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SHEARS ASS ERE ‘nae THE BISMA Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. Di, as Sevond Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN : : ct RC K TRI BUNE worké long ‘time,- plate that nothing can pierce. 1é turns about,an Foreign Representatives ishells, so on indefinitely. a - G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY i | CHICAGO DETROIT. Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEWYORK - - - _- ___ Fifth Ave. Bldg. have junked the fighting power of battleships. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The Associated Preas is exclusively entitled to the use for ‘republication of all news dispatches credited to it or news published herein, Is A All rights of republication of special dispatches herein pee a propeller, frequently wrecks a flying ma- are also reserved. chine. Airmen often say they dread nothing as se MA : MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION _ |much as birds. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE | For every weapon, man can invent a counter-| Apply this military law to' your ...$7.20 acting defense. Every problem has a solution. Daily by carries, per Mer 5 i bie aily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). + 7.20) i Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck). 5.00 | OWN problems. Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota......... 6.00 | Never give up. THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER | i (Established 1873) | i MORE FREIGHT <p> Picture a train with 829,722 freight cars. That ;was what all American railroads loaded with ae tae 30 ae Ae Ph haiti and moved during the-first week of No- ake away all our machinery and steam andj vember. ‘ electrical power, and it would require 3,000,000,000 | That would make a big train. By squeezing hard-working slaves. to duplicate the work done’ some, the whole population of United States could by Americans. \travel in it, standing up. The use of power and machinery gives to every| This great number of freight car loadings was sy ronan and child in our country the equiva-/2998 more than were loaded in the corresponding ent o slaves. week of 1919. ‘ This is figured out in the latest bulletin of the; General business conditions go up or down with Smithsonian Institution. ‘freight traffic. The railroad figures show that — ‘better times are approaching steadily. Why envy the nobleman, back in ancient Egypt, s id if or Bagdad, with 30 slaves toiling for him? | CHEERING He had swift-running slaves bring him fish| Farmers, in the ‘depths’of gloom, should, take from the ocean and bird tongues from the moun-jcheer at this: gee tains. For the first 11 months of the year, wheat ex- perfecting battleship armor- \perfects a shell that. will pierce anything, Then iB Paitor: attention swings back to armorplate, again to : | United States, in arming for defense, must pro-| ' ;Vide many capable airplanes, cautiously keeping ‘an.expert eye on the possibility that airplanes may But a weapon that eventually will junk the air- |plane is certain to be perfected. Why not train not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local | flocks of birds to attack airplanes? A bird, hitt- Today, with a few dimes, you can get a tin can \ports from our country were 269,497,218 bushels i | A BRAND NEW 7 PAIR OF STOCKINGS: THE APPLE TREE MAN | ef shrimp brought from Japan, a package of dates in 1921, against 192,383,961 bushels in 1920 and from Syria, a bag of nuts from Brazil, sardines 138,566,764 bushels in 1919. : from Norway. : c And, for 11-months, corn,exports were 118,811,- oe slaves'— machinery and power —bring'271 bushels in 1921,,. against 14,720,333 bushels em. | ‘in 1920 and 9,666,544 bushels in 1919. For a few cents, you edn buy “enough matches} ‘This “again proves’ that "falling-off in foreign » cao ae wit Slat the ear nobleman’s trade is largely a price hoax. ‘The consolation is re Let ae y ne he aeres in the that these big grain exports will cut’ down the “site fi a am ea a a ' laze ‘by friction oricarry-over. That favors higher prices for farm- re rebrands, atar. ers in 1922. Plenty of old settlers, now living, can recall the; \ days before matches, when they ran a mile from| \ DREAM ieciaha neighbor's, with a shovelful of blazing!