The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 26, 1919, Page 4

FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Roatettice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second lass Matter. GEORGE D. MANN, - - - = = _« Bator Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, CHICAGO, ae . " , DETROIT, : ,. . «wu Kresge asi PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK, Cas EE Fifth Ave. Bldg. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to thé use for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news jr All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are reserved. oN MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULA’ SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year..........s008 $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (In Bismarck) eeccees 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (In state outside Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by mail outside of North Dakota....+--+.+++ 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER, (Established 1878) ———__—_————————— “THE PEOPLE TO BLAME” “Everyone must begin at once to curtail ex- penditures for luxuries now selling at exorbitant prices.” So advised William Mather Lewis, U. S. treas- ury department official, speaking in New York. He thinks curtailment would put an end to our high cost of living “spree.” Maybe so, but how about coffee, bread, meat, butter, eggs, potatoes, shoes, clothing, fuel, rent, milk, and other such “luxuries” now selling at ex- orbitant prices? How can we curtail on them when ‘our stomachs have been trained by nature to abhor a vacuum and our bodies have acquired a habit of demanding such protection as clothing and shoes give? ; Must be that Lewis did more of his New York shopping in Fifth avenue than along Third avenue. Labor says it will make an effort to have the Plumb plan written into the platform of one of the political parties. Isn’t there some more merciful way to kill it? ROADS AND PROSPERITY Good roads agitation is very old. Julius Caesar was a good roads fanatic, and some of his high- ways are still in use in England and France. Today there isn’t a more vital subject that that of transportation, and the great bulk of food products and raw materials of industry are, at some stage of the distribution process, hauled over country roads. ‘ Now that the motor truck is being utilized to speed up distribution; to link producer and con- sumer wherever possible—good roads are of para- mount importance. ; In older countries than ours, all roads are good roads. They have to be, to feed the population from crowded acres. Bad roads have been accepted as a matter of course in unsettled communities, and good roads have been luxuries. But the best possible highways are now sternly Necessary, in every part of the United States. The federal government, the state, the county, the township and everyone who eats food and wears clothes are vitally concerned in good roads. The question is not “Can we afford to build good roads”? It is, “Can we afford to support bad roads”? We are informed that Article X imposes a moral obligation, but not a legal one. The moral obligation will be strong enough, except for na- tions powerful enough to break a legal one. APPLES The way for us to keep our boys on the farm is to show them the profit possibilities of the farm during school years. Apples are the finest fruit in the world. This is proven by the fact that there is a world- wide demand for them. Ohio has the finest apple soil in the world. This is also true of certain parts of most ad- joining states. Yet all the eastern centers of population import apples from Oregon and pay 10 and 15 cents apiece for them. ; All that this means is that somebody who knew how to spray and graft trees lived in Oregon and started to producing apples there; others saw the profit possibilities by example and did likewise until a great horticultural industry was built up. This shows what knowledge and will can do in the face of natural disadvantages and remoteness. Five years ago an engineer in one of the public power plants of Cleveland bought a small tract of land near the city and merely with the idea of a summer camp. On this land was an abandoned apple orchard the trees of which had not been trimmed in 30 years, and that value had not taken into considera- tion in the sale. This engineer obtained a few months’ leave of absence from his job and he and his wife, a former telephone operator, took a course in horticulture at the Ohio state university. They found out how to spray, trim and graft trees. Last year they cleared $2000 from the once abandoned apple orchard on their place. " This engineer says that when a boy, 25 years ago, he left a 160-acre farm near Youngstown, O., ,|to more completeness in the high school course. }ends that—after this year. \ edge he could have easily and cheaply turned its worst acreage into its most profitable acreage. This engineer further says that he learned nothing in his horticultural course that could not be taught the average boy in their school course from the sixth to the eighth grades, and certainly The fundamental production of wealth in this country is agriculture—always has been and al- ways will be. The great agricultural