The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 2, 1921, Page 2

PAGE TWO | THEBISMARCK TRIBUNE GSR eee eee a se paar Entered .at..the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., a8 Second| Class Matter. Editor GEORGE D. MANN , Foreign Repro aer NY x G. LOGAN PAYN! DETROIT | tte Bid, Kresge Bldg. | aie PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH i NEV, YOR: K Fifth Ave, Bldg. Soe es ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use| for publication of all news credited to it or. not otherwise! credited in this paper and also the local news published | herein. ‘All-rights of publication of special dispatches herein are | also reserved, i icici OOP ea Pan En See a MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANGE CHICAGO, Daily by carrier, per year.......-- eee 0 087.20! Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). - tL 720} Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck). « 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.. eecevce 6,00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) faa WHERE THERE’S A WILL THERE’S A WAY Bismarck can have a modern piece of fire fight- ing apparatus without increasing the tax load. This fact has developed more emphatically since the bond election and the position taken by the; — opponents of the bond issue is being strengthened daily. When the bond issue was first opposed it was argued an inexpensive truck could be purchased through the practice of thrift and economy in the management of the city. It was not made public at that time that the city levied for a fire truck in 1919 and the taxpayers paid into the city treas- ury at that time $4,000. In addition to this, is almost $2,000 paid by the fire insurance company for the maintenance of the fire department, being 2% on the fire premiums paid. { This leaves $6,000 that can be applied ‘directly for the purchase of fire apparatus, Valley City in 1917 when war prices obtained purchased an efficient fighting unit for $5,800. The specifications decided upon at the city com- mission meeting may be wholly inadequate under the new. circumstances. When the City, Commis- sion—at least four members of that body—issued @ pamphlet to. the voters in defense of the bond issue there was no mention made of this. $4,000. appropriation. Neither...was The Tribune, when it conducted its campaign against recourse to a bond issue for the purchase of a fire apparatus, in possession of these facts. No time should be lost now in finding what other cities have done before spending the money immediately available. Property owners who have a keer interest in the right kind of fire protection should bestir them- selves to, that end that. not one penny of the money is wasted in buying something that is not going to prove of the greatest efficinecy. When the city commission ordered a bond elec- tion, it was presumed that. there was no. money available for fire apparatus and upon such a show- ing, the Tribune-urged in view of the present busi- |; ness stringency that an inexpensive truck be se- cured. Such action would have been warrantea if only $1,400 to $2,000 were available from the general fund by -cutting other budget items to} the bone. But defeat. of the. bond issue. has brought:.to light a completely new state of affairs and it be- hooves ti taxpayers to interest themselves to the limit. | ; The present situation is only one more reason why a complete survey should be made without delay of Bismarck’s financial condition. A $4,000 appropriation unused for fire protection. . could hardly be overlooked if there were yearly or semi- annual publication of city financial statementa, Lets get the most for the $6,000. : If it will, buy. a fire, engine truck like Valley City’s which is reported as being satisfactory then let us get one. After investigation if it is found that $6,000 is not enough, then it will be time to fall back on the kind of an apparatus the | city proposes advertising for. HELPING THE POOL The spirit of the local utilities in offering free service to the municipal swimming pool for the remainder of the summer is to be commended a8 a splendid example of public spirit. The gift, of the Bismarck Water, Supply company and the Hughes Electric company may enable the pool management to end the season with a balance on hand rather than a large deficit, permit the im- rrovement of the pool for next year and relieve the city of a further.drain on revenue. In connection it may be mentioned again that many merchants furnished materials to the Elks building committee for the pool at cost. . While they: do not desire to have their names made