The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 16, 1919, Page 4

Senne ATOR La ¥ ‘it possible for the hospital to give a portion of its FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second ____ Class Matter, GEORGE D. MANN, : : - : Editor Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, CHICAGO, - - - - DETROIT, Marquette Bldg. - - - Kresge Bldg. 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. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year $7. Daily by mail, per year (In Bismarck) Hn 00 Daily by mail, per year (In state outside Bismarck) 5. Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota............ 6.1 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) ED ———— JINGOLOGICALLY SPEAKING ~ BISMARCK’ DAILY TRIBUNE ee eee eee eee nnn een - THE SUGAR OUTLOOK The sugar shortage may mark the beginning of uncontrolled price raising. '‘ Or it may serve as a timely warning and as an object lesson in the value of federal supervision in an essential industry. “Unprecedented domestic demand” is reported by the American Sugar Refinimg Co., and one rea- son for this demand is undoubtedly the relaxation of federal authority in the distribution of this food necessity. The agreement between the sugar equalization board and Herbert Hoover.expires Dec. 31, 1919. Legislation to extend the system of regulation which solved our war-time sugar problem is before congress. { Profiteers are about the only ones who could desire the defeat of bill to insure American house- holds a steady and reasonably cheap supply of sugar. 'y Members of the sugar refiners’ national com- We are living in a jingolpgical age. Happy are those of us who escape the taint of jingoism; happy, but they must be very lonely, because they are so few. | In national politics we have our industrial crisis ; our yellow peril; our league of nations, John ply for the United States. Bull’s six votes to America’s four, and the threat of opponents of the covenant that our sons and grandsons must fight European monarchists’ wars for them. At home in our own state we have a political) oy: was refined in the United States for the allied situation daily growing more unwholesome; we have our “gangs” of various descriptions, and our “bank wreckers” of fully as many varieties as Mr. Heinz ever dreamed of, and we are fast ap- proaching a stage where respect for anything or anybody will be a thing of the past.» The Tribune is not priding itself upon being immune from this disease. It is contagious. Once through the various stages of the malady. And, what are we to do about it? Like the flu, we rec- ognize its presence; we realize its deadliness, but we are at a loss for a cure. Sooner or later there must be an end. We cannot continue, all of us, living at this fever heat. We must pause somewhere before we all tum- ble, head over heels, at the brink of chaos. Perhaps our ministers have a solution. Mayhap we have statesmen in this common-/si1+, +o he sold in the markets of the world. wealth who can recommend a panacea. There is a fine opening in North Dakota, as well as in America, today, for a Moses who will lead us agriculture and preach the conservation of nat- out of the venomous rushes of jingoism into the sane higher plane of reason. THE HOSPITAL Just the other day a story came down from Manitoba which persuades us to the opinion that the average city dweller but half appreciates his good luck in living within easy reach of a good hospital. « = Way up there in the far north a woman became ill. Her husband,.a Canadian farmer, hurried to the nearest physician to their home. When the doctor arrived he saw that the thing—the only thing—to do was to take the patient to a hospital, where operating room and expert attendance might save the stricken woman’s life. But the nearest hospital, at Winnipeg, was a matter of 160 miles, and the patient was not in the hospital until six hours had gone by, and in fhese six hours, according to the doctors, the hope and possibility of saving the woman’s life had vanished. Those human beings who live within but a few minutes’ ride of'a hospital are slow to realize that the day may come when life or death for them will be a question of time necessary 'to get to the nearest. hospital. ; Not only is the question of time often one of utmost importance in the saving of life, but. the fact that the hospital is near is in itself an induce- ment to place a patient under the careful watch- fulness and expert treatment of a well organized hospital staff. This is a great life saver. No home, no matter how much love and sympathy abides within, can rival the hospital when one is seriously ill. - All this makes it clear that the hospital is a neighborhood asset. It is as necessary to a com- munity as water, schools, physicians. Every fam- ily in the community is vitally interested in the community hospital, and should aid in its support even as assistance is given churches and schools. For no human being, knows when the time is com- ing that the hospital will not be the one institution in all the community best equipped for sheltering him and aiding him in his battle against disease. Most hospitals are non-profitmaking. While this makes it possible for the poor and the less well-to-do to seek the hospital cot, it also makes it necessary for the community hospital to seek support from the purses of the healthy. To do its work well the hospital must be thoroughly equip- ped; its machinery must be in good running order. No hospital can take care of a thousand patients if there are beds for only a hundred. : Supporting, a hospital in this way, that is by contributing to its endowment fund, by erecting new buildings, installing more'beds, or by making service to the poor. at less than cost, is not charity. You merely are helping to maintain an institution which may at some future time save’ your life, or " the life of some member of your family, or the life + gt one of your friends, . commission from the United States sugar equal- remained practically stationary. ‘other people in the world. has benefitted every