The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 22, 1921, Page 8

i } | | . pride to those places along the stream | Washington, Nov. 22.—“Create Ay AGE EIGHT ENGINEERS TASK ISTO TAME THE MISSOURI RIVER Now Working From Fort Ben- ton, Mont., To Point Near Alton, Iinois RIVER ACTS LIKE OUTLAW Kansas City., Mo. Nov. 22—(By ted Press)—Taming the er, outlaw among Ameri- , is the task of the United iver enginee! whose headqua e here. Their sector is the Missouri river, from Fort Ben- ton, Montana, to a point opposite Al- ton, Illinois, where the Missouri, with a roar and a rush joins the Mississippi, and thereafter sweeps with some de- grees of calmness to the Gulf of Mex- | ico. to persuade: and coerce the Missouri river into “staying out,” and to coax it out of its long-time custom of changing its channel whenever the whim moves it. This may. sound like an exaggera- tion but to anyone who has spent a day on the river with the army engi- neers, and has seen the Missouri eat- ing: away. at a corn field with wicked energy, swallowing up earth, corn, weeds, fences and trees, it seems sometimes as if the river actually had a personality, and an outlaw one at that. And while carrying away farm land from one bank, somewhere else it is equally busy, piling up sand, mud, and driftwood, making land out of what was river a few days before. Then, too, the river has a habit of oc- | H casionally, clogging its own channel, | 7 building sand bars so long and so high " that. it ‘must’ needs become broad and I shallow in order to continue its rest- Jess: course. The task of the river engineers is! i | { | | i | | | | jculosis. Here cone of the first stamp ‘Taft ‘of the Supreme Court. One of the first signs of Christmas are the little girls who sell anti- tuberculosis seals to aid the’national drive for the prevention of tuber-! salesgirls is selling Justice William Hd. NCAT eres oun g effin ita Copyright 1921 Hart Schaffner & Marx $50 $35 Coats wi Secon wore os: NATION'S AGRICULTURE, QUICK SAYS RATNMAKING AN point with a measure of justified where they have built dikes, which re- | sulted in the making of land; to the! concave bends where revetments have stopped: the river from cutting its! bank. Given a dike on one side and a! revetment on the other, and constant | diligence, so that small breaks may} be repaired before they become seri-| ous, the river engineers say they can; keep the stream fairly well anchored. | Fifty years ago, before the coming, of, the railroads, the Missouri was the! great western artery of commerce, and steamboats plowed its waters as; far as Fort Benton, Montana. Know- ing how difficult it always is for the | railroads to handle great wheat har-| vests, one wonders why it is not pos-! sible forthe river to handle some of! this traffic. | The engineer quietly tells you that it is possible, then he goes on and ex- plains the two general reasons why it| is not being done. is now very little money for improv- ing and keeping up the river. i The other reason is that’ many mis-| takes have been made in the type of| towboats used. Boats designed. for! any other river in the world but the Missouri, have been used, and because of the shifting depths of the river have | failed. With all its disadvantages, there is a good deal to be said, accor.l-! ing to the engineers, ‘for the old| paddle wheel steamer, side wheeler, or stern wheeler, that draws little or no water, which condition is ideal for ser- vice on the Missouri. The river is navigable, say the er '- neers, and with sufficient time and pa- tience, it can be made manageable. “A great game if you don’t weak- en,” one says to Major Wilkes, in charge of the river work, and his aides. “You can’t weaken,” they assure you, “You just keep after it, for the river itself never weakens.” jpotash desert of American farm land and call it protection.” || Such will be the fate of agriculture if the five year graduate duty on is not stricken from . the Fordney Bill, in the opinion of Her- bert Quick, author and economist, in an interview just issued. i The Senate Finance ‘Committee is now holding hearings on the;Fordney bill and the so-called “free list,” in which the potash “joker” appears will shortly reach the calendar for public argument. i Mr. Quick, who was one of-the.orig- ina Imembers of the Federal Farm Loan Bureau and is a national author- ity on sources of ,fertility, declared he had “no words severe enough fit- ly to.characterize theman, who knows the facts, who, in Congress or out, will support.a measure so iniuitous as to One is that there ;make fertilizer dearer to the interest of these experimenters in potash pro- duction who ars aking for the tariff.” “Whether a man be a protectionist or a free trader,” Mr. Quick contin- ued, “I fail to see how, if he be de- voted to the real interests of his coun- try, he. can support the project .to place a tariff.on potash. We have no assurance that the American ‘supply of potash can ever be sufficient for the American demand no matter how the ariff affects the, industry. In other word, from the millsisis a by-product and will be produced anyhow at a profit.