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‘Tri of | exp cok Am vet: the son Cay Cor De cee ma hel sta un sec ha the on ilit ito Po the joi ta the he mi th phe tnenicaensns cain omcenininatgaont nbn aseecscxes - FOUR DIA ANZ. 16.18 87 AMeneveres spe BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE : THURSDAY, SEPT. 25, 1919. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Batered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN, - - - - - = Méiter Foreign Representatives GAN PAYNE COMPANY, auc, ‘DETROTE, Marquette Bids. oe“ SUENS AND MIT Te NEWYORK, - + 1 - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Si The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to thd use for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise graded in this published paper and also the local news All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are See EME F CIRCULATION MEMBER AUD&T BUREAU O! BUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Pally by.eavtler, per von Bismarck) 12. «$7.20 mal er year n sMarck).« . Daily by mail, bees thas (In state outside Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by mail outside of North Dakota. i..seeresee 6. JHE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER, (Established 1878) BES EXCESS BAGGAGE Officers in the army and navy are highly im- portant. Indeed were the regulations, acts of congress and military code considered final all there is to the army and navy is the officer. They are decked out in fine linen and gilt and ribbons and dress words, and on gala days their effulgent presence lights up’the dark side of the street like a three call fire in a butcher shop. And if you confer with these gentlemen you will be further grounded in your impression that they not only uphold the service in their hands, but that the sole trouble with army and navy is that efficient officers, meaning their sort of offi- cers, are not to be had in sufficient quantities. Never a word about the buck soldier or the lowly gob. But if you want to discover the real lad of im- portance, so far as the folks back home are con- cerned, you want to get acquainted with a rear rank lad, or a lowly gob. Visit any coast city when the fleet arrives and see who gets the popular applause. It’s the gob, the homely, smiling, long suffering, despised gob. Officers may come and go in all their glory and the street crowds do not enthuse, but let a few companies of marines march past, or a few dozen gobs go swinging along and cheers burst out like bombs. And all the officers in the navy could march until their pretty brown boots were worn through and through and nobody would get hoarse over them. The gob and the world knows that he is the important lad, and that not only is there a hundred of him for every officer, but that without him there would be no navy, not if there, were a hun- dred officers to his solitary. Buck private and gob, they have a tough time, but when they get ashore, or out on leave, they get a welcome that atones for all the slings of out- rageous fortune. An officer is an officer and, presumably, a gentleman; a gob is a gob and a he man besides. = READ THIS TO YOURS If you have children read this to them. Read it several times. Impress it upon their memory. For it may be the word of warning little children in crowded city streets need. Too many of them are being hurt—AND KILLED— in street acci- dents. It is all well and good to warn drivers of auto- mobiles, trucks and delivery wagons. They MUST , be careful. They MUST help us guard the lives of our children. But let us not forget to teach the lesson of safety to our children. Such a lesson is contained in the following sug- gestions made by Raymond W. Pullman, superin- tendent of police, Washington, D. C. He asks children— Do not play in the street where there is heavy vehicle traffic. Never step off the sidewalk into the street without first looking up and down the street to make sure no vehicle of any kind is near. Do not cross the street diagonally or in the middle of the block ; wait until you come to a cross- ing at the end of the block and then cross at right angles. Under no conditions catch hold of any moving vehicle. Many children are maimed and killed each year as a result of this practice. Do not attempt in any way to steal a ride on any vehicle. Do not touch any part of an automobile stand- ing in the street. Look out for motorcycles; look both ways, for the motorcycle comes quickly and often without warning. Do not play on street car tracks or near them. Do not put your head or arms out of the open window of a street car. Do not try to get on or off of a street car while it is moving. Wait until it stops. Do not cross close behind a street car or auto- mobile. Something may be coming from the other direction. Do