The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 12, 1922, Page 4

t ] 1 1 ‘ ‘ 1 eS =. mre trp ee PLE v¢ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE FORDS: BANK BALANCE}. 1 Entered ‘at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D, ag Second}. Seventeen years ago Ford could not get the Class Matter, groceries for his Thanksgiving dinner on: credit. GEORGE D, MANN - : - . Editor Today he announces that his bank balance is be- Foreign Representatives tween $135,000,000 and.$145,000,000. He further G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY ives it as his opinion that his enterprise should CHICAGO DETROIT |© F ; Marquette Bldg. _. Kresge-Bldg. |be valued at a billion and announces that he paid You WIN. OLD MAN cen MAINE: BURNS AND Pte Ke Bia !Uncle Sam $76,000,000 in income taxes last year. iw) ou DESERVE Th a “eae OF Tae ASSOCIATED oo =| Page bas Bon ahead Ee en MEDAL-MORE THAN The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use ed the usual dividends of industry and courage. | Do for Tepublieation ot all news dispatches credited. fy it or *Mr. Ford’s interview, recently given'to eastern] ~ . not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local) i iy eins news published herein. ‘newspapers is better than columns of pessimism sleighis of republication of special dispatches herein and. analysis on why business is inot better—more are also reserved iof ‘the Ford “pep?” would make business better. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION’ /|it js in part'as follows: ° | ++ D SUBBCEIRTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVAN CEE in F nelite ot about $10,000,000 ier, 60 87.2058, 8D roperty::.cons? 000,01 Daily he mail, Aur rent Gh Bismarck)... A at “worth iE Daildings, $100,000,000:worth of machin- | Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck). 5.00 | ery, and something more than $100,000,000 in disp Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.......... +++ 6.00; easly AS a going cone pelan done net ‘these assets col Ci THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER | Billion dollars. But this $121,000,000, or what- r (Rstablisned 1873) | ever it is that we have in the bank, means noth- ‘ <P ing to’ me except a tool with which to work. I i might liken it to the flywheel on an engine, the | belt from a motor to a machine, or to the wire SPEAKING ABOUT “BLOCS” | that feeds electricity td a trolley car. A big bal- | . ance is required to keep our wheels going. We Edward B. Smith & Co., members of: the New! pay wages amounting to $600,000 a day and jou : ; aay F | erials cost us $750,000 a day. Our bank bal- ork Stock Exchange and prominent ap eastern me fiat therefore ereticient to pay our operating financial centers’ frankly issue a challenge expenses for only about 100 days. All the money i i | that to me goes into new industries. I g S a g i come: oes ie against.the dominance of the so-called agricultural Se aivest matey in bondsor- anything of’ the bloc. In a bulletin issued by this firm of battkers! \ina.” : | is the fellowing warning to the financial interests) 4 of the east: a Jone { WORLD BONE-DRY IN 29 YEARS j : 4 : jon i in 195 icts _ “The situation has thus become acute. It is Pe The world will be bone-dry mn a ee inconceivable that the great Eastern bus'ness and \“Pussyfoot” Johnson, of the Anti-Saloon League. banking interests will-endure for long the med- _, | #19 jg back in his Ohio home,after a nine-months dlesome experimental discriminations of politics i Ga: e, y i cominatel by Geet iailey Wis Rather will re- tour-of Europe and Indias: é ief be sought at the polls,;where, during the year . * i i of 1922, one-third of the membership of the Sen- India will be the next country to give up liquor, ate and the entire membership of the House are says Pussyfoot. India has 350,000,000 people. toabessler teste a eet cs: All except 62,000,000~sf: these ate forbidden to “The death of Senator Penrose brings to a ‘drink, ‘by their religions. The Hindu wets are, aetinite jetisis a pituabion Uae has pradually een [becoming temperate, Pussyfoot