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‘SHE BISMARCK TRIBUN Eling for the criminal, the drifter, the disturber sre arnt eo” postcmtica, Bist i, ak, De’ os Second q and the parasite as community liabilities. Rnraresyiat tne Poet ee | Man, by congesting in cities, has robbed boy- _____ | rood of its rightful heritage—the Great Outdoors de ae it y GEORGE! D.MANNe ie = tn as for wholesome sport and development. Virtually ‘A one eereee a ANY imprisoned, many: follow the wrong road. PTT IAND f PORTS’ CORNER | WEAR A FLOWER FOR.MOTHER, Won't you wear'.a: little posy on the eight of May? then, have Mothers’ day. ; CHICAGO DETROIT | If cities had given boys better attention a de- SP desc Stat ry aE RCC ; Marquette Bg sURNS AND SMITH Bidg-| cade or two ago, there would:now be less crime—| fant hind will do; NEWYORK .- | - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg.| and better public spirit. Yount, tes). Bi pauefaction that to —_—_—————————————— ‘ / 2 7 ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use| It’s not too late to correct the evil. Chicago for publication of all‘news credited to it oe not other sets a good example. Bismarck might profitably | ceues dri: (higy paver: and also. ths) local news Pee BOY WEEK. as.an aftermath to the All rights of publication of special disputches herein are {jn half of boy welfare just closed. also reserved. | ’ ' | ow e it i MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by career, per year. ieeareny oe Hs a mail, per year (in Bismarck) . é me Daily by mail, ber year (in state outside Bismarc 5.00) MAKING ’EM HAPPY , Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota ......+eee++ 6.06 The three Turkey-gobbling nations make it THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER \Glear in their agreement that they are “anxious! (Establighed 1873) | to help Turkey develop her resources.” The result Why is money called “the root of all evil”? Probably because we have to dig for it. Rect | wjll be “more happiness for the Turks.” pol ———?$ $$ MORE “GAS” IN SIGHT When man discovers that he needs something, | gevelop their resources. They did that very thing. indulgent-old Mother Nature, smiles ahd says: “All right, Boy, here it is!” Man has been worrying himself lately about the! hunting grounds! impending famine of gasoline. | Scientists figured it all out—just how many} more days the world’s visible supply of crude oil) would last. It sounded like the final gasp of a run-down battery when the engine won’t turn) over at 12 below zero. i Now comes the news—that the Mackenzie River; region of Canada has 300,000 square miles of land| under which are enormous quantities of oil. | Also—of perhaps more immediate importance —is the activity in the Tar Sands district of Al- berta, which is-simply soaking in oil. There are 180 cubic miles of these tar sands, containing enough oil to supply the world several centuries, at present consumption. The oil strike at Fort Norman, on the Macken- zie, was made by prospecting geologists employed | by the Imperial Oil Company, a Canadian’ sub- sidary of John D.’s. The head geologist of the| expedition, T. A. Link, is quoted as saying that this wide area will develop into an old field rival- ing Mexico’s big prodction. Step on the throttle and trust Nature to fur- nish the juice! Your brilliant Christmas necktie: will make a beautiful summer sash for Daughter. MORTGAGING YOUR FUTURE Having paid your income tax, you and other Not, many centuries ago nations came to the New World, fully as anxious to help the natives And the natives were made happy. Indeed, most of them were rushed right off to their happy Another reason we all like to work hard these| days is that we know a certain hole where the/ fish are bitin’. _ - IS YOUR CHILD A PRODIGY? There may be: parents in Bismarck who: read | with envy the stories about child prodigies of whom an unusual crop has appeared lately. And they may‘ wonder with resentment at the ways of nature that make of their boys just ordi- nary