The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 6, 1919, Page 4

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THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) <i> LESSONS WE FORGET Every so often, in this city or that, a theater, dance hall, or other place of amusement burns, and the lives of human beings are sacrificed. Crowded aisles, humanity packed at entrance doors, exits too small, or hidden, all these take their toll of men, women and children. After each such disaster we say to ourselves that we will not permit the overerowding again; that we will have aisles, entrances and exits clear for any emergency. The fire chief enforces our good resolution. And then we bury the dead, and forget. The lure of larger profits again fills aisles, again blecks entrances, again overerowds auditoriums, and thus paves the way for another sacrifice to the god of gold—another lesson in the school of experience. We are determined to secure Jenkins’ immediate release if it takes us five years. THE MARRIED MARTYRS The trend in this country today is to encourage matrimony and the rearing of children. The income tax that allows double the exemption for married men, and that gives added exemption of, $200 for each child, is a subsidy, though a scant one, to cupid. But with prices the way they are, and the need of millions of well born, true American children to leaven the alien lump, some bigger inducement must be given, for even now the foreign, and more es- pecially the alien, element in the country is increas- ing far more rapidly than the better class American families; in proportion to their numbers. Korea has an idea or two on this that we might find useful. In Korea the male never beccmes a man until he marries. He remains a boy until his death if he re- mains single. Ie cannot assume the duties of cit- izenship, he cannot even put up his hair, he is not considered an adult fit to associate with men on equal terms unless he is married. And when he marries he is a man, no matter whether he is ten years old or thirty. A ten-year-old man and a fifty-year-old boy; may find both in Korea. Well isn’t that a better plan than our own, that arbitrarily says a male person becomes/a man at 21? Some men never grow up: some boys are mature at seventeen, and carry heavy family burdens. Give the married men not only credit on their atement, give them added authority, special civic duties, consider bachelors as drones, why should they vote or sit in on school elections or run for public jobs? You know thing besides you aq a marricd martyr ought to get some- a cross, One wonders what the strikers wit -oue-half so precious as the things they lose. GETTING READY FOR THE NEXT WAR Everybody hopes that The Great War was the last but we don’t know. Anyway, there is evidence that Uncle Sam isn’t going to be caught napping if there is a ‘‘next time.” For example, up on top of Mt. Pocono in Pennsyl- vania, the government has built a magazine and in this we are storing millions and millions of pounds of TNT, the explosive that made things fly during the recent international conflict. There’ll be one mountain less if that magazine on old Mt. Ponoco ever lets go. The higher an airplane ascends the more the motor loses speed. At a height of 20,000 feet—about four miles—the average gas engine gives only 45 per cent of its power at the ground level. The mili- tary sharks are agreed that most of the air fighting in the next war will be at 25,000 feet, or about five miles up. Accordingly, Uncle Sam’s air service is experimenting daily in an effort to make engines that will not lose so much power at great heights. It appears that they are succeeding as witness the ‘recent flight of Major Schroeder, U. S. A., who reached an altitude of nearly 32,000 feet and whose engine capable of 137 miles an hour at the ground level, showed a speed of 134 miles at the height of over six’ miles, Of ‘course we are all glad to hear of a great scien- tific. success, but it is disgusting to realize at the same time that fear of another war was the moving power. behind the achievement, . It is-easy to guess which will be the. goat when the lion and the lamb lie down together. . _.. LISTEN_TO THIS. MAN... . =e "por 56 years Worthy Winchester Macomber of East Ded! Moss, 80 sawed wood and said nothin a dibcabarace Se program of life well to pattern after. But few of us have done it. For sawing wood is hard work, and saying nothing is next door to impossible. years old, made it his daily job for over half a century. But he veered from his course the other day. Not that he didn’t do his quota of sawing, for he did, sawed two and a half cords of wood. He talked! Why, he even boasted; He bragggd about himself. He reached out and grabbed a medal for his breast and pinned it on. “Tm the champion wood sawer of America,’’ he said. ‘When I was 21 1 sawed three feet of pine in 29 minutes. That is a foot short of half,a cord. Going some, what? And I can saw three cords a day right now if I get an carly start.’”’ They all “flop,” friends, sooner or later, as the eomie artists put it. For years a breathless world has watched Worthy sawing wood and saying noth- ing, and hoped all the while, that he would prove there was at least one man who could saw wood and never point with pride to the size of his woodpile. And now Worthy has spoiled it all by bragging, claiming a championship, and all that! Isn’t that just like a human being? None of us ean keep right on sawing wood; all of us have to stop just so often to tell the world what great little sawers we are. eomber sawed for 56 years. For that reason, if no other, we'll say he’s worthy of as fine a medal as he can pin upon himself. IS DOBBIN DOOMED? A prominent automobile manufacturer predicted in Chicago that the use of horses would be com- pletely discontinued im large cities with ten’ years. The ten years have passed, and the demand’ for horses is as strong as ever. Now the secretary of the Chicago Anti-Cruelty Society says that in another temyears there will be no horses. The prediction has been made frequently, and there are no indications of its coming true. Even the farm tractor and the versatile flivver do not displace the horse. They called it a gasoline war, yet it hardly could have been won without the aid of American horses and mules, There will always, in peace or war, be a job left for the horse. NOT ONE IN A HUNDRED Those who are worried about the spread of the direct action propaganda, and who shiver when they read of the wild news from the riotous west would rest easier if they knew the truth about their fellows in Centralia, Seattle, wherever the Reds have been strong enough to openly become a nuisance; a nuisance, hever a menace. The following extract from a private letter writ- ten by a newspaperman of Centralia, who was on the ground, and, who also knows the Seattle situation thoroughly should prove informative as well as en- couraging. “After combing this entire district for days, and after jailing every suspicious person the net result was to confine perhaps a couple of dozen fellows, most of them foreigners, and some of them entirely harmless. “‘Ninety-nine and some per cent of the people in this section are loyal American citizens, and shortly we will be 100 per cent pure; for the local outrage drew the line, and a lot of thoughtless fellows, when they found what it was all about, got right quick.’’ From some dispatches one would imagine that this section of the west was Bolsheviki, running amuck, wild-eyed and red-hearted. The truth is that in the most radical district in the country there are not a tenth as many rebellious Reds as there are thieves, opium addicts and boot- leggers in the average city of the second class. Nobody has become excited over our thieves, our moenshiners, our tramps, or our smugglers. There is much less reason to become agitated over our Reds. PUBLICITY FOR INCOME TAX RETURNS The last secret a man preserves is the amount of his income. The larger the income, the closer the secret. This instinet prabably originated in the early centuries of the human race when the only men who survived were those who secreted their reserves of food. ‘ Now comes McAdoo and declares the coal mine owners should be compelled to reveal their income tax returns. Then the country will know how much profit there is in private ownership of the nation’s fuel supply. MeAdoo again raises this issue in, pol- ities. Has civilization advanced far enough to aban- don its old instinct? Shall there be no more se- erecy about anybody’s income? Is Mr. Little Man willing to tell how much he earns to discover what his neighbor earns? Or, would it be proper to limit publicity of incomes to those undertakings which affect national welfare? Few would advocate the publication of income tax returns just’to furnish neighborhood gossip or stim-|| ulate little jealousies. There bust be better reasons. Is there a difference between incomes derived from essential and non-essential industries? Every nation has certain key industries on which other industries depend. Coal mining is one of these; the production of electric power is another; transporta- tion is a third. Do the’ private owners