The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 3, 1924, Page 2

{ 'PAGE-TWO THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE oe TENE sco rasta let ad Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. i BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNE AND SMITH NEW YORK fae EMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS e Asso ifion of all news dispatches credited to it or not Btherwies credited in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. All rights of republication of spectal dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU. OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year........... SOO CUO Up sUr4)) Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) . 4 een 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) NORTH DAKOTANS AND THE NEW YEAR What does the New Year hold in store for North Dakota? A prophet alone can tell with exactitude, but the lessons of the past point to some things that may be expected in the state. The question is of importance to every man, woman and child in the state. And the question is especially important if the people of the state may by their own efforts! help determine the result. That there are ills in the state is equally true of all Northwestern states. That the ills are mainly economic ills and therefore ills of the body which are not incurable if the spirit is willing is a reasonable view. The path of better days will be found by a realization of the troubles of the present and a cool-headed searching for the causes of these troubles. There have been in the last year perhaps more articles written on the condition of agriculture and more remedies offered than there have been interviews on the European situation by returning citizens. But constant discussion of such a vast problem may shed light upon the true path in the future. North Dakota’s main trouble appea to be growing pains. She attempted to bite off more than she could chew. She rode so fast that she forgot to keep the machinery in perfect order and to strengthen it as she went along. This ) is true with respect to agriculture, when she gambled on one or two crops and tried to produce too much; it is true of banking, and resulted in too many banks; it is true of the state, municipal and county governments. There has been too much capital turned into unproduc- tive channels. This has increased the overhead and led to high taxes. We have too many fine schoolhouses, too many frills in government, too many mortgages on future hopes, too many luxuries, until we have come to the stage where we reel under the load of debt and taxation, and we have come to a struggle of trying to shift the burden to the other fellow’s back. Shall we stop all progress to remedy the condition? Certainly not. But North Dakota, in common yith other governments, must live reasonably and prudently. There is such a thing as thrift in government as well as with th¢ individual, and in the long run the most thrifty person is the most valuable and stable citizen. North Dakota must cease to become simply a place to make money and become a place to make a home. The tend- ency is in this direction. It ought to be accelerated. A $100,000 schoolhouse has no place where a $25,000 schoolhouse will suffice, so long as the communtiy is mor gaging the future by bond issues to build it. The govern- ment has no business reaching out and uming new duti when the action is increasing the tax burden beyond a rea- sonable limit. About the best resolution North Dakotans can make for 1924 is to come down out of the stars and meet realities with plain living, plain working, plain thinking, plain government. Upon the willingness of her citizens to do this depends the future — the bringing of new blood, new capital into the state; building a firm foundation and creating | a lasting pros- perity. aumot be denied. Thi VEATHER HOKUM Old-time superstitions about the weather are being exploded one after the other. The latest exposure is the tradition that rain follows a big battle. Popular notion is that cannonading starts a downpour. That is sometimes tried to produce rain artificially during a drouth. The Weather Bureau in Washington, D. € Imits that rain often follows a battle, in the ordinary course of events, just as it often follows a dog fight, a bascball game or a bridge party. But that’s just chance, and the rain would have come, battle or no battle. How did people first get the notion that rain followed battles? Probably