The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 16, 1920, Page 5

> x& eae BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE Eltinge LAST TIME TONIGHT Never a Film Like This— Story of Delores, the swimming girl of the Canad- ian wilds, whose love of animals make them her friends and pro- tectors from men of prey more heartless than the beasts them- selves. A TALE OF LOVE AND VILLAINY “Back to God's Country” Adapted from the story of “Wapi, The Walrus” in Good Housekeeping, by JAME OLIVER CURWOOD featuring the bril- liant and daring swimming star Nell Shipman Winter scenes and Wapi’s great fight for Delore’s life actually photographed away up in the ARCTIC CIRCLE, north of 53 degrees. ‘ Admission - 35c lieve that it is possible for one of | Bradually losing the markets gained when Germany was wiped off the seas and while Britain was fighting in the war, Britain is not’ only regaining. , but is enlarging her markets in South America and the Orient. We are re- placing Germauy in Latin America and supplanting the nUited States in war markets.” The truth of gais statement as far as it concernef Argentine was im: mediately challenged by the | River Plate. American, x weekly ‘commercial magazine, which has published an in- terview from Dr, Julius Klein, United States Commercial attache, “Frankly,)said Dr. Klein, “ld. lik fo know in what lines the British are enlarging their South Americumetrade at oufsexpense, The latest available owed auything but a loss, so far.as our business in these markets is concerned, Perhaps the president o fthe bourd of trade is referring to prospects for 1920, for which, howeve:, ho figures are as yet available, so far as I know. ing in the light. of | the tics ‘that we have in hand 's Which showed th: we were selling to Argentine approxim- ately one-third of all the goo buys abroad--and from pers servation since then, there has been no indication of losses to American trade. IT -have no doubt that we are going to meet with good strong com- petition from the British, but the’ in- clination of the American exporter seems to be to say, ‘come on; we're ready for it!” [BRITISH USING PRINTER'S INK | AGAINST YANKS |Great Publicity Battle for South American Trade Now Being Waged | Buenos. “Aires March (16.--Some British interests here have undertaken a publicity mpaign in what has been referred to as “the great strugle” be- tween the United States and) Great Britain for the markets of- South America. “Special telegrams” from Tamdon purporting to show that the United Stutes is losing her «South American markets, or otherv dis- paraging the United States, have been sratutiously distributed .by a Britisn Advertising agency and have been | videlv published in Argentine news- | papers. One of the telegrams was a criticism of Herbert Hoover for saying that the European countries should “work more jand ask | f the United States.” made a comparison be: s sustained by the Eur ropean alties in the war, particularly the Brilish dominions. as: compared With those of the United States and pointed out’ that the losses of the European countries had reduced .their productive capadity, whereas the United States had not suffered at alt economically. Another of these “special telegrams” qucted the Presidént of the Britis Board of Trade in London as saying: “L believe that th@ United States is UNDERGOES OPERATION ™ KE. H. Weber. proprietor of the Wor der store, was operated on at thé Alexius hospital Monday. Mr, Weber" conditions is not dangerous and he wi!t ie able to leave the hospital in a short time, AMATEUR “SURVEYING” FAILS TO MAKE OUT CASE FOR SOVIET Picking to pieces the special articles regarding the Nonpartisan league which appear in various magazines. has become something of a bore to North Dakotans who are. really ii: formed on the league's activities. The magazine editors appear to be- | than if deposited locally by the several state institutions or coun- ty and local governments. From this margin of 2 per cent interest the entire expense of conducting the state bank is met. Obviously it is a financial advantage to col- lect all of these public deposits and to treat them as a single fund, thus distributing, both geographi- cally and in time, the irregular- ities in the collection of taxes and other income, and equalizing the time of expenditures. Obvious- ly it is the people of the whole state that should benefit by this advantage.” Yet even the writer of this friendly article, admits that the “farmers* press’ has been financed on dubious principles”; the consumers’ — stores have been “pseudo-cooperative” ; that many of the organizers “have Icarnet! their trade in the Socialist move- j ment”; that the “manager of the state bank and some of the staff of the I state banking department have been too indulgent”; that the state “too long tolerated at least one shaky and probably insolvent bank”; and