The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 18, 1921, Page 4

PAGE Fore THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ieee eee Si ee eee Cntered at the Postoffice, Bisinerck, N, D., as Second Class Matter. POTD AES SEEN alee ashi me GEORGE D. MANN z - « .. Editor fet on en G Logan’ PAYNE COMPANY é CHICAGO. ry DETROIT Marquette Bldg. P, RNS AND SMITH NEW YORK AYNE, BURNS AND SPinitth Ave. Bldg. a ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise ceeded in this paper and also the local news published rein. ’ % All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are lso reserved. f - —$—$ $< $$$ $$ rant MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION ee SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) .... Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarc! Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota .........+++ 6.06 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) THEN AND NOW Upon the forty-fifth anniversary of the de-| parture from Fort Lincoln of Gen. Custer for his last raid against the Sioux Indians, the body of Albert Grass, ‘the last hereditary chief of the Sioux, arrives in Bismarck. This is a historical coincidence of more than passing importance. It throws into significant relief the great progress: Soh OER | Ep this section has made in the forty-five years that have intervened since the well known Indian massacre... ; Forty-five years’ ago. yesterday Gen. Custer wént to. engage in battle against Chief Grass, grandfathéy of Albert Grass. One stood in oppo- sition to the march of progress—to the govern- mental institutions, for which Albert Grass fell in battle in ‘the ‘Wottws War upon’ the’ bloody field of Soissons. Such a transformation in the short span of a generation shows how civilization moves forward and is a tribute to the sucgess:of the na- tion’s scheme of Americanzation among the young braves of ‘the Sioux race who this week will pay tribute to the'last of their chiefs. There are pioneers in this city whose minds to- day are reverting back to the Bismarck of forty- five years ago when Custer set forth gaily to sub- due: the Sioux who had donned -their paint and were on the war path against the encroachments of the white man and his civilization. They are’ pondering on the vast changes that have. been wrought in the nation and more especially in this portion of it. nit WHAT EDISON THINKS OF YOU Inventor Edison, to determine whether" college men are what he considers ignoramuses, asks them 78 questions. He calls the'test his “ignor- amo-meter.” ; The 78 questions were put up to Edwin Roche Hardy, Columbia University’s 12-year-old prodigy.” Tlie lad turned in 53 answers. He ,said, among other blunders, that. Tallahassee is in Tennessee that ‘Horace Greeley founded the N. Y. Herald, and that mahogany is the hardest wood. Don’t smile at the boy-wonder until sure you could do as- well. Admitting that many folk would answer’ that copra is a snake, that. John Hancock, was the founder of an insurance company, and that one of , the ingredients of good white paint is a brush that doesn’t,shed bristles, there are several of the Edigon questions. that can’t be answered directly. For instance;|whoiinvented printing? The cor- rect, answer supposedly, is Guthenberg. A Chi- nese would’ differ, claiming that his. ancestors printed frdm movable type several thousand years before Gutenberg was born. “What are felt hats made of?” Answer: Hair or fur fiber, But is this accurate? Many felt hats appea¥'to be made from the sweepings gath- ered up by a vacuum cleaner. Probably there’ ars’ many ‘who think that. the cotton gin was invented by some bartender. If Edison wants a real “ignoramo-meter,” he should include these questions. , How many home runs did Babe Ruth knock out last year? : Why does a man take off his hat instead of his’ collar when riding in an elevator? If a dollar bought only four pounds of sugar in 1920 when you had it, what is a dollar worth now when you haven’t got it? How many raisins should be used to the gallon? , What was the name of the genius who figured out how far apart to place railroad ties so they can be walked on only with difficulty? Answer those and qualify—for a job in an in-' formation bureau! Charlie Chaplin’s pants burned up, but we'll bet he had an asbestos pocketbook. Many people are beginning to consider the keg a greater invention that wirelegs. What’s become of the old-fashioned mother who made a five-gallon crock of cookies every Sat- urday? . The old-time street faker who sold patent medi- Kresge Bldg. | the gait, St. Louis may “come back” in the next | census. | ; A bomb thrown at Lenin's car missed it by |many feet. Cherchez la femme, Do you remember when