The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 19, 1921, Page 4

. Robinson too seriously so far as his charges ma PAGE FOUR * THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the qpstestice, Biss nd rek, N. D., as Seco GEORGE D. MANN Editor t Foreign Representatives t G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO Marquette Bldg. 4 tPA TH NEW YORK Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF 'THE ASSOCIATED PRESS , DETROIT , Kresge Bldg. YNE, BURNS AND SMI 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. ae bs ‘ —— MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION _— “SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year.. ++ $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Kk). 120 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).. 5,00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota............. 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1878) Be JUSTICE ROBINSON AND BAR BOARD It has been the custom of The Tribune to pub- lish Judge Robinson’s letters as a news feature. They have become popular weekly contributions to the circle of Tribune readers. For the most part the venerable jurist has been sound in his conclusions. The Tribune. has always disagreed with the 7 political affiliations and convictions of Judge Rob-/ phone line between San Francisco and New York. | inson, bat of late he has shown a decided inde-| You can hear over that: Jing,now as plainly as you! pendence of attitude-on public issues that has telephone across the’ street—your voice traveling! brought down upon his head the maledictions of many Nonpartisan League officials. © Even when the League was in, the heydey of its power, Judge Robinson was as a.voice crying in the | wilderness. He opposed many league movements. | He scored many league offigg holders for increas- | ing tax levies and in hig, figt to, bring about re- | duced budgets, he appeted before the league! controlled senate and read the members a very | necessary lecture which unfortunately for them! they did not heed. | Now Judge Robinson singles out the bar board | and more especially its chairman. as. the subject, of his weekly sermons on public economy. In fairness to the bar board, The Tribune; merely wishes to state that the law places at the! disposal of the members certain funds derived | from registration fees of attorneys. As far as| The Tribune knows these funds have been dis-! bursed in accordante with law. Whether in the interest of public economy is another question. | Judge Robinson is positive that the tax is unneces- | sary and that the money as disbursed is virtually | Squandered as far as the public receives any com- | mensurate benefit. Abie Gil The Tribune is in complete accord, however, with Judge Robinson when he scores the attorney | license law and the pool hall inspection depart-' ment. Both might be dispensed with to a’ great | saving. There seems no need to place as Judge! Robinson names it “a head tax” on attorneys. A! modest appropriation is all that ‘is neGessary to) ,administer a bar board. The expense could easily | be defrayed by an entrance fee charged applicants | for admission to practice in’ North, Dakota. | When any board is given $10,000 or $15,000 the! temptation to spend it often from the best of mo- tives is ever present. There is no evidence that! any of the funds has been applied in an illegal | manner or used'for any purpose other than was! legitimately intended .by the framers of the bar} board law. The Tribune feels, however, that the cost of! the bar boafd to the state is excessive‘and that progress could be made by holding stated meet- ings upon ‘notice generally;..published... A few meetings a year should suffice to handle the bar board business. Members of the board as far as The Tribune; knows are honorable and upright men and prob-! ably can if they desire réply to Judge Robinson’s| criticisms. The columns of The Tribune are al- ways open to any defense of: the present system they may desire to give. But as to the criticisms of Judge’ Robinson be-| ing libelous, The Tribune takes issue with the bar board. If it is libel.to discuss public. expenditures and to comment upon the propriety of such dis-| bursements, then every paper in the nation utters | libel daily. It is hafdly likely that Judge Robin-; son, learned in/the law, would commit libel an | The Tribune heartily agrees with him that ‘in this: instance no libel has been done anyone. The acts| and expense accounts of public officials are open to the public and censure or commendation. 6f| them surely is privileged matter. | Public officials often squander funds commit-| ted to their care without intent of wrong or fraud.4 dudge Robinson impugns no one’s honesty when he asserts that the bar board funds are squander- ed. He argues from the general premise that the! law which creates this: fund is unnecessary! and| hence the disbursement of the mony is a waste or squandering of public funds. The attorneys who compose the bar Board, all! of them reputable lawyers, have taken Judge apply personally: to. them, -but the publi would like to hear what they. have. to say in| defense of the attorney tax fee-and its necessity to the proper functioning of a state bar board: | BUILDER" | Ceremonies in honor of the late Lord Stephen, | one of the builders of the Canadian Pacific Rail-_| way, stir up brain