The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1923, Page 2

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Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.............. 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) POCKETBOOK ‘NEWS As 1923 draws to a close, do you realize that the rail- roads have handled more freight traffic this year than in any year of the past? It’s an achievement in transportation. A weathervane of what lies ahead in the way of prosperity. When the railroads are hauling record-breaking amounts of freight, it’s obvious that business men are stocking up for a continuation of active business condition: S. Merchants are replenishing their stocks of goods, expecting future buyers. Wholesalers and jobbers are stocking heavily, expecting de- mand from retailers. Mills and factories are stocking raw materials, expecting orders from distributors. So it goes, all the be ay from autos to building materials. Each carload of freight represents future business in the making. The exact number of freight cars loaded and moved by all the railroads combined will not be known until about the middle of January. Buf traffic experts predict that 1923 freight movement will total more than 50 million cars, breaking all former records. moved up to Dee. 1. More than 46 million cars had been loaded and This was about six and a half million cars more than in the corresponding 11 months of 1922, and about 10-million cars more than in the first 11 months of 1921. Housewives, forever lugging heavy a family. market baskets, often ponder what a huge amount of food it takes to feed Ever stop to reflect how much of other materials have to be moved about the country? A freight movement of 50 million cars a year means that almost half a freight ear of materials has to be moved in a year for every man, woman and child in the country. That doesn’t include the tremendous amounts transported by motor vehicles. FORGOTTEN PAST With King Tut practically out of the way, Egypt is about exhausted in the matter of digging up ages of the forgotten, For archaelogists, Egypt is a mine that’s almost past. worked out. From now on, the important excavations you'll read about will be in Palestine. A recent digging there brings to light. an engraved stone claiming the Israelites wandered 40 years before reaching the Promised Land for the very simple rea- son that the Promised Land, Palestine, during the 40 years was policed by Egyptian troops. As soon as the field was clear, the Jews entered. So claims the discoverer of the stone, Prof. Clarence Fisher. WILLIAM PINKERTON The late William Allan Pinkerton, veteran detective, scoffed at the romantic detective of fiction. He claimed de- tective work is a dull business, success depending more on patient thoroughness than on Sherlock Helmes cunning. This notion is confirmed by reading the various memoirs of his father, the famous Allan Pinkerton, and yet old Allan was as able a detective as his century produced. Romance, after all, is an illusion—a phantom of imag- ination. Guard your illusions,* young people. The cynics would shatter them, but illusions are what make life worth living. , HIGHWAYS Roads, 8820 miles long, were built or improved with financial-aid from the national government during the last fiscal-year. * That seems a lot, and is, in.a sense. But the total mile- age of country roads in America. is nearly 300 times, as big. So-there’s no such thing as too much of the good ed takes movement. building for permanence. \ OIL INVESTMENTS The main goal is mileage, when it should be A If you have SOUND investments in GOOD oil property, don’t be discouraged because the oil industry is shot to|was.going to see that those poor| pieces by over-production at present. David White expert geologist, for Uncle Sam, predicts | that the United States will be dependent on imports for a definite part of its oil supply within five years. The day is coming’ when airplanes will use as much gasoline as autos—| ¥ ‘unless another fuel is found. 