The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 7, 1919, Page 4

THE BISMARCK’ TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bistiatck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. Ws die GEORGE D. MANN, - - - - - * Editor Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, CHICAGO, * ® . . Marqust Bid Kresge Bid tte a . = . . ge lg. bua PAYNE, BURNS AND 8MITH NEW YORK, - + 1 + __ Fifth Ave. Bldg. 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 published ein, All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year. 7. Daily by mail, per year (In Bismarck). order to determine their ‘ca prevention.” Hi The money appropriated is to be spent by and under the direction of the U. S. Public Health Service, the medical departments of army and navy, and such other public and private labora- tories as may have facilities for assisting in the work, It doesn’t matter who finds the offending germ, nor who discovers the method of prevention or cure. The main point is to do it. And, if we wish to save the lives of millions of human beings, the discovery of the bacillus and preventive and curative methods must come use and) methods of 0 | quickly. These will come more quickly if your congress Daily by mail, per year (In state outside Daily by_mail outside of North Dakota. THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER, (Established 1873) i> A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH FOR HUMAN BEINGS A measure of vital concern to every human being in this country is under consideration in con- gress today. It is the bill appropriating $5,000,- 000 for the investigation of influenza, its cause, prevention and cure. Nothing this congress has to deal with is of greater importance to the men, women and children of America. We all remember without an effort the dark- ness and terror which engulfed the land last fall and winter as death stalked swiftly from seaboard to seaboard, into crowded city and unto lonely plain, sparing not the cottage of the poor nor the mansion of the rich. enza claimed a half million lives, and pressed millions of others onto beds of sickness, suffering and helplessness. The nation’s mortality rate leaped high and with astounding speed. The nation was unprepared to cope with a dis- ease calamity such as it had never known. Not even the most learned of bacteriologists could tell a stricken world what manner of germ it was which reaped so heavily of life. Nor could the wisest of health officials tell a frightened humanity how to avoid the germ, un- known and unexplainable. Preventive methods they advised were many, and mostly these were founded upon hope, built of good wishes, and to this day there is no exact indication of the success or failure of the “flu” mask, the thousand and one sprays, swabs and washes, nor even of the efficacy of the city-wide quarantine. At the outset of the influenza pandemic we were told that the disease was caused by the In four short months influ-| , appropriates the necessary money, at once, with- out unnecessary delay. CONGRESS HAS NOTHING MORE IMPOR- TANT ON ITS HANDS. That means, the congressman from this dis- trict, and the senators from this state have noth- ing more important on hands than this “flu” bill. They may not realize this. DO YOU? If you do, and you fear they don’t why not sit down and write them letters, or telegraph them, making sure that they shall know that YOU real- ize the dire need of an early started influenza investigation? Garbai of Hungary killed himself after deliver- ing a speech against the soviet government, thus saving Bela Kun’s troops a round of ammunition. These revelations about brutal treatment of doughboy prisoners are going to make shoulder bars unpopular as political platforms. THE I. W. W. LOSING GROUND A careful study of the Industrial Workers of the World, made by Dr. Paul F. Boissenden, special welcome. The author finds the beginnings of the movement in the anarchistic socialism of the Hay- market bomb plots, in Debs’ American Railway Union and in Haywood’s Western Federation of Miners. The I. W. W. has gained no ground of late in the ranks of labor. The number of labor organiza- tions avowing or following the false gods of syn- dicalism and direct action, is less now in this Pfeiffer bacillus. And before 500,000 AMERI- CANS WERE IN THEIR GRAVES we were as- sured by an overwhelming majority of bacteriolo- gists that this particular bacillus was innocent of influenza whatever else it might be guilty of. We were no nearer a solution then ‘than: we were at the beginning when the epidemic first overwhelmed Boston. Being