The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 5, 1923, Page 4

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THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER _ (Established 1873) HARD TIMES If we can find it, there’s some way to stablize industrial conditions and make times reasonably prosperdus continu- ously instead of having hard times and prosperity follow each other like the spokes of a revolving wheel. When it comes to money making, lite is either a feast or a famine. There seems to be no half-way point, over any extended period of time. Colonel Leonard W. shown that in the last 60 of every five years were periods of seriou on. It’s about time we took this up as our basic problem of economics. From it, sprout nearly all the other serious problems. ae ci iat ie ttn Ayres, statistician, has recently A favorite chant of the business experts is that business runs in cycles—up and down, like waves. Prices rise to a certain high point, then topple and slump far below normal, then up, again down, and so on, generation after generation. Business: failures, industrial activity and all other branches of our common system of “earning a living” rise and fall in similar cycles or waves. The econcmists point out that all this is following a nat- ural law of cycles—that depression follows prosperity the | same as winter follows summer. The industrial tem, however, mitted to enslave us, is not a natural tem, speaking in a broad sense. It is a system entirely created by man. And, therefore, it should be entirely responsive to man, absolutely under his control. Certain natural elements creep in, such as crop failures or abnormally large crops But these could be taken care of some way. Certainly they should not disrupt our whole economic machinery. Panics often are blammed on over-producti But over. production, in the last analysis, is an impossibiltiy. The real trouble is that our system of distribution breaks down. Maybe the permanent elimination of hard times would require gigantic undertakings by the national and state gov- ernments. That is, giving the armies of unemployed work at road-making, irrigation and other engineering projects. :Or the solution may be in stabilizing the value of the dollar. Again, it might be in periodical price regulation. Think it over. Have you a plan? Think this over, also: We have become so accustomed to hard times as a reaction from prosperity, that maybe we have hypnotized ourselves into expecting them. And, by expecting, we create depres- sion — by hunting our cyclone cellars before a real funnel- cloud rises oer the horizon. which we have per- FAMOUS If you read Dickens, you recall that Mr. Pickwick had his boots polished with Day & Martin blacking. Day & Mar- tin was a real company, famous for generations. ~Now it is selling out—quitting business. Its managing director, with a troubled look in his eyes, explains: “We failed to keep up our advertising.” It was advertising that “made Day & Martin. But, like many other concerns, it thought that, once established, it no Jonger needed publicity. The public dies off and a new public is forever coming on the stage. This new public naturally hag to be reached by ads, else it will not know of the adver- tiser. Even when it knows, it forgets quickly unless con? stantly, reminded. Advertisers should keep in mind the fate of Day & Martin. j SUCCESS } For 50 years Charles Sheath has worked in the same room. This room is an office in London, England. Sheath entered it when he was 14, as an office boy. While he still | is in the same room, he is not in the same job. Today he is one.of the head officials of the group of railroads that uses the small room as one of its offices. Success is locked up in the individual. ; Geography—location—is ‘of secondary importance. Most of the successful men make their opportunities instead otf wandering until they find them. Success, young man, has to be created. It is not a plum, already ripened and ready to pick at some far-off corner of the earth. =] NAMES Do you like your name? I tells-a father that a fifth son is born to him. enough,” says pa. So he names the son Enough. This may seem funny now. But it will not seem funny “Five is his Hame. : soe We carry otf names with us as long as we live. sho! *should be made with ian eye to whether baby will like his nante when he grows up. Some people have to waste a lot of ime_and effort, living i Tike when she saw it in a novel. = Parents ‘ CHINATOWN igger Mike is dead. This gets into print because years “in New York’s.Chinatown, Mike gave Irving Berlin his Be job as a waiter. lin, fay en ter, of ea ue ee cs ‘was just beginnii ereate melody, and his first royal- | fees ere nickles tossed to, him by the’ patrons of : Nigger d work, genius and character, have made Berlin rich, Mike employed hundreds of other singing waiters in his - Publishers | In Hammond, Ind., the nurse to Enough when he grows up and gets tired of jests about , select baby’s name with great care. .The selectior | down a foolish name that mother | , Journal. know it, though we | EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this |] column may or may not express on of The Tribune. They ented here in order that ders may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of i} the day, FACING WISCONSIN FA Concrete evidence that the farm isn’t “all right” is shown by the | dwindling enrollment of farm boys |in the short course of the college | ~ | of agriculture at Madison, 1 | Since the foundation of that) course thirty-six years ago, 6,100) young men have gone out better | ‘equipped to serve the state and | ‘themselves through a broadened | knowl@ige of agriculture. Eighty | em have gone back | s, many of them become in their own jcounty or section of the state. | |'They have become misgionaries of ‘petter grain seed, better livestock, better farming methods. nd the change that place in the indus+ sconsin, go back thirty | years to the Janua day when ‘nineteen young men enrolled in the |first short course in practical farming. ‘The dariy herds of the j state were made up of native scrub cows, the s spr | planting were of low-yielding v ! rieties not bred to the peculiarities of W msin climate and the fields were sown without regard to soil | conditions, Agricuture wi still j untouched by the light of seience. All that has been changed— largely through the loyal men at | Madison who have devoted \tWeir | lives to the advancment of agticul- | tur d to the young men they |ltave sent out. If the Wisconsin were ‘back to? where it ix Years ago, what would be’ the condition of the {State's whole advancement? ‘ The high mark of attendance in the short course was reached four years ago when 440 young men en- rolled for instruction. That was a The farm’s large. Then The the enrollment had 0, and the next year rteen counties. not | repr This year’s enroll- ment of 150 represents only forty- |four of the seventy-one counties. | But a little over two-thirds of the | state is getting any value out of the short course, The bankers have been appealed | to to provide funds for the young | men on the farms who want to go }to Madison, ‘That may help some, | but it isn’t striking at the root of |the trouble. Something must be | radically wrong with the farm’s in- | come When not even one young | man in twenty-seven counties has ' the means of going down to Madi- on for a fifteen weeks’ course, | If agriculture is ¢o continue on a basis which leaves no surplus for the training of its young men then the days of this great move~- ment that Wisconsin . pioneered are numbered. The steady stream of young men going back to the farms with some knowledge of better methods and a desire to lear nstill more will dwindle lower and lower. Do we want this thing to hap- i pen? If we do not, then we m find means of putting the farm back on a paying basis as a plain busin proposition. When the farm again yields a reasonable net profit the enrollment at Madison will take care of itself—Milwau- kee Journal. | FRANCE IS AFTER THE MONEY lyear of high pric bank account |cume the tumble in prices. year | next a | The Italian dictator asks, the French Premier whether the {French are in the Ruhr Basin ; With economic intention or as a military adventure. He says plain- |ly that in the former case Italy is |with France, in the latter case| | Italy is'not with France, | Paris does not design the mili- |tary conquest of Germany. The | Government knows better than to \findertake such @*profitless nae ness. The French are in the Ruhr ‘Valley to collect .a debt. They !may go to Bremen and Hamburg, jor even to Berlin, in pursuit of ftheir endeavor. Their Seizure of the Ruhr squeezes the industrial heart of Germany. Occupation of Berlin would be sheer ostupta-j; | tion. | Revenge is sweet. It is French ‘nature, because French nature is jhuman nature, to be gratified by {the tricolor set over the Krupp | works, where were manufactured {the guns that bombarded Rheims and the shells that kill and maimed Frenchmen on the slopes ‘of Verdun. But intelligence rules Paris, not emotion. Psychically this demonstration in Essen and Bochum may work a needed con- | viction throughout Germany. But consequence is incidental. the French are after, is their | mouey or its equivalent. | Wh the French have broken | the will of Hugo Stinnes and the ' other industrial magnates to resist, {Germany will consent to acknow!- edge economic defeat and to act ac cordingly: When that consumma- tion is effected, the new Europe ican begin. | Ffance means to eurvivey Ger- mahy is not to recover, unless France recovers, too. Germany-is not. to be allowed to gather the; power to strike again, unless France is afforded equal power to | resist. ‘ | This is the French hour. Herr | Stinnes had better compromise, or ‘he invites: ruin upon his country. It is the plain duty of Germany’ to | come forward in good faith} Then} it. will be comparatively easy to get easier terms, — Mingeapolis morning— !than a balanced one would 'S Funny How This Little Game Retains Its Popularity [E_sFanny How This Little 6 RC IC Al *PEOPLE’S FORUM | “WHY IS A COW TESTING ASSO- CIATION?” tor The Tribun ince the organi ion of the Bis- marck Holstein-Friesian Breeders’ s in the early spring of considerable — interest 1 has been manifested in the Assocation in ular and in Cow Test Associ: ingeneral. Be- lieving that the majority of dairy farmers of Burleigh county a perha)s somewhat familiar with the purpose and Modus Operandi of Cow Test Association the writer will endeavor to present the gener- ally accepted purpose and method of operation. { The purposes of a Cow Testing Association are numerous and vary somewhat, in detail however, it is unnecessary to enter into a detail discussion, but rathér a broad eom- prehensive view of association work desirable. 