The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 3, 1919, Page 4

BISMARCK DAILY TRIBU) THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter, a half million from its sale of automobile tags this year, Next year there will be more cars, and a larger revenue, and as the state grows—and it’s GEORGE D. MANN, i x if ii Editor | bound to Stow, in spite of politics and all Wy — Do You Foreign Representatives else, there i Be ever more and more cars, until KNow- THE G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, within a few years the license revenue, even with ee alae: FS inoeey seamed gt ee the present nominal fee, should exceed a million MINE OWNERS PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH per annum, | ‘ MADE FROM NEWT ORE e = Fifth Ave. Bldg.) So, Mr. Taxpayer, unless you are an automobile | 150 To 1000 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS owner, the North Dakota highway program isn’t PER CENT: The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use tor publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise eredited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of pubiication of special dispatches hereia are also reserved, MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year .. Daily by mail, per year (In Daily by mail, per year (in state outs Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.......... a THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) o@tiae WIFE’S WOODEN SILK DRESSES Our granddads used to have a great joke about wooden nutmegs manufactured by the Connecti- cut Yankee, but the wooden silk dress of today is no joke. Perhaps that handsome necktie hanging down over your manly chest this very minute is just plain timber, disguised. A science magazine tells us that the United States, failing to compete with cheap Oriental labor in the culture of the silkworm, is making a very successful imitation out of the spruce tree. It is called viscose silk. The spruce wood is, of course, reduced to pulp. Then they put it through a process which makes it look and act like mo- Jasses, except you can’t make rum out of it and it doesn’t go any too well with buckwheat cakes. This molasses is strained through a fine screen, | the strings dropping into.a solution which trans- forms them into yarn thread. This yarn takes dye readily, is strong as any silkworm silk, wears well and stands the rubity-rub of the washtub in great shape. Some day we are going to try to make clothes out of the fine crop of weeds we grow so} successfully in our back yard. | Now everybody believes that the municipal elec- | tions in upper Silesia were fair. They were favor- able to the Poles. | PARISIAN STYLES We refuse to be shocked further at the prospect of some of the more recént whims in Parisian! | | styles reaching this country. {| Unclad calves, painted ankles, grass skirts, bi-| furcated harem garments and the like flare up in} the photographic news from the world’s capital of | feminine beauty, but we look anxiously, but in vain, for the appearance of these innovations on| the streets of our town. | _ Do American women realize the truth about; Parisian styles? Our men are a bit more sophis-! ticated since so many of them have been abroad} and many of them know that the creations of | milliner and modiste are first exhibited on the fair! persons of gay damsels who would never get very far inland in these United States before the police would nab them. | Professional beauties of the cafe and boulevard give to the world the latest designs in hat and gown. The ultra-radical notions are presented by freebooters, but the real styles, religiously copied | for American use, are first exhibited by regular | models whose public parades are tolerantly ob-|* served by continentals. They are sirens, who would smile if they could, behold the staid Puritan wife copying their rac course habiliments for Sunday wear. Kolchak has lost two entire regiments and two! division staffs. The loss of the regiments will be a serious blow. THE HIGHWAY PROGRAM | . A fifty million dollar bond issue for good roads | is almost staggering at first glimpse. It causes the heart of the most ecstatic good | roads enthusiast to skip a beat or two. But when we take the administration highway program apart and discover what it is made of, we learn that there’s nothing about it which should frighten any of us. Fifty millions chances to be ‘the sum which North Dakota must have during the next ten years in order to meet the requirements of the federal government, which will duplicate dollar for dollar every five-spot that North Dakota puts into permanent roads. ane That means that if we put up our fifty millions against Uncle Sam’s fifty millions we can have in the course of the next ten years $100,060,000.00 worth of good roads, and there isn’t anything that possibly could be conceived that would pay North Dakota) bigger dividends in comfort and content- ment and prosperity. , ‘But, you