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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-03-23
ma TI0NAL SALE
PLAN FOR WHEAT
IS CONSIDERED
North Dakota Farmers Organi-
cations Men Meeting in
Fargo
DELEGATES CHOSEN
Action on National Sales Plan
Will Be Taken in Chicago
In April
DELEGATES CHOSEN

Fargo, March 23-Delegates
from various farm organizations
in North Dakota met here today
to decide whether grain growers
in the state shall endorse the CO.
operative marketing plan Of the
National Committee Of II.
The Chicago Board of Trade dis
cussed the plan at secret meeting
recently, c. V. Gregory, of Chicago,
member of the Committee of II, told
the delegates. One of the biggest
fnanciers in the country recently told
Mr.: Gregory that the proposed mar
keting system would succeed if
"enoguh brains were put into it" and
that it will be the biggest single en-
terprise in the country if carried out,
he said.
Six delegates will be chosen today
to represent North Dakota at ma
tional meeting of farmers represen-
tatives in Chicago April when the
committee marketing plan will be re-
viewed and passed upon. ....
United States Senator E. F. Ladd,
a member Of this committee, and U.
L. Burdick, president of the State
Farm Bureau Federation, both favor
able to the plan, were among other
speakers scheduled
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-03-23
WON'T DISSOLVE GUARD.

Paris, Mar 23.-Decision not to dis
solve militia organizations and the
Einwohnerwehr or citizen guards in
Bavaria has ben reached by unani-
nous vote by the Bavarian govern
ment, says a Berlin dispatch to the
Journal
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-03-23
GBRMANSCLAIM MONEY DUE
ALLIES ALREADY IS PAID
ANDREFUSES GOLD DEMAND
Formal Note Handed as Reply
to Ultimatum of the
Entente
ASKS FOR COMMISSION
Would Have Value of Repara-
tions Account Fixed by
X Experts

Paris, Mar. 23.-(By the Associated
Press.)-Germany, in her reply to the
recent ultimatum of the allied repara-
tion commission refuses to pay the
one billion marks gold due on this
date and disputes the commission 5
figures showing balance of II bill
lion marks due May /.
1t is maintained in the German note
that the twenty billion marks which
the peace treaty provides should be
handed over by May l has been more
than paid. l E@.
The note asks that joint commits
sion Of experts fix the value of the
German deliveries on reparation ac-
counts, but it declares that in any
event it would be impossible for Ger
many to pay twelve billion marks by
the first of May
Would Bloat Loan.
The note concludes as follows:
IF, after the experts have confer
red, it is established that there is a
definite in the payment by Germany
she is ready to begin negotiations
with the reparations commission re-
garding the floating of loan abroad.
The reparations commission met
this morning to consider the German
reply which was transmitted from
Berlin last night. The Germans fail
ure to pay is deemed a violation OF
the treaty of Versailles, which the
commission will report to the allied
government. The allies will then de. .
termine what measures shall be TAX
en-.
1t is commented, that the Germar
experts already have been heard by
the reparations commission which lis
tened to their argument before fixing
the valuation of the Germany deliver
les as payment against the twenty bill
lion marks. This valuation, therefore,
was considered final. ~... .
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-03-23
SEVEN SONS ARE MASONS

SEVEN SONS ARE MASONS
Butte, Mont, March 23.-George
F. Geiser and six sons occupied the
chairs when seventh son, Charles r..
Geiser was given the degree of Mas
ter Mason. This event is said to have
no parallel in Masonry.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
delights and Sketches of Life in the Cities of Errop
Irish Miners Seize Coal Pits
When Wage Gut Is Proposed
Syndicalist Experiment Adds TO Troubled Life of
Island; Country Folk Readily Buy Fuel
From Workers

presented it al The railroad station.
Unfortunately he forgot to make sur,
that the trunk would be shipped on !
passenger train, so it lay for two day,
in the station freight room, hurie
under pile of luggage. SO deepl,
was it buried that Max could no,
escape. Finally it was loaded onto, .
freight train and again was wedged i,
al the bottom Of the loaded freigh,
car. Two days were spent on the train
and on the fifth day, when the truns
arrived at Spandau, it was removed g.
the baggage room there and agais
buried. Max, weak and hungry, gave
up the adventure end shouted for helr
until porters working on the pile OF
trunks and boxes hauled him out
He was arrested, and Paul was late,
captured. Paul received year and $
month in prison, but the judge sal,
that inasmuch as Max had already IL,
dergonc almost weeks imprisonmen
ne would only have to serve year anl
q week.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
London Tailor Gives $4,000
In Russian Money With Suit

