The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 31, 1920, Page 4

t i i PAGE FOUR (HE BISMARCK [TRIBUNE ee tered at” stoffiee, Bi N. D. En at the Postoffice, Blnmarek, » as Second GEORGE D. MANN . Editor Fe sentatives _@ LOGAN PAENE COMPANY GD DETROIT P. BURNS AND BMITH ad A . - Fifth Ave. Bldg. ‘The Associated Press is exclus! entitled to the use fee poblication of all news pesca d it or not otherwise herein. » . . in this paper and also the local news published All rights of publication ’of special dispatches herein are tlso reserved. . MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year........s+seee «397.20 Daly by mall pet year (in em etis Biamatsk) 5.00 mal year (in state outside jsmarc! 5 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota............ 6.00 JHE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1878) > ee NE INSURANCE AGENTS Many insurance agents are at work every day in Bismarck and the slope country. Since insurance agents are not generally ap- praised at their true worth to the community which they serve, we are going to devote a little space today to the men who follow this vocation. No class of salesmen work: harder to sell their goods than do the insurance men; few labor more persistently to land a customer, calling on him at night at his home, if they can’t talk with him in his office in the‘daytime. Their persistence alone would deserve credit, even if the articlé they have to sell were not a thing of most excellent merit. But the attitude of the average man toward the insurance agent is one of resistance, such as one puts up against a fellow who has come to borrow money. Seldom does.a man think of an insurance agent as one who has come to show him a method of saving money. Such an attitude is not unnatural. It is caused by 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 can soon own a flock of automobiles, but he does pledge that ‘your family will be provided for when the bread-winner has departed. “And yet, such is the perverse nature of the mind of man, that the sure thing of the insur- ance agent frequently ‘is turned down for the speculation that is woven of the stuff that dreams are made of. Let’s give credit to the insurance agent. Let’s give him a hearing every time he calls. Let’s honor his calling. { He’s here to help us—if we'll let nif help us. A FAR COUNTRY , “Ship me somewhere east of Suez, Where the best is like the worst; And there aren't no Ten Commandments, And a man can raise a thirst.” ’ There is something wild in the heart that re- sponds to Kipling’s lines, and for a moment the best of men may dream of'a far country where things are different, where desires need no re- _ straint and everything can be had for the taking. The Prodigal Son in the parable dreamed of a “far country,” too, and there he went-—only to spend his, substance and return ashamed and broken. é He had bad luck, perhaps, for the country must. exist—a land where things go better, a paradise without the snake, where the sweat of the brow is hot the price of bread, where men are strong and women lovely, and there is a fountain of youth for all—a country in which wishes are horses and beggars may ride. It is far away and it is warm and beautiful, and (in spite of Kip- ling’s soldier) it is generally in the West, where the sun sets in its glory ; perhaps in distant islands of the sea, Hesperides, where golden apples grow. Wherever this land may be, no man has found it on the earth, though many have traveled far to seek! it. But above the earth—that’s different. Long, long ago in Greece the Pagan Plato wrote of a ' “Heaven Above the Heavens,” where one could find the pure originals of all fair things and all fair acts; in the wreck of Rome Augustine dreamed of a better “City of God”; and today the children sing of “a land of pure délight where + « « Pleasures banish pain.” To every man his own far country. East of Suez there is license. The Heaven: above the Heavens is a place of lofty admirations, But, whichever vision a man prefers, he likes to dream of getting away somehow or somewhere from the hard facts of life. - He must not dream too long. It is time to get to work. : By winter Palmer will be giving benefits for the sugar speculators. Lieutenant Hamilton dropped 20,900 feet in an BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE It doesn’t seem far-fetched to call him the Ulti- mutt Consumer. } ve No ‘method hhas béen discovered to tell good cantaloupes from the outside. Even $15,000,000 wouldn’t stimulate a cam- paign much in these days of high prices. What does a woman who is determined to vote care for a writ issued by some mean old judge? The Poles have recaptured Prsasnysz and other towns which cannot be pronounced unless you have hay fever. East Orange police demand more pay. An Irish policeman in a place called: Orange ought to have more pay. % Lord Stradbroke is the new British governor of Victoria, Australia. He is not a member of the well known Stony-broke family. What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, says the Sinn Feiner when he remem- bers what hunger-strikes did for the suffs. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in thts column may or may not express the opinions of The Tribune, They are BS sented here in order \hat our readers may have both aides of important issues which are being discussed ia the press of the day. A FAMOUS SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE. It is difficult for the moderns to understand from what ridiculed beginnings the Department of Agriculture grew into its present uncontested multifarious usefulness and high reputation. At first there was a humbJe Commissioner of Agricul ture. Then as a sop to the farmers and for poli- tical purposes, the department was established. It was not expected to dp much. Jerry Rusk, a rude, vigorous figure from Wisconsin, was the first Secretary. His successor, J. Sterling Morton of Nebraska, ‘an able, cultivated, accomplished and witty man, thought that his department was a humbug and a joke. It is fact or legend that his first annual report, suppressed, recommended the abolition of the. department. ; Then the Ayrshire Scotchman from Iowa, James Wilson, was appointed by Mr. McKinley. Per- sons who chant the praise of the “dirt farmer” should be reminded that in 1897 Mr. Wilson was Director of State Agriculture Experiment Sta- tions and Professor of Agriculture in Iowa Agri- cultural College. He at once set to work to raise his department from an otiose institution to a mighty force for the development of American agriculture. He sent his missionaries scouring over the country and over the earth. What region was ignorant of his labor? From Brazil the suave oranges of Bahia were brought to be naturalized in California. In Mr. Morton’s Nebraska, pine trees, hunted down in Greenland, were planted and thrived in sand hills where nothing had ever been induced to grow. South Carolina cultivated Cuban tobacco; Sumatra wrapper tobacco emigrated to Texas; dates, from the Sahara‘ flourished in the hopeless Colorado “desert”; Mr. Wilson’s emis- saries gave to the Banana Belt duram wheat, the annual crop of which is now worth. $50,000,000; Swedish oats found that the Alaska climate agreed with them; Egyptian cotton settled in Arizona; Asia and way stations were explored to find an alfalfa that would grow anywhere in the United States; the rice industry of the South profited to the tune of many millions. by the research of the Wilson wealth-finders in, Japan. ; Mohair, milch goats, the revival of the Morgan horse, the development of the American coach horse—there i8 no end td the experiments and achievements of “Tama Jim.” It would be hard to say how many millions of wealth have come from his pondered policy of introducing foreign plants, or combining them with native. He attended to the boll weevil, which was ruining the cotton crop of the South, then substantially a one-crop region. With his demonstrations he taught the South and the rest of the country scientific, productive farm- ing, the science of making ‘the farm yield to its utmost capacity. He organized farmer boys and girls. By a simple process he freed more than 160,000, square miles of pasture from the fever tick, that vampire of hogs and cattle: His experts found a serum-for hog cholera. He stirred the country to make an energetic fight against tuberculosis in cattle. He did fruitful work in forest conservation, reforestation, irriga- tion. His Bureau of Plant Industry developed with valuable results the German idea of increasing the productivity of the soil by inoculating it with nitrogenous bacteria. We don’t know anybody who added so much to the national wealth as Mr. Wilson did in his sixteen years in‘ the Department of Agriculture. He made it the greatest and the most practical and useful of agricultural univer- sities, a national farming university. Mr. Hous- ton carried on and bettered, as Mr. Meredith is carrying on and bettering the work; but the first honor is James Wilson’s, great developer of our agricultural empire. : He was a marrowy and salient character. He had a genius for getting appropriations from Con- gress. He increased the power, the energy and the happiness of the country.. Many. men of noisier names hayen’t been of a millioneth part as much use to the United States. He deserves airplane. Old General Foodprice could drop that: grateful and long remembrance——New York far and still be cloud-high. Times. TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1920 ee | [ee ZZ => area Tee —— s WHEN, OH WHEN? Seven thousand seven hundred eight- one; That ig my serial number, * Given by this grand old state of ours, North Dakota—roused from slum- ber. When fini la guerre, thanks to all, not sorhe; And thanks to the doug) \ heel, ‘ The, state presented a merci beau- -boy sore- coup: . In form—the Soldier Bonus Bill. Four. hundred and fifty bucks it calls lor To help. me get started in life; - To buy me a home, farm or furnish- ings, Washington, Aug. 31.