The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 14, 1922, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE at ‘such methods. He said his long life was due to his never sitting on a chair or sleeping in a white} man’s bed. A theory to fit all needs. Take your| THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN ates S 3 Editor | Dick. | G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY A CITY PLAN NECESSARY Matnette Bldg. . Pe only. The crooked streets of Boston grew up along) ‘old-time cow paths. Cities, more recently found- ed, took note of the inconvenience and laid their TH NEW YORK Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS streets out in straight lines. The Associated Fress is exclusively entitled to the use we : bi iS for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or} Cities now discover that traffic congestion is not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local \due mainly to narrow streets. Yet they go ahead, news published herein, i aie i se a eaolich All rights of republication of special dispatches herein jlaying oyt more narrow streets. It is a foolis' are also reserved. |policy, especially foolish in small towns that may. some day be giant cities. j PAYNE, BURNS AND SMI ——_——_—_— MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE \ Daily by carrier, per year... $7.20 SCOUT RANGERS :, Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarc Daily by mail, per yéar (in state outside Bismarck) .. 5.0 The older Boy Scouts in Chicago started a new | aily by mail, outside of North Dakota 00 | oder, know as Scout Rangers. They will work to THE. STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER educate youths and grown-ups against forest fires, | (established 1210) ‘and for the general need of checking destruction | ER cf our rapidly diminishing timber supply. | ben veme g i . Adults SWEETHEARTS ; ae eee should become national. A: es : ishould join it. The lover who sent the first valentine ranks} % fs : . 4 j ‘ica wi Q reeeless in 20 with the inventor of Santa Claus, among the Great | Amer sc Satie ata ee ae ses Unknown of history. [years unless tree plan is p eae s ) Few men have done as much to make this a_ s LATORS BUS joyous world. Surely no one has done more to! SPECULA% aie . color life with romance. | Land speculators get busy, anticipating develop- No life is worth while unless it attracts. and Lrigen pane ghee ei radiates love. Nand changes hands, in a few months. And the valentine,is the messenger of Cupid. \ If you are on the shady side of youth, there < few memories you can Icok back to, with the thrill and tenderness of the valentines of school days. Sometimes we wonder. what became of those} first sweethearts of youth—the shy little lassie in the gingham pinafore, the sweetheart of the Pele, he’d have found a landlord 10 feet behind i old-time sleighride, the romantic love of our late! him. out of breath. ’teens and early twenties. | Each did her mighty bit to make us better men. | Each helped develop us spiritually for the Only| A famous mystery again comes to the front in One who came later. ‘France, in connection with the celebration of the! You remember those valentines you sent then? '300th anniversary of the birth of Moliere, greatest “Them was the days.” Looking backward, the |French cra valentine days are rosy lanterns in the mists of| Fifty years ago, an expressman with a donkey the past. ‘cart hauled three burlap bags, containing Mo- Those greatest sweethearis, our wives, may be |liere’s persona¥papers, for deposit in the National getting gray. But the old-time love is in their |Library, Parisp The library is closed, come again tomorrow, said, the porter. hearts. The thrill of a valentine to them is as, , “i tense and glamorous as long ago. This is Valen-; The expressthan drove away—and_ vanished, tine Day, and all sweethearts, white-haired or |driver, cart, donkey, bags and all. Every great young, yearn for remembrance—violets, candy |French detective of the last. half-century has tried or, best of all, an honest-to-goodness valentine. |to trace the lost Moliere documents, without suc- as at ‘cess. , Specimens}'in Moliere’s handwriting are INTO THE HEREAFTER 'rare and priceless. Great fortune awaits a de- A Chippewa Indian, reputed to be 137 years old, |tective who can find the contents of those three dies at Cass Lake, Minn. Was he the oldest Amer- lost bags. : ican? Probably. °° \ ; | Do they exist? If'so, some detective eventually His name was Ga-Be-Nah-Gewn-Wonce. Trans-|Will