5 Cesta ROIS aaa WORLD AT YOUR DOOR “The world is at your door, or a large part of it is. In our | country we now have 430,000 miles of surfaced roads. That’s enough to make 70 highways, across the continent. They’re | being increased 35,000 miles a year. And these good roads are due to. widespread use of “The horse was “assisted” by the whip. doesn’t respond to the whip, so we have to pave. auto. ‘ MORE LAWS ‘ ; “Massachusetts will prosecute all farmers who failed to comply with the: new state. law that requires them to plow or burn all cornstalks or stubbles by Dec.’ 1. the; The auto ‘| ,eIt’s getting so every human action is regulated by 4 law of ‘some sort or other. Howéver, many of our Jaws -are ' ignored shortly after they’re passed, and eventually. ea va * ten. ae: = @ lawyer, EDITORIAL REVIEW. Se ee Comments Skectes in this column may te” thy t express the opsnion o! ‘the ine, They are pi#nented here in order that gyr readers may hay have hath, siden important {sues whi are ! Sela pet in rue press CANADA WILL COME ALONG Our good neighbor Frank H. Keefer of Port Arthur, who on the St. Lawrence project is the Charles P. Craig, of Cannda, brought good ews to-Duktuh of-the political sit-! aatiOh in wour Ccousiniy neighbor across she unfortified and invisible! boundaty that unites instead or divides. + tm a word, though the St. Law. | rence project seems at the moment ; to be deadlocked ‘by that political situation, the breaking of the dead- took cannot be far away, The great province of Ontario is vitally interested in waterpower, | which there js publicly’ owned. | With all its mighty power develop: | ments, a ehortgge of power is pt hand. In the dndeveloped ptiwer of the St. Lawrence, part of whicir Ontario shares with the United, States, lies a great resource which can tbe made readily avatlable to | fill that shortage. This waterpow- | er, so far as Canada’s half interest is concerned, belongs to Ontario. Ontario wants to mse it, and pro- poses to use it. So Ontario has given an em- phatic notice to the Dominion gov- ernment. “Either develop this waterway and power,” says Ontario ini efféct, “or get out of the way so we can develop them.” As the Dominion government, because of its vital interest in} navigation, cannot get out of the way, it must, very shortly, get busy. In the meantime ‘while Ontario is considering a new invitation from the United States to join in this project, backed by the author- ity of thé national government, and while Ontario with its direct interest in both power and navi- getion is pressing, the Canadian Northwest, realizing that the navi- gation project means millions of dollars a year more on each grain crop, is waking up and demanding action. Presently, therefore the West can take its eyes off Ottawa, and shift them again to Washington. Mr. Keefer did well, too, to pay a high tribute to the work of Charles P. Craig on this mighty enterprise. He has done and is do- ing a work for Duluth and for all North America that never can be adequately repaid.—Duluth Herald. —_— ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS By Olive Roberts Barton Missez Sprat crossed the street from her house to the Twins’ house, puffing like anything from hurrying! so fast, so she could be the first to tell the gossip to her new neighbors. To be sure she was so fat it didn’t take much to make her puff, but anyway she had hurried extra fast, and as she climbed up on the front porch of the card-board Christmas- tree house, she sounded like a pop- corn roaster or an electric washer or something ee “Mercy alive!” cried Nancy, when the flimsy house gave a great shake as Missez Sprat’s weight descended on it.. “We're going to fall down, Nick, An automobile “must heave bumped into us.” But at that minute the door-bell rang, and as the house didn’t fall in, the Twins: knew they had a vis- itor. Nancy hung ee cooking apron up on a hook, and Nick pulled his tie straight, and answered the door. And there stood fat -Missez Sprat with her card-case in her hand. “How d’.do! I’ve’ come to call,” she beamed. . “Do come in, then,” sajg Nick, making one of his famous Bows. But he straightened instantly wit alarm, as -Miasez Sprat stepped iMside, For the -houge groaned and-.ehqok and acted as though the Romkn Empire had fallen on it, and a few more things besides.. But Missez Sprat wasd% alarmed. She kept on beaming and smiling and acted as though shaking houses that acted like. earth-quakes were the most every-day things in the | word. And no doubt they were— with her. Se the Twins fot over their alarm, and remembering their man- ners, made the good lady quite wel- come, “I Just said to myself, sez I,” re- j marked Missez Sprat, “that I for one | 1ambs were properly. treated in ; Mother Goose Land. Particularly; when Mother Goose ‘is away! Or I| should say ‘Daddy Gander. Land, I! se, but J never can- get | it. After all, when Daddy Gander | ly does run the place, his wi: being off gadding most of the time, | he has a right to call it/ bout to reply, but At that very min- | ute. Missez Sprat.stopped talking and decided to sit down (not that she 'hadn’t been pressed to do go before) land didn't she decide on the rickety red plush sofa without any hind legs, that was leaning up: apeinst the stove. .