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County and Township Roads Better Financed Than State System
$50,000,000 IS SPENT
ON MINOR ROUTES TO
$28,000,000 ON MAJOR
Engineer Roherty Analyzes Fig-
ures of Federal Aid and
Tax Levies
ARTERIAL TRAFFIC LEADS
About Three Times as Much Use
Made of Main Lines as
of Local
County and township roads are be
ing provided for better than state
highways, according to a compilation
of figures on road building made by
J. N. Roherty. research engineer for
the state highway department.
From 1917 to 1929, inclusive, there
was levied for highway purposes a
total of more than $58,000,000, over
which the highway department had
no jurisdiction, according to Mr.
Roherty.
“Nearly $50,000,000 of this, ’ he said,
“was levied by the various local sub
divisions as direct taxes on property.
During the same period there was a
little more than $28,000,000 spent in
the construction of state and federal
highways.
“The money spent in the construc
tion of federal-aid and state high
_ways was derived as follows:
“Federal aid, $12,798,392.59; county
funds, $8,416,314.57; state highway
fund, $6,380,550.07; and $412,198.84
was paid by other states on Joint
projects, railway companies, cities,
etc., a total of $28,007,392.59.
“The total amount collected from
auto license fees over the above pe
riod is $14,608,627.17. This exceeds
by $1,810,235.58 the total amount of
federal aid received, so it is reason
able to assume that at last $50,000,000
has been spent by the various subdi
visions for machinery, maintenance
and construction of county and town
ship roads not on the state highway
system.
Suggested Paved Idea
“Of course that is a lot of money
and critics will be inclined to figure
out how many miles of paved roads
it would build. Such an attitude Is
unfair.
“The construction of light grades
and bridges over a large mileage is as
essential as a higher type of road
where travel is heavy. Probably the
reason why the county and township
work does not show up in comparison
with the state highway expenditures
is because it is not spent on so defi
nite a system or in so connected a
manner. If any criticism were to be
offered it would be on the lack of
spending according to a well consid
ered plan.
“Some of the older states have con
ducted very extensive traffic surveys
and it has been their finding that
about three-fourths of all traffic is
carried on the state highways,
Whether this proportion is true in
North Dakota, of course, cannot be
be said, but it is probably very near
to the facts.
Backbone of Farm-to-Market
“There has been much said in the
past in regard to farm-to-market
roads. Thomas McDonald, chief of
the bureau of public roads, very ably
pointed out that the backbone of any
system of farm-to-market roads is the
state highway system. The construc
tion of the balance of farm-to-market
roads is up to the counties and
townships. It only remains to get
the moat important ones improved
In accordance with the provisions of Section 975 of the Compiled Laws of 1913, I, A. C. isaminger. County Auditor of Burleigh County, North Dakota, do hereby certify that the within and following is a true and correct list of initiated
measures and of the persons whose names have been certified to me, by the Secretary of State, and the County Canvassing Board, together with their post office addresses, all of whom have complied with the provisions of law, as the Nominees
to be voted for on Tuesday, the fourth day of November, 1930.
Dated at Bismarck, North Dakota, this 15th day of October, "1930.
