The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 31, 1918, Page 4

pe Ac he ie th ached eet at tet eas Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second shale S Class Matter. GEORGE _D. MANN Hae nie ee G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative NEW YOFK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the. use for republication of all news credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. * All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBERS AUDIT BUREAU OF C SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYAB: Daily by carrier per year Daily by mail per year (In Bismarck).. Daily by mail per year (In State outsid Daily by mail outside of North Dako’ THE STATE’S OLDEST N. Established 1873) WATCH YOUR STEP! THIS IS THE “GO!” SIGNAL TO THE NEW YEAR! HAPPY NEW YEAR! You can write it “Jan. 1, 1919,” if you watch out. You can make it happy if you join all the rest of us in trying and— WATCH YOUR STEP! Nineteen-eighteen was a great year for endings. It ended the Great War. Ended German Autocracy. Ended submarine boat piracy. Ended Hohenzollern and Hapsburg rule. But it left__ MOUNTAINS OF WORK AHEAD! There’s peace to make for more than 30 nations. Peaceful prosperity to bring back to all nations and peoples. A League of Nations to make under the hope that it will make for world:peace’ forever. American problems of economics, polities,’ in- dustry and health to solve. Why— NINETEEN-NINETEEN MUST HUSTLE! There are only gcing to be 365 days in 1919, and it’ll keep everybody busy to get things squared away and running right in that time! This ought to be a great year for beginnings and doings! Of course it’s a new year, and it’s true the war has changed many things and written many les- sons for us to learn, but— IT’S THE SAME OLD WORLD! We're going to make good resolutions and keep ’em as long as we can, as usual; marry and work; and live in houses just as we've always been doing | ever since we cai’ remember. a | BUT IT’S A DIFFERENT WORLD! It hag;some new problems and a lot of new light; on old ones. We're neighbors now to the folks across the seas. Some of us have kin and green graves of | our heroes “Over There.” But we’re thinking; More now abcut the Other Fellow right here than ‘Swe used to think, and we're all resolved to make this— Editor SULATION yA BETTER COUNTRY WORLD! Lét’s go to it! Happy New Year to you! IN A BETTER SEE WHAT HAPPENED TO THE POWER- GREEDY TRIBE OF HOHENZOLLERN For a minute let’s study the lesson of the Hchen-; zollern tribe’s tumble: Hohenzollerns were abcve the law in the Ger- | many they created and misruled. Nobody could arrest one of them, no matter what they did or didn’t do. They could break speed laws, moral codes, re- ligious rules, and evade taxes with impunity and immunity. Only William the Devil could punish a member of the tribe. And William thought no- body could punish him. Well, there’s a new deal ncw. New Germany has decreed that hereafter all Hohenzollerns shall be amenable to and under the civil law, subject to arrest for lawbreaking, just like burglars and other criminals. From petty thieving the Hohenzollerns rose in olden Germany to gang-leaders. Then they be- came robber-barons. They evoluted into, “divine right” despots. They held the lines of all Germans, the property of all Germany at the, mercy of their word. So much power made them greedy to rule the world. In the attempt they grew dizzy and fell into— Holland. Power should be shared, not hogged. NATURE, ROOTS AND PILLS Pills! Mysterious globules! Indian Medicine Men and fakirs, all choose this form in which to administer their potions. The world’s mest extraordinary pill has been discovered—by a woman. She found it in her husband’s pocket, labeled “To make a man tired of His Wife!” He’s a bigamist. His real wife blames the pill. Some of us believe in pills so intensely that to swallow any old pill when we're ill makes us think we're well or getting well fast. We' blame the pill, so to sgpak. Nature doesn’t get the credit of the cure. The woman doesn’t think the pill that drove her husband away was only a symbol. The root of the trouble was deeper and broader than that pill. It was somewhere grounded in Na- ture. That’s where most roots are—not in pills or pill boxes. i Pictures of the Bolshevists reveal that they are pot Shavian Socialists. Pine rt SMe to Win Wonderful BY RICHARD SPILLANE, ' (Editor of “Commerce and Finance,” and Special Writer for the Daily Tribune, Assigned to Humanize and iVtalize the Topics of Economics and Reconstruction. Thertirst day’ of the year of opti-| mism! , Man looks on life with smiling eyes. The past is past, The future only counts. Today autocracy is dead. racy lives. Kingship is but an, orna- mental fixture meaning no more than does the figurehead at a vessel’s prow. No event in history is comparable in extent and profound signifiicance to, that which marked the recent years. On America no less than upon Eu- rope its effect is deep. America has been termed the new world. Today, in a sense, it is the old and what is the new for our policies. our ideas, our ideals, which are old with us have become the new policies, the new ideas, the new ideals of the old world and America has vaulted to world leadership in finance, in trade, in in- fluence. World Is Looking Me, To the Great Republic. Today the world looks to the great! republic for inspiration, direction and financial aid in the great departure on which it has embarked. On the manner in which America meets its} obligations much that affects the wel- fare of mankind depends. (Let us see what these obligations are and what capacity