—Often it has 4 To help me support the new wife. been said that salaries Uncle Sam pays tempt only “the little fellows\” those who'can’t get larger pay else- where. They say the “big fish” get caught on fatter hooks. It’s true, too. Louis ‘Brownlow, one of the com- missioner of the District of Colum- bia, quit. Uncle Sam was paying him $5,000 a year. He was a municipal expert. f Along comes Petersburg,’ Va. 4 little city of 30,000 souls, and offe Brownlow, $10,000 to serve: as. city manager. t To get good government, effictent administration, a city must pay for it. are) Kind of them now, don’t you think ‘ey is so: -A great help to me it has. been (?) Kighteen long months since my dis- charge i got Yet none of the.dough have I seen Now I didn’t ask for a bonus bill. I took my sixty bucks ‘and lit Onto a job, just’ plain glad to get out. And felt glad I had done my bit. My bank account was A. W. O. L. The delouser had ruined my cléthes My heels all run down, shoes curled . up in front Those who drank tiquor in the oli] nd a good clear view of my toes wet days are not eating more candy now than they used to. Walter C. Hughes, secretary of the National Confectioners’ association, so writes to the State Department. “More candy is being consumed,” he asserts, “because the people have more money to spend. The theory that men addicted to the use of al- cohol have become candy eaters since the advent of prohibition is based entirely Upon wrong premises, and is not logical.” \ * The grocer he yelled for his weekly due, s The butcher he hollered like H—— Came the war-cry of creditors angry, Like clarion, clear as a bell. In about ten years i'll be in, shape To lend some money to others. I won't need a bonus or anything; It’s the starting off that. bothers. Seven thevsand seven hundred eight- ® ©! That is uly serial number. Will the powers that be pay unto me The JACK—and not trifle longer? Persons living beneath red-haired roofs have been accused of possess- ing 100 per cent tempers. They ‘ can’t be stepped on with impunity,} oJ UL Kent McKent. reads the proverb. But it. remained for Charles B. Red-| EVERETT TRUE head, former manager of a hat store = here, to sue another fellow for $25,- SQL AM TRYING 000 damages. He alleges the defend- IVAW IN ant encouraged his boss to fire him. panei Soro crumommece | HEALTH ADVICE: BY UNCLE SAM, M. D. | > So much emphasis is laid upon diph- theria as a throat infection that the presence of the disease in other, parts of the body is apt to’ be neglected. Nasal diphtheria is of frequent oc- currence among children and ranks high as a menace to public health. Nasal diphtheria may be. a direct infection and not an extension from an ‘attack of throat diphtheria. Frequently nasal diphtheria is a mild infection. The only evidence, >f it may be a chronic catarrh or “run- ning of the nose.” Only when this 1s persistent and _resistent to simple remedies is medical attention sought. Nasal diphtheria may be of a ‘most active or malignant type. In such cases the disease usually spreads to the middle ear and there are pro- nounced symptoms of toxic or poi- soning action. : According to Welch and Scham- berg paralysis very frequently | fol- lows diphtheria of the nasal type for the reason ‘that the lining mem- brane of the nose readily ab- sorbs the poison of the disease which is quickly carried to susceptible tisy sues, bringing about harmful effect‘ upon heart and nerve tisues. The Mollycoddle, with Douglas Fairbanks—The best one Doug ever made, and that is saying a lot—D. B. Fallet, Star theatre, Gihsonburgh, 0.—Neighborhood patronage. WY DEAR: S} \G You wERe OF THE CAUISE Sell your cream and. poultry to our agent, or ship direct to Northern Produce, 'Co., Bis-| marck. Write us for prices on cream and poultry.—Northern Produce Co. ae THESE THIS, MY ONLY UMBRELLA, POR HE GOOD Crees TIME BUT WITH TECUNG EREECTH iS IOS RRA TSR MONDAY ‘| With the Movies oe “DOUG” STAGES GREATE! Battle of Knuckles in Latest Photo- play Without Equal. Areal’ fight in which the. only weapons used are bare knuckles, adds to the many thrills included in “The Mollycoddle,” the third United Artists corporation production offer- ed». by Douglas Fairbanks, which Will be shown at the Eltinge the- atre tomorrow. t During his long career as a screen astar Douglas Fairbanks has had many “battles” of a mote or less spectac- ular nature. In some’ cases he has had just the “villain” to handle and in others he has even gone so far as to “beat-up” an. entire gang. Without exception all previous fights indulged in by the. athletic. star have been re- hearsed, but not so with the fight in “The Mollycoddle.” ‘ “It .was the toughest fight I have ever had,” smiled the star after the scene «was filmed. “I’ll say so, too,” volunteered Wallace Beery, who was Doug’s opponent and jikewise the player’ who ‘shoulders the thankless burden: of “villain” in the picture. JUST JOKING Properly Classed “Say, Bill, you did’t know that J was an electrician?” boasted Jack. “I missed my calling.” “How’s that?” “Why,\ last night, over at Jane’s the electric light ‘fuse burned out Guess who fixed it? Me —I—myself.” “Huh!"—a final ‘shot from Bill “You're no electrician—you’re idiot.