The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 23, 1925, Page 1

! pas ] _ what effect it migh! WEATHER, FORECAST For Bismarck and vicinity: Part- ly cloudy tonight and Saturday. ESTABLISHED 1873 TH PARTY TRACES ARE BROKEN IN LABOR BATTLE Division on Child Labor Rati- fication Goes Beyond the Party Lines HEARING IS HELD Bristles with Charges of Professional Lobbying — Effort to Draw in Farms wera Political lines are very definitely broken in the state legislature over the question of ratification of the federal child labor amendment. This became increasingly evident today, following a public hearing last night on the measure, held by the public health committee of; the state senate, Another public hearing will be held Monday night, before the committee -reports. Division of sentiment somewhat —_ concentrated appeared between those) who believe the child labor]™ amendment is a humanitarian move: ment and an economic benefit, on the one hand, and those who believe it is an invasion of state and indi- vidual rights, a menace to the farmers and a possible menace to chfldren themselves. ; Senators Girdell Patterson and Ole Ettestad, prominent Nonpartisan leaders, appeared opposed to the rat- iSieation, as did Senator Alfred Steel, prominent Independent. Pre- diction is made that the ratification will be defeated in the legislature. The public hearing bristled with some hot exchanges, during which Senator Patterson called for some farmer to speak, declaring “it seems we have only professional lobbyists here tonight.” May Take In Agriculture Queries also were directed to peo- ple speaking for the measure, as to its effect on the farmer. Mrs, L, R. Putnam of Carrington, head of the League of Women Voters, for the measure, in answer to a query as to yhave on the farm said that “if the development of agriculture continues as industry has in the last hundred years—beet sugar growing and truck gardening —it may be necessaty to control Id labor on the farm.” Mrs. C. A. Fisher, president of the Women’s Nonpartisan Clubs in the state, also on this subject, said “I have seen child labor sadly exploited on.the farms in North Dakota.” Senator Ole Ettestad, against the measure, declared that “many of us came over from the old country be- cause their the only rights we had were what the state fe us; over here we have sonie individual rights.” Won’t Be Coerced Senator Alfred Steel, interpreting a remark of Mrs. Kate Wilder of Fargo, representing the state W. C, 'T. Ug as meaning that ‘those Sena- tors Mho were against the measure would suffer politically,—an infer- ence she said she did not intend—de- clared that “We are not sent here to do what our constituents want; we are sent here to do what we think is right, and if we cannot convince our constituents we may not be re- turned. é S. S. McDonald, Bismarck, and Wm. {takes about an hour for the E BISMARCK TRIBUNE. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1925 Nation Awaits Advent of Solar Eclipse, First in Many Years WHY AND HOW OF THE ECLIPSE . The moon coming between the the shadow banc! on tie earth. sun and earth throws a INO ECLIPSE ronical shadow, the trail of which is called Outside this band the sun. will ‘be seen only in partial ec:ipse, as shown ‘by the shaded surface touching the earth. Outside this, nf eclipse will be seen. ECLIPSE, IN BISMARCK The sun is due to rise in Bis- marck tomorrow morning at 8:17 its regular time. The sun should e, according to O. W. Rob- erts, weather observer, with a little, curved spot on the lower, right hand corner. At 9:15 a. the sun should be about half ob- scured. From that time on the spot should begin disappearing, and by 10:15 the sun should be entirely cleared of the spot. Four hundred miles east of’ here the eelipse will be much more pronounced and 600 miles east of here there will be total dark- ness, O. W. Roberts, weather ob- server, seid. Bismarck citizena, using smoked, dark or amber glasses, may get a view of the sun spot, Mr. Roberts said. He warned against people looking at the sun without using glasses, say- ing their eyes may be injured. Res Orne See BY ISRAEL KLEIN NEA Service Writer - It all depends on the weather. If the sky is clear, — tomorrow morning, more people will be able to observe a total eclipse of the sun than have ever had this opportunity before. This eclipse, beginning about 120 miles west of Duluth, Minn, will race over the populous area of north- ern Michigan and Wisconsin, south- ern Ontario, diagonally across