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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19
BY W. Earl Smith.

1t has been frequently claimed by
the members of the Nonpartisan lea
que that the above stores are effect
ing for them an. extraordinary and
otherwise impossible saving; that ther-
fore Towpley Is a real benefactor.
The writer has no quarrel with the
cooperative idea. as such but, wishes
to point out that the Townley plan
contains none of the elements of char.
ity.
Expert testimony indicates that
there are about 500, 900 retail stores In
the United tates;. that they have an
annual business turn over about $685.
600; that their total average operating
cost Is about 16 1.2 percent OF gross
sales. The, cost OF doing business in
retail merchandise lines in new coun.
try like North Dakota Is somewhat
higher, but should be kept safely with.
in 187percent, though some have plac-
ed 1t a little higher. 1t is the expires.
sed purpose and present practice OF
the C. u! s. I'd sell for cash and elm
mate the Garry Such being the case
that part OF the cost OF merchandise
ing involved in. cash. and carry"
Item Ii can. ~ elit6lhated when max
Ing comparisons With merchants op.
Grating on. the old plan.
The average cost Of doing business
on credit Is ~. \. ...Srct.
Average cost Of delivery, etc is
Differences t.r between. cash and carry
and present system, in cost of
doing business 1. -. .lcpct,
Total cost Of. doing business, as \
above mentioned -. ......, 1Spct.
Less difference In cost between
the two systems ....... -. 10pCt.
Net differences in operating cos:
of cash and carry system So. Srct
Proposed Townley gross profit ..lCpct.
Net saving or profit to c y. :. on T.
turn over ............ ..... Ipct
From observation it would appear
that the stores already in operation
throughout the state have an average
investment Of under $4,000. though
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19

value received invested in any enter.
prise entitled the investor to all the
benefits of legal safeguards and vot-
ing power in the conduct Of said en-
terprise; in other words q sound blu.
siness man will refuse to invest money
In any enterprise in which he can have
no voice mad against he can have no
legal claim, not only for q part, but
for all of the amount Of his invest
tment. Also, he will not be deceived
by any Moses" or "Deliverer" claims
on the part of those who can be shown
to make nice profit out of capital
which he contributes. 49,. e.
1t was Adam Smith who said that
wealth belonged to him who created
1T. 1t is equally true that capital in
business should belong to those who
contribute it. 1t is perhaps too much
to expect the North Dakota agricultur-
list to study Adam Smith or any other
economist, but the writer would urge
and suggest that II they seek some
worthy charity, the war is still on
and the Red Cross needs the money.
Oh Charity, what crimes are com.
mitted in thy name.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19
LETTERS FROM
SOMEWHERE"
IN FIR A N CE
FROM LLOYD HARMON.

Neal:y Wepi great alligator tears of
Joy yesterday when, the mail came in.
We had not received any for over two
weeks and were getting mighty blue,
then when the good old canvas sacks
began to show up, we'll say! The boy
with his first pair Of long pants had
nothing on us. got sixteen ana
crawled into the corner by the wood.
box and proceeded to volplane (via
letters) right back to that good old
land, U. S. The best country in fifty
worlds.
Its just about like the farmer boy
at his first circus to see a bunch oil
soldiers all grown, brown, strong and
full of good old Yankee pep, get q
bunch of mail You can't hear, you
can't see, you can't think, you cant
anything. Everybody laughing, holler
ing, talking, pushing, stepping on each
others toes, forgetting about mess
troubles, dangers, etc. First of course
we dig into and devour our letters
from mother, dad, sister or brother;
then the one or ones from the girl, OF
girls, III fellow Is lucky or nervy
enough to have more than one OF
these wonderful afflictions). Each fel
low telling everyone else at the same
time what is happening at home, who
got married, who got pinched, who
got drafted, and got any thing else
from the growers bill to the whOop.
ing cough. It's a grand and glorious
feeling l can assure you, and you
should see the big difference in the
fellows work and play after the mail
battle is over. They will wear out
four pick handles where they wore
out one before. l know without a
doubt that the quickest way to end
the Hun, would be to give the whole
front the news that the huns had
captured a mail train and had said
mail in their trench. I'd bet our fel-
lows would 60 through them so fast
that the Hun would take his last
thought on earth thinking that per.
haps he made the sad mistake Of
coming on earth about thousand
years too soon.
We received big bunch of new
band music from Carl Fischer abou,
a week ago, and say, you should see
US up anu NJ CT. we Q0u played
all the music we had so much and SO
long that we could play it upside
down, backwards and sideways, ana
were really getting kinda desperate,
but now, oh COY! "
Also got a few new Jazz Nos. for the
orchestra. Tell me all about it, Mick,
you know l am interested.
Very little here in the hunting line,
few wild pigs, and say, man, they sure
are we'll named. About three times
as large as our pigs, not so broad,
but much taller. longer legs, curved
back, and the most unsociable faces
on the nuts that ever saw, and speed,
they can put Barney Oldfield to
shame. Saw an old Frenchman come
in with pig on one of their two
wheeled. onehorse, Ego in every direc.
ton at once) wagons, the other day.
It looked about seven feet long and
should Judge it would weigh about
five or SIX hundred pounds. Some pig.
The old man, had an implement Of
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19
INVITING TROUBLE

