The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 11, 1923, Page 4

-PAGE FOUR ter. _ BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY \ CHICAGO "Marquette Bldg. Apart PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS aaThe 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 pub- | lished herein. i 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....... woe PT20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) .. as 1.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).... 5.00 ! “Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.............. 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) CONSTRUCTIVE PUBLICITY # J. M. Devine, state immigration commission has a real message for the people of the nation in his address delivered Monday’ night at the Minneapolis broadcasting station. He sums up the advantage of this state from an agricultural standpoint and those who are eking out a mere existence as tenants gn high priced land can read with profit “what he has to say of the advantages of North Dakota. : A letter from the Minneapolis radio offices to Mr. Devine congratulates him upon his digest of the present economic 4 situation declaring it to be one of the best and most un- prejudiced that has been received at that station for broad- casting. Mr Devine shows that the price fixing expedients will -avail little but that the only solution is in diversification and a more intelligent system of marketing. There are no *demagogic assertions, no attempt to bait votes through ,advocacy of state or national subsidy, but an earnest plea for the farmer to organize his marketing and balance his crop output so he can control prices to the extent that ob- tains in other lines of industry. This kind of publicity for the state should serve to focus attention upon the many advantages of this great middle west. will make the people think in other terms than that of wheat | “a great purpose has been served. DETROIT Kresge Bldg. DRINKING DAYS -. , Drinking among passengers at sea has been steadily ‘etting less and less, for the last 20 years. T. D. Smith smakes this comment. He’s chief steward of the White Star “fitter Adriatic, and he has been 35 years in the North Atlantic “service. t * The decline in drinking is a genuine prohibition move- <ment, and not because liquor costs have gone up, Smith “believes. ‘ = He says: “Efficiency in business — with telephones, wireless, radio, taxicabs, electrical devices and the general -démand for more speed—has destroyed the old idea of doing business in the forenoon and ‘devoting the rest of the day and night to drinking.” . . That just about sums up the prohibition movement, in “the last analysis. It came as a matter of efficiency, rather ‘than of morals. s , Smith says that when he first went to sea the ships were so small and tossed about so much .in storms that “only H ardy individuals cared for. the North Atlantic trip except { n May, June and July when there weye prospects of fine weather. = . He recalls that many of the old-time liner passengers .3vere hardened topers who could drink all day and most of the night without ever getting drunk. = Their favorite breakfast, served at 11 in the morning. Was deviled bones with champagne. The best whisky in those days cost only 90 cents a quart, ‘with gin 50 cents and lower. Beer was served at 6 cents a | bottle. Maybe this explains the origin of the expression, *go0d old days.” hip, by the bottle. And at dinner time in the first-class ining saloon 30 years ago champagne was seen on every able. Liquor flowed freely at all hours of day and night. Many Sf us can remember ‘when John Barleycorn was the silent partner of business on shore also, it being customary, for a rummer to take a prospective customer out and throw a lozen rounds of drinks into him before inducing him to sign nn the dotted line. ‘ People have been tapering away from liquor gradually but steadily in the last 20 years. Many have the notion that prohibition was “put over” in a'twinkling. They forget that, put of about 2500 counties in the United States, only 150 or ven fewer still were wet when the prohibition amendment ae adopted. , Such drinking as still takes place is viewed through a fmagnifying glass. Smith, veteran seaman, says drinkin; gboard ship has been steadily declining for 20 years, but most landsmen seem to have the notion that ocean travei xesembles “Ten Nights in a Barroom.” TREELESS AMERICA SEEN This year enough lumber will be used in United States d build and furnish a row of five-room houses which, placed - every 50 feet apart, would reach from New York to Seattle, Gabe to San Francisco, east to New Orleans and back to New ork. oY 3 ea. ing chopped down than planted, it’s easy to understand hy we are rapidly heading toward a Treeless America. Brick and concrete are the coming building materials in 4 country stripped-of trees: to a condition ‘of ugliness. ————__—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_——-: ‘ China, PN 8 as a ott troubl i . yy. war and other troubles, again smoking opium on @ scale. So reports the Rev. Dr. H. H. Gowen, ‘back to the University of Washington after a Macnasteann individual used to do the came thing with e u ie e thing hisky. scoureged rah ae agp in- d facing and meeting . Nationally we're getting a of oat aoe of our system. red, we're making gluttons / for punishment, seem 0 thre and me fiat harder 0 live when : } hore severe. N THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE _ Entered at the Postoffice, eek N. D., as Second Class | Publishers It is also an earnest plea for diversification and if it | The old-time ocean passengers bought their hooch, aboard | e | With a lumber demand like that, and with more trees | "| He knew, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. 