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

Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN, = = - + = = Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, 0, . . . - DETROIT, NEW _YORK, Sica ds MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use ublication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published for herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVAN Daily by carrier, per year......... meee Daily by mail, per year (In Bismarck). Daily by mail, per year (In state outside Daily by mail outside of North Dakota. THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) _——_——— THOMAS JEFFERSON Many historians are of the opinion that Thomas Jefferson was the most useful American that ever lived. That he was one of the most useful, all will agree; for here is a very partial list of his inventions and social services, many of the benefits of which extend into this time, and will serve in all times: Author of the Declaration of Independence. The first secretary of state of the United States, the second vice president, and the third president of the United States. The father of religious freedom by law. : . Author of the first anti-slavery bill. Inventor of our present decimal money system. The first American prison reformer. The first to suggest the Panama canal. Invented the letter copying press. Suggested certain improvements in the mold- board plow, and from which the shear plow was evolved. Started the fashion of wearing trousers instead of knee breeches. Conducted the purchase from France of the Mississippi valley, since known as the Louisiana Purchase, and the most gigantic real ditate deal of all times. The first to advocate courtesy as a national blessing and efficiency measure. Founded the University of Virginia. Selected design for the National Capitol at Washington. Financed the exploration and the original set- tlement of the far west, including the Lewis and Clark expedition, and that of Lieut. Pike, from which Pike’s Peak is named. The first man to plant rice in America. Founder of American glass industry. As an architect he designed his own residence, Monticello; that.of the Harrison’s on the lower James river in Virginia, the State Capitol building of Virginia, and finally all the buildings for the University of Virginia. Invented the wheel-barrow, the whirling office chair, and the camp stool. The first farmer in America to use the thrash- ing machine. The first to use the chicken incubator. The first prominent American to submit to vaccination. Founder of our system of fast mails by con- tinuing the mails at night’ on horseback after the end of the day’s stage journey, thereby increasing the speed of the mails from 50 to 100 miles per day. The first farmer in America to rotate crops. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Editor Kresge Bldg. Fifth Ave, Bldg. seveeee 6,00 sistance of those not affected over those who are affected. While this does not mean that sanitary laws nor the laws of personal health should be neglect- ed, yet the state of mind has a good deal to do with the power to resist disease. The fear of disease lowers the power to resist disease. At the time of these epidemics we all read and hear their symptoms until we imagine we have the disease—our powers of resistance are low- ered to a point of succumbing. It is a well known fact that when medical stu- dents first begin reading books on physical diag- nosis that they imagine they have all diseases de- scribed in them. An English humorist once said that after read- ing a medical book that he had every disease in the calendar, including housemaid’s knee. A continued fear or belief in a disease will no doubt finally effect the body through the mind and to a lowered power of resistance, just as most of us have noticed that a sudden fright or fit of anger will for a time, have a very sudden fright or fit of anger will for a time, have a very mani- fest effect upon the body through the digestive functions. The best thing you can do for your country is to cut out the worry about its future, and put a little more pep in your own present task. ON DANGEROUS TERRITORY Director Genera) F. W. Cathro of the Bank of North Dakota is treading on dangerous territory. In circular No. 7 of the Bank of North Dakota he says: “Our people have resented injustice, but have never revolted in a way that indicates a spirit of red revolution. * * * There is no tend- ency toward anarchy, but the people are law abiding. With no large industrial centers, no large mining towns and no large congestion of of Bolshevism or I. W. W.’isms.” What heresy, Mr, Cathro! As tho anarchy and Bolshevism and I. W. W.’isms were something not nice and to be avoided. We fear you are out of touch with.the editorial sanctum of the Courier-News. Some good friend should warn Mr. Cathro to pedal lightly. Ebert is the fat-herr of his country. The upper class in Hunland are now ready to dye for their country. The modern statesman doesn’t take the bull by the horns. He toots his own horn, but the bull is