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eyeae employees Were paid just before they | PAGE TWO e THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ‘; ; COMPLETED BY © SUPT. MARTIN Many Interesting Items Em- braced in Report—City Supt. Claims Best Year Yet MORE GIRLS THAN BOYS! High School Enrollment Totals) 395—171 Boys and 224 Girls ———_ | The annual report required by the/ state to accompany the application for | state aid has just been completed by, J. Martin, superintendent of the; Bismarck city schools, The report; covers some very interesting items. | Supt. Martin says that the city high schools have just closed a véry suc-! cessful report, one of the very best the city has ever been able to pro duce, Girls Beat Boys. | The girls, as is usually the case, hav the edge on the high school population of 395 by a majority of 53, there be-| ing exactly 171 boys and 224 girls in cludizg the post graduates and sub: freshinen. The enrollment according to classes divided into,boys and girls is as follows: Class Girls Total} Freshmen 54 112 Sophomore 60 3 Juniors 50 Seniors 47 Post Graduates} 2 Sub-Freshman 11 171-224, Grand Total Cost Per Capita. i The per capita cost for education in| marck high school is $120.29. This | cost figure is taken from the fallow- ing sixteen items: Salaries of Board members, clerks, treasurer; salary and| expenses of superintendent; teachers’ salaries; janitors’ salaries; j nitors’ | supplies; general supplies; text | bocks; library \books; water; light| and power; fuel; repairs and improve- | ments; insurance; interest on ar-| rants; interest on bonds; sinking | fund, | A $9,000 Payroll. | Martin said that all the school | Supi, H lett tor the Christmas vacation. The] payroll teachers and janitors, Some ‘additional - interesting facts; embraced in the report follow: Seven-| teen of last year’s graduates are in| collegz, 86 non-resident pupils are at-| tendirg Bismarck’s high school, 18} teachers including the superintendent | have college degrees, ‘three teachers} are specialists. in their respective lines ! including the teacher of manual trai i i education, home ec . etc.; the high school site con tdins 2.06 acres; the assessed valua-| tion cf the school district i $6,896,897 | with a mill levy of 17.26 mills'and the average salary of the janitors is $1, 620 fox twelve months’ work, | S. Strictly Accredited | The Bismarck High School i strictly classified and accredited in| Every sense-of the term both in the state. of North Dakota and with the Northwestern Central Association of | Velleges and Secondary schools. In| this connection Supt. Martin made the} following statement: | “In order that a student graduating | ‘rom any fully accredited high school | such ‘as the Bismarck High school may | enter a University with full freshman rank with no deficiences, it is abso. lutely necessary that the student pur-/ sue throughout his high schéol course! Such studies as will meet fully and| completely the requirements of the! course in the university which he de-! sires to enter. Manifestly, then, a student pursuing, say, the Commer-| cial studies mainly, with English and other required studies, could not exe |e | pect to be admitted to a university in 1 i a in} a4 course looking to a Bachelor of | Arts degree or some degree other than | pared himself in high school, lows then, that parents who their ehuidrer to enter a uni or college after graduation, decide early on the college eeu Consult with the hightschool & ties and thus enable the School auth. orities to arrange the student’s work to correspond with the University or. college work which he or she will ex. pect to pursue after gra ii r high een graduating from ~~ NOT WANTED _ Danville, Il, Dec, 28—An organ-| ized protest of Vermillion cbtinty fer | mers against “gun-toters” or “so- called sportsmen from ourcities and towns” is wsked by Farm Advi Ar- thur Lumbrick - of ‘the Vermillion | County Farm Bureau. He connects | Ped for the life of a quail, the’ rmer’s friend,” with hi r( against hunters, = pee “This is the season,” Mr, Lum- | brick says, “when so called sports- | men are making life on the farm un- | safe for all liying things, even in-| cluding man. | ‘There is said to be much sport in} killing a bag of quail. How about the: value of a quail as food when com-| pared to its value as a destroyer of | insects? At best, there is only a frac | tion of a pound of edible meat on one quail, Weed seeds from more than/| 50 per cent of the quail’s food, wild | fruits about 10 per cent, while from | June to August, insects make up about | 36 per cent of their diet. | ‘The quail is ahout the only bird! that will eat chinch bugs, but it seems; to.relish them. With a chinch bug} scare staring us in’ the face why not} preserve this friend? Gunners tramp | over the farmers mises without | fear or hindrance and nroceed to pump | Jeaden bullets into every living thing, | expect | versity the farmers of the county should wade against such slaughter,” __ amounts to $9,000, just for |ttav: | luxuri \, the latest inventions ‘in . | moters of continental LLMAN. MAY ‘ SOLVE TRANSPORTATION By NEA Service . New York, Dée. 27:—Great Pullman motor buses h eight and 12 whee Vast networks of elevated concrete roads linking al] the important cities. are coming—and com- a current issue‘of Pop- . | Pullman bus. GERMANS TURN © - BUSINESS BYE - TOWARDRUSSIA | Goes To Germany Since | Peace was. Declared Berlin, Dec. 28.