The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 30, 1920, Page 4

FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ALS SRE SA TS DT: a NSE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second lass Matter. Editor GEORGE D. MANN Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN. PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO eee Marquette Bldg. re . ‘NE, 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 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 outside Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota......... THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1878) . Se a PLENTY OF SALT Thank goodness there has been no shortage of salt! Knock on wood a hundred times! Here are only a few of the uses to which salt is put: Used in sweeping carpets to keep out moths. Thrown on coal fire which is low, will revive it. Salt in whitewash makes it stick. Put on ink when freshly spilled on a carpet will help remove stain. Salt and soda excellent for bee stings and spid- er bites. Salt and vinegar will remove stains from dis- ismarck) 5.00 6.00 _ colored teacups. Salt puts out, fire in a chimney. In oven under baking tins will prevent their scorching on bottom. In water is the best thing to clean willowware and matting. ‘ As a gargle will cure soreness of throat. Thrown on coal fire when broiling steak will prevent blazing from dripping fat. On fingers when cleaning fowls, meat or fish, will prevent slipping. Used to season practically every meat and veg- etable. ; Salt is indispensable. Let us hope old Father Neptune and Mother Earth will forgive the quar- rels and strifes on earth and will allow no “short- age” of salt. : Almost everybody in the world has demon; strated to his own satisfaction that the other fel- low is to blame for everything. SAN REMO : Three of the four great powers represented at San. Remo—Britain, Italy and Japan—have al- ready determined that parts of the peace treaty are unworkable. They are prepared to recognize that all the terms of the treaty cannot be carried out literally if Europe is to live as an economic whole. Only France is holding out for a strict, literal enforcement of the terms. The treaty means more to France than it does to any of the other allies. France desires to ‘see Germany economi- cally and militarily prostrate. Her statesmen be- lieve, or say they believe, that France in the fu- ture is menaced by possible German. aggression if Germany is permitted to live otherwise than as the bond-servant of the rest of Europe. France is determined that if Germany cannot or will not carry out the peace terms Germany shall pay by having the Rhine provinces annexed to France. It is with this contingency in view that Miller- and contended so obstinately at San Remo for the right of any one of the allies (meaning France) to enforce the treaty terms individually. Britain, supported by Italy and Japan, declared that only the allies in unison shall have that power. To give it to France, thinks Lloyd George, will be equivalent to allowing the French government to ‘decide for itself when Germany has failed and to .take action, as she did in occupying Frankfort and the other German cities, on her own initiative. France’s allies are not particularly anxious to see France become the dominant power on the continent of Europe.. The game at San Remo is merely a continuation of the old diplomatic strug- gle in Europe. The question is: Might it have been different if the United States had ratified and accepted its part of the responsibility and power? If one state should be owned by another that can develop it, why shouldn’t one man be owned by another who can destroy him? « OUIJA AND MANDRAGORA Ouija boards in the twentieth century are so- ciable playthings, with enough mystery about them to give an interest and an occasional thrill. But how tame they are compared with things of the Middle Ages, Take, for example, the Mandrake or Mandra- gora, an innocent little plant with wrinkled leaves and a thick taproot, which is used sometimes for medicine. In the Middle Ages it was thought to be half human. Men said that it grew beneath a gallows where a born thief (or, as others say, an innocent youth) had been hanged, and that if it was pulled from the ground it would shriek and groan so piteously that he who heard it had to die. If you had found one and wanted to get it, you would go out before sunrise on a Friday morning, stuff your ears up well, make the sign of the cross, loosen the soil, and then tie the mandrake to the tail of a black dog, which you would tempt | forward with some bread. The dog would pull ‘out the mandrake, but its shriek would kill him. Then you‘d take the mandrake home, wash. it every Friday in wine, dress it in white, and put it in a shrine. It would reveal hidden things and tell the fu- ture and make all men your friends; and it would double small coins that you left before it. But, unless you sold it, it would remain with you to death and take you with it to hell. And if you did sell it, the buyer could only get rid