The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 19, 1924, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO” - - - - : DETROIT Marquette Bidg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - . - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exciusively 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 re eh Daily by carrier, per year..........+.0.- Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)... Daily by mail per year (in state outside Bismarck) . Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota........... ~ THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) MUST STAND ON THEIR OWN LEGS When the state industries of North Dakota first were iched, even the most pronounced advocate of them ated positively that they must stand on their own legs und must succeed or fail on their merits. These industries have not, however, been treated as private industries. Fre- nt pressure exerted to force such treatment has suc- led to some extent. The Tribune has trom time to time voiced a demand that the industries must be considered ?* private institutions in financial reckoning if there is co Le a fair test of them on the basis of profit and loss. A new method by which the state institutions are given an unfair advantage over private institutions, and by which losses of the state institutions may be concealed through diversion of funds from other public channels, has been discovered in the action of the Burleigh county board of commissioners in refusing to abate taxes on lands on which the Bank of North Dakota has foreclosed. The law is plain, it is stated, but a test of the validity of the law is contem- plated. Under the law, the Bank forecloses on a piece of lend on which it has loaned money, takes title and_ the county must abate the back taxes. In the case of pieces 6! land foreclosed on in Burleigh county back taxes amount- ing to $6,000 would be abated. It is quite possible that rillions of dolta indirectly, might be divertéd from the ies of the state to the Real Estate Bond Payment Fund, id the farm loan business of the state would be a very prof- is not followed in the law governing the State Board of University of School Lands and should not b>» in the farm lozn business of the Bank of North Dakota. Churches in North Dakota are exempted from taxes, but if churches own business property this is taxed. Property of the State of North Dakota used for governmental pur- poses rightly is not taxed, but business property of the state, such as the Grand Forks mill and elevator, b cherged with taxes. if the industry is to be conducted in ii mnetition to private industrie Attorney-General George Shafer, in his biennial report, called attention to the fact that the Attorney - General’s office spends much money in furnishing legal as ance to the Workmen’s Compensation Bureau. This Bureau is con- templated by law t» be a self-sustaining institution, ‘su tained by the employers. Its cost of writing compensation risks is compared to that of private companies. No other department of the state should assist this Bureau, without compensation, if this principle of a self-sustaining institu- tion is to be continued. The same situation was true in large degree of the state hail insurance department a few years ago, when services worth many thousands of dollars were performed by county Officials. Yet no allowance for this fact was made, as a rule, in pointing to ihe low rate of hail insurance. The de- partment, in its late reports, claims this has been changed, through additional compensation given to counties for serv- iees performed. The Bank of North Dakota gets the services of the state’s legal staff and other officials, the Industrial Commission is maintained by tax money, and in scores of ways, the state institutions are benefitted by services paid for with tax money. Private institutions do not have such advant- ages. Until every state enterprise is made to stand on its own legs. to be run entirely on a self-sustaining principle and on the same basis as private industries, it is unfair to compare any success of these institutions to private indus- tries, and their losses should be increased in proportion to the value of services gratuitously rendered. WHITE HOUSE We elect president. Four months pass before he be gins to serve his term. This year it doesn’t make much dif- ference, since Coolidge succeeds himself. But when one party is kicked out and another goes into power, the four months’ delay is a ball-and-chain on business, and our pock- etbooks all suffer. 