The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 20, 1921, Page 4

SMARCKTRIBUNE THEBI Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - - - Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg... Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH i NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. pt ths Sn RRS MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use| for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or; got otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. . . i 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.......-+.++ Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bisma' ly by mail, outside of North Dakota... THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ‘ (Established 1873) eg INSECT MENACE In 1892 some gray beetles, about-a quarter of an inch long, crossed the Rio Grande river, from! Mexico. They landed near Brownsville, Texas.| Agricultural scientists announced, with consider-| able alarm, that the picudo or Mexican boll weevil, had invaded the United States. i The boll weevils started to conquer the cotton belt, pushing their lines forward 50 miles a year.) In 1902 they damaged the cotton crop to the; - Editor &tent of $10,000,000, That caused alarm. | This year the destruction by boll weevils is $400,000,000. | The boll weevil has made its progress against) the best resistance that civilized man could make. ; Opposed at every corner by the ablest scientific brains, it has moved ahead and multiplied as if | nothing were in its path. you an idea of the vitality of insect life. | The boll weevil survives and multiplies because} of the excellent care it gives its young. Mother! weevil carefully drills a hole in a cotton boll, de- posits her eggs, then skillfully seals the opening. That is a piece of cunning, implanted in her brain by shrewd Mother Nature who knew that, the boll weevil would have hard battles to fight) and that its eggs must be hidden. Cotton rises in price, partly due to destruction | of the crop by the boll weevil. The higher price; is badly needed by many planters and gives them much satisfaction. | But when you figure the progess made by the boll weevil since its arrival 29 years ago, you won-| der how many years, at that rate, it may be be- fore cotton will be in danger of complete extinc-| tion from the list of Americah crops. If scientists succeed in stamping out the boll! Ployment. weevil, it probably will be by. setting loose an- other insect or a bird that is its natural enemy. As time goes on, man will realize that insects} are his greatest enemies. They always have been, but we are not sufficiently rested from the job of clearing the earth of wild animals, to compre- hend the menace of insect life. : ‘ Flies, mosquitoes, moths and boll weevils are had enough. But nature has, in readiness to keep our fighting spirit alive, to make us fight for ex- istence, countless millions of kinds of insects. We have seen what the boll weevil can do. It is only one of 25,000 different kinds of beetles. FACTS ABOUT STRIKES Each year since 1916 there have been an aver-| age of 3000 strikes and 100 lockouts in the United States. : Government reports show that over a period| of three years, 1456 strikes have been won by em- ployers, 1757 by employes, 1895 have been com- promised and in 373. the men have returned to work pending arbitration. | Government officials estimate that strikes inj 1919 cost employés. more than $800,000,000 and) employers moré ‘than %$1,300;000,000. The rail- road shopmen’s strike alone of that year cost the roads more than $300,000,000 in earnings. The big majority of strikes of the last five years| ended before the end of the third day. ROOSEVELT | A diary, written by Theodore Roosevelt during the Spanish-American War, is published. - What} - impressed T. R. most, during the battles, was the delay, stupidity and mismanagement back home| in the War Department. “They express us stuff we don’t need and send the rifles by slow freight.” Many an officer and buck private made the same comments during the World War. George; Washington probably did, too. | The trouble with officialdom is human nature.| That never changes. One generation’s problems! are about the same as another’s. | WORLD PEACE Two Kansas farmers use shot-guns against each ether, in a dispute over the location of a fence separating their farms. A strip of valuable crop- bearing land is involved. Each wants the profits from that strip. Each wants to retain the title. It’s a trade war. You see the same thing duplicated when two nations quarrel and war over a boundary line. In| icarried him in war and on long journeys. ithe week ended September 23, number of idle lindustry. That is more than is tied up in rail- ‘and wealth sent Germans on the warpath. They ‘wanted to move their fences. A movement starts in Paris, to establish.a world ‘court of justice for the arbitration of international ldisputes. That is getting down to fundamentals jin the campaign to end wars. Nearly all problems jare economic problems. Trade follows the flag— ‘and the military flag follows trade. ! et y CAPITAL A senate committee says that to provide public utilities the capital investment for each inhabi- tant must be $700. That covers electrictiy, gas| and electric railways. Before the war, the figure was $500 instead of $700. ; High prices of materials caused the increase. | Now prices are going down. i New utility ventures will require less capital. | But how to reduce the capital put into utilities, | in war-time, on the $700 basis, If you can figure! that out, Mr. Economics will be obliged. Once a! debt takes the form ‘of bonds, it loses elasticity, | | | HORSE | A horse that died 100 years ago has an $18,000; statue of himself, erected at Middlebury, Ver-| mont. From that.horse, of Arab stock, descended | the. famous breed of Morgan horses. | Horses, in general, deserve alot of statues. | They first appeared on earth 3,000,000 years ago, | the size of cats. They did man’s heavy work, | With-| out the horse, we still would be in the barbarous state. : ' We owe horses a mighty debt. Be kind to them. SHIPMENTS | Better business conditions are reported by| American Railway Association. It says that, in freight cars was reduced 18,838. That means, some one. is buying more, some one manufacturing | and shipping more. ‘ : j Idle freight cars, says the report, still exceed 400,000. That shouldn’t cause worry. It’s only one car in every six of all those owned by rail- roads. Country would be lucky if all industries were working five-sixths capacity. ARE IN THE SAME BOAT Eighty billion dollars is invested in the farming ‘ roads and manufacturing combined. William M.| Wood, president of the American Woolen Co., tells| this to a farmers’ meeting. He points out that all industries are interdependent, what happens to one affecting all. 5 Wood’s point is that industries should pull to- gether. Individuals are equally interdependent. Man who has a job may not be worrying about unem- He should be, for his job would be safer and pay more if all were working. | Break the mainspring of your watch, and the! whole works stops. Depression in business affects all, just as quickly. ETERNAL Aesop’s fables, now being {cartooned in the movies, appeal to audiences as sound common sense, same as they appealed to the Greeks 2450 years ago. ‘ The fundamental truths of life never change. We are always looking for “the truth,” yet usually the search takes us back to old ideas, tried out through the centuries. The: search is not futile. It unveils new truths. That is progress. _ \ | i 1 EDITORIAL, REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not |} 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. TERRIBLE EXAMPLE | “Why do you turn out for every road hog that! comes along?” said the missus, rather crossly. “The right-of-way is ours, isn’t it?” “Oh, undoubtedly !” answered he, calmly. ~“As| for our turning out, the reason is plainly suggest-| ed in this epitaph which appeared in a newspaper | recently : “Here lies the body of William Jay, | Who died maintaining his right-of-way ; He was right, dead right, as he sped along, | But he’s just as dead as if he’d been wrong.” —Boston Transcript. | \ OUR BIRD OF A POSTMASTER Republicans in Washington are reported to be; censuring Postmaster Concral Hays for his atti-| tude toward Postmaster E. A. Purdy of Minneap- clis. Time was when the doctrine that to the; victor belonged the spoils was geuerally accepted. } But that day is passing. Political use of patron- |8ge has so overloaded the Government with ineffi-| ciency that the public is coming more to the point | where it demands that appointments fit the jobs. {We are coming to value public servants on the basis of their services rendered to the public rath- jer than to the party. : | Postmaster General Hays may. or may not have declared that Mr. Purdy is “a bird of a postmas- jter.” If he did, he spoke the truth. What Min-| ineapolis wants is an efficient postmaster who can deliver the service. It makes mighty little the last analysis, nearly all wars, except those for| independence, are trade wars. Greed for trade; difference to what party he belongs.—Minneapolis Journal. OH, NO, OF COURSE NOT! [om Noiore a THREE MORE DEATHS FROM “ROOTLEG'—GEE, & FELLOW MIGHT AS WELL Buy A GUN AND DO.IT RIGHT ‘ INSTEAD OF DRINKIN Speaking of Hootch WHY “THAT CONCENTRATED POISON STEALS YouR. BRAINS RIGHT ODT FROM UNDER YouR HAT. AND THEN Kicks YOu ABTER. THAT, STUFF - Toucr IT VF MY BACK DoOoR- A WHOLE RIVER FULL FLOWED IN 7EM— ANOLE awewrnel _— THE SUNSET TRAIL (By Florence Borner.) When you're growing old and wea When your step is growing slower, and your When you see no joy in living, more upon this sinful vale, ; and your.cyes are getting di ir is getting‘ thin, ’Tis a sign that you are going down the Sunset Trail. You will find you have companions, and like you, they have grown old, As they slowly drifted downward where the skies have all turned gold; They have laid aside their treasure, and with faces calm and pale, They have braved their final journey, on the Sunset Trail. Oh, to Some the trail is sunny, and to others filled with gloom, As they fear the dark’ning shadows as ahead they seem to loom; And they think of old-time stories filled with superstitious awe Thus forgetting Christ, the Master, and the great, eternal Law. Each of us must take; this journey, sooner, later tho it be, ‘We must face ‘the dark’ning shadows and their uncertainty; But if we have kept, the faith, friends, then no evil can betide, And we'll find a welcome waiting when we reach the other side. I |__RECALL.CAULDRON | By the Pot Boiler, yA Both sides are’ bringing up their heavy artillery, for the final period of} the recall battle. iOniy,.a week re- maing to present to tie’ voters the arguments in the first state wide re- call election held in tie United States Gov. Preus is to spend three days in the state and it is presumed that he will devote his time almost wholly to assailing “Townleyism” and will pay little or no attention to advocat- ing