- It does not need protection. “The Texas potash beds may or may Not exist in any large quantity. I have been ‘investigating them for years, and they élude one who seeks {plentiful, cheap. potash. ..The., saline lakes of Nevada and Nebrask and the auld regions are a fertilzer joke. They were useful when the European sup- ply was cut off, and that is the extent | jof their utility so far as‘potash is “concerned. ae “To. force the farmer, to. rely. on American sourcés of supply for. pot- ash is to condemn him to a real scarc- ity as to quantity and to prices ‘which he cannot pay. This is not a.‘mere fertilizer problem. It is a ‘problem of national welfare. When the lands Meeding ‘fertilizers : once run: down {about so low in fertility ‘they ‘will, never‘be brought back-. This law tends to create a desert and call it protec- tion. ‘ “Farmers: in my neighborhood are ceasing to fertilize though they have practised it for generations. ‘They cannot pay the prices. To put a tariff on potash is to increase the price. |High freight. rates make this problem more difficult. A tariff, or any plan which will forge us to depend on the American sources, inadequate.as they are, would-be fatal.” Police Payroll ... C. A. Finch Lumbe Wachter Transfer Co. ve) DARETY FIRST” St. Alexius Hospital .. 20.00! C. A. Finch Lumber Co. 20.35 | St. Alexius Hospital .. 73.50 | ; Street and Sewer Dept. 113.50: CANADIANS IN {Railroad Commission Discusses ABSURDITY SAYS DEAN E. 8. KEENE Case of Betting on Weather . With all the Advantage in Favor of Rainmaker * Fargo, N. D., Nov. 22.—That the business of rainmaking, indulged in by a few: men in‘some of the arid re- gions of the Unitéd States and other countries, is, in‘ the ‘minds of scien- tists, an ‘absurdity and not worthy’ of refutation was the statement of Dean E. S.:Keene of the School of Engineer- ing‘ of ‘the North Dakota Agricultural College in an address here today be- fore‘the Science and Mathematics Sec- tion of the North Dakota State Teach- ers’ Association. Dr. Keene introduced his subject.by telling of the payment last summer by the Medicine Hat; United Agricul- tural Association of more than $5,000 to a rain maker and the retention of the same rainmaker for the 1922 sea- son, Investigation by the dean .de- veloped that while the rainmaker had agreed to produce four inches of rain in three months,'the average rainfall for the period was seven inches and that the weather stations adjacent but outside of the area in'which he worked reported more rain than fell in the Medicine Hat area. / “It is not the present intention to RAINMAKING ‘IS A FAKE) “TINO”, MAY GIVE HIM CROWN . PRINCE GEORGE. By NEA Service. ‘ ‘London, ; Nov. 22—King Constan- tine of Greece may abdicate in favor of‘his son, Prince George, says a re- port going the rounds here, The report is linked with the recent visit-to Paris and London of the Greek prime minister, Gounaris. — Re eee ated atmosphere. Unless the moisture is in the air, rain cannot be produced. If the moisture is present it can be precipitated only by a fall of temper- ature such as will over-saturate the air and the water will fall in drops as rain. The rate of rainfall will depend Suits and Overcoats $41.75 iT ATOR Pe Ine $40 Suits and Overcoats _ $31.75 -LAMB LINED COATS $30 Coats $25 Coat: $27.50 $21.75 $18 (he | Bergeson’s Radical Clearance Sale. This isa radical clearance sale because of the quality we offer at these low prices. These sale prices are based on,today’s market, not last year’s prices. We are will. ing to take this loss to clear our stock. $30 Suits and Overcoats $21.75 $15 Ss Coats $10 These are all Gordon Coats. through the department to the Senate, February 24, 1892, in a pamphlet of 59 pages. The report is a descrip- tion of the method in which the $10,- 000 were expended. There was noth- ing disclosed of value as to artificial rainmaking. At this time the busi- ness of rainmaking is a fake. It is a method of: sharp practice which ‘can be dispelled’ if the teacher of science will lay stress on the application of natural laws to everyday practice. FLOODS DAMAGE TTALIAN TOWNS Messina,‘ Sicily, Nov. 22.—(By_ the Aasociated’ Press)—Cloudbursts have devastated the whole. countryside: in the region,) entire: villages being swept by tho foods and lines of communication broken. ©’ + Hundreds ‘of pergons are homeless and several deathg are reported. MURDERED MAN" ROBBED, BELIEF OF IOWA POLICE Mason City; Ia., Nov. 22.