The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 13, 1923, Page 4

PAGE FOUR : BISMARCK TRIBUNE THE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. ' Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Publishers CHICAGO - : - DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge 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 nov otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. x All rights of republication of special dispatches hcrein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year............... cee Bee Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)............... 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 OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) LOGICAL SOLUTION v Gen. E. A. Williams, president of the North Dakota Irri- | gation Association, is in receipt of a letter from Walter| Parker, secretary of the Safe River Committee of 100, with headquarters at New Orleans, asking for the support of this state in the Dupre bill which provides for a survey of water: | ways and flood control projects. North Dakota, Montana and other western states are vitally interested in this legislation for it means the most logical step toward a sane plan for control of the headwaters which give the southern states so much trouble yearly and have necessitated the construction and maintenance of great levees. It is pointed out by competent engineers that were these waters impounded in the northern states where they orig- inate, flood conditions would be abated and North Dakota together with other states would be able to secure water power from such dams affording the means of great indus- ttial development in this section of the state. : The matter was brought to Senator Ladd’s attention while in the city and he has promised to use his influence in securing. a survey on the control and development of “waterways and water resources. ‘ . Those who urge impounding and controlling the waters at their source rather than resorting to the construction of expensive levees declare that the theory of flood control has “pot advanced since 1718. Southern congressmen are grad- ually becoming convinced that levee building is not the pro- “Sper solution, however it may appeal to the pork barrel proclivities of the various congressional districts. “$4. North Dakota should be vitally interested in the devel- opment of all possible water power sites and a federal sur- | vey of conditions is the first step toward that end. The investigation would ultimately lead to reclamation of arid! lands, drainage, and water power over a wide area of the! Northwest. The delegation from this state in congress can well join: hands with’ southern congressmen in securing a survey of flood control conditions. tt ADJUSTING THE TARIFF Information brought from Washington by Senator Ladd would indicate that some adjustments can be made in tariff rates that will afford a better market for the North Dakota farmer. The situation should be a matter of careful study and commercial bodies should extend every aid to the farmers in their struggle for more favorable marketing con- ditions. If President Coolidge is desirous of information concern- ing wheat and flax distribution from the Northwestern states, a most complete statement of the real situation should be placed before him. While The Tribune has been dubious from the first of political or legislative panaceas designed to aid the farmers, if any tariff changes are contemplated inimical to the wheat and flax growers’ interest the civic bodies of this state should act as a unit in opposing them. There should be no delay in placing before President Coo- lidge just what the marketing problems are in this state and, in what respect the tariff situation affects them. Accord- ing to Senator Ladd the President stands ready to make any | modification in the tariff schedules that will aid the Amer- ican farmer better to meet competition. Te MORE HOKUM - Chinese is simpler than any of the European languages. | 4 And to learn to speak and read it requires no more time than to master German, French or Spanish, claims Franklin C. H. +..Lee.. He teaches Mandarin Chinese at Columbia University.! His native assurance impresses us, for we inherited a notion that for a white man to learn Chinese is next to im- possible. If it’s true that Chinese is as easy to learn as German, French or Spanish, another bit of inherited hokum is ex- ploded. Hokum is being exposed so repeatedly in our iconoc- lastic age—hokum of long and dignified standing—that we’re beginning to wonder if the general impression of three- dimensional life has been built on a quicksand foundation. Ed Howe has challenged the ancient belief that a red rag) inflames a bull. Ed makes out a plausible case to the con- = trary—says it’s merely one of our false inherited notions. Explorer Stefansson claims the Far North is an attrac- ‘tive climate, with multitudes of flowers in season, and the winters no worse than in some parts of our northwest. He says our idea, that the Far North is a terrible