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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-02
TWELVE PER CENT
INCREASE TO Be
ASKED BY BOARD
Budget Commission Considers
Boost in Taxes Necessary To
Cure for Expenses
GOVERNMENT COST STATE
$1,400,000 IN LAST YEAR

A twelve percent increase in the
general state tax levy will be asked
by the budget board, according to an
announcement made last evening by
Treadwell Twitchell, chairman of the
house appropriations committee OF
1915.
The increase, Mr.. Twitchell states,
will be necessitated for several reas-
ons, among which may be enumerated
the following:
To bring the National Guard up to
the fifty per cent increase in efficiency
required by the Hay bill adopted by
congress last summer, $4,000 will be
required.
To meet the requirements OF the
Shackleford post roads bill, adopted
during the last session of congress,
there is required from the state, to
meet an equal appropriation from the
United States government, certain
levy of approximately $4,000.
Deficit Much Less.
In spite of the unusual increase In
the high cost of living which has
"occurred' during the past year, the
deficit for 1916 is less than $4,000,
as compared with about $165,00O for
1915. This is a mitigating circum-
stance" which renders the demand for
increase in revenues about $lOO,OOO
less than it would otherwise be.
The twelve percent horizontal" in
crease which will be asked by the
budget board January II is not near
so dangerous as it may seem. The
1915 legislature decreed a fiat 20 per
cent reduction in assessed valuation.
and there was prescribed further
cut of approximately ten percent on
all property values by the state board
of equalization at its last meeting,
during the fall Of 1916. So, even if
the present assembly approves the
"horizontal'-can anyone tell why it
should not be, vertical?-increase of
twelve percent, Flickertail property
holders still will be paying approx
mately eighteen percent less for the
privilege of owning North Dakota
property in 1917 than they did in 1915
and it is extremely doubtful wheth-
er any property-holder would on this
day and date accept that much less
for his holdings.
And, there is the possibility that
some $4,000 of the states possible
expense for 1917 will be eliminated,
as there is probability that North
Dakota's soldiery upon its return from
the border, after having been drilled
and worked to a fragile, will refuse
to re-inlist for the six years provided
for by the Hay bill.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-02
MONROE DOCTRINE.

President Wilson's participation in
the peace overtures of Germany
threatens to change the traditional
policies Of the nation and brings us
again to the fundamental principles
laid down in the Monroe Doctrine. 1t
was the late Senator Bacon of Geor-
Gia, who said:
"The Monroe Doctrine is part of
!; the lnwritten Constitution OF the
United States" 81 { && q
There should be no direct partici.
patton in the peace conference by tho
United States. The belligerents can
settle their own quarrels without the
Interference of neutrals.
Abraham Lincoln took this position
during the Civil war. When Euro
pean nations offered to mediate, he
politely told them to mind their own
business. He also took steps to force
the French out of Mexico in accord
ance with the Monroe Doctrine.
The old and. the new worlds have
been linked much closer since the
days of George washington. but it
still holds good that: With the con.
Germs; Of Europe we have none, or a
very remote interest" If our rights
are violated by the 'belligerents, the
remedy is apparent. But it is anoth.
er proposition entirely when we seek
directly or indirectly to tell any bel
ligerent that it must lay down the
sword. D. s.sa.
Public opinion is almost unanimous
that the position Of Washington and
Lincoln is a precedent to be followed
by President Wilson in this crisis.
The American people do not de-
mand that their president act as
peacemaker. They are willing that
he lend his assistance when asked,
but they are not asking him to take
the initiative.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-02
LEGISLATORS STAND
GOOD CHANCE TO GET
u FULL PAY FOR WORK
State Treasury Is in Better Con
dition This Year Than
81 Ordinarily