found. More im- undergoing significant .changes,” ward B. H 8 : sini & Cov stelament continues. seven since | eens ae whi fanny ae beer, is) ~~~~~ ; ORR Nr nr er enator Knox died-last Fait, it been appar- enmark, which. preters, q ’ Ge = . oo tT ent that the business interes the East were Picea: oe oF 1 tt ean 4 ¥ i i a4 F 'W. SE NCTON not being represented Cong f imarvay com eTaabing on thé’ waieon—23i§ o| fit parishes have ‘HE GREAT NORTH TEST, 3 mensurate wi e vital importance of this sec. _ | VO js Ye \ ‘Open, and wild, and broad and free son of he country. in at probability the, Scar | “Pyssyfoot” Johnson may be guessing wrong The. Great Northwest is the place for me; Sendte, as represented by the leadership of the {on the absolute date at which the world will be Preis wonderin erin ot Nee Republican Party, will yield to the radicalism of | hone-dry. But it’s coring. The prohibition Echoing down from the mountains clear, dominant (power in Contras It i undeniably a ‘movement, which got its real start in America, is Bont ate caro a cages pe ely ces growing -institution, its strength and prestige 4 ; e pees ? ; %, * have increased VI ean lnsde that hastheen ‘done is eeping the world. a The whirring sound of @pigeon’s wing. sidere ~ ‘ i Lords of the forest the old trees stand, CaS Ge ath is ce ae | SEE FRANCE GRASPING “LIFE PRESERVER” Foran spectacle great and grand; ‘ he bloc is the legislative organ of the Farm ' A fe . Ne t tl ki ’s Dl Bureau Federation, which officially describes it- Peace is costing France half as much as being} z Never have they See ne hea eet iow pelt ase ate otealiaation for farmers ever at war. Tinkling*sound of a babbling brook, : formedin the history of the world.- Its bers i ey ’ i ike herd’ in the House and Senate Perresent the Harniing | France’s total national debt now is 328,000,000,- Miran aaah He reteee iter States, and its leaders are determined to use their (990 francs, an increase of nearly a half since the Blending together their melody. power. to enact legislation which will benefit the i Site . i i ay agricultural class The probable successor to jwan ended. Pure as. theheavens, and free as the wind, Seat ere aS ee ae oe ee ieee | Her entire national wealth is estimated at 400,- Haren a) sala forralimankind, a aims. Poet : : 000,000,000 francs. She is mortgaged 82 per cent > Far,from the: bickering, hate and strife, A po he peBlblalive wre rain Of this Sroupi shows ‘of her face value te go, to. make uD aelntul creat e at it is responsible for the appropriation: o! < i lere:you receive the things you net $700,000 000 { Re eed for the xeliet of fat eon Cheron warns the French Senate that by 1930 ai te your, iife alone, ena < itions. includes a measure legalizing’ ‘an * - ) ee ‘rom all. that,destitutes the heart, otherwise making provision for co-operative sell- | France's debt will be 425,000,000,000 francs. Debt ret : 4 Florence Borner. ing pu pein of the formes rt edyccates te | then will exceed her national wealth. ; which the Government arranges loans on farm cially with submarines—is grasping a cast-iron | PEOPLE 'S' FORUM | ie ae forrest and eee -—t land. It demands that a farmer. shall be placed upon the Federal Reserve Board. “Such are the instances of legislation to bene- - fit one class of the population, but the danger lies in the fact that in its profound ignorance of common economic principles, the bloc may shape legislation: which will inflict injury upon all classes. To it is due the ill-conceived revision of the tax Dill. It forced the retention of high surtaxes in spite of the fact that the House had voted -a lower rate which President Harding had endorsed and which the Senate Finance Commit- tee had practically decided to adopt. jlife preserver. LIFE Mrs. Mary Vermett celebrates her 110th birth- \day, on a farm near Harvard, Ill. Her sons are | mere yougsters—only 76 and 78 years old. ..| Mrs. Veirmett came: from Ireland, crossing the Atlantic in a sailboat with her husband in 1840. They pioneered westward by ox team, then | farmed. | Observe that she is the product of outdoor life. ..