The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 23, 1920, Page 4

PAGE FOUR | THURSDAY, SEPT. 23, 1920 =i hE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D. as Second Class Matter, GEORGE D. MANN - + * ° Editor Forel sentatives G, LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY oat ome Marquette Bidg. age : AND SMITH NEW vom BURNS AND BMITth Ave. Bldg. Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use lication of all news credited to it or not otherwise ted in this paper and also the local news published wo bent rights of publication of special dispatches herein are hlso reserved. MEMBER AUDIF BUREAU OF CIRCULATION = SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year..... . $7.20 by mail, per year (in Bismarck). ~ 7.20 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 1878) > = LEMKE’S TRAITOR’S LIST Comrade Bill has branded Dupuis and Aan- dahl: H On page one of Bill Lemke’s Courier-News is the black proscription. : The traitor list is growing: DUPUIS AANDAHL These names have been removed from the red service flag of the Townley-Lemke soviet-not even the shadow of a letter remains. So completely have their names been obliterated by the right- eous and militant hand of Comrade “Bill.” Mr. Lemke in his Fargo personal organ tells the members of the league why these men are no longer fit to stand among the elect utopians who have the fate of the New Day in hollow of their hands. “It is true,” writes'Lemke, “these commission- ers were elected by the nonpartisan league. They are not the first to go wrong. Probably they will not be the last. The influence of one kind and another that big business is able to bring to bear, test men as by fire. The weaklings succumb. And there are always weaklings in the nonparti- san league as in every other movement.” Since William Lemke removed his name from the masthead of the Courier-News, his paper is getting more enthusiastic over “Bill.” After writing down Dupuis and Aandahl as the tools of Big Biz, the spot light is turned upon the spot- less “Bill” of whom the Courier-News writes: “But the league will not give over the fight because these two commissioners have gone over to the enemy. William Lemke, the league candi- date for attorney general will continue the battle he has so splendidly begun.” One by one the list of traitors,*’grows and grows, like the five little peppers until perchance there will be only two or three honest men left in the state: Townley—Lemke—Frazier. How the list has grown: Call the roll “Bill:” LANGER HALL KOSITZKY DUPUIS AANDAHL Then too we have “Bill’s” word that these “probably will not be the last.” His word is good with us on this matter—Bill ought to know. Judging from the election results in Colorado, the Mormons must have followed the free love controversy in North Dakota. FENCELESS LAWNS. At the newer, fashionable end of the avenue the lawns‘are unfenced. Atthe older end many lawns are protected by iron fences, relics of a fashion which reached jis, height about: 1888. These iron fences supplanted wooden picket fences. Those who sold the iron fences gave con- vincing reasons why iron was better than wood, For a long time it didn’t occur to anyone that no fence is needed. Others had fences. -This had been so long as any remembered. So each felt that he also must have a fence across the front. Without stopping to figure it out, he assumed that a fence was as necessary as a roof. The first man to eat a clam was a daring fel- low. Then along came another with a venture- some, courageous heart. He put up no fence. He left his front yard open to the street, abso- lutely unprotected. . Others warned him against this. There was much grave shaking of heads, and dolorous pre- dictions that disaster would overtake him. He would be sorry. Those who warned him were prepared to say “We told you!” — But nothing happened. He seemed to get along all right. Others observed this. Gradually they picked up courage to follow his example. Their number increased. Finally, some who had iron fences, purchased and erected at considerable cost, took them down. Now only a few are left. No ordinary home builder erects a fence across the front of his lot thinking it needed. That is, in 1920. How many costly things that seem necessary today will be recognized as useless in 1930? Senator Harding disposes of a much-misun- derstood matter, when he said that in the enact- ment of the Cummings-Esch law, Congress gave a six months’ guarantee in wages to employees just as it gave a six months’ guarantee of returns #eato the owners, sisi We DAILY TRIBUNE ia OVE OVER” | ie te ent ttt PE a Wy / f fi : : ENEMY OF, THE PEQRMR!: The word revolution has many people cowed. Events in Russia are exerting a terrifying in- fluence. This has been curiously revealed by an at- tack on Robert Whittier, an actor-manager- in New York, who has revived Iben’s drama, “An Enemy of the People,” in which he plays the Abu tt 4 principal role. Two anti-revolutionary New Yorkers have just been fined’ ten dollars each in the police court be- ; Who is to hold him up on: the way from the barn cause they gave Whittier a black eye and other- wise marked