The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 12, 1919, Page 6

i i i 4 ‘hy, Kets, and: raise a howl tron YANKEE THRIFT SHOWN BY UNCLE! SAM'S BARGAINS If Anyone Tells You That He’s Giving Away Good War Ma- terial,.He’s Gibbing GETS REASONABLE PRICE Figures Out Cost and Deprecia- tion and Sets Standard and ‘Sticks to It ——-_/ _ BY AE. GELDHOF. Nag. A. Washington Bureau, Washington, D. C., April 12.—You've all heard reports like these: “Thé war department's selling mo- tor cars it doesn't need for $100 apiece.” “You canebuy an airplane from the government for $100 now.” “The army is selling army blankets for little~or nothing.” THEY’RE ALL FALSE, It is true that the army has a lot of war material to sell, but it isn’t letting go of it at such heeyvy loss. Nor is it tiue tha. .housands of dollars worth of ammunition and high explosives have been destroyed. The The only ammunition the army has detroyed is captured German shells which were piled on the deserted bat- tlefields of rrance and blown up. One modern weapon which has been destroyed is poison gas. Tone of it have been dropped into the ocean, for the war department believes that nev- er again will poison gas be used in warfare. The United States, at least, will not be the first to use it again. But nearly: everything else owned ‘bythe war departhent is being put in storage or sold at market prices. TNT Hurned to Reclamation Work ecently $10,000,000 worth of VIN’ which was on hand in various eas ern munition plants was turned over ot the interior department for use in reclamation work, Alaska engineering work, the national parks and othev places where blasting is necessary. The war department had planned to send this dangerous accumulation of explosives into the sea after the pois- on gas, but Secretary Lane rescued it and said it would savehis department a lot of the money it has been spend- ing for dynamite. Fort posal of other war mater- ial, suc has lumber, steel, copper, mo- tor cars and chei Is, the war de- partment has organized a sales di- vision, to which everything,no long: er heeded for the army is being turn- ed_ over. ™~ None ‘of ub material will be sold at bargain 1 » because to do so would disrupt the, commercial The sales division has agreement with the copper producers of the country, for instance, under which 100,000,000 pounds of. copper now in the hands of the army will be placed. on sale for a period of 15 months. It \will be sold at market prices, and.a company has ‘been or- “ganized to dispose of it. In handling its surplus lumber a similar arrangement was made, and a firm which represents the majority of the American lumber asociations was organized to purchgse the sur- plus lumber, sell it at ‘the current market price, and pay the proceeds |.., to the war department, les the ex- pens eof handling. Uncle Sam Holds No Bargain Sales. By this method the government avoids dumping its urplus material back ‘on the market to injure the in- dustries which tripled and quadrupled their production during the war to meet the needs of the army. In cases where it is not feasible to dispose of the material in this wa the department, through its clerks cattered over the country, is selling it at public sale, advertised in the newspapers. This sort of sale in- cludes typewriters, desk -and office supplies which are no longer needed. But these are not being sacrificed, either. They are marked at a price which allows for depreciation, and sold the same as any other second hand furniture. ‘Many of the army's motor trucks of which at one time the war depart- ment owned nearly 100,000, have been turned over to the postoffice depart- ment, while part of its 20,000 motor cars have been given to ‘the public health service and other government departments. Airplanes have been turned over to the postoffice depart- ment for use on the air mail routes. One excellent example of “swords beate ninto plowshares” is the dispo- sition of 150,000 tons. on nitrate of soda which was to have been used in making high explosiveshells. It has been turned over to the bureau of markets -of the department of Agri- In the matter of surplus clothing the war departmentiis not.given to worry- QUICK RELIEF FROM CONSTIPATION Get Dr. Edwards’ ( Tablets Miss Mable Lundy, caring for them 1 days porkers were fedona oats and barl plemented/ by pasture. sisters pulled w yard and buildi the pigs. forage and aided materially in keep: pork. The pig: in 153 days or 1. pig at a cost of 6 cents per pound. As a Mable was nted with county paid her expenses boys’ and girls’ was held there last week. plishments this year. teers recently called for. ing-held by the war department. The Great Effect } War Has Had On for Tunics having more swank _and better fitting power. The privates no less than the officers were quick to! of the uniform. made a marked impression on al] men is felt among all men of all classes who have an appreciation for style and its needfulne: cities the custom tailors have adopted straight-up shoulders and flat back, high waistlines and deep vents. The origin of all these features can be di- tendency war training has had to. straighten up a man’s figure, increase the development of the chest and. de- crease the waist development, has also i fashion designers to P i t of models to fit this, new figure. That the men of all ranks‘ in the army felt there should be more style in the uniform is evidenced by y.