The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 5, 1924, Page 4

areetet Pherae today and wonder what it’s all about. g RELIC OF PAST. Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Publishers CHICAGO - - DETROIT | A CANADIAN VIEW Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AD ITH Speaking broadly, while times NEW YORK 2 ‘é m ie Fifth Ave. Bldg. are still trying f{ rmers, there | MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS i The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are algo reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year.......... $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) .. : sins ies ‘ 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) . 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota....... wees 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) HI JOHNSON COMING The announcement in Cleveland that Hiram Johnson is sending his secretary to North Dakota to see what can be done about getting delegates for him in the 1924 Republican convention means the beginning of a lively scrap for dele- gates, when the only figh a fight as to who shall be delegate: The Tribune found some cause for satisfaction in the recent Republican State Committee meeting, controlled by Nonpartisans, in the endorsement of Coolidge, regardles: of motives. And of course the attitude of the league leaders on Coolidge was more important than the personnel of the delegation, because the voters themselves will direct the vote of the delegates on the opening ballots. That the anti-Nonpartisan organization would not accept the list of delegates and would instead put up a list of delegates in the primary was a foregone conclusion. This delegation may reasonably be predicted a Coolidge delega- tion. So that if the two lists go before the voters, there would appear the certainty of an out-and-out Coolidge dele- gation on the one hand, and at least a partial Coolidge dele- * gation on the other. INCREASED JURISDICTION Petitions will shortly be before the people of Burleigh county asking the county commissioners to place on the ballot at the March 18 primary the question of whether or not increased jurisdiction shall be given to the county court. The citizens of the county can make no mistake in signing , these petitions and in voting for increased jurisdiction. Because the law provides that many state suits can be brought only in Burleigh county, as well the’ increasing legal business arising in the county, the district court here is perhaps the most overburdened in the state. Each term of court finds a crowded docket. Unl some method of relieving the district judge of some of this burden is found, another district judge will be necessary soon. Judge James A. Coffey has pointed the way out. He urged that increased jurisdiction be given the county court. The board of county commissioners has wisely endorsed the eases involving less than $1,000 and midemeanor cas be tried before the county judge, with or without jury, as the law provides or the parties to the law suits dictate. Court business could be handled with greater dispatch under the arrangements, taxpayers would welcome a reduced court expense which would be made possible through obviat- ing the necessity of long and expensive jury terms in dis- trict court, and the litigants would find it possible to get 2 speedy conclusion of their cases. Increased jurisdiction has proved success{ul in other counties. It will, if tried, prove successful in Burleigh county. It is now up to the people. RE YOU SPEEDY? Are we Americans really Speed Crazy? We're accused often enough, and most of us believe it. But just go into the downtown district and watch the pedestrians, especially those who amble along on the wrong side of the walk, balling up traffic. Watch them in the busy hours—and you begin to revise your notions about Speed Mania. Occasionally one of the pedestrians hustles so fast he almost knocks his neighbors down. But this speeder is e hibiting a spurt of speed, not a chronic condition. He’ some other destination because he loafed too long previously and got started late. “People, when on their feet, are as slow as they were in grandpa’s day—probably slower. That’s because movement on-foot requires expenditure of personal effort. When the average person gets into an auto he wants to speed. And that’s because movement by auto doesn’t require much effort. If it were as much work as walking, most autos would rarely exceed five miles