The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 4, 1919, Page 4

PAGCE.4 - THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE G_EOGAN PAYNE COMPAN Y, ecial Foreign Representative NEW YOFK, Mrifth Ave. Bidg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege Blig.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use lished herein. ‘All rights of publication of special dispatches herein | are also reserved. av EMBERS AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIOD SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year ... Daily by mail outside of North Dakota...........-- 6.0 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. Established 1873) Sg — — ND SUGAR WILL BE “SOUR | e to SYRUP Cen see TO cone chiefly to the running off of ir In our youth almost every farm had a small vineyard and nearly every town place had a grape arbor. Today about the only grapes are grown by vine- yardists, and it appears that shortly they will pick another crop. Grape growing appears likely to be about as popular as hop growing, with prohibition all but upon us. While the major portion of the grapes of the country were not sold for wine, still the wir ket stabilized the situation and gave the an additional outlet that was usually needed. Likewise congress placed the ten per cent upon unfermented grape juices, and thereby h. ed the grape juice folks a jolt that will be passed on to the grower: Also, with labor, and fertilizer, and spr terials about 100 per cent higher, and with sands of acres of vineyards perishing fr age, lack of care, and fertility; with few ne plantings, and no immediate hope of there being any considerable acreage planted, the outlook is that the grape will about vanish. ! And yet the grape has, since history began, been one of the chief crops of the world. As a fruit it has more variety, more romance,| more uses than any other, and but recently tens) of millions were invested in the growing of the! grape and the manufacture of its products. j California scientists may have found one an- swer. Their work in manufacturing grape sugar} and syrup appears to have added another source} of sweetness to the list, and-grape sugar and syrup in time may become as important as the beet prod-} uct has in the nation’s dietery. But the idea of making a second grade mo- lasses out of what might have been a quart or two of Cliquot Club will cause ‘an awful’ peeve in the bosoms of some of our estwhile fervid sports. UNCLE SAM’S OLDEST WORKER IS TOO OLD TO WORK AND TOO POOR TO QUIT WORK Tom Harrison is 91 years old. For seventy-one; consecutive years he has been an employe of the United States government at Washington, having! served 50 weeks each year, six days each week. | corner on God’s affection. When Tom started work as clerk in the Naval Ob-| servatory Uncle Sam (That’s us, the American people) paid him $3 a day. He did his work well, and gradually we kept adding to his wages, a bocsting of his pay envelope every few years, until] we were paying him all of $35 a week. | But while we—his employers—were rais: Tom’s wages, sombeody was boosting the cost of|@bout as dishonorable as another. living on him, and this somebody was doing that faster and more thoroughly than we were énlarg-! ing the contents of his salary check. So Tom He never got the proverbial “nest egg,” and never; laid by much for the equally proverbial “rainy, day.” | boy. As we remarked, Uncle Sam raised Tom’s|t#booed by law. That’s Bolshevism. wages and somebody raised his cost of living. That| wasn’t so bad, from Tom’s standpoint—if both! ally took him backward by slow demotion. Today | Tom is getting the same wages—$18 a week— which he drew as a raw beginning in 1848. And} After working 71 years for his—and our—| government Tom Harrison is getting a boy’s wage.