The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 16, 1920, Page 4

f \ PAGE FOUR BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - ad As g o. LOGAN PREM COMP Anny CHICAGO | DETROIT Bldg. Kresge sian PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK : - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled te the use Doubtless Villa would rather fight ‘than be Entered at the Postoffice, Biomarck, N. D, aa Second| President. Editor| When the ladies get into politics, most of the political bees will be queen bees. If that fabled golden fleece existed today it Bldg. | would be worth its weight in wool. ‘Every farmer in that fix regrets that he has for Publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise | but one boy to plow for his country. herein. ited 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. 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota... THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1878) VACATIONS What, in fact, is a vacation? The dictionary Bryan may find consolation in the reflection that the folks who followed Moses cussed him once in a while. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column iy may or may not express the opinions of The Tribune. ting 4 are Ee sented here in order \hat our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed im the press of the day. COMMENCEMENT DAY, 1920 The year that is coming to a close for.a thou- : s A i i iti fes- . tt ll: “A stated intérval in a sand American colleges, universities and_ pro: - Sees eee aS for rest and|Sional schools is one of the most remarkable in recreation.” Then the object of a vacation is res' " academic history. Following the war period, and recreation. This is the accepted vacation gea-| “Hen many of these institutions lost the major son. The idea is to get the most out of it. To do that, probably, a complete change in the usual routine of life and occupation will do the most good. As a rule, city people recreate in the country, along the lake shores or in the moun- tains. Country folks hurry to the city. Change of scene and environment is what, both crowds are looking for. And correctly. By sticking around the same old haunts in va- cation time, one is apt to return to his job, wheth- er in a bank, on a farm, or behind a counter, mind sick and limb weary. And his time off will have done him little good. Many men and women at the vacation period try to forget absolutely, for the time being, their tisual form of existence. They step out of them- part of their students and faculty and were only kept going by the device of the Student Army Training Corps, the universities found themselves in the fall of 1919 with shrinking endowments, disintegrating faculties and the highest enroll- ments in history—a fourth greater than the high record of 1916. How endowment drives were made the order of the day in hundreds of col- | leges ; how alumni and friends came to the rescue in an effort to secure better salaries for the fa- culty; how former. service men and others who had missed or deferred their change for a college education returned to make the college year memorable—these events are perhaps too close to us to be appreciated at their full value. One unmistakable note that runs through the selves as it were. They brush the mental cob-|°°™Mencements of 1920 is the realization on the webs from their minds. part of the college and the public of a mutual re- sponsibility. The American college, public and A Hungarian woman predicts that our next private, is serving all the people in a sense never president will be bald. Well, in this country we| ite so real before. Lord Haldane’s ‘observa- have no heir apparent. BADGES OF SUCCESS “A recent writer in the Atlantic Monthly com- ments on the fact that boys and girls in. school work for funny little tunny things called “marks.” ' How about the men and women who work for funny bits of paper called dollars? ¢ There is habit in motives as in everything else, | and people who have sought marks or dollars for the things that go with them may come to seek them:for themselves. But originally and normal-! ly the marks and the dollars are sought only as means to ends or badges of success; and the teacher or employer who forgets what gives them value is bound to make mistakes. There are four great ends’ that a person will naturally work for: 1—For the mere fun of doing—of being a cause and proving one’s power, whether he makes mud Pies or bonfires or books and fortunes. This is the motive back of play and it gives zest to work. 2—To satisfy his needs and cravings for such things as food and warmth and shelter andl sleep. 38—To gain and maintain a mate and a family. 