The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 18, 1924, Page 2

WU Under League Plan prise the high worked out by school league Edgar Houser, the high school zue is’ under way more than YW be playing basketball and ¢ io the high school who de This is bel to play may do so, athletes in one in basketball The gue and six in another to the regular first squad high school. There class’ teams among the number, other teams will be to classes opment of the ers of the high school is ly in the league school participati in of t Fargo, Pz To ‘30-Year Men’ (Continued from Page 1) “LT believe that the Journal, my paper, has a m perform in the black and w country.” Be on munity. “It is time smutty stories poor newspaper man. anything in your “the we got newspaper is not business on a strictly business b: with the idea of securing er diversification. r $50,000,000 loan bill i Union Label Law .. Regarding the union label which requires the union label state printing, Mr. ing that the law be tested. case arise. This probably will the future, he said. \ ‘The editors will be in ses \tomorrow. On Saturday, Farmer Found — Strangled Under H Washburn N. D, fder Singer, 31 years old, jthe vicinity of Mercer, Istrangled to death (ner -pinned helple was y three young men of W. trip to Mercer. were Archie Nelson, M Ole Olson. The on a grade ju the ear, it ithe ditch. They immediately jthat.a body was under the r.jover sless*body of Mr. Singer Singer was |\down, had slowly turned a deep black. was unable to escape came. The boys on questioning the until ‘had gone into Mercer to get help. ; hi ICE CARNIVAL. Fargo, Jan. 18.—Fargo’s ice carnival, postponed from “held on Saturday, Jan. 26 on of the.¥. M. C. A., announced. The occasion will consist of night. MOTHER! i i “California Fig Syrup” pe will be ten teams in one le: addition younger play sought es level” with your co: xteen basketball teams will com-; being athle to be a record number of high saWoel ng | 2 will be distinct and picked without Editors, Gathering In y Tribute New Salem m ay from | d articles about the Never permit that carries the idea that your newspaper a business institution, doing Support the 40-acre-plus campaign | more ng of corn and a bigger and bet- Support the Coul- | laws Sullivan said the association had gone on record ask- Cour, has advised that the law is uncon- stitutional but there must be a test sel in ion also innesota jeditors will join the North Dakotans, Overturned Auto| an, 17.—Alexan- farmer in| found dd Robert W: Sunday morn- ing under their overturned Ford car, hburn, ho were returning from a business ‘an- lad | found that Henry Gessle had passed by the car a few minutes before, but was unable to turn the car over, and A few ‘minutes after the boys had ar- | rived on the scene Gessle- returned | witha bunch of men from Mercer. ‘annual the | usual New Year date because of un- favorable weather conditions, will be the Island Park rink, Roy L. Humphreys, boys secretary and -physical director 15 speed skating events, during the day and @ masquerade and carnival at | "Clean Child’s Bowels With Ed Hurry Mother’ Even constipa! bilious, feverish, or sick,: colic Pt “California Fig Syrup.” bowels so nicely. els. without griping. ctions. ted, | Ba- Children love to take gen- | No laxative regulates the tender! It sweetens | h and starts the liver and Contains | fcotics or soothing drugs. Say nia” to your druygist and oid. terfeits. Insist upon gen- p ny Se Fig Syrup” which MINTA |ED DIVORC BUCKLE Island, ito back any divorce disputably jAnd now it is | So did Mrs. in Paris. sessi [cision. ; whose ert J. The boys who made the discovery rtin Ness and accident happened few miles out of Mercer, and when the boys got to laying upside down in saw cur and as {quigkly as possible they turned the } d then found the life- | and the 10 vas pinned under laying cross-; : . the | weight of the car, which had the top| strangled him to death, for the face of the man had | The body of | the dead man had held the car more | or less off the boy, but the lad’s legs were pinned under the body and he| help! pekers’ It has alrea |ber of western stage and film folk,| bent on an eas Minta Durfee, wife of “Fatty” buckle, got her divorce here recently. | the stage and screen star. Pearl White is reported to established residence here, although | court that grants it! her representatives say she is now! of the Superior Court, petitions for divorce were heard, which 143 were granted immediate- | vorces. ly and 18 were held up for later de- | ,| the ea: Rhode | For in th 18, eems ready is, © off the map as the paradise, ady established itself in- s the Reno of the East.