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PAGE FOUR i ae THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Clasa * Matter. 3 BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Publishers : Marquette Bid Kresge Bid = juette i sge Bldg. fs PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or ‘republication of all news dispatches credited to it or nov _ otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- © lished herein. F Pe All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are ~ also reserved. 5 MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION amr = = SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year...........- f $7.2 = Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) . Binds «. 1.20 Bismarck).... 5.00 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside = Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota..........---- 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) HOW IT STARTED When you meet some one on the sidewalk, why do you *pass to the right instead of the left? Because you learned -in childhood that such is the custom. But why is it the ~ custom? Two prehistori jungle. They are suspicious of each other, watching for the = first sign of a possible attack. The path is narrow. Each keeps to the right, so that the right hand—carrying the war = club—will be where the stranger has least opportunity for grabbing it preparatory to swinging his own murderous club. So, too, came the custom of extending the right hand in greeting, for a handshake. The offering of the right hand, = without its weapon, signified trust. Ancient days are forgotten. But their customs live on. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE In 1850 Dr. William E. Woodbridge invented a way to , make cannons more accurate by rifling the barrels. Uncle | 2 Sam grabbed his invention in the Civil War. For years Woodbridge tried to get fair payment. The other day the = Supreme Court finally ruled that his heirs are not entitled . to compensation, because of a technicality, Woodbridge hav- ing failed to make his final application within a certain time. ‘ Law should be the administration of justice. Too often * it?s decided by technicalities, rather than merits. Lawyers frame our laws that way so they’ll have business. YOUNGSTERS’ BOOKS Head librarian in Detroit finds that children, in taking + out books for enjoyment, select a work of fiction only every ~ third book. Travel books come next. Poetry is extremely popular. Fairly tales and books of science are about equally sought. There’s a great demand for printed plays. Ed Times are changing. We recall that in our own childhood it would have been little short of phenomenal for a child to ~ select anything except fiction at the public library. Is the rising generation going to be cursed with too much intellect? WOMEN’S LUXURIES This’ll surprise you: American women spend 150 million dollars a year for hair nets. For scented soaps, the nation’s bill is 145 millions a year, for cosmetics 63 millions, for chew- ing gum 100 millions. America spend 750 million dollars a year for toilet pre- parations, including talcum powder, cold cream, rouge, lip- sticks. 5 All of which shows many things, chief of, which is the - POWER OF ADVERTISING, the mighty force that has ~ done more than any other to make our standard of living the ~ highest in the world. MIGHT BE DRIER + A stein of beer costs over a billion marks in Germany, and word comes over the cables that the Germans are losing their thirst. Saloons over there are reported practically deserted. High price is the original prohibition agent. tell just how effective prohibition is in any community, by + the price being paid for “the stuff.” Our country might be! a lot drier now if Uncle Sam had approached prohibition by = taxing whisky $10 a quart. Many who willingly pay a boot- * legger that much would balk if the government got the = money. 5. i Nineteen thousand separate pie were introduced in the last session of Congres: probably be as many during the winter session. We have a national delusion that all that’s needed to = solve a problem is to pass a law. And this delusion seems ation, bills, There'll = particularly assertive in problems which are beyond the | reach of legislation, and which are solvable only by economic ? or moral evolution, often both. =.