The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 16, 1920, Page 4

| | i il } rns or ETT 1. | P \ | i i \ \: ae er ae FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second : Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - - . : Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK 5 - - - 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 erein. 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 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....... vevee 6.0 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) > AMBITION SLAIN Beaufort L’Arthur is a little French town in which ambition is dead. There is no goal to strive for, nothing to work for. It is a town in which private initiative has ceased to exist. Go to Beaufort L’Arthur to live—if you wish to live a living death. But if you prefer a community where humans strive, where they forge ahead, where they go from good things to better, where progress is the program—then don’t go to Beau- fort L’Arthur. : Years and years aga Alcide Benistan, wealthy, bequeathed all his great fortune to Beaufort L’- Arthur. Benefactor? No! ‘At that time Beaufort L’Arthur was a thriving village, where many owned their homes and places of business, their small farms, and young Editor - men looked ahead to larger and better farms, big-|) ger businesses and finer homes. But that fortune killed all this for Beaufort L’Arthur. For there was this addition to the bequest: “Beaufort’ L’Arthur should undertake to nour- ish and sustain all the poor, without distinction of sex, or nationality, who'lived within its bound- aries.” : ' ‘Within six months the population had doubled. Beggars, loafers, vagabonds, men and women, those who wouldn’t work if they could get food and shelter without work, streamed into Beaufort L’Arthur. The village had to support them. Gradually and naturally some of the villagers were weaned from their habits .of work and thrift. The others—those who would not stay to see their lives spoiled—went away. And now the most of Beaufort -L’Arthur’s population neither toils nor spins, and! the rich’-and “idle ‘village is dirtier, less progressive, less decent for human habitation than it was a poor, hard-working" town. , GREAT UNKNOWNS IN THE PRIMARIES History begins to repeat itself under the pri- mary laws. “Under the operation of the South Dakota primary law,” says The Kansas City Star, “the delegates to the republican convention at Chicago. will be compelled to. vote, for George Washington Webster for the nomination:of vice- president, a candidate of that name being the only one to file his petition in the state.” Mr. Webster appears to be known in politics. There is, indeed, a very distinguished Chicago physician, | Dr. George Washington Webster, who happens to be a republican. Is it possible that some of his friends are playing a little joke on him in South Dakota? Or has he a namesake, who escaped re- nown until this South Dakota petition? On the list of candidates certified to be placed on the Michigan’ primary ballot for president is the name of Mr. William Gerard Simpson of Mich- igan, doubtless a gentleman known to all who ‘know him among the Wolverines, but not yet shining with full radiance outside of his state. In 1916 Mr. Robert G. Ross, an amiable livery stable keeper of Lexington, Neb., was a candi- date for the nomination for president in both the democratic and the republican primaries of. that state. He got a vote of from 15,000 to 20,000; divided equally between the two parties. Most of the people who voted for him seem not to have known or cared who he was. ‘About a tenth of the republican and democratic voters of Nebraska regarded the presidential primaries as a joke. Moreover, in that year, Mr. Henry Ford, lost the republican delegation from Nebraska to Senator: Cummins by a scanty margin. In several other states there was evidence of a disposition to re- gard the primary as a jest, to name men for pres- ident as jocosely as candidates for the obsolete posts of Fence Viewer or Poundkeeper used to be nominated in a New England town meeting. ; Are the wags, the triflers, the mystifiers to be as active in the primaries of 1920 as they were in those of 1916?