The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 22, 1923, Page 4

.. PAGE FOUR i i Sho cist: Se THE, BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Clasa Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. - - : Publishers Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - - - : - DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. 4 PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. i 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 otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches hcrein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year...... Sinton . $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) . eee « 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).... 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.............. 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) THOUGHTS ON THE CONSTITUTION The subjection of all the ordinary authorities and organs of government to a supreme instrument expressing the will of the sovereign people and capable of being altered by them only, has ben usually deemed the most remarkable novelty of the American system. But it is merely an application to the wider. sphere of the nation, of a plan approved by the experience of the several states. —James Bryce. AT WORK ON PLA While no announcement has been forthcoming from Washington it is known that the cabinet is studying closely agricultural conditions and seeking some remedial course * threugh legitimate sources. It seems pretty well settled : now that an extra session can be of no real assistance in. the present economic crisis. Farm organizations differ sharply upon methods to be followed and just how the gov- ernment can help is still a mystery. People have become so used to running to the government with every problem that the functions of every department have multiplied, but the net results have been unavailing in any permanent relief for a situation that is purely economic and governed largely by the immutable laws of supply and demand. . Here in the wheat section governmental action cannot force a bumper crop nor can it compel farmers to abandon slovenly and unbusinesslike methods. Expansion of credit through guaranteed prices and other subterfuges so dear to the heart of the politician will get the farmers nowhere except deeper into debt and a very considerable percentage | are beginning to realize that the political dopester is not ‘the miracle mam he has represented himself to be. . .. Those sections that. have diversified for years are not __ suffering today. Payday comes around every day and the banks whose doors are closed are not located in sections where farmers are milking their herds, have hogs and raise xpoyltry. “It is going to be a slow process for some farms to change over from the one crop plan. Diversify is a choice word + these days, but it takes coin of the realm and the transition ; is;zhound to be slow, but the longer the farmer delays taking * the first steps, modest as they must be, so much longer will he be confronted with thé situation arising out of a, failure or short crop. Then too even if his crop is normal, he faces ; low prices because. of the, world surplus which guaranteed prices and national pools: cannot obliterate. If the present administration can work out some plan that will alleviate condjtions well and good, but permanent i relief must come from thorough revolutionizing of farm economics and the putting of agriculture on the same busi- ness plane as other industrial ventures which anticipate some of the conditions the farmer capitalist completely ignores. EASY, AFTER ALL A new steel arch bridge, connecting’ our country with , Canada, will be built across the Niagara Gorge. Not much ' excitement about this, for there already are 13 bridges nearby. But there’s a real thrill in turning back the pages of history and recalling how the first was built, a matter of three-quarters of a century ago. Engineers were baffled when it came to getting a line across:.the river, though nowadays a flying machine or a modified cannon would turn the trick easily. ~-In desperation, they called on small boys to help by flying kites. Young Holman Walsh won, his kite landing on the far shore, Then the small kite string was used to pull a heavier} line across: the river, followed by a small rope, then a big wape, finally the necessary steel cables. Passengers traveled over in an iron basket attached to the cables. Trips were $1,25 apiece. It was a bridge, though hardly worthy of the name. There. is.something both amusing and thrilling in the afpousht of young Holman Walsh and his boy friends com- “ing to the rescue of the perplexed construction engineers with their simple kites in the late ’40s. A big problem; yet it had a simple solution. So with most problems, they are inherently simple but they baffle because people are inclined to seek a complicated