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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-03
Thursday, August s, 1916.
Wednesday, August 2, 1916.

Wednesday, August 2, 1910.
This was a day for the stock mar
ket TO be dull and weak. The day be-
fore it was dull and strong. The
movements are irrelevant and unim-
portant. When prices rise it is sur
prising that they rise so easily on so
little buying, and it is said, "There
are no stocks" When they fall 1t is
thought ominous that they fall so
easily, and it is said, "The market is
full of stocks" The details are mag
nifed, and the outlines are lost.
Motor stocks were weak, Bethlehem
Steel declined Az points, Union Pa
cifc lost half of the preceding days
rise, somebody sold more Industrial
Alcohol than was wanted at the price
of the day before, and the market
was generally weak.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-03

Bank Exchanges The days clear
ings at New York and other cities, com
pared with those Of the corresponding
DAY year ago. follow:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-03
The Dollar in Foreign Exchange.

Changes in the rates of foreign ex-
change were nominal.
The closing quotations were as fol-
lows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-03

Probably never before were there
so many stocks. old and new, in the
possession of Wall Street undigested.
The supply of the old has been enor-
mously increased by foreign liquida-
ton. and that of the new has been
enlarged by new fotations. And
vet there is more or less constant
illusion of scarcity. That is owing
very largely TO the fact that for a
Spectator it is cheaper to buy than
to sell. Money with which to carry
stocks is very cheap A great many
securities, even after the rise that
has taken place, more than carry
themselves by their dividends. 1t IS
the rule. That is TO say, one who
borrows money at bank with which to
buy stocks on margin may receive
more from the stocks in the form
of dividends than he pays for the
money. The seller on the other
hand, is out Of pocket in correspond
ing measure. If he borrows stocks
to sell them for a fall he has to pay
the dividends to their owners, and
the dividends paid by the borrower
of stocks to the owner of them may
be more than the interest which the
owner of the stocks pays the Dor
rover to carry them. The actual
owners of stocks do not sell them,
either. Why should they?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-03
Psychic Value of Roads.

Good roads signify more than cheap
transportation and the ease of bringing
farm products TO market, for they are
the sole possible solution Of that great
problem of country life the binding OF
the small town and the farm in close
economic and social bonds. The evil
OF farm life was its loneliness and it,
dreary monotony of unceasing labor
while the existence in the small town
was a stagnsnt, Jntroubled pool. Coco
roads and automobiles have altered
the face of the country, and made pos
sible that constant INSTRUMENTATION
of ideas which is the knell Of proyin-
cialsm, of ignorance and of prejudice.
Two recent incidents tel. Of the
working Of the little leayen that Is
leayening the whole mass. In June or
this year there vas great good roads
meeting at Springfield, No. 10 deter
mine the route OF the Ozark Trail, Il
part of the coming great transconti-
mental route from the East 10 the West
The city was overrun with delegate
from Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma and
Missouri. each delegation clamoring for
the right Of way through its own
locality. Down the street. headed By
band, marched two hundred men with
"Cabool" in golden letters on their
white caps. Now "Kabui" may be the
capital of Afghanistan. but it is also a
little town in the Ozsrks. some miles
from any railroad, and OF l 200 inhab-
itants, who sent one-sixth of their
number TO demand that the OZARK
Trail go through their hamlet because
Cabool had the best of all arguments
good roads already built. So, one by
one. every one of the ia counties Of
Missouri is coming into line with an
election TO issue bonds that 1t may
have good roads without stint.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-03
Then the Spirit.

But there is another requisite for
prosperity greater even than material
resources, and that Is the spirit OF
the people. There are tr0picai coun-
tries where nature does everything and
man does nothing, so they are always
wretchedly poor. and prosperity IS a
stranger TO them. There are states IN
the Southwest whose resources are
boundless, but whose people We're
devotees Of the past and content Win
things as they are. So their common
wealths were laggsrds in progress. ana
lite In the countryside was tning OIL
uneventful monotony But 1t is no
longer true. for throughout the west
and the Southwest there Il that STIR
ring Of local pride and ambition winch
is the saving grace of the situation.
Harlets in the Ozsrks, far from rail-
roads. feel the impulse Of that over
mastering desire FOR those things OF
amusement and pleasure, OF art and
culture. of intellect and knowledge
which make life worth while. Natu-
rally. matters of physical comfort and
betterment precede the desire for the
acouirement Of education. II Is a
backward and an unenterprislng town
now that has not waterworks and an
electric light plant and concrete side
walks. OF that does not possess some
kind of a public library, or an opera
house" COR the occasional strolling
troupe or the ever present movie. The
most insistent demand to-day in rural
Missouri is for good roads and better
schools. for these are the best tokens
of an advancing civilization. Schools
mean the possibility of democratic
government, for without them there
can be no such thing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-03
Linoleum, Varnish and Candy.

