The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 6, 1922, Page 4

' i still is producing oil in paying quantities. PAGE FOUR TRIBU. N. D, as Second THE | BISMAR Entefed at the Postoffice, Bismarck, a A. A G. LOGAN PAYN! DETROIT CHICAGO Kresge Bldg. Marquette Bldg. i i PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitied 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. i ‘ i All rights of republication of special dispatches herein, are also reserved. Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - . - - Editor, Psi Sunn E. in public life are going to be just as clean-sweep-|' _ing as their brooms in the home. HARDING | A gentleman with an adding machine brain fig- ‘ures out that it costs the American péople less ‘than 1 cent each to pay President Harding’s sal- ‘ary and total expenses for a year. Congress costs 18 times as much. This is a small amount for the men who serve las general manager and board of driectors, for that greatest corporation, United States govern- ment, whose assets are about $220,000,000,000. es FS ———$—$ oT OP HIRCULATION oe * re ay MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION dividends, usually being levied on for deficits. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE | Daily by carrier, per year........+. ae ag oot DISSATISFIED Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) - : #99| The driest place in the world is Payta, Peru. Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).. Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.....- iXelercle ‘ele THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Establisned 1873) 6.00 Tt expects no rain until at least 1923. If it rains ‘natives get scared. Last February it had. its E> first shower since 1913, | _ Despite the dry climate, seven different kinds CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM _of plant life manage to exist around Payta. Life, In another column, The Tribune is publishing the greatest mystery, is remarkable for two a letter criticising the administration of the farm things: loan department. It is from a prominent Non-| FIRST: Its stubborn and tenacious fight partisan and from her standpoint contains a valid ' against death. criticism. The Tribune, however, disagrees with! SECOND: the other side of the controversy should have , ample opportunity to air their views. i Mr. DeNault necessarily must examine and’ ‘The red Indian probably will make his last carefylly check up the work of the previous ad-!stand in Canada, which reports an Indian popu- ministration before taking on new business. The Jation of 106,000. They are farming. 221,800 Bank of North Dakota was the storm’ center of ‘acres of land, and their, average wealth ranges as the campaign. In fairness to all applicants for high as $2217 in the province of Alberta. . loans if a large number of applications were re-' jected without cause, all of them should be. The opportunity to renew requests for loans is still legged state by a Canadian Indian. ‘open and adherents of the League or the I. V. A.) Tf is less than two centuries since the Indians are or should be upon the same footing. ‘were masters of the American continent. The Loans should not be made along the lines of/ white man has exterminated them at a rate‘al- political preference. While it is too early to say most without precedent in history. INDIANS are wearing may have been trapped in the four-' what the policy of the farm loan department will; Will the white man be a curiosity 200 years| be, there is Mr. DeNault’s word for it that loans will be made regularly and in keeping with safety and sound judgment. If pre-election pledges and post-election promises are kept, the loan depart-; Much argument has been ‘stirred up over the ment will be run impartially. ae _ |girl at Janesville, Wisconsin, who smells colors It is too early to weigh the new administration. pnd hears by the sense of touch. None of the departments is under full sail. The} uch a case is known to science as “confusion officials are new on the job and must be given ‘cf the senses.” Some have it in the form of see- time. Every fair minded citizen, should hold in ing vivid colors when certain notes are struck abeyance his conclusions until fortified by| on piano or violin. . actual facts. 