The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 24, 1921, Page 2

PAG THEBISMARCKTRIBUNE Entered at the Ponta tice, pigmarck, N. D., as Second GEORGE D. MANN - - : - Editor Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bide. ch BUR NS A SMI’ New york }YN® BURNS AND SMITY MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or; not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local) news published herein, All rights of republication of special dispatches herein: are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year.. = $7.2 Daily by mail, per year (in kk) ess 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bi on woeee 6.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota........ THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) E> LET THE TAXPAYERS KNOW!. The city commission has adopted elaborate specifications for bids for fire trucks, after hav- ing a few weeks ago adopted a very simple set of specifications limited to one class of truck. Ap- parently the first set of specifications was adopted without much consideration of the right kind of equipment for the city; there is no statement: to; give the people of the city any idea that the sec- ond set was adopted with complete knowledge of. fire equipment used in other cities of this class, Bids are asked on elaborate, expensive equip- ment. Articles are included in the specifications which apparently limit the bidding to few com- panies, and do not permit combinations..which have proved successful in fire fighting apparatus in many cities seeking economical as well as effec- tive equipment. The Ford equipment used at Great Falls for instance. The city of Bismarck has no need: of a piece of apparatus which shall be more impressive in parades than in fighting fires. A heavy, cumber- some apparatus may look well on the streets and prove both expensive and ineffective. _ The voters should be enlightened as to the method of arriving at the kind of apparatus the city may determine to buy and the drain it will make upon the already oppressed taxpayers. i SPARE-TIME MONEY 4 You often wonder how you could make some extra money in your spare time. Especially house- wives who have little spending money left after paying the wéek’s bills. Here’s how one man.and his wife did it. It’s an interesting example of the power of ‘a man’s will — and how a devoted wife can helpvher‘husband to success. “ ' In Seattle, Hardin T. McClelland has been a park-department employe since he left high school in his second year of attendance. He decided to learn the Chinese language. Try that, if you want to-tackle a real job. Chinese is built up from 214 key-words. . But these, by combinations, form 27,000 different words—spoken in 20 different dialects. For instance, ask a Chinese laundryman or waiter about the word “chou.” He won’t pro- nounce it. He'll sing it. According to the tone, it can mean book, tree, heat, relate, Northern Lights, accustomed, losing a bet, etc. Expert linguists find Chinese hard to master. For a comparatively uneducated man to learn it, is almost phenomenal. McClelland got a book ‘about Chinese talk from} the library. He had to return it before he even got an inkling of the meaning. Felt he couldn’t afford to buy a $9 copy. of the book. 3 So Mrs. McClelland in. spare moments. took .off her apron and copied the text book with pencil. Her husband studied the. copy: Now he is making:a lot of spare-time money, translating Chinese philosophical ‘work for high- brow magazines. « * 3 It wasn’t the mere learning of the Chinese lan- guage that brought McClelland a. comfortable spare-time income. The real things that put him across were his will power, his ambition and his imagination—and his wife’s interest and assist- ance. There is a lesson in this for men out of work. It’s difficult to get daily work, let alone spare- time jobs, But if you have the imagination or determine to develop it, you can create a job. Ambition, will make you like work—make you an efficient worker. Will power will furnish the gasoline to drive the motor of your ambition. Dont’ give up. Don’t get discouraged. Keep on trying.. Somewhere, even in business depres- sion, there is an opening for—a road to big things. This is as true of regular daily work as it is true of spare-time or extra-pin-money employ- ment. Never say die! LET’S CARRY THROUGH! “Productive labor is staggering under an eco- nomic burden too heavy to be borne unless the present vast public expenditures. are greatly re- duced.”—President Harding. r President Harding has appointed Charles G. Kresge Bldg. | Fifth Ave, Bldg. | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNn WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, ’21 i "ag n But Dawes has no power to force any depart- jment or official to cut expenditures. Dawes can-; ‘not even make suggestions directly to a depart-| 'ment head. | Dawes’ status is that of an adviser to the pres-, ident. After he has collected his information, he will lay a plan of ‘reorganization and retrench-; ment before the president and Congress. Then: Whether any money is actually saved depends on what action the president and Congress may take on Dawes’ suggestions: Dawes can investi- ‘gate, advise and suggest until he is blue in the \president and Congress back him up. | serve the same purpose Dawes it expected to serve. This commission painstakingly gathered infor- ‘mation from every government agency. Then it presented retrenchment