The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 8, 1922, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1922 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. | PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH i NEW YORK - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. | MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The Associated Press ig exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper aid also the local | tews published: herein, All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION 3 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year 7.20 7.20 | Daily by mail, per year (in Bismar | Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck)... 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota............. 6,00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Ee RAGS What becomes of your old clothes after the rag-| man and his second-hand customers get through | with them? | Teacher taught you, in the little red school-| house, that old rags eventually were turned into/| paper. | That; used to be so. Still is, to some extent. But the chances are, the clothes you threw away a few years ago now are eqvering the roof of a house. Old rags, pulped into a felt and then permeated with asphalt, are covering more American houses | in the form of roll roofings and prepared shingles than all other types of roofing combined. Editor | 1 Ancient Egyptians used a similar process. | Their undertakers wrapped the dead in cloth an coated the cloth with asphaltic pitch. Prehistoric hunters made tents and boats of goatskin, then waterproofed the seams with a coating of asphaltic bitumen. i Today we use the same principle in the roofing! of asphalted rags, often with crushed rock ground | into the surface. Millions of other modern devices are merely ex- tensions of elaborations of things used far back in the mists of history. The steam shovel is an elaboration of the fing- | ers and cupped hand with which the ancient bar- | barians dug into earth. Examine a steam shovel and you'll notice its steel fingers, also that it has | a flexible movement based on the principle of the, human elbow. . In remote districts of China, dentists. pull teeth | with their fingers, strengthened by practice of| pulling pegs from wood. The American dentist uses forceps—steel fingers. Ancient cliff-dweller killed a heavy beast. To) get its carcass up the cliff to his cave, he made a hoisting rope of braided rawhide thongs. That was the ancestor of the elevator, just as his crude| ladders or ropes with knots for foot-rests were the | original stairways. ‘In all centuries, man has had much the same} problems. ! Each generation handles these problems in a slightly different way. There may be nothing new under the sun, but there is always a new and better way of doing everything. Find that new and better way. That will be a} contribution to progress, also wealth for you — _ provided you have the genius of organization and | salesmanship. REVEALING SECRETS Five of Chicago’s largest banks were served with subpoenas duces tecum, commanding them to produce “certain of ‘their books and papers” in court. This is in connection with the trial of Gov-| ernor Len Small. The average man has a notion that his bank} account is secrecy in the 33d degree, and that it| cannot be pried into by anyone, not even Uncle Sam. “Why,” exclaimed ,an indignant attorney, “they | can’t put you in jail for refusing to pay that bill.” | “No,” admitted the client behind the bars, “but! here I am.” | Government can do anything when—it really | wants to. | EXPANDING At Negishi, Japan, the Ford branch plant is| turning out 15 finished cars a day. Little items like this are pouring in by the thousands from many foreign countries. American manufacturers are setting the stage for tremendous expansion abroad. there’s a remote market worth developing, you'll find an American engineer, salesman or trade scout hovering and whistling softly between his teeth. Too bad, the diplomats are not as far-sighted as the buisness men. MARKS AT LOW EBB The number of marks that in 1914 bought a good winter overcoat in Berlin now buys only the velvet collar for it. Before the war 5000 marks was a comfortable yearly income for a German) of the middle classes. Now an ordinary carpet for a small room costs that much. Prosperity, in all countries, is a matter of buy- ing power, not of the amount of money the aver- age man can get. Think in terms of buying power instead of face value of money, and you are a sound economist, ‘up with our industr’ ,of living. Wherever | ; BETTER PROSPECTS This should give heart failure to pessimists: Latest report shows that the railroads in one week load 89,000 more cars of freight than in the cor-| |vesponding week of that year and 100,000 more | than in 1919, when times were booming. A lot of us are barking up the wrong tree. It’s profits that are low, rather than business. JAPAN’S AUTOMOBILES Japan has only 10,500 autos and 4500 of them are Fords. This is the latest estimate from Tokio. On a basis of population, our country has about 500 times as many motor cars as Japan. Nippon has a long way to go before it catches | ial development and standard The Rising Sun is barely over the horizon. FLU Poland has a new kind of flug complicated with jaundice. The death rateis high. . Probably will take until next winter for it to reach us, Flu is one of the prices of civilization, which lation of natural health laws. Is the game worth the candle? DISTRACTING At Brownsville, Ky., Mr. and Mrs. William Po- teet have become ‘parents of 12 children in five years. Twins*arrived four times and a quartet recently. 