The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 21, 1930, Page 4

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CHICAGO The Prospect of Natural Gas Pittsburgh gave communities possessed of natural gas fuel a commanding prestige by the way in which it ap- plied this resource to the development of its manuf: tures, Ever since, natural gas has continued to be asso- tiated with the idea of commercial and industrial super- fority in the city possessing that asset. Where it has not been immediately possible to industrialize the fuel, ft has been conceded the potential availability of a re- Source in reserve for ultimate development. ‘Now Bismarck’s hopes are raised for some such advant- ‘age from the projected gas line from the Baker ficid in Southeastern Montana which is promised this cily this summer, Natural gas usually means lower gas bills in communities in which there is large consumption-of this form of fuel. For household purposes it, therefore, should be.a boon to the homes of the city. Such indus- fries as are here and are operated on fucl and steam qwill derive a marked benefit, in the light of experiencs elsewhere. But, as for a vast expansion of industry, the day is still too early to capitalize the new resource at once. Not all ‘the natural gas nor all the coal bound up in the confines ‘of the state can force North Dakota's industrialization. {hat requires population and markets, without which @t this so distant removal from the large centers where trade and manufacturing thrive, the Dakotas must bide their turn, when industry shifts to new fields with cheap Taw resources. That day is not so far off, probably, and when it comes the piped fuel which it is proposed now to bring into the city will be a valuable asset to the in- flustrial future of Bismarck. ‘The immediate reaction to the news that this gas line ds to be laid from Montana to this city is in the impetus it will give to employment. If, as reputed, the laying of the Williston and Bismarck gas lines involves expenditure ‘of $4,000,000, the project will prove a big business stimu- fant. It is, therefore, for the city to hope that no furth- er obstacles to the delayed enterprise may arise. Had it thot been for delay in acquiring franchises along the route from Montana here and for financial distirbances uch as shook the stock market last fall, it is believed that the line would have been constructed last summer. ‘The men back of developing this gas utility are a froup with which Bismarck will be pleased to do busi- mess, They went into Miles City for the purchase, in competitive bidding, of the old municipal light and power Plant there and to gain a city gas franchise, and fought their way to these goals in a sharp conflict with the ‘Montana Power company. All the lines of that battle Thave been effaced since and the old scars have healed ‘over, so that the relations between company and consum- ‘ers, as well as with the municipality, are of the friend- Jest and most cooperative character. Incidentally, the “Minnesota Northern Power company, the sponsoring worporation of the Montana-Dakota company, represents ® strong financial network in the old Wisconsin lumber- ing regions, The tapping of Bismarck by this corpora- tion thereby will give the city contact with new and powerful financial influences which must enlarge its @orizon as a community. Arthur J. Balfour ‘The name of Arthur J. Balfour will be strikingly re- fmembered in English political history for its associa- tion with the attempt of Joseph Chamberlain, during the Balfour premiership, to convert England from a policy f free trade to one of tariff protection. ‘The Chamberlain proposal became the dividing wedge {n the Baifour cabinet of the early 19's, Its free trade ‘Unionsists, after much see-sawing all around finally felt ‘©ompelled to cut loose from the government. The Bal- four regime might have been toppled then, but grave foreign complications intervened as a result of the Russo- Sapanese war, which brought England—ally of Japan py treaty—perilously near to conflict. Balfour also was dextrous politician in evading final decisions and fatal pressions, He, in fact, kept up this attitude of nimble - | commission, with Russian assurance that the persons scholar that the autobiography very probably will be found to shine with literary lustre. . Balfour's connection with British politics began with so striking an event as the Berlin congress called to ad- just the European concert following the Russian war on Turkey, which had nearly resulted in the Bear realiz- ing his warm-sea dream by gaining Constantinople. He was taken to Berlin by his uncle, Lord Salisbury—then foreign minister and later premier of England,—as his private secretary, and in the congress he came into con- tact with the leading statesmen