|And all that is required for sta sts an action of two y Under the attracting a large num- ars. y divorce. | Lowell She: | ible to get 161) this ring yet. Among the latter was the case of | being investigated. Nina Wilcox Putnam, tion for divorce from Rob- anderson, jand then vacated, when charges were| pared for enactment by the legisla- noted author was first granted,! tions in divorce | made that she hadn't been a resident| ture. It is recommended lof the state for the required two| Flynn. years. “If the legislature adopts the re-|tioner in practically every commendations which I made,” says It was the spotlight of publicity] the governor, “it will check the mis-| appear in court. They go on with Divorce Easy throwing a new light on the evils of ¢ state the grounds of divorce are many, ranging from the | usual statutory offense and refusal to support for a yi a residence in the state | deposition Ar-| which the petitioner merely swears to his charges in the private ofiices| man, wife of | of a Master in Chancery, it is poss- a divorce decree without have/ the principals ever going near the legislators believe, that of big money in getting these easy di- But its activities a Governor Acts A bill to cut down the use of depo: BISMA) is 16 BASKETBALL” 143 Divorces in Four Days in Rhode Island Divorce Mil! _|| TEAMS INH. 8. £ Record Number to Play Game Nut DURF WHO SECUR- PEARL WHITE, FI nop OPA ” a AAT 2 Ww sh OR. »ptp IS REPORTED TO HAV E FROM “FATTY” AR- AUTHOR, WHOSE DIVORCE PETL LISHED RESIDENCE IN RHODE IN RHODE ISLAND. TION IS: PENDING, LAND. {thrown on this case that is now, use of Rhode Island courts as an in- Island divorce, | agree with him. to noglect | g, ur. id simply, “It work: ting | explained. | conn ction, or some gets its clients to coi plan, by! taking of testimony Chancery. is ge The master di the merits of the Nothing has been proved agoinst | referee in other states. records the testimony. “This then is neatly typed, whip- | ped into legal form, cases is being pre- divorce cases. He by Gov. “And the decision strument for securing divorce.” And legislators of The operations of this ring ‘are “Through its New York “Then after the residence require- ment is fullfilled, the case is filed in court, and an order obtained for the “There are some 50 of these in the state, and the lawyer has the privi- It is the ‘ease with which this is! lege of going to the one he chooses. | done that has led to the formation of | In the first four days of the new) a Divorce Ring, lawyers, jurists and | takes the testimony of the petitioner making} and the two witnesses in his own “This master, acting for the court, = \to the Superior Court. 'to one of the justices handling the mony and nfikes his de “Meanwhile the principals needn't RIBUNE state. | And the whole thing is for the lawyer.” State officials, | their shoulders when the divorces,” say | ize, first to take action. dealings, {law in the land. than in most other maybe that’s supposed to be easier.” Would a uniform the situation? rows went on. For the LM STAR, WHO ESTAB- H. L. of the stute, both pacties i “The courts,” ho le. an investigutor other, the group me to this state.! ring divorce matters is Dougherty. by a Master in oes not pass on case, a3 does a He merely “Sometimes: the sealed and sent There it goes|a year. reads the testi-/it is only talk, as far as I know.’ sion. But whether it is only talk, it is is for the peti- case, asked ferent in so many states seems almost impossible to get all states to agree on one law. 7 “Look at South Carolina without any grounds for divorce at all!” Carpenter, attorney general believes that part of the laxity is due to the courts. says, scrutinize cases thoroughly enough. They should be more rigid in deter- mining the residence period. “As to the Divorce Ring—all we can do about it’ now is wonder. One of the leading attorneys hand- Francis Courts Crowded “I guess I handle more cases than any lawyer in the state,” “Among them were the Mrs, Arbuckle and the Lowell Sherman cases. “Sometimes I have handled 20 of jthem in less than one hour. “I do not think that the divorce law is any more lax in Rhode Island than it is in most other states. calendar crowded with such