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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-14
Sterling
FERN r, STEWART

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o. Bismarck, were town callers Tues
day.
Mn. and Mrs. Alfred Olson were
callers here Wednesday.
Miss Gladys Ness. who spent the
past week visiting friends in Bis
marck, returned home Saturday.
MI. and MRS. Hassin Eele and FAM
lily visited with Mrs. Homsey and
family In Kidder county Wednesday.
Tyler johnson and SON, Alton, and
Grandpa johnson were town callers
Tuesday.
MI. and Mrs. Lester Andrews from
Taft were town visitors Tuesday.
MI. and Mrs. George Kusch, Mrs.
Roy Turncy, Art Chenoweth, and Carl
Boyer were Mandan shoppers Sat-
urday.
Mrs. Martin Nelson called on Mrs.
L. B. Smith Tuesday afternoon.
Harry Edgerly was a town callzr
Tuesday.
MI. and Mrs. Charles McClouard
were town callers Thursday.
Clifford Olson, accompanied by
Mrs. Agnes Wright and Mrs. E. A.
Killing, spent the weekend in Fargo.
Mrs. King stopped off in Valley City
to visit her SON., Lewellyn, who Is
attending Normal there.
The minstrel show. given by the
Boy Scouts, which was held In the
hall Wednesday night, was attended
by q large crowd. The people all en-
joyed dancing after the show. Lunch
was served at midnight.
Miss Lillian Hall spent the week.
end here visiting her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles McClouard
and daughters, Ruth and Rather
inc, were Saturday evening visitors
at the George Magnus home.
Homer Envick, Mrs. Ffeto Envick
and Mrs. Henry Zuraff were town
callers Monday.
The Sterling Parent-Teachers ASSOC
citation will have its February meet
ing at the schoolhouse on Thursday
evening, Feb. 10. at 8:15 o'clock.
Miss Gladys Ness left Saturday for
Judson. N. D.. where she, viii teach
school.
Roscoe Parker, Tyler johnson and
Lester Clarke were town callers Mon
day.
Miss Fern Stewart called on Mrs.
George Magnus Monday evening.
MI. and Mrs. H. r. Wright and
son, Clifford, were Bismarck shop
pers Tuesday.
Mrs. Jennie Clarke and Miss Violet
and Bob Clarke were town callers
Tuesday.
clifford Wright called at the Tyler
johnson home Tuesday morning.
Ed Freshour was q business caller
In town Tuesday.
MI. and Mrs. Roscoe and family
were Tuesday evening visitors at the
Tyler johnson home.
Tyler johnson was a Driscoll call
er Wednesday.
The card party which was held in
the hall Friday night was well at
tended. Grand prizes went to Pete
6chlabach and Mrs. Henry Jessen;
low prize to Roscoe Parker. Frank
Durfee furnished music for the dance
after the card party.
MI. and Mrs. Ed Gibson called a.
the Tyler Johnson home. en- route TO
epWu WEDNESDAY
MI. and Mrs. George Harding we're
town callers Wednesday.
Oh. MOnson, state veterinary, tested
cattle for II. r. Wright Wednesday.
MI. and Mrs. Dan Mailman visited
relatives near Wing Sunday.
Township meeting was held In Ster-
ling Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pete Sct1laback, Mrs.
Random, accompanied by Mrs. L. b.
Smith, were Bismarck shoppers
Thursday.
Mi. and Mrs. Dan Mailman and
family visited at the Tyler johnson
home Thursday evening.
Sunday callers at the Tyler John
son herne were Mr.. and Mrs n, r..
Wright, MI. and Mrs. Ernest John
The Washington times., 1931-11-20
Puny Penalties