of Europe, such as Bis- marck, in a way the dominating influence of the council and of the European checkerboard of international rela- tions. Balfour became chief secretary for Ireland in his uncle's cabinet in 1885, and his policy was one of coer- cion in the enforcement of the law. The downfall of Parnell in the notorious affair which involved that lead- er in feminine intrigue and covered his name with scan- dal, aided Balfour to maintain his Irish stand against great opposition. Aside from his subsequent association with the abor- tive move of Chamberlain toward tariff protection in favor of development of the colonies, Balfour's name re- calls the Boer war, following which he came into suc- { cession to the government as premier, and his conduct of the crisis with Russia during the war against Japan. The Russians insisted on the exercise of the right of search over British ships and stopped the P. and O. steamer, Malacca, in the Red sea, while the Knight Commander even was sunk by the Vladivostock fleet and the Dogger Bank fishing fleet was fired on by the Rus- sian Baltic fleet making its way around to the Eastern coast of Siberia. > Balfour, however, calmed the intense British indigna- tion by turning these matters over to an international responsible for the offending actions should be pun- ished. In diplomacy following these events, Balfour's govern- ment affected a revised alliance with Japan, brought about an Anglo-French agreement which led up to King Edward's Triple Entente, and assisted in smoothing out the complications between France and Germany over matters in Morocco. _ Balfour was a man of great culture, being philosopher, musician, writer and an enthusiastic golfer of world fame in the game. He truly was one of the great figures of statecraft in the political history of Britain which overlaps the end of the nineteenth ceniury and 25 years of the twentieth, Playing the Game of Progress The meeting of the state’s commercial organization | Deutschland’s Over-Alls = oes le if if HI i bags BE secretaries here in annual conference is a transfusing event in ideas which is good for every community repre- sented. It is a matter of regret that not more cities and towns were represented, ¥ The commercial clubs and the associations and cham- bers of commerce of North Dakota are a driving force in the trend toward the greater North Dakota ultimate- ly to evolve from the activities of these and kindred or- ganizations. They sustain the progress that they carry forward perceptibly from day to day, sometimes under the burden of great obstacles and discouraging influences. They are the state’s great dynamic force operating through business, industry and civic development. North Dakota could not spare them, With each recurring conference, the participating secretaries are able to carry home from the barter of experiences a widely expanded knowledge of methods adaptable to community development, the promotion of trade and of efficient welfare work in their home locali- ties. One effective influence in the meeting here was the concurrence obtained in the suggestion of greater work among the junior club boys and girls, the future citizens, workers and business men of the state. Both for the advantages of the communities and their business and for the benefit of the state’s youth this phase of activity was stressed. All in all, the meeting promises much for the various relationships of the various communities of the state, between the urban and rural sections and for agricul- ture, industry and civic progress, The secretaries showed a fine spirit about all these phases of their work, and they will carry away after today’s session an undeniably increased enthusiasm for their leadership, The churches have tried about everything except swinging half-doors. | Editorial Comment | The Hope of a Disaster (Duluth Herald) | Anniversary of | On March 21, 1685, Johann Sebas- tian Bach, called one of the greatest masters of the contrapuntal school of music, was born at Eisnach, Germany. Brought up in a household tradi- tionally musical, young Bach was pre-|was inefficient and slack. pared for his career. At the age of| Although Bach is now declared to eee Bae ta taints be one of the leading exponents of e organ. Here foun- melodic terest dation which later enabled him to be|"°, De™ rgpterecece a called ont only one of the greatest | “#5 Shown in him at the time of his masters in organ composition but also|“eath. An entire century elapsed, in one of the greatest masters in organ playing. In 1733 Bach became choirmaster at the school of St. Thomas in Leip- zig. Throughout his long service here he was constantly hounded by the ‘Town Council on the charge that he TodayIsthe | BACH’S BIRTH Murder. Backstairs 01930 by NEAYSERVICEjINC, 5 ANNE: AUSTIN “832 Sack SANE