The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 11, 1922, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN. -- ~~ - ~~ _—=«ditor Foreign Representatives A G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. | PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - : Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Fress is exclusively entitled to the use| for republication of all news dispatches eredited to it or! not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local | news published herein, | All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year $7.21 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota............- THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER | (Established 1873) | _———$— | | GE HONEST ABE Lincoln’s place in history becomes as the year: Abraham greater and more firmly established roll on. Americans revere his*character, and teachings | with an intensity that rapidly is making him a} lengendary being. Though his personality and plain homespun | philosophy were concentrated largely on problems that were almost exclusively American at the time, he'is becoming as great a character in world | history as in the history of his own country. The 112th anniversary of Lincoln’s birthday oc- curs February 12. It will be celebrated.in many} ‘countries. While his contribution to the spread of democ- | racy was of infinite importance, Lincoln’s greatest! heritage to us and to future generations was his} gospel of honesty, fairness and toleration. He wag born in Kentucky in a log cabin. His rise from this humble origin to his power during | life and his place in history, after death, should be a constant reminder that what counts most in America is a man himself—his character and his| service to the common good. ' YOUR SHARE Do you realize what the American farmers did for you personally in 1921? If the crops they raised were divided, every, man, woman and child in the United States would | get, in rough figures: Twenty-nine bushels of corn. ‘ Seven and one-half bushels of wheat. Ten bushels of oats. ; | One and one-half bushels of barley. | Four bushels of motatoes: One ton of hay. Eleven pounds of eabakeo: Over hundred and sixty-five pounds, beef and pork. | Twenty-four pounds of sugar. Eight pounds of peanuts, One bushel of apples. On top of all this, the farmer, gave you wool, fruits, vegetables, meats and a host of other things. A lot of this stuff was exported. But, in re- turn for it, we got an equivalent in other contmaods ities. With these enormous supplies pouring steadily into our larder from the farms, it is hard to un- derstand how there can ever be’ hunger in America. Our real trouble is in our system of distribution. And, surely, we should over have any difficulty | in keeping warm. For our mines produce about five tons of coal a year for every American. To help the coal keep us warm, the farmers pro- | duce 40 pounds of cotton and three pounds of wool a year for each of us. \ Our oil industry yearly produces 414 barrels of | oi] and 47 gallons of gasoline for every American. | Enough iron was produced last year, despite | depression, to give each of us 311 pounds. | | | | You ;look these figures over, and you think, “My, how rich our country is, and what an awful lot of stuff it takes to keep our civilization! going!” | It becomes even more of a marvel, when you| consider that a complete list of our production of |i raw materials would be so long that it couldn’t be printed in small type on a whole page. | We produce enough, in this country, to make} every American prosperous all the time—in actual | commodities. | And, on the average, we are prosperous most of the time. We live in a “land of milk and honey.” That we can ever suffer want, in the midst of | such a profusion of necessities and luxuries, is! proof that there is something -fundamentally wrong with our system of economics. No one knows exactly what that something is. | We have had business depressions in 1827, 1837, ' 1847, 1857, 1873, 1884, 1893, 1907 and the pres-| ent time. Some future generation will invent a regulator, a safety valve. COUNTERFEIT | For the first time since 1894, counterfeit two- | jtelephones. i ia | cent stamps are in circulation. In very small quantities, though, so don’t wear out spectacles looking for them. The counterfeiter will soon be caught. had brains, he’d go after big game. What are his chances against the super-brains of Uncle Sam’s secret service? None at all. ‘American’ business | Tribune. ‘ EDUCATION THROUGH THE EYES Righty-seven per cent of the average person’s jeducation is acquired through the eyes.