The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 10, 1920, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK [TRIBUNE Entered at the Bestot ice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second s Matter, GEORGE D. MANN - . : . Editor fi Representatives’ co” LOGAN, PA COMPANY rr Marquette Bldg. d Kresgé Bldg. i SYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK . : - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. "The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the ‘use for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise ited in this paper and also the local news published 4 halal ‘All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are leo reserved. _——<—<—<—<— MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year........ Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). eee Us Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota...........+ 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) <i “MARSE” JIM ASKS RETRACTION AND GETS IT James Waters, former manager of the Bank of North Dakota, declares that he does not want anything for the political dynamite which he says he carries in -his hippocket. He also takes objection, to the following para- graph in the editorial column of the Tribune of August 7 which read: “Marse” Jim Waters claims to have enough political dynamite to blow the Townley machine to atoms—but he sets a price upon it.” No one said what the price was, whether it was money, political -preferment or recogni- tion, but “Jim”, sensitive like, takes his pen in hand and writes the editor of the Tribune as follows: . Forest Lake, Minn., August 8, 1920. Dear Sir: \ I notice an editorial in your paper of August 7th saying I “claim to have enough political dyna- mite to blow the Townley machine to atoms— but he sets a price on it.” I shall expect a retraction of this, as I am not a blackmailer, and when did I ever set a price on my knowledge? I admit I have plenty of dynamite, but am not out offering it for sale and you know it. When I get ready to go after the Townley crowd, I will use it, but I defy you to show where I have ever set a price on it. I shall expect a reply and retraction by return mail.” Yours truly, J. R. Waters. As Mr. Waters insists that he desires nothing more than the downfall of the Townley machine, The Tribune is pleased to set his position before the voters of the state. “Marse” Jim, genial ex- manager of the Bank of North Dakota, is the last person jn the world whom we would know- ingly injure. In the meantime, “Marse” Jim should chain up some of his fool friends who seem to be doing quite a lot of unauthorized talking. We trust, “Jim”, that the fish are biting at Forest Lake and by the time this reaches you any bile you may have against the editor will be fully dissipated. ; ‘ Mr. Waters has misconstrued the meaning of this little editorial squib. Sometimes like the innocent, to alter slightly an old saying, he flees when no one pursueth. Far be it from The Tribune even to insinuate that Marse “Jim” would hold up anyone after the fashion of a blackmailer or a “Bill Hart” bandit. *, : It was not meant that way at all, “Jim”. A price on the information you possess about Lemke, Townley, Cathro and the other former pals may be strictly legitimate. This is a mer- cenary age, “Jim”, as you well know. If you have the “goods” on the Townley-Lemke bunch, and can blow the machine to atoms, you should be rewarded handsomely and The Tribune warns you not to be too cheap. This state has spent considerable money and effort trying to lift the Townley yoke.: Now, if you can give it the final twist, the end of the rainbow is yours, ‘“Marse” Jim. : Our humble apologies, “Marse” Jim. UNCLE SAM:'HOLDS BAG The question of who is:left holding the bag in the disaster that has befallen Poland inter- ests the people of the United States quite as much as it does those of France and England. The fact is that, quite unknown tothe av- erage citizen, our Uncle Samuel has been gam- “bling on Polish success, and Polish failure raises the question of where the money is to come from. While ostensibly at peace with Russia, our government has nevertheless been busy supply- ing the Poles with military supplies. The Polish Government now owes the United States a total of $71,920,111, covering sales made from supplies shipped to France for the use of the American Expeditionary Force, and sold by Secretary of War Baker to Poland, not for cash, but on credit. For these supplies the Polish Government gave the United States Treasury Department its promissory notes bearing interest at 5 per cent and running three, four and five years, each note being for one-third of the total amount purchased. To these sums must be added others, totals of which are unknown, for purchases made by the Poles through the Grain Corporation and the , ——— Navy Department. The Navy Department has refused to say how much war material it sold the Poles. latter transactions ‘will bring the total sum due the United States from Poland up to $100,000,000., Officials responsible fer these sales, including the State Department, which approved at least