The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 2, 1919, Page 4

‘PAGE 4. FS = ns i THR BISMAR: .K TRIBUNE Entere:: at the Postoffice, Bismarek, N. D., as Second Neda is Matt st GEORGE D. MANN. °- | > >= __Eéditor G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, NEW YORK, Fifth. Ave Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldy.; BOSTON, 8 Winter St.j: DETROIT, Kresege Bldg.; MINNEAPOL 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Tho Assuciated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news c-edited to it or not otherwise wet in this, paper and also the local news’ published erein. All rights of publication of special dispatches hereim are Ino_reserved, MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION & BSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE De by carrier per year .........0++ 0 $7.20 DvD: by mail per year (In Bismarck) . 12 Dans by mail per year (In state outside o: ck) 5.00 Daily by mail outside of North Dakota .......---.- 6.00 THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER, (Established 1873) <> — CAPITAL: HERE’S YOUR CHANCE! No city in the northwest offers such oppor- tunities for investment as Bismarck. There is an exceptional demand for stores. Many businesses have been forced to give up projects because there is not an empty store room or building in the capital city. Rents are high enough and should attract capital. If Bismarck is to grow and avail itself of the post-bellum prosperity, it must get out of the present stride, shift ’er into high and step on the gas. The need is most pressing. Building ceased when war commenced. The lost time must, be made up or opportunity will vanish. In addition to the demand for business blocks, there is a clamor for houses. Every real estate agent is bombarded with applications? ghgke are a few houses‘for sale, but scgrcely nofe for rent. The city cannot grow until thé housing problem is settled. The time has come for the business men to take a survey of conditions and act promptly, because other cities of the state are now planning to meet these reconstruction requirements. Prompt action will mean much toward the industrial de- velopment of the city. Indifference awill-retard progress. , i ITALIAN SITUATION a President Wilson voices ,the sentiment’ of: America in his attitude on the’Fiume controversy. The “fact of Londoh as intetpréted by’ him,. is ‘ pierely the “construction evéry,;entente power places upon it—except Italy whith thrbugh’ self interest: approaches the, issue hdpelessly biased. 4 It doubtless will be hard to apply practically 4ll the idealism in which Wilson’s various state- |’: ments abound, but the broad principles as lid down’ by both Lloyd George and: the president: ‘Of the United States must inevitably obtain invthi finalisettlement. « ; t If:theileague’of nations is going to be:a basic ‘actor<in’ stabilizing ‘conditions jin Europe, Italy hould prové her faith in the diplomatic arrange- ent’ by having it arbitrate ’hét aspirations ‘to Fiume. if ie The price of a Jugo-Slav entity, friendly to Italy is surely more to be desired than the posses- sion of Fiume, the demand for which is largely based upon sentiment. The renunciation of Fiume would bring an agreement with the \Jugo-Slavs that should protect Italy’s people who reside in this Adriatic zone. Italy’s actions may spell success or failure for the league of nations. The Italians’ unyielding attitude may be the first important, international issue adjudicated by that new tribunal. OMFORT * A. C, Townley, ruler of Utopia to be;thust find cold comfort in Postmaster Burleson’s haste to re- turn the telephone and telegraph lines to private operation. Mr. Burleson was so anxious to’ foist public ownership upon the nation, that he:used his war power arbitrarily to force the experiment. i) This ‘failure of the federal government to so- ize two large industries comes at a time when North Dakota is to usher in—the voters permit- fing July 8th or thereabouts—an elaborate scheme of state socialism. as Poor ‘service; dictatorial tactics and political piffle, militated against Mr. Burleson’s success. The public was quick to sense the absolute failure of public operation. The American people have Mr. Burleson’s measure through his management