The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 28, 1922, Page 4

‘PAGE FOUR TH E BISMARCK TRIBUNE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, ’22 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN : - - - Editor Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO i 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. "i i ‘All rights of republication of special dispatches herein <sare also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE =Daily by carrier, per year. $7.20 ~ Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck).. aia {1.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).. 5.00 -=Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota..... vereedee 6,00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1878) aE AN UNCANNY POWER Scientific journals are predicting that inventors | “one of these days-will stumble on a way to make} van airplane stand still in the air without falling, Many bright minds are working on the prob- lem now. An invention of this nature would put man close to the absolute ‘conquering of gravity. In; a faint way the pull of gravity on lead and some other substances has been reduced in scientific laboratories. | Suppose that man learns how to free himself from gravity. What then? For one thing, hard labor could be made easy. A moving van man, with an anti-gravity device, could make a piano as easily handled as a feather. Heavy freight trains would become light. With gravity under control, friction would be reduced. Flying would become safe and simple, no ma- chine required. Man, regulating his weight, could | fly with silk wings attached to his arms. All this, you say, sounds like a pipe-dream ? Admitted. But not more of a pipe-dream than the moving picture, wireless or airplane would have been considered even as late as Abraham Lincoln’s day. Gravily isa natural force. _ Man, if he follows far enough the road he now|this country comes from feldspar mines around is traveling, will wind up with all natural forces Topsham, Me. harnessed—under control. | Today we send the human voice thousands of miles through the air on wireless waves. “strand of insulated copper wire we imprison and transport an electric current of 1,000,000 volts. = You can-complete the list—thousands of them, each an accomplishment as wonderful as counter- acting the law of gravity. It’s"a good thing’ to ponder such possibilities eccasionally; just for the training it gives our im- agination. ~ To be successful, people are going to need. their. “imaginations increasingly as the years roll on. # Imagination of today isthe commonplace accom- 8 plishment of tomorrow. - VIBRATIONS , : Deaf and dumb people dance to jazz music in = Boston, at their annual ball. z They could not hear the music, but it started ‘vibrations in air, walls and floor. These vibra- Stions, entering the dancers’ bodies through the # soles of their shoes and their skin nerves, carried "the jazz rhythm and time to their brains, like @shocks of electricity... ..,,;. = Brains telegraphed the vibrations on to the, % eniotions. The body is a wireless apparatus, receiving the vibrations ‘of sight, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling. « What is.a vibration? If you could answer that, “you could explain the mystery of life. Life is ¢motion. Motion is, yihration.. ~. Temporarily you ‘impart life to a stone when you throw it—life, but not consciousness. aahte tt PROSPERITY ‘ vention, to start in Philadelphia May 10. It will “be valuable, important. More valuable and important, however, is the growing realization that our country is going to & get business back on its feet again without wait- ing for foreign trade. » Ina pinch, we could build a stone wall around America and create prosperity for all by the sim-|when non-union mines are running only because | do others that she does like, the coun- “ple exchange of commodities and services. The €ball-and-chain on’such an exchange is financial. Money system needs the services of inventors. Pi ’ GRAVITY OF BUSINESS Z Canneries in British Columbia report that pro- = duction costs are going to be smaller this year, 4 “as tin is now being secured from the United Kingdom, and-at half the price of that formerly cbtained from the United States.” _ . This may not seem an important item to you. * But it’s only one of thousands of similar items. - Combined, they affect your job. : Price is the gravity of business. ‘ FIGHTING GERMS . Get your feet. wet.and.