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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-01-17
TONNAGE TAX
BILL FINISHED
Warner ProposessThat Half
s.. Of Taxi Be PUT in Trust
Fund For Minnesota.

st. Paul, Mimi, ian. 17-p
sentative g. II. Warner has comhIsted
ms Dill for the submission Of a. M
istlIutional amendment providing for
q tonnage tax on iron ore ana the
eeeatlon OF trust fund. IN which half
oi.the receipts from the tax are to he
paced a trust fund to be known
M ~ tne permanent mineral land fund.
Inc otner haf to 60 into the general
fund. The. revenue vielded
5pySIle mineral land fund is to 20 in
:tolthe genera! revenue fund
Inc rate of tax has not been fixe1
IN n Dill. but will be deterrineI
later. The bill will be introduced in
ina; house next Wednesday,.
me tax levied Is to be a upe lax
y wall be in addition to the ad yaior.
en- ak now levied IN the mining
psoperties ny the, state. This same
pN rUasion IS contained in the WEIGH
Monpartisan league tonnage tax bill.
ta,ne Bendixen bill provides that the
tonnage tax shall be in lieu Of all
E?t1er state taxes. AS in each If the
sother bills the Warner bill provides
Xlnat t n amount paid in royalties
tsnaiii De added to the expense of on
eratinE the mines. This is a new fea.
t"re adopted since the last session.
representative Bendixen's reasons
s1or MAKING the tax in his bill a lieu
tax was that in the opinion of the
members of the state tax commission
a super tax is unconstitutional. Mr..
warner says the adoption Of the tax
Dy constitutional amendment would
overcome this objection and permit
the super tax. u
n bill provides that the perma-
ne9 mineral land fund shall be a
lpernanent trust fund, never to be re-
:duced or impaired and that the state
investment board shall invest it NOT
only in the bonds Of states, counties.
cities. villages, townships, school dis
tricts and in county Nralnage bonds,
but thai 1t may also be invested in
first mortgage loaned upon improved
f"r'"" within the state, upon such
scribe.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-01-17

was with the Columbus @. & r. team
at the start Of 1913, and when, the
team blew up he went to Huntington,
team up from last to- second place In
the last half OF the season.. In 1914
he was manager OF the Waterbury,
Conn.,, club. He came to Cleveland
late that eason and in 1915 re-
NAMED as coach OF the pitchers until
he succeeded Birmingham as the
- Nt
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-01-17

Future benefits that have been ar
ranged for the Campaign Fund in
clude the big Y: W. C.. A.. dinner next
Wednesday noon, when the gross pro-
ceeds will be turned ever to the cam
Director e. H. Wilcox and his Univer-
sity Philharmonic Orchestra, togeth-
er with the Oratorio Society. will pre-.
sent a program at a local sheater and
the proceeds will be added to the
fund. Efforts will be made to have
the total sum raised here 60 above
the $4,000 mark. The campaign will
end here next Sunday, one week from
today.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-01-17
Argues Against Bill.

st. Paul.. Mimi, Jan. 17.-E. i.
Mayqe of the Shenango Furnace com.
pany, Duluth, argued against the. pass
age Of any bill for a tonnage tax.
claiming hat it would be an injustice
not only to the mine owners and OPP
orators, but would work an. injury
upon furnace men and all others en-
gaged in the industry of mining Of ore.
The committee recommended pass
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-01-17

a selfish reason for turning it down
and selfishness is more often than not
an impelling reason in politics"
E. ]. Nancy Of Duluth. a represent
alive of. the Shenango Furnace COM
pany, an independent concern, said
that the independent operators were
periled by the tonnage tax as it would
put another weapon in the hands of
the steel trust, if the latter cared to
use it."
!; He declared that tho people of
northern Minnesota considered the
tonnage "a class legislation and were
emphatically opposed to it.
Wants Film Censors.
st. Paul. Mimi, Jan. ia bill in
troduced in the house today by Rep
r~esentative Henry r. Miller Of Kill
kenny. at the request Of the women's
organizations in his county. provides
for a state board of film censors to be
composed to two women and one man.
The bilEintroduced in the senate by
Senator F. p. Peterson of Moorhead,
provides for two men and one woman
board. Both bills prohibit the
exhibition of films that have not been
~approTedTby the board Of censors.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-31
GOVERNMENT MUST KEEP FAITH
WITH SILVER MINERS.

