The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 10, 1927, Page 8

pate EIGHT ELECTRICITY AT LOWER COST IS CHIEF NEED Housewives in Small Towns, Have Most Home Conven iences, Survey Shows Minot, N. D., Jan. 10.—)—House wives living in small North Dakots towns have more home conve than either their city si living on farms, a survey by State Federation of Women’s shows. Complete . W. BB ence those the clubs statistics compiled edon, of riet, show t Ave as many ¢ nd hay by who the one drinking w. typhoid survey showed that utomobiles than | in the more p telephot still higher, per cent of the homes in the d have pianos. Average for State | the fifth district includes} Valle New Rock- | Ty |, Carrington, Coopers- town and smaller places it is believed | that the situation there would repre- | sent the average for the entire state. jeventy | strict | Results of the survey have been slow | the ori in comitig in from other districts | 41 since many failed to receive blanks and other equipment in time Mrs. Augast Pete rict preside: Wanner, d American federation. In the cities mentioned 75 per cent of the housewives had electrical labor-saving devices such as washing | machines and irons, and also had furnaces, bathrooms and other mod- ern equipment. In Wimbledon only four out of 100 houses use lamps for light and these are rented houses which are unoccupied part of t year. According to information r ceived from the federation’s national headquarters, the national showed that many persons in lar cities still depend on oil lamps for light. In Wimbledon, 85 per cent of | the housewives have electric washing machines and the same percentage is declared to hold good for other places. | Yearly expenditures for electrici range ftom $42 to $50, with the aver- age family spending $4 per month for “juice.” Sixty pe: nt of the homes in the district had telephon and 80 per cent had automobiles. Cheaper “Juice” is Big N Operation of electrical devices w: expensive, howe: Mrs. Wann + found, and expre the view tha’ “cheaper electri It lighten th burden of ho k and that seemsy 9. to be on the w th the de ‘ ul resources 1 omes division of the do a in o D our state,” A study of the pet home-making interests of the women of the dist-|} riet showed that interior decorating | Miter te came first with strict attention to the | | ily budget in second place. ft surprising how many young people just starting out keeping budgets, Wanner sai encouraging and shows tion along these Itnes will do. My this line should be given in our schools for the modern child h. more influence at home than an: one else, is seems, and could often sueceed in bettering living conditions | where others have failed.” | Referring to the interest shown by | elubwomen in the demonstration hom at the last district convention at| Sykeston, Mrs. Wanner recommend that more demonstration homes be established in the district. They should be equipped with modern Jabor-saving de and furnished, not with expensive articles, but with | “tasteful, artistic and useful things that may be purcha: a reason uhle cost,” she said. nd has a in federal court for a refund. few hundred} | ‘contraption |paid under the original y the ten minorit Couzens, holding 2,180 share 5 | aggregate’ tax collec of $2 | mate | ment i survey | ants a Auge | levy event of case of Sei Daniel ¢ of Mr. the in connection with the i i { ‘here had had their al minority le: ¢ ‘ dded levy a suit pending An ¢ of wi oars returned to those ith in what who is given in the taxes sment, holde: pnator tax of $10,909,588, while the others i ionate sums on holdings to 1,000 shares. The in exces the approx 100,000 more the govern- eking to collect, the defend- to an additional t interest, in the ion. In th le of six per an adv ntére: f more than $600,000 4 Roper Computed The valuat Roper, then 1 revenu The behest of in the inte For resent proc ets were known to Mr. nd there was no suspicion o: transaction, been no fraud, they ere having contend, the government has not right verte rev i » its own decision. More- ver, they claim, $9,400 fair alue of the stock involved, as of 913, Counsel for the defendants will nelude Charles E ns Hughes, John :. Da the ormer ¢ federal ade commi: rom the int will assist idea is that more instruction along s 5 ‘ WANTS ‘SAFETY YEAR’ IN 1927 President Henry Urges Neces-} much in safe driving by the mo- sity of Safety in Message to Auto Owners Washington, D.C, an, 10.—Pro- eduction of fatalities ae oe motion of safety mea: re TAX CASE WILL lents on the streets and highways BRING T0 LIGHT Government Suit to Collect Additional Payments Will Start January 11 of phat a Detroit, Jan. 10—(#)—The story of| one of the romances of modern in- dustry—the growth of the Ford Motor company—will be written into official records in the hearing here of the government’s suit to collect approxi- mately $35,000,000 in additional taxes from former minority stockholders of the company. e hearing, set for January 11, will seek to determine what was the is the outstanding the nation in 1927, sage broadcast day by Thos. -PORDROMANCE =, year, even if we fall records we have been creating in Henry 1927 a safety task ahead of Such was the tenor of the mes- to the country to- . P. Henry, president. f the American Automobile asso- “Make 1927 the great safety short of the ther fields of endeavor, urged, While the A. A. “Mr. A. plea to make year was primarily dressed to the motorists, Mr. Henry took occasion to point out that in order to create a record for safety, the question must be made a national issue to a greater extent than ever before, and that every element in every community must make the matter a common cause. The A. A. A, executive stressed was plenty of water in the do | recent floods paid | | Ways. tet edings conte Nj Steamers Go Adrift in Nashville’s Streets "the importance of the convening of 44 state legislatures in 1927 and the unique opportunity that this affords for putting into effect the recommendations of the Hoover ecnference on street and highway afety. Casualties Mount “With the passing of 1926 and the arrival of 1927, it behooves the entire nation to give its ear- nest attention to the problem