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FHE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1875) PUTTING IT OVER A few of Young America got b ve short time put over the municipal ska Pullic sentiment which reflects 1 some public recreation was in favo terday and in a ‘ur Bi marck demand fo» ject and it} oY was just a matter of seeing the peoy fie Association of Commer.» Sports committee deserve nymcndation as well} as i} ung men who made the sole (a/1o> } her evidence of the B nf “We FORD'S HAPPY DEC! Henry Ford shows political wisdom a< well as business acumen in endorsing Coolidge for th: presidency. This announcement from ane whose political tendancies have always been construed as liberal, shoul? put a wet blanket over the hopes and aspirations of Uncle Hiram Johnson. Those looking for reduced taxes, a sound business ad- ministration; less of government in business and more of business methods in the conduct of government see in Calvin Coolidge a safe and sound president who hews to the line regardless of the importunings of the pork hunting poli- ticians. Henry Ford’s pronouncement is important and one of | the straws that indicates how the wind is blowing poltically. As a manufacturer he knows that things will run much | more smoothly for his business as well as for all business whether it is farming or any other enterprise with a leader of the type of Coolidge at the helm. THE FEDGE LIEN BILL In the'last few years many persons have proposed laws in North Dakota which they honestly believed would remedy an unsatisfactory condition or relieve some class of persons from a burden. Some of these laws have been enacted. It was found that it was easy’to injure an individual by a foolish piece of legislation —easy to destroy his personal credit, easy to destroy the credit of the state. Today we have before us the Fedge farm labor bill. It received little consideration in the legislature last winter, EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced. in this column, the opyn are pgsei our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day, OF INTERE | TO FARMERS In Secretary Walla report to the president he states that our population is growing rap- idly and that before many years there will be a home, de- mand for even more of farm products than we are now pro- ducing. If during this period of agricultural distress we per- mit production to be shrunk to present needs by driving farm- ers from the land and into the cities, we shall be under the necessity of reclaiming at large expense the procuctive land which is now being aban- doned. And if we should ex- one or two years of »ps while this process on, the consuming tion wv nd itself com- pelled to pay prices for farm products which will impose upon it a burden comparable to that under which the farm- er hos been groaning. ™m Secr-tary Mellon's report to the president he called at- tention ty the fact that agri- Tear a rogoining its posi- ton the surplus of the lesdin« orons this year is com- poritively small, and that with further :eadjustments, togeth- e- with the steady growth of roapniotion which has added | 19.696.000 + our numbers since he becin, it may ob | flently expected that a: Hl ture will soon secure that fair share of the general presper- | {ty which all desire it to have. | —Commercial West, EARS SS ' ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS _— |! Ns } By Olive Roberts Barton When the Twins got to the Fa Queen's palace, who should be wait- ing for them but a fat, jolly looking person in a green suit. The most remarkable thing about him was a dustpan that kept tucked under one arm. “Nancy, Nick!” said Queen lovingly, she had become very fond of her little Twin chil- | dren, “I want you to mect one of my oldést friends, Mother Goose's husband, Daddy Gander. Daddy Gander, Nancy and Nick! Nancy and Nick, Daddy Gander!” Nancy bowed and Nick bowed and Daddy Gander bowed and everybody bowed. And after they had finished bowing and saying how glad every- body was to meet everybody else, the Fairy Queen went on: “Daddy Gander wants you to go home with him. He lives in a place he the Fairy even from the faction to which Representative Fedge ad- )amed after him called, ‘Daddy Gan. hered. It was so palpably visionary that even the most “progressive” declines to have anything to do with it. The Fedge bill is predicated on an assumption that who- ever loans money to a farmer is going to lose. Having accepted this idea, he and others propose that the person who has loaned the money shall be cheated out of it. His measure, which will go on the ballot in March, provides that any member of a farmer’s family over 16 years of age may file a labor lien, which shall have priority over most other liens or obligations. Borrowing has been fairly easy within the last few years. But bankers or other people who loan money will not be tak- ing chances on grain crops in the next few years. Loans will be made with a reasonable certainty of having them repaid. Since the borrower presumably expects to repay a loan when made, it is only reasonable that the man who loans der Land.’” “Mother Goose lives in Goose Land, doesn’t she?” inquired Nancy. “And if you are her hus- band, sir, how can you live in Daddy Gander Land?” Mister Daddy Gander laid a finger | beside his funny nose and winked | one of his funny eyes. | “How?” he remarked. “Easy as pie. I just turn the sign around. | When Missez Gooses is coming home, | and while she’s home, I put out the | sign that says, ‘Mother Goose, Her | Land.’ “But when she’s off on one of her trips, I get Tom Tinker and we} take down the sign and turn it! around and hang it up n. And | it says, ‘Daddy Gander, His Land!’” | Mother money shall make provision for its payment. | What will be the position of a farmer with a wife andj five or six girls over 16 years of age? A banker may loan} him money to put in his crop, to build up his farm, to suc-! ceed. But there will be the potentiality that labor liens migh! he filed in behalf of five or six persons which would’ prevent the farmer from repaying his loan and while giving his family a little money at the time woul’ drive the farmer out of business Everyone will sympathize with the plight of any members of a farmer’s family who toil long hours and fail to gain recompense. Just so everyone would rather see the farmer’s crops good crops than bad ones. But the Fedge bill will injure more than help the very persons it is designed to aid. It is the product of well placed sympathy transformed into misguided action. ‘ OLD TIMES How many Christmas presents are you giving this year? Last night Friend Wife showed us the complete list of pres- ents that are being.given by all members of our family. When it was handed to us, we thought at first it was an inventory of our household furnishings. Our mind slipped back to the simplicity of some of the old-time Christmases. In particular we-recalled the finest Christmas we ever had. We were a boy then. Most of the presents were home- made. Grandma furnished mittens, knitted by oil lamp after we'd been tucked in bed—thick warm mittens with a long cord that extended up through coat sleeves and around the neck to prevent loss. Aunt Saphronia gave us a basket of Christmas cookies, shaped like animals and stars and covered with delicious colored sugar. Uncle Tom gave us a watch, and his generosity appalled us even if it was the old turnip that he’d discarded. You can'imagine the reaction you'd get if you tried giving a 1923 boy a second-hand timepiece. 6 Most of the’presents were useful, in the old days, includ- ing a reefer overcoat and a new pair of shoes. As for “boughten”’ presents, they were limited to “The Erie Train Boy,” by Alger, Henty’s “With Clive in India,” a New Testa- nt, a sled, a pair of skates and that most wonderful of all old-time toys, a tin monkey that climbed a string. “Oh, I see!” laughed Nick. “It’s all one and the same place.” “Surest thing you know,” laughed | Daddy Gander winking again. And he looked so funny they all laughed. An dthen they wention laughing un- going to be anéthersTwin adventure | to write about, except a laughing party, for days {6 comé: | It was Nancy whq sobered first. “What's so funny about it she asked suddenly. “Why, why, why—” panted Daddy Gander, who was as fat as his wife was thin, and round as she was sharp, “why, I don’t remember. But it-just seems that every time I open my mouth everybody laughs.” “What is your dustpan for, please, sir?” asked Nick. “Oh, that!” exclaimed Daddy Gan- der in a surprised voice, as though he didn't know he had it. “Why, that is, you see, I always carry it for fear Missez Goose might return unexpectedly and ask me where it is. Iuse it to gather up her sweep- ings and she’s always sweeping. But say, do you want to go home with me?_ We can all get on my magic dustpan and be there in a jiffy.” “We'd love to go!” cried the Twins. Instantly the dustpan spread out until it was a big as a carpet. “Jump on!” said Daddy Gander. yee an three of them squatted down on it like Arabs. Instantly the magic dustpan rose and floated out of the door. (To e Continued.) (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) Murder Will Oct ELLA—I've heard you made a very unpleasant remark about my hair, and I want to tell you it's false! i JANE—Well, then, my remark was at least true—if- unpleasant.