4 As one father to another, we surmise that Papa Poteet is not worrying much about European poli- tics, disarmament or next, ee elections. All of the real problem§"are inside the home. Others are mostly imaginary. The hardest time for a man to get up in the world is every morning. A friend in need is‘a dollar gone. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments renraduced in ghig entimn may nr may nat express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here in order that our readers may have both aides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. THE ST. LAWRENCE WATERWAY “Touching this project,” says former Governor Harding of Iowa, “when I come before Saint Peter I hope that the harness marks will show on the collar and not on the breeching.” He was speaking of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence water- way project, the movement in which eighteen Western states,are associated. But it was also a graphic description of American spirit, a pictures- que way of identifying the go-forward tendencies which are truly American. There was such a manifestation in the Civil war period. The Pacific roads were then begun as a war measure. They were completed in the years immediately after the war. They were accom- panied by a period of Western expansion which was the direct outcome of the war but which was facilitated and accelerated by that enterprise of the former generations which sent the railroads reaching out into the West, reaching, reaching way beyond the occupation of the land. By any calculation of prudence it would not be wisely done. The country was staggering under debts at that time incredibly great although we should regard them today as trivial. Half the na- tional domain was wholly unoccupied. Of the half that lies east of the Mississippi one-half was pros- trate. Yet with unquestioned courage the geneta- tion of the Civil war went forward into the West and gained a new empire. Something like that spirit urges forward this St. Lawrence improvement today. To add new re- sources to the national domain, to quicken oppor- tunities that are dormant, this seeking the way to the sea is, as Senator McKinley says, quoting a phrase of unknown origin, “the age-long desire of land-locked people.’’. But to push the ocean 1,500 miles inland as our Western friends propose to do, that is a manifestation of the American spirit which know but one direction: Go forward. — Washington Herald. { H TODAY’S MAGNA CHARTAS : The world is surely progressing. 'It has moved more during the last five months toward cement- ing good will ‘between peoples and nations than for many years that have passed before. Egypt has been made an independent sovereign ‘state. Ireland, after some seven hundred years |of strife, has been made a free state. The nations meeting ‘in Washington have agreed to the first ‘practical step in the reduction of naval armaments. Possibility of war in the Orient has been removed. One conference succeeds another. Step by step the obstacles in the pathway of a long peace are \being removed. Reduction of land armaments jof the big questions that will be taken up at Ge- noa in April. : What a momentous day and age we are living jin! For centuries men have talked about Magna |Charta, because its grant was an event that has influenced all the centuries. ‘months the world has written new Magna Chartas. | The War destroyed in the minds of men appreci- ‘ation of the colossal. The big event now seems ;commonplace. Today we stand before the news that Egypt is free; that Ireland is free; that na- tions everywhere are meeting in an effort to find a better way to settle the world’s difficulties, and ‘our minds seem unable to grasp the signific. ‘of it all.