The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 27, 1920, Page 2

* ~OUU WURLU WAN VETERANS IN GREAT NEED Men Are Suffering From Tuber- culosis as Result of Being Gassed Indianapolis, measures are ne 27-—-Emergency y for thé relief Dee. of 500 disabled World War veterans who are at Tuscon ona, without proper hospital — faciliti it is an- nounced here by national officers of the American Legion. The men are suffering from tuberculosis which is developing pidly among veteraas who were gassed. It is theyplan of the Legion to co- operate with the War Risk, Insurance Bureau and the United States Public Health Service in meeting the sjua- tion. An amuseraent pa Tuscon will he taken over and converted into a temporary hospital. Many of the af- Tlicted vete where are now sleeping: in , necording to rents to Leg s failing to find shelte: the 1 tional Adjutant Lemuel Bolles ked Bert C. Clingan conimand- the Arizona department of the Legion, to organize volunteer crews of carpenters from the Legion member ship in that state to assist in con- struction work, A corps of public health nurses and physicians and two construction en- gineers have been promised by the federal government. Governor Camp- bell of Arizona has also pledged the use of state employees for construc- tion work. Bolles advises afflicted veter- ans againstizgomg co ‘Lusednbas ar- rangemengs Wcan be made for only those.whd are already there. Tie veterans there now are from all parts of the country and went to Tuscon ov their own initiative. The Legion is continuing its cam- paign for hospital facilities for all dis- abled veterans, Mr. Bolles says. PRICE SLUMP MUST BE.ON. GRADUAL SCALE wr. London,, De Sir Charles Mac- ura, former president of the Interna- tional Cotton Federation and of the Mi h Federation of ster Cotton. s’ Associations, is of the opition that the world is “faced with disaster unless means be devised througbeut the world to bring about more wholehearted cooperation be-/ lween employers and work: with a view to reducing governmental and national extravagance and bring- ing down the cost of production by ited effort.” At present, Sir Charles| sees “no Prospect af a real reduction in the cost of living and he thinks that the United Kingdom is today in as cri- tical- a position ag at the outareak of the war; largely due, he says. to the clrtailment of credit by banks at the bidding of the government, People Encouraged “Peaple are encouraged to believe that a slump in price: \ . is due im- mediately,” said Suv Charles to the correspondent, “out an artificially- created slump would be nothing less than a disaster. Low prices are an illusion so long. as the world lacks goods and the cost of production re- mains on the préyent scale. “Making the So-called war protit- cers disgorge may be a popular cry, ‘but it must..not be overlooked that the government who has. adopted the s duty are the rea! pro- fiteers, and'in 2 upon to. refund have collected. “Then. again, wag e very high, working hours considerably shorter: running expenses heavier than ever ‘before, and the gost of machinery 4. per cent above pre-war prices.” ‘The excess profits duty, Sir Charles pointed out, had as a ~ consequence largely failed in its purpose. He continued: “If there is no change of policy, in regard to the cotton industry, we shall have again ‘what happened in 1915; the growers turning to crops that will pay, with a consequent great advance in the price of.cotton, which in that. year fell to four pence per pound and in course of time. rase as~high as 45. pence, increasing tha price of the ‘cotton tq the world by 1,4990,850,000 pounds,” Regrets Failure Sir Charles regreted the fail the governments et s of the experts of the Interna tional Cotton Pedoration ena tha te ternational Ifstitute of Agriculture. “All nations are interdependent,” he. said, S. oe gent work, the provision of food and clothing, cannot proceed e: xcept by international cecrer ‘ well if the Un much Of what they eof let HUMPHREYS’ WITCH . HAZEL . OINTMENT (COMPOUND) For. Piles or Hemorrhoids, External or Internal, Blind or Bleeding, Itching or Burning. One application brings relief. at-all druggists Sead Free Sample of Ointment to Humphreys’ Homeo. Kiedicine Company 456 William Street, New York. SICK. STOCK BOOK on treatment of Horses, Cows, Sheep, Dogs' and other animals, sent free. | Humphreys’ re’ Homeopathic Vet- serinery Medicines, 156 William St., N. Y.' Here is what’ “no Kt. S. M, Mitchell perfected a “meca smooth sur He ble of lifting 59 eech’ its grip. Long ing hoid.of an of the “leeches,’ holding gives the the fnitiative with T The present crisis cnn by the oratory pf the politics at Geneva, at ual reduc i and by che tion, If the commenced machinery of ferred to whose very the prac! profes sional ions ence prove nations wor! ing in friendly cooperation, much pre lous. | time would e been T ration is One of extreme. ur- ARNSTEIN AND. COMPANIONS NOT VOTED GUILTY Washington, .D. C., Dec. 27--The jury in the case of Jules E. W. (Ni- Arnstein, and others. reported e Justice Gould in the district su- preme c 5 ee today that it was un- able to ad ree on a verdict after nine- teen hours deliberation. Justice Gould discharged the jury and announce a py HO with Arnstein were David W. Sullivkn, ‘Norman S. Bowles, and W- W. asterday, of the Was’ brokerage firm of D.’W. Sullivan and company. The four were charged With conspiring to bring stolen securi into the district of Columbia. The triai, ‘lasted four weeks. SLAY PRISONERS THANK YANKEES Budapest, Dec. ey ce hun? dred Austro- Hungarians, prisuacrs of war in East Siberia, thank am: ean officers of the 27th Infantry, part of the American Wxpeditionary. i nr- ces which served there, for their lives. health end what happiness a prison camp can give. Their spokesman, ‘Lieutenant Colonel Ferdinand Re‘ter formerly of the Austro-Hungarian army, told the Associated Pr cor respondent he feJt it his duty, upon arriving’ here after six years in the prison camp of Krasnaja Rjetschka, near Khabarovsk, to tell of the Amer- ican aid. “We owe our lives to the Ameviean officers of the 27th Infantry Re ment, to Colonel, C. H. Morrow, Cap- tain E. Larkins, Surgeon Burdett aid Lieutenant John James said Colonel Keder. “Influenza broke ont in our, camp in October, 1218. The. physical con- dition of the prisoners was at. the time so reduced that the, disease spread with frightful rapidity! Hardly anyone was spared and there were soon $00 serious casgs. No medicines were available. The shortage of food wes more and more terrible and we were all convinced our camp would soon be one vast cemetery without a living soul to tell the sad tale. “At this horrible pass, when wo were all ayprey to despair. Colonel Morrow andj“E” Company of the 27th Infantry regiment, under the command of Captains Larkins arrived and took charge of our camp, The Americans brought provisions for a month, and soon our miserable hospital. was transformed into a model 4stablish- ment and’ the epidemic wag quelled. “Colonel Morrow then set about making our lives worth’ living. Workshops of all kinds were arrang- ed, schools opened; a_library, a thea- tre, baths and a coffee house, were built, and grounds of every kind for sport were laid out. “After all those weary years, we felt raised to the dignity of manhood again. And now we should like all the world to know,, that we owe our lives our health and happipess, our power for good in the world to ‘the noble American officers of the 27th Regiment, to the Sreat American nation.” 