The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 19, 1927, Page 3

5 ‘ with other funds or construction be WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1927 FRAHM TELLS COUNTY DADS _ OF ROAD WORK .. (Continued. from page one.) Fxpense other than new contracts, Incomplete work under contract Jan, 1, 1927...§ 315,647.69 Preli Surveya,. Grading, ied 45,000.00/ 45,900.00 1s (Estimated at approxi- mately 2° per cent of incomplete work) ..... Construction Engineering estimated. ab 2 per cent of New Contracts to $3,200,000.00) Keserve for Advance ¥ederal Aid Payments ($300,000.00 Jess $60,- 422.00 advanced Jan, 1, 927) intenance, Road Mark- ing, Reshaping, Stock Piling Gravel, ete, (es- timated 30 per cent in ase over 1926) ..... 34,282.00 64,000.00 249,578.00 651,425.00 —— | $1,405,702.60 | al available for new contracts. «-$ 857,037.45) “The federal funds as stated are fixed for 1927 and are definite to the exact cent,” Frahm . “The, state funds are perhaps conservative- | ly estimated but on the other hand they may not be. They are bused on the 1926 receipts for the reason that) car sales have shown a remarkadle| Ming off during the past six months end repossessions on cars purchased | on time have increased. To estimate the usual increase would not be safe.| ’ Might Slow Up Construction | “The state funds wi}| be only slight- ly in excess of the Whount required to meet federal aid.jon the basis we! ore working, , 50 per cent federal, per cent state and 25 per cent county.| ‘This is important at this time when} separation of the counties from state road work is being considered, Should | the counties be relieved from their] vo per cent contribution, the high-| Way commission must be provided| ‘ slowed up, which in view of the pres-{ ent demands would be very undesir- | tble from your standpoint as well as| 5 | the counties now contribute some-| what more to construction than they ive from the auto license fees. If| y ure relieved from state road/ wérk the highway commission should| have the entire license fees. Without) rtailment of unds or work it) il take about ten years to grade| id gravel the state highway system | gow laid out and before the expira- tion of that time the increased traffic will doubtless warrant paving in many places. Our traffie census shows that paving would be justified now near some of the larger cities. Our conclusion is that the present rate of progress must be maintained. | “The present procedure of having| three governmental departments, the! federal, the state, and the county, at- tempting to cooperate can be improv- ed, The state highway commissign should be in the best position to de- termine the state’s interests in the designation of the projects, not only to location but also the sequence of building. Several of your mem- hers ‘have advised me that they would, ladly be relieved from participation | in state work so as to-be able to de- vote themselves to the development of ‘a lecal county system. There is ample road work of a local nature which will continue to be the re- sponsiblity of the counties and we do not believe that the state highway commission should extend the state system much beyond its present mileage, Important Roads First “A limited mileage of state roads has been fixed by statute in other states, South Dakota has a limit of 6,000 miles although the federal 7 per cent allowance would permit con- siderably more than that. Our own federal mileage, 7,434 miles, is more than ample for the activities of the tate highway commission, perhaps large, and beyond that the coun- ‘% should take up the work. Our designations are now within a hun- ‘ed miles or so of the federal limit and further additions must be rather of local interest, except for certdin “osirable cut-offs, relocations and rtening of the routes, A statute limiting the mileage tends to force the comstruction of the principal routes more rapidly than where there is no limit to the secondary routes which may be added and to which funds niay be diverted. Good roads everywhere for everybody, but the most important ones first! “Federal regulations require us to follow grading with gravel surfacing within a reasonable time. We have completed 2,746 miles of grading and 35 of that has been graveled. here are unfinished contracts of 7 miles of grading.and 140 miles of yraveling which will bring our total to 3,423 miles graded and 1,475 mjles graveled. This spread between the rading and graveling cannot be in- ceased without federal — objection. Aflopting a policy of an equal amount : grading and graveling for next ason will permit construction of pout 520 miles of each. The. aver- ge cost of grading in 1926 was $3,104.13, ineluding bridges and struc- tures complete. The average cost of graveling was $2,018.35 per mile. This is slightly ess than the avetage for 1925 when the averages were $3,880.