pub- lic, as. many of the contributors to the pool fund do not wish to have their names known public, they-! may feel a keen sense of satisfaction in. knowing | that they aided in bringing supreme joy to the boys and girls of Bismarck such as is witnessed at the swimming, pool. : sie eet BIG.GNES GET AWAY Behold the angler, buying new tackle, and pack- |’. ink up for a fishing trip If he can:possibiy make it, he'll also buy a ticket | to some far-off lake-or stream. For. fishermen t i | we all like to swim. hooks would ‘catch bigger fish somewhere beyond} the horizon. You probably look on amateur fishing as a sport. ° Yet in it you have man’s most ancient occupa-; tion. Men fished long -before they developed enough; intelligence to. make, a. beast-killing ‘weapon by; splicing a jagged-flint, toa club. } | You wouldn’t be living today if some prehis-| toric. ancestor hadn’t discovered that he could) obtain food by fishing with a cat-gut noose or a, natural hook of bone from a bird’s skeleton. Fish, alone with fruit’ and vegetables, kept, primitive man from perishing until he learned! how to kill meat, domesticate cattle :and. till thei soil. ., Evolutionists say that, ‘a matter of millions of years ago, our ancestors were fish—and that’s why, The first form of transportation—long before man rode elephants, camels, horses. or dinosaurs; —was a raft or crude canoe. Man invented those first boats to take him on fishing, trips.. ; | It’s only..a matter of a. few thousands years | since all sailors were fishermen. Then, with the fishermen’s incessant ‘mania for! a still larger fish, the boats were built larger, nets were conceived, and soon the whalers gave the world a long line of explorers. If fishermen hadn’t developed the boat, Colum-| bus.could not haye discovered America. 1 Organized or commercial fishing has developed into an enormous industry, American fisheries now yielding about $110,000,000 a year. The food experts believe that as time goes ‘on! we're going to depend more and more on the ocean for our food. There. is talk of shark skin taking the place of | cow’s leather for future man’s shoes, and. the busi- ness of fishing may still ‘be in its infancy despite the hundreds of thousands of years that have elapsed since the cave man went home and told his wife about the big one that got away. FOOLING AN OYSTER. “The pearl market throughout the world is in an uproar because the Japanese.are producing artifi- cially-grown pearls, that cannot be told from eye pearls except by cutting them in two. A grain of sand or a tiny living parasite gets in an oyster. Mr.. Oyster, irritated, begins covery- ‘ing, the intruder with nacre, the fluid that makes the mother-of-pearl lining inside his shell. He keeps on adding successive layers of nacre, until a smooth pearl-is made. But the Japanese noticed that pearls built up; in contact with an oyster’s ‘shell .are imperfectly shaped. The prize round or pear-shaped pearls of ‘great price are created in the soft fleshy part of the oyster. | So Jananese divers. swim under water unti) a; trusting oyster opens his. mouth. Then, expertly, | they plant the beginning of a prize pearl exactly where they want it—in, the. fish. a These divers have submarine farms where they keep oysters working night and day to produce. pearls, No wonder the pearl market i is in an uproar. For. pearls get their yalue not,'so. cmauch, from| beauty as from rarity of ‘perfect specimeng, . ; | Pecks of. baroques, of irregularly shaped pearls, are found daily in musselg in the Mississippi and its tributaries. But to, get perfect. specimens such as Dreicer & Co., of, ‘New York, used.in their famous: $600,000 necklace of matched pearls, is} another. matter, forthe fine. specimens, are, few and far betweeen. But pearl dealers fear “that, given a few more years with their pearl farms, the Japanese will produce.any kind they want... eat Scientists are, trying ‘to. find’a, “way to detect Japanese.pearls.. Dr. A. Brammail of the Imperial | College .of Science and Technology, in. London, -hopes to do. it with polarized light... 1 :The idea probably. is to be able to Jabel a pear!