The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 14, 1923, Page 4

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THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER 3 (Established 1873) WOMAN Why don’t women’s organizations run a woman for president of these United Stat Leo RK. Healy asks this question in a letter to the New York ‘Times. The same idea has occurred to all of us at some time or other, probably. It certainly has given many a cartoonist and joke-writer a “hunch” on a dull day. But, after all, why not? The average woman makes a bigger success of her home than her husband makes of his business. Men are forever getting fired from their jobs or failing in business and hav- ing to start all} over. But did you ever know a woman to fail at her job of running the home? Once in a while the meals may be late, but there’s always a goed reason for it. Certainly not procrastination — la: dodging of duty, such as is so prevalent among men. Mother never gets as far behind with her mending and cooking and so on as father does with the litter of unfinished work that clutters up his desk at the office or his share of the home duties For getting results and keeping up to schedule, a Mrs. President would have an inherited or intuitive natural in- stinct. It’s a rare man in the White House who doesn’t lag. Another excellent quality, universal among our women, is the feminine insistence on a periodical housecleaning. A Woman can be flat on her back and with one foot in the grave, but never too low to worry because housecleaning is delayed. ‘ Wouldn’t it be a choice thing to have some one in the White House with this moral and nervous housecleaning spirit! The “works” in Washington needs a frequent “hoe- ing out.” When it comes to a woman’s ability to handle the presi- dential job, it’s a certainty that plenty of women could be found who'd be efficient at it. She’d at east have sense enough to seek competent advisers—and adopt their recom- mendations. That’s the system for any president, male or temale, the same as for any boss. And many a mother will agree that running the United States would be a relatively simple matter compared with raising a child through the dangerous years in these jazzy times. : As we size up the situation on a hot day, the chief handi- cap to running a woman for president is that the men-vot- ers, who swing the balance of power, might display their customary intelligence and elect a bathing beauty or a movie vamp. P.S. Catherine did a mighty good job of ruling Russia. So did Victoria in England. Not to mention Wilhelmina in Holland, Cleopatra in Egypt and the hundreds of women who ruled as the powers behind the throne all through history. GOOD OLD SUMMER What is the best season of the year? Summer, to most people — though the other seasons, especially spring, have their charms. And the older you get, the more you will like sammer, the more you will dread winter. * Spring corresponds to our babyhood. It is the sprouting eagon, full of hope, dreams, uncertainty, danger of frost. “*"Autumn is like the waning years of life, when we harvest as we have sown, when we suffer for our negligence and mis- takes and are rewarded for our effort. Most of us, when we look backwatd in the autumn of life, say: “If I only had my life to live over again. . . .” Winter, cf course, corresponds to human death, the hibernating of old growth until new growth is ready to sprout and bud. ‘ All three of these seasons are preparatory to or the after- math of summer. And summer is the period of LIFE — of accomplishment—symbolic of the lives we are living. Lucky are you have survived the frosts of life’s springtime. Your crop of success is started. Toil and weed, for autumn of lite will be upon you before you are aware. For results, it’s now or never. CROOKS Bulgaria, excited by rising prices, gets ready to whip profiteers in public. The humiliation, not the lashes, is what would be effective, and it could be meted out in better ways than by the cat-of-nine-tails. China, for instance, makes profiteers parade their home neighborhood ringing a bell and carrying a banner advertising their crime. } Trouble is. so difficult to decide what is profiteering and what not. Where to draw the line? Profiteering is giving Yess than we take. On this basis, if) all the profiteers in our pouy were whipped until they couldn’t stand the streets ight look rather deserted. ' i ‘ , pee ston ‘ H Wiseacres in Washifigton see prohibition and foreign re- flations as the big campaign issues’ of the next presidential lection. They aré wrong. Both, of these are important atters, but the average pocketbook ‘will be the issue that gvill get or lose votes.’