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

FOUR ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - - . . Editor » LOG. ‘ emcaco® F DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. 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 h@ei "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 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) RAILROADS DEMOBILIZED There is general relief throughout the nation over the return of the railroads to their owners, even though, the demobilization is marked by .a deficit of more than $715,000,000, a measure in part of the inefficiency of government operation of the carriers. The complacency with which the administration makes the transfer is hardly shared by a public overjoyed at the change in management. , i It will be some time before the roads can even approximate former service that was so badly disrupted when the exigencies of war forced the carriers under government control. The travel- ing and shipping public will be patient during the period of readjustment. Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio; reflects the attitude of the owners in this: “It must be kept in mind, however, that under any system the total cost of transportation must ultimately be:paid by the public, whether in the form of taxes or of direct railway charges, and it is in the best interests of the people that that system should be followed which furnishes the necessary transportation at the lowest economic’ cost. I have no doubt whatever that private ownership and operation will furnish transporta- tion at a lower economic cost to the users than any other system so far tried or suggested.” « The Esch-Cummins bill may not be all that is desired, but it is probably the best that could be obtained at this time, to meet most pressing emergencies arising out of the change in manage- ment. It is necessary to restore the confidence of investors:in order that sufficient. capital may. _be‘available each year for increased facilities. The credit of the railroads must be rehabilitated and confidence of investors in railroad investments re- * stored. In the wise application of the Esch-Cum- ming bill the desired relief should-be forthcorting’ rious ways, thereby aiding Germany as much’ as any of her spies:in this country. In short, Debs openly and deliberately betrayed his country to its enemies.: ‘And this is the man whose ‘Life and Letters’ we are asked to cir- culate in Logan county. Yes, we will, when bananas grow at Spitzbergen, and Inferno turns into a skating rink! We mentioned him in connection with Judas Iscariot, but we will apologize—to Judas. He at least had sense of, shame enough to go and hang him- self.” ' It is noteworthy that breeders of sedition and spreaders of disloyalty take it for granted that any league organ in North Dakota is a tool ready fitted to their hand. It is not surprising, in view of the unanimous and parrotlike chattering ‘of the Townley press when the I. W. W., the Com- munist party or any of the other domestic foes of America are. attacked, but the candid and open recognition of this fact which is found in David Karsner’s letter to the North Dakota league news- papers is of some importance. ; \ A REAL IDEA One western city has tackled this Americaniza- tion chore from ‘a new angle, and the new idea could well: be adopted by every town and city in the nation. Pupils in the schools of that city bring home their report cards to their parents, and on this card is “Citizenship,” with the marking of the pupil for the month. 3 Nothing new about that? Wait a minute; this “Citizenship” is not some guised history pill; no, sir, it is a report on what the pupil WAS during the month. ‘ In this city citizenship in the schools means de portment, attention, courtesy, politeness, dili- gence; manners, not methods. An unruly man is not a good citizen; a perverse child might be letter-perfect in American history, and be a miserable young American. So citizen- ship in that city means what you are, rather than what you say you are. If William ties Susie’s hair to the ink well; if Johnnie slips a wad of second-hand. gum down Mamieé’s neck; if Mattie sticks her tongue out at teacher, citizenship shows a “C,” no matter how letter-perfect these little cherubs may be in their lessons. ‘ SOU E The dullest boy in the room, who honestly does his best each day, will outrank the most clever lad who frequently does his worst. So, from the first grade up, the children are tesy, of obedience. That seems like abou ward the ‘solution of the Am e best suggestion to- and in keeping faith with a public tired of gov- ernment ownership, the carriers will bring about an era of good feeling. , f OUT OF STEP Carl Torngren, editor of the, Logan County Farmer, the official Logan county league organ at Napoleon, is out of step. Not’ only has Mr. Torngren persistently- advo- cated sterling Americanism and showered: praise on the American Legion, but he has gone out of his way to step on the toes of some of Boss Town- ley’s very best friends. * Now Mr. Torngren has been guilty of the su- __Preme sacrilege! He has deliberately criticised Eugene V. Debs, presidential running mate with Kate Richards O’Hare, and one of the canonized saints of the soviet movement in America. Mr. Townley might for policy’s sake have for- given Mr. Torngren for saying nice things of the Stars and Stripes and of the virtues of being a loyal and patriotic American and of the appre- ciation due the American Legion, which has taken a strong stand for all of these things which enter into good citizenship, but it is too mych to believe that Comrade Townley can overlook the follow- ing: ‘ “We recently received a letter from a book firm in New York, beginning as follows: “Dear Sir: It has been suggested that you would be. interested in assisting thé dis- tribution, through your paper, of our book, “Debs, His Authorized Life and Letters,” by David Karsner... We enclose circular matter and under separate cover copy of a poster for display purposes.’ “It is really a waste of space and time to make any comment on this matter, but we were so thoroughly disgusted at the offer that we cannot: help but give our opinion of the latest traitor begging for sympathy, the jail- bird Eugene Debs. That he is a traitor of the mongrel type is so well known that we need’ not emphasize it here and that his sentence is too ‘short is as generally conceded. Still this disciple of Judas bids for sympathy and his friends wish to spread his insidious pro- paganda in the form of his ‘Life and Letters.’ Time was when we looked up to Debs as the leader of labor against oppression, but his record in the world war showed him in his true colors.. Had Debs united with the gov- ernment and devoted his. time and ability to bringing the war to d speedy end, and then. after peace was declared, he had managed a campaign against militarism, he would now stand as one of the world’s greatest labor leaders. Instead, he devoted his time to ericanization problem, doesn’t it? WOMAN PREACHERS study, some pretty flag lecture course, some dis-|_ being taught the vital principles of government, | of self-restraint, of respect’ for others, of cour-|. BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE CANT BLAME You SISTER! , BS pomcatelin NOT SO MUC for Relief from Burdens of Unfair Taxation—Declares for of Nations in First Statement Issued on: Possibility of His Being Candidate By H. P. BURTON N. EB. A. Staff Correspondent. \ preachers. It might be answer enough to say because they have not, often had the chance. But the very question shows what a difference there is between the spirit of modern Protestantism and that of the primitive tribes, who supposed that sacred ceremonies could be spoiled by the mere presence of a woman, and imparted tribal secrets to young men, when the time of their initiation came, with the solemn warning that they must never, never be told to women or children. The modern “preacher” is the lineal successor of the priest, whose vitally serious business it was to avert pestilence, famine and defeat by the sacred rites that placate gods and drive away evil spirits. i These rites had to be performed with the most punctilious exactness—a slight mistake was held to imply most terrible consequences. They had to be performed by persons acceptable to the tribal deities, who were specially selected, trained and ordained for the purpose. How could a tribe, ac- customed td be ruled'by men, insult the gods by putting their public worship into the hands of a woman? Somebody asks why women do not make good New York;Mar,ch}4.—The first’ di- rect answer from Herbert Hoover as to whether dr not.he would like to be- come president of' the United States, was given me today by the famous American engineer and food adminis- trator. “To speak with absolute trust,” said Hoover to me in, his New York office, at Broadway ‘and. Wall street, “it ‘is not my ambition to be president of United States at all. To become oav of the consulting engineers to United States would be the sort of a position that would suit me a great deal better. The latter, I think, would be one of the greatest jobs the world holds today for any man.” I asked Hoover if he did not think that the president of United States— the kind of’a modern president that the United States needs today—could very well be a consulting engineer’ to our national and international prob- lems, and he said: “What we really need here, over and above everything else, is a gurvey made by engineers from a detached point of view. This syrvey should ex- pose and ventilate’ our national prob- lems and it should diagnose these ilis and prescribe, scientifically the cur? for them, - UNCOVER FACTS FIRST “Like all surveys made by good en- gineers, in contradistinction to those made by good politicians, it would un- cover the ‘facts in the case. If the facts in our case are not uncovered, The ancient priest has lost many. of his func- tions. His efforts on behalf of the sick are supplemented or supplanted. by the work of the physician, who is sometimes a woman. His works of. charity are handed\ over to special organiza- tions largely manned-by women. | His work as teacher and custodian of tribal lore has passed into other professions, now largely in the hands of women. i G But until the most recent times he still had his pulpit and his distinctive garb and his sense of priestly function. _Now, however, he dresses like a man of the world, and a woman may even re- place him in the pulpit without Shocking the people. ‘ bY cane Saaeeneeeneanenenmnemmemeen t WITH THE EDITORS | } i NAMING NO NAMES Says the Hutchinson Leader: *. No