The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 20, 1922, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ‘THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1922 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D, MANN Editor 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 or republication of all news dispatches eredited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. c 2 ‘ All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN AN TPO Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) ‘ Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).. 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota. . w+ 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) ie WELL DRESSED “A woman is well dressed when she can stand the sharpest scrutiny but when no one turns to look.” - So said Mary Roberts Reinhart, in an interview | accorded to a New York newspaper the other day, in which she commented on the new fashions | for women. ‘Mrs. Reinhart was not wholly new in her obser- vation. It-was in-seme ‘degree a paraphrase of what "was Said long-ago: by Lord Chesterfield, we believe, commenting on dress for men; but there is no quarrel on this score. Mrs. Reinhart made a clever and pointed adaptation. There has. been such a welter of comment on dress that the matter has become commonly dis- tasteful. Many considerations have been lugged! in that have no reasonable part in such a discus- | sion, and no good was affected thereby; but the whole matter sums up, not alone for the present, but for all time, in what Mrs. Reinhart says: “Aj woman is well dressed when she can stand the} compared with our $32.10. Frenchman $51.69. The British treasury, which figures this out, also finds that corresponding taxes in Germany are only $3.48 for each inhabitant. That’s a pe- culiar form of penalty for losing the war, Italian pays $13.93, | Main thing wrong with the movies is that every- ibedy squeezing past your seat seems to be fat. DESIRABLE Near Windham, Vt., G. C. Carlton nails this sign on a tree beside a trout brook running through his farm: “Notice! of the barn. Boy to help dig, if, you want him.” If more of this spirit were abroad in the world there’d be heaven on earth for children — also grown-ups. Nature gave the land to all. Man invented fences, but they were not in nature’s original scheme of things. Man’s problems all are the re- sults of restricting natural processes. By swatting a fly now you kill about 500,- 000 of them and don’t have to sweep out but one. EXCEPTIONAL A 10-pound baby is born to a young couple in Kansas City. The father is 15, mother 14. This makes a lot of talk among grown-ups, ranging from pity to indignation. In India and other oriental countries, no one would give it more than a yawn. Over there, it is not unusual for girls to marry at 11. Some are brides by their ejghth birthday. Maturity, however, comes early in life in the tropics. Absence makes the heart grow stronger. One pretty good reason why a man marries is a woman, 4 & Fish and be damned. Worms back} i | i | ;somehow for some time Just’ Now The Back Yard Is No Place For A Front Porch Guy 7 He knew that he was aware—and had been aware—that he was in a cot in a ship. He said, “I got knocked out, didn’t BS Someone was telling him weren't much in touch with his things, Rathey rotten, I thought it, |seeing that the poor beggar had done his bit in the war and done it pretty thoroughly, too. “Well, I hopped it over on the rail- way and walked down to old Sabre’s. Found him a bit down the road from his house trying out ‘this game leg of his. By Jove, he was no end bucked to see me. And talk! He simply jabbered. I said, ‘By Jove. Sabre, one would think you hadn't. met anyone for a month the way you're unbelting the sacred rites of welcome’ He laughed and said, ‘Well, you see, I’m a bit tied’ to a post with this leg of mine.’ Il “Well, old Sabre took me into a room on the ground ator where they'd put up abed for ‘him, ‘him not being able to do the stairs, of course. “Well, as I say, old man, I always rather. liked his wife. I—always— rather—liked—her. But somehow, as we went on through lunch, and then on after that, I didn’t like her quite so much. Have you ever seen @ wo- man unpicking a bit of sewing? Al- ways looks rather angry at it, I sup- pose because it’s got to be unpicked. They sort of flip ‘the threads out, as much as to say, ‘Come out of it, drat you. That’s you, drat you.’ Well, that was the way she spoke to old Sabre. Sort of snipped off the end of what he was saying and left it hanging, if you follow me. “Mind you, I don’t mean that he was cowed and afraid to open his mouth in his wife’s presence. ‘Nothing a bit like that. What I got out of it was that he was starved, intellectual- ‘ly starved, mentally starved, starved of the good old milk of human kind- ness—that’s what I mean. Course, she may have had jolly good reason. I daresay she had. Still, there it was, and it seemed rather rotten to me. I didn’t like it.Damn it, the chap only had one decent leg under the’ table and an uncommonly ‘tired-looking face above ity'and I felt rather sorry for him.” “Presently ‘he sq@jtled ‘himself down and we began talking. He’s got some ideas, old Sabre has. He didn’t ‘talk about the war. He talked a lot about the effect of the war on people and on institutions, ‘and that sort of guff. Devilish deep, devilishly interesting. I won't: push it, on to you, “Tell you one thing, though, just to give you an idea of the way he’s been developing all these years. He talked about how sickened he was EDITORIAL REVIEW | Some interminable story about some- ‘one being wounded in the shoulder jand in the knee. He said, and his voice |eppeared to him to”be all jumbled up with all this stuff in the papers and in the pulpits about how the nation, in this war, is passing through the purging fires of salvation and is go- sharpest scrutiny, but when no one turns to look.” | Clothes are particularly wide of this mark and in bad taste when the wearer is plainly and con- 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 thatitow. which are being discussed in the press of ‘the day. q lendehick,well'L’aon® care. alt i inviti i ion. — ii fees are : ‘ e ing to emerge with higher, nobler, pres inviting inspection.— Lansing State apa Tait OS = jenn. Someone lalighed. oie eee iets “Hates journal, SMUT—FREE W! “ , PART FOUR not so. ‘They talk about the nation Wheat which is totally resistant to smut and Cie MABEL—EFFIE—NONA turning back ito old faiths, to the old » it f . d, but hard! U Cc NSO CHAPTER I God of their fathers. Man,’ he said, It’s easy to get credit for being good, but hardjpynt has been produced at the government ex- O74, U hie ‘what can you see already? Temples to get cash. .|periment station at Moro, Texas, according to the @19%) ASMHUTCHINSON e Sata Hapgood—that garrulous Hap-|CVeTywhere to @ new God—Greed— DANGER In the Amazon jungle, where no one worries much about prices and cost of living, the most dangerous’ things encountered by a group of American explorers were not giant snakes or wild beasts. “Worst peril we found there was a screw worm,” says Orlando E. White of Brooklyn botanical’ gar- dens. ; The Amazon screw worm develops from an egg laid by a jungle fly in a human wound such as a scratch by a thorn. If not cut out deadly inflam- mation follows. j Most of life’s dangers and pitfalls start with lit- tle things. The monsters that worry us most are usually phantoms of the imagination. Life pivots on small details. Truth isn’t stranger than fiction when a fisher- man starts talking. : COST OF LIVING The cost of living among wage earners’ fami- lies March 15 was nearly 58 per cent: higher than in 1914. It had dropped about 24 per cent from July, 1920, when living costs were higher. These figures, furnished by the National In- dustrial:Conférence Board after a’ check-up, are obtained ‘by striking a national average. In some sections, higher than the average.’ In others, lower. i Unless the rate of decline gets.a move on, it; will be May, 1924, before cost of living gets down as low as-it was before the war. Will it ‘ever drop ain? No one knows—except Father Time, whdse meuth is as tight as a clam’s. There may be a place for everything, but some things seem out of place. RESTORING EQUILIBRIUM Prices of things bought by farmers have drop- ped an average of a fifth durjng a year, says De- partment of Agriculture. | This means city folks are getting less money | for what they make for farmers. It also means that equilibrium or balance is being restored between farm and city. Farmers’) purchasing power increases. Mail order houses! are first to notice it. | A high price doesn’t mean anything when there | are no sales. What the nation called “the buyer’s| strike” was largely the withdrawal of farmers | from purchasing markets. After eating onions, look at the bill for wife’s| hat. It will take your breath away. | TAXES On all sides you hear people say, “A fellow wouldn’t mind this deflation so much if taxes didn’t stay so high.” National taxes during the fiscal year,‘ which will end next June 30, average $32.10 for each American. The Engishman is paying an average of $128.90, idesirable on all accounts. ja divided government,-dead-locked in a purely +|superintendent-of.the station. Wheat of this type is said to have been unknown heretofore to plant pathologists. Its importance to the wheat in- dustry can hardly, be estimated. Four distinct varieties wholly immune to smut are reported to have been produced, and many hybrid varieties of high resisting power have been grown by crossing the! smut-proof kinds with ‘some of the most productive but less resistant types of grain. Every little while in the hue and cry for economy some enthusiast attacks the appropria- tions for agricultural research. Here is proof that such curtailment’must proceed with cauticn. If highly productive wheat suited to the varying climatic conditions of this country can be made resistant to.smut, the money invested in preliminary research soon will be returned many- fold.