- 56 and $2,271.82. More contracts can be awarded in the fall provided the centracts were unfinished and final payment made from the 1928 funds. The counties have filed requests for muph more than can be constructed this year. A greater mileage could be constructed if the Proportion of | costs were divided into, say, one-third each federal, county afd state, so tiygt the federal allotment of roughly a million and a half be multiplied by three instead of two. This is worthy of yout consideration in of the: aumber of requests you have made. “Difficulties over right of way and changes of plan are avoided by with- holaitg bee plage andor ae of bids. until the 8 ate satisfactory to federal engineer arid the right a we eared. You wilt Nijea with the plats a6 thi yufehase abel’ hand, Y row pits as may delays on construction and the inci- Gent embarrassment to the contrac- tors, Our engineers are now engaged on that work and it will be necessary for the, federal engineers to make a field inspection before they can ap- prove the plans. Most of these in- spections cannot be made ~ before spring so that lettings cannot be fre- quent before April or May and will sprigs on through the’ season. We find that contract prices are more stable when the lettings proceed along somewhat uniformly. | When contracts are grouped at one season there is a sharp incline of prices 2s the contractors become loaded up with work, Expenditure Justificd “We have completed the first year of maintenance by state employes and our aim was to do somewhat more | intensive work than had been done heretofore. The results have justified the expenditure. The cost of the general maintenance for the year wa: $362,100.44, or approximately $1 per mile, A depreciation charge on equipment is yet to be figured into the cost per mile, which will slightly increase it. The detailed maintenanca costs had not been calculated in time for this meeting. Our depar ment for this work handles other ac- tivities not strictly maintenance, such as reshaping, regraveling, road ma ing and stock piling on new gravel | contracts. The total expenditure by the maintenance department was $501,096.24. This will increase year by year as the mileage is added to ond as traffic increases. In scanning the average increase of gasoline taxes for the U. S. ce the 1919 I find that they have been crasing at the rate of about a cen a gallon every four years. Such a rate of increase in this state will ap- proxfnately offset our anticipated in- crease in maintenance. The main- tenance department will be required to use calcium chloride and oil treat- ment of gravel on the sections of dense traffic and some experimental work will be undertaken in 1927, “Road marking renders more ser- vice to the traveling public per dol- lar expended than any other item of highway work. This may,well be not- ed by the county commissfoners. Some of your strictly county roads now warrant marking somewhat along the lines the states use. When you un- dertake this task, and I believe it should be started now, you will do well to adopt some sort of county marking system forthe state, a uni- form style of marker for all counties and distinct from the state markers, Since the state uses numbers the counties might well use letters. You might confer with the commissioners of adjoining counties and carry the | same letters through several counties, similar to the plan the states are us- ing with their federal numbering. The public pays for this, if they do not have it, in time spent inquiring and retracing. A county marking system would be a valuable adjunct to the state system and we would like to add it to our state maps to make them complete in road infor-|¢ mation.” HOUSE ASK FEDERAL AID FOR INDIANS (Continued from page one) county, minority floor leader, said is convinced that the statements made in the original resolution are true and thdét there was no need to “smooth things ove Erickson charged that the govern- ment has been forcing the Indians to eat the flesh of diseased horses and contended that it could make a cash payment as well as increase the ra- tion allowance. J. M. Thompson, Bur! contended that=the Indians were no worse off than the white farmers in many parts of the state but that they are not asking the government for help. McCay said that the white people in many sections undoubtedly