The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1920, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE © Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarc Class Matter. Editor GEORGE D. MANN Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bidg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - fee 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 loca) 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 ......eeseee 2 $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) Bere he ) Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck. 5.00: Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota............ 6.00 THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) THE TOLL More than 3800 persons were killed by automo- biles in the United States during the past year, according to the Census Bureau. Their number, equals the population of any av- erage city ward, or of many a county seat. They were killed at the rate of more than ten a day, or about one every two hours. Mortality from diseases once greatly dreaded has been materially reduced.. In many communi- ties typhoid has been all but wiped out. Diph- theria no longer holds its old terrors. Yellow fev- er is almost extinct. But man’s own folly, neg- lect and carelessness is substituting new forms of ‘death in place of those he has conquered. Through carefulness probably nine-tenths of the fatal automobile accidents might have been avoided. Lives are lost in frantic efforts to save seconds. A large number of the year’s fatalities resulted | from grade crossing accidents in which whole fam- ilies were exterminated. In many instances there | was a desire “to beat the train across”. In other, cases, crossings were unguarded or the view of the approaching train obscured by standing freight cars. In almost all instances, somebody was to blame; somebody was careless; somebody was thought- less. | Man labors to overcome certain fatal diseases still unconquered. But each man has in his own. hand the means of avoiding death and injury by automobiles. He need only stop, look and listen. But the number of automobile accidents continues steadily to increase. SPLITTING SECONDS Tetrazzini, the great Italian coloratura soprano, sings and is heard by wireless telephone on ships of the United States navy, no matter where they were scattered. Why fuss with a ouija board when such semi-supernatural events are crowding into everyday life? “We live in an age of split seconds,” says the annual report of Maj. Gen. George O. Squier. chief signal officer of the army. ‘Wireless mes- sages may now be transmitted and received prac- tically between any two points on the surface of the earth IN A TENTH OF A SECOND.” This is amazing progress since the first work- able wireless apparatus was invented 25 years ago by the Italian genius, Marconi. This was in 1895. Six years later Marconi sent the first wireless signal across the Atlantic from Cornwall to New- foundland. On that historic occasion he could transmit nothing except repetitions of the letter S. But .in another two years he sent complete mes- Sages by night. The wireless is easily the eighth wonder of the world as a device of communication alone. Yet scientists look for more revolutionary innovations‘ in the wireless of the future. For instance, in 1914 Marconi in London lighted electric lamps with current sent six miles by wire- less. That may have been the birth of lightnig cities and operating machinery by currént sent by wireless from distant source of waterpower. The Prince of Monaco has a piano on his yacht played by wireless by a master musician ashore. At the Indiana State Fair, an automobile en- gine was started every five seconds by wireless sent from a station in Indianapolis, five miles away. Recently the 18,000-ton battleship Ohio was stripped of its crew and operated, steered and ma- neuvered entirely by wireless from another ship. These remarkable performances suggest some of the practical uses to which wireless will be put in the future. Many of the innovations will be American, for our wireless men are’ in the lead. Their latest exploit is the building of the world’s biggest and most powerful wireless plant at Port Jefferson on Long Island. It will open for bus- iness July 1, 1921, sending and receiving 1000 words a minute. . WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH ELECTION DAY One of the most important days Americans meet with is election day. It is then that momen- tus questions are answered; the public’s problems are publicly solved. Then Americans come nearer to their government closer