The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 7, 1922, Page 4

CVF PAGE FOUR ster ea THE ‘BISMARCK. TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1922 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D. as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN” - - 7 e JOGAN PAYNE COMPANY 5 P. »} eae DETROIT Kresge Bldg. | Editor CHICAGO Marquette 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 to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. A s 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 $7.2 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck). Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.......-..+6 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Ra SHOWS UP FUTILITY OF STATE SOCIALISM Siver Serumgard in his letter to The Tribune shows up the utter futility of the mill and eleva- tor at Grand Forks which Governor Nestos in his keynote speech states will be finished and given a fair trial. How this is to be done Governor Nestos does not explain and if done of what bene- fit it will be to the farmer is also unexplained. Mr. Serumgard who is running for. Commis- sioner of Agriculture and Labor on a platform opposed to continuing the state industries proves conclusively that the politicians are using the mill and elevator mercly to bait votes. In the first place as Mr. Serumgard points out practically $5,000,000 is to be expended upon a mill and elevator to handle 4,000,000 bushels of North Dakota’s wheat crop out of a possible 80 to 100 million bushel production in the state. Practical farmers know that the mill and) ele- vator at Grand Forks cannot try out any market- ing theory. They realize that its operation will| bring no relief as far as bettering marketing conditions but will merely pile up the tax costs for them. | Governor Nestos knows this and so does Sen-, ator Baker who opposes him. Common honesty should prompt candidates to tell the voters that, as far as demonstrating the value of state owned mills and elevaters, the Grand Fork insti- tution will prove nothing except a sink hole for; public funds. When Mr. Nestos tells the farmers that the Grand Forks mill will be ready for business next fall he is very careful not to say that it will be operated then. He should tell the voters of the state how the elevator is to be financed. Money derived from the sale of bonds cannot be used for working capital. How is capital going to'be provided? A most interesting and pertinent | question. The Bank of North Dakota was established to be the fiscal agent for the various league enter-j prises. Money levied for specific purposes was used to promote the Drake institution, the Home- building fiasco, the Werner creamery and the farm oan business. Is it the intention of Gov. Nestos to freeze up more public funds in promoting the mill and ele- vator at Grand Forks or will it be idle until after | the next legislature provides an appropriation for, working capital? \ It is very easy for the politicians with an ora- torical wave of the hand to tell the voters that the mill and elevator will be given a fair trial, but common frankness is necessary to apprise the| voters whether or not their tax money levied for specific purposes will be used by the state to gam- ble in the mill and elevator business. | Governor Nestos and his associates and Senator Baker know that there is no money available to finance the mill and clevator business prior to the next session of the legislature unless public funds | held in ‘trust by the Bank of North Dakota are) 7.20 illegally diverted for that purpose and to do that i’ would be to commit the same sin for which the league was condemned during the recent cam- | paign. | It is barely possible that Gov. Nestos has a plan to finance the mill and elevator. If there is to be an honest attempt to operate the Grand Forks mill this fall, the tax payers who are stockholders in the project whether they want to be or not are} entitled to know prior to June 28. While Gov. Nestos deplores what he calls the “ghastly failures” of the league, he can hold out no guarantee of better operations of state owned industries under his political control. The enter-| prises will fail as ignominiously under his regime! as they;did under the league’s and there is no oc-} casion to deceive the voters. | No one denies that the Bank of North Dakota | ig just marking time. It is not the intention of} the backers of Gov. Nestos that that institution shall function as asbank. The head of its farm loan department will resign shortly following July first and his place doubtless will be filled by one of the faithful who can deliver the votes. Gang politicians such as Crawford and Dichl are now) directing other state industries. Senator Baker, the league candidate, is telling! the voters that he too is going to give the farm-| /only argument waged against such a program by “experimentally” as the I. V. A. say. Put all the cards on the table and tell the voters that the election of Nestos or Baker means a very substan- tial increase in the tax levies. After these facts are clearly placed before the voters and they love the program to the tune of ten or fifteen millions more in taxes no one can take offense. Jt should be remembered too that the state has already sunk several millions in trying