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

wat FOUR BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 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 DETROIT Marquette Bldg. i Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK : - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. The Associated Preas is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited to. itor not otherwise created in this paper and also the local news published erein, a All rights of publication of special dispatches herein ar: also reserved. f MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION — SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year «+ $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) vee 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota...... severe 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) EEO CLEAN UP i Bismarck’s civic pride will assert itself again this spring in the usual annual clean-up drive. The Capital City has an enviable. reputation for cleanliness and proclamations issued by Mayor Lucas and the Commercial club will serve as gen- tle reminders that the season is here for the an- nual drive on the rubbish of a winter’s accumu- lation. Streets, alleys, yards and vacant lots all come within the scope of the clean-up movement. With- in the next three or four weeks no unsightly places should remain. Get into the game—CLEAN UP. DO IT NOW. Editor Little Mary was out of the matrimonial drama just long enough to change reels. Sr Aen Sg arama ai ed “THE OLD WOMAN” At the nearby table in the restaurant two young women were discussing the age of a man em- ployed in the officé where they worked. “I don’t think he is very old,” one said. “Yes, he is; I’m sure he is,” exclaimed the other. 4 “But he doesn’t look it,” argued the first. “I know he doesn’t, but he’s old, just the same.” “How do you know?” . “Well, the other day I heard him speak of his wife as ‘the old woman,’ and if she’s an old wo- man he can’t be so very young, do you think?” “Yes,” decided the first young women, “I guess you’re right. When they begin referring to their wives as ‘the old woman’ they’re as old, or older.” The moral? As obvious as the nose on your face: Don’t let anyone hear you call your wife “the old woman.” Not even your wife: “ AN EMERGENCY The Century dictionary says an,emergency “is an unexpected happening; an unforseen occur- rence or condition; specifically, a perplexing con- tingency or gomplication of circumstances.” Isn’t that just,the fix the suffrage amendment finds itself in? With 35 ratifications and one to go, Delaware provides the ‘unforseen occurrence or condition.” With the election not many moons off and with some millions of women who ought to vote, but can’t if the thirty-sixth state doesn’t ratify before November, there certainly exists a “perplexing contingency or complication .of cir: cumstances.” ji j In plainer language it is an emergency, and-as Noah Webster proclaimed, “an emergency is an occasion for -action.” _ But Governor Marcus Holcomb insists the de- mand for actioh by Connecticut’s legislature may not he satisfied by the calling of a special session “because this is no emergency.” To millions of American women it is an emergency. No doubt about it. : It is probable that,Connecticut will ratify the amentiment when the legislature meets. But Governor Holcomb refuses to call the special ses- sion because, he says, this. is not an emergency, “St is only a situation greated by, the desire of a number of individuals to have the general.assem- bly vote on the amendment.” - That’s all it is, but if that isn’t an emergency never a one existed. The trouble lies with Gov- ernor Holcomb. He is unable to recognize an emergency when he meets with one. Certainly i¢ is painful to a state to have a governor like that, don’t you think? ’ FINAL EXAMS Along about this time of year most American school pupils start looking forward with dread to that period of storm which precedes the calm of summer vacation—the season of “final examina- tions.” t ; : They may find consolation and encouragement in the following senténces from a school survey report just issued by the United States’ Bureau of Education: ; “That the formal examination is no criterion for determining ability is a conclusion abundant- ly supported by an examination of the school ch- reers of men who have become famous. For ex- ample, Thomas A. Edison never could pass his \ school examinations, and when his teacher re- ported that it was a waste of time for him to at-! tend school he‘was taken out and never returned. Charles W. Eliot, while president of Harvard uni. versity, once remarked that he would not have been able to pass the entrance examinations of his own university. Henry Ward Beecher stood sixty-fourth in an examination in grammar, while the boy who ranked first southern city.” . Formal examinations—while still the chief method of grading pupils in many, if not most, schools—are rapidly falling into disrepute among educational experts.' The government report quoted above declares that such examinations, while having. a definite place in school procedure, became a barber in a are a poor basis for determining a pupil’s fitness T for promotion. “Final