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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-02-02

The report of the Industrial Commission the Bank of
North Dakota the Drake Mill mill and elevator association and
the Home Builders association file with the Secretary of
State today required annually by law, and with the senate
and the house of representatives.
Based chiefly the audit of industries made by the Equt
able Audit company the report includes considerable discussion
of the Bank of North Dakota and the Drake MILL but little
about the Home Builders Association.
The report given complete to the three industries
and is made of Dec 81 1920 1t compares generally with the
report Bishop, Bssan and company the Bank of North
Dakota which made of Dec presents complete bal
the Home Builders association but few details Of
the operations of this industry and contains elaborate dis
cussion the Drake mill Among the features of the report
Claim is made of net profit for state industries during
1920 of $116,427.75.
Loss Drake mill is placed at $17 GGS.31.
Deduction of $4,000 is made account of Home Builders
association, as deferred expense
Bank profits for year placed at $l3599S.3O
Loans sinking funds deposited in Bank OF North Dakota
aggregate 81 per cent of total.
Loans and overras Of state industries otaled 3399
Total of $793 GA tied up closed banks Dec 3D. nclud
ing loans and redeposits.
Salaries of bank aggregated So7 1920 for year 1920
No options sold for Drake mill between July Is, 1920 and
Sept 1S, 1920 wheat and -four hand and
signment, resulting in loss in fall of wheat price.
Small of Drake mill held contributing factor to lack of
financial success.
Forty per loss $1,000 worth Of sacks sustained in
price declines them ...
Claim made that mill paid above market price for wheat
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-02-02

New York, Feb. 2..-Emp)oyes of
all the rcfinerics of New Jersey have
voluntarily accepted a reduction Of
one-half of cost of living bonus ef-
fcctive Feb. Is. it was announced to-
day at general offices of the Standard
Oil company.
The reduction is equivalent to ten
percent of wages.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-02-02
Man KILLED
INIRELAND FOR
CARRYING GUN
Murphy Executed by Authori.
ties-Policemen Ambushed
by Mob

Cork, Feb. 2.-Cornelius Murphy Of
Baltimore, County of Kerry, was shot
today when he was arrested on a
charge of carrying arms.
This is the first execution on such
a charge since martial law was de-
clared.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-02-02

tSibberren, Ireland, Feb. 2-Four po.
policemen were ambushed last night
at Groverly. County Of Cork, by a
party of twenty men. One of the Of
ficers was killed and one seriously
wounded.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-02-02
OLD GROUND HOG SAW HIS
SHADOW; TURNED AROUND
AND WALKED RIGHT BACF

Weather-Man Roberts says that the
ground hog came out today, saw his
shadow, turned around and walked
right back into his hole.
Which, according to the celebrated
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-02-02
REFUSE TO PRODUCE INDUSTRY RECORDS
DRAKE FLOUR MILL LOSES MONEY:
HOME BUILDERS APPEARS LOSERS:
BANKPR0FlTS HIGH, ,SAYSREP0RT

Industrial Commission Makes Report to Secretary of State
Condition of State Industries of Dec 31-Bank of North
Dakota Declared Good Shape though $Sooooo in Closed
Banks-Home Builders Report Meager-Drake Mill Profits
Wiped Out Through Price Fall and No Hedging in Grain
Market-Claim Big Mill Would Succeed
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-02-02
WAGE DECREASE
DUE FROM OIL
COMPANY, CLAIM
Proposed Reduction Will Cancel
Ten Per Cent. Bonus
Predicted

New York, Teb. 2.-Reports cir.
culated here today that the Stand
ard Oil company would make a 10
per cent wage reduction, affecting it's
employees in all parts Of the United
States, were given added currency by
news of cuts made by Standard Oil
subsidiaries in widely separated fields.
Employees of subsidiary companies
in New Jersey and West Virginia con-
sidered the proposed reductions at
meetings last night. Reports came
from Manniugton, w. Va, that EN-.
ployees of the Eureka Pipe Line CON-
pany. a subsidiary, had been notified
of similar reduction.
The proposed reduction. it is said,
will take the form Of suspension OF
the 10 per cent wage bonus granted
by the Standard OH company during
the war.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-02-02