|the commandeering of the designing | ‘ rooms of a well known Rochester mak- er of ready-to-put-on clothes. Had the war not ended so suddenly the next few months would have found a very YOUNG PEOPLE ACCOMPLISH WONDERS IN BREEDING UP PURE-BRED PORKERS 13-year-old Barnes county pig club member, cap-|county, won tured the honors this past year in the! Berkshire pigs producing 336 pounds st in North Da-|of pork in 124 days, and Karl Ander} ed two pure-/ son, also of Walsh count{, put 365) The prize ration of ground| White pigs in 156 days. y with milk slop, sup-|ors go to Adopih Schwartz, , Billings Mable and her| county, with Duroc Jersey pigs; fifth eks around the door-; to Ida Eggers, ‘Stark county, Duroc and fed these to! Jersey pigs; sixth to Wesley Simpson, ‘This formed a very good) Grant county with Poland China pigs; ing down the cost of producing the| county with Duroc Jersey pigs; eighth gained 468 pounds|to Glen Emch, Grant county, with 3 pounds per day per! Duroc Jersey pigs and tenth to Alice d* for her achievement; White pigs. a gold by Miss Clara Lar- ing, for it is planning to use its sur-|in active service and is stationed at plus stocks of uniforms, blankets. and| Chicago. equipment to outfit the 500,000 volun- So don’t get excited and take your purse out when you hear of a sale be-|concert are selling fast. A large share on? ed from Stanton, where he explained M en's Styles to Mercer county assessors the state’s A common point “of discussion | among soldiers who are returning | from the Old World is the element of style which played such an important|turned from a short visit in James- part in the clothes worn by the offi-|town. They are now stopping at the cers of European armies. Upon the}McKenzie hotel and expect to soon arrival of our men in’ France there|take up their residence in the W: was a noticeable rise in the demand mansie apartments. notice that in the European’ armies! Went over as lieutenant in Co. K, of more regard was given to the set-up|the Fighting First, and whose com- This condition has without doubt | vember 14, three days after the be- who have returned and the influence | General Fraser yesterday. In the larger rectly traced to military uniforms. The R. S.-Wright of Moorhead, Minn., will John Legg of Forest river, in Walsh second honors with , feeding and pounds of gain upon his two Chester! Fourth hon- -| seventh to Myrtle Mueller,, Dickey Lasstuen, Benson county with Chester The pork production project is abeth Burr, county clud leader apd County Agent Willard. Maude Powell Tickets.Sell Fast The tickets for the Maude Powell of the best seats in the parquet and first balcony are gone. ' Talks to Assessors. Lyman .A. Baker, statistician for the state tax commission, has return- inew tax laws. Return From Jamestown Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Flinn have res lg Now Capt. Behonek. | Capt. A. Behonek of Dickinson, who mission as captain was signed: No- {ginning of the armistice, called on Capt. Be- honek regards himself fortunate, as his advancement was one of_the very last to get in under the war depaft- ment ruling suspending promotions in qthe army. New Enterprise f for Bismarck W. R.,Graham.of Dayton, Q,, and soon launch a new institution in Bis- marck. They will.establish a service station on storage. batteries, magne- tos and _generagors in a part of the Motor Car Supply Co.’s building on Fourth street. Mr. Graham and Mr, Wright were in this work inthe avia- ition branch of the army, having grad- i ated from the. government school of M,.S. »They expect to be ready | for service in about two weeks and are more than confident’ that Bismarck furnishes an unlimited field for their a proving very popular with the boys} no: son, county club leader and the board|and girls this season and about 100 of county commisioners of Barnes|have purchased pure bred registered to Fargo|jbred gilts for the sow and litter pro- where she attended the ninth annual) ject and a large number will buyg club ‘institute which | spring pigs later in the season for the Mable has! f feeding project. Grand Forks county been elected president of the boys’ | has placed 42 pure bred gilts with boy and girls’ club .at Leal and is hoping j|.and girl club members, thru ‘Miss Eliz- to lead the club on to great accom- culture, and will be used ts fertilizen| definite improvement in the fit of al) work. uniforms for the reason that the gar- |” ments cut along more scientific lincs in, of with greater attention given to style have given more soldierly ‘character _ Motherhood Told which had the tendency to improve the posture*of the soldier and ‘at the) | Women Tell How They Made Event One of Great Happiness. same time lift up his morale. ge CITY NEWS | Senator Mees. | F. W. Mees of Glen Ullin is stop- ping at the Grand Pacific. Bank Examiner Here the Herman Scheffer of the state bank examining department, is in Bismarck oday. f | Leave for Oklahoma _Mrs. E. V. Lahr and son, leave to-| an h Tearing of night for Oklahoma for a two weeks’ thelr cil cae tigated a area visit with relatives, Mother's Priend is a most penetrati settee medy, simon ether Very Il. Bther, fom’ formals 0 ane P ohpal Simon J. Nagel of the board of con-| clan. Strain upon invents Le a trol has been called to Cleveland, G.,| 2nd mtead of period of discomfort and iby the serious illness of his mother. ‘The hours Capt. Henry Here. her natural: Capt. T. S. Henry, home on a brief cracked and does not become hard or dis- furlough, will spend Sunday with his sister, Miss Tess Henry of the adju- petty it Tier bet Bata ‘tis: lente eens: la, tant general’s office.) Capt. Henry,| fF, ,thel r whose horfle is at Valley City, is still foie of Mother's Friend Sead isles OAUEUUGaNNOGUAOGONDaGEDaDerOGenosgdonoN Lincoln | Addition — \ Acre lots are the cheapest to tie in the City Limits. ‘Town. lots ,adjoining. are selling for $100.00 a piece. Our acre lots.are selling at the rate of only $25.00 per town lot and-they cost you only 88¢ os and-88c per month for each town ot. eal UUUURAAUGANAENNGaOCauOONOuNOONN They are only six blocks from the new Wachter Schools. The soil is excellent for gardening. You ¢an get‘good well water at only twenty to thirty feet. You: will have lots of room. around you to keep chickens, a cow of | anything else, .. almost; that: you want. You- simply | can’t beat it. \ J DEVINE PLANS IMPROVEMENTS AT INDUSTRIAL Prepirations Already Made for; Expenditure of Appropria- tion. in 1920 Mandan, N. D, Apri apropriation money for the ‘ney main buildings of the Widen Schdot will mer and .some. minor i will be made,” said Sup . M. Devine of the North Dakota state: school thi morning. “It_will take.time to de cide on the best pla to make sur- veys and select sites, to receive bids and group the buildings and plan the landscaping. But three years from North Dakota should have ade- of the members of the legislature and} itd: i ing school At months old 35 Dost Soe Visa last chance ‘eo buy-a splendid i ./oo! Suit for— i ~ 330.0055 Hundreds of. patterns to select from— 4 AWS worth'up, to $50:00. | SPIRO, & < PHONE 27a sort of paint shap 2PHONE 82: - read t6 introduce: same—$30.00. 7 Ladies’ “& Men’s ae is Dry Cleaners ' WE CALL FOR:AND DELIVER—JUST PHONE ; “Opposite Postoffice Make your home the chberieat laces in town by Sipolies. you' need. We have house-cleaning supplies such as have all kinds @f earpentér’s tools for those little And, everything that: we have, you can s * a tx and an institwtion of which it may well be proud.” Devine Fought Hard. Supt. J. M. Devine after four years of continuous effort finally succeeded n getting the means necessary to_er- ect new buildings nd ree nstruct | new grounds. ‘To accomplish this Purpose it was! necessary to convince the: state archit the budget and appropriation committee, a majority the governor of the state, All these| various bodies! were invited over to the instituion ‘at ,different times, so that they might Study the institution at. first hand., The govyerrfor himself nade two visits, as did the get omniittee, while about one hundred members of the recent legislature were over to visit the school. That they were all convinced of the neces- sity of these .improvements is _ evi- denced ‘by the appropriation whic: wads granted and which is sufficient to carry out the plans. which Mr. De- vine has long hi ja min i a ‘Special this week’ : Company , PHONE 274 | tors for tl From (Minneapolis. D. L. Webb and C. Washburn, audi- he-Northern Pacific railroad,| Paui to’ visit ‘her are stopping at-the Grand aye to:| who is attending. ee days The Oldest and Largest Bank inthis sectionof ‘the State, vent there. \ —~-Call—_—_ salary. your money. the future. ~ % Ne When a Man Borrows . ‘When a man wants to borrow abn money to use-in his business he natur-~ ally thinks of the bank where his situa: tion will be best understood. . He wants to borrow to the best advantage and with a minimum of red tape. _, While this bank recognizes, and ob- serves the customs of safe and prudent banking the Loan Deparment strives\to make ‘borrowing:: a pleasant, sad easy, process. . You'll fing that; we are all standings and broad, liberal ideas: When you are in need of accommeda- tions just come in and let us fix-y we the matter. eS “The Friendly Bank” Mrs. John eV o aughter, Florence, e Visitation ‘con- Once you have opened a Savings Account in this bafik you should add to - it with the same regular- ity that you draw « your Do not wait-until: you have used all. the money that you tHink you. .re-. quire from, your pay, but come into the bank and deposit a fixed amount just as soon as you get - This is the surest way to provide for * We welcofie accounts itt any amount, ‘and pay 4% compound interest. otal auman beings ‘here, with keen! under- BISMARCK -BANK od We have several teams and men thaXare available for imme- diate work—hauling, teaming or cleaning. Oy, a garden plowing, before our regular— ICE SEASON OPEN Ss aes ae i 9 4 Oe e¢\ at 8 4: eeding tne call of Spring—“Cl an-Up sna tine: Up? We. ive’ the Ops, pails, brooms, duster&, etc. We _ pair jobs.’ We have garden took; ‘to keep the garden iw. at a lower price | Vong Lomas Hardware Company, eMatn st ST. h ieee wh \ere—come see | ihe! ere. — ets