The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 1, 1920, Page 4

git ayy! IGE OUR“ “FTE BISMARCK TRIBUNE a a Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N..D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - + + ~*~ ‘Editor Fo: sentatives ‘ emcaco™ 1048 P COMPANY |r Marquette BIG ye, BURNS AND sara ee Be NEWYORK + + - - Fifth Ave, Bldg. ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use nr of all credited to it or not otherwise Sat paper aed also the local news hed ber Tights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. en EMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION BUBSORIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year........ #720 Daily b: il, per year (in Bismarck). 4 Daily By mail, peed Jear (in state outside Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota... 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) <GR —— KILLING THEM The clock ticks 30 minutes and a man is killed through auto accident. It ticks for another 30 minutes—and another person is killed. And so it goes hour in and hour out of the 24 day in and day out of the seven, month in and month out of the 12—every 30 minutes someone is killed in this country through automobile acci- dents. The grand total is 15,000 deaths a year. Thege were facts brought out at a recent meet- ing of the National Safety Council in Atlantic Cay. It is a bad record: It is an astonishing record. And something ought to be done about it, no doubt. With almost ten million autos in use and the number growing, the chances are not that acci- dents will be fewer. It behooves both the pedestrian and the driver of a motor car to take care, to be doubly “Watch your step” is sound logic for walkers. “Be always on guard, and your car under perfect con- trol,” good advice for chauffeurs. Each might figure that the other is a consummate fool—just as a safety factor. Maybe the campaign fund inquiry will add a bit of jazz to a rather dull presidential race. SELFISHNESS. . When you give a blind beggar a quarter, do you feel a certain satisfaction, an inner glow, a bit of a crook in your elbow caused by patting your- self on the back. Doesn’t that indicate that your gift was a gift to yourself and that you really bought a quarter’s worth of “glow?” Pure selfishness, wasn’t it? But don’t condemn yourself too severely, until we see whether any deed apparently good may not be traced to selfishness. At is related of Abraham Lincoln that he drove past a pig caught under a fence and after he had gone some distance, he turned back to release the pig. His companion commented upon his kind- ness of spirit and Lincoln responded that it wasn’t kindness at all, for he would have felt uncomfort- able the rest of the day, if he hhadn’t released the pig. The kindness was to himself. The martyrs of the faith, even the Great Martyr Himself, may have been inspired by a sublime self- ishness. They knew it was more endurable to die, even by torture, than to live untrue to themselves and to the Cause which possessed them. They, therefore, chose the course which gave the greater comfort to Self. But maybe all this argues that Selfishness is not evil. Of all the words of Shakespeare, none appeal more surely than the words of the prating Polo- nius— “To thine Own Self be true! then be false to any man.” Thou canst not Ponzi has been offered $200,000 to appear in the movies. He’d be good in a chase scene with all his investors in pursuit. THE TRADE BALANCE. A few pessimistic souls saw in the recently pub- ished report of American foreign trade something to be frightened at. But what they saw was noth- ing other than a declining toward normal of a lop- sided trade balance. Nothing to be frightened at. Really, it is some- thing to welcome. Unless foreign nations can pay their American debts they travel to the poorhouse via bankruptcy. They cannot pay these debts in gold; not enough gold. They can pay in goods, things to eat, to wear, to use in other ways. This is what they are doing. Before the war the United States was paying Europe something like a half billion dollars a year. This went over largely in the form of food, oil, cotton. It paid interest on European capital in- vested here. The war rearranged that. European capital withdrew from American investments; American capital went to Europe. Now Europe must pay America half billion dollars a year as interest charge. Europe cannot pay in gold. She must pay in goods. Europe is paying. That is why imports into the United States increased during the fiscal year ending June 30; and why exports decreased. It is true that other continents Asia, South America, Australia and Africa sold more to America than they purchased. The trade balance vis‘in their favor, This is partly accounted for by \| America to those continents. the fact that Europe doesn’t makevall her pay-+ ments to America directly. She sells manufactured goods to South America, and South America sends coffee to America, and in this roundabout way Europe pays United States debts. Probably long before Europe gets her American bills settled the United States will have evened her trade with the leather materials of South America, Africa, Aus- tralia, must be balanced by increased exports from The trade balance now is a billion dollars in their favor. The thing to do isn’t to worry over