The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 20, 1919, Page 4

FOUR: BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUND TAROr LAY AON ai WEDNESDAY: ‘AUG,"20, 1919 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN, - - - - - » Eéditor Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, OBICAGO, | "DETROIT, Marquette . Coon ae) Kresge Bldg. PA’ , BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORE, ieee ORES 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 Fs ted im this paper and also the local news published All Tights, of publication of special dispatches herein are reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (In Bismarck). 1.20 Daily by mail, per year (In state outside Bism: 5.00 Daily by_mail outside of North Dakota...........- 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER, (Established 1873) i> “NATURAL” Senator Reed says that it is foolish to attempt to do anything to remedy the high cost of living; that it is caused by the operation of natural laws. Measures intended to better conditions are dangerous, the senator insists, because they “dis- turb the natural economic tendencies.” If we let “natural laws” have their way, with- out attempting to better conditions, civilization might as well throw up the job. An influenza epidemic is “natural.” quakes, floods and fires are “natural.” Food shortages, difficulties in transportation, human greed, extravagance—all these are “nat- ural.” But is that any reason why we should abruptly surrender to “nature” without a fight? Earth- FEEDING THE PEOPLE AND SEEDING THEM One of the prime factors in the high cost of foodstuffs is the cost of producing food. And on the cost of food production in the United States there is no accurate information in the possession of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, or con- gress, There always has been more or less guess- ing at it, even when we were fixing wheat prices. American farmers long have demanded gov- ernmental statistics on food production costs, in- sisting that until such costs were known there could be no fair price fixing, and that until the cost of food producing is known there is no way in which the consumer may learn how much more than the cost of production he pays at the market. Congress was asked to appropriate an adequate sum for cost of production investigations—and congress handed out $23,873, not enough to find out the cost of producing canary feed! And in the same breath appropriates $358,980 for free seeds, a cheap bait with which some con- "|monly were sold in the public squares of old market Any such objection without doubt could be over- come by the introduction of a bill providing also for the restoration of his ducking-stool for scolds. This form of punishment went out of fashion in the early part of the 18th century, though it was used occasionally so late as the 19th, and is still employed rarely in Delaware and Maryland. It is not more than 100 years since wives com- towns in England. The ducking-stool was a chair with the legs sawed off (such as often now is used in the stern of a row-boat for the convenience of women pas- sengers), secured to one end of a plank, balanced, like a teeter, upon a post set into the ground, ofter. under water, over which the stool was suspended by means of a weight attached to the other end of the plank, hanging over the land. The scold was tied in the chair, and by releasing the weight she was dipped in the water, to the waist or the chin, according to the depth of it. Sir Walter Scott tells of a similar engine of punishment, known as the “cucking-stool,” the castigator, tumbrel, trebuchet, and often, “not so correctly,” the ducking-stool. In this the offen- ders were fastened, usually in front of the doors of their houses, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, “and sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked.” Not only scolds but dishonest tradesmen (the English’ term for storekeepers) were punished in the cucking-stool; and in these days of much talk about “profiteering” there would seem to be spe- cial reason for putting it in service again. Wilson can’t do anything for the railroad men until they recognize the authority of their offi- cials. He has tried that on Mexico. Let us deal fairly; let us think calmly; let us speak softly. But let us build battleships faster than any other nation can build them. It is against the law to take an unreasonable profit. You don’t know what an unreasonable CHANGE IN LOOKS SURPRISED. THEN People Astonished by Big Improve- ment Shown by E. G. Bates After He Takes Tanlac. “A number ‘of people who ride my car every day have asked me what I've ‘been doing to cause such a won- derful change in my condition, and all the boys. who work forthe com: pany say they never saw me looking So well,” said