The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 1, 1920, Page 4

H i i PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - - . . Editor Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK . : - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use lor publi n of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published rein. All rights of publication of special dispatches hereim are also. reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVAN THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) a a JUST CATHRO’S WORD FOR IT Until F. W. Cathro, director general of the Bank of North Dakota, permits State Auditor Ko- sitzky to audit his books, the public will have no confidence in his figures. Mr. Cathro has submitted to The Tribune a de- tailed statement of the condition of the bank and asks “leave to publish.” We have referred the communication to our advertising department with the suggestion that he quote the bank the display advertising rate of the Bismarck Tribune. The administration is seeking to answer all critics by statements ‘for which no one assumes any responsibility but some political hireling of A. C. Townley. If Mr. Cathro can show after an audit of his| books by Mr. Kositzky, that his statements are true, The Tribune will publish them without charge. , Why does Mr. Cathro oppose an examination? Why did the league take the issue of\a fair and | free examination of the bank’s books to the su- preme court? Is there anything unreasonable in the demand that Mr. Kositzky audit the books, examine the statement of liabilities and resources and then give the public the true facts? Neither The Tribune nor any paper in the state not fed at the Townley crib, will accept Mr. Ca- thro’s pompus statements, his paper profits and the book resources without a proper audit. An examination will give the real substance of the bank’s status. : Let Carl Kositzky make the examination. The Independent Press of the state challenges you to an audit, Mr. Cathro. ‘ Otherwise hold your:peace. : You'can tell more about the strength of the Palmer boom when ‘you learn whether it sur- vives that jolt in Georgia. PROFITEERING “It is expected,” says the Wall Street Journal, “that Cuban-American Sugar Co. will be able to maintain dividends at the rate of $1.75 quarterly on the new $10 par stock. While dividends paid and payable this year amount to the equivalent of $4 a share on the present stock, it is pointed out that payments may easily be continued at $1.75 quarterly next year, which is the rate es- tablished for the last two quarters of 1920.” Just what does that mean to the housewives of the nation who have to pay for that sugar? The $4 a share to be paid to owners of stock in the Cuban-American will require only a mite of $4,000,000. That sum will be paid by sugar users to the gentlemen who own the Cuban-American for a living. But that is not all. In addition, the last of some serial notes falling due January 1, 1921, and amounting to $2,000,000 (equal to $2 a share on the common stock), will all be met out of this year’s earnings. The Wall Street Journal cheerfully adds: « “Average selling price of the 1919-20 crop will be well up towards double the previous season’s figure of 5 1-2 cents f. o. b. Cuba, on which price the company made $65.38 a share on the old stock after all depreciation, interest and taxes.” Next time some one tells you that “the big wages paid for labor” is the cause of high sugar prices, just remember that $65.38 a share that went to the Cuban-American, and that six mil- lion to go out to its owners this year. About the cheapest way to settle the Mexican problem would be to move the oil wells over to this side of the Rio Grande. SWIMMING Now is the season when small boys are drawn to swimming holes as by some natural instinct. But swimming isn’t natural, for humans. Man is the only animal which cannot swim without being taught. A few persons can swim the first time they enter the water, but these individuals are rare indeed. Some savage people are accomplished swim- mers. Doubtless swimming is ancient. But in the history of civilization there were long periods when swimming was a lost art. Some ancient peoples reached a high grade of civilization with- out realizing that swimming was possible. One was the Babylonians, year 