that the “administration in the case of the ; state superintendent of ‘public instruc- tion actually flouted the clearly ex- pressed will of the electorate.” One interesting disclosute is also made by the writer, who tells of au interview with A, C. Townley, in which the question of Miss Nielgon’s atroci. ous treatment was under} discusston, The writer quotes himself{as saying: “Tell me about the Nielson school controversy. I> must say 1 have an impression that your people out — the! are entirely wrong about it, “We are,” snid he. “My wnder- standing is that the man who was appointed educational adviser is alout to resign, And I doubt whether there will be any can- didate against Miss Nielson in the next election.” If they were “wholly wrong” why noi undo the wroug as far as . possible and restore Miss Nielson’s powers io her? Why not abolish the board that has. persecuted her and prevented her carrying out the will of the voters? And why should there be a candidate in opposition. to Miss Nielson? Her position is nothing more thah a clerk- ship no She has no powers what- ever over the schools of North Dakota Through the board of administration Mr. Townley can exercise all the pow- ers that Miss Nielson could have, with- out a contest at the polls for this oftice.—Fargo Forum. their contributors to muke a_ trip through North Dakota, stop at Farge and Bismarck, talk to a fey state of- ficials, ook out at the whéat fields and give “the truth about the Nonpartisan league.” Dozens of them have attempted it, and all of them have failed. | “The Survey” is the latest to under- take it, and, as was to be expected. lits article is written from a sym- mathetic standpoint, Anyone with the | time und energy to spare can go through the article and find any num. ber of misstatements, -half truths and hasty and erroneous conclusions. For example; 5 “A suial] flour mili is in opera: tion at Fargo. “Tf in any part of the program | there is delay, it is because at every step legal obstacles have heen interposed. “An inflammitory sheet which calls itself the Red Flame, pur- porting to be published at Bis- marck by the Citizens’. Economy league, whose officers and sponsors. are not disclosed, presents the farmer in its numerous cartoons with the traditional goat beard and, a complete absence of intel- ligence, judgment or common to ‘show in adjoin- Where there are no such investments as the farmers deliberately decided to make on their own account in North Da- kota, the increases (in taxes) have been even greater. More- over, it is said to be demonstrable that the greater part of what in- crease there is thus far in the state tax—as distinct from county a —is due to inade- quate appropriations by the last ‘regular’ legislature. for establish- ed state institutions so that de- ficiency approriations bhaye been necessary. “In this bank all public funds are deposited and interest at 2 per cent is paid on such deposits. They are then loaned to or be- deposited in the various local state banks with a charge of 4 per cent. This the local banks can afford to pay because their deposits are maintained with less fluctuations The Fiftieth Anniversary ' Just fifty years ago this winter Dr. Pierce gave to the world his famous “Favorite Prescription” for the distressing weaknesses and complaints of women. For many years he had been in the active : practice of medicine and his specialty was the diseases of women. Later he desired ‘to give this to the public, and he received a trade-mark protec tion from the United States patent office’ for this medicine which is an herbal, ‘“ temper- ance” prescription with all the ingredients printed on the bottle wrapper. In his every day prac- tice in the early days he also used a tonic and alterative for the blood, which was so univers sally beneficial that he deter- mined to place this medicine in | the drug stores of the United States, where it could be readily procured by the public. This he e called his “Golden Medical Dis- he had prescribed many years’ for the stomach, liver these medicines met with instant success, and during have sold in greater quantities than any other Neither of Dr. Pierce’s medicines contains herbal extracts of native medicinal plants. covery,” which and blood. Both the past half century propristary peergrs are fo hi post fifty years forty-eight million bottles have been used he American public, and 1 n Hs es and coal 9 They are now put up in tablet as well as liquid form, and sold by every druggist in the land. A trial package can be obtained by sending 10 cents to Dr. Pierce’s Invalids’ Hotel in Buffalo, N. Y. Write Dr. Pierce’s if you want free confidential medical advice, or a free booklet on any chronic disease. ee ee | they are today the standard tonics | EXPLAINED BY Interesting Paper on Immi- grants in this Locality Was Presented Before Members of | the Current Events Club