The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 5, 1919, Page 4

“TRIRUN, . oN. Dim ‘Second } er ideaph nan tin Ree GEORGE hows aes —— wdifor: ST a ithe N PAS NETUOMPANY i prexentative offic Entered ai'the Posto i “tase Mave vr K. aig. 6 STON, § Wine Bhie . WINNEATOLIS Bite MEMBER OF wen eat eed te Foe crssuetatenl Preset the use rote ser mrcierceinns erfte e ie nett wey tothix qenes und aise + ' We fore [eer Pe Te ERS AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION V'ViGN KATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ty cur cle PEL YOAL sesseeeee Bes: ‘ Daily 0) oil por year (In Bismarck).... «Te Daily by wail per year (In State outside of Bismarck) B00 3s 2 by, mail outside of North Dako’ ‘THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. Established 1873 —=— : HUMPTY DUMPTY—THEY CAN’T PUT HIM BACK ON THE WALL AGAIN The political group in Germany that wants to put the ex-kaiser back where he was, has picked a big Humpty-Dumpty job. One thing and another has put Bill Hohénzol- lern worse and worse off with the people he led to the slaughterhouse. When the war ended, he had enough stuff to eat to last him and his family a hundred years, ac- cording to a report by Wilhelm Carle, member of the workmen-soldiers council in Berlin, Searching the Hohenzollern premises, they found: “Meat, game in ice, salted provisions in large cases, white meal in sacks piled up to the roof, thousands of eggs, gigantic basins filled with lard, coffee, tea, chocolate, jelly, and jam of every kind in seemingly endless rows, hundreds of sugar loaves, peas, beans, dried fruits, biscuits.” In American money these eats were worth about $20,000 wholesale. Holding these while all Germany went hungry will make it harder for Humpty-s friends to put Humpty together again. LIFE’S HUMBLE TRAGEDIES “Will cut my beautiful long brown hair; ad- dress X 2.” We chanced upon the above in the want ad columns of a city paper a few days since and we live been pondering ever since. Is she old or young? Does she shear her glory of womanhood for a hungry babe; or has she the itch for the movies, ‘ and is'she. going to take a correspondence course} in vamping? Maybe, it’s a husband with a wrenched back, and_no credit at the corner grocery. Perhaps she’ flees like'a stricken bird to the home nest ,and this her only exchange for a ticket. ea Afswe-wereright:sure'the wife: would anderz stand.that we were moved entirely by the humani- tarian motive in acquiring an entirely useless brown hair switch we would have investigated ourselves. - For no woman parts with her hair, especailly if it be “beautiful long brown haiy,” without some dire extremity. And who will buy this “begutiful long brown hair,” and twine it in their too scant head dress? Some tired social dame with ecld, nigh bald, pate, or some young girl, making herself more beautiful than a stingy nature intended? The women of the olden Huns cut their hair and ‘made ropes for hurling instruments of war, and women of China cut their hair to feed their babies in the famine years. But in this nation of new made millionaires, and plutocratic craftsmen, the offering of a woman’s crowning grace and beauty gives us pause. ; Anyhow we hope she, whoever she was, sold her fair fo renough to do what she desired; what- ever it was. “« Future generations may wonder what-induced us to think organized killing more righteous than little private jobs of murder. Times change, and the Poland that was torn up to establish the peace of the world is now re-estab- lished for the same reason. EN, | WITH THE EDITORS | THE PROBLEM OF’ WAGES The Seattle sympathetic strike grew out of a strike in the extensive shipbuilding yards of the city. Some of the features of the demands made for the workers in the shipyards—which have not been granted—are interesting for the light they throw on some of the general labor problems of the * country. M A week of forty-four hours is asked for, with double time for overtime. There is to be fifteen pes days’ vacation with pay, every year. Laborers and watchmen ask for $5.50 a day, with skilled labor correspondingly higher. hee “Nobody can fail to iave sympathy with the at- tempt of men to better themselves. The com- munity and rare better off with. wages ‘as : high as business will stand. But, of course, there ~. + isa limit to what business will stand, and the ques- tion is where that jimit comes. ; In this respect the worker is in the same boa’ with"hig employer. ‘The employer may be making bisciit.. He naturally desires to make as large 8 profit as he-can. But he finds there is a point + ‘cyond which he cannot go. If he increases his cuit, With further advances in price his revenue falls off. So, if the employe asks for too high wages, the price of the product may be forced above what the market will stand. In the case of the shipbuilders, ships gets too high, it will be impossible to operate them successfully. That is the reason it cannot countenance the latest demands from the ship- yards. Of course, all this is elementary. Every intelli- gent trades union man recognizes the situation and intends to ask only what is reasonable. The trouble is that at the end of an extraordinary time, like that of the war, there is a temptation to press for more than is possible. It is up to all hands to take great care to be cautious and reasonable in considering the labor problems now coming up. Employers are bound to consider the difficult living conditions under present high prices, and employes to take into ac- count the difficulty of keeping business going with high prices of material, increased freight rates and huge freight rates. It is commonplace merely to urge a spirit of conciliation and reasonableness in meeting the situation. But, after all, that is the only way in which the industrial life of America can get. back to a normal and sound basis.