If you were to put heavy load horse and drive 1t
down the street the District could put you in jail for year
and fine you $3.50.
# YOU were to subject child the worst conceivable tor
tre the District could not subject you much more severe
penalty. ..-
The maximum sentence for the misdemeanor or tortur
,nr cruelty beating abusing wifully maltreang child
Is a fine of $3.50 and imprisonment for two years
Here is yswning chasm OF lnadequacy wnlcn "uS' Oe
filled at the coming session Of Congress
inst now the city stirred by the suferngs OF little Edtn
Riley Regardless the fay OF charges maze
in that case the necessity Of Strengthening Inc cno
nrovision of the code has been amply demonstrated
The puny penalty provided for this he1ous CRIME
he made so drastic that in the future the most heare
~ ct which would make him subject to just punishment
By fixing only maximum penalty in d;soron an IN
code the could well be LETT the oscreUn @ % Ua
Is Of the ofenses which under its provisions
The Washington times., 1931-11-20
Painless Taxation
Canada Has 1t

The visit distinguished party OF senators ana repre-
ssntatves to Canada study the sales tax at first hand
focnses Arercan attention on this much misunderstood
method of raising revenue
The tax has been successful operation in Canada for
some yeasalso Philippines and in few of the Amer
lean States chief merits that is easily collected
gives the government stable revenue little affected by busl'
conditions nearly painless form Of tax
alton vet devised The burden of it slight hardly to
be noticed and is confined largely to uxuries
American advocates of the works hardship
whatever the family of small income.
Opposition the sales tax almost entirely from
those who ignorant of its workings.
The investigation being made by the Congressional
party through the courtesy of the Canadian authorities will
clear up many misunderstanding about this fair and
scientific plan of taxation.
Canada has found it eminently satisfactory.
The United States facing unprecedented deficit may
well profit by Canada's example,
The Washington times., 1931-11-20
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson E

thing to keep him believing in
himself and in life. Something
that to him is Beauty and
Truth and Power-and a vague
vision of God.
Every man has his song
You may despiSe that man
you may think he is incapable
of any song. You may peer at
his dream that he is a king"
as we young savages jeered at
Happy Jacks. But you're wrong.
There is a song in that man
and that song is a sacred thing.
That song-however trivial it
may seem to you-iS the one
thing in that mind that binds
him to all the mysterious and
holy things in life.
Every man has his song
DO NOT TAKE TT FROM
HIM.
Life Is Killed
For if you take his song
away, you have killed that life.
You have cut off the secret
source of his. happiness and
hope.
And how often we do try to
take a mans song from him 6.
and believe that we're doing
him a favor!
Listen to me-" we say.
You're fooling yourself with
that song. It's a silly song
a bad song-it won't get you
anywhere. Don't be an idiot!
Throw away your song and take
mine instead. My song is IN.
finitely better than yours. II!
teach you how to sing-n you'll
sing as I tell you, you'll make
a success of things"
How often we say that! Then
wonder at the ungratetul
wretch who won't accept our
advice.
But he CAN'T accept our ad-
vice. No man can use another
mans song. He must make his
own song-and do his own
singing-finding, very slowly.
very painfully, better music as
(Copyright, 1881. King Features
Syndicate, 1nc)
The Washington times., 1931-11-20
School Repair Delay

is to be hoped that the program of cooperation being
worked out between school officials and the District Engineer
Department will be more than temporary gesture.
The program deals with the District Repair Shop and
touches spot in the local educational system
Many times in the past efforts have been made to obtain
prompt and efficient action necessary school repairs
The endeavors should be successful and will be
minor officials will lay aside their petty prerogaves
and work together for the aims for which they paid
There is enough delay in building schools without having
pickering and further delay in repairing those already built
Under the present cumbersome system of administration
about six years eapse between the original estimates for
site and the occupancy of building In there
longer period of delay instanced by the Roosevelt
High School, originally estimated for in 1920 and not to be
occupied until next year.
The united efforts of Board of Education the District
Commissioners the Budget Bureau and the Congress may oe
necessary to speed up the building but the District
straghen the tange Of the repair prob
lem
The Washington times., 1931-11-20
WISE WORDS

