The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 28, 1921, Page 2

THE BISMARCK TRIBUN Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, wv. D. as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN... - \ . _ Foi resentatives G. Logan PAINE COMPANY CHICAGO ~, DETROIT Marauer- othe é xD Kresge Bldg. New york’ > SMitth Ave, Bldg: —— - ‘The Avecciated Press is exclusively entitled to the use tog pablctin of al wma eroded tp & ot not otarwin ited in this paper and sleo}the local news published All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. ' NE, BURNS A) i MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVAN' Daily by carrier,’per year .. “ Daily by mail, per year (in Bi Hf - 720 Daily by mail, per year (in state outsi Bismarck... 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota .......0000. THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1878) <> TIME TO CALL A HALT Taxpayers in Bismarck are becoming wearied over the excessive burdens of public expenditure. Everyone realizes that the time has come to call a halt and apply the rules of strict economy, The proposal for a $30,000 bond election is the ‘ extreme of folly at this time. Practically every- thing that the commission hopes to do by this election can be accomplished by cutting the run- ning expenses of the city down to the bone and applying the saving effected toward some of these projects. First’ of all there is no need of an incinerator for garbage disposal at this time. Fargo, Minot, Valley City. and other cities operate city dumps where the garbage-is disposed of in a sanitary manner. Bismarck can establish such a dump at a very low cost to the taxpayers, employing a man for stated periods during the year and then see- ing that he does the work. A little more super- vision ‘in several of ‘the departments would ef- fect a saving so that bond issues would not be necessary for such projects as it is proposed to vote upon next month. As .far as motorizing the fire department goes, much expense can be saved the taxpayers by put- ting the present equipment upon a medium priced truck which will serve the city until Bismarck can afford a paid department. To invest $15,000 just now is out of line completely. For a city to plunge into debt for this equipment when it cannot retire its paving bonds or even. pay interest upon them as they fall due is most reckless finance. There are some repairs necessary at the pest house, but’surely that place can ‘te made to serve] - the purpose without retourse to a: bond issue of $10,000. Here again a little supervision on the part of the health authorities would save the tax- ‘payers a great deal and put the place in shape to administer to the needs of the community. Sure- ly with the tax income of Bismarck’ as high as it is, some money can be spared to make the pest house clean and comfortable. Let us have a_ statement of the city finances. Where is the money going for general expenses? Where can the expenses be cut down so as to take care of some of the things the advo- cates of a bond issue are clamoring for? Why should not the city strive to live within its in- come? ‘ ’ The time has come for the taxpayers:to veto any more bond issues for what will be patch work at the best. Bismarck must determine upon-a city plan and work toward that’end. “Just ‘shoot- ing money to the birds is not going to benefit the city in the least. ‘ , First and foremost the city finances are in any- thing but a commendable condition. Bismarck’s credit has been impaired through its failure not only to meet its current bills, but ‘also to pay its, paving bonds or‘interest thereon upon. maturity. In the face of such exigencies and of present economic condition ‘prevalent’ over the nation, surely sound business judgment can hardly con- done a bond issue. « Let the city. fathers get Bismarck on a sound §pancial basis by lopping off every unnecessary expense. Let the city budget be trimmed to the bone. Let us cut the cloth to fit the income. When we can pay our current bills in cash and meet interest payments and redeém bonds already issued, it will be high time to talk of other bond issues. ‘ There should be no further delay in publishing in detail a general financial statement and the/| ‘budget items upon which the next tax levy will be made. The taxpayers of Bismarck are entitled to such a statement in advance of the bond elec- tion proposed for next month—an election which is no small expense: in itself. Also a detailed statement of expenses for the last fiscal year might throw some light upon Bismarck’s inability to meet ordinary expenses without recourse to a bond election. " GO THE LIMIT If Bismarck réceived faulty pavement now is the time to find it out so that steps