The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 20, 1919, Page 4

_ NHURSDAY, FEB. 20;71919." THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postgttice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second bs 8 Matter. GEORGE D. MANN -_ = = G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative NEW YOFK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege .; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exc! 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- ished herein. f € ~All rights of publication of special dispatches herein also reserved. ‘MEMBERS AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year $7.5 Daily by mat per year {in Bite ck Daily yy mail per year (in outsi by mail outside of North Dakota. . THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. Established 1873) <a> ee ITS: AGAIN. STYLISH TO WEAR A SECTION OF STOVE PIPE ON YOUR BEAN Hat manufacturers report that the peace con- ference is bringing the silk hat back into fashion. This is part of the price we must pay for hav- ing the world made safe for democracy. Overalls and canvas gloves would be more ap- propriate at the peace conference, for the really important problems to be solved have to do with the common man. But somehow diplomats feel that they can’t “diplomat” things to real effect unless they get out their silk kellies. Just how a man can feel more dignified. and important-looking with a section of stovepipe on his head, is a question we have often pondered. Matters had come to a pass where silk hats were’ worn “only by minstrel men, undertakers, profiteers, business doctors'and bankers’ conven- tions. It had even gotten so nobody could wear one. in public without starting a riot. ;* Pay Why is a silk hat? Answer: because it is a badge of supposed superiority or namby-pamby respectability. It is an easy matter to guess who are buying them. They have seen the pictures of the statesmen now in Paris holding post-mortem on a dead world. They have observed that the statesmen wore silk hats—and cculd not resist aping them. The same: fellows side-stepped th e,.army but wore-trench coats,and boots that counterfeited the]: pot real thing. If Jesg Willard-or Clemenceau lic wearing roller skates on their Randi always be&e plenty of imitators. :% People with a passion ‘for violent’clothing are three-quarters insane. So claims Dr. Bernard Holz, an expert on brain diseases. Holz is a German and possibly he got his idea from the kaiser’s 600 uniforms. “A certain proportion of lunatics,” says Dr. Holz, “owe their troubles to the influence of fashion. Hysteria, for example, is essentially a fghion nerwpug disease.” 4,7 A genius is a man who doesn’t look ‘silly-in a silk hat. : Woodrow Wilson can get away with it, but his best pictures are those in which he wears a cap— and, even more kindly and human, where he is bare-headed. You.may have noticed that while the president, Licyd George and Clemenceau wear the silk hat on occasion, the camera always. catches them smirking in a guilty fashion and looking as if they wished someone would knock it off with a cane. There is a reason. No truly democratic person feels comfortable in a silk kelly. It may come back—hatmakers report a great demand—but only for a time: ‘The silk hat is the last-vf the great crowns of royalty, and it can never last in the new world in which no man is any other.man’s superior. eared in pub- hey would Each day’s developments make everlasting peace seem more desirable and less probable. DESERTS Sand. Sagebrush. Flat lands, mountains away yonder in the haze. The train rushes swiftly, noisily along. The jackrabbits jump startled from the clumps of sagebrush dotting the face of the sandy plain. The eye wearies with the endless, monotonous panorama stretching for hundreds of miles. Here and there a shabby board shack. A woman, a child clinging to her skirts, looking out at the flying train—Thinking what? What do you see? Only a barren, monotonous expanse of parched desert? Dry, treeless, far from river or lake or ocean, hopeless under the listering sky? )pen your eyes! Off yonder roll mountains of water. It is salt. Mountain peaks intervene between that sea and that.desert. < | Comes a scientist some