The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 12, 1923, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. - - - Publishers et Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - - - - - DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. 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 not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. : All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. ~ MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year.............. Bateau $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)... é .. 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).... 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.............. 6.09 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) FARGO’S RATE CASE There has been in the last few years, in several big rate cases heard in the country, a recognition of the justice of the contention of many of the smaller cities of the country that freight rate structures should not be built solely for the maintenance of large centers of trade. For example, several cities in Indiana a few years ago fought for a readjustment of the western commodity ¢ ification because, they con- tended, the structure was built to give Chicago an undue advantage in distributing products throughout the territory. The essential basis of the Fargo rate case before the Inter- state Commerce Commission is that Chicago and Twin City jobbers and manufacturers should not have an advantage over Fargo in the matter of freight rates; that the rate structures are such that the growth of Fargo’s commerce is restricted while that of the Twin Cities develops. Many of the largest cities of the nation are large because freight rate advantages have made them so. The railroads have justified the practice of rate-making by innumerable reasons, among them that the creation of a large center tends to decrease the cost of operation which in turn ought to produce lower freight rates. However, within the last few years growth of urban population has been viewed with alarm by many of the leading economists of the nation; they see a menance to American institutions in the crowding of millions in cities which in time become peopled with a major- ty of foreign-born residents. So the tendency now is to remove the unfair advantage given certain larger centers over the smaller, and the report of the examiner of the Interstate Commerce Commission favoring Fargo’s contentions in her rate case is a reaffirma- tion of this principle. It is hoped that Fargo wins eventually. The case yet has to be fought out before the Interstate Com- merce Commission as a whole. Bismarck business men ought to keep in touch with the situation. A representative Fargo business man declared that Fargo ought to be the commercial metropolis of North Dakota us the Twin Cities dominate Minnesota. A readjust- ment of Fargo’s rates as asked might give that city an undue advantage over Bismarck. While Bismarck is with Fargo in her fight to remove an undue advantage held by the Twin Cities, it must be remembered that that same advantage is held by the Twin Cities over Bismarck, and that a complete victory in the Fargo rate case might give Fargo an undue advantage over Bismarck, which in turn would be as vicious as the situation against which Fargo now complains. It is a situation to which local jobbers and merchants should be most alert. WINTER'S THE TIME In New York. State there is a great winter resort at Saranac Lake. Wealthy people go there from all parts ot the country to participate in winter sports. In Montreal, in scores of other cities there are great winter festivals which attract people from great distances. The widespread interest taken in winter sports in many cities is proof that winter time is playtime, as well as any other season of the year. In Bismarck for many years winter has been looked upon | as a hibernating time. Outdoor sports have been confined} to a limited number of venturesome small boys who have | struggled long distances through the snow to find a pond! -1@ skate upon, or a hill to slide on. Now a proposal is made that Bismarck people stop imitat- ing the bears in winter time; but instead to take advantage of the natural possibilities for winter sports. A fine ice rink} for the general public can be established at moderate ex- pense. It would be worth thousands of dollars to the city in promoting health and happiness. It is a good proposal.| Let’s do it. ITALIAN ON WAR DEBT | *»-Carlo Schanzer, former Italian foreign minister, declares | _that Italy needn’t have any pangs of conscience if she doesn’t repay her financial debt to America. Carlo considers the beaks balanced, our dollars on one side, Italian casualties on the other. ~By another year or two, Europe probably will be claim- ing that the World War was fought primarily between Ger-| many and America, and that the allies should get a bonus)- for helping save us. FARM MEDALS France has offered a medal to every family able to prove that it had farmed the same land generation after generation | continuously for three centuries or more. So far, 750 fam- ilies have come forward and claimed medals. The La Fargue| family has+een farming the same patch of ground since the year 772. Amazing, especially to our wandering nation. Americans are a gypsy race. Our national spirit is much more develop- ed than our community spirit. \ “SHOCKS POLICE -oeeeseMew Haven policemen nearly had heart failure when Se ne ene ene ae Jacob Abraham, banana peddler, walked in with a $20. bi! | which a customer had given him by mistake, and asked the) pelice to help him find. the owner. \ How many of our big problems, little ones also, would disappear .if. all of us were as honest as Jacob Abraham? What this country needs more than anything else, is com- mon honesty. ; a ONE KIND OF PROSPERITY % A New-York newspaper prints this item on its financial page: “The first shipment of the new\crop of Florida strawberries, 80 quarts, arrived in New York yesterday and sold promptly at $2.50'a