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

~NEW YORK 7 PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE officers where asked by the courts, aid in enforcing the com- pulsory attendance law and forward the interests of children Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D.,. as Second Class ** Matter. a és i: 2 3 ie \investigations, make reports and, in pene ican 1 | welfare in their respective counties. These boards would be! Foreign Representatives {named only mich when peducated by a board ft county opel “ : imissioners. They would employ each an executive secretary G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY to carry on the active work. The state bureau would have 2! CHICAGO = = . ° = DETROIT {director and such assistants as were needed. ~ H Marquette Bidg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH 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 other- wise 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) . Ao .» 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) . 5.00 Dai y mail, outside of North Dakota .. 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1878) A VERY REASONABLE REQUEST Some consumers of the Hughes Electric company have made a very reasonable request to. the Ctiy Commission. They ask for an audit of the company’s books to as¢ertain just what the real earnings are. The city attorney in‘ reply has said that such an examination might disclose that the utility was not securing a proper return ‘on the investment and as a result of municipal curiosity there might result an increase in rates as in the result of the water company litiga- tion. ' The people of Bismarck belieye that that rise was unwarranted and are resentful over it, and, are beginning to'credit their situation to the bungling way in which ‘the whole water situation has been handled from the first. Whether the city attorney’s reply: to the consumers’ re- quest was merely flippant matters little. He is merely evading the issue. Users of steam especially complain that the present rate is burdensome and the service poor. Pres- ire is low and little live steam is furnished. Moreover, it s felt generally that the Hughes company is making an ex- cessive return upon the central heating plant rates. Complaint to the State Railroad commission on steam rates and service disclose the rather startling fact that this aun of the government had insufficient funds properly to carry on ‘investigations into service and make adequate valu- ations. Apparatus for testing certain meters or carrying on any complete system of such tests for consumers is lack- ing because of depleted funds. In other words when the legislature at the behest of the utilities took the control of the public utilities from the cities and vested it in the state commission inadequate appropriations were made'to carry on the work. Whether this was engineered to precure the kind of supervision the utilities wanted is a matter of conjecture. Under the present system little relief is afforded without lung drawn out and expensive litigation. Home rule should be'restored speedily to the cities as regards the supervision of public utilities with.the possible Eeranion of telephone companies whose business is of such a nature as to be intra- county and whose service overlaps so many districts. - Water, gas and electric companies as a rule and in the main confine their operations to one municipal corporation. Sentiment everywhere is for such a restoration of super- vision of utilities to the local, government and Gov. Nestos could well embody such a recommendation in his message to the legislature. Until local control is restored or the state commission, given adequate funds, the city commission can take certain preliminary steps to:protect the consumers. They can secure an audit by offering to.defray that expense. No one is injured by such action and a step in'this direction should be favored by. the utility itself unless it has good reason to avoid such an examination of its books. It is estimated that this audit into the earnings of the Hughes Electric utility and an ex-/ amination of the service given — pressure and quality of} i steam—would cost abcut $500. The consumers could. well afford to pay this themselves if the City Commission would only start the ball rolling. The few signers to the petition represent many. other users who would willingly sign such a petition if they believed there was any chance of the City Commission going into the