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Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22
R. r. COMMISSION HERE 2sTu
Mix-Up Between Local Light Com
pany and City Council to Be Sub
ject cf Hearing. Have No Con-
tract.

Two representatives of the city
council and two Representatives of the
local light company were in Bismarck
Thursday and Friday of last week
comforting with the railroad commits
sion about difficulties they arc having
over the lighting of the city. F. j.
Pietz and E. D. Fogle, two of the
chief stockholders in the light plant,
and Mayor C. A. Woolverton and
Alderman Frank Sternhagen were
the ones who made the trip.
AS near as the Record can deter
mine, the questions at issue are
whether or not the city council is re.
quired to furnish the wiring, "goose
necks," ETC., for the city lights, also
whether or not the rate is too. high
There is no contract in existence be.
tween the light company and the city.
The city owns the so-called white
way" on Broadway, and had furnished
the wiring when the old light plant
was operating. Since the new com.
pany was formed, they have been
charging fifteen cents per kilowatt
and have partially completed the
wiring and installing of street lights
There is only one street light in all
of West Linton, and several streets
in the new town have no lights what.
ever. In some instances, corners
that were formerly lighted now have
no lights whatever.
In the absence of any contract
whatever between the city and the
light companies, the parties have beer
trying to operate under the provisions
of the franchise. AS the Record un.
derstands it. the maximum allowed
for individuals for light is 20 cents
and for the city Is cents. A majori.
ty of the city council contends that il
the city is to bear the expense OF
wiring. the town, etc., then they
should have a lower rate than IL
cents, as Strasburg has always had ar
k1-cent rate, and now have an agree.
ment at 8 cents. In other words, the
home city is paying a far higher rate
1t is estimated that it will take
some $500 to complete the city wiring
circuit. The light plant has already
done considerable work on this cir.
cult, and have never. billed the city
for same. However, they refuse te
complete the circuit unless the city
agrees to stand the expense.
The railroad commission has an.
nounced that they will be in Linton
on Sept. 28th to hold hearing on the
disputed questions. Under the state
laws, the commission has practically
unlimited authority over public utili.
ties Of the light company class.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22
STATE-BUILT HOMES PAY NO
TAXES
Houses Built By State Have Been APP
praised and Are Found to Have
Cost More Than Amount Agreed
Upon With Applicants.

While in Bismarck last week the
Record man met A. A. Jones, an
employee of the 500 railroad, who has
a state-built home. Mr.. Jones in
formed us that he made application
to the Homebuilders' Association for
la home to be built by them. He de-
posted the amount demanded, and re-
ceived signed agreement setting
forth the total amount the house was
to cost him. However, the depart
ment went ahead building houses
without keeping any record of the
cost of the individual houses. After
the investigation last winter by the
house legislative committee had made
public this condition, the department
sent out appraisers to look the houses
over and determine as best they
could how much each house actually
cost the state. Mr.. Jones states
that they have appraised his house
at some $4,000 more than his signed
agreement call for. They have de-
manded that he stand the additional
expense, and he refuses to do so.
When we asked him who he expected
to pay the additional amount, he re-
piled "the taxpayers, of course, but
that isn't my worry. And it looks
like Mr.. Jones knows what he is
talking about, too. Because of in
efficiency on the part of the Home
building Association, it is not prob
able that the courts will allow the
contract to be broken. In that case,
the taxpayers are certainly the goats.
Mr.. Jones informed us of another
interesting feature of these state
built homes. The title to the pro-
perty stands in the name of the state
until such time as all payments have
been made. This will cover a period
OF years in each case. And, during
those years, the homes are tax-free.
So long as the home and the property
on which it stands is held in the name
of the state, it cannot be taxed. State
property is exempt from taxation.
Mr.. Jones says the department tried
tc get him to accept deed to the
house, and give a mortgage back for
the amount due. This would place
his property on the tax roll again.
This he refuses to do, as he enjoys
the experience of being tax free on
his property. Both the present and
the former attorney general have held
that the state-built homes are tax free
as long as held in the name Of the
state. 1t therefore follows that
Lemke's big home in Fargo, and Ha-
gan's home in Bismarck, as well as
the many others built for the wealthy
Bismarckers and for league and state
employees are free from taxes at the
present time, and will continue so un-
til all payments have been made, and
deed from the state delivered to the
contract holder.
Conditions like the above will be-
come impossible if the initiated laws
carry Oct. 28th, as the Homebuilders
Association will be one of the con-
Germs closed up.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22
ICE CREAM GOOD FOOD

