The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 8, 1921, Page 4

j + GEORGE D. MANN : : PAGE POUR rHEBISMARCKTRIBUNE SLA 7 SE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. 2 . Editor Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO Mi tte Bldg. ube PAYNE, BURNS AND SM NEW YORK - is - MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT Kresge Bldg. ITH i i ivel; titled to the use|, s " r sore Associated Frees is exci ethos eredited to it or army, the national guard. There is an opening and also the local! awaiting you, if you care to join. not otherwise credited in this paper wews published herein. All rights of republication are also reserved. bosch tein at area MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE, Daily by carrier, per year.... $72 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) i Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) A Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.....se++e+++ 6,00 ‘THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER . (Established 1873) ip RAIN OR SHINE Wallace Morris, pride of the postoffice at Washington, D. C., has been a letter carrier since 1879. At 63, he daily climbs 2400 steps and walks 17 miles, carrying a 50-pound pouch of mail. He many of you other elderly men could do that? Few. ri of special dispatches herein Few of us appreciate that bearer of joys and sorrows—-the postman. Rain or shine, he is on the job. Without him, families would drift apart, friends would become forgotten when separated, end business would slow down to a snail’s pace. Next to the tranip of a returning victorious army or the slow and cautious thud of circus- parade elephants, there is no footsteps as allur- jing as the postman’s. i The wholeworld awaits his coming—eager lov- ‘ers, anxious mothers, hopeful business men, wor- ried venturers, cornered conspirators, despairing failures. For the postman tells your fate, better than gypsy palmists or ouija boards. Wise old Ben Franklin in 1775 negotiated the transfer of the postoffice from private to govern- ment ownership. It was not until 1840 that Sir Rowland Hill, Englishman, invented the postage stamp, adopted seven years later by the United States. Free mail delivery and collections from letter boxes are commonplace, yet they orgiinated with- in the memory of many now ‘living. They were originated and put into operation in 1863 by Jos- eph William Briggs, then a window delivery clerk in the postoffice of Cleveland, Ohio. A bronze memorial to him will be placed in the Cleveland postoffice by the Ohio Society of New York. Honor him-as one of the unknown many who gave us our daily comforts. Considerable progress has been made since Jan. 22, 1673, when America’s first mail carrier left) New York for Boston with a single letter, making _ the trip in the record time of two weeks. To grasp that progress, also the intricacy of our form of civilization, remember that the Amer-; ican postoffice: handles 18,000,000,000 letters a year. Hats off to the carriers. SPENDING Boston leads the 10 largest cities in municipal extravagance. She spends at the rate of $35.06 a year for every resident — men, women and chil- - dren. : That compares with Pittsburg’s rate of\$29.81, New York $28.34, Los Angeles $26.62, Philadelphia $24.55,| StiiiLouis $23.37, Chicago $22.52, Detroit $21.13; Cleveland $20.96, Baltimore $15.96. These figures, compiled by the National Secur-| ity League, show that budgets are needed just as much by cities as by the national ‘government. The 10 leading cities are spending at a rate-per- resident about half as much as the national gov- ernment, though they have no war debt to.carry. it \ WORK-WOMEN The Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission | says a working girl has to have $13.50 a week for living expenses. The budget, by which this figure; is arrived at, includes 20 cents a week. for vacation and 20 cents a week for laundry. That would give a girl $10.40 for her yearly vacation. And 20 cents a week wouldn’t go far on a laundry bill. Minimum wage, is right! RAILROADS About 300,000 trained railroad workers are idle in the United States, says Dr. Julius Parma- lee, director of the Bureau of Railway Economics. Those working total 1,700,000. Three in every 20 are idle. ~That probably is the most accurate figure on national