The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 16, 1920, Page 4

’ at least twice as big as-efficient operation would k in a thousand knows the story of the game. , terest in California’s law making. PAGE For THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entfral at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D.MANN - + © © = Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO Editor DETROIT | Marquette Bldg. Kresze Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - -— - Fifth Ave, Bldg. See > EES a a ele icin 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 erein, 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 .........- eee + $7. Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) ... 2207.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck. 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota..... 6.00 arate dee (THE STATE’S ‘OLDEST NEWSPAPER c . (Established. 1873) ° <i A NUISANCE The usual decennial nuisance and expense is abut to be shoved off on the people. Congressman Siegel of New York announces that he is bringing into the short session a bill to add 50 members to the House of Representatives, based on the 1920) census. As he is head of the appropriations com- mittee, it is likely that this useless bit of expensive plunder will be tacked onto the governmental system. HS ‘The House of. Representatives is now, of course, justify. The only reason for adding 50 new mem- bers is'to prevent a few states from having their representation cut down slightly. It would be infinitely better if the number of revresentatives, instead of being increased, could be cut # about 300. But the useless extravagance will-be practiced unless people all over the country register immediate and emphatic protest. The next election is far away. Congress is filled with “lamg ducks” and re-elected members who are not worrying about what the people think now. Souvenir hunters seem to be confining their ef- forts,to France and leaving Russia off their itin- erary. * Some statesmen are sitting up nights trying to) find a way to put the ax to the income tax.: La, a IRISTMAS FOR MEN | Mother lig? Yes. Well, maybe last Christ- mas you didn’t go home. Maybe you just couldn’t. Maybe you wrote a letter instead. Or just sent the sual’ Christmas box. That wasn’t a real Christmas to your mother. ‘Try giving yourself to your mother for. just one lay. It has been said that the exchange of presents at Christmas day may be-made “a cheerful old custom of a futile old farce.” Isn’t it just possible that mother may be beginning to think that Christmas Day ‘is a “futile old farce’’unless it is cheered upp bit by the presence of her boy, her “baby ?” } 4 Anyhow, ‘whether you make it a point to go home for Christmas, and even if you, write to mother telling her that “this’ time it will be im- possible to get there,” remember this: That all Christmas Day through there will'be/a face at the window, and a mother hoping, hoping against fate that the big bulk of her boy will loom through the snowflakes. A mother never gives up hope while there’s life, you know. wi L Plum pudding may be served with brandy from individual supply, according to a Boston man, but that doesn’t solve the problem for everyone. | % _ Cambridge co-eds have been ‘denied degrees. many of them will foo] the faculty by writing Ma after their names some day. : BILL STARTED IT i _ Kiggvag.well as proletariat, have been playing} dillia: mearly 400 years. It is a great game, billiards is, a test of skilland brains and nerves. | As one drives the balls about it is doubtful is one William ‘Kew invented it. Kew was @ pawn- broker in London. History tells us that Kew, at times when business was slack, grew into the! habit of removing the three gilt balls, that served as a sign on his shop, and shoved them around on a table, hitting one with the other, with a yard stick. The idea of a game with rules on a special table and with ivory balls installed itself in his mind. He deVeloped it and billiards is the result. The -inventor’s given name, you sée was Bill. He drove the first balls around with a yardstick. So it became “Bill-vards.” And again the invent- or’s last name was Kew..The yard stick later they called a Kew.” Now it is a cue, pronounced the same, but spelled differently. ' It certainly is odd, the beginning of things. A grouch has this advantage—if he does hap- pen to smile at Christmas it means more than the smile of an optimist. Long distance interference is a fad now. While we dabble in Irish affairs, Japan shows great in- - We hope this crime wave will lead to Mar-cells' for a lot of crooks. Nation spent $500,000,000 for soft drinks last year and not a dollar of it caused a headache. | sawed-off shotguns and moving them in swift BISMARCK. DAILY TRIBUNE _ | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 192¢ GE” LYNCH’S