The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 22, 1920, Page 4

BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE MONDAY, NOV. 22, 1920 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN Editor Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, 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 cone in this paper and also the local news published erein, All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE " 7.21 BURNS AND Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) 1.20 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 1873) <GESo REPARATION The peace treaty provides that the allies shall notify Germany by May 1, 1921, of the total repar- ation claims against ‘her. The treaty also says that before the claims are fixed, Germany shall be given “a just opportunity to be heard.” France has now consented to recognize this part, of the treaty to which the signatures of her representa- tives were affixed. It is very late to begin the work of assessing Germany’s capacity to pay. But, France has op- posed all previous efforts to start the inquiry going. The French government has hoped against hope that the treaty pledge to Germany could be evaded. For it has been France’s desire to assess no finaindemnity amount, but to claim all of Germany’s‘surplus production. No other power supports France’s desire to crush Germany economically. If, therefore, the French government can be held to its agreement, less than six months will elapse before Germany knows the worst. By May 1st, Germany will have paid the allies in money, shipping, animals, coal and otherwise, five billion dollars, in accordance . With the peace treaty terms. Thereafter, for thirty years, she must continue paying the new assessments whcih the allies are now to levy. It will be a gigantic sum. But, whatever it is, it will be known to the Germans in advance. Ger- many will have the assurance that whatever she produces above the stipulated amount will be her own. There is reason, to believe the German peo- ple have purposely refrained from making an effective effort at economic reconstruction to baffle the estimates of the allied experts concern- ing Germany’s future capacity for production. ‘But once the indemnity is fixed, Germany can be- gin her real recovery. should reveal Germany’s true economic strength. Men find it:more easy to flatter than to praise.— Richter. THE SURVIVOR’S TALE Is is not strange that the hero of a novel is never’ killed on the first page? And is it not strange that amidst, all the chances of life you, Gentle Reader, should be the one person in all the fworld who sits where you are at this instant read- ing this column? x Stranger still, perhaps, that amidst all the pos- sible matings of men and women since the world began your own particular ancestors made the marriages that they did—to bring you into exis- tence! ~ If your father or your great-grandfather had happened to marry Eliza instead of Jane, what would have happened to YOU? Would someone else be'reading this in your place and wondering, just as you are, why it is he and not you? But somehow or other it has all led to you, and you can tell the tale of the Pilgrim or other ances- tors that found or fought their way across the sea and made a place for their children. And, per- haps, you say how good it was that the ship did not founder and the passengers survived. It séems providentialt And yet if our ancestors had missed the combination that led to you some- one else might be filling you place and thinking of Providence, too. Dead nien tell no tales; and neither do men un- born. The living survivor has the say, and what- ever led to him and to the things that he is used to and likes seems as though it must have been specially planned. Headline says “Jap Factories Close.” Califor- nians would like to know if that is “close” mean- ing shut or “close” meaning near. FIDGETY CHILDREN i Parents and teachers should ever bear in mind that the impulsiveness and everchanging activity of a number of so-called fidgety children are but symptoms of mental fatigue. Normal children are active, impulsive and in- ‘quisitive. This is nature’s method of education, and children, therefore, should be allowed to exer- cise these mental traits. Rigid discipline tends to curb natural activities, which then seek outlets in other.more or less roundabout. ways. For example, too rigid disci- pline tends to cause the harboring of resentment against, and disregard for, those in authority. When once discipline is relaxed the child, hav- ing failed to learn to control his impulses, fre- quently finds himself in difficult and compromis- ing situations. 