The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 25, 1922, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1922 THE BISMARCK::TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN : - - - Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - - MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusivoly 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. , All rights of republication, of special dispatches herein are also reserved. a MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE aily by carrier, per year $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside 5.00 Daily by mail,-outside of North Dakota...........+. 6.00 THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) oe ORIENTAL LUXURIES In shop windows and stores we see many lux- uries that make us sigh because we cannot afford | them. Most of us are millionaires at heart. That is the chief reason we have millionaires. They are the creations of the composite of national thought | and desire. It also is the reason why luxuries fascinate us,| make us pack the»movie theater where a film shows expensive gowns, jewels, costly furnishings | and other trappings of luxury. A desert sheik is fascinating because of his luxurious life—particularly the luxury of sum- moning a regiment of kowtowing servants by the mere clapping of a hand. The best that the movies can do, in picturing luxury, is tame compared with the genuine lux- uries of the ancient Orient. For instance, Abulfe the reporter-historian of Damascus 1000 years ago—wrote this doscrip- tion of the Caliph Moktader’s court in Bagdad: “Near his state officers were 7000 eunuchs. The porters and doorkeepers were in num- ber 700. Barges and boats with the most superb decorations were seen floating won the Tigris. Nor was the palace itself less splendid, in which were hung up 338,000 pieces of tapestry, 12,500 of which were of silk embroidered with gold. The carpets on the floor were 22,000. A hundred lions were brought out with a keeper to each. “Among the other spectacles of rare and stupendous luxury was a tree of gold and sil- ver, spreading into 18 larger branches, on which, and on the lesser boughs, sat a variety of birds made of the same precious metals, as well as the leaves of the tree.’ The birds warbled their natural harmony, each in its own strains, the whole being affected by the spontaneous, motions of machinery.” Editor Emperor Shih Huang Ti, builder of the Chinese | Wall, had a gorgeous palace of 1001 rooms, also a large bathing pool filled with the oldest of fine and expensive’ wines. Compared with those ancient days, the modern world does not know what luxury is. Hl And that is a mighty good thing. For the luxury of the ancients was enjoyed only! by.a few, supported by millions of slaves who toil- ed under the lash until they were exhausted and allowed to recuperate in sleep like over-worked horses and oxen. Luxury has vanished. part, has human slavery. So, too, for the most - OPPORTUNITY i China has less than 100 movie theaters, reports Lynn W. Meekins, movie export-expert. Admis- - sion averages 30 cents, of American money. No| movie theaters have been built there for five years. But the Chinese are almost as crazy over movies as they are over phonographs. Gigantic opportunity there for our film export- ers, China, with enormous undeveloped natural wealth, holds similar opportunities for nearly every other industry. The Orient is our coming export market. It will eclipse Europe as a buyer of American goods. CHINESE MOVIES Chinese movie fans are keenest for Wild West films. This is reported by Lynn W. Meekins, for- eign-trade scout for American movie magnates. Oriental theatrical taste, says he, runs to blood- and-thunder — though the Chinese are the most peaceful people on carth, despite occasional up- risings against bandit “war lords” and enemies of the Chinese Republic. You understand the psychology of that. It’s| like the mild, meek-man who dotes on red-blooded adventure stories. Most of us worship our op- posites, % POORHOUSES Abolish the poorhouse by pensioning the aged.