LAW F “He was a victim of lynch law.” How often that sentence appears. And it means only this; which ot course, is more than enough: That without due process of law scme human was hung, usually ‘by amob. | Pon ; But why lynch law? ‘What does that, mean? From whence did that term come? ae Simple enough, too. Charles Lynch was a planter of Virginia. some 130 years ago. He wasn’t satisfied with ‘the way the courts worked. So he and a number of friends established a “court” of their own, ‘and passed upon cases brought to their attention. The supreme penalty was at times invoked, and the victim hung. That was Lynch ‘aw in the making. But it has retrograded largely with the passing of time. And it is a mighty poor law at best. Nowadays at times, the lynch lawyers fail to give their victims | the semblance of a trial. That at least, Judge Charles Lynch did, back there in Virginia. V 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 sides of important issues which are being dis- cussed in the press of the day. FORTY-ONE MURDERS IN FIFTY-FOUR DAYS To the forty murders on the appalling record of this city between October 1 and November 21 ‘there was added on the eveni g of November 23 still another. This yictim of three footpads was shot and then beaten#p.death with the butjend of a revolver just ‘within the’ Seventy-second. street gate of Central Park. He was felled under the eyes of a sailor to whom he had just given aj match. His cries, as he battled helplessly for his life, were heard by dozens of persons in a) promi- nent hotel not a stone’s throw from he spot. The deed was done within-a few hundred feet of a traf- fic policeman who, however, is under no blame for not knowing of the sWift and fatal crime, because passing automobiles where he stood drowned the other sounds. This is how openly and boldly the thieves and murderers who have made New York a crime rid- den town do their work. This is how we come to such a ghastly score as forty-one murders in fifty- four days. z Now, there is no gainsaying that such rampant crime elsewhere as Well as here is one of the ma- lignant heritages of war. | But. the ‘Mayor of Philadelphia, arming scores of policemen with motor cars through and around the danger’ spots, is making highway robbery altogether too hazard- ous a trade for Philadelphia bandits and they are running to cover. Chicago is runding up its bad men, tagging them, so to speak, and then keeping them under a vigilant police eye'so that whenever they stir their movements are known to their watchers and whenever they strike or attempt to strike, they are bagged. And this sort of detection and punishment is not what criminals are looking for anywhere, so they give Chicago a wide berth. There are no better, cleaner and braver police- men anywhere in the.world than our own. No one can doubt that the rank and file is burning with eagerness to stamp out the lawlessness which is a disgrace to this city and a menace to its people. No one can doubt that if the police of Chicago and Philadelphia can do such a thing, enough police- men specially detailed for the work, intelligently directed, properly led and powerfully supported, can and will make this town too hot for stickup me nand murderers. If it is. not done here the people of this city are bound to assume, as they are right to assume, that the responsibility for fail ing to do it rests at the top.—New York Herald. FAR FROM “BROKE” North Dakota has unsold farm produce worth approximately $200,000,000 according to the best estimates available. The 1920 crops were estimated by government reports to be worth, at 1919 prices, about $400,- | 000,000. On the basis of Oct. 15 prices, it was estimated by twin city bankers that the crops were worth about $288,000,000. : Deducting: what’ has been sold, and making allowance for any further decreases in prices since Oct. 15, it might be a conservative estimate to place the value of unsold farm products, in North Dakota at close to $200,000,000. i That figure is almost equal to the combined resources of all state and national banks in North Dakota. It amounts to about two-thirds of all the farm| mortgages in North Dakota. It would liquidate all the farm paper held by, all the banks in the state and ieave a very substan- tial sum toward paying off the mortgages, pos- sibly one-third of them. With those figures before him, any man who intimates that North D:!:ota business is not fun- damentally sound, is either » focl or a knave. The crops will be marketed some time. Wheth- er prices go up or dcwn, the crops will be sold sooner or later, and as rapidly as they sre mark- eted liquidation of debts will continue and the load} on the banks will gradually lighten. What we! need in North Dakota is the‘gonfidence of the rest of the United States and a little more ready mon-} ey. The action of the twin city mortgage banks ought to help us materially in getting both. Elev- en of the biggest mortgage bankers in the country are not sending money into North Dakota for sen- timental or political reasons. They are sending it here because they expect to get it back with interest and if such bankers consider North Dako- ta-fundamentally sound, no private investor need fear to send in his savings for investment in this state.