The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 18, 1922, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN Editor) Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY DETROIT Kresge Bldg. | i Maree M tte a. ae PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH ' NEW YORK ad - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited vo it or| not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. 4 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).. 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota...........++ 6.00 THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) fa WHAT’S AHEAD OF US? You like everyone else in the country, are won-| dering: | First — When business gets going good again how will times compare with the great boom of 1919? Second — What standard of living lies in store forjthe average Arflerican? Qn every hand you hear people saying, * we'can’t expect times ever to get as good again as : they were during the silk-shirt days of the war boom.” ‘Developments in the iron and steel industry | suggest that this may be the wrong view. For instance: : ! i j | | i “T guess | | i i _—_—_ | During March the country produced 2,034,794 | tons of pig iron, or roughly four-fifths as much; as in March, 1913, which was a typical month of normal “good times.” | Before the war it was customary for pig iron | output to increase 1,000,000 tons a year to take) care of the normal growth of the country’s needs. Qn this basis, if the climi> had continued nor-| mally and there hadn’t been a war, pig production in March, ‘1922, would have been 3,225,000 ‘tons, which compares: with 3,090.243 tons produced in March 1919, during the boom. i In other words, pig iron output during the war | boom was no larger than the normal, natural | growth. : How about the future standard of living? Nearly everyone has learned from bitter experi- ence that prices and dollars have very littlé to do! with it. ‘The real standard of living is the amount of commodities you are able to buy with your| money. Furthermore, America can buy only in propor-! tion to what it produces. : : If the farmers ‘raise. 106,000,000 ‘bushe!s of! wheat a year, there’s only one bushel for each of us. But we have three bushels apiece if they raise| $18,000,000 bushels. Similarly, if the men who make autos. produce | 106,000,000 cars a year, there’s a car for each of} us. If only 1,060,000 cars are produced in a year | there’s only a car for each 100 persons. | The future standard of living will depend large-| ly on how much we Americans produce—how hard | we work. A To pay the interest on our national debt would) take nearly one one-thirty-second of the Amer-| - ican people’s total income in 1918. The burden, | unless. pyramided by profiteers, is not big enough to subgtract materially from the future standard | of living. x INVENTION A French inventor has a device that takes 25,000 | : photographs a second. It will be a big help to| rapid movies whichy slow down action and show you each step of the growth of a plant or men; « jumping hurdles. { The rapid camera stretches a second into a min- ute. Time is relative, elastic. | | | | | PRICES The stock market shoots upward. This, accord- | ing to some economists, is just.one of the many straws in the wind, pointing to a secondary period | of inflation ahead. | That is, a house which you are offered $8000 | : for now might bring $12,000 later on—“if,” which | is a big word. In the price declines that followed the Napol- eonic and Civil wars, people had the same notion. ; Prices would stop falling, begin to rise, then slump again. i trees. ‘the week beginning April 16 as Forest Protection icertificates, which the taxpayers must eventually ; \pay, and is preparing to float a bond issue to liqui- ;supervision which they are accorded impels them ito be. | there exists an “expert” who can prove almost | anything. | BURNING MONEY Millions of tree seeds have,been given to France by Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the Amer- ican Forestry Association. ; England and France both realize the value of France, for instance, once was a- dense wood. Now her tree growth is so scarce that peasants collect bundles of small twigs. Unless we stop destroying our forests, our coun- try in another generation may be as lacking in forests as France. President Harding by proclamation sets aside Week. ‘The last day will’ be the golden annivers-| ary of Arbor Day. It is ‘one of the few “special weeks” worth observing 1000 times over. Your line of thought probably runs like this: “Forest preservation is up to Uncle Sam and to the corporations that destroy the forests to make money. What can I, a citizen who rarely chops down a tree, do to increase forests?” For one thing, whenever you camp or stroll in ‘he woods, you can be extremely careful about starting forest. fires. The area of forest land swept by fire each year is about twice the area cutover annually by log- ging crews. . Our country has an average of 32,500 forest fires a year. ’ If you have children, teach them that preserva- tion of forests is the only way to insure an ample supply of lumber for the future without paying sky-high prices. With a little common sense, Americans would raise a yearly crop of trees, just as they raise wheat, corn and cotton. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides of importart issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. THE FAMILY OF MAN 0’ WAR A bay filly was born the other day on the Rid- dle farm in Lexington, Ky. She is more interest- ed now in- maintaining a stance on her rickety young legs than she is in her pedigree which is a long affairs splashed with stars. But horse lovers are concerned mightily over the young ladys’ ap- pearance because.they know her dad.. She is the first horse sired by“Man o’ War. What' will the future hold for this unnamed daughter of the king ‘ofthe turf and patrician mother, Masquerador? Will she upset the anci- ent theory that anthropologists advance in his- tories of human-kind and horsemen in racing ani- mals; that the first child is not: the best? Not only tradition but recent statistics discount any glowing prophecy for her success. — Detroit Journal. BANK DEPOSIT GUARANTEES Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska are consp.cu- ous among the states which have adopted varying systems of state guarantee of bank deposits. It it well to pause and consider the results in these experiments of socializing the banking business. Within the last six months there have been 45 state bank liquidations in Oklahoma, and 20 bank failures in that state. As a result the deposit guarantee fund is bankrupt. At the beginning of this year there was $34,000 in the Oklahoma bank guarantee fund, with claims of more than $1,000,000 against the fund. Today those claims total more’ than $4,500,000. | The state has issued $2,500,000 of 6 per cent date the obligation of the fund. The fund was established in 1909. During the next year de- mands for $4,000,000 were met. In recent times’ 96 national banks, which had yeorganized as Okla- homa State banks because their condition was such that the national bank examiners would no longer tolerate their existence without new capital abandoned. their state charters. ; In Nebraska there have been assessments of $1,000,000 to supply deficiencies in the guarantee} fund. In Kansas, premiums of 38 per cent to 50' per cent have been. offered for cash deposits against certificates of deposit of banks which had’ no resources to meet them. | This does not mean that there is so wide a dif- ference between state and national bank organ- ization. It merely means that the national system | look, THE BISMARCK TRIBU: Continued Fom Our Last | ¢ I ssue. Nona had written of,.it in ringing words, Sh@ flushed in ‘beautiful ardor of ths enthusiasm, she; joined with; Sabre’s at his meeting; but, little laugh. “And “What do you then’?”” She took a letter from her bag, “t only. got this this morning just ag I was coming away, It is in reply to the one I wrote him about is V..C. Oh, ‘Marko, so splendid, so utterly splen. did as he is, and, then to be like this. Licok, he says he's just got leave and he’s going ‘to spend ft'in Paris! One of his women ig there. That Mrs. Winfred. AHe’s' jtaken up with her ‘again.: He says, Poor thing. She’s all alone in ‘Paris, 1 know how sorry you will feel foy her, and I feel I ought to go and’ look after her. | know you will agree with me, I'll tel: her you’ sont me. That will amus and please her so,’” She touched her eyes with her hand kerchief, “It rather, hurts, Marko. It's not that I mind’ his going. It’s just what he would do. But it’s thc way he tells me. He just says it lik that deliberately because he knows it will hart. So utterly splendid, Marko, and so\utterly graceless.” She gave her little note of sadness again. “Ut terly splendid! Leck, this is all h says about his V, C. Isn't this finc and isn’t it like him? He says, ‘P. S Yes, that V..C. busine: You know why I got it, don’t vou? It stands for (Very autious, you know.” ‘Mey laugneu together, Y: him! Tybar exactly! \Sabre cou him writing the letter. Delight saying words that would hurt; delight ing in his own whimsicality that woulc amuse, - Splendid; airy, untouched by fear; untouched by thought, feari faith¥ass, Useedtss, graceless. IV tune’s darling; invested in her robe oi mockery, \ Nona’s laughter ended! in a littl’ opening Words of their ended, with a sad n!” she said. rg mah, Nona, ‘And arm. “Let's walk, Nona.” II. He thougat she was looking thin ane done up, Hi ‘ace pad rather a drawn S soft roundness gone. He she never had looked so beau. tiful to him. She spoke to him of what she had tried to say in her letters of hig disappointments in offering him- self for service. Never had her sweet voice sounded so exquisitely tender to him. They spoke of the.war. N but in theiy letters; -had he been able them, touched with the same per and the state system are no stronger than the; When state bank examination and super-| tions, kindled and enlarged, back into his sympathies again, self to look at her. He said, “You. catch at her breath, He touched he: | Never thus to give his feelings and receive). He shook his head, not trusting him-| | AND IT LOOKS LIKE A LONG VISIT, TOO | Perch, telling him ‘how much ‘more