their disapproval of the play’s de- nunciation of middle-class conservatism. Mr. Whittier has received, also, anonymous letters and telephone calls threatening his life and calling him an agent of soviet Russia. And-yet, the poor actor’s offense is no more than this: He takes the part of Dr. Stockmann, who has discovered that the medicinal baths which are making the fortune of his native Nor- wegian town have become polluted. ‘When the prevent the spread of contamination, he is cheered by the people. . But, when it becomes evident that the repairs will require an increased local tax rate for everybody to pay, he is reviled and called an enemy of the people. Dr. Stockmann thereupon denounces the mid- dle-class, the compact majority. He asserts the intellectual minority leads the van of progress, and is the only class which is always right. To this disturbing indictment, Stockmann adds a de- nunciation of the! goverijing class, and Says a revolution is necessary to give it brains. That is enough to make Stockmann a Bolshevik. So, Two representative New Yorkers proved the genius of Ibsen as a dramatist of life by do- ing to Whittier in the flesh as nearly as they could what the compact majority did to Stock- mann in the play. Thus, by an-extraordinary irony of fate, Ibsen’s drama written in 1882 as a plea for popular leadership to be drawn from an aristocracy of intellect, is now denounced as Bol- shevik propaganda. If Ibsen were alive, he would say the attack on Mr. Whittier is abundant just- ification for the play. Fifth Cousin Roosevelt says that “Maine doesn’t count.”. But it did—and it was a bully count. ‘ In one of his recent speeches in the west, Candidate Cox said: “Thank God, the worten will vote this year.” He had not heard from Maine. EDITORIAL REVIEW. Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinions of The Tribune. io § are sented here in order vhat, our readers may have both eldes of important issues: w! are being discussed in the press of the day. MAINE Have you heard the news from the Pine Tree State? How Maine went Hell bent < For Governor Kent, ° | And Tippecanoe And Tyler too? This is not a Hard Cider or Log Cabin year, and yet a plurality estimated at more than 60,000 sets a new high water mark. The Maine Repub- licans are tired of counting the votes of the aval- anche. Their wildest expectations have been more than realized. { “The November result is foreshadowed. A fitting rebuke is administered to the campaigners who began with a specious attempt to deceive the people concerning a moral isste, and have prac- tically ended in a lame effort to win‘by slander. Will Gov. Cox have the effrontery to say that the electorate of Maine has been ‘bought’ 4—New York Tribune. COUNTRY BOYS’ DEFECTS The country boy is off his form. We have this from a report made. by the Committee or. Recreation and Rural ‘Health to the Nationa! Country Life Conference. The lad on the farm does not have the neuromuscular co-ordinatior |’? that he should. His work overdevelops the major fundamental muscles to the neglect of the acces- sory muscles. In the:army the youths reared in the country were slow in learning to play. They were behind the city boys in forms of activity re- quiring the action of the whole body. ; +. What’s to be done about it? The committee recommends games which involve the free use of the entire body, which require precision of action and which employ the expression of the rhythmic instinct. Group games, organized athletics and folk dancing are remedies suggested? But who is going to accomplish this reform? when the young farmhand has wound up a day’s work in the hay field by milking eight cows and making things tidy for the night, who shall lure him or compel him to join in Swedish gymnastics to limber his accessory muscles? Who shall say, ‘as the boy limps in to bed, that a jolly spree of folk dancing would make a new man of him? to the house and ask him why he is letting his rhythmic instinct-go to seed? Maybe there is a lot in this discovery of the rural lad’s lack of neuromuscular coordination. If there is, how. many more prisoners would Alvin York have brought in on that historic occasion if he had been good and rhythmic instead of being a muscle bound rustic? A whole German divi- sion, we suppose.—Neway ork: Sunvsi f doctor declares ‘the baths must be repaired to] eects — Quoddy Head, due west to the Pacific Ocean the di taste ig 2,807 miles. The shorted distance from Atlantic to Pacific, between points near Char- leston, S: C., and San Diego, Cal., is 2,152 miles. The Canadian boundary is 3,898 miles long. The Mexican ‘boundary is 1,74 miles long. The Atlantic coast:line is 5,560 miles long. The Pacific coast line ig 2,730 miles long. The Gulf of Mexico coast line is 3,- 640 miles long. Cuba, if transposed directly ‘north, would extend from New York City to Indiana with Havana farther west than Cleveland. ‘The ranama Canal is due south of Pittsburgh, Pa. Nome, Alaska, is farther west than Hawaii. POETS’ CORNER | + ” LIKES ARTICLES. Glen Ullin, N. Dak., Sept. 21, 1920. Editor Tribune: I have been reading with much sat- isfaction the contributions from a “Farmer's Wife” in