0) are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides |] of important issues which are Lee | yamaha ip the press of the day , A’ DIVIDED FARMER OPINIO The informed farmer sentiment of Minnesota is sharply divided on the question of a special session of Congress to seek stabilization of wheat prices through an act of that body. By a vote of 10 to seven the directors of the Minne- sota Farm Bureau federation re jected a resolut! ‘favoring that plan after an ex ve discussi« in which both proponents and op-' ponents had their opportunity to be wag cannot be asserted authorita- tively, but there was enough in the; debate to indicate that some of the | members of’ the board believed the proposed plin to be unsound in|} principle. There appeared to he small hope in the board that President Coo- liége would call Congress in ex'ra| on, whatever the tenor of the! h d's action ahd there also was! a feeling that even if Congress | should meet, take up the question, and act favorably on a price-fixing measure, the action would come too late to be of any great use this vegr in quarters where there is} the strongest demand for arbitrary | stabilization. Congress is not al high speed body when it tackles! questions like’ this. { Price-fixing could be only al temporary expedient of relief for producers of wheat. That fact is ecognized by men of all shades f | opinion on the propriety of the! proposed ne by Con- gress, ly conceded t no enduring policy of legisla- | e stabilizagion would be sat: factory to farmers or any other; group interest. Proponents of | price-fi siy that there is an emergency} out of the usual course in aid o wheat farmers. Others, while ad- mitting the emergency, have their} y which warrants poing e misgivings about the precedent; that would thus set in time 0%; peace. These are the one; wi0 ask: If wheat, why not othe: products of agriculture? Whatever miy be said by either side about direct congressional re- lief to meet a temporary exigency the fact remains and is admitted that enduring farm prosperity calls for a very considerable read- justment of farm activities to} bring wheat production more nearly into parity with home con- sumption, to diversify as the con- ditions of this or that farm, or this | or that agricultural community, may dictate, and to put back into the soil the nurturing elements that are drawn from it, wastefully or otherwise. Those who think %f thege things turn their heads in- evitably to dairying, stockraising, amd poultry ‘prodifétion, all ‘of which implies rotating crops. They also think of ®etter market- ing conditions for the farmer, They cannot help go thinking if thev take into dye account the weight of testimony of ‘practical experi- ence.—Minnesipolis: Evening Trib- une. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS By Olive Roberts Barton flying | toward Mister Gallop’s cave, squawk- Chatterbox Magpie came ing like a horn with a bad cold. | “Quick! Quick!” he __ shoutea. “You're needed,’ Mister Gallop. Davy Deer’s got his horns caught and can’t get loose, Mister Hunter Man is coming up the mountain on his horse and he's got a big gun. Oh, do hur- ry!” “Chatterbox, you’re a nice fellow after all,” “said the cowboy fairy. You're a good friend to all the mountain folk, it’s a fact, even if you are a rowdy. Yes, I'll help Davy right away. Come on, Nancy and Nick, we'l]_ start for the place at once. You'd better fly over to the | trail where Mister Hunter Man is | riding, Chatterbox, ang do what you can to hold him back.” | The Twins came at vnce and got on their little fat ponies as fast as | they could climb, Then the three of them dashed away towatd the place where Davy Deer was, But after all, they couldn't get near enough to Davy to do him any } | good, for deer can go places that no pony can set his feet. “We'll have to get off our ponies } and crawl over on our hands and | knees,” declared the fatryman. “It’s | too bad you wore riding boots today, | Twins, or you could have wished ; yourselves over the steep places with your magic shoes. Be patient, Davy!” he called. “We'll be there in a minute. i | Mister Hunter Man came riding up the mouNtain path, up and up and up, looking everywhere for Davy Deer. He never suspected that Chatterbox Magpie haq told on him jand was looking at hit at that very ; minute from a tree on the high cliff over his head, i |. Suddenly