The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1921, Page 4

PAGE FOUR “THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Yo TIS gE EEE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D.MANN- - - - ‘Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY - Editor CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bide, 7 aes ann Bldg. NEWYORK - - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. a ee ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published in, All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are Teserved, MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION a a ea SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year ........++0 «$7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) eecers Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck. 5.00 Oaily by mail, outside of North Dakota -- 6,00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1878) ad A NEW PROBLEM. The new republic of Poland is going through an experience that sharply parallels that of the United States in the days of Washington, Ham- ilton, and Jefferson. She is framing her na- tional constitution, and having just as much dif- ficulty in perfecting it as the American colonies did. The Polish constitution, however, has many new features unknown in the time of the Ame’ can founders. Woman suffrage and the initia- tive and referendum are among these, while dras- tie measures covering child welfare and child la- bor legislation are being advocated. The present grave situation among Polish children has alarmed the entire country and joined all political factions in demanding laws safeguarding the young generation. According to the reports of American Red Cross medical inspectors, there are 2,000,000 children in Po- BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE thus seeks to even up inadequate salaries. Stand-! ard Oil wants employe-stockholders because it, hopes for a closer interest in employes’ minds! when they are part owners. | This is, according to the new light seen by! captains of industry, good business. It tends ioward a “new realization of the common aims! and interdependence of capital and labor.” Those| are words Standard Oil itself-uses in making the} offer. eet i Once there was a time when the employer wanted nothing less than that his employes should have a Voice in the business. That. was| along about the time when the public could be| damned, Modern industry dainns not the publie, the consumer; nor does it ignore the workers,| the producers. | There are those radical labor leaders who be- little this effort to make employes part owners, in industry. They insist that it is but a crumb, intended to head off public ownership, and being extremists, they are not satisfied with anything but the entire loaf. However, there are many persons, including a large majority of labor folks, who, believing that a two-year-old calf ca-} not. be born in a minute, think it advisable to make a success of part-ownership before attempt- ing a still larger load. | | If they make our navy too small, what will our cabinet officers do when thiey want to travel? We are informed that Berlin is “getting back | to normal.” Thought the war was intended to, prevent that. | | Tsn’t the proposed law to ensure the purity of| liquor for invalids likely to increase'rather than decrease epidemics? | What’s the matter this winter? We haven’t seen a story about the deer fighting in the streets land today needing medical attention. Twenty per cent of the total child population of the coun- try is crippled, defective or tubercular from mal- nutrition. At any rate, Harding isn’t going to have his inauguration mistaken for an Ohio village street fair. 2 OAKS FROM. ACORNS GROW. Far cry it is from, the little group. of young men‘who met in a room in the London dry goods store of George Hitchcock in 1844 to the army of 868,892 members comprising the Y. M. C. A. in ‘America alone, at this time. Yet that shows just how the Young Men’s Christian Association has grown inthe 77 years since its inception. The real founder of the Y. M. C. A. was a man named George Williams. Williams was a clerk in Hitchcock’s dry goods store. And there he roomed ‘with 80 other clerks. He didn’t like the habits of some, and invited a few to meet with|, him in his room to try to change conditions. Out of this meeting grew the association. Hitch- cock, the owner of the store, became the first), president and Williams served as treasurer for 41 years. . In America there are 2,194 Young Men’s Christian Associations, with 5,173 paid officers and 85,106 directors and volunteer committees. Out of the total membership of about 869,000, there are nearly 200,000 boys, quite an army in itself. Its property in the United States. ‘is worth $128,000,000, They carried Chinese coal to Newcastle during the war and now Iceland is crying for a ship- ment of ice. THE “STAY-IN-SCHOOL” DRIVE. School children, multi-thousands of them, soon will be graduated from the eighth-grade. These and children from the lower grades, all finishing the first half of the school year now face the temptation to “get a job.” That means quitting school. It means