The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 20, 1920, Page 4

i PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE fc ERIS Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN : : * Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY DETROIT Kresge Bldg. * Editor M ite Bld larquette Bldg. , BURNS AND SMITH NEW york : - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. pla eS 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. eee eee in enn ee RO es MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year . $7 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) Daily by mail, per year (in state outsi Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota sere’ THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) <B> GERMANY’S FEELINGS Germany is angry because negro troops from French African colonies are being used to garri- son German cities. Germany thinks greater consideration should be shown her culture. Black troops do not har- monize with the higher German civilization. Germany is entitled to a more fitting return for the delicacy and kindliness her own troops dis- played in France during the war. There was, for instance, the expatriation of the women of Lille. There was the enforced la- bor of French peasants behind the German lines, but within shell fire of the French artillery. There was the partial destruction of Rheims ca- thedral. There was the destruction of France’s young fruit trees during the retreat of the Ger- man army. But, why go on? Everybody knows the tale. : And now, France sends negro garrison troops into Germany. The blacks know no refinements of cruelty. They are unfamiliar with the German doctrine of scientific ruthlessness. But, the name African barbarian has a repulsion for the Huns. It is shameful of France to have devised this form of torture. The primitive natives make Germany squirm. What right has anybody to make Germany squirm by preying upon her sensitive feelings? But, by what right does Germany squirm? Are the blacks a nightmare showing to Germany the sav- agery and cruel lustfulness of her war-guilty soul? eas 8388 Recognizing Armenia is about the same as ex- claiming: “How natural he looks!” BY EPICTETUS Epictetus, the Greek philosopher, said: “Bad actors cannot sing alone; but only in chorus. So some men cannot walk alone. Man, if thou art aught, strive to walk alone and hold converse with thyself, instead of skulking in'the chorus! Think, look around thee; bestir thyself that thou mayest know who thou art.” : Epictetus lived in the first century A. D., but he might have been addressing some of the many timid fellows of our own time. Speaking in the snappy English of the day, he would have said: “The trouble with too many of you fellows is that you are afraid of yourselves, And the rea- son you are afraid of yourselves, is that you don’t know yourselves. Get acquainted with yourself, old man! There’s a lot more in you than you think. “You complain that some other fellow who hasn’t as much brains as you is getting along much better than you. That’s your fault. The other fellow is making good use of all the brains God has given him. You're letting your’s rust. “Dust ’em off! Exercise em! Think! Get a move on! Don’t be afraid of failure. Don’t be afraid of yourself! You’ve got the stuff in you! It’s there waiting to be brought out. Get busy with yourself. Few of us use our brains to their full capacity. We mistake idle dreaming for thinking. “Don’t always run with the crowd. The crowd always is following the easiest way. Strike out for yourself. That way is harder and hillier, but when you get near the top, oh boy! But above all, think! Your brain loves to think. It thrives on thinking. Give it a chance. There’s nothing like an active broin to keep you feeling good all the time.” So Epictetus would have spoken in the lan- guage of the day. First-class advice, don’t you think? TRUSTS CANADA é Canada wants to send a minister plenipoten- tiary to the United States with independent rank. Canada desires to deal directly with this govern- ment, and not through the intermediary of the British embassy. It is a novel proposal. Great Britain is said to have consented to the innova- tion, and only the consent of the state depart- ment is necessary for the plan to become effective. There is no reason why Canada’s wish should not be granted. The great self-governing depen- dencies of the British empire are no longer colo- nies in the ordinary meaning of the word. To Britons, the British empire is an assembly of na- tions. For all practical purposes, Canada is a sovereign state. The links binding Canada to the Mother Country are common ideals, the spirit of Anglo-Saxon democracy and recognition of King George as the constitutional head of the empire. In every matter of domestic and foreign policy, Canada does as