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. Activity, of so called “reformers” to create a de- PAGE FOUR THE BIS M A R CK TRIBUNE turing depression, should compare their lot vath, Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second ‘Payor’s. Class Matter. Is he discouraged? No. He washes the Saal GEORGE D. MANN S - Sree se Editor | ‘dust off his harids, announces he will begin work- | Foreign Representatives ing at the bottom and “one of these days may be; G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY ‘an American millionaire.” CHICAGO DETROIT | i Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. You never can tell. Payor is only 32. America is a young-man’s country. And PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK : Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled 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. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein /the farmers of North Dakota. are also reserved. —|nongics who have watched the price fluctuations MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION A HINT TO THE FARMER Financial reviews which rivet the attention in| Daily by carrier, per year. Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). ee aily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).. 5.00 jof fary ‘ms in ready mone Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.......seeeee 6.00 | “a M ve THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (he (Established 1878) Go | LAW ENFORCEMENT | Attorney General Johnson sounds the proper ; keynote in his letter to the county officials en. trusted with law enforcement. He properly fixes the responsibility where it belongs upon the ap-| pointed police officials of the state and the county | prosecutors. The creation of the pool hall inspection.depart- ment took from cities and,smaller political sub as this comment to make: “The report of the American Associa- tion of Creamery Butter Manufacturers or the week ended January 14, 1922, eighty-four plants showed an increased production of 4.4 percent over the previ- ous week and 40.7 per cent over the cor- responding week of the year before. The price broke about 15 cents per pound, but thas since made a partial recovery.” nature of things could not be efficient but has the farm can join hhatids in ‘such a movement. proved a heavy ‘tax upon the people. | operatiqn of this department are exhausted, but | lits own until dairy st thcréases. that, this.in' no wise relieves pny local officer from | | i 0. performing his duty in the enforcement of law. Agriculture ne most 4 5 : The Tribune has opposed the creation of special | departments for the enforcement of certain laws. partment which would place them in positions of | \adjacent. ease and emolument has characterized every ses- sion of the legislature. The kind of lobby which become notoriously pestiferous. culture. for many years but there are healthy signs that/|size of Bismarck, executives of commercial bodies jshould be trained agriculturists with a keen The pool hall inspection department should ‘be knowledge of the problems of transportation and the worm is turning. eliminated, in fact, as it is now in practice, through | equals adjustment of freight tariffs. shortage of funds. Judge Robinson’s initiated -Measure wiping out this extra law enforcement body should receive the hearty support. of every | citizen who feels that the local.machinery of law! enforcement is efficient enough now to cope with | BUSINESS OUTLOOK tion of the pool halls. ‘part of January. Assigning law enforcement to a multiplicity of | boards and commissions means not more but less | law enforcement. The local police departments, | month. the town marshals, sheriffs and states attorneys lumber were much larger than # year ago. are paid to perform a certain function. Create al state department to share that responsibility with “passing of the buck.” When the whole story is told of the pool hall in- :spection department, the,tax payers should be- come thoroughly aroused to its inefficiency and its capacity for wasting public funds in perform- | ing a function that can be done better by federal | and elected officials in the various localities with- | out additional cost to the state. Attorney General Johnson can serve the state headed for extinction, So reports Dr Royal S. in no better way than to impress upon local offi- | Copeland;: health commi simdert ¥! cials that they are under oath to enforce every | ise for a br: ighter future. ago. BLUE-BLOOD: The birth rate among New of any extra law enforcement body that the legis- | In the districts where pa carries a dinner-pail, lature may have created to appease a group of peo- (57 babies were ushered into the world for each ple who believe the enforcement of a certain kind | | 1000 foreign-born mothers: of laws takes precedence over all other laws, The-desvendants of .these foreign-born mothers The funds taken from cities and counties by th will be the blue-bloods of future New York “‘so- creation of the pool hall inspection department: ciety.” Fur peddlers Saloon’ keepers ait fisher- should be restored’ 4g ‘$bon 4S the vicious law cre-| men of 300 years azo # ‘are ‘yell! ‘fepresented in what ating that department can be repealed, so that the New York now calls its “400.” ‘ Jocal law enforcement agencies can be strengthen- | | ed. They must do the work now while the state | gets the license money. | % All power to Mr. Johnson in his drive to impress | upon law officers that the responsibility for main- | ‘taining law and order and guarding the peace, | health and safety of the community is at their | doors. North Dakota should lose no time in ending the! farce of divided authority that costs more and gives less in real service. 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. -* GOOD BUSINESS AND GOOD ROADS Good roads have much to do with the volume lof business in all rural districts, Highway. im- ae | provements during the past twenty years have given powerful impetus to rural trade, opening} LOSS The bigger they are, the harder they fall. largest mail order house’s financial statement ;formerly were tied up from November to April, shows it lost $16,435,469 in 1921. - ‘with all their products—hay, grain, potatoes, etc., * Its sales for the year were $178,014,981, com- not marketed before winter began. pared with $254,595,059 the year before. There is an interesting parallel between good Falling prices are back of it all. highways and good business. A well built road is = Lean years follow fat years. Small chance to always “crowned,” that is, so constructed that it survive unless a surplus is laid aside i in good times. drains quickly and completely. A poor road is, Business is a roller-coaster. |flat, water stands on it, mud follows, and in due, itime it becomes impassible. Some businesses are ‘poorly drained. Uncollected accounts, neglected | WHAT IS HARD LUCK? ‘A $20,000 auto and’ stx brownétone niahsions’in ‘stocks, inattentive help and other things result’ Petrograd were owned by Oscar Payor a few years |in delayed payment of bills, deterioration of credit, ago. He was a multimillionaire, the leather tan- and ultimate disappearance of profits. A business ning king of Russia. ‘man must keep the “going” good in ‘his business, | The bolsheviks seized his property and money. Must keep it in repair, well drained of all causes Payor arrives in Boston. Worked. his way of delay and loss. When he does this, his going is across the Atlantic, shoveling coal in the engine-' Sure to be good; he will not be stuck-in the mud foom of the Norwegian steamer Corona. when his obligations fall due. —Chicago sournal of » Americans who thin had hard:.Juck ‘ «Commerce. a THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ‘ lihese days of. readjustment contain a lesson for | Students of eco- jare a unit in their conclusion that’ dairy products | SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE, held up better than anything else on the for ymer’s | By nee | ilist. . Not only held more stable but kept thousands | { One survey of. the situation in dairy products | | | Every encouragement and legitimate assistance o aid the farmers of this: Section to get into the divisions revenue needed for the operation of local | ‘dairy business should be‘given. Some progress law enforcement agencies and shifted the respon- ‘has been made in Burleigh county. The city busi- sibility to a new department which by the very »essman as well.as, his brother businessman on | There is a great future before Burleigh county Mr. Johnson points out that the funds for the jn this line‘and’ neve oh th the county come into ismarck and the {stimulation of this industry should be the main issue with our commercial bodies, Theories as to how cities advertise and