| Of course he’s old, too old to have to work; too He ought to retire and live at ease, with his flow-| ers and books and memories. He ought to have a! few days of quiet, peaceful, toilless rest before he| passes on. Why don’t you do that, Tom? | “Well,” he replied, “I can’t. -I haven’t been | able to save any money on what the government} paid me. I'd like to quit and loaf a while, but I can’t starve and I don’t want to go to the poor- Kouse, so I guess I’ll keep right on showing up at my work desk every morning.” Congress is considering the McKellar-Keating pension bill. This legislation would provide rest ‘and a few days of idleness in the twilight hours of federal employes’ lives. It would pension govérn- ment workers after long years of steady and faith- ful service. It would give them no more than they deserve. It would increase the efficiency of ental work, for it would put more vim those of younger years and Wotild' remove the and weakened workers—remove them to pen- » No one supposes that poor old Tom Harrison n do his daily work as efficiently and as quickly That’s why he ought not have to work at 91 ee ee ™ = | Either wages should be high enough during the Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second! prime working years, so a worker can save for old | GEORGE D. MANN. - = = Bator | age or there should be a pension system installed. | fees we aGe: Your congress has been quibbling and side- stepping this McKellar-Keating pension bill. And! there are many other government employes in the! Tom Harrison class. We call attention to his case| nuse he is the oldest of all men and women hel for republication of all news credited to it or not other-| Work for the United St ates government, wise credited in this paper and slso the local news pub- | es 2 yn This epidemic of assassination in Bavaria started several years too late. + $7.50} ily i yi In Bismarck)..... 5 7.20) 7 i z pay Py ae ee eee crate outside of Bismarck) 5.00) Jaw overlooked the law of retribution, 6.00 The Hun assumption that necessity knows no Tn the new game of diplomacy, they wont draw “|to kings or bluff with a club straight. ti RD ERE Seas PEST re due to various causes, but ponsible mouths. n is regulated es the income tax. Social status in the by the same standard that fis ng with Germany may indi- it certainly indicates a soft | | Lenieney in de cate a soft heart t the new income} has teetn that discourage zet has a hunch that this is simply opposition to The constitution of the league failed to provide; hment for a member who sasses’ the umpire. We have classes in th i You understand, of course, that the senate| | would favor the league if the governing body was} |to be the senate. One reason why the ruling class had no respect for Him was because He didn’t take up a collection or demand a salary. Do the opponents of the Icague relish the pros- pect of a league of nations with America and Ger- many on the outside? When an agitator tries to start something, labor will do well to discover on which side of the| | Atlantic he was born, A wayfaring man, though a fool, knows that Uncle Sam can’t guarantee world peace by with-{ until the hour it adjourned s drawing into his shell. Another little lesson of history is that some- : thing always happens to a race that claims to have In the good old days men fought for the pride of winning, but these modern prizefighters de- little| Mand the indemnity in advance. Outlawing methods of war is merely surface ising |tveatment. If war itself is a crime, one method is Will the conference remember that Bulgaria vas not a real enemy, but merely a piece of prop- never got farther than making both ends meet.|¢"tY the other fellow bid in first? Every mother and father is ambitious for their That's Americanism. In Russia ambition is When a senator says that he desires to discuss ends had kept on growing. They didn’t. Uncle| the peace treaty, the country. knows in advance Sam not only quit raising-Tom’s wages, but actu-| that he desires to cuss the peace treaty. After ail, the man who wants to drown his troubles is only one degree more objectionable the cost of living kept right on soaring. |than the man who wants to tell his troubles. “Bolsheviki” means majority, that’s because a single Bolsheviki man always considers himself a old of head and brain to have to do a boy’s work. jlarge majority. Everybody else is a liar or an ass. French authorities ‘knew of the existence of Clemenceau’s assailant but considered him a “harmless anarchist.” There ain’t any such ani- ; And it may be that the Hun swallows the ar- mistice terms so quietly because he is afraid we will establish mandatory government of Germany if he talks too much. Whether you are for the League of Nations or not, don’t let a lot of noise fool you. Only about 10 out of 96 senators are openly opposed to it but that 10 make the welkin ring. x When we recall the costly and well-nigh fatal blindness of. allied statesmen between 1914 and 1917, we wonder if a peace of their making can stand without a prop of bayonets. One reason why certain senators were in haste did: to discuss the league was in order to make their |tween the United States and Austro- government got in from | Hungarian empire. 