(SEAL)
Name of Office REPUBLICAN DEMOCRATIC INDIVIDUAL NOMINATIONS
Representative in Congress— Names of Candidates Address Names of Candidates Address Names of Candidates Address
2nd~District 1 THOMAS HALL ~~1~ Bismarck I | PT W7LANfER~ T Jamestown T~ ' ALFRED KNUTSON ■ I BTISIrck
Governor | GEORGE F. SHAFER I Bismarck ~T~ PIERCE BLEWETT I Jamestown P. J. BARRETT FF | Sanish
Lieutenant Governor | JOHN CARR I Jamestown I L. A. SWANSON . I Carrington CHARLES HILL I Belden
Secretary of State | ROBERT BYRNE I Arnegard ~| LAURA I. WAHL | St K. P. LOESCH Montpelier
State Auditor | JOHN STEEN I Rugby I ' A. C. PAGENKOPF T Dickinson
State Treasurer _ 1~~~ BERTA E. BAKER 1 Glenburn I ROBERT w: ALLEN 1 Forman |
Attorney General I JAMES MORRIS Carrington I HARRY LASHKOWITZ | Fargo
Commissioner of Insurance 1 S. A. OLSNESS Sheyenne I f ~ I
Commissioner of Agriculture | JOSEPH A. KITCHEN Sentinel Butte ~1 W. E. COOK Harvey JAMES PEARSON White Earth
and Labor | j
R. R. Commissioner C. W, McDONNELL Kensal " CFJ. KACHELHOFFER Wahpeton I
Representatives—27th District GORDON COX Bismarck
MARTIN J. OLSON, JR. Driscoll
_ J. M. THOMPSON Wilton
__ NO-PARTY NOMINATIONS >•
Name of Office Name of Candidate " Address Name of Office Name of Candidate Address Name of Office ' Name of Candidate Address
Judge of the Supreme Court JOHN BURKE f Bismarck Register of Deeds | NORMAN FLOW Bismarck County Commissioner— f CHRIST BERG F Wing
M. C. FREERKS \' Jamestown I I FRED SWENSON Bismarck I Fourth District I AXEL SODER I Wing
Superintendent of Public Instruction BERTHA R. PALMER 1 Bismarck State’s Attorney j GEORGE S. REGISTER Bismarck Assessor—First District T '
A, E. THOMPSON | Washburn 1 | • | I
County Superintendent of Schools MARIE HUBER I Bismarck (County Judge | I. C. DAVIES Bismarck I Assessor—Fourth-District I ~
- - - MADGE RUNEY | Bismarck j j. J. W. RILEY _ Bismarck I „ I
Sheriff ALBIN HEDSTROM | Bismarck ICounty Surveyor l T. R. ATKINSON I Bismarck (Assessor—Fifth District I
JOSEPH KELLY ( Bismarck I j I I
Auditor ALTA B. HERMAN | Bismarck County Coroner | E. J. GOBEL I Bismarck (Justices of the Peace I ANTON BEER Bismarck
A. C. ISAMINGER | Bismarck ( ( W. E. PERRY I Bismarck I I H. R. BONNY Bismarck .
I | | 111 ROLAND H. CRANE Bismarck >
1 I | I I A. E. SHIPP Bismarck
L I | I I I H. W. VOIGHT Bismarck
irer | CLAIR G. DERBY | Bismarck ICounty Commissioner— * I GEORGE F. WILL I Bismarck Constables I G. E. BRENNEISE '""Regan
j I i First District I . I I CLARENCE HANSON Bismarck
, . I L_ I I j _ ' I CORMA KIMBLE Moffit
of Court I <?Ha&. FISHER j Bismarck County Commissioner— i
M y 1 i I Third District | FRJCKg 1 J _1 The Biimarck Tribune Bismarck
L OUTOUK WAY
and connected to the state highway
system in an orderly manner. Some
counties have done very well in this
regard, but more should follow their
example.
“The state highway department
carries the burden of providing suit
able roads for the largest part of the
traveling public. They must build
and maintain a higher type of road
than the counties need, but their ex
penditures show definitely in many
completed graded and surfaced routes.
It is doubtful that many states can
show as large a proportion of total
highway revenues devoted to county
and township roads, and it is just this
thought that we want to convey to
dispel the idea that the state high
way department spends the most of
our road money.
Gas Tax Aids Counties
“The gasoline tax law was first
enacted in 1919 and all the net rev
enue went into the general fund of
the state. At the beginning of the
fisoal year 1925-26, of the total net
amount collected from motor fuel
taxes, $200,000 went into the general
fund of the state and the balance
went into the state highway fund.
From that time up to July 1, 1929, the
total iftotor fuel tax collected, less
cost of collection, went to the state
highway fund. On July 1 1929, the
three-cent gasoline tax went into ef
fect and since that time one-third of
all net motor fuel tax revenue goes
back to the various counties in the
same proportion as the auto license
tax is distributed.
“Under this arrangement it is es
timated that the various counties will
receive more than $1,500,000 annually
from the gas tax and auto licenses,
which is to be spent on ‘other than
state highways’ and not under the
jurisdiction of the state highway de
partment.
Federal Aid Tightens
“Federal aid has been a wonderful
boon to North Dakota, as any one
will realize when they ride over our
state highways and consider the small
proportion of state and county money
that has been spent on them out of
the total that has been collected for
highway purposes. Federal aid has
made them possible, but we are going
to lose some of our federal aid unless
more revenue is provided for the state
highway fund or a larger percentage
of what is now raised is made avail
able for matching federal aid.