—Kansas City Star. CRITICS OF THE COVENANT No thoughtful American citizen, it seems to us, can read Senator Knox’s analysis of the League of Nations Covenant, as delivered in the senate on Saturday, without indulging the gravest misgiv- ings. Senator Knox is a constitutional lawyer of authority, and a publicist of weight because of his} mental equipment and his experience first as at- torney general, then as secretary of state and at last as senator. He speaks, not like a partisan, not like a special pleader, but like a judge handing| down an opinion formed as the result of careful, impartial analysis. : Senator Knox applies four tests to the Cove- nant: Will it abolish or prevent war? Will it affect great constitutional principles, bulwarks, of our protection? Will it rob us of vital attributes of sovereignty? Will it threaten our independence and therefore our life as a Nation? On each of these tests he insists that the Cove-, nant fails. It not only specifically provides for wars, he declares, but by barring out the enemy nations it would compel the formation of a rival league and eventual world war for mastery be- tween the two leagues. The Covenant. would, the senator argues, re- quire congress to abandon its constitutional right of declaring war, of raising and maintaining ar- mies, and would require the president to give up} his constitutional,duty of controlling and directing | our-armed -forces. “RRS destruction of: American sovereignty, he insists, follows from the fact that we are to give up the power to'say when we shall have war, when peace, what our army shall number, what our navy shall be, when they shall be used, when our treaties are to be binding, what our treatment of com- merce shall be, how great tribute we shall pay in gift of funds to other powers. We would abandon not only sthe right but. the, power of self-defense. We could not survive, for “it is contrary to the eternal course of nature for a defenseless organism to survive, whether that organism be plant, animal or sccial.” And finally, since life goes when sovereignty goes, since independence goes when our conduct is dictated by others, when our continued existence depends upon the will of others, when we can no longer utilize our wonted means of defense, Sena- tor Knox contends that the Covenant fails to meet the last of his four tests. ator does not seek to tear down without offering presumably after the terms of peace shall have been agreed upon and promulgated—the nations form a league whose first principle should be that war is an international crime, and that the nation causing «war shall be punished as a criminal. It would érganize an international court involving the minimum loss of sovereignty. It would not drag the United States into European broils. It would preserve the Monroe Doctrine, thus saving America from European aggression. While Sena- tor Knox has thus far given his plan only in out- line, the lines on which it would be worked out are plain. Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, another repub- lican critic of the Covenant, finds more good in it biscuit price above this, people will not buy bis-| for instance, the government Emergency Fleet | —|corporation takes the position that, if the cost of This is truly destructive criticism, but the sen- z [¢o build up.. He proposes that in the near future— ;, i ! PEGGY HULL FINDS FIGHTING MEN BETTER COMPANY THAN GOSSIPING FOREIGN COLONY IN VLADIVOSTOK BY «PEGGY HULL Many people have asked me where N. E. A. Staff Correspondent, Cov er- 1 spend my time. I prefer to hike ing Russia and Siberia across the ice at the lower end of the Vladivostok, March 5.—Here 0! he! harbor’and drop in on Hi Benton of edge of the world—frozen in—existing) Mule Shoe, Texas, once a good cow- through endless days and nights of puncher and now a good soldier. He human tragedy, I-havé found a cor uggles his English something awful, tion strikingly similar to the ordinary | but I am quite sure he has never used routine of*small town life‘at home. | *t to maliciously and sneakingly assaii Allsthe -petty, narrow-minded, un-/ the reputation of a man or woman. visioning cynicisms of the untraveled.| Or I cut across the hills in'the teeth the unread and the unthinking are rep-} of western wind and have tea at East resented in .the® people wi flock | Barracks with the officers éf the Ca- around.some of the tea tables in some | nadian expeditionary forces, all’ heroes of the hemes of the foreign colonys of that great, conflict overseas. |. “Oh, haven't: you heard about it?”