|. Before anybody could crash, bang! Down came Migscz Sprat, red plush sofa and all, right smack down onto the floor! And this time the house acted as though tl omen Empite and Babylon and ‘roy and all the other places thit one. fell, shad Janded it on top af. re awfully sorry!” “as at We' each taking an atm Poor lady up. “Did you Dit, and don’t worry!” Sprat, “Now that May 8s well stay. 1 can may, éall on the. floor as well], place, I ets tallatoa Phat she]. ae her, cried [a | jaa ri (i 42 good natu Coa tne)? LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO LESLIE. PRESCOTT, CONTINUED. “I am ufaid Jack would not for- give me for sélling those spearis when I knew they were real and would help him out of trouble, even though I am quite sure he woula have been the first to do so rather than to let my father,*as he .shp- posed, into his personal affairs,\! “And he is afraid you wouldsnot forgive him,” impetuously inter- rupted Ruth. “Forgive him for what?’ I asked in surprise. For a moment, little Marquise, Ruth looked embarrassed. “Well, you know very well,” she said, “in your own mind you think little Jack belongs to Sydney Carton. You are also quite sure that Jack knows the truth of this. He is afraid, however, to tell you the whole truth for fear you will not forgive ‘him for iot tell ing it to you in the first place.” “That is just it, Ruth, that is juss it. We have no business to be afraid of each other, Two people link them- sélves together in marriage. . They live in the same house, they have the same friends, they breed and bring up-children, they share pov- erty and weath, pleasure and pain, |. they are supposed to be one. “Yet they are always strangers in everything that really goes to make up the essentials of life. I think it is their senseless egostistical pride that makes them such misunder- standing persons. They always think they are fooling each other and, the truth were known, they are only fooling themselves. “The isolation of married life is a dreadful thing and it seems to me strange that no one as yet, in alt the years we have had monogomy and monoggamous marriages, has been able to find out how to’ over- come-it. You may say love, if two people really love each other, woulu do this. But love can do nothing by which two people will grow nearer to each other, into more under- standing. For we are all of us apt to lie to those we love most, just be- cause we love them. We don’t want them to see the worst of us. We are ashamed of telling them, our mis- takes. | We are like spiritual pea- cocks spreading our tails of self-con- ceit for the others to admire. “We eyen lie to ourselves and ex- cuse ourselves by saying the other must not know what we know be- cause it would hurt, when all the while it is because we are either ashamed or afraid to let it be known. We aro ‘still like a spiritual peacock, and we forget: in our self-conceit that our feet are ugly. “The law of nature, which means of coumsé perpetuation of the race, has nothing to do with the psychol- ogy of humanity. Indeed, sometimes I think the power of reasoning rather, mixes up things instead of straightening them out.” (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) [PEOPLE'S FORUM ° To the Bismarck Tribune: I see by the Tribune that some one wants an old fashioned Christmas—how about. an old fashioned New Years. What is to hinder us from having one, if enough of the ladies will club if | together and announce that they are going to keep “open house.” It is 35 “years since the last calls. were made in Bismarck. “It was certain- ly a. very pleasant custom, and it is a pity to let.it die out entirely. met friends that day that we Sood not meet at any other time during the year. in aa the fitst calls ere made MR.TRUS, S'VE TAKEN VP AN ENTIRGLY NEW LING ‘OF BUSINGSS. SECURITIES. 