The legislative session which opens
today will cost the state $4,000, II
the budget is not exceeded, and the
state will have the money to pay
The treasury of North Dakota is In
much better condition than it has
been at the opening of any other gen.
eral assembly in recent years.
When legislature convened in 1919
the state owed in current bills $l99,-
900, and it had in the treasury, &c.
1929. Yesterday, the state had on
hand in it's general fund after paying
all bills presented between $500 and
50 900, and there were outstanding
current obligations of only $44,102, -25.
Before the first pay day for the legis-
lators arrives. the state should be
tens of thousands to the good. In
1916. January collections totaled $l53,-
689.44, and they will BE at least as
great for the current month. Then,
If the session runs for the full sixty
days, there will he the February col
lections to help out. There Is no
Question that the legislators will re-
ceive their per diem on the dot. AS
an experienced statesman has said,
1.-THE bloomin' difficulty is with your
per noctum, don't you know"
JOrgenson Shows Standings.
Retiring State Auditor Carl O. Jor-
genson last night gave out some in
teresting figures on state finances. The
cash balances for each New Years
day for the last nine first days OF Jan
uary have been: 1909, $3,066.09; 1910,
$315.9S; 1911, $7O,910.02; 1912, $2,12l.-
so; 1918, $50, 94O.33; 1914, $19,0S2.04;
1915, $6,352.39; 1916, $20S.5S; 1917
81 500 to $4,000.
While there was a comparatively
large cash balance January l, 1913,
the state at that time owed about
100000 in unpaid bills. BY January
/, 1915, the unpaid bills outstanding
had been reduced to $199,999 and this
year finds the total less than $4,000.
January /, 1918, the bonded indebt-
edness of the state was $936,000. jan
uary 1, 1917. finds the bonded obliga-
lions of North Dakota reduced to ap-
proximately $466,O00.
The constitutional bonded debt limit
of the state is 100000. The excess
is accounted for by the institutional
bonded debts which were taken over
by North Dakota when it became a
state. This additional obligation does
not come under the constitutional pro-
vision.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-02
Both Houses Get Organization Under Way
Our Nelv Governor

the Lynn Frazier of 1893, 1900 ana
1901-Frazier, who had starred on the
gridiron for the varsity, and had cap
tanned the team the last two years
But except through the sporting pages
he never had appeared large to the
public eye.
Was Called to Farm.
1t was in 1901, his senior year at
the university, that the deaths of his
father and older brother necessitat'
ed MIR. Frazier's return to the farm
to assume it's management for his
mother. He gave up his ambition to
enter profession, an ambition he
had fostered since his graduation
from the high school at Grafton, N
D.. at the age of II.
Mr.. Frazier obtained his grade
school education in the rural schools
of ,Pembina county, N. D., where the
Fraziers settled in 1881, after moving
from Rice county, Mimi, where the
governor.elect was born, in 1874.
Was Schoolnaster.
He taught school for two years az
ter finishing his high school course
and then entered the Normal school
at Mayville, N. D.. were he gradual
ed in 1895. In order to provide mo-
ney with which to further his edu
cation, he worked for two years be-
fore entering the University of North
Dakota. -
Became Progressive Farmer.
From the time he took over the
management of the family farm, Mr.
Frazier has expressed himself as in
tensely interested in the betterment
of the economic condition of the
farmers of the Northwest. The pres
ent day marketing system, he holds
is faulty and he insists it is the duty
of the state to amend, so far as lies
within it's power, the rules by which
land products are sold.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-02
CLEAN THE WALKS.

Drastic steps should be taken 10y
Commissioner Best of the street de-
partment to sue that some of the
main thoroughfares are put in better
shape. The sidewalk on broadway
east of Fifth street is disgrace.
This is the approach to the auditori'
UNI and should be cleared OF snow
and ice at once.
II the property owners neglect to
clean their walks in the downtown
district, the city should see to it that
the work is done and the charges
properly assessed.
Crowds going to the Auditorium
last evening either took the middle
OF the street or else slipped and
stumbled over snow and ice.
A start has been made in removing
snow from the downtown streets, but
the sidewalks in many sections are
impossible. r.--
Let's get little action.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-02

surance-in both H. Of 4 which which vacations
For eight years his. fellow citizens Of
Ramsey county insisted that he serve
them as register of deeds. Then they
named him their representative in the
house of representatives. Aside from
these two important essays in public
service IN. A." has been quite con.
tent to remain private citizen, in
which capacity. as in his service to
his county and his district, he has
proved a most satisfying success.
ANY man equipped with Mr.. Hog.
haug's chin must necessarily have a
mind of his own. And the member
from the 21st has given every indica-
ton of the possession of that attn.
butte.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-02
g. FIRST CATCH YOUR i.
N|GGER," ADVICE IN
SOGCE MURDER CASE
Supreme Court Holds Fact Murd-
cred Infant Ever Lived Not
Established

