The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 23, 1922, Page 4

! PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN” - : - - DUAN PAYNE COMPANY i . LOGAN PAY carcaco® DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited wo it or not otherwise credited 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 CIRCULATION Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN AVANTE Daily by carrier, per year. ; Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). t Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).. 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota....... seeeee 6,00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established’ 1873) EB THE OLDEST MYSTERY The Swastika, pictured here, is the oldest symbol in the world.) Also, it is the oldest mystery. You find it engraved on primi- tive tools, dug up in the mounds J § of the Ohio, Tennessee and Mis-| sissippi mound-builders, who inhabited America| before the Indians. The katie °180-tala? in the most ancient ruids of Alaska, Mexico, Brazil, Egypt, Baby- lonia, China, Japan, India, Assyria, Phoenicia, Persia, Tibet, Greece —and nearly every other try in the world, including obscure islands. uddha, according to myth, carved the Swastika on*the soles of his sandals, and oriental statues of:him often have their feet decorated to cor-| regpond. The Swastika is the international symbol for good luck and general welfare —like our horse- shge, the negro’s rabbit-foot and the “chung-meng- : fufgoi” sign that is painted on the door of nearly | every Chinese home. | The Swastika’s origin is unknown. But arch- aeglogists, the ditch-diggers of science, have} |salvaging their cargoes by divers, says the Lusi-| ‘men who will sail May 25 from Philadelphia, to; lit, men admit no impossibilities. Will the salvag- except by exploding into atoms, it does the oppo- site—remains afloat in space like a toy balloon. does not happen. JOKER There scems to be a joker in nearly everything. |American farmers in March, latest month for which Uncle Sam has compiled complete figures, exported 22,668,000 bushels of corn, compared with only 13,371,000 bushels in March, 1921. That looks like big news. Here is the joker: Corn exports increased 70 per cent in bushels, but total money paid for the corn increased only 33 per cent. Win on one hand, lose on the other. CRUELTY A law, to curb trained animal acts and possibly prohibit them entirely, is being framed by the British parliament. The idea back of the movement is a good one— that trained animal acts are based on cruelty and usually are without educational value. ‘As old circus men put it, “All that’s necessary to train a wild animal is kindness and a red-hot iron.” Killing animals for sport, or training them for exhibition at a profit, is a survival of savagery. If England passes the proposed law, she should who recently butchered tigers and elephants in India. It may be sensible to: kill man-eating tigers, but.that was not his motive. LUSITANIA H. Ensor, expert at raising sunken ships or tania is so far under water that each square foot of her is subject to a pressure of.10'tons. If 80, | the giant steel ship probably is crushed like an! eggshell. Big weight to lift. Pressure would mash a diver to a pulp. ba These trifling obstacles do not worry ambitious attempt to salvage millions of dollars worth of gold believed to be in the Lusitania. Gold is the universal and eternal lure. Seeking, ers succeed? Maybe, not. But it is only by at- tracked it back to the beginning of the Bronze Age, 4500 years ago. “For all we know, the Swastika may have been , old’ then. ‘How ‘did it spread over the earth and become) known in countries that are supposed to have had | no*knowledge of each, other in ancient times? Christopher Columbus unquestionably knew the Swastika, possibly had it painted on his ships for luek. Yet, mark:that’it was used by the mound- builders..in. America icenturies before Columbus was born. How did they get it? The only plausible explanation of the universal use of the Swastika comes from China, fhe Chinese — who claim ‘that their explorer, | Fa-sang, visited America 1060 years before Col- umbus — believe that civilization travels in an endless wave—up 30,000 years, then down 30,000, | so"on forever. That’s why Chinese mythology tells of “flying men” far back in antiquity. The earth may be 1,700,000,000 years old, says Prof. William Duane, of Harvard Medical School. He bases his calculation on