of such enterprises have @ special responsibility toward the public? Can it e.said, forvinstanee, that sheyaare allowed to retain. their holdings on suffrage? Does the public’ wel- fare ‘come Before | : 5 BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE f Sawing wood and saying nothing long has been a} CONVENTION OF COUNTY SUNDAY SCHOOLS STARTS HERE DECEMBER However, Worthy Winchester Macomber now 72] prominent Speakers Will Be On Interesting Program) Which Will Be Filled With Discus- sions of Importance to Church Workers The Burleigh County Sunday School convention which is to be held at the Evangelical church December 15 and 16 promises to be one of the most in- teresting every held in this city, An_ interesting meetings which start on the evening of December 16 and has been prepared and includes such prominent speakers as Dr. Lee Howard, president of Far- go college and J. C. Garrison, Sunday school superintendent both, of Fargo. Miss Bertha Palmer of this city, field worker for the North Da- ota Sunday School scheduled to address the convention Tuesday morning. The program for the two sessions is as follows: Monday Evening Song service. Prayer. “Why We Are Here. Special Music, Appointment! of committees, Address by Dr. Howard. Tuesday Evening. tion—Miss Palmer, Cradle roll department, The beginners’ department. The primary department. The junfor department. Young People’s Section—G. W. tafson. The young people's conference. The adolescent. Meeting the need of the adolescent, Conference hour. Adult Section—A. The adult division, The adult Bible class. The parents’ class, The home department. Administration Section—W. E. Parsons The superintendent on Sun The superintendent days. Relution of pastor and the Sunday school. Record and reports, Tuespay APTEASOON Song service. Devotions, Address by Mr. Garrison. Checking of schools, 15 FOR BIG TWO-DAY SESSIONS Reports of committees, How session. Tow we conduct @ small Sunday school. How we conduct the dally vaca- tion Bible school. How we conduct a training class. General Discussion, Turspay EyENING. Song service: Installation of officers; Address by Dr. Howard. The international camp conference illustrated by Mr. Garrison, Music. IMPORTANT MEETING OF STOCKMEN AT BELFIELD teachers’ program for the state What promises to be the most im- portant meeting ever held+iby the stockmen of North Dakota, will be held at Belfield Wednesday, Decem- ber 17, when an effort will be made to organize a Missouri Slope Stock- men's ‘association—posfbly a state erganization. An association among the stockraisers of this state is a goal that has long been. looked forward to, Ps ‘and as a result the meeting at Bel- field will undoubtedly have a large attondancee, The wholesale cattle rustling which has been going on in this section of the state for several years past is association is a : re Music one of the main reasons for an or- There is a shade of difference: Most of us saw] Devotions, oe \ganization ¢@ this kind. :Attorney! ten minutes and reach for the medal; Worthy Ma-|_ Address by Miss Palmer. | | General Langer of Bismarck, and the Sectional Mectings. Children’s Sce-| state’s attorneys and sheriffs of the Slope counties will be present at the meeting and assist with their advice. First of all the new association will promote protection of herds against the cattle rustler. Other features will be brand inspections, planning meth- ors of shipping, co-operative market- ing, exchange ahd purchase of sires. and young stock, and the location of estrayed stock. The organization meeting will be held in the Lyric theatre bu'lding at Belfield, and there will be toth morn-, ing and afternoon sessions, The| meeting is being called by State's At- torney J. P. Cain of Stark county, and State's Attorney Sol. Pomerance of Billings stockmen from all Slope country. E. T. BURKE LAWYER : Tribune Block Bismarck, N.-D. Phone 752 us- In Schafer. between” Suu- sections of the: Are the Coal Operators : county, af, the request of e * {hope ‘being expressed that the Wilto:1 Production Under . Way at Wilton in Spite of Tipple Temporary Equipment Enables Washburn Coal Co. to Obtain Fuel Wilton, N. D., Dec. 6.