The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 1, 1922, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE’ lit will become extremely difficult to find any one \to do the hard labor of factory production, road Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. } GEORGE D. MANN Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK Editor | Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED. PRESS The Associated Fress is exclusively entitled to the use tor 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.. - $7.20; Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).. * £00 | Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota....... - 6.00/ THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) <> | COOPERATION THE SOLUTION While state subsidies are being urged by some) as the proper aid to revive agriculture, Congress | is directing its attention toward perfecting a sys-| tem of cooperative marketing. Bernard Baruch, in an interview printed in the March number of | the World’s Work, has set forth an earnest plea) for the regulation and establishment of coopera- | tive niarkéting agencies for the distribution of the| products of the farm. Hc- follows in this interview very closely the! stand taken by Senator McCumber -in a speech | delivered in the senate January 24. This address was made in explanation of a bill to provide for a comprehensive system of. cooperative marketing. In his remarks on the bill the situation that confronts the North Dakota farmer is well put in this: “But the American farmer has nothing but his individual guess to guide him. He has a given number of tillable acres. He must plant every acre to something to meet his debts and give him; a living. He does not even know what acreage his neighbor is going to plant, let alone what other countries or states have done or are doing. His work is mere chance: he merely gambles with |» fate. “Now, suppose that under a nation-wide cooper- ative. system of marketing the agent of North Dakota meets with the agent of Oklahoma, of South Dakota, Minnesota and every other wheat, producing State in the Union, and after a full in-| vestigation of world conditions, and especially of | conditions in this country, they determine that the consumptive demand for wheat in this coun- try will be a given number of bushels; that with the world crop conditions that production should not be increased. They could advise a reduction! of wheat acreage and-an increased acreage of some other crop. “Would not this advice, if fol-' lowed, be of immense value to the American wheat | raiser? Would not it be a matter of great value to him to receive advice that the warehouses ‘at the terminals were being overstocked and to with- hold shipping until they were more nearly empty,? “My colleague, Senator Ladd, testifying before the Finance Committee the other day, said that with the proper protection on flax the North Da- kota farmer could increase his flax acreage to two or three million acres, which he is now planting _ to wheat and other cereals. If he could do this he could reduce the surplus of No. 1 northern hard | ‘building, ditch digging and railroad construction. Kresge Bldg. |* ! | will be Russia, Siberia, Brazil and Australia. \ ifew centuries. | geographical or climatic changes. way again, later on when the bars are let down, The native-born American wants to work with brain instead of muscle He wants a white collar job. Let George do the dirty work. : A bitter pill to swallow, this—that America may | cease to be the world’s magnet. Yet it is bound to come eventually. Possibly not in our day. But a century from now, maybe less, the El, Dorado of riches and freedom. sought by emigrants | Australia and Brazil, in partciular, are likely tc become-leading nations of the world. Our vanishing forests are typical of the way we| are emptying our larder of fatural resources. The world current of immigration changes every Sometimes the shifting is due to| exhaustion of natural resources, sometimes to What now is the Mediterranean Sea once was a ifertile valley—from 10,000 to 40,000 years ago. In that valley lived a race of prehistoric men, bar- barous by modern standards, yet probably con-| vinced among themselves that they had the last word in civilization. The Atlantic-Ocean broke through, sending into the fertile plain a river that widened into, a sea The inhabitants migrated—probably. seatt ring to Africa, Arabia and southern Europe. .° «. j Since then, the world has had thousands,of:racial migratory movements, including the westward wanderings of the yellow Mongols. ‘ i The shifting of peoples goes on forever. WEALTH Here’s a man who owns 17,000,000 head of sheep. He is David Clark; now touring Canada. His livestock is scattered about his many ranches in Australia, where he is known as “the sheep king.” This year he expects to ship 75,000 bales of wool to market. “Do you go in for cattle raising, too?” Clark is asked. ? “Not to any extent,” says he, “I have only 14,- 000 head of cattle.” Clark has achieved real success—close to the soil. | The things we do in cities are interesting, but inot fundamentally important. ° Few city men live jas worth-while lives as Isak, the pioneer farmer jin Knut Hamsun’s “Growth of the Soil.” EXPORT TRADE CLIMBS \its export trade has been climbing since last July. That month was also'the turning point for iron land steel