The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 21, 1921, Page 4

” ‘PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Batered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. -. © © +» © ‘Editor GEORGE D. MANN Foreign Rey tatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY i CHICAGO ETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEWYORK - - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. . The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use fee publication of all news credited to it or not F ted in this paper and also the local news published at rights of publication of special dispatches herein are MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year .......0ssccccccccceeessSI:c0 Datly by mail, per year (in Bismarck) ......+0++0+6%20 Oaily by mail, per year (in state outside. Bismarck. 5. Osily by mail, outside of North Dakota..........+. 6.00 THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established TNE > NOT A HOMESPUN NATION NOW. Between 1850 and 1915 the production of men’s clothes in this country increased 900 per cent, in part due to the increase of population. In'the same period the production of women’s clothes increased 6,500 per cent. Which doesn’t prove that women are wearing more clothes than their grandmothers did; nor does it indi- cate a larger percentage of increase in female population than male. : The figures have to do with the industrial out- put of clothes. That explains it. Half a cen- tury and more ago women wore chiefly. garments made at. home. Then, too, father had many gar- ments manufactured in the home.. Before 1900 dawned women had passed men in consumption of the indnatrial product and rapidly have they | forged’ ahead. It is-evident that the day of the homespun is far distant, and never can be seen again. It was not an economical day, although the folks of that time liked to think of it so, and some of us do call it that now. Rather was it a wasteful, inef- ficient time, albeit necessary, for without ~ ma- chinery and without invention there was no oth- er way. Then it took one person many days, from weaving to sewing, what one person with machinery today can do in as many hours. Early Americans were proud that theirs was a “homespun nation.” And some few Americans view. with sad faces our long strides away from the day of the homespun, the home-made clothes. ‘They point to our bread as another evidence that we are wedded to spendthrift methods. “In 1850,” writes a student. of economics, “the indus- trial production of bread and bakery products were quite insignificant. The thrifty housewife not only. made’ her own clothes but ‘baked her own . bread.“ Since then the industrial ‘produc. tion of bread. has increased nearly 4,000. per cent.” : It is true that in the average American home “bake day” has been wiped off the calendar. But ‘» why not, when it has been proven that industrial . bakers can do it more efficiently, and at less ex- pense? Oh, yes; they used to figure a cheaper home product by not including mother’s time and labér. It was so with home-made clothes; moth- er’s time and work never. was reckoned in. The best way is the efficient way, the least costly way of producing an equally good product. This was, undoubtedly, the home-made way, years ago, before machinery revolutionized | things. It is the inefficient and more costly way today. -Home should not be a clothing factory, nor a _bakeshop; with mother the working force, any more than it should be a flour mill with father . gtinding grain. The home should be a home. 'DAVY HASN’T QUIT WORKING. Davy James, a little old Welshman, who lives at Banfan, Pa., has mined coal more than. 60 of ‘. the 81 years he has been on earth. j That is, Davy has spent a goodly part of the years he has been yon earth under earth. , Many men begin thinking of retiring long be- fore they reach 81. : Quitting work is a goal all aim at. Yet, few quit when they come to it, and only ill health, Joss of strength, or some physical weakness con- pels. the choice of no-work. ‘Davy -isn’t the kind to quit until he has to. Therein he is like most other humans. They may change jobs as they get older, and call their new work a “hobby.” But it is work, just the same. Davy, however, stuck to the job he started with. *. He never had a desire to change. Last summer and fall Davy put in his busiest days, getting out ; xmore coal per day than he ever had done, and fudrawing his highest wages. Pretty good for 81 ‘years! A _ “Why don’t [ quit?” Davy exclaimed when asked why he didn’t discard the pick and shovel cand “take things easy.” i “T wouldn't know what to do if I didn’t work,” zhe went on. “I’m too young tg loaf around doing mothing. I’d have to turn to a new job, and 'm too old to do that.” It is no new thing to hear that 81 is too old ‘to start-learning new tricks; Davy