—An- swers (London). : : Living Up to Her Record At that, Christmas of long ago represented proportion- as big an outlay as now, comparing the family incomes ie two periods. - ut the gift itself was secondary to the spirit of the giver, ‘more than in the present gen on. Somehow we Christmas dinners of those “Who is that woman you- just' bowed to?” ‘ “Oh, \she is my, next-door neigh- bor. . “But she didn’t return your sa- lute.” Tis “No, she never returns anything. — ge: : i e Plenty of. Willing Givers If Iceland really wants prohibition fe got a lot of it that isn’t. being it Free Press, =, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Fun Is About to Begin LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO LESLIE PRESCOTT, CARE OF HER SECRET DRAWER Last night, little Marquise, Jack nd I had the worst quarrel we ever had in our lives. ¥ After I had telegraphed mother that I would meet her in New York I began to get things together, for {I had determined to leave early the next morning. Moth going seem- ed a real act of Providence, for it would give me an excuse tg see Karl's lawyers. It never entered my mind that Jack would object to my going, and so when he came home that night T causually remarked at dinner that I had gotten reservations on the morning train the next day for New York. May I ask just why you are go- ing, Leslie, or is it a profound se- eret?” Jack said this in an uglier voice than I had ever heard from him be- fore. “Mother and dad are going to sail on the tenth for England and they are going to be a few days in New York.” for I don’t know whether I was more surprised than enraged at the ques- n, little Marquise. I tried to keep as cool as possible, however, and in- formed him that it was simply be- cause I did not get the letter until the afternoon of that day. Then I had telegraphed mother I would meet her at the Warldorf tomorrow. “I was in my office all afternoon. It would have: been a very easy thing to have telephoned me before y was I not told of this be- til it looked ag thOngh there wasn’t you wired.” Jack looked right through me in- to space and his words cut the air like a knife. | *VERETT TRUE BY CONDO TESTERDAY, UPON RETURNING TO MY Car, WHICH 1k CSET PARKED BY THE CURE, me WINDSHIELDS OF SEVERAL CARS, INCLUDING MY OWN ADERTISING LABELS BEARIN: “What for?” I asked shortly. | Then what he had implied became! clear to me. I grew more and more furious. a “What difference would phoning you make, Jack? What had you to do with the matter? I was under the impression that I was ‘free, white jand twenty-one” Do you mean to | tell me that you would have refused ‘ or at least tried to keep me from going to bid my mother and father goodby when they are going on a trip of indefinite duration?” Jack saw he had made a mistake, “Of course not, but I think you might have consulted mein the mat- ter.” “Would you have consulted me about keeping an important personal engagement for yourself?” “That's different.” “Not at all. Tam very tired of you | arrogating to yourself the privilege | of doing as you please, under all cir- cumstances, while insisting that I} shall consult you on every little thing. It just isn’t done, Jack, this year. Women are no longer the nice little prize packages to be kept or passed about on such occasions as the men who have married them wish.” (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) + a 4 A Thought The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water; therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.—Proy. 17:14. From hence, let firece contending na- tions know | ' What dire effects from civil discord | flow.—Addison. I NOTICED PASTED ON! G YouR FIRM NAME, ===] YES, MR. TRUG, OUT THAT FORM OF PUBLICITY. i) ARE YOu INTERESTED IN ANY OF OUR SEVERAL RUE) WE ARE TRYING PRODUCTS % AY MANDAN NEWS A combination dancing and musical |recital will be given by the pupils of Mrs. Morgan Morris and Mrs. W. C. Tostevin Thursday afternoon at Elks hall. ‘The program for the occasion is varied and unique. According to the current issue of “Spatterinx,” the live semi-monthly Mandan high school paper, eight girls are preparing to uphold the high school’s honors in oratory and de- bate. The young women will be: Palma _Fristad, Lily Christianson, Lenna Rendah!, Thelma Grahm, Maric Glass, Ora Roderick and Grace Allen. No boys appear among the aspirants. “Officers elected’ by the Degree of Honor at their meeting last evening inclides the following: Past presi- dent, Carrie Kidd; president, \Marie Spehn; vice president, Jessie Kidd; secretary, Maud Arthar: treasurer, Mary Thickey; ushers, Emma Kidd and Esther Thorson; inner watch, Frances Johnson; outer watch, Mary Flaten; pianist, Alice Latta; degree staff captain, Clara Leekley; chair- {man flower committee, Clara Rowe. News of Our Neighbors BALDWIN Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Higgins were last Sunday visitors in Wing, the guests of Mr.