The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 2, 1927, Page 4

“PAGE FOUR The Bismarck Tribune’ An Independent Newspaper THE STA‘ OLDEST NEWSPAPER ablished 187 Published by the Bismarck, Tribune Company, Bismarck, N, D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter, f George D. Mann.... President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable in Advance 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 lember Audit Bureau of Circu! Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to th se for republication of all news dispatches cd to it or not otherwise credited in this pa- and also the local news of spontaneous origin pablished herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. | i Foreign Representatives gutcas S LOGAN PAYNE COMM DETRONT “ew voRE | NE BURNS & SMEth Ave, Bldg. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) | Is Twichell Cass County? | Our perennial and ubiquitous legislator, L. L. Twichell, whip, majority leader, goad and sine qua non of the I. V. A., may be Cass county, politically speaking. For the next thirty days of the ses- sion, it probably will be shown whether Cass county | wags Twichell or whether the Fargo solon wags his | ‘county to suit his own political ideas. He may have a vest pocket borough. | Fargo has been successful in making alignments with the various educational cities in the past for ‘the protection of political pork, It has been cus: tomary for many communities to go hat in hand to the Cass county delegation to beg a few dollars for their institutions. *- Burleigh, for instance, has never been able to get but a pittance for capitol maintenance. While the Liberty Memorial building was under construc- tion, Mr. Twichell fought an adequate appropria- tion for that building because a board of adminis- tration dominated by league officials was spending “the money. It was not money to be raised by taxa- tion, but funds in the capitol account. The Agri- ‘cultural college has always fared well at the hands =,0f the state admii te the fact that thousands of dollars given that institution each year spent to duplicate educational effort adequately | “eared for at the University of Grand Forks. == It.might be an excellent policy if Governor Sorlie ‘were to go through every appropriation for the edu- - cational institutions of the state and veto appropri- ations for educational work which is duplicated and sean be better offered at some other point. An edu- cational survey made years ago undepsGovernor -Hanma’s regime would be a good guide. It was pre- pared under the leadership of Treadwell Twichell ; *.during a legislative probe, If a goodly sum were lopped off the budgets of some of the institutions, “the: taxpayers, city dwellers, as well as farmers,| ; would applaud the governor and his wielding of the + =veto: power. Fargo is so close to the Twin City in slost. the North Dakota viewpoint. Despite the fact that it is the home of the Greater North Dakota association, an organization supported generally by the dollars of the business men of the state, its “political bellwether fights most measures designed to protect North Dakota wheat growers and their *“product. He loves to fight windmills. His lance, like that of Don Quixote, points usually where the “outside interests aim. It probably is a habit of mind. Giving Mr. Twichell every benefit of the *“dod@t and honesty of motive, he is usually seeking 1$i,17 sit has nocent; tragedy for Ais mother and father; and tragedy, simple, dumb and poignant, for the pes- tered, lonely old hermit. What is the solution, anyway? It’s hard to tell. But somewhere in our vaunted social fabric—the ‘same fabric that is interwoven with gorgeous colors of mighty cities, brave heroes, high ideais and shim- mering hints of dim-visioned righteousness—there is something tragically wrong. Open House For the Slope Bismarck merchants will hold open house for the residents of the Misscuri Slope during the second week in March. It will be a major community ef- fort and the enthusiasm with which the merchants knuckled down to business Monday evening at the Association of Commerce rooms presages a most successful venture, The pressing need of a suitable building to house | such an undertaking is felt keenly, but with the kind of cocperation promised Monday evening this han- dicap will be successfully overcome. Automobile shows in tabloid form in the various show rooms of Bismarck will make a progressive exposition of the latest models. Style shows and entertainment features at the auditorium will be most attractive events. j The entire affair has been most generously under- | | written by the business interests of the city and various committees will be at work soon to make this one of the greatest weeks in the history of the} Capital City. It