The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 11, 1921, Page 4

{ | 1 4 | j i | i 4 | | | | “THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE altered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D.MANN - - = * © Editor Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO ero. tte Bldg. eage a Mernette BES yNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - oh ey 8 - Fifth Ave, Bldg. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise ited in this paper and also the local news published All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE by per year (in Bismarck) ... 27.20 by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck. 6.00 by mail, outside of North Dakota......+++++ 6.00 THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1878) <> IS THERE NO SOLUTION? There is a feeling of genuine regret over the state that an agreement between the financial |: men and the board of administration cannot he reached. The bankers faced an almost impossi- ble task. Out of the welter of fierce political contention an early settlement of North Dakota’s difficulties was hardly to be expected. Parties to the conference belong to opposite schools of finance and to harmonize factions which disagree so violently on fundamentals seemed remote from the first. Until the financial system of the state is re- vamped, there will be no market for North Da- kota securities. There is only one road for North Dakota to travel and that is the straight and narrow path of sound finance. There is nothing political in the credit system that operates throughout the nation. North Da- kota cannot change the ebb and flow of those pro- ceases. : The Tribune sees little hope of securing out- side assistance to float industrial securities un- til the public money is released from its present control and returned to°normal channels. So long as the taxpayers money is tied up in long. time loans and used to finance state owned industries in lieu of capital, outside money will not enter the state in any appreciable amounts. So long as other practices obtain that do not re- flect’ sound business principles, this state can- not get the new capital it needs to develop its re- sources and to give the industrial program the test which the bankers expressed themselves will- ing to aid. Nothing ‘can be more apparent to nonpartisan leaguer or independent regardless of political feeling, than that the industrial program within ‘ the limits prescribed by the bankers of the state cannot be successfully financed through the use of public moneys levied for specific purposes, and to be held in trust. for the discharge of spe- cific obligations.’ To continne the present prac- tice will bring inevitable disaster to the credit _ of the state. , The only solution in the opinion of The Tri- bune is for the state to get on a sound fiscal basis : ‘at once and if the political feeling is too deep to accomplish this end now, board up the industries : until the deadlock subsides. Imgaine a girl named Clara Smith in the mov- ies. And if they give her a fancy one what will became of the advertising value of her name? WHY BE DISCOURAGED? Pullman started life with $100 and a peculiar looking passenger car containing beds. He bor- rowed the money to have that car built, and then became its first conductor and porter. He made up the beds, smoothed down the sheets, stood at the steps selling tickets. * * * Michael Angelo was an exceeding poor boy To get a start he imitated Greek scultpture with clay, buried it, dug it up and sold it to a cardinal * * * “What is the secret of success in business?” asked a friend of Cornelius Vanderbilt. “Secret? there is no secret about it,” replied the commo- dore; “all you have to do is to first find out what your business. is and then attend to it and go ahead.” : ee @ J é “Laboremus” (we must work) was the last word of the dying Emperor Severus, as his sol- diers gathered around him. “Labor,” “achieve- ment,” was the Roman motto, and her secret of conquest of the world, says Marden. The greatest gencrals returned from their tri- umphs to the plow. Agriculture was held in great esteem, and it was considered the highest compliment to call a Roman a great agriculturist. Many of their family names were derived from agricultural terms, as Cicero from “cicer,” a chick-pea, and Fabius from “faba,” a bean, ete. Wisconsin federal sleuths decided to do their New Year raiding Hurley. \ Harding’s picking an all-star cabinet; ‘he shouldn’t forget old Borah-alis. Kipling is to write movie scenarios but prob- ably he’ll have no