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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-11
YE TOWNE GOSSIP s2K: 3:

AS BETWEEN panning gold.
OR MEETING a bear.
THINK I'd want It.
IF met the bear.
BUT ANYWAY.
A HALF.DOLLAR.
is A hslf-dollar.
AND A gifts a gift.
AND I'M much Obliged.
AND THOUGH l was born.
MANY MILES from there.
AND ACROSS the border.
IN ANOTHER land.
I'M JUST as much.
A FRIEND of California.
AS ANYONE else;
WHO HADN'T a word.
TO SAY about it.
WHEN 1T just SO happened.
THEY WERE born there.
AND THERE isn't a thing.
THAT NATURE has given.
a NATIVE son.
THAT ISN'T mine.
AND I'M Just as proud.
AS A native son.
OF THE things you've done.
IN THE Golden State.
AND I'M doing my best.
TO ADVERTISE.
YOUR SOUVENIR coins.
AND I'LL buy a couple.
FOR OUR two kids.
AND THAT'S all ] need.
I THANK you.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-11
Traffic Tales

Autoist-I had 70 stop; one cyl
inder IS missing.
Traffic Cop-Better than the
whole ear; move on
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-11
Daily Good Deed

Don't wait for the opportunity to
do a big thing before your show
kindness. Remember life is made up
of the little things.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-11
Bonehead Brothers

Boob-Fkh arc always found in
schools.
simp-A lot Of them get into
universities, too, j notice.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-22
C0NSCRIPTION OF WEALTH IN Time
0FWAR PROPOSED IN LEGISLATURE

Conscription of wealth in time of
war is proposed in resolution plac-
ed before the state legislature by
Senator Hjelmstad, of Edmore,
Walsh county. The resolution is ad-
dressed to President Coolidge and
the national Congress. 1t is as fol-
lows:
Be it resolved by the Senate of the
State of North Dakota, the House of
Representatives concurring:
That we, the members of the State
legislature in regular session as
sembled, representing the people Of
the commonwealth of North Dakota
hereby renew our pledge of loyalty
to our God, our Nation and our Flag,
and to the Commander-in-Ch Chief Of
the Army and Navy to whom we
pledge our lives, our property, and
the lives and property of our poster
ity upon instant call to defend them
against any nation which shall at
tempt to attack our shores or in
wade our land. And we further pledge
that shoQld such attack or invasion
provoke q declaration of war against
such a nation, that this common
wealth will furnish her full quota
Of the man-power to do the fighting
and the. dying. to make the defense
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-22
CONFIDENCE IN
COMMITTEES
Burdick Issues Statement on
Hospital Probe

U. L. Burdick, Fargo attorney, who
introduced Ed Steib to the joint state
affairs committee Of the House and
Senate, to hear charges of brutality
at the jamestown hospital for the
insane, today made the following
statement:
"The joint committees of the House
and Senate gave ME full and ample
opportunity to appraise them of the
charges brought by Mr.. Steib against
the management of the asylum. 1t
was impossible to go into detail in
the matters, but in general way
the committee was informed of the
nature Of the acts complained of
and where the proof could be obtain
ed. I have full confidence in those
committees and when they have
spoken on the subject, shall, as
far as l am concerned, accept the
verdict.
My submitting of the matter was
non-political and I trust the matter
will be handled in the same. man
ner by the committee. am salts
fled that leaders like Vogel, Divit,
McManus, Twiehell, Hamilton, and
Murphy will not vote to quash the
investigation unless they, are salts.
fled beyond q reasonable doubt that
any further investigation is ,unwar-
rsnte0,"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-22

memory (Which is our personality
then / think it is possible to devise
apparatus to receive communications
if they desire to make them. 1t will
be very difficult, as each individual
as to size is beyond the limits of
our present microscopes"
Having thus marked securely his
metcs and bounds, Mr. Edison relax
ed into frank talk. He stoutly in
sisted that he be understood as not
meaning any such moot thing as
"spiritistic messages, so-called.'
He means messages as substantial
and as susceptible of Authorization
as are those Of the telegraph, tele-
phone, phonograph and radio. There
shall be no medium" no mystery
no superstition, no "autohypnotism
known as faith" His method, to
serve at all, must absolutely guar
antee the integrity of the commun-
ication it conveys and guard posi-
lively against any possible doubt
dispute or misconstruction.
1t goes without saying that COM
munication with the dead, thorough
ly authenticated, as Edison says he
must have it, would instantly re-
volutionize all generally-accepted
theories regarding human existence,
reveal new science Of the essence
of life and open up vast new visions
as to the nature and ultimate func-
ton of matter.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-22