LONDON, June Pay s22 to a GER
tain London tailor for suit of clothes
and this philanthropic gentleman will
at once hand you S2,500
Unfortunately the money is in the
form of Russian 5,00o-ruble notes, and
the present value Of the ruble is some
where near the vanishing point. But
there is always the possibility-some
what uncertain, it is true-that the
ruble will recover it's pre-reyolution
value, and that the people who to-day
are receiving the notes as souvenirs
from the tailor may ultimately realize
on their money and obtain a small
fortune
Russian money is drifting about Lon
don in large quantities. English refu-
gees have smuggled out their hard
earned savings, only to find them
valueless. The tailor, as he explains,
"got landed with 100000 rubles of
this money, and rather than take a
chance on It's return to par decided to
give away bank note with each suit.
\ His shop window, near Fleet Street, ia
plastered with a czar's ransom. and
satisfied customers leave with a suit in
one hand and the artistic engrsyines of
the late Russian Empire in che 0tner.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
British Government Muddled.
But 1t Gets Results, Anyway
Masterman Writes History of Parliament, Poking
Fun at Methods and Marveling at Achieve.
ments of Lawmaking Body

| like snakes, opening into useless wid'
spaces at one point, narrowing into in
tolerable and dangerous crevasses al
| another, and bearing not regular mum.
bers but all sorts af artificial and flow.
cry titles. So that it is quite impos.
sible for the stranger, without mar
and the kindly policeman, and the al.
ways affable passerby, to find the 'Aca-
cia Villa or 'Beacohsfeld Terrace
where he wants to 60.
And the same zigzag and tortuous
inheritance Of time is exhibited in the
local government Of England No sans
man would ever dream of imposing such
q system upon new country"
And so on, though the functions Of
local, county and imperial government.
Mr.. Masterman explains without undue
seriousness why and wherefore. The
judicial and financial systems Of the
country are treated as the man in the
street would regard them.
There is graphic picture of the end
Of an all-night session of the House:
AT intervals nothing will be left in
the chamber itself but sheer lassitude
and boredom, while in the dining rooms
below members, in little groups, often
drawn from both parties, are eating
pleasant little late suppers or early
breakfasts Of melons and stewed kid
reys and grillsd bones; or, in breath
of fresh air on the terrace, engage in
friendly discussion Of the fight inside,
while the dawn flames up from the
Surrey side of the river"
Finally, after this amazing dissec-
ton, there is the conclusion drawn bv
The author, who has held many parlis-
mentary under-secretaryships, who was
hiied other government positions and
who has been Cabinet minister;
"The institutions of England work
Inat is their chief Justification. There
is no logical perfection about them.
ihere are thousand faults and anon
allies within them. Nothing /. more
easy than to poke fun at them. Yet
fney work. II is magnificent plati-
tude that government can only rest on
the consent of the governed"
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Originator Of Use Of Tar
On Roads Dies in England

LONDON, June T. Albert Hay
ward, whose death at his home in New
Romney, Kent, was recently an
nounced, was the originator OF the use
Of tar for road surfaces.
Ths idea occurred to him when
watching some boys who had built g
bonhre of tar barrels in the street, he
observed how the melted tar from the
barrels held the surface of the road
together.
At the time Mr.. Hayward was sur
yeyor in the borough Of New Ror2ney
and he applied to the local authorities
Tor permission to try the experiment
of surfacing with tar some 100 wards
OF the roadway. Automobiles were
then coming into use in England. ano
the new tar road so completely solved
the dust problem they had created that
the idea swept England at once.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
British Goveram msnt Is
Giving Away A;rplanes

| LONDON, June Would you like a
free airship? Any Englishman can
have one, taking his pick OF an entire
feet, including the famous R-53 and
two Zsppelns, all Of which are at pres
ent the property Of the Air Ministry.
The British government to-day made
| the remarkable announcement that its
entise supply Of airships would be
handed over to any subject, company
or trade corporation, the only stipula-
tions being that the company will be
controlled by British shareholders,
that the Air Ministry be represented on
the beard of directors and that the
craft be utilized for the development
Of airship transportation.
Some time ago the government stated
that it had decided to give up all air
ship activities. Now it has announced
that unless some one accepts the ships
they will be turned over to the Dis
posals Board. The offer includes the
R-so, R-33, R-36, R-37 ncomplete) and
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
King Gives Own Property
For Italian National Park