| More often J follow ‘a: narrow path asks one prominént woman. along the wharf of the U. S: Brook- “No, please do tell us.” re the men of. th “They. weren’t suspected at first on ith me that woulf account of. his important position— hair curl. I have! found, int begins: the first-woman.- “She wa: jably* that’ a man’ whose ; absolutely impossible. Of: course we| been spent on. the ocedn ig’ conspicu- aren't such there was anything wrong|ously free from small prejuilices and but—” that he views life'in the’same ‘broad “She never.came to tea at my house,” t#iumphantly: announced one woman. “I have’ always found that good looking girls-wito go wandering about. alone are not atways just what, we would wish ther to be.” I riled up at this rank ‘injustice for the girl of whom they were speaking} N. had come out here as a war worker and 1 knew there were many splendid girls] meyer conducts a factory in the east who had gone to France alone as war but is himself giving his personal at- workers long before we entered the/ tention to the Bismarck factory, with war. a It that the business is gaining “Anyway she wasn’t married,” said } aM another woman, “and that is more) our principal industries. than we can say, M is|ing the tobacco trade great value in just terrible the way his products and the smokers take on with the army officers. Blank’s grilling ended with a seas, A GROWING*INDUSTRY. wing young industry in Bis- hat of the William ’F. Erlen- Cigar Factory for Dist. 37 of - Dak,, located!at ‘the corner of and Avenue A. Mr. ‘Erlen- fully made cigars. He uses no “dope” bacco made under drinking attendants, ray s can be. At. a luncheon a young woman's name was mentioned. She was ab- ent and someone asked for her. In- stantly one of the girls looked up from her plate with that eager e ‘ion in the eyes of a hunter when Druggists refund -money ’s scented a fox, OINTMENT fails © to Cure Itching. “Miss?” she said, contemptuously.|Blind, Bleeding ‘or Protruding Piles “what right has ‘she to call herself} Stops Irritation; Soothes and Heals. level. Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days. or five times-” % a . first aplication. Price 60c. And then a lurid and entirely un. truthful history, was related. I have come in:for,my -share also and it is so. amusing jit. is worth re- peating. My uniform’ formed the basis for the conversation at a tea party. The sleeves are long,.the neck choker high and my boots:came almost to my. knees over my. riding trousers, The short. skirt pelies any: atempt to make it mannish. But one agile brain finally produced a thrill: (| : In a properly shocked voice she said, “1 know a woman,who saw her in San Francisco and she was sure she wore pink tights under that uniform—dis- graceful, wasn’t it?” than his colleague, but he suggests that a way out be provided if the scheme doesn’t work. He would have the life of the league limited to ten years, at the end of which period the question of its con- tinuance, and of changes shown necessary be ex- perience, would be taken up. Another constructive suggestion from the re- publican side is that the Covenant be so amended that each hemisphere would look after its own affairs—Europe after the disputes and conflicts of ahd liberties of the three Americas. This would remove one of the most vital objections to the Covenant—that it kills the Monroe Doctrine as a living principle of American policy, and embroils us in Euro controversies. One tl at least is clear: The Covenant far from a perfect instrument. The question whether such amendment can be obtained as make it safe for the United States to accept.— Minneapolis Journal, GAVE COLOR IN CHEEKS Be Better Looking—Take i Olive Tablets the Old World, the United States after the peace} for vaythat he sweeps the horizons of ‘the and will soon rank as one of He is. giv- .| delight in the fine turned and care- spicy details contributed by other tea-| and all the goods are pure as good to- sanitary condi- In spite of the late in- in government, tax, the prices bave been maintained at a very low, if PAZO miss-—why, she has been married four} You can get restful sleep after the $32.50: Week at Klein’s ‘HOT SKETCHES ABOUT TOWN _ ‘LU BET THE VAN DOOZIN'S ARE JUST ABOUT BANK KuPt — SHE'S STILL TUTTING THAT, OLD er, Sa 1917 DOG Pitt NOW FIGURING INCOME TAX In Order to Be'Helpful to Public, Internal’ Revenue Bureau Has Every Available Officer in, Field. i — SEVERE PENALTIES IF YOU DELAY BEYOND. MARCH 15 in With the due date for Income Taxes enly.a few ‘weeks away, the collection of this far-reaching tax on 1918 In- comes has started off with a bang. Everybody is figuring income tax. Payments -and sworn statements of income must reach Internal Revenue offices on or before March 15, and there are severe’ penaltiés’ for delinquency. Residents ,of North Dakota and South Dakota are, required make heir returns, and.,pay their /taxes to - James Coffey, Collector of Internal Revenue, Aberdeen; 8. D., or to any of his deputy collectors-who are’ now do- {ng free advisory work on Income Tax. ay your Incone Tax by March 15,” ig the slogan of the Internal Reve- fue Bureau,’ which’ ‘has sent every available’ officer into the fleld to help the public to understand the require- ments and to:prepare the returns, EL RIP OL: STOP AT OI SAL NU a APO EIA SN j i i t \BE GENEROUS WITH STOMACH Give It.Nourishing Food and Give It Gencrous Assistance with Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. 