find them and become rich. Time’ does not lated, that means Wrinkled Meat. \obliterate clues. Murder wili out. Would you trade your life for his? | He lived simply, close to nature. Never visited ' a city until he was 133. Then he took a trip to Minneapolis, St. Paul and Chicago. \ | People who like jazz, folding beds, starched col-, lars, landlords and time clocks will say: “Shucks! We live more in a year than old Wrinkled Meat} lived in his 137.” | Wrinkled Meat, remembering the joys of out-| door life, would smile wisely. | gs Vacant land, formerly $40 an acre, jumps to} /$1000 an acre. One unimproved corner sells for| ($15,000. ; | | ‘The landlord is always on hand when people get | busy and a rakeoff or toll becomes possible. If Peary had discovered a gold mine at the North MOLIERE MYSTERY 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. ARE POTATOES PEACEMAKERS? ; It is no news to be told that meats are danger- ‘ous. This has long been the doctrine of the vege- | 5 : 2 jtarians, of whom George Bernard Shaw is perhaps Wrinkled Meat: had been married eight times. ho most eminent living representative. Nor is it Ba patent Tee honat het jonly on hygienic grounds, that the eating of flesh the dull monotony of an old age without children. eg ean ob ghee, Gece ON be ore Tf he could have had an heir, he undoubtedly | food. The.harmless ard i p would have traded 75 years of his life. pose. ots tood.- ‘The, hasnless. and innosent mack: ‘Wrinkled Meat never knew real lif 'erel or halibut is as much a living creature as the “All life is a preface sintil we ve children ‘lamb or the chicken, of course, but there are few Emerson Ertatect ‘Amaciosas ohilkeooher said ‘protests in behalf of the fishes, ‘little or big. : : Pp pier, 8 A physician in Paris has proved conclusively, that. It is true. ‘so he says, that meat of any kind is a poison. It ‘ : ; |would be possiblle to accept this as true and still (Old Wrinkled Meat lived to, see his people, the |go on eating it with a reasonable sense of security. | |Alcohol and tcbacco, we are told, are also poisons, |theugh users of, them often live to a ripe old age. This physician reassures meat eaters, however, by jsaying that theré are vegetable antidotes for the poison. It is obvious that only the reckless person |who sticks to an exclusive diet of meat need fear ito witness in himself the slow graduation of de- cay. No great physiological knowledge is re- ;quired to persuade the layman that such a diet is ‘bad for him. Our civilized human nature requires i variety. Many of our tastes in this respect are jcultivated; but even the man of simplest gastro- | |ncmic likes outdoes the beasts of the field. What is not generally known is that vegetables | have a direct influence upon mental and moral \qualities. The truth may have been hinted at red Indians, lose the vast country they once con- trolled from coast to coast. +Wise providence gave the Indians a chance, then shoved them off the stage to make room for a civilization of production which, now solving slow- ly the problem of making a living in a few hours a day, is paving the way for civilization of in- tellectual research and spiritual culture to follow. Wrinkled Meat also lived to see these miracles: Men flying through the air. Talking with each other by wireless, 3000 miles apart. Niagara Falls harnessed, the falling water lighting homes hundreds of miles away. Scientific farm where once the buffalo roamed. make human bodies transparent. Moving pic- tures. Boxes that play music and sing. Men claiming they'll soon talk to people on the stars. X-ray machines that | Tsymbolically by Gilbert: Then a sentimenal passion of a vegetable fashion. ; ; Should excite your languid spleen— j An affection a la Plato for a bashful , A true version of life 187 years hence, in the young potato, | year 2059, would be equally unbelievable to us of} Or a not too-French French bean. today.’ | For potatoes, we are now told, have a soothing | ‘effect, and green beans stimulate susceptibility to! ltones and colors. Much modern music may be due | Another restorer of youth to the aged will come |to a bean diet. Baked beans, on the other hand, | to our country. This one is Professor Eugen strengthen the muscles rather than the artistic’ Steinach, famous Viennese biologist. limpulses. Is the bean-baked intellectual brilliancy | He doesn’t treat his patients with monkey of Boston only mythical? Spinach stirs the com- glands, like Doc Veronoff of Paris.