exams,” as all pupils know them, are condemned on these scores: They lead to “cram- ming” ; to undue worry and nervousness; to work- ing with the sole aim of passing; to putting a premium on mere memorizing, instead of on un- derstanding and learning, and to a vast amount of unprofitable labor for teachers in réading ‘papers, keeping records and making out reports. “A. system which is dominated by the formal examination will inevitably stress memory work, and thereby to a dangerous degree teaching tends to become formal and mechanical and not truly educative,” the government’s experts say. There is food for serious thought for every parent, teacher and school official in these state- ments. Are your children or your pupils really learning, or just passing? Are they developing their ability to think and reason, or simply cram- ming their memories with isolated and easily- forgotten facts? ( ‘One wonders if King George is embarrassed in the presence of Lloyd. When a candidate gets excited about, Ameri- canism, ask him wherd he was while Heinie was on the war path. . Roy Stone, a South Carolina political forecaster who hasn’t missed a guess in five years, says the state is solid for Hoover. “The First Woman’s Bank in Tennessee” has been established at Clarksville. The incorpora- tors evidently didn’t think about stockings. Vienna telephone service is reported to be “ter- rible” because patrons can’t: get central. 'Ameri- cans will know how to sympathize with Vienna. It is house cleaning time for the league pre- paratory to the June drive. Even Neil C.. Mac- donald failed to leave his new address behind. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the dpinions of The Tribune. pbey. are pre- sented here in order vhat our readers may have both sides: of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. d -,,. 'HIS REASONS SUFFICIENT The Nonpartisan league press feels aggrieved that so many former league members are ‘leav- ing that organization and publicly renouncing Townleyism, camouflaged socialism, said press going to Webster’s dictionary for definition of “socialism” té prove how high-minded and ideal- istic that organization is. The league press |, would make it appear that one of Stutsman coun- ty’s farmers, Herman Hallwacks, who in a recent public statement in the Alert declared himself a republicag and against Townleyism and its so-. cialistic policies, is today unjustly prejudiced against the league. a It is apparent, however, that Mr. Hallwacks did not go to Webster’s dictionary to find out about Townley’s camouflaged socialism, but got his in- formation and his facts from costly experience. He saw Townley and-his socialist tax experts attempt to confiscate the land by outlandish taxa- tion and then he realized that nationalization, of land is one of the avowed aims of the socialists national political party, as explicitly stated in their platform. le saw that the avowed objects of socialism (Townleyism being but ‘socialism camouflaged), are a social and political revolution, a revolution ostensibly to be brought“about by the ballot, but the secret councils, when exposed to the open, con- tain the threat of armed warfare between people of this country whom the socialists would divide into antagonistic, conflicting classes. Not in Webster’s dictionary where the league press would deceive the people the purposes of socialism are written, but as expressed in the so- cialists’ own official and public declarations, does Mr. Hallwacks find cause for his renunciation of socialism, camouflaged in North Dakota as Town- leyism. He finds the social party,a traitor to the nation in the world war, for this was the sogial- ists’ pledge: We pledge ourselves: to continue, active and public opposition to the war through demonstra- tions, mass petitions and all other means within our power; to unyielding opposition to all pro- posed legislation for military or industrial con- scription, and to continuous efforts to repeal such laws; to ‘opposing with all our strength any at- tempt to raise money for payment of ‘war ex- penses by taxing the necessaries of life or issu- ing of bonds which will put the burden on future generations.” : : This is a direct quotation, from the socialists platform during the war. ‘The socialist party would overthrow the gov- ernment in time of peace and would aid thé ene- my in time of war. Does Herman Hallwacks of Stutsman county or do any of his friends need to give any further ‘reason why he has renounced his allegiance to Townleyism, camou-socialism ?