The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 12, 1937, Page 4

ix:. THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER Z (Established 1873) Grate, City and County Officisl Newspaper Published Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- earei Br Ds Abd eoterea ut Gon pontottioe os Blacnasct as second clase i Mrs, Stella 1. Mann President and Treasurer Archie 0. Johnson Vico Pres. and Gen’ Manager Kenneth W. Simons Secretary and Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press Pr clusively ontitieg to, the use for republics. ws dispatche: ited to it er pot other credited tn this also the lo 3 of spontaneous orig! ublished herein. its of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved, Voters Pay and Pay Under Machine Rule From out of Chicago come rumblings indicating that high- spirited city is, once more, about to demonstrate the price that can be paid for government of, by and for the politicians. Chicago’s new tax rate, announced recently, touched an all-time high with a figure of $9.52 for each $100 of assessed valuation. But a high tax rate, in itself, is nothing particularly new for any American city. What makes the Chicago case interesting is its background. Eight or nine years ago Chicago landed itself in the head- lines with a taxpayers’ strike. Taxes went uncollected, city services languished, city employes went on skimpy rations— and, all the while, the city was blithely going ahead on bor- rowed money, supporting one of the most malodorous political rings in America. A That got itself settled, finally. The politicians were chased out, the city began to pay its way once more, and it looked as if everything was to be lovely. But one of the unnoticed little axioms of American politics is that if you resign the worries of government to politicians you are going to pay for the privi- * lege; and before long this old saw began to prove its truth anew. The old gang was chased out, but a new gang came gaily in The Kelly-Nash machine took Chicago over as its private fief, and the tax rate began to soar. In 1988 it stood at $6.49. It has gone up every year since then. In addition, new gas, vehicle and liquor taxes have been created in recent’ years, each collecting its mite from the taxpayer in addition to his real property levies. With all of this money being collected, you would suppose that Chicago was at least getting some excellent government for its money, and that all of the city employes were being paid| regularly. But it isn’t quite working out that way. Most of the city employes have been getting along under a 101 per cent pay cut for two years. « Fast as the city’s income mounts, it does not seem to mount fast enough to enable the city to pay its workers their full wages and salaries. . As a result, loud murmurs of discontent are being heard. The head of an electricians’ union talks ominously about turning | fon" all the street lights off and leaving the river bridges open. School teachers talk of forming a “united front.” And on top of everything else, a taxpayers’ strike is freely predicted. A picture like this is eminently worth the study of the inhabitants of other cities. For it is perfectly obvious that what is happening in Chicago is nothing more than the inevitable result of giving a political machine its head. If you permit a machine to fasten itself upon you, you are going to pay for it. ind Scenes Washington By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, July 12.—Congress will continue in session at least until Aug. 15, but confusion as to what it will do before it adjourns has not been re- duced by the postmortems on the Democratic love feast at Jefferson Island. Administration men who cooked up the party continue to insist that it was a huge success for party cohesion and harmony. But surely the fun- niest of all the explanetions of the motives behind the party oe it plan, which was signed by seven Dem- ocratic senators, The outing seems to have been # turning point. In fact one of the seven Democrats who signed the report, after his third highball will, today, practically drool his affection for the president, and promise that the senate will show its love when time comes to vote for & compromise. Referring to the now historic plains, “Everybody got sll honeyed up, ‘and we greased a way to a compro- mise on the program that will be generally acceptable.” One of the administration's most persistent foes in the house came back on the boat assuring his com- rades: “You know, I like that fellow Roosevelt. You can’t help liking him. ‘We all ought to get together with him more and do some of the things he wants and talk him out of the rest of them.” Among those who received post- graduate courses in the F.D.R. school of charm and brotherly love are some whom the president is likely to try to carve to pieces in next spring’s Democratic primaries. eee What Can Be Dene? Meanwhile the leaders who were exposed to Roosevelt by night, when the real huddles took place at the island, are exploring around Capitol Hill to find out what they think can be passed by Aug. 15. Here is a