=» George N. Crow, Ottawa contractor, claims he has the strongest team of horses in the world. George says his team, weighing 3600 pounds, recently hauled a 34,000-pound piece . of machinery 500 feet, in a six-ton vehicle. Fortunately the , motor truck is rapidly putting an end to this sort of thing. “Rather late in the day, it’s discovered that a can of peb- a rattled by the driver, stimulates a horse more than a whip. OLD-TIMERS * All is not gloom. That ancient institution, free lunch, is returning here and there in New York City. A reporter partakes in five “soft drink parlors.” Refreshments include such familiar old-timers as bologna, rye bread, cheese, her- rings and cloves. We could fell more, but refrain in the cause of efficiency. 3 ‘ the rest of the day will be ruined as far as work is concerned. INVENTIONS DAILY ‘ . Three hundred times a day, an apparently new idea oc- curs to some American. Applications for patents average 9000 a-month. This shows. that brains are active in our young nation, though the 9000 include application for trade- | matks, prints and labels, as well as patents for new inven- tions. ericans are tremendous successes in science. In ther pursuits, we grope rather blindly, espegially the spiritual side of existence. GIRLS CHIEF BUSINESS Phyllis Bottome, English author, decides that the chief of American but needn't. i . \ Arias gi have no monopoly at “catching men.” And sear Whether ivi catch to do, -It’s futile to revolt at catch the men or men catch the girls, decided. -:- Usually:-it's -50-50. i cave men have met on a trail through the | é You can|! HORSES’ STRENGTH | If. some of our readers start reminiscing about free lunch| girls is to catch the men. This alarms| oe EDITORIAL REVIE ed in. this y not express Tribune. Tey n order that both sides Comments rep our readers mas of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. CAPITALIZING PESSIMISM In a thoughtful address deliver- | ed last night on the occasion of the Chamber of Commerce annual) banquet at the Waldort-Astor! Hotel in New York, Governor N tos of North Dakota took occasion to interpose an eloquent and con-; vincing plea in defense of the po-| Utical and economic sanity of the | people of the middle western} states. He spoke particularly, | however, in behalf of those in tae} gtates where the prophets of} pessimism and disaster have pe | suaded many to the belief that} their only recourse is in a to class divisions lation. It is address deli s- | in before the of Chicago, Senator, swering the que What’ matter with Wisco ” declared | that there is nothing the matter except the “ideas of some people; who promulgate them for their own political profit.” Although not quite so tersely phrased, this | essentially, is the answer Governor | | in| the | the stos makes in behalf of his own te. Governor Nestos has been 2 reful student of political .af s in his section of the country, He was elected Governor of North recall Governor Frazier. elected a: | the candidate of the Nonpartisan League. But these same Vv later sent former Governor Fr at to the United States Senate as the colleague of Senator Ladd, also an avowed Normartisan, though rate?! as a Republican. From this it be apparent that, as Governor os obse the people of his section are neither Socialists, Bo!- sheviki, Com i nor Red Rat fcals. They Rave’ simply, As oppor-} tunity offered; voted their ‘convi tions. He does not insist that these convictions have alw: heen | wisely or even temperately at. He seems quite inclined to the, opinion that they have mot. But if there have been errors of judg-; ment, he unhesitatingly ascries them to misconceptions, not alone on the part of the voters who thus at times intemperately mani- | fest their prejudices, but on the} part, as well, of the people in other parts of the country who have | seemed to be unable to understand | the economic problems of the farm-| er. And he thus observes: i No state or section lives to {| itself alone. Each must be in- | terested in all, and all in eac i ag our fortunes are so inextri- | cably interwoven that we in- | evitably prosper or go down | together. I am sure that our {| people desire to know more about the financial operations {| and the conduct of the busi- mess of your great ‘city, am confident that you z i and the prosperity of your ci would be promoted by a w i knowledge of and a keener in- | torest in the growth, develop- ment, and proper solution of ‘the problems of the nort The Governor wes quick ‘to Pp the moral which follows analogo' ly. He recalls the recent elec | of Magnus Jchnson as United) States Senator from Minnessta, whose choice he says he opp He says iif the people of the