‘ The Steinach pative spirit and incites to war. The conference way is an operation on glands already in the body. at Washington should fix a ratio for spinach and | Like turning on the gas by regulating the valves. |insist on a potato diet. Suppose the Japanese took | Wrinkled Meat, old Chippewa Indian who died to it instead of rice! And did potatoes make the the other day at_137 years,;would have. laughed ‘Irish peaceful ?—Philadelphia Inquirer. Wrinkled Meat won’t be believed when he ar- rives in the Happy Hunting Ground with such) fairy stories about what the white man is doing | with his magic in the land of the old-time Indian | medicine man. | ANOTHER RESTORER OF YOUTH ANOTHER GREAT FIN NCIAL QUESTION ADIME ONE (WONDER IF MA WOULD CARE IF | Gor HER ONE O THE SEVEN CENTERS INSTEAD OF 2 ro of : . WHAT IS THE REAL SITUATION OF THE AMERICAN FA MER? | BY CYRUS H. McCORMICK Chairman International Harvester Co. The importance of agriculture in its | relation tio the problems of reconstruc- tion and as the principal foundation of real prosperity is more fully recogniz- ed today by the nation as a whole than since the middle of the last cen- tury. This recognition should make possible the solution of some of the farmer’s. problems which in the past have been understood by few except those actually engaged in farming. The agricultural problem, however, is deeper than is indicated by current discussions in the press and else- where, which treat it purely as a pres- ent emergency. In my judgment, the root of the.trouble is in the fact that America’s farmers have not received adequate compensation for their. ef- fort, as compared with the compensa-~ tion in other vocatigns. The accumu- lated wealth of our agricultural classes largely represents enhanced land values»rather than the earnings trom their Jabor.or the profits from |* their investment. The farmer should have a fair:return for his services as compared with the earnings of any other class, and if we exclude the item of enhanced land valuc he has not re- ceived this return even in better times. * Perhaps thé miost serious aspect of the agricultural situation is that the farmes’ ‘fixed expenses, which the manufacturer would call overhead or burden, are now much higher than they have ever been before. The single item of farm taxes in many lo- calities is-higher today than the rental on the same farm would have been a comparatively short time agi. especially with the younger farmers, land has been acquired during recent years at a high valuation and present crop returns cannot meet. the taxes and interest charges. These overhead or fixed\expenses are beyond the farm- er’s control and constitute a problem that is more serious to him than the discrepancy between the valucs of what he sells and what he buys. Curtailment Only Recourse The only recourse of the American farmer in the current period of dis- tress is one that he and many others have employed before, that is, heavy curtailment of buying. Farmers’ nur- chases were far helow normal in 1921, and they remain at low levels. Mean- while the pric2s of practically every- thing the farmers buy have bec con- stantly, working lower until we now find that the single item iof increased cost of transportation almost, if not sonts the reduction of i power of a given unit of farm produce today, as compared with the pre-war period. This incraas- ed transportation cost decreases the pric? of what the farmer has to scll and also increases the cost of what ie must buy. While the farmer has endeavored to meet the present situation by tempor- arily buying less, he cannot in that way escane the burden of fived charges, based on enhanced land values, which must be met regardless of the price he obtains for his pro- ducts, One solution of the problem that suggests itself is a better system for marketing farm products. The devis- ing of such a system would. present more difficulties than those that have been met by co-operative efforts likes the various growers associations of California, but they are not insuper- able. If fendstuffs can be carried over whon theve is a surplus, that not only will stabilize agriculture, but will provide insurance against a possible food shortage in the following year. Food Shortage Not Impossible ‘ven though enops are now selling below cost of production, it is not vis- ionary to consider the possibility of a food shortage. The world’s popula- tion constantly increases and the to- tal area of arable land remaining to be brought under cultivation steadily decreases. The margin between pro- jducticn and