“Maintenance takes a large per
centage of our funds and the heavy
traffic on some of our routes necessi
tates reconstruction.
“The state highway department
does not have enough funds to match
federal aid and maintain the roads
already built. There was a time
when excess federal aid could be used
more or less advantageously in con
structing bridges or roads on Indian
land, but that time is past. On such
projects more than 50 per cent federal
aid could be used. Where a project
lay wholly on Indian land, 100 per
cent federal aid could be used, but a
recent ruling has done away with this
provision.
Department Not Guilty
“Federal aid must now be matched
with a like amount of state funds:
and those we do not have. It appears
that county and township roads are
being provided for much, better than
our state highways, and still .he peo
ple think that the highway depart
ment is spending most of the money.”
Mr. Roherty traced highway legis
lation bearing on funds provided for
highway purposes from 1917, when
the highway department was created,
to 1929. From the records in the tax
commissioners’ office a list was ob
tained of taxes levied over the years
in which the highway department has
existed.
The assessed valuation of all the
real estate in New York city is $lB,-
362.061,510.
CERTIFICATE OF NOMINATION
REPUBLICAN
THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1930
N. P. to Discontinue
Sweetbriar Agency
Due Business Drop
The state railroad commission has
issued an order authorizing the North
ern Pacific Railway company to dis
continue its agency at Sweetbrier
and to substitute custodian service
from January 1 to July 31 of each
year. Regular agency service will be
maintained during the rest of the
year.
The railway company contended
that the business at Sweet Friar de
clined to such an extent that it was
no longer profitable to maintain its
agency. A decrease in earnings at
Sweetbrier during the last three years
was shown by the company, which
introduced testimony for the
! fiscal year ending in June. 1929, earn-
I ings totaled $27,368; for 1929 $17,390,
and 1930, $11,276.
“The decline has been uniform on
all classes of traffic, with the excep
i tion of received business in 1929.
which w'as $166 greater than for the
previous year.” the commission order
said. “The record does not indicate
whether decrease is due to crop fail
ure in the territory or to business
going to other points. Superintend
ent Driscoll estimated that the pro
posed change of service would result
in a saving of approximately $2,500
' per year.
Sweetbrier is on the main line ot
the Yellowstone division of the North
ern Pacific, 15.4 miles west of Man
-1 dan.
TWO GANGBTERS KILLED
Chicago, Nov. 3. (IP) Two more
s hoodlums, Frank Smurlo, 21, and Wll
i! liam "Smooth” Sierza, 35, have fallen
| before enemy bullets. The pair, de-
J scribed by police as minor figures in
i Chicago’s underworld, were shot to
I death early yesterday in a speakeasy
jon the northwest side.
By Williams
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RAILWAY PROTESTS
BARGE LINE SCHEME
Files Objection to Illinois River
Proposal With Interstate
Commerce Body
Washington. Nov. 3.—(A*)—A pro
test against extension of government
waterway operations has been filed by
the Southern railway today with the
interstate commerce commission.
The complaint was aimed directly
at a project of the Inland Waterways
corporation, which operates govern
ment-owned barge lines, to open a
water service on thj Illinois river and
require railroads to make rail and
water rates on a basis lower than all
rail charges in cooperation with the
river line.
The Southern complaint argued the
present “di. flculties under which rail
carriers labor have to do with lack of
traffic.” It added that If a new rail
line were to be projected In the same
territory the government would dis
allow its construction and would treat
it as a waste of capital.
The complaint said the water line
would ask permission to make rates
on the basis of 80 per cent of all-rail
charges for like distances and that
such a differential was not Justified
by the water operating costs.
The Inland Waterways corporation
proposed that joint rates be offered
the water line over a large portion of
southern, eastern and western terri
tory. The object was to allow the
Illinois barges to take care of traffic
for a part of its haul distance wher
ever this was at all possible.
“It is impossible for the rail car
riers to successfully compete with the
government-owned and subsidized
barge line for traffic which the barge
line desires and has the facilities to
handle.” the protest continued. “The
rail carriers must maintain at great
expense their road beds and pay
thereon enormous federal and local
taxes, while the federal-owned and
operated barge line pays no taxes
and the waterways on which It oper
ates are dredged and maintained
without any expense whatever to the
barge line.”
i In view of public policy designed
to prevent the duplication of trans
portation facilities, the protest said
there was not the "slightest doubt
that this commission would promptly
deny an application for a certificate
of public convenience and necessity
to construct a new all-rail line de
signed to reach the territory which
the Inland Waterways corporation
now proposes to invade.”
