The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1923, Page 4

PAGE FOUR -- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THE BISMAR CK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Clase Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. - - - Publishers Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - - - - - DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. The Associated Press is exciusively entitled to the us d republication of all new herein. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS e or spatches credited to it or not other- | wise credited in this paper and als 0 the local news published All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER A Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck ae es 3 Daily by mai!, per year (in state outside Bismarck) . Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota....... JDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATI SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE I THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) N ADVANCE ; $7.20 pug Ue30) 5.00 6.00 GOLDEN IDOL . Ingrandpa’s ¢ “He's worth his we sionally Check this up and learn so value. ight in gold.” about the best possible compliment was: | We still repeat it occa- | mething concerning your real About $45,000 worth of gold weighs as much as the aver- age American. year. Four per cent So anyone earning $1800 a ye. gold, twice his weight in gold. And , ik : : i} Your earning power represents the interest on that in- | tangible value, yourself. interest on $45,000 is $1800 a aris worth his weight in The man with an income of $3600 a year is worth | ay so on upward—or downward Of course, it’s rather futile to try to put an individual’s value on a money basis ,though most people do. entist who isolates a disease germ and learns how to check | is worth, to humanity, more | its slaughter of human lives than all the gold in existence. organi man. Another old-time expression is “Pure as gold.” doesn’t mean as much as most of us believe. cent pure can be seen in the is rarely used in such pure form commercially. The sc So with inventors, far-sighted and people who by their daily example spread the contagion of common honesty and the brotherhood of | ! It xold 100 per chemist’s laboratory. But it In most American-made jewelry, the gold is only 50 per cent of the metal, and the rest is alloy. About the purest form of gold that the average person ever sees is a wedding ring, nine-tenths gold, only a tenth alloy. However, it doesn’t make much difference ,as long as we believe that we are “sporting” pure gold. The value of gold is largely imaginar: barring actual nec ssities ? Isn’t that true of all other values, About 45 out of every 100 pounds of gold hoarded for money purposes in the whole world now is in the United States. American gold hoardings, by early spring, probably | give:them a longer lease of official will exceed four billon dollars. A considerable part of this temporarily. huge amount is with us only As the years slip by, a lot of it will flow back where it was before the war and where it belongs in any well-balanced system of international economics. Level- headed economists caution that it would be unwise to use any part of our gold stock which may not be here per- manently, as a basis for expansion of credits to foreign countries. The bankers will attend to that while the rest of | co EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced tn 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. PO The United States of America With its prosperity, its freedom, i progression, its unlimited oppor- tunities for the most humble, and its protection to its citizenry, has been made so through its form of government — the most wonderful and practical in the history of the | | World. ' ' And that Government, through | practically all our national exi by has been a Political | ‘ence, {PBR Gy. | Through the soc ! of government w ed party form have developed eat Nation, vuse our Govern- | ment has bee for most of the time, in control of one or the other of two great political parties. at no time have the leaders of these parties differed on the great fundamentals of — constitutional government, but have divided only on ways and means of admistering government under the Constitu- tion. Through the convention sys- tem the greatest men in our his- tory have been called to public of- fice, and men of large business and professional — affairs drafted to th Country's ‘Such men have accepted sponsibilities of office beg the feeling that they were called to rvice and that back of them. was | great political party whose prin- ciples were to be upheld in the ad- stration of their“particular of- The party also felt a sense of responsibility to the people for the men it selected, and for this reason the best brains of the Coun- |try were available for public office. But later came the political dreamer who attracted to his no- the under-intelligent and al demagogue who saw a ry nd higit- sounding theory of “direct prim- Many of the tes are ing through these primary ex- ences with di rous_ results, and it is proposed by the Legisla ture of North Dakota to still fur- ther extend this hypocritical