actions. is because the court lets the cases pile up for long periods and then cleans them all out about four times | their own affairs, often outside the Usually the lawyer's word is taken for the residence of his client. a simple, { painless process—and’ very eemeste| court justices leading lawyers in this eity shrug} about | | “There have been intimations of a crooked ring trying to put over easy Superior Court Jus- tice Chester W. Barrows, who heard | |the Nina Wilcox Putnam case. “ |there hag been nothing more.” “If ever these intimations crystal-/ ' this court, will be one of the The difficulties | that arise in this state are the diffi- culties that arise in any state. person is going to be crooked in his| he probably can beat any| “Perhaps the grounds for divorce | are more numerous in Rhode Island| states. why divorce here Uniform Law Needed divorce throughout the country help remedy “Of course it would,” Justice Bar- “But I think that such a law would be difficult to enact. ses of divorce are so dif- that “do he said. “As for the talk. about a Rirg— such talk that is lending momentum to the movement started in Washing- ton to get a uniform marriage and divorce law throughout the ¢ountry. Ifa And seems But that COMPANY “A” CASE AGAIN TRIED HERE Eleven Jurors Agreed on By Parties in Personal Prop- erty Conversion Case and| But | ional Guard Training school, Bis marek, against E. A. Hughes for damages for ‘alleged conversion of personal proerty which was in the old armory when the National Guard | company was mustered into service for the World War opened today in district court. Judge Charles E Wolfe of Wahpeton is presiding, t defendant having filed an affidavit of prejudice against Judge James A. Coffey. The case was tried once before in district court here, and Company A was given a verdict of $6,000 against Mr. Hughes. The latter appealed the case to the Supreme court. The majority of the court held that con- version of property was established and the verdict was proper in this respect, but that the testimony of officers of the guard with reference to the value of various articles al- leged to have been taken was not proper a& “expert testimony” and! sent the case back for a new trial. Particular emphasis Is expected to he devoted in the present case to the question of the value of the prop erty. E. A. Hughes was the first witness, being called under the stat- ute for cross examination. A considerable time was taken In the selection of a jury, The case opened with a brief statement by Theodorg Koffe¥, an attorney for Company A, and examination of jur- crs followed. The panel was exhaust- law it not Pp with J1 jurors. Under a new law five-sixths of a jury of 12, or 10 mem- bers, can render a verdict in a civil ease after being out 12 hour Members of the jury are: L. B. Olson, Andrew Nelson, John Barbie, Wm. ‘Peterson, Thos. Hanlon, Bert Glanvile, Lawrence Backman, Charles Berger, Mick Yochim, Hugo Solberg, F. If. Schroeder, Yesterday the case of J. E. Baker against J. E. Tierney was F aottleas and-a jury returned a verdict in fa- against Oliver Christopherson, as garnishee, for $1,115.45 with inter- est from June 10, 1922, on a note. COUNTIES PLAN JOINT ROAD. Wishék, N. D., Jan. 18.—Joint construction of a 43-mile federal aid Trial of the case of Company A, | ed and both sides agreed to a trial | vor of the estate of Lydvig Koffel! FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1924 Commerce, the local civie orgariza- | tion was notified today. It is expect- M bring ap- ‘highway is planned by. the commis- ners of Logan and Meintosh coun- ties. Plans outlined call for a road /ed that the meeting to begin at Fredonia and run three proximately 100 busines Men and [miles south to the Logan-McIntosh | railroad officials to the city on that line; the road will then fol- | datg. low the county line for miles to, At the present time the board is a point h Wishek, thence ing in Minneapolis. through hek and west om the qyansportation problems are among | highway now completed and from the | the subjects considered as paramount weat endof this highway it will cOn-|isqes for the board's consideration. ‘tinue west 11 miles to the Emmons pg Oe county line. ae - PHOTOGRAPHS MT. WHITNEY. Stanley, 'N 18—How a st Rice of this city, |Advisory Board Lieutenant George Rice, recently as Meeting Set sisted in securing the first photo of — America’s highest mountain peak, Mt. i jnot, Jan. 