MILAN, June Italy now seems to
oe going to have its first national
park, the site chosen being in the
Gran Paradise Alpine district, in Val
Aosta, which is the kings property. The
Grand Paradise Mountains have for q
long time been considered the only
place where the Alpine fora and fauns
would be suitably protected from bota.
nsts' and hunters ravages. The great
mountains top 10000 feet and have the
biggest Italian glaciers, besides having
thick forests and rich pastures which
cover the mountain sides, much higher
than anywhere else. There are cas-
cades and lakes and peculiar mineral
riches and crystals; also some very
interesting and imposing geological
phenomena, like giant marmites.
Besides, the Gran Paradise is a
refuge for the last few stambecchi,
known by the geological name of capra
ibcx, who more than the common
channels are the most admired and
precious specimens Of the ancient AL
pine fauna. 1t was due to formc,
King Victor Emmanuel, who had fore
sight and love of nature, that those
splendid horned animals did not ulto-
gether disappear, considering that
other remaining specimens had disap-
reared from Styria and Switzerland as
far back as 1900. King Victor had
caused seventeen houses to be built for
his gamekeepers and guards; also
about 200 miles Of substantial and
well-kept mule paths.
The present King Victor, his nephew,
kept on guarding this precious inheri-
tance, but now purposes to present the
state with the property, covering 1900
hectares, to be distributed in Orcus,
Cogne, Alsavaranche and the Rhemes
valleys. The national park is inteded to
be much bigger one, covering $4,000
hectares, and it would include the
Pierre Blanche, Pointe Tersonet, Pic
Raffrer and other landmarks. 1t re-
mains to be seen whether this national
park scheme, which is Of international
interest for all lovers of nature, is 60
ing to be suspended owing to financial
difficulties.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Poet, Bombastic Politician,
Gets One Vote-That's His Own

MILAN, June T.-Solicitor Gsndola.
of Cremona, besides being a poet, 4.
also bombastic meddler in political
matters. Because of this it was ar.
ranged by party Of jokers to bring
him forward as n candidate for th.
polls. The electoral committee was du!y
constituted and Gandolfl's name was en-.
tered on the government lists.
The uulucky solicitor was forced
during the fortnight to do his own
Canvassing and to drive about from
village to village delivering speeches.
When election day came, no voting
papers having been distributed by the
committee for him, it was found tha.
the only vote he received was his own
His discontinue may be imagined,
but it is said that radical cure for
his political tendencies has been found.
A still more unfortunate candlda..
was a Communist in the same town
named Lodolini. After the Commun-
lists had officially announced their in
tention to carry him, the man dis.p-
peared. It was found that the Fascist
has seized him at night time and driven
him to Casalmaggiore, where he was
forced under the severest threats to
remain during election time. Once Lo-
dolini returned to Cremona to see HI:
wife, but the same night the Fascist
again entered the house and forced hin
to dress and drove him again to seelu'
sion and meditation over the rules fer
the Third Internationale.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19

h1H|A4NJ outle {.
NE Of the Naples candidate s
lists for the Italian elections
~ is UNIQUE. 1t has for q motto,
People and King" but is COM
monty called the Lottery List"
Italy is still favored with a standing
government lottery. Every week the
wheel spins in Rome (actually so) and
few thousand people feel blessed and
few hundred thousand the reverse.
1t used to fetch about forty million lire
profit to the government before the
war, but now in proportion to paper
money imitation it brings in lot more.
More pay-morc gambling. Gambling
is since many years legally prohibited
but the Rome wheel is allowed to spin
Neapolitans and Southerners generally
love it, and the governmnt must try to
please everybody.
Raverting to the Lottery List, it was
presented by 316 elctors and had to be
legally accepted. AS stated in it's pro-
gram, its seventeen candidates must
represent whole range of professional
capabilities, from boot cleaner to
scientist. However, the list is headed
by Michele Pettinate; he is both man
ager and editor of cabalistic lottery
journal called La Corona (The
Crown. The only alleged function Of
this paper is to scientifically deal with
lottery and the rules for a sure wiz,
This is perhaps where the scientific
man Of the list comes in. A study Of
dreams in connection with the astro-
nomical occurrences Of the moon phases
and comets vagaries and their his
trionic influences on the lottery, en-
hances the value of the paper, which
naturally has its readers and regular
subscribers.
Other recommended personalities Of
this wonderful list are Signor Giu-
seppe Cifarielo, president of the asso-
citation among the lottery employees
and lottery shop owners (under gov
ernment control and supervisory; a
well-known seller Of medicinal herbs
supposed to cure every conceivable ILL
ness; Signor Di Maio, an old, popular
dramatic emotive author, who at his
will commands tears, smiles or terror
at the San Ferdinando Theater; and
an important person supposed to act as
representative Of the sailors class, is
diver, whose business is to sink. Not
q good omen Especially in lottery
quarters), as he will probably end by
bringing the whole list under water.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
BY Ware B. Wells
DUBLIN. June I

