The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 22, 1919, Page 4

FOUR BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Bismarck, N. D., as Second Matter. GEORGE D. MANN, - - -. = Entered at the Postoffice, lass Editor Foreig atives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, CHICAGO, - - : - DETROIT, Marquette Bldg. : - - Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK, - - - Fifth Ave, SOCIATED PRESS The As! y entitled to the use for public: sdited to it or not otherwise eredited in this paper and also the local news published herein, All rights of pubsication of speciat dispatches hereim are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT F SUBSCRIPTION R. Daily by carrier, per ye Daily by i Daily by Daily by ma CIRCULATION = IN ADVANCE cAU OF YA *S BEST BARGAIN The Sheppard maternity bill proposes federal government spend $4,000,000 a year for hat the the benefit of prospective mothers and nursing. The child welfare bureau of the department of labors avers that by so doing one-half of the 300,000 children who die under five years each year-can be saved. In other words, the babie Uncle Sam $26.99 each. Is a baby wor' Ask any mother! The states will be required to spend an equal amount in co-operation with Uncle Sam. That will bring the cost of a baby up to $53.98. Who wouldn’t give that for a sweet baby? The sweetest word in the language is that of MOTHER. And statistics say that 17,000 mothers die yearly incident to their bringing little ones into the world, the advent of what would be their greatest joy if they could live. Experts at the children’s bureau claim most of these mothers could be saved with proper care. So, for this $8,000,000 Uncle Sam and the states would save 150,000 babies and nearly 17,000 mothers. Would it be money well spent? Well, the vote in both houses of congress should be unanimous for this bill. It will cost the people of the United States only § cents each. infant saved would cost h that? TOUGH MICROBES Not all microbes are man’s enemies. Many are necessary to his comfort and many others are harmless. \ A French professor has found living organisms in paper made centuries ago. Chinese manuscript produced before the invention of printing harbors germs that are alive and capable of reproduction. Some of these historical microbes survived a heat of 248 degr Less than a century ago the world knew noth- ing of the existence of a multitudinous life, in- visible to the naked eye. When germs were dis- covered, and medicine took up its war against them, men were alarmed to realize that deadly enemies could lurk in the very air they breathed. We have become more or less accustomed to germs. We make use of them deliberately in in- dustry. The tiny creatu that this while in, old papers waited long for recogni- tion. The medieval scholars who pored over the parchments believe many things we disbelieve to- day, but they couldn’t have been convinced that the atmosphere teemed with life. Witches might revel in the dark of the moon and magicians work wonders, but the simple facts now revealed by our microscopes would have been incredible. How many facts are hiding away from us in 1919? Will scientists in some far-off future re- gard our blindness with tolerance as we look upon the pardonable ignorance of the savants who lived with the‘ancient germs and didn’t know it? have been living all ALL IS VANITY Doesn’t it make you weary to hear some big hunk of a man brag of his sense of humor Or of his ear for music? Or of his memory? Of his sticktoitiveness, or his sense of economy, or his patriotism? Hither these traits were born in him, or else he was grourided and imbedded in these funda- mentals by his folks; probably his mother. The scatterwit is’ born that way, and can’t help it. The cautious, conservative, careful, exact child is that way from his crib; every time, sir. The mother’s character, and the life of the babe months before it was born, largely determined what the big, boastful rascal would have to gloat about forty years thence. And the weary hours mothers spend ground- ing and grinding things into the thick, careless skulls of boys! . Hours that seem spent all in vain, but that leave their impress for time and eternity. The wit you think so well of, the resourcefulness of your nature, the character you have that’s worth mentioning, is no more to your credit, usually, than the color of your eyes, or the shape of your nose, or the compound fracture of the tibia, that the old mule handed you once when you looked over your shoulder when you were unhitching. rae aig And the only way you can square your private _ Becount is to devote your energy and your,patience “gnd your best effort to the cultivation and nurture and upbringing of some other heir of the ages, and lucky he'll be if he has as good a dad as you did. Bragging, or feeling proud, over mental or phy- sical qualities is silly; but it’s a form of ego that gets the best of us. We hold our greatnesses all our own, but our failures due to a mysterious providence; if we would reverse the formula we would come nearer the truth. THE SIX-HOUR