a ‘boy was tickled to death to get an allowance of 10 cents a week? | There is no such thing in this world as standing istill. If you’re not going ahead, you’re slipping back. | The Ku Klux Klan we’re interested in are the ‘blamed clucks who eat their heads off and won’t | jlay an egg. : nf Decrease in business fires, reported by insur- ance companies, ‘indicates credit conditions are | becoming less embarrassing. © © ; | German government’s deficit in fiscal year end- ed March 81 was 75 billion barks. This shows | how easy it’s going to be to colect the indemnity. | | The old-timer who measured his: steps toward) | success by the money he had in bank now has a ‘son who gauges his progress by the car he can jafford. ee EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column or not express the opinion of The Fribune. hey ted here in order that our may uh sides of Smportpnt sues which are being e5se cussed in the press of NATURE'S GRIM JEST —_ The power of radium as a healing’ agent through its.ability to, destroy -diseaged tissues has become commonly understood.’ It is also generally “chown, } in a more or less-vague sort: of way, that radium ex-! perimenters, like those who experiment with the X- yay, sometimes suffer burns and injuries which cause their death. F Radium has indeed a force which is as terrible as) it is wonderful. It ean be carried from place to| place when encased in a receptacle having leaden! walls several inches thick. Even then the carrier) will do well to swing the receptacle as he walks, lest Holding it in'g still;position 'shoultl: permit the pow- erful rays to find their way. through the lead and into his: body: ‘When; radium*rays. are applied, the iradium is placed ii a’specially prepared. room.with.a slit in the wall wheréby’the:rays are made to fall only upon the pregise ‘spot desired. The handler of radium, if he desires 'safety, must wear gloves lined with lead, and if he would avoid injury to his eyes| he will wear spectacles of glass containing lead salts. | Even armed....with.eumbersome lead-lined _ gloves, | radium salts must be touched only with pincers and must be handled only upon wooden tables lined with |lead, so that the rays will not penetrate the wood and | attack the’ legs of the, operator. . Experts already have devised ‘a’ special metallic cage in which ‘the radium operator can work with assurance of freedom ‘frm being electrocuted. They are now working to perfect a metallic plastron to protect the heart and lungs of the operator, to say nothing of metallic sheets in which the whole body may be wrapped. This then, is,the character’ of the substance—a single atom of which has sufficient force to wreck ithe Woolworth building—if it could be releaséd, ac- cording to the students—which a delicate and slight | Frenchwoman who has come to this country to be} honored, brought forth from a mess of waste ore and which she has tamed until it is accepted as the most {wonderful ‘¢urative substance the. world: ever has} known.'She has tamed it, but grim old unsentimental |Nature, in characteristic jest, while letting mankind ‘have knowledge and use of it, in that sane moment. ‘of-generosity, lets him feel as well how terrific and uncontrollable is the force with which she lets him iplay. That is, how mankind is Kept from killing| thimself from exalted ego over his ‘‘conquest”’ of the relements.—“Hartford Times. pees a = “MAIN STREET” AND.DEMOCRACY =| Sinclair. Lewis, in ‘‘Main Street,”’ describes the! | residents of small towns in-the United States as “al \savorless people, gulping tasteless food, and sitting; ‘afterward, coatless.and thoughtless, in rocking chairs prickly with insane decorations, listening to| mechanical music, saying mechanical things about | jgeneral of the state. ED.WURGLER WHO DELIVERS WASHINGS. FOR HIS. WIFE. BOUGHT. ANOTHER COPPER | ALSO ‘TEN POUNDS oF RAISINS TODAY- i- A LOT OF wa ISPERING IS GOING ON — Bol ti WHAT STATE PAPERS ARE. °* ab SAYING ON JUDGESHIP WANT REFERENDUM ON JUDGE: {several names have been favorably E} SHIP, : The attorneys of North Dakota through local and state bar associa- tions are showing a natural and active mentioned.