can be taken to protect-the interests of the taxpayers through | the bondsmen of-the paving contractors. The city commission is to be commended for its action in securing 2n expert to report upon the condition of alleged. defective work. When re- sponsibility has bé: fixed, no time or vigor should be spared in forcing the contractors or their. Editor] ./of the energy Wasted every day through lack of! wed of us who attempt to police ourselves properly, . |a lover in those days ‘deserved all he got when he WASTE John Doe, office man, sits at his desk. An idea {comes to him. ‘ “Now where in thunder is that note?” he ex-| claims as he searches drawer after drawer. - Multiply that by several thousand ‘and think system. HANDS FULL | Richard Washburn Child, soon to sail as Amer-| ican ambassador to Italy, says he believes less in preaching than in a good example. He adds that,| “If there is anything worse than saying ‘I am} not my brother’s keeper,’ it is saying, ‘I insist on{ being my brother's keeper’.” “Ohe thing to be said for that view is that most! without undertaking to regulate others, will have! our hands full.” = | 4 WELL EARNED! Henry Osborne, American authority on the] stone age, notes certain small stone figures made about 25,000! ‘tremely fat. | He figures this was because they jdidn’t venture out often, and ate a great deal of marrow-fat. . “ Phe men were thin from much exercise. If the common, idea of a cave-man’s wooing is’ correct, carried off a stunned bride who weighed 300! » AGE -” At 84, Col. Washington Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn bridge, has been elected president of a wire concern, succeeding his nephew, who died in middle age. ; “You can’t desert your responsibility,” says the colonel. “You can’t slink out of life or out of the work life lays on you.” It’s what every old man knows. Quit and you die. Keep wound up and you live longer. It was Cicero who said: “Keep thou thy mind at full stretch like a bow, and never give in to old age by growing slack.” : IRISH PEAT AND DAKOTA LIGNITE Findings of the Irish Peat. commission: should be of especial interest to North Dakotans. Treland ‘has more than 3,000,000 acres of peat bogs containing’ about three billion tons of dried peat. The-commission made a special study of the possibility of using these vast supplies of peat ifor industrial purposes. It found that the trans- portation of the peat was the most difficult prob- tem, because of is buikiness ‘and urged that the; peat be turned into electrical power and that the power be transported instead of the peat. Sounds like a report on conditions in. North Dakota, doesn’t it? High freight rates and the bulkiness of North Dakota lignite have made it diffictilt.to market at any great distance from the mines. The tend- ehcy to “sixck” has been another handciap. But) engineers who have studied the problem have seen no difficulties in the way of turning the lig- nite into power at the mines ‘and transporting the power. North Dakota has no water power worthy of the name. It has no““white coal” to develop, bu it has unlimited supplies of cheap fuel in its lignite beds and the sooner we make full use of it both for power and for fuel, the sooner will this. state cease to be a one-industry commonwealth. If Irish peat can be utilized for power plants;| surely North Dakota lignite ought to be much more valuable for ‘the same purpose. — Fargo Forum. : SPLIXTING INFINITIVES _ If there is criticism for nothing worse it will be well indeed, but language sharps are pointing out that the Harding administration is splitting its infinitives. ad ; Early ‘in the new regime President Harding, in a communication to the chairman of the shipping board, used’ the phrase “to inimediately advise.” one better by. proposing “to at once develop.” This use of verbal solecisms in high places will cause consternation in the ranks of the purists, run of folks who are quite unable to see any harm in this sundering of preposition and verb by the introduction of an adverb. There are worse faults. A man can split infini- tives regularly and still be a good husband and father, a good citizen, a church menaber even a good president or cabinet member. It is true that it is wrong, but it is a venial wrong. It is true, too, that a split infinitive usually entails a slight and almost imperceptible loss of ‘strength in expression, but it is also true that the reader knows what the writer means jist as well when the preposition is set apart as. when it is next to the verb. If the administration dees nothing worse than bondsmen to make good. ne ne ee |—Duluth Herald. split its infinitives it wifl Sacrifice very few votes. tg On ee : by a race of cave-men and left in their caves in| _ France. Years ago. How many years? Oh, The figures of women represent them as ex-| | sibility - of : TAKE’ SLUMP. Chicago, June 28.