\ An edu- cational expert tells this to a ‘Senate committee, discussing movie censorship. Until recent years knowledge could be trans-! mitted to the brain, through the sense of sight, icnly by reading printed type, traveling or watch-j ‘ing instructive happenings. In possibilities, the movie is scores ‘of times more powerful than any of these. Equally during spare time, learning and enjoying.’ FARMS Crop-growing farm land, classed as “<mproved,” totaled 503,0733,007 acres in the last census. Apparently it takes the yield of nearly five acres | to feed the average American and provide an ex-| port surplus. dering how much land’ they’d need if they went} back to the land. There’s decided need of a “going back.” Popu-| lation inereased 15 per cent, between 1910 and} 11920, but acreage of improved farm land gained only 5 per cent. ‘ HONK! Can you remember 25 years ago? | Only: four lautos in the whole United States then. Tcday there are about 10,000,000 motor vehicles registered in all the states. Farmers have 3,000,- 000 of them. | The next 25 years probably will bring.an equally rapid growth of airplanes and wireless \ EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented bere | in order that our readers may have both sides of important issues Which are being discussed in the press of the day NORTH DAKOTA’ “COMING BACK” North Dakota is definitely on the way back to better things in finances, in business, in agricul- tural activity and in general welfare, in the judg- jment of C. E. Danielson, president of the Minot Ccmmercial club, “Mr. Danielson brings to the Twin Cities a message of optimism and good cheer about our sister state. It is good news for Minnesota, urban and rural. 'The prosperity of this state is bound up in no ‘small degree with that of its neighboring states, and particularly with that.of North Dakcta. The llatter is almost entirely an agricultural commun- ity. Minnesota is a combination of the agricul- jtural and industrial communtiy. Each has a large dependence on the other. North Dakota was not as prosperous as some of the other farming states during the high-price days of the war period. Its main crops were noth- ing to brag of,.and there was that in the political situation which exerted an adverse influence. Mr. Danielson says the state is far from being seriously crippled on account of,these conditions. In some respects the crop misfortunes are reflect- ed today in a situation that is distinctly favorable jwhen considered in the light of the future. Land values were not so- inflated in North Dakota as they were in other states of the upper Mississippi valley. That being true, there is not so much fle flation to be taken care’of, and\hence not so sharp a readjustment to be.made in the process back to normal.> North Dakota would seem to be due for bumper ierops this year. growing season, but there always has been a turn from bad to good, and there is reason to hope that this kind of turn is at hand. Minnesotans will be iglad if the very best hopes of Mr. Damelen are realized in full. Governmental housecleaning in North Dakota is now cn. The new administration is to do all it can to put the state strongly on its feet. It has - the well-wishes of the people at home, and it will not lack encouragement and moral support from Minnesota. Mr. Danielson says the banking situation is improving rapidly; that credit’ conditions are easier; that business men are in much better spirit, and that the psychology of the whole state reflects faith in better times ahead. He is so sure of his ground that he looks for popular approval of a good roads program that shall be to North |Dakota what the Babcock plan is to Minnesota— a program which, if indorsed, will bring the rural! iecommunities into closer touch with the cities, aug- ment business, improve marketing conditions, make general farm life more attractive, and con-| ‘.. tribute to solidarity of North Daktoa citizenship in building for the future. Nobody questions that before another United States census is taken, the whole country will) have returned to a high degree of general pros- |perity. Now is the time to lay down the lines of | ‘battle with the purpose of taking advantage of! |the better years to come. It is not. thinkable that | If he North Dakota, whatever rough sledding it has) sp nat had, will fail to be in on the ground floor for the