The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 11, 1919, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ec sacar tha onc atic a lid areca ad nan Eatered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN, - - - - - « Séltor Foreign Representatives : G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, wo oye e ® . DETROIT, jarquette 5 Pee eee Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORE, - + 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 cred this paper and also the local news published in, All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail, per year (In Bismarck) Daily by mail, per year (In state outside Bismarck 2 5.00 Daily by mail outaide of North Dakota............ 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER, (Established 1873) <i> a SERVING THE PUBLIC Poor Tom Lee said, “The whole world is crazy.” The whole world said, “Poor Tom Lee is crazy.” Then Tom added, “But, confound it, they out- number me.” When the world says there is something wrong with your ways of doing things or your methods, it is time to do some thinking. The world don’t make its mind up in a minute. Months or years are needed for impressions to crystalize. That is the reason why large manufacturers throughout the country endeavor to keep their fin- gers on the pulse of the public wants so closely. Very often they find people wanting other than what they imagined they would want. But they couldn’t keep up their business if they continued to put out things that weren’t desired, so they just change their sails and get what folks ask for. WHERE ARE THE WAR THRIFT LESSONS? This country is on a magnificent prosperity drunk—pretty must everybody, save the fellow on fixed salary whose nose is on the grindstone of increased taxes and prices of things to eat and to wear. Dealers in jewelry, expensive apparel and food delicacies, throughout the east and middle west, state that the demand for these things is unprece- dented, and the folks don’t care what they have to pay. In the Sunday auto parades at Washington, every third machine contains a family of colored folks, and the records of sales show that wage- earners, all over the country, are going in for auto luxuries. According to the comptroller of the currency, during the past six months charters were granted to 189 new banks while 224 others were authorized to increase their capital. Folks are selling their war bonds and buying luxuries, besides blowing in wage increases. Yes— { Our public debt is approximately 25 1-2 bil- lions, or over $1,000 per capita for every male wage-earner in the country. ‘ _ Any sort of a drunk has an end, sooner or later. The after-effects are well defined—empty purses, headache, nausea, stupor, ugliness. And there is more danger to sound government in a reckless psychological drunk than in any other sort. HOW HE HAS CHANGED An ex-soldier is writing this editorial. He served in France long enough to return with two gold stripes and he was almost as long training in the United States. This is his first day back on the job, after his two-years’ “vacation.” While away, he lived a worriless, abandoned sort of life, as the regular soldier would. The army took care of him in every respect. But he did, once in a while, think of his return to civil life and worried existence—and at the thought he’d immediately go out and look for some distraction. He hated to think of the job he’d have to buck, of the changed times and conditions and even people at home. Now that his army life is past, this ex-soldier finds even these dreads in his worriless army life could have bene foregone. For, lo, he finds the same people waiting for him at home as saw him off two years ago. He learns soon enough that they’re still doing business at the old stand, as ever before. And he sees himself easily gliding into his old job, his old ways, and earlier habits, as if he were absent on only a two weeks’ vacation. The world and people and things in it, it seems to him, have not changed in all the time he was away. But—they say-at home that HE has changed quite a bit. And he wonders how! PASTEBOARD HOUSES NO MORE There appears to be a divine compensation in the way things dovetail together. About the time the fire hazard becomes the national menace, we discover that our timber re- sources are getting exhausted, and that there will be no more cheap lumber for a nation’s homes. While Europe was building for 500 years, America built for five, or for 50 at most. , Lumber was cheap, labor was expensive, ce- ment was not utilized as it is today, and so the shack was the rule rather than the exception. And though we gilded the shack, and dressed it up, and put modern plumbing inside and fancy porches without, and hung gables and porticos and BISMARCK DAIL all manner of expensive frippery about: it, still it remained, fundamentally, a shack that would wear out in a few years, if it did not burn down sooner. So we had the most efficient fire department on earth, and the greatest fire loss on earth, and the biggest insurance business, and some of the most clever arsonists out of prison. And that was an unusual day that did not re- port at least one family burnt to a crisp while it slept. But now we are discovering that it pays to build fireproof homes as well as factories, and that the brick wall, the concrete wall, the metal lath, the slate roof and the stucco finish make for homes that are warm when they should be warm, and cool