The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 15, 1919, Page 4

PAGE 4. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Giatered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D, as Becond Claas Matter. z D. Sip eiaive Foreiga resentatives @. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, | CHICAGO, 55 ETROTE, ii Pine, BURNS AND . : NEWYORK, - - - ‘Fifth Ave, Bldg. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The ted Press is exclusively entitled to the use for tion ‘of all news credited to it or not otherwise eae th this paper and also the local news published sill right of publication of special dispataben bereta ere MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE by carrier per year ...sssccovee 2 0$7.20 Dee a ae ee oe eee earice ai sioaasal) 60 r year (in state vurside o mail putelde of North Dakota eeveseceeees BO THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSP: (Established 1878) <> THE BANK OF NORTH DAKOTA The Bank of North Dakota is following a well recognized and proven banking policy in declining to concentrate all of its resources in one drouth- stricken region. For that the Bank of North Da- kota cannot be criticized. Such criticism as may be made will come from farmers misled by spe- cious arguments of league organizers into believ- ing that all they would have to do to get money after the Bank of North Dakota was organized would be to ask for it. The Bank of North Dakota has not and cannot create one penny of new wealth in North Dakota. When our own finances do not suffice to meet our needs we must continue, as Director General Cath- ro has advised the Slope to do, to bring in more money from the east. And we can borrow from eastern banks only by establishing credit with them, and to establish credit with these banks we must carry reserves with them. Director General Cathro is enough of a banker to recognize this fact. He has advised banks which might contem- plate making the Bank of North Dakota their re- serve agent to maintain their connections with eastern banks. The childish arguments advanced in favor of the Bank of North Dakota won the league support from many unthinking farmers for whom Director General Cathro’s statement to the Slope county agent will come as a rude awakening. But that awakening was over due, and it is well that it came now rather than later. INDIVIDUAL WANTS Each man has his own ideas concerning his individual success irrespective of what the world may regard as success for him. One man may have his heart set on a little home surrounded with flowers, a garden, etc. No difference what he accomplishes, his life will be a failure to him unless he gets the “little home.” Another may desire a seat in the assembly of his state. No degree of wealth or fame will take the place of his one desire. » The unfortunate part of our lives is that so many of us are side tracked from the thing we want most for what the world wants us to have. And, that is as it should be. One life, while important, is not to be considered when the bet- terment of life in general is to be concerned. We are usually forced to do the thing we can do best whether we want to or not. SIBERIA IS FULL OF REFUGEES “Trailing the Bolsheviki” was to Carl W. Ack- erman trailing misery and hopelessness. He met it as soon as he had entered the Russian dominions at Vladivostok. Proceeding to the Amur city of Khaborovsk and loitering one morning in the mar- ketplace there, his attention was drawn to an 4ld peasant, a man crippled and withered by hard work. In his twitching hands was a deed to a piece of land near Samara, and, sobbing and snuf- fling, he told his story to a group: ,. “When the bolsheviki came to my house , they said: ‘Who owns this property?’ I ( said, ‘Ido.’ * * * ‘How long have you been here?’ the commissar asked. ‘Five years,’ said I, ‘Then get out,” he said, ‘you , had this Jong enough.’ *.* * and he , took my ‘house, my cows, my geese, my : flour and grain, and’ * * *” He ended in tears while the interested villagers ex- amined his “scrap of paper.” Ackerman found Siberia full of refugees, and even offers the statement that there are 400,000 of them in Omsk alone, with the indorsement that to an observer this estimate did not seem exag- gerated. Irkutsk, Tomsk, Tchita, Ekaterinburg and Vladivostok he reports cities where misery has become so universal that it has lost its sting, cities “black and white on the outside, but red underneath.” Omsk, however, through which city Mr. Ackerman asserts between 7,000,000 and 8,000,000 refugees have passed, apparently shows the worst conditions. The author visited one of a number of dugouts there. He knocked at the board gate which served as the door for one of them, and walked down into the dirt room where a man and his wife with five children were seated or lying about an iron stove. This hole watheir home. Along one side was a straw bed, around the stove were a few cooking