there. We gave Shantung to Japan to. keep her from getting mad. Thank Heaven that she didn’t ask for California. As a matter of fact, the world’s opinion of the Hun’s methods and morals will be set aside in the interest of getting a profit. When. you have made your first booze in the kitchen range, pour a little in the sink. If it takes the enamel off, pour it all in the sink. Judge Gatens thinks many divorces are due to the fact that women hold down their old jobs after Founder of the United States Secret Service. Established the first mint in the United States at Philadelphia, our coins previously having been struck off in Europe. Constructed the manual of parliamentary prac- tice, which still governs deliberative bodies, One of the authors of Washington’s “Farewell Address.” Man is never again as helpless as he was the day of his birth, except when his wife goes away on her vacation. YOUR POWER TO RESIST DISEASE GERMS Life insurance reports indicate that more per- sons die of pneumonia than any other disease. It used to be supposed that pneumonia germs were taken into the lungs with the air we breathe, but certain medical authorities now say that they are taken in with the food we eat and work their way ino the lungs through the blood. But, be all this as it may, it has been pretty well proven by the microscope that we are all the while coming in contact with all sorts of disease germs through touch, breathing, eating and drink- ing; that it is not how many nor the kind we take in, but rather our power to resist them. And this power of resistance depends upon the state of our general health. It is just like two men taking two drinks of whisky apiece, one may remain sober while the other becomes howling drunk, an AS ™ It is simply the power, one over the other to resist the alcoholic poison. This power of resistance may be constitutional, temperamental or due to the state of health at the time the drinks were taken. While we are from time to time visited with epidemics in the way of diseases, yet it is a well known fact that the majority of persons are not affected by them. getting married. You can’t treat ’em rough un- populatoin, there is no chance for the propagation | * SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1919 ARG LOOkKINS FOR A HOUSE TO RENT. © Now, we HAVG a Dovece House — — | mR, TRUS 7% HEAR. You BY CON DO -NIGHT ooo neorenesere. m2 (EDITOR’S NOTE: The Tribune, desiring to be fair to the North Da- kota workmen’s compensation act, which is now under fire, has at the re- quest of Commissioner L. J. Wehe, a member of the workmen's compensa- tion bureau, placed its columns at his disposal for a thorough discussion of this statute. The first instalment of} Mr. Wehe's exposition of this import- ant act appears herewith today. Oth- ers will sollow ‘in sudsequent edi- tions.) The North Dakota workmen’s com- pensation act was passed by tne Six- teenth session of the legislative as- semly in 1919, and was approved by the governor tarch 5, 1919; and be- came operative July 1, 1919. It is op- erated wy a bureau known as tne North Dakota “‘Workmen’s Compensa- tion oureau, consisting of three mem- bers, viz: vohn M. Hagen, commis- sioner of labor, is by virtue of his of- fice, chairman of tne bureau; 8. 8S. McDonald of Grand Forks, North Da- koia, president of the North Dakota, Federation of Labor. and iAttorney L. The secretary of the bureau is John B. Brown, of Bismarck, North Dakota, who is the ex-secretary of the state council of national defense. Applies to All. The law applies to most every em- ‘ployer and employee of the state. Em- ployer means the state and all polit- ical swb-divisions thereof, all. public and quasi-public corporations and ev- ery person, partnership, association, and ‘private corporation, including any public: service corporation, the legai representative of any deceased em- ployer, or the receiver or trustee of a person, parinership .or corporation; the law applies, in. short,.to anyone, of the fore-going having. in his em- less they depend on you for rations. Sopa Oe ee | WITH THE EDITORS BANK OF NORTH DAKOTA ~ The Bank of North Dakota may be held up as the panacea for all the ills of the farmer but it has proven a broken reed right off the reel when it comes to helping out the drought stricken farm- ers of the western part of the state, according to a statement made by Director Cathro of the Bank of North Dakota. In a nutshell it simply simmers down to the fact that the farmer who has been gazing with awe at this great state institution as their means for help, have got to go to their local banker to get the help they need after all—which proves that in times of need the local banker is the man who is the real friend. The same is true of the local merchant, the butcher and the baker. In these drought stricken districts we wonder if the consumers stores are going to carry the farmer who has no money to pay for his groceries. We don’t think. It is the old reliable business man that they must fall back on after all. Yet we are told the farmer can get along without