The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 24, 1923, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE! Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. / BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Publishers CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH j NEW YORK - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the tse or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and © the local news pub-! lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatche also reserved. "MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF ( SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYAB herein are SIRCULATION IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year...... : . $7.20 | Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). . 7.201 vil, per year (in state outs Bismarck) Da by r mail, ou ide of North Dakoi« ie STATE'S OLDEST Ni. Established 187 WHY NOT ALWAYS” Christmas is easily the finest, most cujoyable day in the year, because of the gifts and feasting, und because on, Christmas the best and finest of human emotions and ethics come to the surface. | Charity, tolerance, geniality, brotherhood, kindness — | these are so in evidence at Christmas thai they seem to be in the very air we breathe. And the reason is that all thes are Christian qualities, and that Christmas is the only day when these finer qualities are so generally present that they are a natural part of daily life. Humanity is struggling for a goal unknown. We wonder if that goal is not the happy time when the spirit of Christ- mas will, instead of being confined to a day or a season, spread out to include all days of the year. STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY The completion of the new Liberty Memorial Building on the state capitol grounds in the spring will open a new epoch in the development of North Dakota’s State Historical Society. Fostered by the state, but’ directed by individuals who feel a strong touch of love and loyalty to their state, the society has done a great work in the past for the state under the handicap of meager funds and insufficient quar- ters to house the museum and library. The purpose of the society is well stated by Lewis F. Crawford, acting curator, in an article in the quarterly re- view of the University of North Dakota in the following language: y “The present, being influenced in great part by self- interest and passion, is not qualified to write an unbaised and well-balanced account of itself. Time must collect facts, correct errors, soften asperities, and give judgment the leisure to weigh and make deductions from the facts ascer- tained. No individual has either the time, the house room, ; or the means, of gathering sufficient source of material to write a state’s history. For these reasons, and others, the states have provided historical societies with a view to pre- serving a large volume of contemporary source material for the use of future students. The jetsam and floatsam of one generation becomes the priceless treasure of the next gen- eration.” The remarkable development in almost every line of material activity within the past score years alone has ren- ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Jon Sims | __Nots ras GYys- i . | Absence makes the heart grow| fonder, but absence of pres«nts! makes The face grow longer. | Every Christmas we get gifts from | friends we thought close instead of close friends, | The stingicst man on earth used the Red Cross Seals he saved over from last Christmas. Some friends seem to have the! gift of giving useless gifts. | Christmas cigars are fine for xin-| ing moths, Just close all the win- dows and start smoking one. | Parents who bought drums for their children may need ear drums for themselves. a Raa | A foolish girl hangs mistletoeover A wise girl puts the stuff Anyway, it’s a darn homely girl who needs mistletoe. j About the only thing sold for pre- war prices during Christmas is Red Cross Seals. i Christmas cigars have a reputa- tion. Th are made by the thief who was given enough rope. | Christmas puts the finishing touches on father’s pocketbook. It has that Christm feeling. | The average man’s New Year reso- lution is that he will swear off and | on during the coming year. Women shoppers think every win-| dow needs looking into. | ii joo Automatic music boxes may be, fixed with a good ax. | —_— | Christmas cigars might be good to eat if placed in a pot and boiled just like cabbage, not knaw- while she is a jing a word a ee | “But anywa What is more useless around home | to one’s new on a holiday than a man? s to be aivil nd Tb go | right over a | Jack’s card If every day was a holiday when | sides, it’s would everybody rest up? jthe first one to call And tell all the | gossip. If I don’t hurry, as sure as hing, Mother Hubbard will beat Now we know how the expr “Gee Money Christ started. to take The tas her presents the school on fire.. age boy would do without | down her cu if Santa Claus would set’ fingers would (To Be Continued.) | (Copyright, NEA Service, Inc.) About the only prices that have} : been lowered recently are those of |@——————__——___—_——-® : | A Thought i the 1923 calendars. o until We! Our persecutors are swifter than | the eagles of the heaven; ‘they pur, sued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.