospect. Love is blir so make it in fha.dark ‘ = ell Tell him you can't shoot a pistol, n may be brave and still refus y a good pistol shot ; to ma Leap Year prospect a bustle You fter-you-get him. in & chai Tell him others want to mary you. Never let on he is your chance. Men don’t like that. Learn to make home brew. Any man will marry any home brew maker. This is more important th cooking. If a woman lets a man brag about his past long enough he will want her to take care of his future Don’t paint too heavily during Leap Y You can’t propose to a man you have given painter's colic. Look while kissing during Leap Yc No man wants to marry a girl who sticks her nose in his eye. , Don't grunt when you hug a pros- pective Leap Year husband. It may yemind him of the yrice of pork chops. Tell him he Jooks loncly Tell him oft and he will believe it. Then y can marry him cas Let him tell you the story of his life. Pretend you believe it and you will have him half married ‘ him a A full to co Swear you cooked it Get your mother eal, Ifyou prospective Leap Year hus- band chews gum t nice. He chew the rag with you later. Bu nice dres Tell him Claim your clothes ¢ dollar a ntonth. apy can marry him. Get ull ‘cleaned inghan apron. y find you at work. up. Put on 2 Let him supposed- Propose quick- Look your best even when you feel your worst. You will have time to feel. bad after you marry him. = A COLD GONE. 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