New York, Feb. 2.--The Standard
Oil company of New Jersey today an
nounced reduction Of one cent gal
Ion in price of gasoline and kerosene
in five states.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-02-02

Less
Paid to the state treasurer
for interest on S2,00O,0OO
bank bonds due Jan. l.
1921 and July l, 1921. 10000
$185,8s
Less reserve for deprecia-
ton on fixtures 9,St
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-02-02

$175,99S.50
Continued on page g.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-28
TO KEEP GOOD NATURED
By H. Addington Bruce


k<TT ALF the ill-temper in the world is
ri the result of poor. ventilation"-thuS
affirmS an editorial writer in Public
Health, official organ of the Michigan state
health department.
1t is pretty sweeping statement-more than
close to being an over-Statement. Nevertheless,
it has the merit of emphatcally calling atten-
ton to the direct relation that most certainly
exists between bad temper and bad air, rela-
ton too frequently forgotten by those who
perhaps wonder at their own tendency to feel
unaccountably "grouchy" on occasions.
Hw often it happens that, after a night of
high winds, people wake up strangely irritable,
even though they have slept as Soundly as
-cral
81 must have eaten something that disagreed
with me-" is the explanation they are most
likely to offer to themselves. But they need
not throw the blame either on their food or on
their digestive organS-if, because of the wind,
they have been sleeping in a room with closed
windows.
And everybody knows that an entire house
hold may become crotchety in the extreme
after two or three days of weather making in
door living imperative. 1t is not the mere be-
ing indoors that causes the trouble, however.
1t is being indoors in a house perhaps not
only underventilated, but also so overheated
y
editorially remarks:
"a temperature of IS degrees Fahrenheit
where the air is fresh is far healthier and more
acceptable to the normal young or mdde-aged
individual than temperature of 70 or more
degrees in vitiated atmosphere"
Common too, is the phenomenon of rri-
liability developing among office, store, and
tory workers toward the close of the day.
Everything, it may be, has gone smoothly un-
til $3.50 or o'clock. Then, in this worker and
that one, signs of ill-temper develop, to be-
come increasingly evident until the working
day is done.
Fatigue from the days labors is usually sup
posed to account for this But observation
has repeatedly shown that in the same office,
store, or factory there is far less staff rrita-
bility at the close of days of good ventilation
in the working place than when owing to care
leSSneSs or severe weather, the ventilation has
been below normal.
And for this wel-established relation between
the state of the ventilation and the state of
the temper there is an explanation as adequate
as it is simple.
The breathing of air deficient in oxygen
means failure to secure for the blood supply
the purifying factor it most needs. This il
turn means some degree of poisoning of the
entire organism, including the brain and the
nervous system in general. And rritability is
one of the SureSt results of toxic action of any
Govt on the nervous system
Hence albeit there are many causes of irri-
liability other than foul air. there can be no
doubt whatever that fresh air is one of the
lest conServerS of good nature that preventive
medicine can prescribe.
copyright, 1924, by The Associated Newspa-
perS)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-28
SPARE THE PUEBLO Spy Frederic j. Haskin

