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

wate re a ‘\s 4 Hugh-Miller’s: advice is as clean-cut as a dia’! Tribune. “THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE mond. It might have been uttered yesterday, it : 5 x 1. D. ica iis So timely. Yet this young Scotchmn quilled it Heer ae th Pott Matter in Cromarty away back in 1840. _ H GEORGE D. MANN... ~~ ~~ ~~”~«&Editor! When one gets the habit, there is the keenest oe r (pleasure in the pursuit of knowledge, more pleas-| G. on Pere COMPANY \ure’than in the power that. might be exercised in CHICAGO Deron |its possession. Miller, the mason, knew this fact Marquette Bldg. ie BURNS AND SMITH" and he tried to communicate it to posterity. “The! , NEW YORK - - Fifth Ave. Bldg./Qld Red Sandstone” wouldn’t be a best seller in The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use|our generation, but it surely gets down to some for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise | bed-rock facts. eredited in this paper and also the local news published | ‘ herein. 2 | Pee eestor ern «All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are! SALVAGING RUSSIA | plaice , Washington officials say there is little or no} MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION __ trade to be had with Russia. Room for argument. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE {But it makes you wonder why, granted Washing- - Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck. Daily by mail. outside of North Dakota .... ‘¥7'29| ton is correct, Great Britain bothers to enter into - 5.00/ trade pack wit hthe Soviet. Sounds like con-! 6.00 | s nacting to buy the snow that falls in the tropics. : England’s purpose, according to some bankers, | lis to secure penetration of Russia and to enable eas interosts with large investments in Russia; i to attempt to salvage their old holdings there. THE EIGHT AGES OF WOMAN | That may be true. But Russia will revive its ; _ Aclever woman has arranged a series of tables industries one of these days. Then Britain will to show the life of the average woman, Boiled have her trade machine right on the job, ready down, she thinks it’s something like this: ‘to go ahead full-speed. Babyhocd to 15—Childhood. i 15 to 18—Carefree time; fun, frivolty and/ LAST WORD—SHE HAS IT | beaux; 11 in every 100 marry between these ages.! A woman usualy has the last word in a dis-| 18 to 24—Beginning to work, either for self-!pute with-her husband. This..she demands as her! support, pin money or a career; 30 of-every 100/right, and man has generally conceded her this; are wage earners’and 51 in every 100 marry(privilege, possibly knowing shé would take it any-| between these ages. | way. : | 24 to 35—Life in earnest, with 19 in every 100| Such, at least, is the’ general idea, though the at work and 79 married. ‘ man of the house has the last say in enough homes 35 to 45—Only 15 of the 100 working. (away to start a good argument. It may be that a wom- ; : 3 -* jan’s having the last say is really a minstrel joke, Autre hs niFiyes keeping, honse, bearing ‘as untrue as the jibe about mothers-in-law being Rr g vie . cruel. tho ese Lee tend ox drieaaeen still at work, |” But certainly it is the ease with the hen-pecked| : ‘husband. hit 55 to 65—Thirteen at work, earning very small wages, 21 are widowed. ; 65 and later—Forty-two out of every 100 are dead ; 50 are widows and 14 (including some of the widows) are working for negligible wages. The lesson she draws, girls, is to plan things in the springtime of life so that when fall comes there will be fuel to keep the home fires burning. Comes a day however, when he has his inning, ; when the last word is his, when he may utter his opinions and express his feelings without fear of contradiction from his' militant mate. | That day is when his will is read. | Then, if never before, he’ may get even for all the things he wanted to say but dared not. For instance, no mere man would have the te- merity to suggest to his wife that she get a rope and hang herself, but that is what one long- suffering western husband. recently did in his will. , To,such.a man, the,very joy of being able to express himself freely on such a delicate subject jmust have been a large compensation for having | to die. BUSINESS STORMS ARE UNNATURAL What would happen to us if nature were. as varying and uncertain in temperature as business is varrying and uncertain in its degrees of prices? Suppose temperature rose 172 degrees above normal, as wholesale prices did during the war, We don’t know what would happen to nature, but we do know what would happen to man—he'd turn into a cinder. hg Nature has her occasional cyclones and rain- storms, but they