The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 5, 1921, Page 2

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE! Entered at the Postoffice, ‘Bismarck, s.. D., as Second |* Class Matter. i a Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY. CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. | PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH i NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. nnuajly. ‘ Bvery nation always spends The way to stabilize price levels is to control ‘GEORGE D. MANN - Editor both the quantity of money and the average ve- ‘locity with which is circulates. .., . \ Every Euopean nation made the blunder of | | printing paper money during the war, thus inflat-| ‘ing prices. Wages doubled for American workers between’ CORBET eto "igh a Sth Vi ER The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use! the years of 1859 and 1909. At the same time,’ for publication of all-news eredited to it or not othe! eredited in this paper and also the local news publis! t herein. ‘All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are, in that 50- year period, ee also reserved. —_——— MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION hed commodity prices remained practically unchanged. : Hence fhe buying power of average wages doubled A panic was started during the recent slump in prices, by the fact that the banks could draw upon ts Naat bisa ie cies ed a BUBSCBIF SION) FATES PAYABLENIN Reidireant Peg the federal reserve for reserve notes in exchange Daily by carrier, per year $7. Daily by mail, per year (in Bisma Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota .. THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) EES. SPILT MILK Some people cling to a disappointment as’ if it) were the pearl of great price. Foiled in a cher- + 6.00| 7.20| for commercial paper. \ Gillette’s algebraic system of forecasting prices | 'may puzzle us, his economic theories may outrage | ‘us, but we must agree that there’s. a leaven of |common sense in his arguments. | WHAT DETERMINATION DI Honore De Balzac, French novelist, was a de-, scendant of day-laborers. His father sought to: ished plan, they mope and lament their hard luck! dissuade him from the.pursuit of literature. i with a constancy that is worth of a better cause. | “In literature,” said the father, “a man: must: This is a great mistake. No good can possibly jbe either a king or.a beggar.” | “Very well,” re-' come of it; instead, much:harm through the waste! plied the son, “I'll be a king.” ! of time, energy and enthusiasm. So much of the world’s enthusiasm is lost in crying over spilt mik, | 4 Por 12 years thereafter he battled with hard- ships and extreme poverty in a garret, but today” it is small wonder that there are so many mediocre | his books are ready in every civilized country of people in the world. ; That is something the wise never do.’ Of course, there is always the first shock of disappointment} which means the altering of our plans, and for the moment things may look dark. But once we see the positive necessity of, abandoning a plan, we} should do it and begin at once to cast about for.a better one. More often than otherwise, we shall] find that, after all, the disappointment. was really a blessing in disguise. ~ How many a boy or gir] in the teens has been broken-hearted at the sudden termination of the most wonderful. love affair in the world, only later to thank all their lucky stars that they escaped the entanglement. | Disappointment is simply a signal for shifting; our sails according to the kindly breezes that are bearnig us toward our coveted:goal in life. That's all. YOU'RE LUCKY, AFTER ALL ned pe a fellow leads himself to believe that the‘ world is all wrong. It could be a good deal worse. For instance,'suppose you were one, of those “Siamese: twins” recently arrived in /our country from Czecho-Sloviakia, 3 For 43 years they have been: joined from the waist to. the knee. No getting away if the other proved tiresome. ; ‘ Rosa, the twin that is married and has a boy, constant companion, had goad sea legs but could- n’t use them because her sister was ill. | And Josepha likes to sleep long of mornings,! pert observers including. the. National: Bank of; ‘A |Commerce in New York, the: first stage of defla- ingly, reads books in bed so that the other member | tion will probably be completed—the first nails driven in the coffin of depression. j It may come sooner. It may, be delayed. But! 0.3 indications now, are that the beginning of the end} 0 is- in: sight. * while sister Rosa wakens early and uncomplain- of a circus team can enjoy long slumber. . - A lot of unusual things have happened to these | people, however, to make their dual life interest- ing. A Hamburg storekeeper swore out a warrant against Rosa because of a disputed bill. Josepha, not