The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 29, 1919, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second _____Class Matter. s 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 eroded in this paper and also the local news published erein. All rights of publication of special dispatches hereia are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year + $7.20 Daily by mail, per (In . 7,20 Daily by mail, per 5.00 ismarck).. year (In state outside Bismarck) Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota........+.++ THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) <p SELL THE RAILWAYS Governor Frazier would sell the railways in North Dakota for non-payment of taxes, or a por- tion of their taxes. Will you be kind enough, Mr. Frazier, to recom- mend a buyer? To whom would you dispose of this more or less valuable property, and in what form would payment be made? Of course, there’s the Scandinavian-American bank and its stacks and stacks of post-dated checks, but would any county auditor in North Dakota accept one of these checks in payment of taxes? THE VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE As human lives are valued in eoldsblooded ac- tuarial tables, Dead Man’s Curve, justieast of the Apple Creek section house, has “cost. Burleigh county much in a little more than two years. In good citizenship, congenial companionship, in suffering and anguish to broken herats and dis- membered homes it has cost us more. We wonder how many more citizens must be murdered in this death trap before our county commissioners and the railway take some steps to protect this crossing? Is our county board so immersed in politics that it values the votes more than the lives of its fellow citizens? A very small fraction of the $750,000 which our county commissioners have squandered upon roads which are not worthy of the name would eliminate some of the twists, cut down some of the high banks, and give travelers approaching Dead Man’s Curve a clear view from either direction. NATIONALIZE THE FARMS Having nationalized the railways and the mines, we may expect tomorrow or the next day to learn that Governor Frazier has nationalized the farms. “Any basic industry whose continuous opera- tion affects the life of the nation should not be ex- ploited for the profit of a few,” says Mr. Frazier in a wire to the New York American, telling the world how to settle the coal strike. “The sooner private greed is curbed by con- gress, the sooner will the present industrial unrest subside,” adds our governor. ’ Today Mr. Frazier is adjusting the ownership of the coal mines, because that seems to be the surest way of pleasing a half-million organized coal miners who declare they’ll not play unless they can play the game their way. Tomorrow it may be the ownership and man- agement of farms, because the I. W. W. are not very well satisfied with the way things are going, and rumblings of discontent have frequently reached Mr. Frazier’s receptive ears. The I. W. W. is as big a voting factor as the United Mine Worker in the nation, and in the state he looms even larger. Therefore when the walking delegates of the I. W. W., just as the harvest begins next fall, serve notice upon the Farmers’ Producing associa- tion that they must have a sixty percent increase in wages, a six-hour day and a five-day week, and that if they do not get what they want they will call a general strike and see to it that the nation’s crops rot in the fields and that the nation’s people who are unfortunate enough to not be organized starve as they should, we may anticipate from Mr. Frazier a repetition of his statement of yesterday: “THE STRIKE OF THE FARM WORKERS WOULD RESULT IN A GREAT HARDSHIP AT THIS TIME AND SHOULD BY ALL MEANS BE AVOIDED. A TEMPORARY COMPROMISE SHOULD BE MADE PENDING AN HONEST INVESTIGATION BY CONGRESS WITH A VIEW TO BETTERING THE FARM WORKERS’ CONDITIONS BY ULTIMATE NATIONALIZA- TION OF THE FARMS. ANY BASIC INDUS- TRY WHOSE CONTINUOUS OPERATION AF- FECTS THE LIFE OF THE NATION SHOULD NOT BE EXPLOITED FOR THE PROFIT OF A FEW. THE SOONER PRIVATE GREED IS CURBED BY CONGRESS THE SOONER WILL THE PRESENT INDUSTRIAL UNREST SUB- SIDE.” Squaws posed sullenly for the queen of Bel- gium. This proves they are not civilized. Civil- ized people would, have fought for the chance to be photographed by the queen. Germany hasn’t replied to the note asking her co-operation in a blockade of Soviet Russia. To refuse would be to offend Russians she is assist- { o ing, and to agree would be to offend other Rus- sians she is helping. eenaeneeieteerE WITH THE EDITORS | fe eneneey THE MENACE OF THE COAL STRIKE The failure of Secretary Wilson’s earnest and able effort to bring about an agreement between the coal operators and the coal miners and thus to avert a calamitous coal strike on the very eve of winter is a shocking disappointment. It brings sharply before the country one of the most bitter