don’t last a year or so, as do business panics. And if you'll go back to the wea- therman’s files you’ll find that the average yearly piste nets in a community varies only. a few i spring wedding will come into greater prominence Nature ha her temperature well balanced into’ me) Cher houeehola Bills rollin. + : regular seasons.. Comes October and man knows that he must fill his coal bin: and buy heavier gar-| iT aS ee ments, it being common knowledge that October EDITORIAL,;REVIEW 1 ane SSRITEES ASSIS SSRIS presages a steady drop in the thermometer. a Comments reproduced in this column may or may But the business man’s thermometer is.uncer-|] "ot, czpieee, ‘¢, opinion of The Tribune. may’ have tain. When-he expects summer, he’s apt to get| Both sides of important issues which are belog dist winter. Few believed, a year ago, that prices| would crash, and today nobody knows how far cussed in the press of ‘ MR. GOMPERS ON SOVIETISM they will drop or when they will stop. | Is_ business when the lawyer broke the seals and read the will, and he’ could ‘have been reached through a ouija board, his message would have been that classic: “O death, where is thy sting?” the day. There is one thing about “Old Man” Gompers, : facing summer or winter condi- as some of the rank aud file of the American Fed- tions? Many speculate, but none knows. « : |eration of Labor call him. He cannot be coaxed Man’s activities are like nature’s. - |cajoled, wheedled, bluffed, or intimidated into an Man’s price fluctuations are unnatural processes. | endorsement of the Soviet government of Russia. There is no more reason why price storm should! Bolshevism never did look right to him, and it sweep the business world than there is reason why | looks less and less right to him as he‘ hears more nature should have a winter 200 degrees in the’ about its practical working. ; Shade at the North Pole, . .., ‘eas. It seems that labor organizations here and.there But can prices be stabilized? Yes, say ‘some over the country affiliated with the Améritan Fed- .» Possibly, if his shade were able to hover nearby | ine sich; ~ The young man who plays the lesser role at-the|. SURVEY The | Rip Bootlegging has hecome the’ nation- al crime! Illicit manufacture and sale of whis- ky are being conducted on an im- mense scale all over the country. 1 Thousands of revenue agents con- | stantly unearth’ new headquarters of these bootleggers. They rout; them out of motidtain fastnesses. They‘dn- cover stills *¢oncealed in exclusive apartments in the large cities. But despite this governmental act- ivity bootlegging i ases, So keen has the whisky-running compet'tion become in recent months that in| many cities the market is glutted and the price has been cut in half. ; As fast as government agents learn the secret methods of transporting liquor the boctleggers invent new. ones, The enormity. of the bootlegging business and the extent to which boot- leggers ;go (to exade;the law is shown in th‘s ‘survey of the situation throughout: ‘the country which. has, been madg by.,the (Bismarck, Tribune. ak DETRONT. Detrolt;April’ 4.2. Bootleggets uss airplanes:th: land Canadian liquor: on n peninsula, a figet: of eight oe ten obera ing nightly near. the Soa: {They landiat different places, guided by searchlights. Boats-smug~ gle liquor across the river in admmer, sleds in-winter, authorities estimating 3.000 -gall arrive daily. The sup- " atitul at $9.50 a quart. 1} MEMPHIS, i ») Tenn., April 4.-Head-~ j@r@ here for southern boot+4 s. :THey operate in fast, autos, not hesit&tiug to run over officials who try to, stofi them. Planes bring liquor from ' Caruthersville; one has been captured:!! ‘Railroad tank cars have | ben: found with sections of the tanks filled with liquor. Booze is smuggled in false trunk bottoms, in barrels of | sauerkraut, vinegar and molasses. | Autos bring in Cuban liquor from Florida” Bonded whisky sells at) $25! a quart, corn whisky at $3 a half pint. | Officials say 6,000 ‘quarts weekly are | smuggled in. Fifty bootleggers ar-| i monthly. | HELENA, | Helena, Mont. ‘April 4.—The liquor: traffic is big and growing bigger. | Moonshine ig $15 a quart, sonded | whisky $25. Airplane is used to cross border. Prospectors and sheep herd- ers use pack animals to transport it! in mountains. A‘ decoy auto, loaded with colored water recently was senti ahead to be stopped by officials, leav-! ing the road open’to.a caravan of! booze. cars. Itinerant tin . peddlers’ stocks are found filled with liquor. A tre economists, by regulating the amount of currency | eration of Labor have been tossing some hot shot} raid on # soft drink parlor revealed! in circulation. ‘Still other, methods are advanced. in Mr. Gompers’ direction because he is not in} Surely there must be some way to bring prices favor of recognition of the Soviet government.