future for the eastern and central west states is in the garden and or- chard. : The grain crops will be more and more left to the far west where the acreage is greater and cheaper. Considering the importance of agriculture in fundamental wealth production, should we not take it into greater consideration in our public school courses—not only in the country but in the cities? Lansing testifies that the treaty carried out Wilson’s fourteen points “substantially.” It car- ried out some of them and buried them substan- tially. Our secretary of state thinks Japan would have signed the treaty without the Shantung provision. This is the crowning shame, that we permitted ourselves to be outbluffed. eseantiaiindanmemmmmcl WITH THE EDITORS | Ir——? If cities will buy Townleyized bonds they can have mills. If banks will buy Townleyized bonds they can have public money on deposit. If news- papers will advocate Townleyism they can live, if not they can die. If returned soldiers will shout for Townleyism they can have a job. If teachers will teach Townleyism they can have certificates. If Miss Nielson will tolerate Townleyism in public schools she can be superintendent of public in- struction. If old men will vote for Townleyism they can ride to the polls, if not they can walk. If courts will favor Townleyism they are alright, if not they should be impeached. If juries will acquit Townleyites they should be given medals, if not they should be shunned by the neighbors, Where will we be in ten years if this creed is encouraged and practiced all that time?—Devils Lake World. GOOD-BY DAYLIGHT SAVING Congress having passed the repeal of the day- light saving law over the president’s veto, that It is a pity, but we got along without daylight saving a long time, and we can get along without it again. The fault lies as much with those who want it but did not say so to their senators and representatives as it does with the farmers, the politicians in congress and the interests that were out of pocket because saving daylight also saved fuel and lighting expense. Even in districts where a plebescite would show a great majority for day- light saving, protests against it outnumbered let- ters, resolutions and petitions for it ten to one. Perhaps some time, if the memory of its advan- tages remain vivid enough in comparison with the disadvantages of the old schedule to which we must return next year, a more intelligent cam- BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE > N. E. A. Specia! to The Tribune Maple Hil!, ias. Aug. 25.—Con- ceived in a town site fight, born with a murder, ‘Maple Hill has had many stirring days but the excitement since the settlement by the whites never equalled the ‘presen succession of thrills ‘and horrors.. Thousands of settleds marked the battleground of the Indian tribes.” A settler was kill- ed in the early sixties in a quarrel over the purchase of a mill and is buried a short. distance from’ the town. : After’ that came the day of the ranches, Several ranchmen fought over the locaton of the townsite when the Rock ‘Island road was built through Wabaunsee-co in the eigh- ties. Geo. Fowler, a member of the packing firm, won and the town was located upon his property known as the. “Middle Ranch.” The day the lots were .sold seyeral special trains were run from Kansas City to Maple Hill. A few minutes after the first train arrived a dozen gambling games were going. Someone shipped in a carload of, liquor. .There fights with- out number and in .one.of . them a young man was stabbed to death. The life of the town the next sev- eral years was turbulent. In the nineties the settlers had become so numerous the ranches much smaller and of the original only one, the old Fowler ranch, now known as the Tod ranch, remains. today. The last thrill furnished by the ranches was in 1898 when John paign may bring it back. But probably there will be no such campaign, and probably daylight sav- ing is a gone gosling. Here’s hoping those who have won the victory will be as happy in the result of it as they expect to be.—Duluth Herald. HOME-OWNING VS. RENTING A local citizen writes in to ask how to figure out whether it is cheaper to rent or to build your own home. It isn’t hard to do that, but it is the unfairest thing—to yourself and your family—that you could possibly do. We hate to tell him, it’s so mis- leading. The coldblooded way is to figure it this way: Capitalize your rent, and figure that if you build a home costing the amount that results you are paying your rent to yourself, and therefore that it pays you as well as it does your landlord. But that way, though technically accurate, is grossly misleading. Suppose that forty dollars a month is the most you can afford to pay for rent.. That’s $480 a year. Four hundred and eighty dollars a year is ten per cent gross on forty-eight hundred dollars. If you are figuring wholly on a coldblooded basis, that’s the most you can afford to put into a house. Yet if you are paying forty dollars a month rent, the chances are that you would not be satis- fied with a home that costs less than, say, eight thousand dollars. And on that basis, if you are still figuring coldbloodedly, you can’t afford to build your own home. But the trouble with that sort of figuring is that it omits so much—and that pretty nearly everything it omits is of more consequence and more real value and more lasting satisfaction than money. For instance, how can you figure the net return in dollars and cents on the solid satisfaction of owning your own home? What percentage is the dividend on the fact that your own home has a backyard for the chil- dren to play in, when the old flat used to force because he didn’t see a living out of it. we That with what he knows now he |them out. intoy the streets or alleys?