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BISMARCK \DAILY TRIBUNE 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, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - -- -_ Fifth Ave, Bldg. The ‘Asbociated 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 ..... 7.20 Daily 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 1873) | THE PAY IN PEACE The trade of-the United States with Mexico this year, according to the government’s estimates, will touch the $300,000,000 mark for the first time in history. This is almost three times the trade | between the two countries five 'years ago. There may be glory in war, in revolutions, but _ there is golden prosperity in peace. Mexico now is | dlearning this. A, few years of this peaceful pros- perity will do more to wipe out banditry ambitions from peon minds than an avalanche of laws and an army of police. TALK BY MEN \ Men wrote and talked against hoop-skirts. And women stopped wearing them. Men wrote and talked against bustles. And’ women stopped weraing them. Men wrote and talked against the tight hobble- skirts of a few seasons past. And women stopped wearing them. Men wrote and talked against the thin, low shoes women wore in winter. Then, last: winter, women rushed to buy heavy arctic overshoes, and the demand was greater than the manufacturers could fill. Men wrote and talked against filmy silk stock- ings. Now, women .who follow the fashions closely are quitting silk stockings and are wearing wool. Adam probably“criticized the attire of Eve. Certainly this sort of criticism has been common so long as. anyone can remember. But it is prob- able that all the talk by men about what women chose. to wear never had the slightest effect. That is as it. should be. What is suitable for women to wear is for women and not men to decide. Critics whose opinions on this subject are ig- nored need only exercise a little patience. The record shows that every style they condemn soon passes into the discard. Sky AN EXCEPSION / Surely it cannot be that the ways of law are always devious and difficult of understanding. It must be that sometimes ordinary folks can under- stand what occurs in courts of justice. _ To put the case, there is the decision of Judge E. E. Cushman in federal court at Tacoma, Wash., the other day. , Where bankers or plumbers or steeplejacks or brokers, with their untrained minds might have been confused by the problem presented Judge Cushman,, that worthy, educated in the law, made the matter simple and to be understood. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Hermans were arrested and chér with having made liquor and carrying it to.customers. Possessing liquor is an offense against the peace and dignity of the state of Washington. Transporting liquor is an offense against the federal government. Hence—on the first charge, that of making and possessing moonshine, the Hermans were tried in state court and fqund-not. guilty. The wheels of law continued their turning. In due course appeared the Hermans before Judge Cushman’s federal court, to show cause why they should not go to jail for transporting liquors. “But,” protested Hermans. “the state court found we didn’t have any liquor. If we didn’t have any liquor how could we carry it?” “No liquor; no transportation of liquor,” rumi- nated Cushman. “To carry a thing one must have the thing. That seems to be true.” ‘He thought it@over. Suddenly there was the dawning light of understanding. “You’re right!” quoth he. “If you didn’t have liquor you couldn’t carry it. You must be right. You’re free!” That was simple, wasn’t it? Why then, do you say, the law can’t ever be understood? Noman should so act as to take advantage of another’s folly —Cicero. TO KILL WILDCATS Every dollar invested in wildcat stock is thrice lost: First, by the man who saved it; Second, by legitimate industry forced to com- pete for capital against blue-sky stock crooks; Third, by society, which would have profited by use of the money in legitimate business. And it isn’t always the dollar sunk in mythical gold mines or oil wells that thus commits suicide. W. B. Colver, former member of the Federal Trade Commission, cites the case of a substan- | capital. It got the money on these terms: ot! ‘every dollar invested by the public the company received 30 cents. The balance was split three ways—23 cents to the underwriters, 29 cents to sociation, Colver said that a way must be found to protect against financial middlemen who exact such terrible toll, and the out and out’ crook. Efforts