political organization can. survive _which condones anarchy, excuses red social- ism, and winks at treason. ; : The Leader is “naming no names”—but. then it isn’t at all necessary. Everybody familiar with political events in North Dakota arid Minnesota since 1917 will know spreading unrest-in this country and to hin- dering the work of the government in va- without being told what organization is, going to we may very well make up our minds that the period of reconstruction is going to be a period of slip-shod patch- ing up that will prove neither effective nor final and may in the end be tragi- cal. “We need this engineer's survey in order that we may make our creaking economic, political and social mia- chine truly efficient. Only such a sur- vey, made from a detached point of view and permitting a vision of our country as a national as well as an in- ternational unit, can ever really show us what things, must. now be done if, our era of reconstruction is to be an era of. actual progress. : NINE COMPETITORS “At present. in Washington for {n- stance, we have nine engineering staffs competing one. with the other. | This simply means ‘nine different cuts of the pork barrel. Every year we ex- pend $250,000,000 through these agen- cies and can any one say that. an economical national ‘budget ‘can be composed when we have such a’ group of duplicating agencies, not only here, but in all the departments of our gov- ernment. e “If we are to\get anywhere we haye got to consolidate all the overlapping agencies which haye grown up in our government and*focus up our problem so that we can focus up also the work that is to be done. “No properly organized and directed saving in public works can be made until such a regrouping and consolida- iton is carried ‘out. All the cheese- paring that goeS on in the honest effort" of Congressional committees to control departmental expenditures is only a tithe of that which could be effected get mad at that hit—a hit that most palpably reaches the mark.—Duluth Herald. with concentration of administration such as has long since been demon- ’S A REASON Hl oe. THERE Food Head Points Out Necessity ig Budget System and a League) ee HOOVER WOULD ENGINEER FOR - UNITED STATES; PRESIDENCY H TO HIS LIKING, STRAW VOTE GIVES HOOVER THE LEAD ' Herbert Hoover led all candi- dates for president in a straw ballot taken under the auspices | , Of the Evansville (Ind.,) Press. The results showed: f Hoover—167. { Wood—108. i Walsh—S4. The ballot was taken in promi- nent '¢lubs, stores, offices. and in- dustrial plants as well as labor unions and-the American Legion | post to give a representative ex- pression. The unions voted solidly for Walsh as a labor can- didate, while the Legion sup- | ported Hoover with 12 yotes | against 7 for Wood and 2 for |} Pershing. oo ; 4 strated to be necessary to _the success of private business. BUDGET SYSTEM NEEDED “To minds charged with. the neces- sity of advanced planning, co-ordina- tion and’ the synchronizing of parts in an organization, the whole -notion of our hit-or-iss systém is repugnant. “A budget system is not’ the remedy for all administrative ills; but it pro- vides a basis of organization that. at least does not. para’ administrative efficiency as. our system does today. Through it the co-ordination of expén- diture in government , departments, the prevention of. waste and overlap- ping in government: bureaus, the *ex- posure of the pork barrel and the EVERETT TRUE FOR THE SHORTAGE 4 THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1920 ey ete nh balancing of the relative importance of different national activities in the allocation of our nationa] income can all be greatly promoted. _ TEMPERED WITH HUMANITY “Never have we needed the: ‘engi ne ideal of efficiency, tempered wit humanity, injected into our —govern- ment as today. We are faced with a new orientation of our country to ! world problems. We face Europe still {at war; amid social revolutions; some {of its people slacking in production: millions starving and_ therefore the safety of its civilization hanging by & {slender thread. Every avind carries us an infection of social disease from j this great ferment: eyery convulsion j there has an economic reaction upon j our people here. * “Out of the strain of war the weak- nesses have become more and more evident in our administrative organiza- | tion and in our legislative mach ‘Y. jour federal government is still o cen- tralized, for we have enormous actiyi- ties which have yet to be demobilized, we are swamped with debt and burd- ened with taxation. Credit is woefully inflated; speculation and waste are everywhere. PRODUCTION DECREASING “Our own productivity is decrasing What we need, all these things show us, is a great survey, a gathering’ to- can be properly prescribed, “An engineer, set at a problem, no matter how vast, starts in by getting the facts. He knows that wisdom does (not comprise a knowledge of how to do things in general. but of what to do next.