The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 24, 1919, Page 4

‘RAGE 4. GNOGISL ATiva WouvucD x SY Ravan 0) THE, BISMARCK TRIBUNE PLS se EL RS we SS Se ETS Entere. st the Postoffice, i ets Class ORCE D. MANN - oe G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. cldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; POSTON, 3 Wi St.; DETROIT, Kresege Eldg.: MINNEAPOLIS. 81) Lumber Exchange. ‘EMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS sociated Press is ¢ clusively entitled to the use foy puilication of all news ¢ edited to it or not otl erevited in this paper and also the local news he: ein. «Jl rights of publication of special dispatches hereim are alec -eserved. *MBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION $1 ‘SCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Dail; by carrier per year ..... ne neeeececcccees Daily by mail per year (In Bismarck) ......++++- 7: 0 Daily by mail per year (In state outside of Bismarck) 5.00 ily by mail outside of North Dakota ..........++ 6. THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) ise ——— WHEN A BAD MEMORY IS BETTER THAN A GOOD ONE If you tie a string around your finger, that’s! what they call mnemonics or the art of improving! the memory. There are times, however, when we don't want to remember at all. There are people (the kaiser, for instance, and the Prussian governor of Bel- gium) we would like to forget. There ought to be tricks in forgetting just as there are tricks in remembering. We have all done mean little wrong things we would like to forget. The same scientists who are studying mnemonics and how to improve;,the mem- ory ought to show us how to wreck.our memories —those'we don’t want. Or rde DS If we could tie a strong around the finger and forget, how easy that would be. Then Bill Hig- gins, sore at Lizzie Jones because Lizzie Jones says she'll never, never, never marry him, could just tie a string around his finger and fix it up to for- get Lizzie Jones forever and ever. After mnemonics, the art of improving the memory, is well developed, we should like to see a new science, the art of improving our “forget- tery,” come along. LET THE PEOPLE BE HEARD Senator Chamberlain is confident that his con- stituency is for the League of Nations treaty. Senator New sizes up Indiana and declares that his: ° constituency is.oppased to the league proposition. “Senator Knox of Pennsylvania declares that the treaty would be unconstitutional because delegat- ing to another political party powers delegated to our government by the constitution. } ‘And so it goes. Pulling this way and that. Th treaty-ratifying body rattled or ignorant. And the real question is as to what the people want. One distinguished statesman says that this treaty is the most important national matter since the fram- ing-ef the constitution. It may be true. If so, vsthe people should:have the say. _ 1 os Verily, the arguments for a popular referen- dum on this treaty pile up every hour the matter is discussed. CHEER UP, MAN Cheer up, Man, it’s not so bad as your looks! imply. It’s pretty serious, of course, but cheer up. The sun’s still shining and your family is well and happy and business is pretty good, so, for heaven’s sake, take it a little more cheerfully. Of course, of course, we know all about that aching back and the callouses on your hands and all that, buf it isn'® going to do you% bit of good to fret and 8 nd wort about it. It’s got to bé’done, you v It’s only natural, we know, that you'should feel sore on the summer time and down-in-the-mouth and disgruntled and crusty and cross about it, but why take it out on the wife? You don’t want HER to do it, do you? Surely want haven’t back-slid so far as to want HER to groan and moan and perspire her way through it, do you? On the level, old top, it’s not so terrible, terrible bad as your long face and your trembling frame would indi- cate. Of course no man likes to do it, we know that. But you know that thousands of men WILL do it all summer and THAT ought to be some consola- tion to you. Besides it surely must be some slight comfort to realize that it is good for you. You know what we're referring to, of course— we're referring to the job of mowing your lawn! THE HEARTY HANDSHAKE Who is that meets you at the door with a hearty handshake, and sends you off satisfied with a real “come-again” goodbye? It’s the home town merchant. And there's a lot more meaning in that cheery personal contact than just the