day with vision and the faith that believes much and so does great things. , Rivers of that ocean water are distilled and sent over and through the black, black mountains the sleeping giant of human genius. The big, benevolent things can be done just as’ well as the big, malevolent things have been done. Open your eyes! { Only a desert? Or a paradise? y, THE ANNUAL VICTORY OF SPRING AS VIEWED THROUGH RURAL EYES Well, they’re getting longer, praises be. What’s getting longer? The days, brother, the days; the distance be- tween the cold, cold morn and the cold, cold eve is | unwinding its frozen length, and sometimes, along in the middle of the day, on the south side of the ey barn, we actually get a bit of warmth. Maybe this doesn’t mean much to townfolks who would just as soon dress by an electric light as the sun, but back on the farm they are marking these daylight minutes, believe us, When you drag on the half dczen teats of 16 cows; and slop 20 shotes, and curry eight horses, and pitch nine tons of hay. and build three fires and have breakfast, and then wait an hour before it gets light enough to see without that smoke blackened, oil stenched, accursed lantern, that casts a shadow where you work, and usually goes out just when you are pouring milk, eternity draws near. You know what forever and ever and ever, amen, really means. And about the time you get thawed out from the morning chores it gets dark again and you have another six months or so before bed time. No sir, cn the farm the end of February is mighty welcome! ne The sun is getting up a minute earlier ‘every morning and going to bed a-minute later. He is on the job nearly ‘an hour longer than he was holiday time, and pretty soon he’ll be getting up two minutes earlier every morning and retiring ‘a couple of minutes later each evening. Jokesters who sneer at the rural perusal of the almanac never attended tc farm chores in the winter time. Next to a continual and satisfying sense of personal salvation, that more of our grandfathers had than their children, the farm almanac, with its daily two minutes of added sunshine, is the best friend and comforter through January and February. ‘And. the dear. creatures can’t express their opinion of the senate because they are not per- mitted to use that kind of words. @ ; that Ger- If the world is fool enough to : now, it many will keep any promise or a, deserves the licking it so nearly got. « The best argument for more stringent armis- tice terms is the army of. eighteen divisions Hin- denburg has ready for further trouble. Peace found the Hun in need of many things, in the’ Tesson’Pershing was teaching him w time was called on November 11. The world will never be perfect until an amendment to the constitution guarantees the in- alienable right of the busy man to crack a chair over the head of a professional loafer who con- sumes his time. TI aT TTS aaa es | WITH THE EDITORS | ANOTHER CENTENARIAN William Benediet ,Gibgon of New Marlboro, reached his 100th birthdag on Sunday, and: at his home welcomed many friends and townspeople. He was born on Feb. 9, 1819, in the house at New Marlboro, where he has spent-his entire life about two miles south of the village of Southfield. He has engaged in farming and for 50 years he ran the sawmill which later his only son, George Wil- liam Gibson has conducted. In 1874 Mr. Gibson served as state representative from his district, and for about 12 years was a member of the board of selectmen. He has also been honored with most of the other town offices and on many occasions has declined to accept further election. His sister, Mrs. Mary Hawley, died about two years ago at the age of 95 years. They were of revolutionary an- cestors as their grandfathers on both sides were prominent in that war.