The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 10, 1919, Page 4

“PAGE 4. BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE “THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, ismarck, N. D., as D., as Second Class Matter, GEORCE D. MANN - : Bat ia - Editor 3. LOGAN FAYNE COMPANY, NE’ YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Wiater St; DETROIT, (Bresege e . 810 Lumber Bldg.; MINNEAPOL Exch: ange. i MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Vie Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news ¢ eredited in this paper and als heveir. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also_veserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION + BSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE by carrier per year ........ sevcee atic by mail per year (In Bismarck) . ty roby, mail per year (In state outside of Bismarck) & oe Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ...........- THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) Gp ——_ a HOUSEPAINTING TIME Man, Man, what a horrible time it is for us mere males when the home is being painted over again, inside and out. The glorious springtime seems hardly worth while at all when the painting season is in full sway. You sure do wish the fuss- ing and fretting was over and your old arm chair was back in its usual place and your tobacco jars and pipes. were where you could fin dthem in- stead of: being scattered hither and yon in out of the way corners and all clogged up with putty and paint. But the wife says it’s all for the best and what the wife says, goes, when it comes to household matters. Consequently you sleep in the bath tub, dress in the cellar next the coal bin and comb your hair by instinct because the mirrors are swathed in bandages and stored away until the paint si- moon shall have ceased from troubling and the odor of benzine is no more. The worst of it is you won't like the job when it’s finished. You'll think the rooms that are red should be green and the rooms that are green should be red and you'll be growling for months because you can’t locate your pet penwiper or something like that. But that’s because you’re a mere man and your opinions don’t count and you're nothing but a} pest and a nuisance around’ a house anyhow! ited to Ht or not otherwise o the local news published HEROES ARE HUMAN When we realize that heroes are human, with the same desires and aversions, the same w ness and weaknesses, the same anxieties, troubles, temptations and necessities as the rest of us, there may be less high talking, but there should be more real doing. That the man who crept across No Man’s Land, a target for.all the many devised deaths, to rescue a-pal, may become:a homeless tramp is a simple fact:) He may have been one before he went on gGreat Adventure: Or he may not. The hero has been well fed, sheltered, clothed, medically cared for, trained to act with others, to disregard danger and to die for ideals with little talk about them. He was sent away with profuse promises and plaudits, told that he was going to save the world, to make it better and to be wel- comed back to the bounty of a grateful nation. He has returned to be reminded of these promises through a momentary outburst of fulsome flat- tery, then told to look for a job and scolded if he does not take the first one offered. He finds that while he was collecting souvenirs and experience some of those at home were accu- mulating most substantial emoluments. He hears| it said that all this talk about “dying for democ- racy” was “bunk,” and sometimes feels a little as if he had been buncced. While he may not have taken all the pre-war promises ‘seriously he does not feel that there should be unseemly haste in repudiating them. Subjecting millions of ordinary human beings to:such extraordinary experiences produces great results. ~ The.soldier learned the possibilities of united action. ,He saw what could be done when men and money are spent without stint. He knows that the impossible has been moved far beyond its pre-war boundaries. : He has learned to respect organization, practice discipline and fear nothing. He has learned to choose and follow leaders or to act, when neces- , Without them. He can do and dare things in his daily work that were once beyond his dreams. Instead of wondering what we will do with and for the heroes we had better wonder what they will do to and for us. Politically and econom- ically they are the largest compact, commonly ex- perienced, and, therefore, on many points com- monly minded mass this, or any nation, ever knew. They will run our industries, carry our elec- tions, control our society for a generation. They will do this the easier becatise the things they want are what we all want. They want better jobs, with as good food, cloth- ing, care, education, amusement and other priv: leges as they enjoyed in uniform. They want, security against war, poverty and injustice. , Being human as well as heroes they will will- An 8-yearlold girl 6 feet tall !