warmth of good feeling which it engenders. Back of it lies a principle which has built up the wealth of nations. In it is embodied a truth which has produced one of the best paid and most important professions of modern times. Who do thousands and thousands of buyers go out from every progressive community yearly to New York and Chicago and other big production centers? Because the principle of personal con- tact,of first-hand individual, on-the-spot dealing alone gives satisfaction. Why do thousands of highly paid buyers go yearly to Europe? or the simple reason that it is impossible to order by mail and be satisfied. ‘These buyers are sent by Amer- ica’s most prosperous merchants—by the men who KNOW. The lesson is big. It is inescapable. The man It is just as essential to each individual citi- zen’s prosperity that he do his purchasing IN PERSON, of the man whom he knows and who knows him, as it is essential to the success of the biggest importing house or industrial enterprise in Europe. The buyers who do go there, go as our agents. Their enterprise makes it possible for us to purchase the best, in person, in our own town, from Bismarck’s merchants. America’s host of traveling salesmen are again embodiments of the same truth. The successful business man insist on dealing directly and face- 0! to-face, with the goods or samples on the table before him. : He knows he cannot buy profitably in any other way. The lesson once more is of signboard size. And it applies emphatically to each and every one of us. To buy profitably we must deal with the man who specializes in the articles we want, and with whom we can deal personally, verbally, directly. The biggest buying the world:has ever seen, the buying of war munitions in “America by the allies, had to be done by purchasing agents, by gov- ernment missions, by men who came across the ocean to deal in person with the American sellers, on the spot. And the principle extends right down to the housewife’s purchase of a new apron. The world is run by personal contact. The human equation is the ultimate fact. The man- to-man deal has never been bettered, and never can be. Bae : Don’t forget those truths, the next. time:out of-town advertiseménts'appéal'to you.” Don’t, for- get their universal, vital application. Don’t forget the warm smile and the neighborly good-will of our own Bismarck merchants. Don’t forget that, having theirs, you should give them YOUR good- will. In their hearty welcome at the door lies one of the greatest forces that makes the commercial the country. We cannot all go to New York or; oa The Townley Experiment | Readers of Collier’s, in North Dakota and elsewhere, may remember one of | the funniest of O. Henry’s tales. Jeff Peters, the genial confidence operator, and his partner, Andy ‘Tucker, were broke in a country village. In the cir- cumstances there was nothing for Jeff to du but descend from his sphere as a “high financier” and “get something” from a farmer. On this occasion he pieked out the richest farmer in the neighborhuod and drove over to the farm to sell him a “gold brick.” He found him in “a white flannel suit, golf cap, and pink Ascot tie.” The farmer promptly called his attention to the fact that his Coat sagged a good deal, offered him a dollar and eighty cents for the gold brick, took him into a room “upholstered like a Broadway stockbroker’s,” with ‘a ticker hitting off the news in one corner.” This agriculturist went to New York every two weeks to “see a show,” heard the opera over the telephone, real all the weekly. and daily newspapers, drank green Chartreuse, traded in the stockmarket, and was other apparently sophisticated beyond the reach of Jeff Peter’s craft. * Jeff returned to his partner in despair. But Andy wasn't so easily defeated. He determined to accept this challenge to his theory that “there are certain Laws of Nature that Free Rural Delivery can’t overcome.” He put on a “suit with brown dots, a high silk hat,” and “soaked his sandy mustache in a kind of blue ink.” In two hours he returned, laid $860 on the | table and told his story: “He was in. He looked me over and began to guy me. I didn’t say a word, but got out the walnut shell and began to roll the little ball on the table. I whistled a tune or two, and then started he old formula; “‘Step up lively gentlemen,’ said I, ‘and watch the little ball. [ft costs you nothing to look. There you see it and there you don’t, Guess where the} little joker is. The quic of the hand dece