The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 10, 1923, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE : TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1923 .. ~- 4 MA THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE| . Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class 3 Matter. : BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. - Publishers | Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPA 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, ——$————————— | CHICAGO - - DETROIT | sonvENtS FOR AGRICULTURAL Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. ILLS PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH | ‘| iy aOR Ta TS STE saidin fry, li gy ae ete toy ee 1: - eee aero eeeeee mee —— "| Ninth district, John it. Mitchell, \ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS member of the Federal Re _ Tie pla nella ia espe board, is even more strongly of t The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or! opinion than before that diversified -epublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news published ats herein. farming is the major solvent of the probiein of the farmers of the Northwest. With a better balanced use of farm acres there should go. in Mr. Mitchell's judgment, an ew at All rights of republication of special dispatches herein Af) untencd limitation of the pro- a reserved. duction of agricultural eommodi- | MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION | “ii aye matter oc ohtult, Mr) a ay 7s SSO IAN REACTS Mitchell points out as an object ke SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE | jescon to iturmers the poticies that} Ree aily by carrier, per year.......... ' 5 $7.20 | are pursued in the manufacturing te» Jiaily by mail, per year (in Bismarck).....°..... 2. 7.20) world. Factory production is ree ¥«- Uaily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) .... 5.00) Wiitel) with called e. tsaily by mail, outside of North Dakota. é - 6.00) Ket for the particular kind of avods t aa ec ee (| etdet commideration. “Oieput is re Ht THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER duced when there are evidences of| th (Established 1873) a surplus. / a 50 i Nec —_ ———| Mr. Mitchell believes the day has he NW TY FO RGKORT arrived when American farmers on ’ DOWNWARD REVISION ASKED ‘hould produce only enough wheat t The explanation of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon of | for domestic needs. To arrive on} a the ine » in income tax collections by the United States | Hat See AS RTUCA USAT E; eat hie; Government forecasts tax revision as one of the impoOLtant | secyrcak | wit RoIAe HCA ee her Problems of the next Congre The Secretary, however, | and home consumption running d= attacks the problem in a somewhat different vein from the | along at a virtual parity, the farm- q which is desire for | er would not have to reckon with wide-spread demand economy holds, = be le looked upon his bus cized, and at the s that to reled month. untold generati is back of mos record As far bac writer in England. But to Ch anew w stagecoaches. piano. Penmanship w pride in the old da ed an imitation of have come ¢ out end. writer. duties iness man’s viewpoint. me time appa political effect of his pronouncements. in governmental expenditure Secretary is that too high levic retard and strangle business and produce less revenue than CLIC Young ladies who type for a living will be inter learn that the typewriter was The inventor was Christopher Latham Sholes, and} he perfected his device in Ilion, N. Y. Like all other important inventions, the ic writing machine had been buzzing in inventor: s. Probably even centuri inventions, have occurred thousands of yea was a slow and laborious task. as 1714, Henr: He gav chine for impressing letters writing, whereby all w: so exact as not to be distinguished from print.” stopher Latham Sholes, apparently, goes the honor of perfecting the first typewriter That is to say, a practical device. It’s queer how, when humanity tries to do something in y, it cannot get the old methods out of its heads. For instance, the fi And the first autos looked like buggies So with the typwriter. machines, models of which are preserved in the patent office, the keys were laid out in a row like the keys of a! It’s difficult to thru matter of convenience (laziness again) led to a rearrange- ment of typewriter keys in several rows. | instead of running in