utensils. One of the five children had no shoes ; three had no stockings; all of them were pale with hunger and weak from want. of exercise, for with the rigors of winter (that morning the thermometer reg- wistered-tiddegrees-below-zero-at-the Ameri- can consulate) they had not a sufficient amount of clothing to permit them to leave their hearth. Part of Mr. Ackerman’s book (Scribner) is given to a description of economic and social con- ditions in Siberia, with the inrush of fleeing Rus- sians, the partial breakdown of transportation, and the confused administration as the chief ele- ments in the confused situation. ASTER SA We can at least be thankful that we don’t have to mend umbrellas for a living. eee Bh The fact that there’s more building in Bis- marck than our builders and architects can take care of should not be overlooked in scanning over that “What we have to be Thankful For” column. : pe oe WITH THE EDITORS OUR VIOLENT MINORITIES It is often said that we are threatened in this country by the tyranny of the majority. The ma- jority is sometimes wrong for the moment, and yet it is and must be the determining factor in any free government. However, minorities in these: days are becom- ing insistent. The will of the majority is no longer accepted unquestioningly, nor is the minority sat- isfied to utter its protest and to stop at that. Modern minorities grow violent. When they lose at the ballot box, they throw bombs and resort to riot. This philosophy of violence has mani- fested itself clearly in the wake of war. The Bol- sheviki and the Spartacans do not pretend to ex- press the will of the majority. They are through with argument and they scoff at the rule of the many. In place of ballots, they use bullets.: This violence of modern minorities manifested itself before the war in tactics of force advocated by the I. W. W. Now whatever else this may be, it is not democracy. The ideal of good sportsman- ship is the philosophy of free government. Every citizen has the great privilege of expressing his opinions at the ballot box. Democracy is government by free and open discussion. When discussion fails and violence is used, the very pillars of the state and of social order are shaken. Revolt agaisnt the majority's will is confession of faith in democracy lost and willingness to revert to the law of the jungle. So long as a minority confines itself to argu- ment, to protest and to the ballot, it renders a priceless public service. It may represent the wis- dom of the thoughtful so much needed at all times. And if the minority is right, it will in the end be- come the majority. At any rate, it often serves to stem and tides of passion and to’ guide’ the ship of state in time of storm. The service of the minority is so‘valuable that it cannot afford to use methods that are wrong and perilous.—Min- neapolis Journal. BUNKO GAME WORKED OVERTIME Because the business men of Jamestown choose to attempt to protect the farmers of the county, as well as themselves, from the operations of the laws involved in the referendum election, they are called “the enemies of the farmer.”, This special denunciation of Jamestown business men by N. S. Randall in the Stutsman County Press, assumes the falsehood that the farmers of the county are all in favor of the laws which were up for con- sideration, and the people of the towns are all against them. The vote shows that the Nonparti- san legaue measures are not approved by a labge percentage of the farmers themselves. The attempt on the part of the league organ- izers to line up every man who does not approve of the league bills as an “enemy of the farmer,” is only a part of the policy of deception and misrep- resentation which has been worked over time the last. two years, and has caught many well-intend- ing farmers. It has been a favorite charge that the business men and the residents of the small towns are lined up with “Big Bizz;” are hand in glove with every trust and every monopoly and are organized to work against the interests of the farmer. This demagogic claim has even extended itself into the household of farmers where the women preside, and this false statement has been persistently used to prejudice the minds of many farm women against the women of the towns. The condition of the farmers, their social life, the profits of their business and everything con- nected with the occupation farming has been sys- tematically decried, and has been compared un- favorably with the condition of the people of the towns and cities. Attempts to create prejudice and to arouse a feeling of jealousy are the chief part of the stock in trade of the average league organizer and orator. It is perfectly safe to say that a larger per- centage of farmers ride into town in their own automobiles, and transact their business with more leisure, more comfort, more independence and have more money to spend, than the average resident of the city and town. The story of