—Myrtle Margold of Maybank, Texas. She has that rarest of dis- eases—giantism. Her growth can be checked only by a delicate operation—removing the pituitary gland, attached to the brain. It is this tiny gland that determines your height and weight. Should it become dis- eased, the body may grow a foot a month. Will future scientists discover how to manipu- late the pituitary gland at will, so that our descend- ants can be tall or short as they please? wild theory, say the doctors, in view of recent sensational discoveries concerning the effect of man’s stature of hormones, chemical extractions from the’ pituitary glands of animals. M. Henrion estimated that Eve was 118 feet 9 inches tall. 10 flights of stairs to kiss her. Other scientists disagree—claim that man has always been his present size. Thank man’s pitui- mains normal. Diseases of it are rare. A dwarf or giant is the lone exception in mil- lions. Old European cities have statues of legendary giant inhabitants of the past. In Douai, one of Gayant, reputed to stand 22 feet in his socks. Antwerp had Mr. Antigonus, 40 feet tall. London has effigies in the Guildhall, of Gog and Magog, -|14-foot giants who once terrorized the southwest- ern coast. All these are mythical. The tallest man in history about whom we have reliable figures was Machnow, a nine-foot-three Russian from Charkow, who-exhibited in London in 1905. Machnow had other ‘things wrong with his architecture. His hands measured two, feet from wrist-to tip of ,index;finger. An operation on his brain in childhood would have kept him normal. The smallest man in authentic histcry was Philetas, intellectual valet of Ptolmy Philadelphus, Egyptian king. So tiny was Philetas, according | to historians of his day, that he had to wear great leaden shoes to keep the wind from blowing -him away. Maybe the historians had a sense of humor. Only 18 inches tall was Jeffery Hudson, son of a huge butcher at Oakham, Rutlandshire, England. At a dinner given to Charles I this midget was served in a pie. Adopted by the king, he lived down his. size—became known as “Strenuous Jef- fery,” was a captain of cavalry, and fought two duels. Little men, walk proudly. ———— oe All these were men suffering from disease of the pituitary: gland in the brain. Climates appear to affect the bland. Scotch- men/average taller than any other race. Above all the Japanese are most sensitive about their short stature. Medical science may correct this in time —turn them into a race of six-footers. Wonderful is the body—you realize it when you ponder that a gland small as a cherry deter- mines your height. and weight. Isn’t it terrible that Mr. Townley never dis- covered the awfulness of Bill Langer and Tom and elected them to state office? We'll bet Governor Frazier is more than ever inclined to agree with the fellow who wrote, “Un- easy lies the head—,” and so forth. | WITH THE EDITORS REGRETS AT FEDERAL LAW SUIT Regrets have been expressed that the law suit started in the U. S. Federal court to hold up all the legislation known as the industrial laws of the state, has been undertaken at this time. The suit is based on the claim that the state is prohibited under the constitution of the United States from engaging in private business, and an injunction was asked from the Federal court to restrain state officials of North Dakota from attempting to put into effect the several laws passed at the last ses- sion of the legislature and what are generally known as the industrial program of the Nonparti- san league. The injunction is asked against the expenditure of any of the public moneys author- ized by these laws or the investment of state school funds in state bonds. Seven laws passed by the legislature are attacked in the suit. The laws being the state industrial commission act, the state bank law, the two million dollar bond issue for state bank capital, the terminal elevator and flour mill, the five million dollar bond for ter- minal elevators, the home builders act and the ten million dollar real estate bonds. The defendants are the governor and ‘various state officers, charged by the law with the enforcement of the acts. The complainants are residents of the state from various counties. The case will be tried by Judge Amidon but there is no indication of when the hearing will be held. Under the process of referending these laws and initiating others, now underway in the state the ce Gol GS IMD oa TOM THUMBS AND GOLIATHS | PICKING THE E Not a} If Adam was like us, he had to climb}. tary gland for that. Century after century it re-|- Hall and Carl Kositzky until he had twice endorsed | THURSDAY, APRIL ‘10, 1919. AM \ HARD Yo suit, o ‘ou & BUM MILKINER ? THAT Witt Lap | ALWAYS BE IN ae THE THOROUGHBRED. _ ‘Alfred Blair, a man‘ of whom every one spoke well, self-made, steady and industrious, was a contracting engi- neer who specialized in grain -eleva- tors, factories, and forms of warehouses, factories and markets. 