alphabetical order (a, b, ¢, d, etc.) were, shifted so that the key to be struck next was as close as pos- sible to the one just tapped. as an accomplishment and a matter of so many of the early typewriters print- randwritnig instead of type. The typewriter has brought many advantages, isadvantages worth thinking about. writer has certainly aided in the facility of expression and communication (ease and speed), but it has also-contributed to the multiplicity of unnec Sion and communication too ea: ! It has been a boon to the eyesight of those who otherwise would have had to scan penned letters. the human and admirable art of letter writing and frayed | the nerves of multitudes. It helps promote business through direct advertising, but at the same time it aids the flow of worthless literature with- | All around, the typewriter forged one more link in the great chain of mechanical devices that enslave us. ever, you can have the pen and ink, we'll take the type- itings impelled by a The view of the $s defeat their own purpose, lower sutaxes. The reduction made by Congress for the! / Re gd areeal ‘ Waetiitk last fiscal year, he asserts, has been followed by an increase | 2 07)000 Taming Is eet in productive busin activity with a consequent increase | take with measureable profit on in the federal revenues. Vurther downward revision, he | his own account. It is an economic , would have the same effect, and while the rates would | we ss the government income would be greater. The Secretary of the Treasury, being a business man | credit, and he must have depend- and one of the richest men in the nation, has ¢ as Secretary of the Treasury antly rom a been very bitterly criti- rently has not weighed the When he points out He} e capital through lower taxes is to divert it into productive business channels he is making a statement ; that cannot be denied. CLICK ed to invented 50 years ago thi of a type- heads es. For lazin and the idea of a tvewriter mus s ago, when the making of Miller patented rude type- this description of “A ma- ngly and progressively, as in may be engrossed on paper, “that really worked.” ilroad passenger cars looked like In most of the earlier typew st precedent aside. Finally the Then the letters but with it The type- sary work by making expres- But it has destroyed How- tainers that campers It is an inter ining, op those qualities. ‘tionally the hers bey’s duty to be good. FIRES WITHQUT MATCHES Not many persons in these days find themselves in an emergency in which the ability to make a fire in the open without matches is of great importance to them. are pretty cheap and are put up in so many convenient con- Matches and picnickers need never be without One dollar gasoline might bring Dobbin back jpusgests the editorial writer of Pittsburg, Press. is slowly losing. out—only 103,550,000 now, them. Nevertheless the Boy Scout teaching which includes ? fire-making without artificial aid is good, for several reasons. ting early step in and a boy’s capacity to take care of himself. All the wood-! the Cut-Out Lady that he and i graft and campcraft he learns serve a double purpose. e fun, first of all, of the finest ve the interesting aids to right living which the Scout laws h. Grown-ups are too frequently inclined to think it a} It is every boy’s right to be,“trust- I'll have two good) sides now und a equiring self-reliance They They are at the same rt. yorthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, taserful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.” uave the sort of companionship, understanding, activities, | crooked again, either. Please begin! health and environment which enadle him to de-/|@t once.” | It is his right i ‘to power, jotorist out of many a bad hole. He epee with ‘116,500,000 a decade ago. ~The horse pulls the m of another by helping keep gasoline prices} Wednesday and Saturday for | iting | Interna- the surplus crop which, brought in- to competition with foreign wheat in foreign markets — oftentimes works harm to the interest of the pon he has ready at hand. To |make the most of it he may need. \in many instances, an extension of able data on production in relation to demand, but even without this credit and Uhese data, he can wi ly pratice a diversified use of his tands on the old familiar theory that it-is not well to have all the eggs imone basket. * If Mr. Mitchell's counsel is sound regarding an accommodation of the production of wheat to home needs. it