expand avail little* if ithere is no profitable production upon the acres Money' spent in support of a commercial club in Bismarck is wasted unless 4 major portion of the is maintained from the first drop of the gavel has ifund is devoted to promoting the cause of agri- The growth of the city can only follow North Dakota has staggered under a tax load | profitable growth on the farms. In cities of the ‘According to the monthly letter of John H. Rich, chairman and federal reserve agent for the ¢ Ninth Federal Reserve District, financial condi- any infractions of staté laws relative to, the opera- ene improved materially in December and early Building permits in nine important’ cities were half again as large as a year ago in the same Stocks of retailers and wholesalers of Estimates of acreage sown-to winter wheat in th d f th \the Northwest show an increase as against a de- emgand’ Indinany, Instances Shere 18 general | crease for the whole United States, another prom- |The Twin Cities showed a decrease in the cost of living of 12 per cent below the figure of a year ork City’s “first ifamilies” is so low that the family names are iw tially. and not t sents oat New York’s fashionable residéntial section last} law impartially and not to make a scape goat ou iyear had only seven births for each 1000 residents, The constant winter communication with farmers who| ‘s | | | | { 1 Ee By NEA Service { Anchorage,. Alas! Feb. 2.—Uncle | Sam’s Alaskan Railway, talked of for} two cecades, and under construction | for 3ix years, is tentatively sched-! uled for completion on Februry 14.} The last spike may be driven before | that time, \ This last spike will, on the com-} pletion day, ‘be driven. into place on| the bridge at Riley Creek, near Mc-j Kinley National Park, by one of the | track layers. Later, some time in the) sumnier, it will be replaced by a goid=; en spike when the formal dedication j of the railway, will be celebrated. The railroad . runs,from Seward to} Fairbanks—467 miles — and has brafthes to coal ds which make a total trackage of he miles. The | S roximately’ $56,000,000. luring“ the winter months lany ~hardghips. Supplies 6 carried''by tractor and through ‘heavy . snows, over; lands ‘and through streams. had to truck forest There were’ feWUrodds—the gasoline conveyances: »mide their own path- ways as stheyjy along. All of Alaska is looking for the formal dedication, when President | Harding with most of his cabinet i expected’ ‘to: ‘be present; as well thousands, of \,people.from all. over Alaska and the United States. Scott €, Boney governor of ARiska, and ieutenant Colonel Frederick ing Commission, and ,builder of the| road, are in- Washington making plans | for the big evel Businegsi Boom on | The railroad will make vast changes |" in Alaska’s commercial affairs. The' Yukon River will still be a factor, but | time, distance and expense for interior | | transportation will be cut comtsider- ably. The big coal fields at Manatuska | have been reopened and coal is al-' ready starting toward the o » and | by ships for the Pacific C t states where there is a big demand for coal | at reasonable: prices. | Several choice farming dist isolated by lack of transportation, now able to dispose of product flour mill has been opened .at pinks to supply people who beret fore bad to send thousands of mil tor this product. Other plants, to; supply local markets are alsp spring- | ing up. in the meantime, Governor ; working to have afl the Ajas- kan governmental in ‘the | national capital co-ord under one head. He. als eral mining and land la ing the area opéning by the} Work Difficult | To Colonel Mears is given much of the credit for the ‘big Construction | job. He made good desyite his base of | plies, Seattle, being 2,000 nt, and the the field !was too snowbound y track work jfive months of each ' When President Wilson appointed the. Alaskan Engineering Com: mission in 1914 to build the railroad, jhe named Mears, on the recommenda= |tion of Major Gencral Goethals, Pana- Y builder. Moars had risen from location and construction work to head of the entire Canal Zone rail- way system. [ATTHE MOVIES | HANDSOMEST SCREEN MAN IN j GRIFFITH'S: “DREAM STREET” Ralph Graves First Won Place on} Sercen in Contest for Handsome Men. | | Ralph Graves, handsome and son of la prosperous stecl manufacturer, of Cleveland, Ohio, has one of the prin- cipal roles in D. W. Griffith’s