youngsters, while endowing a boy in New he spells and uses familiarly. This child has been interviewed and is quoted as saying: . , “Children are all very well, but they do not understand me. They see I am interested in teaching them things, and they. want to do noth- ing but play. I like 'to play, but it’s a different sort of playing. . It could be called playing with a purpose. The ‘kids around. here play for no reason at all.” \ Poor little prodigy! Nature has given him a grown-up brain and robbed him of his childhood. He likes to: play “with a- purpose.” Other chil- dren play because their, joyous béing tells them to.. There’s no ‘purpose in their play, ‘but the joy of it. : ; * 10 CAPTURE STA fo enti eS BOYS’ OLUB MEMBERS MAKE PLANS TE CHAMPIONSHIP ‘Mr. Cooper,| Dr. Stewart Pattgn, neuro-biology lec) Afar or near, long day or year Wesley Cooper of Sargent Coun- ty Has Held: the Honor in North Dakota—Other Rivals Spring Up Seeking Position. Members’ of boys’ clubs in Sargent county are once more making/plans to capture ithe corn-raising champtonship of North Dakota. For the past three years Wesley Cooper, 16-year-old son of Charles ‘H; Cooper of Brampton, scuthwestérn; Sargent county,\has held the claty Breet cgen-raleing cham- pionship-tor the state. He is making big plans to go ahead this' year.and show the batend#’ of North Dakota | work for the children. who represents his district on the county board of commissioners, /is no slouch of a corn raiser himself, having produced. a field last year, which conservative Jowans estimated; would average well about 75 bushels to the acre, Resse | Remarkable Remarks | To work together and at reasonable wages will cause civilization to sur vive.—Charlds M. Schwab, steel mag nate. 2 eee ‘National, hospital day,"May 12, is the themselves of the actual facts in the care of war veterans.—General John! J. Pershing. se 8 Bolshevism and the tendency to, think in terms of class distinction are defense reactions ‘of inadequates, afraid of facing their own problems.— niversity. * Nine-tenths of our troubles grow out of commercial rivalry, and nearly all of the wars in the last century have been purely commercial.—Representa- tive Sisson of Missouri. * turer, Princeton * (Every act which, tends to support the present Russian regime, whether for sentiment or trade, is a hindranc? to the restoration of law and inter- national justice.—Elihu Root, France gets more pleasure in send- ing her boys to run on our cinder paths than America did in’ sending her athletes over to’ march in the Just a flower of purest fragrance, for our best and truest friend, She who stands by you in trouble and a helping hand will lend; She who laughs when you are happy and who cries when you are sad. She who looks with disapproval when » you happen to be bad. Just a posy, any color, so she'll know ,you don’t forget. She'll be happy in the feeling that you're thinkéfig of her, yet; Brey though sho hes departed, wear a “flower on this day, Think of mother, here and yonder, ‘on the eighth day.of May. | Florence Gluck. CHEER UP! (Ly Florence Borner) “Cheer up!” says the robin, “Why must you be sad, ‘While I am a feeling So happy and glad? You will miss half your tife If you act like a dunce; So cheer up, and cheer up, And do it at once. “Cheer up!” says the cricket, “The world is so bright, That I keep on chirping From morning to night; Do not sigh and lament, If the whole world seems wrong; But cheer up, and cheer up. And help things along. “Cheer up!” says the worker, “There's so much to Ho, ‘That no’ one-#hould loiter, ” Untill the work’s through; The whole world is calling, Upon you today, i c ‘So cheer up, and cheer up, And hasten away.” MY STAR. Who said, “Hitch your’ wagon to a star?” f | Who needs inapirat‘on from afar? | God hitched’ my: wagon to my star— ‘+ OMY MOTHER, | I need no other. —JUDGE HENRY NEIL. Father of Mothers -Pensions. a — "AT THE MOVIES | The: William Fox production “The Lamplighter,” in which Shirley Ma- son will be seen at the Bismarck