There continues to be considerable
agitation in the east demanding that
congress repeal the Pittman act, I'M
der which the government has agreed
to purchase silver produced in the
United States at 81 per ounce until
the amount of silver withdrawn from
the treasury during the war for ship
ment to the orient is replaced. The
purchase Of this silver does not in
volve any expense to the people, for
the government simply uses the mon
ey received for the silver when it was
withdrawn The provisions of the
Pittman act. why it was enacted and
the obligation of the government to
keep faith with the producers Of sill
Yer, are effectively stated in a recent
letter from Sidney J. Jennings. presi-
dent of the United States Smelling,
Refining & Mining company to the
New York Times, and which is here
reprinted:
In a recent editorial headed The
Silver Crime of 1921. you advocate
that the United States government
should repeal the Pittman act. The
main argument you use is that the
government can. by purchasing silver
at the present market price, make
profit
This profit would be in addition to
the one it already made when it sold
some of its silver in its treasury I'M
der the Pittman act at s1.O1M per
ounce. largely to the British govern
ment in order to satisfy the silver
needs of India. In 1917 India was ex-
porting large quantities of material
that was needed for war purposes.
rhe only method of paying for this
VAS to ship into India either gold or
silver Gold was unprocurable and.
berefore, silver was shipped. A very
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-31
NEW STATE IN IDAHO COUNTY.
(Grangeville Free Press)

(GrangeVllle Free PreSS)
Despite absence Of favorable senti-
ment among the people of northern
Idaho for division of the state, pro-
meters of the scheme announce they
will combine their efforts, and plan a
propaganda of education in support
of political separation of the north
from the south.
One of the matters that just now
seems to be Of chief concern to the
promoters is the raising of funds. It
is said that the begging will start
within a few weeks. How long it
will continue, remains unsettled. That
depends. of course. upon the success
attained in raising the funds needed,
coupled with the perseverance Of the
promoters.
The present time is exceedingly in
appropriate to raise funds by popular
subscription and especially is it in
appropriate to solicit money to keep
alive such a proposition as that to di-
vide the state of Idaho and annex the
north to Washington form a new
state of the ten northern counties,
create a new state from north Idaho
and eastern Washington, or include
north Idaho in a new state with
western Montana.
Although both houses of the Idaho
Legislature recently passed a resolu-
ton giving approval of the legislature
TO division Of the state, and authOriz-
i,,cr q ooror,,i eefOr IN take I'm tba mat
ter the resolution was considered a
Joke in the legislature. 1t probably
was passed to call the bluff of certain
elements in the north who biennially
spring a state division threat. This
threat formerly could be used to ad-
vantage as a club on the south, but
now with the state capitol complet-
ed this club is not nearly so effectual
as it was in the past.
Idaho will not be divided. Money
expended in the movement will be
virtually wasted. and ll-feeling which
viii be stirred up by an aggressive
state division campaign can do good
to no one. Those who reside in the
north of Idaho and are not satisfied
with the political status of the pan
handle have the privilege of moving |
out, and If they are so much enam-
ored OF eastern Washington or west
ern Montana that they desire to join |
either of these districts the quickest |
and easiest way for them to satisfy /
their desires is to change their resi-
1ence.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-31
PLATINUM FOR PAINTINGS.