not run across in front of a street car. Something may be coming on the other side. Do not play or walk on railroad tracks, or climb on freight or passenger trains. Do not play with matches. Work to prevent fires. Do: not get close to a bonfire started in the open. Do not light.a match if you smell gas in a room. Find some older person and tell him. ——Denoiclimbonice wagons, This is dangerous. The horses may start off sud- denly and you may be crushed by falling ice. Never, at any time or place, touch a swinging wire that is in the air or on the ground. Do not go near such a wire, for if it is a live electric wire, with the power on, you may be killed or badly burned if touched by it. CRISIS HAS BEEN REACHED In past centuries, famine came after war as regularly as night follows day. No profound study is required to see what havoc war brings to the economic system, with producers becoming destroyers; with present resources drained and the future mortgaged. Disturbance, resulting in distressing increases 00|in the cost of necessities, has shaken the world since the signing of the armistice. During the war, mounting prices were not keenly felt be- cause of general excitement and a child-like faith that, immediately the fighting was done, these prices would tumble down. After the civil war, the discrepancy between prices and average income was much greater than it is now. In the present situation, the crisis has been reached. If the people of the United States behave wisely, the worst is past. This is not idle optimism. ‘Cold figures back up the statement. The bureau of statistics, department of labor, in its monthly review has issued a table showing the rate of increase in the cost of necessities from December, 1914, to June, 1919. In themselves, these figures do not appear especially cheerful. Analyzed, they yield an im- portant fact. Food prices, from December, 1914, to Decem- ber, 1918, increased 78.72 per cent. But in the period from December, 1914, to June, 1919, the increase was 73.29 per cent. It fell off 5.43 per cent. : Over the same periods, clothing prices (for men) declined at precisely the same rate and there was a slight decline in the costs of fuel and light. On other items, such as housing, there has been an increase, but when all items of necessity are considered this highly significant truth is appar- ent: The rate of increase in the cost of living is declining; the slackening process is at work. It will gather momentum until a normal plane is reached. This gradual improvement is much better than a collapse would be, with the inevitable panic, non- employment and commercial disaster. Washington reports a cut in vegetable prices from all big market centers. In comparisons of 182 meat prices between July 28 and August 11, 107 cuts were found. America has used much of her resources to feed Europe. The bumper grain crop abroad will benefiit us and, as Hoover says, “Europe has PASSED THROUGH the worst famine since the 30 years war.” Profiteers, like buzzards, follow the course of armies. After a conflagration or an earthquake, looters prowl. It is the duty of government to check and to punish the profiteer, and it is the duty of govern- ment to lend all possible aid to oppressed con- sumers. It is the consumer’s duty to keep cool! Strict economy, a boycott on useless frills and a keen eye to detect and defeat profiteering are the weapons of the wage-earner and the house- wife in the war against exploitation. Meanwhile, natural laws are bringing about reform. Common sense is the ally of those laws! Whenever a man decides on a course of action, his next task is to convince himself that God is on his side. Cincinnati Reds won the pennant by tactics the exact opposite of those employed by the other kind of Reds. Whatever one may think of strikes, he must admit that the difference between labor and Labor is organization. Oregon citizeris gave Wilson two deer. They will make fine pets if he guards them as carefully as he does his goat. It is not unusual for\a thing to lodge against some obstruction, but it is rather unusual for an obstruction to be a Lodge. Just as a reminder, the new Hun republic should adopt as a coat of arms a crutch and a wooden leg crossed on a yellow field. It was well to hold that Pershing parade in Washington. It gave a lot of uniformed chair- warmers an opportunity to see some regular sol- diers, Senator Williams calls the president’s frequent changes of mind “‘magnificent common sense.” Is his last opinion always more magnificent than the one it displaces? - Congress wouldn’t give Blackjack Pershing a sword, and considering what happened to dough- boy prisoners it would have been poor taste to . Jeascara, glycerine and nine other sim- ple igrédients, os Beestow, dragelt. wi eZ ‘Z |Z Z B i AN \\ \ f E 4 & te