} nessed and stored there, the levees in the south That is the slogan of Judge Thomas O’Donnell of | Will be sufficient to prevent damage. Kansas City. No one with a heart can oppose-him. Great | Britain, France and New Zealand have old-age pensions, following the new trail blazed by Den- mark in 1891. : Unfortunate, that anyone ever needs a pension in old age. For ones who do, it should be pro- vided. You. like, of course, both sides to’a question, Fifth Ave. Bldg. | | 'The other side to this is that paternalism destroys i tive and the incentive to thrift. As always, the best system would be a happy medium, pro- viding for the aged unlucky, but not enough to tempt the majority to stop saving to provide for themselves. PERMANENT f Gorman government reports it is making rapid progress at erasing all traces of Hohenzollern royalty. Chisel‘ and paint brush are removing coats-of- erms and other imperial trade-marks from public buildings and offices. Even the postage stamps are being changed. In a quiet way, this demonstrates a German desire and intention to remain republican, It is like giving away the clothing of the “dear be- parted.” Of especial interest to people who fear ‘that Germany is shadow-boxing and deep in her heart longs for the return of the Hohenzollerns. WOODSHED Mrs. Mildred Brandt, newly elected police mag- istrate, announces she will hold court in her par- lor at home, “to take less time from my domestic duties.” This is at Winslow, Ill. While a parlor may not look as impressive as 4 dusty courtroom, it is in the home, the original and greatest agency of law and order. For the mest part, courtrooms exist to rectify and punish mistakes of early home training. Many a man looks back to a youthful session in the woodshed, With father’s ‘shingle “ad! his shifting into the path of righteousness. when taken in moderate doses. GAMBLING A seat on the New York Stock Exchange sells; for $95,000. This is within $15,000 of the highest price, paid for the right to do business on the ex- change during the great speculative movement of | 1920. It is $40,000 more.than the record of 1914, a bad business year. i Wall Street farmers apparently are betting on a big crop of speculators. They are safe in making the bet, now that pros- perity is returning and everyone is due to have, more money, which burns a hole in nearly every pocket. i rig >Best of big German corporations. | i ii | | BY MILTON BRONNER European Manager for NEA Service Berlin, May 25.—One afternoon ‘Hu- go Stinnes, the business colossus of Germany, en route from his home in ‘Mulheim to Berlin spent the time va the train. reading his favorite light literaturo—the financial reports The one he had in his hand was that cf the Siemens and Halske Schuckert concern. It is one of the two great industrial electrical .trusts of Germany. Its history is the typical German one of law protected and ap- proved successful combination of big successful corporations into a super business. In this it resembles the manner in which Stinnes himself combined all his various coal and iron enterprises with those of others and brought into being the vast Rhine- Elbe Union, “Himmel!” Stinnes is reported to have said to his secretary after look- ing over the figures of the electrical trust’s report. “Those peoplo use a vast lot of coal, iron and steel in a year’s time. And they can’t ever be sure of their supply. Why not build a@ New combination, a trust of trusts, ever seen?” Hee He ActsQuickly 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 botti sides of importart issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. | HARNESSING THE MISSOURI { For years the project of utilizing the water: of the Missouri river for power purposes and to irrigate parts of the Slope country where rain- fall is insufficient, has been a pleasant dream. tured the possibilities of it, but virtually nothing |has been done toward. putting it into effect. It has been regarded as a visionary scheme which might become a reality in some future gencration when immense sums of money were available, for it. . But North Dakotans are just beginning to, awaken to the fact that money is available for: it—$34,000,000 to get down to figures—and that the scheme is not a beautiful dream but some-| thing that may become a reality in the very near future if sufficient energy is put into the organi- zation work. Next month an irrigation congress will be! held at Bismarck to consider. the situation. Here, , kota and Montana, i) béen. derived from the sale of public lands’and is set aside for irrigation or drainagg! work,. It cannot -be spent for any. other ‘purpose, dt 8 available for some comprehensive and feasibl j Engineers who . have river are convinced:¥) nessed and used:;for’bi through the construction of dams and reservoirs. The surplus water would make fertile hun- dreds of thousands of: acres of land which is now of very doubtful