5 of their fest. heated remarks bef { | i i | | | | { i { i si, | MU country, too; but our; SaxxSQTEWD —_ lower class wears silk stockings and knows how to, pronounce Bach. ARR RRR ARR ees which ended its ca- uchieved some re- ma ietories, and suf- fered many defeats. It did things it should have done, and didn't enact re- construction measures equally impprt- welfare. It was Washington, D. ©. Mar, 4—They considerable credit for the winnin the But it failed miserably ruction congre: is what your war congre: vened in special session by Jamation of the president, Ap and was in almost continuov excepting election and holida OCRATS CONTROLLED. i D \D HOUSE . Their r Clark in the senate, Martin, Simmons ley's in the house were ul Clande Kitchin: At the special ses sion of congress, t modified cloture rule under which yb- lie busin On April resolution w: his signature to that measure, after it had passed both houses in record time, despitg the opposition of a small minor- ity of both republicans and, democrats. The next important act authorized an for the national security and defense and for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to.extend credit to foreign governments and for-other purposes. This paved the way for T erty loan: ‘ DRAFTED NATION'S MANPOWER 8 Publie Act. No. 12. was ‘another im- portant piece of War legislation. Thi: authorized the president to increase temporarily the milifary establishment of the United Stafes -by. the dratting of men aged 21-31. Congress then, by resolution, author- } ized the president to take over any essel owned in whole or in part by any corporation,’ citizen or subject of any nation with which the United States was at war, “This brought about the legal seizure of: the. tremendous German shipping interned in American harbors, Passed war revenue act increasing income taxes, taxing “excess profitsand increasing. internal reyerue taxes. The «war. risk. ipeurance: acts per- mitted marine insurance for ships and ‘cargoes and life indurance for Amer- ican soldiers-and saifors,; “ull at cost: Fupie Act No, 23 appropriated the lafgest sum of money any congr ever appropriated in one act, $3,2@1,- 094,541.60, for military and naval ex- penditures. AGAINST ENEMIES. IN THIS COUNTRY The espionage act ‘matte it possible for the government to‘ferret out and punish pro-Germuns* and anti-Ameri- eans who sought to: give aid to our enemies. National war time slogan, “Freedom, For All, Forever,” introduced in reso- lution form by: Congressman Carl Van Dyke, commander-in-ehfef of United Spanish War Veterans Food and fuel administrations were , authorized. During the firs€ session of this con- gress. appropriation: bills*allowing the expenditures of $18,879,177,014.96 were passed. Of this $7,000,000,000 were loans to our allies. Additional appro- priati amounting jto— $2,511,553,- 925.50 for contract authorizations, brought the total appropriations up to $21,390,730.940.46.. In the second session this congress Declared a state-of. war existing he- “. Launched the nation upon a tremen. carly 6 Pe < THE SIXTY-FIFTH, CONGRESS bonded indebtednes ives, 2; independents, 2; an league, 1; :Prohibi- President — Vice — President | Mar- sident pro tem—Willard Sauls- 1. der —- Henry Cabot f f republieans, 44. ° and Lewis. ‘ the United States ion of the senate! Hmergeney Fleet. Corporation. immé@diately preceding the extra ses-| TOOK OV ere was passed t| RATLROADS private interests might be .expedited, practically all the railroads, including 1917, the German war | sewer eee introduced in the house.