rag, bone and hank of hair heroines. - Many a tenant is wondering if the heating plant in his flat was taken from Indian “apart- ment house” unearthed recently near Santee, SUCCESS THAT IS SUCCESS Says Jonathan Bourne, Jr., once a senator: “Success must always be achieved at the expense of some other individual or state.” Is that so? Do you think this country can be successful only at the expense of another coun- try? That you can be successful only at the ex-| | pense of another human being? If that be true, {success is having something which belongs to \another.. Then the thief. is successful. The high- way robber is successful. Why, man alive, that isn’t success at all. Countless millions of humans have achieved success, and without achieving it at the expense of another. They produced. They did ‘some- thing better than it had been done before. They did things never accomplished before. Tom Edi- son is a success, isn’t he, Mr. Bourne? How about Burroughs? How about other distinguish- ed scientists? They achieve the most remarkable successes, surely not at the expense of another, but rather for the benefit and in the best interest of other humans. How about the world’s literary successes? How about the lawmakers? Inven- tors? Builders? It may be true that Napoleon achieved success at the expense of other humans? And Caesar. And Captain Kidd. and Jesse James.. But, was what they achieved SUCCESS? That sort of “success” well may be eliminated from human ambition. x | Bourne’s idea of success is to GET something from a fellow human, the worth while idea of success is to DO something for the human race. The latter brand of. success is never achieved at the expense of another. NEW NAMES AND OLD IDEAS Like the schoolmen of the middle ages who squabbled concerning the exact, number of angels who could dance on a needle point, America’s wisest scientists gathered in Chicago the other day and held great argument about the size of the ultimate atom. The schoolmen used to slit each other’s throats. The scientific men shed no blood in Chicago. One scientist declared the electron, supeit small atom, was a trillionth of a millimeter long and the other chap said it was one four-hund- redth of a millimeter. . There’s nothing much new about this theory that all we know—iron and gold, the air we breathe and the body itself—is built of incon- ceivably small particles. List to Lucretius. He was a Roman, Lucretius was, and he was born in 5 B. C. and wrote a poem called, “On the Nature of Things.” Therein, he said: “We perceive the different smells of things, yet never see the smells coming to our nostrils; nor do we behold heat nor can we observe cold; with eyes, nor are we used to see voices. . Yet all these things must have a bodily nature, since they are able to move the senses, for nothing but body can touch and be touched. * * * Nature therefore, works by unseen bodies.” Then he proceeds to “prove” that all things, no matter how solid, have small holes in them through which the “powder of things” can move. A bit shaky, Lucretius was, on things in the light of modern information, but just the same— the wise men of a day far beyond his, agree with him and are busy trying to,meagure the “powder of things,” he first described. ‘ Having read Walter Camp’s All-American team, we look forward now to Harding’s All- American cabinet selections. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are Bette aot, Wah ast Bele Att cussed in the press of the day. aa 3 WE NEED OUTSIDE CAPITAL North Dakota needs and must have outside capital. It must encourage it to come into the state. Capital is one of the most timid things cn earth yet nothing flows more freely where it is wanted than money. It is great news for| North Dakota that capital is again’ ready to come to this state. It has been frightened away but confidence has now been restored. It will be at least another generation before North Da- kota will become a lending rather than a borrow-| ing state. Any farmer who has had a real estate loan come due this fall kiiows the difficulty he} experienced in even getting the loan continued.