The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 17, 1921, Page 4

PAGE Foun. TRIBUN E! to share in the charitable enterprise, whether or not he wants to. There are a lot of pretty clear thinking people ‘in this country who question the wisdom of the policy of helping the Russians, either privately \or publicly. DETROIT | Their idea is that the causes of the Russian PAYNE, BURNS AND gurrn?* B® famine are such that they will be recurrent every NEW YORK ane : - Fifth Ave. Bldg.| year until sovietism, with all its attendant chaos MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS \and horrors, is overthrown. And they argue that| The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use! the best way to bring about this overthrow is to tat republication of at pee paces Fe the Tocal | let nature take its course in Russia, instead of} news published heroine Wiss af aaeial dlepatohos herein | {Ying to interfere with its inexorable processes. ae ee a pearion ohse EF | The statement of Hoover that the famine in! | Russia is of an extent entirely beyond the resour- ‘ees of all the available private charities of the| THEBISMARCK eee eee eee ee eee eee ee ec a ee a art Entered,,at: the, Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., a8 Second ; Class Matter. | pM EES Sl raansereceg 2 - GEORGE D. MANN : eine - Editor Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO Marquette Bldg. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN Ler world in these times of economic hardship,” | Daily by carrier, per year..........++5 5 e : F Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) ...-720! sharply raises the question as to what the policy Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).. 5.00 of the governments is to be. ‘ ily by mai ide of North Dakota...... seabaee 6.00 g s pes : . a aa ae APER | It is a big question and there is much to be said} geviaic i ) jon both sides of it. | (Established 1873) ei EVAPORATED $$$$ John D. Rockefeller, the world’s m In what way are YOU losing money during the and his brother William, bn eeepc a period of deflation—the shrinking of prices and|2"® stopped for the night recently at a Saratog: values? Maybe your wages have been cut. Or you're out of a job. Or your business has stopped paying profits. THRIFT \ richest man, i Springs hotel. ! They occupied comfortable rooms, but by no | means the most expensive ones. ; | | ‘The expensive rooms were probably occupied by! perons in straightened financial circumstances, Or you have good stocks that have suspended! putting up a “front,” to impress their fellow; guests and gratify their own vanity. The Rockefeller habits: of personal thrift let them in for a lot of criticism by people, wh dividends. Or you bought a home at high prices, and,/ watching its replacement value decline as building) ‘costs creep down, you fear that most of what you have paid has been wiped out. Everybody’s in the same boat. In one way or} another, we're all losing. The war-time paper! millions are evaporating and it takes from each of us as surely as the hot sun over a pond takes| from each drop of water on the surface. Even John D. Rockefeller, richest man in the world, is losing. Pofits may still be coming in from his gasoline, but the shrinkage of his for- tune by decline in the value of his stocks and bonds runs into the tens of millions. if they had practiced them themselves. \ ; CUCKOOS “The only bird that lives in a flat is the cuckoo —and he doesn’t amount to much.” This bit of wisdom is dropped by E. K. Cormack, president of the National Building Supply Associ- ation, who is urging people to build their own homes. Cormack insists; you can build a home cheaper this year than you can next year. Of course, this argument may be taken with a grain of salt from a man in his line of business, but Cormack adds something more which is very true: “A home isn’t a money investment. It’s an in- vestment in happiness, comfort and good citizen- ship. You really can’t feel like a family unless you live under your own roof. And any one by Here’s Louis K. Liggett, a big figure in Wall] Street and in international business. Deflation has. caught him in its coils. His attorneys draw| up papers transferring all of, his personal assets | to three trustees for the benefit of his creditors. In an intimate letter to the stockholders of the! ard work and sacrifices can acquire a home some-| great business—United Drug—which he built up, | Liggett assures them that his. plight -is personal and in no way affects the corporation back of the stocks. ; Liggett: believed so thoroughly in his own busi- ness that he, in his enthusiasm, came to grief by over-buying of its stocks. Then the stock mar- ket broke, and Ligget writes: f me “My assets have shrunken in their market value over $5,000,000 in the last eight months. “As I dictate this letter, my mind goes back to 18 years ago when we started, and to the men who put up the money to help me start this busi- ness. I'see the original 14 employes, and I see it now—a tremendous organization