The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 14, 1921, Page 4

PAGE ROT’ A THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE : THE BISMARCK TRIB Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, wl. D., Class Matter. as Second ; 2 . - Editor GEORGE. D. MANN G. LOGAN PAYNE, COMPANY. CHICAGO DETROIT Marauett+ il a eG AND suiTh Bldg. b ala aaa Fifth Ave. Bldg. NEw YORE: ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the uss ft erellited in this paper. and herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are! also reserved. — MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year........ + $7.20 Sons ; Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) . es DYING POOR | Daily B ra Oe aL Netty Delete eamerek-** G00/ ‘The late Franklin D. Lane, who was secretary, THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. _|°! the interior in the Wilson cabinet, left an estate: (Established 1873) jworth $10,000. E> CHILDREN OF CHANCE Eat enough peaches and you will live forever. Growner's of Fresno. Many years ago, a Chinese maiden—believing | in this superstition—gave her sailor sweetheart ‘a peach seed, to carry for luck. At the end of his voyage, in America, he lost From it sprouted the first peach tree the seed. in the United States. suit from one continent to another. Great ¢rops, great wealth, may spring from single seed—if chance is on its side. © ‘ A Frenchman, Louis Pellier, in 1856 brought to America its first prune tree. His sole purpose was to have.near his new home, at San Jose, Cal., the tree he had always loved. That one tree start- ed a giant industry. The first peanuts were brought to our country by African salves, landed in Virginia. A few were not eaten. - They dropped to the ground, sprouted.and, advertised by old Tom Rowland 60 " years ago, originated a big industry of which Nor- folk is the leading market. The date-palms of Mekran, Persia, sprang up from date-ééeds dropped by the soldiers. of Alex- ander the Great on their way home from India. It was in’similar ways that the cherry spread over the world from its original home in Asia; and the apple, pear and plum from Armenia. Years ago, a Canadian mailed to.a friend abroad a bird-skin stuffed with the seed-down. of .the.Ca-|: nadian thistle. Some of the seed got out, sprouted, spread like wild-fire—and today the Canadian thistle is a pest in’many parts of Europe. ‘ About 1870, some thoughtless ., individual brought two carp from Germany and turned them loose in a tributary of the Mississippi. Those two carp were the ancestors of every carp in American waters today. Two English sparrows, brought to our country as pets years ago, were the grandparents of the sparrows that fly around your house today. The rabbit pest in Australia started the same way. There are thousands of other -instances. Are they creatures of chance? Or is there, behind them, some great and metho- dical process of nature which uses man and his thoughtlessness, as an instrument for spreading vegetable and animal life throughout the world? THE NEW GUN A small-scale model of a new gun has been tested in New York which is so revolutionary in| conception that its possibilities as an instrument of warfare stagger the imagination. Its inventor! claims for it that it will shoot a.five-ton shell from 200 to 300 miles. ‘Its muzzle velocity is from one}. to five miles a second. It is smokeless, practically noiseless and there is no recoil from the discharge. Artillery experts who witnessed the test and list- ened to the inventor’s explanation of the principles involved were not only amazed but convinced. A German has invented a helicopter which, ac- cording to experts who have studied it and watch- ed it perform, will revolutionize aviation: It de- velops a speed of over 300 miles an hour, can as- cend and descend vertically, can remain stationary in the air and cannot fall. The news which trickles through from time to time about what the chemistry experts are doing in the development of lethal gases makes the flesh fairly creep. If we give our imaginations a little play and consider what the character of the next war will be we will probably come to the conclusion that unless the world’s statesmen are plumb crazy they will find a way to make another war impossible. RELATIVITY The Princess Fatima of Afghanistan is visiting America and-there is much talk in New York of the manner in which the princess has tortured herself for beauty’s sake. For into the right side its true light is deserving of mention in this day, | of her nose the princess has inserted. a study of black jade set in gold. Barbaric fashion? But what of girls who for beauty’s sake permit themselves to suffer the tor- RIBUN