\. . ~ if ‘ Cost of living, wages, rents, taxes and governmental re ape will do the deciding in the ballot box. ‘If Henry Ford als going to run for president, he’ll never have a better, F ance. * PRICES averaged the nation over, are nearly a hird higher than a year ago. According to the Department Labor’s price index. A buyers’ strike under way in this Meantime in the ‘steel indaigier :-weethieryane of general —slip. and it may be @ very cold Our favorite king is July the! Fourth. | | The kids’ vacation has’ Teacher's vacation has. Mother's vacation has ended. Bathing suits show the winter, left some of the folks in bad shape. | started. started. | Things are so quiet over in Ire-j land now many of the smail chil- dren think every day is Sunday. China isn’t to most of us s much a yellow peril) as sunburn, A neighbor buying berries tells| us she will eat what she can and can what she can’t. If man reaps what he sows lots of people sowed weeds. | A boy of nine who stole an auto in Louisville, Ky., was gging in the wrong direction. | We don't know who lost the war, but Europe seems to be hunting it. Some of these graduates have the polish of a college education with out the education. \ Every time taxes jump they land | on the average man’s neck, | Our guess is the weather seems hotter this year because we have no | vail strike to cuss. | Some women will make a fool out of a man. Some women will mak: | 4 man out of a fool. | | Most of us had rather be the | world's champion runner than the | world’s champion fighter. They claim doctors filled war vet- erans’ teeth with brass, The doctors had enough brass | \ Man proposes building an island beyond the — three-mile may get into hot water, limit, but | These are the days the flies are | following men home to open the | screen door for them. An invention to keep couples from dancing too close may be worn by men wishing to stay single. Unlocking the windows them easier to raise. 5 | Electric lights last longer if kept in the dark, ‘ 1 taakes A lounge with both sides slanting the middle is handy furni- ture for husband catching, A June bride tells us she is worth her weight in sugar, even ut present sugar prices, Some girls wanting to should never go swimming, others should go every day. marry while | ting still trains a person to wait ior street cars. ere | Have a picture made before | breakfast. Send her one. you stay single in June, ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS | CRAZY TOWN | | | The nxt place the Choo-Choo Ex- press stopped at was Crazy Town. The minute the Twins steppeg off the little train they began to laugh at the funny things they saw. “I shouldn’t at all be surprised if Ruby Joan, my rag doll, did come here,” said Nancy to Nick. “Because her dress is made of a crazy quilt and everything here is crazy just as its riame says. Let’s ask that queer person there if he has seen her, So they went up to the queer per- on and asked if he had seen Nancy's Jost doll. | “Maybe I have, . and maybe I haven't,” answered the queer per- | son. “But I always say, “Eat first | and think afterward. Mave a lolly- pop—do!” And he handeq one to each of the Twins out of pockets that ; | | i were upside down, “You see,” he went on, “I am & policeman and 1 believe in making people be goog by always keeping them happy. There! Aren't you happier than you were a minute ago?” y ““Ye@ thank you,” ‘answered Nancy for both of them, giving her lolly- pop a lick with her tongue. “And now to business,” said the queer policeman. “I don’t think I diq see your doll, But then I might have and didn't know it becayse the people in this town all wear such queer clothes I wouldn't notice aj stranger, | “Well, thank you anyway,” said | Nick, “We'll be going along.” The next place they came to said | “Bread-Crust Store” over the door. | “What a funny thing to sell,” | Nancy couldn't help exclaiming. | “Not funny at all!” called the storekeeper, who: had heard her. “We think here that bread-crusts are bet- ter for children than candy.” “But the policeman”—Nancy start- ed to say, and then decided to keep quiet. Perhaps the policeman didn’t want anyone to know he was p: ing out lolly-pops, |, Ruby Joan was not there so ba |went the Twins to the tkain. (To Be Gontinued) Copyright 1923, NEA Service Inc. ck \ _THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | LETTER !you sent sence I asked, instes you do not, I know. I have not even the friendship for mie any more? Remember do you not know that j once you'loved me? told me so. gone piness. Surely from your hands I deserve you very soon. | If not here at least I must see you Checkers is a Tine game. The sit-| at your horhe, | little. FROM PAULA ALDEN PRESCOTT MON BON AMOUR Vv Je suis dans la peine. I am in great trouble, I Why understand when your d. That love 1 cannot flowers. te Oh, mon Jacque! At. least no one else love because I have out of your life ather than to mar your haj- 1 must see PAULA. | Letter From Sydney Carton to John Alden Prescott It looks to me, Jack, as you which i that think PERIER,; it is only when we come a cropper “FORMER FLAME,” TO JOHN am ill [in soul and body and to turn