The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 2, 1920, Page 4

\ ‘the dissemination of correct grammar marks an- PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D.MANN - += = © = Foreign Representatives , G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - + Fifth Ave, Bldg. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to, the use | ,. for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise | line, perhaps the car would go farther on gar-| crodied in this paper and also the local news published | licker. . erein. 1 All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are 7 ' SERVICE A LA PORTER alao reserved, MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Consider the Pullman Porter! Lowest in position and greatest in demand. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE aN ADVANCE resort for summer boarders. But is it not the very fact that there is nothing really “practi- cal” in Amundsen’s adventure that makes it so gloriously worth while? ‘Braving a thousand dan- gers and enduring unimaginable sufferings mere- ly for the sake of adding % 4 little bit to the sum Editor spiring example in a time of selfish-seeking, If onion extract is really a substitute for gaso- Daily by carrier, per year ...........6 7.20 ab ine 5 ” Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) .... $ : ‘The great train-riding public doesn’t stop to Daily by mail, per year (in state outside B think often about the comfort that wouldn’t be Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota............ if it weren’t for Mr. Porter, THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1878) EGO this: HAVE YOU VOTED YET? | ‘Take a full amount of efficiency and mix well Remember the polls are open until 9 o’clock| with an inexhaustable share of energy. Toss in this evening. If you have failed to vote before) some patience and cover the combination with a supper make it your first duty after the evening coating of promptness. : nical te go to the polls and register a vote against Service is the result! Townleyism. And that’s what the traveling public wants. | It won’t be too late to vote until after 9 P.M.) Does the traveling public stop to appreciate it | The cause needs every vote it can get. when it gets it? Better late than never! Give that thought the once over the next time Tae you hop a Pullman. fi Prince Paul had “better make sure that the — ‘ sceptor is not septic. Convention of Germans applauded the sug- | gestion that the monarchy be re-established. You can get a crowd to applaud most anything. i \ The recipe for the porter’ that would come! \up to the standards desired by Mr. Man who takes a sleeper now and then, would stack up about like A DEADLY WEAPON Those who see pictures of lawn archery are likely to get the impression that the bow and arrow is,a toy. So much has been said | IN OTHERS’ EYES British writers in numbers have been looking this country over and recording their impressions of Americans. Now)comes a/Frenchman, Louis Thomas, who writes for the Paris weekly, L’Opinion. superiority. of firearms that many now have no realization that the bow and arrow also’is a deadly weapon, even in the hands of a modern American. Dr. Saxton Pope*and Arthur Young, both of California, demonstrated this when they went into Wyoming to kill grizzly bears for the mu- people seeing themselves as they appear to others. seum of the California Academy of Sciences. , So, even though one does not agree with all that’s | They used yew bows they made themselves. | iq by these travelers, there is no lack of interest The bows were about five feet long. The arrows | in their comments. were a yard in length, with sharp steel points. “American wastefulness is astupefying thing The flight of such an arrow is plainly visible, but }t) Frenchmen,” says Thomas. it has the power to pierce a bear’s tough hide “Ye are thrifty, and even, we must admit, | and’ thick rib. If no bones are struck, such an avaricious. Our experts, who cooperated with arrow:has power to drive completely through a] them in war enterprises, found them abominably large bear. i : wasteful, indifferent to costs, and improvident to .This suggests that it was not so one-sided as | the last degree.” might.be imagined when pioneers with muskets | is si as. fought Indians, armed with oe in the early; — teeta a unan tnd oth eettlement of America. “They do not want to make a moderate profit, a steady, regular, perhaps mediocre income, but, ‘on the contrary,.to make‘a great deal of money in a very short time, to ‘get rich quick.’ “They gamble at business—not at roulette or ; baccarat; but it is gambling. all the same.” “ Nov. 1 to 8, is American Speech Week, dur- As for wastefulness: ing-which the movie theatre is to take on a new} “So many people there have made their money function in many cities, namely, as a teacher of | by chance, by good luck, by a flash of imagina- English to Americans. tion, and not by the sweat :of their brow, that On the silvery screen of the theatre, the daily |they are naturally wasteful ‘dnd spendthrift. to crimes against the Mother Tongue will be ex-|an extent which we can hardly imagine in Europe. posed and the perpetrators urged td mend their “Everyone wastes, even the poor, and partic- Ways: ularly the women, who, for the most part, do} Over the heads of the audience the rays of the| not seem to have time to acquire the habits of stereoptican will flash such admonitions as this | economical housekeeping possessed by the women throughout the land: of the Old World.” Don’t say, “I aint’ got.” Say, “I haven’t.” . s Don’t say, “This is him.” Say, “This is He.”} Bank cashiers who like their sleep had better! Don’t murder English, it’s your mother tongue.| leave their safes unlocked. Ohio bandits woke, It ought to be a happy week for Mother Ton-|one out of a sound snooze and made ‘him open gue than whom no mother. is.more abused, day | the strongbox. eS, in-and day: out, by her erring children. The use of movie theatres as a medium for Who's this; fellow’ Parley who seems to: be mixed up in so many. strikes? MOTHER: TONGUE DRIVING A CAR It may have been thought that when one ac- | quired certain fundamentals of automobiling that’ he could drive his car., Generally people were of | the opinion that, given a knowledge of the steer- ing apparatus, the handling of the clutch, the brake, and the few other things, lights, switch key, etc., etc., they might, honk-honk their sev- eral ways hither, thither "and you. But this is not so. Really, one should carry with him a learned ; lawyer, one especially gifted in the matter of statues duly passed, approved and finally inter preted by the higher court. | This legal addition to automobile accessories | is something the autcmobile driver of the future | must take into consideration. And every tool- | other step in the progress of the moyie as a uni- versal educator. You couldn’t get a handful of people to attend 4 lecutre on applied grammar, but grammar lessons presented on, the movie screen will reach thousands. _ 2 As a trusted teacher, the movie assumes grave responsibilities. “ Chief of these is the obliga- tion to keep clean. ‘ Blind men are out of luck;..they’re missing more these days. AMUNDSEN Every once in a while there comes by courier a news item from the Artic north about Roald of human knowledge, Amundsen presents an in-J A poet had it right about the desirability of ay {that. does everything but talk. fame{has spread to all ‘corners of the} 8% (bath. in the. sunshine ins Amundsen. At present his ship is jammed tight in the ice, and a prisoner of the frozen sea, Amundsen has settled down to pass the long Arctic night in waiting for the breaking of spring to release him that he may continue his Journey toward the pole. Amundsen is an epic figure of whom a Homer would have liked «to sing. Homer’s hero, Odys- “seus, came home to take it easy, after many ad- ventures in which he overcame dragons and de- fied th® spells cast by enchantresses. But the interpid Amundsen scorns the’ ease and comfort that appeal to other middle-aged men | action they’ll think up a lot more laws to hurl who like to sit and doze at their fire-places on| at the motorist. winter nights. It is only a few years ago that he negotiated the difficult Northwest Passage | tomobile Association, makes an earnest, and mueh and scarcely had he returned from that voyage | needed, plea for uniform traffic laws and uniform than he started on the journey that ended in his! registration fees “which will permit the man from | discovery of the South Pole. And now his restless, questing: soul is on its|States without a covert feeling that somehow he} way again for another. plunge into the unknown. | js breaking a law of some sort.” It may be that he will not discover much that practical-minded men regard as of great value. What new land he may discover can’t be sold;| new laws. box should be cquipped with all the latest mu-| nicipal ordinances and stats laws of the territory traversed. This wil help wonderfully in keeping out of jail. * H For there are more automobile laws in exist- | ence today than the average motorist could read | in a month of Sundays! ' 1 Which isn’t the worst! . | The Nation’s Businesc says. 5C00 new automo- ; bile measures will be jintrudvecd in the 42 state | legislatures mecting in January i And no doubt when the legislators get into; They always do! David Jameson, president of the American Au- | California to travel anywhere else in the United Uniform laws, and better law enforcement, are of greater importance than another hatful of This should impress itself upon 42 nor put as collateral on a loan; nor turned into a state legislatures this winter. BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE MOVIE OF mnillions Wisin that’s aff the! thous Baker and his awful war waste. manipulation of the — O'CONNELL MUST WORRY THROUGH WINTER WITHOUT HIS PET CANARY | Real Pet. Would Accompany , Mayor of Towner to Office.and | Keep Company’ During Day: | Towner, N, D., Nov. 2.