—Duluth > a SS Sis RRM ROR Z I Thomas, a cowboy, was discharged, Returning from Kansas City, a few days after losing his job, Thomas rode to what was called then the “West Ranch” and opening a door to a@ room in which several’ men were sitting, fired a dozen shots with a revolver, wounding five persons, two of whom died. a4 Thomas fled and never was cap- tured. There are hardly a dozen living in EVERETT TRUE _ 3ST Do SPeccu § 3 I NOTICE YouR FRIENDS ARE NEVER MOLESTED WHEN -THeY STAND OUT HERS ANOS Cive YoU THE LATEST DOPS ON L THANK You I! EVERYTHINGES flint arrow headg picked up ‘by early; TU Carranza—“Ha. Ha,—Note Number Seventy-Nine!” ue a J We PEACEFUL CAREER, SINCE RANCH DAYS INTERRUPTED WITH RUDE JOLT WHEN “MURDER FARM” SKELETONS TAKE LIFE YOu wit HAVS To step PASSENGERS ARS NOT ALLOWSD TO RIDE ON THE PLATFORM $ I'M OUT HERE TO SIDESTEP THE ROTTEN SRANDS IN THE SMOKER AND THE NAUSEATING ODORS OF DIFFERENT PERFUMERY j Maple Hill who were here in the ear- lier and more stirring days. The mo- tor car’s honk has displaced the wild shout of the cowboy. Pretty girls and their beaux, and farmers, their wives old women, one a widow, and the once cow-punchers gulped their whiskey straight. It was the friendship of two old women, one a widow. and the other on her deathbed, that led to the dis- covery of the “murder farm” two weeks ago. Mrs. Louisa Sams, wife of. William A. Sams, was sick, The house short- age. prevailed even in the little town of 250 persons. Mr. Sams could not find a suitable house for rent.in which his sick wife could be cared for. “Grandma” Sarah Clements, widow, owned a five-room home. For weeks she talked over their. troubles with Mr. and Mrs. Sams. She. and Mrs. Sams had been friends for years. At last the suggestion was made by Mrs. Clements that she would sell her home in order that her sick friend might have a suitable place to| live. Mrs. Clements said she would rent rooms nearby where she could help care for the sick woman. The property was transferred, Mrs. Clem- ents moved her belongings into one room nearby and Mr. and Mrs, Sams moved into the Clements home. Mrs. Clements kept her promise to help| take care of her sick friend, being with Mrs. Sams almost day and night until the end, late in May. After ¢he funeral Mrs. Clements began looking for a new home. A three-room cottage two blocks away had been vacant more than a year, since Rufe King, teamster and former liveryman, had gone to Colorado. ‘Mrs. | Clements sought the owner who lived in a nearby town, made an offer, and; after a delay of several weeks it was accepted. She says a representative of King, who had paid the rent on the house while it was vacant, tried to prevent the purchase. In cleaning up the house basketsful BY COND INSIDE — SA ONE OTHER POINT AND | Ya of cheap jewelry were found in it. When some trash was being remov- ed from a shed a human skeleton was found in a gunny sack. (The skele- ton was identified by relatives as that of Reuben Gutshall.) The finding of the jewelry had re- called to Maple Hill folks the fact King also had said he had purchased a team and dog from an old jewelry peddler who frequently had stopped at the King livery stable. Digging in the lot near the livery stable what is believed to be the. skeleton of the peddler, was found. . Later a skeleton identified as that of John Woody, for- merly employed by King, was found in the same lot. . Authorities are dig- ging now in the hope of finding skel- etons of other missing men. King, in the county jail at Topeka, denies the murders. He makes no effort to explain the finding.of the skeletons. mg ay: SEPT, } POETS’ CORNER. | | CIRCUS TIME. Feller’s a-puttin’ up posters aroun’ Sayin’ a circus is comin’ to town; Pictures of beautiful ladies are seen, Some dressed in pink tights and oth- ers in green, Ridin’ on horses an’ jumping thru hoops, Swingin’ trapeze or loopin’ the loops. Kids all are happy an’ singin’ away Circus is comin’ a week from today. Peanuts, an’ popcorn an’ pink lemon- e, Ice cream the finest that’ ever was made; Sideshows a-plenty, just drop in an’ 8 Things never thot of by you or by me; Straight games an’ skin games for only a dime, You'll win a present that’s costly and fine. Gay fortune tellers while holdin’ your hand, Promise you castles in some foreign { ! Funny ol’ clown with th’ paint on his face; Ridin’ a pig in a comical race; Lions, and’ elephants, tigers an’ bears, Dancin’ around or a-sittin’ on chairs; Ugly ol’ monkey a-smokin’ a pipe, Here is another that knows how to write. How they do train ’em is more than I know. Circus is comin’, we'll all have to go. Years have sped onward since I was a boy, Still every circus I hugely enjoy; Gladly I drink of the pink lemonade, Proudly I join in the grand street parade, Follow th’ groun’s, Water th’ clowns; Age is forgotten while down there I Toam— Tired, but happy, home. ‘bandwagon out to th’ elephane, laugh at th’ I wend my way —FLORENCE BORNER. “OLD HOME FAIR” __ IN CANADA Halifax—Nova Scotia is taking up seriously the proposed “Old Home Ex- position.” The originator of the idea, Lieutenant H. C. Crowell, who recent- ly returned from overseas, has been visiting all principal towns to obtain the co-operation of the various Boards of Trade. ON “GAS” RATION Honolulu—Gasoline is being ration- ed out here due to inability of ship- pers to get sufficent of} the oil to the island. Only commercial vehicles may buy “gas,” while the supply of this fuel is shut off entirely from pleasure cars, 5,000,000 EGGS ROT Rome—The American steamer Sun arrived at Genoa with 5,000,000 ages , for Switzerland in 12,000 boxes. These ROYLANCE, MILLS AND OTHER BIG LEAGUERS HERE Something Important Believed Brewing in Nonpartisan State Government There is an unusual gathering of the Nonpartisan clans which presages some big developments in league cir- cles for the near future. Walter Thomas Mills, the socialist advisor of President Townley, has ibeen here for several days, hob-nobbing with Robert Blakemore, manager of the state home-building association, and other members of the Townley government. Prof. W. G, Roylance who is blamed for North Dakota's present tax tangle, and who poses as the league's tax ex- pert, is also here. William Lemke, next to Townley in control of league affairs, has been here off and on for the last month, and President Town- ley himself is expected to show up sronnd league headquarters during the jay. It is believed that the matter un- der discussion is the special session which the state must have and which Townley, Mills, et al, are said not to want. There is also the matter of preparing new text-books for the pub- lic schools of the state, upon which Walter Thomas Mills, with the aid of other socialists, is said to ‘be work- ing. Then the county auditors and tax supervisors of the state are here to- day meeting with the state board of equalization in an effort. to make head or tafl of Roylance’s new tax scheme. All in all, it is a. very ‘busy and inter- ° esting time in league circles. BASEBALL | ©. c4 NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. .L.. Pet. Cincinnati 79 34 = 699 New York . - 68 39 636 Chicago .. + 60 48 556 Pittsburgh . 55 486 Brooklyn . 56 A486 Boston ... 62.386 St. Louis . 67 368 Philadelphia 63 361 AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. LL. Pet. Chicago ........s..05 72 40 643 Detroit ... 6 45 591 Cleveland 63 46 577 St. Louis. 59 51 536 New York 58 51 532 Boston ... 51 59.464 Washington 43 68 887 Philadelphia + 28° 80 .259 AMERICAN ‘ASSOCIATION. W. L. Pet. St. Paul .. - M 46 603 Indianapolis 68 49 581 Louisville .. 64 «54 | 542 Kansas City 62 53 | 539 Minneapolis 59... 491 Columbus 60.487 Tolédo |). “0.897 Milwaukee .. 16 361 GAMES IN BRIEF. National League— Cincinnati-Philadelphia first game Postponed, .rain.. Second game, Cin- cinnati 7, Philadelphia 3. Others ‘postponed, rain. American League— ‘New oYrk 6, Chicago 5. Washington 3, St.Louis 4. Boston 5, Detroit 4. Philadelphia 0, Cleveland 12. American Association— Kansas City 1, St. Paul 2. ‘Milwaukee 4, Minneapolis 8. Indianapolis 5, Columbus 2. Louisville 2. Toledo 9. VISIT HEBRON TO PICK BRICK FOR NEW APARTMENTS Hughes and Tatley Plan to Make Quarter - Million - Dollar Building a Beauty ‘Senator E. A. Hughes and Henry J. Tatley, Bismarck’s pioneer hotel man, have returned from Hebron, whither they’ went to inspect brick for the quarter-million-dollar apartment hotel which they propose erecting this fall and winter at the corner of First and Broadway. The new structure will cover a ground space of 100 by 150, will ‘be four stories in heighth and will contain 77 apartments. Hebron brick will be used in the exterior con- Struction, and it probably will be of a light colored tapestry type of the same shade as that which went into the Lahr Motor Sales building. Messrs Hughes and Tatley made the journey by motor, returning via Beulah, where they visited the Beulah mine. W. D. WASHBURN “III” BACK TO TWIN CITIES Wilton, N. D., Aug 26—W. D. Washburn III, son of W. D. Washburn, Jr., and grandson of W. D. Washburn, founder of the Washburn mine here and builder of the Bismarck, Wash- burn & Great Falls railway, now the “North Soo,” left yesterday for Minne- apolis after spending the summer here working in the mine. Dance at Schebbler’s Barn Wednesday night. All new music. O’Connor’s Orchestra. Phone 189 for Beulah Coal. tt Sle WANTED—Girl or middleaged lady to take chre of children from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. Call 204 1-2 Main, Flat ©, after 6 o'clock. 8-25-3t FOR SALE—Three green flat porch shades, two 6-foot and one 8-foot, used this season only. Will sell at bargain, Phone 459X.. 8 26 3t UP DAY AND NIGHT Cetinje—Mountain brigands got lit- tle of Montenegro’s slim wheat crop th's year. Wives of the farmers har- vested the grain:by day, At night the ; Were dumped ‘on*the mole in a blazing sun, and owing to transport difficul- ties the whole cargo-decayed. farmers sat in their fields of ripened ; grain, rifles across their knees, XN i] ' 4 Prey ne Me od ty ba ‘ ry ,