renaissance. — Mintleapolis | The possibili-' ties so far have been largely neglected. A sign | lof progress is the growing demand that movies -|be made instructive as well.as éntertaining. Moving picture films will'be the slates, black- | 9 boards and textbooks of future schools. \knowledge-giving, for grown-ups, watching films That should interest families won-! No one can foretell, of course, ; jhow nature will comport herself in the coming MRS, KATHERIN (Mrs, ‘Katherine M. ‘to be the world’s oldest living actress, | was playing in a stock company pro- duction, “Our Américan Cousin,” at {the Ford Theater when Lincoln was jassassinated.. She is now in an old people’s home at Chicago.) pickaes ey MRs. KATHERINE M, EVANS 0, Feb. 11—I was just 20 When Lincoln was killed. I had “been |waiting with trembling in the wings Jot the theater for my cue to go out upon the stage. | Sound of the shot made me look. |Booth was scrambling on the stage in mad haste from the audience’ floor. The ‘president had sunk into seat. Some one in all the confusion had sense enough to lift Dr. Charles Taft into the box from the stage. The president lay quite still. Later they took him away on a shutter. © I ran upstairs after the affair and hid in my dressing room. his I shall never fiorget what a sad pic- ture poor Mrs. Lincoln presented as her husband ley @lying in her arms. His face fore a look of kindness. Even in death he was that way. - ALBERT W. BOGGS (Sergeant Albert W. Boggs, 80, was a witness of Lincoln's assassination. He' is a veteran of three wars, in-| ball in Pres cluding the World’s War. He is now in an old peopl2’s home in Chicago.) + 8 8 BY ALBERT W. BOGGS Chicago, Feb. 11—I had boen inva- lided to Washington from wounds and was a guest of General T. M. Vin- cent at the Ford Theater on the night of Lincoln’s assassination. ‘President Lincoln and his‘ party oc- cupied a front box. I was seated about three-quarters back on the main floor. Everything was in plain sight. ‘Suddenly there was a shot. Lin- !coln half rose in his seat, clutched’ at. his head and sank back again. A man leaped to the stage. John Wilkes Booth. ‘Allin the audience him!” " Women screamed. jer and right, / Mrs. Lincoln meanwhile started wiping her husband’s face with her’ handkerchief. q I joined in the pursuit as far as T could. Booth had blocked exit from the stage by placing wooden barriers against the doors, Later I witnessel the trial and ex- ecution of Mrs, Surrat and three of her accomplices. Tt was cried “Stop Men scrambled A THOUGHT FOR | TODAY | Ora a ee. Wherefore 0 king Agrippa, 1 was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision.—Acts 26:19, The more readily we admit the pos- sibility of our own cherished convic- tion being mixed ‘with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though he has allowed other men to do’so.—John Ruskin. \ EVERY DAY _ | LEARN A WORD Today's word is CORONATION. It’s /pronounced—kawr-o-nay-shun ' with accent on the third syllable. | It means—crowning, ving one ; sovereign authority, the ceremony of aising one to high rank. It comes from — Latin | crown. It’s used like this—‘The coronation }of Cardinal Ratti as pope will take place soon.” t “corona,” GLIMPSES OF FRENCH LIFE. One of the most readable articles in the France number of The Literary | Digest this week is “Intimate Glimpses W. J, FERGUSON (W. J. Ferguson was callboy at the Ford Theater when Linculn was as- sassinatel, He is now acting in the movies and writing a book, “Talks of | an Old-Timer.) * * BY, W. J. FERGUSON Brooklyn, Feb. 11—President Lin- coln loved the theater. . iHe came to the Ford Theater fre quently. 1 was call-boy there and would,.often look up to see the presi- dent in his box, ‘He used to come in unannounced. Sometimes he, would bring his son Tad, back stage. ‘he boy liked to stand by me and waich the show. On the night of the assassination I wes waiting at the prompt box, my regular post. Une of the minors had become ill and I was memorizing his ten lines, Laura Keene, the star and manageress, came over and asked me if I was ready. The play, you will recall, was the “American Cousin.” Just as I was about to answer, a shot was fired. 1noth had done his work. I never went on with my part. CORNELIUS SAVAGE fAs a boy, Corn2lius Savage played dent Lincoln’s back yard. He is now 78 and hearty, working as a salesman in a Fifth Avenue jewelry shop.) eee i BY CORNELIUS SAVAGE * New York, Feb. 11—When the Civil War, broke out I wanted’ to join the army. My father wouldn't let me. So .