The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 7, 1921, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUN Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - - . a Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. ‘PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of ali 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 are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Editor dispatches herein SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE | Daily by carrier, per year,.... ie Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). % Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck)... 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota............. 6.00 y THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) <B> SHOP EARLY There is everything to gain in point of selection and service in doing your Christmas shopping | early. Eleventh hour shoppers face tired clerks} and depleted stocks. Now is the time to do your, gift selecting and the merchants of Bismarck have prepared ample supplies for yoyr patronage. Mornings afford an excellent time for shop- pers to secure the best of service.. Too often buying is crowded into the last two or three hours! of the business day. A little cooperative effort will mean much to everyone concerned. | Do your Christmas shopping and mailing early. CHINA ! China in 1900 had two cotton mills, with 65,000 | spindles. -Now she has more than 65 cotton mills, | with more than 1,500,000 spindles. ' That is typical of the industrial awakening that | is going on-all through China today. : | China, which in another century will be racing | with America as the leading world power, is the; world’s greatest undeveloped market. Our policy of supporting China for her rights | end in sight. .As a straight business proposition, disarmament is horse sense. With science ap- plied to war, it is only a question of time until the ;cost of armaments would become prohibitive. | DANGER | The rajlroads last year killed 6958 people, re- ;ports the Interstate Commerce Commission. That ems a lot. But in 1913 the roads killed 10,964, which is the record. | The decrease in fatalities is the result of Safety \First campaigns. It again emphasizes that acci: | dents are due to carelessness, that nearly all of | ‘them can be avoided by personal caution. ECCENTRIC | A movement is started in Massachusettst, to inullify the wills of eccentric individuals who be-! | queath their money for the founding of homes for indigent pussy cats and decrepit canary birds. | The money might better be used for child wel-| ‘fare work and battling disease. However, eccen-| jtric wills have their value—as monuments, spreading the gospel of kindness to animal life. i i They are permissible under the system that says: ‘a than has the right.to. spend his money as he pleases. H Besides, who is going to say what is eccentric, | ‘what is not? Scientists once thought that! Christopher Columbus was an eccentric monoma- | niac. : j 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. MR. HARDING AND THE VALUATION PLAN Congress has adjourned without settling: the | controversy over the, impracticable proposal—it was tried once and had to be abandoned as.-caus-: ing confusion—in the Fordney tariff bill for as- sessing duties on the basis of what is called Amer- | ican valuation, which is a highly indefinite thing | compared with the almost indisputable market, or invoice, price in the country of purchase. HARD {Florence Borner.) ‘ “Put away the baby’s high chair, He’s too old to use it, now; \ Put away his blocks and rattle, Cut, the curls from off his brow; He is four years old tomerrow, Dear Santa - Please Bane Ke FOP CHRISTMAS. FULFILLMENT! OF THE LIMTATION! OF ARMAMENTS PROGRAM AND A SUCCESSFUL “SETTLEMENT OF THE FAR EASTERN PRoBLEMS AND \ WILL BE Prelry WELL SATISFieD is advisable even if for nothing more than busi- That does not, however, mean that the fight for! * pest? a fresh harvest. ‘ “ years in development. The’ supply is limited. ness reasons. CAUSES Nearly every possible organization, champion- ing some worthy cause, has now been formed, with the possible exception of O. Henry’s Society for the Suppression of Blind Accordion Players. And no sooner does a Society-For get function-| ing that up rises a Society-Against. Isn’t the thing being overdone, becoming a Ed Howe, the Kansas philosopher, comments; that “societies have )become so numerous that; even undertakers, who join everything, cannot attend all the meetings.” RUBBER-NECKS ‘al More than a million tourists visited American! national