|No 110-year-old folks produced by city life: If ownershin of the railroads, and have consistently , you want to live. to a great age, keep. close to ~ supported organized labor in the disputes with | nat the transportation systems.” lee MES While this statement, dods.iiat-yetléct-the view)... of the financial centers as va whole, it indicates that the east does not like to see the power shift- ’ ing to the west in matters of financial legislation. is : But the west sees in the organization ‘seeking || exprs'te opinion of The Tribuse.. They are presented, here to control legislation for the benefit of the indus- | a eae racera Tunv, mee potty tices Or upertent teen: trial.centers a bloc that has for its PUT OSE 10 ~ | rt tection of its own class interests just as.the’farm':~ 4 FOCH AND LEE f bloc seeks its own adydntage: 9 UAT [tis hardly to worldedédlatthat, the jgreat- Wise te z i a a not es to bejest ‘soldier of the Twentieth’century should take governed by the hot heads who see red whenever | occasion to pay his tribute of admirati | af- the ‘agricultural bloc becomes active. National | fection to ee acne Pea ie the sities prosperity rests upon the success of. the farming |commanders of modern times, a soldier whose centers. There is a great overlapping of inter-| military genius was equaled only by the party of| ests in the industrial world and one cannot suffer | his purpose and the splendor of-his character.- without affecting’ the others. S te Soldier-like,. Marshal Foch employs few words{ a one as the farm be sore ou to place i SUE the anonymous “American Patriot” agriculture upon a sound basis without govern-| who had telegraphed him at a Virginia town that ment subsidy or strictly class legislation, no harm | Robert E. Lee waé “a traitor.” | can result: : fe “If Gen. Robert E. Lee was a-traitor,” said the To oppose cooperative selling by the farmer is|marshal of France, “Napoleon Bonaparte was ‘a foolish and reactionary. Cooperative selling is|coward. If General Lee was a traitor, I wish re on cuba in many centers and|France had mcre of them. He was.one of the is no longer an experiment. greatest military !caders the world has ever Neither is it any crime to urge the appointment) known.” of a farmer upon the Federal Reserve board. It} In winning the World war, Ferdinand Foch! e TS Galle oe ane fe Ge eae ee the ee of Robert E. t y : latory, but to urge/Lee. was “the sword of Lee” that flashed on the selection of a farmer is legitimate and should| every battlefield in France from the first battle of | ie be regarded by the eastern bankers as revo-/the Marne to armistice day. lutionary. 2 | The control of the chairmanship: of the mogt ? hy eek “Upon. the tariff it will take action as a ‘unit and make problematical the cortection of the dan- | gerous provisions as incorporated in the tentative pill. Its partisans have advocated Government powerful committee in the United States senate| French front, swift ‘to attack, wary to retreat|his men, and they began to play an has passed to one who can do much to placate the various interests of the nation and insure justice) in the handling of financial policies. Agriculture|tion sued for peace. should be treated exactly on the same basis as any) In this estimate of Lee, Marshal Foch takes his other industry and those who rant over the in-|stand besides Viscount Wolseley of England, who creased prestige of the farm bloc in the. United| declared that Lee was “the greatest soldier given only to-attack again,: until at length the Hinden- burg line was pierced and the enemies of civiliza- years refereed a good many games Lee’s strategy, revived and-employed first by | second half it was quite evident that Joffre and later by Foch, held the Hun along the | och Swantsh BASKETBALL AFTERMATH Wilton, Ni Dj! Jan, .9. 