3M SSCCING IM STARTING BY CANVASe INZ ALC MY AQQUAINTANCES FiesT — (BLT 3 Dover ie KNOW Me {tl ove If. pdeiad ny St em Nash i \ NY a “YOU MAY BE ACQUAINTED ——==- WTH ME ALL RIGHT, S ONS Wale vou ee Z| marck. day. I for one, shal you forget it. Yours for a good New Years. MRS. JO¥ Kicked him out. An . star’s husband. in either job. Kings fly high and | When either falls,down on the jou it’s’ the last of them. Maybe the fired Russia wants ‘to! United States. sitting down and si! g | burning ‘up. they eat him. ate What a pity winter doean't come in ‘summer ‘and summer ip winter. Russien names svand- more like, laundry marks or radio stations. Some. claims, Rus soap gway and use for making speeches. Christmas neckties. The Mexicaris are They sh, Revolution daily to see who is Mexicans wear are’very poisonous. piers Mexicans. ‘tiful they don’t use jymakes people ‘happy. - cess: panne (aside: , New Salem, Mrs. I. ‘ Mast Let us get together and ex- tend the hand of friendship to our friends and acquaintances on that on New, Years day, and right now I especiflly invite all “Old Timers, and as many tenderfeet as come will receive an old time welcome. Well,’ king of Greece got fired. hard to get these days. No other business is as slack right now as the kinging business. A king job is hard to get and harder to hold after y®u get it. Being a king is like being a movie There is ‘to future could come here and start a shoe shine stand or a cafe. © A cat may look at a king. Alley cats get the chance these days. We could razors for Santa Claus whiskers. Russians are the people who dance We don’t Know how Russians keep Tt will be fifty years since | the wolf away from the door, unless | Russian whiskers ld call this their New Year Mexicans have to read the paper and have mushroom governments. A Mexican looks like 2 mushroom’ from an airplane, but some of them Mexicans eat hot tamales, chile ‘and tortillas and would eed Some Mexiean women are so beau- — Our Congress adjourned for the|- holidays. They do it every year. Every: Christmas mai maken some boot-, legger a millionaire. F —. The new talking, movies are a suc- |- Won't ‘be popular. drown. out the audience. eee Horna admit- | _ WEDNESDAY, No 12—Draw Hands and General Rules. * In play either with or without the seasons, the wall is divided into two portions, Jive and dead.. The latter consists of the fast 14 tiles, includ- ing loose tiles.. ‘The deadline, or line between these two portions, will move as loose tiles are drawn and new ones substituted for.them. When drawing reaghes the dend- line, the hand is declared a drav, no scores count, anew wall is built and opened, and. East remains East for at least anothér hand. fhe gamesbecomes a draw. wher the fifteenth from last tile has been drawn and a discard made and no one can pung for Mah Jongg. I will now give you certain gen- eral rules which :you will find handy to know in’ cage: of discussion. If on the original draw‘ anyone draws tiles out of turti, any player may demand a new shuffle upon the error being discovered. If no one does so, play proceeds as'usual. Conceal YOur Hanif: During play if any tile from the wall or from a Hund ig-exposed, “iv is replaced without penalty. There is no penalty for misealling a discard.- Thus it is wisdom to sce a discard before calling’ pung or a chow as otherwise you are without redress should you expose your hand thus needlessly. s No penalty ‘attaches to misclaim- ing Mah ‘Jongg, so again it is- best to keep your hand concealed until you get to see the Mah Jongg hand. ‘A reasonable amount of prampt- ness in punging and chowing is ex: pected, but a player is within his rights in claiming pung or chow even after the player at the right of the discarder has drawn from the wall and looked at the ti But pung or chow is not permissable after a player has discarded, called Mah Jongg or drawn a loose tile. MANY QUEER ACCIDENTS REPORTED Compensation Bureay Gets Many Unusual Problems To Deal With” 11 be “at home” Don’t old fashioned IN P. DUNN. d king jobs are Rare Yo’ the u Accidents _ ha: ways, reports of’) Workmen's Compensation NBurea here show. A recent claim came from a mau engaged in ributing water along a route, which he ¢ to going out on the route one morning he was sitting in a chair at his home, with the result, that he was laid“ap for several week. No award was made to dhe claim- ant, however, on the groimd that the injury was not sustained in the course of employment . Another /accident report came from a, general manager of an ele- vator. During slack hours at the elevator, and being very, industri- ous, he went over toa loading plat- form near the elevator to adsist 2 neighbor who was loading cars with scrap iron. While engaged in this his hand was struck with a sledge and one finger broken. The bureau decided that “‘whether'as- sigtants to the:néighbor was gratu- itiows or not, it was entirely out- side the course of employment” and compensation was denied. Another unusual