parks in the 192] season. Even allowing! for duplication by those who take in everything “from Agricultural Hall to the Midway,” at least one American in every 200 saw our greatest spec- tacles this year. See America First! The American who dies without having seen| the Grand Canyon, the petrified forest, Yellow-| stone, Wind Cave and our, other marvels, has| missed some of the finest things in life. i ALA Re nea aM EMG SE Lea ( LIMITED \ You can use up all the cotton, wheat, corn and other farm products, then in a few months have But raw materials—oil, coal, copper and iron— have only one crop. They have been millions of} Mother Earth still holds vast treasures. They will not be exhausted in our day. But, unless we! check our waste, our descendants a-few thousand! years hence are going to have empty bins. ; Most of us are like Mark Twain, avho asked, | “What did posterity ever do for me?” ‘| | INVENTION isanity in customs administration at American | |posts has ‘been lost. In fact there is every rea- |son for believing that opponents of the plan, as} jit was written when the bill passed the House, | are near to victory instead. Despatches from ; Washington have indicated that the flood of pro- |tests from. all parts of the country has. been wash- ing away its foundation. It was to be expected that such would be the case, for these have not been political protests but the warnings and ap- peals of business men and’ students of affairs without regard to party beliefs, tenets, practices, customs or} purposes. ; Their names have been liberally sprinkled in the columns of The Chicago Journal of Commerce jever since this paper called attention ‘conspicu- ously to the plan on its promulgation by the Ways and Means Committee of the House and awaken- ed the press of the entire country to the menace to business that lay in it. Scrutinize them and they will be found to represent both Republicans and Democrats, both protectionists and free trad- ers, and men and women of many other shades of political opinion between these extremes. The Chicago Journal of Commerce, for instance, as it has previously said, -has no quarrel with the Ford- ney bill itself, believing in a goodly measure of protection for American industry, and so with many others in 'the movement to eliminate the American valuation plan from it, these holding that the plan is not necessary to prevent under- valuations, for one thing, and thus guarantee the |protection. that is sought in the rates. Some of" these have occupied high places in the Republican Washington even though there are many in it of opposite faith to that of the administration, who would see the entire bill obstructed and wrecked. Also we learn that the foundations of the plan are shaking at Washington not only because of the flood of protests but also because of the diffi- ‘culty the experts of the Treasury Department are| finding in their task of evolving methods for mak- War develops the resourcefulness of nations.\ing this controverted feature of the tariff bill Same as rats, whose cunning increases when more cats are around. of invention. ~The American inventive instinct, stimulated by the war, is being carried along by its own momen- tum. In the fiscal year 1918, patents were ap- plied for by ‘73,307 inventors. workable. An extraordinary situation, indeed, with Treasury jexperts baffled and business men of the highest \integrity and longest experience dismayed lest The figure kept Congress should not see the light: and enact this climbing steadily, reaching 107,656 for fiscal year measure into law. 1921. Patents actually granted haven’t gained much. reaching the White House. National interests are This shows duplication of ideas. Some one else|in peril. Presiden! "rdin~ has not hesitated to already had thought of it. But brains are stirred up, thinking and scheming on a bigger scale. Ac- tive brain cells foreshadow progress, though im- mediate results may be small. make due representaticn to Congzess in other oc- casions when attempted lex‘s!at’on has not seem- ed to be for the general good.. The soldiers’ bonus bill of-last spring is an instance in kind. Then COST % glance into old newspaper files brings to light Congress heeded the Chief Executive. A similar ) Situation exists now. ll the signs show that \Congtess is no longer in the mood to bow to the «That I loved go much, but “dad” said: ee And tho time does simply fiy, We must make a boy out of him—~ There, there Mother don’t you cry.” So they took my little sweetheart, ., Cut away his golden curls, Pong “They are only fit for girls;” i ‘When