prim- Jary to the extent of practically jabolishing political parties in} North Dakota and substituting at | least temporarily, a government by | factions. Senate Bill No. 3, passed by | the North Dakota Senate last week, j will bring about just such a condi- \tion in North Dakota, and The |Forum sincerely hopes that it will | ; Meet defeat in the House. When the Nonpartisan League in its full strength in North \ Dakota, The Forum fought it vig- | {orously, for many “strong-arm” | methods proposed and carried into ‘effect that were designed solely to w | power in the State. It is j as | pronounced in its opposition to |any measure proposed by the In-| dependents that is not advanced the greatest good to the itizens, strong- To The Forum it measure, ontrol another election, by the jfer the sole purpose of bringing | | about ‘greatest number of all our ci {Senate Bill. No. 233 is a arm” [looks like an attempt to simply us look on in awe. Gold! Gold! jungle to Wall Street. most of us would rather find a else. You have this illustrated you find any kind of gold-value It is the world-wide lure, from savage Gold is hypnotic, to the extent that nugget of gold than anything in the thrill that comes when money, even a dime. A man finding a few coins will stop and search for more, though his time may be worth $100 an hour. CRIME Crimes involving rentz. money are decreasing, says F. W. Laf- He’s president of American Surety Co., which bonds cashiers and others entrusted with funds. Lafrentz, reporting that less money is being stolen, con- veys the popular idea that there was a great epidemic of | dishonesty during the war boom. To some extent, yes. But the thieves were stealing 50-cent dollars. because there was more money to be stolen. Thefts increased | The ratio of theft to stealable dollars probably never showed any material \ increase. In buying power, criminals’ plunder does not vary | materially from year to year. is getting only half as much as The big stealing during the war boom was not done by A crook stealing a dollar now before the war. | bonded employes, many of them underpaid, entrusted with other people’s money. Profiteers, technically but not morally within the law, got the lion’s share of plunder. does not give full value for what he receives. we were a nation of profiteers, to restore us to common honesty. with prosperity. You’d think i A profiteer is any one who In this sense before hard times were sent Crookedness increases it’d be the other way around. GAMBLING 1 Mah Jongg, the Chinese game of chance played with domino-shaped ‘pieces of ivory and bamboo—is threatening the dog in this case was deceived to take the place of the card game, bridge. @ne reason for Mah Jongg’s popularity is its cost. A standard set sells from $18.74 up into the hundreds. Amer- icans usually buy things because they are extremely cheap | or very expensive. Any business man who has been through | saves extremists. ‘i ‘Someone must ‘be making Jo sets. Yet the game is fi is fall of opportuhities, waiting ‘al panics and booms knows this. We are a nation of , a big clean-up, selling Mah | thousands of! years old. It. lv occurred to a resourceful brain to market it. ‘World | to be discovered. DEBT Great Britain’s debt, mostly incurred during the war, nearly 37,307 million dollars. { ur interest-bearing’ national debt is. only 22,564 million and we have. oyer two and a half times as many tion as Britain, for shouldering the debt. every American chipped in 0, our whole national be wiped out overnight. That will not be done, could it'd be the aoe kest and cheapest way to get rid of the ig, it'd save interest coat of the army of tax officials, payments and the | “Let us go far a walk,” “Let me in force of power, instead of provid- ing a permanent and sensible law ,on which elections in this State {may be simplified and conducted ‘in the best interests of all the peo- | ple. | Instead of still further compli- |cating the election machinery let {us rather find a way to return to j the ancient landmarks of our Con- stitutional Government, when men {of brains and ability will feel it ¢ |honer to be drafted to service, w: the backing of a strong Politic Party. A stranglehold’ on | League is not a ‘sufficient excuse for the enacting of Senate Bill 2: into law. It is things like this that will perpetuate the League—or | raise up something worse. Rather ‘government liy ' Politic than government by Fac- | ‘argo Forum, ~ ATE DOG A recent news story in the Star} probably did an-injusti¢e. It was headed “Watchdog Lets Thief Get $4,465." It related that a shop-/ keeper left his watchdog on guard | and a thief entered the home, tied up the dog in the cellar and looted | the place. { A dishonest dog is very rare.