The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 12, 1919, Page 4

peta: Enteres at the Postoffice, Bismn Class Matte,, GEORG!) Db. MANN - G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY NEW YORK, lifth Ave. Bid CHICA Bidg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege __ Bidg.; MINNEAPOL:: 410 Lumber & MBER OF. AS CIATED PRESS ted Press ix usively entitled to the use ation of all news lited to it or not otherwise cre tes in this paper and also the local news published ein. F \ll rights of publicatiod of special dispatches herein are Bis erved {BER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SHIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE by carrier per year 0000 097.20 y by mail per year (In Bismarck scice M20 Da .; by mail per year (In state outside of Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ...... eoseee 6.0 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) SS -- == = PAYING THE WAR DEBT The astronomical figures of America’s war debt swing far beyond the orbit of pre-war finan- ciering. Its payment, together with the vast ex- penditures demanded in the process of readjust- ment to the higher civilization the war has made} possible, will test even the stupendous resources cf this nation. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE that it cost as much to move crops from the farm to the consumer as to raise them. War market- ing investigations confirm or increase this figure; while Hoover has recently stated that so lcsz, slow and wasteful is the marketing process that half the product is lost upon the way. Yet when the Panama canal was being built it was found that the average cost of transportation, marketing and waste of bringing products from the United States to the employes of the canal | was but ten per cent of the price. Reducing the | cost proportionately on, domestic marketing would |give a surplus big enough to pay the debt in a | couple of years. 0; The list of these almost cosmic wastes that cumber our present industrial system, exhaust our energies and confine our possibilities might be ition of effort, of strikes and industrial friction | porary removal or reduction of some of these dur- ing the war that made possible the colossal efforts | that brought victory. as vast as the operations of the war and the size |of the debt offer the only alternative to crushing taxation and possible bankruptcy. All the formerly warring nations are worrying, , i over the same problem. Some thought they were going to “let Fritz do it.” But Fritz threatens to) go into Bolshevik bankruptcy, with less assets for | the creditors than might have been expected. | It is becoming evident that for nations as for} individual citizens,’th $ no royal road to riche Economy and increased production must furnish the needed funds. But the funds are so great} that, like the debt, they must touch new industrial | orbits. | We have been a prodigal nation, robbing our| soiland flinging every form of human and natural | resources recklessly away. We must now begin to save on a similar stupendous scale. Little pinch- penny savings will not meet the emergency. | In 1910, at a time of comparative prosperity, | the census found more than 3,000,000 workers who| had been idle a considerable portion of the current! year. In 1907 a variety of authorities estimated | the army of the unemployed at around 5,000,000. It is seldom much less than 1,000,000. The cities reported directly to the United States Employment | Service found over 700,000 unwilling idle in the, month of March. 5 | This is an army twenty times as large as was ever employed. at, one time upon the /Panama. | canal. Engaged in’ needed labor their product} would go far toward paying the interest on the! great public debt. | Our farmers; with younger soil and better|nesota, 3,968; Michigan, 7,828; pe tools, raise less than half the bushels per acre. of j faced, Minnesota, 4.24; Michigan, 10. the standard crops that are produced in England, Italy or France. Raising this to three-fourths the’ European yield would soon wipe out the debt. If the dhiry cows of the nation averaged as. great’ If the League at Geneva is to be a Swiss watch on the Rhine, won’t the Huns tamper with the works? rH WITH THE EDITORS |; i MICHIGAN FOR GOOD ROADS While the voters of Michigan were declining on Monday with some emphasis to experiment with the “light wine and beer” modification of prohibi- tion, they also endorsed heartily the project for spending fifty million dollars on permanent.road- ways throughout the state. Unfettered by any such constitutional difficulties as exist in’Minne- | sota, they approved the bond issue plan, and work will doubtless be in active