The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 1922, Page 4

4 Daily by carrier, per year. $7.20 ! Daily. by mail, per year (ii sovece 1.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outsid « 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota..........+++ 6.00 .. bands and 12,234 wives, 15 years old, in our coun- ii : PAGE FOUR ‘Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. B., as Second GEORGE D. MANN ~-do the work that formerly required many. : THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE — THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Class Matter. - Editor } Foreign Representatives ’ 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 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. y “MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION * SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE i THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1878) <p> AFTER DEATH : Suppose you and a friend ran away from civili- zation and built a log cabin in the woods. After finishing, you’d say: “Well, pretty good job for just the two of us.” Then, turning philosophical, you’d add: “Of course, we have to give some credit to the many men, now. dead, who invented axes, saws, ham-! mers and nails for us. Without their efforts, the job would have taken us much longer. In effect, the dead men.exert ised the same influence: as if théy weie-here ‘and Helped us.” ‘ t Look*about you and you’ll observe that: nearly everything you use in daily life is a gift from the dead. io The inventors ‘have “passed on. But, through their creations, they continue as active producers. that’s a If all:traces of former generations were.erased (including. inventions, © short-cut . production methods and fixed wealth, like buildings and roads) it would require eight men to do the work now done by one. This is the estimate of the celebrated engineer- ing scientist, Alfred Korzybski. He reasons that the world really is populated today by three different populations, all of them dynamic and active: One—1,600,000,000 living men. Two=-10,000,000,000 living man-powers of the/ dead. . : | Three—1,600,000,000 sun man-powers. The sun man-power locked up in coal was on earth, ready to be used, thousands. of years ago when man produced only by. the brute force of his muscles. : Today, with this force harnessed, one man can 4 al With each generation, the standard of living advances. And each generation. flatters itself that it alone is responsible for.the advances, © -~| As a matter of fact, most of the advance is a| gift from the dead, the accumulation of their ef- forts and discoveries.. ; : Similarly, we of this generation are preparing the standard of living for generations to follow. Man thus operates! in an unlimited expanse of time. 5 \ Human energy and productive éffort are im- mortal. i i _ PENALTY OF BIGNESS | Lowest bid for a new, tunnel under the Hudson river at New York is $19,250,000. This is a lot of money, but New York taxpayers accept it as a matter of course. Before boasting of advantages of civilization, | check up the price we pay —the penalties for} swarming together in cities. WILL: NEED SHEEP Compared with 1910, the country has a fifth: more milk cows, four-ninths fewer sheep and} about 1,200,000 fewer hogs. two together will be insufficient to furnish man with enough transportation, one thing we are al- ways behind on. TROUSERS England, look closely and you'll notice that he wears his trousers with creases pressed along the sides instead of front and back. Thus he perpetuates an old custom. Time was when all men creased their trousers the same way. Seems odd to us now. But one of these days it’ll be back in fashion. CRIME INCREASES New York state reports that the number of jprisoners in its penal institutions has increased 14,914 in a year. : Reading which, you comment about the great increase in crime since the war. But don’t forget that a gain in the jail popula- tion also reveals a greater police efficiency — something to be thankful for. A NEW BREAKFAST DISH Do you eat vegetables for breakfast? Few do. A health bulletin says that vegetables are just as health-giving and just as necessary at breakfast as any other meal. It wonders why the stomach usually starts the day without garden stuff, espe- cially fresh kind. . The answer is, habit, the greatest health regu- lator and destroyer. Most people eat about the. same breakfast every morning, never think of achange. , );, Review your habits. Which ones need changing? FORWARD 1 If . your great-great-great-grandfather could read and write, it made him famous for miles around. In those days, the average person couldn’t even sign his name. 128%) A census report now shows 15,300,0000, Amer- ican children between the ages of 7 and 13. And 18,869,000 of them are listed as attending school regularly. The world has made more progress, for the average person, in the last 200 years than in the preceding 2000 years! \ ‘THE WAYWARD YOUTH Youth does not change. It is the same today as yesterday. It is the parents, trainers of youth, who have changed. Hence we have jazz-life youngsters. : This is the theory