4—For the good of the larger group that he be- longs to and an honorable place within it. These’ ends may not be clearly conscious, but the urge of them is there; and, though one may be sacrificed for another, one’s satisfaction with his work in life depends on the degree to which it tends to satisfy them all. : America not only holds the record for quantity production, but -has distanced all competitors in quantity spending. EYE FOR EYE The difference between lynch law and civil law is not great; the gap no larger than that which Separates the lyncher and the wolf of the pack. What better authority upon cruelty can there be than Nietzcshe, the German, who exalted the “blond beast super-man?” “Without cruelty there is no feast,” says Niet- zsche. He traces the origin of all punishment to primitive times. Eyen as late as the Roman civi- lization the value of each limb of the body was expressed in the law as security for debt. Pun-, ishment was not meted to the guilty, says Niet- zsche. It arose out of the belief that suffering ‘—anybody’s suffering—could be equivalent: of goods. Thus—the lender accepts the pledge of the bor- rower’s wife. The borrower cannot pay. ‘In the torture of the woman the lender receives thé value of the unpaid debt. It was not the unadorned vengeance, born of their love for their defiled and murdered sister, which madé two Kentuckians ask to pull the switch to kill the woman’s slayer. It was this seeking of value for value, pain for pain—an eye for an eye. ‘ So long as man carries, tucked deep within, the Power to thrill at the mere thought of unrestrict- ed cruelty, there'll be lynchings as often as tradi- tional excuses allow mobs to form and lose indi- vidual scruples in what Muensterberg was pleased to call, “mass consciousness.” There is a prevailing opinion that Germany wouldn’t be quite so hasty if she had it to do over again. tions, “We have passed away from the days in which it was enough to have among us a few pre-eminent individuals,” has been accepted and is being acted upor. America expects more and | more men and women to have a college education and it expects them to serve their fellowmen bet- ter because of having had it.—New York Tribune. THE MENACE OF TOWNLEYISM Those who come in contact with the field of active politics report “apathy” in Minnesota. If thereiis such a thing in Minnesota at this moment it is a very dangerous symptom, for there is none in the ranks of Townleyism, and Townleyism is a menace serious enough to awak- en the apprehensions of the most sluggish-mind- ed: Moreover, if there is anything like apathy, that makes the menace all the greater because it helps the Townley movement if it does not in- sure its victory. f Minnesota at this moment faces a danger far more serious than most people seem to realize— the danger that the statehouse and the legisla- ture and the great resources of this state may fall into the hands of the little band of Socialists that leads and directs this powerful movement of far- mers and radical city workers. Perhaps this apparent apathy is due to over- confidence. Perhaps it is due to discounting the superheated attacks that have been made on Townley and his league. - ‘It would be a clearer and simpler situation if the Townleyites were bolshevists. That would make it easier, for there is no danger that any- thing like bolshevism will befall Minnesota, Min- nesota has bolsheviki, and every last one of them is for Townley and his movement; but it hasn’t enough of them to win an election, and besides bolsheviki don’t bother about winning elections anyway. ; But Townleyism is something far more subtle than that, and therefore far more dangerous. It is a propaganda that can take in farmers and city workers who are not only not socialists but are at heart bitterly opposed to socialism, and by a few deft phrases and a little clever playing upon prejudices induce them to follow the lead of so- cialists who are bent upon carrying out a social- istic’ platform. Now an organization that can do a thing like that is dangerous—far more dangerous than bol- shevism would be. It is as unreasoning as bol- shevism. It is as much the result of emotion conquering reason as bolshevism is. But where real bolshevism could be met and conquered in its most threatening form by'direct methods, Town- leyism can be met and conquered only by ar- raigning against it in a compact unit that over- whelming majority of the people of the state who have kept their sense and therefore have no idea of turning the state over to be the plaything of the carpetbag socialists: But a menace like that can’t be met and con- quered by apathy. If there really is apathy in Minnesota this close to the primary election, then Minnesota is in very grave danger. If the people of this state have not yet awak- ened to the danger that faces them, it is time they were awakened. If they are not awakened before primary election day, and awakened in a manner that will cause them to act on that day, then they and their state are in for a period of disgrace and | disaster—Duluth Herald. | PEOPLE'S FORUM | “ et Editor of The Tribune: As a member of the American Le- gion I understand full well that our organization is not in politics. But if we have friends we certainly ought to stand by them and I consider Con- gressman. George M. Young as such a friend. He has always been the friend of the soldiers and as a mem- ber of the Ways and Means commit- tee he had an ive part in framing the soldiers bonus bill which recently passed the House. In the committee Young fought long and hard for the bill and without his vote it would have been defeated time and again. Young was recalled to North Dakota right after the bill was ordered for a favorable report to the House to take up his campaign which he had already delayed several weeks by his anxiety to