The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 1, 1922, Page 2

PAGE THOUSANDS AREFACING - STARVATION Ukrainians’ Hope of Better Crops This Summer Seems to Have Been Lost WAS ‘GRANARY OF EUROPE’ Odessa, May 1.—Fear of starva- tion in the Ukraine, once regarded: as the. richest farming country in the world, has become so. acute that thousands of pedsants are abandon-| ing everything they possess - and flocking, ‘to the cities, where they hope ito eke out/an existetce until all danger of requisition by the So- viets hag passed. Hope for better ‘crops this summer @eems ito: have been lost, Merchants here who formerly sold agricultural machinery in the Ukraine are making no efforts to dispose of their ‘stock. “There will be no crops to speak of this year, and next season it will be worse,” they say. The Ukraine, commonly called the “granary of Europe” produced nearly 20,000,000 tons of wheat and cereals dn pre-war years. Its annual yield of potatoes averaged 6,000,000 tons. In 1914 it marketed 27,000,000 head of horned cavtle 8,100,000 horses and 6,300,000 pigs. It also exported coal, iron and manganese, dairy products ‘and blooded horses. ..; q Tho ‘Ukraine, twice as lange as the British Isles and with ar war population of 4,000,000, isfast be- coming a desolate waste, according to the refugees. The only reason jit has held together until now, they say, 1s ecaiise of rich stores of grain acou- mulatedin the days of prosperity, which -were shielded from the Soviet Commissarg on ‘the plea that they must'be used for seed. Now that these @re exhausted, the rich, black earth of the Ukraine must lie idie and worthless. . ‘ Included among those who face starvation are half a million German colonis‘s, descendants of Germans who settled in the country more than 100 years ago by invitation of Cather- fine the Great. In the German colony of Gros Leibenthal, near Odessa, one city of 19,000 population is eaid al+ ready to be in the grip of famine. In this section some 30,000 acres of grain ‘was sown anDually before the war. Today ‘there is not a sheaf of wheat to be seen, In another section where 80,000 acres formerly were sown, there is now 100 acres under culti- “BOUNCERS” EMPLOYED BY POLITICIANS ‘Budapest? ‘May 1.—A’ ‘new . occu- pation, open only to young huskies not afraid to fight at the drop of a cab- bage, has come into being here as a result of intensive campaigning for the pending elections: Candidates opposing the govern- ment have met with such pronounced hostility that they now employ as many athletic young men as their campaign funds will permit to act as bouncers, body guards, spotters and shields for the speakers. Opposition candidates decided \ to protection after dozens of their meetings had been broken up by bands of the notorious “Awakening Hunga- rians,”, who acqured remarkable skill at heaving cabbages and soft toma- toes, ill-smelling bombs and occasion- ally bricks during fits of Political en- thusiasm. 4he pouncers are stationed at vari- ous points through the hall and gal- leries and on the speaker’s platform. Those in the audience attempt to quell disturbances at the source, but should. a .atray. vegetable break loose and head for the-stage, there is al- ways some of the. hired help ready to jump in front of: the speaker for an instant. On the rare occasions when there are no disturbances, the huskies act as claquers. In many of the gather- ings:this is said to require almost as much courage as speaking, for an out- burst of applause from any section of ~the house is sure to bring a collection of -missiles. HONEYHOON ~— INTERRUPTED Woman Tried To Punish Daugh- ter-in-Law For Second Marriage Paris,. May. 1.—A woman's attempt to punish her daughter-in-law for mar. rying again after her husband’s death in the war ‘has just been exposed here. An elderly woman in Touraine in- formed the Ministry of War that she thad recognized her son in one of six Photographs published by the newspa- pers of insane soldiers, former. prison- ers of war in Germany returned after the armistice in a complete state of amnesia, unaware of their identity. The wife of the missing soldier having long ago given, up her husband as dead, had just been married a sec- ond time and in the midst of her new honeymon she was instructed to come to Paris and identify her first hus- band. _ Greatly perturbed, she visited the hospital accompanied by her mother-in- law who greeted “her son” effusively. “That is not my husband,” shouted - the young woman and acquaintances of the missing soldier summoned also failed to recognize him, some of them saying that there was ‘not the slight- est resemblance. g The older woman broke down and told the officials: y “I’ve known right along he wasn’t The diagram shows the difference in the height above sea level of the St. Lawrence river and the various Great Lakes which the lakes-to-ocean waterway as planned would connect. ‘Upper left and lower right: One of the locks in the Welland Canal around ‘Niagara Falls now being enlarged by the Canadian government. ‘Upper. right: an ocean freighter at Montreal as far inland as ocean vessels now navigate, s By NEA Service. ‘Washington, May 1.