production and exports. Other indus- i tries make similar reports. i | Mark down, in your red.book, that July, 1921, \was the time when business hit bottom and began \recovering. In all of the panics since 1873, it has taken an average of 15 months for business to climb back ‘to normal after rounding the corner. If the precedent of a half century is worth any- ithing, most factories should be spouting smoke iby October, 1922. | MAIL IS HEAVIER Mail order houses report that their mail is get- spring wheat to an amount that would more near- ly meet the consumptive demand and thereby in-| crease its price. Would it not be of great interest to the North Dakota farmer, the wheat and flax | grower, to have this proper protection on his flax | and then conform his acreage of each kind of crop; to the probable demand of the country? Would it not be of inestimable value to him to have expert advice on that subject, followed by’ cooperative assent and action throughout the country? We need this farm organization and cooperation to put farming where it ought, to be placed, ona plane.of profit: comparable with other lines of business.” Those who have studied cooperative effort in the handling of farm produce know that it is the| real solution. Those who have seen the program of state socialism as developed by the league know | that it is a rank failure. Many leaguers who created the plan have denounced it as unfit. vestigations both by friendly and hostile agencies have arrived at the same conclusion that state | owned industries bring no relief. Senators McCumber, Kellogg, Capper and others who are anxious to evolve some logical workable | plan are on the right track in urging the adoption | of cooperative marketing. North Dakota will never give agriculture the proper market as long as the tax payers are bled to furnish a subsidy apparently for the farmers but actually squandered by an army of pot hunt- ing politicians. THE CURRENT SHIFTS Is Russia going to take America’s place as the. melting pot of the nations? Joseph Remenyi thinks so. He is the immigra- tion expert of the Cleveland Trust Company. Remenyi says: “I believe the Russia of the future will stand in the same relation to the Euro- | pean immigrant as the United States in the 19th ging letters a day. To go through all of these, he} century.” Two important circumstances that might bring this change are the European peasant’s dislike of prohibition and his craving for open-air landed is the swarm of schemers that try to get it away | life in Russia in preference to the congestion, tene- ments and mill-life of our country. If the tide of immigration refuses to flow. our | In-| iting heavier, which is a sure sign that business jis sitting up and taking notice. | The postman, these days, is the gypsy palmist, \foretelling the future. Nothing brings more |thrills, shocks, joys and disappointments than the iletter bag. | No business man gets as much fun out of his mail ‘as the small-town lad of 25 years ago who an- swered this ad: “Put your name in the U. S. Directory and get big mail.” Catalogs, circulars, ‘sampe packets and form letters followed by the]; jbushel. | la ee ee ee WATCHING STEEL DISCOVERY Steel makers all over the world are waiting for ‘developments from a plant being built by M. Bas- \set, at Domicile, France. | Basset says he has a process of making high- grade steel direct from iron ore, without the inter- mediate stage of turning it into pig iron. | A discovery like that, if the cost were low, would |be more valuable to civilization than the lifetime work of several million plodders. Short-cut production is the future key to wealth. 1 | IN FAR EAST ; The sun shines brightly for us in the Far East. China i is buying from us nearly five times as many ‘dollars’ worth of goods as before the war. | Japan, big customer for American exports, \pays us around $235,000,000 in a year, compared {with little more than a fifth that much in 1913. | Our sales to Australia are nearly three times as big in value as before the war. | Out there, in the Orient, are our greatest cus- tomers of the future. | BESIEGED BY BEGGERS John D. Rockefeller gets as many as 3000 beg- {would have to read five a minute, working a 10- hour shift daily. Secretaries do the reading. The only bothersome thing about having money | from you as soon as you have it. They always | show up, whether you have a million or only 50! Automobile industry ¢hecks up and finds that} ; Chicago, ‘Mar. 1—“He’s just a pipe people said that of John Hertz 20 years ago. Today, at 44, Hertz is a multimil- lionaire. And all because he cashed in-on his dreams! He’s. head of the Chicago Yellow Cam.companl. ‘That company carried 30,000,000 passengers last year hh ‘owns 1,500 cabs and other property. pworth more than $15,000,000. And he’s a pioneer in introducing courtesy into the taxical business. For Yellow patrons: are treated with the utmost consideration—1 beaten or overcharged, He Twenty years ago Hertz auto salesman. He found most ol his profits tied up in a growing heap of second-hand cars;taken in for new, ones. And there. w: ket for the used machine It was a desperate situation. Hertz thought.he saw a way out. “Use the old cars to run an ; livery!’ he said, i His partners laughed. For in those days the automobile was still some- what of a curiosity and horses wore blinders to prevent shying at the “‘durned contraptions.” Hertz gave his idea a test. His livery with its 40 antiquated cars was a success. So he dreamed further. He gave up selling cars altogether and em- barked as a pionéer in’ the taxicab business. - The Yellow. Taxfcab Company. has grown from that. “Treat the other fellow square, Do something for him-and. he'll recipro- cate”—that’s Hertz’s business philos- ophy. In practice, that means, THAT evety, taxi driver is a part- ner in the business and can buy as mitich stock as he wants and can pay no But auto miums are paid every r fety performancgs, cour- tesy and faithfulness. THAT employes are staked to win- ter coal supplies. THAT a summer camp has. been established where drivers and their tamilies. can spend, the summer va- gation. THAT every arivbrae life is’ insured for $5,000 and medigal care is provid- ed for him. * THAT employes are encouraged and aided to' own their own homes, ‘Such a sg) of loyalty pervades Hertz’s organization that if any driv- er finds another trying to cheat or inconvenience a customer, he reports the offender. “Dream a little and dream usefully ——then act, that’s my secret,” Hertz Says. | MANDAN NEWS. | Hebron Man is Despondent; Commits Suicide Eluding the careful watch kept on him by his wife who momentarily dozed off to sleep after a long fight to keep awake and ker husband from 51 some rash deed, Clement Lehman, farmer, living nine. miles northeas of Hebron, at 4:30 o'clock this morn- ing quietly secured his. shotgun, step- péd outside ‘the door of the farm home, ignored the frantic call of. his. wife awakened by the slamming of the door, placed the muzzle of the gun against his head and pulled the trig- ger. He died instantly. Despondency over ill health, worry over the fact that he had but little more feed to give his livestock ‘which were already showing signs, of ‘short ration, and general farm troubles are believed to have affected him mental- ly. He has been ill for several months, in the last two weeks having becn « victim of the epidemic of influenza. A physician at Hebron who was hur- riedly summoned to the farm was told by Mrs. Lehman that in the last two or three days her husband had been talking erratically. She feared he might commit some rash act and had watched ‘him carefully all night. remained awake and appeared to he: to be waiting for her to sleep so tl he might escape her watchful ey It was a hard battle but the flu, th, hard work in caring for the seven small children of the family, helpea defeat her. She went to sleep, she told the doctors. Then she heard her husband open the door, saw him with the gun. She shouted to him to come SCIENCE REVEALS | that foods that abound in | the vitamins best promcie healthful iy 1 Seatt's! as an aid to and strength have a place dict gh most Sem cents. JOHN HERTZ CASHED IN ON HIS DREAMS; NOW HE’S AM MILLIONAIRE. | the sum. In the first case, City At- | torney L. H. Connolly demurred to ‘the complaint o nthe ground that the city was not liable, Attorney T. J. Krause, representing the News, re- | quest ted the action be dismissed, and i has brought a new legal action from ja new angle. | The city, according to City Attor- | ney L. H. Connolly, jtaing that the charge. of $862.27 is | excessive. The bill was allowed at] 465.30 for the publication of the spe- ial sewer assessment notices, but j frank Wilder, publisher, refused to} accept this. This is the ‘second legal action | bre ught ‘by the News in the last year} tt the gity of Mandan. In the ci ‘publications on the spe- cial Vehting system costs were held to have been excessive ih relation to the charge. | Judge H. L. Berry upheld ‘the city which offered a trifie over half of the amount sought.. An appeal was | taken to the supreme court and the j city was again upheld by a unani- mous decision of that body. In the present action TT. J. Krause represents the, News and L. H. Connelly the city Officers, Mrs. W. Wheeler and son have re- turned to their home following a sev- \eral days visit with/Mr. and Mrs. F. W.. McKendry. Mesdames W. H. Vailancey and H. H. Warren entertained at a bridge party at the home of Mrs. Vallancey on Monday afternoon. Nine tables were in play. Joseph Regan has returned from a several weeks visit at’ points on the western coast. A. J. Sylvester entertained at her Mrs. the members of the J. F. F. home yesterday afternoon. J. O. Sullivan of the Boston Cash store has returned from a buying trip to easiern markets. JOW ‘TAXICAB COURTESY WORKS f LEARN A WORD IUT IN PRACTICE. BELOW, JOHIN \ EVERY DAY JERTZ, HHAD OF THE CHICAGO © YELLOW TAXICAB COMPANY. * | 1 || o Today’s word is ABOMINATE, It's pronounced—a-bahm-i-nayt with acoent on the second syllable. It means—to hate very much, to abhor, tp loathe. It comes from—Latin, “abominare,” to curse, Companion words — abominable, abomination. It’s usod like this—‘‘The honest | man abominates the get-rich-quick |' plunger who robs widows and poor men.” [A THOUGHT FOR” i) TODAY , For the which sake I suffer a things: nevertheless, | am not asham ed: for | know whom Ihave believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which Ihave committed un. to Him against that day.—2 Timothy 312, No man ever sank under the but- den of the day. It is “when. tomor- now’s burden is added to the burden of today that the weight, is more than a man can bear. Never load yourself so.