The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 4, 1921, Page 4

q » PAGE FOUR ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE fe SE a a a ET Gatared at the Posteftice Bismarck, N. D., as Second s Matter. Editor | aroacE D. MANN Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY caicaco! DETROIT Bk yne, BURNS AND SMITH = NEw vor: - Fifth Ave. Bldg. rh Sad Pa eae ts hgsecited Breen ie excleateet entitled to the use edie! a a paer and ae te ben nev pune in this paper and also the local news published Lee ts of publication of special dispatebes herein are also am reserved. ED » MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION TAT ass hai SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE by carrier, per year ...:....es.e00 20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck Daily by mail, per year (in state ou Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.. fri, Matic tap iti EARS A a THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1878) > : EPIDEMICS OF CRIME Again you hear about the “crime wave.” You are told that a “wave of crime” is sweeping over the country, and especially in large cities are lives and pocketbooks in greater danger now than they were a few short weeks ago. New York, Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, in fact, all the centers of population are wrsetling with: the crime-wave problem. It is nothing new for an American city to ex- weeee +. perience and epidemic of crime. It is nothing new in foreign cities, There have been crime waves as long as.there have been criminals. Why there should be waves of crime no one knows. But many think they know. The police commissioner of New York. thinks the newspaper headline is responsible.for crime waves. He insists the poor, deluded ‘criminal reads.a story of crime in the evenign paper and then rushes out to “stick up” a neighbor, or pick a pocket on a crowded street- car. This in the face of the fact that the men who réad the most newspapers, and have read them |Paul merchants thus reduce their delivery oe) BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE _ one-half, a saving worth the effort. It isn’t that parcels post is more economically | ;managed. But it is more efficiently run because | ot this: Parcels post need not duplicate. its delivery | routes, One mail wagon can cover a certain ter-| ritory.. The other delivery system calls for al wagon for each store. Often as many as a dozen) delivery wagons stop during a day in one block., One wagon might have made all those calls with a resultant saving of money and time. It does not take an extravagant imagination to) predict a consolidation of all delivery systems, | stores, milk, ice, everything, into one—parcels: post. | NOT FOR LAME DUCKS | It is pleasing to hear that Congress does not pro-| pose to make the “economy and efficiency com-' mission” a refuge for “lame ducks.” | It isn’t often that a lame duck is efficient; sel-| dom is he economical. Often he’s a man, repudi-, ated by the people who best know him, a man| voted unfit to be a member of Congress. Why’ ; should anybody consider him worthy of a position | still more important? Answer: Nobody but the: lame ducks themselves. | This, in some minds, may raise the question: | What is a lame duck? | In business the lame duck is one unable to! meet his obligations, In public life a lame duck is a politean, de-| feated at the election, who, having contracted the, habit of feeding at the people’s expense doesn’t’ like to go out and earn his own living. He wants to cling to the governmental payroll. ON BEING CONTENTED Izaak. Walton tells of a man who had seyerat! beautiful mansions and often-moved from one to| the other. | A friend asked him why he moved so frequently | from one house to the other, to which the restless | man replied: “It is to find content in some one of! longest, seldom get into the murder or pickpocket class; those who seldom, if ever, read newspa- ; Pers, clutter? up every police court in the land. Arrive at your own conclusion. { a ys * ing the same territory, at great expense to the, 2 ultimate consumer. - Some years ago it was argued that the saloon bred criminals; that booze caused crime waves. Then came prohibition, two years of ‘it, and the aay ‘winter,. 