| under natural. laws.and end violent fluctuations up: The head of the federation comes back at them or down.; There is in this problem material for ai but\he addresses his ferocity to assailing the national conference of business leaders. ' |Lenin-Trotzky system rather than to rebuking the = ee jinsurgent labor bodies. He assumes ¢hat the ac- -WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW | tion taken by these was based on “utter misinfor- A famous Scotchman was Hugh Miller, who} mation” about the true state of affairs in Russia. | got his start in life.as a stone mason and quarry-| Mr. Gompers is against the Soviet, he says, be- man. He worked:with his hands—also his brains. cause if it could do so it would destroy the trade And because ‘he used his brains, he ‘saw the won- labor movement cf the United States, overthrow derful story that the rocks could tell. After many the republic, order laborers to do its bidding in years of study, he put his observations down on the same way that soldiers are ordered to do this! paper and became one of the world’s greatest geo- or that in war t’mes, and exercise all the usual logists. ‘ ‘functions of an autccracy or despotism through a Hugh Miller’s most famous book, “The Old Red government in no way representative of or re- Sandstone,” has lived 80 years and has run Sponsive to the will of the people. | through many editions. He starts the book with| The “old man” is not always what he should be| some sound horse sense that maybe of benefit to a8 the executive head of the greatest labor organ- you: s ization in the United States, but he is dead right ‘My advice to young workingmen, desirous of ,in his popos‘tion to the principles and practices of , bettering their circumetances and adding to the Sovietism as they are demonstrated in Russia. | amount of their enjoyment, is very simple. Do' As indicating thai there is no such thing -as' not seek happiness in what is mis-named pleasure. | democracy or the rule of the people in Soviet Rus- Seek it, rather, in what is termed study. Keep Sia, Gompers asserts that the real rulers of that your conscience clear, your curiosity fresh, and|country number less than 10,000. In other words! embrace every opportunity of cultivating your @ mere hapdful holds the power of life and death, minds. jof liberty and bondage, over millions of human Learn to make right use of your eyes, The Soults. Laborers may not quit work if this ruling commonest things are worth looking at. Read good| Soup wills that they shall not quit. They must books, not forgetting the best of them. There) toil where and when and under what terms the| 4s more true philosophy in the Bible than in every dictators prescribe. ! work of every skeptic that ever wrote, and we, Members of some labor bodies may not believe! would all be miserable creatures without it. And| these things are true, but Mr. Gompers is thor-, squirt guns with two-drink capacity. | NEW YORK. ite New York, April 4.—Liquor is easy; to get th any quality. It is sold open-' ly with little attempt at concealment. Rye and bourbon costs $7 to $9 a| quart. Scotch and brandy is $9 to| $12, Drinks over bar go at 50 to 60; cents, or in fancy. teapots at restaur- ants from 75 cents to $1. The quat-} ity is getting poorer owing to Com-! missioner Enright’s order to police to! aid prohibition agents; also. fo the! crite enforcement act placing respon- sibility on local officia‘: who in the; past have passed the buck to govern- ment agents. | SAN FRANCISC i San Francisco, April 4.-—-Trucks | bring wine here from the wine dis-j| tricts, Australian steamers ie | BETTER THAN CALOMEL i] Thousands Have Discovered | Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets area Harmless Substitute Dr. Edwards’ Olive'Tablets—the sub- stitute for calomel—are a mild but sure | laxative, and their effect on the liver is | ‘almost instantaneous. These little olive- colored tablets are th result of Dr. | Edwards’ determination not to treat liverand bowel complaints with calomel. The pleasant little tablets do the | good that calomel does, but ha bad after effects. They don’t injure the | teeth like strong liquids or calomel. at the expense of the teeth? Calome! sometimes plays havoc with the gums. fo do strong guide It is best not to take Let Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets take its place. Headaches, “dullness” and that lazy: | feeling come from constipation and a | do not let*any class get ahead of you in inten.