The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 9, 1919, Page 4

i EES “recommends that government funds be advanced THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE fa a ate Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. : GEORGE D. MANN, - iH Tait! This policy has been put into effect in New ———— Foreign Representatives York city, where rents have increased an average CHIC. Go" LOGAN hs AX NE) COMP. ANY, ETROIT, of 21 per cent in three years. Striking at profiteer- Marquette Bldg. ® pe ols Kresge’ Bldg.)ing landlords, New York has boosted its real PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK, : - : Fifth Ave, Bldg. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Rt , All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. ees MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year « $7.20 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) i> —— FLYING FLIVVERS Will the airplane be developed in your lifetime to the point where you can use it as you now use an automobile? You often wonder. The answer is, yes, according to W. J. Beach, New York inventor of a vertically-rising airplane. Has the Flying Flivver finally been invented? Amazing as have been the spectacular stunts of flying men, it has been apparent that the air- plane cannot come into common use as long as six acres are needed for the gliding along the ground incident to starting or alighting. The Beach airplane does not require such space. By a system of propellors at the bottom of the machine, it rises directly into the air or lands by dropping like a cork into a bottle. Beach’s demonstration model works. Whether or not his finished product is a success, it empha- sizes that the conquest of the air is going on faster than most of us realize. Here is a Curtiss flyer, Roland Rohlfs. He makes a new altitude record of 34,610 feet above sea level. Ask grandpa what he would have thought, as a boy, of a man flying more than six miles overhead. In London the Great Northern Aerial Syndi- cate is organized. It announces that it will begin next May the world’s first international aerial pas- senger service. It will take you to New York, Liverpool, San Francisco, Buenos Ayres, Cape- town, Pekin. One hundred and fifty passengers will be car- ried on one airship. Here is a Flying Pullman. Will it be a reality before the Flying Flivver? Roy U. Conger, a New York business man, daily makes the trip back and forth between home and office in his private airplane. He is the world’s first “air commuter.” It is only 10 years since the United States gov- ernment became the proud possessor of the world’s first military airplane. Now we celebrate the first anniversary of air mail service. It has carried 7,720,840 letters in one year. The cost of the service was $137,900.06 —less than two cents a letter. How about the upkeep? In flying one death occurs for every 240,000 miles of travel, so the owner of a Flying Flivver will live long enough to be interested in costs. Good airplanes can be purchased as low as $2500. An air chauffeur can be hired for $50 a week; his mechanician for $35. In flying you get about 12 miles out of a gal- Jon of gasoline. Practically no‘tire expense in flying. Costs are favorable to the popularizing of aerial flights. RENTS Profiteering landlords and a shortage of houses are not conditions unique to Bismarck. They are not confined to any city or any state or even the United States. They are world-wide problems. Authorities in the building trades place our national shortage of houses at 1,000,000. They say it will be five years before building operations catch up with the demand. This condition, which renders rent profiteering easy, must not be allowed to drift. Remedies exist. England has tackled’ her housing shortage rough-shod. She will build 250,000 homes in three years by extending government loans to individ- tals through communities. This system is becoming common in Europe. Our nearest approach to it is the United States Housing Corporation. It provided homes for the families of 21,983 war workers at an average cost of 5,067 a family. : A continuance of a government housing cor- poration into peace time is on the program of the American Federation of Labor. The A. F. of L. to home-builders in the form of long-time, low- rates to absorb profiteering increases. estate assessments $200,000,000. under the state income tax. We recommend this attitude to income tax col- lectors generally. Increased income from rentals can easily. be computed and the government take its share of the increased landlords’ earnings that have been created by the activity of the people themselves. Wilson says he will not ask men to stop agitat- ing while things are wrong. And we must remem- ber that things will continue to be agitating while men are wrong. They tell us the treaty may be a daily topic of discussion in the senate until some time in November. At any rate we shall have something to celebrate on Thanksgiving day. at _ WITH THE EDITORS | po: THE NEW DAY It will not be easy