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

AGE FOUR BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE OV. 20, 1920, TURDAY, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE\D. MANN Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - -. - Fifth Ave. Bldg. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) . 5 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bi ck. 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota....... seeee 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) ro JOB’S TURKEY The man whovis “as poor as Job’s turkey” is poor indeed. For the story runs that this.particu- lar turkey was so poor that he “had to lean up against the fence in order to gobble.” With Thanksgiving time so near and visions in_ sight of a fat, juicy gobbler lying in the roasting pan with amputated legs in the air, the picture of Job’s turkey, thin, scrawney bird, comes to mind. Just how the term originated is hard to discover. A search of the entire Book of Job throws no light on the mystery. There’s no mention of a turkey there. Job’s obsession was boils. Job surely had his troubles but no turkey. On Thanksgiving Day in millions of American homes the turkey promises to be the center of the scenery.: The folks will gather in the living room and talk ‘of the weather—but they'll be thinking of the..browning turkey in the kitchen oven. Odors wafting from there will give an appetizing charm to it all. And,abstract discussion will only cease when mother says: “Everybody come. Din- ner’s ready. Willie, you bring grandpa’s chair. Now, father, ask the blessing.” Oh, boy, isn’t it a grand and glorious feeling. As a Thanksgiving thought may it not be hoped that every American family may sit down to roast turkey and cranberry sauce and all the trimmings! And may it not be hoped that no family is com- Editor ~ pelled to dine on so cadaverous a bird as Job’s well-known turkey ? NINE HANDS A bale of cotton passes through an average of nine hands from time it leaves the farmer till it reaches the mill. This statement was made the other day by a speaker before the meeting of the American Cotton Association in Little Rock, Ark. Cotton probably. passes through more hands, and has more profit tolls taken out along the line, than any other crop in America. The little cotton farmer sells his bale from a gin platform or in a little town to some small buy- er. The small buyer may sell to a bigger buyer or to aspeculator. The speculator may sell to a city buyer—and so on down the line, each purchaser | that withdrawals from the Bank of North Dakota expecting to get a profit out of his transaction. Thus, by the time the cotton reaches the mill, a number of profits have been taken out of it by men who had no vital part in its production or financing. For many years cotton farmers have complain- ed that their crops have never brought them a profit. And, meanwhile, middlemen, speculators and spinners have made untold profits. To combat these conditions Oklahoma cotton growers are organizing a cooperative association, throttgh which they will be able to hire “classers,” who: will see that they are paid according to the actual grade of the cotton they produce, and ex- perienced salesmen, who will seek to market the cotton direct to large buyers or mills, and thus overlap the heads of the small middlemen. In this way, Oklahoma fa¥mers expect to gain for themselves some of the profits which have heretofore gone out to men who never contributed an ounce of labor or a drop of sweat to the rais- ing of the crop. Similar movements are in progress elsewhere in the southern states, and a general cooperative marketing system is expected to’ develop from them. NORMAL? Recent news dispatches show tHat there is a surplus of labor in practically every large in- dustrial city in the country, “but in only one or two places is it abnormal compared with pre-war normal conditions.” What are these “normal” conditions? Preliminary estimates of the Wisconsin Indus- trial Commission show that unemployment in- creased 3 to 4 per cent in September over August and wages decreased 7 per cent. The American Association for Labor Legisla- tion says that prospective widespread unemploy- ment in the United States calls for immediate legislation to avert a repetition of the bread liné crisis of 1914-15. The Massachusetts State Employment office reports that applications for help from employers fell off 22 per cent in October compared with Sep- tember, and 42 per cent as compared with October, 1919, In Chicago, slackness in the garment industry is. growing, while in New York it has reached large proportions. In the lumber industry mills are closing down. Memphis reports that 95 per cent of the hard- | Forum, | t i curtailed 50 per cent. The National Industrial Conference Board says |. |fully, shout that the