The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 10, 1921, Page 4

at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D. Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN : : - - Editor | % Foreign Representatives i G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT... Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. : PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bidg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use not otherwise credited in news published herein. Wehr ; 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 Bismarck). 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck)... 5.00 * Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota......+.+++++ 6.00 —e ptt Rr ee ct ca RO THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Ee THE RAIN DRAGON China is recovering from its greatest famine catastrophe in several centuries. And jt probably will be her last big famine, thanks to an amazing * transformation brought about in China by a hand- ful of American relief workers and engineers. i Four years ago, the harvests of northeastern 3 => China were destroyed by floods. Droughts, earth- = quakes and plagues of locusts ruined the crops the three following years. Terrible agony fdllowed! fought starvation by eating’grass roots, and clay. Five hundred: thousand died. Rains this summer have brought China its first good harvest since 1916. The famine is over. Chinese rejoice. They are doubly jubilant that -= wizards from Amefica have conquered the Rain ~~ Dragon, China’s curse for centuries. For Americans -have made future famines in t Fifty million Chinese tree bark ane casas 3 —irrigation! anes American engineers, sent into the Chinese fam- ine districts, discovered that at all times there is abundance of water 20 feet underground. | Thousands of wells were dug, the water brought i= up‘and sent forth in irrigation ditches. Today, all through China, farmers are digging wells and de- * ~~. fying the Rain Dragon to do its worst. i: ¢ That water vein had been there for thousands of years. Ignorant of its existence, millions of Chinese died of starvation above it. : It took Amer- . icans to teach Old Orientals new tricks. Fe ere renee Irrigation is only one of the things which, in- troduced by’American relief workers, have moved the clock of progress ahead centuries in China. ' +. the ‘interior, the American Red Cross built 900 +<» miles of roads. It had to. The Chinese have tried ,. the new highways—and. gone crazy on road-build- ing. Over those roads move carts, introdticed by the Red Cross. They are shoving out the Chinese sees to use for transporting grain as far.as 40, miles... American automobiles salesmen will follow the carts. fee Scena : Out of the terrible famine will ‘come’ tremend- «. 0US progréss for China. ~'- Progress is painful, and wise Providence_may have sent the 1917-1920 famine as a blessing in disguise. : SEE MACHINERY ELIMINATE Human labor throws off another chain. Elec- tric motors and machinery eliminate breaker: boys “and mules in an anthracite mine owned’ by ‘the Pennsylvania Coal Company. tage H Man is another step nearer the ‘day when ma- chinery will do his work. All of it? Never! Two hundred:breaker boys leave the mine. But 15 have to stay onto run the machinery. That ‘ wilh always be necessary, also human labor. to for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or} this paper and also the local | 0; About 2000 men and women are awaiting trial| x ‘China almost impossible by teaching the Chinese} In Shantung province, to get food supplies to! a wheelbarrows which the first relief wrokers had; dwellers of the Mississippi, who oc their children’s clothes on them. for i YEGGMEN Yeggmen in the last 12 months burglarized 240 banks, says the American‘ Bankers Association, Total lost was only $239,087.95, an average haul for each “job” of $996. " Usually it has to be di-| vided among a gang. It’s a queer sort of warped brain that will risk ‘death or liberty in a venture that nets only $996. ‘And for every 166 successful bank burglaries, | 74 failed entirely. Does crime pay? Not even in dollars and cents. | CRIME | in the District of Columbia, on criminal charges lranging from grand larceny to murder. \ "Sixty per cent of them are under 35 years of | age. Criminals among elderly people are exceptional. The longer one lives in this world, the more im-| |pressed he becomes with the truth that crime ;doesn’t pay. | | Then, too, it takes at least 35 years for a hu-! ‘man to get his emotions and evil instincts under jcontrol. Usually, longer. i WHICH? | | A magazine asks: “If you were a part of a, ‘watch, which would you rather be, its face or its i\mainspring ?” ; That’s an