The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 17, 1920, Page 4

“THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at: the Postoffice, Bismatck, N. D., as Second * Class Matter. . 5 - - : . Editor GEORGE D. MANN is Fore! spresentatives G. LOGAN PAENE COMPANY Marquette Bldg. . ge ig. Y ~PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH WEWYorntE - |: - Fifth Ave. Bldg. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for ication of all news credited to it or not otherwise ited in this paper and also the local news published re rights of publication of special dispatches hertin are »reserved, MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRC! SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year........ssseeceseesesees 20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)..........++ 7: Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bi: marck) 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota,.........-. 6; JHE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPE! (Established 1873) , Sa Bee LIKE TO TRAVEL? Let us travel. out in the “cold between the spheres,’ Let’s go a thousand miles from Earth, a million miles, a million million miles, a billion miles, a billion billion—oh, much further! The nearest star is a little splotch of silver near the North Star. It is called Alpha Centauri and is 25 trillion miles away. That is the near- est one! ; But ‘star distances are not measured in miles. They are measured in “light years.” Light trav- els at the rate of 186,000 miles a second. At that rate the light comes.to Earth from the Sun, 94,- 000,000 miles ‘away, in about six seconds. It takes six and one-half years to come from Cen- tauri! ‘Science doesn’t do very well measuring star distances.: Altogether it has “guesses” at thé distances’ of about 245 ‘stars. There are stars 16 light years away and even a little further that have been measured. Beyond that it is al- most wholly guess work. P This much is known to be true—the vast bulk ‘of the stars (some of them ‘the brightest we know) lie hundreds and thousands—even mil- lions of light years away from us. That means that the light from many stars started before the birth of Christ and that the light we see tonight may -be from a star that has not swung in the heavens for a-million years. ~ Read it again.’ No one ever did get even a tiny inkling-of what that. means in one reading or a dozen. ar ; She's‘a big old universe, brother, mighty: big! TION ~ UNCLE SAM’S INSURANCE The federal government's’ insurance business is doing very well. . ON Advance figures of ‘the year ending June 30 indicate’ this. ; Policies ‘covering mare than:40 billion dollars of. insurance are carried. This exceeds any pri- vate life insurance record ever made. Over four ,and a half million policy holders carry U. S. in- surance. They are getting this protection at less cost than private corporations could give it to them. This, of course, is,to be expected, for pri- vate concerns are in the business for a: profit. And too, the cost of doing business is lighter for Uncle Sam. He has less soliciting to do, no com- missions to pay, and fewer overhead expenses. Thus far, as thé 1920 report shows, the war ‘risk, insurance bureau has done well. But the real test is to come. While other businesses may be fairly accurately gauged after a two-year trial it is not-so with life insurance, There the real strain comes with the aging of the insured. The death rate grows; claims pile high-'and higher. Private concerns constantly renew’ the youthful- ness of their policy lists by the addition of young- er’ persons, persons fit physically to ‘pass exami- nations. acs be crab i ae GE ee + The. war risk bureau started with an ideal col- lection of policy holders. All were young, in the «flower of manhood; physically fit and to this was added physical training.in the outdoors, Don’t embarrass the hostess by taking more _ than one lump. ~ The public will heyer get justice until it agrees what justice is. ; The sugar shortage will not interfere with pre- serving the peace. LN ‘ Mutton chops being scarce and costly, mutton- heads are more in vogue. agit Even if all the oil fakers are chased out, there'll be a new hatching to take your money. Probably Elwell was killed by a whist fiend who had gone mad trying to work out some of the problems of the game. “Junk’ dealers have decided to call themselves “Waste Material Dealers.” Yet garbage men, if called Handlers of Matter out of Place, will smell no sweeter. « ~ : t The Louisiana Liberty League is:said to have demanded a “semi-wet plank.” This must be a plank wet on one side and dry on the other, with the wet side up. 4 Women say, they don’t look like the pictures "used? in -clothing’’advertisements. .Then they what’s to be etched out. Thé only chance a girl gets to wear long dresses now is when her age is reckoned in months. A presidential candidate’s biggest problem is dodging job hunters:wWithout losing their votes. y EDITORIAL REVIEW G Comments reproduced in* this column may not express:the opinions of The Tribune. The; or may are pre- lave both i sented here in order vhat_ our readers may being sides of im) issues which are the press of the day. . OUTWQRN IDEAS ABOUT THE AUTOMOBILE | The motor car is one transforming modern in- 00] vention. to which the world hasn’t yet been able fully to adjust itself. We are having an example now in Kansas City’s frantic efforts to deal with ‘the traffic problem in the downtown districts. The city doesn’t yet know what to do with the automobile.