unemploy- ment, for freight movement is a good general barometer. DRESS There never was a time that women dressed so sensibly as in 1921, says President Murlin of Bos- ton University. Your first thought is: What office is he run- _ ning for? But Murlin apparently has no political ambi- tions. He is just an analytical scientist and psy- chologist. He attributes women’s extreme fash- ions to their living in the Jazz Age — jazz in clothes, music, society, home, education, art, liter- ature. i That isa natural reaction from the war. We are all so glad the'war is ove Fifth Ave. Bldg. enlisted only 126,000 officers and privates. that-we are jazzly j Des Moines Register... ‘capering about in ‘glee. "Rejoicing will cease, as the world discovers that it has to toil to carry the \war debt. Jazz will die, normalcy return. Date? ‘About 1926. \ | GUARD | The authorized streugth of the national guard ‘is 215.397. Membership campaigns so far have! | Until the world disarms, we shall need a reserve | | FASHIONS By next summer, half the men will be wearing’ | knee pants. This dreadful warning is. spread; © broadcast in Chicago at the fall exhibition of the! \United National Clothiers’ Association. | | |. Does this mean that suits bought recently are’ going to shrink that much? | KICK a] | Raw juice from sauerkraut, shaken up with ice,| ‘makes a cocktail with a real kick, says George E. | Wolf, president of Chicago hotelmen. i ! The chief difficulty of prohibition is that ‘Mother Nature turns almost every kind of food! into alcohol, if you catch it at the right moment. Candy fiends pathologically are\ mild forms of! /drunkards, though they rarely know it. i USELESS 4 ONLAS _ What is an education worth? ‘In Boston, Ed- jward B. Batash, a Syrian youth, speaks six lang- |uages fluently but is unable to get a job. | { | His plight is a lot like that of the average col-| lege graduate who has not specialized: He knows| too much that cannot be turned into cash. Get) ia practical ‘education first. After that,-if you| thave time, become cultured and versatile. | PREPARING | Was the steel industry over-built during the; ‘war? Has it more mills and equipment than |peace-time demand can keep busy? U. S. Steel \Corporation does not think so. It will spend $10,- ;000,000 on new plants.’ \ | Authorities disagree about when the next boom |will start. But the ablest business men believe that ‘we are in for a great period of ‘prosperity, possibly the greatest. ever, when it, finally gets started. . Regarding prosperity, ‘the country at: present is not participating but it is preparing. | OPIUM | Hsuan-Tung, the boy emperor, was ousted from} ithe Chinese throne in 1912., . His, mother, the | Princess Chin, commits suicide by. taking. opium. \She was disappointed because,.of the proposed ;marriage of her ex-emperor son with the daugh-| {ter of President Hsu Shi-chang. ‘That is the ru- mor, probably correct. Je With the ex-kaiser weeding’ his own garden, and in China an ex-emperor scheduled to marry) ithe daughter of a republican president, royalty’ icertainly is on the toboggan. | HANDICAP Machinists, ahoy! Gerald Ensing, blind since ichildhood; won a Red Cross scholarship .in the University of Michigan. In the college engineer- ing shops he daily runs lathes, planers, shapers, grinders and drill presses. He reads a microm-| jeter accurately and soon will be a tool maker. His leyes are in his fingers. | | Watching Ensing move about his machines and | all cver the shops, you would wonder how he| dodges accidents such as clothes caught in ma- chinery. The answer is obvious—constant indi- vidual caution. That’s real Safety First. With-! out it, automatic safeguards are not of much ' value. Play safe! EDITORIAL REVIBW — ee 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. j THE AGE OF MARRIAGE | | The New York Sun has gathered statistics for |New Ycrk which show that in that city the aver- \age age of marriage for both men and women is ithe same as in 1911. The average man, the sta- |tistics show, marries at 28, and the average wo- man at 24. — Out of a representative group of fifty couples iin 1911 three women were older than their hus- \bands, four women were of the same age as their, husbands, and the other forty-three women were \younger than their mates. Three of the group were ten or more ycars younger than their hus- bands. Of fifty couples of 1921, six women were ‘older than the men they married and five were the same age. ; : Italians marry youngest, according to the fig- |ures, while Jews marry at the most advanced age.