The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 2, 1920, Page 4

3 an “e cS 1 Mi HRC RE reat PAGE FOUR. BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUN! THURSDAY, DEC. 2, 1920 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Fostoftice, Bismatch, N. D., as Second | GEORGE D. MANNS - - e Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bidg. - 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 ... $7.2: 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 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) ¥ ° Ss NOT A SERIOUS SETBACK Work will be resumed upon the bridge as soon as weather ‘conditions permit and the damage sustained by the ungrécedented situation at the \Yiver is repaired. The great project goes forward, however, even though temporarily delayed by a Jn such respects they vary all the way from gen-! ius toidiocy. Therefore they are not equally cap- ; able’ cf maintaining themselves or of helping ' otkers'in the struggle for existence, which no liv. | | ing” creatures can escape. And yet a Christian’ world is reluctant to admit that they should not! have equal rights to, life, liberty and the pursuit | of happiness. They are not equally capable of, managing public affairs, and yet the spirit of democracy demands government of the people, for the people and by the people. 3 How are ideals of equality to be made to fit facts of inequality? \ ‘DID THE WISE THING State bankers speaking through their executive council took proper action to solve the various i problems incident to the process of business re- ‘adjugtment in progress throughout: the, entire | nation. Cooperaiton with all state agencies was fittingly expressed in the resolutions and the bankers in conference clearly indicated that poli- tics had no place in the present situation. /There has been evidenced from the start a will- ;ingness on the part of the banking fraternity to ‘cooperate to the limit. Public treasurers have ‘expressed an intention of withdrawing public de- | posits gradually from the Bank of North Dakota ‘so that institution would not be embarrassed, or | freak of the elements. : Agencies at. work to put over this project are : entitled to the earnest cooperation of every citizen on‘ bothsides of the rivér. The completon of the bridge will be one of the greatest forward steps taken by the twin counties of the Missouri Slope. x PROVIDING A REST ROOM Women’s organizations responsible for the es- tablishment of a rest room in the Masoni¢ temple ja are to be congratulated for their thoughtfulness. Such a civic cénter as this is necessary to admin- ister to the needs of the'visitors w@hin our gates. The cordiality of our greeting toward the people who come here is a measure of our desire to serve. A city which fails to show a spirit of service or cooperation is a city without a soul. Bismarck will continue to grow and prosper only - sin proportion as its ability and capacity to serve the vast territory adjacent to it increases. \PLEA FOR ECONOMY | State Auditor Kositzky’s plea for greater econ- omy comegi;at a mostifopportune. time and the next legi; re can begt serve the state by the practice of the strictest: kind of thrift in the handling of public funds. . : In this period of business readjustment, it is essential that the state do its bit in the process of deflation\by reducing taxation through a slash in the overhead cost of government.. There is:a fertile’ field -for the practice of economy at the state house. ee Boards arid commissions have been increasing rapidly and with their multiplication has come less efficiency and less responsibility. Experts have been’ summoned from the fou corners of the earth to devise new ways to garne taxes so se there may; be more and-more in th public cofféts to solidify the political machine and lubricate its many and complex parts. Economy and retrenchment should be the watchwords of the next legislature to the end that the people ofthe stateyean be relieved of the tax load which now seriously menaces the future forced to take any action prejudicial to the best \interests of ‘the state. The next step in the process is to have a thor- ough examination of the Bank of North Dakota! ,and a restriction of its activities to that of a strict- | ly rulal credits institution., It could function as: such upon a very small overhead and do more ma- | terial good to the state than ‘in its present shape ; where it merely multiplies functions of govern-| ent without administering to’ the financial ne- cessities of the state. tayhit 6 i Practically every bank that closed is solvent and as soon as liquidation starts with the move-, ment of wheat and other farm products, these in-| stitutions which represent a combined capital of | only $270,000 and deposits of $2,531,000, all guar- | anteed by the state, will reopen their doors. There is no cause for any alarm in the present | situation. Much of the crop has been marketed | probably with the exception of wheat and the Will.You Be a‘ Volunteer Santa Claus For Such —_—[———$—$—$—$——$ As These? 