of the postoffice department. The-Tribune has an example in point. An’in- sured package of merchandise was mailed out of St. Paul, April 19. It arrived in Bismarck, Apri] 30. } Eleven days in transit is a service-that the public _ would not tolerate from a private corporation. ,A private‘ utility that showed no more speed than this would soon hit the bumps. When: this service became the rule in the de- partment“ of telegraphs and telephories, public judgment as to Mr. Burleson’s ability was doubly , With: no spur of necessity for success behind it, public operation is bound to be a failure. The sincerity ‘to avoid: political manipulation may be present, but everyone knows that politics dictates appointments and:as a result the management fol- lows political expediency. and not sound business principles. Rbk } Before launching into the state utilities, Mr. ‘ownley should get:a tip or'two from Burleson— he may be able to tell the Big Chief how to avoid ailure in socializing industries. 7 vB a ‘sy i éthe inalienable right to ny form of*government‘that doesn’t: conflict ‘the-Ten: Points Moses brought: down from gin have Ay. man who cath mak ‘ .| the rolling stone—by a blind force outside himsvif. A A ROLLING, STONE A rolling stone gathers no moss—but who! wants to be a mossback? The trouble with a rolling stone isn’t its lack of a mossy garment, but its lack of CONSCIOUS! DIRECTION. No rolling stone ever slides down the.shimmevy rainbow path plump into the creek of gold! In fact, no rolling stone ever gets anywhere!, It only bumps aimlessly downward, the slave of an ex- ternal force—gravitation. Don’t be a rolling stone. There’s plenty of room at the top. And the top is just where the rolling stone never arrives. YOU are wanted at the top. Mr. Citizen, Mr. Worker, YOUR job is to stick to your job—to climb to the highest place in it you can fill. And the rungs of the ladder you must climb are HERE, in your HOME TOWN, in the organization of | which you have long been a partyamong the | fellow workers with whom you havVe so long associated. Don’t fall for the lure of the SOMEWHERE ELSE. Don’t chase some will o’ the;wisp Eldo- rado in a far away promised land. There ig no better pay in any other city. than in our own city —YOUR city! HERE—in your own home town—is your El- dorado. HERE and NOW is your rainbow gold. This is your city of opportunity. Thi sis the town, that has a thousand fortunes. Let it make yours! Life and work are much the same the country over. The only difference, so far as WE are.con- cerned, between Bismarck and any other city, is that here is OUR home, and here are OUR friends. ‘ ‘Sod elsewhere can make: good all the-mere: su ly: here, arhong hjs life-long .pals, where. the foundations of his at cess have already been laid. In his own home town any loyal, hard-working citizen is master of his future; his prosperity 19! certain. : But the victim of Wanderlust is ever the Seri of Uncertainty! He who follows at the beck and call of the Far Away, only winds up far and away from his own best interests. He is pulled—ike at And he lands, in the end, like the rolling stone, in | gome*forlorn hollow far lower down. the slopes of Mt..Prosperity than the point from which: he started — K Don't let even your, thoughts *bé’the slavey of wanderlust. Keep i \here at Hopte;’ interffon yotr own city’s welffre. ‘ é¢ And stick in person to your city. Grow with your city. (| Rrosper with Bismarck. me OST BISMARCK! wae as The difference between the soviet system and ‘Bolshevismiitte difference een good Der- ocrat and a fy¥nken anarchist. 9» Ke CT Marshall Och has been asked to tell the con- ference what to do in case the Huns refuse to sign. We can tell em. Encore the marines. overthrew the Letts at Libau without let or hind- rance of the British warships in the harbor. WITH THE EDITORS NONPARTISAN LEAGUE Opponents of the Nonpartisan, League who are not personally concerned about the financial fus ture of North Dakota might: waitin'‘cbntent fob the inevitable isolation. and bankruptcy which they predict for North Dakota. But they. cannot forget Townley and Townley’s ambition, which reaches ‘far beyond political control of one state. He is'a Socialist, and in the foreign population of the northwest he sees a fertile field for, his