°and Mrs. Ben Lawyer and family, They were accompanied by their thregichildrenyHerry Hohn and Evelyn, Mr. and» Mi last Sunday visitors:at the home of Mr, Rupps “parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rupp. =~) > Relatives of the Albin Nordstrom family who left here last fall for Monroe, Washington have heard from them, and they are, not at all satisfied with conditions as they find them atthe present time in the west. Everything is high in price, and work is scarce there being three ap- plicants for every position. Mr. {Nordstrom and family will probably return to North Dakota in the near future. The Baldwin school will close Fri- day for a weeks: vacation. Misses Freda, Mathilda and Emma Spitzer who attend high school in Wilton are spending the holiday va- jcation at their home near Baldwin. Several Baldwin residents motored to Wilton to-attend the play “At the End of the Rainbow” which was gi en last Thursday ‘night. by the Sophomore class of the Wilton high school. The play was given in th Grand theatre to a capacity hous Among those appearing in, the play was Miss Wilma Graham daughter of J. A. Graham of Baldwin. Misses Lily and Viola Strandemo who attend high ‘school in Bismarck are spehding the holiday vacation at their home north of town. Clyde and Clarke Monroe who have bgen attending school in Bismarck are both ill at the/family home. Mr. and Mrs. John Mount have r turned to their home at Driscoll ter a pleasant visit with relati east of town. Miss Freda Nelson who teach school in eastern part of th county has returned home for the Christmas holidays. ~ Mrs. Charles Bleckreid has re- turned home from # two months vi it with relatives’ at ‘Omaha, Nebra: f- ¥ A number of, Baldwin residents motored to Bismarck to attend the play “The Covered Wagon” which given at the Auditorium last Edmund Rupp were}! Ai sen99 BY .J. RP BABCOCK Sten ih my, srt xt No. 8—Special Bonus Scores. Special bonus scores, which apply only to the winning hand, are as follows: 1. Mah Jong .20 points 2. Winning tile drawn,.....2 points 3. Mah Jongg on special draw of a loose tile after completing four of a kind............ 10 points 4. No seore other than Mah Jongg ....: seeded. 10 points 5. Filling only possible place to Wit... uu Ste ceeesee 2 points 6. No runs, concealed or exposed okt cae meas 10 points 7. wg the fourth to win/.... ioe i 10 points 8. Mah Jong, ive tile... cast - 10 points I will now bonuses more fully: 1. For winning a hand (Mah Jongg) a bonus of 20 is given al- ways. . 2. When the winning tile is drawn from the wall (not punged of chow- ed) a bonus of two is added. 3. You will remember that for every four of a kind declared, you must draw a loose tile from the wall, If you complete your hand for Mah Jongg on such a draw, you are al- lowed 8 points extra. This 8, plus the 2 for drawing the winning tile, scores you 10 total as bonus for the draw. How to Get Bonus. 4. If you win a hand with a total of 20 points (the bonus for Mah Jongg) 2 consolation 10 points is al- lowed you. However, if your score totals 22 (20 for Mah Jongg, plus 2 for drawing the winning tile, or 2 for filling only place to win) you cannot elect to take the ‘consolation bonus. Your score in this case is 22, not 5. ig the only “possible place to win, which scores a bonus of 2, means that only one particular tile will give you Mah Jongg and that you draw that tile. In using the term “particular tile,” I mean a tile of a particular designation, such as Red Dragon, Two Bamboo, ctc. This bonus is not dependent upon dis- cards. Thus iy a 3 Dot would give you. Mah Jongg’ and no other tile would, you would get your bonus irrespective of how many 3 Dots had been discarded, or none had. Conversely, if you held two pair: and a third to either pair would give you Mah Jongg, you would not get your bonus if two tiles of one pair had been discarded. This, of course, practically would mean that the only tile which would win for you would be a third to one pair, buth as discards do not affect this bonus, theoretically, you could win by draw. ing a third to either pair. Filling the Hand. The cases where you “fill to the only possible place to win” are: (a) You draw the middle tile to a sc- quence, or the end tile to a sequence open at one end only; (b) You draw the second to a pair. 6. When you have no sequences in either your exposed or concealed hands, you are allowed a bonus of 10 points. This is a very usefui score to remember during play. 7. Should a player have three of a kind exposed and lated declare the fourth, you may pung this fourth for Mah Jongg. This is called “Stealing the Fourth te Win” and entitles you to a bonus of 10. This cannot be done on a declaration of four at one time, nor can you claim the bonus if a person with three of a kind should elect for any reason to discard the fourth instead of de- claring it. 8. If the game progresses to a poitit where there are only 14 tiles left in the wall, the hand is a draw. As the last 14 tiles are dead, the fifteenth from last tile is known as the “last live tile.” Shoulda player complete his hand for Mah Jongg, on the draw of the last live tile, hé is given a bonus of 8, which with the 2 points for drawing the win- ning tile will total him 10 points on the draw. Mr. and Mrs. H. G, Higgins and Mr. and Mrs. Fredolen Rupp. Mr, and Mrs. Chester Erstrom are rejoicing over the arrival of a fine baby boy at their home west of town. Julius Meyer, C. H. Berger and Charlie and Milton Rue