| and another regiment of artists goes to paint
them. An art colony has been formed at
Taos. An interesting development in this
connection is that some young Indians have
learned from the artists how to paint and
have shown high ability. They have never
learned business, and they do not take to
modern agricultural machinery, but they
learn how to paint readily and instinctively.
They are a race of artists and dreamers.
They have no desire to become citizens and
engage in business. They have no training
for such work and no aptitude.
That these Indians should be preserved as
| they are and allowed to live their natural
lives for their own sake and for the sake
or science and art and the travelling public
is point which scarcely seems to need la
boring. For the sake of New Mexico too,
they should be left as they are. More and
more money is brought into that state every
| year by persons who are attracted by the
picturesque and historical features of the
state, and OF these the Puel-os arc one of
the most interesting. Hotels are being built
to accommodate the growing throng of
tourists to that country, and companies are
organized to show them the sights. Excur-
sions to the Pueblo dances and festivals are
one of the chief attractions which these
companies have to offer.
Whence, then, comes the demand that the
Indians be given citizenship? There seems
| little doubt that it comes primarily from GER
tain powerful persons who have cast covet-
GUS eyes upon the Indian lands. These lands
are tiny patches upon the great extent of
the southwest, but they are rich and valu-
able. 1t is now impossible to buy them But
when they have been divided into indiviual
allotments, each Indian will be encouraged
to go into debt, and their lands will be at
| tached and sold. The methods of accom-
| pllshing this have been brought to a high
degree of perfection in taking their lands
away from the Mexicans These people are
| being rapidly converted from contented small
| farmers into poor laborers. It is easy to
get them in debt. drought and the loss
of a crop furnishes opportunity. Sick
| ness, funerals, marriages are all occasions
for lending money. Sometimes the thing is
done fairly. Sometimes the Mexican is in
duced to sign papers he cannot read Some
| times he barters away his home when he is
drunk.
All Of these methods can be applied TO
| the Indian more easily than to the Mexican
| because the Indian knows even less of bust
| ness and is even more of child. Soon the
Pueblo lands will have passed into the hands
| gone forth to struggle for a living as labor
| ers. Soon the great communal houses the
dances and feasts and ceremonies, the pot
terry and baskets and jewelry of silver and
turquoise will be no more. The traveller
the artist and scientist will look in vain for
that living vision of the past, which is al
ways so curiously interesting The last YES
tige of it will have been crushed The steam
| roller of civilization will have finished it's
work for the red man.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-28
Telling the Truth to Geynanv

7 N spite Of denunciations and threats for
his Reichstag speeches touching respon-
sibility for the World war, the independ-
ent Socialist leader, Breitscheid, continues
to lay the blame unsparingly the old i'm
perial1stic German regime. To the powers
that held sway in Berlin and Vienna, he in
sists, must be ascribed the Enchanting of
the forces which brought the dread conflict
to pass. 'This is an established fact" he
writes in his party's weekly review, the So
cialist land the only question which still
remains open is as to what degree German
policy prepared the war in the years which
preceded it,.
This view is worth noting, not because
of it's novelty (numbers of other free-think-
ing Germans have expressed it before), but
because it is maintained by Reichstag
leader of considerable backing at the very
time when the question of responsibility for
the war figures potently in the disturbed re-
lations between the new German Government
and the Allies. OF the suggestion that the
time has come for united and unyielding
support of Herr Simons' proposition that
the Versailles treaty cannot be carried out
and that Germany's obligation to repair can
be contested, Breitscheid Declares: what
a mad undertaking! For even if their ar
guments for the defense of Imperial Ger
many were sound, no one could think Sc
riously that we could evade the obligations
which the treaty laid upon U.S." Such a
policy, he adds, could only be detrimental
to the German people in their dealings with
the Entente.
It is not to be supposed that the plain
spoken advocate of this idea is very pop
ular with the majority of his countrymen,
nor is his role in any wise an enviable
one. But it is fortunate that the war guilt
of the intriguers and militarists Of Potsdam
is being hammered home to the German
people, for upon their perception of the
truth of history depends, in large measure,
the establishment of the much-to-be-desired
happy relations between their country and
all the world.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-28
How to Change Your Desires
BY DR.. Frank Crane

BY DR.. Frank Crane
What we need most is Good Desires
If we have them Life is Easy; if not, Life
is Hard.
Desire lies beneath the Will and is imper-
vious to Reason
It is dumb, blind, and automatic -
We say we cannot help what we Like and
Dislike.
How, then, are we going to change this
most important part of us? 1t is absolutely
essential that we do change it, yet we seem
unable to get hold of it.
The answer is, that while our Desires can
not be changed Directly, they can Indirectly,
For this is the Law, that what we do over
and over, by Ind by we learn to like
We can change our Desires, then, by Three
indirect agencies: by Love, by Will, and by
Practice.
First Love. Find what we Ought to Like;
see it, live with it, cultivate it; it is Lovable
and at last we learn to love it.
Remember, we do not Fall in Love Chat
is any great Love-; we Climb into Love.
Second, Will. Determineily let us set our
Purpose every day, every hour, upon what is
Good, and True, and Beautiful And we shall
grow to desire it.
Third, Practice Faithfully Doing constant
ly what we know to be Right at length will
wear away our perverseness and stubbornness
of heart, and we shall wake up some day to
the realization that we Want what is Right
even as the desire of the Bridegroom is to-
ward his Bride.
Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-28
REFLECTIONS OF A
BACHELOR GIRL
BY HELEN ROWLAND