the decreas- ing trade balance with Europe. It is to think about increasing exports to other continents, par- ticularly South America. This can be aided by the investment of Americap capital in the develop- ment of South America, Asia and Africa. One of Mrs. Wilson’s evening gowns has been placed in a museum, which many women would regard as a doubtful compliment. Foch is coming to the United States for a visit, ‘pronunciation of his name. How does a real progressive like being pictured before the public as a man with one foot in the White House and the other in Tammany Hall? Cox has the audacity to quote from editorials in Senator Harding’s newspaper. As an Ohioan, Harding would blush to quote from the pre-war editorials in Cox’s newspapers. This country freed Cuba and later saved civil- ization on the battlefields of Europe. Who dares to accuse us of national selfishness? But why should we be deprived of the right and power to determine when, where and how our self-sacrifices be made? EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinions of The Tribune. bg 4 are ES sented here in order vhat our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. GOVERNOR COX AND HIS FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLAR CORRUPTION FUND. In a headline stretching across the front page yesterday our neighbor the World announced that “Cox Proves Huge Fund by Republican Secret Files.” That is to say, it accepts as “proof” the statements and inferences and exhibits of the Democratic candidate’s stump speech at Pitts- burg night before last. All thét Governor Cox has done yet is to make statements, draw inferences and present exhibits which constitute the case he has offered to submit to a competent tribunal for examination and as- certainment. The word “proof,” used so loosely by himself and by the World, implies the verifica- tion which is yet lacking both as to dimensions and purpose of expenditure. Governor Cox has alleged the existence of a corruption fund of $15,000,00 in the hands of the Republican campaign managers. His associate on the Democratic ticket had alleged a corruption fund twice as large. Governor Cox at Pittsburg came down from $15,000,00 to $8,145,000, main- taining, however, that this was only part of the iniquitous whole. ~ He is alleging “secret quotas” covering about one-half of his $15,000,000, and is inferring that the rest of the $15,000,000 from the ratio of the population in scheduled territory to the entire population of the country. And his figure of $8,145,000 is reached, not by the present- ation of any evidence that such a sum has actually been collected, or that it is now in the treasury of the Republican organization, or that the whole or any part of it is to be expended in a manner abhorrent to law and morality, but on the strength of a typewritten copy of the regional quota or levies of an alleged drive after the fashion of those drives which have become in recent years so pain- fully familiar to the American people. So far as.the “secret quota” business is con- cerned, the World and the rest of the world have no more “proof” through Governor Cox’s foxy utterances than the publication of the quotas ar- ranged, let us say, by the managers of the recent Interchurch World Movement drive would have afforded of the actual céllection and possession of the sums regionally assigned to the local agents of that enterprise. And the imputation of a sin- ister purpose to the promoters of the fund would be about as legitimate in the one case as in the other. ° ; All this is smart on the Governor’s part, like many .other smart and sly things he has done; but the smartness is not exactly of the kind that invites personal admiration or wins personal con- fidence. The investigation of Governor Cox’s artfully insinuated charges, we hope, will be prompt and thorough. His statements and his documentary evidence are proper subjects of impartial inquiry by Senator Kenyon’s sub-committee. So also would be the money raising enterprises of the Democratic organization and its allies and asso- ciates in the League promotion business. But as yet, as to the real size of the Republican campaign fund, or as to any sinister purpose to employ that fund for the corruption of the electorate, there is not a scintilla of “proof” in the sense in which the World impudently uses the word.—New York Sun. : rae others. The billion dollars spent for coffee, rubber and thus renewing the controversy over the corre BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE ; WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1, 1920 ! NECESSARY CAUTION JACK! WHY Yo OLD GAS: “THE ACQUITTAL,” OPENING SHOW 4 SEASON, LEAVES GOOD IMPRESSION | , I'M GOING : TRY To WADE THROUGH THAT UR MASK SPEECH BY 0 é Appreciative members of the audi- ence who witnessed the performance of “The Acquittal” at the Auditorium last night—the first production of the fall and winter season-—-thank management of*the drama as well as the playwright and the cast. The cast had been selected wilh an evident sincere purpose to faitl{ ‘fully preserve the types in the play something quite often overlooked in road companies, due to a desire t) economize or perhaps in. the belief; that a finished performance might not be necessary to success. “The Acquittal” first sprang into prominence as a drama with a