The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 26, 1929, Page 2

“PAGE TWO COUNTRY AND CITY DEBATE EDUCATION IN LIGHT OF COSTS Fee Rise Will Bar Many Rural Children From City Edu- cation, Is Plea GOLDBRICK BAN IS PASSED Tillers Will Be Protected if They Sign Away Too Numerous Rights in Deals Long argument was had in the state senate, Monday, on a bill to increase high school tuition charges from $1.50 to $2.50 a week. The debate came on the recom- mendation of a minority of the edu- cation committee that the bill be killed. A majority favored passage. The minority was beaten, 20 to 28, after a hot non-factional struggle and | the’ measure will come to a vote to- | day. i Four bills, all of which were cx- pected to provoke extended debate, were held over until today. They | were the bill to amend the law relat- | ing to the management of the state | mill and elevator, offered by Senator: D. H. Hamilton, McHenry county, and | L. O. Fredrickson, Nelson county; the | Watt bill to increase the state gaso- line tax, giving the additional rev- | enue to the counties; the Atkins bill, providing a uniform method of letting contracts for public buildings, and the bill to levy a tax on grain de- livered at elevators, the money from which would be used to support the cooperative marketing movement. Tax Collection Bill Killed A bill which would have complete- ly changed the system of collecting Gelinquent taxes was killed 22 to 27. Instead of the present system of sell- ing taxes to anyone wishing to buy tax certificates, the bill would have required the countics to take over the Jand when the taxes had been de- linquent three years. Only one bill was passed. It makes illegal any contracts which give to either contracting parties any reme- dies not sanctioned by law and is aimed at contracts for the sale of farm machinery, in which the pur- chaser often signs away various rights which he should retain in case trouble arises under the contract, the senate was told. the fight as to how much tuition high schools should charge for Benson county, said he feels the pres- ent rate of $54 @ year is enough. Cities Get School Cream Hamilton said most of the high schools are located in cites on rail- ls and the school districts get the paid by the railroads. Farmers their children to such schools pay $250 a year for board and the children, he said, and tended that the farmer already bears enough of the educational bur- den. The law requires districts from which the children come to pay the tuition fee, but Dell Patterson, Ren- ville county, said an increase would Prevent many farm children from attending high school. 'W. D. Lynch, La Moure county, said half the students attending the La Moure high school come from other districts which pay $54 a year, where- as, the cost to the district maintaining the high school is more than $100. More are coming in now than ever before, he said, and it is only fair that districts sending children to high school should pay their fair share of the cost of educating them. C. E. Erickson, Divide county, said the same situation prevails at the Crosby high school. Says Citics Bear Burden P. O. Sathre, Steele county, said districts sending children to high schools very often have low tax rates, fH Senate Saves B , Outside students, since they would ill Increas ing Clark j|FEAR ILL EFFECTS but Fargo gets two-thirds of the meney paid by the state and county tuition funds. He opposed the in- crease, on the theory that the people living in the towns levy indirect taxes on the farmers by increasing the cost | of goods and the farm trade supports the cities having high schools. Ole Ettestad, McHenry county, said districts supporting high schools al- ready have three or four different sources of revenue denied to districts present because of the decreasing size of the average farmer's family. H said farmers are getting to the poin' where they are unable to provide for large families. Every Little Helps E. H. Brant, Emmons county, said j high schools get some benefit from have to maintain the same teaching force anyhow, and opposed the bill on the ground that high schools al- ready are getting enough. He said the Linton school charges $90 a year. This brought the colinter-charge that the Linton school is getting more than the law provides and as much as the proposed bill would permit. Alfred Steele, Stutsman county, said the state guarantees an edzcation to every child and that city school funds are no more than adequate to meet the cost of educating city pu- pils. The cost, exclusive of buildings, is $85 to $135 a year, he said. He said the proper persons to pay education costs are those in the districts from which the pupils come and that fail- ure to get more tuition would force some high schools to “shut up shop.” J. G. Forbes, Richland county, said some schools are charging more than the present law allows and that the difference is made up in the cost of sending children from remote country districts to high school. {Legislative Calendar i BILLS PASSED BY SENATE 8. B. 89—Cain of Stark--Makes