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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-11
BANK Chain issues
YEARLY STATEMENT
Operating Profit Of 80 Cents a
Share Shown in Report
by Jaffray

Information that net operating
earnings Of the First Bank Stock
corporation In 1894 were 50 cents q
share was received here Monday by
the First National bank, Z member
Of the chain. In 1888 earnings were
$l.23 . share.
The decrease was attributed to
three fators: Payment Of 1881, 618.-
81 In federal deposit insurance pre-
miunS; additional taxes, largely state
and local, 9,0S2 SO; and amortiza.
ton Of bond premiums. $562, 540.97. .
total Of $l.049.242.15. The reported
earnings. according to President G.
+. Jaffray, do not include profits
from the sale Of bonds or dividends
paid on $l.490.000 Of preferred stock
sold to the Reconstruction Finance
corporation by nine member banks
Of the group.
The deduction for bond premium
amortization was set aside because
some bonds have been selling over
par for the last year and a half and
it was felt wise to have banks de-.
duct each month proportionate
share Of these bond premiums. When
the bonds mature or are sold the
funds set aside will serve as q sink
ing fund to increase the profit or les
sen the loss as the case may be.
The tangible value Of the corpora
tons assets was put at 4l3.54 q share
as compared with $ll.2l 1t the end
Of 1888.
Net total deposits in the corpora
tons 88 member banks aggregated
1887 ,224, 40l 81 or an increase Of No.
100000. despite the fact that practi-
cally all United States Postal Saw
ings deposits were paid off by mem
Der banks during the year. It was
explained locally that, with small op-
portunity to put these funds to work,
the banks could not pay two per cent
on such deposits As required by the
government.
During the year the corporation or
ganiSed one bank In Michigan to take
over its four affiliates there and
operate them as branch banks, and
eliminated seven others through Il
quotation, consolidation or sale.
OF the Is bank affiliates left at the
end Of the year, q are in Minnesota,
10 In North Dakota, 10 In South Da.
kota, - In Montana and one In Mich.
igan.
An economic prospectus attached to
the report comments that q return Of
prosperity in the northwest now de-
ponds primarily on relief from the
drouth.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-11
Alterations Seen for
Social Security Plan

Washington. Feb. 1l.-(ReWord
that administration officials intend
TO suggest additional changes In the
social security program 80 as to quiet
assertions It would take authority
away from. states was sent Monday to
Capitol Hill.
Chairman Doughton Dem.. N. c.
disclosed that fact after the house
ways and means committee had its
first executive session on the pend
ing administration bill.
He said he did not know In exact
terms what change the administration
sources had In mind but thought it
was designed to give states more au-
thortty In determining the persons
who should Be eligible for old age
pensions.
las the bill now stands" Doughton
informed newspapermen. determine
alton Of that point Is left virtually In
the hands Of the federal administra-
tor"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-11
Dillage Sentenced
To FOur.Year Term

Minot. N. D., Feb. 1l.-tR-Lee
Dillage, Ignite. was sentenced to serve
four years in federal penitentiary
and to pay fine Of $1,000 on wool
smuggling charge, by Judge Andrew
Miller in federal court in Minot Mon
day.
The penitentiary sentence was the
maximum which could be imposed by
the court who commented that there
were indications that wholesale per-
jury" had been committed in behalf
Of the defendant.
A plea for the court to consider the
fact that Dillage lis not all bad
was made by Judge L. J. Palda. Jr..
chief Of defense counsel, and Dillage
himself briefly addressed the court,
asserting that ne Is innocent and ask
ing for leniency.
United States District Attorney p.
W. Lanier. without going into details
Of Dillage's past career, remarked that
he believed the court was familiar
with them.
Before sentence was imposed, Judge
Miller denied !: motion for new trial.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-11

have to disagree with Mr.. Meyer On
this question. We also earnestly be-
seech him to use his best efforts
with our present legislature to the
end that We get lawyers In place Of
farmers to act - county judges.
Yours truly,
J. N. McCARTER.
Steele, North Dakota.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-11
LAWYERS AND FARMERS
Steele, North Dakota,
Tehrnarv A 1Q2s