arrested, refused to accompany her sister. to! jail. Then the officer took them both. After Rosa’s case was settled, Josepha had the policeman arres-| ted for making a false arrest. The case still is in court, 3 < If that, situation appeals to your imagination, ||’ read “Those Extraordinary Twins,”) by Mark} Twain. You will come to the conclusion that there} is nothing quite so invaluable in this world;as: phy-']- sical independence, ECONOMICS AND COMMON. SENSE By an algebraic formula tested over. a period of Not the war, except possibly partly. as. the se- ‘ ‘ : A | quences of the war have affected’ employment. Not, arrives at two interesting conclusions: +a moral back wash. But the mild winter. | 30 years Halbert P. Gillette, editor and economist, First,. that: prices. will: have reached their bot-| tom level in May. : Gillette is one economist. who. accepts the hu- man-equation as a factor in his calculations. Hence the following observations by him are as interest- ing as they are unusual: The average man is habituated to spend prac- | tically all his income every year. ' Borrowed and invested money can be effectively | used only by spending it. : The notion that there was a decrease in the per -Between the years 1865 and 1907 the per capita efficiency in production:in the United States:dou-| bled. ‘ : of the total of the world’s gold money has upset but they attributed it simply to irritability from} I ou |the discomfort caused by the heat. They did not With the readjustment of normal price- and give the away down deep, philosophical, psycholog- {wage levels, the teachers, preachers, and certain! ical explanation. That is a product of more recent| types of office workers, whose: salaries’ did not! psychological research. all our: price and wage schedules. advance during the war, will have to be paid more, money. Jast year, will benefit this year. Prices for their products will go up. | It will be many years before construction costs | death, but Napoleon sneered, went, and contracted | nothing worse than. greater self-confidence. | run, by the prices of raw materials. Those prices | now average only a fifth more than in 1918. ‘Inj othr words, four-fifths of the rise that took place). during the war has -been canceled. } by. Bradstreet’s which covers the prices of the 96; principal necessities. of life—such as metals, coal, breadstuffs, hides, leathr, textiles and oil. each of these commodities: and: adds the price.’ How that price rose from its’ pre-war level to its, highest wartime point and-what it is now. is shown | in-these Bradstreet figures. y ‘December, 1913, ..... b ick grossing th Jonge been at a rate that, .if continued, will bring basic’ ecame seasitk crossing the! ocean.” Joep ey Ne prices—of raw materials—down to the 1913 level) by May 1,921. ’ home,” probably stayed downtown for dinner/dur-} ing housecleaning time. “cussed in the press of the éay. : cuse university has given. us.the secret. Energy, Second, that this May level prices and wages whic otherwise woud’ be expended in resisting: will be 60 per cent above the level of 1918. \the eold, has been released by the warm weather} for something else. The scarcity of work quickly; |suggests to the weaker characters a career of crime. Just’ an effervesence: of energy. If the winter had been cold we would not have had the crime. there is little crime. 'The reason is that Eskimaux use all their energy in keeping warm.’ In Africa and other hot countries it works just the other capita productivity during the war is a fallacy. | way. The natives are too busy keeping cool to give themselves to.devilment. : j crime. We have had an inkling of this before from The futile attempt of our war allies to pay their | crime statisticians, who have observed that there dbts to us in.gold is an economic curse to them-'are more crimes and especially crimes. against. the | nelves atid/to us. Our accumulation of one-third | person, in out hot seasons than in our cold seasqns; : them out or give them a tropical sweat. The police The farmers, all of whom had a hard time of it, headquarters’ sweatbox may be more scientific ’ than was dreamed of. ' the globe. _—_— | It was. Napoleon’s determination, also, which, made him Emperor of France. This was empha-| sized when thousands of his soldiers were dying of | the plague in Egypt, he visited them.to show that | ihe was not afraid of the scourge. ‘To go, said: his advisors, was to court certain CLOSE TO YOUR POCKETBOOK Your cost of living is’ determined, in. the long) “This is revealed by the price index published | The Bradstreet index. takes a given’ amount of | February, 1920, March 1, 1921 ..... seven e ALBE | The steady drop: during the.last 10 monthg has On that date, according to calculations of ex- The man who wrote, “There is no place like! « EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments. reproduced \in this column ma} Hot’ express the opinion of The Tribune. Bereetet here in order that o th slides of important issues: .w! or may t CAUSE OF CRIME WAVE | At last we have it—the-cause of the crime wave. The head of the psychology department of Syra- The professor reminds us that in the arctics The thermometer is therefore a barometer of The way, then to cure criminals is to freeze | We have been advised that psychology has in’ $ recent years made wonderfyl advances. Great is pill decrease materially below the, level. of 1919.,, psythology !