The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 24, 1920, Page 4

“aN Wa i i i I 4 # BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY, APRIL, 24,1920 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE , Entered at, the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second é lass Matter. GEORGE D. MANN : : Z JOAN PAYNE COMPANY G. LOGAN DETROIT Kresge Bldg. ~ Editor Mi cite Bid eta , PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH ~ NEW YORK s : - - 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. “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) Daily by mail, per year (in state outsi Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.. aise THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) <B> DELAWARE’S REFUSAL In the United States there are 27,000,000 wom- en over 21 years of age. In Delaware there are 64,000 women of voting age. Delaware has less than 3-10 of one per cent of the women eligible to vote, ‘A few stubborn legislators, because of their cave man ideas about Delaware’s handful of wom- en voting, refused to rise to the call of the na- tion. Already 17,000,000 women have been enfran- chised by their home states; The other 10,000,- 000 women some time ago quit trying to get suf- frage at home because they hoped for it by fed- eral amendment. It was these women, and the nation at large whom those Delaware legislators wronged by their refusal to ratify. 4 OVERPRODUCTION ' It is difficult to believe, these days, that there can be such a thing as overproduction by labor. And such instances are rare. Hence the reason for introducing you to A. E. Emery of Oakland, Cal. . Mr. Emery is 87 years old. His fault, if it be a fault, is his desire to end = the house shortage speedily. g Following the bent of his desire, Mr. Emery en- gaged himself in the business of’ lathing ~ his # house. He lathed by day and he lathed by night. “\This nocturalilathing disturbed the: slumbers of ‘neighbors. They called the police. ~.. A guardian of law and order called upon Mr. ~ Emery at 3’o’clock oné morning: Mr. Emery, was lathing. And lathing is a noisy occupation, bing, . bing, bing—nail \after nail, with the taps punc- “ tured at intervals‘by the rasping of!a saw. + The limb of the law arrested'Mr. Emery for | © “disturbing the peace.” un 4 - . But the judge, or somebody higher up, released iithe aged. workman. : _ “Such industry should be rewarded, not pun- , < ished,” he observed. Yes, the country could use quite a few-more + Emery workers, couldn’t it? ne ° TURKEY AND BEAR The fate of Constantinople and the Dardanelles ,camnot be permanently settled without Russia’s consent. President Wilson has done well to call attention to this fact in his Turkish note to the ; allies, Ricans i Russia will eventually recover her strength. ~ The new Russia will be more powerful than the old, as democracy’ is more powerful than auto- cracy... When that time comes, Russia will insist "., upon a revision of the present Turkish peace |\ agreement. Russia’s economic expansion re- : quires that she possess an‘ open port in Europe which cannot freeze during the winter. | “The Black sea and the passage through Turkish wat- . ers to the Mediterranean alone can give Russia ‘ what she wants.’ ' If an effort is made to confine Russia to the Black sea, while other powers dominate Constant- inople and the straits, a new war will be in the making. The bear must be allowed to swim to sea the year round. . But, the allies cannot discuss this matter with Russia now. The new Russia doesn’t know her own mind about her international problems yet. + Soon, however, she will begin to see the problems clearly. In the meantime, the Turks may well be - allowed to stay in Constantinople. If they are put out, somebody must replace them. The only disinterested successor would be America. But, - America has not yet realized her international re- -Sponsibilities in the new world which the war has made. When the Turks are-expelled, an international , commission will have to control Constantinople. >Such a commission, with Russia excluded, would be dangerous to the peace of Europe. Therefore, the expulsion of the sultan will be better managed if it is postponed until Russia can assist. The . Slavs have a right to help nominate the sultan’s successor. : ri ee There is a growing suspicion that putting 80- ‘cialists out of the assembly: put them into the presidential campaign. i ;., A Brooklyn judge classes a pocket flask with a _ burglar kit. The crime may be equal, but the =price isn’t. j Marblehead workers are out on strike. It may ‘be well to explain that this item does not refer to senators. . : ‘ JURY OF NEIGHBORS They have unearthed a new divorce idea in Liv- erpool, N. Y. When the Rev. W. W. Brunk and his wife couldn’t “get along as husband and wife” there was no resort to court room, judge or law. The case of husband versus wife was tried by the neighbors, who’ acted as judge and jury. Their verdict advised separation. a Usually, when husband and wife disagree the domestic linen is washed in the publicity of a court room. The judge, seldom knows the com- plainant or defendant. All he finds out about them is what is told on the witness stand. He hears many cases, and is very apt to decide them “from brain, rather