—Devils Lake Journal. ANYTHING BUT THAT Cordell Hull, chairman of the Democratic na- tional committee, was in St. Paul yesterday, and he told the Dispatch that “the pendulum is swing- ing” from the Republican party to the Democratic party. Well, that may be so. But the pendulum could swing a long way from the Republican margin of 1920, and still leave the’ Republicans on top. Mr. Hull“also told the. Dispatch that he sees a Democratic congress as a result of this fall’s elec- tions. That, of course, is what a Democratic na- tional chairman is expected to see. The chief business of national chairmen seems to be to issue forecasts of victory for their respective parties. But regardless of whether it is better to have Republicans or Democrats on top, everybody who is more interested in keeping things going ahead will hope that Mr. Hull’s vision has fooled him. It will be well enough to have the Republican margins in congress cut down some. The Repub- licans there will do better, probably,; with a large and vigorous minority closely on their heels and the 1924 presidential election looming. One rea- son they haven’t done better is that their margin in the house is too large and unwieldy. A Democratic congress, though, would be un- It would simply mean political struggle for advantage in the presiden- tial elections. The business of a Democratic con- gress with a Republican president is to see that the administration accomplishes nothing that will help in the coming election, just as the business ident is to see that the administration gets away with nothing good that would help it in the elec- tion. means nothing whatever but complete paralysi: of the government at a time when the country jneeds a government able to pass and enforce legis- lation. A Democratic victory in November might please |Democratic partisans, but it would please no citi- \zen who realizes that the country needs an effec- tive government and can’t afford now to have a paralyzed government.—Duluth Herald. of a Republican congress with a Democratic pres-! e A Democratic congrgss elected this fall would | from Our, Last Issue) _ Tt would” have been ‘uncommonly jolly to have had Bright Effie as com- panion on the walks,-and once or twice he. did, But Mabel.showed very clearly th: '§ Wag very far from having her approval and on ‘the sec- ond occasion said so. There was the lig! e about it; what Mabel ap for her.” ere, and how ‘Mabel, he did not realize until, in the last week of his leave, and in the! midst of a sticking up for her scene, M bel surprisingly armounced, “Well, ay I’m sick and tired of the girlj\ahd I’m ’‘s'! and tired of having you always sti:k- ing up for her, and I’m going to get rid, of her—tomérrow.” : “But, Mabel—what will her pceop'e think?” “I'm sure I dgn’it care what thev think. If you're s conce-ned abort the precious girl, I'll tell her m: that I wag going to make other rangemen‘s in any case and that <¢ this was your last week we tho we'd like ito he alone together. W that satisfy you?” VII But she did co it. day Effie left. Sabre, pretending to know nothing about. it, went for a long walk ail day; When he. return Effie was gone. He said nothing. H name was not again mentioned br- tween him and Mabel. It happened that only the referencé. to her sud- den departure in which he Was con- cerned wais with Twynin: Setting out on his ‘return to France his orders w to join a Fasili talion. rep ng to 34th Effie getting the sack from your plz like that. How wag it?” _Twyning was looking keenly at him. “But-a bit sudden, wasn’t it? I mean to say, I thought you were on such friendlv terms with the g Why, only a couple of days before she left I saw you with her having tea in the Cloister tea rooms.” ing for my wife.” “Oh, yes, waiting for your wife, were you?” Twyning appeared to be thinking. “Well, that’s wha old man. She's seeing you pose? she’s not. She's not too well. Get a ‘rotten cold.” Twyning stared again. “Oh, I'm sorry, old man. Well, you'll want to be getting in. I'l] tell old Bright wh you say about Effie. I quite under. stand. Seemed a bit funny at first, that’s all. Goodby old man. Jolly good lucl He put out his hand and squeezed Sabre’s in his intensely friendly grip; jand destiny put out its hand and added another and a vital hour to Sabre’s ultimate encounter with life. 1 VI f His leave ended with the one thin: ¥ terly unexpected and’ flagrant! | impossible. |_ Arriving in London about nine. ‘he stocd on a street refuge to let by ja cab coming out of the station. As jit passed he saw its occupants—two | women; and one saw him—Nona! Of ‘all incredible things, Nona! She stopped the cab