New York, Pennsylvania; New Jersey and Connecticut. Then-it will go on, at the speed of 2000 miles an hour, crossing the lanes of ocean liners until itxwilt leave the earth at sun- Set a short way west of Scotland. For 100 miles across this band, the sun will be blotted out completely by the moon, for an interval,of two minutes, Outside, to the north and south, the’ sun will be seen only in partial eclipse. This band of totality is nothing more than the shadow of the moon on the earth, like that, of a cloud that momentarily shuts out the sun. 100 Miles Wide It is within this 100-mile band that helpful scientific observations can be made; Outside, the phenomenon ap- pears only as a disk crossing part of the sun’s face and partly shutting off its light. Inside the “shadow, this is only a preliminary. to the real treat, moon to cross the face of the sun, then two minutes for the time of total eclipse and another hour or so for the moon ‘to slide off again. At northern Minnesota, this pre- liminary. movement ‘will be unob- served, for daybreak will witness the complete eclipse already accom- plished. At about one minute after 8 in the morning, central standard time, Duluth will be enveloped by Godwin, Mandan, representatives of organized la¥or, spoke for’the rat fication, as did Senator O. H, Olson. Mrs. E. O. Bailey, Mrs. Putnam, Mrs. Wilder, Mrs. Fisher, Mrs. L. N. Cary of Mandan and Mrs. C, B, Whit- tey of Bismarck, Mii ie Niel- son and Miss Henrietta Lund were among those speaking for the mea- sure. Elaborate Arguments Mrs. Putnam presented elaberate arguments, declaring that the child labor amendment was necessary to safeguard children and make better ens. = ss Mary Cashel of Bismarck ap- peared against the measure, holding it was an invasion of states rights. She suggested as one problem that there are 6,000 men and women un- _qpr' 18 years of-age in North Dako- ta who are married. Congress would have the right to prevent their employment and they would fall. back on the she said. ASKS CABINET ~ SALARY RISE Rep. Fish Introduces Bill in Washington Washington, Jan, 23—The anual salary of members of the President's cabinet would ke $17,500 instead of $12,000 under a bill introtluced by resentative Fish, Republican, N York this shadow. The time of this totality will grad- ually get later ag the sun rises and the moon's shadow races eastward, until about 13 minutes past 9, east- }ern standard time, it will leave the coast, To Study Corona In the two minutes allotted them for observation of the total eclipse, scientists and other observers will be working fast to collect as many pho- tographs and as much information as possible. “Among the phenomena they will look for a study, in this connection, will.be: 1, ‘The sun’s corona, a mysterious pearly light:that seems to shoot off from the dark disk of the moon, but actually is a stream of, burning gases and other elements reaching 2,000,- (Continded on page three) American A resolution of censure for alleged lack of care of the Theodore Roose- velt log cabin on the state capitol grounds may be introduced by Sen- ator David Hamilton, McHenry coun- ty, who was:one of. Roosevelt's rough riders in Cub: ‘ At a meeting of the appropriations committee of the Senate last night, when? the appropriation for mainten- ance of the state capital grounds was brought up, Senator Hamilton declared the cabin had not been tal en care of. fe objected to its pre: ent’ location’ behind the Liberty Me- Photo of the sun’s corona taken FAIL 70 GROW OPIUM KILLED Missionary Reports Situation in China; Opium Confer- ence Is Threatened * Shanghai, China, Jan. 23.—A prom- inent missionary today informed a Reuters correspondent that the mili- tary authorities in the province of It|Fukine had beheaded 200 Christian Chinese farmers, because they re- fused to grow opium. The Mission- ary added that although the Chinese officials were compelling the farm- ers to cukivate opium 1,500 Chri tian families had refused to obey orders and that the execution fol- lowed. MAY COME HOME Geneva, Jan. 23.