The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 1, 1923, Page 2

PAGE TWO FINDS VIRTUE IN BAD BOYS | AT ALLENDALE He’s No “Grind”; Likes Do Not Attempt to Make Un-} natural Little Angels | of Boys ° * if URGE SELF EXPRESSION | ‘ | i} Cigarettes Are Only Thing | Not Tolerated in Develop- | ing Boys IL, Oct, 1—Thirty | as director of the convinced Edward | adne Lake Villa, years’ experienc Allendale Farm I, y of the virtue of “ in bo: of land and adness' is ae- f the devel 100 boy devoted hin Upon the Years ago Mr. f to a new ideal in boy cultur nd his faith, he says, in thé inher t roodness of American youth has yielded increasipgly great returns. Foundation of the farm, according to Mr. Bradley, might be. tak protest st the instituli which oftimes attempts to ref soys into “un-natural little angels.” The other extreme was at first the policy at the farm and it has changed but slightly. The boys here are of | kind, Mr. Bradley says, from “snaps, snails and puppy | ils.” They are encouraged to be } selves, | There are few warnings or “don'ts” | at Allendale. But there is an unwrit- ‘ten Inw which no one violates boys may lie, steal, t “normally,” and pay for it or might in the best of home | er dares smoke a cigarette treads dangerous ground, and jer- haps numbers his days at Allendale. “Nothing so limits the future of a boy as the cigarette,” Captain Brad- ley believes. “That is the only thing we will not tolerate.” “Some boys require special atten- | tion,” the director admitted. “Some- times we fail to handle them. Then ; we hand them over ta the boys them- selves and they always bring them | around. In all our years we have had | to expel only two boys. We say to the boys: ‘Here he is, if you can put up with him, if you want to give him a| chance, if you will take the respon- sibiltiy for his conduct, we'll keep him.” “They take him and soon the ob- fectionable qualities disappear. They take pride in being their brother's Keeper.” A list of the nationalities of the boys on the farm includes nearly all the names in the league of nations. Among the hundreds who have gonc out from the school, are many, the director says, who fare drawing aver- age salaries of $6,000 and $7,000 a “year, “And tifey are fine family men,” he adds. ‘ANSWER CALL TO SHOOT ON dog thi By NEA Service ! Atlanta, Ga, Sept. 29.-A high chool student at eight, Arthur Got- tesman, son of an Atlanta clothing manufacturer, expects to enter Har- vard at an age when most boys are still in their sixth grade in elemen- tary school, ¥et he has none of the tempera- ments of a’genius, He is just a “regular feller” who likes his foot- ball as well as his books, his radio well as his home work. When but two years old, the boy could read and write with unusual ability. The following year he was an interested reader of newspapers and now his mental feats are the subject of country-wide comment. He entered the third grade at the age of six, which is the minimum age for enrolling ih Atlanta public schools. spent a year in the fourth “a lot of time wasted,” he says. Then he buckled down to work and completed the fifth grade work in less then two weeks. He “loafed” a year in the sixth grade, took half a year for the seventh grade and now is doing high school work along- side boys eight and nine years his senior, “We did not push him,” says his BAA res SCAPE INJURY, Caron, N. D., Oct, #—Only Mr. W. A,'Hart’s quick presence of mind 8-YEAR-OLD WIZARD | Student in High School; Could Read and Write at Two, Yet ARTHUR GOTTESMAN I mnt cae a een anata THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE EXCHANGE WILL - FIGHT ABUSE His Football and Radio Will Expose Men Who, Ask Favors Contrary to Rules. | Says President —— WILL .PRINT LETTERS | Fight Against Bucket Shops! and Those Affiliated with “| Them will Continue © Atlantic City, Ni J., Oct. 1.—The New York Stock Exchange intend: to ght its critics publicly and not content itself with mere appearances through its legal representatives, Sey- mour L, Cromwell, president of the Exchange, declared here in an ad- dress prepared for delivery before the Clearing House Section of the American Bankers’ association, “We are tired of the abuse and Hes which are daily hurled at the Ex- change,” he said, “and while we do not intend to reciprocate in kind, we do intend that every item of infor- mation in our possession which will enlighten the publte concerning ‘the men who are attacking us, concern ing their methods, their purposes, their records and their objecta, shall be given to the public. © “~~ * “If an office holder stops long enough at the Grang Central Station to call up the president of the Mx- change and tell him that he wants @ certain thing done for someone, con- traty to the rules of the Exchange, and that he wants an answer in 15 minutes because his train leaves for Albany, where he is going ‘to look into the bill aimed at the Stock Ex- change,’ we shall consider that threat an item of news and give the gentle- men’s name and his threat to the , newspapers, “If another office holder, who has a retaining fee from a notorious bucket shop, calls us up and gives us seven minutes in which to restore the wires to that bucket shop, under threat of political reprisal at Albany, we shall give that gentleman’s name and a recogd of the conversation to the public, with such other details as the facts may warrant. Again, if the author of a bill