The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 24, 1933, Page 3

HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1933 2 STATE FIRE LOSS ~ JS FIXED AT MORE THAN TWO MILLION Reade Reports 25 Persons Died of Burns; 12 Were Seri- ously Injured Fires in North Dakota caused ap- Proximately 2% million dollars dam- age to buildings and contents during the period from July 1, 1931, to June 30, 1932, according to the 19th an- nual report of H. L. Reade, state fire marshal. Damage to buildings valued at $7.- 612,380 amounted to $1,543,373, Reade reported, while contents of the build- ings, valued at $3,124,991 were dam- aged to the extent of $672,305. Twenty-five persons died during the year as the result of burns while 12 others suffered severe injuries, the Teport showed. Matches and smoking, given as the cause of 362 fires, was high among @ score of reasons for conflagr « Exposure caused 213 fires, stoves, fur- maces, boilers and their pipe: Petroleum and its product: chimneys, flues, cupolas and overheated or defecti 17 by hot irons including electrical de- vices). The report listed 231 cas undetermined causes and blame cendiarism for 29. The department conducted 83 in. vestigations into fires, 12 of which le to arrests, confessions or prosecution: Of the 12, eight cases led to convic: because of insufficient evidence to warrant prosecution. | General orders issued by the de-| partment as safeguards against fire included change and repair of elec- trie wiring, removal of gasoline and, * explosives, repair of stove and fur- Mace pipes, repair chimneys, installa- tion of fire extinguishers and fire} escapes and exit lights, general re-' pairs and inspections. In a tabulation showing damage to buildings and contents in certain . Cities the report showed damage to} buildings in Fargo totaled $60,208 and , to contents, $14,164.49. Other cities were: Grand Forks—buildings $37,-| 499 and contents $6,457; Bismarck—| i 341; Minot—buildings $24,748 | _ and contents $39,831; Valley City. buildings $8,213 and contents $14,784, | ; | People’s Forum } Editor's Note—The Tribune wel- letters on subjects of in- |} Letters dealing with con- ersial religious subjects, which attack individuals unfairly, or which offend good taste and fair play will be returned to the writers. Allletters MUST be signed. Tf you wish to use a pseudonym, sign the pseudonym first and your own name beneath it. We will re- spect such requests. We reserve the right to delete such parts of letters as may be necessary to conform to this policy. : f THE RURAL CHILD'S SCHOOL Driscoll, N. D., Jan. 20, 1933. Editor, Tribune: As I sit here this afternoon looking at the beautiful blanket of some eight or ten inches of snow, awaiting a stiff | wind to whip it to fury, I can't help, but wonder how nice and convenient it will be in the future for us iarm- ers, and our children, should a certain bill go through, that I understand has | already been introduced, to do away with school busses and transportation of school children. Instead of retir- . 170; light-| ning, 150; electricity, 125 (besides 51| |trict should be given the oppor! |to decide the transportation question ing at night with that secure feeling! ‘of | Pictured above are Mrs. Beatrice Snipes, ‘back in a cell after having given birth to the child whose coming may have saved her from the gallows. in- Mrs. Snipes, convicted of murdering a policeman, was sentenced to die but the judgment was changed to life imprisonment shortly before she gave | birth to her child late last month. At the left is Pictured her husband who is serving a seven-month term in the state penitentiary, and at the right Mrs. Snipes is pictured with her seven-year-old son, Clyde, Jr. Back in Cell But FreeFrom Death’s Shadow teacher may sue and recover judg- ment for damages. Asks Roosevelt to Select Union Chief A resolution memorializing Presi- dent-elect Roosevelt to appoint John A. Simpson, national president of the Farmers’ Union, as secretary of agri- culture was adopted by the North kota senate Monday by a vote of 44 to 3. The house previously had adopted the resolution. FACTORY WORKER ILL SIX WEEKS Able to Work After Taking Lydie E. Piakham Vegetable Compound |SAYS BOARDS MUST KEEP SCHOOLS OPEN Attorney General Rules Closing Is Permitted Only By Dire Necessity School boards are required by sta- tute to take “all reasonable steps to keep the schools open,”. Harold D. Shaft, assistant attorney general, has informed Arthur E, Thompson, super= intendent of public instruction. His opinion was in reply to inquiries received by Thompson regarding the duty of a school board to keep open when its cash resources are impaired. The statutes contain “a positive re- quirement that every common school shall be kept in session for not less than seven months each school year,” . j ! Shaft said, except when the average a attendance for 10 consecutive days falls