The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 27, 1919, Page 4

i € ¢ 1 8 t q f e 2 || CEE, EE RE gees FOUR PAREN BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE TURDAY, SEPT: 27, 1919. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE —<—<$<$<—— Batered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D. as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN, - - - - - « miter Foreign Representatives GAN PAYNE COMPANY, amICAGo,” te . . . . DETROFY, Marquette Bldg. Cenc wolae saat) Kresge . Ptynr, BURNS AND SMITH NEW_ YORE, Caen GARG Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ted Press is exclusively entitled to the use The Associa lication of all news credited to it or not o! Te Rea Gils paper and also the local.mews published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are eT U OF CIRCULATION ER AUDIT BUREA SUBSCRE (PTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year..... see eeeaee oo eee S720 Daily il, per year (In Bismarck). soeens 1.20 Daily by mail; per year (In state outside Bismarck) 5.00 by_mail outside of North Dakota.........+++ 6.00 | THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER, (Established 1878) IF WE WERE HOGS Congress has done absolutely nothing with the Harding-Fess flu investigation measure, despite the pleas of layman and physician alike. Every health official in the United States has urged the necessity for such an investigation. The Ameri- can Medical association, including the nation’s best doctors, has begged congress to appropriate but a few millions to aid doctors, nurses, hospitals, and the people in fighting the dreaded recurring influenza epidemic. And congress has done nothing to aid. The bill still lies ina committee pigeon hole. “If it were hogs instead of humans affected congress would have appropriated millions of dol- lars and an army of the world’s leading experts would long ere this, be assembled and working to; save the hogs.” That is the opinion of Dr. C. St. Clair Drake, director of the Illinois department of public health. We think the doctor is right. If the flu had killed 500,000 hogs last year (it did kill that many hu- mans) congress would have appropriated five mil- lion dollars in five minutes to find the best.preven- tative and curative remedies. However, it was only humans that were flu victims! And congress doesn’t seem to worry much over a little thing like human life. ——— WHY U. S. TROOPS ARE IN SIBERIA Congressional demogogues continue to howl about the troops in Siberia. This is cheap stuff and very safe. Of course no responsible government official can tell these fellows out in public why the army is in Siberia. But everybody who has taken the trouble to look into it ought to know by now why it was sent and why it’s there. Secretary Baker could tell, if a private citizen, the whole story in just about these words: “We sent our army over there and are keeping it there to keep the Japa- nese from burgling the house while the Russian owner is in the sanitarium for the delirium trem- ens. There is a lot of valuable property there ly- ing loose with no protector and it is to the interest of all civilized nations that it be preserved and eventually returned either to its rightful owner or his heirs.” To say nothing of the interest of the white race in preventing the Japanizing of this vast region which should be destined for the occupancy of white men—as it is a white man’s climate and grows the white man’s food crops. Baker can’t say this for obvious reasons—and so the crocodile tears and the faked denunciations | continue in congress. THE WHY OF IT Until we recently happened on the informa- tion we have met no one who appeared to know why the overseas cap was the sort of a thing it was. To look at that peaked bit of flannel, that ap- parently gives no protection from sun or weather ;| a thing, with such shape as it has apparently in the wrong place; an elusive, slipping thing, with- out form and void, one would imagine that a mad- man designed it. And yet, when you know the real use of the cap, you discover that it is the only sort of a rig that would answer the purpose. Primarily this cap was meant to wear under the tin hat; the helmet. It was a sort of pad, especially thick fore and aft, to butress the skull from the shock the helmet suffered when shrapnel or direct blows pounded it. Seen in the proper perspective the overseas cap navy, the marines, has been changed to the khaki. Not all the camouflage was on the big guns and the transports by/any means. The greater part of the argument concerning the league looks no further ahead than 1920. They didn’t become landlords because they had bristles on their backs. The bristles grew after they became landlords. We will believe that the world is safe for de- mocracy when diplomats in Europe no longer wear knee pants and silk stockings. There’s one consolation about the present high level of rents. Our doughboys proved that living out of doors is healthier, anyway. ; The reason modern schools don’t teach a child to spell is because they are too busy teaching him something he will never have occasion to use. We have a League for Peace in our family. We raise children with love instead of the rod. It works fiine until one of them needs a licking. Of course you understand that the public must pay for all this propaganda the packers are put- ting out to prove that the public doesn’t pay too much for meat. The old world is getting wiser all the time. You see very