the- ater, beginning tonight, is reported to be an exceedingly dainty picture, ad- mirably suited to this dainty star. The story of “The Lamplighter” was written by Maria Susanna Cummins, It will serve as.a reminder that we Cia > oy sen ats a we el Fi é . cece a SARS is *| that t ‘cognty is the ‘best in i residents of Bismarck scowled at the hole in your; Prodigies must be lonely children, because they | whi epiaic ora, and that he is}, National May 12 i tho| her, |and the production was directed by gales KE : bankroll and hoped for a rest. Then along come] are not understood by the children of their size, ite, eee corm grower in ‘Sargent| time for citizens generally, 1) Me Dal power. melee the role of a + * i local taxes. " _ “.|and are too small to be the companions of. chil-|..Bugrygung Wesley isn’t going ‘to — - : | young girl who, as a baby, has been j | = Each year, it seems, the assessor needs a high-|dren of their mental age. spite anor Gince. irene ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS Sr aad tp ser ctenibycet the ned i A er and higher tax-rate to run our county and| , Give us the average, regular boy, who plays! son, ot, oi: Hove. who lives just By Olive Barton Roberts of: a vicious woman.in charge of her. 1 Hi municipal government. ‘ ye hard, just for the fun of it; and works hard when aoey ine uy a {fou ‘the Ao Hy ‘ore - — ——— - } aller many. strange gaperiences oho i i Each year, too, the community debt grows. —|he has to;:and makes a good showing. in school, pens beaten ee to ra atone There was a horrible buzzing:near). “They 100k to me . like ‘two, very | Leta cet etable, oberacter } H | Hoy total gross indebtedness of the 146 leading/ though not shining; and can put up a good fight,| ®t the finish, | just 2.7 bushels be: eens ee UO cee aa enn cae Mr. Bee informed) who helps assuage. the girl's suffer- { ai . tye . = i] a iC Lary fe ‘ re ~ i! | 4 i] American cities increased up to 1919, latest fig-| though he never looks for one. ‘ hinds iia the heey lee bodber’ ben boys were hanging by their toes). “Nothing of the sort!” shorted Mrs. | aa story is of intensely absorbing } i ures available, is shown by the following data fur-| ‘The men:who count for something were regular! year... And besides Lancy, 20 other| | Buttér-Hall Brows . Bear, tasting Bee furiously. “They're bears! And) interest, an its star, ac | “" Nished by the B noftt : “ nen ing reg | joys Sargant county haveventered| honey, locked around in alarm. | “Oh, they are eating our honey, Come on, | +, , Ha a eters ihe aes pecording Hh PUSH DV Ste er ean Onser enue ~ -boys. Pins : the contest and are out after state | Jiminy!” he svid to Billy-Bunch. “here | everybody,” she called back to het: roles of lier screen Geer were , i { : Per ws) es EN and ‘county honors this year, accord-|they come! Here come all the bees. eters and Pe une Bod her anal fee eee f Wed ji i * i . | ing’ to: entries: made with the county) home,” — who were following: . “Let's chase!’ Some of the most remarkable | _ Total Debt. Resident; ‘The question, ‘Who lost the war?” will not be} club leader, Irving, Courtice ‘ot Tore| Billy-Bunch, licking his fingers, | them!” achievements in the use of wild ani- Hi | .. $3,702,273,000 $118.28} definitely answered until history records the} man. i ae i stopped long enough a eb Oh, fg oush! Pasoreatiled: Bator tel ati mals for a motion Picture are ai to : \ ? x ‘. ‘Ralsed 72 Bi to A on’t. worry. addy sai ed 8to: ees swarmed over his eyes ave been accomplished in the pro- | 2,747,909.000 97.62| amount of indemnity paid by the Germans. Wesley Cooper aateed 2 bushels of} them if he ‘heard them coming.” | ears and nose and everywhere clse.| duction of the James Oliver Curweod . ! { as : 1,395,710,000 66.88! corn er. sete: a 1918. 