of this nation adequate though the
filling Of such quota may require
submission to conscription or selec-
tive draft.
"Realizing that war is HE'LL that
human life is sacred and that bonds
mean bondage, we demand in the
name of this commonwealth that
the power to declare war other than
to resist attack or invasion of our
own shores. be vested in the voice
by referendum vote of the people
governed, and in the event of con-
scription, draft or other compulsory
service of the man-power in future
wars, we demand that you provide
for the conscription of all productive
resources and accumulated fortunes
in excess of $50O.000.00, before fur
ther bonds against the nation in de-
fense Of which our volunteer and
conscripted men and boys offered up
their lives to the end that our re-
turned soldiers, their posterity and
those who furnish the food and
clothing to sustain them, may not
be placed in perpetual bondage to
pay interest on those bonds and
further swell such fortunes.
"And. your nemorialists will ever
pray" ~
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-22
BY NEA Service.

BY NEA Service.
Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)
Orange, N. j., Jan. 22-The secrc-
tary who arranged the interview with
Thomas A. Edison volunteered the
admonition: "You mustn't ask Mr..
Edison about communication with
the dead. Mr.. Edison has been so
misrepresented in regard to that de-
licate matter that if you mention it
to him he will go right up in the
air"
Despite this dire warning, the for
bidden question was the first one
ventured:
"Do you think it possible, Mr.. Edi-
son, that you may devise any me-
chanism through which, when you
have left this life, you may hope to
communicate with us?"
The wonder-wizard of communica-
tion did not, go up in the air. He an
swered gracieusly and fully. But he
was cautious against misquotation.
He took pencil and pad and write
carefully this fundamental part Of
his statement:
IF my theory is correct-that the
machine called man is only mass of
dead matter and that the real life is
in the, millions Of individual units
which navigate this machine and if
on the destruction of the machine
they keep together, including those
individuals which have charge of
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-22
STEPS TAKEN
FOR ACTl0N0 ON
TURKISH PACT
Senate Members Called to
White House For Discus
sion of Subject
SHlPSTEAD LEFT OUT.
Fails to Receive Invitation
With Other Committee
Members
SHIPSTEAD LEFT OUT.

Washington, Jan. 22.-(By the A.
P)-The long pending Lausanne
treaty providing for resumption of
diplomatic relations between the
United States and Turkey had been
brought out of relative obscurity to-
day by White House dinner CON
ference concerning its position in the
Senate.
At the invitation of President
Coolidge, members of the Senate
foreign relations committee discuss
ed the treaty at the White House
last night with Richard Washburn
Child, who represented the United
States in it's negotiations. The con-
ference was said to have been devot-
ed to presentation by Mr.. Child of
his views as to Importance of early
Senate action on the treaty, which
has been pending in committee for
more than year.
The Senators attending said the
President himself expressed no views
regarding the treaty, nor did they
give any opinion as to probabilities
of action by the Senate, where op-
position already has developed that
points to long fight when ever it
is brought to the floor.
Mr.. Child, who was ambassador to
Italy at the time of the Lausanne
conference and who has been White
House guest for several days, told
the committee members that unless
the treaty was ratified the United
States would find itself under ne
cessity of negotiating an entirely
new convention with Turkey under
circumstances which might be less
advantageous than prevailed at the
time of the conference.
Invitations to the dinner we're
sent to all members of the commit
tee now in Washington with the ex-
ception of Senator Shipstead, Farm
er-Labor, Minnesota. There was no
explanation at the White House as
to the omission of his name from the
list of guests.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-22
CONTRACT FOR
WATER INTAKE
Is CANCELLED
City Commission Passes ResO-
luton to This Effect at
Special Meeting
BURDEN TO TAXPAYERS
While Controversy RACES Peo-
pie of Bismarck Pay Ex-
ira Pumping Charges

