The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 12, 1924, Page 4

meraunene emmogastt Pre ey Hee | the: } eee peesed east. Morris got a free ride to Germany and Sag the is a striking example of the uncertainty of life. PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Publishers CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge 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 otherwise entitled in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION _SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year............... seieteee SECO Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)... .. Safer Ise0) Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).... 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.............. 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) ATKINSON COMES BACK In order to detract public thought and soften public | «pinion upon the three per cent gratuity granted him on the purchase price of the plant of the Bismarck Water Sup- ply company, Mr. T. R. Atkinson had read into the record last evening a letter or statement to the commission stat- ing that he paid Mr. Harry Thompson $700 to supervise the laying of a sanitary sewer and that Mr. Thompson failed to return the “wye” book. Mr. Thompson informs The qe pune that he left the “wye” book at Mr. Atkinson’s office, The motive of Mr. Atkinson is very plain. Criticised himself for insisting upon a three per cent fee, he seeks to infer that Mr. Thompson accepted $700 of the five per cent paid on construction work. If any blame attaches to such an arrangement, Atkinson should have the entire blame. He hired Mr. Thompson in his capacity as plumber to do this work and paid him out of the five per cent allowed him by the city. It is a matter of public record that other city com- missioners in their capacity as businessmen sell the city supplies every month and pass on their own bills or the bills of the firm they represent. Mr. Atkinson does not explain satisfactorily to the public why he should have been paid the three per cent. His at- tack upon Commissioner Thompson has no bearing on the principle involved in the payment of the three per cent on $265,000 or the $7,950 gratuity. The fact that the “wye” book has not been located does not explain to the taxpayers cf Bismarck Why it was necessary to pay three per cent commission on a purchase. 3 It is true out of the five per cent paid Mr. Atkinson for paving, sewer and other contracts that he hired other engi- neers to assist him whom he paid out of his own pocket as he did Mr. Thompson. The legality of such an arrangement | when he is already upon a salary of $60 a month and office rent, light, heat, telephones all free has been severely criti- cized by many, but be that as it may the three per cent fec upon property purchased ig indefensible and a direct burden upon the taxpayers. There is no contract or precedent for such action. Mr. Atkins» seems to think that facts concerning his fees are not public business nor a matter for newspaper dis- cussion. Upon the publication of the bare fact that he received this fee, he rushed into print with the accusation that this mere news mention of an act of the city commis- sion was “tainted news” and that The Tribune had charged —| citizenry that ever went down to} j they will find themselves in the Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They |] are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides Important Jasues which are discussed in the press of jay. of bein the AN INSOLENT MINORITY Some day we may learn; with an| emphasis that will permit no dis-! pote, who is running the United States, Right now the engineers’ and firemen’s brotherhoods seem to be | cf the impression that they are supreme in all matters in which they are interested. | They cannot be blamed for their dcubt, as their previous experi- ence has been such as to confirm them in that opinion. If our mem- cry serves us right the brother- hoods are the only body of our Washington and told Congress and a President what they had to do! to prevent a wholesale paralysis of the nation. And at that time they got away with it. | The same administration that | kept us out of war so long that} when we entered it was almost | too late also kept us out of strikes, und with about the same effect. | The parsage of the