The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 7, 1920, Page 4

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Daily by mail, per year (in Daily by. mail, per year (in state ou Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota...........+ 6.0 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Editor CITY MANAGERS Two hundred American cities now are being di- rected by city managers, City management is nothing more than the op- eration of city.. government by methods in use in private business. That this method of running a city no longer is an experiment or governmental fad, was made evident when 200 experienced city managers held a convention recently to exchange ideas. ‘The mere fact that these men were getting together for the common good of their collective communities was in itself significant of the ideal- ism of the new method. The old political system of municipal government still has staunch defen: ders—and they may be right—but whoever heard of the politically chosen mayors of 200 cities hold- ing a convention for the purpose of trading ideas and experiences? The manager plan of municipal government has developed a group of experts who know cities as other experts kfiow the human body or the solar system. It is based on the idea that the city government is the largest business institution in any city, and, therefore, deserves expert man- agement by political organizations. Politicians have claimed that the city manager plan is not democratic in that it centralizes au- thority in an appointed official. But it is pure democracy compared to the autocratic political boss systems that it has supplanted in many com- ‘munities. The political boss is the invisible gov- ernment responsible to no one; the city manager is a boss, too, but a visible boss, directly respon- sible to the community. “The city manager plan was born in Staunton; Va., twelve years ago, and it is not recorder that many cities abandoned the plan after once getting used to it. PELLAGRA AND POVERTY It was Colonel Gorgas, the sanitarian who made the building of the Panama Canal possible by ‘abolishing yellow fever and malaria from the Isthmus, who said that if charged with the health of a community and allowed only one sanitary measure to bring about health he would choose doubling wages. q What he meant was that poor people suffer most from disease. Official investigations prove the correctness of this conclusion over and over again. The latest facts presented deal with a study of the dread disease pellagra, made by the U.S. Public Health Service. ’ The service found that the prevalence of pel- lagra depends almost entirely upon the amount of family income. It found 1312: persons in ‘a special study of it made of this disease whose income was less than $16.per half month, Among these 1312 persons were 56 cases of pellagra, or a rate of 42.7 per thousand. Among the 1037 persons whose half month income was between $6 and $7.99, there were 27 cases, or ata rate of 26 per thousand. Among the group earning $8 to $9.99 per half month, the: rate per thousand dropped to 12.8. Among the $10 to $13.99 group, the rate dropped to 4.1\ per thousand, while for those earning $14 or over, the rate was only 3.4 per thousand. The conclusion is obvious. Poverty means ignor- ance, bad hygiene and sanitation, lack of variety | in food—result disease. The abolition of pellagra is merely a question of the wage rate, just as in-| fant mortality is a question of father’s income.| Men cannot force other men (and women and children) to live below a decent subsistance level | without society having to pay the bill in ignorance, disease and death. Pellagra and poverty do not pay. At Irish football games they have biers instead of cheers. Poor time to break jail, considering the labor situation and the housing problem. What is a mandate? England seems to think it’s a machine with wheels which require lots of oil. , New York limits the height of buildings, but ap- parently hasn’t limited the height of black- mail. * Cuba’s moratorium doesn’t keep the fans away from that mausoleum of financial hopes, the race ‘been ‘arranged in chronological order by Prof. John 0 | born to live in this present life. The one has been jereated, why not the other? Therefore, there is AS HE SAW LIFE Andrew Carnegie’s autobiography now is pub- lished. He left it in the form of notes which have Van Dyke. Carnegie records it in the motto which he en- scribed in his libraries at New York and at Skibo, his estate in Scotland. It is such a’sentiment as one might expect of a man who built so many public libraries in the United States. “He who cannot read is a fool. “He that will not is a bigot. “He that dare not is a slave.” No less interesting is his creed, the final sen- tences of which are, “It would be no greater mira- cle to be born to a future life than to have been reason to hope for immortality. Why not hope?” SONLAND Thus wrote Longfellow: “Look not mournfully into the past * * * * Wisely improve the present * * * Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear.” Good stuff, even though a bit platitudinal. Native Americans boast of the things the