progress on the Michigan roads some time before Minnesota gets around to a vote on the similar hundred million dollar project in November, 1920. It may be asked why Minnesota is planning to spend twice as much as Michigan on permanent roadways., There are two reasons: Minnesota has a greater road mileage than Michigan, and a smaller proportion of it is surfaced. The latest figures of the Federal Public Roads Bureau show | the following: Road mileage in Minnesota, 93,517; in Michigan, 74,190; mileage surfaced roads, Min- centage sur- The vote in Michigan is fresh evidence of the good roads awakening. We are told that the sup- port was as great in the rura] districts as in the cities, showing that the Michigan farmer is alive product:as those of many large, carefully selected to the economic need for a good road to market, .herds the added income would furnish another im-|.and is willing ‘to pay his ‘share of the bill—Min- portant source of debt paying income. “THE THOROUGHBRED” Bu Henry Kitchell Webster Author of GP “The Real Adventure,” “The Painted Scene,” Ete. Bhe told M. Dosle to go ahead andy haps, after they he get the eleauer. left him on a promise; flut-—at all event .to turn up sume time the next d touched, ‘and settled down in a street-car, ho: But where w ward bound, to wrestle with this new | hundred. dollar problem. while that she'd She couldn't use any of her own fur-| sibilities, and her niture. «The Coll would = want!a new tack. every stick of it, Eveything must be] Speci bought uew, She had, ut first, only | furniture would. t, a vague idea of how much this oper-} mind ation Would cost, But presently, out] three ‘of nowhere, an advertisement that had once adorned the bill-bourds came up into her memory. “We will feather your nest,” read, ‘for one rundred dollars.” She | ¢ was grateful for that figure, though] jjef she meant to;do her own feathering. But where was she going to get the one hundred, dollars? Well, there was the first) month's rent on thelr own house—two hundred dollars payable in advance. The sen stble way to do would be to go ahead| nh oper and get whut she wanted, at once, of | ing Friday one of the big department stores where| before Alfred has they had a charge account, and let the} and he ran to tak Collier's check cover it. But this didn’t] these days, in orde to her then that ¢ fin the place, What it had) At that she dr nent She knew ne get her hundred d fect solution. Fre ley to stand on, she do with all her ¢) and let out a | neapolis Journal. + “pl excitement, too, A new combing | of emotions for Celia French. She had never been un adventurer. But then, everything about her pres- | ent situation was new, It was a new thing to need—absolutely tom hundred dollars. It was a ne te be thrown, definitely and un p- | ably, upon her own resources for get- it. Consequestnly the thrilling itement at ‘y of a wi After her thing tendant upon her dis to get it wa gasp of re i so new. when if Foccurred to her that she could get that 1d got settled in that | hundred dollars by selling her clothes, s, demonstrably un-| she had, for a few minutes, felt pretty ick. She'd seen hers lugging a at bundle from ai md-hand ore to another, battered—discouraged, he had wept a few tears, there in the street-cur, of pure self-pity, and then had dried them with a sudden flame she going to get her! She thought for a austed all the pos- mind. slipped oft on lly. just what articles of {of self contempt. Why shouldu’t she flat need? Her | play the game as we “e more upon its| instead of as bad] . and It occurrel | ¥ e here wasn’t a closet in the world would he 1] as she could, It any bullying KUN Un Epoc ed the texture of life for her. She had gasp of |Sat down at the telephone as soon as of ve-{she r se, called up, out of awowhi he could | : a dealer: who ollars. It was a per-/advirtised a most. liberal disposition «i wouldn't have a} toward the purchase of used gowns, and told him curtly that if he cared to jcome to her house before eight o’cloe tomorrow ‘morning, she would do busi- Jnoss with hin, She was very busy and would be engaged later, There had been an enormous satis- faction in feeling that she had got Just ; the right intimidating ring into her down to his} voice, There bad even been satisfaction WORLD rations Friday morn morning, be it said, finished ‘bre e th rr to satisfy her. That two hundred a month| Job on time—with a very careful and | in ing that the man at the , rent was sacred to the payment of old, d¢liberate toilet. It was the first thme | othe hone was playing the same bills. “For other purposes it shotild be} she had paid any attention to he looks since she for Ruth ¢ At a qu treated as if if didu't exist. If ¢ she began dipping into that, whe would her vengeance on Alfred be-—her Hier's: rter that he'd had donned her armor gume—didi’'t know whether he come or hot; doubted whethe visit on Wednesday Just after {almost endlessly extended. The wastes of duplica-} |offer fields for vast economies. It was the tem-: Intelligence and economy in industry on a scale{ | the rele, a whole | avoiding it like | djnner, a little that pric i linere thought of i made her blue agents came to | ture, and #0 on, to subscribe to. if she were where that w ever came law of gravity. living. wolv own, suddenly thousand new Celia, ago, I have attacks. I lost tirely cured me. ple, harmles mation which BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE intimacies (olixtic paraphrase and | You can inake any subject indecent by A year of married life with Alfred | Wlair had reduced Celia’s sensitiveness , to the topic, but had not changed her ideas about it. It had still seemed to her, up to the night of that disastrous price of anything Or, if uot that, at lea H Was the determining factor whether she bought it or not. It stil seemed intolerablé to her to try to drive a bargain—get anything che>per than the price it was offered at. The of her own made her shiver. [t always reeling off the merits of some set volumps, Mountain Peaks of Litcre- in a kind of nightmare, what she'd « to her’ for keeping her: she decided, quite seric to that with morphine or chloral inst But a gyroscope. if its rapid enough, w surprising things. It of driving a hard b highly conse gyroscope, which hy at all, had-alw a4 corner for support. net notion of tumbling over a ing itself, and then will ings, gyroscope. through no ¥ set revolutio will get a pretty x (To Be © “Since my wife's deat suffered times was yellow as saffro tors could not help me. Meyer's.Wonderful k weight and every one ing me how well | look. moves the catarrha intestinal tract and a triumphant demonstration oF misjudged her? I} The next possibiiity she thought of Hy was of buying !t on the installment plan. She could ask Fred to appro. i}, to pay ft off. But this would inv |) taking Her husband in on it,.und she ) didn’t like the idea. She wanted some- | thing to hurl at him complete. If she were to go to him with the problem he'd. be entitled to say_as to what she bought. It would give him another op- portunity to act generously and feel aggrieved, which, she told herself puf- sionately, she never meant to give him aguin. No, somehow she must find that hundred. dollars herself. ‘Well, then she thought of her jewel- ry. It would be no trick at all to sell one of her good rings for a hundred dollars. But she rejected this idea with vio- 4 i a ; | i ak Fe prlate’go much a week out of his salnry |; vel into he ey coffee and Marie had t began, then down and see dL. She mirror as the maid descended the stai then rather carefully ar- ranged herself in the big chair behind the slim little table where Marie had deposited her tray. She broke off a bit of toast, but didn’t edt it; sat Mstening to what was happening at the now open door, loquial idiom, and a strongly Oriental accent, was trying to convince Marie that he had important busin her mistress. not trying about him. sort. But eventually she let him in and came up to Celia with a card. Celia dropped negligent glance upow 'd done the oily thing self- her. to do, after = the not immacute face of it, and said, “Oh, yes. He wants to buy some clothes of mine. Bring him up. And, Marie The|she added as the girl turned away, “don’t leave the room till he dees.” Then, with a fine exterior calm, she wk a last swift reassuring look! follow up this victo A man with a brusk col-| s bell at a quarte jmeant that she'd won this first skir: mish, She'd played the game better than he had. Now, as she waited, she} was keen ‘to, . A feeling she did not even note the absence of was shame—humillation, She didn’t a bit mind letting Marie know the nature of the transaction, and was quite in- different as to what the maid might think, or whom she might confide her speculatic about It to. It was the she'd have guarded with » need of money— ad always be skeleton, in the étenchs’ closet. The assumptiou vu hent in that family from the time of Celia’s earliest memories had been that all people—all people of the sort one met—were providentially provided with atple incomes, Any fact which thfeatened to give the lie to this pre- sumption was ipso facto scandal unmentionable—indecent. And while, of cou there were other topics simi- larly tal , this was the only one.of them that did not easily acquiesce in 7 aE A-former secretary of agriculture estimated | the ends of it meet around their ne Fee, eee the ends