independent voters passed wood mills will be closed by Dec. 1. On the Pa- cific Coast sawmill production is expected to be that “unemployment, according to reports of var- ious state bureaus, is increasing, but has not yet attained serious proportions.” Serious proportions! Oh, no, thege are the “normal” conditions of pre-war times! They are conditions under which between one and three million workers are constantly out of work, want work, and can’t get it. THE IMPOSSIBLE “How great is the universe !” You gasp when you gaze on the steely stars hung against the cool velvet of the autumn night. Far out and from sun to sun you send your imagi- nation through the infinite, forever trying to “reach behind the veil,” and forever doomed to |. failure. Perhaps there rides on a corpuscle of your blood some tiny being to whom that corpuscle is a world and a single drop of blood a universe. Picture his speculation on his universe. Suppose some bacillus, wiser than his fellows, should tell them that their universe was but a droplet floating in the body of an animal of huge dimensions and that outside that animal was an impossibly big world and a universe of terrible size. How the “common people bacilli” would mock this dreamer in their midst. f So man. - 1s If there should, ris¢/in the world a philosopher who'd gravely offer the theory that this world and all the worlds man sees are no more than specks in the blood stream of some super-animal living in a world of super-animals and dreaming at stars upon his horizon and the vast universe they swing in, there’d be no end of mockery. “Impossible! He’s a faker” might cry one bacil- lus to another in the blood stream of man. “Im- possible! He’s crazed!” surely would cry man to man floating in the veins of the cosmic animal. - The impossible is never more than that which transcends the grasp of human mind. The bake-your-own-bread campaign will be fine unless it lets loose a revival of those old jokes about the bride’s biscuits. A New Jersey bride wore a mask to a ball and lied of blood poison. The sage was right who said | “Be Thyself.” EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion.of The Tribune. They ‘are Presented here in order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which are’ being dis- cussed in the press of the day. ' ON WITHDRAWING FUNDS Any attempt to show consideration in dealing with the gang that is running the Nonpartisan league at present, always is interpreted as evi- dence of surrender or weakening. Since the adoption of the initiated laws, many, of the independent voters of the state have urged be made gradually, in order that the change would cause the least possible disruption to business. It is estimated that about $9,000,000 will be sub- ject to withdrawal under the initiated law. How much of this actually will be withdrawn it is im- possible to estimate now, but probably 75 per cent would be a conservative estimate. The law leaves it optional with county boards and city officials whether to withdraw their funds or leave them in the state bank. There is no question of violat- ing the law involved in withdrawing funds gradually. The appeal for a gradual withdrawal is :con- | strued as “panic” by the league gang. They glee- the law and now are afraid to enforce it. But what banks will suffer, if any do, from the law? Certainly the banks which have been openly unfriendly to the Social ng will not siffer. Many of them haven't a lar of public money on deposit from the state bank. They either have refused to accept it on the terms offered or have not been given any. Some of them viewed such deposits as no worth what. they cost, be- cause of the uncertainty as to when there would be a sudden demand for them. No banker cares to pay 4 per cent for a large sim of money which may be withdrawn on a few hours’ notice by an unfriendly depositor. For that reason, the so- called anti-league banks have very little public money on deposit. If any banks suffer, it will be those banks which were classed by Mr. Waters as “other league banks.” If there are banks in North Da- kota which have been fed more state money than they were entitled to under good banking princi- ples, they will suffer. I’ there are banks which have been dealing heavily in loans to league lead- ers and league emploves, on more or l2ss doubt- ful security,’/on the tacit understanding that they would be well taken care of in the matter of public money, they will suffer from a sudden call. The Bank of North Dakota is a malignant growth which is being removed from the financial body of the state. The only trouble with the initiated law is that it will not make the clean job that a surgeon’s knife should make. It leaves some traces of the growth behind. ‘But the healthy parts of the body will benefit from the removal, and even if the operation causes some