eastern} states had more fully comprehend-| ed the economic position of the| people of the western section of} the courtry, there would not have! been th I anifestation of unrest. | plainly, also, that unless e conditions are corrected and j the problems of the American! farmer solved, many another man} like Magnus Johnson will ‘be elect-{ ed to sit with him in the United | States Senate. | Now Governor Nestos makes it perfectly plain that he does not ‘be- lieve‘ the farmer’s problems will be solved by any such methods as those which they have been led to tadopt. He is outspoken in his de-| mand that the farmer be aided by special legislation, or at least by legislation vouchgafing to him fair preferential rights in the matter }of protective tariffs and the e: \sion of credits. He appears ‘a special pleader espousing the cause of the wheat farmer, however, and a careful analysis of his speech might disclose what ‘would appear as excusable prejudice in behalf of those whose interests he seeks to iba: the speaker olicttously and quite convincing: ; iy defends his constituents against | {what he declares to be the calum- {nies heaped upon them by radical ‘propagandists who whave sought, |} amid are still seeking, to muke it ap- pear that Whe voters of North Da- kota have ‘been won over to Com- munism and Socialism. The radi- | cal leaders, he seeks to show, made {his State the testing ground for {their great effort to sovietize the | agricultural sections of the United | States. They proceeded immedi- lately to proclaim the success of | their campaign following the Non- |martisan League victory in 1916. |But he says their campaign ha | failed there, as elsewhere, Reas- suringly he promises that when local disturbances now apparent ;hhave subsided, the people of the {east will know that im) no part of |the American Union are the eco- | nomic theories and political ideals sounder and more conducive to the ‘welfare of the. Republic than upon the plains of the great northwest. —Christian Science Monitor. | i i a a if 4 Thought >o ~ oe «A falve wigpess shall rigt be un- punished, he that speaketh Iles shall not, escape—Prov, 19:5. ae And hast thou sworn on every slight pretense, f Till perjuries are-common as bad pense. While thousands, careless. ‘of the damning sin. Riss the poor outside, be. merck LETTER FROM LESLIE PRI TO RUTH ELLINGTON. MY DEAR RUTH: Your wire ived telling me that you were ined in New York. Alsa your letter ing me of your good fortune in ineet- ing Mr, Bloom. I certainly am glad; because Harry did so many things to hurt- you that this one thing he did for the young Jewish boy woula retarn to you and bring yaujhappi- In some slight way it may-help to balance the account. ’ Strange, isn’t it, Ruth that» we never know just ex. y what' will ba the consequence slightest specehes. I expe should be. Jf we did realize thié, ave would all of us be so strained and serious that there never would; be another laugh left in the world un- less it came from the lips of Tittle children f Spe: hess. ac ig of children, 1 e Jack smiled ye am . Sure erday, | is dadd. lips curled up in that quec ways smile that Jack has, you know. It'was uncanny. When 1 told Jack about it he insisted “that ad the stomach ache, that vis uge ever understood what. was Said to him, If he did not understand me, I am sure that the baby did laugh, be- cause some good spirit had told him how much had been given to him when Jack became his adopted father, Oh Ruth, you cannot tell how sorry Iam for you. Whenever I think, of the utter destruction of your love and married life, 1 cannot tel Iam tbat I am married to as;good a man_as Jack and that God lids Sent me this beautiful baby. z Notwithstanding the baby is a joy to me personally, yet, s way 1 feel that perhaps I am doing an even bigger thing by bringing him up and of carlier date inform- | 1 you how thankful and grateful. caring for him. That I something out of this child the great maelstrom of life, than I am making | that | otherwise might have been lost in} ew Well, it’s settled that Christmas lis \toming. And everybody seems could possibly be doing if he were | about as surprised as usual, my very own, It makes baby. one very dearly: He is working ‘very hard, Ruth and L think, he has learned. his lesson, T d® not think he will ctor dabble | He doesn’t sleep very well and is quite irritable «and | | nervous, but I feel that it is not my} it | part to inquire into his troubles. un- | in stocks again. less he tells me. T think he is worrying