out the program a fact soft pedaled by the politicians. Let the utmost frankness prevail in the dis- cussion of the expenditures necessary to try out state socialism either under the Nestos or the Baker plan. The other alternative to scrap the whole busi- ness furnishes the only relief from taxes and the the politicians is that it cannot win, but the day is coming inevitably when the voters of the state will rise up in their might and wipe out the whole business, IRRIGATION CONGRESS Bismarck is’ host today: to delegates attending the Irrigation Congress, which contemplates a survey in North Dakota, Montana and South Da- kota. The outcome of the deliberations that opened today at the State Capitol may be far reaching. ; Senator McCumber has introduced a bill provid- ing for an appropriation of $100,000 to investi- gate feasible irrigation projects for North Da- kota. It is expécte hat neighboring states: will seek to have surveys made within their borders so that a comprehensive ‘s\ Heme can be worked out which will bring ‘many? thousands of acres under irrigation. ios Citizens generally should. take an interest in the work that has "been inched. This section of the state is most’ vit ly interested and every resident should» be completely sold on irrigation| for the vast stretches of the Slope country. Other states which each year are inundated by the flood waters of the Mississippi and Missouri are deeply interested in flood control at the source where the surplus waters can be harnessed and put to good service for irrigation and hyro-electric purposes. The deliberations and definite plans determined here will be watched with great intcrest. Of course the chief need now is the appointment of a federal commission to study intensively just what can be done along the major and minor streams toward irrigation and the generation of electricity. A HEALTHY SIGN Perhaps the most distressing feature about many elections to‘students of democratic govern- ment is that so many people do not vote-or do not know: just what they are voting for. Although the city schools use a large share of the city revenue and Americans have come to believe edu- cation is the most important factor in the making of the nation, often but a handful of votes have been cast at a school board election. Such was not the case yesterday. There were probably more than 1,200 people who voted. Much interest was taken in the esection. The successful candidates belicve that one of the important issues involved was their attitude on the restoration of the commercial course in the high school, which they favor. While they con- stitute a minority on the board both have said they will seek to have the course re-established. The voters made their choice and although every citizen should have cast a ballot, the num- ber of citizens voting is a healthy sign of interest taken by the citizens in the conduct of their schools. It should continue beyond school elec- tions even to, attending a board meeting now and then. The widest’ possible! publicity? for school affairs is most desirable. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in’ this coluran mayhor may inet express the opinion of The Tribune. They are preacnted here in order that our readers may have both sides of importertt iniwes’!! 24 which are being discussed in the prese of the day. CHURCH WELCOME Letters of correspondents lament that the wel- come at church doors is cold, colorless, perfunc- tory, official. Sometimes it is. But it does not have to be. And many times the blame is as much with the stranger as with the pew-holder. Every church worthy of the name wants to establish within doors an atmosphere of warm- hearted cordiality. Every church would like to give its greeting —so far as time and numbers permit—the intimate personal note. But it must have help. The church isn’t a building and it isn’t a business system; it is a social group with a religious inclination. Each member of the; group puts something in or takes something out. The spirit of the church work and the form of church worship are vhat human beings individu- ally make them. The church depends on all who attend to do their part, and every church congregation must! rely, to 4 considerable extent, upon the enthusi-| asm manifested by strangers. The stranger who puts himself in the way of the church welcome ers program a fair trial, but how he is going to get the money is left to the imagination just as/ Gov. Nestos leaves it. | Probably ten or fifteen millions must be levied | to try out this program and the voters might as | well know that now before they cast their votes | to try out the program either in dead earnest or and doesn’t hide behind a pillar or slink into a} rear pew will generally get it. It must be borne | in mind that some people resent the personal greeting at the church door as an intrusive famil- iarity. The welcome we get in church or out of it is largely that which we make for ourselves.