The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 13, 1925, Page 4

Sa ue wire are were teen enna. ta eS esa. fe eaeee ETA TET FE TREE ‘PAGE FOUR “THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - - = e Foreign Representatives a. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - - - - - Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES 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 SUBS Daily by carrier, per year............. 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) TAXATION SOLE ISSUE Now that the city campaign is officially on, it might be well to define and outline the real issue. There is an evident demand for lower taxes and greater efficiency in the hand- ling of the city’s business. The Tribune is making a careful survey of the way the city’s business is being conducted for the information of the taxpaye It is not interested pri- marily in candidates or slates. Neither is it seeking to dic- tate how the voters cast their ballots. This city will get the kind of government it deserves, better or worse—just as the voters will it. The Tribune hopes after all the facts have been placed before the people they can make a wise decision in the in- terests of decreased ta and greater efficiency. As for T. R. Atkinson, city engineer, The Tribune has held and still holds that the three per cent paid him on the purchase price of the old water plant was an unjustified gratuity. That will be tested out to its legality in a tax- payer’s suit and maybe a libel suit if Mr. Atkinson brings one in a coming term of court. Other matters incident to the construction of the new water works department showed extravagance in the hand- ling of the taxpayer’s money. The sooner this city dispenses with employes upon a com- mission basis and employs them on a fixed salary the better for the taxpayer. The sooner also Bismarck institutes busines the city hall, will decreased tax budgets follow. There need be no mud-slinging or personalities in the ampaign, just plain facts gleaned from the public records. There is no necessity to drag into and hash over the old “water row.” The voters and this newspaper supported the various bond issues for a municipal owned water plant. Bismarck has.a city owned plant, it must be paid for at all costs, but to make that payment easier, budgets for other purposes must be held down. The clique of politicians whose feet are in the public trough cannot threaten or divert this newspaper from the rea) facts nor confuse the taxpayer upon the size of his tax- bill. It is willing to back up its statements with proof. It has never charged graft direct or indirect, despite the efforts of City Engineer Atkinson and his friends to the contrary. But it has emphasized the conviction that Mr. Atkinson has been an expensive official for the taxpayers of this city and suggests in passing that he has the oppor- tunity to disprove this in the court action pending brought by a taxpayer to test the legality of the $7,980 gratuity. But Mr. Atkinson is not an issue in the campaign pri-' marily. He has done probably what every other engineer would do similarly placed. His business is to sell his pro- fessional wares in as favorable a market as exists and Bis- marck has been a most fertile field for his kind of wares, some $80,000.00 or more has been paid him by city, county and state in the last few year But the real issue in the campaign is the policy prac- ticed by a commission which will allow the tax rate to mount up and up until some property in Bismarck will not pay out Responsibility does not rest upon Atkinson but upon those commissioners who allowed the slovenly and loose practices to run the tax rate up until it is higher per capita than any city of Bismarck’s size in the nation. Let those who seek a continuance of the present policies of the majority of the city commission explain the tax rate to the people. Atkinson and the old “water row” can be eliminated, but the city tax rate is with us, and will be with our heirs and our assigns. Threats of libel suits, demands for retraction and the stale weapons of political campaigns cannot obscure the real issue: Lower Taxes for Bismarck or Continued High Taxes. YOU CAN Take Either Mr. Voter. Its Up to You April 7. Publisher DETROIT Kresge Bldg. —| flouted and strove to defeat. 7.20 5.00 6.00 methods at THE COMING FOUR YEARS President Coolidge continues to use every opportunity at hand to emphasize the need of economy in government and the necessity of a reduction of the tax burden. His promise is not one made to be forgotten after taking office. The President, who has studied government from the out- side and from the inside, for many years, reached a conclu- sion shared by thousands of fellow Americans, that economy and tax reduction is necessary to save the government for the people. Only recently the President gave a clear expo- sition of his stand in the matter, a statement which rings with sincerity and truth. He said: The burden of taxation.is one from which relief _must be found. It touches directly and indirectly all of our citizens. The most obvious field of econ- omy is for the government to spend less. It is, however, equally desirable that the burden put by the government on its