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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-07-17
GOVERNOR PREUS DEFEATED

The election of Magnus Johnson, Farmer-Labor cand
date to take the seat in the United States Senate made
by the death of Senator knue Nelson will not raise
the intellectual level of the greatest deberatve body in
the world Mr. Johnson not by training proven
y be ranked senator of great ability The election
W. La Toilette and to the extreme progressives through
cut the nation.
Mr. Johnson goes into the United States Senate with the
charges made that while director of the Equity Cooper
tive Exchange he sanctioned private pool which had the
effect of turning profits from farmers into the pockets OF
few not satisfactorily answered 1t is somewhat of
surprise to believe that great bloc of farmers would
important office to who failed to them
in the capacity in which he placed by them in the Equity
organization for if not conscious OF WrOngdOng he
least share the blame for the msmanagemen of the
Equity which put it into receivership.
That Governor Preus detected votes by the
sons death is unquestioned appeared that he to
resign the Governors chair to be appointed SENATOR but
later he called special election In this action he acted
the legal advice of the states attorney Hest
fancy of decision is usually dangerous to any in high office
But in calling election in the face of legal doubt which
may have made it unnecessary Governor Preus displayed
straightforwardness which deserves commentator. In
setting the election July &c. he lost thousand votes
because of the absence of adherents vacation and the
fact that the absent voters ballot not be used in special
elections.
this writing be large than the election cannot
be ascrbed to faconasm other defecons 1t only
testify to the strength of the La Toilette movement at this
tne whether it indicates merely protest the part
1o voters desire to try out plain Minnesota farmer in
the United States Senate firm conviction that Magnus
johnson represents the type of that Minnesota ought
to send to the United States Senate
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-07-17

lf'oane Want Ads Bring Rssulks.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-07-17

!. A collection of 5000 American
stamps, valued at $125,O0O, was re.
Gently exhibited in London. 1t be-
-longed to the United States. :.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-07-17
A Thought

Suffer little children to com. INTO
&c: and forbid them not; for Of such
9 the kingdom Of God.-Luke 1919.
mere Is feeling Of Eternity in
youtn which makes us amesd for
eyerythlng. To be young ik6tos be
g one OF the mmortals. -Haxlitt
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-01
From a Seat in the Gallery
By HERBERT COREY.

Washington, ID. c., Feb. Now
that William G. McAdoo is again loom
ing as possible candidate for the Dem
ocratic nomination for the presidency,
or is at least putting himself in a posi-
ton where he can start looming at the
drop Of the hat, one of the questions
asked here is:
what are his exact relations to
Woodrow Wilson,"
Son-in-law, Of acourse, and ardent
booster for the only true faith, equally
of course. But in his heart? And in
Mr.. Wilson's heart? Is he the favorite
or isn't he? And is he worshipper?
Or is he merely a canny man who does
not talk where talking does no good
One can hear almost anything in
Washington about the personal relations
of eminent men. 1t is, TO put it mild
ly, gossipy and chattering town. Thus,
it is suggested that Mr.. Wilson and
Mr.. McAdoo had a falling out, much
after the fashion that Mr.. Wilson and
Colonel House had a falling out. In
both cases il was the other man who
fell out. Mr.. Wilson stayed in. H. H.
Kohlsaats recently published reminis-
censes have indicated that McAdoo quar-
relied with Mr.. Wilson because the then
president attempted to clap censor
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-01

ship on the press after the war had
ended and during the peace conference
Il know that McAdoo represented
this action to him as a mistake" Mr..
Kohlsaat writes, in effect. "The next
day he resigned. l do not believe he
had the intention of resigning previous
~. He said he resigned because it was
necessary for him to make more money,
but it seems odd that ne should not
have been able to hold on for a few
more weeks
No one has ever thrown any rell
light on the McAdoo resignation, but
the impression prevails in some well
informed quarters that Mr.. Wilson
and Mr.. McAdoo do not like each
other cordially. The cynical view is
that this is being put out in order to
relieve McAdoo Of the "crown prince"
handicap that was laid. on him at San
Francisco. In any event the truth
will likely soon be known. McAdoo is
beyond question a candidate, no matter
what he may say for publica ton, and
Mr.. Wilson. without doubt, proposes to
play hand in Democratic affairs here
after.
incidentally, so does William Jen-
nings Bryan. And it will not be the
Wilson hand that he plays.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-01
Pointed Paragraphs