|I ran away to Washington jwith ‘two other Brooklyn boys. I got. into the ordnance ment. Some of the boys formed .a_ ball team. I bécame captain of it. The best place to play was on the grounds hack of the White House. that our field. Oftiimes President Lincoln would watch us. Once he walked out on the field and stood behind the catcher. ‘When a new commissioner of public buildings was appointed, we were chased from the field. A few days later I met the presi- dent. He was an easy man to ap- proach,, He listened to my story and told:‘me ‘9 tell the boys to go right on Play- ng. “Don’t you go away until I tell you to,” he said. {We never did—one of the players was.James Gorman who later became governor of Maryland. depart- OTTO Oe, of French Life,” which will tend to change many erroneous ideas held by some Americans about the way French people actually live in France. The very words, “French Life,” are often tinged in the American mind with a degree of reprehensibleness which The Digest article will tend to relieve, whereas, in fact, “The French home would surprise the outsider if he ever got into it,” says an-authority, “but the chances. are much against any such invasion, for if the foreigner has lived ten years in France he may be- gin to hope one day that he will be allowed over the threshold.” The ar- ticle d es features of «French Home lite that could never be Jeatned by a limited sojourn in Paris. ; Other intevesting articles about France in this issue of The Digest concern the size of the Army and y, and France’s ability to put an in the field in the event of a i , France's far-flung colonial do- main, thd complexities of French politics, ties that bind France and the United States, sketches of the men who are making modern France, France’s devast&ted war areas yester- day and today, the Fren¢h instinct for art and music, etc. = There are numerous illustrations of a double page n French colonial po » in colors, of ions, \River Jordan wanders 220 miles. in covering a .distance: of .60, & > and places in this number and{ several small maps. there is} We made } | came “ABRAHAM LINCOLN'AS I KNEW HIM” ; Seven, Still Living, Tell Reminiscences of Martyred President \NA M. MORTON Morton was a news- paper pondent at Washington during oIn's administration. His wife, now 79,emet the martyred presi- dent on many socjal occasions.) ser ae BY MRS. ANNA M. MORTON In an Interview With NEA Service Sandusky,-O., Feb. 11—Lincoln al- 'ways dressed plainly -and always in black. All-my memories ‘of the man are touched with his friendly attitude) to- ward evervone and his proneness to ‘make people smile. T recall a reception at the home of the vice, president where a -Lincoln bust. sculptored by Swain, was being exhibited. I was escorted by Swain. “Lincoln came “up and asked: “Are you the man who made the mud head of me?” ‘Lincoln was not a handsome man but .you were struck by the kindness in his face and by his handgrip, which made the average hand feel lost i in its hugeness. There was always an element of Sadness in his face, even. though he smiled. COLONEL CLINTON 'H. (Clinton H.-Meneely was chief 01 staff of, General Wadsworth’s Black Horse Cavalry. He is still in business despite his 82 years.) MENEBLY BY COL, ‘c. 4. MENEBLY. Troy, N. Y., Feb. 11—General Wads- worth, to whose staff I was attached, spent most of his time in Washington during the war. In connection with my work there 1 had joccasion to call on the presiden. innumerable times. By night or day, he was always ac- cessible, 3! There was no red tape—there was no formality. When an arder‘had to be issued Te often sat down and wrote it. himself. One of my most treasured mementos is a pass he issued to some mother to see her boy in our barracks. The president was always ready with a story: If he wanted to refus2 a claim he always did it kindly—with a word or two to smooth over any chagrined feeling. Teward the close of the war I had to see him every day. He was always the same—kindly, p2' tient — sympa- thetic. THOMAS PROCTOR (Thomas Proctor was an old friend and protege of Abraham Lincoln. Af- ter the shooting at the Ford Theater, the president was removed to Proc- tor’s room and died in Pnoctor’s bed. Now Proctor is an irtmate of the St. Barnabas Home. ‘This exclusive state- ment was made by Proctor in the presence of his chaplain, the Rev. Sydney N. Usher, and his friend, }Gouvernor P, Hanc2. eel € BY THOMAS PROCTOR Gibsonia, Pa., Feb. 11—When I was in my early twenties, I met and be- a confidential friend of Abra- ham Lincotn. Iwas given.a. position in, the swear, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11 partment and the-hureau of returns. I read, and studied law under:,Lin- coln’s personal ‘direction. ‘He frequently shared my room in which there were two beds. State se- crets were imparted and talked over with me there. Becaus2 of the rare privilege and intimacy between the president and me, a friend of mine present at the theater when Lincoln was shot dircted that the president be carried to my {room which wag across the street from the Ford Theater. I was immediately sent for and ar- .