and he hur-: ark a i » “I’m hurrying to Euston She said, bs | “Yes, I remember; we were wait ;war—his tenancy of the s “Hullo, old man,” said yning. | “Just off? I say, old man, old. man, old Bright’s very upset about! ai ( | | i | | 1 ! i | | | | i to catch a train. Tony’s mother is with me.” How funny ‘her voice was., “Nona, you look ill. You sound ill. What': up? Ig anything wrong?” She said, “Oh, Marko, Tony’ killed.” “Nona!” - » That came carreering hend long, ag though malig: pitter and ,-had#loosed a savage bolt. a Se IX On ‘the ‘following morning he crossed ‘to Irance, there to take u: again that strange identity in whos occupancy his own sel: mg held. in obeyance, waiting his return. Seve? months passed before he returnec to that waiting identity and’ he re sumed it then permamently. with the war. The tremendous fi ing of 1917—his participation in range per- sonality caught up in the enormous machinery of it all—ended for ‘him in the great break through of the Hin- denburg Line in November. On top of a recollecyion of sudden shock then of! whirling giddiness in which he was conscious of some enormous violence going on but could not feel it—Nke (as he afterwards thought) oginning to come ‘to in the middle a “ooth extraction under gas—on & ‘the top of these and of extraordinary On the followin: things and scenes and people he could not at all understand came gomecone saying, “Well, it’s: goodby to the. war. for you, old man.” ne good, soliciiov, who first in this book spoke of Sabre to a mutual friend— said Hapgood, seated in the ‘comfort- able study of his flat, to that same triend, staying the night: “Well, Low, cld man,.about Sabre. I tell you it’s a funny business ioned funny business, the posi- got “I tion’ old Puzzlehead Sabre has himself into. ‘Look here, this is April, April, 1918. “Well, g gocd Sabre got knocked, out in’ France just about five months ack in November. He copped e—shoulder and knee. Shoul- ing much; knee preity bad. Thought they’d have to take his leg off, one time. Thought better of it, thanks be; patched ‘him up; dis- churged him from the army; and ent him home—very groggy, only t able to put ithe bad leg to the round, erat » and going to be a, ck and a bit of a limp all his life. ‘Very well. That’s as he was when I fist saw him again. That was back in February. Early in February, wo months ago, There was good ‘id me down in Tidborough on busi- ness—and remembering about old Sabre having been wounded and dis- charged, blew into Fortune, East and Sabre's for news of him. “Of course he wasn’t there. Saw old: Fortune and the man Twyning and found them in regard to Sabre about as genial and communicative as a maiden aunt over a married sis- ter's new dress. Sort of handed out the impression ‘that he'd: been out of the business so long, that really they | EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO|| k Me IS % AB ai ny Now, THEN, MY DESR WR You CRACK A KNUCKLE AND woe e@rRack i to him, ‘What's ithe remedy, ‘Chicago robber shot in ‘New York, should have had s2nse enough to stay at home where the folks knew him. \ When business is slow it is a good idea to get after it. European merchants can take Rus- sia’s, orders if Russia will take their orders at Genoa. (Mun who think they know all don’t know all they think. You can save daylight by using it, With (so many: autos and porch swings it is a wonder anybody is single, ‘Landlords should remember they don’t have as hard a't'me collecting the rent as tenants do. ' ‘i The man who stays on his toes keops others off of thim. Bridge is a great convenience ta pass an open night. Being down in the mouth is’a fine way to get up?in the air. A salesman has to strike a man right to make a hit. Conan Doyle says it is a funny fe-ling when you d-e, but then Conan never has tried it. The chief interest in lifo with spme pzople is that at the bank. Perhaps prosperity is slow because we haven't paved the way. ‘When it comes to getting there, perspiration beats inspiration. Blessed are th> peacemakers, they shall never be out of work. for Some of us just leave off our vest and we have our spring suit. ‘Fact that the world’s diamond sup- ply has been cornered will make a fin libi for June grooms. ‘Congresswoman Robertson . asks the people to pray for Congress; but some think it is too late. This isthe t'me to keep cool over the coal situation. Next winter will be the time to g2t hot. Liberty bonds are getting higher— so is liberty. : DON’T DISREGARD A COLD Folsy’s Honey and Tar will check a cold if taken in time, and will also stop'a cough of long standing. It promptly gives relief, soothes and heals. Mrs. Geneva Robinson, 88 N. Swan St. Albany, N. Y., writes: “Foley’s Honey and Tar is the best {cough medicine I evar uscd. Two bot- |tled broke a most stubborn lingering jcouch.” It loosens phlegm and mus eases })arseness, stops tickl'ng throat, helps “flu” and grip coughs,