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and forth. why not use more pieces Of paper. Tor write
larger figures on them? In this way the assets Of the
bank can quickly be expanded from millions to billions.
the shortage which Mr.. Kositzky insists exists in tha state
treasury can be met quite handily out of this manufac-
tured wealth. and all the vast enterprises in which the
state is to engage can be taken care Of without any taxes
whatever. II the individual citizen could only be in
structed how to apply the same system to his personal
affairs. all would be well. and the H. c. [. would have no
terrors for any Of us.
Again, the director OF the new bank has just been
voted a salary Of $4,000 a. year. That is the largest sal
airy paid to any employee Of the state. 1t is probably ten
times tho annual income of the average North Dakotan.
According to commonly accepted standards, the man
who is capable of managing successfully the affairs Of an
institution with a program which compares with that
of the Bank of North Dakota is easily worth a salary
Of $4,000, a year. But we have heard a great deal of
late about the abolition Of old standards. The new bank
proceeds on the old theory that the services Of q capable
banker are worth more than the services of a capable
street laborer. Or is it proposed to pay everybody ten
thousand . year?
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-08-11
THE COST OF LIVING ADDRESS

The presidents message on the cost of living and
the action to be taken with reference to it has been
variously received, as was natural. Those who pin their
faith to the influence Of ordinary commercial agencies
unaided and unrestricted by government, will regret that
there was in the message no forecast of a purpose to
withdraw the government entirely from supervision OF
production and marketing and the relation of selling
prices to cost. Those who go to the other extreme will
be utterly Disguised that the president did not on this
occasion announce his espousal of a complete plan OF
socialism as the one cure for the ills that afflict us. And
and estimates. depending largely on the former views
Of the individual .
TIL American public is not prepared to go to either
Of the extremes mentioned. The need for some govern
ment supervision Of both production and distribution in
many highly important lines has been too conclusively
demonstrated for it's abandonment to be considered now.
And, while supervision has often been exercised in a
vexatious and utterly useless manner. the causes which
create the need for real and wise supervision are multi
plying, and we are undoubtedly going ia. have more
supervision rather than less. We are concerned now,
not with the abolition of supervision, but with the prob
lem Of making it just, reasonable and effective.
The other extreme, that of complete socialism, is
equally out Of the question. 1t is true that socialism has
gained a foothold in many places. that it has taken pos
session Of the government of our own state. But the
country at large is generally satisfied to let North Da-
kota do the experimentins-and pay the costs. The
moment that anything like a general application of So
cialism is attempted the farmers, the very people to
whom certain of its details have been most tempungly
and effectively presented, would be found to repudiate
the whole program. for that program would strike at the
very roots of all that has made the American farmer
what he is-the most Independent being in the world.
The presidents address was confined to a general
statement of the situation, and to an enumeration of a
number Of vavs in which he hel;eved that that ei+ua<;on
could be remedied without the reputation Of demon
strated obligations by the government on the one hand,
and without a complete revolution on the other. Some
of the items mentioned by the president as means of
combating the evil are manifestly useful. Some are de-
bateable. But we believe that the usefulness of the
presidents appearance before congress on this occasion
for the purpose Of addressing it on this subject lies, not
in any specific recommendations which he has made or
could make, but in it's tendency to focus attention upon
one Of the most important subjects before us, and to
crystalline opinion with reference to it.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-08-11
NORTH DAKOTA AS A BANKER
The experience Of the state of