an hour. The efficiency experts: in many cases have rigged up systems so people have to work at a certain speed or get buried under oncoming streams of lumber, packages or machinery in process of assembly. But most of us are rarely anxious to speed up except when there is no real need of speed. We hurry our eating and fret ourselves into nervous impatience because we are held back by the element of time in reaching amusements or destina- tions and events that excite our curiosity. This, of course, is the worst kind of speed—the sort that shortens life and destroys the health. Nationally we are impatient rather than speedy. “TWO NATURES” What have you inherited from your ancestors in the way of looks, emotions, intellect, aversions and so on? Lund- borg, Swedish physician, says his researches show him that a craving to travel, a vivid imagination and a keen sense of locality are handed down from generation to generation. When people feel “two natures” struggling within them, - the self that seems alien or enemy is hereditary—represents the thousands of ancestors who preceded us. Each one of these, in many ways, still lives in people who walk the earth '_+ From Ecuador comes 150 specimens of the caenolestes, a miouse-sized opposum, strange. relic of the past. It- should ave become extinct three million years ago, scientists say, Fike the vanished other forms of life that existed then. 2 , but the caenolestes lives on unchanged. a i millién years of suspended development! “It’s a zal freak of nature, for constant and eternal change seems 6 be tha purpose of the universe. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class on the horizon. to date has been | | hustling to get to the bank before it closes—or hurrying to They'| moralizing influence of vicious EDITORIAL REVIEW i Commenta reproduced in this column may or may not express on of The Tribune. They are nted here in order that our re may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. is generally throughout the west a | more ‘hopeful spirit than there was at this date last year, a feeling that bottom has been touched and {that while the road lies uphill. | possibly for some yearg to come, the grade is not $0 steep hut that | i® is possible to m it, if banks and other financial institutions wil! | co-operate. Possibly not the least | hopeful sign of the times in the | west the increasing extent to which this co-operation is taking place | Banks, insurance and loan com- ranies all report that farmers have greatly reduced their indebtedness in the past two years and there is ving disposition to help, inj ssible w: the men w | week of December, it is possible t get some line upon what the yea has meant in point of achievement and in the west..Naturally the first! consideration is wheat. | Up to December 21 | figures show that the om the farms to market 3 1 bushels of wheat. If sume lower against wv" wheat number ern, | Jar | the offic e Was mov y grades: ale of thi two north cons?r- graded which would be ve vative, and allowing for freight, the movement of wheat from the} farmers would represent the pus- ting into circulation of something like 00,000 between Septem der first and December 21st. ‘The circulation of so large a volume of | even though the profit to; mer on his wheat has been a in some cas has had a profound effect financially and psychologic poss’bly the latter being the profound effect of the two, money that has come from wheat there must be added the sales of the sales of live- only since September, throughout the-year, and the inconsiderable urns from , vegetables | stock, not but not poultry, buiter, che and hone; A great volume of money has moved. | Granted the volume has not been | at all in proportion to the value of the product and that .what the farmer has had to buy has been much higher in price than what he has had to si the mere fact of the money moving, stimulated busi-| ness of all kinds,and generally proved the outlook of both farmers | and busines i Fall trade in heavy clotaing and winter supplies has been undoubt-j cdly curtailed by the extremely fine weather, but Christmas trade in all] lines is generally admitted to have been better than expected. While the extra fine weather has had its drawbacks, not only for the merchants but for the farmers also in the matter of th able farm products, it has compensating advantages in the ©} portunitibs of moving grain. te narekt more Cheaply than it be done in extremely cold weather, in getting