ambition. But if he'is to succeed, he must change the nature of his appeal. People who hold to Socialistic tenets: think no more kindly of private ownership of farms than of private ownership of banks and railways, and if he ceases to be the special pro- tector of the farmers, will they follow him into the Socialist party? If they do, thé character and} sentiments of the American farmer ‘have been misrepresented to the world. As for the fear that the Dakota experiment, is the beginning of “American bolshevism,” the ex- pression itself seems to us to contain a contradic- | tion of terms. The experience of Russia has sick- ened and horrified even mén of radical opinions. They now see what the consequences may be of “the sudden leap” and understand how closely the Safety of human life and the protection of the family are bound up with the orderly development have a Socialistic party of considerable’ strength in this country, just as there is. one in Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy. It will have its effects on tendencies in lawmaking, just as it has in other countries. But by every sign of the times on which a political prophesy can be founded, it will always be a minority party. That form of Socialism which has gained the evil name of Bol- shevism, with its immediate expropriation of pri- vate property, its elevation of the “proletariat” to complete control of government with accompany- ing violence, bloodshed and famine, will never gain a foothold in this country. The farmers of North Dakota would treat the first outspoken preacher of this sect as mercifully, early set- tlers treated thefnarauding Indians, a would feel a little less friendly té Townley.in the role of an “|tozbe ‘formed; _|per cent. of civilized government. In all probability we will|} 1919. f “THE - THOROUGHBRED” Bu Henry Kitchell Webster Author of *\ “The Real Adventure,” “The Painted Scene,” (Copyright by the CS EEL Larne n “We get fifty thousand dollars ‘in cash—to be divided equally, of course, between Alfred and me—forty-eight per cent. of the @todg, id te company and roms of five x * “T realized yesterday afternoon, for the first time, that between you and me no bargain had been struck. shall, of, course, return to you, jas Sot receive my check—tomor- row, Fhgpe—the two thqysand dollars on which the whole transaction piv- oted. Ag to the further share which is rightfully yours, I suggest that, since you are probably a worse bar- gainer than I, we réfer the matter to Alfred. And I only wait your release from the seal of confidence which you im. “I am, with a deeper and more whole-souled gratitude than it is pos- sible for me to express, “Yours most sincerely, “MAJOR MARCH.” ‘The main purport of this extremely ‘explicit letter went by Celia almost uncomprehended. What her mind fastened upon were two or three phrases near the beginning that dealt with Alfred's. already attained pros- perity. His “broad mahogany board” in a private office, where they'd all been re éd for the past three or fdur lays. “Phe*important people otitside clamoring for audienes: with: him and |} not setting, it,\ obsequious’ secretaries and” stenographers hovering about. He..was, sitting there. like,.that, now— while she ironed his shirts, He'd been there yesterday—while she had washed them. It hdd been a streaming hot day yesterday. For how many weeks —mtonths—had the farce been ‘going on? a farce? ri Wei; yes, it had. She recalled with a hot! fierce relish the night of their talk after her dinner-party, The agony there had been in his voice when he told her he couldn't stand the hell he'd been living in any longer. that hell and given him ‘a taste of Paradise instead.. It had been a Par- adise._ There could be no doubt about that, either. And _ this was how he had repaid her! With distrust, deceit—oh, down- right lies. Making a fool of her with his precious thirty dollars a week in an envolepe! i _ Well, she had hiw novw, ing is, to rights. She'g wait a little tons er, until she wag sare he had re- cel al his $25,000, “And then’ she'd usk casually, how the great invention Was coming along. And when he said it wasn’t coming, or that those things took a long while, and one: couldn't h's check for her twa thou- sand and ask him how about that, She went on embroidering