quart.” ’ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE CE Oh, what do the cold waves say? Oh, they say, “Where's the coal?” — | What could be worse than being given the mumps for Christmas? Will you need a gift for an enemy | of yours? Give him cheap cigars. | If you don't like some neighbor you can give his little boy a drum. The kids like skates, but they are hard on the seats of their pants. What will you e father? Give | him usbestos gloves to be worn while | opening Christmas bills, | — | A hot-water bottle makes a swell | gift for a wife, and besidgs it will} keep her feet warm at nigni, | Give her an imported hair brush if she wears imported hair. | Ge pee goa | Umbrellas make good gifts because | you can borrow them back. In giving a watch you can write | “It's your time now,” or “Hope y have a good time.” A nice telephone stand for a Christmas gift may help some friend stand her telephone. lesticks make good Christmas | The big, heavy kind are better | chasing burglars. | A rug as a gift makes a room as | snug as @ bug in a rug. The hoy will get mad if there is | no sawdust in sister's doll. | Give daughter a tazor so she will not sharpen pencils with yours, The lighter electric irons’do not damage the wall or knock a husband out like the heavy ones. asked Jack and Jill. we fell down?” just the hill nearest to any little boy’ said the Riddle “Or girls either.” “I know the answer,” cried Nancy, and at the same time Nick called out, “I know it, too! It’s snow.” “Right!” said the Riddle Lady. “And the prize today is a sled. You'll |have to go partners with it, my On marking up a price tag always be sure the person who receives the gift will not exchange it. “Was it the one Hide the children’s presents with their school books and they never will find them. ° In some cases suit cases will suit as gifts. Towels are nice, clean gifts. dears. But there is room on it for you both,” Stme kts. get~ what they want | (To Be Continued) while other get. sensible presents. (Gopysienhat A Service, Sie.) Christmas is not over until friends quit being polite to you. Ansa | much longer than the other ones. Billy Junior, 8-year-old son of . W. H. Ordway 1 ice bath Sunday when he went through the ice on the lag4on while skating on thin: ice the highway ‘bridge. He w cued by a couple of young A wise man and his money soon buy Christmas gifts. | nel Just a shortstime now and we will | be writing 1923 by mistake and rub- | bing it out to put 1924. It will soon-be time for new reso- lutions. We call them new, but they are old ones made over. thin ice. Joan Joyee, of St. Paul, former If hell i 4: with good inten- | resident ell is paved with good inten nis olq friends yesterday. For the tentions it will be repaved New York. jyani 0] voure he nas boon Gun ed with the police department We swear off on New Year and|that city, but has been retired on after that we swear off and on. }a pension, “Mama, can I hang up one of} President J. H. Newton) of the sister’ stockings for mine?” | Mandan Commercial club, appoint - ed a civic survey committee Mon- day evening at the meeting of the horad of difectors of that organ- ization. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS ——————— By Olive Roberts Barton What do you think the next riddle was about that the Riddle Lady ask- ed in Riddle Town? But there! What a very question! As though you know without hearing it! Well, this was the riddle: Youngest Train Crew. Cumberland End.—Two 16-year-old boys are serving as engine driver and guard on the Ravenglass-Eskdale line. It is said to be the smallest stretch of railway in the world. The lads are Bob Hard and Cyril Holland, Hardy has ben ‘able to\pilot a loco- motive since he was 8. It’s no doubt the youngest train crew anywhere. foolish should “I'm as soft as cotton and white as milk, As thick as a blanket and smooth as silk, I'm as merry as sleigh bells and gen- tle as rain, And toboggan down roofs to window pane. your. “and I peep inside as you dream on your bed, And wink my eyes at your cute little sled, Then I quietly beckon and call to the others— x ee I've hundreds of rollocking, tumbl- 7 ing brothers. “And then they come rushing, el- bowing for room, eneath | \forming a human: chain over thei of Mandan, visited with} Sky-dust, as they’re called, fr&n ‘the Old Woman's broom; And away we all fly to the road on the hill, ‘And cuddle together, and lie there still. .! “In the morning you come with the girls and the boys All shouting and laughing and mak- ing a noise, ‘And you stamp and you tramp and you slide on our back, And soon you've a slippery, glisten- ing track. “Then you build a brave fort and you use us for walls, And out of us also you make cannon balls; And our soldiers are sturdy (we make famous ones,) With dishpans for helmets and broomsticks for guns. “We love all the children, their noise and their fun, The thing that we dread in the hot shining sun, When up in the sky his stern visage appears, We are very unhappy and melt into AheTa LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO LESLIE PRESCOTT, CONTINUED. “I don’t mean anything in particu- | lar," said Ruth evasively, “except that every man has to do this when | his wife has money of her own. | You know very well, my dear, that if you had an assured income without going back to your father, you would | tell Jack all about your pearls and | if he didn't like it you would say, j‘P take my baby and get out’ | | “Speaking of babies, Leslie, did you ask Jack to go ‘with us. to that moving picture tonight?” \ “Yes, but he said he thought he/| would be too busy to go.” “Well, you tell him for me, Les- | lie, that because of the coincidence | of little Jack ‘being left before your door and Paula Perier’s _ picture, | which has to do with a child being | left at the door of two young pe: | ple, all Albany is agog with gossi | “What kind of gossip, Rut What are they saying?” “Just. what Mrs. Smithson timated to you, ¢That the child John’s. Forgive me, Leslie, for be- | ing so bratal. As a rule, I do not believe in retailing this kind of thing, but this