illegal contracts containing provisions whereby one party elects remedies to be applied in the event of failure of | the other party to perform under the while districts supporting the high schools are taxed and bonded to the limit. He cited the schools at Coop- erstown and Finley as examples. Recalling an effort to distribute railroad taxes to districts other than those in which the railroads actually Property, Hamilton said the e> y used was that children from other districts received benefits coming in to the high schools railroad taxes helped to sup- Port. A. A. Peck, McLean county, said Gistricts maintaining high ‘schools contract, in advance of such defal- cation. BILLS KILLED BY SENATE S. B. 184—Renauld of Rolette— Would require companies se!ling na- tural gas to maintain in cach com- munity served a reservoir capavle of holding a 72-hours supply for that municipality. 8. B. 214—Patterson of Renville— Resolution calling for investigation of North Dakota Wheat Growers asso- ciation. 8. B. 134—Olson of Barnes—Reso- lution calling for appointment of a SIDE GLANCES - - - - By George ve “I wouldn't be remindin’ you so often, Miss Boggs, but you know I have to meet monthly payments on this place myself.” agreements to incorporate which in- clude more than 25 proposed incor- porators. NEW HOUSE BILLS H. B. 240—Rulon, Stutsman—Re- quires power companies to rebate to consumer for failure to furnish con- tinuous service. House Resolution—Oberg, McLean; Thompson, Burleigh—Would prohibit exclusive territory or rights to person or association purchasing products of unable to support high schools. The | state twine and cordage plant at state towns would have to support high | penitentiary. schools anyhow, he said, and they might as well make them available | ¢——————_—_—_—_—___—-@ to farm children at reasonable cost. i He predicted that the number coming | Daily Lenten . | to high schools from outside districts | | Thought | would be smaller in future than at |g ry By WM. E. GILROY, D. D. Editor of Tne Congregationalist Lent is a holy season, whic: has its climax in “holy week.” What does it mean to be holy? There are many people for whom the word has no meaning at all, or who shrink from the word as suggestive of some strange, unusual, or artificial attitude toward life. They do not as- sociate holiness with practical com- mon sense, or with red-blooded strength, or with ordinary human tastes and feelings. But why not? Holiness is not some strange and weird thing. It is a rela- tionship. Lent is a holy season be- cause of its relation to the earthly life of Jesus. Holy week commem- orates the holiness of the final week of his humanity in suffering and the glory of his divinity in the complete- ness of his sacrificial love. Lent emphasizes the nearness of Jesus to human life, and not his strangeness or remoteness. It was his love, his purpose, that made him holy. He was fully human; the sanctimoni- ous people of his day misjudged him and hated him because they did not understand his sort of holiness. To be “holy” in the true sense is to be human as Jesus was human, to love as he loved, and to accept the love that he gives. Holiness does not limit, but enlerges, our lives. To be holy is to have our lives rightly guided and directed—related to the plan of the great Architect who con- trols human destinies in love. NOBLE EXPERIMENT “Can your wife cook?” “Yes, she can cook but I can't what she cooks.”—Nebelspalter, Zur- ich. Shirts are being worn by constant- ly increasing numbers of Chinese. | OUT OUR WAY, OH, t Just Love THiS committee to investigate the state board of administration, penitentiary and state training school at Mandan. 8. B. 135—Olson of Barnes—Bill appropriating $10,000 to meet ex- the | penses of committee asked to investi- gate board of administration, peni- tentiary and training school . 8. B. 76—Public Health Committee Appropriation of $26,000 for child hygiene division of state health de- partment. This was cared for in health department appropriation bill. 8. B. 113—Brosteun of McKenzie— Would eliminate present system of selling taxes, requiring county to take title to land after taxes had been de- linquent three years, BILLS PASSED BY HOUSE H. B. 30—Swendseid, Mountrail— Provides uniform procedure for as- EATING WITH REAL CowBoYs. ITS A GREAT TREAT, SEEING IN CHANGING PLAN OF TAX COLLECTION Senators Kill Bill Requiring Counties to Take Up Land on Delinquencies The senate Monday killed the Bros- teun bill, proposing to amend the present system of delinquent tax col- lection by requiring the counties to take over lands after taxes have been unpaid three years. The vote was 27 22. to 22. Explaining the intent of the bill, Senator J. K. Brosteun, McKenzie ccunty, said the present system of “selling” taxes is cumbersome and expensive, causing large expenditures by both the county and the taxpayers. When delinquent taxes are offered for sale, he said, only the taxes on the best pieces of land are purchased and |the county carries the poor ones. Under his system it would carry them all. He further