threshing well cleaned up and in the preparation of large areas of land for next season, | Tie west may ‘he said to be in| excellent shape for seeding next! spring. | While the exceptionally heavy} crop in Alberta amd in ports of | n has been a mate ng, the lowness of the! 1 while an evil, is possibly} an unmixed evil. The narrow of the margin of profit, if an checking any tendency to in- crease acreages and it is quite} among the possibilities that there will be a Jat decrease in wheat | acreages year. On the other hand there will be a greatly in- creased acreage of fodder, corn nd forage crops in all the pro- neces, bundant the prices low, the Ih | Feed of all kinds is very this winter, and, while] of livestock have been mers are slowly [but ng that it pays to feed ain crops and have them walic off the farms on four, feet, while jthere is no doubt that the tremend- ous losses of livestock in Bri to due suggests foot and mouth dise to the western farmer that ‘his stock will be needed next pring, if in good condition for ipping, and he is figuring that while he has lost somethi i |fall owing to the imp jmoving stock Bri i while | these quarantines are in force, he make nds to it again next. pro- honest-to-goodne*s mpany in operation jand the demand for loans to bu |cattle for feeding show that wl | Manitoba was short on wheat ow- jing to rust, she has abundance of jfeed and is making good use of it. The demand for breediniz sows and ewes and the demand for dairy cows, due to freshen immediately, are all heathy signs that point to the fact that in spite of low prices western farmers are resolutely prepared to carry on, and to, ‘as |soon as possible, so change their |farming methods as to both lessen | the cost of production and of mar- keting. In quite a number of sections of the west, Boards of Trade are com- ing to the assistance of the farm- {ers in the matter of the puri | of dairy cows and similar effo. jhelp along the necessary 1 |from exclusive grain to more ied farming, a change whch scr people seem to ‘forget cannot be made over-night or made without the expenditure of a certain amount of money.—Winnipeg Free Press. lv Eskimos in the Canadian north- west have asked the Anglican church to send missionaries to offset the de- ‘whites. The pigmy camel belongs to a spe- cies found only in western Persia. It ._. 48 only five feet high and snow. white, | 4 my lly im-|* | up pillows as though ‘he had lost his THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE AND EVERY TmE IWISH | HADNT COME Yen! weTaxe Tus * LiMfle CRuIse ABOUT This Time EVERY YEAR ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS nose! “Achoo! By Olive Roberts Barton the Sandman by surprise that he alropped his bag, Away went Nancy and Nick and} and the str Daddy Gander on tip magic dustpan | the sand fle to hunt for the pies and cakes and | Woman’s nice clean floor. ive cream that had been stolen from | “Now, you've done it!” Jack and Jill's party Daddy Gander, forgetting all about The magic dustpan had grown as | hiding, “a nice muss you've made!” big us a magic carpet and the’ three of them were quite comfortable. “Muss” exclaimed the “Fuss, you mean Sandman. Who did all that ] | Now I don’t know what made him |do it, whether a bit of the Sand- | man’, t got out of his bag, or But something got up Achoo! was ‘so taken g dropped off and all out right on the Old cried he increased about Invention is the y Auto production 50 per cent in 1923 mother’ of nece Those wanting us to take part in European affairs think necessity the mother of intervention. “Oh, 1 dp’ hope Mother Goose will | Sneezing. It nearly: seared me to 3) away until it's all over!” said | death.” ree riendly wi 1 Jer “Wouldn’t I be in But instead of answering him, Abas he too eed bank a pretty pickle if she’d come home | didn’t all three of them start to hier, No MG mea en he wil now and find that l’a let everybody | sneeze in. It must have been VOREtOV EO) as stay out of bed at this hour~and to } the sleepy sand that got into their : nik sO 0 Lea! hn |noses. And at every sneeze more |, The clauses in the new arene “Oh, look!” cried Nancy Jdoking,|Sisepy..sand. flew out of. the, door. | Mil Which are designed to reduce Om hiathecH Pin devon) doled waeroee ante te nieN mecoE sedi ol (straccyandi tuxes) azo) TeeuIReASeriayC Anes. ee light Do you [over the tops of three houses to he , ¢ YO" l the house that J@ek built where the} Loose rugs are very icanmerouss Daddy Gander oper tle | meatyawes devAndisevaryglnst toneqat)|im sucson, Ariz 1} 24 robbed IEE edge of the quee “yes, | thé merrymakers fell asleep on one and almost got caught. sir! It. must be,” he laimed. ‘Oh. it was a dreadful state of af- ‘ ae a Fe iioae tRBee aS Ie “and. heteaid |fairs! And the pies still missing! Alligator bit a New Yorker during (Copyright, 1 hich stopped immediately and in to descend. landed rifat beside the Shoe. teh door MARKETING ORG was open a s So. very the . them peeped in, and who, my dears. do you’ s'pose was ther Mister | culture on the farm project undmai He was rushing about |4s “The Argonne Farms” near Or. from crib to crib and cot to cot, | hard Lake, Minne: rection of the U. pulling down covers and plumping eau, hi H (To Be Continued. ) Service, Inc.) VETERANS INCORPORATE NIZATION . Veterans ve ‘incorporated a marketing The disabled veterans of the World War who are taking training in i ta, under the di- Bur- the holidays. Strange it didn’t make the alligator drunk. Caught 2 fake dentist in Brooklyn. The jail should be guarded heavily against possible mobs. Los Angeles man asks divorce be- cause she doesn’t eat grapefruit in- stead of because she does. * A Jersey cow walked into the Ok- lahoma City courthouse, probably at- sens | organization under the title “The| tected by the bulls a “E y last one of them!” he kept | Argonne Egg and Berry Association” A ing over and over. very one |for the purpose of collective selling] D¥-,Thorek-af Chicago has a new | and b F. E. Reese, gone as a rabbit’s tail, What can he Old Woman be thinking of to| keep her children up so late? And if she ‘has lost her senses, where can Mother Goose be to allow such carrying on. And last of all—where | can the children be? How am I ever to drop sand into their eyes?” rs president; consisting of shares of $25 each. The officers elected are Charles A. ice-president; Richard Lewis, secretary; and 'Einer Selstad, surer, besides a Board of Directors, x members. capitalized at $2500," divided into It EVERETT TRUE YOU DiD!— TEE-HEE— WHO SAID SO? Aw, YEs YOU DID! — WHAT BY CONDO — TEE-NEE — YEAH — WHAT ?— YEAHD), — NEVER BEEN KISSED? — TEE -HESE-HEE- HES Vou TELL THE WORLD! —— Arai ya | NEan, You 3oReE Do! — CISTEN— I'M/ 4 ) trea- cure for bone trouble. tried on political head’. It could be Only 26 men. are running for president of Nicaragua, but then ‘| Nicaragua is a very small place. , Germany's _ex-crown prince is learning aviation. It’s time. He has been up in the air six years. London women are wearing pan- talettes. You know what they are Look as if a safety pin slipped. News from South Africa. Pound hailstones fell:: Big as ostrich eggs instead of big as hen eggs. Henry Fagd gets 1500 letters a day asking for money, but that dcesn't cost Henry anything. | Chicago pickpocket got caught. Says he robbed 12 a day. He was doing his daily dézen. Even singing is dangerous. A former college glee club member is in Chicago grand opera now. Boston still blew up, as cops en- tered. What a warm reception! And the drinks were on the house. Prof. Ward of Harvard says ice- bergs are overestimated. true of human ones, also. St.-Louis man threw an ax at her, So she got a divorce. Women are nice, but so fickle. | Ome “New York jazz orchestra ead makes $5,000 a week, but look at the exercise he takes! Seattle man hit off two of a rob- ber’s fingers, so now Seattle cops are trying to match them. eae Less than eleven .months before Christmas. Save early. WILD ROSE. Miss Ellan Jager, who has been spending the holidays with relatives in Bismarck returned to her school New Year's day. 1 \ ‘| | A surprise party was given at the ‘home of Mr. and Mrs. W: | Brownawell on New: Years night, in honor of the thirteenth wedding an- niversary of Mr.,and Mrs. Brown- jawell.. About twenty guests’ were jen and the evening was spent ‘ at whist. At midnight a lunch was served by the ladies. ‘Mr. and Mrs. This is|- was assessed say for $2500.00 he was allowed $500.00 exemptions, and. the balance was assessed at 50 per cent this at LETTER FROM RICHARD MERS TO BEATRICE GRI SHAW, CONTINUED Poor old Abey Einstein is bling in the kneés. until he hardly stand upright. He cami almost wept. on my shoulde morning as he explained to ,m he was so deadly afraid Carto going to marry Miss Perier an. her out of business, She has made him over a n The other night at the Amb: she insisted I should come o sit at the table where she wa: ing with Carton. I happened to mentien you cn Prescott and guid I