few advertisements now telling how to get rich raising ginseng in the basement and squabs in the back yard. WITH THE EDITORS | WHAT THE STRIKE PROVES In the number and conflict of the dispatches re- porting the progress of the steel strike, it is impossible to get a clear and sure knowledge of all the facts. It is like the early official bulletins of two armies about to join battle. Extravagant claims and counter-claims are put out. We shall have to wait a few days to be certain whether the strike is going to fail or not. And we cannot shut our eyes to the danger which may arise from in-} flammable material and incendiary men. It is best} to be prepared in our minds for bad news of rioting and disorder. While the situation is still unde- cided, it is undeniably critical. What a day may bring forth, no man can tell. But the events already before us establish afew .conclusions which there need be no hesitation in stating. It is now wholly evident that the strike was called on the sole issue of unionizing the mills of | the Steel corporation. All the rest was pretense. There were no real grievances. There was no honest demand for higher wages or better working} conditions. Mr. Fitzpatrick and the other leaders | of the outside labor organizations played the part of reckless gamblers. They did not know how many of the employes of the Steel corporation would support the strike. On that subject they virtually admitted at the end that they had all along been bluffing. It was not of the workers but of their own organization, their own power, that they were thinking. Representing the most radical and unsettling element in the American Federation of Labor, they were challenging Mr. Gompers, who had beaten them in the convention at Atlantic City, as truly as they were challenging Judge Gary. Their policy throughout was rule or ruin. This is now perfectly transparent—New York Post. THE “BALANCE OF POWER” IN INDUSTRY If there is any plan of preserving world peace that is thoroughly discredited it is the “balance of power” idea. Europe tried to preserve peace by the “balance of power” idea. That meant that Europe was divided into two armed camps, each always grow- ing stronger and more bristling with guns, each watching the other jealously. In time this pro- duced the long-drawn tragedy of 1914 to 1918. Unless the league of nations, a plan of general co-operation for peace, goes through and succeeds, civilization must fall back on the old “balance of power” plan, and will inevitably do it all over again on a deadlier scale than ever. The balance of power idea is wrong—hideously wrong. It forces the very wars it pretends to be guarding against. ' Industry in America today is trying the “bal- ance of power” idea. Employers and workers gen- is a most sensible bit of gear, and admirably suit-erally are divided into two armed camps, with ed to its real purpose. That seems to be the chief difference between modern uniforms and those of a few years ago. Until this war soldiers’ gear was ornate; tail- ored fancies, with the dress parade idea carried into the field outfit. Gradually we have been getting away from that. We started way back when the Boers picked off the English officers because of their gold lace and bright swords and fancy uniforms. Gradually we disguised the fighting men, toned down their uniforms to match the dust and the dead grass and the far horizon. : We abolished the scarlets and the bright blues and the dark colors, just as before we abolished the bearskin shakos, the rows of brass buttons, and the flaring insignia of rank. The navy uniforms have suffered slight change, and the gob is rigged about as the jack more or less war going on between them all the time. Some day, perhaps soon, the inevitable con- flict between them will grow into a general battle for supremacy—a fight to a finish. Two hostile armed camps cannot long abide side by side with- out conflict. It is the hope of every thoughtful American that the industrial conference that meets in Wash- ington soon will work out a better plan than the “balance of power” to stabilize the relations be- tween wage-payers and wage-earners, to insure justice to each, and to create a livable basis of industrial relations that will let industry go ahead at full speed, unterrified and unchecked by the constant threat of industrial war. It CAN be done, and if those who,join in it leave behind their prejudices, their class antagon- isms and their blindness to the other fellow’s troubles and attack this greatest of all pending problems as ata it a THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME hen JouN, | waar To Ask You A SIMPLE QUESTION ~ ANswer Yes or No ’ How Do You LIKE This wew WAT? ROOSEVELT SAID HE WAS TOO OCCUPIED WITH GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS TO WORRY ABOUT ASSASSINS AFTER HE WAS SHOT | . + ually as well as materially, on the’ Interesting Insight on the Great average better and not worse off than American’s Life Shown in His|they were 100 years ago.” | ‘ “Each man knows where his own Letters to Sir Trevelyan, Eng: shoe pinches. I have had a most! lish Author and Statesman. | vivid realization of what it must have | ;meant to Abraham Lincoln, in the i eee aT a }midst of the heartbreaking anxieties New York, Sept. elving into of the Civil War, to have to take up! the mine of 150,000 letters which The-| his time trying to satisfy candidates odore Roosevelt wrote during his pub-|for postmaster.” lic career, Joseph Bucklin Bishop, the; “There