for the independent news- paper men of the state during the next eighteen months at least to keep the wolf away from the door, but they are going to make a heroic fight. They will be forced to economize as none econo- mized during the world war. They will wear their old clothes, and many will no doubt say, as Wanzo M. Shaw of Sheldon said the other day: “I am doing my own work now.” They will do all this cheerfully with true American grit for the sake of their principles and to defend the honor of their country, their state, their city and them- that a worse than “Belshazzer’s Feast” is now going on, with the red-card fellows all at the feast, that there will be an awakening, followed by’ a; booting that will kick the whole crowd out of the| state forever.—Lisbon Free Press. | NONPARTISAN BANKING It was expected that the Nonpartisan league would get North Dakota into trouble with its wild) business ideas, but it was not foreseen that these saviors of society would so soon turn out to be bank destroyers of an ignoble sort. The Scandi- navian-American bank of Fargo gave the leaders of the league credit on doubtful security, and the! banking board was compelled to close the doors because of the queer assets among the collateral. The bank’s total liabilities were about $1,600,000, and some $734,194 was lent in excess of the bank’s lawful capacity. Included in the excess loans was $432,000 lent to the National Nonpartisan league and its subsidiary corporations. The league itself its debtor for $148,824, and its Consumers’ Store company for $170,000. As the capital and surplus were only $60,000, the impropriety of making such loans to non-productive enterprises needs no em- phasis. The character of the collateral is prepos- terous, most of it being post-dated farmers’ checks, and even those were not in the bank’s cus- tody. In the words of the bank examiners: The security in almost every case is en- tirely inadequate and in most instances con- stitutes second liens on the property held as collateral. Total lack of judgment and un- warranted optimism are responsible for the extension of credit displayed by the list of twenty excess loans. In every case neither the financial standing of the makers nor the collateral held by the bank for the loans justifies the credit extended. Even this does not fully state the case, for in- vestigation has been ordered into the condition of about a dozen banks known in the state as the Nonpartisan league banks. In the specific case it is said that the loss will be borne by the state’s guarantee. That is less of an argument in favor of the guarantee of bank deposits than it, seems, for there is enly $100,000 in the fund, and it will take several years for the deficiency to be gath- ered in from the taxpayers. Those who do not think that the bank guarantee idea is a good. one find support for their view that the guarantee lures depositors into carelessness in the selection of their bank and encourages the sort of banking now uncovered. Perhaps the misadventure may set the state to reconsidering the wisdom of its election of pub- dozen of speculative enterprises. It does not re- duce the total of the losses that they are not in- tentional robberies. Probably nobody more re- grets the miscarriage of their plans than the men whose judgment is so discredited by the result of their adventures. Perhaps if they had risked their own money the result would have been the same. However honest and well-meaning they may be, interest loans. The financing would be extended ‘to nonprofit co-operative housing and joint ten- x ancy associations. The only method so far devised that seems to cope even in a faint measure with the rent prob- lem is raising the landlord’s tax rates in proportion to rent increases, Rojuabe Eighteen counties in Ohio have adopted this the fact remains that it was not safe to trust them with other people’s money, and the same may be said about the credit of the state, both political and financial. .At least, if North Dakota hardens its heart and stiffens its back in support of its adventurers, other states may take warning against the same sort of socialist visionaries who lift their heads everywhere, and find support in circles which need sobering and which ought to get |’ The auditors in thése’'18 counties are commit- ted to a policy of stabilizing rents by providing tax New York still further recovers landlords’ ex- orbitant profits by stern but just assessments ‘Bacon at Twenty Cents a Pound lic officers who commit the state to a baker’s t BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE Say Look WHERE YouRe STEPPIN’ ——" \l 1 A CATTLE CAR FER THE LIKES — SHouLD THINK Wey’p PuT ON i | 6H (PRICE OF PRODUCE SS selves, believing that when the people fully*realize GOVERNMENT MAKES BIG SLASH IN PRICE OF SURPLUS FOODSTUFFS OFFERED THRU ST. PAUL OFFICE TO PUBLIC OF N. D. and Flour at $6.00 per 100 Pounds Are Some of Bargains Offered — War Department Pays All Postage Charges. The stiffest folt\ever handed the hign cost of living. since that