than from ‘heart.” Not so with a jury of neighbors.. They know the hus- band and wife; have known both for years. None better knew whether they should continue trying to live together, or whether they should separate. They know all the little intimate things of their family life, such details as might change the whole complexion of a divorce case, but which, too often are not considered in a court room. : Of course, under present law, such a neighborly decision isn’t official. It is merely advisory. But it is an interesting experiment. ' The jury of friendly neighbors may smooth over a matrimonial tangle, which otherwise would end in divorce. Neighbors can do much toward helping a discordant couple steer clear ‘of the breakers—if they will! And they,’ better than a judge, can tell when a marriage’ is “absolutely hopeless” and the parties to it should go their separate ways. ‘ An independent Fiume' will léad a hard exist- ence if it becomes as independent as d’Annunzio. _ ‘Uncle Sam’s interest in Kurope will not lessen while Europe fails to pay him-interest when due. The man who must, buy gasoline at present! prices would rather fight the oil crowd than Mex- ico. ; So far no politician has charged that socialists bribed the New York assembly to make martyrs of them. ; The discovery that, shark leather is fit for shoe soles suggests an excellent method of disposing of loan sharks.,! . j Vial Petes Heinie may ‘settle his domestic troubles by gen- |' eral strikes, but he can’t settle-his foreign trou- bles that way. i Aan Lenine, with his’ talk Of ‘freedom, credits his success to discipline,’ That’s!'what |held the ‘old regime in the saddle) 0 \0 02.02) Surgeon General Cummings: tells. women that smoking ruins the’complexion.. It doesn’t affect the kind|that sort of women wear. ste -EDITORIAL REVIEW _ Comments reproduced in: this column mi not express the opinions of The Tribune, They are Bs te oe ere el ee alate a nt issues wi ite’ ayare oy, ue are being discussed in THESE WORDS OF ROOSEVELT, SPOKEN IN ‘’, MARCH,‘1916, ARE TRUE-TODAY “June is a long way off.. Many things may oc- cur between now and then. It is\utterly impoasi- ble to say now with-any degree of certainty who should be nominated at Chicago. Z “The crying; the vital,need now is that.the men who next June assemble at Chicago from the for- ty-eight states and express the view of the entire country shall act with the sane ‘and lofty,devo- tion to'the interest of our nation as a-whole which was shown by the original continental_congress. “They should approach their task unhampered by any pledgq except to bring to its :accomplish- ment every ounce of courage, intelligence and in- tegrity they possess.”—Sun and New York Her- ald. : ‘ ie THE UNIVERSAL ROBIN / Of all birds that come to spend the spring and summer months with us perhaps the robin is best known'and most popular. He is one of God’s ex- emplars of true democracy.. Away from the Walls of brick: and mortar there is no part of town too obscute for him to build a home, The unwritten rules of snobbery aré unknown to'him. It is not his aim in life to live next door to a robin that knows’ a robin that lives near a robin that has a redder breast and ai longer tail than his. These gentle, lovable birds divide the city among themselves. They do not crowd together and encroach upon each other. Instinctively they solve the housing and food problem to the best interests of all concerned. . Thus, incidentally, they, serve mankind. i ; The robin is universal. He is here and there, and carols for everybody. There is no part of town that he does not rfake a little brighter and hearts a little lighter by his infectious optimism. His “‘cheerily-cheerup”: is irresistible. Pity the day when this magnificent’ bird is driven away by the aggressive English sparrow. And that day is coming, assure as fate, if man does not take a hand inthe unequal battle. Choice must be made between a blessing and an abomination. The robin earns protection and en- courdgement, that he may come again and again, to the end of time, with his message of glad tid- bo Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest though also be like unto him, Answer a fool according to his fol- ly, lest he be wise in his own con- ceit. 1 have to make some answer. to a letter which appeared in the Bis- marck Tribune of ‘last Saturday, and I hardly know how to do ‘it, as, for shame, the writer did not sign his name, and it makes one think of the bird that puts its head in the sand to conceal’ its body. The letter is by a distinguished statesman,.whose sqlary; is the sarhe as,a Judge.’ Jt 1s on Judge Bronson in the Saturday Evening Letter of two weeks ago. By way of mere. abuse, and not of criticism, several unkind thinks are said of Judge Robinson and his Sat- urday Evening Letter.'It is that his letters are nonsense, utter. non- | sense, “being neither political nor sensible nor in any way interesting.” he wants the Tribune to leave the nonsensical judge’ to find some other way of exhibiting his eccentricities. Then, of Judge Bronson it is gaid that he is a great- worker, (which | is true); that he attends strictly to work at all times and can do fifty per cent more work than Judge ‘Robinson. The occasion of it all was this re- mark in the: Saturday Evening .Let- ter of two weeks ago: “Mr. Justice Bronson was elected on condition that, during the. business hours of each day he would give all his.time to the duties of his office. Will he confess and try’ to excuse ‘his fre- quent and long continued absences from the court for one-third of his time,” This was written when Judge Bronson had been for three. weeks continuously absent from court, and when his absence of one, two or three weeks had grown ‘to be rather com- mon. To do the. work of the court as it should be done, it is necessary for every judge to be’at his post of duty in the Capitol during the busi- ness hours of each day, and as a judge is a public servant, sworn to do his duty faithfully, he is not at. liberty to leave his post of duty and’ to go and come as he may please. In doing so he must disregard his All his time belongs to the state just as mych as the time of a bank cash- ier belongs to his bank, When ho j { | available sources. tarp ee SATURDAY EVENING LETTER By Justice J. E. Robinson de tet tt tte tt—ttemtnamettmntimmstmmvemmsile April 24, 1920. In Proverbs we)—a thief of time—and he nmst know read: it or he. would not take offense at a report of his stealing. Of course the judges have some excuse, because they work without any supervision yor. accounting. / There is no one co call them to time and) they have so long been considered the lords. of Creation they feel free to do ag they please. “Whén arbitrary power was banished from the earth, it found a refuge in, the bosoms of the judges’ and that power they use to cover up their own wrongs and to punish those who expose thi Safely you may publish a just rebuke or say anything you will of the Gévernor or the President; but mot of the court, written as a retort for the remarks ; because it is contempt and there is no appeal from arbitrary power. That is why judges of the United States supreme court are always years be- hind. with their work. That is. why our, court was more than a yedr be- hind when three of the present judges took office in January, 1917. It was to remedy that great evil—to abate the great nuisance known as the. de/ lays of the law—that those letters | have been published. The judges did not care to see in the newspapers a weekly report showing disregard’ of their official duty, and hence. their absence became jess and less fre- quent. The result is that now, for the first time in ‘two decades or more, the court is right up with its work, and indeed such a condition is as unusual as it is for the judges of the supreme court to have one of their number “act as confessor and report on their doings in ‘a wéekly letter. “Other: results ‘are still greater: There is the reduction of the ‘taxes, dollars, the repeal of the compulsory vaccination law, saving’ another. mils lion, the change from ‘the runious and robber system of mortgage: fore-' closures saving’ another million, Fon these, and many other- benefits, we may thank the Bismarck Tribune and a few other newspapers that -have kindly published the Saturday, Ever- ing Letters. ' In“my state publicity letter, when a candidate for office, L-: faithxfully promised to\show how to reduce the. taxes, to reform the laws and ‘the court procedure. That promise:I do renew and will observe, ¥For.-this; moral obligations and his officiaoath.) we must continue to denounce and expose the wrongs. It is in no way a personal matter and no one has a right to resent it.. He that cevereth steals his time, he is a time stealer | up his sins shall.not prosper, but, he 2 u pes ah ¥ } Be “The Digest’s” Poll of 11,000,000 The Most Impressive Indication of the P ople’s Choice for the Presidéncy Ever Given Outside of saving the people nearly a million|.. who confesseth and. forsaketh his sins shall find mercy. ,Then, there comes a short note in the Tribune by MR. DITTO. I have written nothing concerning him and have, not the pleasure of , knowing him, but presume that hegis a gentle- man and a scholar. He accuses me of being silly, that is, in comparison with Solomon and himself, and it may be that I have'fifty per cent less of wisdom and working ‘capacity. I confess. and: plead guilty, and for a. kinder opinion or the commiseration of MR. DITTO I suggest that he read my letters on the Starry Heavens, on the ‘Planet Saturn, on the Land that is Fairer than Day and the Mil- lions of Other Suns that we Call ‘Stars and on the Countless ‘Worlds that Revolve around Them. And also, on the way to measure the distance to stars, and ‘when he jhas done, this and reviewed his geometry and) tri-' distarice to the nearest star; I will gladly read again of his superior wis- dom ‘and success. —JAMES E. ROBINSON. ; oo ~ t | Unspoken Speeches ——— Of the Candidates, as Imagined by ‘EDMUND VANCE COOKE (Listening to'Governor Cox of Ohio) There’g a state] know Wheré the game-Cox crow jim the ‘presidential pit, And 1 have a hunch That. of all the bunch, I’m the one who is really It. a am sitting square In the Governor's chair I'm ‘the candidate. Who can poll-this state, And I want the world to know— I'm from Ohio, athe I'm from Ohio! You cén’t get by this time Without this good old state, and 4 Pm— I’m ‘from’ Ohio! I’m from Ohio, ‘Where the picking’s always prime. Four and twenty votes for Woodrow were’ the