the air was filled with | dust and stones all around him. “Oh, there’s something in. my eye!” h \cried. “I'll have to get off my horse, T can’t see a thing!” And it took him fifteen minutes to find it and get it out. “ Just the fifteen minutes that Mis- ter Gallop and. Naney. and Nick needed to reach Davy snd to whittle away the branehes that had’ caught his long horns! When Mister Hunter Man reached the place, there wasn't @ soul there. Just a lot of broken dranches and some footprints all arou! “I wonder wi all this means?” he remarked in a puzzied voice. “? wonder if there was ® deer here late- heard. | Just what wag the deciding in-j fluence in making the Vote what it| ;™ust sound rather stilted. | | | 4 Gee Buzz! Yuu BeTTer HACN'T vel YER MA See Yun Wilh THaT STUFF on YER Face Boyhood Heroes TUNK, THe WIRE OF THE GUY WHAT PLAYS SIMON LEGREE PLAYS LUTTLE EVA AN’ Tue BLOOD HOUN'S AINT BLOOD HOUN'S A TALL THeYRE GREAT DANES ALL 100 1S CARRY THIS SIGN au lzoun' Town An’ | GET IN Fer NOTHIN’ An’ WHATCHA LETTER FROM JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT TO HIS MOTHER, MRS. M@RY ALDEN PRESCOTT When I went home last night, I found Leslie with a very high tem, perature. She was <o feverish that I was frightened and wanted to send for the doctor, Re She finally confided in me tht ‘she had received a letter from you in whiclf you intimated. she “was to blame for any neglect I might have given you. I hate very much to say harsh things to my mother, but’cer- tainly since my marriage t6 Léslie} you have absolutely been a thdtn in the flesh. * Seen, T cannot understand. Why, ‘de you know, I had dreams before mymar- riage that possibly you woulg,come and Jive with us, and now I know that you are the last personiin the world whom I would ask to do such you a thing. Right here I want to say that I am not going to pay ay bill for painting yonr house. That Brad- ford.woman said you have plenty. of money.in the bank to do this, [ |don’t care sq much for the .money Ty is very probable th u wr'tten to me in the right spirit and asked me about painting the house, I would have been very glad to give it to you. But the letter you wrote me had so many unkind insinuations about Leslie that I made up my mind’then I should never do anything for you until you had come to your senses, Since then, of course, you have written me those terrible letters about the baby which have made matters much worse. I am trying to write this letter »s calmly as possible; consequently it What I part of it, ad yo want to say is this: T have given orders that any letter coming to Leslie directed by your eheTangle- {hand and having the postmark of your home upon it js not to be open- led and Leslie has promised me she {will burn it without unsealing it. | In my last letter to you I said that {neither Leslie nor I would come into your house until we could bring the baby. Now I will go further and say that neither Leslie nor I will answer {any communication from either you or that Bradford woman unless they are cwritten in a decent manner showing some’ kindliness for Leslie and respect for me, I éNpect you ‘will think this is a veryvhard letter and I will perhaps hurt’ you more when F tell you that it isinot nearly as hard as it would bbe if: Tisnid plainly how’ I feel toward you. I never thought that my own ‘mother would prove so narrow mind- ‘ed and so. selfishly self-centered as you: have been, Tiyhould not write to you this way ex¢opt that I know you have an in- come’ sufficient for all your simple wants an@I sincerely advise you to] i maké ‘arrangements with that Brad- ford'‘woman to live with-you. You se@ni to be thoroughly in sympathy | i with ‘wuch other and I think it would be a.very happy arrangement. Do hot, I beg of you, write to Les- lie again. It will do you no good as she will never read the letter. Your son, JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT.! il lust thereof; but he that doeth the will of God ab‘deth forever—1 John 2:17., LET a man be never so ungrateful or jnhuman, he shall never destroy a good office—Seneea, I WHAT ARS You . DOIWG. WITH Sour CENTER ABcCE § lyt?” 4 Chetterbox Magpie was holding his sides, he was laughing so hard. "(fg Be Continued.) °° (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) ‘Turkish schoo) children use chalk and pencils imported from Germeny,| ; FSET ON Tor oF HE BY CONDO tattoed. shows, So is her husband when to knitting his brows, broidery prize. now. ance men may enjoy learning one- in California, terflies, ndt movie stars, must take only i8 drinks. Rg Sas Mrs. Coolidge is a good knitter. Dubuque (Ia.) man’ won an em- Men are making it They may wear it some day. Pecple bothered to death by insur- is in jai] in Akron, QO. < A man is starting a bytterfly farm He will grow real but- Duluth (Minn.) jury says dry agent : i Doesn’t, it depend on how dry he is? Photographing the eclipse from an airplane 20,000 feet nigh eclipses anything so far, An’ insane man may run for office in Buffalo, which is nothing new. Detroit scrubwoman went to work in her auto, proving they “charge. in Detroit like they’ do here.’ Ten were arrested for sleeping in a Chicago theater. We think we have seen that show, \ New York bride’s baby weighs half a ton, so of course it is a baby ele- phant given as a present. en ee le A Thought ||. chimney has been builtin Ana- ° - | conda, Mont., 585 feet high, causing The world passetn away, and the| many cricks in farmers’ necks. Doctors estimate Americans have 3,000,000 pounds: excess fat, which is a lot of bootleggers. Thin summer dresses are all right. the satisfaction of my having done | Qne enableg & Chicago girl to tear loose from a robber. Madura girls of 14 are old maids, ‘They hardly have learned to smoke at that’ age here, - Fiji girls have their date of birth No matter where it is it We might try it. This bee's knees, | cat’s. pajamas, gnat’s eyebrows conversation is ge! ting to be the snake's hips. * Nobody wins a dance, The couples come out neck and neck. Song hits soon miss. Yea, we have jno “Yes, We. Have No Bananas” is due, a . 3 ‘The social butterfly: steers clear of the wall flower. Our radio sounds as if she needs a new needle. A social lion fa: one who thinks he \{ds the cat's whiskers. . a. 1 Thinking is @ great pastime, But’ lit you don’t do it right ‘it. will. get you into a/lat of trouble, , As leaves are falling tefl the'trees hay fever comes in with a sneeze. The last rose of summer usually’ arrives’ with the first nose of winter. ’ | ever invented,” she says, {opened and 4& careful it comes } . ‘to/sportsmen. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1923 | Flasher’s Mayor Keeps People In Touch With News Flasher, Sept..11.—Mrs. Fanpie Ber- rier, mayét, of Flasher, N. 'D., and chief operator. for the Northwest Beli Telephone Company there, be- lieves in humenizing her job to the extent of considering her subscribers her personal friends When the towns cut.off from rail~ | road /cammunigation on< account of \storms, she keéps the tefevhone sub- |scriberson the rura} lines in touch with any news of the day which she may have learned “over the long dis- tance lines. _ i “The switchboard to me comes as inear being human fe anything man “I believe every one is strong for the operator who humanizes. her job to the extent that she considets her ‘subscribers hef” personal, friends, and serves them in that spirit.” Ku Klux Klan Is Organized in N. D. Stet Larimore, N. D., Sept. 11.—With the recent meeting of about. 1,000 klans- mem here Friday nigift with ithe American Clab of the Klangmen of the Realm of North Dakota, received its charter in the official mysteries. A burning straw’ stack and three burning cresses, the lights of 100 crosses, lighted the scene of the my- stery, with numerous guards doing sentinel duty to prevent prying out- siders from disturbing the ceremon- ies. Rev. F. Halsey Ambrose, pastor jot the First Presbyterian church of {Grand Forks, was master of cere- monies and delivered lengthy ad- dress. * Bodies Of Slain Men May be Exhumed :Valley City, N. D., Sept. 11—It is possible that the grave of the pot- ter’s field of Highland Home Ceme- tery, wherein were laid the bodies of the two murder victims recently Hill, will at some time have, to be examination | made, by experts, of the teeth to satisfy relatives of missing men that these victims are not the relatives they seek. Already Chief of Police Obermiller has on file dentists’ rec- ords of work done but these records will be held until the returning hun- dreds from ‘northwest threshing fields to their homes will have weed- ed down the list of missing, and all other “means. of identification have been sifted ‘down. Inquiries from anxious! relatives so far inelude, two from Geneva, Wis., two from Minneapolis, “ong leach from Fargo, ~Minnewaukan, Karlsruhe and two different groups here in’ Jamestown.’ Neither one of the svietims: could possibly amswer some ‘gf the descriptions given but fit fairly ‘close to others, Sharon Farmer Ha: Large Potato Crop : ' Sharon, N, D., Sept. 11.—If nothing unforeseen happens James McKenzie, farmer near here, expects to be “sit- ting pretty” this fall. |” Mr. McKenzie has one hundred eighty-five acres of potatoes. which have recently been inspected by a government inspector who pronounces the field the best of the four hun- dred fields that he has inspected, de- claring that the yield will not be der 150 bushels per acre, all cert: potatoes, fi Mr. McKenzie will start digging and shipping his crop in about a week and at present prices, or even at fifty cents per bushel, he declares the profit will be satisfactory. Caught In Thresher Boy Escapes Death Hankinson, Sept. 11—Arnold Tiegs 20, son of Frank Tiegs ‘farmer near here, narrowly escaped a_ terrible death when. squeezed between ta thresh engine and feeder The boy was operating ‘@ rig and.while moving to a new setting struck a streak of sand. Reversing the engine to back up for a new start, he was unable to. switch the. geats again and he .was caught across the body between jthe steering wheel and the end of the feeder which was attached to the rear of the engi A helper was forced to break the steering wieel with a large hammer before he could release the young‘ man, No bones were -orpken but it is feared he suffered internal injuries. Beans In Garden Measure 18: Inches Milton, N, D., Sept, 11.