220,000 Foreigners ~ Reported i in France Paris, Dee. The forele, popu: Jation of Far 1,2 tovalied Y000, is the mumber of foreigners residing in Paris whe have ¢ and taken out cards Prefecture of Police. do noi include tow ef foreigners whyse nationality is somewhat yague :and who have ‘no desire to cf at police headquarters unless compelled to do} so by gen- darmes, America with 2) permanent res- idents in Paris occupies fourth place. Italy, Switzerland, Great Britain with 39,000, 27,000 and 25,000 respectively heading the list. French law. identity at the These figures S$ or that class ie REPS Tribune Want Ads Bring Results. sayerl.. ching" of a i », tale 1 set of{ two pull of the lever he is s 40 of them will iift a is shown here operating tons, One Mitchell <5. ASK BOOST IN _ APPROPRIATION /T0 AID FARMS Washington, Dec, 27--A plea carged ygram of the bureau crop estir ates of the Department of Agriculture to respond to the growing demands for its services in giving the essential tacts of produ nd sup- liv x is con- annual report today of WstabrooK, chief of/the for ot Dr. Leon M. Lureau, The Dr. abpook said, involves supplying information wi progta regard tg live-siock, presenting a farm va $10,000,690,09; \dairy and poultry production; which have an estimated annual. value of more than $8,100,- 6%), and the reporting of other crops having an annual. value of $1701, 605,05 To put this program into an industry re- effect an inerenaed appropriation of $59 ary, Dr. ear’s appropri- amounted to 0) annually, t abrook said. = ations for the bureau $37,102, In telling the people of the country from month to month during the crop growing ‘Season what the ultimate p will be the bur- of crop estimates utilizes the services-of an army of crop reporters and of which adout 290,00) yvolun- icered their services. The accuracy of their forecasts has beeN found to he remarkably close to actual produc- tion, the report said. Cotton produc- ‘tion has been under-estimated, 1.5 per cent, the average for the. last 20 years shows.-In seven years the crop was over-estimated, once to the extent of 5-1 per cent, once 3.7 per cent and the other five times less than one per cent. iRedursd appropriations caused a ontinwance of special service for fruit, tru porato, rica and cotton crops which have an atmual value in excess of $4,599,000,000. of voluntary crop A. large number reporters entered the military service but those who mained on the farm, notwithstanding the scarcity of farm labor andthe enormous crops to be*handled, a a commend: able spirit. in keeping the number of reports up to the point where accur- acy was assured in the estimates, Di. Estabrook sai Canada Would Make Armistice Day Its Thanksgiving Day Winnipeg, Dec. 27—Fixture of Ar- mistice Day,.-Novemper 11, as Cana- de2’s_ permanent Thanksgiving Day, will be urged upon the Dominion government. by the, Winnipeg board of trade, Vancouver and. Saskatoon have already endorsed :the plan and | the boards of trade in all other im- Dortant cities of the Dominion intend to take similar action, it is stated. A movement it was stated. is’ also on {pot in ‘tho United States for, hold- ing their Thanksgiving, Day on Noy 1. Phone 453 for the famous Wil- ton Screened Lump Lignite Coal. The coal that is all.coal, no clink. ers, no soot, no dirt. $6 per ton delivered. Washburn Lignite Coal.Co. Phone 453., on, 2 of, more than), snor, HIGH BOARD FENCE GUABDS LL Det PAURINU STATE OWNED LIGHT PLANT Missouri River to Be Utilized in Proposed Plan of Ky Officials . Soto iPerre, S. Dak. Dec. 27—(By/A8 8: ed. Pr —in the opinion of J.J. Murphy, of Pierre, chairman of the member mission created. by the state legis! ture two azo to investigate se ret-sites for the proposed state-own- ed y clric plant, the. 3 mended plant wit} completely pay itself in eleven. years. The special commissioa wil make po ior its find ngs to tho state legislature at the Kanuary session and tetinite decision as to the loc he piant if any appropriati nm.’be au- thorized io: its constuction is expec ed to be made. “A recent report made hy the stace cig recommend either Mou dse feiles the tori net bei g “in the northera part af the state and the latter in the southern part. Discussing the hydro-clectric prop- before. the ‘Mitchell Rotary atly, Mir. Murphy, using as for his: ¢: te figures given ny engineers making a study of. the Propo. sed plant,< estimated that. the. rould bé op ed at a deficit However, when he uM, power from the ty “90 kilowat 3 elevated