the business man. It is another concrete evidence of the need of co-operation between town and country. In this section we are blessed with good crops and we do not feel the need of closer co-operation because we have the money to buy what we need, but in west- ern North Dakota and Montana, where the crops are burned up, there is great need of assistance. It was so in the early years and it was in those same lean years that the old timer business man of the state—of Valley City if you please—carried the burden on his back by giving credit to succor those in need. Many of these business men are out of business as a result of their generosity. .We opine that after all the business men of the various communities are not such a bad lot when it comes The germ of the disease epidemic is all the while‘flying about and it is simply the power of re- down to helping out the farmer in time of need, ployment one or more employees; and makes three exceptions and does not include agriculture, domestic service and: common carrier by steam rail- road. . By employee is.meant any person engaged under any. appointment or contract of hire or apprenticeship, ex- press or implied, oral.or written, in- cluding aliens, and also including mi- nors, whether lawfully. or. unlawfully employed, but excluding any person whose: employment is ibut»casual and not in the course of the trade, busi- ness, profession or occupation of his employer, To Create’ Fund. The specific purpose of this law is to create a fund,.. called» the work- men’s compensation fund, from which compensation will be paid to disabled employees, and, if killed, to their de- pendents. It is created by the annu: al premium payments from the em- ployers of the state. very employer, with the exception of those noted above, are required by the act to comply with the require- ments of the North Dakota workmen’s compensation law. That after an ex- haustive search of every source within its power the bureau has establisied a@ mailing list of most all the employ- ers of the state. To each of these employers whose names and addresses have been odtained have been mailed a blank form of application for classi- fication and for premium rating. All employers who have received this ap- plication should complete the same Sleeps Any Old Way Now “I am 50 years old and never was sick until 8 years ago when I got stom ach trouble. I have spent a fortune for medicine which did not cure. 1 kept on suffering and getting worse. A fellow worker told me about ‘Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy. After taking three doses I felt like a different man; before taking it I could not lie on my back nor right side. Now I can sleep any old way.” It is a simple, harm- less preparation that removes the ca- tarrhal mucus .from the intestinal tract and allays the inflammation which causes pragtically all stomach, liver and intestirfal ailments, includ- THE NORTH DAKOTA WORKMEN’S POMEEND TION ACT y ,to create large medical forces to spec COMMISSIONER L. J. WEHE J. Wehe of Devils Lake, North Dakota. | 3 ing appendicitis, One dose will con- are they ?—Valley City Times-Record, REGENT ARE OA ME AARSINTR ISD UIE EEN vince or money refunded. ‘At Drug: gists everywhere, z 3 Pepulation the returns show an extra- ve ovdinary decline in hospital cas June 30, i tion in regard to sailors is important Economically the result of prohibi- the New England evidence entir ferent from the way {it impre: The general idea is that the whose voyage and not ship ag penniless, has been s f folly. Also thot the trouble- some qu m of getting sailors for American ships fs simplified somewhat py this new development, Another person might argue, a the thorst in a mad desire to get arid and benighted country and hop ashore in some joyous land where he can riotot his money holds out. for knowledge led to the of a continent, for adventure has led to many things. ‘A thirst for booze has yet to show its effects and they may be queer when it is appreciated that never until now has a great nation really gone in the water wagon-—a large minority protestingly if not defiantly opposing it. The showing of prohibition's eiTect 1 eases is encouraging but It is but in keeping y great decline in the num- eported by the police in until in the large ci . Most of the emergency cases in hos- pitals have had a relation to liquor. The ambulance was kept busy mostly bringing in gentlemen battered or cut up or wounded in some way in saloon row or from over-indulgence in liquor. The dispensary, too, has had a large patronage from persons in a bad way from overuse of alcohol. The ambulance gong is heard less in elty streets since July 1. Hospital ctficials say if “business” does not pick up they do not know what they wih do. Meanwhile the police continue tu report a small number of arrests night ‘after night and many cells vacant, jhead high. But the narcotic evils sticks its ugly The registration of addicts shows how urgent is the correction of this vile habit. Efforts are under way ialize in this one field and to have and return