The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 13, 1922, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THE BISMARCK TRIBU N E lby Thomas Deiper.. This road, with tracks three- Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN_ - - * S Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Editor CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH | NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS accent 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 tocal news published herein, j 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. it Daily by mail, per year (in ae Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).. 5. Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.. ey "THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) EEO THE EASIEST WAY The trouble with most people is that they seek an easy answer to a difficult problem, says Bishop Page of Boston. “The other day I was shown two lottery tickets | bought by women. ‘Thousands of people have bought these tickets. Millions of dollars are spent in worthless stocks, oil and others. So many} young_men, even well-trained ones, are impatient | of the slow processes of earning money by con- structive effort. They ‘seek the easy way.” The easiest way is called, by psychologists and scientists, “the line of least resistance.” * Usually it leads to failure. Are you, unconsci-/| ously, following it? Most people are. ‘ You never saw a prosperous saloon wtih a door that opened outward. The door either opened in- ward or was of the swinging tpye. Saloon-keepers instinctively recognized the principle of the line of least resistence—and made their bars approach- able the easiest way. | Few pecple will use the revolving door of a de- partment store when a smaller door is prodped open nearby. Many a merchant, whose store had to be enter- ed by climbing a few steps, has greatly increased business by eliminating the steps, making the en- trance slope graudally up. \ Conservation of energy is a natural law. The! human body recognizes this law and expends, as| little energy as possible—seeks the easiest. way. Without the human instinct of seeking the line ‘of least resistance, there would be little inventive progress in the way of labor-saving devices. Laziness is the father’of invention. 2 For instance, the jack which you put under your . auto axle when you change tires was invented by an Ohio farmer boy who disliked lifting heavy | wagons by hand. ee | « Virtue, carried to extremes, often becomes a vice. | The eternal human desire to find an easier way, | while excellent up to a certain point, is the cause! of most laziness—“putting it off till tomorrow.” Life’s problems are very simple, easily under- stood. Encountering them, first seek an easier immediate way, then—if none is found—mobilize energy for quick attack. ‘ A problem or job is difficult or easy, according to one’s viewpoint. . The perpetual formula for success is: ’ Refuse to be dismayed or disheart- ened by the apparent size of a task. Tackle it as quickly as possible— immediately and with all available energy. \ TRADE BALANCE Senator. Hitchcock estimates that the whole im- in ‘Delaware county, Pa. against airplanes, same as in railroading. The collision in France gives us a glimpse of flivvers will be as common as Fords. PRECIOUS When George Pullman successfully operated his ‘first Pullman railroad car, 65 years ago, his pas- sengers next morning presented him with a gold- headed cane, which in those days was the pinnacle jof luxurious display. Now the sports wear diamonds to express their “pecuniary honorific’—displaying ‘ability to pay. From South Africa comes word that competi- tion in the rough diamond market, for many years anemic, has finally been stifled.. The world’s dia- mond supply is completely cornered, the monopoly centered in London. Judging from previous monopolies, diamonds will be good things to hold for a rise. LIQUOR Judging from the chances some people-take with bootleggers, they’d rather have a drink of hooch than a pack of diamonds or even the reasonable sertainty of longer life. different kind than his customers. High price of illicit liquor is due largely to those risks. Anti-Saloon League checks up and reports that ‘n New York state last year 3525 were convicted out of 4205 placed on trial for violating prohibi- ticn laws. robably typical of other states. It answers the popular question: What becomes of all the bootleggers that are arrested, Ps COMPROMISE ' A 72-year-old musician committed suicide in New York because he refused to condescend to play jazz and thereby couldn’t get employment. Idealists, pointing out that the old man sacri- ficed his life for his ideals, will consider him a philosophical martyr. * A real philosopher, like Socrates, would have advised him that life is a series of reluctant com- promises. They who refuse to conform fail or perish. i Nothing is perfect in life. We have to mak the best of things as they are. The higher our ideals, within reason, however, the more we get out of life. 