accident case came from ‘a man Working in a coal mine. He was struck on the arm by .a .piece. of coal. Physicians found that the claimant had osteo- myelitis years previous, but that while the arm was more vulnerable foy reason thereof the claimant's history of the injury was such as to account for the condition of the arm subsequent to the injury even if ‘it had previously been sound. The cleim was approved and com- pensation awarded. ‘ge Another unusual case is report- ed. by Commissionsr Wenzell as follows: Claimant wag manager; of elevator. The directors of the elevator instructed. that the com- m9t so do aviators. king of Greece trade with the swap ing like a house - sians throw Ye | the Spap boxes will hide their fighting again. payroll reports or to’ provide in- surance, gtating that the insurance president. ; ‘wag no good. “Later the manager® mushroom hats|ig- the course of this employment. | & The elevator. not being insured, an! elective claim was filed against the elevator company. ‘The only evi-| lence’ presented on the ‘hearing, . ‘ th parties having been previously j N represented ‘by attorneys, showed that medical and hospital bills had [been wpaid, that cJaimant,owed the company an amount in excess af; any possible compensation due| ‘rogue. It They will ‘Alexius ‘hospital. ‘W. Falken- ‘oe J.P BABCOCK phi vile et ered daily with a truck, Just prior | “ CHOOSING SCHOOL red injury to a finger, while |< DECEMBER 26, ve Nq9 Ni There is uo penalty for calling a pung or chow and then refusing to pung or chow the piece. A discard once quitted cannot reclaimed. A punged or never be placed hand. be Correction of Errors. If a player pungs or chows to incorrect combination, he is to correct the error at y time prior'to his next draw if the correc- tion can be made within his own hand. Any correction that ‘cannot be made within his own hand must be made prior to the next pla, @scard. If corretionS are not made in accordance with the hand is dead. A dead hand is one which con- tains erroneous combinations on the board, or a wrong number of tiles The dead hand finishes the pl and can pung or chow. But it nothing and must pay each ¢ player the, total e his s double stakes to East the dead hand he pays double A player who draws fro cannot pung or «how a piece, even though he errone: from the wall prior to above, th Tt is not nec fours, the fourth of drawn from the wall, be immediately. Up to the drawin the last live tile, a player clare a set of fours whenever i his turn to play live tilesis_draw the hand score on When a player which. completes his Jonge, he must not mix it with con cealed tiles, but lay it face upward on the tablé. Penalty for faili do so is forfeiture of points dey ing upon this piece (completing hi by filling only possible pla score other than game) d file him. d that it a the ‘accounts square. missed. UNCOVER SITE OF ANCIENTS Dec Claim dis- Philadelphia, section of histo’ expedition in P: Dr. Cla enterprise, this city B who retuined recently to a ions were ‘mad reported, on a steep hill in Be Shean, where the in ry : “Just below are the ruins of ‘am Arab town of about 632 A. D., and beneath the town the remains of a magnificent circular Byzantine church of about the sixth century. “Two other buildings were founu beneath the Byzantine church. The upper one was a square church with | beautiful mosaic floors from whic! the Byzantine builders took the mar- ble to build the structure above. Be- neath the same church was a Roman temple with magnificent masonry. Jt had apparently been (dedicated to Bacchus, the god of wine. CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY Steele, N. D., Dec. 26.—Friends and neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. Garland gathered at the Ideal: Wednesday and helped them celebrate their twenty- fifth wedding anniversary. The king.slipped in Gregce. ——ooSS SHOW WISDOM IN ‘Graduates of ‘Dakota Business College, Fargo, N. D., seem to et all the good positions—I’ll go Mere! ” Hilda Thompson decided wisely. A position as,stenographer ‘and bookkeeper was open for her at the Bathgate National Bank when~ she finished her D..B. C. €ourse. In considering-schdols, remem- ber that Standard Oil Co., Ford lgtor Co., International Harvest- erCo., and nearly 700 banks ‘em- | ploy.D: B.C. graduates repeatedly. j “Follow the $ucce$bful.’’ Begin January 1-8. Write today to FL Watkins, . Pres., 806 Front St., Fargo, N, D.,; forterms, ete. Soo Line 0 ne Cent h do Hb oyour vate $5,00 00 | ACCIDE Good for the 1rep et Agent