The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 16, 1922, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE ‘BISMARCK TRIBUNE» THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postosties; Bismarck N. D., as Second - Editor GEORGE D. MANN Foreign Representatives G., LOGAN: PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN: ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year........+. 4 « 87.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outsid 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1878) <a BEFORE HOLLYWOOD Wonder whatever became of those two French gendarmes, the big, tall cop and the little short cop in gorgeous uniforms, who were the star screen comedians in the early days of the movies. Audiences forgot the film’s dizzying flicker and erude photography, when the gendarmes came| gesticulating along the sidewalk. We were held in tense suspense, knowing that , the endless-chase people soon would bowl over the dignified cops and-trample them underfoot. Usually, just before the crash, the film broke. It took five minutes for repairs, the audience rest- i lessly and impatently turning in their seats to scowl at the film operator’s coop. Photography was crude. But the shows were clean. The two gendarmes, faded out. Essanay brought out Charlie Chaplin....Fatty, Arbuckle and Mabel Normand worked togéther for Keystone. Fatty and Mabel starred in “down on the farm” comedies. Fatty, the hired man. Their chief stage prop was an old apple tree in the orchard. Good old days! / Do you remember the first movie houses in the | old home town? People shook their heads when shoe-string plungers threw caution to the winds and opened “nickelodeons” in smal] store-rooms. | A phonograph horn stuck out over the sidewalk and rarr-r-ed “Bedelia,” “In the Shade of the:Old Apple Tree”. and “When the Whip-poor-will Sings | ‘Marguerite’ ” out over the public square. There were rumors about town, that the man- ager of the leading “nickelodeon” cleaned up as much as $100 a week:, We'tried: to pump, the town banker. But he wouldn’t tell, just chuckled. The movies got better and, we wondered what their future would be. : : Well, the future is here and we've found out. The nickelodeon has become a palace. The stars make more than President Harding. They roll in luxury, which byeeds decay. After all, though, the Hollywood intrigues and, debauches are merely boils that have broken out from the foul jazz blood that races through pres- ent-day life. There’s talk of moving picture industry away from Hollywood. That wouldn’t change things much. The buzzard man and the wayward girl are the same everywhere, regardless of geogra- phy—just as a gentleman’s a gentieman, drunk or sober. POPULATION GROWS Germany’s population now is as big as when the war started. Despite war deaths and loss of residents of surrendered territory, latest census shows 62,000,000 in Germany, same as early 1914. Emigration to other countries is at the rate of only 1704 a month. The German loves his home. German births have been exceeding deaths 700,- 000 a year. i The war, has been over less than three and a half years, yet Germany could raise as big armies now as when she started through Belgium. Can- nen fodder is replaced quickly. War enthusiasm isn’t. i GROPING FOR A WAY Herbert Hoover heads Uncle Sam’s gropers for a way to enable amateurs to use the wireless ‘un- restrictedly without cluttering the air with jumb- led messages of same wave length. The way, when found, will permit privacy — wireless conversation, with outsiders unable to listen in. % Inventors will find the way. Ten years ago, many scientists hooted the idea of sending several phone messages over the same wire simultaneous- ly, one couple unable to hear the others. Inven- tion has accomplished that marvel. COST OF SERVICE : It costs national banks an average of $59 a year to handle $1000 of deposits. according to latest figures.: Add $1 to it and it’s exactly 6 per cent. The bank has to earn that, covering interest to depositor and cost of doing business, before it gets a profit. The rate varies—$74 in Texas is highest. Low- est is $40, in California. National banks’ net profit on $1000 deposits averages $27 for the whole country. Lucky people, if we could’hold all profits down it this low margin. Mabel was the farmer’s daughter, | i DEMAND RIGHT TO VOTE’ In five Japanese cities, 200,000 citizens stage marching demonstrations. They