need help but that they are not government charges and will have to ask help for themselves. L. L, Twichell, Cass county, major- ity’ floor leader, contended that the report gf the committee showed there was little basis for the complaint and that the legislature had no busi- ness interfering with federal affairs. Charles F. Streich, Bottineau county, contended that “we are still a part of the government” and Speaker Carr interrupted what gave promise of be- coming a personal argument. When the resolution finally was passed by acclamation no dissenting votes were heard. Fight on Jardine Bill The house temporarily killed the Jardine bill stating the terms of notice which insurance companies must, have to change the beneficiary of a policy carried by a company on an officer or employe when it adopted an amendment’ by Mrs. Minnie D. Craig, Benson county, requiring that such changes Have the sanction of the board of directors. As introduced and later amended the bill provides that changes of beneficiary of such policies may be made on order of the president and secretary of any com- pany. The vote on the Craig amend- ment was along party lines, Nonparti- sans mustering 63 votes for it to 52 against. In previous argument Twichell had contended that the Craig amendment would nullify the bill. When the vote was announced’ he said that the bill was not of a nature to justify a par- ty caucus but that the Nonpartisans evidently ha@ done so. The Indepen- dents, hegsaid, didn’t even have their full strength there. Jardine moved for indefinite post- ponement of the measure'and later said that he will muster the Inde- pendent strength and bring it up again, igh county, More Pet'tions Additional petitions were presented Tuesday from club women who are seeking a larger appropriation for public health work, from individuals and organizations favoring the week- day religious instruction bill and from Williams county men ing that the compensatiop. paid assessors for listing land for hail tax. purposes be ‘ineregsed’ from $15 to $30'a town, ship. as | ThyHouse public health committee considered numerous communications and’ resolutions referred to it but 'took no action. ‘Most of them want a larger approprjation for the heglth department. i ‘Tbe house insyrance committes rec- |thrqugh the freshman yea | She i id that stealing was be- | coming prevalent in many schools, | some of the larger institutions even St | finding it nece to place steel n their buildings. “But what | growing flax is insured from hail los |from September 15 to September | The education committee took no} laction on H. B. 51, limiting the {amount which school boards may pay | for transporting children to and} from school to not less than 25 cents | or more than 50 cents a d come up again. MOVIES, COMIC | STRIPS BLAMED FOR DEPRAVITY (Continued from page one) of the Bible and its teaching. it be possible that the outrageous | conditions now existing there come from this fact?” She gave a number of s\ the present comparative ignorance ot the teachings of the Bible and of the Ten Commandments in particular, de claring that “seven out of 10 child-| Tt wili| Jren in the United States today have | never heard of the Ten Command- ment | Students Lack Honor The lack of honor among students of the present in for comment by s Palmer, who said, “Students cheat in their courses every me they get the chance. As a re. |sult, many of/them, when they go to the state universities where they | are unable to cheat, cannot even get | also came stal a padlocked steel locker | to students of today, who know gen- | jeral science, mathematics and other | | kindred subjects?” | Ignorance of the Bible’ {teachings was given as the ithe present decadence. ‘Miss Palmer declared w |ligious education was t | thing” and declared that | necessa if we are to maintain our | position as leaders of the world.” At the close of her speech, Ser Dell Patters |nounced that he was going to {soap the steps of the capitol morrow,” and Senator and Forks county, s that Miss Palmer had gone ong side of the family. ed that closer a en's clubs to the tr: Jren might do much to m | juvenile tendencies of which | Palmer complained. Club Wom “If the women in take a couple of years off to teach the Sunday schools instead of going out to bridge and tea parties and letting the children — pl in th street,*we might get some results, he declared. | ‘enator Patterson raised the only | voice against the bill, the six main speakers all in of | the measure. Patterson declared tl ing speakers had ked about every- thing but the bill itself” and de- lared he