of it again by selling it at a lower price; so that any one who bought it for the lowest coin there was would be certain to be lost forever. Just imagine that all this was true and that you really bought a mandrake for a cent. How comfortable you would be! But this is only one of the superstitions which the modern man es- caped when he pushed aside the whole unprofita- ble business of mystery-mongering, and got down to sober work with common things, If you can’t, make good, make tracks. Ebert’s government may fall. People who stay up in the air run that risk. The quickest way to bring gasoline down is to use a 1920 model walking stick. Another little trouble with the world is that too many people are desiring freedom from sweat. You may not believe that prices will come down. A lot of folks didn’t believe Noah when he predicted rain, A New York negro says ouijt helped him win with the bones. Ouija is always very influential with bone heads. \ Before accepting a mandate for Turkey it might be a good idea to practice up by learning to manage our own affairs. be EDITORIAL REVIEW ents reproduced in this column may or may They are Pree th od im Comm: not express the opinions of The Tribune. sented here in order vhat our readers may have aides of important issues which are being disci the press of the day. DECLINE OF HIGH PRICES “T do not know that the overalls movement it- self will cure the evil,” said Attorney General Palmer, “but, it will make people think.” If he had seen the parade.of last Saturday he would “know.” It was mainly composed of chorus girls and camels and press agents. The marchers. had been instructed to look cheerful, and.did go with the air of the Old man of the Nile—“Wherl they said, ‘Smile again, “he replied, ‘I’m not vain, but I do “think I know how to smile.’” It was other- wise with the few people on the curb. In their smiling, nature triumphed over art. ; Yet it is undoubtedly true that the overall pub- licity (in view of the parade it can scarcely be called a movement) will make people think. Or, rather, it is the thinking that has given the wide clamor for economy its true basis. The fortunate result of that thought was apparent -in price movements long before the arrival of the agita- tion for blue denim. During the month of March, according to figures furnished by Mr. Palmer, the cost of clothing and kindred commodities fell from 15 to 30 per cent—in sharp contrast with the cost of food, which registered a fall of only one-half of one per cent, which is no more than is cus- tomary in the months of spring. The war taught us economy in food, but nothing less terrible than this peace could teach economy in clothing\ The economics of the recent price fall, as also its human nature, were very astutely detailed by local merchants, interviews with whom appeared in yesterday’s Times. Owing to the inflation of wages. during the war and the sudden prosperity of many small manufacturers, “the average man had mord money than ever before.” All his life he and his family had done without things they longed for, and they made up lost time. “Instead of a woman’s buying one suit of clothing a season she bought three.” But this sudden demand, reacting upon the shortage of labor, made the sec- ond suit cost more than the first, and the cost of the third suit caused even the war-mafe rich to think again. The effect of that thought “began manifesting itself a few months ago in decreased sales in all clothing departments.” “This right- about-face is now being expressed in the overalls movement. The large mass of people will not take to overalls. Nor blue denim. But they will stop buying new clothes.” ' Another merchant pointed out factors more deep and ineradicable than reckless buying. Work- men in the clothing trade “are today getting from 175 to 200 per cent more wages than they re- ceived before the war. Their production is 60 per cent of what it used to be. The public is pay- ing for that.” Before prices reach a reasonable level there will have to be a readjustment in the ratio between. wages and. output. That will take time and persistent; united effort on the part’ of the buying public. It will not be accomplished by putting chorus girls and elephants into denim, but by getting every possible day of service out of the clothes already in hand.—New York Times. HERE’S HOW A few of those resurrection ‘cocktails they are selling in Paris would be appreciated no doubt by the people who celebrated last Christmas with wood alcohol.