are numerous and grave coonels wuperepnee, in the October | evils incident to free government, but to lignes Ree. ie ‘agazine, in the | aiter. all is said and done I cannot} intimate cacieepamlence. between fhe HaEinE any. real ahee being. willing to former President of the United States| " “gonodict arnold’ Waete base web and Sir George Otto Trevelyn, Bart.,! was shot through the woof of his| O. M. English stateman and author, | yj i . mihect wide: with "ehuie Wha ‘great American ef | wild daring! He was at heart a Luci- joyed a rare friendship covering 29 | £2 aay jculla: oF thunder ene never | aif <"\of the battle’s hottest heat.’ rks Bishop's “The more I read Carlyle the more Mr. Bishop’ Spe the second of | hearty grows my contempt for his pro- entitled “Roosevelt and {found untruthfulness and for his Trevelyn,” reveals the - many-sided king dei! e. Roosevelt as “an@nsatiable reader of eae aad evens anata votlic books.” his warm'sympathy for auth-' men who get nervous about assassi-,| os and. his brpad and profound | nation. (Written shortly after the at-, npwled eect ancient and modern lit-/tack upon his life in Milwaukee in| erature. Even amid the cares of the'912.) For the last 11 years, I have, | Presidency, Mr. Roosevelt, it is shown,/ 7 course; understood that I might | maintained a regnlar correspondence! a¢ any time be shot and probably. with leaders of literary and intellec-| would be shot some time. I think I tual life’ both in’ this gountry and pave come off uncommonly well. I ‘urope. In Sir George Trevelyan, a) cannot understand an rt i & in, a} y serious-mind- nephew of the historian Macaulay, he! eq public man not being so absorbed | found a man singtilarly responsive to in the great and vital questions with his own intellectual tastes and knowl-} which he has to deal as to exclude! edge. The correspondence began when | thoughts of assassination. It is not he was Governor. of New York and/, question of courage.” continued until afew months before! Colonet Roosevelt, in what was| ae Roosevelt's coat . any, | Probably one of his last letters to Sir certainly would not be willing Goorge in 1918, referred to the fact to hold the Presidency at the cost Of/that his four sons and a son-in-law failing to do the things which make|were fighting for the Allies. After the real reason why I care to hold it} referring to them in terms of affec- at sub he wrote to Sir George on|tion and that he would not for any- May 28, 1904. “I had much rather|thing “have them anywhere else,” he be a real President for three Years concluded: “I fear we would wel- and a half than a figurehead for sev-| come their return home, each with en years and a half. I think I can} an arm or a le = 2 g off, so that they could truthfully say that I.now have to my/ feel that they had played their parts credit a sum of substantial achieve-|manrully—and yet we could have ment—and the rest must take care! them back!” of itself.” tee ee, Previously, in 1899, Trevelyan had! Natives of northwest Sudan are de- sent Governor Roosevelt a copy of} pendent on tebeldi trees for water in the first part of his history. “The/the dry season. These trees store American Revolution,” which made a!up an average of 340 gallons each. deep impression on its recipient and| which he praised for “its interest, de- lightful humor, absolute fairminded- EVERETT TRUE ness and exactness of narrative,” an opionion which was shared by Sena- tor Lodge and Elihu Toot, both of whom later joined” with Roosevelt in buying a silver loving cup and send-! ing to Sir-George as a token of their} appreciation. Roosevelt, his biogra- pher says, was always on the alert for writers of only “even moderate fame” and of encouraging them with friendly letters and invitations to visit him at the White House or Oyster Bay. The books that made the President happy covered a remarkable range, history, fiction, philosophy, travel, zoology, ornithology, anthropology, re- ligion and art and he said they gave him ease and relaxation he could get in no other way, “not even on horse- back!” Statements and apothegms charac- teristically Rooseveltian abound ‘in this collection of letters. Some of them are here reproduced for the first time in any. newspaper: { “A great free people owes it to it- self and to mankind not to sink into a acd before the powers of evil.” J “Unfortunately for us, small men do most of the historic teaching in the colleges. The great historian must have the scientific spirit, able to marshal and weigh the facts.” “The Presidential office tends to put a premium on @. man’s keep- ing out of trouble rather than upon his accomplishing results. The elec- torate is very apt-to vote with its back to the future” “I do not think the average Amer- ican multi-millionaire a very high type and I do not much admire him. On the whole our people are, spirit- TIMES RINE et Me Sartor Burnt Sore x R ‘Irritated, pane a i |paign that has ever been held in this SOMETIMES YOU SPEAK To EON THE STRECT AND SOME- ON WHO YOURE WITH! MY HEAD! _ When the thick or aches, when one feels all out-of-sorts —perhaps a coated tongue—it is the signal that poisons are accumu- lating in the system, and .should be cleaned out at once. Auto-intoxication can be best ascribed to ‘our own neglect or carelessness. .When the organs fail jin the discharge of their duties, the putrefactive germs set in and generate toxins—actual poisons, which fill one’s own body. Sleepiness after meals, ‘flushing of the face, extreme