5 In school, disciplinary measures should follow the form of substituting desirable activities for| Next summer, therefore, undesirable ones. Children normally concentrate on the thing at hand, but under the artificial re- straints of school life they may lose the ability and desire to do this, and become unstable on the direction of their activities. The evidence of fatigue must be watched for and prevented by assigning short tasks that should always be carried to completion, and these follow- ed by short periods of relaxation. The tasks should be gradually lengthened, com- mensurate with the development of the child and made more difficult. The Reds put the Wran in Wrangel. The Red Cross deserves your dollar. t Profiteers who came to grasp remain to gasp. Debs hopes Wilson will not pardon him. He’s heard how hard it is to find a house. ‘ The partition of Turkey probably won’t affect the output of Turkish cigarets (Made in America,) Mark Twain was enshrined in a real hall of fame before the New York commission voted him in. Samuel Rzeszewski, nine years old, is a chess wizard. Better than that, he can-spell hiseown name. , They retired Admiral Scales.as superintendent at Annapolis because he could not do aweigh with hazing. Every man is the maker of his own fortune, and must be, in some measure, the trumpet of his fame.—Dryden. ‘ Every day some European nations are signing compacts. That’s been the trouble over there; the nations are too compact. London doctor says the fifth child is usually the strongest in a family. But he usually arrives when the bank roll is weakest. Frank Vanderlip bought a New York village to get rid of undesirable citizens. Surrounding towns that get them won’t thank Frank. - | 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 eides of important issues which are being dis- cussed in the press of the day. THE LADY! FROM OKLAHOMA American womanhood is to be resented again in Congress.. Miss Alice H. Robertson of Muskogee, Okla., a portly woman of 65, has been elected as a Republican to sit in, the House of Representatives after March 4 next. : By all accounts Miss Robertson is not a victim of her own emotions. For that feason, among others, she may go further and better than did Jeanette Rankin of Montana in reflecting credit on her sex as a national legislator. The Oklahoma congresswoman is a genial soul who knows how to smile as she goes about the serious affairs of life. She was a patriot of pa- triots during the war. In a motherly way she re- | ceived the soldiers who came into her, restaurant in Muskogee and charged them nothing for what they ate. Her services were freely at the disposal of the Red Cross in canteeen work, The late Theodore Roosevelt was one of Miss Robertson’s warm friends. He admired her as a woman and an American. He appointed her post- master of Muskogee and liked the way she acquit’ ted herself in that post. If she is a Roosevelt woman in her sense of what is right and wise, there need be no anxiety as to her public service in Washington.~ Possibly she will be instru- mental in keeping Oklahoma on the Republican side of the fence, now:that itvhas landed. there.— ' Minneapolis Tribune. ae WILL LABOR CO-OPERATE? One of the most interesting and encouraging items of current industrial and economic news, is | that twelve thousand trade unionists in Baltimore engaged in the building trades have declined to accept an increase of ten cents an hour in wages, which was orderzd when their rates were in- creased last vear and which the:r employers were willing and ready. to pay. It is understood that they have taken this extraordinary action because of their keen appreciation of the present economic situation, the exceptional need of promoting build~ ing to the fullest possible degree, the necessity to that end of cooperation betw2en employers and workmen, and the ccsirability of reducing prices to their normal level. ‘The taking of such views is creditable to the men in the highest degree, and should cettainly meet with its reward in the hearty appreciation of their employers. While it does not, of course, detract in the siightest, from the credit due to the men, it is gratifying to be able to assume that the general cost of living in Baltimore is declining, so that the men will per- haps be as well off without the ten cents an hour as they would be with it is the cost of living had not declined. The incident thus serves as a re- minder that as the cost of living comes down, wages must also come down, but of course the two processes must be so coordinated that the stand- ard of living of wage-earners will not be impaired | STORY OF A BOY BA CHAPTER TI. YY Toke Yi X} \ ADVENTURES By Oliver Roberts Barton. OF THE TWINS MR. SCRIBBLE SCRATCH DIS- j| What could be wrong? “APPEARS One morning iMr. Scribble Scratch, the fairy schoolmaster, didn’t come to school . The Magical Mushroom rang the austed around’ and picked up the { The school clerk said exactly nine ‘to the’minute and something had to 'ke done. ‘Nancy tiptoed over to Nick and whispered to him about it, and then the twins