Fath- ers accomplished. Imported Americans keep alive a tender regard for “The Fatherland.”;;,; er Bet Quite natural and, in a way, commendable. But do we not sometimes lose sight of the fact that WE are fathers, too, and we are fathering a land for our sons and their sons. Doesn’t the thought help us a little not to rely on what our ancestors have done for us, not to be guided necessarily by precedent, not to be steered forever by the dead hand, but to remember that we, too, are making history and that we need to make it not alone to save our own skins, but for the safety and freedom of our descendants? Every citizen in the world today must face the problems of the world, He must help overcome | them, or thy will overcome him and his sons. Let him forget past prejudices and be not too! sure of past bridges. Let him remember Fatherland less and Sonland more. They say William the Conqueror couldn’t sign his own name, but everyone admits he packed an awful wallop in’either illitera itt. Those famous ii-cent meals served at Ellis Island, are just what one might expect of a 17-cent meal, decording to fromer government guests. 4 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. REMEDY FOR TOWNLEYISM It is easy for the physician, whether skillful practitioner or cunning empiric, to get the ear of the sick man. The promise of a remedy makes its way and frequently the quack prescription gets further than the simple measure advocated by) disinterested intelligence. In a sense the farmer is a sick man. He has bec upset by ills, some of which are real and substantial and perhaps a few imaginary and hy- pothetical, but none the less prostrating on that account. These ills have been seized upon by the socialistic empirics of the Nonpartisan league and quack remedies sold at’the rate of $18 a prescrip- tion, renewed annually. It is not always easy to rescue the patient from the clutches of the medi- cal fraud, but there is a sure, though slow, way. There is nothing new in this and iN ‘its applica- tion to the toils in which the farmer has been en- meshed by the Nonpartisan league. The griev- ances of the farmer with their resulting ills have been capitalized politically by the Townley organi- zation. Theleague grip tightens there, as the be- guiling argument makes its way, and loosens here as the farmer’s eyes are opened to the extent to which she has been befooled; but the grip will continue to a degree as long as removable condi- tions give a pretext to the glib cunning of the Townley solicitors. A very accurate picture of the situation was drawn by J. A. Shrower, secretay of the Nebraska Farmers’ Union, for the benefit of the joint con- gressional committee which is considering reliet measures. This shrewd farmer, uttetly opposed to the schemes and methods of the Nonpartisan league showed to thé Committee just how the buc- caneers got to the farmer and predicted a revival of waning Townleyism unless .a constructive pro- gram of relief came through the next admiris- tration. | a Without passing upon Farmer Shrower’s reme- dial plan, it can be said unhesitatingly that his diagnosis is correct. The way to detach the Town- ley leech from the ailing farmer is to remove the ailment, to terminate or mitigate the grievance of the farmer and leave the organizers and collec- tors of the Nonpartisan league no ground to stand upon. Upon a program, which makes farmers relief its first purpose and Townley. elimination sequential, the nation and states are engaging their best thought. The agricultural class must be impressed by the knowledge that national and state legislatures, on the eve of their sessions, are unanimous in’ ranking as first in importance the jonly a few cents) at drng stores necessity of moving to the rescue of the tiller of track, the soil.—St. Paul Pioneer Press! 5 ADVENTURES By Oliver Rol Seribble Scratch Los The wind blew colder a and there were days in the Meadow Grove school when mittens couldn’t be taken off long enough to have the writing. lesson. Mr. Scribble Scrateca had to keep his ear-muffs on ’most all “Markie,” scolded the school master, OF THE TWINS berts Barton. His Temper. i he banged on his desk until the ground | ud colder, | shook. And the wHole school sat up straight as stic! Except Markie! Scribble Scratch was, out of ence that day. His ears were war enough, but his long toes and his lor i nose were both cold, and that made} [his temper touchy. “Sit up there!” the time, and the result was that hey ° He. fairly jumped down the aisle couldn’t hear scarcely. It really way answers were pas: One day it got so ve when Markle Muskrat made a mistake on his slate and went to wipe it out with his tongue, his tongue stuck fast, and he couldn't en it loose any’ way he tried. “Markie,” scolded the schoolmaster. up there! What’s the matter?” “Nuh-wuh-nuh-wuh-nuh,” was ut Markie could answer, of course, aid he just couldn’t sit up. But with his earmuffs on ’n all, how could the fairyman be expected to understand. He’ thought Markie was sleepy, and —> "AT THE ‘MOVIES oo ELTINGE “Harriet and the Piper,” Anit: Stewart’s latest First National pic- ture, which will be screened at the Eltinge