is-a great community offering for the cus- tomers of Bismarck’s enterprising merchants throughout the trade area of this city. Cooperation should be one hundred per cent all down the line, Let’s Go! + i Editorial Comment | Unwrung Withers | (St. Paul Dispatch) | A concurrent resolution providing that, “in event of war, all productive resources and accumulated fortunes in excess of $500,000 be conscripted,” was introduced in the North Dakota senate Saturday, | and should have a swift and easy passage through both houses, That measure, with its half million dollar exemp- tion, is bound tobe acceptable to a state which boasts that it is without a pauper and without a! millionaire. If, as it is now popularly believed, there is an exception and one individual has attained the millionaire status, he is in a sad minority and | must resign himself to a loss of half his posses- | sions, should war ensue. But even he will find} ome sort of splendor in the attitude of the dark | mlct of the northwest which, drawing its sable | ak about its statehood, proclaims to the kines | | i} | | i} jad queens of wealth in other states, “Let the galled ule winee, our withers are unwrung.” What a Country! | (Duluth Herald) | rtmont has announced that dur- | this country cut down its public debt by | 04,301 i And, besides, in the first half of the current fiscal | v the treasury built up a surplus amounting to 218.279 That is, the treasury took in during that half-year that much more than the country needed to spend. This makes previous estimates that the year will how a surplus of four hundred million dollars look: | very reasonable, These figures can spell but one thing: an un- precedented and almost incredible prosperity. For cnly~a country that is prospering and mak- ing money could possibly yield, out of income taxes, = to build up political fences and create issues often OrPoration taxes and customs receipts, such an ‘to the detriment of Fargo, whom he is supposed to represent at Bismarck. His constituents, who should be interested in =cbreaking away from dominating influences and fol- lowing Governor Sorlie’s leadership in promoting the best interests of the state, might well give some tention to their spokesman in the legislative halls. The next few weeks will demonstrate whether “Cass county wants to cooperate in putting over Some legislation cf merit to the state or continue *sthe Twichell policy of obstruction. Of course two -ean play the game and Fargo is hardly in shape to uphold the Twichell end of the contest with the chief Sxexecutive’s office. -. Here is a place for the Greater North Dakota =-ussociation to prove its worth to the state. It can ‘afford to come out in defense of Governor Sorlie’s =-legislation to promote the sale and use of North Dakota No. 1 hard wheat or else go to the scrap «heap with the other booster organizations which hot air has withered and sent into innocuity. Where Lies the Blame? It's nice to be an optimist and see the brighter side of everything; but every so often some little thing happens that. makes you stop and wonder if our “civilization” couldn’t be greatly improved somewhere. In Ingersoll, Okla., there lived an old hermit. He “inhabited a sort of shack and cave on a vacant lot, earned five dollars a month as night watchman, and ~ “raised “garden truck.” was quiet, rather queer, but harmless. wo pets; a cat and a dog, his only friends. teole recreation consisted in scraping away on a vidlin. The boys in the neighborhood used to tease the ~-old ‘fellow, it seems; just how is not clear, but ap- F ently they found several ways in which they x show their boyish disapproval of so strange ! queer a person. Last fall he fell on hard times. He had to sell yiolin. Then he ‘found his pet cat Poisoned. little later someone enticed his dog away. For whole day he hunted the dog. At last he found Bi shoe to death, - The hermit thereupon got a gun, hunted up a 13- d boy who, he believed, was responsible, and silled him, He pleaded guilty. The judge, struck by the r aspects of case, offered him a life term. “No; “hermit. “Life is no use to me. eld, dn strength, I'm going blind and » to, me. Electrocute me and get it a t chamber and | amazing revenue as it took to pare down the public debt by more than a billion dollars, and to build up a surplus of nearly a quarter of a billion dollars more. Northern Pacific and Great Northern (New York Times) Whether the proposed merger of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railways will receive the necessary approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and what, if it is approved, will be its effect on Northwestern and transcontinental traffic Napisy are at present matters of surmise. The of management, have already largely been operated under common ccntrol, and have