help the soldiers. However, he had his vote paired with a Democrat, who was against the bonus, and thus his vote counted as much as though he had been present. NEIL E. REID. Pa ‘WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1920 The boy didn’t see it. First thing he knew the mean old dog catcher had stopped his wagon rand was making a straight line for the dog. The pop, sensing danger of an un- known - quality, raced for the inside of. the yard, but he couldn’t have ‘made it if it hadn't been for a loose brick in the street. Just as the dog catcher was push- ing the net over the pup’s head, he, the dog catcher, stepped on an edge of the br Down he went. Be- lieve me, there was some fall, There was a striking resemblance between the dog catcher’s face after he got: up and a beefste&tk freshly chopped. ‘But. the dog was inside the yard by this time. $ And a little boy I know is tickled pink. ‘He took the helpful. brick into the house, coated it with pretty. tinfoil and says he’s going to save it for- ever. ° 1 wish the hand of the law would get half as ambitious about catching Profiteers, and other criminals, as it is about trying to catch’ dogs that belong to little boys. * CROP SUMMAR JUST JOKING | co ts All Drowned The Sub..(very junior)—I want one of those dogs about so high, and about so long. A sort of greyhound; but it isn’t quite, because its tail is shorter and its head’s bigger and the legs aren’t so long, and the body’s thinner, Do you keep that sort? ‘The Dealer—No sir! 1 don't. 1 lowns ‘em.—Edinburgh Scotsman, A Sense of Inferiority “T've often been struck by the ex-{ treme hauteur of salesladies.” “Well?” & “Don’t you ‘suppose merchants suffer from it?” “I know one who does.- He tells me he feels like sneaking into thu rear door of his establishment be- cause he supects that his persoanl appearance does not meet with the approval of his clerks.”—Birmingham Age-Herald. Prepared 1 'Green—{What on earth do you want! with that sheet of postage stamps? Why, you've got a hundred there! Grey—Well, you see, I’ve just writ: ten a poem, and I may—er—send it to more than one editor.—Answers, London, | SUCH IS LIFE — oe BY O. B. JOYFUL By golly, how I laughed the other day! H Most often I have ‘some feeling of sympathy for a guy who falls down and cracks’ his face, or breaks a bone, or blackens an eye, but this time I laughed! ‘For it was the dog catcher! A little boy I know came home one evening last winter with the yal- lerist kind of a cur, one of those for- lorn, half starved, unkempt pups of the gutter. s But to the boy it was DOG. That was enough. It mattered not to him that all the so-called points of good breeding were absent, nor that the dog had absolutely not pedigree and not a good habit. i] It was a dog. And the boy formed a partnership with the pup. Mother stormed about the matter, and father pretended to be fecling the same way about it, but se ly he helped the boy fix up a comfy bed for the dog in the basement, and raided the pantry for some stray scraps of meat. ‘And everything went well, except- ing, of course, on those days when the thoughtless pup would track up the newly scrubbed kitchen floor, And the boy was having the biz days of his life, the first dog he had had, you know. And the other day the boy and th2 dog were out in the street playing. They boy would throw a stick and the dog would run after it and the boy would howl with joy. Then the cloude came up. The dog- catcher’s wagon rattled down the street. = i: — Washington, D. C., June 16.— The week was rather warm in nearly all! sections east of the Rocky Mountains and mostly without rain or only light falls and with abundant sunshine. It was an excellent growing week and very favorable for farm work, while general showers were beneficial for the Northwest. More moisture is needed in the Lake region amd parts of the northwestern states. Higher temperatures favored the progress of the corn crop which made very good to excellent advance. Cul-. tivation made good progress over cen- tral and southern districts. ‘Winter wheat made fairly good ad-' vance but the high temperatures caused too rapid ripening in some lo- calities. The progress of spring wheat was mostly very good to excellent in most sections and the condition of the} Re oe a Bhatia, Having won the local contest, this girl is planning on winning a bigger prize. Her two cans of , fruit are entered in the exhibit | them. .;;\{ COULDN'T STAND crop continues satisfactory in the principal producing areas. Conditions were also favorable for oats and other grains, pastures, meadows and fruit and also for potatoes and truck crops in most districts. | PROCEEDINGS CITY COMMISSION. June 1920. The. city commission met pursuant to adjournment Wednesday evening, June 2, 1920. There were present issioners Bettsch, French, Lar- son, Thompson ‘and President. Lucas. The resolution fixing the engineer’s fee was read for the second time in order: ‘that the whole commission might hear it and was. approved by A set of. resolutions: pertain- ing to the construction of a new. wa- ter works system for the city of Bis- marck were passed. The city auditor was instructed to advertise <for bids for the construction of the new wa- ter works system. Bids to be opened on the 12th day of July, 1920. Com- missioner Thompson moved that the city commission adjourn to meet again June 7, 1920, at eight o'clock p. m. | The motion carried: Attest: Cc. L. Burton, City Auditor. June 7, 1920, The city commission met in regular session Monday evening, June 7, 1920, at eight o'clock p. m.