—The operators of The ‘Washburn Lignite Coal Co. have been very active during the past week in clearing up the debris from the tire of November 25, when the big tipple was destroyed and the mine put out of commission for the present. Forty-eight hours after the fire a representative of Robert-Schaefer Co. of Chicago, was on the ground with plans and specifications for a new steel tipple. It was found that it would be impossible to erect a new steel tipple under from 60 to 90 days, which would feep the mines idle most of the winter. An. engineer from Chieago arrived Monday and will superintend the erec- tion of a temporary tipple, which if the weather is not too severe for outside work, will be completed by the last of next week. It will be impogsible to screen the coal brought up over the temporary structure and the company will handle mine run coal throughout the remind- er of the season, or until the pefman- ent steel tipple is completed some time next summer, During the time ‘the temporary tij- ple is being constructed, coal will be brought to the surface up the incline A steel cable was secured from‘Duluth | Minnesota, and seyeral cars of coal can be brought up at each trip, plat- forms have been erected and Tuesday afternoon with an old spliced cable, ten gondolars were loaded. The work will have to be divided into two shifts, but when the men be- come accustomed to the new arrange- pment. it is believed most of the miners will be needed to get out the:cdal and the production should be: almost: equal ito the output previous to the fire. W..P. Macomber. president and general manager of the company, has been on the job night and day since the fire and has kept the wires hot /lo- eating and securing material and heavy timbers for the temporary mls- ing of coal. Pacific railroads have come to the ‘ance of the local operators in se- and have tendered the use of their bridge crews in order to push the work along more rapidly. Messages of regret from the friends and patrons of the company have been nouring in from all oyer the state. the mine would goon be able to resume op- _ Profiteering? The amazing statement of ex-Secretary. of the Treasury McAdoo that the profits ‘of bituminous coal operators ran as high as 2,000 per cént in 1917, and his implied charge that they still are-profiteer- ing at the expense of both the public and the miners, has started a pretty rumpus. in. the editorial columns of the nation’s press. “The United Mine Workers’ Journal” thinks that Mr. McAdoo’s state- ment is vindication for the miners in their claim that the operators “could grant a substantial wage- increase out of their profits without increasing the price of the coal to the consumer.” implications are false, reply the operators, and his “misleading statements and insinuations are the kind of stuff which Bolshevism breeds upon,” while the Phileadelphia “Public Ledger” retalling a clause of the Revenue Act which makes it unlawful for a Treasury official or agent to divulge cénfidential in- formation which comes to him in his official capacity, asks significantly, “Will William Gibbs McAdoo be able to run for the Presidency if He is in jail?” The leading article in THE LITERARY DIGEST for December 6th discusses the question as' to whether the coal operators have been taking undue profits from the public, and presents opinions: from all quarters bearing upon the subject. Other news features in this week’s number which are of\keen interest to the public include: i How to Save the Treaty A Summary of the Suggestions That Are Being Advocated By.Friends and ee ‘ Foes. of the Original Document Silver Passes “16 to 1” Mark Europe’s Money in a Sinking Spell The Farmer is Against Organized Labor America’s Abandonment of Europe Bonus Denied Canada’s Fighters America’s Military Menace Why Japan is Distrusted Germany’s Big Bertha an Accident Where Alcohol Stillis King | ° A Dead Sea Power Plant Is Snow Fall Decreasing? Nutless Bolts in Shipbuilding. -Pussy-cat’s Bit in the War ea | Higginson’s Service to American Music Chesterton on Scots Humor American Boys Go To Shakespeare’ s eanonl Ed. Howe’s Religious Confessions” Protestant Belgians Hollanders in America—Where They Are Located—Their Character, ete. «: New York Building-Trades Wages Both the Soo and North-|* curing much of the material necessary |, SATURDAY, DEC. 6, 1919 BABYS AE A a rash all over my baby’s face. It seemed to itch and burn Co “A friend recommended Cuticura, and we gotthem. If mothers would only be careful in selecting the first soap used on skins. Cuticura, on the contrary, is so pure, gentle and sweet that #* may use for baby. Iti , fine, antisep- tic powder of fascinating fragrance. yy With Eczema, Itched and . Burned. Cuticura Heals. terribly and we kept his hands tied. He. was a ter- rible sight. He was fret- We used two cakes of Soap and nearly three boxes of Ointment when he was healed.” (Signed) Mrs. John baby and continue ii, there would, in most cases, be no trouble. 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