At the door Of the next laboratory
one stumbles over heap of linoleum
scraps. This is not untidiness. In
side is a chemist whose mind is in
clined to the problem of a linoleum
maker who thinks he could make a
fortune with a product that would
neither stretch nor shrink, and so
be could. and will, if the chemist
hits upon the right things in just
the right combination TO make limo
lcum lie As fat and still as Turkish
rug.
The man next door is at work on
dental cement. Another is expert
menting with chewing gum. Another
has Just found the final illusion of
black in varnish, and that will hurt
the feelings Of the Germans. You
rass i'm succession the doors of such
fellowships as that of candymaker,
that of a paint manufacturer and
that of the miller who has not yet
despaired of finding higher CONNER
cial uses for the waste products Of
-four making. and come to a door
where every one is very polite but
not overwhelmingly hospitable. 1t
is hardly proper to ask questions.
Here acetylene gas has been pro-
duced by a new process, and the
patents have not yet been obtained.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-03
Fixation of knowledge.

At the end of the hall are some
doors that do not stand open. You
could look in. perhaps, but there
would be nothing to see but labor
atory apparatus, and nothing to talk
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-03
For Eyes to See.

daylight trip through most any
pat Of the United States. save tho
forbidding and inhospitsbe desert, will
visualize them in a most vivid manner,
and will reveal an untold wealth OF
agricultural productions. Of lumber,
mines and water power. such as no
string Of statistics can convey. Let
two examples suffice: There are to-day
in this country over 7O.000.000 acres
Of swamp lands, which are fast being
drained and transformed into wealth
producing fields. In extent they are
about two-thirds the total acreage de-
voted 20 corn each year. In 1915 the
corn crop was 5000 100000 bushels. II
anv one had started at the beginning
of the Christian era to count this crop
AT the rate Of one bushel a minute he
would still need ten thousand years
TO complete the job. Or if the crop was
loaded in freight cars and these cars
stood end to end they would reach
one and One-half times around the
world. Yet this fabulous wealth,
whose money value at so cents bushel
would more than wipe out our national
debt. is produced annually from the
elements of the earth ana air that
were practically valueless to Us until
so transformed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-03

At the next door is very COM
municative man, a chemist, too, but
he runs a miniature steam laundry,
washer, centrifugal wringer and all;
and he asks you why you wear
French cuffs. To even off you ask him
why a chemist runs a laundry, and
he tells you. His fellowship belongs
to a laundryman who wants to know
for sure if there is anything in the
complaint that clothes steam laun-
dered go to pieces faster than
clothes washed by hand. So here is
a chemist, in the Mellon Institute of
Industrial Research, keeping an
elaborate and scientific record of the
progressive disintegration of several
sets of linen handkerchief, one set
washed by negro woman, one by
a steam laundry and one in his own
laboratory.
Next to him is a man experiment
ing with gases in their organic syn
thesis. Further on is one who, and
be- would, could rest a long time on
what he has done. He has found a
formula for producing aspirin, which
ought to make the owner of his fell
lcwship Indifferent to German COM
petition for all time. He thinks it
will, for he is investing his money in
a plant to employ this young chem
lists process commercially.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-03