of various states to do this through “blue-sky” laws have been ineffectual. There are obvious drawbacks, also, in proposed schemes to | license stock issues through a federal‘agency or some recognized: stock exchange. Federal license would make the goxernment al- most a guarantor of issue ok’d, and would hamper many worthy enterprises not able to comply with technical rules. The stock exchange plan would put legitimate business in the hollow of the hand of the stock broker. | Publicity is Colver’s :solution—enforced publi-, city of all facts involved in the stock issue. He weuld require detailed statements of a con- cern’s financial and physical condition, of the pur- pose for which the new money would be used, of all promotion fees and payments to bankers, un-} derwriters or brokers. - Responsibility for false statement would be pin- ned on the company itself. its officers and pro- motors, itg financial agents and all others con- cerned in marketing the issue. With such knowledge of the facts, and such pro- tection against lies, an investor would go into a deal with his eyes‘dperi, “" ‘ EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Trfbune. They are + presented here in order that our readers may—have both gsides of important issues which are being dis- cussed in the press of the day. TO PUT FINISHING TOUCH TO TOWNLEYISM “Townleyism” didn’t do well in the elections, in which is had sown much seed of the money of farmers and workers. It lost all‘the states it at- tempted to win outside its original birthplace in North. Dakota, and it retained its hold there by a margin so narrow that its fall from power clear- ly is only a question of another election at the farthest. It seems plain that Townleyism has reached and passed its high tide, and its ebb is likely to be much: more rapid than its flood. That is a! reason for thanksgiving, of course; yet it would be a tragic folly:if we remained con- tent to let it go at that. For though Townleyism used wrong methods and proposed very doubtful remedies, it would be unfair to forget this: that unless there was'some- thing radically wrong with the process of getting commodities ‘from the producer to the tonsumer, there would and could be no such strength to Townleyism as it has developed in half a dozen states. Indeed, before Townleyism came along we were all of us freely admitting that there WAS something wrong, and that in the interests of producer and consymer' we: ought to see what could be done about it. : The first step in the real and final and complete- ly victorious fight against Townleyism is to, find out what is really wrong. The next step is to cor- rect that wrong. If we’do not do that, even if Townleyism passes for the moment the spirit of discontent that created it will flower anew in some other and perhaps more dangerous form. If we admit that it costs too much to get com- modities from the producer to the consumer, it does not at all follow that we must embrace Town- ley’s remedies. Townleyism would have us lean on the state and put the state into business in the place of the middlemen. As to that it is no con- vincing answer to say that it ig “socialism” and that all who favor it are “socialists” if not Bolshe- viki and something less than hundred per cent Americans. A far better answer is to point out that unfortunately experience has not: shown the state to be a good enough business, man to be like- ly to afford much relief either to producer or consumer. fs It isn’t Bolshevism, or even a very advanced sort of socialism, to be for state elevators, state mills, state.this, that and the other thing; but in view fo the fact that we haven’t got our govern- ments in state or nation down to.a sdusinesslike basis yet—very far from it—it isn’t very good sense, either. Mr. Preus, in opposing the Townley candidate fer governor, came th> nearest anybody has come yet to admitting that there is some validity to| the farmer’s complaints and to proposing better remedies than Townlev offers. He talked co-oper- ation; and that was wise talk and had a good deal to do, we have no doubt, with his election. Th2 citrus growers, the raisin growers and the fruit growers of the Pacific Northwest have shown the way by their successful cc-or2rative marketing or- ganizations ; and there is ro reason why the wheat growers shouldn’t be ag successful if they will drop the will-o’-the-wisp of Townlevism and,go | at it, and if the shortsighted Minncapolis chamber | of commerte men who have prevented farmers’ co-operative organizations from acquiring a farm- ers’ member of their body will stand out of the way. : The kind of fight that has been made against Townleyism hasn’t stopped it in'four years. Isn’t it about time that a more intelligent kind of fight were being made against it? For it IS a menace— the discontent on which it roosts is STILL a men- ace—not to the home and the family, but to the farmer himself and to sensible conceptions of the proper spheres of business and government.