—Boston Transcript. RULED BY “WIND BAGS” Dr. Charles A. Eaton, who preached Sunday at the Madison Avenue Baptist church, paused in his eulogy of Colcnel Roosevelt to attack the appoint- ment of George Herron, the exponent of free love, as a representative of this country on a mission to treat with the bolsheviki. but his :mos¢'urgent need is a post¢graduate any 4 n F Saeernane nena DELL 1S WORRIED. Dell Paterson’s voice has not ‘been for the last two. days. Friends say tie gentleman from Donnybrook is. still Searching ‘for a pat reply to t retort from Lafe Twichell. _STILL A GOOD MAN. § Although two years have with only a few months of harg work in between Governor Lynn J. tempted to forcibly compel thé ‘chief the house members. The governor pulled his captors outside the. house chamber. and’ half-way across the Job- by. just to prove to them t@at he’ could, before tamely consenting to be shot byt hey camegagian. 8 (NEIGHBOR OF DICKENS One‘of the most interesting; mem- laim « Pleasance,.’ veteran representa: tive from Pembina county. Represent- ative Pleasance .was a native of Ro- chester. Eng., his: boyaood Home ‘de- ing . within five. miles of Charles Dickens’ estate at-Gadg Hill. The countryside, says ‘Mr. Pleasance, was often entertained by’ Dickens, whose Personal acquaintance the legislator enjoyed. Mr. Pleasance witnessed the preparation of Dickens’ grave at Gads Hill and the arrangements for the local funeral for the great writ- er which was abandoned in deference to a world-wide demand that the re- mains of the novelist find a last rest- ing place.at Westminster’ abbey. SOME TALKER. Tom Pendray, pioneer Stutsman county farmer and stenator from his district. is a Cousin Jack copper min- er by birth and tradition.. Dickiin the early eighties when, his’ father and mother came out from the Michigan Copper Country: to 2 a Stute- man couniy home x1 bre’er wolf; came poking his nose about the door 50 promiscous that young To:n decid- it back to the minse to earn withal for ihe daily “yastic.’ He, in common with other Cornish miner members of the Stutsman coun- ty colony, spent several .wintevs back in Michigan, wresting native copper from the hardstrap rock nf Keweenaw county. It was* a practice in taose days for For Plies Send Today for Free Trial ef ‘mld Pile Treatment and Happiness. . If you suffer #6 badly you can’t wait for the free. tri et a 60 cent box of Pyramid Bir; egtment at the “Today the country is in the hands of a set of fools,” he said. “When I think of George Herron as the representative of this country on a great mission I bow my head in shame.” Speaking of the strike in Seattle, he said: “I know Ole Hanson. He realized at once that this strike was not a labor strike based on griev- ances. He knew it for what it was intended to be, and he acted. He warned those people that they in pipelines to that sandy plain. _ Geeen ‘grass springs up; homes; The desert “blossoms as the rose.” - Impossible? learning to do big things. The war has awakened ae towns ; . cee the government is made of mollycoddlers or men.” Asserting that the government was. without program or policy of reconstruction, he said: | “Thirty years ago we were ruled by. money bags. Today we are ruled by wind bags.”—New York Times, ! : were still in America. It remainj.to be seen if} lay. drugstore, Take no eub- I ick; relief has been ® wonderful’ ble , fu Slesatne to a hast of fier e executive to sit for sis picture with} himself a hero: tiqnal. qu: PEOPLE'S FORUM | bers of the present assembly is Wil- |. everyone to suspend work]. | STATE HOUSE NEWS FOR THE DAY LEGISLATIVE AND OFFICIAL. GOSSIP AND DOINGS oY when the captain came around. . The honor due him offered a legitimate heard. to the usual extent in the house | opportunity: for everyone to cnjoy a brief respite. his noon: Junch, or “croust,” with the t hot.! boys. Usually the captain ate One; day.on such an occasion Tom engaged’the captain in .conversa- tion over a-sermon he had heard ‘by a 1 Jocal preaehtr!the night before. he debate. over ‘the. feligious' ‘and m dlidlities of this ‘discourse Becamm so | intéfesting’ that i mtthetWoted the Frazier proyed: that he has softened | lapse ‘of . time: to no notable extent Wednesday when | with Speaker Stair and the house sergeant| watch, seized, his candle and hurried at arms, both’ unusually big men, at®/ off down, the. stope. ral Finally the captain an’ “exclamation looked at, his He had wakted an hour’ and ‘a_half.