The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 30, 1924, Page 4

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ELECTION We come now, to a new phase in North Dakota political affairs, the turning of the out partment of the State Government. | What other shift in control may j be developed as a result of this) week's elections remaing uncertain at this time, and will continue to! so remain for some time to come. — | The Independents, result of} the Wednesday primary, stand to | MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIO ~ SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year. - $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). ... ‘ A 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) .. 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota... i: . 6,00 THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) BLOWING HOT AND COLD The Democratic national convention, faced by the threat of « party split over the Klan and League of Nations issues, solved the difficulty, as the dgjegates believed, by com- promise. The compromise will not satisfy the factions which demanded the straight-out indorsement of the League of Nations as a political issue, and insisted on denouncing the Ku Klux Klan by name. It leaves the Democratic party still threatened by a split which may be an actuality before the fall campaign is ended. Although indorsing the League of Nations by name, the convention called for a referendum of the people on’ the subject, for which there is now no machinery and which Newton D. Baker declared was illegal. It adopted the reso- lutions committee plank which Mr. Baker further declared was tantamount to a repudiation of Woodrow Wilson. The »lank adopted was a palliative to the ardent League enthus- iasts, a confession of political weakness of the League as an issue and virtually a shelving of the League for a long period of time. Its adoption may be laid to the influence of anti-League Democrats and construed as a bid for the support of William Randolph Hearst and his newspapers in the fall election. The plank on the Klan reaffirms the adherence of the party to the principles of free exercise of religious belief as ‘ uaranteed by the Constitution. The plank was drafted in au careful effort to keep the Klan issue out of party politics. It is true as its sponsors said that the Klan was not approved, and certainly no great political party would approve an or- ganization contrary to the principles on which the gover ment was founded. But as a political question, it is doubtful ifthe Klan issue has satisfied the powerful Brennan oi Hiinois and other ardent anti-Klansmen, and has not cured the difficulties which the Klan issue has laid upon the Dem- oeratie party. The platform of the Democrats with the Republican platform in mind. present a strong and direct opposition to the Republican 1! tform. To do this the resolutions committee went beyond $s of policy and principles of the two and sought to lay upon President Coolidge the stigma wrong-doing in the oil scandal, to lay upon the Republican party the sign of wealth and special priv- se, to represent the Democrgtic party as “human” as com- pared to a cold and calculating opposition, and in the desire t) brand the Republican organization with dishonesty the committee went so far as to accuse the Repub- It is framed for campaign purposes, and is couched in the vitriolic language which may be expected of Democratic ora- sential difference the ¢ parti ' anconr an Democrati licans of giving aid and comfort to bootleggers. The platform is, of course, what might be expected. tors in the fall. , RESTS WITH COMMISSION With the new city water plant in operation the matter of the city’s ownership of the water works system has passed into a new phase, which deals wholly with the management ofthe plant. system thus far, while somewhat less favorable than had heen expected, nevertheless is evidence that it can be oper- ated,on a successful financial basis. The production at the w. plant shows that satisfactory water can be delivered to) thesgonsumer. e new plant is expensive and complete. Consumers of {he eity not only will insist upon having good water delivered 46 them but taxpayers will insist upon a business-like, eco- 1omical and efficient management of the water works sys- tm. The responsibility for this management rests upon the city commission. Political or other selfish considerations must not be permitted to interfere with the handling of the | business as it should be handled. The Tribune joins with other citizens in wishing the city commission success in the handling of the plant and voices the expectation that the commission’s management will be successful. It stands ready to do its part in resisting carping ceticism which lacks merit, and at the same time will not fail: to insist at all times upon a fearless and efficient man- agement. i DREAM An airship flight around the world was planned by a Belgian named Robertson in 1804. He was a flier, quite a Which isn’t saying much, for the balloon had only been invented 21 years before. Robertson proposed circling the globe with 4 fish-shaped balloon 150 feet long. He never made the trip, of course, but he did explore the air star for his day. to a height of over four miles above ground. “Visionary dream,” scoffed