The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 21, 1922, Page 4

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THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) ' YOUR DESCENDANTS a “All sizes of people from many countries have} poured into America, the melting pot of the world. tInter-marriage is blending the sizes.. A stand-) “ardized type of American is developing. Men will! the five feet eight inches tall, women five feet four: inches. | Sa a alr lee ce eS SSE DATES SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANGE | 7:20 5,00 | 6.00 | ‘ HE BISMARCK: TRIBUNE GOLD submarine apparatus intended to recover $10,000, 000 in gold and other valuables lost in torpedoed, | and mined ships during the war. — Wf If the.inventors applied the same brain effort | to devices that would be useful in everyday, life, | their. prize would be many times $10,000,000. Fortune is wherever a man decides to make it. But it is human nature to desert a sure-thing and chase the rainbow. 4 |. EXPERIMENT ‘A doctor says the best way to test the strength lof moonshine whisky or even high-power cellar- o |made wines is to soak a piece of raw beefsteak in them. The steak probably will have its surface eaten off. That is-certain proof that the beverage con- tains a “kick,” also proof of What it does to inside of the human body. Wine, unless scientifically made, turns to vine gar, an acetic-acid compound. .Get the cross be- tween wine and vinegar and the mess is apt to contain acetone, whfch lacerates like sulphuric acid.» “ “CHIMNEYS Defective chimneys and fires caused a loss, by That is the belief of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, scientist, \fires, of $71,037,084 worth of dwelling houses in after eight years’ investigation for'the Smithson- | jan Institute. i ctiliar, are the cHanges mdde in the human! -body by different forms of civilization. Why at “the Japanese the shortest and the northern Chi. snese the tallest races? Their size has been regu>! slated by their way of doing things. i Legends say that the earth once was people jwith giants. Possible. Man needed a giant’s s rand strength in, prehistoric days when his conflict ewith "hide bdasts and dinosaurian reptiles made, ibrute ‘strength(of first importance. | "The strongest cave-man battled the wild animals} ‘while women and male weaklings cowered in caves, | admiring the strong.- That admiration still runs *in our blood. It explains interest in prize-fights. the last six years, says an insurance organization. That’s only a part of the story, for it doesn’t in- clude property not insured. tne Observe that all these fires were. preventable. ‘0, for that matter, are practically all fires. Inspect your chimney. If full.of soot, it may atch fire. Often the chimney soot can be re- oved by burning some potato peelings, WIVES eet An immigrant arrives in. New York from Hgn-; zig. He traveled first-cabin because, as he ex- plained, he was “a learned man.” His wife, not being “learned,” made the trip in the steerage. ~ Can you imagine an American woman making a trip with her husband ynder such circumstances? After this Danzig wife has been in our country Darwinian evolutionists think modern man de- a few years and gets a good whiff of the American scended from the monkey. If so, our ancestors’) 5 iit of freedom and equality, friend husband is Eee seid pice rss ae as He aL | more apt to travel in the steerage and she first- r swinging from one tree branch to another. | cabin, in any vacation trip_to the fatferland. When primitive man lived on raw and coarse | a he needed strong teeth and lots of them. ; “We, eating soft-cooked foods, have developed in- férior teeth. Man’s -jawbone grows shorter. Wisdom teeth are in process of disappearing. | ‘Eventually man’s teeth, regarded by diet, may| vanish altogether. © Sea Two centuries ago, before roads were cut through, eastern forests, it was not uncommon for; families: tosmigrate -hundreds. of miles on. foot, , carrying even mill-wheels on their backs. We are-weaker now. We do-most: of ous mov-|: ing on wheels. Walking is becoming a lost ‘art./ This inactivity awill produce, in yqur descendants, stunted and puny legs. ~ And future people wil] have huge heads. « For, the more we become civilized, the more thinking it takes townake a living. Thinking enlarges. the brain, expanding the skull. ' 4 Each year, more people toil over. desks and | work-benches. That will show, up'in time-egin a race of people with stooped shoulders and bulg-! ing, stomachs. Pa | At a circus, you pay a dime to see a giant, dwarf| or a being with a monster skull. Those. freaks, however, probably are mild compared with future generations that are now being developed, by our physically-pecuflar form of civilization. a4 We are giving our descendants a fine legacy of i brains—but; also, a physical inferiority that may | excite their wrath. Ae a DOPE The poison-liquor evil is getting a lot of atten- tion that should go ta that greater menace, the alarming-growth of thév#rug habit.” * * last year. GAS Not counting debate in Congress, Americans used $19,888,000,000 cubic feet-of artificial gas ™ This is an achievement, comparing it with a \generation ago when mother had to wash the smoked: chimneys of the kerosene oil lamps and trim their wicks daily. ? i “In about one more generation, the only heating and lighting will be by-electricity.. A copper mine isa good legacy for grapdchildren. al. MUST! \ Maine fitizens are being tagged to subscribe to a fund’ to:save their forests. . Money will-be used for planting trees. © : States that still have big forest reserves should think thiscover twice... Why not state laws com- pelling the person who cuts down a tree to plant one in its place Otherwise, trees soon will be a curiosity. Forests are vanishing faster than the \xed Indian. ' EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments ‘reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are here in order that our-geaders may:have both sides of ingportant isques which are being discussed in the prese of the day. _ ‘ My \ ISSUING BONDS A City, village, school district, county: or state |warits to do something, but it hasn’t the money. The easy way is to’say: “Oh, just issue some bonds and let posterity pay the bill.” So the:! bonds. aré issued; the thing’ is done, and imme- There are 1,000,000 drug fiends in America, ac-!diately this generation begins to pay for it, and cording to the special investigating committee‘ ap- | pointed by secretary of the treasury. 3 At least one in 50 Americans is committing | slow suicide with drugs or alcoholic poison. Some | people take strange:chances with their lives. | LOSING with interest pays for. it twice over before fhe I \bonds are retired.« , This is the easy ‘way, and municipalities, coun- ties and states have been taking it, and are still taking it, to am ever increasing extent.. And this ‘is the result: Ten years ago the state, county and municipal A report now shows that the railroads, in the /bonds outstanding; amounted to four hundred 12 months ended last Oct. 31, started building 405 | miles of new lines—and abandoned 702 miles. | This is losing ground, decidedly. Civilization ' follows transportation: | ‘The silver lining to this cloud is that construc- | _tion of, new railroad lines will soon be going ahead, | ‘with the return of prosperity. America slows up | occasionally, but the long-range tendency is al- | ways forward. : NEW “ James: J. Barry, of Boston, is marketing his unique invention, a machine that strips the skin | from fish and removes all the bones. : The Barry contraption is about the size of a {part of it was necessary,,and therefore could not | washing machine. It handles 25,000 pounds of | fish a day. : Twenty-two workers are out of jobs wherever a’ parison of these figures surely ought to make! Barry machine is installed. They are released for every taxpayer pause to wonder whether, in all) other productive work.