The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 18, 1922, Page 4

_ PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18 THE’ BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. ' - - - - Editor | GEORGE D. MANN Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT | Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PA YNE; BURNS AND SMITH i 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. Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota......... State's. 6.00 |. THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER | (Established 1873) | CHASING DARKNESS A sensational scientific event teok place 36; years ago the 20th of this month, when electricity | was first used for stage illumination. | This was at a production of “Iolanthe,” in the! old Bijou Theater, Boston. Thomas A. Edison' ran the switch board. Twenty-seven years me that, Moses G.! Farmer, at Newport, R. I, illuminated his house | with 42 platinum incandescent electric lights. It took.27 years for. the stage to iry out electric illabdination i in place of the old-time “gas boards.” A similar revolutionary. invention, created to-| day, would be adopted overnight. | Our generation, compared with past. ones, is amazing for the speed with which it accepts and | adopts new ideas. Each year the salesman with! a new device has easier sledding. Last year 1,007,000 American homes were wired | for electricity. 4 In the whole country are 21,000,000 homes, 8, 000,000 using elcetric lights. Ask grandma if she’d care to go back to the candles of pioneer days. | sm | | Abraham Lincoln worked out arithmetic prob- lems by light from an open fireplace, chalking sums on a shovel. In George Washington’s day, the night watch-! man who patrolled the black streets carried an| iron lantern, candle light coming through small holes. We moderns do not appreciate the tremendous | luxury we have in the simple matter of artificial | light. | Time was, when man’s only dispellers of dark- ness were the moon and the glare of the camp- fire. Toiling by day, man was unable to use his spare ' night time for freedom of movement, recreation |. and study, until inventive genius began perfect. | ing artificial illumination. We have many benefactors in history, but none! » greater than Edison, Welsbach, Argand, Alfred: *” the Great and the host of others who revealed to"} 2 us how to turn night into day. . The speed of progress is enough to make one * dizzy, Next thing on the calendar may be canned sun-| | primitive man’s mind. Finally he figured it out and applied it. "0° 7) 3% The wedge principle probably came to him by pondering how his wedge-shaped teeth split a bone) |with ease. And the wheel principle probably came when he: sat on a loose round stone and noticed that it car-| ‘ried him with it easily when it rolled. If the truth were known, all other human dis-' coveries also have been the result of accident, which is nature’s way of periodically unlocking ‘another of her secrets to make it available for us. More power to you, Mr, Orang-utan.’ In your experiment with the lever, we see a picture of our ancestors emerging from barbarism. BAN ON SENTIMENTAL SONGS Does the sentimental song, such as “Oh, Prom-! ise Me,” detract from the solemnity and sanctity : of marriage ceremonies? Does light music contribute toward the taking of marriage vews lighlty, thus smoothing path- iway for easy divorce? Bishop Ernest V. Shaylor, of the Nebraska | Episcopal diocese, thinks so. He puts a ban on sentimental songs at weddings. There’d be strange and varied melody at mar- \riages if prophetic clairvoyants could select the “music. Much jazz. ing, But I’m on My Way.” Bishop Shaylor is on the right track. Few; ibrides and bridegrooms realize the solemnity, im- ‘portance and responsibility of nena gene |The bishop does. i a FIFTEEN AVERAGE AGE Fifteen is now the average age at which girls run away from home, says an offcial of Travelers {Aid Society. The age is lower than it used tobe. That’s more serious than the increased number of disappear- lances. Old-time melodramas had one advantage over modern movies. what happens to most runaway girls. passed out because villains over-did their parts |and turned melodrama into farce. The Port of Missing Women is worse than Port Said. LOOKING BACKWARD After working 56 years in steel mills, Edward iQuilty retires‘on pension. He was the oldest mill ‘employe of the Amercian Steel & Wire Co. Start- ed to work before the Bessemer converter and open-hearth process were invented. jhave relieved human muscles, Average intelligence will steadily increase, as 'machinry gradually frees man from drudgery. | Energy, now consumed by muscular effort, will flow into the brain, generating thought, develop- ing a race of philosophers. |. 