The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 27, 1920, Page 4

ity of the wind, to say nothing of the rise and fall of the temperature. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN. - - - - Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. ‘ AYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - - = Fifth Ave. Bidg. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise preuited 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 2 $720 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarel 0007.20 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) GEOGRAPHY : SS What schoolboy or girl has an adequate idea of Berenicé ought to be popular as a girl’s name the comparative size of the various countries of/ now. Properly pronounced it sounds almost like the world. Bare-knees. Very few, says the U. S. Geological Survey. | The reason? Because school geographies, like school histories, magnify the importance of the United States as compared with foreign countries. It has long been the dream of geographers to make a series of maps if the world on a uniform Posi paper saa sr senee) SAIL te fresh crop of stories brought in by the new tries by maps on a single, uniform scale, for ns cmmtration: less a’ student observes closely the scale of each | map or the figures showing the area of the coun-| try being studied, he is likely to get the impression | "°°? Coie f A that certain distant lands, which are generally | “88S are medline pisivide tat prec may: eayrigad co : small scale, are smaller than those. with which he is most familiar. | Australia, which is shown on most school maps | EDITORIAL REVIEW jaa Rec ee aA 5 ie re as that not Comments, jfeProguced ip this column may. or, may e map of the United States—i j ; rder th s may have about the same ae of the United Stator ate Boek en af" important, fea which re bette “de 2 1-2 per cent smaller. China is also generally | shown on a small scale, yet it is about one-third , . WORSE AND MORE OF IT Newspapers will feel free to dispense with comics larger than the United States. ! and humorous contributions if the Shipping Board Editor 2d if there was an inch of water on it ,that would amount to 6,27: There are 227 72,640 cubic inches. cubic inches in a gallon, so that 6,272,640 cubic would weigh 220,000 pounds, or 110 tons. is at the rate of 110 tons per acre. It is a good thing the tonnage is scattered over so much terri- tory. If an inch of rain fell at Phoenix, Arizona, in one storm, it would give the people something to talk about for a long time, for in an entire year the rainfall is less than eight inches. On the other hand folks at New Orleans wouldn't give it more than passing thought, for the average rainfall there is nearly five inches a month. It’s the style in Britain to carry a pourparler in one hand and a half-brick in the other. The League of Nations has five vice presidents. They must work in relays like the end men in a minstrel show. i No Washington bartenders will have to listen to Eggs were 49 cents a dozen 50 years ago and a t purchase causes the suspicion that the same The error is serious for grownups, too. The work of preparing maps of the entire world jinvestigation continues to live up to its present ona uniform scale has been under way for some) time, and the Survey has made considerable Pro-|news of this investigation to satiate the readers’ gress in its work on the parts of this map that appetite for humor. i = é | Sie otic pine hia The task is’ On Monday, for example, Eads Johison, former ut uttle-known jobs that the district officer of the fleet, testified that the pre- government is always doing. Deadline 4 ildi ili vays doing. vailing idea seemed to be one of ‘‘building a million | Shoes have been redueed 30 percent, but what | wooden ships that would take a million German tor- * : i | pedoes to sink.’’ 1s most needed is a shoe lace tha osn't break at| . a critical time, i t doesn’t break at! That remark is a good commentary upon the |muddle-headedness of the program followed by the Shipping Board: PROVE THEIR RIGHT TO BE CITIZENS Not all the immigrants coming to States. walk on legs. Nor do the other through Ellis Island. Often they ‘come the United itor of the Board, testified 10 per cent. of the $7,- kind come,/900,000 shipping board’s repair bills in. the South m crates Atlantie district reprsented ““eraft.’