ice country, is inherited from Greeks who didn’t know and explorers posing as heroes. So it goes. Medical theory has turned topsy-turvy in ==the last few generations. Einstein has overtirned many ‘= of the applecarts of science. Old ideas about home life and * ¢ghild-rearing have been tossed in the waste basket. ; About all that’s left unexploded is in economics. There the ancient theories hold forth firmly, stroking their long whiskers and shrieking, “Infidel!” when hokum- exploders like Ford and Edison challenge such things as the money system. y 2 a MARKET LETTERS \ . The‘ latest style ‘in “market letters,” issued by big cor- porations and covering business conditions, is a clever cam- ; ae ee ene | agricultural depression. Maybe there’s Se ” Some of these market from Wall Street, ga ures 1 e it seem that the! er we es soft as tis, bat liars gun _ K bh motive in the background, but that isn’t here nor|1 x EDITORIAL REVIEW |] Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They a order that both sides which are © press of ant iss. being discussed in th the day. i FORTY-ACRES PLUS Much interest has been shown) over the state during the past few | weeks over the “Forty-Acres Plus” | slogan adopted by the North Da-' kota State Press association as its battle cry for diversification. This slogan was chosen by the Press association in its effort to| ack the growing of 40 or more} res of forage crops on each farm in the state in the future. Mem- ber papers are pledged to do all inj heir power to aid diversification | through this move and will devote much space toward the recital of achievements made by farmers in! their respective communities dur-; ing the past year. H ‘The Press is a firm believer in| the “Forty-Acre Plus” gospel. | It's a mighty good slogan and) |should aspire all those who are in the least interested in the agricul- |tural development of the state.! | The time is near at hand when a’ \least 40 acres of forage will grown on every farm. In fac‘, a} in Stark county than: 40 acrcs during the past year. On practically every firm where | diversification ig practiced there is material for a mighty good news| story concerning some crop th: the farmer has raised. Stories th will serve as an inducemen) prospective settlers to inve the community and learn of the « vantages which it offers. The Pregs is willing and anxious | to publish such tories and, will give | all space according to their news | value. We would be glad to have farmers of the county advise us of} the results they fhave obtained | from their corn and other forage | crops and likewise of the records j made by tthe dairy herds that we may in turn “tell the world” what 1s ‘being accomplished in Sturk county and the Slope in the inter ests of diversification.—Dickinson Press. } | be | | | i | \ \e mae a | ALBERTA VOTES WET | position to break away from pro-, hibition when their voters get it | chance to speak upon it. | The province of Alberta, in the Oanadian Northwest, voted for Nquor by a pretty substantial ma- jority. “pNgt®for the saloon, which Canada never had as the United States had it, nor even for the old hotel ‘bar, which in Canada came! pretty close to being as bad as the American saloon, but for govern- ment contro] and government sale of liquor, very like the system which Manitoba recently adopted. The plan of government control and sale of liquor has many advo- cates, even in this country. Yat when liquor seemg so certainly to corrupt whoever hamiles it, a large question is left: What is it goiny | to do to the gOvernment that deal in it?—Duluth Herald. ADVENTURE OF By Olive Roberts Barton Away down in Dixie Land, the Twins came upon an object that look- « ed something like a war-tank, and something like a suit of iron armor that knights of old used to wear in battle. Only it wasn’t any bigger than a parcel-post package. | “What do you s’pose it can be?” whispered Nancy, touching it with ‘her toe. But careful as she was, the ob- jJect poked a acaly head out from| j under its hard shell and said sharp-, jly out of its sharp nose, “Speak a| little louder, please. I'm very hard! of hearing.” 4 “Don't you believe it!” called a itiny voice, and there, not far away, the Twins saw a little black ant with a red head, standing beside the door | |of a perfect enormous ant-hill, “He isn’t hard of hearing at all! He's | got ears that can hear when anyone sneezes in China, We ants ought to know, for he hears us every time we turn over in bed even, so he does, and we have an awful time trying jto stay alive, because he eats ants and—” Nancy put her shands over her ears. “Oh, stop, stop!” she cried.| “You talk so much and so fast, lit- jtle ant, I can’t keep up with you.”