The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 26, 1919, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE es Entered at the Postottice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second lass Matter, GEORGE D-MANN--_-__- _-__ Kalter G LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege Bhig.; MINNEAPOLIS, 81 0 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise ited in this paper and also the local news herein. hts of publication of special dispatches hereim are algo_reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year ......-. $7.20 Daily by mail per year (In Bismarck) 12 Daily by mail per year (In state outside 5.00 Daily by mail outside of North Dakota 4... 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAP. (Established 1873) Gio TAKE TIME ABOU T MEMORIALS Go slow about war memorials, The memory and the regard of the American people for the men who fought’ to victory is so keen and vivid just now that memorials are not needed in a hurry. It is rather the next generation than this one that requires memorials. According to J. Horace McFarland, president of the American Civic Association, France has de- termined to forbid the erection of any war mem- orjal for ten years except in Paris where the limit is five years. The French view is that every tap of work for reconstruction is more important than any work {ov memorials. ON BEING NICE A magnificent lion one time met‘a'little motise ‘whose home was being attacked by a.wildicat.. The lion immediately chased the cat inti the offing and protected the mother mouse until her brood could be moved to a safe hiding place. Some time later the lion became caught in a net and would have perished had not the little mouse happened along and gnawed the ropes in two, releasing the lion. A fable, yet one that possesses a mighty lesson for all of us. No man or woman ever becomes so powerful that he or she can afford to snub or ignore the person who is less fortunate in his accumulation of the material things‘of this world. «8 Then, ‘teo, thege is that democracy in America which may make:the underling, of today the lion of tomorrow. dig oe From a purely! selfish standpoint, it pays to be nice to everybody. ‘| WILSON’S MESSAGE «°° - There is hardly enough substance in Wilson’s message to hang an editorial upon. Things are in such a chaotic.condition about the peace table that it-was.not possible-to inform-congress on the mo- mentous issues of peace and the league of nations, things closest and most vital to the American people and to the whole world. SNe The climax of the message, the anti-dry plank, has given the prohibitionists a rude and rather unnecessary jar. After the nation-endorsed pro- hibition through the ratification of the federal amendment, President Wilson unfortunately and inopportunely injects an issue which always mars legislative action and impedes progress that is so vitally necessary to solve the economic problems that are pressing for disposal. These are more important than the status of beer and light wines. Platitudinous indeed are the references to labot''Until'the Ametitan! bisinegs man knows where he is at, it is impossible to afrive at anys definite understanding. Industry is hater now all'the' traffic will stand. Unless congress formu- lates speedily some constructive industrial policies, labor and capital will be farther apart than ever. Internationalism as expressed in the fourteen points and reflected to some extent in the league of nations covenant is not going to solve our tariff problems. . American business is breathing easier today because the industrial relations of this na- tion with our neighbors will ,be regulated by a Republican rather than a Democratic congress. We all remember the lethargy prevalent under a Democratic tariff, just before the fateful days of 1914, Wilson's message offers no solution, gives no inspiring rallying call to the great task of recon- struction. The inspiration may come when the chief executive leaves foreign shores and once more takes up purely domestic problems. Congress has the biggest job in history, second to none, not even to the one that followed Appo- mattox. IN NORA CEMETERY “Grandma Smith, living near Broad Apple died Thursday and was buried in Nora Cemetery.” Our eye fell on this item in one of the country exchanges. It is only two lines, but to any of us who knew Grandma Smith as a type it speaks volumes. * For a woman to have won the title of grandma in the long battle of life in a country community is a more unconscious, a more sincere honor and tribute than the title general in the battle of death. Grandma Smith came to the settlement when it was young and when she was young. In the lack of all the common materials and utensils of life, amid the privations and struggles nothing, she reared her family’ to\iseful’ citizen- ship. But these early struggles made her resource- ful; they gave her courage and a kind heart. In her broad human sympathy Grandma Smith has been more individually useful ign the upbuild- ing of the community than any doctor, lawyer or school teacher that ever lived there. She has been present at more births and deaths than any doctor in the whole congressional dis- trict. She gave wise counsel and sound advice to the brides of the community. She cared for their children when they came, and while they were growing up—entertaining them with a thousand quaint tales of pioneer life, both in comedy and tragedy as they gathered around her rocking chair at evening. Grandma Smith ‘has in her times cooked thou- sands of meals, washed millions of dishes, made scores upon scores of beds and numberless articles of clothing for the whole community. And nearly all of what she did was for others. And from the time when first she,came her hands have known no rest until they were placed across her breast and she was laid away in Nora Cemetery. It is women of the Grandma Smith type that are the root from which the trunk and branches of the human tree of courage and virility of this country has grown. All of us have either had a Granda Smith or have known one in our time, and let us this mo- ment offer a silent prayer of tribute to her memory. opie 1 ERACING THE “NE” The pillars of Hercules one time bore this in- scription—“Ne Plus Ultra’’—meaning “No More Beyond.” vila tata j This stood for a great, many years until Chris- topher Columbus was blocked by the American continent in his effort to sail around the world to India. ; Then the negative “Ne” was chiseled off and the inscription now stands “Plus Ultra” or “More Beyond.” Have you reached that stage in your life where you have inscribed on the columns of your brain, “Ne Plus Ultra”? Do ydu feel that there is no more hope for you to succeed in your present or any future undertakings? If so, get out your chisel and hammer and cut off the “Ne.” : Chisel the “Plus Ultra” a little deep- ef; wider/and longet: Get underneath, your,skull,the idea that there IS more event vf yOu dovyou'll find it. Just look what Columbus: found by ignoritig the “Ne.” -’ A part of the European, problem is the density 'of population: : Another’ part 'is-the denseness, of statesmen. _Whele, he is.,working for a,weekly pay enve- lope, he-talks“about “the. rights‘ of the’ common people. But'a ter he atrikes it rich, he talks about the unrest amongthe lower classes. CENSORSHIP OF FILMS Motion picture producers now promise to enter the field of censorship and to assert themselves against all films which are “immoral, salacious or tend to corrupt or debase morals.” While it would be ungracious to question in advance this censor- ship, many people will have doubts. Some movie makers have displayed an extraordinary faith in the nasty-good, the immoral prophylactic. They have brought forward film after film. to. show the revils of divorce,’ or’ of ' icide,or'te demon- strate the hideousness of. this. or that social ‘sore. Their aim was not merely educational—it was to armour youth against.temptation and teach adults sound precepts. It is to be hoped that producers will set their faces against these candied boluses of sensationalism as clearly as against openly de- moralizing films.—New York Post. PARIOR BOLSHEVISM Lies are poor weapons in any battle. The sim- ple truth is always deadly when it is adhered to in any conflict between right and wrong.. So many wild accusations have been made against the Bol- shevists and their soviets that many rationally minded people hesitate to believe what is true. for base or primitive minds. It must have a basis in the sort of class hatred developed in Russia through generations of ignorance and inhuman oppression. It is impractical and destructive. But it was not founded with any view to wholesale murder nor do its leaders attempt to set aside the laws of common morality. ‘ \ Parlor Bolshevists, though they often deserve the derision’ of a world puzzled by ladies and gen- tlemen who rise in dress clothes to preach the glories of poverty and the simple life, seem at least to be fumbling after truth. Raymond Robins is a parlor Bolshevist. who knows Russia and seem- ingly recognizes what is just in the cause of the Russian masses. Yet his. review of the Lenine regime was more destructive, as criticism, than most of the twaddle sent broadcast from European capitals by reactionaries with special interests to serve. > Russia is suffering from an extreme reaction that would be possible nowhere else. . Centuries of error and cruelty in government are being atoned for. Bolshevism will subside.as it began.