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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-10-23
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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-10-23

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-10
ELECTION RETURNS SHOW NO
 REPUBLICAN, MAJORITY

Although on the face of the returns the re- pubicans have in the House a numerical ma jority of 10 or 12 over democrats, socialist, farner-labor and independent, it is not a work ing majority. Many generally designated as republicans reactionary, such as those be- longing to the farm bloc, who have on many occasions voted against the party measures. Indeed, with the present lineup, it is extremely doubtful whether even the tariff could have been enacted. The former House majority, it is remembered, was 160, which is now practi- eally wiped out
 It Is probable that those republicans retain ing their seats have been duly impressed with the adverse popular verdict, and that henceforth they will walk wariy when questions involv- ing the public welfare are in discussion. Pub lie disapproval cannot be charged to any single act of the republican Congress so much as to the general policy of disregard for the public welfare and of undue tender soictude for selfish interests.
 What has contributed to dissatisfaction with the party in power? Is it not failure of the re- publcans to seize the opportunity to assume leadership in world affairs? To promote com mercial relations with foreign nations? To maintain a cordial interest in the problems and perplexities of foreign relations which the direct result of war in which we partcipated2 To lend support and encouragement to the League of Nations? Anyhow, that is the re- publican record. Never did a party fall more suddenly from the summit of tremendous vic tory at the polls to the depths of repudiatfon at the polls
 While the election results do not greatly alter the personnel of the pending special session, there is sound reason to believe that the next regular session will be able to accomplish more important legislation in three or four months than it's predecessor accomplished in two years. That will be because the democrats and the more independent republicans will control the House and exercise healthful influence upon the Senate. The republican numerical majority is fictitious majority, which the republicans may hug to their bosoms for whatever cold comfort is contained therein, but which will avail them not at all when the beneficent and constructive measures they rejected again come to the test of ballot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-10
IMPROVING OLD FIREPLAcEs

From the Providence Journal
 Throughout the country the open fireplace is certain to be an important factor in home life during the coming winter. Thousands of people will not start their furnace fires until compelled to do so by cold weather. Fireplaces which in previous years were used only in com paratively mild temperatures will be depended upon until the mercury falls below the freezing point, notwithstanding the fact that the open fire is less efficient than the stove or the steam boiler In a time of fuel shortage, however, the fireplace in which almost any kind of fuel can be burned offers possibilities of saving money. Realizing the importance of conserving coal the bureau of public roads of the United States De- partment of Agriculture has worked out plan of so remodelng the ordinary fireplace at mod is said to be greatly increased.
 A bulletin sent out by the department says:
 "The improved fireplace, according to the bureau, is designed that the cold air neces- sary to supply the draft is drawn from open- ing behind the fireplace and passes around the fire, separated from it by metal partition, be- fore it enters the room. In it's passage around the fire it is heated to a comfortable tempera- ture, and the cold draft on the back, common experience with the old type of fireplace, is avoided"
 Owners of homes with fireplaces may find it profitable to obtain Farmers Bulletin 1230, in which are detailed descriptions of the improve ment and instructions for installation This government pamphlet costs nothing, yet it con tains information that may easily save the reader a good deal of money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-10
SITUATION OF LOCAL INDUSTRIES ~ IS ENCOURAGING

Last year the inventory around the Christ mas holiday period was short one because in- dustry had been slack for many months, and there was little over which to hold an nven- tory. Blast furnaces and steel mills had been on a short turn for half year, followed by only partial recovery ni the last quarter. Max CTS of finished products had little raw ma terial on hand because they also had been op- erating in small way. This year the inven- tory period again bids fair to be short While there is considerable accumulation of material at steel mills and on furnace yards that ac- cumulation is due to slack transportation facil- ities and is gradually melting away. The maker of finished product is asking for delivery of delayed material. The demand from the railroads for cars and locomotives is creating huge order for the mills and furnaces to fill in 1923.
 Buying in many lines has been from hand to mouth. Industry has come nearer cash basis than ever before. Material. has been bought as required for production of finished product and the finished product has been manufac- tured according to orders in hand. The busi- ness of 1928 should proceed promptly and with little interruption.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-10
IVY FAVORITE STORIES
WHERE PROPER RELIEF LAY
Bv IRWIN s. COBB