consumption of food sta- mes is now and always will be so close that even portial failure of a maior staple crop would present the serious problem of how to tide the world over until another crop. ‘With improved farming machinery, a constant increase of cultivated a age has been for the last half centurv or more sufficicnt insurance against Again, | food shortage, but as that increase of jacreage grows less and less possible this protection is disappearing. Hence the importance, from this viewpoint alone, of providing reserves of food- stuffs. Ameerica .has repeatedly been an importer of wheat in the past. The indications today are that while the 1921 enop was:sold below a fair price, the surplus going abroad at Jess than the cost of production, it is possible and even probable that we,shall be im- porting wheat in 1922. Aside from the question of food supply, these facts constitute a powerful argument for a better system if crop marketing. Under such a system the farmer could avoid the necessity of selling under pressure at too low a price, and the world’s greates: grain: growing ‘na- tion would be spared the gconomic absurdity of importing wheat to meet) its domestic. requirements. Why Not Insure: Against Shortage Nations and municipalities provide sinking funds against future contin- gencies. Any well managed business puilds up reserves in pnosperous times against such a period of strain as the present. Why, then, should not we make an effort to provide a reserve as insurance against shortage of the essentials of life, when such _provi- sion would in a great measure stabil- ive the value of the farmers’ crops land also would protect the whole peo- ple against the distress that inevitably would follow any serious shortage in the world’s food production? ‘Much study and considerable time would be required to put such a plan into operation. Immediate relief for our agricultural classes might be found in better financing—in the | making available of sufficient funds ac reasonable rates, and thus enabling |the farmers to “carry on” until the | gonditions improve. There are ample funds in the country seeking invest- |ment and there could be’ no_ safer basis of investmegt than the credits of the American farmer. | Immediate financial relief should not be considered solely as “first aid” treatment. If funds were more read- ily available in emergencies at more equitable rates of interest, the neces- sity for forced marketing of crops would be done more systematically with 2 consequent gain in the aver- age price received, In.some of the older countries grain crops are tfot rushed to market in any {such brief:period as with us, but are |stacked in sheds or under other cover and are threshed and marketed throughout the year, With storage facilities and financing the American farmer could, by a similar plocess, avoid some of the loss incur- red by throwing almost the entire grain crop upon the market within a short period and thereby depressing the price, Let us not deceive ourselves into thinking that our agricultural proplem will be solved if the farmer is re- stored to the relative position he oc- cupied be‘re the war. The farmer cannot hove through future years to ‘obtain in the’ enhanced value of farm lands the reward for his heavy toil. This may occur in some localities, but in the main that condition has passel and the farmer must now receive a better and more dependable return for his efforts than in the past if he or the rest of us are to enjoy real prosperity in the future. NEVER WANTS ANYTHING ELSE “I tried many different kinds cough medicines,” writes Mrs. E, K, Olson, 1917 Ohio Ave., Superior, Wi “put I never want anything else than Foley’s Honey. and Tar. I used it for child. It has always done fine work.” Foley’s is a pure. wholesome and ab- jcough. Children like it and it checks sneezing and snuffling. Adv. day nights. floor in state. 