The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 9, 1919, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, eeeeneneneeerintnantacemnetaaroe Eatere. at the Postoffice, Bismarck, SU D., a6 Segond 2 Class Mattie. d GEORGE: PD. MANN - = = ES G. LOGAN PAYS CO’ WEY (ORK, Fifth Sve ie; € Bi BOSTON, 3 Wi MINMHAPO! : 4 WEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use! ieation of alll news ¢ e! in this paper’ anc Lo it on not otherwise | « local news published | ispatches herein are! rights of publication of speeal d giso reserved OS Gee Ses e RES MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SI ISCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE CONTICT POR FORE cece sccccerecceccccscees FILO mail per year (In Bisriarek 720 y taal per year (In state outaide of Bisvnarck) 5.00 Daily by tail outeide of North Dakcta coccp.02.2.. 6.50 THE STATES OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1872) GIVE US PEACE Whatever the verdict of the majority may be in the referendum election which it seems we are to have in July, let us hope that it may be so de- tisive as to be final. North Dakota has passed through three years of turbulence, Jt has been torn with diasension, with hatred and with distrust. The time has come when this must end. Our great state today stands on the threshold of a wonderful era of reconstruction. How much! this era will mean to us depends upon whether we meet it as a house divided ayainst itself, or as a! united people, ' DEVELOP THE MISSOURI j M. G. Higgins of Banks, is a believer in the psychological moment, In this year of the centen-! ary of steam navigation on the Missouri river he asks the whole Northwest yet behind a movement! to make the second ceritury of steam traffic on this great waterway one that will give the mighty stream its rightful place in the transportation! scheme of our country. : The Missouri played an important part in the opening of the Northwest. It is destined to OCCUpy an even more important place in its devel- opment, The world’s war has taught us that noth- ing is imposible. America hax found that it can spend billions for destruction, It is now to dis- cover that it is just ax simple to invest billions construction. European nations in the development of its water- ways, North Dakota, even, has needed such an erithusiast a6 Mr. Higgins to re-arouse its enthu- slasm. | in} SOLDIERS ALL! rounded by the boche, did Lt, Colonel Whittlesey ; atop to decide that he belonged to the sare polit- feal party as his cornmander in chief before he ut- tered his immortal profanity—"Go to Hell’? What have poltiics or personal inclinations or even business to do with war on the paying of war's bills? Speaking from the standpoint of our duty to America, what difference does it make whether our party is in power or out of iL? What does it) matter if we think some things have been done in an unbusinesslike way? What is the odds if we believe some of our soldiers have been treated | without proper consideration? | These things should not have been and of-| fenders should and will be brought to book. Nevertheless, the constituted government of the United States is our government. We are partners {n it and those whom we have chosen to| lead must lead until we replace them. In the meantime, and until our government has finished Its job and discharged its obligations, we ate just as much subject to command by our su- perlors as the doughboy with one foot on the lad- der that may bring him face to face with eternity. We are soldiers in the greatest civilian army of Christendom, We may be officers or privates, but we are either soldiers or slackerss and if we are not slackers we are bound to obey orders, April twenty-first is for us the “zero hour,” Our orders are to “go over" on the last great loan drive at that time. Will we go stnilingly and win the objective of permanent peace? Forward, patriots, for the Loan of Thanks- giving. ‘ FULL SPEED AHEAD Now that the city commission has’ officially discovered the fact that John P, French and John A. Larson were elected members of that body, and, with the little soreness that a clean election engendered fading away, let's step on the throttle, give the old machine all the gas she will eat, and put her on high. This should be a big year for Bismarck. Whatever we may individually think about the soundness of the Bank of North Dakota idea, the opening of this bank in Bismarck is bound to at- tract more attention to the importance of this city as a financial center. There’s no question in the minds of any of us that the investment of $200,000 of state funds 4n a Victory Memorial building on the state-house grounds means freedom from capital-removal agi- tation for some years to come. * ‘There's no one who is going to. oppose the ex- pe of the capitol railway up Main street and ‘Tenth, opening up a fine and rapidly growing wection of our good city. _ {there's not a soul of us, envy Governor Frasier the $2, CF a deo eee nai ed Our country has lagged behind S76 O we're really sorry, most of us, that he didn’t get the $20,000 appropriation for the new guberna-|{ torial. dwelling to which he was entitled. There isn’t a vacant home in Bisrnarek. There’s not an idle