doing business throughout the English-speaking world with over $100,000,000 annual sales, with intrinsic values back of it that do not jusitfy the sale of any of our stocks at the present market price.” There, in Liggett’s loss, is a mighty tragedy for you. Shakespeare could have made it into a play. Compare your lot with Liggett’s. Are you glad you didn’t have the millions to lose? where.” ~ | DIPLOMACY : President Obregon of Mexico has rather, gut the ground from under those who have been protest- ing against the export tax on Mexican oil. He has announced thatiit is his policy to apply and principal of the Mexican foreign debt. EDITORIAL. REVIEW Comments reproduced in thie column ma; not express the opinion of The Tribune. resented bere in order that our readers th sides of important issues which are belong cussed in the presa of the day. INCALCULABLE For inefficient labor while the railroads were operated by the Government they cannot recover. Such, at least, is the decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission. It holds that the phrases jin the Government contract, “the cost of labor,” cannot be made to cover the extra cost caused by There is one consolation for you as war-timejslackers and shitkeademmznd undisciplined values evaporate and you swallow your losses. |dawdlers nominally <gat;" work for _ the The consolation is this—that, while the number | roads. Furthermore, the commission . main- of your dollars may be steadily shrinking, the buy-/tains ‘that no system of accounting, no ing power of each dollar you have left is growing. | cost sheets, can show in-dollars and cents exactly In the long run, your real wealth is your buying | what was the loss due to “soldiering” on railway power, not the face value of your money. jobs. The claims made by the roads foot up tens So, too, with income. jof millions, but the Interstate Commerce Com- ARMY LIFE When Congress, several months ago, ordered! {figures correct. Secretary of War Weeks protested that it meant|iency of labor under Government control. It was have! would be much happier and better off in every way | - all the mottey raised from this tax, on the interest; or may |! nave |i may dis- jmission argues that there is no way of proving the! The facts behind the figures are not denied.| the army reduced from 225,000 to 150,000 men,| No one calls in question the demonstrable ineffic-| X, Said Mrs, Ducky Waddles, “The eggs J lay are large While ‘yours are very Just why these things You are a grand success in “It is not always size, - To tell the world abou! -Just-advertise.it good and i vacation. quaintances. she snubs. | vising ‘tax revision. hose, skirts, incomes. Eating less restaurant steak might i | i 1 jlower the price of shoes. One way to revive the waltz is jcall it the “scandal walk.” R | A dentist should send a_ little breaking faith and contracts with thousands of|notorious. A part of it took the form of less work enlisted men. |during the legal wage day and exorbitant charges His idea was that soldiering was so popular|for over-time. The general air of listlessness and that the men would want to stay in the service! indifference and of being very much at ease in the and serve out their enlistment. 'Zion of a Government job was not concealed. In The secretary’s fears have proven to be un-| terms of money, the shortcoming may be incalcul- founded. There are now enough requests for dis- able; but there is no doubt whatever that it was charge from the army on file with the War De-| actual, and that in terms of demoralization and partment, to bring the total down to 150,000 with-/ social harm it can be estimated with sufficient in the time set by Congress. laccuracy. The whole case simply shows over Considering the unemployment situation there/ again that work of the Government, by the Gov- seems to be but one answer—army life does not! ernment and for the Government makes enterprise appeal to the average American young man, even) and diligence perish--New York Times. when the alternative is being out of a job. | eth So sebisansaca ti [aE er aT | RATHER HIGH PROFITS HELPING RUSSIA Consumers of candy will view with mingled de- Senator King of Utah has introduced a resolu- jight and wonder the announcement of a New tion in the Senate appropriating $5,000,000 for! york chain store company of a drop of approx- famine relief in Russia. There are very grave imately 50 per cent in the price of all confections doubts whether the people of this country favor sold by it. “We have been making not 100 but 300 the appropriation of this or any other sum of | per cent profit for a long time. This kind of busi- public money at-this time for this purpose. ness, if kept up, would create a panic.” The help which Hoover has offered to the Rus-| We have our doubts if the continued high price sians is out of funds privately subscribed. He is! of candy would create a panic. But if the profits undertaking the feeding of a certain number of | have been really as high as claimed and the drop; starving Russians in his prviate capacity