lusty infanc became a towering giant was delivered by the war department when it recent- ly slashed the comparatively low prices of foodstuffs. Not being satisfied with handing the H. C. L. this body blow, the war-department-went-one step fur- ther and announced that it would pay all postage on orders from the store at St. Paul to the homes in North Dakota. When the army surplus food supplies were first placed on the market, all or- ders from this state were sent <0 Omaha and the cost of postage was added to the price of articles. Now, all that the saying housewife has to do is look over the list, fill in her-or- der, send a certified check or postal! money order and the goods are di livered at the/front door by the smil- ing postman, Bacon in tins and in crates can be bought at 20 cents a pound, baked! beans at 4¢ and 9c a can, sweet potatoes at 16c a Can, 100 pounds of} flour for $6, rolled oats at $2.40 per| 60 pounds, cinnamon at seven cent: quarter pound and macaroni at $2 for 25 pounds. BIG REDUCTION |. This is a consirerable reduction to! ‘the prices at which these articles. were originally offered for sale. by the wa: department. The government forme sold flour a 05 for 100 pond pared with $6 now; dry beans for per 100 pounds, compared with for, the Same quantity today. Bi these big reductions, the government also pays the postage, making these s net to the consumer. 61 The schedule ‘enumerates each ar- ticle, and the maximum amount each person Can purchase of any article, to- gether with the net price. Previously the government would not accept ov- ders for less than case or package lots, but, now, with some few exceptions, orders for only one can will be filled. HOW TO ORDER The government issues the following information for the guidance of people The Best Cough Syrup Is Home-made Here’s an easy way to save $2, and yet have the best cough remedy ‘ you ever tried, You’ve probably heard of this well- known plan of making cough syrup at home. jut have you ever used it? When you do, you will understand why thou- sands of families, ‘the ‘world over, feel hat they could hardly keep house with- out it. “It’s simple and cheap, but the way it takes hold of a cough will quickly earn it @ permanent place in your home, Into @ pint bottle, pour 244 ounces of Pinex; en add plain granulated sugar syrup to fill up:the pint. Or, if desired, use clarified molasses, honey, or corn syrup, instead of’ sugar syrup. Either way, it l, never. polls, Sidi Rives a ful pint bok cough rem ou. coul ready-made for three ae its ‘cont, It is really wonderful how quickly this domeymade remedy conquers a. cough— asually in 24 hours or less. It seems to penethate: through every air pasaa; looters a dry, Keates or tight, cough, + lifts the phlegm, heals the membranes, ind gives almost immediate relief. Splen- Nid for throat tickle, hoarseness, croup, bronchitis and bronchial asthma, Pinex is a highly concentrated com- sound of genuine Norway pine extract, ind used. for penetstions for nivold disspeeiatment by anki isappoin: acking your Iruggist for in ounces of Pinex® Bers Sg lt Blatt To gh Ties else. Guaran fo give al ly, alor 288 cans, 4¢ each. 9; cans, 6c each. ordering war department surplus sup- plies : Don’t bother the postmaster, but communicate direct with the U. 8. Army Surplus Property Store, 6th and Jackson streets, St. Paul,, Minn. Send all orders to the aboye address, | Make all checks and money orde:s payable to the above. Money orders issued by thé postoffice! and certified checks are the only medi-| ums with which to pay for articles. The government pays all postage. On clothing, shoes, etc, be sure and give accurate sizes. : The government will onlyi allow. the maximum of each article on each: or- der, but purchasers ‘can’ order* stialler quantities if they desire, FOOD PRICE LIST. The articles, quantity to each person and price are as follows: ss Bacon in twelve pound tins, 12 cans, $2.75 per tin. NS Bacon in crates of approximately 100 pounds, 200 pounds, 20c per pound. Beef corned, No.‘1 cans, six cases or 144 cans, 29¢ per can. Beef corned, No. 2 cans, three cascs or 72 cans, 55¢ per can. Beef, roast, No. 2 cans, three cases or 72 cans, 63¢ per can. Hash, corned beef. No. 1 cans, six cases or 144 cans, 22c per can, Hash, corned beef, No. 2 cans three; cases or 72 cans. 37¢ per cane. Beans, baked, No. 1 cans, six’ casts Beans, baked, No. 3 Cans, ‘six cases or 288 cans, 9c each, — * i Beans, stringless, “No. 2 case or 24 cans, 9¢ each, Corn, sweet, No. 2 cans, twelve cascs or 288 cans, 9¢ each. No. 2 cans, twelve casts cans, one each. . 