had re a letter from you recently in you had told how devoted Perier, For a si was going to faint. to have thought so, too, for I him say under his breath, up, Paula, buck up, You ean’ it now.” The girl, with the greatest age, did buck up. She lifted th dest eyes I have ever seen to and said, “I expect one of the self to Dick.” anything but het since she has been out here. rather sorry. day tl been Brownawell were presented rocking chaix by their friends with a Mrs. John Peterson and daughter have returned from dock. is visiting with Miss Ada Sevil Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Petersoi family, John Peterson and Sam Gooding and family Olaf Felthrim where a famil; union was held. George perhaps the best friend of John Olson of Bismarck, sl ‘M- trem- pcan ne and r this e that n was id take million dollars ;already on that picture. ador y and s din- were ce: w Li Prescott was to her adopted baby I don't know why, but at that mo- ment I was looking straight at Miss ‘ond I thought she Carton seemed heard “Buck t help cour- e sad- mine penal- | ties that comes to a moving picture actress is that she cannot devote her- | work, I wonder if I have told you that Paula has lost all her French accent; well, It is because the matern am She told me the other) a studyin infant Brad- s Bonny Reamann of Braddock, le. in and and family spent Xmas at Braddock at the home of ly re- is spending his vacation visiting with friends in this vicinity. Miss Florence Odell, will return} Friday from Belfour, where she has been spending the holidays vi with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Brownawell} of this vicinity announced the ald Snyder of Bismarck. The on December 19th. Bismarck who have received 1923 personal property tax n tax payers why their taxes are three times more than they we the previous year, 1922, owners say we have no more our taxes should be less, becat furniture is getting older e Under the assessment laws in lows: Class 1—Included the which shall be valued and as: at 100 per cent of the full an value. lic Utilities. Structures thereon, All land, exclus City lo following All Railroads and other Pub- siting mar- riage of their daughter Hope to Don- mar- riage took place at Moorh@ad, Minn.. \PEOPLE’S FORUM | e o> ANENT PERSONAL TAXES Editor Tribune: There has been a great deai of complaint from the tax payers: of their, otices. I have been asked by a number of about re for Property furni ture than we had the previous year, force in 1922 property was listed as fol- sessed d true jive of ts, all Bank Stock, Flour Mills, Elevators, Warehouses and Storehouses, provements on city lots business purposes. Class 2—This includes all of personal property, such as hold goods and furniture, cl town or city lots. perty was assessed at 50 per c its true and full value. ‘Exemptions. All farm buil were exempted from taxation, of $300.00 on household good: longings, an exemption of $300 $500.00 exemption on the tool. machinery of a/farmer. tools of a working man ‘or mecki build- ings and improvements on Railroad rights of way, all structures and im- used for kinds live- stock, goods and merchandise, hose- othing and other belongings, structures: and improvements used for homes upon This class of pro“ ent of Idings , also there was an exemption of $500.00 on homes on city lots, an exemption is and furniture, and exemption of $300.00 on clothing and othr personal be- .00 on ic, js and The Legislature of 1923 passed a improvements on farm lands, placing all property on a 75 pe taxable basis. For, instance in 1922, a man’s which would be $1000.00, new assessment law doing away with all exemptions, except buildings and and r cent home $4.60 on the one hundred dollars val- uation would be $46.00. presént law if his home is as: Under the sessed at $2500.00 he is taxed on 75 per cent of this amount wHich is $1275.00 and at the present rate of over $5.50 on the one hundred dollars tion, his taxes would be $103.1; man were goods and furniture an $500.0 uation, the exemption of would be taxed at'50 per cent would be $100.00 valuation, Under the old law if a man or wo- assessed on housekold $300.00 would be deducted and the remainder | valua- 3. 