at a loss as to what bacillus caused in- fluenza, not the most experienced of our physi- cians could with any marked degree of assurance promise a stricken patient a remedy. As we guessed at the cause and the prevention 8o we guessed at the cure. Result: Six hundred thousand influenza cof- fins in ten months, and unknown millions of per- sons left easier preys of other disease germs, The country’s financial loss is another matter of guesswork. It has been estimated at several billion dollars. And only five MILLION dollars are asked for this proposed investigation! More has been spent on studying diseases of hogs. More has been spent in subduing the boll wee- vil, the cinch bug and the army worm. We know little or nothing about influenza. Once we called it “Russian” influenza because it appeared in Russia before it did here. Next time we called it “Spanish” influenza because it found victims in Spain before it came to America. We don’t know when it started, nor where, nor how, and for all we know it may come at any time and at any place. But we DO KNOW that when it comes it leaves behind it a death toll greater than war, heavier than any other modern disease scourge. And, further, we DO KNOW that there are recurring waves of influenza, often for years after the initial appearance of the epidemic. This is as sure as the rising and setting of the sun, the ebb and flow of the tide. Not a physician in all the world will say that he is sure there will be no recurring epidemic of influenza in this country this fall and winter. Every doctor will tell you, “There may be another epidemic!” A large proportion of our leading phy- sicians insist, “There WILL be another wave of influenza epidemic this fall and winter.” So let us get ready. By getting ready wisely, effectively and uni- versally, we may prevent the recurrence, or we may lessen the number of stricken or the severity 4 the visitation, and fewer influenza patients will ie. If congress enacts the Harding-Fess influenza bill, and does it immediately, this nation is launch- ed upon a preparedness movement which is certain tain to bring us nearer an influenza solution than cent of the original membership enrolled in the I, W. W. has remained there, and the numerical strength of the I. W. W. compared with the whole number of labor organizations is insignificant. Its-membership is only four-tenths of one per cent of the total number of workers gainfully employed in this country. The members rounded up from agent of the Department of Labor, is timely and|. country than twenty years ago. Only seven per) PROMINENT IN THE PUBLIC EYE MANN TAKES IN $ Aug. 7.—Fred P. Mann, who built a $600,000 a year Dus- iness in a small town, is in St. Paul. He was the guest of honor of St. Paul jobbers and manufacturers at a dinner at the Minnesota club Thurs- day night—a testimonial to the man j St. Paul, Minn, who is unselfishly Northwestern merchanis grasp the opportunities made him one of the most successful retailers in the United States. The Secret. Fred Mann's store Is,in Devils Lake, N. D., a town of 5,500 inhabitants. “How do you do it?” the Daily News asked him. how t time to time are for the most part temporary. They are responsive to the influence of agitators, but do not remain of like mind. Dr. Boissenden says that syndicalism is an at- tempt to build up mutually exclusive trade inter- ests and control. It is an appeal to class conscious- ness. Its greatest error is not economic, however, but ethical. It aims to ground society on mutual rivalry, hostility and hatred, instead of community of in- terests, fellowship and co-operation. No scheme of industrial reorganization can hope for much success, if it does not show the evident purpose to cherish the moral values of society and to further the spirit of co-operation in industry. No perma- nent gain can come from an appeal to class in- terest.—Minneapolis Journal. LAST OF THE MINSTRELS George Primrose was perhaps the last survivor of the old style song and dance man. He was a favorite with New York minstrel going audiences more than a quarter of a century ago, when black face entertainments were at the height of their popularity, and through his yearly tours of the larger cities of the country he won much the same favor throughout the United States. But the peculiar form of entertainment in which Primrose excelled had had its day years before his death. There is now in existence not a single big combination of black face artists such as made up the old time minstrel show. The won- derful drops for the opening act, the high silk hats and long drab overcoats for