matter. _ Now that sentiment is practically unanimous that the city should purchase as fairly as possible the water utility, the City Commission might see to it that steam rates are}: brought somewhere within reason and if they are found to be} , reasonable, the City Commission should petition ‘the Railroad| That is Commission to see to it that steam is furnished. what the consumers pay for. Tfie responsibility rests solely upon the commission. They. can spur the State Commission into action as no committee of citizens can. : Comparison of heat bills paid three or four years ago on the same buildings with the present bills show almost a 100 per cent increase. IS THERE A REASON? : \ ; IT IS UP TO YOU, THE CITY COMMISSION TO’ PRO- TECT THE PEOPLE FROM ANY UNJUST UTILITY TAX WHETHER: THE LEVY IS MADE BY WATER, GAS, OR ELECTRIC -UTILITY. : THEY SHOULD ALL LOOK THE SAME TO YOU, You afe elected:to serve all the people. | - STEAM USERS WANT SOME RELIEF THIS WINTER. *“THEY EXPECT YOU TO ACT. ; : CHILD WELFARE —~ \ :Child welfare work in North Dakota will be placed on a par with the best systems in the most advanced and progres- sve states in the Union, according’ to the North Dakota Children’s Code commission, if its program of legislation is adopted by the ‘coming state legislature to. which it, is to be submitted. A total of 28 bills has been prepared by the com- ntission and these provide.for a complete code covering the ’ whole field of child welfare work in the state, especially the handling of dependent, neglected, delinquent and defective children, illegitimates, and laws concerning hem. % The Code commission, named following a€tion by the 1921 legislature, has completed a state-wide survey of conditions, aad ‘reports that present laws are defective and inadequate ile needed statutes are lacking altogether. There is in- sufficient investigation before disposal of public charge chil- dren, juvenile courts are not general and effective enough and there ts no law enforcement agency to look after child welfare. * One of the proposals of the.commission is to establish a sfate bureau of child welfare which shall have charge of administering the entire children’s code and enforcing its 1gws. It shall license and supervise all child welfare agencies. license and regulate public dance halls and pool and billiard rooms, conduct investigations, act ‘asvprobation and ‘parole Editor Kresge Bldg. ; Fifth Ave. Bldg.) printed. Copies may be obtained by writing to the commis- | |in every way possible. ; A second bill would create county child welfare ‘boards j which would be county agents for the state bureau, conduct | general, promote child! The commission’s exhaustive report of conditions and) recommendations is just out and. 10,000 copies have been sion at Bismarck. Racatiists NSE . BEWARE—CANCER! | .One woman in eight and one man in 14 dies of cancer. So, the public should gladly give deep thought to \the medical Warnings and advice circulated during Cancer Week, Nov. 12-18. : | Here are the important facts you should know about this dread diseasé: ; FIRST—Cancer usually is caused by chronic irritation, jparticularly of the stomach. Thirty per cent of cancers in jmen and 21 per cent in women are in the stomach. SECOND—Cancer is not contagious. It is not a germ dis-| ease. THIRD—Cancer is not hereditary, though a person may) inherit a “tendency” or physical weakness which, not safe- guarded, may enable cancer to develop easily. 4 FOURTH—Cancer, taken in the early stages, often is cur- able in the hands of medical experts. Radium’ is working | ; wonders in this line. So is surgery. versity Institute of Cancer Research, learned this: Between, the,ages of 15 and 19, only one person in 250,000 dies of can- cer. Between 20 and 21, only one person in 200,000. Between 25 and 34, one man in 10,000 and one woman in 5000 dies of leancer. And so the rate rises until, between the ages of 65 and 75, one man in 200 and one woman in 150 dies of can- cer. ! after. But the irritation or’other cause of cancer often starts much earlier,'so no one is immune, and all should be on their guard. As with other diseases, a periodical: physical examina- tion by a skilled physician is the best safeguard against cancer. . ieee SAFE-GUARDS ARE NECESSARY. Many states which have the initiative, referendum and recall have found it necessary to safe-guard these measures; to prevent the voters from repealing them altogether. In California, for example, the election ballot was cluttered.with | initiated or referred measures, and it is safe to say that the| majority of voters cast their ballot on most of them without | really knowing what they were voting upon. North Dakota has already had experience in these meas- ures which disclosed need of amendment-if they are to stand. The charge was made in the recall election that thousands | of names were forged. Whether true or not, the lawsuit | growing out of this dispute disclosed that there was noj method in the law by which the truth. or Sasi of forgery charges on a large scale could be determined. he situation plainly showed the necessity of a remedy as requiring| every voter to sign an affidavit that he had affixed his true name ‘to the petition. The same is true of the initiative dnd referendum petitions. It is easier to sign.a petition than, to, explain to the circulator why one does not wish to:sign! it, and many people will sign if it does not cost anything. Such safe-guards-ought to be thrown around these measures which would insure that every man or woman who-signed 4 petiti was familiar with the measure petitioned for, and inthe 'main nothing but fundamental issues should be permitted to go before the people for a vote. f it hasn’t yet learned its own busi- ness. y aes There are real evils—the plight R EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here ir order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which are poling: digcussed in the press of fhe day, i consumers, the menace of such in- dustrial cutbreaks as the coal and} labor strikes are evidences enough of that. Plans are proposed to meet those evils—Townley’s plang, Shipstead’s! plans, La Follette’s —plans, Gomp- ers’s plans. They have the merit} of being directly thought up to meet} specific evils, and they have plausi- bility. If no better plans are de- vised, and no other leaders rise to push those better plans, wrong | plans and wrong leaders will pre- vail. , ¥ 4 In 1920, the country, disgusted STORMS AND ROCKS AHEAD, State ownership of ‘business eh- |terprises—which is miscalled so- ;cialism but really is‘state’ capital- lism—isn’t the right way to meet |the many discontents of producers and consumers. g Labor domination of industry isn’t ‘the right way to settle the jvexing and incr@ssingly dangerous | with. Democratic rule, surged vio- eee aecrn atic uae dou [Jently e the Republican party. WHE CATHETS COm-! \Tn1922 the country, dissatisfied ination of labor by ‘employers is the with Republican rule, surged rather right way. { A * Yet uness. this ‘country develops wen, toward, Democrats” and better plding of meeting. these Hai if that continues, the country in| jand leaders arise who are-capable 1924 may surge.as violently faw: jor “selling” those better plans to) oo, Republicanism as. it Parte ithe public and of ~applying thems toward it m 1920. .We are likely to, see experiments ‘ Th i I 4g ~ | There wil}%be:a limit to that foot- jflong those lines on an Inoreasing-| 1.5 and futile surging to and fro. ly widespread ‘scale. . ¢) 3 ‘ a as Fe “ti There was ‘once’ a crowd on an Bes te ea ofr tite’ election | .<cursion steamer im New York ‘ bs : harbor, watching a spectacle of ; There is complaint against the F eid i Sh 1E 7 7 »|S0me kind. Finding that, all being Republicans because they haven't! 0 ong side of the tahip,. there) was developed competent leadership. ; 4 = i ee Ft @ pronounced list to .that side, the It is a just complaint. They crowd ‘sUrged frantically. to the i haven't. If they had, the results of | in z se A other side. That made a more dan- Tuesday would have been different. serous Uisteio. thats sidecaer’ the The Democrats were targely the’ . Paccams ze cing hut crowd raced back again to the [beneficiaries of the blow-um bit) other, It surged thus ‘back and where ig theiy leadership? Who Ie : e +, | forth, getting itself in no better sit- are their leaders? What is their vation, until at last it’ overturned plan, and wherein does it differ : a jfrom the Republican plan? It does! een There:.wassa\vereat net differ at all, for both alike have 5 ae ‘no plan except to get and hold of- Something ks feet might hap- Tice. And just getting offices and} Pen {0 our ship of state. It does no good to call radicals Dr. Francis Carter Wood, director of the Columbia Uni-|- : Thus cancer is . especially dangerous in middle-age and sha of the farmers, the discontent of ii | j piece’ of ‘gold, WELL JOAN. WE MIGHT AS WELL Go Home, I Can'T Go uNTiL. MY TRAIN comes The opera had opened. The mu- ‘sic