! ; Without another word the little _red-headed ant disappeared. | “I’m glad you put that sassy ant in his place,” said Mister Hard-Shell War-Tank si ly again out of his sharp nose. “They seem to think I have no right whatever to eat them. Why, if all the lizards and mice and | bugs in the community felt that way, I would never have a meal at all, so I wouldn’t, and dear only knows, if I don’t watch my Q's and P's, I'll be gobbled up myself one of these days because, much as I hate to say it, there are plenty of people w: around to-make-a lunch off me.” | “What is your name, please?” ask- jed Nick. “You are the most curious , Person I ever saw.” i | “I’m called ‘Andy Armadillo,” an- swered Mister War-Tank. “Want a t es!” cried the Twins quickly. And they hopped right on. Along they went, slong and along, their steed chattering like a phono- graph every step of the way, when suddenly the Twins were duniped off on the, ground, kerbump! And Mis- ter Armadillo disappeared like a cent in'a slot-machine. “{Wh—where are you?, Oh, Mister| Arpaaitlo, where did’ you go?” called: ick. gy lown this hole!’ I’m ‘P's asf told you, ‘eoming: ‘Don't ” “Now yeu ¢ led }you are n have never seen a man-@ appreciit | tive of real home life as think there was a thing in my*draw- jing-room or dining-room, abit of \furniture in his bed-room ofthe Hi- \brary, that he did not find some ap- |propriate remark with whick ¢4 Show me that he knew exactly and its utilitarian mental value. you were tal |lie’s household fit | talk. jto things that 1 i Lares and Pen: be perfect, Leslie?’ a. though I had been in houses where , worship and adoration were given to very useless ‘say yourself,” smiled Sydney. Sydney,” said I, laying my hand on Jack’s arm makes a very splendid head of the house as well as father of the child he is now going to christen with the historical name of John Alden Pres- cott,” eAicTangle Canadian provinces show a dis-|LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT was prickling him ail over as a hair TO LESLIE PRESCOTT, CONTINUED I hope, dear little Marquise, that;™y ancestors will be ot tired of ‘my coi |shirt might have done. jealls him a 1| know, Syd.” At’ this I snatched up my baby and . Y do not | started out. I could not speak. It |seeftied to me that this ceremony would indissolubly knit the bonds be- tween my baby and me in a way that no one ever could break them. I felt that even Jack had a vague worth | appreciation:of this for as F held the uyna-{ Child a8 proxy for Alice, his: arm ‘nameless brat’, you He stayed with us thro ‘days. as well a: “Good Lord, S ttle mother Les ry very happy.” ! One would think | “ ie, you make me hy s to hear. you! (C | | A Thought You have c: “That's right, Jack, ] say to him. ght mej @. THE TWINS jthat it isn’t on ho al- | ee ways sees and one’s} “g#appy is the man whom God cor- taste and the one’s| €eteth; therefore despise not thou the chastening of. the Almighty.— Job 5:17, | “Do one’s house ‘It seenis to me just at present as of harkiag too close to the heels of An errer, lest you get your brains and very ugly idols.” {kicked out—Coleridge. — ~ “Such as?” interrupted Jack. “Of course you wouldn’t have me HAS SKUNK FARM Jamestown, Nov. 13—J. E. Tuck- er, Des Lacs farmer, has decided to try his luck in raising skunks, Last fall upon completing his farm opera- tions he launched upon the idea that skunk raising would be profitable. Mr, Tucker has already captured about 65 of the fur bearing naimals and-hopes to increase the number to 109. While hunting the other day, “I wouldn’t have you say it cither, fondly. “I think he Jack wriggled as though something. COME IN HERS TO THS PoRC CA2ZY BONSS, <X WANT TO SHO You WHERE THE DooR Bscc 13 wt & Las Wenn SMAINS z eet ‘ow WeReee “According to mother, Leslie, all! spending. the| jestures | few moments, in which the rector is! lover the baby for I want to add just sprinkling water and jone more picture that stamped itcelf|the unconscious face of little Juck,! on my mind before Sydney Carton|in turning over in their graves. She |left for kome. blessings on} stole about me and he whispered, | Regular. Brussels. spouts. ‘opyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) | it didn’t. remind privates of Second Trath is a good dog; but beware; 4 without getting any fatter. { 1 i i | | he caught a black mink and expects to start the raising of mink also. 2 Tom Sims avs. is. Ford’s He | Let’s see! now, ~today day to refuse the presidency. does it every day. i do Henry leads- a hard tife. Before breakfast every day he decides either to run: or not tO run. The “Germans are still writing notes to France. These aré the only | notes France can collect. B'g meeting-in Brussels. Hun- dred orators delivered fiery speeches. Armistice Day would be better if Loveys still at large. Figures show the war cost 11,000,- 000 lives and wasn’t worth it. Boston still exploded. Injured three. Would have injured’ many more if it hadn't exploded, In Los Angeles they are objecting to dancing without lights, Called on account of darkness, ~ Some people marry for money. A Texas man didn’t. He gave the min- ister a worthless check. Only thing you can say for Ger- many’s aluminum coins is wealth won't be such a heavy burden. ——— Football is played with. the pigskin and this may be why there are so many rooters, Arguing with a policeman is about as foolish as a dog trying to bite a big