putting behind the child that worthy ambition to acquire a good education. In many cities “stay-in-school” drives are well under way. These are intended to discourage children from tunning into industry. The New York child labor committee, the state employ- ment bureau, and the department of education will co-operate in bringing the facts before the| older pupils in elementary school and in high; school. The campaign to keep children in school is of | particular importance just now because of. the condition of the labor market today and the in- creasing unemployment. This will make it more difficult for the child to get a job. gy’ That is something the parents should consider well before even consenting to discuss the mat- ter of the child’s quitting school. And it should not be thought of, even though a job is obtaina- ble, if it is possible to keep the child at his books. One more term of school will mean more to any child, tomorrow, than all the money he can earn today. Stay in school! Senator McCormick bought some clothes in Paris, but his rural constituents in Illinois will never see them on him. PART OWNERS. | The Standard Oil company of New Jersey of- fers stock to its employes at unusually attractive of Duluth for months and months. Manager Mary Garden of ‘the Chicago Grand Opera has this advantage—she knows every nook and cranny of a prima donna’s excuse. The high-powered automobiles that are ‘used to smuggle whiskey across.the Canadian line might be called modern jug-gernauts. | EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are resented here in order that our readers may -have th rides of important issues which are being dis- cussed in the press of the day. : THRIFT AND PINCHPENNY. This is Thrift Week. It appropriately in- cludes this the birthday of the great philosopher | Ben Franklin. A good many folk think Thrift is a kinsman of Pinchpenny. They are wrong. Thrift has noné of the Pinchpenny blood in-his veins. Thrift uses his time, his strength, his mind in- telligently, and makes his money serve his needs and minister to his pleasure. He labors hard at things worth doing, but wastes no effort. on things not worth doing. He has time for play, for observation, for study. His’ hand- opens quickly, when his head tells him it is time to spend or his heart counsels giving. Thrift has learned to make the dollars he has earned work for him, : Pinchpenny sweats for his money, and all its life long he is its slave. He fears.to enjoy him- self because he fears to let go of his purse. He does not dare to put out his money, being haunt- ed by the thought that it may not come back toj him. When Opportunity knocks at his door he sends word he is not at home, and keeps on count- ing coppers when he might send them forth to bring back coins of gold. Pinchpenny starves his mind, his. body and his soul, for his hours are filled with anxiety and depressing forebodings. | Thrift is an admirable fellow whom we should | all imitate. He knows what money is for, and, he used it to make things go. -He keeps the shops open and the factories running. He will not be} swindled, but he is not to foolish as to go with-/ out. what he wants and can afford to buy. This} is Thrift’s week not Pinchpenny’s. Benjamin | Franklin taught Thrift but never Pinchpenny.— New York Herald. . ANOTHER LEAGUE POST-MORTEM. — | , The league of individuals which is working in} Europe to'salvage the League of Nations from | the scrap heap has a confession to make and a hotion to suggest. Its confession is that Article NX. must be torn from thé covenant and consigned | to oblivion, Its sugg stion is that the people of | all the countries holding membership in the | League of Nations shall elect a representative as- | sembly, to be a part of the superstate machinery | which doesn’t now work. Uae There is no harm perhaps in holding these; post-mortems on the league and covenant. But! what. is the use? Nobody can breathe the breath of life into the poor dead thing. | The people of the United States as we have) said more than once, aré not averse to a volun-| tary co-operation’ by suitable association to set-| tle international questions that are justiciable | A | and otherwise to make for the preservation of | peace. On the contrary, they are willing to take; up at any time that rational question of practical terms. Frankly, 8S. O. makes it plain that the offer is not a matter of charity, nor that 8. 0. treatment by sober judgment. But the League of Nations, never!—New York Herald. ‘ | TROUBLE “BREWING” Yi Wt Hl G Pel wh Wyn \\ AAR ARRAS RA AAA | | ' D SOCTERFEL J | necessary to recall that the industries ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS | By Oliver.Roberts Barton. The Twins Have Lunch ) “Oh!” cried the twins in astonish- ment when they heard a great live lobster in a kitchen ' gpron calling nn them in to lunch. The undersea; palace was built of all the lovely things of the sea. The wicked Bobadil Jinn had just brought them to;his big palace under the sea, you know,:and the great gate of the wall that: surrounded it had shut behind them. 5 “Hurry up!” commanded the lobster sharply: but kindly.