The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 11, 1922, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK. TRIBUNE TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1922 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second} Class Matter. | Editor GEORGE D. MANN Foreign Representatives . LOG. AYNE COMPANY GONE DETROIT Kresge Bldg. | CHICAGG tt . Tres PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. | MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or 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. : 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)... . 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).. 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota. 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) ee WHAT MAKES A LEADER The pepulation of Windsor, N. H., is reduced to} 15, but it still has a complete town government | with seven officials jobs. A community after a politician’s own heart! A ward-heeler would describe it as “the right pro- portion.” Windsor was founded in 1798 in the heart of! the New England deer country. Ten years ago it) had 65 registered ma}d voters. Observe that, with fopulation shrunken to. only | 15, Windsor still finds‘ it necessary to maintain governmental machinery—town “clerk, treasurer, j selectmen (councilmen), school board and board; of health. . The philosophical anarchist, follower of Josiah | Warren, with a beautiful system for imaginary | Utopia, should be interested in what Windsor has recognized’ as-necessity. Shipwreck two men on a desert island and a! government would be set up within 24 hours. The man with the largest club and the strongest arm would elect himself ruler. He would start out by announcing, with empha-) sis, “the best thing to do.” If his companion man- ifested a stubborn will, force would be applied to compel submission. That ‘is the germ of legisla- tive and police powers. ' From books like Jack London’s “Call of thej Wild” you know that every community of beasts, such as wolves, has for its ruler the one that can, whip any comer. Hes iat The animal ruler is deposed when he runs up against a fellow beast that can conquer him. So it was in the early days of civilization. Then, with the dawn of intelligence, force had to share its throne with brains, personified in the medicine man of the tribe. Church clashed with state. Government by appeal to the emotions began. We still have politicians swept into office by their shrewd knowledge of psychology—play on national emotions. Gradually, with our flexible system of democ~ racy, we are working toward government by in- telligence—horse sense. Visionaries who would do away with leadership are up against a peculiar natural law. You see this law work in the Far North when 3000 fish eggs hatch into as many baby salmon! trout. As soon as they start swimming one in- stinctively steps out as leader, others follow as a| natural course. Takes a locomotive to move.a freight train. ‘§'s. INDUSTRY a Aliens who violate the prohibition law would be deported, ufider:a bill passed by the lower house of Congress. f ; | Bootlegging, one ‘of the nation’s basic indus- tries, thus would be handed over to the Simon-| : impure 100 per cent Americans. It opens the way to a ludicrous monopoly,’ one! e'a stim@bint to the Americanization | of bootleggers flocking to} naturalization night schools, seriously learning to! answer questions about the Constitution while | mixing wood alcohol and prune juice under their desks. Naturalization papers-might have to be shown' as membership cards in the Bootleggers’ Union. - LEARN HONESTY FROM CHINESE The pretty young white wife of a Chinese res-; taurant keeper was arrested in an opium raid in| New York. She lives uptown with her daughter, among the | whites. Her husband, bored by curious Cauca- | sians “staring at him every time-he went out of the house,” moved to an apartment in Chinatown. | When the white wife visits her yellow husband, she takes all her furs with her because “no Chi- nese would steal.” She is not as sure of the white men in her own district. In the matter of honestv, the Chinese are the greatest people in the world. And they are hon. | est, not from a moral standpoint, but because they have learned through thousands of years that hon- esty pays—in prosperity as well as happiness. That is something the white man’s civilization should Jearn from the ancient East. | Confucius, philosopher of “action and reaction,” | made the Chinese honest by his advice, “do not} do unto others that which you would not have) them do unto you.” The white man, in his transactions, is constant- | ishment for estealing. jbusiness to normal. t ly looking for dishonesty, to punish it. The Chi- nese constantly watch for honesty, to reward it. One reason we have so much trickery and thiev- ing in white civilization is that we do not reward honesty with the same enthusiasm we inflict pun- The white race will grow wiser as it matures mentally. In China, heirs inherit a dead man’s ‘debts as well as his property. If