—Minneapolis Journal. | | | To the river side, Joyfully I glide; As I rush along. Be a worker, too, It was a different Townley that faced Burleigh county farmers in Bismarck Tuesday. The esprit de corps of the crowd was also altered. The issueswas new and puzzling. Townley had placed a new record up- on hig political Jazz machine and the strains of practi politics from the visionary and militant Townley was new music to the ears of the farm- ers. Clever and astute as ever in ‘debate and 2 master at the art of foiling the heckler, ‘Townley has a much more difficult task to conduct the league leaders through the labyrinths of poli- tics and its subterannean passages than he did when he lashed the farm- ers to fury over real and fancied eco- nomic injustices. Now he is appeal- ing to their logi¢ rather than to class prejudices and of course the reaction is much slower. Mr. Townley still re- tains enough’ of the old stage stuff in his repertoire to sugar the pill which he wants the league leaders to | swallow. He contends that the battle lis still against the capitalist and the \embattled forces of predatory wealth whose “shock troops” he maintains are the politicians in the trenches. oe It is a school in practical politics that Mr, ‘Townley is conducting throughout the state preparatory to doing battle in the state convention at Fargo with the opposition lead by Sen- ator Liederbach, the Don Quixote who controls the destinies of the Fargo Courier-News until the convention de- cides whether Townley’s plan or the majority of the executive committee shall rue, by placing in the field a complete league ticket. j ‘oe * Townley struggling to “put over” his balance of power plan possesses lictle of the old dash in these prelimin- aries thit¢ he had when he kindled the fire of) sdass prejudice among the farmers’ Ot the state, It was a com- plete adzpission that to fight politi- cians 0 ie, must use their weapons. A few mbaths ago Townley was abso- lute in the solid sapport of the league organization, today his back is to the wall and he is fighting along practical lines to,save his power by a mass at- tack omone or two state offices and seats in'both houses of the legislature, To the seasoned politician, Townley is merely talking elementary politics. Since the.primary came into effect, the balance of power hag been used ef- fectually“to’keép factions in the pos- session of officds and in control of poi- icies. s But. there is one uncertain elemen: in Townley’s balance of power scheme. He cannot guarantee that thc opposition if. whipped at the Farg: convention will subside and let hin pick and choose what offices are to bc opposed and what places are not tc ibe challenged. The primary is ¢ sort of free-for-all, Liederbach anc his forces can oppose Townley’: plan anyway and it only remains to be seen if Townley does win whether Liederbach and his faction will bolt anyway. *_* * Townley’s eforts to whip the league organization into an effective factor at the next primaries would be futile were it not for the fact that Republicans of the state who should rally together are seemingly hope- lessly split into divers camps domi- nated by ancient feuds. The row in the league should have only a passing interest with regular Republicans who are struggling to have a party organization in this state. No regular Republican can afford to traffic with Townley or Liederbach or the I. V, A. visionaries. Townley urging leaguers not to op- pose Nestos, Johnson and candidates for United States senator, but to fight for their program has something of the unusual and bizarre about it. Of course that is playing practical poli- tics, As Mr. Townley pointed out to the farmers the Anti-Saloon League never -had a ticket of ‘its own, but used its balance of power here and there as the political expediency dic- tated and through constant pressure finally brought about federal prohi- bition. * * The Tribune has not altered its opin- ion of Townley or Liederbach in the least. One who attended the first meeting in the Bismarck Commercial club rooms where the late George and a ten years’ truce in Europe is said to be one| Loftus started his drive for terminal elevators by the use of direct action, the famous roll. call, and then con- trasted that with what took place in Bismarck Tuesday afternoon realized that, the leaders of the agrarian movement in this state as tar as po- litical tactics go are, getting back to their starting place: The Equity Yet in the last five! in the heyday of its success made its drive solely for, principles not offices and insisted upon securing pledges from members of the legislature. The members of that legislature which Loftus challenged in Bismarck will recall that he urged the very balance of power as a means to whip politi- cians into line as Townley urged be- | fore the farmers in Bismarck. Town- | ley and Brinton were .at the Loftus meeting and it was there that they and} ANCe Wood and Casey who were lob! with M. P, JohnsoWy for terminal m Laughing all the happy day, Swift I travel on my way; | THE BROOK’S SONG” | (Florence Borner.) Not a second do I falter, Not a minute do I loiter, Couldn’t, tho'l tried. i You may think I’m very small, Scarcely any use at all; But you would be wrong, Since my happy song, 3 Keeps the old mill wheel a turning, While the water it is churning There’s a lesson, you may take, | From the music that I make: World has need of you; And my brothers in the ocean Keep the world in locomotion You will find this true! TOWNLEY THEN AND NOW in nearly all