1, The primary purpose of a Cow Test Association is of course to furnish reliable data on the pro-| duction of each cow in the herd in terms of pounds of milk and butter- fat. Each cow’s milk is. tested for | butterfat, two milkings per month | by the official Association Tester or Superintendent, and from the milk sheet kept by the owner and the test cf the two milkings, the pounds of butterfat the cow pro- auced during the month is computed and together with cost of produc- tion data, entered in the owner's “Herd Record Book.” It is entirely possible for any dairyman to arrive at the milk pro- duction of each cow in his herd without the aid of a “tester,” but the important part of the milk, the butterfat cannot be determined sat- isfactorily without the aid of the Babcock test and a trained operator. To illustrate this point Rose, a grade Holstein, 1005 pounds milk in one month while Gra¢e, another grade Holstein produced only 847 pounds of milk during the same month. Without knowing what per cent but- t each cow tested we would na- turally conclude that Rose was higher producer, however, Rose's milk tested 3.1% that month and Grace’s milk tested 4.3%. Multiply- ing 1005 by 3.1% we find that Rose produced 31.2 pounds butterfat for the month and by the same process we will see that Grace produced 36.4 pounds fat, entitling her to high place for that month’s production, Cost of production figures are usually the greatest surprise that the new member gets, he invariable finds that “poor” or unprofitable cows are eating just as much as his best producers—and usually he finds that there are cows in his herd who fail to pay for their feed. In the example noted in thd pre- ceding paragraph, Rose actually cgn- sumed more feed than Grace—and returned less money from the sale of butterfat, The figures on both of these cows by the way aye taken from the records of the Lake Coun- dy Association No. 1, Lake County, lilinois and are not imaginary by | any means. She It is usual to find in addition to overfeeding light producers and underfeeding heavy ones, that the cows are being fed an unbalanced raiton that is much more expensive in yespect to‘the results obtained have been. Bear in mind however, that members are not bound to adopt Practices that seem unreasonable to them such is not the. spirit of association work, the Superintend- ent’s duty is to talk matters over with the /owner and advise such practices as he deems advisable, and the‘owner may or may not take dvantage of th fit. The Superintendent being al- ways an educational agent—never an executive in. the full sense of the word, In ‘improving methods of care and/ advice, as he sees |" ™anagement, the’ owners heightdn- ed. ihterest “in taking care of hi cme rin such a/ way as to produce | e e place technical training plus prac- tical experience at his’ disposal, but the interest and pride of the ow must come first. It is next to im- possible for a member not to take an interest in those of his herd who are producing well, and he invari- ably plans and executes a better type of management of his herd— and the returns more than ju: the change. The pure bred sire is the next consideration and follows closely the desire to install improved methods of care and management. In these terms it is universally accepted that a pure bred sire is essential in a herd, whether the females are pure the . grade, in order that ulves, who will play a prominent t in the future herd, will be uni- and surpass their dams both ype and produetion. pa und con operatively, a plan that will at the same time allow the tion of a better one through eral men. With two or three for four or five bull co-operatively) y| bulls co-operatively, improved feed- A Cow st Association makes it extreme- ly easy for four or five mén to buy ‘ol a pure bred sire, co- cost each man less than to purchase a bull for his own exclusive use, and selec- the pooling of purchase money by sev- of these blocks (block is a term used men who own one it means a di- rect saving in the number of bulls purchased, for after a sire has been nee y tial amounts where it has been giv- en a fair trial, In fact a Cow Test Association furnishes an excellent foundation for almost any Farmers Co-operative enterprise. I do not wish to infer that it is not possible for a group of farmers acting as a unit, to purchase and sell co-operatively own pure bred ing and care and management prac: tices in their