capitalists he asked to finance Today the thing is being done. his round-the-world flight. \ Nothing is impossible, given enough time. HOARDS Four hundred million dollars is hidden behind the clock, umder the mattress and in other nooks by Americans who ‘are afraid of banks. So estimates a treasury official. Bankers call this an economic menace, becayse hoarded money is idle instead of working to keep business active. But there is a greater American hoard — the collective money in pockets. This money, too, is‘idle and unproductive. How much “loose - result of the habit of carrying too much change” do you keep out of circulation, on the average? CRUELTY _ | A Texas cowboy, - agsteer, is arrested by a’ charge of eruelty to animals. ir “twisting a steer’s neck in cruel and unusual fashion. * Few of these people, the 8. P. C. A. in Brooklyn, N. Y., on o get \ i anemia pis rane s a whole was drafted The effort, was to The financial experience of the water works giving a speed demonstration of roping The technical charge is ho have such violent aversion to cruelty to animals, are backward about eating a juicy steak. see the termination of their Ad- | ministration on Jan. 1, 1925, and the substitution therefor of an Ad- | ninistration committed to an en tirely different policy in the hand- | ling of the affairs of the State, in| the handling of her industrial pro- | gram, and in the development of her taxation and related problems. | Of these prospective changes in| policies, assuming that the Nonpar- tisan League candidates are placed | in a position to effect them through the elections of Novem ber that will determine which fac tion shall control the State Legis- lature, it is unnecessary to under- | take speculation at this time, but} it might be advisable to turn for | just a moment to the question o why Governor R. A. Nestos has been defeated for the Republic nomination to succeed himself. These causes are many and var- ied, some of them consequenti others important only gs they had} a bearing upon the election out-| come, all of them vital factors to} the extent that they did contribute | to the defeat of the Governor. | Primarily, the victory of the Nonpartisan League may be re-j gurded ag one ‘that went to them | hy default; by the failure or re- fusal of a great body of Independ- | ents to appreciate the fact that) there was y real danger of los- ing the election, with a consequent ack of that effective organization work that has marked the three successive immediately prior elec- tions in which the Independents carried their gubernatorial candi-| dite to victory. \ Governor Nestos, himself, had re- peatedly warned of the danger of defeat unless a full vote went to the polls, and ithe same warning was sounded from the campaign | headquarters, yet only about 150. 060 voters participated in the elec tion, as, compared with 180,000 in the Reputlican primary of two years ago. This upathy, | { | | orn Of a fals sense of security, was not shared by the leaders of the Nonpartisan League, although it may have found; its way into the Leauge ranks in a few isolated districts in the State. The League heads have worked constantly; they covered the whole State with groups of speakers, while the’ Independents placed their whole reliance upon the abil- ity of Governor Nestos and Attor- General George Shafer alone ne: to raised by th who have been governed largely by the single thought that tne end justices the means. In those-gounties, where effective local work was carried forward, | where the voters had an opportun- ity to fully inform themselves of the facts, the Independent obtain- ed a splendid vote, and LaMoure County, as well as several others, stands forth as an illuminating ex-! ample of the soundess of this | thought. In this election, for the first time since 1916, LaMoure County went into the Independent column, and it was the first time that a really thoroughgoing cam- paign was made in that county. The kind of work carried on in ‘La- Moure this year is the kind that had been carried on in other coun- ties in years gone by, with the re- sult that county after county had swung from the Nonpartisan League to the Independent col- umn, Then we come to the political reasons. Always the Incumbent of tite office of Governor lays himself open to the enmity of those who seek political preferment at his hands, and who, failing in the taimment of their personal ambi- ticns or in the fulfillment of their hope of preferment for a friend, ar- ray. themselves in opposition to the | executive. Governor Nestos, like his predecessor in office, fell under the ban of that same kind of a group. They worked vigorously and tirelessly to the end that he might be defeated, and contributed their share to the result. Conditions local to this or that section of the State had a tremend- ous bearing. Disappointment or dissatisfaction over the method in which the affairs of this or that closed bank may have been hand- led ‘dampened the enthusiasm of some Independent workers, and while the effect of such develop- ments were largely local, their cumulative effect was very ma- terial); \ To what extent the candidacy of I. J. Moe of Valley City, ‘had an in- fluence upon the election, is uncer- tain. It did contribute to the down- 4fell of ithe Independents. Mr. Moe's campaign wag aimed. directly