—New York Times. Fortunately, the esteemed New York Times cannot hold the West responsible for Mr. Web- ster, whose name, by the way, is William Grant, and not George Washington. Mr. Grant, we are pleased to inform The Times, is a citizen.of New York. Your politician will play politics with a soldier’ bonus just as readily as he will juggle a peace treaty, or anything else. Another of his platform planks Mitch Palmer doesn’t brag about is his method of curbing labor unrest with injunction clubs. BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE PROFITEERING ‘ Uncle Sam is a profiteer. He has been discov- éred in the act of making a profit of $2,356,259 on the operation of 30 laundries. “ This was after paying for all the buildings in which these laun- dries are housed. : This was the old gentleman’s. net balance after operating in the war department the 30 cleansing establishments. “In the year 1919, the government, ‘operating its own plants, paid for all ‘laundry buildings, power plants and machinery and, in addition thereto, saved the sum of $2,356,259.47,” says the statement issued by the war department. In order to do the official washing for the de- partment, it required 1,609,549 pounds of soap, 1,397,700 pounds of soda and 339,000,000 gallons Oj/of water. Down on the Panama Canal Zone, too, the gov- ernment for many years has run successful laun- dries, charging about half the private rates and doing the work at cost. It’s some comfort to know that the official washing is getting done. at reduced rates, even if laundry bills for ordinary mortals keep kiting out of sight. WHAT IT COSTS TO BUILD The U. S. Department of Justice is pressing a suit in the federal court of Memphis, Tenn., against the American Hardwood Manufacturers’ Association and 33 of its members. According to'the government, the statistical bureau, conducted by the association is, in effect, a medium for boosting and equalizing prices. The association denies this, claiming that its: “open competition plan” is a method for keeping mem- bers posted as to prices, sales and general condi tions in the lumber industry. Testimony’ introduced\by the government is'in teresting. The association’s own figures were quoted to show that 21 grades of hardwood lum- ber have advanced in price 147 per cent since the “open competition plan” was begun in January, 1919. Lumber which sold at $100 a year ago, now brings $247. Letters written by lumbermen to. the associa- tion headquarters were introduced as evidence. “Under the old plan,” wrote an enthusiastic Alabama member. “It was everyone for himself and prices were not so stable. Under the ‘open competition plan,’ there seems to be a .friendly rivalry to see who can get the best prices.” An Ohio member gratefully wrote that, after ordering 200,000 feet of lumber, one of the asso- ciation’s bulletins arrived, showing that market conditions had changed. So, when the lumber was received, $2 was added to the price. , Another letter reads like a patent medicine test- imonial: \“The very first report which we secured under this plan enabled us to increase our price $6 per thousand.” a In addition to price-boosting, the government charges that the American Hardwood Manufac- turers’ association sought to limit production and cautioned its members that “cooperation, not competition, is the life of trade.” TEN POINTERS It is a hard job to behave well these days with politics, strikes and what-not keeping every one on edge. But back in the second century one Marcus Aurelius Antonius in browsing around Rome jotted down pointers for his personal guid- ance. For instance: .' 7 : »1—Simplicity in my way of living far removed from habits of the rich. 2—To be neither of the green or blue party at the fights or games. . 3—To endure labor, want little, work with my own hands and not meddle. 4—Not to be led astray to sophistic emulation, nor to writing on speculative matters, nor to hastily give my assent to those who talk over- much. 5—To look to nothing else excepé reason. 6—To love my kin, truth and justice. 7—To learn self-government and cheerfulness} in all circumstances as well asin sickness, 8—Love of labor and perseverance; firmness in giving to every man according ‘to his deserts. 9—To see things a long way off, and to'be a good manager of the expenditure. , 10—To do what is set before me without com- plaining. ff Old stuff? Romans. Sure. But Marcus became boss of GETTING OLD? Feel like the weight of years is slowing you up? Not as young and spry as you used to be? More inclined toward the easy chair than to the long hike? : And yet on the sunny side of the half century mark! 4 Why, man alive, you’re not old! Give a glance at Matt Crosby of Ocate, N. Mex. Matt is only 91 years old. Been a cowboy since he was knee high to a eee and some shucks of a cowboy to this lay. year-old steer in a little more than four minutes. “How do you get that way?” some one asked Matt. “Livin’ outdoors, eating plenty, working plen- through : ,| thing out of the ordinary next spring at Dawson! in the gold days, will be Just the other day he roped and tied a three-|' ty, sleeping plenty and lettin’ the other fellow do the worrying.” PRor: WILSON WorLD's . FAMous f “VENTRILOQUIST NONE OF OLD ~ VIGE ROUND ~ INGOLD CAMP Alaska’s Newest Mining Town to Be Model of Morality, Declare, Reports puddin Ketchikan, Feb, .