—Phila- of pioneer times»@ad. which we of today know Has delphia Public Ledger. Bolshevism is a political doctrine especially made}. +7 MONDAY, .MA¥ 26, 1919, t+ to Marcir-27;ut’on this latter day the censorship was lifted to, permit the Lan Chinese to know that on that- day ‘Queen Mary of England had paid a visit to Béthne] Green’s poorest slums and ‘patted the heads of the children. That grand news having been given to the Chinese the censorship -clampedon’ again. fembryo Jeague of nations w: { Yve- an) Kalo Chau... , 4 The cooks of loose a wail that. to ll (NTERNATION AL PEAC VERSAILLES, he assistants arrived there was ther truuble. keep track of. them.’ ‘ T French had planned clate the desires of the visitors. years the favorite indoor ment by the cetegate consideration in The plan “had “been fo! ay Meenwhile China was not permitted to have\news: from Paris of what the doing in the»way of coming into existence or what disposition was to be made of iF ' -Nersailles, have let H has stirred all Paris laughter and THE COOKS OF made many persons forget: the, May day fons £ riots. It seems that when.the German delegates and their much trouble--owing to; the fractiousness of some of the visitors eager:to: do what ‘ the kaiser: didn't:.do—dine in Paris, All -kinds, of, threats were made of what: further infraction( of: the rules would ynean but now there-is no fur- And*it ig all due to the, cuisine of mitted, that being the simpler way to three emals .a. day’ but’ they did not appre- sport in Germany has ‘been eating. Short al- lowance and synthetic grub have cre- ated in the stomach of the German a wonderful capacity for food, ‘The first request made of the ‘French: govern. Was, for more Of meals. he; regulation waa f I the Trianon Palace hotel. There is yy" ‘ said to be nothing: better in France. WS The German delegation exceeds in (eee number 200 Persons. Only the big rr, bugs were permitted in the hotel res- af hana Un taurant at first but now all are ad- : For |Fren breakfast, luncheon atid dinner— the breakfast of rolls and coffee. From three meals’ the service ‘ing: their good will by never, ment and never. keeping alting. “But thé cooks are | | with ‘less gloomy arrly: FINANCE HAS NO ROMANCE? Let Him Read These Stories by Richard Spillane, _ America’s Foremost, Financial Writer, and Special Contributor on Economic Questions for | the Daily Tribune. . -: [ced ‘ or = A FORTUNE FROM ;George J. Gauld,and the \various| A LQAN OF $5, that is suffici.| i Goulds. dropped out of the director}. ..°/ hinds ent. The name ates of many. coMporations and, gradu-|is.that of Tax Receixer Kendrick, of ally, came to’be numbered among the Phliadelphia. WHO SAYS T. & P. have an amazing value. How much of the $5,000,000 outstanding the family owns is not known outside a select circle. They wouldn't sell their shares at $2,100 apiece. That is the asked price. But it is the confident belief that be- fore the coal and the oil on the lands controlled by the company peter out there will be profits in excess of $100,- 000,000 or several hundreds millions |to divide among the shareholders. The Goulds have ‘‘come back” by a freak of fortune. _ Fact! occasion: fict! is te paring the food for the visitors. Men Will Carry: On. fhext: Thursday. évening.. There in the entire performance. ly is stranger® than Husker? story of fact. Only one. ‘name © will}* be given but iad WES “oa Among the many. old saws is the OUNTRY ! one that it is along lane that has. no % fi turning.,, The Goulds THE LUCK OF have.come out from had been indicted ‘and: narrowly es-| . ed Prison. “He .‘was out of works %, ir, Kendrick assisted him in gett! a job forthe holidays as a watcher. For. ctive ina department. store t seé'that thieves did not take advan- tage of the crowdéd condition’ of the establishment to pilfer. 5 The young man held the job until well along in January. Then he was released.’ He made tha acquaintance meanwhile of a young man who will be called Jones, but that is not his name. Jones did many favors for the trou: bled youth’and when one day the man under a cloud came to him and said nipulator: Wall street ever has known. ‘He died leaving a fortune of $70,000,- 000 and a record without on® construc- tive act and many of destruction. George J. Gould testified some. six or eight years after his father’s death that the Gould fortune, instead of be- ing decreased, as generally supposed, had been: increased up to that time. There can be doubt, however, as to what happened later. The millions melted away., Hardly a property over which the Goulds held sway but went to disaster. Look at a partial list of those that went bankrupt: THE GOULDS. tha lane of disap:| has-beens. . Some years.ago there came to Mr. big profits and bigger promise. , j.to the Goulds. cloud. He bad .pbeen a minor officer in mousetraps to be the greatest ma-| waif and a stray and a worry for lo! {able transaction and, ag a result, he are pendant little-corporations, This concern has. certain landSrights is some Coal.in north Texas, ‘This T. struck oil in north Texas. Now the bankt & P. Coal & Oil Co. (they've added The Missouri Pacific. : je polntment, defeat! And now from ‘out of the western| Kendrick a young’ man in much dis. and depression, ‘Into ‘the highway of|westes comes a mighty golden 3! y trees.:-He was:pennileas: and-uader a:|- Queer'in'the lilstory of the Goulds.