The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 13, 1919, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Batered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN, Baier Noo... 8 OGAN PAYNE COMPANY, cmcacon CIN PAYNE COMPANY pernort Marquatio Bldg. C Asie Magenta Kresge . PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEWYORK, -'- 1 - Fifth Ave Bldg. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to thé use for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise im this paper and also the local mews published All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANI Daily by carrier, per year * Daily by mail, per year (In Bismarck) : . 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) GES THE LAST YANK HOME Half of the hardships of war never are under- stood by the folks at home. The feelings of American soldiers who stayed in France for many months after the armistice, uncertain as to wheth- er they would sail westward in one year or two, do not have the dramatic appeal made by the suf- ferings of actual warfare. But the men who toiled on the humble job of cleaning up needed as much heroic stuff in them as was called for at Chateau Thierry. {can now sit ourselves down in calm consideration Presently the last one of them will be back; the heartache and suspense will be at an end. Months | things we have not heard, the things the president of residence in a foreign country will work 4/ did not explain, the things he hurried past in the headlong stream of his eloquence. change in the thinking and feeling of thousands. They will bring back a few French words which may ultimately be absorbed into our language. They will bring back some ideas and many mind- pictures. After the harsher experiences of exile have} faded out of memory, impressions of a beautiful | and gracious land will remain vivid. Men of the} A. E. F., as years pass, will grow in appreciation of | the mellow charm of old world scenes. There will | be hours when they will be almost homesick for) the red-roofed village, the park-like countryside, | the picturesque cities of their overseas wander- ings. Carnegie never said that to die rich was to die} disgraced, his secretary points out. This removes one of the few compensations of poverty. COAL PRICES AND WAGES The United Mine Workers in convention at Cleveland have decided to ask for higher wages so they may come within closer reach of the cost of living. And the mine operators, as one man, insist that higher wages to the men who go down into the bowels of the earth to mine our winter fuel means greatly increased prices of coal. Retail dealers in coal agree with the operators. many of them began boosting prices weeks ago in| an early-bird endeavor to get the worm. You know how much you have to pay for coal. You may imagine that the miner, the man who digs the coal, gets a large slice of what you pay, and that if his wages are doubled you will have to pay twice as much as you now are paying. Maybe you will, but it won’t be the miner getting all of | that increase. Here are some illustrative figures, as published by the federal trade commission: In the central fields the cost of production, including LABOR, supplies and general expenses; (1918) was $2.21 a ton. In the southwestern fields the cost of produc- tion was but $1.92 a ton. How does that compare with the price for bituminous coal they charged YOU last winter and this spring? And NOW? After all the worry and hullabaloo over the High Cost of Living, labor troubles and whatnot, there’s nothing like a good baseball game for real excitement. GETTING THEM UP WITH A SMILE All over the big hurried hastening country the hotel dwelling and rooming house world is boosted on its daily way by the alarm of the room tele- phone. You know how it is; you are putting in the best licks of the eight hours, you are probably in the midst of a delicious dream of romance and riches, when BANG—the bell rings and a gruff voice shouts “Seven o’clock.” You grunt back and stagger over to the wash- bowl, your system full of sleep and your soul full of grouch. Once in a long long time the weary traveler happens on a hotel where a clear voiced girl at- tends to the morning calls. _ She rings the bell gently, but insistently, and when your numbed ear attaches itself to the re- ceiver she sweetly calls the hour and somehow manages to express a twinge of regret that she had to bring you back to sordid earth things. One of the worst things about growing up is that no mother comes, after the cruel day, and tucks you in with a kiss and a smile. But we can manage to stagger along without the vesper benediction if only we may be spared the gruff blat of the average horny voiced