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nit PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE el ace eee ea eal Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second ass Matter. GEORGE D. MANN : . * Foreign Representatives COMPANY Ga LOGAN, PAYNE DETROIT wares BE oy sunns anp sur * SE NEW YORE - + =e Fifth Ave, Bldg. pit eS Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use eye lication of all news credited to it or not otherwise in this paper and also the local news published credited herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. i ‘R AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION eRatatoN RATES PAYABLE IN Pe es 5.00 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota......se00++ 6.00 4 AM to Nate cece THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) eS —— STEP IN RIGHT DIRECTION Bismarck is being organized for scientific boosting through the Town Criers and Rotary club. These organizations through earnest co- operation can do much to enlist the best effort toward community promotion. rately but toward the same general end. Working in complete harmony with the Com- mercial Club, the Town Criers and Rotarians can do much to plan a constructive program for Bis- marck. The need is urgent. With a bridge over the Missouri, both Bismarck and Mandan face new problems of development and prospects of greater commercial expansion. A wonderful future is unfolding for the Twin Cities of the Missouri and there are so many enterprises in which they can co-operate that these new organizations have but to devise the best ways and means to that end. Both cities need some general place of recrea- tion. Another summer should not go by without the establishment of a municipal swimming pool and steps should be taken to put Custer Park in shape so that it can be utilized by the public. It should be seeded down to grass and benches set out and a wading pool installed for the use of the small children. The Town Criers and Rotarians can serve the city best just now by starting a general move- ment for a park board so that there will be a community center where clean amusement can be had properly supervised and efficiently directed as in so many other cities, smaller than Bismarck. Many cities of the state have Bismarck com- pletely distanced when it comes to parks. They recognize, as far-sighted citizens of this city real- ize, that there must be recreation centers if Bis- marck is going to hold the people here. Em- ployers of labor know that without some play spots where amusement is free, open and clean, it is going to be increasingly hard to secure the best workers, They go where their families can have some recreation. Cities which have their parks and swimming pools, public tennis courts and ball grounds find that these things assist in solving the problem of the labor supply. It might be possible to get together with Man- dan and establish a large public recreation park between the two cities. The first step, however, is the selection of a park commission and a sur- vey by one experienced as to the park possibili- ties of Bismarck. i This is a suggestion to the newly organized clubs whose motto is community service. JAPAN IN SAGHALIN If Japan. wants permanent possession of the barren island of'Saghalin, there should be no difficulty in negotiating a formal change of sov- ereignty with Russia when a stable government is formed at Moscow. Japan’s present action in seizing Russia’s northern part of the island is not menacing. Al- though Washington does not look favorably upon Japan’s forceful procedure, there is no reason why the American government should not advise Russia to let the Japanese remain in possession, once Russbd-Japanese relations enter upon peace- ful ways. Saghalin’s geographical position brings the island naturally within the limits of the Japanese archipelago. It was Japanese explorers who dis- covered Saghalin was an island and not a penin- sula. The fact that this correction was not made until 1809 shows how little interest has been paid to the territory. The Russians used the island almost solely as a penal colony for Siberian convicts. In 1875 Japan ceded her southern part of the island to Russia. By the treaty of Portsmouth, after the Russo-Japanese war, this area, measur- ing two-fifths of the island was returned to Ja- pan. Now, the Japanese have made themselves masters of the entire territory, which is a little more than half as large as the state of Ohio. Saghalin has an average temperature of freez- ing point the year round. In winter the ther- mometer falls to 50 degrees below zero. Vegeta- tion grows three months of the year. The total native population is about 5,000. There is little wealth in the island. But, it is opposite the Sibe- rian port of Nikolaievsk. “You shall not pass,” says the Pole to the Russ. The Republicans say Cox’s speech pleased Wil- son—that’s all... ware tdy . Editor They work sepa- ‘found that while the stock certificates are as {covenant.Sun and New \York