the down- trodden farmer in North Dakota is all “bunk.” It is a worn out campaign talk that no self-re- specting farmer or family will much longer listen to, as an argument to support the league, and continue to pay for some promised benefit which it is not possible to be realized. It is safe to say that the farmers’ votes for the league leaders schemes, will bring nothing back to the farmer jexcept his share of the increased cost of state government, and the. increased expense of doing business under the impractical and socialistic leg- islation that has been grafted on the people of this state-—Jamestown-Alenbyss— ines. |. + i sees nsneereearenanrS P en NO PLACE FOR RESPEC TABLE GHOSTS Has any family in the Bismarck ter- ritory a son who has. been missing for 25 years? If so, they will find interest ia the following letter: ; - Milwaukee, Wis. Z July 12,1919, To The Bismarck’ Tribune, Bismarck, N. D. Dear Sir: Would like to have you run.an ad in your paper-and ask the North Dakota ily, living a few miles from Bismarck that some 25 years ago had a son who left home, and have never seen him since, If there isisuch:a family and they will answer your ad mail me their letters and I will write to-‘them. I think one daughter,.works in the post- office. It must be a small place not Jar from‘ Bismarck.’ I do not (know their names; they -are Germans. and must have lived on a farm when this happened. The age of the boy. is’ 35 years now. Then I would not like to have my letters revealed. I want this to be confidential. Please, whosoever Three More Men to Don Uncle. Sam’s Peace Army Duds Three’ more men Tehon ‘K. Krachuk and. Walter Briggs of Bis- marck, and Clarence W. Frohrieb of Minneapolis, have been signed up for the United States army by Sergeant L. H. Ford in charge of the Bismarck recruiting station. Sergeant Ford stated this morning that his. office was averaging about one recruit a day, which is considered very high! for a city of this size: Some of the other cities with larger populations are not doing as well as..this, it is understood. ies For the month of June this district paper to copy. I am in such of a fam-| MILWAUKEEAN BELIEVES SHE HAS LOCATED MISSING BISMARCK SON answers this ad, not send the mail to your office and you forward samé to me, please, I was advised by a man that’ your paper.is reliable, He comes from North Dakota. He is a business man in one ot the suburban towns, and he told me your paper was reliable and had a large circulation, Keep my name and address for your- self; reveal it to no one, and send me the answers you get on the ad, also have other papers copy. THE AD Any family living some little dis- tance out’ of Bismarck who could re- call this instance at some time, living on-a farm, a son left home and was never heard of since The*boy:shad {blue eyes and would reach the age of 35 now, At the present they are living in the village and I think they have a daughter working in a postoffice and teaching. school, or both. -They are |German, I think. Will someone recall such an incident. If so answer ’the Bismarck Tribune. signed up 75 recruits, all for ‘the army. Since Sergeant Ford's arrivai in Bismarck he has maintamed an average of approximately a recruit a day and he is ndeavoring to evén bet- ter this record. Up.to tie present time he has enlisted 60 men Bismarck and the vicinity. Good Class of Men. “I am very. much pleased with the class of men we are enlisting at Bis- marck,” said Sergeant Ford this morning. “About seventy-five per cent of them are ex-soldiers and they are all returning to the service, not only to learn a trade such as auto- mobile. repairing, cabinet making, electrical work and sixty otiter crafts, but to obtain advantages of Uncle Sam’s_ peace army, including. reading, writing, arithmetic, history, rom EVERETT TRUE MRS, TRUS, COME GT HERE AND SHOW ME JUST EXACTLY Me weary tt a BY CONDO T CAN'T COME OUT NOW). —'m NOT Fit To BG seens "NOT FIT TO. BE SEEN! THAT MAKES COMS ON OUT HERS bookkeeping and other subjects taught to all who wish to learn. “The motor transport corps and the air service are the two most at- tractive branches of the service, as they afford the greatest opportunities of learning a great variety of trades. Many of the men are entering the air service in expectation that. aerial travel will be of great importance by the time the terms of their enlist- ment, are finished~and they will be qualified as air pilots or aeroplane mechanics.” HOSTESS HOUSES OPEN TO, FRENCH BRIDES OF YANKS TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1919. And watch that troublesome erup- Bathe with Cuti- tion disappear. Dry ‘cura Soap and hot water. I gently and apply Cuticura Oint- ment. For eczemas, rashes, itch- ings, etc., these delicate, super- creamy emollients are wonderful. Nothing so insures a clear skin and good hair as making Cuticura your every-day toilet preparations. w=r-Caticara Taleum Powder “S58 il fascinating fra- Ad