The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 23, 1921, Page 2

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered Postoffice, Bismarck, . D. as Second sea he agg Claes Matter. « 2 . Editor GEORGE D. MANN - : ; Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO ETROIT Marquette Bldg. resge Bidg. i ND SMITH NEW yorr’ “YN® BURNS AND SU irifth Ave, Bids. Se ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use tion of all news credited to it or not otherwise forded ian this paper and also the local news published pereiPs ighta of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year Pancreas 7.20 x, eal in Daily by mail, per year . Biamerck. Daily by mail, per year (in state outsi Daily by mail, Puterde of North Dakota .....0.se000 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1878) . Sas ad HOME SWEET HOME . Today’s most popular jazz selection will be out of date a year hence, or less, but “Home, Sweet Home” still makes ‘hearts weep wherever Eng- lish is spoken, through it is a hundred years old this year. It has power to turn back’ the footsteps of the wandering boy and to call home the exile. And, strangely enough, the song came from the heart of a wanderer who never knew what it was to have a home—John Howard Payne, an actor and soldier of fortune, who was born in America and died in Africa. ; Measured only by the standards of material success, John Howard. Payne’s life was a failure. Most of it was a struggle with poverty. One win- ter night while wandering homeless in the streets of New York,.he passed a cozy home, and there came to His‘ cars’ from the parlor the strains of his own “Home, Sweet Home.” Years after his death in Tunis, Algeria, John Howard Payne’s body was, brought to America and a grateful country. paid its highest ‘tributes to the wanderer who sang: An exile:from home, splendor dazzles in vain! Oh, give me my lowly thatched cottage again. The birds singing gaily that come at my call— Give me them! and the peace of mind, dearer than all. i Home, sweet home, sweet, sweet home, There’s no place like home. Organization, of 600,000 traveling men will ban high-priced hotels. Where’ll they. sleep? In.the depots? ; BETTER PATENT YOUR NAME | / If the shade of Grover Clevelaid could be inter; viewed, what would he say of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll who has dishonored the good name that was given him? He would probably ask: “Why ‘didn’t they pick on Judas Iscariot or Benedict Aynold when they were naming that boy?” Great men have no protection against infringe- ment on their names by the unworthy. . We read of a George Washington Somebedy-or-other who is arrested for beating his wife. And occasionally one hears of a boy named after William McKinley doing something he shouldn’t. . The William Tafts and the Theodore Roosevelts are still children, as are the Woodrow Wilsons. And we must wait till 1940, at least, until we hear anything good or bad from the Warren G. Hard-| ings of, whom there is.now a numerous tribe. _ ' The tboyswho ‘were named after Ulysses S.| Grant are middle-aged-men by now and they must be law-abiding, quiet citizens, for they seldom get ‘ their names in the papers. Still, if Grover Cleveland Bergdoll has sullied a ‘great and good name, the same name has been! honored by: none other ‘than Grover Cleveland Alexander, who was a good soldier and is a great pitcher. nee _ > Parents:who confer upon their children‘a great man’s name are under obligations to see to it that their children live up to that name. Movies show British business giants stoking} » ‘furnaces in the fuel famine. In a similar crisis, American leaders would go around making “pep” speeches. ____ IF YOUR DOWN IN THE MOUTH | ; Of 3,256, French villages in which all life was| ‘suspended during the war, 3,216 have come back to life. The inhabitants have retuned to rebuild their homes and their fortunes. The remaining! 40 villages were so shot to pieces as to be alto-| gether uninhabitable. ; » We:human beings are a wonderful breed, after all, even with our faults. We are knocked down, | and apparently out; but before long we are on our’ _ “feet again, and, wiping the blood from our faces,| we go back with a smile to whatever we happen-; é ed to be doing. Cities crumble, fortunes are wiped out, but faith| and hope and love are eternal, and together they resume their-song in men’s hearts soon after the! first shock of disaster. ; | , What American soldier believed the inhabitants, would ever return to the wrecked French villages | whence they had fied? Desolution and ruin seem- ed complete. As.a picture of despair it seemed| | drummers in a Pullman smoker. in all but 40 of those villages, and, doubtléss, the cabbages and the turnips soon will be bursting through earth that was churned by shell-fire