will say, there are; the taxes! And that is where you and practically everyone else who hasn’t gone into this highway program is' wrong, for there will be no taxes. The ‘program doesn’t contemplate the issuance of fifty million dollars worth of highway bonds in one big batch. The plan’ is to issue $5,000,000 worth or less each year, for a period of ten years or-more, ahd each year there will be-issued just such an amount as can, with bonds already out- standing, ‘be cared for from the license fees paid by automobile owners. e _ North Dakota, with 80,000 cars, netted about ' |Cathro’s own terms, that the bank is $21,000 | AHEAD on the appraisal fees which it has col- | going to cost you a penny, and if you are an auto- mobile owner it’s going to save you money, ‘in car, Good roads have been and should be kept out jot politics. ‘ The state highway commission has never given any genuine basis for criticism. Handicapped as it has been for lack of funds, it still has done excellent work. But it stands today face to face with a blank wall. Unless North Dakota can raise more money for good roads, it must forfeit millions of dollars in federal aid which Uncle Sam stands ready to invest in this state. We don’t want to lose that \federal aid, and we cannot afford to increase the taxes. The highway bond issue, made self-sup- \porting by revenue from the licensing of the auto- mobiles which are going to caper over these better |roads, is the solution. : The Tribune trusts that every legislator, regard- less of politics, will familiarize himself with Sen- lator Liederbach’s concurrent resolution, and we jare confident that when this has been done the | | proposition will carry unanimously. i | WHY EXAMINE THE BANK? Why examine the Bank of North Dakota? | Director General Cathro’s bulletins are reveal- | ‘ing enough for anyone who can read. | They show that the bank has earned a profit of i |$58,000; that it has collected $114,000 in interest | lon the people’s money for whose use it has paid ., {the people only $84,000; it shows, to use Mr. a suit of | lected from farmers, who must pay $5 per thou- sand with their application, whether they get their thousand or not; and that while it is $21,000 | ahead on the appraisal end of the business, it has | actually loaned to farmers only $53,000, or con- siderably less than three times the amount which the bank is AHEAD on this particular detail of its | business. } Aside from that Director Cathro tells us that! the bank has $17,500,000 in resources, but that foreign money is being chased from the state, and that the Bank of North Dakota must chase after this money with domestic money, which must be withdrawn from local banks, where it might be available for short-time loans to farmers who are said to need ready money. Why investigate when we have Mr. Cathro’s monthly bulletin? Bavaria now has a “citizen guard” of 220,000. That is too many for a guard and not enough for a | fight. Import of luxuries has increased 125 per cent. The percentage of necessities that have become luxuries is greater than that. Finnish women have warned ours against Bol- test anything that is unwashed. We have no doubt that Spanish manufacturers were influenced to call off their general lockout by the activity of German salesmen. Japan is launching a battleship of 40,000 tons and Britain one of 48,000 tons, which proves that Britain is a greater believer in everlasting peace. eee WITH THE EDITORS | Cr ca eee ee WOODS AND HAYWOODS Hon. Chas. 8. Osborn has done a service for his state and for his country by* declaring’ Gen. \Leonard Wood for president. Mr. Osborn has not only climinated himself as a ‘‘favorite son’’ in the general scramblex but he has set an example for favorite sons here and elsewhere. He has also hon- ored the memory of Roosevelt, whose untimely death left such a void in our statesmanship, for he rightly says, ‘‘ Wood is the emhodiment of Roosevelt prin- iples the exponent of Roosevelt righteousness.’’ It is too early to say what the issue will be when the time comes for choosing delegates to the na- tional conventions next year, but if the schisms of today are rending the country, then it will need a Wood to quiet them. Roosevelt gave the last years of his life to the championship of true Americanism, and Americanism never needed champions more than today. When a man with the record of Big} Bill Haywood, representing an organization that everywhere proclaims its intentions of destroying the republic, can with impunity speak of the Ameri- can soldiers who saved this republic as ‘‘nseless | longer life for vour tires and less repairs for your call evism. They don’t realizé how our womer de-|* PROFITS | | the Census Taker, But They Needn’t Fib, "Cause He Won’t Tell ; By GEORGE B. WATERS. 