James, ‘though, released a new idea in “a man at 81 is ‘too young to quit work.” And, folks, wouldn’t this be a. fine world if ‘everybody could, and would, so live that at 81 ‘he, or she, could think with Davy that a man ‘should be older than 81 before he wishes to kiss work goodby. ° f ’’ Which doesn’t intend to convey the idea tha ‘the echéme of things should be so arranged that every man would haye to work after he has reached the mature years of four-score. Rather} does it suggest the hope that work would be so pleasing that every mother’s son would want to) engage in it to the very sunset of life. Once it was on the program that man worked hard and long hours: so that he might accumu- late sufficient to “take life easier.” The trouble with that was that few men had much life left when the recreation day came. The modern, and better, plan is to combine work with play all through life, so that one will not wish to quit work in old age to play. : THE NATIONAL BONFIRE. ‘The housing shortage was further increased| during December by burning tens of thousands of dwellings. During the month the usually heavy total of $41,197,600 fire losses were record- ed in the United States and Canada. This brought the year’s bonfire up to the enormous to- tal of $330,853,925. Most of these fires might have been prevented, insurance officials assert. Why‘weren’t they? Carelessness, thoughtless- ness, heedlessness! Rather expensive vices, aren't they?’ Sugar’s so cheap it must be the adulterants that keep candy prices up. A new book entitled “Bolshevism at Work.” There ain’t no such animal. The new century is a fifth gone but most of us had better make the best.of it, Social climbers who laid in a stock find their progress up the ladder ac-cellar-ated. Judged by modern gunman standards, Devil Anse Hatfield wasn’t such a tough fellow. Politicians have their own idea about the plum plan. It has nothing to do with railroads. | “Everything’s cheaper, even life,” says the phi-| losopher as he peruses the day’s list of holdups. Boston deaf mute weds blind girl. He can’t hear the lectures she'll deliver on the faults she can’t see but knows he has. Princess Anastasia believes it would be pleas- anter for her in Greece if the royal family weren’t afflicted with aphasia when she’s in the room. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column | mot express the opinion of The Tribune. Brepented, here in order that our readers may th sides of important issues which are being cussed in the press of the day. OUR “CITIFIED COUNTRY.” ‘The early suspicions of the census bureau are confirmed. More than half—to be exact, 51.4 per cent—of the total population of the continental United States lives in the cities. They have nearly 3,000,000 more people than the rural: dis- tricts. New York has of course the largest urban‘pop- ulation, five times as large as the number of its country lifers; but Massachusetts is the most “cititied” of the states. The score in the Bay State is: urban, 3,650,248 ; rural, 202,108. Texas and Pennsylvania lead in rural popula- tions, each with more than 3,000,000 country people. Of the great’ states in. the Middle West Illinois, thanks to Chicago, has twice as many city dwellers as farm folk; factories have made almost the same condition in Ohio; Indiana is nearly fifty-fifty; Iowa leans to the farm in the ratio of two to one. The reader who is sad because the town has grown so great should remember that the census was taken a year ago,’before the economic, con- dition which for four:years made city life. at- tractive to young country ‘people “began to change. ‘ A census next July might tell ajvery different story.—New York Herald. * * TAXING SOUND BANKING. When the state imposes a tax on sound banks to pay the losses sustained by depositors in banks which are unsound and are forced to close, it is only fair that the state should .in return give ev possible protection to those bankers who are tryitig to do business on sound ‘principles. The state has assessed the banks $260,000' as this year’s tax to pay the losses of depositors in the banks which have elosed.- That is the maxi- imum tax that may be levied under the law, and it would not be surprising if a similar tax were collected for several years to come before we fin- | ally clean up the present financial mess.” The sum of $260,000 is a stil tax for the state banks to pay, and in return for it they have a right to look to the state for protection. It is’ far too éasy to engage in the banking business in North Dakota. We have too many small banks and not enough large ones. Many a little coun- try crossroads has two or three banks cutting each other's throats. Other states have found it possible to restrict the nuniber of banks. Min- nesota, for example, will not permit a bank to be started until it has been shown that there is} a field for it. Until North Dakota restricts the} nunber of banks in some way, the sound banks; of the state will doubtless continue to pay the maximum tax for the guaranty of deposits. In) other words, the good bankers will be fined to) pay the losses incurred by the poor bankers.