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THE BISMARCK TRIBUN - ‘DELUSION Etitered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second , ‘Class. Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - nS Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO ‘ Marquette Bldg. NEW YORK : 2 PAYNE, BURNS AND SMI In four weeks, latest reported, wheat’ exports ‘totaled 29,623,314 bushels. That compares with - , Editor | 33,106,817 bushels in the corresponding weeks of |1920 and 262,757,092 bushels in corresponding per- Fifth Ave. Bldg. peeve [iol of 1919. Kresge Bldg.| These figures show that wheat is moving, to ex- TH . | port as usual, measured in bushels instead of |changing prices. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | 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 | “The American farmers’ real problem is not the export market, but the home market. jin line with prices paid to the farmer. Not be- -|fore. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE | Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail, per year (in Bisma Daily by mail, per ¥ (in state outside Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota. . N70 COMERS + 7.20] THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 18738) , <> BRAIN TRAMPS Hundreds of thousands of jobless men have} f i cut loose from their moorings. They are drifting; them overnight. about the country, seeking work on “the other side of the hill.” A census taken now would show in population during the last year. “For rent” signs are becoming increasingly; That shows one of ‘the hu-' away from the cities, back to the numerous in cities. man currents: farms and small towns. ‘sus returns. That’s 287 every hour of day and (night. : ‘ : | Life is an endless procession, one going out the. jdoor as a newcomer enters, Load is ‘passed on, sone generation to next. World is full of big problems. We try to solve Few of these problems will be solved in our lifetime. The solvers will be these new babies—or their babies, or, maybe, babies of great changes | many generations hence. ef | That ts always the way, each generation hast- iening its death by worrying over problems whose HARMONY, - Business depression is're-@istributing the pop-,. Typewriting now is being taught to music. In ulation. {Richmond High school, New York City, typists} ‘keep time with phonograph music—“Bird Waltz,”: In normal times of prosperity, wanderers are| ‘Dolls’ Wedding March,” etc. few, compared with the rest of the And yet, we are all vagrants at heart. The average person is a mental tramp—an in-| population. ° | The’ teacher says this gives the students speed [and rhythm. In other words, harmony. Harmony is the secret of all successful work. tellectual: rover. Most of the.time, his mind is| Waves of success are pulsating through the’ uni- elsewhere. He is a daysdfetitter,: ploring other lines of work. mentally ex-/¥erse. Get in harmony with those waves, the | eteat creative force, and avoid failure. That is the reason for most failures--neglect-| Great success is impossible if you are not in| ing the present job, the spirit wandering in far| harmony or tune with your job. countries, imagining himself in the Seas or positions of great power. movies, South} | COMFORT The home; {market problem will be solved when all prices: are! How niany babies are born in United States?) - 5.00; About 2,515,000 a year, according to latest, cen-| ‘solution requires the evolution of centuries. | sheet ‘if cloth a veritable pano egal bee Pebpotensie tees ‘ iene We préeent Wosestn, tite Dea tay ea at Hg tw i | i i { | |) P.0. Williams. "ge a iS eel Sees 1-feel ‘that ‘this subject ‘should! in- ‘terest “all citizens of our great state— tio realize that, in thé form-of innocent looking reels of film, you,Have the most active and persistant intermed- jaries abroad, boosting for you and your posterity in their insistant and persuasive language, blazing upon a a of your splépdid schools, churches, cities, farms, roads and galaxy, of dairy herds and beef cattle—leaving a lasting impression upon the minds of all the thousands who are privileged to see them; of your. thrift, your won- \derful progress in all the things that A certain amount of this brain roamjng is ne-; Shoe manufacturers say that. the average)make for an egucated and prosperous cessaiy to keep ambition alive. But real success rarely comes until the brain tramp sends out roots and concentrates in one place, on one job.. The lure of the