The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 18, 1920, Page 4

BOAQAALERSUER AFCRALS ER A EULED ULNA THE BISMARCK | “TRIBUNE Entered cat the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Mutter. GEORGE D. MANN. - - - - - “Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. 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 created in this paper and also the local news published herein, | All rights of publication of specia! dispatches herein are | also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year ........00006 $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) .... nee T.20 | Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck. 5.00 | Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota. 0 | THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) uit TH’ MEETIN’ PLACE Farmers, when they “come to town” to do their weekly shopping, made the general store a famous meeting place of agriculturists. They met around the old stove of the crossroads store and swapped jokes, tobacco and crop information. That was yesterday. Today the general store isn’t what it used to be. The automobile has made it easier for the farmer to travel farther for his goods. - More farmers get into town than can be grouped around the stove, and anyhow, the new stove idea isn’t the old. To- day the farmer hasn’ t.a meeting place when he comes to town. _ Seymour, Ind., points the way to tomorrow. Seymour has a farmers’ clubhouse, a nice stone building, with lounging rooms, smoking rooms, a hall for larger gatherings, rest room for mother and a nursery for rural children. Seymour’s far- mers’ clubhouse is the meeting place for farmers, their wives and children. It is the urban center of rural activities. What do you think of the idea of having a far- mers’ clubhouse right here in this city, a meeting place for all the farmers, their: families and friends, whenever they visit the city? Perhaps Turkey will be Armeniable to reason. “TOO STUPID” .. Knut Hamsun came over from Norway some years ago and got a job washing dishes in a res-| part of the community. May that tithe be on the! taurant. He was “fired.” His employer told him he was “too stupid” to wash dishes. Maybe he was. Knut got a job on’a Chicago street car. The superintendent “fired” him. He couldn’t re- member the names of the streets. “Too stupid,” was the verdict. Successively Knut became a porter in a hotel, Coal passer on a steamship, deckhand, and many other things. Always he was discharged and us- ually the boss told him he was too stupid to “earn his'salt.” : But Knut wasn’t too stupid to write 15 volumes of poems, which have been translated into 17 languages, and which have delighted readers the world over. He wasn’t too stupid to write novels no one can forget after reading. He wasn’t too stupid to earn and receive the Nobel prize for lit- erature, nearly $50,000. He wasn’t too stupid to become one of the world’s really great writers. Yet, he was a failure as a dishwasher. On the other hand, many a failure in literature would make fine street car conductors. The experienced father is not deceived by the attention he gets at home these days. WASTED LANDS Georgia has 20,000,000 acres of idle. cut-over, logged-off non-productive “wasted” land. Michi- gan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, each have more than half that many acres of cut-over timber lands. A dozen other states have from five to 15 million acres of such lands. Once, not many years ago, these were forests. The best of the timber has been turned into furni- dure, houses and bonfires. Stumps and brushes remain.~.The acres are-idle. They’re worse than idle, they:increase the danger of forest fires. Those acres should have young saplings grow- into timber for the riext generation’s grandchild- ren. It is wrong to waste the land. It is wrong to waste the time, and waste time we do when we postpone planting trees. For a tree isn’t a thing you can plant in April and cut down for lumber in August. You set out the tree and your great- great-grandchild harvests timber. The longer we delay the planting the longer off the harvest. In the meantime the timber shortage is growing more acute with each tree the lumberjack fells. One wonders whether Livy or basketball is now engaging the attention of the football heroes. THE SLANT IN THE EYE China is exerting herself to become the doll na- tion. China has awakened to the fact that little American girls are in the market for dolls, espec- ially so at this