The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 19, 1920, Page 4

. PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE PRD era A NTO Batered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN : y 2s emme ne a Pict Bh Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK Z . Fifth Ave. Bldg. phar CAS TN ca ee I Mais Tinea ee rk, The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for | lication of all news credited to it or. not otherwise erected in this paper and also the local news published here Tights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year... Daily by mail, per year (in Daily by mail, per year (in state outs) Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.. THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Editor : MORE BREAD French farmers will harvest 260,000,000 push: els of wheat this year. 1 And France will feed her own bread to her own -people. French crop estimates lace thd harvest yield at figures even greater than the pre-war crops. This is due to the fact that every inch of available ground was planted to food last spring. ‘ Even the war-devastated areas are covered with ripen- ing grain. : Last year, and for years before, France had to lean. upon American acres; American grain kept France alive. This winter France will not have to import wheat from the United States. And the United States will have a wheat crop'now esti- mated at larger than the average for the last five years. : : All of which spells more wheat to keep at home. as NEW INSECT FOES Tsetes flies which spread the sleeping sickness followed the caravan routes through Africa. Ships carried cockrdaches to all parts: of the world. Potato bugs-formerly lived only in a restricted neighborhood ‘of the Rocky mountains. They fol- lowed the transcontinental railroads and branches into all parts of the United States. Now comes the airplane. Scientists are giving much thought to the danger that this new way of travel will spread insect pests, particularly ‘when planes begin to travel commonly from con- ., tinent to continent. From this view-point careful observations were made during’ the recent trip across Africa, made by Dr. Chalmers Mitchell. ‘ It was fotind that no: insects were carried by the plane.. If any settled on the plane at landing points the speed at which the plane flew swept them off when the plane started. That’s reassuring. For one hears that strange | bugs buzz about in Africa. There's the hippopotamus fly. It has a lancet, like a pair of scissors. This is to pierce the hip- po’s thick, tough hide which is thicker-than the skin of any profiteer. One hears that this fly’s bite could puncture the tire of a motor truck. Perhaps the accounts are somewhat exaggerat- ed. . Just the same, it’s hoped that all proper care will be taken 'to keep ’em out of the United States. THRESHING | Who remembers that old conundrum: Down in the meadow stands a red bull; feed him and feed him but-he never gets full. . What is it? A threshing machitie, of course. In some parts of the country wheat has been threshed arid is already on, the move, on the way to the elevators. In other parts it is just being cut, and in. still others the song’of \the mower, horse-pulled ‘or tractor-driven,, will soon fill the air. But in any event comes threshing day. That’s when there’s business on the farm for sure. Help comes in from the other farms. The “big red bull” comes lumbering down the pike under: his own steam, snorting defiance. He tears up the road, mires in the mud of the barnyard. The thresher itself is placed, the:big belt from the engine connected, and at daylight begins the business of separating the wheat fromthe straw; with a golden stream of chaff blowing and. cover- ing the barnyard and yards around. As the men work they sweat and swear, and laugh and sing. The grain pours in a glorious rush into the big bags, and the straw piles higher and higher in the stack close to the barn. And at 12 the dinner bell tells its story. And such a rush! Did you ever sit down to a thresh- er’s dinner? If you have, you know. . If you haven’t—well, it’s a life’s treat missed. It’s trite, but it’s true—the table “groans.” Chicken, boil- ed beef and cabbage, kettles of boiled potatoes, ovens and ovens of bread, and biscuits, and gravy, and hot rolls, and cookies, and cake, and two or three kinds of pie, and jelly, and pickles-and beets, and ‘dried corn and peas, and radishes, rich golden butter; plenty of milk and pot after pot of coffee, and doughnuts and fried cakes and more pie. It isn’t nerve that causes the human tide to flow Cuba-ward in the summer, it’s spirits. INSURANCE AGENTS Insurance agents are not generally appraised at their true value to the communities which they serve. No class of salesmen must work harder to sell BISMARCK DAILY. TRIBUNE. MONDAY, JULY 19, 1920 their! goods ;’ few labo¥ more persistently to land a customer, calling on him at night at his home, if they can’t corner him in his office in the day /' time. Their persistence alone would deserve credit, even if the article they have to sell were not a thing of most excellent merit. But the attitude of the average man toward an insurance agent is one of resistance, such as, one puts up against a fellow who has come to bor- row money. Seldom does a man think