as headin price in this line is a sincere determination to of certain relief organizations and not as a public’ secure justice for the consumer, the result will be official. ‘the same. People who want candy will be able to That is an entirely different proposition from buy it, which we suppose, is what the men who levying taxes apd.thus compelling every taxpayer sell it desire after all—Buffalo Commercial. laughing gas with his bill. if f —— | ‘The man with a checkered career \finds jt is.always his move. | ‘The answer to “Where did you go ion your vacation?” is “Broke.” | x . | These big cars don’t go any faster than their own bank balance. | New York has barred fighters over 38. The rule should include chorus jsirls. | Our army of occupation is left on jthe Rhine by our army of pre-occu- pation. | Scarcity increases the demand for dressed chickens in the matrimonial market. , Father can't why women get tired. He does a week's washing every Saturday night. A tourist can’t sleep at home un- ‘less someone throws dust in his face and cusses about roads. A catastrophe is when the ladies’ literary society meets with no one absent to be talked about. Movies make a man forget troubles; but he always about his car parked in front. some tance from Mars to Venus, ; Tellegeaand Farrar? Siac ‘A SUGGESTION By Florence Borner. So surely you must know.” “Dear Mrs. Duck,” said Biddy Hen ; “If you would always have success Don’t do things on the sly; " BS The world will come to buy.” ii wife on hand is worth two on a Even a batber loses by cutting ac- A woman is known by the company Nowfor another tax: to pay for re- These are the bobbed days—hair, worries Astronomers can measure the dis- but can}: they measure the distance between to Mrs. Biddy Hen: “T would like for you to answer, if you can, A question that has bothered me for many, many days, And perhaps you may suggest a wiser plan, Pons and smooth, small, € Yet mankind hurries to get yours, ‘And won't buy mine at all. “So I would ask you? Mrs. Hen are 80; life Nor is it eggs large, smoothe aru clean That takes the public’s eyes; “So I’ve a system of my own ‘That's tried and true—don’t doubt it; I lay my egg then hurry out it it. strong— , ADVENTURE OF). THE TWINS By Olive Barton Roberts It was a good thing for everybody that Mr. Sprinkle-Blow had brought his magical lasso along with him from his star, Even though he had not suc- ceeded in catching that old rascal Whizzy Tornado, it helped to undo a great deal of the mischief that Whizzy had done. They lassoed Mr. Lion and Mr. Tiger as easily as you could catch Munchie Mouse, and .the camel and the moose and ‘the elephant and all the other animals that had escaped from the Zoo, went back like lambs whi sNascy and Nick led the way. An “peli- cans and cookatoos, bittertis 3 "and hornbills went back, too, when’ the twins told them that the poll parrots had returned. So that was fixed. But finding the lost families’ of KICKING A DOGFE tmmev ALC BELONSE TO ‘|Scramble Squirrel, WHAT DO You MOAN BY FATHER. HELPS WITH THE- PRESERVING. o Ben Bunny and the others was not so easy. Nancy and Nick and Sprinkle-Blow looked everywhere they could think of, trav- cling over the earth like little comets with their Magic Shoes and Magic Umbrella. Farmer Smith’s barn loft, the old stoney cave in the hollow, the chesnut tree in the meadow, the big hole where Whizzy Tornado had torn up the ancient elm, everywhere and everywhere and everywhere they look- ed. It was Sleeker Swallow who found out and brought the news. “Scram- ble Squirrel’s family are stranded half way across Silver River,” said he, “and. Ben Bunny will find his folks in the church steeple. Mrs. Pigeon is taking care of them until someone calls and brings them home.” Off in his home in the cave of the Winds at the Ends of the Earth, old Whizzy Tornado laughed and laugh- ed. What do you think of him, my dears? Some people have a very queer idea of a joke. Sprinkle-Blow and the twins didn’t think it was funny. (To Be Continued) (Copyright 1921 by Newspaper Enterprise) | Remarkable Remarks | —_—______—___—___+ Large heads do not mean large brains._-Dr. ‘Harry W. Forbes, of Los Angeles. eon Short skirts may prevent somel kind of accidents, but they increase others -—auto accidents to male- gazers.— Morris Gannon, New Orleans traffic cop. s 8 8 Alcohol is causing more insanity since prohibition than was caused by shell shock during the World: War.— Dr, P, M. Lichtenstein, resident phy- sician at the Tombs, N. Y, es 8 8 Under the Constitutional form of government the king of! England still has a good deal of power when he chooses to use it.—iH. Wickham Steed, editor London Times, s 8 8 The practice of drastic economy ‘is the only means by which the new states of Eunope and France and Italy can hope to escape insolvency.— Francis W.