Chunks of platinum ore brought
back from Russia have been used for
door weights and as playthings for
children in northern Michigan A
press dispatch from Cadillac Mich.
tells about it:
Chunks of ore brought back from
north Russia by soldiers of the Polar
Bear expedition have been assayed
and found to be almost pure platinum.
Nelson Nolf of Harriette brought
back several pounds of the glittering
lead-like metal and it is believed he
will realize about $4,000 on his find.
Platinum is worth 5000 an ounce. One
young man from Marion found d
piece the size of a wheat kernel and
received Sc for it.
"The soldiers found the ore on the
Dvina river, about S5 miles from
Archangel. The metal was found
while clearing a space for drilling
1.-THE ore Nolf found has been used
as playthings by the children. One
Cadillac man used a piece OF the ore
for a door weight. Every time the
door was Jared open several dollars
were knocked off the platinum"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-31
NEWSPAPER LACKEYISM.
National Republican,


Arthur Brisbane complains through
the Hearst papers of the newspaper
photographs Of society buds blossoms,
bathing beauties and idle rich gener-
ally at the fashionable winter resorts.
declaring that they make bolshevists.
The Hearst papers started the fad of
running these photographs. and like
the society pages of the metropolitan
papers. which are about the limit in
all round asininity, they make boil
shevists out of those who take them
seriously and give the tired feeling
to those who recognize these newspa-
per features as a joke Instead of
complaining about such photographs.
the Hearst papers along with news
papers which have a decent regard
for the intelligence of their readers,
should cease using them. Half the
people who go to these places do so
IN the hope that a newspaper photog-
rapher will snap them in a bathing
nit or a golf costume The assump-
ton Of newspaper publishers that the
pie merely because of their alleged
social Importance only proves that
toadyism to affectations based upon
wealth is more prevalent in the bust
ness and editorial Offices of many So
called great journals than it is among
common sense people. The general /
reading public cares nothing what /
ever for personal news about persons
who are of no public and of rather
slight private Importance but whose
Tally doings are dished mp to suffering
'eaders in pictorial form and in COL
INNS of printed slush that could Just
IS we'll be devoted to something worth ,
he white paper and ink wasted in }
his form Of newspaper lackeyism. q
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-31
NATIONAL "eooD ANGEL"
CLOS Angeles Times)


Curiously enough, the United States
is the only nation which took an ac-
tive part in the world war to which
the others are looking for financial
assistance. Just why this country
should play the part of fairy prince
to twenty other struggling nationali-
ties is not clear. It certainly can not
be argued that we owe a special debt
of gratitude to either our late enem-
les or our allies. We received no ia
vors from them in an hour of extrem-
ity. placing us under a moral obliga-
ton to help them set their individual
houses in order. The United States
interviewed at a time when it appeared
that military despotism was about to
crush free government in Europe. We
sacrificed about 100000 OOOO 900 and
the lives of 100000 of the noblest of
our sons to protect free peoples from
powerful and aggressive assailants
When those assailants were beaten
md disarmed. we naturally felt that
)ur mission was ended.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-31
LABoR's GREAT MISTAKE.
CPhiladelnhia Bnlletinl

philadelphia Bulletin)
The conference of organized labor
leaders at Washington was fully
within it's rights in appealing to con-
gress-even demanding, if it liked
the phrase-in the interest of legisla-
ton further exempting trades unions
from the laws against combinations
and conspiracies. or from any statutes
which handicap their activities. That
was the exercise of the right of petit
ton, and is part of the American
process of self government through
representative legislatures. Likewise
was the conference within its rights in
challenging the use of the decree of
injunction by the courts in cases of
industrial disputes. The right of ap-
peal is carefully safeguarded in the
interest of every litigant. On either
point there would have been found a
measure of sympathy on the part of
many who are not active trade union
lists But when the conference de-
clared that the only immediate course
of relief for labor was "a flat refusal
to recognize or abide by" the DEGREES
of the courts. issuing under the
standing Interpretation of the law,
ii forfeited all such sympathy and
created a new issue entirely beyond
the specific laws to which it objects.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-31
MARINES RESUME RECRUITING