would speak at length against the bill if the group “w a | she queried, and its | of| to- | East- | ed | the ad He tention by wo of child! e the Miss cored ese clubs would | i speaking in favor the preced- | au } to talk business, but if you plan to turn this into a play-party, I'll_pass.” The meéting was opened with Sen- | ator Alfred Steele presiding and the | first talk was given by Senator P., O. Sathre, Steele county, who in-| troduced the bill. of his time to charge that th constitutional “un- | denied that it lowered the barriers between church and state. | Ministers Favor Bill | Heyerend Meyers of Wahpeton, a high officer in the Norwegian Luth- eran church, spoke briefly on the| measure and approved it in the whole, | although he expressed some slight fear as to whether it would be pri tical. Reverend EF, W. Corbett of Leith | told how the religious education ter was working out “very sati torily” in South Dakota, where a bill similar to the one proposed here has been adopte ¢ eral_congre; ted over South Dakota line, C. A, Armstrong of Fargo, s tary of the North Dakota Cow churches, was present at the meeting and delivered a brief address on be- half of the measure. He stated that nine of the important denominations in North Dakota had endorsed the bill: the Methodists, Presbyteria Baptists, Congregationalists, Ni wegian Lutherans, Free Lutherans, English Lutherats, Episcopalians and Evangelicals. Reverend C. A. Stephens of the First Baptist church told how the plan had worked successfully in Kan- sas City, Kansas, and Reverend Wal- ter FE. Vater of the McCabe Metho- dist church endorsed it as “the open- ing of a door of opportunity.” He laid the responsibility for the alleged weakened moral conditions of today at the door of the home, although he declared he could not “get into the thing whole-souled because I think we haven’t quite measured up, but we've done our best.” PNEUMONIA IS FATAL TO CHARLOTTE _ (Continued tram page one) z| Sciousness and slept fitfully until death came, ‘ge of sev- the The Dark Angel, whose coming Mad Empress Charlotte awaited for more than half a century, has visited her at last. With her death passes the one em- Press the North American continent ever sheltered, and the world loses one of its most glamorous, dramatic figures. The secret of “Mad Charlotte's” crazed years goes with her, too. No one ever will know whether peace en+ tered the old woman’s heart in her last cold hours of life—the peace of reglization that her lover and hus- band Maxtmilien of the long ago was dend before her, and that she went to meet him now, i A Daughter of Sorrow It perhaps is more probable that Charlotte died |hitter at death as she went bitter through much of life, be- lieving that her husband still was held tage there in Mexico and that no one would give her aid for him. | The story of Charlotte begins in year 1840—alinost a'century ago, the yea gee m the eyed er, ren was not map of the wor! today—lon; before, our own Civil War aad’ the fame of. Abraham Lincoln, It ‘ii 1840 that a daughter was born to Kink, Leonel 1 of Belgium. We The story skips 17 yeare- then, to “| husband for dear C | slenderer and slenderer threads. | fealty. | regal fanfare: THE BISMARCK Clementine Leopoldine and the AP h-| cor duke. Ferdinand Maximilian, brother] wi of Francis Joseph, emperor of Aus-| tria, ye | Maximilian, was young, debonair, | fascinating, so history records. This| Hapsburg* was of giant build and| fair, Even the austere Queen Vic-| toria was victim to his charm, and} wrote to Charlotte's father, Leopold I, uncle of Victoria: j “I cannot say how much we like| the Archduke Maximilian; he is| charming, so clever, natural, kind and amiable. I wish you real joy, dearest uncle, at h: ig got such a tte,” Love and Loyalty This. explains, perhaps, why Char- lotte, years later, rly groveled bes fore the great of Europe, demeaning herself in the dust, begging help for er mate whose imperial crown was growing tarnished over there in Mex- ico and whose very life hung by a th tr lot m pa The charm of this ) explain why Charlotte, once tha! most beautiful princess of the blood royal in all Europe, smashed ull the mirrors in her castle as she caught) a glimpse of her aging self. | “Never again will my husband see) me fair!” she shrieked, pounding ‘the | glagses to fragments, the year 186 19, Maximi squad of five men. same time, Juarez that thes delusion she at time hush TRIBUNE uirt-m: ith Mi non and Mejia, to be shot. The sentence at first was ordered | but sev two days -June 16 of | $4,000 s: But it was "delayed! brought up several days ago. { rried