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2 sett i. rag 2 ag eet “ PAGE FOUR BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE ‘WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1920 to him and his wool trust: by the*grand jury, is|+ the one and only argument the agitator has? It is the sole effective weapon.of the Red, the anar- chist, the Bolshevist, the labor extremist. With- out it there would be no “labor unrest,” and no “agitators proposing to overthrow the govern- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE —_—____ - Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second lass Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - - - . Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY 3 DETROIT Ce enema eee Editor CHICAGO ment and industrial system.” Marquette Bldg. > BURNS AND gurrn 8° Bldg. , Sa ee NEW YORK es - - Fifth Ave. Bldg.| Oh, where are the overalls of yesteryear? The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited to if or not, otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published rein. 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.. 2 Daily by mail, per year (in Daily by mail, per year (in state outsid a Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota........... THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) One who wears union suits isn’t all the time distressed about making ends meet. We may be personally defeated, but our princi- ples never.—Garrison. The worst of it is that the profiteers have made it almost impossible to cultivate a sweet disposi- tion. Bryan may join hands with the eastern crew of politicians, but he will never join hands with the corkscrew. WINNERS The three successful contestants in the Walker Blaine Beale $10,000 platform contest are stu- dents of political science and economics. They worked their way through college. Joslyn was a munitions worker; Wilson an ac- countant, while Smith worked as private secre- tary to his father, Congressman W. M. C. Smith of Michigan. All tried to enlist during the war, but only Smith was able to pass the physical examination, indicating, as it would seem, that the young men cared more for intellectual problems than any- thing else. The three boys graduate this year from the universities of Harvard, Michigan and Pennsyl- vania. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinions of The Tribune. The} sented here in order vhat our readers may are pre- ave both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. * : BOOSTS YOUNG Congressman George M. Young will be back in the state for a short time during the next month attending to his candidacy for congress. Mr. Young has made a splendid congressman and the voters of the second congressional district will do well to return him for another term. « His work in the legislative halls for the benefit of the agri- culturists has been very successful and with each year his influence becomes more extended and powerful. A return of George M. Young to the House of Representatives means that North Da- kota will have at least one representative whose every endeavor is to benefit the agricultural com- munities of the United States—New Rockford Transcript. —USTENING TO [ —— DYING POOR On a certain grave stone in England is scribed this epitaph: © What I spent I had; What I saved I lost; What I gave I have. Therein is summed up the whole philosophy of the uses of wealth. The man had spent some of his fortune and had lost some of it, but at death he considered himself well off because there still remained to his credit that part of his estate that he had given,away. “What I gave I have.” Only the other day another New York philan- thropist announced his intention of dying poor by spending all his wealth for good works. Yet, though he stripped himself . of his last penny, | PEOPLE’S FORUM To the: Editor: All day the wind had blown a per- fect gale and just about dinner time it commenced to rain. The men folks had scarcely gotten in the house when it began to pour down. After while it quit and I. went in to open the front door and let in some fresh air. There seemed to be a perfect calm, not a ‘breath of air, and soffocating, the stove smoked and we could hard- ly ‘breathe. All at once in the south west appeared a funnel shaped cloud, small at first but continually growing larger every second, and it seemed tq ‘be coming straight for us. To explain it, so as to give some idea how it looked , will say it took on the shape of an elephant’s trunk at the bottom.and widening at the! top, with a Whirling, boiling mass of clouds, traveling very rapidly. It did not come out way ‘bus stsuck about two miles from our place. We could see the debris at the bottom as it} ! { in- JUST A GLIMPSE OF THE SKELETON At last we are beginning to learn why the Townley-Lemke-Frazier administration is so anx- ious to keep the staté auditor out of the Bank of North Dakota. : Attorney General Langer is now openly charg- ing in his speeches that the state. bank has loaned $50,000 to an uncle of Congressman Baer, an east- ern land speculator who never. resided in the such a man does not die poor. state. The loan is on some sandy land near By putting it to good use, he increases the| Beach. Whether the land is worth the amount worth of his fortune. He converts dollars into|!oaned upon it or not, there is no way of ascer- social values. And, though