The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 2, 1926, Page 12

2 PAGE TWELVE SENATOR FRAZIER HAS an THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE» Ribbons for Two INTERESTING | | i ~ |WITH MANY POLAR EXPEDITIONS IN PROSPECT, QUESTION LOOMS AS TO | POSSESSION OF ANY NEW LAND FOUND, (@) With x @ crowd the FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1926 found. to be-too low in lime. eous, ‘the silica bei in vegy fine Bulletin 624 on the useful, minerals | grains. Some of tai megane is of thé United States contains the fol-/ clearly élastic in chai r, the con- lowing statement: jtuent grains being Wistinguishable “Cement material. Cretaceous lime-, by the naked eye, Qne specimen of stone used for natural cement in Cav-| limestone taken from the upper hard alier county, about 10 mises north of | layer contains 477 per cent CaCo% Milton, Pembina county, quarried but the send content lowers the Jalong Tongue river. Niobrara chaik,| amount of ‘CaC03 below this figure in suitable for Portiand cement, occurs most of the rock.” \ in state but is almost entirely con-| A bill is now before the senate pro- cealed by glacial drift and Pierre viding for an appropriation to finance shale.” ‘ | the investigation of the s and geo- A paper by T. T. Quirke on the logical makeup of the various states, geol of the Killdeer Mountains,' and Capt, Baker ‘believes that when North Dakota, has the following state-, sueh an on is made in ment indicating the character of these North Dakota,’ it be determine. va coment manufacture is possible ere, Blue “St. Mese- robe,” owned by George J. Peak of Win- chester, Il, has won blue ribbons in every horse show he ever entered. ‘He's shown here with Miss Virginia Henderson at the Oakland (Galif.) horse show. do with the perity and rfrom days” brogh slightly interesting article concernir from the pe i sunshi cloudy, ne 1 Nevertheless, the Washington gov-" ernment has adhered to the useful oc- cupation policy in the VRE and pro-. ably will be found still taking that’ stand should any diplomatic corre- spondence develop out of the polar For a time, just be- te hf ayers: “The limestone ea are all silic sue no ing) te hoth as tour Washington, April polar explorers plann | northern airways during the brief season this year until it looks ay though traffic regulations might be tequived to prevent a jam, the ques- tion of what flag will lands which may be discovere on new importance. OF the six or more expe paring to hop off for the pole, t it from ‘almost every are 100 per ce ne national: | another in personnel, while the | e mixed. If th ‘of “Outdoor Pi oy. doubt be many people tot ists a The headin, Roses the * herewith reming a comp operaiona wuively larg 120 a lof with hour whic t Land Dakota I We than the that takes ‘threatened to raise the issue, The fuet that it did nat come up justifie: the diplomatic reticenee in Washing- ton in the view of informed officials. The Canadian claim is a blanket declaration of sovereignty over all lands which may exist within the triangle formed by the northern ex. plored Canadian arctic regions the projection to the north pole of the eastern and western longitudinal boundaries of Canada, Presumably, it would include claim to a fractlo section of the pole itself, shaped lik: a piece of pie, Much Unknown Territory There is a lot of unknown territory within that triangle, but neither the Mornin’, = Mighty Spreadin wie an of North Dake Nant fe was 646 Which SUX 4oL were native white ad 121,008 foreign born white of Ge The populs , mil others of the future largel Mm trac fs overeignty of lands in th, difficult and embarra: ht arise within the mix- 1 groups, . 