— (By Mail)— Hyder, newest. of Alaska mining camps, is a “spotless town,” and many stampeders who may. rush there in the spring are’ NOT going to find drinking, dancing, and gambling going on wide open, as in the gold camps of the first stampede in '98, long be- fore prohibition. came, according to reports received here. If Hyder’s new residents find any- they may find it in Stewart, a Can- adian town not' far from Hyder. {t is. probable, however, that the red coated constables of the Royal North- west Mounted Police, who kept order at Stewart next spring to see that things are within the law. Fora very brief period this winter | Hyder was “wide open,” according co | reports. “Whiskey and beer were sold at many bars, girls were dancing, pianos, were thumped and roulette, blackjack and faro were being played,” wrote one miner from the town. Then John Ronan, former territorial senator, was appointed United States marshal and he closed everything up. “Bang went the lid and hundreds could not get away from Hyder fast enough, the miner wrote, “Many went to Stewart. There everything seems to be wide open.” Hyder would have had a‘ population of 20,000 In three.months if the “lid” had been left off,.the miner predicte't. But-the “lid”. was clamped down and the population dwindled. DAKOTA SUNSHINE MOST LIBERAL IN WEST, SAYS WORST} North Dakota, has 160 hours more} of sunshine during the year than the! central states, according to literature | which the state commissioner of im-| migration is distributing among his field agents in neighboting common- | wealths. Thirty-five thousand cards have been sent to the agents, noting facts about the’ “Sunshine State.” Among! the statements made are the follow- ing: 5 / “In 1918 North Dakota’s farm_pro-! ducts, consisting. of potatoes, vege- tables, and small fruits, corn, small grain ,hay, live stock, wool. poultry, dairy products, etc., amounted to over} a half million dollars; yet less than half its land is under cultivation. “North Dakota has 7700 school! teachers; 477 consolidated schools; 144 state high schools. “North Dakota’s land costs no more than was asked 25 or 40 years ago in! older states. “It raised 15,000,000 bushels of corn in 1919. “In 1919 North Dakota doubled its! dairy industry, the total figures for the year being $50,000,000.” Butte, Mont.—Andi McDonald, 12-! year-old schoolgirl, won first prize 1 / the army essay contest against 8,000 other school children. The best essay in each of the 25 sclivols in Butte w submitted to a committe. Little Miss | McDonald, although only an eighth; grade student, defeated 1,500 high school students. She had 393 words in her essay, which was limited to 400. 4 THE VENTRILOQUIST TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1920 Now, Joie) . Yh WHAT Do You nei] THINK oF MY WHY ADMINISTRATION YY ue se Yi 2 ji Hh Why, | THINK TO TT You ARE THE GREATEST RULER OF JHE WoeLD)’ DESPOT LE MYSELEAZ “ae MANY PECULIARITIES IN D’ANNUNZIO’S MAKEUP | putt for a “birdie.” three on the sev-| ‘ .| enteenth hole in the afternoon round. | Fiume, March 10.—Innumerable pe-!#nd_ won the deciding hole when culiarities constitute the temperament of Gabriele d’Annunzio. He is sup- erstitious to the core and will never sit.down to an ordinary meal unless there are eleven at the table. He is} fastidious in his choice of foods and | halved will drink only a special kind of} * Rhine wine. His favorite dish is “scampi,” a small crab. fish found only in the Quarnero. He was a lov- er of, the fish, when he lived on the Grand Canal in Venice. : " So much did he think of the food! squaring the match, that he went on a search of all that was-written about them and has com- piled already a studious lecture on} four to the subject. The fish resembled in Ulery color the American shrimp but is rd thirteenth, much larger and has a taste milder ‘than lobster approximating. the crab but considerably ‘moré ‘toothsome. | “Scampi” is the favorite seafood in practically all of the north Atlantic resorts. ane Besides his partiality for “scampi,” @’Annunzio is a lover of ice cream. He sometimes’ divides a large cake of it intended for the whole, table, into two halves. He takes one entire | half himself, then gives the other! half to the remaining 10 at the table. The poet’s dining room must. be | done in red. The walls