— Lam. 4:19. Only a short time now | wonder how on earth this year pass- ed so quickly. A girl with a Christmas ring hates! to wear her Christmas gloves. The oppressio: opinion’s sake h had any other effect than to fix those -opin- |ions deeper, and render them more | important.—Hosea Ballou. The best Christmas gift is the gift of knowing what others want. Every Christmas. three-fourths of the fat people get fatter. dered obsolete many of the important factors in community life. To enable future generations to have a correct under- standing of this development it is necessary that facts and materials be preserved. Through the collections now at hand and to be made in the future the museum will be of great value. The library will occupy perhaps a more im- portant rank in the value of the society in enabling future generations to interpret the development of the state. In many of the older states of the east historical societies received liberal state support, but they have scores of funds and gifts made by individuals who sense the value of the in- stitution and desire to contribute something toward the pre- servation of the facts and history of their own common- wealths. Recently a new state pride has bcen awakened in North Dakota. This has been reflected in numerous small gifts to the historical society. The new Liberty Memorial Building will enable the society to properly present its work to the public, and there is little doubt but that in the imme- diate future there will be many more citizens volunteer tu aid in its great work. OVER THE SNOW A lot of us old-timers wouldn’t take a good many hun- dred dollars for our memories of sleigh-ride days in, the past. We feel sorry for the young people who are dénied the joys of snow vehicles in this generation of motor cars. Sorrier still for the people who, living in delightfully warm snowless climates, haven’t even the memories of sleigh-rides. ’Twas a great sport, with a peculiar thrill for which there is no substitute. We watch modern youths, standing at the roadside, begging rides from passing autos. And we feel sorry for them as we recall the good old days when boys “hooked on” their sleds to passing sleighs and bob-sled: The world wasn’t in such a nervous hurry then, and it was a rare driver who was too ill-natured and impatient to stop his horse while the lads “hooked on.” More thrilling, though dangerous, was to “hop” a swift- moving bob-sled, grabbing it as it went by, in peril of falling under the heavy runners. Mothers must have dreaded sleighing weather. Sleigh-riding was a sport for all ages. In the crisp * frosty air and mellow moonlight, you’d find three generations dragging their sleds to the hilltop for a,coast at breakneck 3] :When pa courted ma, they rode in a fast cutter, gliding along as easily as on skates, the frost tingling their cheeks and noses, with warm fur robe pulled up to the neck. é For social gatherings, there was the huge bob-sled, carry- ing as many as 20, with a symphony of shouting and glad cries, feet kept warm in a deep flooring of straw. : Back of it all, the music of sleigh-bells, with forests and farm buildings and lone trees outlined in the moonlight like stage scenery, the vehicle stopping occasionally to pick up someone who'd fallen off. \ Progress certainly has its price. TELEPHONES ON INCREASE One farmhouse ,in eight has a telephone in our country. This doesn’t mean much to a city man. But it does to an “old-timer who can recall when a farmer was often com- enced out df touch with the outside world except when he itched up and went to town once a 4 ae ‘ Our generation is ending isolation and conquering dis- tance. - This has its advantages. But there's’ apt to be less Oo age thinking when there’s too much contact with 3 1 If you just looked out for Number] WINTER COUGHS AND COLDS | One this Christmas remember it isi With the changeable weather yene smallest number, which we have at this season of the | year coughs and colds are very pre- valent. Be prepared for them. Have The size of the box of candy you! should give a girl depends upon how, a bottle of FOLEY'S HONEY AND many brothers she has. !TAR COMPOUND handy, and with , the first sign of a cough or cold take Only five more months before! 