E. ture of an electric needle that plucks their eye-| blication of all redited to it or not otherwise; Hed in thie. paper and ‘Sls0 the local news published; That shows you what cnance wiii do—move a} Keep it in! , next time you are on a picnic and throw an appleaex. ‘pea’ core or a plum seed by the wayside, | brows hair by hair. The fashions of the studded | -brow are relatively the jnose and the plucked eye: same, SPEED | Forty-one-divorces were granted in New York \the other day, at the rate of four an hour. The; applicants filled out standardized questionnaires and each case was disposed of with machine-like precision. land simplified by the new method. | speed. Quick marriages. Quick divorces. ‘devil’s in a hurry. } legacy of good service rendered. ito say this of him: HE DIED POOR! GUN-TOTING | Edwin H. Morrow. |g kill someone is much cheaper for all concerned ider. | Governor Morrow’s crusade for disarmament in Kentucky should be studied by the more back- ward communities, like New York and Chicago. JOBS A preliminary survey by the Reorganization 740,000 persons on Uncle Sam’s payrolls! This includes the 300,000 in the postal service ; the army and navy, 245,000; and the employes and agents of the diplomatic, consular, customs, revenue and other services scattered throughout the world. In the District of Columbia the government 452. won f Still heavier. cuts are expected in many’ lines ization Manager Brown get down to brass tacks. than of economy. is expecting the worst! ‘he European cabinet motto seems to be “When lin doubt, resign.” A business kept up by floating debts soon sinks from under currency. egy The ttamp-army is conducting a few bumming experiments of its own. A Chicago judge held a bathing beauty for fur- ther examination. Justice is not blind. Real Prosperity: When a silk shirt sale at- tracts less attention than an overall sale. \ EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column or : not: express the opinion of The Tribune. They ere ed here in order that our readers may have of important issues which are being dis- ent th sides seed in the press of the day. cur COMMON SENSE IN A SMALL TOWN Dunbar, Pa., is not a large city. Its population is only about seven thousand. Nevertheless, spirit. It is the one place in America whose citi- zens share the ups and downs of life together for ithe betterment of all. a | Dunbar has, of course, been, hit by the business | depression, The manganese industry, which fur- jfor some time been computing its monthly bal- ‘ances in red ink. It was decided, therefore, to {close down the furnaces and plants on July first. But the community saw disaster in this move. 'So the employees got together and talked things lover. They decided to go to the employers and | offer to stand a forty rer cent wage reudction, so {that the plants might continue to operate. “We \believe it is ‘better to work for less pay than not {to receive any at all,” read their petition. | That started things going. Before sundown the whole community, high and low, employer and jemployee, had started on a new ledger page an jturn they cut rents on the houses they let to em- ployees forty per cent. The stores of Dunbar did |\their share by agreeing to reduce prices on all necessities. They realized that their prosperity |was dependent on that of their customers. Thus ‘did the Dunbar employees’ petition become a com- /munity affair. | That Dunbar has seen the age-old question in | when men.in other communities fool. themselves linto believing that the world can move forward ;with labor and capital at enmity. — Minneapolis Journal. The business of home-wrecking is modernized) It has the) The; It’s very well to say that he died rich in the; esteem of his fellow-citizens and rich in the But the best tribute that can be paid to a pub- This is an ancient Chinese superstition, now given|lic servant, who, like Lane, had in his keeping the wide publicity by the California Peach and Fig} fabulous undeveloped resources of the nation, is Gun-toting has been made an unpardonable of- ifense in Kentucky. Never will a gun-toter sen- tenced to prison be pardoned by him, says Gov. | The gun-toter is the potential man-killer. To} ive him a good lesson before he has a chance to than a good lesson after he has committed. mur- {Commission shows that there are approximately ; payroll has been cut from 117,760 in 1918 to 85- when Budget Commissioner Dawes and Reorgan- | Congress, always more mindful of patronage| ||. DRUGGISTS A ‘{| whose aim is to popu! what Dunbar lacks in numbers it makes up inj |nishes employment to most of the population, has} “Bette igh,” ‘suggested Sp ost | Chicken eV ‘than He’ ‘does eggs.” take ‘café’ thw for a | spell,” said “Sprinkle-Blow ‘to Nancy and Nick, “‘s0 we may as well be gett- ing down to rth again. As I told you before, tha@gonly way in which I what people.want and see ‘what ; to do. Let's be. go- | jis to: sta: they're pli whe -shid, YOnegfor the money: ‘and two for the show,” and all ‘the lrest of it, and they all gave a big jump and. came landing down right beside Farmer Smith’s .chicken-ccop where ‘Biddy Bantam’ was scratch- ing for grubs and shiny black beetles. (Biddy hadn't started to raise a fami- ly yet, but she was, going to soon, the weather was so fine. She had found a lovely place in the hay stack nobody knew about and already had 10 eggs in it. When she had four more she was going to cluck, She swelled with pride when she thought America has a Metric ‘Association larize, the metric system and England has a Decimal Association whose object is to push the adoption of the metric system and also a decimal system of coinage. Great Britain and the United States are the only highly, civilized nations that have not adopted the metric sys- tem though it is much used by scien- ‘tists in both countries. _ America's ;metric association though only a few lyears old has accomplished a good deal iwith its propaganda. Manufacturers of many classes of commodities are imarking their packages with metric weights as well as in pounds or | ounces. | The whole movement gained momen- ‘tum because of the war, for a num- ‘her of reasons. We have learned that lif our export trade to South America jis to be increased we must use the jmetric system. Soldiers and other iwar\ workers who spent,some time in |France have ‘grown fafniliar enough {with it to know that it is easy to uge. | Pharmacists will welcome. the day when it is put into general use and many pharmacists are active in their advocacy. It would simplify their la- bors materially. A few manufacturing druggists market their products in metric quantities but. for the most part a pharmacist ‘buys by avoirdunois | weight, 16 ounces to the poun?, 437.5) grains to the ounce. Many doctors still write prescriptions in ap lace enOkS a othecaries’ quantities and — this | account of happiness and prosperity. cleans’ mére complications, for on | The employers acceptcd the men’s terms. In!apothecaries fluid ounce. is still an- other thnig. It is not‘always neces- sary to take into account the weight of If it is water it means 454.6 grains but | it may mean more or less depending on the specific. gravity of the particular liquid. In a prescription a druggist measures the liquids but their cost | must frequently be calculated in terms of weight. Then each sort of ounce is subdivided several times and in no case by ten but always by some figure that does not lend itself'to mental cal- culations. Occasionally he may have to use an English formula and this in= volves étill another measure known as Imperial. The United States Pharma- copoeia and the National Formulary which are official standards use the “\ Umetric system exclustyely so altogetti a fluid ounce but now and then it is. | | ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS | By Olive Barton Roberts : rinkle Blow. “l think that things in the sky will) of the 14 little fluffy p! ayiree Preset ‘| soon’ “be “mothering, harder than ever. keep in practice with the prospect of such a large family to feed. “Clk, clk, clk, clk,” she “Won't Farmer Smith. be surprised. | Mayland, Devils Lake; Ge But I’m worried ‘for fear somethin, may. happen to my nest. im warm row, open.” winter.’ Spfinkle(Blow. terprise) ND THE METRIC SYSTEM er he must be distinct, systems, four of which yyy — in the plum, tree and keep one-eye “How can you sleep and eye open?” asked Nancy. “Oh, so you heard what I said?’4 at remarked Biddy turning around. *“L didn’t know anybody was’ near. I have to watch, for Fleet Fox is as hungry as a bear after such a cold “Better roost chicken better than he. does eggs.” (Copyright 1921 by Newspaper En- cA Fal , Ho | | iz should be convincing proof of the ad- vantage of the metric system. ~ —$—$—$ $ 4 INCORPORATIONS | A’ | © Articles of incorporation filed with ‘the Secretary of State include: Lake Region Oil Co., Devils Laka,; capital stock, $200,000; incorporators Ole Walhood, Pekin; Adolph Straub, ,Cane; C. M. Zieback, Devils Lake. Park Trading Company, Medora; capital stock, $10,000; incorporators, N. D. Nichols, F. J. Gilham, ‘W. J. Ray, all of Medora. Three Forks C Almont, 3 oil qompany; , capital $ 0; incorporators, ‘N. E. Beck- lund, E, W. Hyde, G. H. Anderson, E. E. Templeton, O, A. Young. ‘Brinsmade-Minnewaukan Rural Telephone: Co., capital stock, $7,500; incorporaters, N. Pierson, Hans »,|'Haneon, Martin Hopstrand, . Walter Huffman, Noah