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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-05-29
Vote Eyes"
TWO Times
Special City Election
May 81
Truth Will Prevail Against
Political Trickeru

Now, as always, the American Legion believes in q square deal.
In advocating the memorial community building bond issue
it. it. has : stood TODD, sqqsrelly for the truth, the whole truth and nothing
light Of honesty and truth shine in civic affairs. That is the Legion
principle.
Attention, Mr.. Voter
There appeared in Tuesdays issue Of The Tribune an adver-
tiisement against the American Legion bond issue proposal. It was
signed. BY the Bismarck Taxpayers association and was 50 false
and misleading as to bear every evidence of being malicious.
DO you, Mr.. Voter, know who constitutes the membership Of
the so-caned taxpayers association?
10 you know what it is and by whom it was organized?
Here's a little honest light on the subject.
All we know about the so-called taxpayers association -
learned from Carl R. Kositzky, living at 73 Eleventh street.
MI. kositzky says he is the secretary.
80 that the voters of Bismarck might know what the taxpayers
4 ana Who they are, we asked Mr.. Kositzky some questions:
t Read Them-Read Mr.. kositzky's Answers
what is the Bismarck Taxpayers Association?
Mr. hosltzky-A group Of Bismarck property owners.
How many property owners?
Mr.. kositzky-Several.
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ing OF $Z5,UOO III constructing a new high school
building because, with the memorial building at
hand for athletic exhibitions, the school board will
not need to construct a large gymnasium.
That is something which did not occur to us.
We don't pretend to be infallible. We are lust
average citizens.
THE COURT HOUSE
The American Legion will favor a new court
house when the time and opportunity come to con-
struct one. We recognize the need for a court
house as much as anyone.
However, bear these things in mind: The
court house will be built with county money. It
will be a business building, not a community build
ing. The city cannot legally put it's money into a
court house. The fact that we need a new court
house should not be permitted tt. interfere with the
community building proposal. Nothing was being
done toward a new court house when the memorial
building project was launched. Many Of the peo-
pie who are now loudest in proclaiming the need
OF a new court house opposed the proposition when
it was submitted to a vote several years ago. The
need was just as apparent then as it is now.
To bring up the court house proposal at this
time is merely to drag the time honored red her.
ring across the path of civic progress. We Sc
riously doubt if these people are as much in favor
of a proper court house for Burleigh county as we
are. When the board Of county commissioners Of
Burleigh county again submit the proposal for
a new court house to the voters we will be enthu-
siastically behind the proposal and on the same
basis that we are backing the memorial commun-
iy building. Service and efficiency, not architect
ural gingerbread.
When it comes time to build a new court house,
the community building will be of material assist
ance to that project. It will provide space to house
the county offices while the court house is being
built, thereby saving the taxpayers Of Burleigh
county thousands Of dollars in rent.
The increase in the debt limit of the city of
Bismarck to be voted upon next Friday, if author
lied, will apply only to the memorial community
city attorney such authorization will not increase
the debt limit Of Bismarck except for this specific
purpose.
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ABOUT TAXATION

Following it's policy of telling the truth, the
american Legion made no broad statements in
the pamphlet which it prepared for circulation to
every Bismarck voter. It stuck to the truth. It is
2 permanent policy with us.
The taxable valuation Of the city of Bismarck
is$7,039,7 13. The actual valuation of city property
is approximately $18,500,0O0. The difference be-
tween the taxable value and the actual value is due
to the method of assessment. PROPERTY IS
NOT ASSESSED AT ITS FULL VALUE. If it
were the tax rate per l 1000 Of valuation for the
Memorial Community Building would be a trifle
less than 60 cents per year.
Because the assessed valuation is less than
half the actual value, however, the rate will be
$l.49 per $1,000 on the basis of the last assessment.
At the present rate of increase the taxable
valuation Of the city of Bismarck in 1889 will be
$1O,3OO,OOO. In 1919 it will be SIS, 100000 This is
: 2O-year period. On that basis the average yearly
cost for the 20-yer period will be materially less
than the figures given in our table.
Let's take an average Bismarck home, that of
Mr.. Carl R.. Kositzky at 723 Eleventh street.
Real estate men value it at not less than $1,000.
1T assessed at $2,9O6. MI. Kositzky will pay $4.36
ayear toward the cost of this building.