115 F buahols But Butter-Ball looked worried. ans rQopo-t6e1” yelled Billy. Bunch ee {be ory, one ics comes to. the HY ny et per acre in ), an bushels per | z-z-zing sound was coming nearer an e: e same thing to him. ey Inge theater iy. j | ' An BVETORE municipal debt of $118.28 for each A é WHEN WILL YOU DIE . acre in 192 This year he is out) Mr. Bruin wasn’t making any attempt | both let go at the same time and came! (Most remarkable of all is said to ' 3 i inhabitant of the 146 leading cities! That was the; The kindof work you are doing determines thej to beat his mark set in 1918, which| to stop;them. . Mr. Bruin was provok- | down sith a thump. oe be the work. dione by ithe | woltdog ; ii ‘ i 1 ill li was an exceptionally good corn year] ed at his sons, so. was Mrs. Bruin, for| “Ouch!” screamed Butter- as| who plays the part of “Kazan the i figure fu 1919. It, has grown since then — is number of years you probably will live. in this part of the state, ‘He uses] she has a headache and wanted her|the bees scarmed over his eyes ‘and Killer.” In one scene this dog is | mounting steadily. The Department of Labor investigates the Minnesota 18) seed, manures is land) honey, Butter-Ball avd Billy-Buneh | ears and ose and everywhere else.| shown with bis mate, a real welt | *, . : 1 7 H i % in the fall, plows six inches deep in ly taki their ti but “Qooo-eee!"” yelled Billy-Bunch as the | an er er of whelps in eir q : Maybe it doesn’t seem like a big amount. But death rate in many different occupations. It the ‘spring, cultivates twice, drags ST itey as ele aaa bees did the same thing to him, They| cave. In another scene the great, { interest has to be paid on it—and that interest |finds that the average death age in these lines of twice and drils in his seed. He will] za-z-r2-a!” came the sounda, all both tet go ot “the ‘same tine and Dinh curtysiired: dog. chases and is added to your taxes. : on: | work, for both met and haa is 48. this year. ‘Through the advertising he TENOR: it sounded like “Z-2-2-2-2!" to craven Nancy EY Nick ea Fuppety-| catries his ‘prey back to the cave 5 Naturally, municipal indebtedness varies in| How long will you live? ; eaent | has received as state corn club-cham| the pear boys, and it would to you and | Flapp, watiing in the bears’ house un- | 4nd {te inmates. different ¢ ‘ Possibly the answer is in the following list of| Pim. he has had many callsfor seed) me," put honest to goodness ‘this is|der the old oak tree; heard them. att OheuaL fr e , i \ corn, and has been able tosell his) nat it meant in bee-language:. “For-|“H-m!” said the fairyman grirfty. |/« as CTR Hl You'll obs€rve, from the census figures, that; occupations and average age of dedth, as com- aha at a. Bord BHC dvocate of the| evermore! What are those things | “Somebody's dropped more than a re- og da Ihr a esis Shown a Be American municipal ‘indebtedness has increased! Piled by the department: . Caney Hove ie ae planting and 4a| Ransing. outside our house?” Vt was)marky” | | A Pgramount picture of more than eo nearly 80 per cent in\16 years. At this rate, by; . Farmers: .:....¢-sejeeeseeeeesse+ 58 [firmly convinced that thie method is! Mrs, Wild. Bee talking. (Copyright, 1921, N. E, A.) | averass. mnerit-a George Fitzmaurice 1950 the average city dweller will.be carrying a} Bricklayers .,.... S227) 55. Tsupertor to aitiingvin: the-corn. He ~ | will: feature attrac: Bie a : . % | will plant: a four-acre field this. year. tion at the Bismarck theater for three municipal debt of close to $400 each. ~~ °: |: Coal miners... 61, Lancy. pold the,.corp from:three acres EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO | days beginning Monday .next. Tho ‘ 1 Cigarmakers 50 in 1919 for feed and recetved $225) ~ featured player is Dorothy Dickson a f r Peseeeee for it, or a gross return of $75 per IR. TUE, | well known dancer of ‘New York, and A sales tax is a consumer’s:tax. So are nearly, ‘Textile workers . 48 | acre, ‘Both lads are using last year’s she is supported by an cceeptionally . i ini / to ‘land which to plant their} © clever corps of players. : all others, for that matter. ie Machinists sed sere 44 re anata cone pia jhe story deals with the idle rich oleae ee ebaniart A ae ey | Plumbers '.. 