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PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1922 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE N. D., as Segond Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN Editor Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY i CHICAGO Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE A SOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise eredited 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 GIRGULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVAN a | Daily by carrier, per year $7.2 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismar k) ily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck). Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota..... THE STATE'S 0 NEWSPAPER WS bloke 1873) ago THE FLAPPER’S SECRET Lester F. Scott, secretary of the Cam Fire Girls, will tour westward from New York to see how far this “Shifters” movement has spread. “Shifters” is the secret organization of he and she flappers. It started in New York among| high school students. Wanting pin-money, and remembering Barnum’s maxim about one being born every minute, they formed a, flirts’ secret society. Members wear badges—brass clips. These, by ritual code, are worn'in various combinations on hat and other garments, signifying, “I, ‘flirt,” “You can date me up for tonight,” “Yes, I kiss,” et cetera, ad jazzeum. \ A newly initiated member is told that he or she has been stung, and advised to pass the joke along} to others. The “Shifters” movement has spread like wild-|° fire, all through the eastern cities. The badge makers are selling 3500 a day in New York City. Providence flappers beught 20,000 of the brass fraternity pins in a week. The “Shifters” has had a mushroom growth be- cause any form of sceret society thrills-and hyp- notizes the imagination of youth. Fundamentally, it is a gold brick, the initiation fee running as high as $4 to $6. Officials of the Camp Fire Girls say they are organizing against the “Shifters” largely because they discover that it is causing poor girls to spend their money unwisely, the movement now hooking many girls who work for their own living, as well as high school and college flappers. The “Shifters” craze is the most peculiar psy- chological wave that has swept the country since jazz music was imported from the underworld dives of Buenos Aires. While it may be based on a joke—the desire of the stung to pass the sting along—it has danger- ous possibilities to the morals of American youth. It makes its appeal by treading on very thin} and forbidden ice. That the nature of the bait] appeals to so many among the young should make the grown-ups put on their thinking caps. No matter how tolerant an observer may be, it is cbvious that something is psychically wrong with a large percentage of American youth. The solution is largely in outdoor sports and| more attention to children in the home. FEW PROGRAM BILLS Voters should feel relieved that most of the measurés it was proposed to initiate fell by the wayside for want of signers. This is a healthy | sign of the times. ' People are becoming suspici- | ous of programs. ‘The recent recall election set the pace for defeating laws via the ballot route. Now the electors have done even better—they | refuse to lend their names to Jaws in many in-| stances that. would only, produce chaos and bring the state’s credit into disrepute. - ‘very rapidly. Before long, no matter where, wireless will keep | you in constant touch with ‘home and business. | Strap-hanging will be less monotonous, hearing concerts and news bulletins over your pocket! radicphone. SMALLPOX An outbreak of smallpox doesn’t worry you as much now as it did when father was a boy. It is a dread disease, dangerous as ever, but it’s being | rapidly stamped out. Smallpox ,now is killing only a sixth as many Americans as in 1902. : Your chance of dying of it this year is less than 1-in-100,000. Foi this,-thank the medical pro-| fession. 2 EINSTEIN The Einstein theory will be filmed to make it easily understandable by movie audiences. This is sensible. When it comes to gettinz ideas across, a picture is at least 100 times as powerful as print- ed type. Great discoveries, like the Einstein theory, usually are as complex as the brains of their-orig- inators. But there is nothing so complex that it cannot be interpreted simply enough for the aver- age mind to grasp it. We all have master brains. Difficulty is in deciphering the complicated codes. CORN VS. WHEAT American corn-is taking. the plac of wheat and rice 4n the Neat East,” soviet“#@menia. This is the result of propaganda by corn ex- porters. Corn needs a press agent, more than any other basic commodity. , American corn growers, through their organizations, could greatly increase their market by cducating the world about food value of corn and how to make it taste enticing. Salesmanship 3s the solution of most, of our big econcmic problems — selling a commodity or an ~ idea. REAL INDEMNITY Germany lost 46 men killed and 109 wounded ‘or each hour of the World War. She sent about 13,000,000 into her armies. One out of seven was killed in battle. Total casual- ies were 1,808,546 dead and 4,246,779 wounded. These are the final figures just announced after General von Altrock’s