0 val- which this would ‘make a tax of $4.60, and road and school polls $3.50 making of $8.10. Under the present-la agsessed $500,00 on household if you are a tax goods, you are taxed on 75 per cent of thi: ‘amount which would be $375.00 and| at the present rate bf about $5.59 on the one hundred dollars the tax would be $20.62 and added for’ road and ’ school would make the.taxes $24.12. valustion ' $3.50 polls Vv jevery minute she has had away from | the studio. , She is a great woman and I con- fess I was rather flabbergasted when for the first time, at that table, she called me by my first name. T also rather mystified by her asse tion that, a moving picture actress has no right to love and mother- hood. I cited the fact that while many of the women of the screen had not married, they had adopted children, and some of them had told me they were sure they knew no difference in the love they bore these children than if they had been born to them. Eagerly Paula turned to Carton and said, “Do you think I might adopt him? Db you think I might?” “Tam afraid not, Pa swered somewhat coldly. She cowered down in her chair and said, “Take me home, Dick, take me ome. I thought it was very strange that | she should turn to me instead of to | Carton, and | remarked apolozeti- cally, “I will take Miss Perier home if you do not object.” He answered most nonchalantly, and it seemed to me rather unfecl- ingly, “Not in the least, my dear fellow, not in the least.” T never felt so sorry for any wo- man in my life as I did for that poor girl on the way home. She wept until it seemed to me she would dis. solve in. tears. I know now why. she played that part in “Trumping His Heart" so is greater tha | stinet in her thing else. ight \ (Cop: On clothing, under ‘the old law you were exempt $300.00, and few people paid any tax on clothing. Now you are taxed on 75 per cent of whatever value your assessment was, ioods and merchandise are taxed at per cent, instead of 50 per cent under the old law. Farm lands, city lots, Railroads, Elevators, All Public Utilities, all buildings used for business purposes are taxed on 75 per cent valuation, instead of 100 per cent valuation un- der the old law. The way to reduce taxes is to practice economy in all departments. from the State down to the lowest taxing body. Yours truly, W. A. Falconer, City Assessor. MANDAN NEWS D PLEAD GUILTY Sam Hobcin of Judson and Fred Koopp living near Mandan, both farmers, were each sentenced to six ‘months in the county jail and te pay a fine of $500 and costs when they entered pleas of guilty tq violation of the Volstead act before Judge H. L. Berry in district court yesterday. Judge Berry upon pleas of the two {for clemency suspended the jail sen- ‘tences and fines upon good behavior but assured the offenders that any \further dabbling in moonshine would be sufficient cause for exaction of {the full penalty as well as additional future penalties. He gave them free- dom upon payment of $50 costs in either case. o———_- (Ad THE MOVIES | o THE ELTINGE. Among the best of the novels this last year Cynthia Stockley's “Pon- jola” is one of the foremost. The picture, no less interesting and en- tertaining, comes to the Eltinge Mon- day and faesday with Anna Q. Nils- son, James Kirkwood and Tully Mar- shall heading the cas¢. CAPITOL. A picturized drama of passions, set in an elemental background of the tropies where the worst frem white man’s civilization congregate, and great typhoon-bringing* siopns destroy as with a hreath, opened last night at the Capitol theater. ‘Thun- dering Dawn,” is the title and it is a Universal Super-Jewel picture, starring J. Warren Kerrigan, .the popular screen favorite. He depicts 8 vigorous young American who falls a victim to the rampant vice of. a Javanese tropical port. A powenful conflict is maintained when his financee, played by Anna Q. Nilsson, chances a voyage to where her lover resides, in order that she might aid him to recuperate and return to a white man’s level. She must not only battle his drug and drink ‘cravings, but the wiles of a crafty half-caste beauty who looks upon all men as her prey, and who has fallen madly in love with the young newcomer from the States. Interesting episodes swiftly un- ravel in the loca} “Honkey Tonk,” a gaming resort maintained by ‘the “Professor,” played by Richard Kean, a Shakespearean star for thirty years. There; “a picturesque pack of knaves, the outcasts af every land, congregate to gamble, drink, love and brawl. Kerrigan has the role of Jack Standish who leaves Boston sud- denly in order that guilt for busi- ness defalcations would point only to himself, rather than to his \aged father. KONDON’S lh for Cold in Head, doing good. Doctors, Dent Sees recommend it, Ask for sam, aula,” he any >