The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 1, 1922, Page 4

PAGE FOUR zh THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THE BI SM MARCK TRIBUNE | 10,000 cars of peaches, and«practically the same | Entered at the Posteffice Bismarck, N. D, a8 Second |@*Eument applies to shipments of wheat, corn, ' Class Matter. cattle and hogs, has the following to say: 3 7 Batter) “Take Georgia’s approximately ten thousand; Foreign Representatives | cars of peaches. In even figures, of the proceeds lof the sale of this fruit this yéar, selling got 8 G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY v | Marquette Bldg. pene | per cent, transportation’62 per cent and produc- PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH ‘tion got 30 per cent out of which to pay all labor ‘NEWYORK F Fifth Ave. Bldg. that grew and picked and packed the fruit as well | MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS [2s for a few of such items as crates, fertilizers, | The Associated Fress is exclusively entitled to the use 1 for republication of all news dispatches credited to. it or} ispray material, wagons, mules, etc. the crux of the whole situation. | not otherwise credited in this paper and alsa the local | news published herein.’ All rights of republication of special dispatches herein | '"Transpor tation places a hauling charge that makes | are also reserved. ; i ithe production of a profitable crop impossible. | MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION _ {Some steps. have been, taken to. reduce the! K iy by ear. RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE “trates. The railroads are confronted with their} aily by carrier, per year. eras 3 Saf tt * « Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) jown problems of cost, the chief item of which is Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck)... 5.00 labor that can only be adjusted slowly, but the Daily by mail, outside of-North Dakota... ..+i-e4+++ 64 00 | fact remains that the cost of transportation is a! ibig item. THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER | Mr, Harris remarks also: (Established 1873) “The sorriest negro porter that rides a train GEORGE D. MANN CHICAGO Here is <i COST OF EXPERIMENT _ Lewis Crawford, secretary of the state indus- trial commission, has driven home some hard, cold, wholesome figures for the contemplation of North Dakota taxpayers. iten this year for his work as much as, not the best, | His report could well be named: “The'Cost of put the sorriest such porter.” Experiment. - | Until transportation costs can be deflated to| More than $600,000 actual loss ascertained to. .omewhere near what obtains in other lines of in- ieee ‘But-that is not all. The audit of, oe Bank | idustry, agriculture will continue to’ languish. a res cada be ne sta es yet. Special legislation will bolster up the’ farming ti ade ts a ae ane 9 se expu , i nite ae industry temporarily, but no progress will‘be madé Hapa am OE ee NS oan on’ y will’ reveal ‘toward normalcy until costs are reduced-all along | ‘what losses are in store there. That there will! the line. - Freight rates present a good ‘starting be ag es is known, how much is problematical. | 16, hut there are other elements also entering | Millions more of public money have been tied into the cost of raising crops that must be taken | ‘up in farm loans. and enough is known to indi-| ‘into consideration. ¢ate that in many instances excessive loans were | i , i The intelligent farmer. knows that price fixing, made and Josses in that department when the day | fiat currency and other }hdstrums *will! not of final settlement comes are inevitable. | stabilize his industry. The whole truth, and nothing but the truth, is| what the people of North Dakota want today | STIMULANT :. . : rf i} about its so-called industrial program, -Taxpay-| Cuts in freight rates have not increased the tibia a eee with t saan they cals ‘tonnage of grain ‘and other farm products handled A ci Up; On panaceas: Ava Pere Tle sc0s Per iny the railroads, complains Lewis J. Spence, direc- Ranacca: \tor of traffic on Southern Pacific lines. . Those who still cling to the “try-it-out” theory | Maybe not. But the freight rate reductions ow ome eeepc cae pues re have ‘helped check the falling-off in shipments. Piatti rice e tribune Nas | 4nd consumers