| * The Texas & Pacific R. R. Co. never] a. company ‘and: those above him -had Old Jay Gould rose from’ a peddler of} has earned a dividend. It has been aj made him the “goat” in a question- |thees many years: f ¢ To every great;corporation) thei happens ‘that to the Texas there is a Texas & Pacifics 9: which came to the’T. & P.attd were taken ‘over by it to.deevlop for’ there & P. Coal Co. dates back to 1888. It never amounted ‘to tuch; until | they lands of the comipany are pockmarked with oil holes. The sharés of*the T- oil to the title) are g§oted above te the fact 0 Grande. $2,100 a share, this de: Qiaboeh. meee \\| that the capitalization has ‘been in- Re nad an opportunity it he -could ee untain. & South-| creased $1,000,000 on three occasions} to Chicago of getting a good pos! rag Youle, Irom s¥o within a comparatively short time | he lent $5 to him, the troubled. young % The new capital has gone to the old} man being short that much of his fare. Texas &- Pacifiic. ; Western Pacific, z But for its absorption by thé A. E. & T. it was inevitable the, Western Union ‘would ‘have followed the. goth “Lin ers. Only the . Manhattan New ‘York. continued -to prosper... , EVERETT TRUE | CAST” INTO A'QUARREL , . IBETWEEN AN AGUSIVS ~ MAN AND HIS WIFGe*i PUT HIM OUT WITH ONS Goad SWING: ON THE JAW, BUT /SHE —~ == It was several months later that Jones got his $5 back. with the an- nouncement that the man was doing well and he would remember the man who gave the $5. - The other day Jones and Kendrick received a telephone call from the Bellevue-Stratford. They went there and met the young man who had been the store detective some years ago He recalled the promise he had made to Jones who, by the way, had plodded along without making much progress. “I want to make you easy for life,” said the man from Chicago. And he did. : He placed in trust $50,000 of stock bringing 7 per cent interest. That will return $3,500 a year to Jones. The young man who was under a cloud has made a fortune of $2,000,000 thrqugh war contracts. offered to do something hand- some for Mr. Kendrick but Mr. Ken- drick refused. There never was anything more ri- diculous in connection with the wat y than the operations WOE AND THE of the censor in the] _ CENSOR. the- matter of cable: stockholders at $100 a share. The Goulds. had.T. & P. coal shares i their strongboxes along with no nd. of stuff of, little or no. worth of J,other ,Gould properties that, went to ruil. Now. these, certificates of the grams. In France they had a simple system. You could file your message. If the censor liked you he would “O. K.” your message, and, if all went well, you stood a chance of the cablegram going through that day. If he did not like you your message was cast aside. But whether he liked you or not, everything unsent at the end of the day was destroyed and the French government confiscated all money re- ceived by it. Unfortunately: for the censors they destroyed not only private and un: official messages but official ‘as’ well. When someone had to be the “goat,” they cashiered three army officers at the head of the censors’ bureau and put them in jail—for a month, Millions of dollars have been stolen from senders of cable messages here and abroad. The sender has little or no redress. He sends his message at his own risk. If it gets through he is lucky. Usually it does not get through but he-does not get his monéy back. From all over the world complaints Pour in of the fraud committed in the name of the censor. Even from China comes cry of unwarranted delay. From Shanghai by mail the announce- ment {s made-that not one cablegram . jhad been allowed to be transmitted to a commercial house from March 11 MANY INNOCENT BYS' ARE STABBED increased _ first to four and now to ! five, meals a day, the Germans show- \ jissing a ' gervitors t . despair. j eyes ‘than when they de We as--gone pack to. Berlin of the wonderful feeding -at Versailles and no higher honor is sought there than a billet to the Trianon for France has no ‘befter ‘cooks than those pre: The men will “Carry On” in more ways than one at the supper they are to serve .at the. Presbyterian church be something doing ‘nearly every minute. The meal will be-in a class by itself but will be only an. incident was eee he force lias been incre; several . ’ s e8, Nobody te happy Quy the mem- 6 ira of the del fon. are get- e = ting fag and look’ ow! mn the world SATERFIE) > — = will ~- Saat ainied