The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 19, 1919, Page 8

PAGE 8 DIGNITY WEIGHS HUN DELEGATES Weimar, Feb. 18—Some of the new made “statesmen” at the German con- stituent a: bly here are funnier than a backwoods congressman just breaking into Washington. They have a _pussion for cutuway coats and striped trousers. They looked like department store floorwalkers. Everyone carries a huge leather port- manteau. Every now and then, between bites or sips, they ceremoniously unlock the cases and drag out great sheuves of important looking documents. With grave, dignified expression thev'd shuf- fle through the popers, frowning just lke a congressman doing some heavy thinking on matters of state. They spent the rest of the time argu- ing polities or jotting down notes for forthcoming speeches. They certainly take themselves serious! HAM AN’ EGGS That’s Breakfast of American Peace Mission in Paris Paris, Feb. 18—Ham and eggs, hot cakes and sirup and bread, butter und _ coffee. That’s the sort of fuel the members of the American peace mission take on board every morning before tack- Mng the job of unscrambling world af- fairs, Three hundred of these can breakfasts are served ev ing in the dining room of the Hotel Crillon. Since its Americanization the hotel has almost entirely abandoned the Parisian breakfast of coffee, bread und jam. Luncheons and dinners are also served. Food comes from the army commissary und Parisian markets. Soldiers are installed in every de- partment of the hotel except the din- ing room); The French manager, M. Henri Dequis, and Lieutenant W .L. Black, formerly of the Vanderbilt ho- tel in New York, run things. Balzac’*s old house at Passy, France,. is/to be repaired'and restored in qeder to form)a real Balzac mu- seum,. qe Settlement of South Africa by the English is being stimulated by Sir Percy Fitz Patrick in England for that purpose, Carney Coal Phone 94 O. E. Anderson Lbr. C. and Parts When in need of expert mechanical work, bring your car to us. Look over our battery department, it is the most completely equipped in the state. AUTOMOBILE PAINTING You will be interested in com- paring our work with that of other shops. MISSOURI VALLEY ‘MOTOR ‘CO. CARL PEDERSON, Mgr. Bismarck North Dakota “CLEAN AS A WHISTLE” “Ah!” That's what they all say. We guarantee our work. Mail Orders Filled Promptly real Ameri- ery juorn- Ss ‘GOLD DIGGER . H. DUCKWORTH, N. E. A. Staff Correspondent New York, Feb. 19.—Tex Rickard, the “Little Corporal” of boxing pro- moters, is without doubt the most pic- turesque figure that ever got into the fight game. To watch this quiet voiced fellow lolling in lux at the Hotel Biltmore and handling diplomatically all kinds of pirates anxious to get in on the $200,000 serap, from movie magnates al estate sharks, you would never that he was once a rough geld “Go,” cried the Mayor, (National Crop Improvement Service.) R centuries an enemy has been at work in our midst destroying millions of the world’s population, in comparison with which the great European War would be a mere skir- ish, “The rat is responsible for more deaths among humiau beings than all the wars of history. Oceans fail to limit its activities,” says Mr. Frank Baackes, vice ident of the Ameri- can Steel and Wire Company. “The great plague of London, which killed more than half the inhabitants. was by no means the worst outbrea for the plague called ‘black ~ death devastated Europe for fifty years, kill- ing two-thirds or three-fourths of the population in large territories, or about twenty-five million persons. India has lost since 1896 nearly nine millions of its inhabitants. “The disease .is still ravaging Asia, Africa, Australia and South America and has now attacked Europe and North America. “Through the fleas that infest them, rats are of course wholly responsible for the transmission of the bubonic plague, and it has been proved also that rats are active agents in spread- ing pneumonic plague. Septic pnev- monia and epidemic jaundice in man and trichinae in the pig have also been traced to the rat. He is also sus- pected of being the carrier of infan- tile paralysis. He undoubtedly car- ries many kinds of infectious germs from his haunts of filth, leaving them upon human food. “Doctors disagree as to the origin of the so-called influenza. although most. of them have agreed that it is closely PAGE THE PIED PIPER. - Poke out the nests and stop up the holes.” related to the pneumonia which so frequently follows. May not the rat have had something to do with the spreading of this recent plague? Annual Loss by Rats. “The economic loss due to rats would pay the interest on our public debt. He destroys $200,000,000 worth of property: annually in the United States, and proportionate amounts in every other country. It is hardly thinkable that a civilized peuple should rest supinely, under such con- ditions and let this evil. continue. The constant labor of an army of more 000 acres to grow rat food. “We have been fighting the rat for centuries, but owing to'our lack of * methods and concerted action made no progress. We must kill the rat but we must