at Governor Nestos, and ungestion- ably resulted in the alienation of for Mr. Moe would have voted for Mr \Nestos: probably not enouga of them to have changed the result, but like other causes, the effect, was material. Disappointment on the part of scme Independent workers at the failure of the Jamestown Republi- can convention to make a more specific declaration on the subject ot the State Mili and Elevator is not to be overlooked. Because of the convention's failure to declare n| itself for the abandonment of the whole scheme of state industries, a policy that many Independents firmly ‘believe must be accepted and adhered to before we can expect to place the North Dakota State Gov- Independents | from control of the executive de- | t ; The other local factors—peeuliar to !ent support, dropped to the point the voters who marked their ballots # The conventions tions, some Independent groups, lacked the enthusiasm for the | cause so essential to success. | Probably the tax situation had a} direct bearings. The Independents, | in fulfillment of the pledges they | made prior to their election in| 1922, went about the job of equal-| picnics and outings, particularly izing the tax burden: of reducing ; when Sunday came and daddy could Be tax on gem lands and of plac- | yo along. ink on certain es of city and!” picnics a y outing: village property their proportion: | ye considered ey With vacation the Jones youngsters would ery for and warm days ite share of the tax load. Neces-| the children” and as such they ‘ily, railroad property, falling | should be ‘encouraged. But the as it does in the same classification | Chance to get out in the open thus farm lands, had to be lowered | i i ' 4 given the el i l= in valuation along with the farm | picnic GE eee een property, and this fact was seized Modern scho s ; a ol playgrounds ana upon and used to advantage by the | parks in most cities ae the chil- political group opposing Governor | grey plenty of outdoor play places, tos. Chagrin in the cities and | jut’ such opportunities ‘should not ages at increased residence pro- | es FABLES ON HEALTH GOING ON PICNICS constitute an argument against the picnic, which, staged in new scenes and bringing the children into new surroundings, broadens the fields of childish imagination and stimu- lates the play spirit. For just such reasons they have excellent psychologial effect upon the elders, even when staged under more or less trying conditions. Selection of open’ 'tountry, with green fields and trees, is of course preferable if they can be reached. But, under any circumstances, take advantage of the warm. days to get the youngsters on outings—and get the child play spirit’ yourselves. perty tax was reflected, if not in| opposition to the »Governor, at least in the development of an apathy that is not to be discounted us it bears upon the reduced vote in the population centerg through- out the whole State—centers where Independents have had their great- est strength, On the other hand, the reduction of the farm land tax apparently was of little or‘no political benefit to the Independents, beneficiaries of suctr. reduction being uncon- vinced that they had been placed upon ‘a more. equitable basis as compared with other groups of pro- perty owners. Another fa now he has no mosquitoes because he has no house. e Every time they build a new rail- road crossing the auto dealers order more cars, ‘Keep your temper. In Alabama a mah broke his arm hitting at a fly Many of those who will stand for anything will help with nothing. If you hear a great silence it is the children sitting around crying because school is out. On returning from a fishing trip tor is\local to Grand | Ferks County, the home of the Non-| the fish are divided while their san League candidate. Nat-| weight is multiplied. urally, Mr. Sorlie garnered a vote in Grand Forks that wag accorded| Next to home in summer the him ‘on a purely ‘personal basis.) worst place on earth, to be is away. What this country needs most is @ lew against men wearing coats. Grand “Forks and the immediate territory —had their bearing and influenced votes against the Admin. istration. Probably the fear that the Mill and Elevater at Grand Fcrks would be closed*if the Inde- pendents won had some effect, and by reason of all these factors, the County of Grand Forks, heretofore one of the bulwarks of Independ- Friday is one of the seven days on Which diving into shallow water is said to be unlucky. \ Wish this hot weather didn’t work on’'Sunday. Cows used to get scared and run where the Governor had a bare ma- jority as against majorities of up- wards of 3,000 two years ago. There were other factors: dis- content with conditions generally, disappointment at the inability of the State Administration to effect ‘tax reductions consequential enough to tbe reflected in the tax receipt of the average person, and probably others, all of which could have been discounted had the real facts been carried to the voters. So we come back once more to the outstanding reason-for the de- feat of Governor Nestos: the fact ‘EVERETT TRUE Sav, Evercrr, 1 ALWAYS ‘Foeaer— IS THe Finac “S” CERT OF OF, ACKNOWLEDGE ” |4weEnN “ou ADD “MeEnt’ $ they get scared when they see a horse. Our terity which idea of looking out for pos- has already arrived. The average husband The most ex! ears. Ah, how be if individuals troubled tenbtrg. PAY TAX FIRST Purchasers of automobiles in Bal- timore, beginning June 1, have to pay municipal taxes on their cars before they can get their state li- when they saw an auto, but now | censes. L BY CONDO ~ 1D 36-37 — 72- F2--- Yes, LEnvs Ore’ tee te* 8 — ¥ 5-47-32 so- that a politically wearied body of Independent workers\ and voters whose views on the subject of state industrialism are no different to- day than they have ‘heen in the years since that subject became 2 state issue, permitted the election to go by default.