asserted that Ris sys- tem would cut expenses by saving work for county officials and would save publication fees, since delinquent tax lists are published under the present system. Citing data ‘from various counties, Brosteun said it would not hamper county finances, since counties could issue certificates of indebtedness in anticipation of tax collections. He asserted that it would enable more people to retain their property, by re- ducing the cost of clearing delinquent taxes considerably below the present figure. Another angle, he said, is that the county could give a better title to land which it acquired by tax deed, and this would promote resale of the land after the county had acquired it. Frank Hyland, Ramsey county, said the state has acquired 76,000 acres of land by foreclosure of state loans which is off the-tax lists now, and the Brosteun bill would take still more land off“the tax list. In cases where speculators buy tax certifi- cates they continue to pay taxes on the land after their certificates ma- ture into titles, he said. Hyland objected that the bill re- moves notice to the delinquent tax- payer by publication, as now pro- vided, and sald this publication does more to cause people to pay their taxes than any otter one thing. He said many persons fail to pay taxes not because they lack the money but because of neglect, and that the pro- posed bill would eliminate the “re- minder” which publication of delin- quent tax lists affords them. Forbes contended that cost of suits county took title to the land, would be more than the costs under. the present system. . Brant contended that the bill pro- vided for plenty of notice to the de- linquent taxpayer. Joseph Poupore, Grand Forks, said publication of delinquent tax lists en- couraged the taxpayer, or someone holding a mortgage on his property, to pay the taxes. (By The Associated Press) TUESDAY Senate has bills on calendar and second deficiency bill on pro- cram. House meets with special rule matters for consideration. ; House judiciary committee in- vestigated charges made against Federal Judge Moskowitz of New York. Senate public lands committee FLOOD HEARING SET Hearing on the proposal to create a for the control of floods in the Mouse river will be held by the senate state affairs committee Thursday morning. BISMARCK TRIBI flood conservancy. district at Minot | Pf, We) THIS HAS ‘HAPPENED The body of “HANDSOME HARRY” BORDEN, promoter and ladies’ man, murdered be- tween half-past one and four o'clock Saturday afternoon, is found beneath the closed air- shaft window of his private of- fice Monday by his secretary, RUTH LESTER. DETECTIVE McMANN dis- covers that at least five people had opportunity, access to wea- pon and possible motive for the murder. These are MRS, ELIZ- ABETH BORDEN, estrariged wife of the victim; Ruth Lester, who admits ownership. of a pis- tol which has disappeared from her desk; BENNY SMITH, of- fice boy; JACK HAYWARD, in- surance broker with offices di- rectly across the 'airshaft, and RITA DUBOIS, a dancer. Because of Borden’s attempt- ed familiarity with Ruth on Sat- urday, Hayward had threatened to kill the promoter. Although the airshaft window is closed, the bloody footprints of a pig- eon indicate it was open until after Borden’s death. BENNY SMITH, who has not reported for work, is sent for, as are MINNIE CASSIDY and LETTY MILLER, scrubwomen for the seventh floor. BILL COWAN strengthens suspicion against Hayward by telling of a telephone call to Hayward's of- fices Saturday at 2:10, when he was plugged in on a busy wire and heard Borden's voice raised in anger, presumably against Hayward. Ruth Lester tells McMann about CLEO GILMAN, recent- ly discarded mistress of Borden. She is sought by police. Rita Dubois arrives, admits to Mc- Mann she had planned to go away - for the week-end with Borden, but when he failed to meet her at the station she had telephoned him, found his line busy at 2:10, then got him, and hed requested to come to his of- lee, She says he was not there. his door locked. Ruth tells McMann of Borden’s having given the dancer the torn half of a yellow- backed bill, but Borden’s half of the bill is missing from his body. as well as $500 in small- er bills. About to question Rita about the bill, McMann receives a telephone message that Rita’s night club, THE GOLDEN SLIPPER, ened repr robbed. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXIV “Hello, captain! McMann speak- ing,” the detective in charge of the investigation into the murder of Henry P. Borden greeted His superi- or on the other end of the wire. “The Golden Slipper's safe has been cracked, eh? ... Lose much Hmm! Guess I know what gr: get into when I retire from thi game! . What's bill, eh? changed? brows white and drawn with suspense. “Listen, captain, is the club’s man- ager there now?... All right, ask him if he remembers whether the bill -had. been torn ‘half in two and. pasted and pinned together.” The words were uttered with slow, dreadful significance, the detective’s eyes never leaving Rita’s stricken answer, when it came, !brought a grunt of satisfaction from [the detective, who quickly conclud- | face. jed the conversation. “Well, Rita?” McMann grinned, receiver. Sudden- and addressed frightened dancer, his il tapping staccato periods to his as he hung up the ly he leaned forward the pitiabl: rief sentences: “No use was time! Saturday prenlne Borden ga' you half of a $500 bill. He kept it to fou when omise to go to MA‘AM-Y{OH ‘LL NEVER SEE THINGS IN THER NATURAL WITH ORE j DAUGHTER ALONG, Yur WOULo By Williams WILL YEW GENTLE MEN, DOWN THIS Away, HANE MORE SOW B~ds UH-A~ BACON ALA BEANS? that? A $500 .. When did she get it and McMann raised his id smiled his sinister, crook- ed smile at Rita Dubois, who was leaning toward him, her lovely face ve the other half. He had bargained to give i bo had kept your ‘inter Haven with ‘im. “In addition to the torn half of a $500 bill, Borden had more than $500 in smaller bills to pay for the week- end jaunt. No money was found on his body this morning! You say you did not see Harry Borden Saturday night, when the Golden Slip; ed at 11 o'clock, you were there with $6500 bill which had been torn in two and pasted together, and which you had the club manager change into smaller bills for you. Now— that’s all true, and there’s no use your denying any of it. What I want to know is—how did you get the other half of the $500 banknote? Come clean, Rita—and no hyster- ics!” * * ok “Yes—it’s all true. I lied. I did jsee Harry Borden Saturday after- noon.” “Dead. or alive—or both?” Mc- Mann pounced. Rita’s voice was the monotone of a@ woman who is restraining hvster- ics, “Alive. I didn’t kill him, if that is what you mean. He was alive and well when I left, after having been with him only about 10 minutes.” “Thank God!” Ruth cried, in a voice shaking with laughter and tears. “At half-past two, when Rita left Mr. Borden—alive, alive!—Jack and I were in the lobby of the Prin- cess Theater, Mr. McMann!” “And the curtain did not rise un-j did! til 2:45,” McMann reminded her, but almost absent-mindedly. “Of course someone may remember seccing you and Hayward there at half-past two. Did you ask the box office man when the matinee was to start?” “No, of course not,” Ruth admit- ted reluctantly. “There was a sign in the lobby giving curtain time, so we just walked about for 10 minutes, as Jack told you.” “I remember,” McMann granted, that twisted smile on his lips again. “But Rita has the floor now. Well, Rita, how did you get in Saturday afternoon at about 17 minutes after two? Did you use the key Borden had given you?” Ruth gasped her surprise, and the dancer, apparently, no_ less startled. “I—I didn’t have a key,” she retorted defiantly, her agitated hands instinctively gripping her handbag. “Oh, yes, you di McMann laughed harshly, as he rose, strode to the girl and forced the expensive alligator bag out of her desperately clinging hands, Ruthlessly, without apology, he dumped its contents upon the desk top, until a key clattered upon the polished surface. “And here it is! You amateurs are always so slop- y,” he reproved the dancer jocular- ly. “An old hand at the game would have remembered to throw this thing bane “How did you know I had a key to Harry’s office?” Rita demanded. “Because of a little memo that Borden jotted down on the ees at h that held his railroad tickets,” Mc- Mann enlightened her. “Get Me from Rita.’ Now, Rita, why didn’t | Borden ‘get key from Rita’ if he was alive when you entered these offices Saturday afternoon?” Ruth saw only too clearly the drift of McMann’s questions. He un- doubtedly believed that the promoter was dead when Rita arrived, that he had been shot immediately after his telephone conversation with her, in which he had told her to come to the office, that she had arrived, knocked, received no answer, entered with the key Borden had lent her, had found her would-be lover dead, and had, in her desperate need for money, robbed ‘the body. f If only Rita had not had a key, could not have entered unless Bor- den had been alive to admit her, then Jack Hayward would automatically have been eliminated as a suspect. But Rita was answering, and Ruth forced herself = aa a “He forgot to ask me for the key, I suppose,” Rita retorted defiantly. “Anyway, he made a date to meet me at the station for the 5:32, the next train for Winter Haven. He wouldn’t have needed the key before then anyway, since he told me he hid going to stay in his office all 'ternoon. “He'd given me the doy, Friday when I was having lunch with him— breakfast for me, lunch for him, I was to meet him at the office about six Friday evening and go out to might not be iy when T gut there might not in wi go! I'd better take the key and let my- self in with it, so I would not have to wait in the hall. Later he me to meet him at the Crillon, in- stead, and I did, forgot to give him the key. But I didn’t use it Sat- urday—didn’t even remember I had it. I knocked and he let me in. He was expecting me, of course, but be- fore he opened the door. he asked who it was and when I shouted ‘Rita,’ he let me in.”, “And then?” McMann grinned skeptically, as Rita paused. “What explanation ‘did he give you for missing the train?”, - Rita hesitated, “flushed, then seemed to choose her words careful- pe, ind_ promised ion—just apologi and prom to make it up to me. He—he seemed open-|of 'y | pened ?