Present small boy with watch
and he'll have the time of his life.
Sometimes a meek and lowly girl be-
comes a strenuous wife.
Too often the supposedly dead past
is merely case of suspended animation
A poor man has to spend Money to
prove that he has il a rich man doesn't
Trying TO get into Heaven on the
strength of tombstone testimonial is
a risky business.
A girl thinks she isn't treated as she
should if the man she is engaged to re-
fuses to be jealous. ..
And the mining prospectus gets the
coin while the hard-luck story is
humping the bumps.
When man is looking for trouble
few of his friends are too busy to as
sist in the search.
There is one thing to be said in IA
vor of summer. We have warmer friends
then than we do in winter.
II man amounts to anything in q
small town he soon begins to think
that he would amount to more in a big
town.
There is nothing so tiresone as a
woman who is vain of her beauty
unless it is man who is vain OF
what he is pleased to call his brains.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-01

table are also real are deluded idealists.
The ant realist is not devoid of feel.
ing. He believes in feeling. He has,
however, no use for such feelings as
hobleness and faith, and romantic love,
and religion. But, take now a good
sharp bellyache-that is something that
he can understand. That is practical.
The ant wonders at the bee and Won
ders with contempt. Why flowers :
They are natures great mistake. If
nature wanted an apple, why didn't she
grow it right out of the tree? Why all
this interlude of blossom, and beauty,
and fragrance? Pishl Also tushi
And why sunsets and all that waste
of heavenly pigment? When he gets
through with the sun for the day, why
doesn't the Creator just blow it out?
And so far as men AID women are con-
cerncd, why romance? Bah! The sex
drive he can understand. 1t is ma
lures unpleasant way of continuing the
race. But why muss it all up with
poetry, and music, and moonlight?
Still, like to read Ed Howe. He
has certain pawky humor of brand
found nowhere else.
Copyright. 1928. by DR.. Frank Crane.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-01

gress, and that Congress has an equal
right to reject the results of such nego-
tiations without regard to the Presidents
wishes, when the President invokes his
legal rights in such situation as the one
under consideration he may easily lessen
his chances of gaining congressional ap-
proval Of his plans.
A situation similar in this respect
existed when the armistice agreement
ending the world war was signed. Presi-
dent Wilson had a perfect legal right
to negotiate a treaty. Whether he had
any legal warrant for going to Europe
for that purpose is another question.
The important point is that his serious
troubles dated from the time he began to
ignore the Senate-the body that would
have the final say-so.
Just why President Harding did not
take the Senate, or at least the Senate
foreign relations committee, into his con-
fidence when plans for funding Great
Britains debt to the United States were
being discussed, the layman cannot pre-
tend to know. But since he was secre-
tive concerning that important project,
after having voluntarily advocated CO.
operation between the executive and legis-
lative branches of the government, the
reported hostile attitude of senator's to-
ward the debt-funding proposal is not
difficult to understand Some people show
poor Judgment in exercising their legal
rights Has President Harding, after all.
made the same mistake that proved fatal
to President Wilson?
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-01
LAWFUL BUT INEXPEDIENT