hotel ballahoo, who, quite evidently, gloats over his chore of dragging us out each morning. Surely it can’t cost such an awful lot more to secure sympathetic, sweet voiced maidens, who will wake us gently, arouse us with sympathy, and tthe president argued only one question: Shall the |real question that is pending in the senate, the real question that today confronts the American |SP' ve Green rae EN GENTLEMEN RY AND THE POLICE 2 jaca us out on the job with soothed spirits and un- ruffled soul feathers. Hotels, and the city world is coming to live in hotels rather than homes, add a super-tax for room with bath, for outside rooms, for telephones, and stationery,,and hot and cold water, and even the gilt on the elevator cage. Let them utilize the gifts of the Gods in the way of sympathetic soft- |speaking messenger maidens, and for once charge jus for something that we really can use, and ap- preciate. | President Wilson picked a poor time to interest the country in the League of Nations for all |they’re thinking of now is the coming row be- | tween the two older leagues—the American and | National. | WITH THE EDITORS | | THE REAL QUESTION UNTOUCHED | We have seen our chief magistrate. We have | welcomed him in every appropriate way. We have listened with open minds to his words. We have felt the thrill of his appeal for a wholesouled Americanism. We have gloried in his picture of jan unselfish America leading the company of na- tions out of the ways of war and into the ways of peace. Our president has gone on to other cities. We of all that we have heard—not forgetting the In both his Minneapolis and St. Paul speeches treaty be accepted or rejected? Shall we enter the league of nations, or shall we stay out? But Mr. Wilson knows, none better, that this | is not the question at all. He did not discuss the} people. That question is this: Shall the treaty be accepted precisely as writ- ten, or shall it be accepted with such reservations as will safeguard American interests? A candid statesman, a frank president, would have met the precise issue, would have discussed it openly. The declared purpose of the president’s! OF THE JUDICIA Kansas City, M Sept. 11—‘“Spoon- z.” a collectual ou defined as cting with foolish fondness, as one in love” and wich is considered by some, one of the few remaining sur- vivals of “the days of real sport,” is having difficult sledding nowadays in tour is to awaken popular sentiment to such a! pitch that the senate will be forced to ratify the | treaty without change. But this shifting of the| true issue, this appeal to a people already con-| vincel that the league of nations should have a fair | trial, this evasion of the points the people are truly in doubt about—why dose the president indulgein| pettifoggery of that sort? The very fact that Mr. Wilson thinks he can sistence on protecting American interests, reveals Indeed, | in what low esteem he holds the American people. Of course we want the covenant. Of course we want the treaty ratified. Why waste breath ar- guing those almost axiomatic propositions? What we wanted to know of the president was this: Be- fore approving the covenant, before ratifying the treaty, are there not certain things that should be said by our government, are there not certain reservations that should be made? Of these matters the president said not a word ; while in our midst. He was up in the clouds, not down on the earth. It was fine to have him in Min- |nesota, but we wish he had shown more confidence in the intelligence, the judgment, the discrimina- tion of the people of Minnesota.—Minneapolis Journal. OUR DISTINGUISHED GUEST For the first time since President Roosevelt visited Fargo, North Dakota today is entertaining a president of the United States of America. President Wilson’s special train passed through Fargo early this morning, and will cross the state today, stopping long enough for Mr. Wilson to make an address at Bismarck. Needless to say, Fargo is disappointed at not hearing the chief executive, for Mr. Wilson, in addition to being perhaps the most prominent fig- ure in world politics, is said to be an unsurpassed orator. The president has apparently set a tremendous task for himself in the speech-making line, for no two speeches yet delivered have been the same. He appears to be adapting his talks to the localities where they are delivered and his speeches become a little more strenuous as he moves westward. In one respect, the speeches are disappointing to the reader, however satisfying they may be to the listener who goes merely to be thrilled by some high class oratory. Mr. Wilson has not seriously undertaken to answer the argument against the treaty he brought back with him. He is devoting himself to what might be called evangelical work for a league of nations, not defending the league he and his confreres have evolved. Very few, even of the fiercest critics of the present league, are opposed to the principle of a league of nations. Mr. Wilson is either deliberately or unconsciously evading the real issue. Perhaps he feels that the public wants oratory and an appeal to its emo- tions, rather than dull arguments and logic. And but few reasons or explanations of how the Shan- tung clause can be made to square with the four- teen points.