1920, sees as high a crime wave as hing the old booze vests. It wasn’t: booze. What was-it?.” «During the high wage era, out of which we are ‘passing, there was a noticeable ebb of crime. , were fewer hold-ups and fewer pockets ‘picked (excepting of course, the picking done. by ‘Profiteers).. The reason? More men at work} anid highe? wages. Within the last few weeks the line of: unemployment: has. grown; wages have dropped. ‘Winter is at hand. So is. the rime Do unemplayrient and\ low wages have any- thing té do with crime waves? If they don’t, why is it that crime waves: are highest when bread) } in early winter, when of employment and money are most keenly sfelt. They. are highest just before Christmas, when: the fortunate are making the’ most liberal display of lr ability, to buy' what they ‘want. “You have the evidence before you, what is your vérdict? HOW TO KEEP YOUR RESOLUTION As the new year advances, it might be well for folks to take stock of the resolutions they made at:the beginning of this year—and most of them «probably will discover ‘a deficit. “In most cases the books simply won’t halinse: In the average life resolutions broken far exceed resolutions kept. Resolution is the most perish- able flower of human character. Its cultivation is the moat difficult of enterprises. It’s easier to wink at one’s faults than to fight them off; fo compromise rather than to insist on the strict letter of the new year contract one makes with one’s self. ‘A man, making a business agreement with an- other, demands a strict interpretation ‘of every comma, period and semicolon. But he is much easier with himself. Conscience’ says: “But you promised me faith- fully-to do this.” | The man answers: “Oh, well. what’s the differ- ence?”—and breaks the contract with conscience: The trouble with the average resolution is a sort the industry has spread all over the globe. There | . of secret treaty. If resolutions were open cove- nants, openly. arrived at, more resolutions would be kept. One man realized this. So whenever he de- _ cided to make a resolution, he told his wife about ; #. it. “And what his conscience could not compel, them.” But his friend told him: “If you would sna | content in any of your houses, you must He] yourself behind you; for content will never dwell | but in the meek and quiet soul.” 2 Yet, though contentment has been defined and, honored thus in prose and poetry, how many men konw it when'they meet it? We.think we know / what contentment~is, but When we! attain the things that we were-sure would make us con- tented, 'we find no contentment in them. Paradoxically, we strive ‘to. attain contentment | by being as discontented as possible with what for-| tune has given us, like the man who moved from house to house. : And most men, struggling for contentment all) their lives, never learn that contentment is neither | a place nor a physical condition, but a,spiritual, gift that in every man awaits cultivation. i Contentment is inside; /not outside. \ PRESENT RACES WILL VANISH BEFORE NEW OIL SUPPLY COMES | By Basil F. N. Macrorie, Member of the Institute: of Petroleum Technology of London Unless measures are taken for more conserva-| tive use of petroleum and its products, the exhaus- | tion of the natural supply may take place within: the time of the next generation. The riches that are hidden in the bowels of the earth are so enormous that we have been most, prodigal in expending them without thought for’ the future, and the time has arrived when the, world must be more careful. | ! Old Mother Nature is constantly. at work creat-| ing new coal fields and new oil wells, but the pro- cess is so extremely slow that probably all of the; known races at present on the earth will have; passed away before the'supply now being manu-| factured by nature will be available. The use of petroleum is older than the records of the world’s history. Herodotus describes the oil fields near Babylon, while’ the ancient records of China and Japan are said to contain many al-| lusions to the use of natural gas for lighting and) heating. i The earliest mention of rescind in this coun-| try occurs in Sir Walter Raleigh’s account (1595) of the pitch lake at Trinidad. The active growth of the petroleum industry in North America be- gan a century ago, but the average production was | 7 senonpele = Ernest L. Peterson, editor of the | Dickinson Press, Stark: county’s tead- ing paper, arrived in Bismarck yester- day. He hasn't missed a regular or a special session of the Legislature for some time. He expects to remain h until He leaves the first of next month for Florida to attend there the annual session and outing of the Na- tioni#l Editorial association. A. C. Hinekley is..making sugges- tions. to the Legislators of a splen- did stunt he has found to keep in trim, namely, walking every morn: | ing to the river-and"back:' He has not missed the hike .one day~this year. The only agéressive convert he has yet made among the lawmakers is L. | E. Heaton, of McKenzie. \Senators Oksendah}, of Pierce, and Senator Garberg, of the Ninth district, were among ene late arrivals yester- day. \ Guiét\Wog, senator, Whos seat’ is contested by R. J. List, independent, isn’t worrying very much. Wog, who has been: pointed out to the curious several times around the MtKenzie ||. JUST JOKING | |; OO He Bit First! Class Scout—Do you see that house up ‘there? Second’ Class about it?.