- Louisa Wells toiled as a weaver girl in a mill coals. : : f iat Lowell, Mass. Her great dream was to be Your real wealth is measured, ae in money. ae us ghee cemetery, smone, Oe ound 9 : Mg ney: mighty.. She died in 1886,‘ leaving her life sav- ee Hae you ae ye fo and/ ings to purchase burial space and a marble monu- i ase with which you get them, the com-! mont. \ forts and conveninces 6f your home, methods of/ er heirs contested the will. Now, after 36 | There’s a funny, little fellow,: In a suit of red and yellow, Living up in our old apple tree; Be the weather wet or shiney, He is never, sad nor whiney, ah But as jolly, and as happy as can be. i Oh, his heart is bright and cheery, ‘And he never has grown weary, Tho he’s lonesome oftentimes, I ween; And he touches yp the places, Where the sun can’t reach the faces, ‘ Of the apples, thru their heavy, leafy screen. How the birds and bees all love him, And the blue skies smile above him, . al While the wind rocks him to sleep at night;” ‘And the robin singing sweetly; ‘ Puts his dreams to. flight completely, .At the first red tintings of the morning light. He’s a funny, little fellow, And his heart is just as mellow, ‘As an-apple’s heart could ever be; But he,always stays in hiding, And'a secret I’m confiding— I believe he is afraid of you and me.’ yehy the Northern Great Plains left Tuesday evening for their home at Yankton, .S. D. .. Miss Elsie Stark, who has been spending the holiday season at the home of her mother here, has return- ~|'ed to the University of Minnesota, transportation-and amusement. years, courts decide that Louisa’s life-dream is to from: airplane or:cannon. It is only-a few centuries since even the richest'},. fulfilled. The poor little weaver girl rests kings had no sewers, running water, rapid trans- among the mighty 3 portation or any of the. commonplace things that). To bad, for fee aching/ heart, that Louisa can- TT esan see/adde to car comtcts and coe: ies Mertmaeneni, of Sullate Aiuesinan oe pone ar. ages . ven-| expected, for her savings, originally about $2000, A few years. ago, only the richest men in foun ane ergyn vie io Ey cond a ee < ? f i Own Fnough is left over to care perpetually for, the ad autos. jow there’s an auto for every’ 12 1 morial { ay Americans. ie il ; Henry Ford, is experimenting’ with a mixture, ‘ Hees of glue, cotton and formaldehyde. He expects to 1 make a powerful building material out of these. | EDITO. RIAL REVIEW If he succeeds, he’ll stamp flivvers out like dough- nuts. i 5 Comments ‘reproduced in. this column may or may not Sy express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here That'seems like a dream. But it is merely typi-|] ‘*,gtfet,thst our sere may have both sides of Seportant aruce cal of the processes of mass production that have - ~ given the average person luxuries that were de-| “ONCE TO EVERY MAN AND NATION” nied kings of antiquity. ; No more pregnant utterance has been made Measured in ancient standards, we are all kings/ concerning the Irish treaty than a single sentence today, with the slaves of electricity, steam and|that Arthur Griffith dropped in his quiet voice so machinery toiling constantly for us. casually and simply that it escaped the pens of| l ‘many of the correspondents. who sat picking and ALWAYS AN ANTIDOTE i | choosing among his words for,the sensational and The airplane will be the most destructive force! the important. Movingvhis mesolution that the in the next war, says Hidgon, Maxim, inventor.! treaty be approved, he, accidentally asked the dail He probably is right, provided there is a “next, to remember that if it rejected that convention war.” ‘Ireland would ‘then be fighting with the sym- There is, however, a strong probability that the! pathy of the world aganist her,” and slipped on most powerful agents of offense and defense: in; to other things. ‘ the near “future will be poison gases, artificial) -But that slight word is crucial.” What the sym- lightning and plague germs spread by:bomb, either pathy of the world has meant to Ireland'js beyond i } 4° Jestimate. It has’ betitisd petent as toigiake the It will: be possible’ to send the airplane ‘any- world forgive‘lreland injuries which it would have where, says Maxim, “and there will be no force forgiven no cther country. It was by design, not that will be able to combat it effectually.” \ . | accident; that the Easter rebellion was planned Not so! There is an antidote for every weapon for the hour when France had her back to the wall —always a means of defense possible against any|at Verdun, planned ‘so'as to draw to Ireland! implement of offense. \France’s British reinforcements; and it was not! : } iIreland’s fault that France, beaten to her, knees, The first warriors fought with bare hands, | did not slip under the crown prince’s knife in that claws and teeth. One picked up’a rock and found|week. Yet France has forgiven her. ah that he could inflict greater punishment with it} In the United States even’ England’s friénds| than with his fists. sympathize with Ireland. Writers like Sir Philip A man with a little more intelligence discovered ,Gitbs go:back hcme saying that: the- strongest that a rock hit an enemy’s skull harder;when at-| pleas they have hear! i: Az:criea for justice to tached to-a handle, than when held in the hand.