The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 8, 1921, Page 4

+ sae sae THE BISMARCK “TRIBUNE i Entered ‘we the Postoffice, “Bismarck, 1. D., as Second ' GEORGE D. MANN - . | - = ~__-Editor/* "1202, which:is merely another label for “An Ag- , have been too freely granted, “Weakening the law — ge the equivalent of $117 a year for every man, woman and child, Is it any wonder France wants ‘to put Germany’s | pocketbook through a lemon squeezer ? | France has a frightful financial problem on her G LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY | hands, and this must be recognized by her credi- CHICAGO DETROIT tors, with a spirit of tolerance. Marquette Blige. Kresge Bldg. | AYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK” - Fifth Ave. Bldg. | Class. Matter. Foreign Representatives ADVICE TO WIVES The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use| “Mother” your husband if he deserves that for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise! treatment, but “treat him rough” if the symptoms credited in this paper and also the local news published | ‘show that he’s merely a nagger, is a piece of All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are ‘advice that Prof. Gault of Northwestern Univer-| slag -ceuerved. sity gives in a lecture on household management. | MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Many wives and many husbands, will follow! SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Prof. Gault with interest. He sagely says that at! pay ey carrier pee ee Bismarehs a 20'the bottom of some man’s idosyncrasies there; Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck... 5.00) may be a case of indigestion. Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota ....... agents 6.06 In that situation the professor opines that it is} THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER | the wife’s homely, loving duty, to put on her kitch- }en apron, and her cheeriest smile, tune up the old: (Established 1873) EEO | kitehen range, and give the spouse something! ‘helpful out of the cook book. AN ALMANAC FOR YOU | “But the ordinary mean, devilish, nagging hus- Every farmer, and many city dwellers should band should be handled quickly and thoroughly,” read “An Agricultural Almanac,” printed by the the professor asserts. “Smooth out the wrinkles government, edited by Uncle Sam’s department of | of his disposition with a rolling pin.” Agriculture, and intended to make the producing That sounds as if the professor would get a rise of food more pleasant, profitable and plenteous. | out of his audience all right. But isn’t there a! In this booklet you will find ,in the fewest pos-| question about the practical application of such al sible words, the best food-producing advice obtain-! rule? able, and, in addition, information on weather,| Hasn’t the fies of the wisdom of corporal pun- climatic conditions, animal life, instructive and en: | ishment gone out of the curriculum of home life? tertaining. | Many bel‘eve that the little daily troubles that’ You will not be wasting your time if you read may arise in the home may be more easily smooth- “An Agricultural’ “Almanac.” 12’. led out, by the practice of the give and take spirit You can ‘get it- by writing to the Government on the part of all concerned. Printing Office, Washington, D. C., enclosing 10; . But, as Prof. Gault says, there are. times when cents in stamps, and asking for Farmers’ Bulletin) “heaps” can be accomplished by a wife by a little discreet “mothering” of husband. Husbands are but boys grown up. ricultural Almanac.”. NO MORE PARDONS The governor of Texas has abolished ‘the state pardon board. He insists that pardons in Texas on The old-fashioned efficiency expert who used to wear tortoise-rim spectacles now carries a volume of graph-charts that look like photographs: of lightning. and making its enforcement a farce.” | Gee : The governor asserts further pardons encour-| Average American drank 44 gallons of milk last ages the violations of law. jyear, twice as much as a few generations ago. What do you think? The farther we get from the cow, the more milk Would life and property be safer if the power to! We want. pardon were taken away from the state board? Would there be-less crime if the would-be crim-, inal knew if convicted, nothing but death couid step between him and paying the full penal- | ty of the law? There is much to be said upon either side. Not | the least in opposition to the present pardon system is that political influence often cuts, much ice in the matter of getting a pardon. ‘This-{s not often an indication that a pardoning official has been bribed, but that drag and pull have aided some pri- soners to keep their appeals continually before pardoning eyes, while others have lain, forgotten, |7 in their cells.’ A lot of folks who know Speaker of the Ameri- can League‘have no idea who’ll be speaker in Con- | gress—and care less. yk. The peace conference surgeons are beginning to! see that they sewed up a few Sponges inside the patient. Railroads have not a monopoly on “inability to show a profit.” é EDITORIAL REVIEW : re Comments reproduced in this column may or my not express the opinion of The Tribune. Thoy are -PAYING THE PRICE i Largely itis a matter of' paying the price, this | thing of having what we want most. How much do we want the thing we want, is practically the only question. There was sold recently at auction in New York Ruth Gordon, the actress, wanted straight hea! a copy of the first edition of the first American in place of her badly bowed ones, which werei novel. The auctioneer said that the book is “ex- a never ending source of humiliation to her. |ceedingly scarce,” and he was right. If he had She could have them if she were willing to have | cared to enter into literary history he might havé both legs broken twice, then lie in bed for many | gone further, and.have told his audience that the weary weeks with her broken limbs in rigid casts.| work is not only scarce,.but, is unknown to most It was a big price to pay. _| Writers on American literature. For example a But she paid it. : |ther Professor Trent nor Professor Wendell, And now that the casts have been removed and/ dealing with America’s literary history, mentions she has achieved through suffering the thing she! the book or its author. most desired, she smiles and declares it is worth it) The first novel published in America was “The all. i . |power of Sympathy,” or “The Triumph of Na- And it usually is. “Most of us want sanethin ure.” It was written by. Mrs. Sarah W. A. Morton, that is, for us, just as costly as. Ruth Gordon’s and was published in two volumes in Boston early | straight'legs were for. her. It is our pearl of great’ 1789. It antedated by‘nine years the first novel | price; the one thing greatly to be desired. ‘of Charles Brockden Brown, who is called by some| A few of us,like Ruth’ Gordon, have the courage writers the first American novelist. to pay the price and take it; but, most of us take a' The story contained in “The Power, of Sym-|! longing look, count up the cost then turn away to pathy” is told, like: the stories of so many other, par life unsatisfied. ; ' works of fiction of the eighteenth century, in the t is simply a matter of paying the price. » ‘| form of letters.” No-one ever wrote such stilted, See PaaS ne ‘letters as Mrs. Morton emits from the hands of} “ WE'RE TEN TIMES BETTER OFF j her characters; but in this respect she resembles | a iviani’s visit to Washington may. have some-! most of her contemporaries writing in England.| ing to do with French finances. Bankers’ gos- Ago, in making her letter writers unfold a tale of | | sip is that France, within the next month or so,’ the leading astray of a young woman, she follows | may have a financial crisis. the accepted pattern of many of the writers of| If you think the United States has a big prob- her ae hs : lem in its national debt, take a look at France: Besides this engag’ng but somewhat ancient’ The total income of the French people last year’, topic, “ Power of Sympathy” deals largely; was 128,000,000,000 francs. Her cost of govern-| with the theme of education for women. Mrs.! ment was 48,006,000,000 francs. | Morton was far ahead of her contemporaries in ad-' That’s equivalent to Uncle Sam spending $25,- vocating liberal education for women, and she| 000,000,000.a year for government, on the basis devoted to the cause much space in the first Amer-| of the American people’s yearly income of $68,-' ican novel. 000,000,000—the estimate of B. M. Anderson, “The Power of Sympathy” Av, the author-| 0 economist of the Chase National Bank, New York: ities of Boston and it was suppressed. ‘Copies of | | The national debt of France, says M. Marsal, it are seldom seen; The New York public library] tate French minister of finance, is about 245,000,- keeps its copy on, its, “reservo’. shelves, among 000,000 francs at par exchange. That’s about one-| its rarities. The book Was published annoymously | half of France’s national wealth. In other words,| but there were many readers-.in Boston who! France is mortgaged 50 per cent of her par, value. | guessed the author., ‘They based their belief on‘ National wealth of the United States is about. their knowledge that incidents such as those Te-| $500,000,000,000, estimates the “Investor and! lated in the book had occurred about a year before’ Trader.” If we had a national debt of $245,000,-|its publication in the life of Mrs. Morton. The} 000,000 we'd be in France’s boat. We’re only about, victim in the actual case was her sister, and the| 10 times better off than France! | man in the case was her husband. These facts! Inicdentally, you hear a lot of loose talk about| were coupled in the mind of the readers with the, the French people not being taxed heavily enough.