The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 3, 1920, Page 4

t if it aoe eee iy i i if FOUR BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE WED DAY, MARCH 3, 1920 "THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - - : : Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO pot tte Bldg. resge lg. agers PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK . : - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. 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. : 4 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 «$7.20 Editor Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck -» 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota............ 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) STILL WAITING The people of the United States are still wait- ing for Attorney General Palmer to bring down the cost of living, as he promised to do six months ago. While the attorney general and his assist- ant, Mr. Figg, go merrily on chasing the profi- teers, the cost of living keeps right on chasing the pay envelope. | ‘ According to reports received by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics from retail dealers in 50 cities, the average family expendi- ture for food was 2 per cent higher on January 15 than on December 15. The cost in December was 2.6 per cent higher than it had been in any previ- ous month. The figures show an increase of 9 per cent since January, 1919, and an increase of 104 per cent since January, 1913. The former kaiser has given a hospital to a Dutch town. will give ’em away HUMAN HEARTS If the man can’t keep ’em full he, WITH THE EDITORS THE BATTLE FOR OHIO General Wood’s invasion of Ohio is in accord- ance with the traditions of that state. Ohio is the place where republicans fight their bitterest wars among themselves. The long struggle be- tween the McKinley and the Foraker wings of the party had national consequences of the highest importance and ceased only with.the death of the leaders. Then came a period of comparative peace, culminating in a series of democratic vic- tories. This ill-omened tranquility is now dis- turbed by a strange combination of events. Gen- eral Wood enters the lists from outside the state to contest for it with a “favorite son,” Senator Harding. In taking this course he is doing no more than McKinley’s managers did in 1896, when they challenged Senator Cullom’s claim to Illinois and won a complete triumph in the convention of that state. But 1912 has intervened since those historic days, and it is this factor that gives the Wood move its novelty. Instead of going after delegates in the familiar fashion, Wood forms an alliance with James R. Garfield, one of the most prominent survivors of the famous “tennis cabinet.” Harding feels com- 'pelled to counter by’ an alliance with a candidate who lives as far from Ohio as a Presidential can- didate can live—Senator Johnson, who ran for vice president with Roosevelt in 1912. Here is a clear recognition that the former progressives are to be reckoned with—not in the old way, however, as a separate body, but as a potential force in the republican party. ‘ ‘ The Ohio primary law binds delegates that are | elected to a national convention to vote in accord- | ance with the preference expressed by the voters. | In order to allow for eventualities, this preference | may be expressed as a second choice as well as a first choice candidate, the first choice to be voted | | for so long as he is a factor in the balloting. Wood | (is taking advantage of this provision by running | ‘lists of delegates who are announced as favoring A heart is a heart. Most hearts are alike in sympathy for the unforiunate, and all hearts throb with pity when the wail of a hungry child is heard. And it doesn’t matter much where the heart is, in a woman’s body, or a man’s, whether it beats in the East or the West, the North or the South. This is the way one reads between the lines of @ message from the American Relief Adminis- tration, European Children’s Fund. “Among the newspapers which have sent us generous checks have been: Omaha Daily News, with a total to date of $8,000; Paterson Press- Guardian, Tampa Daily Times, Racine Times- Call, Chattanooga News, Ann Arbor Times-News, Ashland Daily News, and Houston Press.” | ..°.,. Other newspapers helped, so did readers of other papers. This report mentions those few only. But it was intended to show how wide- spread was the response to the cry of starving children, cities as far separated as Houston, Tex., and Omaha, Neb., heard the cry. Good people in Wisconsin heard it, and answered with dimes and dollars. Down in Florida, Tennessee, and up; in Michigan, the cry of hungry waifs came to human hearts, and human hearts replied. ~ Deschanel says 13 is his lucky number. He was married on the 13th. It all depends on the defi- nition of the word luck. MORE HARM THAN GOOD The man with a chip on his shoulder usually makes himself a lot of trouble. Obviousness of this truism is umply illustrated ' homes in Minnesota will be making a