1922. To the Bismarck Tribune: ‘We, the undersigned: citizens of /Wilton,. ‘having ;segn’ ‘the Jarticle in The Tribune in whch’ Coach Swanish critcizes the official conduct of the foul for this. The substitutes following the Sth inst., wish to make ‘the follow- referee and the game, in simple jus-; Many times during tice to the referee. *; as a basket ball player, coach and referee. He has during the past two Doth at Wilton and elsewhere, and we have’ never before heard any com- plaint as to hig ‘competence or fair- hess; and we believe the criticism in this game to be absolutely unfair to. him. yk is i We regret very much that any feel-! ing should. arisé ‘betwaén ‘the two} schools over a simple game of basket | ball, i And we do not lay the blame for the! trouble upon the Bismarck: players, ! but upon Coach ‘Swanish himself. The | conduct of the coach was most repre hensible throughout the entire game. Coach Swanish insisted upon b ginning the game before all the offi lealling them. Again, when Ca) | Wilton team was a = the seco! Feit on the floor for the boys to play-over. Yet the referee did not call a single on the Bismarck team committed numerous fouls “by | the example set, by the coach, ‘and’ running out. on ‘the floor | & duriag the progress of the game. Re- Bismarck-Wilton basket ball game of| Peatedly they were warned -by’-the umpire and referee, but no fouls were ing statements concerning. bath the j Called for the: offenses: hal: jtwo of-the Bismarck: players fouled Mr. Dahl has had wide experience ;ne or the other of thé Wilton ‘for- wards by jumping on their backs.and hading them when in the “act of throwing for goal. *If the referee had called these fouls‘each would have ‘en- titled the Wilton team to four free throws, but the referee refrained from EVERETT TRUE Wovucn IT DISGUST YOU, SIR... | le t MCKED MY Teeta, Too € rfree throw line in the act of throwing i] for a free goal,-one of-the Bismarck players rushed down the floor,'crossed into the circle ‘and knocked the.’ball from the Captain’s hands. Then he and others of the-Bismarck players stood,on the free throw line, jiimped up and down and yelled at the Captain as he completed the throw. But for all this unsportsmanlike conduct the! referce did not call a foul, though he| would ave been justified in putting | one of the players out of the game. Again we say, we do not place any {blame upon the Bismarck team, but Nola Coach Swanish wholly to blame for, the trouble. Signed by: 16 Citizens, |. LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY |) Today's word is papiLurare: o ; It is pronounced—de-bill-i-tayt with accent on the second syllable, + | i H weakness, | Companion’ word—debilitation, de- | vilitant. é It is used like this—“Overwork and} overeating debilitate the’ body, fa ene Ae Or ||. A THOUGHT FOR - TODAY % — Unto every otie that hath shall be out from him that hath not shall be yaken away even that which he hath, Mathew 25:26, dut we, brought forth and reared in hours Of change, alarm, surprisé, What shelter to grow ripe is ours, What leisure to grow wise? Like children bathing on the shore, Buried @ wave beneath, The second wave succeeds before ‘We have had.time to breathe. (ek —Matthew Arnold. sn een i if { cials or the Wilton time keeper ‘were | mn the floor. + i The Bismarck team scored three field goals in the first two minutes of | play. Then the Wilton team rallied and held the vistors to that lead un- | til the game had progressed thirteen | minutes. Then Coach Swanish rushed ; onto the floor, declared the first half | ended and took his players to the dressing room.’ Wilton had no offi- : cial time keeper, but a dozen or more men were keeping time; and when ai protest was made to the time keeper he admitted that he had made a mis- take of “two minutes,” and the Bis- marck team was recalled for that two minutes of play. At the end of the fifteer’ minutes of actual play the score stood 13 to 7 in Bismarck’s favor, Duritig--this time Coach Swanish manifested great nervousness, repeat- edly jumping to his feet, waving his hands and shouting. As Coach Swanish did not seem to be pleased with the refereen, a change was made at this time and Mr. Dahl took the floor, and ‘was refereeing when Mr. Swanitsh withdrew his team and forfeited the game. When the team came back for the had succeeded. in transmitting ‘his own nervousness to exceedingly. rough game disregarding every rule of basket ball. The referee was very. lenient with them only call- ing a few, (16-in the entire game) of |’ the scores of fouls committed by the Bismarck players. Coach Swanish himself committed no less than a dozen fouls by going out onto the floor during the play and |. shouting either to the‘teferee or his States senate evidently fear that their own time|to the world since the days of Marlborough.”