4k saudi The late Dr. Camden M. Coburn, of Allegheny Under the pressure of political consideration, College, used to tell his pupils of a. boy he thet this administration is going, to make mistakes— whose sense of sight had been transferred to his mistakes common to our system of government— fingertips. The boy could stick a finger through Be ae ea Maen of rary bei _a knothole in a fence and watch a, baseball game. , State officials shoul e given! Sounds i ible, ° : Ha Sine suey tal is impossible, _ but ce has greater The Tribune has been eimpresssed with the} a ; manner in which Mr. DeNault has_taken|. DEPRESSION ! hold of the hard task alloted him. Conducting! ‘ Only about a seventh of all commodities pro- a state owned and politically controlled enterprise duced by American farms and factories is shipped is a hard task and if the truth were known Mr. abroad. Or put it this way—foreign trade makes hence, like the Indian in 1921? Ask the Orient. CONFUSION constructive: criticism.| wonders than thati..-<) 22 t You and I are the stockholders. We never get’ loftener than once in two years down ‘there, the; Be Its power to adapt itself to almost) the conclusions of the letter although it believes any kind of environment. i Not all of them are farmers. The fur coat-you| AND 72% { | | “ts as FROM A NONPARTISAN Jamestown, Jan. 4, 1822. | Editor Bismarck Tribune: { We ars reading with great interest | the report of work being done by the | new state officials and tlicir helpers ; and an account from the loan depart- | ment in your issue of the 30th of last | menth has aroused my interest and} curiosity. (Woman is. ever curious you know). Hy, i , i had an idea that Mr.~ DeNault ; headed a loan department and ‘that there were Muridreds of farmers, wait- | ing for money ywith which- to_ save j foreclosure; proceedings and permit tnem > go forward’ with their farm- | ing operations.another year. i Now, after two months’ o¢cupation of the office, he’ scemingly has turned; the department: into-an‘ examization | bure iu, and ‘has’ not loaned ‘4 ‘dollar. ‘and hag cancelled all:present chances of loaning: one.:. c Whom is, Mr: DeNault serving? Is} his: time given'lfree'to,the state? We and where heir. pay come from? Is the ‘lepartment adding to the tax. burden’ of the jt ithout,.accom- plishing .what the Specifically in- tended? ‘Wha e constitution in sucha case SR ge es However, wesare glad to note that the’ two amonths’ wiprk is not ‘alto- gether thrown ‘away. He claims. to DeNault has many times wished himself back in! up 15 per cent of our total commerce his own private ventures. where nothing but busi-| The difference ‘between boom Lines and hard } ness principles obtain and no political exigencies times, however, is only about 15 per cent. | , enter into the issues before him. i! The figures match. Without foreign trade, | + Probably before another primary rolls around, business depression would be perpetual, or until little will be accomplished other’ than a survey |we adjusted ourselves to consume everything we ; of the condition of North Dakota’s finances. | produce. x ; When that is known, the voters functioning in} ‘The real trouble right now is in our home mar- their respective parties will decide whether they | kets, not in export markets want to shoot more money to the birds in carrying é ._ on the socialistic ventures which the present ad-) ministration has fallen heir to. Both Mr. Green and Mr. DeNault are treading, " cautiously through the uncharted paths of; state“banking such as is provided in the unique; , and hybrid act creating the Bank of North Da-! kota. If they make mistakes many of them must /——> i be credited to the system of state ownership, | GOV. SPROUL’S DILEMMA vicious in the extreme, and’ not to the men who| The message of Governor Sproul will be taken are trying to make bricks without straw. jin.his course with respect to the vacancy created \hy the death of Senator Penrose. Under Penn- GOLD \sylvania law successive terrhs as governor are Porcupine, Canada, one of the world’s richest| Prohibited and it was the common expectation mineral districts, is taking $19,000,000 worth of| that Sproul would be a candidate for the Senate, gold out of its mines yearly. To get that gold, it but his residence in the eastern part of the state has to break up 2,066,400 tons of ore. ‘ |makes