Good and bad wheat years seem to
alternate by some unknown law of
rhythm, and, as a rule, a good one Is
good and a bad one is bad all over
the world. Last year was very good
and this country produced a crop
never before matched. At the same
time, the worlds production was
about 10 per cent above that Of the
preceding year. But for this fact,
the "war price" of wheat would have
been much higher Now is the poor
wear. We have lost somewhere be
tween one-third and two fifths of the
spring wheat crop, which last year
was of the prodigious size of $751;
100000 bushels Its fve-year aver
age Q910-1914. however, was only
233.OO0.00O bushels. The winter
wheat crop is already made. 1t is
much smaller than last year, and yet
compares favorably with the average
annual production Of the last five
year period. From last years COM
bined winter and spring wheat crops
there is a large carry-over. which,
added to the reduced production Of
this year. will supply domestic con-
eumDtion and leave a considerable
balance for export. The worlds de-
mand for it is likely to be very keen,
for the yield as compared with last
wear has fallen elsewhere-in Canada
and in all Of Europe. Even in Ar
gentina the conditions are unfavor-
able. Australia alone appears to
have been exceptionally favored. She
is producing a very large crop. In
Russia there are enormous stocks,
accumulated since the beginning Of
the war. when the Dardanelles were
closed. There is so much uneaten
and unsold wheat in Russia, in fact
that the acreage put TO this years
crop declined about % per cent.
The National Association Of Credit
Men. i'm a letter TO members, says:
There arc at present signs that
we are reaching the crest, that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-03

The National Association Of Credit
Men. in a letter to members, says:
There arc at present signs that
we are reaching the crest that
there have been anticipations OF
future needs that have caused
some overstocking or overcommit-
ments. and while there are no
grounds for pessimism, there are
reasons for sounding right now
note OF caution. We recommend
earnestly upon the credit men of
the nation a careful clearance OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-03
DESTINY LIES IN
OUR OWN HANDS
A Little Lecture to the Sis
ter Anne of CONNER
cial Life.
By ARCHER WALL DOUGLAS.

st. Louis, Juty III.
No one can deny that as a nation
we are enamoured Of prosperity. Not
alone because Of the mere getting Of
dollars and the things OF ease and
comfort which these dollars imply, but
equally because of that opportunity for
the expression of our powers which
prosperity alone can give. Democracy
is essentially a system Of action, OF
tireless strivings and Of noble discon-
tent. That is why the elemental and
undeveloped West is so rife with the
spirit Of militant democracy. That -
why prosperity is the shibboleth Of our
social. economic and especially our po-
litical life. In our hearts we all know
full well that neither nations nor IN
diyiduals ever learn lessons OF endur-
ing value save through stress and
trouble. Yet, nevertheless, we all 90
like snails most unwillingly to the
school of adversely.
So it is that the Sister Anne OF
Commercial Life, sitting upon the
housetop OF expectancy. asks whether
the dust clouds upon the horizon tell
ing of the coming Of peace in Europe
forecast the ending of that prosperity
Of which we are now tasting the full
ness and for which we have been hum
gering and thirsting all these weary
years. Prophecy is much like unto the
Job Of self-decapitation described oy
Koko in "Thc Mikado." as being ian
exceedingly delicate and difficult, not
10 say dangerous. operation. Yet
there are some logical factors in the
commercial history Of a nation that
make two and two. as the Thinking
Machine said. mot somstimes. but all
the time One Of these is the posses
sion Of certain resources. and such our
country has in full measure, pressed
down and running over You may get
a g'immering Of them b. reading gov
eminent documents. railroad folders,
emigration prospectuses and real estate
advertisements.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-10-03

gown as the low cut neck indicates.
The sleeves and underblouse are pale
yellow GeOrgette crepe.
The make-belieYe pockets and yell
low silk buttons are bound with black
satin. If it is a practical one-piece
gown of taffeta or fine serge you
want to wear it under a long coat
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-10-03

BY BETTY BROWN
The folks who tell us what to
wear have their reasonable moments
after all, and it was in one of those
moments that this good-lOoking
gown was evolved out of two-toned
liberty satin.
The sketch is Of an afternoon
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-26
BANKS ARE N
fine CONDITION
Stark County Banks All Show
Large Deposits Due TO
Big Crops.