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 issues |] which are being discussed in the press of the day. NEW FEDERAL JUDGE Often a funeral dirge. More, loften, the old song, “I Don’t Know Where I’m Go-, They painted a truer picture of | Pity they| Looking backward over his life Quilty is amazed | lat the way traveling cranes and other machinery ; Saw Ball Game, “TNRVER Horseback BY EDWARD M., THIERRY New York, Feb. 18—Ruleg of living ating, of sleeping, 0! physical exer’ of rest—mean nothing to ;Cha auncey M. Depew. He will be 88 on April 23, and he ot New is at his desk daily as chairme {the board of directors of the York Central Railroad. “Are you immune?” I asked him. | We were discussing the warning by or Eugene Lyman Fisk, head of the Extension Institute, that Ameri- cane are “rushing madly to the grave” by too much haste, too little play, too many stimulants of mind and body, tco little walking —- that mortality [ane persons over 40 is increasing. Pecple will say I'm boasting,” | smiled Mr. Depew. “I never bothered about rules of living. I don’t know {whether I'm immune or not. T just i keep on going. “Work won't kill, you. But you me thing all |shculdn't work at the ‘the time. Variety i: | Th’ former senator mean changing jobs. He has with the New York Central 56 years, but in between he has been a_ big ifigure in politics, served 12 years in ‘the United States Senate, and has {probably made mort public speeches | than any other single individual. “Lnever take phy 1 exercise,” he |said. “Mental exercise does me all the good I need.” “That's work, isn't it?” I asked him. ct what doctors call rest.” “IT work every day,” he said. “When 1 went io rest I write a speech.” Mr. Depew, famous as an afte ner speaker and public prator, he still delivers two or three speeches ja month, “That's pretty good for a fellow go- jing on 88,” he said, with a smile in jhis clear blue eyes. | Refusing to sit down, he stood or | walked about his office as he talked— [s stocky, well-built figure, healthy {looking in frame and face, his white hair and white side-whiskers the only »|sign of age. A warning by Dr. Fisk is that “we are flogging ourselves with stimu- lants as we gallop through life.” sides tea, coffee, tobacco and alcohol, ’ (By Justice J. February 17, 1922. | Miller, of Bismarck, is now for life | Judge of the Federal District Court of lthis State. His nomination was made {by the president, and after a formid- able and protracted oprisition, it was confirmed by the senate. On his re- turn to Bismarck last Saturday with his commision in his pocket, he was hailed as a conquering hero and was given an immense reception banquet. Well may he say, in the language of ‘Shakespeare: ‘Now is the winter of my discontent smade glorious summer And all the clouds that o’er my head Are buried’ neath the bosom of the deep. Judge ‘Miller is of Danish parent- age. H2 is an old resident of this state. He. js;a_ man of, good physique, selfcontrol and clear mental vision. His weight is ‘two’ hundred pounds, stature, five! feet nine ‘inches. His head measure is seven® and _three- eighths, two sizes above normal, You know the adage: Big head and little’ wit; Small head and not a bit. While the size of the body or the head is no safe criterion of physical {or mental strength, yet it is true that all things being equal, size is the meaagure ‘of ‘§rength''and capacity. With a sound mind anda sound body the chances are that during the next twenty years Judge Miller will be able to work six hours a day and to do it without fatigue. Then, at the age of seventy, he may retire on full pay ‘and live in leisure and content lowered Goli, Went Hunting, Rosey vi cr eae , this winter in Florida. (me much harm.” Be-} Played 99 SAYS DEPEW * CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW: stimulants listed by Dr. Fisk. include automobiles and street cars “which se- duce us from walking, robbing us of the physical exercise imperatively necesary to health.” “I never walked for exercis2,” Mr. Depew said. “I never played golfy I never rode horseback. I never played tennis. I never went hunting. I never played baseball—never even saw. a baseball game. ‘Even fishing never lured ma.” Mr. Depew is teking his vacation ‘His: rest will consist of reading—‘“and writing a few speeches.” Stimulants do not bother him. “I eat what I want,” he S278 “I work until I get tired. Then I rest. We do not all rest the same Way. The way I do it doesn’t seem to do ‘The former senator smiled and said he hoped to celebrat: his eighty- eighth birthdey by working his regu- lar hours at his desk in Grand Cen- tral Terminal. SATURDAY EVENING LETTER ' Hon Andrew) all sales for tho taxes of 1919 and E. Robinson.) 1920, except to good faith purchasers. To permit the first half or first in- stallment of the tax of 1921 to be paid at any time before the. end of Sep- tember, with interest at one per cent a month from the first of’ March,|and on such payment to cancel all taxes for 1921, That is a just means of liquidating the excessive taxes. 