the : “T steals a look at the farmer man. I see thersweat coming out on his | forehead. He goes over und closes the front door and witches me some more. Directly bh@ says: ‘Ill bet you twenty Tecan pick the shell the now.’ uN “After that there ix nothing new to relate. He only had $860 in cash in the house. When I left he followed me to the gate. There was tears in his eyes, ‘Bunk,’ say he. ‘thank you for the oniy real pleasure I've had tn years It brings up happy vld days when T was ovly a farmer, not an agriculturist God bless yor Far be it from us to suggest that there is any likeness between Andy Tucker and Arthur Townley, or that the program of the Non-Partisan league partakes ‘6f the nature’ ofa ‘Yhell; game. But there suitiething at once pa- thetle ang amusing in th .and: ever new political “get-richtquick” scheme Most prosperous states in the community. Its percentage of Hliteraey is smali considering the great immigration—something like 024. It has a good State university, geod public schools, good newspapers, good libraries, ‘The North Dakota farmer.is shrewd and thrifty. He is able to see a good) deal of the world. He knows the “ways that are dark and the tricks that are vain,” and avoids them. Probably more gold bricks are sold in Wall Street before noon every day than in North Dakota in the course of a year. If Arthur Townley had gone to the state with a new political offering, if he had called his pro- world go round. And in the long run you disre- gard it only at the peril of your own best welfare. Moral: Stay in your own home town to buy! Deal with the men.who know and greet you as their friends. ° Patronize Bismarck merchants. i j fhadt LET’S THINK ABOUT OUR PROBLEMS: Political’ economy, or social éeénomy—just as we have.in mind to call it—is very simple. Political economy is nothing’ but. business. And business is nothing but supplying one an- other's wants. When the druggist of a town wants food, he goes to the grocer, ae When the: grocer wants. medicine, he goes to the-druggist. 4 : la Or, enlarge the-system to a national.one and say that when the peepie of the south want wheat, they go to the northwest for it; when the people of the northwest want. cotton, why they go to the south for it. There is a system of counters known as money and used to facilitate the bookkeeping of these transactions. * * * * A century ago, when this country was first settled, everyone did their own shoemaking and blacksmithing. : Finally one man in a settlement evidenced more skill than his neighbors as a shoemaker, or as a blacksmith, and ighbors fou 0 économy to allow this gmeggp do their,shi ig ‘or blacksmithing whife t arts of farming. Now, enlarge the process until the country shoeshop becomes a vast shoe factory, or until the country blacksmith becomes a vast metal trade industry, with stores, railroads and banks to fa- cilitate the distribution, transportation and ex- change, and the simple principle of business, sup- plying one another’s wants, remains juite the same. * * * * The science of political economy, or business, becomes confusing only when viewed in its exten- sions, specialties and refinements, but it is very easily understood, and all its ramifications are eas- ily traced if the simple fundamental principle is seen and born clearly in mind. All our problems now are those in distribution ; for our problems in production are solved—that is, in a major sense, through the steam or gas en- gine, the dynamo and the automatic machine. And the economics of the individual business that supplies our wants is pretty well understood through its bookkeeping and in terms of simple arithmetic. It occurs to us that the perfection of our dis- tribution problems is going to require the same quality of brains and the same:processes of cause jand effort thinking that have been’applied to the solution of our production problems, | That the problem of the high and increased cost of living is one for the factory cost finder and the expert accountant, applying to the inter-rela- tion of business and the community the same sim- ple process of accounting that are applied in the well ordered individual business. We have been feeling about our problems, get- ting angry about them, rather than thinking about them. bos That when we apply plain bookkeeping meth- ods and arithmetic in tracing, every, charge from its source to its termination that we will find just who is getting without giving and who is giving (ing pursued the general 9 