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. THE MODERN DEPRESSIONISTS Take two cups of sordidness, one cup of artifi- cial disillusion and a cup and a half of gloom and beat together with realism. Add a gecd pinch of salaciousness and place the mixture in a quick oven until it is half-baked. Serve in large por- tions, sprinkled freely with vinegar. ' Such seems to be the favorite recipe of the post-war school of writers. Some vary the pro- portion of sordidness and gloom and many believe in making the pinch of salaciousness generous, disguising it-sometimes in the accepted jargon of the psycho-analysts. They seem to enjoy ‘laying bare their raw souls, just as hypochondriacs de- light in discussing their various symptoms. Whatever is heroic is above their notice. The amenities, the warm moments, the inspiring ac- tions that temper existence serve merely to throw porting ang exporting system between all the) countries of the world could be‘ balanced by al yearly check of $10,000,000. | That is, imports almost identically balance ex-! ports. The important thing is exchange of com- modities. Hager is nya means of keeping the| accounts strHight ‘an landing the books. Na- tions occupy, to the world trade system, the same relation of banks to central clearing houses. . Therein is the fallacy of the enthusiast who! wants to export a lot and import nothing. The! best foreign trade is when we export, say, a bale of cotton and get silk or coffee in exchange. You, can’t eat gold. BETTER THINGS AHEAD While science hypnotizes us with the unfold-| into high relief utter drabness of all they see about them. The mirth that relaxes and the humor that lights up are as hateful to them as sordidness and glumness are dear. __ Well written? Yes, much of it. Vivid, clear, sometimes forceful, depending for its literary value on the realism of its word painting. Such work may be good writing, but it cer- tainly is not good literature—New York Tribune. THE WONDERS OF SCIENCE Without emulating Mr. Gandhi of India in his reaction against modern efficiency, one may won- der just how much there is in some of the recent inventions for measuring the intellect to the frac- tion of a cubic millimeter. It seems that twenty- four college presidents have been subjected to the ing wonder of inventions like the radiophone, more! important but little-noticed progress is being | made in increasing the food supply. \ Last year the farmers grew an average of near-| ly 30 bushels of corn to the acre. The Ohio ex-| periment station has the notion that the figure | should be 100 bushels. It embarks on several | years of experiments to find out if it Possible. {missed and replaced by undergraduates. same intelligence tests which freshmen in North- western university must undergo, and that the presidents came out much worse than the fresh- men. President Scott of Northwestern modestly cbserves that old men are naturally slower of men- tal reaction than boys, and there is no intimation as yet that the college presidents are to be dis- Yet the Wireless promoters or agriculturists, the com-jincident is disquieting. It suggests that there is mon goal of Americans is a better way of doing things. Our nation is in its ’teens, afire with the ambition of youth. Better things lie ahead, AS SAFE AS TRAINS The head-on collision of two passenger air- planes traveling between London and Paris has killed many people’s ambition to travel by the route that doesn’t wear out rubber tires. A catastrophe like this sets aviation back decid- edly. It revives fear,*subduing of which is the hardest problem of any new device. There was, however, the same fear of wrecks when America’s first railroad was started in 1809 something wrong, either with the college presi- dents'or with the: intelligence tests. Science is running too fast for the average man to keep up with it. Three or four years ago we junderstood that psychoanalysis was the key to the mystery of human nature, now the advanced thinkers tell us that psychoanalysis has gone the; way of phrenology and that endocrinology is the jonly gospel. It is disturbing to laymen who have just got their subconscious personalities licked jinto shape after a long struggle to find that the laber was in vain and that their attention must jbe transferred to the thyroid and pituitary—De- | troit Times, fourths of a mile long, was at Tom’s stone quarry | Time will overcome the fear and prejudice traffic problems that will crop up when flying} The bootlegger, too, runs risks,: though of a} i \ BEGIN HERE TODAY After eight ‘years of married life, MARK SABRE discovers that he had cut himself off from human sym- pathy and appreciation, saic_and\ Sifobbigh wife} MABEL, “ faits to underStand his po- etic temperament. At the firm of Fortune, East and Sabre, school and church outfitters, Sabre, is. under- mined by jealousy dd a partner- Ship, once promiged to: him is prom- ised to an associate. |. ; TWYNUNG. Suddenly one who un- derstands him returns..to his life. Th's is « i NONA, an old’ swéetheart, now the wife of the’ dashing*Lord Tybar. Sabre learns,that she is unhappy with Tybar’ and Nona tells him that she choge wrong: “I ought to Nave married you, Marko.” The breach between Mabel and Sabre widens. Then Sabre learns that Twyning has become a' partner. His pro- GO ON WIth THE STORY I Sabre’ remained standing at his ‘lesk. He had a tiny ball of paper in his hand and he rolled it round be- tween his finger. and thumb, round and round and . round and round :_. . In| his mind was a recollection: “You have struck ypur tents and are upon the march.” ‘He thought, “This has been com- ing for a long time . . . It’s my way ef looking at things has done this, I'm getting so I’ve got, nowhere to turn. feel this. I feel it most frightfully . . It was rottenly done. Behind my back. Plotted against me, or they wouldn't have sprung it on me kke that. This frightful feeling of being alone in the place. More empty ai home . . And now there’s this. And I've got to go back to that . ‘You've struck -your tents an¢ are upon the march’. . . Yes Yes. 06.12% He suddenly recollected Nona’s letter. He took it from his por and cvened it; and the second event was discharged upon him. She wrote from their town house: ‘ko, take me away—Nona.” His emotions leapt to her with most brrible violence. He felt his heart leap against his breast as though, engine of his tumult, it would burst lits bonds and to her. ‘He sttuck his hand upon the desk. Hie said aloud, ‘Yes! Yes!” He ‘remembered hi words, “If you ever feel you can" bear it, tell me—Tell me.” He b2gan to write plans to her. He would come to London tomorrow | » She should come to the station |if she could; if not, ‘he would be at the Great Western Hotel. She would telephcne to h’m there and they could arrange to meet and discuss what they should do . : He would like to go away with her directly they met, but there were certain things to see to. He wrote, “But I can only take !yon—” 7 ‘His pen stopped. Familiar words" Be repeated them to. himself, and their conclusion and their circum- stance appeared and stood, as with la sword, across the passage of his |thoughts. “But I can only lead you | downwards. I cannot lead you up- j wards...” * As with a sword— | (He sat back in his! chair and gazed upen this armed intruder to give it | battle. . Bis The morning passed and the after- |noon while still he sat, no more mov- ing than to sink lower in his seat as the battle joined and as he most dreadfully suffered in its most dread- ful onsets. Towards five o’elock he put outi his hand without moving his nosition and drew towards him ‘he letter he had begun. The action was as that of one uttely undone, He very slowly tore it across, and ‘SPRING HOUSE CLEANING HITS WASHINGTON It’s no good pretending I don’t | | He could hear.the homeward move- ments about thejoffice. It was time to go. He wheeled his bicycle to |the letter box at the corner of The Precincts. , the evening cdition came bawling nd the corner. | AUSTRIA | DECLARES WAR { ON SIERVIA | He shook his head ‘at the paper the ibey held out to himjand rode away. i What kad that kind of thing to do ‘with him? | IV ; Unutterable darkness. He lived | within it during the days that fol- , . lowed while he awaited the day ap- then across again, and so into tiniest pointed to write to Nona, again. fragments till his fingers could no! Whatever she’ said when he asked, more fasten upon thom, He dropped | whiche way she answered him, h> his arm‘ away and opened his hand, + brought relief: from his in- jand the white peces fluttered in a}: If she maintained ‘little cloud to the floor, ve love, his weakness, he | Fresently he drew himself up. to ‘ be welded into strength, ithe table and began to write, writing; 8 tse presence of another brings ‘very slowly because his hand trem- -Aous support to timidity: if she |bled go. In half an hour-he. biotted | e°l2rud' for: love—his mind surged jthe few lines on the last sheet: in him. at the imagynation of i“: . . So; simply what I want to} 2trstmg away nce forever the do is to let our step—if we.take it— | sdacaaush ‘principles which for years, ibe mine, not yours. We shall for-|-£dg-ng about his conduct on this leet absolutely that you ever wrote. | -ide and en that, had profited nothing its as though it had never been 2¢3e on whose behalf they had been written. On Tuesday I will write ected and his own life had deso- and ask you, ‘Shall I come up to you?’ /-2ted into barrenn2ss. 2 So if you say ‘Yes,” the action will} He was little disposed to divert at- have been entirely mine. It will :ention to the international ,disturb- ‘tart thore. ,This hasn’t happened. ;:nccs which now were rumbling And during these days in between, s the newspavers sn portentious ‘ust. think like anything over what enormous headlines. Ireland ve said. Honor can’t have any de- r essed away. It was all Europe gree, Nona, any more than truth can hrones chancetleries, coun- “ave any degree: whatever else the|cils. armizs. world can quibble to bits it can’t par- | The cauldron whose seething and t'tion those: truth is just truth and | ubbl ng had entertained some, fd- honor is just honor. And a marriage | &eted some, scme nothing at all con- vow is a pledge of honor, and if one|Cetm2d, suddenly boiled over, and breaks it one broaks one’s /honor, | Poured in boiling fat upon the flames. never mind what the excuse is. meres pend Le es mina aay the hearth no conceivable way of arguing out of | f every m 8. that. That's what T shall ask you to! Cn Friday the Stock Lxchang2 ‘9 on Tuesday and I'm just warning closed. On Saturday Germany de. you so you shall have time to think be-|¢lared war on Russia. In Sunday's forehand.” papers Sabre read of the panic run He took his pen, and steadied his |on tho banks people fighting to con- hand, and wrote: vert their notes into gold. One Lon- “And your reply, when I ask you, |‘on, bank had suspended payment. vhichevor it is, shall bring me light | Many had shut out failure only by ito darkness unutterable darkness.|m‘nutes when midday permitted “AE 3 them. to close their doors. People EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO| “—— WELL, BUT WAAT'S THE | IDEAR 2 “\DEAR’ F "xX DON'T Kuow WHAy THE “IDEAR” 1s — ‘ SEE IF You CAN FINS (TIN THE Dierlion ary wi! As he dropped in his let- | THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1922 were’ hésieging the provision shops to lay in stores of food. ‘And poulred in flames upon the hearth of every man’s concerns . . All his concerns, the, crisis with Nona, with his honor and his love, that awaited determinatton, — were d'sputed the'r place in his mind by the incredible and enormous events that each new hour discharged upon th world. st The news of Muesday morning "caused him at six o'clock in the eve- ning to have been standing two hours in the great throng that filled Market Square gazing towards the offices of the County Times. Our mobilization, our resolve to stand by France jf the German fleet came into the Channel; lastly, most awful- ly pregnant of all, our obligations to Belgium—that had been the morn- ing’s news. That afternoon the prime minister was to make a’ statement. A great murmur swelled up from the waiting crowd, a great move- ment pressed it forward towards the County Times offices. On the first floor balcony men appeared dragging a great beard faced with paper, on the paper enormous lettering. The board was pulled out endways, ‘he man last through the window tovik a step forward and swung the letters into view. PREMIER'S STATEMENT ULTIMATUM TO GERMANY EXPIRES MIDNIGHT Sabre said aloud, “My God!! War!” As a retreating wave harshly with- drawing upon the reluctant pebbles, there sounded from the crowd an enormous intaking of breath, An instant’s stupendous silence, th> wave poised for return. Down! A shatytring rors, tremendous, word- less. The figure of Pike, the editor, appeared upon the; balcony in. his siyrt sleeves het long “hair jyild pbout his face, in’fi¢*hands that which caught the roar as it were by the throat, stopped it and broke it out anew on a burst of exultant clamor. A Union Jack. He shook it madly with both hands above his head. The roar broke: into a tremenddus chant. “God Save the King!” CHAPTER HI I < ‘He approached Penny’ Green and realized for the first time the hard pace at which he had been riding. And realized also the emotions which sub- consciously had been driving him along. All the way he had been say- ing “War!” What he wanted, most \terribly, was to say it aloud to some- one. “He wanted to say it to Mabel. He had a sudden great des're to sea Mabel and tell her about it and talk to her about it. He felt a curiously protcctive feeling toward her. He ran into the house and into the morn- ing room. Mabel was not there. It was almost dinner time. She would be in her room. He ran upstairs. She was standing before her dressing! ta- ble and turned to him in surprise. “Whatever—” “L say, it's war!” (Continued in Our Next Issue) It's a wise hired hand who uses his head also. Golf is a great reduc&r—cspecially for reducing f‘nances. Wouldn't it be great if we bragged about our town while in ‘it as we do when we get away? Fine feathers make sad birds when the bills come in. No’ one appreciates the perils of motoring like the pedestrian, A wife on hand /s worth two at the movies. - e Lots of them have ‘bought bathing suits but haven’t had a:chance to have their pictures made yet. Congress -has made lots of peace, but doesn’t use much of it. Anyway, Chicago robber bands are a relief from her jazz bands. | ait there werg no cuss: words, how would we discuss ‘taxes? =, # Hl are called’ on but very few Lets of ‘b 1account of daugiters are. &i ‘kness t If necessity is the mother of in- vention laziness is an uncle. _ You don’t have to go far to run “nto debt. When it comes to beat the rugs father agrees that short skirts give |freedom of movement. In a coal strike, the consumer is jcut. ‘A bald-headed man with wire whis- kers can’t see anything so very won- derful about nature. | It takes a tax collector to make {farming pay. ' Ford's, men have a fiveday week, but what most men need is) a five- night week. Woman's place is in the home— not the apartment. 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