sensa- tiona! new picture, “Dream Street,” which will be the feature at the Cap- itol Theater, beginning Mon TrickIing through Graves’ ancestors { longing for the drama, expressed in amateur ef-j forts, as in. those prudent and cautious days, the stage was never thought cuts respectable. So Ralph was destined for the foun- dry when he refused to continue his i in college, but he took a trip | to Chicago, and didn’t use the retur@ | ticket His father’s telegram fer him to re- \turn home: came at the same 'tim aioe SCORER Was in prORFSSSBE NX: se s Mears, head.of the Alaskan Bngineer- | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2 4 Authorized by act of Congress, Mar. : 12, 1914. Designed to,open'and develop Alas- | ka and make available to the navy's 'Pacitic fleet and the Pacific Coast! states coal supplies at ‘reasor/uble | prices. Connects Seward, on, the seacoast, with Fairbanks. Length of railwaf, 539 miles. Cosi, $56,000,000, Open’s coal fields and big farming | sections. Opens Mount McKinley National i Park to tourist travel. WOES NAAR AA ms Chicago newspaper to discovery the | handsomest: man in, the Middle West. ' A-friend sent Ralph Graves‘ photo- | motion’ picture company. invited him to workin a picture and the entrance | to the ‘studio was'the exit forever from the steel ‘business, ; Finally, Griffith, the wizzard: whose | eyes are always roving for promising | materia} in the screen world, saw him, grapa, and the award came.to him. Aj } —--—_____ | \ ture. When “Dream Street” ‘was: started, | Graves found himself in a role of a, ung man whose golden voice -con- auered the girls, and whose great bold fists’ conquered the men. His ‘part is | of. physical. exuberance, and_ spiritual played with great under- anidiig and so much charm that, Alan i “He is the finest actor. 1 have aver seen on the screen. He has youth, looks talent, and ‘great personal mag- “geayea plays the part of James “Spike” McFadden in “Dream Street.” THE ELTINGE “pérdon My French,” featuring 'vidan Martin, is showing at the El- tinge today. As Polly, a member of a one night stand theatrical troupe, | Vivian experiences many laughable j misha However, her real adven- ture: art when she is forced to take ja job auald when the ConA hi 3 VWil pra ticed ing e family, Pa and Ma [EVERETT TRUE 'Sustina bridge west of the: Mississ during the winter months. Map show. ‘ing where the Alaskan railroad runs. i ale, the New York ‘critic said of |¢ ( (Above) Along the nan river 250 miles from Seward, where ‘enter) lefts Coal reopened op- upplies were Alaska. (Be- Frederick Mears; the | longest ‘single span | sippl, built bridge, i land gaw son, Zeke, furnish plenty cf comedy in their endeavor to travel withthe. their suddenly ac-; cuired ric ave thrown them with. ‘Irvin |S, Cobb wrote the subtitles for ithe picture. {A THOUGHT FOR | | TODAY | that scattereth, and yet in : and there is that which! w ithholdeth more than is meet, but it itendeth to poverty.—Proverbs 11:24. A man there was, and some did think him, mad; The more ke gave away, the more he had. JOHN BUNYAN. LEARN A WORD |__ EVERY DAY & TODAY'S word is) INCAPACITATE, R It's. pronounced — in-ka-pass-i-tayt plqughed their way engaged him, and cast him in a ple-) y. ith accent on the third syllable. It means--to make unable, to make to disable. not, and unfit, to disqualify, It comes from—-Latin, “in,” ompax,” capable. Companion word—incapacitation. It’s used like this—Lack . of sleep ‘will incapacitate you for your work.” $$ ____---_______- Unusual Stories | | |, Abount Unusual People || TREE i ETRE NS By NEA Service. \ Chicago, Feb. 2.—Leopold Godow- sky, pianist, has no use for railways. His artistic temperament can’t stand ‘em. Sc when Godowsky goes on his con- cert tour of the Orient next -summ he'll travel in specially equipped air- planes, he announce: aNed in one plane so he can pre- paré his concert programs while rusa- g through the air to fill his next ‘engagement. ; BY CONDO | GACDEN, (MASS je ‘SELVES To MONEY FRO! POCKETS. He SAID Ie NUSGANDS Pockets. EVERETT, WHAT WAS. THiS ITEM ABOUT THAT'S TORN OVT OF THE FRONT PASE OF FTES. EVENINGS, COPY. CSET, Come Back WITHOUT MUNICI PAL! COURT TODAT OMEN ARE JUSTIFIED IN HECPING THEM = INALIENABLE RIGNT OF WOMEN FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIMES TO TAKE MONCH FROM Welc, You PUT ON eur THINGS AND RUN UC Te THE CORNER AND GST ME A Goop