both tiptoed back to | bell for the children to come, Nick; the Magical Mushroom (who as usual; ‘had settled himself in place to be brown leaves ‘that had blown down|Mr, Scribble Scratch desk) and whis- into ‘the’school room under the oak {pered to him about it, and this is tree over night, and wiped the frost| what came of it all. Nancy was to “Stay hy me,” whispered the Magical Mushroom. off the blackboard, for you’ remem- getting most ber the weather frosty and cool. ‘Nancy passed the slateg and. things was and laid out the rollbook all ready Scribble to begin, for when Mr. Scratch arrived it generally took him some time to put away his goloshes and-earmufis and otner things. After while everything was ready and, everyone was in his seat wait- ing, but no Scribble Scratch appear- ed. For the first time since Meadow Grove school had started in the early fall, the fairyman schoolmaster did not put in an appearance. Mh. Scribble Nick was to scnoolmaster 8 bittersweet, ; be substitute and wear Scratch’s speaks, and hurry over to the house by the dump of and find out the trouble. As soon as Nick had gone, Nancy rang the taking-up bell, which meant for everybody to sit up straight and sion Chattermg to his ne:ghvors. “Stay by me,” whispered ‘ag: jeal (MMshroom,” “and I'll help you out. You see I know everything.” “Thank -you.” answered Nancy, much encouraged, and she began to read some Ww ses out of a book. (Copyrighted, 1 ‘. EL A. SATURDAY EVENING LETTER: ( By Justice J. £. Robinson) *” November 20, 1920.—The election is over and the votes counted. It was largely a contest between the coun- try and the towns+between the pro ducers of wealth and the traders. We rejoicé with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. For ev- erything there is a cause. Our frient the oldliners lost because they fol- lowed non-progressive leaderg and gid not give to your humble servant $50,000 to become their Moses and to lead them out of the wilderness and into the promising land under « new name, the Progressive Party. In politics, as in religion, the thing to do is to assume a virtue thougt you have it not, and a name which gives promise of virtue and progress. Sore Throat, Colds Quickly Checked By Hamiin’s i Wizard Ol! Sore throat. and chest colds should never be, neglected. Few people realize how often they re- sult seriously‘ if' not | promptly checked. Hamlin’s Wizard Ojl is a safc, simple and effective treat- ment. Used as a gargle for sore throat it brings quick relief. Rubbed on the chest it will often loosen up a hard, deep seated cold in one night. Keep a bottle on the shelf. Wizard Oil good dependable prep- aration to have in icine chest for first aid when the do “away. How often sprai and burns occur in ev As little troubles like ay be far bruises, cu’ family, as we! ache, toothache, stitf neck, and aling Wiz- aching feet. ard Oi! will always. bri Generous size bottle 3 If you are troubled with constipation or sick headache try Uin's Wizard and that no distress will be caused.— Harveys Weekly, ; Liver Whi Just pleasant little pink pills at druggists for $0 Guaranteed, A bad name, such as I. V. A. is a deadweight. The Nonpartisans have won a vic- tory. For two years theyyretain con- affairs of state. For the victory 1 do claim a large share of the-credit, and give some to my friend Carl Kositzky tand to the Bismarck Tribune. God works in a mysterious way His wonders to perform. turned’on the high taxes of 1919. In that year all property ‘was assessed at three times the valuation of any former ~-year, and to that assessment the State Board of Equalization, the Governor’s Cabinet, added about for- ty per cent, making the total asse: ment five times that of any iformer year. That gavé the |grafters and the local boards of cities, towns and schools a {chance to double or treble the ordi- ‘nary tax levies. They did it and the result was a roar against the high taxes. It resulted in the defeat of |the league candidate for senator at jthe special election in Towner coun- {ty. Then, discerning the signs of the 'times, in January, 1920 jat a special session of the lawmakers, we ad- dressed to them. a message on the necessity of reducing both the state jand’ the local ‘tax levies. The sitzky furnished the exact data, wa, given a place on the f: page of th | Tribune. The state es were re- duced twenty-five per ut, and the | ountry was saved. axpaye? | received a refund check rebate of |twenty-five per cent, which showed him exactly the amount of the state tax levy and showed it to be a,mere bagatelle compared with the local tax trol of jthe administration and \thej It so came to pass that the fight} message or address, for which Ko- |" NDIT RRR RRR aes” levies. Were it not for the reduction it is safe to say the League would ; have lost at both the primary and the general election. Hence, for the re- |duction, we must give unto Caesar ‘that which is Caesar's. thief and a robber and we have not yet disposed of it. At the next, ses- sion of the lawmakers I must urge a further reduction of the taxes and penalties for the years 1919 and 1920. 