There is always victory where
there is unanimity.-Byrus.
The world knows nothing Of
its greatest men. Taylor.
Experience is a name every.
one gives to their mistakes.
wilde.
The greatest efforts Of the
race have always been traceable
to the love of praise, as its
greatest catastrophe to the love
of pleasure. -Rusk1n.
There is no good result when
hatred is returned for hatred.
The magic # the tongue is
the most dangerous of all spells.
,....... Lytton.
We must make allowances
for a mind Which has received
a grievous wound. Ovid.
Prosperity IAN change a
mans nature and seldom is
any one cautious enough to re-
Sist the effects of good fortune.
Rufus.
Example Is the school Of
mankind, and they will learn at
no otter. -Burkea
The Washington times., 1931-11-20

particular ways.
DO not TAKE HIS SONG
FROM ANY MAN" he said.
When he first said it, I did
not know what he meant. I
was very young, and at that
instant. extremely naughty.
With half a dozen other young
ruffians, I had been teasing
Happy Jack. Happy Jack was
a village character. Very old,
very dirty, slightly cracked. He
lived in a shanty he had built
from tin cans, and sang songs
to himself. For Happy Jack"
thought he was king-and
age, di1., hunger and poverty
could not touch his deep con-
tent in his kingliness. But
sometimes, for a miserable
moment, our young jeers would
penetrate. Then the bliss
would suddenly be blotted from
his face and he would be a
helpless, frightened old man.
trying vainly to discovery who
and where he was.
His Strange Saying
Father had come upon me
in such an evil time-Sent us
angrily upon our way. stayed
to comfort poor old Jack.
Afterward he talked to me
long and quietly about people
and that dark experience Of
pain of which I knew so lit
tie. Then Suddenly-looking
far beyond me and seeming to
forget me-he said-"Do not
take his song from any man."
OF course I did not under
stand.
his SONG"-
Every man has his song.
Every man-regardleSs of who
he is, shining saint or skulking
Sinner-every man has his song.
Such odd songs, some of them!
Queer. secret prideS-Strange,
hidden faiths-Some memory
that would seem like trash to
other lives. A tangled dream,
like poor old Happy Jacks.
Every man has his song-some-
The Washington times., 1931-11-20
Free. Not Forced Giving

Threats of reprisals and compuon have no place IN ne
drives which being conducted 10 raise 1"nuS O n
needy. s. 4L4
Manv Government employees have expressed fear tnat
thew will be coerced giving beyond their means to the
Community Chest drive and recently two men were dismissed
from Red Gross building job because they would not SUD-
scribe to the roll call Of that organization
Such tactics will be tolerated either on the part OF the
Presidents relief organization or any others.
Some employees may not be able to contribute
the full three days pay asked in connection with the Com
muny Chest drive They be the judges of their own
condition and ability to give not their superors in office
The sures way defeat the admirable Of the
drives attempt to force the public into contributing
The Red acted promptly correct the wrong done
in trying force workers contribute at the Of
their jobs Those in charge of the fund raising in the Gov
offices should likewise take steps dpel any doubt
the freedom of workers contribute refuse
The Washington times., 1931-11-20
When the Fruit of the
Tree Is Sour
-Bv Claude G.. BOUers-

was questioned, the sceptic
was cited to his "sensa-
tional business successes in
Europe" No one knew
about these triumphs, but
no one doubted. There are
dOubters now.
AS a "business admins
tration" that in Washing
ton has been disappointing.
Because of undetermined
craftsmanship and human
greed we had the market
crash bearing in the tide of
general ruin individual for
tunes, the savings of a life
time, banks, business houses,
and all this made inevitable
by the violation of sound
business and banking princi-
Piles on which the Admins
tration smiled.
An Administration marked
by the blackest depression
we have ever known.
And now a deficit of as
much as $2,OOO,OOO,OOO.
And now the increasing Of
the burden of taxation.
The Washington times., 1931-11-20
Alexandria'S Industries