Now the Senate is being "heard from"
concerning Stanley Baldwin's report on
his recent mission to the United States
and no wonder. 1t was to have been
expected, even if one could have over
looked the degrogatory differences in the
remarks OF the chancellor of the British
exchequer But those differences have not
been overlooked; they quicken the provo
cation afforded by the revelation that
executive officials of the United States
government laid a definite debt-funding
plan before the British emissaries with
out so much as a howdy-do to the Sem
ate.
Hardly had THE LIGHT retorted to Mr.
Baldwin's low appraisal of the American
peoples understanding of the international
debt situation, when members of the Sen
ate began to. express resentment of the
fact that the upper chamber of Congress
had been ignored. 1t was from London,
rather than from Washington, that the
Senate learned of what had been pro-
posed. Numerous senators, it seems. had
tried to get information from the Treas
ury Department, and from American
members of the debt-funding commission,
but to no avail; they were told that no
definite plan had been submitted. Then
came the report from London. giving The
terms proposed by the United States gov
eminent, which Great Britain could either
take or leave-and the Senate was not
pleased.
As a matter of constitutional preroga-
tivcs, the executive branch of Our gov
eminent has perfect right to make such
proposals-and the Senate, when the
time comes, has an equal right to say
"No." But didn't President Harding
start out by calling for harmony and co,
operation between the executive and legis-
lative branches of the government? And
hadn't the Wilson administration made
itself unpopular by going to. the othel
extreme in international affairs?
When people begin TO invoke theii
legal rights, the spirit of harmony anC
cooperation has already taken flight.
is probable that President Harding. il
the excitement of campaigning, gave al
erroneous impression of his intentions
when he spoke of co-ordinating the eXecu
tive and legislative departments. 1t Il
quite likely that members of the Senat,
have sought to take advantage of what
ever lack of officiousness Mr.. Harding
has displayed.
However, the situation is unfortunate
Although it is true that the President ha
a perfect legal right to negotiate witl
foreign countries without consulting Con
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-01

present-dav reports. OF course that is
not the fault of the newspapers; they
print "the news" whatever it may be.
When the activities of the world are dis
duieting. a newspaper cannot substitute
imagined happenings of pleasing char
acter for those of disturbing nature, and
still be newspaper.
So, If newspaper men never have been
particularly susceptible to the call of the
country, it would not be difficult TO
explain any degree of such susceptibility
which they may now display. They are
living, as it were, in a maelstrom OF con-
flicting ideas, and movements, and am
billions, and PHILOSOPHERS, and theories
and in none of them does the average
newspaper man have any personal inter-
est. He is interested only in disseminate
ing the news OF the day, whatever it may
be. Of course he gets some entertain
ment out of that which is new, even
though such developments may be de-
plorable from a humanitarian standpoint.
But the big issues OF the present have
become monotonous-besides being inner
emily unpleasant.
To the man who has to dish out, day
by day. what there is to report about
reparations, the Turks. the French, the
British, the Italians. the Russians. the Ku
Klux, the Texas Legislature, Congress,
movie stars being killed or getting di-
vorced, prohibition agents, burglaries, and
so on, life in the country might easily
seem to be "the life" indeed.
- -.
there always is when perfection is sought.
No sooner is the tired newspaper man in
stalled. on his little place in the coun-
try" than his worries begin. He has
to dip his cattle, If he has any; and he
worries over whether they will bring a
profitable price when they are ready for
the market. Where's that newspaper that
gives all the quotations? He finds it.
Turning through the pages, he secs
where" Farmer Jones, his nearest neigh
Dor save one, was arrested for having two
quarts of homemade wine. Then he
rims into an item concerning the effect
the tariff law is having on the agricultural
industry as a wholc-the European de-
mand is decreasing. Reading further, he
discovers that the lawmakers have re-
fused to give his part of the state ade-
quate representation, and that his coun-
tvs hope of getting greatly needed school
facilities has gone glimmering. He reads
on and on, and is finally forced, by the
process of elimination, to the conclusion
that the farmer is not so independent as
he had thought, and that the quietude
Of rural life is more physical, so to speak,
than mental. Ultimately he may have to
return to his old environment, with its
monotony of disturbing news reports to
avoid nervous breakdown. And then
to the annals of man is added this item
another unsuccessful farmer"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-01
THE sTIRRUP CUP.