The experience Of the state of North Dakota as a
banker has been so brief. and the work which it has
performed in that capacity is so admittedly preliminary
and preparatory, that no fair estimate Of the ability of
the state in its new role can be made at this time. Pend
ing later developments, however. certain conclusions as
to the future may be reached, at least tentatively, on the
basis of performance up to date.
One of these conclusions is that we may expect, on
the part of the Bank of North Dakota, no very radical
much-denounced private banks of the country Of paying
interest to those who have money to lend, and charging
interest to those who borrow. To those who have been
trained in the belief that capital is an invention of the
devil. and the ownership Of property conclusive evidence
Of crininality, the attitude of the new state bank on this
subject will be a shock. But, whatever may have been
the original expectation of those who framed the bank
ing law, the men who have its affairs in charge have evi-
IDENTIFY realized that there exists in financial circles a sit
uation with which they are at present powerless to cope.
namely, that people cannot be induced to loan money
without interest. and that in order to make their bank
break even, they must charge for the money which they
loan a little more interest than they pay for it. Pri-
vately owned banks have been operating on that prin-
ciple right along.
Again, we were told the other day that the Bank
Of North Dakota has just increased It's available funds
two million dollars by the use of a very ingenious de-
vice. The industrial commission. which has charge OF
the sale of the banks bonds, sold two million dollars
worth of those bonds, the bank itself being the pur-
chaser. The bank gave its check for the purchase prrce
and the commission Immediately thrned the check over
TO the oank, and the bank was at once two million dol
lars richer without anybody being poorer. 1t must be
confessed that this little operation, quite simple though II
seems to be considered has a. tendency to make a non
banking individual a little dizzy. Still, we have no doub,
IT IS all right, especially as we have heard Of private
banking institutions occasionally creating capital out o.
thin air. Occasionally, of course, there has been a htct
IA the proceedings and a too liberal use of the creativ.
faculty has sometimes landed the operators in the peni
tsntiary. We have. no doubt that our North Dakot;
artists have been duly cautious, and that no such un
pleasant result is in prospect for them. II this Is to b.
nasfely q sample. we may conclude that when it come
e high finance, Wall street will have nothing on tn
hank Of North Dakota.
The vast possibilities Of this form Of finaancIerin,
10 exceedingly attractive. II our state bank can b. an
riehed merely by showing ! few pieces Of paper b.cy
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Mr.. LAWSON AGAIN

Tom Lawson is at it again. The famous Boston
financier comes out with q circular letter to the dear
public on the evils Of stock gambling. The smile Of
Satin rebuking sin will at once occur to the reader. Mr..
Lawson renews his former injunctions against stock gam
bling. but he admits that people are going to gamble
anyway, so he tells them how. One is reminded Of the
leaflet of instructions which warns the purchaser AGAINST
permitting yeast to come in contact with the beverage.
as that would be sure to generate alcohol.
Lawson differs from most takers in that, in addition
to the ability to make a lot Of money, which many of
them have. he has displayed both the inclination and the
ability to hang onto It. He is one Of the very weaIthy men
of the country.
He is peculiar in another respect, in that he is one
of the few rich men who have posed as the disdnterested
friends of the dear people, and have been able to cash
in on the illusion which they have created. A few year,
ago Lawson, always and only a stock gambler, the boast.
full and unrepentant participant in innumerable stocl
manipulations, in the same breath denounced the method.
by which he had made himself rich, and invited tn.
public to become his partners in further exploits of IN,
same character to the enrichment Of themselves. .Ant
he got away with It. 80 far az he was concerned, for a,
the strength Of the sentiment which he created he IA,
able to whipsaw the market, and a lot Of the dear people
who had followed his advice were MIXED dry.
Yet Lawson cursed a few other gamblers 10 lustit
that many Of the people whose money he ROT avav from
taem continued to regard him as their great ana goo,
friend. And . lot Of these same people viii nov bu
or sell merely because Lawson says 80.
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TOO MUCH TO HOP FOR

In his address. on che cost of living the president
said: IT believe, too, that the more extreme leaders OF
organized labor will presently yield to a sober second
thought, and like the great mass OF their associates. think
and act like true Americans
That many Of the men who have unthinkingly yield
Cd to the impulse to follow q course whose only possible
result was to accentuate rather than allay the strife be-
tween classes will realize their mistake, and will pres
entity, as the president says, again think and act like true
Americans, there is the best of reason to believe. But
II the presidents use of the term, 1.-The more extreme lead.
ers' is to be given its most obvious Interpretation. the
belief which he declares is a baseless one, and hopes of
the development to which he points are futile.
Those extremists who have functioned for a time.
and in certain cases, as leaders Of laboring men, and
whose leadership has been toward the bottomless pit of
strife and confusion, will not reform their methods
on any second thought, for those methods are part and
parcel Of themselves. They are the concrete expression
Of an innate and inherent spirit of lawlessness and of
narrow self interest, of everything which is the opposite
Of true Americanism.
The thing that is to be hoped and expected, and in
which the whole hope of the future lies, is that real Ia
dangerous leaders will upon due consideration. realize
the true character Of such men, and the certain result of
their leadership, in which case that leadership will be
thrown of and repudiated, and there will be recognized
and accepted the leadership Of only those who have
shown wisdom and character to lead along safe paths
toward permanent progress.
Typical of leaders of the one class we have Haywood,
and of the other, Gompers. And in spite Of numerous
manifestations of the opposite character, there is a
sound basis for hopefulness in the fact that whenever
q real test has come, it is the leadership of Gompers
rather than of Haywood that has been accepted by the
great mass of organized labor.
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~
The Woman Who Grained.