time of the year. Hence China has sent boatloads of dolls to our little girls. They’ll get them via Santa Claus of course. But, our lit- tle girls, being as bright as they are, are sure to notice that Santa Claus is doing some of his Christmas shopping in China, for the Chinese doll makers have put a slant into the doll eyes. Having slant-eyes themselves they made slant- eyed dolls. For similar reasons our U. S. manufacturers never have done well in South American trade; not nearly as well as England, Germany, and other ! baby eyes—and they’re not meeting slant-eyed 1 {uropean nations. When an Englishman man- vfactures goods tor South American trade he; makes the kind of goods South Americans have seen accustomed to getting, and in the way they! are used to. But Uncle Sam tries to sell in Argen- tine what he has discovered is wanted in Dakota, ind fails too frequently. China sends millions of slant eyed dolls to little American girls who want doll eyes to look like real! babies often. | The same man who delivers your Christmas mail also fetches the bills. HOMES WANTED The people want homes. Homes to rent if pos- isble. but homes which they will own, preferably. And in America too few homes either for rent or} for sale are being built. In 1890 about 52 per cent of the people were | paying rent; 30 years later that percentage has increased to 57 per cent. That means that the: home owner “isn’t getting anywhere.” In fact, he’s slipping. In 1890 210 families occupied 100 homes; that ratio has increased until now 121 fam-| ilies are living in each 100 homes. It isn’t-a heal-| thy increase. Young people want to get married. Human na-j ture hasn’t changed much even if conditions have. | There’s about a million weddings a year just as| there have been for some years past. And there’s, just about two million babies born each year. But—in 1919 in the United States there were! only 70,000 dwellings built. And the year back of that there were 70 per cent as many buildings burned down as were built up. What does that, mean? Means that there’s bound to be more! n’t it? Means young folks are going to try to, live with their parents on one side of the other. Means that there’s to be a crowding down of thej birth rate, an upward trend to the death arte. It! means pessimism instead of optimism in views up-| on life. It has been stated that to put the country on a! pre-war basis so far as dwellings. are concerned | 1,140,000 new dwellings would have to be built.! High cost of building has kept building down;) high rents have caused family congestion; family congestion frequently causes trouble. Much will | have been accomplished when prices fall so that: new homes for the average man and his wif may be built in quantity. When a man owns hi home he takes pride in it, becomes a fixture and way. | Chicago has discovered a polite theater box of- fice attendant. He ought to get 52 weeks in vaudeville. { | | | | | War cost us $24,000,000,000 ; peace’ cost $1,000,-! 000, the only difference being that the war was) delivered. ° For the next few days father will imagine he has been restored to a position of importance in the family. | 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 eldes of important issues which are being dis- cussed in the press of the day. LOSS FOR MINOT signed the secretaryship of the Association of; Commerce and will leave Minot within a month has caused widespread and general regret. Few} men in this city are better known both locally and| throughout the state and none is.more deservedly | y popular. It’s “Bill” with.everybody and Minot people have as yet scarcely begun to realize how much they will mjss the big genial man at the Association of Commerce headquarters. Mr. Holbein’s election to the secretaryship of the good roads association of North Dakota is a! flattering tribute to proven ability and personal | quailties which are a nasset to any organization. Mr. Holbein has been an enthusiast, for good roads and his consistent energy has been’an im- portant factor in the development of the Roose- velt Highway as well as in connection with other | movements for better roads. This good work is now to be extended over the entire state and the Minot man takes the helm of the good roads movement at an important turning point in its history. North Dakota is on the eve of a newer and larger era of highway development. The state is.moving to take its place alongside of Minnesota and other progressive commonwealths | in the transition to the hard surface road policy and the extent of what the future holds in store in the way of improvement is perceiv ed as yet only by the far seeing and pronhetic The appointment by the state association en- ables Mr. Hclbein to broaden the work in which eh has pioneered and wii! sive him opportunity to! devote to the larger field of the whole state the! qualities which have been so successfully display- | § ed in Minot.