\ First Clats Scout—WYn, that house was built with ‘money made from many sufferings, writhings, agonies, and much blood. . Second Clays Scout — What beast lives there? First , Class \ Scout — My dentist. ys’ Lite. Scout—Yes, what No Talk “And now, Johnny,” said the teach- er, “can you tell me what is raised in Mexico?” “Aw, goon!” replied the bright boy., “I know what you want me to say, but ma told me I shouldn't talk rough.”—American Legion Weekly. .. Not a Liar ‘ He had been fishing but with bad luck. On his way home he entered 2 fishmonger’s shop \and said to the dealer: “John, stand over there and | throw me five of paeynierest of those trout!” “Throw ‘em? \what for?” asked only about two thousand barrels a year. For about ten vears the state of Pennsylvania! was the one oil producer, but in the last fifty years; are oil fields of importance in Russia, Galicia, Ru-|° mania, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The greatest unexple'ted oil fields at the present | time are, I believe in Persia. There is an area of; two hundred and forty square miles the geological | formation of which denotes oil possibilities, and, | | the dealer, in amazement. “I’want to tell my family I ‘caught | m. I’may be a poor fisherman, but | ‘m no liar."—London Tit-Bits, Overworking a Proverb “Father,” said the small boy, “What Its a profiteer?” | “A pfofiteer, my son, is a man who runs across the proverb. ‘Make hay while the sun shines’ and overworks | it-’—Washington: Star. It_is estimated: there are at least him to-do; pride would not permit him-to}evade.' only five or ten square miles of which have been’ 30, eee caribou at large in Yukon ter- ’ He didn’t want his wife to think him a weakling. Others might copy’his example. BOOST FOR PARCELS POST St. Paul merchants have discarded the indivi; duai delivery system and handed that portion of * their business over to Uncle Sam. No longer does | each ‘store support delivery systems, each cover-' One delivery system now does the work. That‘is parcels post. The store hands all pack. : ages,over ty the postoffice; mail wagons and, : * trucks do the rest. Other cities well may. watch the St. Paul ex- » periment. It is probable that this means a de- eee ence in the cost of ee St. exploited. But even with all this wea'th i sight, if future. generations went Ahc‘r autcmobiles, and if trans-| portation is to be done by trucks, we now at this time must learn to be more conservative. Bela Kun wins the*big medal. Hungary has) had to build a vast’ mausoleum to hold all his victims. Maybe Hiram Johnson can explain to Califor- nians why Harding selected Florida for his next vacation. Death took a veteran landlord of. Pennsylvania -| who refused to raise his tenants’ rent. And they say the gaod die young. { ; _TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1921 Ppt | o IE IDEA OF A (_ONEWEAOF AGRIMEWAVE WAVE : Wan AG HIGHWAY WORK IS RESUMED = ©? 1 | Federal Aid Undertakings Actively, Taken Up After Armistice, Says | Secretary. Houston. i Delayed ins its program: of gourd ronstruction by the wat and om tedont the erd of that period | by a condition of badly crun down i highways. the federil governmer : eperating with the highway d " ’. y) ments of the. several. states his re- ‘ous prosecution of the , Uf and, says David. F“ Houston, seevetary of niriculture, there is now tC | no specint obsinele to the construc: rf tion, inthe’ diferent: states of the Caton. of those road which serve the ae yinie needs. Ip his) ane | Mal report, Secretury Houston says: | "Good rowds are. essential to the i . | nrosperity and well-being of urban and _ | ftral communities alike. They are | erequisie for the orderly and sys- | tematic markethig of farw products, | for the establishment of satisfactory ) ural sthools, and for the ‘develop- | aent of a richer and. more attractive | rural dife. Recognizing these facts. | he federal government, through the | of the federal aid road. act in, ‘ ; + inancint participation tw voad-bulle t | ‘sberations in tlie various states. 