individual herds with- out being affiliated with a Test Association, not at all. The ‘advantage of the Cow Test Association plan over that of a group of farmers acting together in coop- crative enterprises and improving present dairy practices ete., individ- ually or collectively is “this: Both types of organizations are equal as iar as resident officers are con- cerned, that is the President, Secre- tary, Treasurer, etc. ‘The Cow Test Association however,’ provides for the employment at a nominal rate to’ individual members of a man es- pecially trained in good dairy prac- tices and experienced in supervising co-operative enterprises of the men- tioned above, to do the actual test- ing and record work due each in- dividual in the association and fur- ther to advise on points of dairy feeding and herd management and to assist in launching and success- fully operating such co-operation en- terprises as the members may de- used two or three years in one| sire. block. he may be traded for the one} In other words the superintendent oWned by a neighboring block and| is an agent hired by the association, thus prevent the slaughter or ‘sale of a bull simply because he can no longer be. used 4n the herd without inbreeding and its attendant evils. Co-operative buying of feed dairy supplies in Cow Test Associations. It is sound plies in large quantities, it is course impossible for an indvidua to buy in terms of car lots, but en: tirely possible for a Cow Test ‘As- sociation acting as a unit to do: 8d! A practice that has saved substanr EVERETT TRUE ON ETIQUETTE § and dely practiced business ‘principle to purchase sup- of who because of his technical train- ing and experience is better equip- ped to keep dairy records and ad- vise on dairy and to further practi- ces co-operative enterprises, both buying and selling than the average farmer would be able to do—had he the time to spare from his regu- lar farm work, which in most cases 1] he hasn’t. The question of financing a Cow Test Association is not a difficult tone, even under present day condi- tions, members are as a rule re- BY. = = = = i SESS aS Fa Cow | CONDO | WOULD You BE INTERESTSD, SIR, IN 4 VOLUME IT TECCS, FOR INSTANGG, WHAT TO SAY AND WHEN To Say IT, AND--- MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1923 | quired to pay yearly dues in two in- See Tom stallments, the first payment being made upon joining and the second | six months later. Dues vary con- | siderably undér various conditions. \In Ilinois Association the preserib- |ed amount is $60.00 per year, how- lever, dues are somewhat lower at | present in the Bismarck Association and in fact have never-reached that | {amount since it was organized. © | | ‘Taken as a’whole, I believe that | there has been on single factor pa mount to the Cow Test Association in developing dairy production to | its present standard in the older | dairy states and certainly . it has | been in the New Salem country in {North Dakota and is destined to be ; in other sections of the state, the | important factor in the improvement | and enlargement of thq present day ‘herds, and the foundation. upor | which further will be built | Le tieeer tl atl ‘ There is a cat in Desmet, S. D., Supt. B. H. F. A. | over 25 years old, so seven or eight ER Se ae of Ker lives must be gone. ‘| ADVENTURE OF Soup is a popular dish, according | THE TWINS to our clothes cleaner. i Sidew#lks are hard on the head. By Olive Barton Roberts When the Twins: left the moon | after tucking the moon-man’s val- | entine under his front door, they started toward the earth again to help Mr. Stamps, the postman, with the rest of his mail. But just as they were passing lone of the big bright stars, a voice | alled to them, “Hello there, Nancy and Nick! Will you. please come} | here a minute?” #certainly answered —_ Nick, catching hold of a star point to stop | himself, ‘while Nancy caught hold! of Nick to stop herself. The old man can’t work our way through the school of experience. Betty. Gulick is. only 10. She writes popular songs. We think we have heard many written by Betty. Kissing her until you are red in the face isn’t much kissing now. Don’t’ cuss winter too much, You will take it all back next summer. It takes a good movie publicity agent to make us see stars. The fellow who never takes a long shot seldom shoots very far. A live wire is a much nicer thing to be than to fool with. Hunt the brighter side. The pres- ent never lasts. You don’t have to be bald to coming out on top. Longer winter lasts the longer be- fore we have to cut weeds. be | “Who was calling?” asked Nick! when they had landed and scramb!ed| You can’t wake up and find your- to the top. 3 {self famous unless you wake up. “I was,” said the voice, and up ran Little Boy Blue holding an envel- cpe in his hand. “I—I wrote a v entine to Bo Peep,” he said, all out of breath, “and I thought maybe | you would take it to her for me, It’s not very good, but it’s the best I can do. I never got very far in school, you see.” “Oh, that’s lovely!” cried Nancy. “Yes indeed we will deliver it for you. That’s our