‘ It can’t quite realize that the car has passed from the class of the luxury to that of the necessity. In its traffic ordinances, in dealing with nar- row streets and in ignoring the demand for great motor thoroughfares it is still acting on the as- sumption that people really don’t need cars and could get along without them if they only would. The trouble is that it is hard for us to make our mental adjustments to new condjtions. Our old ideas cling to us and hamper.us when.the condi- tions on which they were based have passed away. The present. generation.» recalls ‘ vividly when the’ automobile was regarded as a sort of freak. It was.a toy for eccentric’ persons of means to play with—and a toy that was a nuis- ance to the rest of the community. It made frightful noises. It emitted a terrible stench. ‘It put every respectable family in jeopardy by making it unsafe ta go out with old Bess and the family-carry-all. One of the noisy monsters was likely to come along any minute and cause a runaway. Grudgingly, we admitted the automo- bile to decent society and gave it some of the privileges’ of’ modern life. It isn’t so very many years since it was permitted on the Cliff Drive on sufferance two afternoons'a week. Not so very long ago the council was discussing whether the speed limit within the city should be allowed to go above eight miles an hour. Many of us are still thinking of the motor car in terms of twenty years ago when all the pro- phets predicted that it: would never" be anything more than the plaything-for rich men. We still talk about it as a luxufy and when in a thrifty mood. speculate on how much the industry is cost- ing the country, and how much better off we woulfi be if the money were invested in housgs or clothing or what not: ‘ as And yet, if we consider the matterfairly, we must admit that the motor car has become an essential part of American life. i The truck, of course, is indispensible. No de- livery business could get on without it. It has supplanted the horse-drawn vehicle within the cities. . It is crowding the trolley and the steam train for express service over short hauls. There ig no argument here. : But the service of the passenger car, while in some respects not to be reckoned in dollars and cents, is just as fundamental. In every city tens of ‘thousands of persons use it as a means for rapid transit to and from work. For the doctor, the salesman, the painter and men in a dozen oth- er occupations the motor car is a business vehicle pure and simple. It,has become increasingly the reliance of the farmer. It enables him to'get to town and back in an hour, whereas it used to take him the better’ part of a day. Finally, it is the greatest possible aid to family life. There may be persons who sneer at such a statement as exaggerated and who regatd the re- lation of the automobile to:the home as of negli- gible value. They simply do not.comprehend the facts. ‘To many.a busy mother, both in country and city, the family motor caf has been a_ life saver. It has helped break down the isolation and loneliness of farm life. It has enabled the city woman to keep in touch with her friends in dis- tant parts of town in a:way never possible before, and it has provided a means for recreation for the whole family. Every warm evening the Kan- sas City boulevards swarm with cars carrying father, mother and. the children. Every Sunday the roads about the city are similarly crowded. On a smaller scale the same thing is going on in all the smaller-communities of the country. When an article so meets the needs of human nature in wholesome fashion that it has come into almost ufliversak use, it is simply stupid to wave it aside as unnecessary. Of course, we might live in a cave, as our ancestors did, kill animals for food with a club and dress in their skins. We could get on without bathrooms in our homes, without electric lights, without running water, without books and magazines ahd newspapers. All of these modern inventions have taken labor that otherwise might be'turned ‘to digging caves and making’ clubs. : But it is useless to talk about turning back the clock. Human nature makes civilization. and in turn is made by civilization. The automobile has responded to the demands of modern life. It has become one of: the essentials, like the railroad and the printing press. ~ : In dealing with. the various problems involving it, we shall go wrong and butt our heads against a stone wall if we fail.to understand the import- ance of the motor driven vehicle to the individual and to the community as a whole.