(Oughly convinced they are and he is in better Po-| sition to discover what the truth is—Minneapolis | gence.” % disordered liver. Take Edwards’ | heavy.” They soar cloud bern wy.” < in “perk up" the exits 15c and 30c, | BOOTLEGGING ~ THE NATIONAL CRIME!” .| Florida cast, MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1921 ' FIFTY CENTURIES AGO About five thousand years ago men first began to cover up the thatch nature gave to protect heads. Then no thought was wasted on style and quality. Today a good hat like the Gor- don Scents much thought and many operations by skilled artisans. The selection, assort- ing and blending of the fine furs ‘that form the body of that hat— the forming of the hat from the first crude shaping on through the kneading, reshaping, dyeing, blocking, curling, finishing, trim- ming—each process requiring ex- pert care. * Yes, indeed! The small amount you pay-for a Gordon gets you the accumulated experience of fifty centuries. Some corking new ideas are shown in the Gordon models this season. REVEALS LIGUOR TRAFFIC Shadow Across the Land! — ——————————— SEATTLE.. - lquor orders in case lots to be paid for in Vancouver and delivered to the doorsteps in the states. Boats and autos bring booze from Canada into the northwest.. A confessed bootleg- ger says liquor never was so plenti- — = —_—=Yy whisky and gin: Moonshine is $8 a| plugged the ends. In’ shipping it is quart, bonded goods $20 to $25. Wine the custom to withdraw. one. barrel is sold freely, one variety containing! from a druggist’s stock, replacing it 25 per cent alcohol being displayed | with moonshine, and to mix this bar- in groceries. and. drug stores, and sold).rel with a barrel. of cologne spirits|ful. The vast quantity smuggled in over bars even as cocktailg. Real bzer) and much colored water, making three| recent months has reduced the price is served with meals in’somi¢é restaur-/or four barrels. Sour mash stills are from $160 a case to: $90. The woods ants. , Three thougany| prohibition; being discovered daily. aah anea i tiie Est Sound district are full cases in court; one federal'judgey. dry NEW ORLEANS, of cached liquor. law enforcement greatly handic pped:| New Orleans, April 4.—Hundreds of BIRMINGHAM, “ 5 INDIANAPOLIS. | gallons of booze are sold here daily,|' Birmingham, ‘Ala, April 4.—Supply Indianapolis. April 4.—It is estimat-| Prices range from $7 for moonshine | ©! Haquor is enormous but consumers ed 1,000 quarts of liquor are made! to $25 for best bonded. Bootleggers|®@ Cautious, following several recent here monthly. Bonded goods are $15/ use thermos bottles with section above | ©##e8 of alcoholic pgisoning. Corn to $18 a quart; “mule” $15 a gallon.| fatse bottom filled with coffee. Others| whisky is $3 a pint; rye or bourbon much colored moonshine is sold as| operate “hip bars” at 50. cents a| $12 to’$16 a quart. Latest trick of bonded goods. . Latest tricks, of boot-| drink. Some barber shops keep whis- | oonshiners is smuggling in stock of leggers: hollow canes holding three! ky in tonic-bottles on. their shelves,|!quor in bored-out logs. Rubber or four drinks, woman's skirts with! Women make deliveries fot some buot- rotor, boule ofien “are used. There “half-pint pockets,” liquor concealed | leggers. is a heavy automobile booze traffic. in loaves of bread, hauling booze in} MILWAUKEE, Dry agents are capturing more stills hearse. | Milwaukee, April’ 4.—Dealing in| than ever before. N. » ow ATLANBA, i pure alcohol ingtead of whisky attains |” waning ASAE G TO ; Atlanta, April .4.—Bootleggers” aré| popularity’ “here. .’ More “kick” — in he Ington, April, 4.—Liquor is operating on a big scale. Gorn-liquor,|smaller volume, . bootleggers say: plentiful here for those willing to pay conveyed in guns and hot water ot-| Smuggling autos go, in paird in case| the price and fio, net quibble over tlos, sells for $10 a, gallon wholesale; | ofa breakdown. Bar prices continue | W&lity. -Ruu-ot-mine whisky is $11 brandy. $12 a quart and Scotch: $25./ at 60 to 70 cents:a drink although the) #"4.$12.a.quart; standard brands $15 Bonded goods: are smuggled, in. from| quality of liquor has declined. Whisky | t°, $18. Hotel ;bell_boys and . hack Nassau and Bimini.to Georg'a and| by. the quart is $20. Moonshine'is $4) (tivers maintain «Maison with rum- D, J. Gnatt, U. S. pre-| to $5 a quart. eae runners and handle most of the sup- hibition supervisor, says much bunco { DENVER, {ply. Imported gin retails at $9 and booze, containing . pepper ,sauce and| Denver, April 4,—This. city spends | $10 per short quart.” Most of sup- colored water,iis sold under fake rev-| niore’ than ,$1,000., dally tor, bootleg | Ply brought in by auto trom Halti- enue stamps. ane! oo.