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

THEBISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered “at thé Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second - Class Matter, GEORGE D. MANN - - z - Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY . DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW: YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication’ of all news ‘credited to it or not otherwise Editor CHICAGO credited in this paper and also the local news. published | herein. at N f ‘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. 1 $7. Daily by mail; per year-(in Bismarck)..... Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota....\....++++ THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established. 1873) E> A GOOD SIGN | We like the sign the Business Men’s Club of London, Ohio, has hung up in that ctiy’s streets: “Drive slow and see our city! “Drive fast and ‘see our jail!” Purists may object to the use of the adjective | “slow” in place of the adverb “slowly.” But it is reported from London that all visiting motorists understand its meaning, despite the grammar. FUEL SHORTAGE Judging from the figures for soft coal produc- tion, a business revival this fall will be followed by a fuel shortage during the winter. During the firts six months of the year only 196,000;00 tons of soft coal were mined. This means less than 400,000,000 tons for the year. The last year that the country required less than 400,000,000 tons| was 1909. %- CREDITS Long time credits and rock bottom prices seem to be what are required if the United States is to compéte successfully for foreign business. China has just placed an order for 300 freight cars in Belgium and 35 locomotives, in England. American firms were underbid about 30 per cent and their credit proposals were equally to their disadvantage. All things being equal the Chinese would pre- fer to trade with us but prices and ‘credit terms are what-talk. GOOD NEWS Secretary Mellen of the treasury has given defi- nite assurances to the Senate Finance Committee that the administration has no intention of rec- ommending the cancellation of foreign loans. He disclosed that the very interesting suggestion that the debts ‘of the allies to each other be wiped out, has been made to the United States twice by the British government. , The British remind us‘of:the man who said that he just misséd owning the New York Central Rail- road. “How it that?” asked his friend. “I asked Mr. Vanderbilt if he would give it to me. He said he wouldn’t. If he had said yes, I would own it.” WELFARE DEPARTMENT Postmaster General Hays has organized his welfare department for postal employes and a big insurance executive from New York has taken the job of running it’ without pay. There are 300,000 employes in the department and it is no reflection on other government em- ployes to say that taken as a whole they are the hardest worked and most: loyal men and women in Uncle i ae service. They have never received the consideration that they have deserved either in wages or working conditions. x It speaks well for the intelligence and ‘fairness of the neW postmaster general that he not only’ appreciates their situation, but that he is trans- 20' Yet despite their handicaps, they. achieved suc- leg has been amputated and soon -he must lose the other. _ " Harry Christy has lost most of his natural | wealth—health and a sound body. Yet he is one of the most capable business men lin Newark, N. J. From his invalid's chair he’ | manages a large haberdashery business' which he ‘has built up since physical misfortune overtook |him. A | Compared with blind Frank Parkinson and | paralyzed Harry Christy, your lot in life is a very) | easy one. | Both of them were financially poor when health, | |their real wealth, became impaired. i icess to a satisfactory degree. pte. And you still have health—your real wealth. | Why be discouraged? | i { WHERE YOU'D BE COOL- | cool. Captain Bernard started his previous voyage into the Far North in August, 1916. A year later, his ship was north of Hudson Bay, open channel through the Arctic islands out into; The wall of ice on each side closed in. The open | sea was close at hand. If Bernard had started | his voyage two hours sooner, he’d have made the! caught his ship and held it fast. tact with the outside world,” says Bernard. |, British and Germang in the North Sea. | “When we finally got out of the ice, we heard ing to know that the United States had entered| the conflict.” The Arctic ocean peoples are being wiped out| iby disease and contact with civilization, Captain | Bernard reports. f | Far North islands, which early explorers found; thickly populated, are now sparsely settled. The natives are crazy about the rifles brought | in by traders and are shooting themselves out of} game for food and clothing. If such reckless practices keep up, says Captain | Bernard, the Canadian government within. 