when they should be cool; the precise re- verse of the shack system, that baked in the sum- mer, and put you into cold storage in the winter. We will pay less for protection and more for masonry; less for pneumonia and more for con- crete basements; less for shingles and more for fireproof roofing, and the average American home will endure long enough to have a few memories and traditions; to become a home. And maybe, when we have real homes that do not require a corps of carpenters to prop up, we will quit moving every May day and stick in one neighborhood long enough to plant a rose and pick its bloom. *TWOULD BE A RARE PERFUME Our European cousins have made fame and fortune by their success in imprisoning the scents of fruits and flowers. The arts of the perfumer have for ages given joy to most of us; though we admit that some of the scents and unguents af- fected by the average movie damsel, the one who sits beside you, not the one of the screen, do not add to our heart’s ease. e But anyway, perfume is a great institution. , But how much greater would be the perpetua- tion of real scents rather than the insipid smells of mere flowers. Suppose, for a quarter, you could get half an ounce of the essence of pork chop. Suppose you could lay this delight away in your shirt drawer, and, for months, carry with you the aroma of wealth, to the envy of your asso- ciates. What would it mean to the chicory inflicted public if it could buy for a few paltry dollars the essence of real coffee? Not to quaff, just to sniff; think of the impression one would make who flour- ished a handkerchief tinged with the faint aroma of real java. A And the perfume of liver and onions, to be used on your fur ear tabs on a January morning. And the gracious scent of two new laid eggs, fried in a pool of sweet bacon fat. But why pursue these will o’wisp, haunting memories further? : Here indeed. is a new field for the talent of American science and genius. Attar of roses and the flavor of woodland violets would seem tame, insipid and weak indeed beside such wonders} asthese. And how much more enjoyable the near meals we eat would seem if under our noses we held vials with the scent of real food oozing from them. [winrar eprrors | This should receive the immediate attention and best endeavor of the academy of science; or anyway, the cooks’ and waiters’ union. News should be breaking soon. Friend Lemke has been hovering about the capitol for these last four days. THE COST OF LIVING Commanding first attention amid the hour, the plea of the nation that the cost of living be lowered stands out above the race riots, the strikes and the controversy over the league of nations. Congress and the president have heard the call to the extent that one is giving “deep and very thoughtful consideration” and the other is pass- ing resolutions and starting new investigations of the cost of living. The one is as barren of prac- tical results as the other. Something else must be done. ~ What it shall be no one seems to know. ‘Incomes don’t meet expenses now and yet raise of pay is counteracted by raise of the cost of food and clothing and the necessities of life. The cost keeps pace with the wages and nowhere is there room for the saving that will insure the return of that financial margin among the people which is essential to good citi- zenship. If these persistent increases in all costs are the result of economic conditions then congress does right to direct its prompt action to shaping laws which will cure them. If they are the result of criminal collusion and private profiteering then there is a better and a swifter cure than that. Then it is time for another branch of the govern- ment to get busy. Of panaceas there are many offered by as vari- ous a crowd of healers. They range from suasion to revolution and none seems effective. Out of the bounty of the nation, its great harvests and its busy mills, there surely is enough to go around to all at fair prices and ample measure. If selfish- ness and greed diverts some, if manipulation makes other scarce, if waste destroys more, then these are criminal practices that it is the function of a democratic government to wipe out. A sure- fire plan to do it is what the nation wants and has ‘i wing WASHINGTON.—“Lloyd George,” “Clemenceau,” “Orlando” and “Wilson” are going to do a lot to aid in the obtaining of a bridge across the Tombigbee River on the Dixie Highway. The birds mentioned, however, happen to be roosters confined in four of the cages here pictured, and not the distinguished statesmen whose names they bear. The roosters will be sold at auction. Presi- dent Wilson, with Senator Bankhead of Alabama, at his right, was inspecting his namesake when the photographer arrived. GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP BY F. G. RB. (Mr. Gordon is secretary of the Anti . GORDON. Socialist League of America, and an authority on public ownership questions.) The demand of organized labor, ledby the railroad brotherhood, for the Solicitation of $18,000,000,0000 worth of private property calls for the most serious consideration. Government ownership of railways is not a new scheme, it has been tried out in many countries, and always with FAILURE. The socialized railroads of Europe and the Australian states are character- ized by very’ poor service, high freight rates, low wages, loss of taxes and politicalization. Italy under private ownership, enjoyed good service; the nation received \xes and the owners dividends, Under socialization, since 1905 she has had rotten service, no taxes, high rates, and has lost about $40,000,000 a year. The Austrian railways under public ownership are worse. In Austria the freight rates are three times as high as- they are in this ecuntry, the wages are 35 per cent less, the service is poor, there are no toxes for the states and the annual losses reach nearly fifty million dollars, Under private ownership we enjoyed the cheapest fr@ight rates in the| world with the highest wages. Freight rates in 1870 averaged 1.889 cents per ton per mile; in 1910 they had been reduced to .72 cents per ton per mile, yet during that period we increased the wages of railway employes by one dollar a day. The charge has been made that our railways are over-capitalized. As a matter of fact they are under-capitalized. While our roads were constructed | by labor that was paid more than double wages of like kind of labor in Evrope, yet, our lines are capitalized at only one-half the sum that those sccialized lines are. The following table shows this: Germany (Socialized) capitalization per mile ....... France (5,600 miles, socialized) capitalization per mile Italy (Socialized) ~Capftalization er mile . Belgium (Socialized) capitalization per mile Austria (Socialized) ¢apitalization per mile ..... Switzerland ‘(Socialized) capitalization per mile . Russia (Socialized) ‘capitalization per mile . United States (Private owned) at present .. Now look at the freight rates the year befo! + +6 $120,355 | 155,000 conditions. | Country. Rates per ton per mile. Germany . «i++ -L87 ednts, France . 1.31 cents Russia . . 94 cents Austria 1.51 cents, Belgium ......... 13 cents United States .... +++ 72 cents If in 1916 the people of this nation had been forced to pay the German rates for freight transportation our freight bill that year would have been five million dollars a day more than it was, ' Good service is far more important even than rates, and, although the socialized railways give the very worst service in the world yet, they cost the people the highest rates, Every public owned railway in the world is Politicalized from end to end, and because of this the service is rotten. We tried public management for the full year of 1918, and we have paid dearly for our plunge into socialistic control. Our transportation bill for 1918 exceeds that of 1917 by TWO BILLION DOLLARS, AND THIS TWO BILLION DOLLARS HAS BEEN ADDED TO EVERYTHING YOU AND I BUY. Moreover the service has deteriorated from the first, as every shipper and traveling man will admit. In their demands for the socialization of this vast property, the brother- hoods assert that the railways have been run for the benefit of the few, and they say that with ‘socialization they will be run for the benefit of the many. A greater untruth was never uttered. More than a million men and women are owners today of the stocks and bonds of the railways, and five his workmen, and took up his library \hobby in a wholesale way by giving $5,200,000 to New York City for the erection of sixty-five branch libraries in the metropolis. Another million ‘he gave for a library in St. Louis. “IT have just ‘begun to give money away,” he said in announcement of these gifts. He kept it up as fast as he could with discrimination. On li- braries alone he spent upwards of $53,000,000. He gave them to some two thousand English speaking com- munities throughout the world. One of his libraries in the Fiji Islands! He Remembered Pittsburgh. He remembered Pittsburgh, the scene of his steelmaking triumphs, by establishing there a great institute, including the largest of his libraries, a museum, a magnificent concert hall, and the Carnegie Technology schools, with a total endowment of $16,000,- 000. He built a great national institution in Washington, which should be the fountain head of advanced: work in “investigation, research and discov- ery,” and placed in the hands of its trustees’ a total endowment of some 20,000,000. ‘ To his native Scotland his largest single gift was a fund of $10,000,000 to aid education. in Scottish universi- ties. He carried out -his pet idea of a Hero Commission, endowed in 1905 with $5,000,000 by which hundreds of ;men, women and children have ‘been rewarded with Carnegie medals’ or pensions, for acts of heroism; in.the rescue of imperilled persons, He, lat- er extended similar benefactions. to several foreign countries, He established the Carnegie Found- ation for the Advancement of Teach- ing, with a total fund of $15,000,000, which has taken up efficiency surveys of educational work, aided. many, in- stitutions, and provided.pensions for college professors. In 1911.he. capital- ized his educational benevolence, so that his gifts to libraries, colleges, and other institutions, should live af- ter him, by establishing the Carnegie sorporation with a fund of $25,000,- 000. Would Have Banned War. ‘One of his latest and greatest ideals was the.abolition of war, a hope that he cherished in the face of interna- tional conflicts. He gave $10,000,000 toward an international peace fund, and built the peace palace at The Hague, which was dedicated in 1913. He gave $750,000 for the Bureau of American Republics at Washington. ONY NENORY OF TROUBLE 1 LEFT ‘Mrs. Hatlem Was All Rundown: For Many Years—Tanlac Brought Relief. “Tanlac has done me so much good that I am feeling more like myself than for a long, long time,” said Mrs. Andrew