BY sending into North Dakota all the rift
raft of socialism, of pro- ermanism, Of disloyalty
of l. w. W-ism-all the dregs of social disorder,
Governor Frazier is but inviting trouble, and
should there arise serious disturbances because of
these paid agents forcing themselves in where
they are not wanted, the blame can be put
in only one place, and that is on the head of
the governor who knowing the temper of the peo-
pie, and that they will not stand for the enforced
presence of agitators, bolsheviki. and such like,
not only permits them to tour the state but them
himself
A whole swarm of such agitators have
pounced on the state, the Walter Thomas Mills-es,
the Judson Kings, even Lindbergh, whose name is
a stencil in the nostrils of loyal Americans who
with their sons at the front is to invade North
Dakota and is booked for several addresses on the
Slope; man who charges the Red Cross with
being tool of Wall street, who says like Town
ley that this is a war of the rotten rich
The people are not in a mood to listen to
the wailing of paid agitators. The big thing at
present is to win this war, and the mouthy pro-
testatons Of loyalty from paid agitators, and
from the Townleys, Frasiers and Lindberghs wont
down. We want our loyalty talks by men who
have not assailed the nation, and the honest mo-
tives Of these in charge of our government. We
have no time for trifing economic questions. And
surely this is no time for the Townley aggrega-
ton to slip across revision of the constitution
which will permit of saddng on the state their
consumers stores, their country newspapers, of
their packing plant with its watered stock.
So the people wont brook any forcing on them
of men who should be in prison; men like Townley
and Lindbergh who are under indictment, and if
Governor Frazier wants to make sure that the
great state of North Dakota is preserved from
disorders, he owes it as governor, to call off the
dsloyalsts, the breeders Of discomfort and the
|. w. WIS apologists.-Manda Pioneer.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19
THEY'RE ALL RIGHT

Some of US are much concerned about the
morale" of the boys who are going to the front,
and those who are already there
We are afraid they'll 60 to the devil because
they are being furnished with cigarets, and be-
cause they sometimes play baseball on Sunday.
But the fact is there is less venereal disease
among the boys in France than there is among
the boys at home Ire
They are far more interested in genuine re-
ligion than they ever were in their native towns.
The job they're going is burning out of their
lives the dross and the dirt that formerly clogged
their brains and their hearts, :
They are giving themselves to a task which
arouses the deepest truest passion and patriot
We need to be far more concerned about the
boys who remain at home than about the boys
who have given up everything to fight for democ-
racy and freedom. -...
They have their own peculiar temptations,
but, other things being equal, they've got better
chance to come back whole-hearted and true than
the chap who remains at home for almost any
reason that sounds like good excuse.
1. When the war is over, the saddest object in
the world will be the man who not only pitied
himself and allowed somebody else to do the fight
ing, but who assumed pietistic attitude toward
the soldier who passed through hell at the front
so that the Stacker might have comfortable time
At home.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19
Lightning Statistics.

The best conductors Of lightning.
placed IN the order Of conduCtivity,
are: Metals, gus. coke, graphite. solu-
lions OF suits. acids and water. The
best nonconductors, ending with, nearly
perfect Insulation. are: India rubber,
guttapercha, dry DIR and gasses, wool,
eoonite. silk. glass. wax. sulphur. resin
and parattln.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19
WITH THE EDITORS
COMMON SENSE TRIUMPHANT
Thank God for common sense!

Thank God for common sense!
While Minnesota soldiers were fighting to
make the world safe for democracy, Minnesota
voters were proving yesterday that democracy is
safe for the world. qs% ST. iSsssst4e
Studying the election returns this morning,
when the tumult and shouting have died away,
ones feelings are divided at wonder over the fact
that one saw anything to worry about in the stu
alton yesterday, and regret that MIR. Lindbergh
received as many votes as he did,
The victory is above all else victory of 10y
atty and common sense.-Fargo Forum.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19
USE BILLS HIDE