2 We have this asinine delay because, when our Constitu- tion v drawn up, transportation and communication methods were so crude that it took four months to count send word and get the winner to the White House. ks now would be plenty, at most. A Constitutional amendment along this line has been proposed. You'll hear more about it soon. It’s sensible. DODGERS After the Civil War, Uncie Sam put a stamp tax on bank ks above $5. Peonle dodged the tax by paying, say a ch BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. : - - Publishers ————— should be} $20 debt with four $5 \heeks. Supreme Court backed them, saic the evasion was legal. Tax dodging is nothing new. It used to be claimed that , the income tax couldn’t be dodged or shifted. Now we know | that claim was ridiculous. Stricter inheritance taxes and sales taxes on luxuries may be in the offing. : DIAMONDS Two diamonds, value $2500, adorned front teeth of Sam- uel H. Lefkowitz, New Yorker. Not any more. | They’re out. and in a ring now. A footpad tackled him the other night. armed with a pistol and dental forceps. Sam fled. Future holdups may get his ring, but not his chewers. As has been frequently pointed out, one of the chief advantages What Editorial Review 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 of important Issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. FORD IMPRE, ( Henry lucky to have the prince of He the other day when he broke jence, with consent of his re Rue and told some of the thing: ‘SED BY WA pw York World) er, and how he had been won to liking for Britain’s heir rent by his intelligent: inter in the world about him. “And he said as be left that he would be back soon to spend a longer time with me,” said) Mr! Ford, looking out of the windows | his Dearborn laboratory. | oh aithin him ,too,” he nod- | ded, ve years ago he told me}! he was coming to see me in De- i troit some He kept his word, and I look for him Kk ima yes or so.” A new electric engine of thirty- two drive wheeis which will be able to pull one hundred coal c: forty miles an nour and which i now being assembled in the I land Park power twas the | first machinery to catch the prin- | ce's eye. Itig to be put into sery- on the Ford road. j “Well. si Hid Ford, * doe} {signed that thing a year ago, and | it wasn't two seconds before he was asking me questions about it 1 couldn't answer. 1 couldn't: re- member a lot of the details.” “1 took four yeurs of electrical engineering.” the prince said in « gwer to the surprise in’ F eyes. He chatted with more than fifty of the workers. wf think thi from England, a his pointing to a who dragging about a casting. H.R. H. went over to the man. = vre oun Englishman?” he | i | | | man over am not; I'm from Ireland,” s the retort. with a nip of vine- in it. he prince infectious. zrinned with him. ughed’ and i big ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “Will everybody please be quiet ! now, the Riddle Lady. “It’s; time for another riddle.” ; Naney, who had won the prize | just before that, and was showing it around to Bo Peep and Contrary Mary and Margery Da‘ of whom admired it like everything, suddenly stopped talking i And so did d Jack and Tom | Tucker and Peter Peter and cvery- | hody. | Really you could have heard a pin{ drop almost. Even the Old-Shoe Woman's children were quiet for the first time in six months, as their mother said afterwards, The reason was very No- body wanted to miss a word of the riddle and who there is a riddle be- ing asked it is important to get! quite all of it. | The Riddle Lady began: i “Phere is a crooked per: Who hasn't any sty But he is so obliging, You will find it worth your while, To have this crooked gentleman, A guest within your house, | Though as for size he isn’t i Any bigger than a mouse. “He'll stay down in your kitchen, Among y For cook At excavating corks, |He’s not a pushing person, But as for pull—my my! He'll get the goodies out for you, And doesn't even try.” know! I know!” cried the Ten- |get to school on time, J know or two. “It's a corkscrew!” \ : 's_right,” smiled the Riddle’ ‘Here is an alarm clock for! r prize, 1 alwa: said that it wasn't your fault that you were late for school. , But it will be after thi Who is ready for another riddle?” | “Me!” cried all the Mother Goose | Lunders so loudly that Mrs. Goose | fairly blushed. “My goodness!” she! said to Mrs. Spratt. “I'm so the Twins will go home and s: manners. they yelled too,” said Mrs. Spratt. “I both saw and heard | “Oh, that’s different,” said Mrs. | ose is a relieved voice. “Sh! The j is beginning again.” ; san easy one,” said the Riddle Lady. “And very short! | i i “Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, Baker Man, an it be that he bakes in a pan? plate, My dears, it’s the very thing Jack Horner ate. pumpkin it’s made, best grade, are plenty, 1 count twenty.” ord thinks England is) and heir like | ia so} he and H. R. HL. talked about in| their crowded eight hours togeth- ; you have you ers h plumber goes for his tools. head and make it on there your that has no turning. jdepends upon the income of just nat ur spoons and forks, the be ays that he’s wonderful, ! pet the best of him. ‘out hunting because she other hunters will not. x doesn’t O'Clock Scholar. “Even if 1 don’t: can tell thing | (Copyright, ! WORLDWIDE As round as a dollar, as flat as a “Each year on Thanksgiving, of On Christmas of mince-meat of very On Easter of custard, for then eggs Now see who can guess this before “I know,” cried Jack Horner. “It’s 4 foreign cooperation. of civilization is personal safety. Sam probably has his . doubts. T SCHEMER Slaughter houses use trained steers which, acting as de- coys, lead their unsuspecting fellows to the butchers. Phi ie.” was hoping you would guess it,” declared the Riddle Lady. “The prize is a fork. Now please don’t use your thumb any more. It isn’t a bit nice.” (To Be Continued) adeiphia has a steer that has been doing this work for 12|\(Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) years, secure and well fed for his treachery. Tf this steer had been born a man and a vote for war but not inlist himself. politician he’a | William Murdock, an Engligh on. gineer, was the first to emplqy ipo! gas as an illuminant. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE {months. In | disorders | son, | anced in Ma. iover nerves and brain. ' Crile’s th | ted bodi It is hard to stay on the level when ups and downs, | his The easiest job is being a plumb- per. You wait while — the Nothing feels more lonely than a swimming hole in fall. The only dangerous thing about an auto is the driver one can put a hat on > your feel as if you put te ave great things. — They someone you can trust : | his _It takes a lot of nerve to be) that J tickleq at what a hard time you have.! Living is high because so much of it is being do: It’s a long spell of bad weather} 0; The outcome of a business « business If you are worried, just think of he money you will be saving on the! ice bill all winter It looks like a r for j people x t enough to y warm, e@ man who doesn’t try to get Mother misses father when he is The trouble with anything is you f he means it or not. RADIO MEET IS SOUGHT, BY ISRAEL KLEIN NEA Service Radio Editor Need of an International radio} cont sions of the National Radio Conference held in Washington, As the conferees struggled through ' \them.” ja mass of controversial questions in their efforts to put national broadcasting and other forms ot redio transmission on a s basis, th cooperation with all other govern. | realized the nece: ments, in the same matter. | Elimination of ship spark inter- ference could not be d out reference to foreign tic ussed with- ship prac- h power or trans-Atlantic broadcasting also re ed consid- ion of foreign experience and Start Is Made The result has been to stress tne importance of a worldwide confer- ence with at least the largest coun- tries of both hemispheres in the di cussions. Last April a prelimi conference was held at Geneva and from this a call went to all inter- ested countries for another énterna- tional meet, for the purpose of iron: ing out some difficulties that have arisen since the last conference at Washington in 1920, Among the subjects to he taken up at this meeting would be: 1, Re-allocation of - wavelengths mong amateurs, commercial sta- tions, broadcasters, ships, and gov- ernment stations. These bands to be universally recognized. 2. Redistribution of initial calt letters among countries, especially those that have come into the con- ference since the last distribution : The Tangle TER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT | ton to come he KE, CONTINUED 1s soon as possible ; ond get things fixed up at this end! ‘ time to wind up his business. nat down deep ays expected t friend would ull things right, never to do th about the aj r he returns | shall | turn up and make hut even if he come and pac | Perhaps it will seem best for Miss lington to come ove very much to iave here before I leave, for I want to be | | Sure that little Jack is going to like he crossed off ngs trom the slate of his mem- You: remember that stanza I have often quoted you: : in the lives of both women | It is also very nece should like me about finding a place for Jam going to tr however, and bi n the dead could know back and be. forgiven.” Jack, as well as m would be a splendid thing Miss Ellington with w nd Karl will not x elf, think it h | at it, calling it through it, however, night with Jack the addition of a sun room d we decided Ruth, although you ything about it one way 1 think Joan likes {much better than he © you have been so quick to « the place not very hubitable but quite artis- k about tie shop be- ther died he has been understanding, and J don't want to make him ang ceuse [ did not tell him I was going te do it. You know very well had I told him I could never have done you and Walter? He will then meet her to come to us. The plan now is for Sa of things finds they soon| (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Ine.) | j hands exclusively for telephony, dis-| young upstart just out of Sheffield \ dio telegraph channels. | ‘ation of the same bands for amateurs throughout the world. Limitation of di: lengths for use of ships only and reservation of time World Language Consideration of a dio language like Esperanto, or Ido No, so that signals throughout never | the world may be understood readily i all listeners. NEA Service, Ine.) | 4, Reservation of wave length EVERETT TRUE ~ANO L CoveDd HER THS FACLU, 74 OT CAST NIGHT > ON me BACK PoRCH — s afraid the} tra a man who! oF BY ce INDO rence Was expressed time and{ n again during the s we don’t know ANT eaten WEDNESDAY, By AND N@ ONE KNOWS WHY \Ibert / NOVEMBER 18, 19% pple More people go cr zy in May and June than any other nity is at its lowest ebb in February. Mental re remarkably few during the entire winter sea- This is shown by the record of admissi sions to asylums Dr. Frank Parsons Norbury discusses the subject in the Medical Journal In the next in the new and Record. months you will also find’ fewer suicides The suicide rate is lowest in winter, It is high- est in May and June, despite the fact that these two months are in the most cheerful season of the year. ' a mental disord runs