struggles in the history of industrial warfare, and creates a situation that the public and the government must meet wtih every legiti- mate resource available. A stoppage of coal production will bring hard- ships unimaginable. It may mean freezing for many. It certainly would mean an utter stagna- tion of industry and an almost total paralysis of production at a time when the nation’s only hope is a speeding up of production. The demands of the coal miners are a challenge not only to the owners and operators of coal mines, but to the nation. The thirty-hour week is anti- social, is absolutely against the public interest, and is an intolerable imposition. It is a precedent that the United States cannot possibly afford to permit, and that must be defeated at any cost. This is no time for hysteria or extreme state- ments or empty bluffs or loud language. But it is a time for the public to make very plain its deter- mination not to be made the victim of so prepos- terous and intolerable a holdup as the six-hour day and the five-day week. If many of us find it uncomfortable thus to be made alliey of the coal operators, who doubtless have been “soaking” us as heavily as the coal miners would like to, we shall have to grin and bear it. ‘ For the thirty-hour week makes this one strike, at least, where there is only one possible side for the public to take——Duluth Herald. POST DATED FINANCE We must confess some little surprise at the fuss that is being made over the disclosure of the methods of financiering which were practiced by the State Socialist, or Nonpartisan league, bank at Fargo, N. D., which was-recently placed in the hands of a receiver by the state banking board. Most of the fuss is over the acceptance of post- dated checks as collateral security with notes for loans. A farmer would come in for a few thousand dollars, give his note of hand for it, and then, to re-enforce the note, draw his check for a similar amount, payable to the bank’s order. Of course he wouldn’t have a dollar in the bank for the check to draw upon. But he would date the check away ahead, say three months. It could not be put in for collection until that time, and by that time calculated, or professed to calculate, upon having money in the bank to meet it. It was a delightful arrangement—for the bor- rower. It was popular, too, as one might suppose, so that the bank was found to be loaded up with such post-dated checks to the face value of hun- dreds of thousands of dollars and the actual value of the market price, per pound, of waste paper. For it is difficult to imagine anything much more worthless than a post-dated check drawn against a non-existent deposit. It hasn’t even the value of a present-dated check drawn against a deficit, because the latter is good basis for action, civil or criminal, against the fellow who dated it. But you cannot arrest or sue a man for issuing a post-dated check for a thousand dollars when he hasn’t a thousand picayunes in the bank, because you can’t prove that he won’t have the money there, all right, on the date named in the check. Neither had it the value of an unsecured promissory note, because in fact it contains no promise to pay. It simply directs the bank to pay the money at a cer- tain future time, without giving any assurance or promise that there will then be any money on deposit with which to make the payment. It is simply a scrap of paper. But what puzzles us is why there should bé such a fuss over it, that it is so perfectly charac- teristic of the socialistic scheme of affairs in gen- eral. For what is socialism, after all, but a system of post-dated finance, and post-dated economics, and post-dated statesmanship? Give it the good cash it asks for now, and some time in the future it will repay, if it has the means. Some time in the future all men will be equal in ability. Some time in the future all will be of equal wealth. Here is an order that the three-hooped pot shall have tert hoops, but it bears a future date. Here is a shrewd design for catching larks; but it is to be- come effective only when the skies fall. Mean- while there is not the slightest security or assur- ance given that those golden days will ever dawn, or that their conditions will ever be realized; any! more than there is that the farmer will have the thousand dollars in the bank three months hence with which to honor his post-dated check. We observe that the managers of the bank in question are very indignant over the closing of it. They say that it is all due to political spite, for which they purpose to make somebody smart. That is very sad. We know that political spite sometimes goes a long way, but to have it go so far as to object to the lending out of perfectly good money on collateral security of post-dated checks—well, that is certainly going too far. Ifa state socialist bank wants to lend money on the pages of' patent medicine almanac, why let them do so. Only, the depositors