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PAGE: TWO ARBOR DAY DATE WAS FORMERLY ON APRIL TENTH This Was Changed By The Leg- _islature To April 22, Mr. - Morton’s Birthday ‘Washington, April 1.—The fiftieth anniversary of the first Arbor day is April 22. The month brings also the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of| the father of Arbor day; the fiftieth) anniversary of the establishment of the famous Arnold Arboretum; and the fortieth anniversary of the found-| ing of the American Forestry Asso- ciation at Cincinnati, J, Sterling Morton inaugurated the first Arbor day in “treeless Nebraska” in 1872, At first the date was April Yenth, but later the legislature changed it to April twenty-Sv9, Mr, Morton’s birthday. Schools throughout the country are making plans to celebrate the date and} there will be tree planting both this spring and, where conditions are more suitable, in fall, In Washington the American Forestry association will! plant a tree in memory of Morton and| in New York City of April 27, the ‘cen. tennial of Grant's birth, it will also plant a tree on Riverside drive near Grant’s tomb. The tree ts being sent to New York from Grant's farm near St, Louis by August Busch, present owner of the property. The John Burroughs clubs will in-; augurate the Washington tree plant- ing with the placing of a Hall of Fame|’ on the grounds of the Lincoln Memo- rial, The trees will be red oaks placed in, the shape of a half wheel for Bur-} roughs, Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau, Muir. Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secretary of, the navy, who as a poy knew Burroughs, will plant the tree for the naturalist, whose jbirthday, is ~ Monday. Since J..Sterling. Morton gave a start to, Arbor day, the idea has spread throughout ‘the world. * Morton of Chicago, has just given a tract of land near that city for an arboretum. The father of Arbor. day wags ‘born at. Adams, Jefferson county, N_Y., in ‘4832, (He was graduated from Union College in 1854, and the follow- ing year settled in Nebraska, first at Bellevue, and later at Nebraska City, where he founded and edited the Ne- braska City News, the first newspaper to be established in that state. ‘Mr. Morton was elected to the Ter- ritorial legislature in 1856 and in 1858 was -appointed secretary of the terri- tory. by President James Buchanan. Upon the resignation of Governor’ W. A. (Richardson, a.few. months later, he pecame acting governor and local rep- resentative of, the administration in the bitter struggles in the. territory. In-189 he entered the cabinet of Pres. ident Grover Cleveland as secretary of agriculture, remaining in office until 1897. President ‘McKinley, in 1901, ap- pointed Mr, Morton one of the commis- sioners for the Louisiana Puxchage § Ex position, i No punctuation marks were used in printing until 1520. Regular business _ meeting Monday evening at 7:30 sharp. Master Mason Degree. ARO foe es cee ‘His son, .Joy |~ WASTED ENERGY { "APPEAL TO SPORTSMEN Editor’ Tribune: To sportsmen and lovers of harm- less birds: Will you help and destroy Crows and Magpies in North Dakota from now until July 1st? Unless drastic Means are taken by all of us we will goon have lbut very few song birds or in fact any birds including Grouse, (Chickeys and Pheasants. [Mor the Crow as an egg eater and the Magpie as a butcher of young birds are at the present time destroying more game birds than is killed by all.the hunters combined. If the sportsmen will organize as an army in all parts of the state and declare war on these two bird mur- derer- I know We can jn less than three years wipe out the Magpie and, reduce the Crow to such an-extent that we will again have more song birds and “also fifty per cent more chickens and other game birds. peat your organization today. Call all your sportsmen that you can: t ink.of, and arrange for a meeti soon; and there select one or two days in-every week that you go out on a drive, and also make a fund so you can pay the young boys a bounty for every Crow and Magpie . they will bring in. In that way you will have the support of all the country boys. _IN THE PEOPLE'S FORUM BY CAVENAUGH -. CAV ENA EN “(have them, .repart every "week what you are doing. ‘Have WAR declared in every; locality in North Dakota by April 9th. If’ you see’.a bird dog out in the field you-can be sure he is out after eggs and I'say stop him by using the | best. means you know of. ‘Let us haye the morai and co-oper- ative support of the general spublic in the enforcement of the game jaws and the protection. of harmless birds. If I can be of any help to you let me hear from you. =. . Yours very truly, O. McGRATH, Chief.Game Warden, Glen Ullin, N. D. OL TIMER TELKS I wonder what's ‘become o’ all the lone survivors o’ the Custer fight. ‘Speaking o’ making a success in the movies, Will Hays? Hays will. ‘Never-pull-leather-Bill started to commit suicide today. He took his first drink o’ home brew. The ol’ Missouri River is breakin’ up. T’’spect’ spectators from: Bismarck will pe numerous, out ‘on’ Wagon Wheel Bluff. Sometimes these flyin’ boats don’t fly an’ they ‘don’t boat. Sence readin’, . in the Tribune, about the ‘terrible ex- perience o’ ‘Miss’ Miami, Poker Bill hes give up the idea o’ ‘buyin’ one. Get the suppom of your paper and the old low pre-war prices, Karo has always been one of the most economical foods for, the large family— and now it costs still Give the children lo’ pancakes, biscuits or cious spread on bread... See how they’l} relish it, and how it wil help give them strength and energy for. all their little needs of play, work and study. - . P,S,—Please don’t‘forget to tell, your tittle boy or girl to bring home a can of Karo.on the way home from school. ‘ CORN PRODUCTS SALES €0. G. L. Cuningham, Manager . Twin City State; St. Paul, lees. ts of Karo on their toast. Or as a deli- Bank Building, Minn. FREE ‘Book of 64 pages. Write Corn Products Refining’ Co:, Dept. A, Argo, Illincis, Spittin’ Sam says, “Relatively Beautifully idustreted Corn. Products Cook - a oes Rite Rd Ie THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE speakin’ they, ain’t no. diffrunce be- tween the N. P, L.'s an’*the I. V.'A.’s.” wonday what Hinstlen would say\to that -/ The feller that said, “What North Dakota ‘needa is more mules an’ less politicians,” said a mouthful. Bad Land Bob: gays, “We're a-goin’ to hev a sudden break-up o’ the win- ter.” Hev you heard the first meadow- lark? > BILL, Ft. Yates, N. D. Editor Tribune: ‘Having read a copy of Governor:Nes. tos’ Founder's Day address at’ our state university I wish to congratulate the people of North Dakota on their good fortune in having chosen for our chief executive a man of such sterl- ing Americanism and fearless courage as Governor®Nestogs evidenced on that occasion, A form of Americanism which is much needed yet rarely found in men holding—but poorly filling— Positions as that to which Mr. Nestos has been elevated. If Goyerhor iNestos will not’ demon- strate that he has a similar grasp of the urgent need of a concerted and nation-Wide effort’ to/stop the wreck- ing of agriculture in the nature-blessed ‘land of ours, and a similar fearless courage for translating his’ convic- tions into effective action, he will thereby*have made himself a ‘promi: nent national figure and may, by such efforts, win the undying gratitude of public, &nd posterity, When; about thigty years ago, ‘busi- ness began integrating under the title of trusts; holding corporations, ang price-fixing associations; and labor, in self defense, did’ what it could to fgl- low suft, their aim was to, increase their profits or, more fully gratify their “selfishness and desire for wealth.” Every line and branch of business other than that’ of farming succeeded in accomplishing those purely. selfisa aims gad their regyltant boosting of prices "caused what, before the war, was. known as “the thigh | cost of living.” Although this integrating of business increased its profits, and that of labor increased its wage, the annual nation- al income wag not thereby increased one jota, It therefore follows that their gains were ‘at the expense of some gther industry and class of our citizens since ‘something cannot be subtracted ‘from nothing and any sub- tracting of something from something else is. an indisputable lessening of that minuend, In this cage the inevitable minuend was agriculture, ang by, 1918 those sub. tractions had brought the costs of pro- duction up to over 8@ per cent of the total annual gross receipts of agricul- “Merger” What Orangs . ‘Tis a Miark of + Distinction to < ‘Digest Be-9 Reader of ‘The’ Literary SIX AND AT WORK This six-year-old= lad is just one of thousands of Polish orphans who earn their, daily bread in factory work. This one gets 10. marks a day for making clay toys. That’s about one-fourth of a cent. ture, Now, according to an official re- port recently issued by Mr, Hoover’s department, those subtractions have, in the meantime, been: increased by about 65 per cent, making the present total 135° per nt of the annual gross receipts of farmers ‘were, forced to sell’ their - 1921 crops at much less than, cost of pro- duction, and is why rural banks and business concerng were forced to car- ry the surplus of those substraction; | which farmers could not meet, and are’ therefore on the verge of insolvency. As thig process of economic malad- justments is automatically cumulative so that the amount éf. those subtrae- tions increases from year.to year in an increasing ratio; and. since the, rem- edy forsthig destructive economic in- justice must come through our federal government—which is doing absolute- ly nothing to effectjsuch remedy; and as it must be patent to every citizen that it is but a matter of a very short time when agriculture will have been entirely wrecked and every rural bank aga business concern west of the Alle- gntanies forced into bankruptcy; it fol- * Commencing This Week : Deserting Farm and Kitchen | ee Dublin’s Rocky Road f To Make More Homes in New York New England’s Textile War ; ’ Egypt’s New King The Great Debt and ioparation’ Hungary at the Danger Point France and Feminism Know Do City Dwellers Die Early? Seer SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1922 lows that it would be both fitting and proper for the governor of this purely agricultural state to take the initiative in launching a vigorous movement cal- culated to save our agriculture, indus. trial structure, and civilization from such wrecking, and the American peo- ple from the resulting throes of hu- man chaos, ‘What I have written is not fiction and is, based upon incontrover tible facts rather than theor: y. And as the issue I have thus endeavored to bring to the public attention overshadows all other public questions and problems I can see no reason why the members of the préss to-which I send it should not give it a fittingly prominent posi- tion in their columns—unless_they are muzzled by the common enemy, in which case I prefer my position of far- mer to theirs when the time of reck- oning finally arrives. (Signed), J. S. GOGIN, Dated at Nora Farm, March 29, 1922. |- MANDAN NEWS | Rev. Kessler of.” Russia Will Talk To Mandan People Rt, Tet Joseph. oh Kessler, ‘Bishop Kgs. sler, Bishop of Russia, head of all of the Roman Catholics in, the Volga ‘and Odessa district And.the only ordained bishop in the land of the Bolshéviki, is expected fo arrive in Mandan sogay, Bishop Kessler ‘has come ‘to,, the United States in the interésts of the Russian famine relief work and is anx- ious to meet the Russian Catholics ‘of this’ district. Many of ‘the: Mandan‘ area are just ag anxious to meet Bishop Kessler for Many of the Kussiang of this vicinity know him personally, (Several local men were baptized by ‘him when he was, parish priest in a village of the Volga district. ‘Bishop Kessler will attend and take part in all of the morning services at St, Joserh’s church Sunday, April 2, and probably will deliver his’ mes- sage at the high mass services, Fur- ther announcements will be made fol- lowing his arrival here says Father Clement. 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