business now any- how. We are helping Mr. Stamps, the fairy postman, to run his post- office, and as we are going rignt past Bo Peep’s star, we will give it to her at once.” 3 “Thank yo ever so much,” The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that shoots the hubby. There are more things to save money for than things to spend it for. We would hate to be a barber and think everybody needs a shampoo. Too many who catch on to things quickly let go the same way. A boy seldom swears before his dad because his dad swears first. said] The rest of your days depend | | Little Boy Blue gratefully. upon the rest of your@hights. | Nick put the valentine in his pa | pocket, and again he and Nancy| ur language tickles us. The man wished themselves on their way.| at the bottom is up a tre | The Magic Green “Shoes were soon whizzing the Twins through the air Most of us have an ambition not like small comets. to have any ambition. Pretty soon they came to Bo ey | Peep’s star and gave her Boy Blue’s! When a man turns green with | valentine. envy he is soon ripe for trouble. “Oh, I'll have to read it to you, ss z it’s so pretty,” she said happily. So she read: “Please be my valentine, Bo Peep, And help me mind my cows and sheep, If you my shepherdess will be, Tl never sleep, I promise thee, ‘But sit on the hay cock and blow Making a good job of growing old should be easy. Look at the’ time yg" have. Love makes the world go around foolish. it on th Where there's a still eomeone y hor will show you a: way. And milk the cows in the early ieee mae ee morn.’” Rumor that girls will show their ears is four years old this spring. “Thank you for reading it,” said Nancy, “But really we must be go- ing, or Mr. Stamps will think we are lost. Goodby, dear.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service) | LET GEORGE DO IT By Berton Braley Let Géorge do it! You've heard the 1 phrase Twisted around in a ~thousand ways; Meaning, “The job is not for me, I haven’t time, or I cannot see The sense or reason in what you plan, By Ben Johnson S i v « s o Tet George do it, for he's your) y."s, Representative From Ken- And George docs’ ithe doesn't tucky, Fourth District. stall ‘ I Pa Or suitk. and. dodgenit, x wnige} Tone ghen tune thas recommen and crawl, ed a young man for appointment under the civil service. The bureau chief said at first that while the young man’s experience seemingly was good, his knowledge was not great enough, When the You can rely | _ On George, that guy | Is there to do it—and do it all! And who is George? He’s the geof absurd, | young man passed the examination The easy mark and the patient|at the head of the list, the bureau bird, / |chief wrote to-me that he thought Who thinks that duty. is not a whim, him,| the candidate's ability was adequate, But, something worthy of strength but his experience ‘was insufficient. | ‘and vimt Z I wrote to him that he reminded And the weisenhgimers, too wise to| me of a judge I knew down sous. 4 drudge, ae The judge was not deeply learned | Say shat George do it”—and never! and at one time he submitted judge. written opinion to a lawyer and ask- Ss ed him what he thought of it. a ai ‘The lawyer replied: | “Oh, ‘I’m too busy to work today!”| «well, judge, ty aay ttiat! 1€ your Believe me, bo, opinion is right, then your reasons Old George will go are wrang, and if ‘your reasons are And do that job in the prover! right, then your opinion is wrong.” way! _ Beulah Coal now $5.25 de- And George does it. He doesn’t Yes George does it, the poor old dunce, . livered. Wachter Transfer {Till the, wise boys findout all «t|Co. Phone 62. | once, & a7 That George, ‘the willing and eager chump, . ¢ Is giving ‘the orders around tie BREAK A COLD | «dump. “Let: George do it" ‘was what they said, : qd And George did it, and forged)’ # ahead!. ¢ s “Let George do it’—but say, old scout, 5 Donttshe -t00 oney whan he! about; | “Pape’s Cold Compound” Acts jut use your knob. * 3 : . Upon the Job, . ; Quick, Costs Little, and Or George will it-et "4 * : tidal esrr sd aude Goo Never Sickens! (Copyright, 1928, NEA Servize) —— st, : A Every druggist here guarantees - each package of “Pape’s Cold Com- A THOUGHT | pound” to break up any cold and end* PN grippe misery in « few hours or ‘Amer Ta. Samet: <pESeTe., 4 money / returned. Stuffiness, pain, All souls “are mine; 4s the soul/ headache, feverishness, inflamed or {of the father, 90 also’ the soul of | congested nose and head relieved the son is mi lel 18: /- | with first dose. These safe, pleasant Let us na “ourselves watchérs | tablets cost only a rew cents and mil- and guardians of fhe: order of the | lions now take them instead of sick- world. Let -us ge ,ourselves to| ening quinine ~ : x service, Let “up set, ourselves with | _ |. Pad all our minds and -all(our hearts ro |’ the perfecting and working out of the methods of di alisha ind the. ending forever of the kings and. em- peroré and the bands of adventur- @rg@ ithe traders and forestallers, who have betrayed: mankind into.this. orass of hate and blood in..which flounder still.—H. G, Wells. 1%