Prof. Dice, of the Agricultural
College, says: "a quart Of ice cream
is equal in energy value to IA eggs
or 1A pounds Of beefsteak or 31l
lbs. Of peas. It isl food and should
be used as such not only during the
hot weather, but during winter also.'
He might have added, provided it il
homemade, or can be purchased at q
reasonable price,"
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22
STATE TO LOSE ON FARM LOANS
More Than Half of Those Receiving
State Loans Have Not Even Made
Pretense of Making First Pay.
ment.

mat most OF the loans made by the
state Of North Dakota on real estate
were in the nature of political reward
rather than straight business pro-
position may be seen by the fact that
nearly three-quarters of those receiv-
ing the state funds have not even
pretended to make the first payment
-as many persons well knew would
be the case. Many of those state
loans are in fact cases of the state
buying" the land at a whole lot more
than it was worth, the borrowing
never intending to pay back a cent.
Why should many of them pay back
cent when they had borrowed more
on the land than it was worth?
Figures are now available showing
what mammoth proportion of the
borrowers have paid back nothing.
The league answers by saying people
are hard up and can't pay any loans.
Then how do they explain this fact:
Federal loans in North Dakota total
$500 and only five per cent are in
arrears. The answer is plain. Fed
eral loans, were made on business
basis, and care was taken to see that
the land was ample security for the
size of the loan. But not so the
North Dakota loans. Many individu-
al cases have been pointed out from
time to time showing greater loan
made by the state than the sworn
statement of the assessor showed the
land to be worth. Naturally, loan
of that kind will be defaulted and the
state will have the land on it's hands
instead of the money.
Even in Emmons county nothing
but tried and true league workers
were able to get these loans, and EN-
mons county conditions are excellent
compared to Golden Valley, Bottineau
and Morton counties, for instance.
Of course, the leaguers can avoid
final showdown on this sort of
crookedness for a time, as it is yet
only speculation how many farms
have been "sold" to the state at more
than they are worth. But the COM
parisons of the business of the state
and the federal gvernment in the act
ual vicinity Of land such as Ray Nc
Kaig's Oeague organizer) need no
convincing. They know.
For instance, in Ransom county,
good leaguers secured loans up to $4s
per acre, while federal loans in the
same county only averaged $50 or
less-more than half as much again.
1t is that margin that makes the diff
ference between "loan" and "sale"
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22

to the state.
If any of you leaguers don't believe
these facts now, you will believe them
in the next five or ten years. 1t is
easy to say times are hard and no
body is paying his interest. But
there is something else the matter
with many of these state loans.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22
FIFTH INITIATED LAW
Petition for Initiation of Law to
Amend and Re-enact the In
dustrial Commission Law.