allegorical question, to set you think-; ‘ing on what job you’d most like to hold in the ibusiness world. i Our guess is that the average person would pass up the chance of being the face or the mainspring of a watch, and select the job of being the pretty girl’s picture in the back of the case. After all,| the whole watch runs only for her. So does the owner, © elie M6 ; UTKES | f | Precious whisky is fed to albino mice, by scien-| |tists of the Carnegie Institute. Report says the iliquor makes the mice grow faster, become stronger, and ready to give battle to the cat. That pleases wets, who hypnotize themselves into believing that strong drink doesn’t destroy the body tissues. The report, however, adds that prohibition mice lead in mentality and find their way out of mazes imore rapidly than their tippling brothers. That| [pleases the drys, who knows that whisky’s great- est curse is in the way it drugs. the brain.,, ! 1 i | | ‘ i PAY Did wages hit bottom in July? Are they now jmoving up? In New York state factories, the average employe made 17 cents a day more, in August, than in July. Economists watch these) |New. York {factory figures closely,’ considering them a national barometer. New York factory employes received average! of $24.48 a week each, in August. This compares| with an average of $12.48 a week in 1914, and with $28.93 a week in October 1920, the highest! ever reached. : pintenie’ How does your income compare with New York factory Workers?! t RURAL Only seven out of every 100 American farms now have gas or electric lights. Ohio ranks first! on the list. Progress still has a long way to go before the! farmer has as many conveniences and comforts! as the city chap. ‘ What is he getting to compensate him for the handicap? Not much,.at present prices. But life! down on, the farm growsjnore attractive each| year. Old-time,farmers, will agree. tie “Back to thé’ land” ‘movement will not gain much headway until rural life becomes as attrac- tive as living in cities. : 5 (Copyright 1921 by J Published: by arrang When the prosperous though unpro- gressive firm of Casper W. Leslie & Co., grocers, hired him they thought they had’secured an ordinary clerk, and gave themselves no further con- cern. They already had a force of about a dozen ‘clerks, besides half a dozen delivery teams. They had hired clerks for twenty years, and it was to them a troublesome and vexatious pro- ceeding. They frowned at first at his slight frame, but when he put a pros- trate sugar barrell on end with easy unconcern, all objections were imme- diately withdrawn. ‘His surname was thg leveling one of Smith, and his Christian name—high- ly Christian—Hezekiah, His mother called him “Zeke” and his companions “Breezy,.’) Breezy, tered upon his work whis- tling is ope epntent.. He was at the bott f the commercial hill, and was preparing to run up to the top. He star-high amhitions to make nae yi Svesuffairs’ to make him forgetgul, and, no.vicos to keep him fae Hotie his helt here wient a lazy: in hig dy. ‘He was no tall. orton bel , gfe would have been lazy. He'was short, thin, black- eyed, nervous, and muscular. Before hizs ponderous companions got an idea through their heads, Breezy was halt With the action. A few thought jwas|a genius; but they were mistaken. , Breezy. was innocent of the smallest spark. He just had a heavy capital of*nervous enersy that made him work while others were aon- tent to lounge. They put him behind the fruit coun- ter. ‘His first. act was to clean it up and “fix things” generally. “Such a rum way of doing business,” he mut- tered, quite like an experienced gro- cer, scowling at the hidden waste and slipshod displays of his predecessor. When he was through with the count- er there was absolutely no fault to find with it. But he wa3 not satisfied with it.. (He went into, the cellar and start- ed to aw and nail some boxes to make receptacles for various things back of his counter, H “What are you doing here?” said the pompous and obese superintendent, finding him at work. “Oh,” said Breezy carelessly, “I'm just getting some boxes in shape put dirt and tools in at my counter.” “We have got a carpenter to do BREEZY, GROCER’S CLERK .. By J. George Frederici nent with the Literary. + manufacture the, machinery and keep it in repair. ‘Human labor—work—is the price of civiliza- =: tion. sformiietees!