whose perfectly good money is thus out may some day have something BISMARCK DAILY TRIBONE LOOK OUT BELOW! | ZW Health Service, Discourage the Handshake. Did you ever make a diary of your fingers? Did you ever set down in cold black and white the things your fingers touch every day and did you ever consider the number of times daily that your unwashed fingers seek your mouth? When surgeons discovered that it was their own infected fingers which carried germs into wounds they set about trying to giscover a means whereby their hands could be ren- dered surgically clean, i. e., free from germ. The whole realm of chemistry was ransacked for agents which would disinfect hands, and the scrubings and immersions to which they. subjected their hands are ‘even yet a tender memory to the surgeons of that per- iod. But all of these efforts proved useless and at last in despair surgeons took to wearing rubber gloves which could be boiled, thus bringing to each patient, as it were, a fresh pair o: you will you can’t by any known’ method make your hands absolutely clean. The great agent in the spread of those diseases whose causative organ- ism is present in the secretions of the mouth and nose, is the. human hand; and if saliva was bright green we would be amazed at the color-of our fingers. As a matter of fact most of us carry our fingers to our mouth or nose many times daily, there to im- plant the germs of disease which other careless people have spread about, there to collect a fresh cargo of infectious material to scatter for somebody else. It is true that the germs of disease die quickly once they leave the human body but what does the death of a few billion germs matter so long as the supply is copious and never end, ing. What an enormous number of in- fected things we touch during the day and how infrequent and cursory are the hand washings we perform. We should all learn to keep our fingers out of our mouth and nose. Thus we limit the spread of the dis- ease from these orifices at least. It is also desirable to discourage the practice of excessive. handshaking, USE EYES WHEN BUYING ASPIRIN Take tablets without fear, if marked with the safety “Bayer Cross.” 4 —- To get genuine “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin” you must look for the safety “Bayer Cross” on each package and on each tablet. The “Bayer. Cross” means true, world-famous Aspirin, prescribed by physicians for over eighteen years, and proved safe by. millions for Colds, ‘Headache, Earache, Toothache, ‘Neur- algia, Lumbago, ‘Neuritis and for Pain in general. Proper and safe direc- tions are in each unbroken “Bayer” package. Handy tin boxes of 12 tabletst cost but a few cents. Druggists also sell larger “Bayer” packages. Aspirin is to say concerning it—about election time.—Har- vey’s Weekly. ure of Monoaceticacidester of Salicyl- icacid, fis BS stecile hands. In other words, try as and help eliminate the danger of con- | tracting disease from someone else | who is not quite 80 careful in keeping | the trade mark of ‘Bayer Manufact- g OU G A Daily Health Column Conducted by the United States Public by Direction of RUPERT BLUE, Surgeon General, U. S. Public Health Service. “Uncle Sam, M. D..”: will answer, cither in this column or by mail, questions of general in- terest relating only to, hygiene, sanitation, and the prevention of disease. It will be impossible for him to answer, questions of a purely personal nature, or td prescribe for individual diseases. Address: INFORMATION EDITOR, U. S. Public Health’ Service, WASHINGTON, D. C. ——— + jhis fingers clean. Why should not a’ jcourteous bow be a sufficient salute to our friends. * * 1 Questions and Answers Q: Is it cruel: to muzzle dogs? A. No. The dog does not suffer and can easily be trained to feel perfectly at ease with his muzzle on. If all dogs. in our country could be muzzled for a few years rabies would disap- pear. The dogs could then be un- muzzled without danger of the disease to man, or beast. Why . was. pneumonia usually more fatal in army camps? A. In camps where’ men live in close contact with each other an ex- ceedingly fatal form of pneumonia {sometimes develops. At such times the germ is probably handled on from one pneumonia case to another and grows in the human lungs until it be- comes especially adapted to this kind of home, 80,000,000 ACRES OF WET LANDS TO BE MADE FERTILE Great Reclamation Project Dis- cussed by National Drain- age Congress St. Louis, Oct. 29—Kighty million s of wet and overflowed lands, lo- ;cated ip various parts of the country, }emuld he quickly and economically re- Claimed by drainage or by levee pro- acording to John A. Fox of ago, Who is here arranging for the nual convention of the National Drainage, congress to be held here No- yember 11, 12 and 13, Cabinet members, governors of a number of states, investment bankers and distinguished engineers from va- rious parts of the United’ States have been invited to