— With the| coming of North Dakota cold weath-! er and: blizzards, O.'J. O'Connell, at: torney and mayor of Towner, mus’ worry through. his office work with. out ‘the company of his pet canary. All summer the bird accompanies the mayor to. his office and makes it cheerful with its singing, but when) 1 the winds begin to blow over the | prairie, s6unding a warning of win-| ter, the little bird must remain at! home. It\is hard to tell which is the more lonesome, Mayor the canary. The bird has long since ceased to be the talk of local people but visi- tors to the city are-always interested in seeing the wonderful little bird Its state. The canary is a real pet. the morning it™enters Mr. bedroom and! pecks at him until he awakens. keeps flying from the bathroom to, the breakfast table and is not satis- fied until its owner sits down to his. morning meal. The bird perches on the table beside his plate and insists on eating its breakfast from ‘the same plate. When weather permits the: canary rests on its owner’s finger and accompafies him to his office. The little birds wants its morning le the. of- fice Window so° that Mr. O'Connell's first. “work of ‘the day is to provide | the bird With, a dish of water, After yits bath, is over, the birds is ready to sing day long. When a visitor enters; the office, Mr. O'Connell ad- vises the cafary to sing for him aad it will sing until bidden to stop. The pird likes to pose in front of a mir- Early in NEW YORK—George K. Kossfeed of Paterson, N. J., who took first place in the annual type- writing contest, held in connection with the National Business Shew at the Grand Central Palace, O'Connell. or, i O'Connell's | While he shaves the bird} THE SPEEDIEST | For and sing its glad song to the bird in the mirror. Sometim: bird tires of singing for visitors and | when. in ch a mood turns its back to the aud }in evident’ disgust, but keeps right un | singing. The bird. seems to naire is said to it. When i it will perch on it ’s chin and pury its little bill s. It knows’ when it ve the office for lunch {and jyvaits patiently for its master to | leavd, AVY “AC The United s Navy goes ii | the motion. pictures. Not the’ or | nary pictures of naval life, which interesting enough, but a photopla in whichUncle Sam's battles. submarines, — subma eaplanes, dirigi stually had and in which real Ame lors acted just as “screen folk’ to before the camera. , | An entire fleet of warships was len’ to the picture concern for the making jof this great film, which is without a parallel in the history of the art. ‘The equipment used-is worth millions up- on millions of dollars and could not ‘have been bought. The organization fortunate enough to enlist.the co-operation of the Navy was Fox. Film corporation, picture is a, 15-episode serial known as “Bride 18.” Tt ‘is not a war play, int the American flee! 2 bloodthirsty band of piratess gath- ered from the vilest quarters of the ‘earth, were to descend on the Ameri- j can coast. The picture was directly by Richa Stanton, one of the best known rectors in the business, and is pa as one can imagine, with startling stunts. Therelis hardly a moment but shows, ould. do if rd res ce noo Ges my liberty s the little i e and spreads its wings! THRILLING FILM) and the, + | village by plane, in which PISTS IN AMERICA! 4 shrunk, in, talies | w ithout its thrill; but not one of them s far-fetched or beyond belief. “Bride 13” was written by E. Lloyd | $heldon, adapted for the screen by ard Sedgwick. Not only are the of the actors themselves unique ir daredeviltry, but the photog- nd staging are beautiful. This great feature will be -shown au Ge Eltinge theatre, beginhing Fri- ie jin th | raphy IS CARRIED FROM MARMARTH Marmarth, Nov. Vance, who has been ‘ing his head- quarters in our city for the past three | wecks, consented to’ carry a sack of mail from here to Camp Crook, and in order that the arrangement might be afficial he was sworn into the U. S. Mail service for the occasion. A sack of mail containing what mail was in, the local office and a number of persgnal greetings from local busi- ness concerns to prominent people of Crook was made up and 8. tfole oft Lieut. Earl T. and Mechanician Saunders téok off al promptly two o'clock landing ia Crook in 36 minutes. Arriving. there the mail sack was immediately carried over to the postoffice and the