4 dose and prevedt a serious ailment straw hat prices will be too high. SSURREIEATE AEs a | POUND has been the standard fami en { ADVENTURE OF || | ‘THE TWINS bringing prompt relief and when once used you will never be without it. | ee elites a | — eae Radio messages broadcast from By Olive Roberts Barton [1 .. "angeles, Salt Lake City and Daddy Gander and Tom Tinkér | Chicago, were reccived daily by en- gineers of the United States geologi- cal survey while traveling in the bottom of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. help.d the Twins to get started at housekeeping in their Christmas-tree house. \ It was a very little house, made for very little dollies to go house keeping in when they got tired of hanging on a Christmas tree. But that difficulty was soon over- come by Daddy Gander waving his magic dustpan, one, two, _ three times and saying a gibberish charm. The little house began to swell and swell until the doorway was ex- actly as high as Nancy’s -head. Nick, who was one-thousandth part of an inch taller than Nancy, had to | stoop one-thousandth part of an inch | to get in. The furniture was mostly of pa- }per and so were the windows; and evidently the best parlor was to be used as laundry, bedroom and kitchen also, for a whole washing- set, clothes-pins and all, stood beside | the card-board piano, and the kitchen stove stood directly) behind a red plush sofa. There may have been a reason for this, for kitchen stoves are weighty and TYirm and to be depended upon, and the poor little red plush sofa had no hind legs. No doubt it was very glad of the stove’s support. Tom Tinker turned on the lights which gave-the place a festive air, the windows being covered with red and green paper. “Now, my dears, I do hope you'll be comfortable,” said Daddy Gander. “rl have the Pieman’ and the| | Bakerman and the Butcher send in.| | supplies.” “I think it’s perfectly lovel; cried Nancy, clapping her hand: “If you know of anybody who has any washing to do, send them in too, please 'd love to try this dear little inger and these really truly clothes-pin. . “Pll just do that,” said Daddy Gander. “I must go now and sec if Tom Tucker had made any more crumbs. If Mother Goose comes home and finds I haven't kept things in order, she'll be as eros» as anything. Goodby, now!” And away went Daddy Gander, with Tom Tinker dancing a pig behind him. Misses Sprat across the street was watching. g “Humph!” she daclared. “It’s as plain as the nose of the burgomas- \ter’s face that Misses Goose isn’t at home! Such goings on. Daddy Gan der renting that house to strangers | tT To me! WoMSnN 35 LAUGH CIKe A MISSOURI JACKASS / \ / , uch a Bad Ol te e ' people for} LETTER FROM LI TO LESLIE LIE PRESCOTT PRESCOTT, UED “What n “He came in the day tas I was reading Of course was very nervous and I did not what I did with the cable- until after I had left the room. en I looked in my hand and found t I had only the addre. ikes you think Jack got ablegram 2” ne I received it could. Jack had gone and [ could ind nothing.” “Do you know what was on the rt of the cablegram that you los es, TM never forget that cable- gram. It said, ‘If you are in trouble ]g0 to my lawyers, Struble & Struble, Van Make ner. H abled him, right things carefully and You know I would willingly from the slightest grief at Karl’, “Sounds like a melodrama, does it j not?” | 1 Courtland street, New York. a confidant of the senior part- He will quickly. lie, John got that cablegran. FOLEY’S HONEY AND TAR, COM- | That is the reason he doesn’t want knows if or suspects it about the ‘you to go to New York. I didn’t {ly cough remedy for over 35 years, think it was possible that he could cowards in the matter. be so mean as to object just because of silly gossip. He is not that kind. jJack is the kind of man who would snap his fingers at the public and tell them to go to. But this is ser- ious. Jack will have remembered your agitation and he will wonder why Karl Whitney has cabled you, ‘If you are in trouble’ and ‘You know I would willingly | slightest grief at any CISTEN To s! {You DON'T NEED To REQD[|= & KNOW :U1S Some JOKE Trar POKES RIDICUCES AT THE THAT'S THE IONLY KIND OF HUMOR That CAN MAKE You - i) ld World, After All ios line of the mess pro-! bably had been nervo tearing it » all the while we were talking. Naturally I went back as quickly as! .,; and I were one how easy it would . 4 MONDAY, a JP No. 11—The Seasons. In all my previous articles I have explained how to play Mah Jongg without the scasons. Today I wis. explain play with the seasons. But let me interpolate here that the seasons, having no effect on thé game other than to increase scores, have not become widely popular in China, nor are they used by leading Chinese Mah Jongg players. Seasons are easily distinguished from other tiles by their elaborate {earvings, sometimes representing , flowers or trees, sometimes temples or pagodas, sometimes means of Chi- nese locomotion, etc. They are divided into two sets of four each, cach set numbered fron. one to four, one in red_and the other in green or black. “Seasons” algo pass under other names such as “flowers,” “goofs,” ‘gilhooleys” and “pretties. When the seasons are used, cach wall consists of 18spairs of tiles, in- | stead of 17. | Declaring Seasons. ‘ Breaking the wall and the draw are completed as usual, then East |declares any sgsons he has drawn {by laying them face down in front of him, drawing a loose tile for each ‘season he so declares. Seasons can ;be declared singly, i. ¢., t is not | necessary to hold a pair or sequence jin order to declare it. 3 Following East's declaration of seasons and prior to his discard, South, West and North declare their seasons in turn, each refilling his hand by drawing loose tiles. After each player ‘has declared his seasons (including any obtained in. t weeks ago but is now