Editor, Tribune:
In your issue Of today, we notice
q letter written by one Julius Meyer
Of Baldwin, North Dakota, in which
he severely criticises the attitude Of
lawyers toward the making Of wills,
and other legal papers by people
not licensed in this state to practice
law. We notice that Mr.. Meyer would
advise that If we attorneys are to
be allowed a monopoly on the max
ing Of legal papers. that we then
should be prohibited from farming.
unless We first take out q license to
do 50.
We want to preface our remarks
by saying that we have read many
letters written ty Mr.. Meyer, and that
we admire his ability, 50 long as he
stays within the realm Of his know
ledge OF his subject; but in this case
We are Of the opinion that Mr.. Meyer
has wandered far from his fold.
It Is our best judgment that Mr..
Meyer gave but little thought to just
what would happen to the innocent
legatees named in such wills II they
were to be drawn by people who
know nothing Of the law relative to
the disposition Of property Of de-
ceased people. We wonder IL Mr..
Meyer would want his will contested
in court and pronounced invalid be-
cause it did not conform to the
statute In such cases made and pro-
vided. We are Of the opinion that
Mr.. Meyer would much prefer that
his will would convey his property
as intended: which it would no doubt
do II it was drawn by one familiar
with our laws, instead Of one who
knew only farming. II we lawyers
were to be charged q license fee for
our farming activities as Mr.. Meyers
letter indicates we should be. then
II the United States government
keeps on with all Of its loan activi-
ties, and, the state with its mora
toriums-it will not be long until all
lawyers will be paying that kind Of
a license: for our legal work will not
keep us in tooth-picks. What II We
did engage in farming? How would
that be analogous with the practice
OF law? If We failed in farming
as most of us would-no one would
lose but the lawyer engaged in farm
ing; while If a farmer was allowed
to draw wills and other legal papers,
the loser would be the one who
tried to inherit under the will.
We know for a certainty that
wills drawn by lawyers who were
away up In their profession have been
contested in our courts and refused
probate because not drawn accord
ing to our statute. We shudder when
we think Of the time that laymen
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-11
THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE MONDAY FEBRUARY H. 1885

will have carte blanche to do such
work.
We lawyers in this state-and I
believe that this Is the only state
In the union in which lawyers are
required to pay q license-do pay q
license to practice law. We would
not denominate it as q lawyers IL
cense, for It IS not enough to dignity
It as such-we would much prefer
to call it q dog license-but at any
rate We pay 1t. and by 50 doing are
licensed to practice from one year
to another. When we draw q legal
paper our reputation IS staked on
our ability to &c so. We charge for
that work and have q right to do
50. and II 1t is not right we are apt
to hear from our client In no un-
certain terms. II Z farmer could
do as good work In drawing legal
papers as we lawyers can at farm
ing, then why not charge the dog
license fee up to the farmer and let
the lawyer farm? In that way we
would get more fees and less farm
products. This lawyer will admit
that he lives on money produced by
the farmer in the first place-for In
this state all wealth comes from
Mother earth-but we will not ad-
NIT that q farmer IS better qualified
to draw legal papers than is the
writer: nor will he admit that any
one other than q licensed practicing
attorney should be allowed to occupy
the position Of Judge Of q county
court. A Judge Of the county court
is what is known in many states as
q probate Judge. and q probate Judge
has to pass on some Of the most
intricate legal questions that ever
come before any court. His decisions
In many cases involve the interest
of orphans and widows-in fact in
most cases-and requires the legal
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-11
Peoples Forum

Editors Note)-The Tribune wei.
est. Letters dealing with contro.
versial religious subjects, which
attack individuals unfairly, or
which offend good taste and fair
play will be returned to the writ.
ers. All letters MUST be signed.
II you wish to use a pseudonym,
sign the pseudonym first aud your
own name beneath 1t. We reserve
the right to delete such parts OF
conform to this policy and to re-
quire publication Of a writer's
name where Justice and fair play
make 1t advisable. All letters
must be limited to not more than
600 words.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-11

would ct dissy spells and had ireauent
e.. / used Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre.erip:
ton and L built me up and ! was I'D Of
that tired condition. also the dissy spells and
headaches." New size. tablets 50 ets.
Originally prescribed for his patients BY
Dr.. K. v. Pierce, 20 yeaSs aoo.
Write DR.. Pieree's Clinic. Buffalo N. T..
for free medical advice.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-11
Fargoan Stricken by
Heart Attack Sunday