must be cov-| ered with red tapestry and much of | the furniture. Then, too, orders are given concerning the color of flow- ers, morning, noon and night. HAGEN BEATS BARNES FOR WESTERN TITLE green, After playing the in fours. the ninth, five to six, about a in. Barne wimling the hole. for a “birdie” three teenth, ‘ath ing two pitts, Charles L. She United States The bi New Orleans, Li rch 10,—-Wal ter Hagen of Detroit, National Open Golf champion, defeated: Jim - Barnes filling these jobs. fore a gallery of more He squared the match with a 12-foot holes all even, Barnes won fotir out of the next five holes, Hagen hand seventh in fours, taking fives on each. The eighth was halyed in par three and Hagen took Hagen, three to four, ‘hing, the green from the tee ana filled applications. for men, vice men are given the preference Barnes hooked his ‘tee shot off the fist’ eighteen the next being won + Barnes One down at. the turn, Hagen won the ,tenth hole’ with a “birdie? three, The eleventh was balved in fours und Barnes again} went: one up by winning the twelfth, Barnes, ther startled the han “éagle’ two on the He shic niblick 125 yards from behind a,mound hiding the cup, on the greei 1 from the pin and rolled again went two up byt drove his Hagen won the fourteenth, four to nd the fifteenth and si » halved in feurs. squared the match with a 12-foot putt Hagen then on the seven- The eighteenth was halved in fours, Barnes uilssing his putt for e und the extra hole went to the champion Helena, Mont. Mareh 12.—Major ‘idan, in charge of the employment bureau here, reports brisk demand for labor sal over the state and as well for various other sorts of service. eau has more than 15€ service Ex- Great Falls leads in applications | rep@ts indicate>a general of St. Louis, Western Open champion, over the Country Club links Sunday | but the one up in, thi en holes, Hu- | scarcity of labor, though not an alarm- zone. gen’s sensational finish was made be- | {Ness than 1,500. |} jixteenth | SHIP BY TRUCK MORE THAN MERE SLOGAN TODAY: New Motor Transportation Has Become Generally Accepted, : Says Baker Ship-By-Trnck- is the new slogan of the merchants of the country, And ia the: opinion of ne Baker of the Raker-Toppins Co, local dealers for GMC trucks, it is one that every busi- ess nan should adopt asa means of getting better detivery les and o of giving better service to his nd trucking for the average merchant first came into be- ing as a war meas there is a reason for dis it just he cause” the war Neither is there any’ excuse for’ settling Kk into the old rt and not inc this new method of freight de {says Mr. Baker. , to this, there are many and sufti { reasons why merchants should) continue 10 plan and should increase tities for tl work “Leaving aside all qi ious of cost, the convenience of ove for moderate distances alone recom- mends the pl The ability of a mrer- chant. to deli his goods direct from his business to the out of town custome er and do it promptly offers a big indvantage in prestige and: in efticient service which witimately is translated siness aud consequent. ly iner d profits. While necessity forces people to put up with inconven- jences and delays in getting shipments, the merchants that can overcome these have decided supremacy in ‘their field. } “However, convenience and spromp!- eed not be considered alone ia favoring the ship-by-truck. movement. Sending goods hy motor tick to out lying points can be shown to be less costly than rail or other methods of transportation, The thing can be re- duced to dollars and cents, “In the first place; the acutal cost of truck operation is comparable to the freight rates on steam and electric roads. That is. if a truck can carry a full load it can compete with other transportation units, > shipping by truck eliminates xtra ce of bus hauling’ from one place Ss to the depot and from the depot at the other end of the line, In ad- dition, fhe number of times, the goods t bé handled is cut in half at the All these represent. some ‘sav- “Because there isn't so much hanc- ling and because goods packed for truck shipment can ‘he better cared for than those sent by rail. Breakage and loses are reduced because of this and thexe items alone amount to coo- siderable in the course of a year. going to adopt the ship- ment. IT believe they re vantages of this method of transpor- (tation and that they will “zo into it Inore extensi euch year.” 'A NASTY COLD |. EASED AT ONCE ' STEN “Pape’s Cold Compound”! then breaks up a cold iz» few hours Don't stay stuffed-up! Quit blowing and shuffling! 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