—Fargo Forum, Ka xperienced though non-sentimental police comm e ruled that! such activiti © not only lay} Dan Cupid open to ridicule but also that they block and sometimes en-! danger traffic, when carried on in! connection with steering a motor car.| Besides, they say, the sesibilities of elder folks are sometimes shocked at) ing. SPOONERS FOUND ALLIES | such extreme manifestations of court- | o: MERRY W. South Side court recently, after di cha a number of alleged lov raided the police departme: ily for casting these youthful person in jail where, he said, they we thrown in company with criminals and drug addic A MERRY WAR ON Its a merry War between the judi- nd the blue coats. which probably | h inception following two recent, murders in which moonlight nights,| motor cars and quiet boulevards were, pert of the settin; | | | c The police commissioners assert that love-making in automobiles in some cases exceedsd the reasonable bounds} courtship, and’ even the} gallant jurists caution inst the practice of motorists driving out to} fool the public into scourging the senate for its in-! On the other hand, the spooners have | lonely spots on out found several staunch allies in unex-| stopping their car, with lights turned} {pected quarters. Sedate and somber | off “to save battery,” to contemplate joccupants of the judicial bench have|the heavens. to sigh and to hold hands. \fairly become the champions of several] Then again, there are certain reck-| |parties of young people hauled before!less Romeos who insist it is possible the bar of justice, charged with sEoon- | keep one arm around a girl and yet jing on the public highway. With ajwith the other. hand chart a safe few fatherly words on how to make|course through mazes of the inner love and still keep within the law, the driveways. The police aver it ing boulevards, | probably he is right in this, but the result is that| 1 Av 4 West. Phone 1998. those who read his speeches find many reasons|yorn saue—civer typewriter, almost why we should not “break the heart of the world,” | Mind ron? by “ah panauite at 109 9-123-1t The police, however, have the edge on the courts in this respect: Arrests | for spooning naturally occur after sun-i |down and the bluff minons of the law] have been incarcerating the love-lorn prisoners for the remainder of the | night. Judge Edward J. Fleming of the — ie ST. PAUL LIVESTOCK Range, $14.10 to $16.75. Bulk, $1 5. Cattle, 2,8 Cows an - -6.50 to $11.00. Calves, $6.00 to $18.50. Fat steers, 86.75 to $16. Stockers and feeders, $4 Sheep, 9,500, weak. Lambs, Wethers, $5. Ewes, $1.50 to $6.75. CHICACO LIVESTOCK Hogs, 1500, steady to 25 cents higher Heavyweights, $16.25 to $18.00. Mediumweight $16.75 to $18.25 Lightweight, $16.75 to $18.25. Light light, 16.50 to $17.50. Heavy packing sows, smooth, $15.25 to $16.00. Heavy packing sows, rough, $14.50 to $15.00. Pigs, $ to $1750. Cattle receipts 2000 compared with) a week ago, choice yearlings steady, 75 cents lower, common and in be- tween $1.00 to $1.50 lower, western steers mostly 50 cents to 75 cents lower, choice in between grades 50 cents to 75 cents lower, canners 25 cents to 40 cents lower, bulls steady, yeal calves about steady, heavy calves 50 cents to $1.04 higher, stockers and feeders 50 cents to 75 cents lower. Sheep 4000 compared with a week ago, killing lambs 25 cents to 50 cents higher, fat sheep yearlings and feed- ing lambs mostly steady, breeding ewes uneven, 75 cents lower. MINNEAPOLIS FLOUR )Flour unchanged, shipments 84,303 barrels. Barley, $1.05 to $1.20. Rye No. 2 $1.29, Bran, 40 cents. Wheat receipts, 350 cars compared with 550 a year ago, \ Corn N Northern $2.40 to $2.65. Corn low, $1.26 to $1. Oats No. 3, white, 61 7-8¢ to 63 7-8c. Flax $4.96 to $5.00, TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY FOR RENT—Garage at 515 6th St. 9-13-8t WANTED—Girl for general housework. FOR RENT—A room, all strictly modern, one block east from Wach- best native beef steers 50 cents to] 26. they demand that traffic be given precedence over love-making. ‘ Meanwhile the city’s prosiac, mar- ried public, while keenly interested, scem quite calm as to the ultimate out- come, apparantly believing that love laughs just as heartily at the police as - at the locksmiths, Famous Airman to | Fly for Jamestown Yanks’ Homecoming | Lieut. Locklear to Furnish Aerial Divertisement—Great Pro- Program Is Planned Jamestown, N. D., Sept., 1.