Adamson law | at the demand of the brotherhoods | wag the first case of an abject | surrender by the government to the demands of a militant and in- solent minority. The brotherhoods which now defy the United States railroad labor board cannot be blamed for their attitude. It is human nature to take all you can get and the ex- perience of the past has shown, to | their satisfaction, that they can; get all they ask for. It therefore is not necessary for them to submit to the jurisdiction cf the labor board or any other body. They must merely put a figurative gun at the heads of the railroad companies and take what- ever they desire. It was proved to their satisfac- tion in recent years that the gov- exbment was afraid to meet the issue of a conflict with the broth- erhoods and the present situation is the logical outcome of that fact The moral error in the rebelli- ovs position now taken by the firemen and engineers is clearly; demonstrated by the fact that the tiree members of the labor ‘board who are representing organized la- ‘bor, voted with the representatives of the public and the companies on the questions now at issue. | One of these men is a former high official in one of the railway unions, and it is certain that his vote would not ‘be cast in a man- ner which he. considered as in-, fringing on the rights of labor. The action of the labor chiefs in denying the jurisdiction of the 1a- bor ‘board is merely another defi- ance of governmental authority as regards labor. It is another at- tempt to establish the immunity of organized labor. Some students of the situation think a ifail strike on western brotherhood lineg is threatened. It may be. But, if these brother- hoods or any other combination of labor now or ever tie up the rail Imes of anv considerable portion of these United States again in de- fiance of law and of pwhlic rights Larson, French, Lenhart and Henzler with grafting. Whether Mr. Atkinson or B. E. Jones, official apologist and press agent for T. R. Atkinson, devised this remarkable defense of the $7,950 gratuity is not disclosed, or whether T. ~R. Atkinson after due consultation with his kitchen cabinet decided that putting the blame of the absence of his “wye” bool’ upon Harry Thompson would mitigate the taking of the fee before it had been legally determined he was entitled to it. is not disclosed, but the public mind will hardly be di- verted by the childish communication filed by the auditor upc” Mr. Thompson’s own motion. | The whole fiasco should point plainly to the fact that the taxpayers of Bismarck would have saved thousands of dol-' lars in the past if a city engineer had been employed upon a fixed salary. When the budget is fixed again that should be done. Just to show how this five per cent operates we have only to look over the records to see what it has cost the nv rate. he has adopted Dante's; “Or the fence whitewashed or ie taxpayers of Bismarck. When Mr. Atkinson drew plans for the water works system showing how a new system could be huilt or a tie-up with the present plant made, he was paid a flat fee of $2,000 for these plans and an additional $2,000 wa’ to be paid in case the plans were used. This of course is in addition to the $7,950 gratuity paid on the purchase price of the old plant. A survey of the records shows that Mr. Atkinson has been paid in salary and commissions on public work in Bis- marek from Jan. 1, 1914 to December 1, 1919, $41,896.52. Since then some $30,000 or more has been paid’ brivging his salary and fees for services well over the $70,000 rk. An average over the ten years doubtless would be in excess of $7,000 a year, a heavy burden upon the tax- pryers and more than the services were worth and much mo?> than the city needed to pay for such work. The city commission can stop this leak and take a long step toward tax reduction by putting the city engineer solely upon a salary basis. In making this suggestion The Tribune is charging no one with graft, that inference has been raised by, T. R. Atkinson and his non-tax paying man Friday. CHECKMATE Corporations gradually get the public under more perfect eoutrol. For instance, it develops that Frenchmen are like Americans, in that they jiggle the phone receiver hook when thev get slow service. 