The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 4, 1921, Page 4

4 il ‘and rubber pencil tip. This latter was devised by PAGE FO THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE which we point to with pride as the fine fruit of our democratic civilization. Fine fruit, indeed! Zaitor| The condition in the average American city to- ‘day, judged by what we read in the newspapers, G LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY which is a fairly accurate reflection of life in CHICAGO DETROIT | them, raises the question as to whether we are Marquette ENE BURNS AND aa. Bldg-' capable of self-government. z ' NEWYORK... - ~~ =. Fifth Ave. Bldg.) There may be half a dozen cities in the United “The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use| States of over 50,000 people so managed that tor publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise’ those who live in them may be proud of the fact. eredited in this paper and also the local news published | We confess that we can’t’‘name them. ; And the tragedy of it is, conditions of life from| Iso reserved) = the standpoint of safety and comfort for the aver-/ MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION | age man, woman and child are getting worse in-| SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE | stead of better. : i :$720° ‘The great American failure up to now is inj 5.00 municipal government. : 606) 1 is done better almost everywhere else in the, THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER | world. i (Established 1873) | The murders of policemen are simply a symp-j <a | ton of the breaking down of city morale. H | There are innumerable other systems, but this! PREACHING BY WIRELESS is the one which at the moment is thrown into re-| Tf you had been in the Wollaston (Mass.) Con-! life and challenges our attention. : | Entered at the Postoffice, Bismorck, .v. D., as Second! Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - : - : Foreign Representatives herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. ae gregational Church Sunday morning you'd have! = noticed two wireless operators in the congrega-i WHY THE OLD COW DIED ' tion. As Rev. Isaiah W. Sneath preached, his! The railway executives are kept busy explain-; sermon was flashed through the air to the far, ing why, in spite of increased rates and govern-' corners of New England. iment guarantee money, the railroads are slipping Pastor Sneath follows in the footsteps of Dr.! farther and farther in the hole. Some of their Clayton B. Wells, of Wichita, Kas., who some explanations sound like the speech of the rural. months ago began preaching regularly by wireless, lawyer in the justice of the peace court. to 1100 amateur operators in-11 states. “Your Honor,” he declaimed, “if the train had It requires no great vision to picture the day! been rusting as she should have been ran; if the: when the wireless may make the whole world one bell had been rung as it should have been rang; if vast church. with the sky for a roof. : the whistle had been blown, as it should-have been | The idea would be especially valuable in rural) blew; both of which they did neither, the cow: districts.. In stormy weather, farmers unable to would not have been injured when she was kill-) get to church might have the church brought to, °° ; pees a them through the wireless outfits which many: : — ‘ are installing to receive the daily weather fore-| Don’t get puffed up because Germany sends in casts and crop news flashed by wireless telephony | demnity proposals through Washington. Her bid: from the Department of Agriculture. ;would have been forwarded via Yap or Siam if, ; those countries instead of Uncle Sam had corner- | EQUAL CHANCE FOR ALL jed the world’s gold. | Greenville, Tenn., has a main street two miles 5 Ra long. At one end, over a little one-story frame: Charles F. Bush bristles up and tells the Amer-| house, is a sign reading, “A Johnson, Tailor.” ican Philosophical Society that he doubts the Ein-| At the other end of the street is a marble mon-) Stein Theory. Brush brushes Einstein aside with ument bearing the