—Backers of the proposal to connect the Great Lakes with the Atlantic by a deep channel have high ‘hopes that the ‘Harding administration will soon take definite and favorable action. Charles T. ‘Craig of Duluth, Minn., executive director of the Great. Lakes-St. Law- rence Tidewater Association, who was recently here in the interests of the Project said: “The next step we look for is an agreement between the United States and ‘Canada covering the deyelopment and use of the waterway. Thig can ‘be accomplished either by negotiations between the executives of the two countries or by legislative action of ‘Congress and the Canadian Parlia- ment.” Opposition Organized. Meanwhile opposition to the projec: ig getting better organized. (Opponents ‘of the measure, largely from New York and New England, agree that the plan is feasible from an engineering viewpoint, but declare that it isn’t worth the price. They point out that the tentative cost of engineering work—somewhere between $250,500,000 and $500,000,000 —is only a beginning in the price to ‘be paid for a 2-foot' channel from Chicago and Duluth to Montreal. This is because the maximum depth of Great Lakes channels is between 21 and 22 feet. What Plans Call For. The project, as at present outlined, is to enlarge the Welland Canal with locks 800 feet long, 80 feet wide and 25 feet deep. This would permit large vessels to pass around Niagara Falls. Work on the'WeHand Canal is now be- ing done \by the Canadian government. In addition, the proposal includes dredging and lock buitding from Lake Ontario to Montreal, where about 40 miles of canal operation is required. This 40-mile stretch is now navigable only to ‘boats drawing about. 14 feet of water... From Montreal to the At- lantic there is plenty of water for large boats. With visions of having their prod- ucts carried from Great Lake ports to all parts of the world by -boat, the following 18 states have committed themselves to support the project, by legislative getion or declaration of governors: ‘Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Missourl, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Da- kota, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah and Oregon, HUGE SUMS IN PERUVIAN GOLD ARE LYING IDLE ‘Lima, Peru, May 1 — ions of dollars jn Peruvian gold, lying idle in government depositories there a3 a currency reserve, will be placed at imterest in New York and London un- der legislation adopted by the Peru- vian Congress to establish a federal reserve bank and revise the country’s! financial system. The reserve bank act, patterned after similar legislation in the United States, provides for ‘an elastic cur- rency which cannot ‘be tampered with. Notes of.the bank will be pay- eble in gold in Peru, and in gold drafts in New York and London. The institution’s reservoir of credit ‘will de available lto any Peruvian bank: in an emergency, thus permitting priv- ate financial institutions to extend greater commercial accommodations from their gold resources. Dr. W. W. Cumberland, American financial representative of the Peru- vian government, will be a perma- nent member ofthe new bank's board of directors. ee ANT SERICE DAILY PHOTO @ BISMARCK. NORTH DAKOTA w my son but I wanted to teach his wife a lesson, she had no business getting married again.” Kaowh all over the Northwest for Quality @ MAIL US YOUR FILMS ® THIS WILL SET YOU STRAIGHT ON GRE ‘AT LAKES TO THE OCEAN WATERWAY THE PRAIRIE HOME By Clell G. Gannon (Former Pupil Art Institute of Chicago) The casual visitor to eur treeless, rock-strewn plains must no doubt wonder why the natural stone should not form a mor economical and con-' sistent building material for the ma- jority of people who there reside; it is apparent at least ,that it would be more picturesque and be more in harmony with thd environment of which, it is a part. “And yet it is not so strange when one comes to consid- er that most of the people responsible for the form of architecture now in vogue were. born and reared in the traditions of another community. It is not strange that these immigrants and pioneers and their sons, should bring with thém the customs of their grandfathers and more so in view of th fact that the railroad followed the tracks of their prairie schooners and ox-carts, ready to bring to them the lumber that they needed. On the oth- proper environment. A ipalm tree set *}on a Dakota hillside would ‘be inter- esting from a scientific viswpoint but not as a work of art. A sagebrush, beautiful enough in its proper setting, would be a curiosity were it placed among the tropical effulgenc: of the Garden of Allah. In order therefore, to be in harmony with its setting, a Plant grown and cultivated for es- thetic purposes in any given locality should correspond’ with those that the same locality originally produced.