gram socialism, the farmers would have laughed at him. They know what modern socialism implies, better perhaps than the so-called eastern “intellec tuals” who pat Marx on the back but never have taken the pains to read the stern, uninviting logic of his great work. But Townley put socialism in the background, mounted a dry-goods box, started what) is known in Jeff Peter's profession as the “ballyhoo,” and when his audience had been properly tuned up “sold” them a scheme of finance and government that must, be nearly as old as the Miss@@ri river and should be described as a geological rather, thar a historical phenomenon. , Essentially it is populism revived, for whleH w & farmers “fell” in, 1892 and 1896. It presents the same general thdory of, ‘ule, by farmers ax a separate class, the same/kind of romantic financeriig, iand ix: accompanied’ by the same emotional disturbances—oratory,) inusic and poetry —that marked ‘the political spree of, the nineties. We cannot find proof of most of. the bad.things his enemies say about Townley. He seems to be fairly sincere, and certainly he is, ii his way, a genius. Any man who can beguile 3,200,000 out of the pockets of intelligent citizens for privileges already guar- anteed to them by the constitution has qualities that make his failure in busi- tiess almos unbelievable. here is to question that in the past the northwestern farmers suffered, from extortions that often outrun what might reasonably he expected in trading between the unwary und the calculating. But who J think that Townley could parlay these grievances into a political. party organized as the Steel Corporation, ahd that the members ‘would’ subserfpe out of their earnings millions of dollars for the “cause” and’ phice, ‘ht, the dis? posal’ of this gifféd individual state funds amounting, it Is said, to oem $100,- 000.000 And please remember none or few of his projects have. been actually’ carried out. As we understand it, the Bank of North Dakota is still on paper. the elevators and. flour mills and packing houses unbuilt, the “homes at cost” not yet planned, the lignite mines unsurveyed.. The people, of, North Dakota have paid a fortune for a prospectus, Let us hope that when they come out of the dream, and Townley has folded up his tools and definitely migrated into the party of national socialism, they will have no greater loss to write off or charge to the year’s amusement than the amount now in his possession.— Collier’s Weekly. well Cae ee aaa Vi ’ vi SATURDAY EVENING LETTER By Justice J. E. Robinson i ; vert-and, thus make-a,good profit. In | the. United States,the| money dealers are few in number :qempared with the grain growers, and yet the yearly value of the money crop—known as interest—is greater than the value ot the wheat crop. While the growers of grain and other wealth producers do not often ‘become millionaires, we have thousands of bankers who are multi-millionaires. We haya a Morgan and a Rockefeller whose ‘wealth is jgreater than that of the whole state of North Dakoa. Of course any per- !son would like to own such an im mense fortune, and yet no one should be permitted to control or amass s0 much, No person can duroduce it or honestly obtain it. When the tew do capture such an immense wealth the many are reduced ‘to the verge #1) (Editor's Note:—We cepresent Justice Robin: ly, tetfer in which he banking: The Tribune justice a wide latitude i urday evening letter and ‘of couse our readers have come to know that these letters in no particular reflect the convictions of this pa- per. They are a weekly feature of The Tribune and Judge Robin- son appreciates there are no strings attached to the courtesy offered him even though we can- not always keep pace with him upon the rose scented highways of Utopia.) In the science of government and political economy we are still in the; dark ages, We are under the domin- ation of greed and selfishness which blinds our mental vision. Hence do the woes come upon us. We wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall like the blind, we grope as if we had no eyes and we stumble at noonday as in the night.) Bolshevism {gs hell and’ the furies let loose; it is a mad revolt of the poor against the oppressions and the undue amassing of wealth. Banking is one of the most direct causes of Bolshevism, }ecause it is the most potent cause of capturing and amass-|Ports the clergy and the schools. [i ing a fortune. It is the greatest of|4@s @ monopoly, and so have the all money games, Were it to continue! banks and money changers in North in the future as in’ the past, it woula| Dakota, and during the past thirty soon capture and amass half the; Years the monopoly has been worth wealth of the“world. ‘To prove this| four million dollars a year. The year- you may compute the amount of one ly rakeoff has been forty millions, the hundred billions of dollars in a cer-|!0ans five hundred millions. | The tury at the ordinary bank rate of in- banks have been free to use all de: terest, compounded semi-annualiy.