The purchase of large tract Of ground in Alexandria by
the Ford Motor Company may well be the spark life which
will give rebirth industry in the neighborng Virginia city
Situated advantageousy for both rail and water transpoa
On Alexandria the has not made the progress
which it deserves in attracting industrial plants
Recently however there has been concerted action
the part of her business stimulate the city along these
lines
With Washington virtually barred to heavy industrial
activities there every why Alexandria should move
forward and take place in the industrial sun.
The Washington times., 1931-11-20
Estimation

Estimation
"Oh, he is only "such and
such" a person.
You have heard persons dep
recated because they followed an
ignoble or humble profession or
trade.
No matter how honorable the
calling or how proficient as a
worker, there are those who
would establish social basis
upon the daily worker.
Perhaps you have been guilty
of judging a person by this fool
iSh standard.
The only thing that has tenn
pered your remarks on this score.
The Washington times., 1931-11-20
Favors "A System of
Social Insurance"

e3AS SSS SS@ASS
Nicholas Murray Butler,
one of the most intellectual
Of the Republican leaders,
has made striking admis-
sion:
"The Republican party
seems to me to be where
the Whig party was in 1852
56. It has a fine tradition,
it has a splendid constitu-
ency, but just now it ap.
pears to lack both unity,
capacity and courage to deal
with grave problems"
He calls upon his party to
submit a definite program,
and makes suggestions in
clu d in g his well known
views regarding debts, rep
arations and international
relations. Some of these
suggestions have no partisan
significance; some do; and
where they do, they run
counter to the thought of
the Administration. Thus he
takes the Democratic view
upon the tariff, and says:
There is no use to speak
Of maintaining the standard
of living and of keeping up
the rates of wages through
a high tariff when there
are from six to seven mil
lion human beings who are
getting no wages at all, and
do not know where their
livelihood is to come from.
Thus he favors "a system
of social insurance" includ-
ing unemployment insur'
ance, primarily at the in.
stance of industry, and of
state supervision if that be
needed" Everyone would
prefer that industry spon-
taneouslv and universally
undertake the task without
a word from government,
but without governmental
initiative of some kind,
which need not involve it
in payments, nothing gen.
eral can be done, or will be-
The Washington times., 1931-11-20
ONCE-OVERS

has been the amount of money
the one under discussion can
command.
Money is the saving grace to
you, or back the person goes
into the discard according to
your superficial ideas Of the kind
Of work a man does.
In your own special under.
taking you may occupy medi-
ocre place.
Another person in less prom
inent line may be near the top
in his way.
Do you figure that the class
of work you do is more credit
able rather than the quality Of
work YOU turn out2.
The Washington times., 1931-11-20

NEVER has the world
~ been more interesting,
with so many potentialities
of change, than it is today.
We are looking upon a tre-
mendous drama in the pro-
cess of development, won
dering what the next act will
be and what the final de-
nouement.
The crisis in the Far East
is infinitely more than
merely "another fight" be-
tween the japanese and the
Chinese; for Russia is in the
offing and, unless the con-
ferences of the nations can
successfully mediate, it is
not beyond the range of rea-
son that Europe may be in
volved in another death
struggle.
In Ireland the age-old
issues are reviving and peas
ant boys are drilling in the
moonlight again for the
"war with England. ~.
Germany is waiting for con-
clusion of the negotiations
on debts and reparatlons
and Hitler's militant Fas-
cists, with fine audacities,
are moving toward power,
having just won a sweeping
victory at the polls. Philip
Snowden, once the most
feared of the Socialists IN
England, has become a Wis
count and will move from
the Commons to the more
ornate and precious House of
Peers. The English are
pushing through a measure
of 100 per cent tax on I'M
portations. entering the
tariff war with a vengeance
And Dino Grandi, young,
brilliant, charming-embody-
ing the idea Of the power OF
the state-is comforting in
Washington on armament
and debts-a bit mysterious.
All the worlds a stage
and never in history has the
drama been more significant.
The Washington times., 1931-11-20