? He declared a boxes: ees are not seekers for new homes. | that inspectors had been told ‘‘costs’’ were none of hee age as are ee : et, for alli their business, and that there was a spirit of “make”? F ‘y must prove their right to Amer-! , us mn’? i e i Joie sikeamanys el iy than ‘‘cut down” pervading the repair These immig S 3 immigrants are plants. The word ‘‘comedy’’ is perhaps not aptly chosen ie ust sree! _ Some odd-looking emigrants from |in describing the revelation now being brought out Tica made their appearance at the Bureau of Plant in the Shipping Board probe. “Tragic farce”’ might Industry, Washi q - Fs ae : ofsmmental Sean te These frangers are fruits, |be a better designation. It is humiliating to believe » forage grasses, sorghums, fiber | that, in time of war, Americans could be so venal, ants and trees. The bureau's job is to investi a Aaa B urean’s job is to Investigate | 59 criminally indifferent to the country’s fate as to these immigrants, first to see if.they wi rive in! : : 5 Revers i lean they will thrive ‘permit the existence ‘of such outrageous abuses. The merica soil and climate; and second, if they are! | ani Panta eles : ? : ‘veeklessness of the Administration in throwing its worth growing over here. i The. bureau ‘has. been” doing: this expesiiisatiaone ny around is only beginning to be fully under- Raa eA 2 5s stood. pia wih foreign plants for years. Now it has’ That drunken orgy of expenditure will live in placed its O. K. upon the dwarf lemon which origi- history.—Minnea olis Tribune nated in China and the Chinese haw, a sour, juiey | oe i : fruit. The pistacho nut from the Mediterranean is. recommended for California; the Queensland nut; PUT THE STATE CONTROL OF NATIONAL thrives best in Florida. The giant blackberry from | CARRIERS OUT OF BUSINESS Bogota has received its citizenship papers; so has ‘The Interstate Commerce Commission decision the dry-land elm from Asia. : that railroad fares in New York cannot be regulated —_-——- by State authority in such a way as to make a Lawyers got $1,000,000 for xing the meaning of mockery of national authority was a foregone con-/ the Marshall Field will and people wonder why law | clusion. 3 schools don’t need to advertise. ' Under“the new railroad law the carriers in given territory are to earn as a whole 6 per cent. on the capital valuation engaged in the business. If local SUGAR $375 A POUND Beet and cane sugar. prices have dropped. Maple sugar, also has been high. you were paying for xylose, a sugar ‘ade from {supporting and to which they are entitled under corn cobs. A pound of that costs $120, Qr manose, | the national law it Sits follow that the Interstate a sugar made from ivory nuts, at $140. Commerce Commission ‘would have to mark up its Tiere are many sugars which are little known, | tates by more and more, millions, and even hundreds Most of them are.used in scientifie work, the culti-| of millions, of dollars to make up the losses suffered vation of bacteria. One such sugar is of great within the States. ' ae value in detection of typhoid. In such a grotesque situation the rates controlled Aribinose. Levulgse. | Raffinose. These are all! by the national ecmmission would have to become rare sugars. Inulin is a sugar made from dahlia so high that they would kill much of the traffic bulbs. Mannite is a sugar made from manna. subject to them. The Stacs rates eventrally would Manose at $140 a pound seems pretty high. But} become so overwhelmingly discriminatory that they | the prize sugar is duleitol, a pound of which costs! would become in citee chinese wall against com- $375. petitive trade and comme from without. The publie would pay the fiddler doubly in being put at D’Amnunzio may find it a short leap from Fiume|the merey of the local profiteer — virtually estab- to the films. lished. in monopoly power by the discriminatory a rates—on the one side where competitive goods WHAT'S AN INCH OF RAIN could not get in from without, and on the other When it rains “cats and dogs,’’ or ‘‘pitchforks"’ side in having to pay an inordinate tax on.the goods for a length of time, it is likely that the weather that did not come in where the local markets could man will announce that ‘“‘the precipitation was one not provide the supply. inch.”’ ‘ What a preposterous attempt of State commission And just what does that mean? What is an inch authority to override the national authority shows of rain? The weather man has instruments for very |is that there should be a constitutional amendment accurate measurement of it, just as he does the| putting all State control of national carriers out of snowfall, the sunshine, and the direction and veloc-| business—New York: Herald: ‘ } BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE inches equals 22,000 gallons, and that much water, It figures out then that an inch of rain falling, |promises. Enough comedy is supplied through. the } Another witness, Charles Banzahf, traveling audi- | commissions could restrain roads from getting within. 