temporary inconvenience to the healthy parts, the surgecn cannot be blamed for the job—Fargo | THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME | ‘ MRs,smiTH 1S PAVIA? HER WOMAN FIVE DOLLAR DAY Now AND SHE #) GETS DONE AT THREE acLock! AND They GAVE HER AVICTROLA FER HER BIRTHDAY Too- OF CovRSE ' Latir COMPLAININ | 7 ‘ FIVE DoLLARS? WHEN DIO SHE START THAT P SA Now THAT ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS By Oliver Rob CUTIE COE. This was what Dr. Mink said to Mrs. Cottontail that made Cutie, un- der the covers, wriggle with dismay: | “Yes, Mrs. Cottontail, this disease that your son has, called disinclina- tion, is different from any other and must be treated differently.. If you “Very well,” said Dr. Mink, open ing his ¢ dark brown bottle. follow my directions I'll guarantee | that you'll have him b in school not later than tomorro’ “Oh, doctor. how tha exclaimed Mrs. Cottontail, at ,the same time nodding to Mr. Cottontail as much as to say, “Isn't it a good thing we have such a learned jphysi- ul I'll be,” cian to save the lives of our chil- dren!” Mr. Cottontail nodded back as much as to say the same thing. “Very well,” said Dr. Mink, opening his case and taking out a large, dark- »yrown bottle. “First of all he must have a tablespoonful of this medicine erts Barton. TO SCHOOL “Goodnes,". gasped Cutie. sixty million germs an‘hour.” er a billion germs a day,” whis- pered Aunt* Bunny, almost completely spi s Doctor, is he that bad?” nodded Dr. Mink sige- ly. “And if he stays in bed, these “That's and taking out a Ta germs ar kely to run clear [away with him. He must get out of bed st once, and get up his muscle just te show,'em they can't do it.” “How, doctor?” begged Mrs. Cotton- tail. “Well, he'd bettter chop about a month’s supply of wood. That's fine for germs./ Then he mustn’t eat a thing. Thal only feeds ’em. And when fe isn't chopping: wood, he must study grammar. Germs hate grammar.” utie could stand no more. He jumped out of bed and hauled on his ,every hour. It's made of bitter-root, | clothes. pepper-weed and nettles, and is gu “Mother, I’m cured now,” he said. anteed to kill a million germs a min- you ‘spose school’s taken up ute.” CIVILIZATION TO INVESTIGATION a: Chicago, Nov. 20.—Recovery of the “lost chapters in the career of man” hidden in the ancient buried cities of Western Asia is.an imminent possib lg ity and an Amercan _responsibilit! ba Dr. James HenryBreasted of the Uni versity of Chicago, reports. Dr. Breasted, who is professor of Egyp- tology and oriental history there, has | recently returned from a survey of | most of the important buried cities of the Near Orient. The collapse of the Ottoman Em- pire has opened the birth-lands of civilization to unrestricted investiga- tion, Dr. Breasted said. “It is evi-| dent,” he added, “that there rises be- fore us an opportunity unprecedented in the history of humanistic research. Centers of Human Lite “The ‘great centers of human life a | JUSTJOKING | oo i Pears and Poker “Do you raise pears in Louisiana? Bishop ‘Potter once esked a man! whose acquaintante he had made on| the train. “We do,” was the reply, have threes or better."—Boston ‘ script. On the Go “Mrs. Gadder says if housing con ditions don’t improve she may have | to live in her motorcar.” “That would be the obvious thing to do,” replied Mrs. Sniperton. “She practiéally lives in it now.”—Birming” ham Age-Herald. An Easy Job ; Lady (to new, servant): “You quite understand, Bridget, that I shall only be ‘at home’ @véry Wednesday from three to five?” ‘Bridget: “Yi8, mum. (To herself): in the ancient world, the mighty cities and capitals of Babylonia, Persia, Palestine, | Syri aa Minor and petean the regi iF ih re ithe’ earli” © “divilized ees arose out of savagery and barbarism to bring civil- ization to barbarian Europg—all these ‘treasuries of human records which are rapidly perishing in the whdle region about the eastern end of the Medi- terranean lie there silently awaiting the spade of the excavator.” It will be possible to clear up the leading ancient buried cities of Western Asia within the next 25 or 30 years or perhaps a generation, giv en sufficient funds avd adequate per- sonnef, according to Dr. Breasted. The task vests with Ameri¢an orientalists, he said, because no other country has the available resources. man had a hivenly sitivation, sure it’s | yerself has got it. Wid the misthress only at home two hours ivery wake, phwat a roarin’ toime Oi can ‘ave av | it!”—Spare Moment Babyless. Towns Y Nov. y dot the forlorn landscape of Poland ai are no longer s, declared Dr. Herschel C. W; ief of the Amers ican Relief admi ation, who re- cently returned from that country. He | | & BISM. K. NORTH DAKOTA w y bir Bridget, me swate soul, if iver a wot |_| Known all over the Northwest for Quality © MATL US* YOUR FILMS &© | The orp swrr! THe oo SruFF! A Hook oN IT! ' supervised the distribution of Amer- | Dr. Walker. Thickly Dot Poland | 20.