began to fill the corridors. But | aspect, for perfection of ‘det M. Jonquelle did not go in. He remained idling in the foyer, a cigaret in his fingers, his manner and air, a well-bred, bored ~indif- ferente. The whole house was crowded. There was not a vacant seat. ; It was' the last performance in Paris of; Mme. Zirtenzoft’s Salome. ‘A‘‘féw belated persons passed M. Jonquelle and entered the doors to the “boxes, Some of. these persons addtessed him; all : regarded: ; him. or “ered to: know him, all were curious ‘about the man, Théyvast/music asgembled and ex- tended. itself. j The foyer became empty, and still M, Jonquelle \did not go in. Per- pgrit was because Mme. Zirtenzoff id. .not gone on. She was a famous ‘beauty; ,her Salome had the abandon ‘which . stimulated. even the jaded ‘nerves of France. It had been on ‘at the Opera for fifty days, and Paris was still keen to see it. The woman was a Russian exotic, ‘one of ‘those alluring creatures that ‘always assemble a fabulous legend. There was a wild passion in her alome, and her conquests we the gossip of Paris. The opera had continued for’ per- haps ‘thirty minutes. Mme. Zirten- zoff had come on; her voice, like 2 silver bell, reached M. Jonquelle clearly where he sauntered in the foyer. Presently the door to a box opened and one/of the pages of the theater appeared with an immense bouquet ‘of orchids. The flowers were worth been grown in Paris only with e ‘treme care and under every perfec- tion of light and temperature. It was a mass of flowers that -wou'd have drawn the ‘attention of any’ body, exquisite orchids of the genus Oncidium Kramerli, called the Mot- tled Butterfly., It seemed to have drawn the at- tention of M. Jonquclle. He stopped the page as he passed him. 5, “Garcon,” he said; handing him a 5 ‘find mk a box of cigatets before you go on with those flowers. Quickly—run; I will “hold them until you return,” ie..boy knew the great chief of the Service deta Slrcte. : He gave 3. Jonquelle the bouquet of orchids and disappeared down the stairway. He waé*-gone hardly @ moment; when he retirned, M. Jon- quelle had not moved fram tign by a pillar of the fo¥ handed back the orchids to th and received the box of cigareté. box but did not ‘open it; instead, he walked a few steps down the foyer and entered the box from which the page had come out with the or- chids. ‘keeping them, and footless. switch- and leaders of the other party ing from one party to the other, are], “3 - . ‘getting wearisome. They are bor- nag leaders’ pula paneeded te | 92 r ish, | One looking on would have won- dered why the Prefect of Police re- IT’S THIS WAITING AROUND THAT GETS TIRESOME. by MELVILLE DAvVIssON © 1992 NEA Service; Inc. ‘3 THE MOTTLED BUTTERFLY a thousand francs, They could have} fect entered: He paused a moment fingered tel > \ Paris. I shall be honored to have yon as guest; pray: sit down.” M..Jonquelle sat down. He looked moment over the vast. audience, brilliant. and distinguished; a moment at Mme. Zirtenzoff on the distant stage; and then he addressed his host. “Monsieur,” he said, “Mme. Zir- tenzoif is, | imagine, beyond rubies. But I have not come here to observe her; I have come to ask you about was an extraordinary robbery.” “It was most extraordinary, mon- sieur,” replied the Marquis, whole of Paris regretted that yoa were out of France at the time. Where were you, monsieur?” the In his" physical 1, the on the Paris seal’s” coat. ;man had no equal boulevards. It had got him a rich American /taugh: wife and lifted him, as by # fairy) “«yoy cannot be expected to tell Inmn, out of the sordid environ-| that; you protect us, monsieur, by ments of an old fomily. int.) “decay your mystery. If the Lecca could ‘she thing seemed ‘a piece of the de- |e or ety ae ee a be sign of a Providence with an esthetic! #Ypicttigr we should not havea sense, - i ; we This exquisite person would have jewel ‘orva five frane; piece: remaining; been incongruous except in an at- mosphere of wealth. He had an apartment now beyond the Are de ‘Yriomphe, one, of. those wonderfil apartments ‘that® the America in-, vasion after the Great War ‘had: set up in Paris. The Marquis was the’ envy of the boulevardi But. it was rumored that he hau not the freedom of his wife’s money- sacks. He got what. she allowed hi ut it ought to be written here, in justice. to the Marquis, that it was not he who complained. Why should he? Tse allowance was evi- dently enough for any reasonable He had the best of everything; fect, “you do