the latter transactions, are busy scratching their heads over the explanations they may be called upon to make to Congress in case the Polish gov- ernment defaults. : All of which goes to show that it might be a.good idea if the people of the United States were kept advised of what is being done with their property. Be eg Detroit proves her metropolitan class by hav- ing a trunk mystery. Add horrors of peace—they’re putting Hard- ing’s speeches on phonograph records. Thin folks trying to get fat; fat folks trying to get thin—that’s the world in a nutshell. The sea serpent story is back in a new dress. | This time a beach guard killed a shark with an }, oar. The cost of feeding an inmate of the Elgin in- sane hospital is 9 centsa meal. The booby hatch may be the best solution of the H. C. L. problem after all. ‘ Senator Wilkinson’s bill to cover shoulders and knees while bathing, is a serious reflection on the pulchritude of Georgia peaches—or else an insid- ious advertisement! EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column not express the opinions of The Tribune, sented Tere 1 aldes of im the press of They are pre- e in order jt our readers m: eae t Teates which are boing d case eo day, FOOLING THE DEVIL A recent issue of the North China News tells of the funeral of a prominent Chinese woman that was attended by more than 25,000 persons. The deceased was evidently a personage of great prominence, judging from the descriptions of the obsequies, for there were 36 bands in the proces- sion to the tomb—and two coffins, each carried by forty coolies. i Havitig two coffins at a funeral is an old Chi- nese custom, and is intended to fool the devil. The coffin containing the botly is carried in the rear of the first coffin, on the theory that the devil will look into the first one and finding noth- ing in it: will be deceived and pay no further at- tention to the deceased. . Trying to fool the devil has been the custom for thousands of years with other people than the Chinese. All of us try to do so at times; the best among us, and the wisest, seem to think that it is possible to do so. Many ‘a church or library or monument has been’built for that pur- pose. That is, many a man’-has contributed money to such purposes in the belief that he was fooling the devil.. So it will not do to laugh at the Chinese for their superstition; not until | we learn ourselves that the devil can’t be fooled and give up trying to do so.—Columbus Dispatch. | BIGGER CITIES AND MORE There are 66 cities in the United States which have a population greater than 100,000, and of these Uncle Sam has finished checking up the population of 63. 4 In these: 68 ‘there:.lived ‘on the census date 27,141,937, and in those 63 there lived 10 years ago 21,387,628, so that. in the meantime prac- tically 6,000,000 people have come into such cities from the less densely populated districts. e It means that 10 years ago less than a fifth of the population lived in cities of 100,000 or more, of which there were then but 50, while now practically a fourth of the population of the continental United States lives in‘ cities of that size. ; The figures for individual cities are equally startling. a New York in 10 years has added to itself the present population of a Cleveland or St. Louis. Chicago’s gain in 10 years would fill a Buffalo or a San Francisco, and yet. Brooklyn, a single borough of Greater New York, has more people today than Chicago. A Philadelphia’s or Los Angeles’ gain ina decade would either of them make a St. Paul and more. Detroit in 10 years has added to itself ‘another Detroit of 1910 and Los Angeles has nearly dou- bled in the same time. Akron in 1910 had less than 70,000 people; it has tripled since. The very names suggest the explanation. The trend cityward has unquestionably been princi- ‘pally in the line of industrial development. The cities that have shown the most tremendous in- creases are not the seaports or the railroad cen- ters, but the seaports or the railroad centers that have materialized their commercial position in some industrial way. The automobile and its tire and, during the war, the shipyard have made the greatest changes, in the population map of the, United States. So tremendous has been this swing toward industrial centers that it is believed that this year for the first time in the history of the re- public its center of population will have shown a step east.—Mirineapolis Daily News. - 4 The best estimates are that these | 3 TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1920 D, C. SHEPARD, WEST RAILROADER, DIES IN ST. PAUL Many North Dakotans will recall; incidents of the life of D. C. Shepard, | his first employment. known for half a century as the! world’s greatest builder of railroads, | intimate friend and business asso-| oaq work when, he left’ his position ciate of the late James J. Hill, who| with the canal engneers to undertake sis‘dead at his home in St. Paul. Mr. Shepard’s | death,’ resulting from the infirmities| since become a part of. the He was 93 years old. of old age, had been expected. The veteran railroad builder enter-| was destined to one: interruption in ed the northwest while it was a track-| favor of canal construction, less prairie and he lived to sée the) the late summer of 1851 he became an continent spanned by steel highways. | engineer on the Erie canal, locating | He himself built or assisted in the! the line for a proposed enlargement building of 7,000 miles of railroads in| of that famous waterway. 