Late in life, Messrs, Abrams and Shapinsky took up golf. Both were retired cloak and IS sult merchants of the type made famous Tn Mon tague Glass immortal stories. i,
 On glorious September afternoon they were , going the links of their 60 s9unfbry b0e cuo snd They were playing for stake or @l d hoie' anu the competition spirited, ,.., r..
 MT. Abrams drove into bunker. With his iron he made four intellectual swipes, raising inc sand in clouds Then he stopped down. picked up the half-buried ball and tossed It out on the fairway. ', .,.4.
 Mr Shapinsky stiffened with indignation.
 Look a here" he whooped. You couldn't do that. It's against the rules"
 q already have done it," said MT. Abrams calmly. 4, ,,o. ,, declared Mr. Shapnsky. q have been playing this game longer than you have and tell you !, It saws in the book where you should not touch the hail with vour hands at all. What am going to do if by such tricks as that you should win the match?"
 tCopyright 1922 by the McNaught Syndicate Incl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-10
They Motor to Church
GORKpS ODD VIEWS

From the Chicago Herald and Examiner.
 Maxim Gorki has written aAnew book which paints the Russian peasant as the Russian sees him.
 ''There is a diabolical sharpness about Rus sian cruelty" says the great Russian novelist, something exquisite and refined" Then he relates the experience of scientific expedi- ton in the Urals last year A peasant stopped it's members to say:
 s'You are scholars; tell me what to do A Bashkir killed my COW; l, of course, killed the Bashkir. But now I have stolen COW from the Bashkr's family. Will anything be done to mel"
 Gorki says that the man was asked whether he did not expect to be punished for killing the man, to which the peasant replied
 "Oh, that is nothing; men are now cheap.
 At another point Gorki quotes real Rus sian peasant discoursing follows about famine:
 Don't cry in Riazan about the poor har- vest at Pskoff. The evil is great. Many peo- pie are dying. Who are dying? The weak, the worn-out; all the better for those who remain alive. We don't notice that the war cleared much space, but now they say millions are dying out. We shall notice that. Think of 1t! Reckon five acres of land to each one who dies What lot of free land we shall have!'
 And so it runs from story to story.
 "On the whole,' says Gorki, "the well-fed and semi-fed peasants regard the famine with composure, just as of old they regarded the presidential visitations of nature"
 Gorki declares the Russian nation is a "com- munity of semi-savage people," 'The cruel form of the revolution" he says q explain by the exceptional brutality of the Russian people,"
 Gorki's own views are nevertheless "opti- mistic" as to the future of the Russians. He does not think they will be "a very gentle or kind people, but ''they will be an active peo- pie, suspicious and indifferent to everything for which they can have no direct need.' Therefore they will succeed.
 Somehow, an American can hardly grasp Gorkis argument. But then, Gorki is a soured man with opinions that are, as they have been, peculiarly his own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-10
The Conventional Pose

The French Astronomical society is indig- nant because new stamp issued for St. Chris topher and Nevis, two Leeward isles in the West Indies discovered by Columbus and now owned by Great Britain, show the distinguished navigator gazing through a spy glass Yho French savants are all upset because Columbus died more than a century before the tele- scope was invented It is private opinion that when he was looking for land in the west ern world Columbus stood on deck with his right foot thrust forward and shaded his eyes with the palm of his right hand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-10
NEWBORN TREASURE
From the Los Angeles Times.

From the Los Angeles Times.
 Senator Lodge at Boston dinner party said apropos of an autograph collector who had bought a fake autograph of Marlowe, the Elizabethan dramatist:
 "That reminds me. There was once a New York man who collected books with autograph dedications. Most of these dedications were to himself. Open his Longfellows, his Kiplings, his Bernard Shaws, or his Maupassant, and there would be his name in flattering auto graph dedication from Buddy or Guy, from Henry or George.
 Now, this mans friends had noticed, or thought they had noticed, certain similarity about the handwriting of all these dedications. Probably they were wrong, but, anyhow, after he had shown fine folio volume of Marlowe to festive gathering one evening, he found inscribed in the ancient book the next morn ing the following words:
 TITO Bill'-his name was William-.From his faithful aid friend and schoolmate, Kit Marlowe.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-10
Weariness
Weariness Can snore upon the flint, when restive sloth Finds the down pillow hard. -Cymbeline.
 x x MIR. PATTERSON AND AIDES
ARE CONGRATULATED