Hatlem, of 3845 22 1-2 avenue, South Minneapolis, Minn., to a Tan: lac representative, the other day. “My trouble was a generally run down condition,” continued Mrs, Hat- lem, “‘and I had been suffering for a good many years. I had a very poor appetite and I ‘never felt like eating any more than just enough to keep me alive'and it just looked like the little I. did eat soured and formed gas and this gas pressed so rae my heart that I sometimes had dif_fi- ulty in breathing. I was troubled with terrib.e headaches, too, and at times they were so bad that it just felt like my head would split and I had aches and pains all over my body and was so weak and in so much misery some- times that I just dragged around the house at my work. I also suffered a great deal from constipation and dizzy spells and felt so tired and restless at night that I would simply lie awake for hours at a time not able to sleep a wink and my nerves were in a bad condition, too. I took a lot of medi- cine and treatments for my trouble, ‘but nothing I did or took seemed to help me one bit until I began taking Tanlac. m “I had read about Tanlac and how it was helping others, so I decided to try it myself and I am certainly glad I did, because it began to help me almost from the beginning. My appe- tite got better and. I commenced : to pick up strength and my whole sys- tem seemed to be benefitted and I kept on improving right along until now I have a fine appetite and can eat just anything I want and I never have a particle of trouble with gas. any more. All I have of those miserable headaches is just the memory of them and those dizzy spells have left me entirely and;I can sleep just like a lit- tle child the! whole night through and am feeling so good every way now that I can do all my own housework and never feel any more tired than a per- son naturally would under the same circumstances. Tanlac certainly has helped me a lot and I am glad to rec- ommend it to others for that reason.” Tanlac is sold in Bismarck by Jos. Breslow; in Driscoll by N. D. and J. H. Barrette and in Wing by F. 'P. Ho- man. 5 Advt. Or will the elevators be located else- where, say at Minot, and wheneyer. wheat is needed at this. mill. for ex- perimental purposes, a few carloads cau easily be shunted down from Mi- not, : Drake, as you know, was one of the towns that. switched its vote last June. The promise of the‘ terminal. elevator! and mill did it. I regard this deal.with suspicion; we purchase) what ‘we. al-. ready have, but change its manage-\ ment. from ‘a very high-grade ‘private’ ownerst ip to a political-one for exper-_ imental purposes. >i!) + arn af Yours very truly, . _ i ‘A READER.‘ SPECIAL’ SESSION DOPE ALL WRONG, SAYS FRAZIER: (Continued from Page 1) that he resented interruption. Be -that~ as it may, the reporter; gained in some subtle manner the impression that he was not welcome, that the governor had_no intention. of: asking him to stay for dinner, and he regretfully excused himself. : ‘May Have Some Fears. The. governor,’ in promising Mes- dames O'Neill and South and Miss Shuler a special session. which would ratify the suffrage amendment, if he aid make such promise, as the press was assured in his office only a minute or two following his confer- ence with these ladies, some weeks equip hundreds of churches and insti-|or Ray, as the Associated Press re- tutions with pipe organs. He: never ports aver, that a special: session gave directly any large sum to relig-|would be necessary. in the near fu- fous purposes. Of his organ gifts he]ture for the purpose of affording 're- said he would hold himself responsibie|jief to drouth-stricken farmers, it His love of music moved him tolago; and if he did state at Williston . and if by any possibility there is an; the puble and themselves. ANDREW CARNEGIE, MAN WHO GAVE MILLIONS, DIES AT SUMMER HOME (Continued From Page One.) kind. This is the true antidote to un- equal. distribution and would pave the way for the communist ideal in the yet unevolved futuré’ He must con- sider his surplus trust funds as held for the community, and the best means of distribution is by giving free libraries, parks, works of art, and pub- lic institutions of various kinds. “The rich man my ‘experience the stimulus of being in debt by anticipat- ing income in works for the general good an davoiding all forms of extray- agance and ostentation. Death du- ties and inheritance taxes, provided they are high enough, should ‘be con- sidered among the wisest forms of taxation.” In 1887. “Carnegie married Louise Whitford of New York. They had one daughter, Margaret. - Began Race Against Time. Andrew Carnegie began a race against time when, in 1901, at the age of sixty-five, he resolved to give away his enormous fortune. He held it “disgraceful” for a man to keep on gathering idle millions. In the com- paratively few years which the act- uary could allow him, he would dis- embarrass himself of practically all he had. No man had ever launched a philanthropic campaign of such di- mensions. ‘His was then a fortune of just about a quarter Dillion dollars, the largest ever acquired by a foregn-born not.