radio-activity. Regardless of the number of years, queer things | are buried back there in the past, as shown by the Swastika, oldest mystery. INDIAN : Big Bill, Caddo, Indian weighing 624 pounds, walks into a store,at-Gracemount, Oklahoma, and; orders his summer clothes. For the many who, wquld pay 50 cents to see Bill’s huge body in a sideshow: The trousers will measure eight ‘feet arpund the waist and Bill’s new shirt takes 10 yards of cloth. | ¥Fortiinate for Big Bill, that he lives in modern times. @bmancestors wauld have measured him fog a wooden kimono. -We, are more tolerant, in 1922, having stolen nedti¥ everything the Indians; had that was worth taking. ‘When the stealing takes place in Europe, Asia or, Africa, we sputter piously. ; | e i ¥ MORTGAGED You used: to hear a lot of talk about the evil of! gding into debt.’ As recently as 15 years ago, a man was considered foolish if he signed his fu- tufe earnings over to the money-leaders, regard-_| less of the purpose he had in mind. A mortgage! was such a fetish that no Lincoln J. Carter melo-|strung up to the judicial yardarm whenever cap- drama was complete without it. hat idea has been patted in the face by the grave-digger’s spade. Common now, for people should be willing to venture their all —in some in- tozborrow money or buy on the installment plan. Wsually, it is a foolish system: when applied tothe very claims for which should be sufficient to luxuries that the buyer cannot afford. But it is an excellent system for acquiring bonds, homes, furniture and the like. By going into debt, many people become rich who other- wige never would save a penny. Fi F FLOATING Rodger Dolan writes, wants to know what keeps the earth from falling as it floats in space. No mystery about it. What we call “down” is! “lp” to Chinese on the opposite side of the earth. Ifrearth fell downward under our feet, Chinese would say, “The globe is rising, carrying us with ike an elevator.” Obviously, if the earth fell, it would have to fall outward in all directions. Unable to do that, tempting the seemingly impossible that men oc-! casionally attain exceptional success. Confidence is nine-tenths of. victory, \ AIR-FLIVVERS ' Bert Acosta flies his Curtiss “Wildcat” air- plane 208 miles an hour. This is at Mineola, L.: 1, during a “spring flying meet”—the 1922-model | county fair. The speed broke the world’s record’ by five miles. official, so doesn’t count in the records. # What interested the crowd" most’ was the Murh- mert, world’s smallest airplane. It weighs 550 pounds, has a wing spread of 18 feet and meas- ures only 12 feet the other way. That is close ‘to the universally desired flying flivver. All that’s needed now is quantity produc- tion and a device that will make the plane rise or descend perpendicularly instead of having to “take off” by gliding over a long landing field. This missing link will be found. Unluckily for Acosta, it was not) 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 imporeact lanes which are being discussed in the press of the day. STILL SHEARING LAMBS The. latest jest in Wall Street concerns the bucket shop operator who bitterly complained to! the lawyer who visited him in jail that “the news- | papers are ruining business.” Despite all press exposes, however, swindlers are’ taking. half-billion dollars per-annum of the people’s money, ‘according to Congressman E. E. Denison of Illinois. He is urging passage in the House of-a “blue sky” law to curb these all-too- numerous “Wallingfords” and. “Blackie Daws.” The methods ‘of these crooks are surprisingly simple. Whatever form the “graft” takes, it is pre- dicated on an appeal to cupidity. “Promise ’em everything” is the motto of the unholy crew. Each year thousands, probably tens of thousands, pay for these promises with cold cash. Later on they add to the purchase price heartburnings, regret, sorrow and sometimes death. © | No mercy should be shown the rascals who stage| these buccaneering expeditions. They are finan- cial pirates who should be, metaphorically at least, tured. Nevertheless, it is astonishing that so many stances, their lifetime savings—on propositions, prove them fraudulent.