check-up. Having buried her dead and patched up her wounded, Germany slowly begins to pay the bill or damages. So far, the cow hasn’t given much milk. Slow payment has been partly due to the fact hat, last December was the first month, since the war, in which, Germany had a favorable balance of trade—exports exceeding imports, the only way she can pay, not having enough gold. Now her trade balance is rising gradually — which means, more ability to pay, fortunate for her creditors. Future generations, cured of war recognize this as the real German indc n'ty, will EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not exprese the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides of importart issues iscussed in the press of the which are being dit day. VERY SIMPLE? Probably no time in the history of this state | have the people been so completely at sea regard- ing the U.S. senatorship. It is a peculiar condi- tion. McCumber, by his atttude toward the peo- ple of the state, particularly in: the matter of ap- pointments,. has: practically: tola'thé people to: go to sheol or some cther place equally as hot, and has recognized the stalwart McKenzie faction here, thus telling the independents to go fall in the lake. This has; pdt made the independents feel any too good and the consequence has been that. the senior senator. fell from public favor His chances ‘fof renomination up until a few days ago were nil. Then along comes As long as the state has the initiative and ref- erendum: features in its constitution there will| be persistent efforts to secure the passage of laws ; hastily drawn and often the product of some fac: | tion or group of political officials. It is safer to allow legislation to pass through |s the legislative mill where some deliberatién can be had and an opportunity given to invoke the: veto power. Laws placed on the statute books via} the initiative process are hard to repeal or amend. The popular vote gives them a preference on the | statute books that they often do not deserve from any standpoint of merit. The contest in the approaching primaries will not be confused materially by a multitude of laws. Veters usually find it hard to vote advisedly on} initiated laws and the fact that it is becoming difficult to get signers to petitions is a hopeful | omen that the state is struggling back to nor- maley. WIRELESS A good’ sign that the world is getting sensible! again: Invent an improved machine gun or other | implement of destruction and you won’t get al thousandth part as much attention as by discover- ing a slight improvement for the wireless. Bosten traffic stands still and becomes dead-| locked, watching Samuel Curtis. He appears on} the streets, wireless receivers over his ears, car- | rying his machinery in a small satchel, hearing | radiophone messages collected by the ribs of his open umbrella. The radius is 20 miles, i—Valley City Times-Record, Mr. Gronna, who insisted on trying to break into the nonpartisan convention and to be endorsed by ithat bunch. Up to that time Mr. Gronna had a very fine chance but he made the mistake of his \life in trying to ride two horses.at one and the same time, and now he has slipped down the down- ward road very fast. His actions have eliminated | jmany thousands of voters who thought kindly of \him' up to that time. He went out last fall- and fought for the principles advocated by the inde- péndents against the principles of state socialism jadvocated by the Liederbach bunch and that ‘placed h’m in very high esteem all over the state, then he slopped over and you know the rest. Then ithe convention of leaguers at Fargo last Saturday nominated Frazier. Well, it is presumed that the ean readily see just-what a funny position wé of North Dakota are in at this time. The Jamestown convention may be we do not believe, it can. Frazier will remain in! able to iron out the kinks but! in Forced On Us In Effort To Crush Union—Lewis BY JOHN L, LEWIS President, United Mine Workers of America. The United Mine Workers regret more than anyone else the necessity | for a suspension of work, by the union coal miners of the counti We have done ever) hing humanly possible to avoid the suspension. For many weeks we have fought hard to induce the coal operators to keep faith with us and with the government and meet us in joint conference, so that a new wage and working agreement might be made that would maintain industrial peace and prevént any in- convenience to the public, Two years ago the operators solemn- ly agreed that they would meet with us before April 1, They pledged their word aS business men. They signed that agreement in writing in New York. It was a pledge as binding as any bond or promissory note that any set of men ever signed. Broke Agreement. ‘We thought they signed it in good faith. But now they refuse. to live up \to their agrecment. They have refus- ed point-blank to do as they agreed they would do: If they were to re- fuse to pay their dents it would be no more dishonorable than’ their refusal to keep their agreement with the min- ers, These operators do not deny that they are contract-breakers. They only say: ‘Well, what are you going to do about it?” In the latter part of last December I asked. the operators, in compliance with their. promise, to meet with the miners in Pittsburg to