2000 B. C. , | They had a law that if one person. accused aii | other, the accused might undertake to prove his innocence by jumping into the river. If he drowned, his accuser got his property. If he es- caped, he got his accuser’s property and the ac- BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE “trial by water.” In that day a jump off the dock might well be called ‘the great adventure, not only for the jump- er, but also for the one who inspired it. Men clung to the notion of trial by ordeal even after swimming became known. But then it was Necegsary to reverse the test. The one who es- caped was held guilty. The one the virtuous water received and held as its own was considered innocent. In this fashion, trial by water was practiced in Europe in A. D. 900. That the innocent might survive to enjoy his acquittal, a rope was tied to him before he jumped so that at the final moment he might be hauled out and revived. It is doubtful if swimming was well understood even then. For an accomplished diver might eas- ily have proved himself.-innocent of any charge by the water test. ; No longer is it possible to win a law suit by swimming. But swimming is recognized as an aid in retaining one great prize. That price is —health! It’s too bad that a man can’t take his money with him when he dies. If he could; his sons would find something to do besides quatrel about the estate. / THE JACK BEAN Be not deceived by the jack bean promoter. Better cling tp the good old lima, the navy, and other time tried beans father used to grow in his garden. And try wildcat oil stocks, financing trips to the moon, or betting on a horse race as a surer method of getting rich quickly. The jack bean is a wealth producer only to the jack bean promoter. So says the United States department of agri- culture. West Indian tribesmen plant the jack bean around their crude gardens in. the belief that the | plant will punish trespassers. Civilized folk plant the jack bean in the belief that the giant pods will fatten abnormally the grower’s pocketbook. And, one is about as near right as the other. The jack bean won’t drive away trespassers; it will not return as much money per acre as the navy bean. | Unscrupulous promoters sell jack beans under various aliases, usually a new one each year, such as “Pearson bean,” “Wonder bean,” ‘“Wataka bean,” “Gotani bean,” etc. They point to the 14- inch pod, and the enormous green herbage, and predict wonderful profits from the “new bean.” Fancy prices are asked for seeds of the jack bean, and the promoter is selling the bean under a different name next fall. The farmer is back to the navy or lima. ij A presidential year is called an off year. Nich- olas Murray Butler is beginning to think it an yore year for college presidents. THE REASON BACK OF IT Was the real reason back of the Carranza over- throw and his assassination one touching upon purely Mexican problems, or did it have some- thing to do with the profits of the large foreign, American and British, oil interests below the Rio Grande? Was the revolution begun merely to change |!7—" presidents? Was it but the fiery outburst of a hot-headed people intent upon ousting one set of public officials and installing another? Or was it that 54-cents-a-ton-export-tax-on- oil? The Wall Street Journal says’: “The increase in export taxes from 80 cents to 54 cents a ton, proposed by Carranza, apparently as the last historical act of his regime, has been set aside by the new powers. The new govern- ment has affirmed the old taxes on oil.” In a nutshell it was this: Oil interests were reaping unheard of profits by draining Mexico of oil. Carranza sought to annex some of these abnormal profits by increas- ing the export duty on oil. The proposed in- crease was to have gone into effect May 25, After Carranza’s increase proposal was made, the weakling revolution became a,thing of might. It spread rapidly. It was well financed. Car- ranza’s government fell. | And Carranza fell. So did his proposal to increase export taxes, The revolutionists, now the administration, ap- pear to have paid their debt to the oil interests by thus wiping out the suggestion to give the people of Mexico a larger share in the profits made out of the oil drained out of their soil. Below the Rio Grande all orie needs to start