The scale of taxation which the American
Legion used is based on the actual value of prop
erty. If you have your tax statement handy you
can figure your taxes by allowing $1.49 per thou
sand of assessed valuation. Remember the differ
ence between actual value and assessed value.
The rate on the actual value is Coo per thousand.
H BALANCE SHEET
Here is a balance sheet on the entire PROPOSE
ton. Where figures are estimated it is so stated.
Memorial Building Bonds -. .$125,OOO
70 years interest at $50 ......... 125,OOO
$25o,Ooo
Less interest on sinking fund -. 100000
Total net cost ........... $4,000
Yearly Cost - $lO,500 to be raised by taxation
REVENUE VS.. MAINTENANCE
In its advertisement the so-called Bismarck
Taxpayers association estimates the maintenance
cost Of the building at $1,000 a year.
Assuming this to be correct, revenues will
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fully offset maintenance costs. The ALLEGED tax
payers association apparently allowed nothing
for revenue. Here is an estimated schedule of
revenues:
Swimming pool (adults) ..........$ 700
Gymnasium (adults) ............. 500
(N0te: Children will use
these facilities free)
Rental from organizations housed
in building, American Legion,
National Guard company, city
rest room, etc. ......... 1000
Conventions, auto show, basket
ball tournaments, entertain.
ments, etc 5000
Annual gross revenue ......... $500
THE SCHOOL SITUATION
In it's pamphlet the American Legion review
ed the financial condition of the city school district
and said it is in excellent shape. We repeat il. It
is in excellent condition!
In a recent interview Mr.. H. O.. Saxvik, city
school superintendent, said construction of the
memorial community building would mean q saw
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10, 1886, little more than a year
after he had left the Chief Execu-
tiveship, at the age Of fifty-six
years.
Grover Cleveland stepped down
from his high office as leader of
the nation for the second time on
March A, 1897. He had first serv-
ed from March A, 1885, to March
4,1889, but during the interven-
ing four years this lone American,
who is the only one in all history
who was able to come back to
the White House after he had left
it, retired to New York to engage
in the practice of law. He was
called away from his briefs, how
ever, by reelection to the Presi-
dency in 1892. Accordingly he
served the second time for four
years, beginning March 4, 1898 :.
When his second term had been
completed, Cleveland settled down
in Princeton, N. j. At Princeton
university he delivered an ANNUAL
course of lectures on public af-
fairs and wrote numerous articles.
He died June "a, 1908, at the age
of seventy-one years.
Benjamin Harrison babe an Of
fetal farewell to 1000 Pennsylvania
avenue on March 4, 1898. This
grandson of President William
Henry Harrison then returned to
the practice of law and delivered a
course of lectures at Leland Stan
ford university on constitutional
law. He served as counsel for
Venezuela in the Anglo-Venezuelan
Boundary Arbitration commission.
He represented the United States
in 1899 as member of the Peace
conference and became one of the
International Board of Arbitration.
In 1897 he had written ''This CoLn-
try of Ours" He died March 10,
1901, at Indianapolis, Ind, at the
age of siXty-seven years.
Theodore Roosevelt left the
White House on March 4, 1909, to
plunge into another phase of his
spectacular career. Flo Owing the
outdoor life of which he was such
an ardent advocate, he nunte1 and
explored over a wide stretch Of
territory in Africa aad South
America. Disagreeing with his
successor, Taft, he lost his fight to
be chosen as the Republican stand
ard bearer in 1912 and formed H.
famous Bull Moose parsy, making
strenuous campaign AL being ]e.
warded for it by the vo -e's iE run
ming ahead of the regular Repub-
lican candidate. His offer to raise
division to aid America in the
World war was rejected, but he was
active in it's cause with the pen.
He died of heart trouble at Oyster
Bay, N. Y, on January 6, 1919, at
the age of sixty-one years.
William Howard Taft surrender
ed his Presidential toga on March
4, 1913, and is now the only pres
ident living. He taught law at
Yale until 1921, the year Harding
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oats to an acre.

oats TO an acre.