not te test ‘Scented face, by, dusting and skin n umning § 0 S Hs d 3 E rae and peculiar to itself, Cuticura Soap, Ginter ple each free of “Ceti cura, Boston.” Christian, association with five work- ers under the charge of Miss Mary Fay. The house was opened May 1, and is located in a grove of trees outside the limits of the men’s camps. The wives, many of whom had never been more than twenty miles from their homes before, are met at the station with an automobile and taken to the Hostess House, where they are given a thorough physical inspection, teeth examined and any necessary work to be done on them is here done. After this they are given the opportunity to bathe, change the'’r clothing and are us- signed a bed in one of the, spick and span dormitories. Their life from then on until the time they board the boat is chiefly occupied in learn- ing the English language, sewing and exercises and recreations of various kinds in the mornings and with thelr husbands in the afternoons. Ten days is the average time eac’) girl spends in this camp. From it she is taken diréctly to. the .boas where she aga'n mee‘s her husband, he having been transferred from his organization to a casual company 80 that they can take the same boat ‘back. That the government is doing everything in its. power to ~make their life while still in the army a happy one is very evident. 3 A month ago it was estimated that accommodations for fifty-five would ‘be ample for this camp. That was -less than a year go. Today there are accommodations for one hundred and St. Nazaire, France, July 15.—\twenty and more barracks are being French. brides of, American: soldiers|:huilt:, The. Fifteenth cavalry alone on their way from France: to theirj'brought fifty-one newly married men new homes in.America :are_ enter-}and their wives. -And now that the tained in the Hostess’ House here] seryice of supply troops are going until they and their husbands are] through here so fast it is suspected ready to go on board a steamer.|that. the Hostess House may be Thus far, eighty-one of these newly-j swamped, for these troops, unlike the made American wives have been} cgmbat troops, have been stationed taken careof in this temporary home) in one place most of their time over for brides. here and have had the opportunity to The work of caring for them 1s|win and wed some dainty French conducted by the Young Women’s| girl. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE z FARMERS STATE BANK at Wing. in the State of North Dakota, at the close of business June 30th, 1919. RESOURCES Loans and discounts \......4....ess0e+ Overdrafts, secured and unsecured Warrants, stocks, tax certificates, claims, ete, Banking house, furniture and fixtures ... U.S. Liberty Bonds ....... HAA Sano Current expenses, taxes paid, over undivided profits Due from other banks Checks and other cash items Cash Capital stock paid in Surplus fund ..... Tudividual deposits Time certificates of deposit . $71,388.17 139.39 192.81 $27,861.08 36,991.91 Cashier’s checks outstanding 2,756.38 67,609.37 Notes and bills re-discounted 5,497.90 Bills payable ... wacaed 5,000.00 TOTAL .. see eee es $90,357.27 STATE OF NO! I, H. P. Goddard, Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly. swear that the above statement is true, to the best of my knowledge ‘and belief. . H. P. GODDARD, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 14th day of July, 1919. “HLS. PASLEE, 0 Public. Correct, ‘Attest: ee Cc. B. LITTLE, H. P. GODDARD, : Directors, REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE ARENA STATE BANK at Arena, in the State of North Dakota, at the close of business June 30, 1919. STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA, County of Burleigh—ss. RESOURCES Loans and discounts ......... male eese esse et esee Sees $22,282.59, Warrants, stocks, tax certificates, claims, ete. 127.48 Banking house, furniture and fixtures .... 3,552.90 Liberty Bonds ...... sete sceeeees oe 2,297.97 Tue from other banks .. + «$13,931.21 Checks and other cash items. +. 982.17 Cashes see cie es ees eclanececetevcrceees seeeeee ae eee 1,277.74 16,191.12 TOTAL ....cesseeeeeeeee sees ceeceeeseees see eeeee te eeeeeee oo $44,452.06 LIABILITIES ae Capital stock paid in ae 3 Sor) $10,000.00 Surplus fund . se eeeees iS 1,000.00 Undivided profits, less expenses and -taxes paid.... cs, 865.71 Individual deposits subject to check .. + - $13,302.63 Demand certificates of deposit .... +e 480.55 Time certificates of deposit ..... on ++ 18,853.17 32,586.35 TOTAL 2. -ceceeeeeeeees see eeee eee eeeee seneccccseveccccccceseees + 6$44,452,06 I, A. C. Isaminger, Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true, to the best of my knowledge and belief. A. C. ISAMINGER, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 11th day of July, 1919. 5 H. Correst. Attest: A. M. ISAMINGER, A. C, ISAMINGER, z Directors; A. MUTCHLER, Notary Public. My commission expires Nov, 26, 1924.