The undersigned electors of the
State of North Dakota hereby pro-
pose for submission to the qualified
electors of the State of North Da-
kota for their approval or rejection, in
the manner prescribed by the Con-
stitution of the State of North Dako-
ia, the following law, being an act
to Amend and Re-enact the Industrial
Commission Law, changing the per-
sonnel of the Industrial Commission,
defining it's powers and duties and
authorizing it to manage, on behalf
of the state, the Mill and Elevator
Association and the Home Building
Association and limiting the amount
Of bonds to be sold for each.
Provides that the Industrial COM
sion shall manage the Mill and Ele-
vator Association and the Home
Building Association.
Specifies that the Industrial Com
mission shall consist of Secretary of
State, State Treasurer and Commits
sioner Of Agriculture and Labor until
the first following Legislative Assem-
bly,. That the commission shall
thereafter consist of three members,
to be appointed by the Governor, with
the consent of the Senate, and to
serve for overlapping terms.
Provides that the Commission shall
meet not later than the first Monday
in July of each year to organize.
Provides that the Commission shall
make rules and regulations and ap-
point and engage the services of man.
ayers, superintendents, accountants,
and other help needed, and fix COM
pensation in harmony with budget ap-
preparations made by the Legislature.
Provides that Two Million Five
Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2,5O0,-
0.00) shall by means of a bond
issue be made available to pay the
debts of the Mill and Elevator Asso-
citation, for completing the Grand
Forks Mill and Elevator and for
working capital for it. Provides in
like manner Two Hundred Fifty
Thousand Dollars (25O,OO0. 00) fo1
the debts and business of the Home
Building Association.
Authorizes the Commission to buy
sell and manufacture grain products
and limits its operation to the Grand
Forks and Drake Mill and Elevator
projects.
Provides that the Commission
shall confine itself to carrying out Of
valid existing contracts for the Home
Building Association.
Requires that the Commission shall
prepare and file an annual report not
later than the first of January of each
year.
Repeats all of the Industrial Com
mission law not expressly re-enacted
herein, as well as all acts and parts
Of acts inconsistent herewith.
BE 1T ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE
OF THE STATE OF NORTH
DAKOTA:
Section 1-AMENDMENT. That
Chapter ISL of the Session Laws OF
the State of North Dakota for the
year 1919 is hereby amended and re-
enacted to read as follows:
Section 1. A commission is here
by created to conduct and manage in
behalf of the State of North Dakota
the Mill and Elevator Association
provided. for by Chapter 151 of the
Session Laws of 1919, and also the
Home Building Association provided
for by Chapter $50 Of the Session
Laws Of 1919. This commission shall
be known las the Industria3 Com
mission Of North Dakota, and may
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22

In the above statement A signifies
the highest temperature, B the low
est temperature in "a hours. C the
amount Of precipitation.
Mean temperature by day. ..... GA
Mean temperature by night. ~. 48
Mean daily temperature ...... Sc
Total rainfall for the week. I ID
VIM. MALPAss,
Cooperative Observer.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22

Perhaps Mother Explained Later.
Willie, aged six, upon returning
from school. after receiving his month
" report card, innocently asked his
older brother. "Is B. A. D. good7"
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22
U. S. WEATHER BUREAU

Linton Substatfon
Weather report for the week end
ing at noon Wednesday, September
81, 1921:
New-York tribune., 1921-03-04

officers and even Washington society
are suffering from acute battleship-
They see nothing but battleships, think
If nothinr but battleships, dream Of
nothing but battleships. To be sure.
they may occasionally rnurmur, very
weakly, something that would indicate
a faint realization that certain modern
weapons may be of use in the dim dis
tant future. But they quickly relapse
into the one-idea condition Of mind and
dream only of 'bacAbones" and battle
ships.
There is no need OF alarm on the
part of battleship advocates NOBODY
has proposed to scrap battleships. No
body has denied the soundness. for the
present, of the battleship- backbone
theory. 1t has not even been suggested
permanently to condemn any feature o.
the 1916 program. The most that has
been suggested is temporarily to sus-
pend construction on some ships tina.
are only from I to 20 per cent com
pleted until we can investigate, ex-
pertinent and intelligently determine
whether these ships shall be completed
as designed or be transformed into air
plane carriers, for instance. In the
meantime the Importance Of subma-
rines and aviation may be proved. In
that event we can provide our surface
feet with the modern forces above and
below the surface without which battle
ships cannot exist
New-York tribune., 1921-03-04
Armies Of the Isthmus

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: In your editorial on "'Nesr
War on the Isthmus" you make the
astounding statement that "Psnams
has no army"
This is surely an error.
was at the Isthmus in 1890 and saw
review of their military forces. IL
is true, the regiments consisted OF only
seven ragged soldiers, barefoot and
wearing only linen trousers and shirts;
but they sported real guns.
Had it not been a Carib civilization
should have thought I was attending
comic opera.
Possibly the Costa Rican army goes
them one better in the possession OF
brigadier general and q mule and
total force Of nine, but it is excessive
ly cruel of you to intimate that they
are without that blessing of modern
Civilizations real standing ARMY
WILLIAM DAVIDSON.
New York, March 2, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-04
Daylight Saving All the Same
The state daylight saving law "

