The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 28, 1919, Page 4

| Boys who'fought in France. .in the works of peace and of the future. "te tre igthen our bonds of mutual solidarity, and RAGE 4, THE BISMARL K TRIBUNE Entere! at the Postoffice, Bismarck, ismarek, N. 1 ‘D., as: Second Class Matie.. GEORGE D, MANN.) SS Stor : G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, > Nk. YORK, Fifth Ave Bldg.; CHICAGu, Mt Blag.; BOSTON, 3 Winer Sis) DETROIT, Kresege . Bldy,; MINNEAPOL.$ $, 810” Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF AssOULATED PRESS Tle Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for puvlication of all news edited to it or not otherwise err ted in this paper and also the local news published hes ere, AU nghts of publication of special dispatches ] herein are ererved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION 2 oun TLON pate PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Da __ by carrier per y uyeinisieewe esos: $ Di. by mail per yor ‘dn Bismarek) De y by mail per year (In state outside of Bismarck) 5.00 jaily by mail outside of North Dakota ............ 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER, (Established 1873) be cad A NEW CITY Mr. Citizen, meet the NEW Bismarck. Sure, it looks a lot like our same old pre-war town—on the surface. But look deeper. THINK. Beneath the surface, Bismz A CIVIC SOUL! Our city’s spirit is a force reborn, fused in the fires of international strife, molded anew to nob- ler ends, vibrant now with conscious co-operation k boasts today We, , the citizens of Bismarck, were united by ete war in bonds of common toil and sacrifice. fhe full meaning of civic solidarity has been re-/ a to us. We have come out of the war a vitalized and spiritualized municipal entity, in- spired by a-proud sense of our common patriotic) achievements. And Bismarck’s war born community soul: is our first and greatest war memorial—a living, glowing monument to our fiillen heroes. What greater tribute would those boys have; wished for? While they fought and fell, it was of HOME| that they were thinking. It was THEIR CITY} that they longed to see once more. Many a closing eye on the battlefield turned in mute despair toward HOME—toward Bismarck. Shall Bismarck soon forget those dying looks? Shall we fail to hold faith with those who} fought for us? Shall--we=fait:to ‘make=Bismarek in-all ways worthy of, them? oe WE WILL NOT' FAIL. ~~ : ae This igithe firgt of agin ’ publidispirited, articles’ which “wilt be“ the. Bismarck i ie ie *stiumulate-anew the! m service in a common cause, ! to raise ever higher the banner of civic patriotism, | pride: ‘and. prosperity—in short, to point the way | toward-making: Bismarck in fact a beautiful and -ennobled. community;-in-structure and in spirit .a -worthy memorial to-the sublime sacrifice of our With every reader of these articles we plead for hearty co-operation in. the ALL-AMERICAN} spirit of this campaign, to the higher honor of | our soldiers and'the greatef‘glory of their city’s! name. i While honest men are trying to. build, svais | stand around and talk about creating Utopia by blowing the building sky-high. | THE MECHANIC’S PLACE IN DEMOCRACY |! The American mechanic has been as large a factor as the statesman in the democracy we have attained up to date. “The mechanic has economized and distributed | human energy for the ease and cheapness by which | ; we obtain the necessities, comforts and -many of} the luxuries of life, ; And the ease and cheapness by which we ob- tain our wants is quite as important in a demo-| cratic program as the expressions of our will in the matter of law and government. The average man or woman of today carries a watch that only a king or queen could have. af- forded a century ago. Many of us can in our homes and at will hear the world’s greatest symphony orchestras and human song birds. | These, together with the more utilitarian items of our modern life, are due to the efforts of the American mechanic—every desire for increased | and low cost production, including the modern plow, the reaper, the automatic lathe, the punch| press, the power loom and sewing machine. | It is true that there were great mechanics in important in the democratic scheme of things | marines. | stock of raw deals. | will continue, to enjoy its private rough-house. BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE democracy, but these made: things: only. for the very rich. The large difference between the “American mechanics and those of old world is that the Amer- icans devoted their efforts and ingenuity on ma- chinery and tools and dies to produce a thing in quantity and at low cost, while the Europeans put their efforts on merely making a few of the things itself. The world’s modern manufacturing methods in the production of mechanical devices grew out of the New England clock industry. In 1803 a Boston merchant saw a large mar- ket for small shelf-clocks if they could be sold cheaply enough. He offered Eli