—Seattle Times. GREAT BURDEN ON THE PRESS Alexander Robertson and Miss Mary Culberson are doing all they can to keep-their romance quiet. Mr. Robertscn’s part in this plan so far has been! to involve the British embassy and after a three-| hour conference with its representatives to dash out of a garage past a small army of reporters and | photographers in a roadster appropriated from the! jembassy attaches. If the reporters do not give) \the couple some publicity under these circumstan- ‘ces it will bring to mind the cub who returned from a wedding and said he didn’t get a story be-| cause the bridegroom didn’t show up and they As usual, it seems amazing that the impossible, hand a copy of it to the young prince of Wales, |~ Ipit at Mulhaith? jown coal to his-.own yards. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BY MILTON BRONNER European Manager for NEA Service. Berlin, May 23.—There is still a foolish impression abnoad in Amer- ica that the great war was fought for the aggrandizement of the House of Hohenzollern and, especially, of Emperor Wilhelm the Seaond of Ger- many. Come here to the immense capital of the country, or visit the Ruhr Valley and you will find many who will swear the conflict was fought for the enrichment of the House of Stinnes and that Hugo the First, Only and Unique, is really the uncrowned king of this so-called re- public. 7 i King Hugo the First is everything Wilhelm Hohenzollern was not. Wil- helm was blond and erect. Hugo is black and stooping.’ Wilhelm was talkative as a hungry parrot. Hugo is silent as the traditional clam. Wil- helm sought the limelight. Hugo flees from it. Wilhelm loved to be photo- graphed. ‘Hugo avoids the snap shntters as if they had the black plague. x ‘Wilhelm liked to doll up in glad rags. Hugo wears the same old black suit and claps an old “dice-box” on his head. Wilheim made a bluff at appreciating all the arts. The sonly picture Hugo ‘likes is the lithograph of a factory with the smoke pouring fron all its chimneys: Their single’*resemblance is that the Hohenzollern’ pdwer was found- ed when tho family made themselves masters of the Marck of Branden- burg and (ther Stinnes ipower. was founded when théy got hol gt a coal : > How Stjnnesy Stanted: , Back in Nopal On: times iMatthias Stinnes ct the execdl 18. bdtted the family fortuness ;/ The! him had worked on tha Ruhr and the Rhine. They.;Wore ghippfhg people, engaged. in hauling produce up and down the riveté“in the @ays before steamshins and; railways, ; ¢ To Matthias. came-a vision. Coal was supplanting’ wood’ as: afuel, He would combine three ‘businosses— shipping, coal digging and coal sell- ing. \His own ships would carry his It was a simple formula, but he worked it out long before his heighbors. Everything his famous grandson has done has .boon:,to ‘expand this jformula until now the Stinnes enter- prises, instead of being confined to the Ruhr region, are. spread all over Germany, and extend into Finland, Sweden, Ausiria and Switzerland. ‘The capital with which (Matthias Stinnes ‘startel his career was ex- }{aetly 1210 depreciated Rhonish Ger- man thalers. But he was enterpris- ing. | He was the first. to .introduco the steamship itfo the Rhine hauling business. At his deathtin 1845 he pos- sessed four coal mines, a shipyard, a flect of coal carrying’ ships and barges and 29 coal yards where the t A WHLE ACO WITH THE SPADE YOY Said ou ACTOGETHER 3! didn’t have the wedding.—Kansas City Star, Stannes before ‘ WHEN Mou WENT OUT WERS GOING TO MAKE DOIN]G SOMETHING ELSE “HUGO, FIRST’ SUPPLANTS KAISER AS GERMANY’S UNCROWNED RULER fuel was supplied to the purchasing |and especially in radical circles, is community, All the Stinnes family had to do was to keep the property together and grow up with the country. No boom district in America ever saw an increase in wealth, population and industry similar to that of the Rhen- ish Westphalian region centered about the waters of the Rhine and the Ruly. This was e3fecially marked after Germany’s victorious war with France in 1870, This gave her Loraine, whose precious iron was added to the boundless coal of the Ruhr, Cities sprang up like magic. Unaffected by War Today even—with Germany defeat- ied, Loraine back in Frencn sadus au world business in the doldrums— ithere are few scenes like those to be witnessed in the Stinnes home coun- itty. Take all the towns around Pitts- burg in America and Birmingham in England, multiply them. by tive aud ‘you have the Ruhr. It was amid such surroundings that ‘Hugo Stinnes grew up, The coal and smoke seem to have entered his blood and colored his hair. ‘That's why Dr, Herman: Binckmeyer, a noted German publicist, called Stinnes an cnimated lump of coal and a Ger- man newspaper cal.ied him an Assyr- ‘ian king.’ His black hair, his dead white face, his curved nose make many think him of Jewish blood. ut be isn’t. Back to Luther the Stinnes have been Evangelical Protestants. Started Early In his carly years Stinnes had a career similar to that of many sons tr American. business men. He went .to a commercial school in Coblenz, got'>some practical work in a coal mine and completed his education a’ a mining academy in Essen, iis At 19 he entered the Stinnes firm and at 23, emulating his grandfather, he struck out for himself. Character- istically’ ho called his firm: “Hugo Stinnes, Incorporated.” His capital was 50,000 marks. Even 29 years ago that wasn’t a large sum in the Ruhr but it sufficed. S innes went forward from succoss to success. He did not excite public imagination, nor stir it to fear, anger or admiration. He was just one of many German business men who were g up their coin. He. lived plainly and simply in his native Mulheim, His office was and still is just a little room ‘with a desk and a few chairs. The same simplicity rules today in his offices in Berlin. The war both gave ‘Stinnes his opportunities and made him well known. Stinnes had in his -hands the things a war-making nation needs the mest. Monarchist circles became aware of Stinnes’ existence., (He was often jealled to Berlin for consultation. He became a valued adviser on indus- trial mbhilization of German resour-) tes, And what is remombered against ,him most bitterly today in’ Germany, [ EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO| HOLD ON, WIFEY, lL DION'T SAY X WAS GOING TO "MAKE GARDEN? 1. SAID X WAS GOING: TO "DiS In. THE GARDEN" THAT'S WHAT CB x sao th that he advocated jlicies that gave Germany such a black name. They say he urged tho submarine war to th3 limit, They say he ad- yocated dismantling of Belgian mills. And finally they say he advocated the wholesale deportation of Belgian ‘mun and women who were carried in- to Germany to replace the labor Ger- many. lost when she sent her last sons, to the war. : since tne armistice Stinnes has played an even larger part in Ger- many’s life. He has brought about combination after combination in big business. He has formed both hor- izontal trusts—in which one commod- ity like coal is dealt. with—and verti- cal trusts in which, for instance, iron ore is taken and put through every pinocess from pig iron up to and in- cluding a thousand articles manufac- tured of steel or of cast iron. ‘Stinnes’ name appears in the edi- torials and news columns of the Ger- man papers and is heard on the lips of political speakers as much as that wof the ex-kaiser in former days, "ndeed he has accomplished some- thing no Hohenzollern ever aciievet, He has added a new word to the dic- tionary, When an editor writes that a business has been “Stinnesfort,” everybody in Germany knows it means the business has been gobbled up by one of the Stinnes trusts. He has been cal'ed hard names such as “vampire of the proletariat” and “im- moral opportunist.” Ambition. Unknown ‘ ‘Nobody krows what his real am- bition is. Some tims ago a German lor, leader, after a, somewhat heat- ed conference with him, bluntly ask- ed: ‘Why do you work 9 hard to pile up the money?” Stinnes’ answer was: “For my children.” There aro six of, them and the boys are in business with him. ‘Stinnes has never revcaled his real |’ ADVENTURE OF | \ THE TWINS | e———_. viciee Melted LTE, ate By Olive Barton Roberts “What do you want us to do?” ask- ed Nancy, when Mr. Peerabout, the Man-in-the-Moon, had finished telling them about his enemy, old Comet Le ©E3. ‘ “Well,” said Mr, Peerabout, getting up from the floor where he had been sitting and going over to his old cup- board—the one where he kept his ruby salt-shaker with the magic pow- der. “I want you and Nick to go and find him. I'd do it myself, only I have to stay here and run the moon.” “Is he hard to catch?” asked Nick excitedly. 