AND IF THEY HAVEN'T GoT ANY KEEP ON GOING’. JUD: BRUCE IN THE RULED THAT mM THEIR HUSBANDS’ "IT HAS BEEN THE a Seontee Bam (Sue? must NoT SEE THIS) T NOWCED: THAT MYSGCE, DEAR, THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THAT WAY WHEN (T WAS DES L\VGRED HERG , “IF You DARE TO One —— WECC {U] Gpdowsyky has had a small piona in- i : Making a bootlegger drink what he : sells would be capital punishment. The only two,who can live as cheap- ly as one are a flea and a dog. That great silence you hear is peo- ple discussing the Arbuckle trial, are sdid to work harder; singlg ones say they have to. Married men Maybe Jack Dempsey would con- sent to fight the winner in this Chile- Peru dispute. With movies’ two hours long we know what home is without mother. The price of window glass has dropped; but not with a crash. St. Louis woman turned the tables on her husband, One corner of the table put out his eye. About 90 per cent of the people kicking about dancing can’t dance. Now they are asking “Who won the conference?” Let’s hope it resulted in a friendly tic. Tt ‘costs $350,000,000 to run New York a yeat; but isn’t worth it. A Chicago. banker who intended putting it back in time has been given 15 years’ time. An easy way to make a friend is jtell someone. he works too hard. Two nice things about radio ‘ser- mons’dte: Ne collections, and on get- jting'sleepy you can turn’a switch, Lots of so-called will power is won't power. The big Montana lake\that will be dry in 1,000 years must be racing the rest of the country. Health hint: When you lose your health it’s hard to find. Valentine day will give us a chance to say’ something to the landlord without getting caught. “Let's go to bed” is father’s after dinner speech. Two New Yorkers who wondered if they could rob a house without get- ting caught found they couldn’t. Paris says spring: nighties: will be short. Maybe that’s so they will matcl» Pullman blankets. Me ‘Only -eleven mare ‘shopping months until Christmas. a ge I ar ee ADVENTURE OF | ||. THETWINS | | gq By Olive Barton Roberts Nancy, Nick) and Buskins sat very still ‘while Mother Nature gave the little seeds their Jesson. They were rin the magical country of Thistledown {Land where all the flying seeds go to | learn where and how to grow the next | year, “Now, where does your book say jfor you to grow?” asked Mother Na- ture of the dandelion seeds, “On the hill opposite the factory,” answered the seeds with one votce. “Why?” 3 “Because the people who work there have no flowers, and they can look glad.” “That's right,” said Mother Nature kifidly, “but there” are not’ enough of you here. You'll have to ‘take all your younger brothers and sisters with you so that the whole hill will be bright and yellow next. spring. Mr. Rubadub will give each of you a nice coat of yellow paintsand Mr, Sprinkle- | Blow will send down gentle showers to keep you clean. Hold your heads | up and do all you can to spread hap- piness andi cheer.” She called: the milk-weed seeds next, when the dandelion seeds had taken their seats. The milk-weed seeds were told to grow near to a house where poor children lived so that their pods could be used for doll-baby cradles in the fall. Next came the maple tree secds, {gently smoothing their shiny clear wings. “It’s’ very. important,” said Mother Nature to the maple-seeds, “that you grow where you are most needed. So | many. people neglect’ planting shade trees that we will have to do the best ;we can. One of you must grow in !a city yard where there are children, one néar to a hospital where sick people can see your. green branches, and one where tired horses can rest in your shade. Learn your lesson well, little seeds.” Nancy and Nick thought it ba derful. (To Be Continued.) “|. (Copyright, 1922. NEA Service.) ——————___-_________-+ o | POETS’ CORNER | cae : —o FRIENDS (Florence Borner) - What is more noble than a friend? A friend sincere and true; Who if conditions should require, Would give his all for you. Who loves you neither for your fame, Nor for your golden store, But if misfortune chanced to frown,” Would love you still the more. What is more noble than a friend? A friend in word and deed, | Whose love is all embracing, Not confined to cult or creed. T often times have thought that friends | Were unto mortals given, That we might learn to love the more, “|Our Saviour friend in heaven. cut of the window and see us and be ,