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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-12-12
FARGO'S RATE CASE

the last rev years. several Dig rate
heard in the country recognition of the justice of
the contention of many of the smaller cities of the country
that freight structures should not be built solely for the
maintenance of large ceners of trade For example several
cities Indiana few fought for REIMBURSEMENT
of the western commodity classification because they
tended the structure built to give Chicago undue
advantage in distributing products throughout the territory
state Commerce Commission is that Chicago and Twin City
obbers and manufacturers should not have advantage
Fargo in the matter of freight rates. that the rate
structures such that the growth of Fargo is
restricted while that of the Twin Cities develops.
Many of the largest cities of the nation large because
freight rate advantages have made them The railroads
have justified the practice Of raemakng by nnumerabe
reasons, among them that the creation of large center
tends to decrease the cost of operation which in ought
to produce lower freight rates However, within the last
few growth OF urban population has been viewed with
alarm by many the leading economists of the nation; they
American institutions in the crowdng of
millions cities which in time become peoped with major
ty of foreign-born residents
So the tendency to the unfair advantage
given certain larger centers the smaller and the report
Of the examiner of the Interstate Commerce Commission
favorng FargoS contentious her rate reaffrma
ton of this principle is hoped that Fargo wins eventually
The has to be fought out before the Interstate Com
merce Commission a whole.
Bismarck business ought to keep in touch with the
situation representative Fargo business declared
that Fargo ought to be the commercial metropolis of North
Dakota the Twin Cities dominate Minnesota. readust-
ment of Fargos asked might give that city
advantage Bismarck. While Bismarck is with Fargo
her fight to undue advantage held by the Twin
Cities must be remembered that that advantage is
held by the Twin Cities Bismarck and that complete
victory in the Fargo rate might give Fargo undue
advantage Bismarck, which would be vicious
the situation against which Fargo now complains.
1t is situation to which local jobbers and merchants
should be most alert.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-12-12
A Thought

He, thst being often reproved
hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly
be destroyed, and that without rem
edy-Prov., z9:1. ..4
A stubborn mind conduces as little
to wisdom or aven to, knowledge as
a stubborn temper to happiness
Southey.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-12-12
ITALIAN ON WAR DERT

Schanzer former Italian foreign minister declares
that Italy needn't have any pangs of conscience if she doesn't
her financial debt to America Carlo considers the
books balanced dollars side Italian casualties
the other
BY another year two, Europe probably will be claim
ing that the World War fought primarily between Ger
and America and that the allies should get bonus
for helping
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-12-12
FARM MEDALS

France has offered medal to every family able to prove
that had fmed the land generation after generation
continuously for three centuries So far $50 fam
lilies have forward and claimed medals Fargue
family has been farming the patch of ground
year 772.
Amazing especially to wandering nation Americans
Our national spirit is much develop
ed than community spirit.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-12-12
SHOCKS POLICE

N New Haven policemen nearly had heart failure when
Jacob Abraham, banana pedder, walked with $40 bill
which customer had given him by mistake and asked the
police to help him find the owner.
How many of big problems, little ones also, would
disappear If all of us honest Jacob Abraham
What this country needs than anything ese is
mon honesty
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-12-12
ONE KIND OF PROSPERITY

~ New York newspaper prints this item its financial
page: 1.-THE first shipment Of the new crop of Florida
Strawberries 80 quarts arrived in New York yesterday and
sold promptly at $3.50 quart"
tn o s oa o.
consumers. When $3.50 quart be paid for berries
there certainly IS prosperity in this counryfor somebody
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-12-12

alternate the White Dragons and
Extra Tiles in play, so that all will
show equal wear and If substitution
becomes necessary, the new tile will
not then be discernible from the re
verse side.
Other Pieces.
Also with each set comes the Ming
box, containing table markers. These
are placed before the players to
designate the Wind Of each.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-12-12
MANDAN NEWS

Billy Junior, S-year-old son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Ordway re
ceived an ice bath Sunday when he
went through the ice on the lagsOn
while skating on Thin ice beneath
the highway bridge. He was res
cued by couple of youngsters
forming human chain over the
thin ice.
John Joyce, of ST. Paul, former
resident of Mandan. visited with
his old friends yesterday. For the
past II years he has been connect
ed with the police department OF
that city, but has been retired on
q pension.
President j. H. Newton of the
Mandan Commercial club. appoint
Ell q civic survey committee Mon
day evening at the meeting of the
borad of directors of that organ
iZation.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-12-12
Churninv Championahip..