* In like “manner a log cabin on the west- ern plains (exception boing made to the wooded river bottoms) is almost as appropriate (though more durable) as an eskimo hut on the Sahara desert, and a finished structur> of lumber, though somewhat of a compromise is almost as out of place. Log cabins are certainly appropriate and beauti- ful in the timbered regions: of our country or of any other. The adob:, or modified adobe house of the South- er hand, had they be2n separated from the East with no other means of trav- el than those they themselves first employed, the story of prairi2 archi- tecture would have been vastly dif- ferent. Forced by necessity they would have adapted the means nearest at hand and constructed their homes from the native material which would have been either rogk or earth. Earth, in the form of sod, was used by th settlers before the advent of the rail- road and by the northern Indians (or some of them) in prefersnce to rocks perhaps, because it could be assembled quicker, with. less labor, and the chinking did not present as. much of a problem as that of stone. However the sod was. neither practical nor durable enough for¥a refined perm- anent dwelling and so, had the rail- road staid away and the people re- mained and multiplied, the inevitable result would have been that the plains- man, would have turned to stone for his building material. And because stone is the native and a picturesqu2 material it is some day going to be adopted when the people themselves have grown truly adapted to their sur- roundings. Buildings and landscape gardens, the work of men’s hands, should be in harmony with their surroundings if the paramount achievement of beauty ig to be attained. To be in harmony they must resemble in material, struc. ture and contour the landscape in which they are placed. To be har- monious with that landscape mans that they fit in asa part of the whole; it means that they are restful and quiet, that they strike a true note and do not jar with their surroundings. Beauty, no matter how perfect, takes on the commonplace when out of its west has an individuality: and charm in its native background. Tho grass thatched hut is picturesque ‘enough in its tropical environment—but twist them. all around so that the log house comes on’ the desert, the ‘mud-house in the forest and we have an order of things ag out of place asa Montana cowboy dressed:.in the clothes of a New York preacher. ~ Be What we nectl is a renaissance in our plains ‘architecture. Can you im- agine anything ‘more appropriate or beautiful than a stone house, made of rough stone, full of windows to gather in the western sunshine, with low gabled rocfs and sweeping out- lines, nestled among the native hills? It would seem as if+it had dropped out of.the sky, or had been there since the creation so far as natural harmony would) be concerned. . What we need: is something after the fash- fon of the Swiss. chalet, though it could be original enough when adapt- ed to the prairie country. The prairie structure must ‘be low; the tall castle does very well on the banks of the ‘Rhine or the braes o' the Clyde or wherever nature has placed moun- tains or highlands, but it would not do on the. plains. As to the interior of thia stone house it cap be made as at-. tractive as any other house of any other material, and here at least wood can be used as much as wanted with- out loss of the architectural principle, But maka plenty of windows in the (prairie home—make it nearly all win: dows. Why do people. continue to exist in dungeons, caves and dugouts when the western sky is flooded with golden sunshine which may be had for the taking? Sunshine is conducive to health, ‘humor and happiness— therefore let us ‘not shut it out of our HEY! HOW’S THE WEATHER UP THERE? Major Page, sbid.to be the smallest man in the world, recently met Earl Richter, the tallest man in Minneapolis. The major is 85, is 82 inches high and weighs 26 pounds. Richter, 29, i . is six feet seven and weighs 232. homes, where we need it most. There are a few (unhappily very few) homes in the West which por- tray this principle and a stone house can, like a wooden house, be made a good or ‘bad one. I have seen some ‘part stona houses and some barns that are very pretty, and all good wes- erners ought to know that a rough lone house is as attractive, if not more attractive, than the cut and trimmed variety bocause it carries with it the rugged elements ,that dis- tinguishes the pioneer and the rugged characteristics of a rugged land. And this also applies to fireplaces on or in the house of the wood variety. The use of stucco sounds a note a Ktthe nearer to the prairie home beau- tiful; and the Northern Pacific rail- Toad station/at Bismarck, N. D., is an admirable adaptation to a given envir- onment as well as an architectural triumph. ~And wouldn't it be unique if the state capitol of North Dakota wero built of North Dakota