Participated for many years in the joint lease of the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy. Apparently, the proposal for an actual merger has in view primarily the simplify- ing of the financial relationy of all thre lines. The mere fact that such-a merger is considered provides highly interesting testimony to the change in the attitude and relations of our railways. As a result cf the disastrous fight in 1901 for control, directly of the Northern Pacific and indirectly of the Burlington & Quincy, the Northern Securities “holding company” was organized. It acquired a controlling interest in Northern Pacific and Great Northern stock. The transaction was bttacked by the federal government under the anti-trust law of 1890; the supreme court, in ordering dissoluticn of the merger on March 14, 1904, ruled that under tl existing combination the constituent compani “necessarily ceased to be in active competition for trade and commerce,” also that the power acquired by the holding company constituted “a menace to, and a restraint upcn, that freedom of- commerce which congress intended to recognize and protect.” The recent discussions of railway consolidations, under the auspices of the government itself, and the revival of this. particular merger. plan twenty-two years after the supreme court had ruled against it, have seemed to some minds to indicate a radical change of popular opinion, But it is underlying conditions which have changed, not political ‘ideas. The railway act of 1906, giving control o? rates to the Interstate Commission, was followed in 1920, on return of the roads from public to private opera- tion, by further almost complete extension of the supervisory powers.. Competition in rates, or pri- vate control of rates, being no longer @ possibility, the transportation act of 1920 provided that, rail- ‘ways contemplating consolidation, on the basis pre- It is, in other words, an entirely new railway 5 which is considered in the existing change of with our country as with England. The cee een SERRA Gl Oca See nc nono etotannaeemsaase THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Just in the Nick of Time advanced during his are awaiting dispatches from the croquet belt. “Peaches” testified that “Daddy” Browning used to sneak uj Before Faith could reach the door,! Cluny for the hundred thousand dol- with Bob following her loyally but/| lars,” with distress and embarrassment in Faith caught him up sharply,| “vould she have been such a fool as| State Department. Stephen Churchill was| to call openly upon him just a few) air and moving toward| able rapidi'y for one R. A. Sneed, the new state treag- rer of Oklahoma, is 81 and hés [just taken up golf. | now he has led an honest life, too, (Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Ine.) _\_Old Masters _ ur birth is but a sleep and a for- getti The soul that the ceremony was heduled io take place? ne person thrust her head into the Probsbly up to iby iia the} thousand dollars?” We're just ready he brass tacks | interrupted. 1 few minutes ago. i “You forget the fooz- could have been made by! man searching the premises, Morehouse pointed out to Churchill answered, shaking “Churchill,” Bob banged his fist sk, “you've got to take ts seriously! I tell you by the murderer, and’ I can describe him for you!” blee eyes were ablaze with con- yiction ns he leaned across the desk toward the astonished lawyer. voice almost” coaxi : E s with us, our life’s star, Hath had elsewhere its setting And cometh from afar; Not in entire forgetfulne: Nor yet in utter nakedne: But trailing clouds of glory do we come 3.0. ws, : Fram God, who i8 our ‘home; Heaven lies about us in’our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to let with anger. least,” Churchill said as he resumed his seat, “That you believe absolutely in your sister's innocence. It may in- terest you to know that Cherry gave me the same answer, possed a self-defense plea. ye has to be sure, or as sure as it ‘is humanly possible to be, before he i You must realize If the state should produce finger print evidence that Cherry’s hands had grasped that would our case be? I morally certain dence can possibly be produced.” “It can't be,” Faith asserted confi- dently, relaxing a bit under his more “She has given me her word that’ she they were made + TOMORROW: Bob paints a word picture of the murderer and almost | convinces Churchill. mn the growing bo; o whence it flows. He sees it in his The youth, who dail io} ly farther from lis nature’s priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his. way attended; At length the man perceives it die away And fade Ianto’ the ight 6t common —Wordsworth:' Ode on Intimations be backing the wrong horse in Nicaragua but we've got a story before tne corone the gospel