4 sYNDICALIsT experiment is
~ the latest addition to the
amenities of life in the west
cf Ireland. The Sim Fein movement,
despite assertions made to the con-
trary, has nothing in common with
Belshevism, for which country where
twc OF every three inhabitants are
peasant proprietors is unfruitful soil.
But there is in Ireland 8 radical
labor element, which knows how to
take advantage of the disturbed state
Of the country. In the Connaught coal
fields, st Arigna, in County Leitrim,
failing TO obtain an adjustment Of
their differences with the company by
which they are employed, a body of
miners has seized control Of one Of
the pits, which they arc now working.
The seizure developed out of 8 pro-
posal by the company to reduce wages,
vkich the miners refused, whcreupon
the company closed down the mines
] he workers then held a meeting at
which they resolved to take control
of one OF the pits, elccting men from
among their number to manage and
direct their affairs. The coal lifted
by the miners is being sold for con-
sumption by all customers prepared to
deal with them. Most folk are willing
t. buy the fuel, as there is very little
coal in ireland anyhow. None is
coming from England, owing to the
strike, and American coal is only now
beginning 10 arrive.
The law now is taking hand in the
affair, the owners having begun pro-
ceedings in the High Court of Dublin
fer an injunction to restrain the min
crs from further using the pit and for
damages for loss and for the value Of
the coal taken. But the Kings writ
doesn't run easily in Connaught and
to get an injunction is another thing
from enforcing it.
Tho miners coup had an carrier
parallel in County Limerick, where the
employees seized the Knocklong and
othcr creameries until their demands
for better wages were satisfied. In
both cases the workers embarking
upon this form of industrial enter
prise are members of the Irish Trans
port and General Workers Union,
whose headquarters are Liberty Hall,
Under the shadow of the burned Dub
liz Custom House.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Attempted "Movie" Robbery
Ends in Jail for Actors

BERLIN, June 1.-Two young Ber-
lin artists, Max and Paul Arndt are
now rapenting, in Jail, the results OF
an cscapade suggested to them by 8
moving picture plot.
They were both out Of work, and
when visiting q cinema saw play IN
which a robbcr gained access to a
house by being carried in while secreted
in a trunk They elaborated on the
plan, and Max agreed 20 be shut in "
trunk, we'll stocked with food, which Paul
would send by express to the Spandau
station, ten miles away. En- route
Max planned TO emerge from the trunk,
loot the baggage car, drop off the NOV
ing train and later divide tht spot;
with Paul.
Max rot into the trunk and Pau
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Incense Burned
To Drive Awav
Church, Ghosts
London Clergyman Think.
Spirits Responsible for
Destruction of Wor., ~,
Looms in Priests Sanct,n,

BERLIN, yaas
@AN ghosts be driven or, :,
church by the burning Of !,
~ cense? A-
The Rev. John Bp,t.,,
curate Of Thaxted Church, at g,,;.
tree, is now attempting to accor,l;.,
This difficult task. The ghost p,obla..
has arisen since two hand loom, .,
weaving church vestments were !,
stalled in room above the n.v. :,
the church. This room was used b..
dreds of years ago by the priest. ~.
sat there to watch and guard 4.
candles burning on the altar. Siprs ..
installation of the looms, however me-.
ferrous sabotage has msrred sb.:.
work. Each night when the wan
filled and the threads are arran,.s
the loom is screwed tight and =.
upper room locked securely. E.,s
morning the workers find that dnri.u
the night the threads are dissrranr.S
and pulled out and the work has 10 \.
done over.
Miss Margery Cornthwaite, who i,
in charge of the work, believes in IL.
ghost theory. She says:
~ have come to the conclusion .h.,
the spirits of the old priests who far.
merly watched Thaxted Chnreb 49,.
this priests chamber do not like II.
weaving being carried on in their
former abode and they are haunting ii.
church"
The curate tried to drive the ghost,
out by burning incense in the room
but so far has been unsuccessful.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
By Harold E. Scarborough

