The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 5, 1921, Page 4

THE 1 BISMARCK TRIBUNE! Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter: GEORGE D. MANN - - - - Editor | Foreign Representatives ‘ | G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY | CHICAGO DETROIT | Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. | PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. ; | MEMBER or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS H 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 : Aes 20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) 20 | ily by mail, per year (in state outside B’smarck).. 5. Fao | Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota..........+.+ 6.00 | THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER | (Established 1873) i <i> LI HUNG CHANG | Did you ever have to grit your teeth, in polite) circles to keep from telling scmeone exactly what you thought of him? | Did you ever stop to think what a commotion} there would be if everybody spoke their real thoughts instead of salving each other? Civilization turns us into turtles. We live in hard shells, solitary, keeping most of our real thought to ourselves. When the turtle head! emerges from the shell, it usually engages in arti-/ ficial, masked conversation. If you are too plain about saying what. you think, you are apt to be jailed, fired or ostracized. | Observing which, most of us are wary, conform- ing to a social code based on deception and secrecy. The most remarkable visitor that ever came to; America was Li Hung Chang, Chinese diplomat. ‘When he toured our country, in 1896, he was 73! years old, mysterious and inscrutable. What espe- cially delighted and dumbfounded Americans was; that Li Hung Chang “made no bones” in talking. | He said exactly what he thought. Introduced to a woman of prominence, he asked: “How old-are you? Do you quarrel with your hus-; band? Is your bad temper to blame? What makes those wrinkles in your face? \ To a rich man he was apt to say: “How much money are you worth? Did you get it by working | for it, or did some one else earn it for you?” This bluntness, and an uncertainty as to whether | or not he was kidding us, made Li Hung Chang a, sensation when he toured America 25 years ago. He asked his bland questions with a child-like sim- plicity that made them inoffensive. i | | \ You would think that a man of Li Hung Chang’s} bluntness would not get very far in life without being forcibly side-tracked. \ Not so. He was-a financial success personally, combining diplomatic genius with Rockefeller busi-| ness sagacity. i As a public character, he was a still greater suc- cess. He had the clairvoyant gift of looking far! into the future. So did John Hay, then our secre- tary of state. Together they originated, in Sep- tember, 1889, “the open door” policy for China. You are hearing a lot about that policy now, andj troubles that have arisen because it was not lived up to. | The Chinese at the arms-limitation conference! are having hard sledding. That’s because they lack a great leader like Li Hung Chang. Too bad, too, that Li Hung Chang is not living to tell the) conference what the rest of us are only thinking. YOU, HE AND SHE The shifting of Américgh women, from the! heme into business, has" reached the point ‘where there is’ one woman to every four men “earning| their own living.” This is shown by an analysis of the latest re- ports covering the census taken in 1920. \ With a total poulation of 105,708,771 men, wo-; men and children, the United States has 41,609,- 192 “gainfully employéd:” Of these, 8,469,207 are women. Housewives—the hardest workers of all—are not included among those “gainfully employed.” | j Probably this is because most of them work with-| out gain, for love. i One of these. days, housewives will be on sal-| aries, with laws compelling husbands to give their wives a proper percentage of their earnings, , ' Early settlers of America made their living with| ax, spade, hoe and gun. Time and a complex civil- ization have turned human economics into such an intricate machine that the majority of us have no clear conception of ‘our relation to the whole works. li The cog knows that it must click so many times z day. It doesn’t see all the wheels. The face of the watch, with its moving hands, is the combined} result of all the wheels. None of us get a good idea of what the hands are registering. It takes the