18 quite likely, however, that | neiple gradually — developed yh the years that a.scovery musy cked up by bona fide utilizat lands to is for| of sovereignty which would | he recognized by all nations will be » Sunshine vali €d_nation typed percent lowe ne, Wesd wteful, your sunbei Land Springs Mornin’, Suns Nor Dake « for what on papa tin the nat Winte Cait Thre Wea Mornin’, Sun f stressed as to rd where despite Wh and pl hine, Howdy Mornin’, | Saw you H Sunsine, medto> lark, in’ though the « eat the peep hru and thr rnin’, Sunshine, Howdy dot” North Dakota is known of sunshine and flower is the wild designated by tiful flowers veidely dis- tributed throughout the state. T poem which hus just heen quoted ribute to the bright, sun weather of his home state by James Foley, the North Dakota poet North Dakota is a state rich in nat- ural resources and historic lore and with unsurvassed possibilities for the future. Admitted to the Union in 1899 and comparatively young in the reat sisterhood of states, none can hoast of a more rapid develo The nam kota” of friends” and was appli large tribe of greater part of that region monly know as the Early History The Hud y Npany entered what is now the state of North Da kota in the year 1800 and established a permanent trading post the follow i Pembina, being under t they were still on Canadian s ¢ in 1803 the noted explorers, ark, made camp for the winter on the M i River w f the present : h Dakota, the Mandan Indian village here they engaged the services of the Frenehm Charbonneau, s the ros The prairie und kakawea, | des when in continued — the To this point also they turned and bade farewell to the li ily that had been su sistance to them in their tr In the fifties a few pione began: to arrive and as the fac e fertile soil and unexcelled farming and stock-raising possibili- ties became generally known more and ettlers came, In the latter e eighties and the nine- . the heavy tide of imm x able prairie country man and countless mi had long held unis eral homestead laws made equiring of a home in sily eultiv the streams, where lions settled counter railroads coming in most over night. It was the write and privilege as a boy to be a member of a pioneer family migrating into this region and government homestead in the y the Red River of the North, and for a few years to enjoy the snug comfort of life in a sod- on the. prairi from bountiful crops e to Cree frame buildings 3 later ac remained the family The hardships of Territory wer hared in the early eighties hy Theodore Roosevelt, who later became president of the United Stat Coming to the Little M s nestlings in the Bad Land picturesque semi-mountainous region in the western section of the state, he entered actively into the’ ranch life of ‘the locality gnd there laid the founda. tion for strong and robust health and busy and useful later life. Bills have been introduced in both houses of Congr to establish Roosevelt National Park in the locality he kne’ and loved, always regarding it as his western home, Development Retarded The deflation period beginning in 1920 greatly handicapped and retarded the development of North Dakota just as it has other agricultural region ts sturdy citizenry does not, however, yield to discouragements, but con- nues on working and hoping for bet- ter conditions. The pioneers of th ‘west know and stand by the slogan “We'll stick. We'll win.” Entering the state from the east im mediately after crossing the Red River of the North, the traveler is mpressed with the beauties and wm of thas wonderful valle: ng across miles and miles of fertile farm lands. Going on west-| ward there is a change te somewhat | more rolling country with prair sionally a small lak Farm homes with up-to-date equi ment and machinery dot the entire Jandscape. It can hardly be realized that all this development has taki nlace within the span of,an ordina life-time. Thousands of tourists visit North Dakota every year. Large numbers stop over at Bismarck to visit the! eapitol, Fort Lincoln, and vestiges of old Indian v'llages close by. Ne: Mandan, “Where the West Begins, Just across the broad Missouri, re- bently bridged, may be seen the site) of Fort Abraham Lincoln where Gen- eral Custer was stationed at the time ‘he went on his fateful mission, end- ing-in the battle of the Little Big tout the Bad ands along the Little Missouri with their petrified Soreatei ‘€oa! mines, beautifully edloi with towns and exis al- life in Dakota os tl posits of highest q ‘and canyons as well as the Mores properties Me- the valley. where Roosevelt in Pee ara at in the the lowest conse ed achools } nomany toca yh school f. intive aud « institutio forestr and norma to meet schools s the needs Prine:pal order 0 outs, } potatoes 4 c system of © ed farming is practiced. stock and industries on farm: and ranches are being p idly as economic conditions will per: mi The total value of \19 ‘oducts, hogs, ¢ . poultry, po: alfalfa, and 39,112,000 average tural preduets in wheat, rye, millet r. A well de- sweet ¢ compared lue a 921-1925, inclusive, 000 stands first in wheat} not only producing. two- | the ion, Stat tion, the crop f . and produc: the ised in the United States, Dakota has, during the past Oth ti ‘orth Dakot The increase in bee pr the producti hive, which was the he Union, underlaid with Egn mated amount is 6 Much o und state, operator F large, wi juipped mines getting: out coal at an cost of about two dolars per exceeds a mil- eight new Great de- nd pot. Ixo being develope year sees other new in- ng to the for lion tons annually mines were opened in 19) clays ar WETS LOOK 10. [: MRS, KAHN AS ANEW LEADER’ California Congress - woman May Succeed John Philip Hill of Maryland (By Charles P. Stew Washington, April _2.—Congress- | woman Florence P. Kahn of Califor- | nia emphatically denies that she as- | pires to leadership of the wet bloc | in the House of Representatives. | a thing as being drafted. Mrs. Kahn is being talked about | for the job, anyway. i Congressman John Philip Hill of | and is wet leader now, but Hill | uring on breaking into the Sen- some of the wets have an idea there would be strategie advan. tages in having a woman as their | dard bearer, assuming, of cour: © was a capable one, which re isn’t any doubt about in Mrs.| Kahn's case. popular impression nre dryer than men, on an! A good many of them might | be won over, with a woman leading the fight for dry law modification. So the wets reason. Mrs herwise. “On the prohibition question,” she told me, “womén, like men, differ, with localities and groups, but I he- is that | erage about alike, the, Congressman Hill cert jealous of the talk about Mr us wet leader. Indeed, Mrs. says she thinks he started it, “for a joke,” as sh Mrs. Kahn’ Mrs. Kahp y to the desig- as if, she were a friend of the “demon rum.” -|SOME CONGRESSMEN TALK BUT SAY i Flax, Barley jis hn, by the way, reasons {™ \ inly_tsn't NOTHING; OTHERS FIX THINGS AND (By Charles P. Stewart) Ther on, April How few men © much in congressional debate are anu wl of senators a) i are heard from rourse of a session, bi r peace otherwi: who are inte’ T ather surprising Uy three-qua of the mem both houses simply sit and they're wandermg around Some don't even do Apitol somewnere, but the seen an their places an the Senate or lower nouse, wich ever it may happen to be. The merest handful do nearly all the orating there 1s done. It doesn't necessarily follow that a talkative senator or representative thing on a silent o the talkers have ay. Part haven't. Lhe dormers’ Gun counes, waste time. at more talk e than in the es. This is speciali time know all on it. They put ov it in committe about it hobbies r paces, th y respective out to show the leg ingly vocal. Later, other hobbies, na, they subside. an Haugen, for instance: ped this sion. some The tat ed. Smoot generates vi ny subject whieh lacks som neial angle. But take Senator sentative Bianton. House of Representat a mistake. ‘Ine senato per or, but th times as many senators to talk Some Have Nothing To Say theme you fe senators and repre: touch on. They chips in every game that’s going o More talking’s done, despite tl fact that they're in a minority, members of the minority partie nd unlike th a simaar 1x, at ood sense to retrain t Others keep /still by use their talent 1s not ior speeen making, Hu arranging things in ance faving aone so, cney loi sere back in their let the ta ors talk to their nearts’ content, in the knowledge that the things th arranged Will happen that regard! f what's said. n ity That's natural and to be expecte The majority as it thinks have a bi f ining to do, but what at wan position to get, ely mly v mouth. to know ex- of alcohol with alcoholic tly what pe: yutld be the minimum—whi at it ought to he kept at~te nd light wines acceptable. Favors Real Beer “But, personally, when 1s: and real light wines, with a suff light wines, with a suffi oholic content to make them general repairs of sills and floor: to handle durable ned A school for eri ing $215,000 will built N.Y. It will be hosp’ ground and home. Buffal thing in this Congress. They may even have to submit to having some things done to them. But they do hope for gains in the next congressional elections. If this hope