3 [itn | BAGS ADVENTURES OF THE TWIN By ‘Oliver Roberts Barton. WASP’S MISTAKE Wasp Weasel was very naughty in jthat had Mr. Noah known how mean | a certain little weasel hoy was going federal reserve bank at Minneapolis estimates; that 46 per cent of the Northwest crop of that product has found its way to market. If both! | sides will merely approach the issues in the spirit | of fairness ‘and upon the firm ground of sound ‘business principles, there is no cause for fear. For either side to indulge in reprisals for political | purposes would be disastrous. There is but one route, cooperation and the, strict application of sound business principles. ! em os Gk Comparison, more than reality, makes) men happy, and can make them wretched.—Felltham: | y League of Nations is under fire again. This | time the Lithuanians took a shot at a peace com- | mission. | \ | EDITORIAL REVIEW ete ett te etn ttt ae —a—— || 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 t both rides of important issues which are being dis- cussed in the press of the day. j progress of North Dakota. Mr. Kositzky is in an excellent position to give the appropriation committees expert advice next winter on how to reduce the cost of government | prompted O. E. Lofthus, state examiner, a Town-: when without impairing efficiency and without working an injustice upon the penal and charitable as well as the educational institutions. —— INEQUALITY In 1758 J.J. Rousseau inquired into the “Origin Public funds of counties, cities and school districts Noth discovered “America, I’m’ sur of inequality amongst men” as though such ‘in- : equality were not part of the very nature of things named bank, which has to be “prepared,” Lofthus | GILBREATH’S LETTER TO HEARST and in 1776 the’ framers of the. Declaration of Independence held it to be’ “self-evident” that all men areycreated equal.” id ious conception of a common personal responsibil- ity to God, and in politics tt helped to’ dethrone tyranny and to establish democratic institutions. It was a useful dogma. But when men turned from religion and politics to a scientific study of | ttl of the private banks, in such case, and might! ohio, and in substance stated that: mankind it was questioned. A century after Rousseau and the Declaration of! difficulties by co-operation cf the banks, without | Custer fighters, was killed in an auto~ Independence Francis Galton, a cousin of Darwin’s _ wrote as follows: P. “T haye no patience with the hypothesis occas- jonally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach. children to be good, that |babies are born pretty much alike, and that the’ sole agencies in creating differences between boy and boy, arid man and man, are steady applications and moral effort. It is in the, most unqualified manner that I object to pretensions of natural equality. The experiences: of the nursery, the school, the university and of professional careers are a train of proofs to the contrary.” These lines are from “Hereditary Genius,” a . book in which Galton ‘proposed to show “that a man’s natural abilities are derived by inheritance, under exactly the same limitations as are the form and physical features of the, whole organic world.” / Galton’s evidence was overwhelming, and the more biology and psychology advance the surer his conclusions are found to be. Today no scien- * tist denies them. That leaves a problem. Men are not equal in strength and vigor, in. intelligence, or in capacity for moral growthrand enlightened public interest. POLITICAL BANKING | Closing of fifteen small banks in North Dakota, jlargely as a result of the wheat “strike,” has, leyite, to say that the Bank of North Dakota’ would have been able to those banks out ‘of their troubles if it had'Hotbeen for the ini-| | tiated law! which breaks the monopoly of