America has! for fulfilling them. ‘Europe has been the workshop of the world. It has drawn raw mater- ials from the less developed . parts of the earth, turned them into finish- ed goods and sold them the world over at good profit. It has opened ‘conti- nents, spanned the seas. It has been the banker, the merchant, the carrier. And now, suddenly, the situation has been changed. _ Britain, leader in world trade, in finance, in manufac- ture, has had its labor forces crip- pled by war, its merchant fleets re- duced, its wealth impaired. ‘ Germany, second in rank, is bank- rupt, torn by revolution. its mercan- tile marine a thing of the past, its trade only a memory. France, industrially, is disabled and will be for years. | So is Austria. | Of the great nations America alone! is in the ful flush of man power, ma- chine power, material power and fin-; ancial power. | Business Demand Turns to America. The world that has sold its raw ma- terial to Europe and bought or got in| exchange finished goods must turn to! America for much of what it needs or go without. It cannot go without. It is stripped to the bone. It hungers for clothes, machinery, everything that means civilization. Europe will strive to hasten its res- toration but the process must be slow. Democ- BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE "7a ‘World Trade Fair and Honorable Methods. : calling to America to pour its goods out ty them. ‘There is basis for a commerce that.can-be- broadened into the greatest any nation ever enjoyed. And commerce: is''the life’ blood of a nation. Unfortunately neither the American nker, American manufacturer nor American merchant has appreciated to the full heretofore the worth of world markets. The domestic mar- et was so immgyse that, it’ was. suf-: cient or seemedpso to them. They never gave to world trade the study, the patient care. the increasing atten- tion which made for success with the Europeans. They must do so now or the loss to America will be stupendu- ous for on the American fanufacturer and merchant depend the success of the monster fleet this country is building. On their conduct of our for- eign trade depends the continued pros- perity of the army of labor in Ameri- can mines, mills, shops and factories. World trade can be established only on the foundation of good merchandiz- ing and good service. The American laborer is the best laborer in the world. The American manufacturer is the cleverest and most enterprising {in the world. The American merchant, however, has not j@lways proved, him- self a good merchant in foreign trade. He must do it nowsor. he will not do his duty. f American Banker; Laying Foundations, Today America is building ships at a rate ships never were built before; building ships faster than,Great "Brit- ain is building ‘thém; ‘building them to make the Stars’and Stripes familiar. in every port of every sea; building them to carry and to keep prosperity into every American home. “s sarreete(* BUSINESS MAN’S NEW YEAR RESOLVE? HONEST GOODS AT FAIR | America Stands Today at the Door of Opportunity. PRICES! Today American bankers are lay- ing ‘the lines of’ American finance throughout the globe to facilitate trade. Within little more than-a yea one New: York bank has estaljished 30. branches in ‘foreign lands—15 ‘under its own name and’ 24 throughsa subsi- diary. It is, organizing 41 others in foreig countries. One of its branches in Buenos Aires has grown to have deposits of $33,009,000 and now a sec- ond bank*is being established by it in that city. A bank is being established in Rosario, 150 miles up the Parana. Who knows of Rosario? And yet Rosario is the Duluth.and.the Minne- apolis of South America. Within a few weéks the New York vank has arranged to open banks in Madrid. Barcelona, Lisbon, Zurich and Brussels or Antwerp. Within a few years its branch banks will dot the world. What this particular bank is do- ing other banks are doing to-a minor degree. Be Thankful You are Alive! Asia, Africa, all the Americas are nearer today by reason of the war than before. They will be much nearer before another New Year rolls around. Be thankful you are alive. You have lived in the most marvelous and most glorious period in the world’s history. 'No drama, no tale, no happening, noth- ing“ imagined © approachés in~ * magni- tude, in magnificence, i tragedy, in importance one week'#™tnfolding : of the kaleidescopic. wonder story of the war that now is ended. And no period i 1 history has so much of promise, or prosperity of human progress and human good, es: pecially in this land of America, as that which opens with the New Year. “Made «in. Americ: ould be the standard. of honest goods, excellent gods at fair prices the world over. That is a good idea on which to base your New Year’s resoution, be ; you banker, merchant, manufacturer or laborer, for it concerns all alike. A New World for the New Year! Lay the dead Past cn its dismal bier. The hideous. monster of the triple-head, Menace, Malignancy and Might, is dead, And they who died to slay it hold it fast “Let us, the It will take a long, long time to repair the ravages of such a terrible war. Not only the nations that drew on Europe for goods but Europe itself must turn to America for money, for material, for supplies. for finished goods. ‘Never did nation have opportunity such as the world lays before Amer- ica now. There are markets today, there will be markets for years eager for everything America has to sell. lines ‘of trade woe. “Whoso shall take the sword dies by the ~ Within a deepening grave. The Past is past. living, see that no new seed Of. despotism rears a later breed. We