your columns about the non-partisan league. I have not seen any other contribution which has grasped so fully and ex- pressed so clearly the inner workings of this movement than this writer, The non-partisan league movement is a social movement having a psycho- logical basis. The farmers felt they were being wronged and in many ways this is oftentimes too true. A ‘bunch of socialist grafters caring for neither God nor man took advantage of the farmers’ grievances and began to work their schemes at the psycho- loZical moment. _ We must lift our hats to their shrewdness. They raked in millions from the farmers and it came easy—lots easier than to raise flax in western North Dakota. The state has been in a turmoil ever since. The farmer, has paid his money and got his “We'll Stick” pin in return and he expected to get his money’s worth, So he has stuck in patient expectation of something really constructive to come out of the thing. But instead of read these same schemers are now handing him stones and laughing up their sleeves. No wonder the farmer ,is,at sea. It is hard for him to know whom to trust. For four long years has the | MOTORISTS’ HAVENS ’ "THROUGHOUT NORTHWEST | gospel of hatred been spread over our beautiful prairies and it will take many times four years before the | final effects will disappear. This is to-me the saddest of the Whole sad | | Story. No movement conceived in iniquity “Roughing it” is the ambition of many a summer motor tourist; For such as feel the call of forest still- ness,’ broken only by confident b Ig or-splash of stream, Gr-Jit’s Pass, Oregon, holds out camping en- ticements. »Grant’s Pass authorities have cleaned up and placed at the dis- posal of motorists one ‘of the prettiest places i nthat locality. No conven- iences are furnished, but its native fa- cilities. make it ideal for regular campfires and real camping out. Ashland, Oregon, has what is said to be the best motor park on the road between San Francisco and Portland. It is so popular that many motorists have stayed weeks instead of the or- iginally intended , night’s -stop.. A kitchenette is provided, containing 16 individual gas stoves. A traveler is assigned to one of the stoves upon his! arrival and:uses that stove throughout | Washington, Sept. 23.—There’s noth- ing to the story that one cannot quit a bad habit. The reason many per- sons fail to quit is because they fear they will a some of the joy of life. “I quit smoking cigarets 10 years ago,” said Colonel R. I. Foster, adju- tant general’s office, department. “I had smoked about 55 the day be- fore. I swore I would never smoke another and I haven’t and won’t. Two! his stay. years later I took the same pledge on In Roseburg, Oregon, is a little park, drinking and I haven't taken a drink! easy of access, and entirely comfort- since. And say, I’ve had ten times aS} ape. Here'a kitchenette provides for much fun since I quit as I ever*had i before. No tired feelings at the!'end of the day, no bad feelings of morn- ing. It is the man who is a slave to a habit who misses the joy in life.” Colonel Foster is 50, but appears only 40. “I feel 10 years younger than I did 10 years ago when I quit,” said the olonel. The colonel was overseas and stood all the hardships of war and came back strong: | FAR POINTS Washington, Sept. 23.—The farthest | east, west, north and south points on! the United States mainland have been | determined by the United States Geo- | fogical Survey which announces that | the easternmost point is West Quoddy Head, near Eastport, Maine; the wes- termost point, Cape Alva, Washing-! ton; the farthest north, a small de- tached land area of northern Minne- sota ending. in latitude 49 degrees, 23 minutes and. longitude 95 degrees, § minutes. the southernmost point, Cape | Sable, Florida, while the Florida keys | extend farther south. TRUE Va “Please give the grass a chance,” is 1 sign H. K. Porter, 1600 1st street. has on his lawn. No fence and the grass is doing fine. This appealed to me as being so much more courteous ‘o the public than “Keep Off the yrass,” that I asked Joseph Jenkins, che negro yard man, who coined the sign. “He said he did, that he con- zidered the usual sign “Keep Off the }rass; This Means You,” very sfob- dish. Jenkins said his sign caused the yeople to feel a personal interest in aot ramping on the grass, whereas a liscourteous sign; would offend them. *—jJUST JOKING 3 a ] ~~ een EVERETT “I say, Jack, what are those water- of gloves for?” “Wy, so that you can wash your hands without gettin’ them wet!”— Boys’ Life. She w Her Proper Plates. Mistress—Mercy, Hilda! You mustn’t clean the plates with your handkerchief! f : Hilda—Oh, that’s all right, ma’am: it’s only a dirty one—Karigaturer: (Christiana). Just Fancy. “whatcher figuring out, Jimmie?” “Ym thinking what a fortune it would be for some one if I could fig- ure out how to harness the energy |° that is wasted in shimmy dances.”— Florida Times-Union. Fitting Reve Wood—I ‘understand your automobile? Park—You are right. chee ee es “That’s pretty low down, isn’t it? “Yes. There’s just one thing I wish.” x ; “I hope the thief keeps it as long as I did and he'll go flat broke.”