The "old'' supreme court in revers.
ing the Towner county district court
in the case of the State versus ROgn-
hid Sogge, Elmer Jones and Betsy
Sogge Jones, on Saturday ruled that
the prosecution had not established
the corpus delicti''; that it had not
established the fact that the newborn
infant alleged to have been killed In
a revolving manner was born alive;
nor had 1t proven the manner of the
child's death.
The narrowing details of the Sogge
murder case, originating near Mime
waukon with the alleged staying Of
the newborn infant of Betsy Sogge
on October 10, 1914, are too we'll
known to necessitate repetition. The
three defendants, being Betsy Sogge,
her mother, Roghhild Sogge, and the
alleged father of the child, Elmer
Jones, were tried in TOwner county,
and the last two named were found
guilty of manslaughter in the first
degree and sentenced to five years,
while Betsy was convicted of man.
slaughter in the second degree and
given one year.
1t is probable that motion for a
rehearing in this case will be made by
Judge E. T. Burke, retiring associate
justice. Mr.. Burke, who did not sit
with the supreme court in handing
down Saturdays opinion, reversing
the lower court, is brother of States
Attorney Burke, who prosecuted the
case, and he will act for his brother
in the petition for rehearing. it Is
stated. This petition will bring Judge
Burke for the first time in a private
capacity before the tribunal with
which he has been associated during
the last six years.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-02
BIGGEST LITTLE NAN
IN STATE IS LOOKING
FOR LEGISLATIVE JOB
Geordie Fisher, Veteran Servant
of Statesman, in Field
Again

"Geordie Fisher OF Cavalier, the
biggest little man in the state, is now
present, and the legislature may pro.
coed to convene whenever it is ready.
For the last seven sessions "Geordie"
has been a prominent feature of the
senate, where he has served foua
years as Waterman and three years as
janitor. "Geordie" stands four feet,
four and ahalf inches In his high heel
ed shoes, and it must needs be brave
cock.roach that would seek to make
off with the senate furniture when he
is around II"
? 'Geordie's" heart never failed him
but once. That was the item the SEN
ate commissioned him assistant ser
geant-at-arms and sent him out to
bring in Senator Emil Movious, who
was tardy. Emil then weighed about
$50 and Geordie a scant 113 but he
tackled the Job. Luckily the belated
senator arrived before George could
apprehend him, and there was no
| bloodshed.
Mr.. Fisher is candidate for his old
job in the senate, and his friends are
endeavoring to see that he lands 1t.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-02

wait till Major Fraser got back. How
ever. as we are ordered home 1t does
Mt make much difference. As soon
as our regiment reaches Fort Smelling.
/ will beat it for Bismarck, be sworn
in, and return, If have to. to Fort
Smelling for muster out.
~ would have liked to be there for
the BEGINNING of the session but 1t
couldn't be. hope they will be able
to accomplish much OF real benem to
our state. l shall endeavor to cooper"
ate to the best of my ability
Elected in Absence.
Major Wright is probably the only
member of the present house who was
elected during his enforced absence
The major came to Bismarck for tho
concentration camp when orders were
issued in early summer, and left in
July with his regiment for the border
If his political defences needed attend
ing to. so did the frontier defences OF
the Union, and he deemed the latter
Of more importance. In spite OF his
absence, Stutsman county gave him 9
whacking big vote, and he is expected
to prove one of the constructive mem.
bers of the house during the Fifteenth
assembly. -.
The major undoubtedly will have
some ideas relative to the national
guard, insofar as the state have any
power to regulate the same. Speaking
Of the First, Mr.. Wright says: There
never was a finer lot of men in one
regiment than these same fellows, and
they have done their work splendidly-"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-02

temporaneously with the Immortal
Bard. Here are found such we'll
we'll known expressions as, Rome
was not built in one day, Better is
half loaf than no Bread 'Nought
venter, nought have New bronze
swepth cleene,' A penny for your
thought you stand in your own
light Might have gone further and
Jared worse Small pitchers have
wide ears One SWALLOW maketh not
summer I know on which side my
bread is buttered,' Love me, love my
dog Here also one reads that Chill
dren and fooles cannot lye,' while a
contemporary of Heywood's, John
Lyly, in 'Endymion,' says, IT'S an
old saw, children and fooles speake
true Haywood asks, Who is worse
shod than the shoemaker's wife"
while Robert Burton, writing at the
same period, says, in 'Democritus to
the Reader Him that makes shoes
go barefoot himself
From Loves Cure by John Beau.
mont Of the Beaumont and Fletcher
alliance, one learns to Hit the nail
on the head and later character ex-
claims I find the medicine worse
than the malady.' Francis Bacon in
his essay on Solutions, declares that
The remedy is worse than the dis
ease
"'I smell a rat is commonly cred
tied either to Samuel Butler or Ben
Jonson, as it appears in both 'Hudi
bras and Tale of Tub However,
1t is also found in Blunt, 'Master-Con
STABLE by Thomas Middleton. ON
his last legs is also product Of
Middleton's pen in The Old Law.
One ear it heard, at the other out it
went ishanded down from old Geof-
frey Chaucer in 'Troilus and Creseide'
of the canterbury Tales. From the
same source one is diminished that
OF harmes two the Jesse is for to
cheese In the limitation of Christ
Thomas a Kempis says, OF two evils,
the less is. always to be chosen This
expression, however, is of even great
er antiquity. 1t appears in the 'Chron-
icle of Battel Abbey and in the Wis
ion of Piers Ploughman.'
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-02