| knowledge that Mrs:- Morton was ““Philenia,”| According to the French commission in the United| author of many poems. and essays.—New York Ai French taxes (direct and indirect) aver-, Herald. Presented here in order that our readers may have both sides of important lsauen which are being dis- ° the press of the day. -cusred in é THE ‘FIRST AMERICAN NOVEL .there’s nothing doing but close up the flow coneiha be commeréfat’ banks ‘ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS By Olive Barton Roberts Pn tel you all about No, Mr. Seal had decided to settle | down and have a quiet home and mar- ry a hundred wives an sand children, and he didn't like it a, bit. when Mrs. Seal (the first wife he had chosen) said would he please to tell her all about the circus he used to be in. By and by Mr. Seal said, “All right, my love, I'll tell you all about it.” And he began: “First of all a circus | is owned-by a creature called a man,” “Man?” repeated Mis. Seal eagerly. “What does it lock like “Well,” satd Mr. Seal, “something like our cousin, the walrus, on ac- count of having a bristly mustache, but not always. Sometimes a man looks more like our other cousin, the | sea-lion, because long hair grows all over the top of its head. ‘hen it’s called a lady.” “Is a lady pretty?” asked Mrs. Seal. “It depends,” ‘said Mr. Seal thought- fully. “L've seen ’em all dressed in WHOLE WORLD WANTS OUR WARES | Must Have Long Credits, Says Redfield ( BY WILLIAM .C REDFIELD Former Secretary of Commerce and Now. President, American Manu- facturers’ Export “Association, When theaverage American reads! in his newspaper that the world is| ceasing to buy our goods, his tendency is to shrug his shoulders and “guess factories awhile and lay low.” He guesses that will mean hard times, but he reckons the country will live] it,” sald Mr. Seal. shiny pink things a sailing around ing from one rope to another, anv they were the loveli—” Mr. Seal stop- ped suddenly. “What was 1, saying’? “You were talking about pretty. pink things,” nodded Mrs. Seal. “I forge’ what you called them,” Mr. Seal blinked. Fje hadn’t mean: to be so forgetful or himself and say that anything about a circus was nice “They were awful creatures,” he re marked, scowling fiercely. “Scare you to death!” he declared. Mrs. Seal shivered. “You must have been very ‘brave!” she admired. “Oh, just a trifle!” Mr::Seal ‘swellec out his chest. “What do men look like?” asker Mrs. Seal. . “A head apiece, four flippers, an: they stand on the hind ones, and they can bend in the middle,” *” “How awful!” shuddered Mrs. Seal (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1921, N. E. A.) The ,American Trade Commission: in vexing recently reported that the South Machuria Kailway Co., the larg- est purchaser of American product: in that part of the world, intended tc spend’more than $200,000,000 in gol upon improvements and extensions within the next five years. This. means a ready market for en- gineering supplies and railway mater- ial ‘from the United States if the proper credits are provided. through them, He veekons the world) | doesn't want our stuff any. more, or! cannot pay for‘it, but he guesses we: can get along. This is a pretty big! country. | Stopping of world demands for | American material began only when! 4; the other nations had reached the- limit of their ability to pay for our! goods on the short-term credit which) we have-offered. The vast volume of goods sent out: of this country in 1919 wasfinanced mostly on short-term credits; and eliroushon: a Eroat part of 1920 the! baat the American ‘xére unable to go on indefinitely reneivihe these credits, ane therefgte fergign, buying is ‘atop Pinccortl ly, ‘wets have — surplus stocks ' cpiled ‘uplsteverywhere—on wharvea,; ia; warehouses, in railroad cars and on farms—and our factories and.working men are being forced in- to idleness. This week and every week, millions of dollars’ worth of orders are being lost to American manufacturers and producers through lack of long-term credit machinery. There are orders, orders and still more orders waiting for responsible dealers, to be filled in scores of countries on a basis of from six months’ to one or two-year credits. According to a recent statement of the Foreign Trade Financing Corpor- ation, inquiries have been reigived from reliable. importers in jouth America, South Africa. Australasia. | Germany, Denmark,Finland, Italy and) the ‘Balkan States for credits ‘a fin- | ance the purchase of American raw) materials foodstuffs, standard specialties, The rest’ of the.