they brought my darling to me, I could not suppress a sigh, “For he looked just like a stranger To my unaccustomed eye. party and still figure prominently in its councils, | |so that the movement could not be ignored at They cannot devise a way or ways, Necessity is the mother |that would guarantze fairness and orderliness, a {way or ways that would obviate confusion. These are considerations that are worthy of} ‘He exclaimed: By Winona Wilcox (Letters to Lovers) | ‘What's to be done when a bride dis- covers that her husband is all ‘tan- jgled up in a web of irregular rom- ance?” asks a girl who has been mar- | ried scarcely two years. | The question was suggested by one } of the intruders: “I must make a frank confession. i am ‘pretty, not quite 25, the private secretary of a married man ten years my senior, ‘perhaps, ‘if I didn’t let him. {- “He hs children. | splendid, my superior in education and charm. Nevertheless, the man | declares that he loves me, “He must love her, too. I can't | understand how he can love his wife and me at the same time.” He does not love both women in any way which a woman could pos- sibly understand. ‘ And probably he would not make love to the girl if she did not let him. That sentence of her confession re- | veals a good deal. How a wife looks: at the situation and the girl is ably, stated in another letter: “It's a poor sort of a woman who {cannot find a husband of her own | but must steal another woman’s hus- | band. | “A woman younger than I, by flat- tery and cosmetics, so distracted my |husband that he decided he wantea jis freedom. And we have four. chil- dren of high school age! “The ‘husband snatcher hated to| Foley’s _ Honey and Tar COMPCUND CLEARS THE THROAT of phlegm end mucus, stops that tickling, opens the uit passages for easier breathing and coats the raw, inflamed éurtaces with a heal- ing, soothing medicine. : “He makes love to me. He wouldn't, | His wife is| Gone were all his silken tresses, * With ‘their rings of shining gold; ‘And, they’d dressed him up in trousers, 3 “Scarce his little weight cold hold; ‘ PAY As I pressed him to my bosom, vie Fondly calling out his name, ‘ i “Don’t worry, Muvver, ung still love oo ist’ th’ same.” diss ‘@* Qh, the days, how fast they’re flying, - ‘Bach one shorter than the rest, For the sun has scarcely risen, Ere he sinks down, in the west. ;Let'a tear fall on the dresses, And the ijittle stock of toys, For it’s hard upon us mothers, 3 When our babies turn to\ boys. s—- : = =: : “*| work. “She coveted my place ina | HUSBAND | pity luxurious none shia ae mn ‘didn’t get it; even with my huspand’s il, SNATCHERS | connivance. I reasoned that a8 1 sa~ borne the man’s children I had iig.its no gifl should be permitted to usurp. “And so I didn’t get sick when my husband proposed divorce. I simply (WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7 => jinformed him that he couldn't have {his own way. | “Now the fact is that I had always adored him, but that is not. why 1 stayed with him. Nor did I stay on .| account of the children, for they had private fortunes inherited from their grandfather. “I stayed because I am a fighter. I; decided to show one girl that she; couldn't tear down a home a wife! had helped to build, just because she! happened to possess youth andj beauty. “The affair is now ancient history. | The odd part is that after my. de- cision, my husband immediately re- covered from his infatuation. He dis- charged the girl. He quieted down, returned to his, books and our friends! of this own age. ~- “He is the best of husbands at last. But ‘at last’ for him is ‘too late’ for me. In my estimation, he isn’t sv very valuable as a man, -I am always seeing him on that girl’s plane, and not on my own.” Perhaps neither. the husband snatcher' nor the wife understood ‘the|* man between. Perhaps he’ never un- derstood himself? One bit of wisdom swirls to the top of this whirlpool of human emo- tidns as a warning to a girl who ad- mits that the man wouldn’t make love to her if she didn’t let him: The husband you snatch today, some other girl will snatch from you tomorrow. DINNER OF ALL DISHES, Paris, Dec: 7A special dish from each province of France marked the dinner of the French provincial press when it met to. celebrate ‘the eleva- tion of M. Real, president of the or- ganization, to commander of the Le-! gion of Honor. | EVERETT TRUE ‘BY CONDO| that in 1897-our army had 2179 officers and 25,-|demand of the element that believes this measure ‘ 353 privates, costing taxpayers $31,105,816 a|will be a panacea for their business ills and