it to the bureau at once as they are now in default for not having complied with the law; and all those who have not received the application blank form should apply at oace to this ‘bureau for same and immediately fill the same out and re- turn it to the bureau. Provide Information. These completed application forms provide the information from which the bureau classify and rate the em- ployers’ operations and compute the employers advance estimated twelve months’ premium. After this premium is computed, the bureau will ail to the employer. the premium advice sheet and .pay-in-order, which will set forth his classification, payroll, rate and premium which he is to pay into the fund. It is highly imporiant that the employer pay his premium into the fund immediately upon receipt of the foregoing premium advice, statement and pay-in-order.. The longer he neg- lects and waits to pay this in, the ore he lays himself open to the penal- ties and forfeitures provided by the Besides, having no insurance pro- tection until the premium is actually received by the bureau. Anyone wish- ing to obtain the application blanic form may do so by writing to the North Dakota Workmen’s Compensa- tion Bureau, Bismarck, North Dakota. What Determines Amount. ‘We have often ibeen asked what de- termines the amount of the annual premium . each employer will be re- quired to make. There are two things which enter. into this, the amount of his annual: payroll expenditures and the character of his business. A rate has been established for each differ- ent line of business. The rate of each line of business.is determined by the industrial accident hazard of that bus- iness, i. e., a lignite coal operator will have to pay a higher rate than a bank, or a grocery store. For the first year, every employer in the same kind of business will be required to pay the same rate in their first annual premium payment into this fund. Thereafter, they will be merit rated on the basis of the indi- vidual experience cs! each employer as produced. That is, those employers who install safe guards, safety de- vices, have good light, ventilation, and space for their employecs to carry on constructive educational campaigns di- rected to the end of inculcating into their employees habits of care and caution, and as tho result of the fore- going produce a good industrial acci- dent experience and record with the Fund, such employers will subsequent- ly qualify for and receive lower rates than their competitors who fail to in- cur such care and expense and as the result produce a ‘bad record. Catastrophe Insurance. The act provides for a catastrophe: and the maintaining of a solvent fund under all conditions. The act provides for the setting aside of 10 per cent of all the premiums the bureau collects to create a surplus fund. After this surplus fund reaches the amount of $50,000.00, 5 -per cent of the premium payments shall tbe set aside for this fund. It is also further provided that in order to safeguard the fund in its earlier stages, the bureau is given the tight of purchasing catastrophe re- insurance. (To be Continued.) oe (WHAT ONE DRY | | | 2 MONTH DID FOR UNITED STATES | —_—_—__——— > By RICHARD SPILLANE (Noted Economist and Daily Tribune Staff Writer on Economic, Business, Financial Subjects.) Three reactions from prohibition, two favorable one unfavorable are re- purted officially after one month of nation-wide “dryness.” The Emergency Fleet Corporation is authority for the statement that in the New England district it has been much evsier to book seamen since the dry law went into effect.than before. In 14 cities of more than 100,000 'Kospitals devoted to the victims of this degrading vice. FATHER, 13 SONS, ARE SLAIN Two Daughters In French Family Also Killed by Germans—Remar! able Record of War. Paris.—Thirteen sons killed on the field of battle, three discharged with grave injuries, one wounded four dif- ferent times, the father and one daughter summarily shot by the Cer- mans for going to Lille to celebrate the centennial anniversary of a rela- tive, and another daughter killed by a German shell at Dunkirk, is the rec- ord of the family of M. Vanhee, a French farmer of Reminghe, near Ypres. M. Vanhee had 36 children, 22 sons and 14 daughters, all of whom were living when the war broke out. of his sons was valet to Pope Pius X; he returned to France to fight and was wounded in each of four different en- gagements, One of the sons lost both legs, an- other returned from the front blind and deaf, and another underwent the trepanning operation. MORSE CODE SAVES OFFICERS Finds His Belt Has Been Left Un. fastened When Pilot Starts Spec- tacular Spiral. Camp Dix, N. J.