The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 18, 1923, Page 4

? PAGE FOUR :sTHE BISMARCK TRIBUNE _Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, . 4s Second Class Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. “Publishers Foreign Represent. G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY OHICAGO - - Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND S NEW YORK - - - DETROIT Kresge Bldg. MITH 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. 3 All rights of republication of speviai dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year.............. sss ode Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). . Pea: U3!) 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) JULES VERNE Recent marriage in Pe of a niece of Jules Verne, the great French imaginative writer, started us thinking about his fantastic sicentific novels. Especially “Twenty Thou- sand Leagues Under the Sea.” People frequently marvel that Verne, born in 1828, was able to picture the perfected submarine boat of modern times. As a matter of fact, there were submarine boats long before Jules Verne was born. In the Revolutionary War some clever Yankees built a submarine operated by oars that worked in waterproof sockets. At the front was a window. Hanging near it, outside, was an explosive mine. The Yankees managed to get this submarine out near a tritish frigate. One of the crew, inside, with his arms thrust out through two close-fitting openings in the front of the boat, tried to screw the mine to the side of the frigate THe mine got loose, rose to the surface and exploded, scar- ing the frigate crew half to death. Those early submarines, of course, were very crude. But the idea was there, and all Jules Verne had to do was imagine the idea in perfected form. Admittedly, that was a tremend- ous and admirable feat of imagination. But it wasn’t as if Verne had nothing except thin air to draw from. When he pictured, in fiction, the perfected submarine. people laughed at him—just as they laugh today at vision- aries who are capable of conceiving the eventual general use of the airplane. J XMAS SAVINGS In 1912 a young advertising man invented the Christmas Savings Club plan, by which people save and bank a certain amount cach week and at Christmas have enough money to buy presents. This plan was intended to keep busy, through bank channels, the millions of dollars withdrawn previously from circulation and saved at home, idle. The idea took hold slowly, for banks in those days were just waking up to the mighty pulling powers of advertising. This year over 18 million Americans have Christmas Sav- ings accounts, totaling 400 million dollars. Advertising id it. GOLF-BALLS United States Golf Association takes steps to change the], official golf ball. The new one will have the minimum diam- eter as at present. But the weight (now 1.62 ounces) will be reduced to 1.52 ounces. No definite decision has yet been reached, but the association is experimenting and has com- municated its intention to the Royal and Ancient Golf Club committee in England. This is news of extreme importance —if you are one among the millions of golf enthusiasts. Tinkering with the official golf ba!l or baseball seems to be as grave a matter as checking up the law of gravitation. WANT PROTECTION The Association of Overworked, Underpaid Dishwashing Housewives mails a petition to every senator in Washington, urging less legislation for men and more for the patient mothers who toil at home. They need help, all right, but they’re knocking at the wrong door when they apply to politics. We wish mothers could be harsh enough to strike for an eight-hour day, more recreation and better pay. Any man who thinks he is over- worked should stay home Chrsitmas week and check up the activities of Ma. VALUATION OF RAILROADS More than 90 million dollars have been spent in deter- mining the valuation of the railroads. When La Follette fathered legislation providing for this valuation, as a basis for fixing railroad rates, he figured the cost would be about five millions. The figure, 90 millions, is the one announced by the press agent department of the railroads. No doubt, another 90 millions will be spent in investigation to determine if it’s correct. The roads claim they have paid 67 millions of the total 90, and Uncle Sam the rest. NEW MONEY _._ Have you seen the new dollar bills? President Coolidge got the first one off the presses. Later there’ll be new issues of: $5, $10 and $20 bills. The changes are made to check “counterfeiting. Bach denomination of new bills will be dis- inetly different from the others, to prevent the “raising” of bills by such tricks as changing the numbers. The dollar still is worth only 62 cents, compared with its value in 1913. There seems to be no way to rectify that. ime will take care of it. If history repeats, 62 cents saved now will be worth $1 later—in buying power. TOBACCO CONSUMPTION ¢ Uncle Sam figures that.500 cigarets and seven pounds of tobacco a year are consumed in our country for every man, ‘womur and child. The national tobacco bill this year is zaround a billion dollars—enough to make 1000 fortunes of a Fmillion dollars apiece. . There’s no way of figuring, but we wonder how much the national health is damaged by excessive smoking, compared ‘with excessive drinking of the days when saloons were run- “ning fullbast. Give usa match. | .. PIER, ACA in Ra te an “. BIG: FELLOWS OPTIMISTIC The “big fellows” are optimistic about 1924.“ Judge y predicts ip wall-be 8. better year for business than 1923. 4 Pp , and the fact ct resident, of Bethlehem Steel, ion of 1923, fab busines conditions , e ol “Annul =.) | headline. read it, “Annual Marriage.” Marriage of Actress” “Bootlegger Loses Suit”—headline. Well, as Christmas is so near, bet- ter a suit than a suitcase Lemon juice and cold cream wilt dim freckles. To straighten bow legs kick a bulldog daily. “Two Armed Men Caught'y-head- linc. ‘The men might have escaped if they had had three arins. “Lower Coal Prices Soon”—head- line. Why call six months “soon?” “Beer Plotters Get Bail”—head- | line. Bail, bi h, yes—full of beer, so were“Mailed out. Geraniums in a bedroom are not harmful and are excellent for bur- glars to stumble over at night. Apply camphor ice to cracked lips and don’t get the boss mad enough to make you laugh. “Prominent Women Speak” headline. Well, all women do that. “Stage Rotten, Says Bowlby— headline. He means salacious. We hear of shows so warm they use as- bestos curtains. By the time you find the needle in the hay stack, it is rusty. What could make a bald man cuss more than ‘heavy hair on his arms? The best trained seals in the world are Red Cross Seals. St. Paul (Minn.) jail is so crowd- ed prisoners haye, to stand up, and the Christmas rush not over yet. A peculiar situation in Europe is the more they owe the United States the larger their army Never slap your wife or make faces at her. Over $17,000,000 ali- mony is paid yearly in America. The United St spent $847,804,- 654 for amusements last year, yet seemed to be very little amused. Big cement company went broke in New York. Let this be a concrete example of bad management. Utah University boys have been ordered to quit drinking. Where do college boys get so much money? Mr Sam Raddish of Los Angeles | was jailed as a masher, and we'll bet Raddish got red as a bet. And, being in a hurry, we | | have come back to my own little THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ae Z ee TELEPHONE CONVERSATION BE- TWEEN RUTH ELLINGTON AND LESLIE PRESCOTT. “Is that you,” Are you one? It is impossible for me ty come over this morning and I want to tell you exactly what has hap- pened with your man.” “Are you sure, Ruth, no one will hear what you are saying to me?” “Absolutely. Everybody is out in the front fixing up the shop and I ‘2 lose one such gem was a terrible oss. “Jack ‘spoke up and said, “Not for a moment did you think they were real, did you, old man? They were given to my wife by her little sister as a wedding present.’ “‘Well, if they are not real, John,’ {said his friend, ‘they are the best imitation I ever saw. I remember some years ago of seeing a very beautiful string of real pearls about that’size which a friend of mine had been years collecting and I am quite room and closed the door. Harvard professor is trying to} \teach two apes to talk, which is | harder than teaching talkers to ape. San Francisco has just finished an 18-mile tunnel. What a lot of dough- nut holes it would make. { ADVENTURE OF |' THE TWINS By Olive Roberts Barton The Riddle Lady must have sat, up late writing, for the riddle she! asked next day in Riddle Town was a long one. “Now think hard every body,” she said. “I’m pretending I’m a little girl talking to the thing you are to guess. “When I've a smudge upon my nose, You tell'me! When I've got mud upon my toes, You tell met If I have torn by peti-skirt, Or dragged my muffler in, the dirt, No matter if my fealing’s-hyrt, You telpane! “If I have grown ahzinch or two, You tel}me! are freckles breakng If there through ‘You: tell gee And if I makes, snaot at you, As quick ag Scat yon'smake onc too; It doesn’t matter what I do— You tell me! “If I've been very bad in school, You tell me! When'er I break the smallest rule, You