18—The Northwest Whitney in southern California, | Regional ‘Advisory bo: con ne feet above sea level, is told i \of railroad executives and ‘prominent papers received here containing |business leaders of -the stat@ of sccountsof the venture. In order |North Dakota, Minnesota, South Da- sceure the photo, it was n kota and Montana will hold its next for the airplane pilot to « | quarterly meeting in Minot on March machine to an altitude of 15 \18, having accepted an invitation ten-| and to-mect a temperature of 10 de- dered by the Minot Asso grees below zero Asp SAY ‘‘BAYER” when you tuy-Gonuine Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for Colds Headache Neuralgia Pain Laie Neuritis Accept oul which*conta Handy “Bayer” Also bottles of Aspirin Is the trade saark of Rayer Manufacture of Monoae nephew of Forr: \ | | Lumbago Rheumatism “Bayer” package a A ed proven directions. boxes of 12 tablets 4 and 100—Druggists. acidester of Sallcyticacid Current Business Conditions The Past Year and the Coming One By GEORGE E. ROBERTS (From tlie Bank Letter for JANUARY, Issued by The National City Bank of New York) The year which has just closed has seen production in the United States in nearly all lines either at the high- est level ever reached or very close thereto. The yield of farm crops was slightly below that of 1922, but the official valuation for 1920 is $8,- 322,695,000 against $7,449,804,000 in 1922, This increase, however, was largely in cotton and corn, and the figures for these crops are somewhat misleading as indicators of prosper- ity, inasmuch as in the case of cotton they represent a high price for a small yield grown on a large acre- age, and in the case of corn the crop is mainly fed on the farms. Agriculture in miany localities is still laboring under difficulties mainly due to unbalanced price relations. Since the outbreak of the great war the industrial and business situa- tion has experienced many violent changes, some of them highly stim- ulating and some of them very de- pressing. It is in the nature of things that such violent changes can- not be all in one direction. As we get farther away from the war the natural tendency is to greater stabil- ity, and the past year has shown this characteristic. The price move- ments have been moderate. The Bureau of Labor’s average of index numbers for 404 commodities stood i 156 for January, rose to 159 for larch and April, Beclined to 150 for August, rose to 153 for and declined slightly thereafter. Except for an advance of 34 per cent in the discount rate of the reserve banks of Boston, New York and San Fran- cisco in February, the discount rate of all the reserve banks has stood at #4 per cent throughout the year. The rediscounts and advances of the reserve banks stood at $628,000,000 at the date of the first statement in January, rose to $730,000,000 on May 2, touched the high point of the year at $930,000,000 on a Fick cember 19 stood at $750,000,000. A better showing of uniformit Reciucss at a Riek tecot cheld oer Ge asked for. Danger of Czisis Not Passed The great slump of 1920 and 1921 was the natural corollary of the great tise of prices and of credit which had occurred, No iMetineés isis ever has occurred ua- : preceded by a marked expansion ‘ef credit, and nome need be looked ifor until such an expansion has oc- ‘curred. We are not iree trom danger ‘ef it: the continuing importations of ) s] Keep us on our in 1923 they have been greater than 922, reaching approximately ‘the United States can large # Jaedenar deal the equipment of their industries as they have done in the past year. There is no lack of work to be done. The chief occupation of the Amer- ican people is that of supplying their own wants, but that their foreign trade is of a stable character the sustained exports of the last two years have shown, Our trade out- side of Europe is growing. The bal- ance between agriculture and the other industries is in the way of be- ing restored, and if we will be sat- isfied with steady business, without a boom, there is good reason to ex- pect that our hopes will be gratified in 1924, The Industrial Equilibrium , The features of the present situa- tion which are unsatisfactory are all due to disturbance of the industrial equilibrium. The tire industry for example has been suffering from over-expansion. Fundamentally, the industry is in a strong position, for the number of automobiles in use has been rapidly