hard. He had
known little
b u t poverty,
hard W ork
and constant
suffering. Yet
he was never
b t er. He
bel i e v e d in
life. He be-
liev e d in
people. H e
believed that
every m a 4
had "a right
to find hap
pineSs in life,
in his own
The Washington times., 1931-11-20
Not Good
Business Sense

And now we know, as the
majority of the people fore
saw, that it was not good
business sense to raise a pro-
hibition tariff wall for the
retaliation of other nations
has lost us markets on
which prosperity depended;
and now our industries are
more interested in building
branch factories in other
countries than in expanding
their factories here.
That was not good busi-
ness sense; it showed a lack
of vision.
The great public building
program promised touching
on the rivers has not been
undertaken.
The cost of government
has not been lowered through
the promised reorganization
of the departments.
It is not fair to business
men to call this a Cuisines
administration" it is moth
;,o sc 4Lo oou&
The Washington times., 1931-11-20
There Are Doubters

InGT6 are OOuUC0ES
Now
The record of the Admin
istration will soon be COM
plete and ready for the
judgment of the people. The
fruit is not in accord with
the high-sounding promise.
Perhaps the promise was too
great. There is no greater
vice than over-statement and
none more dangerous. In
1928, and for a year before,
we were assured that Mr..
Hoover was a business
wizard" capable of put
ting government on a BUSH
ness basisI and when this
The Washington times., 1931-11-20

''Do Not Take His Song From
Any Man"
My father, Alex Robinson,
often said a strange and lovely
thing.
His life, had been very
The Washington times., 1931-11-20
No Possible
Escape

Escape
The President has b a n
doned the hope Of postpon-
ing increases in the taxes
until after the presidential
election, coming over to the
Democrats and the insurgents
on the issue. With a deficit
of two billion dollars at the
end of the fiscal year certain,
there is no possible escape.
A prohibitive tariff act has
reduced the customs revenue,
and the bursting OF the
G. O. P. bubble in the mar
ket, leaving more wreckage
than the Mississippi or the
South Sea bubbles, has cut
the revenue from income and
corporation taxes appal-
lingly. The cost Of govern
ment goes on. Money must
be raised; and money comes
from taxes.
And it will be Congress.
not the Administration, that
will determine where the
taxes are to fall. The Admin
istration policy would be
to spare the very rich as
much as possible but as GER
tain as the revolutions Of the
earth is the increasing Of the
taxes in the higher brackets.
Mr.. Mellon will be unable
to prevent it. Mr.. Hoover
may lack the courage to at
tempt it with an election
coming on and the depression
impressing on the people the
tragic contradiction of mil
lions depending on the bread
of charity within the shadow
of enormous fortunes.
The Washington times., 1931-11-20
MARRY-GO-ROUND
The Love Game
By Helen Rowland

At. twenty, a man is cynical
because he can't find an ideal
woman; at fifty, he is sad be-
The Washington times., 1931-11-20

The average woman SPENDS
half her time shopping for the
clothes she'll need if she Soes
anvwhere-and The other half
thinking up places to go, S9 that
she can wear some OF the
clothes she has bought.
The old-fashioned woman was
always begging a man to Eek
plain" things; the modern
woman shoots him firSt-and
lets her lawyers do the explain
ing.
Celebrating birthdays and
Wedding anniversaries, after
she's forty, is too much like
punching Father Times clock,
to arouse any real enthusiasm
in a woman.
Most of a mans failinoS and
follies come from weakness OF
the will; most of a womans.
from weakness of the vanity.
It is not so often the dare in
the Other Woman's eye as "Fe
'Don't-you-dare!" in his wifes
The Washington times., 1931-11-20