5 “Hard!” exclaimed Mr. Peerabout, turning suddenly ‘and throwing up his hands. “Hard! As he rides a shoot- ing-star wou may judge that for your- selves. Greased lightning is a slow freight train beside him, my dears. Yes, if you want to catch him you'll have to hurry.” “But,” protested. Nancy, “our magic Green Shoes only go a hundred miles a minute} Mr. Peerabout. We'll never catch him.” “Ha!” winked old Peerabout, laying his finger beside his nose in a comical} manner. “Just you qait.” iHe turned again to his cupboard and, reaching in, brought out another shaker like the ruby one, only this one was blue instead of red, and sparkled like frost on diamonds. “Oh!” gasped Nancy, “how .beautl- “My!” declared Nick. fine!” fe “Humph!” ‘said Mr. Peerabout, squinting one eye. “This old thing! Why, it’s just made out of an old sap- phire that I picked.up one day old in the Golden Forest.” The Twins then remembered. that valuable things weren't much thought of in that queer place. And that things we think are. worthless moon-people prize highly. “The real value of this is in the in- side,” said Mr. Peerabout, tapping the blue shaker proudly. “It contains an- other kind of magic powder, the kind that straightens crooked ‘things. If a little of this would touch Comet-Legs his legs would straighten cnd he could never ride his shooting-star “again.” (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service.) “Isn't. that ONLY TWO BIDS RECEIVED Ft, Ya’es, ND, May 23.—Bids for the purchase: of a hundred or more Sicux benefit issue 2-year-old heifers. preferably white-faced, w2re opened at the Agency Monday. Only two bids had been entered. W. lL Walker of maka submitted a bid of $43.08, and J. G. Brady of Aberdeen bid of $:9 “nd $47. The final award will b2 made by the Indian office. Mr. Brady was present at the opening of bids. TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1922 self, When he speaks in the Reich- stag, where he is one of the repre- sehiatives of the German ‘People’s party, it is with a high reedy voice which is unimpressive. And his ut- terances are mainly about business matters. By Tein Bint i 1\ was spotty interestad ‘to ‘tind!’ out’ how he gotiilong with the/nearly‘ million men who work for Stinnes'or the enterprises in which he is a large’ shareholder. ae He himself is quoted in a labor pamphlet -as saying: “When we want to undcrtake a big business proposi- tion we ask two questions first of all. First, who is the man who will direct it? Second, whefe' ‘are the thorough workmen? .Ifjone can’t find both, one lets the thing, pone. We must have this division of work in tho future, too. We must leave to the undertaker of the enterprise what is his—the direction. And we must strive to see that the workers get the greatest possible benefit out of the enterprise.” “Ford of Germany.” Some people call him the Ford of Germany, They tell you that he leads in paying good wages. They say he led in building homes and workmen’s colonies and was one of the first to institute workmen’s com- mittees which could recite their grievances to the bosses. But I found the great labor paper, Vorwearts, was opposed to ‘Stinnes as anti-social. As one of the editorial staff explained to me: “Stinnes pays good wages, but with the understand- ing that he is going to demand big prices. He thus seeks to set his work- men up against the nation as a whole. He seeks to segregate his men. We want fair pay for his workmen, but we also want fair play for the whole people of Gérmany.” i (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service.) In his next story Bronner tells how Stinnes built up his huge empire. Radio doesn’t work as well in sum~ mer as in winter. Neither do we, If the James boys were alive today they would be selling Fa 4 Tho ex-kaiser’s friends, are .“‘wor- ried about his mental state “he is reading the Bible.” A movie star is often merely one boosted to the skies. is planning to leave Si-' Oh, Ishii?, “Japan beria,” says Ishii, Dentists say,,wdthen have thé bast, teeth; but men,say,it.is because they are in the open more. You never hear a man brag about how good a boy he was. The modern youth tells her Alad- din’s lamp was nothing compared to her two lamps, Many a_ hard-boiled man _ gets addled. “Love one another” is a fine slo- gan for the June newlyweds. If it takes all kinds of people to make a world, this world is certainly well made. The Genoa qonference has moved, but we won't second the motion. “Where will women stop?” worries a ect er In the middle of the side- walk. At California University, 20 out of 22 graduates are engag2d. How the other two must suffer! Scientists say a mosquito has 22 teeth.. And how many hand drills? Golfing and fishing are a combina- tion in restraint of trade, It never occurs to foreign coun- tries that they could reduce their debts by paying a little. “Weod May Head University”— bexdline. What's in a name? Voliva’ says he knows exactly where heaven is, but he still sticks jaround Zion City. “Asy'ums ar? adding brass bands The cattle are to be delivered by|to their enuipment’—news item. Wo Jure 29, con't blame them.