suggestions to Congress. The suggestions were entirely disregarded and government waste went merrily on. After spend- ing $100,000 in fruitless investigation, the com-| mission was disbanded. | Let’s see to it that history does not repeat it-| self. re | If we are to end government waste, we must; insist that Congress go through with the Dawes program—or improve upon it. ibs | SELLING YOURSELF Yonder comes the most important man in the world —the salesman. For the next 20 years,| America’s prosperity will be in his hands. He alone can bring in the orders that will start up the factories and restore good things. | And it is the salesman—not politicians—that when it begins. Young men, looking about for a profession, should carefully consider salesmanship. That is the advice of William Maxwell, vice president of! Thomas A. Edison, Inc., writing in the American Legion Weekly. The salesman was eclipsed during the war, when goods were scarce and salesmanship was little, more than order-taking. But now America enters into a great competi- tive era. The salesman has, before him, bigger! fields to conquer than ever before. That means| opportunity for the:man who can really sell—tre- mendous opportunity. aa Judge Gary predicts that, once readjustment in business is completed, the country, will embark on one of the most prosperous periods in its history. Salesmen will be needed to sell the big ideas, the securities to finance them, and the actual goods involved. re ‘ eel ie If you want to travel, salesmanship offers you the great field of international. trade. Horace Greeley’s advice to young men of his day was: “Go west, young man, go west.” It! was sound advice. : : Maxwell-thinks that if. Greeley were alive today, his slogan would be: “Go sell, young man, go sell.” ; A good slogan. Every man and woman, every girl and boy, should study salesmanship. For success in life is largely a matter of ability to sell your services. The boy, offering to weed the garden if he can go swimming, is a salesman. So is the young man| trying to sell himself and his fortune to the girl he loves. So, too, is the man asking a raise in pay. Tra Lackey, America’ fest, drummer, who has traveled. 1,750,000 m ‘galesman, Says that after you sell a customéf you must hold. him. Trickery may get the, first order. But. to hold a customer you must givy honest ‘value—make good every minute. ° The goods must live up to the representation of the seller. ‘That is as true when you sell your-| self as when you sell an order of groceries, cloth- ing or insurance. , Learn salesmanship, young man, to dispose of | your abilities and service to best advantage. Back your selling with a constant endeaver to; |make yourself of greater service to mankind. Learn to sell. But be sure you have something | |worth selling. Sell yourself on this idea first! RICHEST The Rockefeller family now controls $2,400,- 000,000, says Henry H. Klein, who has published a book about it. This enormous sum includes the fortune of John D. Rockefeller, members of his family and the} funds established by him. 3 | The figure is staggering—but it’s only about $23 for every man, woman and child in the United States. : That brings home to you our tremendous popu- Nation—also the system of cornering the nation’s wealth. ~ ey er | TOBACCO * Thomas A. Edison, celebrating the 44th anni- |versary of his invention of the phonograph, dis- ‘cusses tobacco. : | Edison smokes like a bad chimney. | “Tobacco doesn’t harm anyone, except paper- ‘covered cigarets, which are harmful,” he says. |“But tobacco, aside from cigarets, does no harm |to society. It is not dangerous like narcotics and | whisky.” é Dawes as director of the budget. Dawes is in-' An interesting view, coming from the smoker- specting, the activities .of every government de- inventor whose body is.100 per cent efficient -and, = DAG ae i i : : partmehif ahd featninig how money can be aaved. in its vitality, as remarkable as his. genius. Dawes will be through. | face, without saving a single penny, unless the) In 1910, President Taft appointed a Commis-) 0! sion on Economy and Efficiency which was to ‘will shape the course of-dblayed reconstruction | ~ TIME 0’ YEAR © ABOUT THIS | To receive his first; caresses as and gay, ‘And the prairie chicken’s Wee A eftte “Ag they rhyme jin their : Hareyy ds angssies, for the Like: tq:the daya,that hurry by Growing old, growing old, soon Where the glory of the prairies By‘the Pot Boller. ‘As an antidote to the’. V. A. story that league officials intended to resign and thus ‘defeat the recall by such a coup d’etat, the Courler-News Tues- day morning had a two column article insisting that the I. V.'A. was sorry of its bargain and was‘ now casting about for an excuse to abandon the recall. Unless the Fargo headquarters are badly scared at the evidences of apathy ‘over the state for a recall at this time, the election will be held. From a political standpoint, it was foolhardy to call such an election with June and the regular primaries oniy a few months ahead. But the Rubi- con once crossed, how can Caesar re- | trace his steps and still be dictator of the independent forces? The I. V,.A. will rise or fall by the recall election. Its program for abolishing all party lines in state elections is the corner stone upon which it hopes to build permancy for a fusion organization against the Non- -partisan League. Thousands of vot- ers who are followers, of the I. V. A. are hesitating at adopting such