citizens be productive of gov- ernment revenue and not destructive of the pro- perty of the taxpayer, for it is what the taxpayer gives rather than what the government ultimately spends, which measures the effect of the tax upon the citizen. We should therefore, by a simplifica- tion of our method of gaxation and the imposition of economically sound rates of taxation make cer- itain that the government realize more nearly the values which the citizen relinquishes. Simplification of methods of taxation is regarded by » President Coolidge as an important subject for thought by ’ federal, state and local officers. ; revenue, and should not be administered in such clumsy * fashion that they result only in.a burden upon the taxpayer. Taxes are levied to create Double taxation is one of the evils which the President is aiming at in his speeches and his action. Income taxes by nation and state; inheritance taxes by both, with competi- tion between them to establish higher rates, leads ultimate- ly to confiscation. President Coolidge is opposed to social- Editorial Review ie eee Comments reproduced in tbis column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. ‘hey are presented here in order that our readers baa? bave both sides of important Issuee which are fee discusse@ in the press of se day. POLITICAL CONSEQUENCE ~ i (New York Times) | Senator Borah makes a_charit: | able plea for the bolting Republi- | can Senators whom it is proposed | to deprive of their committee as: | signments. Who knows ‘but the | party sorely need their votes in 1926? Well, the party needed their votes in 1924, but didn’t get them. It got instead repudiation, defiance anu abuse. Yet now these gentlemen desire recognition from the party organization which they It is of their coming If they appealed as returning prodigals, they would ! doubtless get a fatted calf or two in the shape of committee cha manships. Naturally, Senator | Borah was not able to include Mr. | LaFollette among those whom he thought the party ought to con- tinue to tolerate, though a bit ir- regular and troublesome. That ; would have ‘been too much for even the Idaho ator’s compre- | hensive benevolence. But the r- | gument that is good against La-; Follette is good against Brookhart | and the others. | ‘The plain truth about. these men | is that they are not willing to face | the inevitable political consequen- | ces of their own acts. Last year they posed ag men of noble inde- pendence, almost heroes, in their ngness to break with the party h they felt had become un- und deb: But now that ve lost, and the party has won, they wi: if they had done nothing at all. | hey still desire to be known as | not a question back repentant. { p Lawrences without ever having to go on the gridiron. the the | most unlpeasing. Every man has a! right to be a party revel. if he chooses, but he must be read: face the mus.c if his rebel ils. Not even a S rake and have it too. the homely w try will be di Thi in which the coun: | osed to brush aside Senator Borer's specious appeals | for mercy in behalf of men unwill- | ing to take their medicine. \ ng for a defir loyalty, Senator can s ism he dissenting Re- | 1896, the come-outer ns of 1912, are today pil | lars of the party. y draw the line at the more nt rebel But there. is a roug1~and-ready line j which they themselves drew. If you denounce a party’s platform, if you attack its ates, if you refuse to vote for it or work with it, then you are not an honorable member of it. It may change la ter, or you many change. But the. thing stands toda: i | incongruous and impt | mand that the party organization | should welcome to its arms men who «4d their best to destroy it and who remain impenitent. One of the debutantes tells us she either has to go without enough clothes or go without men. Two were injured in St. Louis when an auto driver thought a girl looked better than the road. Be, careful in packing away your winter clothes, Moths make the fur fly. The seven wonders of th spring are the seven d week, world in of the Just start whistling and first thing you know business will be humming. One of our greatest needs is rub- ber windshields. When a man does take his wife to a show she knows he will brag about it for weeks and weeks. People who live in spring suits should not open milk bottles with their thumbs. What makes people who should be happy but are not madder than those who shouldn't be happy but are? The straight and narrow path is plenty wide for its traffic. : Nice thing about having enemies is you can blame them for the trou- bles you bring on yourself. Even if you are on the right track you will get run over if you just sit there. A debutante tells us if she let the men know how much sense _ she really has it would show she didn't have much. And there is such a thing as being too sensible to be too sensible. Sometimes you can learn a lot by turning over a new leaf. Some parents worry about keep- ing the kids in clothes and others about keeping the children in autos, Love is blind. But there is always some friend who thinks he is an eye doctor. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) A juniper tree, believed to be 3000 years old, is still standing in the to be regarded as} * to |¥ ‘out of my life you were always te THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE OUT OUR WAY HE WAS NOT? TH! GUN WAS HELD RIGHT THERE LOADED AN COCKED LIKE IM A SHOWIN HIM AN TT WENT OFF WEN SNEEZED. T HEARD ALL ABOUT rT, DOGIE HARPER WAS SHOT RIGHT THAR IN “TH ABDOMEN. TH’ GUN [WAS LOADED LIKE THISN. AN WENT OFF ACCIDENTAL THE DEMONSTRATION. The Tangle | TER FROM JOHN AL-| RESCOTT TO LESLIE PRESCOTT The whole plan was a splendid one, but what we did not take into consideration was that you did not Dear Les w your mother realize that I might fall in love with off yesterd: e was looking fi pu—for that matter, neither did I. and seems very happy to go. I I do not see, however, why we sure the trip will do her much good. should not have thought of this con- Mother insists that I shall wai tingency. We were not children, you til Saturda going to A y. We ought to have known that City. Says if 1 could wait here for s not on the cards that a wo- a day or two to Mrs. Hamilton | man, under the circumstances, could jeff, 1 can certainly wait a day or| resist you or any other man who had two longer for my own mother, 1] been as kind to her as you have been am furious with for I am sure|to me. For this I am grateful. she could be ready to go before.| (Copyright, 1925 » NEA Service, Inc.) However, I see nothing to do ut to ~ give in to her this time. Had a wire from Mrs, Atherton this morn ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS ing which Sent you your mail| BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON to Atlantic City. You should see it| the moment you arriv Of cour Mrs. Atherton thinks I will be with | you tomorrow morning. I don't know what is in the mail, You had better open it and if you find tny- thing very pressing you can wire it} to me. 1 THE EASTER BUNNY WAKES UP Now that Jack Frost has been am particularly unhappy |“we must get down to business. not to be with you. Will stay at! There is a lot to be done.” hotel until tomorrow noon, hoping} «What? asked Nick curiously. to hear from you either by wire or] “Well,” said the hare, “I have a telephone. cousin called the Easter Bunny who has to be told a thing or two, He never seems to know that spring is here until I tell him. Besides he, may need help.” “May we help him?” cried Nancy. “We'll see; we'll see,” said the, JACK. Letter From Mamie Keeler to Joba Presectt—Opened by Le: Prescott So it has come, Jack that going ing about. You are going bs March Hare. “Get on my back, both that beautiful wife of yours -and|of you, and we'll be off.” Iconventionality, and I am to suil! So the Twins hopped on and ‘the away in that different direction March Hare went loppity, off to the loppity, which you have commanded me. ter Bunny’s house, Jack, dear, I can not understand why the good God should make men like you—men so cruel and so. ten- der, men so pitying and so ruthle: men so generous and so selfish. Of course, I know all you have said in the enclosed letter is true — you see I am sending it back to you so that you may know that I never intended to use it against you in any | way. I want you to understand that | as far as I am concerned I intend to play the game fairly to the end, rabbit house, a some tree roots. But inside! Why inside it was— But goodn I'm going too fast. Nobody was inside yet. The Twins got off and knocked loudly as the March Hare said to do. Then they heard a loud yawn and a sort of scraping noise and after a long while the door opened and there stood the Easter Bunny in his pa- jamas and night-cap. little door unde? — Svecess HAS So TURNED Your HEAD.) 37/2 red away,” said the March Hare, | Outside it looked like any other! By Williams HE WERENT SHOT IN NO ABOOMEN, HE WAS SHOT IN TH BELLY WITH A SAWED OFF, SHOTGUN LIKE THISN, WAT ILL SHOW HIM HOW \T HAPPENED. TRwillams © 1928 BY NEA SEPVICE. INC. i “How-dee-do!” he yawned, “What's wrong? Is somebody sick? It can't be more than four o'clock.” “Nobody's sick,” said the March Hare a bit sharply. “But about a million little boys und girls are go- ing to be if you don’t get busy and| get your E baskets ready.” — | “Oh—-so that’s it, is it,” exclaimed the Easter Bunny opening his eyes up wide and — looking around: “Spring's here, is it, and me not dressed. The very idea! Ha, ha, ha! Ho, ho, ho! You made a mistake, cousin. A million little boys and girls are going to be sick, you mean, if I get busy and—” j “Talk! Talk! Too much talk!” clared the March Hare crossly, you need ‘help? We can all stay and pitch in if you like.” “Never can have too much help,” said the Easter Bunny stepping aside FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1925 The only serious criticism record vote. And that criticism reaches mon assumption. ers, but, taken as a whole, th pid lot. enough. samples, the standard is too low. All the intelligence a congressman has is not likely to be too much for the public needs. To give less, because he thinks his constituents have less, is to malign his district and to cheat his country. NOT SUCH A BAD HABIT The chdmpion coffee drinker has been discovered. He drinks 12 cups a day, and demands ‘the prize. Twelve cups is, of course, a’ great deal too much. One-tenth that amount would be better, and a fourth of it is