Another chapter has been written
in the controversy over the uncom-
pleted intake to Bismarck's new wa
ter works system in the adoption by
the city commission ,in special ses-
sion of resolution cancelling the
contract with the Woodrich Con-
struction company of Minneapolis
and the completion of the work
either by new contract or on the
city force account plan.
This step probsbly will throw the
entire matter into the courts. II
said that some $4,000 is due Wood
rich on his contracts and that agree
ment has been reached on part of
this sum. Some $4,000 has been
spent by the contractor to date on
the intake.
1t is contended by the city engi-
neering department of which T. r.
Atkinson is chief that thd work has
not proceeded according to his di-
rections. On the other hand the
contractor states that since the orr
ginal plans were changed by Mr.. At
kinson, he could not complete the
intake from the levels given as that
brought the intake pipe below the
river bed. He has several prominent
engineers to support his contention.
Just what Wpodrich's next move
would be could not be learned today
as his attorney was out of the city
Some court action it is believed is
the only logical solution.
At present the old intake is being
utilized. The water is pumped into
the river by the old pumps electri-
cally driven and then into the new
system and then by power generated
by Diesel engines into the reser-
voirs. The additional cost by this
plan runs about $500 a month.
The resolution follows:
WHEREAS, The City of Bis
! marck, on or about the End day of
: June, 1923, entered into a contract
with the Woodrich Construction
Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota,
which is known as Contract Number
Three of the plans and specifications
for a complete waterworks system
CONTINUED on page three)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-22
CLOVER SEED
TARIFF BOOST
is REQUESTED

Valley City, N. Oak, Jan. 22.-AThe
Greater North Dakota Association is
sponsoring statewide, movement
to obtain a fifty percent increase in
the tariff on clover seed, according
to an announcement made today by
Secretary Lynn Cowell.
Imports of clover seed from Can
ada have been sufficiently heavy dur
ing the past few weeks to effect a
lowering of the price Of this COM
modify to producers approximately
forty. percent. The Greater North
Dakota Association has placed this
matter before the tariff commits sion
at Washington, p. c., and requested
their prompt action toward increas-
ing the existing tariff fifty percent.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-22
HIGH MASONIC
BODY GATHERS
Convention of the Grand
Council Is Held in City

One hundred Masons were present
last night at the banquet of the
grand council, Royal and Select Mas
ters Of North Dakota, at the Masonic
temple, the second Of two state con
vocations of Masonic bodies here
within as many days.
The business sessions of the grand
council opened this morning. with
Richard E. Wenzel of Bismarck.
grand master Of the council in the
state presiding. The convention con-
tinues during the day.
George H. Russ presided at the
banquet last night. John A. Graham
welcomed the grand council on, be-
half Of Bismarck Masonic bodies and
Grand Master Wenzel responded. w.
L. Stockwell of Fargo delivered the
address Of the evening. Mrs. John
A. Graham sang. Following the ham
quet there Was work in Super Ex-
cellent Masters degree BY Twin City
Council No. Z. Roysl and selset Nas-
tern /. + ssSss
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-22
HOLD OFFICER
KILLED MAN
Says He Shot in Air But Man
Was Killed

Austin, Minn., Jan. 22.APolice Of
ficer Arthur Poelke was in the
county Jail here today pending the
outcome of the coroner's inquest
over the killing late last night of
Tony Polornik, %, who was shot by
Poelke as he fled after being ques-
toned by officers regarding having
liquor in his possession.
Poelke said he fired into the air
after questioning Polornik but the
latter fell and died almost instantly.
A bottle of liquor which was found
OH the dead mans body is being held
as an exhibit for the inquest, which
probably will be held today.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-22
BRITISH SHIP
PROGRAM GETS
SENATE'S EAR
Resolution Demands to Know
Whether or Not the Arms
Treaty Is Violated
WILL BE PRESSED
Senator Mckellar Declares
That He Will Demand Vote
Upon the Resolution