“you’re apt to catch your death of cold.” More dangerous is the germ-laden In a} Stage is set for a /national foreign trade. con-| nose is not sure protection. A germ of flu or com- mon cold is apt to blow into the eye and from there spread through the system. | If some germ expert could discover a certain) over-night cure for common colds, it would do} more to prolong the average life than a whole; regiment of monkey-gland doctors. | ' COLDS You have heard this saying, and probably are guided by it: “Feed a cold, starve a fever.” That) is wrong. The author of this saying was Hippocrates, | famous Greek physician. About 2300 years ago, he wrote: “If you feed a cold, you'll have to; starve a-fever.” Some of' the words have fallen by the wayside. | In treating a cold, starvation diet is the best | medicine. d | DODGERS Only 5,332,760 Americans paid income tax on} 1919 earnings, according to Uncle Sam’s final | audit. The average net income was $3724.05, or about $71.50 a week. It requires considerable gullibility to believe that only. 5,382,760 out of some 46,000,000 “gain- fully employed” made that much during the 1919) boom. A good many fish slip through the net. COLD STORAGE Cold storage warehouses in our country contain 543,573,0000 cubic feet of refrigerated space, say: Department of Agriéulture. e | For each man, : aie and child that.is about five cubic feet, or2 space that would hold only a fourth as much as a wardrobe trunk. We are not much better bff than savages, only ‘a few days removed from starvation. Yet the dif- ference between no cold’ storage and five cubic feet of refrigerated space for each of us is what makes cities a possibility. Tellier, who died of starvation, invented cold storage. Every city should have a monument to him. Three-dimension maps are being made by the United States Weather Bureau as a result of the development of flying. ‘ Nearly all the porcelain used in spark plugs in ; EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may,not ‘express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here ip order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the preas of the day. JERRY BUILDING MUST BE MADE UNPOPULAR All the men directly concerned with the con- istruction of the Knickerbocker theater in Wash- ‘ingtonaré ordered held for the grand jury. They |include not only the designers of the building and its steel work, but the builders and the inspectors. From this number it should be possible to deter- mine which ones are responsible for the disaster. Whether somebody was simply careless, or whether there was an attempt to make money by \skimping on. construction, the persons at fault should be punished. That is the only way tomake lcarelessness and greed in such matters unpopular. | “We can get by with this sort of construction,” |somebody evidenty said. “It’s strong enough for ordinary purposes and ‘probablyttnever will give way.” . Society can’t afford to have men take such ichances. The way to impress this fact upon them is to make sure that punishment follows.—Kansas \City Star. | ALL SET FOR A COAL STRIKE ' Sheer optimism and‘ nothing else must account for the reports that there will probably be no strike in thé bituminous coal fields beginning |April 1 merely. because the miners of soft coal! jhave decided not to ask an increase in wages. The arrangements for'a strike could not have been better made to order. | ‘There was never any question of an increase in, the wages of soft coal miners over the present | ‘scale. The agreement which expires at the end of | \March holds the operators in the union fields to al imine labor cost of from $1.08 to $1.11 a ton, and| this at a time when the bottom is out of the soft \coal market, when union mines are shut down and ‘they have the industry to themselves and can \slash wages at will. Supplies of soft coal above ground awaiting shipment have piled up to an un- iprecedented extent, with few buyers in sight. The| |main use of bituminous coal is in manufacturing | ‘plants, and manufacture in the United States is| still in the after-war ebb. .The operators can not ionly stand a strike, they will welcome it with re-) jlief. If-it comes it will discipline the United | Mine Workers, use up some of the surplus stock | ‘on hand and ‘perhaps pave the way to a rise in; prices. With these facts in mind it is easy to! \predict that the soft coal companies will ‘not renew} the existing agreement. | Quite possibly the niiner’s of soft coal need more jwages than they are making to maintain a decent | ‘standard of living. At present they are making; ‘little or nothing, a majority of the mines being, __. SOMETHING ELSE TO WORRY ABOUT _. BY W. W. JERMANE Correspondent Seattle Times Washington, Feb. 28—Public men. in this city are wondering how much truth there is in, the tales reaching them from North Dakota thet Senator McCumber, whose term expires in March, 1928, is in serjous danger of defeat for. renomination. “The primar- ies come in June and disinterested ob- servers in the state agree that he will have the fight. of his;Jife. Some of them ibelieye he. will be defeated. If he is, the, West ‘will lose the ehair- manship of ‘the most important of all Senate CGommmnlttegs, that on finance, to which’ MéCumber ‘sitcceeded on the death of Boies Penrose, of Pennsyl: Janialerey wes EADS It was ‘the! rile’ 6f seniority that gave McCumber that influential posi- tion. (Bvenrdf a, mey; senator. from North Dakota, were iappointed to the committee next year, which is most unlikely, itywonld take him a genera- tion to climb,to the top, just as-it has taken McCumber... The finance com- mittee shapes tax an tariff bills and in a general way has jurisdiction over all financial ‘matters attention of the Senate. Its power is very great, 4nd the man who heads it is one of the Senate’s’ commanding figures. Important to