to their public servants than at any other time. Why not make the most of the day? : ’ Why not make election day a legal holiday? Why not give to that one day of important public business our undivided attention? But making the day a holiday is merely a step toward making election day the most important day of the year for the citizen. _ We should abolish the wardboss’ voting booth, BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUN TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1920 transferring the election machinery to the public schoolhouse. It was bad enough to herd men in’ and around the temporary voting shack, or the corner barber shop. It is not to be thought of in the age when our wives and mothers, sisters and daughters accompany us to the polls. Why, at some elections, many were the election shacks be- ‘fore which long lines of women voters stood in | pelting rain. : And, while we are about this matter of making election ‘day the big day of the citizens’ calendar, | /why not oust the old-style election officials, the| ward-boss’ “gang”, and substitute the school: teaching force? This suggestion has been made) by an American, who, by actual experience, has | come to know how utterly incompetent the aver-| age election official is. There is no time better than right now to think, out these suggestions. They cannot be adopted | the day before next election. But they can be, adopted if the legislative machinery immediately | sets to work upon these proposals. Ped 1—Make election day a legal holiday. | | 2—Abandon the voting shack in favor of the, schoolhouse. | 3—Replace incompetent election officials with the school-teaching force. Baby’s Bank—what a help it is during January, | the tight money ‘month. What puzzles us is that anyone could have the heart to make a jest about! the income tax. New York expects to have a millon telephones in operation next year. Whatdayamean, in oper- ation? t ij Astronomers report lots of falling meteors. | Prices have made this falling business fashionable. | Miners have to dig for coal. Miners? Everybody. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are i] 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. THE GOVERNMENT IN BUSINESS Senator Harding has said nothing more praise- -worthy and hopeful than that it is his purpose to take the Government out of business. It is a big job, and he will have a hard time doing it. The set of the current has long been the other way; still is, if we may judge by the modest proposals j which Senatoy Kenyon is putting forward: in ‘| Washington. He would have the Federal Govern- ‘ment take hold of housing. He also thinks that the nation may have to take charge of the coal in- dustry. The “appropriate bills” to effect these | ends will be introduced by the Senator from Iowa. | What their result would be can easily be foretold | i We should have an expensive army of house-build- 'ers, but no houses. We should see the production | ‘of coal so inspector-ridden that prcies would be ‘doubled for fuel that is not to be procured. The “changeless truth” tnat: the Government | |transacts business in a cumbrous and wasteful | iway is really the chief moral of the Shipping | | Board inquiry. \grafting. Scamped work was often fobbed off on) the Government and ‘exorbitant prices charged it. | But the main thing that causes depression and | ' chagrin is the evidence of flounderng incompetence | |The government seemed unable to build the nec- |took in hand. The system was more vicious than” jany of the men connected with it. Direction was \feeble and vacillating. Inspection was limping. ' |Checking and auditing were almost unknown. Co- | ordination of labor was sadly lacking. These faults | | added to misfortunes some of which were perhaps | ‘unavoidable, will compel the writing off of vast! losses in this whole governmental undertaking. | government when in business does not, like pri- | vate concerns, go into liquidation or assess the | stockholders. It merely assesses the taxpayers. This is one great reason why the Government! does business so badly. ’ Itis not on a competitive | ‘basis. ° It does not have to watch its balance sheets | ‘with a jealous eye. Generous Uncle Sam always | stands ready to meet any deficits. In such circum-| stances, with the ordinary and wholesome spurs to success wanting, an organization of archangels | could not make the Government do well in busi- ness. The catual officials engaged in governmental enterprises are not at all angelic. Few of them are unscrupulous featherers df their own nests, but the great majority of them