10 and 11. To impose a just pen- ‘alty on common carriers for demand- ing or receiving freight or passenger rates in excess of the rates now pro- vided by law. That is the sum and.substance of |- the eleven measures, which may he read in eleven minutes Who. will take hold and circulate fhem flor sig- natures of legal voters? HAD THAT TIRED. WORN-OUT FEELING » Do you know tha: “awful tired feel- | ing,” languidness, lame or weak back, MY DAD’S VIOLIN (Florence My Dad’s violin was two hundred years “old, It was made by his great-great grand-dad@, ‘ was told, The life it had lived would fill And the tones of its music were mellowed by age. My father would take it on Saturday night, And play for the dances, while The lads and the lassies,around him would spin, To the music that came from Lville. sore muscles, : stiff, or swollen joints; or’ rheumatic pains usually dndicsie kidney trouble? Foley Kidney Pills act puomptly and effectively. Mrs. Roberta Lilly,. 709 Alton St. Alton, lll, writes: ‘‘For three years I had a tired, worn-out: feeling. Various treatments failed. I bezan to improve on the second dose of Foley Kidney Pills and today I feel like new.” Adv. ANN READER IN RAPID RISE IN ‘FAVORITE PLAY The rise of Ann Reader, the new! Luana in Richard Walton Tully’s suc- cess{ul play “The Bird of Paradise.” which is to make its final appearance | at the Auditorium Feb. 24, has indeed been phenomenal, when one considers that this young actress has risen to fezture lines in the short space of three years, , Miss Reader is a recent “find” of Richard, Walton Tully, the author-producer of “The Bird of Para- dise.” Mr. Tully, always on the alert for talent, happened’ to witness Mrs. Fiske’s performance. in “Erstwhile Susan” three years ago, and was at- tracted to the wonderful. personality of Miss Reader who was cast for a very minor part. He discovered that this young actress possessed all of the requirements for the rol2 of 1,vana in “The Bird of Paradise,” and lost | no time in sezuring her services for the following season. As the heroine in th2 Tully romance this season, it is said that Miss Read- ver’s wonderful portrayal of the semi- barbaric princess has caused critics to wender where Tully discovered his most*promising “find” for his famous ‘character. Miss Reader, is the daughter of a prominent man in New York City, and embarked upon her theatrical career seven years ago. She made her de- but in a minor part in “Ben Hur.” She later played an important _ part with Maude Adams in “Peter Pan,” which secured her the role of Barna- betta in “Erstwhile Susan” with Mrs. Fiske, where Tully discovered her, In addition to her stage achievements, Miss Reader has written two playlets, which have been produced: in vaude- LEARN A WORD | | EVERY DAY | Pah eal SE Sc ER Today's word is DIAIBOLICAL. It’s pronounced—dye-a-bahl-i-kal. It means--devilish, cruel, fiendish, evil, wicked. It comes from—Latin “diabolus,” | devil, It’s used like this—“The loan shark wh cheats the. widow and the desti- tute is diabolical.” {A THOUGHT FOR | | TODAY oo And a man shall be as an hiding place from,the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as the shadow of a sneak eek in a weary .land.—Isalah With malic? toward ‘none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right as God gives us to see. the right, let us strive, strivé on to finish the work we are in—Abraham Lin- coln, none) many a page, airy and light. that old violin, Maybe Will marines to Hollywood. Hays can take his When Uncle Joe Cannon leaves Congress they will lose another big gun. Amusement taxes are not amusing. Times may get get so good soon a man will have to blame things on his wife, This week is smile weak. Things ‘are-high in Russia. Costs 20,000 rubles tohavea collar washed. That’s 100 rubles a week for laundry alone. March is called the month of wind; our politicians start out then. Bryan will run for the Senate. Alaskan volcano is also active. damage is expected from either. An No “Harding’s Address Simple’—head- line. Yes, just “White House.” One bad, break is being broke. It would take six hours to read the minutes of a woman’s club. Lots of “public offices ate! uae for private purpéses. fc What that scientists sees : moving about on the moon may just be fleas from the dog star. A man who owes everything to his wife doesn’t always pay. “Hungary will live,” says her new minister to America. Her: present problem, though is “On ‘what?” Pretty soon we expect to see a | bathing beauty posing by a bath tub. When your ’ ite misplaces her ‘| pocketbook, call the income tax col- lector. He can find money anywhere. One concern working overtime is the well-known “grave concern.” when we do. Oxford dictionary finished after 43} years ought to have the last word in dictionaries, An 