| Probably there never was a dog) faithless to his master or recreant{ to his trust when he thoroughly | knew what was expected of him. The poorest dog never has been bribed hy the brightest bone to be- tray his home and go back on his master. There is a chance that by some one who spoke flattering words to him and represented him- | self to be a friend of the family. If that dog could be understood he would furnish the police a more! valuable- clue than they usually get, but it is probable that what! the dog has to say about this case will never be accurately translat- ed. Man’s understanding of the langyage of dogs has not progress- ed far.. He understands when Rollo, Fido, Gypsy or Spunk says the house,” “I, would thank you for my supper,” or “I’ll also take a ‘bite of that which you are eating” and a few other phrases.in dogese, ii ‘but when this poor dog seeks to} expldin the robbery there will be none to interpret his tale. | If it should be proved that this dog ig really dishonest or faithless to his truet it would be another bit | of evidence to what a low state of; morals the world has fallen. There ia probably some mistake Sr misrepresentation about the mat- stay out. ips eet e ose ter. A dog may be a yellow dog! in his complexion, but he ,is al Ways ‘true blue to his. masjer. Washington Star, ¢ L THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1928 GHOST STORIES | (Continued From Our Last Issue) Again one of those agonizing waits, racking to the two men whose future depended largely upon at happenings atop the range, Far on up ain loaded with the other side, fighting slowly urd, was a freight the necessary materials of a large sawmill. , “Guess i all off,” came at last. “The general superintendent in Den- ver's on the wire. Says to | back up everything to ToWifer, including the plows, and give up the ghost. “Give it up?” Houston — star blankly at the telegrapher. “But that’s not railroading!” “I know, I'll call Denver.” He turned to the key and ham- mered doggedly. Only soggy dead- ness answered. The line was g CHAPTER XVI “It'd take a guy with a divi to find some of them’ wire ” the operator hazarded, sed his efforts and re: ed for his coat and hat and snow- shoes. “There ain’t no use sta here. You fellows are going to's in town tonight, ain't you?” vas little else to do. Th to the finally fought way rambling boarding house. ‘ Morning brought no relief. Thé storm was worse, and they faced drifts waist high at the doorway. Two hours later, the agent once more at his dead key, Ba'tiste turned to Houston, “Ket is no use here,” he an- nounced. “We must get to camp and ssemble the men to help those who are not fortunate. There is deati in this storm,” Again with their waist-belt guide lines, they started forth, to bend ainst the storm in a struggle and to reach the squat, snowed-in ildings of camp. There, Ba'tistc sembled the workmen in the bunk house, “There are greater things than, this now,” he announced. “We want the strong men—who will go back with us to Tabernacle, and who wiil be willing to take the risk to heip the ‘countryside, Eet is the danger ahead. How many of you will go?” One after another they reac for their snowshoes, silent men who acted, rather than spoke, Guide lines were affixed, Huddled, clumsy figures of white, one follow- ing the other, made the gruelling trip back to Tabernacle. Already the reports were beginning to come in, brought by storm weakened, _ bliz- zard-battered men, of houses where the roofs had crashed beneath the weight of snow, of lost ranchmen, of bawling cattle, drifting before the storm—to death. It was the be- ginning of a two-wecks’ siege of a white inferno, The whole world wag one great bleak thing of dreary white—-a desert in which there was life only that there might be death, where the bat- tle for existence continued only as a matter of instinct. And over this bleak desert went the men of the West Country, silent, frost-burned men, their lips cracked from. the cut of wind, their eyes blood-red with inflammation, strug- gling here and there with a pack of food upon their backs that they might ,reach some desolate home where there were women and chil-’ dren; or stopping to pull and tug at a snow-trapped steer and by in effort, drag him into a barren. spot where the sweep of the gale had kept the ground fairly char of snow. A two-inch’ crust of snow formed over the main snowfall. permitting small sleds to be pulled behind truggling men; the world beneath had been frozen in, to give place to ‘one’ above; And with; that: opent It’s open!” The shout came from the lips of the telegraph- er, waving his arms as he ran from the tunnel that led to the station- house. “It’s open! I’ve had Rawlins on the wire!” Houston had edged . “There's not a. chance, Get Denver on the wire. Then take this message to every newspaper in- the Can't you help us? Please try to-start campaign to force Crestline Road ‘to open the Pass. Women: and children are starying here. We have been cut off from the rest of the world, for two weeks. We need food and coal. Road will not be open for four or five weeks more under ordinary circumstances. This will nyean death to many of us here, the wiping out of a great timber and agricultural country, and a blot on the history of Colorado. Help us—- and we will not forget it, “‘THE CITIZENS OF THE WEST COUNTRY.’” “Sounds good.” The telegrapher was busily putting it on the wire. Then a wait of hours. Then the wire clattered forth a message. -He jumped. di “It's from the papers in Denver!” he shouted. “A joint message. They've taken up the fight!” The snows © still swirled, the storms still came and went. During this period of uncertainty Houston met Ba'tiste Renaud, returning from. the lake