story has gotten to such a point that somebody must | squeleh it H “Surely you don’t believe it is true, Ruth?” \ “As far as I am concerned I don't | knew anything about it, Leslie, ana if you leave it to me I don't think j it matters. Little Jack has been in your house for months. He has grown into your heart. He is yours legally. No one can take him from , you and the sooner you stop con- | jecturing who his parents are, the happier you will be.” “IT have been conjecturing quite a little, Ruth, and I have almost come ; adopt ‘talk about this picture. to the decision thag the child be-| longs to Sydney Carton.” “Good Lord! What makes .you think that?” Ruth's tone was curiously eager. “Well, you know that Sydney very seldom comes to see me. He has made the baby some very wonderful presents and when he does come here le acts so queerly about him. He sits and looks at him as though he were trying to find a resemblance to someone and I think it is a re- semblance to himself. He acted very odd the day of the christening. I know that he writes many letters to Jack and Jack writes to him, al- though Jack never mentions them to me. It would be just like Jack, Ruth, to arrange¢in- some way to his friend’s child. Now wouldn’t it?” “Yes, I_ think said Ruth. “Jack is very fond of is friends and very loyal to them. Perhaps that is the solution to the whole business, but you’ know very well how hard it is to stop the gos- sips’ mouths and they just love to I think the only way for you and Jack ‘td stop this is for you to go and see the picture together.” ‘i “I'll ask Jack again when he comes home to dinner.” “If you want me, I will go with you.” ' (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) SCOUT OF OLD » WEST IS SEEN Old Jim Bridger in “The Cov- | ered Wagon,” Traversed _ The Old West When old Jim Bridger, in “The Covered Wagon,” which comes to the auditorium Thursday night cuts the arrow from the breast of the beau- tiful heroine, Molly. Wingate, he knows exactly, what he is doing and how to do it. At least the original Jim Bridger would have kitown the You CooK . STREET AND we AT THS CEItiIne T THS, Fe. In THE HOSPITAL !} PERS ON THE. c H BE LOOKING granted that Tully Marshall, who im- personates the character in the pic- IN BIG FILM necessity and the technique of the operation—it must be taken Yor “WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1924” Pt P a N/ONGS The game of Mah Jongg is played with 144 tiles, (or pieces), divided into three suits’ and honor cards, There is a Variation of the game played with seasons ‘and flowers. Of this I will treat later. The three suits are those of Bam- boo, Dots and Character, each suit containing 36 pieces, running from the one to the nine, with four of each number. All piees are marked con- sistently for each identification ex- cept the one weak spot of the Bam- boo.’ On account of possible confu- sion with the two of the same sait, this piece has been marked with th Chinese Hemp Bird, rf Honor cards are divided into Winds and Dragons. These are easily distinguishable from suit tiles as the latter have a number in one of the corners, whereas the dragons have no corner markings and the ‘ winds haye corner marking of “E,” “3,” “W,” and “N;” to designate re- spectively East Wind, South Wind, West Wind and North Wind. There are three sets of dragons (red, green and whife) of four tiles each. Each Wind also has four tiles, Easy to Learn, Becoming familiar with the tiles is a matter of only afew minutes’ con- centration.” If you will divide the tiles in accord with the above out- line and study them in a minute, you will find no difficulty in distinguist ing them readily during the course of play. Also there is in each set four ex- tra white: unmarked tiles similar to the White Dragons. In case one piece of ae set lost it may be re- placed by one of these extra tiles, properly marked. It is advisable to Wingate to suffer as he did if it can be helped. Jim Bridger was one of the most famous scouts and trappers in all the Northwest back in ‘the Thirties and Forties, and his.name has an en- during place onthe maps of the territory he explored and in the rec- ords of the conquest of the West. When General William H, Ashley of St. Louis, organized his first com- pany of trappers in 1832, Jim @rig- der was one of the most daring ant resourceful. of all ‘his’ forty men. roamed. This company of trappers over what is now Wyoming, Utah, |. North and South Dakota, Washington and Oregon, and the value of the ins taken in a season sometimes amounted to as much two hun- dred thousand dollars. General Ashley made a large fortune from alternate the White Dragons and Extra Tiles in play, so that all will show equal wear and if substitution becomes necessary, the new tile will not then be discernible from the re- verse side. Other Pieces, “% Also with each set comes Maly she box, containing table markers. These are placed before the players to designate the Wind of each, Characters (Wan) Che Sunts Four dice come with the set. Two of these are used in play, as will be told later, and two are: extra. In addition, each’ set is‘ provided with the bone dr ivory «counters, which should be divided as follows: To each player give two counters with five red dots, representing 500 points each (or 1000 total), nine counters with one red dot, repre- senting 100 points each (or 900 total), it would, Leslie,” ; tagons : total), 10 counters with ‘two black dots, representing two ‘points each (or 20 total). where all previous aftendance recordg have been broken. oa HAIR STAYS COMBED, GLOSSY Millions Use If- Few Cents Buys Jar at Drugstore | { _ Joutthe ture, inherited the wisdom, as well as the appearance and manners of the old plains The original Jim Bridger carr in his body for sev- eral years the points of two arrows that struck him simultaneously, at a time when nobody was by to cut. them out; and the shadow of Jim : ist ty | with. derision when he teld of the Bridger is not going to allow M | Bathe decinian epee Ae. 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