The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 5, 1921, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE toa waiter and‘insolently demanded to know the picture’s meaning. , To his astonishment the waiter gave it immed- iately. ; i “In what school have you studied,” asked the THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE # @atered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. =@EORGED.MANN - - - °° Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY guest. a : ~ CHICAGO “In many schools, sir,” replied the humble *. Marquette Bldg. iter, “but the school in which I learned most PAYNE, BURNS AND = NEW YORK was in the school of adversity. Books only have been my friends.” Ten years later all France rang with the fame of the greatest writer of his age, Jean Jacques Rousseau. bere’ ‘All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Several persons were killed by eating preserved y hh appeal aay RATES PAYA! Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mai Tet vent (in x Daily by mail, per year (in * Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.... % THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Establiched 1873) # “The few locks that-are left you are gray ; a WHAT THE RECORDS SHOW You are hale, Father William—a hearty old man, Whether prohibition law enforcement under}. Now tell me the reason, I pray.” the Volstead law is a success or failure, is open _ to discussion, and is being discussed rather free- ly. plied; And to aid in that discussion, so that it may be] “I remembered that youth would fly fast, intelligent, it migh be worth while to refer to] And abused not my health and my vigor at first. ‘the records to see just what has been done along} That I might need them at last.” that line. The story told by the records seems quite im- posing, at any rate. A resume of the activities of prohibition agents for the first ten months since the Volstead ‘law has been in effect shows: 8456 illicit distilleries seized and destroyed ; 9186 stills seized and destroyed ; 4182 still worms seized ; 136,608 gulluus'of spirits seized and destroyed ; 50;448 fermenters seized and destroyed; _ 1021 automobiles seized ; 20 breweries seized ; 24,469 persons arrested ; 23,959 persons recommended for prosecution ; Taxes and penalties ‘reported for assessment, had to eat it they picked a good spot for it. By Robert Southey “You are old Father William,” the young man cried ; “In the days of my youth,” Father William re- “You are old, Father William,” the young man cried ; LAR AST “And pleasures with youth pass away ; And yet you lament not the days that are gone. Now tell me the reason, I pray.” “In the days of my youth,” Father William re-| plied ; “I remembered that youth could not last; I thought of the future, whatever I did, That I never might grieve for the past.” “You are old, Father William,”the young man _evied ; “And life must be hastening away; You are cheerful, and love to converse upon $82,450,036 ; death: Taxes and penalties assessed, approximately,) Now tell me the reason, I pray.” $22,000,000. - Looks big—but the United States is a big) am cheerful, young man,” Father William re- country. plied; ~ “Commissioner of Internal Revenue William M: Williams says that with better cooperation from state.and local officials, which is now be- ing given, another year’s record will show great- er figures than the records of the year just closed. “Let the cause thy attention engage; In the days of my youth, I remembered And He hath not forgotten my age.” God, Truck gardeners doubled their orders for cab- bage plants when they heard the Kentucky to- bacco growers had decided to make no crop this . fyear. . Some folks are hoping that if Lenin had a con- tagious disease Trotzky caught it. SHUN THE COMMON DRINKING CUP! ; There is disease and death in the use of the common drinking cup. The cup which has come from the lips of somebody else may bring the in- ’ fection of dangerous diseases to you. That is why the laws of many states, or the or- ders of. city departments of health, forbid the use of the common drinking cup in schools, pub- lic buildings, aboard trains, and elsewhere. Microscopic examination has shown that the edges of cups or tumblers which have been the rounds of the lips of various persons are plaster-| ed with a variety of unclean matter which, if you could see it with the naked eye, would make such cups too repulsive to bring to your own lips. FIRST, the mucous from the mouth has ad- hered, bringing with it an assortment of scales from the mucous membrane of the mouth, throat and sometimes from the nose. NEXT, there may be found the germa of pneu- monia, those.of suppuration which may havelof their goods which the public buys. come