respects is a system of living in vio-| By The Pot Boiler | and ‘elevators conceived the idea of a Nonpartisan League. , soe oe Townley’s offensive has put up a new style of battle for the I. V. A. to combat, Theodore Nelson and his fol- lowers are pledged to carry out the original farmers’ program. Mr. Town- ley in effect tells the farmers that politicians will do anything to hold their jobs. “Don’t go afier the of- fices,” he said, “and they will quit fighting against you and fight for ou,” He told the farmers to give the 1, A? d' chance to carry out’ the league program. .He declared that Nesios could ‘sell bonds when the league could not. ‘Mr. Townley declared that he was in favor of letting the I. V, A. organization put the league program into effect, but that he warited the league to fortify itself agaiist colc feet on the part of the I. V. A. lead ers by setting upon them as watck dogs a legislature sympathetic to thc league program which would challéng: instantly any téndency of the T. V. A to recede from its recent cathpaig1 promises during the recall when ¢ compromise with state socialism wat made to win enough votes to put ove: a program of laws for the initiation o which the recall primarily was called ae * Ve As the Pot Boiler pointed out dur ing the recall campaign any comprom- ise with socialism is wrong as it committed the Anti-Townley Repub: licans and Democrats to the league scheme of state socialism that ha piled up taxes and revealed so much of adminsstrative inefiticiency anc greed. eke Now, some of the chickens are com ing home to roost, Townley says ir effect to the farmers: All our laws are on the statute books. There is the mill at Drake and the start at i of a mill and elevator at Grard Fork: not to forget the Bank of North Da kota, “We have everything we started ou to fight for,” he hu “now Tet us see to it that the poli ticians stand in line and giveius wha‘ they promised at the recall election oy not opposing them only in so far as it gives us a member on the industria” commission and a sympathetic legis- lature.” If there is any inconsistency or ayprocisy in the I, V. A. program, he intimates, then this method will reveal tt to the world. * Such then is the interesting epoch into which North Dakota’s struggle tc: ward a “New Day” has entered, com- plicated by a struggle for a seat in the United States senate. There can be but one policy for the regular Re- publicans and that is to shun any compromise with the socialistic falla- cies of Townley or the I. V, A. and]: hue to the line of regularity and sound business policy. ‘ ‘* . Townley in his speech took it for granted that the farmers program was something worthy to fight for as it now stands, upon the statute books, Its utter failure to bring any relief | EVERETT TRUE MAN: HAS FINISHED EATING," PUTTING IN 4 LITTLE TIME DRAWING IN Aire ForreCrRaly THROUGH TEETH. ITS ACL RIGHT TABLE A WHILS AND CET YOUR DINNGR Ge SRZeETTcs, DONT ON SETTCS to the farmer was not touched’ upon. All the failures of the various league cts’ from the ‘consumers -stores, apers and the rest including the advice to! hold wheat and its attendant losses were consigned to the oblivion of past eyents. It was a cool calcu- jJating lesson in practical politics, a statement of political expediency pure and simple that even the Liederbach faction will have a hard time to com- bat. \ soe 8 But the responsibility is upon Re- publicans who know that before the farmer’s troubles can be. cured that he must organize along cooperative lines as indicated by the Federal Farm Bureau activities andithe action of the farm bloc jn congress. Trying to put vitality and power into tlie socialistic program of either the I. V. A. or league, factions is lost motion. It might afford amusement for the prac- tical politician, but in none of the panaceas urged will there be any re- lief or any getting back to solid ground exceyt through party action dominated by the fundamental prin- ciples of those parties which are not the principles as enunciated by Lied- erbach, Townley or the I, V. A. com- promisers, ‘ * * The contest will be interesting. Townley has injected an element that will bring diversion anyway. On with the music, let joy be uncon- fined. | MANDAN NEWS | Heavy Snowstorm Blocks Traffic Heavy snowstorms in the district from Flasher southwest resulted in another tie up of branch line traffic on ‘the Mandan-Mott line Monday, The down bound ‘train from Man- dan reached Carson and was halted there by snow which had drifted into and filled the cuts. A snowplow was sent down from Mandan and the track cleared to Mott. The passenger train followed the plow into Mott. While Mandan had no snow Monday, a considerable amount fell. at Glen Ullin ‘and. from that point west and from Flasher and Carson to the south- west. The Beulah Independent in the cur- rent issue has the following item: “CT. Sponsel, who has been gen- 2ral manager of the Beulah mine for ‘he past several months, has resigned