xlfG WV1n&u WHO NJt08pCUA
The Mastersons' apartment had,
ing little foyer. 1t was lighted by a
jade-green lamp. swung in bronze
chains delicately green from the tint
Ing OF time; and the notes of bronze
and dull Jade were carried through
all the furnishings. through leather
and tapestry and even q great, dragon
clasped Chinese vase. But those
greenish lights were not always be-
coming to visitors. When Tony
Adraince entsred the foyer that eve-
ming they were 80 unbecoming to him
that the maid privately decided he
was Ill. Her master not infrequently
came home with that worn look about
the eyes and. mouth. She wondered
II MI. Adriance gambled.
None Of the other guests had ar
rived, Indeed, 1t was not yet time.
The ciink Of glass and hustle Of ser.
wants in the dining-room alone told Of
the coming event in hospitality.
Hospitality? Tony Adriance stood still.
arrested in his movement toward the
drawing-room; the sick distaste : OF
all the last weeks finally eliminated
in paralysis before the prospect Of the
farce he was expected to play out,
! with his unconscious host a. spec
tatoI.
self tempo rIa , With tho maid maid. 'i Ills
glance fell upon 9 desk and prompted
him. II have forgotten An impor-
tant letter; I will write 1t before ! 60
in. Don't wait; ! know my way"
She obeyed him. OF course no had
nothins to write, but he fumbled for
Z sheet Of paper and picked up . pen.
He wa awake 1t asst to the enor-
nifty of his preeence here - . guest;
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10 study Q. s. -JoURNA1Iss1.

Toxic. July 7.-(By Mal)-Miss
Miyorko Kobashi, proprietor ana edi-
tor Of the Fujin shuho. the woman,s
Weekly, will 30 to the United States
N August for a three-year stay for
the purpose OF investigating the cours-
% IN journalism in the leading Ameri-
. universities.
Miss Kobashi soes at the instiga-
ton Of the founders Of the new Toxic
Women's university, Of which Inaxo
Nitobe fs president. Upon her return
she will be in charge Of the course 81
journalism In that school.
Miss Kobasht is quoted as =
that Japanese women should awaken
70 their opportunities In yocations
.hich ars adAptAblN to them. esps-
She expects 70 be present at the IN.
|terDatiopal labor conferences in wash.
ington neat October and sthe Tnfefna.
tjonal Wpmen's council which VIII ~
Ehsld n Herne. S~witserland, nexl
- -.s.
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ing chairs from bed-chambers to have
enough, and all pinchipg-' she
glanced about her with q hare OF
contempt, her smooth scarlet lip lit
Ing in . sneer.
Adriance slowly looked over the
room. not very large, perhaps, yet
scarcely cramped; made lovely py
opalescsnt lamps and fragrant BY the
perfume Of roses set In high, slender
was srnothered in the silken warmth
Of q Chinese rug, against whose blue
was lifted the creamy wilderness OF an
ivory elephant quantity carved and
poised on its pedestal. Even to his
eyes nothing here warranted discon-
tent.
II thought this very pretty" he
dissented. Il thought Masterson had
done things very WE'LL here"
Well enough, for q nook in q
torted. Il hate living in apartments.
I always have wanted stairs; wide.
shining stairs down which ! would
pass to cross broad rooms!"
She drew a thirsty breath. In the
cleaning gown which left uncovered
as much Of her beauty as In indui..'
gent faahion allowed, her large light
eyes avid, her yellow head thrown
slightly forward ~ she looked up at
the man, she was a vivid and uncon-
pitiful greed Of necessity. but the greed
which, having much, covets more. As
IL he shared her mind, Adriance knew
that she pictured herself descending
the stairs in his fathers house gowned
and jeweled as Mrs. Tony Adriance
could be and Lucille Masterson could
not.
He was not aware Of the change in
his own face until he saw its reflection
in the sudden alarm and question
clouding hers. He answered her ak
hold it, low evenness Of speech with
the Unborn distaste of well-bred mod
ern man for betrayed emotion.
That is it," he interpreted. "That
to why o would marry me and
leave Masterson. You want more than
he a give you. II he had az much
to give as I have, it would not matter
what he did. You would bear with
him. Perhaps you have been bear
'Tony!" she stammered.
1T IL quite true. / have been
solemn fool. I have been nerving my.
self to lay down my self-respest with
out ftnching, because ! believed that
! had led you to count upon me; and
the while you were counting upon
what I owned"
She gathered her forces torether
after the surprise.
Rather severe, Tony, because L
dislike expensive tenement life!" she
commented, with careful irony, Turn
ing aside, she laid her lace scarf
across \ table, gaining a respite from
his gaze. Have I ever pretended not
to, care for beautiful, luxurious
things? And does that argue that I
care for nothing else? ] think o
should apologize-and pay more heed
to your Digestion" a
Continued in tomorrow's
Evening Herald.
a man may BE- dead easy all his
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I fancy We could stand and SEQ
The working methods OF q tree.