public! ‘funds enjoyed by the Bank of North Dakota. ;may be withdrawn after Deceniber 2 from the last ; says. | | If there had been no state central bank, the | money belonging to counties and municipalities , This doctrine of equaltty agreed with the relig-/ Would have been deposited in nearby’ country: daltor Bismarck ‘Tribune:— , banks as was done prior to'1917, instead of being. | taken from one part of the state and transferred ; ‘to another part as has been done.. This large sum! | about $15,000,000, would have been under the con- ' ‘have been used to support banks that were in} ‘asking any leave of politicians. ' Under present conditions the private banks do: not’dare do much with that $15,000.000, as they \do not know when the Bark cf North Dakota will | ; demand it from them. ' All which’ shows that it is bad business to allow | a crowd of politicians to dominate the banking bus- \iness of a state. The county treasurer, city treas- | urers and others have a right after December 2 ;to demand their furds from the Bank of-North! Dakota, but are afraid to do co because they do not know how much cozfusion will result. The bankers advise against any sudden and large with: |drawals from the state’s bank and recommend that it be liquidated gradually. | Examiner Lofthus says the Bank of North | Dakota resembles the Federal Reserve banks, but | it differs in one mighty big respect. The Federal Reserve board, which controls the system, is com- | posed of men experienced in the banking business.) The system throughout is operated by men select- ‘ed by the banks. The Bank of North Dakota is controlled by the State Industrial Commission, | composed of three politicians—the governor, the ‘attcrney general and the commissioner of agri-; {culture and labor.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. | | “I don’t see a cat,”.all the way down | la telegram, under display headlines, to act one day, he'd. have dropped Waspy’s great, greater, greatest grandparents overboard at once to save poor Nancy such a lot of trou- ble. | school because Mr. Scribble Scratch | was away. 9 When ‘Nan¢éy put the copy on the blackboard, “I see a cat,” Wasp wrote | 1 i i | Whom do you s'pose he cau ght right in his arms? But Waspy hadn’t reached his mit ‘yet. He was waiting for recess and wondering which would taste th ‘best, a Cottontail pie, a Chipmun’ sandwich, or a tasty hash called ; “Mouse and Mole.” At last Nancy rang the bell and everybody stood up. Wasp had his eye on Chip Chipmunk, as he'd about cided on him. . Right, left, ready, go,” said Nancy. aked for the outside. | his slate. He got his problems wrong on purpose, saying that ten chickens less five thickens were only four chickens because one was a rooster. And his language; wes awful. \He said that a telling sentence must end with a capital letter and begin with a period. Also that you should, dat your “x’s” and cross your “c’s.” And Nancy asked hjm, what © he | wanted to,cross a “c” he announced | They all str that he thoughut it woulud be.good | Wesp éhased s fun to go in a boat and look at the; and made a at ‘| water, But whom, ‘ "ligar, you s'pose he “In geography he said that a riye> caught right in his arms Mr. Scribble was a stream of lan@ flowing througii , Scratch himself} hurrying into the the water, and in history he s.iid that , schoolroom and trying to make up for ost time. CHICAGO PAPER ON CUSTER SURVIVORS STIRS UP INTERESTING CONTROVERSY ‘ | bile accident, in that city, was the last | In the early part. of ‘November L| survivor of the Custer denteca 3 am | read in the Chicago Herald-Examiner | proud to say, that I am one of those boys who served under the late and oble General Geo. A. Custer in the ‘old and famous {th U. 8. cavalry, ana} thank Go¢} I am still enjoying good | health. Please add my name to those of Chas. Kupitz of your city; J. C. Creighton of (Mandan, and Serg’t s“lannigan, also of that city. I enlisted in 1869 at St. Louis, Mo., “The Last of the Custer Fighters, etc. The article was dated Toledo, Frank Fleck, the last survivor of the mobile accident.” It paid a glowing tribute to the last of those heroes. Being personally acquainted with sev-; I eral of these heroes, I wrote a letter and joined the 7th cavalry at Ft. to the Herald-Examiner, ,stating that ‘Leavenworth, Kansas. Gen. Sturgis there were a number of men living in); was in command. We marched out of North Dakota who served/under