and covered with the debris of crushed stone. : There is no irreparable desolation except that which we nurture in our own hearts. There. is no hopelessness except that which we) hold to our bosoms as if it were a treasure of rare price. Hope and faith are trying to sing in our hearts always, if we will but listen. . If you are down in the mouth the story of the| reviving French villages should give you new cour- age. f A lot of us save time and don’t know what to do with it after we've saved it. $2,500 AN ACRE “The avocado, or alligator pear, is a salad fruit known to a few. The limited supply is increasing, but the supply is exceeded by the growing de- mand. It’s a tropical fruit. Some of the best varieties) have been imported from Central America, and now are being developed in southern California. | The supply is kept down by quarantine which prevents, new importation of trees, and the cul- ture in this country is still experimental. Meanwhile, the few growers who ate successful are getting rich. One man planted 86 acres eight! years ago, and recently sold ten acres of his orchard for $25,000. : uae Plant development may make avocados as plen- tiful and cheap as oranges, which once were rare and costly. But most growers think that will not be for ten years yet. Meanwhile, a portion of the salad, in the few restaurants. that serve it, costs $1.00. ; i { As a step toward universal peace, let’s call it the War Debt instead of the National Debt. : TAFT FOR CHIEF JUSTICE? The passing of Chief Justice White of the Su- preme Court after more than a quarter of a cen- tury of service, creates a vacancy in a position second only to that of the presidency itself in importance, _ fee Lie a In fact, in many of its aspects the chief jus- ticeship embodies more authority and dignity than the presidency. "i If it were possible to.strike a balance, it could probably be demonstrated that during his long tenure as chief justice, the sum total of the influ- ence of White’s activities on the nation as a whole and the individuals composing it, has been great- er than that of any president who has served during the same period . } 4 In this view of the matter, the appointment of a successor to the late chief justice will be oné of the most, if not the most, important duties that' President Harding will be called upon to per- form during his presidency. ee | The man most prominently suggested for this great office is Former President Taft. During the eight years that have passed since Taft left/ the White House, he has undoubtedly grown tre- mendously in public esteem. His appointment to the chief justiceship would cause less criticism, even among the ultra-progressives, than would -have been thought possible immediately following his overwhelming defeat for a second presidential term. : Too tany, Americans have crisis-probia. Mail, service on letters again is first class‘ in two Ways: | As the world grows “smaller,” its problems) grow larger. 4 Half the world doesn’t know how the other half lives—and cares a heap less. ae It’s going to be an awful joke on Stillman if he had all this fuss for nothing. ' The clerk who knows least about the store’s stock is always an authority on baseball. When you think = newspaper story is wild, you ought to see some of the stuff we can’t print.| The back yard garden isn’t as attractive when| it comes time to transplant the tomatoes. A new profession is in prospect—social secre- tary to the husbands of women officeholders, 7 Harding caught two kingfish in Florida; an- other vindication of a republican government. The cracker barrel debating club at the cross- roads store had nothing:on a bunch of modern The congressmen who can orate for dn hour without saying anything has counterfeits who go! around addressing business men’s clubs. \ Magazines want true-to-life stories; Yet “Tar-' zan of the Apes,” “Alice in Wonderland," “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and most of the other, nothing could be added to the scene. : And yet the current of life flows strong again best sellers never could happen in.real life. Man loves the impossible because*e agpires to it. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Snator’ Truman H. Newberry of Michigan is shown at his desk in the Senate office building, Washington, following: his‘ acquittal on | iNegal election practices in the contest with Henry Ford. Judge Robinson Discusses Initiative if wrens of And Explains Use Voters May Make Of (By Chief Justice Robinson.) I do believe in- ‘the initiative, the referendum: and the recall. I do believe that at the last Presidential Primary and the last gen- eral election the initiative was well used to secure, the. passage of some good laws and. the recall amendment. By statute, ten thousand electors at large may propose any measure—any {bill for a law—by initiative petition. ; The: petition must state the full text {of the measure and be filed with the | Secretary of State not less than ninc- ty days before the election at which it is to be- voted upon. “Each measure shall be voted upon at a statewide election designated. in the petitions, or at a special election to be called by the Governor.” If the Governor’ fail to’ call a special elec- tion, then a recall petition against him may be filed with the Secretary: of State, and he shall call a special elec- tion.’ Thus to secure a special elec- tion on the first Tuesday of November, during the month of July, the people may file initiative petitions on meas- ures of great ‘{inportance,} requesting the Governor to submit the same to a vote of the :pEq le and (forsthat pur- pose to call 1 éfegtion to be held on the’ ar ¢Tuepday of Novem- ber, 1921, Then, if the Governor fail Yeléctionj it may be Stat filing a petil i Governor, and such petition shall’ be filed not ‘less than forty nor more than forty-five days befdre ‘the election day. ( tay ‘Under, proper: laws it matters little who is Governor, but under the pres- ent system the.people have a perfect right to file inftiative petitions’ for the enactment of such laws ag they deem important, and f the Governor ob- structs the, initiative by refusing to call a special électioh, the remedy is to file a recall. By filing in July in- itiative petitions for the enactment of important laws, the people may have the full benefit of the same for over one and: one-half years in advance of any such laws as might perchance be} enacted by the Legislative Assembly: A law enacted by a vote of the peo- ple takes effect on. the thirtieth day after the election, unless — otherwise specified in the measure. Now it is well known that at thé last session of the Legislative Assembly, by reason of party strife and other causes, few, if any good laws’ were enacted; and at the next session of the Legiglature the same conditions may ‘prevail. and yet by way of the init ‘ive the people have power to enact any measure or law they may desire and to give the same immediate effect. They can make laws cheaper and better than any Legislative ‘Assembly. By the passage of some odd laws the peo- ple can easily benefit themselves mil- Hons of dollars. The expense of a special election is_as' nothing com- pared with the benefits sure to result from the passage of good, laws. The péople have power to reduce the op- psessive burdens of taxation and the rates exacted by common carriers, and the way to do it, or to start. the ball‘a rolling, ia for a dozem of more re- sponsible citizens to ‘form @ club and draft dr.formulate the proposed laws and initiative petitions. Then to have several thousand copies. printed and circulated for signatures. If the measures submitted appeal! tp the vot- ers many will gladly volunteer to cir- culate the same. without’ any reward, but in any event the petitions should be secured, authenticated and filed be- fore the last day of July. That be- ing done the presumption is that the Governor will do his duty by calling a special election. Me the people want their present tax burdens, they are entitled to have them continued; if not, they may rebate and throw off the burdens. They may re- peal all the newfangled tax laws of 1919 and return to the simple and in- expensive mode of assessment and tax- ation which existed years ag0,, And, if they do not care for the new boards and commissions, they may dispense with some of them. é DYE ONLY WITH ‘ “DIAMOND DYES Unless you ask for “Diamond yes” you may get a. poor dye that streaks, spots, fades ahd gives that dyed look, Every package of Diamond Dyes con: tains simple directions for home dye- ing or tinting any new, rich, fadeless color into garments or dr: peries of any: material. -No mistakes! No. fail- ures! We have a statute’ whfch limits the maximum rates which may he exacted by common carriers, but at the pres- ent time Tae garded with: Impuh- ity, and by feral Judge ‘the At- torney General is restrained from en- forcing ‘the statute. Most. of our’ lawmakers ‘are not skilled in modern political- crooked- ness, nor in the technic of the law, aud yet on coming to Bismarck they do assume to know it all and match themselves against railroad attorneys, Federal Judges and Interstate Com- merce Commissions. That is all quite absurd. js JAMES E. ROBINSON. PEOPLES’ FORUM ‘| | OO / Bismarck, May 21, {To Editor Tribune: While here in the Bisamrck hospital | |} I have met people from all parts of; the state and from every walk of] | life and a8 a freeholder in Dunn coun-| | ty am very much interested in affairs! of state and politics in particular at! ‘the present time. Hearing how plow-; ing and planting is progressing over| the state