10) years may have to feed and ‘clothe the northern | natives to prevent their extinction. | That would end one of the most daring racial | movements of history, for scientists believe that the Arctic ocean natives are descended from’ Rus-| sia: Tartars who fled in skin-canoes from fierce. |Chinese armies. | | i Your ancient ancestral tribes used to go north in summer and toward the equator in winter, fol- lowing the seasons. | That’s why you yearn for the north now—why | you ‘envy Captain Bernard and his crew of scien-! | tist-adventurers. i It seems that the more we develop transporta-| ition, the more inclined we are to stay in one lo- | cality and send out roots. | Will the flying machine end that? A few hur |dred years from now, will the city worker com-; ‘mute through the air to a summer home in north-; ern-Canada and a winter home near the equator ? | { t i t i i \ EDITORIAL REVIEW | Bass, too. ai . 1 . : Lucky, compared with you who are sweltering| Marty Mink, he'd climb into the wil- in the summer heat, is Captain Joseph F. Bernard,’ the water over Blackie's head. He,| “And then I'll have a fishing par explorer-scientist. Ice-trapped three years on the|.too, was puzzled, for, like Marty, he P PP’ ¥ | found it impossible to make out wheth-} moon so Mr. Bass-Fish can’t see m2, white fringe of the North Polar world, he found | or the long dark object was a shadow, life there so attractive that he’s sailed again from | a stone, or the fish’ he coveted. Seattle for a cruise in the ocean north of Siberia. | 004 fii since winter and corn was just How would you like to make the_trip with him? ;being planted. He did love fish, es-| Blackie was thinking, “Now I’ve gone| sion $8,250,000? Wouldn’t it beat staying in Bismarck: the next Pecially bass, and he made up ils) and done it few months, swatting flies and trying to keep | so he watched and watched, same as Marty did, only he'watched moonlight} out.” + nights, while Marty watched in the daytime. | ! | | although he chuckled quite solemnly. i ! the long dark object was a fi wae . A cause: once when he was cruising cautiously eastward, groping to find an’ piackie forgot and made a grab 10") the Atlantic ocean. ‘De Duck” Got All The Money From open. But he was two hours behind, and the ice | 14,0 tried-today to explain to a local banker the necessity of a loan to tide “Tt wasn’t pleasant to be cut off from all con-| him over a lean period. “When we left Nome in 1916, the last war NEWS | you have just shipped your corn. What] than I am if you can find anything we heard was about a naval battle between the | did you do with the money?” ‘ j: .) shipped the car to market and sold that the war was over. It was especially amaz: |iu for 52 cents. ‘They de duck treight |, PEOPLE'S FORUM | ‘ Bismarck, N. D. Eavor Zhe Tribune: Dear Sir: As a citizen and a tax- payer’ I wish to express my thanks for: the forcible and good-tempered articles on local taxation that you are publishing trom day to day. You are doing a great work ‘n educating the public, a work that should bear fruit in the bond issue election of July 26. Again expressing my thanks and ap- preciation, I am Yours with best wisies. —A.TAXPAYER. ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS . : By Olive Barton Roberts i See America ‘thirst! Japan just wants to talk our arms | off first. f DID YOU KNOW-THAT | Taxation: seems to: be alt ten points of the law, it is now o weil-established fret that girls have_knees. The area of the original 13 states was 892,135 square miles? The Louisiana purchase (1803) add- ed 827,987 square miles? _ The Louisiana purchase cost $15,- 440,000? } Treaty with Spain (1819) addec 13,- 435 square miles? Acquisition of Florida (1819) added 58,666 square miles? Florida cost $5,000,000? Acquisition of Texas (1845) added 89,166 square miles? : Acquisition of Oregon (1846) added 286,541 square miles? Mexican cession (1848) added 529,189 square miles? United States paid for Mexican ces- Reformers ‘d the world good-f