store-room. * To take room for even 30 important an insti tution as the Bank of North Dakota we've been) compelled to double up. We need more schools. good to us. : We are to have a handsome new theatre, and, probably some athletic clubs and other things we've needed for a long time. And we have a cit ramission that is pro-, gressive, alert and agyressive, alive to the needs of « growing town, and likely to see that we get therm. The stork has been) ‘i And Woodrow Wilson leaves for home Friday. So let's be happy and cultivate confidence and yo right ahead with our job of making the capital dity North Dakota's biggest and best. 2 ‘ FARMS FOR SOLDIERS—AND OTHERS Secretary of the Interior Lane has revamped | his “farms for soldiers” program, and will ask the! 66th congress for over $300,000,000 with which to| aunch the land colonization scheme. This is con-/ derably more than the last congress was asked to appropria| There is no doubt about soldiers—rany of! them—wanting to try farming. Also, there are civilians who would like to yo back—or forward— to the land. Why not enlarge the program to in- ude everyone willing tand able to produce food? Already the land colonization scheme has been tried out by the state of California at Durham, and there ix no doubt about its being successful.! Secretary Lane hopes to try the same thing in other states, first as experiments aad t as Gt tablished features in the goverames reclama- tion servic Australia, Canada, and other countries have found that to yet food producers producing food om ~<a EEE 0 idje land a comprehensive plan of farm building must be undertaken. You cannot tell a man to go into 4 swamp, upon arid plain, of on cut-over t ber lands and settle down as once We sent pione to the prairies of the west. The United States must use every possible f farm land or become a food importing coun- try. The best way in which to compel use of A acres, is to make fields of them—drained, irri- gated, cleared, fenced, with farm buildings, and arranged in community neighborhoods. re y " ? When his “lost battalion” was cut off and sur- | TH THE EDITORS | f THEN AND NOW The Townleyites won their election last fall by promising the people « vote on all important meas- > ures; and at the very first opportunity they break their promise, They have been clamoring for the ™* referendum for years and are now making most desperate efforts to prevent a referendurn. They offer but one that is that th a ons have al voted on by the people. Let us see. When was the LW. W. fi passed on by the people? appropriating one thousand dollars tion purposes way el by Go he considered it an extravagance. inigration) bill Two years ago @ bil for imrigra- Now we have a two hundred thousand dollar appropriation. No + secret was made at Bismarck of the fact that this ” money was to be used more for the purpose of spreading political propaganda than for inducing new settlers to come to North Dakota, The mer-, hers of the Independent Voters Association are working to yet sufficient signers go that the! people may have an oportunity to pass judgment! on this bill. The league bosses are growing des- perate in their efforts to prevent a referendum. | When did the people cast an affirmative vote) on the questions involved in the educational bill? | Will some league member tell us? Of course no one will volunteer any such information, as it is} well known to all that the bill was never an issue. The eductaional bill is unduobtedly the most im- portant bill of all, as it vitally affects the rising generation. Yet the league bosses are trying to prevent a referendum vote on it. The newspaper bill—what about it? When was that settled by the voters? When did the voters of Ramsey county declare—by their ballots—that out of a population of seventeen thousand, no one i could be found with sufficient intelligence and in- tegrity to select an official county paper for us? When did they indicate by ballot that they pre- ferred to have three non-residents make the selec- tion? In answer to these questions the Townley- ites screech out: “Don’t sign petitions!” When did the people declare in favor of three additional district judges? When did they so ex- press themselves? The fact is that the court work has been getting lighter in every judicial district excepting the Third—the Fargo district. Judge Hanley of the Mandan district, went to France as a major in the army, Judge Nuessle of the Bis- marck district, took care of both districts and kept up the work. Other judges have said that there was no call for any more judges. But the Townleyites make the same cry in regard to this bill: “Don’t sign petitions!” After passirig these laws, they want to drive out of business each newspaper that refuses to em- brace socialism. And after clamoring for years Mean enough, to| for the referendum, they threaten the business | ‘one to provoke a men who sign referendum petitions.