| Whisky. ‘Detective “Pitt: estimates. at |™Ore and‘New Jersey points. f ST,.AUGUSTENE, ‘least 1,000 bootleggers in, the, vicinity. |: i PITTSBURG. _St. Augustine, Fla, Aprif.4—Quart) Stills have been found in farmers’| Pittsburg, April: 4—County officials bottles, made; in the exact shape of] goat barn, cowshed and cesspool; with | P48 the buck here to government milk bottles and of glass_,the .color | entrances through tunnels,. Price war| 8ents, Liquor is plentiful at $10 a of milk, are the latest for whisky con-|on among bootleggers owing to the|@U@tt. For months Guiseppe deliv- tainers. Paper cups are used ag stop-| glutting of tlie market.’ Edoze drop- Kak goods to West-enders in pers to aid the deception. Booze also, ped from $4.to. $2. pint. Two-to sev- baskéts. Police have just learned that is conveyed in, auto tires and ‘extra|en bootleggers being arrested daily. jwider the vosetables in each: basket tanks on machines. Standard prices: CINCINNATI. bled ‘a jooch.” , Local ybooteseers are moonshine $4; bonded goods from the} “Cincinnati, April '4—Bandits . are | Pe dling 200 AN Ag a day downtown, Bahamas $18. Many are making for- stealing whisky ere from bootles-| go anto tt Na yes atiita tunes in the bootlegging business. | gers. Gun battles between them are! San‘Antonio, Tex., April 4—) ry One man says he made $90,000 in} frequent. “Hips bars” get 50 to 75 authorities say an airplane fleet is three months. Ships bring liquor from} cents a drink, They are common.| Used to smuggle liquor over the line island of Bimini to. three-mile limit:| Case whisky costs from $85 to $120.|ffom Mexico. Each plane brings 300 Smaller boats bring it into harbors! Some purchasers find after they buy| ‘0 400 quarts, as well as narcotic sup- at night, sinking it in shallow water./a case that only two bottles are whis-| Piles. It lands within wagon distance PHILADELPHIA, __|ky and 10 are colored water. | of the clty, and booze then is deliver- Philadelphia, April 4—Liquor is| DOUGLAS. ed under load of hay, cotton or other plentiful at $6 a quart. Trade is s0-; Douglas, Ariz. April 4—Bootleg-|f"m Produce. Three crop failures licited regularly and ‘fairly openly. | gers are at war among theméelves| @ve turned some farmers into moon- Over the bar drinks ate 50 cents, if} here. Liquor is stolen and, often re-| shiners. CHICAGO. you're known or properly introduced. | stolen after being brought’ over the! Chi April 4 Fr: k Richard much diluted and doctored: whisky 1s | border. The bootleggers' fight dry | CREO, Cth SNe Wr, seer et being sold. Federdl officials are mak-| agents openly. Four proiibition | 5°" head of the federal special en- ing..a ;record number’ of arrests, .but | sleuths have been shot to death in'the | ofcoment-agenté,-has-resigned, stat- can't Keep, pate with the supply... last few days. Mdonshine is $3; bond.| ins that it Is impossible to curb boot- BOSTON. tg ed goods $8 a pint. Three drinks of | !esing, in c cago writhent a large Boston, April 4.—Canadiah ‘hourbon | “mule? maké a man think he is Mar-| #"my of tons al bn biphe and without the and moonshine are plentiful. at $120.2 shal. Foch. Women deliver boozo.| CO-operation of ‘the police. Boore is case. Canadian bootleggers. ship. it | Cripple carried lquor in a hollowed | °btained by the thieaty in Chicago over the border by auto. One whisky-} wooden lég. A woman was found with mlthout any, great scaly. tn aie runner @niployed a‘ shipment of radi=/'a pint tied to each string of her cor-| @TOUS Places beer with a kick In it ie ators, filled them with whisky and| set. | 9penly Served across the bar. EVERETT TRUE ‘BY CONDO, ASPIRIN FUHAVE: a BAD HEADACHE, Misree Neuer! | fe ONTain ae Sib werrer LEE ORMING “eDA. | Name “Bayer” on Genuine | t { { { { | Take Aspirin only as told in each | package of genuine Bayer Tablets of | Aspirin. Then you will be following ‘the directions and dosage worked out by physicians during 21 years, and proved safe by millions. Take no chances with substitutes. If you see the Bayer Cross On tablets, you can take them without fear for Colds, Hgadache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Earache, Toothache, Lumbago and for Pain. Handy tin boxes of twelve ta- blets cost few cents. Druggists also sell larger packages. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of | Monoacetiracidesier of Salicylicacid. 1 WILL SELL CHEAP 166 acres, T. 131, R. 105, W. Bowman county, N. D., 40 under plow, all fenced, 3 room house, barn 30x50, good well, I can’t use this farm make me an offer. A. F. Tiegs, 441, Broadway, You STAY RIGHT Re. He NOU'RE THE BIRD THAT'S ALWAYS TGLUING PEOPLE , AT THCIR AILMENTS ARG ‘IMAGINAR Y”! H SIT DOWN OVER THERE AND SEE IF You A AN'T THROW YOUR IMAGINATION INTO REVERSES Milwaukee, Wisconsin: = Seattle, April 4.—Bootleggers solicit’ aw —_- ~8- a)