in the end he be as} taining at present. i poor as Lazarus, he is richer in the genuipe/fteas-| If Mr. Langer is lying he should be promptly ures of spiritual satisfaction and contentment | prosecuted: under the “liars' law” which forbids far beyond the dreams of those who pile up dol-| any state official making an untruthful statement lars without end and never find riches, ‘that is detrimental to any state department. He “What he gave he has.” can be arrested and imprisoned for the offense, There is another epitaph in point. It is carved] if his statement is not true., on the tombstone of a schoolmaster who “died| If he is telling the truth, that one statement without fortune, but was rich in the treasures of | should be sufficient to cause the greatest house- work well done.” ; cleaning at Bismarck this state has ever wit- nessed.’ The gang that is accused of lending $50,- 000 of the state’s money to land speculators has $35,000,000 more of it on deposit and refuses to let even the state auditor know what is being done with it—Fargo Forum. i 33ss went along. - Wherever it struck a place we’saw the shattered houses fly high“itfthe air, as a pile of paper .when youyturn’ a ‘hose on‘it. Oh, it was awful! One place we could see it strike and roofs, boards, etc., fly in the air like a piece of paper in the wind, and when it passed we could see ‘nothing. ‘We only knew it had taken one of our neighbors homes, for before the storm we could plainly see the, byjldings, afterward, nothing but ‘empty space or a mass of ruins. We were’ using afield glass and could plainly see them lying in a heap. The suspense was something un- bearable. The telephones were all down and we had no way of knowing whether the people had escaped or not. ‘When we heard “no one killed” it was the biggest surprise of our lives. But one poor, fellow had ‘both legs | broken. He was sitting on the porch and was carried one hundred fect or moré. He said it seemed as if two gigantic hands had picked’ him up. Several others were bruised and cut up imore or less, but that none were killed was nothing short of a miracle. The people’s lives were saved by go- ing into caves and cellars which are the safest places to go in case of a cyclone. The noise made by @ cyclone re- minds me more of that made by an aeroplane than anything else, it is different from a train’s rumble, I sup- pose this is caused! ‘by it being ‘so high in the air and it’s roar is echoed by the vast empty space. We drove over Sunday to see the damage. Such a sight as it was! Great heaps of ruins, tangled niasses of wire and other debris. Twenty barns were destroyed and a lot of houses and other buildings. Jt will take a long time to replace all of these ruined buildings and I feel very sorry for those who have lost their homes But what a blessing that no lives were lost! . This is the first cyclone that. has ever visited, this part of the country, although they: have had them north and south of us. (Mrs. Vinnie B. Keever Northfield, Minn. - WILLIAM M. WOOD : This is not the first time Will -Wood, head of the American Woolen Co. has achieved the lime- light of unwanted publicity. . Years ago when the wool trust was in the process of making it re- quired a high tariff law to furnish the basis for overcharging the American people. It ‘got that “protection” in the infamous Schedule K of Al- drich tariff legislation. Comes the war and brings to Will Wood and his trust an unprecedented opportunity to profiteer. Testimony before the federal grand jury in New York indicates that Wood and his trust took ad- vantage of the opportunity. The company dou- bled and then trebled its profits. Wood, accord- ing to this evidence, did the same with his salar- ies, and he drew more than one. But he was not satisfied with doing this. He began collecting commissions, receiving last year over half a mil- lion dollars in this manrer. Meanwhile the wearers of clothes paid increas- ing prices. They wore old clothes, patched clothes, overalls, cottons, shoddy, and for what wool they got paid a tax which made Schedule K “pluckings” appear small by comparison. Of course they protested! Manufacturers of clothes protested. Retail dealers protested. And Will Wood brazenly proclaimed: “Certain mer- chants raise the price of necessities of life, so that every increase of wages to the employes is absorbed.” He then launched upon a campaign of abuse of merchants, declaring that he would start cooperative stores for employes of the American Woolen Co., “to protect them from the profiteer.” Three hundred per cent profit Wood thus fought the little fellow who increased prices less than 100 per cent! Wood said: “Agitators, working from selfish motives, propose to use the great laboring classes as a catspaw to overthrow the government and industrial system.” The federal grand jury now indicts this same Wood and his American Woolen Co., under the Lever act on charges of profiteering; of doing the same thing Wood accused merchants of do- ing, but of doing it so much more effectively, upon a super-great scale entirely beyond the pow- ers. or inclination of the ordinary dealer in wool ON STRIKE BACK AT THE FARM One of the truths which the country might as well look squarely in the face is the present posi- tion and temper of the American farmer. He has been breaking his back under his burden of na- tional production while his own employee right alongside of him has been holding him up for in- ordinate wages, eating his head off at the farm-|' er’s cost and loafing through his part of the work and production. 