to, $7,- liy, ~ Mur- the plant would into. the sinking’ i woutd have repaid puction. mn leg: the s state plaut hours a py. predictell,, thi be prying replat id.and by of. ci a The railroad © sdecial appeal, for sure the operation of the plant, constructed, on a pane that would ioner made a siation to if make it immune, from political 4 ‘uence and that, it be managed on strict busin: principl mid with an exacting, be not accounting. DIXON SECOND REPUBLICAN T0 BE GOVERNOR \ Helgna, Mont., Dec. Dixon, of- Missowlu who to take the oath here on January 8 >next as governor of Montana, will be the ond Republican to hold that . oft of the state to of —Joseph' M. a the uniom, frequently lost coutrol of a they have almost always managed to elect the executive. Joseph K. Toole after admission, w served from Xo 1£93. He still lives fornia, alfhough he mainte idence here. The second governor, J. I ards of. Silver Bow county Republican. He also r sides in Cally tornia. His term. was 1893-1897. ‘Rooert 'B. Smith, the gover- was elected by \a.fusion of demo- He was of the first governor is a democrat. He 1889. to Jan. 2, ad is now in Cali- ins res: crats and republican Beaverhead and Lévy and Clar! counties. Hé died in Kalispell earl in the century, His term was 1S! 1901. Mr. Toole was ‘re-elected in 1990) «pere Pits wank and again in 1904 but resigned in 1908, toward the c:ose of his second term, when Edwin iL, Norris of Beaverhead became aot aliibr My. Norris, also a democrat, was re-clect- ed in 13U8. He was dudveoded in 1912 by Sam V. Stewart of Madison, who retires to make way for Mr. ‘Dixon, after’ compleiing a 8 d term. Mr. Norris is practicing law in Great Falls and Mr, Stewart will practic here. Mr. Rickards, who was ‘formerly a fethodist minister, leaving the pul. pit to enter business. The governor-elect is a native of Worth Carolina, , He camé to this state in- 1891, locating in Missoula. He was admitted to the bar in 1892 and became years later. ture in county attorney two He went to the legisla )3), and to congress in’ 190: wo terms in-the lower house of the national body. Ip.,19¥7 he wes elected to the sen- ate, but was festa for re-electi in. 1912, when/he followed, Theodore Roosevelt into the. progressive party and whose natianal campaign he was manager. : Since 1913 he has Deh residing in Missoula on, his stock farm in. the Flathead country, He was for many years publisher of daly papers at Missoula and for a time the active editor. He is: married and has. six, daughters, | All these men were lawyers except | nut pine. | entered an entirely different zone, and Upon, completing her College in Cincinnati; ermftorial mangion, in the feshionable residence district on the east side, within waiking distance of the capitol. Quick CHANGE NOE OF ‘CLIMATE Traveler in Arisenat “cets Variat With: Comparatively Littha: <> ~ Physical Exertion. hes Tn climbiug from: the Painted: desert, which lies at the foot of San Franc mountain in Arizena, to the summit of that peak, perha 25 miles away, you much chamge of climate and’ pass through as many differant zones of life as. you would in travelitig from southern Sonora to ithe region of Hudson ba®, This is due to the fact that altitude has the same effect on climate as lati- tude. If, you climb 500 feet upward you have achieved the same, ehange of climate though you had gone 2 degrees: north. The result: is that a mountain top in Arizona 12,000\ feet high above sea tevel bas a climate like that ‘at_the edge ofthe arctic cir: cle. Moreover, many plants and some of the same birds that live in the subarctic regions are found on top of San Francisco pak srelies of that distant age when most ot North America was “covered by an ice cap-and had an aretic climate. The gesert at the foot of San Fran- cisco peak is one of the deadest and hottest places on earth. Great areas of it are without a sprig of vegetation. beds of brightly col- ored pebbles gleaming. in the sun, great barfén sand flats, ranges of hills that are stained bright red