Troubles never come singly-at least they
don't seem like "troubles" until after you've
married them
If English girls carry out their threat to do
the counting, they will soon discover that a
man will forgive a woman for asking him to
steal for her, to die for her, or even to marry
her-but never for asking him to love her.
Copernicus never felt half so proud as the
man who has just discovered that his secret
theory for making home-brew is actually
working.
If the course of true love ever ran smooth,
the average man would develop en1ui and
switch off into another course, before he got
half started
man regards womanS love as a woman
regards her bank balance; he never fancies
that it is possible for him to overdraw his
bank account
Sometimes a man is so ambdextrouS that
he can hold a woman by the nape of the neck
with hand while he reaches out with the
other to careSs another woman.
Anybody can exiSt--but everybody wants to
live! And, when popular bachelor cheerfully
exchanges the devotion of all women for the
espionage of just one, it is because he has
discovered that there is no such thing as really
"livng"-alone!
Old wine, old books, old friends-ah yes!
But age never improved spring hat, spring
flowers, or a spring filtration. 1t takes the
| light of a brand new interest, now and then,
to keep up the glow of life
| woman always has something to worry
| about-if she can only think what it is.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-28
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
RenOrSe

hadn't Lex che doctors persuade me to nave
him operated on, perhaps he would not nave
dieG." eff l had ~een firmer with my children,
;nstead of being so devoted to them; II nad
been more loving instea of trying to discipline
my children, perhaps they would have turned
out differently"
You hear women constantly mourning like
this and blaming themselves f6r things for
which they in no wiso responsible since
almighty wisdom was not vouchsafed them.
Possibly they did make mistakes, but to
dwell! on our mistakes is morbid madness.
The wise thing to do, and the right thing to
do, is t. put the past behind us and go on to
the future, striving to make that big enough
and good enough to Offset the errors we have
made.
! The only god thing in being sorry for a
| thing you have done is to keep you from
doing it again; yet there are people who
would say things to you that wound you to
| the quick and tell you that they are sorry
for having hurt you, and then do it again
the next day. You hear women say they
regret their eXtravagances and know that
they are working their husbands to death, yet
| who keep on running up big bills. We have
all seen man, who has been a cold and neg
lectful husband, agonize over his wife's sick
bed when he thought she going to die
yet when she gets we'll resumes his Indifferent
attitude towards her.
This remorse that works no cure in the
sinner is a kind of spiritual nostrum with
which many seek to drug their conscences.
Somehow, women have always been of the
opinion that there is some peculiar merit in
remorse, and that they wash their states
clean if they only shed enough tears upon
them. That is why you find women weeping
over their mistakes instead of trying to cor
rect them.
That is why the woman, who has a past,
salts 1t down in brine and keeps it handy,
where she can always take it out, and look it
over, and weep little more over it; instead
of putting it behind her, and forgetting it,
and learning from the bitter lesson she has
| had to be a nobler and more compassionate
woman than the woman who has nevea
sinned. That is why woman sits down
before her ill-cooked food or her bungled
sales slips, or her ill-typed letters, and weeps
over her failures, instead of learning how to
do her work better. That is why the mother
of unruly children cries over them instead of
spanking them.
Tears are the high-water mark of incom-
potency and futility, unless they wash ones
eyes clear and give one the straight vision.
Repentance is weakness unless it leads to
reform.
Instead of spending your time in being
sorry for what you have done, use it in plan
ming to do better.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-28
What They Say of Trade