really novel plot. Many great dramas have ended with the trial scene and’ con- viction or acquittal of the murder. This drama by Reita Weiman, a for- mer newspaperwoman, began with — HEALTH ADVICE i | | BY UNCLE SAM, M. D. ° —t SPICY FOOD AND HEALTH. While the frequent use of strong seasoning with our food is inadvis- able, most of us probably prefer foods which contain a little pepper or paprika, and have a greater appetite | for them. This means that more gas- tric juice is secreted and that the|* foods are’better digested. Ginger has an even greater action in this respect. In hot climates, and in thiscoun- try, during the heat .of summer, the tppetite diminishes, and we feel very little if any hunger. The conse- quences would be-that our nutrition would suffer, were it not for the fact that Nature has provided in just these hot climates a series of the most powerful herbs and spices. Wherever rice grows—which pro- duct is poor in regard to taste-bear- ing constituents, and where many of the foods rich in starches. but having in general very little taste also grow —-there Nature likewise allows a pru- fusion of spices to thrive. And, in- deed, the natives, as well as the Euro- peans living in hot climates, use these condiments very freely. Such spices do very, little harm, however, in tropical climates, for the increased activity of the skin helps to carry them off before they have had time to injuriously affect the liver and kidneys. If these organs are in any way impaired, the consequences will be serious; it is, moreover, a well-known fact that the health of Europeans liv- ing in the tropics will become affected if they do not perspire freely. Al- though these spices are not particu- larly injurious in such countries, the same is not the-case in our latitude. It follows, therefore, that we should rather use spices, etc., in the hot summertime than in winter, when it is cold, especially in the northern winters, where the activity of the skin is suspended and all injurious spices would be eliminated by the kidneys, thus subjecting these organs to serious injury, * Hardy Winter Rye 7 Es —$ A By Theodore FE, Stoa (Asistant Agronomist North ' Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station) Inquiries and information which comes to the Experiment Station: in- dicates the possibility that a con- siderable amount of Rosen rye may be shipped into the state for fall seeding. Rosen jrye is not hardy under our North Dakofa conditions, and should not be seeded. In trials at the Ex- periment station, Fargo, this variety has either winter killed completely or at best gMen only about one-third stand, and seed yield, as compared to other varieties. Rosen rye in the seed is striking to look at, and the large plump seed at- tracts those who must buy. Its value as a winter rye for us, however the; and the of the the acquittal of the , | play unfolded the — solution {crime which the law had failed to punish. Harold Vermily appearing as the Jeading charac! the person ‘newspaper reporter, pla j acceptably. The em | Marie Louise Walker S and earnestly performed. | Cripps, the third of the trio of | ng characters added to the finished | performan Be it sa in compliment to the the cast that the members gave no heed of’ the) disturbing i e part of some belated arri ; beginning of the show. The noi | was not entirely unayoidable, as, th ‘ weight’ of ‘a step on carpetless st and floor may be heard over the en- tire theater. The house was well filled. RRA RRA RAR yed his ro must be measured in the chances it has to live through our winters. Un- doubtedly for regions with a milder climate ‘it is a desirable variety. ~ Wherever North Dakota 959 rye can be obtained this variety should be jused. The known sources of this variety, however, are limited. variety that came through last wi ter and gave a good yield can be co sidered hardy. Seed from such 1 field is far more desirable than-any- thing imported, which may look good. e With the Movies | % “ STRENUOUS “DOUG” GOES T LIMIT Ample” evidence of the exceptional athletic prowess of Douglas Fair- banks is known the would over, but the most notable example of his will- ingness to undergo severe physical punishment before the camera is con- tained in his forthcgming United Ar ists production, “The Mollycoddl which has been announced by Man- ager Wingreene of the Eltinge the- t 1 | ’ n STARS IN GREAT FILM PLAY © 2 MISS LILLIAN wish A permanent place in the screen’s ro!l of honor was won by Miss. Lillian Gish, in her remarkable work in Griffith’s great film drama, “Birth' women of a Nation.” The picture soon will be shown in Bismarck. To Cox the a ion extraordinary inning tod has ever been ourage, and..dur- screen r he has done every conceivable stunt al- e and ease that ion has not trance that he ar of bodily injury whe: ukes’ one his ‘typical not astonishing. nent of Wallace Beery ole of the exceeding- avy’ in “The Molly- proof of his fearlessness in had full knowledge that the vould carry himself and Beery one of the longest and tough- t fights known to pictures, $ JUST JOKING nks d, the a fost Hubby Inaulres “Fashions from. Paris say the ladies will wear no stockings “What will that cost?”—Judge. aid her mother, “why is “Bessie,” it that you and your small brother ive always quarreling?” “I don’t know,” returned the child, ‘ynless I take after you and he takes after papa.”