of Alfred E. Stearns, princi- pal of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. His reasoning is sound.' Father in his youth would have been the same as son is today if the old-fashioned home had been put on a 1922 basis. Weare the products of early-training and environ- ment, regardless of which generation we live in. / UNCLE JOE Uncle Joe Cannon’s retirement from Congress after 46 years’ public service will make a good many readers feel old. F It seems only, yesterday that Uncle Joe was in his prime, his faméus. cigar cocked at an angle, czar-ruling the House. What is foremost in his mind.as he goes back to Danville, Ill., to bask.in the sunset. of life? Probably this—the tremendous change in politics and the national government since the heyddys of Foraker, Penrose, McKinley, Cannon and Mark Hanna. WATER SUPPLY COSTLY In one year New York City has spent $169,- 000,000 to increase its water supply. All water- sheds within 20 miles have been exhausted. Forty engineers are rushed to a greater distance, seek- ing new water sources. All this is a penalty for destruction of forests. With trees gone, topsoil washes away and rains jand’ melted snows rush seaward in. ‘torrents. i Drought follows flood, instead of the.water sup- iply being balanced the year-round. Senseless , destruction of forests. is, ppling Meantime ulation i : ‘ Bite fy , population has increased more than)... economic system in thousands of other ways, 15 per cent. So the meat supply is low. ‘| When good times return, for one thing, lamb, mutton and wool will be insufficient to meet de- but none is more dangerous than the effect on water supply. ' mand, As’ economists, most of us are near- sighted, rarely planning far enough ahead. MORE CANDIDATES 1 Census report says in 1920 there were 1600 hus- | try. A big figure, but miscrocopically small compar- ed with the 15-year-olds who are unmarried, Two generations ago, or even one, a 15-year-old bride was not exceptional enough to attract at- tention. 2 Be Youth of both sexes now waits to get more ex- perience and deliberates the eligible list cautious- ly before taking a mate. WHAT OF THE FUTURE Visionaries are predicting that the airplane will | take the place of that auto. A few years ago, they were predicting that the auto would “drive out the horses.” EDITORIAL. REVIEW | Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. Thev are presented bere in order that our readers may have both aides of important ineues which are, being discussed in the press of the day NIL NISI BONUM A man ina group had said something critical of jone who had recently died, and he turned to an- ‘other to ask him if he did not agree with him. “De mortuis nil nisi bonum,” that man replied. ‘That is, say nothing but good of the dead. It’s a good rule, and most people instinctively follow it. But another man in the group, while not denying that it isa good rule, said that he had just thought of a better one: “Say nothing but good of the living.” | The dead cannot be harmed by harsh words; the ‘living can be. Reproof cannot change the dead, nor rebuke hurt their feelings. - Now comes the government, reporting that ihe .. country still has 19,099,000 horses, compared with 10,833,113 in 1910. We have about 10,000,000 motor: cars, along with nearly twice as many horses as 12 years ago —and find we need both. That will be the auto’s future. Airplanes will fly by millions. Use of autos will increase. The | It is well to refrain from unkind remarks about those who are gone. But really, isn’t it just as marks about the living? Ki It would make life pleasanter and less difficult |for a good many; and it would help even more those who adopted it/as a rule and governed them- selves by’it—Duluth Herald, Next time you see a picture of King George of | U.S. STATESMEN Lieut. Col. Charles A’Ccurt Reping. ton, British soldier, journalist, diari and expert in military and foreign af- fairs, has written especially for NEA! Service, Inc., his view of America’s; influence in world. affairs ‘and his im-; pressions of dur leading statésmen. | Having attended the disarmament. conference, Col, Repington has_ re-| turned again for a lecture tour. Re- tenting he has made a tour’ of Hur- ope observing post-war conditions. soe oe BY LIEUT. COL. CHARLES A’COUR?! REPINGION, I British Foreign:and Military Expert.) New York, Feb. 25—America’s ‘in- j MNuence in world affairs suffers be | cause the world knows so few of; America’s’ Statesmen.” ’ Only four..with big mames interna-} tionally are in, public life just now—} Harding, Hughes, Rcot and Hoover. Your statesmen rise ;suddenly, and! then falliand disappear. with regret-| table rapidity. Every! four years you change everything, just as Europe; and the rest of’ the world is getting} acquainted ‘with! your ‘léaders. And| we have to start @lljover again in in our stidy of American policies and statesmanship. i There seems to be no permanent) and enduring political life for your statesmen as there is in Great Britain and in other European countries. We know plenty of great Ameri-) cans in'private life, in diplomacy and in the business and social world. But; they are