The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 12, 1919, Page 4

PAGE 4 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Batered at the Postoifice, Bismarck, N. D, as Beoond GEORGE D. MANN - - - ~- ~~ ‘Méiter Foreiga Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, | SHAG = :DETROTE, | arquetie “PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH ; NEWYORK, - ~_ Fitth Ave, Big. 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 im this paper and also the local news herein. | a All rights of publication of special dispatehes herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE by carrier per year .....sccescccees $7.26 Daily by mail per year (In Bismarck) . oe 120 Daily by mail per yeur (in stave vusiue or sismarek) 5.00 Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ......-..+++ 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSP.: (Established 1878) —— TRIFLING This is the only nation in the world where the average family can spend five hundred dollars for a piano, the sole purpose of which will be to annoy the neighbors for three or four years while Susie is growing up; after which time it will serve, once in a fortnight, for father to tap out “Over There,” with the index finger of each hand. Because we have taken our advantages so care- lessly foreigners call us uneducated. Abroad the arts mean something, and only those have expensive musical instruments who can master them. The piano is a wonderful instrument, and a lifetime is too short for the trained, eager student to master it. But here any miss of sixteen, after six months’ casual lessons, will break a baby grand to ride, make it canter, and fox trot and prance; give it the third degree, and make it howl for mercy, all without apparent effort; or an understanding of the awfulness of her crimes. So, a few years ago, we turned out “artists” by the hundred. “Painters” of china and of wood; masters of art, who burnt Gibson heads with a hot poker on an imitation tennis racquet, and gave it to their beloved for a birthday gift. Without thought of what was beautiful, or of what was fitting, or of the real essence of art, we shunted our young onto art sidings like mere box cars, crammed them with loads of pseudo artistic junk; and forever ruined them for any apprecia- tion of the fine things of life, by making “art” cheap, tawdry and common. With the gods of the material somewhat de- throned by the spiritual upheaval of the war, maybe we can take a new tack on his art ocean, and sail a few ships somewhere besides to the bot- tom. We have the native capabilities; witness the triumphs of the nation‘s singers on European operatic stages. We need teachers that are artists rather than craftsmen, and students that are earnedt and eager, rather than merely dexterous. A CAMOUFLAGED GERMAN MERCHANT FLEET One of the marine publications calls attention to the fact that while the German Government by the peace treaty apparently is stripped of its mer- chant marine and must restore by building new vessels many of the craft destroyed’ by the U-boats Germany in fact will have a secret merchant ma- rine operating in its interest and for its benefit. It says the Germans really own many, vessels that fly neutral flags and also that Germans have made heavy investments in shipbuilding plants in various countries. The statement is undoubtedly true although the paper’s declaration that the ‘‘neutral’’ ships owned by Germans today represent 500,000 tons may be an overestimate. There are various ships flying the American flag that are German owned. The authorities at Wash- ington and at London have full knowledge of this fact. There is one group of ships of American reg- istry that is German owned. It will be interesting to note how the British and American governments act in relation to them. Early in the war the Brit- ish blacklisted these vessels after collecting evi- dence of how the ‘‘American’’ who poses as their principal owner and managing director obtained the money to finance the purchase of the craft. secure the privacy in which they had been used to smoking, and also through the ever-growing feel- ing of independence among women and their claims to equal rights and privileges with men. Most women and girls who are smokers began because they thought it was ‘‘cute,’’ dashing, just a little wicked and improper; and, in spite of the nausea inevitable from first attempts to enjoy the weed, they continued from the determination that they would not be outdone by some other woman or girl, f The habit, however, has not become so general among women and girls that one would be justified in applying to the sex and saying of the Saturday Review twenty-fivd years