| GREATEST and on April 6 the president attached | 4prqt, both houses of con; . supreme ‘court 3 of honor, and ¢ ar against the imperial Ger- man governmet issue of bonds to mect expenditures! yANUTARY 8, — The president addresses both including the league of na- tions, “i NOVEMBER 11, 1918—The president, gether, that the armistice has been Saar WHEN THE NEW COOK ARRIVES ON THE. JOB ye ete cate a a. i) WHAT YOUR CONGRESS DID FOR YOU Most Important Acts Briefly Recounted as Famous “War Congress” Passes Out of Existence Today ' railroad equipment and . turned... the. (whole thing into one railway system under the contrel of the: United States railroad administration. Passed the Third and Fourth Liberty loan acts, inereasing the amount of 1460. to. $20,000,000;000, War finance corporation’ and capital ues committee ‘created... > te National housing scheme launched by {the appropriation... of $60,000,000. to build dwelling houses for war. workers employed in congested eente: + Congressman Denton, In duces re ter to War Mothers of America. Vocational rehabilitation and return to civiLemployment of disabled soldiers provided for, assed daylight saving bill. Appcopriation; records were again MADE NATION DRY ON JULY 1 ry ussed emergency “dry” law estab- ing national prohibition July 1, telephone, telegraph and cable lines. between ages of 18 and 21, and between years 82 and. 45. War labor board ereated. of* $26,877,375,101.07. In its third (misnamed “reeonstruc- tion”) session congress spent most of its time debating and neglected legis- lation until the list days.of the session. It did this: | Defeated (in senate) woman suffrage constitutional amendment. Passed the Kitchin-Simmons revenue bill increasing income and profits taxa- signed, and that war is over. THE OUTGO OF THE INCOME tion, providing for the raising of AR IT WAS BEEN THE dous ship-bullding program by creating DOPING out YOUR Tax (is “SOME yoB RESON, MEAN LIN MY YOUNG: pee ure " | YET 1T MEANS NOTHIN’ TO SOME BIRDS! H , Indiana, intro- | to. 175,000, passed. lution granting federal char-| " goidiers,’ sailors pcond session appropriated a total TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1919 ‘> ‘The only one vietim tpere are two at | The fatal news. is flying— { The ‘Clock (of March ‘is striking Four,” And tongress Hes i-dying. To democrats, this death's To Reps this grave's a But 1, 0, Cangress; means ta‘ sing i i i ! | Across thé land from shore to shore | | | | | i Your simple valedictory.. | Some of your duties you attacked 1 With cou and veume |, Some of them—oh, well. it’s A congress is but human! +} You had a teacher, full of | Who freauently instructed, ! And some folks say your work was hest | 1 When “personilly eondueted.” ||. You'did not do aswell or il ‘As pleased the Worst or best of us, But 1 presume you managed still To average the rest of us. For he &i Excepting in romances, i Few of us mortals ever live Up to our highest® chances, the fact we must for- So why exnect mere congress-cha Far to out-speed their nation? We should be glad that you, per- haps Did well—in moderation ! The congress which. declared the war Now, with the Great War, ceases, So R. 1. P. (That's Latin for “Let them both rest in peaces !") | ! | | | Tag. Congress and the devil are seldom as black as’ they are paint- ed.) —Eamund Vance Cooke, (Copyright, 1919, N. B.A.) $6,000,000.000 this year and limiting next, year's federal . taxation to $4,000,000,000, FOUND TIME. , FOR “PORK” BRILL ‘Rivers and harbors (pork) bill, ap- propriating $33,000,000 passed. Transportation home of war work- ers in’ Washington paid. Appropriated $100,000,000 for starv- ing Europeans outside Germany, Repealed appropriations amounting to $15,000,000,000 for war purposes. Appropriated $295,000,000 for the and nayv, ed 1920. census bill. alidated contracts illegally made by war department. Passed postoffice appropriation bill, carrying $600,000,000. Reconstruction’ legislation of ade- quate shape pnd size failed to get through, althéugh: considerable atten- tion’ was given to‘Lane’s farms-for-sol- from $7,538,945,- diers measure, and Kehyon’s $100,000,- 000 public works bill. The creation of a secretary of education for the cab- inet was deferred. So.was the chgr- ter ‘for the’ War Mothers of America. Applications for charters for war vet- erans" organizations were shelved. 3, New. army. pill,,restoring voluntary enlistments, and limiting regular army and marines _permit- ted to' retain: uniforms when discharg, ed, and allowed five cents:a nille for traveling expenses, home, i ‘AMINE! : Lroken by the passage of public act ea ‘o. 193, appropriating —$10,225,478,- (By 'N. BE, A.) » M1 for the support of the army, t lonika, A house occupied by officers. 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