—Fargo Forum. Be eee Seer PLACES . THE FORTUNE TELLER: ye Uae RE PLES SyspENDERS. AND BATH-ROBE FOR ; BY MELVIN RANDOLPH GILMORE, State Historical Society. Human beings are very much the creatures of habit. Most people do what others do, without thinking and without reason. In manner of living, in dress, food, amusements, studies, recreations, and in planning and plant- ing of gardens and parks most people do*not inquire what is fitting and be- coming, wholesome and comfortable, harmonious and suitable, according to .climate and circumstances, © bus they wish'to know what is customary or tashionable. In planning, and -planting they’ do not study to’ plant ‘according to soil and climate, of the given region, but according to plans and plantings to which they. have been accustomed. Sc it has come about ‘that a park per. taining to any; city from Boston to Omaha. will ‘differ very little -from another. The visitor sees but/a mon- otonous repetition in every park he visits, and in none of ‘them will he find an, exposition of the native flora of the immediate region of the given loc&lity. But, the state of North. Dakota has adopted a plan for the development of the capitol grountlg which, when accomplished, will make the said grounds a living outdoor museum of North"Dakota. This plan will give to our capitol grounds a’ characteristic beauty and interest of their own and a unique distinction’ for no other ca- pitol. grounds have been planned s9 comprehensively. And probably no other state, certainly none of the old- er states, now has the pr bility which .North Dakota has in this re- spect; for their capitol grounds are all already closely impinged by the surrounding buildings on private property. But North Dakota has an opportunity and a plan which can be’ developed through long time to come, improving every year. Nothing which WASP WEASEL GETS PUNISHED “Where did Wasp Weasel go?” ask- ed Nick, as he and Nancy rushed breathlessly into Mrs. Woodchuck's bedroom where she ‘had been getting all the beds ready..for the family’s winter sleep. DApDdy, YOU ARE GOING Yo GtT A NECKTIE, A PAIR OF SLIPPERS. CHRISTMAS AND ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS | By Oliver Robert: Bart A OUTLINES PLAN OF DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITOL , GROUNDS INTO AN UNIQUE OUTDOOR MUSEU igs done according to this plan need be merely temporary; all.that is done makes for ultimate gad permanent improvement. The plan‘ is to employ only native trees, shrubs, vines and flowering plants for the general planting system, of this park. Several purposes will be served by this plan.’ In the. first place native vegetation is already ac- climated and will: be more success- ful, for. it has become adjusted to con’ ditions through a period of thousands of years. Also th®native species will possess more of an air of content, of dignity and stability as communities of residents, and-not the dejected, homesick and apologetic ait of captive aliens. in unfriendly surroundings. The native vegetation will be more har-! monious and in keeping with its sur- roundings. By the use of native vege- tation the planting will be:more suc- cessful and healthy, and also will be actively stimulative in evoking to the minds of visitors, pictures of the or- iginal ‘appearance of North Dakota before the changes and ravages which have been wrought by agricultural operations, of road-building, and the devastation and desolation accompany- ing other’ industrial: operations. This outdoor® museum will afford the people of North Dakota the ‘op- portunity to become acquainted with the natural beauties of our’ state, and with the acquaintance will come a deeper feeling of attachment and con- tent; and there is no property which is-6o valuable as this to.citizens, anc none so essential to a state. ‘It is planned to plant on the lower | ground those species of trees and other vegetation which demand the more moisture, ang the specjes more anid more tgs f arid jgomgitions upon the rising 4grouni, sO that finally, on -the height of the ridge back of the capitol shall be the bull Pine, the red cedar ‘or juniper, and RRR RR eee 7 about to happen to Wasp, She wasn’t going to interfere, because was a general nuisance and she didn’t like him at all. He had al- ways worried the life out of Wab- bly, her own dear boy, and Wally, her husband, had just said the other Such a bianket tossing Mrs. Woodchuck didn’t say a word but nodded toward a hump | under one of the blankets, Of course if she had said two words or ten, Nancy and Nick would not have understood, for that scamp Wasp had swallowed | their charm and then run a rf That is why they were after him. | Suddenly an idea occurred to Nick | and he Whispered it to his sister. Ngncy laughed softly and nodded. “Let’s do it right away,” she whisper- | got, he’ll never forget, I’m sure, nor ; Transcript.” ed and tiptoed quietly to the top of | the bed. At the same time Nick took kis place at the foot. Mrs. Wood- { chuck wondered what it was all about | but said nothing. If anything was as the rascal got. day—But ther That's not the story. Suddenly Nancy grabbled two cor- ners of the blankets, between which Wasp was crouching, and at the same time Nick grabbed the other two. Then they pulled the covers clear off the bed, never letting go their hold. “Give us our charm. Wasp,” said Nick severely, “or we'll shake you up.” Wasp lay very still and never let on he heard. That settled it! Such a blanket tossing as the ra the lesson either. And the charm jumped right out or his mouth ith the jolting. » Nancy pbed it and tucked it away safely, DOROTHY, COME HERE THIS Wasp} tNSTANT ! the scrub juniper and creeping juniper j common to,the buttes and Bad Lands. In the neighborhood of the various ‘species’ of trees, from the cottonwood of the low grounds, the ash and thea jthe oak of the higher grounds, and ‘the pines. and cedays. of the highest igrounds, it is intended. to have the various associated species of snialler growth, the shrubs and vines and tlowering plant proper to each situa- tin. St All_the various natiye fruits of this region will find place in the plan. These will in themselves afford a rev elation. of their present ‘usefulness and possible future greater useful- ness and improvement by’ seleetive’| breeding. 5 5 |. Thenorth part of the tract, back of the capitol, is to be left untouch- ied to show forever the nature of the original prairie vegetation, which was j the most outstanding natural feature ;of North Dakota. Here will be the native grasses and the native. wild flowers of the prairie. Here’ in its natural situation, but also, in other | parts of ghe grounds, will be the state ‘flower of North Dakota, the wild ross of the prairie. There are four differ- lent species of wild roses in North Da- kota, and all will have their proper representation in the park planting, but the state flower, which is the | prairie rose, Rosa pratincola, should ‘have pre-eminence. One of the native wild fruits should be given special attention also in situation| suitable to its nature, bes cause this’ fruit has given the ge- ographical’ name of a river, moun- | tains, a county and a town in Nortn! Dakota... This is the pembina berry, which is ‘sometimes called “high-bush cranberry;” although it is nothing lik. ja cranberty, any’ more than a peacn iis like a tomato.‘ They’ are not at all botapically related. This berry the fruiwot Viburum opulus variety americanum, is called in the Chip- pewa language nepin-minan. Nepin-‘ minan has been corrupted into vari- ous forms by the white man’s tongue, but-the form which has become fixed upon the map of North Dakota is pembina; so we! have the Pembina jtiver, Pembina mauntains,. the’ town jof Pembina, whiéh“is the oldest whit» jestablishment in the state, and Pem- ‘bina county. | By the plan which is adopted our! state capitol grounds are to be an! expression of art and science, an ex- | position of beauty and knowledge, and in the mind’s eye of the one who con- ceived the plan it is seen asya con- stantly growing .and. improving in- stitution through all the years of the future. According to our plan what-: ever is done is permanent and endur- {ing and not of a temporary charae: | ter. The park of the,capitol grounds will constitute in itself by this plan jan educational institution for all the ! people. Here may be learned much of the botany. and: zoology. of this re- jgion, and-also of ethuology, mstory and archeaology, as, well as an ap-{ | Preciation of the beauties of nature, | ;0f landscape and of architecture.. i | JUST JOKING 7 OO Leit an Opening “Opportunity is knocking at your | goor,”” said the Optimist. a "I hate the whole tribe ofKknock- ers!’ growled the Pessimist. That being the case,” said the Op- timist, preparing to duck, “it’s quite obvious that you hate yourself.” — Buffalo Express. { Overdraws | Protesting Author—But look ‘here, jmy heroine is a bright. cheerful. sort} \of girl, and you have pictured her quite the opposite. Punning Artist—Well, I'll admiz that she has a drawn look—Boston | | ’ nel i More’ Easily Learned A | “Would you rather write the songs j bination with Wonderful Eifeet. of Reolo in Filling Out Hollow Cheeks With New Firm Flesh. Regardless of what and how much you eat, if the nervous system is un- strung and the iron’ has been