boulders—and if well done wouldn't it be another triumph in national dtchitecture The objection may be reasonably raised that the expense and facilities for stone building are not on a level ‘with those of the lumber type. This ig true but why should it be so? Only because of the better organization in the lumber industry. We have lum- ber yards everywhere at. our service and carpenters who know the most intricate phases of wood-working— but.alas how few are the/stonasmiths. But a demand will create a supply, our carpenters and architects are eastern trained men working “for people es- sentially eastern bred, and after all the carpenter and the architect: must supply the public with'that which the public damands. It is for the wealthier class to’ lead-the way, to build su- premely ‘beautiful houses even if at an advance in price; and to the lay- man, who with an eye for the -beauti- ful*can plan and construct his own house in his spare moments after ‘his own fashion—but alas such artistically gifted workers of the soil are few and far between. ‘And meanwhile the prairie stone canned fruits. cheese. For a warm, nourishing meal heat two Biscuits in the oven to restore their crispness; : pour hot milk over them, adding a little cream and a dash of salt. Delicious with sliced ban- anas, prunes, raisins or will be ‘neglected, or: placed in ples to make way for the plowshare, await- ing the dawn, of the new day when a generation born closer to the soil from which they: sprang and gifted with an artistic insight and a poetic nature shali discover thair usefulness, and then the stone that the builders rejected shall have literally become the head of the corner. *NOTE—Tho idea expressed in r® gard to the use of native plants in landscape gardening is, I ‘believe, in line with the remarks and sentiments on the same subject as previously ex- proased by Dr. Gilmore of the N. Dak. Historical Society. —C. G. G. SIBERIA’S ANGEL HAS PURCHASED REFUGE OF REST Village To Be Turned Into a Human Reclamation Camp For Derelicts NO MEANS OR. STRENGTH Stockholm, May 1—A refuse of ‘rest and physical rehabilitation where the human wrecks of German war prisoners from Russia and. Siberia may de treated and salvagod is being pur- chased by Miss Elsa Brandstrom, known throughout Central Europe and Russia as “the Angel of Siberia.” Miss Brandstrom is negotiating for a village in southern Germany which; she proposes to turn into a human reclamatiod camp for thé derelicts that once marched proudly under Hindenburg and other Teutonic mili- tary leaders against the Russians and were captured and sent to Siberian concentration camps. Thoy remained in Siberia till long after the world war wag over and there are still thousands of them left, free to return home if they could. But they have neither the means nor the physical strength to do so. ‘Miss Brandstrom is a young Swed- ish Red Cross nurse, the daughter of the late General Edward Brandstrom, for many years Swedish Minister to Russia under the Czar’s regime. Leaving her comfortable home in Stockholm and the aristocratic sociaf set in which she had been brought up, she led a small Red Cross exp2dition into Western Siberia and has succeed- ed in repatriating thousands of Ger- man and Austrian war prisoners. (But she found that when; the form- er soldiers reached their homes they were unable to assume thelr former. places in society. They were wrecks that had to be attended to. So she has collected a considerable fund and hopes to purchase a village and have it ready for occupancy this autumn. As to the war prisoners still wan- dering about Russfa and Siberia, many of them will never be found, and none of them will ever bo able to get back without outside aid. Miss Brand- strom proposes to continue rounding up these waifs and-briny.them to her haven of rest. z [ MANDAN NEWS _| “Turn to the hight” Scores Big Success “Turn to ‘the Right,’ the famous comedy drama written »y | Winchell Smith and John T. Haard, staged re- cently at the Palace thater as an am- ateur production by Mandan ‘Lodge s a MONDAY, MAY.1, 1922... No, 14, Knights of Pythias, proved a decided ‘hit in everyway.° _ The play itself is 1 clever thing, and ‘the members of tie cast unusually well chosen in the ’arious roles, made the most ‘of their purts. Great credit is dye to Parle W. Pet- erson: who directal the production, and while members of the cast did ‘their work well, all point to their in- struction as responsible for the suc- cess scored. Mr, Peterson, aided by John K. Kennelly 18 stage carpentar, developed.an excejlent series of atage settings in peack ‘orchard effect and the little house ox ithe hill with its miniature autombbile and window lighting. { H. H, Williams ‘served as the busi- ness manager of t}e production; Geo. H. Wilson, on the finance end, and, ‘Harry Nelson developed the-electrical effects, ~ The cast follo Joe Bascom—Art W. Holt. The Pickpocket--Roy F. Dow. 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