have their full share of human weeknesses. One of these is the tendency to “lie down” on the Government, to be indolent and careless when working for the public. It is what the French call the “mania” of official employes. “They move heaven and earth to get their places. Once in them, the feeling is that they can thereafter bc wholly at ease in Zion. Years ago, when Clemenccan was Minister of the Interior, he made a sudden descent upon the of- fices to see how the clerks were working. It was ‘a delgihtful Spring afterncon and they had slip- ‘ped out to see the chestnuts in blo‘som in the Champs Elysees. At last one faithful bureaucrat was found. But he was asleep behind his desk. “Don’t wake him up,” cried Clemenceau in alarm; “if you do he, too, will go out.’ This sort of slacking appears to have been fre- quent under the Shipping Board. Men sent to do one day’s work took seven, and .were paid for seven. The Treasury ‘ca nstand it, so why not? The question is, however, how long the people will | stand having the Government rushed into business which it is ill-fitted to conduct, with the outcome leertain to be disappointment and disgust—New ‘York Times . ‘ sua aE eS nese Le ii PLL SAY THE OLD Boy LOOKS PRETTY SS ree eerie te ADVENTURES LY PUR SE | THE ANNUAL CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY : | OF THE TWINS By Oliver Roberts Barton. Off to San nd Nancy o and seas, to the Gri iW ful Magical Shoes, like skyrockets t ‘became sharp and cold they flew ta's House ver fies and forests, lakes, rivers ng, through the air in their wonder- veling toward the horizon, The air onward, and after awhile the earth below began to look white instead ofgreea; brown or crystal as it had be- fore, depending upon the places over Almost before she had finished At last they came to San blocks, ‘roofed with snow. an 's It really d why one fairy should have a uld not imagine. Queen, ' “Please, stop!” they called to as your own ‘Shetland pony does (if “Whoa!” as loudly as you can. * They had scrambled to the top noticed an enormous sign over the “Door broken! Please use the chim “Goodness!” gasped we ever going to get up so high?” It isn't the least bit of wonder I'm sure it as high as the p: But answered right away. than that. How about our shoes?” “Oh, I always forget,” N us to the top of San big chimney ‘And almost before she had fin ancing on the very edge of a great (Copyright, 19 It was even larzer than the palace ney declared, which they were passing. -. LR ACO spcaking, they were there, balancing | om the very edge of a great black hole. house, a glittering palace of ice looked like'an enormous mountain, house so large all to himself the twins of the Fairy their Green Shoes, and gently and Doubtless there was much minor | M¢tly the little shoes deposited their wearers at Santa’s front door, just you have one) when you call out, before bold of the high ice-steps, door which said in ney!" they letters a funny place! Now are : : that essary business structure for the great work it | Santa’s vig chimney was as steep as the Washington monument. At least she was perplexed because fountain, anyway. “Humph! I guess we've been higher “Please, Green take right away.” ished speaking, they were there, bal- ck hole, \. E. AL) Shoes, 20, | FARMERS’ ACCOUNT BOOK PREPARED FOR | No confession of bankruptcy will be made. The DISTRIBUTION BY AGRICULTURE COLLEGE Agricultural College, N. D., Dec. 21. —A complete compendium of North Dakota agriculture is included in the North Dakota Farmers’ account book; prepared by the Agricultural College, now ready for 1921 distribution, Short articles and tables of information.on ferming methods in the state are prepared by the specialists in the var- ious branches of farming at the col- lege. arranged! in such a way turns may ‘be made on sh basis” or the “‘ac- crual bas: (inventory) and if the farm record is kept in this. book it will not be necessary to use the awk- | ward work sheet (Form 1040 F) in making the tax report. The record book has been prepared in cooperation with the American Farm Bureau Federation and the U. S. oe 7 | JUST JOKING | © Natural History Tommy Tenderfoot-“Oh, Scout: master, I was up to the park today aurter snake most a yard nd a hal Scoutmaste snakes do not reach that Tenderfoot garter snake, se ound the limb of a garter th.” thought it was wrapp tree.”