would be hard to give more un- sound counsel than that which implied in Senator Gooding posal that the government fix \ basic price of wleat at $1.7: bushel. Who could think of thing that could do more towa over-stimulating wheat production except a higher price than that named? itchell believes that co-| | | operative marketing must be car- | ried out on an extensive scale to | nd enduring good to ized co-operative | | crop like wheat j Would hardly be worth while. The | best judgment is that the working i angement must be on a commo y basis and that it must te of! | geographic scope broad enough to! comprehend all the important. pro ducing territory of the country. To reach common ground of that kind is thing that cannot be a pm- | plished in hurry. Diversified | j farming e: and well | merit remedy for il marketing of | a real “play | | pol it con s i j tility. s latter js a factor ! the ‘utmost importance in Ame n farm economy. | Tribune. Minneapol ‘| ADVENTURE OF ]| || THE TWINS _ || By Olive Barton Roberts | “What did you oume to tell sked the Cut-Out Lad “We came to tell aid Naney, | [that the Fairy. Queen would like | |you to sew the Gingerbread Man's | j buttons on st ht.” | “Well, I declare!” exclaimed tie Cut-Out Lady. “Having no heart,! I'm not the least bit offended, of course, But [am surp: know L wa I didn't | ing them on so very | THE WHITE ELEPHANT THE GREAT ELUSION BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM | Copyright, 1922 by Arrgt. NEA Service. Inc IN HERE TODAY. begins between SAYERS, noted criminal, MICHAEL and SIR) NORMAN GE tland Yard, when once of tiful hou: d, JANET, saves him from Sir Norman by shooting dead officer sent est him. Sir Norman falls » with Janet and marries ‘Michael rescues Lord Kin- and his daughter, Bea- when their auto runs wild. e and Sayers are in love, it is a hopeless infatuation heeause Michael is a hunted brita- inal, Headed by into Kindersley guests, who are but ayers, robbers break Court and rob -the assembled at din- Michael is recognized by Be- trice and Sir Norman. When Bea- trice asks to be allowed to keep her i jewelry, Michael grants her request. GO ON WITH STORY. Sir Norman Continues Story: Anstruther asked me a questioa from somewhere in the shadows. he said, “you were man fel- med Michael. You called that That was the man,” I told him. yes scems to me to be the man,” Lord Harroden —re- “He could have settled s with you, all right — potted you like a sitting rabbit, any mo- ment he wanted to.” “Quite true,” I admitted. “But the one thing which was made the pur- suit of Michael so fasci ing is that he is the sort of man who would never shoot a sitting rabbit, He spoke the truth when he said that the end would come when one or the other of us was driven into a corner ‘ yhareale jand both were armed So far ! answered u Ae yas Tam concerned,” I added, glane- the Gingerbread Man feel crooked himself when his ; tons crooked and he makes Plum erazy all heads for a week.” \ people should ‘stand on their “H'm!” said | thoughtfully. the Cut-Out “I didn't do it. 1] jdidn’t hear the law. ‘It must have | jbeen told to me on my deaf side. |Having only one ear, [ can’t hear out of the other, And I suppose | that's why 1 sew crooked, too. Ha lings only one eye I can’t see out of | the other. What happened?” | “Nobody obeyed the law,” ' Nick. : | “What! Did nobody obey the kin I feel myself getting cross again. It's that word hate printed on me} i where my heart ought to be. You'd | better paste that heart on me, now| {that you brought it.” | Then Nick reached in ‘again and unrolled the said his pocket | other side of {had cut out of the picture boo! The minute she say it, the Cul | Out Lady began to tremble with joy, She trembled till she eracked, |" “Oh, oh, oh! What dears you are! | heart between, } Now I can love peo- |ple and never get cross again. And having two good eyes, I'll never sew| The Twins soon hat her other side | | pasted on and the sugar heart where | it belonged. “Now I am a real person,” she beamed. “I never expected to be so happy in. my: life.” (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.} Dance at Patterson’ Hall! | which fi of such. sensational magnitude, a lour host ing at Janet, “I am rather inclined to let it be a drawn battle. The hunting of men is a great sport, but the zest for it passes with the years, : Release came at last; another key to the apdrtment where we were im- prisoned was found; the door thrown open, and a stream of se vants with lamps and candles en- tered. A few minutes of incoherent exclamations followed. The orders Lord Kindersley roared out were almost pitifully ineffective.’ We were seventeen miles from a market town and five miles from a village, and the moor which‘stretched from the park gates led across the loncli- t part of England, The more we iscussed it, the more we realized that it was, without doubt, a most amazing coup. cross, Naturally, the press devoted of attention to a robbe several journalists and ers traveled down photograpir- specially from London in search of material. Rim- mington himself came down from Scotland Yard) with twg of his shrewdest assistants assistants, but he acknowledged to me upon the third night after their arrival, the whole affair had been carried out with such amazing foresight that it |’ seemed impossible to lay hold any- |where of a clew. Janet and I stayed on at Kinder- sley Court for the last meet of the i staghounds—a way which we are neither of us likely ever to forget. We motored over to Exford, where ad sent all his available horses two days before. Janet, Bea- trice Kindersley and I were among those of the house party who rode. Early in the afternoon we found ourselves on the fringe of the hunt, on the southern slope’ of Hawksl Down. Suddenly Beatrice, who had been looking ove a little exelama’ a dark bay hor: ticed once or twice al on the outskirts of the hunt, came round the side7of a piled up mass of stones and boulders, a to us. I must confess that at first the in- cident possessed me. In his wel riding-clothes, a sured seat of a was nothing to from alfa di neighbor: nged wheeled his hor: yard or two of thing glitter in an will downward am in a positio “Let it be an I agreed. “Wha me?” “With you, nothing,” he answered. to ‘speak “I came sley.” “T find that understood me continued, “and took your jewel have stayed in return it. He leuned ove: box in Beatri (EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO | not, in fact, until he suddents he his rig = WS wes { Phillips Oppenheim | er her shoulder, gav tion. A man, riding! se, whom I had no- nd rode straight up no significance for H-cut and well-worn nd possessing the « there nguish this man n of Lord Kinder- with whom we | ings during the d practiced ride a se round to within a} us, and I saw some- his right hand, that he said, “I call five minutes. You added, glancing} t hand, “that I n to call the game.” armistice, Michael,” at do you want with to Miss Kinder- my confederate mis the other night,” hej that after all ne ry from the table. I the neighborhood to rand placed a sealed hand. 1 could have THE CAST DROP Not iS GLASS — ON THE FLOOR IN THE (T'S tu eee NO MATTER. WHo WINS, | LOSE! swern that I saw her fingers clutch is he drew passionately at his “I knew that it was a m As man to she said softly, looking ae j man, , enemy to enemy, swear him though striving to him | that y back to her side. He kept his face,| “I sw ; L however, turned steadily aw His He must have touched his horse expression had changed. The old/ with his whip, unscen by me, for mocking smile was back upon his| the words had searcely left my lips | lips. before he was galloping away, mak- “Upon reflection, Janet,” he con-|ing for the loneliest and bleakest | tinued, “ the richness of certain impulse of our h dis’ ste splendors, Permit me specially when I considered 1, I felt a toward e/ robbing you of your newly aequired | ss between these two. Then I saw | Michael shake his head. | She turned and rode slowly after | | Janet, but reined inher horse scarce- | ly twenty paces away. Michael rode | up to my side, He had dropped his on back inte the loose pocket of riding-coat .. He was at my merey, and he knew it. » Tightly | enough, he had no fear, “Norman Greyes,” he said, “this is the end of our duel, for I have finished with life as you and I under: stand life. Fate has made us ene-/| mies. Fate might more than once | h. given either of us the othe life. Those things are finished.” | “You speuk as though you were {making a voluntary retirement—yet how can you hope to escape?” 1 asked him. “There is a price upon your head wherever you turn.” “Iam not here to speak about my- self,” he answered indifferently. “I want a word with you about that girl.” “About Beatrice Kindersley?” “Yes.” | yhat can you have to say \about | her?” 1 demanded, ‘puzzled, al- | | though the memory of that look was | still with me, | “Never mind. . .