are: benefiting. always been an ardent foe of state. socialism. It; “When all freight \rates z ct dow tothe aie ‘has always opposed any compromise with the! :theory of state owned industry and contends that ee a nee things, ae the whole works settles husiness and politics, like oil and water, won’t mix. |to eda ow ae will start consumers buying : Let’s unscramble the mess as painlessly as pos-! fen eee MA aneaae sible and get back to solid ground! | EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in ‘this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. ‘They are, presented bere irttder that our readers may have both aides of important insues which are being discussed in the press of the day. ‘for his year’s work than does the most intelligent, ‘energetic and efficient farmer for his year’s work, | ‘averaging nearly twice as many hours a day.! PROTECTION OF PUBLIC ; _ Licensing engineers and architects as provided | by laws enacted in many states within the past | :two years is an important factor in the protection | of the public from disasters such as the collapse | of the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater in! THE HORROR AT WASHINGTON Washington, D. C., on the night of January 28,! No wonder President Harding, in his statement 1922, when many people were killed. The failure | ‘about the Knickerbocker theater catastrophe in of the roof of this theater was said to be due to a Washington that has shocked the nation, says that heavy snow load, but since no other large roofs it has “left us wondering about the revolting; -in Washington failed from this cause the disas- fates.” ter was evidently caused either by faulty design} At one moment the theater was a place of com- or construction, which might not ,have existed fort, cheer and laughter. An audience, small be- had licensed engineers or architects supervised cause of the bad weather, was snugly secure the work. jagainst the storm that raged without. A merry Laws licensing engineers and architects who de- lcomedy of the film was being shown, the orchestra sign and supervise the construction of buildings; ‘playing gay music. have been passed in many states. | Then a sharp crack from above, a Such laws are} fissure open- ‘now before the legislature of other states. There ing across the ceiling, bits of plaster dropped, fol- | no licensing law for the protection of the ‘public | owed by larger bits, and. then the whole .roof, ‘in the District of Columbia. tons of concrete and steel, crashed with an appal. i) North Dakota licenses architects but a bill to/ling roar upon the heads ‘of those below, the bal- provide the same: test for engineers failed at a!cony being carried with it to add:to the horror, recent session of the legislature. (of the death-pit. The movement for the enactment. of adequate! ‘licensing laws for the protection of the public | injured, is the toll that tragedy took out of that ‘from the activities of dabblergs: and quacks, little audience, leaving those uninjured in a’ scant! who formerly had only to hang out a!majority, A night of thrill and horror succeeded sshingle“-“"tr’ order “to qualify for busi- | while the dead wére heing removed ‘aiid thé living ness; ~haS~ been actively supported by the rescued. American Association of Engineers, an organiza | The tragedy is ascribed to the fact that three tion of 24,000 professional engineers. It is to the feet of packed snow, deposited by the | wildest | credit of professional engineers and architects | ' storm in decades, broke down the roof by its: that they are seeking to purge the profession of weight. That could happen easily in a jerry-built | incompetents and protect the public from. engi- structure. Could it happen in one that was hon- Neers-for-a-day. jestly built? ; The coming investigation, the usual scrutiny | of the stable door after the barn is empty, prob- ably will show the answer. fications,-tested by engineering judgment, will dis- | ‘close whether the theater was built as theaters jshould be built. Senator Capper, of. the senate’s ‘Somumiltee on! ‘the Distfict of Columbia says that reports have ecme to him that during the rush of : : building when, following the entrance of who thinks in terms of business rather than in| America into the war, Washington’s popu-| terms of politics. lation suddenly increased, building regula-' “It