The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 13, 1922, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, ’22 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. Editor GEORGE D. MANN - - é - Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY : DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. 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 are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year...........5 f ey Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). a Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck)... 5.00 Daily by mail, outsife of North Dakota............. 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) <> SHOULD BRING RELIEF Considerable credit is due the state administra- tion for its energetic drive to market hail war- rants. The Supreme court has disposed of the legal issues and the securities can now be mar- keted under a plan proposed by the members of the industrial commission and the state insurance commission. This decision will expedite the sale and bring several millicns of'new money into the state at.a time when it is badly needed. Insurance Commis- sioner Olsness has been working harmoniously with Governor Nestos, Attorney General Johnson and Commissioner Kitchen. CHICAGO It was feared that legal barriers would prevent | the sale of the hail warrants upon the terms made by Twin City purchasers of such securities. North Dakota can go Ahead ‘and negotaite a loan with the hail warrants .as.’collateral. Under ,the! decision the hail commissioner is held to have full authority to certify that the warrants are valid obligations cf the department. AN EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE No periodical in the nation has done more to promote the aims and ideals of the Washington disarmament conference than the Literary Digest. The service has been performed by arranging in a most intelligent and exhaustive manner all data in favor and in opposition to the issues fathered by the Harding administration. The strictly im- partial and impersonal presentation of the articles has brought before the American people in a gyaphic way the benefits to be gained through the| agreements recently arrived at in Washington. The Literary Digest has had a complete dis- armament number devoted to statistics and views on the issues involved, and a compilation of the | war strength of nations with the cost of war. This number was followed by issues devoted almost exclusively to Japan, China and France. All the numbers should be preserved in public and private libraries as reference Works of inestimable! value. A fitting climax to the brilliant group of num- bers, would be an issue devoted to the accomplish-' ments of the conference. The Literary Digest is supreme in its unique field. It has quickened in- terest in the most momentous issues growing out of the world war. and editors are worthy of the greatest support and highest commendation. THE GRIM REAPER Deaths from alcohol last year were a half more | than in 1920. This is shown by thesrecords of the Metropoli- tan Life Insurance Company, based on nearly 14,000,000 industrial policy holders. ; The alcoholic death rate will be higher for 1922, as whisky in synthetic form daily becomes more poiscnous, more fatal. Then it will drop off rap- idly. Fear, the greatest of prohibition enforce- ment agents, more powerful than all rum sleuths combined, will make America bone-dry, at least in whisky, The death rate among Americans in 1921 was the lowest ever recorded, averaging all causes, says the insurance company. There were only 17 deaths for every 2000 popu- lation, compared with 25 in 1911. The nation gets healthier. That’s more import- ant than international politics or domestic economics. " Give us health and we can put up with almost anything. For health usually means happiness, the goal of all life. Do you realize how rapidly the dread diseases are being exterminated or gotten under control? Tuberculosis death rate has been cut almost in half, in the last 11 years. Its decline in 1921 was the greatest of any year on record. Even the death toll of organic heart disease and | that if an election were held next week the coali-| Bright’s disease is getting lower. Safety first campaigns are bearing fruit. Rate| which Lerd Grey regards as intolerable because it! passing changes of polit{cal adminis- of deaths from industrial accidents is slumping sharply. Deaths due to automobiles are soaring. Last year they numbered more than five times as many as in 1911. ‘ This is more than counterbalanced by the great- er number of autos in use now, compared with past years. That, however, is small consolation to pedes- trians and occupants of cars with reckless drivers. they are not wanting in either ability or courage. much as possible. It it like'tellingia soldier that there are 200 rifles The efforts of its publishers | shooting at him, against only 20 rifles in a previ- ous battle. f With increasing congestion’ of population, com- 'pulsory protection against reckless auto drivers {will become a necessity. The auto death rate will be reduced by the same processes that have cut |the general death rate—quarantine and education. { | A NEW DISCOVERY Important discovery: A way has been found to determine the sex of chickens as soon as they known, jets if they want to produce eggs, or cockerels if |they are raising chickens for food. {Storrs experiment station, Connecticut Agricul- \tural College. One hundred years ago, about all that was [known of chickens was that they laid eggs and !were good eating. ' ledge, man today knows 1000 times as