—Boy He Ought to Know Better There is no use trying to joke with a woman, a. pretty goo: cided to try it on “Do you know why I mule?” he asked her when he went and de- rum wife. she replied promptly. “I know , but I don’t know why yow Boston Transcript. Evidently “The cave man used to drag. his bride to her altar by the hair of her head.” “Yl see, am like a} Department of agriculture, and is de- signed to meet the general needs of North Dakota farmers. The: book has rbeen presented to ‘the bureau of in- ternal revenue, the commissioner of which has given it the following com- mendation: “This farm account book was pre- pared in cooperation with the U. S. department of Agriculture and is com- mended by the bureau of internal rev- ‘| nue of the U. S. Treasury department. as particularly suited for use in mak- ing farm income tax returns under the Jaw now in force.” Since the state makes no appropri- ation for printing these books a | charge of cents is made for them. | For further information or for books address the county ogent or Farm Management Department, Agricultur- | al College, N. D. stood a good chance of dying an old maid.”-—Detroit New No Place for Personalities Two doughboys, one white and one black, were hopelessly lost out: in No Man's Land, After darkness had | fallen the white soldier cautiously | stuck his head over the edge of ihe | shell hole to take a look. “Whatcher see, boss?" | other. | “You ¢ | your face, | “Look-a-here now, | postulated the Negro.. quired the see your hand before i kaint see; Ah’s a: ing you what you can see.”—A ean Legion Weekl, | DROP IN PRICES Dawson, Y. 4 '1.—Recent heavy drops i s ji] result in ished catches in Yukon 1 dd Alaska this winter, repo from the surrounding country ; indicate.. The hunter have turned their pecting for gold. | dim | tory | Nea = A girl who wore false hair | TRIBUNE WANTS — FOR RESULTS | Coal Co. Phone 453. .« “x named 4017 a, FARGO PROBLEM Drought-Sufferers Said to Be Flocking to That City Fargo, Dec. 21.—Families moving to rargo from the drougat-striken areas in the state and using their say-, guy) and ai from their to have pro- ion among the city’s needy that is acute, according to Rev. E. McCracken, superintendent of Tidings missioa. ing the necessities of life. these families sudd have been thrown upon the mi n and the city for re- lief. In sonie.jnstances, «Mr. Mec- Cracken reports, the families have been -too proud to report their con- dition, Neighbors have brought their plight to the attention of the mis- 8) ings for transportation former homes duced a cond n. The immediate need now is. work for the unemployed and for cast off articles of clothing which can be salv- aged and made into garments fo needy, ‘The superintendent . of tue mission has been aided in his relief work, by the Sunshine society, the Cempfire girls and many of the frat- ernal orders of the city, which took an active interest in the cases brought to their attention. « argo, according to. Mr. McCracken, seems to appeal to the poor of the drought-stricken districts as a “mir- acle city.” Those who have lost prac- tically everything managed to get en- ought together to reach Fargo. They arrive without employment and many are thrown upon the relief agencies. The mild win according to the city’s weliare workers, has reduced actual suffering among the city’s needy. DETROIT SCHOOLS TO TEACH MASONRY Detroit, Mich. Dec. 21.—A course in masonry will become a part. of the curriculum in the Detroit public schools if a committee of masons studying the situation advises such a step, Frank Cody, superintendent of schools, announces. 2 The investigation here is: the out- growth of the recent annual meet- ing in Detroit of the Masons Con- ractors’ association of the United States and Canada. At the meeting speakers emphasized the need for courses in masonry in the public schools to train young men to fill the ranks of the bricklayers. “If the committee of Detroit citiz- ens finds the demand for a masonry course is strong the public school system will provide the equipment and instruction,’ Mr. Cody said. It was announced here at the Ma- sons Contractors convention that the Cleveland public schoo!s will offer such a course. ASK AUDITORIUM IN GRAND FORKS Grand Forks Dec. 21.