| testes ASS There will be work, as long as man survives ‘and remains civilized. The one-hour work day may come. But it will take at least centuries, : probably, thousands of years. i ‘ TRAMPS , You cannot get away from the law of supply $ and demand as long as you live in three dimen- sions. Einstein hasn’t told of whether. the law holds good in the fourth dimension, but probably it does. eS ee The Shipping Board cuts ocean’ freight rates on grain a third. That is made necessary by the competition of tramp freighters. When there are more ships than cargoes; sup- ply and demand make the price fall. Same with wages when men exceed jobs. It works the other| way when cargoes exceed ship or jobs exceed men to fill them. We all have our ups and downs—but they’re mostly ups. : BATHS . Man invented the pottery bath tub so he could bathe without chopping a hole in the’ river’ice. Then came a wooden tub, next a tin one, then the more sanitary porcelain-lined tub. : But the bath-tub, every time you bathe, merely dissolves 108,000,000 body germs, invigorates them, sends them back into the pores, hence it must give way to the shower bath, say scientists at Northwestern University. EDITORIAL REVIEW s—== |. Comments reproduced in ‘this column fay or may, not J! express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here ! in order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. i |) BRITISH DUKE WANTS TO WORK | The Duke of Manchester is to be a movie star.| | He is coming to New York under contract to start’ immediately upon a: production for the sereen.! The most recent announcement by this versatile, ‘scion of the English nobility is causing a lot of, opposition, but apparently threatened disfavor means little if anything in his young life. The titled husband of the former Miss Helena’ Zimmerman deserves credit for getting out and | rubbing elbows with the world. He may be some-, what wanting in the necessary balance, but at, ‘east he can’t he ruled off for trying. He has tried) ‘almost everything. He is a writer of more than ordinary ability, he has tried his hand at promo- tion and at present there appears no good and suf- ficient reason why he should not have a fling at the picture game. | Nobility is going cheap in Europe these days. Titles and baronial estates are at a discount. Princes, princesses, grand dukes and archduch- esses are resorting to.many means and methods ito escape poverty. Surviving monarchs have their hands full to maintain their own ‘positions | and can ill afford to restore fallen relatives. In| |this exigency by all means Jet us encourage those who show a real desire to earn their own’ way.— This ought to interest all except house-boat;S8” Francisco Chronicle, _ : jthat,” said the superintendent with ‘displeasure; ‘‘get’ up where you belong and ’tend to your custome:s.” ‘Breezy went up, and finished the poxes later, while the superintendent was absent. He cleaned the fruit on his stand four timo3 a day. “It gets lso blamed mussed up,” he said to a fellow ‘clerk, who looked askance at the action. “The other clerk didn’t” replied his companion suggestively. “Didn't he?” said Breezy coolly. Of course the clerks laughed at him. His tle was awry and of objectionable hue, and his trousers lacked the pro- per cut and crease. The fruit trade was slow, and Breezy was highly impatient. The superin- tendent compelled him to stay behind his counter, and he had tio gaze im- jpatiently over the bustling crowd of the store, which seemed to stop at every other counter but his. Twice when. the superintendent was not about, he made a personal canvas among the shoppers and secured a number of sales. The third time he was discovered and: peremptorily or- dered back. After closing time. Breezy was ab- sent-minded and restless. The noise of the overhead cash system; the aroma of freshly roasted coffe2, of bacon, and of cheese; the click of the weighing scales; the scraping of the busy scoops; the shrill stacca‘) of the register hells and opening drawers; the rustle of the wrapping paper; the shuffle of hurrying fo2t; the rumble of the drays on the cobbles outside; the incessant hum of voices, and the ever changing panorama of stioppers—all these had become to Breezy the breath of life, and he sighed for them longingly ere the evenings were over. He had‘a printing press, and he set. type as a means of diversion—all mat- ter,concerning the grocery store. ‘He set up a card and embodied in it an idea that he had conceived. He printed 500 of them—all the cardboard Ye WV WHO. CAN PRO g Z FE Vwi SLADIN PAY Vie No 7, (%\000 TOANY. ONE VE e, AIS SOAP CONTAINS |/2°4 ANY THINS GENUINE But PERUVIAN) NE SETABLE, OILS": ail ADR, HOOPER SPENDING MADE OFFER LAST EVENING— 2 deb a8 Uyai an i edefidk yt} olseyl Gace AY G. icate. he had. They were invitations to the public to have any and all sorts of fruit delivered at their homes at any time by telephone orders. He-laid one on Mr. Leslie’s desk the next morning. “Thompson,” Breezy heard Leslie call shortly afterwards to the super- intendent, ‘‘this is a go0d idea. How many