she sees fit. The peace conference recognized this new status in international relations when.it admitted Can- BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE ada and her sister dominions into the League of Nations on an independent footing. Canada has now taken the next step in the establishment of her sovereignty by asking the United States to receive a Canadian diplomatic representative. Great Britain’s success as a colonizing power has never been more brilliantly shown than in her consent to the Canadian plan. The British government is willing to trust Canada completely in the delicate field of foreign relations. No em- pire ever before has shown such confidence in the common idealism of its component parts. If the United States grants Canada’s request, Washing- _| ton will be the scene of a new experiment in co- lonial government, illustrating afresh the love of freedom and liberty within the British empire. GETTING RESULTS “The best comes out,” says the Rev. James I. Vance, founder of the Inter-Church Movement, “not under the lash of the oath, but under the profanity as a getter of results. Modern man, staunch believer in efficiency in all things, will not long tolerate the inefficiency of profanity. This itself indicates the close ap- proaching doom of cussing. HOW SMALL! How big is the universe? Scientists can’t agree. Whether there is one great universe, perhaps ten times as large as is commonly believed, or whether there are a mil- lion “universes,” of which that to which the earth belongs is only one, was discussed by the savants at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Heber D. Curtis defended the idea that the Milky Way contains practically all the stars. He said such a universe is relatively small. His idea of smallness is 30,000 light years in diameter, and not more than 3,000 light years in thickness. A light year, be it remembered, is the distance light travels in a year. And light travels 186,000 miles a second! If this is “smallness,” what is vastness? Dr. Harlow Shapley believes in the theory of a galaxy of stars ten or more times larger than the Milky Way. Beyond this, he thinks, there are undoubtedly innumerable other universes, the only traces of which appear as dim star clusters through the telescope. Which is. right? It does not matter. In either case, the earth is but a tiny speck— an infinitesimal pin point of matter whirling through space—whatever “space” is. And the human animal is but a minute speck of earth dust, animated. for a tiny fraction of time by ‘that marvelous thing called “life.” Compared to that vastness called the universe, man, who thinks himself and his individual af- fairs so important, is as a fleeting fraction of a second in millions of years of time. It might be well for humanity, engaged in its puny strivings, fighting, struggling, tearing down, building up, pulling loose, and binding; down—with the idea that its efforts constitutes the whole of life—if it would look up sometimes to the stars and remember how vast are the vast- nesses of the universe, and how small-and insig- nificant are the victories and defeats encompassed in the span of a human life. ' spell of an example. Thus does Dr. Vance prove the inefficiency of If railroad men could eat promises, there would be no strikes for higher wages. The public is given to understand that the hu- midity of Governor Cox is about 50-50. EDITORIAL REVIEW . Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinions of The Tribune, They are Be sented here in order \hat our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed im the press of the day. LANGER FOR GOVERNOR North Dakota anti-Townleyites probably chose the best possible material when they nominated William Langer, present attorney general of the state, for governor. Langer was a good Town- leyite until a year or so ago, when he refused to follow the St. Paul boss farther, and was ostra- cized by most of the rest of the Townley admin- istration in North Dakota. This led to strife, and the revolt of Langer, Kositzky and several others, until the breach in the ranks of the or- ganization grow serious. And now the republicans have named Langer as their standard bearer, with a full state ticket with him, which is prepared to fight the follow- ers of Townley to a finish. If William Langer and Lynn J. Frazier, present Townleyite governor and candidate for another term, go out on the stump and tell all they know about each other, the campaign will be the most sensational and spectacular of the year. But North Dakota vot- ers will be enlightened, and Langer will be the next governor. With two statewide fights on-his hands—in North Dakota and Minnesota—Mr. Townley is apt to find his hands so full that he can scarcely spare any time on South Dakota. Being a shrewd politician, he realizes that his chances are nil in this state anyway, and doubtless he has decided to concentrate on Minnesota, where he hopes to win in the republican primaries and later in the election by getting the labor vote to maintain his prestige. But Townley and Frazier and their fol- lowers will know they’ve been in a fight before the campaign is over, with Langer in the field | against them.