The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 20, 1920, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE PH LSC SEER Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second i » oo Class Mi MANN . Editor CHICAGO ANT error Marcasite ‘YNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK arPaTNe s e =. Fifth Ave. Bldg. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use ree uheetion of all news credited to it or not otherwise creda 5 in this paper and also the local news pablished herein. rights of publication of special dispatches herein are | also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year......+ + 6 $7.20 Bally by mail Her gear (ip Blower) i csarh) 600 er year (in state outside Dail y y mail, Satside of North Dakota.. 00 STATE’S 3 OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1878) CIRCULATION ——$—$—$—$ HUNGER STRIKES A hunger strike is a political weapon. It is an effort to arouse pity in the hearts of political opponents themselves. A prisoner who tries to end his life unless he is released, does not plead his cause, nor fight it. He seeks to gain his lib- erty through sentimentality. When men fight in battle, they use weapon against weapon in man to man combat. One side does not threaten suicide because the other side refuses to surrender. But, when a hunger strike is the weapon that is the strategy of the cam- paign,...For, the hunger striker says he will com- mit, stitide unless his opponents surrender to him by giving him his liberty. If one prisoner can gain freedom by hunger striking, so may all prisoners. The moral, there- fore, is either to keep the hunger striker impris- oned: regardless of consequences, or to abolish imprisonment. Society would gravely endanger itself by al- lowing lawbreakers to remain unmolested at large. For that reason, society cannot afford to admit hunger striking as a reason for a pardon. The hunger striker is as morally responsible for his suicide as is the medieval-minded oriental who commits hari-kari while in a frenzed state of heroics. The former crown prince wants to move back to Germany, but the desire is not reciprocated. WELL-STOCKED CELLARS When grandfather gand grandmother were young, cellars, at this time o’ th’ year, began their annual habit of gathering in the sheaves. Only they weren’t sheaves. They were fruit, canned, dried, and in barrels. They were turnips, pota- toes, pumpkins. They were nuts, popcorn, and cider. They were the winter’s food supply. But until within the year past, the cellar had gone quite out of fashion> One kept his fruit and vegetables in the grocer’s cellar; his bacon and lard in the butcher’s shop, and barely alloted to the cellar a ton or two of coal. Then, suddenly, folks renewed conversation about “well-stocked cellars.” This had to do with drinkables, and was an aftermath of the 18th amendment. Now comes the Department of Agriculture and exhorts the nation to “get the cellar habit.” Meaning the storing of food in cellars—base- ments, if you will call ’°em that—for the winter table. By putting in your winter’s supply in the fall you broaden the farmer’s market. You compete with the commercial storage concerns. The re- sult is a higher price for producers. Having the food in your cellar you decrease the demand for food later on. This creates a smaller market for the storage plant, and lower prices for those who cannot store any food in their cellars. The “well-stocked cellar” should mean this winter what it meant in grandfather’s time. Louisville has the first bank run entirely by women. A real rival of the lisle bank. AN ELECTION HINT Because of woman’s suffrage it has become necessary in many communities to establish more voting places for the convenience of the new voters. While election officials are selecting these shrines of sacred rights, as they are called, it might be well for them to depart from the ancient custom of picking the nearest barber ‘shop, or shoe shinne parlor. The new polling places should be as inviting as possible to the fledging voter who will make her first fight as a voting citizen timidly. Cer- tainly the average voting place in the little dark back room is not one hat the average woman will approach with pride and confidence. The suggestion occure that the public schools should make the most desirable and appropriate of polling places. The school is the cradle of good citizenship and is the most fit of all places for the exercise of the highest of all rights of citizenship. The school, as a depository of the ballot, will place the act of voting on a plane in harmony with the great dignity of the act. Moreover, many more women will go to vote in the school-houses to which they entrust their children than in a dingy back room. Now is the time when election officials have an opportunity to inaugurate a first-class reform. This fall, for the first time, one may see rival candidates’ pictures in the same parlor window. Kresge Bidg.