who are serving as jurors in Bismarck are all expected home for Christmas. Miss Louise Meyer has returned from a_ pleasant. two weeks visit with relatives across the river, “Hans Christiansen and Erick Al- bertson were transacting business in town Friday. A mixed car of cattle and hogs| which were raised.on the farms sur- roundirig Baldwin wag shipped out Friday afternoon to the St. Paul Stockyards, F Mr. and Mrs, C. W. Spitzer who have been staying at the home of Mrs. Spitzer's mother, Mrs. Mathilda | Baumgart in Bismarck during the illness and convalecence of their little daughter Frances Spitzer have returned to their home south cast of town. Mrs. Iver Christiansen and daugh- ter Annie were shopping in Baldwin last Wednesday afternoon. The many friends of John Trugg .will be sorry to learn he is il] at the family home northeast of town. have returned home from a short visit in the capital city. Fulton Nelson well known farmer of the Cromwell district was a bus- {iness caller in town one day last | week, Friends of Helena Bumgart who left here last week for Minneapolis ‘announces that she has reached her {destination safely and has secured peteplegment in a large department store. Victor D. Smith, traveling sales- man for the Washburn Lignite Coal Company spent part of last week in Baldwin, Mr.:Smith who has just recovered from a long siege of ty- the outcome of the proposed lignite coal hearing. a The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Bollinger of Wilton were linger is section boss of the Soo line gud he and family are well ere. INDIAN WOMAN - INHIGH POST By NEA Service. { Oklahoma City, Okla., Dec. 20.— The Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes are certain of full recognition in American history. , For Mrs. Czarina Colbert Conlan, their own. direct descendant, ‘has charge of the collection of her an- rp’ tribal. histories and manu- scripts. She is supervisor of the In- dian Department of the Oklahoma Historical society. Mr. Colan is a college woman. In 1896 si club for ‘women in the Indian Ter- ritory, now Oklahoma. Later she was, seces first president pf the Women’s clubs of ter- ritory, bie 8h ‘was the first woman in’Okls- homa to serve on # achool board and was the first woman representative of the state historical society atithe jconvention of the national society’ in 1920, aH Pe Mrs, L, Volk and baby son Philip { phoid fever was enthusiastic as to} anybody. known | th organized the first study | doing hard cM A Pomona (Calif.) electrician who fell five stories will recéver, and wait for the elevator next time. Chicago policeman saved two vaudeville actors from being robbed, but we don’t know why. The young people are restless. A | Dayton (O.) boy couldn't wait untit ie was 2 before robbing a bank. A puppy in Dorchester, Mass., has ‘been adopted by # cat And all the other dogs will laugh at him. Robbers’ union has been uncov- ered in New York. Perhaps this is why it costs so much to be robbed. Officials think a Los Angeles wo- ;man with seven husbands, all her own, is crazy. So do we. About 5000 acres of lettuce grown near Brawley, Calif., will be eaten by people who think it is food. Orange (N. J.) carpenter has been arrested drunk 62 times this year. Where does he get so mych money? Horses will be barred from the central part of Terre Haute, Ind., 4nd it probably suits them. Printing press fell seven floors in Chicago. Perhaps it was printing something favoring high taxes. . A Cincinnati (O.) dentist’s cat has a gold tooth and had better start staying home at night. Old maid of 61 finally got married in Howell, Mich., so while there's men there’s hope Ice is given as a betutifier by Mrs. Duff-Cooper. “Keeps flesh firm, she says. Makes ours creep. Dempsey, the prize fighter, says he can’t pay his taxes. We had no idea he was that rich. . Dempsey says he is willing to fight Everyone feels that way when paying taxes. Chicago's” home brew for New Year is estimated at 18,000,000 gal- lons, or twice as many pekdaches: “America, are you getting us?” came ‘by radio from Europe. Yes, at. seems to be-the trouble. About 4,000,000 autos were mae this year. They are new, but walk: ers they hit are second hand. What the exception of that “Yes, no banana” song 1923 goes down in history as a success. The high cost of Santa Claus is worth it. Cured His Rupture I was badly ruptured’ while lifting @ trunk several years ago. Doctors id my only hope of cure was an ration. Trusses did me no good. Finally IT got hold of something that’ ickly ang completely cured me. ‘ears have passed gnd the rupture has never returned, / although am. t a ‘work as a carpenter. There was a Speratien, Oa . time, no trouble. ave noth sell,’ but will give full. information i Td Ug sd Laid ‘ apiate eure: operation, to me, eee Pullen, Carpenter, 447K, Marcellus, Avenue, Manasquan, bly fase eut out this notice a show, it.to any others who-are rup- thoed ety it Pilar ot stad ant re < : +