— Jamestown Alert. IM ‘and Sidewalks in Residential | Section t Neighborhood Clubs How- restful and inviting to the eye are beautiful shade trees bor- dering clean and well kept streets and sidewalks.. Nothing adds more to the beauty of a city or creates a more fayorable impression. Of course this probably is not practicable on strictly business thoroughfares, ‘ex- cept in those very few American cities whose early reSidents had vision enough to make the streets wide amd to provide a parking strip in the cén- ter. But few of our cities are laid out according to any real plan, as fs Washington. The result is narrow and often. crooked streets not cal- culated to inspire a desire to clean them or to ornament them with trees. Use Same Varieties « The residential distrists, however, can ibe and' should be made beautiful with shade trees. Some. cities as- sume to determine what -kinds of trees may be planted—if any are planted—in certain districts, and some also undertake to trim them. Othe: cities let property awners do what- ever they want in, this matter, jand give it no attention as a municipality. As a result of this lack of system and supervision streets are very. spotted as to trees, some lots having them and some not, while varieties of. trees are sadly mixed and the trees them- selves are worse mixed,as to appear- ance than/are the varieties. Bureau Uurges Tree Planting: The national clean-up and _paint- up, campaign bureau always has urged special attention to tree. piant- ing and great’ avenues of shade in number of American cities are monu- ments to tliis effort. It seeks to pro- mote their planting, the selection of the best varieties for the locality and | the co-operation of home owners on! any particular street in the selection | of a single variety for that street, at least for a number of continuous blocks, to promote uniformity of ap- pearance. Suitable Species Among the shade trees, most com- mon are the several varieties of ma- ple, the elm, box elder, ash, linden, cottonwood, poplar and sycamore. But, regarless of the variety of tree selected, when the clean-up and paint: up campaign is on and the co opera- tive spirit is aroused and the desire to make things look better is: high, then every property owner who has not put out shade trees should do so. Indeed he should not wait for a re- minder. ¢ THIEVES GET COAT. P BUT DOC DOESN’T CARE ” Columbus—Thieves stole Dr. H. S. Crowder's overcoat from his home here. “I was through with it anyway; it’s spring now,” Crowder told the cops. ' Thought 3 Little 1 Children Needed | Mother’s Care “My stomach ‘suffering was so se- vere that I could not have lasted much longer. I did not care so much | for myself but did not want to leave, my three little children who needed a mother’s love and care. A cousin in California wrote ‘me about Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy and | took a course of it. I have since been entire- ; ly well.” It is a simple, harm pre- +Paration that removes the catarrhal mucus ftom the intestinal tract and allays the inflammation which causes Practically all stémach, liver and in- testinal ailments, including appendi- citis, One dose will convince or money refunded. wl | Ih NEVER AGAIN! OF LAREPIBLIAN & PROTECTION AMERICANISM. TRADITIONS ACHIEVEMENTS CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES C _ Reid in The National Republican NEIGHBORHOOD CLUBS AND SHADE \ . TREES HELP MAKE CITY BEAUTIFUL IN CLEAN UP-PAINT UP CAMPAIGN Zi Tree Planting, Well Kept Streets | Community. Interest ‘and Pride Shown in Cooperation Make Better Town to NEIGHBORHOOD CLUBS _ The fine spirit of community in- terest and pride and co-operation which is created. by the national clean-up and ‘paint-up campaign has no better permanent result than at- taifled by the formation of neighbor- hood improvement clubs. all that the campajgn ks to do‘at one season of the year is inade per- manent of continuous and the neigh- borhood which has such a club gets sustained value from it! Such a club can get results that no mere, neign- borhood sentiment could secure. The mere existence of the club prompts all property owners and residents to do something to, make their places look better, even if they do not become members of the club itself. Powerful Force With such a ¢lub organized’ and committees appoinged on all the dif- ferent lines of activity it can’ become a powerful force in the neighborhood. There should be a clean-up committee to have supervision of the cleaning of streets, alleys, vacant lots, eic.,,dur- ing the regular campaign, andi to see that they are kept clean afterwards. There should be no paint-up commit- tee, to do what it can to induce prop- erty owners to paint buildings. There should be committees on shaile trees, flowers and thrift gardens. Especially there, should be some committee to promote neighborhood _ sociability, group .entertainments, picnics, etc., and above all it could create and su- In this way" | told Americans pervise playgrounds for children, us- ing the vacant lots for that purpose. Athietic Contests Such a committee could conduct athletic contests among the children of the members of the club. There is plenty of time for such games on Sat- urday afternoons and even during the long summer evenings, especially where the. daylight saving system is in operation. In winter community ‘singing and other forms of entertain. ment could be promoted by the club. 4A neighborhood club is one of the finest things for the promotion ot home life and neighborhood gacd will, health, beauty and improvement 9f the valué of all property that éan be imagined. The national clean-up and paint-up campaign would be doing its, greatest service ‘If it ‘succeeded in arousing the~community spirit. to: th» peint where the city would gain such a club in. every ‘neighborhood. HAVE YOU “HONG NAME” ‘ IN YOUR BUSINESS Shanghai, China—A “hong name” is a firm, or trade,name. T. H. Yu, speaking before the Chinese