hhumigrant conditions and what. is being done to Americguize foreign born in this locality was interesting!y treated in a paper prepared and pre- sented by Mrs. Alfred Zuger at the |recent meeting of the Current Events club of this city, The following of interest to thoxe who are interested in ution of this ¢ ! pe treaties ; is immediate locality (Bismarck) is perhaps typical of immigrant con- ditions. in the entire state. We have representatives of most of the coun tries of Europe and of late many from southern Europe aad ia Minor, The ‘quality of immigrants to North Da kota, like that of the rest of the co try, has materially changed, and for the worse in la years, as ! “We have in North Dakota perhap: jas ma natioanalities represented ax any state, There are localities where the immigrants settled together in com. j munities and we find Icelandic people in the northwestern part of the state, Bohemians and Hungarians in the northwest, and the German-Russian> in Logan. McIntosh, Emmons and oth- er counties, ‘hrough the local*home demon- j stration agent's office, with Miss Elsi Stark in charge, every part of the county has been thoroughly covered, meetings held and at these meetings. or rather I should call them school: of instructions, the foreign born peo: ple and others as well, are taught the follgwing : “First, food, the yarious ways it can be prepared and the different kinds of food best suited to adhits and chil- dren, laying special stress on the food value of milk for infants and grow- ing children. “Second; Clothing. selection of ma- terials, use of American patterns, mak- ing of garments and the the making over of old clothes; also making of rhildren’s, infants’ and adults’ garm Third; Health, child welfare weights and measures of growing chil- dren, health crusades, home care ot the sick, and invalid cook fourth: “Thrift, the children are given lectures in conection with the government’s thrift campaign, instill- ing in the minds of the children the habit to save, to ‘save first and spend afterwards.) Then too Miss Stark has what she calls. the “community ‘get-together’ meetings at,.which she demonstrates the best methods to do the work in the home and on the farm. In con- nection with these meetings, programs are given by home talent includins the adults and children and stress is laid on patriotie songs and addresses of famous Americans, “In our own city, night schools have been’ conducted at which anyone can take up reading, writing, sewing. manual training, typewriting, short- hand, bookkeeping, and in fact almost any of the practical courses. This enables our immigrants, who wish to avail themselves of the opportunity. to learn how to read, write and speak the American language, better their education and learn useful arts. As nearly as [ can find out, splendid pro- gre is being made along all these lines.” DECISION OF FROM REL UPR! VILLE Adolf Pollak, Viaintify and Appellant, . D, 1, Roberts. . Defendaat and Respondent. Syllabus; 1, In order to he enforcible equity there must have been a mutual understanding, and a positive assent on both sides as to the terms of the contract, fe. there must be a complete contract, finally concluded and agreed upon, Before an acceptance of au offer becomes a binding contract, the ac- ceptance must be unconditional, and must accept the offer without moditi- cation or the imposition of new terms, From a judgment of the District Court of Renville County, Leighton, Judge, plaintiff appeals. Affirmed. Opinion of the court by Christian- son, Ch. J. Birdzell and Bronson, JJ. dissent. Ben E. Combs. of Donnybrook, At- torney for Appellant. , McGee & Goss, of Minot, Attorneys for Respondent. ‘FORMER SERVICE MAN DIES HERE AS RESULT OF DISEASES OF WAR 2 The body of Benjamin Ernst Mei- who died from diseases con- tracted while serving in the American expeditionary forces during the late war, was taken to Sleepy Eye, Minn., his late home last ntght where funerai services will be conducted today. Mel- zian, who was 28 years of age. served in the 304th field signal bat talion over: Tuberculosis, result- ing from posure in France, was the immediate cause of the former service man's death. A. O. The semi-monthly Bismarck lodge. Ancient Order of United Workmen, will be held tonight at the Elks’ club. The members oi the band are requested to be at the hall’ at 7:30 o'clock to practise before the meeting begins, FORTNIGHTLY CLUB The Fortnightly club will meet Wed- nesday afternoon in the community room of the public library. One of the most interesting programs of the sea- son will be given. All members are urged to attend. |OPEN FOR LEASING SCHOOL BOARD WORK BEING DONE HERE TO AID IN AMERICANIZATION OF FOREIGNERS MRS. ALFRED ZUGER f SPORTLETS + —o Butte, Ment. — Johnny “Kid” Jack- son, a negro who was raised here, is the colored hantimweight champion of Mexicoe.) He took the title when he beat Young Joe Gans in a 20 round bout at Jua Jackson has fought fn the United States, Canada, England, France, Cuba. and Mexico and has won 104 bouts. He may try to annex the African title, Huron, S..D-—Pr of the Huron baseball club forecasts great season for his team in the South Dakota league. The team will be i round Manager Billy Shipke. Jones, Carmon, and Roberts and severa} imported pla Shipke formerly was with the hington Americans. v Vancouver, B. C.