inscription, “A. Johnson, Pres-! arguments almost as easily understood as Ein. ident.” i stein’s. : H “A. Johnson, was the Andrew Johnson who be-| : aA 2 e came president when Abraham Lincoln was as-| New York hasiawiew law, making ite misdeme | ‘aaasinated. ;anor for landlords to bar children. This will get The two signs in Greenville, Tenn., again bring! # Chuckle out of every parent who prefers. chil-| home the fact that America is a land of equal op- 22" to dogs and pet monkeys. , portunity. While chance may play a big’ part in I : - S | your life.a humble beginning does not bar you it appears that strikes and lockouts may de-| from the ‘White House‘or any other top-notch velop: from the, disagreement: between the Ger-| leadership—political, scientific, industrial .or|™@" Economics Union and the Allied Employers’) financial. f Association. ‘We make tailors into presidents in this country, and poor bookkepers into John D. Rockefellers— because we have no caste system. If you’ have “the goods” in you, you can betome a leader. j A Dane “breaks the bank” at Monte Carlo. That lers, will return to get his wings singed. As the strawberry shortcake season draws to a close, have you noticed that none of them were HOW TO GET RICH ‘i How can you get rich? Thousands of ways.| like the one Mother used to make? You’ve given thought to many of them. And! F S ae eo probably, at some time or other, you've tried to! The City of Happiness is in the State of Mind.' invent something as a short-cut to wealth. | | Trouble is, most folks try to invent something : EDITORIAL REVIEW complicated. The simple things are most in demand. Many not express the opinion of The Tribune. They ‘are 4 | both sides of important issues which are being ‘ise big fortunes have been founded on them. For| instance: ay . A husband got tired of searching under the! Sree ieee prone oe Sot bureau for his wife’s lost hairpins. So he crimp-| ed the wires of the hairpins to keep them from: falling out of her‘hair. The idea: worked. Hejby the'National Liberal Club at Manchester, Eng-| built a business around it. Today every woman/land, discussed the relations between Great Brit- uses his invention. iain and the United States. “There would be little} Another fellow lived in the days when all screws Fleasure or interest in living in this world,” he re-| were flat at the end, when a hole had to be drilled marked, “if there were war between England and| before the screw could be used. He sent to Wash- the United States.” He continued: : ington the shortest patent application on record: “I do not believe that there will be real cordial- “I claim a patent on a screw with gimlet point.” ity between this country and the United States That patent made him rich. Millions of screws, 80 long as the Irish question remains as it is. It based on it, are now used every day. is really idle to discuss British-American relations | Great fortunes grew out of. the safety pin, re- without having that fact in our minds and also” movable collar button, sharpened nail, key- ring recognizing it. : “Neither do we dispose of the question of war, a) WAR “IMPOSSIBLE” ‘ : an office clerk who tied his eraser to his pencil so between this country and the United States by he wouldn’t have to reach for it. merely calling it unthinkable and inconceivable. Can you invent a metal tip that won’t pull off I would much rather that people, especially in tae’ shoe laces? United States, where they have been discussing; Or some way of fastening Krench heels to wo--this questicn as ‘unthinkable and inconceivable,’ men’s shoes so they won’t come loose? would bring ovt.ihe plain fact that we havé aj Or a wrench that will handle big pipe without Feace treaty with the United States which, if ob- crushing it? : served, makes war practically ‘impossible. Or a simple device to do easily anything else’ “We have a treaty under which if the two gov-, now difficult? ernments cannot agree, they resort to a commis-' If so, you can virtually name your own price. sion, to investigete and resort and recommend a} ; settlement, end at least 2 year’s time must elapse THE BREAKDOWN OF CITY MORALE for reflection before a l:cach of the peace can) Sixty-five policemen shot to death in American take place. I do not be ieve that these two great | cities in the past 12.months! democracies can ever go to war if taey observe | That is the terrible record which brands us as'this treaty.”