realizes though the wets s! even ing drive will be terrifi other hand, if they lose ground, their demoralization will be very consid- erable. PE ES RR ay | Federal Farm Facts | ———_—____——__-———_+ President Coolidge has designated | April 18-24, inclusive, as the 1926 American The pres dent in his try proclama- | tion, while giving full weight to the | evils resulting from impoverished and idle land, laid= stress upon the in- creased attention being given to scientific forestry in industrial prac- | ice apd level_of farm prices as slightly below that oa y ago, but was 43! per cent higher than the 1910-14 pre- war average, according to the U. S. {Department ‘of Agriculture. rmers are urged by the Bava: t of Agriculture that in planning crop production this year they con- jsider the alternative crops that may be grown profifably.. The advice ap- plies to each of the principal money jerops, afd particularly to cotton. hat the Growers will do well to continue lusing mercuric chloride for the con- trol of many sweet potato diseases, in the opinion of R. F. Poole, asso- ciate plant\ pathologist of the New jJersey Agricultural experiment sta- tion. ' i From five ‘grade sows. agd. a. pure bred Berkshire sire, a swine growing | industry, has been developed on the | Wants Enforceable Law- “I'm for modification of the Vol stead Act—for light wines and beer—” she said to me, “in the in- terests of temperance—not to en- courage drinking—to discourage it. “Vm for an enforceable law.” It never ‘seemed to me that 2.76 per cent drinks would tmprove conditians the wets complain. of. , We ‘have one-half of 1 pe now. It doesn’t satists lous and their efforts to tin ition. elsewhere troubl 2 2.76 how wo ae T cent beer the bibu- nd satisfac- 1 don’t believe they'd ¥ cent much’ hetter, so it hel i nythife ? ‘ Cre mn to Mts, Kahn, ° 2, cent is just a is what makes all|’ farm of. the Upper Coastal Plain Branch station near Rocky, Mount, North Carolina, that is returning ap- proximately $3000 per year to the { farm, ‘ ' | The growing of dewberries is be- leoming a profitable industry in .sdine | sections of North Carolina. Jt is be- lieved that proper fertilization: will| produce better crops, according to} findings of the North Caeolinn ex- There are. nearly periment: station, Daa radi, sets on farma in the alied Statos: In some states there are radio sets on'85 to 40 per cent of all farms. ' Sr cemmmee My ro if 10e | a % Tia darkay grioutterar-Oatloge’ fo? | } | some one brief period | ean, particular mat- more than islators become exceed- which they've no interest, being led But and listen to him when the nt comes for farm questions to Norris or Repre- You strike fire from either of them no matter what have groups and blocs than by the major- ‘The min- ests to record and the an do it is hy word pf m buildings. This material is easy vets an extremely Jed children cost- school,| states are said applied in final determ| pn of such questions lar regions. Much Left To Future This principle apparently leaves much to the future. It is che giory of the exploring 1 colon suppo that is urging all of the expeditions on. Much scientific data of greatest value may flow from the obsertations of the birdmen; the art of navigation in the air or on the waters of ail the test of the world may be improved j by what is learned; the mysteries of the magnetic and the true pole may still is obscured in the mists of the future when the lost lands, provided their existence is proved, can be brought into useful employment by } mankind. air route to their ultimate limit, the pole itself. The expedition headed by Commander Richard be But there is no prelim ut; cussion in progress in y as to sovereignty claims gver an: land Byrd may sight. Maintains Silence ariment takes refuge age old practice of diploma ilence, whenever the sul is Diplomats see. no Rood purpose served by crossing .bridges. before they are reached. nd! Lieutenant a, Byrd r- in e. re in ey Hope that North Dakota y sorie- time in the near future become a cement producing state is contained in # recent letter to Senator Lynn J. Frazier at Washington from the d rector of the geological survey, U. S. Department of Interior, in response to the personal request of Capt. 1. P. Baker of Bismarck for information or. ne n. he . Dakota. Reference is made