Love is anaesthetic, that
enables us to have our freedom
removed without being conscious
of it.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-05-07

day of the nation. 1t will be day
when the self-sacrifices Of mothers
will be partially repaid by little trib-
utes of thoughtfulness from their sons
and daughters at home and abroad.
When mother is indisposed the home
is dark and gloomy but when moth
er's footsteps are heard and her low
ing touch is felt in the home that
institution at once becomes among
the great of the world.
Mothers have made nations and
mothers can break nations. Mothers
can accomplish the seemingly impos-
sible. Thus what we do on Mothers
day to honor her is not wasted effort
but is a debt of gratitude we owe to
the greatest on earth. May there be
no mother missed by hayward son
or daughter on this Mothers day by a
little act of remembrance. If she be
gone from this earth let her memory
be our guiding hand and if she be
here some greeting should be sent or
given to her.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-05-07
A TROUBLESOME MATTER

Since the Mississippi river has been
damned so much in the vicinity of
the Twin Cities, and the population
there is constantly growing, pollution
of the river is becoming menace
to health. Much dredging is done to
remove the piled up sewage which is
no longer entirely carried away by
the slow flowing river since the large
dams were put in. The legislature
tried to settle the thing for citizens
of the Twin Cities, South st. Paul,
and neighboring villages, and metro
politan drainage bill which would
have been a nice reward to the South
st. Paul packers and unwarranted ex-
pense to the taxpayers of Minneapolis
and St. Paul was carried by ma
jority of both houses but here is where
Governor Floyd B. Olson showed his
hand and refused to concur. Since
then the cities of Minneapolis and st.
Paul have been trying to get together
on a program but so far it has been
mostly newspaper fighting and now
comes Congressman w. l. Nolan of
Minneapolis, trying to make it fed
eral matter. At any rate all parties
concerned can agree that the whole
sewage matter is dirty mess.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-05-07

expenditures as given out by State
Auditor King on the committees that
reported too late to be of any good
to the 1881 legislature or did not re-
port at all:
Taxation and Local Indebtedness
Representative E. P. Scallon, Crosby,
$15S.56; Representative Otto c. Neu-
man. Wheaton, $7O3.SS; Representa-
tive Warren E. Hastings, Two Har-
bors, 933.54; ]. E. Therrien, Pine City,
former representative, $1.331.11; Rep
resentative George Reed, Hibbing,
SS59.67; John A. Johnson, Preston,
former Speaker of the House. $395.69;
Representative ]. E. Merritt, Aitkin,
$426.36; Speaker Oscar A. Swenson,
Nicollet, $277.77; Representative w.
l. Norton, Minneapolis, $153.OS; Roy
Kennedy, $565; Marguerite Harmon,
secretary, $1,1S1.56; postage, $35; tele-
phone and telegraph, $41.64; office
supplies, $685.. Total, $7,146.41.
Pollution Interim Committee-Otto
Kolshorn, Red Wing, former repre-
sentative, $2,472.42; Joseph H. Masec.
st. Paul, former representative, ST.
473.5O; Miss e. E. Miller, 1921. Total,
$5,176.92.
University Interim Committee.
p Johnson, Ivanhoe, former senator,
$169.71; Senator C. Rosenmeier, Little
Falls, $74.44; Representative o. K.
Dahle, Spring Grove, $1O1.91; w. A.
Blanchard, Anoka, former senator,
$19.13; P. ]. Koughan, 81; Representa-
tive R. w. Hitchcock, Hibbing, $751;
80; Otto w. Kolshorn, Red Wing, for
mer representative, $539.9O; Repre-
sentative Harriet H. Weeks, Detroit
Lakes, $134.30; Marguerite Harmon
secretary, 1898; office supplies, $34.40;
express. 1884; printing, $3.50; post
age, SIS. Total expense, $2,196.63.