demand the’! \right to vote. | The suffrage movement in Mikadoland is na-| tional. Said to be getting beyond the control of | imperialistic politicians. | Japan eventually will have a republic. No need: then for conferences to “keep the peace in the Pa-| cific.” Fewer bullets when there are more ballots. | | GERMAN CROP FIGURES Germany announces final figures on her last crops. In 1921 she raised 261 bushels of potatoes! and 99 bushels of rye and wheat for every 541) \bushels of potatoes and 168 bushels of rye and jwheat in 1913. Crops are the barometer of a nation’s vitality. Germany has a long way to go, until she is back} to normal and a productive power really dangerous | in world competition. ! j | MOVIES POPULAR | Twenty millions of Americans attend the movies |daily. Only 17,000,000 are in schdols. and colleges. Will Hays should see, in these figures, neces- sity for making motion pictures clean, wholesome land instructive. Children forget book lessons easily. What ithey see at movies is indeliblie, in most cases Inever forgotten—especially if it’s something they |shouldn’t know. : ‘ : A clean movie is mother of a clean next :genera- ‘tion. iy FREE CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL First free correspondence school in the world is latest welfare venture by Knights of Columbus. This excellent school starts, able to provide 10,- 000 courses in technical training for war, veterans —free, except for pen, ink, paper and postage in mailing lessons to the far-off instructor. Creed or colar make no difference. The K. of C. hopes to expand its school so that all war veter- lans no matter where located, can get mail train- ing free of charge. An excellent movement ! To enroll, applicant addresses ‘William J. McGinley, supreme secre- itary, Knights of Columbus national headquarters, ‘educational division, New Hayen, Conn. | \ ee EDITORIAL REVIEW — i \ 5 | 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 issues which are being'/discussed in the prese of the day. | MOVIES UNDER CRITICISM \y,\Griticizing » motion’; pictures is a favorite pas- \time just now and, strangely enough, considering {that it is a branch of artistic criticism, it seems |popular. Criticism of books, music. and pictures has always been a limited sport, confined to a ‘small group of bluestockings and professionals. But everybody takes a hand at criticizing the |movies. To the everlasting credit of the new art, ‘it has made criticism safe for democracy. _ The most casual reading of letters to the news- papers shows the excellence and variety of this | Popular criticism. One man writes to protest that {the movies give a “mischievous and erroneous representation of Chinese life.” Another asks |“why Mexicans in the movies are always villains.” A small army of letter writers demands that the tclassics be protected from the profane touch of movie directors. One of the liveliest of these amateur critics, objecting to the romping D’Artag- nan of Douglas Fairbanks, points also to the fact \that the movies have “made a petty crook out of \Cardinal Richelieu.” He fears that Doug will go lin regularly for Historical tableaux, in which case | * “we may expect to see George Washington clear ithe Delaware at one leap.”—Chicago News. id MYTHS ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION | The death of James Bryce comes as a reminder jof how little Amercian (Hidéfts of government ihave done to bring the teachings of American ‘constitutional theory into line with the practice jof American political life. Since the Federalist ithe theory has been fixed, and with few excep- itions it is necessary to turn to the writings of foreigners, to de Tocqueville, to Bryce, to Osbro- \gorski, for light on how the machine actually \works. | Weodrow Wilson in his “Congressional Govern- iment,” Henry Jones Ford in his “Rise and Growth lof American Politics” ahd more recently Herbert \Croly in “The Promise of American Life,” have ‘thrown a vivid light upon parts of the system that |do not at all correspond to the orthodox teaching ‘of the textbooks. But so far as the utterances of public men go, it is sometimes hard to, realize how much puzzled Hamilton or Madison or Jefferson \would be to hear their words repeated as the gos- ipel by men who have such a different practice. The fathers would not be able to understand the ‘fiction-that the Constitution today is the same| \Constitution which they wrote. | They would marvel at what. the president’s joffice has become; they would be amazed at how ‘congressional government works; they would not | |know at first what to make of the party system; ithey would not have imagined the development of | ‘the modern newspaper. But most of all they} ‘would be surprised at those who continue to be- lieve, and insist every one else shall believe, that | a system of government which has grown and, changed to radically is a fixed and immutable sys- | item of government.