attend the congress, the work of which is of particular interest to farmers throughout the country, be- cause it plans for the opening of mil- lions of acres of new and extremely productive lands for settlement and de- velopment, « The congress, of which Edmund C. Perkins of Chigago is president, is an association of all interests in this country either directly or indirectly con- cerned in the drainage, reclamation apd development of swamp and oyer- flowed lands, It does not advocate any particular scheme nor endorse any par- ticular. project, but it has worked con- tinudusly for the last seven‘years to awaken public sentiment to an appre- clation of the vast benefits to be de- rived from the reclamation and utiliza- tion, through states and federal co- and overflowed lands, Mr. Fox, in explaining the idea of the congress, sald: “While the larger areas of Swamp and overflowed lands ere to ie found in the immediate Mis- sissippi Valley. and along the Atlantic oat operation, of the great areas of wet}. ) i f /, Cj / Q 0- SOX RR P< RAR and gulf coasts, there are, neverthe- less, areas of sufficient size in most of the other states to justify their inter- est in the matter. Taken in the ag- gregate, these 80,000,000 acres of land comprise an area of 125000 square qiles, or a greater area than the com- bined areas of IUnois and Iowa. “This land is probably the richest and moSt. productive of any of our lands, Nearly every farmer is familiar with this character of land as ‘bottom, lands’ and knows that his bottom lands are the richest and. will produce more than any other land on his farm, Every aere of this rich undrained region is hettom Jand and, when reclaimed and put under cultivation, it will produce from three to four times as much as the ordinary upland. “In their present’ swampy condition, these undrained ands in the various ‘states are a nuisance and a menace to health, while of reclaimed and utilized they will be extremely productive areas, . For that reason every commu- nity adjacent to. the wet and over- ‘flowed sections is participating in the activities of the National Drainage con- gress with a view to having something -|cone. that will lead to their early drainage and reclamation.” PEOPLE’S FORUM | THE NONPARTISAN REVIVAL Glen Ullin, N. D., Oct, 25, 1919. Editor Tribune: The much herald- ed nonpartisan revival meeting, and Jove feast at Fargo apparently did not bring forth the “dough” from the farmers to the extent hoped for. But really the farmers cannot be blamed; who cares to pay $210 for a $100 share in an enterprise controlled and oper- ated by a, bunch of socialist wildcat schemers? I doubt whether, Townley’s unnameable elm stick can pound them into forking out. The farmers are not all “rubes.” ee The whole effort would indicate that the farmers are getting from under the ‘Townley hypnotic ‘spell. ‘When they first begin to “smell the rat*-wé, can look for something to happen. They will sooner or later discover that, the nonpartisan jaovement, which in fact was a move to get the farmer a square deal, ha’s attracted unto itself from the four corner8 of the earth all sorts of hangers-on and parasites. Further- more they will see that these parasites aye sent the movement off on a tan- gent away from the real purpose‘ of the farmer members of the league; that the original nonpartisan program has been supplanted by a most radical ond vicious propdéganda which ulti- mately will confiscate all private prop- erty under a soviet rule; and that the whole program is absolutely contrary to the best interests of the, farmer. Sooner or later the thinking and sober reople of North Dakota will awaken to this fact. In fact the awakening is already well on the way. The writer is just in receipt of a letter from a non- partisan hotbed where a person was really in danger of being lynched should he venture to utter a word uncompli- mentary to Townley. ‘This letter says that there are many “backsliders” in ——CO BACK ACHE /A harmless and effective prepara- tion to relieve the pains: of Rheuma- tism, Sciatica, Lame’ Back and Lum- bago is Hamlin’s Wizard Oil. It pen- etrates quickly, drives out soreness, and limbers up stiff aching joints and muscles. : You haye no idea how useful it will be found in cases of every day ailment or mishap, when there is need of an immediate healing, anti- septic application, as in cases of Sprains, bruises, cuts, burns, bites and stings, Get it from druggists for 30 cents. If not satisfied return the bottle and get your money back. eS AOC CNNSI NA Bae “IT HAS MADE. ME WELL AND HAPPY” St. Paul Woman Was Almost A \Nerv- ous Wreck—Restored to Health By Tanlac. “Tanlac has built me up from al- most a nervous wreck to ‘a well and happy woman,” was the statement made by Mrs. William Brabeck of 781 Lawson St. St. Paul, Minn., -while talking to a Tanlac representative the other day. “I suffered from nervous indiges- tion and was so ‘badly run down and nervous that