Ih nowhere else but eo. you, mon ami me pre- me it that you you Remember do, you, not know that I have loved you always though May help| you are in it with both feet. I can’t pnderstand why that advi If there is a business depression | itself about being “ love before you are on with | new.” * Sometimes, old chap, 1 am almost lof the opinion of | person—it was a woman ‘I who said, “The more I see of men, | the'more I care for dogs.” We are a sorry lot, old man, and disregarded as old as Time ff with the old the cy delightful think world there is which} at we begin to this makes for decency and duty. Govd Lord! To think that I, Syd- Carton, dropped something — in ney have into} preaghing. But having preached I will ‘not s you by with © super- cilious & ‘1 will come up and tay with yon three or four days, Jack, not particularly to help you out of anything, beeause I think it would ‘do you ood" to have to pay and pay ell for your sins. I don't want Leslie to suffer.) however Since you married, Jack, your terrible example has made me thigk-a little differently about mar- riage. Any woman is too good for any of us and when a man per- sweet 2 woman, as true} n and as, good,a woman as your wie to marry him, he should be down in the dust kissing her little feet and erying, “peceavi,” in- one stead of sending her out pf, town while he fixes up 4 truce with a former love. Lam ‘getting sql dislike you very much, John, because you are giving my moral sense a kind of itch which makes me want to play the Pharisee and thank God that I am not as other men. I tell my hypocritical heart I would probably have done just exactly the same thing that you have done had I ever met a girl as sweet as Leslie even while I am abu ‘ou with heartfelt en- thusiasm. a Expect me on the twentieth and remember one thing=I shall stay until Leslie comes home, Too often ng ("3 DONT Peer EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO. | WELL, WHENEVER You “ae WER CHIPPER THIS FDEPRESSED, MR, TRoG,: ‘MORNING, BYT L REMCHBSR THAT THE ' THINK AFTeR 'Ve_ f=} P0eT SAYS: "WHEN NoveD AROUND ABT Wee BE FEGLING AcL RIGKT | ACAIN. NBA SERVICE — WHEN You Commenes TO QUOTS "BROMIDE RAYMES .L BEGIN TO FSce UKE MY OLD SGLF AGAIN’ MISTS ENWRAP IN MURKY VEIL; j WHEN GLOOM. AND DOvVET ANT CARE ASSAIL;} WHEN---— | g at ee) 5) LH) | land: $120 :day evening in the schoal auditor- weeks at the home of her parents. .| spending afew days in Minneapoli | | | | \ | | have you\ sent for me since you were married and then insisted that’ I should not call upon your wife for fear that she would ask me some; embarrassing question. 1am not going to lose her friend- | ship even to save you from a bad| quarter of an hour. In fact, as I} feel this morning, I would not lose her regard to save your neck. Put tlat.in your pipe and zmoke iting SYD. | MANDAN NEWS The Mandan employees of the Nor- thern Pacific railway, company have been notified in response to a let~ ter written by them that pension rights would be restored to all men who took part in the shop craft strike of 1922 when taken back into the railroad’s employ. Mrs, F. H. Voight and daughter, Bernice, left Tuesday night for Port- land, Ore., to spend the summer with relatives and friends, ang will stop at Billings, Mont., and Auburn, Wash., enroute. i i | Miss Mary McGillic and Mrs. Jo- seph Bergeim were guests of honor at an informal social time following the regular meeting of the Catholic Daughters of America, held Tues- ium. Miss McGillie whose marriage will be an event of next week, was presenteg with: a eut glass vinegar cruet. Mrs. Bergeim will leave some time during the summer for South Milwaukee, where Mr. Bergeim will be principal of a high school, Mr. and Mra, G.. A. Renden re- turned Monday evening from a week’s automobile trip to Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, where their sum- mer home is located. Miss Ruth Renden is expected to return today. from Northfield@#Minn., where she is a student at St. Olaf College. Bernard Porter returned home Tuesday evening from the University of North Dakota to spend the sum- mer with his parents, Mr. ang Mrs. J. K, Porter. - Mrs, W. C. ‘Hearle ‘left yesterday for Northfield, Minn., to spénd six Mrs. Peter Lish of Dickinson ar- rived yesterday to be » guest of her sister, Mrs, E, R. Loomis for a few days. Miss Nora Barry of Dickinson and G. Griffin of Mandan, were united in marriage Monday evening at the court house by County, Judge Shaw. Reymond Tipper,:son of Mr. and Mrs, J, R, Tipper. returned yester- day from Helena where he has been making his home with is parents. Mrs. J.A. Heder who has been spending the past two months in Glenfauning,. Prince Edward Island, Canada, with her mother, Mrs, J. D. McMasters, is expected to return to Mandan Saturday. She is at present Miss Hazel Flynn of, Canada, a niece of Mrs, Neder,.will return with hi to’ spend some fime in Mandan. Fis. Mrs. H, “A. Roberts