Washington, Jan. ga new angle
has been injected into the growing
complexities of the naval situation
by pending Senate resolution seek
ing information from Great Britain
as to whether the construction of
her two capital ships violates the
provisions of the arms conference
treaty.
On the heels of the Senate's adop-
tion yesterday of proposal that it
authorize and request President
Coolidge to call another Arms con-
ference. Senator Mcclellan, Democrat,
Tennessee, presented a resolution
that would request the President to
obtain information for the Senate az
to whether Great Britain had viola.
ted the existing arms covenant on
the construction of the Rodney and
the Nelson. The two ships have
been described in the Senate as
combination battleships and aircraft
carriers. Senator Mcclellan said he
would press his resolution for early
action.
Meanwhile the Senate's action in
accepting as an amendment to the
Naval supply bill yesterday without
debate the proposal for another arms
conference stood in a little clearer
light today.
While there was no formal explain
alton of the fact that administration
Senators offered no opposition to the
proposal, although the President has
let it be known that he considers
the time not yet ripe for calling an
other arms conference, it was under
stood these Senators accepted the
amendment in the hope of expedit-
ing the pending naval bill.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-22
9 INJUREDIN
TRAIN WRECK
Engine Breaks Rail While
Travelling 36 Miles an Hour

Grand Junction, Colo, Jan. o.
Nine passengers were injured early
today when Denver and Rio Grande
Western train No. /, west bound,
was wrecked at Mack, Utah, nine
miles west of here.
The engine broke rail while
travelling 35 miles an. hour, accord
ing to railroad messages received
here. The baggage car rolled down
a 4O-foot embankment. Eight of the
10 coaches that made up the train
left the track, two stopping from Is
to rs feet down the embankment.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-22
BANK BILLS
INTRODUCED
Stringent Measures Placed
Before Assembly

Two stringent banking bills have
been placed before the North Dakota
legislature by Senator Ingerson,
chairman of the banking committee.
One provides that stockholders
must deposit bonds with the state
treasurer equalling the amount of
their stock, to insure carrying out
of liability provisions, and providing
that if assessments on banks are
made and the stockholder is unable
to pay the state treasurer shall sell
stock held in escrow and pay the as
sessments.
Another bill makes it unlawful for
any bank to hypothecate more than
30 percent of its assets and making
it illegal for any bank to pledge
more than 125 percent Of the face
value of loan in the form of col
lateral; provides that in no case
shall bills payable exceed the COM
bined amount Of capital stock and
surplus. j;
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-22
Weather Report

WEATHER FORECAST
For Bismarck and vicinity: Most
ly cloudy tonight and Friday; pro-
badly snow by Friday. Rising tenn
peraturc Friday.
For North Dakota: Mostly cloudy
tonight and Friday; probably snow
by Friday. Rising temperature Fri
day and northwest portion tonight.
WEATHER CONDITIONS
An area Of high pressure, ac-
companied by fair and somewhat
colder weather, prevails over the
Plains States. A low pressure area,
accompanied by raising temperature,
has appeared on the north Pacific
coast. Temperatures are below zero
in Manitoba and Saskatchewan but
no zero temperatures occurred
throughout the United States. Pre-
cipitation occurred at scattered
places in the extreme Northwest
while elsewhere the weather is gen.
orally fair.
ORRIs w. ROBERTS,
Aeteorologist.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-22

What started drive by socaled moral forces
the ancigarette
division their favorng
strengthened sale cigarettes
minors
Northrop business introduced
antcgarette bill in legislature 1913 and fought through
public before
the Senate State Affairs Committee today and left the impression
with he might view that it would
the law and strengthen the law against sale
minors.
Hamilton,
complish prevention minors.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-22