19. states and the United States. ! ¥ Ore of his building feats was the} | construction in 1887 of 1,175 miles of ‘railroad, including 643 miles of Great Northern trackage from Minot, N. D. to Helena, Mont. During the period of wonderful de- velopment in the northwest, some records were established in railroad construction which have not been ex- ceeded to this day. In 15 months com- mencing May 1, 1882, Mr. Shepard di- rected the building of 675 miles of railroad for the Canadian Pacific from Oak Lake to Calgary, in, what tories. More than six miles of track .was once laid in a single day. On the ‘Minot-Helena stretch of road an average of 3 1-2 miles of tracklaying was maintaned for each working day. » From Milk River to Great Falls the. grading went forward at the rate of seven miles a day. Nearly. 9,000 men» and 3,500 teams were employed in this great undertak- ing, all under the personal supervision of Mr. Shepard. On one day, August 8, 1887, eight miles and 60 feet of steel was laid by the regular force of men employed for that work. Magazine Comments. A’writer in Harper’s Magazine in Margh, 1888, declared: “Those who saw this great army. of then and teams stretchng over the prairie and casting up this continental highway } think they behold one of the fon | striking achievements. of civilization.” Comes From East. Entering Minnesota before the schreech of the ‘first. locomotive hai |’ Startled the inhabitarits of the prime- yal wildernss, he was responsible for| the building of nearly 1,500 miles of | railroad in Minnesota and lived to see the wilderness transformed into a thriving, populous land, girdled by neatly 10,000 miles of steel ralls 92 Years of Activity. It was a useful, active life that Mr. Shepard lived throughout the greater portion of his ninety-two years, and it was filled to overflowing with the strife and romance of that wonderful nineteenth century development, such an era as the world had never seen. Born on a farm one miie east of the village of Geneseo, in Livifigstone county, New York, Mr. Shepard xe- ceived his education in the district schools. at the Tempie Hill Academy in his’ home town, and at Brockport Collegiate Institute, Brockport, N. Y.| He chose engineering as. a career and in’ 1847, at the age of 19, was ap- |. pointed to the engineering corps di- recting the construction of the Gen- eseo Valley canal,.one of the vast net- work of waterways which made pos- sible the settlement and development of the Middle. West before the coming of the railroad. Thus Mr. Shepard’s lifelong connection with the means of Nalansli may Ne ° TABLETS= Ni a 1852 to enter permanently upon rail- at ! to Ohio in 1853 to bid for railroad con- were then known as Northwest terri- | struction work under way there. Un- Better than Pills Liver ills. GET A |25c Borg kor PIONEER -NORTH- transportation was foreshadowed in Began‘ Rail Work in 1851. In 1851 Mr. Shepard began his rail- surveying work for: the Rochester & Genesee Valley railroad, which has great Erie system. But his railroad career and in Finding, even at that early date, that politics rather than merit con- trolled’ advancement of state em- ployes, Mr. Shepard resigned his: po- sition under the state engineer in road construction work as engineer in charge of construction of a sec- tion of railroad which has since been incorporated the ‘New York Cen- tral lines. This was: his first actual railroad construction experience. Comes to Wisconsin. From New York Mr. Snepard went successful in ‘securing the contracts, he took up civil engineering for Ohio railroads, and a year later became chief engineér for the Atlantic & Great Western railroad, later to be- come -a part of the Erie system. Because both he-afid his wife con- tracted malaria While ‘on-duty, in the Muskingum valley in Ohio, Mr. Shep- ard resigned his position in 1856 to go to Wisconsin as engineer for the Mil- EVERETT TRUE |. (THERE, YOU QCD PRUDE DOES THAT Soe WoO & AcTED on! NESTERDAY waukee & Beloit railroad. This road was intended as a short line for the Racine & Mississippi, now the Chi- cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, but was never completed. In 1857, the year before Minnesota attained statehood, .Mr. Shepard came to St. Paul as engineer for the contemplated Minnesota & Pacific railroad. He was a resident of.St. Paul from.that time until his death. The lines’ of the proposed land grant railroads having ‘been located from ~ Stillwater, via St. Paul and Minneapolis to Breckenridge, in 1857, and the young state, organized in 1858, loaning its credit to the enter- prise, the actual construction’ of the first railroad in Minnesota was be- gun, when in May, 1858, Mr. Shepard, in the presence of a large number of people, turned the first spadeful of earth. The ground