—That rob- bery. was the motive for the murder of George Harris, . taxicab driver, Service and Satisfaction or money refunded S. E. Bergeson & Son 'ASTUDENT LOAN FUND ADVOCATE ‘Wilkinson Believes It Shou!d Get More Publicity Fargo, N..D., Nov. 22—Greater pub- licity for student loan funds was ad- vocated by J. W. ‘Wilkinson, business manager of the University of North Dakota in an addregs_ before the High- er and Professional Education Section of the’ North Dakota State Teachers association here today. Mr. Wilkin- son held that better publicity would lead a larger number of worth while students to make the attempt tio go lo tollege. es t “The loan fund should be:a. chal- lenge to the student,” Mr. Wilkinson told the assembled’ college -teschers. “He should be made to know that it he is willing to mgke an effort in his own behalf to the extent of earnins a part of his own expenses or that he has: made the best of the aid given him by his parents, if he has shown aptitude, ambition, scholarship and industry and has good character, then he should have the benefits of the loan fund. In our own university, we con fine our loans almost without excep- tion, to juniors and seniors to enable them to complete their courses. If whose mangled body was found on a our: koan fund were larger, we should irailroad track at Plymouth, Ia., yes- | probably make it available to sopho- ‘terday was the statement. of. police, mores also if they met the require- today. The blood-spattered car of the | ments that I have indicated. driver was found near the city. “In our own University 65 per cent ‘Harris was last seen in Nora|earn a part of their expenses and 30 Springs in company with two stran—| per cent are entirely dependent upor gers. Police believe he was killed and | their own support. Some are earner’ robbed and his body placed on the | througtout the entire year, earning a railroad tracks. ‘part; of their éxpenses during the of parliamentary Ottawa, Ont., Nov. 22.—Nomination candidates took ELECTION TODAY: Result of Campaign , The Safety First campaign wht attempt to disprove the possibility of ;making rain,” said’ Dr. Keene.’ “To: m™ logists and those-of scien I ‘Who are acquainted’ with atm Luponthe rate of change of temper- uaee, to prodyce. super ‘saturation. his is’ well’ known to all who-are ac- quainted with the physics of the air. REPORT GIVEN iste Cae elead big hee Soarttae BY REV. NEWCOMB Rev. G. B. Newcomb, superintend: the stutent who is at least partly. de- pendent upon hie own “eff makes as good or-better use of! dvant- aves than the student who ipport place today in every electoral divi- sion throughout Canada. The general DEFER ACTION was formally launched in North Da-|pheric phenomena, rainmaking is an ed by his parents.” election will be held December 6. In the majority of division the gov— 3 ernment party, headed by Premier City Commission Passes Taxi _ Ordinance Over a Week The city commission,’ in meeting last night, deferred action.on the ordi- nance requiring taxicab line owners to carry liability insurance. _ Scott Cameron appeared in opposition to the ordinance, saying it would put too heavy 4 Maden oa the taxicab owner out givin; ssenger propor- tionate benefit. Beene aan Police Commissioner Henzler an- nounced that the fire whistle will blow next Sunday morning when Marshal Foch’s train arrives in Bismarck. The commission granted use of the Audi- torium for the Foch meeting. Bills were allowed as follows: Bismarck Dairy Co.. 1.00 Farmer-Labor Record. ; 38.46 Finney’s Drug Store. 19.91 Washburn Lignite Coal 89.28 French & Welch Haw. Gol, "et Wachter Transfer Co. 14.00 Bismarck Dairy Co. «18.47 DID PAIN DISTURB ix» YOUR SLEEP? See in and torture of rheas thidece ts be quickly relieved by an application of Sloan's Lear ah ‘warmth, este and comfort ts sleep soundly. Always have 2 hottie andy "ond apply when you feel the first twinge. 7 penetrates withous rubbing. It’s splendid to take the pain out of tired, aching muscles, sprains ani etrains, stiff joints, and lame backs. For forty years pain’s enemy. your neighbor. y At all druggists—35c, 70c, $1.40. ae® Meighen has candidates in the field while the liberals (opposition) party, led by W. L, MacKenzie King, is. also strongly represented. The progres- sives placed many candidates especial- ly in the west. nx Many prospective candidates failed to post the necessary deposit to ob- tain formal nomination. MELLONS GIVE HUGE SUM TO kota on November 14 will be continu- ed for an indefinite period, the- state railroad commission announces in‘ the | folowing bulletin: repatiyc uly | “The: maner in which the: press, the ; pulpit, and the general public have responded to the call of the board of | railroad commissioners for’ * general j observation of Safety First week has i bean very gratifying. As. stated in previous bulletins, this is’. just © the beginning of an ‘extensive .campaign which the commission hopes to con- \duct throughout the year. of 1922 for ‘the purpose of educating the public ito. the dangers of railroad grade | crossings. We believe that the old ‘adage. “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is particularly applicable to this situation. “During the next year the commis - in placing warning signs on public highways,--and where necessity . de- | ston hopes:to eliminate many danger-|. ° fous crossings. It is our purpose to cooperate with various organizations \) Pittsburgh, Nov. 22—A. W. Mel-| mands; we. will insist that signals be of the treasury, and his} placed at crossings by the: railroads lon, secretai 2 Mellon, have given to| However, if accidents are to be pre- brother, R. land wired at a cost of $1,500,000,! suoport of. the public, and.we again it was announced by Chancellor Johf} solicit the cooperation