} Various Southern European races in New York show tendencies toward_marriage at an early age, while most native-born Americans marry at the average age. | The tendency among the less fore-handed peo- ples is, of course, to marry. young without regard for ability to support a wife. There is among other peoples a tendency to wait to marry, until the husband is approaching financial independ- ence or until he has a business or a.position which will enable him to-afford comforts and luxuries.— |tion,. The defeat cf these measures THE DOUGHBOY ve (Florence Borner.) ' When Uncle Sammy needed ‘men, ‘The Doughboy angwered:. “Here.” And quickly left his ‘o save our flag, so other work, dear; For, if he hadn’t, don’t you see, We could not boast of liberty. Wherever Duty calls, he’s there, 1 Reliant, proud.to serve, The country. that he loves so well, ‘Her “reedom to preserve: And, gladly he. will risk his life, At time of battle’s din and strife. He is the guardian of our, peace, Preserver of our law, A better scrapper ne’er was seen— He fills the world with awe; For when he fights, he’s in to stay, Until he’s vietor of the tray. Doughboyrs—God bless them, every one, { They are our hope and pride; “Phe »They iurned the :oe And brought an cnd viours °f a :ree-vorn vace ide i t great war, Whose like was never seen before. Heroic lads, we hope at iast, ", That cruel wars are o’er; 4 That we shall never The cannon’s ‘earful But, we will ever love you, sons, Because of those brave deeds you’ve done. UNLIMITED POWERS, (Grand Forks Herald.) One may well wonder just what comfort the league forces are getting out of the defeat c! the proposed c¢ stitutional amendment and statutes submitted by petition at the late elec- due to the fact: that practiclly all of the administration supporters voted against them while al thousand of those who voted for the Indepent- ent candidates did not take the tro ble to vote on the laws at all. It similar proportion of the leaguers had been negligent in their voting’ the laws would have been passed by ma- jorities only ‘slighly less than those given the, three Independent candi- dates. Mr. Townley has through all these years scught to inspire his followers with the determination to “stick.” Not all of them have stuck, but those who {did stick did so pretty thoroughly. Here we see the effect of discipline and habit. The Independent forces have not: been so .well trained. — And be- cause of this reaction to discipline the leaguers are now confronted with the situaton that the Independent can- didates whcze election they sought to prevent, will have charge of the ad- | ministration, while the measures by which it was sought tc limit the pow jers of the state-officials went by the board and:the powers of the incoming administration will be as nearly un- limited as'are those cf the men who are to retire. Inasmuth as 'Mes:rs. scn and Kitchen’ are elected, wouldn't some of those who voted “no” on the Froposed ‘laws like to reconsider their votes, on, that: hallot The constituticnal. amendment pro- posed had as ‘one of its main pur- poses, the limitation of the authority of’ the state administration to issue bonds. That measure fixed the total Nestos/ John- \himit cf indebtedness, prescribed the purposes for which bonds might be issued, and prohibited the issuance of further bonds without further permis-~ sion direct from the people. That measure is defeated, and the coming administration will have the same pawers'to issue bonds at will, and for any purpose, that have been held by the present administration. . One of the initiated laws made pro- vision for the deposit of public funds by taxing bodies. .So far as munici- palities are concerned the defeat of this measure will not affect the ad- ministration at all. -Under the law as jit stands, municipalities are not re- quired to deposit. with the Bank of North Dakota. The people attended to that matter last fall. But it is held that the municipalities are left with- out specific instructions, as -to what \they are to do with their money, and those who have defeated the law will find their county, school .and other