cells. and. recall Jim Hill and other “empire builders” in railroading. Railroad: building--pulled America’ out. of..the |of ;Vancement of wixeless communication. | starving children of his own country is appreciat-| a century, our civilization followed new. railroad iconstruction. ; | In 1920, extensions to our railroads (“first \lines”) were only 314 miles of tracks. Will his- tory repeat and railroad activity lead us out of \the wilderness again? Steel men think so. But, first, railroads must be lead out of the financial | wilderness. CIRCUITS OF VICTORY | The greatest invention ever discovered by man is communication. Its first form was human jone brain to another. This exchange of thoughts ‘ig the-basis of all civilization. | The second step in communication was the in- vention of writing, by which human speech was ‘conveyed by the eye instead of the ear, transfer- | jungle. : | Many thousands of years passed. before man imade his third step in communication—the inven- !tion of a device to carry the human voice over |great distances. f 2 ‘g | This invention was the telephone, born in the \creative brain of Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. ; The telegraph was its forerunner. | A little less than seven years ago Bell and |Thomas A. Watson, who helped him invent the, telephone, opened the first transcontinental tele- 3400 miles through 740 tons of copper in a fifth] Recently we* have" the wireless telephone—| phantom speech. eckae | Wouldn’t that astound the other two great in-! yventors who created speech and writing! 2 | A great bistowigal rola ul ke been published | from the pen‘of A: Lincoln Lavine. It’s called “Circuits of Victory,” recording the great part in the World War by the telephone. H The telephone, American invention, has revolu-! tionized warfare as it has revolutionized civiliza- tion. Great battles in the past often were lost by! inability to communicate. The power to communi- cate regulates the element of time, which in turn controls military strategy and tactics. ; | The telephone in the World War saved millions} of lives, by making it unnecessary for millions of message carriers to expose their persons to death.; _ In future wars each soldier will have a wireless telephone in his pocket, in touch withvhis com- mand, without the risk of venturing into the open. | The war, horrible at is was, advanced civi iza- tion in many branches, short-cutting time. ,! It! stimulated development of communication, flying, mechanical production and surgery. H Most valuable of these probably was the ad- Peace thus make a definite gain. . Thirty-four million telephone conversations are carried on daily over the Bell lines, millions more independently. Will we live to see the wireless phone: displace the copper wire? It is not improbable. Com- munication then Would be universal and instan- taneous, regardless of location—the basis of a real civilization. i 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 ipres‘iof the day. A NEW TYPE OF AMBASSADOR 1 Dr. Adolf, Lorenz of Vienna, the world’s most! famous exponent of: bloodless surgery, is a new; type of ambassador. eon The doctor announces that he is not to go into practice in América or: accept patients, but will devote his time and skill to the correction of cer-| tain types of malformation in the little poor chil-| dren of the charity hosptals and, if possible, to bringing American and Austrian surgeons into friendly contact once more. , And he undertook this mission to the United States in order to render some expression of gra- titude to the American people for what they have done to relieve the unspeakable distress in his na- tive land. if The incident of Dr. Lorenz’s mission serves to; remind us of the better influences that are finding expression in a disordered world, and how sun- dered friendships may be restored and the health- ful processes of good will and refraternization! promoted. E 3 Not lesgsadmirable is the cthical standard ex- hibited by. Dr..Lorenz. He might obtain: scores, of wealthy patients and quickly replenish his wrecked fortunes in the United States, for it will} be remembered when he was in America before he was offered numerous cases by wealthy people n all parts of the country. But in his view, to accept pay ceases would de~ feat his true mission, which is to show as far_as he can how deeply America’s kindness to the ed. . So his work will be confined to malformations in children of the poor in charity hospitals who are unable to secure the scientific treatment which he, as the outstanding scientist in bloodless surg- ery, is so competent to render. 4 Dr. Lorenz is really an ambassador worth while. SHouston-Post. =. ' : secearem Ff THE BISMARCK TRISUND ‘pahic® that followed the Civil War. For over half] : speech — the power to transmit knowledge from) ring thoughts to the man miles away in the! a second. b | Wairy Queen’s messerty: i | i i | i ee ADVENTURE OF : TWINS By Olive Barton Roberts The two. magic shovels that the;.