The state daylight saving law was
sacrificed to the complaints of a mi
nority. These complaints, so far as
they had any substance, came from
very small body of farmers, those
engaged in truck gardening and pro-
ducing and marketing milk. But in
the rural districts there was an un-
deniable general prejudice against
daylight saving as an invasion of
long-established habits.
The country population has a
smaller stake in daylight saving
than the urban population has.
Country people, at least, feel that it's
benefits are nearly negligible. But
IN the cities and towns the turning
back of the clocks hands represents
material saving in gas and electric
light bills, more leisure for outdoor
enjoyment and a betterment cf pub
lie health. DR.. Copeland has re-
Gently emphasized the value of the
extra daylight hour as a sanitary
factor. Even were it not an addi
tional aid in fighting unsanitary con-
ditions, it's other advantages are be-
yond challenge and are now clearly
established in the minds of CITY
dwellers and suburbanites.
These classes form majority of
the states population, although they
haven't yet a majority voice at AL
bany. The repeal bill disregards
majority interests, but it leaves
the urbanites free to enjoy local day
light saving. New York City will
certainly exercise that option. The
lnconveniences of a conflict between
local standard and state stand
ard are slight. People living in New
Jersey last year and working in New
York easily adjusted themselves to
the difference in clock time. We al
ready have local time saving or
dinance, effective this year. It would
be advisable, however, to shorten the
period little, making the change in
April, instead of March, and going
back to standard time the last Sun
day in September, instead of the last
Sunday in October.
Daylight saving is laudable ef-
fort to improve living conditions.
No big urban community can afford
to disregard its benefits.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-04
Lenine's Bloody Sunday

Latest reports from the meager
sources of information available in
dicate that the Bolsheviki have sue
ceeded in crushing the uprisings of
workingmen in Petrograd. Despite
the official Bolshevist denials of the
revolutionary uprising against the
bloody tyranny Of Lenine and
Trotzky, there is every reason to be-
lleve that the workers and general
population Of the former Russian
capital, driven to desperation by un-
heard Of political and militarist op-
preston and economic privations.
decided to take matters into their
own hands and went out into the
streets carrying arms to bring about
the overthrow of their oppressors.
Lenine, Trotzky, Zinovieff and
the smaller satraps of the Com
munist dictatorship, assisted by
th'Nr American lackeys and pub
iofy agents, may either seek to
deny the uprisngs of the Russian
working people or place the blame
FOR them upon Counter revolu-
tionary'' Social Revolutionists and
Mensheviki and "agents of the En-
tente." The fact remains, however.
that the bonds that have ur;ted the
Sussian working people with the
Bolsheviki have long ago been sew
cred by the deception, treachery.
corruption and moral and political
perversion of the votaries of COM
1nlssaro-autocracy and knout-com-
munism.
The Russian working people and
the people of Russia in general hate
and detest their present tyrants
with a hatred and detestation ex-
ceeding their bitterness and opposi-
tion against the defunct regime of
the Romanoffs. What happened in
Petrograd was a repetition of
Bloody Sunday of Romanoff days.
that fatal event when the protests
and appeals of the Russian people
carried to the Winter Palace were
drowned in blood by the Cossacks
and gendarmerie of Trepoff and
Won Plehve. Trepoff and Won
Plehve won, just as the Djersinskys
and Latzisis Of Bolshevist abso-
lutism seem to have won the battle
just fought in Petrograd. The
New-York tribune., 1921-03-04
Amendments Needed

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial in this mornings
paper entitled amendments Needed"
should be carefully read from begin
ming 20 end by the Governor, every
resident of New York City and all
upstate legislators. A problem rec
ognized is already half solved.
Unfortunately, the Governor appears
to regard his commission bill as
sacred. Is it TO be the Republican
league" to drag US dc-sn to defeat?
Isn't is possible that Il may be I'M
proved upon, for instance, as suggested
by President Curran, or is the Re-
publican party in this state headed by
another professor Wilson" who will
insist upon his treaty as issued?
The Governor has said that public
opinion is curious thing. Ultimately
it is pretty certain to be right Then
why was it necessary for him to say,
Those who oppose this solution are
now what they have been for three
years, mere obstructionists"
Our Board of Estimate may not al
ways have been wise, but is that any
reason for the city to be slapped on
the wrist like a naughty child and
told that it is incapable of repubh-
can form Of government? Aren't we
TO have anything to say as to our tax
money, our streets, or our own future
welfare and development?
ROBERT S. ALLYN.
New York, March 8. 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-04
Gas Prices and Dividends