—Five thousand Ger- man soldiers, many of them officers of | FORERUNNERS: OF THE MOTOR; ven rank, crossed into Russia slrort- | RAILWAY. BIG SIX-WHEEL BUSES |ily after the'wagr and ‘were either ab- | OPERATED AT AKRON, 0. INSETS, } sorbed in attempts to carry on some | PULLMAN BUS ACCOMMODATIONS | sort of trade or were given employ-| NOW IN USE IN EUROPE. {ment in,the Red army. They are trade; Pe {scouts who are being counted on to, will give severe competition to, if|torm a powerful factor in the parleys | they do not supersede, present rail-| which must follow establishment of | way lines, | stable commercial relations. ping buses will be run at night,; Scores of Germans are employed | rushing’ at express train speed on by the Russian government in tech- | their overhead concrete roads. {nical capacities, and others are living | There'll be no racking jars, no \with the Soviets against the day they | swaying and creaking at sharp turns,!can resume the big prospective com- no shrieking of whistles at grade!merciai’ fight which would follow a crossings, no soct andismoke forcing change cf government or a recogni-! hrough the window cracks. ‘tion of the Seviet rule. Alrcady three forerunners of the! Big business. men in Germany are! new method of transportation can be jturnfng to Ruasia’jin the hope that! seen: tabilization of the government and SSRN SONATA SN SN ON#? Motobus transportation has | exploitation of the resources of that eached a high stage of development ; country will help save Central Europe MRS, DELLA KUNZE, mm the Pa coas You can travel |from‘an economic chaos which. many , Chicago, 11, trom Mex i, Mexico, to .Portland,!profecs. to believe lies only a few pet iced Ore.—1000 miles in motor buses., {months ahead. - } Tw» Buses run regularly from Lon=| Hugo Stinnes, the most powerful don to. the seashore. Instead of a por- | financial figure in Germany, whose ter. 2 valet and maid accompahy each | pre-war intetests in Russia were ex- | tensive, holds that German industrial= THRWE: Private elevated roads are|ists must deal with Russia to save sccupying the attention of many traf-j themselves ang possibly the old world | Store fic experts. A $5,000,000 corporation | from industrial stagnation. [seeps ts has heen organized at Chicago to build| Felix’ Deutsch, director general oti, 1 eat with BO much zene and ane an elevated motor road from Chicago ; the German General Electric company | Joyment BOW, that my: samy really, to Muwaukeey ‘which bad yast investments in Russia, |0Ke me about ;it. A short time ago “Tt understand now why so many pecple praise Tanlac as I have,tried it myself and it certainly is a won- derful «medicine,” said Delle Kune, 856 Lill Ave. Chicago, valued employee of the Boston Department AIRPLANE WITH 24 PASSENGERS - ~ TSUP-T0-DATE Fixed Up Like Transcon- tinental Express mple proof that; now reached the same us s ds as‘ travel by land | was given in the seventh annual aero | salon held here. No lcenger need prospective air trav-| ellers hesitate for lack of convenience, | comfort and experts say, also safety. | Danger from fire and engine trouble has been>reduced to a minimum |by | jation. Pro- | ir transporta-— tion guarantee smoother travel through the air at a speed of 125 miles} an hour than is possible-to experi-' ence on even the slowest of trains. | The airplane will play a most im- | portant part in the Red Cross work of | future . Adr gdperating rooms with full equipment and-air ambul-, nees for ses are a prac- ! less urgent. tical reality. Segeral, unusual ma-} chines were shown to prove this, one a mplete xero hospital, a ommodat- | ing two-patients on stretchers, a,doc- tor and an nt with complete op- ,eratiag necessities including a‘table.