begin negotia- tions for a’ new agreement, Illinois and Indiana operators and a part of the Ohio group accepted the invita- tion, but the operators of the Pitts- burg dist¢ict and a part of Ohio re- fused, They merely said they had de- cided not to keep their word. They scrapped their agreement, just as the kaiser scrapped his treaties with other nations, And; like the kais. er, they started in to destroy the other party to the agreement, The inva- sion of ‘Belgium by the kaiser was no more ruthless than the invasion of the miners’ union by these Pittsburg and Chio operators, \6cek to Break Union. They proposed to wreck the union as the kaiser wrecked Belgium and northern France. Suffering and star- vation of coal miners and their famil- ies hecame of. no greater consequence to them than the suffering of the Bel- ian and French people. It-is, perhaps, the most notorious nd unpardonable. case « of contract- breaking; and¢.disregard for business honor that the country has ever seen. nen the Pittsburg and ‘Qhio oper- fuscd'to méet with'the' miners the Pittsburg meetitig wab necessarily canceled. ‘Laten,1 igsucd)a second call for a meeting, thinking that perhaps, these men would yet decide to live up to their promises, : But thiey refused again. | vie "Refused U.S. Request. ‘So flagrant and indefensible was tneir action that President Harding denounced it and directed Secretary of Labor Davis~to call on the opera- tors to keep, their word, But they re- fised. even “thegovernment, Instead, they asked the government to keep its hands off-and‘allow the coal companies to make thefr'fight for the destruction jof; the miners';union. In other words,, these coal. companies have arbitrarily placed "themselves above the government itself and have politely told the government to go to ——. There was nothing left for the min- ers to. do but to quit work until the question of what théir wages shall be is determined. We are not asking for higher wages in the bituminous coal industry. Scale Agreement. Our men did not make a living last year and they are not yet making a living, but they are willing to take the chance with the present wage scale for the next two years, in the hope that there will be a/business revival that will afford them, ;;reasonably steady employment and an opportunity to earn a living for their families, The miners are not quitting work because they want to quit. + They ‘want to work, But the operators are deter- mined that they shall/not work except at starvation wages, and that the un- ion shall be destroyed so as.to deprive the men of all meang of protection, Want Public to Know. We want the public to know all the facts, because we’ know that the pub- lic will then place the blame where it belongs. The operators started in de- liberately to compel the miners tc strike, They have declared that all coa' miners shall work for the same mis- erable rate of starvation wages that are paid to the Door helpless in the non-union filds of \West Virginia and Alabama. They ar eeking to reduce the level of American cit cutting down the carning these workers. But the union miners will not stand for it. Nor would any other American citizen stand for it. Up, Not Down. Why not work to bring the condition of these non-union men up to the level of the organized fields, instead of drag- ging the organized fields down to the degraded level of the non-union fields? The United Mine Workers of Amer- ica face this struggle with the firm be- lief that the Amcrican public realizes leaguers will generally support Lynn, so that you) they are making a fight for the main- ‘tenance of justice in the coal industry and for the preservation of a moral standard in bus We bel bus- ss men should live up to their con- tracts. the race, Gronna will want to get McCumber’s | #7 scalp and we doubt if you can lift him out of the’ race with a derrick, and you all know that Me-| Cumber, being in the saddle will remain there) juntil he is thrown out. So it all settles down to! this fact: that with three men running for United | States senator the betting would be in favor of Frazier winning the republican nomination. Then the democrats could put up a clean cut man and} the fusionists could get together and put him : over in the fall. Very simple, isn’t it—on paper.) | Learn a Word Every | | D ————— Today’s word is Psychic. It’s pronounced — sy e-kick, with ac- cent on the first syHable. It means—pertaining to the mind or ul, having abnormal power, pertain- ing to the ‘world of spirits. It comes from—Greek, “psyche,” the oul. It’s | posed psy appearances of ghosts, used like this—“Many sup- hic manifestations (that is. etc.) can be jtraced to material causes,” HREE SIDES OF THE COAL Gompers Urges Sympathy Of Public For Miners BY SAMUEL GOMPERS President, American Federation of Labor. I am asked to say for The ‘Tribune what the cessation of work: in the coal mines means for all concerned. Let me try to set forth briefly some vital facts. The stoppage of work is-due to just one cause. In the jagreemem: ,'.e- tween mine owners and miners, now expired, there is a clause binding both parties to confer to negotiate a new agreement’ to replace the old one. The miners went to every possible length to, keep that pledge. They sought to bring about the conference for which provision had wisely. beep