- Each machine like this cases, due consideration precedes every bond is-) sue, and whether, in some ¢ases at least, bond is- saves labor and, in the long run raises the stand- - ard of living by providing an ever-increasing va- ral use. N million dollars. Last year this total had risen to thirteen hun- dred million dollars. Thcugh many of the bonds outstanding in 1910 have been retired, and short-time bonds have been issued and retired since, the habit of issuing bonds has been growing.'so fast that in the decade the amount of bonded-debt grew from less than \nalf a billion to more than a billion and a quarter. During the ten years public loans, aside from Fed- ‘eral loans, were made for nearly six billion dollars. Probably, there was some reason for incurring every dollar of this debt. Probably there was good reason for more of it. Very likely a large have been avoided._ But the practice is growing so fast that a com- sues could not have been spared without irrepar- lable harm to the public interest:—Duluth Herald. The patent office is flooded with designs for | “Mare hereby reduced fifty ner cent, ahd: i | t ” i | | | i ' i | January 20, 1922, As Bunyan’s Pilgriin threw off his load of sin at the fcot of, the cross, so may we throw off the excessive tax burdens and the local excess railwayzrates at the ncxt Primary. It may be done voting for those good initiative meas- | | ures: { | 8, OF PROPERTY. FOR TAXATION. | BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE _ OF THE STATE OF NORTH DA- KOTA: \ ye a Section “1. All property, except as otherwise provided in the constitution, shall be assessed in ‘the city, town- ship, town,’ village or district in which it ig situated, in .the manne: prescribed by law, All personal property shall >}-be-assessed atfifty*pereent” of its cash value. -Real ‘property shall be assessed according to the annual net value of its use for a -period of seven years. . “The assessor estimate the , value. and the net use ‘so that the use or net profit may average five per cent a year on the assessed. valuation; provided. that no assessment Shall be for less than in the. year, 1916, Section 2. The State Board of Equalization shall‘not increase or de- crease the assessed valuations of any coun:y more thaffive per cent. This act shall take effect immediately on its passage and gcvern assessments for the year 1922. 2 | shall | 9. AN ACT TO LIQUIDATE AND CAI CEL TAXES AND TAX SALES FOR THE YEAR 1919 AND 1920. | BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF. NORTH Dé KOTA: ye Section 1. That-all taxes charged against real property: for the years 1919, 1920 and 1921 be, and the: sai i| all. interests, penaltids and ‘costs. ; are cancelled. 4 That all sales ‘of. property for the taxes of either of said years, except to good faith purchasers for c be and the same are declared voi That all such taxes shall be, cancelled of record on payment of one-half, or. fifty per cent of the same at any time | prior to December 1,/ 1922. i] Section 2. That ‘when any party as paid-on the taxes of either 0: sau ye ovér fifty per cent of the same. the excess shall be refunded, without interest, by giving credit for the same on the taxes of subsequent years; but j credit shall not be given in any year in excess of half of the taxes of the year. Section 3, That every sale of real property for the taxes of either “of said year shall be presumed to be | void becanse of the well known fact | that in each of the said years the val- | uations were grossly excessive. 10. AN: ACT TO AMEND THE FREIGHT RATE STATUTE, BE JT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATH OF NORTH DA- KOTA: « Thai Section 12 of Chapter 194, Laws. of 1919, relating to freight rates, be and the same is hereby amended to read as’ follows: * Section 12. Any person, . corpora- tion or common carrier: violating any Provision of this stathte by asking, taking or receiving for the transpor- tation of freight any gum in excess of and contrary to the terms of said shall forfeit and yay to ‘the pel agerieved three titnés the excess pa ment demanded or received, with a penalty of $100 and costs of suit, The same n-ay be recovered in a civil ac- ‘tion in the. name of. the party ag- grieved: or the party, paying said ex- | cess freight, ” 11. | AN ACT TO REVISE THE STATUTE ON MAXIMUM PASSENGER RATES. | BE lf ENACTED BY