~’ And’-Tom found “Damme, son,” .said an aged nine! keep Cap'n, S: ou MESSAGE FROM PINCHOT. Real Estate. Trust Building, ‘ Philadelphia, Pa. Fedruary 15, 1919. Editor, The Tribne. Dear Sir: In the matter of the conservation of coal( ofl, and phosphate publicly owned in Alaska and the west, we are at the end of the lane. Within the next few days congress’ will decide either to use them for the public ben- efit under public control, or to ley them open to private exploitation. As to these vital resourges, the Rovsevelt | er COMPANY'S COMING ~ Mery jvork, OLd LADY BoREAS conservation policies are about to be reversed or sustained. The danger.that they will be re- versed is so critical that there was' no time to communicate with you before issuing a wire statement’ regarding the recent conference report to the house and senate, in which I said: “This measure is of more lasting importance to the people of this coun- try ‘than any other now before con- gress. The American ‘people ar3 in danger of“losing“ownership: and: con- trol of our natural resources that still remain in their hands. cafled a conservation ‘bills It ig ngt- It. called. a Jeasing .billi Ip? fact’ it, camouflaged attempt hot! to! leawe’ ut to sell’ the#e resources! @ut of pud- Netise and control. 2h, Noe “Ten years ago President Roose- velt, roused ‘by the'looting -of: our: pub- lic lands, jbegan the long fight ‘to se- cure the benefits of their resources for the.American..people....In a_mes-. sage:to the second sesison of the 59th congress hé ‘safd: ‘It’ is not wise that the nation should “alienate its ‘remain- ing coal lands,’ and he held taem for .| theypeople.¢ This‘ ill: opens them! to -| alienation. It also repeals the hard- won law which now permits,.the coa labdé: Of Alaska tothe developed unde: lease but protects them from being sold; into private hands.;> ~ . 14 “President Roosevellj remade’ the navy of the. United States, and, keld -its welfare as the ‘apple of his eye. This bill is so vaguely drawn as apparently to-deprive the navy of its reserves of Alaskan coal, which may be so vital to ig power in the Pacitic. “He also de- nounced the effort of the enemies of conservation to turn the naval oil re- serves over to prompt exhaustion through private ownership. What he denounced this bill puts through. “The house has just passed tie alrgest naval bill in the world’s his- tory. \ Why ‘should congress jeopard- ize the coal and oil for which the navy asks and on which its strength may .finally depend? “For the sake of farmer and con- sumer alike, it was President Roos se MR. TRUG, LSC ME COOK AT. You PAPER A MINUTE. ™E= GLANCS AT THE Pax I Sey | RINANCIAL PACE a FUGR, MR, SALC S$. Your LANDLADY THE t WANT To AND Ses WHAT'S TAKE ANOTHER LITTLE Tais bill is| velt who saved great sources of fer- tility In’ our phosphate’ idnds’ fer the comomn good. This bill undoes his “Again it was president Koosevelt who! sot aside the Grand Canyon of the Colorado,, the, greatest scenic won- der of the world, for the free enjoy- mont of the people. This bill opéns its lunds to private appropriation and overthrows his purpose. “This bill endangers ‘the ‘National Forests, of which President Roosevelt set astde for public use more acres than all other presidents combined. “Are the: government: departments affected asking for this. measure? Is the secretary of the:navy for it? Or the attorney general? Or the secre- tary of the interior? Or the secre- tary of agriculture? “Neither the people of the west nor any. others will find the cost of-coal or gasoline or: fertilizer reduced by allowing the title to these public re- sources to pass to private interests. “We have jwaited.long for this bill. If necesasry Jet us. wait the few addi- tional days. required to get it rigat. There is no need to jam it through. “This is not the bill whose leas- ing provisions, as introduced in the house, ‘had go’ much to recommend them. It is the house billsienatured by many of the worst provisions from the’ senate ‘bill. . “This bill fs a direct attack on the Rosevelt conservation policies, : poli- cles which were of all the most pe- cullarly his own, and it comes at a time when congress, the nation, and the world have paid him such a trib- ute or recognition and respect as was never known before. “In Col. Roosevelt’s last message to our people he said: ‘We have room but’ for one loyalty, and that is loy- alty to the American people. If ho was loyal to the interest of the Amer- can, people, then ‘this bill is not. If Roosevelt was right, this dill is wrong.” Will you throw tne weigat of: your influence against, this iniquity by making the facts known?? ‘Vigorous efforts, will, be made to. ji this bill ‘through before its character is gen- erally ascertained. There is no:ques- tion on which, side public opinion will ~:{‘stitud? once the ‘people kwbw the facts. That is why.I ask.you, to, give them to your readers. Sincerely. yours, GIFFORD PINCHOT, ARE WAKING UP. Enumet, N. D., Feb. 15, 1919. 