treasurers doing some. guessing on that subject. The initiated iaw providing for the liquidation ef the Bank of North Da- kota failed. Consequently the bank will continue to exist on such terms ag the new administration may think most advantageous fur the state. But su far as authority goes, the new of- ficials will have the rignt tc sell bonds right and left for the purposes of this bank, and. to spread. themselves over creation, as the :present officials have tried to do. They imay transfer |tunds from one account to another, and may exercise powers as nearly unlimited as can be imagined. Another law sought to provide specifically for the creation of a rural credits bank, The voters would not have it so, and what may be done im this direction will be entirely at the discretion of the new people. As the law stands, the 4ndustrial commission is the government of the state, so far as its: industrial and financial relaticns are concerned. Its yowers are vested in three men, and are almost without limit. These three men are empowered to buy or build and operate elevators, mills, packing plants, creameries, and anything else that may appeal to their fancy. They may establish markets and branches here or in any other state or countr: If they choose to put a line of steam- ers on the Atlantic and to maintain offices and distributing organizations in all the European capitals, there is nothing in the iaw to, prevent them. ‘The governor is the head of the com- mission, and under the terms /of the law, he is practicaily: the dictator in its activities. A good many people thought that the powers of the com- mission were too great, that the gov- ernor’s position was*too autocratic, and that it would be better to have 1 commission réstricted to a single en- terprise, with its personnel separated entirely from the political adminis- tration of the state. )A_ bill incorpor- ating these features was proposed by initiative, and the well-drilled sup- porters of the administration voted _ _s@agasnst it and a lot of the “other: peo- WHAT PAPERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE RECALL : hear again, voar; ’ 'ple forgot to vote for it. Hence it wa i defeated, in ; | The coming: industrial: commission | Will be c the governor, ‘the attorney + general and the commissioner of agricultur and labor, the same powers that the governcr | has now.: The commission willbe au- | thorized to do anythii g that the pres- ent commission is authorized to do. It will have authority aver the Bank of ‘North Dakota; the Home Builders? association, the mill and elevator, and verything else that the state under- takes in an industrial or ‘financial way, ae | pee aes i er [PEOPLES FORUM | —— THE BATTLE CALE Editor Tribune: OF ERE ACE: All over the world is sounding ‘a |new battle. cry-—the battle call of ‘Peace. Great men and women of all ; Nations are gathering to discuss dis- armament. oon And, what a grand and_ glorious thing it.is, that on the day. that the | reat world war ceased, just three years from the first Armistice Day, should be held the great disarmament conference. 3 The great men who led our troops and those of our brave allies to the final victory, gre, once_more, leading the nations—but not to war—let us hope to 4 great and lasting peace. . And, you: brave-heroic soldiers, you who made victory possible are at last to_reap the reward for which you so fro2ly offeredsup your brave young liv You went to war to end all wars, 4nd to. bring world-wide democ- racy to the earth. You went tio war. that all nations might have universal veace, and, at last your hopes are to be realized. But, if we are to have a true and. lasting peace, we must be willing to make sacrifices, and demand cther countries do likewise; we can never attain peace while. we are arm- ing ourselves as never before. We can never hope to end war while we are turning mpte and more toward militarism. ; An armed nation is to be feared, and courts disaster. “If we would have friends, we must prove ourselves friendly.” Likewise, if we wish to end war, wo must show the other na- tions that we are friendly, and have no ulterior motives toward them. Fw can we do this while we are armed to the teeth? Will they not he- lieve our overtures of friendship are mere pretences? Will they. not feel thet we are looking toward conquest, and our talk