—Denver Post, BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE EVERETT TRUE WEEE — HEGV- GOPHL-O —-MULF-VHG- PAYFY ~1- HOOB- FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1920 By Condo AAAA- BIFFFL = POOF ~ PRIFF— MeM-m-m- wou MOUTHFOLU SAID. A alt z ? OF GOLD STANDARD TO ADJUST UNIQUE MONETARY CONDITION SAYS LEADING BANK IN NEW YORK United States Only Country Whose Stock of Gold In- creased During Period from 1913 to 1918; Germany Shows Largest Decrease The United States and ‘South Amer- ican and Oriental nations, which .as @ consequence. of the war have an abnormal proportion of the world’s stock of gold, may reasonably expect a persistent drain on their holdings of the metal until an approximate world equilibrium has again been res- tored, the ‘National Bank’of Commerce in New York says in the May num- ber of its . pimgazine, “Commerce Monthly.” _Thik- will compel the ‘na- tions so situated to readjust their credit structure ‘within themselves. At present, the bank declares, the world monetary situation is unique as a result of the war which overturned the currency systems of Europe. A return to the gold standard throughout the commercial ! world seems to be the most practicable solu- tion, of the current monetary prob- lems, according to the bank. To bring about this return, it says, the pre- vention’ of additional inflation, the more or less gradual reduction of thy volume of outstanding currency and credit and the increase of produc- tion are necessary. A prediction that gold will be employed for money uses more effectively in the future than it has been in the past also is made. Gold Decreases Abroad It is shown in the article that be- tween 1913 and' 1918 the money stocks of gold in France decreased from $1,200,000,000 to $664,000,000; in Great Britain, from $880,000,000 to $596,- 000,000; in Russia, from $1,012,000,000 to $412,000,000, and in Germany, from $916,000,000 to $720,000,000. (Meaa- while in the United States the <old money stock had increased from $1,- 905,000,000 to $3,165,000,000. Using the year 1913 as a 100 per cent basis, currency in the larger countries had by 1919 increased as follows: United Kingdom, 244 per cent; ‘France 375 per cent; Italy, 435 per cent; and Germany, 875 per cent, During the same period the currency expansion in the United States reached only 171 per cent, * In countries which have developed the use of credit to a high degree, the war occasioned a ‘similar expan- sion in the volume of credit, it is pointed out. In England, according to a recent estimate, the volume .of bank deposits, exclusive of those in the Bank. of England, approximated 1,070,000,000 pounds prior to the war and at the end of 1919 totaled 2,3(0,- 000,000 pounds, an increase of 115 per cent. In the United: States de- posits subject to check increased from $8,520,000,000 in June 1913 to $21,064,- 000,000 in Juune 1919, an advance of 147 per cent. C’est La Guerre “The war played havoc with the world’s money, and its restoration to soundness is one of the major prob- SSSS—aA2an9&—> = FRECKLE FACE Sun and Wind Bring Out Ugly Spots. How to Remove Easily Here’s a.chance, Miss Freckle-face, to try a remedy for freckles with the guarantee of a reliable concern that it will not cost you.a penny unless it removes the freckles; while if it does give you a clear complexion the ex- pense is trifling, Simply get an ounce of Othine= double strength—from any druggist and a few applications should! show you how easy it is to rid yourself of the homely freckles and get a beauti- ful complexion. Rarely is more than one ounce needed for the worst case, Be sure to ask the druggist for the double strength Othine as__ this strength is sold under guarantee of ap freckles, money back if it fails to remove. | tems now to be solved,” the hank says. “Good money is necessary to the working of our existing industrial order. The restoration of money stan- dards that will be* reasonably .um- form throughout the commercial world and reasonably stable over periods of time, clearly is desirable. A return to the gold standard, which the war, seems the most practicable way out of difficulties. i “Eventually, the resumption of gold convertibility in the several countries will involve a redistribution ‘of ‘the world’s stock of the metal.’ As gold is restored to its monetary uses in those countries now ona paper’ basis which. are. sifficiently strong to un- dertake the process of deflation, their requirement for the metal -will in- crease. In some other:-countries, which. are too weak to follow a | constituted a workable system -before ; rigorous policy of deflation, the pos, sible clearing away of worthless pa-; per currencies may leave a money vacuum to be filled by some sort of specie money. This also. would oc- casion a considerable demand’ for gold. Consequently, those countries— the United States and South Ameri- can‘and Oriental nations—which a3 a consequence of the war have ac- quired an abnormal proportion of the world’s stock of the metal, may rea- sonably anticipate a persistent drain on their holdings, compelling the re- adjustment of the credit structure within themselves until an approxi- mate world equilibrium has again heen restored, Péople Educated “In the future, however, it may be expected that gold, in its money uses, will be employed much more effec- ‘tively than in the past. During the war, throughout Europe and America, gold has disappeared from actual cir- culation and has been concentrated in the reserves of central banks. With the improvement of credit facilities there is less and less reason for its actual employment in circulation. In the United States before the war the people generally preferred substitutes for hard money. The war has .prob- ably done a good deal toward educat- ing the people in the more important Kuropean countries to the same view. The stocks of gold, therefore, will be held in bank reserves. Its freedom of flow between monetary and com- modity will continye unimpaired; it will serve as in the past in settling. foreign trade balances, Thus, With little or none of it in actual circula- tion, gold may again serve as the standard of circulating media, and as a regulator of the volume of out- standing credit.” USE WIRELESS TO - LOCATE FISH BEDS Halifax, N. S.