which was de- signed to put the Exchange out of business comes to’ us and asks for a” grammar school principal. “We gave him the regular work but he com- pleted that so quickly we were forced | to try him on something else. His average mark was A. during his chool career.” cent mental test in which the average of his clagsmates, about twice as old as he, was 80, Arthur’s mark was 169. But he’s popular with the fellow students. He has none of that book- ish air common to so many youthful prodigies. He's one of the most erdent football fans, and plays the game as well ag any of his size. Conan Doyle is his favorite author, but he thinks the famous. character of Sherlock Holmes is too overdrawn AIMED AT TT ~ . \ YMENT TO U.S: 7. ABOVE, THE ZR-3 NEARING COMPLETION FOR TH& UNITIED STATES AT FRIEDRICHSHAVEN. GERMANY. THIS SHIP IS MENT’ TO. QUART THE WAY MISSION WILL BE ONE OF P| FOR FUTURE COMMERCIAL ROSPERITY PROMOTION SINCE SHE CANNOT BE USED FOR MILITARY PURPOSES. for real life. “I like to go to school,” he says, “put I-don't think I'd like to be a school teacher, y “Harvard is a great, school. I am anxious to get there and see Dr. Eliot so that I may ask him on what Easis he selected his representative Looks.” + Arthur can name the presidents of nited States, can name the their capitals and population; an name the capital of prac- tically every country on the globe. retaining fee so that he may testi- fy that he has investigated the Ex- change and found it perfectly: alf | right, we shall:be glad not merely to deny the gentlemen the retaining fee as we have done, but to give his name, business, post office address, and other facts which will of in- terest undoubtedly to the public. Furthermore, if any man, whethet he be public official or not, holding high place of hot, writes to the governors | of the New York Stock Exchange or to its president, demanding, with | covert threat, that certain bucket shops shall have our wires, we shall publish these letters no ‘mateer whether the political position of the gentleman in question be high or low. This is desirable not from our own point of view, but from the neces- sity and desirability of advising | these gentlemen's’ confreres as to the character" of the men with whom they are associated, % FIRE DAMAGE, Elgin, N. D., Oct. 1—What might SCOTCH MOORS Rush for Scotland — Great That 30 Trains Left London saveq himself and his wife from a serious accident recently. They were crossing>the railroad track at Flash- ler when the train going east struck their car. He quickly turned the car and they escaped without injury, and with but slight damage to the have been a disastrous re occurred last week at the home of Mrs, “Au- gust Quast, when a lamp which she had lighted set fire to some curtains. Mrs. Quast had left the room, and came back to find it in a mass of flames. :The bla%e was quickly ex- “The Stock Exchatnge will con-| tinue to fight bucket shops and it will fight those affiliated with bucket shops who seek to make money out of the power given them by their po- litical connections. Do not think that I am attacking political parties or are giving their,time and carnest ef- fort to the work of government. The statesgt New York has in its Legis- Jato eh of the-highest type’and in itp other public offices’ mon’ equal- ly itgpeccable. It is not political patties with which I quarre] but po- litital pirates and those hangers-on of spolitics Who are mixed up with potities and interfere with law en- forcement. The political buccaneer | knows no party and the public official who is spineles$ in the enforcement of the law ‘is usually the one who makes gratuitous, purposeless’ and! rabble-rousing attacks on decent mem and decent institutions. Public of- fieials should know that crooks take of the protective coloration of re- spectable business men, but instead of recognizing this fact and realjz- ing that crooks are crooks and merely the barnacles of decent business, de- cent business id attacked in the pul- its, in the magazines, in the questions presented by them, and within a month the supreme court had determined all questions favor- ably to the city, The/ bonds were thereupon approved, and the mone: thereon by the city) treasurer a day or two before. the e price of the old, water} system was required to be paid, “In view of difficulties which the bond syndicate had experienced with: uin other cit: in this state re- jative to special assessment rants, they were rather stringent in their requirements. The procced- ings providing for the issuance of such warrants for the construction or purchase of the water works system assed upon by the attor- bond hanges until sixty days or more aftew the old plant had been purchased, although the . im- portance of passing upon the issue? war-} that no such benefit is A REPARATIONS PAYMENT AND WILL BE USED BY THE GOVERN. Al® LINES IN THIS COUNTRY. ITS UNDER ALLIED AGREEMENT the ground that ‘the statute under which they were to be issued-is:un- constitutional in so far as it at- tempts to authorize the levying of ssments for the pur- chase or construction 6f any part of a water works system, except the d tem proper. The theory of the writer appeared to be that it is unlawful to make assess- ments for any part of the system except that which strictly confers a local benefit upon the property, and conferred pipe lines except by the lateral ‘which convey the water to the pro» perty. + Sale