| las a counterfeit without chopping it in two. - Then the naturally-grown pearl. might, retain | lits distinctively. high price. ., . ‘That’s foolish. Maybe the rich ‘would gullibly | swallow; the bait, to flatter their ego or, vanity. | But we wager that if plain Mary or Molly or Mag- gié. could have. a.fine necklace of real pearls to wear, in the, officeor, store, she, wouldn't, give :a hurrah how they were made.” Anyway, it’s only a: matter of. time until, all gems, including. diamonds, will be produced cheap- ly-in Jaboratories by artificial ethods—as they are now. Produced in minute form and at a pro-| hibitive price that cannot.compete with the flash- ing stones created by. nature, j DUAL PERSONALITY .. Mts. Etta Perry Heil. is, eepvering in,a Chi- ;cago. hospital from an attempt at. suicide. You will recall her as the. Chicago:banker’s wife who. iturned burglar and, after, being Herre blamed her. “dual personality.” ... i “Thank God, at last I am free from this inner ' self. that has:dominated me,” a exclaimed when \told she would. recover. We, all .have dual personalitj is, jgood children are sometimes “But. iti jhecessary for one. to attempt, ‘suicide to put the |Jekyl in ascendancy over the Hyde. Exercise.of share with the rest of us the delusion that our RES jwill power will do it. a’ guarante TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1921. KELLOG SUBS itvte ‘ FOR NORRIS FARM FINANCE BILL DECLARED LIKELY TO PASS Washington,’ Aug. substitute for the Norris farm export financing’ corporation act probably will be passed ‘by the senate although leaders of ‘the agrarian “bloc” are making a Yetermined fight to save the, original bill in a modified form. Spon- sors of thé: Norris “bill, which would have put the government into the buy- ing and selling business and advanced hundréds of’ millions in credit to Burope, admit defeat, but are insist- ing that they,and not'the administra- tion shall write the amendments. While Senatar,F, B. Kellogg of. ‘Min- nesota,.,.wag ‘pebparing the final draft of hig substitute bill ‘the senate com- inittee on agrieulture,“headed ‘by Sen- ator G. W,-Norris, was making changes in the. original ‘bill, They voted to strike ut “the provision for buying abd selling. They decided also not. to create a new. corporation, but to util- ize the: War Fimance corporation. But they still demand that. money be ad- vanced to foreign “governments to buy {our a cr Comes Too, Late The aerrity on the. part of the agrarian “bloc,” it is thaught, came too late. Had these senators offered their ‘amendment: before Senator Kellogg put in the administration substitute it might -have;won. Republican leaders and many. demécrats are back of the Kellogg. substitute. The Norris bill authorizes an ap- propriation. of $100,000,000 and the is- | suance of $1,000,000,000 worth of tax ‘tree bonds, guaranteed by, the govern- ment. Senator Kellogg's substitute re- quires no appropriation. It provides as much credit for the farmers, but the advances are to be made through the War’ sfagance corporation without “The bill,” Senator Kellogg told the senate in referring to-his substitute, “will call for no appropriation what- ever from the treasury, I am assured by the gentlemen in charge of the tinance corporation that they believe their credit is such that ‘they will have no ‘difficulty in borrowing such sums of mi at reasonable rates of interect,. as: they May need to finance jal] of the export business and domes- tié business. which it is legitimate for that cor, ration to carry on.” ellogg Explains Bill Sertatbr Kellogg ‘spoke -fot. nearly: TALE OF A HEALTHY JOB— BY NORRIS OUINN. Washington, Aug. 2.—Brig. Gen. Charles E. Sawyer, personal-physician to President Harding, is like-a atree:{| at night. cleaner in Venice—he ‘has a job, hut |: “there in’t, 80 work.” . “It's ‘Sawyer’s Job to keep the presi- dent well. get sick, and. the’ desk on which ‘the Doc should: ‘he rolling pills is useful king place for, his:.feet. ye: days. Harding ‘sits ‘up }until -sma' hours.in the Whice |House“iibrary; delving into :problems of disatmanient or Far. East affairs. But, promptly at seven, o'clock’ the next morning, ‘he begins. the, daily ex-| years, and in that time he has never jects grind.” His ‘desk is piled moun- peer sick in‘bed for a day. : 2.—The Kellogg, tain high with Sorrcapohacues: But the president ‘won't|: two hours in support of his substitute. He explained that his bill was an ad- ministration measure and that he had brought it into the senate because he| wanted to help the farmer. Unless a substitute were offered, said, he felt the farmer would. get nothing from the Norris bill, because it put. the government into business, a thing which he sanctioned once in! helping to create the wheat corpora- tion, but was determined never to do it again. Citing the effect of wheat price fix-| ing during the war, Senator Kellogg said the same thing will result again if the Norris bill is passed. He in-| ‘sisted that price fixing was sure to follow creation of the proposed $1,000,- 000,000: buying and selling corporation. The chief difference between his bill and the Norris bill, Senator Kellogg