value, and it would be an im- mense source of supply for cheap power through- out the western half of North Dakota. And not the least important feature is the fact that these threc states will not only find no opposition from all the other states bordering the Missouri and Mississippi, but will have their hearty co-operation. The levee system for con- trelling floods has proved insufficient. Every spring disastrous floods occur along the Missis- sippi, and cause losses running into millions of dollars, and southern engineers are now con- vinced that the whole policy of flood control as! followed for nearly a century, has been wrong, and that flood control should begin at the source. The place to prevent floods in Louisiana is in} North Dakota and Montana and the upper part of the Ohio river. If the flood waters are har- For that reason, the southern states will be found heartily supporting any move to put into} \effect: a comprehensive irrigation plan for the/ upper Missouri The possibilities of this irrigation congress |should be self-evident from these facts. It may ;mark the launching of one of the most important | |prejects in the history of the development of the state.—Fargo Forum, Theorists have played with the. idea and pic- th idynamos or turbine: jfits’ or telephone ‘With St'naes to think,-to dream, is to act. .He nto; touch .with the electrical -con . He showed» them how his coal said ron and gtee2l, add- ed to their tecHhical’ skill &nd inven- tions and patents, would make a more successful busimess than hegore. st was not long: Defore® ie’ brought about a: com! . of thelf Rhine-ibe Union and. thi ‘Biemens pnd Halske Schuckert, concern. it ig known as the Sleneg§ gil Elbe-Selsuckers ‘Union. | It is 4 ippeakes one dizzy contemplate its sizeand its multi- farious activities, “It has a-capitaliza- tion of about,.a} billign:, marks » And thereis. very little if any. water in is. staat Therein it differs ‘from*%dur gigan- tic trusts. This German® capitaliza- tion is honestlytrepresented by actual properties. in suporabundance. agreement t ss drew! up~ locks these united concerns together until the year 2000," all of, which shows that Stinnes: is: buildingsfor a: long time ahead, for a time m.he hopes 'Stinnes’ grandsons willbe’ industrial princes in a Germany. that will more than have fully recovered from her defeat in the great war. ® In a previous article I outlined the many activities of the Rhine-Elbe Union, The Sicmens Schuckert concern, even — before jStinnes stuck a finger in the pie, practically entered the life of every German. It built and controlled sub- ways in Berlin and sold. every kind of electric light glohes. One could order from it a small electrical tool or a complete lighting and motor nlant with the very latest thing in If you wanted to shop for wirele VERETT i RUE Give mea TRANSFER, PLEASES. You RLY HEY! THAT SCRAP OF PAPER AVD THERELLC BE SOME sceasl ‘Hugo, First” Locks Industries In Hi [ae a The" and Halske- | tefegraph out: | stems" or any ono | ef a hundred ingenious electrical de- vieos this concern could and would deliver the goods. It had grown great because of the genius of two men. ~Theirs is as much a fairy story. of business life as that of George Westinghouse or Thomas A, Edison in similar fields in America.oil! {i 6 19: i The Sicfaens concern, for, insi pice, was founded by ‘Werner Siemens in a on2-room shop back of a ,residence in a poor little street in Berlin, He {ook in as a partner a mechanic jnamed George Halske. From tinker- ing with tiny repair jobs, they pushed their business until to lay a deep-sex cable or construct the entire telegraph system for the vast Russian empire, Was all in the year's ‘wrk. About the same ‘tite another elec- trician started out#fdr' himself in Nu- remburg in southern Germany. This ; Bavarian founded the great: business cf Schuckert and Co, And by and by the two businesses ‘came together and became the Siem- ens-Schuckert Corporation. ! The names of, their underlying en- _terprises ‘are legion, The Siemens ‘wing has immense plants in Borlin, ‘damburg, Bremen and Kiel. It owns a separate corporation which makes jbigger than anything Germany has all kinds of electrical lamps and in jits turn owns still other companies. The Schuchert concern not only icovered Bavaria, but had plants in Mannhoim and Dessau. Tho combine owns subsidiary concerns in Paris, Rarcelonia and St. Petersburg and on the side operates a big automobile fac‘nry, a porcelain works, a steam- ship