London-English dairymaids can
beat the world in the art Of churn-
ing milk, II is claimed here They
have been proving IL every day at
the dairy show. III aSriealtural hall,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-12-12

Even obstinate, unruly or sham
pooed hair stays combed all day rim
any style You like. Hair Groom"
is q dignified combing cream which
gives that natural gloss and we'll
groomed effect to your hair-that
final touch to good dress both in bus
mess and on social occasions. "Hair-
Groom" is greaseless; also helps
grow thick, heavy, lustrous hair. Be
ware Of greasy. harmful limitations.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-12-12
Don't NEGLECT a Cold

Mothers, don't let colds get under
way; at the first cough or saifiie rub
Musterole on the throat and chest.
Musterole is a pure, white ointment.
made with oil Of mustard. It draws
out congestion, relieves soreness, does
an the work of the good old-fashioned
mustard plaster in gentler way. with
out the blister.
Keep q jar handy for Ill emergencies:
itmay prevent pneumonia in your home.
To Mothers: Musterola 10 now
made in milder form. for
babies and ANAL children.
ALI for Children = Musterole.
49, a - u q. q. q
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-12-12

where all previous attendance records
have been broken.
Evening star., 1923-08-19

The only aquatic band in the world These musicians
practicing music in the and were on hand in
the middle of New York harbo greet the Levathan
last week when she arrived with Paul Whiteman great
exponent of jazz. board.
Evening star., 1923-02-25

these twenty-five years back, rush
to the memory, with more of dignity
for what they represent than the low
scene might seem to warrant.
Such references" the Bonapartist
affirmed, have thrown magistrates
and politicians into panic which they
were ashamed Of When folks take
pride in believing nothing they are
ready for rank superstition. Now,
again. they're troubled. down TO least
electoral committees. Don't you see
the prophecy has been fulfilled to the
third hat?"
President Loubet's was the flrst A
baron smashed II at the Auteuil race
track. President Falliberes' was the
second-near the Arc de Triomphe, on
his morning walk. A 3ourneyman
barber knocked 1t off to make a So
cialist demonstration. The third high
hat was BRAND s-knocked OF when
prime minister by a kings hawker at
the unveiling of the Ferry statue.
BRAND Is a somber genius" con-
cluded my Bonapartist. fearing. per-
haps. the communistic devils let loose
in his young days; but he is a de-
voted republican. He refused to
play monk or Talleyrand to Philippe
or Orleans at Neuilly.
(WHICH brings US TO the royalists
w again. Three years before the
war their plot was getting ripe. On
Christmas eve, 1910, a sudden rumor
that the royalist pretender had ar
Evening star., 1923-02-25

lievable; of which the republic had
was material of veritabIe panic in
1911: which bobs up again in these
days. CDoes not President Millerand
wear only a gray high hat for every
daytime function?) 1t is a mere say
ing-a low-brow republican predic-
ton, a wound received in the house
Of their friends. 1t is humble. It is
the inspired threat of a poor. be-
draggled old woman.
1t Is the prophecy Of the fourth
high hat,
THE prediction is equivocal be-
i cause II says crown" simply,
which may be imperial or royal.
A Bonapartist told me its details
again the other day. think that he
believes it-that is, he believes it has
its power.
1T happened one of those days
when Paris goes wild" he said.
president Loubet, after his election
at Versailles was hissed through the
streets of Paris, and the public
power seemed to be at the mercy of
any one daring enough to take it-as
Mussolini discovered in Italy of late.
The police laughed, expecting a
revolution" he continued. THE very
troops, lined up for miles. were will
ing, gay. expectant. Alas. we were
not organized
Now see, When President Lou
bets gala carriage was before the
Madeleine a wave of the mob stopped
Evening star., 1923-02-25
BY STERLING HEILIG.