—Thru the efforts of the entertainment com- mittee of the Stutsman county home coming, which is to be held at James- town, Thursday, Seut. 24, the people of North Dakota are to be given an opportunity of seeing Lieut. Locklear. Not only will Lieut. Locklear fly at the homecoming, but he will go thru his stunts on the day before and the day following, for the benefit of the people who attend the Stutsman | county fair, in connection with which the homecoming is to be held. The dates of the fair are Sept. 23, 24, and Lieut. Locklear, who attained wuis| position because he has dared to do stunts in the air that no other aviator of any country thas ever dared to at- tempt, was secured for the homecom- ing because the management of the celebration to be staged at Boston, Mass., on the same five days quibbled over the terms asked by Locklear and | the five men to accompany him. Peo- ple: will find it difficult to believe that Locklear is actually going thru all of his stunts at a comparative small city like Jamestown, and had it not been for the fact that one of committee happened | SATURDAY, SEPT.'18; 4919. | uction. They are spending $40,000 and $100,000 for adver- the Universal paid lars to film, will be sed free by the fifty thousand who are expected to attend tuisman county fair and *home- Everything in Jamestown, in- cluding admission to the fair, the ball game, the boxing matches, the auto end motorcycle races, the bowery dances and a dinner at noon will be ab- solutely free to every soldier, sailor or marine in uniform on Thursday the 24th. EXPECT FIGHT ON FERRY PERMIT'TO BENTON COMPANY City Commissioners Expected to Take Action Monday Night on Minutes A decided fight against the city judges have discharged the ‘culprits”./can't be done and unromantic like, granting a franchise or permit to the Benton Packet Co. to operate a ferry across the Missouri river from the Bismarck city limits is expected to come to a head at the meeting of the city commissioners Monday night. There has been some opposition, it is understood to the action of the city council at one of its recent meetings to grant permission to the Benton company to operate a ferry across the Missouri and this opposition is ex- pected to voice its protests before the commissioners next week. It is pointed out that the minutes of the meeting at which the resolution was passed have never been read or adopted, being postponed at the last two meetings of the commission. This, it is said, prevents the action of the commissioners in passing the resolu- tion from becoming legally effective. Another point, as far as the legality of the proceedings are concertied;” is the fact that at the meeting which adopted the resolution there were only three commissioners present, one of whom did not vote on the resolution thereby making only two votes out of five cast in favor of the resolution. This, it is said, does not constitute a majority of the commissioners and therefore the resolution is not effec- tive, Since the granting of the permit several weeks ago, the Benton Packet Co. paid $15 license into the city treas- ury and has been operating its boat since that time. BOARD CONFIRMS A. L. SCHAFER AS STATE INSPECTOR Was Appointed by Miss Minnie J. Nielson Last July—For- mer War Worker th bers of the Stutsman county The appointment of A. L. Schafer ere to be on nty| state high school inspector made rounds at the time Locklear re- July 26, was confirmed late yesterday telved ‘the message from Boston and by the state board of administration. took immediate advantage of it, Lock- The appointment was made by Miss lear would never have been seen in Minnie J. Nielson, state superintend- this state. Every one who reads, has read 0! Locklear's changing planes in the-air, of his running all over the plane go- ing at the rate of eighty miles per hour and of his hanging by his heels from the under rigging of the ma- chine, as the storfes of these feats have been printed in every well known magazine in the entire country, such as the Popular Mechanics, the Liter- ary Digest, Leslie’s, Collier's, Sat- urday Evening Post, The American and dozens of others. Some little idea of how the masters of the entertainment world consider Locklear can be shown by the fact that the Universal Film Co. spent ter school. 