Terry, a wooden-movement clock maker of Watertown, Conn., an order for 4,000 of them if he could procure them for $4 each and make delivery within three years. Terry, in order to carry out this contract, in- vented a crude form of gear cutting machine, a semi-automatic lathe, applied water power to his machinery and divided his workmen into groups, dach engaged upon a separate part. He thus produced the parts with such uniform accuracy that they were interchangeable—they could be assembled by comparatively unskilled labor. This was about the beginning of MANUFAC- TURING things rather than merely MAKING them. This method of production has since been ap- ' plied in a more perfected form to sewing machines, itypewriters, the bicycle, the automobile and now the airplane—every mechanical devise of war and peace. Yes, the American mechanic has been fully as as the American statesman. 4 The statesman gave us the for ritlas of gov- ernment for the free expenditure of our efforts, | but the mechanic has economized our efforts and} made our modern life rich and fruitful in com- forts and pleasures and where those of our fore- fathers were poor and barren by comparison and filled with burdens. Our greatest need at present is busy hands and idle tongues. “If the Finns really intend to make war on Lenine, we Hope it will be a finish fight. + If thel) caiser” eat prefers death to standing trial, we ggest that he'talk: sassy to one of our Das a9 wo ania : ie a Hun gets the peace treaty he. won’t | try a very serious bluff, because he knows we have seen his hand. espn telephone rate Virgini; GEE,WwE bo WANT YOU oc GR. ne The contractor said. yes, he'd come, but wanted explanations, the idea? ‘IN wait till Innch to explain, if you don’t mind,” Alfred told him coo! ly, and went back to his desk. These tactics, adroit as they wer were not precalculated at all, Th were just a symptom that Alfred’s mind was once more fully on the job. His employer’s curiosity, if unsatisfied, would be working for him steadily till lunch-time, And the sort: of lunch he would give him+that atmosphere with, which ..the, cluby surrounded | the lunch-—would, work for him, too. He gave all these influences'time to do their work—plenty: of ‘time. Then two admirable cigars, he made a fal- con swoop Si eaient to te heart of the busine: proposition is,” he said, without preface or explanitioi,:“‘that’} I guar: antee you a profit ‘of ‘twenty: thousand dollars on this contract in considera- tion of # half-interest in whatever the Profits turn out tobe; ‘also in cousid- jon of your putting complete au- advance ipl court su iy The reign ‘of communistic brotherly love in Bavaria is rapidly reducing the male population to fit the number of jobs available. seourt.' ‘But is there: a ier thah Burleson? ~ Wilhelm awaits his trial with that same high courage displayed when he chose to go down with i his ship rather than beat it into Holland. Waiting for lower prices before beginning need- ;ed construction work is about as sensible as wait- ing for lower prices before eating again. If the Hun decides to: be stubborn about: sign- ing that treaty, he will find that the ships block- ading his harbors are equally bull-headed. Capital voices a general complaint that high ; wages have decreased production. Will it show us a man who doesn’t ease up a bit when he gets on Easy street. We have decided to sell thé Germans our sur- plus stocks of raw material. How fine it would be if we could persuade them to take our surplus Officially we are at war, though fighting has stopped. When the Huns sign, the world will be officially at peace, while every corner of the glove They told us our troops were kept south of Archangel to protect our stores there. And now they tell us the stores ‘were stolen by the Reds before we got there. None but a statesman could the old world long before the conception of a social | (| “THE THOROUGHBRED” ',Bu Henry Kitchell Webs Author of Ra i i came a morning when turned, with a shrug, of one o'clock at the EGF Ue tE Real Adventure,” “The Painted Scene,” Etc. | I have a proposition to make to you.” The contractor started, stared, made & passionate prediction as to his state in a future world, and demanded to be told what his subordinate meant. His Gmazementwas driven home in a little binah by a realization he couldn’t understand these profound questions. unbottoned, his hands in his trousers pockets; but his air was, inexplicably one of authority. “I mean just that,” he said. “I have . iret to make to you. Lunch is ood time to talk. The club’s just liaereee the street.” “Are you a member of that club?” asked the contractor. Alfred nodded. “If you object to it,” he said, “we can go anywhere else. It was, we may observe in paren- thesis, a matter of pure lock that Al- fred had not resigned from that club. He'd paid his dues for the year not nore than « fortnight before the crash. He hadn’t considered it luck at the time; but there he was mistaken. The effect of Alfred’s announcement on the