The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 13, 1920, Page 4

BISMARCK DAILY TRIBU MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1920 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - + 5 7 Ot Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY a ETROIT Kresge Bidg. SMITH Fifth Ave. Bldg. yCiticato ette Bldg. Breet AYNE, BURNS AND NEWYORK - - = - - Editor | A MILLION A DAY A million a day. | about equals the human population. 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) 0 6T 20) 0 i : Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck. 5.00 birds and their young, fruit, vegetables, flowers, Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota....... +s+++ 6.00! fo0q stores of all kinds. The average cost of rats bered. them, do not seem to mind it. and in barns. THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) HEALTH CONFERENCE The All-American Conference, which called to- gether the greatest medical and social experts in all three of the Americas to do battle with vener- eal diseases—the greatest single plague that faces the world today—has come and gone after aj week’s session that will undoubtedly have far- reaching effects throughout the western hemis- For Europ acknow- ledges the primacy of the United States in the at- phere and even the eastern. tack of the twin diseases. Already the great English medical journals and even the smug daily papers that think they can suppress an evil by refusing to mention its name, are demanding that Great Britain call a similar conference. The work of the conference was eminently prac- tical. Split into small groups of specialists it met each morning in separate groups to discuss each and all of the problems that went to make up the whole great problem, sorted out the suggestions! / that were vital and threw aside the chaff, and then at evening sessions, submitted the results for the discussion of the whole body. The problems were all vivid and vital. and the conclusions reached will go far to do away with the perplexities that must be faced by those who lead the attack against the enemy. Later, after re- viewing the great fund of information already ac- cumulated and the gist of the accessions gained during the meeting, the conference mapped out a tentative plan for a practicable and flexible three- year program for All-America warfare on the dis- eases. It is of course, too much to hope that. such a plan devised for so many different peoples and dlimates should prove perfect; but it will certainly go far to supply a basis on which each country.can build in accordance with its particular conditions. While there was naturally some difference of opinion on some of the details of the work on ve- nereal disease control, the conference was unani- moous in urging a franker discussion of this ser- ious health menace than has hitherto prevailed.. The point is well taken and we hope our readers will interest themselves in this important but neg- lected phase of public health work. ODD FACTS The only wound Napoleon Bonaparte ever re- ceived was in the battle of Rathisbon in 1800, when he was struck by a piece of shell. The splin- ter of shell is now inthe Army museum in Paris. In the municipality of the Swedish village of Orsa the inhabitants pay no taxes of any kind and each village in the district has its telephone, which is open free to the public use. There is in Delhi a wrought iron column which was placed there nearly 1100 years ago, and at present time shows pratically no signs of deterior- ation. = Mexico has had 50 revolutions within 61 years. For many years there have been no Tuesday brides in Madrid, as the Spaniards consider Tues- day an unlucky day for marriages. ~ The normal efficiency of the blind in England is anything between 35 and 50 per cent of the efficiency of the normal person. Forty per cent of blindness occurs after the age of 35. 1 The largest;national parks in the United States are Yellowstone, Wyoming and Montana, contain- ing 33,000 square miles Yosemite, California, con- taining 1,512 square miles; Sequoia, California, 250 square miles; and Mount Ranier, Washington, 207,300 acres. According to the United States public health service, there is at least one rat for every person in the country, and it costs about half a cent a day to support each rat. In other words, rats cost America about $100,000,000 every year. Five is the great sacred Chinese number. Naturalists tell us that a bird will eat twice its own weight in 24 hours. During the middle ages and in the renaissance period, brides wore crimson to the exclusion of all other colors.— Duluth News-Tribune. ‘No ACCIDENTS There is but one possible objection to the “No Accident Week” movement. That is, so many per. sons are led to the opinion that it means one should avoid risking his life and limb but that week, and that one may continue his wasteful habit of run- ning all sorts of risks the other 51 weeks of the year. It should be No Accident Week every week. Tf any weary monarch sceeks a haven, there’s a vacant place at Lucerne. nearly $4. States. quire scientific and organized effort. LAWYERS They poke fun at themselves. anybody that laughs at them. sors than the justice of it.” / pint and ’gree.” ' when seated between two lawyers.” stances. a good judge; and lastly, good luck.” hardly get along without them. Blues. 