—Du- tial, going New York concern, in need of more luth Herald. the sub-underwriters and_18 cents to the brokers. | Addressing the National Coffee Roasters’ As-! r_ A slow CHRISTMAS WINDOW S. HOPPNG MORE MYSTERY 1 Nick was puzzled very much when he saw Waspy Weasel’s footprints ou Mr. Scribble Scratch’s back porch, be- cause, when he had left the Meadow Grove school only a few minutes be- i er, he was sure Waspy Weasel was | What a. sight snow’s cold, he was look: | there. But as sure ap that was Waspy’s trac ing at. The little boy didn’t waste any more time wondering, as most folks do when they’re puzzled, but go to work at once to discover what the trouble might be, and why no one answered his knock. He tried the kitchen door, and, finding it unlocked, stepped in- side. But no Scribble Scratch was in the kitchen, so he went into the dining room. What a sight met his eyes! There sat the fairyman in his chair at the breakfast table with everything set JUST JOKING Lightest Kind of Work. 5 Lazy Lorenzo and Dog-Tired Dick ; were discussing something they knew | little about—work. | “I think,’ said “Lazy Lorenze, “that | if they did away with work alto-j} gether it’d put an end to these ’ strikes.” ' “Yus,” said Dog-Tired Dick. “That'll | be the time when everything's done’; by electricity. Only got to press aj button and the job’s done.” i horror dawned in Lazy ; Lorenzo's eyes. | “That won't. do!” he said, emphati- | cally . “Who's a-goin’ to press the; button?”—Houston Post. - Inquisitive The precocious infant had just re- turned from his first day of school, | istering intense ennui. The an-) us family gathered around. | Donald,” .asked his mother “what did you.learn today?” at, nothing at all?” ! ope; there was a woman there who wanted to-know how to spel} cat, so I told her. . That's all.”~ American Legion Weekly. Appealing to Habit “A week ago the proprietor of tha i soda éountain was on the verge of; bankruptcy, and now he is getting | rich.” ‘ “How come?” “He put latticed swinging halfdoors in front.”—Judge. Secret of Success | ncle George, what is;success in small boy. t's gettin’ ither | as highly o° yourself.”-- | [London Blighty. Meant What She Sa Matvel—-How ean you be s cere? You told Mr. Borelelg fore in search for the fairyman teach- | } ‘rectly. a “» ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS By Oliver Roberts Barton. before him—orange, toast, eggs and coffee, and perhaps there was a dish of oatmeal, too, but I can’t say posi- tively for the person who told it to me forgot it he hadn’t touched 2 morsel 0 hing except almost hall a cup of offee. Fairies must be a ot like people, and want their cof- fee first thing in the morning. met his eyes! But there! It seems to take a lon: time to tell, doesn't it! Serib! Scratch was sound asleep, and nodd- ing until his nose nearly touched his plate. His glasses had almost slid off, and his stiff starched collar look- ed as though it would surely cut his neck in two and he was snoring like a sawmill, Over on the tiny mantel shelf the clock pointed to half-past nine. But it might have been half-past ninety for all the sleeping schoolmaster knew. It certainly was puzzling. Suddenly Nick spied ahother of Wasp Weasel's tracks. you were sorry you were out when he ‘Oh. no, my dear, I said 1 hesgalled wh Twas out. iS y\ tol éhil’ some time ‘Ou see, h ostor. Transcript. When 1 am ii Something Wrong The Teacher—You haven't solved a single one of your problems cor- Little Ethel—Why, the answers must be right; I got ’em all off tie ouija board.