Many farmers are under the i'm
preston that the yield of an acre
in grain will make as much milk
and butterfat as will the product
of an acre in hay. And, it will in
certain instances, when high yield
grains such as corn are compared
with low protein, non-leguminous
hays such as timothy. But the
comparison does not hold true
when an acre of alfalfa with its
high yield of protein is matched
against an average acre of oats,
yielding even the high average of
53.5 bushels per acre. 1t must be
remembered, however, that oats,
pound for pound, as shown by the
North Dakota station, have higher
feeding value than has alfalfa, and
it is not recommended to plant
all of the land devoted to oats in
alfalfa, because a certain amount
of oats in the grain ration is some
times needed for variety. Crush
ed oats with ground corn, corn
chop, as it is called in many Sec
tions, form the base of a low cost
grain ration that can be grown on
most farms in the Mississippi VAL
ley.
Alfalfa is famed as milk and
butterfat producer because of the
fact that it produces a high yield
of protein per acre. Alfalfa, pound
for pound, equals bran in it's abil-
ity to produce low-cost milk and
butterfat. This year is an especial
ly good year to plant an acre of
alfalfa for every single COW and
every two heifers on every farm,
because cattle of all kinds have
rarely been as profitable as they
are at this time. Hogs, too, make
cheaper pork on pastures planted
in alfalfa and both hogs and hens,
as we'll as cows, can proftably con-
sumo alfalfa hay and leaves during
the winter barnfeeding season.
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William Howard Taft and Cabin
Coolidge Only Ex-P Presidents Alive

James A. Garfield. That was in
1850.
Cleveland was the only ex-Presi-
dent to regain the crown. Several
before him tried to turn the trick
Roosevelt exactly twenty years
later attempted the same thing. All
failed where Cleveland succeeded.
Defeated in 1888 by Benjamin
Harrison, Cleveland waged cam
paign that found him on March A.
1898, riding to the Capitol.
Cleveland was the only man to
make this ride more than three
times. In 1885, he rode with the
outgoing President Arthur; in
1889, he gave over the reins to the
incoming President Harrison; in
1898, he took them back from the
same man; in 1897, he rode the
trail for the last time, carrying
with him the Inflated William Nc
Kinley.
Of the careers of the other ex-
Presidents William A. Millen, writ
ing in the Washington Star, offers
this concise summary:
George Washington retired to
the quiet of his beloved Mount
Vernon after he surrendered the
Presidency on March 4, 1897, but
lived only a couple of years to en-
joy his well earned rest. True, he
was recalled to Philadelphia in
1913, when war seemed to break
with France, the old ally of the
United States, and spent some time
reorganizing the army, which he
had led so well in the strenuous
years of the nations birth. A cold
contracted while riding about his
broad acres caused his death, fol-
lowing a brief illness, on Deem
Der H., 1899. He was sixty-seven
years old.
John Adams, a signer of the Dec
laration of independence and vet
eran of the Continental congress,
retired from the Presidency on
March 4, 1901. He died July a.,
1926, at his native Quincy, Mass,
at the ripe old age of ninety years,
having lived to see his eldest son
become the sixth President of the
United States.
Thomas jefferson surrendered
the Presidency March a, 1909, and,
curiously enough, died on the same
day as his predecessor IN office,
both of them passing away on the
birthday of Calvin Coolidge, July
4. He retired to private life at his
residence, Monticello, in Virginia.
In 1919 he took leading part in
the founding of the University of
Virginia at Charlottesville, and was
rector of that institution until his
death in 1926, at the age of eigh-
ty- three years.
James Madison left the Chief
Executiveship on March 4, 1917.
He retired to his estate at Mont
pelier, Orange county, Va, to en-
joy private life. He was delegate
to the Virginia Constitutional con-
vention of 1929, and was rector of
the University of Virginia. He
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during the Civil war he command
ed corps of home guards. He
died March 8, 1874, at Buffalo at
the age of seventy-four years.
Franklin Pierce turned over the af-
fairs of state to his successor in the
Presidency on March a 1857. He
spent the latter year of his life in
travelling extensively in Europe and
died October 8, 1869, at Concord,
N. H., at the age of sixty-four
years.
James Buchanan, left the White
House on March A, 1861, and died
June 1, 1868, at the age of seven
ty-seven years. He had retired to
his home in Wheatland, near Ian.
caster, Pa.