truth, Mr. Churchill.” favorites have been scratched. often flew into rages in ¢ r mother, “Peaches” said,, of Immortality. but her mother seems to have shown him the landing field. Churchill offered his hand across the | desk, and smiled as Faith grasped it, tears starting in her eyes. we've got to look facts in the face. ‘The state will contend that Cherry had both motive and opportunity-— opportunity, so far as is now known—to commit the murder.” Faith flared. “Why want to murder -——__________, | ATHOUGHT o—____________» let him that thinketh he take heed lest he fall—| oughly Browning used to pretend he was a rabbit and used to fool his guests with rubber eggs, Maybe he had an Easter complex. Browning trial has about 2000 people a day. Everything ig sweetened by, risk— free show to bring out the crowds. Alexander Smith. | Justajingle - “Oh, the door, “tv's just the nas I my, To find a bill col “You forget the will,” Ralph Cluny’s will, signed just two] Aimee Semple before his death, Lane was to inherit ‘ed What with the swimmers, the Chap- thousand dollars Hollywood and the climate and s it any wonder? in the event of his| 1 wo companies, although under different personnel+ their marriage Dr. Lasker charges dirty work in| A! “If she had planned to murder Mr.| a chess game in 1924, asserting the RDING HOUSE Sh SU Zawy se. WHIoTLe. consider that a powerful moti’ QF we Sake, 1 cee were Yop PACK BOTH oF NOUR GHiR Tema PROBABLY QNE OF “THE MATOR'G,— ¥ AND HIKE BACK -10 CHICAGO! ~~ ~~NouvVeE BEEN A MUSEUM PlEcE AROUND HERE LONG ENOUGH fn ~ [ AGREE WITH BEN FRANKLIN “¥IGH AND VigiToRS SHOULD BE Z THROWN out AFTER THREE scribed by the act, “shall be and they: are hereby Hapidie se from sie operation of the anti-trust laws,” 80 far as Prohibitions of those laws affected pe gota le an authorized consolidation project. , _— ey IN NEW YORK | and down Broadway, I came upon Charles Chaplin, seemingly escaped from his lawyers end troubles and having a most merry time at the an- nual gambol of the Lambs ‘Club. . . And most riotously was received by his fellow actors. . . .- Will Ro- gers, who had left his mayoralty hair on a California tered to attend week,” said he, “we want him to keep on taking pictures.” . . . And Char- lie seemed vastly pleased. ‘Saw Flo. Ziegfield, minus the mustache which these many years has aided him in appearing dignifi s 40 And why he with it he will not tell Mayhap his good wife, Bil irke, may have com- plained—ag have s0 many wives— that it scratched her face... . « a Saw Al iad) Petra the birth- lay party of a rising young screen star... . Saw Sam Bernard in the Process of celebrating a half century on Broadway by returning to musi- cal comedy. . And among the members of his company I caught the name of one, Miss Goodee Montgom- ery, identified by the lobbiests as none other than the daughter of the late Dave Montgomery. . And, since Fred Stone's little daughter, Dorothy, has been ing into the bright lights lately there seems rea- son to believe that the daughters may carry on the famous Montgomery and Stone tradition, . . , Saw Eddie Foy; looking somehow hrunken old man and yet re- that whimsical, comic curl of the mouth that never failed to get a . He's just finished hi: memoirs. . . Saw two camels gazing gloomliy out of a Broadway window where they were doi menod eel ps service. .Peer- in ing from the, outside s a shiver- New York, Feb. 2.—See-sawing up make bank accounts slender. : season is about 37per cent, but that Bren! as samples are often from 1 r cent higher o> lower than he average. I believe it is not un- jir to say that the average year will see a range of from 34 to 40 per cent. Fortunately for us, the flax in the Northwest ssperelly exceeds in oil content ad from states. season averages from 82 to 34 per cent, : insas and other the latter in the average Slight consideration of the qu tion will convince anyone of the im- ing little bootblack who seemed com-| fl pletely hypnotized by wonder... . le a half dozen high-pressu: lesmen were demonstrat! ng the ‘alue of a certain automobile device. The gayly blanketed camels looke oasis for these wanderers of the des- ert... . Perhaps the _bootlack sensed this as he stood with unbe- lieving eyes... petted on... . What a strange Pe Whizzing by a snow-laden amuse- ment park I was minded to compose a simile: “Deserted as a roller-coast- er in winter.” a Here’s one tie By rounds that is attributed to ‘alter Winchell, a: “colyum writer” of these parts: Two chorines met on Broa “Who's the gentleman I seen you with last night?” asks the first. “That "'t no gentleman, I'm a brunet.” Johnny Held; who draws those high-proof flappers for the comic magazines, recently ran for constable or something in a nearby artist col- ony where he maintains a ranch. Sending his campaign items about the country, he decided to tab on the newspaper notices. sub- scribed to a clipping bureau. A couple of days ago he received a bulging envelope. Taking out a half dozen he hastily glanced at the headlines and rea “Held for Murder.” . .