him eligible only to the Penrose succession That makes “the ore yield about $9.50 a ton, under the unwritten law that the senatorships Would you pulverize a ton of quartz for that?, must be divided between the eastern and western The romance.of gold mining is mostly in ma- Sections. When Senator Knox died, Governor; ‘chinery. ‘Sproul appointed Senator Crow in the common |and rather cold-blooded understanding that his RELIABLE failing health would preclude the possibility of The oldest oil well in the world is at McClin-| becoming a candidate next fall even if it permitted tockville, Pa. It began producing 200 barrles a'him to take his seat in the Senate.’ Now- that day. Sixty-one years have passed but this well death has made another vacancy, what will Sproul, jdo? It is conceded that he will either appoint as Some people are a lot like this Old Reliable well, Successor to Penrose a man who will agree to! 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. Others | make a furor —big production at first,|leave the field ope~ next fall, or will resign with| then’ die out.and are useless. Better a reliable an understanding that he is to be appointed sen- plodder than a “flash in the pan.” \ator by Lieutenant Governor Beidleman. et Governor Sproul is regarded universally as an able man and politically upright; but he lives in| a state essentially political. Either course sug-| 8 CLEANERS At Gatesville, Texas, commotion started over lhikeat, so the book is read by many have: worked out an ‘amortization plan all by, himself. ; I heard of a garage which claimed: to fix all-autos in regu- ‘lar turn as they came in. One day a ‘Hupmobile came in with a break which mecessitated sending to the factory jor a piece. An hour afterward a Ford | «ame in needing a repair which they kept in stock, But the proprietor re- tased to fix the Ford until affer the cher car was repaired. following along this line of thought we may imagine a scene in the office of the loan department :~ Clerk—"Chief, here is an applica- + tion from Ward county for a loan. The abstract and tax receipt accompanies it. The land is ‘unencumbered We \have a man in Ward county now. Shall we have him look at: this land?” | Chief—‘“Land alive, No! There are 25 applications -ahead of that fellow: ; Our man must go to Hettinger and La- | Moure counties before he can attend | {9 that man’s land.” Oh, well! ‘Never mind. To be con-j sistent, no I. V. ‘A. official, clerk, poli-; tician, nor any relativd or friend of | any I. V. A. official, clerk or politician ‘will ask for a loan, and it seems to be a ‘high kind (of misdemeanor for a ‘Nonpartisan to have one, so there Avon’t be much leaning done anyway. j cover all. . rom an Ignorant Farmer's Wife. (Or a Farmer's Ignorant Wife.) Take your chivice. \ iG Fort. Yates, Jan. 6. Editor Tribune. ? (A Review by, A. McG. Beede) The book:called Main Street, by Sin- clair Lewis, had its 18th edition with- in six: months. One who has! not read the book is not up-to-date in the self- proclaimed literary circles. It ig a cartoon in liter. book. Its chief aim and purpose is the im- memorial Main Street aim, to sell well. | The lwok. tells in’ clever jazz medley of thitigs that countless persons have observed, and the thought is as-you- ina classess of pedple. The (Main’Street and’ the Town bed are the same things that ‘een since: long before Jerusalem havi --and, will be until’Gubriel blows the ‘horn. If--if the book had Mark Twain’s philogophic humor and his keen eye for nature in the concrete, it might be alleged brutalities to the 950 inmates of the State gested above involves a political deal. In one,; Training School for Boys. One of the brutalities Sproul deals with his appointee and in the other, is said to have caused a death. The storm cen-| With his own successor as governor. It is rather | tered on C. E. King, superintendent of the school.|¢mbarrassing for him and as we say his political He stuck by his guns, refused to resign. The! state board of control voted to sustain him, and personal stature will be measured by what he! does in filling the Penrose vacancy. Doubtful) The women got after King. His dismissal was Political means are sanctioned, according to poli-| demanded by the Texas Federation of Women’s’ tical expendiency, by the ends; but bargains are! 5 Clubs. He quit. likely to detract from the high esteem in which’ The man who thinks that women are not going! Yespected official is held. The Pennsylvania | to houseclean the country before they get through | idea may not be popular nationally.