Football Men Lead
At Science School
Wahpeton, N. D.. Nov. 3.—For the
first time in the history of the school,
student cabinet fall elections at the
State School of Science at Wahpeton
resulted in the choice of four football
men. Clinton Winlaw of Cavalier
was chosen by the Juniot College
group and is president of the Cabinet.
Gus Franke of Jamestown was elected
by the long-term Trades students;
Bernard Kammcrschmldt of Hankin
son, Commercial; Ivan Rustad of
Kindred, high school. The contest
was close in the Trades group, Franke
winning over Wesley Rupp aviation
student, by three votes. In the Jun
ior College elections the contest was
especially close and the balloting pro
tracted. Winlaw finally emerged as
choice, distancing Tommy Mclntyre
of Campbell, Minn., and Vernon Petty
of Williston. President Riley is ex
officio member of the Cabinet which
is the governing body controlling stu
dent affairs. A representative from
short-term Trades will be chosen in
November.
DEMOCRATIC
Article No. 42
By WM. E. McKENNEY
(Secretary American Bridge League)
When holding massed strength in
the trump suit, it generally pays to
pick up the' opponents’ trump before
attempting to set another suit, but
there are exceptions to this rule, an
example of which is given below. If
the declarer in today’s hand were to
attempt to pick up the trump before
setting his long suit in dummy, his
opponents could easily defeat his con
tract.
NORTH
S—A-Q-J-8-4
WEST EAST
S—7-5-3- p 7? e S—K-9
2 C-7 6-5 H—lo-7-
H—9-2 6
D—A-Q-8 D—MO
C—O-1- 9-5-4
10-8 SOUTH—DEALER 0-94-3
S—lo-6
H—A-K-Q-84
O—K-6-3
C-A-K-? t
The Bidding
At contract, South, the dealer,
opened with one heart as the hand
Is not powerful enough to make a
forcing two bid and he knows part
ner will keep the bidding open with
one and one-half tricks. West
passed—although the hand has the
required one and one-half tricks, it
does not have enough color to put in
an overcall bid. North bids one
spade. You will notice this Is one
over one—one heart, one spade by
partner, and when using this system
EIELSON MEMORIAL
DISTRICTS FORMED
C. W. Stewart to Direct Collec
tion of Funds in Bismarck-
Mandan Area
Fargo, N. D., Nov. 3.—(TP)—Com
pletion of eight district organizations
in connection with a proposed one
day drive for a $200,000 endowment
for a Carl Ben Eielson memorial at
Hatton was announced here today by
George Keniston, Bismarck, execu
tive secretary of the Eielson Memor
ial association with headquarters
here.
Plans have been made to also or
ganize the state by counties and com
munities before the campaign for
funds is undertaken.
The state has been divided into
eight districts, each headed by a di
rector. The districts are;
Fargo district, comprising the
counties of Steele. Traill, Cass. Ran
som, Sargent, Richland. Norman B.
Black, Fargo, director.
Jamestown-Valley City district;
counties of Foster, Griggs, Wells,
Stutsman, Barnes, La Moure, Dickey.
T. Melvin Lee, Valley City, director.
Mandan-Bismarck district: Coun
ties of Mercer, Oliver, Morton, Grant,
Sioux, McLean, Sheridan, Burleigh,
Kidder, Emmons. Logan, Mclntosh.
G. W. Stowart, Mandan, director
Dickinson district: Counties of
Dunn, Billings, Golden Valley, Stark.
Hettinger, Adams, Slope, Bowman.
BRIDGt
it requires partner to keep the bid
ding open. East passes, South goe
After the cut, the dealer dis
tributes the cards one at a time
face down. The first card goes to
the player on the dealer’s left If
any player except the dealer
touches a card during the deal
and thereby causes a card to be
turned over or faced, making a
new deaj necessary, the side op
posed to the offender may add 50
points to Its honor score.
to three hearts, showing more massed
strength than the original bid. North
takes the contract to four hearts.