MT. A. c. Patterson, chairman of the state democratic campaign committee, in his state ment on election results, very modestly, yet properly, went out of his way to compliment by name, MT. J. c. Inzer of Gadsden, chair man of the campaign committee of the Seventh congressional district, for his good service in behalf of the ticket. Says MT. Patterson, creoit for the greatest majority for this district in cent history, "is due to MT. Inzer and his faith ful co-workers who counted not the hours while they were laboring for the success of the policies and principles of the democratic party" This is deserved praise, but the people of Alabama do not overlook the earnest efforts and success of Mir. Patterson as general chairman, nor for get that his choice of lieutenants speaks very favorably in his own behalf.
 As to those democrats who Aeft the party for brief period, MT. Patterson says: "The party is glad they have returned. It is good to feel that the state is again united. It is Alabama may claim their share of the credit which will come from the democratic admins tration of the state and counties during the next four years. Victory is due to the united efforts of the democrats throughout Alabama" Those who have returned evidently did not find what they went after, as their return tes- tifies. The party is all the stronger for this proof of its superior offerings. MT. Patterson and all the sub 1ehairmen are congratulated on the success with which they presented their case to the voters of the state
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-10
THE DOGS COME BACK

From the Philadelphia Pubnc Ledger.
 Stranded" Americans, to the number of 600, are to return from France presently under the auspices of the American Aid society. With them are coming their dogs, since their owners refuse to leave them behind, and assert that they rather would starve abroad than come home without their pets. The aid society has decided wisely that all dogs which are 'legiti- mate members" of American families will be classed as .'pennless Americans" and repatriat- ed with their owners.
 It will bring happiness to many an impov- erished refugee to know that "hs faithful dog shall bear him company" It did not need Sem ator Vests famous eulogy of canine devotion to prove that the affection for dog may have the strength and the tenacity of family attach ment. Natural as well as national history bris- ties with instances of what the dog has done to earn mans recognition of service to the race. Dogs had their valorous part in turning the tide of battle in the World war. If we do not now leave their masters to eke out precarious existence over there, we ought not to desert their comrades of the barracks and the trenches
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-10
A DICKENS TAVERN

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 To paraphrase Omar, one wonders what the razers will build one-half so profitable as the stuff they destroy in the George and Vulture tavern, St. Michaels alley, Cornhill, if an ap- peal to the city corporation by sentimental Lon doners fails to save that hostelry.
 The lease upon the George and Vulture, which possesses many associations with Charles Dickens, runs out in the near future. Accord ing to the London Times the site may be ac- quired for business purposes
 The original tavern was destroyed by fire in 174S. The present building is not old, by Eng fish standards, but the original George and Vul- ture antedated Dickens. The building now standing is the building that is of interest to the wide audience which Dickens still has and, apparently, long will have .=
 To make more Dickensian reservation of the tavern; to treat it as museum and invite sightseers in London to visit it would be, no doubt to rob it of it's interest, but with such a sign as that of the ancient George and Vul- ture, and in the building that Dickens knew, any tavern keeper alive to his opportunities for free advertising should be- able to find handsome profit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-10
UNDERGROUND

From the Louisville Herald.
 If vou could come back to earth 2,000 years from now, the chances are that you would 1ino every one living underground
 There is a new idea for you It comes rom Prof. A. M. Low, brilliant young inventor who had charge of British wireless control work during the war. impossible after you follow the way he reasons it out For instance:
 Our remote ancestors far back in the mists of time must have had the strength and en- durance of gorillas. Otherwise they would nave lost out in the eternal struggle for existence
 Steadily the human race grows weaker
 If we were suddenly thrust into the rough sort of life that our ancestors lived thousands of wears ago, we would die of cold and expos ure for our physical powers of resistance are infinitely weaker than were theirs.
 Says Low: sWe human beings are growing weaker every day. Our teeth are growing worse our eyes are failing, our limbs are more delicate We need p;arassols as to keep orr the
 ''Is it illogical, then, to suppose that in time to come we shall be unable to bear even the slightest hardships to which we are now sub jected? think not.
 "Our eyes will be too weak to stand the light of day And we shall burrow underground and only come to the surface with special precau- tions."
 It is almost pathetic to watch the extremes of toll to which men in sedentary occupations resort to keep their bodies functioning health ilv. Physical exercise is resorted to as an an tidote to counteract the weakness that inevit- ably is resulting from living unnatural lives.
 Riding in autos and street cars and elevators, if persisted in, will result in a race with weak, pipe-stem legs. And eventually by the laws of evolution, legs seldom used will practically shrieel up and vanish.
 Millions of men still toll on farms and in mills and factories. But twilight is descending CT that day, machinery taking the place of hu- nan labor
 What shape ~ill mans body eventually be defoTned iasp ux the unnatural life of little or sio physical activity? Quite easily he might de veiop into q zpder-like individual, largely head.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-10
GERMAN GOVERNMENT OFFERS
 PREPARATIONS PROPOSAL