— Youngstown Telegram. EIGHT WRIT! W. H. Clough, Co. B, Ward 5, Sol- diers’ Home, Cal., writes: “Ihave been troubled with constipation for years. I have found Foley Cathartic Tablets keep me ina better and natural shape than any medicine I ever hav’: taken. I am almost eighty years old and I am pleased to tell you of the value I have received.” Foley Catha' tic Tablets cause no pain, nausea n |griping. They relieve indigestion, tsick headache, biliousness_ an ‘stomach.—Advt. = ee some one stole SOLDIER OS i SS GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY DETERMINES ‘is 3,026,789 square miles. by schemers and dreamers will ever live. The corridors of past history are filled with the wreckage of in- numerable such movements. It need not take much of a socialogist to as- sign the same fate to the nonpartisan league movement. Whatever it may have of good will some day be resur- rected by sane, statesmanlike minds and the rubbish will be delegated to the limbo, the. paradjse of fools, such as the leaders of this movement have shown themselves to be. -The sooner the people can choke the thing the better, and for that reason it is to be hoped that the manhood and woman- hood of North Dakota will rise in their might next November and say to those leaders, every one of them: “get thee behind me, Satan.” OLD EBENEZER. the tourist electric cookers, water and light, and other timely conveniences. A short-distance from the Pacific highway, outside of Chehalis, Wash- ington, are. situated two free camp sites for motor tourists, where they can park their cars and pitch their tents for the night. Another’ heart-of-the-forest camp is Point Defiance ' Park, Washington. two miles from ‘Tacoma. Wood and water are supplied, along with a few other aids’ to camping comfort. Camping grounds with supplies of wood and water are provided in sever- al cities of Nebraska and Kansas.‘ In Omaha, Nebraska,’ for’ exdmplé, Elm- wood park is the camping site. This is one of the city parks, about 600 acres in size. It is equipped with ovens, cooking utensils, wood and wa- ter supplies. . The furthest east camping ground officially known as such is located at Wilmington, Ilinois, on the Burling- ton Way. This is in the Kankakee valley, fifty miles from Chicago. eee | “SINGING ’EM IN” > CAMPAIGN SONGS OF LONG AGO. No. 6—“Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too.” One of the hottest presidential cam- paigns on record was in 1840 when the Democrats ran Martin Van Buren for re-election, against William Henry Harrison, Whig candidate. Harrison’s running mate was John Tyler. Harri- son had lived much in, frontier log cabins , so his followers erected log cabins all over the country and creat- ed much scandal at the terrific amount of hard cider drunk at: political meet- ings in them. This campaign was as full of songs as a modern musical comedy. Harri- son was famous for hjs victory over “The Prophet's” Indian army at the battle ot Tippecanoe River. «The song that pleased the Harrison'faction most was this;. ] OF U.-S. MAINLAND Data determined and compiled by thé Geological Survey contains some interesting facts not generally known. Some of these are: The gross area of the United States The land miles. The water area, exclusive of tho Great Lakes, the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico, within the three-mile limit, is 53,015 square miles. From the easternmost point, West By Condo area is 2,973,774 square What has caused the commotion, ’moy “ tion, ’motion, Our country people thrdugh? lt is the ball a-rolling on, for Tippe- canoe and Tyler, too! Oh, yes, with them we will beat Van! Van is a used-up man! Let them talk about hard cided, cider, cider, And log cabins, too— It will only speed the ball for Tippe- canoe and Tyler, too. The latch-string hangs door, door, door, And it is never pulled through— For that is not the custom of old Tip> pecanoe and Tyler, too. outside the Another favorite song among the Harrison men was this: That Matty loves the workingman, No workingman can doubt, sirs; For well he doth pursue the plan That turns the workers out, sirs! He turns them out of Whig employ, He turns them out of bread, sirs; And middlemen doth he annoy, By striking business dead, sirs! For Matty is a Democrat, Sing, Yankee Doodle Dandy! With spoons of gold and English coach And servants always handy! ASKS MISS KELLERMAN TO JQIN SWIMMING SCHOOL The man who carried coals to New- castle had nothing on the Los An- geles bathhouse proprietor who sent a circular letter to Annette Keller- man, urging that she enroll in his swimming classes, and pointing out that through acquatic exercises one might hope to avoid the stodgy figure. . Miss Kellerman wrote the man telling him that if he could per- preliminary sparring classes of the Y. M. C. A. and Lieutenant Omar Locklear to sign up for. elementary instruction in simple flying at the Mercury aviation school, she would ming academy. : ~Miss Kellerman will be at the El- tinge theatre. on Monday in her modern comety drama, “What Women Love.” A First National attraction, suade Benny Leonard to join the , be glad to matriculate in his swim-