West At the present time, and that will be true for years to come, the West will be thinking more about taxation: than anything else. It believes the present rates are too high, and one of its com- plaints against the Republican Party .is that it’has done nothing to reduce them, although Congress has peen practically in continuous session since early last April. Now, just as soon as a western man of ability and high standing as a legislator, reaches a po- sition where he will be able to do something for the West,-in.the way. of modifying tax laws, there is talk thai he may be retired, largely through the desire of somebody else to have the job of being senator...” I am not defending ‘McCumber; I am criticizing the West for the care- less way in which it ever has looked cut for its interest in Washington. As long as the rule of seniority prevails no new senator can exert one ‘particle of influence on legislation. After he has served one term of six years he is still a young senator. He must have been in the harness for fifteen to twenty years before he begins to find himself in the way of committee as- signments and ability to get important results. Jf McCumber were only one- half as able a man as he is, North Da- kota would return him if she had any understanding of how to have matters attended to down here that affect her in many important ways. The chair- manship of the finance committee nev- er has gone to the West before; it may not go as far west as (North Dakota again for several generations, If McCumber is-defeated for renom- ination and North Dakota ever again cries aloud for sympathy and help be- cause! Congress is doing certain things she doesn’t like, and failing to try ought to call attention to the Mc- Cumber case and turn away to the consideration of other things. There ought to be in this world no help for the fellow who refuses ‘to help him- self, Served Both: Houses For the reasons here stated, I was | glad when Washington State in 1920 reelected Senator Wesley L. Jones, who has been in congressional service for more than ‘twenty years. I shall be equally glad if it sees fit to re- elect Senator Miles Poindexter this year. These men have served in both houses, they are experts on all ques- tions of legislative procedure, they have wide acquaintance in the execu- | tive departments, and, what isg most important of.all, they have at last, like McCumber, climbed up, through’ the operation of the seniority. rule, to po- sitions of real authority and influence. | For a state to sacrifice an asset of that kind would be like a business | man putting into the fire his surplus | capital. i | There isn’t a voter in North Da- | dust of city streets, according to advanced medi- |idle or running on part time. The whloe industry | kota who! would ‘kefowingly. conduct cal men. : They say that even a gas mask over mouth and \has-slumped under them and their demands fall ‘on deaf ears.—New, York World. ..,.,..,, 1 his own affairs contrary tothe estab- | lished. rules of business, Politics in | the national capital iga great big, bus- | HOW WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT VIEWS McCUMBER’S CAMPAIGN iness. The west, because it is newer than the East, has a hundred requests to make of Congress where the Hast has one. All of them bear in one way or another upon development. It those matters are in the hands of trained men, there is always a chance ‘for them to go through; if they are in the hands of tyros or incompetents, they usually fail, I want. to repeat that I have no per- sonal interest in McCumber, just.as I had none in Jones in 1920, and have none in Poindexter now. I have an interest however, in seeing the West, whose wants in this city are 90 numer- ous, in a position where it can hold its own against sections of the country which long ago learned that it was good business to keep useful men in the House and Senate as long as they ‘would consent to stay. The “West ¢an. have such a position by ddopting a similar policy. As I have said before in these dispatches, rotation in. office is all right in the county, the district, the city and the state, but it is. all wrong so far as capable members of the two houses of Congress are con- cerned. If a man, started on a con- gressional career, is made of the right stuff, he will become more useful to his people asthe years go by. In time he should be an asset so valuafle that even a suggestion that he be re- tired would raise a general protest. J am surprised that no such protest has yet been made in North Dakota, —-—___-—______—_ "EARN A WORD | | EVERY DAY | — ————Y Today’s word is ABSTEMIOUS. It's pronounced—ab-ste-mi-us’ with recent on the second syllable. It means—temperate, sparing, re- fraining from over-eating, shunning strong drink, "8° + Z It comes from—Latin, “abs,” away ‘rom, and “temetuni,” ‘strong drink. Companion word—dbstemiousness. a It’s used like this—‘If you would | EVERETT TRUE " PHE ty! DON'T. SMOKES THAT VILE "STOOLS FOR THE LUVA MUD! HOW OLD IS THIS “»BIRD, ANYWAY?” Q escape illness, be abstemious in your diet.” | POETS’ CORNER | o— $< A PLAGAIRIST? The hand of accusation points at me, I feel the creeping