| Posits of money, public and private. For the year 1918, according to the at merely a nominal figure of one. World Almanac, some big figures run |tWo or three per cent and to loan the thus: A Cys big fe! same at twelve, ten, eight and seven * cent, and in addition they have often nat wane deport. received a good bonus or commission. ee ne oposite . That is why some of the real smar: e bank deposits... people have a line of tweuty or more Bolshevism. The masses do never learn how to steal in a legal way and polite manner. Just before the Civii war, George Smith, a Chicago banker, retired with fifty millions which he cautured in twenty-five years. ranean there is @ little principality or |Monaco with a good honest gaming bank known as Monte Carlo. Its charter runs until 1947. It pays the prince half a million a year and sup- + $ 14,000,000,000 10,000,000,000 6,0041,000,000 Loans and discounts.. © 5,000,000,000) hank, i nde Savings bank deposits — 5,500,000,000 ance ithe law ana ite raleg “sr the que ee Loans /& Dis. Say game, but it leads to Bolshevism. Ans al resources . 000,000, now after the state has given su Nat. bank resources. 18,000,000,900 under Wily this (bigystate has. taken, ty, the ever old jar ‘orth Dakota Js: one of, the | 4 of poverty and want or forced into|' On the north shore of the Mediter- |” Wealth of U. Gi...... 230,000,000,000 In banking the deposits are com- monly over ten times the capital. With deposits of six billions the banks do loan and draw interest on five billions. A bank does loan the same Money or credit over and’over again. It draws interest on its capital and on about eighty per cent of its debts. It can great a monopoly to the money lend- ers they think they should have it in perpetuity and so they put up a stren- nour fight aiagsnt the attempt of the siate todo a small share of the bank- ing. True, there was recently an ap- pearance itiat the lion and the lamp would Ife down together; we began to took for tne milleniunt and for the listed, to go over the state and to lec- ture against Bolshevism and Social- ism as a pretense for lecturing against | the right of the state to do a share ot the banking. Of course we are noi supposed to know who. pays the clergy, but we do know that tuey do not serve God for naught and we know that such strenuous and persistent op- j Position must impede the bank anc force it to make haste slowly. We do success of the bank or of any bus.nes- it must come to do the bulk of the business the same as they do in New Zealand. In banking, as in any other busi- ne§$s, those who control and manage it must study and adopt the ways anc jnieans which have lead to success. We know that if during the past two centuries all the banking of every state and nation had been done by and for the people, then there would be a very good and a better worla with no wars or war debts, no want or poverty, and no Bolshevism. ed EYofoiown OLD ROOSEVELT RANCH FOREMAN r who Theo- dore Roosevelt as foreman of his ranch of a permanent executive committee in the state, with members represent- ing each congressional district and the larger. citie: | SUCHIS LIFE °. — °° By 0. B. JOYFUL, | Stopping Otto Auto, the speed de- mon, is getting us dippy. Every day somebody thinks up a way to head him off and Otto autoes on, and on. efeller. Teddy Ernest writes in to sug- gest: thatall John .D. would have to do'would’be to keep.on boosting gaso- lineprices. 