40 i gee Rivalé Brother | of the great ietropolis,'who are hard- STEP BACK—BOYS FIRST! Blacksmiths ....... BE: | eeles Coupes ie noe. ee oa Because of their wealth, When those % ' lebrity in the family in club wor! wealth. What’s a boy worth to the community? Chi-| Laborers .........+ Be | a ery ee ccaoner, Jes Yeleven | directly concerned in the narrative ' i ‘i | Bakers ..... | Id a t about half the size | become igpoverishe eir regenera- cago| beehive of nearly 3,000,000 pepole, will find; Bakers : 50 | yoart Old and ii fem potatoes | tion is aceamplished. ‘There are num- out. It sets aside a whole week, beginning May, _—‘!von molders . 48 | for the family larder and selling what | eroug thrills inthe development of 6, in honor of Boyville. | Roustabouts AT | is left over. Last year he produced | this highly interesting theme. The ae ‘ 4 | Pri : | 309 bushels of Early Ohios-to the | Picture has been produced with un- No funds solicited. No tag-days. Merely a: rinters 40 | acre, winning: the county champion- | usual attention to dtail; and many of drive to arrest thought and concentrate attention Office workers ............ sunites 736 | ship and a trip.to the Asriaulcarat | th sets are said to be magnificent. - 4 F \ Hl ah =. wai | College'at Fargo as a reward. Charles é . on the boy and his problem—and'how to make! Railway engincmen and trainmen... 87. | jeg Sever been outside of the county him grow up into a crackerjack citizen. 1 Railway track and yardmen....... 51 | before, and he, is working bard for There’s a drive worth while. Chicago thinks Painters and Paperhangers. . 49 the championship gain to get a sec: 2 o ° ond (rip. He has also entered the it’s needed. | Teamsters and chauffeurs......... 42 sheep project, so that if by any chance The Chicago Rotary Club, for instance, com-, 4 farmer has the best chance of living longest.| wee Balnioes tall San ie he pletes a survey of the city’s boy-life. The sur, An office.workez’s life averages the shortest. | ‘Last, but by je ameans. comes dad HEReS UNO TRE mr = 4 a | icusly, si “eo ara “ nd mother. r. and Mrs: Charles 0 UBT ABOUT How You ree vey shows that out of 325,000 boys between the’ Obvicusly, since thcsc aré only average figures, | Cooper have been farming in Sargent| | BUT OTHER PGOPLS ASE VERY feARIDLY ages of 10 and 20, only a sixth are being reached they dq not apply to a! workers in any of the} county for more than 39 years, a WHEN “ou START THAT SPIEL by agencies engaged in specified work f ' occupations. oth are sttong adrocates, of Oe = = ‘or boys—. , { ; : constructive agencies. Plenty of destructive. We all know f2rmcrs who have died young. And agencies are working on the six-sixths. ‘ occasionally in an office you find an old man who ° PS id by The Chicago Union League Foundation has a100ks as if he came over with Columbus. | ala ag Made to’ Your Order tp boys’ club in one of the most congested wards. But the figures do reveal the effects of hazard) | DAILY PHOTO: < It finds that juvenfle delinquency has increased | 24 indoor confinement on a worker’s lifetime.| | w BISMARCK. NORTH DAKOTA ~ $22 00 in that ward 71 per cent in the last year. They should be of ‘especial interest to the young) | Kaewhell over the Northwest for Quality tee : These facts have roused Chicago business men. 2" uncertain about what line of work he will|||° MAIL US YOUR FILMS © They have organized to furnish supervised ‘club | {0llow through life. : : $75 00 work for local boys. This means that busi: } : ° i 5 usiness | Brae thes te is egies f men, in studying the importance of the human| =he British Lion is having acute indigestion. All Work Guaranteed factor, are reaching the conclusion that the adult! : ; 5 iS problems which disturb society are in large de-| Last year 2260 American coal miners were kill-' CAPSULES Fr ° a) ig gree the ripened fruit of neglected boyhood. ed in mine fatilities, One miner died for every Mi DY a I Developing the boy as a potential social asset Fresthanny pegalieh ee ee a TAILOR is wiser business antl sounder economy than pay- ‘