THE PEOPLEY KOTA: z That Chapter 199, Laws of 1907, re- lating to maximum passenger rates, SATURDAY EVENING LETTER / (By Justice J. E. Robinson.) \ this state no common carrie: conductors or auditors, shal mand oy receiv railroad company or 1, its officers,servants, ask, de-. e any sum injexcess of two and, one-half cents atl mile for one passenger {ot owe hundred and =f: | AN ACT TO GOVERN ASSESSMENTS j#nd for children five y and less than the fare charg with, ordinary baggage, pounds;. ays jof ‘age twelve vyearg? gone half ed for adults;/ and for children under five. years, , traveling with an adult paying full, fare, no charge shall be made. Scction 2. Any railway company \ \ : + + al | PEOPLE'S FORUM | January 18, 1922. \To the Editor of The Tribune: Dear Sir: Concerning a letter ap- pearing some days ago in the depart- j ment of your paper ¢2lled “Tho Peo- ple’s Forum,” some persons have asked “Who is the writer, Mata. Watakpe? Is he 2. Teton-Dakota on the Standing ‘Rock Reservation?” ‘To answer. these inquiries let it be satt that the writer of the ‘said fetter is not a Dakota, but a white man who was adopted by-Chiet Grass and by him given the’ Dakota name of Matc Watakpe. This gentle- man has a military record cf continu- ous service of the state and nation in- cluding the Spanish War, the-Philip- nine Insurrection, Mexican Border ital -naving been move from Yankton to Bismarck in '83.. Bismarck was the capital of D. T. for six years. It, was dedicated Jan. 14, '85. There were 2,- |500 people here, the army people from Old ‘Lincoln, Ft. Yates, and, from all over the territory. There were many beautiful and elaborate gowns worn, with a yard or two trailing the floor with an occasional toe of a dainty slipner peeping out from: under. “Things have changed since we were young.” Every available conveyance Was put into use that night to get the mayor and his family after waiting till four ocloc’k went. down in a big | dleigh and -ox team that ran at full speed; everybody gave them the right tof wayi It was a bitter night, 36 be- | low; they had elegant music, the Mili- tary band. The capitol was decorated j with flags and ropes of evergreen and \coked very pretty. with the hundreds of electric lights. A PIONEER. | jforeigner. Foreigners always j have designs on our “dollars. did |< When the rum-runntr, went ashore ——that wag'a neryous wreck. are no. longer shy,’’: com- woman, . They're. shy; on Fah af an mmol oily t Would you. call, them Congrai {stumbling blocs? : nal | Texas man ndmed “Mary” changes! jit to “Lomar.” jother Texan who 'has made a name:for himself. Some people will doubt a diction- ary. ; Every day we hear of a.Wall Street broker getting broker still. ‘When you see cigaret. butts parked on the piano, hubby is boss. », ~~ . i - Lots of birds think they are -wise as owls because they . are. ‘always hooting at something. : | 7.— | A driver is known by the ‘fenders he ‘keeps. f R \ people to and from the capitol, the . Our néw dollar was designed by a” or common carrier, its offiters, agents, conductors or auditors wha shall ask, |Campaign and the German War. In the t German War he was on the staff of ‘ It ‘will be remembered demand or: receive -from#any’ person for transportation a greafer sum than above: state shall forfeft;aud pay to’: the person aggrieved, thie times. the Gen, Liggett: x y those’ ‘who ‘-saw' ‘the’ reception 6: shal Foch in'the auditorium tha excess charged, #100 and c civil action with [4 penalty. of , to be recovered:in a n the naméfof the person aggrieved cr the person, paying such ‘cess charges. 1 committee Eva , Obert Olson, Jndge Coffey, following -persgns are named Frank for petitione Red-tomahawk presented Mato Wa- takpe te the Marshal with the words “You may have seen hin in France.” I would not trouble you ‘about the matter only that some persons have asked to know who was the writer of the letter. . I therefore thank you for O.|the. space thus to answer such a3 If riches are a curse, most of’ us want to be cursed. . e |. The movies: have insured. Will Hayes t | for, £2,000,000. Must.intend to push {him over. a cliff. Ninety per ‘cent of the men looking for. arguments are: single. Financial writer says. unsettled in- cidents expected next month.