a revolution is a grievance and a cartridge belt. Very likely the ancient ‘unmarried females blame Burleson for. the slow delivery of males. The poet who wrote of “the stilly night,” had probably been out hunting moonshine, That is not a general revolution in Mexico. There are a few priyates mixed up in it. You can’t judge by the number of cylinders the amount of mortgage on the car. Apparently Edwards has no trouble raising the wind to navigate his schooner. No one objects to an ‘income tax that frisks incomes just above the level of his own. cuser was put to death. This was known as|* TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1920 Smee | a ee a TT et Dt et Dt tes STOMACH ON A | STRIKE 7 | | | ¢ — my I suppose tuberculosis, Complicated by necrosis, Doesn’t make the summer sky seem extra (blue. I suppose an active cancer Doesn't. make’‘a mortal answer “Cherry-o!” to every stranger’s “Howdydo?” I suppose a “locomotor” Doesn’t make a modern voter Start the morning with a long and lusty hike. So perhaps one shouldn't holler And ejaculate his choler, When his trusty stomach’ goes upon a strike. I suppose a martyr, boiling, In an overdose of oiling ‘May have thought the “exercises quite a bore. And a saint in Rome’s, arena Nibbled by some old hyena - Did not always cry a vigorous “En- core!” I suppose that it might fret me If some sansculotte should get me And should use my head to decorate a pike. ‘All these things might be unpleas- } ant, But they don’t compare, at present, ~ With the outrage of a stomach on a strike, It rejects all mediation, It refuses arbitration, ‘And it scouts at pie, potatoes or Potage. Yea, no matter what I offer It’s a sinner and a scoffer ‘And it’s bent on nothing: else but sabotage. O, it seems an ancient fable That T used to sit at table And coud prey on any edible I'd ike. Mihi miserere! darn it! Gabriel blow you. cussed cornet! * Since my trusty tummy’s gone upon a strike. {T DIDN’T PAY JACK TO ADVERTISE SEATTLE — When’ Mrs. Jack An- thony saw the simple statement: “Son —-born to Mrs. Jack Anthony,” in the “DANDERINE” Stops Hair Coming Out; Doubles Its Beauty. A few cents buys “Danderine.” Af- ter an application of “Danderine” you can not find a fallen lair or any dand- ruff, besides every ‘hair shows new life, vigor, brightnegs, more color and thickness, By Edmund Vance Cooke |! HELP! Lett tb hm theta htt en nt et tnt tet mnt Ae fh Ly a f be CAMPAIGN NOTES Es It was a long long procession that filed over the dusty roads from Orrin} Pierce county to ‘Balta. Langer hi finished telling facts to 400 or 500 voters at, Drake and headed for Balta by car. At Orrin which is just a wide place in.the road with a blacksmith shop,general store, pool hall and elevator, a delegation of farmers met him. There was a reception, a lot of handshaking and the procession i formed. There were thirty cars load- ed to the gunwales with Orrin farm- ers who followed Langer to Balta to hear him speak. And it. wasn’t a funeral procession either for the man were those following him) mourners either—except that the mourned they had ever been deceived by Art Town- ley. Every place that Langer goes on his speaking tour there isa sort of “We're from ‘Missouri—show us” feel- ing prevalent—at first , And when he leaves the enthusiasm of his audi- ences proves beyond question that his. audience ies been shown, (Nonpartisan League farmers, staunch followers of the league idea in Nelson county, have petitioned Senator Gronna to deliver an address at Pekin, N. D. ‘This interesting when it considered that the league convention in argo turn- jed down Gronna in favor of Prof. Ladd—at Townley’s dictation. In- cidently it is currently reported that Senator Gronna has a very, very small liking for Townley. ~ “oe a Farmers of Griggs and Steele coun- vital statistic column, she made an investigation and now Jack is in jail on a lbigamy charge. EVERETT TRUE THEN, OF COURSE, You HAVS RSAD MTHE CAPERING CAPTA at the head was too much alive. Nor! decidedly | He didn’t di-} IDo ‘You RECALL WHERE] | HE BLOWS UP THE OLD MICG DAM WITH T.N.T. ties are arranging for a tremendous big picnic at Fluto’s grove, half way ,| between Cooperstown and Finley. The picnic will be held June 24 and there will be lots of fireworks, two bands, dance, ball game and addresses by Langer