8 wife. Celia, was fond of the refinemen the ‘surface, ‘sothtwhat aloof in her manner toward her husband although she was‘deeply in lovd vita’ him, She hated to be ruffled but was finding certain impulses of her own undermin- ing her serenit Jealousy was one of them. scription of a scene at one of. their parties in which both husband ‘and wife are on the verge of serious inis understanding. SYNOPSIS OF OF. STORY A crisis has come in his business affairs and Fred discloses the fact: to Celia in so blundering y that: i will text that he might offer. She ly insulted. SYNOPSIS III. After an understanding as to their financial standing had been arrived at, Celia Blair insisted upon moving into a remote quarter of the city. She asked to be allowed to make a deal of selling their home to former friends, the Colilers. She wanted to is great- would not follow her up, or if they did, would pretend they did not know about their misfortunes. “Oh, we don’t ‘know where. Disap- pear somewhere for a good ‘long while maybe. And—this is why I'm telling you about it—we want you to take our house... You. really ure looking for one, aren't you?’ Well, then come out to-day and look at/this with that idea. About noon? Oh, then you will stop for ‘lunch. That'll be fine. Just the two of. us,”s She could make hér voice sound all right, anyhow, that was one comfort. She was sure from the way Ruth talk- ed she had suspected nothing over the phone; of her toilet-table were going to prove sufficient to obliterate from her face the traces of last. night’s and this morning’s tempests, she wasn’t so sure. She went to work, deliberately and methodically, to produce this res All the while. she‘nursed her wrath against her husband, as one nurses dying fire. It was her one defense against him—the one thing that would, enable her to see the day through. It ever she got to feeling sorry for him, to thinking about-that hagard Jook she mn in his face Jast night, she knew » was lost. She'd’ carried “her Jewel-box, still in its cumbergome wrap- per, to her rocom, and whenever neces- sary, she glanced at it. It always worked. Half an hour before Ruth's expected arrival the cook brought. in word that at the kitchen door ask- ing permission to 4 Jeb for a meal. I of occurrence. ber with an at the thought that 1 day, at this yery. — a year, ingly work with all of us to secure these things - peacefully, But they will, not be ensy to bully, problems ie Thier es same questions ipyolved in this federal law suit are now being settled by the people of the state them- selves. It seems as if this is the right way that it should be done. The settlement will be fairly. ‘And, in” the: reiting how about the Soul brought about, and the people of the state will be|™ better satisfied with the solving of their own in their own way, than in the manner| °°" doing the same strange inhospitable work. Anger flared up saved her. It wi that he had assur him was eats had gone on kee] of of the Maid state come’ to this? It wa d for an’ beep her bel ¥ maintain it, certain, othert frivolously § of life, and, om) a The stor? opens witha de-! put matters before them so that they |: But whether. the resources} R ARE GET SOMETHIN at STYLE, SISTER, ‘THE THOROUGHBRED” | By Henry Kitchell Webster Author of “The Real Adventure,” ane Painted Scene,” Etc. a ing the two hours and a half that her guest and prospective tenant stayed. 1 While she could do the talking eae mune humorous. ; enoug! = to her lips even while she went he mockery of speculating p and. Fred would do "s vacation, chatting just cool enoug about ‘California and Honolulu.. But while’ Ruth talked, she couldn't keep her mind on the things per anes was fab: her “would Aran. D & aults. After ‘Ruth had’ gone, she tried to There was an immense lot of j Work to do, of course, getting things out of the way putting the house in ishape for the reception of its new | But she didn’t make much headway—couldn’t give her, mind to it. It was foe used on the. tlephone, +! and that focus kept getting sharper and sharper all the time. He'd said he'd call up in the afternoon to let her know what luck he'd had. Evidently he hadn't got his j p, in his discouragement and despair, he decid- ed that wasn't worth trying to get. By half past five, when he did call up, she was about at the end of her en- durance. way of: telling her just the. and nothing more, his in- furiating apology, for, having. accepted twenty-two. fifty, when he'd told her he'd get twenty-five, and the way he'd washed his hands of her bargain with the Colliers, tohed-her up once more— gave her a good. warm glow of anger jto go to Work on. . She was.glad he wasn't com! wouldn't pim again, if it were pos- sible, until she could confront him in the new home his contemptuous disbe- lief. in her had reduced them to, He jdisconcerted her a little, though she didn’tsadmit it to herself, by ap- parenfly wanting the same thing she did—making no effort, at any rate, to see her.” He made her heart jump by fpausing an instant outside her door— it wasn’t locked—when he came home very late that