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. FARM HOUSES? on farms decreased 30 per ‘cent. to urban life; of a scattered population living on large farms.” been put at the farmers’ disposal. his home. Rats annually cost this country about $365,000,- 00. oroving itself best fitted to survive in a modern world. Surrounded by enemies, it continues to hold its own. In this country the rat population In rural neighborhoods the people are greatly outnum- | It has been said that of all animals the rat is In some other countries to the south every house is overrun with rats. The humans, used ty But that doesn’t make rats any more desirable. Rats destroy or damage grain of all sorts in fields They destroy young chicks, wild to each individual in this country in one year is More menacing than any destruction of food is the tendency of rats to spread disease. One of the more dangerous diseases they spread is trichina. But also they spread the bubonic plague, which has killed millions of humans in other parts of the Rats might be exterminated in this country. Building can be constructed rat-proof, and the rats starved and killed off. But this would re- For hundreds’of years people have poked fun; jat lawyers. And the: lawyers seem to like it.! They laugh with And some very sharp people have ‘said some very witty things about Mr. Blackstone’s well- known disciples, and the judicial process. For in- stance Charles Macklin in his play, “Love a la Mode,” in 1759, makes one of ‘his character's say: “The law is a hocus-pocus science that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glori- ous uncertainty of it is of mair use to the profes- It was Lord Brougham who defined a lawyer as “a learned gentleman who rescues your, estate from your enemies, and keeps it to himself.” But Lord Brougham had no monopoly of that thought, for the same idea has been expressed in almst for the same idea has been expressed in almost every civilized land. The Germans have it: “Law- | suits make the parties bare, the lawyers fat.” And again: “The suit is ended,” says the lawyer, “for neither party has anything left.” The Italian puts it: “A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.” And the Scotch: “Law’s costly; take a Lawyers and their clients may smile at the Dan- ish idea: “Virtue in the middle, said the Devil, Lawyers love to tell this story of a woman who asked an attorney for the requisites for going to law: “Why, it depends upon a number of circum- In the first place,” he said, “you must} have good cause; secondly, a good attorney ; third- ly, good counsel; fourthly, good evidence; fifthly, Lawyers are a likeable lot, at that. They are the Sunny Jims of the:court rooms, a very human part of this workaday world. And the world could In the epidemic of songs about “Blues,” there’ll be nothing so soul-rending as the Sunday-law WAS LONELINESS THE CAUSE OF EMPTY i: In his annual report for the Department of the Interior Secretary Payne bewails the decrease in the farm population. He cites as an example Ohio, where the number of vacant farm houses increas- ed, in the year ended June 30, 1920 from 18,000 to 29,000, and where the number of men and boys The secretary offers only one reason for the swing from rural “The difficulty is that’ people do not like to live alone, but prefer to live in towns and villages and to enjoy society and the conveniences and com- forts of modern life which are beyond the reach If that excuse had been given twenty or thirty years ago it would have had move behind it than it can have today. In the last decade most of the conveniences and ccmforts of modern life have Every well to do farmer, wherever he may be, can have modern water s“pply, central heating, and his own sasily operated eicetric lighting plant. The motor car takes him and his wife quickly to markets, shops and theatres and cazries his chil-| dren to a good school. The talking machine’ and the mechanical piano bring plenty of music into Never has farm life been less lonely than it has been in the ten years which have seen the march from the plough to th city shop. And the real reason -for the movement was not loneliness. It was the discover? by the farmer's son that hé could get more money for less work in the city. The war made this doubly possible. Now for the first time in five years it looks as if the desertion | ‘el of the farms would slow down.—New York Herald vel ADVENTURES All the creatures in Mr. Scribble Scratch’s School had something to say about having seen the handker- chief that Nancy had lost, with the charm tied in the corner, the charm ical Mushroom had left ne Then he streaked for the door. without a doubt. La with the children so that they could understand the language of all the creatures while they were helping the fairy schoolmaster. _ Now that it was lost, the children were in great distress, for no matter what anyone said, it sounded ‘like So much gibberish. How was Naney to teach them any more singing, and how was Nick to be/ truant officer any more, when the mothers and fathers couldn't understand them? It only they had divided the charm into twe (a piece of the pink siik lining out of the Magical Mushroom's hat it was: Nick might have kept a