*. You know 1 | Greyes. You know that the greates jof us are great beeause of our fo } That girl is the folly of my | 5 r life. There is a touch of i ance in her, a sentiment-—For | -| God's sake, Grey and | Seok at mi Be a human | being and | derstand.” that you un- | I remembered that look, and 1 | nodded. “Lunderstand," Is “Go | on. ! Tell her, then, for the love of | heaven, ‘who and what Iam. Tell jher that T have wives living, women j whom T have deceived in every quar- ter of the globe. Tell her that a peliceman’s hand upon my shoulder would mean the gallows in England | or the electric chair in America. \Strip off the coverings. Show her the raw truth, | erimir of crim “Pil tell her | promised. | “Damn it, man!” he answered pas- |sionately, as he turned his head to | windy for a moment and swung |round his horse. “Tell her nothing |from me; tell her from yourself! You know the truth, if any man jdoes. Give her pain, if you must | Show her the ugly side. 1 at heart from the sheer love what you say,” 1 | part of the moor. I heard a stifled jery from Beatrice, a ery that was | almost a sob, Michael Takes Up the Story. sone I lunched one Sunday morning at He handed he oa little packe:,/ the Cafe de Paris with my friend Then he backed his horse a few) Gaston Lefevre, the well-known in- pa but he still knew that he had something else » our friend Rimmington given up the chase and gone back London!” he observed. a hint from me some day. not to take it for g! ted that first impulse of the malefactor i p as great a distance as po: between himself and the scene of misdemeanors.” “I will ren I promised. * that I shall report your being s| in the neighborhood?” “If you did not,” was reply, “the next few hour: the would empty of interest to me. Even if you yourself take a hand in the game, s, and I will do you the credit | to admit that you are the cleveres, of the lot, I promise you that I shall lingered, and 1 has; “Give h Tell him ber your message,” You realize, of course, c jsurance agent.of the Rue Scribe. luncheon specially planned to cele- jbrate the winding-up of one of the greatest coups of our partnership. | “You must now be a very wealthy joa my friend,” Lefevre said to me a trifle envious “I have enough,” I answered. “As a matter of faet, that is one of the reasons why I have decided to levy no more contributions upon the fools of the world.” “You are not going to retire?” Le- fevre cried in a tone of alari ‘Absolutely,” I assured him. 1 have burned all my boats in Eng- land, destrpyed all ciphers, sealed up vo the to his till ‘ool og goodby to all my friends.” (Continued in Our Next Issue.) People’s Forum make my way to safety as easily as I shall canter across this moor.” He leaned suddenly toward me. THAT OLD BOB “Send the women on for a mo- Bismarck, Apr. 10, 1923 ment,” he be “T have a word une; for you alone.” Janet turned her horse at once obedience to my gesture. however, lingered. She was gaz across at my companion, 2 Beatrice I saw their mect, and it seemed to me a strange thing that such a look should | Do you recollect the old bob sled we had when we were kids? Re- 'member how swifty we rode and everyone aboard yelling ‘®rack,” like a pack of Indians in a war dance? We knew the bigger the bob the easier she rode and the bigger | the crowd, the faster she went. |Isn't that like a city, ‘The com- | munity chest, Association of Com- merce or any other organization? Couldn't this city go forward faster with 2 larger crowd of fellows yell- | ing their heads off for the old town and boosting her along? If Bis- marck did this she would set a pace so fast that no town could come just kids in long pants. And some of | wouldn’t every booster get a lot of {fun out of it at the same time? | “There are a lot of fellows in this | town who are too timid to ask for a ride, and are just watching the ac- tivities come and go. Maybe the Association of Commerce reached some of these men, but many are on the sidelines, watching the game, contributing nothing to its progress. Do you remember the motto inted on the seat of the bob? “To ride is fun, to pull is hell; If you.want to ride, pull as well.” And how the “gang” fought for a | place on the bob at the top of the hill? And the thrill you got with {every bump? And if you were the tail ender how you held on to the | board for dear life. And say, wasn’t it funny when you got to the bottom | of the hill, how many of the fellows | shyed