——Omaha,. World. Herald... ae all that is earned |f* ¢—_____- + | JUST JOKING: | yRhine whine than ever.—Philadelphia —Boston Post. — |g Ct In the spring a man’s fancy sadly turns to thoughts of bock beer,Detroit Free’ Press. Hires a Substitute. “‘Does\ Coward ever tell his wife just how horrid she is?” “No, he hires the cook to do it for him,”—Life. , The American farmer is dowr‘and out—down ‘at sunrise and out in the fleld.—Pittsburg Press. . ‘Transparent. “That: pongee waist: on that woman is a good, joke.” hos “Where do you see,.any joke?” “Why, can’t you through it!”— Los Angeles : 4 od In spite of prohibition: there's more Public Ledger. ae : /Sensitiye, °° The\gosdiis red th@ ‘wiolet’s blue — . Yet: Maude says-pbsies peev her; ‘No miatper what tli¢sdplor is They:all give he ly; fever. 4 7 Cartoo: Magazine. Enterprising~bartenderg will now change their white aprons for medical college degrees.e~Burlington (Vt) News. A Realist, “He's too great 2 stickler for trifth ever to.make a successful | novelist. Did you hear how he ended his last ' “No.” ‘ , He wrote: “And they were married and lived scrappily ever afterward.” — i ~ There is poetry in pies, sdys an ad-| Gren that she almost got neuralgia vertisement, Yes,,and music in soup.: —Wichita. (Kan.) Beacon. | eam | An ‘Offset, eet “Two hundred dollars! That's a rather large fee for your. treatment, doctor.” - : =| “Not at all. You save’ that amount,/ at least, in the diet prescribed for: you,”—Enid' (Okla.) News. i pe i A professor says the best jobs are! held by college graduates. Especially | graduate of the elgctoral college—! Cleveland ‘News-Leader: Eugene Debs \strikes many as a man who is still in because he was too out and° out.—Detroit News. | A3 spring approaches, it’s easy to} see what the frogs have \to croak) about, They're full of hops.—New) Britian (Conn;). Herald: eit | The Republicans; promise to protect home industries. .Does that apply to; home brewers?—Santa Rosa (Cal. | Republican: ye | Despite the movie: regulation, ve hold thatthe proper way to measure a kiss \is with thé thermometer, not! | - MOTHERS, DO THS— Whey the Children Cough, “UNCLE /DODE TUCKER SAYS THE SPRING BUILDING HE'S SHARPENED THIRTEEN SAWS AND MADE FouR HAMMER. HANDLES — jiaiment, kept bands, Sloan's 1 Yes the fietit ott of tiem takes ‘hen—the a eumatic inget’ But’ not for jong when | Sloan's Liniment is putonthejobl | Pains, strains, sprains—-how’ seon this old family friend penetrates without | pubbing and helpsdrive ’em away!-An i ily, too—no muss, no better, cd skin orc * op imber up, Jimbaco, backache are_prom: Keep a botile hard. you've zun out of ©. 's so warming, cragsists— 4 largest bottle holds six tiie, as the smallest. (Cok Cosmas Goose CV | Linimente lo ALE BSI ed EY Se i | AT THE MOVIES | oe —-4 | ‘| MIRIAM. MICHELSON) AND | CHANNING POLLOCK Double credit, must be given |“She Couldn't’ Help: 3” ‘") ; Michelson. wrote the novel. w went into multiple editions and mil- Channing Polloc Both lions -of copies. | Tesponsible for the play. | famous literary lights, the latter, es- | pecially, being internationclly known | for more than a score of plays’ of | which “he is sole-or part’ author - | sides many dramatizations of popu! | novels, such as the present produc- | tion of the Michelson novel. Among Mr. Pollock’s bést known p.tys should e : ‘pe noted “The Little Gray, Lady,” | “Such a Little Queen,” Boom |S HERE,SO FAR. | Shop,” “A Perfect Lady, | Destiny,” “The Crowded Hour,” and ; “A Room at the Bitz.”" | Bebe Daniels plays: the leading: role and proves that. she is thoroughly at ‘home in a.story of adventure, as well ;as in straight’comedy; © The: bill will ; include one of Larry Semon’s greatest !