—Minot Daily News. TWITCHELL MENTIONED i L. L. Twitchell, of Fargo, N. D., is a candidate | for speaker of the coming house of representatives at Bismarck. Mr. Twitchell is one of the live wire members of the last session, is a fair minded man} and if elected to that position we feel that he will so conduct the office in such a square way as to merit the approval of the rest of his fellow mem-; bers. The house can do a lot worse than elect Mr. crowding in the houses that are already up, does- | ‘ i The announcement that Will E. Holbein has re-!. | titled to care. lof all. {bureau handling his case still ref “CARRYING wah TO ENGLAND” eet This is the fi land, which the British say were a part of Sinn Fein’s policy | cendiaries working in the cause of Sinn Fein start ed the bla: lies of oil saturated waste were found. ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS By Oliver Robests. Barton. RTED SCHOOL to Mes y ove | ning look like alt rd was » Squirr Postman. He had his pockets full of r : d to: morro) notes, and lotte and hi: “What on eirth is wrong?” | i | i | i i i | | | lke | | i} | | r E.R Hines | Nick had hig pockets full of notes and letters and hig arms were as full | as his pockets. \ | Yle Seratch, the. fairy school-; master, when the little boy came in.| But he should have known from. the appearance of his school. There} weren't six pup n the whole place, Kyery note that Scribble Serateh’ opened had some reason for keeping! a Meade rove pupil af home, ‘but, not all of them were considering” a! trip to Dreamland for th inter, i and most of the seats were so buried Mrs. Muskrat, Mrs. Otter and Mrs.! under snow that looked like white aver, were a id of -mantr: ‘and | pilows, that th really could not allow; Nick laid the stack of notes on the! their children to lose their fine new! teacher's dgsk, and biew on his f overcoats, to say nothing of aed gers. “My, it’s getting cold,” he said, stamping around, shins, Mrs. Buany and Scribile Scratch opened the first afraid jnote. It was from Mrs. Woodchuck. who got flecler and fox and hun-! “Dear Mr. Schoolmaster it said, | gri the weather got colder. So; “Wobbly can't_come to school any] Ben, Jr, and Cutie were kept pretty*! more this term. We're all going to Dreamland,” fot the winter. Good-bye Mrs. U. U. Chuck. The next was from Mrs. Bat, “We are all going to aecagel eee close to home, their tracks-being plain in the deep snow as the nose onl K your face. ds | (Copyright, 19 N. BE. A.) | THOUSANDS OF DISABLED YANKS | SUFFER NEGLECT SAYS ee HE Dd Commanedr F. W. Galbraith | Discussed Treatment. Being} Accorded to Veterans of World War : | ae Se | BY F. W. GALBRAITH, JR. | National Commander of the Ametican | Legion. i Disabled veterans of the World War } are not getting what they deserve | from a grateful nation. i | The American Legion, with its mem- | bership of two millions of these vet- | etans, is bending every effort to im-} prove conditions, thoroughly and at} once. i The legion has investigated and | made sure of the facts and is proceed-,| ing on a program to assure proper care of everyone of the 20,000 si | and disabled extservice men, now in *h mates of some 1400 government a private hospitals, as well as those needing treatmént in future. | Many think the war is over. As a| matter of fact the physical after-ef- | fects of the war have not yet reached ; their peak. Disabled and sick veterans are be- ing admitted to the hospitals at the rate of 5000 every month; those cured are being discharged at the rate of! This gives an increase of 150 very month. estimate th: FW.GALBRAITH IR. One. sic veteran died pennile: while his wife scrubbed floors to pr vide food. A month after he died the government sent $1800 back pay and compensttion, for which he had ap. plied six months before. We know of one hospital ‘men died while the physicians 3| re 14 still ; Were contending that they were only, oh at the peak will ive years. ik ‘tempo are about 500,000 veterans: ‘These and hundreds of other cases discharged from service | will be redressed and their repetition y.” Any or all of these | prevented, or the American Legion | men are likely to apply for hospital) will know the reason why. treatment. Only 80,000 have received | . beds and an awakened pub: such treatment, since d arge. So consdience are needed. more than 400,900 remain who areen.