—Jamestown Alert. SETTING “A PRECEDENT. The choice of an assistant federal interest in the forthcoming appoint-| Judge for North Dakota will be the ment of an additional federal didge first judicial appointment to be made for this ytate. “Ib is taken for grant- | by President Harding, and it may well ed that the appointment by President} be taken as | an indication of the Harding will-be made from the ranks | course that will be followed by, the of the; mej and ‘the }) Bi re. ti few of other e te « loice of judge. jout saying that the ap- excellent“chaya: health..Aad—tea! rs in. several | entirely outside the dist of meré: already un-| cal plums? °| f of bership of: the: state -bar, adnunistration during, its four, years : swill be en- | of office. : Will, the judictal appointments be 2 | classed with’ such federal jobs-as;host- »- | masterships ’.and.: ¢ollectorships, or is presump-'}Will they be looked upon as something It The Forum’ does not believe’ that President ‘Harding’ will -countenance for a moment any attempt to class Nor does’ it beltevé that] our! Re- it goes wi pointes. should. @.a man pf the most| iudiciary appointments | as political Werder god physical | pap. 5 thd sraed-4a-the-law; and| publican senator, Porter. J. _McCum= both lawyers and clypiana agree that | ber, is willing to go on record as, put- the appointment ‘should ly on thé the individual., :The atforneys inter- ests are deflared’ to be equally those of the étterits whoni they represent, in ‘court, of the general: public. In aycanyas so farmade in Grand Forks, Fargo, Jamestown and proba- bly other ‘tdsns./no ‘one! lawer stands out prominently, as especially quall- fied. or generally endorsed, and no choice has yet been made by the Bir Association from the ranks of the lawyers of the state at large, although pe mude large-| ting judgeships in the list of jobs w rits and’ ‘qualifications of| be passed out to political friends, Surely a. judge. should take the bench free from obligations of anv kind. Surely a federal Siidge should be chosen from among the men who are not making an active and personal canvass for the place. The very fact that a candidate visits Washington at his own expense to exert his influence with our representatives there to se- cure the appointment. should ‘be the best possible argument arainst ap- pointing him.—Fargo Forum. RRR RRR eee oo ————_—_——-?| ward grades which have steadily re | PEOPLES’ FORUM | Editor Tribune: The Independent electors at the duced the income of the farmer. . Then consider the livestock business from the farmer’s standpoint.” Hogs are selling for around five cents per pound on -the open market, and cat- Devils Lake convention did place in| tle all the way from three cents up. Nominationtwo of.as good men as th state ever hada chance to cast thelr votes for. They are what you can truly say North’ Dakota’ products,’ they ar educated ‘by our state, they have plac- ed their. chances of making _ thei) bread and butter with the rest of us in the state, they assuredly know the laws of ofr* state. In Mr. Nestos for governor, we wil! have the Knute Nelson for North Da- kota, as he-came from the very same ‘locality in Norway as did Mr. Nelson. He: came, here ‘a ‘young man. with the same ambition to win his own way in the world, by working his way to an education. In principal and tempera: mental stability, Mr. Nestos stands equal to Knute Nelson. Mr. Svein- bjorn Johnaon is as, able and as clean cut aman as ever-served as attorney And what. you voters must not overlook first, is to see to it that you have signed the recall petitions, as. we must have 80,000 sig: natures and should get more. Don't ‘the excellence of automobiles, and viewing them- /seives as the greatest race in the world.”” The Belle-| \ ville Intelligencer asks whether this piquant deserip- ‘tion applies to Canada. i Bryee, in “The American Commonwealth,” is very: friendly to the American people, but he also remarks | ‘npon the uniformity of American life, and an carlier jobserver, De Tocqueville, spoke of the tyranny of ,public opinion as_an unpleasant feature of democ- | Tgey. Today ‘the standardizing influences are 'stronger than ever, the moving pictures combining with the press to make mucitudes think the same i thoughts and observe the same customs. It is not al- {together evil. The United States of America do not :present the same difficulties as the divided states of Europe. Yet one might wish for some of the Euro- | pean variety of-custom and thought without the con-; | fliet. | things are likely to be achieved where the original {opinions and even the harmless eccentricities of in-| | dividuals have free play. r| | Much of what is called Americanization in Canada Uniformity is not essential to unity. Greater | overlook that fact, otherwise we can't elect no one. os C.J. SUNDAHL, eae) Niagra, N.D. THE FARMER'S SIDE OF IT. Ina recent issue.of the Tribune I noticed, an editorial entitled: “The Better Times.” Said better times re- ferring to conditions as they were dur- ing the decade hetwen 1890: and 1900. Among other things ‘the writer stated eges sold for 12 cents per dozen, and butter for around a quarter per pound. y A I believe the writer of that evitorial entirely overlooked the fact that as far as butter and eggs are concerned, the