—New York World. ' |lacking tn the.make-up of | Devon. Eng.. are still sound, though ‘ * DEAN OF VASSAR BY RUTH ABELING Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Feb. 16— “American girls of 1922 are better fitted to become the mothers of the race than the girls of any previous generation,” ‘This is the opinion of Dean Ella McCaleb of Vassar College. Miss McCaleb has held an execu- tive position at Vassar for the past 27 years and during the entire poriod has been in close touch with the girl students. Girls ‘who attend Vassar come from every part of the country. Many come with the habit of satin slippers and gossamer stockings in winter; bare knees, bobbed. hair and touched. up lips. They come 18-year-old flap: pers, with just the odd exaggerations which you s2e every day on the street. “America Never Had Finer Girls And Dean‘ McCaleb wears ‘no rose colored glasses when she consi them. Yet she says of the girls of today: “America has never had_a finer set o f mothers-and-wives-in-the-making than today’s girls. “They are not flippant. “rhey are not hardened or ¢ ened, “They are not less modest. “They ar2 above all thin lazy nor selfish. “Girls do queer things sometimes,” continued Dean McCaleb, “but they do not mean to \be grotesque. Explanation of Too Tight Skirt , “For instance, when you see an es- pecially short and tight $ .girl, one so extreme that it doesn’t mean that there is neither “Tt means, simply,” explaived the dean, “that she neither sat down nor walked around when she selected her skirt! “Girls’ mistakes in regard to dress are most of them sins of omission. They give an effect hasty considera- tion from nly one angle. “And after you buy a dress, you know, you can’t discard it right away!” Dean McCaleb smiled. “Per- sonally I'd rather see knickers than short, tight skirts, “That brings to my mind another thing about modern girls; they are not extravagant! “A great deal is heird about the wastefulness of the modern girl. She isn’t wasteful and she’s clever about her economies. ‘She has a good por- tion of hard sense under her coiffure. It has be2n developed by freedom and responsibility. “I believe in a certain amount of freedom for girls. They may be put on their henor as ‘soon as they are old enough to discriminate. This devel- ops better moral fibre. Prime ‘ReQuisites of ‘\Womanly is Woman’! “The thrée prime requisites of the fine womanly woman are: “FIRST—Honesty, “0 “SECOND=Purpose, “THIRD+-Sympathy. “The average girl of 1922 possesses those qualities. As I-see them they have a singularlys2r‘ous* idea of life and are trying tomwork 6ut some ides or service,iinepite of ‘allthe talk to the contra: yi abiqs+ “That a girl leaves'her’ knees bar2 is no sign of lacking moral strength. Personally*¥-frown. on” bare knees be- cause they are neither pretty nor warm at this time of’the year. “That a girl's hair is bobbed is no indication that she isn’t intellectual. “That she uses rouge’ indicates no spiritual deficiency. Girls Simply Follow Fashion “Vassar, discourages'..such habits and so should I, — personally, but,” says Dean McCaleb, “those are pure- ly external things. They have npoth- ing whatever to do with the mental or spiritual girl. They might be ac- counted for in the fact that girls are peculiarly sensitive to public senti- ment. They do not like to go against it, so they follow fashion. “Hiowever, the girls of 1922 are as fine a lot of girls as their grand- mothers ever dared be!” "PEOPLE'S FORUM Edijor The Tribune: Won't someone do something which might perhaps stir the responsible stato officials to take some step to provide some means of transrortation for people working at the capitol? The capitol street car is standing out on the prairie and apparently no effort is made by the state officials t»ward put- ting it into operation. There have been rumors that the officials are just now inquiring as to the cost of re- placing the car, and