theatre, commencing. tomor- row, is from Kathleen Norris’ story of the same name. The story, which has a Greenwich Village setting, ran se- rially in the Pictorial Review,and has since been published in book foi 1 Supporting Miss Stewart is an all-star Ward Crane, Charles Richman, Irving Cummings, Byron Munson, Myrtle Stedman, (Margaret Landis, Barbara La Marr Deeley and Loyola O’Connor. Bertram Bracken directed the production. Those who have already seen “Harriet and the Piper,” both at ‘the coast and in New York, are unani- mous in declaring it the best film vehicle in which Miss Stewart has cast, includi aS “WS 7 ‘Pape’s Cold Compound” is Quickest Relief Known Don't stay stuffed-up! Quit blowing and snuffling!: A dose of Pape’s Cold Compound” taken every two hours un- til three doses are, taken usually breaks any cold right up. The very first dose opens clogged nostrils and the air passages of the head; stops nose running; relieves the headache, dullness, feverishness. “Pape’s Cold Compound” costs It acts without assistance, tastes nice, coptains no quinine—-Insist upon Bape’s! , cold ‘that | any whispering atoall;and gave Markie such a jerk that— isgraceful the t hat—oh,,1 hate to say it. Markie came up but.the skin on his tong didn’t. It’ stayed right on the cold slate! “Ouch!” cried Markie, holding his mouth. : Of course, Scripble Scratch was so | {sorry that he'd lost his temper he \didi’t know what to do. But that's ithe way it is, all the sorriness in the j World doesn’t repair the damage we {do in a moment of impatiente. How- ever, he put a ‘nice soft spider-web over the sore place on Markie’s was all right next dd d, eptng “In Old which as one of the essful of last season’s pro- Coe & | R es S 4 Zl. cop) ey Uiberal Dad “Yes,” said the young wife proud- ly, “father always gives something ex- | Pensive when he makes ‘presents.” “So 1 discovered when he gave you jaway,” rejoined the young husband, feelingly—London Tit-Bits, A Doubtful Compliment He was an Englishman, and he was pouring out his soul to an American girl. “You are divine,” ;he told her. “As graceful as a swan, as—!" But she interrupted him: “Say sen- ny, I want! to know right no that swan swimmin’ or walkin’?.. Tid-Bits. ae | He Should Have Lingered “Wha was the melancholy ivoking ‘gentleman dore in oil?,, ep Mrs, Gnagg’s first. hus- “He turned his face to the wail and died.”—Birmingham Age-Herald. GIRLS IN BAD HEALTH | Hundreds of girls go to work day | after day, afflicted with some. ail- ment peculiar to their sex, dragging fone foot wearily after | working alv with one eye on the clock and wishing for closing time to jcome. EB such girl should rely on Lydia | Compound to restore her to a normal |healthy*condition, then work will be la pleasure. i - mous root and herd | Leen preeminently suce ssful in con- ltrolling the diseases of women, Why [don't you try its—Adv. * | tongue, as that’s very good, they -say, | and. Mar! oa » Was] the other, } Pinkham’s Vegetable, | GOLDEN SHOW IN | THE FRST RANK | Capacity Audience Greet Pro- \ duction of the “Three Wise Fools” Th capacity audience which saw “Three Wise Fools” at the Auditorium last night doubtless will heartily thank John Golden, producer, for /more than the play itself He richly ideserves thanks for sending so ca- pable a-cast on a long, road tour té the Pacific coast. The cast, whicn included Helen Menken, Claude_Gill- ingwater, Harry Davenport, Howard Gould,Donald Foster and others, is | virtually/the same. that “has. appear- led since it opened its ‘remarkable {run in New York. , Bismarck, too, was fortunate in see- ing the play. After playing in the Twin. Cities the show came direct to this city. The next stop will be at Butte and after another night in Spo- kane the show will reach the Pacific coast. Few productions make the i cross-country trip to the coast... so few stops. Comedy, pathos, and emotion ar2 happily blended in “Three Wise Fools,” which is thoroughly enjoyable and much more attractiveythan the title of the show. The theme is not unusual, depicting the changing of the order of living of three old bach- elors by a mere slip of a girl, the daughter of the woman they all had wooed and lost. ' Gillingwater, the lanky, rich bachelor, was big for the i acter in the production. Hei- jen Menken, a young actr in the ‘leading feminine role, curried herset? ; through difficult motional scenes witi istinction- \ ‘POPULATION ON FARM | IS GRAVE ISSUE (Continued from Page One) jot the movement ‘forward to the | farm.'” ~ | Indian Question Discusing the Indian question, Mr. | Payne urged that citizenship be ex- tended to all Indians and said their { children should, where, possible, be jeducated with the white children‘and |“encouraged in every way to become z part ‘and parcel of our national iznship. The policy of issuing fee patents jto the Indians for their lands was, jstrenuousfy opposed by .the secretary | who declared that to contiitue “thus | | placing them in a position to sell is, | jin my judgment,» fraught with the; | gravest dangers and will inevitably { pauperize fhousands.” ' Mr: Payne be- | jlieves. that until the; Indians are educated and have become. accustom- ! ;ed