bulld TEX RAN A GAMBLING JOWT ;can bear a tuxedo as gracefully as Reg: gle Vanderbilt. Get into conversation with Rickard and you at once tind out how the once humble miner became the biggest fight promoter in history. He has the spirit of adventare tem- pered with quiet self-possession. HE'LL YARN ONLY OF HIS YUKON DAYS I couldn’t get TeX to talk of Willard, Dempsey or the world’s heavywelght championship, but he was wilting to yarn about his Yukon days. “I crossed the Chilkoot Pass in 6,” “and get long-poles; “Prof. David E. Lantz, Asst. Biolo- gist in the U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey, has written a most compre- hensive article for the year book of Agricultute for 1917. i “I believe that the encouragement of the boys’ clubs, in connection with many farm bureaus to conduct orgin- ized rat campaigns, will do the busi- ness. In any rural community which is badly infested with rats, it is a good plan to organize rat clubs in every school district and offer prizes every month and also a bounty for rat tails. “In order to Begin the work a meet- ing should be ¢alled of the commer- clat clubs, women’s clubs and the farm bureau‘gad the article above re- ferred to réid:.and discussed and prompt and efficient action taken. Prizes may be ‘provided by private donation or even by assessment of members. “The school children should each be assigned a smalt’territory, preferably their own homes, and report on all harbors where rats may propagate. The war spirit which has been engen- dered will so arouse the boy scouts that they will fight to the last ditch in order to exterminate the foe. “In every seaport vessels at dock should be required to place rat guards on all hawsers and should be breasted off by spars furnished with rat guards, This may require federal legislation, but it must be done. We Are Killing Our Allies. “We have been killing many of our best friends, allies which would make the battle easy. The natural enemies of rats and mice include beside the dog, cat and ferret, nearly all kinds of snakes, storks, herons, hawks, owls, skunks and weasels; and, sad to re- | City. TT) LOULING IN SU) xuiRy Jn We YD )sald Rickard. . “When I think of that Journey now, it'seems to me that I must then have been a giant. It was 60 below zero, and I dragged a sleign with 2 100-pound pack over suow waist, deep. “I had my ups and downs in that country. I staked out a claim, sold it for ' $17,500 and: the next owners took $350,000 out:of-4t:-*-Them'l prespected on another bum claim-for a year and finally sold out. for ‘$4,000. .“But it was easy come. easy go. T soon lost the-fortune gambling. I went flat_ broke. “Then I opened a, gambling joiut. 1 ran the game fair and square. It paid. The fellows who had a cro sked wheel next. door used to come into my place and lose all their ill-gotten winnings at*a game that was strictly on the} level. But gambling’s a poor business. T-went broke at this, too. OF-THE FINEST GUYS N THE WORLD” “It was a great life out at When |I was there there bunch of 300 of the finest gu; world. It was a hard life, but it was a-wholesome one. There was so much gold ‘around that nobody ever hid it. Everybody kept his tent wide open. When the owner was away a neigh Would go In and use the cooking uten- sls. often haying to remove from the stove pans of gold worth $5,000 that were being dried out. Gold was kept in. ofl and old tomato cans and in buckets. “Later I had a shot at running «a hotel in Goldfield. I cleaned up thou- HAVE COLOR IN CHEEKS " Be Better Looking—Take Olive Tablets — late, all of these enemies have been nearly exterminated by our desire to kill. something through prejudice or ignorance. “All the hawks, owls and weasels in the country combined do’ not de- stroy one-sixth as much poultry as the, common barn rat. “Buildings should be so constructed, ns to exclude the enemies from. shel- ter and food, and when the campaign ix under way an inspection committee should visit the premises wherever rats abound to see that it is eff ciently done. aE Z <“Will it be too costly? What do. rats cost now? If half the money flow spent in feeding and fighting the rats conld be expended in. wisely planned co-operative effort we could Kill off 90 per cent and insure our-/: selves completely from the fear of Hc bubonfe plague and other rat-borne sandéa 300 standing up ‘against the bar at 7 inthe morning—and now the whole country is going dry! “There was a man named Loule Mey- ers who built a hotel in Goldfield that hud gold knobs on all the doors.” Rickkard’s business sense is shown by the fuct that he intends to take out accident insurance in Lloyd’s to the amount of $40,000, which he will col- lect if elther Willard or Dempsey is injured, causing a costly postponement of the fight. /Rickard insured both Jeffries and Johnson to the extent of $35,000 ct the time of the Reno battlo. A New Stetson to Harmonize With That Spring Suit We have just received a particularly interesting as- sortment of Stetsons. The critical dresger will find among thent*the very hat he has been looking for. 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