seems,” writes Mr. Harris, “the unanimous | ‘tions were subtly relaxed. Therefore he opinion of the farmers, the actual farmers who proposes an investigation not only of the Knicker- SOUND SENSE In a resume of financial conditions published ‘by the National City Bank of New York, there ds reprinted a very sensible letter from W. H. Har- ris, a grower of peaches and pecans at Fort Valley; | Georgia. So much is heard these days of “blocs” ‘and legislative panaceas to induce good times that it is refreshing to read his comments which must be the judgment of every sound-headed farmer produce crops, that only one thing is needed — bocker theater building, but of all buildings erect-| to be permitted to sell a crop for more than it! led during that period of haste. costs to make it and haul it to market. No investigation can restore the scores whose “Lending a farmer money to make a crop out of jlives were snuffed out Saturday night. But if it which he doesn’t get cost, does not benefit him. | results in emptying all buildings not honestly con- ‘lt merely postpones bankruptcy. There can be structed, it will be worth while, and those who ‘ho recovery until crops sell at a profit.” \died Saturday night will not have died entirely in # While the politicians are seeking to bolster up'vain. In the meantime, judgment may well be andustry through currency inflation, and ‘guaran- withheld, though the anomaly of a building erected ‘teed prices, it might be as well to address them- to contain two thousand people succumbing to elves to the underlying causes of a “no profit the mere weight of even an extraordinary snow- ae fall is one that calls for much explanation.—Du- ~ Mr. _ Harris, analyding * Gedigials. shipment’ uth Herald. Be | for a few hours a day through our town gets more | There isn’t a farmer in the country who has got, Around a hundred dead, and as many, moje)’ The plans and speci-| | | | | | | } i SENATOR. WILLIAM BORAH / BY HARRY HUN Washington, Feb. 1—Continied as-! saults by administration and old guard} leaders on the agricultural bloc in ; Congress will bring one of two re-j|. | Sults, disinterested obser’ vinced, These results are. | One~Kither’ recognition and ac- ce by party leaders of the nec- essity of dealing as helpfully with agriculture as with manufacturing,| transportation. or: finance, or— Two—The loss by tha Republican party of a great section of the agri- cultural vote which swept it into pow- er in 1920. | The first would mean tho passing’ of party trol from the New Engla ers are con- | indus rial bloc, which heretofore has jheld the whiphand in deciding Repuh- Lican_polic | Instead of | Lodge. jsen-Dupont leadership, there would be at least an equal voice accorded the | on-Norris-Capper-Lenroot Fstyle of sman, The second would inevitably re- sult the ‘transfer of disaffected Re- publican votes to a new third party, or- | ganized along lines to draw trom hoth | former G. O. P. and Democratic ranks and with special appeal to the agri- {:cultural, labor and woman's vote. Middle West Wrought Up. {| The political situation resulting from continued hammering. of the bloc by the president and administra- jtion leadexs' is rapidly getting away from the members of the bloc them- ‘selves. The antagonism being created throughout the middle west, west and south:is unmistakable in the growing volume of letters pouring in on bloc senators from their constituents. It was also clearly evidenced by the outspoken support, in disregard of the definitely indicated desire of the pres- ident, by the“agricultural conference, | In the main, members. of the bloc re good -party men.” They do not | want to wi the G. O. P. They are ar what they be- ice for their. constitu- Able to carry through :maffy’ of the ‘measures they | shave sponsored they declare is proof of the rightsand dnsthbe of their de- mands, °° Reserve Board. Tilt. For instance: Following ,the yote on the proposai to place a tepresentative of agricul- ture om the Federal Reserve Board on which. only seven Republicans voted “no” although powerful admin- istration pressure“ had attempted to defeat the measure, Senator Kenyon went to Senators Hale ‘and Freling-| huysen, “What are you fellows trying to do?” he asked, “wreck the Republi- can party? You're only part of a lit- tle group of recalcitrants. Seven | Votes: is all you could muster. Why | should a little minority like yours | jeopardize the party’s welfare, against } majority? 