— Fargo. Forum. i ‘ : BISMARCK ZAILY TRIBUNE yy YE ~—_——ee ‘GAS TO FOIL BANK ROBBERS : Contrivance Threatens to Make Trou- ble for That Particular Class of Socléty’s Enemies. Bank robbers who make a specialty ; of attacking “vaults .with explosives | will do well to beware of a contriv- | ance newly’ patented by Richard C. Roeschel of Harrisburg, Pa. He proposes to provide a chemical defense for banks in the shape of an arrangement of glass tubes forming a sort of poison-gas battery. It may be made part of the gate insidé a vault, or may have any-other structural re- lation tothe vaults that is deemed desirable. It may even be portable, 50 as to be placed in position at night, and removable in the daytime. The tubes are designed to contain benzyl fodid, tear-gas stuff, or any other suitable chemical which, when It | expands, is calculated to asphyziate | the robber or,.at least put him to flight. Bulbous expansions of the tubes furnish containers. for the deadly ma- terlal. 2 f The robber has only to start some- | thing by setting off a charge of ex- plosives. The! concussion breaks the | tubes; out flows the lethal chemical, and the business of burglary interests | the nocturnal bandit, no more for.that occasion.—Pittsburgh Dispatch, Beat Them to It. | An Iryington man planted several hills of bantam sweet corn in an iso- lated part of hig garden to grow seed for next year. He remarked to a neighbor woman about the time that | “the blackbirds and sparrows had not succeeded in fintiing his seed corn this year.” The second morning after making this remark he found about forty ,blackbirds, near sunup, busily devouring his corn.. He “shooed” them away and that evening pulled | all the ears and put them away for; safe keeping. The next morning he, looked out to see whether any black- | birds were on hand. Sure enough an | immense flock was. sitting on the | ground at the base of the now barren | stalks looking at each other and: around. The puzzled look on their! “countenances,” he says, was. iudl- | crous in the extreme.—Indlanupous | News. i Elevated to Bishopric. Seldom has there been «lscovered amore clever and effective device for ; spreading the gospel. than that ar-| ranged by wise oid Bishop Amator ot; Armorica. He evolved a scheme ; which prontised the’ linking of the} church with the powerful state. | Catching .Governor Germanus chureh one day, the bishop slipped up behind. that official. A pass with one i in. | hand .and he had. snipped off the gu- | bernatorial locks; .a pass’ with the | other hand, and a bishop’s robe was ; slipped over the tonsured dome. Be- fore the governor could say the Amor- | {ean equivalent for “Jack Robinsoi he was informed that the Bishop Ama- tor had resigned and that he was or- dained in his stead. \ French Hostess Houses Closed. — Because of the small number of vis- | {tors to the American cemeteries in| France during the cold months, the | hostess houses maintained by the! American Red Cross and the Y. W. C. | A. at Bony, Fere-en-Tardenois and Bel- | leau woods, for the comfort of parents | and friends who are visiting the | graves, are closed this winter. The | house near Romagne, at the Argonne, | the largest of the American cemeteries, , will remain open. If the need is re- | hewed in the spring the houses will open again. Hundreds of American. travelers who have visited the graves have been taken care of in these small | houses, the only quarters affording | meals, restrooms or any traveling com- | forts near the cemeteries. Born.Experts. Some girls‘can't keep a beau; oth. ers can fan a “spark” into a reg: jalar “fame.”—Boston Transcript. ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS By Oliver Roberts Barton. : THE LOBSTER. Flop! All of a sudden the whale came to a jerky stop at the bottom of the sea. At the top of the sieps: leading {1 brandishing a large cooking speon, “I smell hyacinths.” exclaimed Nancy, and even 2s she spoke the whale disappeared. “T'll bet he was the Bobadil Jinn himself,” cried Nick and sure enough a mocking laugh floated through the water to them. The children looked around, and there right in front jof them was 4 wonderful sea palace. -So many strange creatures were all about them that Nancy felt half afraid. “Lets go in,’ she said, “Have you got the box of charms.” asked Nick? F “Yes,” she replied,” but I think I better hide it some place. If this should be Jinn’s palace, he might have somebody inside who could get it away from us.” Nick agreed with er and they hid the box under a big cockle shell. Then they went to a gate in the palace wall which they