region, to find him that the just?” Ap roared. EVERETT TRUE world is all! un- Iam the mad —Anv THAT'S THE WAITER TELLS ME THAT You PREPARED HIS: STEAK. WHAT THE’ CHEF GAVE ME, SIR. war's Se FITHS Mat tee Sa =| with IT 2 a “Who? What's gone wrong?” “Ah! I pass today the BI mill. They haye the saw goi the women and the b: S starve, when there are the cattle who are dying, when there is the country like a broken thing. They t we do not get our ma- chinery! They have think they have a chance—for the contract!” It brought Houston to a knowledge of conditions, They h: given, that the rest of the country might not suffer. Their enemies had worked on, fired with the new hope that the mgchinery ne carry out Houston's con not arrive in time. A shout had come from the dis- tance. Faintly through the sifting snow they could see figures run- ning. Then the words came: “They're going to open the road! They're going to open. the road!” A message bearer came ffom the station. “It’s the M. P. & S. L. Ac- cording to the message, the papers hammered the stuffing out of the Crestline road. The other road saw @ great chance to step in. It’s lend- ing the men and the rolling stock. TThey're going to open another fel- low’s road, for the publicity and the good will that’s in it.” Two pictures flashed ton’s brain! one of a snowy sawmill with the force working day and night, when all the surrounding country cried for help; another of. carload after carload of necessary machinery, snow-covered, ice-bound, on a sidetrack at Tollifer, with the whole, horrible, _ snow-clutched fierceness of the Continental Divide between it and its goal, In the night he awoke, again think- ing of it. Every possible hand that could swing a pick or jam a crowbar against grudging ice would be nee ed up there. A mad desire began to come over him; a strange, impelling scheme took hold of his brain, They would need men—men who would not be afraid, men who would be willing’ to. slave day} apd night if BY CONDO c en Sah us tte j across Hous- | 1 “Dog’t be too sure,” said the man ‘|And if Jim had never blown away | necessary to the success of the ad-| | venture. Long ‘before dawn he rose| and scribbled a note to “Ba'tiste Re- | naud: “I'm going over the range. I can't ‘wait. They may need me. I’m writ- ing this, because you would try to dissuade me if I told you personally. Don’t be afraid for me—V’ll make it | somehow. T've got to go. It's! easier than standing by. ! “HOUSTON.” Then, his snowshoes affixed, ne| went out into the night. The storm} clouds were thick on the sky again, the’ snow was dashing about him once more, He foundered aimlessly, striving by short sallies’ to recover the path from which the storm was ng him. ; Dawn found him at last, flounder- ing hopelessly in snow-screened woods, going n toward he knew not} where, ! A half-hour, then he stopped.! Fifty feet away, almost covered by| the changing snows, a small™ cabin] | showed faintly, His numbed hands banged at the ‘door, but there came no answer. He shouted; still no sound came from within. The door yielded, and climbing over the pile of snow at the step, Houston guided “his snowshoes [through the narrow door, blinking} in the half-light in an effort to see ubout him, There was a stove, but} | phe fire was dead. At the one little} | window, the curtain was drawn tight | and pinned at the sides to the sash. There was x bed—and ‘the form of| | Some one beneath the covers. ' called again, but still me no answer. He was look-| into the drawn, haggard fea- i tures of an unconscious woman, the{ yes half-open, yet i onc! jemanciated hand grasped — about | something that was shielded by the covers. Houston forced himself | even closer. He touched the han He calle | | “Agne { ) ‘The eyelids moved slightly; it was} the only evidence of life, save the | labored, irregular’ breathing. ‘Then | the hand moved, clutchingly. Slow- | |ly, tremplingly, Houston turned back jan edge of the blankets—and stood | | | { vas a baby CHAPTER XVII i | i! | Soon water was boiling. Hot cloths | went to the woman's head; quietly, | reverently, Barry had taken the stili, | mall child from the tightly clench-! d arm and covered it, on the little | table, And with the touch of ihc! , lifeless form, the resentment | which had smoldered in Houston’s | heart for months seemed to d pear, | “I'm sorry—Agnes. Don't be | fraid of me. I'll get help for you.” | “Don't.” j | There was the dullness that comes | when grief has reached the break- ing point. “Dead. It died—yesterday morning.” | Houston could say nothing in an- swer. Quietly he turned to the stove, red-hot now, and with snow water began the making of gruel from the | | supplies on. the shelf. Forcing himself to the subject,! Houston asked/a question: “Where is he?” ; “Who?” Sudden fright had come} into thy womans eyes. , | “Your husband.” (Continued in Our Next Issue) | By Frederick N. Zihiman U. S. Representative From Mary- land, Sixth District | An Irish soldier, coming out of ether in the hospital ward after an | operation, exclaimed | “Well, anyhow, th ’s over.” in the next cot. “The doctor left a sponge in me and had to open me up again to get it.” |. “He left a pair of scissors in me,” | blithely lied the man on the other | side. of