1 \ tet appropriated: $75,000,000, to he i } \ ched by ap equal amount from the | states, for the construction of rural | 20st rends| over a period of tive sents, | inal $10.000,900—#1,000,000 4 year for ‘ ) | 10 yeurs--for roads (within .or partly jwithin the ‘aittonal forests? tt re: Py a | quired each state to have a responsible ie entral bishway commission with the | ceguisite powers “anil funds. All the | sintes have complied with the terns of the net. although it: was necessa e tr . j or them to enact additional text: tm ion, or to amend their constituile 'o provide: suilicient funds to teh j nnn | tie feitetl apportion & i stwengihen existing ¢ HEARD OUTSIDE ESE HALLS or te create new t ' no these preliminary steps tad ically completed and the de- ot ta Simpson an® a to proceed Maa ae te lackhoff, of ickinson, will repres- " ri ee ae cnt him before the committee. mn innibes, Man. Jan. Prison oe Die of the “hited s entered the wart soon | sidered by the United warmers of! ay Mr. O'Leary, of St. Pail, former pri-' Manitoba, that of the proposed’ ‘co-; vate sectetary to A. C. Townley, is in| operative wheat pool, will be sea pet { the city. It is understood-he is assist-| up for discussion at the annual pro-; ing the Attorney-General on legal| vincial convention .cf the associa- | matters. . i tied ‘Brandon, January 12, 13 and/ rae * P..R. Trubsha , of Valley casi Mbt matters to be brought up for probably will carry North Dakota’s | discussion include that of the asso-| / vote for Hurding to Washington. L.| Ciation’s' relations to provincial_ poli: E. Heaton, of Burleigh, an elector and ‘tics. A review of the drive for fed-| legislator, says that when’ the eles- eral organization ‘put on last spring | tors meet,.here Monday: Trubshaw, Will be on the program and com probably will be chosen. plete organization for the federal elec- -———— | tions, when it may come, will be ar- f Gilbert Erickson, of’ Walsh county, | Tauged. is one of the Independent representa- | The. United Farmers’ organization | tives in the House who. has been 2 i Manitoba has.now a membership of | leader in the Farmers Union of the! Practically 1,000 and_ it. is expected ; te ¢ state. He was a delegate to the re. | the conventicn will be the largest cent convention at Minot, jever held. I preparation . for the} i | Sessions the ‘resolutions committeo' F. 0. Ellingson of Traill, is an-| Will meet on Jan, 10 and 11, ? other of the Independent. “dirt” farm-| Not to, Force. Price: ers in the Legislature. He has aly Among the principal abeskers at large farm near Hillsboro and has’ the convention’ will be H. W. Wood,! been very successful in its operation. | | president of the United Farmers of; nr, poral serta, Mrs. Brodie, president of the! Macadam Mixing Method. annnnnnnnAwr | United Farm Women of Ontario, 5s iv pheatte voceurtall ida’s % lion. T. A. Crerar, and weorge ... iu 'y greatly rurtel * What ke Weer ones In the ;Unuells, assisiant secretary of the, xh building because of the dit N y eatelhd Wachee dine Sivek poet National Jederation of Farm Bureaus) ‘culty of securing trinsportation. con. he neur the hend of the lst, ‘This Is (of the United Si: tates. - i struction materiats, and the requisite led Wakulla ' Thai ann The United arm Women of the, ‘ervices. After’ the armistice was called Wakulla spring, Tt ts eet | province will meet before the con-; Jigned, arrangements promptly were across, Is S0 feet deep and flows at! vention on Jan. 11. ‘ade for the active resumption and . the rate of 120.000 gallons of waser That it neither was the intention: WOUS prosecution of ‘paad werk In every minute, It gives rise to a river nor the pirpose of tue proposed co-| a sections: of the country, not only 250 feet wile at its source. This operative marketing of the wheat!) oi view te pepair the. d ase mammoth spring ts“xituated about fit. | Crop of Canada to control the price; cht by th ae . up ene a ° teen miles froin Talinhnssee, and that the object of. the organiza Mia pr Ri Ate MOC EENP SEES * ’ tion was to get/the best value in the) Pen onr highw durfng the war, A en Ey Tae 4 world’s market was .—. asgertion of) -hen imuinter ‘@ operations were Formation of Asbestos. ‘4. R. array, assistant manager of seriously interfered) with, ‘but also to Asbestos, is found tn fissures of rock | the United Grain —.owers, Ltd., ad-| »rovide atte trinsportation facili- and it Is belleved. that, when the rock | dressing the first meeting. of the. ties t ¢ the Increased needs of was forming and still hot, water pene- ' winitipeg Local of the United Farm-. enlture and industry, Recognizing trated the fissures, widened them and | ers of Manitoba, » thay road- building — vetivities dissolved some of the silica and mag: | Mr. Murray asked the farmers to) wi}, furnish suitable employment hesin, On drying. these erystallized | Tene sat wo Was t business Propo iy nagy unemployed: men during the as a hydrated. silicate of masnesia, | oor atarshc mach woo ore a neriod of transition from war to peace, forining threadtike erystals building up | Pon jana pie Puave waste question, “De congress at its last session, ne- ® ’ from opposite walls of the fissure and | ihe said, of clubbing anyone to come ‘pting