tell me! I’m sure I can’t guess how you know, Because to school you never go, I s'pose my tell-tales eyes must show! Now tell me! “If [am lazy and won't work, You tell me! If I've a duty that I shirk, You Tey me: You never say a word, it’s true, But every time I look at you, You look at me as though you knew, “ And tell met “And when in school I've done my best, You tell me! If I am ahead of all the rest, You tell me! And when from school I gaily race, And stand before your shining face, Down in the hall (for that’s your place) _ You tell met" “Sometimes I do get cross at you, For tell me, Why do you mimic all I do? Do tell me! If I just give the tiniest wink, Right back at me you promptly blink, a Why, if I even‘dare to think, You tell me! “Now, then!” said the Riddle Lady. “What is it?” Nobody answered. * “IN help you out!” said the Rid- dJe Lady. “A wicked queen owned one once and asked it who was fair- of thefair. It was the only one teak Lever of that could talk, for it be | her!” ) looking gi l 1” ered Naney. “Right, my dear!” said the Ridtte Ledy. “Aha, here To Be Continued.) | 1028, NEA Service, Inc.) Ysa dear little |. Rens mor for yoy to keep in your ie bs can gy : “About nine o'clock this morning I went out, looked around as if 1 were observing the weather, blew my nose and presumably accidentally dropped’ my handkerchief. I. don't mind telling you that my heart was, beating pretty fast, Leslie, but didn’t see a. soul anywhere in the block. I walked back into my office. I had hardly gotten there when a man came to the door and gaid he wanted to see me.” “What kind of looking man was he, Ruth?” “You wouldn't have recognized nim. He was none of the waiter that I had ever seen in the restau rant. He wasn’t a bad looking man and after he had told his story I felt rather sorry for him. It seems that he has a wife and baby and was on duty at the restaurant for the first time, for he had been ill for quite awhile. This is the story he tells and Leslie I believe him; he looks terrible. When he was picking up the pearls the temptation was too great and even though John said they. were just beads there was something about them that was dif- ferent, and he dropped one into his pocket. ‘2 “Two days afterward Jack was in the restaurant lunching with a man friend and the friend asked him about your beads, saying that even sure I could’t have told the differ- ence.’ “The man who cameée~to see me this morning told me that this con- versation gave him an idea. He took the pearl to one of the big jewelers and they told him it was worth any- thing between three and five thou- sand dollars, depending upon how. badly the purchaser wanted it. “‘Two or three days afterwards,’ said the man, ‘I was again at the table where Mr.’ Prescott’s friend up. Mr Prescott’s friend told the story he had heard from Mr. Pres- of pearls he had seen and which the other man had been so long collect- ing had been gotten together by Kar. Whitney.’ The friend to whom he was talking said, ‘Oh, do you know Karl Whitney? were married.’ “Then, of course, the thought he knew the whole story. Karl had given you the pearls and between you, yau had cooked up the story.for Jack. He determined then, instead of getting three thousand, to get ten thousand out of you. “After he had told his story, Les- lie, I saw that wo would have to EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO . “Don't TALK TO ME ABOUT “CLEAN POLitics, MR. TRUE! I WOULDN'T TRUS) THe BEST MAN ON GARTH! WHAT .HAVS You Gor VP YouR SLEEVE NOW THAT ‘You WANT To PUT OVER € -} Bustained a broken collar bone. ARM [tl The Tail That agsthe Dog - WagstheDog | was dining with another man and i the subject of the beads was brought | cott and then said that the string He was a great friend of Mrs. Prescott before they waiter He jumped at the conclusion that TUESDAY, PX | BY No 6—Four-of-a-Kind. I have explaincd the main prin- ciples inithe piay of Mah Jongg. To- day I will finish this -by explaining four-of-a-kind. Remember that there is no such thing in Mah Jongg as a four-run sequence, and that the following ap- plies only to four of a kind. T stated in a previous articles that the winning hand was one consisting of four sets of threes (either threes- of-a-kind or sequences): dnd a pair. this is subject to one variation, the holding of one or,more sets of four- of-a-kind. Thus a winning hand may be composed of a pair, three three- run sequences and four of a kind; a pair and four sets of four-of-a-kind; three threes-of-a-kind, a pair and four-of-a-kind;, a pair, a three-run sequence, a three-of-a-kind, two fours-of-a-kind; ete. You will notice from this that a four-of-a-kind