the Irishman, “and he had a | hard’ time finding them when he | opened me the secgnd time.” | The Irish soldier’ was ruminating ‘on these statements, when suddenly the doctor who‘had operated on him stuck'his head in at the door and yelled: “Has anybody seen my hat?” ' fa ee teen Le | I1’s UP TO YOU | By Berton Braley just a little weak and just “a little wild, Jack was stcadygoing as a elock, Jim was Jim went to the city, where the Jack stayed home and went to | | blazing lights \ beguiled, | raising stock; ' | He worked and planned/ with clar- | ity and won to great prosper- | ity : And he's a solid citizen today, A pattern of propriety, of wisdom | and sobriety, | And admirable sort in every way. Jim was not successful in the city’s stress and strife, | He couldn't keep his money or his job, He made a mess of business and lof morals and of life, He's just a sort of wastrel in the ‘mob; reckless ‘and importunate, he’s but one more unfortunate Who couldn't stand the gaff—and came to harm, | And home. folks who referred to him “has occtted to him’ Is just because he went and left the farm!” i Weak, They blame the wicked city for the the Tuining of Jim— But I cannot somehow view it in that light, =~ For if Jack had sought: the city— it would not have ruined ‘aim, And I think he would have pros- pered there, all ight. I think he would have thrown away His onances for acquiring honest pelf, The place upon the map you are won’tchange the kind of chap a N i (Copyright, 1923, NEA’ Service) | Tom Radio is enjoyed so much becaus they can't broadcast skating acts. In Paris, a man only 28 was caught robbing his hundredth home. Work- ing too hard will get you. Society Islands in the Pacific had a big earthquake and don't feel so very sociable now. Nature cares for the animals. You never see a duck wearing galoshes. Money is so cheap in some of the European countries they pay their bills by express instead of mail. “Chinese Wine Dumped Into Ocean’—headline. Poor fish. Philadelphia car company carried 848.883.852 in one year. We can't imagine so many places to go. Be quict. An Alabama man yelled at a dog and broke his jaw. Cincinnati ink firm plans to share its profits with its employes, who will write real often now. es, The real Turkish trouble is keep ting our Turkish towels clean. The French have advanced 25 miles into Germany which is 125 | miles further than Germany x- pected. Only river you can drift up must paddle your way down is River, up which politicians go. like Then some of us must live on spaghetti alone. London doctors say we look what we cat. Of course too much makes a, desert, but not moonshine does the same. Traffic regulations for the been adopted. Now all we hot air regulations. sunshine enouge air have need is Next tp home the worst 1 be is away. Doctors are asking to be hired by the year. Then it would be just our luck to stay well. Time you get your overcoat paid for spring suits are on the market. A newlywed tells us he has bee:. married since last June and hasn't washed a dish yet. They are taking new styles from a tomb 3400 years ago in Egypt be- cause they know the women have nothing left from that date. Life is what you make. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS By Olive Barton Roberts Back to the Fairy Queen's palace went Nancy and Niek, their Green Shoes whizzing them through the air like airplanes. Very soon they arrived all out cf breath, but looking fresh and. rosy after their ride. Q The Magical Mushroom met them at the gate and took them into the large room where the Fairy Queen sat on her throne. “Here they are, Your Highness,” said he, scraping # bow. “Oh, I am so glad!” exclaimed the royal lady quied,. “Children, i want you to do something for me. There is a queer corner of my king dom called Mix-Up Land. It’s called that because everything is mixed up, And the reason for it is a long story. “Mix-Up Land used to be called Apple-Pie Land because everything was as orderly as apple pie. The ruler was called King Even Steven because he liked everything as even and neat ys possible. “But someone was jealous of him. It was a poor cobbler Straw. One day Jack Straw was called to sole some shoes for Een Meena, the’ Magician, and he did it so well and ‘Eena Meena was so sed he gave him a ring. ‘Take this, Jack,’ said he, ‘and whenever you put it on your left thumb, any- thing you dislike will change ateonce ‘and be mixed up. It may make you powerful!” “‘Ha!’ cried Jack Straw. ‘Thanks, Your Graciousness. I'll go home at once and make myself king, for I'll wish everything in Apple-Pie Land to be changed. I'll call it Mix-Up Land. I'll be King Jack Straw.’ “And now!” continued the Fairy Queen, “I want you Twins to go and ;get that ring off Jack Straw’s left thumb, so that poor) King Even Steven may have his throne again and the poor country be set to rights. “The Magical Mushroom will’ show you the way.” (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service.) : aes | ATHOUGHT | _——_—_______——_-¢ Bette is a little with righteous- ness than “great revenues without right—Prov. 16:8." ; \ Fortify yourself’ with moderation; for this is an impregnable fortress. Epictetut. i b o-~-— - ae oe cailed Jack, ~ . ’ 1 . ry ~ 6 ’ i y » ’ 1