increasing, but the tire business has been overstimulated by its own pros- perity. -It suffered in the general slump of 1921, but the unfavorable conditions of late are due to its oyer- development. The situation affords an illustration of the industrial troubles for which the various branches of industry are themselves responsible, and which can be rem- edied by themselves alone. The copper-producing industry has been in an unsatisfactory state in the last half of the year, with an ontput enough over the demand to ae mate One Sena 2 tl t le consumption United States is large, world marlbes do not take what they would if ip dustrial order was lishe! in Europe and normal development wes going on, Another reason is that increasing quantities of coppar have been coming at lew cost from new ore bodies, upon which great saw of capital have been expended, eed this competition i» felt ee the high- spat producers, The first of these is one of the effects of the war; the other is 2 condities $e which every industry ie subject The oil iadustry has been d¢epress- ed by ar extraordinary flow from newly discovered pools. is acteristic of this industry that pro- duction and consumption are seldom closely balanced. The latter steadily increases while the former is affect. ed by the discovery aad exbaustien of new fields of suppl ‘The Seather industry is another in which demand and supply. are not naturally co-ordinated, because idee the raw material, are a by-product, not produced independently.. Cattle the effects of over-development, brought about by over-stimulation, resulting in part from heavy war de- mands but more from wage-disputes and repeated suspension of opera- tions, The effect of thess suspen- sions has been to create artificial shortages and to Concentrate de- mands within short periods of time, thus offering inducements for the opening of new mines and attracting more workers to the industry than can have continuous employment in it. ‘As a result wages are based upon the expectation of a large amount of idle time, and coal is made unreason- ably dear to the industries and all consumers, It is another case of dis- turbed equilibrium. The wheat-producing industry was very much disturbed by the war. Previously, an important part of the supplies received by importihg coun- tries came from Russia and the Balkan countries; the war cut off these supplies, which greatly stimu- lated production in other countries, notably the United States and Can- ada, Since the war grain production has recovered all over Europe, and Russia has reappeared as an export- er, with the result that there is an over-supply of wheat, The United States ‘has reduced its acreage in some degree, but not to the pre-war area, while Canada and Argentina are producing much more than here tofore. This is a case where pro duction was creased to ett an emergency and the emergency hav. eg passed it should be accordingly veruoed. Cotton Goods Industry ‘The cotton gnods industry has been @imarbed by 28 infucnss operating te es An eops in sacreuon geocks have been weiered slarmingly tow, the price of the ray material has advanced so vrpidly thet manufacturers are un- willing to make up gi except upon ereer, and merchant hesitate to give erders at a level much above that to which consumers are accustomed. The norma! equilibrium ‘between the yaw material.and cloth, and between eotton goods and other commodi- ties is disturbed and affects the in- + dustry unfayorably. Although cotton brings a high price, the growers are fecetving it upon a small yield grown ever a large acreage at high cost, and the benefits of the high price are very unequally distributed over -dif- ferent localities. ‘Wool is usually classed as an agri- cultural product, although only a relatively small-portion of the world supplies is produced on farms. The number of sheep in all countries has been largely reduced and the wool 'a de of have been forced on the market in situation is unbalanced by reason of ‘img ‘the unsettled conditions in En- the last four years faster than hides short - supplies. ‘As in Lf ‘case. of jrope. The recard of 1925 can be re- Yare beget nll nsices, eve. Mees cofton there is nothing’ that: consum- peated if the American people but depressed; another case of disturbed ers can do but pay the rising prices, have the courage to EP cae with the equilibriam, or do without, until a de- ‘development of their resources s0@ + The coal industry is