| Ireland have come from men who love England. War clubs came into use. ; |Some years ago an American girl created a furor ‘ & primitive inventor chipped a flint to a pierc-|at a banquet on the other side by plagiarizing ing point—a crude dagger that excelled the round, Elizabeth: Barrett Brown:ng’s great line about rock. : Italy and calling the green island “the' sweetheart | Later the flint was attached to a stick and|of the nations.” Is it possible that De Valera and hurled as a spear, or as an arrow, before the/his friends do not see how instantly that world-; enemy with the stone club got within striking) wide sympathy will be alienated if now, with Gistance. peace in her hands, Ireland casts it aside and de-| clares for;war? And such a war—a perpetual Vinegar Hill! Instantly England will pass from} the dock to the accuser’s place; from being in the ! Invention of steel armor counteracted the of- fensive power of swords and lances. Rifles, in turn, able to pierce steel, put armor out of busi-; wrong among even her friends to being in the ness. \right evenamongherenemies, and Ireland’s friends} : Always, there is a defensive weapon invented | abroad will shrink to the little herd of Cohalans/ to counteract offensive weapons. + and John Devoys. Is ‘the change worth making?| ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS ~ By Olive! Barton, Roberts The town of)Balloonatick was very queer,'as Nancy and‘-Nick could see, even béfore Buskins led the way in through the big gate. : ‘At the gate itself a, keeper stepped out and, agked, for the password. “Thingamagum!" said , Buskins quickly. Be Nancy said, “Thingamagum,” and so did Nick. “Any matches?.said Buskins. Nanty said “No matches,” and so did Nick, The big gate swung open and the three travelers entered like conquer- ing lieroes, Buskins on his green pa- per elephant, Nancy on her pink pig and Nick on his blue puppy. The city was built of tissue paper; houses, towers, :streets, and bridges were of tissue paper. of Fourth of July balloons. ‘The twins thought it'the most curi- ous of all their adventures, this Land- of-Up-in-the-Air, apa not to stare to curiously, at all they saw, but it was 'most difficult to re- member one’s manners with tissue paper people going about as though they were quite the: usual thing. A very fat, round Humpty-Dumpty Sam, and jolly old King Cole was rid- ing down: street cn a lemon-yellow pussy-cat, talking most amiably ‘to a ‘stout Queen of Hearts sedately rid- ing a purple rooster.. ,All of them had-hurried away from the earth and come up to the sky to live. No: one paid the slightest attention to the visitors, co the chil- dren began to think that their man- ners’ were wasted. .We like to be no- ticed when we're polite» Buskias took them next to the hos- pital where the balloons were repai ed, that got burned. a bit on the way. “And now,” said he, “we must g9 back to our apple-tree elevator. We have still muth to see.” (To {Be Continued.) (Copyright; 1921,, NEA Service.) ° Orion is/the'most brilliant constel- lation in the sky. i Fine for Lumbago Musterole drives pain away and brings in its place delicious, comfort. Just rub it in gently. Itis a clean, white ointment, made with oil of mustard. “It will not blister like the old-fashioned mustard plaster. Get Musterole today at your drug store, 35 and 6Sc in jars and tubes; “tal size, $3.00. hospital size, 3 2G AUSTARD PLASTER The munitions branch of the steel industry ! Let the dail ponder.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. os [geo e NE MEERA NAR EONS meme wiclarncrmnggeansemna neste 4 np aMRIT TAC ARENT TD me 7 CNRS It was the city] g Down the street they rode, trying|| was talking to a very hearty Unclej i —Florence Borner. New: Bridge Over: ‘lowhere’ she’ will. résume her work in the home etonontic department. ‘Miss Helen’ Center, who has “been visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Center, over the holidays, has returned to Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn., where she will resume her studies. 1 Clyde Stark has returned to the Ag- ricultural College ‘at Fargo after his mother, Mrs. Anna Stark. Miss Dorothy Sloan, who has been visiting Mandan friends for the past few days, has returned to her home at Glendive, Mont. g Mr. and Mrs. “J. B.