Herald. ' BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE | CAMPAIGN SONGS OF ‘LONG AGO (When Abraham Lincoln was a candidate) Stephen A. Douglas ran against Abraham the country ring with songs ridiculing the home- ly countenance and “homespun” reputation of “Honest Abe.” This was their favorite song: Tell us he’s a second Webster, i Or, if better, Henry Clay! That he’s full of gentle humor, Placid as a summer’s day. Bi Tell again about the cord-wood, Seven cords or more a day;. How each night he seeks his closet, There alone to kneel and pray. Any lie you tell, we'll swallow— Swallow any kind of mixture; But, Oh, don’t, we beg and pray you— Don’t, for land’s sake, show his picture! Voters, however, knew that beauty is only skin deep. ‘They elected Lincoln. Douglas was a more handsome man, but you have to wade through a lot of books to find his picture. His followers, in ridiculing Lincoln as a “homespun” man, helped elect Lincoln. Ratified spelled’ Satisfied from one end of the land to the other. Now there’s another reason why it should be written “No Carolina.” Those Tennessee legislators who voted against suffrage will think twice before they run for re- election. ; 3 EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinions of The Tribune, tig 4 are pre- sented here in order vhat our readers may have both sides of im) ue a issues which are being ny 0 day. = the press of! EX-YANKS ARE FLEECED Are ex-soldiers and sailors, as a class, “easy marks” or “good things” in the eyes of unscru- pulous promoters? ; Evidence collected by government departments and other agencies here would seem to indicate that they are so classified by the “sucker list” manipulators. Right on the heels of the expo- sures of the activities of certain war risk insur- ance bureau employees, who stand charged with having fleeced disabled men out of compensation due them by the government, comes the report that a large number of former soldiers have part- ed with their hard earned Liberty bonds in ex- change for flossy stock certificates issued by vari- ous fake oil and mining adventures. Later they pretty as French currency and girls, they were worth far less than either of those estimable com- modities appeared to be. worth’ on the evening of payday. Usually, too, the promoter has “par- tee-d” without a forwarding address. - The savings division of the treasury depart- ment says it has issued warnings until it is “black in the face” to put a stop to the practice. It has gotten in touch with the heads of the Ameri- can Legion and other veterans’ organizations, and urged them to speed the gospel of holding onto bonds. But it seems that the-promoters are bank- ing on the “I’ll try anything once” spirit that made the American soldiers such “fightin’ fools” in,action to carry their questionable ventures “over the top” for them, and thus far they have reached their objectives on pretty nearly sched- ule time.—Nashville Banner. . ti If, If, If! To stir a covenant supporter to horizontal vis- ion and aerial voice it is. only necessary to men- tion the case of Poland as an example;of League impotency. The Springfield Republican is ‘one of the newspapers which insist that while a league of twenty-nine nations can do nothing a league of thirty nations could and should do everything: “If the French had been’ reassured by America’s active membership in the League and the guaranty against. attack supplied by the supplementary. convention, the. motive — for encouraging Polish-aggression against Soviet Russia would have been far less strong, if it had not been entirely absent, in the French capital. It is a fair assumption , that American influence would have been cast against any Polish offensive in the Uk- raine, that France would have listened to American advice and that the present sit- uation would not have come about.” In fewer and less honeyed words, if the United States had been in the League the Republican thinks it would have deterred France from help- ing the Poles to whale the Bolsheviki. And France’s motives, as viewed by the Republican, are utterly selfish. Even Mr. Wilson, if his views are correctly expressed in Mr. Colby’s recent note, is.not of the Republican’s way of thinking on the Polish situation. : The main feature of all these explanations of the Covenanters is that they begin and end with the conditional particle. If, if, if! The inventor of a perpetual motion machine, explaining why his contraption ought to go when it doesn’t, is logical in comparison with the apologists of the Lincoln in the presidential. election of 1860. The, campaign was‘bitter. The Douglas backers made! TOMORROW Matinee and Night PHEUM THEATRE ELLIOTT AND SHERMAN FILM CORPORA TION PRESENTS D. W. Griffith’s Eighth Wonder of the World “THE BIRTH OF A NATION” TONIGHT 8:15 Sharp THE MOST MASSIVE PRODUCTION EVER MADE ADMISSION Matinee—Children, 25c; Adults, 50c. Plus war tax) MUSIC BY ‘COMPANY’S ORCHESTRA TWICE DAILY 2:30 and 8:15 Evenings—Children, 50c; Adults, 75c. “BIRTH OF NATION” SCENE | ares} CHICAGO LIVESTOCK Chica; Sept. 8—Cattle receipts, 13,000. Choice steers strong to 25 cents higher. Bulk good and choice $15.50 to, $17.75. Choice veal calves, | steady, mostly $17.00 to $17.75. { Hog receipts, 19,000. Mostly 10 to 15 cents lower. Sheep receipts, 27,000. Steady to 25 to 50 cents higher. SOUTH PAUL LIVESTOCK | Hog receipts, 2,500, mostly steady, {| 25 cents lower. Range, $13.50 to $15. Bulk, $14.25 to $14.5 Cattle receipts, 6, cents lower. Fat steers, $6.00 to $16.00. Cows and heifers, $5.00 to $12.50 ' Calves steady, siow weak, $4,00 to $15.00. Stockers and feeders steady 1 weak, $4.00 to. $13.09. 