—Aberdeen American. THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1920 PERCE Se) Cay | PEOPLE'S FORUM | ————_—_____—_—-—* IN RE SALARIES. “It will be fun to look over the new teachers today at school.” We have all heard our children make that declaration on the first of September and we who’ live in Bismarck have heard’ it with alarming. frequency. Alarming—because it indicates a con- dition in our Bismarck school situa- tion which we as patrons should be concerned about. How many of us know thitt only three of the present high school faculty have taught here three yeais in 1918, six of the 12 on the high, school faculty were new |. here in 1919) six of the 14 on the high school faculty were new in 1919, nine of the 22 griwle teachers were teach- ing here for the first time. Up to the present time, \eight of the teaching force have resfgned, two of whom are leaving the teewhing profession? Ask any thoughtful educator and he will state that .frequent changing of teachers is detrimental to efficient work in a school; ‘sk any teacher and she will state that. she can do better work in her second’ or third year in a school than is ever: possible her first year. Why? Becaus‘e she has become acquainted’ with the \system, with the resources at hand, wi &h her pupils. ‘But we fathers and mothers in Bis- marck, apparently, aye willing any time ,to exchange a tee:cher who has done good work here fou’ two years or more for a newcomer w‘l10 must inev- itably spend ‘her first year getting used to conditions here ead preparing to be an efficient member of our fac- ulty. At the end of a one ‘or two year period at least, half our fevculty move on, just when in ‘all ave.tage cases, they are most invaluable tv us. The fault lies not with the teawhers but with us. : * Why? For two reasons. In the first place we do nothing to 10ake our teachers care for Bismarck as: a place | to live. Most of us leave the.) alone { socially; and never trouble ovtrselves to even meet. those to whom ‘we en- trust our children for the great:3r part of nine months. No matter how ‘pleas- ant working conditions and pupil 8 may be, no teacher can enjoy social {sola- tion. The second. reason, the finantcial one, is even more important, espe cial- ly at the present time. The majo.rity of the teachers who have left our school and who. are leaving this year, are leaving because salaries offerid them in other places for the first y are much higher than Bismarck’s fers for a second or third! year of serv ice. We make no attempt to keep! them by meeting the offers made by} other towns even though they have \ just reached the place of greatest |! usefulness to us. But we should make an attempt to remedy this condition; not wait till they have gone and then find ourselves compelled to pay a new teacher more for her first year than the experiended instructor in_our schools would ‘have accepted to stay. Is it not to our interest to see that the money we' invest bring the best possible result for our children? They are the one who suffer from the fre- in as OOOO SFE eee See Camp eve an Army serves both Lead a good healthy life Learn a trade or get schooling Get military training Be with men from your own home State Here are your Home State Regiments of the Regular Army 21st Infantry, now . at Ft. Geo. Wright, Wash. th Field now at Th. h now at Camp Fi + Wash.; 8th Engineers, now at El Paso, Texas. UNITED STATES ARMY quent changes. stdout it that ‘more national banks have in-| cerwased their capital in the last six! people that-live in glass houses puliing | months than in any other 12 months| down the blinds? Consider the glass; ie) vue Site vai, N- }. ow, a ° earning er ater Weg myse ") rere ‘grins en! job wher ke out pe work 18 you row 138, on asulting Man seeks the Job fon} dar J No Polish ‘ “Cleans as it Polishes” wx ~ For all furnituve and 4 a woodworl:, | Gives a hard, tiry and ro lasting lustre. 30c to $3 sizes — all clealers, as ‘Colors as it Cleans” Dainty Colors for delicate things, wg | CHANNELL CHEMICAL CO, 4 Chicago Torcato London Pu = All Dealers i What shall we do| GLASS BATH TUBS ARE | one and they are the fad here. Nice little \glass fishes run’ around the ‘ . —A TEACHER. 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Employers in every State, in almost every, line of business, are looking for men with . ._ Ask if there’s a vacancy. ° { U. S. ARMY RECRUITING STATIONS 4 Bismarck, Minot, Grand Forks, Fargo, N. D., and s. § Aberdeen, S. D. } |