distant weakens the grasp on the present. Mental hoboism is a common trait during pros-; During hard times, it becmoes intensi-; perity. fied. Confronted by a problem, the human tendency | American woman is wearing shoes from one to two sizes. larger than a few years ago. : radical changes that have come over women’s lattire. ; | - Whatever may be said against extreme sty]es, the tendency is toward greater comfert and health. Tight garments are to the human: body | what the lemon squeezer is to the lemon. Edison says the secret of his health and tireless is to imagine that the way to solve the problem efficiency is that he never wears anything tight is to evade it and take up something else. Thus we have a manufacturer seeing only black | clouds and convinced that almost any other line; ef work would be*better. We have the salesman, | ‘to interfere with his blood circulation. ' BOOTLEGGERS , A band of bootleggers, operating near -the discouraged by dead markets, devoting his pow-| Brooklyn navy yard, sells such powerful hootch ers of concentration largely on the search for anithat the Naval Y. M. C. A. on Sands street takes easier way of making money. farmer, who thinks things haye go to pot, and/fering from alcoholic poisoning. One dead. An-|‘Teased, until we totalled a number wonders if he mightn’t do better in All this brain tramping is going to work greager changes in our econcmic system than the army of | wandering unemployed. The solution of business depression is. not in| evasion. things will begin to move. Cencentration — stimulatiion’ of effort — is the solution of every problem; ra rf * GROWING . Take two flies. If all their off-spring lived, says a scientist, the ninth generation would total 324,- 000,000,000,000 flies, filling a space cubic feet. : Flies are like most problems, most evils. They become dangerous'only by The longer the solution of a problem is delayed | by a procrastinator, the greater the problem be- comes. Do it now. FORESIGHT ' When mental trarping is curbed and each of us: concentrates on our immediate problems and work, | lives this year. Likewise, the}in, during one week, “11 unconscious sailors, suf- Canada. \other was so violent that, he had to be confined in a straight-jacket.” Shove a bootlegger aside and you'll find an un- |dertaker back of him. LOST. The Alps mountains have taken a heavy toll. of About 140 climbers perished. Most of the fatalities were due to dispensing with guides to save expenses. “) (~~~ Economy:.sometimes is redlly Le eanceetor jextremes meet. As in most of the big things of \life, the great problem is to know where to draw ithe dividing line. £ 750,000,000! “The more haste, the less speed.” : of 750,000,000; peta eal | EDITORIAL |REVIEW Myre neglect. 'r Comments reproduced -in this column may or may not exptess the opinion of The Triburie. 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. SCALED UP, BUT STLL 5-5-3 Traffic through the Panama Canal this year) The'one obstacle to the success of the Harding- “has been nearly twice as big as in. 1915, despite depression in ocean shipping. The than in any of the war years. EBughes ‘naval limitatioin plan has been removed. Japan is proud of the Mutsu, a fine new battle- iship almost completed, and it hated to see it total is larger In great ventures like building the Panama | Scrapped. Its opposition to the ratio 5-5-3 and its Canal, time invariably shows that Uncle Sam has foresight comparable to a sixth’ sense. ; | Government makes many mistakes, but in a! general way it steadily makes progress. United States still is a coming country, still in its swad- dling clothes. Like China, Uncle Sam is a giant| that has only begun to waken, FAITH IN FUTURE Charlie Chaplin’s first theatrical contract. is discovered in London. It calls for his appedtancet in a music hall act, “Casey’s Court,” beginning! May 14, 1906. His salary? About $11 a week! That was less than 16 years ago. Chaplin now gets about $20,000 a week. Think of that when you are discouraged. You have no such prospects? be today. Time'is a trickster, awarding Many un- expected prizes. . - Have faith in the,future. The goddess Chance favors those who believe in her. no You never can tell.’ Chaplin in 1906 thought his outlook was black as insistence on a ratio af 10-10-7 seems.to have been merely its method the Mutsu. ee eee, a preserve the ratio. | the Colorado and We hingtoa instead of the Del- j build new capit:! ships to le armament a little heavier tha {come about without compromise. great gain. |the original Hughes proposal. | results later—Duluth Herald. l | That is characteristic of most of the so-called| whether: used as an advertising me- cf getting permission to keep Well, Japan is to keep the Mutsu; and thay: means scaling it up a little all around so as to The United States will keep jaware and North Dakota, and Great Britain will el its equipment up. Of course this is a compromise, apd leaves nayal i had been proposed ;| | but then great steps in the affairs of men seldom | It is still a The cut in naval equipment author-| ized would have beerrhailed as great if it had been And the great | things still remain that there has been such an agreement among the three great naval powers, pli that there is.a very substantial cut in the three India ink. [He had no idea then of what he would /Mavies, and that the nations have shown that they can take a step toward peace by coming together in this manner. It is a precedent that will bring great results now, bnt that will yield still greater people, The efficiency of Visual Instruction- is admitted today by all classes, the rofessional church men included and, dium, for the entertainment of — the/ masses or, for histori or religious instruction, they ‘all bear witness to jthe fact that it eTectually puts: over. lits message. -. 4, rt ‘i | It was therefore by no mere chance or love for experiment that Commis- first installment of State Films—to the number of 22, embodying as. sub- ject-matter; aégenéral review of the |state’s productivity and pnosperity. ‘However, it was soon discovered that our modest 22 was, to the demand {and opportunity for circulation as a (drop to an ocean and an insistant and continuous clamor for more films was of daily occurrence, a situation largely due to the activity of our field men and their recognition of the true value of visual presentation. As a posult, several contracts for films followed— one after the other, as the demand in- of 108. re2ls of an appnoximate footage’ of '1.000 feet per. reel. g With a view .to, visuallizing: every subject common to our stdte and of in- terest to people everywhere and, to present such subjects in a continuous, connected and persuasive manner, the {bulk of these films were divided into seven distinct subjects, ie: our na tural resources in the so-called ‘Coal ‘and Clay;” our social activities in “Community Life;” our educational’ institutions in “Rural Education;” our agriculture in’“Farming;” our general livestock production in ‘“Livestock;” our pure-bred livestock and state fair in “Fargo Faif;” our roads and beau- tiful landscapes and places of scenic beauty in “Rambles’—the travelogue of North Dakota. ‘ | What \Are They Doing? | Wive of these reels have, for the |past‘ nine months, been running on a cir superintended by the Y. M.C. 'A. of New York City and are made a great attraction on Ellis Island,-where the great ocean steamers disgorge their human’ freight and where, to tens of thousands, the matter of great- lest concern is: “Where shall we go?” Bight of them have long since made their “how” to “hgh society, be- ing circulated by: “The Bureau of Commercial Economics.” Washington, |. C., and: are reported to be doing splendid work in ‘removing some ot the prejudice and suspicion -in the minds of our eastern friends, relative j{? Our western civilization and pro- gress, Five are going ‘over the top” in! Chicago, the great human ° filtering | olant of the centinent. from where the bold, the fearless and ambitious, ..are emerging jnto western life. Our state films here declare Yor North Dakota, in terms of the best ‘schools, the most fertile land and vast hidden wealth in our: natural resources that still’ re- Nine are being circulated by the FIT TO' FIGHT ‘Life’s greatest battles are between. strength and weaktiess. ‘| Scott’s Emulsions a high-powered tonic- nutrient, nourishes and fortifies the whole body. © Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield, N. J. | (Tablets ) <a |: What Are:‘They: Doing || (| ee BY i. | 4 sioner Dr, Worst, gave orders for the |'Northern Pacific main’ beyond the comprehension otf man. 1 em. ~ What can you tell about these men by their signatures? the four-power treaty signed at Washington. OUR STATE FILMS *| ROMANCE AND ADVENTURE OF Each sctawls. tells a story. Yep, the signature of SAILING DAYS RECALLED. ican schooner Carrier Dove on a gorat reef off the west coast of Molokai, the “leper isle” of ‘the Hawaiian group, brought to an end_an adventuroust and checkered sea carceri that belied the vessel's pacific ame, and breathed 6E the days. of real sailing when. ste: was unknown. { ; As cabled, ee Ae Dove went ashore while enroyte from the Soutlt Sca island of Tong@to San Franciseo with a capacity of cargo of 800 tons ‘of copra. She broke up after sev hours of pounding and;with her ci go, was.a total loss but the crew saved. It wes the third and last tin: the vessel had been on the rocks. The two previous times she had been pull- ed off with only slight damages.