in the letter to bulletin 52, which has the following to say concerning the Portland ce- urces of North Dakota: | ¢ limestone formation of any importance- the Niobrara, of Up: dl. it ‘S| Dakota, and even this is almost en- |tirely concealed by a thick covering pot drift. The Nioh ‘a formation wi recently utilized for Portland ceme in regard to new found po- than any actual utilitarian plan to © or otherwise make use of" the | side lost lands of the far north, be further explained, but the time ‘CAPT. BAKER BELIEVES THAT CE | -CAN BE MANUFACTURED IN THIS STATE, materials for making cement in North | per Cretaceous age—is found in North | Byrd expedition nor any other of ‘those of particular interest in the United States is ‘planning to ma) it.) Cape Morris Jessup, Byrd’s sthed-| uled hop-off for the pole, lies to the | enst-and the land @ hich he and oth- ievement, rather! er arctic explorers believe he will) find, is due north of the cape, out-| the zone covered by Canada’s | blanket claim. t “Even the Cunadians apparently feel that simple visual discovery of new lands furnishes only @ slender and | debatable claim of ownership, There jare vast and almost uninhabited | |/known regions into which the reports | j say the celebrated. red jacketed) | mounted police ure to be sent on pa- trol for the purpose of backing up Canadian ownerghip claims by actual, | physical occupation. g | The chief probable future benefit | to be derived for the world from dis-' {covery of new arctic lands has bi given as the establishment of air cial travel by air across the top of | the world as the most direct and practical air route from Europe to the Orient. That argument was ad- vanced when the navy two years ago planned to send the dirigible «Los Angeles, or the Shenandoah, since lost, to seek an unknown continent in| a million square ' miles of arctic wastes far to the west of the Canad ian zone. It was suggested that if such a continent did exist, it would | some day: be the site. of a great air| depot. This project has little to do, | however, with any of the polay flights | now preparing. 7 i The Problem “The problem,” the letter continue: “will be to find a high calcium lime- | stone sufficiently thick and suitably located with reference té transporta- tion facilities and fuel supplies. The clay or shale, ingredient in Portland cement could doubtless be supplied from many of the shale formations ithin the state. The wide distribu- tion of glacial drift over » lange por- tion of the state haa effectivelly con- cealed the beds that might ‘be most useful for cement making, namely the Niobrara limestone formation. _ “The physical characters and chem- ical composition of the Niobrara limestone are fully deseribed in the bulletin referred ‘to.- It.is of peculiar value as a Portland cemeft material, both because of ita softness, which | permits it to he easily erushed and nufacture at Yankton,-§. D., and it | pulverized, and because of ‘its. general ure | gives promise of being a future nf a and !of cement material in Nebras Towa.’ Capt. Baker believes that if this formation is being utilized for cement manufacture in South Dakota it will ‘ome day be so used in North Dakota, for the formations underlying the twe to be very much the o, ' same. “Smart” is the word that best describes that indefinable something. which makes a Gordon hat to, wear this spring. Smart—and reasonably priced are the new th reedom from: magnesia-and-other in- teas ingredients. Qutcrops of: the jiobrara, moreover,, are commonly capped by clays of the Pierre shale, which furnixh-admirable materials for mixing with the chalk.” The lctter states that Portland ce- ment manufacture has been attempt- ed at only one place-in North Dakota, «i there the Niobrara limestone was hase facilities to aid future commer- | Gaster Morning Your flowers will add that final touch of charm to her new costume. Let us if send her a fragrant corsage for you. Oscar H. Will & Co. Flower phone—784 ‘You'll find « wide spri with sel Greenhouses 319 3rd St. “Say it withPlowers” Dainty Shapely Feet How can any woman's feet appear.dainty and shapely _ A correction of these troubles ‘will permit you to.wear stylish, snug- with unsightly bunions. and -corns f iiting shoes with comfort. 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