1128-1134 Munsey Bldg., Washington, D. C. “Thou shalt not bear false wit- ness,” says the‘ Bible, meaning, don’t ie. Uncle Sam knowing the proclivities of his nieces and nephews to fib when tax matters are involved, has made an iron-clad law that nothing, in the census records can be used against anybody. ~ So when. the nose-counters just after Jan. 2, everybody should tell them the truth. Their statement will be barred to the tax inquisitor. Income tax dodgers are not the only ones who pervert: the truth, census- takers say. In 1910 more girls were 18 than any other age above 7. There were 1,000,000 more girls that age than there were 15. There were more native-born girls 18 in 1910 than there were 8 in 1900, which is an takers say. A girl is taking only. one chance in telling her right age—that is, if she should want to marry the censustaker, it might be a handicap. Otherwise, the truth will not hurt, as the census- taker is sworn to softpedal every- ing. All that stuff told before the draft registration about the census bureau furnishing information about draft- evaders was camouflage. The depart- ment of justice tried to get a peep at the records, but there was nothing doing. And if the Secretary of the Treasury should try to ascertain the amount of someone’s income, he would be turned away. impossibility, census- . Taking the censfs.is.a°serious mat- ter, in fact, the bureau is such a seri- ous place that poets and humorist’s here steer shy of it. Miller Hamilton, publicity man for the bureau, has a request from a magazine for a “breezy human interest” story about the census and he-has been racking his brain for something to write. d pictures,” the magazine edi- Hamilton found. just four pic- tures available for publication in the whole bureau—-and nota single person Was shown in any of them. ‘The only photos were those. of machines usd for sorting and tabulating cards. There may not be many heart: throbs in these machines. But they are wonderful picces of mechanisr that haye been developed in the cen- sug bureau. To E. M. LaBolteaux and Edward Nelson, who have been at the bureau 12 and’ 20 years respectively, helongs the credit for developing them It is throngh these machines that persons who divulge personal informa- NEURALGIC PAINS Give Way to Soothing Hamlin’s Wizard Oil Hamlin’s Wizard Oil isa safe and effective treatment for headache and neuralgia. Rubbeddin where the'pain is, it acts as a tonic to the tortured nerves and almost invagiably brings quick relief. cooties,’”’ the United States needs a kind of leader- ship that it is not getting. It is of no importance that Mr. Haywood is not an authority on,cooties, He, and all his kind, were too far away from anything that happened in France to know what cooties are. Tt is of the utmost im- portance, however ,that the Haywoods are still al- lowed to run at large. Big Bill Haywood is the man with the torch—Detroit Saturday Night, Its healing, antiseptic qualities can always be relied upon.to prevent ine fection, or other serious results, from sprains, bruises, cuts, burns, bites and stings, Hie as. good, too, for sore feet, stiff neck, frost bites, cold sores and canker sares. Get it from druggists for 30 cents, If not satisfied return the bottle and get your money back. « Ever tonstipated. or have | sick headache? Just try Wizard Liver Whips, pleasant’ little pink pills, 30 cents, Cuaranteed, 97 N. E. A. Washington Bureau, | MORE —— \t You Knew THAT, Way Dip You AnD Your ADMINISTRATION PERMIT THiS GOUGING ? You HAD FuLL AND WHy Di GOODNESS SAKES, NEARLY ALL ‘GIRLS ARE EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD! Se eo oN Peete E Tut! Tut! That’s What They Tell AutHority ! ( ‘You TAKE THosE EXCESS PRoFiTs? , WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3, 1919 DNT fascinated with fignres. That is why he has stayed in the.department 20 years. His job ig to take these figures and dress th@ém up ‘so- the ordinary man can make. heads and tails of i them. ; Some people say that statistics are as dry as dust, but. Dr. Hill hasn’t 'found’ them & itermine .is: If a‘‘platform was’ built over the United States, and. ig the peo- ple would all ‘stand still in their homes, and the platform was rhised up-a. few. feet, where would a pivot have to he:placed ‘to balance the plat- form: ‘The -Jast ‘pivot was placed in | f Another thing the: burean «will de-| in [INTENDS 10 KEEP MT IN AIS HOWE Davenport Man Could Hardly Walk Before He Took Tanlac —_—_—— : “My: first bottle of Tanlac did mo ~ more good than all otuer meuicines 1 have taken put together,” sald James Pappas, in a conversation with the resentative recently. mr, Pappas lives at 306 West Grant St. Davenport, lo’ and is a popular employee of t Grocery co. “yor over year, peforé 1 began taking ‘Tanlac,” continued Mr, Pap- pas, “! had suffered with rheumatism m my ankles, and at times the pain would be so severe I could hardly walk. My stomach Was out of order and after eating, gas would form and bloat, me up terribly and cause me no end of misery. | 1 suffered ‘from a chronic case of constipation, and ev- ery rew days 1 had to pe taking a lax- ative, and «my liver was sluggish