3ut suppose} States the revenues which they require to be self-/ MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1920 : | LET JOY BE UNCONFINED : An acre is composed of 6,272,640 square inches, | LOOK WHERE You'Re Potin’ ‘ ’ THAT GUN: i THE BLUE “Once upon a tim | Claus, “there wa ‘anything to do.” i Nancy and Nick TA closer snuggled i { Then he s jand Nancy slid a soft little arm around | tbe fairyman’s neck. What a delicious jplace! A big fire—a cozy chair—and |a “once-upon-a-time” story. The jtwins were so glad the Fairy Queen had sent them to Santa’s house. “And like people who hadn’t any- thing to do,” went on Santa, “he got into trouble. TI fairy who hadn’t rangthing to do, didn’t have it because he didn’t want it, and he didn’t want |it because he was too lazy to hunt for it. And hunt for it he wouldn't! What he wanted was to get credit for what someone else had done. If he had only \known it, that’s about as hard as real {work would-be. Only it does happen sometimes, I’m sorry to say, that peo- ple get credit for.other folks’ work. “Well, anyway, this fairy had an nn mane if JUST JOKING } /o—— Made No Rash Promis “Who was the smooth talker?” “promoter.” is “I dare say he wanted to make yeu ich in six months?” “No. He was very conservative | He said he thought it would take at {least a year."—Birmingham Age-Her- | ala. Trifle Upset. “What's the matter with Flivver?” “Been playing \the races.” “What happened?” ; “He started out to try and win a | winter . overcoat and lost\ a b | house.” — Louisville Courier-Jour: Not So Dense “Would you call Blitiersby | pid?” ‘ ;. “Well, he has a limited amount of intelligence.” “Yes?” “He stu- n trace the decline in the | popularity of mince pie to the eigh- teenth amendment.”— Birmingham Age-Herald. or Pupil—T don’t think I should get zero on this paper. Teacher—Well, I don’t either, but that’s the lowest I could give you.— Boy's Life. ~ Master—My mother-in-law is com- ing for a long visit tomorrow. Here is a list of her favorite dishes. Cook—Yes, sir. Master Well, the first time you jgive us one of these you'll get a week’s notice.—Pearson’s ‘Weekly. Small-Town Diversion “Are there no forward-looking peo- ple in this town?” asked the stranger with a mission. S “Yep,” replied the village postma [ee “f guess we've got a dozen or so.” 1 “eWhere are ‘they. to be found?” _ ADVENTURES OF THETWINS | By Oliver Roberts Barton. began Santa | South Pole and set up a big sign which fairy who hadn't | read, ‘Mr..Blue Santa Claus.’ at down and. wa idea. He crawied into'a cave at the Then he sat down and waited.” “Why 4id he say ‘blue'?” asked ited, Nick curiously, peering into Santa’s ruddy, kind face. “Oh, yes,. I forgot,” nodded Santa Claus. “Because he wore a blue coat ~and cap instead of red, and his hair and beard and fur trimming were black instead of white. He was as tall as I am short, and as thin as I am fat, and he had a sour disposition.” “What was. he waiting for?” asked Nancy. “He'd heard the old saying that ‘All things come;to,him, who waits,’ and he thought he'd,;try,it. He decided to set |up.in business as I had. ‘Thought he'd | fool the kiddies into thinking he w a good fairy instead of a bad one,” Santa. (Copyright, 1920, Newspaper , Enter- prise Association.) “They are down at the dépot right now. waitin’ for th’ 4:10 accommoda- tion to roll in.”--DBirmingham Age- Herald. A May Fever tim Movie Magnate -- Such realjstic tears! Such genuine emotion! "We must raise Miss Filmstar's salary at least five hundred a month. Callous Director—And while you're on the subject, why not slip a ten-spot to the property man who: slipped the ragweed into, the foliage just before her big scene?—Film Fun. Father Wise Bobbie—My father must have been up to all sorts of mischief when he was a boy. Johnni ‘Why? ‘Cos he knows ’xactly what to ask me when he y know what I’ve been doing.