this lugu- rious fancy ‘for a while in the half- hearted belief that she found a sort of satisfaction in it. But, she gave up the attempt at last and “ whole-heartedly. wept. What presently dried her tears and flushed her cheeks with a’new fury exasperation w the dazzling percep- tion that the thing wouldn’t come out that way at all. ‘The picture she had been making up was as false as any movie she had ever looked at, Alfred wouldn't lie to her in that whole-cloth sort of way, He wouldn’t be silly enough to try to get away, with that. He'd tell her the truth, or as much of it as he thought expedient, and use it us a blanket for his past decep- tion, He'd flaunt his check very likely before her eyes with a “Here we are, old. lad, We cit get a fresh start with, this—set ourselves up in busi- ness, Cautiously, of course. perhaps “American Lenipe” than their predecegsors felt to Mtn Rik onMawairt 3 Ki not making any very great change in our way of living just yet:” ‘There What we can’t understand is how. the Huns|}i™Posed upon me to take it up with) Had it ever been anything but! It}: was she who had pulled him out of! t as the say-) Etc. Bobbs Merrill Co.) ah y if is pf pan ina a aaa ats -— eee Dell : 297 Ste i Zon {Celia see; red. Bytythereswagct Wwe to\demolish it. « Andctne> time:teide molish it was now. She washed he! face, dressed, and, without wasting a move or a minute, unless you can con- sider wasted the ironic glance she al- ‘lowed to rest upon the abandoned iron, she went-down town to her | She’ went) with'cho'detivite idea of What she was going to find):md with ho’ plan dt: all -as’to what eshdid/ do when she found it. She knew whi topgo. At least, where to go: first. | She’d been to the place just once, a | that. visit was made within a fortnight. ‘of the time Alfred answered the blind advertisement in the News and-got his job at 50 a week. It wasn't a very pleasant experience, since — the foreman of the room, of whom she'd had to inquire for him, had growled, and indeed, had mide it explicit that he didu’t care to have his employes’ time frivolously broken in upon. And Alfred’s fellow draftsmen, who had taken uj the ery for him and sent It rolling down the room, had acted like a lot of sophomores Naturally. she ‘hadn't gone back, \ She had used to Junch with him oe- casionally in those early days, but their meetings were effected by: her stoppliig’ atthe! druge‘store von’ the Ron Moor Tog the: Huildiig’ and” tele~ phoning up to him, Tédity,sedrried “on iy a current which cared’ nothing? for foremen or sophomoric young men at drafting tables, she’béldly ‘pushed open the never forgotten doot;'and at a desk in a corner inquired of a foremau (the desk was the same, but the ofreman was different) for Mr. Alfred Blair. , “A. C. Blair?” questioned the fore- jman, “Youll find him down stairs Iwi the general offices are.” TH i fling reom up. here. door fis (Bis, one story downy” the corresponding door she w ed to. She found herself in the ra out: space of a very big room—it tified maha fe : rail: and a great many hem rather impres- peo But none sive looking them, she w able herself, was Alfred, though, down at the end, ‘fuarked “A. C. Blair, e } mw wanted to see?” ja languid voic ui Turning in the di fon. the voice came from, Celia. confronted a ‘young lady at the telephone switchboard. “Td like to speak to Mr. Blair, if tyou please,” Celia said very politely indeed, Cae “He's in’ aii important conference,” said the young lady, “and can’t be dis- turbed. 1, SVerywell There was’ a outside, the rail it appeared, at liberty to wait as long asé they liked. Put the movement of the young lady’s very visible Shoulders madewit evident that she considered such a proceeding ill-advised and fruit- less. : During the better) part. of an hour that-Celia sat there the enificence of her husband’s isolation fur revealed to her. Lots of people tried to talk him over the telephone, only to be turned away in most instances twith the same formula that had been used for her. 3 Another thing Celia became aware of, though only vaguely, was that she herself was an object of some curios- ity. A man,from- ove of the desks down near the’ privaty door came o and had a low-voiced colloquy the telephone girl. and then came over Mr. Blir busy, nid idle