1 must urge \them to consider the workmen's insurance act and to clas- sify and fix insurance rates at a defin- ‘ite sum, instead of leaving the same to a bureau. Thus far, as the figures ‘show, the rates of the insurance tax ihave been five times too high. The sum collected is-over half a: million dollars, while the loss is twenty per vent of the Sum: the insurance tax has: been levied where there is not the least possible risk. That adds to the high cost of living. It adds one dollar a ton to the price of coal. In hotels it has \added twenty-five to fifty cents a day |to the cost of eachsroom and it like- | wise adds to the cost of the table. The tax on business is doubled or trebled as it is laid onto the ultimate con- |sumer and customer. We must not ‘forget that in any form the tax is a ‘thief and a robber. | Under our progressive Nonpartisan flaws the state and every county and | city has a right to engage in any busi- jness the same as an individual and to imake expenses and some_ profit, the same as other corporations. The pub- lic corporations have no moral right !to continue in existence as, great big |shameless nurslings. If we had a | James Hill in charge of the“affairs of ‘the state and the public utilities he would quickly show how they: can |Jearn to exist without levying any |taxes. He would show how to cut down the expenses and to make every tub stand on its own bottom. It is downright folly. and standpatism to | think that because a nuisance tax has Jalways existed that it must. continue | to exist. The thing to do is to com- |mence the year 1921 by reducing the assessed valuations of all property fitty per cent, and year by year © make a similar reduction until noth- ing is left to reduce. The conditions of.the state, its crop fail- ures and falling prices demand greater thrift and economy in public and in private affairs. J. E. ROBINSON. | PEOPLE'S FORUM | PLE'S FORUM | CS Bismarck Evening Tribun = Citizers of Bismarck may oz inter- ested to knew that Angela Murrav ,Gibson, Scottish Reader and nter- |tainer, who appeared in the Auditor- jium some time ago for the benefit of the “boys in the trenches” is now in motion picture work, having open- ed a studio in her own home town, Casselton, N. D. : “it will be recalled that whoy Gibson was here she time acted in the “ * with Mat ‘ guerite Clark, Geo. Cohen and others, ;and had assisted Maurice Tourn2ur ,in a Mary Pickford produ n. Since jthen she has take up the motion pic- ture photography end of the work at Columbia University, under the direc- torship of Carl Louis Gregory, F. R. Pp. S. Formerly chief instructor in !Cinematography Signal.,Corps school of photography, Columbia University, l'New York. It is (Miss Gibson's aim to use many ‘North Dakota scenes and as far as possible to use home talent. It might be said that the studio is in the form of a school as each one who ist given part is jtrained by Miss Gibson. ‘ducational films and one reel come- i dies are to be the specialties. | An agreement has been entered in- 'to with James W. Foley to screen a number of his poems. Altho these /will be educational films they will be handled as comedy and drama. One of these poems is about ready to be distributed. —Correspondent, Noy. 19, 1920. | Tanlae, wai The tax of 1919 was essentially a; And in many cases } | curb-stohe. One day ORTH WEIGHT IN PURE GOLD Says Tanlae Overcome His Trouble Of Lb Years Aiter Everything Had Failed, “T tried fifteen years to get hold of the right medicine, and thank good- ness I've found it at last,” said W. H. Van Allen, residing at 2130 Prinston Ave, St. Paul, Mina., in telling the other day of his remarkable improy- ing in heefth after taking Tanlac. 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Until came the advent of the silversheet ss a medium for imparting entertaining knowledge of life, the study of the ‘histrionic art was truly considerably. limited, for it encompassed only the things which could be done on a stage of comparatively small / dimensions. Now, thanks to the motion picture camera, the locale of a dramatic or comedy situation is almost, unlimited and simultaneously is thus provided possibil s of expanded action such as goes a long distance in augmenting the importance of make- believe. A LETTE FOR WOMEN From a Woman Whose Serious Ill- ness Was Overcome by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Garnett, Kas.—‘‘I first took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for a! complete nervous breakdown follow- ing the birth of my oldest child. I got up too soon which caused serious fe- male trouble. 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