All nature now il in a rush
70 tint a. apple with Its blush
Ana gild with wondrous gold the grain
Before shall come September's rain.
Ine soil is bursting at our feet
With foods for mortal man to eat
And each must finished be before
The killing frosts return { more:
On these are natures busy days.
ene1 working n q thousand ways
doing everything she can
TO satisfy the needs Of man.
She has no time that she may waste
To-Day b tolls with feyerish haste
70 have her products finished when
the frosts OF winter come again,
On every hand. could We but ~.
We shonld9 BEHOLD each plant ana tree
Completing now with purpose true
The task II has been 4iven Is do
NOV nature tolls In every Aeld
To AZ IT. products for the Yield.
y soon the yineyardss humblssE
fAa1Js haSo AElainal sn~eS1ee43oaas ansnS.
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RHAR1IA

meet. Ts.y q A : S.nss IN : /. y ps4R . % yonsa siri.
evidently in poor circumstances. who
strongly attracts him. He haI4!-nA to be
already entangled with Lucille Master
to obtain a divorce from her husband
in order to marry aim. His better ma
ture revolts from the situation but he
secs no alternative to carrying 1t
through.
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Continued In tomorrow's
Evening Herald.

A man may be dead easys all hfs
life and yet die hard. "~
An n Of help is worth several
pounds Of talk about IT.
The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1919-01-03
IILEGRArlIERs AND AGENTS
ARE GIVEN SOME MORE PAY

Railroad telcRraphers and station
agents were given n further wage In
crcnHc last Monday by Director Gem
crai McAdoo. retroactive 60 October
4. 1918. Under the previous order. to
which tcleRrnphers objected strenu-
oualy. the basis FOR calculating In
creased pay was made by dividing the
rate In effect last January lat by the
number 90 working days In the year.
which include generally Sundays and
holidnya To this n to be added the
thirteen cents per hour advance grant
cd BY the former order
Tho new order also applies 60 sta
ton agents. but excerpts agents WHOSE
duties are purely supervisory and
those NJ small nsn-telegraph stations
The supplement provides for payment
on the eiEht-hour basis with over
lime NJ the rate 81 time and one-haif
This overtime rate does not apply 20
work sundays and holidays. however
The supplements aiao provides for ell
minat'on OF vacations with pay. Civ
ing instead an additional Increase OF
two cents In the hourly rate.
This ~ 60 apply 90 all railroads ir-
respective Of existing practices
Tho sun FOR good job printing.
The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1919-01-03