What is said to be the most unique binding
in the world today, is in Exeter, England. The
Albert Memorial exhibition boasts Tegg's edi-
ton of Milton bound in part of the skin of George
Cudmore, malefactor, who was executed at
Devon in $780, ''~
Which same suggests an idea. Let's bind the
record of the worlds darkest age-and remember
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19
THE CONSUMERS UNITED STORES
co. AS CHARITABLE PROPOSITION

they are guaranteed an original total
capital OF. $40, 10000 before opening up
Total average sales on retail mer. 2s'S
chandising 80. ..!..... ...: $2o. wv
Actual capital invested as above, IS 900
Making a turn over Of five times.
Profit on each turn over, 10. pct. $500
But to the above must be added
the interest on $4,000 donated
to the C. U. S. Co. while the pri- =.
vate trader must furnish his own
capital Therefore, interest on
$4,000 at pct. ........ $500
And total net profit on $1,000 &c.
tual investment. 2. :. 81, lou
Assuming that 40 stores will be /
established at a net profit as Ell
above. Total net profitrrto g gfy,
U. .. ............. .......' .@ff''oo
The above is on the assumption that
in no case is more than the actual
$4,000 minimum paid IN. As a mat.
ter of fact, in many cases sums much
greater have. been subscribed which,
If used for the Consumers Stores
would add greately to the profit, It
is certain that a very large amount
of this surplus money will remain iii
the hands II said company, because
they have given, their 'donators the
assurance that If they don't like the
game they can withdraw at the end
of one year all but their pro-rata Of
the original SIC, 900, at the end Of the
second year all but their pro-rata for
said two years, etc. So far as the
writer knows no legal undertaking or
security is given said "donators'' for
return of said sums. In this cOnnec-
ton it may be of interest to- said do
majors to know that of every 100 peOs
pie starting in business in a given
year, only Is percent aretin business
at the end of the second year. It
is of course not impossible that the
C. U. S. should with the rest of the
25 percent join the procession to the
graveyard of commercial lost hopes,
along with the remaining portion Of
the donation or donators of the Town.
ley devotees H ...s.a.. /
It is a sound economic axiom that
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19
GIRLS IN MEMS CLOTHES
Sisters Rsaeh the lad o. Their "Re.
nance Trall."


The Llewellen sisters, Alexandra
and Gloria. who arrived In San Pedro,
CAL, dressed In mems clothes and OF
their way to somewhere" adventure
bound. have reached the end Of their
romance TRAIL" ,...g
Alexandria. who 10 the youngest
was shipped back to Stockton to
race parental Ire. while her sister. IN.
Fortunate In being over age, was trans.
ferred to the city JAIL. ~
The girls left Stockton via the hobo
route several weeks ago and sought
the thrills Of travel astride old tank
cars and inside empty box cars. When
arrested they gave the names az
Ross. sH rt; =.
The girls father wired transporta.
don for Alexandria.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19

The big five" packers boast they make
money by close economy in using everything about
the pig except the squeal. Judging by recent
events, the packers have even found way to
use that. ! .>. - 4
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19
NEAR THE GOAL

All that now stands between American won'-
anhood and a co-partnership with man III the ousl-
ness of managing the nation is the United States
senate
The house of representatives has placed itself
upon record in favor of the constitutional amend
ment giving women the right to vote in all states
for all officials at all elections.
There is no doubt as to where the majority
of men of the nation stand They have come to
understand that in democracy where liberty
and freedom are the watchwords there can be no
more election day disqualification because OF sex
than there can be because of color, religion or
wealth. The amendment will carry if put up to
the people.
But the senate first has to vote favorably.
President Wilson has come to the aid OF SUI
frage forces with an urgent appeal to the senate
to permit the people to settle the question. he
asks the senate to pass the suffrage amendment
before the end of this session.
: The senate is not asked to decide the ques-
ton for the voters of America 1t is requested to
let the voters themselves decide the question Any
senator regardless of party affliati0n, who votes
against the submission of this suffrage amend
ment to the people, or who gives assistance in the
well used senatorial program of procrastination.
shuod be marked for defeat and should be sue
ceeded by man who will keep step with prog
ress. ... b.. 5
< It is high time that senatorial reactionaries
muffle their anti-suffrage arguments and permit
their more progressive colleagues to pay our debt
of gratitude to the women of America.
As if there wasn't more than enough talking
in congress already, an Ohio fellow named Speaks
announces his candidacy.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19

Speaking of Taft: we are laying bet his
experience on the war labor board will make a
pretty good radical of him yet.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19

Remember, ton of coal in your cellar will
produce more heat for you next winter than a
carload at the mine Order it now!
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19

If New Jersey will just mobilize her sum,
mer mosquito crop we bet the. German U-boat
menace will soon disappear from our shores.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19

n,de OF history's blacklist scoundreI, Kaiser Bill
,,, To remove that de luxe cover from the animal,
with great pains wen use a knife Of steel, and
administer no anesthetic.
After sufficient tanning to remove the reek
of blood stencil not his own it will be ready for
the final stretching over the Volumes cover boards,
stamped made in U. S. A."
Them perhaps Wen add a cheap index, ap-
pendix, or supplement in the sheepskin Of the
wolf Clown Prince! "'.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19