To the Editor of The Tribune,
Sir: In your editorial Of March Q
on Boosting Gas Prices" there IS a
very significant statement. j. is to
the effect that in the report of the
gas company no evidence is shown as
to whether or not the operation is
efficient. One of the major defects Of
all our public service regulation laws
is the lack of any incentive to ef-
fciency. A fixed return on capital in
vestment invites padded pay rolls
when costs are decreasing and ap.
peals for relief when costs are increas-
ing.
Why not, therefore, make the divi-
dend rate vary inversely as the price
charged for the service? For example.
if the Company gives US rs cent gas,
permit it to pay 10 per cent civi-
dends; gas at so cents, per cent; gas
at 81, per cent; and no dividends
when the S1.25 mark is reached, Under
such an arrangement the gas COM
pany would soon find way to buy
cheaper oil. w. r. BRYANS.
New York, March 2, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-04

fierce light that beats on the
dweller among such home folks
but warm one. To say that these
old memories and bonds, of boyhood
and schooldays, the beginnings Of
business and the climb up the ladder,
are built into the character Of every
man and form part of his inmost
Heart and soul, is to state what
every psychologist knows and what
every one Of us has realized at mo-
ments of tragedy or exaltation or
grave decision. Here are bonds truly
'ndestructible, and it is literal truth
to say that in this fashion the home
folks of Marion will have more to
do with influencing and guiding the
coming administration than any
other group Of Americans.
Perhaps the home town influence
does not make directly for breadth
of vision or for soaring magma
ton. But it does make for char
acter in the broadest sense of that
term--for strength Of will, for gen.
erous ambition, for a resolve to
spend and be spent in that cause Of
US all which we term America. We
can all be thankful that our land
Is built upon this foundation of
home folks and that once again
the hero of such sustaining loyalty
and friendship takes first place
among us.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-04
Home Folks

The alien visitor and the native
cynic might read sentimentality
into the emotional farewells spoken
at Marion between a new President
9f the Republic and his home folks.
But no American with any first
hand knowledge Of his country and
an eye for reality would make such
blunder. Home folks are about
the realest thing we have in Amer
lea. The emotions which they feel
and which they bestir are deep and
genuine and utterly free from SEN
timentality or any taint of pre-
tense.
That last day at Marion springs
from an old American habit and
tradition of heart and mind. For
better, for worse, an American is
an intensely local animal; for bet
ter, as our forefathers considered.
for they did everything they could
consistent with forming "a more
perfect union"-to shape our gov
ernmental system so as to foster
local interest and maintain alive
and vigorous the bonds of the lesser
groups, our states, our counties, our
villages, our crossroads. 1t is only
by a comprehension Of this strong
sense Of local pride, Of small COM
munity friendships, that the Ameri
can statesman, or any American
leader, great or small, can be fully
understood.
In Congress this intense localisrn
has worked evil at times. To the
contrary, we think the record
shows that its influence upon the
Chief Executive has always been
sound and good. There is little
danger Of Presidents thinking too
largely of his own locality. His
horizon is too wide; his obligations
to the whole nation are too vast and
insistent. But he can take much spir-
itual sustenance from his home
town--and in most cases has been
thus upheld and sustained. The de-
partures from Springfield, Ill.,, from
the old friends there, are vivid chap
ters in the Lincoln biography. The
scenes at Marion but parallel cpl
sodes in the lives of most Of our
Presidents.
We would suggest that Main Street
has a constructive power-as well
ss a limiting power. The narrow
ness, the meannesses of small-town
life are obvious. Not so superficial
indeed so fundamental and hidden
that our younger novelists are in
danger Of losing sight Of them al
together, are the trust and faith and
pride which small town feels in it's
outstanding men and women. 1t is