} Money the government can and must | | provide immediat i Beds must be obtained in the best disabled. Almost half of the 20,000 in hospi- jtals are farmed out to pr | tutions until all the men tutions, their bills being paid by the, eitered, as they should be, | government. Conditions in some of in government hos these institutions are deplorable. The public con nee must be stirr. The tubercular veteran re worst} ed until all of us recognize these d Hundreds of these men are}abled men once more as national-he | actually without shelter. | Foes, not as mere national charges. { The mental cases fare scarcely bet- | — ter. They are herded in count '> = y o Ki rt a iy 5 i ylums, old folks’ homes, hospitals for | | TOs ENG ] the criminally insane. One shell-shocked rested in Kentuc months and placed in a filthy cell in a county His hair was not cut for| used to 9! eteran was Gstting Practical asylum. that} months. every mory r ‘vio: Rags wére falling from him when | let did he?” at he d now legion men discovered him. And the} iia dic the and they got are living Twitchell speaker —Times-Record, to pay him a cent of the compens tion he deserves somom heh t photograph to reach America of the great warehous fires in Liverpool, Eng- of “carrying the war to England.” In- zo, according to the Bri “of cur furniture? atm: * cuse vrange Peel. i for j fishing. ‘they are marked and tossed back in- | * Hamline Univ ‘HIGHT MILLION A YEAR WON'T PAY U.S, BILLS Covernment Plans to Put Off Payment—New Tax Plans Advanced BY H. B. HUNT » Washing.on, Dec, 18.-—-Uncle Sam's income of $8,0°,009,000 orsso during the next two years will be insufficient kto pay ‘ills falling due within that time. He ig like a man with a growing family with food and shocs anc clothing to buy and a mortgage fall- ing due. Even though he reduces out- lay for food and clothing to the min imum, the saving won't be enough. to meet his mortgage. What is he going to do?’ The same thing the individual would undertake --negotiate a renewal of his mort- gage in the hope that, luter, he may be wdle to meet it. Plan Backed by Fordney This plan, which has the support of Chairman Fordney of the House Ways and Means Committee, will enable tue Harding administration to reduce somewhat taxes under the revenue bill to be taken up at the special ses- sion. : Instead of having to pay some $7,- 460,000,000 war indeotedness, as well as provide for current expenses and the interest and sinking fund on the remaining $20,000,000,000- of public debt within the next two years, pay- ment would be deferred on the ma- turing obligations. On.y ‘sufticient taxes would’ be lev- ied to provide the intérest and money for the sinking fund. We really wouldn’t be in any better condition financially, but the immed- iate pressure would be lessened. Delay on Revenue Hearings on the revenue bill will be suspended after the Chrismas re- cess in order that the committee may devote itself to proposed changes in the tariff law. Both revenue and tariff bills will be held back, however, until the special session under the Harling Adminis- tration. Then the first matter to be taken up will’ be refunding the short- term oovligations outstanding. This taken care of, the Harding ad- ish. , Huge quan- to bring her two buckets of water and help wipe the dishes!”—Rich- mord Tings-Dispatch, Be Seated Room Mate--What's become of all it's that little habit of yours ing people to take chair.—Syra Makizg It Homelike Cn Lolly’s ‘virthday she was pre- sented with a basy bulldog, and her o behold. young, and she insisted ng it to wed with her, but morning ghe was looking upon le the next very tired. Haven't you siept well, darling?” | her moth 0, mimmy,”” crying in the night for his mum- St o I kept awake with him for conipany, ana 1 made awful faces all] ministration will be in a pos ition to night to make him k I was his! formulate ‘a general financial pro- bulldog muvver to cumfy bimt"—" gram. on S FORUM | MI CH IGAN T 0 Bismarck, N. D., Dec 15, 1929. Editor The Tribune, Dear Sir: in a game of two-handed cri»bage }one player holds four treys and a nine spot is turned up. It was con- tended that the correct count is “fif- CARE FOR TEETH OF. PRISONERS i} teen” twelve plus twelve for four of