DAY Everybody’s talking about the six-hour day and the five-day week nowadays and wondering whaty folks are going to do with the rest of their time during he week if the new order of things goes into ¢ f tect. t will be quite a problem to put in the time under the new regime—believe those who have tried loafing and found it the hardest work in the world! Thirty hours of work a week means that 188 hours every week must be put in some other way, sleeping, smoking, reading the newspapers, going to movies, throwing dice for cigars in the corner smokehouse, wondering what to do and getting peeved at the world generally. Think of it, nearly five times as much time must be put in somehow every week as is devoted to work under this scheme. Looks pretty hard, doesn’t it? You’d almost think men would rise up in wrath against any such scheme as that, wouldn’t you? Thirty hours of work a week! School children put in 271-2 hours a week at hard brain work in the formative period of their life! Think of husky men working only as much each week as a six-year-old schoolboy who, however, after com- pleting his hours at school, puts in a lot of over- time around the house doing chores for mother! To speak of 30 hours of “work” a week is, really, to put the proposition in an altogether false man- ner. What such a scheme would really mean would be that there would be 80 hours of play a week for all those people existing under such a scheme of things and that there would be 138 hours each week of real work trying to put in the time until the interesting, enjoyable hours of so- called “work” came around again! The path of amendments leads but to the waste basket. { And another explanation is that the many must pay what the few newly-rich fools are willing to pay. It is rather amusing now to recall the doleful predictions of those who were afraid American’ citizens would never get their liberty back after the war. New York Jongshoremen are getting back to work, and by exercising strict economy they can in six months be as well off as they weré before they struck. { | Larsen Lanning suggests a world conference of boys and girls to settle the big questions. Does anybody recall what became of that crusade of children? According to Clemenceau, work is the one solu- tion for all our problems, Can work cure this universal desire to get all one can by such means as may be necessary? | Gompers says the eight-hour day will be re- duced. If radical labor succeeds in wrecking the country, the man who can get eight hours of work will be lucky. Senator McNary says the present sugar famine! conditions are psychological. That’s encouraging. | Now perhaps he will show us a way to sweeten | coffee with psychology. A democratic senator complains that he is be- ing deprived of patronage because he doesn’t sup- port the treaty. There is a probability that others on that side will be deprived of greater things than patronage. en ne eee | WITH THE EDITORS f pRisbicredasei tty cei Mead MAKE IT SESSION OF PEOPLE The citizens of North Dakota should not lose sight of the fact that the special session of the leg- islature that is called to convene at Bismarck next week, should be a session for the people of this state and not for Townley, Mills, Lemke or any imported agitator. They do not pay the expenses incurred by the special session. It is the tax- payers of the state who must foot the bill. The legislators should be the servants of the citizens | of the state, not tools of Townley et al. It would be well for the citizens of Grant county and of the state to visit the legislature and see; that they get the wholesome legislation the state, needs. _ While there, see to it that Townley and. his emissaries abandon the secret caucus, Town- ley is entitled to no more consideration than any other citizen of this state, not as much as the taxpayers. Let this session be open and above board, free from the secret caucus, pit is no secret when one is compelled to pay taxes to meet the expenditures or sit by and abide by the socialistic e: i { xperimental daws that Tqwnley, Mills et al bring to North De-! kota to put over in secret caucus,—Carson Press. ’ week. It is not known but’is supposed HAVE BEEN TAKEN [ne was kidnapped by his father. George lived with his parents until BY OWN FATHER | anise by his step-mother became un- Amidon, N.- Frederick, aged 13,’ son of erick, living rear Amidon, was kid-| Victor Frederick, who resides about napped while returning home from | two miles from his brother. Rooting Out the Reds bearable, when he was taken in cus- D.,. Noy, 22.