--A private meet- ing today between Representative Stephen Porter of the United States and Viscount Cecil of Great Britain in an attempt to save the opium con- ference from a breakdown resulted in failure. “ “Mr. Porter stated that unless con- ditions changed radically he would return to the United States in a few days. “I consider the situation has reached such a stage that my con- tinued presence would imperil the Hague apium convention,” he said. 4,700 DIE IN FLU’ ‘EPIDEMIC Tokio, Jun. 23,—Four thousand and seven hundred .persans are re- ported dead as a result of an influ- enza epidemic in greater Tokio. CONDITION OF ROOSEVELT CABINAS CRITICIZED BY SENATOR HAMILTON we took a troop ship in Florida and got to Cuba in a’ few weeks when other outfits" had been waiting months—but he’ wasn’t a military man. “There ‘are some traits of charac- ter of Roosevelt I'd like to see pre- served. ‘He was proud of his North Dakota ‘citizenshi, He. reverenced old age. Why, if he“was talking to anyone .and’ would see an old lady hesitate about crossing a street he'd leave you and help her and if you asked him why he'd, say, ‘She may be some boy’s mother.’ He believed in good citizenship.” : “In a statement Mr, Fish said that frequently cabinet officials, obliged to entertain extensively, have found their salaries, inadequate and have. be for resign in order ‘to re- WPrilitate. their finances. » The authorities bf abveral large English Wosbitsls, Wave ‘déeided ‘to. ‘litt ve ‘ban’ ‘agatast! the “énioking’ of | sable reo ‘rnat it ‘has been tin? possible to enforce the rule, morial building. ‘ “TF think I’ll try to get a resolution of censure through,” said’ Senator ‘Hamilton. “I ‘visited the cabin last summer and found windows out and repairs needed. \ “They are‘ building military sta- tues of Roosevelt around the coun- try, and, he was anything but a mili- . He had the courage and jad, and that jh at, ia soldier likes—for example when The Roosevelt cabin now is pro- tected by a strong, wire fence built by the Daughters of ‘the American Revolution with funds’ :voluntarily |raised. It was necessary to do this to protect the cabin against vandals. The ‘Daughters also raised mach monéy to restore it.” 3 ‘ihe One Senator suggested that money should be appropriated to build a jed over the log cabin to, bette serve it, | THE CORONA at It is only during the total eclipse that the brilliant corona ¢ Its beams shoot out 2,000,000 to even 9,000,000 miles from the san. |FARMERS WHO ireen River, Wyo., an be seen. COLD WAVE IS BEARING DOWN ON BISMARCK Bismarck’s spring weather is to be broken for the time being. A cold wave is bearing down from the northwest, the weather bureau announces. The thermo- meter probably will sink to zero rv by night, and colder is ahead Saturday. or lowe GOV. SORLIE Other Prominent Speakers on Convention Program An address by R. O. Baird, state food commissioner, and round table discussion was on the program of the North Dakota Bottlers Associa- tion here today. The two-day con- yention will conclude this afternoon. At the annual banquet last night, Governor Sorlie was a speaker. He was introduced by H. H. Williams, Mandan, toastmaster, as the “har- mony governor” and the Governor talked upon cooperation in the state. Other speakers were J. P. Cain, Dickinson; Rep. Herman Rabe, Dick- i W. S. Whitman, Grand D. Bostleman, Chicago; Minneapolis; Judge Ww. Moore, Burke of the supreme court. Tom Yesterday afternoon Tom Moore, representative of the Minnesota As- sociation, gave an address and black- board: drill ‘on: cost accounting. N. P. OFFICIAL IS PROMOTED New- General Superintendent Is Appointed Duluth, Mi Jan, , 23.—William Strachan, division superintendent of the Northern Pacific railroad here since 1914, has been promoted to general superintendent of the east- ern division of the road and will leave Feb. 1 for St. Paul to assume his new duties. .His successor, W. C. Sloan, formerly superintendent of the Rocky Mountain division with atrived ‘in: Duluth “yesterday and is now acquainting himself with the lo- eal office. Strachan’s promotion and the at local offices of the Northern P: fic this morning. . nesota, Fargo’ and» Dakota, succeed Newman-Kiine;-who is re- tiring from: active service, 3 June $, 1918."! headquarters at Missoula, Montana,Jer tonight. , Announcement of Mr./ed over ap-|Mougtain slope and unusually warm pointment of his successor was made} weather prevails’ over the Dakotas As: generals superintendent of the}accompanied by cold weather, pre- eastern district Mr. Strachan will{vails over the Great Lakes region. have charge of the road from St.