piece in his pocket and they would both have been safe, But it was no time now to think OOOO OOo By Oliver Roberts Barton. Wasp Wease! wear Did You_GET, Bi? Mr, <a oS “ Ae Bae \ Gy OF THE TWINS Trick } of that! | Cobbie- Coon thought the milk-weed | silk might be it, but it wasn’t of course when tney went to lcok. Bud Beaver said he had seen some- ; thing white through the woods. but it! Wasp stolen Naney’s charm, only proved to be Cutie Cottontail’s tai Scamper Sauirrel said there was 2) white thing beyond the briar tangle, but it was only a bit of birch bark. Then Wasp Wedsel held up one paw. “! think Snoop Skunk’s got it,” he said “Phose are only my white stripes you see,” protested Snoop, indignant: | ay. “Bet you ten cents you got it} yourself! jeft arm?” He was only guessing of course, bu. what do you. think! Suddenly Was) let something drop, but not before hie had bitten the corner off it. Then ke Us ed for the door. Wasp had ste"; \ “y's charm, without a doubt. ¢— a three-volume sérial at a moment's notice?—Christian Guardian. Dramatie Criticism. (Heard at “Abraham Lincoln”)— Young Woman—‘“That's a fine play. Really, I never knew much about Ab- raham Lincoln before—except that he never told a lie.” - . An Elderly Woman—‘I agree, my dear, it's a very impressive pldy. But you must admit that the ending 1s highly improbable.”—New York Tril une, Sisterly Interest. Mabel—-I can only be a sister to you, Jack. I am promised to another —Senator Stockson. Jack—Then would you mind using your sisterly influence to ‘land me a job in the diplomatic service-—Bostou Globe. Brains Always Score Three Kentuckians were killed in 2 fight over a dog. The dog is alive because he ran away and hid. All of which proves that brains will triumph in the end.—-Johnstown Democrat. ie Up A very junior officer was trying his first case. 1 “Seven days confined to camp,” he | snapped. “Beg pardon, sir,” whispered the company _ sergeant-major. mustn’t give a sentence like that. You— i “All right, then, 14 days, retorted the sub. sir,” pleaded the sergeant- it’s not—” a mo” major,” interrupted the Tommy. “Don't check ‘im again or "ell give me 21. 7 in’t a horifer a hauctionee -London | Tit ——— | & = +> | JUST JOKING © ||| PEOPLE’S FORUM |) 2 | a = a Lengthy Process | NEE IRESH QUESTION | Jack—What does your wife S8¥| 5 the when ‘you come home late? Your 1 of theéSth, entitled Tom—Do you expect me to reel off} “Wasted geek to disparage the work undertaken by ‘the American om/on Ireland. You de- nounce the existence of the committee | and stigmatize its activities as “dab-| bling interference and impertinence.’ You say the committee was or ized at the “instigation” of a New} Yotk publisher. The person mainly rasponsible for its existence happens to be a New York publisher. He also happens to be, as I am informed, the | grandson of that great champion of hu- | man liberty. William Lloyd Garrison‘of Abolition tam’. -whose “dabbling in- terference and impretinence” was the test single , factor. in i out the ireedom of a million The committee wiose work you at- tempt to discredit ‘is composed of 100 men and women of America repre- | senting the highest in citizenship, edu- | g engaged | jin an effort to get at the actual con-} ditions in Ireland. It is impos: \ to get at the facts in the usual nian ner because Great Britain controls the } cables, and maintains an iron cen-! sorship on the other means of com- munication. ST The committee has invited represen- | of both Ireland and England | to give evidence. The Iris wita due regard for the opinions of man- } kind, have welcomed the opportunity. frhe British not only have spurned th2 invitation: but have actually refuse:l! to permit investigators to study con-j; ditions in lreland at first hand. i And yet you talk of “dabbling in- terference and impertinence,” ¢ innuendo you seek to impugn the good faith and honesty of the committee | because it does not hold its i: gation at the “scene of the inqu I do not thi the editor t Tribune would deliberately misrep-| resent the facts. 1 do not thi wrote the orial in’ qu ; since it appears in his editorial col-! umns, he must assume responsibility jfor it. The cri sm which I made regard- ing a former editorial by the sam? writer, on the Trish question, applies to the editorial now being considered every line is meant to deceive; every ; insinuation indulged in represents # mischievious perversion of truth. P. E. BYRNE, Bismarck, North Dakota, December 10, 1 d AMERICA FIRST Editor’s note: .United States has no more license to dabble in the Irish issue than England wenld have were she‘ to seek by propaganda to solve our race problem.—There have been no mass meetings in England to tell ' what to do with the Phillip. nes. it not high time.to drop the hypken in this land “ot the tree ‘and home of the brave?’ Irish. Americanism has no more place than German-Americanism — Let us be Amerleans ifrst, I: nd all the time. DANISH KING TO. FORM MARRIAGE What you got under your) * which way the winds of love are going to blow for the Prince of Wales. Marry, he no doubt will, and Britain expects an announce- ment soon, THe prince has two alterna- tives: } follow tradition’ and a girl of royal blood, or 2. To let Dan Cupid lead him where he may, and marry the girl he really loves, Public .sentiment in England seems to have turned about-face and no longer feels that the con- sort of a prince needs to be of al blood. The London Times, in fact, editorially vised the Prince of Wales to ‘oid enter- ing into marriage with a foreign princess, to avoid a political mar- riage, and to marry for love.” American Eligible If he follows the Times’ advice it is possible the Prince of Wales might come to America for a wife. A marriage with an American girl would probably be looked upon with favor in British government- al circles, though there is said to be a stvong sentiment in England that the prince marry an English girl. On the other hand,:the visit, of King Christiary of Denmark, to England, has strengthened rumors that the beautiful young Princess Margaret of Denmark, his Cousin, is to be England's future queen. Princess Margaret appears the only probability in the royal blood alternative. But even in her case, there is a drawback. No English prince marry a Roman Catholic without forfeiting his right of succession to the crowi® and Prin- cess Margaret, though belonging to a ‘Protestant*reigning house, has been brought up a Roman Catholic. She would have to re nounce the Roman. Catholic church in order that the marriage 2 none but a Protestant come queen of England, be- cause it is inconceivable that a prince of England should m any member of the royal family y country with which Eng- cently at war, and ause no prince of England ever ies & member of any royal | NOW COMES THE BACK?ORCH PANHANDLER | 6 NON WURN Ow Was Unable to Hit a Lick of Work When He Bégan Taking Tanlac “T had fallen off thirty pounds and was unable to work and although I have been taking Tanlac only a little more than a month | have already picked up twenty-five pounds of my lost weight and I am feeling fine,’ i} .{ was the statement made by Frank A. Gustafson, a well-known farmer, of Manning, Iowa. * “My troubles had been pulling me down for three years and I had give. up my. work entirely and never pected to be'able to hit another li My stomach was all out of order and my appetite had about gone down tc nothing. I had terrible pains in my stomach and gas would bloat ms up and cause my heart to,beat so fast I thought sometimes | had heart trou- ble. My head ached ¢o bad at times the pains nearly set me wild and L would -get so dizzy I could hardly stand. At night I) would roll and tumble around undble to get mucn sleep and morning found me fdeling’ worse than when I went to bed. f went down from one hundred anit seventy pounds to one hundred and forty pound, and was growing weak- {er all the tim “But Tanlac came my way and my troubles are now all over. 1 feel strong and healthy and I am not afraid to tackle any kind of work. I have the finest kind of appetite. I am not bothered with headaches or dizzy spells any more and I sleep like a top and get up eyery morning feei- ing grea ‘Tanla¢ is sold in Bismarck by Jo3- Breslow, in Driscoll hy N. D. and J H. Barrette, in Wing by-H. P. Ho- man and in Strasburg by Strasburg Drug Co. Ady. es ————— house which has been deposed by its former subjects, the prince, in a royal blood way, is very lim- ited in his choice of a spouse. Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden are the only: protest- ant reigning houses in Surope. Princess Juliana of the Nether- lands, is heir to the throne, which makes her ineligible. There is no Norwegian princess. Sweden's king has no daughters, but he has a granddaughter, the Princess Ini- grid, ten years old, and two un- married nieces, 19 and 15 years old. King Christian of Denmark has no daughters and his two sisters + are too old for the Prince of Wales. ~ He has, however, two nieces, the daughters of his broth- er, Harold, and his cousin, the | Princess Margaret, now mention- ed as the future queen. But, if Dan Cupid is to lead the way, nobody seems to know just who is on the prince’s mind. os 11 With the Movies | oy oo ELTINGE In “Tiger's Cul the William | Fox production starring Pearl’ White « j Which comes to the Eltinge theatre tonight, story interust vies with ex- cellent acting for first place amon {the many good things that can be s a about this production, which has the , frozen North and the gold fields, of Alaska for its bac ‘ound. “Tiger's Cub” as a novel, written by George Goodch Was a pro- nounced success. It Beeame one of the season's “best sellers.” ‘PA I 4 ; In film form this tale of love,’ H j : treachery, strife and sacrifice in the iprimftive North retains all of its hop Saeey plot strength and interest, and its a PARE re ev convincing realism in action which Prince’s Choice Is Limited if He (iy the screen can offer. ‘The Chooses Among, Royal myriad readers of the book will be i ccubly thrilled by the flesh and Blood [blood counterparts of the wonder- < iful characters they know of, while LONDON, De .— All Eng- | those who have not read the story land is beginning to— wonder | have a great pleasure in store. If your Engine needs Regrind- ing, new Pistons, Rings or Pins, Let us do it, we do nothing but accurate work. Bismarck Foun- jdry and Welding Co. ToCure aCold in One Day Take , Laxative Bromo ~~ '| Quinine tablets Be sure its Bromo The genuine bears this signature 30c, WHEN YOU" ASK.EOR, 3 Ss. BUTTER * & NORTAERN