—Equipped with wire- less, a fisheries cruiser will scout back and forth off the Canadian coast during the coming season. Whenever schools of mackerel or other food fish are located, it Will flash the informa- tion to stations along the coast, which will immediately transmit the inform- ation to the fishing boats. The arrival, location, size and di- rection of movement of the schools will be wirelessed. Fishing boats in harbor will be notified directly, and many of the larger boats are equipped with receiving appartus so that if they are out at sea they will receive this valuable information at once, This ultra-modern aid to fishermen is a new departure added to the cam- paign that began during the war which has resulted not only in educat- ing the people of Canada to the use of fish food, but is rapidly developing | a great new industry. | Modern fisheries using steam trawlers and a fleet of smaller boats, have been established on the Pacific coast, and more than 500,000 pounds of flat fish and cod are now being { marketed monthly. Dressed and | frozen they are rushed as far east as Winnipeg. ‘ ‘. Fisheries have: been established’ in the inland lakes, and in Saskatch»-{ 1 OLIDA NUTMARGARINE / Prekrred lor Delicate Flavor and [ood Value EVERYONE likes Holiday Nutmargarine. The delicate flavor appeals when ‘you know an wholesomeingred: remember its Try a pound of Holiday—for once you try you will continue to buy. Your grocer has it ’ and his supply is fresh. Northern Cocoanut Butter Co. t Stacy-Bismarck Co. jients—cocoanut oiland oil churned with milk—it adds much to the real enjoyment of this’ “daily sptead for bread.” ST. PAUL TEACHER GAINED 21 POUNDS BY TAKING TANLAC “J was almost helpless with rheu- matism when I began taking Tanlac, but now I haven't an ache or pain of any kind and have gained twenty-one pounds in weight,” said Miss Lily ; Minor Pecor, 93 West Tenth St,, St. Paul, Minn., who has'been a teacher in and about the city for eighteen - years, in a statement the other day. “I suffered with rheumatism so bad that I have been able to get out of the house only three. times during the past year,” she continued. “I was al- most helpless, for I was confined to “my bed for weeks at a time and-I was jsimply in misery from morning till night. The pains in my back felt like a knife cutting, my joints were stiff and my muscles were drawn and swol- len. ‘My appetite left me and my stomach was so badly upset that what little I ate caused severe pains in my sides and around my heart. My nerves were in an awful condition and I lost weight until I was so weak I could not stand up at times. eal ‘My next door neighbor advised me to try Tanlac, and since it has done so much for me I will always be gtate- ful to her for telling me about it. The rheumatism began leaving me right after I started taking Tanlac and now it has completely disappeared. The pains in my back and sides and around my heart have also left me. My appe- tite was never better and I can eat just anything I want without suffering any bad effects. I am not nervous or restless ‘and am sleeping soundly ev- ery night. I have not felt so well and strong in years and’ it is a real pleas- ure for me to recommend.the medicine that did it all.” Tanlac is sold in Bismarck by Jos. Breslow in Driscoll by IN. D. & J. H. Barrette and in Wing by H. P, Ho- man. Advt, =———— wan alone more than 10,000,000 pounds, principally white fish, are now being caught annually. All drinking water should be boiled until further notice. C. E. STACKHOUSE, Health Officer Wife Doing Good Work “I have been bad off with stomach and liver trouble and bloating for many years. No doctors or medicine helped me. ‘On the advice of my drug- gist, I bought a bottle of Mayr’s Won- derful Remedy and I don’t want to miss a single dose. It has given me more benefit than all the medicine I have ever taken. I feel I am doing good to recommend it to others.” [t is a simple, harmless preparation that removes the catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and allays the in- flammation which causes practically all stomach, liver and intestinal ail- ments, including appendicitis. One dose will convince or money refund- ed. f ul For sale by druggists everywhere. to'the taste and dainty, peanut You can’t buy a product that is finer, sweeter -or mote splendid for table use, cake making, salads, etc. and there's a decided saving in price compared with creamery butter. ;