me too much honor; there are a number of very good men withthe Service de la Surete, quite as capable ‘as I to protect’ Paris." The Marquis laughed. “You have an affection for your associates, M. Jonquelle, that I fear clouds your intelligence. ‘Nothing could have been managed - more stupidly than the investigation of my apartment. In your. absencq, monsieury you cannot imagine into what hopeless commonplace the in- vestigation of a criminal affair ia Paris can descend. man. f everything: | fixed between Alexander’ and _ the if he felt any sense of stint, ther? | iicutenants of Alexander! But for was no sign either word or act. my own feeble efforts, nothing In form, the Marquis was above reproach. There could be no sur- prise, to the fashionable audience of Paris in ‘the fact that the Marquis was alone in the box. His wife was on a visit to: America, and it was better fitting than to be with another who’ might console him for his wife’s absende. If the Marquis was not'the best of men, he was at any rate not the least discreet, He rose and bowed when the Pre would have resulted from the police necklace of diamonds which the Mar- quise purchased for five’ hundred thousand francs—assembled from the crown, of jewels of Russia—would have disappeared without a clew to the thief. As it happened, he was brought to justice; he confessed and was sentenced for an incredible per- iod by the court. But for me,”—and again the Marquis laughed—“there would have been no thief sentenced Your inspectors, monsieur, » “Ah, monsieur,” he — said, “Tam |! | charmed to, sec’ you; Mme. Zirten- |zoff will be even worth an hour of thé priceless time of the Prefect of rR. TRUS, | T WST Now, the robbery in your apartment. That “The | ~ Then -the Marquis added. with ay “Alas, monsicur,” replied the. Pre- ; /“Alas, monsieur, there is a gulf{ investigation in my apartment. The} | Modern politeness consists jing the public, which is finding \that_it isn’t getting anywhere ex- icept nto troible. | ere is, manifestly, a lack of lIcadership. But not a lack of llead- iers. There are plenty of them. | Townley, Shipstead, La Follette, Frazier, Gompers, Brookhart—oh, idbere are plenty of leaders! And jthese leaders have plans, too— definite, concrete plans. They are | designed to moet eal, outstanding jnecds, and ito many they ‘seem }plausible. They are getting lots of; jVvotes—too many votes. If sounder ‘plans and sounder leadership do! ¢, majority.:-George William’ Cur- | ed. jnot develop, such leaders as these, ‘and such plans as theirs, may come |into power and application. That, probably, would be disaster. Labor domination of industry is no better than employer domination of labor. 'There is nothing in the history of | eovernment, anywhere, that shows , it te be competent to conduct busi- ness. Almost invariably when goy- ernment Laz tackled business en- sound plans for meeting real evils; quired a pack of cigarcts, at the instead of crazy plans. If these cost of a ten-franc gold-piece—es- wise leaders and sound plans do | pecially as, after having turned it not s).i appear,: there are storms, in-his hand, ‘he had put it carelessly and rocks ahead for America.—Du:| into his: pocket and entered a box. luth Herald. 5 >: | It -would appear that he waited des = s ‘' Far these cigarets before entering —-—__________—-¢ | the box. But. to what end? One ‘could not smoke in a box at the | A THOUGHT ‘| | Opera, at its ultra-fashionable audi- >_> | ence of ‘Paris. Although the grent To be spiritually minded is life| Av and peace.—Romans 8:6. + nat a vacant seat visible to the Progress begins with the minori- | eve—there was but one person in the ty. It is completed by persuadinz | box which M. Jonquelle had enter- tis. 2 He was a person that_ anyone - ——- | would, pause almost anywhere to The five. states of California, | cbserye’ He was young; he was ex- Washington, Oregon, Idaho and | quisitely dressed—a dress in which Montana. possess more than one- | there was some of the over-extrava- half of all the standing timber in gance. of detail, that suggestion of the United States. elegance, which the Parisian cannot | avoid. Paper enough for the whole world He was a young man and extreme- could be made from the bamboo and ly handsome, a blond French type |’ savannah grasses of India much | with’a dainty mustache and regular jterprises, government ‘has been _Made a mess of it, Naturally, when ‘ made | Italian features, and thick, soft, | yellow hair presenting the gloss of | cheaper than