—Kansas City Star. x Sf oo oo BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE should have an “art to art” talk''and decide on'|' \ it Long Suffering Patient_—Y ou can’t fool me again. I want a.new deal all around.” Washington, - July 317. States, a8 a nation, hasn't’ joined the League of ‘Nations, but nevertheless, the. league, as a going institution, is‘ being directed to an appreciable ex: tent by Americans. \ The latest American to‘accept office from the league is Dr. Royal Metker, commissioner of labor statistics of the department of labor... Meeker. will be- come editor of a monthly bulletin:to be issued -by the international labor of- fice of the League of Nations. His new. headquarters will Switzerland, the capital” league. President Wilson will issue the call for the assembling of league represent- atives this fall. of the Generally higher. interest rates for bank and mortgage"loans, and a move- ment looking to the relaxation of le- gal restrictions on interest rates in many states where 6 to 8 per cent lim- its follows the action of corporations. in increasing dividends rates and the interest rate on new. bond issues. The capitalist, like the wage-earn- er, has been hit by the high cost of living. His 6 per cent doesn’t buy him the same luxuries and comforts it formerly did. ,One hundred thousand dollars at 6 per cent only brings in a beggarly $6,000 interest—which, with gas at 30 cents, hardly keeps his auto- mobile running. So the capitalist is striking. He can only increase his in- come/from a given amount of capital hy getting higher,interest for it. There- fore, he won’t invest it except where -he higher interest is assured. In- stead of 6 per cent he says he must have 8 or 10 if he is to continue living on ‘his normal scale, The issuance of 8 yer cent mort- gage bonds by, established and conserv- ative corporations is‘the first step in meeting this strike by dapital. The next will be to make the dividen. rate on “stock issues on a similar basis. Before this strike by capital is set- tled, we may expect to see a concerted and hard-fought campaign to put. the stocks of America’s, railroads on this new dividend basis and with it, a gey- eral increase in rates on borrowed capital for'any and all purposes. > rd | HEALTH ADVICE | ] BY UNCLE SAM, M.D. Health Questions Will Be An- swered if Sent to Information Bureau, U, S. Public Health | Service, Washington, D. C. 7 | | \ | | |, Nursing in Contagious Diseases. A patient sick of a communicable disease should be/isolated and some one detailed for his care and comfort, who, if practicable, sould be Am- mune to the disease, 2 Communication -between the patient or his nurse and other persons should be reduced to’a minimum.. « Used, clothing, body linen and bed- ding of the patient: and nurse shou! ‘be immersed in boiling water or in 3 per cent solution of carbolic acid be- ‘fore removal from*room, and should be kept so immersed for one-hour, - Eating and° drinking utensils, after being used by the patient, Should be washed in boiling water, They should not be used by others ‘until-they have been sterilized by boiling. © The room from ‘which the patient ‘was removed should be thoroughly cleansed. ee Formulas for Disinfecting Solutions Recommended for Use. Bichloride of mercury* (1 t6”1,006: —POISON. i | PBSIG Bichloride of. mercury (two>7)"1.2 grain tablets), grs...-..+...... 15 be Geneva,” Water: (quart) 4 | Carbolic acid* (3 per cent): ‘ POISON: Carbolio ‘acid (pure), teaspoon- fuls...0. 6. Rat Pte acetate * Hot water, pint bi Compound cresol (3 per cent): | POISON Liquor oyesolis compositus, | teaspoonfuts’ < Water, pint®.. Bleaching powder: Bleaching powder (chloride of lime) pound. : esas capped _ Water, gallons *Poisorious :sdlutions should be col- ‘ored blue with a little laundry bluing in-order to distinguish them from non- ’ poisonous ‘solutions. i TO NUMBER FUR SEALS Dr. Dallas Hanna will Make New Census. \ « Seals Can. Be Removed Each Year. San Francigco.—Dr. G.: Dallas ‘Han- Na, a member of the staff of the Call- fornia Academy of Science, has just left here for’ Alaska, where he. will make a census of the fur seals on the Pribiloff islands, under~ the direc- tlon of the United States bureau, of fisheries. Doctor Hanna. has been connected with this work each year since 1913. In 1919 it was reported that there were 540,000-animals in the herd) In 1910 when the government first took over the operation of the Island in- dustry, there were fewer than 200,000. During the time when. this Increase was taking place, enough surplus and useless males have:.been! killed and their skins sold at auction ta provide the national treasury with $3,500,000 above all expenses; ‘according to W. EVERETT TRUE | HELLO, my MaN, ) [Wears HAPPENED (TT Yoo't ; ( Purpoge Is to Determine How Many; market. RAN eee 1 W: Saigesit> secretary Of Tie” Call- fornia Academy of Science. The purpose of. the census is chiefly to determine how many animals can 3! be safely. removed each year and still 1! provide for a maximum percentage of , | Increase of the herd, If the Increase in 1920 continues as heretofore, it 1s said that there should be about 600,000 of. these amphibious: fur. bearers, by far the largest herd tn existence, as ; well as a surplus of about 30,000 males which can be killedfor their skins. At current prices of’ thése furs they will be, valued at about $3,000,000. “Since the cost of operation will be less than $200,000; it ‘is’ quite evident that ‘this industry is one of the best financial. enterprises) the’ government hag,” «said Mr. Sirgbants “It is capable of..almost pmlimited exparjsion, provided ‘the! females are protected at sea and the surplus males are removed from the-herd, The-fight-- ing.of such males'on.the crowded rooh-_ eries causes ,a large mortality among: the females and young. ¢ “The carcasses ‘of the animals killed were formerly allowed to waste, but’ last’ yenr_a_ by-product plan: was put Into operation by. means of which It is ‘expected a_yery.gsuperior, ‘oll and animal. meal.