— SO | ADVENTURE OF | | . THETWINS | yaa oun By Olive Barton Roberts He knocked on the door. ‘Comet-Legs, enemy of Mr. Peer- about, the Man-in-the-Moon, was al- ways up to mischief... And no matter what the Twins did they never seemed able to catch him, ~/ I don’t suppose Comet-Legs was really wicked. He was jealous of the Moon Man, that} was all, and besides ho thought he f¢ould manage things much better, &{ > Mr, Peerabout was trying to please folks all he could,. but, Mr, Busybody Comet-Legs wasn’t, satisfied,, Comcet-Legs could get around places, too, much better; than,,the Moon-Man. He would straddle his shpoting-star, take a good hold. with hig,.pow legs, and off he'd go, 43° berg ‘The night after he meddled with the handles the .Moon-Man .ran,,the moon with, Comet-Legs went to,the Weath- erman’s Star nearby. § a+; He swaggerediover,to the.house the Nisance Fairies Jived in (or rather where the Weatherman had;them lock- ed in) and knocked on the :door, “rhe key’s outside,” answered a doz- en voices. “It’s hanging on a nail.” ‘Comet-Legg reached up:and got it and turned the lock, Such a hullaballoo ‘as’ there. was then, all the Nuisance Fairies crowd- ing around and sayin; how-do-you-do, and how-was-he-anywiy. There was Jack Frost and iHowly Thunder and Jumpy Lightning and Sizzly Dry Weather and Old Man Flood and a lot of others. i “Say, boys,” said Comet-Legs, “I need your help. Old. Mr. Peerabout has sent a couple of children after me. They’ve got a shaker with magic pow der and if it touches my legs they'll get straight as pokers and then I’m done for, because I can’t ride my star.” “We'll help,” they all cried. “Who are the children?” “Nancy and Nick,” said Comet-Legs. (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service.) NOWHERE > Hy THE MODERN SINBAD AN D THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA | WHAT TO'DO IF YOU’VE DECIDED YOU WILL TRY STAGE LIFE By Brock Pemberton One of America’s Most Enlightened Theatrical Producers The ‘stage. of America and ‘of the world in varying degree is littered with incompetent men. and women who would much better be measur- ing out ribbons or rice or driving a tractor but who, having felt the puls- ing thrill from audiences beyond the footlights,, have not the discernment or strength of will to forsake this most fascinating of callings in which they are misfits. My advice then to young men and women about to choose the stage as a profession is not to do it until they have searched their souls and found their aptitude. For while the stage holds a‘ deadly fascination for those. who people it and jis lavish in its re- speakably cruél to the incompetenty. Success in the theater is compoun ed chiefly of these ingredients—per- sonality, talent, belief in one’s self, and luck. ate ; One must leave luck to the gods, though without it one may be abund- antly endowed with the other three -|ingredients and fail, In these days of school and other amatcur theatricals it is fairly easy to test one’s: talent— Only don’t rely on what the im- mediate family says. “All the world’s a stage,” a man who knew a good deal about both once wrote. At the end of-a home-talent show given in.New York recently a well- known comedian who has been play- ing on Broadway for two years, said to one of the newspaper critics who had taken part: “I don’t like this at all. You fellows did it so well it makes our job seem easy.” Everyone can act a little and the thing to determine is whether you can do it enough better than the others to make it! worth’ while. Luck, belief, talent, personality— ne EVERETT TRUE By Berton Braley | There are moments when I sicken of complexities that thicken In this much-sophisticated day and age; ‘ When the aims of life seem futile and my efforts all inutile | Like the running of a squirrel in a "cage. ae Oh it’s then I want to vo where there’s no rushing to and fro, where Trains and trolleys do not roar, nor autos whiz; Where there’s no one that I owe, where it’s the Other Side of No- where, hee Though I haven’t any inkling where that is! There are times when work is zest- less and the soul of me is restless For a change to something else than I have got; When I want to—how I want to!— 9 some place I’ve never gone to, Where I'll find—it doesn’t really} matter what! T would beat it, I would blow where life’s a diff’rent kind of show, where There’s a new, and novel note that I can strike; te So I crave to up:and go where it’s the Other Side of Nowhere, Though I do not know at all what it is like! Yet I fancy folks who grow where iv’s the Other Side of Nowhere Are illogically wishing they could ne Where I find myself at present; and they’d doubtless find it pleasant If they might—on some occasions —swap with me; For the Other Man’s existence scems entrancing—at a distance— ©. Though perhaps I wouldn’t like it, A sHOoRT EP (SoDeE there no trace of uncertainty’ as toj wards for those’ it favors, it) is yn) “ak ACCOSS- uP. and the greatest of these is ‘sonality. 