of |safety on our streets and high- We made many new records in 1926—in the commercial, the industrial and the scientific fields — but before we broadcast our rec- ords of progress, let us recall for a moment the fact that there is one |great field in which our achieve- ments were net so impressive, that the field of safety. The casual- {ties have kept on mounting in spite everything we have done, large- se we have depended on s instead of going to the jroot of the . Several more ‘million vehic will be on. the \highways in 1927, thus inevitably increasing the congestion and mak- ling the problem even more acute {than it has been in the past. “We must not, however, admit failure or yield to pessimism. The fact is that the foundation has al- ready been laid for an .unprecedent- ed forward step. The ccuntry has been educated to the impor- tance of the safety recommenda- |tions of the Hotver Conference and the work already done by the American. Automobile association and ii ffiliated clubs, as well as by other civie agencies, should re- {sult in legislation of the most con- structive sort by the 44 state leg- islatures scheduled to convene in 1927. TI is one reascn why we should be le to make 1927 the great safety year. A Word of Caution “At this point let me sound a word of caution. There is always danger that we may depend too much on legislation and forget the Personal. equation and the personal responsibility which means so jtorists and in safe walking by pedestrians. If every car owner and every pedestrian were to bring their personal behavior up to the standard of excellence to which our manufacturers have brought their motor cars, cur problem would be more than half solved and such drastic proposals as com- pulsory liability insurance would be relegated to the limbo of for- gotten panaceas. We need model metorists and model pedestrians just as much as we need safe brakes, safe headlights and safe highways. “There are several - important matters pertaining to traffic safety not specifically covered by the national safety conference but which demand urgent attention. pie fear is the auetion of the gradual elimination of grade-cross- ings and the better safeguarding of dangerous crossings until steps can be taken for doing away with them. The problem is tremendous and calls for a concerted effort on the part of the states, the commu- nities and the railroads, “Another large droliem is one which is easier of solution but on| 4! which we have been, for the most correct valuation of 7,680 shares of stock purchased in 1918 by Henry Ford from minority holders.’ In ar- riving at this valuation, the entire history of the Ford company prob- ably will be reviewed. Debate Value of 1913 Share When Senator James Couze John: F. and Horace E. Dodge, ai seven other original investors in the Ford Motor company sold their hold- figs to Henry Ford, the valuation the stock was fixed at $9,400 a -as of March 1, 1913. The ent contends that the stock 1913 was worth $3,600 a share, ; it is on the differenee between these two amounts, alleged to be ition profit om the same, that he, government seeks to collect a tax. evaluation fixed by law for calculation ie aris arising ‘ computed. ‘are involved in the Seat eounsel for the Inter- Bu: These, Mr. rio of Governors | wntown streets of Nashville, Tenn., This shows two big boats "5 drifting down the center after the rising waters had carried them away from their docks. nara for big river steamers after the of a thoroughfare part, fast asleep. I refer to the growing need for super highways, areas. In ‘al] instances steps tuken by cities to highway programs, large, cities and towns have not taken any steps to secure the rights-of-way that are necessary for the super highways of the fu- ture. And, yet, this is a phase of our safety problem which will be- come more and’ more apparent as time goes on.” GOSSIPING OF GERMAN SUBS HELPED NAVY Rear Admiral Halligan nar How Positions of Enemy | Craft Were Learned Washington, dan. 10--()—The ri gossiping of German. submarines and their kidding of French radio stations took a positive hand in help- ing the American navy to carry the American expeditionary force across the Atlantic without the loss of a man. The story of the part the buzz of the enemy radio played in this under- taking was told by Rear Admiral John Halligan, Jr., during . recent hearings on the navy department appropriation bill reported yesteraay to the hous is story follows: “It has ca a great deal of wonder and I have heard many people ask the question, how it was’ that our transports were not torpedoed whereas other classes of vessels were torpedoed in these waters, and some of our empty ships. west bound were torpedoed, but in no case was a trans- port carrying ‘troops successfully attacked by a submarine, ree pass Stations “During the war the allies built and established radjo compass st tions on, the south coast of ‘Ireland, the coast of England and the west coast of France. The German sub- marines used their radio very freely, not knowing that these compasses existed. They talked to each other and talked to German stations. and they even akon aap Be sue Brench stations, called up the French radio stations and joshed them, ‘Every time a submarine used his radio, his position was cut in from these radio compass stations on shore. His position was plotted on a chart in the operations’ room of our headquarters in Brest. . Each ibmarine’s call re able to plot Positions .of the same e. itudying their movements time, we discovered that they operated in a rectangle, which roughly is shown on this chart,’ ex- tending approximately 400 miles off shore but leaving a gap of about 100 miles south of them between the bottom of the rectangle and’ the a bound routes to Gibraltar zores, and in the beginning et the Rod ue. had decided to occupy that ame eter pert Oattae : ver got em * outside. of that rectangle except on-routes' to the Meditertasean = sheers i * “Our inethod was to meet ‘the. con- voys 600 miles’ off short with our destroyer: destroyers, before leaving given three , A being the best northward Fee: up. to th peels be. 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