any of the I. V. A. program meas- ures some of which are diametrical- ly opposed to the platform upon which ‘he won his nomination and final elec- tion in Minnesota. The League’s big card is/a brother of Josephus Daniels and a few lesser lights who will supply the eleventh hour verbal pyrotechn If anyone ig uninformed as to the issues it will be due to their own indifference and general inertia toward the ‘all be- cause every corner of the state is to be covered by advocates of both camps. * oe 8 Stutsman county eftizens under the leadership of Ormsby McHarg, who is interested in the Jamestown electric light plant and for years was asso- ciated with a prominent firm of New York city corporation attorneys, .caused a flurry of excitement by filing a suit that seeks to restrain the Bank ot North Dakota from spending any money raised from recent bond sales ‘or performing any of its functions un- til there is a court degree as to its selvency or insolvency. ‘ The political wisdom of the move is questioned by some I VA: adherents and by cthers is hailed as being part of the campaign ‘to close the state bank at Bismarck. Aside from the merits of the case which of course cannot be discussed now that the issues are before the | court for adjudication, tie. suit heralds the return of Mr. McHarg to the politi- ¢al arena of this state. For the last few months he has spent more or less time in North Dakota, McHarg was prominent in the old | aays and “mixed” in many: a political battle. He was: identified with the Roosevelt campaign. Until recently he had offices in New | lYork, but failing healtn brought him back to Jamestown, where he has large property interests. aay te The Missouri Slope 15 the doubtful zone of the recall. Both sides plan an intensive campaign ‘in this riet during the last } week. Practically every county west of the James river voted the recall down previous to the Devils Lake convention and some work has been necessary to fight the nat- ural apathy. Both the league and I. V. A. leaders claim the Slope district by a safe mar- gin. There is confidence in both camps of a decisive victory. . * 8 Job Brinton felt the punch of the League at Cando when Carl Nelson, ‘Democratic warhorse, newspaperman and Brinton’s size physically, slapped Townley’s former secretary, as he was abot to give an address in the in- terests of the recall election. This makes the second personal en- counter of the campaign, the’ first being when Brinton invited McClin- tock of the Courier-News to his room under an assumed name and when the league editcr was seated proceeded to beat him up., ee fal, The I..V. A. measures to limit party participation in the. ,overnment , af- fairs of the state are being fought vigorously by Republiceus and Demo- crats alike. The laws which passed would force two primaries on the state. one in March and another in Stine, are not popular where under- stood, and the I. V. A. speakers seem to be spending little time in their de- fense. ‘rhree elections together with the usual school, city and small political division elections add to the burden of expense and keep the state in a turmoil. There is a widespread op- n to this initiated law from men aré going to support the I. V. A. ates. Its defeat is “being pre- dicted, but in the past laws'have' been! put across where candidates’ falled: BY SATTERFIELD JES:GOT A LIL SOMETHIN')“On, Boy, YESTERDAY- AN GOT IT MIGHTY CHEAP, TOO— HOW ABOUT ONE ? JES LET TH HE WOULDNT Touctt \T-—OH NO, OF COURSE Not! D gaara a RR TONEY GT PRE ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS iv »:By Olive Barton Roberts “Oh, oh!” cried Nancy, pointing af- ter the sack which was swimming rap- idly away, “There goes the Fairy Queen’s bag of gold. Nick, we'll have to go after it.” “But how can it swim?” Nick. want- ed to know, scarcely believing his eyes, He had seen all sorts of bags with all sorts of things in them, but never ong with fins outside. “It’s the ~ gnomes,” said Nancy, “They know that we have discovered their gold and they have given the bag fins—magical ones—so it can swim away from us. If we hurty, we may catch it.” After the hurrying sack went the; Twins in their magical Green Shoes, which were just as good for swimming with as magical fins any day. And ‘then something still stranger happened. The bag began to swell up until the children were sure it was going to burst, and the more it swell- ed, the nearer it got to the top of the water. ‘ F “Wh-what’s. going ...to happen?” gasped Nancy.* “Where's it going now.” ‘By this time the queer looking sack was, quite on top of the water, so up popped the heads of the Twins right after it. Overhead, sea-gulls were cir- cling about happily, white clouds were loafing comfortably in the blue sky, and Jolly old Mr. Sun was laugh- ing down at them. Not far 1way two porpoises were turning somersaults in the water and blowing as. loud as two steam whistles. But the next thing that ‘happened was strangest of all, The sack lifted itself completely out of the water by its fins (which now looked more like wings) and away it flew throagi: the air. “Goodness,” cried Nick, “It isn't a sack at all, Nancy, It’s got eyes.” Just then one of the gulls called down, “Why, hello there, Blowy Pal- loon Fish! Out for an airing?” : (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1921, N. E. A, Service) Holland is resuming its prewar im- portance as;a coffee market, with ship- ments coming in from Java and Brazil. a er YR | EVERETT TRUE ! 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