prices are no higher today. And that is not all by any means. On everything the fermer has to sell the price has been slashed until he ts actually in many cases being forced to sell at a great loss on his cost of | production. ‘And this in the face.of the undisout- lable fact that the prices he is asked are nearly as high as during the war, and in some cases higher. Farm machinery of all kinds is still being held at probibtive prices, a ten per cent reduction was made some cine now peddles a line of auto accessories under!is the result of this unthinking absorption of ideas| time ago, but this the announcement | spread by the press, by moving pictures, and by | stated would have no effect on this his gasoline torch. Hise i Economists say the cost of living lias dropped , More in St. Louis than any other city. If it keeps ta" a0 imitative attitude.—Toronto Globe. \other agencies... The remedy: is independence and de- termination to be one’s self, to take a critical rather ,year’s prices. Reise ected Flour and othey wheat products ‘are much too high considering the price of wheat, and baker's products are not at all)in keeping with the down-‘ e | But, go into any. of the butcher shops and buy meat,.and you will fing the prices paid’ for’ I've stock "have’ little or ‘no bearing on the price asked. *Travelérs.are complaining, arid with Justice wt the excessive hotel and res- taurant: prices; some one is- still prof- iteering outrageously—and it is not al- together “Big Biz.” Why should the farmer be asked to ‘saerificé; not, only his fair share -of profit, but even’be made to sefl at én actual. loss. while business in no mat- ter what vocation is permittcd to con- tinue piling up: profits. People can “holler their heads off.” about the farmers organizing, but as long as .he remains unorganized he will continue being made the goat. He sees organized labor getting what it demands, or at least getting a fair hearing, organized business setting the prices on what he produces as well as what they manufacture, while his demands receive little or no con- ‘sideration. aia Until the farmers become thorough- ‘ly awake to their peril, and organize themselves together, as. have their business and labor associates, they cannot expect ta have ‘their demands obeyed. -Organized. the farmer is’ a power to be #@ckoned with, unorgan- ized he is nobody. : It is but natural that politicians, and those who make their, living from ‘politics should..pay mone attention to the’ organized group’ than to that of the unorganized ‘one. & They know that as a rule .the. or- ganized class votes together and when they ask for a certain plecé of legis- Agtion they, the men. in office know exactly what is wanted, while the far- mers scattered as they are, ate in many cases uncertain as to Just what they want, and how to go abo.\get- ting it, even though there were no dif- ficulty in having such legislation passed. Agriculture must ever be our coun- try’s leading industry, and we must see that the ‘men representing that industry have @ free voice in saying how our country shal] be governed, that there are men in Congress and the senate who have the interest of the farmer at heart. Only as we see that the farmer. the great conservative class is- contented and prosperous can our country be- come great T,am no Soctalist, but 1-can plain- ly see that conditions as they exist today are rapidly making toward cialism and worse. Thpusands ai thousands of meH are out of work, and we are in: the midst of a crime wave such as the world has se’gom seen. When a.man’s stomach is empty he cares little for law and order the only law for which he has any respect, being that’ of self-preservation. FoR SOME TIME NOW YO RIUNO THIS COPEICE IN A DAZG, ANO Xo BEEN MAKING ALL KINDS OF BLUNDERS IN YOUR WORK ! “WHAT'S THE MATTSRR — ARS ou in Cove § wir maT THEN TAKS Woue CHOICe —GEITHER GET Tt = Or THIS OrRAce, OR TAKE A Five DOLLAR RAISE. AND MARRY THE GIRL ANO GET GACIS NORMALCY EO SS | WEDNESDAY, MAY‘t8,'1621 Judging by the attitudes of a great many papers some seem to think con- ditions wil) rightem,.themselves with out our interference, but I am not at all sure of this.’ History has a way of repeating itself and present day conditons approximate those preceed- ing the fall of Babylon, and later on the fall of the Roman Emplre. It 1g. but .thes part ‘of ‘a fool not to see a menace tn these things. Nono but an ostrich would hide his head in the sand and- expect: to..escape’ disas- ter, 3 of iat , What fs fair‘or just about the pres- ent system of marketing in which a ‘\hoard of speculators and:middilemen fatten at the eXpenge of the farmer? Wheat is the oné’ thing of;all the far- mer raises that hag'‘made,even a sem- blance of holding’ its own, and 1 be- lieve this was owing to the fact that many farmers refused to sell at pre- vailing prices at the time of thresh- ing. We can easily imagine what would have happened. had the entire crop been dumped on the market at once. , Now, that, the crop is practical- ly out of the producers: hands’ I look for the price to. shoot skyward. The market price for hides has sunk to the vanishing: point, yet the prices of all, leather. goods ‘remain high, the price being offered for wool is but a few cents per pound, yet the aver- age man cannot afford to purchase a sult-of woolen ‘clothes. The law of supply and demand has been turned into “the law of the peo- ple be damned.” There is no relative value between the buying cost and the selling cost. The trade is asking all traffic can bear,.and then some! “Nero fiddling ‘while Rome was burn- ing was as nothing compared to the dilly-dallying of Congress at the pres- ent time. = Time after time have the people been promised more and better laws if. they. would..vote for the opposite party to that which happened to be in office at the time, oply,.to have their wishes disregarded while, alike their predecessors’ they ‘continued playing politics and filling the “pork barrel.” Some tl an eminent states- man’ declar€aitHe United States. was the worst’ govertred country there 1s, and I believe toa certain extent he was right. There is:too much red tape in. connection with the adminis- ing of justice. By the time a criminal is apprehended, tried, and his case taken to’the highest court he is like- ly to die of cod age before the hand of justice can reach him. Great bodies move slowly, and Con- gress, cumbersome and ungainly, is no exception to the rule. Personally, I ‘should like to cee Congress and the senate reduced by half, also the ‘state legislatures. 1 ‘| believe 'much’more would ,be accomp- Hsbed in the same length bf time. and at a great deal less cost. © But whatever is done in. regard to the settlement of present ‘conditions and the return to normalcy, the far- mer must not -be. forgotten, his ‘inter- ests must recefve fully as much con- sideration as those of any one ‘else. Only. as each class thrives and pros- pers, business, labor alike, can our. countrysbecome great. When we penalize one class in order that another can fatten at its expense we are fast-traveling on the road that leads to‘ruin and destruction. t FLORENCE BORNER. ADVENTURE OF — THE TWINS ‘s By Olive Barton Roberts _ Where was old Tag Tiger? Fiippety-Flap shaded his eyes and looked this way, Nancy shaded her eyes and looked that way, and Nick, looked the other. Dear. knows, they needn’t have shaded their eyes, for the jungle in © which they were searching was a4 sunless as a cellar, the great trees, and small ones, too, making a root as perfect as tar paper. But it was this way. Tag, as you Know ram stripes, yellow. and ‘black ones; @il-6ver him. and ‘if thera is anything Inthe world (or in the jungle). that'is hurd to see, it’s stripes. They fool one completely, especially in a darkish place. Take zippy Zebra, for instance! It's as certain ay next Christmas that our little friends would never have seen him at_all if hei had not been right out in the bright sunlight, and Zippy would at this very minute, most likely, be fooling away his time. with lazy old Mr. and: Mrs. Ostrich. instead of giving pleasure to so many children in. the circus. Yes, stripes are queer, things, making you | dizzy. or -half-blind or something so you can't see them. , That's why Flin- ;hety-Flap and Nancy and Nick were shading their eyes now. They knew what 1 have just told you. The jungle was very quiet! Most unusually 80, and every. time the fairy- man stepped on.a snappy branch with jhis big shoes, or one of the twins kicked a little stone, everybody jump- ed as though a cannon-cracker ha | exploded. : “What's the matter, do you s’pose?” wondered the fairyman at last. “There doesn’t seem to be so much as ‘a beetle around these woods. Where's everyone gone? Do-you suppose that that old rascal, Tag Tiger, has had | them all for his meals?” Just then Nicks quick eye spi¢d something through the trees. (Copyright, 1921, N. E. A.) ack Hurt? Waen the kidveys do not properly do work or purily the blood aibaan products and poisonous aci. mata in the system and cause backache, tpeumatio pains. lumbago, sore mus- cles, swolien joins, tiffness, lame |. - back-and similer symptoms. Pley Kidney Pills tegulate and restore the bealtny, normal action of kidneys and bledder, bringing clean: biood and better health, with free- dom from aches and pains. J. George Hudgins. Bennington, Vt., # “cent fall a it bao wade creed or hen undress myself | was advised eve Wie seve tar pual Rs ——-