household budget in the exposed to its virulency the patient rapidly passes country. come, easy go” was our national motto. Resources seemed exhaustless. Why economize? lions of feet of potential lumber to reach the rich mittee say that resumption of zone control would relieve the present situation in a week. The charge that the domestic shortage is caused by excessive exports is met with the state- ment that actually about 100,000 tons have been exported, which is said to be about ten days’ sup- Other sugar shipments out of the United States were from purchases made by the British royal ization board of a part of the last Cuban crop. governments. For a year the wholesale price of sugar has Americans pay less for their sugar than any The Hoover plan has made this possible. It CONSERVE HUMANITY America was always a spendthrift. “Easy We heaped the burning log piles high with bil- forest mould with least trouble. For generations our farmers prospered by practicing what agri- culturists of older nations call “soil mining.” The roots of growing crops dug up the native soil fer- We have seen the foolishness of doing such things. | We now practice forestry and scientific ural resources. We treated our labor power as recklessly as our forests: and soil. It seemed equally exhaustless. There was always a mob of unemployed at the fac- tory gate. Millions more were pouring in at our Atlantic ports. Why not wear up labor and scrap it when done? If it was sent back to Europe with full pockets, or crawled away crippled and broken to die, or rotted in slums, or occasionally clawed its way to wealth upon the backs of other laborers, what difference did it make? Plenty more could be obtained by the-waving of a foreman’s hand at the employment entrance. War taught new lessons of the value of human life. Many a British statesman, in the dark days when Haig was fighting with “his back to the wall” publicly regretted the “lost divisions” swal- lowed by the profit molochs of the slums and the “black country.” Yet our allies marveled at the physical fitness of the American expeditionary force. This was because, so great had been our wealth of human as of natural resources that even our recklegs ex- ploitation had not served to deplete the supply as badly as other nations had done. But we had done bad enough. The draft found one-third of our prime manhood unfit to fight. This proportion would give more than 8,000,000 men, between 21 and 31 who lack that strength which would enable them to put forth their best efforts in war or in- dustry. * The months since the war have served to em- phasize the lesson. Just as there are no longer miles of primeval forest and no limitless stretches of rich untilled prairie soil, so there is no longer a mob of hungry unemployed waiting eagerly to catch the foreman’s eye as he walks to the factory gate. So we are learning the lesson of human con- servation. We are learning that just as carefully tended forests and well-cared for farms are more productive than recklessly -exploited woods and soil, so conserving humanity pays bigger dividends than exploiting it. So we are talking of “employment manage- ment” as we'once talked of forest conservation and scientific farming. We are planning how best to make efficient producers of the more than five and one-half million illiterates and the more than twice as many unskilled. We are feverishly push- ing schemes of technical education to conserve our human material. Health care and housing plans take on a new importance. We are trying to apply the lessons of human reconstruction learned in war hospitals to the improvement of the physical defectives revealed by the draft inventory. We are talking of “labor turnover” on the basis THURSDAY, ‘OCT. 16,° 1919. Wy Bisntarck theater tonight. only. millions of theatergoers. Constance Talmadge stars in “Happiness a la Mode” at the creased by leaps and bounds and today she is the favorite star of CAN BE MADE. tion’s contribution to the exhibits that will be displayed at Grand Forks. The answer to the age old question about how long can a woman wear her clothes ig a good looking dress which has seen two season’s service as a suit, two seasons asa dress and “Connie’s” popularity has in-|is now on its third season as a made over dress and redyed garment. Other exhibits of made over gar- ments are -boy’s suit made from ta- ther’s suit, infant’s dresses made into LANPHER: | UES SAY THE LANPHER: PROVES HOW FINE A-HAT ee ONE NEEDN'T. BE AN EXPERT TO’*APPRE- CIATE THE SMART STYLES BEING SHOWN THIS FALL. ton, D. C. Miss Van Hazen ig one of the nation wide workers in this field and represents the head office. BURIED AT STEELE The remains of William E. Morse of Steele who died in this ‘city were re- moved to Steele yesterday for:.burial. The deceased is 1 ved by his widow, Tribune Want Bring Results. WORLD OLD RIDDLE !cs.ages: to.say ‘nothing of the al- girl’s dresses, ladies’ coats made into leged head of the family, is found) &irl’s coats and other remarkable evidences that can. be accomplished SOLVED BY NEEDLE amone the exhibits which will be| “ $ displayed at the annual tion | With a needle, thread and an idea. OF THRIFTY WOMAN of the state Federation of Women’s| Miss Stark left yesterday for Grand clubs which will be held at Grand|Forks to attend a meeting of all the How long*can a woman. wear a Forks, October 15, 16 and 17. county demonstration agents in the dress ora suit | The exhibit was gathered by Miss|state which will be addressed by Miss The answer to that question which Elsie Stark, home demonstration agent Van Hazen of the state relations ser- has puzzled many women for count- for Burleigh county and is this se¢-| vice of the government at Washing- MOTHER'S FRIEND Expectant Mothers Relieves Di iscomfort «, Special Bookdet on Motberhoed sad Baby, BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO. Terr'8. Area cA Different! Betier! ¢ © "that afternoon * slump in‘ low gear, ‘= just try, a glass of foaming, exhila- rating, nourishing Exelso and glide in on high! 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