Ny short and happy day is done;
The long and olnely night comes on.
And at my door the pale horse stands
To carry me TO distant lands.
His whinny shrill. his paving hoof,
Sound dreadful as a gathering storm;
And | must leave this sheltering roof
And joys of life so soft ana warm.
Tender and warm are the joys Of life
Good friends the faithful and the true
Ny rosy children and my wife.
So sweet to kiss, so fair to view.
So sweet to kiss. so fair to view
The night comes on, the lights burn blue:
And at my door the pale horse stands
To bear me forth to unknwn lands.
John Hay.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-01
Ants and Bees
By DIR. Frank Crane.

f. W. Howe, Americas greatest
cOrnfed philosopher, stepped aside the
other day to hand me one.
The objection to many good things
is not that they should not be done, but
cannot" he says in his Monthly, a
periodical entirely composed by him.
self. DIR. Frank Crane-an amiable
gentleman, ] have long been convinced,
says: i will not think of failure, of
sorrow. of disease. any kind of
wretchedness except as can bring
beauty and joy out of these things. ]
will pit my Imagination against an I'M
toward world and believe forever that
| am unconquerable even in death.
"All very nice, except that the good
doctor can do nothing of the kind. Sur
rounded with sorrow. disease, wretched-
ness, failure, no man can avoid think
ing of these things, or believe he is
unconquerable even in death, except
when he is drunk or insane"
am faithful reader of Ed Howe's
writings. That is why | am an optiul.
ist. for the best way to become an OPP
timist is to read the pessimists' just as
some one defined a pessimist as some
one who has TO live with an optimist.
One of the Interesting plays of this
season was called The Insect Comedy
in which men and women were satiriLed
by representing them MS insects. Some
were butterflies. some were erickets
some were tumble-bugs and some were
ants.
Ed Howe is the ant philosopher. His
feet are always on the ground. Ants
have not much use for bees. Occasion.
ally. they cock their eye at the flying in.
sects and sniff.
Why all the buzzing?
Ants and bees are both thrifty. Only
one makes little white things called ant
bread and the other makes honey. Ant
bread is useful only for other ants
Honey is good for everybody.
The ant is busy very busy. He is al
ways actively engaged and always in a
hurry. But no one ever found out where
the ant was going. The bee, on the
contrary, when he goes home, goes
straight, so straight that his path is
called "bce line" Also he brings home
the bacon, or rather the honey.
The ant is a realist. He lives in the
dirt which is solid. tangible and use
full The bee treads the empty air. The
rCalist among mortsls is the literary
gentleman who insists that the only
truth about a house is to be found in
the garbage can and the kitchen sink
Those who insist that the music or
the piano and the flowers on the parlol
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-01
IN QUEST OF QUIETUDE

Among the questions that puzzle the
minds of people who have nothing more
important to think about-and everybody
has moments of mental dawdling-there
is one which newspaper commentators sell
dom discuss. 1t pertains to a tendency
or an alleged tendency-of their pro-
fession. 1t has become proverbial that
newspaper men yearn for "a little place
in the country place to which they
can some day retire with a this-is-the-life
attitude toward all the world.
To say that a thing is proverbial is not
necessarily to say that it is true. Thus
the newspaper men who move to the
country and then back to the city may be
saved from embarrassment; after finding
that they are unable to stand the deafen-
ing silence of their rural environment
they may say that they never really gave
in to the urge that is said to strike, sooner
or later, all members of their profession
But even if heretofore there was moth.
ing to" the popular idea that all news,
paper men yearn for the quietude of the
country, a glance at the daily papers
would make that notion plausible now
For never before in the worlds history
perhaps, has there been such a monotony
Of unpleasant news as that which marks
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-01
THE AMENDMENT FLOOD