did you have printed?” Thompson grew red, “I didn’t have any printed,” he replied in surprise. Leslie frowned, and called his partner, who also professed ignorance. Breez; watched them from behind the regis- ter, and then ventured forward. | “1 printed them on my own press. ‘Here are 500 more.” ‘Leslie looked again at the card, then raised his eyebrows at Thompson, who nodded in return, seeming to sig- nify that this was the clerk mentioned in some previous conversation. “You may hand in your bill for them to the bookkeaper,’ said Leslie,evenly; “and, Thompson, you may have them properly. distributed.” # He was paid for his cards, and also there was an extra dollar in his week- ly pay envelope that . Saturday. He promptly bought the best sedt in the theater. They found him the next week in the telephone booth, calling up suc- cessively from a list of over 100 resi- dences. “Is this Mrs. Jones?” he would ask... “Pardon me; Mrs. Jones; this is Leslie's,’ We would like to sell you some groceries.” And then he would enter into conversation for an order. The other people on the line were in- dignant, and the exchange told him that he was not the only lung on the line. But in less than an hour Breezy had hurry orders aggregating twenty dollars, and Leslie himse!f closed Thompson's mouth of wrath at neg- lected customers by a word of com- | mendation. The firm’s telephone trade had nev- er been worked up, and Breezy printed announcements inviting customers to use the ’phone to send their orders. A ‘phone was placed behind the fruit counter and Breezy took the orders. He did more. “You're going to bake, aren't you?” ‘he askedof the houte- wives when they ordered flour, larl, J. Geor rs ft EVERETT TRUE DAiey seca. FOR PUBLICATION, AND ARR Rpn 1 ete. |; Mewspaper ads. AWEEK HERE - OUR CITIZENS A VERY LIBERAL “Isn't your baking powder Didn't you neoi some new We've got a splendid new pan here. Patented. Only eight cents, too.” And.so on. “Here, Mr. Thompson,” he ‘called to the superinteadent as he pasged one day, “who makes these sign cards?” “Tommy, the shipping clerk,” re- plied Thompson shortly. “I have just thought,” said Breezy reflectively, “that I might make a nicer one for this counter. May | try one?” ti “Yes; ‘but don’t neglect your coun- er.” Breezy had just received a large “quantity of splendid figs that, morning which were selling at.a really attract- ‘ive price. But the firm had not even given him price cards:to put on them, and had not mentioned them in the “How in blazes do they expect to sell these?” he grum- bled... .“Nobody . knows anything about them.” When, therefore, he had surprised the busy shipping clerk by asking for the card-making tools, and had ‘made a few simple price cardé for other goods, it occurred to. him, that he might as well make a fig’ sign. * It was prettily lettered, and: it read: “These. figs are good, clean figs and you won't be able: to buy them very many days.” The clerks leered at him when he put it over his figs, re- arranging the boxes artistically on the counter. Thompson didn’t happen around any more that day, but in the gone? pans? evening Breezy sought him out.. ‘The. figs were all gone.’ ‘i “H’m” said the superintendent: “you must ‘have had an ‘extra run on figs today.” ‘Over the new supply that he receiv- ed the next morning, the clerks read from another card: “More good, clean figs at this price. They'll only last -through the day though.” It seemed as if everybody that came into the store that day bought figs. Thompson came to the fruit corner out of curiosity. attracted by the crowd there, which Breezy was waiting upon with a sat- isfied and dexterous alacrity. He ele- vated his eyebrows at the sign. “Who made that sign?” he asked when the crowd cleared off. “Me,” said Breezy in a hugtle at the cash. register. “H’m, h’m,” said the superintendent, strolling off. Wann BY CONDO —_——_————————S encore “MR. TRUG, THIS tS THE EOITOR OF THE WE UNDERSTAND You RAD SONGS DIFFICULTY WITH A NEIGHBOR. WOULD You CARS TO MAKE A STATSMENT ALLOW CUR STAFE PHOTOS RACHER TO dome Our ANO Ger ‘A PICTURE OF You TO RUN WITH THE YEs, Siu Give out ANO AFTGR a BIT ST CAMGRA MAN Me, NGEIGHROR FECLOW BOUGHT A GRNGT AND 4 SGLF-INSTRUCTION BOOK AND STARTSS Iw STATEMENT | TNIS | starter ini! | THE INSTRUCTION BOOK IS STILL IN Goop) i CONDITION, BUT INSTGAD OF YouR SETTING A P:\CTURS OF -HAVE HIM GET ONG OF THe CoRNET & : all | ‘Mrs. Peterson Suffered Awful Pains After Every Meal— - Is Now Well As Ever Declaring she was actually starv- ‘ing to keep, from suffering awful misery, Mrs. Amy Peterson, wife of a prosperous farmer of Lakeville, Mass., gave out a remarkable state- ment, recently, in connection with her relief through the use