The Play
When the opening leader’s suit is
headed by queen, jack, ten, the queen
is led, declarer falsecards and wins
the ace. If the declarer were to make
the mistake of picking up the trump,
game could not be made as the oppo
sition would get in with the king of
spades and then run off three dia
mond tricks. The declarer's proper
lead is the ten of spades, taking the
spade finesse immediately. East wins
with the king. East leads the jack
of diamonds, declarer covers with the
king. West winning with the ace, and
cashing his queen of diamonds, but
regardless of what his next lead is
the declarer is assured of going game
as he can discard his losing diamond
and his losing club on the good spades
In dummy as the Jack of hearts will
be conserved as an entry.
(Copyright, 1930, NEA Bervice. Inc.)
Mrs. Nell N. Robinson, Dickinson, di
rector.
Williston district: Counties of Di
vide, Williams, Mountrail, McKenzie.
Ivan V. Metzger, Williston, director.
Devils Lake district: Counties of
Towner, Benson. Ramsey, Nelson, Ro
lette, Pierce, Eddy. R. J. Downey,
Devils Lake, director.
Minot district: Counties of Renville,
Bottineau, Ward, McHenry, Burke. R.
A. Nestos, Minot, director.
Grand Forks district: Counties of
Cavalier, Pembina, Walsh, Grand
Forks, director.
Royal Order of Peanut
Comes Into Existence
The Royal Order of the Peanut was
organized here, Friday night, by
members of the Scottish Rite at a
social gathering after the fall re
union closed.
Walter F. Cushing, of Beach was
elected grand double nut; A. B.
Welch, Mandan. grand shell opener;
Casey Jones, Mott, grand chaser,
The fraternal Insignia is a jumbo
peanut.
A hailing sign was adopted, this
being the raising of the hand toward
the mouth, .with the index and little
finger extended. The answering sign
is the same, with the head tossed
back at an angle of 45 degrees.
The new order will meet in state
session here in the spring, when the
next reunion of the Scottish Rite
takes place.
BABE HUNT ANOTHER DEMPSEY
Babe Hunt, 21-year-old heavy
weight boxer from Ponca City, Okla.,
is the nearest thing to another Jack
Dempsey in the prize ring today. Their
similarity, however, is only In blood,
both being a strain of Irish and In
dian.
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The Deal
INDIVIDUAL NOMINATIONS
9,308,3658 D. SPACE
LEFT IN ELEVATORS
Shippers* Advisory Chairman
Makes Inventory; Satis-
factory, He Says
Minneapolis, Nov. 3.— UP) —Unfilled
space in Minneapolis and St. Paul
public grain elevators today was re
ported to be 458,846 bushels by the
joint transportation committee of the
northwest shippers’ advisory board,
based on an inventory made Tuesday.
Available space in private Twin City
elevators is capable of housing 4.260,-
746 bushels, while at the head of the
lakes, Duluth and Superior, unfilled
space totaled 5,047.619 bushels. This
provides a grand total of available
space in the four terminal cities of
9,308,356 bushels, the report said.
At Minneapolis and St. Paul total
public elevator capacity is 58,817,000
bushels. Stocks represent 50.397.454
bushels of the space taken; 10 per
cent of the space, or 5,881,700, is de
ducted for working space, while space
totaling 2,079,000 was deducted to care
for 1,386 cars of grain on tracks.
Minneapolis and St. Paul private
elevator capacity totals 24,035,000
bushels, of which 17.829,600 was de
ducted for stocks on hand and 10 per
cent, or 2,403,500, for working space.
Working capacity of elevators at
the head of the lakes totals 24,035,000
bushels, of which 17.829,600 was de
ducted for stocks on hand and 10 per
cent, or 2,403.500, for working space.
Working capacity of elevators at the
head of the lakes totals 47.920.000, of
which space totaling 41.495.381 is
taken up by stocks on hand, while
918 cars cn track were reported to
require 1.377 bushels space.
P. J. Coleman, chairman of the
committee, said that “the committee
considers the space situation satis
factory at present.”
Motor Freight Line
Meets Opposition f
Application for a certificate to
operate motor freight service between
Jamestown and Ellendale and inter
mediate points, has been filed with
the state railroad commission by
Wahl and Stucker, of Ellendale. A
hearing has been set for Wednesday
at Ellendale.
The applicants propose to operate
a service daily, except Sunday. Pro
tests against granting the certificate
have been made to the railroad com
mission, and will be considered at the
hearing.
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