are as all men are, and should we go The Prussian path shall meet the Prussian sword!” So spake a And Truth is. even as true for you and me As spoken _ Wherefore the Past being past, shall we not / , Year _ A New World for the New Year? Man whom men call Lord, by the shores of Galilee. TUESDAY, DEC. 31,1918. ————_—_—_—_— woeeweeeenccewecsenenseeeccoooneeneeese THE REASON FOR FEAR FOUND J. Howard Moore, in a remarkable little ‘book entitled “Savage Survivals,” has built up a pic- ture of our development from the lower animals. “Man also was once a wild animal,” is his theme, and he shows that nearly all the instincts which we possess today have been handed down to us by ancestors of the jungle, hills and valleys. “Fear,” he says, “is one of the oldest instincts of this world. - It existed long before man, and was inherited by him. from prehuman ancestors. Fear first appears somewhere near the worm stage of animal development, and is found in all animals above this stage. Fear is the instinct to shrink from danger or enemies. ; MAY HIS, WEAPON PROVE:AS WORTHY AS THE SWORD || ing, or.taking its bath? It takes.a bite, and then “Mooks around. Then it will take another bite, and look again. It is always on the lookout for ene- mies. It always sleeps with one eye open. animals have enemies, and they are able to main- tain themselves in the world only by constant vigilance. 3 “Every antelope in South Africa has literally to run for its life every day or two on an average, and it starts or gallops under the influence of alarm many times in a day. Many animals that live in flocks or herds have developed the practice sentinels while the rest are eating.” . Fear still lies at the root of many of man’s least progressive impulses, but man’s fear does not com- pare with the fear shown by wild animals. Curi- ously, some of our surviving fears are quite un- reasonable, being merely the inherited terror of some evil that. used to exist in the.days, of our ancestors. Take the fear which we have of snakes and spiders. It is out'of all proportion to circum- stances, and is probably inherited largely’ form the monkey.—London Tit-Bits. SHORTSIGHTED, AS USUAL While Chairman Hurley of the emergency fleet is in Europe on the quixotic errand of persuading the British government, or the British shipbuilder, or somebody, or anybody, to raise seamen’s wages —Chinese, Lascars and the others—so that Amer- ica can compete with Great, Britain on the sea, af- fairs with the, shipping board are in the usual mess. That.bady, created to’build ships, has'at have served all maritime nations since the days of vessels, Yet here is the Foundation company, a reputable and responsible concern, striving. to get a reledse, ships for the French, in competition with the build- ers of the world. : Hurley’s board; nor, so far as has been: discloged has the United States offered a steel contrict to 'the Foundation corporation to keep its. yards. going. In effect, Foundation cannot, build for the French nor for anyone. oie! thertib ates fs Here; again, isa continuation, in the old familiar fashion, of the shipping board policy that drove this same Foundation company to build yards in Canada, where it would be free to construct on foreign account. No difficulties are encountered there about the appropriate development of a sound policy by which any concern may build ships for anybody who can and will pay for them. Here, however, thousands of men: are to be thrown out of employment, and a growing industry paralyzed, by failure of the shipping board to see that.the way to make the United States a great great shipbuilding nation—Portland Oregonian. — ‘A GERMAN VIEW OF IT. Our: soldiers: are“coming back from: the war. All ‘roads ‘from ‘the west are thickly filled with their columns. The Rhine railway bridges, are with dirt and mud, tattered in their external ap- pearance, their heads bowed in fatigue and flaming misery=thus they come back to us, our sons and brothers,: still two, three or four million in num- ber. We cannot greet them with loud hurrahs or with flowers, whose glaring colors would only. hurt their eyes and hearts. But we greet them nevertheless! We greet them with the waving ban- ners of honor, with grave homegrown evergreen, and with a quiet, strong handclasp which shall bid them welcome, and say to them how glad we are to have them home again, and. which, above all, ex- presses our thanks to them. x We greet you, German soldiers! Germany has lost the war. _ But you have won yours. You have rescued Germany’s honor and thus conferred upon our fatherland the possibility of raising itself up and building anew. German soldiers! when one day you take your grandchildren on your knee and tell them all about this war, you need not be ashamed. All Germans—peasants, tradesmen, clerk, mer: chant, father, mother, everybody—are to blame for the loss of the war because they too long placea their destinies blindly in the hands of kaiser, chancellor, deputies, bureaucrats, and police.— Frankfort Gazette of Nov. 19. Wonder if Herr Lowlyzollern’s heart still bleeds Sate for France? \ Swiss government-owned railroads are famous for, low rates, even if Swiss hotelkeepers aren’t:; “Have‘you ever noticed a bird eating, or drink-* It: is:. pursued always by a pitiless state of fear. All wild . of having certain individuals in the group act as. : last decided that it will have no wood ships, which a \: the Phoenecians, and that nothing will do bit'steel * It cannot get cdnsent of Mr, © maritime nation is to encourage it to become a, choked ‘with long trainloads of them.~ Covered ° from the shipping board so'that it may build steef!:*.? *