|2 century. AS IT IS MEASURED , Athens was a small city as size is figured in the United States... suidon Yet it ‘is said:to have: produced ‘more first- rate men in art, literature and thought in one gen- eration than this entire country has produced in Plato. Aristotle. Socrates. The statesman, Pericles. The sculptor, Pheidias. The painter, Polygnotus. The dramatists, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. The lyric poet, Pindar. The comic dramatist, Aristophanes. The historian, Thucydides. The orator, Demosthenes. But civilization then was measured by thought; now it is measured by invention, and other scientific achievement. Suppose the periods were reversed. Suppose the achievements of the latest century were the achievements of that early period; and that the secret had been lost. Suppose man of today knew nothing of aviation, and was told that men of that age could fly. Suppose man today sent mes- sages by runners on foot or on horseback, and was told that the ancients could make their voices j heard across the continent. Suppose the phono- graph and the movies were lost, but were de- scribed as the achievements of men in ancient Athens! What would man today think of those men? We would think of them as gods! GRABSKI + The Polish minister of finance says America must continue lending Poland financial:and econo- THE TAIL’S END tb 1S {ent rot mic assistance, and perhaps even military aid.|_ Otherwise, he declares, the $169,000,000 America already has loaned Poland will be thrown ‘away, for the Bolsheviki will get it. The name of this minister of finance is Grabski. They name their ministers well in Poland. CHAPT! THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE “BIRDS OF A FEATHER,” ETC. ER’ VI by | « If the Nonpartisan League is‘not socialistic will some one please rise to explain why. it is that the Socialist j party has_ completely disappeared from North Dakota, and why there are so many, former socialists on our state pay roll. Why is our state made the rendezvous of all the W. W. and other socialistis organiaztions. Why are notorious socialists sent out by the league as speakers at our meet- ings, and finally, why have some of our state officials taken so prominent a part in freeing Mrs. Kate Richards Will Italy’s new volcano act as a safety valve? Nine puppies born on an airplane. Airedales? Grocers don’t seem to realize that fall time is here. A few more tidal waves will make Saghalien sag. O’Hare, the» woman who so foully a a Ese : Ta slandered the mothers of our soldier Eva Tanguay’s married again. “We don’t! boys, jive Explanations, things have been satis- factorily explained we may take some stock.in the! league’s claim. that. it is not socialistjc. What other farmers’ organization’ hires socialist speakers, puts ‘socialists in office and counte- nances the infamous Red Flag of so-T icalism? “The socialist believes that all property should be held in com- mon, that no man should have great- er wealth than his neighbor and that the present wealth of the country should be equally divided, among the industrious and the idle loafer. The nian who toils should have no more than the man who sits all day long on the park bench wasting his time. What, Are the Inducements? What inducement does socialism of- fer to the man who wants to go ahead? None whatever. None what- ever. He knows that no matter how high he may go it will benefit him nothing. Under socialism we should degenerate back to where we were hundreds of years ago. Science and invention would have no part in a world ruled over by socialism. All in- ducement to private initiative, would be gone. We should all be alike. Whether the Nonpartisan league of- ficials actually sponser these things or not, they certainly have a warm spot in their hearts for discredited socialists or they would not use their personal influence in getting them out of prison. Farmers, themselves, are not social~ ists. The very idea is repungeit to them. As land owners they could have no part in socialism, and no matter what the league leaders may -be, farmers are not, nor hever. coul socialistic. But under the blind kine ance of these leaders to what ‘depths of misery may they not be hasten- ing? Confidence has often been mis- placed before this and farmers should have their eyes wide open instead of placing implicit faith in their leaders. But implicit faith is what Townley demands. Those who question his mo- tives or refuse implicit obedience to the league boss soon find themselves in bad. “The king can do no wrong.’ Autoeratic Art. This autocratic manner on Town- dJey’s part has caused much dissention among the league rank and file and has flared into open warfare in sev- eral instances. Because they refused to obey the leagtie boss, Langer, Hall and Kositzky were summarily dis- charged from the league—although the vote of the people had placed them where Townley could not fire them, as he has a lot of others. I be- lieve the convention at Fargo held last October was called to make a rid- dance of these three “traitors,” as Townley called them. But evidently this proved such an unpopular move- ment that it was given up. An Astute Politician. For Townley is an astute pol n and knows just how far the people will back him up in his demands. The special session, called some time later cut the appropriations of Langer and Kositzky to the bone— and in this way they were penalized for daring to disobey the Big Chier. This “betrayal of the farmers” was played up in big headlines by all the league papers. And when I dared to suggest that maybe there was more going on under the surface than ap- peared on the outside and that these men might be right, I was frowned on by all my neighbors who said: “Oh, no; Townley is right; these men have sold out to Big Biz.” But the regen i : election goes to show that a good If the minds of men were laid open, we should| many still have confidence in these see but little difference between that of the wise|™e-, Hall was elected, and Kositzky ;lost by:a small majority and as for and that of the fool.—Addison. “Langer, well le lost out by over fort) care.” The dye-thieves’ were onan red-handed, ‘it appears. MacSwiney’s hunger seems to make the whole world kin. The coal miners have a holiday schedule all their own. Maybe meas found the only feasible way to beat the h. c. 1. Now some get drunk on water—out beyond, the three-mile line. . The poor old Hapsburg family might take a whirl at the movies. Remember when skirts were so long they | swept ‘the sidewalks? Oysters are higher this season but this hasn’t reduced the buy in bivalve. The hand that rocks the’ cradle threatens to rock the politicians’ boat. « Is your happiness keener if something you buy makes your neighbors jealous? The moth that gets into a bathing suit this autumn will starve to death. Seeking something with a kick, congressmen in Japan found saki has a sock. The factory workers of Milan, in seizing the automobile factory, issued a Fiat, D’Annunzio is reported to have left Fiume in anger. He was Fiuming, in fact. Orange pickers are out of luck. An earth- quake at Riverside, Cal., did the job for them. William K. Vanderbilt’s butler can now have a butler of his own. William willed him $150,000. The Fiume national council resigned. Perhaps D’Annunzio’s proclamation was in blank verse. ..A paragrapher is never nonplussed. If the word. isn’t: pronounced that way, he may say the congressmen went to Japan for the saki’s sake. A Houston, Tex., man was pronouriced dead nine times and came back to life each time. He Malteased the undertakers. 3 BY A’ FARMER'S WIFE\ the 5 thousand majority, just as the league papers said he would, didn’t he? Yes—- he ‘did not! i (To Be Continued. ) JUST JOKING eo ie Turned the Job Over. .From a report of good turns by 2 Baltimore Scout: “Monday—I bought a newspaper for! if a lady.” “Tuesday—Went on an errand bought a paper for a lady. “Wednesday—I bought a paper for a lady. “Thursday—I got a boy to serve pa- pers to ner regularly.”—Boys’ Life. | ie and | Once Was Enough “Robert,” said the manager to the office boy, “how is it that you are al- ways the last to arrive in the morn- ing .and the first to go away in the evening?” “Well, sir,” responded the cheeky youth, “you wouldn’t want me to be late twice a day, would you?’—Boston Transcript. A Soil For Vor Growth. At Christmas time Elinor got sev* eral little candy animals, which she had been saving because they were £0 cute. But one day the toy rabbit was missed. “What did you do with Bunny?” “Oh, he got too dirty to play with, so I ate him,” replied Elinor.—Chica- go Tribune., aURICEL L HPAL OBSERVATORY Des Moines, la., Sept. 20.—The mun- icipal observatory being erected, by this city will be completed next sum- mer, giving Des Moines one of. the finest astronomical stations in this section of the country. The ob- servatory is being put up on a rise of ground in the middle of a 280 acre tract. It will cost $55,000. Equip- ment will be furnished by Drake Uni- eee EVERETT TRUE ; tronomy. 4 Hoipsmist versity which will enjoy the use of the building for its students of as- It will also be used by classes in the public, schoo}s and ac- cording to present plans: will be open- ed to the public. twice a week. Washington, Sept 1 +Courts ant} court procedure have long been the targets of criticism because of their adherence to “precedent.” The United States Supreme Court is no exception. Precedents not only help shape the decisions of the court, but the very actions of the honorabl2 justices themselves. Take the little matter of hanging up their hats. Even that is:governed by precedent. The’senior member of the court must hang his hat. on peg num- ber one. The ranking member, in term of service on the court, gets pes number two. And so on down the line, the newest member of the court get- ting peg nine—the last.; Should Mc- Reynolds, Brandeis or ‘Clarke some day inadvertently hang their