and blue /With minerals, but show not a touch { of living green. The heat /is terrific and incessant, Ee x Leaving this region in the mornir by noon you find yourself on the mou tain Sone in an arid region supporting a low scrubby forest’ of juniper and Two hours later you hare are riding through a beautiful open forest of.yellow pine, with trees:a hun- dred feet high, This gives way to a forest of fir, which is dense and damp, with heavy’ underbrush! along the streams. Here birds and squirrels abound, and you may. glimpse. geer and bear, As you continue upward the timVer again -dwindles in size. You through a region of scrubby spruce, uch as grows along the Yukon. in Alaska, and-finally emerge on the tree- less crest ubove timberline, where:the --elfiafe is almost_aretic and the snow lies: deep in June. Find Natural Purple Dye. A. shellfish ts on the Pacifie coast of-Costa Rica from which. a ‘spe- cially fine purple color is obtained and used for dyeing silk thread. A report (Montana has a commodious gubd- recelved by the department of’ com- ¥D GEORGE oe & .LONDON—A board fence eightvfeet high has been thrown dcross the entrance to Dow gat | where Lloyd George’s home is4located, following the recent attempt by labor radicals and Irish’sym-' pathizers to storm the premier’s residence. Police v were placed on guard at the gates ; and’ only per- gad Pre with passes admitted, e fl art of a of the. same, pass]. His bh \ coitrde of study at the Hebrew Union| Miss Martha Neumark of Cincinnati, will be- ' come the only woman rabbi in the United States. in. the first girl to take up the rabbinical course. Miss Neumark is States the discovery of ‘this nal e came to Nght through an in| from Guatemala, Where some silk | thread Imported from Costa Rica cou | mands a good price. | The dyers, who xpparently are-lim-| ited to a few old persons, take the thread to’ the shore, where the shell- fish abound, and dye it there. The per- son. who pieks up a shell blows: his breath upon it, wherenpon a few drops of greenish .liquid, ooze out. ‘This liqudér is collected in an open clam | shell or other small container, a suflicient quantity has been. collect- ed the thread is pa d through, The thread soon~afterward, on e@: posure to the sunlight. assumes a beat tiful purple color, which is absolutely fast. : In ancient days it is believed this dyeAvas called “Tyrian purple; and was-even then so rare that it was re served for royalty. Capital Feels Paper Shortage. The paper shortage is making itself ‘elt in ‘the’ post office department, where the greatest: difficulty tis being experienced in.getting the needed sup- stamped envelopes. Postal ure! scarce. \A few weeks ago there’was discoy- oreil a large quantity of the old 3-cent stamped envelopes, for which there is now almost no demand. hey are be- ing sold now for 2 cents apiece, plus ‘the small cha for the envelope., with a di guishing © cancellatios mark over the stamp. More recently the post office department began to sell a quantity of postal cards of the| vintage of about ten years ago, The depariment Is restamping 400,000,000 2-cent’ postal cards issued during the war, nse [RUNS ON RAILS OF WOOD Alaskan Transport System Suppiles 15 Miles of Territory and Does Bx | cellent Work. ;T ams 0. P, Ganstad of Fatrbanks, Alaska, owner and dperator of one of the) thest north” Iways- inthe world. | oad “system” consists of 15 miles-o! wooden raits that stretch be- | tween the head of navigation on the | "Tolovaha river to the_rich placer above, some 75 miles overland | from Qairbanks. The motive power of his railroad is a motor car, and It has | done heroic work for Mhe last two sea- | sons in imitating a-genuine steam lo- comotive,; Mr. Gaustad.went to Alas- ka In the big of: 98, | “IT have a sawmill half way between the Tolovana placers and the head of navigation on the river.” be said re- cently in Los Angeles. “For two years I have operated the railroad, to haul. logs to any mill, and from .there to) haul the sawed lumber to the mines. | The