the recommendation of the meeting in-the middie, ‘into the organization. “The whole, tment of agriculture, appropriat- y —S—_——— ‘idea is this: Jt is a voluntary or-) «.820,000,000.4n addition to the $85,- i Cut This Out—Its Worth Money | ganization into which every man Who | 40,000 provided by the ‘original act. Cut out this slip, enclose with 3c ;8OWs Wheat can come in order that) rp the extension of road construction and maft it to Foley & Co; 2835 Shef-| it May ‘be a benefit to him.” ion with the states, and fleld Ave., Chicago, IL, writing your | trolling oF fi the question. as to con- ome, important amend‘ epee g or fixing the price, Mr. Mur- name and address clearly. You will| ray declared that it woud be utterly “M's 10 the act. The definition of receive in return a trial package con-| impossible to do that even in the the kind of roads that can be con- taning Foley’s Honey and Tar Com-}| home market if they so desired. But, structed was greatly broadened and pound for coughs, colds and croup; } such was not the intention of the or.) th: mon the federal contribu- @ Foley Kidney Pills for pains in sides | ganization. It was simply a cO-oper-| tion for any one roud- was fncrensed and back; rehumatism,:backache, kid-| ative —m rketing organization and from $10,000 ty $20,000 a mile.~ These ney and bladder ailments; Foley} wanted neither ‘special privilege nor! amendments hi Pant : facilitated Cathartic Tablets, a wholesome and | advantage. 7 | oomsideration of ind action upon, the thoroughly ‘cleansing cathartic for ee he road projects submitted hy the state constipation, billiousness, headaches,|'- Only about 500 species of birds navel highway ‘Gommissions. { There is now and /eluggieh: bowels: een found in North Ameriea. | no speciak obstacle to the. construc: Nn rae hore ae tion: in the different states of the Union, of the roads which serve the ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS - areatest economic nee By Oliver Roberts \. r f \ ‘de te wpemiete GOOD RGADS ADD HAPPINESS ; ————— eeikly x 3 The Shadow icumbers, but this silly old Jinn, so} Bring Farmer and Family Within Few ‘ a oa Dif- ficulties “Believe me. I }stomdch and bdwel tHouble right. This weakened me so that I could scarcely walk. { conld'do no work. | ‘This was my condition when I.start- jed taking Mayr's! Wonderful Remedy on the advice of a friend! Now I am working every day and feel be*- ter than T ever did in my life. It is the only medicine that ever touched me.” It is a simple, harmless preparation that removes the catarrh- al mucus from. the intestinal . tract suffered, from causes practically all stomach, liver ‘and intestinal ailments, including ap- pendicitis. ‘One dose will convince or {money refunded. and allays the inflammation which /| i i Santa Claus was telling Nancy ana ‘Nick how they could tell when the wicked wizard, wHo called himself Bobadil Jinn, was near. They were about to start on their joursey to thé South Pole to break the Ble Santa Clau: Satta any more than was pretending so were beginning to h > “Whenever wicked od Bobadil Jinn is near,” warned Santa Claus, “you'll know him; becatse no matter what he looks like, be it a spotted cow or a snow-ball that he has made himself ] into, you'll smell hyacinth perfume. He just loves hyacinth nerfume and douses it all over himself.. It’s queer that he chose guch a nice smell when he’s so very ‘ugly, but vou never can tell about people. Rattlesnakes smeil of cucumbers, which is more like it, wer orf) wicked 'n’ all, you'd think—But there! | You'll have to be off to bed, kiddies, | so you may leave first thing in the morning: | Santa showed them two dear lit-| tle beds in the corner of his great} room, on vhich were laid soft ser looked as thoug le oft of the Muky Wap im about full of dreams, [wo little feed on_the pillows, the mes from Santa’s great fire i throwing cozy shadows all about, them, than they were off to Dream-| land, Santa s:ipped' off quietly then and soon the great house was as silent as/ 2 eave, except for the comfortable! roar of the fire. Suddenly. the. flames seemed to! go out for an instant. Before they! clared up-again a figure, thin and tall,) for who likes either~snakes or cu- bere: ‘pU across the great room, Minutes of Neighbors, Scheol- house and Stores. rm farmer and his family are, with , Within a few minutes of their’ neighbors, of the movies anil theaters, of the school 7 Nothing stands in or even. 100 niles The he ts more contented and happy. The ten’ invaded departments of France have produced this year 500,- 000 tons of wheat and one-fourth the _ country’s oat crop. The war department has sold sur- ' plus property which originally cost | $4 600,000,000 at a recovery of 63 per " cent. ;, ee