°.’ “Artist Trial”... ‘Then he stopped! GILBERT SWAN. 27, NEA Service,”Inc.) i PEOPLE’S FORUM" oO ANENT BURTNESS BILL ‘Washington, .D. C., Blicrac February 1, 1927. itor Tribune: Tam very desirous that th@WNorth- west generally consider during the next few months the merits of the bill which I have recently, introduc providing for the licensing and tablishing of laboratories for making determinations of, the content of pro- tein in. wheat and of oll im flax witir) a view that if the proposals are-found meritorious a — cane drive be made to secure enactment; thereof at '|the next session of Congress. The we is H.-R. Pages ly i my ur people generally sre thor- Tamihar ‘with the importance of marketing our hard spring wheat upon its protein content. Private and some. state’ laboratories been established for the determi: tion of ‘such :¢ Some dissatis- faction and \¢ hes Grisei among farmers, farmers’. el companies gnd others to tl that various. laborato have at times reported different conclusions on what was presumably similar sa: ples of grain. te investigation lea me to believe jat_ this. has been caused in part by the fact that the samples may have been treated some- wast differently before the test has Ber -made and by the fact that the sed by the various chem- ists“may: not ha There is now no finsl tribunal to settlé disputes which may arise be- tween buy ind sellers of wheat as to_protein ci itent., { Briefly my. bill provides. sat oe Department of Agriculture s se persons shown competent to would then: become agencies of the Federal! Government in the same sense that federal inspectors of grain are agencies thereof. The tests would be uniform, made. pursuant to similar lation : th try. wuld ‘Be ie of iris the expense o! ‘person roe! iring them, so the only expense to eral Coveraria Hh connest mn with e. pro- Pel oak Tipensing x the ini vidi bill further provides for 2 aun inpee’ je bill x rove aT Agricul ire to lish and maintain testing Ieborstori at such points as may be deemed fer:the purpose, of making such determinations. of iting th ial asbropriation, would needed for equipment and other expense connected with the tablishment thereof. The decision on y id becom: _ final ‘and ie nares St P The question determi: Seneca wre! 3 be Piper ut former we been identical, di ists with the distinct standing that if it doesn’t help you your money! will be returned. it similar te appeals fo enable thordopareatet to'paet, on able on Ne izes the Vhile it is iy undoubtedly the most important one in determining the value of the flax, for oil cake and other materials pro- duced are by-products. Oil is the orisatpal product. ecitic shipment of. flax oil content of 37 per cent at ime when such flax worth $2.22, it will be seen that an additional increase or decrease of 1 per cent oil content would increase or decrease, as the case may be, the value of such flax 6 cents per bushei, assuming the oil content to be t! only factor involved. A difference of only 1 per cent would therefore at that price make a difference of $90.00 in the value of a 1,500 bushel car of flax. A similar car of 40 per cent oil content flax would be forth $540.00 picts than a car of 34 per cent con- en Equipment has now been developed by one of the research Inboratories of the Department of Agriculture with which a chemist can uevermine the oil content of a n sample of flax in 15 minutes, and .when: the work is done in volume the time con- sumed is considerably less. This test replaces one formerly made requiring from 24 to 36 hours. The laboratory equipment costs less than half. as much as, that required for making protein tests. The bill I have introduced mak Held in Love Nest.” ,). “Held for ewe provisions for the licen: ing local laboratories to make oil tests in the case of flax and for a) peals therefrom to laboratories main- tained byt ice to protein in fe wheat. Both subjects deserve the careful study of all people residing in the spring wheat and flax produc- ing ares we i wheat of greater duced in competing petitors abroad we are entitled to be paid therefor, The bill presented’ is draww upon the theory that if we can ascertain the exact facts in each case by an authority which will not be disputed we will be in a position to get full value for our product as compared with: prices paid by competitors for similar is of poorer quality. It prssdey A ah ged Standards ve by providing the retment of Agricu ture with the additional authority and machinery deemed necessary for the Purpose. 0. B. 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