~ What we in the ‘United States today have got to make up our minds about zt once is just this—what to do next. - “Although there are 40 pressing problems to be disposed of by our peo- ple in the very near future, I believe that, perhaps, there are two right now more important than any others—first, getting the League of Nations to work so that we and. all other countries can begin to cut down great, expens’ By Condo gether of all the facts so that the cure |‘ hausting armyment, aud second, to get our national government expenses and taxes efficiently organized. DON’T PENALIZE PRODUCTION “Let us’ consider’ this question: of -taxation first, and consider it’ from the viewpoint of the efficient and hu- man engineer, and -hot the politician. You would never find\an engineer who would think of penalizing production; if he penalized anything, i¢ would be consfimption. “Now, he would see ak once that our excess profits tax penatize produc- tion in this country—certaimy a fool- ish thing, and especially’ foolish at this, particular time when we are trying to stimulate production. He’ certainly would advise some immediate, change in- this tax. “On the other’ hand, ‘he would’ see that our tax on Inheritance and un- earned income and on~ unearned increment penalizes consumy- tion. He would ‘ptobably, therefore, figure that an increase in these taxes would be a tryly ecqnomie thing. - “The men who pile up excess profits contribute their normal earnings to our national savings: those who live on inheritance and unearned incre- ments are, generally speaking, people who are living on the savings of oth- ers, hid there should be discrimination in favor of the earners.” % — : = | AT THE MOVIES. | * * THE BISMARCK Critics agree that “The Great Air Robbery,” the Universal, photodrama,. is ane of the most thrilling spectacles of the screen's history. The photo- drama deals with a band of sky-pir- ates and stars Lieutenant 0. L, lear, the aviator wao changes p:ane3 in mid-air. The procuction will he at the Bismarck theatre tonight. THE ELTINGE Fred Starr, a gigantic person of ferocious and forbidding aspect, has been engaged to support Charlie Chaplin in the “heavy” roles that were formerly taken by the late vic ‘Campbell. Starr’s initial work can be observed in “A: Dog’s Life,” the first of Chaplin's $1,(0,000 series of com- edies, ‘which will be shown at the Hitinge theatre tonight and at the Bismarck Friday. “TH ORPHEUM ; | Journal. The famous Morosco was the play- house in Los Angeles where such suc- cesses as “Pez o' My Heart,” “Canary Cottage,” “The Bird of Paradise” and “So Long Letty” were given original showings before being sent to. New York, was rented for 2 week by Geo. Seigimann, director, during the film- ing of “The Woman Under Cover,” a modern story of metropolitan news- paper life and the stage, which is showing at the Orpheum theatre to- night. THE NEX An exceptiona‘ly stronz Dill 4s cf- fered at the Rex for Friday and Sat- urday, with three acts of vaudeville from the Palate theatre, Minneapol heated by “The “Melody Shop,” a farce comedy, presented by five peo- vle which last season, in New York, wags the hit of the Winter Garden show, also Mizs Busse and Her Pets. a society canine act. which has played all the leading vaudeville theatres in the country, also {Pauline & Hall, a singing and dancing act. The feature photy+play for Friday and Saturday is Geraldine. Farrar in “The World and Its Woman,” a mammoth seven reel picture written by Thompson Bu- chanan and said to be one of the greatest pictures Migs Farrar has ever appeared in. Baby Marie Osborne is also on the Dill in a two reel comedy entitled “Dady No. 2.” ’PAGING MR. BAUER| LS = “ - From the Eismarck Tribune of last week we note that Wm. Bauer of Sioux county has thrown his hat into the ring and will be a candidate the legislature from the 49th |} lative district. Little is known of Mr. Bauer here, but we understand that he is a farmer and' rancher, that he is a graudate of the University of Illinois and a sound and practical man in every way and a heavy taxpaye: in Sioux, Adams and Grant counties so that there is no-question but what he will have the interests of the farm- ers at' heart. He will make the race as an anti-leaguer which means in Sioux county that he will have no trouble in securing the nomination and election and we understand that Hettinger county has also been turn: ed against the league. The league lest out’ heavily’ there in the recent referendum election and Adams coun- ty shows signs of turning against the league also, . We should like very nruch to havo Mr. Bauer visit our,town in the! near future and become better acquainted with our citizenry as he will und@oubt- edly find here in Selfridge as good people “as. ever | walked.—Selfridge ,. MALONE HAS JINX A jinx seems to be following Jock Malone here of late. Last spring he slivered his right arm ina ‘pout with K. O. Loughlin at Tulsa, Okla., aid the other night he again injured his left in a bout with Art Magirl. It was his first match since his recovery, The first injury lost him about $15,000 and the-last one will ulso cost him a bunch , Gas On Stomach? ~ Adler-i-ka! “For four years I suffered from gas- tritis, bloting and belching. Was in ‘misery all the time. Nothing helped until I took Adler-i-ka.” (Signed) W. Taylor, Adierika flushes BOTH upper and. lower bowel so completely it relieves ANY. CASE gas on the stomach or sour stomach. Removes foul matter which poisoned stomach for months. Often CURES constipation. Prevents appendicitis.. Adlei-ka is a mixture of buckthorn, cascara, glycerine ana nine other simple ingredients. Jos. Breslow, Druggtist. “ oe, \ ! a ~—— —— ae