only year. This was a shocking sum in those days. |need to be pointed to a way out of the tangle. A There was much demand for economy. |word from you, Mr. President, would accomplish It cost $1130 a year to maintain an American|the purpose, and it is this word that The Chicago soldier in 1897. The cost now is baout $2680 a|Journal of Commerce is asked to request of you, year. ithat the American valuation plan be abandoned So it goes. Each year it costs more to build an|and the country’s foreign trade thus be spared A-1 battleship, an up-to-date piece of artillery, |while the country’s individual interests still are etc. The cost of preparedness ever rises, with no |Protected—Chicago Journal of Commerce. Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, giving at to her according to directions, and obtaining instax.t reliet tor her. 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The hungry Texas man eating wasp nests must thave thought they were restaurant cakes, Packing houses and butchers are beefmg about wages. | | We have our yellow peril and the Orient has its white peril. Deer hunters report a large crop of rabbits. It is estimated there are 1,400,000 | unemployed sleeping porches. 1 s a Sab | If one wasn’t born every minute we wouldn’t have corn to biirn. | Some kids get what they want | while others get sensible presents, i Cs | We are shipping 50,000 cakes of ; Soap to help Russia reach normal-sky. | Better enclose directions for using. | pe |. There’s always room at the top for ‘the cream. ! Our Advertising Dept.: Red Cross j Seals will stick. Pre-war prices. It_takes a drug store to make the {girl blash. _ All’s fair in love and war, because ‘what's the difference? i We need street cars that can de- tour around autos. | | Procrastination is.one:thief never | stopped. f f Doing these dances is a struggle. ; Columbus discovered America for | $7.200, but he got his naime in the | paper. Practice makes perfect—be careful what you practice. The new book “I Have Only Myself to Blame” is being censured. The mis- take. was in not blaming Congress or the profiteers. é Heat goes up; so does coal. Only six more months until time to kick about bare knees. ADVENTURE OF. THE TWINS ‘ By Olive Barton Roberts. There they were, Nancy and: Nick ‘and Kip, standing helplessly. on their hands in the passage with their feet .sticking up in the air and the gnomes coming after them as quickly as they could run, for the Cat’s eye had turned }red and warned them of the escape. ; Crookabone was first on the spot. “Oh, ho!” he cried, pointing a skinny | finger. “So nere you are! I call this | luck. Tweekanose, pull off Nancy’s Green Shoes; Jigabump, you take Nick's, and ‘Snip-Scissors, lay hold of ithe key and take it back to its hiding place in my cellar until I can find a better place for it.” The words took longer than the ideeds. And before you could poke ‘the ashes out of the cook-stove the j8nomes had skipped back to. their |ugly, dark, underground village which j had more hiding places than your | daddy’s watch has wheels, carrying {with them tHe wonterful ‘treasures iNancy and. Nick could still hear | Crockabone’s mocking laugh in the | distance. Then the gate slammed. All was still in the passage. : Kip spoke first. “This is a nice fix, ‘Tl say.” he remarked. His voice sounded chcked and odd, just as yours | might if you were trying to carry on ;% conversation and stand upon your | head in the corner at the same time. “What had we better do?” asked | Nick in dismay. “We can't help Mr. | Pim Pim now.” ; “Oh, I wish I hadn’t forgotten! We'll ; never pet back to Brownieland? And | who'll help -Mr..Pim Pim dig the glit- i terv stuff for the Christmas toys?” | “And think of the chimney-sweep ond the toy-maker!” said a voice in the dark. “They'll have to be. saved, | toot” | (To Be Continued.) ° (Copyright, 1921, NEA Service.) | Neglecting That | | Cold or Cough? ETTING the old cough or cold on, or the new one develop jously, is folly, especially when at dru; you can get such a and successful remedy as Dr. ’s New Discovery. No drugs, { medicine that relieves For over fifty years, a standard remédy for coughs, colds and gtippe. croup also. Loosens- up the phlegm, quicts the croupy cough, | stimulates the bowels, thus relieving the congestion. All druggists, 60c, | Dr. King’s Tar Coleen eae ,, Wi: ip Clear Headed. “tired out” feeling mornings, is ape Constipation. Dr. King’s Pills act mildly, stir up the liver and bring a healthy bowel action. All druggists, 25c., PROMPT! WON‘T GRIPE Dr King’s Pilis “It's all my fault.” sobbed Nancy. +