The marine corps was the first
branch of the service to lift the tenn
porary ban on recruiting. when it was
announced today that applicants
without previous service would be ac-
cepted For the past two months re-
cruiting for the corps has been limited
TO reenlisted marines only.
Major General Lejeune directs re-
cruiting officers to accept men for
either three or four years. the two
year enlistment period being abolish
ed Physical moral and mental stan
wards are to be kept as high as posi-
BILE, and no man who is less than 90
years old. 65 inches in height and
weighs less than 100 pounds is to be
accepted. The total strength of the
marine corps, when general recruiting
ceased last January. was approxim-
ately $4,000 It is now slightly under
that figure.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-31

found in some 25 states, in Canada
and South America. but always in
river beds where. biologists surmise,
they have been deposited by glacial
action.
The first Arkansas diamond was
found in 1906 by John Huddleston.
then owner of the farm on which the
60-acre pipe is located by accident
Huddleston observed outcroppings of
the gray green rock. since classed as
peridotite. and came to the conclusion
that his hillsides contained valuable
mineral. perhaps copper. After peck
ing around without finding anything
which looked to him like mineral he
picked up a crystal, and then one day
showed it to some friends in Muir
phreesboro A Little Rock jeweler
pronounced it a diamond and made
sure by Notifications by jewel experts
in New York
The mining operations in Arkansas
for several years AZ least, will be far
different from those of the South At
rican fields, although the formations
are the same. In Africa deep shafts
are sunk. the peridotite is brought to
the surface and spread on drying
floors for periods ranging from 6 to
is months. The rock has the peculiar
quality of disintegrating when expos
ed to the air In Arkansas, however,
except for a few places, the peridotite
already has disintegrated to a depth
of about 20 feet. and mixed with veg
etable matter formed a sticky clay,
called "gumbo" locally. This over
burden of "gumbo" VIII be worked
before blasting operations are started
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-31

adopted. an amalgam of north
Idaho. eastern Washington and
western Montana, is beset with
difficulties and uncertainties
which lie beyond the power Of the
affected peoples to determine
The legislature of Washington at
present regards the scheme with
derision and does not give it the
dignity even of a hearing. A good
deal of eastern Washington de-
cisively rejects any such sugges-
ton To western Montana the
project is both new and strange.
Most of the ground involved is
wholly unexplored, as related to
this subject, and to say that de-
cision has been made concerning
the lines of inclusion and exclu-
sion is both premature and dan
derous."
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-31
RUGGED AMERIcANISM.
New York Heraldl


1t sounds like the old days, the ole
rugged American days, to hear the
state department announcement that
the United States has not surrender
ed and will not surrender a single
right that it had before the war or a
single right that it acquired as a re-
suit of the war This applies not
merely to the zap mandate which
Japan thinks is hers because the al
lied council said it was and which the
league of nations also thinks is hers
because it confirmed the allied coun-
ellis disposal of the island of zap. It
applies as well to our interests and
rights in Mesopotamia. It applies to
our cable rights at Emden, Germany
It applies to our interests and rights
everywhere. No one ever had any au-
thority to surrender any of the rights
of the United States in the cable con-
troversy. in the dispute over the is
land of zap. in the Mesopotamia oil
controversy or in any other matter in
which the United States was before
the war or has been since an interest
ed party. All matters involving the
rights of the United States, in the
Harding doctrine, are subject to the
treaty negotiations between the Unit
ed States and any other interested
party, and until treaties are drawn up
and properly ratified by the United
states all those rights will be rgidly
and protected by the
United States government
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-31
IDAHO HAS LOST A SPLENDID
CITIZEN.