-world does our wares. Australia ‘needs automobiles. tralia has $25,000,000 worth of grade securities—the. product of nu-, man effort in that land—which she is willing to- pledge. If the United States had a auaans| of taking. those securities. we could) sell $25,000,000 worth of moior cars! in Australia, and so keep wor! kingmea | in Detroit and elsewhere ovcupie i The Scandinavian © countries are ready to give tax warrants as tollat-j eral for credits in the purchase of: electrical apparatus, whicn they wish) to use in connection with their vast water power. | Belgians are eager tu buy American) machinery. One order alone, accord- ing to an American baiker recently: rerurned, would exceed half a million | dollars if the Belgian pure! ot could! | obtain long-term credit. The prospec: | | tive buyer has plenty of Belgian francs, but the exchange is too un- favorable. He has ample security 19) offer on a long-term basis, Many men may lack work in an important industrial city because buy-/ ers in India who, want a blast furnace ; cannot afford to purchase it at cur-, rent rates of exchange, looking . for tinancing that wiil carry them till ex-| change becomes normal, One large motor car company has | | difficulty in filling an. ordor for $508, | 000 to South America because of a/ lack of tinancial, machinery to grant) long-term credits. | In one middle-west state the manu- facturers are facing a loss of $20,000,- 000 in current export orders from; southeastern Europe alone. These orders are for 15 varieties of standard 2 Fifteen indus-' s are compelled to slow down pro-; | duction, with consequent loss to the | general community, because of a re- duction in workers’ wages. ROUP ‘Spasmodic Croup is frequently want telieved by one applicationof— 2 VISkKS Over 17 Million Jars Used Yearly | $ ‘Despite the special ativantage of| g_. Japan in Machuria and the enterprise of Japanese merchants in flooding the counury with cheap products, the pop- ulation prefers American wares be- cause of their: superiority. One inquiry for $500,000 worth of flour came from Poland, and a similar one from Czecho-Slovakia. The Poles wish to put up, their government bonds as. security, payable in Ameri- can dollars, due 1940, for twice the value of the flour, The Czechs are willing to put up; sugar certificates on sugar that is in storage in their country, Both coun tries desire six months’ credit. ‘| Remarkable Remarks >—— “We know human nature too well to begin a vain fight against tobacco or for the strict observance of the Sabbath.”—Bertha Bowman, publicity director, W, C. T. U. aoe “[ want leaut honest intercollegi- ate athletics, so conducted that they through the air, over my head, jump- | pete, but exercise a wholesome influ- j ence on the whole community.”—Dr. | James R, Angell, president of Yale. vee “The ‘frozcn north’is largely a myth, The artic. regions are a coming em- pire that within 50 vears will be sup- | plying most of the world’s meat.—Vib- | jalmur Stefanason,. aretic explorer. “In America there can be no place for those who, enjoying equal privi- leges under our flag, continue their allegiance to a foreign country.”— | General Pershing. “The ratlroads have touched bot- | tom. We canfiot expect a boom but we can expect a steadily increased | traffic as the s2ason opens up,”T, De Witt Cuyler, chairman, Association of | Railway Executives. | ee “There is no such thing as surplus wealth as long as thers is hunger or want in a country.”—Frederick C. Howe, New York author and econom- “ist. toe 8 “In no other land are so many homes wrecked bv divorce,”—Inter- national- Reform Bureau. ae # “Bolshevist government is the most despotic government that has ever been known in the history of man.”— Morris Schwartz, Russian-born So-| jalist. se 8 “Ireland will fight to the bitter end ; for complete independence.”—Arch- bishop Mannix. | * | “No settlement (of the Irish ques tion) can be reached axcent through a truce which hourly becomes appar- ently more difffcult.”—Lord Nort’ cliffe, eae { “There is a strong probability of; recall of Charles‘of Ha~sburg to the ‘throne of Hungary. This move will threaten world peace.”—Dr, Charles; Upson Clark, formerly of Yale Uni- versity.» . eee “If you are a business woman, sub- stitute the backbone for the wishbone; and get what you want.”—Mrs. Frank | Boyce Tupper, {Boston University. i “A war between Japan and the| United States is very unlikely.”"—Syd-| ney Stephens, American merchant at) Kobe, Japan. | ten years ago, I would be dead now. —General J, Warren Kiefer, 85 form- er speaker of House of Representa- tives. —— pees ty | POETS’ CORNER | SOME FOLKS | By. Florence Borner. | Some folks I know | Will gaily go A-laughing down the road; While far behind Some you will find A-grumbling at their load. Some folks will whine, And fret, and pine, ’Cause life won't use them right; While others sing, Their voices: ring Like steel on anvil bright. Some folks will shirk ‘While others work With energy and pluck; Then when they gain In proud disdain They say: “It’s just their luck.” So what's the use To make excuse And say we're out of luck? The winner dares And ne'er dispairs— not only benefit the men who. com- THE CHIEF AVERSION OF HER BEAN IS SMOKE THAT COMES WITH NICOTINE! | Another Frances Boardman Rhyme, About Reformers of Dur Time! See, Children, see the Female Pest, fore for Bettering the Race. (The Work