—About to be hurl ed from the tonneau of an airplane that was starting a spectacular spiral 8,000 feet over headquarters when he discovered that in making accomoia- tions for a third passenger and a mov: ing picture camera ‘he had forgotten to adjust his own lifebelt, Licut. M. Leroy Wightman saved himself by tapping out a telegraph code message to his driver, Sergt. John Morse. Wightman was hanging on by his feet and one hand, face downward, when he managed to make known his predicament. “Come out,” the officer frantically spelled out by taps on the aluminum body of the plane in dots and dashes, and the driver, catching the message largely through vibration, righted the plane and flew back to the landing field to see what had gone wrong. EIFFEL TOWER ‘DEMOBILIZED’ Will Be Accessible to Tourist Visitors for the First Time Since War Began. Paris.—The Eiffel tower has joined the ranks of the demobilized, its mili- tary job being ended, although its wireless telegraph station will be maintained and indeed strengthened to make it equal to the German post at Nauen. It will be accessible to tourist visitors after being unapproachable for more than four years, During the war a dozen machine guns were mounted on the highest platform as protection against air at- tacks. On the first platform were four- inch guns and searchlights, and later a powerful siren to give warning against air raids. “Flu” Decimates the Congo, Brussels.—Persons arriving here trom the Congo say that Spanish in- fluenza has played havoc among the population of the Belgian Congo terri tories. Many villages have lost nearly one-half of their inhabitants. Vast Storage of Food. Boston.—Despite the exorbitant food prices prevailing, the cold-storage warehouses in this state have reported to the state department of health the storage of 17,750,000 pounds of food during the past month, Tribune Want Adg bring results, On the other hand there is a notice- able inerease reported in the demand for narcoties and stimulants that pro- mise some satisfaction to persons who have been habitual users of alcohol. ‘but there are persons who might judge ‘llowed by grent advances in and rummy | § One| ¢ HIT FOOD PROVTEERS Send Prices Up When Control Is Released. British Parliament Asks Controller for Explanation of Existing Conditions. . London.—Food profiteering 1s caus- ing some anxlous moments among the housewives of England, and thus far prevents the abandonment of the food | control office. Relaxation of control has been fol- many classes of foodstuffs, and by practical withdrawal of others from the mar- ket. ‘he American bacon, for in- tance, recently despised by the aver- age Britisher because it wasn’t of so good a grade as they could get at home in pre-war times—has been | wiped off the counters. It is no exaggeration to say that “pacon hunts” have been general in England these last two weeks or more, When the wife tries in vain among her tradesmen, the husband takes up the search in the downtown districts, where, perhaps, he has in earlier days found a shop or two which would accommodate him in emergencies, Recently G. H. Roberts, the food controller, announced resumption of control of bacon and two or three other food products and the situation has become of such urgency that he hag had to face questioning in parlia- ment. He spoke in a reassuring note, say- ing he saw no reason why there should be shortage of food during the coming winter, as there was prospect for adequate shipping facilities. Doubtless, he added, certain things might be scarce. It is this scarcity at present of certain staple items in the day’s purchase of the average house- hold which has permitted gradual creeping upward in the price lsts, PUT PRICE ON HIS HEAD | ‘@ Weslern Newspaper Union Platton Rozschestevensky, metropol- itan of Odessa, and one of the highest dignitaries of the Russian church, who comes to the United States with an ap- peal for his stricken country. The prelate, who is an avowed enemy of bolshevism, arrived froma Noyoriisk on the “Vladmir” after fleeing Russia be- cause the bolsheviki had placed a price un his‘ head. He wishes the American people to know the real hor- vor of bolshevism, to prevent its spread tn this country. Marine Rookies Shocked hy Customs of Cubans, Guantanamo, Cuba. — Some newly arrived marines at this place are getting their first in- sight into Cuban customs, It is not uncommon to see naked children in the towns about here playing in the streets. Another novel sight 1s the municipal graveyard. Cubans have to pay taxes on the graves of their relutives, and when the taxpayer becomes delinquent the body or bones are exhumed and , thrown in a eommon heap in one corner of the burying ground. The marines are rapidly ac- quiring the notion that Cubans are fresh air fiends. osoCOoOcooernyseaeseeo-> Must Buy Them Now. London.—Owing to the practice of passengers removing the leather win- dow straps for razor strops, British railroads are repzacing these fittings with soft canvas straps. Object to Old Dances, Long Beach, Cal.—Here's an ,argu- ment for shimmy shaking. A protest against old-fashioned dancing at the Ebel club has been filed with the coun- cil, Stamping feet made too much noise, ’tis said, Few, Free From Errors, Why not try to look over the other fellow’s mistakes? We have been making them ever since Grandfather Adam lost his place in the Garden of Eden, 4 «fe ’ a fel q Aiport 4 » 4 » ’ eh? , a i} oN ary