it looks like there would be} fully 400 per cent of all old acreage! seeded and that the Nonpartisan farm:| ers are forsdking their leaders who} coined the slogan “summer fallow and fight." ‘The leaders are, not even do-| ing that themselves. They are busy at Fargo “Harvesting” and “Fighting” |tor more ‘funds to fill their pockets. If the truth was known and they kept books: to show their totals as they | Should have, if they were on the! ; Square and would publish same, it would total millions and not a cent | returned to them in any way. —Nor'| | will they until they get rid of the | Socialist leader. Even Ex-President Taft says the organization is very un- democratic and it: is just what the ; leaders make it, now what the farm- ers want, for anyone knows the farm- ‘ers in this state will average up with | any state in the union for American- ! ism, But they have simply been mis- | led, misguided by the leaders who are gloating over their losses. ; Some time ago some ‘made the bed of thorns, let jthem sleep in them,” but I have {for one worked hard for my home for fifteen’ years and am not going to sleep in that bed of thorns. They have ‘stuck me good and plenty and if we will all work as I intend to, our farmers, Grangers and Gleaners of ‘North Dakota can and will-make again ‘our bed to suit ourselves. 1 started with them after all the Promises but left them as soon as | gaw they organized for graft and nothing else and since that time have worked ‘against them and will ever try to guide my neighbors toward the right road, The class hatred alohe established here’ in! the state is enough to put them out, 1 was proud of our little i { | 4 i | i i | | said, “they are the leaders of the league today. Thy never made a success of their| own affairs and will not where they are now. They will bankrupt us that! is what they will do. The sooner we) make up our mind that they are wrong and are men enough to say so, the sooner will our state get back to liv- ing again. Brace up, brothers, con- FRANK PALMER, ONE OF PIONEERS IN. BREAKING TRAILS The death of Frank Palmer, of: Dev- ile Lake, recently, recalled to many citizens the carly pioneer days, when the trains were broken through North Dakota and the white man carried the business of agriculture a step west- ward. * Probably ‘no other name is more closely linked with the early history of Devils Lake and the Lake Region than that of Frank Palmer. He was a pioneer of pioneets, and boasted that to him is due the credit for turning the first sod inthe Lake Re- gion ever turned by a white man, and planting therein the first grain seeds. This: was in 1881, before the home- steaders invaded the new country then known as the land of the Sioux In- dians, who were driven out of Minn sota after the famous or rather in- famous uprising of that merciless Sioux chief, Little Crow, who himself also escaped to Devils Lake and at-| tempted to rehabilitate his forces for a new uprising. Came in 1568, Frank Palmer came to the Lak? Region, April 9, 1868, settlim® in Fort Totten, Benson county, and: after fol- lowing the occupation of mail carricr for a government contractor, soon made his permanent home in Fort Totten as a, licensed Indian trader. At that time! the only means of se- curing feed for the soldiers’ horses was by way of the Missouri river, then by wagon trains to the resérva= tion, which was not only expensive transportation, but consumed much EVERETT TRUE ..———_—«&BY CONDO] IN NORTH DAKOTA time and brought about many hard- shfps, e&pecially in the winter season. Mr .Palmer finally hit upon the idea of experimenting with the land on which he was located, and finding out if it were possible to grow oats there, He had about 200 acres of land, and horses of his own which needed feed- ing. So in the siltrimer of 1880 he. se-j cured somé ‘seed’ oats from St. Louis. brought by way of. the Missouri and the wagon trains, and the following; spring he planted them. They yielded 84 bushels of oats to the acre. Crop Was Surprise. Speaking in latter years of his suc- cessful experiment, Mr. Palmer. said: “It was a bigger crop than I ever got afterward. I sold some of it to the government, uséd some of it myself, and next spring when the settlers rushed in there was a big demand for it for seed and for feed for their horses. Thi om was a surprise to me, but I w have laughed at any one who would have told mo that people would be yalsing corn success- fully around, Devils Lake some day.” ‘Mr. Palmer had been living a re- tired life for a number of years, liv- ing with his sister, Miss Prang ¢} Devils Lake. He was born in Eaton. Preble county, Ohio, May 1, 1847, an came .to the Lake Region from Fort Peck, Mont. ‘ His wife died last year. He has served in the Civil war, en- listing, when he. was only 141-2 years of age