sh Success is naught: but pluck. ver getting off her Chest some Scheme | ould start right with her Face, though | “I feel that had I stopped working | IN THE DAYS OF KINGS © :: The dandy of the time of Charles, II wore expensive plumes in his hat, often set off with gems of extraor- dinary value. In this age when kings have been thrown into the discard the Gordon Hat gives the particular mian all the dis- tinction any hat can give. There are some unueually attractive colors shown in Gordon Hats this season— you'll like —— ——SESEE—————EEESE_ What Does Mother Mean to You? What does Mother mean to you ‘Do you really know? Many people do not realize How much to her they owe. From childhood into manhood, Does Mother care for you; Yet, she still loves onward ‘No matter what you do. Many nights were given up ‘Many pleasures, too. Many days of hard labor; All this, she did for you. Now her days of toil are’ over, And her trials are won; She cannot travel on life's pathway, As she has always done. {So ’tis up to you to uphold her And help her along the way, Never be ashamed of your Mother, And slight her in any way. God gave you..a Mother, NEVER ANOTHER, She is only one pal for you; So. Love, Honor and Obey, : For there is no other so true! —By Lena D. Sheptenko. rugged Pumice Should Make Us Bright. Pumice is formed by the solidifica- @| tlon of the foam produced on molten lava by the escape of gases. The in- | stde makeup of high-grade pumice is cellular and the specific gravity of the stone is so low that dry pumice floats In water. The known deposits on dry tand are not. considerable, although the stone {s scattered over large areas of the world’s ocean bed. Italian pumice is the highest grade known to the trade. The volcanic {s- land of Lapri lying off the north coast of Sicily about 40 miles from the Ital- fan mainland, is the seat of the Indus- try. Pumice 1s used chiefly by automo- + bile and.carrlage manufacturers, mar- j ble workers, lithographers, platers and manufacturers of patent leather and enamel. : Crushed to powder, it is used | for scouring and polishing. Shipments amounting to 8,800,000 pounds of pumice were made to the United States in the six moaths from January to June, 1920, by one firm in Lipart. Much tron In Philippines. The finest unworked fron fields in the world have been discovered In the: Philippines, according to a report fragn government experts recently received by the United States bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, says the Washington. Post. The quantities of ore adjacent to good harbors, they state, will be sufficient to assure the future iron and steel production in the she’s unconscious of the Fact.) Her customary Headline Act concerns Itself! inited States for generations, Already arfi-| with Nicotine—the Chief Aversion of Her Bean! cles of manufacture and manufactured Sweat about the Nasty Cigaret, and how it’s found a Resting-Place ‘right ‘n | EVERETT TEUE ‘ T HAVE YGT TO LCGARWN WHY SO MANY WOMEN WHO PAINT SIMULATES YOUTH A (time. tHe Car s} ! panic OVERLOOK THE JAUNDICSD AREAS ION THE BACK OF THE NECK AND BEHIND, She works herself into a | BY CONDO land believed to contain more than | 500,000,000 tons has been surveyed. De- the Presidential Face from which she longs to snatch it forth. She is the very! posits on the°tstand’ of Mindanao are | Rarthest North in Zeal for Personal Reform; she is the human Rising Storm. Aus- ; And does she spread Improvement wide? That isn’t easy to decide; mayhap high-' she wields Great Influence. And yet, I somehow think that Gents prefer {reforms with Allure, to these who holler “Kill or Cure!” eee believed to be without a rival, They i contain 275,000,000. tons close 'to good harbors . and « 130,000,000. tons. within easy transportation distance of ‘Dajkin | bay, perhaps the best natural; harbor on the islands. Only crude fron work in primitive smelters is Pele eerried on at present. _ ss } 4 { TAGIR FACES To | ND AT THE SAMS | {that removes the catarrhal Salad oil is obtained from fruit | stones and pits. , Waited Till the Cows Came Home “T am indeed glad to write you this letter. I was a terrible sufferer from | Sases in the stomach and colic at- tacks, The spezia!ist our family doc- tor sent me to in Philadelphia, gave me no relief, although I took his med- icine till the cows came home. | He finally said I would have to be oper- ated. Luckily I heard of Mayr's ‘Wonderful. Remedy then, and / al- though it is now three years since [ took a course of it, I had never had a eymplom of my old trouble since.” It is a simple, harmless preparation mucus from the intestinal tract and allays the inflammation which causes ~prac- tically all stomach, liver and -intestin- al_ailments,- including appendicitis. One dose will convince or money re-' ; funded. KI-moiDS (GRANULES) For Gare roa reeey QuIcK RELIEF! ‘ALSO IN TABLET FORM THOSE WHO PREFER THEM, MADF BY SCOTT & BOWNE MAKERS OF SCOTT'S EMULSION :.! rd Eo