EB, G. Bates, a popular street car motorman, living at 1108 ‘North Park street, Bloomington, III. in relating his experience with Tan- lac, recently. . “Well, it is astonishing,” he con- tinued, “how Tanlac has put me on my feet when I was completely down and out and nothing else ever did .me the least bit of good. I certainly do feel thankful and everybody will agree with me that I have the best of rea- sons for praising Tanlac when I tell them I hadn’t been able to eat a meal in ten years without suffering agony afterwards. I would almost double up with cramping pains caused by the gas on my stomach and I would get so dizzy and blind that if I hadn’t had something to hold on to I would have fallen off my car. If I ventured 'to eat light I would have to lay off for a ‘| week and my work was just a drag and a burden to me for years. I was so badly constipated that I had to take a laxative every night, and I took so much strong medicine for indigestion that my stomach was in terrible shape. I got in such a bad fix that 1 couldn’t stay on my run more than half the time and when I did work ) was so weak and run down that I was in misery all the time. “I knew very well I couldn't go much longer unless I got something to help me, but I was at a loss te know what to do. It was about this time that I heard some of the boys talking about what a great medicine Tanlac was. I also noticed in the pa- pers where it had done some good work, so I bought a bottle, and it beats the world the way it helps a man when he’s down and out. Just a few doses stopped gas forming on my stomach. Then I quit having cramps and dizzy spells and was 80 profit is? It is the profit the other fellow takes. The Plumb bill may have merit, but what the country needs just now is some simple and sen- sible measure that doesn’t need so much ex- plaining. Considering the time that has elapsed since postal employes asked for an increase of 50 per cent in their pay, we would say that Mr. Burleson is not subject to apoplexy. | WITH THE EDITORS | gressmen think they may add a few votes to their election day collection. WHEN IT RAINS WHILE YOU’RE AUTOMOBILING It never looks like rain when you start on an automobile trip—you’d never start if it did. In fact you are so against taking chances of a down- pour while on tour that many’s the nice trip you’ve foregone because the weather looked as though it might cloud up and weep all over the face of the jand. Generally you are about ten miles from town and out of sight of any human habitation when, without the slightest warning, the sky becomes overcast and lets loose a bunch of rain that would have made Noah feel perfectly at home in your Ark. The top and the rain curtains get contrary, of course, and you are drenched to the skin while trying to put them up. The women folks make sarcastic remarks which do not materially add to either your good humor or your comfort. By the time your boat is really water tight it has become so full of rain that bailing operations really ought to be started at once. Naturally the rain makes the roads something fierce. Your car slips and slides and skids from side to side like a sea-going hack on the last night of the recent wet spell in a large city. Just about this time Friend Wife lets out a shriek, so shrill and frenzied it sems indicative of murder at least. “W-what’s the matter?” you question in deep perturbation. “Oh, something awful’s happened!” “What is it—what is it?” you insist, while thoughts of having lost the baby in the mud some miles back race through your mind. “All the upstairs windows are wide open and I just know the rain is pouring in!” your wife gasps. All of which proves to be perfectly true when you arrive home. And which gives rise to this weighty question: “Were any uptsairs windows ever found to be closed when the family was away from home during a rain storm?” WANT WHIPPING-POST RESTORED? At the convention of the newly-organized Federation of Professional Business Women’s Clubs in St. Louis, Miss Hannah Quinby, a lawyer of Columbus, Ohio, urged the restoration by legis- lative enactment of the whipping-post for the punishment of wife-beaters. Her proposal is said to have been due to recent incidents in Columbus, in which abusive and vicious husbands had been shown too much mercy. In this country, at least, wife-beaters are not so numerous as to be able to offer strong opposition to any legislation such as that proposed; and it is HER FUNCTIONS JUST “CHANGED” It was pointed out by Nonpartisan league speakers during the campaign that Miss Nielson’s powers would not be curtailed by the new law, but, in many ways, enlarged. That did not mean, how- ever, that in certain respects some of her functions would not be changed. There could, of course, be no unification of the state’s educational system without bringing the office of