Dickinson, N. D., Jan. 24.-Splen.
did conditions prevailed during the
past year for the banks Of Stark coun.
ty, as indicated at the annual meet
ings of the several institutions. The
great crops in this district have given
the banks large deposits, and with
the generally prosperous condition of
farmers, the outlook is exceptionally
good.
Officers elected in the leading
banks for the coming year follow:
First National of Dickinson-Presi
dent, A. billiard; vice president, V.
II. tStickney and r. II. Johnson: cash
Ter, T. A. Tollefson; assistant cash.
Ter, l.. r. Baird.
Dakota National of Dickinson
President, Alfred White; vice pres;-
dent, S. NJ Ferriss; cashier, D. d.
Moore; assistant cashier, A. P Ellian
and V. w. Maser
Merchants National of Dickinson
President, w. l.. Richards; vice presi-
dent, Welton Mcdonald; cashier, Viii
son Eyer; assistant cashiers, An
drew Erdahl and Elliott Freeman.
Gladstone State bank of Gladstone
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-26
old RED RIVER VALLEY
PIONEER DIES At HONE

Fargo, n. D., Jan. 24.-Nels N.
Walla, aged SO years, passed away at
his home near Horace Saturday morn
ing. Death came as a result of old
age, and up to within short time
ago he had enjoyed the best of
health.
Deceased was one of the pioneers
of the Red river valley, settling near
Horace in 1874 He was prominent
farmer and had host of loyal
friends. His wife and FIVE children
survive him.
Funeral services will be held from
the church at Horace this afternoon
at o'clock, Rev. J. H. johnson Off
eating, and interment will be mae
in the Horace cemetery. Undertak-
ers Gard & Moore have charge of
the funeral arrangements.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-26
TAX ON CHAMBER
SEATS UPHELD BY
SUPREME COURT

Minneapolis, Mimi, Jan, 24-The
minneapolis Chamber of Commerce
membership taxation case today was
decided by the supreme court of the
United States. The decision confirms
the decision of the United States
court for the district of Minnesota
which has held that a membership is
property and is taxable.
George D. Rogers, for many years
secretary and afterward general coun-
sci for the chamber, began the case
after City Assessor G. l.. Fort, in
1911, assessed the memberships as
moneys and credits" at valuation
of $4,000 each. This rate would have
made the annual tax on each about
$11.40. @
Chamber Loses in Lower Court.
The chamber lost it's contest in
the Hennepin county court and the
Minnesota supreme court upheld the
lower court.
In 1912 the chamber contested the
tax levied that year as personal
property" and asked the federal dis.
trict court for an injunction restrain
ing the 'Hennepin county officials from
collecting it. This was denied, but
by stipulation all tax payments were
held in allegiance and the case take,.
to the United States supreme court.
In December H. v. Mercer argued
the case. for the chamber in Wash
ingtOn. Sa:s HIT.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-26
STARK COUNTY FARMERS
PROTEST At HAIL RATES

Dickinson, n. D., Jan. 24.-The
Farmers of southwestern North Da.
kota, comprising - counties, will be
up in arms against the old line COM
panies when they learn that hail in
surance rates for 1916 have been
boosted from s IL to 10 per cent en-
every 500 of insurance carried. A
meeting Of the general agents was
recently held in New York, when 1t
was agreed to make this advance.
The rates for the state east Of the
Missouri river are 6 IL per cent, the
same as they have been for some
time, and for the coming season the
rates in the northwestern portion Of
North Dakota, heretofore 7 IL per
cent, are reduced to correspond with
rates in the eastern and central por-
lions.
Losses Increased.
1t is claimed that at least a two
years average is necessary on which
to base a claim for reduction, and
the fact that hail business in the
northwestern portion of the state for
years past has shown profit is the
reason for the reduction of + per cent
in that territory.
Stark county probably showed a
small profit for the companies in
1915, but the previous years bust
ness was quite disastrous. If 1916
proves good year for the companies
a reduction is promised for 1917.
General agents of companies who
we're in Dickinson the past week
stated that Bowman, Slope and Gold
IN Valley counties showed bad rec.
)rd for 1915, and it was partly due
% the unfavorable hail loss condi-
ion in these counties that caused the |
ADVANCE in rates for 1916 in all the |
territory.
Bureau of Adjustments.
An important change for the com.
ng year is a bureau which will make
lail adjustments for all Of the com.
)anies. In this way it is expected |
| large saving in expense will be
shown, and there will not be chance
or one farmer to get a big adjust
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-26
How TO Fiqht tuberculosis