of an in-}. surance agent as one who has’ come to show him!’ a method of saving money. Such attitude is not unnatural. It*flows from lack of long-distance vision that afflicts most . men. A man will give patient ear-to an oil stock salesman of a get-rich-quick concern because the average imagination submits readily to sugges- tions of fabulous wealth. Most men love to dream. But the insurance agent peddles no dreams. He makes law-proof guarantees. He is able to tell you that at the end of a certain period your policy will be worth so much, True, he does not promise that you will roll in automobiles, but he does 7” | pledge that your family will be provided for when their bread-winner has departed. And yet,.such is the perverse nature of the mind of man, that the sure thing of the insurance agent frequently is turned down for the specula- tion that is woven @f the stuff that dreams are made of. FAITH “And now abideth these three—faith, hope and charity.” They abide while other gifts may “pass away,” because they are not outer things added to a man, like knowledge or the power to work some wonder, but are parts of the very man himself. To have faith is not “to believe what you know isn’t true” simply because you have been told so. It is not to force one’s mind to assent to anything. ‘It is to keep faith—to be faithful to one’es task and to the light as one sees it, and perhaps to stake one’s life on something that may sometimes| pomeeesumm seem—not too absurb, but too good to be true—to keep one’s nerve and fight one’s way on, in spite of defeats, to the end—to be “faithful unto death’ in the hope that somehow or other it will count. Whatever else a man may win or lose by such faith-keeping, he wins one thing that is surely his —a character. For that abides. And if there isa better world, he will go to it fit to be there. PByy faith ye are saved.” A dare-devil is a man who wears green in Lon- don. Political literature! « Postal ‘clerks have the world’s’ sympathy. , “Dollars to doughnuts” is a one-sided bet—the odds against the dollars. If these one-piece bathing suits cost more than a nickel, there is profiteering. *It’s funny that no one referred to the seven Hohenzollerns as the seven plagues. ‘EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may pot expre tne gzion of he er fs a Sacer Pala cconeintctacnan Aisa eee en REPAIRS FOR, BATTERED MACHINE Although the Nonpartisan league machine was badly crippled in the North Dakota campaign, it is to be put through the repair shops, broken parts supplied, a new carburator installed and the cyliit- ders, re-bored. After this is all done, the rebuilt machine is to be shipped to Nebraska where it is to be tried out. Its performances will‘be-closely watched from now until early in November, when disfigured and battered, it is expected that it will be sent to the scrap pilé—New Nebraskan. , SENATOR HARDING’S PAPER ON COX The action of the San’ Francisco convention in selecting Governor James M. Cox to head the} democratic ticket will receive, we believe, the ap- proval of the rank and file of the supporters of the administration. The dominant influence early manifested in the cénvention was such that the general thought was that the honor would go to Mr. McAdoo, Attorney General Palmer or some other pefsonage promi- nent in the'party. who was closely in touch with the administration. “This thought -was intensified when the almost absolute control of the White House was made plain in the:framing of the plat- form. Naturally the view was that the conven- tion, having followed in detail the platform plans and specifications as sponsored, Would*name one high in administration favor to{make the.race. The tribute which the convention has paid tothe nominee is thus all the greater. While the general trend of, the political views of.Governor Cox is away from those held and ad- vocated by this paper, we none the less frankly recognize his ability as demonstrated in business and political life alike. The presidential candidates of the two domi- nant parties thus being determined, it is pleasing to believe that the campaign will be conducted up- on the elevated lines which the high office be- speaks, if it is within the power of the nominees ‘to control it—Marion, Ohio, Star. RR I si ee ” ty GOODNESS PAY YouRe: ow. DONT 25 KNOW IVE: GOT * DATE al al? P Washington. July” 19, — Millions, of! ees. are now being sent by parcel post. In fact, ose rank first among farm products ‘in“ibeing marketed throngh the postoffice. To make pin-monéy” now, alla farm woman needs is a buncif of good lay- ing hens, honest and regular customers and necessary containers for eggs. In other words, to complete this cycle an honest farm woman much get in touch with the honest’ city folk, then she sends the eggs regularly and the city customers send her checks regularly. The Department of Agriculture has issued the following instructions for sending eggs by parcel post. Eggs, for direct marketing, if the trade-requires it, or if it can Be done without anw disadvantage, should be assorted as to size and color.. Eggs irregular in,;shape, those which are unuslaly long or thin shelled, or which have shells otherwise defective, should be kept a the producer for home use. Average hens’ eggs will weight about one and one-half