elidve In makinss nothing. Maybe Burbank could orange and the shamrock. ss the Cob Coon used to watch Blackie Having better eyes than Too. maby hobby-horse; fed from the U. S. treasu You can't convince: 2 farmer: laws are made for the good of the coun- ry. are beliiz low over the pool and peer down into I'll ask Sprinkle-Blow to blow out t then I’ll dive under him and the rest will be easy. I think I’ll have a pariy touignt ana ask in my relations. But Blackie Bass was thinking, too. Cob was hungry.; He hadn't had a Some people’ want an ‘economical government; others hold political jobs. 1 shouldn't have grabbed!” Gad chi 1853) added 29,- that anbke-feoder. Marty Mink knoWi | Gimeno e all about me: and I'll have to look}” Gadsden purchase Acquisition of Al 590,884 square miles? A fool and his money are not p any quicker than a fool and his wife $10,000,000? (1867) added ; : Man may return to dust—but his wiggled his tail. he sun had gone Alaska cost $7,200,000? wife knows he never does it around down and the moon had come up and! Acquisition of Hawaiian Islands| the house. Cob Coon was watching. uc| (1898) added 6,449 square miles? (aekteon he whispered softly, “I]"" Acquisition of Porto Rico (1898) . i a 5 9 (Copyright 1921: by Newspaper Enter- aaron ee prise.) square miles. Acquisition™~of Philippine” Islan 1s (1898) added 114,958 square miles? Acquisition of additional Philippine Islands (1901) added 65 square miles’ Acquisition of Samoa (1899) added 77 square mile: While he was thinking he forgot and Blackie saw them*both and chuckled, Africa will soon be in tune with the rest of the world. . Player-pianos are being sold there. it was Marty who discovered that » be- tching, added 2% The silver lining in today’s clouds something. Farmer’s Load Of Corn, He Tells Banker: Some of the biggest fish are still in the sea; but others are spending their vacations elsewhere, that left 31 cents; de duck 1 cent com: mission, that lett 30 cents; de duck elevator charges, that leaves 27 cents; de duck husking, that left 15 cents; de duck hauling, that leave 5 cents; de “I don’t understand,” saidthe banker, | duck the hired man’s wages from that, “why'you should want to borrow when| and you are a darn sight better farmer —— Dr. Wovschin says the Russian na- LIF YOU,ARE WELL BRED. tional disease is low transportation facilities. Ours is just the opposite. BAKED BEANS ‘Have you ever tried baking beans in the furnace in winter, Usually just inside the door of the furnace, there is a small shelf. After the beans have been given a good start in the stove they can be put on that shelf and finished, with the saving of consider- able on the gas bill. Dubuque, Iowa, July 23.—A farmer You will always offer your hand to the person whom you meet’ for the first time in your own home. While acting as hostess. you will rise for intnoductions to either men ov women. You will never conduct a woman about a room to introduce her unless the people to whom she is to be pres- ented are very distinguished, lett.” “De duck got it.” replied the farmer. “What do you mean by ‘de duck?” “Well,” explainen’ the farmer, “I FURNITURE A brush dipped in hot water is the best thing with which to clean bam- boo furniture. rst Real Action to » Prevent Future Wars ‘ The discouragement and pessimism of people the world over who thought all the bloodshed and suffering of the black years of war had brought nothing but heartache and taxes, seemed to turn again into hope a few days ago when President Harding sent out a call to the Great Powers for a dis- armament conference, and they all agreed to come. Nation seemed to call to nation in’ the-cable dis- patches from London, Paris,,Rome, Tokyo, and Berlin, telling of cheering parliaments and‘ approving~ statesmen and leaders of opinion in the press-rising to a world-circling chorus. “A start has actually been made” toward disarmament, and, the New York World notes; “the richest and most: powerful of all countries has taken the first step. * * * Pecples staggering under an unbearable burden of’ taxation are not likely to support governmental quibblirig and halting” now that the start has been made. “We are ready to discuss’with American statesmen any proposal for the limitation of arma- ments which they wish to set out, and we can undertake that no such overtures will find lack of will- ingness on our part to meet them,” declared Prime Minister Llcyd George. In Japan, former Minister of Justice Ozaki, touring the country for