The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 19, 1919, Page 4

“FOUR ) MANN, - - - - © 8 Foreign Represent G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, UBICAGO, . . . . DETROIT, magus Bile MEW YORE, eee MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ted Press is exclusively entitled to th® se! <keptical of Lodge, Penrose, and other opposition ‘The Associat for publication of all news credited to it or not ted im this herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are reserved, MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION BUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year.........sssseeee sevecees . ss ww 6 »;ment on this league and treaty question is that, | P i i BURNELAND parE Ave. Bids. while the people do not know as much a they paper and also the local mews published |/eaders cf their ilk, and would put the Wilson $7.20 | Possible. going to have anything to say about it are that small group of mostly wind-jammers and job-| holders in Washington known as the U. S. Senate?! * *# « j A common-sense understanding of public senti- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE peace by peoples” if the only Americans who are UNABLE 10 WORK Hietered at the Postoftice, Bismarck, N. D, as Becond Clase Mattar, ie should about them, they trust Wilson, are darned program over pretty pronto if they had the say. and done with, and out of the way, as soon as FOR 18 MONTES | Dudley Felt Like His Muscles Were} . Tied in Knots He Says “At the time I began taking Taniac| I had not been able to hit a lick of work in eighteen months.” said N. H. Dudiey,a well known empl Their main i would be to get the business over, | Badger. Lumber Company, living at 313} ao 3 *| Newton street, Kansas City, Mo, re] “I was so afflicted with rheumat- ism,” he continued, “that I had to have) RCK - DAILY TRIBUNE Tanlac Ends Trouble hat. ee of the) Daily by mail, per year (In Bismarck)...... sevees 1.20 Going on statements of progressive senators} help to get my clothes on and off. My| Daily by mail, per year (In state outside Bismarck) 5.00 ae A ; B or scleg Seemed contract, or draw| 2 Daily by mail outside of North Dakota...,......++ 6.09|that,with the president's backing, legislation for) Tp until thes felt like they’ were tied =e 3 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER, a national referendum could be put over in a week,|in knots and the pain was almost un-| Sar baaieeine tonight ta his fi d (Established 1878) ja stand for such a referndum would undoubtedly | bearable. When I tried to walk around) ),tect “pew comedy entitled “Love.” .conridaence. > WHEN YOUR MAIL IS LATE, DON’T PUT ALL} THE BLAME ON BURLESON Your mail’s late. All mail’s late And so you cuss Burleson, Wait a bit. Burleson’s only one man. He couldn’t disorganize the entire postal service. He’s not a good enough. disorganizer. Then what’s the trouble? BIG. trouble. Simply this: POSTAL EMPLOYES DON’T GET LIVING WAGES. And so they quit. And the government can’t hire enough good men to take their places Which means the men are overworked. And that means MORE men quit. men that remain see their former fellows getting more money and making good in other work, and they begin to realize there’s no future, no advance- ment in their postoffice positions. So they lose their pep—and your mail keeps getting later and later.) Present salaries in postal work were fixed by congress in 1912—two years before the war. Railway mail clerks, for instance, start at $1100 a year. That was a fairly good salary, to start on, in 1912. But a railway mail clerk must know the names of all the postoffices in several states and how they are reached by mail routes. Some ofthe larger states contain nearly 2000 postoffices. So that applicants for jobs as railway mail clerk} must keep in his head several thousand postoffices and how to reach them. And the government pays such men $1100 a year. A superintendent of the railway mail service, with 1300 to 2000 men working under him, and controlling railway car space that costs the government $10,000,000, gets $3500 a year. Such men out in: thebusiness world command, $5000 to $20,000 a year. Of thirty-six who take the preliminary ex- aminations for posts in the railway mail service, only six (on the average) qualify, and of these six only one will take the job when they discover what they’re up against. The loyalty of the railway mail employes can be gauged when you know that many of them have been more than 25 years in the service. And conditions in the railway mail service are repeated in other branches of the postoffice. Certainly it’s up to congress to improve the mail service in the only possible way—by fixing salaries that will attract high-class men to the work and keep those that are already in it. Booting Burleson won’t bring faster mails. PAY THE MEN! The federal. reserve board assures us that prices are lower. These government agencies have a way of getting information of which the public is profoundly ignorant. GREAT STEP FORWARD President Wilson is making powerful speeches in the course of his tour. A thing about them that has chiefly appealed is the fact he has for- saken high-sounding, pedantic language, to a large.extent, for such phrases as “put up or shut up” and “I am no quitter.” He wishes to identify himself as one of the folks. He is getting by with it evidently, as far as the folks are concerned. But the Republican party, through utterances of Senator Lodge, say otherwise as to the senate. And the senate, when all is said and done, has the ratifying to do—under our! present time-honored ‘scheme of things. Lodge glibly announces the fight for amendments and reservations, in one form or another, is already won—in the senate. He points to the defalcation of erstwhile “admin- istration” senators. We know nothing of the ac- curacy of his figures; we only say he says it. But that isn’t the point. The point is as follows, and might be a valuable one for Wilson to consider. No matter what success Wilson has with his audiences on the road, it is “business as usual” in the senate, regardless. And that business, stripped of its verbal camouflage, remains, as always, largely the business of party politics The only difference is that this year it looks to the We'll tell you the! And the good, loyal, efficient | | course technically such a referendum would be even the senate could not afford to ignore. | would live in the annals of history. |sees no demands for raises and no new strikes |i begun. The danger that the heart of Europe may bei , broken doesn’t worry the man who is trying to! |figure out a way to buy his winter coal. | | Se i | Each nation was sure that God was fighting | ‘on its side, but oddly enough no one of them has |- |yet staged a great celebration in His honor. | os | The future school boy, reading that war is a) | crime and peace a duty of man, will wonder why | | we gave Pershing such an enthusiastic welcome. | | | | If there is organized propaganda to discourage | | intervention in Mexico, it would be a good idea to} distribute the literature in that strip of territory | 50 miles south of the Rio Grande. Wilson said that the covenant would keep our | troops from crossing the Atlantic. Poindexter! doubts it, because our troops are now in Siberia. | Where did he get the notion that troops cross the} | Atlantic to get to Siberia? | M’CUMBER FACES FORWARD Separate a public official from his partisanship and there is the possibility of a statesman. Get a senator to disagreeing with the colleagues of his own party and you are getting a real opinion. Such is the separation of sentiment which has taken place between Senator McCumber and the other republican members of the foreign relations| committee on the subject of the treaty. And the| North Dakota solon’s individual minority report it the one clear beacon between the mad partisanism of the Lodge following and the blind subserviency of the president’s following. Senator McCumber’s attitude on reservations is that which has been expressed many times in these columns. It is that the senate committee’s reservations, while for the most part sound in principles, “are couched in a defiant, discourteous and overbearing manner, and seem intended to ex- press a jingoistic spirit that ought to be elimi- nated from American statesmanship.” One of the best things in the McCumber report is the author’s manner of tearing the mask of hypocrisy from the motives which inspired the amendment on the Shantung clause. Here is a transaction that could have pleased nobody outside of Japan. Yet high-minded men have tolerated it for the sake of the larger good which was to be accomplished in bringing Asia into the organiza- tion for world peace. And now Senator McCum- ber points out that it will be far better for China to be temporarily separated from the peninsula and to be protected hereafter by the influence of the league of nations than to be left alone in the Orient with an untrammeled Japan—a bird, as it were, locked in a room with a cat. _ But the psychology of the stacked foreign re- lations committee is best set forth in calling at- tention to the entirely negative character of the majority report. It aims to construct nothing, but seeks what it may destroy for the gratfication of political animus. “Not one word is said, not a single allusion made,” declares the report, “con- cerning either the great purpose of the league of nations or the methods by which those purposes are to be accomplished.” There is the real incompetency of the commit- tee’s attitude and action. It has criticized and sought flaws, making minor defects the reason for the abandonment of an enterprise which the higher conscience and courage of the world have 1920 elections instead of to elections of some other|demanded. Senator McCumber is facing forward, date and year. Folks in Iowa cheer till their|and, despite the noisy objections of various cliques throats are sore, but does that cut any ice with|who fear the endangerment of pet interests or the Iowa senators? Not noticeably. — What is the use of “going to the people” on who nurse petty hates, we believe the vast ma- jority of the American people are with Senator a proposition in which said people are to have no|McCumber and Senators Kellogg and Nelson— voice? What is the meaning of the phrase “a’ facing forward.—St. Paul Dispatch, 3 | or do @ little light work the small of | (/ rt” with Peggy Hyland] jbe the shortest cut the president could take. Of! my back and hips achal So bad I would | “Cowardice TD ES petereetaie| simply have to lie down, " indi i i nights I couldn't stay in bed. the pain RRR eee jnon- binding and advisory, but practically, and to|was so'severe. Along with the rheum- { i 5 it w jatism Ifalso suffered from all intents and purposes, it would be a mandate |to. ana nerrone ‘and had nojter shape then I have been jeppetite- I was on pe 4 jon | dition and. as nothing ever helped me, difference.” But such a stand and such a consummation |} bad lost nearly all hope of getting! |would be much more than a short cut to action. |any better. A « 1. simoni: It would be a great step forward in democracy, | .cmome telline how tsimenial which consists in the people doing their own |rid cf rheumatism b thinki fA “i Hai ignat |So Ibegan taking th hinking and exercising their own signatory | ..4 before my first rights. It would be an example to the world that neticed. a consider: jAty appetite was Count that day lost whose low descending sun lf LITT R ES a RAPE. and so@e ited at the Bismarck Theatre. stomach fine every night. In fact I am in bet-} in five! a miserable con- years and Tanlac is what has made the Tanlac is sold in Bismarck by Jos.! Breslow, in Driscoll by N. D. and J. H. from Barrette and in Wing by H. P. Homan. Advt, d gotten Tanlac, myself AT DICKINSON me improvemen' Tr, my nerves matic pains be- ina few weeks | ape to where ¢. lost a day Eqitor, The Tribune, © atism has} Bismarck, N. D. * and BY | Dear Sir: shape. My} J] want to compliment The Tribune | dailies. %) P. EOP. LE’S FORUM | | appreciates the view from the Country —+ jmy own. on me with the years. “THE Best Tires made” is the widespread comment of dealers and users. Fisk Tires are uniformly de- pendable for mileage, appearance and general satisfaction under any conditions. 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D., Phone 189 for Beulah iclub, because his judgment supports It is a rare. panorama spread out there, a view that grows The second floor of the capitol also is a fine vant- etime and I sleep/on the dignified and complete hand-|28¢ Point and Bismarckers ought to