pounds to the dozen or two ounces apiece. The weight of a single dozen of eggs in a carton, pro- perly packed and wrapped’ for mailing, will run from two to three pounds, depending on the nature of the partic- ular container, the size of the eggs and the packing and wrapping used. A parcel containing two dozen eggs will add perhaps two cents to the post- age, though'sometimes only one cent, depending onthe nature of the con- tainer and the packing and wrapping. The larger the: parcel (within the size and weight limits, the cheaper, is the postage, as the ‘first pound of every package costs five cents within the first and second zones, while each. additional pound, up to 50, costs but one cent. HEALTH ADVICE * BY UNCLE LE SAM, M. D. | | Health Questions win’ Be An- | swered if Sent to Information | Bureau, U. S. Public Health Service, Washington, D. C. 2 Temperature, Pulse and Respiration The normal pulse rate is 72 to the minute, in a woman 80 a minute, in a child less than gne year old from 105 8! years old, 90, over ten years 80 per minute. + i Considerable variation from this standard may, however, be compatible with health. The pulse should be taken by laying the fingers gently on a superficial artery, preferably at the point where the, artery, just below the thum, passes over the wrist. The normal temperature taken with a Fahrenheit thermometer is 98.6 de- grees. A temperature from 99 degrees to.101 degrees is called a slight fever; from al 01 degrees to 103 degrees, a joderate “fever; 103, degrees to 105 egreos, a high fever} 105 degrees to 106 Wegrees, a\yery ‘high, extremely dangerous fever, In ‘taking the tem- perature the ‘Pollowing directions should be observed: Place bulb of mefcury in the pati- ent’s mouth under the, tongue for five minutes. If it registers over 101 de- grees, send for physician\and keep the patient in bed until he atrives. that the thermometer registers less than 97 degrees before using. ‘This may be brought, about by shiking it. Grasp the thermometer at the mid- dle between the index finger and the See! AKING THI THE JOY. OUT OF JOYRIDE 4 THIS ou, our NEVER, “HAPPENED downward and hit the lower edge of the right hand against the upper edge of the left hand; the column of merc- uty will be lowered by the shock. ‘The normal fespirations occur at: the rate of 18 to the minute. In dis- ease there are marked variations in the frequency and character of the respirations. They should be counted without the patiert’s knowledge, as they are inva measure under the control of the will. } This ‘is done by laying the arm across |' the chest in taking the pulse, and then without removing the fingers from the wrist, taking the respiration while! ap- pearing to take the pulse. [aust “JOKING iA Nut Picker Stage | Manager—All the curtain?, Stage Hand—Say, what do you "think I am, a squirrel?—Kroth. = | & Faithful Crusader Mother—You naughty ‘boy! been fighting! Little Son—No I haven't! “How did your clothes get torn and your face get scratched? “I was tryin’ to keep a bad boy from hurting a good little boy.” “That’s my own brave son! was. the good little boy?” “Me.”—Answers, London, “You've “who [ PEOPLE'S FORUM | | Kditor The Tribune. Dear ‘Sirs: That justice may be done, that the dead ‘may not be forgotten, the Navy League of the United States is striv- ing to collect the names and service records of the Americans who left their. country in the early days of the war to fight for the great cause in the armies and navies of the al, lies.- There is no official list of thes E PuT YouR HAT O thumb of the right hand; hold the bulb randy, run up |. ately PLL HELP HIM ° RA NICE $10. BILL, HEA LHERE } re tt Pal oe WeROUBLE F ® men. In the English army it was es- timated there were 100,000 Ameri- cans, in the Canadian 65,000, in the krench Foreign Legion 200, several hundred in the aviation service, pe sides hundreds of doctors and ambul- ance drivers. Shall we allow them to be lost and forggtten—their names omitted from the war histories and war memorials of their native states? Many of them endured the torture oi the trenches for four. years and nobly kept up the American. tradition. We wish to include also, the’ large) number of eager. men. who, rejected by the: United States or /on ‘medical grounds or because they were too ; young or too ‘old, were able’ owing to the ‘less ‘stringent regulations abroad to fight in the ranks of the allies. We ask the help of your: readers’ ix securing information. Very truly yours, . ‘L, S, M, ROBINSON, Segretary, of ‘Department’ No. 6, 1519 Walnut ‘St! Philadelphia, Pa, SCENES IN “APRIL FOLLY” TAKE PLACE ON VESSEL AT SEA Marion Davies is Fair Custodian Of ;.| Famous \Diamond In Her New Picture. Marion Davies and her! supporting |, , cast were completely at: sea while many scenes in ‘April Folly,” her new Cosmopolitan ‘Production, re- leased by Famous Players-Lasky Cor- poration and scheduled to be shown at the Eltinge theatre next week, ——.'