having been one of the young est soldiers in the Union army, and serving from 1862 to the end of the | war, PARDON MG, MADAM, BUT, L wisH To SAY.IN PASSING THAT (E LOu CER SIST IN JAMMING YouR. KiID'S. HAT Down |. iy TRAT| MANNER - HE WIicL DEVELOP EARS: struggling business men, as were you; and evefyone else, except a few who, ONDAY, MAY 23, 1921 * THIS WOMAN. ~ SAYS SHE WAS AT WITS END Mrs. Burkheart Didn't Know Which Way To: Turn For . Relief, She Says— Tanlac Restores Her | 4 F 1 “fanlac has meant health to me, and no one ever ‘comes in our tome now without hearing somethiig about it,” said Mrs. G. Burkheart, who re- sides on Edgington street, St: ‘Paul, Minn, ‘ ie Ted “I had been in failing health for some time and was hadly run |down and weak and felt that it wouldn't be long until I would have to give up. My digestion was so poor that I ate but little and even then suffered great distress. My werves were worn to 4 frazzle and I lost sleep night after night. I had rheumatism and back- ache and felt so discouraged I was at my wit’s end to know which way to turn for relief. I had frequent head- aches and at times had sudden dizsy spells: / “But I’m so glad I gave. Tanlac a trial because it has proved to ve a friend in need. I have taken only three bottles, but already I, am en- Joying splendid health. My, appetite is just fine and evérything I eat seems to digest perfectly. My nerves are as steady as can be and I haven’t a pain of any kind atid sleep, soundly all night long. Tanlac is a\grand med!: cine. It has certainly been: a bless- ing to me.” =————=—S—S== tinue to plow, plant, and. you. will surely prosper. ‘.. : Very truly, ‘ J. T. Harvey, Dodge, N. D- * —_____ | POETS’ CORNER - | OUR LULLABY. H (Victor Stone) I do not ask of you tonight One yearning fond embrace. I do not even ask to feel Your kiss upon my face. I do not ask for all these things Which stronger hours. love best For { am tired tonight and want But you my own and rest. | I only ask that you I love Into my arms to creep; j And through the long, long night shall be | Love's tenderest ‘love and sleep. THE LARK (By Florence Borner.) Down in the meadow a lark sings its | song; ‘i |Flitting and soaring the blue skies ‘among; List to its: music as onward it swells, Rhyming and chiming like silvery bells. / What is she saying im notes sweet and clear? What is the message she brings to | us: here? Gréen ‘earth below her, and blue sky above, Naught could she speak of excepting true’ love. a Rise, noble songster, thy pinions un- fold, Sing of the beauties which: earth life i doth hold; | Sing\of the raptures in heaven above, | Sing on, thou bearer of infinite love. ‘Fain would 1 follow where’er thou dost i ye Bearing thy message of love upon high; | There would I find all‘my friends gone before, ‘There would I dwell in. sweet peace | evermore. | o———_____—___'"'"-® ry ry -. With the Movies | AT THE BISMARCK Bill Hart is sofie scrapper, as every- \body knows, but in his new Para- mount picture,:,“The Testing Block” | which comes, to'the Bismarck theatre | tonight, he ds.a veritable super-man. A straying minstrel band, with a lovely: girl who plays the violin, winds through the trails of the California {Sterras in the days of gold. My. Hart j18 chief of the bandit gang. They:force the players to ehtertain them in the heart of the redwood forest. The halt- savage outlaws are avid in thelr de- sire to capture the girl and “Sierra” Bill, (Mr. Hart) forces them to fight him, one by one, for the right to claim her. He beats them all and then, him- self half-crazed, seeks the gir] and forces her to marry him. That is the beginning of a story of human tragedy jand joy, which unfolds in o mighty Sequence of compelling incidents, “BEAU REVEL” AT THE’ ELTINGE, Lewis Stone, Florence Vidor. and | Lloyd Hughes head the cast of “Beau | Revel” showing at the Eltinge today jand tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday. | Mr. Stone’s work in that remarkable production, “The River’s’ ‘End”. can | never be forgotten. The story for the | “Beau Revel” picture was written by {Louis Vance and is founded on the love intrigues of a- wealthy, altra- |fashiénable New York man-about- {town and the picture embodies the | novel and original theme of father and | Son as rival suitors for a lady’s favor. | . Ballrooms of palatial proportions, fashionable apartments, and country tclubs frequented by the most exclus- jive members of the “smart:set” fur- nish attractive surroundings for. the love escapades of the wealthy and worldly-wise Lawrence, Revel. Flor- ence: Vidor, Lioyd Hughes and Lewis Stone have the leading roles. CHARGE FIRES “—TOSINNFEIN London, May. 23.—Thirty incendiary * j fires in the vicinity of London.official- ly charged to. the Sinn Fein occurred, over| the week-end. i : , | i