much about jnature’s mysteries as the folks who lived in 1822. | | GREATER VICTORY THAN WATERLOO ‘rushed to completion on the Blue Nile river, 2000 miles south of Khartoum, Africa, where: Lord Kitchener became famaus, .;;; | This dam will bring‘under irrigated cultivation 3,000,000 acres. of farming land, now idle. It will ‘run a swarm of factories, mightier than the Pyra- |mids. te 4 Ancient way of conquering a territory was to jenslave the inhabitants. Modern man’s great con- | quests harness nature’s forces and free human ‘labor. Building one big dam isa greater victory ‘than winning 100 Waterloos: , ABOUT INCOME TAX | About your income tax: Uncle Sam will not allcw claims for depreciation in the actual value for pleasure. But if buildings, autos or other devices are used jas productive tools of business, depreciation can be written off. : \ Only depreciation recognized by income tax col- lector is that which results from exhaustion, wear jand tear of property by its use in trade, business, jprofession or vocation. | The home of a family is denied the advantage given to the home of a business. This may not |satisfy your ethics. But it’s the law. i} \ A DIFFICULT TASK Old saying is, no one can eat a quail a day for |30 days. H. J. Jalmar, Baptist missionary in the \Congo, hasn’t tested the quail theory. But he ate chicken three times a day for two years. Don’t pity Jalmar for monotony of diet. Pity his wife, who had to plan the meals to make tiem attractive. She evolved 22 ways of preparing chicken. . | No man has a task as difficult as his wife has, |in planning meals. Doubt it? Ask her. af | | FEWER BLIND PEOPLE In our country are 52,617 blind persons, three lout of five being males. So reports your Uncle jSam. Ten years ago, the sightless numbered 57,272. Fewer blind, yet population is greater. People are guarding their eyes more carefully. Blindness, like all other accidents, usually can be avoided by not taking (any, nces. ly EDITORIAL REVIEW | Comments reproduced in this column may or may not i] express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here |] inorder that our readers'may have both sides of important issues |] which are being discussed in the press of the day. | | ATTEMPTING TO REVIVE A ONCE GREAT | PARTY | Only a general election can show how far Brit- jish public opinion responds to the challenge flung jat the coalition government by the Independent |Liberals, for whom former Premier Asquith and |Viscount Grey are the chief spokesmen. These ;men assailed Lloyd George and all his works at a | meeting held in London. The keynote of the oc-| lcasion was struck by Viscount Gladstone, who ac- jcepted a title his great father persistently refused, iand who said in his address as presiding officer: i“Tonight we enter the lists and take the field ‘against Mr. Lloyd George and his coalition govern- |ment.”” } A strong opposition is a necessity under any 'system of popular government. The Liberal party ,is the only nucleus for such an opposition in Eng- land. Most unprejudiced observers are confident |tion cabinet, which Mr. Asquith assails because ‘of its liking for “expedients and experiments” and ‘has fused political elements formerly irreconcil- |able, would be returned to power by a handsome majority. | However, the coalition principle cannot be ap- | plied indefinitely. An end must come to it some itime. And when it does come a revival and strengthened Liberal party may once more take up the reins of government. Mr. Asquith and Lord Grey have a heavy task of reconstruction. But !—Brooklyn Eagle. Sol Sv di i hatch from eggs. Previously, the chick had to be! at least six weeks old before its sex could be} This discovery is of great value to farmers. | iThey now can be certain they are purchasing pull- | | Discovery is announced by Dr. Leslie C. Dunn of | | In hundreds of thousands of branches of knowl- | The world’s greatest dam, the Senar, is being | | POLITICAL GOSSIP | of land, a home or property such as an)auto used | i j NORMAN, That.the I. V, A. campaign is to be waged principally upon the investiga- tion of the league administration con- ducted by Cov. Nestos and his asso- \ciates is apparent. Townley is un- der arrest and Hasiings it is hoped will be returned. Brinton and Waters are regarded as material witnesses and what their reward will be for in- forming upon their old time associates has not been divulged. The trial of ‘Townley doubtless will be staged as nearly as is feasible to ‘the June primaries as such'an event would throw into hold relief for the delectation’ of the voters the entire record of: the recent administration. If convictions can Bé obtained, the results will strengthen’’the hands of the administration materially. ‘Of course the Scandinavian bank des] goesback to the days when Wa- ters was’lin’ charge of the state bank examiners department;!’ Whether any deal has ‘be2n made with him for his help in convicting anyone accused of misdeeds is’ noti known’ and probably will not be: known except! to those close to the throne'yof the I. V. A. managezs. “+ E A koe The Recall election placed an obli- gation upon Gov. Nestos to probe con- ditions to. the botiom-both with a view to find a..way out,.of the mess the state has been involved in during the last six years and also to bring the criminally guilty, if there be any, to the bar of justice. There can be no criticism of the ad- ministration for: probing the former odministration. “The I. V. A. indict- ment alleged certain things and of course their elected officials have started out to find out if the bill of) complaint is a true one or not. toe There is a conflict among the ad- visers \of Gov. Nestos as to the future of the industrial program. The Grand Forks Herald insists upon the completion of, the Grand Forks mill and elevator. On the other hand the Forum is opposed to spending any more money ion experimenting. It points out editorially that the state ad- ministration in proposing to spend more tax money is “shutting its eyes to experience.” The Tribune finds! itself in complets. accord with the} Forum on this isuse, in fact it took a/ positive position on this issue before and after the recall, while many pa- pers were indulging in the soft pedal. With the tax payers demanding} some relief from their burden, it” is; going to be hard to convince them that millions more should be spent to convince a few I. V. A. theorists af the futility of state owned enter- prises. | In commenting upon the an-| nounced purpose of the administra- ; tion to dump a few more millions into the Grand Forks venture, the Forum says: q “Perhaps it ig ‘good politics’ and} perhaps it isn’t, The Forum has not found that it is ‘good politics’ in the} long run to fiool the voters or to ped- dle political patent medicines to them. It insi; as it always has, that it is jnot good business or good sense, and it is no more inclined to keep sileni while the state funds are squandered ; on another flour mill than it’ was vo! keep silent when we were sinking public money in the state bank or the state homebuilders’ mess.” Jerry Bacon\in the Grand Forks Herald urges the uSual pork ‘ barrel argument in the following: “The operation off this’ business must be continuous. | For its success there must be developed a business | Policy which — will ‘necessarily be ; framed largely as the result of cur-| rent experience. No success will be possible if political \considerations {are to enter into the work, or if the manegement is subject change and its policy to reversal as \the result of} |tration. It is assumed to be the ‘thought of the survey \commission | |that such a board shall have general | supervision, analagous to tle super-! |vision which a board of trustees exer-| cises over the affairs of a college, or j ‘which a board of directors exercises | over a corporation. The actual execu- tive work will necessarily be ih the} hands of one man, selected for his ex-} perience, his character, and his \com- petency. ; i “As to the prosecution of work on} the plant, that must be expeditotl as The sooner | the} ‘plant is completed and put in opera- {tion, the sooner will it become|_ vt \ PUT “SKIP” OUT FOR THE NIGHT. BEFORE You WENT To BED? ta DID You practical value to the people whom it is designed to accommodate. Presum- ably separate units may be utilized before others are completed, The work should be got under way and pushed as rapidly as is consistent with the best constriction.” * Then to add to the agony Justice Robinson has a number of laws which he proposes to initiate at the June primaries. With the administration urging more taxes to engage in state sccialism, Justice Robinson. would cut the tax income down by a plan to rebate taxes. Regardless of the mer its of such a procédure and there are serious obstacles to such a plan, it is going to be mighty popular witk the tax payers especially the tax dod- ger and that unfortunate individual, and thére are many in these lean years, who simply cannot pay, his taxes. ‘ $ There is no doubt but that the ac tivities of Justice Robinson in his law to rebate a material portion of taxes levied for specific purposes, has caus- ed considerable worry in administra- tion circles. r Whether the I. V,, A. organization will have any new law to initiate hex June has not been made apparent as yet. It will be exceptional, however if the organization has nothing to sub- mit to the voters. Few elections havc gone by without the usual allotmen \ +e t Not all is harmony in the leagu: ranks. There is,a balance of powe clique which is making faces at the faction which wants to jump in anc 1ollow the old tactics of a, straight league ticket. The Courier'News is under the domination of the faction ‘not quite responsive to A. C. Town- ley. While not discrediting Townley completely, the paper opposes his bal- ance of power idea. In the, Langer retraction, the Courier-News alienated a large number if leaguers who now feel that they have been fed up on false. statements. i Then there is a faction that wants th March convention in Fargo and another which wants it staged at Bis- merck. The Fargo, clique .calls the Bismarck cligte.:a “soviet of . office- inolde:s”. and makes other uncompli- mentery rematt of panaceas, 4 ee When the many factions are viewed both in the league and I. V. A, ranks, | fectiv | EVERETT TRUE the average voter is asking whether it is mot an-opportune time to revive the Republican and Democratic par- ties. These organizations have be2n parked away for the last five years and there seems to be a demand to trot out the discarded machines and limber them up again.. Probably, say the advocaies of a reorganized Repub- ican and Democratic organization, chey are not the best in the world, but chey seem to make less mistakes and give better satisfaction to the tax- vayers than the mugwump, hybrids chat have dominated state politics for he last five years. Townley in his iddress in Minneapolis intimated that 1e believes party action along the old raditional lines is better, for he said hat his league idea chad brought bout. government, by “dubs.” 4 xo * ‘ With a federal Republican adminis- ration in the saddle and a senatorial ‘ght ahead, it is natural that. party eaders should long for some