serious mis-| ingly fine. by the way Major A. V. Dalrymple, central states prohibition enforcement chief, advertised a “rum ‘subject. Those who are inclined to yearn for the| out that this money is of little value. rebellion” in northern Michigan which carried less “kick” than a near-beer, There wasn’t a rum rebellion. Faci is, the lo- cal authorities of Iron Riven county were and had been enforcing the prohibition law. One of Dalrymple agents, over-zealous to make a record, tried to supercede the local district at- y, failed, complained to his chief and sev- eral hundred doilars. of the taxpayers’ money was a perfectly useless army. The most charitable view of the whole ridicu- | lous, hasty, ill-considered action is that Major) Dalrymple had a chip on his shoulder. Such pub- lic officials usually do the good cause they repre- sent more harm than good. Enforcement of prohibition is no more import- ant than orderly and legal conduct on the part of officials charged with it. Prohibition Commis- sioner Kramer seemed to realize this in recalling Dalrymple. Lansing is given credit for coining the phrase, “A strict accountability.” Here is a modern ex- ample of one hoist by his own petard. During the first week in March special activi-' ties will take place in the public schools to inter- est pupils and parents in United States thrift stamps. When we observe the way the new rich are spending theirs, it occurs to us that it won’t be more than two generations from patches to patches. Ameri Negro business me convention in St. Louis adopted a resolution urging members of their race to “practice utmost thrift and syste- matic saving.” Garfield for second choice, while Harding, accord. |ing to the latest reports. is playing a double game ‘by using Johnson as second choice in progressive: | strongholds and General Keifer in stand-pat dis-| \tricts. These arrangements create as mixed a situation as even Ohio voters can desire. The one thing fairly certain is that Harding will not go, to the Chicago convention with a solid delegation | ifrom his state behind him. But just how many: ‘delegates can Wood take away from him? That! jis the question to be answered by the campaign | now beginning. Why do Wood’s managers stir up partisan bit-' terness by making war upon “favorite sons”? Is} it because they are desperate and inclined to take | any,and all chances for delegates? Or do they | |feel something of the confidence that led Mark; |Hanna—with encouragement from anti-Cullom ; | Republicans of Illinois—to stage a doubtful battle: ithe issue of which went far to settle the result at St. Louis? Whichever be the true reason, the eyes} lof the country will be upon Ohio for the next two |months, observing with keen interest a political! | battle royal—New York Post. | THE COST OF TOWNLEYISM High taxes in. North Dakota hit the hardest! ‘possible blow at Townleyism, and you can tell that [by the way: Townley supporters try to get away | \from it—an attempt which they carry even so far ‘as to assert that taxes have not been materially, increased in North Dakota under the Townley gov- | ‘ernment. | Yet the home-owners and owners of farm: ‘take if they do not give careful attention to this | blessings of Townleyism should count the cost of | ‘getting it; and the best way to do that is to find ,out what it costs in taxes. el | Tax statements beat all the academic argument | lin the world; and The Herald has seen the tax statements for 1919 and 1918 on a piece of North Dakota farm land, which have been submitted to ‘it by its Duluth owner, a resident of the West end. | | The land is the southeast quarter of section 34,, ing and transporting to Iron | township 147, range 78, in Sheridan county, North | n: Dakota. The taxes on this land for 1918 were $24.27. | The taxes on the same hundred and sixty acres, for 1919 are $74.68—more than three times as) much as they were last year. | The home-owner or the owner of a farm’home | ‘in Minnesota who wants his taxes multiplied by| three should by all means vote to introduce Town- | leyism in this state-——Duluth Herald. There is a school for women voters in Chicago. ‘Huh! A man doesn’t have to know anything to vote. | If they really banish Wilhelm to the island of ‘Curacao they should change the name to Cura- ee : The proposed international farm conference may | decide in favor of more plowing and less con- |ferring. If Europe tries to settle questions without | America she may have to settle the next war ‘without U.S. A. ' It is easy to understand Sweden’s neutrality after you read her government’s plea for joining etree rn | THE SNAIL Seen en tt aa ae a a a eer \the league: “Sweden risks less being inside the (league than outside.” SAVE AND HEAD OFF HARD TIMES SO SAYS BABSON IN TALK ON MONEY | BY ROGER W. BABSON : \ Statistician. — | Ameri Foremost Busines Wellestey, Mass., March 3.