and children and Mrs. Arthur Tavis returned Sun- day evening from a two weeks visit in Minot with .the parents of the former. Miss. Meredith Vandenoever, '\ sister ‘of ‘Mya. Roberts, accom- panied’ them,‘on the. return ‘trip which was msile’by automobile, Sweeping the: carpete“ef the Houses’ of | { i | [ct stumbling through BEGIN HERE TODAY Calvin Gray is the enemy of Col- onel Henry Nelson of Dallas. Gray is in love with Barbara Parker, who buys land for Nelson. Gray is friendly with the Briskow fami Bud, the son, has charge of hii father’s oil, wells. Allie, the daugh- ter, is spending a few days’ with her brother, tions at the oil fields, Gray is jured and Allie nurses him. A h rainfall swells the waters surro ing the cabin where Allie is caring for Gray, The water is thickly coated with oil from bursting tanks. in- d- | Bud goes to bring a doctor to ad- minister to Gray. NOW GO ON WITH STORY Gray laid strong hold of himself, | but it is not easy to subdue thought,‘ | and he smooth, velvet arms encircling him.’ stand’ still; could . feel those strong, Disorder without and chaos within this house! The heavens rumbled like a mightly drumhead, the light- ning made useless the feeble ray in his hand. It was the place, the hour of impulse. Gray swore savagely at himself, then he stumbled into his rgom and dressed himself more ful- ly. Ui “Well, there doesn’t seem to be much change,” he said, cheerfully, as he opened Allie’s door awhile later. “The fires don’t seem to be spreading.” She was sitting where he had left her, she had not moved. “Anything new on this side?” Allie shrugged; slowly she turned, exposing a face tragic and stozty. “ guess you don’t think much of me,” she said. “Indeed!” he declared, heartily. “This is enough to frighten any- body. I -don’t mind saying it has upset me, But the wor:t is over.” He laid a reassuring hand upon her shoulder. CHAPTER XXVIII ’ Introduced to a Lady BUDDY BRISKOW had difficulty in getting out of the valley on his way for a doctor, for never had the roads n like this, He drove reck- where necessary’ he disre- garded fences and pushed across pastures -that were hub deep, he even burst through occasional thickets in defiance of axle and tire. He’ drowned his motor finally in fording a rely stream. and aban- doned the car. He came into Ranger that after- noon on the back of a truck horse that he had borrowed—without the owner's consent. For a time it seemed that if he got a doctor at all he would have to follow a similar procedure, but the Briskow name was powerful, and Buddy: talked in big figures, so eventually he set out an the return journey—this time in a springless freight wagon drawn by the stoutest team in town. A medical ‘man was on the seat beside him, It was after midnight when Buddy and his miserable companion gained the comparatively easy going of the last ridge, that flinty range beyond which lay the Briskow farm. Buddy stopped at a drilling camp where lights showed the occupants to be astir, and there he received confirmation of his fears. The flats beyond were inundated to a depth rendering travel impossible, and al- though ome of the men stationed out there had managed to work their way ‘back, othérs were, for the time being,- hopelessly: cut off. “I guess I can swim, if I try. Fell- er can do ’most anything if he hai to. How about you, Doc?” Buddy turned to his traveling’ companion. The latter shook his head _posi- tively, “You're crazy, Briskow. We'd probably drown, If we didn’t, we'd be” burned alive when that loose oil catches fire.” Buddy “cursed furiously and lurched toward the door. It took force to restrain him from going. The raineceased with the passing of the electrical storm, but the late hours: of the night were thick and the fires- continued to burn. It seemed as if morning would never come. With the first light Buddy mount- ed one of his horses, and, regardless of admonitions, set out, In miles he had ‘wo great distance to go; nevertheless, it was midday before he came in sight of his father’s un- painted ‘farmhouse, and when he dismounted at the front porch he fell rather than walked through the door. Even after. he had been helped in- to the kitchen and his wet clothes had been’: stripped from him, he could’ tell little about his trip, but hot food and drink brought him around, and then, indeed, his story was one that-deeply touched the eld- er man. : i & Already the rs. had ceased to rise, but Buddy’s: difficulty in get- ting through ‘proved the folly of at- tempting’ to esetipe for the time be- ing; ‘hia horse had been forced to swim with him’in more than one place; in others he had waded waist auling the-animal after him, by. main strength, There was nothing to do, it seemed, but awai boy was half dead for sleep. with: his you he told him than he Roawell, juddy listened with the attention, He.drew a last and said: | ktiew you deep, but) I thought it w: way. crew that fired our gasser’ rl mt costs . Eng- rae in wages lone, (3 at 6'p. mh.” ‘ i \ blind on ‘my 0 “If he won't, I will. I got money. Bo’s Allie,”’ Sets While watching opera- i} thickets, ‘a subsi- dence of the flood.! Then, too, the Late that evening, after Allie had gone to bed; Gray had a long talk friend; during which ore about.