2 The farmer has been plugging at full capacity to make two blades of grass grow where one grew so as to give an abundance of food for the nation.’ But, just like his own “hirel man,” millions of the nation’s workers have refused to put in a solid day to earn the bread and meet which the farmer raises for them. The American farmer is sick and tired of the enormous tribe which reports. for only a few hours a day on the job and which does mighty little work during those hours. The American farmer is mad clean through over the fact that he puts in 12 and 14 hours when organized skilled labor the country over puts in from 40'to 50 per cent less time and about 80 per cent fewer licks. He has made up his mind that he will not work himself to a standstill to feed and clothe millions of wage earners who spend a good portion of their time striking for higher pay, and then when they get it will not earn it. With their own arms the farmer and his family can raise more than enough food products to nourish themselves. With the prices which would follow a diminished supply of food they can get enough cash to buy what other necessaries they require. They can even put by some savings. So, by the tens of thousands the American farmers are demanding of organized labor a showdown as to whether they are going to do all the work or whether everybody else is going to do his share of the work. If the organized. non-workers of this country expect to go on living on the fat of the land they will have to meet the American farmer’ on his clothes. proposal that the high production record shall not Is Wood so ignorant that he doesn’t know this| be scored only back at the farm.—The Sun and “AT THE MOVIES | o>. ELTINGE THEATRE The elixir of a child's love and its power to straighten the viewpoint of men and women whose outlook on life has become distorted will be demon- strated at the Eltinge Theatre tonight, when Mary Pickford appears in “Pol- lyanna,” her first United Artists’ pro- duction. This picture-play differs from any Money beck without question Af HUNT'S Salve fails in the ‘treatment of ITCH, ECZEMA, wl TETTER ie JOSEPH BRESLOW, Druggist For Sale Furniture Bedroom furniture. kitchen cabinet, book case and writing desk combined, sanitary couch, kitchen table, small rockers and several other articles. | ‘THE GREAT AM HE OLD STUFF — SPLENDID IN ! VAILL You WANT" To SELL ANY, BLAKE P n> 93 GS tC 4 a ee wee 7t¥4 capa ERICAN HOME. i OH, MRS GoRDON, DOESN'T Me. BLAKE'S IN? 1 Nore GET A TASTE OUT OF cant Tus Year! |) oe yi “CONVENTIONS OF OTHER YEARS” ROOSEVELT WOULDN’T LEAD SECOND THIRD-PARTY FIGHT BY GIBSON GARDNER, Noted political writer and Washing- ton correspont, who will report 1920 convention for this newspaper. In 1916 the Republico-Progressive convention was held in Chicago. They synchronized.’ Or, it might be said, they ran in parallel columns: The progressives met at Congress hall to conduct what proved to be the ceremonial funeral of the party, while the republican convention met in the Coliseum to nominate Charles Evans Hughes. (Would ‘Theodore Roosevelt permit the progressive convention to name him for another race, or would he “come back” and “be regular” and support Hughes, if the republican con- vention: managers persisted in nam- ing ‘Hughes? Would the republican convention, by any chance, take steps toward” party. harmony ‘by naming Roosevelt ‘ These were the questions of over- whelming interest when the two con- ventions met. 2 The truth is that Roosevelt had already surrendered. ‘Nearly ten days before the conventions met, the writ- er had a long talk with Colonel and Mrs. Roosevelt at Oyster Bay. At part of the conference, one other per- son was present, Harry Stoddard, owner of the New York Mail. At this conference Colonel Roose- velt stated in explicit language that he never again would lead a “third party” fight. The only effect of the bolt of 1912, as he saw it, was to of ‘Little Mary’s recent productions in that she portrays a little girl through- out the entire picture. There is nothing more convincing than Miss Pickford’s characterization in this photoplay. She does not mere- ly act the part of.a little girl; she is little girl. Her work in “Pollyanna” indicates that she has devoted unlim- ited time to the study of children, for there is no small characteristic which has escaped her, As Pollyanna Whittier, Mary Pick- ford quickly wins her way to the hearts of those who watch the play divide the opposition to the demo- cratic candidate and put . Woodrow Wilson in power. Had Roosevelt been less frank— thore discreet—and,let it remain un- certain whether or not he would run again as the progressive candidate, there is no doubt he would have had a good chance of being the regular repwdlican candidate. But when the “old guard” knew for a’ moral certainty that Roosevelt. would ‘be “regular” and would sup- port their candidate, whether or no, there was no need for them to make any terms. The Coliseum convention was at- cordingly “fixed” for Hughes, and all went off according to schedule. The uninformed progressive delegates at Congress hall made their speeches and fominated Roosevelt, ‘but with- in an hour he had sent them a tele- gram