rumors that a car might be running by spring whe. walking will be pleasant. The taxi companies have- been mighty reasonable in their charges, and after severe s‘rms and drifts the state hasn’t even opened up a good road for them or made a path on the sidewalks until two days have elapsed. It is costing many employes at the capitol much more than they can afford to get to and from work. —ONE OF THEM. oi 1 o = DOUG DEFENDS INDUSTRY Chicago, Feb. 16—Real motion pic- ture stars know no more of dope rings and drug parties than they do of the eight hour law and unless the public sticks to facts rather than fancies there soon will be no motion picture industry in this country, Douglas Fairbanks, said here today. “The real stars are so busy work- ing—1l2 or more hours a day in some cases—if any one mentioned a drug party at night they'd be so tired they weuldn’t even hear the remark,” he said. “Of course,’there are some unde- sirables—but they are few in number. The public should consider the facts and not’ fancies, Nine-tenths of the revelers at Hollywcod—the ones who cause the scandals—are visitors and have no connection with the movies.” As proof of this statement that it’s not all play in the movies, Fairbanks and Mary Pickford held forth their hands to show ‘newspaper reporters blisters. rom real work,” explained Doug. rom hard work,” said Mary. Peasants of those countries whore dlack bread is eaten usually have good teeth. \ 2 Two bells of Seaton Parish church DEFENDS FLAPPER; “HIGHEST TYPE OF AMERICAN GIRL” Dean Ella McCaleb pf Vassar College, Who Approves The Flapper, 1922 model, t — 7 ADVENTURE OF | THE TWINS | 3 By Olive Barton Roberts Nancy, Nick and ‘Buskins returned from Smoke Land in the little apple- tree elevator just in time to see the Magical Mushroom, poke his little round bowler hat up through the| ground on his way from Fairy Land. “This is luck,” he cried, when all of him had come through. “Just the very people Im. loo’king for. I hope you won’t need them any more, Bus- kins.” Buskins thought he could get along now alone, ‘he: said, as the Land-of- Up-in-the-Air was in pretty fine shape, so he'd be perfectly willing to spare hig little friends if they were needed somewhere else. “Yes, the Fairy Queen needs ’em,” replied the Mushroom, “She needs ‘em very much. There is war _be- tween the Diddyevvers of the blue) nair and the Korsknotts of the green beards.” “The Diddyevvers live beyond the seven mountains and the Kingdom of the Korsknotts is beyond the seven valleys.” “The thing they ’ are quarreling about is the record which is to decide the question. It’s lost!” “Oh, goodness,” cried Nancy, hold- ing her eyes. “I can’t understand a word you say, Mr. Mushroom!” “Well, don’t get nervous about it,” said the Mushroom, laughing. “It does sound a bit mixed up. But it’s as simple as the income tax. Your daddy can tell you how very simple! that is. And this is just as easy.” “You see it’s this way! Whenever there is a great dispute about things in Fairy Land, the Fairy Queen sends Nimble Toes or Silver Wing to Long- head the Wizard, to decide the ques- tion. He’s a sort of prime minister to her highness, only he lives at the third end of thee earth and won't allow anyone to see him. He gives his answers to hard questions on phonograph records. do is to put the record on a machine and play it.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service) % Most ancient sweets are sugar. plums, sugar almonds and burnt al- monds. | EVERETT TRUE ° BY CONDO| Now, HERE PRANDS is— tire output in 1919. All you have to/ 1920, SEL, MR. TRLE. A sd BUSINESS TIPS _ | BY ALBERT APPLE Steel ingot production now is more| than twice as big as last July, when the industry hit bottom and started | its slow. saw-tooth upward move-; men. | ‘Steel output is 76 per cent as large; as in 1913. Mills are averaging around 45 per cent capacity. Differ-| ence in percentages is due to increase | in productive capacity Wuring the last eight years. i Lumber. Lumber mills in the northwest ‘re-| port production nearing four-fifths | of normal. New business is at about} the same rate, i Bear , { Market price of leading represent- ative oil securities has slumped 34 per cent since the peak of early July, 1919. Three-fourths of Mexico's oil out- put, now near the record, is flowing into United States. This continues as a ‘bear influence. Veteran opera- tors believe that Mexico will be a tre-| mendous. crude