a little bit about me, for you must’ know, dear, | that I have not been well at all this week. Have been kept in the hous with a nasty cold and cough and Jack just goes all to picces when | anything seems to affect my lungs, you know. T’'ve insisted upon once, or twice of an evening. show, although I did not ask him, By’ the way, I to, know what yoy moving picture | you about. spoke to ‘she asked me had 1. ever known Paula Perier who plays the leading part, She markab in its life-like depiction o 1 me very happy, too, to | know how much Jack thinks of the You -know-1 never thought he | would care for a child unless it was | his own, but he seems to’ love this his going out! I pre- | sume he went to a moving picture | am quite anxious think of that mei| I see it is advertised in Al- bany and the other day Mrs. Smith- son called and acted so queerly when id the picturé was most re- | you talk toe much. The older you are the quicker Christmas comes. The younger you are the slower Christmas comes. Christmas is better than: Thanks- giving, We celebrate more. And we have more time to recover. Christihas is better than New Year. We don't have to make good resolutions and see the good die | young. ; Thagksgiving-1s une, figuratively speaking. Christmas doesn’t make fat peo- ple fatter. The noise the kids make even worried, off a few “pounds. ‘Thanksgiving. is quieter than the | regular days in a small town because the mail doesn't ‘come in. Company is nice. No home is com- plete without: it..Company postpones the regular family fights. Women are fine people. They look swell. And all you need to know n about them is whet, you don’t know. Keep your eye on\women who let They have rea- r| sons for not calling you, a liar. a certain terrible thing that is quite | rears prevalent in society. if Jack had seen it. “No, I don’t think he would.” What do you suppose she pythat, Ruth? She is such ia: cat! T know she meant something. (@opyright, 1923, NEA Service, Ine.) | She asked me I told her that he‘hadn’t spoken of it and she said, | meant ~ Women always brag ‘about their poor appetites, but men are differ- ent, Men bragyabout»what\they eat. Some cops are too reckless. In ios Angeles, one#Was so brave he | married a widow with five children. EVERETT TRUE Sv TT, t TAKS Like You MUST HAvS OF HAIR CTCE- BUT How THE HAD > A MIGHTY HAVE FALCEN !! FALLEN RAGHT |! eco Who remembers back a few months ago when we had only one thousand presidential possibilities? Chicago is lively this*winter. Dry officer fainted down in ‘the Loop. | Maybe he was offered -a drink. Just about the hottest football game recently was in St. Louis when the grandstand caught fire. a = ‘ADVENTURE OF ° By Olive Roberts Barton “Make way! Make way!” cried Dick Red Cap. “Here comes the Riddle Lady. She has another rid- dle for everybody to guess.” Just then there was a clattering of hoofs and a large coach drew up, drawn by six black horses, « 4 Humpty Dumpty opened the door and Nick bowed low while Nancy made her best courtesy.’ ‘ “How do you do, children,” said the Riddle Lady kindly. “How do you do, everybody; I’m very late to- day ‘bécause I was at a teaparty and the ice ‘cream didn’t come and we «| waited and waited. And finally when it did come it was so cold we couldn't eat it in a hurry, so there you-are, you have the whole story.” “We hope you; had a nice time,” spoke ‘up a tell gentleman in a yel- low velvet suit and black satin spars. “Splendid, thagk you! Byt speak- ing of time yemiids me of my rid- die. FU begin at once. I wrote it and ‘then learned it by heift.” So. ie began: \#A diller a dollar a twelve o'clock scholars)” F With face as_round as the moon, -| You count and count from noon ‘till night, And then from night till noon, ” au ee rest the Dine around, ‘o you must » bi Yet! though..you,,we faithfully, | You're slwayson a strike. i add a fow pounds to all the fat folks, } ‘THE FOOL . By Channi: BEGIN HERE TODAY Clara Jewett, in love with the Reverend Daniel Gilchrist, marries Jerry Goodkind for his money, Dan- iel is dismissed from the fashion- able Church of the Nativity in New unemployed, is established by Gil- christ, Clare comes in and says she \has left Jerry and Daniel sends her back to him. Joe Hennig and his gang break in and threaten Gilehrist. Mary Mar- garct, a little cripple, repeats the Lord’s Prayer. She rises from her knees and walks to Gilchrist, cured of her lameness. The gang believes it a sign from above. | NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY “I wish