through long experience to deai- ‘ing with the white people. they j Should not be premitted to deal with {them on “even terms.” {, Claude i Many Acres Patented =, | During the Ja fiscal’ year Nhe | general land office allowed entry of 16,434,491 acres of Indian and. other, SS BANKS WELCOME | WOMEN EMPLOYES | Speaking of the many fields open ' to trained women, F. L. Watkins, i Pres., Dakota Business College, Fargo, N. D,, s: “An astonish- ing number of our women graduates go to banks. Within a few days, Edith Krause was sent as assistant to the cashier of the Dakota National Bank of Dickinson, Hazel Broder- went to the State Bank of Alice., Kea Hannaford to the Farmers | State Bank of Hazelton,’”” ) Dakota Business College courses ‘are thorough., Graduates succeed everywh ““Kollow the $uc- 1 { i i | Fo, Ft The Best Cough Syrup is Home-made, You've. probably heard of this well- known plan of making cough syrup at home. But have you ever used it? When you do, you will understand why thousands of families,gthe world over, feel that. they could hardly keep house without its. It’s simple and cheap, but the way it tnkes hold of a cough wilt quickly earn’ it' a, permanent place in your home, hy Into a pint bottle nour 24% ounces of Pinex; then add plain ae Or, if desired, honey, or corn syrup. | Either ; never spoils, and for three times its cost. It is real ronderfnl how quickly this home- remedy conquers & congh—usually It seems to penct _air passage, loosens a dry: hoarse or tight lifts the phlegm. heals the mem- nd ge almost immediate re ndid for throat tickle, hoarse. ness, croup, bronchitis and bronehial sthma, P'nex is a highly concentrated com- ond of connine Norway pine extract. nd has Neen used for generations for throat and chest ailments, appointment ask vour for “2% ounces of Pinex” with and don't accept anything niranteed to give absolute satis- money refunded. The Pinex Warne Ine —— =—————— « faction public land, an increase of approxi- mately 4,500,000 acres o¥er the pre- vious year. More than 11,800,000 acres were patented in the year, an increase of 1,000,000 acres over 1919. Discussing the National Park sys- tem, Mr. Payne said that a number of projects involving the use of nation-~ al park lakes as storage places had been pressed, but that he had opposed then on the ground that it meant the establisment of a precedent which would eventually lead to the com: mercialization of the national parks. “The conflict between the demands of commerce and the preservation of these wonder places involves con- stant vigilance. In my view their preservation is of first4mportance. It should be a settled policy of the country,® regardless of, any question of utility that when in the wisdom of Congress national parks or monu- ments are definitely set apart they must be preserved in their integrity, forever free from any torm of ‘com- mercialization.”” EXPRESS HOPE FORERIN TRUCE London, Dec. 7.—Efforts to arrange a truce in Ireland was the dominating topic of this morning’s newspapers which printed many rumors emanating from Irish cities. These showed intense interest in the- situation and a wide-spread hope for definite results. FOR SALE For Sale: House and Barn. In- quire Mrs. Eppinger, Grand Pa- cific Hotel. 30) 3 as ‘GUTICURA HEALED: TING BURNING PimplesOnFace-AlsoBlackheads, | Large and Red. Lost Sleep. “By eating rich foods, my fac “vas getting redder until it was full Gs of pimples and blackheads. & j\ These kept growing larger \) and were red and hard. My face began burning ard Icould net sleep on ac- count of the itching. This \ trouble lasted about three months. | “I saw an advertisement for Cuti- cura Soap and Ointment, and I cought them, and I used two cakes of Cuticura Soap: and one box of Ointment when I was healed.” {Signed) Andrew Benny, 2215 West Sta St., Cleveland,Ohio, Mat.29,1919. o=F-Cuticura Toilet Trio-@e , _ Consisting of Soap, Ointmentand Talcum, promotes and maintains skin purity, skin comfort and skin health often when all else fails. The Soap to cleanse and purify, the Oint- Ment to soothe apd heal, the Talcum to powder and perfume. Then why not make these gentk, fragrant super- cteaafly,emollients your every-day nilet preparations? 1d everywhere at 2i'cents each. Sample each cise by mail, Address: “Suticere, Dept. & Rilaes’” > - BIG BARGAIN HOUSE FOR SALE I am offering a strictly modern house of six rooms and bath, full basement di- vided into three rooms, hot water heat, porch up stairs and down, nice corner lot with retaining wall, large garage worth $1,000.. I can assure a buyer that this is a very desirable home and ‘in an- excellent §neighbor- hood that is known by its smiling children and agree- able neishbors. Yes and as a croperty holder near by said, you might say that this is perpetual sun shine; “Can’t veu see that beauti- fulful view to the Missouri River?” Ican assure you that this is a thing of beauty and to the buyer a joy for ever. Price only $4700, $600 cash. Hurry. J. H. HOLIHAN 1st Door East of post office Phone 745 cess “Write F. L. Watkins, i F | 806 Front St, Fargo, N. D. DA | i 3 / ul, « ) A 4 ke | { i | | | | | \ wf : \ j s | | | ae | RA | Me 4 poate