—Kansas City Star. the most lawless people in the world. i We haven’t the exact figures at hand, but feel NO INFLATED LAND PRICES safe in saying that this figure 65 can’t be matched When it comes to figuring the costs of opera- by the total killings of officers of the law in all tion, the farmers of this state have a decided ad- the other so-called civilized nations. vantage over the tillers of Iowa soil. In this state) It isn’t that a policeman’s life is any more or it does not take more than a bushel or two of less valuable than that of the average citizen, that Wheat per acre to take care of the.interest on the! their killing by wholesale is so shocking. investment, but where land sells for $400 or $500; It is that each one of these murders is in es-'Per acre, as it does in the Hawkeye state, it keeps sence an attack against. organized -society and an average grain crop busy to take care of that, those who are chosen to uphold it. item alone, to say nothing about other operating | ~ Most of these murders occur in the larger cities, costs.—Williston Herald, PF | cubby-hole. Indeed, it: was a cub-hele, won't worry the bank. The Dane, like all gamb-/as it held two cubs, and their parents \ amend Foley Kidney Falla to cay iriende,” placed In Breslow’s window this merck people In good + ~“~_—_— 49 ~S f iW) cyhe i State CaaS ermm ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS By Olive Barton Roberns p AOA rey acre a. soa “Here's the place!” said the tairyman, \Flippely-Flap took a big step in his lagic shoes and landed half way up mountain. Nancy and Nick couid never have followed him had they not Possessed their own. wonderful Green Shoes. But they scrambled up beside him as. easy. ag pie. They were going to ask Mr. Bruin Browa-Bear and his: wife and their two sons, Butter-Ball Brown-Bear and Billy-Bunch Brown-Bear, to: go back with them to he circus. Everybody, I'm sure, feels precisely the same way as our litle fefends did about it. Ti<t a circus jwithout..a bear or) two or three or four, isn’t. worth looking at, “Here’s;the place!” said the fairy- man, pointing to a cubbyhole under a tree root: It ‘was'a very large tree with very large roots, and the hole was too large really to be called a also, when the entire family was at home. “Tap, tap, tap,” knocked Flippety- Flap. No-one came. Nick grabbed the knocker... “Tan, tap, tap! Rat-a-tap, tap, tap,” she thumped. ‘ i But no one came! “Let’s go in,” she said. “There's nobody, at home, and we may as well, wait inside.” 1 “Yes, let's!” agreed the fairyman. “Just like Goldilocks did in the story, four and we aré three people instead the bottom out of anything like she did. They mightn’t like it.” window, either.” (Copytight, 1921, N. E. A.) BY E. E. FREE. In shallow pools along the sea beach lives a little creature who is the moet successful iiving' solver of the housing problem. | If you look down for a. few min- utes into the tangle of seaweeds, anemones, starfish, urchins and other creatures such as fill these pools, you will notice presently one ‘of the ever- present snail shells begin to move oif much more rapidly than his dignity would ever permit a snail to move. And if you look closely you will see coming otit of the front end of the uctive shell a few assorted feet and . . ‘5 laws with maybe a bright eye or two Earl Grey, speaking recently at a dinner given 'p. well. * if 3 ‘This is our enterprising friend, the hermit crab, and the shell isn’t a sail-shell any more. It is his crab- ship’s house. His Main Virtue, Snails are patient and industrious. They build their houses slowly and solidly and no doubt with what to} snaildom are the latest modern im-| provements. But this is too slow for the crab Ye is a speculaior, He knows tha’ lots of things, happen to patient. simple folks like snails and he waits around. Presently a starfish or a sea ane- mone extracts a snail and