I could,” Danicl earnestly rejoined. Mary Margaret'turned to go. Goody kind halted her. “You seem to walk all right,’ he said. “Oh, yes,” she answered cheerful- ly. \ “Had a doctor look her -over?’ he asked of Gilchrist. “Three of. them,’ “Any opinion®” opinions,” he he replied. answered, miling. ‘They say he didn't do it,” spoke up Mary Margaret. “You ‘seen him.” Daniel held a warning finger to- ward her. “They all say she suffered from hysterical paraplegi@” he said. “Hy: terical paralysis. Ong says she cured by shock—you know, the riot. Another says it was suggestion—be- lieving—which is another way of saying faith, isn’t it? The important thing is that she’s cured.” i “God did it,”-the girl said, firmly. jod and Mr. Gilchrist.” He halted her again, then sent her on her way with an armload of packages, The two men paused, each waiting for the other to speak. It was Goodkind who broke the s lence. “How are things with you?” Good- kind asked at length. “Fine!” came the answer, with more than a mere emphasis of en- thusiasm, “Happy?” asked Goodkind, though feeling his way. “Yes.” The reply bore “and you?” "1 “No,” said Goodkind, “Everything's all wrong, fessed. “My boy’s very ill, Clare’s wonderful to him. I can’t explain it. She’s like a different woman. ‘And she seems happy... But Jerry’s had to give up work, and there’s @ more trouble in-Black River—that’s what brought me.” “You don’t want. my. advice,” said Daniel quietly. “I want you,” said Goodkind. general manager. These strikes such utter d—d waste. Wo had @ working compromise on your agree- as surance. gravely. ie con- Zi seems to} ment, and everything was all right, bi ut we began figuring we could make more money—and the men walked out and flooded the mines, I'd like you to take charge, Daniel.” zilchrist did not hesitate. can't,” he_said “simply. “You're not going to turn down $100,000. a year?” “What can I buy with it that I haven't got?” Gilchrist smiled faint- ly. What can you buy with $100,- 000—” Goodkind’. blustered, bewil- dered. “What. haye you bought?” christ ehalleng CHAPTER XXIII \ Success and Peace Goodkind, master of millions, was taken aback by the bland query. Outside there waited for him a mo- tor car with more upholstery than this whole room contained. He had just driven. from one of New York’s residential show places. He owne mines that went. deep into the groynd and skyscrapers that: towered into the air; With one flourjshhe could write a check in seven figures. And this man asked him what wealth bought for him! mY : “I've one of the finest houses in New York,” he said.at last. ¥. “Is it any more comfortable than this?” Daniel challenged. ' “Pye got half a dozen cars,” went on Goodkind. i “I’ve two legs, I _walk, ‘and keep well,”.returned Daniel. “I’ve 20° servants—” “Don’t tell me you enjoy that! “And, what's most important of all,” said Goodkind emphatically, “Tm a euccess.” Danie] fixed penetrating eyes up- on him. “Are you?” he asked earnestly. Goodkind’s: answer was a scornful Gil- 2” Daniel queried again. “What is -success? Money! Yes, that is what our civilization tells us. Money! But where has that brought us? Only to the elevation of the unfit—the merelyeshrewd and prada- te All around us we see men of wealth who’ “have nothing else— neither health, nor - happiness, nor love, nor respect. Men who can get no joy out of books, or pictures, or music, or even themselves. Tired, worried men who are afraid to, quit because they have no resource. ex- cept to make money—money with! which to’ buy vulgar excitement, for their own debased souls.” He paused for a moment. “Why, Mr. Goodkind, I. have an income. that you wouldn’t suggest to Yet when you stop, your voice stops tor 0, r We wait till: you begin it. “Sometimes, you've two legs, some- times four, | i 2 ettmes none at all, | shelf or floor, upon the wall. 0 sees where you make your home, (You live in many lends). You never use your feeb at all, But run with both your. hands, “You tell folk qwhen to go’to chutch, Or when to start a war, | x: York because of his radical sermons.