from: diseases of the teeth or gums, the] When the legislative bill is enacted to consoli- germs of tuberculosis or of diphtheria and some-|date all the State government's departments, - times of other diseases. bureaus and agencies now duplicating work and The list of diseases that may We spread by|cxpense in assessing, collecting and guarding drinking cups is a long one, but in part it in-| various taxes, when the new law’ is in operation cludes— ‘ and when it is administered omja soupd business ' Tuberculosis, the chief among the infectious} basis, about a million dollars a year at @ saved destroyers ; ; 5 by the State of New York in the mere handling Syphilis, the loathsome and terrible disease} cf the taxes. This will be sure enough tax saving. And if a million dollars a year can be saved| which is much more prevalent than is generally known, and which, aside from the earlier serious) by proper methods of getting the taxes into the treasury, how many (ens of millions can be saved _Atlanta’s replica of Robert Burns’ home is either incomplete or it violates one of our best known amendments. y EDITORIAL REVIEW =) | Comments reproduced in thie column may or may Rot exprese the opinion of tthe Papo "rey Both sides ‘ef important issues which are Bott in the press of the day. bs are have die TAX SAVING SURE ENOUGH A niillion dollars of government extravagance here, a million dollars of government squander there, a million dollars of government waste everywhere, and the public finds itself up to its neck jn.taxes. Taxes drive up the rents. Rents help to swell all the other costs of living, for every mill and factory, every. warehouse and shop must put its taxes and rents into the prices spinach in a Grand Rapids hospital. Well if they! THE OLD MAN’S COMFORTS | | cess on the 'New York stage. troubles, inay, and often does, five, ten, or twen- ty years later, bring on destructive diseases of; by similarly proper methods of checking the the arteries, heart, liver or brain, and which! does much fo fill asylums with the incurably in-! sane; ; Diphtheria, scarlet fever and grip, three dis- _ eases which are destructive of life and health- COLONEL WATTERSON'S PARTY - shattering fp many whd survive. As long as Mr. McAdoo and Mr. Bryan feel) Cerebro-spinal meningitis, and infantile paral-| called on to do scmething to “regenerate” the! ysis, two maladies killing many whom they touch| Democratic party, there seems to be no reason} and leaving among their surviving victims ajWhy any enrolled party member should be diffi-| train of paralyses, deformities and defects of the, deut about trying his hand at it. When the par special Senses and, of the mind which are some-|t¥ member in question is so eminent as Colone times worse than death. Watterson the possibility becomes almost an ob: Shun the common drinking cup! ligation, and in a letter to The World the veter-| ES arse a: au puts forward his proposaly for the repair of | Maybe Lenin will come along soon with a|American public life. He thinks .that “there is! statement that the rumors of his death are great-| nothing in politics now except two empty bottles | ly exaggerated. —both a little dirty—one labeled Democrat and| other Republican.” Whether there be anything symbolic in this picture of present-day polities | onomy work at Albany go on.—New York| Herald. ' WHERE ONE LEARNS MUCH Several guests at a luncheon, years ago, were| We do not propose to say. Empty bottles are a in heated discussion over a painting that adorned) Ptominent feature of every home just now and} the wall. <= the interpretation of this phenomenon is purely Apparently none of them knew its incaning al-|@ matter of temperament. The optimist is en- though it represented a scene in the mythology couraged by the fact that he sees bottles: the; of Greece. | pessimist notes only that they are empty.—New Bored by the conversation, one of them turned York Times. z flow of those taxes ont of the treasury? Let the, | does Craigen learn that she made dim | wooing, which beg'ns with the, Jady 1} WILL AFTER. GtorGe, You D : THIS HAND: BETTER TAKE HER UP To BED now! ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS By Oliver Roberts Barton. The Fairy Queen Appears the midst of the,golden beams, a form When the iceberg castle melted, in| familiar and friendly, and smiling at which Nancy and Nick had ‘been pris-| them kindly, x oners of the wicked Bobadil Jinn,| “The Fairy Queen!” they cried in enough of it remained for the wairus| astcnishment. The walrus reached a broad, strong flapper to the twins now struggling in the water. f by to cling to, and ‘he réachea a broat,} “Yes, my dears,” said she. , “It is I. strong flapper to the twins now strug- «Not often 1 can spare the time from gling in the water, Soon they’ were| my kingdom to hep my little friends beside him and he was telling them atl| in person; but you were in such need that had’ Rappened while they had| that I decided to come.” . worn the little Red Slippers of For- “But where is the walrus?” asked getfulness, that the wicked Jinn had'| ‘Nick, suddenly missing his clumsy given them. Now. the suppers were friend. coe fi gone, and they remembered the er-| “I was ‘the walrus,” nodded, the “| and on which they had started. Fairy Queen. “Rut how can we ever get to the| “But—" said Nancy, in a. puzzling voice, “you said that you were hun- gry end asked if we were tender. We ought You were going to eat us.” The ‘Fairy Queen ‘laughed. “I had to do that to fool the wicked Jinn. 1 wanted him to ibelieve that I was your enemy, or he would never have allow- ed me to stay on his iceberg. But now we must talk about your errand. (Copyright, 1921, N, E. A.) EVERETT TRUE South Pole, now?” cried Nancy. “The wicked Jinn took away gur Magic Green Wishing Shoes and our Box-of ‘Charms. We cannot find the way. with- out the Map and the Goklen Key. They were in the vox.” Suddenly the walrus disappeared. and in hig place shone a dazzling light. It was so blinding at first that the twins could not see’ anything at all, but gradually they made out a form in "AT THE MOVIES | ———_————_—_—__—___—_* At the Eltings Theatre IKE THAT § ‘LAST WEEK & In “The Misleading. Lady,”. which comes as the feature attraction at the Bismarck theatre, for a run: of two days, beginning Wednesday, local motion picture patrons will be treated to a screen version‘of the'notable play by Charles Goddard and Paul Dickey, which enjoyed such a triumphant suc itm O} a iYoU IMPOSE ON = MY GOOD NATURS AN? — --- \ ‘More than that, they will sce Bert Lytell, that versatilé and gifted youns actor who has won an undisputed niche in screendom. ‘He has the dasi- ing role of Jack Craigen, the contirmed woman hater whose first appearance | in effete New York after a stay in South Africa brings with it complete surrender to deautiful Helen Steele. Only after he has made his avowal »ropose to prove her fitness for a lead-; ing part at a millionaire’s “little theatre.” Infuriated by such treat-| ment, Craigen abducts her to his hunt ing lodge and proceeds to a brusque hained, and ends in a breathless epi- ode in which he wins against the Jaims of Helen's fiance. The story, with its quick tempo and ts delicious sparkling humor, which’ critics say is conveyed on the screen) far more effectively than it was on the footlights, is a Metro special pro- ea ae aaa | AND IT'S JUST CNE THING AFTER ANOTHER FOR INSTANCE FOUR NIGHTS INVITED A DOZEN OF MY ILADY FRIENDS IN FoR A Goon TIMS AND W' Mabe HIM IRRITABLE ANO HE WENT UT SOMEWHERE AND DIDN'T COME Back TILL THEY HAD GONG, COULDN'T STAND OUR "EMPTY, CHATTGR” ANO Is MORNING i SAYS To HIM, I Says, “YIM, IN THE YERGE OF A NERVOUS COLLAPSE mes, Acc & (Sop) ALL BIGGEST DAYS IN SHORTEST MONTH ‘Screw propeller for steamships pa- tented by John Ericsson, Feb. 1, 1838. Florida purchased from Spain, Feb.! 2, 1819, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Cali-} fornia, céded by Mexico to United States, Feb, 2, 1848, Horace Greeley, Feb. 3, 1811: Diplomatic relations with Germany broken, Feb. 3, 1917. - Southern states congress met at Journalist, + born, Montgomery, Ala., to’ organize Con-| federate states of America, 1861, anterstate Commerce Commission established, Feb, 4, 1887, . Aaron Burr, politician: and states- man, born ‘Feb. 6, 1756. ‘Long distance telephone . between New York and.Chicago opened, Feb. 7, 1892: ..General William T. Sherman born, Fep. 8, 1820, William ‘Henry Harrison, president, born,- Feb, 9, 1773, : Weather bureau established, "9, 1870. Abraham Lincoln _ born, deb. 4, Feb. Fed. 12, _ Alexander Bell and Elisha Gray file ‘application tor telephone few hours and winning the patent, Battleship Maine was sunk in Ha- vana harbor, Feb, 15, 1898. Thomas A. Edison patented phono- graph, Feb, 19, 1878. George Washington born, Feb. 22, 1782. Express (business siarted, Feb. 23, 1839, First patent for revolver granted Samuel Colt, Feb, 25, 1836. The city of Denver has made pro- vision for the construction of an auto- bandit chaser, a powerful armored car with racing ability. Coming “In Old Kentucky” The picture that has broken all records. BY CONDO He SAID HE WASSLEG, duction, directed by George Irving, under the personal supefv!