Andrew Johnson, who was nearly
ousted by the senate, left the
White House with the expiration
of his term on March a, 1869. By
an ironical turn of fate, he was
elected to the very body that would
have turned him out of the Presi-
Dental office with one vote more.
He first retired to his home in Ten
nessee and was defeated as candi-
date for the senate, before the leg
islature in 1870. He was defeated
as an Independent candidate for, the
Fifty-third congress-, but having
been senator before his election
to the Presidency, he was re-elect-
ed, to the senate and served from
March 4, 1875, until his death,
July 81, 1875, at the home of his
daughter in Carriers Station, Cart
er county, Tenn, at the age of
siXty-six years.
Ulysses Simpson Grant, soldier,
laid down the task of Presidency,
March A, 1877. With his wife and
youngest son he made tour of the
world, returning in 1879. He was
doomed for a third term in 1880,
but popular sentiment against this
course proved too strong. In New
York City, to which he moved, he
became president of the Mexican
Southern railway and special
partner of the firm of Grant &
Ward, but in 1884 this firm failed,
the former general suffering an
acute financial loss. In 1885, Con-
gress restored him to the rank of
general, giving him full pay on the
retired list. To recoup his for
tunes he began to write his me-
moirs, but cancerous growth in
the throat placed a painful handi-
cap upon him and he died July %,
1885, at the age of sixty-three
years, at Mount McGregor, N. Y.
Rutherford Birchard Hayes, who
also had been a general in the
Civil war, stepped out of the Pres
idential office on March 4, 1881.
Until his death on January II,
1898, his days were given over to
education and philanthropy. At
the end he was seventy wears old.
Chester Alan Arthur left the
White House on March 4, 1885,
and retired to New York, where
death overlook him on November
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Alfalfa Hay Highest
Yielding Field Crop
Acre of Alfalfa Has Same Feeding
Value as 40 Bushels of Oats
Based on Feeding Tests

One acre in alfalfa does the
work of 2.62 acres in oats, says the
Blue Valley Creamery Institute. An
average acre of alfalfa producing
2.55 tons of hay in a season pro-
duces volume of forage that has
the same feeding value as 14O
bushels Of oats produced on 2. go
acres. This comparison is based on
feeding tests made by the North
Dakota Agricultural College, in
which 1000 pounds of alfalfa hay
equalled $500 pounds of oats.
The institute estimates that the
acre yield of alfalfa hay is equal
to 2.62 acres of oats on the basis
that it takes only ID pounds of
alfalfa hay to equal one pound of
oats in feeding value. In the Min
nesota dairying district where the
survey was made, it was found that
the average yield per acre was 2. SIS
tons of 500 pounds of alfalfa as
against yield of 1712 pounds of
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died June 20, 1886, age eighty

died June %, 1886, age eighty
three.
James Monroe laid down the du-
ties of the Presidency on March a,
1925, and died July A, 1881, at
the age of seventy-three years. He
retired to his farm at Doudoun
county, Virginia, and in the Vir-
ginia Constitutional convention of
1929, in which Madison likewise
served, he was chosen president of
that group. He moved to New
York City in 1881 and died there.
John Quincy Adams left the
White House March a, 1929, a CO.
incidence in that Coolidge, another
man from Massachusetts,, stepped
out of the Presidency in 1929.
Adams was defeated as candidate
for governor of Massachusetts, in
1884, but the Bay state elected him
to the house of representatives as
Wing to the Twenty-second and
the eight succeeding congresses,
serving from March 4, 1881, until
/ his death at the Capitol on Febru-
airy %, 1848, of a paralytic stroke,
at the age Of eighty years.
Andrew Jackson closed yet an
other chapter in his colorful career
when he left the Presidency on
March 4, 1887. Then he retired to
the Hermitage, his home near
Nashville, Tenn, and died there
June 8, 1916, of tuberculosis, at
the age of seventy-eight years.
Martin Van Buren, bade farewell
to the White House officially on
March 4, 1841. Defeated for re-
election as the Democratic candi-
date in 1910, eight years later he
was the antislavery candidate for
President. He died in his native
Undertook, N. Y, July "a, 1862,
during the Civil war, aged seventy
nine years.