ago, that ‘‘most men and all boys smoke.” e Americans returning from England report that women now smoke short fat cigarettes in holders shaped like pipes; and the predication is made free- ly that before long they will be discarding the cig- arette altogether and smoking pipes in the same way as men smoke them. The young Englishman considers as a ‘‘good fel- low”’ the girl who is not too straightlaced to join him in a cigarette; but the English character will have to undergo great changes before the stolid shopkeeper class or the mechanics who pride them- selves on their ‘‘respectability’’ will take kindly to the idea of sharing their ’baccy pouches and The Germans have control or partial control of shipbuilding plants in Norway, Sweden, Spain, and elsewhere. It will be a difficult matter for the Al- lies to prevent the Germans from utilizing these plants. They are pretty well camouflaged through dummy ownership. ; In the deals to put German owned vessels under American registry Hugo Stinnes, the coal king of Germany, handled the money for the Germans and various Milwaukee gentlemen posed as the purchas- ers. Some of the work the ‘Americans’ did in this deal was crude. In one instance a Wisconsin person elected a director of the ‘‘American’’ com- pany owning the vessels did not know he had $100,- 000 stock in the corporation or anything about be- ing a director until he read the news in a paper. Then he declined the honor and repudiated the al- leged ownership of the stock. ENGLISHWOMEN SMOKE PIPES For more than thirty years cigarette-smoking has been common among Englishwomen of the numer- ous smart sets and among English girls in all walks of life. Their smoking in public is a habit of later date. No doubt it has come about through women and girls habituated to tobacco being unable to their pipe-racks with ‘‘the missus.’’ MUSIC AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR BOOZE The passing of liquor is going to prove an im- mense impetus to music in this country—not only artistically, but commercially. And it includes all classes of music. It will reflect itself in a greater patronage of the concert stage, more pupils for the music teacher, in the larger sale of musical instruments and more employment to professional musicians ‘at an in- creased wage. It is not just for the reason that people will have more money to spend for music and music-making devices, but it is in the fact that those of us who used to use alcoholic beverages in one form or an- other to get away from the material of our every- day life, are going to use music to a degree for the same purpose. The substitute of music for drink will not be so complete and sudden in its action; we may not even be consious that we are adopting music as a partial substitute for booze, but anyhow the effect will be more spiritualizing and with less negative reaction. One of the musical publications prophesies that next year will find 25-piece orchestras in many of the big hotels where but eight ‘to ten are now em- ployed. Many of the big cities now have symphony or- chestras of their own that have not had them before. The membership of these new organizations have been recruited from the other orchestras of the east, and these are in turn combing the theatre orchestras of the country and teaching studios for competent players to fill their chairs. The manager of the Philadelphia Symphony Or- chestra, one of the largest and best musical organ- izations in the world, says that next season his band will make four trips across the Alleghany mountains into the west; that this is alike true with other eastern orchestras, and that all will make towns that have not heretofore been upon their routes. He further says all the younger professional or- chestral players of Europe who can obtain pass- ports and transportation are coming to America, and that all of these are certain of profitable em- ployment. A further explanation of why music will be one of the elements to replace booze is in the fact that there is rest, recreation and relaxation in contrasts. Music is emotional. ! We will seek- music, the emotional, as a contrast to the intellectual, the material, or our everyday lives. mf Music is one means by which we can forget the material, for a time at least, but without intoxi- cation as in the case of booze. RAZZ BERRY’S COLUMN Cincinnati is still cheerful though Cleveland is losing heart. From old Lake Erie to the Ohio river the baseball fans of the Buckeye state have been praying for two pennants. Ohio isn’t satisfied with the Willard-Dempsey fight; it wants the world’s series. Imagine a world’s series being fought off in Ohio! It wouldn’t be worth a line in New York and