The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 13, 1922, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entared at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. 5 GEORGE D. MANN Foreign Representativ Os G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY DETROIT Kresge Bldg. CHICAGO Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH. NEW YORK x - 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 other- wise 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 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year... . 0. cc ce eee eee ee ee eee BT20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) .d......+..++++. 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).... 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota ... 6.00 "THE STATE’S (Established 1873) PECULIAR CODE OF ETHICS The city commission of Bismarck was placed in a humili- ating position when, after mutterings of protest from the outside, it was confronted with the alternative of permitting | its regularly paid city attorney to represent the city’s inter- est in an important case when his firri also was employed on the side of the defense, or of spending additional money for outside counsel. Presumably if there had not been pro- tests made by citizens, the city attorney would have cone j tinued to act, as in the past, and-would have, presumably, | been receiving money from both sides. It is a peculiar code of ethics, which would permit the city attorney to act in such capacity. There are many good lawyers in Bismarck not connected with any utility in the city and therefore iree to represent the city in the most important cases. An individual would not think of employing an attorney to represent him who also was employed by his opponent in tthe law suit. The city ought to be represented by an attorney without “entangling alliances.” » Anyway was it not a utility expert accountant that was requested by. the consumers? 3; May a kind Providence temper the wind to the shorn consumers of the city utilities.. The city fathers continue ito beg the issue. MUST STAND ON OWN FEET It is estimated from official sources that 86 private flour ‘mills in North Dakota have been grinding out eight times as much flour as is used in North Dakota. mill at Grand Forks, operating at’ full capacity, would, it is | estimated, increase the flour manufacturing capacity of the ; state to ten times the consumption within the state. The Grand Forks mill, operated at full capacity as a hard wheat mill, would produce enough flour to supply the wants of all the people of the state and still have 1,100 barrels left cach “day to dispose of elsewhere. = It is very plain, therefore, that if the state is the market “battle-ground either many private mills must go. under or cthe state mill suffer. a loss. The fallacy, of the appeal to “the “patriotism” of the people of the state to purchase flour izad3 in the state mill in Grand Forks is apparent. While state pride ought to prompt one to buy from industries of sthe state a stronger pride urges the individual to purchase of industries in his own community. If “patroitism” is to zaffect the flour market, it is more likely that citizens of Bis- marck would support the private mill now operating in the city-and furnishing: employment to many citizens. The same is true of Mandan, Jamestown and Dickinson. Nor are the farmers around Sentinel Butte likely to close up their co- operative mill because “patriotism” impels them to ‘pur- chase from the state mill. The Grand Forks mill cannot depend upon the state of ‘North Dakota for a considerable market, chiefly because its capacity is greater than the flour consumption of the state ‘and because of competition within the state. The Grand Forks mill, if it is a sucess, must go into competition with the great mills of Minneapolis, Buffalo and éther cities. The i mill has got to go into the nation-wide, even the world mar. Ket. If it does this and succeeds, so, far as making money by state industries is a criterion of their success, it will have been a successful experiment. If it fails, the people must pay the penalty. But it is folly to attempt to make the mill ‘a financial success by appealing to the “patriotism” of the people of the state, for.in thus building up one institution they-might tear down many of the 86 mills now running. ENLARGES NEWSPAPER = The Valley City ‘Times-Record is now being issued in enlarged form, it being the announced intention of the publisher to better the paper in keeping with the progressive spirit of the city, and in the hope that sufficient advertising patronage will follow to justify continuation of the plan. A well known publisher the other day said “You can’t maintain a live paper in a dead