an ex- treme political principle. While par- ty lines have been badly disrupted since the Townley organization cap- tured the state, the names still remain and to them cling some reverence and tradition. * * . If the I. V. A. abandon its recall election now, it might as well close up shop and the Republicans call a mass convention and reorganize along party lines for the June primaries. The I. V. A. platform of state owned and operated industries is in strict op- position to the platform upon which President Harding swept the state last fall. As Republicans adhering to the tenets of the party as expressed by the natfonal leaders, the I. V. A. platform affords no common ground. platform ‘for that matter as it differs only from the I. V. A. platform in de- gree not in substance. Both are so- cialistic. One modifies, begs the issue and compromises, the other is mili- | tantly socialistic. et It has always been the conviction of the Pot Boiler that all state owner- ship was wrong and fraught with great \dauér to orderly governmental prog- is.]\A great publisher onge,remi “thmt all the government we need !s Sor gitoatt RECALL CAULDRON Neither does the Nonpartisan league|” : (By Florence Borner.) Oh, the glory of the prairies in the Spring! When the bluebirds and the robins sweetly sing; And the music of their carols fills the early morning air, From the hilltops and the valleys you can hear it everywhere: “Spring is here! Spring is here”! say their voices loud and clear, “Little lazy Crocus, won’t you hurry, hurry, dear?” Oh, the glory of the prairies when ’tis June! And the honey-bees are droning forth their tune; ‘As the roses and the lilies raise their face wet with. dew, the sunlight trickles thru; “Come and play, efme, and play,”.says the West Wind bright And. as his. words'are uttered all the trees begin to sway. onsite glory of‘the’ prairies in the fall! ‘When a haze of ‘golden sheen hangs over all; When the pumpkin’s. turning: yel calling 1 “flow I fear, how I fear, for hunting time is near, ‘Anaiblad23-°bGa they, will cut short my career.” ont tee 4 fF i he wimter’s ecstacy! ie low, and the watermelon’s ripe; in the woods from left and right Oh; fhe glory‘o: yin ‘ _ Wheg the Ice} Kfhg. holds forth in his revelry; te J we the trai ’s green“is turned into a coat of driven snow, An e tinkting’ souttd of happy bells is heard where’er you go: ° chime:” Tis the merry: winter time, sleighing’s surely fine.” Oh, the glory of the prairies thru the year! «From the springtime to the winter cold and drear; Each ‘season brings its beauties as it swiftly takes its flight, we grow up over night: our story will be. told, And soon, too ‘goon, we're finding silver threads among the gold. Oh, the rapture of the heart when we are young! ‘When the song upon our lips is still unsung; When the book of Life before us lies, a fair unblotted page, And the fancies of our childhood, kept in spite of seer and sage, Beckon on, ever on, to the Land of Setting Sun, tells of great deeds to be done. just enough-to guard the peace, health and safety of the people atd,ito: pro- tect the free exercise gf :an,.upright conscience. te opet The evolution of government in the last fifteen years has been toward so- cialization of industry and away from the fundamental principles ‘asy laid down in, the Declaration. of .Inde- pendence and the constitution. Gov- RON FER YouR LIVES, THE HAUNTED HOUSE ernmental activity today knows no limits and the Republican party‘ com- mitted itself largely at the last na- tional convention to a restriction of | governmental activities to those func- tions which have been so admirably expressed by the publisher of a great daily quoted above. 2 oe 8 The National Republican platform upon which President Harding car- ried the state by an astounding ma- jority has this to say about the equal- ity of commercial ventures: “The farmer is the backbone of the nation. National greatness and eco- nomic independence demand a .popu- lation distributed between industry and the farm, and sharing ON EQUAL TERMS the prosperity which is wbal- ly dependent upon the efforts of both. Neither can PROSPER AT THE EX- PENSE \OF THE OTHER without in- viting joint disaster.” * * 8 The drive for a legalized fusion par- ty:in the state by an abolition of par- ty lines is occasioned in part by the tional Republican party against the political vagaries of both the Nonpar- tisan League.and the I. V. A. Politi- cal control of state owned industries and their operation. for profit is go- ing to be as dismal.a. failure under I. V. A. management as under any political management. The operation of trade processes become paralyzed and ineffective under the pressure of politics. History proclaims the fail- ure and the Republican party opposes the experiment in no unmincing tional Republican platform: “phere is no short way out and we decline to deceive the people with vain promises or quack remedies.” And again, the platform of the Na- tional Republican party pledges it- self: “To free business from arbitrary and unnecessary official control, to repel the arrogant challenge of any class‘and to-maintain a government oi all the people.as contrasted with gov- ernment for some of the people.” Poker ane 3 Why abandon the. traditions and aims of such a party by abolishing party lines in state government? The application of party lines in counties and: cities may have some merit, but | EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO| {| — ITs