rough outline of present prospects and perplexities: COURT: Senate Majority Leader ee) Robinson ane he can ae apposition will try to force a on and keep the passed by the house. closest confidantes privately disagree as to whether the threatened senate filibuster would lead to withdrawal of the court bill in order to let other substitute a flat 40-hour hour law while a mittee investigates the minimum wages between now January. A strong southern cont gent has raised the cry that mum wage legislation wi the south.” a ie! E striking swiftly, has ended the career of George Gershwin, whose “! in Blue” lifted jasz music from Tin | y¢r. Pan Alley to the level of the classics. | rey, from a $15 a week win’s songs, said: Gershwin “He was a supreme artist in his rare | Dakota unemployment compensation ability to link classical music with ‘bureau, division of the workmen's the |Sund: f a brain tumor, after a party, one of ite state managers ¢x-| hurried, futile operation, One spe cialist had flown here from Berkeley |county residents have requested the Baltimore, was ready to fly from New/a new road between Binford and Mc- York. Commissioner who writes lyrics, were working on jford, Griggs county commissioner, was the music for a new motion picture, |spokesman for the. group. “Goldwyn Follies.” — few days before had been accepted as| Ladies of the fourth division of the ® nervous breakdown. Saturday he | Methodist Episcopal church lapsed into a coma from which he did|/an ice cream social in the not emerge. The body was to be sent /parlors Tuesday at 7 p. m. to New York Monday for funeral ser-}and homemade cakes will be served. vices and will be held here Thuraday. Monday police would break up any| N! picket lines of stril Newspaper Guild members against the Seattle star. GEORGE GERSHWIN, UPLIFTER OF JAZZ, Brain Ailment Fatal to Man Who ete a Florence Lnemidaolite Invaded Classics With Tin r., Hamilton, 4 Pan Alley Music Hollywood, July 12, — He came up ry Son, Mr. Claude Christan- son, Raleigh, 11:35 a. m. Saturday, Bis- marck hospital. 3, Turtle Lake, 8 p. m. Sunday at a local hospital, Attorney General P. O. Sathre ruled Monday purchases made by the North swift tempo of today.” compensation bureau, are not sub- Gershwin was 38. He died here/ ject to the state sales tax law. A delegation of Griggs and Foster Dandy of |state highway department to Henry, P..H, McGur- He and Ira Gershwin, his brother,'ren said Monday. Otto Prits, Bin- An illness of a will hold church Ice cream burial. Memorial services |The public is invited. L, Rader, manager of the Montgom- ery Ward store, is in St. Paul ing a meeting conducted by the cago office of the company. He is eeoered to return to Bismarck Tues- lay. C. R. Robertson of Robertson’ left Sunday for a trip to the eastern markets to buy merchandise for the ELETYPE BRIEFS“: WHEAT POURS IN fall season. He expects to be gone arene foes Ot pent shipments | all of this week. nen ‘wip batties all lave tock to, |_An order authorising the 800 Line cope with the heaviest wheat |Rallway company discontinue traffic in years. A total of 3,030 cars arrived over the week-end. til Dec. 31, was granted by the state road asa c.| Mysterious Figure of Filmiand Golf Links Undecided on Legal-Steps E i ‘ HI i : i Fy E i ee e 5 g i fi i i i L i fi He HE & 3 ; 4 z | g é Three-Way Program for Com- ing Year Is Suggested By New President i Ss v lected clul E ), Out Spinal Curvature junior. Recently noticed right hip more prominent or highes than left, and right shoulder seems lower than left. (Miss F. EM.) Answer—You should have a careful physical examination by your physician, with especial attention to spinal curvature, Vitamin B and Weak Heart several months I have been taking quinidine under my doctor's Avery ‘You spoke of the value of vitamin B for heart muscle weakness, (Mrs. M. s Answer—Deficiency of vitamin B has been held a common factor of failure fH i zs i i Ba. g 5 3 z i i He £8 flaky Fake (Copyright, 1937, John F. Dille Co.) j didates for enlistment, has alre: bill Roosevelt's | M8h! PICKETS THREATENED program. He will speak at 8:30 p. m. Seattle—Mayor John F. Dore said| (CST) over the blue network of the Broadcasting company. American | Hatch is co-author of the bill. Aluminum Company’s The plight of the Chicago taxpayer is an object lesson for all taxpayers. ; EF g Teacup ‘Tempest’ Decatur, Il.