| A majority of the investors insisted on having} the loan paid. It was their money and their right but it made it very embarrassing for’ many | sound farmers to be compelled to hustle up mon-} ey to take care of the loan when it was practical-| ly impossible to negotiate even a small personal | loan, money being se tight. i There are no “12 per cent and a beaus” loans being made. Such loans would be illegal as the law limits the interest rate in the state to 10 per cent. Eastern people who sent money to North Dakota at loans at as low a rate as “big bizz” is now offering to pay are neither “wolves” nor “loan sharks”. No farmer needs to get mixed up with the few crooked people in the loan business. | There are plenty of legitimate loan agents from/| whom a square deal can always be depended upon. As long as we must have eastern money, we should not do anything hurriedly that will give us cause to regret. The more millions of dollars that can be loaned to our people, the greater will be our prosperity and development. —Carrington, Ind. SSS SS SS SSSSSSASSSSS SS \ IVA WW N \S Why Be Discouraged? Fred Douglas didn’t even own his own body. Before his birth he had been pledged to pay his master’s debts. But in the dead of ‘night he stole away from the plantation where he was a slave, walked fifteen miles to be with his'mother less than an hour, and returned in time to go into the fields at dawn. With her help he mastered the alphabet from a patent medicine almanac and then learned to read. Amid great hardships he managed to save up $1,000 and with this pur- chased his freedom. At 26 he was made marshal of the District of Columbia, the first colored man in the United Statés to hold such a position. ‘ ae 8 Henry E. Dixie, the actor, started, life as an obscure man, and was paid} $5 a month “and keep.” His first “job” on the stage consisted of im=}, personating the ‘hind legs of a cow. P. T. Barnum, who later owned the largest. and most prosperous circus on earth, began his career in that same circus as a water-tender at ten cents a day. Ang out ofthe ten cents he bought his tm ‘agre, food. ’ \ When he was asked why he worked so hard to repair a magistrate’s bench, and why*he took so much delight in doing the work well, a young carpen- ter replied: Rog “First, because what,is worth doing at all is worth doing well, and second- ly because I wish to make it easy against. the time when I come to sit upon it myself.” Five years later the same carpenter was hailed as Lord Robert Eleton, un- der magistrate of London, and became famous through a decision he render- ed in the Caater, uprising of East End. Darwin suffered continued ill health. “For forty years,” says his son, “fath- er never knew one day of real health.” Yet during that time he compiled a lit- erary work that has made his name famous throughout the world—‘Origin of Species.” . ; ARD “Put away the Baby’s high chair, He's too old to use it now; Put away his blocks. and rattle, Cut the curls from, off his: brow; He is four years old*tomorrow, And tho time does simply fly, you HAD BEXTER WEAR YouR AVERALLS “ “Ishtu Disappears” Nancy and Nick sat down before the steaming bowls of hot soup that Ishtu the Eskimo set before them. “Now, children,” said he, as he watched them devouring great spoon- fuls of the tasty stuff, “when you are in the midst of a snow field? ar. through eating you may take @ nap on my warm’ bed.” The little boy and girl thanked him and drained their bowls to the last drop. Such a sleepiness was coming over them suddenly that they could not keep their:eyes open. They al- most fell into the wall-bed that Ishtu showed them, and before their heads touched tie pillow they were sound asleep. The red sun made his short journey low down in the sky from horizon to horizon, and finally with a good-na- tured wink slipped behind an iceberg and disappeared. The blue shadows got colder and bluer and darker, and the stars came out one by one, mak- ing the frosty world look still colder and frostier. : And still the twins slept. , After while Nick turned over and | EVERETT TRUE We must make a boy out of him. There; there Mother, don’t you cry.” So they took my little sweethcart, Cut away his golden curls, That I loved so much, but “Dad” said + They were only fit for girls; When they brought my darling to me, I could not suppress a sigh, For he looked just like a stranger To my unaccustomed eye. Gone were all his gilken tresses, With their rings of shining gold; And they'd dressed him up in trousers, | Scarce his little weight could hold; As I clasped him to my bosom, Fondly calling out his name, He exclaimed: “Don’t worry, Muv- ver, I still love oo ist th’ same.” Oh, the days, how: fast they’re flying, Each one shorter than the rest; For the sun has scarcely risen, Ere he sinks down in the west; Let a tear fall on the dresses, And the little stock of toys, For it’s hard upon us mothers ‘When our babies turn to boys. —Florence Borner. Mad Railroad Speculation. Soon after George Stephenson had completed his first locdmotive all Eng- | land was ablaze