Blocked y “Upon receipt of this information the bond houses at once took the position that they could not carry the city’s paper pending litigation, and refused #0 advance any money to the city upog the $265,000.00 spe- MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1923 taken uj) with the bond, holders and stockholders, and that he would ad- vise the city of the results of his efforts. “With the resusal of the bond houses to advance funds upon the special assessment warrants which hag been printed, came the recom- fendation of these houses that the city vote additional bonds for the pareve of securing funds necesary complete the purchase of the -old plant, and all new construction work Outside of the distribution’ system proper, and that special asessments be levied only to pay for the distribu- tion system. It was pointed out that the special assessment warrants were to bear seven per cent inter- est, while bonds could be issued for six per cent, and a premium paid therefor. It was also stated that the first issue of bonds sold ery readily, so it wa: sirable to make this change in the character of the securities to be is- sued, i “The city commission, having been foiled by the threatened litigs on in ‘its efforts to raise the mone hy special assessment, was virt compelled to accept the propos. that a second series of bonds be i suedy and gn accordance with that proposal, the question of issuing $235,000.00 additional bonds will be submitted tb the voters. at a special election to be held on October 13. Extensions Under Way “Since the purchase of the plant, construction work has progressed on the extensions to the 8 i. nd the contractors for this work also have to be paid. Under the cireum- stances it is imperative that the city be authorized to issite the additianal bonds to secure funds to complete the purchase of the old plant and to pay for the construction work upon the extensions outside of the distri- bution system proper. It is proposed that the distribution system will be paid for by special assessment as ofdinarilly planned. The statute under which’ special assessments were to be made to pay for all parts of the system which could not be paid out. of the original bond issue, has been\in force in this state for number of years. "A considerab number of cities and villages of the state have built their water works system by means of special ass ments exclusively, The city comm sioners, in proposing to issue ad tional bonds, have not abandoned the position that they could legally have issued special assessment warrants instead, but it seemed to them the better course to avoid the expensed and delay incident to litiga view of the more favorable interest rate on the bonds, there also wiil be a considerable financial saving by adopting that method of financing the enterprise so far as is permissi- ble. The letter which threatened the litigatYon was responsible for the refusal of the bond houses to complete their part of the agree- ment with the city. “The question before the voters is not merely: Shall the city issue $235,000 of additional bonds but it is: Shall we own the water supply of the city or shall it be permitted to remain_in private hands?” If! the voters of the city favor the complete control of the city water supply, thev must vote Yes. Otherwise we shall be unable to complete the pur- chase of the old system and to make the necessary extensions.” ~ ASPIRIN Say “Bayer” and Insist!- public } hud been repeatedly urged upon the] cial assessment warrants which the For the Heather car. “EXPENSIVE = HUNTIN' See Day of Grouse Shooting Vanishing as a Sport for Sportsmen London, Oct, 1—Grouse shooting ngain has resumed the preeminence as a social function that it held before the war. During the conflict the men who could shoot were far too busy at much grimmer business, \¥for the most part, to find time for shooting birds. But this year shoot- ‘ing is more popular than ever be- ‘fore: On the opening day of the seasun =the rush for the Scotch moors was so . great that 30 trains, fully laden, left 3 the land of the heather. not a cheap crowd thit Grouse shooting is the most expensive sport to be had in the ; United Kingdom. Unless a man be ‘fairly well endowed with this world’s _ goods, he cannot hope to do much hooting on the moors. ‘ A popular host’who rents one of =the best stocked grousg moors in # Scotland, and likes his guests to have a good time regardless of expense, gestimates that every grot brought ’*down by his party costs him five Z4ollars. It ‘would be far cheaper to buy the birds in the open market. + Grouse shooting has goné up since ‘the war. It costs at leastidouble © what it did in those far off days. And ceyet there are some Englishmen who maintain that itis not true sport at - yall, more than was pigeon. shoot- B Fine. jut today'no man: who values his reputation as ‘a sportsmam would ‘Sengage in pigeon” shooting,» : = it. is predicted’ that the day. soon 11 come when grouse shooting wil! ‘be regarded as unsportsmanlike. And same reason as applied shooting, It does not give d 9 tair chance. It makes the | Turntable Airplane Landing Has 500-Foot Runway Keeping pace with the rapid progress made recently in the development of airways, a landing stage has been de- tinguished, What the World Is. Doing, CAS SEEN BY POPULAR CMECHANICS cMAGAZINE ' jthe great body of public men who be made to find out whether any