out i End Bravely hin On the e five bullets dropped him. Miramon and M died at the it was in vain, His body was taken back to Aus- in f tte to Mexico to, begin their dire jonarchial adventure, Charlotte's long years of pathetic were spent for the art. in her girlhood home, the castle of Bouchout, near Brussels. Believing: herself still an empr tried to revive th of Mexico about this somber place. The World Wareto her was the rumble of fresh tle between her Is do the = Me: troops a 1 family never had her de- uly insane, Her nephew, There were seven years of happi-| King Albert of the Belgians, saw ress for Maximilian and Charlotte! that she was well eared for. after their marriage. They lived in} | Some have said that Charlot his beautiful chateau of Miramar. at! neyer was mad at all, but merely Trieste. | feigned insanity in order to keep the The Fateful Turn insignia of empress, which her p Maximilian was a gentleman, and) wy ed the life of a gentleman with his books and his gardens, supported the coffers of the Austrian em-/ ror, under whom Maximilian had| the nominal title of “governor of) ‘ islands.” | Then Napoleon Il of France offer- ed Maximilian the “honor” of becom- ing the first emperor of Mexico, that Maximilian was ri ut the offer. But Char- jofte was thrilled. She saw her-| self in the robes of an empress, and her husband elevated to a throne. Mexico was enmeshed by debts to} France, England and n. Collee-! tion seemed impossible, so theses three powers signed a joint compact to work together, Mexico, set up th in ti ¢ possession of ir own rule with- nation, and loot its every leon made the picture allur-| milian, and arranged for ation of Mexicans to come to melted i and Charlotte entered n 1864, Maximilian had re- nounced his rights of succession to the Austrian throne. He arrived at Mexico City with his brilliant young | wife, confident of being allowed to rule and of making a name for him-| self. | But Mexico did not take the er nd empress to its bosom. Nat-| enough many Mexicans denied the right of the European entente to! set a foreign-born monarch over them. The Eurapean entente, _moreover,| parted Spain and Gri | from the nee kept thousands of under Marshal Bazaine i 0 to try to establish M milian's rule, but finally lost inte est, ain withdrew compact. troop: Me 1 Ce f Resets Pale Maximilian and Charlotte, who had launched their venture with pomp and circumstance, with all the, that they could dev themselves in a found ht. There were no funds in the M France quit answer- anes Maximilian’s financial prayers. ative factions whirled about | n, the Liberals under) Benito Juqrez, and the Conservative] or church party. The emperor found | little dasting favor with either. | 866 America made a move ur r the Monroe Doctrine, and/Fran withdrew its troop: Maximilian thought of abdication,| but Charlotte would not consent. She | went to Europe for help, * Charlotte pleaded with, then raged at Napoleon III. She went away from his castle at Saint Cloud bit- terly disillusioned: To the Pope, and Then— | She hastened to Rome, and be-| seeched Pope Pius IX for aid in in-| ducing Napoleon to change his mind. | | | Pius was equally unresponsive. Frantic with fear, Charlotte re- fused to leave the Vatican. She was} assigned a suite of rooms for the| night. She awoke the next morning with her mind gone. Unable to think | or talk intelligently, she recailed! shriekingly only the peril which be-| set Maximilian when she left him. Such was the sad state to .which a once brilliant intellect, radiating | high hopes and skillful comprehen- sion, had come in.a brief span. Maximilian had been stood before | a firing squad and shot to death the | while : His Last Extremity In the last extremity of his three and a half turbulent years as Mex- ico’s emperor he had gone to Quere- taro with a few faithful followers-— | the Mexican generals Mejia and Miramon, the gallant young Euro-| pean Prince Felix zu Salm Salm, is | | | H { \ j | | Hungarian body servant Tudos—to meet the enemy. There he was betrayed into FINEST TIRES In All the World On Easy. Payments Here you_can Pennsy!- vania or U. S.