attend, to her busi- n@ss for her? When Celia said it was Mr. Blair himself whom ‘she wish- edvte-see, be told her.that-it she wished weve hon pama the irl wonld tele said Celia, “UL wait.” hard, mahogany bench Ut he isi’t''so -busy.” persons were, | | seem rather a fool. "| rooting of th in, But Celia sald this wasn’t She would wait. She didn’t mind waiting, as a mat- iter of fact, She could afford to wait. Becau levents when he saw her, her venge would be instantaneous and ter 2, fall dresse ; scat out wow! You wilf forgive me, won't yous, Oh, E knew! you WI ut “He turned and looked at her then, and fairly cried out she had gone nite. Naturally enough+-only he so White, I neetae couldn't understand Haare OF » dreadful nearnes © ihe tal aoe ped. But she cue straiighy, at tributed the ms aml t oe the heat wet out of this,” he But where into his whitent sald. Bint : i hive, Ehat’s in your re to. and bow we Live, 3 Hants He kissed them Doth, and i broke, your hands, my Then, to get her quiet, he told her about th hed bought. rae promised it for today nid he wi s ous bi ase they'd f him, Put to- morrow, they said. was Sure, es abandon the oifice for a week, and they'd take a litde trip. Where would she like ta sot “We might cruise around.” sugges t+ ed Cel ul look places where we could live wot too far away from town for you fe conte Th but far he room—two or enough so the! three acres --W things could have grow. in—flow- | chickens, and she told him after a while, “1 sold ij yoand gave the two thousand dol to Major March.” f — He amazed her by taking this an- noun y ny rather than Far : y didn't give you, he “But, af cour they did and T hat we had. Lasked him wher got the money, How mw On he'd had to pay for it’ Bes oc ne out the i the tests ci course, What he had had to pay ought to come out of my share as Well ax out of his. His v of refusing to tell me was so impressive—religions, you might almost call it—that it would have given almost anybody a huneh. And then, when he swore that the per- son who had given him the money hadu't driven any bargain for it at all, its strnek me that othere ow anybody —else—couldn't be sy anybody else who'd ‘be weit “Fool enough, tentedly. “Oh, well.” he said, “LE don't. care what uame you call it by.” He found out about her visit to the office, too, No Jater than next day. “That stenographer of mine,” she said, “has got a queer bee in her bonnet. She swears that you were in my of- fi morning: and that you Waited there for an hour to see me, and then went av “Et mu Celia put in cou- » then, “mused mebody up. probably, and terribly excited yecause they, wouldn't let her He'd stand there before her red-hand- ed. as it were. z It was, with,a startling suddeuness that. the. telephone i {; There's Mr. Blair coming outy hig! office now,” she | sid. Seoms fete going ‘out. Bot you can 0 him if you like. this way.” And. then. followed what ‘think, the most eventful thirty onds in Celia Blair's life, “All did with them was to. get-up and walk sWiftly across the railed-out space’ to the telephone xirl's desk and stand there,. leaning over ‘the ‘switchboard, with her back to the little gate Alfred !was coming through, as well as to the i doar ,he was going out of. PAIN, Stie Said tothe: telephone: girl, vit AS hiiracutons kind“ of: smilie, “FI wait: till another time, T think, when “He were, I Of course, the important thing’ ; What she did not do. She did not‘ mutual love and confidence and hap- { piness. I think, in all likelihood, it was that new sympathy with, and longing for, and understanding of. live | growing | things which had sprung up within jher with the spring of the year, that saved her, A comprehension of the fact that while you cowd bew marble, or pour steel into forms preseribed Dy logit ofa hard geometry, you: could not deal with living things like that. Things that were alive could he killed. She didn’t think it out during thos 80 seconds. AM she had was a_bril- Nant vision of what .