with the railway fe- ver. In the first:nine months of 1845 more than a thousand companies were floated; and October added 363 more, All England scrambled for — shares. Then came the crash, followed by a stampede as of wild cattle before a prairie fire. (ROur Spasmodic Croup is frequently relieved by oneapplication of— VISKS Over 17 Million Jars Used Yearly ADVENTURES OF THE:TWINS By Oliver Roberts Barton. Nancy sat up and stared too! For So==| On, HELLO, mister TRUE, ; yawned. ‘Wake up, Nancy,” he said, “it is time for us to go.” Suddenly he stared up at the sky and the twinkling stars which he copld see plainly. Had something blown the roof off Ishtu’s house? i Nancy sat up and began to start, everything had gone and they were too! For there was no house any-| more, and no fire and no warm bed nor covers. No Ishtu either! Every- thing had gone and they were out in the midst of a big snow field alone. “Our magic charms!” cried Nick, | looking around for the carved box. “They are all gone!” Just then they heard a mocking; laugh and Nancy was sure she smell- ed hyacinths. “The Bobadil Jinn!” she exclaimed. “Ishtu must have been the wicked wizard and he has stolen them.” (Copyright, 1921, N. E. A.) Phone 453 for the famous Wil- ton Screened Lump Lignite Coal. The coal that is all coal, no clink- ers, no soot, no dirt. $5.50 per ton delivered. Washburn Lignite Coal Co.. Phone 453. BY CONDO HOW ARE You, ANY WAY Ett | | MISTER FORSYTHELY, MIS 3 THIS (3 MisT ORDINARILY HE DOESNT NOTTS SER Ur CONTROL Like] THIS IY! | NOTICE ME, BUT | N HS SegS MEIN PROMINENT Com ANY HE Loses | | i | | | court deciding that in the strict legal OF INFERIORITY A Starved Nervous System ‘Takes the Snap Out of the Otherwise Strong and Capable Imaginary unfitness, the peculiar nervous strain that causes so lamentably some # men to shrink is merely a condition \of semi-starva- tion. If you doubt it, let the recon- structive influence of Reolo drive ‘t “e ae 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 im- proyed appetite the nerves that were “fe Pat starved cease to cry out with pain, 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 is 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 et ) task with a vim that is fairly as- tonishing. Ask any of the clerks at Finney’s Drug store’or any other leading drug store for a $1.00 box of Reolo. Ask them about its wonderful effect upon a host of people they have sold it to. New Citizens In Field and Orchard Ry E. T. Meredith _ U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Durum wheat, introduced in 1899 from Russia, now produces a crop worth $50,000,000 annually. Egyptian cotton, brought by the scientists of the department in 1901, Las become the basis of the long-stap- ‘ a le cotton industry in the southwest, valued at $6,000,000 ‘in 1917, $11,000,- 000 in 1918, and $20,000,000 in 1919. Alfalia, a native of central Asia, brought into the Western States in About 1854, has become in a genera- | tion almost the basic crop of the west, according to the report. The sorghums are the basis of the great agricultural development of the ° semiarid southwest. Japanese rices, secured in 1899, were the foundations of the great rice in- dustry of Lousiana and Texas. vt ee The Washington Navel orange, in- troduced from Brazil in 1872, makes up the bulk of the California orange = industry, producing a crop valued at approximately $16,000,000 a year. Sudan: grass, introduced in 1909 from Egypt, is now worth over $10,- 000,000 annually. Feterita, secured in 1906 from Egypt, produced in 1918 a crop valued 4 ’ at $16,000,000. Over 1,000 varieties of soy beans , ‘ have een introduced from China and other parts of the Orient. From these the experts of the department have, after careful tests, selected eight of the best varieties, which are now largely cultivated and are an import- ant element in the very rapid increase in soy bean production. Peruvian alfalfa, introduced in 1899, is by far the most productive and val- se} uable variety for the southwest. Absurd Old English Law. Under the English common law uo one has a right to bathe in the sea. This’ was decided by the courts a hun- dived years ago, and an attack on the | decision at the beginning of this cen- j tury failed to upset it, the higher sense one could fish In the sea but | could not bathe in it. 950000000 ( 0008 Thousands of housewives have found that they can save two-thirds of the. money usually spent for cough prepara- tions, by. using the well-known old recipe for making cough syrup at home. 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