83-year-old woman has married for the seventh time. Wonder if she knows every seventh marriage in this country is a failure? Our prediction is that we will all see better days soon. Spring is on the way. & | “ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS By Olive Barton Roberts “And now,” said the Magical Mush- room, “I cannot stay with you, chil- | dren. , It would only be a drawback because no other magic is allowed in the kingdom of the Diddyevvers, nor yet in that of the Korsknotts, except that which they practice themselves. That is the reason, I haven’t any doubt, why Nimble Toes stumbled on the rubber mountain and lost the mingle record of Longhead the Wiz- | | “ light. North Dakota’s new Federal judge, Andrew|iiny happy years. ‘Miller, was banqueted at Bismarck Saturday night} The first duty of 8 judge is to learn Full many a time I have stood by the hearth, pail sent a re take: zoay Magic Green MONKEY’S INVENTION jand officials and prominent lawyers from all parts ieee ta we Bait gave einer exe Hy feed he Sits a wy foe an the earth, | aie” answered "the Mushroom i i i a pane i ( Y id fati A le, th 1M, quickly, “but run and get your go- A highly intelligent orang-utan — possibly the|of the state were there to help restore some of the pense, ane a cas tigue. ! aera. a he That were brought from the soul of that old violin, lloshes.’ Not that the goloshes. will long-sought Missing Link between monkey and} _», man — creates a sensation in the New York Zoo- *) logical Gardens. | The orang-utan is an anthrapoid ape, the kind! told about in the Tarzan stories. “> ears, very little hair, and is about two-thirds ‘as _ big as a gorilla. It’s so much like a human that) Malay natives gave it the name, orang-utan, which . means “man of the woods.” | Orang-utan in the New York zoo, wanting to; get out of its cage, hit on the idea of ripping down | its steel trapeze bar and using it to pry the cage! bars apart. | = “It has discovered the principle of the lever,” | says Dr. W. T. Hornaday, the zoo’s director. “Finding that it did’t have enough strength to use the lever, it summoned another orang-utan to| ~ help it. | Scientists now will debate whether the orang-; utan conceived the idea of the lever, or whether it was just imitating what it had seen some man do, Having discovered the principle of the lever or crowbar, the orang-utan is well on the way toward civilization. he Civilization, as modern man defines it, rests on ~ machinery. Take all machinery away (all mechani- the trees and caves. All mechanical movements are based on appli- and the lever used by the caged monkey. If the orang-utan can figure out the wheel and =. wedge, it’s just a question of time until the jungle monsters will have their own automobiles. That = is how man started. How did man happen to discover the lifting = power of the lever? Probably like this: . He tried _ to lift a heavy log and couldn’t. Exhausted, he sat-down to rest on a smaller log thrust crowbar- t. fashion under the big log. Up went the big log, , * under his weight. That mystery clung. in. the jmen. sistent upward trend since the latter part of Aug-: ust, became topheavy the last of December, and} \showed liquidation during the first week of Jan-! a cal devices) and all of us soon would be living in jues. jsome degree. \least until she has had time for fiscal and cur-| z.; cation of the principles of the wheel and wedge|rency reforms, may. fairly be taken to signify that | harmony lost in the wrangle Senator McCumber stirred up by Miller’s appointment. The opinion} jseems to be gaining ground out there that »while ‘McCumber may sometimes be too insist in It has small} ilooking out for his friends he also looks ou for) ‘his state, and that the present influential place} \North Dakota occupies in national affairs should) ‘not be sacrificed to satisfy a factional jerudger \Duluth Herald. : MORE LIQUIDATION Three developments materially changed‘ the jimmediate outlook for business. (1) Bond prices, which had been advancing strongly, lcommenced to sag a little after Dec. 15, and ‘showed a distinct weakness with the advent of! |the new year. The bond market, too, considering | lit as a whole and judging it by the action of 25 to 100 representative bonds, is in practise an excel-! jlent trade barometer, because it is something of; ‘a measure of the surplus earnings of business (2) Stocks, which had shown a pretty con- \uary. This liquidation promptly spread into; {grain and cotton and shows signs of extending ‘into raw materials, finished goods and other val- It may even affect, the bills of exchange in, been squandered. | (3) Germany’: s inability to pay, at the funds or capital which were expected to. fur-| inish a basis for the reconstruction boom will not ibe forthcoming. The boom in Germany after1872 was based upon the French indemnity payments; |and the boom here