automobile. , Many people have the polish and refinement of a good education. with- out the.good education. ‘When you burn’ your hand put a littleinoda, on thie place. jothing, however,*helps ‘sideburns. . The best. thing:about stopping at a hotel is you don’t mind if you do get the towels dirty. The skinny people have one advan- tage.. They can eat_all they please Open fires are mach better than 5 h ine getting real mushy about a radiator. Everywhere’ you see suggestions for beautifying the home. Our sug- gestion is to lower the rent, Eat all the cabbage you can. It will be“Scarce néxt year. Campaign cigars must be made of something. Neler start an argument with a { big strike is settled. | about Umanski | Goodkind, the president. ‘reached over boldly and took a cigar. “|The work is there. I pay what l ¢ man bgger than. you unless you like being“ealled’ a liar. <"', . os i _ You ‘never know how well off you aré’until you are Rot. x Lenk a divorce, It takes two td. make a but only ‘one fo mal Nothing in » mame, Mr, Snow is a big game hunter in) Africa, AN coat ngrineees . Big department store was robbed in West Virginia} so we, hope , they got some folding beds, =~ © THE FOOL By Channing Pollock. BRGIN HERE TODAY Clare Jewett, in love with the Rev- erend Daniel Gilchrist, marries Jerry Goodkind for his money. Daniel is dismissed from “the fashionable Church of the Nativity in New York Because of his radical sermons. Gil- chriat is sent.te the coal mines by Goodkind senior and wires that) a once and he say: ‘Air—sunshine— milk—eggs? Got no job. My little girl, she cough—and cough—ang one die.” ightened now to his full it she He stra height. “I tell you we git right to quit,” he suid feverishly. “We got right to hang together. We got right to fight —to live—and, by God, we gonna fight—we gonna live—we gonna—by God.” .| ‘There came a sudden blare of mu- sic and ripples of laughter as the 5 ie room opened and carefully’ groomed men in evening] door to the musi clothes in the pretentious library of{ Dilly Gilliam burst in upon ¢ the man of wealth, feel disturbed by tense peroration of this reature the surroundings. Clare is angry be-| hounded Te Nek gee sehiee ea her dinner party is interrupt: daing to” Dip Began, Then ah saw that she had interrupted. “I'm sorry,” she said haltingly. bd Umanski stood looking at her. She was 20! She had gold hair. She had She had a pink dress! stretched two trembling arms toward her, then brought them back to cover his face. Haunted and helpless he sank into a chair. CHAPTER X A Substitute A heavy pall descended upon the room, Somehow, all felt the grim tragedy that phantom figures had re-enacted in this’ man’s soul. Stedt- man swayed. a ‘moment between two loyalties and then walked to the chair : in which Umanski huddled, bowed and “T qeally just got in mvself,” he| @vaking, and put an arm ‘@roung the responded nervously: “This is Mr.|™4n. Gocdkind took a step nearer ‘And a|4"d looked down’ at the broken fig- couple 0" directors. Well, now we| Ure sympathetically. Jerry ‘alone seemed not to mind. “You'll have’ to wait, Dilly,” he said tothe girl with still a trace of his petulance in his tone. “Ask the ladies to stay in the drawing. room,” the elder Goodkind said. “We'll join them in a few min- utes.’ Dilly did not fathom it all, but she had a feeling that somehow she was A delegation of strikers comes north to interview. the, president and directors. They meet i NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY There was none of.this uncertainty He'stood with arms folded just a.step;within the room. A giant Pole, he was, with massive frame. It was a frame that would have carried ample: weight but it did not. Whatever might have been there had been starved off. He was all bone and brawn. His face was tense and ‘earnest—something about it suggested a grim kind of poetry that hag been born of suffering. “You said you be on sidewalk,” he turning to: Stedtman. Max forcedly and. waved a hand erkily. can get down to business.” Goodkind had bowed at the intro- duction. Then, picking up a flashy humidor, he advanced. to the three. “Smoke?” he queried amiably but abruptly. He helg the humidor be- fore Hennig, who helped himself. with an-air of suspicion. Stedtman Goodkind moved on to Umanski with the humidor. As hé held it out the Pole stared past him and made no move. Goodkind looked at him strangely and returned the box to the table, Hennig, feeling a little more im. portant with a big cigar in his uth, broke the ground of discus- ‘eg—certainly,’ ly. “I’m so sorry. gone, z Umanski heard the closing doom and looked after her. Stedeman, his arm still around the man, signaled Goodkind to go on. “I think we'd better let this go for tonight,” the president said, shaking his head at Stedtman, Umanski was on his feet in an instant she said nervous- And she was guess you know all about our grievances,” he blustered with an air of significance. : “] didn’t know you had any,” re- turned Goodkind suavely. “You didn’t know we had any—” Joe didn’t understand the employers’ approach, “Ah, you fellows are never satis- fied,” Benfield broke in’ warmly. “You're getting plenty for what you do,” Goodkind followed up. “What are you complaining about? You've left good jobs to follow a lot of idle, discontented agitators. We've got to win this fight’,on principle, he said, half-apologetically. — I'm all right. Excuse.” ‘ou're a little upset,” said Good- kind soothingly, .