ONCY THRSS ‘ONLY VESTER: NEWLY WED ! RIRST AUTOMOMCLS WY 3 dni enideoti. que WEEKS OLD, BuT IT HA ' Iie INTSCAGENCES OF A CHI & Yeae OUD tT [us HAS JUST BOUGHT HIS ——____ THES: WIC INTRODUCES ‘ou TO A FRIENO OF MING. HE) unalterable stand taken. by the Na-! words. We quote again from the Na | able Compound is a 625,000 BOTTLES __ | SOLD IN NEW YORK Biggest Thing Of Kind Ever | Seen In That State, Says Big Wholesaler | i} The fact that 625,000 bottles of Tan- }lac have. been sold in the state of |New York since its introduction: there less than one year ago, is a big busi- |mess item that will attract unusual |attention throughout the entire East, |for nothing like it has ever happened (before. It breaks all records. | Mr. George B. Evans, manager of {the Gibson-Snow Company, the well- ‘known wholesale druggists, with ‘branches in Albany, Buffalo, Rochest- ‘er and Syracuse, recent! nnounced |that the prepar lin their trade ter |phenomenal rate 02 500,000 bottles a year. | “If the present rate continues,” said Mr. Evans, “this state alone ‘will probably require icezably ‘over 750,000 bottles a year, This is a-tre- mendous figure, but I am really con- servative in making this statement.” “Tanlac is sold by leading druggists everywhere.” =—ooSSSSSS— even this step has not been a com- plete success. It was the entering wedge for party disintegration which the I. V. A. would make complete by applying the principle to state’ gov- ernment. Now that I. V. A. initiated law abolishing party labels is' one that should be “spiked”’and “spiked” hard. te elute In Closing 'it'might be well to quote from President Harding’s speech of acceptance against ‘governmental in- terference in business such as is re- flected in both the League and'l. V. A. program. He said: a “But it matters not whether prop~ erty be taken by seizure or through the process of taxation for extrava- gant and unnecessary expenditures, there should be an end to both opera- tions, The reason is plain. Ultimate- ly the control of the resources of the people is control of the people. Either the people must own the government or the government will ‘own the peo- ple. To sustain a government of the people there must be maintained a property of the people. There can be no political independence without eco- nomic independence.” oe wer The Independent forces overlooked a golden opportunity to hoist their standard aloft honestly and uncom- promisingly for sound government without taint of socialism, but those leaders. in control preferred rather .to ‘stand on the shifting sands of a pro- gram of modified socialism. It, com- mends itself not at all to those Re- publicans in the state who desire to stand against any compromise with state. socialism. This, then, is why enthusiasm for the recall is not at white heat. There ig no outstanding leadership—no ral- jlying call to service—merely a sorry “dribble” of a program).which hardly bears. upon it honesty of purpose. ote en Ey as ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS By Olive Barton Roberts When Wally Woodchuck and his wife arrived at the top of the moun- tain, which had changed to a brown, {rocky mountain, it hadn’t rained for days and days, and they hadn’t had a idrink for dear knows when. “Hurry, Mrs. Woodchuck,” urged Wally. “We've just a few.more feet to climb, then we can taste the white frosting that seems. to be so thick everywhere, and start back honie. One thing sure, Mr. Sprinkle-Blow has kept his promise about the rain. Not. a drop since we left!” Wally took a few more. steps and reached the white stuff that he |thought was frosting and dug his face -down deep'to take a large bite. Sud- denly he gave'a whistle of delight. “Oh, Jiminy!” he cried, licking his {parched lips. “Hurry up, Mrs. Wood- | chuck, it’s snow. I see what Sprinkle- Blow meant when he said it was frosting. What he really meant was frost.. Um, yum! It’s better than spring water!” and Wally licked up a mouthful. In fact, he and Mra. Wally ate snow until they thought they ‘would burst. : Sprinkle-Blow on his magic:umbrei- Ja said to Nancy and Nick in their, Green Shoes (they had followed, you know), “Didn’t I tell you that Wally would like snow better than icing by the time he got to it!” But what was that Mrs. Wally was saying? It'was something about be- ing ahead of time, and that she and her husband had better, craw! under the snow for six. months and go to sleep. Wally: wasn’t sure about it. “No,” said Sprinkle-Blow, appearing beside them. ‘Go home .and spend the rest of the summer in peace. Wal- ly, do you want more dry weather for your return trip?” - 2: “No,” answered Wally. “Will you ‘please open . your barrel marked ‘Regular Pourdowns.’ I didn’t know what I was saying before.” (To Be Continued.) , (Copyright. 1921 by Newspaper Enter- prise). WOMEN WHO OVERWORK “Man may work from sun ‘to. sun, but woman’s work: is never’ done.” .In order to keep'the home.neat and‘at- tractive, the chldren well dressed and tidy, women continually overdo and suffer in silence, drifting along from bad to worse, knowing full well that | they need help to overcome the pains jand aches which daily make life a jburden. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veget- medicine with specific value which overcomes many of the worst forms of female com- |plaints, as the letters constantly be- jing published in this paper will prove. DAILY PHOTO SERVICE @ BISMARCK. NORTH DAK Knich all over thé oe or ® MAIL US YOUR FILMS & °