solution. Howe worked for years to invent the sewing machine. He was about ready to quit in despair when his wife im- patiently shoved him aside, sat down at the machine, turned the wheel and said: “Put the thread eyelet down at the pointed or lower end of the needle.” All problems are simple. Man does the complicating. SCIENTIFIC MYSTERY A keeper in the Bronx zoo, New York, picks up an electric eel and gets such a shock that it makes his arm black and blue. Scientists are stumped when you ask them to explain »fully just how the electric eel generates its current. An- other baffling mystery is the firefly’s light. .,«, Im a general way science learns what but not why. .Edu- ution is the process of:increasing our comprehension of the _awful extent-of what we do not know. It merely enlarges our, realization of our ignorance. ; STATEMENT TO. START ARGUMENT Lincoln, instead of scribbling his Gettysburg address ‘on the back of an envelope while on his way to make the speech, spent 10 days carefully preparing and polishing it. So claims Dr. D. K. Dodge of priveraicy of Illinois. He's one of the ies on. Lincoln. « greatest living: auth This will start years of argument and will waste hours on the part of able intellects. | EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced tn thi column may or peed toe sr eeee the opinion of Th ‘ibu: t4 are pi ed hei or tl a Vt! IMPERISHABLE WORDS The Pres‘dent of the United) States, rapidly gaining the repa-| tation of being a mam of few| words, made the 136th annivers- ary of the signing of the Constitu-! tion the occasion for a few brief remarks — brief but remarkably strong, because in two short para- graphs he utters the vital truth der «he Constitution and as it would be without it. Two sentences from Coolidge on the Constitution which we quote herewith, the first and the ‘ast should and doubtless will be given conspicuous place and — honor among the utterances of our Pres- idents, because in less than fortv words they conv people, present and future: “The Constitution , of the United States is the final refuge of every right that is enjoyed by any American citi- zen. So long as it is observed, ‘those rights will be secure. Whenever it falls into disre spect or disrepute, the end of orderly organized government, as we have known it for more than 125 years, will be at hand.” “The Constitution represents a government of law. There 1s only one form of authority and that is a government of force. Americans must make their choice between these twa. One signifies justice and 1ib+ erty; the other tyranny and oppression. To live under the American Constitution is the greatest politic privilege that was ever accorded to the human en? Those reckless elements in cur population which seek to under- mine and subvert the Constitution, which cry senseless denunciatio: + of the Supreme Court which pri tects and carries into effect that noblest of poYtical documents, ure unfit to guide a free people. They want a government not of law and order, but of license in inequavity. The President thas spoken the truth that makes and will keep us free—Chicago Journal of Com- merce, RAISE LESS WHEAT. It is said Senator Capper has come to the conclusion that legislation alone will not cure the low price of wheat evil, and mildly suggests that wheat. Kansas more than doubled her wheat area during the war and has not reduced it since, this year having 9 bumper crop, while North Dakota farmers have cut their pro- duction yery largely. If Kansas farmers will raise less wheat and less hell, the North Dakota bunch will come somewhere near getting a decent price for their grain without any legislation.—Beach Advance. pee ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS By Olive Roberts Barton One morning when Mister Gallop and his guests, Nancy and Nick, were eating their breakfast in the fairy- man’s red-rock cave, there was a timid, scratching sound at the en- trance, “Come in!” called Mister Gallop. And to their surprise, instead of one person, in walked a dozen peo- ple, all looking as solemn as a Quaker meeting. < “Gooq morning, sirs!” said Mis- ter Gallop... “Is. anything wrong? Judging from the way you're all looking, it can’t be anything right. What is it?” Mister Prairie Dog, still puffing from his climb (for he never could stand mountains) looked at Mister Gopher, Mister Gopher looked at Mis- ter Field Mouse, Mster Field Mouse looked at Mister Cotton Tail, Mister Squirrel, Mister Gray Squirrel look- ed at Mister Chipmunk, Mister Chip- munk looked at Mister Water Shrew, Mister Water Shrew looked at Mis- ter Bectl Mister Snail, and Mister Snail look- ed at Mister Grasshopper. But poor look at. So he got up his courage and spat tobacco juice on the ground and said weakly: “We're a committee, sir! We came to tell on ‘Piggy’ Badger. We call him ‘Piggy’ because he digs with his nose and he’s got a dreadful appe- tite. Besides