LONOC4fs INUH So'
T%HE American who comes to Eng
land on pleasure bent this sum-
mer probably will be more in
terested in such practical de-
tail. as the confusing similarity be-
tween q half-crown and form, or the
hours during which the pubs" (sa-
!oons) are open, than in study of the
mechanism by which the British EN-
pire is managed. He may even 80 back
kcme with the conviction thatzit isn't
managed at all, but that it simply mud :
dies along somehow.
II, however. on his homeward Journey
he reflects that the muddling along
process apparently Is being accom-
p!ished with some degree Of efficiency
It would be we'll for him to read q slen-
der volume just published here, How
England Is Governed, by the Right
Hon. c. F. G. Masterman. And if the
american is not coming to England at
all he may enjoy the book even more
Its author knows his subject SO we'll
that he can afford to joke about it. and
so, instead Of the dry-as-dust COM
pendium which eventually is stuck be-
tween the encyclopedia and the Bible
IN the great Anglo Saxon household. be
has turned out that rarest of books. an
entertaining history.
THE government of England saws
ar. Masterman in effect, "isnft a eov.
efnment at all. 1t is a mess. And vet
we get along nicely with it, thank you!"
FOR instance, the author wsites, re-
1errlng to local government:
fhc map of an English town. COM
psFeo with that of new American
CITY, exhibits contrast almost between
drunkard's paradise and community
from the first 'Pussyfoot.' In the lat.
ter are the firm, straight, rectangular
streets, numbered regularly in order.
FIRST Street to 275th Street up and
down; and First Avenue to Eightieth
Avenue, side by side. In the other the
roads go mcrrily reellng around non
existent barriers, wriAing and curving
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Germans Dig In Hills to Find
Legend City Buried 1000 Years
Fairy Tale of Golden Mountains Attracts Thousands,
Who Work to Free People Hidden by En-.
chantment and Gain Wealth

by the ghosts of three of the in
habitants, who come to plead for re-
lease. The legend runs that the peo-
pie of the city were all bewitched by
the devil because they were too greedy
for gold, and can never be awakened
until this local devil has been driven
away.
According to reports, the inhabitants
of Muschaken have taken the story
seriously, and are now digging for
gold on the mountain sides. New pill
grims arrive daily from all parts Of
the vicinity to join in the search.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
BERLIN, June I,

%ROM the little town of Mu-
schaken in East Prussia, neal
the Polish border, comes a
story that rivals the widest
tales of the Red Fairy Book of child
hood days.
1t is said that thousands of Ger
mans of the district are making their
way to the so-called Golden Noun
tains, under which is supposed to lie
2,ooo-year-old buried city, hidden by
enchantment, inhabitants of which will
overwhelm with gold any one liberat-
ing them.
The legend, known for years among
the natives, has just been revived by
an ola man who says that since last
october he has been visited each night
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Candidates LOTTERY List Used
In Italian Elections at Naples
Names Include Every Occupation From Boot Cleaner
to Scientist, and Dame Fortune Se-
lccts From Them

the two Zeppelins, L-64 and LII, and
also all equipment, stores, spare parts
and other material on hand. The large
airship stations at Pulhsm and Carding-
ton could either be sold or leased to
any company taking over the ships.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
British Mint's Output .

Seven million coins are turned out
every week by the British Mint. One
weeks output of coins would if laid
out in single layer make gold, sill
Yer and copper carpet ten yards wide
New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
London Has Domestics' Club
In Heart Of Exclusive St. James's

In f1G6Ex or Exclusive SV. James
LONDON, June Five cents 8
week is the dues of the latest club to
open in st. James's, London's most ex-
elusive clubland and stronghold of
aristocracy.
In England, as in America, the ser
want problem is an important one,
and the new club will be the prop
erty Of the domestic servants of the
fashionable West End. 1t has been
opened by their, mistresses to provide
meeting place amid pleasant sur
roundings, where their cooks and
maids can rest during their leisure
hours.
There are books and flowers, com
Portable chairs and lounges, and a
piano for the use of members. Re-
freshments are served at moderate
prices, and the house rules OF the
club are reduced to a minimum. Mem
bership is rapidly increasing and the
official opening, which was presided &
over by q titled lady, was marked by
dance during which several of the
members participated in a specially
arranged musical program.