-comedies, “The Grocery Clerk,” and | is said to-be-one big laugh from start | to fir These two: features will be | the attractions at the Orphctim to- night. i | BIG CAST: FOR “MAN. i WOMAN.MARRIAGE” | Dorothy Phillips, exquisite “tar of Allen Holubar’s. great First National | drama-eternal, has the support of a | remarkabie cast in “Man-Woman-Mar- | riage’—the photoplay sensation of: a | decade. In the selection of the magnificent | cast the entire motion picture ficld | was combed with the ovject of af- | fording this. picture the best talent of | the screen. Without regard to ex- | pense Allen. Holubar secured the ser- | vices of the men and women best fit- ted to portray the lesson this film can- | not fail to teach. Pte? i. Among the great array of histrionic artists supporting Miss. Phillips are: James Kirkwood, Ralph ..ewis, ‘Barney. Sherry, Cain, over and over:, “I ,wish the whole|.garet Mann, Shannon Day, Emily Chi- world gould see what smart- children |-chester, Frances Parks and “Peaches” we have, Leo!” sa | Jackson. ‘To these: must be added *Mr. Lion switched. his tail’ and| Marion her looked~ thoughtful. | dancers. { #¥es, Lily, you're right,” he an-' The salary of this great cast, alone, swered.. “I wish we could go back.; would equal the total expense of the But asstong as Mr. Filppety-Fla pand, production of “an average screen Nacy and Nick stay, we’re all right) jrama, “Man-Woman.Marriage,” .° here, aren’t we?” | nonths in the making, cost to pro- “But we can’t stay,” declared Nick.) duce, $400,000, an average of $4,000 “We're going home today.” | per foot. This makes it the most Mr. Lion’s face fell. “Well, Well,; expensive picture ever filmed. well,” said he. “That settles it. Lily,| This spectacular attraction will ‘be pack up our nighties and taoth-| shown at ‘the Eltinge commencing brushes, and we'll go at once. The} a week from tonight. children have to learn how to swim|- - anyway, and the ocean will be good} ‘Belgian workers who have servéd practcie.” Vie | long in one occupation get “industrial Flippety-Flap whispered to Nancy.| decorations” by the government. “It looks as though we! might have a'| SLE Ee cirus, after all, this spring back in} The United States has foreign trade the Land-WeCame-From, doesn’t it?”| corporations with a combined capital (To Be Continued.) | and surplus of more than $60,000,000. (Copyright, 1921, N. E. A.) : ; Blood WillTell In your grandfather's time’ ‘a man lived a vig- orous, outdoor life, are . cae ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS’ ~ : By: Olive Barton Roberts ij Lumpy .almest fell ‘on his rose. Robert Mar- All day. long Nancy,’ Nick and Flippety-Flapp, assisted by Mr. anc Mrs. Lion, taught Lumpy and Lule how to do circus tricks. The lion babies soon found that it was noi only easy to balance themselves ori the ends of a see-saw, but great fur as well, and-after they. had learned it was hard work to get them off. Next they tried the great red and white ball. Lumpy got on first’ and almost: fell on his nose. He handn’t learned. the trick of keeping his four paddy-féet from slipping off éhe top Climbing the ladder and down you knew how;. and jumping through a hoop! Why, there’was nothing to it, really. It was more fun stil! when white paper was pasted, over and you went through with a beautiful teaying sound: ‘ Mrs. Lion was‘so. proud of: her chil- Morgan and famous from ‘smiling. “Oh, if there was only a crowd to applaud;” she kept saying AR eee the yardstick—Greenville _(S. c.)| drayman who helped me move seven} Piedmont. bo, times last year, © | Twelve to a Case. Biggs—There goes a reliable + low. Never lost a case of mine. | ties a \corkscrew, but your true pessi-| Jiggs—Your attofney, eh? | misycis never found without an anti-| Biggs—Attorney. nothing! He’s the, dote—New Castle (Pa.) Herald. BY CONDO | | yey | fel- An optimist may be a man who car) courage was in every line of his face and showed in: every mus cle of- his body. In those days folks treat: ed theirown a maladies) with household.remedies; | \ and when your grandfather felt bilt- | | ous, thick-headed, tiréd before the | day was over, hé Would take- some | simple retfedy such ag Dr. Pierce's Golden Médical Discovery, an altera- | tive and tonic for-stomach and biood: vhich has been popular and success- ful for over fifty years. No man can do his Work with stomach out of. “| order— blood thin, pimply — feeling | dull or languid. Make your hlood: redder and your health better by go-? |-ing to your nearest’ druggist and.ob- | taining Dr, Piercg’s Golden Medical , | Discovery in tablet or Hquid form. | Made of Biood root, Oregon Grape root, Queep’s root, Stone root, with- out alcohol. These roots have a di- | rect action on the stomach, improv- | ing digestion an@ assimilation, and , they aid in blood-making. Send 10 | cents/to' Dr. Pierce’s Invalids’ Hotel | Ym Buffalo, N. ¥., for a large trial | package of Golden Medical Discov- | ery tablets and write for free com dential medical advice. ’ EVERETT. TRUE_ Have. A SMOKE, everert? | FARMERS. \ | TRAPPERS ATTENTION \ 3 DON'T SELL” HIDES AND FURS ON H THE PREVAILING MARKET Use,them to a good advantage instead of sactificing them at the present low prices. | Let, us tan them into fur sets, robes, coats or leather. Send for free price list jana (aes. she, highest mariet we ale | WHE 'Gismanéx Hibe a FUR'CO, BISMARCK, N. ©, eas heart