10c:a dance. nibals love their fellow men. would disuppear and the marketing | batter | of all my children and also for my grand- | solutely safe remedy for the relief of | ; colds, coughs, croup and whooping’ —_—_+— ¢ Dance at Baker’s Hall every: Tuesday, Thursday and Satur-| hot Best music and) Which was magical. i TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, ’22 1 Koceepeeee aera ares —> | A VALENTINE : is, oS Erom Tom Sims Valentine day started 1500 years before Washington’s birthday, but is only a week ahead now. + * As its starters are dead, on account 1of being born too early in history, , details are scarce, * * * ike Hallowe'en, i was named after the saints. It was also named a long time after the saints. * * * Every single fellow in “ye olden tymes” chose him a girl on this day jto last him & year. are) No single fellow in “ye modern tymes” chooses him a girl this year to last more than a day. * * * The ancient custom was for the people to get drunk; but now only water should get drunk, ah ee In days of old (when nights were cold) Valentine celebrations lasted for three days. * * * Notice, however, that cutting the three to one has nothing to do with February being two days. short. UN ve Early to bed and early to rise and look at your porch tomorrow and there’ll be a surprise. a Greetings on the comic valentines are not as funny as some of those {cn the serious ones. * * * | Reckless spring poets commit their first offenses on your porch and es- cape into the night. : | Pe er i | Enough “Roses are red and violets are blue” are written to ‘feed the south’s boll weevils. * * Every married man can complete | the little verse with “So am I—when the rent falls due.” * * * 4 The true lovers’‘send ‘each other | eweet bunches of nothings, but they cost more than that. +e Ill-tempered neighbors learn how ;much of a nuisance they have been during -the past year. \ a ee No one, however, should watch the door to keep the kids from getting a jTun for their money. | * 8 | Great noises from little valentines will grow—but it is all more poetry ; than truth. * + * | See no evil, hear no footsteps, catch {no valentiners, and an enjoyable time will be had by all. | ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS | “al By Olive Barton Roberts |The last place that Buskins took | the Twins to, in the Land-of-Up-in-the | Air, was called Smoke Land, ; “It’s an entirely different kind’ of a place from Mistland,” explained the i little fairyman, “because, while the | mist fairies are getting ready for adventures there will be no more ad- ventures for the smoke fairies. All they can do is to dream about the jadventures they have had. But they ‘love to tell stoFies and they will be glad to see you and entertain you with some of their doings,” ‘Nancy and Nick and Buskins were in the little elevator, going up to the sky, and no sooner had Buskins fin- ished his speech than they stopped at the place he had _ been talking about. The smoke fairies were glad to see them and made room ‘round the great fire where they were sitting, not a hot fire, but a bright, cheery, one, A smoke ring ‘was talking. “I’m out of a pipe,” it said proudly, “out of a rich mbn’s pipe.’ When I was In Central Africa fatness is con-| horn I was dizzy at first because I’d sidered beauty. This is where can-| never been in the world before and ‘I didn’t know where I was; so I floated up as far as the mantel piece | and hung onto the corner for a min- jute until I got my bearings. After ‘that I felt better and had time to look ‘around. The’ room was beautifully furnished with velvet carpets and | EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO | TO MAKE MUSIC SSLCECTIONS OR, You NEVER Saw A PRACTICE IN YOUR BAND DON'T Do (IT HERE RSTWEEN ’ PRACTICING MYSELF You FeELLowS WERE HIRED ,\R Ov CAN'T fLOOM VLC Do Some Wy Ir Gussg SAXOPHOWE OR AI AFTER 1 SOT THROVaH Tel With IT t | curtains and pictures, and the man j with the pipe had on a silk dressing ‘gown, He was reading a letter and |frowning. Evidently he was dis- pleased about something and | felt ;very sad. I was sorry that anyone ‘should write anything that could | make so fine a person unhappy. | “What could it be? I was so curious {that I nearly slid off ‘my corner of |the mantle shelf.” | To Be Continued | (Copyright 1922, NEA Service) {A THOUGHT FOR * | TODAY Take heed that ye do not your alms | before men, to be seen of them; other- wise ye have no reward of your jeatter which is ‘In heaven —Matthew The fear of man brings a snare. By halting in our duty and giving (back in time of trial, our hands grow | weaker, our ears grow dull, so that when we look at the way of the right- jeous, it seems as though it was not {Sr us—John Woolman. | EVERY DAY || LEARN A WORD | $+ Teday’s word is EXPOUND. | It’s pronounced ex-pound with ac- | cent on the last syllable. ; It means—to explain, to set forth, | to state, to present. | It comes from—Latin, “exponere,” | to disclose. Companion word—expounder. | It’s used like this—“Police are ex- | pounding many theories relative to | Mie murder of William Desmond Tay- | lor. { | ja Edison ~ produeed | the first prac- iitical electric lamp im 1879,