—Cincin- nati Enquirer. \ PEOPLE'S FORUM | PEOPLE'S FO ! Dear Edito Since the Lord’s A liance is waging a great campaign in behalf of compulsory Sunday observ- ance it is;well and fitting that all lib- erty-loving citizens call to mind some of the Puritan Blue Laws of ye olden tymes or Colonial days. According to Mrs. Morse Mar! history entitled “The Sabbath in Puritan New. Enj land,” one of the leading characte: tics in the enforcement of the Puritan Sunday was the tithingman, who eniered private houses to assure him- self that no one stayed at home on the Sabbath and hustl,_ .p any loiter- ers. He was empowefed to stop ali Sunday work, in fact the tithingman was always busy on Sunday doing sleuth work, spying on other people's | liberties and hailing them before civil magistrates for neglect of religious | | duties. | We might call to mind many san | ples from the Blue \Laws of the sev- enteenth and eight centuries when Puritans admin to unwilling subjects by the carnal} | means SP thelawhipping post, the duck- ing stool, stocks, the pillary, fines, prisons, and jibbets. Beware, liberty-loving people, this ,same Puritan spirit, is trying to take away our constitutional rights that! congress shall make no laws respect- ing the establishment of religion or prohibit the free exercise thereof. Sunday laws are religious laws, Sun- day legislation is religious legislation, jand if congress establishes a day of rest, whether it be the first day of the the legal Sabbath, it legislates on re- ligious matters. And if our laws com- pel us to rest on the first day of the week, our police force will have to be strengthened and will be kept busy every Sunday Our courts, also and prosecuting offenders. make people religious by law. 1 be busy trying We can sacred and acceptable to God by pass- ing laws. Sunday observance is a re- ligious act and must spring from a pure conscience rather than from foree of law. J. H. ROTH, 1 Harvey, N. D. Secretary Religious Liberty Depart ment Seventh-Day Adventists. iy 1 Sea COURT | From Mein County > Fred E. Davis, Plaintiff-Respond- ent, Henry Joerke, Gottfried Heinrich and Emmanuel Schock, Defendants-Ap- * pellan (SyNabu : (1) Where the form of a simple written contract for the payment of money is such that it may onably be said to be uncertain as to the pacity im whicn the individuals sign- ing it intended to be bound, the name of their principal being disclosed in the body of the contract, evidence of the transaction is admissible for the purpose of determining whether or not it is the individual obligation of the persons signing or the obligation of the disclosed principal. ‘ (2y Where there is an issue as to the capacity. in which the defendants contracted—that is, as to Whether they contracted as principals or as agents for a disclosed principal; where the written contract is, ambiguous, and there is conflicting testimony as to the prior negotiations and agreements yelating to the capacity in which it was intended the defendants should be pound, it, was error for the trial court to direct a verdict in favor of the plaintiff. : d (3) Where individuals interested in the project ot forming a corporation entered into a contract with a stock subscription solicitor to pay him a ion for work done, the corpor- hen formed, in the absence of ation; assumption in some manner, is not lia- | ble on the contract and neither are the individuals liable if the solicitor relied exclusively upon the corpora- tion to be formed. (4) If directors in a proposed cor- poration purport to bind it in advance of its organization for legitimate pro-| motion expenses and undertake to an- swer for the assumption of the obliga- tion by the corporation, they may be held personally liable if they abandon the plain of organization and preven: the assumption of the obligation by he corporation: eee ape from the district court of McIntosh County. Hon. F. J. Graham, J “Reversed and remanded. o Opinion of the Court by Birdzell, J. Robinson, J. concurs specially. J. H. Wishek, Ashley D., attor- neys for appellants. . §. Lauder, Wahpeton, N. D., attorneys for an- pellants. Scott Cameron, Bismarck, N. D., at- torney for respondent. Origin of “Carpetbagger.” “Carpetbagger” was the description originally applied to a needy politica! adventurer who wandered over the country pandering to the prejudices ‘@f the ignorant in order to try to get into office. He was so called because he was regarded 2s having only enough property to fill a carpet hag. week or any other day of the webk for’ to venforce this law. | We cannot, do nothing to make the day more! Better Far Ey MILDRED HARRIS tocu, Western Newspaper Union.) e had been a disappointment to David, through no fault of his own, pond it not until Helen was called from ide forever that) David learned his | ni se had been a dis- uppotitment through lack of love. He honestly thought that. love filled his heart