3 With it your name may blaze in nitrogen lights; without it you will dust the furniture at rise of curtain or bear cards on silver salvers. To determine whether. or not you have it I commend you to your mir- yors, your friends and your enemies. Having made up your mind that |the stage will be poorer without you,. proceed to fortify yourself with }the broadest cultural background obtainable through . institutional and per- * A $500 engagement ring represents hard work by both parties. The way you turn out often depends on the time you turn in, In Oklahoma, an escaped lunatic was found selling oil leases instead of buying them. Lips that touch the lipstick shall never eat the corn-on-the-cob, Gas is so high some of us have to go to picture shows to keep from stay- ing at home. De Valera has twins at his house and can sell his alarm clock. Protopopadakis has been named prime minister of Greece; but whoever did it stuttered. Murders quoted at $500 in the N. Y. underworld prove quantity production lowers the price. “Beauty is an accident,” say phy- chologists. And it often results in in- ternal injuries, ‘Hint to brides: Next month has five paydays. The man who always: talks in his sleep isn’t as bad as the man who al- ways talks| when he isn’t asleep. One movement on foot is walking Pack from stalled autos. Expert says 70 per cent of all talk is wasted. Which leaves the men’s 30 per cent perfect. Fifty cents’ worth of ice isn’t always what it is cracked up to be, Maybe churches are usually on cor- ners so people will have a chance to turn to the right. It’s a wise shoe dealer who numbers them smaller than they afe. If silence is golden Congress has enough of it on the bonus to pay the veterans. 3 About the best things raised on a farm are children, Many a man, paying for his wife's jelothes, looks forward to the time his self-education. You cannot know tooa vit will be back in style. much:of literature; you cannot: speak too many modern - languages, nor your own too well. Equipped with the’ best education you can command, join a stock com- pany.;in your part... of the country, jor come to New, York and enroll in oneref .seyeral good schools, of...the theater. zi you the requisite groundwork. and ‘prove whether you should continue. If you choose stock do not stay in the provinces too long but come to New. York at your earliest opportuni- ity and list yourself with several good agents and make the rounds of the producing managers’ offices. Then, if you are not dismayed by are on your side, you will get a job. If vou really belong on the stage no role will be too small and no ef- |fort on your part too great to make the character live. FARMER CHARGED WITH MURDEROUS ASSAULT Fort Yates, N. D., June 7.—Warrants bave been issued for the arrest of Adam Hoenig, farmer, for an alleged murderous assault with an iron bar upon Jack Schock, son of a neighbor. ‘Hpening is alleged to have struck the 'boy over the head with an iron bar. He was brought here to a hospital. BY CONDO| Mouc. No. 1. —S= SP SODE NO. 2. [=== | A “FADS SOuT! after trial, - ; But right now I want to go where it’s the Other Side of Nowhere : And just stick around and try. it Philadelphia’ Public Ledger. for awhile! : (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service) Either procedure will, give|'. office boys and rebuffs and disap-|! pointments and Items One and. Four! -The objection to vacation love af- fairs is some play for fun instead of playing for keeps. Be thankful strawberry seeds are notias big as watermelon secds. \e——_ muc 4 H A THOUGHT | ¢ 5 2 | Finaby, my breihren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.—Ephesians, 6:10. ‘And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays.—James Russell Lowell. 79 “TODAY'S WORD | Q—-——____--______4 Todays’ word is PLEBISCITE. 1t’s pronounced—pleb-i-site, with accent on the first. syllable. \ It means—a vote or decree of the {people on some measure submitted to them by some person or body hav- ling the initiative. It comes from—Latin “plebs, plebis,” common people, and “scitum,” decree. It’s used like this—“Chile refuses to agree to a plebiscite to settle her territorial disagreement with’ Peru.” | BIG SHOW COMING TO BISMARCK { MONDAY, JUNE 12, Flaming posters in all the colors of the rainbow, throughout this section, {proclaim ‘he fact that Christy Broth. ers’ Four-Ring Wild Animal Shows are ie be seen in Bismarck, Monday, June Already the small boy and his elders’ arg happy in anticipating the coming of this mighty tented amusement en- terprise and its countless wonders. For this season the Christy Brothers jhave enlarged their shows in every de- partment, and their greatly augmented list of performers, feature acts and menagerie exhibits made it necessary to add many more railroad cars. To- day, special trains and long double length cars are required to transport the huge tents, ponderous wagons, cages, dens, chariots, tableaux, cars, elephants, camels, korses, ponies, men and women. In the triple zoological gardens, combined under one vast spread of canvas, are to be found the finest liv- ing specimens of rare, strange and curious animals from every quarter of the globe, and every animal an actor. Making a visit to Christy Brothers’ Trained Animal Exposition is of far greater educational value than will ever be gained by the deepest study of all the books at hand on the sub- ject of natural history, Inside the vast water-proof canvas amphitheater are four great rings and steel arenas encircled by a monster modern hippodrome track, overcap- ping all its veritable maze of flying rings, bars, ropes, wires and other aeriel rigging. From the beginning to the end of the performance, hundreds of men, women and animal performers cover the ground and fill the air in the ren- dition ‘of ‘a program, the like and equal of which have never before been seen, *- ; Every child visiting the afternoon performance will be given a free pony ride, with special attend- re for the kiddies, —<