— honored privileges are going'to‘be’ distaybed,,: | Louisville Courier-Journal. 4 oar Rakes ‘men. Once in a fit of Uhrestrained janger ‘he threw his score book and} _ {STOMACH | | | Stov RQ: (Sour STRONGGR = _ THAN. KOOR _ BRAIN Whe THEN. | liquor. } encores. it meanss-to .weakem ©.» s+ bie It comes ; from—Latin .“debilitas,” | given, ‘and lie shall have abundance; | jthe blue sky th linside of them,” said Nick. lride in.soap-bubble ¢ars. Forty New Yorkers’ are said to have died in’ one day from poison “Dead drunk” is corect. Warden. who arrested nine hunters was certainly, a game warden, Mary Pickford is learning to cook. Pity poor Doug. Would you call a ct6ck that fails to, go off a false alarm? i . It isn't always politeness that makes a’man let a woman get on a street car first. Snubbing a high .price will: make it feel cheap. Lots of people: are. on the, right track, but headed the wrong way. better A man with a: frown had take another look. — 2 The girl, who’ married ‘to keep away from college will learn: better. Theater of war isn’t getting any All the king’s horses and all the «ing’s men can't get Humpty-Dumpty back down agains id iy HY os Worry killeda cat‘and a cat ‘has ine lives, * No ‘matter how cheap, the most cosfly thing is a marriage license. - Some ofthese books. being. bound rught, to be gagged, ‘ Men shop for hats. and wives alike;'j says,a writer, And often get both..too, big for their, heads. The needic is mightier than the bin. Winner of a beauty contest will teach schooi instead of go into the movies, Walk right in, Millepium. This burning deck the boy stood ipon must have held five aces. Any girl who, fs/a picture of health nas a good frame. ee “My full name is William Jennings Bryan; not ‘Grape Juice’ Bryan,” he says. Now what's. your sober name? ‘And resolutions have proved: that he gcod die young. Fine motto: Keep your mind ol your work, .but not your work on your mind. ‘ Weather torecaat: | wink ie | | ADVENTURE OF | | . THE TWINS o—_ £ SRO ey By Olive Barton Roberts Buskins took Nancy and Nick back to the apple-tree elevator when they were ready to leave the Land of Lost Balloons, 3 ie “There are other countries, for you to see in the Kingdom ‘Up in the ‘Air; said the little fairyman, pulling at the fron handle on the side of the car. “So many things make straight for minute they get Toose, that we-havevall sorts of coun- tries for them to stay in. How about |going to Soap Bubblé Land next?” “Oh, that would be lovely,” cried Nancy. “I’ve always, wondered where the soap-bubbles went . when | they floated: offjaway up into the air over ‘Heads. I. sometimes pretend that I am “I pre- tend that ‘am a fairy-and the soap- bubbles are , and: Igo on travels, “Well, well,” said Buskins, “that’s n: idea.’ But to tell the truth, many of the Fairy Queen's little elves do Have you ever heard the poem about it?” 5 no!” cried the children. “Do Buskins? , Won't. you Ky “We have a.minute or so before we arrive, so I'll say what I know,” said the fairyman. “It goes this way— : “All aboard for a ride in the soap- ‘bubble car, ge With walls of finest, glass, It is round. like the moon and shines ike a star, z And its passengers are first-class. It spins like a top and rolls like ‘a ball And can travel upside down, 3 It needs track and-no- engine at an, _ And its Sodp” Bubbie Town. The fairies ride ’round in this’ won- derful car, ' All painted with purple and blue, station is jAnd blow kisses down to the earth so far, i Like folks on a journey do. “That's all,” said Buskins. “Here we are!” a , (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service.) Last of the Cornish tin mines clos- jed down eight months ago. e