In a paper read last year before
the Bexar County Medical Society
willie "Nledicai Progress" DIR. }. w.
Carhnrt, of San Antonio. Texas, a
physician who has devoted much
time to the study Of tuberculosis,
said:' ''SInce lime salts constitute
thrce-fOurths Of all the mineral sub
must he supplied in the foods or
supplemented in mineral prepara-
tions, or natural starvation ensWes
with tuberculosis unchecked. The
widespread and unchecked spread Of
Tuberculosis and other prcventnble
diseases Ii due largely to the de-
calcifled lime lacking) conditions Of
multitudes throughout the civilized
world"
Thus from another authoritative
medical source comes justification
for the use Of lime in the treatment
of tuberculosis.
Since this is one Of the ingredi-
ents of Eckmans Alternative, much
of the success attending the wide
spread use Of this remedy doubtless
is due to the combination of this
salt in such a way as to render it
easily assmilable 1t causes no
stomach disturbance. and since it
contains neither opiates, narcotics
nor habit-forming drugs, 1t is safe
to try.
Eckman's Alternative has effected
remarkable results in numerous
cases Of pulmonary tuberculosis
(consumptiom and allied chronic at
fections of the throat and bronchial
passages. In many instances such
conditions, apparently, have yielded
completely to it.
In case your druggist is out of
It, ask him to orde", or send direct
to us.
Eckman Laboratory. Philadelphia
Tor sale at Breslow's Drug Store.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-26
AMONG Afe GOLLS'

Have the song birds of Europe be.
come the victims Of bullets, shrapnel
and deadly gases, or have they de.
serted the war--ridden continent en-
tirely? So engrossed have Ameri-
cans been in other phases of the ter
rife struggle that few have thought
of the effect of war on wild life.
During a severe artillery duel it is
reported that several British soldiers
were seen to be crying. When asked
why, they said that during the lulls
of the bonbardment the birds could
be heard singing. Over one trench
hung a tree, and on a bough were
two birds preening their feathers
and twittering.
The war has helped instead of hurt
the birds of Europe, is the declara-
ton Of T. Gilbert Pearson, secretary
# the National Association of Audi
Jon Societies and American author
" on birds. "Our correspondents
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-26

ment when in reality he is only en-
titled to small one. Such things
have happened in the past, but the
companies, while willing to pay all
actual losses covered by insurance, do
not propose to make any donations
in the future.
Local agents are not feeling very
good over the advance in rates and
frankly admit that the old line COM
panies are likely to lose considerable
business to the state insurance de-
partment the. coming season. Mutu-
ais will also get large slice Of the
hail insurance business.
The state rate is 30c per acre for
a maximum of So. For the past year
the state paid IS per cent, or Sc per
acre for the maximum protection,
and it is claimed by w. G. Taylor,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-26

President, John Dolwig; vice presl'
dent, L. A. Simpson; cashier, II. u.
Forrow; assistant cashier, c. ]. Duck
horn.
Citizens State bank Of Belfield--
President, S. G. More; vice president,
d. f. More; cashier, w. S. Morris;
assistant, R. L. Sproul.
Lefor State bank of Lefor-Presi-
dent, A. A. Lefor; vice president, Les
lie Simpson; cashier, N. S. Lefor.
First National of field-Presi-
dent, R. G. Davis; vice president, A.
Anderson; cashier, J. O. Milsten.
Farmers and Merchants State Of
Taylor-President A. ]. Peterson;
vice president, f. l.. Hutchinson;
cashier, A. NJ. Moss.
Merchant State of Richardton-'
President, Anton Muggli; vice presi-
dent, JOS. Killer; cashier, John Mug
gil; assistant, p. w. Barthie.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-26
Evelyn Barsolow,

heighth of the immigration movement
several years ago, are returning to
the states, according to w. c. Kohnen,
OF Shelby, Mont, formerly of this city.
MT. Kohnen, writing to local
friend, says the trains from Sweet
Grass, Canada, are loaded with for
mer Americans who are returning to
the United States, and many of these,
kohnen says, are locating on home
steads and cheap land Of western
North Dakota and Montana
The former Park River man writes
that land values have been materially
affected by, the return OF so many
farmers.