-Alfred’s face would look like: when: he saw) her 'standing there confronting hina, After had closed behind -him, she .anerely prayed that he wouldn't think of;seme ‘age to: leave ‘with the: tele- phone girl and come over and see ber there. She sat down again for two or three minutes after he'd gone, and then went i home, S from home in the middle of the day, {hut beeanse the look of the plac in dicated that she'd abandoned — it hurty. “It was pretty I “L -! went out for like this? Home has i he suid. ome things to tell She cried out. ou don’t mean Major March? Not. the great inven ti Vye got " he said, “ther We Cleaned it up this morning. © got a check for $25,000 in) my — pocket. Thought perhaps you'd like to hate a look before J banked it. But let’s not get started on that yet. thing else.” From the burning intensity of the look in her wide-open eyes he turned with many haltings and elling her the st how his first promo- tion had seemed so insecure that he'd put off telling her about it. How: the day come that he needed capital, , the very ease with which he’d got it made him Feel at least that he'd look rather a fool to her. and would make her suspect that the up former life had been Tess the nec a sort of’ temperamental -brainstorm on his own part. How, finally, he’d4 loved it so—exactly as it was, this new life of theirs—tfat he had. out of sheer cowardice, put off telling from day to day the thing that would make a change, “T knew 1 had nothing to be afraid of, really—that no material change, I mean, could alter the essentials of this new thing of ou I flunked it, really as one does the dentist. I’ve paid for it-UP hope you'll believe that—exactly as one ’pays for putting off the den- tist.: The longer T put it off the worse ie hurt! and) the: worse T: knew «it was Vertue te himt Rut I . be tooth: itt finally spoke} (He'll come ‘ | paring the feast that M ng the irreparable ax to the tree of mee her that, until the door into the, corridor |“ { She found him= there waiting for |. jhor, He'd driven out, it, seemed, in a taxi, and had had time to get’ rather tw ed, Not because she was away There's some- ° y he’d painted it than | jin. But what made her think it was me? l Alfred. three pictures of, you ou my {And then, meeting her eyes, he, cried out, “It was you el, tho.uréwisear had arrived by and whatawith the excitemait of ready, for their trip and pre- Mareh had been invited to for’ that night, and the delirio ‘bliss of “just dropping ‘thing now and then and: looking tr, T suppose it is no won- i that tential and gedy as deed, beyouitt , and=a wry frouik Altres ed. Tne Celia, ndan exchuinition din't treat it at all. nts later, though, md under avery eCourse of rer the whole adventure, he why she let him off like itt that. She said, with more meaning in her voice than there was in the words, “Oh, what would be the use? You may find me some time. where you could smash me flat. or I find you. But t don't: believe there's anything immort- al about not paying off dges, do ‘ou? There's something in the Bible about that. And don't you think we're both much nicer this way than we would) be—crushed : He couldn't take it as lightly as that. but his feelings wouldn't go’ into adequate words. “You little thorough! THE eh bred,” he said. », ITS WEAR LIKE THIS THAT CUTS YOUR SHOE. EXPENSE Stepping on sm: metai, walking on hips of steel, standing in hot 1—thece, and other harsh conditions of alking curfaces, in a steel plant, have no apparent ef- fect on Nedlin Soles. So says R. J. Doty, pat Liberintendent of th Sivye sting Company, Mil- mae es ting company, Mil. “The be tanned leather oles last ab@ut three v-ceks under the: k given them have been wearing a pir ‘of Nediin Soles for more than three months, And to all appearances, they are as stout. as when first put on my shoes,” 5 Mr. Doty. i Only Neélin and abuse like thi by Science to t able —- flexi] To reduce tocut the f ces of hot, can resist. wear They are created very tough and dur- and waterproof, too. shoe expense, bills, buy Neal many styles fcr cuuldten: nd have your worn shoes re-hot- ‘tomed with Nedlin Soles, ‘Thest lon wearing soles are manufactured by The odyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, who also make Wingfoot Heels— Guaranteed to‘outiast all cther heels. Neaiin Soles race Mark Ren. U-S, Pat, O37 OVER-ACIDITY of fe Pomoach has upset many @ night’srest. If your stomach is aci dicted, dete o tee KI-MOIDS | onthe tongue before retiring anden- joy refreghingsleep. The purity and goodness of Ki-moids guaranteed by { ‘SCOTT & BOWNE men,: vomen/ and 4 e 4 ‘ ,