PARIS, February 13,
7 T is f1fty-three years since France
had monarch-Emperor Ma
poleon III. No Frenchman under,
Il say, sixty-nine years Of age has
any idea from experience what 1t is
to live under a monarch. And 1t is
seventy-flve years since France had
any kind Of a king other than a
Napoleonic emperor.
The other day, an anarchist young
woman shot and killed the organizer
OF party of young Frenchmen who
call themselves "Camelots du Ror'
(the Kings Hawkers. or Newsboys).
She went cunning for Leon Daudet.
who Is member of parliament, and
for Charles Maurras, a great writer,
who has a strong following Of read
ers. By their backing OF it-these
two, Daudet and Maurras, In particu-
lar, but there are heavier men behind
them, not to mention the economist
Georges Valois-they have popular
lied the royalist daily paper,
"IAction Franchise which is the
organ of these kings mon.
To avenge their murdered chief, the
smashed furniture, linotype and other
printing machinery In the offices of
"EOeuvre," lie Populaire," LIRE
Nouvelle" and "rHumanite,' all So
cialist or communist daily papers and
considered by their daily attacks on
the royalists, to have instigated the
killing of Marius Plateau.
The funeral of Plateau, Sunday last,
was a grandoise affair, with heavy
Eolice barrages and participation of in
fantry and republican guard. All
passed with solemn dignity-perhaps
thanks to these measures. It was a
church funeral, of noble ordering. All
this. you understand, for the organ
izer Of "the kings hawkers"
IL - truly, ever saw king of France.
Leon Daudet and Charles Maurras
can not remember the last emperor.
Who is their king? If they have none,
what do they mean-what does the
party mean, in parliament, in press
and in the street? Is there a section
of the French people that would like
20 see the republic, because it Is slow
going and weak (for 1t has been such.
despite the effort Of the Ruhr) change
into a strong one-man government,
with king?
Mussolini, comes the answer.
breathed on many sides. in reverte
and speculation. But Mussolni found
a king all ready to his hand. upon the
throne. in Italy-and kept him! What
about France" Where is the French
king material?
Yes. last summer. already. foremost
republican newspapers. with consid-
cradle fracas. called attention of the
parties to the occult penetration Of
royalist influences in professional and
inter-professional groups
Equally. it is common knowledge
that the election committees. down to
small-town organizations. have been
stirring up (for the nationwide cleo
tions of 1920 the "royalist danger"
as a first-class issue. Some say, truly,
scarecrow, to shoe in heavy voting.
Some say plain precaution.
Now, add this-that Julian Romier,
Evening star., 1923-02-25

gates OF all the industries of the dc
partment Of the Seine rally unanL
mously to him" And (topsy- -turvS
he, the royalist economist, received
official thanks of the republics min
istry of finances.
And there you are.
The "Action Francaise." royalist or
gan without, a royal candidate Mt !"
put up, with its kings hawkers beat
ing up socialist newspaper offices on
general principles, has welded to-
eether and headed up" a number OF
the great trade interests of all
France-particularly manufacturers
For their own trade welfare, yes, OF
course, yes, yes.
But, also, for the first time (as think
ing men in Europe are saying) France
is now faced-in the affairs of public
power as we'll as others-by united
book trade. wine trade, transportation
business, milling industry. ETC.. sin
functions of hierarchy''-thati is to say.
each all together, for its interests from
the big boss to the least paid new hand)
and Expressing bunch OF wishes very
different from those arrived at. ordinar-
1ly, In the anonymous lnuItltuue oi
voters at elections"
Against the amalgamation Of citizens
here is an organic construction. Here.
in French politics cit may we'll be) is
something in analogy to the states gen
eral reborn. Once, again. bobs up the
ancient opposition Of "the vote by poll
and the vote by order" i.e., by estate
or common interest,
And. already (Which is going fasD
see Leon Daudet, at a monster meeting
in the Sale Wagram. demand a convo-
ca ton Of the states general-which have
not met. in France, since 1889!
Reviews like 'TOpinion" make their
inquiry:
do French manufacturers want
king?'
Hum, hum They don't want Phil
lipe.
Hum, hum! They don't want Prince
victor's little daughter.
But that story of the fourth high hat"
II French Mussolini should appear
and prove ability to wear the old crown
Of the royalists or cooked hat Of Ma
poleon, how would French manufac-
turers decide?
Now, that's the quesason-
Evening star., 1923-02-25