ackson, Mich., Dec. i8—-Each in- ja king, which totals twenty-four] nate of che (Michigan State reniten- points. taary here must sudmit to a dental ig this is not correct please give the correct value of ‘the hand. Please let your deeision appéar in an early issue of the Tridune. Yours truly, His Nobs exainination once each year, have his teeth cleaned and other dental work done, under an order just issued by Warden Harry ‘\ Hulburt, who is president of the ‘American ‘Prison Congress. The Michigan institution is sjid.to ‘be the first in the country to make dental examination manda- tory. Cement fillings he Tribune invites rs to answer this Note- local cribage play query, FIND NEW USES - FOR THE X-RAY; will be provided prisoners at the expense of the state. Where siiver or gald filings or crowns are desired thesei may be obtained by the inmates upon paying for the cost of the metals out of their earn- CATCH SMUGGLERS | inz:. Haine New York, Dec. 18. ew commer} *~ MOVIES cial uses are being found for. the X-) AT THE | ray. ° “ Where hort time a the radio- . Ti | graph we ef used. pri ract ically altogether U ORPHEUM The most popular and most typ- ically American writers have furnished scenarios for Harry Carey's produc- | tions since jie has been appearing in Universal films. Among them are, Bret Harte, James Oliver Curwood, | Peter B. Kyne, H. Herbert’ Knibbs and many others. His latest feature, | “Blue Streak McCoy,” is the work of H. H, Van Loan, foremost of the writers for the screen, and it is com- ing to the Orpheum Theater tonis sht surgical and other scientific work, it is being employed in many from manufacturing to pearl now lines ‘Manufacturers are using the X-ray to test machinery for defects Exporters are using it to fad out whether thieves. have substituted s or rocks for yaluadie merchan- dise which packing boxes are sup- posed to contain—as thieves have frequently done here in the past year. Customs of have tested the Sr pe eer radiograph for sear hing smugglers BISMARCK pected of conce yaluables in| A highly trained) ape upset all clothine—particularly in the| trained animak precedent during tho an@ soles of their shoes. ‘filming cf “The Son of Tarzan", In Ceylon pearl fishers are using | photoplay, which comes to the Bis- iographs to test oyste If the | Marck Theater, soon, This ‘giant anthropoid, said to be one of the most intelligent apes ever captured in the African jungles, as- develope to greater size. tonished his trainer and those watch- ing the photographing of one of the scenes of the serial ty leaping upon HAMLINE GLEE See corn GLUB PRAISED |?" ed near one of the “sets” and have small pearls within them, | to the water, so that the pearls m: ldriving off. After a short chase the ape was recaptured. of the]. How the ape learned to drive an b: eutothabile was a mystery until it de- amline Glee | veloped that the big monkey had What otheys of note say ity Glee “The members of the club are all strictly refined young }ibeen taken riding several times and men of excellent hapits, and they! a‘iowed to sit on the front seat with vossess admmirability as public en-|the driver, all the time watching the tertainers.”—Thomas Frankson, Lieut | motions of the chauffer as he guided Governor, Minnesota. is the car along the highway. “They do fine ensemble work ant It is still a mystery to the trainer ‘their soloists are young arti +.] now the ape sensed what lever to W. Holland, First M. E. Church, St-} press to start the car. Paul. “Tam happy to commend the boys “Phe Hamline University, Glee club | has long held the reputation of being one of the finest men’s choral organ- 7 izations th a Phail School Minn. $1700 POSITION The North Dakota Reform Schoc!, needing a ood accountane recenily, phoned Dakota Business College, Fargo, N. D., for “‘aman worth $1709 yearly to start with.’’ ‘ott Was sent. INCORPORATIONS Articles of incorporation filed with the secretary of state include: Inter: e Business College. Fargo, iN 59,090; inecorpo- F. A. Krupp, Arndt, E. vays open (2 students of this un school. They rise rapid . C. Rowerdink, newly-appoi ier of the German State Bank at Strasburg is a D. B. C. graduate— so are hundreds of other bank and business executives. ction stock, company, Minn., DL Moorhead, = 5 ree Ibert Thoren, Nekoma, N. D. “Follow the SucceS$ful.”? Write rood Park Grocery company,| for information to F. L. Watkins, Minot, No D., capital steck, $20,000 Pres., 806 Front St., Fargo, N. 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