wi. loIu lHS
he appeared for Fargo church and
business people.
81 see much merit in these two
bills companion bills, S. B. 6l and
So, one prohibition sale to minors and
the other repeating the anti-cigar-
cite law and licensing their sale),"
he told the committee.
"Although l am sent here to rep
resent class opposed to the repeal
of the anti-cigarette law ! confess
ask whether or not bill like this
preventing sale to minors) would
not best serve the ends in view," Mr.
Northrop said. "The law has been
violated and violation of law has the
effect of destroying respect for law
| do. question whether the ones vio-
lating the present law will observe
another. If the object in view can
better be arrived at by licensing the
sale of cigarettes to adults, and pre-
venting sale to minors, it might be
we'll to do it. We cannot 60 above
public sentiment"
Senator Hamilton asked Mr.. North
rop if the people who sent him to
Bismarck did mot believe that the
bill to repeal the anti-cigarette law
would throw the gates wide OPEN"
"Yes," he replied, "this bill re-
garding minors was not before the
public at that time"
"You see things differently now
do you not?" Senator Hamilton ask
ed.
Eyes, see great deal of merit in
this present proposal Mr.. Northror
replied. 81 am not saying, however
that the people who sent me here
would sanction these bills. I think
there would be difference of opin-
ion among them"
Mr.. Northrop spoke of enforce
ment of the law.
"This couldn't be any more of a
failure in enforcement than the pre-
sent law, could it," Senator Patter-
son asked.
IL would not say that but the
other has not been enforced" Mr.
Northrop said, adding, however, that
enforcement Of law on a prohibitory
measure is matter of development
So Against Repeal
F. L. Watkins, superintendent OF
the state enforcement league told the
committee that he was opposed ia
theGlicensing of a business which ne
believed to be fundamentally wrong
He defended the present law but ad-
mitted that it was generally violat.
ed.
Discussing the proposed licensing
acts, Mr.. Watkins suggestq1 several
changes in the text, which would, he
claimed, make it. more difficult fol
minors to obtain cigarettes. He was
opposed he said, to the provision OF
the proposed law which would make
minors found smoking cigarettes in
public places subject to fine and ar
rest.
Mrs. Kate Wilder Of Fargo speak
ing for the w. C. T. U. declared that
her organization was opposed to the
licensing of cigarette sales. She had
no particular suggestions to make
regarding the terms of the proposed
law.
Mrs. c. A. Fisher of Valley City
wanted to know if the state treasur.
er would be held jointly responsible
with the attorney general for the
prevention, of cigarette sales to min
ors. She was assured that he would
not
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-22
SEN. MAYFIELD
KEEPS SEAT
Texas Senator Gets FarOvable
Committee Report

Washington, Jan. 22.-Unanimous
recommendation that Senator May
field, Democrat, Texas, be adjudged
properly elected to his seat in the
Senate has been made to the Senate
elections committee as the finding of
it's subcommittee in the long hear
ing on the election contest brought
against him by George Peddy. The
contestant, Republican, ran against
Senator Mayfield as an independent
Democratic candidate in the 1922
election.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-22
WATER POISONED

Constantinople, Jan. 22@aixteen
public drinking fountains in Constan-
tinople have been found to contain
poisoned water. An epidemic of
"yellow Sickness" followed by sud-
den and violent death, has been
traced to the impurities in the city
water supply.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-22
NO HOUSING PROBLEM

Constantinople, Jan. 22.-Purvey-
ors of real estate nowadays are bear
ing haggard cOuntenances through
the streets of Constantinople. For
Constantinople is being evacuated
weekly by hundreds of persons leav-
ing for European cities. The out
rush was started when Constantin-
ople ceased to be the capital Of Tur-
key. !. ~ slss 2. !. .ss4
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-22
CIVIL WAR
VETERAN DIES

Valley City, N. D., Jan. ga.
]. Bachelor. 80-year-old Civil War
veteran and one of the four remain
ing msmbers of Josiah S. Weiser
Post No. 9 of the G. A. r., here,
passed away at the home Of his SON
in-law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Tracy, after an illness which
kept him confined to his bed since
last Friday. Old age was attributed
for the most part, as, the cause of
his death.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-22

Isabelle, Rockefeller, grandniece Of
the oil king, is an Instructor in
biology in the Teachers College of
Columbia University. @
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-22
THOMAS EGAN.
SINGER, DIES

Los Angeles, Jan. 22.-Thomas
Egan, Irish tenor, known in operatic
circles in this country and abroad,
is dead here.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-01-22
FIRST NATION
QUITS LEAGUE,
COST TOO MUCH
Costa Rica Files Resignation
From League of Nations,
It Is Announced

Geneva, Jan. 22.-(By the A. P.)-
Costa Rica filed her resignation
from the League of Nations today,
transmitting with her message a
check for back dues.
No reason was given for the with
drawal but League official said it
was assumed the resignation was
due to criticism of the country for
failure to pay her assessments, voic-
ed during the sessions of the budget
committee of the last assembly. Cos
ia Ricas annual assessment is about
$4,000.
This is the first case of resigna-
ton from the League and officials
said it was an entirely separate one,
there being no indications that it
would be followed by other Latin
American countries.
Costa Rica's resignation reduces
membership of the League to 81, the
number obtaining before the last
assembly meeting at which the Do
minican republican was admitted.
Other nations which are not men,
bers are: Afghanistan, Ecuador,
Egypt, Germany, Mexico, Soviet Rus
sia, Turkey and the United States.