night, but he went on. without a word. to his own room. He’:1 already -left for town When she came down-stairs the next. morning. and this program was reneated for two days more. They’ communicated with each other by leaving notes about—politely laconic notes, which they fancied Marie wouldn’t see anything wrong’. with. Though why Marie should matter, it would bi rd to say, Since she, along with the cook, had had her notice and her two pha pay, and was leaving turday mdérning when the Colliers were coming in. EXPLORATION ae CHAPTER IV Tt whs on Wednesday that Alfred got his :job, and that Ruth ‘Collier caine out to lunch and agreed to take the house, On “Thursday morning— not more than an hour after) her hus- bund’s departure, Celia herself set out, y inadequate breakfast, and nadequate shoes, to find a could be rented for not more p» twenty dollars « mouth, She had been wue asx to what méthods she should pursue toward this result, until, coming down-stairs to get her. coffee, she had: happened / upon Marie carrying off last night’s paper that Alfred hdd brought home. She shad never made use of classified’adver- Hehe had always ‘th it of it mere- ething thut-sdded an: irritat- to the ‘newspapers: ly read. \ But a memors of the Fiat fo rent-at the head of lumns of fine print, nadtenl in her mind, and she EASTER BONNET 1 never ‘been able to understand. home to dinner, She} censory glance at them as she sipped her coffee made her quest look easy There were millions of flats for rent, apparently, and they were arranged ae- leording to neighborhood—W flats together by themselves, two or three columns of them. | She tore this part out of the sheet, and after s yiug herself that it listed plenty of places at tweny dollars and less, she crumpled it into her wrist bay and “went on with her breakfast that is to say, with her coffee. These had, for m: years, been synonymous qc to Celia. How Alfred could eyt ings: like liver and sausage, or even eggs, at, this time of the day, she had Her idea was, when, in the train, she got out her list, and looked at it, that she would select a place at the price slie yanted, go, out, to-it, und rent it. She ‘Wasn’t Tooking '’for iuxuty. “Stie hoped—or_ thought she hoped, “sitting there comfortably enough in the train, that it would be ms uncomfortable, and cramped. and mean as,possible _ The meaner it Wig, and. the, more destitute of-comforts the life they had to live in it, the. more triumphantly could ‘she demonstrate to Alfred that) he had misjudged her—the more, completely avenge his insulting belief that now he was poor,she would abandon; him and begin & -bright* lookout for some: body else. So she picked out, more or less at »|the teniperature of soup. and Cella; with’ a sinking “heart, | was ; forced to conclude: that tt was. Because it came over her, in u wave, that she couldn't, stand it. There was wv soul-blighting ugliness in everything about it—the'shape of each of the four cramped, mean little rooms, the mean little doors by which they opened out, one after, another, four-foot, corridor that strung them together, the urtificlal oak graining of the woodwork, the fanc frat hideousness of the gas fixtures in the front room,‘ and, the water-motled oak mantel. Colin's civerone, admitted freely that the fireplace this mantel enclosed was practicable, buf pointed out that ti were ao muisanee anyway, and that in this flat, with an abundance of the hottest kind 0! heat, they were, happily, unne . In the dead of winter, a Tittle cotton tucked into the west windows made, every- thing as suug-and' tight as one could desire, (To Be Continued.) f PEOPLE'S FORUM | —_ —a A CORRECTION State Historical Society of. Dakota, ‘Trustee of. the State, Bismurck, N, D. April 8, 1919. Bismarck Tribun Dear Mr, Price: In this evening’s paper T again see mention of the fo storey History Building.” This ex- pression “fou lorey” Duilding” has Deen used in every reference. made in the Tribune relative to the proposed new buildii Now the fact is that the act of leg ture which authorizes the building does not si how many storeys it is to be—wh one storey or ten. That is properly left, as it should be to the committee in charge, tuking under advisement plans submit- ted by the building architect. You can see that if the Jaw pregcribed-the num- ver of storeys it would be a fatal mis- take. The act leaves the building to be constructed according to the best and most suitable available plan, just as it should. If you will take the trouble to glance at the bill you will find there is not a word in it to say that ‘the building North is to be “four storeys” in height, nor is x, word said as ‘to the number of storeys. Yours’ truly, MELVIN R. GILMORE. e od | SUCHISLIFE | &. “a Butter was originally spread on bread with the thumb. Nowadays thumbs, are more often used to test The world moves, but not always forward. FINGERS FOR EYES Wouldn’t it be strange if you. had to learn everything through your fin- gers? They are teaching classes of blind children in the