4So the telephone company in Paris makes this arrangement: As calls flash on Central’s board, thev are numbered and handled in order. Every time a sub- ee jiggles his phone, he loses his place and moves down é line. 4 We'll all be tamed to stand without hitching, one of these jays. TOM SAWYER The great immortal, Tom Sawyer, would have envied experience of Morris Semelmacher, 15, of New York. was sent to deliver a box of cigars aboard a steamer. rs invited him to eat. Before he knew it, the ship i life wouldn’t be half interesting if it were not for the ected. Nature is wise and kindly in veiling the future. fweiknew what was coming, existence would be duller, less thrilling... ..- : * A man who, uses\his head will never get over it in debt. | the same one who was there eight position of open rebellion to gov- ernmental authority. Further, the chief executive now sitting in the White House is not years ago. Our gamble on the pro- recition is that, whatever the brotherhoods do, they will learn; that all the people of America run this country, not just a minority. lack Diamond. BUN T0 FIT THE [ mean Weeny trotted off with them on his back, I mean the Twins on his back, not the specs. I don’t know what places they crossed but it was about a dozen things, and by and by they came to the tree-covered mountain side where Buster lived in a ¢ave house with his mother and daddy. When Weeny climbed up and ranz the door-bell, Buster answered it, zor indeed there was no one else to do it. He was all by. himself. WS He was so surprised to see then that all he could say was, .‘Good- night!” “You should say, ‘Good-day,’” said Weeny, wrapping his trunk around Buster's neck and’ giving him a kiss. “Good-ni—I mean ‘Hello,’” . said Buster, doing a little dance. “I'm-as glad as sixty to see you. Where are you going?” “Here”, said Weeny, sitting down to let the Twins. slide. off his. back. “We've come to pay you a visit. Have you got any room?” “Oodles!” said Buster, “Ma ond Daddy are away on a trip and I'm all by myself. And I was just won- dering what I was going to do. But now we can have a good time. Four is a dandy number. We can’t play ball or prisoner’s base. but we can play tag and hi-spy'and.five hundred and casino ‘and loads of things. you cook, Nancy? : “Yes, I can cook anything in cans,” said Nancy, “and -boil eggs and make tea.” “We'll have a perfect picnic,” said Buster Bear. “Come on in and take off your things and we'll have a game of hi-spy right away. Talk about circuses!” Well, I haven't got much room left to tell you all about it, but the visit- ors stayed five days with Buster and The Los Angeles judge who sen-j| tenced a speeding motorist to copy} out the traffic accident stories’ from every naper in the city for six months may or may not have; heen reading Dante’s Inferno. At scheme of fitting the punishment} to the crime. It is a scheme so, good and with such promise of effectiveness that it might well be tried in other cases and on other typeg of the law-breaker or the so- cial nuisance. That neighbor who runs his pho- negraph nightly after all others inj his vicinity are asleep, should he pot be sentenced to a solid week of “Limehouse Blues.” plaved' with a steel needle at his bedside? | That politician who fills the air with carefully platitudinous bunk, should he not be sent up for a year of solid oratory, to be sup- plied by colleagues of his own sapless persuasion? Those young things who write so many letters to matinee and film heroes, should they not be set down to a bushel basket of such billets with in- structions to classify the declara- tions? Those auditors who talk loudly in the theater, is there any nunishment adequate for them?— New York World. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON —_— WHY THE TWINS LEFT BUSTER BEAR’S “I think I'd kind of like to visit Buster Bear on my vacation,” said Weeny, the elephant, to the Twins. And I’m sure Buster would like to have you, too.” “Where does he live?” asked Nick. “In a woods on the side of a moun- tain,” said Weeny. “Nancy, will you please shake the wrinkles out of my nighty and pack it up for me? I can’t go to Buster’s house all wrin- kled up. And where are my spec?” “You have them on,” laughed Nancy. “They're gight on your nose.” “Ha, ha, ha! I. declare!” laughed Weeny. “If-they’d been a snake they’d have bitten me. That’s me for you! Here, Nancy I'll take them off and you can pack them, too.” So Nancy packed the specs and then she and Nick trotted ae | "wear uniforms, then Mr. and Mrs. Bear came home. “Buster, did you get the cellar cleaned as I told you?” said Mrs. Bear. “No, ma’am”, said Buster, hanging his head. an ash-can emptied or the wood cut oF “Oh, ma, we had such a good time I forgot,” said Buster. “I think we'll be packing and moy- ing along,” said Weeny to the Twins. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, tne.) Jom Sims Says How the movie stars must envy the publicity given the-Chicago mur- der case! It’s so hot on the farm the home made wine is about the only thing that feels like working. About 300,000 marched in a Vienna anti-war demonstration, There would have been more if they had let them City children are more. healthy than country children, according to New-York experts, but a farmer never moves to town for his health, It sounds foolish, but we'll bet some short-haired good looker will vote for La Follette ‘because hi name is “Bob.” ‘ A Los Angeles woman identified | highway robber who got her hus: band’s pay envelope before she did.|’ A great lover is one who can tell whether a girl is pensive or sleepy.’ Somebody robbed a Chicago taxi drivér instead of vice versa. The moonlight is almost as dan- gerous as the moonshine, Isn't it strange how we put things oft? In Kansas, a man needed shave 25 yea fore he got it, |". The family skeleton looks bet in 9 closet than ing bathing suit, Can| Bi You OonT Have TO PROVE IT ~ WE KNOW you CAN 00 \T — CMON LETS GO OVER| A SOFT \ ORINK STAND? — \ i | { New York, Aug. 12.—New York’s most popular supper club. In the Roaring Forties. Only a few feet wide. But many feet long. Not a bit of ventilation. Women, appear cool in evening dresses that might make a beach’: cenosr thoughtful.. Men steam in boiled shirts and boiling collars. Georges Carpentier. One of his eyes still discolored from his last fight. He's a great actor, The hostess ‘of the club was a two-gun woman in the movies. She has park- ed her guns. But the fellow who adds the bills here must have them for protection. The ten-piece jazz band. Plays music that commands. “Feet get up and jig,” it orders. One couple might step in comfort in the space allotted to dancing. Thirty couples occupy it. Looks like a “Battle Royal” in an army training camp. Ah-ha. The show. About 16 girls. in the company. About 20 people—the ring-side _ spectators— see the dancing. It's all in fun, The ig butter-and-eggs man from Mun- cie is there. Heavy jowls and bald pate. Having a lot of fun. Wants to put his arms around every young performer who comes on. Next week he'll send them a postal card “show- ing Main street looking from the west with the so-and-so building in the foreground.” Frisco does some impromptu stepping. Haven't seen him in several years, He wins in a walk in the type of dance he origi- nated. The cigar and derby and that “I’m gonna dance off both my shoes” music. Get hot. Seven o’clock in the morning. Guess I'd better pay off the mortgage on my hat and go to work, Joe. Cook, the comedian who startled Broadway with his humor last season, will never get over be- ing a small-town boy. He was born in Evansville, Ind., and spends his summer vacations in the. country, down on the farm. Joe has-a new speed boat and he cuts it actoss the lake near which he lives, with -as much pleasure as he paddled a fla bottomed tub on the. Ohfo river in his boyhood. Cook sojoupked for a while, in his youth, in an’ orphan home at Lafayette, Ind. “Rib,” “Skirt,” “Moll,” “Dame,” “Chicken,” “Jane,” “Cutie,” and nu- merous other nicknames have been applied to girls in the passing par- ade by the wisecrackers. But the new one is “Bob.” “There goes a couple of classy Bobs,” ‘was a Broadway remark I heard ‘last night. What next? . The new taxicab rate of 20 cents a mile is making riders of boys and girls who haven’t been in a cab since baby carriages were forced out of traffic by, economics. Sightseeing buses used to charge $1 for the ride to Coney Island. Since the taxi rate war the price has been cut to 50 cents. —Stephen Hannagan. as ST ts | * A Thought | > —__ The Lord upholdeth all that fell, and raiseth up all those that be. bowed. down.—Ps, 145:14. What region of the earth is not full of our calamities ?