—Detroit News. Through “Na more week-ends for me.” Huh?” DONT FUSS. WITH MUSTARD PLASTERS! Musierole Works Without the Blister—Easier, Quicker There’s no sense in mi a mess of mustard, flour and water when you can easily relieve pain, screness or stiff- ness witha little clean, white Musterole. Musterole is made of pure oil of mustard and other helpful ingredients, confbined in the form ‘of the present white ointment. It takes the place of mustard plasters, and will not blister, | Musterole usually gives prompt reliei "| from sore throat, bronchitis, tonsilitis, croup, stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia, headache, congestion, pleurisy,rheumae tism, lumbago, pains-and aches of the back or joints, sprains, sore muscles, bruises, chilblains, frosted feet, colds of the chest (it often prevents pneumonia), 35c and 65c jars; hospital size $3.00 m tired of washing dishes for; other people.” — Louisville Courier- | Journal. DIRECTIONS FOR GOOD LAWN Good Judgment and Much Work Necessary, But the Results Will Be Found Worth While. Success or failure in. lawn-making fs based on the preparation of the seed improved by growing some soil-build- ; ing crop preparatory to seeding. The land should. be turned and sub-soiled to a depth of 6 to 12 inches, and ' harrowed until it is thoroughly, pulver- ized. Tefore turning, a liberal appli- j cations (G to 10 tons per acre) of 00 pounds of lime should be applied. When a perfect seed bed has been made, apply 600 to 800 pounds of 8-4-4 commercial fertilizer and harrow thoroughly into the first few inches of roll, The lawn grasses should be careful- ly selected, and only those grasses or mixtures used that are adapted to that locality and are capable of making a good sod under existing conditions. A mixture of Kentucky blue grass, Ber- muda, and white clover is especially | suitable to the partially shaded lawn, | the blue grass predominating in the shaded portions of the lawn and the | ; Bermuda in the sunny spots while the clover keeps the entire lawn green throughout the winter. The mixture should be planted dur- ing early October, using 30 to 35 pounds $f blue grass, four to five amount of Bermuda roots per acre. The seeding of the blue grass and clover should follow the planting of ‘ the Bermuda, which should be planted in rows 18_inches apart, dropping the roots 12 to 15 inches apart. and cover- ing three to five inches deep with al- ternating rows. Separate sowings of blue grass and clover should be made, sowing the seed broadcast by hand or by use of a mechanical seeder. The | seed should be covered lightly, brush~ ; ing lightly or raking into the soil, and j this followed by a light rolling. | FISHIN’. | I tell yer what Islike ter do Along "bout now, when winter's through, An’ summer comes a-flutterin’ | | Aroun’ with birds an’ everyth Is jest ter dig some bait an’ git My fishin’ pole an’ go an’ sit An’ fish! 4 i , 4 | L loves ter hear th’ narpy song ‘Th’ crick keeps singin’ bll along— g that somehow seems ter say ain't it fine an’ gran’ ter day. in't God good!” While all th’ time atch th’ bobber on your line \ An’ fish! ter stretch n’ ketch " then— i A whiff There ain't no t "At ever could | Th’ things 1 feel Oh, lots o° things ‘at fellers do Js fine—but say, 'twixt me and you, Th’ whole caboodle, bunched in one. Aln’t got one-half th’ sure pop fun "Atel kin get from beatin’ it Away from all o’ this ter sit An’ fish! —John H. Styles, Jr., in the Christian | Herald, ‘TRIBUNE WANTS — FOR RESULTS ~ i bed, which recessarily requires great | ; care and good judgment. ‘he physical ; condition of the soil may be greatly | l-decomposed stable manure andj; pounds of clover, and a proportionate’}~ NTON BERNICK, of St. Paul, Minn, who says he now eats better, sleeps better and works better, as a result of taking Tanlac Says all b's trlends are talking about his impro: “There must be something wonder- ful about Tanlac for it has made me feel better eat hetter, sleep better and work better,” said Anton Bernick, of 136 East Congress Street St. Paul, Minn., a well-known employee of Swift & Company. “Tanlac has helped me so much that all my friends are stopping me on the street and asking me what it is ( }ithat“is making me look so well, and ofcourse I'am always glad to tell them it is Tanlac. I hadn't been down sick in bed exactly, but I hadn’t felt just right for a long time. I was all run down, had indigestion, by appe- tite was poor and nothing agreed with me. In fact, I had to force down every mouthful I would eat and I would always suffer, from indigestion jfor an hour or so ‘after every meal. U also. had headache and would get so dizzy at times 1 could hardly keen from falling. I simply had no ambi- tion or energy to do anything. « “Just as I have already said. Tan- {lac has made a brand-new man of 'me and I am feeling fine now in every {way. Oy course, I will always recom- mend Tanlac.” Tanlac is sold in Bismarck by Jos. Breslow, in Driscoll by N. D. and Jos. H. Barrette, in Wing by H. P. Ho- man,/ and in Strasburg, by Strasburg Drug Co. 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