* Twins, found. inthe Knchanted Cup- board were wonderful things. They a gave the poor maiden to dip out the sea, for ‘at eyery shoveful a whole barrow-load <of golden glitter came SOMETHING re like the spoon that the witch |, out of its Hfdif¥ place in the earth and jumped ifito a great sack that Pim Pim had ready. Soon the sack was filled and Pim Pim called.a thousand’ of his Brown- jes to tie it up and carry it away to his storehouse until it was néeded. When they “had “dug up enough golden glitter for all~the stars and bugles on="th hristmas trees the Twins stagted:gp,the silver sheen. . It, too, jumped from the earth at the very toiich of the enchanted shovels and into another, great sack. Soon the mine of silver sheen was about empty, so the children went on to another where the ruby-red was to be ‘found,-while the Brownies busily tied up the sack of silver-sheen and bore it off. $ And so it went ugtil Pim Pim’s storehouse was completely full’of all the glittery colors *that Santa Claus and the toy-maker could possibly need for the tree-toys. “And now,” said Pim Pim. “I'll call | the Fairy Queen to send us some mes- sengers, and we'll get this stuff to Santa Claus at once. Time is so very, very short.” But scarcely had he spoken when the Magical Mushrbom appeared, also Nimble Toes and Sil Wing, the “We'll all help,” said the Mushrooms, picking up one of the sacks in his arms. Away through. the air flew the strange procession; making straight for the North, carying to Mr, Santa a precious burden. - Santa and the toy-maker had just finished the last doll and. drum. “Now for the tree-toys,” sang out Santa. “Why, bless my eoul, here comes Pim Pim and the Twing now.” (To Be Continued.) , (Copyright, 1921, NEA Service.) | PEOPLE'S FORUM EXCEPTION Bismarck, N. D. —t 1 ' + TAK itor, Tribune: | Sey aue editorial, “On the Job Again,” in-the Tribune for Saturday, last, you eomment, upon the warning of the Dairy. Commission, against promiscuous organization of creamer- ies, etc., and add: “All forms of farm activity have passed through a period of speculation and exploitation.” This warging ig.very proper and timely in- deed, it is always timely. But when you state in the last paragraph that “factories are far from operating at their peak,” and still urge that “when the supply. has beem) increased, there): will be sufficient facilities to turn the raw material into the finished prod- uct” it seems to me a bit illogical. Why should the manufacturer ‘be commended for his wisdom in curtail- ing his\pre‘dluctidn,. when production meaas loss, and the farmer be urged to increase his production. regardless of that principle? The farmer has grown tired of that teaching and has as much right as any other business to sound the marketing condi- before he produces the stuff. To listen to this kind of advice, to simply produce jprtomiscuously' and trust io the generosity of an organized mart, for compensation of his labor, M jd surely be like accepting “the promise of poth ends of the ow.” Why not lay off on this urging the farmer to produce and, instead. teach him‘clementary business principles, in selling, the same as every other in- dustry practices? Why don’t we ever: hear or read of the manufacturer being urged tg in- crease his output, and to ask no ques- tions in order that the users of his product ‘may benefit by lower prices, even though such prices may be con- fiscatory to the manufacturer? Can you blame the farmer for grow- ing weary and suspicious of such ad- vice? S.A. OLSNESS. es Ty LEAD Hereward “Carrington ‘Explains How Transmutation; May © g Be Made — i ~ BY HEREWARD CARRINGTON, Scientist and Author. Washington, Dec: (—Phomas (A. Edison confidently. expects the tran3- mutation of lead into gold: For centuries . this ‘has, quest of man. i In the early seventies, however, Sir William Crookes brought forward cer- tain evidence tending to show that all matter has a common basis,-and he proposed a name, “prothyl,” for this Substance. The idea did not gain great. headway, however, until the discovery of radio-activity, “which threw an entirely new:light-upon the constitution of matter. Until then it has been supposed that the “elements”-were simple and inflivisible; that the atom was the smallest particle, of matter in the uni- verse, and. that these atoms repre- sented the “building stones of the Cos- mos.” s 2%, Atom Itself Can Be ided., (Studies in radio, acttvi@ proved that the atom itself is. capable of: be- ing split up into still smaller parti- cles. known as “electrons;” but these electrons are not composedof matter at all, but electricity! “jHence arose the modern “electrical theory of mat- ter.” 7 This theory says that all matter ts ultimately electrical at. basis; that, the atom is exceedingly complex:in *na- ture, and is built up somewhat jike our solar system. with a central nu- cleus in the middle (like our.-sun) and a number of particles revolving abort it, as our planets revolve round the sun. 3 The distances between them would be as great/ proportionately, as the distances between the various. p| and the sun, in sur golar’svs The central nucleus, on’the modern theory of matter. cppsist tive charge of electricit: been the | EVERETT TRUE as. Box + NEW TO HOWL AT ee in a_mega-| while’ the aa} 2 ‘ 7 particles. revolving around. it’ are charges of positive electricity. “These differ in number, and the various “e,ements” are ‘merely qualities of the atom, due to the diferences. between the number of the positive charges within thé\atom itself. Changed, | How Elements CanyBe It will this be seen that, in order to change one element into another, {it would only be necessary, theoreti- (cally, to alter the number of positive electrons in any given atom. Add or. subtract one, two, three or-more, and the element changes into another ele- ment. E We see this process going on spon: taneously in all radio-active elements — when, uranium, for changes into radium, and that in turn into ionium, and so on until it-be- comes lead, which has been thought to be the “end product.” . Hitherto it has been impossible to retard or accelerate these changes artificially, but ‘lately this has-been done, on a’small scale, by bombard- ing certain atoms with radium \ema- nations (a terrific energy). Changes in the element have thus been brought about; actual transmutation has: been accomplished by” Rutherford, Soddy, and Ramsey.” 