ground In the production 81 bitumin-
Gus coal increased from 47f.2fi in
1916 20 49s.1s5 IN 1917, a gain OF but
s per cent compared with a gain OF
COS per cent In surface employees.
Production OF bnuminous coal the
country over in 1917 was b5i,790. sea
net tons. an increase over 1915 OF 49,
27O.sst tons or nearly 10 per cent,
according to c. u. cshef OF the Unit
cd states geological survey. depart
meht Of the interior.
Iron County Coal company with Of
fices AT Salt Lake City has levied an
afacssment Of one cent a share (four
cents per share upon all stock Of the
original issue which has not been con-
verted). which viii be delinquent
January 18th. Sale day II February
10th.
Production Of pennsylvania anthra-
cite In 1917 established a new high
record ~ oe.6i1,Sit net tons tss,s3S.-
lit7 gross tons), exceeding that In
1915 by t2.033.3is net tons or nearly
ltt per cent. and surprising the pre-
vlous record Of si.52l,e22 net tons In
1913.
wyoming's coal properties produced
during 1918 approximately iO.t00. 600
tons ~ coal. an increase over the 1917
production of approximately 100000
tons. The vciue Of the 1913 output
Yves s37. 200. OO0' NJ compared with
s22. 900. 900 In 1917. the percentage
OF Increase Of value - output being
greater than that 81 the increase In
volume Of output because Of the high
prices fixed by the federal fuel ad-
ministration.
n r. interesting 10 note that tho
preliminary estimate of tho produt-
ton ~ bltuminous coal. published by
the geological survey in the first week
Of January 1918 $4,000. 900 net
tonsl. was low. because " was based
on the number OF carloads of coal
loaded az the mines. whereas the av-
ernRo loading per car had Increased
nearly Z per cent during the year. n
fact not discovered until several
months after the estimate was made.
The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1919-01-03
FORCES REDUCED, BUT WAGES REMAIN SAME

This bulletin last Monday December 30th posted at all
the Of Utah Fuel Carbon county and also at the
Colorado properties II signed by j. Thompson general
of the Utah division and has the approval of A H.
Coe vice president and general at Salt Lake City The
bulletin explains itself
Notice 10 Employees On account Of the heavy falling off
orders coal coke and practicable
steady work TO with families dependents necessary
reduce the total number of employees This reduction In the work
ing force made TO better protect those remaining by giving them
enough work to make good In keeping with other prevail
ing conditions.
In order 10 definitely disp all uncertainty about your
and general welfare and in recognition Of the mutually
friendly relations between the company and its employees and in
anticipation Of It's continuance glad 10 advise that the
and working conditions at all OF the OF this
company will continue throughout the year 1919"
The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1919-01-03

Pierce G. williams. the commercial
attacho ~ the unitcd States depart
ment nf commerce at Paris. reports
conditions IN the coal fields OF the in
vnded territory uf France. a part ~
tho report says. The most import
ant industry Of the Pas de Calais IL
coal mining. or the forty million tons
81 coal mined In all 81 France IN tqta,
the Department 81 Pas de Calais pro
ducud almost half The production
lost Co France through the occupation
~ certain mines by tho German forces
or because ~ the location In the zone
% German fire amounted o. 5000. 600
tons. This lows vas about equally
divided between tho two departments
Of Nord and ras 4" Calais. Some idea
81 the damage that has been done 20
tho coal mines In these two depart
monta may be obtained from state
ment given out by the French Ministry
u tho Liberated Regions;
~ commission visited the COM
munes ~ Lens and Slilhuminos and
alro flsvin. or the ten thousand houses
which Lens Possessed, there " not one
that II Htili standing. Everything ~
raSod a. tho ground. With respect 20
the mines themselves. they are flood
ID. ~ the mines ~ Courrieres. which
have lust been freed. the Germans
before their departure blew up all the
surface installation. which was con.
Siderable
''1n restoring the damaged coal
mines ~ tho Departments OF Nofd
and OF Pas do Calais. flrst ~ an tho
water. which tho Germans permitted
10 pour into tho mines by iynRr~itlng
the cement ring which lines the shaft
must be pumped out. After that ~
done. the underground galleries must
be cleaned out and retimbsrsd. And. NJ
the same timo. the surface equipment
such NJ the hoislng apparatus. cle stri 4,
cal generating stations. and boilers.
must be renewed.
tho purchan. ard distribution Of
materials needed for the restoration
of the damaged coal mines Il the
departments ~ Nord and Pas de
Calais has been intrustod by the
French government O. n technical
commission affiliated with the Comp
toir Central d'nchats industries pour
lee regions envahiea. whose head office
10 at 20 Hue du cOlisce, Paris"