dines. off him and the house is left to let. This is where the crab gets busy, With- out bothering for legal processes he appropriates the house that Mr. Snai! has had to leave. behind him, and henceforth the nine» points of law which belong to the possessor. have changed their master. The crab drags his house along with him wherever he goes. When danger threatens, as when you reach down to pick up him and his“house, he disappears y@ quickly an eye- wink, Have Pains? Aches and pains scem to be the lot of the ordinary mortal, However, these should be taken simply as nature's warning signals that some part of the humen machinc is out of order. Itisa mistake to tesiga one’s self to physical torture when the cause can be removed. Foley Kidney Pills tone up weak, inactive, sluggish kid- cys end help rid the blood of poison- ness waste matter that causes aches and in arms and legs, backache, rheu- pains,-sore muscles, stiff or joints, swoli; Isaac B. Turnman, Asbury Park, N.J.,writes: “My back caused me a-great deal of trouble fer sometime. Lexperienced sharp, shooting pains which wero due to the condition of my kidneys. One bottle “f Foley Kidney Pills completely He has gone inside, folding himse! into a space so small that sardines it tins are loose and fluffy in compar! son. K But his patience isn't very long ané if you lay his house down in shallow water you will see presently a‘ claw and a*feeder or two pushed out as © trial. It nothing happens a few feet come out and presently an eye comes ut to the doorJamb and takes a look, If everything seems safe the resi of him ‘comes out and off he goes, house and all. LONDON HAS PILOTS. Pilots who know :London and its traffic conditions have ben retained by the Automobile Association, to guide its-members from the country through the city. The service is free to members. 3 EVER TT TRUE THE GOLIATH THAT WE MUST The above cut is a reproduction of the unusual exhibit of the North Dakota Good Roads Association, week In conjunction with the “Know Bismarck Week? to urge in ts fer the betterment of the city and state, i only that was three bears instead. of pnpland at a price $20 a-ton cheaper | of one. Besides, I hope we don't sit: 4 gchwab, steel Hing. ‘THERE'E NOTHING LIKE PORTABLE HOUSE! | CLUB MEETING OF DISTRICT HERE MAY 28 | The annual meeting of Federation of Clubs for the Eighth District will be-held in Bismarck on the evening of May 23, and will continue through May 24. The general meetings will ibe hbld in theCommunity room of the | City library, with the noon day lunch- {eon on the 24th at a local hotel. The big event of the meeting will be an jaddress by Mrs. Thomas G, Winter of | Minneapolis, General Federation Pres- ident of the National Federation of Women’s Clubs. ivisitors from all the districts include. lin the eighth district will come to Bis- |marck for the meeting. On the afternoon of the 24th, the ‘assembly will go to Mandan to join with the Seventh District for the af- ternoon mect and th visitors will be ithe guests ef Mandan clubs at a five lo’clock dinner at the Lewis & Ciark ‘Hotel, afterward returning to Bis- ‘marck with the Mandan delegation to jattend the evening meeting at the | Auditorium, when the General Feder- i ‘ation President makes her address, rest of Bis- | The program follows: 'Monday, May 23—Community Room eee of City Library -M.—Presentation of Creden- 17:30 P A . tials | With the Movies {8:00 P, M—Community Singing led SS ae | by gira. Jone Lareon Pe : iInvocation—Rev. H. C. Posthlewaite. MILDRED HARRIS, ‘Reading of Minutes. Mildred Harris is the featured play-'Message from, Our State President, er in an all-star cast in “The Woman j Mrs. Lyman Cary. | in His House,” which opens an en- [Appointment of Committees, mage: f two days at the Bitinge |go0TMiss Cyspary: . gagement o! 3 ‘6° ! Talks on the General Work of the De- theater on Thursday. Ramsey Wallace partments, 20 min. each. ig leading man. Others in the cast are |Fine Arts—Mrs. A. G. Jacobson, Vice- ‘Thomas Holding, George Fisher, Gar-| | Chairman. ; a ae eth Hughes, Winter Hall and Richard |American Citizenship—Miss Minnie Hedrick. The picture was directed by|, Jean Neilson, Chairman. John Stahl, It is a First National re- Legislation-—Mrs. Andrew Blewett, base’ t Jamestown, Chairman. 