contractor was cheap at a hundred dollars. It made a perfect dramatic Led aaa for the pikes Alfred was going to suggest. The ter Union League Club. thority over. everything concerned. in the contract intocmy hands.” Alfred. was: himselfagainy ny mis- take; There: was the:old these tactics: The obvio going about the business would have been to begin. by» dwelling upon =the contractor's plighe—the gristly pros- pect ahead of him if things went on as they were going now, an opening which would have given the contractor some- thing to argue about. Alfred’s omission to say ‘na word about this starring fact only made its stare the more sinster. “Your guarantee would be worth a hell of a lot, wouldn’t it?” suid the contractor, with the best imitation he could manage of jovial scorn. “Of course,” said Alfred, “the auly guarantee that would be of any value would be the cash itself put up with a bank pending the completion of the contract.” “Look tractor. heré!” demanded : 0 “Who invblazes.are You, uny ju. ought to know,” Alfred said. He didn’t answer further, and when the contractor asked, “Are you A.C. Blair?” he merely nodded. The contractor blew up at this point and spoke at length apd at large, the upshot. of his language being a demand know his competitor's motive in ng around his. office. fot spying.’ Alfred said quietly. “You'll see that for yourself.in a min- ute. If I’d been a_spy. instead of com- ing to you now, I'd be going around to the council ubcommittee and'.get- ting a job as their expert. I am an! I know. that. line of work as} expert. well ax anybody in the United States. But I haven’t done that. I've come to you and offered you an absolutely fair proposition.” “What did you come for, then? sisted the contractor. “Did you hare! a tip that those fool aldermen were going to butt in?” Blair hesitated for a second, told the simple truth. “No.” he said: “f needed aj jub id 1 answered a blind ad. in The News.” “Down and out. éh®’ commented the contractor. He didn’t believe a word oft Alfred’s story: Then, with a pounce, “Where did you get this twenty thot sand dollars?” “IT haven’t it)” said Alfred. take up my proposition, 4 1 go_and borrow it somewhe then The'contractor stared blankly across’ the table. “Say!” he demattded rough- ly. “What’s the idea, bringing - me here and kidding me along with a pi like that, when you haven’t got a cen! Alfred drew a folded paper from his pocket and handed it ‘across. with- out comment, to the contractor. It was : 4 memorandum of the bargain he had j proposed.’ stated almost as simply as he had stated it a few moments before. There was one peragrawh in it. sta ing that the agreement Was of no et fect unless Blair put up the money pie forty-eight hours of their sign- eit. GET CORNS What was! after the lighting. with one match of} “If yous “IT PINCHES!” TRY OuR EVER WEAR wT pa fo ed into his bank and sat down in the president's 0: An hour Jater, he walked out n With the mot not in the lea 1 come out hi: opportunity to h and his confidens ity to make the most o: ty based on expert knowledge and tried ability, that he could hardly have fail- ed to get the help he needed. It was just a question of making Sverything transparently clear. His personal cr pointed out, was excellent. The away he'd poured his money into:the Clean- ing up of the Waters-Macdonald mess, Was a thing ne aie uvotid be likely to: forget. Bu U it. it! should ‘ve and: spent. the -rést¢-of; the afternoutr nailing down all four corners gf ‘his agreement with the contractor,. He meant to‘leave no unstopped rat holes iy thut? document,:?Forheavei knew there: were’ rats enough! The contractor Jost his temper i ood many. times, climbed up on his dignity, appealed to! the Dhighi godé, “Hiy new partuer, wasotrying’ aqvoimedrtltith into re figureheadsssi itt OW is ity’s not: to be cqnestionedt and, every: thing else is. I'll not do all the hiring and’ all the firing. Then those’ specifi- cations! They’re crooked from’ begin- ning tu end: VM go to the council and xet them straightened out. If any. of ur friends come to you and squeal nd them to me. But what I'd do, if 'T were you, would be to take my wife and go to the seashore—anywhere, and not come back till the job’s done.” The contractor writhed and struggl- ed—would have got away if he could, But the numerals in that check kept him fascinated, At five o'clock it was all over, Even as he had eaten the foreman sa week or so ago, Alfred Blair had now caten the contractor. And it was not, until this deed was fully accomplished—unti) he, had put on“his hat! atid coat, aid stood teudy to Walk out of Me office, that the thought of Celia came Into his wind at all, or of what the new situation was going to mean to:them. 