2 |had been handing us fellows who pro- j posed the measure,” Kenyon said aft- ‘erwarf. “I couldn't resist passing it back to them. “The truth is that the administra-| |tion and alleged party leaders have been doing everything possible to he- little the members of the so-called “Bloc and discredit it with the people. * “The very ternt! ‘bloc’ was -origin- | ated to set us aside as a 1 grcup, striving for special conside! tion for agricuture. Of course we're ; doing nothing of the sort. “We're, no more of a bloc in that sense than those representatives who | have sponsored specific manufactur ing, shipping or financial measures | constitute ‘industrial -blocs’ or ‘rail- j road blocs’ or ‘banking blocs,’ |’ “The welfare of agriculture is vital jnot alone to agriculture but the in- | terests of the whole nation. / Would Bellttle Bloc. “Now they are setting up the cry ‘that someone in the agricultural bloc ‘wants to be president. That is just another attempt to belittle and dis- credit those who are fighting for a | square deal for agriculture. “I know nothing of any plans for organization of the third party. That appeags to’ be unnece: The bloc appears to he doing very wel and sup- port for it throughout the country is growing. | “If the Republican party is wreck-} ed, ‘it won't be by members of the bloc but by these leaders who refuse to heed the needs and demands of the majority.” “All sorts of devices have been re- | sorted to by the party leaders to | weaken the ‘strengthen’ of the bloc,” said Senator Gecrge W. Norris. “They pick them off, singly or in groups, by ithe trading support on pet measures or otherwise placating them. “The talk that the bloc, as such, will form a third party 48 nonsense. Real- ly, there is not a Voting Lines Shiit, | “The lines change . and t every measure. The real resentment and hostility has been created among the farmers by the attempts of the adminitsration to sidetrack and de- feat legislation designed to give the {farmer the same degree of assistance HWale-Frelinghuy-| aAnreeee given other | may result in no one can foretell.” enc adopt and approving” tion leaders. deviated from his set speech to take a slap’ at the bloc, to indicate rather definitely the wa. the wind is blowing. what is clearly the wishes of the greatmore: ready |’ “That was the kind of talk they ee agricultural group. however, NORRIS. SENATOR GEORGE W. ‘ON SENATOR WILLIAMS, KES : WEDNESDAY; FEBRUARY 1 ‘These Five Men Are Principal Figures In Farm “Bloc” Struggle | SEC. OF WAR JOHN W. WEEKS. ATOR, HIRAM JOHNSON WHICH. (Florence Borner.) Mathilda’s face is fair to see, Her hair is black as jet; She is one of the dearest girls That I have ever met; She has a sweet ‘confiding way, And says she loves me true, . But I’m in love with some one else _ Altho love her too. ““ Lucinda is a eldrious So innocent and fair; blonde, With sparkling eyes ’and rosy cheeks And curling golden hair; Her form .is fashioned. to my taste, Her teeth are gems of pearl, I’m sure that every ong would say, She isa lovely girl. But pity me, another lass, | Sots Enshrines my .way-ward heart; . And ‘has'a cozy corner there, Bes , And has had from the start; What! would ‘you call me horried names,” Deceiver and a cad? These girls are little sisters three, ‘And I’m their happy dad! ny industries. What that Action by the agricultural confer- alled by President Harding, in a resolution “commending the work of the bloc was a distinct shock to administra- Inasmuch as the president, in his opening address to the conference. it would apped Carefully watching for signs of di- vision in the G, 0. activities are Senators W. and Hiram Johnson. Both are much to forecastothe ;hirth |of y than is any:member' of @ third pa Whether, the third part: ill come, ¢| country, the appearance of a 1 y as a result of division over agricultural questions, or over the bonus or over the nation’s foreign; policy, or otherwise, they are not ready to predict. “There is no doubt,” Borah declar- | ed, “that there is deep and widespreau a ction with both old parties. the sgme situation | ted in ‘obody knows ‘just when or where! a party is born. There are. half a dozen authentic birthplaces of the Re-| publican party. . “But we do know something of the! conditions out of