when he asked the girl to marry him, and not merely, the re- spectful adiniration that it: was. But the few years the two spent together showed upon the young wife's part an ice of sympaihy and understand- ing which grew hard to bear, Helen had been satistied with her bsuband’s loyalty and concern for her re, nd had left litde Robin to in his own Wt patience, wendered from what source nis son inherited perverse Robin was alert and aggre: David Inbored at the: profession his purents had chosen for him. ‘The study flaw had-been far from his wish. and lack of interest in his work may Nave accounted for its poor rety Whenever David could he closed his Village office. ande went out to work onthe loved old, farm he had managed to buy. through economies. His ene ‘hope now was-to make of Robin the man he had hoped to be. a man known in jthe world of inew through achieve- ment, David sat long mourning over Rob- in’s last discouraging prank, the boy ring to have been benefited by ent talk of David's had pro: hetter conduct. Across the countryside Robin's hos- tilitw te school Mstructors inv general well known, us energetic maidens had given np in despair the fight with Robin as a pupil: other boys, they complained, following his mi vous lead. The last, a large and determined Miss Price, invited by Robin, for a schoolward drive, was left. stranded ‘n his auto at a pleasant but isolated spot. while the boys, championed by Robin, took holiday, When later he hed returned Miss Price to her board'ng place, the in- dignant teacher resigned her position. David Lad. not- spared the rod after ed his procedure. and: Robin. almost as ‘ Dig as his ‘father, quietly submitted. Now, David volunteered to meet the few teacher that he might” impr npon the necessity of imme | knowled&re concerning Rolit demeanor, and his assurance of pun- ishment for the offer Toor David's heart was heavy, | Robin's unconcerned — whistle sounded. When 1 but still vid saw the new teacher he Was possessed of a Gesire to send her back at once, Such a small eveature this, to do bat- te with young: ruffians. a girl of trust- ful eyes undiradiant smile. Her name was Nora Déan. She told him she. had been Jeff alone in the world and toved both teaching and boys and girls, “You are to tell me at once, remem- " David said. “if Robin further of- fends and I will see that he is pun- ished.” Miss Nora softly quotede line: is better far,” she quoted, “to rule by love than fear.” When for several evenings after the opening of the rural school Robin was detained after closing hour, Daxid, ap- prehensive, sought in person, the cause. Tt was not a formidable picture that met! his eve, Three cheerful culprits sat, writing at their desks variously improving sentences, which the little teacher read aloud. And as Nora read, she touched with gentle appeal the lesson to each offender, When David offered to drive her on her home- ward way, it was to big Robin that she turned fer assistance, in \the clos- ing of the schoolhouse. Somehow, thought of the little teacher liaunted David strangels, her bright. persisterit happiness scemed Hunaccountably fo turn his own shad- ows to naught. Then one day Robin came stumbling- ly \to rest his curly head boyishly "s knee. wailed Robin, “the ora can't be- | cause—of our discipline, Our stand ing's good, they say, but they can't go the discipline. It's my fault," con- fessed Robin, “it’s me.” That night David read a blotted scrawl ready for mailing. “School Board, Dear, Sir,” iniliated Robin had written, “if you'll only let our teacher y Twill never do another discipline thing.” And that marked Robin's turning. In the home where now reigns, a | loved and loving mi s, her old yule still holds: good. “Tis better far.” she tells Robin, and David, her husband, “to rule by | love, than fear.” the hu- re Look at the Funny Side. To be able to see the funny side of | life drives off many troubles, | People cant remain glum when all around You may not feel miling, but the fact that you do you to feel that way, So make ctice of keeping the sunshine around you even on dark days. | will find it will solve many a prob- lem too hard for force or argument. And most of all, it will relieve the pressure that makes life hard You will be happier if you learn bow to pass up the things that make press- ures hard, | them are smiles. like If your Engine needs Regrind- ing, new Pistons, Rings or Pins, Let us do it, we do nothing but | accurate work. Bismarck Foun- dry and Welding Co. You, } ipishtadaceeemnetna tmeiintieee tit Go_aneene eee