Gen.! that ‘fort with Gen. Custer, at the Custer, in the Indian wars,# among} head, the band striking up the old them was Chas, Kupitz of Bismarek; | 2nd familiar “Garry Owen.” J..C. Creighton and Sergeant’ Flanna-; ‘ ; ~-Scouting Expeditions gan of Mandan. As the result, of the} (Our main service, while 1 was with publication of my letter I am in a re-| the regiment consisted in scouting ceipe Of communications trom difter-| expeditions around the Salino, So ent parts of the country, among these; mdn and (Republican rivers; the: are the following, which may te of} U. (3. infantry was stationed at Ft. interest to the carly settlers and those! Hays, and we came in contact with; who participated in these wars, | this regiment every now and then. W. C, Gailbreath. y mention here that I was mar- | were or fired actually AH i, AW engineer four years on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad. Passenger Agent From 1880 to 1888 1 traveled as Passenger agent for a foreign steam- ship company—made eight double trips across the Atlantic during those years. While in that capacity visited most of the principle cities in Europe and have covered all the states in this ‘country, except Florida and Califor- nia FREE TO PILE. SUFFERERS Don’t Be Cut—Unt:l You Try This New Home Cure That Anyone Can Use Without . Discomfort or Loss of Time. Simply Ghew up a Pleas- ant Tasting Yablet Occassionally and Rid Yourself of Piles. LET ME PROOVE THIS FREE, My internal method for ‘the treat- ment and permanent relief for piles is the correct. one. Thousands upon thousands of grateful letters testify to this, and I want you to try this method at my expense. No matter whether, your case is of long standing or recéht ‘development, whether it is chronic or acute, wheth- er it is occassional or permanent, you should send for this free trial tredt- ment. No: metter where you live—no mat- ter what your age or occupation —it you are troubled with piles, my method will relieve you promptly. lI especiaily want to send it to those aparently hopeless cases where all forms of ointments, salves, and other local applications have failed. 4 I want you to rea:ize that my meth- od cf treating piles is the one mose dependable treatment. & This liberal offer of free treatmen is too important for you to neglect a single day. Write now. nioney. Simply mail the coupén—but do this now—TODAY. FREE PILE REMEDY KE. R, Page, 811D Page Bldg., Marshall, Mich. Pjease gend free trial of your ‘ethod’ to: i | him and hid him from the Indians. Said that Reno’s mén came up and drove them off before they had time to find him, when the facts are so as I am informed that Reno did not know or hear from the ill-fated com- maid until a day or two after. Also said that'the Sioux did not the men were buried in’ shallow ; trenches and the coyotes dug up most of the bones, and that they scraped a bunch of bones together and sent them back as th of Gen. Custer. Gets Official Account 1 wrote to Washington, D. C., for | the official account of the fight and they sert an annual report to Con- gress containing a very brief report jby Gen. Reno that contained little j that was new to mé. There should be a history of the (dave been in the Chicago post of- fice since 1888, served 22 years as ‘carrier and 10 years as, clerk; was pensioned off at $60.00 per month on the 20th of August last, after 32 years of service. 'Two days after I left the post office and upon its recom- mendation [ acceptea the; position as night watchman in the Merchants Loan & Trust Co., at a salary of ‘$125.00 per month with two bonuses per year, $150.00; a twenty dollar, gold piece for ‘Christmas’ and for Thanksgiving a basket containing a 15 lb. turkey, large can of oysters and Lunch of celery, Upon my death, the bank makes my wife a present of $3,000. So you see that I am getting along alright in my old days. Hoyrs of Toil My hours in’the bank are from 12:30 in the morning until 7:30. a. m.! Reading, writing and smoking, virt ally doing nothing, just keep awake and see to it that nobody gets away with the money—but myself. If I live to the 24th of this month I'll be 76‘ years o!d, but I don’t feel any older than I did fifteen years ago and don’t remember the time when I was sick. Always answer roll call. Family of Ten I raised a family of ten children, 7 boys and 3 girls. he oldest is now 49 and the youngest is about 13. Have 9 grandchildren. Wife and children all