turbine plant and a cable manu- factory. a it has’ tremendous holdings in Dreden and: also in Switzorland. Stinnes’ Only Defeat in fact, it is hard to go anywhere in Germany or in the neighboring countries wilhout seeing some of. the properties of this cectrical trust. By bringing this huge corporation within his sphere of influence, Stinnes has not only mad? himself by all-odds the biggest business man in Europe, if rot in the world, but in the midst of his success has banged himself up against one of the few failures of his career. » It was his ambition to unite all the electrical interests of Germany into on all-embracing concorn. To do this it whuld -have been necessary to bring in the far-famed A. FE. G., which, as every German iknows’ stands for the Allegemeine Elvktrische Gesellschaft. This is the company which was formed by Emil Rathenau and over which, until he went, into nolitics, the son nf the founder, Walter Rathenau, presided. Stinnes and Rathenau are sworn en2- ; Mies and there are three reasons for ithis feud which enlivens German poli- tics and business: First—As: statad, Rathenau and, hig friends would not agree to merge the |* A. B, G. in the Stinnes combine. Sceond—Stinnes stands for a sort of benevolent desny ‘Sy sin his bust- ness relations with ?4his workmen, BY CONDO| wet ene uge Combine Until Year 2000 | whereas Rathenau, while not an out and out Socialist, has a great many socialistic ideas as to the future re- lations between employer and en- ploye. Third—The two men are great cap- tains of industry, clashel over the matter of German reparations to the allies. At the Spa conference Rathe- nau,, then minister of reparations, favored Germany’s acceptance ot the ‘obligations imposed by the _ allies. Stinnes wanted Germany to give a blunt “No.” The Rathenau policy preyailed. , Later Rathenau went out of the cabinet for a time and then it was announced the chancellor was think- ing of making him minister for for- eign affairs. The Stinnes press and the Stinnes political party, the Ger- man People’s Party, at once throw down the gauge of battle, But once more ‘ Rathenau won. - At present there is an armed truce between the men and their great corporations. But people who know him and have watched Stinnes, are betting he is not through yet. Sooner or later they believe he will bring A.\E. G. into some sort of business union with his super trust. (Copyright, 1922, (NEA Service, Inc.) Bronner tells in his next story how Stinnes, “new kaiser of Germany,” gets the cities’ money. | ADVENTURE OF | | THETWINS | —_____- -—* By Olive Barton Roberts Nancy and Nick followed Mr, /Paer- about out of his ramshackle old house and along a path through the Silver Forest to the. town of Snoozelum, where the ,Towslies lived. The Tows- ‘Ties ‘were the ‘dream fairies.“ ''! ~° ‘ It was a very odd place—nothing | at all like a dream. For dreams are | quiet and. beautiful—mostly—while this place was full of noise. “What are they all doing?” asked ‘Nancy curiously. “Boiling dreams!” ‘Peerabout approvingly. The Twins watched one little Towslie while he worked over a bright kettle. These were the thirigs he put into it: A piece of beautiful silk, a few raindn)ps, some fresh flow- ers and a song. Then he stirred it all up with a big spoon, bigger than himself, He flew around from one side to the other, singing a quaint little song and lookng ever so happy. At last he unhooked a sack from the wall of his house made of poppy leaves—the sack, not the house, and held it over tho kettle. The steam from the kettle went up into it and he tied it up with a tendril off a grape vine. ‘ “That was a whole story the Towslie stirred into the kettle,” ex- plained Mr. Peeratnut. “A little girl wore a new silk dress to a party. It rained’ and shp cried because her dress was spoiled. “Then sho saw_some froor, dusly, faded flowers hold-up their drooping heads to the rain and look so fresh and glad she. forgot about her dress and began. to sing. i 34Tho, Towslie. will slide down to arth ona ‘moon-beam tonight, then nodded old *)down a chimney and open his bag on some little the way it’s don: (To Be Continued.) 