his position and left on Tuesday for 1is home in Mandan. shat Mr. Sponsel will resume his for- mer position with the Northern Pa- cific Railway company.” Mr. Sponsel was master on this division. He left the service of the Northern Pacific short- ly before » Thanksgiving. C. D. Litch left yesterday for St. Paul, Minn., where he will enter the Northern Pacific hospital for treat- ment. Miss Eva, Taylor left yesterday for Pillings, Mont., where she will visit with friends eo ("LEARN A WORD | p EVERY DAY * Today’s word is CHEVALIER. It’s pronounced—“shev-a-leer” with accent on the last syllable, It means—a nobleman, a chival- rous man, a cavalier, a gallant, a “perfect gentleman.” It comes from—French “chevalier,” a knight. It’s used like this—“Tjo make a good ipressidn on women| you disould have the manners of a chevalier,” ’ A THOUGHT FOR | ‘TODAY ¢——_—-——_--— + And the Lord, He that doeth go be- ‘More thee; He will be with thee; He will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.— Deuteronomy 31:28, | | + Go, face the fire at seat; or the cholera in your friend’s house, or the BY CONDO I To SIT AT Tes Bot tal It is reported ; formerly train- | burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of des- tiny—Ralph Waldo Emerson. Nights are getting so short boot- leggers must go to work before dark. When you come out at the little end of the horn turn around and blow. Spring onions are,hard on dentists. Criticism of the new dollar has quicted down. It is passing. Fishermen report the farmers have not adopted wireless in fence build- ing. ‘Bet the Australians are mad, Their winter is just starting. Once they read fashions to see what was going on; now they read them to see what's being pulled off. March, and still our town has no battleship for a park ornament. Spare the minutes and spoil the hours. Some folks dance as it every bone in their body had gone to their head. Princess’ Mary made _ seventeen speeches in one day. All women are alike. i ~ Teachers in the school of experience are well paid. People who say the world isn’t making any progress are not, Cafe cooks put over raw deals. Now that jazz is over, the cows can have their bells back, No young fellow turns out as people expect, so why worry? What tickles us are these women haters with seven suits of clothes. Nice thing about paying as you ‘go is everyone wants you to stay. Man says he has a wrist telephone; but may be talking up his sleeve. En route to the wall they probably sing “The old broken bucket-shop.” Conan Doyle is telling about what he will do in heaven. Optimist. We will soon be reminded that the mosquito has 26 teeth. Wouldn't it be awful if some peo- ple are as bad as we think they are? pulisi iiliomresovtncarae rau [ADVENTURE OF | | | THE TWINS | Ope By Olive Barton Roberts Nancy and Nick stopped until the tubber mountain ceased trembling. | They hadn’t forgotten what had hap- pened to the Fairy Queen’s messen- ger nor to the goat. Both had been bounced off. ~ ; é They grabbed the rubber plants ‘growing near by and steadied them- selves until everything was quiet. Then they took another step. But instantly the same» thing happened again. The mountain shook as though it had a chill. All at once the children heard laughing. “Ha, ha, ha, hee, hee, hee, oh, ho, ho, ho!” went the voice. “I— I'm so ticklish. Oh, please! Please sland still until I get my breath. Oh, oh!” “Who are vou talking to and who are you?” exclaimed Nick, “Oh, ho, ho, ho! I—I’m the moun- tain ‘and you're walking on my tummy.” iA Just then Nancy saw a little bench and pulled Nick over to it. “Jump up on it and tuck up your feet,” she said. But the motion had started the mountain all over again. He shook and shook until, Nancy thought if he didn’t quit her head must fly off. Hie held onto the record for dear ife. “Theré! grasped ‘the mountain, “Now, I'm‘‘better. And I'll tell you my story: I really tried to be quiet, for Princess Therma saw you com- ing, in her Castle of Mirrors, and sent me word to be good. So I took a dose of-anti-ticklish powders and told Snip-Snap, the bird who takes care of me, to scatter an extra coat of pebbles and gravel over my ten- der places. ‘But you see it does no good. I’m hopeless.” “It’s too bad,” said Nancy, “Mother doesn't allow us to be tickled. She says it’s -bad for our digestion, and we always get the hiccoughs.” “Digestion! Oh please don’t men- tion it,” begged the rubber mountain. “T haven't any. Do you know what I'm made of? Plum _ puddings that cooked too long and got soggy. I ought to be called: plum pudding mountain’ instead of “rubber moun- tain.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service) Articles pawned in London each week are said to average more than $1,000,000 in value. EAGLE | Tailoring and Hat Works Dry Cleaning, Pressing, Re- pairing, Remodeling, ‘Dyeing of Ladies’ and Men’s Clothes. Prompt and courteous service. Call For and Deliver. Phone 58 313 Broadway Bismarck, N. D. We clean and reblock hats. ’