The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1922, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THE BISMARCK T RIBUN Ethan worry in lowering the body’s resistance Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second |2&41n t germs * Class Matter. } GEORGE D. MANN - : : Foreign Representatives 2 G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY DETROIT Kresge Bldg. | | | = Editor | DEBT | All is not gloom. The national debt was re- lduced another $50,000,000 during January. That brought it down to $28,388,544,236. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH A staggering figure, to look at. But it’s only z a A a Fifth Ave. Bldg. Le Sepia : aEN aaa OF THE ASSOCIATED =e = bout $212 for each American—and less than $125 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use |if Europe pays what she owes us. for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or! Jew of us would consider that’a real burden, not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local)... news published herein. \if it were a payment due on an auto or house. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein | gfe AE are also reserved. . JEST MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION _ | Lenin has a sense of humor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVAN Asked recently, how many CHICAGO Marquette Bldg. ‘name is Ulianov. il; i Be Serer . $7. . A P te pay ty fall, per yeut (in Bismarck) *21551°7'99 icommunists were left in Russia, he is reported to] Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).. 5.00 have said: | Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota... ‘| “Three—Lenin, Ulianov and myself.” aoe SAS CDE Neny ee | It has taken many secret service.guards to keep \those three alive. EET | Lenin is learning, as all visionaries learn sooner ‘ i "lor later, that a political sleight-of-hand expert can Nex Laka en: ffi there’ lget away with almost anything, as long as his au- ae Ko ibe ae ae ne a ae wae s ae dience have full stomachs. not! ing. as monotonous and irritating as walling; When the audience gets hungry, lockout for for a delayed train or standing in line to buy 2 fireworks. ticket. No matter whether a person’s time is ‘worth $1) SKYADS a minute or nothing at all, there’s something, Clever advertising men are preparing billion- ay ical ¢ t Cor 5 f Heats | Sins repa ; a nena compulsory delay that “gets ,candlepower searchlights for projecting advertis- Probably it’s because, having made our plans in Oe are pictures on clouds over ‘New York Sica ab Pe aes me pines This elaboration of the old-time magic, lantern, train. It’s an hour late. You have to wait. The they claim, will be visible ,100 miles aways, suspense and monotony seem like ages Ad men, publicity agents and propagandists ate Or you agree to meet some one ata certain cor. | tuck to pub new inventiotls torworke,, With wire ee Be ‘heldooysot'a sore “5 noén sharp." The less telephone rapidly coming into common use, ; BnarD: lthey probably are getting ready to clutter the air oti rty ja 16 mi: rae contracting party ip 15 manures late. By the time | vith their messages about pills, contraptions and he or she arrives, you’re so irritated that your i digestion even is suffering, causing a dry, taste. candidates: z ges is Z, ca zg y> | One more reason -why the government is wise less feeling in the mouth and a jumpy tendency of in restricting the sending of wireless messages to ths nerves: ‘ llicensed stations. If thoughts were bullets, the party who holds; up a theater line while he haggles over what ticket | i to buy would be as full of holes as a sieve. | “BABY ROBBERS” A “baby robber” gang is arrested in Cleveland We “Ameticana are the fastest’ moving: moat |@£ter rifling the cash register and pie shelves 0 ja bakery. The gang has three members—5, 9 and hurried people in the world. 110 years old Yet nearly all the time we save by our rush is dentified by a. patrol- used by. insdelay, .waiting *heeause some one i ere Nona eee rata ago stole a horse some thing is not punctual, and which generally : is e i and buggy from a freight station. aa eneaet iheresnevervare@onough ticket | Discussing these boys, there'll be a lot of talk y about environment. Heredity will be investigated. sellers. pee ts The combined cost of this delay runs into stag- Ree ibgeaiesntedeniny De of suggestion, gering figures. i | All that these boys really need is an old-fashion- If you want a short-cut to success, be punctual., amas F That in itself may not hasten the attainment of i era Fea nollie the ortel cried everything you want. But it helps mightily. The lhuleola holon the paddle ” punctual man gains a great asset—the good-will . ¥ of his fellows. He appeals to human nature at, ' one of the roots of psychology—dread of delay. | Delay always saws against the grain. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented’ here in order that our readers may have both sides of important insues which are being discussed in the press of the day. If you are clever, you can put this. principle to! work, use it to increase your income. - F “Prompt service” is a magic formula that every ' wise merchant recognizes. : THE SMALL-TOWN ‘BOY Over in London, a young fellow’ who couldn’t; There were quoted by The Herald recently get a job hit on the idea of acting as “queuer”— paragraphs from a magazine article describing a substitute to avoid delay for others. For 30 |some of the responsibilities of the position filled cents an hour he hired himself out to stand in line) by. Howard Huson as director of service of the and buy theater tickets. |League of Nations. Mr. Hutson has charge of He was immediately so swamped with business, |the personnel of the working force of the League with a delighted public bidding his wages upward, | organization, a force comprising several hundred that now he has.an army of followers and an en- persons, with duties extending over the entire | tirely new profession has come into being. \field of international relations. Such a position _ jis not given except to a man of recognized capac- GORGING FOR A WAGER : lity, and when. the position is one affecting the William Lee kept boasting that he could eat.as work of a great international body, the aspirant much as any: six men in Philadelphia. Michael! may be said to be in open competition with the Yaffee bet $25 he couldn’t. They went toa res-' whole world. i ae taurant. | We are all familiar with the laments of those Bill won the bet. But he couldn’t get up from |who can see nothing but evil in the world that the table’ He'told the doctor, who took the $25 as the rich aye growing richer and the poor‘are*grow: fee, that he ate a 12-pound turkey, 53 oysters, ‘ing poorer; that the concentration of wealth in a two paunds of. pork chops, a dozen eggs, two slices |few hands has deprived the humble individual of of ham, a large beef stew, three loaves of bread, |cppcrtunity; that the poor man has no chance; 12 cups of coffee and six bottles of soda water. that the farm boy is destined to be a drudge all The doctor says he’ll live. ‘his life; that the rich men*in the. cities are keep- This monster meal seems impossible. Bill, how-|ing all the good things for themselves and their ever, weighed 238 at ringside. He’s six-feet-four ‘children. a . in his socks, | Howard Hutson is a graduate of the University A teaspoonful of wood alcohol, sold as realjof North Dakota. He came to the university from whisky, would have done him more harm than his ithe little town of Deering, his home town. He big meal. Undertaker would have been called, in-! was well known in his home neighborhood, and: stead of dovior. : ‘ \through his connection with university activities ‘In gorging to win the bet, Bill displayed more he became quite well known in Grand Forks. sense than the man who takes a chance with a Scattered here and there are some hundreds of his bootlegger. Dt ae lmiration and affection. But except for his own DANGER OF FLU EPIDEMIC ‘perscnality there was nothing to distinguish him The flu epidemic that is going the rounds in!from thousands of other young men of industry some communities, especially New York City, is and ambition. He owes his position to no wealth, a different disease from the deadly Spanish in- |to no accident of birth, to no influence of powerful fluenza of three years ago. ‘friends, to nothing except native ability and the This is announced by Dr. William H. Park. He!character which prompted him to make good use has charge of the research laboratories of New lof it. ‘ York’s health department. | Thus cne of the most important positions in The Spanish flu of 1918-19 took its heaviest! the service of a great international body is filled | death toll among the middle-aged. iby a young man from a small country town whose! Flu this winter is mild. Its mortality is slight. | advantages were not greater than are the advant-| Most of its victims are the aged and very young. lages of thousands of others. If the field be! It’s really: Russian flu, like the epidemic of 32 iscanned it will be found that in science, in liter- | years ago. ‘ature, in the arts, in commerce, in industry, the! Grandma called it “la grippe.” positions cf power, of leadership, are held very, To dodge it, get plenty of fresh air. Don’t largely by men and women from the farms or from | <nown was the’ wealth of | s Herald, ‘ | ‘F consult a reliable phy: ic ian, yee where the only weal Avove all, don’tworry. | Nothing’ is ‘deadlier ‘character—Grand : of In Russian, his ‘former classmates who remember him with ad-| | for several days with their daughters, { | MANDAN NEWS | New Store Is Opened Today | RR. P. Lewis. Fargo, head of the Lewis Coffee & Grovery company, was in the city yesterday making final ar- rangements for the opening today, of the branch house here. The company has taken over the City. Grocery and will assume control of the business. W. C. Badger, former proprietor, will continue to operate the City Bakr ery in connection. “We now<have five stores in the state, and expect to have a’number of others in the; near,futurey: said Mr. | Lewis. eat Lees The company expects |to complete- \ly revise ‘the fixtures ‘and general ! turnishings ‘of’ the store, early this spring. pu niated ~The Lewis Coffe¢ & Grocery com- pany will be operated upon a “cash and carry” basis. ; ‘New Salem Office Will Be Moved New Salem is worked up over the removal of its postoffice. Twenty- | two years ago when Philip Blank, was postmaster the office was located in the central part of the\city in the park facing the Main street, citizens having put up the building expressly for that purpose. Now the office is to be moved to ithe Metropolitan hotel building and George Fetsch, the owner of the build- ing, is having the store next to the hovel office fitted up for the use of ‘the government, having executed a llease to the postoffice department for a term of years. It is-claimed that the maority of citizens had requested the office be continued where it ‘is. ‘The new location is in the next block west.. The present office is a frame j building while the hotel is a brick | structure which probably had some ; bearing on the removal. { Over 150 attended the Past Exalted Ruler’s night meeting of Mandan Lodge No. 1256 B. P. 0. Elks on Mon- {day night. Otto Bauer, exalted ruler; H. L. Henke, E. Leading Knight; L. C. |. Broderick, E..Loyal Knight, and L. H Connolly, es: were the officers in charge of tory work, Memo- rial tablet ser s were held for the late John Ellison. Addresses were |'made by the ‘past officers and by | Judge H. L. Berry.. The Elks orches- |tra furnished music for all of the j ritualistic work and Eddie Stein of New Salem favored with several songs. Following the meeting a fried chick en supper was served. Mrs. FE. J. Conrad returned yester- day from Marshall, Minn., where she has been visiting relatives since be- | ing called to Spirit Lake, Iowa, where she had gone with Mr. Conrad to at- tend the funeral of the latter's par- ents. While at Marshall her uncle, Nelson Canfield, died at Currey, Minn. John Kennelly, Frank Wetzstein. and Rudolph Weithand! have returned from Minneapolis where they attend- jel the auto show. B. E. Pomerleau, who has been visiting in the Twin | Cities for the past two months re- turned with them, z | Mrs. S. V. Lee and son, who for the ing at the home of Mrs. Lee’s parents, | Mr. and Mrs. L. C, Peters, left last night for their home at Livingston, Montana. | Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Kautzman_ left last evening for their home*at Bow- don. N. D., after having visited here Misses Margaret and Anna Brucker. Miss Fern Coleman of Los Angeles, Calif, arrived in Mandan Monday and will make her home with her aunt, Mrs. J. K. Porter, temporarily. Mr. and Mrs, Anton Glaser are the over-eat. Don’t neglect a cold. If it gets bad, the country villages near by, and from homes foray, | * DMY (ushter, born ves-), Bert Johnson has returned from ae PT TR | The Universal Language ’Long About This Time 0’ The Year | past three months have been visit-|. According to Dawes, the standing army is too much running expense. “Jazz Is Going,” reads a popular headline. To make it true add’ “Oun.’ Lots of jokes cracked have wrin- kles. “Any hen can be made to lay twice daily,” says an eggspert.. Read this threat to your hens, Boston’s largest taxpayer is dead. Can you blame him? ‘ If these ,wireless telephones keep t on, a man’s wife can talk to him no | matter where he goes. AS A stick-up man has been stuck up’, for. 20 years. Ft “Cold cash doesn’t come from coal Me cash;” but that’s where it goes. Turned up noses get into things. A man has about 200 bones; but . pulls more than that. Wrinkled Meat, Chippewa Indian, *% for 109 years. Wrink, they say, was a great fighter. F “gwiss have two women judges”— news item. We have a few million ¥ who think they are women judges. In answer to “Who won the peace conference?” we would say: “Hotels. Rich man who adopted six children was putting on heirs. Birds keep coming frcm the south THE SNOW