of all public G. Bowman last night. The property, | spirited citizens. some 14 acres, lies between ‘the uni-| “The commission has arranged to versity and Carnegie Institute, in thej place placards in every railroad sta; educational center of the city, and on} tion in North Dakota and in most of it will be erected laboratories dedi-| the garages, warning’ the public to be cated to chemistry, physics, mathe-!carefil at grade crossings. Let our matics and biology. | slogan be: ‘Safety First.’” The gift supplements a former gift INGROWN NAIL of the Mellons which some years agoi resulted in the opening of the Mellon: Institute of Research as a part of the university. | It is the intention of the university, | Dr. Bowman said, to make the insti- teaching and research.” 'NO MIXED TRAIN | SOO ANNOUNCES. |. There will be no mixed train on | the South Soo line under the pro- | Posed change ef schedule. it an- {nounced today by the Soo division office. It was stated that the changes jin schedule’ are due to the necessity of making connections at Hankinson land Drake, where schedules have Toughen Skin drops of “Outgro” upon the skin ‘sur- rounding the ingrowing nail reduces inflammation and pain. and. so tough ens the tender, sensitive skin under- penetrate the flesh, and the nail turns naturally outward almost over night. manufactured for. chiropodists. How- ever, anyone can buy |store a tiny bottle conta! ‘tions. the U; iversity of Pittsburgh a plot of! vented, we must have the undivided} tution the “world center in scientific, Toe Nail Turns Out Itself if You A noted authority says that a few|: neath the toe nail, that it can not) “Outgro” is a harmless, antiseptic | rug irec- absurdity. To attempt to disprove a manifest absurdity is a waste of time. Rainmaking is the practice of betting on weather conditions, with the ad- vantage much in fayor of the rain- maker, It is similar to the gentle art of bookmaking, in the case of horse racing. .The bookmaker ‘arranges a table, based on the” average: racing performance of the: horses .entered in a given race, and offer @ scale of bets at odds to suit each’ condition; from even money to the 100 to 1 shot. In rainmaking the rainmaker bases his bet on the average rainfall. “To the Scientist, ‘rainfall is pro- In quantity, the amount of weather| ent of the State Humane Society and equivalent to an inch of rainfall-on a| Society for the Friendless, makes the square mile is more than 72,000 tons.| following report.on work since mid- ;It is therefore evident that, the’ artifi- cial production of rainfall ‘represents | the condensation of water in‘endrmous quantity. No artificial means has yet been suggested that would produce a trace of moisture over an area of 100 miles in radius. & “In 1892 the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture was given the task of expending $10,000 that “had been previously appropriated ‘to, dem- onstrate the possibility of stimulating rainfall by explosives. The result of duced. by. precipitation frem a satur-'the experiments —_ were reported Lady Diana Manners” has’ ‘just He won’ eat? WHO'LL REPRESENT U. S.? been picked by E. O. Ho; summer: Investigation .of reported cases number of children involved 91. Con- ditions corrected and children: allowed to remain to the number of 38. Chil- dren placoi or going through the pro- cess (of placing, 30. Two boxes of clothing received and disposed mostly among prisoner fam- ilies. { Heiped in three instances to get the mother on the county. pension. ‘Rende service in four cases of illegitimacy and much other ‘service ‘given not mentioned here. The society at this Thanksgiving time welaomes contributions in any amount and will gratefully receive also clothing especially for children. ‘The cooperation of the public is also solicite] in helping to place children Apparently more.than ever before families are going to pieces“and help- less children must have good homes. pe IN BISMARCK | The Evidence Is Supplied by Local ‘Testimony. If the reader wants stronger proot than the following statement and \ex- perience of a resident of Bismarck, what can it be? Clayton W. Ferguson,.608 3rd Ave.. Bismarck, 'N..D., ‘says “A year ago L had trouble with my kidneys. They were weak, at times, and I seemed to have no control over the kidney secre- tions. My back bothered me especiai- ily at night and I was stiff and lame. I had been doing some extra hard work and I blame that for the start of my trouble. I. read about Doan’s Kidney Pills and got two boxes. Doan’s soon ended my trouble and ! felt better in every way since taking them. I am_ pleased to give Doan’s my endorsement.” 4 c Hoppe, London | doesn’t release from all cravin; phic artist, as England’s representative in his “Book of the. World’s | for tobacco in ay. form, your aries t..tell, yet who is to represent America in the We welcome prospective: names of those held in good repute. Geo. B. Newcomb, Supt., 924 Sixth street, Bismarck. N. D. NOTICE ‘ Small Pox is again prevalent io Bette dnece AN call ; t . chil- - Gren should be vaccinated. 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