a man steals or defaults payment, his nearest relatives, in order, have to make good. With a system like that, Chinese papas and mammas are decidedly careful to raise their chil- dren in the paths of righteousness. It is not a nomie life revolve around the home. The code is, honor father and respect obligations. WAITING - Europe is a year behind us in readjusting its This is the observation by Louis K. Liggett, after a trip abroad. ; : “England,” he says, “will be in the same condi- tion of readjustment in 1923 as we are this year.” This is a’ nut that cannot be cracked by people who believe there’s no hope for America until |Europe gets back on its feet again. We are lead- ing the world in recovery, and our recovery is tak- ing place internally, by deflation at home. What happens right here in America is of first impcrtance. Outside influences also are import- ant, but secondary. A home order is twice as im- portant as a foreign order. SUN’S RAYS While we struggle along the best we can with the industrial equipment we have, natwre occa- sionally gives us a glimpse of better things stored in the future. In the Lydia Weinig store, New York, sun’s rays shine through cold air, are reflected by a hand mirror displayed: in the window, focus through a magnifying glass suspended by a string, and set silk umbrellas afire. This accident reveals the power of the sun’s rays, which some day will be imprisoned by man to generate labor-saving power. COMING It will be a changed: and entrancing world for the generation that springs up to take our place when we are old and worn out. Now and then we get a clairvoyant glimpse into the future. For instance: Juan J. Tomadelli, Buenos ‘Aires: engineer, and a group of New York business men announce they are on the verge. of discovering a light. bulb which, once charged with electricity, will remain lighted for years. ; They call it “bottled sunlight.” yawn and point to the fire-fly. Nature would RUSSIAN ORDERS Even Russia seems to share the general belief that things are getting better. The soviet railroad commission orders the lequivalent of more than $100,000,000 worih of locomotives, rails and other railroad equipment. Germany got nearly half of the business. For one thing, she will furnish 700 locomotives. One sale breeds another, starts a chain of buy- jing. Our country, in the long run, will benefit by |Russia’s orders placed in Germany and Sweden, which in turn will pass the money along. PROMOTERS . Gradually the country comes out of the cyclone cellar. Promoters, undismayed by the epidemic ‘lof commercial failures, in March authorized the issuance of $652,759,000 in new securities, com- pared with only $252,676,000 in March, 1921, This is so much new blood for business. The big fellows are expecting industrial ac- tivity and getting ready for it. Courage is increas- ing in the private offices, and it will be infectious. 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 importart issues which are being discussed in the prese of the day. ay, HIGHER EDUCATION Higher education received a distinct setback when President Hibben began to question whether ior not the use of automobiles by undergraduates in going from class to class would be tolerated by Princeton. Take the automobile, the ciragettes, the tuxedo suits and the overstuffed haircut out jof college life, and nothing but books remain. And what good are books? Still, thirty-one thousand students in one institution (Columbia university) give the world some idea of the tremendous mass producticn in brains, or bevo brains, which Amer- ica is financing.—William Allen White in Judge. A HYPHENATE BLOC "A hyphenate bloc, now seemingly in process of secret organization by alien-minded groups in this country, would be a good thing in Washington. It would show a good many congressmen who have turned to serve classes rather than the coun- try where they are drifting. They are drifting toward government b: farmer-Americans and labor-Americans, capital- ist-Americans and manufacturer-Americans. If we ourselves lose respect for the essential prin- ciple of our government why should we expect SS “ jaliens to be more sensitive or more patriotic ?— Philadelphia Public Ledger. bad system, for it makes Chinese social’ and eco-|. «\ \S MY MAMMA WON'T {LET THE LITTLE ! DEARIE GET «- » WET- HO-HO-HO ‘ \\ IK \ Se = WHEN IT RAINS, MRS. HARKINS ALWAYS CALLS After eight!years of married life, MARK SABRE realizes. that he is ‘neither understood by his prosaic and snobbish wife, ° MABEL, dr ‘by!‘his<colleagues in the firm of Fortune, East and Sabre. A promised partnership in the busi- ness has been denied :him and priom- ised to Vid TWYNING; :a: jealous ‘associate. Suddsnlyan‘old sweétheart, NONA, now; the swife.of ithe dashing LORD! TYBAR,‘sfeturns =after. two years of travel...,Mabel becomes jealous of Nona who visits Sabre at his office:' Sabre“suspects that the conversation in th? office, Sa- bre realizes that Nona can giye hin: that he craves. GO CN.WITH THE STORY Clearly, as it were yesterday, he ta him her choice. cloisters.. Walking together. © things, she told him, “I say, Marko, I’m going to marry Lord Tybar.” And his roply the model of indif- ference. “Are you,,Nona?” He'came upon the picture of him- self alone with Nona—alone with her watching her beautiful face—and saying to her, “Liook hero, there were three things you said, three ex- pressions you used, Explain them Nona. Explain ‘There!’ with your glove off. Explain ‘Flotsam.’ Explain ‘Well, I had tocome.’ « Explain thom Nona—for God’s sake.” | CHAPTER..V Tiss But it was October before he asked her to expla’n them. ‘The Tybars, as he learnt when he next met her, a week after her visit to the office, were joaly at Northrepps for a breath. ing spzce after their foreign tour. Through the summer they were goin2 the usual social round, ending in Scot- land. Back in October fer the shoot- ing, and wintering there through the hunting season. Ther» was the odcasion of a little dinner party at Northrepps to which he had come with Mabel; Major Hi) scotch Millet and one or two others were among tile guests. Nona came with them to the door on their departure. ‘Sabre was las down the steps. “Well, I'shant se you again till October,” she said. “No, till October.” He had no more than touched her hand and turned away. She was close behind him, H heard her give the tiniest little catch at her breath. She said,) “Shall } write to you, Marko?” He turned towards her. She waz smiling as though it was a chaffing remark she had made. ‘Her shield! And he answered her from behind his own shield, “Oh, well, I’m bad at letters, you know.” But their eyes met with no shields before them; and she was wounded for he just caught her voice as he went down the steps, “Oh, Marko, do Iwrite to me!” He got into the cab’ Major ‘Millet had taken’ the s2at next Mabel As the horse turned, Mabel in- quired, “What was Lady Tybar talk- .nk to you about all that time?” ‘He! said, “Oh, just saying goodby.” But he was ‘thinking, “That's a ‘fourth question: Why did you say, \‘Oh, Marko, do write to me’? Or was {that the answer to the other ques- jtions, although I never asked them?” | CHAPTER VI | | A draper occupied the premises op- | posite Fortune, East and Sabre’s. On jon October afternoon, just before five o'clock, Sabre saw Nona alight from jher car and go.into the draper's. He {put on his hat and coat and descended linto the street. As he crossed the jroad she came out. sag “Hullo, Mark!" “What about having some tea some- where?” : \ ACY Nona is not happy with Tybar. Ia! the sympathy and undepsfanding./ remembered the day she had declare:t; Inthe Cathedral | And} suddenly, in the, midst of: indifferent | EE eTRONTN PLL BET YOUR A WOULD LIKE mM SEE YOU DO THIS- FREDDY: 1M GOING TO REPORT You TO THE PRINCIPAL FOR’ FREDDY AFTER SCHOOL “I thnk that’s a good idea.” | He suggested the Cloister Tea ‘Rooms, She spoke to the chauffeur jand accompanied him. | ‘\Nona began some account of her summer visitations. Sabre spoke a |little of local businesses. | subjects were but skirmishers thnown But. the. THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME You CAN HAVE. MY UMBRELLA, “FREODY! WE LOOKS LIKE A FIREMAN IN “THAT COAT Ml She said, “Yes.” I rdly could hear the word. He 7. She was as tall as Not Icast of the contributions o her beauty in his eyes. was the im grace of her stature. But her ace was averted; and he weated nost te” y to see her face. “Stand u minute ond look at me,,'Nona.” He cuched her arm. “I want to see your ace,” She turned tcwards him and raised her eyes to his eyes. “Oh, what is it Marko?” nt Which gligvened j a is; and about her mouth were trembling movements; and in her throat a pulse beating. 'He said, “It’s you I want to say something. .I want you to explain some things. Some things ‘you said. Nona, when you came into my room that day and shook hands you said There!’ when you .gave me your and. You took off your glove and uid ‘There!’ I want to know why ‘out before dense armies of thoughts }- {that massed behind; met, and trifled. jand rode away. When pretense of | dragging out the meal could,no longer ‘be maintained, Nona looked at her | watch. “Well, 1.must be « getting !back. ‘We haven't had a particularly jenormous tea, but the chauffeur’s hac inone.” | Sabre said, “Yes, let’s get out of ‘this.” It was as though the thing had been a strain. : ‘He put her into the car. She was He said, “I’ve [so very, very quiet. Yd jhalf a mind to drive up with you, like a ride, and a walk back.” II They were within the gates. It had been a dull day. tve.iuy stovu mistily far up the long avenue of the drive and in tha distances about the jpark on either hand. Among Octo- | ber’s massing leaves, a small disquict istirred. The leaves banked orderly {between their parent trunks. Sabre noticed as a curious thing how, when they stirred, they only trem- bled in their massed formations, not broke their. ranks, as if some live thing ran-b2neath them. ‘He sa‘d, “Do you know what this jseems to me? It seems as though it {was ony yesterday, or this, morning, {hat you came to see me at the office ind we talked. ‘Well, I want it to be only yesterday. I want to go on ‘rom there.” || EVERETT TRUE {wick You 2 “I OUGHT TO HAVE YOU, MARKO.” you ea‘d ‘There!’ ‘Wiell, I had to come.’ you were flotsam. when we'd been up to you—you said, ‘Ch, Marke, cio write to me.’ I want you to explain what you meant.” She said, “Oh, how can you remem- ber? And you said, And you said BY CONDO L see You HAVE TODAY'S ‘PAPER ‘RIGHT THERE AT! Your ELBow, evErerr, ' LET MG COOK AT IT, = | WHENEVGR 1 LGT You AT tt, Look FOR ‘Mou CET Me TH MARRIED; And. that. night—|! jmodes sow that “He “aniswered “Héause ‘1 remem- ber, you must explain.” “Please let me sit down, Marko.” She faltered a little laugh.: “I can explain better sitting down.” A felled trunk had been placed against the trees facing towards the ‘parkland. They went to it and he sat, beside;her. She sat upright but bend‘ng forward (a little over her |crossed knees, her hands clasped’ on them, looking before her actoss the {park. ‘ ‘ “No, you must look at me,” he said. She very slowly turned her body towards him. He thought her most ‘beautiful and the expression of her |beautiful face was most terrible to him in all his emotions, Il She spoke very s'owly; almost with ;@ percentible, pause betweer} each, word. She said “Well, I’ll tell you. I said ‘flotsam,’ didn’t I? If I explain that—you_ know what flotsam is, Merko. Have you. ever looked it up in the dictfonary. ‘The digifonary says it terribly. ‘Goods shipwrecked and fownd floating on the sea’ I’m twenty-eight, Marko. I suppose that’s not really very old. It seems a terrible age to me. You see, you judge age by what you are in con- trast with what you were, If you're very happy I think it can’t matter how old you are. If you’ look back to when you were’ happy and then aome to now when you're not, it seems a most terrible and tremendous ;gulf—and you see yourself just float- ling—drifting farther and farther away from the happy years and just {being taken along, taken along, to God knows where, God knows to { what.” ra | She put out the palms of her hands towards where misty evening banked jsomberly acnoss the park. ‘That's very frightening, Marko.” “Well, all:the time there was you Marko. In.,those two years when: we were away’ it'gat awful. Im those:two years I knew; was flotsam: One day—in India—I went and looked -at it in the little dictionary in my writ- ing case, and I knew I was. Do you know what I did. I crossed out flotsam in the dictionary and wrote Nona. There it was, and it was the . most exact thing—‘Nona: goods ship- wrecked and found floating in the sea.’ I meant to have torn out the page. I forgot. 1,Jeft..it) there and Tony sawvite? oo yiiey it ‘ Sabre \said, “What did he say?” In all she had told him there was something omitted. He knew that his question approached the missing quantity. But she did not answer it. ‘He had desired her to look at him, but it was he who had turned away. He sat with his head between his hands, his elbows on his knees. She repeated, with rather a plain- tive note, as though in his pose she saw some pain.she had caused him, “You see, I had known. you all my life, Marko—” ‘He said still looking upon the ground between his feet, “But you haven't. explained anything». You've only told mz. You haven't explained why.” She said with astounding simpli- city, “Well, you see, a Marko, I made @ mistake. I made a most frightful }mistake. I chose. I chose wrong. I ought to have married you Marko.” And his words were a groan. “No- na—Nona—” | (Continued in Our Next Issue.) | Will they deport alien bootleggers to protect American rights? Washing dishes is a great remedy for double chins. ' Paperhangers are finding rooms fcr improvement. “Trousers are a great conveni- ence” says a girl. wearing’ ‘them. Men verify her statement:''} Miners showed good:judgment in striking during the fishing season. You can't call our war veterans soldiers of fortune. Clothes may not make the but lack of them makes. the | look, man; man Perhaps. civilization isttihard save becausejit isiso-scarce. ' to This spring fever some -people. are kicking about is the same cas> they have had all winter. The word “obey” is being taken jout of marriage rites. Why not take “alimony” out of divorce rights? The only sweeping reform that has succeeded is the vacuum cleaner. Our idea of a lying contest is two strangers ‘talking, one a golfer and the other a fisherman. Whén a girl marries for money she has her golden wedding then. ‘No street is wide enough for woman learning to drive. a “Faith will cure the younger gen- eration,” says a lecturer. Yes, faith cure—the laying on of hands. A man has to be 35 before he can run for president. That's why the collége seniors look worried. \ in the onions The way they shed tears spring are back in Hollywood. When a/man is full of himself there isn’t room,for much else. Tt costs’ $32,000 a day to rum Con- gress, but isn’t. worth it. —— Underwood Typewriter, Co. Standard and Portable. Sold. Rented. Repaired. Bismarck, N.’ D.