fangs of gray de- spair; ° And tho’ from prison walls I were set free Discomfort and its ills. would follow ‘there. The stomach turns and sickening grows the heart; Like one forlorn at sea and in dis- tress; The keen edged blade more kind would be the smart , For guiltless ones accused and no re- dress. ¢ If I were ‘guilty I could sing a song. For hearts deceitful can the jeers.re- sist; 5 Who are the judges that accuse jwe wrong And point their finger, at a plagairist? The words are there; indelible they stand: Let fairness rule with reason over might; ‘ My heart cries out from desolation’s strand, ‘ But: for the justice, and to read aright. ° —John ‘M. Bradford. GIRLS! LEMONS WHITEN HANDS Press the juice of two lemons into a bottle containing three ounces of Orchard White, which any drug store will supply for a few cents, shake well, and you have a quarter-pint of harm- lese and delightful lemon-bleach lotion to soften and whiten red, rough or chapped hands. This home-made lem- on lotion is far superior to, glycerin and rose. water:to smoothen the skin. Famous. stage beauties use it to bleach and bring that soft, clear, rosy-white complexion, because it doesn’t irritate. Adv. BY CONDO IF OU Don't Like’ I, THERE ARE CTHER CHAIRS IN THIS ' SMOKING ROOM, SIR How. Do a al Wou UKS AT ONG WAY OVGR THERES PI! ooo Swiss marrying John D.’s grand- daughter is certainly a bell ringer. ‘Love may not be good for one, but it is fine for two. “You can't qonvince a bootlegger that honest tea is the best policy. One shaky movement on foot is the new dance step. A New York judge says every man should be boss in his own home. (None of us are what we should be. The outcome of the income de- pends on the outgo for the upkeep. Lent is also what books are. ‘A woman has more faith in a string Carn » of beads than a man has in suspen- ders, An easy way to get our old ships torn up is send them to a laundry. Ford will make nitrates, at Muscle Shoals. Hope they are cheaper than the telegraph company’s, ‘Some are blonds and some are bru- , nets and some are blonds and bru- . nets, Z > Congress may be an asset; it also represents a great lie ability. A bad temper won’t keep. When, a 1922 model girl mentions needles she means phonograph needles, Scion be warn enough for furs. An optimist puts screens up to keep flies out; a pessimist leaves them down so the flies can get out. i One man who marries for money but gets little is a preacher. It is-easy to learn which side your | bread is buttered on. Drop it and rie ’ ‘see which side hits the carpet. \A house with spirits fn the cellar is haunted—by friends. ea ( It's never tqo laté to grin. | ADVENTURE OF | THETWINS | —_—__—_—_- — By Olive Barton Roberts a ‘ “Well, now what?” ‘asked ‘the goat. “If you mean what are we going to do,” replied (Nick, “I guess we're going on our travels. You see, Nancy and I are on our way to hunt the lost rec- ord of Longhead the Wizard.’ , “what's that?” asked the’ goat, pre- tending not to know. “Oh, it tells whether the Diddyev- vers with the blue hair are hand- somer than the Korsknotts of the green beards. Whoever is, must give up to the other and rule all of Fairy- land. Then it's to be decided who shall marry Princess Therma. She lives in the Castle of Mirrors and can sea everything that happens, even on the other side of the world. ‘Can she see us?” asked the goat with a worried look. This part about the mirrors he did not like. “I suppose so,” said Nick. “But a we're verv late and must be starting. I can’t think how Nancy and I hap- pened to stay here so long. When We started it was morning and now its nearly night.” The goat changed his voice so it was very sweet. ‘Would you like com- pany?” he asked. “Perhaps if I would go with you, I could ‘be of use. One can never tell when he may meet an enemy.” “Yes, you may come,” agreed Nick, fennel, no one said anything albout “And we'll take the cake along,” suggested the goat. “You can put it into a basket and I can carry it on my back. Just wait, I’ll get the bas- ket myself.” i ‘He ran into the cave and slyly ‘slipped the Cloth of Dreams into a large ‘basket, and when he returned Nick) laid. the:cake carefully on it. “Areriyoa sure: we may take it?” asked), Nameyen i501 “Oh, yes,” modded the goat. “The gypsy woman baked it for us herself.” T’ll tell you a secret, my dears. The missing record was inside the middle layer. —> | (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service) ——_______._» A THOUGHT FOR | . TODAY al ni ?° But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Matthew 6:33, ‘ Struggle not with ‘thy life! The heavy doom Resist not; it will bow thee like a slave: Strive not! hou shalt not conquer ‘to thy tomb; Thou shalt go crushed, and ground, though ne’er so brave. Complain not of thy life! for what art thou More than thy fellows that thou ghouldst not weep? Brave thoughts still lodge beneath a fevered brow, ‘And the way-wearied have eweetest sleep. —Frances Anne Kemble. IT WENT TO THE SPOT Lingering colds and coughs that hang on and wear one out are 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; stons tickling in’ the throat. Contains no opiates, Adv. the