- Hirst, editor London Economist. | EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO Ge gees Mens ceetncut Creare Recall Cauldron ‘BY THE POT BOILER. Friday, August 19, is the date set for the filing of the recall petitions. as. affording a special line on who. in state offices now will .align them- sc¢ives with the movement openly. Will the names of John Steen, Min- nie Neilson, Thomas Hall, E. J, Tay- lor and others who have been aligned actively against the league be found there, | _ It is inte-esting -history about Jolin | Steen, a popular figure with all. fac- tions because of the absolutely non- political administration of his office. It will be remembered that he issued a special statement before the Minot convention standing on the Grand Forks platform which endorsed milis and elevators. While it is generally expected that | these state officials will support the recall there has beenjno formal state- ment from the state officials who were’ endorsed at Minot and who won of- fices through the efforts of the [. V. A. * * 8 | Great interest will attach to the names, Thig situation is interesting many people over the state. Probably the issug..is not material or vital and it may just be possible that these jof- ficials will not sign recall petitions. All idea of a. recall reprisal on the part of the league doubtless has been abandoned, It was rumored at one time that recall petitions would be circulated against) Independent state officials, but:at.no. time could this agitation be traced definitely to lea- gue sources, “8 Returning to the Steen statement, the state treasurer made it plain tha: he was against much of the program being urged by William Langer and his followers. . It was in ‘the form of a letter to.the Fargo Forum and was a vigorous exposition of his political views. He stood at that time for merely carrying out the mills and ele- vator enterprises as a matter of ex- periment because if the popular ref- erendum. The I. V. A. program contemplates a rural credit bank and the salvaging of the league program and a gradual scrapping of the remains with the ex- ception of the mills, elevator and the bank. There has been 10 expression: for publication from Miss Neilson, Thos. Hall or others who have fought in the font ranks during the former bat- tles, William Langer has prepared no statement for North Dakota ‘con- sumption, but when in other states declared that he was going to return to North Dakota to “fight Townley- ism.” Whether that means stepping up shoulder to shoulder with the I. V. iA. organization is as Kipling would say, “another story.” Mr. Langer has never had much admiration for the I. V. A. His friends claim that he was sacrificed at the primaries while Theodore Ne!- son and others maintain the opposite | was the truth and that everything nee done for Langer that was possi- le, * * * J. P: Tucker of the I. V.'A. forces hasartived' in’ the ‘Slope ‘disttict in a brand ‘new Ford and is out whipping up enthusiasm for the recall.* Tucker is a member of the old ‘Hanna regime. He occupied a position inthe board of regents office during the days of “Sig’ Rrewer or Charlie as he was some- times known. He was here on the house payroll last winter and is one of the most active of I. V, A. field workers, * * 8 |. The publicity mill of the I. V. A. has started grinding merrily. All matter is headed “from the publicity department, independent state head- quarters, Fargo, N. D.” One of the articles is headed: “Why the Recall Will Win.”. The text of the article is a letter from J, T. Nelson of Glen Ullin., Nelson ran against Hagan for commissioner of agriculture on the fusion ticket. Mr. Nelson pays the following compliment to Hebron: “Even Hebron with sixty per cent voting ‘for the red fiflag, has women in the field.” ; 4 Somebody ought to hide the “home brew” at Fargo and censor the pub- licity declare ‘seasoned _ politicians. The J. T. Nelson “dope” which we quote in full ought to bring chortles mf glee to the league organization in ‘Morton county. Writes J, T.: “Your favor of Aug. 13 with check for $37.50 received. I herewith re- turn check. I well ‘realize how the treasury is. I do: not expect to get paid for every move I make to get signatures, I am deeply interested, yes fully as much ag any one in the state, in redeeming our state and get back to the “Old Day.” 1 have had enongh of the “New Day" and will be glad to do-my bit ‘in the future. “T cerainly need every dollar I can make as I am up against it right this fall. I have not been -so hard up | for thirty-five years. It is fierce when you are sixty-four years “young.” I have some money stand- ing out from the time I was in busi- ness, but not a dollar can be collect- ed'on account of the several years of poor crops. “T have worked hard to get womer interested in circulating petitions as too many of our good fellows simply lay down, and I am glad to say that in almost every town and rural dis- trict I have got the women to take hold of things. Even Hebron, with 90 per cent voting for the red flag, has women in the field. I am looking for good results from the women.” J | f DAILY PH DSERVICE @ BISMARCK. NORTH DAKOTA © Knox’ all over the Northwest for Quali © MAIL US YOUR FILMS mf TYPEWRITERS All makes sold and rented Bismarck Typewriter Co.