|other more serious exploits, are com- The newest s whilizing appliances per- | mit the surgeon to operate while the | Machine goes through.space at 100 miles an hour. ‘There were several} air ambulances with space for two or, four wounded 'seldiers, i The last word in deluxe air travel a tremendoues > built to arry 24 passengers at a speed of 130 miles an hour. It is a veritable “air limited” with all the features-of an American transcontinental express ex- It con- smoking-room comfortable lounge vhich are made into beds for night travel, card tables, a kitchen- ette, icebox and stove. Room is also w of three. Increased size in wings is provided on all late machines! as means of in- creasing stability. Some of the pas- nger machines have lookout cab- ins for observers and one machine two tail seats for experienced air travelers. : _“BREAKING UP THE FOX” After the hounds have caught the fox, its brush is usually presented | peast or bird. A united protest from | to the fairest of the ladies in the hunt. Then the tox is tossed to the hounds, be | 48 you see in this picture. This is called “breaking up the fox.” {was taken at the meet of the New Forest Foxhounds in England, : |has endeavored recently to arrive at} Seek Judgment - Of Bankruptcy Against Ingersoll New York, Dec:.28—An_ involun- tary petition in bankruptcy was filled in the fegeral court against Robert H. Engersol, manufacturer of the Inger-! sol watches of this city. Liabilities | were et forth as three million and| assets as two million dollars, { THE ASCENT OF MOUNT EVEREST. Brigadier-General C. G. Bruce Accepts. Leaderhip For Next Year ° the operation of the company's prop- | !0sing weight and strength every day leienunere: ri Via Ue 2 jand T suffered so much from indiges: Walter Rathenau, nominal head of | tion and nervousnéss that I was on ithe ‘hoard of directors of the German |the brink of a breakdown. — jGeneral Electric Company is te-| ‘There are absolutely’ ho words that ported to share the views of Stinnes | can express my deiight at the remark- and Deutsch that Germany cannot 'able and immediate results I obtained vantages. | way. Instead of beifig depressed and Gérman manufacturers have had the ; melancholy and tired and worn out I lion’s share of Russian trade since the /am full of Jife and energy and cheer- conclusion of peace and they have!ful and happy all the’ time. dealt on a cash basis. Thousands of | gained twelve pounds \in weight, too.” {tons of merchandise have been shipped | jinto the Soviet country, but’ disorgan- 'seph Brelow and by leading drug: ization of Russian railroad tratfic | everywhere.” Advertisement. early in the winter hit-the Germans a | ~ hard blow, and forced them to store} many train loads of goods on the northwest frontiers. there. The concern did not progress jand ultimately sublet its rights to a ae ae a: tenant farmer who was the sole per- | ‘manent eccupant of the island for a! | quarter of a century. i * \ Last spring the Canadian govern-} |ment desired to break the lease and} | took action upon a clause which pro- | i» i Little French Girl, Threatened, By German Soldiers, Re- fused to Talk nullified at any time Canada wanted ; the island “for military purposes.” The military force was, dispatched | forthwith and the island became mili- tary area of Canada. “ | ‘Winter evacuation was decided u |‘ on.to save the “army” from the rigors of field duty during the months of) low temperature. London, Dec. 28.—Brigadier General Charles Granville Bruce who, despite his 55 years, has accepted the leader- | ship of next year’s ascent of Mount Byerest, ig,a man of remarkable at- talents. “He was shot through both legs in Gallipoli and, as he himself de- scribes the event, “he rolled down, the hill like a shof rabbit,” but, being an irrepressible optimist, he recovered. His personal strength is such that he could at one time raise and hold out at arm’s length a well grown person as he sat in a-chair. Stories of his! strength, his practical jokes and of! Paris, Dec. 28.—Heléne Jacquemin, | who has just been distinguished py a| Official Journal in recognition of her ‘gravely at the age of ten, lived in a little town, Montherme, in the Ar-, dennes, which department was entire- ly occupied .by the Germans through- out the war. 1 | Helene’s services were on the’ same | lines as those of Miss Cavell in Bel- gium. Her father, Paulin Jacquemin, with the help of Helene and her ‘broth- | er, Andre, organized a service for aid-| ing the young men of the department to get away to join the French army. | Routes through the Ardennes forests were Jaid out by which those stout to Teach military, age, instead of being sent to Germany, could escape to: the| Belgian frontier, thence through Hol land, and so back to France. They al-| 89 organized a courier postal service | between France and the occupied de-| partment. | In 1415, some German soldiers pre- sentad themselves at the Jacquemin | home and.said that they®had orders to search it. The father tried to es- cape to the forest near, but a bullet brought him down on his threshold. ' The mother and Helene then ten! years old, were arrested. “But we re- fused to say.a word,” Helene recounts, “Wwe had sworn rather to die than peak. No trick nor «threat could break our resolution. They separated mon property throughout northern India, where he has commanded a Gurkha regiment for years. ‘His passion has always been moun- taineering. More than once he brought one of hi’ Gurkhas home with him. One he took with him to Switzer- land, where the Gurkha’s uncanny skill in scrambling up impossible places produced great shaking of heads among the Swiss guides who had never before seen anything like it. Should he be compelled to leave the final peak to younger men, his vigor and thoroughness as an organizer and his experience as a leader of men will be invaluable, his friends say. CAN'T SING EVIDENCE. London, Dec. 28.