the “unparalleled daily street procession,” the banjos, bones and tambourines of the end men went into storage years ago. The entertainers, the sweet voiced tenors, the negro comedians, and the buck and wing and the jig dancers have largely become de- serters to the vaudeville stage. Primrose was one of the last to give up, but he spent several years either as an individual entertainer or as the director of a dancing team before his retirement from the stage. Minstrelsy has done its full share in making the world forget its cares and troubles; it enlisted in its service at some time in their career many men who afterward became America’s foremost comedians. So distinguished an actor as Joseph Jefferson was not averse to expr2ssing indebted- ness to his early “burnt cork days” as training for the success he later attained. we now are. If money is necessary, let us spend more than a few paltry million. It is lives we are saving, not dollars. The Harding-Fess measure provides for an in- vestigation “of influenza and allied diseases in Vaudeville has been the greatest gainer by the decay of black minstrelsy; but there are still old timers who will question if the modern theater- “I can tell you ig one word,” Mr. Mann replied. “That deing—?” “ADVERTISE,” he said. Of course, that must be qualified. The ‘advertis- ing ust be constructive and truth-' ful. “Our newspaper advertising is as extensive as we can make it with the ly. We never miss an issue. We also aise 10 weekly newspapers in small towns nearby. Just how did you come to find the value of newspaper advertising?” he was asked. Started on Credit. bought on credit in St. Paul, a news- a little advertisement for you.’ he suggested. ‘Can't afford it,’ I said. ‘If won’t ‘cost you anything,’ he counter- ed. SHOWING. THAT THE SPRINKLING HAD NOT BEEN CONFINED TO THE THREE OR FOUR FeeT THES SiDCwAcK BESIDES" goers have been wholly benefited by the change.— New York Sun. i teaching other; that have} paper man came to me. ‘Let me run! it doesn’t more than pay for itself, it} STREET, BUT HAD INCLUDED But Not in the Public Stomach 600,000 A YEAR IN TOWN SMALLER THAN BISMARCK; NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING DOES IT 1 “I advertised in his paper. My stock ; began moving. It’s been moving ever | Since.” | The difference between Mr. Mann and some other successful men is that ; Mr. Mann makes no effort to hide the secrets of his success. ave a chance to do,” seems to be his motto. So when North Dakota retail- ers elected him president of their or- ganization, he spent the best part of a year seeking the cause of retail troubles. Since then, he has spent jthe best part of a number of years }aelping them overcose their troubles. Spreads Gospel of Advertising. He goes from town to town, from istate to state, advising merchants to jadvertise, then advertise some more. | And so convincing are his arguments }—so well backed up by facts and fig- ures—that he leaves a well-marked tra!l of better advertising and better { merchandising behind him. “We manage to keep our name al- i newspapers at our disposal. In our/ most constantly before nearly every! CoRVinced a lot of people of this fact.” town we have two dailies and a week-} newspaper reader in our territory,” he jcontinued. “We don’t believe in little jtwo inch cards. Advertising should jee big—should catch the eye every | day. | “We make a splurge at the time of our annual anniversary sale in De- cember. Last year we took FOUR “When I started out in Devils Lake| PAGES in our daily. Our sale was county. with a little $1,600 stock of groceries! more successful than it had ever been, took up the personal assessments and by half. This year we'll take stfll more space.” Mail Order Competition. “How about beating the mail order houses?” “Our newspaper copy may ibe broad- ‘ly divided into three classes—special EVERETT TRUE, ARRESTED ON A CHARGE OF BEATING UP A SPRINKLING WAGON DRIVER, WAS RELEASED ON THE _ GooD GNOUGH Dossons 'Em!! JEST THE WAY THEM ORIVERS ‘HAS DONG AS CONG ASX CN REMEMBER " OF “What Mann has ‘done man should} wi mn WZ SATIERTIEND — AFTER PHOTO BY +n P sales or bargains, seasonable goods and anti-mail order. The first two classes are not so very much out of the ordinary. But the copy with which we counter the mail order houses is, I believe, somewhat different from what most country merchants use. We are ! careful never to attack the mail order house, never to show the public the “evil” as an evil, never to decry the people who’ buy from a catalog. There has been too much of that, and too little advertising that gets to the bot- tom