decidedly enough. Coffee is a drag, and we nearly all have the drug ‘habit. But think how insignificant a habit it is when the worst toper in the country takes only 12 cups, barely four times mo- deration. Would profibition have been thought of if alcohol were such a drug that the worst soak in the country took only 12 glasses of beer a day, and there was only one of him? ’ It is just that difference between the two drugs that makes one of them pleasantly negligible and the other a major human menace. “One drink is enough; two is too many, and three not half enough"; was not spoken of coffee. SURVIVAL OF LOWBROW PREJUDICES Reformers in New York are ap- proaching the point Where they will support ‘even a Democrat” to beat Tammany. Strange survival of the lowbrowest of low-brow . prejudices among the highbrows. There is not a single sensation as-) sociated with real heart disease which may not be caused by other | disorders, Mr. Jones of Anytown | learned. to let the visitors in. “I'll go now and get dr Ak And now itis time to tell you what the Easter Bunny's house looked like inside. It looked like a candy store, and a basket — fact and a few other things Barrels of green dried grass for the baskets, and yel- low chicks and downy ducklings and It is because of this that many | persons give much useless worry to symptoms. which the heart has abso- lutely nothing to do with. Regardless of this, however, any painful sensation, that seems to have its origin in the heart, should not be ignored. Often if the- heart is slightly af maple sugar ‘rabbits, and big choco- late eggs and little chocolate eggs and sugar eggs with scenes inside— and everything, But before the Twins had time to see it all, the Easter Bunny was back! as spick and span as a new pin, with a brand new: red satin necktie. I don’t mean a pin with a new tie. ‘The Easter Bunny had it on. “This stuff must be stale if it's left over from last year,” said the March Hare. “It isn’t,” said the Easter Bunny. “It’s all as fresh as new milk.” “How can it be fresh when you were sound asleep?” asked the March Hare in surprise. f “I wasn’t asleep at all,” laughed the other. “I just fooled you. You come around here every year as cross as two sticks. No wonder they say ‘As mad as a March Hare!’ Everything is ready for the Easter! baskets because I have been work- ing for weeks.” “May we help to fix the baskets then?” asked the Twins. “You certainly may,” said Easter Bunny, So this story ends happily after all, the (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) 4 —_____________—_--__-@ i { In New York | ee Pipe New York, Mar. 13.—In one of those Broadway restaurants where every sandwich is accompanied by “cole slaw with Russian dressing” a certain fellow sits from two to seven every afternoon. Apparently he is a man of leisure with many friends who drop in during the afternoon to pass the time, of day. This leisurely young man }s a cap- per for a string of gambling houses where poker, craps and other diver- tisements hold sway during the afternoon and night. To throw the fected, the disorder may be removed or if not removed, the patient may shape his mode of ing to enable him to live to a fairly ripe old age, despite the disorder. Symtoms of heart disease have two distinct sources, those which de- tistics has figured that several of the famous teams of ballroom dan- cers who are the main attractions at two or three of the night clubs make $30 a minute for the time they actually dance. Several of these teams are paid from $7500 to $10,000 a week, Fire has destroyed the old Doug- las Mansion in West Fourteenth street. That may mean little to the casual reader, but those who came sightseeing to New York between 1873 and 1879 will recall it as the old Metropolitan Museum of Art. After, that it became a saloon and rooming house. The history of an old house is often more interesting than the history of an old man. —JAMES W. DEAN. A Home In The Hills (Florence Borner) A home in the hills! What a pleasure life brings, To live "midst the scenes, Of glad lakes and pure springs; At the dawn of the day, . When the skies rosy glow, Gives a vision of heaven, . To mortals below; At the closing of day, When the twilight is here, And Night flings her curtain From far and from neer. A home in the hills! With their blues, browns and grays, And the swift changing scenes, As far outward we gaze; police off the trail the games are held at different addresses each day. The players drop in the restaurant and are directed by the leisurely young man to the address . where the game is being held on that day. The leisurely young man makes enough out of his leisyre to buy dia- monds and fine clothes. Over in the East Side you still can see b awled ‘old Jewish women carrying their dough to a community bake shop to be baked into bread. This custom is followed in, European countries where every good housewife makes her own bread THAT MOU CAN'y TORN wT $ _ism. With forceful emphasis, he has made it very plain that continued piling up of taxes upon property of rich or poor Cache National’ Forest in Utah. Mo: an indirect method te this end, but where every home does not hay an oven. Some of the ancient hou es in New York’s East Side lave no ovens. There are