—Aberdeen American, American. second only to the John D. Rockefeller wealth as the largest \ \ ~ million more are directly) interested through the investment of their savings in railway property; twenty-five millions worth of railway wealth. Now, what the trainmen are after is an increase in wages of $1,000,000,000 y profits, after all expenses are paid, including about four per cent to capital, they are willing to divide this with. THE SOCIALIZATION OF THE RAILWAYS WOULD BE A GIGANTIO CRIME AGAINST THE ECONOMIC WELFARE OF ALL THE PEOPLE. individual occumulation in the Unit- ed States, and, ‘built, as it was, of five Per cent steel bands, it would, with- out so much as turning over one’s hand, have approached half a billion by the time Carnegie could call him- self an octogenarian on November 25, 4915, ; To give this stupendous sum away, in about half the time he had taken to gather it, was a purpose Carnegie had fairly well fulfilled when deatia over- jtook him today. He had distributed about $300,000,000, It was giving mon- ey away at the rate cf over $20,000,- ae @ year, or more than $50,000 a ay. More Difficult to Give. He declared, when he gave up gath- ering wealth and announced an era of distribution, that he expected to find it more difficult to give his mil- lions away that it had been to acquire them. “How would you give $300,000,- 0CO away?”. became such a popular query that an English advertiser who employed it, received no less than 45,000 suggestions as to how Carnegie could rid himself of his wealth. Twelve thousand persons solved the Problem in part by asking for some of the money for themselves. self gave and backed up with his mil- lions have made ‘him the most orig- inal if not the greatest of philanthrop- ists, Eefore he sailed for Scotland in 1901 ‘he left letters announcing giits of $9,000,000. His first big gift was the setting aside of $4,000,000 to sup- ply pensions and relief for the in- jured and aged employees of his steel Plants—“an acknowledgment of the deep debt which I owe to the work- The answers which Carnegie him-|- for what the organ pealed forth.on the Sabbath, but not for what might be said in the pulpit. One of his very earliest gifts, as far back as 1891, was the Carnegie Music hall in New York, ati a cost of $2,000,000, and as presi- dent of the New York Philharmonic Socfety he spent his money liberally in furthering its’ ideals. He also lib- erally backed the Pittsburgh orches- tra, To the Allied Engineers’ societies he Bove $2,000,000. His small gifts to colleges amounted to some $20,000,- 000. No man left at his death such an unique and such a scattered series of monuments to perpetuate his. mem- ory. / PEOPLE'S FORUM | THE DRAKE MILL Drake, N. D., Aug. 6, 1919. Bismarck Tribune, Bismarck, N. D. An item in today’s Minot paper states that yesterday “the industrial commission authorized the purchase of the Drake flour mills at a price of $20,000, to be operated by the Mill and Elevator association for experimental purposes”—that citizens of Drake agreed to take $36,000 of Mill and Ele- yator bonds. Our committee was called to ‘Bis- marck yesterday and has not yet re- turned. You will, of course, believe me when I say that I am not on the inside. I know very little of this transaction. The mill people here are friends of mine, and clients, and I have therefore kept out of the deal. I just want to suggest to you that this looks to me like a shell game. If the report is true that the mill was purchased for experimental purposes— with money taken from the people of Drake—what have the people here gained? We have had a very good will. Our flour has been as-good as any made anywhere and considerably better than most flour. Our trade runs to all towns on the Svo line branches, The mill was a big asset and the mill- ers Owning it made it so. We are now men who have contributed so greatly to my success.” He added an extra million for the support of libraries for to have a state mill for experimental purposes. i I Do we also get terminal elevators? en ENTERS NI RTARTA NAA ETT TT A RLS TT TNT ETT ES seems apparent from his rather heated remarks this morning that he did not then speak advisedly. It has been an open secret that Mr. Townley and his cohorts of the Non- partisan league fear the women’s vote in North Dakota more. than anything else on earth. They had a sample of the women’s vote last fall, when in spite of all their concentrated attacks ou Miss Nielson, she was elected state superintendent of public instruction by a majority of more than 8,000, Altho the league press has scrupulously re- frained from giving its readers one word of the proceedings at the state house last week, when Townley’s few board of administration violated all pre-referendum <election.:, promises by stripping Miss Neilson’s office of every sbred of authority, Townley knows that this news will get.to the people, and that the women, and particularly the real suffrage leaders of the state will rise in revolt, ite ‘ May Be Correct Dope. So this last outpouring of truth from Governor Frazier, to the effect that he never promised a special session to the suffrage-leaders, nor tothe farmers at Ray or Williston, may be correct and final dope direct from headquarters, | and there may be no extraordinars gs- scmbly of the North Dakota legislature which would face the problem of rati- fymg the national suffrage amend- ment and giving the women of North Dakota a voice in the next general election, when the Nonpartisan league will be placed on: trial, or of flatly going on record as opposed to woman suffrage. Motors to Bismarck. J. W. Rodgers, a retired farmer of McKenzie, was in Bismarck Saturday. Mr. Rodgers motored to the city. AY FEVER gg" Melt VapoRub in a spoon and inhale the vapors, MACKS YArOe \ ; { i