I PEOPLE’S FORUM i ae Message to Catholics : Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 20, 1919. Editor Bismarck Tribune: Pope Benedict XV has through Car- dinal Gasparri, the secretary of state, addressed to the German Ventral Ver- ein, a Catholic association of Ameri- can Catholics.of German descent, a letter which ought to be of interest to all Americans. For this reason I wish to put before the readers of The Trib- une some of the most important pas- sages: “It is alas, only too true that the} cruel world war which has so com- pletely dividedythe human race into! two opposite camps, has left behind it ; a trail of hate among the nations. And yet the world cannot possibly enjoy the blessed fruits of peace for any length of time unless that hatred be entirely blotted out and all the nations be brought together again in the sweet bonds of Christian brotherhood. “To bring this about the Catholics in a more particular manner must lend themselves, since they are al- ready closely united in the mystical body of Christ, and should therefore constantly give té others an example of Christian charity. “Consequently, the Holy Father, to whose heart there is nothing dearer than the real reconciliation of the na- tions, and who has already addressed himself on this subject to the bishops of Germany, he now appeals to you in order that you, too, may co-operate in such a noble mission. Moreover, knowing the dreadful conditions under which our brethren in Germany are now living, the Sovereign Pontiff im- plores you most fervently to lend them eyery assistance, material as well as moral, and in the quickest and most effective way, especially facilitating the early resumption of commerce and all those benefits that naturally follow in its wake. To this invitation the Holy Father feels certain that not only you will gladly respond, but all the children of your generous country without any distinction whatever, for surely they will be mindful of the great services their fellow citizens of German birth and descent rendered their country during this war. In this way they will become real benefactors of the human race and draw down up- on their own nation Almighty God’s choicest blessing.” To these words of the Pope’s mes- sage I wish to add some words, spoken by Archbishop Mundelein to the Ger- man-American Central Verein: fair and impartial he has a right to speak fearlessly today and show us what is the real problem and our duty of the moment. And just because you, men to whom his message is ad- dressed, have proven yourselves faith- ful and loyal, no one has a right to criticize you if you courageously carry out his appeal to bring about the heal- ing of the wounds of war, the recon- ciliation of the races of the earth and the early cessation of a propaganda of hate that a small number of men Adler-i-ka Again! “After using Adler-I-ka I am entire- ly cured of chronic bowel trouble.! I can eat good and work every day. My neighbor is also using it with wonder- ful results.” (Signed) Mrs. T. H. Smith, Adler-i-ka flushes) BOTH upper and lower bowel so completely’ it ‘relieves ‘ANY CASE gas on, the stomach or sour stomach, Removes a surprising amount of: foul, decaying matter from the alimentary canal (which poisoned stomach for months). Often CURES constipation. Prevents appendicitis, The INSTANT pleasant action of Adler-i-ka astonishes both' doctors and patiens, It ig'd'mixture of buckthorn, “Just because the Pope has been aM A MERRY CHASE would perpetuate for selfish reasons, and the sharing with others, in adver- sity of the blessings we‘have in pros- perity.” Respectfully yours, VINCENT WEHRLE, Bishop of Bismarck. “Pooling Troubles.” Editor, Tribune, Bismarck, N. D. Sir: The following incident may throw some light upon the’ cause of the ad- vocacy of the projected League of Na- tions which is so pronounced in in- fluential circles. I relate it precisely as ‘it occurred. ! Early last.May there. called upon me at my office a Mr. J. J. O'Neill, | whose engraved card described him as : London’ Manager of the Manchester Guardian, of Manchester, England. Mr. O’Neill, who was’a stranger to me, immediately introduced the sub- ject of the League of Nations and, took me to task because of my op- position to. that project. Upon in- quiring of him. why:.an: Englishman should be in this country instructing an American ‘in the.latter’s national duty, and receiving no clear answer, | I asked him bluntly what was the actual purpose of his visit to the United States. He replied that he was here upon a mission connected with the internationalization of the war debt. I asked him if he meant me to understand that he.