of disarmament is mere- ly a blind by which we hope to {ol represent thetr countries at this im- rortant conference remembo- The eyes.of the world are looking to- ward them:to abolish that dread thing war. ‘The hopes of all people of all | EVERETT TRUE. ee So YOUR NACATION. SINCE HE W ON HIS VA= CATION £ | 1tnations are fastened on, this meeting » | attained; there will be: jealousies to tituted as at present, ‘of{ THe governor will ‘have! You'®e USAVING FoR | HAVE TSENDING ME Some YOU. HEARD ‘FROM Your fF = — ——FRIGND SMITH [CHCAre SOULS Me Wewant no more secret conferences; we want every- jthing) clear and above board; we {want to know who, are truly seeking peace, and who are dodging the is- ; sues; in short we want to know which ‘nations, really. wish peace, and which lo. 119t; then,. we will know how to ‘and its outcome. | Dividet by factions, hate and jeal- ‘ousics, ‘the little ‘countries of Europe) jand tho: representing’ their inter- j ests, will have to go-aclong.way to rend this internal strife. But, if they {once see that this is the only way by|, i Which they can live, and if the larger { fons are firm, I believe they can be ught to see that their hope lies in niversal. peace. KS ‘ There will. bo many prodlems met jand-solyed hefore we can rest. assur- | jed that at last our hopes have: been fovercome ani suspicions to quiet.! | There Will be many things to settle, jand the only way we can: attain uni- ersal peac« is'for each. nation to ive and take. The spir't of intoler- | e must not be permitted to gain a {hold at this great conference; all !must work for. the common good, and jnot for the good of a few. | Right here, we should say to the joliticians of all countries: “Hands ff." Once let politics enter the meet- ing, and we might as well give up at jonce. Politics can cause more dis- urbance and bitterness in a given itime than anything else. Policies | must he discussed at this meetin3, ;but politics—never! On the whole, [conditions seem to favor this con- ‘ference at this time. The common |people are tired and sick of war as jnever before, and the different coun- itries ave so near bankruptcy that a most hardened © politician ees something must be cone. If each country will only remember ‘to bear and forbear, and if the spirit of bro‘herly Jove rules, we s@2 no rea- on why our hones of universal peace should not he fulfilled. However, if there is so much differcace of oninion. jand the conference threatc1s to end idisastrously, then, the great mass of common people must rise and speak out in the cause of justice. Unless they do this, rence, instead jof bringing universal peace will have been the harbinger of more cruel and bitter wars. ‘ LORENCE BORNER. a ra, , Y IN TEACHING, Burnstad, N. D- | | EFFICIE per | Editor Tribune: | When thinking of teaching we must |'say there is a technique to teaching, a technique of the management of tue school room, keeping order, of asking ;questicns, even cf giving out, assign- ling lessons, assigning the different) school work and so ‘forth, is just as mach a part of the art of teaching as ithe ‘particular technique of! the artist, but over and above that is the need for that sense of the purpose and! meaning of it and:the results in: sym- pathy with a develcpment of-the life} of ‘the children. What is going on not in ‘the more outward motions, in the things that tley.do, and what. is go- ing on in.their feelings, their imagin-| ! ation, what effect ‘the schoolroom has on the permanent disposition, the side of their emotions and imagination, without which the teacher can not be an artist, no: matter how complete and adequate’ the teacher’s command) is of teaching or the technique of teaching, that-is, of the various forms of, outward skill which are necessary, to make the successful ‘teacher. The teacher as an artist needs to be one who is engaged in getting the pupils as much as possible into the attitude of the artist in their rela- tions of life, ‘that is, to solve what is|/ after all the great problem, the moral, the intellee) problem of everyone, to get habits cf efficient action, so that! the pergon won't be a mere day-| dreamer or theorist,.or a wasteful or incompetent perscn, but to get that unit with certain affections and. with! power to carry cut intellectual plans.; ‘That can be got only when the pupils from the first