he's as fat as a hay- stack. That's Why we came. Be- cause he’s so fat. He gets fat on us =and no matter where we or our families hide, he roots us out with his long, sharp nose, and it’s get- ting so bad nobody’s safe any more,” “Well, well, well! I’m glad you to this ‘Piggy’ fellow at once. 1 never see him around, so I thought he had moved afray.” “No, sir, he comes out mostly after sundown,” id Mister Prairie Dog. -“Then he’s sure to find us at home.” “Well, go home-now-to your fami- lies,” saiq the cowboy fairy; “and Nancy and Nick and I will have a ie hunting trip of our own to- y.” “Oh, thank you, Mister Gallop!” they .all said together... We're ever lives in a sandy place on the edge of the plain, if you want to know. He lives there so he can hunt in both directions.” 13 “Don’t worry!" Miste: sured them. “We'll jum -.| Ponies and ‘look him up at once.” iA Per: Tr (Copyright, 1923, CS BSA THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE { There Was an Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe - : | | | about our Government as it is un-| two truths of} utmost importance to the American: Cotton Tail looked at Mister Gray | Mister Beetle looked at | Mister Grasshopper had nobody to| came,” said Mister Gallop. “I'jl ‘tend |. so much obliged. ‘Piggy’ Badger i i 1 | | | ho Tangle» |LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT) miss person,” I answered. “Some- TO LESLIE PRESCOTT, CARE) | thing might happen to him.” ei | ““Don't you worry, Leslie,” he re- A | A ?. : OF THESSECRED DEANE | joined. “Ie we had sent that child : ar liklle Madgisine, i¢}Where mother thinks he belongs, he wonder, dear little Marquise, if| socis pave ‘had te scramble ay the always when you were j-happiest| best he could.” something. happened that’ made you! Oh, little Marquise, I hope I'll feel most insecure, Of courde Dad{ never sce again on Jack's face the paid all ry he had sent a‘thousand to Afice, but] sqrry we have him?’ |Jack told me a couple of Weeks ago] |,\No,” he answered slowly, “he is that I must not. ask Dad’ fdt along upon his salary and’ ‘commije- sions, . worth more to me than all the ba- They have been very good lately|.pigs in the world.” aS but, oh dear little Marquise, I 'won-}.» “But if my own baby had lived, der if you ever had to try to stretch:|,John— a dollar into two? I must :haveja]..“Well, of course, that’s.a different nurse for little Jack. The.'woman}-matter,” he answered. Thave is staid and helps me iit many}; “But you said you didn’t know any ways. Sheis mich better for both| difference.” t baby and me than a trained. nursé} ‘Well, [ don’t “think I do. I'd would be and not nearly as expen-|:probably be just as annoyed with sive. any baby that made you work hard About a week ago Jack was worry-}and look tired and uncomfortable.” jing greatly about finances and I told| “Have I been looking tired and him I would let my maid go. He in- sisted I should do no such thing|thought I was looking particularly and I gentiy reminded him that two|well lately.” 2 jand two never make five. “No, but you will“do so if you I was trying to help him, dear lit-|have to do housework.” told him unless I had someone toi tuke care of the baby, I would be confined {o the house all the time, work and have a nurse for Junior than try to take care of him myself. ‘“WWe could have someone in oces sionally if you wished to go ~ out, Les,” he said. “| “I couldn't leave him ‘to a hit or! learned to live more simply. f Cet's SGe — , oS IT'S UR HERE SomewHERE, You $GE, I'm JUST A New CLERK HERE AND t'm NOT eq FAMILIAR | WITH THE Stock «er. —— Im You WSRE AJREAL MANAGER YOU'D MANAGE To HAVE 4°NSW CLGRIC Ure TIClIENUTLY ACQUAINTED With THE STOCK BEFORS YOU TURN tH Coose on Kour CugromGres ! : 2a ‘SO, COME OVT OF YOUR COOP Ao SSG IF You CAN LOCATS, WHATS WANT! o2 Ceer aan THE CUERK FLOUNDERING vr ARAWED FOR IT) CLK = & BAFFLED never soiled your with housework. love and laughter, if you were continually happy. (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) You only lived for I wish I knew jence of officials of the Tri-' | ganization, and who in addition, have » i Prize fighters once retired’ and frospital bills! and he|Jook that I saw then. As it was| started saloons. Now they retire and ;Zave me a thousand dollars because | 1 \sqid, “Oh, surely, John, you are not| start a few kanks. his people over in Kansas raise less | The grocery bill may be reduced gre! like my own child, “but I want youleasily by feeding the family candy money, that we! must try ‘hnd .get|to, understarfd, Leslie, that I think] before every meal, your happiness ./and your health, Finger marks, telephone numbers and splotches are removed from the | wall by repapering. of turpentine the mayonnaise and beat well. Now it will last much longer. A.spare tire is excellent for mix- ing milk shakes. Fill the tire and let the children roll it. If you cannot afford