kind of ‘egularity in party action. North Da- ‘ota is not the first state to follow a vunch of, political mavericks’ off the eservation and then return to old tandards and well known brands. Iv s the logical transition.. Whether the . V. A. contingent and league forces vill revamp along old party lines is a uestion. Leaders of both factions re clinging tenaciously to their pet rganizations, but probably the voters vill decide that a short route to de-|) eased taxation and increased offic. ancy in government is a‘return to varty regularity. The siate is sick of programs. Tax ayers. are anxiofis to reduce govern- nental activities to the minimum and not stage any more state industrial failures such as the audits are dis- closing. There ‘are signs that the pendulum is swinging back and pro- grams that mean more taxes and more jobs are going to be very un- Popular next June. ‘A general clean- up program, and a junking of the whole industrial scheme fathered by I. V. A. and league alike would bring reduced taxes. The liqufdation of these foolish enterprises doubtless would bring about a tax reduction quicker than anything else. Repub- licans can rally around no better plat- form than that which promises an end of state socialism and the getting back to solid ground. To dally and bolster up Townley’s program: which even the maker has denounced as de- e will be fatal in the long run. _ . BY CONDO N | i OTT aml i LT dai Haba rm Not Wert !! Wwe PCOPLE IN THIS AR CAN'T SLEEP WHILE You WORK THAT — LOTT SO You HAVE, SK | But Mou'euRe NOT SNORE IN MY SLESP AT'S THE | cele — is Ic A WRG & DQ TVE GOT A RIGHT To SNORE IN my sceePr It a “Are you noisy when you eat?” asks social hints. No, we are-noisy when we don't eat, Another nickel cigar has dropped jfrom 8 to 6 cents, Country bedbugs are training for spring tourists. Coxey, who led the famous army, wants to buy 112 ships, so maybe we will have a Coxey’s navy, Too many husbands are threaten- ing to go home to father. New bathing suits seem designed to be worn while taking a bath. A man who tells all he knows doesn’t often tell much. After this the St. Louis girl sen- tenced for stealing trousers will only steal those with men inside, All of us like to brag about how bad we were when growing up. The rising generation wants sleep until 10 o’clock. to - Another.income. tax is when you take wifie candy because your income was 2 a.m. What worries Congress is, can the farmers raise a majority. A girl is:going to cross Niagara Falls on a ‘wire. She wants to reach Canada worse than we do. , Beauty is only skin deep and some get skinned trying to get it. It will soon be time to decide where you are going on your vacation besides broke. A serious scarcity of reformed re- formers is reported. Motorman who smashed into an- other car can prove that silk stock- ings will turn any man’s head. A quack gets your money and ‘ducks. A Chicago man who believed what a bootlegger told him is learning to read with his fingers. A woman wants divorce because her husband tried to sell her for $400. Perhaps this was far below cost and made her feel cheap. New York club women are debating whether :a.dog..or:a cow is:man’s best out to meet a man coming from work? | ADVENTURE OF | | THETWINS | — | By Olive Barton Roberts There were many other places in Mistland, and Nancy and Nick missed none of them, thanks to the kindness of Buskins and Scootalong. The queer little train stopped next at Fog Town, where fairies were fill- ing large bags with the thick misty stuff and tying the tops with string. “I.thought fog was sort of a nuis- ance,” said Nancy. “When we're out having a ride and it gets foggy, Dad- dy always says, ‘Oh, isn’t it a nuis- ance,’ because he can’t see where he is going.” “No,” said Buskins, “fog isn’t al- ways.a nuisance. Usually it is kind. Its chief use is to fool Jack Frost. At thjs time of year, when he ought to be minding his manners and hik- ing off to the sky, Jack’s generally hiding ’round watching his chance to nip the fruit. So the fog fairies have to play. policeman and when he’s around, they open their bags so he can’t see, where the apples and cher- ries are.” * y After’ that they visited Winter Town, where the snow fairies lived, but it was closet for the season and all the houses were boarded up. The snow fairies were having a vacation, most likely up at the North Pole. That was the last of the towns in Mistland, so the visitors got on | Scootalong’s train again for the re- turn trip. This time Scootalong let them look inside of his engine and they could see the little steam fairies pushing the wheels around. They soon arrived at the place j where the apple tree elevator was waiting. So thanking Scootalong and bidding him goodby the Twins and Buskins descended to the earth. “I shall see you once more, kid- dies,” said Buskins, as he bade them goodby. “There is one more coun- try in the Land-of-Up-in-the-Air that you would like to visit, I am sure. It is Smoke Land.” (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service.) ("EVERY DAY | || LEARN A WORD | o— oe ee Sey Today’s word is DEMAGOGUE. It's pronounced—dem-a-gahg with accent on the first syllable. It means—a poser in politics, one who plays an insincere role to gain public support, one»who inflames public passions to advance himself, a mob leader. It comes from—Greek “demos,” peo- ple, and “agein,” to lead. Companion words—demagogic, dem- | + | agogism. | It's used like this—“Those politi- [cians who would inspire us with {hatred of our neighbors and arouse strife are demagogues.” Texas has 253 counties. friend.. Did you ever see a cow rush - a. 4 }