town” and a well known banker answered a critic of advertising by saying that | os has made too many fortunes to doubt its value.” We hope Mr. Trubshaw’senterprise will be rewarded. == COUE Coue, French psychologist, springs into the limlight and attracts an enormous following. His theory, based on auto- suggestion, is that imagination is stronger than will power. ‘Make a sick person imagine he’s well and he’ll become well, Coue reasons. So, if you want to attain health and happiness, Coue tells you to repegt over and over this form- ula: “Every day, and in every day, I get better and better.” Some allopathic physicians are alarmed at the Spread of , Coue-ism, but needlessly so. Most of his converts are neurot- es and his formula is better for them than this one which | they formerly had: “Every day, and in every way, I get ‘Worse and worse.” GREASE _ Jf you read the beauty ads, you notice various greasy Preparations used by young men to keep their hair plastered down sleek and shining. These young fellows, counterfeiting movie actor Valen- tino, will not seem so foolish to those of the older generation whose memory is keen enough to remember when bear’s. , =grease was used for the same purpose. _ Life is the same old show, generation after generation— =uctors and scenery changing, but the plot never. ae SLEUTH Here is something new under the sun—a new detective Story plot, which magazine editors say is as rare as the dodo. It is a true plot and comes in the telegraph news from “Davenport, Ia., in this form: “After a three-day search by the police for Harry: Carey, alleged slayer, the startling dis- covery was made today that the dead man is Carey himself.” How did they manage to find it out so soon? The new state | | EDITORIAL REVIEW | {| Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune, They are presented here ir order that our readers may have both sides of important igsties which are || being discussed in the press of | the day, | { | BACK TO THE CEE: Henry GC, Wallace, secretary 0 agriculture, si in his annual re- port that the increase of migr: tion from the country to the cities / a hopeful sign of ultimate im- | | proveme nt in the condition of the |! farmers. He declares this farm to city movement ¥ twice as great ‘as usual in July, August and Sep- | tember last. Mr. Wallace’s view j with that others, including : Roger Babs that there are too | many farmers in this country and they are producing too much food. The secretary of agriculture spe- lly blames overproduction of | farm crops, as well as war time wages, high railroad rates and | transportation difficulties for the ‘low prices that the farmer re- cei and the high prices he has | to pay. | Any considerable exodus from the farms would reduce production and increase prices of produce, but it also would have a great deal of land nonproducing. That condition would tend to lower ues of farm land generally, j as the increase of production dur- ; ing the war inflated such values. | There might be some stimulus to! lanl values, on the other hand,! from ‘higher prices and better pro- fits, but it is a question whether | the upward,or downward influence , would be greater. A large! influx cities would of unskjlled or common labor, wiere it exists. but,iff would not} affect the.scarcity\of skilled labor, : particularly in the building trades, ; in which farmers have little or, no— training. There would be an im-j mediate effect on. housing condi- tions, causing a shortage, of ag: | commodations and a greater un- filled demand for carpenters, bricklayers and plasterers. The experience of this country | has been that population moves} from the country to the city in times of industrial prosperity and from the city to the country when | i there ij depression. The condi-j tion of the cities has determined the migration one way or the oth- er.—St, Paul Pioneer Pri WAVE YOU A “REMOVABLE | COMPLEXION"? | A few of the fair damseis of our village have taken us to ti : our last issue, the gentle warning tion, ito our growing manhood against ; thet in the i ‘the |snares and pitfalls, plazed in| Whether It history, ,art or ‘their way by scheming maidens ‘on, we turn our eyes ‘to the with removing complexions, etc.,| East with a race, no mattey in what which was contained. in a short|condition or where located. ever editorial paragraph in our last | keeps its windows open toward Jeru- week’s issue, being the particular | salem. : i item the young ladies take excep-| ‘So today, if time would permit, wo Hons to. ne pasten ae Head not = might find it exceedingly interesting. guilty of any intentions to cast) to go back to the Oriént anil trace penectiona on any member of, the the library movement down through} eauiful’ gentle sex, of Ww! ancient