5» b + han 71970500 )The’ Braver of the Species. Women don’t yell’ half as loud as men when they have. teeth extracted, and in appreciation of that fact the West Virginia State Dental society, in annual convention adapted. resolu- tions favoring woman suffrage. After having read the dental tribute feet, drop the paper excitedly and-ex- claim, “My goodness, Sarah, kick that ouse away.or. it'll bite a hole in your stocking.” “6 % Which reminds us of the fact that— Loge ‘dQareless, St. Paul, has in- vehted@ p@rse which is attached’ to: thé garter and may pe fastened either inside o¢ outside the stocking. Very nice of:Mr. Careless! f + 0 00 ° The eats you know are tempting but they were made all the more de- licious by being served by handsome and graceful young girls'a little old- er and certainly some of the hand- somest women this country, the home of the handsome women of the world, can afford—New Hampton (Ia) Trib- une. It seems only natural To save our male readers the trou- hasten to add that the C. M. & S. P. the “home of‘ the handsoniebt.?’ But—before you buy’ your?tickét— @ass equipped with Federal Cord Tires will go farther with the same impetus because of the won- derful flexibility of these tires, Their remarkable resiliency effects easier and smoother traction, saves tnncoseesty, wear, and also saves uel. Friction and internal heat are minimized because every cord is insulated by impregnating in live supple rubber. __ The cords are built up diagonally in layers, each layer running trans- versly to the other, thereby afford- ing the greatest possible strength and flexibility. lion to commence eating straw like au know that if the state is to make aj ou the Little Missouri, in the ’80's, when the Col, was roughing it in the Bad Lands, heads the North Dakota chapter of the National Roosevelt Me- morial association, which has head- quarters in’ New Yor Of Other members of the association are Re Hy Jobnson, Dr. V, H, Stickney, George Senour, EK. LQPeters 7 MeBride fred Witte rat inson. yeh nnand andy Sepator ‘hairman of thet chmpittee,|, which will undertake the org&nization|) L! Honestly, folks, the only person who! ,,, can stop Otto autoing is John D. Rock-| to your wife, look hurriedly at her! that New! \} Hampton should be in the center of; CHICKasaw county. ble of digging through timetables we! and the C. Gt. West. railroads Tun. to) , EDERAL DOUBLE CABLE Grp Tires Bothered two years. ‘tkin at tips of fingers would peo! off sind fingers would get dry and brittle ‘and crack and bleed. | Wore, gioves all the time and could not lace\shioes. All disfigured. Finally wrete for sam- ple Cuticura. Bought two cakes Soap and one box Ointryers: and in less than two months was tazaled. From signed statement of’ Victor Klotz, 5832 Erna Ave., Rt..4, Sta. B., Omaha, Neb., August 16, (1918. Prevent these distressing «kin troubles becoming serious oy mal'h1g Cuticura Soap, and no other, your every-daytoilet soap, assisted by little touches of Cuticura Ointment now and then. They are ideal for keep- ing the complexion fresh and clear, [ hands soft, scalp clean, hair luxuri- ant. Always before completing your toilet dust your skin with a few grains of Cuticura Talcum, an exquisitely scented face and skin powder. i dample Each Pree by Mall, Adres post-card: Senteat™ OiRtinent an Ole. aleur Ser Stop, Look, Listen: New Hampton is near Waterloo! bg o,o0 0 Suchislife in Boston. Little Jack Smith’s Sutilay school teacher, after a‘ lesson “on” Ananias and Sapphira, asked: “Why is every- jl ; dead?” ‘Couse lefé.”—Boston ‘ Transcript. ven TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY © manufactur- el shir J hésiery direct. to hom i ! j Fe f.OR TRADE) northeast of 149 OF 53, 3ANK.EMPLOYES ARE D,BuC. GRADUATES Of the-fifty-three people em- ployed by the banks of Fargo, N. D., forty-nine attended the Da- kota “Business College, of that city. .Mr. M. Murck, | recently placed with the First National Ban kof Fargo, makes fifteen | now employed there. » AF Seidl,-of St. Anthony, a Post-Graduate, is now: Agsistant Cashier, of ee Germag State Bank of Strasburg. In a recent \letter, Mr. Seid] said: “The best thing I ever did in my life was ‘entering the Dakota Business College.” Summer School opens June 2. Inquiries shou] dbe addressed to iF. L. Watkins, Pres., 806 Front |St., Fargo, N. D.—Publicit;. TYPEWRITER SERVICE | REMINGTON Typewriter Co. GEO. C. KETTER, gr mtative Phone 258, 1% fon Bémarck. Sectional View of Federal Cord Tire Wear Longer, and Save Gasoline Road shocks do not damage some particular part of the tire because all strains are equally absorbed by the whole tire—every cord bears its quota of the impact. For this reason Federal Cords are more satisfactory and economical. _ The famous exclusive Federal tire improvement—the Double - Cable - Base that holds the tire permanent- ly correct upon its rim—is also in- cluded in our Cord black tread tires, as well as in our “Rugged” white tread and “Traffik” black tread non-skid tires, Ask or write us.