—Pittsburgh Chronicle Tele- graphé The Perfect Recompense Elderly Miss—Sir, you have savec my life. How can I ever show my | gratitude? Are you married? Rescuer—Yes; you might come and be'a cook for us——Boston Transcript. When Tempus Fugits ‘ “Hang it all, daughter,” exploded \; By Condo TO INTEREST THIS THE POOR DEARS IN THEY ARG GIVEN ENOUGH POOR UNFOR: MADE HAPPIER | FIST FIGHT A MAN 1t'D OFTER wiTd LOSS OF VERY- old Jenkins. ; ‘You can’t marry young Dobbins... won't have it. Why, he only makes $18 a week.'” “T know, father,” replied the sweet_ young thing, “but a week passes 80°» quickly when you're fond of each other.’—American Legion Weekly. ai emit eas LAND OF LONG COURTSHIPS In Country Districts of Holland the ; Young Couple Think Nothing of { Waiting Three Years, pos a There Is a story told In Holland that one evening in the catechumen’s class an amorous youth was called upon * to answer the first question in the Heldelberg catechism: “What is thine only comfort in life and death?” To waich the young man replicd: “To marry Geertie de Koning and to have a farm of my own.” A curious feature in the evolution of a Dutch courtship is that it begins at church. Eyes meet eyes there. A visit is then paid by, the young man to the home of the esteemed beauty. “Papa” is ap- proached as to whether the visitor may speak, privately, to the daughter, and, if no. objection is offered, both par- ents are called in to ascertain the {s- sue of the conference. If both parties . are agreed to open courtship, It begins that night in coffee-drinking and so- cial enjoyment and then the court- ship lasts for at least three years, dur- ing which period of time the Dutch maiden will. attend. to the dairy work of the farm, baking, mending, and) cooking. The -young man will have’ amassed enough guilders to invest in} a farm, and then the clergyman ts, called in, and the neighbors revel for| many days, celebrating the event tn, rue, generous, hospitable fashion,| Needless to say, this order of nuptial-| tying does not apply to cities. MARKED PROGRESS OF RACE) Much Significance in What Might Be} Called the Division of Chinese Shoe Periods. fi Chinese shoes may generally be ‘Aivided into two periods—the bound- feet period andthe natural-feet period according Xo an ‘article by Miss Yen ‘ Wei Tsing. “During the former period the women were secluded,and their chief business .was embroidery, even their shoes being elaborately embroid- ered. Each shoe consisted of two pieces, \at the border of which a nar- row strip of silk was sewed so as to make a smooth edge. The two pieces were sewed together at the pointed 4 end with several fine cross stitches, A wooden block. about one-third inch thick served as the heel of the shoe, the wooden block being wrapped in several layers of cloth. Later the small shoes with the tiny soles became fashionable. This kind of shoe also consisted of two pieces, with a silk cord at the juncture, to prevent the seam from being seen. When the Manchus became the ruling class of China, women were ‘released from seclusion in the more progressive homes and their chief interest was no longer embroidery. They had no time to pay much attention to their shoes, and they stopped binding their feet and entered into the natural-feet pe- riod with the Manchus. ce Rae ce eet tetetateds Long Island Society Girl Becomes Motorcycle ‘Cop’ Southampton, L. I.—Announce- ment was made that Miss Zella de Milhau, society favorite and veteran of the world war, has been sworn in as a motorcycle policewoman in Saffolk county. In France Miss de Milhan won the Croix de-Guerre, with star, and received citations from the town of Verberie and from three front line hospitals. At the opening of the war she equipped the ambulance donated by Southampton’s citizens, and then drove it -herself in France. Prscqecccorovesoocoooecenere loos Monster: Hailstones. Norwalk, O.—Reports from various parts of the country indicate that the largest hailstones on record fell in this district during a storm on Thursday. Near Weaver's Corners two hailstones, each said to be as large as a croquet ball, penetrated, the’ roof of a farm house: Finds Freak Corncob. Muscotah, Kan.—A “freak” corncob, one half of which nature had painted a deep red and left the other half white, was found here by Alex Wills while selecting.and shelling seed corn, The ear was,of Repd's yellow dent va- riety, was mature and well developed, The two colors blended perfectly. Where the Dead Exceed the Living. Wilmington,! “O0.—Wilmington’s city of the dead has a greater population than Wilmington’s city of the living, according, to census .figurés.. There are 5.071 sleeping the long sleep in Sugar Grove cemetery while Uncle Sam's qnumerators counted ouly 5.037 persons living*in the town. AVIATOR SEASICK IN THE AIR Italian Flyer Encounters Rough Air Conditions on Trip to Tokyo. Tokyo.—Lieutenant Ferrarin, one ‘ot the two Italian airmen who flew from Rome to, Tokyo, encountered such rough air. ¢onditions while. crossing Korea thet he became seasick. “In my entire flying experience,” he said, “I had never before encountered such conditions. The machine pitched like a small boat in a heavy swell, and for the first-time in‘my life I knew What it was to be seasick. “The most exciting part of my trip occurred in Asia Minor,” he added, “about 100 miles from Aleppo, where I was subjected to heavy mechine gun fire by the:Arab rebels.”