Fargo. N. D., Feb. 1l.-R)J. G.
Gillian, So. manager Of the Fargo
branch Of Western Union. died Of q
heart attack Sunday while on a rab-.
bit hunt near Kindred. Funeral
services will be at 8 q. m. Wednesday.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-11

In the early days Of the University
Of North Carolina. two lotteries.
sanctioned by the state legislature,
were conducted to raise . building
fund.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-11

MAJ. CHARLES A. SHEPARD
Topeka, Kas.. Feb. ll.-(F-
Maj. Charles A. Shepard, retired
army tuberculosis specialist. was
acquitted Monday of charges that
he fatally poisoned his second
wife to clear the way for his mar
riage to Miss Grace Brandon.
Texas stenographer.
THE verdict is right and just"
said Shepard, s., who at his first
trial in 1880 was convicted. The
supreme court granted Z new
trial.
The jury received the case at
7:03 p. m. (centra! standard
time) Saturday night after q two
week trial. It deliberated virtu.
ally all day Sunday and until
2:30 q. m. Monday.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-11

A London society is loaning pictures
and sculptures at hire rates depend
ing on the value of the work.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-11
WEAK and MISERABLE?
IF your day begins

IF your day begins
: with nerves
frayed. backache.
or periodic pains.
you need 2 tonic
such as DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescrip-
ton. Read what
Mrs. Harold West
fall Of S23 First
Ave-, N. E., Minot,
~ TAI aosds -
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-11
Ex-President Hoover.
At New York Meeting

New York, Feb. 11.-(R)-Forme1
President Herbert Hoover is here fo1
his first meeting Of the board Of direc-
tors OF the New York Life Insurance
company to which he was recently
elected.
Although the former chief executive
declined to discuss politics he may
have something to say at the Lincoln
Day dinner Of the National Repub-
lican club Tuesday night. He Is not
listed as a speaker. but may respond
informally to a greeting.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-11

Russia exported more than q mil
lion pounds Of candy to this country
during the first three months of 1881.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-09-26
Salmon Run Heavy

Colville = Spectators at Kettle
Falls have reported an unusual
amount of salmon jumping this year.
There have also been many fine
catches of salmon running as large as
40 pounds each in weight.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-09-26
Strike Closes Plans

Aberdeen = Three Aberdeen saw
mills were shut down and about $50
men are again idle, due to shortage
of logs through failure of boom men
to settle labor differences with en-
ployes.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-09-26
Find Old StrongboX

Woodland - A treasure chest"
will be opened here soon. Ray Ben
nett discovered an old strongbox in
the Lewis river. 1t was identified as
one belonging to the Forbes store,
which burned at Etna 80 years ago.
The safe fell into the stream during
the fire. 1t has been turned over to
Marvin Forbes, son of the store
keeper. A safe expert will be hired
to open it. 1t is believed to contain
a small sum of money and legal pa
pers.
Lynden = Holding that moral is
sues were involved, the Whatcom
county ministerial association has in
dorsed the recall movement against
Democratic County Commissioners
Austin and Smith.
Olympia = The report of the mas
ter in chancery sustaining the rights
of the Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany in it's land grand has been af-
firmed by Federal Judge Stanley
Webster. The case involves millions
of acres whose value has been esti-
mated as high as $4,000, 1000.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-09-26