than wonderful Bright Effie was, Effle mothered Mrs, Perch and managed hey and humored her in a way ‘that riot oven Young Perch himself could have bettered. rs “ Marvelous Effie! Sabre used’ to hink; and of course it was because ner astgunding fund of humor, was yased upon her all-embracing capacity for love, Sabre liked immensely the half-whispered .talks with her while Mrs, Perch dozed in her chair. “-Effic was always happy. : One evening he asked her a most extraordinary question, shot out of him without intending it, discharged out of his questioning thoughts as by a hidden spring suddenly touched by groping fingers. : “Effie, do you love God?” ‘Her surprise seemed to him to be ‘ore at the thing he had asked than ‘t its amazing unexpectedness and imazing irrelevancy. “Why, of course do, Mr. Sabre.” “Why do you.” me asked what had the sun to do vith light, or whether water was wet, “Why, God is love.” ‘He stared at her, M. The second Christmas of the war same. The evening béfore the last ‘ad been immensely looking forward. ! Te was to have spent it with ' Mr, She said in simple wonderment, as, lay of the Old Year was to have giv-} n Sabre a rare pleasure to whici he} EVERETT TRUE BY conDe| Fargus. The old chess and acrostic evenings hardly ever happened now. It was to have ‘been a real long even- ing; but it proved not very long. | At ten o'clock profound gymnastics | of the mind in search of a hidden word beginning with e and ending with | were interrupted by the entry of the maid, “Please, Mr. Sabre, I think it’s for you, Mr. Sabre.” “For me? Who on earth—?” He opened it. Hie did not recognize the writing on the envelope. He un- folded it. Ah! i I think she’s dying —E. B.” CHAPTER VII. /He-was alone,in the room where Mrs, Perch law—not even Effie. One o’clock. ,,This war! | ~ The doctor had been and. was com- ing again in the morning. There was nothing to be done, he had said; just wateh her, gey2 (ne ‘Watch her? How long had he been standing at the foot of the huge bed— the biggest bed he had ever seen—and what was there to watch? “Sinking,” the doctor ‘had said. In process here before his eyes, ;,but not to be seen by them, awful and mysterious things. Death with practiced fingers about his awful and mysterious surgery of sep- arating the spirit from .the flesh, the soul from the body, tue incorruptible from the corruptible. But Young Perch was dead. Young Perch was ‘killed, It was real.’ He was here. This war! at once. Il. (He felt very cold. He moved from the bed and replenished the fire and ‘crouched beside it. There was some strange sound in the room. He had dozed in a chair. Some strange sound or had he ima, ined it? He sat up tensely and lis- tened. It \was her ibreathing a harsin and labored sound. He stepped quick- ly to the bed and looked and then ran into the’ passage and called loudly, Effie! Bffiet” Frightening, terrible, agonizing. He was kneeling on one side of the bed, Effie at the other. The extreme mo-| ment was come to her that lay be- tween them. She was moaning, He .| ‘Young ‘Perch! “Freddie's killed. ‘Please do come; TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1922 bowed his face into his hands. The sound of ther moaning was terrible |to him. That inhabitant of thig her body had done its preparations and now stood at the door in the dark- ness, very frightened. It wanted to &o back. It had been very accustomed to being here, It could not go back. It did not want to shut the door.” The door was ehutting. It stood and shrank and whimpered there, Oh, terrible! - Beyond endurance, agonizing. It was old Mrs, Perch that stood there whimpering, shrinking, upon the threehold of that huge abyss, wide as space, dark as night. It was no spirit, It was just that very feeble | Mrs. Perch «with. her fumbling hands and her moving lirs Look here, Young Perdix would never allow her even to \cross a road without him! How in pity was she to taxe this frightful step? He twisted up all his emotions into an appeal of tremendous intensity, Come here! Your mother! Young Perch, come here!” Telling it, once to Nona, he said. “{ don't know what happened, They talk about self-hypnotism. Perhaps it wag that. I know I made a most frightful effort saying “zoung Perch.’ I had to. I could see her—that poor terrified thing. Something had to be done. ‘Someone fad to go to her. I said it like in a nightmare, bursting to get out of it, ‘Young Perch. Come here.” Anyway, there it is, Nona. I {heard them. It was imagination, of course. But I heard them.’ He heard, “Now then, Mother! Don’t be frightened. Here I am, Mother, Come on, Mother. One step, Mother. Only one. I can’t reach you. You | must take just one step. Look Mother, here’s my. hand, Can't you see my hand?” y “Now, Mother, I tell you it;isn’t. bo ujst trust me.) Do just come.” “T daren’t, Freddie. I can’t, Fred- die, I can’t. I car’'t.. “You must. Mother, you must. Look, took, here Iam. It’s I, Freddie. Don't cry, Mother, Just trust ,.