John Tyler surrendered the reins
of office on March 4, 1845. He
was delegate to the peace conven-
ton in 1861, which tried to avert
the Civil war, and served as its
president. He had lived quietly on
Ills GSCdIc up W ClldI CiIilC. Will
the approach of the conflict he
plunged into politics again and af-
ter the proposals of the peace con-
vention had failed, he threw in his
lot with his native Virginia and vot-
ed for secession. He was elected
to the Confederate congress, but
died before it assembled in Rich
mond, Va, expiring January Is,
1862, in the Old Dominion capital,
at the age of seventy-one years.
James Knox Polk lived but a
short while after he was freed from
the duties of the Presidency on
March 4, 1849. Death came to
him on June Is, 1849, in Nash
vile, Tenn, at the age of fifty
three years.
Willard Fillmore laid down the
onerous duties of the Presidential
office on March 4, 1853, after hav-
ing been defeated for renomina-
ton, as the Wing candidate by Gen.
Winfield Scott. He resumed his
law practice in Buffalo, N. Y, and
was chosen as the National Ameri-
can candidate for the Presidency in
1856. He was president of the
Buffalo Historical society, and
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appointed him Chief Justice of the
Supreme court, the post he now
holds. Woodrow Wilson, the World
war President, who like his Demo-
cratic predecessor Cleveland, had
lectured at Princeton but later be-
came its president, closed strenu-
Gus and momentous eight years in
the White House on March 4, 1921
"a broken man. He entered a
law partnership with his old friend
IBainbridge Colby and maintained
an office in Washington. Death
summoned him on February 8,
1924, at the age of sixty-seven
years.
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PAGE FOUR

When Herbert Hoover, of Cali
fornia, takes the oath of office as
President of the United States on
March a, Calvin Coolidge, of Mass.
achusetts will become member OF
one of the exclusive organizations
in the world. AT no time in its
history has it had more than five
members and that occurred only
once, 1862. Since then there
have never been more than two
members in this club at any one
time and since Wilson's death on
February 8, 1924, it has had only
one, William Howard Taft. For
this organization, very important
one, even though Il is small IN
membership, is the unofficial, eek
Presidents of the United States
club"
Just what Calvin Coolidge will
dc when he joins the "Ex-Presl-
dents club" was unknown at the
time this artic = was written, al
though it may be announced by the
time it appears in print. When
that question came up some time
ago, he is said to have remarked
that he was "just going to whit
tle," which may have been the New
England way of saying that he was
going to spend a leisurely vacation
before taking up any other occupa-
ton. There has been talk OF his
resuming his law practice in North
ampton, Mass. talk of his joining
a New York law firm and also talk
of his becoming an important offlc-
ial in various business firms. IT
eventually he turns to politics there
will be plenty of ex-Presidentlal
precedent. Three ex-Presidents oc-
cupied important federal positions
after they left the White House.
John Quincy Adams was elected to
the United States house Of repre-
sentatives. Andrew Johnson was
elected to the United States sem
ate. William Howard Taft became
and is now chief justice il the Su-
preme Court of the United States.
Despite his historic II do not
choose" it is even possible that he
may decide sometime to put the So
called tradition against the third
term to a test and again run for
President. In this he again will
have precedent from his predeces-
sors.
Martin Van Buren, was the first
ex-President to attempt come
back. Before the New Yorker all
the American Presidents had serv-
ed their two terms save the two
Adamses. Van Buren, slipped mis-
erably in his two attempts, failing
despite strenuous efforts to get the
nomination of 1874, and, in 1848,
with the nomination failing to
gather a single electoral vote.
After him Fillmore tried with
scarcely better success. General
Grant was the first man to attempt
to fill a third term, running well
for the nomination on the first SO
ballots, but finally giving way to
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TNTHIS CITY under official newspaper
i observation, Essex the Challenger will
demonstrate its right to challenge the
best that motordom offers. 1t is dramatic
revelation of an all round quality Sn-big,
fast, roomy, powerful - now available at
the lowest price for which Essex ever sold
and but little more than the cost of the
smallest ightest and lowest priced cars on
the market.
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As you see it out-perform cars costing far
more, remember that exactly the same
performance ability, quality, economy
and riding ease are characteristic in the
Essex the Challenger which you buy.
And in Value-compare it part for part
in every quality particular of appearance,
finish, comfort and easy riding to those
costly cars in which you pay the higher
price for those very things.