will puperieuee for three of a kind, and also that, for each four of a kind, you have one more tile than the customary 14. Thus a winning hand with one four of a kind in it will contain 16 tiles; with two four-of-a-kind, 16 tiles, etc. “Loose Tiles.” These! extra Jles are the “loose tiles” placed on the top of the wall at the beginning of play. For each four of a kind, he who draws it im- mediately (before his discard) draws one of the loose tiles. Should both be used, two more are taken from the immediate right of the opening ard placed on top of the wall. REALITIES--AND THE ALLIED DEBT PROBLEM By WALTER W. HEAD, President, American Bankers Association. As a business proposition there ds just one reason for considering @ recasting of the balances due the United Btates from foreign gO0v- e:nments. change our plans. I can’t bluff him. I'll come over this- afternoon ant |, talk it over with you.” (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) | MANDAN NEWS WM. PATTERSON DIES IN WEST) tit ts tne ee tere possibility Stomach trouble contracted while} trot such in the United States army service in | tion would the Philippine Islands about two | {n re-establish lyears ago resulted recently in the! tag a foreign death of William Patterson, aged 36, | market which Sainetniies econ bo will absorb our surplus products. taken to Fort Rice Monday and fun- | ,,1t, 18 Bosslble, of course, for we eral services will probably be held on | Unite: oe Wednesday. can produce everything necessary Deceased was the son of John W.: to sustain life. Mere existence, Patterson of Fort. Rice. He enlisted however, is not the purpose of in the U S army shortly before the life. We cannot prosper as we signing of the armistice in 1918 and ; have unless we dispose of the sur- did not go to France, but upon cessa- plus products which naturally ac- tion of hostilties was assigned tothe cumulate, both agricultural and 1 regular army in the Philippines @ustrial. We must either sell this where he served for three years. } Surplus abroad or curtail our pro- He was taken ill prior to discharge @uction and generally lower our gtandard of living. from service and for the past year | paar in an army hospital in Cal- Our foreign trade depends upon Hs father, John W. Patterson, Fort or tones Rice, is the only surviving relative. Rodi aat Wm. Patterson was married a num- buy has {mpatred our ability to ber’ of years ago to Miss Jennie Sell. We have an interest in Eu- Ward, daughter of E. B. .Ward of. fope’s prosper|ty. To protect that Fort Rice. She died shortly before , interest we must be concerned in he entered the army the restoration of our debtors’ ca- city to trade with us and to m their obligations. We should dea! with this subject exactly bank. lr deals with a loan of doubtful value. Walter W. Head SEARCH FOR DRIVER. A search is being made for the driver of a Ford car who crashed in. to,the Gardner sedan driven by Mrs T. J. Logan Saturday evenin, throwing the” sedan “over the high curb and* otherwise damaging the car. Mr. Leg&in was-driving north jon Sixth when'the Ford car with all curtains up and no, lights burning tha,hil} on Second street Get the Facts. J ‘The United States should ha 'e representative with official stan: in the Reparations Commission. should not necessarily be by, any agreement which came down at the side pf J. H. Newton's resi + dency and reshed Uy asain of Mr: Quite Serious. \| Log: car.» Despite the appl “ ii nt” H tion of braked, the sedan ckidded and| Your Wife is Tooking, well” the rear wheels of the Ford caught in the front wheels of tl jedan. The driver the Ford did not halt to see if any one was injured, but drove rapidly on. FIRM DISSOLVES. The firm of Nickerson, Altnow and Aylen has formally dissolved, effec- tiveyJan. 1, 1924, by mutual agree- ment. Dr. ‘Nickerson, surgeon, and ir. Aylen, general practitioner wilt continue inthe city in separate prac- tice, but Dr Altnow, the third mem- ber of the firm will leave shortly for her to the*sanatorium she was so had that T wouldn't risk buying a return ticket!” — Sondags Nisse (Stockhol j im). The King cobra is the only reptile that wilf attack everything it meets. Cambridge, Mass., where he will en- ’ _LESSON Il ter the Ha: ‘d Medi college for . @ post graduate course in, children’s : ~By.J,.H. PUELICHER, Chairman, diseases. Following the completion Committee of Public Education, American Bankers Association. — of hs work he expects to associate on the western coast. Dr, Cecil C Smith, who has been practing at Beu- lah for several years will come to Mandan to become associated with Dr Nickerson. Albert, five-year-old ‘son of Mr. ‘and Mrs. Fred