THE LIGHT has on numerous occasions
pointed out that the propensity TO aniehu
the constitution of the United States was
deyeIonino into chronic disease 1t has
become a fixed habit on the part OF GER
tain element of our people to ask on every
occasion that the constitution be amenuea
for purposes that should, by every line OF
reason, logic and common sense be made
the subject of statute.
The length to which the abnormal de-
sire 10 alter Our constitution has gone
NAV be appreciated when it is stated that
at the present time there are pending be-
fore Congress Just seventy-one proposed
amendments to the constitution OF the
United States and of the number Congress
is actually considering twenty-three. In
addition to these, there is also one SUD-
mitted bv Senator Wadsworth of New
York which would amend the constitution
in such a way as make future amend
ments more difficult.
The Wadsworth amendment has one
great virtue. 1t would Sc. alter the present
system of making amendments that no
legislature that had not been chosen at
an election where the proposed amend
ment was a factor should be allowed to
vote on the amendment. This is wise
precaution not only in that it would re-
duce the speed of making amendments,
but would give the people an opportunity
to have something to say regarding the
enactment of amendments.
$ In the enactment of the eighteenth and
voice whatever. They were voted by
legislatures not one member OF which had
been chosen at an election where the pro-
posed amendments were even discussed
The votes on the two amendments there
fore represented the opinions OF the mem-
bers of the legislature only. They did not
represent the wishes of the pcopl who had
never been given an opportunity to vote
on the amendment at all.
1t is a strange fad which the American
people have taken up-that OF altering
their constitution. From 1914 to 1865 not
a single amendment was proposed or
adopted. In consequence Of the civil war,
the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments came into being. Not until
1913 was there another change. Then
within ten years we adopted four amend
ments and now we are threatened with
seventy one that we know Of and probably
nanv more that have not been announced.
The enactment of the eighteenth and
nineteenth amendments has aroused so
much resentment against alterations in
the constitution without giving the people
an opportunity to express their desires
and opinions, that there is small prospect
that many of the seventy-one will ever
worry anybody except their sponsors.
Possibly we have reached the peak Of the
amend ,nent flood and the waters will now
recede. 1t is ardently to be hoped that
such IS the case.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-01
RUSsIA'S GENEROUS" OFFER

Who would have thought that the Rus
sian Bolsheviki, after gaining a world
wide reputation as cut-throats, would
suddenly blossom forth as humanitarians?
They haven't, really; but stranger to
their ways might think so upon reading
their proposal TO give homes to the
homeless Armenians-come one, come
all. A quarter of million is the num-
Der of the needy; small matter-the
Soviet authorities are nothing if not
generous.
So? Not quite. 1t is literally true
that the Russian government has offered
to take in that large number of human
derelicts, and it is probable that the
transaction would benefit them, at least
temporarily. But that the proposition
was conceived in a spirit of pure altru-
ism cannot be at all plausible in the light
OF the dilemma into which Russia has
been led by the opponents of communism.
What the Soviet authorities are trying
to do is bolster up their crumbling
economic structure.
In the first place the presentation Of
homes in Russia to 100000 Armenians
would put the Soviet government to no
monetary expense. The offer is made
contingent upon the transporting, feeding.
clothing and financing of the Armenians
by some other nation-any nation at
all that might be charitable enough to
execute the project. Russia would sup
ply only the land; it would not be
decided to the Armenians, as the conlmun-
lists do not believe in private ownership
of real property. A scheme OF land ten
TIRE would be worked out, so that the
Armenians would have the use of the
land without having title thereto.
Isn't it plain that the Bolsheviki had
their own welfare in mind rather than
that of the poor, homeless Armenians
who had been set adrift by the terrible
Turk? If not, then consider what has
taken place in Russia since the coming
of the communists. The productivity of
the country has fallen off immeasurably
and much of what is actually produced
is concealed to prevent its seizure by
the Soviet authorities. The Armenians,
reputed to be extremely thrifty, and sue
cessful in agricultural pursuits as we'll
would be expected to replenish the de-
pleted Golfers of the Soviet government
So, there you are-another thinly
yelled confession of the failure of COM
munism in Russia. The Russian people
themselves, bereft of the fruits Of their
own labor so that the Soviet government
could live, have produced less and less
wealth for the satisfying OF vital wants
The Soviet authorities dare not press
the Russian peasants too hard lest the
latter cease to be source of any revenue
whatever. The Armenians are invited tc
come to Russia" ostensibly for theil
own welfare primarily; but while such 4
move might benefit them at least temper.
arily, one cannot shut his eyes to the
apparent fact that the invitation was de
signed by the Soviet schemers as a meas
ure of self-preservation.
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data and the upper floor for biz
prints. The outside was nice
painted, and the millionaire. havir
appeared on the scene, the build
waited for congratulations. None b
ing forthcoming, he asked: eve
what do you think of it?"
I'm accept it." said the millionai
without enthusiasm, "but it Isl
what l expected for 100000"
The approach of Christmas broug
the usual problem to man. VIII,
should he give his wife? She hi