off-from “pullin’” her back | up the hill again? in | Really, time doesn’t work miracles or changes in us, after all. We'ré just kids in long pant. And. some of !us get a lot of fun out of life in ing the “pushin’’\ and “pullin’” to the other fellow. women of this city. s fair, is it? Don’t you think we’ get more rides and faster ones if we all helped to pusn. @nd pull a little? And it won't hurt-to give it a try. We trusted our lives to the man who steered the bob. It’s the same way in any organization, civic, politi- cal, or religious, and.in nearly every tance we had a hand in. electing these’ officers, and we ought to help in making these things a success "¢ for the interest of ow city. You realize it’s hard on one’: | back to pull the bob up the hill alone. Remember, too, the times that old bob leaned too much one way, and every one aboard was sent asprawl- ing in every direction? You did a little fussing and if the girls werent Tell her that I am a} my secret places of refuge and said | | Bismarck by. just “ridin’” and leav- | Listen, men and ' That isn’t just ; along, you also did some cuss' But you got right up and started th trip over again from where you took your tumble. ’Tis human to err, and we should all be conscious of this fact and all real leaders welcome constructive criticisms at any time. You are a part of the community. Don’t find fault \but build up its weaknesses. Then, too, don’t you remember how tickled we were to have the girls ride along? How they yelled at + every bump, and they got a lot of fun out of it just the same. And we were proud as could be to excel all } other bobs when the girls were on Many women in Bismarck are work- ing up to full civie responsibility, and we hope many more will join in stead of riding the festivities in along. i i Let every mortal in Bismarck grasp the key of this little rambling story of the old bob. The bob is a | big thing in the life of the boy and ido not let yourself grow old. So here's to the old bob sled! nk of yourself as “he,” not Memories, old bob sled. You Jo take me back to the days when all |we knew the “track.” A CITY BOOSTER all hung. a few weeks until the umpires should be Only baseba Henry Ford plans a fishing trip. Bet he catches a million, When the Prince of Wales fell ‘his horse he was the prince of wails. ters are the latest they put all of King Tut ga We don't see whe this Egyptian’ stuff. April comes in like a duck and goes out like a fish. his boost in sugar prices is tak- ing candy from the They say the ex-kaiser's wife has ese him. Another he lost. The school board will soon give ‘way to the spring board. Bet the girl who danced 27 hour | without stopping felt like something she seldom sees--a dish rag, Turks have decided to have only one wife. Americans haven't. ; | A swallow flew from Wales to | Africa, but rum runners bring as |many swallows from Scotland. * Jazz musie is composed. who hear it are not. This country needs alarm clocks {you can set 16 hours ahead of time. ’ See , Lieutenant Maitland flew 240 miles an hour. Darn near as fast as a dollar at a church social. Summer is coming. There will be a hot time in the old town. New York banker and $50,000 are \both missing. Perhaps they went Jout to look at some spring suits. Hunt the bright things. Suppose flies were as big as elephants” ie) Be | Tt gets 20 below zero in Saskatche- wan, so naturally the man who named the place sneezed as he did it. People without buttons on their clothes may enjoy learning a laun- dry blew up in Philadelphia. About booms earth booms? presidential but where on presidential a hundred have started, ure the vice Scientist says the earth's center is gold, He may be wrong, but you have to dig to get any. Hardest thing about being a ypoli- nis staying fat enough. n Francisco hubby didn't know wife got a divorce. You just can't keep track of these women. azine ember. © the pretty spring m 2? All painted last D | cove About all the south ha get rid of its boll w they make fine fish bai Imagine the consternation of 1 Fort Worth (Tex.) woman when she learned she had shot the wrong maa! to do to Is is claim Bertrand Russell, bally Britisher, says we all would be better if we were lazier. The boss says some pgople are as good as° they can bet then. , . A THOUGHT | —_—________-e Favor is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised —Prov. 31:30. but she made mouths in a glass. - | Shakespeare. pe There was never yet fair woman |