perspective of centuries to determine just how, much the watch is deviating from correct time. | Our system of economics is intricate, yet simple. Think of it in terms of 106 people instead of nearly 106,000,000, and it works like this, in rough figures: Thirteen working in manufacturing industries. HMeven growing food and forests. | Four acting as salesmen. Three doing special‘ personal service.” |gage. nite eras. ‘prizes for best yields. | |tutes, lecturers spreading knowledge. Third was | ijcombined resources of $49,688,839,000—which is |thanked them “for having taken so much trouble | Three keeping the records. Three providing transportation. Two serving as doctors, dentists, lawyers, etc. One mining and preparing minerals. One in public service. That accounts for 41, “gainfully employed.” |The rest of the 106 are keeping house, going to school, idling, or segregated under lock and key. Multiply the above figures by 1,000,000 and you jhave, roughly, figures for our whole population. Where is it all leading us? If you could come; jback 1000 or even 500 years hence, what would | jlife be like? Probably you would find a city of big buildings, each with its kitchens, housecleaners and nurs- eries for many families. Plenty of apartments already have the germ of this idea. - Future civilization will have a system so com-; plicated that the best auditor of 1921 could not | H i i | y | f ‘INDISPENSABLE Everything depends on the farmer and his} ‘prosperity. Cities, at their best, are excess bag-| Without farms, they’d perish in a matter| of days. So, then, watch agriculture. | Farm extension work has passed through defi-| |erasp its workings, ~ i | | | Then came farmers’ insti-| the movable agricultural school, with experts| traveling like gypsies. Now we are in the era of | jcounty agents, home demonstration agents and| jboys’ and girls’ clubs. * A fifth era is starting, says C. W. Pugsley, | assistant secretary of agriculture. It will con- centrate on well-balanced production of crops, more direct distribution to’ consumers and en- larged social life for those’ on the farm. Excel-! Jent. / MONEY'*: Have you $470 in the bank for each member of your family? If not, you are behind the proces- | sion. The 30,815 banks in the United States have about $470 for every man, woman and child. i Not. much of a nest egg, for a rich nation. The total is $3,390,269,000 less than a year ago. That reflects shrinkage in wealth due to price; drops. FLYING | A commercial flying organization reports that | in, 12 months its. machines flew 95,020 miles, car- rying 6814 passengers. The service covered Key| ‘|West to Havana, New York to Atlantic City, New |England cities and Great Lakes tours. “Not. a single ,passenger or. employe was in-| jured during these operations,” says the report. ~ | Flying already.is safer than most of us imagine. 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. | { i i 1 | FOCH IN NEW FRANCE The French were probably the first was later described ‘by de Tocqueville upper’ Mississippi | jbasin into the valley beyond — the valley which! came to be a part of New France, and which was later described by de Tocqueville as, on the whole, | “the most magnificent dwelling place prepared by | God for man’s abode.” It was France’s valor and adventure which evoked it from the unknown, held it for a century or morg and then yielded it nominally to another Eyyropean nation, but vir- {tually to the: makirig of a new nation. Sharing it with the aboriginal American, she gave it to the| ultimate American. | No.Frenchman, whether explorer, courreur des bois, priest, settler or traveler, whatever his hard- | ships, privations or discomforts out in that valley, | is remembered to haye thought desolate the level | vastnesses of these ‘nteiminable prairies and plains. One is, therefore, not surprised to hear | that Marshal Foch, in his journey across these immense stretches, was “deeply impressed by the great prairie country,” and that he “found its) grandeur almost overpowering.” Many Ameri- cans think cf these long flitnesses as monotonous, colorless, characterless surfaces without relief. | until the snow-capped mountains begin to appear | on the further boundary; but they have, as Mar- shal Foch and his Gallic predecessors as far back as Father Marquette found them, the charm and sublimity of infinite distances. The Indian chief Red Tomahawk, who gave Marshal Foch his aborigincs] neme (which