BEGIN HERE TODAY cy ire Berkeleys. Boante quest at time of crime and discor: t sunrise ymour Crosby: New York se- elety widower, close friend ef Mrs, Letitin Lambert: social sented by Dick Berkeley: night: infatuat * “Coolidge silent during visit to Cincinnati,” headline. But thatig'y' not news. : setting foot on the first of the two steps leading from the cement walk into the little summerbouse, his Frank G. Crowell of Kansas City, a consultant on grain products for the federal farm board, said in Miami yes- terday that the government's effort to hold up wheat. prices by buying up the surplus will result in a “ruinous collapse” unless nature intervengs by substantially re- ducing the 1930 crop. In other words, our effort to evade the law of supply sad eyes involuntarily flinching away from further sight of the slim, rigid body laid out on the bench. Strawn and Dundee descended the steps together. Strawn spoke, his voice curt but not unkind: “Wickett, dots young “Wicket, do you know anything at all ebout this bad business?” meet Arnold for @ stroll around )up to her room, to write to her sis-|that date with Doris, and the lake—” ter in England, about her engage-| missing. Or did you see “Arnold, the chauffeur?” Strawn | ment to Arnold, sir. Soa cie et out?’ interrupted sharply. that Mrs, Berkeley told and demand will result in disaster unless a crop disaster drive his own car?” somewhere cuts the production of wheat very materially. The country will sincerely hope that Mr. Crowell is wrong, but it must be admitted that a pretty large sec- tion of it fears that he is right. Improved methods and improved machinery have made wheat production easier and cheaper, which has helped the world-wide drop in commodity prices. There is more wheat now in sight than the world wants to buy, for there is not only our own surplus but the embarrassing surplus of the Canadian wheat pool, and new crops are - balance for two years before jockeyed into a corner from which retreat on the fiscal policy no longer was possible, jand then his administration was coerced into resigna- ‘Pion according to the British parliamentery formulas. Balfour never was able to rgcover his old political pow- » Defeat, however, relieved him of the necessity of $ his actual principles with regard to the (Chamberlain tariff program and, in November, 1907, he * jpelivered an epoch-making English political speech at Birmingham, accepting the principles of ‘the Chamber- ¥ain fiscal policy, thereby consolidating the Unionist party anew, but not sufficiently to gain a parliamentary wictory in the general election of January, 1910. The {Unionists won 273 seats to the 275 taken by the Liberals, ‘and there was @ reserve of 40 Labor and & Irish Na- between the two leading parties, in addition. re, city of London returned Balfour by an enormous 7 Earl Balfour, for he was elevated to an earldom later, “© Gtook @ prominent pert in:the war activities of British Stateamanghip. He visited America as head of the Brit- ‘mission in. 1917 and after the war was a delegate to ‘Washington a y.arms conference of 1922, He held the ‘important acts are associated with his name in ; F developments, He. was the author of the note | Great Britain renounced all post-war claims in coming on. So it looks altogether too much as though Mr. Crowell were right, however much we might wish to find him wrong. The Last of the Oil Trials The trial ¢ Edward Le Deneny on char; f having of on @ charge of ha bribed ex-Secretary Pall is the last of the long list of cases resulting from the famous oil leases of 1921 and 1922. Mr. Fall was convicted last October on a charge of hav- . Doheny. His appeal from and a fine of $10,000 is recover its property at Tea- Sinclair: Also decidéd in favor ge on ois $0 Armee: = asp aay CUR OULU MLR UR Ku The butler appeared startled. “Why, yes, sir. There are four cars, sir. The family limousine, Miss Clorinda’s coupe, Mr. Dick's sports car—a two-passenger, that is; and the service truck.” “Thanks. « » . Come here, Payne!” Strawn called to one of the group of uniformed policemen and plainclothes detectives await- ing orders @ short distance away on garages and check up on you find there, Should be particularly want to know if passenger sports car is “Get along Payne, snappy!” Strawn 01 Wickett, before I go into the and notify the famil: “Yes, sir. They are—Doris and/'s was not necessary -for her ‘but for an instant there Arnold were engaged to be married, | wait up for either herself or Miss|/eyes that same black es Dee beoenen samneed s See Sere Clorinda.” ago,” the but explain “ know of might, ad dthat we were all very|aaie ner ‘ted ch much pleased, sir—" Strawn asked. “Well! A new suspect andanew| “No, sir! motive!” sho i i EFEET 3 F slide § fi tf Ht g H 2.8 PH gREES - ES i Z3 ef ie g | : E ee f i i H