lids on RS. M. E. PROCTOR, who says she Is so grateful for what Tanlac has;done for her that she wants thé! whole: world to know about It. “Iyam so grateful for what Tanlac has done for me that I want to tell the whole world about. it,” said Mrs. M. E. Proctor, of 717 W. First St., Los Angeles Calif. “Yes, indeed; for years and years I suffered terribly from stomach trouble. Everything I ate seemed to form gas and so affected my heart and breathing that I would have pal- pitation and would turn purple ih the face in my efforts to get my breath These attacks caused me intense suf- fering and were so bad that I was frequently confined to my bed and would have to be attended by some member of the family for fear 1 should succumb during oneiof the attacks. “I got awfully thin-and was so weak ‘| that I had to give up all house-hold duties. I often went for two weeks at a time without getting a good night’s sleep and as:a consequence became very nervous and low spirited. In fact, I was confirmed invalid and my friends did not expect me to live very long. “I sent for a bottle of Tanlac and started taking is and the results have been most surprising.’ “My appetite is splendid now and I can eat most anything without any distress afterward. The gas has stopped forming and I no longer have palpitation or that smothering feel- ing. I sleep sound all night long and get up feeling rested. I am in better health today, than I have been for forty years and I feel years youngera Tanlac is sold in Bismarck by Jos. Breslow, in Driscoll by N. D. and J. H. Barrette, in Wing by H. P. Ho- man and in Strausburg by Straus- burg Drug Co. (Advt.) ever came out of western Indiana, de- veloping a hard-hitting technique that should be invaluable in ‘presidential campaigning, -« i * * A community snuff-box for the Su- preme Court, which formerly occupied a position of prestige on the clerk’s desk, where council, as well as judges cquid have access to it, is no longer in evidence. In taking snuff, at least, the Supreme Court appears to have accomplished prohibition ahead of the Senate. Chewing tobacco is the chief stimulant now used by the justices to help keep them awake during the lonz arguments, although some of the younger judges accomplish it by sheer will power. “Qs . 9 ” |. “Singing ’em In pegs one, two and three, doubtless ee ee whole day’s proceedings would be up- FREEMONT AND BUCHANAN set and justice get sadly disarranged. “oe ® Indiana Republicans are grooming. a candidate for future President in Fred J. Purnell of Attica, represent- ative from the Ninth Hoosier district. Should Harding be elected this year and make good, Purnell’s claim they will be able to show emi- nent reasons why the Hoosier should be his logical successor. Against Harding’s qualifications as ex-tuba player in his home-town band, it will be shown that Purnell was one of the best bass drum beaters that By Condo YES, \T'S YOUR NEXT MOVE $ So Home AND CLOSE THE Doors OF OUR GARAGE THAT YOU LGET ISWINGING OUT OVER THG SIOEWALK friends | Campaign songs in the presidential election of 1856 referred to Fremont, Republican candidate, as the ‘mus- tang colt,” and Buchanan, Democrafic candidate, was “the old gray nag.” The favorite song of the Fremont torchlight processions was this: The mustang colt is strong and young, His wind is good, his knees not sprung. ‘ The old gray horse ‘is a well-known ack, lle’s long been fed at the public rack, “* The mustang is a full-blooded colt, Ye.cannot shy! He will not bolt! The old gray nag, when he tries to trot, Goes ‘round and ’round in the same old spot. The mustang goes at a killing race, Ye's bound to win the four-mile race! Then do your best with the old gray hack, The mustang colt will clear the tracky Voters in that election, however, ap- peared to favor a saddle-broke horse, for Buchanan, “the old gray nag,” was elected. The “pork batrel” received a lot of attention in that campaign—for in- stance, this. amiable verse sung by the Fremont men: The dough, the dough the facial dough! The nose that yields when you tweak it so! lt sighs for the spoil—it sells its soul For a spoon ful of soup from the Treasury bowl ! SHIELDS. WOMAN DIES, Flasher, Sept. 20.—Mrs. Ethel Carl- son, wife of C. L. Carlson of Shields, died Friday noon at the Flasher hos- pital, after an_ illness of about three weeks from pneumonia and other com- plications. Although it had been re- ported that she was in a_very serious condition, still all her friends had hoped against hope that she might be spared. Her father, mother and hus- band were with her when she passed away. SHOPS COMPLETED. Dickinson, Sept. 20—The new car shops which have been under the course of construction in the Northern Pacific railroad yards during the past summer are. now completed and the construction crew have turned the building over to the steam fitters who are connecting the structure with the house. central heating plant at the round-— a ms 1 a | t Digs 4 , ‘ "ig oe