track is 15 miles: long and. is of | wooden rails. Thé motor ‘car: is, of course, equipped with flanged wheels, and hauls a little train of three cars behind tt. 5 “In this fashion I have hauled loads as high as six tons. In. addition to the lumber I haul all supplies from the head of navigation on the river to the mines, ‘and get $60 a ton for transport- ing them. Sometimes J make eight or nine trips.a day, and this year the car, covered over 6,000 miles in the course of the season. “The war brought great hardship to. the gold miners of Alaska, for, ewing, fo the deprec half what It was five years ago. Con- sequently many of-the mines are shut down, for the producers figure it is not worth while to pay excessive la- costs to mine gold worth only half w people realize the immense distances in Al From ing. rail- road, for example, jt is 1,600 miles to tidews vy of the Yukon river. I burn in my car cests a gallon."—From the Pa- 1 Advertiser. me: $5 cents cific Commerce L TRIBUNE “WANTS — FOR RESULTS ‘MORE PLOWING = “ state’ representing roughly about one: After | | wages per day with board were $6.15 | dermine. his pplitical position ‘and | portunity to make many blunders, ated value of the dollar, “their. gold is worth but little more than | Take Aspirin only as told in each package of genuine, Bayer Tablets ot “Aspirin. Then you will be following tfle directions and dosage worked out ; ‘i by physicians during 21 years, and fi proved. safe by millions. Take no ‘ chance es. If you s2e ~ the E lets, you can take them _ fear for Colds, Headache, . Rheumatism, e, Toothache, Lumbago. and for é Handy tin boxes ae twelve ta- blets cost few cen sell. Jarger packag Aspirin is the Manuf. TS. COMPLETED THAN IS USUAL Aérteallniga Statistician Gives Report on Conditions in Nertit Dakota b ie oe . The fall. plowed eage: in North: Dakota is well above théyaverage and? estimated lo be 59 percent of the to< tal acreage to: be cropped in 924) 1é- arding to A. J. Sur the. He continues areas in scattered ss where, the soil was unfavorably dry for plowing, the pro- longed mildness of the fall season = | Was. fayorable for Ahe advancement - 1 garm work. More plowing than usual has been completed in nearly all counties of the state. The plowed acreage’ in the, eastern third of the third of the total cultivated acreage. in, North Dakota, is exceptionally fe) ljarge. e $ “The supply of farm laDor, while short earlier in the season, showed g marked improvements during the clos- ing months of the year. The neces- 1 sary competition however with the in- ry aged wages paid in industrial cen- 1 ters and for city work in general, especially during the heavier part of - the season, bqosted this season’s farm wages to new high lev Farm wages for 1! are the highest on record for” North Dakota." The average monthly wage whegg hired:by the year with board was $70.00 compared to $56.00 last year, $52.00 in 1918, and $41.00 in 1917, or an increase of «1 Percent over four yeam@ ago. Harvest ~, per’ day compared to $4.85. last Year, : $450 in- 1918, and y4.49 im 1917, or an | increase of St percent since 1917.” MUCH PRAISE R GAUSED DEFEAT London, Dec. 27—Too much prai was one of the catses_of the def of Premier Venizelos in the Greek elections, in the opinion of M. ‘Poly- chroniades, the Greek ‘Charge a’ Af- faires here. “™* “We Greeks have still a very pecu- liar mentality,” said the Charge to an Kvening New reported. “Remem- ber the old ste how Aristittes ‘the Just’ was. ostracized in ancient Greece. ‘On citizen having asked another: ‘Why do you vote against Aristides?’ was answered: ‘Because and tired of hearing him ed as the one just man in the The Charge believes, however, that. Venizelos’ absence from Athens for 13 months, although he was work- ing all that time for, the good of the couiitry,, enabled his enemies to un- gave the members of his cabibnet op- y° Mined Lehigh.’ Lignite Coal for Sale. W. J. Dobson;:615 Anderson St hone 659 R. 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