of the question. Advertises his Reasons. “The reason why people in North Dakota purchase of a Chicago house is that they believe they can save money. We show them by our adver- tising that our prices are lower than mail order prices for the same goods. And we made the direct self-interést appeal by showing them just how we devote our earnings to local enter- prises and local investments. “And we carefully avoid any taint of self-righteousness. It is our inter- | -t+ to do these things at home, we wv. plain, and it is no* the interest of the 1out of town concern. We emphasize that this reinvestment of profits in|~ Devils Lake and the surrounding com- munities makes our territory a better Place to live in.. Gradually we have COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FINISH EQUALIZATION The county commissioners have practically completed their work on equalizing the tax assessments in this Yesterday the commissioners the elevators, which is the last on the list, it is said. It is not expected that there will be any changes in the assessments of city property after the city commissioners finish the work by the county officials, The county officers finished the equal- ization of grain elevator assessments Flowers Delivered the Same Day Anywhere—North, South, East, West. Our connection with -florists in every part of the United States and Canada enables us to take your order for flowers for anyone in any city for any occa- sion and to have them delivered to any address on a few hours’ notice. It often happens that you are unable to attend or have over- looked some event. Is there any- thing better than flowers to rep- resent you? Just place your order with us and the telegraph does the rest. “Say it with Flowers” HOSKINS, Inc. BISMARCK, N. D. where they found a great deal of dis- crepancies, The revised assessments for the en- tire county will not be arrived’ at for ten days or two weeks, according to T. F, Flaherty, county auditor. His office is now at work reducing the as- sessments on farm property following average of $14.20 an acre. GRASSHOPPERS HAVE CUT CROP PROSPECTS Scott W. Derrick, superintendent of the Soo railroad at Bismarck, returned yesterday afternoon from a trip over the southern part of the line with the report that the small grain crop is not as good as the farmers originally expected. Grasshoppers exacted a severe toll from farmers in the southern part of the state, according to Mr. Derrick, who went as far as Wishek. Rust is also causing damage. Mr. Derri{k said that he understood the farmers did not start early enough to fight the grass- hoppers nor did they keep up their fight with sufficient consistency. ENTERS ON VACATION. Miss Esther Munson, stenographer in the Soo offices, went on a two weeks’ vacation yesterday. Miss Munson will spend some time in the Twin Cities. S..W. Spurzen of Minneapolis is ‘tak- ing her place, - ‘ i ay Optimistic Thought. When sovereigfity is divided it is wery casily destroyed. : OOS ToLadies Who are Stout Fat is fatal to health and beauty. Reduce weight sensibly and easily; im- piers your health and figure. Avoid eart trouble, wrinkles, nervousness, weaknesses, etc.,- besides personal em: barrassment, due to obesity. Look and feel younger. Walk sprightly. Let your eyes marie with new fervor. Surprisg and delight you! friends. Be a a Tyaint ee Go to the druggist, get a small bor of oil of korein (capwiles) and follow, directions of the korein system. Re: duce 10 to 60 pounds under guarantee. Eat all you need (including some candy, if desired) while reducing. ;Don’t bother about. going through tiresome exercises or following rules of starvation diet. Why not become slen- der without drastic drugs, wo. and self-denial? Here’s your cheac: DEPOSITS THE STATE SAVE YOUR PENNIES . SECURED BY OUR PARTICIPATION IN: DEPOSITORS. GUARANTY FUND the cut from $18.08 an acre to an . Don’t think you have to wait until you have ac- cumulated a large amount before you can start a savings account. Begin by saving your pennies, and when you have a dollar, start an account at the Bismarck Bank with it. The first penny saved is an excellent example for the other 99 cents. Come in and talk over the many unusual feat- ures of our service with the officers of this bank. We will be glad to meet you and talk over your business problems with you. If you start an ac- count at our bank, your money will not only be secured against fire or burglary, but it will be earning interest for you and also helping you learn to save systematically. THE BISMARCK BANK - Bismarck North Dakota Pay yp os ~ é \ Pu a ie ie i A. ‘ fd h ‘ 7