You may not believe it," says
Preston, but they were glaring at
US and-and they had turned red
"Oh. come" protested G. Hanson.
II give you my solemen word" says
Preston. Red as blood-an angry
red, as though the old squire was furt-
GUS. Well, we didn't know what to
make Of it. at first, but Totten took
the portrait to q man who was an
expert on the W ork OF that particular
artist, and found that 1t was a fake.
After that-well, We submitted every
thing to the squire. If painting is
genuine, he looks at it as you see him
now; il it isn't, the red shows in his
eyes"
But how could it,, Preston de-
rnanded Mr.. Parks. Nothing but paint
and canvas. you know"
"I can't tell how, but it does" says
Preston.
"Show u.s." says G. Hanson.
That's a funny thing, too" says
Preston, "but the squire will only
work when Totten asks him. He's
a psychic, Totten is; used to be me-
dur. Oh, you may laugh, Parks. but
I'VE seen those eyes turn red dozen
times And the squire is always
right
Which was where I collected this
bunch of mine. I proceeded to test it
out at once.
And I suppose. Mr.. Bates" said I,
that you had Mr.. Totten ask the
squire about your holdings in the
Parks enterprises?"
'Why, ye-e-es." says Preston. I'VE
-er-he showed him some Of the Sc
curitfes."
And the squire's eyes turned red
at sight Of them?" went on.
Preston nodded, without looking at
either Of US.
weird, eh@ says I. Must be q re-
markable man, this Totten. He's In
town now, is hep
"Oh, yes" says Preston. HE doesn't
sail until next Wednesday"
Going over to buy lot Of old mas
ters, suppose?" added.
Preston admitted that he was.
What u fascinating business" says
Evening star., 1923-02-25

with the whole weight of La Journee
Industrielle, most important daily
technical trade paper published in
French "a man outside Of politics, OF
highest business standing), has been
making an inquiry (and a 3,oooword
editoriaD on the capital topic. do
French manufacturers want a king"
LOpinion, weekly illustrated re-
view, of Paris, opened its columns
to this inquiry as something not of
sterile speculation.
All Of which leads up to and molds
itself most curiously with that thing
which on it's face looks silly, unbe-
Evening star., 1923-02-25
Sinful Extravaganza.

A young Scotchman bought his
mother barometer as a present, and
explained how she could tell II 1t was
going to be wet or fine by inspecting
the position OF the hands.
"Ay," said his mother, tits a fine
thing; but we've been wasting your
money, laddie. What do you think
Providence gave your father the
rheumatics for?"
Evening star., 1923-02-25

I. We'll, Mr.. Parks, hadn't we better
be going -
And on the way home in a taxi I
campaign.
Couldn't you get some one into that
house while Preston Bates was at the
club" 1 asked. "Some one who could
paw around that portrait of the
squire on some excuse or other"
Simple" says q. Hanson. I'll send
an electrician to look at the wiring"
And this Totten should be investi-
gated" said I. He may have a rec
ord"
"Tll attend to that, too" says he.
* y x X
WELL, a man who knows all about
w his Office staff and even keeps
tabs on his directors and vice presi-
dents has ways and means Of doing
such things. I heard no more from G..
Hanson for three days. and then I was
called down to his Broad street offices.
You were right, Trilby May" says
he. II have the whole history of this
fellow Totten. cabled from Scotland
Yard. He's an English confidence
man, who has worked his art fake at
home until things got too hot for him.
He has nfcked our friend Bates for
nearly twenty thousand with antique
portraits done in Greenwich Village.
But he's through. He's in the Tombs,
waiting to face a grand jury"
And the red in the squire's eyes!"
I asked.
"A pair OF ruby bulbs wired behind
the canvas where spots had been
sandpapered thin." he explains. 'Tot-
ten had . door plate hidden under the
library table. A clever crook. but not
quite equal to fooling Trilby May
Dodge, chr
''Oh, Mr.. Parks!' says I. Now
you've got mo blushing through my
makeup. And I was sure I'd f1ivver
on the case, all along. That Is, until
I had that sudden hunch."
"And T." says G. Hanson, slipping
across the desk a four-figure check,
was certain the hunch would come.
Preston Bates is again our second
vice president"
Copyright. 1923. by seweli Ford.)
Evening star., 1923-02-25

it. A poor old woman of the people
pushed her way through the police
lines, put her foot upon the carriage
step and emptied her apronful Of
street sweepings into President Lou
bets lap, Not a person stirred and
she was not arrested. Then she
prophesied:
when falls the fourth high hat,
she cried, behold a crown"
And there you are. 1 myself was in
that crowd, although 1 did not see the
incident; but, having been in Paris
continuously since, a mass Of car
toons and illusions to high silk hats,
Evening star., 1923-02-25