after the Civil War was based | jupon capital and funds borrowed or obtained from Europe. One may well reason that in case of no funds, there will be no reconstruction boom. Doubtless in two or three years German industries may be so rehabilitated as to enable her to resume payments; but by that time the reconstruction {work. willbe about done,—Forbes Magazine. ‘ aS suitors and to the state. We read of a Cana‘lian Judge who heard and | disposed of three jury cases and three lequity cases in the same time that was used by a Michigan Court in se- curing four jurors. In American Courts there is too much trifling with | justice. When a person is called as ja juror he is often put on trial for aj jtime sufficient to hear and dispose of the c: The records of a trial are {swollen with immaterial questions, qguesiions, motions and _ exceptions. There is a lack of control, business efficiency and despatch—a procedure which is expensive, wearisome and nerveracking. ‘Let us hope for a model {of administrative and executive abil- be in the judicial court of Judge Mil- Or, Chenging the Subject: In North Dakota, by yecent onstitutional jamendments, we have athe initiative, ithe referendum and the recall. If we do not have good Jaws it is our own |fault. Recently eleven proposed laws ‘have been formulated, printed and pub- ! lished with: petitions fior the submis- ;sion of the same to the voters at the jnext primary election. For th? sub- | ;missicn of those measures we desire | petitions twenty thousand strong. The petitions will nt circulate them- selves. Good citizens must do some} work to-secure good laws. The pur- pose of the petitions is to undo a few of the freak or newfangled laws of |the past three years: | 1. To repeal the dog tax on law- yers. 2. To repeal the pool hall statutes, | under which all taxes collected have | 3. To undo the motor vehicle tax, | junder which nearly a million a year is collected and squandored. 4. To repeal the Tax Cpmmission | statute, which has served no good purpose only to increase the’ taxes. To repeal the income tax, which | is unconstitutional. i 6. To repeal the coal mining statute, which adds nearly a dollar a; ton to the price of coal. 7. To repeal the wagé carners ac-! cidental insurance statute, because | the rates are five times to high, and | lecause iti drives people out of busi- | ness and out of the state. 8. To provide for just assessment ef real property so that for a term of! years its net use or profit may aver- age five per cent on its valuation. 9. To reduce by fifty per cent all unpaid taxes of the past three years, | to cancel all penalties and costs and | I have heard Music Masters, the old, and the new. I have sat while they played , But what others’ called music to me seemed a Compared with the voice of my Dad’s violin. \ | EVERETT TRUE | their whole repertoire thru, din, BY CONDO eveRety ‘DP You Bene ‘HOME Some ae RECORDS AS 48 (SUGcesStSD Rae MORNING 2° DID “ov Fore TOO BUSY. OF THE OLD ONES £ YES, MES. TRUS, 1 FORGOT. % WAS WL RG i. NEMGER “TOMORROW, CAN'T YOU PLAY Some | ost AS “tou. USUALLY Do ef | deceive anybody but if anyone tries, to get your Magic Shoes the goloshes will prevent them. Goodby, now. I'm going: And good \luck. When you find the lost record you may bring it to the Fairy Queen’s Palace and she will summon King~Indig of the Diddyevvers and King Verdo of the Korsknotts to hear what the Wizard said. You see it’s this way.. The Diddyevvers have perfect bows, but they can’t make good arrows, while the Korsknotts have famous arrows but their bows are no, better than ‘barrel hodps. And long ago a sooth- sayer decreed that after a théusand years had‘ passed, the ones whd had become the handsomer would have to give up their secret to the other. Then the fortunate ones would be able to conquer the world.” ~ “Perhaps we'd better not find the lost record then, with the Wizard's words on ii,” said Nancy. “The world doesn’t wish to be conquered, I heard Daddy say.” “Well, it might be a good thing,” said the Mushroom. “But anyway this only means the world of Fairy Land. There isn’t any sense in peo- ple fighting for a thousand years.” (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service.) Mohammedaas compute their time from the flight of Mohammed. from Mecca, A. D. 622. CASHIER PRAISES BUSINESS SCHOOL A Fargo (N. D.) citizen, visit- ing the Peoples Bank of Kansas City, was surprised to get the ‘‘glad fang from P. D. Hodge, i its cash- “T gat my start,in your city,”” explained Hodge, ‘‘and if I were back on the farm tomorrow, I'd do just as I did 10 years ago—go straight to Dakota BusinessCollege. There is no school i in the country that surpasses it.’’ Consider: Hodge is only one of 226 Dakota-trained men who became bank officers. “Follow the SucceS$ ful.” Write F. L. Watkins, Pres., 806 Front cast Fargo, N. D It. seems that high taxes will end