known only to a small circle, | and they do not figure in American politics. ‘Wilson wWe.knew, but he is no long-; er in the front of your political stage.! We knew Roosetelt, but ‘he is gone. | We know.of none of.the great figures among the governors of your states, 1/ cannot find an American’ who can tell) me the names of half \a/dozen. The world ought to\;know what these statesmen are doing and think- ing. English is a tremendou link, a; \bond of understanding between Eng. lish-speaking countries. But ¢o-oper-| ation would be advanced if we knew]| more of your great statexmen. | Your four big figures—Harding, Hughes, Root and Hoover—have made an impression upon the world, President Harding. President Harding is a very repre: sentative chief. He is a fine figure, who presents well; a great deal less of an autocrat than his predecessor, but gives one the impression cf being a great force in, reserve in case oll future emergencies. \ I admired the mcdesty with which he withdrew from the disarmament conference efter the opening cere- onies and allowed the delegation to carry on. I hope the result will ap- i \ he will be given time to settle up all treaties and resolutions to be given to the senate and secure ratification by Congress before he is involved, or involves America, in the next great step forward in the path of progress he may have’in mind. . ' Secretary Hughes. Secretary Hughes was misundev- stood by the English. Before we came to Washington we regarded him as a frosty Caucasus who was unlikely to fall under any: genial inspiration. We found him on the contrary a wise and capable statesman wito had powers of conciliation which we had, never been led to expect in him. He hurt the feelings of no one. His | speeches were masterly, concise, log cal, and had the supreme merit of ibrevity. His speech on limitation of naval armament Nov. 12 was one of the greatest world events if our time. We regard Mr.. Hughes as_ the | mouthpiece of Mr.‘ Harding and his | mouthpiece or a bad mouthpiece— | Mr. Hughes is a good mouthpiece. | We should like to see Mr. Hughes | preside over a future conference in Washington or in Europe. We are all tied up in Europe with our treat- pear in the senate discussion, and that |good, if not better, to refrain from unkind re. | government. You can choose a good} - HEAVY, HEAVY HANGS OVER HIS HEAD | ARE DOING, THINKING ’ , and apart, able to fulfill the role of arbiter in‘a sense that no European| nation is able to do. Senator Root. ‘We have profound respect for your Senator Root. His informed and’ bal- anced statesmanship has always. im- pressed us, and the four points which he laid down as the principles of fu- ture action of the powers in China 1 can only describe as gems of work- manship. Seeretry Hoover. Mr. Hooyer has won golden opinions threughout Europe; a master mind, with unequalled capacity for organi- zation and for taking pains. I won- der how many tens cf thousands of lives he has. saved-—he and all those from John D. Rockefeller downward who have made Hoover’s work: pas- sible-. I think that ‘Hoover's experi- ence “is ‘only an: apprenticeship. for greater’ work yet: to be done. , Bird of Paradise Staged Last Night Although‘“The Bird of Paradise,” a love story of Hawaii, has been stag- ed in Bismarck several times before, a: good sized audience attended the per- formance at the Auditorium last eve- ning. A large number of Mandan peo- ple were also in the city to see the play. The play was written and directed by Richard Walton Tully and the story ‘combines the portrayal of the simple life of the natives of Hawaii with a pleasing love story. The play is staged in three acts. ‘Act one opens with a scene in a beach cave and native house on the Puna Coast, Island of Hawaii. Act two pictures the same, “nest” two years later. Ten days elapsed in the time ‘between Act two and threo. ‘Act three was divided’ in three: parts, scéne on? showing the: cage,’ scene “two the flight, and scene three, free- we iN Nov Te Soewack I ies and our engigéments with our al- lies, while America. can stand above THE WORLD OUGHT TOKNOW WHAT iC AND STAY DOWN THeee Have YOUR LITTLE WSIT OUT Ut “THRONG WON'T BE So CIABLE TO INTERFERE WITH Your ComFoerT AND CONVENIENCE AS WHEN You ocevey THE MOODLE THE PASSING | dom, the house of everlasting fire. 'The.time of the play was given as the early days of the nineties during the ‘revolutionary days. fA THOUGHT FOR | | TODAY | OO I know that the Lord will maintain | the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.