- On each of the occasions, howeyer, the Carrier Dove ran into extraordinary adventures. YA When she rested -om the rocks: at Levuka, Fiji, in February, 1920, she was extricated and her damages re- paired, but Captain Gus Stoltenberg, the master, ‘was refused permission by the Bri authorities to sail from Railway company throughout the adjoining states- and are giving hope, to thousands often- nants, of some day owning a ‘home of their own. 3 Eight afe being similarly circulated by the “Soo ‘Line,” the great arte-y'of Canadian immigration from the U. S.; and we have confidence to, believe that many homeseekezs will be diverted from continuing their quest into, that country. g 12 An initial number of four reels -has just been started on a protracted-cru- sade over the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul lines, completing the-prepara- tions of the Company for an elaborate campaign for settlers, which included he fitting up nf two special cars, one as a show car, seating 7 people—the other as a sample car, displaying the grasses and grains, corn,’ alfalfa, po- tatoes, sweet. clover, fruit, etc., and carrying ten thousand copies of North Dakota literature for distribut‘on. Five are still circulate] by Mr. C.C. Connolly of Devils Lake, who is known far and wide as an enthusiastic cath- paigner for the Devils Laké country and for the state in general. a Eleven are traveling on a_ circuit superintended by Prof. A. P: Hollis of the Extension; Division of the Agri- cultural: College and according tovhis report, are in a very, great. demand and doing excellent work for the state? Three ‘aré elaborating upon’ -the EVERETT TRUE | {IVE HAD A WONDERE ALONG. HER STREET NUMBERS ON EM, (INCLUDING | ¥ _['SEeMs” Se, EH 2 “IBuT (TIS VERY mMalLL CARRIGRS How Do You is or For INDIGESTION t om 20-198: :| them from the vessel. IN VOYAGE OF CARRIER DOVE the port, he safd. The British author ities threatened to send a gunboat after” him, the captain ‘said, but he van up the American flag, sailed, “an nothing came of it:” In September, 1903, the Carrie: Dove had come to rest on the rocks, this time ‘in the China Sea ear Shaw- eishan.. Pirate, junkmen swarmed abeard, routed fhe crew and forcel This led to 2 report to the state department that the ship hdd been lost. The pirates were forced to leave the Carrier Dove by heavy weather. Captain C. Jensen, then master returned with some ot the crew and found ‘the vesset looted} of most of her portable fittings. A. great part of.her lumber largo was removed and she was floated, being repaired and: placed in’ commission later. i ‘On February 14, 1903, the Carrier Dove had arrived in Honolulu harbor on “a madhouse” voyage from Biers, South Africa, with-only Captain Jen- sen, the mate and two of the crew able to work.’ The vessel’s log told the | story. of tragedy, the remainder or the crew. having either died or been left in ‘hospitals enroute. Oe en necessity of our farmers going into dairying and diversification and are effectually aiding Mr. Geo. H. Ilse, the county agent of Morton county, in his effort to drganize the farm bureau 10- cals throughout his county and to dem- onstrate the prosperity that: will be general.as a result of the adoption of surer methods. J =" "Tweaty-four, representing the vari- ous subjects, are on hand to meet the temporary needs gf our own people as well as “short orders”. from outside of the state. ee: The balance, or 26 reels, are still maintaining seige of Minnesota under the auspices of the “Publicity Film Company” and continuing to make it uncomfortable for the pine-woods and sand-dune boosters: of that state; =the people are getting wise to the fact that in North Dakota the land is not only ‘cheap; but absolutely, the most fertile in the U.S. A. si) In closing 1 wish to add that much credit is due Mr, Lorne Wilde, our former Deputy Commissioner and Miss Leila: Diesem; then one of our field .