* Nancy and Nick mourted the high steps where the creature stood beck- oning, and the Jobster held out one of his great. clawsever so cordially to shake hands. The twins hesitated. “Oh, I won't. hurt you,” said the lobster hastily. ‘But if 1 should hap- pen to shake your hahd a bit heartily, just pull hard and\my hand will come off.” “But that would be clared Nancy shuddering. “Not at all!” the lobster assured her. I should soon grow another just as easily as you grow a new eye- awful!” de- lis 1,200.000 bales less than a year) | ago. Export clearances show corres- ' ponding drop-off. Egypt’s cotton acreage restricted a | pened by its government. | Germany, Big Customer lash. But there!. The shrimp salad a’s trade with Germany was | and the clam chowder and _ codfish | $400,000,000 last year. Biggest before balls are all teady. Do hurry now and! the war w: 3,000,000 in 1913. wash your faces and hands.” it was’a most remarkable speech, mother-of-pearl and ornamented with particularly the last part. "Wash, with the ocean all around them! Why, there was nothing but water every- where! ( “It’s very dark today,” went on the lobster. “A large cuttlefish was here calling and the sea’s been murky ever since. He spits licorice something dreadful.” The lobster went around and turned up the phosphorescent lamps, and suddenly the children realized what a wonderful place they were in, for the under-sea palace of the Bobadil Jinn was built of the finest mother- of-pear] and ornameftted with all. the lovely things of the sea, corals and pearls and moonstones. Really in their amazement the little travelers completely forgot abcut their errand to the South Pole to rescue the toys from the Snitcher Snatch. wee BILLIONS TO WALLOP DEPRESSION. BY ALBERT APPLE A Thirty-Billion-Dollar-Club to wal- lop Depression! That’s the invested capital of tie jtrade associations which have organ- ized the National Prosperity Bureau to revive business, 5 The bureau will start team work among business men for a return to prosperity. “Prosperity celebrations” will be held in every community. Decided improvement is taking place in shoe, textile and automobile industries, hardest hit by depression. Factories are reopening after “being closed weeks or months. Operations slart small, but the reopening is so general over the country that manu- facturers believe it marks the begin- ning of general revival. Gary's: Hint “The country is on the eve of nor- mal times,” says .B. H. Gary, head of U. S. Steel Corporation. He thinks that business within’ six months will be out of the woods entirely, and that general prices soon’ will be low enough to start big buying by the pub- lic. The Steel Corporation continues running 90 per cent capacity. That's full time. It is rushing unfilled or- ders, getting decks.cleared for a boom, according to the Analyst, v gays that the corporation ‘docs not look for a long period of depression \but rather for\a pieking.up. in busi- ness during the forepart of 1921.” Prices Deflating Fast Suit of cloth vost $21 whole- sale.Jan. I, 18 to $54.75 April 1, 1920, now sell 10, In cloth- ing, furs and furniture, where price slashing is deep ni nits” stocks, bought at top pi being liqui- dated rapidly. eet Coal market continues weak. Bitv minous prices at the mines are down near production | cost. Anthracite market continues going to piece: Wholesale commodity prices fell 6 per cent in December and now aver- age only 64 ner cent above 1913 prices. Cotton Crop Cat Reduction of 50 per cent in 1921 cotton ‘crop is a certainty, says J. S. Wannamaker of the American Cotton Association, after cayassing the 800 cotton-producing counties. EVERETT TRUE = OH, WA Cte Son COMMS: Brcic 4EGRE Fore 4 SSCOND— tr ne AKS A =| "FRiswost LERT US WHEN HE BEGAN You VP THe, BACK {drug that is harmful.” Farm Outlook Better Makers of farm machinery are Working average of 90 per cent capa- | They stocking up, expect- | ing good business this year. They be- | lieve farmers’ buying power will soon | return. How? Does it forecast high- ; er prices for farm products? Slump in farmers’ buying power has hurt mail order business. Sears- | Roebuck’s sales fell off 38 per cent in December, compared with December, 1919.. But Vice President Loeb says: “pyusiness is. picking up and’ 1 look for a satisfactory year.” } Straws in ‘the Wind! | Overall manufacturers have cut prices two-thirds.. New price is 50 | per cent ~ below: government war standard. Shoe manufacturers averaging 10 | per cent ,better than.'a month ago. | Expect to be running full time on fall | orders by May. | Bank clearings are volume. They are almost as big as a} year ago. In reality, they are larg- | er, for a dollar now represents larger ; buying power LOCAL M increasing in | ONORED. Frank Mithollan. of Bismarck, and | John N. Hagan, Commissioner of Agri- | culture and Labor, were.elected mem- | bers of the board of directors of the | North Dakota State Poultry associe- | tion at a meeting in Fargo. S. F./ Crabbe, of Fargo, was named presi- dent. IP’S GOOR FOR CHILDREN, 5. Schwab, 1007 14 hio, write: We use Honey and Tar for cough it one of the best remedies on the mar- | ket, especially good for children’s | coughs. as it does not