Chi- cage papers. : If the Reds win the pennant the beer-drinking population of the river town will feel they have been reimbursed for the loss of their breweries. They can get drunk on baseball dope and stay so all winter. Hope springs eternal in the hearts of Cincinnati, Cleveland and St. Louis baseball fans. And if it were not so four baseball magnates. would now be in the real estate game or selling life insurance. If a man works hard enough to make all the spending money he wants, he doesn’t have any time to spend it. The league might advance civilization by making it illegal for any warring nation to claim God as a partner in the business. The Italian press asserts that Europe is disillu- sioned concerning Wilson. No more than Wilson is deny themselves at times when they were unable to disillusioned concerning Europe. ‘ SATURDAY, JULY ‘12, “GIDDAP, FANNIE! Pblake Your vacation YON OUR OLD RELIABLE AIRSHIP LINE PEpee NEVER, FAIL DIRIGIBLE. : Bes scents SUBMARINE: Bhor Rass: Caowrinentat REVISITS CHA WHERE HE FIST MET ROOSEVELT Col. King Stanley, Transcontinen- tal Tourist, Renews Old Days in Bismarck WAS HERE BEFORE TOWN Recalls Location When It Was Principally Dance Halls and Saloons. and Worse Col. King Stanley, old-time scout, prospector, guide and desert rat, yesterday revisited the little cotton: wood cabin in which, almost forty years ago, he first met the late Col. Theodore Roosevelt, and that visit ‘opened a whole string of reminis- cences of the early days when Bis- marck was principally a collection of dance halls, saloons and gambling houses, lining the river bank, and when the Missouri was the jumping off place of civilization. Col. Stanley, who bears his title by courtesy of congress, which inform- ally ‘conferred the ‘honor upon. him, the late Col. William A. Cody (Buffa- lo Bill) and “White Hawk”, now bet- ter known in his Wisconsin home as “Doc” Powell, arrived in Bismarck after a ten-thousand-mile journey by Maxwell from Los Angeles, And he ATLANTIC GREYHOUNDS EXPRESS TRAINS OWER AUTOS M1 uncle SA UR ESERVATION & the capital city, for between Cleve- land and Medina, passing through the Miller slough on the Red Trail, he encountered his first accident since leaving Los Angeles, about three months ago. i “-Twasn’t the car's fault and ’twas- n’t Jimmy's fault,” (referring to the driver and mechanician of the party and the owner of the car, James M Drake, Los Angeles garage proprie- tor.’ “We were bowling along, about 25 miles an hour, when less than fifty feet ahead of us two youngsters climbed up the bank and into the road, right in the path of our car. There wasn’t anything to do for it but to jump the fill, and that’s what Jimmy did. We landed on all fours —the car, I mean—in the mud and water at the bottom of the fill, but we saved the kids, and the car wasn’: really hurt. But it tied us up for two days and it spoiled a perfect record for the trip. (“Bismarck seems like! home to me. Iwas here when it was a real front- ier city, one of the live spots of the west. I knew Capt. Grant Marsh well, and old Dennie Hannafin, too. Ran across Steve Welch today, and he remembered me. .I operated in the Black Hills mostly in my scout- ing days, but I often got up to Bis- marck, and I made one official trip up the little ‘Missouri at the time of the Bannock Indian uprising. “Buffalo Bill and I weren’t exactly pals, but we were good friends. He’d throw jobs my way, and I’d return the compliment. I still do a little scouting and occasionally guide a party through the Great jAmerican derest around Needles, and I have a sign-painting shop in Los Angeles and a half-dozen mines or so that may pan out some time, Have done a lot of prospecting in my day, but seem to have overlooked the bonan- zas.” Touring on Wager. “How'd wt come to make this trip?” “Well, we were sitting ‘round Jim- was rather fussed when he reached my’s garage one night talking about ___ BY CONDO HEH, HEH, HE some- transcontinental touring and body calculated ’twould be lots of fun, but it cost too much. I come back with a bet that Jimmy and I could borrow ten dollars apiece, pay it back before we’d been out two weeks, and tour to New York and back without touching our ‘bank ac- counts. We tied up our bank ac- counts so we couldn’t touch them until we appeared in person; bor- rowed ten dollars apiece, and started out in Jimmy’s car. Jimmy is the best mechanic and all-around auto- mobile’ man in the world. Seven days out we sent back the money we'd borrowed, and seven weeks, out we were in New York. “How'd we pay our way?” “Sign-painting, doing fancy shoot- ing and other stunts. ’Twas easy to Pick up all the money we needed.” Stanley will resume his westward journey Monday, ‘when he sets . out for the Bad Lands, which he hopes camp in one of his old-time camping sites, of the days when he and Dep- uty Sheriff Teddy Roosevelt rode the buttes. of the Little Missouri togeth- er. Thence he will forge on west, with Los Angeles and home as his ultimate destination. How He Got His Title. “My title?” “Well, you see, fellows like Cody and White Hawk and myself were boss of the scouts, and we had to have some title, so they called us colonel, and it stuck in after life Years ago congress was considering passing a law to make it a crime for anybody to wear.a military title he wasn’t entitled to. They had a good to make by evening, when he will}. 