}jon of Maxwell Karger, ‘Lois -Zellner adapt- éd the play. Arthur Martinelli was the camerathan and Lester J. Vermil- yea designed the specialart interiors. Beulah Lignite Coal $5.50 and Bear Creek Coal $12.50 deliver- ed. Wachter Transfer. Co. Phone 62 or 63; Coming “In Old Kentucky” The picture that has broker all records. patents, | ‘Feb, 14, 1876, Bell beating Gray by a; SATURDAY, FEB, 5,.1921. eae Ta PEOPLE'S FORUM. WATER COSTS EXPLAINED, Editor’s notes The Tribune In a recent issue published « clip- ping on the Fargo water costs in’ which there was clearly a typo- graphical error inthe newspaper originally printing the article and from which Jt was. clipped, The Tribune's attention was called to the error and in order not to do an Injustice to the Far- go costs a letter was addressed to Robert J. Jacobsen, elty engineer “ Fargo,’ who responded as fol- lows: Fargo, February 4, 1921. Editor, Bismarck Tribune. Bismarck, North Dakota. Dear Sir:— se I want to thank you for your let- ter of February 2, enclosing a clip- ping on water costs in the city of Fargo, and asking me to make cor- rections. The figures given are in cents per 1,000 gallons and the total cost is 17.90 cents per 1,000 gallons of water pumped to the city. The total num- ber of gallons of water used for De- cember, 1920, in the city should read “65,780,945.” Extensions by Special Assessments. In answer to your questions, I can State that the water department does not pay the original cost of exten- sions to the distribution system or the cost of hydrants. Water mains and hydrants are paid for ‘by special assessment on abutting property. Oui, present distribution. system. repre- sents a total original cost of ‘ove? $450,000.00. This item does not en- ter in when the: cost of water is coni- puted. The cost.of maintenance anil operation of water mains and hy- drants is paid for by the water de- | partment. The city pays, from gen- eral taxation, to the water depart- ment, a hydrant rental to cover use of water from hydrants for fire, strect sprinkling, flushing sewers and pub- lic purposes. This year the sum at $19,272.00 is paid to the water dfpart- ment for hydrant rental. This item |is the only item raised by general | taxation. | 20 Percent by. General Taxation. One reagon why, our costs for fur- inishing water to the city,are so low {is because they are based upon the {value of the water works plant alone | A privately owned plant would neces- | sarily have to base its costs upon the value of the distribution system in addition to that of the water works plant. I would say that approximately 80 percent of the cost of furnishing wat- | €r under our present method is borne |by revenue from water consumers while approximately 20 percent is borne by general taxation. If our water department was a privately owned utility and all charges had to be absorbed from the income, a flat | meter rate of about forty cents per 1,000 gallons would have to be estah- lished. Our present meter rate | is fifteen cents per 1,000 gallons with a ' semi-annual advance charge of fror $1.20 for the smallést domestic metet to $33.00 for the largest commercial meter. If this is not clear, I shall be pleased to give you such further in- formation as you may desire. Thank. ing you for your interest and cour- tesy in this matter and trusting you will correct the article you published, Tam, : Yours very truly. ROBERT T. JACOBSEN, City Engineer. | WANTS TO HELP OTHER MOTH- ERS. Mrs, Wm. Sager, 901 Nichol St., Ut- jica, N. Y.: “I gladly write anything | that helps a mother with her chil- dren. My little girl. had whooping cough and I was afraid she woul | choke. I gave her Foley’s Honey and |Tar and it helped her wonderfully. She could sleep ’most all night with- out coughing.” The good cough sy- tup checks colds, stops coughing, cuts | phlegm and covers raw, inflamed ; membranes with a hcaling coating, | —adv'. beek NOTICE ; / | Wanted information: relative |to red can of gasoline last seen |in possession of a boy, who has jdisappeared. Information rela- |tive to can may lead to clue to locate boy. Anyone finding such ‘a can left on their premises by |mistake will please call 160. ' 2-5-7 |” MARKETS — | >——_—___—__—_———-4 | SOUTH ST. PAUL LIVESTOCK. ' Hog receipts, 1,200; range, $9.65; bulk, $8.75 to $9.65. : | Cattle receipts. 100; killers steady. {Calves $1.50 lower. | Sheep receipts, none. Lambs for | week $1 lower. Minneapolis. Feb. 5.—Wheat re- j ceipts. 176 compared with 244 cars a year ago. | Cash No. 1 northern, $1.57 7-8 to | $1.61 7-8. | Corn No. 3 yellow. 5ic to 52c. Oats No. 3 white, 37 1-8¢ to 37 5-Sc. Flax, $1.75 to $1.77. i | Minneapolis, Feb. 5.—Flour un- changed. Shipments 60,148 parels. | $8.75 to $8.90. . Barley..45¢ to 66c. Rye No. 2, $1.36 1-4 to $1.39 1-4. BISMARCK GRAIN, (Furnished by Russcil-Miller Co-) Bis'narck, Feb. 5. $ | No. 1 red durum. No. 1 flax . | No. 2 flax 'No. 2 rye . | \ 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. » Coming “In Old: Kentucky” | The picture that has broken all ‘records. ;