Hauck of near Gold- en Valley, fell off a load of wheat at the family home last week ana ‘ J. H. Puellcher ; STATE BANK CHARTER = James Henderson, 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, sustained .a| badly broken anklg bone yesterday while émployed with tbe gang doing rip-rap work along the Missouri river bank north of the city. The youth was scuffling and wrestling with Louis Snell, a fellow employe during the noon hour when the accident occurred. ~ ¥. NATIONAL BANK CHARTE! s Apalina Brown, little deughter of SUPERVISION Vi ffer- | sult of being run over by a Ford ear Friday when.she with her parents were eroute to y Banks can. dq-only those things ‘business is more cibsely Nation. Banks _ money J.P BABC WHY BANKS? “Why does Government charter banks,—simply to f money for stockholders, or because bank: “STOCKHOLDERS = owners. i QUASI-PUBLIC = semi-public,—that is, owned » sion of the State Banking Com- R = grant to do business under the sending by government of examiners, at i once a. year, into a ba: “to count ‘its cas and mortgages, wate! ‘ot, thei bet ‘are held to that purpose by government DECEMBER 18, ong OCK . A player can pung a fourth to three of a kind’ which he holds in his’ hand. but he cannot pung a fourth to three of a kind which he has ex- posed, that is, which he has placed face upward on the table before him after a pung or chow. However. should a player draw a fourth to an exposed three, he cai place the fourth with them, and} draw a loose tile to fill his hand< This has no effect on the play, but wil score as an “exposed four” when scores for the hand are computed. \ Optional Play. A player holding tnfté ‘or a kind in his hand and drawing a fourth from the wall has the option ot continuing to hold them concealed, or of “exposing” them by placing them before him. If he keeps them concealed, he does not draw a loose tile. When he exposes them, he turns the two end tiles face down to indicate that the four will score as “four in the hand” at the end of the game. After exposing them he draws a loose tile. It is obvious that a player holding a foursome in his ‘handy cannot Mah Jongg and still keep the four intact. But sometimes & player elects to hold the four on a chance that, by using one of the four in some differ- ent combination, he will make Mah Jongg. However, should the hand end with him still holding the four in his hand, ~they score only as “three of a kind.” » jay be proposed, but our repri mtative should gather all infor, mation available. The Unite States Government, of its own mo- tion and baked on its own informa- tion, should then decide whether, it should consider the readj of its accounts with Europe, and, if so, in what manner. Our own Debt Funding Commission should recommend to Congress whatever, Teadjustment, if any, of the inter- Allied debt may be warranted. 4 THESE SUGGESTIONS ARB, PURELY FOR FACT-FINDING: AND ADVISORY PURPOSES— FOR GETTING DOWN TO THE; REALITIES QF THE CASE. Pre. cisely what our action should be, to serve formation and our duty is to follow! developments inteltigently. THE FRIEND IN NEED (From the Nation’s Business) Some there are who still think; the banker wears horns. Who ts; the hardboiled citizen, the man be, hind the thumb-screw? The bank- er, they will tell you. -In the ligh? of this fllusion, consider a brief ex cerpt from the resolutions adopted at the recent Atlantic City convea tion of the American Bankers As- sociation: . “The conclusion is inevitably forced on the impartial observer, that the primary need of the world is moral id spiritual regeneration the essential basis for economic Tecovery. Until the nations of thé world are willing to liquidate their hates they can make little progress toward liquidating their debts.” Hardbeiled? Not that! It harks back to Socrates. “The true poll- tics,” he said, “is first of all a pol. tics of ‘the sou Come ‘to think of it; when we want someone to take care of our to whom do we turn? To enterprise afoot, whose time and Money do we commandeer first? The banker'a Hig Handicap A very stout and portly gentleman was once asked why he did not play golf, and this was his reason: “I did try it once, but I found that when I put the ball where I could see it I could not reach it; and when I put it where I could reach it, I could not see it.”—Golfing. by private but regulated by ‘govern: ment to see that the depos. itors’ money is safely loaned: privilege, grant or right to do a banking business ‘under supervi- missioner. supervision of the Federal Comptroller of the Cur- Tency. ‘permitted in their sharia hed aad regulated by. State o e, be run simply to aut thirtesd ic a toad E =