which they are born And, in the present situation in this: third sion no surprise. It possible, but almost: inevitable.” “ “Petticoat coming a kK," says an} optimistic pessim If it does, about | two feet of it will show. BY CONDO] Five pay days hath September, (ART duly and :December. H _ “Popocatepetl Has Eruption"”—head- line. Next week some skin. salve | salesman will claim ne cured it, { He: Ore-third of what most of us know jis untrue. ‘ | pio Since there is ho “h” in the Rus- ion language, how do they say what j tina of a winter this is? heen The new income. tax ‘blanks are shorter. So are the people. | Three New Yorkers who believed | what a bootlegger told them were buried the other da Edison, they say, lives in the next | century. No wonder he can’t sleep. \ : eee |" “I cam beat my own wife,” orates a prominent divorce defendant; but the fails to say at what. Bet Henry Ford could even make’ | farming pay. i ae | A New York thief stole a “valuable violin. Wonder which side of the mu- | sician’s house he lives on, , i How can we pay 2 bonus out of our i foreign debts when Europe thinks they j were a bonus? “Is marriage a handicap?” asks a jMinister. In golf, yes. * ij ! nase | Regs are still a long way from he- vipg too cheap for oné to he! caught | eating them, i | (Phe 1922‘model car need some 1922 }medel roads, A pretty girl of 17 never falls in ilove with a kindly old bachelor of 79 ! who isn’t rich. | | Hsu, president’-of China, is pro- | nounced “that Chinese president.” Mind-readers must ‘know some aw- ful things. The oily bird’ catches the sucker. How can you drink whisky straight when it is all crooked? | | ( ' 1 { \ | ADVENTURE TRE OF || THE TWINS - \o— << | t By Olive Barton Roberts “How lovely!” cried ‘Nancy, hold- | ing on to her little dandelion para- |chute with both hands. “I feel just {like a bird.” | “It’s better than a flying machine,” {called Nick, who was drifting far —~~~~~ | away. by this time, hanging onto his lown tiny umbrella. “Are we aviators — now, Mr. Buskins?” | “Yes,” shouted Buskins in reply. iOnty you can’t guide yourselves. But don't be frightened, your little car knows where it is taking you-—just hold on and, be patient. ie | Up. they Sailed, the three of them, up and up and up, over the orchard, lover the house (it looked now like a i playhouse with wooden chimneys so ‘far below it was), over the hill and | the river and the pond. They were making straight for the blue sky and j its white clouds, just as they had ' done in their little apple-tree elevator. | Finally they poked through the very clouds themselves, but still they went cn up into the mysterious regions he- ‘yond. They passed’ Balloon Land,-and | off in the distance they could see the ity of Balloonatick. Then Kite Land. ‘and Soap Bubble Land, Feather Land. ‘and the Land of Everything, one after |the other went by like floors in a 'puilding that you pass‘in an eleva- ‘tor. They saw all the queer places they had visited before on their -ad- entures in the Land-of-Up-in-the-Air. And now they were delighted to | think that they were going to have another one. | ‘They went so high they. began to ‘tear that perhaps they were going to {bump into the sun, when suddenly all i three of them drifted toward an open- hing ir a, very large cloud, and floated” ‘through. . Instantly they. knew they were in a new and strange country, for the opening closed behind them | and the cloud was no longer a cloud, | but a beautiful’ green land full of itrees and flowers. (To Be Continued.) i (Copyright, 1922, NEA'S Service.) il “LEARN A “A WORD | ‘| - EVERY DAY | Today's word is INSEPTION. It’s pronounced — in-sep-shun with | accent on the second syllable. It means—begirning, start, com- | mencement. It comes from—Latin “incipere,” to | begin. Companion word—inceptive, It’s used like this — “Prices are |} greater now than at the inception of ete World War.” ra THOUGHT FOR | TODAY | Let all bitterness and wrath and |anger and clamor and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice. | Ephesians 4: 31. | Religion should be like rain, which | descends in a million little drops, and is not ashamed to sink into the ground, where its goots are. The way the drop of water comes to swing in the leaf, as it flaunts in the sun and™ *wind all summer, jong, is. by going ¢down into the ground.—Henty Ward i j'Beecher. mJ