—Petitions for a special election on the proposition of issuing city bonds to purchase the Grand Forks auditorium are being cir- culated, foll ug a definite proposal |made to the city by O. Young, who {row controls the building. The city | has until Dec. 29 to_obtain an option to buy, goed until April 1, 1922, which would make the total purchase price to the city about »17,090. General sentiment favors the use of the Audi- | torium for p purposes. | Tf the city fails to take the option, | the opportunity to buy the, Auditor- ium is offered the Oratorio society and Commercia? clud in the order a national emblem, is urged by Y. ord, Dominion | sovernment poultry expert, following |a report that the beaver was dying out. Phone 453 for the famous Wil- ton Screened Lump Lignite Coal. | ers, no soot, no dirt. $6 ner ton | delivered. ‘Washburn Ligntite Dressmaker Gives Advice “I underwent a su al operation for gall stones 5 years ago, was in the hcespital 4 wecks. For 1 year I felt better, but then my old symptoms and pains returned, and I have, suf- fered ever since. Four weeks ago on the advice of a lady I tried Mayr's Wonderful Remedy, and I now feel like a new woman. I have a num- ber of friends who suffer as I did and I am advising all to try this yaluable medicine.” It is a simple harmless preparation that removes ‘che catarrnal mucus from the in- testinal tract’and allays the inflam- | mation which causes practically all | stomach, ‘liver and intestinal ail- ‘ments, including appendicitis. Oné dose ‘will convince or money refund- ed. All druggists. SUNFLOWERS IN FARMER'S SILO Hagen Expects Ensilage and Straw, to Feed Fifty Cattle Watford City, N. D., Dec. 21—Some farmers in sections of the northwest | hit by drouth may be worrying over the question of feed for stock this winter, but not Oscar W. Hagan, of Watford City. He has a silo full of sunflowers, and with his sunflower ensilage fed with straw expects to bring his 50 head of puréored Short- horns through the winter in fine shape. Hagen has tried sunflower silage be- . fore and knows stock both like and thrive on it. Last season he expanded operations, however, and grew a whole field of Mammoth Kussian sunflowers. ‘The drier the days and the more the other crops suffered, the more rapidly and luxuriantly the sunflowers seemed |to grow. When it came time to put |the crop in the silo, theyi stood 15 feet tall and so thick. Hagen says, it Was like walking through a tunnel to go in tne rows, An amazing feat- ure was the way the sunflowers put the Russian thistles entirely to rout. The field had been infested with the pest. The sunflowers having been planted, the two crops: started to- gether, but the sunflowers soon out- grew the ,thistles, that, cut off from , they weakened and fin-' ally died. The crop ran about ten tens to the acre. Hagan is planing to double his acre- age of sunflowers next season. He be- lieves that the sunflower is bound to become an important part of fargn op- erations in the northwest where the reinfall is not always sufficient ta raise paying crops of grain and hay. It is drouth resistant, grows abund- antly and ig of high feed value. * Doorn Center of German Aristocracy Dec. 21.—The con- Doorn, Holland, r the | Stantly growing German colony heray where former Emperor William re- sides, is causing uneasiness amons the inhabitants, for a great number of the’ members of the German aris- tocracy are buying up old Dutch manors, and Doorn is already called in the Dutch satirical papers “A branch office of Potsdam. Some weeks ago William ordered Margarita Koggy, a German artist liv- ing in Doorn to paint scenes in the park and his residence. Big A. 0. U. W. meeting, Dec. ~“-#. *Yks Hall. Boxing Match, \Wrestling Match, Initiation and "feed. THE SENSE OF INFERIORITY A Starved ‘Nervous System Takes the Snap Out of the Otherwise Strong and Capable : Imaginary unfitness, the peculiar nervous to that causes some so lamentably is strain men shrink | merely a condition of semi-starva- tion. If you doubt it, let the recon- structive influence of Reolo drive it out of your head completely. When the nerves have gone smash and the iron has been burned out of the blood, then is the time that the red-blooded fighter lords it all over his pale-faced rival. Reolo is a won- der. It gives you conscious strength You feel an increased nerve force. nerve control. No more bluff, no halting, no hesitation. With an ita- proved appetite the nerves that were starved cease to cry out with pi the red corpuscles in the blood in- crease enormously, there is a tinge of color to the skin and a sense of fitness from head to foot such the marvelous capacity of the sys- tem to respond to the influence of Reolo. This wonderful reconstruc- tive and strenghtening combination so intensifies the activity of the vital processes that you approach any task with a vim that is fairly as- tonishing- Ask any of the clerks at Finney’s ind trappers | The coal that is all coal, no clink-. Drug store or any other leading drug attention to pros- | store for a $1.00 box of Reolo. Ask j them about its wonderfyl effect upon ;@ host of people they have sold it to. an - u o Dd en ' | wii, 4 » ek Li oes