recovering! rapidly, Mrs. Fox has been suffering for some time with nasal trouble and underwent a serious operation at the N. P. B. A.. hospital. TWELVE VETERAN ENGINES OF N. P. ARE DISMANTLED. Work of dismantling twelve oid 1o- comotives has just been completed at the local Northern Pacific shops at Mandan. The majorNy of the ola engines had been in service for many years and have gone many miles over the rails under the guiding hands ot engineers who are either veterans in the company employ, have been re- “Do you think he will ask Struble & Struble?” |. “I wonder, my dear, if you realize {how terribly compromising that is. Deliver me always from the man |who, strong in his own virtue, writes | 4: A to the friend just what is in his| timed OF have answered their last heart. Any man on earth reading! pj, i i twelve engines dismantled that cablegram would conel a j y you along the line. The value of the old confided some trouble to him. Tj engines can hardly be figured but ree not blame Jack for being) they will be replaced in time by many pe : F of the later and larger type which “No dear, if he did, are being added by the Northern Pa- Struble wouldn’t tell him. cifie at many points. Struble & Lawyers. don’t do business that way. The confidence of x client is inviolate.” DIES SUDDENLY | “Leslie, dear, perhaps you will] Mrs. Jane Harle Stabler of St. [think I am horrid, but you make me: Paul passed away suddenly Saturday glad ‘that I am not married any! #t the home of her son W. H. Stab- more, Here with the best intentions ler~4th Ave. N. W. Heart trouble in the world you have gotten your-| Was the cause of her death, the end self into a terrible mixup, something Coming with practically no warning. that will probably keep you on the| She was 84 years old and would have ragged edge for weeks to come.” |reached her 86th birthday in Feb- Something, Ruth,” I interrupted,| ary. “which could be smoothed out in a| Four weoks ago she came to Man- few minutes if that old tradition!dan with Mrs. Stabler and grand about marriage were true, If Jack! daughter, Miss Helen, to stay over} the holidays. She has been making her home in St. Paul with her daugh- } ter, Mrs. George H. Hayes. Besides | her son here and daughter in St. Paul she leaves another daughter. Mrs, Ed F. Stapes at Billings, Mont., and another son George Stabler in New Jersey. The remains will be taken to St. Cloud, Minn., where they will be laid to rest beside those of:her husband. Mr. and Mrs. W. H, Stabler will be accompany them Sunday morning on | be to just talk with him and tell him all the things that I have been tell- ling you, and he would understand. He also could tell me the truth as he baby. For some reason we both are For some silly reason we must Reep all this trouble to ourselves, each in his own way. We must lie and equivocate to each other and keep making matters worse and separating ourselves far- ther and farther apart.” | No. 2, f (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) ! Se a eae |[ AT THE MOVIES } MANDAN NEWS HOME KOR XMAS Henry Pfenning who is attending | Jamestown college, Jamestown, N. D. ‘has come to Mandan to ‘spend his | Christmas vacation with his parents, |Mr. and Mrs. HM. Benning. THE ELTINGE. James Cruze’s Paramount produc- tion of “Ruggles of Red Gap,” featur- ing Edward Horton, Ernest Torrence, Lois Whlson, Fritzi Ridgeway, Charles Ogle and Louise Dresser, shows at the Eltinge Tuesday Wed- nesday and Thursday. One might be inclined to believe that this picture would suffer by comparison with two of Mr. Cruze’s 'former productions, “The Covered Wagon” * and “Hollywood.” But, although an entirely different story than either of these, the picture more lives up to the high standard set by them. “Ruggles of Red Gap is taken from Harry Leon Wilson's tory of the same title. TEMPLAR: SERVICE Services will be held in the Ma- | sonic ‘hall at 10 o'clock Christmas | morning and all Knight Templars are [urged to be in attendance, LEAVE FOR HOLIDAYS William J, Sullivan has left for Estherville, Iowa, to be a guest dur- ing the holidays of his pare\ts, Mr. and - Mrs. Pat Sullivan. Attorney John F. Sullivan leaves tomorrow for Minneapolis where he will spend the holidays with his wife and’ family. CAPITOL For more than three years, Doug- las MacLean has’ been formulating |. plans to film “Going Up,” his first independent starning vehicle for Associated Exhibitors,” which comes to the Capitol theater ‘tonight and BOY IS INJURED Jack Harding Jr, is recovering from a serious injury received a few days ago when he was thrown from his tricycle. His tricycle struck a bad spot _in the sidewalk on Fourth Ave. N. W. and he was thrown and rendered unconscieus, receiving a se- vere cut on the upper lip and other - “ YE GOOD OLD SAINT NICK -_ BY BERTON BRALEY DECEMBER. 24, 1923 ons§ y BABCOCIL drawing loose piles) play starts in the regular way. During the course of the game, whenever any player draws a sea- son, he declares it immediately, snd re-fills his hand by draking a-loose tile. Seasons can never be punged or chowed. If East draws either of the No. 1 seasons, he is said to have drawn his own season. 