“ill be. placed: on the The census which will, be taken in 1920: will enable fi close ap- proximation to be made of. the quan- titles of these produets which will be available in the immediate‘ future.” 6,000 MINERS ~ GOON STRIKE _ Scranton, Pa., July, 1/—All of the mines of the Pehna Coal. company located near here, were closed today by a strike. The 6,000. men employed demand abolition of the contract- miner system, ¢ SHOOT THE AMBULANCE ouT THE AVGNUS — HEAT VICTIM Hee fro-9-000U- SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1920 [CUTICURA HEALS SCALP TROUBLE: InBlisters. HairVeryThin. Itched and Disfigured Head. Lost Rest. ‘ “My scalp sta:tea itching and little ted blisters broke out. They would itch and get very soreand after a time they dried up W Into scales and disfigured my head. Sleep and rest were almost out of the ‘question, and my hair got f . very thin on top. ‘I was advised to use Cuticura Soap and Ointment so I wrote for a free sample and after- wards bought more. Now I am completely healed.””* (Signed) Wm. Emmis, 1514 N. Jefferson Ave., Peoria, I1l., May 20, 1919. 2 wes-Cuticura Toilet Trio Consisting of Soap, Ointment and | Talcum, promotes’ and maintains | skin purity, skin. comfort and skin | health often when all else fails. The . Soap to cleanse and purify, the Oint- ment to soothe and heal, the Talcum to powder and perfume. Then why not make these gentle, fragrant, super-creamy emollients your every- |. jay toilet preparations? ‘Sold everywhere at 25 cents each, Sam- pie each free by anal \Address;, “*Cuti- n | Bae Ciicura Soap sbaves without mus, —— ————————————— ADD VARIETY TO DAILY FARE Marines Prefer Alligator Steak to Broiled Lizard for a Steady Diet. Managua, Nicaragua.—Perhaps alll- gator steaks would never appeal to the fastidious diners in first-class restau- raiits, ‘but United States ‘marines at- tached to the American legation guard here, say they are the real thing for adding piquancy to the daily fare. Marine sharpshooters make a spe- clalty of bagging young alligators. When the skin is removed steaks are cut from the fleshy part of the tail. The meat is clear -white, {s palatable, and has something, of the flavor of hali- but. é Another variety in the bill of fare fs broiled lizard. The iguana, or giant lizard, has been used for food by the natives for many years, The marines say that iguands make fine chow, but they prefer alligator for a steady diet. Seiied { Man Fell into Bear Pit; Arm and Leg Torn Away + : © August Kabler, a medical stu- dent at Berne, Switzerland, was terribly. mauled by beats into whose pit at the zoological ‘gar- dens he had fallen while he was throwing cafrats to yee He was. taken..to..the. hospital In a gerious condition, ‘his left leg and “left arm’ ‘being. entirely torn away. 3 ® tte ttt bre OOS Oe Let the Defense Hang Itself, Noblesville,. Ind.—Mrs, Rosa ‘Davis, administratrix, suing the Central In- diana Railroad company for the death of her husband, Charles E. Davis, didn’t have any, witnesses, but on the evidenge of the rallroad’s witnesses she was awarded a verdict of $3,000. All testimony for Mrs, Davis was brought out on cross-examination, JUST JOKING David Warned Against This. “I shall never forget the look on ther face when she found me in her | pew.” said the plainly dressed woman. |! “You .were evidently sitting in the ; seat of the scornful,” remarked her friend.—Boston Transcript. —* o—-d — _ Saves “We tried to buy some rope to hang a profiteer.” “Well?” 5 “But the dealer wanted tog muca for it.”-Philadelphia Reférmed Church Messenger. Liter Over fifty years ago a young physician practiced’ widely: in -a | rural district and became famous for his uniform success in the curing of disease. This was Dr. Pierce, who afterwards estab- lished himself in Buffalo, N. Y., and placed one of his prescriptions, which he called ‘‘Golden Medical Discovery,’’ in the drug stores of the United States so that the pub- lie could easily obtain this very remarkable tonic, corrective and blood-maker. Dr. Pierce manu- factured this ‘Discovery’? from roots and barks—a corrective remedy, the ingredients. of which nature had put in the fields and forests, for keeping us healthy. Few folks or families now living have not at sometime or other used ‘his ‘Golden Medical Discovery’’ ior the stomach, liver and heart. Over twenty=fout million, bottles of this tonic and bloodgremedy .. have been’ sotd"in' eratae Gen EEE tet a eh