lette>> euvered to wh@ifl they were address- ed. Lieut. Vance jremained that eveniuz and part of tha next day and carried a dozen,or more of the Crookites up into etMereal that they might look over their own town and see how it appears to the birds, ‘and then flew over to Buffalo. where he car- ried a few passengers, returning to Marmarth about 4:30 in the evening. The demonstration wa$ sufficient to show that an aerial mail route from here to Crook is not even improbable, | and the Mail ventures that another summer may witness the U. S. mail being carried into this thriving. little ase there would be satisfaction in seeing Lieut. Vance land the job. i j My | | | | i will receive $1000 in cash, a trip to Europe and the championship cup shown in the picture. Hoss- feld captured first place by writing 181 words a minute for one hour. with 128 words a minute. former champion,.finished second, Miss Margaret B. Owen, National Anthem Turned Policemen Into Statues Boston, Mass. — By playing “The Star Spangled Banner’ over and over an Italian. band kept two policemen, who ordered them to stop, standfpg at salute in the Fells reservation, near here, until their urms dropped numb and helpless. A few Ital- jan women and children, who were along for an outing cheered and applauded in great glee. Then the bandsmen fled. Soon ‘after the tumultuous strains had “begun resounding through the woods Policemen Jordan Frost and Roberts ap- peared and informed them they must stop, as they were in the state reservation. The leader at once ordered “The Star Spangled Banner” played. 3 : CINCINNATI] WARS ON RATS United States Department of Agricul. ture Assists in Extermination of Rodents. Washington.—The health authorities of the city of Cincinnati secured the aid of the biological survey of the United States department of agricul- ture in planning the details of a city- wide drive to exterminate rats. The methods of poisoning and trapping the animals recommended by the depart- men¥s men who have specialized in work;of this kind will be followed very ‘largely. The city has been dl- A Good Type of Rat Trap. vided Into districts, in each of which a door-to-door canvass will be made to bring home to’all occupants of houses, factories, stores, etc. the importance of co-operating {In this important movement. A large amount of litera- ture. prepared by the department, dealing with rat extermination, will be distributed during the campaign. Spe- cial emphasis will be-laid on the fact that rats are carriers of disease and are particularly apt to contaminate hu- man food wherever it is accessible. GLUT OF RICE IN HONGKONG $10,0C0,CO0 Worth of Cereal Hoarded by Profiteers Finds No Market. Nongkong. — Hongkong {s aver- stocked with rice bought for export and held fora rise in prices even dur- (ing the rice shortage, which has, he- ‘come serious in some cities of south- ern China and other parts of the Orient. The nanager of a big. com- mercial firm here estimates that more than $10,000,000 worth — of on “long” rice is stored in Hongkong. Recently the price fell rapidly and dealers and exporters) found them- selves loaded up with rice, while the hunks were pressing for payment of bills. Japan ws notable to buy, aw- ing to the tightness of her money ma ket, and it was syulge that Amer ordinarily one ot tthe largest buyers «? rice in this market @ fehase because she enough. The Daily Pre: stutes that about Th per cept ofthe rice exported from had ceased to Hongkong) goes to, Cuba, but that Cuba's supply dipd been purchased di- rect from tie preducers- instead of the Hongkong shiddlemen, Dig esge wieas + “Cut Pay, I’m Not Earning : li,” Szys City Employee *orCteveland. Ohio.—“t am not earning the tioney Tam getting and Towant my salary reduced.” This is the request sent to City icinls hy Gottlie) Pfahl. He ven. ed for the city for fit: When he made the ~ was foreman of a He wo teeny request he bridge ® re Last affected use it naw, Th why he asked for a sal- ty cut. [lis request was graated. zht arm was . Ife cannot wreee® CATTLE RUSTLERS USE AUTOS ; Cattle Are Now Taken Across the In- ternational! Poundary by New Nethed. Sask.—The motdrear, it chieved another snecess S advent into the eat. tle rustling business, The old a a well-known pr of cattle rustlers, when they used to drive their stolen herds before them, is now a thing of the past. A few days ago three ¢: S were stolen from herds near Bengough and. spirited oss the international forder by two motorcars, Three of the rustlers were arrested on this side of the line and two others in Mon- tana and are now awaiting trial. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Groves LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE tablets. The genuine bears the signature of E. W. Grove. 30c. USE TRIBUNE WANT ADS A