of tei laond thelr se BVERETE PRUE only for use before the worl but even | of their domestic vocabulary of euphe- comlocution I TELL YoU WecL, Ive GoT THs, RIGHT TIME! that. L DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT — WAIT TICLE CALC UP SOME JEWGLRY STORE AND indelicate to ask the she meant to buy trying to sell anythin when women book the house and begun that they wanted her She used to wonder. thrust into a situa the only mea she'd ill do u TRE TIME, WHY IMPOSE ON THE JEWELERS THEN Have TMS TO SELL, NOT TO SIVE AWA) If wh over 4 ‘ PEOPLE'S FORUM | + >| I hay ms ama MR. LIGGETT SPEAKS. Bismarck, N. D., Aprii 8, i919. eorge D. Man, er Bismarck Tribune. | preparatio: | ¢ find copy of letter which| this day mailed to Mr. Karij Y. Inasmuch '@| account of our conversation L trust | objections to meeting me in your own you will be fair enough to publish my | ome town and if you are as anxious leter in its entirety. Very ‘sincerely. WALTER W. Mr. Carl Kositzky, State Auditor Dear Sir: In the Bismarck Tridune of April 7 Walter W. Liggett, u have giv-| appbared an article, evidently inspired} Bismarck, N. D. ky’ colored | by you, which insinuated that I re-| APril 8, 1919. For Lenine? General Foch’s first thought in the facé’of Hunga’ LIGGETT. surrender to Lenine seems to'have been to SATURDAY, ‘APRIL °12;: 1919. @, to’ alebate: cer- y the last legis- ature: : aes The ténor of the entire article was | unfair and misleading and some of the language attribute? to me never passed. my. lips at that interview. For jinstance, I did not refuse to, debate ‘you, but specifically accepted your hallenge. 1 told you, however, that ibecause #f certain matters awaiting |my attention gf would be unable to | meet you next Friday at Steele, as lyou desired. I told you that import- fant duties called me to Fargo and 2 imade it unmistakably plain to you ‘that was the reason why I could not accept your challenge for Friday, but jasked you to name a later date than ‘ Friday. This you refused to do. De- spite my statements—statements |which you could hardly honestly mis- | understand—you deliberately chose to misinterpret. my remarks and gave jan exparte and highly colored .version iof our conversation to the Bismarck | Tribune ‘reporter. . I hereby accept your challenge to | debate publically the immigration law, {the judicial redistricting law, the tax |program and .the present financial 4 ae condition of the state of North Da- kota: These are the questions wiich you suggested as the topics to be dis- i cussed. | You suggested that you select a lo- that | select anether, and that { toss a coin to, determine where ithis debate be held: 1 will waive this 4 jmatter and agree to met you in your town home town—Bismarck—which al- iso happens to be the capital of the | State.” |, 1 stand ready to meet you in a de- jbate of the above .mntioned subjects jon 2 p. m. Saturday, April 26, at tie | Bismarck auditorium. I will agre to ipay half the expenses of the hall and “ wd iy {I am sure that voth the local. pavers | will be glad to give the affair tae ful- lest publicity which will, insure a |large crowd being present to hear our 7 {discussion of these-matters. 1 will accept your proposal that we | | divide the time evenly in hour and ‘4 half hour periods and toss a coin to | settle who speaks first. You surely. cannot raise any valid ; to debate these questions-as you pro- jfessed to be in your interview in the ; Bismarck Tribune of April 7. you will jhasten to accept my proposal. | Very sincerely, | WALTER W. LIGGETT, \ I 1 f meet the challenge with the sword, build an allied barrier against Bolshevism from the Baltic to. the, 4 Black Se and, in the words of Gen. Malleterre “finish the job by a thunder-stroke.” President Wilson and Lloyd George, on the other hand, seem to have taken the position that military measures, hcwever effective against the Bolshevik armies, would prove worse than useless against Bolshevism itself which might break out with increased strength in the rear of an allied. military cordon. There is much divergent opinion on the proposal to recognize Lenine which the Washington Post characterizes as “one of the most sinister developments of these strange times” adding-that. the American people “are at war with Bolshevism and w ill not compromise with the enemy for any reason whatever.” Do not miss reading THE LITERARY DIGEST this week and especially this very searching article showing all phases of the menace. Other stri king articles are: What there is in Germany’s Threat to Go Bolshevik Translations From German Papers Which Throw Light Upon Present Conditions Best of the Current Poetry. 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