—Boston Transcript. Inviting Battle “Yes, he'd rather fighfthan eat.”— Judge. “Anyhow,” said the optimist, “we have made the Fourth of July. safe and sane.” -- “Yes,” replied the pessimist; “but there are three hundred and sikty- four other days in the year still to be looked after.”+-Washington Star. Postal savings deposits increased $300,000 ‘during July. Sell your cream and poultry to dur agent, or ship direct to Northern Produce’ Co., Bis- marck. Write‘us for prices on cream and poultry.—Northern | Produce Co. “Bob Hawley’s married his cook.” RUSS “SET STAGE” T0 ~ GIVE PROSPEROUS AIR Moscow Made to Appear Busy to Deceive the English Visitors, An attempt to make Moscow look a busy and prosperous city during the visit to that City of the English labob delegates is told by the Lettish infor- mation bureau, whose press bureau at Ttiga has a special correspondent at- tached to the peace delegation in Mos- cow. “The various instittulons in soviet Russia had for a long time been busy in*making preparations for the recep- tion of the English labor delegates in { order to show them Russia in attrac- | tive colors,”;says the correspondent. In Petrograd where, ag a rule, al- Most no people are seen in the streets, all the officials were ordered to take ,part in the reception. Theatrical rep- resentations and grandiose banquets were organized with the participation of actresses from the Marlénski and Alexandrovski. theaters. The dele- gates were taken to Moscow in a spe- cial train, acompanied by Tcherkess soldiers in bright uniforms. ! In Moscow, the day before the ar- rival ofthe English delegates, all the papers published strict orders issued by the military and civil commissa- ries setting out what everybody had; to do and how to behave. On May 17 the tramway service in the city was suspended, all-the cars being taken to the neighborhood of the Nikolasovski station, where, gayly decorated, they’ moved to and fro, trying to convey to the visitors the idea of busy traffic, In the station all the motor cars from,Moscow were mobilized, even the highest commissaries having to walk, On May 18 a parade was organized, but no private persons were allowed to be present. This is the way the bolshevists organized the tragi-comedy of the communistic paradise in order to. deceive the English visitors as to the real state of soviet, Russia. WALNUT STUMP WORTH $250 Weighs Nine Torie=Luriber Enough ~ to Make Gunstocks for Regiment. ‘Junction City, Kas.—A single walnut tree stump, grubbed out on the banks of Clark’s eréek, will net the Settgast hrothers, Geary county farmers, more than ya The brothers recently purchased all | of the walnut trees and have’ been cutting them down’and shipping the timber to St. Louls and Kansas City markets, Where it commands high prices. The big stump weighs more than nine tons and the portion above ground measures fifty inches across, while the portion that was underground was even larger. It Is estimated that the huge, chunk of timber would make gunstocks enough for an entire regi- nent. Based on present prices, the tree of which this stump formed the base will bring in more’ than $25 BOOZE ,LIST MADE LONGER Blackberry Cordial and Wild Cherry | Wine Put Under Ban by Authorities. Washington. — Blackberry cordial and wild cherry wine were added by the bureau ‘of internal revenue to the lst of intoxicating Hquors, and may be sold by druggists in retail quanti- tes of less than five gallons only to persons who have obianel permits to purchase intoxicating liquor. Instructions were issued to federal prohibition directors detailing several preparations containing alcohol that are held to be fit for beyerage pur- poses and are therefore regarded as intoxicating and subject to the pro- hibition regulations. Elixir of liquorice came under the ban, with the elixir of anise and bitter -orange. Compound spirits of juniper and myrica were ruled intoxicating, as well as compound tincture of laven- der and several other pharmaceutical preparations: MACHINE TO DETECT LYING Sclentists Find Breathing and Blood Pressure More Rapid During Prevarication, ~ "Columbus, 0.—Sclence ts workiig ona machine which will te’ whether you are lying or not. Prof. H. E. Burtt, instructor In psychology depart- ment of the Ohio State university, is perfecting the apparatus and register- ing his data to establish this possibil- ity. The subject under observation, has his blood: pressure and his inhaling and exhaling registered. Burtt is try- ing to determine the exact ratio be- tween inhaling and exhaling when the subject is lying. The breathing and blood pressure of the person is more rapid when he is prevaricating, Prefessor Burtt says. Good News for the Landlord. Ashland, Ky.—Usually when a ten- ant kicks it’s sad news for the land- lord, but when Dr. V. V. Adkins re- ceived the following letter he felt oth- erwise. “Dear sir: I want you to come here at once and see what is the matter with your gas well. We do not get enough gas to cook with, and. when we turn it on, ofl runs all over the kitchen. Come yourself as we can’t do anything on account of much oil, and ours is a gas stove only.” _— India has the greatest number and greatest variety of beggars than any country. = New York state preduces more inventors that any other state in the nation, m «