Lynn j. Frazier left the farm to
become the farmers governor" OF
North Dakota and, if possible, to put
into effect system of state owner
ship OF all grain elevators, packing
and -four mills.
Gearing the endorsement of the re-
Gently organized North Dakota Farm
ers' Non-partisan league, with its SO,
600 members, he was swept into Of
flee as the Republican candidate 10y
an overwhelming vote, polling ap
proximately 10000 Of the 10000
votes cast. =
Faces Heavy Program.
When he takes Office tomorrow, at
2 o'clock in the afternoon, he will
face a heavy legislative program; a
program endorsed by him after il
was drawn by the Non.partisan league
TO break down the present obnoxious
system of produce marketing" to in
crease the profit to the producer and
to lessen the cost to the consumer.
AS the majority of the members OF
the legislature were elected with the
endorsement of the ,Nonpartisan
league, the new governor is expected
to receive the support of the state
law-making body in putting through
the leagues legislative program,
which includes public ownership OF
the principal agencies concerned in
the collection and distribution. OF
farm products.
Was Little Known.
Comparatively few persons knew OF
Mr.. Frazier when he sprang into
prominence as the Nonpartisan
leagues candidate in the primaries.
He never had been in any but local
politics, always subject to the re-
strictions of his farming activities,
with which he had been occupied for
Is years.
Football Fans Remembered.
Then football followers of the Uni
versity of North Dakota remembered
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-02
HARMONY REIGNs IN
CONTINUED from page one)

CONTINUED from page one)
the speaker Of the house that the sem
ate organization had been completed.
Asks for Cooperation.
In his address to the assembly, after
he had taken the oath Of Office admin.
istered by Judge Hanley, Speaker
Wood declared for a business admins
tration, asking the members not TO
play horse" and urged them to CO.
operate with him, thereby making his
duties as easy as possible.
Wood was nominated for speaker by
Representative Walton, the motion be-
ing seconded by R. L. Fraser. On roll
call there were 103 ayes, nine not vot-
Ing Then followed the election OF w.
D. Austin and Edward Wood as assist.
ant clerks. 1t was then moved that
the balance Of the house employees be
elected on roll call.
House Employees Named.
The house staff was named In one
resolution, adopted without opposition
as follows:
Speaker--Howard r. Wood.
Clerk-A. E. Bowen.
Assistant Clerks--W. D. Austin,
Edward Wood.
Enrolling and expressing clerk--O.
S. Wing.
Bill Clcrk-Paul Nelson
Proof reader-W. B. Mclaughlin.
Journal clerk--I.ester NJ. Smith.
Calendar clerk-Mason B. Stowers.
Sergeant at arms-O. Sommervold.
Assistant-P. NJ. Casey. "'''
Messenger-J. w. Smith.
Doorkeepers-Robert KEGS, John
Warren =. reg, ~
Postmaster. A. Lawler! . l+~'Ta
Mailing clerk-Frank Geiger.
lains--Bismarck clergy.
Janitors-Bernard Helwig, William
Meyer, Nick Weller.
Lady attendant-Emma Cooper.
Phone messenger-J. O. 2. Dr0cher.
Clerk on. state affairs-E. c. Heck
enliable. ..r>,
Clerk on OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES s.
Reishus.
Clerk on Judiciary, V. Randall.
Bill room clerk-W. L. Caddall.
Stenographers Ethel Maddox,
Thelma o. Bruhjell, Muriel LaSchelle.
Florence Gahagan, Pearl Paulson.
Bina Steinmetz.
Pages-Mose Rosenschqeig, c. G.
Coy, Melvin Hagan, A. D. Pickard.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-02
NOTHING NEW.