—Psalm 140:12, ‘He‘ who intermits The appointed tasks and duties of the day, i Untunes full oft the pleasures of the day, Checking the finer spirits that’ refuse To flow, when purposes “are lightly changed. be : William, ‘Wordsworth. ~ ———————e | LEARN A WORD | EVERY DAY | _EVERY DAY | Today’s: word ‘is ABORIGINAL, It’s . pronounced — ab-oh-riji-null with accent on the third syllable. It means—first, native, -indigenous, primitive, original. It comes from Latin from the beginning. Companion word—aborigines. It’s .used like this—‘The. red In- dians were the aboriginal inhabitants of America.” {T WENT TO THE SPOT Lingering colds and coughs that hang on and wear one out aro difficult to get rid of, but Henry E. Campbell, R, F. D. 3, Adrian, Mich., writes: “I had:a bad cough for three years. Tried several cough medicines. Got little relief. I tried Foley’s Honey and Tar. It went to the spot. There is no better remedy on the market.” Good for coughs, colds, croup and whooping cough—clears the passage; soothes irritated membranes; stops tickling in the thnoat. Contains no opiates. Adv. A large whale tannery has been started at Puget Sound. UNTIC oF eee “ab. origine,” | SATURDAY;; FEBRUARY 25 The greatest danger of jaywalking is \jaydriving. | Peggy Joyce says the next man she marries will be poor. Before or after taking, Peg? , A building boom will bring down ; the house. Most advocates of light beer and light wine are making light of what they really want... Fine reformer ‘motto; As they show, so shall we weep. To tax or not to tax, that’s. the bonus question: Some people favoring the 13-month year think it will give them longer to loaf. The bobbed-haff ‘fad may be grow- dng; but the bobbed hair isn’t. Senator Smoot says Congress is g0- ing crazy and the general opinion is it will be a short trip, A little flirting now and then oflen marries the best of men. They say the airplane is taking the auto’s place. In our rough streets the auto’Vid’ taking the airplane's place ese iM Taking a girl at face value means several dollars a week. Lent is that time during which some people swear, off the same things they swore off on New Year. Jt might reduce colds, spme if the beads our dear girls wear. to dances were made of wool. ; John D.’s granddaughter will mar- ry a riding teacher. Why not a chauf- |feur and boost the gas business? Spring is here when the Georgia peach crop ges killed. i A high school paper claims flap- pers are a necessity. Necessity, we add, knows no law. Prosperity is still around the cor- ner outside the high rent district. Now that “Uncle” is yetiring, who remembers Joe. Cannon's stogies? Where there was smoke there was fire. cy ee '| “Not Good Enough” | (Letters to Lovers) By. WINONA. WILCOX |? gnobbishhiess” is 'a~ relentless» de- stroyer of happiness. In marriage it works its worst. 4 Lovers, left alone, are troubled lit- tle by it, but when the world is too much’ with them, when “what other people think” bothers them greatly, then lovers’ worries begin. |" One girl puts the problem thus: “My relatives look down on the man T’m to marry.’’ He is considered ‘not good enough’ for me. His character is finer than that of my own brother, but the latter is well educated while the man I love is not. “will the criticisms of my tamil and a big difference in our social planes spoil my marriage?” Not necessarily; not if love is’ re- garded as a rainbow arch uniting two lives. In illustration, consider this story, a true one, although it ready, |like a scenario. * “A girl, just graduated from a fash- Jionable school, was sent west for a summer. She belonged to an old and a rich family, but neither her ‘aris- tocracy nor her training'for the social world kept her from, falling in love With a regular cowboy. [EVERETTTRUE ——s,_sCé&BY CONDO| “The man had less than a grammar | school education, ‘no manners to speak of,’ and no art in tying a cravat. | “He fell in love with the girl but !was silent because hopeless. By the telegraphy known to true lovers, each j understood the other. Nevertheless, jhe let her go back east that fall with- out a word, A “She stayed with her, parents a jyear, mingled with the men of her own social plane, and then, when spring came around again, she packed her trunks and wired her cowboy to meet her at a certain station! “That was a daring decision for a girl who had been educated to respect the details of the social code. “The ranchman required no liberal education to get the import of her telegram. He procured the marriage license and spent. the day of the ap- pointment alone -in the wilderness. “The boys’ thought he was trying to ‘get ‘up courage to: meet the girl; ‘but he was a poet at heart, and perhaps he was only consecrating himself to ‘|her and to love. ,“For ten years they have thought themselves the happiest two in the world. Her relatives spend a month of each vear on the ranch but the cowboy husband never has adopted their ways nor competed with them on their own ‘plane.’ “He is himself. He and she share the same cross-country gallops, po- litical opinions, books and music. And some of the poems which used to whirl in his head have lately been printed.” ‘Ihe tastes which a husband and wife have in common usually outlast the more romantic qualities of their mutual attraction. These tastes as a rule survive to make them compan- ionable in old age when ‘love has cooled. They are the true tests of the rightness of any marriage. The cowboy and the society girl of the above story loved poetry,. and the mountains, the horses and cattle, the isky, grass and rivers, the sage and |sand. She was cultured, the fan un- educated, but he knew and she knew that “a man’s a man, for a’ that.” Between 400 and 500 persons weekly last year’ crossed the British channel by. airplane, ; ‘ (