{Colder weather h Paul to Mandan, North Dakota, in-Jin northwestern Canada. cluding. the five: most important divi-| precipitation occurred in sions, Lake Superior, St.Paul, Min-|tteme He will] weathér is generally fair. HIGHWAY BODY PROBE HALTED TEMPORARILY House State Affairs Commit- tee Decides on Public Hearing First ALLEGATIONS INVITED Cemmittee Will Decide on Basis of Hearing About Investigation All persons having any charges to make regarding the state highway commission may present them to the state affairs of the house of repre- sentatives next Tuesday morning. At a meeting of the committee held this morning it was decided to hold a public hearing next Tuesday on the olution calling for an i vestigation of the highway comm: sion. After hearing whatever char- ges may be brought forward at the Tuesday s ion the committee will determine whether or not to ree mend to the house that a formal i vestigation of the highway commis- on be held. he motion for this procedure was by J. H. Burkhart, Non- of Ward county, after L. L. Twichell of Cass had urged that the mittee should not recommend an investigation the gost. of | which might run into a good many thous- ands of dollars of the state funds until it has more definite knowledge than at present as to what there is to investigate. After some discus- sion the other mentbets of the com- mittee adopted this view, and Mr. Burkhart’s motion .was. unanimously passed, All of the members of the commit- tee disclaimed any desire to give any angle to whatever investiga- y be decided upon. he resolution calling for the highway commission probe was in- troduced in the house Wednesday by Representatives Fine and McCay and was referred to the committee on state affairs. The action of the committee will be formally announc- ed in the house this afternoon. W. G. Black, state engineer will also be notified of the hearing in order that he may be present. DAVIS, SONTO | BE TRIED IN | HIGHER COURT; Former Governor Appears and Waives Examination Before Magistrate © co. Topeka, KA&n., Jan. ormer Governor Jonathan Davis and his son, Russell G. Davis, will go to trial in district court here on charges of accepting a bribe of $1,250 in connec- tion with the issuance of a pardon to Fred W. Pollman, convicted bank- er. The former executiye and his son appeared unexpectedly in the city court of Topeka late yesterday and waived preliminary hearing, which had been set for this morning. They were bound over to the district court under their present bonds of $1,000 each. The case probably will be called ;during the April term of court, Hold Explosion — : Cause of Deaths inn., Jan, 23,—Beltrami county officials decided today that the fire which burned to death Mrs. Louis T. Delezene, 33, and her three- year-old daughter, Dorothy, Thur day, was caused by an accidental oil explosion. |. Weather Report | For 24 hours ending at noo! Temperature at 7 a. m. Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Lowest last’ night . Precipitation Highest wind velocity WEATHER FORECAST Fot Bismarck and vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Colder tonight. COLD WAVE Saturday; temperature zero or lower by night. For North Dakota: Partly cloudy tonight: and Saturday. Colder to- night west portion. COLD WAVE Saturday; temperature zero or low- WEATHER CONDITIONS An area of low pressure is center- the northeastern Rocky and over the eastern. Rocky Moun- tain slope. A high pressure area, also appeared Scattered the ex- Northwest; elsewhere the ‘ORRIC W. ROBERTS, - Ca LEST WE FORGET Just to keep the record straight, is the chief motive of writing this editorial, not with any hope that the city com- mission will clean house in its engineering department and cut off the indefensible waste of public funds. But another milestone in the controversy over the con- struction of the new water works system has been reached and as usual the taxpayer is paying the freight. Two winters and a summer have gone by, much water has flowed under the two great bridges, since ground was first broken for ths new municipal water plant. Ground was broken before an intake or source of water for the new plant was fixed for service. Mistake Number One. Then ground was broken and the filtration plant built over on the Bismarck Water Supply company’s ground be- fore title was secured to the same. Mistake Number Two, Fortunately this did not prove as damaging as it might. as the difficulty was squeezed out of by reaching final terms as to purchase of the old plant. The Tribune supported the regular and extra waterworks bond election on the assurance that all of the old equipment of the Bismarck Water Supply Co., that could be used would be utilized. This was not done. Mistake Number Three. A second bond election to correct mistakes of the first bond election was held