The present generation often
plumes itself upon the originality Of
its slang. One writer, in THE Edi.
torial," has pulled down his classics
and finds that much of our vernacu
lar bears an ancient date. For in.
stance, Pope stbeat us to" this nearly
two hundred years ago: .
"You beat your pate, and fancy wit
will come.
"Knock as you please, there's nobody
at home"
In Job. for instance, we find sane.
ton for the following expression,
classed often as slang: 81 am escap-
cd by the skin of my teeth"
To quote:
THE most quoted sources in the
Ensllsh ls1guage are the Bible AMI
Shakespeare. A very fruitful source
sofsolR 49, ana sayings. however, is
81 ff1llllBss q John flsywoed, IN
ii 80 sA0uslshed towe-d
80 eo1ee - alseeelh eentnry, con.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-02
AtDVANC EMENT.

Somebody has got to Assoc and
hog-tie Science, or the world will be
removed from American men of 40
years Of age or upward and they'll
find themselves enmeshed in lot Of
new-fangled entanglements, so to
speak.
Note the propositions seriously con-
sidered by that American Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Science!
First, they propose to adopt the
metric system of weights and meas
ures. and then you'll buy your bacon
by the yard and your eggs by the
ounce. Why, those foreigners, like
the Parisians, have got the thing fig
ured down so fine by their metric sys-
TEN that you con go into the markets
and buy chickens feet and heads by
the kilometer, or some other meter,
If you're hard pressed for soup meat;
fand there =. are places where the
charge for your bath is based on the
weight OF the soap you use.
Then there's Scientist Prof John
son, who gets right up in meeting
and declares that sexual immortality
is eugenic in results and that if all of
it should cease, an important means
of race progress would be lost.
Again, take your 7-year-old boy on
your knee and ask him to read from
his dear little, red-and-white Christ
mas book. Does he tackle those
those words with an alphabet? He
does not He Fuckers his mouth and
blows, or mumbles, or ,buzzes, or hiss
es, and you find coming out of him
words like "denunciation," "procrasti-
nation" ETC., like molasses out of
jug in August and you remember
that at his age you were stuck on the
word, "cat," because it didn't begin
with ok"
Gents who are at the top of the
hill or slipping down the farther
side, Science is changing everything.
Your ounces will be grams; your
yards will be meters, your immoral
ity will be eugenics, your reading will
be buzz or a hiss.
But it only means that it's your
turn to be a has4been. Consider the
things which you did that your father
didn't. That which was isn't. You've
written your part of the story in the
book of life. The leaf will be turned
over and on the new page will be new
And the new writings may
be much better than those that went
before. Honesty and love alone may
not be rewritten to mean better
things than now. All our notions, our
views, our purposes as to material
things may change. and Science itself
is more or less falsifier, a repudi
atOr, an migrate and a flirt.
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GRAND FoRWs FOLK HERE,

H. A. Bronson, former senator from
the Seventh, and who is to become
first assistant to Attorney General
William LANCER; Luther E. Birdzell,
associate justice of the supreme
court. and j. F. T. O'Connor, repre-.
sentative from the Sixth, are expect
ed down this evening from Grand
Forks. J. f.. T. O'Connor, one Of the
few Observation-Disclosures mem.
bers Of the house, is brother of
William O'Connor, a former North
Dakota legislator. u. F.. r." is hailed
as the real orator of the coming ses.
sion. He has the genuine Irish gift;
was on the Harvard debating team
against Yale in his college days, and
is generally regarded as quite some
fellow. sE, =.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-02
ST. PAUL.

HOGS-Receipts 1900; SC to 10c
lower; range $9.5o@$10; bulk $500
$3.50. -
CATTLE-Receipts 800; killers,
steady; steers $4.25@$1O.25; cows and
heifers e4.25@$7.50; calves, steady,
$4.5O@$11.75; stockers and feeders,
steady to strong, $3.50@$7.75.
SHEEP-Receipts Is; steady:
lambs $7.O0@$12.75; wethers 5000
$3.50; ewes $5.50@$9!0O,
p .-~ CHICAGO.
HOGS-Receipts 1900: slow; bulk
$9.90@$10.30; light $9.40@$1O.10:
mixed $9.30@$10.4O; heavy $10.05@
5000: rough $s.so@$1o.oo; pigs $3.50
@SS.1!. ~
CATTLE-Receipts 10000; firm:
native beef steers $3.25@$11.S0: west
ern steers $7.25@$10Oo; stockers and
feeders $5.25@$s.25; cows and heifers
$4.25@$10.00; calves $9.o0@$13!Oo.
SHEEP-Receipts $1,000; firm:
wethers $9.15@$1O.75; lambs $11.25@
1880. -