contain any | Serious sick- | ness often follows lingering colds. Hard coughing racks a. child’s body | and disturbs strenzth-giving sleep. | and the poisons weaken the system so | that disease cannot be warded off} Cotton marketed so far this season | Take Foley's in time. eee WANT TO SHOW You Some tye! Tes HIM WHAT Cou THINK AF le HIM oR 2 wicc lu BY CONDO! ro Mes ' | accept a sa | in Philadelphia, with pay envelopes | containing $4,300. | Open at the expe! | searchers found them, SATURDAY, JAN. 22, 1921 SURPLUS OF LABOR NOT SERIOUS YET Widespread Industrial Depression Has Not Caused General Unemployment So Far. Telegraph reports on the unemploy- | Ment situation from offictal sources in | 45 states, embracing more than 95 per cent of the population of the country, | to the nutional industrial conference board in New York indicate that, al- | though there is a widespread industrial depression falling at a time of the year } when in most. sections seasonal agri- cultural employment is at the lowest ebb, no serious or general unemploy- ment has as yet developed. Reports _ from most states indicate that untm- pleyment is slowly increasing, but not to an extent that constitutes a labor surplus, | “Yo understand this apparently con‘ tradictory situation,” It was said at the ‘office of the conference board, “it. 18; of our country are just emerging from) a period of intensive operation that may without exaggeration be called a period of super-production. “The labor, therefore, that has been released, has for the most part drifted back to the less attractive employments. from which it was drawn to the high- wage, intensively operating industriés, and is not always ‘unemployed,’ even when so reported. In, some districts the back-drift has not as yet been suf- ficient to make up the loss due to the | wartime migration to industrial cen- | ters.” FROM PULPIT TO CAFE Pastor Declined Salary and Opened Cafeteria in Chicago. Patrons of the Greenwood cafeteria, | | Chicago, have been wondering how the proprietor could serve sweetbreads and chickens, candied sweet potatoes and coffee with real cream for 40 cents and make the place go. The explanation was discovered when it became known that the hew proprietor is the Rev. Emil Burk, who said it 1s poasible to be a sincere minister and a good busi- ness man ar ste same time, , The Rev. Mr. Burk hag refused to ry from his congregation, He is seeking to prove that he can live independently of the church and give his services free to the flock. “L believe in giving the people a fair deal,” said the minister, “My prices are hefore-the-war prices, and 1 find that T can make them still lower and still derive a profit from the business, The Lord has wonderfully blessed this enterprise. If He sends more custom- ers, I can make prices still lower.” POSED AS MAN 19 YEARS Girl Refused to Promise to Adopt Fem. inine Attit That she has never worn feminine attire, powdered her nose or rouged her lips since she was fifteen yeurs old, was the startling statement made | in court by Eleanor Howard, thirty- four years old, of New York city, ar- rested on a charge of masquerading in male attire. When arrested Miss Howard stead- | fastly refused to promise to adopt fe- | male attire, She told the court that It was much easier fof her to make her way in the world as a man, Goldman Has Had Enough of Russia. “For God’s sake take me back to America,” exclaimed Emma Goldman, deported from the United States aboard the “soviet ark,” when she met Washington D, Vanderlip in Moscow. Miss Goldman is intensely unhappy and fs “fed up” on soviet Russia, de- clures ‘Mr, Vanderlip, ST a Coin Catching Dog Swallowed $1.05. When he swallowed a half dollar that had been thrown Into the air for him ‘to catch Lux, a clever Airedale dog of Cleveland, O., was taken to a hospital and his stomach sliced open. Two quarters and a nickel in addition to the half dollar were found by the | surgeons, Bey Stole Payroll to Reach Dying Dad, | The desire to'see'his father, said to be dying,.in--Spokane, Wash., 1s be- lieved to have led Elliot Micener, fif- teen-year-old office boy, to disappear from the Baldwin Locomotive works, Mexico to Pay for Death of Briton. Great Britain has agreed to a set- tlement of the claim against Mexico growing out of the murder of William S. Benton, a British subject. Mexico is to pay $10,000 cash to Mrs. Benton and a pension of $2.50 a day as long as! she remains unm: a | Offered Airplane Ride to Buyers. A land office business in shoe sales done by Dan Allison of Fargo, N. when h airplane dD. ride with evel chandise, Allis that he did not have more than one plane. y Fined for. Keeping Car Window Open. A fine of $35 was imposed og Peter Bruno 6f Wilmington, Del., who kept a window in a Pennsylvania railroad car © of other passen- gers and aguinsi the wishes of the conductor. Little.Dog Stands Guard. A little white terrier stood) guard ver the body of Alva Nicholson, aged xty-six, who died of apy ina cornfield near Elkhart, 11 until Sell your cream and poultry to our agent, or ship direct to , Northern ;marck. Write us for prices on ; cream and poultry.—Northern ‘Produce Co, vi Produce Co., Bis- Saae sue 2