| rived as they were placing my be- loved friend upon my bed. I remained | with him throughout the éntiré night. ‘His head was resting on my right arm and elbow when he expired. | [have often feit that I inhaled Lin- jcoln’s last breath. says a doctor. Many of us woul like to leave the thing there alone. ‘Some of the’ fish caught last sum- mer are now six feet long. Drinking to excéss is copsidered a Vice; access’ to drinking a virtue. Why don’t some of the reformers invent a shakeless shimmy? Stamps pre being counterfeited, A new kind of mail robbér.’! “Imprisonment gives me a chance to find mysglf,” says Madalynne Obenchain. She knows ‘where she is at. If the years must have 13 months spring is the time to add one. Wonder if ‘the. sixdcollege degree man can solve a railroad time table? : | . ‘Stlye hits for ¢he future have predicted that women will go with- out everything except money. Making friends with a policeman will help you in a pinch, Home wild. raised girls don’t grow Our postal service estimates it lost $25,252,613 in three morfhs. ‘This does not include ‘Will Hays. Men. never brag about their pay around income tax tibe. Happiness is not being particular. We are shipping Argentina a 1,089,000 pounds of powder ,for hunting. ‘Wonder if it is trouble, hunting? , \ ‘Lots of men who wear old clothes don’t owe anybody. All the world is a stage; making | love is the overture, and when you marry ‘the curtain goes up. The man worth while is the man who can smile when his daughter is learning a song. All men needing haircuts are not in Russia, The only fool like an old fool is a young one. “Yeast Company Expands’—head- line. Yeast will raise the dough. ‘Cuss and the world cusses at you. ADVENTURE OF | THE TWINS By Olive Barton Roberts When the Twins‘ and Buskins left Dew Town, they once more ‘boarded Scootalong’s magic train and Were taken to another town in Mistland called Rain Town. “The rain fairies live here,” ex- plained Scootalong and you,will find that they are just as busy as | the dew fairies.” But Nancy and Nick remembered the wonderful visit they had had with Mr, Sprinkle-Blow, the* weather ‘man, upon his star'’and “they had not forgotten how he kept all sorts of rain stored up in big barrels. So they spoke of it now and asked what the rain fairies had to do with it. “Oh, ho!” cried Scootdlong. “Did you think that all Sprinkle-Blow had to do was to turn a spigot and the tain would flow forever? No, siree! [t's the job of the ran fairies to fill those barrels and clouds. When the rain goes down to the earth, it has to be gathered up to use over again, Some folks say that Mr. Sun does it ‘by drinking it up, but they don’t know as much as they think they do. “It’s a secret about the rain fairies, & | f ‘|They fly ‘down to the creeks and rivers and ponds and lakes and fill their pails and then fly up to Sprinkle-Blow’s rain barrels and fill them. (Then ~when Sprinkle-blow wants to turn on a warm spring rain, or a hard storm, or a regular pourdown, why it’s all ready.” So Nancy and Nick and Buskins went to Rain Town and what do you think the rain fairies were doing? Making tiny pails! Only as they had a wet journey ahead of them, they were dressed in swimming suits. Sprinkle-Blow had used up so much rain in spring showers, that his rain barrels were about empty and the little rain fairies would ‘have ito work, hard to carry enough ‘water from’ the rivers to the sky to last through the summer. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service) | STOLEN LOOT RECOVERED. Minot, N. D., Feb. 11—All the loot j taken trom the Taylor drug store re- cently burglarized, has been recover- ed by the Minot pclice. Bert Wells, 26, is under arrest, charged with the burglary, and the police state that he has admitted his gu.lt to them. The lot recovered is valued at, $275, “Stay at home with your cold,” | rd \