true to winter’s restraining influence. Suicide, of course, i Paralysi r, It accordingly is not a mental disorder, but it is a nervous malady, closely related to the brain. And the paralysis rate, All around be the Diff cult, to explain wh iis lowest in winter, highest in May and June. people are most nervous and mentally unbal- nd June. In winter they have the best control In a general way, winter seems to eason when people are most sensible. Possibly the answer is in * ry that sleep, and sleep alone, cells to normal, healthy condition. In hot sum- can restore exhaus- mer, sleep is apt to be restless, less restorative. In cool nervous and mental disorders. ; Weather, sleep is sounder, more restorative—hence, fewer Astrologers will step forward and say that the reason for all this is “in the stars and planets’—that the positions and conjunctions and influences of the heavenly bodies reg- ‘ulate our health and sanity. Scientists incline to the belief that nervous and mental exhaustion of human energy. There appears to be more {disorders are seasonai because they are caused primarily by to it.than that. Mysterious psychic forces play a considerable role in our lives and des- tinies. Notable instances are religious waves, dancing crazes nations periodically, swaying ‘and other powerful widespread currents that sweep through individuals and the masses. Coincidence is the least satisfactory of all explanations. are Cornelius Hoffman and his wife Sporting Club three years with no money in their pockets and New York, Nov. 19.—Thirty-eight years ago W. W. Atterbury was a Scientifie School of Yale University. He became a machinist apprentice in the shops of the Pennsylvania Rail- road at Altoona, Being only 20 and looking no older, the men around the shop saw to it that he had plenty of work to do, That was in 1886. In three years he was sent out as assistant road foreman of engines. Four years later and he was master mechanic at | Fort Wayne, Ind. Three years there and he was appointed superintendent of motive power of the entire sys- | tem. In 1903 he became general man- er of the lines east of Pittsburgh. Six years later he was fifth vice president. Changes came quickly after that until in 1912 his title be- came , Vice, President in Charge of Operations: And next September, when President Rea ret at 70, W. W | comes president. ; Often when I pi jgreat Pennsylvania Station here, or look down upon the as they through the (i ZNON THe FRONT fCORCH scoot under the Hudson River I won- | der if one of the mechanics I see, oily All the world id continental hikers eventually get to New York, Here who say they wagered the Holland ugo that they could start from the Netherlands get around the world in four years, and grimy at his work, will some day climb up the trail Atterbury took. John Keats, the poet, once wrote a rhymed letter to his brother George. It was sold in New York this week for $3000, It was part of the William Harris Arnold collec- tion, Almost any day during the fall and winter you can find a sale of art. and book collections going on in one - of the Fifth avenue galleries. This seem§ to be the world’s center of. collection hobbyists. It is a wild and exciting life, too, it seems. Arnold, now dead, once wrote a book called “Adventures in Book Collecting.” In his collections were originals or autographed copies by Lamb, Bos- well, General Grant, Robert ‘Burns and Dickens, Officer. 5023, traffic duty at Broadway and 45th street, stretched out both arms’ to warn pedestrains not to cross the street. A very pompous gentleman, with spats and cane, was just about to step off the curb. “Don’t you touch me! Don’t you dare touch me!” he screamed in a high voice. “I'll bring action against you if you dare lay a hand jon me.” Fhe‘ cop-only smiled at him, --JAMES W. DEAN. | In Anytown, as elsewhere, the: “old-timers” were always talking upout the best methods for attain- ink longevity. Almost invariably different meth- eds seemed to lead to the same end. One would ‘say that he had never stoppedS smoking and drank liquor | “henever ‘he could get it; another would insist that old dge was to be {¢btained only by compl stinence; some were vegvter others ate meat. ‘The crux of which is: few persons veret similarly’to either the exter- nals or internals of life. Bach man must study’ his own problem. But there are general rules to the game, hy following which no one can go wrong. , To reach a ripe old age is all but impossible if you live a rushing hee- tic life,--Cultivaté ‘cheerfulness and bright outlook; do ‘something iise- you cag for shel | | | | FABLES ON HEALTH HOW TO LIVE LONG ood of your peace of mind’ and soul. Get a hobby; don’t worry about luxuries, simple things are best; keep your mind occupied and vary your interest. so that they will not lag. Eat the things that agree with you best, rather than those things you like, and get lots of fresh air, exercise, baths, sleep and ‘sunshine. i’ A Thought ' o——_-__. —<—<$$__—_—____-© Let nothing he done through strife or glory; but in lowliness of, mind let cach esteem other better than themselves,—Phil, 2:3, Noble deeds that are concealed are most ésteemvd = Rijgcal. RBPUETT RPT UETTT§ | Tt is eaby' te ‘stab common house-§ flies with an ice pick or some gimi- lar instrument, - cr: ae