odor| Working on Side of Building from the cotton plant attracts the wee- + vil, and just what it is, It is then] , The method of working on the wall hoped to duplicate the odor in the lab-| °! ® building as shown in the illustra- oratory, and lure the insect to its doom | tion is used by circus-bill posters to put with poisoned bait, if necessary. up their signs in places that are other- wise nearly inaccessible. Two ladders oes rs . Electric Pen Writes in Gold | 7,108 one it laid on the roof, and or Silver Gold, silver, or other colored designs or ing can be made on wood, leather, paper, ivory, parchment, silk, or metal, by a new electrically oper- ated pen. The pen is attached"to any lamp socket by means of a flexible cord, and is operated/by ing/the elec- trically heated point over a sheet of colored transfer paper. The pen is insulated so that no current comes in contact with the user or the material with which he is working. The heat of the hot point can be regulated so that a maximum of 900° F. can be tigned that automatically heads into the wind and possesses other unique and, practical features. This airplane, nding can be set to remain stable in ‘il light breezes, and then switch itself iato automatic controhet any predeter- i Wind ,speed.’ This feature is important, for the aviator must. ead into the wind to make a safe fanding. : Another advantage lies in the fact that the plane is able to “hop off’? into the wind from a standing start, at any roquil |, according to wind con- reached. The pen is no larger. than an ordinary fountain pen. w ¢ \Skirt Used_as Grass Bag An old wide dress skirt, with the belt cut off, and the bottém stitchied ‘acroes, makes an excellent bag for catryiig ly. he inner end of the horisontal’ ladder, while another climbs down-the vertical ladder, the about equal to the other man in weight. In this way he will be able to hold the man on the ladder securely. dition ‘The plane is restrained in stays in the starting room, its engine speeded up to the desired point, and then automatically released. The re- for the landing of Cleaning RustyCroescut |}, Saws . Au-etcéllent method of cleaning ahd ter 'y Ba Iswii takings. Sevatal bushels of town | th inte 7a oat grass can be carried in it conveniently it is short and, wide,’ and does not as it is BOND ISSUE OF “$235,000 MUST 4 et —_— “EContinued from Page 1) city Commissioners. for the extension of thg system beyond the plan now adopted, | Contracts Awarded “Immediately upon the purchase of the’ plant, and the.awarding of con- tracts for its extensions, the city commission advertised for bids for the $225,000.00 of 4vater works bonds, | Which had been authorized by the voters before the old plant was pur- chased, and also offered *$375,000.00 of special assessment warrants. Bids were received for these securi from 2 syndicate of Minneapolis ond houses, and a contract was en- tered: into with them: © The. bond proceedings were subniitted to Chi- cago attorneys for the bond houses, who requested an adjudication upon three pofhts, but their request did not come for something like five weeks ‘after the been submitted tq them. Suit was immediately instituted to test the BE VOTED pro¢eedings had! houses, and the attorneys, by the of- ficials of this eity. a Proceedings Regular “At the edd of that time it was held that the proceedings were regu- |lar and representa of the syndi- cate «ime to Bismarck to confer with the city officials, They recom- mended that the city proceed to is- sue $265,000.00 of warrants to pay for the old property, and agreed to pay over to the city the amount of! the bond issue, together with the $265,000.00 of warrants, thus agree- ing to fay over to tho-city in cash before the ninety days expired $ 000.00, The, bonds “and warra were printed and’ about a week be- fore the ninety day period ¢xpired, the mayor and city auditor went to} Minneapolis tp sign the securities | and to sccure the money thereon, the expense of the trip being consider- ably less than the amount of insur- ance upon the securities in case of} their. shipment, : “A day or two before the securi- ties were ready for signature, one of the bond houses received from a citi- | zen of Bismarck, a letter sstating that the bond houses could expect litization im the event that they” took up the special assessment war-| |rants, which were to be issued, on pon eS __.NO PEOPLE KILLED - i city was about to issue. When news of this action -was Yeceived, the city commissioners and the citizens’ com- mittee held a conference for the purpose of determining if it would be possible to raise the money re- quired to tpay the purchase price of the old water works system, and means could not be devised to do this. The money not being available, it was proposed to President Flan- nery of the Water Works Company that he.accept'a part payment of the ‘purchase price, and special assess- ment warrants as collateral security for the payment of the balance un- til the city could secure additional funds. He stated that he was with- out authority to settle, except on the terms of the contract of June 10th. He was then asked to ¢rant an extension of time within which to make payment of the purchase price. ‘He stated that lie was with- out authority to grant such exten- sion, but that" the matter would be a Undertakers: “DAY PHONE 21 | Big Saving in H WEBB BROTHERS . 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