—Wheat prices de- clined .today, largely in response to talk: of possible strike trouble affect- ing railroads. Besides country sales; sence in southwest appeared to be heavy| Opening quotations varied! from unchanged ‘to 21-4 lower was} followed by a slump and then some-: what of a rise ‘ i July delivery fell: to $1.191-4 and: closed greatly unsettled all the way from $1.191-2 to $1:22. Unpromis- ing economic conditions including pos- railroad and elevator strikes. added considerably to the; weight of selling pressure and tended to curtail demand. ~ ie MINNEAOLIS FLOUR. Minneapolis, June 28.—-Flour un- changed. Shipments, 41,731 barrels Bran, $15. i4,° >i ary ST. PAUL LIVESTOCK. South. St, Paul, June 28.—Cattle re-! ceipts, 4,000. \Fixtremely ‘dull. Gen- erally steady to weak. Common to good beef steers,.$5-25 to.$8.° Butcher | . {|| ~ ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS By Olive Barton Roberts It was- surprising how Jauch rain those water Nancy and Nick turned the tap on the barrel marked “Warm Spring Rain” and held their watering -pots un- Sprinkle-Blow, GOING IT-T00 HARD? Overwork, worry, overeating and lack of exercise and sleep, are re- sponsible for much kidney . trouble. \If your back aches and the kidneys seem weak, rest up and use. Doan's Kidney Pills. ‘I te Chas L. Pearce, farmer, 320° 2nd St., Bismarck, sa}s: “I have used Doan’s Kidney Pills on different oc- casions when. suffering from .disor- dered kidneys and they have always done me good. I have followed. the stonemason’s trade and it is mighty (hard on the kidneys. For a time I | was so lame! could hardly stoop down to get a bucket of water. I knew my kidneys required attention _| 80 got a box of Doan’s Kidney Pills at Cowan’s Drug Store and used them until my trouble disappeared entirely. Whenever [ have needed Doan’s since, they have always brought the same good rasults. 1 have_frequently rec- ommended Doan’s Kidney. Pills.” Cle, at all deal Foster-Milburn * frs,, Buffalo, Y. —————— AT THE MOVIES | ‘/THE ELTINGE A story of gay New York Iffe that has a warm and true heart beating underneath, is perhaps unusual, . but it has been done especially well in “The Gilded Lily,” which is showing at the Eltinge, today and tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday., Those who | saw the picture yesterday-atd not hes-~ itate to say that it was unusually. good. Lillian Drake, a sensational dancer in a Broadway private club, 15 ~ tired of living a shallow life and-de- sires to marry and settle down. How, ‘she succeeds is material for one of the best pictures shown in this city for many weeks. There is ‘a surprising finish to the story which doubtless will occasion much ‘discussion. Much beauty is added to the picture by the use of a short prologue in-color. The costumes and settings ate beautiful and elaborate. In the cast are Mae Murray, Lowell Sherman’ (who is very likéable. as Creighton Howard), and | Jason Robards. The story is the best yet given to Miss Murray, and the pic- ture is by far her best. OR the same program:are the news pictures, Topics of thee Day from the Literary Digest and a natural history subject, “Feed- ing the Fish Haters,” showing the ever interesting séa lions and the fish leating African pelicans, ; | fam ‘DID YOU KNOW | |_ THAT — —+ There fs an average of 29.6 persons, for every square mile of land? Europe has more people per square mile than any other continent? (120). Aaja is second with 57.72 North America is third with 16.3? Africa is-fourth with 12.3? South America is fifth with 7.4? Australia is last with 49?) There are n_ inhabitants of the Polar regions? ing-pots held. SS ‘|. GOOD FOR WOMEN, TOO. Ben had found another way to get in.) Foley Cathartic Tablets have long It might be that he had burrowed | been a favorite physic with men. Wo- under the ground. imen suffer as much as men do from Well, Mr. Sprinkle-Blow. spied 4 indigestion and constipation, and they i "| $3 to $3.50. And now Secretary Hoover goes the president |. and great comfort in the ranks of the ordinary |. cows and heifers, mostly $3.25 to $5. Few good to choice pana up to $6|derneath the spout. and $6.60. Veal calves mostly 75 cents! the Weatherman, stood by and told lower. ‘Seconds $4.25. Stockers and| them when they had enough. Really feeders almost unsalcable. it was surprising how much tain those Hog receipts, 7,300. Strong. Most-| watering-pots held, but then it was ly 25 cents higher. Range, $7.25 to} magic rain so that made a difference. $8.25. Bulk, $7.50 to $8.00. Pigs, 25{ Then Sprinkle-Blow took a bag out cents higher.. Better grades, $8.75 of his magic umbrella and remarked Sheep receipts,.