all we time, I had taken so many treat-) ments and medicines that did me no! good at all‘that 1 was beginning to think 1 was never going to find any- thing that would help me and I would jus¢ have to bear up under my trou- s the best I could. nally I began to notice about Tanlac in the paper and I saw where: it was helping so many other people that I decided to give re a trial. Weii, -| sir, by the time I had finished my first ‘bottle I felt so much better that I had more hopes tha ever before of getting rid of my troubles. So I kept right on taking Tanlac until now 1 have finished my fourth bottlé; and teel almost like a new man. The rheumatism has disappeared ~ altc- cether and I don’t feel even a trace of it now, and my kidneys were never in ‘better condition. My digestion is perfecc: and my stomach is in such fine shape that I am not troubled in the least: with gas forming any more. I have found Tanlac to be a good regulator for it has relieved my con- stipated’ condition and i never have to take.a laxative of any kind now. I have been ‘built up in every way, have gained in weight and strength, ana when I get.up every morning I just feel fine. Tanlac has certainly done me a word’ of good, and I feel so thankful that I just haven’t words to expregs my gratitude. I am going to always keep Tanlac in my iouse, and whenever I get the chance I am going to speak: a word of praise for it.” Tanlac is‘sold in Bismarck by Jos. Breslow im Driscoll by’N. D. & J. H. Barrette and in Wing by H. P: Ho- an. i Adv. —— every. day for two years a prize of 250,000 will be. given .away. Besides this :there would be weekly prizes ranging from $75,000 down to $1,000. ‘Many a man who would. not be in- Bloomington, Indiana. ulation, | BRITAIN MAY FOLLOW The next one will move south and west, put remain in Tndfana, This is the center of poo- sus sheet Records of idividuals, factori mines, quari taken on census blanks, When one of these sheets is fed into the figure factor, the raw material in its s work. the machines ha interpreted. reach the “figure factory, and the 1i it becomes a card a’ \ neh of These cards constitut with $ the and. tal ry are fed into the sor f finishe machines and mut thoy-census not all machin The averages tuned out +b! to be polished ani D ts,“ ‘MR. TRUE, HAVG You Met MY i FRISCND farms Hy ‘alled sheets holes nd stage. t there turned out is called sta- Joseph A. Hill, chiet statistician of jrevision and res EVERETT TRUE London, Dee. -8.—The proposal. of the French government to issue w huge lottery loan -has aroused interest: here jto the extent tnat:the Chancellor of the Exehéquer has statedin the Com- that he would. not offer objec- to a British. lottery loan if he sfied the people really wante1 it. statement was made in the face of a committee report adverse to such a Yoan submitted to parliament | at the last sesion. Som 1 Hl, reasons: to keep at hame money that undoubtedly “would be invested | in French bonds and’ because they. be- lieve wh a loan would be’ a> great su here. point out that the five percent Victory. Loan, to boom which American Jitb- erty Loan publicity methods were e/adopled, did not reach the amount yt} hoped for. {Phe French proposal is for! the issu- ance of bonds of $100 each which is} titles the holder to a: full number. )- d On 15 CAN ANSWER YOU: BETTSR ACTSR: I | Get A Cook FRANCE IN LOTTERY ‘ In this connection they |, terestéd” in the average government bond éven..at high interest would have a few numbers in this huge lottery anq money .wotld:.be. called. out that. the government’ dould, not pet otherwise,” observes one, wilter. ‘’ POETS’ CORNER | THE NURSE. “The world grows better year by year Because some nurse in. her little *- sphere Puts.on her apron and grins and sings And: keeps on. doing the same old things.- ¢ | 4 ¢ Taking temperatures giving the pills To remedy mankinds numerous ills;, Feeding the baby, answering bells, - Being polite with a heart that rebels. Longing for home and all the while Wearing the sarne old professional smile; Blessing: the new horn babys breath, Closing the eyes that are still in death, Taking the blame for the Doctors mistakes, . $i, O dear! whaf a lot of patience it takes. -| Going off dutysat seven. o’clock Tired, discouraged,’ just ready to i drop. ‘ But ‘called on special at 7:15 * With woe in her heart but it must ndt be seen, Motning and evening, noon and night, Just doing it: over and hoping its right. When we lay down our caps and cross é the bar : O Lord will you give us just one little star: To wear in the crowns with uniforms , new _ In, the city where the Head Nurse is You oi Saee — Bismarck Hospital Messenger. FOR SALE—Furniture and household goods. Housekeeping © outfit complete; bargain. 222 Second st. Christmas Seals sold by school children. IDWAYINLIFE Men and women at forty stand at the portal of a crucial ‘period. ‘Strength must be kept up, the body well nourished. 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