—Fargo Forum. a eee NO, THAT CeOoKsS if FUuRnwT wrtHourt ims | “22 1 DON'T 3 Says BEUGVSE TTHran's 2 What can jump just out of reach quicker than a promising future? teach ‘us . that every mother's son has a chance tu grow up and almost be nominated: for vice president. . Entirely too many people go tu the movies to talk about something. Reliable statistics would show that fractically 90 per cent of the rich uncles have babies’ named after them. A June husband tells’ us he has been married two ‘weeks withudt washing a dish. . No home is complete without & few uncomfortable chairs in whieh to welcome unwelcome compan;. ernnrent in the position it should occupy, ‘that of concerning itself , 4 with. purely gove tung A Florida man tried to smoke mos- anitges out with ¢ lighted paper and |, is taking care of the part hasn’t as much sense as he thinks he has, but he has more than his wife suspects. nsive thing about a vocation is getting fired because the firm learns it can do without you. pee sleeps cre | A Thought in i He that passeth by, and meddieth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the appy would many lives them- selves as little about other pgople’s affairs as about their . own.—Lich- {ican man, woman and child, big as the national debt. debts and county debts. All of which are mounting Now, debt means that the It can be mortgaged just si ticians. the same situation to face. ter of months. Another suggestion is to g type of public building—a not: Greeks and Romans. Uncle ers stand waiting in line. vanity of a tax-burdened gene WHERE BIGGEST RATS ARE By Albert Apple j Taxpayers, you should realize this i iconcerned about: our tremendous national debt. | while the national debt averages about $200 | 2500 population or over is more than $70 for every resident. | Norfolk, Va., has the highest—$258.62 per capita. Municipalities’ total debt al What’s more alarming, is that cities’ debts are increasing |a billion dollars a year, while the national debt is going down that much and more—has, for four years. | On top of all this burden, taxpayers have enormous state payers will be unable to pay interest (taxes) on the debt. . | _ Then will come a day of reckoning, fearful for the poli- : Spending by states, counties and municipalities is for improvements, conduct of government, and for renewing |old obligations as they fall due and can’t be paid off. Where should economy begin? ticular. community involved, no two of which have exactly One obvious common solution is to pave reads for per- manence instead of permitting their construction to be so rotten that it goes to pieces and has to be patched in a mat- A frame building with 2 dozen stamp windows would be t: more sensible and economical than dsiplay to gratify the : Every one is gravely And yet, for every Amer- the average debt of cities of ready is more than a third as steadily. . future is being mortgaged. ‘ 0 far—to the point where tax- 5) hg oe y Aa It depends on the par- et away from the monumental ion inherited from the ancient Sam, for instance, puts up a postoffice that looks like the Tower of Babel—and inside you'll find about two windows selling stamps while custom- ration that can’t afford it. LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO LESLIE PRESCOTT, CARE OF THE SECRET DRAWER, CONTINUED It's a good thing to get back to my home. I feel it more and more every day, even if my immediate welcome included some annoyance. You, little Marquise, never having married, could not have had that alien feeling toward parents, sisters and brothers that must come to ev- ery girl after three years of mar- ried life. Of course, I perhaps have seen dad and mother and Alice very litle since my marriage—so little of Alice, in fact, that she seemed al- most a perfect stranger—a stranger that I should never attempt to make my friend if we were not of the same family. * “Blood is thicker than water,” is another of those old saws that are only half truth. You probably real- ize that, little Marquise, as well as I, and you also learned as most peo- ple learn, that a half truth is usually more dangerous than an outright lie. We flock to the rescue of some near relation, not because we love him so dearly, but because the overt act on his part reflects upon our- selves, our own name, We are help- ing him because we do not want our own vanity hurt. I recognize the fact that I care very much more for Ruth Ellington than I do for my sister, and I would personally have the inclination to help Ruth much more quickly than I would Alice. anything that might happen to her would inevitably reflect upon me, I probably would help Alice before I would Ruth. By Harry B. Hunt NEA Service Writer . New _ York, June 30.