is, be- ing translated, “Charging Thunder”), might have} taken as his speech of welscme that which was made to Marquette and Joliet by the first Indian | chief whom they encountered on their voyage of | discovery down the Mississippi. The chief, to come to visit us,” insisted that the earth was never so beautiful, the water so calm and clear of rocks, the tobacco so fragrant or the corn so fine as.on that day, and ended by saying, “I give thee my son to show thee my heart.” It is a happy: sequel that this first meeting of the Indian and the Frenchman beyond the Mississippi should lave such a celebration as the great living “On- ontio,” of old France, returns the hostage by which America has shown France her neat New York Times, First was the county fair, with its. | maids.” ‘aren were still more surprised when !we’ll all be in trouble, AMERICA’S ‘FIVE MOST ‘FAMOUS SPINSTERS: GLADLY ADMIT THEY’RE “OLD MAIDS” oe) THE MOST FAMOUS OLD MAIDS IN AMERICA—ANNE, MORGAN (CENTER), DR. M. CAREY THOMAS (UPPER LEFT), JANE-ADDAMS (LOWER LEFT), IDA M, TARBELL (UPPER RIGHT) AND MABEL ! BOARDMAN (LOWER RIGHT.) most famous spin- Well, Jane Addams has been trying to better the condition of the poor. She’s the world’s most famous settle- ment worker. She's been, president of the National Conférence of Chari- ties and Correction and is head if-in- ternational peace organizations. She founded Hull House’at Chicago. Mabel Boardman has been further- ing the work of the Red Cross. She attends almost all international Red Anne Tracey Morgan has been in- ‘terested in civic work. And she’s first vice president of the American. Committee for Devastated France. Ida M. Tarbell has been busy make, ing and molding public opinion. She’s Here are the sters in America. And the five are almost are well known in Europe as they are at home. Yet they all admit they’Te “old One's 48, one 61, two 64 and the other won't tell her exact age, but confesses she’s well over the tradi- tional 30. Why haven’t they married? Because ‘ve been too busy doing other and written several books. greatest woman educator. She’s pres- th indent of Bryn Mawr college. And things. Cross conferences abroad. She's been | she’s the author of several education- | What? decorated several times. al works, i} ” goose as well,” answered Kip. “I MELANCHOLY DAYS guess I was jealous of him, but any- way J only did it for a joke. I never (Florence Borner.) thought these gnomes were 50 wicked.” Why call them “melancholy” days? “How did you find out?” asked These days which are with eladness filled, Nick, Whose hours flit past on golden wings, “Pl tell you later,” answered Kip., And leave the hopes of Spring fulfilled. “We must get out of this: at once. ‘ Come on, I know the magic words Why call them “melancholy days? that will open the gate into the se- The crimson apples, juicy ripe, cret passage back to Brownieland.” if The golden ears: of ripened corn, When the three’ of them reached ae All these are Nature’s prototype. the gate, Kip. said, “Portal swing and open wide, and in your passage let us hide.” With.a eak it swung open. Why call them, “melancholy” days? . .The wild. goose circling, in the sky, 113! Phe’ crickets, ‘chirping in the fields, cat's eye suddenly glared red. _ * Proclaim that winter time is nigh. (To Be Continued.) ; Why call them “melancholy” days? (Copyright, ,1921NE NBA“ Service) The gorgeous colors of ihe leaves, ; The skies of crimson, yellow, gold, = Proclaim that none but mankind grieves. The Auto Collision, Charles Lawyer and W. Mills were Why call them “melancholy” days? This resting after toil is o’er, , «This reaping of the things we’ ve sown, This gathering’ of Nature’s store? ‘bruised considerably Saturday evening with a taxicab of Carty. The taxicab was, going east on Avenue C and Lawyer was driving | north of Fifth street. The Lawyer car was knocked over and badly smashed. The other car was damaged considerably. Lawyer holds the taxi Why call them “melancholy” days? These glorious days of Autumn time, When Nature takes a well-earned rest, And grazes on her works sublime? ADVENTURE OF {Enchanted Cupboard and give it to 'Crookabone to hide?” Anton said his driver had the right “Because [ was foolish and a! of way and was entirely blameless. THE TWINS ! ’ Olive Barton Roberts itabclsatooe ~ | EVERETT TRUE | BY CONDO| The twins turned in surprise when they heard a voice urging them not to follow the gnomes. The gnomes, ; you