—Amer- | icans should not be surprised at the} foreigin exchange situation. The rea- son the mark, franc and lire are so} cheap is bevause they have been made So cheap. Paper money is just like flowers or anything else in this world. What there is a lot of we don’t care for. If roses Were as;common as daisies they | would sell at the same price. If we had as many apples as we have pota- | toes they would be as cheap. The truth is that here are nineteen times as many marks in Germany toda, before the war. Also there are s times as many francs in France. There are seven times as man: ‘e in Italy. Another reason why exchange is low is because it is for the Interest of men in Europe who owe money to have money depreciated. The cheaper it is the more a manscan get for a ¢ work and the quicker he can pay off; his debts, | Manufacturers | in these foreign countries. who run export busine: 4 are also interested in keeping the cur- | rency depreciated. They get gold for the goods which they export and they pay their labor in depreciated cur- | rency, Depreciated money is bad for the | man who has got a lot of money, but a} fine thing for the man who owes a lot. It is the old story of the Mills of the Gods grinding slowly, but excecd- The bankers of Europe | thought they made a lot of money out of the war but they are now findi AG We should not fcel bad over the! ‘oveign exchange situation. It is sim- , a case of the laws of nature work- ing out in their just and inevitable way. t The foreign’ exchange situation will | prevent Europe from buying as much | from us as they otherwise would and | it will cause Europe to send to us much more than they otherwise would | This means that our exports in 1920 will be less than in 1919 and that im- ports in 1920 will be more than in} 1919. This again is only right andj ‘ural. We profited from the war and ac- cumulated the majority of the gold supply of the world, but we can’t keep it as a nation any more than qa family or individual can keep their money in- { definitely. It is said that there are only three generations from shirt- | sleeves to shirtsleeves, Statistics show | that his applies to nations almost as it does to individuals, Of course, business is going to fali! off in this country. It is only just to the rest of the world that we should now give them a chance. We have | been manufacturitfg goods for the en-| tire world while Europe been at war. It is now only natural and right that Europe should have its turn. This means that profits in this coun- try are at their maximum. The days of profiteering on the part of employ- } BAD BREATH Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets Get at the Cause and Remove It Dr, Edwards’ Olive Tablets, the substitute for calomel, act gently on the | bowels and positively do the work. People afflicted with bad breath tind quick relief through taking them. Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets are a | vegetable compound mixed with olive | oil. They act gently Lut firmiy on the bowels and liver, stimulating them to natural action, clearing the blood, and | purifying the entire system. They do. that which calomel does, without any of the bad aiter effects Take one or two every night for a.week and note the pleasing effect. 10¢ and 25c a box. rners and merchants are approach an end. (here will be no fall in prices for a while yet. because many orders are still unfilled. When the tide turns. howeve: sheep will run just as panicstri down as they are now running pp- war When pri e going up they get a momentum which carries them beyond their normal point. When they ‘are going down they get a similay momentum which takes them beyond their true value. This is especially true at the present time when so many merchants are ordering more goods than they really expect to sell, on the assumption that they won't get deli ered all those they have ordered. This means that there zoing to be a great cancellation of orders when tle tide finally turns. . There is nothing for the average man to be worried about at the mo- ment, but everyone should start in to ers, wage-e: times ahead. Some people say that saving money will hurt business. This is a lie. Mone: never idle. When you put into the bank instead of into it is still put at work and it sfill gives employment. The difference is that the bank loans the money to someone to build houses or factories or roads which are continual sources of werlth, while the candy manufacturer makes something which in a few hours has gone down the sewer. There is no fear of hurting business, as a whole, by saving money. The best way to delay the hard times is by saving money. Houses cannot now be built, machinery cannot now be con- Ss cannot now be impro ed, water power cannot now be devel- | There wa: “| wealth only | uve money, to prepare for the hard | i | oped because there isn’t the capital to | do tt. If the workmen of America would ;!take to the banks the money which ‘they now spend on phonographs, jew ,elry, movies and fimsy, good-for-noth- jing clothes, the money could be used by the banks for pbuilding houses, mak- ing machin improving roads .and {developing water power and forever ‘be a great source of wealth. a time. directly after the !war, when I advised people to buy, yes, |buy