a fall ‘hat wrinkle the straw lid up a bit and ‘table, Jack,” I . uncomfortable, Jac! asked. -“L Saint ther ting blacks {ton will- be the con You can tell a bungalow from a garage by remembering that garages have the largest doors. tle Marquise, and would you believe| “I’m going to try, anyway, Jack.” jit, he ‘seemed to be hurt. He asked! And that is the reason, little Mar-| me, if I must let one or the other go,|quise, that for four or five weeks I why didn't I dismiss the nurse. I} haven't written you, Old Nannie, my nurse, has proved herself a treasure and although she knows that her first duties aré to Junior, yet she that I would much rather do my own|helps me a lot at other things. J get along very much better than I did at first, for I have learned and-am still learning how to do housework in a systematic manner. Besides, I: have Going through a husband's pockets, isn't so bad, but don’t go through’ with his bank account. - Some parents worry about keeping the kids in clothes and others about keeping the ki Some day a genius will arise to inate us all against book agents and insurance men. Dear little Marquise, I expect you] acting sensible under the harvest, moon is showing your, ignorance. In'a small. town the stray dogs get you and in a large town the stray bullets get you. What this country needs against grass widows being as good ie as they are. Weather forecasts are not so re- liable, but they are more reliable than fashion forecasts. Where will you ppt your coal this winter? If you have had\your bath, use the bath tub. A platitude is a familiar sentence entirely surrounded by people saying “Ain't it the truth.” An idealist, worries about why’ peb- ple do things while a practical man High jdeals do not attract as, much attention as high insteps. — tends she isn’ “Get together”. is! the advice ‘given |lounch a general juridical Snauiry. to ry | cover all such: incidents aris! _ |the future, a can't, get vei januch’ by themselves; = * ¢pagreed to this te Argument Ends As Stranger Reveals Linton, °.N. Dy Sept. 22/—Asking prices on a bill of lumber material and then entering into a hot argu- ment over alleged attempted jhold-up, a stranger aroused the .ir@ of Man- ager Jacob Lang of the local Thomp- son lumber yard—there was a pause and a laugh and the stranger reveal- ed himself as Phillip Lang, a broth- er. They had not met in 22 years. Cornerstone of New Elks Home To Be Laid Soon Fargo, N. D., Sept. 22.—John Burke, thrice governor of North Dakota, ahd former United States treasurer, will talk on “Elkdom” at the corner- stone laying exercises for Fargo's $125,000 Elk home Sanday, it was an- nounced by Gil Stout, secretary. L. B, Hanna, also: a former governor, will give story of the lodge. Grows Fine Crop Of Banana Melons LaMoure, N. D., Sept, 22—Henry Nelson, a farmer living southeast of LaMoure, has grown a great crop of banana melons this year. They have the appearance of a banana, but at- tain a length of from 15 to 20 inches; their texture is something like that of a certain kind of squash; their flavor is a cross between that of a muskmelon~and a banana and they are delicious. Tri-State Grain Growers To Meet Fargo, Sept. 22,—Dates for the an- nual Tri-State Grain Growers ‘con- vention and allied farm meetings, were fixed for Jan. 14 to 18. The convention will be held as usual at the Fargo auditorium. The dates were fixed at a confer- fate or- charge of farmers institute work ir North Dakota this year, Snuff Is Stolen From Post Office Michigan, N. D., Sept, 22.—All per- sons other than those who use snuff have been exempted from suspicion since Michigan’s postoffice wes raid- ed. A single package was stolen by a burglar Who broke through a window. It was a package of snuff, lying cn; a parcels post table. Nothing else was disturbed, |La Moure County Teachers’ Institute ,LaMoure, N. D., Sept. 22.—The an- nual meeting of the LaMoure Coun-j |ty Teachers’ Institute will be held in LaMoure this year, commencing October 1st and continuing five days. The session will be held in the new Community -building, - , 5 Mrs. Helen Porter and Mrs. Strat- tors for the week. They will be assisted by some state lecturer and by State Superin- tendent Minnie J. Nielson, Fire Starting in Hay Destroys Barn Hannah, N. D., Sépt. 22.—Several frame buildings were threatened with destruction when a fire, start- ing from. spontineous combustion in a hay mow, destroyed the Ray Adams barn here. At one time the James Austin barn near by was on fire and the flames weré blown directly toward the John. McLean barn and other neighboring frame buildings, but fast work by a bucket brigade Prevented the spread of the fire. The barn destroyed ‘contained 10 tons of new hay and this was burn- ed with: the barn, ‘Four head of horses and oye cow were saved by quick work, The loss is about.