3 i ease Press—Mrs. F. R. Smyth, Editor of Re * community ‘Singing, led by M | Remarkable Remarks | ommuntty Singing, led by Mrs. Lar- —~ : Tuesday Morning—Community Room 9:00—Community Singing, led by Mr&! Larson. Reading of Minutes. Reports of Clubs (3 min. each). Svulo-—-Mrs. Larson. Reports of ' Division Chairmen (10 minutes each). 1 COULD read you letter after let- ter from men, like myself, who never scratched, a Democratic ticket in all the days of their life. I never have and never expect to.—Representative Hudgpeth of Texas. 8 CROPS this year will be the cheap- est raised for a long time—A. W Douglas, chairman of statistics com- mittee. Chamber of Commerce of the United States. i * town. American Citizenship—Mrs. C. A. Cross, Dawson. Applied Education—Mrs.-M. H. Jew- ell, Bismayek. \ P . ‘Public Welfare— Mrs. H. 0. David- WHILE the manufacture of gas for! gon, Mercer. war purposes has stopped, the manu. Reports by County Chairmen— + * facture of gas for poisoning the hu-| wurieign—Mrs. C. L. Young, Bis- an mind is, morg active than ever.’ mare! before, — Representative London of Sheridan—Mrs. H. Dickinson, Me- New York. » .-Clusky., Pores | _McLean—Mrs. Joseph Mann, Wash- GERMANY can put a ton of steel in: | burn. Soursmane Mrs: C. “E. "Boyden, than England can make it.—C H jamestown. 5 ns Eonar Kidder—Mrs, C. A. Cross, Dawson. Pa Election of Secretary-Treasurer. I SHALL never hold public office, /Reports of Committees. Nancy added with a laugh,” “And I} irs. Carrie Ch nC ! Miscellaneous Business. hope they won't chase us out of 2) head, erie Chapman’ Catt, euffrage Questions Answered. 1:00 Luncheon at Hotel. Afternoon Session, ee ee Statutes are little by little encroach-' S War nnnnnannne | ing on personal liberty and soon it; Joint Meeting with the Seventh Dis- trict at Mandan (N. P, train leav- ing at 2:55 Tuesday Evening—Auditorium |8:00—Instrumental Solo—Miss Mary }f you want tobe happy, sleep on! Atkinson. the: floor.—Mlle. Spinelli, French, Duet Messrs. Halverson and Hum- dancer. will be crowdéd out of American life! unless a halt is called.—-Governor Ed- | wards, New Jersey. ee 8 | MEY jAddress—Mrs. Thomas G. Winter, The law of supply and demand is! President Genl. Kederation Wo- as dead as a New England salted , , men’s Clubs. mackerel.—Controlier_ of Currency Solo—Mrs. Bolster. Crissenger. . ;Community Singing, led by Mrs. A. G. Jacobson. I believe that registration for voting Local Committees should be made compulsory for every. Mrs, F. A. Lahr, Chairman qualified man and woman. Those who’ Hospitality—Mrs. D. T. ns. fail to ‘register should be ‘fined and AUtomobile—Mrs. Emma H. Zuger. deprived of their citizenship—Mayor Publicity—Mrs. Florence Davis. Couzens, Detroit. Ushers and Pages—Mrs. N. O. Rams 28 ee 8 es ¢ 4 * stad. Decorations—Mrs. R. S. Towne. Entertainment—Mrs. G .F. Dullam. Credentials—Mrs. D. J. McGillis. 1 ‘Nothing’ can be further from the truth than the idea that Japan is bent on fighting.—Viscount Uchida, Janan- ese foreign minister, - ° Pesca te st Viewing them from the rear, you | POETS’ CORNER can't tell grandmothers nowadays a from the 16-year-old girls.—Mrs. Or- ville T. Bright, Chicago. BY CONDO *LIFE” : (By Lena D, Sheptenko.) ' Life is a school of education, Always work and no vatation. Some people bear burdens hard and strong, Others live in ease and song. Some people shed tears and feel so sad, While others laugh and are so glad. Some people labor for joy, with strife, | And others work to take it from life. Some people strive to make the world better, While others live beneath the fetter, But, rich, poor, great, and small, One great King over all. Life ts only an empty dream Not at all as it may seem. It is only a schdol for education, Our term ends, NO examination! —————_—_——— e Suits Guarantced All Wool New Spring Patterns Made to Your Order relieved me. The pains left my back. “I recom: $22.00 $75.00 All Work Guaranteed Frank Krall TAILOR : ft is expected that delegates and. Fine Arts—Mrs. Don Nierling, James-~ ——_-e<@