1 cans, one case or 24 Tomatoes No. 2 cans, twelve cases, | or 288 cans, 8c each. EVERETT TRUE OW, THEN, OPEN. COUR MOUTH cc TAKE A Look AT ITHE CONDITION OF ---- HOUD On, MISTER DENTIST! IF XOUv'cu Tomatoes No. 3 cans, twelve cases or 288 cans, 11e; each. Tomatoes No. 10 cans, one caSe or six cans, 83¢ each, Pumpkin, No. 2 cans, one case or 24 cans, 3c each. Pumpkin, No. 3 cans, one case or 24 cans, 6c each, Asparagus No, 2 1-2 cans, six cans, 20c each. Potatoes, ‘sweet, No, -2'1-2 cans, six cans, 12¢ each, . Potatoes, sweet, No. 3 cans, six cans, \16c each. Squash No. 10, three. cans, 20c each. Farina No. -1. packages, three pack- ages; 14¢ each. Z Hominy, fine No. 2 cans, eight cans, te each. ¥ Beans; dry in 100 pound sacks, 1 sack each not: less’ than 100 pounds, $6.49. per sack. Hominy, \course in 100 pound sacks, one sack each not less than 100 pounds, $6.49 per sack. Flour, 100 pound sacks, one sack each not less than 100 pounds $6 per sack. ‘ Flour, oatmeal, in 100 pound sacks. one sack éach not less than: 100 pounds, $4. per sack. Flour, barley, in 100 pound sacks, one sack each not less than.100 pounds, $4. per sack. Cornmeal, white, in 100 pound sacke, one Sack each not less than 100 pounds, $3.50 per sack. Oats, rolled, 60 pound tins, one tin each not Jess than 60 pounds, $249 per tin. Macaroni in 25 pound boxes, one box each not less than 25 pounds, $2.06 per OX. Black pepper, quarter pound tins,| four cans, 9¢ each. Cinnamon. quarter pound tins, four cans,7e each. a ‘Cloves, quarter pound tins, one ca:, 14¢. each. Nutmeg, quarter pound can, 11¢ each. Mustard, quarter ound tins, oue can. 17¢’each. Raisins, seeded! ‘No. 1 cans, six cans,. 10¢ each. ¢ i tins, one vG TAKEN A Cook AT YOUR FINGER NAILS, AND ALL BETS Yo've ARE OFF 3! : You BES Got “SOMETHING DEV FEES! When the household cares and the worries of everyday lifo shave. dragged you down, made you un- happy, and ‘there is:noth- es } ing in’ life but headache, backache and worry, turn to the right prescription, one gotten up by Dr. Pitrce fifty years ago. 7 Everything growing out of the ground seems intended for some use in establish- ing-natural conditions. Dr. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y.; long since found out what is naturally best for women’s diseases. Tic learned it all through treating thou- sands of cases, The result of his studies was a medicine called Dr. Pierce’s Favor- ite Prescription. This medicine is made of vegetable growths that nature surely intended for backache, headache, weak- ening, bearing-down pains, irregularities, pelvic inflammations, and for the many disorders common to women in all ages of life. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription i3 made of lady’s slipper root, black cohosh root, unicorn root, blue cohosh root and Oregon grape toot. Dr. Pierce knew, when he first made this standard medi- dhe, that whiskey and morphine are in- jurious, and so he has always kept them out of his remedies. Women who take When The Days Over | this standard remedy know that:in Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription they are getting a safe woman’s tonic so good that druggists everywhere sell it, ia liquid or tablet form. oS ADDITIONAL ARTICLES ‘The latest price list of army supplies other than those mentioned in the meat and groceries list ‘above, enumerating the articles offered, the limit to each customer and the price is as follows: Arties, all rubber, new, one pair each, $2.25 a pair. Blankets, cotton, new, three each, $3 each. ; Blankets, cotton and | wool mixed. new, three each, $5 each. Blankets, wool, new, three each, $5 each. Boots, rubber, hip, new, each, $5.25 a pair. Brooms, stable, with handles, three each, 75¢ each. i} Brushes, scrub, néw, three each, 15c each, 9 . Brushes, shaving, new, three each, 15¢_ each, Ma Candles, tallow, new, ten pounds, 20¢ a pound. : ; Cans, ash: or, garbage, new, assorte:l sizes, three each, $3-each. ‘ Drawers, wool, heavy winter, new, three pair eath, $1 a pair. Dra\vers, summer, new, three pair each, 50c a pair ‘ Gloves, Jersey: knit,: new, two. pair, 20c a pair. ve one pair ir, $1.65-a pair. i é Hangiessplck, new, thtee acl, 21¢ hb Hatchets, claw, new, one, $1 each. Kettles,. camp, with covers, new, one, 80c. each. ; Leggings, foot, new, two pair, 75c each, Beta ‘ Overalls, combination, new, one pair, $2.50 a pair. ve Overalls, bib, new, one pair, $1.25 a pair, . : ; : Paper, toilet, rolls, twelve rolls, 8 1-3 "rolls, each. . Pencils, carpenter, new, one dozen, 40 c a dozen. f Picks, railroad, new, one, 70c each, a Stocks’ and ‘dies, one-quarter to on and one-quarter, new, one set, $34 a set, Socks, summer, cotton, ‘new; ir, 15¢ a pair. pgocks, wool, light, new, six pair, Qe a pair. ay ike Socks, wool, heavy, new, 55c a pair. Towels, bath, new, three, 45¢ each. Towels, huck, new, six, 20¢ each, Undershirts, summer, new,, three, 50c each. six six _pair, When Legislators “Pair.” When a legislator wishes to be ab- sent at the time, when an important vote is to be taken, he finds some mem- ber who intends’to vote on the other side of the “question and arranzes a “pair” with him, That is, the second legislator agrees to refrain from vot- ing, as angaccommodation to the first. The net result when neither vote is cast is the same as {f both had voted on opposite sides, Both legislators can then be absent !f they wish without loss or gain to elther side. Birds Foretell Weather Change. 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