Assyria, Babylonia. and Fessenden is fortunate to have 80 | Fgypt, Guscasana Rome, when books many. Our only motive in sound-j not such. as we know today, were ing the warning was to, if po: made of clay, stone, metal, bone," Ble Se a ee eee ot horn, teeth, papyrus, parchment, vel- 5 case § jum and wood often covered with them should decide to go away t0/ wax, and coming down through the | visit _at eee or aeioa eae W, middle ages to go through the’ ton" some other wicked big city the |asteries with the patient monks and Pee ee aeetine to ruffie | MURS Who spent their lives making your feelings, ladies, buhlieve us! | books with the pen and to further From @ careful survey (zt oppor-[{0llow our evelution through the in-) f, vention of printing which revolu- | tune times) we dare say we have},, 4 ee i cons haye | tonized the world of learning; while; ci si ve . . suspected that some of you ha Gur: elrcle stilt iden: through. the 1 involuntarily, had in! H porhans,={nvoll y ages to include eathedral, univer: and state libraries. But all the: of Mary Elzab Downey, Director, North Dakota Library Commission. Since we are eccustomed to think to the Fast as lacking in the ele- the -highe seems pariidox of ‘any subject, ask since |Ments that make for it mind to “try the drug store first,” i i] benefited only the rich, the clergy,! but as for removable complex- ions? My goodness NO! So ee, your secret is sate with us.— Wells County Farmer, Fessenden. | “WHAT 18 CHRIS the nobility. Through all''the time the preservation rather than the dis- tribution of books prevailed. Tt was not till the birth of the subscriptions library that books for the masses began to be considered. | i | Thanksiving has just been cele- jbrated but just around the corner |», This development became the fore ipeeps “Merry Christmas. runnepof our. free public Ii { Christmas is but a few weeks off Y our, land we.should start to Jot own | shied had aeroaie Wodel ihe’ Nwart j \the names of our dearest friends | Bill as pissed by the British Parlia- land relatives. Christmas though a| Ment. : ltime of merry making should not| Again it would be of interest to lhe forgotttn in'its full significance.|%° "0 farther East than our own \Children especially of today have | Coast to trace the development of orgotten or have geally never Ubrar extension, or each state has ealized the full meaning of the|its own story and each one is as in- ‘term Christmas. It seems that to-| teresting as a romance. Whether it day a large majority of the very be Massachusetts telling us that her \young people regard Christmais as | magnificent library of Harvard was j@ day of giving and feceiving only jthe fore-runner of all; or, boasts tAnd in ma ses it ateg only | that every town in the state, but ‘a selfish dissatisfaction. There is| one, has a free public library; ‘only one remedy for the existing | whether it se Connecticut saying the iti The ‘churches. jereat library of Yale had its begin- h ltogether with good; ning in the carnest zeal of ten men ;home training are the only means} and a few books; whether it be New ito pound the true significance of! Hampshire proud of being the first Christmas into people. e have} state to pass legislation permitting our Community Tree where .the:all her towns to levy library tax; jtrue meaning is not thoroughly! whether it be Pennsylvania giving} brought before the public. If the|}us a Franklin to whom honor is due, churches would all agree to take! no greater for flying a kite, than for | ‘over the task of enlightening the) the inception of our subscription 1i- eople to the significance of De- | b: es; whether it be New York cember 25th there would be less! giving a great impetus to the li- dissatisfaction in the world dur-j| brary movement in the early days, ing the week of Christmas. There | through school Inws practically cre- would be less selfish savagery | ating tax supnorter libraries; whetn- among — children - who regard joer it be Utah carrying her first li: | Christmas as a day when child lite | is: by. wagon: jshould reign supreme. salifornia develop. | County Farmers Journal. { California: \develon: FOR SPEAKER | Several legislators are now be- jing mentioned for speaker of the be the Ohio county library ev n= on in the large; the combined story of our several states would show that the library, along with the j institutions of the church, the ‘house rep entatives. A ne : house of representatives. AmonS| choot, and the home; is one bf the lseveral that have been mentioned | four corner’ stones in the devel :recently is Jno. W, Carr, of James: | nl i e develop- ment of our civilization. In tracing the history of our} school system. it seems strange to find an evolution through the cen- ituries from the top down instead