—Virgil. Locusts came over the race course at Springs in South Africa in such thick clouds that spectators and “bookies” had to seek shelter, EVERETT TRUE You KNOW, GVERETT, BY CONDO WHEN You’ WERG HERE ON YOUR CTHER VISIT t DIDNT HAVE ANY FLOWER GARDEN STARTED YET Buy ie You WILL REMEMBGR,I TOLD You S'iD HAVE ONE IN GOOD SHAPS BY THE Tima You BLEW OUT NERE AGAIN ON . AND OVER THERE ALONG THAT a 2 spe IT HAVE EVUPATORIUM, HIBISCUS, q{SomeE ASCLEPIAS, SOME CONVOLVULOUS YAND -. SOMS PELARGONIUM, SOME STEPHANOTIS, AND SOME ZEPHRYANTHGES. BED OF SSCHSCHOLTZIA, H DECUCHT EU YOUR GARDEN | p—-To THE EYE Cc, NExTUIS A AND~--- NENDERSON, DELIGHTEUC TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1924 BUYING OUT THE BOSS : "By Albert Apple a | One of the six oldest business firms in the United States is Devoe & Raynolds Co., Inc., manufacturers of paints and painters’ materials. It has been active for 170 years. Sixteen of this company’s employes have just taken over jthe business. They bought a controlling interest. It re- i quired a lot of money from each of the 16, for it’s a big | business. ee ; ; Such stories are becoming: common—a small group of \leading employes purchasing the interests of their boss. H Later you ‘will frequently read that “thousands of, em- | ployes have, by pooling their savings, bought out their em- loyer. Z This may be the eyentual solution of. the labor-capital problem. ¢ 3 It certainly would go a long way toward making every. man more or less his own boss. \ The income of the American people for six years is just about equivalent. to the entire national wealth. It is more than enough to buy all the business organizations in the country, including sources of raw materials, railroads and ‘marketing organizations. i Of: course, all this income isn’t available for any such jpurpose. Living’ expenses have to be met first. Only sav- ings could be devoted to puying ownership of industry. But it all illustrates the gigantic power of the people’s savings. By organization and sufficient. time, employes could buy out all employers. \ Would things run smoothly if employes by purchase be- {came their own employers? Not unless they united in an organization with almost military discipline to handle the management. Petty jealousies and rivalries would be fatal. Every business, to be efficient, must have a Real Boss at its head, the same as an army must have a staff presided over by a general with the power of decision. Our original American settlers discarded the monarchy idea in government. But they brought over and clung to the monarchial system in business—the employer the ruler, em- ployes his subjects, We are gradually in business getting a semblance of the democracy we have in government. Final attainment of the goal may be through the pooled buying power of employes. FABLES ON HEALTH. : — Not long after Mr. Jones of Any-| 2—While still upon the floor, in- | CARRIAGE EXERCISES — | town had learned. from his physical director the proper way to stand and walk he was introduced to sev- eral simple exercises that helped materially to keep the body ,in con- dition for maintaining this carriage. For those others who may wish to follow Mr, Jones’ example, the following. brief outline of some of these exercises are here given: 1—Lie flat upon thé back, arising to a sitting posture for six or seven times, Then, turning face down- ward, make a bridge of your body by rising on arm. Again, returning to your back,. arch the abdomen, resting on your shoulders and heels. hale slowly, raising the arms to a horizontal position and straighten- ing them out at the sides again when exhaling. Breathe slowly and deeply, doing this exercise at the rate of about 10 a minute. 3—Taking a. standing ‘position, rajse first the right and then the left leg and, following this, thrust the arms above the head, swaying from side to side with an upward movement of the hips. All of these have as their purpose the strengthening of the abdominal muscles which: play the. most im- portant part in maintaining a con- stantly erect carriage. = LETTER ' FROM JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT TO SYDNEY CARTON, CONTINUED Here’s something funny that 1 forgot to tell you. ° You remember that letter that Paula wrote me, asking me not to ffirt with anyone. Well, ‘the moment she got to the wedding she spotted Mrs. Atherton immediately, and ‘said: + “So that is the women you are flirting with? You'do not know when