The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 26, 1922, Page 2

PAGE TWO ND, HISTORICAL ASSN 10 PUT. County Chairmen Have Been| Appointed in Campaign For More Members WANT RED MEN'S RECORDS| Officers of the North Dakota His- torical Association have completed the list of County Chairmen to have charge of the campaign in each coun- ty to increage the membership of the | association throughout the state. It is planned to ask each county chairman to organize the county with district chairmen until the needs and the im- portance of the work of the hi&torical | association has been presented to every tesident of ithe state capable of helping in the ‘work of ‘the organi- zation, The officers of the \organ'izalthon desire a large membership because of ‘the amount. of work to be accomplish- ed immediately in collecting material of historical ‘interest, material that | in @ few years more will not be dvail- able. This applies particularly to the tacts renvembered by the pioneer settlers. many of whom are still‘act- ive, but are advancing ‘in age and whose mental pictures of early hap- penings must fade in\a ‘few “years. more. The officers of the bisociation feel the getting of the stories of the early pioneers ia a vital matter and that se- curing these immediately will give ‘North Dakota a much better basis of state history than many of the middle western states have been able to ob- tain, etates where the work of col- leoting the history fad not been at- tempted until the first settlers had passed. In addftion to the stories of the early settlers, the assvciation is jnter- ested in ‘collecting, as early ag pos- sible the best possible record of the life of the red men end the traditions which the present Indiane have ‘brought down from thejr forefathers of the early days of ‘the state. Some} of tthe original tribes which inhabited the state when ‘the first white men reached ‘here are, either extinct or al-| moet extinct and the officers of the agsocjation feel thet the work of get- ting much of the material is a work! of immediate necessity... | Swap Valuables _ For Rolling Stock ‘Warsaw, April 26—Gold bars, dia- monds ‘anid other precious stones val- wed \at.10,000;000 gold rubles, or ap- proximately $5,000,000, have been re- ceived by the Polish government from soviet Russia in lieu of rolling stock due .Poland . by.’ virtue of ‘the Riga peace treaty of 1921... This is the sec- ond, instalment, the first payment. of gold'and precious stones having been made last December. The shipment came in: special cars convoyed by armed guards and upon its arrival in Warsaw. the gold and stones were ‘ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE eral Grant's fatherjs carriage. eneral Grant was born. BY ALFRED SEGAL ‘Point Pleasant, O., April 26.—To this village—population 145—the president of the United States will come Thurs- day to tell the country what he thinks of General Ulysses S. Grant, Point Pleasant’s favorite son, whose hund- redth anniversary will be obsegyed on that day—April 27. ‘He will address the nation from the porch in front of J.B. '‘Winspear’s general store, which is around the corner from the lot en 'which Gen- eral Grant's birthplace stood. It will be Point Pleasant’s one gay of, glary in a hundred years; one day of excitement in 36,500; one day of nose and of brass ‘bands, and of jostling crowds on Main street. Town Little Changed. One hundred years after Grant's birth, ‘Point Pleasant is much the same sort of a place it was then. If you and we stop and make a call on Merrell Cummins it will be as if we were going back 100 years and calling on the infant Grant. Merrell Cummins, the youngest child in Point Pleasant, is six months old and lives two doors from Grant's birthplace. About him is the same setting in which Grant began his Above: Main street’of Point Pleasant, O0., where President Harding will speak on April 27, and J. B. Winspear with carriage springs trom Gen- Below: The Grant's father worked as a tanner, and the house at Point Pleasant where G life; some of the same tregs and some of the same houses that stood thero 100 years.ago; and the same sort of callous-handed villagers; and the same quiet contentment. The life. and environment of the baby Cummins differs not at all from the life of the baby Grant, except at times his parents may go to a movie show in Néw. Richmond. On the same wretched road over which the father of Grant drove a team for Page, the tanner, today ‘the/ father) of Merrell placed in vaults of the Polish govern- ment. bank, Cummins drives a truck for Win- spear, the merchant, building in which General Little Maney; Much Health The :-circumstances of ‘the >Cum~ minses are-like.the circumstances of the. Grants. : Not much money, buc health. and contentment; wholesome fobd and: comfortable clothing and wood in the wood-shed. Ang Point Pleasant\is proud that time. ‘has not. changed much - its looks or its ways of living.’ They say it is as if Providence wanted it left as it' was 100° years ago, like a vil- lage. that chad’ gone to sleep and hadn't changed, so that Americans might see from’ what humble hbegin- nings great mon may rise in Amer- ica. Once Point Pleasant dreamed of greatness. It boasted several pork houses and a tobacco warehouse and a tannery on Indjan street, in which Grant’s father worked. And there was a pottery and a factory that made clay-pipes. The village was a port of call for all boats plying the Ohio between Pittsburgh and the Missipp- ippi, and its pork and leather: and pottery were known far and wide Railroads Never Came, . But the railroads never came to Point Pleasant, and industrial enter- |] prise deserted it, and its young men began going away to the cities and it was left drowsing hera in the hills, unchanged, except for the gaso- line-filling station on the highway and the automobile agency ‘and the Fords that ply through the village. So Point Pleasant’s dream of greatness vanished; but Winspear, the storekeeper says: “Isn’t it great- ness to be known as the place where Grant was born? Isn’t-it a great com- munity that gives to the nation a great man?” : One Ambition. The village has dnly one ambition. ‘A, WORD PICTURE OF GENERAL GRANT'S HOME TOWN WHERE HOPES TO SUBMIT PRESIDENT HARDING WILL SPEAK, APRIL 27 fi | DRAINAGE CASE - | IN NEAR FUTURE ‘North Dakota is anxious ‘to submit the ‘Minnesote-North Dakota flood dam- |age case to the supreme court of the | United Statég,aé soon as ‘possible, At- tornéy General Sveinbjorn Jonnson said today; comménting on press re- ports that the supreme court. had di- rected additional testimony ‘be taken ‘May 8 in St. Paul. . It is possible, how- ever, that North Dakota may seek a continyance of the time for taking tes- timony .to.the first week in June be- cause the engineers retained. by the .}stdte will be engaged in other. work “} until that time, ! The additional testimony is desired, Attorney General Johnson said, to aié the supreme court in determining what } steps may be taken to prevent a re- currence of the overflows of ‘North Da- kota jand in Richland county caused by use of the Mustinka river in ‘Min- nesota ag a part of a crainage project, Damages also are asked by individual North Dakotans. | Prof, E. F. Chandler, of the engi- neering department ot the Wniversity of ‘North Dakota, is aiding the state in its preparation of the case, the at; torney general said. It is that the house in. which Grant was born be returned to it... Many years ago it was taken from its foun- dation, taken on an exhibition. tour, and finally presented to the state of Ohio which keeps it on the state fair ground in Columbus. “We -want it ‘back,” say the peo- ple of Point Pleasant. “Here it ‘be- longs. We want to place it where it stood before and it. shall be a shrine for tha nation. What will people say when they come here on’ April: 27 and discover that our most valuable credsure has been taken away from us?” 3 | TRAGEDYAN UNVEILING | By NEA Service, E Washington, April 26—There is an element of tragedy in the belated com- pletion and unveiling of the huge Grant memorial ‘here.cn April 27. ¢ The man who designed and executed the striking statuary groups—Henry Merwin Shrady—died in New York on April 12, two weeks before his great |- work was to be dedicated. His phys- ical breakdown was attributed large- to his workon the memorial, which is, great life work. MUST BEGIN DRILLING. Lemmon, S.'D., April 26.—Whether the oil boomin the Lemmon district will peter out’ or develop wells de pends upon action of the next week for the leaseg of the Royal DutchShell Oil. 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