MAN but spring won’t be here until the wind does that. * (Florence Borner.) \ About 20 is the stone age; bigger Ut the stone the better she likes it. ; He was not there until today, | That cold, old man of snow; And yet he stands calm and serene. While cold'winds how] and blow, re As tho he were a mighty king, The man who flies to pieces has to any And not a:man of snow. icollect himself. — & % Convict forgers who defrauded Sing : | Sing out of $14,518 took their pen in | hand. x Could he but speak, what would he say This cold, old man of snow; What secrets could he not reveal, What enemies lay‘ low? For in him lives a mighty thing— The spirit of the snow. Kentucky Senate is: fighting over the Darwinian theory: More monkey business, _& Any man can do as he pleases if he pleases as he does. —> Unmoved he gazes, on the world, He sees it ebb and flow; ” | ; ADVENTURE OF | He syateHes from his lofty seat THE TWINS i | ; ‘The sunset’s golden glow, \* 7 As if he were a living thing, | By Olive Barton. Roberts ( And not a man of snow, | “Ves.” said the little smoke ring who was telling a story up in Smoke Land, “I was ever so worried when He cannot speak—his lips are dumb, He has no strength on; power; |T saw that my master was frowning, § His life is closed ere ‘tis begun— and decided that it was the letter he The plaything of an hour; |was holding that displeased him. * | “I hung onto the corner of the wy And, thru him we can plainly see, How small and weak we are. mantel-piece as long. as I could, and 3 then I decided to look at the letter for myself; so I floated over to his shoulder where I could easily see the written words. “and this was what I read: ‘Dear | brother, it has been a long time since |T have “written to you so no doubt you'll be surprised to get a letter. 1 wouldn’t be bothering you now, but I’m in trouble. I've been sick since I came home from the war, and out Then let our lives be not in vain, But let a kindly glow Light_up our hearts, that we may serve While on this earth below; Let each one be a living thing, And not a man of snow. Annee eR ene visiting relatives for the past two] Amarin river is so loaded with | weeks. : Sediment that its waters can be de-|0f work. Mary has been sick too. — tected by their discoloration 300} I'm getting better and can work soon, Returns From Twin Cities mile’ cut at s2a. ‘put our savings: are gone,and if you \Chief of Police Martineson has re- : patie \could lend me a hundred dollars, I'll turned from the twin cities where he! At Baker’s H | pay i i ple. Bak | pay it back the first minute I am able. went seeking the return of George Tae at eakees eae brother, John.’ -aitied ithe Clark, charged with grand: larceny. | he Mi , “MO. botheration! grumble day nights. Best music and rich man. ‘I can’t help the fellow. I Requisition for Clark’s return was | y floor i . 10c need every cent I can get my hands IU Oi | rin state ae dance. | on to buy more of that stock that pays ESDP RNS SE ETO ERE A ‘so well. I can’t help it if he’s sick.’ ° | EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO| “By this time more of my broth- | BUMPS ers were coming out of the pipe and MAN when I told them the trouble they § were as indignant as’I was. So we qCCIDENTALLY EX mY u. got our heads together and. decided to |do something. We all. got ‘round his 5 }head and murmured. into his ears, {Poor John! \Dear Jchn! Don't you ¥ remember when you were boys to- | gether?’ N ei | “And the rich man began to think of his youth and his little brother. “Suddenly he got up, strode over to his desk and wrote a check for a thousand dollars and put it into an | envelope. *I feel that I've done some good on eagth® said the smoke-ring proudly. | (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service) A THOUGHT FOR |¢ TODAY if Oo Blessed are the mereciiul for they ishall obtain merey. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. —Matthew 5: 7, 8 From blossom time to time of snow | Is ‘but a pleasant road to go; Come, let us travel side by side Until the last-blown bud has died. | From time of snow to blossom time |The way leads through a dismal clime; | But if together, love, we fare, {We shall not sigh for roses there. Laura Blackburn. Neo RE- ike [> SPONSE BT) | i UGly LooK i aes I: BES Wuvur PARDON, SiR Elbow Lake, Minn., where he has been} LEARN A WORD ||__ EVERY DAY Today's word is PANDEMONIUM. ' It's pronounced — pan-de-moa-ni- ian with accent on the third syllable. ; It means—a wild uproar, noise, | tumult, “racket.” i | | It comes from—Greek “pan,” all, and “daimon,” demon, ait’s used like this—“The _neigh- bor's' mechanical piano makes a pan- |demonitm on Sunday morning when we wish to sleep,”