—George MacDonald. f HERTZ SAYS OF DREAMS By John Hertz President, Chicago Yellow Cab Co. The man who dreams of doing thing: worth while, removed from the beat en path, has great things in store fo: him. But he must be guided by knowl- edge and sympathy. He must remem- ber that those who helped him to his zoal are human beings and must be treated as such. Put something into the other fel- low’s pocket and he’ll fill yours. Make lots of small profits honestly ‘I year around rather than big prof- ts dishonestly by fits and starts, * WHAT back, but the report of. the gun’s dis- sharge was the answer given her. The Hebron physician ‘phoned to ‘iandan ‘for Coroner “J. K, Kennely_ who went up to Hebron * Lehman, born in Germany, came to forton county in 180 He was a bricklayer by trade and eked out living betwedn that . and his farm. Other than the m upon which he lived, and which he owned he left his family practically destitute. Later the coroner decided the c was suicide, and issued.a burial per- mit without calling an ing f Mandan Paper in Court Action The News Publishing Co., publish- ars of the Mandan News, has brought . mandamus action against the city zommissioners, city auditor and coun. uditor in an effort to collect an sed amount due in tthe sum of 27 for publication of the special sewer assessments. Judge H. L. Berry this morning is- sued an alternative writ of mandamus, an order directed to the city: officials to show cause why the court should not order them to pay the charge. The hearing will be held on March 3. This is the second time the News has brought action on collection of Unusual Stories About Unusual People . i By NEA Service ‘Little Rock, Ark., March 1—Though | totally blind since he was 12, Albert R. Clifton is a successful tea, coffee and spice salesman. He has a‘territory' that . includes two-thirds of Arkansas and a large part of Oklahoma.’ His route covers more than‘ 200 towns. His sales total $60,000 to $75,000 a year. Clifton finds his way about towns without a guide. ‘When he gets to a new town, he has a person familiar ; with the streets describe the “lay of the land” for him. ‘He writes out bills and duplicates | by means of a small typewriter he carries about~with him. ty BY CONDO | I'm IN FAVOR OF THE Door, Too —— For land’s sake, help the farmer. One crying ‘need is more spanking.’ We talk about bad colds as if there were good ones. A man is known by the head he keeps, 1 All the world hates a hater. Georgia has 2 peach king. We thought in Georgia’ peaches were queens. The world-may be at peace, but it is hard to keep any in the family. John D. says it is impossible to get a myney monopoly, John, however, hasn't quit trying, . Blessed are the poor in spirits for. they shall have no bootleg raid. Normalcy, here you are. campaigning. Bryan is A square meal doesn't cost a round sum in a straight place. We get,a new day, tomorrow, but ' there is no use in, wasting this one. Any <pg knows what is meant by the wicked flea. He pursueth. A grouch a day will luck away. keep good New Yorker whose wife broke a fiddle over his head plays second fiddle now. The horse isn’t as scarce on city streets as horse sense, Gloves are made from kid skins. ‘Perhaps they skin the neighbor's kids. } Two-faced people don’t double thelr face value. The Irish question is, “When is St. Patrick’s day?” ‘ Too many people are shaking heads and too few shaking hands. ~—_—___ ll" | ADVENTURE OF | i| THETWINS = | ; —> By Olive Barton Roberts The dragon (Twelve Toes the Sor- cerer he was, really) hadn’t gone tar when he remembered that although he ‘had stolen all tne magic of the Twins, he had forgotten the choco- late cake. And it was very import- ant. the. the: take it: along. He was just about to start up the first. of the Seven Mountains, which was made of rubber, when he re- membered it, “Chattering monkeys!” ne shrieked, gnasaing his teeth an rage, ‘i'll have to go back to my cave, where I lett those stupid children. Well, with these Magic Green Shoes on my feet it won't take long.” So back he whisked. There lay the choqslate cake just where he shad placed it to entice the children into his cave, on a little wooden table that was covered with a white napkin. “Well, well!” said Twelve Toes in a quandry, “I can’t carry a choco- late cake in this form. I need one of my front feet for carrying the magic paper and the red feather pen (as I have no pecket). And I need my other uhree feet for walking. “Tl have to change myself into—” ; Just what he was going to say we'll never know, my dears, because something happened at that very minute, The red feather stiot out of his | reat horny. slaw like an arrow out of a tightly drawn bow and made straight for the inside of the great dark cave were poor Nancy ani Nick were still scrubbing at the sticky spots on the floor. It flew right for the Cloth of Dreams Nick clutched in his hand, and instantly the cloth fell to the {tlocr, Then turning it flew to'Nancy and tore the ‘ctoth from ‘het hand also. The Twins stood up and rubbed |their eyes. ‘“Wh—Where are we?” they stammered, getting up to their feet. “Why is it so dark, and where have we been?” (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service.) Dance every Tuesday, Thurs- \day and Saturday evenings at 8:30 at The Coliseum, formerly Baker’s Hall, newly redecorated. 10c per dance. Camels sometimes live to be 109 years old. 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