$1,500 to $2,000 ‘partly covered. with insurance. fs Opium Is : Subject of Discussion Geneva, Sept..22—Plans for two conferences, on the opium question were definitely formulated yesterday. Resolutions .were adopted -by the league of nations opivm ‘commission providing for, fitst, a conference of the countries having far eastern pos- sessions where opium: smoking pre- vails, and second, .and international conference’of all Countries to deter- Repitations would get along better | mine upon # plan ‘to limit the pro- if all neighbors stuttered. duction of opium and cocoa leaf and restrict the manufattute of-their de. The best acting“in the movies. is |rivative drugs for gcientific and done by the ticket seller, who pre- | medicinal purposes, 't good looking. : twill catry;- you Larth than a flat. head. ig minent jurists, still to be chosen, will, pass upon the ‘vitsl- questions ef | of how. the. covenant should, | be interpreted: ing in Lorg Robert Cecil emphasized the xamination, .The present tendency ‘of the council is to>avoid making. the. decision ‘politi- cal in nature, which might engender bit and, drive: Italy. out of thy nkaraar aie 0 ultimately: , the permane re " If everybody had beautiful hands, | importance of the fact that Italy ha» who ‘would wash ‘the dishes? “ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1923 Northwest News Lakota Woman Is On Republican Self as Brothery . National Committee Fargo, Sept. 22.—Mrs. C. N. Frick of Lakota has been named an associ- ate member of the Republican na- tional committee by John T. Adams, chairman of the national committee. Gunder Olson, as national commit- teeman for the state, was advised by Mr. Adams of the appointment. Mrs, Frick becomes a member of the committee made up of a member from each state. and which it is proposed shall take charge of the work of organizing Republican wo- men voters in the next national elec- tion, S. D. Residents To Save $1,000,000 On Their Gas Bills Sioux Falls, S. D., Sept. 22—Be- fore the end of the present week, the people of South Dakota will have Saved approximately $1,000,000 on their gasoline since the reduction was made last month, Governor W. H, McMaster said here. in summing up the results of his drastic action in slashing line prices. Livestock Shipping Body Is Organized Beach, N. D., Sept. 22.—A livestock shippirfg association was organized a short time ago, the management be- ing under the temporary supervision of the Golden Valley Agricultural Extension association. On Saturday, September 29th, a meeting will be held at the county agent’s office, for the purpose of completing the organ- fzation. Seven directors will be elected from the various parts of the county. Mr. George J. Baker, state agent in livestock, will be present. Accidentally Shot ° : Hailing ‘title Glen Ullin, N. D., Sept. 22.—Ro- bert Dant of this city was accidept- ly shot through the knee when an employee in a butcher shop in which Dant was employed was handling a high ‘powered rifle. Owifig to his weakened condition, following a long siege of blood poisoning from an ac- cident last winter, an-operation for removal of #he bullet was postponed until his condition. improves. Five Generations Pose For Picture Carrington, N. D., Sept. 22.—Five generations posed for a photograph hese. They are J. Buchanan, 80, Mrs. W. Montgomery, Sr, 60; Mrs Mag- gic McMillen, 40; Mrs, Alma Nelson, 20, and Car] Nelson, a child in arms, The first three of the five genera- tions were born in Scotland and the last two in the United States. ~ County Empolye Awarded Damages )Linton, Sept. 2.—B. H. Tong, former county engineer of Emnj:ns County, was awarded the sum of $2,940.10 by the state workmen’s compensation bureau for injuries sustained in the collision on Aug#it 28, 1922, while on the way home from Bismarck. ; The awards were made during the montlt of June and the county board met recently to discuss the matter. The county might be held liable as employer, it is claimed, as the je- mium had not! been paid and’ the bureau claims that the county’s em- ployes were not insured for a while and during the period in question, Carnival Proceeds Will Buy Milk Valley City, N. D., Sept. 22.—A new king of carnival is to be held in Valley City. X It will take place in the high school, and proceeds are to be used in the purchase! of milk for children in the schools, Sept. 28 is the date, and novel stunts are being arranged. MANDAN NEWS Doneld_ Whelan’ and a chum, George Jochum of Dubuque, Ia., gre spending a part of their vaca- tion here. They are guests of Mr. and Mrs, Pete Wagner. / Miss Abbie Hoyt. of New Eshts, Ohio left yesterday for her home after visiting at the home of her brother, C, L. Hoyt. The London city directory - tains the names of a woman. blatk- smith, a woman brickiayer, two wo- men gasfitters ang a fisherwoman, “SUCCE$$” MEN AT GRAND FORKS AmoldA. Stoll isthe second | wate of Dakota Business College, Fargo, N. D., recent; d by ecole ang Denk ot Gand