—Babyless towns H nd in many of them there! DON’T FALL FOR ri! Line ALWAYS HAS A food to Polish sufferers. | All of the infants, born in the stricken areas in the last two years succumbed to starvation and the di- | seases it introduces, or they have been yemoved to placesy where they can be | Properly fed, Dr. Walker said. | Squalid Dugouts | Hundreds of houses that once [echoed a baby's laugh are gone. and whole families live in squalid dugouts | without light or ventilation. | Some mothers have kept their, chil- | dren alive on grasses and roots made ; jinto thin, tasteless soup. Hunger | brought the slaughter of cows by the | whalesale, and milk can be had now lonly by the wealthy. | These conditions. precluded main- | tainance of the ordinary birthrate, but | other sufferings have obliterated it al-| (most entirely in parts of Poland, said | Homes have passed away with ‘the departure of both men and | women for service in the army. Ema- | ciation of the women and the prevail- ce of misery on every side has made impossible or forbidden the bringing of children into a world in whicn only hunger, -kness and early death appear to await them. Neuritis Attacks Nations Eating White Bread Exclusively Adelaide, Austra Nov., 20—Dr. Hargreaves, a distinguished Austra- Nan chemist, declared at a conference of the master bakers here that the nations whicu eat white bread were getting ciose to the border linc ot reutritis. He advocated brown bread, saying that modern science de- manded that wheat should be milled whole. : He said that, undoubtedly, cam- vaigns in favor of whole mea! bread will be shortly launched in the United States and England, and it vehooved Australia to take prompt action. The members of the conference agreed with the doctor's observations, but said that Australians, with the exception of cranks: and dyspeptics, refused to eat brown bread. i >. — | With the Movies * — AT THE ELTINGE One of the ‘most spectacular scenes ever portrayed on the screen is in- corporated in Allan Dwan’s latest in- dependent production, “In the Heart; of a Fool,” presented by the Mayflow- er Photoplay Corporation through the First National, at the Eltinge theatre tonight. The scene depicts a terrifice explos- ion and fire“in a coal mine. As rec- orded in the Dwan production, the! scene represents a blazing inferno of! falling timber. dense clouds of smoke and frenzied, fear maddenéd menj trapped in the pitch black darkness} of the mine and blindly stumbling} ; toward the “lifts.” William Allen White, famous} American journalist and author of the book upon which “In the. Heart of a Fool” is based, was present dur-} ‘ing the filming of the scéne. 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After the applause that greeted the conclusion of Patti’s sing- ing had'‘subsided, the Swedish singer approached Mme. Patti and congrat- ulated her but not without making reserves as to a certain detail of omission anda slight criticism of vertain notes. “I feel that Ignay tell you this with- out offense,” sWe added, “because, you see, I am Jenny Lind.” Displeased by the reproach, Patt replied drily: Oh, yes, I have heard of you: my grandmother spoke to me of you.” — = \ Boy Rat Catchers Go On Strike and City Raises Bounty Virginia, Minn., Nov. 20.—To avert what threatened to be a veritable plague of rats here, following a strike of school boy rat catchers, the city council was’ forced to double the bounty paid for each rodent killed. The boys have promised to renew their slaughter of the pests at ten for each hjde, payable by the city clerk. The former rate was five cents. ‘The rodent menace is causing an ever increasing loss in freight ship- ments heldin Virginia, according to R. C. Haxton, local agent of the Du- luth, Missaba and Northern railroad. Recently Haxton and several other empoyes of the road kept watch in a warehouse one night in an ‘endeavor to solye the mysterious disappearance of case eggs. They discovered the thieves to be rats, Haxton declares. Half a dozen huge rats advanced upon a case of eggs while they were watching, he says, and one of the number entered the case, wrapped his body and tail about an egg and tumb- led to the floor. The other rats then grasped the thief’s tail and dragged him with the egg into a hole in the floo.. Authorities have thus far been un- able to explain the rapid increase in rats which infest almost every city on the range this year. Near Million Mark York, Nov. 20.—Based upon Present demands for telephones, New York y will reach the » lion mark by the end of 1 Whittemore, val the New York Telephone company, stated in testifying at a ‘hearing her before the Vublic Service Comm sion. 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