disarmament, declared on July. 4th that such a conference as President Harding has now’ called “‘surely be the beginning of a solution of all the diplomatic. ques- tions between Japan and the United States.” : While there aré some skeptical voices raiséd jn various quarters, there is no doubt that there is a real world demand for the limitation if not the entire scrapping of present day navies. THE LIT- ERARY. DIGEST, in this week’s itumber, dated July 23d, presents public opinion upon this question as reflected in the pres8‘of' the leading ations.» > | ee Other striking news articles-in-this number of THE DIGEST are: aie setae may not be very large, but it’s worth, lating this appreciation into terms of' practical | relief. : I The welfare department may be a small begin- | Presented here in order that our. readers ning but it is in such contrast to the government’s|| both siden xy ampere tne day. Ce eo or previous attitude of demanding everything and|———— >| giving nothing that it deserves the commendation | IN IDYLLIC KANSAS | of the public. | Senator Capper of Kansas was 56 years old on} —— |July 14, and thousands of children in Topeka-cele- | YOUR REAL’ WEALTH \brated his birthday ‘at his expense. He has given} A sound body and good health: that is your real) these parties for several years. There are games; wealth. : is jfor the boys and girls and ice cream without stint} No one can steal it. Barring accidents or un-|—trained nurses always being thoughtfully pro- | usually bad luck, it cannot be destroyed except by} vided to deal with emergency cases—flowers from | your own negligence. \the gardens and fields and, of course, many, many} Health is what really counts. Moncey is only | flowers of rhetoric. The Senator’s own newspa-: surface-wealth. With good health back of you, | per, The Daily Capital, which bears his name at you can somehow manage to get by financially. _| the head of its editorial page, took crafty advant- ; lage of his being absorbed-in work for the public; Eleven years.ago this month, Frank Parkinson,| welfare at Washington to explain that “contri- student at: the Mountain School of Mines, was|buting to the pleasure of children is the most blinded by an explosion|: _ |prominent: fad of Arthur Capper’s life.” That destroyed part of his real wealth—a sound|* Shall the cynic sneer at this? He will not if he body. iknows his Kansas. It is a State where emotions With-$100, his total’savings, he opened a candy are spontaneous and not at all complex, and where store in Vancouver. Despite his handicap, he/ the yield of poetry, and sentiment per acre Is al- forged ahead, accumulating money. : {most as great as that of wheat. From a thousand Now he‘owns an inter-city auto bus line, operat-|main traveled roads in Kansas, and from ten ing out ‘of Camas, Wash., and has been offered! thousand flivvers oe farmers,:a chorus of ac- $40,000 for the business. \claim goes up for: e public man who is good to his old mother: and !does: not forget the little ones! Comments reproduced ‘tn’ thts’ coltimin may oF may’ not express the opinion of The Tribune. (oo | Harry Christy, professional athlete, strained | {et hardened politicians try to learn something) — ‘from that happy region where kind hearts are’ and simple faith than ab-| the: elections. — New York, his back in‘a‘gytihasium. Paralysis set in. He can move:nothing but his right hand and his|raore than primaries eyes. He’s been sitting in-one position, strapped normal majorities on in a harness in the same chair, for six years. One) Times. sanetl sg \ Canada’s Marvelous: Half Century (Graphically Illustrated) : Ireland’s Better Day , The High Cosi of Living Acquittals That Convict Germany Uncle Sam to Coax a Billion from the People’s Stockings ~ The Greco-Turk Tangle Involving the Entente ; Coquettish Argentina Real Estate Booms in New Europe The Good and Bad iri. Us . Modern'Cave Dwellers : Dante Dead'Six Hundred Years Are We Ruled by Ugliness? America the Most Religious Country ’ on Earth: Appalling Rate of Child Suicide Religion in Southern. Schools Russia Begs: Atterican Capital’ to “Conie, Over and‘ Help Us” Where the Jitney Scoots: Through Awarding Territory by Geology the Jungle Motorless Germans Return to-Air- ‘Best of the Current Poetry Gliding’ Topics of the Day ' Exploring Forests by Seaplane “Reviews of the New Books Many Interestirg Illustrations Including the Best, of the Cartoons. ‘July, 23d Nuraber on Sale Today News-dealers 10 Cents—$4.00 a Year.