the slightest sound or noise irratated me so I could hardly stand it?” continuc{l Mrs. Brabeck, “IT couldn’t rest’ at all at night, and I forgot what it was to enjoy a good night’s sleep, and when I got up in the morning I felt as if I hadn’t been to bed at all. I felt tired out all during the day, and couldn’t do ten minutes sweeping before I gave completly out and had to stop and rest. My appetite was poor and what little I did-eat up- set me. Many times gas would form so bad on my stomach that I would become so nauseated I would have to go to bed. It was out of the question for me to do my housework forsevery few moments I would have to stop I became so exhausted. For two years I had ‘been in this condition, and the suffering I had borne has been ter- rible. “One day my husband brought me a bottle of Tanlac, and before I finish- ed that first bottle. I began to feel much better, and now I have taken six and feel just’fine. My nerves were never better and no kind of noise or sound even disturbs me now. I sleep like a child, and evry morning I get up feeling rested and refreshed. My ap- petite has come back and I cam eat anything I want, and my strength is increasing every day. My stomach was never in better condition. I’ve gone back to my housework and I can do it all now and the family washing, too. I just can’t say enough for, this Tanlac for it’s remarkable how it’s made me well and happy, when such a short while ago I was so completely ‘broken down in health.” Tanlac is sold in Bismarck by Jos. Breslow, in Driscoll by N. D. and J. H. Barrette and in Wing by H. P. Homan. Advt. OOOO that place. We must look for this to happen, for any movement. under the control of dishonest schemers will sooner or later go under and the cor- cner’s inquest must be “suicide.” There is not a person in North Da- kota or anywhere else, unless it be an I. W. W., who wishes the farmer any evil. In fact everybody hopes that he will succeed in getting a square deal— something he unfortunately does not always get. To the writer the rotten- est deal pulled off on’ the farmer is this so-called nonpartisan league: con- vulsion, A host of greedy parasites who never'did a day of honest: farm labor ‘in their life has gripped) the movement and extracted millions in $16 chunks ostensibly for the noble purpose of curing certain ills, When the movement acquired momentum the iarasites multiplied very rapidly un- til. the animal now is so infected that it is no longer to be recognized as the original nonpartisan league. It will require some pretty. strong bichloride doses to clean up this animal, and you can rest assured that the administering of these does will in due time be done by the farmers themselves. When that tme comes We can hope for some real constructive. statesmanship. in North Dakota. . No lousy animal eyer would thrive and no one knows this better than the farmer, although he may be s'ow to discover the situation. A READER. eee DON’T NEGLECT _ YOUR BREAKFAST The Fear of Indigestion Often Prompts One to Start the Day Wrong. Eat What You Like, Take a Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablet and You're Safe. . Breakfast offers many of the most savory dishes of all the things we eat. And yet more ‘people than otherwise go without breakfast save a roll and cup of coffee for fear of some indi- gestion. If you-like a fried egg, or some ‘buckwheat or:sausage for break- fast, go to it and follow with a Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablet. You'll have no trouble. The average person who neglects breakfast will be hungry before noon Most men smoke to kill the appetite; or lunch on something to carry on to lunch time. An empty stomach under such conditions is not storing up energy, but on the con- trary is susceptible to many influ. ences that may work hardship for the next meal. It is advisable to eat three good meals a day and digest them. If the stomach seems. to ‘be weak, to help it or give it assistance is the rational thing to do. Try a good breakfast and follow it with Stuart’s Dyspepsia. Tablets and you'll soon learn that regularity of meals follows a natural tendency, not an acquired. one. You will find Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets on sale at almost all drug stores throughout the )United States and Canada. us - $10.00 CASH PRIZES Langley & Schlabach will give $5.00 for two best ears Dent corn and $5.00 for best two ears Flint corn mailed or delivered to their office on or before 3:00 P. M., November 15th, 1919. Corn must be Burleigh County grown during present year. TYPE AND CONFORMITY CONSIDERED, Judges: Bur- leigh County Agricultural Agent and two disinterested parties to be named by him. Results will be published Monday, Novem- ber 17th. Send your corn right Ever constipated or have sick headache? Just try Wizard Liver Whips, Rican little pink pills, 3¢ ‘sents, Guarantted. in. BOOST BURLEIGH COUN- TY.—LANGLEY & SCHLA- BACH.—Advt. :