—Devils Lake i | | excuse for their stand and wad af U WEDNESDAY, APRIT, 9, 1919. pat. ‘THE THOR OM tery eaty aad opens w eat On bork * verze of serious wile are SYNOPSIS OF Ind INSTALLMENT OF SPOR expects she will to get % divorce om ser tent hi offer. She ly Sraatter op this afternogn inck.” she suggested. oat with Kost about renting the house Vou and Howard will by to settle op the details, of comree, He said he supposed so, end with a Od Of farewell, which, in his stat of witd was the only leavetaking he dared attempt, he tamed to leave the rou. Iied him back, “Here's som thing, Fred,” she said in a: tight Little voles, ‘for you." She had the package ool to him. He knew what i coutatned well e- hough, aw the dark Mash that came np Into hix face, and the absurdly over- acted caxnalnews of hia manner of saying, “Oh, whit ix i677 made evident, no doubt, to her, Also, he backed away a little ax he spoke, and, further to secure his hands from the necessity of taking the package from her, he pot them in tik pockets, She reddened, too, and said. the pearls and the other things, eve thing—practically, What you wer telling me last night T could ive on- wile I was watting for somebody else to torn up Thereupon ensued what I can only characterize 28:4 row-— rowdy row at that, conserning the details of which y ‘duty, us a se ‘expect to maintain a decent re The major tactics of the battle however, may be indicated, He announced yery forcibly that he would have nothing to do with her Jewels beyond acting as her agent for the disxpoxal of them. If she chose, fv aplte of her avowed belief in hix trusinesx incompetence, to entrust the Job of welling them to him, he would make the best bargain he could, and have the Jeweler mail the check direct te ber, She announced a passionate indifference ax to what he did with them, provided only: that she should ever be asked to look at them again, or necept, or hear anything about, the proceeds of thelr gale. It is perhaps t fair to say Ahat she flung the Package on the floor. She propelled tt Vigorounly in hiedirection, and he de- clined to accept it, the law of gravita- tion operating in. the usual manner. Heo snggested the agh-bdarrel as a proper recepticle, and site, by. implication; agreed with him. o* ‘ + When they parted, she for her room, ond he for the seven-fifty.three train, about the most one.can sdy for them ia that he hadn‘t actually shaken her, nor she Iiterally him. Short of that, netther of the ad Jeft ansthing Justify the fury “kindly, slow-tem- | heated up tothe 0 ther. % The wrath. of, ered man, once polat of incan: Une WICTORY ERTY By Henry Kitchell Webster LOAM OUGHBRED” the way to town inthe tt * saelter of Bis newspap thei Tike moltem steet The at lonkk of helpless fury he had seen | in Ceffai's stainerdt ft, were hit only somme of sat- He Gad given as good as that last fire minutes, any- He wished he had hezum oon- He was sorry, of the whole. he eet the episede of the jeweiry was or lew satisfactory. The injury 4 acted ax a blewpipe to keep bi wrath from cooling, was the thing @ had happened before tha i of the story she meant to tell Ruth Cottier about his nervous breakdow and her intention te take him “wi fete to the ywoint whe: severance of all ties connetcing w the old life. their total disappeara: like # pair of absconding criminals, wenld satisfy hh That rankled| frightfully. He n't know whether; nt it. or that she had i it merely in the hope of wounding f discovering whi infuriated him he worse, and at Jast, although they bw mutnaHy contradictory, com- | promised by adopting™them both. It was not until, the train pulled into | the terminal [him the ne he'd dou ity of deciding what it he regretfolly t lit we took it off the fire. rege like that was an unuccustomed \Juxury to Alfred Blair. But he must now turn his mind to more practical matters. He had come} to town to look for a job, and he must Celia. The notion of going back to ure of his quest, gave her a chance to was intolerable. have spent those waking hours before} he came down to breakfast to. better advantage than in sentimental maun- derings about his wi He ought to have Jaid out a plan of campaign. When he said, last night, that all he was good for now was twenty-five dol- lars a week or so over a drafting-board ta thought-out plan. And even when she’d pressed: bim as to whether he could get a Job at that, he’d answered, “Yex, [ guess so,” with only half his mind. Surely any one of his former competitors. would see that he was worth thit. But now that it,was no longer a case for emotions or oratory, simply a question of pickng out one of those former competitors, going to him and asking for a job, it wasn't 80 easy. It had been one thing to tell Celia, last. night, that he wus at the end of his rope; that he had lost his nerve, routine Job. It would be another | thing to go into the office of a man who still regarded him’as a potentially formidable rival and say so. This unexpected flare-up of pride,| hardly to’ be differentiated. from Celia’s }own, disconcerted him fright- fully, It was with an indesérib&ble wrench ‘thit he realized how much easier it would be to apply to a strang- er who knew nothing of his business -history and need be told nothing of it, for any sort of job—street-sweeping, coal-shoveling—than to submit himéelf to the half-kindly contempt of an in- habitant of his own world. He trie; toy clatye this feeling up to Celia’s | “Recount and make himself believé that {wo months’ would fr de, a year ago, opposing, | fer es down, and at and hell zet steadily he saddled with him. mere likely. he comes back. then beTl leave me and zo in for himself uzain/ jat the end of six months or so, with| all the inside dope of my office at bi finger-tips. twice petitor as before. No. he knew what he'd say to Aber-} crembie in these ciseumstances. say. im the most optimistic manner he; t Leok here. old man. “You're tired out. nd you've got a touch of liver. Yow your troubles for a while and! a good rest. Go down to French or somewhere. and boil out. You} ‘k again in three months. ive any of us a run for our} Bs But this twenty-five-dollar-a iweek stuff—forget it.” {sure as to-morrow's Abercrombie would t disgraced by his failure.