°Sayler and daughter motored to Mandan and vis- ited friends there yesterday. Mr. and Mrs, W. R.. Shepard have returned from’ a_ holiday visit with triends at Miles City, Mont. ; Miss Mary Anderson and Mrs, Mil- marek yesterday. Cannon Ball River “\G. A, Bingenheimer of Minneapolis John: F. Sullivan, representing the Mandan’.Commercial club, appeared before the board of county commis- sioners yesterday morning urging that action be taken as soon as feasible on the. building of a bridge over the Cannon Ball. The Sioux county com- missioners. have agreed to join with Morton county in the improvement and the bridge would be a great con- venience to residents of both coun- ties, who during a long period of the year afe compelled to.travel 40 miles to Solen to get across the river. The river is crossed at Cannon Ball on the ice during the winter and forded. in the summer time: when conditions per- mit. The county. commissioners will take the matter under advisement. A. Danforth and son, Daniel, © been sponding the: holiday mm at the home of Mrs. Dan- forth’s ‘sister, Ons tbat Wilson, at i te B29¥99. Mr who T RATHER FANCY THERE — WHAT'S THE PRICE OF ITF Hat ONE Over f ‘1is’a business visitor in Mandan. I sEEK FRIENDS IN HOUR OF NEED “In the hour of need we quickly seek our best friends,” writes Chas. Schridd Ward de Wet, 957 37th Ave., Oakland, Cal., “Our little boy and girl out phlegm, a cough that chokes and flushes the face of the sufferers like upto convulsions. Foley’s Honey and edy.” Cases like this give Foley’s Honey and Tar its reputation as the best remedy for coughs and colds. tem as a punishment for crime came in the establishment of workhouses in London in 1550. Planet Venus is 24,000,000 miles from the earth at its nearest ~dis- tance. e BY CONDO |: WE'RE SELLING THOSE, FoR | THEM FOR $% 2° ¢SNTS You May BE SELCING F978, Bor NoT To ME—— £ NEVER SPEND #/O TO SAVE ee station, | spending the holidays at the home of 1 ler of Mandan were shoppers in Bis- had a sévere dry, rasping cough with- |, Tar was a wonderful emergency rem- |. ‘Adv. | First application of the prison sys- Stars tell the future and movie stars tell the past. ‘Longest sentence in the world is “I pronounce you man and wife.’ Hindenburgs ‘bed has been sold for $8’. Now Germany only needs $1,- 499,999,915, . © From the racket on a, party line it sounds like a jazz party. Due to a shortage of underwear, lots of people’s knees are cold. * Looks as if the “far-flung posses- sions of the British” should have been flung a little farther, Opportunity. knocks but once, but some ‘radiators ‘knock always. ; | Similarity breeds contempt. If it is better to give than receive America is a fine country. ~ a Now the stingiest man in the U. §. is collecting Christmas Seals for ne<t Christmas. i Some men need hair-cuts badly jand others have them that way. : | Zeigteld says he will quit.his Follies. | But good resolutions ‘die young. ;No. Dy. Sawyer. isn’t Harding's Secretary, of Interior. ‘ Fine motto: out. Don’t give up, in cr Dr. Lorenz restored the speech of an, actress, so has been asked to re- turn’to, Austria. :,WVonder .if this Syracuse football r,;.Who. says he has never ‘been ie 1 lies about other things, also? in sf, ‘Audtralia leads world in wool pro- ducing.” U. S...leads the world in wool-gathering. | Ohio miners planning a strike for April 1 don’t seem’ to be April fool- ing. The 200,000 quarts of champagne {arunk in. Paris Christmas didn't come up to’ our shambooze. ¢ ' ‘is The: line of least resistance the green-goods line. : Prince Leopold, the Belgian. heir, is reported engaged, but you must whit- tle your own wheese about Belgian hares. J Light heads never shine. ’ POETS’ CORNER | EASY ON THE “HIGH HO About six” bells the® captain around, ‘And gently slides the key into my door; ; Like Senta Claus, who would not make a sound ‘Lest’ I should wake, when sleep is needed more. But, wakeful of his presense on the tier, fe His airy step soon dims and fades al And comes way, naught could ever rouse me, save the fear Of missing breakfast served upon | a tray. It’s nice, I know, to rise at early morn; i Twill make one wise and healthy—so 4 ‘tis said; J But as for me I'm feeling kind o’ worn And much 'prefer to rest awhile’ in bed— For I’ve grown woary looking for \ the fame ‘ “hat twinkles for the early birds at ‘dawn; ..,To. me, the gleam of hope is just a ™ flame That waxes for a while and then is | gone. i ; They say it’s healthy on the dear old i farm i | To rise before the chickens start’ to |, crow, : A-dangling mitk pail on your either ley arm i | While yet-the-moon beams flickeron the snow. It must be grand to‘hear the farmer | shout | High Ho! before you've crawled: in 1 for a snooze; j It say you all that trouble getting ou And ‘stumbling ’round the shack .to find your shoes. |Ah yes, but better still—give me a cell i Where sweet contentment finds a com- fort true; 1 } To rest in’ peace until the chiming e Rings out its merry welcome for to chew, i If early rising keeps the spirit young— | Prolongs the years, to ‘brave the { breezes! cold— Then grant. a wish, my song will have been sung— Just nk me rest and gracefully grow old. JOHN BRADFORD. er Py - ae ee oe ——.