made. The mine owners absolutely re- fused to enter into conference at any time, They made impossible the re- newal of the agreement and therefore they made necessary and unavoidable the sation of work. The blame for stopping the mining of coal is sqpare- ly and entirely upon’ the shoulders of the mine owners and their Wall Sireet masters. | I can recall no other repudiation of a pledge so disgraceful, 90 dishon- orable as this. What It Means \What the stoppage of work will mean is for the future to. show. For the miners it may mean much hard- ship. It is sure to mean hardship for many thousands of them. But the workers have always been ready and anxious to, PAY, the price for a prin- ciple. The m? pwngrs” must sknoWw,; thelr, 4 own game, «for they have, jade. it, What they expect is not known to labor. Doubtless they expect to reap a harvest in inflated prices for now above ground. : We must ai their repudiation of their pledge a the key to their morals in whatever they do as ‘a consequence of and sequel to that repudiation, ‘There can be no doubt but that tho nine owners deliberately forced the stoppage of work. in the hope of ing great financial gain. Gorged vith enormous profits, they still have wppetite for more. What of Public? What about the eeneral ‘puyric? will be asked. In this case the public will be composed of those who are not miners, nor yet mine owners nor in vestors in mining stock. But those who compose the public—a term of- ten misused—are men’ and women. with understanding and ‘with cch- sciences. Rigltt and wrong mean to them what right and wrong must al- ways mean to a justice-loving people. There may ‘be inconvenience be- cause pf what the mine owners have done, The miners, not the cause 0! that inconvenience, may with good grace: ask that those not in the strug- gle iat least give the weight of thelr moral support to the causo of right and justice and freedom Moral Support Necded In this struggle we have the au- deracy of the coal industry, order- ag ‘withthe abandon of mad mon- rehs. On the other hand we have ne miner S, a always prey to a money: rade chacs in ‘the industry, always g sub- ‘gtence and many-times not that. It is fairly a question between the autocrats and the neople—-the hand- ful who have might and! the many who work and who ask only the chance to work and to have some ef- fective voice in determining decent wages and conditions under which to give their essential service to society. There can be but one place for the noral force of civilization in a stryg- gi2 such as this. \ | A Thought For Today | | But He answered her not a act Matthew 15:28, The completest joy and the pro- foundest sorrow both are silent, It is. 2s different in men ‘as, this in nature. ee ‘df Ssunrise, all emulous with hope, and the silence sunset, wrapped in the. stillness of s memories.—Phillip Brooks. i RIK It Is Necessary Step In Ad- jus{ment—Operators BY J. D. A. MORROW Vice President, National Coal Asso- elation The coal strike called for today is simply a step in a great and neces- salty process of readjustment in the} bituminous coal industry. That readjustment can only come if the situation is left alone to the na- tural play of economic influences. In- tervention by the government alone can hinder it. Three ‘main facts are involved: First: The rate of pay and the hours of labor. 2 Second: The manner in which wage scale agreements shall be made. Third: The Check-off. Must Reduce Scale On those issues the strike has been called. The miners are demanding a six-hour day and a five day week, which would give employment arbi- trarily to an excessive number of miners, and the maintenance of a post-war wage scale fixed on a basic rate of $7.50 a day, as opposed to the eight-hour day and six-day week, with supply and demand fixing the number of employes. + Operators insist that the present Scale must be materially reduced and the present hours of work maintained to put organized mines on a parity with the wage levels prevaning 1 tne non-union fields and in other indus- tries. The six-hour day and five-day week is demanded to enable the men in the industry to work more nearly full time, The fact is there are more men em- Ployed in the industry than are need- ed, just ag there are more mines than are needed. The operators would let supply and demand for coal .auto- matically reduce excess employes. All Willing to. Meet, + While a number of operators have decided to go into a four-state joint conference, all have been willing to meet, the mines in state. conferences. Generally, operators in Illinois and Indiana have been willing to partici-! pate in a four-state agreement, while; those of western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio have refused. Why? When the central competitive field arrangement was |firdt eskabfished, there was active competition between western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio operators on one hand and Illinois and Indiana on the other. Conditions Changed Changing freight differentials, how-! ever, have steadily decreased that com- petition. Ohio coal, formerly a pop- ular fuel in Chicago, is no longer quoted on the Chicago market. Pitts- burg coal has vanished from the lower penninsula of Michigan. There is no longer any economic reason for the continuation of the! AS a