—St. Paul Pio-| : with it, has another guess coming. Their ballots | Neer Press. permancnt~ in literature. But the authors borrowed\from-books knowl- edge: of nature gives the stereotyped landgcape scenes, and even speaks of Buttercups and Pasque Flowers ap- pearing at the same time. The heroine, Mrs. Doctor Kennicott, is thee typical spoiled baby, 2 booked- up college girl, with ambitions to yank Mai& Street and the Town into a book- made New Jerusalem, at one jerk, and she flabily hold the illusion that she is so adorable that even if she fadishly kes a room separate from her hus- baigd he will adore her still, and will be in no danger of being attracted el'sewhere. She worships no God, not because she is particularly heretic, NRAVERAGE CINZEN Sometime Before NoV.I2E! = e founds the: “department | ith: only two | nyagre’there now | 2! eS t! I dare say the bonds sold will well.) : HISTORY 1S GOING To BE MoE At This CONFERENCE = \ (LL MAKE IT A Point To FoLtow ALL THE DETAILS CLoseLy. S 8 WEEKS’ © ay ae oA Sr # DERELICTS enna A worn out ship lies on her side, Down by the 9cean’s pier; But she was once the Captain’s bes And many a voyage she did ride, Before she found her bier. A‘gray, old man limps down the street, i He was a soldier brave; And many a story he can spin, About the battles he was in, pas ‘Sweet Freedom’s cause to save. And, shall we call them derelicts, i The brave man, and the noble ship, Because they have grown old? $ Nay, rather call them privateers, Who sailed adown the Sea of Years, While blue skies turned to gold. —Florence Borner. RR aeeeee@s@>O@@D@@O(OEDDO*™_ ?—@0OlOeOWOOOEO EO O>OOaaaaaarewrrrnrn but because she wants all beings to worship her. ,She has. more, bookism on‘her chest than she can digest with ther tiny stomach. She can understand that a man. might have a mistress and still bea hero, because she has read of that in books, but‘she can’t under- stand that/a‘man-can chew tobacco abe 1% *bebauseanone of the entioi.that:a hero ever chewed) to) 0, and’ she never saw any heroes, tot: even’ Roosevelt, the inveterate tobacco chewer. Her am- bitions:ares>many“and' so change- able that’ none’of them register. She don’t Know what she wants, nor does anybody know. Haying a'good home without ‘earning it by: grievous toil, she sighs, “Have l got to stay in this house’ forever?” Having fuel with- cyt the toil of earning it, the mono- tony of putting the wood and coal in- to the fire gets on her nerves. B She simply must: make a break for freedom or ‘‘bust.” x So with her boy, just able to prat- tle, she runs away, for Washington, Icoking for a world of high ideals, art and beauty, and warm love. Incident- ally, when she cries, her baby asks her why she does not pray to the dear {Lord, for neighbor mongers have told the little imp about God, though she has not mentioned this to him. With the aid of Suffragette friends and kind congressmen and military officers shé i gets a job in Washington, and feels quite free—for a while. After two {years of the new luxury of freedom, || EVERETT TRUE Just loorK AT THIS FLOOR WN | =| THe i Can “ov SES NOW, ai o SIRAINING WrtROoUT YouR Exes Fy © cee she comes back home. And when she fnds out that Dr. Kenniqott has really learned to like to pass the nights in his room alone in a little privacy and nialling things: over by himself, she at once rushes into his. room and smoothes the pillow and becomes, real witey again; for: when her absence had ceased: to. peeve; of. course she must tease by’ her noble presence, or else lose the darlingest delight of her heart, i. e. to peeve and tease with, artistic new ideas. ( The characters of the book are the old, old persons found in every town } from time immemorial. The bck mentions not the real people of the town who are the sum and substance of every town, whoever steers the coasting sled, while all the rest hold up’ their pumps.so the coasting sled will not fly out ;f the road. She still holds her faith, or argues that she does, while Dr. Kennicott. grins pleas- ; antly, and thinks that Carol is real interesting. During: the boomtimes