below four. a It would be unreasonable for a dis- ee | trict to attempt to close its schools) —°—$—$—$$—$—$—$—$—$—$— | without having first made a bona fide} Expressing hope for “the cooperation attempt to sell certificates of indebt-|O0f all nations” in attaining world edness, according to Shaft. business recovery, Stanislaus Patek, “Having made an unsuccessful at-|new Polish Ambassador to the United tempt to sell certificates of indebted-| States, is pictured above as he ap- ness, the law permits the school dis-| Peared on his arrival in this country. trict to issue warrants in excess of|He formerly was Poland’s envoy to “ cash on hand, but, not in excess of Soviet Russia. uncollected taxes due it,” Shaft said If the district has no outstanding uncollected taxes against which certi- ficates or warrants couid be issued, or 4€ its teachers and creditors refuse to accept registered warrants, then the ged May close its school, Shafc case of a breach of the contract by the school district, he added, the| -ti different, medicines I i uraged but after I started takin; ia E. Pinkham’s Ve Wouldn't you sooner pay a few dol- lars school tax and have service, than to maintain a car or even a team, at a greater cost to get our children to school in bad weather#or let them stay at home. Who then would non- transportation help? There can be but one answer. Corporations and specu- lators, to save a few dolars in taxes, where taxes rightfully belong. Let’s not sacrifice the future of our chil- dren for selfish greed. Just why schools should be subject to so much trimming, and other things not near- ly as essential to civilization, go free is more than I can figure out. As I sit here I can hear the droning of a U. S. mail plane. I don't recollect just when we asked for the extra burden, to add to the already over large postal deficit that is always with us, but I suppose it is just a large infant broth- er to the R. F. D. service, that will grow rapidly, and will always need a wet nurse as far as self support is concerned. It is not my intention to dampen the spirit of progress, far from it, but why not abolish air mail, {Something that we scarcely, if ever need. The R. F. D. in my opinion has outlived its usefulness. It was wonder- ful in its time, so was the bicycle, but nowadays when everyone has a car {and of necessity makes two or three trips to town a week, it would only be delaying his duns a short time. If this costly service were discontinued, what would happen? Absolutely nothing, only reduction in taxes. I have no quarrel to pick with the mail carriers. As a rule they are splendid men and good citizens, and I have mentioned {them merely for a comparison. That |the service is costly cannot be denied. T have been informed that an R. F. D. carrier draws nearly as much money in one month as our school bus driv- ers draw in nine. Why not cut out the big one and let the little one ride? I believe each individual schogl dis- inity for itself. instead of making it a state law. It would seem that we are en- titled to some rights, but with the proposed abolishment of township and that an enclosed car with a capable | school boards, it really begins to look driver will call for and deliver our| children at the schoolhouse in a very | short time, and relieve us from fur-/like to suggest that we all write to ther anxiety. and free to attend to Hon. Wm. Falconer, Bismarc! our numerous duties as circumstances | as though our rights were being taken away from us. In conclusion I would un- derstand he is one of our legislative dictate, we can go to bed, listen to the school committee men, in regard to wind and snow blowing against the 'transportation, combined consolidation will bring forth, and if Katie, John-| nie, and little Mary will be able to! walk from one to six miles, or will! them, while father does the chores. | Surely two such trips would make a Pleasant day for mother, especially { when her thoughts would turn to the} conveniences of those that live in! town, with school handy for all, and in some cases practical enjoying the privileges that she has vicious to me, and certainly is dis- and girls. How will we know, if trans- Portation is abolished, there will not be, cannot be, perfect attendance rec- ords that we now have. Surely we | don't want to lower our educational | facilities. Statistics claim that we now | non-taxpayers | Editor. Tribune: house and wonder what the morning of high schools, and any other meas- ure that would be detrimental to our schools, and ask him to use his in- fluence in our behalf. Now is the time mother have to hitch up and take to holler. JUST A FARMER. THE LIQUOR QUESTION Bismarck, N. D. Jan. 18, 1933. In the local news columns of The helped to bring about. This bill looks Tribune I find some items, which are! telling the readers that some people ¢riminating against the country boys have sent petitions to our