- There were present Commissioners | Bertsch. French, Larson, and PresidentgLucas. The minutes of the meeting held June 1, 1920 were read and approved. The minutes of the meeting held June 2, 1920, were read and approved. No ac- tion was taken on the resignation of G. C. Wachter as inspector of the Fourth ward. A. B. Carley was award- ed the contract for painting the posts of the white way system at $1.35 per post. The bid of the Wachter 'frans- fer Company ‘for hauling the city gar- bage was rejected-and the auditor was instructed to advertise for bids for this work. The bid of Joe Katz for street sprinkling was accepted. A number of paving: petitions were re- of boys’ and girls’ work which is an outstanding feature of the big North Dakota State. Fair, Fargo, July 12-17, UNDER THE WORK, _ SAYS JOHN VERSEN. “I have taken my share of medi- cine ‘during the past three years but everything failed to relieve my trou- ble until I got hold of Tanlac, said John Versen, a civilian employee in the Quartermasters department at Fort Snelling, Minn., while telling of his remarkable recovery‘ by the use of this medicine, recently. “I had held out about as long as I could, after being troubled for three years with rheumatism, indigestion, constipation and a general run-down condition.” Mr. Versen continued. “T had rheumatism in my arm and shoulders and in my back, right be- tween the shoulder blades, so ‘bad I could hardly move my arms and it was agony for me to put on my coat or dress myself, let alone trying to do my work. I had been doing out- side work but I could not stand up under it any longer and had to ask to be transferred to the inside. My digestion was so bad that hardly a thing agreed with me. About a half hour after every meal I would start to bloat up with gas and would have awful attacks of indigestion and was troubled all the time with constipa- tion. “As I said, nothing helped me one particle until I began taking Tanlae, and that did the work, and today after taking three bottles, I haven't an. ache or,pain in my body. All signs of rheumatism have disappear- ed entirely and I am as active as I ever was before. I eat three hearty meals every day and never suffer any bad after effects:at all and my con- stipation has been relieved. I sleep better at night and when morning iomes I am ready for as big a day’s work as any man. I feel several years younger and am just full of life and energy all the time. 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 Strausberg by Strausberg Drug Co, x ceived and these petitions were re- ferred to the city engineer and city attorney. The following bills were allowed and ordered to be paid funds permitting: Burleigh Co. Farmers’ Press..$ 1.33 O. H, Will & Co. ..... 35.00 Wachter Transfer Co. . 40.00 R. W. Sanders ... 32.40 Consumers Co. . L. Tibesar Mike Getz J. Empting . J. Hummell J. Alsbury . J. Burden F. Schneider . J. Hoermann 21.00 J. Haas 16.00 J. Katz .. 6.00 Wachter Transfer Co. . ) Carpenter Lumber Co. . 49.30 J. Bortell 3.15 R. P. Logan . 2.70 J. Jensen 28.09 Ed Randall 25.00 J. W. Serres .. 25.00 Wachter Transfer Co. 99.00 ‘Wachter Transfer Co. . - 99.00 St. Alexius Hospital . ~ 181.50 E, A. Brown-~.,... - 55.00 R. W, Sanders . 17.61 Mrs. C. Robidou . 60.00 Frank Gabel \ 12.00 R. P. Logan ... 75.00 French & Welch 15 Western Union Tel. 11.69 C. H. Hanson & Co.. 8.00 On motion of Commissioner Bertsch the commission adjourned to mect again June 14, 1920." “Attest: C. L, Burton, City Auditor. ELTINGE Announcement is made by the man- agement of the Eltinge Theatre that tonight William Fox will present Wil- liam Farnum in a romantic-drama of the days when knights were bold, en- titled “The Adventurer.” It was written by E. Lloyd Sheldon, and is based upon the adventures of an im- pecuhious count who lived in Spain at a time when gambling was at its height and when noblemen wagered everything on the treasures of Mexico and Peru. In those days duelling was popular, and the man who would not draw his sword to avense an insult or to protect a woman was a cad. The hero is the rollicking type of romantic lover that suits admirably the great actor, who is seen a3 Don Caesar de Bazan. William Farnum is at his best in such a role, and he will win new laurels if people who have seen him in his latest production are correct in their judgment. Estelle Taylor is his leading wom- an, and she will make her screen de- but in this city in the Fox photoplay. A strong cast will assist the star in “The Adventurer.” and the dircction by J. Gordon Edwards recalls the fact that this director has been responsi- ble for many Farnum successes. MOTHER! “California Syrup of Figs”. Child’s' Best Laxative, Accept “California” Syrup of Figs only—look for the name California on the package, then you are sure youc child is having the best and most harmless physic for the little stom- ach, liver and bowels. Children love its fruity taste. Full directions oa each bottle. You must say “Califor- nia.”