The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-01-22
EVERY CITIZEN IS
ASKED TO HELP IN
CAPITAL DEFENSE
Plan Is to Write Letters to
Friends and Relatives in
All Parts Of State
Underwriters GET BUSY
Vote Thursday Night to Take
Active Part in Approach
ing Drive

Bismarck Friday prepared to build
up an army Of persons In all parts Of
the state who will spread the gospel
Of the facts involved in Jamestown's
effort to obtain North Dakota,s cap
ital.
A suggestion made at the Associa.
ton of Commerce meeting Wednes-
day night that every man, woman and
child can participate in the campaign
by writing letters to friends and rela-
tives IN all parts Of the state, solicit
ing their interest, was winning wide
approval and both groups and indi-
viduals were limbering up their pens
and typewriters preparatory to advis-
Ing their friends and relatives Of the
facts involved in the case.
Preparation to provide printed mat
ter Tor incloSure with the personal
letters will be considered by the cam.
paign committee which will direct
Bismarck's effort.
Insurance Men Busy
First Of the organizations to swiug
into action was the Missouri Slope Lie
Underwriters association. which met
Thursday night at the Grand Pacific
Hotel to observe Life Insurance Day
Of thrift week.
Before the meeting was over J. J.
Caplice, president, had turned 1t into
a capital defense session and plans
were made for the active participa ton
Of the group in the fight.
A resolution passed by the body
stressed the fact that q change In the
state capital, with the attendant
abandonment of more than a million
dollars worth Of state property In Bis
marck, would result In q heavy In
crease in state taxes.
The resolution said In part:
whereas, an unjust burden Of taxa
ton would be placed upon the people
of the state by the removal Of the
Capital from its present logical geo.
graphical position. be 1t therefore re-
solved that the Missouri Slope Lie
Underwriters association furnish to
each member Of the other life UNDER
writer's associations Of the state, q
copy Of these resolutions and a copy
OF the resolutions on capital removal
which were read into the records Of
the legislature Of 1891. and that .
copy Of said resolutions on capital re-
moval be sent to each of the 1900 Ii
censed life insurance solicitors Of the
state Of North Dakota.
And be 1t further resolved that
each member Of the Missouri Slope
Life Underwriters association pledges
himself to write q personal letter to
his friends, sub-agents and influential
policy holders throughout the state.
urging their support for the retention
of the capital at Bismarck.
Cooperation Is Pledged
And be it finally resolved that the
Missouri Slope Life Underwriters as
ISOLATION hereby pledges its unre-
served cooperation and support to tho
Capital Retention Committee Of the
Association Of Commerce, and holds
itself in readiness to furnish such as
sistance as the committee may see fit
to request"
There were other indications Friday
that Bismarck was loaded for bear"
In the fight to repel Jamestown's at
tempted aggression. Facts as to the
effect on taxes and other data were
being marshaled and were to be pre-
sented to the general campaign conn
mittee at q meeting late Friday. A
meeting originally scheduled for
Thursday was delayed in order that
every member Of the committee might
be present when initial consideration
was given to the campaign plan.
It was regarded as certain. however,
that the letter-writing campaign
would be an integral part Of Bis
marck's effort, since the contacts
which 1t would produce would be Of .
personal nature. Provision probably
will be made by the committee to as
sist In this part Of the defense effort
as well as to direct the more general
phases.