of the bottom up as would be expect- st came the univers'ty fol- lowed in tura by the college, acad- emy--later the high school, element- school, primary grades, kinder- en and finally Montessori; each coming after the other but with the object of preparing for the one above it. é Since library extension has follow ed the school movement, it seems Stutsman county has been one of only natural to find the development {the best counties in the state for, take the same trend. So books grad- ithe independent cause er] is on-j ually came to us out of the ancient ‘titled to some recogniticn—Valley , into the universities, where town. M sa very highiy| respected izen of Jamestown | and seems to have the right sort: of temperament to pr body like the house of representa He is tolerant, patient ard} and in our opinion would! {make a very ideal speaker. The! only drawback that can be brougit | against Mr. Carr is that he has had no previous legislative experience, | ;but that is no real impediment. | He is an attorney, been states | attorney of Stutsman county, is used to general practice’ and fully believe would make go a and BARR RRR eee SHOWS DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTY LIBRARIES chained to desks and shelves and only he appropriately robed in cap gown might use them. From this time’down through the ages ex- tension in the use of books develop- ed with the school system. When our forefathers landed on thé shores of New England, many of them brought private libraries for their own use sind that of. their neighbors as courtesy might suggest. This houce to house loan of books the earliest form of library ex- n in this,country. Some of private coilcetions later devel- oped into endowed publie libraties. Sdn came to founding off Harvard and later <Yale followed sby the stream! of° universities, colleges and acaylemies across the continent. With them came the demand for books to carry on their courses, which may,be called our second library de- velopment. Then came Franklyin with his bril- liaht idea of the subscription library. When he and his friends brought together their books at the club and agreed to pay a yearly fee for th upkeep of a lib little did Ben- jamin dream that this country would take his idea and spread libraries +hrourhout the ststes of the Union. This idea of Franklin’s was the be- uusang of Dentocsacy in library de- velopment, The fifty young men who responded to h were mechanies antl tradesmen. This was the first suggestion that books were no long- luxury of er to be thought of only as z but henceforth us the heritage all. First Tax Following the came’ our first indi brary of the, present day supported by tax. Between 18:8 and 1876'some | EVERETT TRUE , { t City Times-Record, |e, were held so sacred as to be | BE WARNED! THIS CAT IS ALWAYS HUNGRY 2S ALWAYS HENGE] | beginning with, New York, made small tax levies for books to be pur- j chased by state Department of Edu- cation’ and dist! | the schoo! popula {were to be used by ithe distiret, adults dren, hence “public was the first reeognition of the li i as a part of the public school sys- tem. It was a great step in advance and many a man and woman of the generation. paid tribute to the part these books had in his: edvca- tion. /uBt the plan could not suce permanently 9s there was no ; vorganization behind it. A few citie: however, as Cincinnati and Da: asked. that inst quota 6f books scattered throughout the school» they might have them in ono place. This was granted, which. gaye the beginning of their [public libraries, But the honor $f thefirst munici- pal library, supported by ‘tax, be- Jongs to Bo:ton. In, 1847 the legis- lature of Massachusetts aws “asked to permit /Boston to levy a tax fer the support of a library free for both circulation and reference. Two ars later New Hampshire gaye her- If the honor of being the first state to pass an act providing that any town in the state might levy a li- brary tax. Her example has been followed by all our progressive states, so that today in most towns on, These books II the people of of any size the library is as prom- inent the church and school. How- ever, good ax this tem has been i for the municipality, it cov- ers only part of the great need ot ; the country, as a whole. Library Extension. It was left to the end of the last leentury to produce the | most ideal development in library ‘extension in the history of the world. I speak of the-eounty system now operating Mmore‘/or ‘Hess effectively in twenty: ‘five')states. Nearly twenty-five years twenty !states across the” continent;}gé'a mam with library vision, in thy | _, BY COND puted according to | well as chil-j ary supported by tax functioning , dof having, their] 7 | state of Ohio, left by will, money