Gerig. ‘Northwestern Land and Loan Co., Devils Lake; incorporators, M. Sig- bert. Awes, Minneapolis; Edwin May- ee | land, Devils Lake G.. H. Huth, jeeps she would | Montevidio; A. S.A , Westly: and: ‘seratchet*) Geo: S, » Awes; It was well:to | stock, $50,000. “ 0 Awes-Maryland Co., realty, secur- ities; Devils Lake, inaorporators, M. apolis; Edwin 0. S, Awes, Minneapolis. . ‘ + Morton stock, “Fleety might ‘like clucked. | Sigbert | Awes, ‘Minn Since’it ia: I think I'l sleep up Kt —— |.Did You Know: That | , 0 Noy | ket sai There were 56 signers of the Declar- ion of Independence? Twenty-six were lawyers? Eight were merchants? Six were physicians? Six were farmers? Two were soldiers? Two were statesmen? One was a sailor? One wag a planter? One was a printer? One was a surveyor? One was a shoemaker? One was a minister? The oldest signer was Benjamin Franklin, printer, aged 70? >) ‘The youngest signer was Edward £ five] Rutledge, lawyer, aged 26? uses ‘The last survivor ameng the signers Yés, high” ~ suggested “@leety - might . like familiar with many times évery day. The simplicity } Charles Carroll, died Nov. 14, 1832. of our decimay system of coinage | aged 95? EVERETT TRUE ISAY, CHESTER, E LITTLE FRENCH IN TAS LETTER to Jones! % UNDERSTAND: You TALC. Freenct, | BY CONDO t WANT to SeRING A To TELL HIM TO “NEVER” WALK THROUGH THE WOOPS WHERE’ THE SQUIRRELS CAN SEE HIMI® How Do You Say THAT & THATS “TALK wey, LET'S: SGE — OH,—An— S@QuiRRer — Buirrec — HM — WOODS — Woovs — wooDs — ER~ SR-- To WACK — CR- crR— ER- PROMENADE ----— ENOUGH Hf DON'T LET ON AROUND HERS ANY MORE THAT You CAN FRENCH! fe Minneapolis,.. capital | ‘Vabgorber.:. Rations lure relations, specialist, All favor disalarmament, Swat the “I ee As ye brew so shall ye drink. Congress is down to brass tax. It's from hot wave to wild wave. Speeding autos cast thelr shadows behind. Revised: There are always rooms at top prices, 4 You can't convince a lawyer thot talk is cheap, The ‘old gray outlook ain't what she used to be. There are less preferred than de- ferred creditors. Short dresses are disclosing’ more family skeletons. If all fish tales were true, the ocean would drop 10 feet. It seems likely the ‘ire” will be. taken out of Ireland. : ‘ If a golfer really wants exercise, why not act as caddy? Egotist: Any, person with more troubles than yourself. Insomnia. never . troubles: anyone when it’s time to get up. These are the days when the poor freezing, Eskimos gets little pity. Necessity may be the mother of in- vention, but laziness is its father. The scientist who says cigar ashes prolong the life of. rugs !s married. Days are getting shorter; with the exception of the one before payday. A renter will. .agree with you that home is the dearest place on: earth. Lots of self-made men keep quiet about it because they did a bad job. ‘| Some people's idea of prosperity is when every one gets t0o rich to work. + Many fish would starve !f it. wasn't for the man who tries to catch them. Perhaps stockings have something to do with the high price of tennis nets. , ; oon “the wool crop may be short, but, these days there ure plenty of wool-~ gatherers. The man who gays .gtyles a ing is always willing to ‘be a hock- iock ’ ; The midnight ofldoesn’t make as. many successes as the midnight gas make failures. One way for Congress to economize would be to slow down running ex penses to a walk. Some people can’t see why.a man insists on sticking to his coat—when that’s what he does. Congress. naturally likes to see air- planes: sink warships—being a branch of the air service itself. : It's hard to make an old maid be- lieve there are 2,000,000 more men than;women in America. ‘That’ Vienna professor ‘transplant- ing éyes may make it possible for a* husband to see his wife's side. Some people seem to think that tak- ing Germany into the league would be carrying reparations too far. When some girls answer the door bell you can’t tell whether they've been baking or are going to town. ‘The tariff. makers probably’ called’ some of them infant industries be- cause they are in their second child-: ood. : | Another thing that Congress might probe ig that the hotter it gets, the j easier it is for flies to get off the fly | paper. The Chicago professor trying to prove Einstein's theory should try a hand at the relativity of ‘railroad rates and business depressign. Africa has a drink that makes them walk backwards. Perhaps it would make some Bismarck men take a step forward. An ancient knight's suit of armor welghed 40 pounds; but a modern suit for a night's armouys bears more heavily on the pocketbook. (Warra yoe BOOKLET On MOTHERHOOD ano tee BAST. rece SRADPIELD REGULATOR Cov, DEFT.'B-D. ATLANTA. GA ee mr