rived in Neuilly suburb with his
crown in trunk spread like wildflre.
The police were surprised. Mansions
Of aristocrats were watched. And
troops moved through the streets.
The magistrates summoned Comte
de Lur-Caluces. since recently de-
ceased.
II am ready for your questions"
he said, with flourish Of his-high
silk hat. Chilled by the view. they
called another great name OF the
French nobility. I shall not name
him-he had two sons killed in the
war.
"Messieurs" he said. ~ give my
knightly word" while tactfully placing
on the floor, out of their sight, his high
silk hat,
Their questions grew distracted.
There were filters in the public.
Each of the three magistrates was
peering, rubbering, to glimpse the
high silk hat! Such was the story's
power (when mixed with dread of
ridicule) that Andre Buffet and Ber-
nard de Vesins. both in high silk hats,
got Off with a perfunctory question
each.
Conservative papers jeered at the
republics terrors. The government
has admitted fear" said the Figaro.
at propagates the idea that the roy
alist pretender could be within its
wallsw The Petit Marseillais quoted
a high official as saying:
Paris had feeling during two
nights that sensational events were
preparing. The prefect of police
stayed up forty-eisht hours, until it
had become certain that Philippe OF
Orleans had not penetrated Paris"
He penetrated, as a fact, to Neuilly
suburb, where great meeting Of
royalist leaders decided, in principle,
the employment of the $14,o0o.o00
campaign fund, which they are be-
lieved still to possess today.
"But others had a campaign fund
of $4,000, ,ooo," says my Bonapartist
informant. He refers to the then
recent marriage OF Prince Victor Ma
poIeon to Princess Clementine. heiress
Of the old king OF the Belsians.
Perhaps, therefore, the war saved
the republic two years later. In
those days the campaign funds were
live bombs which might explode. To-
day they are duds-both royalists and
Bonapartists lack man! Tho war
proved this lack. And what is money
without the man?
- ~ Il.
Evening star., 1923-02-25

CEORGES VALOIS tof faction
" Francaise and the kings hawk
ers," "acqaired his first authority
among French manufacturers. not BY
what he said. but by what he did
when he united them for their com
mon benefit
Thence, Valois went among the Other
lines. The week OF foreign commerce
was followed by the week OF transpor
ton the week Of French wines" the
week Of money" etc. The week of
money" in particular. cinched his au
thority among French manufacturers
in general. Long. he had preached
campaign against monetary imitation
any approach to printing bank
notes without due gold in vaults or
discounted banks commercial dis
counts to back them. 'Ne had the
JOY" says Momier, ito see the dele
Evening star., 1923-02-25

WET remains the scarecrow of a
i king or monarch. Yet remain
the activities Of the king'e men, never
greater, and the rumor Of the high
silk hat, which weighs on the repub-
lie!
Evening star., 1923-02-25
French People Are Stirred by Query:
"DO Business Men Want MOnarch?"

You see, brand element has
entered
I say you see; but. If you do, IL 10
probably for tho first time: because
not an agency or syndicate q hate to
say it), has informed our public Of
one of the biggest things-the big
gest thing, perhaps-that has evolved
these days, among French business
men. It's not the high hat or any
flub-dub, but pure business and po-
litical economy-with a slant (nobody
knows how big) on practicing poll
tics.
One man has united business men
Of France In a peculiar unity for ac-
ton. absolutely opposed to that of tho
republics electoral crowd.
And. then, just as truly. that one
man is the high prophet of the kings
men,
1t is as astonishing and unexpected
as, just simply, IT is true. without
equivocation. This one man is
Georges Valois. the eminent political
economist and apostle of new. bril-
liant business doctrine in "PActton
Francaise''-along with Daudet.
Maurras and the hawkers. He is
Georges Valois, originator OF Tho
Weeks!"
/ give you the analysis by Lucicn
Romier.
Valois began in his OWE line-book
publishers. Organizing the week OF
the book" by a series Of great meet
Ings, he absolutely r1llle5 the book
publishers of France to join together
national limits of France, o. all men
who create, transform and utilize the
same material" BY this. in a short
time, they have headed up" the book
production, bringing all important
active men together, in a new way
absolutely different from that OF Il
trust In fact, the great idea is to
abolish. not only the opposition ef
classes, but the idea, even. of compe
tition, by all helping all-inside tnr
trade. inside French limits!
What is the value OF this doctrine
Of Valois?
Few asked. in the book trade, says
Lucien Romier. What they did was
to act. Suddenly appeared, in that
trade, once again, that force Of mu-
tual aid, long disappeared, and Whose
efficacy naturally revealed itself I'm
mediately."
@EORGES VALOIS tof faction
" Francaise and the kings hawk
ers," "acqaired his first authority
among French manufacturers. not BY
what he said. but by what he did