found standing ajar, and slipped inside. i Clang! The gate closed! The chil- 1dren looked around fn alarm. | “Oh, Nickie,” Nancy whispered “we've left our box of charms outside under the big cockle-shell. How shall nto the Jinn’s palace; stood a lobster: we ever get them?” Nick gazed up at the high wall that separated them from the ocean out- side. would be all right,” he said ruefully. “But what would be the use of it without our Magic Green Shoes?” said Nancy. “Children, children!” called a voice sharply just then. “Are you going to stand out there in the garden talking all day? Lunch is ready and waiting an hour.” The twins looked up in surprise. At the top of the steps leading into the Jinn’s. deep-sea palace, stood a lob- ster, a lobster of such size and ip such remarkable attire that the litt” visitors stared in open mouthea wun- der. : “What’s wrong?” he demanded sharply. “What are you staring at— the checks on my kitcnen apron or my goggles?” And he brandished quite a {large cooking spoon! : EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO a KH ANS WU KNOW VERY WELLZ HENRY, THAT I Torp You BEroR]E we CSFT THS HausG, NIT Pay ATTENTION AS USUAL CAMP ON YOUR TRAIL TMS (EAST BT ye {82 IF t Doner tus7 eee SVSERY SINGLE Migr To SEE THAT YOU ATTEND TO WHAT EC ~. ~~ ‘nm NOT GOING. TO_STAND HERG AND STGN TO THE GARRASESE MAKES ME “If we had the golden key, we | | | | | | ghum, “I wish they'd come around and No Wonder. ‘i “You love long rambles In the coun- try?" asked the impudent girl. “Yes, indeed,” responded the young ‘man in the great hat -with the purple band and buckled shoes, “When I go out in the country all‘ nature seems to smile.” 1 “Gracious! I don’t blame her. It's a ae a wonder she don't laugh outeight !” ————— Sure Proof. “Yes, sir, it's pretty hard collecting money just now; I know it.” “Have you tried and failed?” “Oh, no!” “How, then, do you know that money {s hard to collect?” “Because several people have tried to collect some from me.”—Tit-Bits, Just Dropped Off. Pedestrian (to motorcyclist, who ts looking bewildered at his machine)— Lost anything, sir? Motorist—Yes, Pedestrian—What 1s it? Motorist—My girl—London Tele- graph. a Safety Firet. Nervous Passenger (in aerfal taxt)— W-w-what are you I-l-laughing at, driver? Driver—I'm just laughing at the su- perintendent. About this time he'll be searching for me all over the lunatic asylum.—Life. ——_— Quite Different. “My wife Is making it hot for me because I won't: give ber the -pin money she wants.” “Well, don’t be mean about It. Give her the pin money.” ¥ “But it is muney for a diamond pin jshe wants.” a Necessity in Some Cases. “Would you advise a man to be- jcome interested in politics?” “With all the women taking part - |i politics,” rejoined Senator Sorghum, “I don’t see how ft would be possible to keep any right-minded man from becoming Interested.” |FFERENT NOW | | never had much taste for mathematics when | a boy. Giltedge:. But ‘you managed to do some great calculating In a business way. Goldbag: That's different. it’s wonderful what an Interest you can give to a row of figures by putting a dollar mark In front of them. | <The Soap Box. As orators direct mankind ‘Along the paths of human hope, ‘The box asserts itself, we find, As more important than the soap. Endless Enterprise. “T suppose you will be relieved when campalgning {s over.” “Campaigning,” rejoined ‘Senator Sorghum, “is never. over. As soon as one campaign is finished it Is time to start on the next.” | An Process. bas | hear'that ‘somebody has invented! ‘a process for gathering nuts.” “That process is as old as the hills. All you have to do {s to announce a Meeting of some fool ‘fad and the outs will gather themselves.” Sufficient. Mrs. Wiggs—Cook has only broken one dish today, dear. Mr. Wiggs—That's better. How did that happen? Mrs. Wiggs—It: was the last one.—| | Pearson's Weekly. ° —__—__— Admiration. “You seem very attentive to that sonp-box orator.” ” “Yes,” replied the man who worrles about fuel. “He is standing on the makings of a fine ‘bunch of kindling wood.” ‘ | i Better Reputation. The Chairman (Mr. Bones the | butcher)—Well, now after these few | cursory remarks by Nr. Woodhead— Mr. Woodhead (excitedly and em- phatically)—It’s a He! I never swore in my life—Passing Show, Contrary Treatment. “Td like to make that lecturer on ‘ fads eat his words.” hy so?” “Because the audience was drinking them in.” i See ee A Personal Bewilderment. “Are you sure your auditors: under- | stood all of your arguments?” Ad “If they did,” answered Senator Sor- explain some of ’em to me.” The Shocking Cause. “}Iow came that electrical casualty to be s0 exnggerated?” “The current rumors, I suppose.” Sell your cream and poultry |to. our agent, or ship direct to | Northern jmarck. Write us for prices on | Produce .Co., Bis- cream and poult Northern Produce Co. nar