because troop movements, preceding a battle, are best carried out during fair weather, a dry Se And the dry spell naturally comes before a rain. One might just as well reason that fair weather preceeds la battle. A Maybe you were raised on a f superstition about the moon’s generations of soil tillers alway of the moon.” arm and acquired a lot of effect on weather. Many planted seed in “the dark science “is unable to find any evidence that the moon affects | the weather to any appreciable extent.” ’, The movements of our atmosphere generate our weather hanges. These movements represent the dissipation or using up of a great amount of‘energy in the form of heat. ‘is heat comes from the sun. The moon is a cold dead iplanet «and sends no heat to us. So it can’t influence the weather noticeably. The moon, pulling on the earth, does cause a tide in the | gir, same as it causes ocean tides. But delicate. measure- nents show that this moon-caused air tide is insignificant fin its effects. |. Weather is regulated by the sun, almost puuirely..s ‘ AUTOS ON FARMS , Autos on farms are used chiefly for business purposes, very. title for pleasure, according to queries made by- Uncle m. . Farmers who were interviewed claimed that fron thirds to nine-tenths of, the use of their machines was am business. ” The auto came in as a pleasure me ices a toy for grown- Tow it’s such a necessity that it’s next-door to indis- able. beoniy will be the ultimate destiny of empovics, radio $ ie ihe an auto, reports the Department of Kerieul: includes depreciation, interest on investment, etc. ated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or| 22 ;@ one-crop job., The Weather Bureau again steps in, and says modern ia |farms out in this part of the coun- and is a commendable step on the} part of the Bismarck men that are | There will no doubt all sponsoring ‘it. be on display the best from parts of we state and we belic that Stark county should be well represented, Alfalfa and sweet, clover seeds will also be shown. There are many prizes to ‘be of- fered and a grand Ciampionshiy cup il be given by L. B. Hanna The Recorder-Post will gladly ‘ ist any farmers that‘ wish to re and enter an exhibit. Di kinson Recorder-Post. LET US AVOID HASTY ACTION The State Democrat has contin- ly urged, during the past i eral months the necessity of tine | Democratic fe of the State} getting together for the coming | national campaign. Our faith in| this possibility now is considerably | shattered, as a result of the an- nouncement recently sent out from the local Democratic Club at Mi- not, endorsing a presidential didate, as well as a national co mitteeman for the . We feel that this is as political blunder and that such move is bound to create resentment among the Democr all over the state. The fact that the State Cl ‘man is a member cf the local Minot club, considerably aggra- ates the danger of misunderstand- ing. The State Committee will un- dowbtedly meet within a few weeks, and this announceiment would regularly and properly have followed that meeting. Attempts like this to force the hands of the State Committee, are dangerous, and will undoubtedly be pointed to as primarily intended to further the interests of certain local as- pirants for office. We say this, not in disparage- ment of the candidates named but to point out the political dangers of the mave. The Democratic pi ty has alv stood most emphat- ically against any attempt of a few individuals to speak for the whole state. The only body that can pro- we do this the regularly ap- pointed State Committee. A meet- ing of this committee shoyld dav preceded any endorsement.- State Democrat. A PLAN OF FAR-REACHING IMPORT Pa Speaking of government inter- vention tor diversified farming in the Northwest, it might have been good thi if Uncle Sam had given his o 1 attention to this matter in some form for the whole country years and years ago an: kept it he does not do 5 now, he be obliged by the ase to un- ome future may very necessities of the dertake the. job at time. He certainly willbe so! obliged if economic forces, work- ing independently, do not prove to be equal to the occasion. Economie good sense did not save thousands of farms in ithe eastern from being worn out} and abandoned. The American{ people were not so provident of | their natural resouces then as they are now, and Heaven knows they are not overdoing -themselves in that direction today. Farmers of the East cold-1 -bloodedly overtaxed