1919. 307; Smith, Cleveland, .305; Bodie, New York, .305. Jim Thorpe, the versatile Indian ath- leté, continued to lead the National Jeague hitters and widened the gap be- tween himself and Gavvy Cravath, re- cently appointed manager of Philadel- phia, Thorpe’s mark is .307 and Cra- yath’s 356. Hap Myers of Brooklyn showed the real class among the bat- ters however, by climbing from twenty- second place among. the regulars last week with a mark of .297 to a tie for third place this week with an. average of 882, Max Flack, Chicago, broke the tie shared with Olson, Brooklyn, last week in number of runs scored and leads with 46 tallies to his credit. Benny Kauff, New York slugger, took the fotal base honors from Cravath, but the veteran continued to hold his lead among the home run_ hitters. Kauff’s total bases number 113, while Gavvy has made 9 circuit drives. Daubert, Cincinnati, continued in front among the sacrifice hitters with 20, while Bigbee, Pittsburgh, continued to show the way to the base stealers with 21 thefts. Other leading batters for 25 or more games: Young, New York, 332; Wil- liams, Philadelphia, 320; Kauff, New York, .318;. Roush, Cincinnati, .815; Wingo, Cincinnati, 311; Holke, Boston, 810; Hornsby, St. Louis, .309; Burns, New York, .309; Meusel, Philadelphia, 209; McHenry, St. Louis, .309. MANDAN PEOPLE DISAPPOINTED BY SHOW'S FAILURE Many Mandan people were disap- pointed in the cancellation of the play scheduled for the Bismarck aud- itorium Wednesday evening. Margaret Illington, Robert Edeson and Lackaye were to have appeared in “The Good Bad Woman” and a num- ber from here had planned to attend. The company played a very success- ful engagement in Fargo but for some reason the attraction was, cancelled by the Bismarck management. There seems to be a good.deal of dissatis- faction in Bismarck over the failura to have such a company of stars at their theatre when it seemed to be possible—Morton County Farmers’ Press. ; A PEOPLE WONT NOTICE YOU! HEIGHT IF YOU “TRY THIS ! A LAWN ROLLER MASSAGE WOULD REDUCE YOUR TUMMY deal of fun at the expense of the ‘Kentucky colonels, but finally Bain- bridge got up and said: “There's three men that are using the title of colonel that I feel are en- titled to it and that this law would hit. They are Cody, White Hawk end King Stanley. I don’t believe in taking this honor away from them.’ “Congress agreed with him to the extent of not passing the bill, so, un- officially, at least, we three owed our titles to an act of congress.” PECKINBAUGH HIT SAFELY 28 TIMES DURING THE WEEK Chicago, July 12—Roger Peckin- raugh, New York, who hit safely in twenty-eight consecutive games, includ- ing last Wednesday's contest, continues to lead the regulars in batting in the American league, his mark 382, re- maining unchanged from last week, ac- cording to averages released today. ‘Tyrus Cobb, who returned to the game aiter more than two week’s absence from the Tigers line-up, has not recoy- ered his batting eye and has dropped from second. to fifth place. On the other hand Joe Jackson, the slugging ontfielder of the White Sox, has struck his stride and has climbed from seventh to second place with an average of .350, This great batting on the part of the Chicagoan has given him the total base henors, held last week by Sisler, St. Louis, Jackson's mark is 122 and Sis- ler’s 121, Peckinpaugh besides leading the bat- ters chalked up five more runs to his credit and leads the run getters, He has registered 51 times, Babe Ruth, the big Boston southpaw pitcher and outfielder, bagged two more homers and leads the circuit drive hit- ters with 9. Ray Chapman, Cleveland, who still is out of the game, has been passed by Vitt, Boston, in sacrifice hits, Vitt has 25 to Chapman’s 22. The 12 thefts of Johnston, Cleveland, have put him first among the base stealers, Other leading batters for 25 or more }games: Veach, Detroit, .347; Flagstead, Detroit, .389; Cobb, Detroit, 338; John. 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