know, had gone in a body to hunt for Kip, the Brownie. But the chil- mG) 2 AN awe, On) wy Suir- step they discovered that the voice be-, longed to a small dwarf entire different from the gnomes. This ; small person Had mischievous twink- ling eyes and a :snubby nose and lumpy legs like Pim Pim of the Brownies. “who are yout" asked Nick. “Sh!” exclaimed the little fellow, putting his finger over his lips. “I’m Kip. is “Kip!” cried both tw: tonished to remember his Kip made a despairing ges his arms. “If you dont | teo as- ing. | ture with quiet instead of one of us. Look’ here, | found the iKey.. That's where I’ve been, hunt- ing for it under the coal in Crooka- one’s cellar. When I found it [ also found a secret. way. out, through one of Mike Moje’s hallways. Come along.” We'll go "back to Pim Pim ‘at once.” “Why, we thought you didn’t like Mr. Pim) Pim!” whispered Nancy. | “Why did yous steal the: key to! the ———— You THink I 4M, \ f 4 WATCH Doe ¢ Don’t Neziec: .. Cold made with oil of mu: out congestion, reliev: sorenecs, docs all the work of the good old-fashioned mustard plaster in agentler way, with- out the blister. i Keep a jar handy for allemergencics, itmaypreventpneumoniainyourhome. 35&6Scin jars &stubes; hospitalsize, $3. BETTER THAN A MUSTARD PLASTER edited half a dozen big publications, Dr. M. Carey Thomas is the world’s} thrown out of their automobile and) in a collision the Anton line driven by E. B. Mc-! driver to ‘blame for the accident. Mr..: \ mining condition by SAINT PAUL MAN WAS ALARMED AT HIS CONDITION Custer Says He Was Going Down Hill At A Mighty Rapid Rate } “lm my old self again, feeling good clean to my finger-tips and strong for Tanlac,” said Edwin Custer, 633 White Bear Road, St. Paul, Minn, jfloor man for ‘the Tilden Products Co. , “My trouble started in my stomach jabout a year ago, and although I was careful about what I ate I always sui- fered from indigestion after every meal. [ had an awful pain across the small of my back too, and was very much alarmed for fear I had kidney trouble, “IT was going: down hill pretty fast and losing weight and strength every day when I started on Tanlac. I eat things now I didn’t dare touch for a year past and I work better and sleep better too. In fact I don’t believe there's a healthier man in St. Paul today than I am.” Tanlac is sold in Bismarck by Jo- {seph Breslow and by leading drug- gists everywhere. Health Hint: Buy the cook a Christ- mas present. If Ford has just simply, got to buy something worthless, we know a mau with two suits. of short underwear. British have offered Ireland fresh ' proposals. They may be too fresh. Aboss is a man who gets down ‘early when you are late and late when you are early. This Far East question should be jlabeled “China—Handle With Care.” Times: are so bad some people are {driving their own cars. Rich old bachelors think the prop2r age to marry is sixteen. Christmas comes but once a year: Red Cross Seals will help the cheer. Harding has another new word. He says “pumpkin” for punkin. ! A wild rabbit was shot on Wall Street the other day. This will teach rabbits to leave Wall Street alone. Presents. make the . girl | fonder. grow Postmaster exams ate set for Jan. |¥2, The crop of fourth class posi- | masters is. first class. About six drops of prices would be ja great eye-opener for business. Miami officials seized a car load of {whisky labeled “Fish.” Maybe. that's who it was billed to. Foreign countries must name their (diplomats after Pullman cars. Too many people think the only | way to get a new: world is to tear up | their old one. } Auto filling stations‘are being rob- ‘bed by some one who thinks turn bbout is fair play. Russia is taking drastic steps to \make friends with us. Nineteen gov- jernment grafters have been shot. f 2 Women always have the last word "but seldom get to it. Only one more income tax payment before Christmas. 4 DOUBLE FUNERAL, | Hazelton, N. D., Dec. 5—A double funeral was held in Hazelton Sunday morning from the Presbyterian church | which drew a large crowd of friends and neighbors of the deceased. Those who were buried were Mrs Philip Schlittenhart, who died at one of the Bismarck hospitals Thursday, and her sister-in-law, Lena Schlittenhart, who died at the John Schlittenhart home ‘southwest of Hazelton Friday night. | This makes four deaths in the same |family in the past few weeks. 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