The German government proposes exemp- ton from immediate payment of separations in gold and in kind and offers to proceed with the work of rehabilitation of devastated areas. It is explained, however, that the expense of re- mobilization is to be defrayed by, an interna- tional loan administered through an interna- tional bank yet to be established and to receive the cooperation of the Reichsbank. On the face of it the proposal appears formally cor rect, but whether it is practicable or not under German financial conditions is a different question.
 By deliberate Notation of paper marks bill lions of them, in excess of her gold reserve Germany has so debased her currency as to render remote the prospect of ever redeeming her paper money. Until there is some measure Of reform in German finances, it is hardly likely lint financiers or governments will be anxious M lend Germany money. It is believed by economists who have studied the situation that Germany in actual fact is in far better stua- ton than the price of the mark indicates. Her Industries are prospering. Her demand for <rnw materials is great; her consumption of American cotton, for example, being second to fkat of Great Britain and two-thrds as great. Hcr people are well fed and clothed Her per csrita taxation is less than that of any of the rnajor powers engaged in the World war. I. Iherefore, there isAa tendency to view her lnrosent financial dilemma as unnecessary and 1Snable of voluntary solution did German
 tesmen and economists but set their minds f4 ff France also has made it known that &6a prefers to accomplish her own rehabilfta- sffbn of waste territory and industry. asking o1ly of Germany the prompt payment of funds IF ths purpose. Nevertheless, the German S,S<oposal has been carefully worked out, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-10
THE FoUR-EYED TENDERFOoT
youth's Companion

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 When Roosevelt went to the bad lands in 1883, three years after he was graduated from Harvard, he found himself among men who spoke language of their own. At exciting moments, says Mir. Hermann Hagedron, in Roosevelt in the Bad Lands," the talk round the "chuck wagon was so thoroughly riddled with slang from all quarters of the earth that a stranger would have stared in bewilderment. The language of the "four-eyed tenderfoot," as the cowboys called Roosevelt, at first kept them at distance, but an amusing incident finally broke down their reserve.
 Some cows that had been rounded up with their calves made bolt out of the herd and Roosevelt tried to head them back; but they eluded him. Hasten forward quickly" he shouted to one of the men.
 At that there was roar of delight from the cowpunchers and instantly the phrase became part of the vocabulary of the bad lands. On that day and on many days thereafter when "Git a git on yuhl' grew monotonous and "Head off them cattle!' seemed overworked, you would hear cowpuncher shout, Hasten forward quickly there"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-10
ALLIES WILL NOT YIELD TO TURKISH DEMANDS -

The Turk is up to his old trick of playing off one European government against another. That has been the foreign policy of the Turks for centuries, and the fact that the temporal power of the sultanate was ended by the An gora national assembly has made no change in Turkish tactics. The allies are now paying the penalty of their vacillating program in the Near East. A little firmness before the Turks got out of hand would have prevented world of trouble and would have forestafled serious complications with the Turkish nationalists which are again casting the shadow of war on Europe. The Turks have defied the allies and ordered them to get out of Constantnople. To large extent they have ignored the armis- tice terms agreed upon at Mudania and made the success of the peace conference at Lausanne problematical, if it is not abandoned entirely. But always, when actual danger threatens, the allies succeed in putting aside their own selfish interests and acting as unit for the common good There are indications that they are once more uniting to handlesthe Turkish prob- lem They realize that the Turks, flushed with the recent victory over the Greeks, are a greater menace to Europe than they have been for centuries, and if allied differences give them an inch of leeway they will take the proverbial mile.
 There was a stern warning to Mustapha Renal Pasha in the announcement of Marquis Curzon, British secretary for foreign affairs, that Great Britain will not purchase peace with the Kemalists at the cost of Humiliation and dsgrace.' Great Britain doesn't propose to meet the arrogant demand of the nation alists that the allied troops be withdrawn from Constantinople. And in that she will be SUD- ported by the other allies, by force of necessity if for no other reason France made mis- take in her dealings with the Turks, and knows it.
 The solution of the Near East question lies in allied solidarity and can be accomplished in no other way. Great Britain, France and Italy can keep the Turk within bounds without firing a shot. Mustapha Renal Pasha isn't going to match his strength against the Euro pean powers if they stand together. The old story is being repeated. France and Great Britain wrangle until they suddenly discover that they must face common foe and then they put off their private quarrels until the crisis is passed
 It has been said many times, and it still holds true. that the peace of Europe is in the hands of Great Britain and France.