votes which pulled gim through, : For. Ohio, old Ohio, Jed the Wilson retinue, ‘ But he couldn’t fight .the Teuton * Till he got the help from Newton, And I'm from Ohio, too! There are candidates From the other states, i With their platforms builded strong, And you'll often find dats In the, lime-light’s grateful \nowt r ) And their planks are broad and long; But 1 pass them by z With a careless eye; I observe, but I do not. heed, (For the plank I bring Is the genuine thing; » It’s the only one I need— f I'm from Ohio, I’m from Ohio! G 4 You can’t get by this time Without this good, old ‘state, and vm— I’m from Ohio! I'm from Ohio, ‘Where the‘picking’s always prime. It's the state of Grant and Garfield and Taft and’ Tippecanoe, Where Hayes and, Bill burst upon the public view, ‘So.the precedent is ample For ‘the Dems, to’ take example, And I’m from Ohio, too! gonometry and has computed the] IT MUST BE | A MISTAKE! TACOMA—Well, well, here’s a mean buteher! Frank, Magrim was fined $50 for trying to sell decayed meat, ‘ \ WOMAN' WANTS \ oe DUTY ON BIRDS: ‘\ CLEVELAND—Mrs. L. B, Bupkett has asked support here for a bill in | congress putting a tariff of $5 per.bird on imported song birds. “It’s to save the American bird business,” ;says she, _All drinking water snould be boiled until further notice: C. E. STACKHOUSE, Health Officer “BUSINESS MEN: WIN PROMOTIONS “‘Monor where honor is due,”’ says §. J. Severson, recently ap: pointed yard manager of the White & McCullough Lumber Companies, Harwood, N. D. He wrote to PDakota Business College, Fargo, N. D., saying the position was di- rectly due to his training there. Another former D. B. C. student, John Schneider, arnountes his pro- ‘motion to Service Dep:. Mer. of the Standard Oi! Co. , Grand Forks, N. D Thorough training pays. |‘ .. « Spring term begins soon. ‘‘Follow \the Succe$$ful’’. and enter now. Write F..L. Watkins, Pres., 806 They are well debigned hat Is Behind the _ Every phase, of the great strike that has extended across the country dur- . "ing the past two weeks‘is covered in the leading article in THE’ LITERARY DIGEST for April 24th. In the opinion of-the Jersey Journal, (Jersey City) “the outlaw strike is trying either:to put union labor out of business or to put | the country out of business,” and the Evening Post (Chicago) declares that it is “a test of organized labor’s:ability ‘to control. its own affairs.” If unionism’ -’ ean not contral its forces and, can not’ prove its value as a respectable cooper- ating factor in the great task of doing the country's work ‘and producing the | - country’s wealth, the verdict will.go ag ainst it.” While Attorney-General Pal-° . mer affirms ‘that the strike was the result of I. W. W. leadership, and of the working out of an international Communist program, Samuel I r I tion of Labor, blames “men like Senatbr' Qummins . and Governor Allen, of Kansas, with their legisla- tion to deny’a man the right to quit work to enforce a legitimate claim or redress an injury” for the 1, “wave of uncontrollable resentment” which found expression in this strike. The Evening Public Led- ger (Philadelphia) ‘declares that “the pressure that greed and stupid) opportunism have put upon all wage-earners is almost intolerable. To be promised relief, yet to see the cost of necessities rising ' steadily‘about twice as fast as your wages, to See a day approaching when shoes and shelter’ may be matters of doubt, is tq be ready material in the hands of blind agitators.” Read THE DIGEST this week if you would get the news of this great strike as drawn from all. a Presidential Election ompers, head of the American Federa- i) Front St., Fargo, N. D. - Voters | McKinley *. | ings.—Toledo Blade. ; When it is recalléd that the total vote cast in the last presidential election was about eighteen and one-half million and that in the present poll THE DIGEST is’taking, eleven million: voters are! being asked tb name their choices for the presi- ' dency, it will be seen that the results of this poll will give a very accurate idea ofthe man that the American public-want for. president. The second week’s returns are published im THE DIGEST for April 24th. Every section‘of the country is being canvassed by mail in this poll, and many thous- ands of votes are being received daily... From now on up to the presidential convention ‘in. June’ the DIGEST will print a weekly. tabulation,of this monster, vote and it is not too muck to say that it will be carefully and eagerly scanned by the public,,and in all likelihood will have a consider- able influence upon the selection of the candi- 3 dates at the conventions of the two great parties. ‘All the World-News of the Week in “The Digest” Besides the two feature articles, before mentioned, this week’s DIGEST is particularly interest- ing. There is a wide variety of news-articles cover ing International Politics, The War Situation in Eu- rope, Science and Invention, Religion and Social Service, Literature, Drama, Music and ‘Education, while the lighter side of life is reflected in the form April 24th Number -on, Sale To-day—News-dealers 10 Cents—$4.00 a Year : Digest & WAGNALLS COMPANY (Publishers of the Famous NEW Standard Dictionary), NEW YORK Ei of humordus cartoons and other illustrations. “ © «> ao » t+