—Attorney for Lon- don Theater of Varieties offered a song as evidence in a suit brought by the Performing Right Society for in- fringement of copyright. He was warned against singing the song, for that would be an infringement. ene Duluth, Minn. Dec. 28.—James Dyer, with both legs amuptated, a victim of the severe cold of the north woods, recently “graduated” from the school of the Goodwill Industries, to take up a new trade which, through his affliction, became necessary, | Dyer formerly followed the trade of | the simple woodsman, a foreman in a} legging camp. With his wife-and small | child he lived happily in a small log! shack, adjacent to the camp. Barly} in the winter of 1912 his wife became | serivusly ill. Departing from his cab- | in in a fierce biizzard by night to seek | medical aid from the nearest town, ; twelve miles away, Dyer became lost. | He wandered about in the woods for | fifty-six hours with the temperature: forty degrees below zero. Becoming | exhausted, the woodsman fell helpless | in a snowdrift only a short distance | from a settlement. He was found a/| short iime later. Both feet were hope- lessiy frozen. In the meantime the fnother, with | only the baby girl standing vigil, | me and my mother so as to force me! ‘ied. Neighbors took care of the baby to speak but I felt that my poor father | Until weeks later, after he had re-| was pear me, telling:me #6 say noth- from the shock‘of his terrible! ing.” : 1@) : H ice in the woods and the double | *| Helene is now -at the Girls’ High {i ion, Dyer hobbled to his honie. | School at Charleville, where her ci- d from the affliction of the| tation just published has made her the work ‘he knew tanything about. | | heroine of the day. a public institution. Dyer constituted | ever graduated by the! oodwill school. But members | taiioring, dressmaking, cabinet | work and furniture making will soon | jbe ready to graduate, said a director, | who has charge of a reclamation de-| partment. : . ADMIRAL DAVIS DEAD ae Dec, 23.—Rear Admiral | out, Dyer was forced to give up be-| Eparges. cause cf the long hours they required. cee ea. 3 . rom this institution to accept a salar- fied job ina i shop. His wages, he} out fort or military-guard can be re- stated today as a fact, following the | | corporal and his “army” consisted of! . ——— ;One private. They were withdrawn) A woman conducts an extensive dog | i | It has an area of about 30 acres and | is one of the most picturesque spots| |Dyer learned to cook and found wor Her elder brother graduated from|im a restaurant. This job, and others? St. Cyr Military College in 1914 and {Which required considerable hobbling | was killed a few months after at |° | Appealing to the local Goodwill | schooi, Dyer was assigned to the shoe jmending department, ;months time he became a proficient | |cobbier, and he has been graduated | ane | says, will be sufficient to educate his | y aN | Buffalo, Dec. 28—The claim that the 2,000 mile boundary line between the United States and Canada is with- eRhcrawal of a military force which! all summer and fall occupied Navy | Charles Hen is, retired, bri : & , |, brother: ; Island, in the! Niagara river just in-law of Senator'Lodge of Mass. ied | above the Fails, jat his home here today. He was 76 The commaifant of the force was a (years old and a‘native of Béston, { on orders from Ottawa and sent tp! farm at Skagway Alaska. winter quarters at Toronto. Navy Island was awarded to Can-! Bi ada whew the boundary, line along the} | Niagara frontier was drawn by treaty. in the Great Lakes chain. Many years ago the Canadian gov-/ Ml 9) ernment leased Navy Island to'a Buf-| | falo corporation which proposed to; | aims establish @ vineyard and orchard a CAPSULES ‘Seccesstat ‘ach Capsule $ bears name £2 Leware of counterfr This photo however, I had absolutely no appetite |* some agreement with the Russians for |@8d was eating so little that J was much iofger neglect her Russian ad-|from Tanlac.. It benefited me in every’ si | MAY SUBMIT SUB QUESTION || TO NEW PARLEY | { (Continued from Page- 1) ‘join with her in a treaty designed to | preserve peace in European waters, In the deliberations of subdivision$ }of the conference there appeayed .a | growing tendency to leave’ details of ithe Washington negotiations to he worked out by continuing commissions which