|deputies, for the choice and arrange- ment of the subject matter ahd the titling of the films. - —— \White:-females outnumbered white|' males in 1920 in Massachusetts, Rhodé Island, New York and District, of Co- Jumbia. i te Sh ee SON aed BY CONDO es Time FINDING YouR Pcace’$ or tHe HOUSES | Severac on tue Het MAY SEEM" So TO You REAL To ME —/ JUST AS IT MUST BE To MANY. OTHERS, ON tHis ‘RouUTS! Dot ANO r WGECc, EVGRETT, \T SEEMS YoU | ROUND MY. House | ACL RIGHT Anye How — INCLUDING. THE | ” Soom BrS i! j ‘Jin the orchard: {Nancy suddenly looking ‘up at the “}azy.,bunch of a husband called diréc- FRIDAY; DECEMBER 23,321 RAILROAD MAN "FEELS FIFTEEN YEARS YOUNGER: Well Known. St, Paul: Citizen Says His Troubles Have All Disappeared “If there is any such thing as. mak ing a man over entirely new, Tanlac has done that very thing for me,” said Otto Selbitschka, 553 Edmond St., @t, Paul, Minn., well-known railroad man: , | , i “A medicine has .sgme class, to it that can take a man who was eating hardly enough to keep.a bird. alive and put him in such good shape that he can eat three corking big meals a day and enjoy’ every mouthful, but that is only a small part of what Tan- lac did for. me. . é i “My stomach is in apple-pie_ order now and all the rest of my troubles have disappeared. I feel as young and active now as I did fifteen years ago, and my only regret about Tanlac is that I didn’t get hold of it three years ago- when: my troubles--first started.” “Tanlac is sold in Bismarck by Jo- seph Breslow, and’ by leading drug- gists everywhere.”. Many a woman who has never taken. up Jaw can lay it down. Ss NN Movie stars marry in winter!” finds a writer. Yes, mostly the same ones every winter. Ireland seems to have quit throw- ing bricks and started laying them. Automatic toy music boxes wan be fixed with an ax. 4 Emma Goldman says she is a wo- man without a country. America is_ a fine country for Emma to be with- out. : st ‘ It is not known who offered or won the 1921 prize for taking the mcst pictures of Harding. You must sing a: song of expense to get a bottle full of rye Mother -misses ‘father when he is out, hunting because she is afraid. the hunters will not. \ ‘A man who goes.to.jail for the thme of his life doesn’t have it, ~ « Fat men never. do: esthetic:dances because they’ are too easy'to hit. i: % ate + Sy Spring thats and customers'are be- ing trimmed. 1 é ey The masses: will be elevated, when airplanes get common. ‘ Looking at a ton of coal makes us believe that even big dealers do busi- ness on small scales. Two can live steeper than one. \A good ‘mixer. has lots of friends, especially.a good drink mixer. Any man who agrees with his wife’ can have his way. ° Japan says she will be out of debt by 1043. Japan “is more’ optimistic than father. » re ae eR Lots of girls think the dishes wash themselves. iki ADVENTURE OF THETWINS — “By Olive Barton Reberts ‘nettes make mealettes. ¢ One ay, Nancy and Nick were out’ It was "May and all a mil- the world, was beautiful with lion lovel¥\ white. and pink blossoms. They. had” played outdoors since early morning and now it was atte = noon, a warm, drowsy, sweet-smeéll- — ing, dreamy afternoon, just. the. sort of time that fairies get very busy with folks and things. * “How pretty everything is!” .said pink and white roof over their heads. Here and there little patches of blue sky peeped through and birds of many. kinds were ‘ fluttering about among the branches. is Oliver Oriole was there. He'd just, azyived and he was_at his nest-Weav- ing with his ‘new little pale-yellow wife sitting by watthing him admir- ingly. “The Robin ‘Red Breasts were using the saiie old house that they’d had iast. sumtber, and Belinda Blue- bird was building her own nest ina tree by. the fence corner while her, tions to her from the top rail. “ Nitk~ had spied something on the grougu. and wasn’t paying the least bit of attention to things overhead. “Nal ‘ ‘jed, pulling his sister down, Kk! It’s tthe’ Green Shoes! The Magical Mushrooni must have been here and gone away, again. i glint ee him.” * old felfow,”” said ‘Nancy re- “I wish. He'd waited. But he’s always ‘so busy I Suppose he had am errand some place or other in one of the Fairy Queen’s Kingdoms. But hurr;,‘ Nickie, we must be going to have an adventure. Let’s put on the Shvrs right away. “First thing I’m going to do,” an- swered Nick,-‘is to wish ‘myself up into that funny little houge in the old farple tree that daddy built when he was @ boy.” 3 And he had his own shoes, off in a 7 ji