The Soviet foreign Office rejected
the protest on the ground that the Com
munist Internationale
xTicR NOt was not part of
Forescen the Red government;
that it was politi-
cal party over which the Russian Soviet
government had no control and that
consequently the American government
Evening star., 1935-04-27

| that few persons seem to mind sneeE-
ing on another.
Somehow they feel, evidently, that
. little sneeze won't hurt.
Nor would 1t, indeed, II the germs
released were familiar germs.
The Jones theory Of the familiar
and the unfamiliar germ demands ex-
| PLANTATION, as all good theories do.
Whether one calls 1t microbe, germ.
virus or whatn0t, 1t Is all the same
to the great average person.
Whether or not 1t can be caught In 4
porcelain filter means nothing to him.
He can catch 1t, he feels. and that
IL enough, and too much.
He has come to believe, however,
as the result Of experience, that II
common and prevailing diseases are
caught from some one In his own
family. they are not half as harmful
to him as II caught from strangers.
He has been able to work up q re-
sistance to familiar germs, which he
has not been able to do in the case
OF those inimical creatures from for.
eign sources.
Persons who insist on sneezing upon
strangers, especially in public places,
may feel sure that they are afiiicting
others with cold germs which they
are not prepared to fight.
No doubt every human being breeds,
in his nostrilS and throat, what may
be called home grown" germs, mi
crobes, bacteria. and so on.
He Is able to work up a certain
amount OF resistance to these, His
anti-bodies, that is. know how to fight.
His system has learned how, up to
a certain extent.
When a perfect stranger dumps a
load Of new germs, however, a-down
his bronchial tubes his trusty old
inner economy Is nonplussed
Here 1t has been building up GER
tain types of anti-bodies, and now it
finds these intruders immune!
y
Hence it will be realized, the presi-
dent of the Anti-Snee1ng Association
believes, that the unthinking sneeze
in a public vehicle is not Just a ges-
ture of independence. as some seem
to think. but sneaking assault on
the citadel.
He who sneeZes has managed to
work up certain resistance to the
germs at work in him, but he upon
whom he sneezes is caught all unpre-
pared.
The latter faces not one sneezer.
but many Of them. so there is no
chance of escape.
Every person who sneezes upon
others at close quarters may be pic
tured as one taking a mean advantage
OF many, not just one
And each person who involuntarilv
becomes afflicted with these in!mical
disease-causing bodies must begin all
over again, in as far as his ability to
resist colds is concerned.
President Jones believes that this
great cross of the Sneezers is re-
sponsible for keeping the common cold
alive. II one could live in a vacuum.
he might be able to end colds. but
as long as he must move around he
must face the perpetual sneezers. II
seems too bad. Templeton Jones real
lied that the work of the Anti
sneezing Association must 60 on. He
could not quit now.
Evening star., 1935-04-27
China and Siam.

Siam, Just recovering its equilibrium
after the abdication Of King Prajad-
hipok, suddenly finds itself entangled
in bitter trade dispute with China,
with the possibility that the contro-
versy may boil into a three-cornered
Chinese Siamese japanese scrap.
Three million Chinese live in Siam.
They have latterly had imposed upon
them irksome business and educa-
tional restrictions which have led to
formal protest to the Nanking gov
ernment. Marking now proposes to
retaliate by banning imports of SIAM
ese rice. amounting to 700.000,000
pounds a year, into China That rep
resents about half of all the rice the
Chinese buy abroad.
Japan comes into the picture by
reason of the fact that the adviser to
the Siamese Board of Education is a
japanese. Presumably at his instiga.
ton, the law now requires that Chinese
children, even in Chinese supported
schools, shall study the Siamese Ian
guage until they reach the age OF
fourteen. The schools may employ
Chinese teachers, but only those know
ing Siamese.
Another cause of friction is the cir
cumstance that Siam considers that
all Chinese born in the country are
Siamese citizens. immigration reeu-
latons further aggravate the situation.
China raised the tax on Chinese going
to Siam from fifty Chinese dollars a
Evening star., 1935-04-27
Tension in Europe Relieved
By Understandings at Stresa