you are well off. With a lovely wife, to go around flirting with a red-headed woman is more '|than I’ can forgive. * - i Can you beat that, men think ‘they are handicapped with a ‘wife -to;look after their flirtations, but when a man’s former sweetheart also takes up the cudgel for his wife, you can imagine he has. some ‘espionage to . struggle against. ©. i: 1 wish you’d come over and stay with me, ‘Syd, for a. while, anyway till I get’ used ; to: Les! being away. I have no. one to talk to but mother, and she is the last woman I want: to talk to under the circum- stances, you know. Of course, if you won't come. you must recon- sider your determination not to write me, for I’tell you, old man, I’m in great trouble, and I have al- ways considered that you were’ the best friend any man ever had. Sincerely, JACK. Night Letter From. Mre. Mary Alden. Prescott. to Mrs. Leslie Prescott. ¥ MANDAN NEWS | GOLF COURSE PROPOSED A proposal that Mandan take steps at the present time to acquire land suitable for golf and prepare to lay out a first cl caurse next year, initiated last week by the Kiwanis club, is meeting enthusiasm in many quarters. Dr. B. D, Rowley, chair- man, W. G. Renden and A. J. Sylves- Syd? © Most mittee. eit . At the request: of, Dr. Rowley, Pre- sident John Sullivan of the Rotary club named a committee composed of J. W. Hintgen, Dr. Lloyd Erickson and Atty. E. R. Lanterman and the two committee; y BANNING-TAVIS A. wedding of interest to residents of thexelty and of Flasher will take| 7 place, Tuesday. morning, in Flasher when Lawrence Tavis, of this city wil wed Miss Blandena Banning of Flasher. > The ceremony will be sole- nized ,at 8..0'elock at the Catholic dapghter of inning, few ye ‘and Mrs, L. ig ‘asm of Mr, of Glen-Ullin, and: s:brother-of John | Sarah, Bernhafdt, : 6%. | You ought to write us, my dear Leslie, for we are very anxious not only-to know how your father is but how you yourself are getting on. I can see that John is very much con- cerned, although he has said noth- ing about it. You owe something to your husband, child, as. well as to your father. Give my ‘greatest sympathy to your mother. Tell her that I know exactly what she is going through, as my dear husband was ill a long time before he passed away. Little John is well and happy. He doesn’t seem to miss you very much, He has become very fond of his grandmother. Love to you, my child. MOTHER PRESCOTT. Night Letter From Beatrice Summers to. Sally Atherton. Send me immediately Lesjie’s ad- dress. Have -mig! it. “Er}p across country very delifhtful. Misb Perier much more human than you would expect a woman who ha’ adulation as she would b never known a Woman’ so crazy about children. She seems to think Leslie's boy the loveliest child ever saw; talks about him incessant- ly. Did you: know :she went up to the house to seechim the night of the wedding? > Dick and I are very happy, of course, Sometimes I wish this jour- ney would never ‘end ‘as I dread Hollywood and Hollywood environ- ment.. I'wonder. if I, will be happy there as I am now, ”, BEE. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Tavis of this cif; the Firat Ni The bridal: ¢ ing the ceremony, on a trip to the Black Hills, and on their retarn will makestheir ti Bank. couple will leave follow- Pro-| for French writ her, and has | ing. built in the the vicinity | Plessis-Robinson; outside Paris, The Mr. Tavis | village will start with 1 Pavia} vil atart with 100 dwellings resi “en BiAth “Avenue N. W. Seg ce ‘LOSES ‘FINGER Mfsg.\Eva Nehloff, employed as a waitr the: Lewis and Clark ho- tel, spbedly ‘gastied two of the fin- gers Wer Ieft hand on the circular E} |ter compose the Kiwanis club com-| bladé''gf"'m bread. cutting machine that it was “necessary to amputate the end of<thé ‘second digit as a re- sult.’ The ident oceurred Sunday morning, 6 blade of the machine shaved the flesh off the ehd of the index finger and bared th@:bone of “DINNER PARTY Mr. pnd Mrs. J, P. Hess-entertain- ed at dinner Saturday ening at their home on Fifth’ Avenue North- ‘to. Mrs, J, C. Helen, of San 3; Charl west complimentary” kins, and daugl Diego, er of Chica sixteen guests and the evening was spent at dards,: § BERNHARDT VILLAGE Paris, Aug, 12.—A garden village and artists is be- tiful. woods at studios. and will be named after eat the J. E. | f » ¥ 6 1 v é ‘ | ‘ yeh On .