‘ his affairs “hademage. be aa even te closest ep breath at in i your Now I know it was Nelson’s. ; THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1928 Gray declined this offer with a positive shake of the head, “It must {appeal to him on its merits, I | wouldn't permit you to go contnury to his judgment.” “Judgment? What's Pa’s judg- ment worth? He knows it’s no good, an’ so do we. Everybody's tryin’ to do him up but you; you're the only one, he trusts. An’ the sajme here. There’s. my bank roll— you can shoot the whole piece. J don’t care if it never comes back, Tryin’ to get you killed! An’ spoilin’ a well on mel” “Thank you, Buddy: You--make me slow to. trust my own judgment. I—I seem to be developing a con- science, But I’m sure this is the , thing to do, for you and your father as well-'as for me. People can't they muét go Lh 1 The Briskow fortune must grow ‘dr jit will crumble.” “I dunno if we've got as much in us as'you seem to think,” the boy said, doubtfully. Gray smiled, “You have common sense, at least, and that’s some- thing you can’t get in school, Men wear: smooth from contact with one another, and it is time you got in touch with something bigger than mere ‘drilling. If you’re willing, I'll take you to Wichita Falls with me.” “Willing?” Buddy's eyes sparkled. Guiltily he confessed: “It's been pretty—lonesome out here with the scorpions, But I wanted to show you I could make good.” News of the damage wrought by |the recent storm was naturally of grave concern to Henry Nelson, but owing to the fact that lines Were down, about his only source of in- formation, during the days imme- diately following it, was the press reports, He was reading the Dallas papers with interest one morning when his attention was arrested by the name of Calvin Gray. Gray’s' name in print affected banker almost as disagreeably “™~ did a sight of the man himself; ‘ therefore it was with intense re- sentment that he read the article in which it appeared. It was'a vividly written account of the former's ex- perience during the flood, and, due no doubt to Gray’s personal touch, it read a good deal like fiction. The’ next’ time Tom Parker came into the bank Henry called him into his private office and had a talk with him. Old Tom listened: silently; never- theless, it. was plain that he was deeply shocked. “I s’pose you ain't lyin’,” he said, coldly, when the banker had finish- ed. “It's a matter of record, Tom, He can't deny it.” “What was it he did?” “‘Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman’ is the way the record stands. That covers a lot.” “Did he welch—quit under fire?” “Steal something ?” “No.” “Woman scrape?” “There was—a woman concerned. Pretty nasty mess, Tom, He’s the sort of man to intrigue any foolish woman. Women can’t see far.” In great perturbation of fpirit Tom consulted Judge Halloran.‘ The -judge listened to him in as- tonishment; angrily he cried: “You and I will go direetly to the scoun- dre?, tell him we are aware of his infamy, and order him out of town. Ha! That's the way to go about it; ent deen and quickly. Tar and. fea- thers are too good for—” “rouble is," Tom repeated, with a reluctant sigh, “I like him and I ain’t sure—” “The trouble is you're a weak- ling!” Halloran snapped, “You are a—sentimentalist, You lack my stern, uncompromising moral fiber. Like him? Pah! What has that to do with it? I have no weakness, no bowels of compassion, I am a Spar- ton. I am—" “You're a damned old fool—if you think you can run him. He's liabl to run you.” : If Calvin Gray’s affairs were in a Precarious condition, he shoged no signs of ‘it when he returned to Wichita Falls. On the contrary, he was in an exultant mood, and even on the train young Briskow, who ac-— companied him, was amazed at the change that had come over his friend, With every mile, they trav- eled Gray's buoyancy increased and upon his arrival he trod the street to his office like a conqueror. Me- Wade and Stoner, who’ came jin for a ¢onference with minds preoccupied and faces grave, left with a smile and a jest, (Continued in Our Next Issue), [A Thought} +—__. ‘ ¢ Against thee, thee alone, have sinned, and done this evil fn Me sight; that thou mightest. be justi- fied when thou speakest; and be clear when thou judgest—Ps, 51.4. Tam in process of bringing. all my sins to light for the purpose of get- ting rid of them. We never know how rich we,.are until we esthor housekeeping.—Henaylt. ; Dry ‘Cleaning, Pressing ing, firing. 8 Spey Ne a DR. M. E./BOLLON Gray’ continued the conversation. ; “Do, you think your father would trust me? Do you think he'd go it: a0?” =