'Editor of Tribune, . Deur Sir: 1 have been reading the { proceedings ‘of the: league in the: state house and it is hurd to sit still and say nothing after making a hard fight uguinst it in the last election.” Our , brother’ farmiers around” here are get- ting cold feet as they see the league program. put. iuto, operation without letting them'vote on certain things, as ‘the league told them they should have a chance to before clection. /;‘They pave commenced ito holler already and ‘Suy no: more league for them. Before elegtion thése sathe farmers w tell ngitheig neighbgts @ stuy“out jebt * +e en they turner Bund att voted the Jeugue tickat, with the sky Jr the limit tor ittbMhaness Can't the farmery; sel Hat sin- gle tax is leading already. . GFuzing land has’advanced 100 per cent if you wish to. rent, and it ‘will’ be higher. Now, Mr. Furmer, who is going to pay the fiddler? It isn’t the man Ww! ree Ls Sate pashing to go into business. security: und borrows money of some Big Biz to's tied Lowclulig right Weside him to put Big Biz tothe bu Big, has hud'lu ‘)ifetinie of experience. Now, who do you imagine will” come out best?) Ifyou, think, Mr. rmer, it is: 86 easv to buck up aguinst some- thing of this kind-and see the outcome. Mr. Taft has said the league was dig- ging its own grave, and we are paying very dear for thie job. 5 Our school system was fine two years ago’ and no doubt would have’ gone along just as smooth us it ever did had Miss: Nielson had # chance, but. there is no chance with such selfish, unfair people at the head of the stute. -Had it been Kate’ no doubt she ‘would have had a hearty welcome. One of the writers for the league paper stated he thought’ Mr.. Townley would be :ready for President Wilson's shoes when the president was doe ‘with the job. I ik itis time for Mr, Baer to:draw picture for Townley’s ‘funny -puper, showing the league men on their way to’ Washington. $ Afid you taxpayers: bette ask your- self if the 73 per;cent. bunch is ‘going to help you out when the pinch ¢omes. Did you ever borrow, when the pay day ‘didn’t roll atound? Nobody but men like your leader, Mr. Townley, can get by with that kind of stuff.” And if you’re not in the lead, drawing the ‘small sum of $250 ner.month,-it is time to drop out and get into some- thing honorable, and not an institution to uphold horse thieves and in fact anything to beat some man ‘out of his money he has saved.- If you do not believe this look at some of the ap- pointments, and see the laws they are trying to put through. If you are u Christian mun and speech in the Tribune of Fe. 1:3, 191%, thenread the speech of 1 mun, Mr. Taft, and see the difference... Mr. Townley’s talk is just jike his press, full of soft stuff to the farmer, but this seems to be what the farmers of North Dakota want. The trouble with Mr. Ways starts in ‘busine the wrong end (the top). Start a boy out with an oversupply of money and what will happen. You at. ‘once would. sny, fail- ure, and.as sure as fate the league has a big start on that line. Mr. Frazier must not forse: there Is always room for the gool men at the top, and ‘it’ would be foolish to:think -would stick to.a state like Nortn wiley he al- some patriotic country. PRM! Wishing success to allithe boys who are Scrapping, and if they only stick to the ship a couple of years they will have easy sailing, as the league is losing fast. ‘ Yours respectfully. CHAS. BUFFINGTON, _ An Emmet Farmer. Committee to prepare for the tran- eat from the German‘to the Danish system and to work in counec- tion with the reunion of North Schles- wig with Denmark have been formed. Carney Coal Phone 94 think Townley all: right, ad his * Dakota. when they can get a job in‘ ee ee | |