—Not the least of the siderations guida- ing. the .Democrats as they grope for new Combinations from which to eyolve a presidential ticket 1s the matter of campaign slogans. For after all, a catch phrase may be ‘ more powerful support than mere matters of a candidate’a political or economic viewpoint. _ With “Keep Cool Keep Cool- idge” the high point in Republi- can crats are seeking whom can be hung more stimulating; . McAdoo boosters believe the most effective campaigning could be done through buttons and banners ‘pictur- ing the .Demoeratic’ rooster, with arched neck and flapping wings, emitting a new challenge. Instead of crowing “Cook-a-doodle doo!” according to standardized barn yard formula, this rooster would raise the roof yith’ “McAdoo'll dot McAdoa'll dot” ig As an immediate counter-irritant, to the “Keep Cool and Kegp: Cool- idge cry, pending final selection’ of a candidate, & mew version has’ been, started at national committee head- quarters asking that the country “Keep Cool Without Coolidge.” ‘This, however, it is realized, is only a stop slogan. \7Ie'merely temporizes with the slogan. situation. It is plainly defensive’ not “offensive, as a truly good’ slogan’should be. “Al's our pal. He'll beat Cal,” iv the suggestion from Franklin Roase- velt and Norman Mack of the Smith outfit. “Catchy, but lacking: punch,” 1s the comment of on-the-fence dele- gates to this Smith phr: “Davis and Davis, They Can Save us!” is the proposal of certain dark horse boosters: who are combining in one ery the names of a com- bination’ ticket ‘that“has ¢aught con- siderable favor. ‘ “John and Jonathan,’ is a second- ary cry that could be evolved from ‘this. ticket, which, as may be seen, possesses undoubted elejnents of real strength. - Bans Ae aay For the men proposed to be wnitea \ ty : ie ‘ S Yet, because Alice is my sister and, his wife.” oI rt i ORS EE Ee aD ea Dems Feel Real Slogan Is. Important: Factor It all narrows down, little Mar- quise, to our own little sordid per- ‘ sonal vanity, a Alice has been most’ disagreeable i7 to me about the pearls. Although/ I refused Karl, and she is going to marry him, and although my having the pearls was absolutely without any connivance on my part, and al- though she was the one that made it possible for me to receive them, ; she evidently has persuaded herself ? that now that I know the facts of ‘ the ‘case, I should give them back > to her. mo" She said to me just before I left New York for home that Karl Whit- ney gathered those pearls together ' for his: wife. “But Karl Whitney. expected me to be his wife,” I answered quietly. This seemed to make her furious. “You needn't throw it up to me,” she said, “that you refused him, after allowing him to think from the time you were children together that you were just as much in love. with him as he was with you and that-I am his second choice.” This, of course, enraged me and I answered before I thought: “I am not 8d sure ‘that you are his second choice.as that he is your A first chojce. You. know my ‘dear, that Bernard Shaw says it is not the * man who makes the choice and aks the girl to marry him, but. the man who makes the choice and per- suades the man into thinking that it is he who is in reality choosing “So you think, Leslie Prescott, that I inveigled Karl into marrying me.” ‘ | (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) 4 4! under these battle-crys are John W. =) Devis of West Virginiasand New i York a “safe and sene progressive,” a lawyer.and a diplomat, and Joha- than M. Davis, honest-to-goodness dirt farmer, at present governor of Kansas. ‘dt “Davia and Davis,” say backers of this pair, could sweep the coun- try. “John W. would account for everything east of the Alleghenys, 4 Johanthan M. for everything in the middle west and west. The south being Democrat, would take care of AF itself.” : : eee Psychologically, the heaviest hand- icap carried by Sam Ralston of In- diana is his unavailability as a sub- ject for snappy slogans. No one can figure. out how to rouse en- thusiasm with taiston. No one de- nies his ability, his sincerity, hon- esty or his political strength, bul popular strength as well as persona: and political strength will be need- ed to warm the voters sufficientiy to offset’ the Coolidge coolness. And right there is whefe the Car- ter Glass boomers, find an opening for their’ catididate. ** “Let the Light in With Glass,” , they suggest. “Glass _ will warm, things’ up. Under Glass the Cool- idge coolness can be. made to, run. If itis ice it will melt; if it is tox iv will be dissiphted, ' “Who'll be the candidate? it’s a cinch! Glass! Why, That’s clear!” One of the impressive things in ‘the early stages of’ the conven- tion, to those who followed the preliminary jockeying in the early 8 Of the —pre-tonvention period, apparent insignificance of the is t Underwood strength, Outside the Underwood headquar- ters and the Alabama‘ delegation ‘tit- tle attention seems. to be given: the Alabama ‘senator. ..:Either it ‘has \ flattened .out.or Ollie Newman ‘and C.' C. Carlin, his managers, hi surprise up-their sleeve. They ap- pear cheerfal enough. Perhaps they will prove political magicians’ and still pull opt a stfable vote! * and pineapples are ’ searce in. Londom hecause German firms iere:-tmapping them up at_al- most any pric@:> 2°) surere ? 1 S ‘ ‘ ae phe }