$4. Best lambs here, ; that they'd better be going. “Do'you $9. Good to choice ewes, quotable, | know just where Farmer Smith’s sass- | patch garden is?” he asked the twins. |“Up here on my star where I live f | get things mixed up, and I’m just o8 likely as not to make it rain on Far- mer Brown's field of winter wheat.” CHICAGO LIVESTOCK Chicago, June 27.—Cattle receipts, 20,000.. Dull. Bulk beef steers, $7.00 to $8.00. Be Hog receipts 50,000. Active, most- ly 10 to’15 cents lower. Sheep receipts 23,000. Practically on early sales. DULUTH TREND. Duluth, Juné 28.>Wheat prices ran off sharply today under selling in- spired.by lack of eastern inquiries and’ favorable crop reports on the whole. Low levels on the movemeht were set. shee the closa July wheat closed 11 cents off, at $1.23 asked. July flax closed 811-4 cents off, at $1.75. Rys closed 5 1-2 cents off at $1.14 1-2 cents helped Farmer Smith to patch a-hole in his fence. To tell the truth they had patched the. hole to keep Ben Bunny out; and how Ben knew so much. about the carrot seeds ‘n’ lettuce seeds ‘n’ all, he couldn't say, “unless. | for spot. Oats closed 13-4 cents off at 335-8 cents. Barley unchanged at 43 to 61 cents. No. 2 mixed and yel- low corn 21-2 cents off at 52 t-4 cent: for: spot. _ MINNEAPOLIS GRAIN. Minneapolis, June 28—Wheat re- {' , Y i WEN YoV'ce PROBABLY GET WHAT IT NAN WHEN T SAY THe PEOPLE IN THE CAR HAVE SEEN AND HEARD You PICKING SouUR TEETH eee Nick said he knew, for once he had] u: | No, Nice fleecy cloud coming along Just then, and as it was going in the very direction that Farmer Smith lived, he said, “one for the money,” and the rest of it, and they all jumped from the star together, and the fairy Weath- erman sailed down safely as usual un- der his open umbrejla, with Nancy and! Nick after him in their Magic Green Shoes. They landed right in the mid- dle of the cloud and peeped down’ through a hole. “There’s the place, right there,” cried Nick, pointing down. \‘Farmer Smith’s. garden is right underneath ‘$prinkle-Blow lowered his bag for catching breezes, and told the twins to turn onthe rain. (To Be Continued.) (Copyright 1921, by Newspaper Enter- “ ~ prise.) \ RR ceipts, 131 cars, compared with 131, the same, cars a year ago. Cash No. 1 northern, $1.29 1-2 to $1.39 1-2; July, $1.19 1-2; September, $1.20 1-2. Corn No. 3 yellqw, 45 to 46 cents. \ “ Oats: No, 3 white, 315-8 to 323-8 cents. ._ Barley, 44 to 60 cents. Rye No._2, $1.09 to $1.11. Flax No, 1, $1.69 to $1.71. ~ - BISMARTSK GRAIN - (Furnished by Russell-Miller, Co.) Bismarck, June 28. \ . 1 dark northern .. eee $1,32 . 1 amber durum 1,03 . 1 mixed durum 8 No, 1 red durum No, 1 flax No, 2 flax No, 2 rye A. O. U. W. Lodge is having a Roof Garden dance tonight. NOTICE City drinking water should be boiled until: further notice. Signed’ C. E. Stackhouse, Health Officer, No. No. 1.49 144 92 jalso require a scientific remedy io | keep the stomach sweet, the liver ac- tive and the bowels regular. Mrs. Geo. Powers, 84 Winthrop Ave., Revere, Mass., writes: “I have taken Foley Ca- thartic Tablets and I recommend them |to everyone.” They banish bilious- ness, headache, bloating. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY ESTRAYED—From my place, four miles southeast of McKenzie, N. D., one sorrel mare, white face, white legs, weight 1,300 pounds, four years old. One bay mare branded, weight 1,000 pounds, nine years old. .One bay gelding, one year otd. If taken up notify L. H. Heaton, Jr. McKen- zie, N. D. 6-28-1w WANTED—Experienced stenographer. Apply Lahr Motor Sales, 6-28-t¢ COOK AND WAITER wanted at cit ford’s Cafe. 6-28-lwk WANT TO RENT 5 or 6 room mod- ern house. Phone 430-R. 6-28-2t WANT TO BUY 5 room modern house. Phone 430-R. 6-28-2t KENTUCKY GIRL WRITES LETTER | Sannyside, Ky.— | than two years with my, back i \ | i i Enjoy a cool evening dancing | good. ‘on the Roof Garden. All’ A. O. U. W. Ledge members: and friends should go tonight. | sate kaa Roof Garden Dance tonight given by the A. 0. U. W. Lodge. (0OS———————————————_, Lift Right Off without Pain Magic! Drop a little “Freezone” on ah aching corn, instantly that corn stops hurting, then shortly you lift it right off with fingers. Doesn’t hurt a bit. ~*~ Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of “Freezone” for a few cents, sufficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and cal- tuses. a i } j | aheavy in | and every mother sach as cramps, back- | manifestati ' aches, i and Mrs. “Hendrick did for her Write Lydia E. Pinkham Medici Lynn, Mass. ‘about your aa: i | KODAK WORK: | AMATEUR \ i] Reasonable Charges — We are || known everywhere, for the ex, \} work we do. 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