their younger | aware ¢ to the westward lay hundreds of millions of acres of rich agricultural Jands to whith they could migrate when, or if, ul fathers’ farms gave up the ghost.a9 producers. ‘In due course very many of them did move to- | ward the setting sun, or they went |to the industrial cities to ‘help make the things others needed to develop the West. The migrants thereupon pro- ceeded to do in the West t their forebears did in the East. They made their acres work over- time at the s old job—usually m lands whica rich crops under began to rebel. they yielded less and Jess ag the years went on. Finally they gave rather convincing proof that, being robbed systematically of their pro- ductive energies, they could no longer deliver the goods the farm- er needed to make him prosperous. The result is that thousands of once produced little cultivation try are lying unoccupied and un- used today. This is a much more serious sit- uation than wag the like situation in the East years ago. There is no longer the agricultural frontier, the broad ranch of rich virgin soil, there once was. All the more d sirable lands thive been pounce upon. Many of them have been coerced beyond ‘breaking point to yield immed'¢*e wealth. The inevitable came to pass. Holders of abused lands »re victims of their own opportunistic greed in many instances, and ‘f there’ ig not a quick agricultura’ reforméthe main holder of the baz -will fe poster- ity, ‘heir to mor‘bund farms. ‘We of today and those who come after us must-have the things ‘the farms produce. Genera‘ions pa< but the dand remains. It isa f ty civilization“which: does not em- brace in its pacers, ‘a due regard | for the welfare of future genera- tions. If there is no other way. to s will find it interesting to figure the comparative ing a horse instead of an auto, also thé compara- Seen enforce, the. idea ‘that, in spite of | portions ever made by the govern- le | i ‘ | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Cs COMPLISH SOMETHIN Sek 1 RECONVENE..' trust to be safeguarded and pass: ed on, then it would seem that gov- | ernment might step in and compel) that kind of regard. Happily, the country has not reached a stage making such com- pulsion desirable. It is devoutly to be hoped that time never will tome. | A time and an emergen: e@ Atfof the big that Jack and Jill hand, however, when the govern-| were giving in the house that Jack ment can render a general good by | puilt. lending its aid toward the pursuit of the kind of farming that will conserve soil fertility and make farm lands a very worth-while in- heritance for posterity, in addition to making them more profitable for the present owners or tillers, A safe and sound move in that direction will have been made if Congress enacts the bill now pend- ing in Congress providing for a| smoothed out and every shoe was revolving fund of 50 million dol-| buckled. And you could hear doors lars to expand the stock-raising in-| slamming and keys turning every- dustry and diversify the efforts of! where as ‘this, that, and the other farmers in the spring wheat coun-| fami ted off for Jack’s house. try. er Piper, Tom’s father, was to Tt is not hard to see how this 59 | lplay the musie for dancing, so he million doilars might turn out t | got there first in order to tung up be the best investment of like pro-| his pipes and have them ready ‘so he wouldn’t keep things back. Bobby Shaftoe called for Bo Peep, wearing the fine silver buckles hand- ed, down to him from his greatest grandfather. Se ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS By Olive Roberts Barton Everybody was, happy on account When it came half past six o'clock} every dish in Daddy Gander Land was wiped and put away apd all the kitchens swept out. When it came seven o'clock all the water taps were running and every- body was having an extra bath. At half past seven o'clock every necktie was tied and every sash was ment. Besides an immediate need | to be served, there is contemplat- | ed an agricultural example that should be incalculably valuable in shaping the agricultural destinies of the United States. ‘The full po-| Georgie Porgie, who was a fine tentialities pf the $50,000,000 live-| Young fellow in spite of the silly stock loan ‘plan are not compre-|%8Yme about him, called for Miss hended ‘by ‘ Muffet. envisage the distant future And Jack Horner took Margery ag the present in his calculations.