218 So, 11th St. Phone 463-K. 9-13-1wk. nearly four hundred thousand dol- lars to take pictures of the Locklear ‘ent of instruction. Schafer during the war was sta- joned at Washington, where he was an active worker in the educational de- partment of the Red Cross handling soldiers, sailors and marines desiring vocational training following their dis- charge from the service. Before tak- ing up this war work, Schafer was city superintendent of schools at Carring- ton. : | The new high school inspector took up his duties in July following his ap- {pointment by Miss Nielson. | ‘The Chinese bride-to-be: hag to stand | in & round, shallow baskev wuule sue dresses for wedding, in order to make her of a good temper and amiable disposition. LEAGUE. BOSSES - VISIT CAPITOL © ~ AND RUMORS FLY A. C. Townley and William Lemke Inspect the Machinery and Hear Reports SPECIAL SESSION TALKED The High Mogol and the Bishop of the Nonpartisan league were in Bis- marck today and spent considerable time, up at the capitol seeing how the machinery was working, whether Governor Frazier’s “revolution” pre- dicted Labor day was coming to a head or not and inspected the rank and file, particularly the rank, of the league followers in the state’s head- quarters. From the time A. C. Townley and William Lemke disappeared into the building until they departed rumor was madly rushing through the corri- dors. “The special session will be called soon,” said one. “Townley and the Bishop want to see how the trucks are weathering the storm,” said another. “The governor is going to be dec- orated for preaching revolution,’ was a third. “There is a split among the league followers at the capitol and the High Lord €xecutioner has come to straighten it out,” was still another. But after all sifting has been done and the chaff removed from the wheat, it is found that nobody knows exactly what Townley and Lemke were at the capitol for, that,is as far as officials there would speak for publication. However, it would not be surprising to many, state officials if the result of the league leaders’ visit had;a di- rect bearing on the coming special session of the state legislature.,:The governor, acting under orders from,St. Paul has been delaying the date, of the session as long as. possible; but. the farmers have insisted so continuously that the special session be called to give some kind of relief and assist- ance to the drought stricken sections and to remedy defects in the laws of the New Day that it is felt that Town- ley and Lemke hurried to Bismarck to ascertain the most suitable date. It is also said that the Bank of North Dakota is having considerable difficulty. An expert accountant has been called from St. Paul, it has been authoritatively stated, to untangle the muddle at a fancy salary which will be added to the charges paid by North Dakota taxpayers for the administra- tion of the league bosses. But whatever the significance of Townley’s and Lemke’s visit to the capitol, it is known that there is an important. motive behind it which will probabjy come to the surface next week. ~ At the -governor’s office today it was said that Mr. Frazier had left the city. until. Monday seeking quiet and seclusion of some shaded lake. Prob- ably the session with Boss Townley and Bishop Lemke was so warm that the “quiet seclusion of some shaded lake” would sooth the governor's fiery spirit so that no more “revolutions” would be urged by the state’s execu- tive as a cure all for present day |. problems. BISMARCK SECOND IN LIFE INSURANCE PAID DURING 1918 The annual bulletin of the Insurance Press which has just been issued shows that Bismarck ranks second in amount cf insurance claims paid in this state in 1918. North Dakota cities in which claims of $10,000 or more were paid are listed as follows: Fargo Bismarck Grand Forks . Williston Minot .. Langdon Jamestown Harvey Teeder . Christine . Northwood Wahpeton Killdeer ... Kenmare Beulah .. Carrington Cleveland Courtenay Lakota . Noonan Valley City Brinsmade Celo Walum - . Grafton Mandan Michigan Beach .. Di¢kinson Lisbon. .. Reynolds Rugby Bowesmont Roseville» ....... sees 10,750 Large claims paid in North Dakota are noted as follows: \ BISMARCK Robert H. Treacy .. ++ «$12,556 Name not given ......0....... 10,188 BRINSMADE Anna D. Beissbarth .......... 10,040 CELO Charles Anderson Caraway.... 10,000 FARGO Josiah C. Turner ........5.05 23,000 GRAND FORKS Name not given ...........0., 14,785 .. HARVEY Robert C. ‘Reimche ....., see 10,000 LANGDON George W. Price ............. 18,002 “MINOT Ralph J. Piper ...........0.. 11,300 REEDER Oliver Berg ............ seceee 19,000 i WALUM Nicolai Swenson ... + 10,225 WILLIST Edwin A. Palmer + 15,027 Sep soe arcane Mrs. Anne Royall, was the first Am- rican woman’ journalist and editor; publishing The Washington Paul Pry Pee D. Ci, in the year wt a