of Tanlac. “Sometimes I wonder how I lived {through it all’ she said. “I would have attacks of acute indigestion nearly every time I ate anything. Those terrible cramping paing and the distress from gas and bloating were almost unbearable and I just thought there was no hone for me. “But now I’m eating anything and T feel as strong and well as I ever felt. in my life. I’ve gained back all -|the weight I lost and six pounds be- sides and I know from my experience what Tanlac will do. It's the best medicine in the world.” “Tanlac is sold by leading druggists everywhere.” The next day it was raisins at a bar- gain, and Breezy’s sign said: “We ‘bought fifty boxes of these’ seedless raigins and we are going to sell them at —cents a pound until they are ail gone.” “How many boxes of those seedless raisins went out today?” asked Thomp- son that evening, looking sourly at the sign. “I’m agraid they won’t go very- well.” Na ie oh “Twenty-five,” answered Breezy. “What!” said, Thompson, staring over his spectacles. |. “Twenty-five,” repeated Breezy. + (Continued on page 8.) AT THE REX, Fields & La Adelia, a singing and dancing team in an act called “The Broken Elevator.” Bert and Harry Marks two funny Hebrcw comedians, and Cato S. Keith, Maude Parker and Ben Howe, in a sketch “R. U. Mar- ried,” are the attraction today at the Rex in adddtion to the picture pro- gram of Alice Brady in “The Land oz Life” and an O’Henry comedy—this show plays the Rex today only. AT THE BISMARCK Lester Crope made ~ commotion enough by telling his highly colored lies in the village of Branfield. The people there had no use for him. |-Threats, however, had no ‘effect on him. There was talk of the reforma- tory, but that was given up to the suggestion: of sending Lester to a brain specialist. Then Branfield found it had put its foot in it.. For Lester came back with an incurable propen- sity for telling the truth. He had put on. “Garments of Truth”, for good, it would seem. Which, oddly enough, proved financially. disastrous to Barnfield. It’s ‘a good story, “Gar- ments. of . Truth,” and with Gareth Hughes as the star, it's more than a good picture. See it at The Bismarck Theater tonight. THE ELTINGE. ‘ “Gypsy Blood,” starring Pola Negri, the great emotional actress of the European continent, who made her de- but on the American screen in “Pas- sion,” is showing at the Eltinge. the- ater today and tomorrow. “Gypsy Blood” is adapted from Pros- per: Merimee’s- original story of “Car- men.” Twice before las “Carmen” ‘been done in films, put in those in- stances they were adaptations of the popular French librettos put to music by Bizet for the opera instead of fron. the original story, which is quite a different matter. Pola Negri will be seen in the role of La Carmencita. Harry Liedtke, who played Armand De Foix in “Pas- sion,” appears as Don Jose Navarro, the Spanish dragoon who becomes a victim of his own love tor the charm- ling but fickle cigarette, girl. |. Kinograms an Topivs of the day are jon the same program. Ye RU eM RET BE ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS By Olive Barton Roberts “Oh!” Loppy Lobsters eyes, always poppy, nearly popped out of his head. “Here comes one of the cotton-spin- ‘ners I told you about! I'll bet he’s the one who spun all that white thread around you!” The Twins looked where Loppy was {pointing with one of his long feelers, and beheld another green creature, long and round and warty, like a cu- cumber out of Farmer Smith's sass- patch garden, creeping slowly toward them, “Oh, quick!” cried Loppy. “Take off your hands at once, children. And then he did a most amazing thing, Loppy did. He shook off, both of his large claws, one after the other and laid them down on thc white sand. “Wh—what's that for?” gasped Nick Loppy looked sadly at his claws anc shook his head. “Now I've got to dis- appear again for a few weeks untii new ones grow, he said mournfully. “But one has to do something when an enemy comes.” But Mr. Cucumber Cotton-Spinner searcelv wave bim a giance. He came close to the Twins. “You don’t need to take your hands off.” he told them in an uppish tone. “I’m not afraid of you.a bit, now that I have you all tied up with my strong line. Lop Lobster jis a little weak in his head or he -wouldn’t take the troubie he does. He j} takes off his claws every time he thinks he’s in danger, fur all the goo2 it does him! “Fortunately, I’m not troubled with claws.” “Or a’ head, either, I should say,” Nancy couldn’t help observing. “Tut.” said Mr. Cotton-Spinner sharply. “That’s no way to talk to your jailer. Besides, my stomach makes up ; for. my brains. I've just eaten the pink | pearl!” | (To Be Continued.) i (Copyright, 1921 NEA Service.)