no concessions to the aroused and
now stubborn Reich. In no degree
did the Western powers confess their
own guilt They did not permit the
impression to go out that, even now.
they are conscious Of having missed
great opportunity in the years fol-
lowing the war. when they might
have started the Job Of disarmament
in accordance with the promise Of
the treaty Of Versailles. They merely
continued the desperate diplomatic
game Of attempting TO force Germany
10 hold her part Of the treaty and
remain helpless. while they ignore
their part. and build and drill on =
vsster scale than before. And It Is
true that II this Western European
group, acting in cooperation with
Russia and the Little Entente Of Cen
trail Europe, remains firm. even the
rearmed Germany had better not re-
sort to immediate war"
The positive result at Stresa."
advises the New York Times. must
not be overlooked. There has been
gain for peace, if only by way of
respite rather than dehnlte Solu-
ton. The clouds have been hanging
low over Europe these anxious weeks
since Hitler issued his challenge
Stresa has achieved the promise of
clearer skies for some time to come
On the issue OF peace and war the
world is In mood to be thankful
for small favors Hitler's peace
pledge does not mean that he Is
converted to peace, but that he is
not ready to fight. The nations will
breathe easier TO find that Hitler
Is not ready"
The conference Clarified the issues
raised by German rearmament." IN
the opinion of che Cincinnati Times.
Star and the Asheville IN. o. Citi.
zen Times concludes that "the one
thing of which we can be certain
Is that the tension has relaxed, the
atmosphere has changed"
Evening star., 1935-04-27

head to las dollars. Siam responded
by decreeing that any Chinese student
coming to Siam must make . deposit
of 500 Chinese dollars. A new gov
ernment ruling requires Chinese meB-
chants to employ at least one Siamese
and often more.
Sino- -Siamese dificulties are not only
of long standing. but complicated by
the absence of diplomatic relations.
At present Marking is forced to neso-
tiate with the Bangkok government
through the Chinese legation In Toxic.
In contrast with her clash of interests
with China. Siam has been steadily
strengthening her relations with Ja-
pan. Friendship between the two
countries was solidifled when Siam
declined to vote for the League Of
Nations resolution condemning ia
pans action in Manchuria. The jap
anese have frequently been credited
with casting covetous eyes in Slams
direction. Toxic may see an oppor-
tunity to fish in troubled waters as
result Of the economic-educational
conflict between Nanking and Bangkok.
Evening star., 1935-04-27

spores finding even rare type OF
environment which may be suitable
TO their growth
The giant puff ball requires prob
ably not less than a year from spore
to fruiting body. The bread moulds,
on the other hand. can produce new
fruits from spores within a week.
Their actual reproductive capacity,
therefore, is probably greater than the
puff balls and their spores are prob
ably more abundant in the air This
accounts for their apparently spon-
taneous occurrence"
There have been few, If any, real
Indian chiefs"
Certainly, according to statement
issued from the Bureau Of American
Ethnology Of the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition, such men as Massasoit, Pow
hatan. Tecumseh. Sitting Bull. Ge-
rOnimO and other notable Indians
whose names have survived in history
were by no means "chiefs" in the
sense of being rulers with legal sane
ton. either conferred or hereditary.
for governing acts.
The Indians, according to special
lists of the bureau on various tribes
Of North American primitives, had no
civil rulers, so far as is known. The
organization OF society through much
of North America was essentially an
archial-the anarchy being pro-
foundly modified in various directions
by religion, tradition and the infiu-
ence OF individuals. but not by gov
erning powers legally vested in any
person. Public opinion was the great
determinant of conduct.
In the various tribes certain indi-
viduals doubtless had very great in
f1uence because of strength of char
acter, colorful exploits, oratorical abil-
ity. wisdom acquired with age or sup
posed supernatural visitations. Such
a man often attracted many followers
who, because of their great confidence
in him, may have accepted his word
as law. Men like Massasoit and Pow
hatan probably were in this class,
They were outstanding individuals in
their communities. Other Indians
may have sought or accepted their
leadership because they admired or
feared them. But it was all purely
voluntary. Such man held no polit-
ical office. He had no police power
to enforce his commands-if he ever
had the audacity to give any. Any
body-even his sQuaw in most cases
had a perfect right to disobey him
at any time, and there was nothing he
could do about It, other than through
his own personal prowess or the
purely voluntary assistance of some
of his friends.
The whole idea of an executive
branch Of civil government, according
to the bureaus experts, seems to have
been foreign to the Indians concept
Of things. This is shown clearly in
what was probably the most advanced
Indian political establishment north
Of Mexco-that Of the Six Nations of
the 1roquois. It is, at least, the one
about which the most Is known. But
even among them there was no man
entitled to be called chief"