declining to be their candidate. The republicans gained much strength by the return to the party of Roosevelt and his following; but their increase in strength was not enough to overcome the popularity which Wilson won by his policy of keeping the country out of war. Wil- son ‘polled a larger vote in 1916 than he did in 1912, and the left-over dis- affection of the progressives sent states like California and’ Ohio out of the republican and into the demo- cratic column, and. resulted in Wil- son’s victory. Which was Roosevelt. ‘ bitter medicine for NOOO nnn aad ! and succeeds in holding their deepest sympathy until the very last flicker in the final fade-out. ‘GOVERNOR MAKES A HIT WITH PRIZE BULL SACRAMENTO-—-Governor William D. Stephens got fraternal with a prize bull at a parade here in honor ‘of the ‘bull. Alcartra King Sylvia, the bull, smiled sweetly when Governor Ste- phens hung a floral wrath on his neck. EVERETT TRUE | WHEN “OU PUT THINGS DOWN LAY THEM. DOWN — Don't GLAM i i fo i MRS. MORGAN very same profiteering, the profiteering charged | New York Herald. . x eo Phone 758 222 3rd St. THOM DOWN HE DECLARES IT " HAS PUT HIM ON HIS FEET AGAIN “I never took greater pleasure in doing anything in my life than I do in recommending Tanlac, for singe f started taking it 1 am enjoying better general health than I have in years,” recently said Frank Neal, ‘Platt City, iMo., well Known farmer and orchard- ist. “For many years,” continued Mr. ‘Neal, “I had been a sufferer from rheumatism, in my wrists and lower limbs, which pained me terribly all, the time. I also was subject to severe cramping spells, that would nearly kill me. The muscles in my legs would éontract and at times just seemed to draw up in knots, when I would near- ly go distracted with the pain. The only way I could ever find relief was to get up and walk around; ‘but I could not even always do this, for weeks at a time I was confined to my bed, unable to even turn over without assistance, so you can imagine what a fix I was in when I just had to lie there and suffer. My condition was so bad I had done very little work ia years, and although I had tried many different treatments and medicines, until L started taking Tanlac nothing had' done me any good. “I had read of so many people who had ‘been afflicted as I was and who had been entirely relieved by Tanlac that I decided I would try it also, and I had taken all of the first bottle when I noticed a decided improvement in my condition. Up to the present [ have taken five bottles, and feel just like’ a new man, I can work every day now, am entirely rid of the cramp- ing spells and only feel a touch of the rheumatism occasionally, which | am satisfied will entirely disappear short- ly, judging from what Tanlac has al. ready done for me. I know Tanl has put me on my feet when ever. thing else had failed, so you see it bound to ‘be a pleasure to me to rec- ommend it. Tanlac is sold in Bismarck by Jos. Breslow, in Driscoll by N. D. and J. H. Barrette. in Wing by H. P. Homan, and in Strausburg by Strausburg Drug ‘0. ooo SUCHISLIFE | Cee ee een eS D With many a squeak and pro- testing creak the wheel doth turn in Merrie England, and the old order changeth: yielding. place to a new. , ‘Canon Dalton of Windsor, now proposes alterations in the text of the common prayer, There is the usual chorus of Outraged Citizens, Church Goers, Katepayers and’ others, The Canon, perhaps with an eye on woman suffrage, wants to remove the word of “obey” from the marriage obligation. “Sacriligious!” declare his critics. “He would rob the ceremony of its efficacy.”, ‘He wants, too, to change “wealth” to “prosperity and well-Deing,” in the prayer of the’ king. ; “Hurt the sovereign’s feelings,” thinks Pro ‘Bono Public In The Times. ‘But when the Canon thought it might be a neat little change, and moved to strike “eternal damnation” and insert “everlasting condemna- tion,” either might have broken loose on his. gray head. “He tempts Satan,” they said, and they might have cried, “‘Crucify him!” A London paper finds “one of the most amusing. changes” to be the proposal that the Litany read, “mir isters of the Crown,” instead of “no- bility.’ Verily the “world do move” on the Other Side, but grease be wanting for its axle. ae 8 As long as there are rifle car- tridges, nails and small boys, there will be newspaper items telling of the combination of the three and the loss of one eye or two. It happens this way: Johnnie finds a nice shiny brass cartridge. Johnnie remembers the shrill whistle the boy next door made from an exploded shell. Johnnie, with laudable pains, whittles away the lead bullet and spills as much powder as he can from the cartridge case. ‘Some sticks. Johnnie finds a shingle nail to pry it loose. Then the tiny cap in the base of the shell opens up with usually ef- fective results. Johnnie doesn’t know that the tiny red copper disc at the most touchy and. fastidious explosive —Fulminate or mercry. The nail hits Mr. Fulminate. It strikes fire. The remaining powder ignites—puffs out and Johnnie will finish his life with one eye. The moral? But what’s the use-- so long as cartrdges, small boys and nails continue— Sixty-five per Cent of all the acre- age farmed in California is now be- ing cultivated by tractors propelled either by petroleum products or by steam. 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