three family. combi tions ‘in the cast of “Is,Zat So?,” a popular comedy. There are Harry Brown and his son, Tommy, eight; Victor Morley and his wife, Carola Parson, and Perry, the prizbfighter, and his wife who recently joined| the cast as a ringside spectator of the mimic fight, @ role she had often ‘played in real life. | : To curd Someone with a penchant for sta- Nor heed Oh, then we seem giants, And earth seems so small, As we hark to ‘the sound, Of the fierce eagle's call; As he shrieks at some foe, From his vantage so high, Or calls to his mate, In ‘the eyry close by. # home in the hills! ‘Or on some mountain's breast, Where the inmates; respond To the voice of the West, Where Man is a pigmy, And Nature is king, And nothing 1s; heard Of the axman’s loud ring; Where forests grawn old Send their leafy crowns high, Avoided Record Vote Upon Salary Boost | By Chester H. Rowell But when they dare use only the sense they think their constituents have, and measure that by FABLES ON HEALTH HEART WEAKNESS made on congressmen for in- creasing their own salaries is that, as usual, they avoided a much wider than this bill. Congressmen knew that the increase was proper, but they assumed their constituents did not. This is the com- Some congressmen doubtless have more sense than oth- ey are not an impossibly stu- If they would use the sense they have, it would be its stupidest 13 ntially, the virtues of the highbrow reformers and Tammany are at opposite extremes. The reformers believe that prin- ciples are more important than men. ‘They would vote against their friend if he ran on the issue of doing the thing when elected which they thought against the public interest, and support, their enemy if they ap- proved his policy. To vote for a man because he had done them a personal favor, they would regard as treason. Tammany is the opposite, “What is the Constitution between friends?” Theré are only two Tammany com- mandments: (1) Stand in with your friends. (2) If you tell a man you will do him a certain favor, do it, These were the feudal virtues, al- so. The modernists ‘regard them as vices, when they lead to disre- gard of impersonal principle. But even they make one exception. They have to go through travail be- fore they wiN support “even a Demo- crat” for mayorfan office in which it ought to make no difference if he is a Whig or a Mormon, 7 teases GS | A Thought ——. - ——e I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day—2 Tim. 1:12. All I have. seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.—Emerson. velop in the heart because of intrinsic damage, and those which develop in other parts of the body because the diseased heart is unable to maintain an adequate circula- tion. If the heart does not give enough blood to the brain there is dizziness. When the lungs are affected, there is shortness of breath and coughing. When it is the stomach or intes- tines, there are symptoms of indiges- tion. When it is the legs, the ankles well. This list could be lengthened to include all organs of the body, but enough has been said to indicate why a great variety of symptoms may develop as a result of heart weakness, (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) MANDAN NEWS BORN WITH TWO TEETH The Red River Valley has nothing on the Missouri Slope is the chal- lenge of C. W. Burgess, editor of the Hebron Herald. The other night a telegraph news item from Wahpeton, N. D., was pub- lished telling of the birth of a babe there with two perfect teeth. Mr, Burgess writes: “Enclosed clipping states that a baby was born in Wahpeton with two perfect teeth. “Mrs. Burgess and I have a baby, born to us on February 3, 1925, with two perfect teeth. -The baby weighed 8 1-2:pounds and the doctor declares the baby in perfect health and nor- mal. The:teeth ave the lower middle two and are as perfect as can. be. “This happens to be on the Mis- souri Slope.” TWO STORES ROBBED Another display of petty thievery, believed: to be the work of boys, was made Wednesday night. The M. S. Lang Grocery and the Joe Marcus shoe repair shop, both on First street, were broken into. The thieves got into the store by breaking out a side dow. Considerable candy and smal! staple groceries were taken. A new pair of shoes was taken from the Marcus shop. The front door of this place was forced in, Lang MERCHANT BETTER P. W. McGillic, who has been ser- iously ill in St. Alexius hospital, is now showing improvement and ap- pears to be rapidly recovering, mem- bers of the family declared today, Ae eater Germs can be killed by exposing them tq ultra-violet rays for a, sec- ond, ——S—— “CASCARETS” 10c IF DIZZY, BILIOUS CONSTIPATED And seemingly grope, For the far distant, sky. A home imthe:bilis! Far from trammeéling car Naught of worry, and :strife, ‘Can intrude on Man: there; Truth inhabits the hills, ’ And sweet Peace folds her wings, To rest in repose, , From the evil Greed brings; All is open and (ree, There are no. walls, To clean yeur bowels without crampiug or ov- acting, take =—@q “Cascarets.” lek head. ache, dizziness, biliousness, gases, indiges- Ls pe tien, sour up- set stomach and all such distress gone by morning. Nicest laxative and cathartic on earth for grown- ups snd children, 10c, 25¢ and. 50¢ ib a x