" EFORlS from Almost every part or the
* country indicate substantial i'm
proVement in business conditions.
There are no gusts of prosperity, but the
current runs stronger and steadier The
gains which became manifest early in the
year have been held, and IN numerous in
stances increased Throughout the nation
the trend is Enthusiastically upward.
Thus Boston reports a marked betterment
in the credit situation, ascribed, largely, to
the reserve banks cut from seven to six
per cent in the redscount." Dispatches say
further that the wooden mills of New Eng
land are active, the leather interests much
more cheerful in the confidence that prices
have stabilized, and retail business virtually
at last years levels. New York announces
large orders for certain kinds of cotton
goods, notably ginghams and percales," and
adds: "Traveling statesmen report the fall de-
mand for cotton goods to be satisfactory,
paralleling reports from several hundred
travelling statesmen sent out by Atlanta firms
doing varied business. Stocks in each case
are said to be almost depleted, and the de-
mand healthy for medium-priced goods. I"
From Chicago comes word that retail bust
ness is active, and labor conditions i'm
proved, a wholesome sign being the migra-
ton of many idle men to the farms. Unem-
ployment appears generally to be deCreas-
ing. At the great centers of the automotive
industry thousands have been recalled to
work during the last thirty or sixty days.
st. Paul and Minneapolis report "a building
boom that promises to surpass all records
since 1S93," and St. Louis commodity orders
are said to have increased in volume from
twelve to forty-three per cent.
These concrete instances, and a mass of
others like them, observed in the North, East
and West leave no doubt that the drift is
toward good times. AS for the South, the
activity of the planting season is in itself
and is the more cheering from
the fact that plans for raising abundant food
products and avoiding the hazards of an ex-
cessive cotton acreage are widely manifest
The basic resources IF this fertile region are
so that with foresight and en-
ergy the South should bring prosperous
autumn to pass.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-28
WOMAN writes me:

A WOMAN writes me:
~ Il am suffering the torments of the
damned because L feel that l virtually
murdered my husband, whom | dearly loved
He was of a delicate and sensitive disposition
and | know that l fastened his death by my
eXactions and selfishness, and bad temper
What shall do to find peace?"
The best remedy for remorse is atonement
OF course we can do nothing to make up tc
the dead for the injury we have done them
but have the living with us, and we can
pay our debts to those who have passed
beyond our reach by making life easier and
pleasanter to those about us.
Perhaps there are very few men and women
who ever bend above the collins of their
wives and husbands without being torn by
the pangs of conscience They may E6r have
slnned the big sin, but they have Oeen guilty
OF the little ones that made the road thai
might so easily have oeen made soft and
pleasant, so hard te travel.
Who, at such cine, has not looked at the
shut eyes anZ remembered how little gadness
he or she nas brought into them, and how
often gtabbing speech has filled them with
tears? Who has not looked at the pale lips
narrowed into the straight line of death, and
wished that he or she had kissed them into
smiles oftener? Who has not gazed upon the
folded hands, and Wept to recall how much
needless labor he or she had imposed upon
them?
1t is proverbial that 1econd marriages are
almost always happier than first; that there
are no husband spoilers like widows who re-
marry; and thai the man who has been harsh
and niggardly, and tyrannical to his first
wife, is lavish to his second wife and putty in
her hand
1t would amaze these Number Two hus-
bands and wives to know that they are reap
ing the fruits of remorse, and that con
sclence-stricken woman or man is trying to
square herself or himself with the dead, but
such is often the case
When we do wrong, 1t is just that we
should suffer for it, and wholesome to the
soul for us to clothe ourselves in sackcloth
and put ashes on our heads, but repentance
is virtue only in so far as it makes us dc
better.
All beyond this is sheer morbidity After
all, what is done, is done. That can not be
changed, and to spend ones life deploring
sin, or regretting mistake, or wishing that
one had acted differently is wckedly futile
employment.
Women are particularly given to this vice
They cruelty themselves on the cross of theil
imagination, and blame themselves for things
that have no existence outside of their fan
cies. eff [ had gone to this doctor or that;
if I had taken my husband to Colorado or
Maine; if I had had him operated on, OF