—George|tody by Walter Sterland, juvenile of- Nick Fred-|ficer, and given a home with his’ uncle, Since } 3s AMIDON BOY MAY [choo one evening the first of tho| that time he has been going to school regularly and getting along nicely. His father is under indictment for grand larceny in Slope county and it is alleged that the boy knows a few things that might prove embarrassing. However, this may not be the real rea- son for the kidnapping. The sheriff of Slope county has beeu notified of the incident and also the SATURDAY, NOV. 22, 1919 Lady Jane W as Fair “The Lady Jane was tall and slim, the Lady Jané was fair.” No lady can be fair and beautiful with a sal- low complexion,’ pimples on the face, and skin eryptions which are caused by impure flood, “Number 40 For The Blood,” by its wonderful altera- tive properties, changes certain mor- bid conditions of) the system from & diseased to a healthy state, thereby reducing flesh when in excess, ‘Num- ber 40” is employed in’ diseases of the glandular system, in blool troubles, glandular swellings, eczem, skin diseases, .rehumatism, catarrh, constipation, malaria, liyer, stomach and kidney troubles. Under its use pimples, sores, ulcers and bodily erup- tions disappear a6 if by magic.” Made by ©. Mendenhall, 40 years a drug- wansville, Ind. by Jos, Breslow, gist, Ei Sold state’s attorney. Walter Sterland, juvenile officer, expects to make a per- sonal inyestigation of the case next week. AMERICAN LEGION NAMES COMMITTEES FOR ENSUING YEAR Will | Investigate All Charges of Disloyalty and un- Americanism * Adoption of a permanent constitu- tion and the election of an executive and an investigation committee were among the matters decided last night at the regular meeting of the Lloyd Spetz post of the American Legion held at the Elks club. C. W. Paulson and T. T. Murphy were the two members elected to the executive committee, the third mem- bers being Major G. H. Russ, Jr., the post commander, 2 Among those elected to the investi- gation’ committee were Capt. Thorn Dickinson and Capt. A. A. Jones. This committee ‘will investigate all charges of disloyalty and other mat- jters bearing on 100 percent Ameri- canism. ar Major, Russ will name a committee to arrange for an invitation dance to pe held soon. The members plan .on holding a series of dances during the winter and in all probability the first one will take place in a few weeks. Let’s go to JOHNSON’S for Hosiery, The shots: from the I. W. W. headquarters in Centralia, Washington, “which killed four veterans of the. World War and wounded others in an Armis- tice Day parade, gives dramatic emphasis to the fact that a year after Ger- many’s open war on civilization was defeated, we are still being attacked by sinister forces of'revolution and anarchy which Germany, many believe, turned loose upon the world by way of Russia. That the American public is rapidly losing patience with the organized and persistent efforts of foreign theorists to destroy American institutions is evidenced in many directions. Not only is. ; the Department of Justice rounding up suspects in every part of the country, but there are pending in Congress fifty-two bills which are designed to give the Government all the authority needed to deal with: the Bolshevik, anarchist, and other anti-American organizations. A sample of the teachings brought to light by the Government’s raids is the manifesto of the Federation of Unions of Russian Workers of the United States and Canada. It advocates, among other things: Capture of all products and means of production; liberation of all political prisoners; the blowing up of all barracks; the murder of law-enfore- 4 ing officials; the burning of public records; destruction of fences and all prop- erty-lines; the destruction of all instruments of indebtedness. Thoughtful men and women who have the future welfare of our country at heart, will.read with the deepest interest the article in this week’s LITERARY DIGEST, dated November 22nd." It. shows what steps the Government has taken to suppress violent outbreaks, suggestions for the punishment of those arrested, and a cleat\explanation revealed by captured documents of just what the-un-American forces.of violence are attempting to accomplish. Other interesting news articles in this issue of the “Digest” are: What the Steel Strikers Think of the Police “An Advocate of the Steel Strikers’ Cause Writes His On-the-Spot Impressions and Comments, Thus Affording the Public an Opportunity to see the Workers’ Side of the Strike. A New Railroad Across the Andes Wet Hopes in the Elections Newspapers Hit by a Paper Famine Air Service Crippled by Lack of Money America Obstructing the Return of Peace i (Translations from French, Irish and Japanese papers) Ontario’s Triumphant Farmers Public Opinion Defeating the Strikes France and Belgium to, Help Each Other Rise t How Uncle Sam Makes Elevators Efficient : Are We Having Too Many Teeth Pulled ; The Phonograph as a Wireless Detec- tive Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Heart Throbs” | Ministers’ Pay Compared to Steel Workers’ Selling English Churches to Pay War Debt ‘ The Portuguese in America Coal Production in. the and Great Britain' Compared How the Wheels ‘Go Miners’ Union Why Many Former Doughboys Re- enlist Silk, Salesmanship and Uncle Sam The Spice,of Life Best of the Current Poetry A Very Interesting Collection of Half-tone Illustrations and Cartoons. _ November 22d Number on Sale Today—10 Cents—All News Stands Digest “FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY (Publishers of the Famous NEW Standard Dictionary), NEWVORK-— the Singer of United States Round in the =