burned the expression But put Reolo into your blood, let the nerve centers come in contact with it, and then you have started upward. There is one com- ponent of Reolo that actually pro- long, drawn will out of the blood, face and haunted remain. vokes an increase of flesh. In-com* this element there are ingredients that increase red corpuscles enormously . in certain anemic conditions. -In a day or two! the appetite improves in a way that is a revelation to those who found it hard work to eat, and soon the bluish pallor of the skin is replaced with the pinkish hye of health. You now not only feel well, you look, it, such is the ramarkable influence of Reolo in’ but a few short days. But this‘it-not, all, Reolg tgs intensified the’ activity of the vital. processes to such an extent that the ,old feeling of exhaustion after effort is com- pletely gone. It is certainly a most comfortable and satisfactory feeling of reassurance, and there is no other condition to be compared. to it. Ask any of the clerks at Finney’s Drug store and any other leading drug store about Reolo. They are selling it and recommending it upon the strength of what they see .every day, men and women the very pic- ture of health who six weeks before were neryous and bloodless despond- ents. Get a $1.00 box of Reolo to- day and live. ———_—_—_—_————S——S Senator Sorghum. “But I cannot fail to observe that most people know the songs by heart and do not trou. ble to inform themselves about the laws."—Washington Star. ng i a | PEOPLE’S FORUM ; oo eo Some time agg published iu the ‘tribune a statement, taken from pub- lications which (are usually very cor- ret regarding the damage caused during the war to.the cathedral ot Reims. Jussereau, the French Ambas- sador informs me today by.telegram that those damages are not 114,000 francs, ,vut “414,000,000 francs. Yours, Vincent Wehrle, Bishop of Bisrffarck. *“AT THE MOVIES | e— ELTINGE People have fallen into the habit of calling every fftture in, which Char- lesyRay appears! With a‘ rustic back- ground a “typical Ray picture” and letting it go at that. This would seem to indicate that the youthful star’s charaiterizations are largely all alike, which is. not true. Mr. Ray is pne of the most versatile Stars df the screen. Reviewing some of his most recent pictures reveals the fact that in the past year he has ap- peared in such widely diversified roles as a prize fighter, a rrack basebal! player, a hotel clerk, an expressman, a vank clerk, a son of poor but honest parents, a Son of rich but unscrupu- ‘10us parents, an English aristocrat and finally, a detective. He has the last named part in his newest Thomas H. Ince picture, “A Village Sleuth,” in which he will be seen at the Eltinge theater for two days commencing tomorrow. Mr. Ray is.a small town lad with am- bitions to become a great detective, and,’securing a position as chore boy in a rest sanitarium, he ‘unexpected- ly is given an Opportunity to show his sleuthing ability. And makes good. Jerome Storm directed the picture, which is a: Paramount ‘release, and Winttred Westover "fs ‘the leading worhiah!!* ' ee being imported for the manufacture of nut ‘vutter, candles, soab and cos- metics, € EndsStubborn Coughs $ in a Hurry 2 For real effectiveness, thie old home-made remedy has no eqnal. Easily and cheaply prepared. You'll never know how quickly a bad cough can be conquered. until you try this famous old home-made remedy. Anyone who has conghed all day and all night, will say that® che immediate relief given is almost like magic. It takes but a moment to prepare. and really there is nothing better for coughs. Into a pint bottle, put 2% ounces of Pinex; then add plain granulated sugar syrup to make a full pint. Or you can use clarified molasses, honey, or corn syrup, imbtead of sugar syrup. Either way, the full pint sav thirds of.the money usually spent for. cough preparations, and gives you a more positive, effective remedy. Jt keens per- fectly, and tastes pleasant—children like ‘it. . You can feel ‘this‘take hold instantly, soothing and healing the membranes in all the air passages. It promptly loosens a dry, tight cough, and soon you will notice the phlegm thin out and then disappear. altogether. A day’s use will usually break up an ordinary throat or chest ‘cold, and it is also splendid for bronchitis, croup, hoarseness, and bron- chial asthma. dineifk. 2 Pirex is a most Vhluable concentrated compound of genuine: Norway pine ex- tract. the most reliable remedy for throat and chest .ailments. To void. disappointment. ask your druggist for “21% ounces of Pinex” with directions and* don’t 7aecept anything else, Guaranteed to give absolute satis- |of a nation than the laws?” and the twins departed: | “Y’'m not’ absolutely Sure,” replied” faction or money refunded. The Pinex Co, Fi Wayne, Ind, i Cocoanut oil in large quantities is | c