—Sam Tucker, editor of the editorial page of the strike- closed Herald-Review, said s group of “five or six” pickets surrounded she newspaper’s editor Monday and Workers End Strike Alcna, Tenn., July 12—()—Two thousand employes of the Aluminum Most persons have been led to believe that breaking into official Washington society is a thing which the wives of new congressmen’ approach with fearful fascination. As if support- ing this paradox, last winter’s freshman wives have just ad- mitted their failure to boycott “pink teas.” Tt seems that the 50 renegade members, reporting at their final meeting, admitted they had made a total of 5,000 calls in addition to receptions and other parties. Simple figuring reveals this to be an average of 100'calls foreach of the women who had sworn off. Of course, there is a variety of Washington social affairs to which an invitation is more like a command. But more prob- | Compromise ably the crusade failed because the new wives found that most of the established capital socialites, themselves once fresh in from the states, are as human as anyone—they’ll invariably kick off a tight shoe, even under the best of tables. Preserving a Legend High in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the out- cropping rock formations which ‘are known as the Great Stone Face, made famous by Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, are badly in need of repair. : , From a certain angle, these ledges appear as the profile of a man’s face. It was the benign sincerity, the abiding'fine character of his illusion that inspired Hawthorne to write of an humble villager whose life was so influenced by that figure that he came to be its very incarnation. For several years, the ledges have been held in place by cables, but now, through age and weathering, the supports are slipping. . Because the story of the Great Stone Face has pro- vided nearly every American school, child with a powerful char- acter example, New Hampshire’s move to preserve the rocky symbol will be widely applauded. : National Vote on War One. bit of pending legislation worth more than a passing glance is the constitutional amendment drafted by Representa- tive Loujs Ludlow which would provide for a national referendum before the United States could enter any war. For’ two and one-half years the bill has been slum peacefully in the house judiciary committee. Now Mr. Ludlow is circulating a petition to force a vote on the Measure, and there is a chance that he may succeed. It is not hard to think of pretty sound reasons for support- ing such an amendment, It is the plain people who do the fight- ing in a war, who pay the bills and endure the privations that a war makes necessary. Why should not they themselves— through their own votes, and not through their congressional — permitted to.say whether the country should go of candy snd sock in the bal Housing may dropped because apathy among congressional leaders. GOVERNMENT aiiguaretea b Hines. of Ronee calling for a new Depart- ment of Public fare, six presi- troller general's office for a 12 replace the present Te presen' LOOP-HOLE LEGISLATION: In FARM BILL: Administration gets reau Federation. Currently it’s hot; : £ i f E i to hens. (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc.) STATION AGENT DIES Fargo, N. D., July 12—()—Harry Kaleb Fills, 58, Northern sta- forcibly took from him a sheaf of re gy Rigg meeinee arses telegraph radio s subsidies. Miss Anna Toland, bento fa a eae pital. ie Was to the new Convert Funeral home, Fu- |18 years, died at his home here Sun- neral arrangements are pending. ‘The French freighter Tregastel, which ®& Spanish insurgent cruiser seven days ago with a food cargo for | Tur! Severinson, 77, died Saturday in government-held Santander, Spain,| Fargo where she had returned here Monday with her cargo | home for two years, coming from. Turtle Lake, Dies Miss Anna Toland, 83, of Turtle ploneer Walsh county resident of Grand Forks day stier Sot illness. Funeral services w! at Grafton” be : Tuesday REYNOLDS WOMAN DIES Fargo, N. D., July 12.—(?)}—Mrs. FREIGHTER RELEASED Bordeaux, France, July 12—(7)— seized made her Reynolds, » N. D. [SPEAKING OF SAFETY AMAN MAV “DEAR” TONIS WIFE -~ AND A°LAMB"T0 WIS SECRETARY AND A“HORSE”’ E's JUST A WoG WHEN HE MONOPOLIZES THE MIDOLE OF THE HIGH WAY ! BURLEIGH COUNTY =) COC QUOTA I 10pese eee nesday, however, she said. SUPERSTITION MOUNTAIN By Oren Arnold ait 1937 NEA SERVICE Inc CAST OF CHARACTERS CAROLED COLTER, heroine, iter. "HWE" SEINE oo “dude” tourist; i Bete Ga had chia, PAUL iD 8 L" Wi A BLAKE, Steart’s cleter. eee They set out to spend part of GHE led the other girl out among it. Carolee, having found most of the mesquite and cacti near the gold, took charge. She pur-|the Lodge and told Nina all about chased some essentials and a few|the gold. They had such a talk frills for her mother. She ordered| and intimacy as only girls can a-simple marker, at $35, for Paul’s|have; it satisfied a longing grave. She replenished their gro- | Carolee that had been keener than cery supply. she realized. Nima, she decided, At last, she went back to the/ Ws 8 peach! In spite of her back- e wy sh ore id of wealth, clothing store she had left and/&oun' tials" eteafetaie te” olS"bess= | bought herself anew riding outGt.| Suddenly Nina turned to her i It wasn’t too expensive, but it was| without laughing, and looked CHAPTER XV “nice.” She added two new/|straight into Carolee’s eyes. Colt blouses, colored scarves, and a/ . “Um huhm,” Carolee admitted, gently, seriously. went on, “an cl —oh, clothes, and money, and Prejudices, and all that sort of thing in the world. Stuart has talked to me about them. It’s not d | i § g é i s f [ 1 Lied bal Fectir E ! t f # & $23 i f | 3 ¥ ‘ Ly: i F i i 5 ner patiently, then Tree Carolee the trinket, iy li ih Re Ft a I anit Z L ‘ Hf iH s 3 z I 8 Fg a Is