| were boing made . This doesn’t mean that Cynthia Stockley’s thrilling story and Miss Davies baffled or in the slightest confused. Oh, my no! The statement is to be taken literally. Just as in the former Davies success, “The Dark Star” most of the action in “April Folly” takes place on ship- board. The heroine, played by Miss! Davies, is conveying a famous dia- Ynond to a relative in South Africa, and detectives and a pair of interna- tional diamond thieves do their best to make her voyage exciting. There is a brilliant ball qn ‘board and a |, NS Rert— NOURE Hace NAKED? Lea THEN HAVG THE GooD MANNERS To TURN YOUR HEAD THE OTHER WAY Ih | streams of the ideal method. Hehe little love story to furnish some hter, nts. Altogether it is a fate dvdnd éntertaining film that all types of screen lovers will probably enjoy. Conway Tearle is the leading man, and the picture was directed by. Robert %. Leonard. It is a Paramount Artcraft. » Laie HO PERSONS OF WEALTH HAVE MADE AND LOST IM- MENSE FORTUNES.—In Amer- ica, It is said, there are many men who have added a million or two dollars to their “pile” between breakfast and luncheon ; and more who have sat down to their breakfasts able to write a check for a million, and have gone to bed without a dollar, remarks a writer in London Answers, It is not long since Joseph Hoadley made £200,000 In five minutes by the clock on the New York cotton exchange; and he- ‘fore he sat down to his dinner he was’ £800,000 richer thar: when he ‘cracked his morning egg. The Iate Harriman once made £400,000 at the rate of £50,000 a minute; and on the same day one of his porters cleared £10,000, Theodore Price, a few years ago, made £100,000 In five minutes’ gambling in cot- ton, and doubled his winnings before he went home.’ J. J. Livermore, who but a few years ago was office boy to a Boston broker, Is credited with having added £100,000 to his capital in y less time than {it takes a man to eat his breakfast; while dur- ing a recent week Patten’s profits on-a speculation in’maize totaled £400,000. : And the losses are on an equally magnificent scale. Jo- seph Leiter in one unhappy hour dropped £320,000 through a 20 cent fall in the price of wheat; Jacob Astor and two of his friends lost £600,000 between breakfast and luncheon; and a slump’ in Union’ Pacific cost a few millionaires, including J. J. Astor and Mr. Goclet, the ap- palling sum of £1,800,000. 3 * + WILL MAKE MAPS FROM AIR How Canadian: Government Is Plan- ning to Locate Breeding Places of the Mosquito. At first glance one wouldn’t~ say that airplanes bore much relation to mosquitoes. But they can be made to, and haye been made to, up in the Fraser valley of British Columbia, where there are great areas of low- * Yyng. land, ° and = ill drained. Mosquitoes ‘have become a great pest in‘ this region, seriously reducing milk ‘production. ;,The Dominion gov- ernment, accordingty, stationed an ex: pert entomologist there: last spring to make-a survey on which effective con- trol measures could he based. . Here is where the: airplane en- tered. Erle, Hearle, the government entomologist, had ‘spent days in slow compilation of his mosquito map, a device to show the location of breed- ing places. He had tofled through marshes, and from mountain tops, with glasses, had taken observations. Then he thought of the airplane. Aerial observations proved to be “In ten ‘minutes aloft,” declared the government ento- mologist, “I made more progress with my map-_than I had in weeks on the ground.” Mr. Hearle took a big map up with him in the airplane, and as mosquito breeding places were located indl- cated their position on the map. British Columbia intends’ to use hydroplanes to perform another impor- tant function. Her‘ forests are the most extensive and valuable in Can- ada, and they cover an undeveloped esopires of thousands of square miles. It 1s proposed. to use ‘a hydroplane pa- trol system during periods of fire dan- ger. Hydroplanes* are preferred to land machines in order that inland ponds and lakes can be used for landing places. undeveloped How Woodpecker Protects Trees. Among the natural guardians of the trees are the woodpeckers, which gather their food as. they creep round the trunks and branches. They have two toes before and two behind for climbing, and may usually be seen clinging erect to tree trunks, but rarely, if ever, with head downward, Uke the nuthatches and titmice. As the food of the woodpecker is nearly as abundant in winter as in summer they are seldom migratory. They never forage in flocks, like some of the granivorous birds whose food is more plentiful, but scatter out over wide areasgand thus better their fare. They bear the same relation to other birds that take their food from trees, as snipes and woodcocks bear to thrushes and quails—that is, they bore into the wood as the snipe bores into the earth, while thrushes and quails seek their sustenance -on the surface of the ground. How Gas Injures Plante, The injury to plants caused by gas has been a subject of investigation by C. Wehmer, a German. Continuous. illuminating gas were passed through soil containing potted herbaceous plants as well as wooden plants three to seven years old. All plants in their period of active growth were soon killed. Trees in late sum- mer and early autumn suffered chiefly from shedding their foliage, and in their dormant winter period they were Uttle affected. Seeds were very sen- sitive to the gas, both in their rest- ing stage and after germination had begun. The injury is found to be a result of active poisoning, and not mere exélusion of oxygen. ay Ae £ 3 + { 4 , t ? o. ’ é‘ a * by