—you came, got no answer to CEO NNE AUSTIN - “It was Saturday afternoon,” Ri- ta replied iseongge “Borden was in a hurry to get rid you but you took time to joke with him about Jake Bailey, eh?” McMann grinned. “All right, Rita, all right! Go on with your story. How did he een to give you the other half of the $500 bill? Why didn’t he wait until you were in Winter Haven? He wouldn’t give it to te Saturday morning, remem- ber!” ee An ugly He of red suddenly Loeb on the slim throat of the ncer. “I asked him for it. I was pretty sore because he’d missed the train, and he wanted to make up with me, so he gave me the other half of the bill. I told him I might miss the 5.32 if he didn’t—so he gave it to me.” McMann chuckled. “Just like that, eh? You make an awfully poor lia Rita. . . Here! og kf shirt on! he commanded, as the dancer sprang toward him, her teeth bared, her slim, long fingers curved into talons. | “So you went to the station to make the 5:32, did you, and he stood you up again?” Rita hesitated again, then answer- ed, desperately, angrily, “Yes, I i McMann leaned back in his chair, grinning and nodding with what seemed, to Ruth, like ghoulish sat- isfaction. “What do you think the police department has been doing all day, Rita? I'll tell you one little job they’ve cleaned up: You beat it from here, after stopping in the es, to neti ingreetied straight © the station, got the bags you'd checked there, and took them to your hotel. And you didn’t take them out again Saturday afternoon! _“You did take out a small over- night bag about midnight Saturday, on your way to spend the night with your girl friend, Willette Wilbur. Now how about it, Rita?” “I was only going away with him to get the $500. I—I needed it and I won’t tell you why, if you kill me! After he’d given it to me, I didn’t care what happened between him and me later. I was just happy that I didn’t have to—to pay for it, by— —by—” She choked, and suddenly began to cry, horribly, without hid- ing her convulsed face. “Listen, Rita,” McMann urged, al- most gently. “You've admitted you need $500 in a whale of a hurry, that you were willing to do almost any- thing to get it. Now admit just a little bit more and tell me the whole truth. I'll put it up to you straight: Either Borden was alive when you came and you killed him—wait till I’m through!—killed him to get the money that would come too late if he waited until night to give it to you, or he was dead when you got ere. Isn’t this what hap- “No, wait! your knock, used Borden’s passkey, found him dead on the floor—yes! just where you're looking,” he in- terrupted himself, as the dancer’s eyes involuntarily shot a glance of horror toward the spot where Bor- den had lain in death—‘“you re- membered that he had the other ha! of the $500 bill he had given you; you looked for it, found it and more than $500 more in smaller bills, took it all—over a thousand dollars counting your half of the bill—” “No, no!” Rita screamed, beating the air with frantic, clenched fists. didn’t rob a dead man! I’d die it! He was alive, I tell you— alive! He gave me his half of the bill, and not a cent more! Not a cent!” Birdwell’s weary, bored voice ffom High School Tuition From Farms E BLAGK ©1929 By NEA Service, Inc. RHEUMATISM . 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He could hardly believe his own eyes and asked me ‘What in the world have you done’ and I told him what Sargon had done for me. “The Sargon Soft Mass Pills are the finest I ever used and they have en- tirely rid me of constipation. From ~ now on my faith is pinned to the Sargon Treatment.” The above enthusiastic statement was made by Thos. B. Bell, well known retired farmer, residing at 415 West California 8t., Oklahoma City. Sargon may be obtained in Bis- marck at Finney’s Drug Store.—Adv. the doorway interrupted Rit 2 sionate avowal. “Ferber’s here with the pictures of the fingerprints, sir. And Borden’s man-servant, Ashe. Mrs. Borden’s come back, too, sir.” (To Be Continued) Fingerprints tell a straight story. Be sure to read the part they play. FORSE OF HABIT Hostess: That used car man seems to be slightly plastered. Host: I guess so. He's trying to-fix up that iron deer on the lawn so it will run.—Judge. To prevent needles and pins from rusting, stick them into a piece of flannel which has been satura’ with machine oil. Roosevelt wore big galoshes which reached almost to his knees. ! regulers 8000 guardsmen and 8 num n a num- ber of civilian organizations were in . An ovation was given - | the procession. 3,300 sailors from the great fleet g . I i +7 i li ge uf g g i & 4 # ee z § He E z & g E HEEL Hie Bie i é & 5 1 if fi i t fit f | i § ' R & tf » A H i ft ef of American battleships anchored Hampton Roads after its return & world’s HE LH 4 es fe ul le