which cost the taxpayer something. Mistake Number Four. But the taxpayers including, The Tribune quietly and charitably overlooked mistake number four and supported the second election. Everyone was anxious to get the water issue out of politics and get it settled as efficiently and cheaply as_ possible. When the bond issue won overwhelmingly and the tax- payers gave vent to a sigh of relief the orgy of spending started. Mistake Number Five. Promises -and assurances were thrown to the winds. Everything had to be new. Miles of piping were ordered and T. R. Atkinson proceeded to-direct the work with a lavish hand on a three and five per cent basis—mostly five per cent. The city commission took a back seat, and let Mr. Atkinson have his own sweet way. It is true they: ordered him to cut out several blocks of unnecessary water mains after several protests. Before their orders were put into effect, however, more mains had been installed than were necessary. Mistake Number Six. Mr. Atkinson aided by his assistant, Mr. Wolff whose son had the contract for installing the distribution system began to build'a plant for a city of 50,000. Some feeble protests were made, but “Tim” was in the saddle and five per cent commission was added to each and every contract. Mistake Number Seven. The information before the bond elections and what took place after the elections explain why all the story was not told when the voters approved the plan. No mention was made that T. R. Atkinson was to be paid a gratuity of three per cent on the purchase price of the old plant, even on the portions that WERE TO BE JUNKED. Oh, no! That was kept as dark and as quiet as could be. The gratuity netted him more than $7,000. It was even hinted that probably the plant could be put in without spending all of the bonds authorized. The peo- ple were to have a most economically constructed plant before the bond issue was voted. What the people of Bis- marck were promised and what they got are two different things. : First of all the old intake was abandoned. Pumps that were supposed to be worn were to be discarded. These same pumps and the old intake are still doing duty efficiently but the Atkinson intake wholly unnecessary a short distance down the river cannot be used. Thousands of dollars have been dumped into this intake and now the courts probably will have to decide who has been in error for the last year or so. T. R. Atkinson or The Woodrich Construction company ? But of course while these two parties quarrel and bicker the tax payer not Atkinson foots the bill. Mistake Number Eight. : : As the building of the plant went on, contracts were altered. Then the cost plus arrangements went into effect. A statement of how much more the plant has cost over the contract price might be interesting. But so little informa- tion creeps out on the water plant that most of the facts have to be gained by hard digging. It is probably the case that the-city commission has spent more than the bond election authorized. Of course the deficit if there is any will have to be made out of the revenue of the plant. Mistake Number Nine. : Then as to another mistake. Instead of fixing the city engineer’s fee on a straight salary basis, the city com- mission allowed a commission contract. This was letting down the bars to the orgy of spending that followed. Mistake Number Ten. Will the city commission pass the expense of all these mistakes on to the taxpayer? Why not assess a few of them against the city engineer? The facts are now before the people of Bismarck. The courts probably will have the matter and more of the sordid tale will be written later. Unless the City Commission is so impressed with the efficiency of their engineering department that the tax- payer’s pocketbook becomes merely a secondary consider- ation there should follow a housecleaning at the City Hall in the interests of economy and retrenchment. nh ne REPORT TO BE . GIVEN SOON ON _ AGRICULTURE Commissioners Namé Officers Devils Lake, N. D., Jan. 23.