} would become of the world’s work?” “Overcoat Hall,” a refuge for the] “Living that way is my contribu- ing Pollock. your bookkeeper. But, I have peace, and health, and friends, and time to read, and:think, and dream, and help. Which of up is the rich man?” “But if everybody lived your way,” Goodkind protested feebly, “what tion to the world’s work,” said Dan- jel, “Another man’s might be sell- ing shoes, or writing plays, or dig- ging ditches. Doing his job doesn’t prevent any man from doing his bit. ‘From every man according to his to every man according to his And every man who givs be m afraid there , wouldn't way,” much’ progress—living your said the other, unconvinced. Daniel turned on him, (2 “phat's the second time you'd, spoken of my way. It isn’t my way, It’s the sum total of all that has heen learned and tatght. You and jerry and the others have called me eccentric, and a fool, because I’m trying to walk a path trod hard by countless feet.” He rose and drew closer. “Was Christ eccentric? Was Con- fucius a fool? And how about Bud- dha and Mohammed? What of St. Bernard,'and St. Teresa, and St. Francis of Assisi—of Plato, and Zeno, and Lincoln,sand Emerson, and Florence’ Nightingale, and Father Damien, and Octavia Hill, and all the saints and ecientists, and pocts and philosophers, who,, have lived and died in complete forgetfulnes: of self? Were they fools, or were they wise men and women who had found the way to pease gnd happiness? Were they failures; ‘or were they ‘the grent successes of all, Time and Eter- nity?” ‘ nek “God knows!” said Goodkind, per- plexed. ‘ The, door opened. Slowly a bent figute made its way into the room. One might have found it hard to Fecognize Jerry in‘ the’ man. Death's slow approach was written in his deeply-lined face. He dragged his legs with difficulty, But his cyeg still bore a certain cruel alertness. “You've been the devil of a time,” he said petulantly, turning to his father. “What's been keeping you?” “Mr: Gilchrist,” explained the ¢! er Goodkind. “Hello, Gilchrist,” Jerry said crisply to the figure that came to- wardhim. ‘How are you, Jerry?” responded Gilchrist cheerily. “Not so damned well,” said the other, cringing @ bit. “But I'll be. all right in the spring. Clare's lodking after me. Clare's a good sport.’ What I need now's a run down to Palm Beach.” He looked around the room patronizingly. ‘So .you’ro reduced to this, are you?” “Yes,” said Daniel, smiling. “Going to take my job?” “No,” said Gilchrist. “Why not?” “Your father Gilchrist. . “Yes--so do I,” Jerry sneered. “Didn't I always say you were a nut, That's it, a nut.” And his de- risive laughter turned into a parox- ysm of coughing tnat almost toppled him, understands,” said ‘ome, Jerry,” said. his father, starting for the door. It. opened be- fore he reached it and Mary Mar- garet came in. Jerry scrutinized her closely with a leer. “Who's the girl?” he asked of Gil- christ. ; “Your father’s waiting,” said Dan- icl, evading the question. “A? right,” said Jewry, good-na- turedly enough. He hobbled toward the door, but not without turning for a-final fling. “Some failure you've made out of life,” he said contemptu- ously, He lifted an unsteady hand, described a circle or two about his head. ‘Wheels—by God, Wheels’ Goodkind looked sadly, at.Gilch woryler whether ; you're, the failure, after. he said softly, as he took Daniel’s hand. Then he fol- lowed his son through the door. Gilchrist took his: pipe. from his pocket, filled it leisurely, and the flash match -revealed his clear- cut facd in the darkening. shadows. From far away ina church spire pointing. heavenward there came the sound of chimes.: Daniel, walked to che‘window ‘and. threw: it: open.. He looked, up. at: the: sky.) Mary Mar- garet watched him :wonderingly. She huddied and drew her new furs tightly about her, as though taking refuge in them, Gilchrist’s ‘gaze fell to the great, jagged skyline ‘silhouetted ' betore him, \ Chimneys poured no murky smoke into the- world now. All was quict, all was calm, all was peace. Was the day coming when men’s souls would be as quiet, as calm, as peaceful as this dusk—this eve of shepherds, a manger, a child. The gir] came toward him, slowly. She found his arm akimbo, and’ s' tucked her head beneath it a nestled to him. Her eyes looked above the -skyline to a gleam of sheer light in the blue. “Mr. Gilchrist,” she said softly. “Ia that the Star of Bethlehem?” He looked up at i “I. wonder,” he said. But, he didn’t. He knew. Ay Play copyrighted, 1922, in the United States and England. Novel- ized version by special permiasion of the author, and of Brentano's. pub- lishers of the play, THE END.. suit, wagging his head till his ears’ flapped. : Zi A very hard one!” agreed all the Riddle. Landers. solemnly. ie At that very minute. @ speckled heh began to tell the world that she had an egg. “Clock, clock, clock, clock, clock!” she cackled loudly, — ‘ } Nancy called out. | “Thet’s it! The hen guessed it, It’