4 BEACH. RESIDENT REPORTS HOLDUP Beach,N. D., Dec. 19.—Frank Sticka, ‘the harnessmaker, reports that at five o’clocx Friday mornigg a man held him up at the point of a gun at the crossing over the railway;tracks where the signfal bell is located. According to Sticka’s stéry he was coming over to town from home when a masked man arose from hiding behind the bell towe, and, pointing a big gun at him demanded his money. Sticka ony had a quarter on him, anda search re- vealing nothing more in the wey of coin,-Frank says the bandit gave the two-bits ‘back, saying it was no good to him, and jumped.on a freight that just then started west. ot Flies can fly from five to 35 feet a second. - Naa aad BY CONDO| Soe, MR. TRUS, THERE'S ONS CING AT TAS OFFICE HERE “TON iG i instance, | ‘1on the morning after. DOES ALL THAT'S ; CLAIMED, SAYS MRS. SCHNEIDER Saint Paul Woman Declares She Is Now Feeling Like A Different Person “It's no wonder people who try-Tan- lac are enthusiastic about it, because’ it cerainly does all that is claimed for it,” said Mrs. Theresia Schneider, 978 Woodbridge St., St. Paul, Minn. “There is no more comparison in the way I feel now and the way I felt when I began taking Tanlac than there is between daylight and darkness. { am just like a different person. alto- gether. “I'have gotten entireiy rid of stom- ach trouble and am able to eat any- thing I want, and instead of feeling weak and worn out all the time as [ used to do, I am full of life and en- efgy. Certainly only a grand medi- cine could do what Tanlac did for ““Tanlac ‘is sold in Bismarck by Jo- seph Breslow and by leading dtuggists everywhere.” (Advertisement.) dy’: Rouge makers are metting. A regu- lar Ladies’ Aid Society. SS During the trouble C. .W. ‘Morso might change it to R. ©. ‘Morse. ‘Eyerybody’ eats one ton;a year,” {Says Secretary Davis, who must have a fine cook. j If cussing the weather. made us-fat we would all be 300-pounders: The best thing we got out of the war was getting out of the war. ‘Some people are dodging work, while work is dodging others. “The. woman who invented’ the “shimmy” says she is sorry, so that makes it unanimous. Pockets have that Christmas feel- ing. Ne The older a man‘ gets the younger he wishes he was. ( Wondor how a profiteer, who can’t force a strike on his men, explains his ‘high prices. Aviation has its ups and downs. “aeaotition “Nox 1: We''will swear off and on when needed. Two heads are not better than one “You can't tell a genius,” says an art. critic, who probably means you can't tell him to get his hair cut. Most of the free things you enter are pay as ‘you exit. All the people who don’t fall_ for flattery could hold a conversation in a telephone booth. ‘Cold feet often keep a hot head out of trouble, Any girl who goes through college without having her heart broken twice will make a fine teacher. The champion vegetarian of the world won't eat animal crackers. (Why worry? Six months from bow the furnace will be working fine and coal,will be cheaper. ‘Maybe love went blind reading_love letters. ‘ “T will die for America before I will ratify the new peace treaty,” says a senator. ‘Wonder ifshe has cver tried dying for America? It is too late-to shop early now. ‘Hold Meeting For Discussion ’ Of Many Problems \ —— : ‘Dickinson, N. D., Deé™ 19—Many problems of vital importance. to the community from-an educational stand- point were discussed at tho rally held by members.of the board of. educa- tion, ‘the faculty and. patrons of the He | Dickinson’ schools’ and’ the Matthew Brew post'ofythe American Legion at the high schépl last week. An interesting program ‘had been prepared forthe -occasion. W. A. Blume, of the board of education, told of the need of “Cooveration Between the ‘School and the Public.” Superin- tendent P. S. Berg discussing “Pres- ent and Prospective Distripution and Probable Growth. the Teaching Load.” touched on problems confronted in school work and spoke of the outlook for the future. Mrs. Alice Conger } Hunter road a paper entitled “What the Parents Have a Right to Expect From the Teacher.” Charles H. Starke, of the board of education. ‘snoke on “New Depart- ments and Future § Neeis.” W. C. Crawford discussed “Education from the Viewpoint of the Taxpayer.” Wil- json Ever. of the board nt eae told of “The Cost of the Schools” art William Bublitz and J. ©. Running, of the high sckool facultv. sncaking for the Legion. sroke on “The Schl and Our Country.” — The high school orchestra rendered several selections during the evening. \. TICKET -TO ‘DENMARK: Conenhaven, Dec. 19—The minister tof justice has introduced-in the Lanud- sting. a marriage Dill. one nf whose clauses provides that if husband and wife have lived apart for 18 months. -|their marriage can be dissolved by {royal consent. ;