—D._D. McNaughton of Ramsey county was elected president of the North Da- kota County Commissioners asgocia- tion at the annual election. Other officers ai R, E, Hatt, Grand Forks county, vicepresident; J. F. Strauss, Wells county, secretary-treasure: Otto Tritz, McHenry county; Robert Rottering, Pierce; Jacob Gutschmidt, Logan, directors; and R. J. Boyd, Cass; I. E. Sorlie, Ramsey; John J. ‘Loh, Stark, legislative committee, Resolutions recbmmending a two eent geeoline tax for highway aid. [were adopted. ident’s Agricultural Commission ex- pects to submit, next week, its rec- ommendation for the relief of agri- culture. Sections of the eport are being drafted, but members decline to indicate the nature of their con- clusions. The commission, several days ago gave the President a preliminary re- the livestock industry. Since then it has studied market euports, tariff preducta.and freight rates, : port suggesting means of relief for |marck February 17, FINAL EDITION | PRICE FIVE’ CENTS | CLOSED BANK BONDING PROPOSED AMENDMENT IS BEING FRAMED FOR BIG ISSUE $10,000,000 Bonding to Pay Depositors of Closed Banks Is_ Proposal i GIVE B. OF N. D. POWER Would Take Over Assets of Guaranty Fund Commis- sion and Receiver A bill for a constitutional amend- ment proposing radical changes in the present guarantee of bank de- posits and handling of receiverships of closed banks is being drawn, and will be submitted to the Nonpartisan League caucus or some other com- mittee, and in all probability intro- duced in the present session of the legislature, it was learned today. The bill will propose an amend- ment for a $10,000,000 bond issue to pay depositors of closed banks, have the Bank of North Dakota take over all assets of closed banks and imme- diately pay 75 percent of the amount of. deposits lost in closed banks to depositors. The proposed amend- ment would mean state guarantee of bank deposits, instead of the pres- ent guaranty law under which the fund is built up solely by bank as- sessments, and would abolish the present method of handling receiver- ships in the state. The measure, which proposed the most radical changes from existing laws yet proposed in the legislature, probably will come before the legis- lature within a week. While the bill embraces some of the suggestions of Governor Sorlie, giyen in his inaugural address, it a@ppears to go much further than the Governor had ever suggested to the legislature. Governor Sorlie in his message suggested that the Bank of North Dakota might be empowered to take over assets of closed banks and to advance money to depositors on their assets, say 75 percent of the value of the certificates of deposit. The 'Bank of North Dakota would be gi en the power and authority to dis- pose of the a c Governor Sorlie, however, said that his plan should not be confused with the present guarantee of bank deposits law. He advanced it ss @ method of giving mediate relief to depositors, by having the Bank of North Dakota advance money on good collateral in the bank, The Governor also did not make positive recommendation, suggesting that the legislature appoint a committee to’ consider the feasibility of the scheme. The proposed bill would, however, take over the assets of the Depos- itors Guaranty Fund Commission, the general receiver of closed banks and all future closed banks, making the state the guarantor of bank deposits and the banking business. A special election in May on the proposed amendment is provided in the bill. ASKS STATE TO SHUN DEBT Former Governor Hanna Speaks in Mandan Mandan, N. D., Jan,’ 23.—Ex-Gov. L. B. Hanna who has been in Man- dan and Bismarck for several days this week was a guest at the Ro- tary luncheon and gave the Rotar- ians an inspirational talk on the en- ble position North Dakota oc- cupies. “But” said Gov. Hanna, “I am strongly opposed: to North Dakota going into debt, and when I see the statement that the state has issued another. million in bonds, even for the purpose of making farm mort- gages, it gives me distress, for those bonds ,have to be paid, the interest has to be paid, and when there is a default the state must take over the land.” “North Dakota has acquired al- ready by reason of foreclosure of mortgages 54,000 acres of land, This has .all been removed from the tax rolls, and the rest of the property in the state must make up the deficit which this land should have paid. As we go on doing the same thing year after year a condition will ari akin to. socialism where the owns most of the land and the rest in private hands must bear all the cost of government Gov. Hanna said that from his boyhood days he had been impressed with the idea of keeping out of debt, Washington, Jan, 23.—The Pres-|and perhaps he was more exercised over the condition in this state for that reason, JURY WILL BE CALLED HERE A petit jury will be called to hear cases in the district court in Bis- February term, wil open, . ryary, with Judge Jessie presiding, and _ dury ia cated, -