a lot of wives, and°even boys and girls, ran away from home. But row, there is no money to run away on—until the boomtimes come again. The book does no “preaching,” ex- cept in a couple of regretable short paragraphs, it is just a cartoon movie of the boomtimes a good deal “as they breally was.” Adult sea lion has ‘been known to eat 44 salmon a day. | Anne ——— BY CONDO| S CAN'X SEE ANYTHING): MarrerR wien IT! Vy Mh i l | |) >} yi) 4 ny ly + | dancer. Let's have another conference to reduce naval oranges, The bankrupt watch company has run down so will be wound up. A tender feeling has a tough time. President of France says the arms parley failed. He ought to know. Lots of people stay away from | church because it doesn’t cost any- | thing tio Bo. ‘Honesty, is the best politics. | i No groom ‘fits the collar ads—no bride the stocking ads. | “Landlord Mistaken for Bandit Is | Shot.”—headline. Sounds plausible. The 1922 directories will sqon be {telling where we lived last year. Children mind the parents who mind the children. | Ireland is free, but Kentucky is | still fighting. Wonder if this new year’s Eve will dress like Eve? ! | “What's the Matter With the ' Moon?” headlines the Digest.) Maybe the. man in it got some moofshine. i pipe? ae As It isn’t what's on a girl's back 30 much as what’s in her head. i | | { | A war nurse is swearing to the gov- ‘ernment that she is alive. Some men | Just won't belleve a woman. ‘ | 1 i | i i ' 1 ‘One down and out club is the war club. These trees being saved by, hypo- dermic injections_t sgt in the limb instead of arm #, The devil finds work for idle hands; don’t let our idle go to the devil. Women agree that the man who said women never agree, was wrong. The. McCormicks got devorced last year and neithér one of them have | remarried yet. Lookout will help the outlook. ADVENTURE OF . THE TWINS By Olive Barton Roberts | ‘The next place that Buskins took the, Twins to in the magic appletree ‘elevator was the Land of Lost Kités. || Nick moved the funny old iron ‘brake fastened’to ‘the side of the lit- \tle rickety wooden car when Bus- ‘kins told him and up they shot still higher above the hills, trees and val- eys, right into the blue, blue sky. ‘At last they stopped and Buskins said, “Here we are!” I hope we're in time for the trial.” And he looked at his\watch, “| “Trial!” exclaimed Nick. that?” “Its when something is to be de- ‘ cided,” answered the fairyman. “And the thing to be decided is usually whose fault something is. “But land alive! . That’s too hard for you to understand. Come along ard I'll tell you what I mean. “The Fairy Queen is to be here to ido the deciding. . It’s all about the Whats kites who come here. They are al- ways quarreling and always in | trouble.” } They started down a remarkable jroad with fields of lovely green on each side. : Here and there Were‘ houses where the kite people lived, who had come to make their home:im ithis ‘beautiful sky ‘country. And ‘trees! There were oodles of trees, my dears, for where else would zird kites ‘stay. | After a while they arrived at a vil- \lage and it was plain to see from the ‘crowd of kites that something un- jusual was going on. | Buskins and the Twins made their {way to the-courthouse and here the jcrowd was thickest of all. They |mever would have got through had |Buskins not handed a policeman-kite a_card from the Fairy Queen. Instantly the policeman-kite made a path, and the visitors went up the steps and in through the door. There they could see the Fairy Queen herself sitting in state. ° Before her were two disheveled kites who locked as if they Nad been | fighting. 1 (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1921, NEA Service) " A THOUGHT FOR TODAY —- “That ye may know the way by which ye must go: ior ye have not passed this way hitherto.”—Joshua | | ry . Make no mere giants, God, But elevate the race at once; We ask To put forth all our strength, our hu- a man strength, se 1 starting fairly, all equipped alike, Gifted alike, all eagle-eyed, true- hearted— ‘ See if we cannot beat the angels yet! | —Robert Browning. | EVERY DAY | = ° | Today's word is DANSEUSE. | It’s pronounced — Dan-sooz with , accent on the last syllable. { It means—a Professional female t dt comes from—the French. t’s used like this—“Pavlowa i great danseuse.” : Pees