3,500; steady high. $4.00 to $12.50. $4.00 to $7.00. $2.00 to $5.50. MINNEAPOLIS FLOUR Flour unchanged. Shipments 42,289 barrels. ° dl Barley, $.2 to $1.07. Rye, No. 2'$1.89 1-2 to $1.90 1-2. Bran, $.42. MINNEAPOLIS WHEAT Wheat receipts, 247 cars compared. j with 452 cars a year ag | Cash No. 1 northern, $2.57 to $2.64 7-8. Corn No. 3 yellow, $1.27 to $1.39. | Oats No. 3 white, $.59 to §.60 1-2. | Flax, $3.84 to’ $3.97. 20. killers 26 and Sheep receipts, ¢ Lambs, SoS e- . ~ Le o The period of the “reconstruction,” so vividly brought back to the memory of those who may have gone through it and reproduced afresh for those newer genérations who now view it for the first time, in Griffith’s Birth Of A Nation, shows the time of John- son’s administration and he, as the nation’s executive, in the hands 3 a ring of politicians and power seck- ers, who are. manipulating the ar- fairs of the South to suit their own ends. It turns to the ruins of the flower decked South Carolina village of ante bellum days, the place where the blacks were light hearted and care free, even under the bonds of slavery —turns back to the town that by war has been left half in ruins, the streets grass grown, the stately mansions of the old days tottering and crumbling: _ to a town where those once wealthy now are in direct poverty—where the “black is as good as a white man,” as was the slogan of the northern men of the Lynch and Stoneman Women are menaced by the bla minions of the northern whites, cr are attacked, whites are driven from the streets, menaced by the colored troops, assaulted. Homes are invad. ed. Justice is a forgotten thing. The land knows no law but that con- ceived by the race then in control. Then—the chivalty of the whites is given new life, The Ku Klux Klan is formed. These, riders‘of the night, in ghostly whites, rally by dozens, by scores, and hundred and thou- sands. They ride like the wind. They strike without even the warning the rattlesnake gives, but are far more deadly. This all, wonderful, soul stirring, breath-taking as it is, is but another of the innumerable “dramas within dramas” of which The Birth Of A Nation consists. This glorious spectacle is to pe given here in its entirety, with its accompanying symphony orchestra its effect paraphernalia and _ it trained mechanicians for that pur. pose and is to be put on here in the same fashion down to the smallest detail that amazed New York and the other cities. The film will be seei at the Orpheum theatre Sept. 8 and 3) LOTS OF HU Fargo, N. D., Sept. 1,500 hunting licenses are expected to. be issued before the season opens Sept. 17, according to W. R. Tucker Cass county auditor. The ber of license’ issued in last year was 1,741. ) ‘Since Saturday’s announcement the mail order requests for this en- YOUR gagement have been indicative of a record-breaking reception for EE | THE TALK vt ENTIRE COUNTRY! immediately. re No American star has ever visited the Northwest and Pacific Coast for the first time and received the receptions and ovations which have come to Miss Cowl. The achievements of the entire tour are unprecedented in the history of theatri- cals. The Selwyns Present JANE COWL “SMILIN’ THROUGH” at the AUDITORIUM Monday Evening September 13 This famous star, in a charming play that has won the highest praise from the press of the entire country, will play this extraordinary engagement prior to her appearance in Chi- cago, and subsequent sailing for Poe London the first six months of tiis 869 immigrants from Kurop: e. United States passed through Winni- peg on their way ‘to homes in the} west, according to figures compiled at the immigration hall here. The settlers brought with them more than $6,000,000 in cash and goods worth about $3,000,000, fees Mail Orders Now! Box Office Sale of Seats Opens September roth N HOW TO SECURE TICKETS NOW BY MAIL Address letters, make checks and postoffice money orders payable to Harris & Co. ADD 10 PER CENT WAR TAX TO PRICE TICKETS DESIRED. Include self-addressed en- velope to help insure safe return. PRICES—Nights: Lower floor, $3.30; Balcony, first two rows, $2.75; next three rows, - $2.20; last four rows, $1.65. Gallery, $1.10. Up to the time we entered the w the largest national drive for raising money had been a pension fund fo’ clergymen, With $4,000,000 as its ob jective. A person's thoughts can often be detected by the involuntary move ments of his thumbs.

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