“and I havé guests. Besides, Gilchrist will be here in half an hour and I ‘want to talk to him before I say anything definite. Sup- pose we ‘meet here tonforrow at hoon. Hennig had stirred at the mention of Gilchrist’s name. “Not : Gilchrist churlishly. “No, just we six,” assented Good- ind ‘and maybe one or two more of-our directors.” * “All right,” said Stedtman, seeing it was his business to agree. : Umanski_ had umed his firm, stoical position again. “I wanna know what we gonna do —tonight,” he said emphatically. “We're going to get) togethe ‘id -Goodkind with a confident smile. ‘You fellows have got the wrong idea, We're not tyrants or monsters. We're Christians and we want to act like Chri: “Only—we've got to live, too. , We've got to have the thing we're used to, just as. you have. But I think I can’ promise if the strige’s calleq off, you men will be kept, and put back just: wherg. you were. Ring the bell, Jerry.” Jerry pressed a button beneath the table. Benfield excused himself and rejoined he other guests. Umanski stodd there with his eyes still on | Goodkind. The president, shifted a bit, then turned to Hennig, attemp: ing to free himself of the Pol _ “¥ou live in Black River?” h he protested get men for, and not a cent more. Take it or leave it. Re He ‘We got to hang together to get anything,” retorted Joe. 7 “You're hanging—and what have you got?” Goodkind had centered on Hennig, but it was Umanski who answered. Still standing quietly with arms felded, his voice. was as \un- emotional as his pose. “I work twelve hours—every day— thirty years—got nothing,”, he said brokenly. : , “Why shoulg you have,” broke: in Benfield. “An untrained man—” Jerry had béen surveying the pri ceedings scornfully. He broke his silence now, sneeringly. “You don’t even know Engl said derisively. “How I gonna learn English: work 12 hours a day?” Umanski query was pathetically earnest. “Nobody asked you to take the job,” Jerry flung. “Nobody asked you to come over here. You're not an American.” “I was an American,” he said with a strange dignity. “When?” sneered Jerry. “When I fight in the war.” Goodkind senior has turned to Umanski now. “What do you want?” interested. “I wanna chance to learn,” replied the atark figure, “and a chance to he detcha.” Hennig, answered flare of pride. “Prettiest girl in West Virgin Been married a year. Got her in the five ‘and ten.” he asked,| Vth Play copyrighted, 1922, in the United States and England. _Novel- ized version by special permission of the author, and of Brentano's’ pub- lisbers.of the play, (Continued in Our Next’ Issue) MOTHER! Child’s. Best Laxative “California Fig Syrup” taking’ the word. “God's sun,” replied Umanski. never see him. Go to mine: not up. Work in mines—him not see. Go home—him gone: Got baby five years\ago. Never see him, Go to mined him not up, Come back- him sleep. Go one day—him gon‘ “Dead?” Goodkind’s face took on gravity. “My wife say: ‘Good.’ many to feed. Hennig, ly swayed, had caught something of Umanski’s note of pro- « Not such Is it ain’t fair,” he whined. Jerry, drew out hi it engraved affair, ‘and took. out a cigaret. Suddenly Umanski lost his stoicism and, unfolding his long strong arms, crossed with rapid strides to the younger , Goodkind’s ‘side. ‘hat little box—" he shouted.. “What you-pay for him? He point- ed to the cigaret case. Jerry, antici: pating, turned his b: on the burn-. ing eyes of the man, not deigning to answer. “I: knpw,” said Uma) “Gold. Yor Bay!mote for him than. I got for-swing pick thirty years. Me and six familiee—we live in one house you own, We got one room up- stairs, two down cellar.’ Sleep’ there,}- Eat—cook—wash—upstairs. See noth- jing but brick yard and clothes hang up to dry, Me—I carry potato peeling out front. Hi rot. If 1 don’t like I quit—and starve. * “You want to live on Fifth ave- nue,” said Jerry disgustedly.: “If I don’t like, other mans will,” continued _ Umanski, unmindful, “Other mans take my job. I: got lit- tle girl twenty old. Awful nice little girl. Got; golg, beirg Got blue Her take sick, She sorry she’s sick.” His eyes went far away—looking back perhaps to’ two cellar rooms and a ae hee spe hung up, to ry, and -beyon it into the de darkness of amine. .-, saad ta Malar a’ go’ church. ‘ad me: Pop, 'y Me pretty tor such. Buy me pretty pink d it. him? We. hire . Tongue Shows if Bilious, Constipated Hurry Mother! Ey ‘tretful, peevish child loves the pleasant taste of “California Fig Syrug” never fails to open the bowels. A teaspoonful today may prevent'a ‘sick calla tornontow, : sk your druggist for uine » “California rs up” which shes You must say “California” or ‘you ™may get an imitation fig syrup..