state superintendent into harmony with the rest. Miss Nielson’s pre- vious powers were concerned entirely with the common schools. If now in certain respects her powers are curtailed—as in the certification of teachers—they are enlarged in others, since she now has a voice in the control of the higher educa- tional institutions, where before she had none, and of the state’s hospitals and corrective institu- tions as well_—The Courier-News. There you have it. There is the only explanation Mr. Townley’s papers have yet dared to make of the warfare against Miss Nielson. Miss Nielson’s functions have been “changed.” Instead of having charge of the school system of the state, to which position she was elected by the voters, she now “has a voice” in the handling of the state hospitals and asylums. The “voice” consists of one vote against four. She has about as much “voice” on the new board, an dabout as much influence, as a temperance re- former at a saloonkeepers’ picnic. To present any arguments against such piffle as the foregoing excerpt, is to dignify it unduly. But in what’ way are Miss Nielson’s powers “en- larged?” Can she perform one act that she couldn’t perform before, provided the other mem- bers of the board object? And on the other hand are not virtually all of the powers of her office taken from her? It is an insult to the intelligence of newspaper readers to present such an “answer” as the Courier-News has done. Surely nobody is fooled by it. Why, then, not openly admit that the board set out to “get” Miss Nielson, and frankly ask the voters what they are “going to do about it?” Miss Nielson was elected to the office of super- intendent of public instruction by the largest vote ever cast for any candidate for that office. She was virtually removed from the office of superintendent of public instruction and “given a voice” in the custodianship of the lunatics and criminals of the state by Rev. George Totten and his three associates. The voters of the state didn’t elect her to the job of caring for the insane and criminals. They didn’t want her “powers enlarged” in that direc- tion. They want her to be superintendent of public instruction with her old powers, and nothing else. improbable that any sentimental objection would ot sttenctowiiferbeating.‘biisy:<=1 much pleased that I took care never to miss a dose of Tanlac. So I stuck right to the. treatment and now I never feel a sign of my old troubles. I am now on my run every day and, as I said, all the boys say they never saw me looking: better. But no won- der I’M looking better, I haven’t miss- ed eating a big meal three times a day since right soon after I started on Tanlac, and I am never bothered a; particle with cramps, dizziness, con- stipation or anything else.. In fact.I BISMARCK’S Silk Dresses Wash Dresses Wool Dresses Spring Coats..... Spring Suits Wash Skirts Silk Petticoats to be, and I’m here to tell you that’s a great change, for I was' doubtful about ever being any better. So it is that I have the best of reasons for feeling thankful and I will always boost Tan- lac for the good health I now enjoy.” Tanlac is sold in Bismarck by Jos. Breslow in, Driscoll by N. D. and J. H. Barrett and in Wing by F. P. Homan. am as well and strong as I could wish cer every- where sells Kellogg’s every day. Bartlett Pears, ‘per box Slappy Peaches, per box Carmon Peachés, per dozen Watermelons, extra fancy, each Goose Nicks Crabapples, per box The lunatics and criminals should keep Mr. Totten Big Fruit Special PEF DOX ie ewe eee eee eee Bananas, large fancy stock, at only, Advt. | E. A. Brown Quality Groceries at Prices That Talk Successor to Brown & Geierman, Grocers Sens eta $1.35 Children’s Dresses, 98c & 1.98 FASTEST GROWING STORE Corsets Sweaters OHNSON’S “tac Don’t Forget--- Our great August Sale of all New Fall and Winter Coats is now in full sway. They are selling like wild fire. Prices and Assortments are Now at Their Best Twenty Other Items Go on Sale for the Balance of the Week Summer Hats Wash Waists Georgette Waists Crepe de Chine Waists . . . 3.98 Tweed Coats . Piece Goods GREAT SALE month only. INO POWDER RIVER CHURCHES. Butte, Mont., Aug. 20.—The section of Montana from which the fighting 91st division of the army took its battle cry, “Powder river, let ’er buck” has ‘not been scratched by re- ligion, according to the Rev. B. H. ----OUR CUSTOMERS ARE 7 PHONE /4/- SSSSSSSSTS DEPOSITS BY OUR PARTICIPATION IN THE STATE DEPOSITORS wn GUARANTY FUND THE OLDEST ESTABLISHED HARDWARE STORE IN THE CITY A Woman’s Part Every woman may have an important part in KINDLY REMEMBER Our great August Sale of Fall and Winter Coats continues this Lingenfelted, of Butte who toured the . Powder river section in southeastern z Montana without being able to find a single church. 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