—F. A. Me- Donald of ‘this place hi ied in ¢ : The beans are of the Gigantic Guinea’ vari Man 71, Takes Out Hunting License Fargo, Sept. it Age is no barrier. <~ Among the 100; Cass ¢ountiahs who lied for licenses in the. biggest day. of the season, was Wm. Howells of Hyatt, aged 71,..The licens 8, Se] who formerly édited 9 reported r the Bate Northwest News found in the straw stack on Capitol; i. Last Rites For Farmer Killed By Corn Binder McVille, N. D., Sept, 11—Funeral services were held Saturday after- noon for F, 0. Walhood, 63, well known farmer of this community who was killed Wednesday when the team that he was driving on a corn binder started up when he was in front of the machine.. When found the man was in a dying condition and a phy- sician who was sammoned found the neck broken, both arms broken, both legs fractured and the flesh badly mutilated. Apparently he had been dragged a considerable distance by the machine, 1 Child Dies From Burns Sustained As Auto Explodes Fordville, N. D., Sept. 11.—Kenneth, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs, Jacob Wangsness of Fordville died 36 hours after sustaining severe burns while seated in the family auto, The lad remained in the car, parked on a street here, while his father was on an errand. The car virtually explod- ed and was a mass of flames in a moment. Kenneth jumped out, but flames inhaled and burns sustained proved fatal. Hatton Robbed Hatton, N. D., Sept. 11—Robbers, evidently professionals and tnought to have come from some distance, made. almost a clean sweep whea the entered the Bohg and Nyhus jewel store here Friday night, possibly | about 3 a. m. The robbers entered the store through a rear window, broke inta the sefe by smashing the combination lock and escaped with practically en- tire stock of the jewelry store consist- ing of 200 watches. several diemonds and other jewels, the value of the loot being estimated at about $4,000. The robbery was discovered by Ed Nyhus, member of the firm when he arrived at the store this morning. The silverware and some cut glass was a!l that he’ found left of the stock. i} Form Credit Co. Sheldon, Sept. 11—The Farmers Credit Co. of Sheldon was launched here when about twenty farmers met and signed up. the initial pap: The temporary board of directors in cludes Henry T. Boyle, John Shea, P, J. Boyle, Joseph Spiekermier and Martin Boyle. A considerable amount of new goy- ernment money will be brought into the territory to finance the farmers. Members. of .the company. can borrow through the corporation at a reason- able rate.of interest and will secure money to meet their obligations and kaye an opportunity to hold their crop for better prices. Money can also be secured through the company, for the purchase of livestock and it will be the means of bringing into this territory a con- siderable fumber of well bred dairy cattle. ‘In Pit in Hog Yard Minot, Sept. 11.—Roy Humble, ,@ farmer living about 12 miles, north. east of thé city, on whose place Sheriff Rutten and Deputy Sheriff Huestis found a 80-gallon still a few. days ago, has pleaded guilty before Judie C. W. Buttz and will be sontenced early in November, the court perm ting him first to get his farn af- fairs straightened out for the win- ter. The still was dug out of n pit in the hog yard an the farm by Deputy Sheriff Huestis, who suspected some- thing was hidden in the ground due to the indication that the ground had been. lossened. The officers were accompanied on their raid by Jailer Ivor Rustom. . Humble already is under $1,000 bail for trial in district court on a charge of having intoxicating liquor in his Fosscasion and for manufacturing the staff. Flax Plants ‘Have 155 Bulbs Each Alamo, Sept! 11—Ev W. ‘Loe, who nts D, L, Campbell's farm at Alamo, MD. has an 80. acre field from which were picked a number of flax plants that had from 155 to 157 bulbs each. z + This unusual productivity sur- passes the flax plant brought in by Henry Peterson of Kempton, which geven stems with 137 blubs from ‘one,seed and which was considered a* record breaker. Aged Woman Found Dying In Her Home, Oakes, N. D., Sept. 11—Mrs. Ella Levina Ellsworth, 69, who has lived ‘alone here for some time, was found dying in the basement of her home by a niece who called and found the door locked. She'was uriconscious || pargntly having suffered a.stroke of i} Spoplexy, and died a few hours later. It was believed she was stricken and had lain where she fell for about 28 urs before she was found, Uninjured When. . - \ Car Overturns “Valley City, \ Sept. 11.—Four Valley City. men miraculously escaped Serr ious injuries Tuesday noon when the Jordan car in which they were rid- ing, overturned in the ditch ar Staples, Minn., when . the: prindle broke and wheels cramped. Emil Fe man, mn, John Halverson-and _ Feldman, who were riding in the: car were uninjured, . a ié y he Read Tribune Want Ads, : A