for a county library building at Van | Wert providing the state’ legislature | would pass a law permitting county | {library suppport. The bill passed | land the library was establishea. | About this same time Cincinnati ex-| tended its library service to include | Hamilton county and ‘the Washing-| |ton county library at Hagerstown, | | Maryland also came into existence | Ste sina | Ten years passed and these three} If you don't like, some neighbor leriginal libraries were the only ones, give his little boy a drum, | to adopt the county plan, till a man) | who’ eaught the vision in California! | put it over in a laspe way. What’s in a name? J. C. Penny Today | as insured his. life for $3,0C9,009. [forty-four of the fifty-six counties | of California are under the county library Kid McCoy, who Ras married times, em. Last year the sta’ $700,000' for county li-! ervice and more than a mil-| cheaply on and a half books were in the county collection: Los Angeles; A. telephone county alone, not including the citt,) may help a has the large:t existing county Il-| brary, serving’ an area of 4,000! square miles, as large as Delaware| Figures show the a and Rhode Island combined or near- | ly as YWree as Connecticut. The ‘brary has an income of over $100,-| | 000 and a quarter of a million books:| ; Utah may be given as an illustra-| Candlesticks make good Christmas | tion of how rapidly a state may de-|gifts. The big heavy kind are bet- ;Yelop county libraries when people| ter for chasing burglars. areefuly informed before the passing! of the law. In 1914 the state had} Harding's only seventeen towns with municipal | «pon! library tax.. From that time till! 1914, when the county bill passed, | the matter was discussed ‘from one; end of the state to the other so that! everybody had an intelligent under-| were last Christmas. standing of the subject. The result! = was that within three months after) Debate was held by radio in Bos- “ the bill passed there were more coun-/ ton, which would be a fine way to ty libraries in Utah than any state,| argue with somebody you can’t lick. even California, ever had brought! | through in any one year, Today the} state has over fifty tax supported li-| of yours? brairies and twelve of the twenty- | Eas nine counties are under the county; We can learn from others. In the library system. | Philippines, women’ are|not allowea What Can Be Done. |to hold boxing matches.‘ | What a county library law should | ido for North Dakota is as follows | give equal reading facilities to.every | are hard on the s man, woman, and child in the state; | _ stimulate the library movement and| | reading ‘habit as nothing else can do,| make every library already estab-| | lished render greater service; create | libraries in county seat towns with- | jout them; stimulate the establish- | ment of a library in every town of | | the state; place a deposit of books jin every hamlet; make farm life | more desirable; send books in an-/ i swer to letter or telephone, by par-| i | i bankrupt. Two may live as phone. farmer ue made $465 this year, but some say this is $2,000 more than they got. motto to 't give up the ship subsi be scems, Women’s fur coats have jumped to three erying spells higher than they Will you need a gift for an enemy Give him cheap cigar. The children like skates, but they ts of their pants. We swear off on New Year and after that we swear off and on, In giving a watch you can write, “It is your time now,” or “Hope you have a good time.” Skeleton of a Baluchisterium has ben found in Mongolia. Remember the name in case you mect one, What will you give father? him asbestoes gloves to be county on the same! While opening Christmas bills. to residents of the ras | town in which the library is located;; Mistaking shaving cream for ‘give the same reading advantages to! tooth paste is nob as bad as mistak- | the country child which arc now en-|ing washing powder for taleum. | joyed by the city child; supplement ‘ae |the public school course of study} |with material for general reading; provide a book to a child suited to his grade in every school room of = aoe | True sportsmen will not kill more the state; create a generation of| readers of the children now pussing! than the law’s allowance of game a and the others will not either. Get worn cels post to the most isolated person | in the county; lend books to all res- idents of the conditions as First paper money in America wax isued in 1690, Some of this has ‘never scen a collection plate. through the public schools; mise the standard of appreciation of the later studies of students in our schools of higher education because of opportunity for a foundation of general reading; offer opportunity to continue education after leaving school; supply