said, was that the Norris bill made the government a~ buying and selling agency and advanced money to foreign buyers, whereas he provided ‘means for the war finance corporation to furnish funds immediately to aid ex- porting of surplus farm products and credits to those who held products and were unable to find a market. “I do not believe it is wise,” he said, “that any agency should have author- ity to deal directly with, and send credits directly to, foreign govern- ments. “The moment we open the doors of this corporation to credits of foreign governments, the propaganda and pressure of every nation in the world for credits would exceed anything we have ever seen in wartime.” Corporation Well Experienced “The War Finance corporation has had four years of .experience ‘in the same kind of business in which we now propose to have it engage. It hag a capital of $500,000,000. At one time it issued. $2,000,000 of bonds, and found a ready sale for them, and these bonds were paid inside of a year. It now has available in the treasury more than $400,000,000. “Due to the uncertain exchange rates and lack of capital in Europe,” Senator Kellogg said, “it is necessary for the American farmer and_ cotton raiser, the American seller and ware- houseman, to carry this year’s crop for a longer period than it was neces- sary to do before the ee or even dur- call: ers by the. dozen wait: outside his door. He is busy constantly ‘until 1: How, does he stand the strain? Reg- ular. schedule ‘of rest, recreation -and exercise? “No, he, doesn’t need it,” -Sawyer says. “The reason: ‘the president keeps well is‘ because ‘he was born that way. “T’knew his father and mother well. They were sturdy, pioneer people. From them the president got his. won- derful physique. “T’ve known the president’ for’ 26 the senator | “AND AN UNHEALTHY ONE | | 1 | | | I i ing-the war, because during the war we could sell anything we had at al- most any price we asked. “The principal things necessary in any legislation is to give some agency outside the Federal Reserve bank au- thority temporaraily to extend credits to the local banks in the country, many of whom are not members and |are not eligible for membership in the federal reserve system, who are load- ed up with all sorts of paper which must 5e carried until there is finally a market.” Asked how the substitute measure would help find markets for surplus crops-now on hand, Senator Kellogg replied: “It proposes to extend credits, not only to carry products locally and re- | lieve the county banks, but it pro- ; Poses to extend credit in order to ex- ‘port and sell, and to take the paper, not only under certain sections runn- jing one year, which might be-renewed for another year, ‘but bonds which {may run until July 1, 1927. | Credit Extension Plan “We need something more than sim- ply to lend to exporters or in the aid of-actual exportations; that is some jagency which would have credit, | which, must in emergencies, extend credit to certain banks and _ firms, which are like many of the cattle loan associations, and which the . senator suggests are loaded up with paper and cannot carry it. Yet it is not subject to rediscount at the Federal Reserve bank, unless we throw open the doors, which it. would be unwise to do. | Therefore, Section 1 of the amend- ment proposes to extend credit to per- sons, firms or organizations engaged in dealing in these products before the | products are exported.” Turning to another section of his bill, Senator Kellogg said it “extends the definition of the word ‘bank,’ ‘bankers,’ or ‘trust company,’ to in- :clude reputable and responsible finan- cial institutions with adequate re- sources.” “ “Section 24,” Senator Kellogg con- tinued, “is designed to permit the cor- poration to deal with an acute situa- tion existing in the case of many small banks in agricultural districts. Many of these banks are ineligible for mem- bership in the federal reserve system, and have no adequate rediscounting | facilities at their disposal. The amend- ment authorizes the corporation to make advances. to those banks against their promissory notes or other obligations, to reimburse them for ad- vances made for agricultural purposes, including livestock. Notes and Bonds Authorized. “Section 27 first makes it possible to get assistance of the controller of the currency in obtaining information | his hot breath out in 3 j sald .he believed that ‘he'd take “his resdiing all member banks ‘of the federal reserve system, and those un- \der the Jurisdiction of the federal gov- {. ernment. It authorizes’ notes ‘and bonds which may be issued, in serial numbers, or on