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These: tablets are, sold in- every drug; store in. the United States shows’,how , they are esteemed, by those who realize how necessary | it is now and then to give the stomac. a much ‘needed, assistance.’ | j The: properties in Stuart’s Dyspep- sia \ Tablets, combined with that al- ready in the: gtomach, act upon food and ‘enable the gtomach ‘to-move on to} the intestines the food contents. Try these tablets and get relief al- most at once. You can obtain Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets at any drug store at 50 cents a box. MOTHERS. Should see that the whole family take at least 3 or 4 doses of a thoro, purifying, system cleaning medicine this spring. Now is the time. The family will be healthier, happier, and get along better if the blood is given a thoro purifying, the stomach and bowels cleaned out, and the germs of Winter, accumulated in the systein, driven away. Hollister’s Rocky Moun- tain Tea is one of the very best an |surest Spring medicines to take. Get it and see the difference in the whole ‘Ifamily. Their color will be better, they'll feel fine and. be well, and -|happy. Jos. Breslow. Seale Carney Coal Phone 94 O. E. Anderson Lbr. C. ‘and Canada, ...which | Who Must’ Make Return, It is estimated that many thousands of single and! married persons in this section of the United Stites who have never before wade ‘annual returns are Fequired to do so this year. Income ,tax jrefurns must be made between now and March 15 by persons who come under the. following classii- cations: Any unmarried person whose 1918 Bet income was $1,000 or over. Wid- ows and widowers, divorcees and mar- ried persons who are living apart from their husbands, or Wives, ‘are ‘for. the. purposes of the’ Income Tax classed as unmarried. Any married person living with wife or husband whose 1918 net income was $2,000 or over. The income of both husband and ‘wife must be considered, together with the earnings of minor children, if any. . Revenue Bureau Offers Aid, Each person in the United States who is in either of these classifications must get busy at once if penalties are to be avoided. He should secure a blank. Form 1040 A: for reporting net income ‘up to $5,000, or Form 1040 if his ‘net tncoine exceeded that amount. "Forms are, being, distributed by Coflec- tors and thelr; Deputies, also: by banks, By following the instructions on the forms a correct return can be prepared t-home... If. a, person needs, advice or aid bens Cojledtors ‘in \the \fleld will ‘farnjshi'this: wiehoue’ charge: |! The new Revenue tas. places the In- come (‘Pax duty, a at it and resi- ‘dente: rte! Intern y enue’, Bureau fs ‘sending ft$ tet ‘to work'right with the public to get ‘the tax and the re- turns in,. With active co-operation, every thx ‘due Mirch 45 ‘will be paid ‘and. every: return’ required ;by: law will be in the Revenue offices.on time. “Exemptions Allowed. A single, person js gllowed a, personal exemption of $1,000,,,,If he is support- ing in hig, household relatives who are dependent upon him, he may claim the status of the.head of a family who has the same exemption as if married. A married person, who lives with wife’or husband, is allowed a personal exemption of $2,000, The head of a family is entitled to claim a similar personal exemption. ; An additional exemption of $200 is allowed for each person under eighteen or incapable of self support, who was dependent.upon and received his chief support from.thé taxpayer. A husband and wife living together are entitled to but one personal ex- enrption of $2,000,’ If‘they make’ sep- arate returns; the exemption may be ‘claimed by either or'divided. ‘Accuracy Required, Abgotute accuracy is, necessary in making U come ‘figures, Any per- son. who, is working for wages should find out exactly how much he received during the .whole year 1918, Fees, bank interest, bond interest, dividends, rents, received, and all other Stems must’ be reported correctly. Mere guesses are not accepted, for they are .| unjust.alike to the taxpayer and the Government, and defeat the proper au- ministration of.the law. 5 bdo ect tl otal afield * INCOME TAX I8 (| TRULY POPULAR. “The payment of Income taxes takes on .a new significance which. should be understood by every citizen.* The taxation sys- tem of this country is truly pop- ular, of ‘the people, by the peo- ple and for the people... Every. citizen is. lable to tax, and the amount ‘of the tax is graduated according to the success and for- tune attained by each individual in availing himself of the oppor- tunities created and preserved by our free institutions. The method and degree of the tax is determined by no. favored’ cliiss, but by the representatives of the people. The proceeds of the tax, should be regarded as a national investment.”——Daniel C. Koper, Cqmwissioner of Internal Reve- nue. y SEFEEE CHEE EEE EEE EEE EH EEE E ERERKREKEKRKEKKKKERK \ ESTRAY NOTICE. Taken up. one bay gelding. weight 1000 Ibs., three white feet, white tar and smp. Phone 151. G. P. Strohl, Poundmaster. 2 27 tt $32.50 Week at Klein’s reese Stee tee ee tee eee eee ees