anything to start the ball rollin j but there is no need of such advise. to- | day, | The best thing today that we all can j do to ud the present period ot | prosperity and to keep our ewn jobs is j to save,and take as much money every Saturday night to onr bank as possi- ble. Labor can, today, increase its share of the annual d bution of increas: its savings. Aman can’ re agdollar and put it in a bank without incFeas: for labor and without providing more work. Saving money turns surplus la- bor into capital which goes into build- ings, machinery and = other things, | which in turn produce more wealth. is ) percent of all of which goes to la- bor. The best thing the wage-workers can do to prolong their prosperity is to add to the amount of ay ble capital. The saying worker ci employ- ment for himself a his family something A dollar a two dollars five or ten years from ‘now when the cost of living has declined te what it inevitably will. | Just received a large order of Alum- jinum Heels, at the Crevskey’s shoe ‘shop, have you seen them, if not come | in and look them over. Better yet, | set down and let us put on a pair. j.1¢9 Third Street. Phone 898. 3-l-1wk EVERETT TRUE _ TAM A TENANT IN ONG OF YOUR APARTMENT HouSGS- na i, . A, ws Aiba (yy YES. AND I NOTICE IT'S NLCE AND WARM i AT THE MOVIES + ” THE ORPHEUM Sick of war stuff—western stuff— seb stuff? love-making and y close-ups? Ready for something difterent—a real thriller, full of mystery and adven- ture, with just enough romance to sugar it delicately without making it sticky-sweet? Then go see William mR Nl in “A Sporting Chance.” At the Orpheum tonight only, It’s a thriller with action every minute. THE ELT 2 “The Thunderbolt.” starring Kath- erine MacDonald, will be seen at the tinge theatre tonight. This is the picture of this star’s to be released through First Nationa] Ex- hibitor’s cireuit, It tells the stor of a girl forced into a loveless n age with her most bitter enemy ern critics have praised it hig THE BISMARCK The gun battle between a private airship and a pursuing plane is one of the breath-catching incidents shown in ‘The Great ’ the Universal master- piece to be seen tonight at the Bis- marck theatre. Francelia Billington supports Lieutenant Locklear, the dar- ing star in the production, In “The Isle of Conquest,” Select’s special attraction which opened at the Rex theatre today for a two day en- gagement. Norma Talmadge has one of the strongest roles of her career. In addition to this big feature a one reel Rollin comedy with “Snub” Pol- lard in “Hunting for Trouble” and 1 Pathecolor Review is shown. * | THE HORSE | Out+on the desolate plain, Out in the cold and the snow, Goes the faithful horse, the friend of man, ; How he suffers, no one may know. Once he had food and shelter, Once they had need of lim, Put vow, when he's old and feeble, And his mild ey re dim, Then he’s left to seek his shelter, Loft to wanter alone Thru the storms, and in the winter's blast, He knows no more of home. Gone is his comrade who shared ard toil of the day, s there on his cold bed, s alone by the way. He lie: Not a hand outstretched in pity, ened those last hours of pain, aa he néeds no more to wander out there \ In the snow and sleet and the rain, O heart of man, think o’er this state, Why neglect a friend so true? Who in many a day of wearisome toil, Has done so much for you: Out in the cold and the snow, Out on the desolate plain, Forsaken, atone he wanders, The horse. the friend of man. (Signed), E.G. 8. ST. GEORGE'S SUiLD There will be a meeting of ‘he members of St. George's guitd at the parish house Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, Sewing for the Easter bazaar will be the principal diversion. All members are urged to atcend. Coming to Bismarck DR. MELLENTHIN SPECIALIST For His Eighth Year In North Dakota Does Not Use Surgery WILL BE AT | McKenzie Hotel Wednesday and Thursday, March 17 and 18. Office House: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. TWO DAYS ONLY No Charge for Examination Dr. Mellenthin is a regular graduate in medicine and sur- gery and is licensed by the state of North Dakota. He visits pro- fessionally the more important towns and cities and offers to all who call on this trip consulta- tion and examination free, ex- cept the expense of treatment when desired. According to his method of treatment he does not operate for chronic appendicitis, gall stones, ulcers of stomach, ton- sils or adenoids. He has to his credit many wonderful results in diseases of the stomach, liver, bowels, blood, skin, nerves, heart, kidneys, bladder, bed wetting, catarrh, weak lungs, rheumatism, sciat- ica, leg ulcers and rectal ail- ments. If you have been ailing for any length of time and do not get any better, do not fail to call, as improper measures rath- er than disease are very~ often the cause of your long standing trouble. : Remember above date, that ;examination on this trip will be free and that his treatment is different. Address: 336 Boston Block, Minneapolis, Minn. Tired to death of mushy’ i > 40 ‘