122, NEA Service) irl’s pillow, That's (Copyright, “TODAYS WORD | eo ly Tcday’s word is PUDIATION, It’s pronounced — “re-pu-di-a-shun, with accont on the second and fourth syllables. S It means—the act of casting off, of disowning, of disclaiming, of refusing to have unpthng to do with, or de- clining to acknowledge or pay. it comes. from—Latin, “repudiare,” to repudiate or reject. It’s used like this—“Lloyd George, addressing persons or nations en- gagil in seeking loans, advises these applicants against entering, at tie same time that they ask for credit, into a discussion of the doctrine of repudiation of debts, remarking that while the doctrine “may be sound” the discussion, at. such a moment, “is not diplomatic.” s *—A THOUGHT | Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. Be thou faithful unto death, and | will give thee a/ crown of life—Revelation 2:10, | It is a pnoverbial saying, that | every one make: his own destiny; | and this is usually interpreted. that every one, by his own wise or un-| wise conduct, prepares good or evil for himself. But we may also under- stand it that whatever it be that he receives from th2 hand of Providence, he may so accommodate his life that Babe Ruth is back. Williams need caddies. ‘Many a business has been wound up by a crank, Less bombs would go off in Chicago ,{i£ more bums went off. Thoughtful straw hat makers are putting them out this year.with brims already blacked. This ig the open scason for flies, Morvich won the Kentucky derby; but this man suing for alimony wins the brown derby. A Russian train arrived a week late, They uSe a calendar for a time table jin Russia, [Every office has a man who is sor- ry the boss fs so ignorant. Uneasy lies the head ‘that wearg a frown. A ti A hair's breadth is .00017 of an inch. That’s the distance autos are said to miss pedestrians, Fish caught this year are not as big ag those caught last year; but they will be next year. A singing frog has been. found in Texas where they are asking for more prohibition agents. When election time is near the rab- ble becomes fellow citizens, Peggy Joyce says she is through with men; but the men haven't that much sense. Political pie is never humble pie. If Dempsey wears his monocle in America he may fight sooner than he says he will. July Fourth comes on Tuesday this year if Borah doesn’t. object. When a man is mad, he cusses. When a woman is mad, she cries. Cussing doesn’t get the man much. Pedestrians carry no spare parts, Just when overybody thought Villa was a reformed bandit he began mix- ing in Mexican politics, Many a-man tells his wife where he has been so she won't know, The. trouble with being the oldest man in the world is you have to start so early. , St. Louis woman quarreled with her husband 82 years before shooting him. Such patience ig remarkable. MANDAN NEWS {honor at a dinner and card party given at the home of Mrs. Thomas Thorson by the. members of, the Daughters of Norway. Twenty-four guests were en- tertained. Mrs. Jacobson, who is leav- ‘ing soon for Tacoma, Wash., was pre- sented with a lodge pin. Miss ‘Helen Greenwood wasthe guest of honor at a kitchen shower at the home of Mrs. iL. F. Means, Mrs, Means was assisted by Mesdames iH. H. Owens, J. F. ‘Williams and \W. R. Shep- pard. Miss Greenwood’s marriage to |Frank Aughnay will take place within the next few weeks, I. H..L,, Henke, president of the city commission of Mandan, has issued a proclamation urging that the citizens of Mandan give their sincere co-oper- jation to the purchasing of Memorial day poppies, The last Masonic dancing party un- 'ti) next fall was held in the Masonic hall last evening. A large crowd of members of the order attended the in- formal dance. Clean Baby’s Bowels with “California Fig Syrup” A half-teaspoonful of genuine California Fig Syrup will make your cross, fretfu) baby comfort- ‘Hurry Mother! able. It cleanses the little bowels of all the wind and gases, the bile, sour- ing food and stomach poison which 1s causing baby’s distress. Millions of mothers depend upon this gentle jaxative to keep bahy’s stomach and bowels clean, and thus correct diarrhoea, colic, biliousness, coated tongue, sour stomach, feverish breath, and constipation. It never cramps ‘or overacts. Contains no narcotics or soothing drugs. Babies love the taste of genuine “California Fig Syrup” which has full directions for infants in arms and cail- dren of all ages plainly printed on bottle. Say “California” to the drug- gist and accept no imitation fig syrup. Dance every Tuesday. Thurs he may find his lot good for him, however much may seem to others ito be wanting —William. yon-Humbolt, day and Saturday evenings a 8:30.at The Coliseum. 10 Cents per dance, Mrs. '§. Jacobson was the guest of: Pol « » ~~ s ' AW aed 5 EY Ea Talo rf te eT Ye “ae v4 ” . ae « "yy a i ‘ ‘o 6, 4a r ‘ i. Aen. ee