—A track meet will be held at the University of Vaucou- ver, March 13, to determine whethe+ any of the members of the team are capabie of competing in the Olympic tryouts. The meet will be conducted on the basis of class competition. There will be about 20 La Crosse, Wis. — Webb Selullz, football and basketball star at La- Crosse normal has been signed by, the Milwaukee American league baseball club. Schult a pitcher and had » splendid collegiate record. Brook | Ten high schoo: basketball teams will compete in the Eastern South Daketa basketball tour- nament, to be held in South Dakota state college armory March 5 and 6. The cities represented are Clark, Clear Lake. Doland, Elkton, Troqu Lake Preston, Volga, Watertown, Henry and Brookings. Vancouver, B. C.— Leo Hart, who formerly caught in the Blue Grass league and who was with the Balt! more Club in 1916, has been signed 4 a backstop for the Vancouver team ¢ the Pacitie Coast International leagu Hart is attending Georgetown univer: ity at Washington, D.C. He is a se vice man. Fargo, N. D.—Three ten-round bouts will be staged here March 6 by the Fargo Lodge of Elks. One bout will be between Adolph Weitz, “the battling blacksmith” of Jud. N. D., and -Al. Francis of St. Paul; another will bring together “Submarine” Smith of Moor. head, and “Kid” Leroy of Fargo. Johnny Schauser of St. Paul will bo Al. VanRyn of St. Paul. Portland. Ore.—Basketball teams of the University of Oregon and of Or gon Agricultural college. did not have marked success on their latest trip: Out of four games played in Califo nia, Oregon lost two to Stanford. uni versity and one to the Univer California, but also defzated the university. The Aggies on their nor- thern trip dropped two games to Whit- man college and were beaten twice h Washington state. . Pullman, Wash.--It has been decided that the girls’ basketball team of Washington State college will play un- der girls’ rules ‘hereafter. Until re- cently the femiile five used the rules observed by the 'varsi The wo- man’s athletic department sent que: tionaires to the physical education di partments of 30 colleges and ouly in one case, the replies indicated, did womens’ teams play under the more strenuous rul SCHOOL AND STATE LANDS OF COUNTY Unoccupied Tracts Will be Of- fered for Grazing and Hay Purposes A public leasing for rent of school und state lands ‘in Burleigh county will be held at the court house here April 9. All such lands in the county not already under lease, will be offer- ed at this time fora term of ‘five years beginning with the 1920 sea- son. Under the terms of the leases these tracts can only be used for grazing and hay purp The minimum rental for each tract 5 per quarter s tion. A leasing fee of $3 is charged for each quarter section, or fraction thereof included in the lease. Persons and companies already leas- ing 640 acres of school and state lands will not be permitted to take out any additional leases. A list of the lands in this county open to such leasing will be on file in the office of Count; Treasurer Richard Penwarden. Coal rights are reserved to the state in all leases and the board of university and school Jands reserves the right to reject any and all bids. RECEIVE BIDS FOR SCHOOL APRIL 10 Will Contain Eight Class Rooms and be Strictly Fire- proof Bids for the erection of the eight class room. fireproof, grade schoo] for the east side, recently voted for 1 an overwhelming majority, are being advertised for by the school board and will be opened April 10. The pro- posals for the erection of the schovl building will be received by I. Pen- warden. clerk of the board, Separate proposals will be received on the heating, ventilating, plumbi and electrical system. Plans specifications will be on lle March 2: ‘The plans will call for a building cost- ing approximately $62,000 and the structure will be one of the most modern in this part of the state. sident Tom Rogers | Plans For Success | “Knowing what you want and then concentrating on that one thing is a short route to getting it,” says a prominent business man. We can help you plan for success—building on firm foundations and erecting a stable structure. Men who have wide experience are here to counsel with you and add their knowledge to yours. Let your plans include the use of ‘our complete service. The Bismarck Bank Bismarck, North Dakota. 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