and either Nestos or Gronna. The women of the neighborhood who | will have charge of the picnic din- ner already have begun their ‘baking and plan on caring for 5,000. ea o* Congressman George M. Young, re- publican candidate for re-election has deen drawing unusually large crowds at all his meetings since ‘he began stumping the state. He is explain- ing the national grain grading law which has proven such a failure. Re- derring to Langer Young has called him a “human dynamo.” (What the iniquities of the Townley machine has done to North Dakota and how the “experiment” is regarded nation- ally proves one of the strongest talk- ing points of Young’s addresses. soe o® Birchenough, the “fighting parson” and Streeter, the “fighter”, candidate for lieutenant governor, are drawing big crowds in their tour together, The parson who is telling the truth of the red flaggers, and Streeter, member of the American legion who is telling audiences what the service- men think of Townleyism, and reach- ing right in where folks live and reaching the hearts of*their auditors. Both are making votes and both by the way are making good. @Birchen- !ough has had training as a public speaker and Streeter, a newspaper man by profession, talks convincingly because he so thoroughly believes in the fight he is waging. RAR | voree the first Mrs. Jack Anthony | before he “married” Mrs. Anthony the second. it is held. __.____ By Condo {ON, Yes, Inpeep! y| 4 INTENSELY | INs/ S FASCINATING ! L GNIJOXYED TH 3 THE Book ver nt REMNGMEER IT! i f I FELT SURE You WOULD . THERS (S NO SUCH INCIDENT IN THE BOOK § YOU PICK UPA SMATe. | [TERING OF CURRENT FICTION FROM THE Book REVIEWS IN THEN PRETEND To BE WIDELY READW, !Phone 758 “CUTICURA HEALS ‘RED PIMPLES On Son’sFace, Neck, Arms, Body, LostSleep. CuticuraHeals, “When my son was two months old he got little ted pimples over his face, neck, arms, body. They were scattered and grewworse, Every place was filled with severe eruptions. He could not sleep, but scratched and would cry. I had to make mittens for him so he would not scratch. “Nothing gave relief. I then used Cuticura Soap and Ointment. When Iused about six cakes of Cuticura Soap and six boxes of Ointment he was healed.’’ (Signed) Mrs. Lewis Savella, 806 Elm Street, Hancock, Mich., Aug. 27, 1919. 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Well, the other day I heard that Finn had gone into the movies‘and 1, dropped in to see him act. It “sure was natural,” you might say, along toward the front of the picture and was just like it happen- ed to Huck and me when I borrowed the ibook from the M. E. church libra- Ty. But, when the fellow that was “doing” Huck got to the part where the Duke of Bilgewater and the Dol- phin act like they were uncles of the girls and try to get their father’s money, Huck fell in love with Mary Jane! That ain't right and.you know it isn’t, Mr. Editor. “Huck never fell in love with that girl. He wasn’t that kind of a chap. He never was sweet on anybody in the whole book, and that’s one reason I was a pal of his. Neither of us had much use for, girls in those days. t in “the love interest to sell the pic- ture to: folks. <I) don’t know, not be- ing a picture actor, but it sure hurt me to see Huck slandered that way. ‘ Yours, C. K. CONFISCATED CAR; BREAKS JAIL Portland—Ralph Paine was arrest- ed for speeding and his machine con- fiscated for 30 days. But the car broke ejair. Paine sold it and the police had to’ deliver JAP’S DRIVING STARTS GEYSER | Seattle—J. Koda Japanese. bought a Ford The first time out it broke the topfrom a water main and the waterspout ditched the car. Koda was not seriously hurt FOOD STUFFS DOWN Tulsa, Okla., June 1.—Foodstuffs showed a decline here today. Sugar dropped from 30 and 35 to 22 cents a pound and creamery butter declin- ed about 20 per cent. LIFT OFF CORNS! | Doesn’t hurt a bit and costa oaly a few cents Magic! Just drop a little Freezone on that touchy corn, instantly it stops aching, then you lift the corn off | with the fingers. Truly! No humbug! Try Freezone! Your druggist sells a tiny bottle for a few cents, sufficient to rid your feet of every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and calluses, without one particle of pain, soreness or irritation. 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