We're in favor Of Kitchin sitting in the par
lor while someone else cooks up the new war
revenue laws. ,....i
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19

The big ive' packers Of Chicago don't care
who makes the laws, if you will only let them
make the meat prices. 4.E-. ...# 4
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19

Consider it this way: The larger the wheat
crop the more wheat we can save for hungry
mouths lover there"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19

Henry Ford will carry lot of common sense
to the senate, including his opinion that the foun-
dation, walls and roof of this republic are the
common people.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19

American farmers have done their duty by
raising fine wheat crop; now we can do ours by
not eating it..
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19

Time and trouble heal all wounds. King
George is going to celebrate the Fourth Of July
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19

Why limit the useful occupation order" to
men of draft age? Why not include women, too ?
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19

The war garden that produces but one crop
this year is but SO per cent effort.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19

War savings stamps bought now will keep
the wolf from many door in l923-and the Hun,
too! "
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-19

AS if there wasn't more than enough talking
in congress already, an Ohio fellow named Speaks
announces his candidacy.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1918-07-25
THURSDAY, JULY %, 1918

Eighteen German musicians who
belonged to the Boston Symphony
orchestra have now been given thelr
walking-papers The German propa-
gandists always commended that moth
ing musical could amount TO any
thing unless it was German. Boston,
with all her boasteo knowledgious-
ness, was decoyed into this belief
and she kept her famous orchestra
under kaiserist auspices. When it was
first proposed to de-Germanize the
orchestra, there was CONSERVATION;
the Boston symphony would be moth
ing if not German, it was declared.
But DR.. Muck, the conductor, was
termed as an alien enemy, and now
the rest of the kaiser's stool7pigeons
are to go. That is the right policy,
and the example should be followed
all along the line. German musicians
and German music are all right;
they have their place and it is
large place in the musical world
but they must no longer be allow
ed to dominate. AS long as they keep
their place they will be given due
recognition, but whenever and wher7
ever there is any attempt made to
give them undue Importance and in
fluonce, the thing to do is to squelch
tenn, just as they have been squel-
ehed in the case of the Boston
Symphony orchestra. 1t is time our
grit musical organizations were
t.. dughly Americanized, and those
that can't be Americanized will have
tc CO under.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1918-07-25
Favors Early Motherhood.

Doctor Bell writes in the Journal of
Heredity, Washington, D. c., with the
statistical proof that young women un-
questionably make better mothers than
those who have postponed the respon
sibiuty of maternity until after thirty
years of age. He favors early mar
riages and youthful motherhood on the
ground that, contrary to popular opin-
ion, the offspring of young mothers
have finer vitality and are the peers
If not the superiors intellectually Of
children born of older parents.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1918-07-25
ANNOUNCEMENT

l hereby announce that l will be
n candidate for Republican Nominee
for the office of Prosecuting Attor-
ney Of Payctte County, ldaho, at the
Republican Primar es to be held
September 3rd, 1918. A thorough I'M
biased investigation, by each voter,
OF my record for morality, ability
and integrity is most earnestly solic-
tied, and if, after such investigation,
you can conscientiously give me your
supp rt, at said primary election,
Il will be highly appreciated.
JOHN H. NORRIS.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1918-07-25
The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co.
NOTICE

1t is a misdemeanor punishable by
fine of not less than twenty-five dol
lars and not more than one hundred
dollars for any person to furnish Gig
arettes, cigars or tobacco in any
form to any minor person in the
State of Idaho. 1t is also a misde-
meanor for any minor person to use
the same in any form. All persons
who are alleged violators of this
law are warned that upon corrobor--
ated evidence, supported by affi6a-
Wit, they will be vigorously prcsecut-
ed.
July Sth, 1918.
P. MONROE SMOCK,
Prosecuting Attorney.
July II, Is.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1918-07-25
stove.heated Garden.

The garden of James Swartz Of
Hotter Dam, Mont, is heated by a
stove from the inside, and is protected
on the outside by curtain which is
lowered about it on a frame. The
garden is seven feet square and con-
sists of a series of terraces built
around hollow center to height of
ten feet. Mr.. Swartz believes this
arrangement will permit a longer
growing season.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1918-07-25
FOR SHERIFF

l do hereby announce that | will be
a candidate fer Republican Nominee
for Sheriff of Payette County, Idaho,
at the coming republican primaries
to be held September Srd, 1913.
have lived in Payette Valley for
nearly eightc en- years and if my rec
ord meets wi your approval, l will
be pleased to have your support.
R. A. CRUMP.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1918-07-25
ANNOUNCEMENT.

l wish to announce to the public
that it is my intention to be candi-
date for nomination on the RepubH--
can ticket, for the office of Sher-
if of Payette County to be voted up
on at the coming Primary Election
to be held September 3rd, 1918.
will appreciate your careful consider
alton of my candidacy.
JOHN II. JEFFERIS.