the demand for books which the schools create; give peo- ple something to read after they have becn taught how to read; bring ae htousands of dollars more money for! Gone are the days when mince pie library: buildings into the state than| had a kick. g ever canbe had without a county Tae law; give a county library building! With only a few more days of 1922 to county seat towns too small to|to play, the score shows the coal ave them under the. municipal plan; | dealers have won. rea more efficient library lice; give county supervision of li-/ {brairies which naturally follows; hang up one of siste ‘county supervision of schools; give | eee oe 9 ‘each cbunty in the state as good aj @—7 7 7 library as the State Library com-|| ADVENTURE OF mission often provides for the state las a whole; add the state to the| | THE TWINS twenty-five progressive states in the | @——= | Union now‘ operating under the coun- By Olive Barton Roberts ity library system; place the state Nancy and Nick were out one day jon the Library Map of the Unitea : | States. delivering things for the Green Wiz- ard. “Theé:county system is the most i fpoktnt and far reaching problem in| You haven't any idea how many (library service before us today. Six-|things people were always wanting. tyq million people in the rural dis-|_ They had a magic collar-button triets\of the United, States are Sstill|fer Mr. Crow, that wouldn't roll un- without library facilities. ‘The only Fad Whe buvean: every poser weny wa " ae {to put hi: a s | should have « good county library |MtS: Céon that wouldn't smash ber tend ne tha at is ceive ary [thumb every time she went to ham- jaw and see t at it is effectively ac-! mer in a tack. complishing. its ‘purpose. - Chickie Chipmunk wanted a magic At has long been considered the|weeder for the garden so he'd have | birthright of -every child born in) more time to play acter school. They ithe United States to have free pub-|had that too! lic schol education. Let us make the} And the y had a hat for Mrs. Cot- | time not for distant when it will be|tcntail that wouldn’t go crooked ‘as much his right to have access t henever she hopped to a party. a fre public colection of books—| They were passing the waterfall, for the goal of our educational Jall loaded down with bundles, when temessould jbe not only a publicisuddenly a voice called out, “How | school but also a public library in!do you do, my dears? Won't you every community. jcome in?” ee ater i And there stdod the Sour Old ‘Hope to Complete yet iocto ox sous” ET Mine Riot Jury | “Certa'nly,” answered Nancy, In Near Future always liked to be polite. (By the Ass | A San Francisco baby of 14 months can-ask for something in six languages. Wouldn't you hate to marry her when she grows up? Man has a new substitute for tea and coffee, but restaurants have been using one for years and years. Christmas story: “Mamaj can I for mine? | | 2 can’t stay long. We're out deliver- ing.” “What, pray?” asked the Sour Old Witch, although she knew well ated Press) Marion, IIL, Dee, 18—Hopes of | enough. ‘compieting the jury to try five men | ugome magical things the Gre |charged with murder in connection Wizard has made for his friends |with the Herrin mine. riots last June, reveived a setback today when it was announced an investigation | 4, {into the status of one’ of the cight jurors chosen was in.progress. | Old’ Witeh. It was reported the juror had ex- | §q in went the Twins. pressed an opinion favorable to the | But what do you. think! jdefense previous to being selected Toes was hiding behind the door.» {to serve on the jury. Attorneys for | And when the Twins were out of \the state said that if such a report | Seht, he changed the. collar-button iwere found true, they would ask | into one that dropped every time. Vipr the man’s removal by affidavit. | And he changed the hammer soit Examination of salesmen was con-' would always hit poor Mrs. Coan's tinued. ‘ gone vnswered Nick. “Well, leave them here in my hall, nd come into my sitting-room and have a cup of tea,” said the Sour Twelve | thumb. The weeder he fixed so that Ree aM Pe the weeds would grow faster thar % lover. And Mrs. Cottcntail's hat he | A THOUGHT || ruined. “Now,” he grinned. “the Green ard won't have a friend left.” | EADCOLDS = ** Melt in spoon; inhele vapers; _ apply freely up nostrils. VICKS APORUB Over 17 Million Jars Used Yearly Commit thy works unto the Lord, ard thy thoughts shall be estab-, ‘lished —Proverbs 16:3. / There-is no victory possible with- | out. humility and magnanimity, and | no magnanimity or humility p ble without an ideal; and-there is hot one who has not heard the call in his own heart to put aside all evil ‘habits, and to live a brave, simple j truthful life—Thomas Hughes. i