| vir pe p nothing but their! git to gi along all the while, stopping every now and then to stare down into a building him as deeply as possible. He tried out | Stns Gone i eeruen auomebile Leach of these theories, with the idea | Now his eye wag caught by a spectacle {almost as familiar to Chicagoans—the {long file of men waiting outside one one of the afternoon newspaper offices for the first edition, in order that they might be the first applicants for the ton and imposed on | jobs advertised in its “Want” colums. The length of that file is a pretty good lamp-| barometer to business conditions, but, led down the lid upon this pot and, 4s! good times or bad. it is A reali And Alfted Blair. without any reflec- ion at all, just because there it was, and here he was, dropped into place at the tail of it. Four hours or so later, a torn-out bit ‘paper ready for reference jin ‘cout pocket, he was conducted tice boy through the indesvrib- her tonight and confessing the fail! alle confwion of 4 big, dirty, resonant room, with a lot of cles tw in find one before he again. confronted his ov drop the acid of pity into his wounds, | it, many of them unoccupied, td a desk in the corner, where sat a la He realized now that he ought to|loking man in his shirt-sleeves. To him, Alfred said. “I am answer- = ing your advertisement for a drafts- The oily man was just back from luneb, and still, with the nid of a tooth- pick, ruminant over it. He was model- aes mentee as well as he could, on those of the head of the firm, who he'd expressed an emotion rather than’ had just cashed in on his loyalty ne the new city administration, with a fat municipal contract.’ The superintendent had been ha ving his troubles, it must be owned. Were many other loyal souls coming around to be taken care of. few men had to be found somewhere who,/knew their business. fact that had led to the)insertion of the advertisement. The superintendent took two minutes perhaps, for a searching and hostile stare at this surprising applicant. What business had a man in his situation to Wear clothes like that? He asked at last, out of one side of his mouth, “What experience have and that all he was good for was «|: “Tm a competent draftsman.” Blair “T cam do anything you want “Where'd you work lust?” Blair said deliberately, “I dou't. care to give. my references.” The superintendent’ smiled—a sneer: ing sort of smile that expressed, how- 1 pleasare. him to a sense of his own “I eunpose you're « boom fighter,” he said behind a yawn, “but that makex work, ‘Take off your th If wot a job. coat’ and’ “sit lewis you're any good, you've wenty a we i : tive got to haye twenty-five,” Blair said. te superintendent waved his hand. “Nothing doing.” jut, as Blair turn- ed away. he sul "Pwenty-two fifty “AIL right,” Cella’s: husband agreed. It was uot until half past five that lhe had au opportunity to telephone Celia from a uicke) phone in a down- town drugstore. ‘In @ more, observant | mood he might have noted that. his ring wax answered almost instantly, and by Celia, herself, as if she had been waiting there at’her desk for it. Also, his ear might have detected a change in the quality of her yotce between her first “Hello! What fs it?” and when she spoke after he'd lacon- ically told her he'd got a job. “It's only twenty-two fifty a week, lem sorry to s he added, “instead of twenty-five I agreed to get.” | “All right. I wan't pay more than | twenty 2 month for a flat.” She added, | *D've remted the house to the Colliers | for two bundred. I'm toscall Ruth | im and tell her if you say It's quite all right as far as lm eal, of course.” he added. “That, + im your hands.” fida’t Kmow whether the unclas- wod he heard just then came ‘whi or was imstrted in the con- om by the telephone company. $ shed Clearly enengh the next unaneut,, it he were coming home to din- Tees ‘ he said. “I shall be at the of- f until, kete—my old office—packing ug.” At that she said abruptl th Dadi beem a ghastly day for Celia. is afterward. when she could look mw the episode as a whole, ntmare days was the worse S suecesor. Oftenest. she this one was, The thing guve it its peculiar horror was the t that. on the surface, it was so like ordinary day; the maids coming te her for their routine instructions, the heusework going on, people callin p Asking her to do amusing th) ast as though she were still the secure, imperturable, unruffled Celia she had been yesterday, and that she had still ‘io seem to-day. 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