enjoying good health. ®Before I forget it I would like to mention the fact that before enlist: |" aight for’ poor Chip, ing in the 7th cavalry, I served three’ your Custer friends years in the 22nd infantry and was discharged at Ft. Rice, Dakota Terri- tory, as sergeant-major. Am glad that I w your letter in the Chicago Herald-Examiner, but for that I should have thought and made myself believe that I was the last survivor of the old “Garry Owen” 7th to all the old boys out there, give them my address and ask them to write to me. With kindest regards, Tam One of Custer’s fighters, Chas. ‘Hoest, 9956 Dauphin Ave. Chicago, Til. WRITES Chicago, IIl., Nov. .21, 14 Gilbreath, Bismarck, N. 0. Mr. W. D. Dear Sir: Your letter in the Herald and E: aminer interested me very much. worked all along the line of the ‘Northern Pacific in the Yellowstone valley in the year 1882 or, 1883, build- ing the road, and of course any ta- miliar with the lay of the land“ out there, and crossed the Rosebud, Toa-) gue and Big Horn rivers. I well remember the day when as a boy in Canada I heard of the Custer fight and I have read everything on the sudject that I could find. ‘Recently a man by the name of Rodriguez was in this vicinity and Jaimed that he was the only sur- ivor of the four companies who under Gen. ‘Custer that day. ‘He is of Spanish descent and no doubt was in some Indian wars during..that period, but his accoupt differs very. much from ee ES ried at Ft. Hays in 1879, our M troop} WANTS HIS NAME ADDED commander, the late 2nd Lieut. Tom! anything that I have read. that I have Custer, stood up with me. i grave doubts as to his veracity. Raising H—I in South - Surrounded by Indians When the Ku Klux was raising h—1|_ He said that they were surrounded in the south, we got Washington or-| by the Indians, who were concealed ders and the regiment left by rail for! in the brush and could: not be seen, South Carolina. We saw no service and were in a ravine. i there. After we had been there some| Official accounts, I’ believe state time the war department issued an} that Custer and his men were killed order tnat there would be only four) on high ground, and had made a stand married men allowed to each troop! at various points. and as my troop M had six such un-| He siidwthat Custer was a very fortunate ones, | made application for! cruel officer and punished his men my dischargq and got it at Darling- when at fault in the most inhuman ton, S. C. I ieft there and arived in manner. And that he was shot by Chicago just in time to witness the! one of his own men while charging big fire in 1871. é |the Indian camp. I settled down in Galesburg, Ill.,!_ He claimed that he, Chicago, Nov. 10th, 1929. My Dear Sir: — * In one of our daily papers‘appeared the other day an article signed by you refuting the claim made by a party in Tojedo, Ohio, that a Gertain Frank Fleck, who was kiiled invan automo- ATARGH it is usually benefited by the vapors of— VICKS Over 17 Million Jars Used Yearly Cy himself, had’ {7th cavalry, but it is not in our pub- ‘lic library, buts] may be able to find it somewhere’ $et. ; If you cold get the facts from | those men you mention in your letter, or turn this note over to them, I would be greatly obliged and feel very much honored to ‘get any information from them. Those men certainly saw and did | things that are worth while, and I would’ prizé very’much ‘a letter from ‘any one of them. 9 judging by the name, as is Yours very respectfully, John Duff, ' 4926 N. Leavitt, Chicago, Il. RATHER INDEFINITE Cincinnati, Jowa, ‘Nov. 21st, 1920. Dear Sir.— | I have read your letter in the Her- jald-Examiner of Chicago, about the | Custer fighters and I thought ] would | write you and find out if you would ask some of those old fighters if they | knew an old soldier of the 8th U. S. | cavalry in the 70’s who fought the Apaches in and around (Laramie, Wy- oming. He and ten others captured 43 Apaches and each of them, for | thig act, was awarded a medal of honor, J weuld like to know whatever ‘became of him. We have not heard | from him in forty years. I have his medal which he left with my mother. wish you would tind out if any of now what -be- {came of him. \ H, B. Foran. | oe ! BETTER BABIES The crusade for better babies has ‘spread from coast to coast, and taken firm hold of American mothers. Few | women realjze how much the ill (cavalry. 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