Although not widely known in this
section of the state, Major Fred r
Reed. who died few days ago at
Pocatello. knew no sectional lines in
his devotion to the welfare Of the
state of Idaho. We do not recall that
he visited north Idaho but once and
that was while he was commissioner
representing Idaho at the Panama
Pacific exposition at San Francisco
lie fully recognized the value and inn
portance of the great mineral and
timber resources Of the north, and
while his efforts were chiefly directed
toward the development of the agri-
cultural interests through the re-
clamation of arid land in the south,
he was equally gratihed with the de-
velopment Of the northern resources.
His vision Of Idaho was never in the
form of a divided state. The mining
and timber resources Of the north and
the agricultural and stock raising in
dustries Of the south each supple
mented the other in forming a great
commonwealth At the time OF his
death Major Reed was the executive
head of a great reclamation associa-
lion. the purpose of which is to bring
mder cultivation vast area of sage
crush land in southern idaho. 1t is a
great undertaking and Major Reed /
sim Doe greatly missed in carrying it
lroueh Along with unusual execu-
i've ability Major Reed was a most |
genial. generous and sympathetic
ram lie was the means of adding
Millions to the material wealth of this
tate by changing the desert into pro-
rctive fields. The hundreds of happy
mes ON what was formerly the sage
lush desert are tangible evidence of
ne fuhnment Of his vision and mon
ments to his unselfsh work He
roueht wealth to others, but died
cor man himself
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-31
ARKANSAS DIAMONDS.

Gems Found in Crater of an Extinct
Volcano.
The only diamond mine thus far
discovered on the western hemisphere
is located in Pike county. Arkansas.
The mine is two and a half miles
south of Murphreesboro.
The diamonds are found in pipe"
the crater Of an extinct volcano which
ages ago boiled up through the sur
face. had its carbon scattered
throughout the peridotite which now
fills the crater to be pressed into dia-
monds by the contraction Of the rock.
The peridotite forms the original mat
rix Of the diamond and thus far the
only diamonds found in the western
in their matrices are those
)f Pike county. Diamonds have been
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-31
TO ORGANIZE FlRST-AID AND
MINE RESCUE WORKERS.

At a meeting of the Joseph A
Holmes Safety association in Wash
ington recently it was decided to or
ganize local safety chapters to be af-
fliated with the parent organization
thus enabling this host of trained life
savers to be a living and active mem
orial to DR.. Joseph A. Holiness the
first director of the bureau Of mines,
and the man who popularized the slo-
gan Safety First" It is hoped by
thee promoters of this movement that
the various local safety chapters in
the mining communities will be the
means of bringing together the miner
and the mine officials as common
workers in the great cause of max
ing safer the operation of $4,000
mines, quarries and shelters in which
more than a million men daily toll 1t
is proposed that the local chapters
0iioii ShSOuIdSS lielI members 10
take frst-aid training and expound at
all times and in all places the gospel
of Safety First" and to hold regular
meetings to discuss methods for in
creasing safety good sanitation and
maintaining health 1t is also plan
ned that the local chapters will also
serve as recreationaI centers and the
means Of providing interesting events
Of a social and welfare nature.
Approximately fifty thousand min
ers throughout the United States have
been given thorough training in first
aid and mine-rescue work by the bu-
eau of mines With no practical
means Of following up the work, the
of those trained naturally
ENDS to slacken with the passing of
ime 1t was therefore felt that there |
vas real need for a well organized /
rational association which might keep
dive the interest aroused by the /
raining work of the bureau and that /
he Joseph A. Holmes association was
'est fitted for the effort This associ-
tion was organized six years ago
With the idea that, through it's efforts
long safety lines. it would serve to
eep alive the memory of the honored
isciple Of mine-safety principles
those name it bears. The association
viii continue to bestow honor medals
nd diplomas upon those who have
erformed especially notable feats of
eroism in rescue work at mine disas-
ars.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-31

BY the use Of improved machinery
the time required to produce a bushel
of wheat from the shock has been re-
duced from an average of three hours
and three minutes to nine minutes
and IS seconds. In one of the year
books of the department of agriculture
it is stated that it formerly required
II hours of manual labor to cut and
cure a ton Of hay whereas the same
work is accomplished today with the
aid of machinery in one hour and 80
minutes, the labor cost being reduced
from SO cents to 6 cents an hour. The
use of farm machinery has reduced
the cost of farm products and in
creased the output