paper can be from: wood pulp, chemists assert, opera house was packed with people | ff aX O Oo &, One Al 3 Zi ae LE ? MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1922 “And the Marquis Chantelle was magnificent! His fame in: the affair has reached-me; he is the admirati-n of the Surete, I have come, mon- sieur, to verify the details, and frem yourself. I do not know what rumor may have added or omitted.” He bowed slightly, like one would add a gesture of compliment to his words. : 3 i “Willingly, monsicur,” replied the ; Marauis. “I shall be charmed to | verify details; but you will pardon me it I am moved to ask you for yqur opinion on a certain phase of this . mystery. You must have an opinion, monsieur, if you do not have an ex- !planation, in’ fact.” He turned a little in his seat. “Monsieur,” he said, “how did it ‘happen that when we had fixed this robbery upon Jean Lequex, a mem- ber of the Lecca, he admitted it be- fore the court and asked for an im- | mediate sentence? But he would ad- mit. fhothing else; he would not say what he had done with, the necklace , or where it was. “That was a strange position for a man to take, monsieur. He could hope nothing go" the judge. Why confess? It did not lighten his sen- tence; and after all, our evidence against him was circumstantial. Why did he not say what he had {done with the necklace? The judge ! would have reduced the sentence. Why conceal it, monsieur, and go fo: |this long period of servitude? Did he hope to escgpe?” / M. Jonquclle’ spoke with decision. “He did not.” “Then, monsieur,” continued the Marquis, “why did he refuse to say where the necklace ‘was? Of what service would be the necklace to him j after iventy| year” i Again M.-Jonquelle replied direct- ly and with decision. “Of no use, .monsieur; not. expect it to be of any use him.” | “Then, monsicur,”. continued ae Marquis, “why in |the name. of heaven did he not. ‘say where this necklace was, and thereby reduce his sentence?” M. Jonquelle, seemed to reflect. “You have asked for my opinio he said, “I think I. can do better. than give an opinion. I think I-can itell you precisely the reason why Jean Lequex, when he confessed this crime before the court, refused to, say what had’ become of the neck- lace.” | Another installment of “The Mot- tled Butterfly? will appear in our next issue. the man did ° i Kansas City man who begun life as a poor boy owns $1,709,461 now. Nice thing about a cold winter is ‘you Gon’t miss beer so much, Many a, fogtball players gets, into the :l:melight on @ forward pass. Profiteers were charging so hard when the armistice was signed they haven't been ablé to stop yet. \ We can all. be thankful this Thanksgiving thet mirrors can’t taik. The terrific windstorm in Okla- homa may or may not have been caused by defeated candidates’ ¢x- planations. ~ | Some towns: are so lucky. Citizens of Olyphant, Pa. seized and dis- ‘tributed four cars of coal. | The stingiest man again has some Red Cross Seals he took off of his Christmas packages last year. Price of wool suits shows the tariff pulls the wool over our eyes. ‘Senator McKinley says we will have a new. world war. Most of us favor making the old one last awhile longer. France is threatening to send some lecturers over here. Ohio man has a 95-pound pumpkin but this is not the largest pumpkin head by any means. A well-known reformer plans to goxaround the world. We wish him |, | success on the first half of his trip. | Chicago is building a church 21 \ stories high which won't get them j any higher than a one-story church, | : The world gets better. A geologist claims ages ago England and Ireland were connected by land. Reader writes us he visited New | York 'w.thout seeing any “shooting. | He should have demanded his mon.y | Lack. 4 A wise man. never throws rocks at a policeman or laughs when his wife's corns hurt. Suatarvesy a man offering his scat to a ‘lady | when he gets off the car, | & fine way to gt up is put the! |alarm clock under the Hed so you will have to crawl to get it. Beauty secret: Not sending your laundry on time often makes a man’s shirt look dirty. | Nice. thing about applauding’ | movies is you don’t get an encore. This is the age of speed. Wouldn't it be great if next summer were to | come \this winter? ; Small Chinese firm have found it cheaper and more efficient to hire | truck to do their hauling than to |hire the necessary number of | coolies. i | OlDs easil: treated externally with— Over 17 Million Jars Used Yearly We = af ial