re-| sult, operators wish to deal with the) old four-state arrangement. miners of their own particular dis- tricts, whether union: or non-union, and work out wage scales which will accord with the competitive conditions in those respective fields. As to the checkoff, .under which operators» are? required to collect/the dues, assessments’ and fines of the men and hand'them over to the union | officials, that was one of the ‘prac- tices cited in’ the indictment . under the Sherman law at Indianapolis as evidence of conspiracy between miners and operators. Naturally, the opera- tors are reluctant to renew an agree- ment so full of possible danger. No Danger for Public Out of the strike must come a re- adjustment to meet pust;war condi-| tions of competition and prices. At present it seems safe to say that a 60-day strike would entail no’ Dar- ticular hardship on business and in- dustry. generally and would NOT ex- haust stocks to the point where an increase in. prices--would occur. The consumer, therefore, may look with a fair degree of equanimity upon the approach of this struggle. Our industrial fabric has been erect- ed upon a foundation of low cost of coal. This strike is simply one of the inevitable steps that must come if our ihdustrial activity is to be restored to a’sound and enduring activity. In this the householder—the small consumer —is vitally concerned. It means for him a lowering of prices not alone for ie EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO| THe Sur Cass, EvGREtT ? It's Fuce OF OD, STALE | WHSEZECS ABOVT HoortcH commodities into which the use of coal enters. ‘fry to stop jazz by law and we will never hear the last of it. Poetry written about them is prob- ab'y what makes the wild flowers wild. Why put shock absorbers. on autos when pedestrians need them more? Trim ankles mean trimmed skirts. You can’t get ahead in the world if you spend your time getting even. Mint: is growing wild in the woods and so is the julep Denver man has an ‘airplane that goes straight up. Only drawback is it comes straight down. Newlyweds stcer clear, of restaur- ants advertising “Home Cooking.” Latest theory is that Mary Garden |cried when two governors kissed her because three is a crowd. ‘Now that the.coal bin is a has- been, let the miners strike. New: Jersey minister working as a floor walker ‘probably learned to do it while raising a family. You can’t keep a good secret down. Always getting into hot water will eventually cook your goose. Now that the prizefight promoter has been acquitted he ought to be made an honorary movie star. Michigan girls say there is’ no spooning at the university. Then they don’t learn very much. An open mind is. all right if your mouth isn’t that way. Russia plans to open the stock ex- change; but we don’t plan to take any stock fn ‘Russia. ‘Singing lessons may make people fat; but not those who hear them. Movie star, starts divorce sujt be- cause ‘wife threw iron at him. New way of pressing a suit. The summer breeze blows through the trees and |welcomes ‘bicf< ‘he bevedeze. New Jersey mayor sends the preach- er $25 when he is absent from church, Absence makes the preacher's Aaa gtow fonder. o——s THE TWINS | ; -—o By Olive Barton Roberts Nancy and ‘Nick bade the Squeedil- lums goodby and started up the Wider- down Mcuntain. It was the middle one of the Seven Mountains. “My!” sajd Nancy, looking all around . “It’s all blue plush and as !soft as a pillow. This will be an easy mountain, Nick.” But no sconer had she spoken than she disappeared. The soft blue sur- face of the mountain had caved in. like a sndw drift does when you step on it, and closed over the top of Nancy’s head. Nick stood stalk-still, not daring to move or breath2 scarcely, fior fear of going under, too! “Oh!” he whispered. “Oh, oh, goodness!” He clutched the record tightly as though jt might save him. Suddenly the magic‘paper jumped out of his pocket and spread itself out |flat against the record. Then the red feather pen jumped out of his other rocket and began to write on the paper. “Turn around and run down the mountain the way you came,” wrote the pen. “Nancy will come up on top again in a minute, and you must call |to her to fol'iow you. Then wish your- selves up to the AVeather Man’s Star. Tell Mr. Sprinkle Blow, the Weather ‘Man, to send a hard rain: When the Fderdown Mountain gets wet it will go flat for it is stuffel with feathers. Wish yourselves back to the same spot and try it again.” When the magic pen had ceased writing it jumped back into Nick’s pocket and the magic paper followed. Nick obeyed instructions and ran down to the foot of the soft blue-plush mountain, whfch kept caving in at every step. Relieved of Nick’s weight the moun- tain sprang into vlace again, and Nancy appeared. “My, I’m nearly dead,” she coughcd. “I thought I was gone for sure.” “Come on down,” called Nick. “We can’t css the mountain till it gets wot. ‘We have to. see Mr. Spriakle Blow.” (To be Continued) FAMED SERVICE DAILY PHOTOV ew BISMARCK. NORTH DAKOTA © Known all over the Northwest for Quality @ MAIL US YOUR FILMS © A MASTER ELECTRICIAN Who rewinds motors and gener- aters. Build Power Plants and trans- mission lines. Or when in need of an expert write or call OTTO E. NELSON 1009 9th Ave. No. Fargo, N. ADVENTURE OF “| the coal he buys himself, but of all |