- By “in- cidents” he must means bills. j vent his fightin: sis sure to “in OF THE STATE OF NORTH DaA- |~ | be “revised to read as ‘follows: Section 1. For the transportation | ar passengers between places inj have made inquiry, . Yours respectfully, . EK. Anderson, Ed Hughes. In subsequent letters we purpose vo reasons for tall those m The war is over and there. no occasion for war prices, and much less for adding to War prices on pas- nger rates twenty per cent and 9n freigkt rates thirty-five per cent, That sworse than \killng-the goose that | Tr lajd ‘the golden egg. Such rates and | wi h taxes leave nothing for the pro- Editor Tribune: mayor’ then and ‘itroduced Genera! nt and Sitting ‘Bull, President V: nd other, stockholders of the must tell ‘How the ex-attorney general was bound and gazged to pre- against such rates. Under a prepet, statute— such those above—the attorney gene! ither General Grant or Sitting Bul were 4t the dedication. John P. Dunn Was mayor and gave a very brief ad ar of welcome: can be no bu¢Ring and gagging. we do. not stgp legalized robbery, it uce Bolshevism short talk. It was’ the first session o! —AND \THE. BEST TIMG THAT _HAS EVER (BEEN MADE BETWEEN THERE AND HERE [$TWwo HOURS, BUT 2 DRovS IT IN \ IN OROER To Do THAT DISTANCE IN AN HOUR ND 4 HALE YOU HAD To TRAVEL .OVER SIXTY MiLGS AN HOUR, -AND THAT'S! TOO FAST. For IPuBLIC SAFETY!) YOU'RE GITHER CYING IAGOUT IT OR TELLING TH] TRUTH —— : LIN GITHER CASE You DESSRve A iScoDd CLOUT I! road that were here with him. | G, A. Pierce was governcr Of the ‘territory and gave a ; All the people who think they're \ Melvin R. Gilmore. | paid what. they’re worth could hold a Bismarck, N. D., Jan. 17, 1922. j convention in an upper, berth. The time is coming when they will Whoever gave..the account of the | arrest bootleggers., dedication of tHe Capitol in Monday's une got.their dates a little mixed the laying of the corner stone in| without lights. September of '83. Mr. I. P, Hunt was Reformers are cbiecting to dancing Called on account: of darkness. i ‘-— Just look at the money we are sav- ing on ice and strawberries! 1} g¢—___—_ E ADVENTURE,OF | | THE TWINS” | -—¢ By Olive Barton Roberts Pillows of all sizes and shapes were pinned to a clothesline between the maple trees in the yard. It was housecleaning .time and ,the whoie mily of. them was getting a sunning. The grand-daddy of ‘all, the pillow a big fat bolster, was, doubled. over {the line right on. his’ stom: as {though he hada tremendous pain from joverstuffing, like kiddies get cn, holi- | days, | It seemed to add to Mis misery, } when the maid came out, and started to beat him with a stout cane. He {swelled up still more, with indigna- !tion, probably,. until he was in a fair jway to burst. In ‘fact, he was burse- jing. A tiny rip appeared in -oue of his sides which grew to quite a size jand in’ a twinkling several fluffy |feathers had crowded out and fiut- tered away over the tree-tops uD into ithe sky. | “Oh, look,” cried Nancy. ‘They're sailing straight into the sun!” “ But as scon as she had said it, she remembered—and Nick remembered, too—what Buskins had said on their return from their last adventure. \Buskins had mentioned a country in the sky. which he called “The Land of Runaway Feathers!” “Let's go over to the orhard,” said Nick, ’ “Come on,” said Nancy. 2 Away they ran -to the apple-tree which had the funy little old wood- jen house tucked away in its boughs. The Twins looked around in the grass with their sharp eyes to’ see it the Magical Mushroom ‘had left the Green Shoes for them. But nary a ‘thing did they find but a few browny- white petals blown dow by the wind from the blossom laden branch- nt EI ral i es, ‘we'll have to climb.” said Nancy. “No wishing shoes. today!” “Shucks,” said Nick, “the, house | won't move, I just kncw, when we've | only ordinary shoes on. “Bat let’s try, | anyway.” |. Up they mo (To Be Gontinued.) olnen(Copyright, 1922, NEA Service) scrambled. 4 4 4 ome a