'EVERETT TRUE NOW ARE You, | i i: f. The contractor pondered it a while longer without, r last “Oh, it’s all ‘Senne he said. “You'll never get the money. “or you're likely. do rj thing out, -| to do, He went, stright, bwel-acthe oftiée That's |'as “they. Tay sul / (this was what he and .the colitractor 2 How's THs PAmMICY ¢ THESE PECRLE NEVER NOTICED ME BEFORS A: CouVPLS OF WEEKS AGO WHEN Ff INHERITED Some Money tt! Of course it: wouldn't be accurate to say that he'd acted this morning, and subsequently, without any premedita- tion at all. He had meditated. He had, more or less, figured the whole but as a fanciful project purely—as something he wasn’t going His imagination had to be at something, -and it had constructed, he lvoked’ on with indulgent amusement all the time, this project; had develop- ed it indeed, - down to some: of. its quite small details—but always, as. [ said, fancifully, up;.that: morning: and walk. inte ' tlie contractor's: office. and sbegin to cart the thing out, was im y any wish to provide an-ample life'<for’ Celia’ or to ‘rehabilitate him: {3 springing rather from a pure “im- patience to get the job done. The imuf- fling and fumbling'that had gone uider his eyes, had irritated him to the point where he couldn't stand it any longer, So he got up and took on the job-him- self. That Was all there Was to it, It wasn’t’all there was to it, though, He ‘realized ‘this’ the first time he thougt about Celia, She couldn’t be expected—it wouldn’t be human to. ex; jne¢gt that. she’d want, to go Were, how that he.v had agreed upon)and a half share ty the profits-besides. Of course there. mighn’t’) be any profits—at. least not for. Alfred. ‘To the eye of cold reason, that possibility would appear to be worth taking seri- ously, He didn’t take it very serious- ly, to be sure, but then he knew his eye wasn’t coldly reasonable. He knew he was going to succeed. Still, one never Jost any chic! by refraining from counting them il they were hatched, And from = Celia’s point of vi mightn’t it, perhaps, be a kind- ness not to tease her with hopes which she could see plainly, enough might turn out groundless? Wouldn’t she ‘be happier if he waited till the job was done and paid for. and then presented ber with the restilts, in, as it were. package? To balance that evening when she told her of his failures? But, contemplated. this scene didn’: afford him‘ any Whole-souled” satisfac- tion. He couldn’t. see Celia rushing de- ote ““BY CONDO WELL, | ek lighted the’ ree! yby_ea: He didn’t like that notion any too + ait led him to. get | yms ut the end of ul, The nues of the screen would all right—but Celia— Then there was another angle on the thing. She'd. been «a perfectly corking sport about the whole business—evec since that night when he'd told her of the smash. -There hadn’t been a whim- per—a reproach, But that was because of her unquestioning belief that “the come-dowh was “hecessary. And wouldu’t that belief be shaken, if he were to gu to her now and_ tell her that he'd borrowed twenty thousand dollars, and made himself-a‘ partner in the enterprise? If he could get twenty thousand dollars! as easily ‘as that— just by going and asi for it, why hadn't he done’ it three auonths azo? He'd had just a touel hh of that! feeling: himself as he ‘came away from the bank. The whole effect of the day's do- lings upon him, was to make that rou- time work of his over a drafting board at twenty-two fifty a week seem a lit- tle. uhreal—like’~ playing a) part. Wouldn’t she feel that even more strong]. feel that ‘she'd been sacri- ficed, t to necessity, but to a mere vag of. his. own’ temperament? Per- haps Sf, he waited a while before he told her—not until the job was finish- ed, of ¢ourse,but) | for—say — another couple. of qonths, and then perhaps broke it. gradually, promoted himself y stages— Anyhow, the thing want- He couuld take tine what would they well; either, ed thinking ov for that -a-few.da matter one way. or another-—-to come to the right conclusion. Of course, he'd tell . It would. be outrageous- ly unfair to to keep her in the dark. The only ion Was just how he’d do’ it, and when, There ix an insiduous and diabolical subtlety about.the sin of. proseratina- tion, which lies:i et. that while its effects go elessly piling hes, in geome rical progr ~The difference be- tween “making, « confession on the eighth day, instead of the seventh, is very much -less than the difference between making it on, the, second day insteadof the first! while ‘the differ- ence: between. making ‘it on the thirty- first’ or ‘on the ‘thirtieth ~ is almost negligible: ‘This was what made it possible to go on net telling Celia his fortunes. It won be an. ow to deceive her; he admitted. that had earned, if any human being could earn, his completest’ confi¢ si Well, and ‘didu't;he. mean to. give it to ‘her? Of course he did, Only—not to-night. To-morrow, perhaps—or Sun- day, “when there'd’ be time for a good long talk about it.. But Sunday they’d devoted to a picnic up the shore. Why spoil a perfect thing like that with a lot of worries about the future? Celia Was happy.. wasn’t she,.with things as they ‘were? Obviously: happier: health- jen, altogether .nore., alive: than she’L yar been before inv her life. (T d. THE comm THEM Hosen DEPT USE y y, t ae e tes