day as we give to their ferming these good outward habits.! That can be got only when we give as | much attention to the thinking side of the life cf the pupils from the first! day as we give to their forming these} good outward habits. For this reason it seems to me that so far as tho other nations as to our real purpose?! teaching is concerned the great prob-! Goby. Let those who have been chosen to| lem of the teacher is the prcblem of; colors. And look at the lovely spots keeping a balance between these two! this: | factors of efficiency in action and in-} hetter vote for me!” sight and foresight, ability to have the| purpose to perform plans in thought. ; | E. J. CARMICHAEL. | BY CONDO Yes, HE'S BEEN HPOST CarDps! ENTH e'S GOT LOTS He'S NOT WASTING Any | { | i I Derer Werte You tt | polka-dotted with them. ead f+ ) « Even north winds go south for the winter. joeeen cs isk ‘ Wealth is a burden that is easily dropped. | Don’t blow your horn unless it is on a car, Prohibition is'a* success'for the bootleggers. + We all look at coal prices with a’ burning desire. ad ’ The best way to prepare for war is prepare to avoid it. Trouble with gett ng a girl is you : ‘ a need a car to go'with her. - I Wonder if these fat reducers ever ' tried eating in restaurants, SEES ‘ A 1 Every woman wishes she had been 2 S made a man unt! she finds him. “Eighty-Five Ways to Propose”: is a new book girls will welcome, | celle ‘ “Hotel Guests Flee Flames in Pa- jamas”—headline, Escape barely. Among those things to be thankful for, what have you to be thanked for? Christmas comes on Sunday, there- ~ by losing. a-holiday. It’s a, hard win- ter. 1 _ The Thanksgiving turkey who calls \ a hunger, strike now is a wise old bird. i t ) sings “Twinkle, twinkle, little jar, how 1 wonder what ooke you are.” fork’ ‘and “Milk Strikes in’ |New Me? Rura's Cleveland.” ' Boy, synthetic cow. Mi mt Dr.. Paton says women ruled in 2500 B. C. This makes 4421 years the: have held' office. me i The radicals urging Germany to a get ready for war would make an- other goose-step. Tt may be true short skirts will be “ worn . longer but it looks like long skirts will be worn shorter. Uncle John Shell isn’t the* oldest man jin the world, Another man Nena when taxes were not too igh. i _ ADVENTURE OF THETWINS . | | By Olive Barton Roberts, “Goodness!” cried Nancy looking this way and that way and pose match wey under: the water for the PF epeens wet ‘Where can they be, “Well,’ answered Nick, “wherever they ‘are, they must all be together. Whatever is’ keeping one, must be keeping them all.” Suddenly Nancy said, “Listen!” and held up a warning finger. Nick heard something, too. . So they slippel off quietly through the water in their ‘Green ‘Shoes toward’ the place the sounds were coming from; and peeped through a tangle of popweed.. Such a sight met their eyes! And such a noise met their ears! It was worse than a meeting of the “Tuesday La- ‘ dies’ Club.” Mrs. Corkwing was. say- ing, “Yes, but the fashion is t> be thin and supple and wear tight-fitting clothes like mine. Also sequins (fish- scales) are all out of style!,. And pale BY yellow is the shade for this season. so I'm the, most, fashionabe,, You'd better vote for mes}! Tig wey is “Humph!” cried. .,.Mrs,,,,., two-Spot “One color! Why, I'm four | I've got! Two on each side. ‘No, you'd “Spots!” interrupted Mrs. Wrasse, or Mrs. Rock-Fish, which she prefer- red on her calling cards. “Why, I'm Just look! And I’m striped, t90, as well as being every color. You'd better vote for “Oh, but ‘you're blind.” You can Viet scarcely see,” said Mrs. Blenny, turn- ing up her nose. “No, as I have the bc3t sense and can stafd up for my rights, I'd make the best president. Besides, I can turn my eyes in differ- ent directions at once, and can see everything.” / Wasn't it the limit? (To Be Continued) (Cppyright, 1921, N. E. A. Service) The orange was originally a pear- . shaped fruit about the size of the common wild cherry. : ACHES AND PAINS- SLOAN'S GETS ’EM! VOED the misery of racking pain’ AN ‘ave a bottle of Sloan's Lint. first fee] the ache or pain. It uiekly eases the pain and sends Schlag pett, Son's Lininen! aaboe 5 "5 Liniment, ine, too, for rheumatism, neuralgia, @ciatica, sprains and strains, stiff joints, Bie bak and sore muscles, ‘or forty years pain’s enemy, yore hbor, Rien Bee