legislature | in which they urge that honorable body to be careful so as not to touch the prohibition problem. Why it is that some good citizensj| are always getting the fidgets, whe some other good citizens go ahead tions on arson charges, confessions in | perity hinges on agriculture. If such {ath day of November, 1932,—on that three others, and three were dropped |is the case, why give it another jolt? memorable election day—the Prohibi- tion law of our state was put to the voter and by so doing was made to tall; was repudiated by a big majority jot the voters. This result represents a formidable but wholesome teaching to be emphasized greatly. The prohibition law was intended to do some good to the people of the State. True, it accomplished some good, also in our state. We are used to talk about the earlier days of the development of the Northwest as con- stituting a period of pioneer-life of the settlers. If in those early days there was a “high power” there doing {the governing, it was perhaps the cracking of the whip of some rough ‘necks riding on bronchos. Later on, under the regime of the cowboys, the General welfare of the communities everywhere was all right. Speaking in general terms, we may freely admit that those fellows took pride in main- taining good order in their respective regions without being forced to do 80 by the threatening club of the state law. In those days the saloon, of course, was the first business to flour- ish steadily. Soon, however, more new settlers came flocking into the vast country and among them were some who were used to living as de- cent people in a decent community. Io, if not. the men, then the women took social matters in their hands and utilmately supported a prohibition law, by which law they hoped to stamp out drunkenness in the com- munity. They wanted to maintain “a clean town.” It is to be admitted that, to a great extent, they succeeded in curbing the sway of drunkenness, but there is absolutely no hope now to extirpate drunkenness by the pow-. er of a severe state law. In any event, we live in another time now than those first settlers did 50 years ago. Nowadays the prohibi- mercialized and thus has gradually become a most dangerous abscess on our body politic. Now it is high time for our honest citizens to wake up and get a real good cure for this obnox- ious social rumpus. Well, the election day of last fall has shown us clearly that the people of our land did wake up and that they are determined to do something in this matter, too. If something is to be done now as to a law regulating the making of Holic drinks and the traffic in We must keep in line with sound ciple. This principle I wish to here as follows: the right of a citizen of the U. S. to make for his own use, beer, wine, alcohol or any alcoholic drinks shall in no way be curtaijed or abridged. Assuming that by the promulgation of such a principle as this some of our church people may in great trep- idation look into our future, I shall add to what is said above a few words, particularly for their benefit. Shall we look up to the Bible for solving for us this particular social problem? The Bible does not say a word in sup- port of our prohibition law. The Bible is warning everybody not to become a winebibber. That this dan- lger is existing cannot be denied. So let every young man be warned: either you conquer king 5 king alcohol will surely conquer you. have four million illiterate people in |the endeavor to have our prohibitiot:! Be on the lookout, or you are the U. S. that can neither read nor, “write. Surely this bill couldn't be an economy measure introduced to help agriculture. We are told that pros- problem solved according to the prin- ciples of common sense? Now I wisi to say this: let every citizen of our state keep well in mind that on the {This is your own personal problem; nobody else can solve it for you. On one of its first few pages the Bible, it is true, is teaching us a very The Prohibition Fight Shifts to the States congress present lines more then 10 years, ~ the moment to legislatures of the states, where preparations may take to alter either the Volstead long the state front. The states in white have al- ready cag Blaine hele age aR oot edge oN have prohibition measures before them. states in black have taken no action on their laws. he starred states, Maryland never had a state dry law and New\York has not had one states present tion rumpus has been grossly com-|use every effort cor / | pound I could feel m les Soins, een pute advised e rength. 1 built me upeso K ie superin' mnt of instruc- 7 —Hazet V. Surrs, time after the flood, so the record | igiccenen te ane and Tain, gaveltion that a teacher who hes a valid Ingredients of Vicks | Cambridge, Mase. no indication of abating today. tells us (Genesis, chapter 9:20-26), = Noah planted a vineyard. 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