Ad Club, to choose Chinese names for their companies which were easy to write and “meant something.” “The Standard Oil Co.’s ‘Chinese, or hong name, means fine and consistent with what !men. expect,” said he, “while -the Anderson Meyer & Co. hong name means carefulness and prosperity.” * WIFE IN JAIL, NOW TO FIND WITNESS St. Louis—Heinie Herman went to East St. Lewis looking for a job and left his wife here for two weeks. He came back to find she had a new name and husband—Kelly. Heinie asked the prosecutor for a warrant charging Mrs. Kelly, nee Herman, with bigamy. The prosecutor ruled: “A man can’t appear in. this action against his wife.” The lady’ was in- EVERETT TRUE "MORNING, EVERETT— 3 SAW THAT OTHER PARTY AND I THEUGHT TD DROP IN AND — : By Condo ONIONS 3! ote GET OUT OF THIS ORtice BeFore THE BOARD OF HEALTH QUARANS | | | |ROZEMA MEETS I BOO PEEP IN A NEW ROLE FINAL ENEMY IN POSLA \ If you have any idea that- your eczema is too stubborn to respond to Poslam’s healing influence consider that this splendid remedy has made \ its record by mastering difficult and baffling cases of years standing. Picic out the hardest spot you have--where itching and smarting annoy most —and give Poslam an. overnight chance to show improvement. Try the same if you have pimples, ac! rash, scalpscale, herpes or any 8 disorder. ‘Sold everywhere. For free sample , i \ write to Emergency Laboratories, 243 2 d West 47th St., New York City. Urge your skin to become clearer, brighter, better by the daily use of Poslam Soap, medicated with 'Poslam. carcerated, however, and Herman ask- ed Kelly to prosecute. Kelly wouldn't. Herman’s still looking for some one who will. , HEALTH BY UNCLE SAM, M. D. ' | Health Questions Will Be An- | i swered if Sent to Information | Bureau, U. S. Public Health | Service, Washington, D. C. i ae Besides utilizing sheep as a source of food and clothing, the careful studies of the United States Public Health Service appear to indicate their value as sanitary agents. ‘Ticks which carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever become entangled on their long. greasy wool and die. This prevents the spread of the disease. So far as it is known this is the only disease which is peculiar to the United States. It is conveyed to man ¢ 4 by the bite of a wood tick which buries its head beneath the skin of its victim and thus introduces the virus which causes tick fever. On the west side of the Bitter Root Valley in Montana the disease is un- usually severe. |) The United States Public Health Service renfed a band of sheep and pastured them in that part of the Bit- ter Root Valley which hitherto had had the most c . It was found that they collected large numbers of ticks and these. be- coming entangled. in the wool,. died. The sheep were carefully dipped every 10 days to kill the remaining ticks. and so successfully did they do the work that not a single case has oc- curred in that area since the sheep began their sanitary campaign. Q. What/is the, cause of swollen / glands under the left arm? A. Swollen glands under the arm would indicate in the majority of cases an infection of the arm or hand. They might, however,.be causéd by a number of other conditions. Q. Please advise the’ most. simple and surest way to cure gonorrhea? A, Treatment for gonorrhea is complicated. It is advisable, there- fore to place one’s self in the hands of a specialist, or to go to a clinic for treatment. If you will send me your name and address I shall be glad to send you some helpful bulletins dealing with/venereal diseases. Q. Does sleeping make people fat, and how can fat people get thin? A. Lack of exercise is one of the causes of obesity, but usually there are other factors. The regulation of the diet is usually svery important, fats, sugars and starches being espe- cially productive of fatness. The & treatmént of obesity is not a simple matter, and it is usually wise to have it outlined and supervised by a com- petent physician. OLD-TIMER LIKES AIR-BUS BEST San Diego—W. A. Watson, 81, who saw the first locomotive “draw funny wagons” into Bloomington, Ill. flew ¢ With an aviator here a few days, ago. “Great stuff,” said Watson, who has ‘ young ideas. ' THIS JUDGE IS A SOLOMON j Akron—Lawrence 'Larimer was ar- ‘ rested for carrying two bottles of rock and rye. Police Judge O'Neill fined him $25 and then ruled that the liquor used as evidence against him, be re- turned to Larimer. “HELPS NEGRO OUT” NOW “OUT” HIMSELF Akron—M. V. Calvin “helped a negro out.” The negro came é to Cal- vin's store and asked him to change a $500 bill. Calvin dug down and “help- ed out” to the extent of $291. With 4 “4 ‘ i this assistance the negro went out and now Calvinis “out” the change. FACTS TOKNOW | ABOUT ASPIRIN The “Bayer Cr. s ” means genu- ine Aspirin prescribed for 18 years ~Aspirin created a sensation when introduced by Bayer over eighteen years ago. Physician3 at once proved its wonderful efficiency in the relief of pain. The genuine, world-famous As- Pirin, in “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin” is safely taken by millions for Colds, Headache. Rheumatism, Neuralgia, he, Toothache, Aching «Joints, , and Pain generally. 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