—finest tires made—any style, any size— all firsts, on’ a plan which makes your p Payments Easy This plan is convenient, dig- nified, ~ payments are , hardly felt. Dakota Auto Sales : Phone 428 215 Main Bt., Biamarek, N. D. the tan vdin aod vey reuRe ould not relinquish, Appropriations Body Recommends 3 Bills ions vof $27;700 for the $40,000 for the commission and bee diseases »mmended by the house ap- s committee, meeting this bill 22 originally provided! Capitol Theatre Tonight and Thursday cit B.DeMute paasenrs gatrice Joy "N “You Tell One” State Health Dept. Presents “How to Live Long and Well” The Judges of Our Supreme Court — Are A. M. Chris- . tianson, chief jus- : tice, with Luther E. * Birdzell, William L. Nuessle; S. Johnson and..Jcohn Burke as ' Shidges. morning of June | an bravely faced a firing| that the salary be reduced to $3,600. | He handed each | This was done and the bill riflemn a goldpiece a moment befoge| mended with an pleas to) for the biennium to provide funds! i Mexicans be for the state emergency commission. gpared and his, own life accepted as| The fund is to be known as the state ull for © months later on the same! to defray the expe frigate which brought him and Char-/| sioner of agriculture and labor or his ‘Smmended passage of House Bill No.| the marriage of this daughter Marte| hands of Genernt. Escobedo, the sol-| an appropriation of $28,100 to pay 88 extending the time during which | Charlotte Amelie Augustine Victoire| dier of Juarez, and in a few : portation officer for the biennium 1 members démurred at the y item when this was A committee was appointed to in-| vestigate the matter and reported this morning, with the recommendation; recom- appropriation of $27,700, Housé bill 36 ‘appropriates $40,000 | contingency fund. House dill 37 appropriates: $1,000{ ses of the commi. 9, making an appropri tion of $77,000 for salaries and wages. SEED improvements and repairs, equipment s was|the salary, travel expense and mis-! and miscellaneous items of the state rtialed and sentenced, along; cellaneous. items of the state trans-{ hospital for the insane at Jamestown was discussed briefly but no action The various items of the ap-| propriation are to be discussed in-| Anios Olson of Bismarck, tee tomor-/ taken, dividually by the commit row. Four Are Arraigned in District Court PAGE THEEE ed guilty, as did Floyd R. Collins of St. Joseph, Mo., who is charged with forgety over the cashing of several forged checks in the city recently. Those preferring to stand trial are: - charged | with desertion and non support, and | George Christianson of Bismarck, | charged with keeping and maintaining a common nuisance in violation, of the prohibition law. Olson is at li- berty on bail but Christianson is in — jail, The men cannot be tried until Four arraignments were made in| the next jury term of court here, Burleigh county district court this| which will be in June. morning before Judge J. A. Coffey of Jamestown, who is hearing court |¢ cases here. pleaded guilty to the charges against | others entered pleas them, while the of not guilt Ladwig Kline of Bismarck, chars with burglary in the third deg connection merchandise the lifor from Fruit store here on January 12, plead-| #nd Charles eet Two of the defendants | h the theft of some; eee a Sa iy ‘| Incorporations | peciiranscertar esis harces via ichm Investment company,! Walte: Stiehm, Adele A and Anna Steihm; $50,000. R. Olson and company, Inc., a] Charlson; W. &. Olson, Nellie Olson iranberg; $25,000. in Ww. ENGINEERING NOW MORE THAN EVER EMPHASIZED BY THESE NewLowPrices At the sensational reduced prices shown below, the Whippet has more than ever set the pace in light car value. It is the only light car to provide the necessary safety of 4-wheel brakes as national standard equipment. The only light car to offer the outstanding economy of “30 miles on a gallon”. Oversize ‘tires— roomy comfort — plus beautiful bodies only serve to emphasize the Whippet’s sensational value. Attractive Credit Terms TOURING . . cCouPE . . . 625 $625 ROADSTER«Pss) 695° sEDAN .. . ° 725 COACH 625 LANDAU 755 Prices f. 0. b. Factory. Prices «nd Specifications subject to change without notice. OVERLAND hippet Lahr Motor Sales Co. / —and we Write in now for fall able free offer to The S! Niagara Falls, N. Y. " The trip includes every side trip of interest which Niagara Falls affords. Not the least of these is a visit to The Home of Shredded Wheat, the world’s most beautiful food factory -a visit to which is in itself an education and a never-to- be - forgotten event. Send us your name and school address. Teachers Wanted | We want every school teacher in America to write us for particulars of a most untsual offer. WE want a limited number of those teachers to be our guests at Niagara Falls next summer will pay their expenses. ™ A most linspiring vacation is offered you at little trouble and no expense to yourself. Prepare for this wonder-visit to America’s Wonderland: penienan of this remark. edded Wheat Company, ‘THE SHREDDED WHEAT COMPANY “Niagara Falls, N. Y. if