suffering from Band. come into. equilib eth During the war the demand for beef cattle was so great that prices rose, making beei-production unusu- ally profitable, and beei- “producer:, like tire-producers im the past y strove to increase their output. Ti production is increased by factory- extensions, new equipment and more workmen, but beef-production is in- creased by the slower process 9) building up herds, Individual grow ers, however, were tempted to crease their own production by buy ing stock cattle from each other, the effects*of which were to run up prices and get many of them deeply into debt. When the demand for beef for the armies fell off and industrial Ue- pression spread over the world, beei consumption fell off, prices fell, and stock-growers who had borrowed money to pay for cattle at high prices have been obliged to sell thei in markets overloaded offerings. _ The situation was, balanced one way when the grow were bidding against each other i: their efforts to increase their het and unbalanced the other way wh they were trying to sell in ma where sellers greatly outnum)e buyers. Growth of Hog IV Corn and hogs are com closely telated in the marketing ji cess and in values. For several yo. prior to 1923 the equilibrium between them was lost, hogs bringing ‘ela- tively higher prices. The effect of this situation was to stimulate ihe breeding of more hogs, until in ih past year the number marketed ¥ 34 per cent larger than in 1922. This the situation over, h the balance the other way. Thete are other cases that might be mentioned to illustrate’ the im= portance of balanced relations ‘se- tween the various independent *ac- tors in industry and to show that the adjustment and regulation %f these relations must be managed by the Parties immediately, concerned. The entire fystem of interchange by which the. wants of society are-sup- plied is regulated by the fluctuation of prices. Over-development ny- where is corrected by'a fall of prices and under-development is corrected by_a rise of prices, atid all this regu- lation is accomplished far more ci- fectively by the free play of natural forces than it can be done by gov- ernment regulation, The: latter would ire ‘a dictatorship not only ‘over prices but over all industry, regulat- ing’ indiyidual activities -and doin away’ with individual judgment “and individual independence. None’ of {the cases of maladjust- ment mentioned above have been caused, by governmental action, ¢x- cept*in the general sense that gov- ernments were responsible for the ‘war, and. governments cannot cure them: * Any attempt by the govern- - ment to remédy them would: inter- fere with the natural readjustments | and delay recovery, % race . Are YOU getting your share of the big money “SHUBERT” is paying for furs? If you're not, that’s your fauit. Wake up! Get “SHUBERT” prices for your furs ffom now on— just take a look'at the prices quoted below for North Dakota Furs! That’s what “SHUBERT” will pay on an honest and liberal grading. Our shippers right in your own neighbor- hood are reaping a golden} harvest. Get in on this big money. COME ON WITH YOUR FURS MUSKRAT [25000 2.10] 1.85to 1.45] 1.40to .90| .85 to 45 .85to 35} 225to 1.65| 1.50%0 1.25| 1.10to .80| .65to .45 150to 1.10| 1.00to .75| .65to .40| .35to .25 MEDIUM, To AVERAGE Nol SMALL NS EXTRA TO AVERAGE [AS TO SIZE 6 QUALITY Net LARGE | Ne! EXTRA TO AVERAGE | CX7 65to .30 35to .15) GOOD UNPRIME 5 lAstoSize&Quality| Wo, EXTRA LARGE Extra to Average 235020018010 1.61.50 1.10 1.25to .75 .75to .40)) These. extremely high prices are based on the well-known “SHUBERT” STANDARD GRADING and are quoted for imme e shipment. No. 3’s, No. 4’s, poor unprime and otherwise faibrior skins at highest market value. Don’t delay, another minute! Quick action means more money for you. HurryinaShipment _,, B. SHUBERT inc WE nace ~©CHICACO 27 WAustin Ave ‘Trade Instruction In Bricklaying,, Etc. STATE TRADES SCHOOL “ WAHPETON, ‘NO. DAK. Practical instruction in bricklay{ng and plumbing \by experi- enced mechanics under actual job conditions, This is a state institution, conducted for public service, at very low cost. Registration fee, $10. “Board and room, $5.75. per week. Students furnish pillaws and all bedding at this rate. d—Enroll Now. Classes Now Organiz Addr ess PRESIDENT E. F. RILEY, STATE, ENC ee Fe Aue te STATE EOIENCE. SCHOOL, (This schoo] is endorsed by the North Dakota State Builders : and Traders Exchange):