short time, so’ that it {will ngt he compelled: to sell’ Jong jtime bouds, ruaning a vear or even six |months, if itcan obtain temporary lcredit in. the gale of notes or short time bonds. “The bond issue by this corporation is reduced from $3,000,000,000, which | we authorized during ‘the war, to $1- | 0op.000;000. Maybe that is not suffi- jcient. Congress can increase it if it is \ not.” President Harding's special messa: | to congress on railroad and farm fe | nancing was regarded today by many jrepublican leaders in the senate as j having dealt a finul blow to the Norris 1 Bugs spread reform epidemics. All blockheads are not square. Vacation sweethearts have engeg- ing ways. 4 The shipping board is a loose plank in the ship of state. Only a dentist gets paid for look: ing dow in the mouth, One million dollars reward for the man who finds prohibition. Society Note: The Turks are having an outing. Greeks ani Balboa discovered the Pacific; Harding is trying to make it ‘so. The doctor who says onions make people healthy must iive by himself. Some rents are high, but the land- lord with low will gel jack and the game. Many a young fellow who thinks he ig climbing to success by himself is Miss-guided. Why say bachelors and old maids are queer: when they: really: are very singular people? With wars quoted at 350 billions each we can make our old one do tor a few centuries. Speaking of dresses, Methuselah lived as long as he did without seein as:much.as.we-dos st. f Capitol doorkeepers should be bet- ter’ paid than legislators because it's harder to sleep standing up. Ford says: he can make three ‘rail- Toad cars out of one. What.we need is three railroad. rates gout: of gue. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS By. Olive Barton Roberts There was one Nuisance Fairy who had given very little trouble... All the time that Jack Frost was cutting up his antics in the spring. and Old Man Flood was out tearing around; ‘he dozed and nodded and didn’t take an interest in anything. And when Howly Thunder and Jumpy Lightning’ got out the bass-drum and flasb-light a started off on a grand, parade, di ing over Sprinkle-Biow's barrel ed “Hard Storms” and pouring r: down on ‘the earth, this fellow went sound asleep. You'd have thought he'd never wake up. But after the blossoms’ had come and gone on the trees and little hard green balls appeared in their places (which would one day be apples, peaches, pears, cherries or plums), and after Farmer Smith’s ‘sage-patch garden had a good start, and &fter all the little pinky, greeny, whitey,-blic speckled eggs in the nests had crack- ed open to let out all sorts of furzy youngsters (screaming their heads“ off for worms), this old fairy stirred. He got up out of his big easy chair and stretched and yawned an¢ plew great puffs ani ce turn getting some exeicise. The othdr Nuisance Fairies crowded into a cor- ner when he passed and no onc in- terfered. Out. he marched, and down the road and past the house of Sprit- kle-Blow, the Weatherman. .. Nancy and Nick were looking out of the windcw and, saw him. “What a funny looking old man,” exclaimed Nancy pointing. “He's all dried up looking.” Sprinkle-Blow too. e “My land 0’ gracious!” he’ cried. “It’s Old Sizzly Dry Weather. Now we are in for it. He's the hardes! one of all to manage, because he's as ‘stubborn as forty mules and in- sists on having his own way.” (Copyright 1921 by Newspaper Enter- ‘ prise.) f (To be Comtinued:) came and looked. " “Another thing that keeps him fit| in ‘his regularity and freedom from} excess.. “Whenever. a/ man breaks; down, you'll usually find it’s the re-! sult of some’ dissipation — eating, | drinking or smoking. “Well, the president eats regularly and sparingly. “He eats plain food al- | ways. He gets. Hee sleep—but he/ gets’ it regularl. “The president, on the’ infrequent} occasions” he. consults me, always) heeds my ‘advice. Recently. he was. weighing too much. I told him how) to: reduce*and'he* followed “my in structions ‘so closely that in a few days he was ‘back to normalcy.” GIRLS! LEMONS” WHITEN THE SKIN Squeeze the juice of t of two lemons into a bottle containing three ounces of Orchard White, which any drug store | will supply for a few cents, shake well, and you have a quarter pint of barm- | less and . delightful. lemon: bleach, | Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion | into the face, neck, arms and, hands each day, then shortly note the. bi ty and whiteness of your skin. " ®amous stage beauties use this lemon, lotion to bleach and bring that ‘osy-white complexion, also a a freckle, sunburn, and tan bleach because it doesn’t irritate,