-was here upon the business of inducing’ the! United States to guarantee the war debt of the nations recently at war, including that of Great Britain, and that of Germany. He said that he was. I told him that he would find little sentiment in this country favor- able to such a project. This seemed tb surprise him: ‘he said that I was the first American he had met who did not favor it. I then asked him whom he had seen, and'he replied that upon the previous day he had seen J, P, Morgan, and that. Mr. Mor- gan had expressed himself. as being in favor of the plan. Whether this was or was, not correct statement of Mr. Morgan’s MAKES A ZN FELLER dizzy: position I have no means of knowing. But it might be valuable at this time to inquire publicly what plans, if any, are afoot to induce Europe’s pro- posed new partner—the United States —to assume the obligations: of the financially hard-hit members of the projected co-partnership, who are about to open the business of pooling their troubles’ under the title of the League of Nations. Yours very truly, H. A. Wisewood. ee a ee |. POETS’ CORNER | +. —— KEEP THE FAITH Where poppies-blow in Flanders fields, And crosses lift their black arms high, The guns are hushed, the dead boys sleep, ‘ In blankets wrapped, in twilights dee, Beneath the low-hung, shrouding sky. They died, in fearful pain, that War ;Should curse the world with blood no more ; That Peace, in ages sweet and still, ; Might speak to men of love, good-will, And reign, for aye, on sea and sHlore, And we, who see the morning sun , Light up the earth with rays’ of. gold, Who living, love, and smile, and weep, Shall we break faith with those. who sleep ; Awaken them whosd gift we hold? MURRAY KETCHAM KIRK. THE LIFE YOU GAVE : In the chill, wan light of the shrouding dusk The great ships stole far ‘out ‘to sea; And the aching depths of-my heart were filled With fear, and empty memory. * Where the huge guns shrieked to the tortured skies And _ poppies serene the blood-stained sod— In the dying light of the awful day Your bright soul fled to seek its God. Did you whisper there to the blowing grass MISTERCCSRK, How ABOUT A NieS ROO ii sre gh cy —— BEAUTY SECRETS! Whereshe gets her ‘| good looks, | her‘heal- " every one, because it is apparent that it is not due to cosmetics, paint and powder. But the true womanly beauty comes from good health, and this good health is a woman’s pore. . * Health comes with good phys- ical machinery and good spirits, ‘an active digestion. A body free from pains and aches comes with’ © tonic known for over fifty years’ hs the best “temperance” tonic gad nervine for woman—namely, pr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. ut can be obtained in any drug ‘store in liquid or tablet form, or’ send 10c to Dr. Pierce Invalids’, Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y. : Cleansing of the intestinal tract is important. Take castor oil or select a vegetable pill. Such a one is composed of: May-apple, leaves of aloe; root of jalap, and made into tiny sugar-coated pel- lets, to be had at every drug store as D,. Pierce’s Pleasant, Pellets. That Right must rule, that Might. is vain? For your spirit moves in restless winds And cries‘aloud in summer rain. Yet, if far Beyond, like the dawn’s first gold, 4 Eternal Peace for men shall wait; Till the streams run dyst and the stars glow dim Your deed’ shall crown, you great. . And the death-filled skies—-they sha'l bend, my son, O’er quiet cities on the plain; For the life you gave shall pledged to men Their shining fields of yellow grain. MURRAY: KETCHAM KIRK. Lambs Devoured by Wildcats Because Bounty.°Too Small New Brunswick May Incréase Ward for Pelts to $10 to Eradicate Beasts sainted, have St. John, N. B., Sept, 25.—Wildcats haye become a plague in New Bruns- wick, ‘this year and residents in. rucal sections are urging that the provincial government increase the bounty from three dollars to ten dollars. The lat- ter bounty is paid! in the state of Maine and it is claimed that - pelt hunters, south, of. the border, gee to it that the American. supply never be- comes much of a burden. Hundreds of lambs have been killed by the cats in this province and, deer have been harrassed, Robert Lowe, a guide in the Shogomos region, came upon a litter) of wild ‘kittens recently. The mother appeared on the scene and a terrific battle ensued.’ Lowe was the winner but he declared that he pur- ticipated in considerable fight and his appearance corroborated his — state- ment, » Nova Scotia’s scourge this year is the forest tent caterpillar. So wide- spread Was the damage that farmers thought the pest was the army worm and a goverment invéstigation was made. 8,000,000 ACRES FOR SETTLERS Madison, Wis., Sept. 25.—Kight mil- lion acres of Wisconsin land are avail- able for farm colonization, according to announcement by A. R. Whitson, director of the state soils survey. 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