American Mu- ‘| seum of Natural History in’ New York and it’s all finger work. They feel the mountains, valleys ‘and oceans with their fingers. on relief maps. When an arctic explorer lectured, he brought sledge dogs and all the children. petted the dogs and rizzled their fingers thru the crinkly, crisply hair.. What a life making fingers do the work of eyes! Frank Trautlof: , Atchison, Kas., left a widower 15 ‘years ago, brought up his family ‘of nine’ children without the aid of a woman. He did all their mending as wellias the: housework and cooking in addition to having success- fully aie the farm. he | Spring— A soutien ian’s fancy turneth to thoughts of love. Now there’s Ken- neth Swan, two and ‘a half years old, of Evanston, Ill,, and Miss ‘Lillie Dove, one and a half, also of Evanston. They éloped! Lillie’s mother asked the cop to call random, something she thought would do, aud dismissed the matter from her mind. -It didn’t occur to her, until after she got orf the train in‘the ter- minal, that she hadu’t the least idea where the address was, or how to get to it. ‘then, under the\spur of neces- sity,, she went to the information desk and ed the man, He wasn't looking at her, and his auswer was a gesture toward a tatter- ed—a vilely dirty—volume on the shelf }at-her elbow, which she made out to be a City Directory, It is fair to say the Celia’s first step into her new world began at thar mmoment., She had uever, inher. lite, been compelled te submit to conta with anything ay repulsively filtuy al that volume, She opened it and stared at it help- ” she said, “1 don’t wait to tow what street and number any one hives in? it to Khow where u cer- tain address is.” “Street idex,” he said. au look at her, reiented.' find it for you.” But the seurch was a rather compli- cated one and he was interrupted three or-rour times before he got to the end of-it, by impatient ‘tram-catchers, and the directious he finally gave her were not very enlightening—involved ques- tioning conductors as to where to take transfers and asking a policeman, when she tially got in the general neighbor- hood, which way to walk. ‘The morning was half gone when she finally found the place. She’d walked whut seemed miles; her feet ached ex- cruclaungly, she fett worse than dirty —contamimated by the last street-car shed ‘ridden ‘in, and she couldu’t be sure shed, got a cinder out. of her eye. But the placé-she found at least the merit of making her forget these minor troubles, ‘The terrifying thing about it was that it was not so bud. She was escorted through’ it by the tenant of the flat below, who had charge of the key, and this lady praised it with genuine en- thusiusm, She pointed out that the floors weren’t badly .wormat/all, and had recently been coated with shellac; she midicated the souuduess of the plaster. Nothing would come falling dowit on your-head here, even ¥f the jtenants*of the topmost flat of all should rouse round w bit. There was a radiator in each of the four room, and the heat was ample. They, dowu ‘Then, with “Here! Vil dow somewhere for a while. It actually got too hot.’ The front room nad two windows looking on the street, the kit- ;chen, at the back, got the benefit not only of its own back yard, but of the oc- | vacant lot behind it on the next street, while ‘the two middle rooms, thanks tothe fact that the adjoining butiding ran up only two stories, were at the top. oft the light-well, and were almost as good as the outside rvoms. . She SUM ects Wk aaa at the money below, frequently had to opett a win-| Nn, y. a policeman: quick. “My little girl has run away!” Eight blocks: away they found the elopers. Kenneth was peddling away for dear life on the latest model tri- cycle, with Lillie hanging on behind. HOWEVER— Love is just as transitory when one is older. James Harvey Hart, Brook- lyn, N. Y., aged 87, is being sued by his 18- -year-old wife, They parted im- mediately after their three-week honeymoon. World coal supply Je is little over 4 1-£ trillion tons. And now ‘reckoned, it will run out about 4,000) years from now., For our part, we reckon there is one thing most of us are sure about. That is, if they don’t find a substitute for coal as a fuel, then excuse us if we should refuse to be head of the fuel administration 4,000 000 years hence, You Said It, Justice Is Blind Russell Potter of Waynesboro, Md., has been sentenced to serve from six to eight years in prison for killing his young wife. For stealing a handbag containing one cent from Gladys Roalef, a sen- tence of three and a half years was imposed upon Joseph Karsap, New ‘ork. And) often we are inclined to the opinion that the nodes is deaf and dumb, too. An American ae photographed 200 snow crystals, and found no two His ‘Limit The Noble Lord—I say, what a deuce of a’ muddle this table is in! You can’t haye laid it yourself, Simp- son? — Certainly, Simpson (hurt) lord, I laid eve hing mysel: Pog — except th 5 ja) Show (Lond a my lord!—Passing —O0, B. 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