2, with West for No. 3 and for North with No. 4. i Seasons’ Scores. Seasons have no effect on comple tion or non-completion of a hand for Mah Jongg, and a winner must hold four three-combinations and a pair, irrespective of what seasons he has drawn. 5 Seasons score as follows: Each season scores—four points. One of a player’s own seasons— double the total score. Both of a player’s own seasons— doubles the total score twice. All four seasons of one color—dou- bles the total score thuee tintes. These doubles are in addition to any other doubles to which the hand is entitled. A player's own seasons count him 4 in addition to doubling his score; but he does not “double for his own season” when he hag all four sea- sons of one color. — I do not recommend the use of the seasons. They place a premium upon chance rathef than upon skill and also divide interest which should center upon gbtaining Mah Jongg or upon building up a good scoring hand through clever playing. it was only when he came to be the head of his own producing organ- ization that he was to carry out this plan to a successful conclusion When Mr. MacLean saw Frank Grayen romping his way hilariously through the popular musical comedy during its tremendously successful run in New York, he was convinced that the story constituted ideal screen material. Subsequently, he made repeated efforts to purchase the motion picture rights to th story for his own use, but for on reason and another all his effort: were unsuccessful. “ However, Mr. MacLean remained steadfast convinced of the screen value of “Going Up” and when he organized his own producing company renewed his efforts to secure the play for adaptation to the screen. HOLDS LAWS INCONSISTENT There are many inconsistencies in the election laws passed by the legis- lature and which will go before the voters us referred measures, accora- ing to an answer of Secretary of State Thomas Hall to Theodore G. Nelson, who in a statement defendea the laws. Among other things, the secretary of state, who said the new laws made no proision for a recall, said that the constitutional amendment providing for a recall provides that the elec- tion shall be held not more than 4> ,days after. the filing of the recall petition and “it is of course too clear for argument that this is not suf- ficient time to make nominations at a primary election.” THREE COLORS * An effeetive dancing frock of lavender taffeta shas bindings of green taffeta and is trimmed with clustera of pink roses. WHY THAT LAM, BACK? That morning lanieness—those sharp pains when bending or lifting, make work a burden and-rest impos- sible, Don't be handicapped bya bad back—look to your kidneys. You will make no mistake by following this Bismarck resident's example. Mrs. H. Steinmetz, 113 Second St., says: “I used a couple of boxes of Doan’s Pills from the Lenhart Drug Co., and they cured me of a severe dull aching through the small of my back. I had been annoyed for some time with a lameness and soreness through my loins and a tired lang- uid feeling and got no relief until I used Doan’s ‘Bills. I haven't had backache and my‘kidneys have been healthy since.” NINE YEARS LATER, Mra. Stein- metz said: “The cure Doan’s Pills made for me is, permanent. Doan’s to my friends when I hear them complaining of kidney trouble.” Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Pills—the same that Mr; Steinmetz had. Foster-Milburn Coty Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. « bruises about the head. We hear ye jingle of ye sleigh, “J And glady in our toil. we pause ¢ , RETURNS TO GLENDIVE To welome On tiye Christmas Day i ‘Mrs. A, St. Cyr of Glendive, form- Ye fat and jollie Santa Clause; . R erly of Mandan has returned to her He cometh down ye sootie, flue oy home following a visit of several ‘ To le cot or lordly hall days at the home of her brother. T. . And singeth“out hys loud halloo, C. Keller. Her son Alfonse, who is “A Merrie Chirstmas. ito You All.” . attending Mirinesota university will 5 ‘ ae eRe ag visit friends here during the holida bias le 4a broad, hys heart is warm, , venation ee ar # fe ‘bringeth funne and right good' cheer, rs And be there or ibe there storm, HOME FROM, EUROPE ° Mike Pitzer; prominent Morton county farmer returned from a visit in Europe of several months. He spent most of the time with a broth- er in Ostend, Belgipm. Mr, Pitzer stated that he wag glad to get back but ‘that he was glad to Witt wot too, Greet, both ly. once a year; And.in our hearts he lights a glow, 7 ‘hys magick ‘spell we fall, aN bgih and low » |. Wyth “Merrie Christmas to You Alh” Thys day tre rules the world, hys tdws ’ Are laws of love atid peace and mirth; Babee 2 have made Al, wguld thatte gentle Santa Claus BS i 5 ae 4 iy ae it ever govern ho the earth! * N ette are we ul he bri . ‘ HOMB PROM HOSPITAL) Oue Day of Soy for Grest ond Sams, Mr. and asa, 1,8, Fox have return- One day when ali ye pit tings ** © s ed from. St.Paul, the ‘latter Wyth “Merrie ‘to You All.” underwent a serious’ operation a few (Copyright, 1923, Bervice, Inc.) So for South with wei » te mh su WES ag OW Oe nee ial ies” pS Sea eee ee I t ' ] i ( ‘1 3 r wa