producer for years,| despite wells going to salt in some} fields. Many new fields may be op-! ened. Mexico is far from being thor-! oughly Wwildcatted. *" eA Mail Postage stamp sales in 50 leading! cities are running about 5 per cent bigger than a year ago. Freight Freight car loadings are around 750,000 cars a week. This is materi- ally larger than in the corrosponding | period of 1921 or 1919, Freight cars ordered, for 1922 de- livery, already total more than the en-} Dividends Industrial - dividends. in _ February will total around $40,000,000, com- pared with $44,000,000 in Feburary, 1920. Coal Bituminous coal output is close to 10,000,000- tons a week. Production now is at about the same rate as in the corresponding period of 1918 and 1920. 5 Loans Federal Reserve Banks have re-! duced loans about $335,000,000 in the last 60 days. A sixth of the reduc- tion was in the New York district. One home in every two in the rural districts of Ontario has a telephone. OAS ARE Two tHaAT WE THIS ONG STICKING YP UN TA EVERX WHERE, MAK TO: SET AMGRICA CONFING MY PURCH OTHER ONS. — Two Dozen CANS HERS WIDELY ADVERTISED ON BILL BOARDS (iS VERY & FOREGROUND ING IT ([MPe SSIBLS EIRST, So WLC ASE. To THE madgiin 1430, u. re ZA Mi Feregen ail Now is the time for all good weath- er to come to the aid of its country. soe & “What makes our girls run around so?” worries a leading club woman. May be hunting mother. oe 8 This fad of eating raw food prob- ably started in a boarding house. * 8 8 Fire which-broke out in U. 8S. Treasury seemed to think, like Con- gress, that we have money to burn. aoe we It is easy to keep things coming ‘your way if you go theirs. * 8 Health hint: . Never argue with a street car over the right of way. + 8 The bridegroom who gave a minis- ter a. worthless check certainly didn’t marry for money. ‘8 Landlords profit by our mistake in not being one. * s ¢ A man who is always polite to his awife in company doesn’t always re- member that two is company. oe oe Brown sugar is dropping. Pure maple sirup will be plentiful. ar er) Babe Ruth left the stage to speak at a'-club;’ but he may have been singing and’'they didn’t know it. TEC ieee ae Sending a‘ wireless wave without a permit is the latest crime wave. * * . One nice thing about poison booze is a man kills himself instead of his wife. i ee ‘itPhé first saxaphone was made in 1846 and some people haven’t seen the joke yet. ’ * There is nothing about a grouch to make fortune smile. ee France is making aluminum coins. Then money won’t be such a bur- den, + 8 8 With apologies to Mr. Kipling and the peace parley we claim “East is least and west is best.” ._ * * Some things going on behind the screen belong hehind a screen. ‘8 # , The mailed fist looks shaky when written by a postoffice pen. . +8 8 The, man with the least credit takes the least care of it. patria Italy is spinning cloth out of glass. People who have glass cloth’ shouldn't make it into bathing suits. | EEARN A WORD |! |__ EVERY DAY,. | Today’s word is SALVAGE. It’s pronounced—sal-vadj with ac- cent on the first syllable. It means—to save, to recover, to rescue from destruction. ' It comes from—Latin “salvare,” to save, It’s used like this—“When a busi- ness house burns, the salvaged goods usually are sold at a fire sale.” A THOUGHT FOR —_—__—__—_____—_-_® Say not thou, I will hide myself from the Lords shall any remember me from above? I shall not be re- membered among so many peoples for what is my soul among such an infinite number of creatures ?—Eccles- lastions 16:17. . Among s0 many can He care? Can ‘special love be everywhere? A myriad’ homes, a myriad, ways, And God’s eye over every place? I asked: my soul bethought of this; In just that very place of His Where He hath put and keepeth you, God hath no other thing to do! “Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney. Dance. at Baker’s Hall every Tuesday, Thursday and Satur- day nights. Best music and floor in state. 10c a dance. Museum of natural history in New York has several complete skeletons of antediluvian frogs from Texas. Original name of Boston, Mass., was Tremont. ——————— THIN, FLAT HAIR GROWS LONG, THICK AND ABUNDANT “Danderine” costs only 35 cents a bottle. One application ends all dandruff, stops itching and falling hair, and, in a few moments, you have doubled the beauty of / your hair. It will ap- lustrous, and easy to do up. 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