lassitude, bil- iousness, dizziness, sick headache, acidity of the stomach, heartburn, offensive breath, anemia, loss of weight and muscular power, de- crease of vitality or lowering of resistance to infectious. diseases, disturbance of the eye, dyspepsia, indigestion, gastritis, many forms of catarrh, asthma, ear affections and allied ailments result from ar'to-intoxication orself-poisoning. ‘take castor oil, or procure at the drug ‘store, a pleasant vege- table laxative, called Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets, composed of May-apple, aloes and jalap, Will Invade County to Get Members for Legion Sunday Morn Members to Use Automobile as Final Effort to Sign Up Every Soldier Here As a final sweep in its efforts to secure members for Lloyd Spetz post of the American Legion, the members will invade the county Sunday morn- ing by automobiles and round up every service man living outside of. the city who has not already joined the Bismarck post of the legion. The Crusade is the outcome of a re- commendation made by Capt. H. T. Murphy at the meeting of the post last night and he will have full charge of the details. A meeting will-be held at his office on Third street opposite the post office at which time all members of the legion with and with- out automobiles who will aid in this drive will attend. Up to the present time, the post has obtained over 225 members in a very short time and its is hoped that every service man living in this county will be secured before nightfall Sunday. This will terminate what is probably the most successful membership cam- section. The state convention will be held in Bismarck ‘October 16 and 17 and in order that the Bismarck post can be credited with as many delegates as possible to that convention, it must finish its membership campaign by Sunday night. That is why the members. are going to carry the cam- paign right out into the county Sun- day morning. Special badges will be worn by all “recruiting parties” so that they will be easily identified and all service men living in the county are asked to keep prepared to greet the automobile parties, sign up the membership card, hand over their $2 and cooperate with the other members of the legion to land the state head- quarters of the legion for Bismarck. Hun Guns in Canada, Ottawa—Canada has received 450 guns captured from the Germans and most of them will be given a place in the central war museum in Otta- wa. BY CONDO “ONE DAY DRIVE” FOR FUNDS WILL BE HELD MONDAY American Legion Adopts Novel Method to Defray Enter- tainment Costs The “One Day Drive” to raise funds to defray the cost of providing enter- tainment. for the large crowds that jare expected in Bismarck October 15, 16 and 17, when Burleigh county’s official homecoming celebration is held together with the state convention of the American Legion, will take place Monday and before noon of that day the’ finance committee expects that every cent of the $1500 which the committee expects to raise will be de- posited in the bank. The plan of the drive was evolved by. Major George H.;Russ, Jr., and is probably the best that has ever been prepared for.a like purpose in this city.. Mr, Russ has assessed each firm, business’ house, ‘corporation, private individual and others in the city for the amount they are to contribute to the fund. In this way every one will be expected to furnish a just propor- tion of the expense in comparison with the direct benefits each one will re- ceive from the huge crowds that are expected to be in the city on the three day holiday. 3 At the meeting of the American Legion last night the following-com- mittees were appointed to collect the amounts from the various classes of business: . Banks, G..H. Russ; automobile dealers, .-M..B. Gilman; drygoods, P. Webb and L. Sather; soda fountains, Harold Semling and Murrane; physicans and dentists, Drs. Schipper and Roan; wholesalers, Myron Atkin- son and Ferris Cordner; groceries and butchers, Boyd, Heden, Richholt, Mc- Gettigan and E. McDonald; lumber, hardware, fuel and furniture, Rhud and McPhee; hotels’ and cafes, Paul Jewell, Milo Miller and Thorn Dickin- son; tailors, Fred Graham; florists and stationers, Fred Page; public service corporations, H. T: Murphy;. jewelers and real ‘estate, Frayne Baker; thea- tres, Frank Johnson. The above named men will meet with Major Russ*at the Bismarck bank Monday morning at 9 o’clock. and each men will be given final instruc- tions. By this méthods, Major Russ expects that all of the funds necessary will be raised by ten‘o’clock and that every firm and individual will know he is contributing the same amount to the entertainment fund as his busi- ness associates, A South American orchid Tets down a tube and drinks when it needs water then coils it on top.of the plant when not in use. ; Construction of the first English railway in 1821 had been held up three years because the line ran too | NOU DON'T —DEPENDS THES - AFTER THIS, CUT IT OUT |- close to one of the fox covers of the Duke of Cleveland. febssttkiinecs | Ue Se Canadian guns which fired the last, shots on November 11,'1918, have been given to Mons.‘ Phone 189 for Beulah Coal. tf ‘Wash with weak solu- : tion of bluestone or dime. water,.dry thor- oughly, follow with light appli- cation of— © “ “YOUR BODYGUARD” -SOF, 608, HEDDEN: AGENCY Building site 80x150, Rosser street between First St. and Mandan Ave. Small house, fruit’ trees, south front. $1500 with house; without | Webb Elock—Phone 0.’ head feels | oe eee