“reelf en- tirely to me, You know eg ,ou al- ways can trust. me. Look, Leré’s my' hand. Jiust one tiny step and you will‘ touch it. [know you feel ill, darling Mother. You won't any, any more, once you touch my hand. ~ I can’t come any nearer, dearest. You must. You. Ah, brave, beloved mother—now!” He heard Effie’s voice, “Oh, she’s dead! She's deal!” Dead? He stared upon her dead face. "Where iwas gone that mask? Whence had come this glory? That inhabitant of this her body, in act of going thad looked iback, and its look ;had done: this thing. It had closed 'the door upon a ruined house, and looked, and left a temple. It had de~ parted from ‘beneath a mask, and look- ed, and that which had been masked now ‘was beautified, Young Perch! (Continued in Our Next Issue.) Every two minutes a divorce suit is filed in this country. Proving that none is bo:n every minute. (Peoplo who. live in glass houses ‘aould not take saxaphione l2ssons. For every man who would like to paint the town red there’s one who would like to paint it blue. Fisherman found $10,000 on the banks of the Potomac. Maybe that’s he dolla: Gorge threw across, with interest. If Ford has too much money why doesn’t he try raising. chickens? He who gets to the top-does it by staying on the level. « It's sweet ‘to be, romembered—be fore you are gone. One reason for taking ‘“obe; from marriage vows is they fo which one promised tio do it. The man who kicks about’ ev thing will kick about nothing. { | | i | Semthing \might be done at Geqoa, ‘by George. The Muscle Shoals proposition seems to have landed on the rocks. Perhaps the fight.over a tariff on peanuts is peanut politics. The only thing certain about April weather is its uncertainty. Two small a navy might endanger [the permanent wave in our flag. Amundsen’s North Pole trip .won't be like his South Pole trip. There is all the differenca in the world between the two places. The bottom is a better place to be- gin than to end. ‘Every man has his price, but the man who gives himself away isn’t worth very much. ‘Sometimes a man postpones adver- In a general way, their path was like the teeth vision is as lax as it has been inthese three states, |Not I. Anyone can know the right NE XT WHO'S, THE ; i . * 3 ., | thing. But strength to do it—Strenats | Lew ing to sell his goods until he has to of a saw, up and down, with each succeeding saw ,and when the state guarantees the deposits of its | flow out of you to me, It:always has. = Q go SPEAKER ON THE PrRoe do it to sell his store. tooth lower than the one before. - As to the fu-|banks, there is no incentive on the part of the de-| 1 want it more and more. J ehall want iy 9 ow AGRAM, MR TOAST MASTEE: ¢ It is always fair weather until pic ture, one guess 1s as good as another. positor to discriminate between weak banks in-| iv 7 THOR TAaL rannneathat thines rb \ ee? 0 ornts. BIRD KNows A nics get tegether. efficiently managed and strong banks conserva- closing in on me. There's Shelley's! Cae RS COT wel Ne DOSS NTT COAL tively directed is th h of an ind ‘Ode to the West Wind.” It makes me} gh. INCLUDS KNOWING Ovr 13,090,090. bachelors ‘believe ly ected, nor is there so much of an induce-| “7 Gon't know—wrought up. ‘And | ® WHEN_TO_ QUIT ttt jtroubles never, come singly. The coal that lies unmined in the ground isment for bank officers to maintain reserves and | sometimes I've the feeling that I'm be- | enough to last only 200 years, under present /give the ultimate of protection to depositors, if ne carried along like that and towards | ~- wasteful methods of mining. So says Percy Tet-|the deposits are guaranteed by law. | chee Cre Loy ee fen 20. ving, | low, director of the Ohio State Department of In-| State guarantee of bank deposits puts a pre-|, He stopped. He said, “Give me your , dustrial Relations. mium on incomptence and dishonesty and encour- Rei iea tea eae The Geological Survey, on the other hand, says Drtro't man claims his car has run | 200,000 miles. ‘Perhaps he loaned it to ja friend. DON’T DISREGARD A COLD | Foley’s Honey and Tar will check a |cold if taken in time, and will also 3 | thing of your own to keep. There w: ages the depositor to neglect the obligation of in-| be strength in it for me—to-he'p 1 . a * * ‘ PENG 2 rest—to believe ite | stop a cough of long standing. It : that the unmined coal reserves of America are vestigating his bank, an obligation which sound Bold OB LOD Ue Tee be fae! | promptly gives rellet* aoothes and about 5,000,000,000,000 tons, or enough to last business sense should impose upon him. | behind?’ ” | heals. Mrs. Geneva Robinson, 88 N. i Swon St. Albany, N. Y., writes: She touched her handierchief to her | ps and gave it to him. ‘ Iv, } Sabre had always thought Brieht Ef! fie would be wonderfui with old Mrs. | Perch. He wrote long letters to Young j more than 8000 years unless we begin burning} The sad experiment of these three states has/. fea coal twice as fast as in the last five years. ‘cured the voters of some of our commonwealths! e The most striking characteristic about experts|of another Utopian idea—Chicago. Journal of) is that no two of them seem to agree. Somewhere ' Commerce. | '“Foley’s Honey and Tar is the best | cough medicine I ever used. Two bot- jad broke a. most stbhorn lingering : +eough.’ It loosens phlegm and mucus, eases }narseness, stovs tickl’ng throat, helps “flu” and grip coughs. »