was broken on the proposed line of the railroad near the present Calvary cemetery. Work went forward and sixty-two miles of the road were graded and bridged. Then came the collapse of Minnesota’s financial credit and rail- road construction in Minnesota ceas- edjuntil 1862. . \ See It was during this trying” period that Mr. Shepard showed the firm and abiding faith in the future of Minne- sota which characterized his every action after coming here. “I was sure there was a future for Minne- sota and awaited my opportunity,” he once said. ’ That opportunuity came in 1863 when he was appointed chief engineer of the Minnesota Central railroad ex- tending from the state line of Iowa to the Twin Cities. New lines were added to the system and Mr. Shep- ard was ‘chief engineer of construc- tion and general superintendent of all nea in operation. In 1871: Mr. Shepard’ resigned his offices with the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road to become the. ac- tive manager of the Northwestern By Condo NOW, MRS. TRG, THAT'S WHAT XZ CALL A RGACLY NOUR SUGGESTION ANDIh : SEWED A SKIRT ON [MY ON®@'=- PLrece BATHING COSTUMG, HAV] ALSO ADDED “LPLE OF FLOUNCGSS u a a Construction company which had the contract for, construction of the Northern Pacific railroad trom North- ern Pacific junction to Fargo, N. D. From this time on, for the next 24 years, Mr. Shepard’s life is virtually the story of railroad construction in the Northwest. @— The —> ‘Scrap Book | KITCHEN LIKE LARGE TRUNK Recent Invention Said to Include Ev. erything Needed Within a Re- markably Small’ Space. The kitchenola, is a complete and {perfect kitchen occupying a space about 4x4 feet. It was recently pat- ented and it includes cook stove, ta- ble, sink and ample shelf capacity for taking care of all the necessary uten- sils and some of the most needed vi- ands and other commodities which are called for in the course of a day's cooking. A great deal of ingenuity has been exercised In the arrangement of all the various features of the kitchenola so that there is not'a square inch of lost space, and When the article is not in active and immediate service it folds up into a piece of furniture which might be mistaken for a chiffonier or something of that sort. -One of the front panels drops on a hinge and re- veals an oil stove and at the same Complete Kitchen in Small Space. time forms ‘a very serviceable table immediately in front of the stove. Ort to one sidé there is a ld, and when this is raised a sink is found under it As the lid turns aside It is engaged with’ a catch ‘and’ held ina horizontal position, where it. performs the func- tions of a drain board. In addition to this‘there are a-number of shelves, compartments and drawers for special and general purposes——St. Louls Globe-Democrat, BRINGS: JOY TO SMALL BOY French Youngster Has ‘Peculiar Rea- son for Welcoming a Visit: From the Mail Carrier. The little French boy can experience a joy that js unknown in this coun- try. His father or mother, or kind aunt, may have a generous impulse. and ssend him -asposteard: which will ¢carry-more fun‘with It than any com- ie card. such as they ordirfarily love. On the opposite side to the address) is a large space devoted to close print- ing, which is signed by the generous) relative, and commands the mail car- rier to hand over to that lucky boy. at his own door, some nice little sum, perhaps five or ten frances, The space devoted to correspondence fs about an inch strip down the\side, the right proportion for a small boy. , Think of the joy of answering a mail carrier’s knock and finding your- self presented with an eXtra bit of pocket money quite unexpectedly! It adds a new thrill to Ife. - a Efficiency. “*Pears like Polk Swaney, that runs the store at the crossroads, hain't overrid with enterprise,” commented a citizen of Fiddle Creek. “Tuther day, frinstance, I went there in the middle of the afternoon, to buy a little something, talk politics, and so forth. When I sa’ntered in nobody was in sight. on the place. But after I'd tromped around for-a spell a sleepy voice from under the counter sorter snarled: “If you’re a drummer that aims to sell me something, I don’t want it; and if you’re a customer that is figgerin on buying something, why in fury can’t you just as well come around some time when I ain’t .plumb—yaw-w-w-wn! —worg out?”’—Kansas City Star. FOLLOWED DIRECTIONS. Eva S—, twenty-four years old, a maid employed in Jersey City, was locked up last night in ‘the West Thirtieth Street police station, charged with * She is allegea to have stolen $160 worth of articles from a Sixth avenue department store. The explanation she gave was that she saw a sign in the store which read: “Customers, please take small. packages home.”— New York Times. grand larceny. ‘Multiplying Talk. “What's this duplex system of tele- graphing?” “You can send four messages at once.” “Gosh! Wouldn't my wife like to have a device of that kind attached to her larynx?’—Loulsville Courier- Journal. Welcome to All We Have. Flies are the chief food of the pitch. er plant, which catches the insects by mnapping shut its petals, PEON rs] ices —— See ee,