would report directly to the yyarious foreign offices, or to future conferences. Two or three such com- missions already have been_ decided, and it is indicated in administration circles that the whole scheme ot con- | tinuing “consultations. among repre ‘sentatives of the powers was regard- hed by President Harding as fitting in {with his proposal for a future series of international meetings. Should no agreement on auxiliary ; craft be possible “here, it was de- clared Mr. Harding would feel that | an understanding for another confer- ence ‘on that subject would be an in- ‘ tegral part of the unfinished Washing- ton negotiations. He was described | as desiring that many of’ the nations not represented ‘here be invited to join. a futyre auxiliary warship dis- | cussion making the meeting virtually |a world conference. | Washington, Dec. 28.—(By the As- | sociated Press.)—Hope for an agrec- mert to limit submarine tonnage was declared to ‘have heen abandoned to day at the meeting ,of the-Armament.|' , Conference Naval Committee. The demands of France for a minimum | submarine tonnage of 90,000 tons was declared by delegates to’ have closed the door to any agreement, the Amer- -| ican compromise proposal having been rejected finally and completely by the French. |LA FOLLETE SEES BIG PLOT AGAINST NATION <(Continued from_Pageé 1) C. & O., W. B, Storny of the Atchison, R. S. Binkert,~assistant to the chair- man of the Association of Railway Eyecutives/in Now York. j “The iron and steel industries were represented by J. A. Campbell of the Youngstown sheet & Tube compan) }of Youngstown, 0.,and C. E. Bement tof Langsing, Mich., representing the {Novo Engine company. i “Railway supply organizations were |represented by A. B. Johnson, Pre I've|dent of the Railway Business asso- ' growth, “Tanlac- is sold in Bismarck by Jo-/ >» ays y WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28 tion of Philadelphia, and Frank W. Noxon, secretary of the same assoc ciation. Lumber inete:ésts were rep- resented by Charles Hill of the Scuthern Pine anil Sales corporation of New York, A. B. Hammond of the riaminond Lumber company of San Francisco, J. M. Buowne of the Pa- cific Lumber company, New York | City. . Farm. Bureau Represented “Construction companies were rep- resented by R. C. Marshall, Munsey building, ‘Washington, D. C., and E. T. Trigg of Philadelphia. “The National Industries Trade League was represented by W. H. Chandler of ‘Boston, Mass., and J. H. Beck, Chicago. 1 “The National Association of Man- facturers were represented by J.-A. Emery of Washington, D. C. “The ulti"al interests were’ represen‘ed by 1. FR. ‘Silvar, H. Kons: Bradfute cf Chicago. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY FOR SALE OR RENT--§ ern .seven-room hous Phone 751 or 151. 7 mod Inanire 12-28-3t FOR RENT—Furnished rooms in modern house. 38 Rosser, on corner of Mandan Ave. Phone 914. 12-28-8t VANTED—Positicn. A hustler and handy man at anyth'ng. Erneri- enced in several trades; also in bus- iness, wants work at anything. Write Tribune. 320. 12-28-3t Tyoctor, Obstetrician; “Neversslip” has grown rapidly in favor for five years. al card for sample and descriptive lit- erature. — “Neversslip” Laboratory, Wenona, III. | WOMEN CUSTOMS “MEN.” Brussels, Dec. 28.— Belgium have a corps of women searchers, They will make visits to frontier stations and s women passengers on trains from {ermany to “down-to-the-skin” search. will customs Bobolink is called the reed bird in ~ Pennsvlvania and the rice bird in tho | Carolinas. (fost cocoanuts drop from tre2s in the night, after.about 14 months of vided that the instrument would be} * | Instant Relief! Ton’t stay stuffed-; nose running; relieves headache, dull- up! TOSTART ANEW. In eighteen | - daughter, who has been cared for at. sie ey “Pape’s Cold Compound” Breaks any Cold in a Few Hours . Quit blowing and snuffling! A‘ ‘hess, feverishness, sneezing. _|dose of “Pape's Cold Compound” tak-! “Pape’s Cold Compound”’ is the ‘én pvery two hours until three doses | quickest, surest relief known and are taken usually breakS any right up. The first dose opens clogged-up nos- trils and air passages of head; stops cold; costs only.a few cents at drug stores. Ty acts without assigtance. Tastes nice, Contains no quinine. Insist up- on Pape’s. , \ Adv. ¢ \ We welcome this oppor- ~- tunity to greet our, host of : friends and to tell them how much we appreciate their good will as we enter into the year that marks our 20th milestone. (° Manchester Biscuit Company SIOUX FALLS, S.D. and FARGO, N. D. \ - The Bakers of Bie ee _- B16 Sioux BISCUITS Cookie-Cakes and Crackers Direction Valleau Theatre Company TON IGHT BETTY COMPSON \ in “PRISONERS OF LOVE” Pathe News... ......-Topies of the Day THURSDAY g WILL ROGERS in... ...“AN UNWILLING HERO” WM. 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