— |-Daw. Minneapolis Tribune. and Nick went with the pebteinair ea ‘ Naney called up Daddy Gan- | der on the telephone at supper time A THOUGHT || and ‘told him she couldn’t go to a a | Patty very well in her every day clothes, or Nick either, so he told them to look in the doll bureau in .| their Christmas-treé house and help | themselves. Bad temper is its own scourge.| Naney had found a lovely pale blue things are bitterer than to feel| satin dress trimmed in rosebuds and A man’s venom poisons him- Wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy, slayeth the silly one—Job 5:2 Fe bitter. self more than his victim.—Charles | ton suit—wig, silk stockings and all. | Buxton. [ee you may imagine how fine they EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO I PRESUME, TOO, MR. BRAWN, THAT ‘You WOULD LUKE To HAVE THE FOLKS You Mew HOLD ‘You IN HIGH. REGARD. WECL, THEN, WHGN You TALI WitA THEM Hotp YouR MAP A UTTLE FURTHER “AWAY WU the right of private ownership, ag- ricultyral landa chould be consid-) ered something in ‘the nature of al Everybody body else fo! The house ful Once after while cake, baek. screamed. with all who could it Daddy band. “It ca “It’s Taffy “Well, he We must go (To (Mrs. 3. F. jing for the Plains Ex last July. °: He Mrs. Regit {ven, Conn, is her brother, Ave. S. W. here -by the Mrs. Albert Year's {home {L. Mumby, b: united in ma R. Thatcher Dr. A. O. home of 'the Mrs. M. Rosen being Jonge watch you make it; ’ looked as they rang Jack’s but everybody was glad to see every. the jolliest party ever! every once in awhile it shook dread- ssez Sprat were dancing, bricks fell out of the chimney ento the roof and almost broke through. But nothing serious happened and went to the kitchen to cut’the pump-; kin and mince ptes and pour cider and serve the ice-cream and But suddenly th “Everythin, “There isn’t a cookie left! | Somebody had been here and run off the were right in this ‘Count noses at one: Gander, Mother it must be somebod; mother, ent word that he would be busy tonight and couldn’t come.” ” said Daddy Gander stcrn- be (Copyright, 192: MANDAN NEWS RETURNS TO SCHOOL. Ralph Will Williams attend the coming semester. ek had found a George Washing- | ee employed at the Northern Great jeulture and will graduate in June. HERE WITH BROTHER. Thorwald Anderson, 9th Mrs. Sloan, daughter of W. C. j grintendent of the division, are New ests ‘from Glendive at the of “Mr: daughter Mary. Miss Adabella Carrlck and Lester ‘Year’s day at the home of Mr. Mrs. John Mason at Sunny, Rev. conducting the ring cercmony. AT BOARD MEETING. |day for Fargo t@attend a mecting of the state board of Chiropractors. LUTHERAN LADIES. Mrs. Christ Sakariessen and Mrs. Ole Paulson will be hostesses ai 2:39 i j o'clock Thursday society of ithe Lutheran church. B. & P. Ww. MEETING. A regular business meeting of the. Business and Professional Women’s dlub will be Thursday evening ut the club room. ENTERTAINS CLUB. Members: of a Mah Jongg club j built and broke the great Chinese- | American game wall during the last {hours of 1923 at the home of|Mr. and Rosen. night party. her mother to get a ch & Struble. On the sp forbade her mistake of Leslie start the baby an ually that I rant and cl she returne Since she ke an had aid ow I She might Well, agents still he} doorbell. fe as glad to see them, badly happens eve r that matter. It w: wasn’t very big and abbreviate when the Fat Man and three : There will Jack’s mother and Jill if not prohi the! is when the came rushing! Five pay Five pay refreshments. ‘They, that -is whe cupboard. Oh,! be? Who can it be?” ” commanded Goose's hus- n't be anybody here. So ho isn't here! the Welshman!’ cried} “I invited him but Five pay that is wher This 1924 Friday is 29, bachelor told part of the truth, We could en very busy, it seems. after him-at once.” Be Continued) NEA Se: tie or blow e, Inc.) 1924 learnin their shoes Year could why pienies nis, son of M On the e visit the la like to tear and left this morn- Minnesota university to He has Next Feb, rimental the compan is sp station since ecializing in agri- Year might all bosses na John: ® gues! n of New Ha- at the home of We could Johnson was callea illness of her sister, Wang, who is a patient foolish and The new in a Bismarck hospital. M ——~ ising. Che HERE OVER HOLIDAY. be done by Mrs. J. J. Dunkerly, wife of Mas- | cheek. r Mechanic Dankerly of the Ye lowstone division and Miss Dorothy] Styles for Sloan, sup- old clothes George Brown an@| Business for nothing. Reliable oth of New Salem were rriage at 10a. m: New and Ww. of the Methodist church paid before The baseb even if the The new Henderson left yester- | saloons. With Con solutions ernoon at the) to stay out latter to'thg Ladies Aid j | “Ask him j his head held at 7:30 o’clock| HELPED L “FOLEY’- of FOLEY’ doses and 8! Miss — Bernicd The club was | Virginia. hostess. pleasantly (entertained at’ a Mah| coughs, colds, hoarseness; promptly and effectively. HONEY AN! ‘Also; what you make.’ generations, One thing we hope for the year is that some insurance agent!" will sprain his jaw talking. March has five p: y is when summer clothes *|day comes on Fri sidered unluck We might spend the extri The extra day 1924 wondering why those wanting against COMPOUND is ‘fine. had an awful/cough COMPOUND and = a = EDITORIAL REVIEW New Ycar Pledges, Are Now in Order | Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express P bli ii the opynion iy ee Tribune, ae. ry \ - Ss are p@senter re in order that POMSNENS |[ Our Peuders may have both aiden LETTER FROM JOHN ALDEN} Karl, you know, and married «2 |] of; important fanues. which | ji || being ‘discussed In the press Of PRESCOTT TO SIDNEY CAR- | merely to spite him the day, TON, CONTINUED | I don't believe I'd want to tive G This brings md, Syd, to the latest | Syd, if anything would happen thot : DETROIT kes . dl y | HE . ROK & . . complication in my complicated mar- | wonld s ‘ate Leslig from me no» Kresge Bldg. | THE BISMARCK CORN SHOW ed lite, Gu Has BkCone ons tae ; “ It!seems that the Hamiltons de- | the only one I don’t want to break Stark ounty corn rowers, i Fifth Ave. Bldg.| snouid prepare to enter exibite a: | cided very suddenly to go to Eu-/ at the present time the corn show at Bismarck | gh rope and telegraphed Leslie to that) Tonight up here in this roon. which will be held Janu 4 effect. She, without any excuse or where everything speaks of her, L 230 and 24. Corn in’ Stark i - even consulting me in the lei know exactly what it would mean i become a staple crop | is Iformed me last night that she A ould never come back into it and the past te a has pie ~N Ald New York to bid them cs ay Tide Nee ee ee 4 uch improvemen nh. p quad jes ys 0 e 0 the corn exilbit at the Stark Coun-| didn’t want Leslie to go to New York | I’ could not help but 4 ty Fair st summer and it sur-| just now. First; you can’ see just | cleverness, Syd, in prised many visitors. | Thay) Wie TURN OVER | | what this, might do to whct the | Mouths of the gossips. The’ Bismarck show is open to po REALLY | lof the scandaimongers. Sccondl inadvertently re,erred to th any corn raised in North Dakota anew LEAF was seriously afraid she was using that the Perier picture had precip. and father as an excuse hance to consult’ Struble ur of the moment I flatly to go. Here I made the my life, for this noon ed for New York with nd nurse, remarking cas- could zo to the ub for my mea a. jeft I am wondering found that life with y aman y fool tr Je her f wue until defilisily isfied that with esp egostical that distu to myself, am not so s have had a ¢ eur 1924 and many book) at large. things turned out as as expected in 1923, but-this | ry year, Let’s spend 1924 pulling the hair of people who had the bad taste te} the word Christmas. new be 53 Tuesdays in 1924, bited by law. y days, income tax days hath M is due, but that | are due, a n, ys path August, but ions are due, hath Ni « ovember, but n winter suits are due. Year. The extra » which is con- for. bachelors. is L hd Frida; 's will be the fish. Feb. use this extra day in Leap Year learning how to tie a bow smoke rings. y in if why women still wi too small. ar The extra day we get this Leap! be used up are as xtra 1924 day we could undry and ask why they buttons off of shirts. 29 w yy why, could use to ask street we get this Leap be spent ‘learning why are so ignorant, use the extra aig in women are so why men are so foolish. . social si Sons are pron ek-to-cheek dancing will) those who have the 1924 show many chan | These changes were needed to k ep from being in style. outleok is good e something They may get the nothing. statistics show next Christmas? all outlook is very bright players are not. year shows what: became of the old pictures that once hung in They are in 1924 calendars. ress meeting Jan. 3, re- Leap -Year to some means they get an extra nies. to tie your shoe, Sit on til the preacher: arrives. Sit still until married ITTLE 'GIRL’S COUGH. HONEY AND TAK * My little girl I got a bottle ‘AND TAR give her a few ‘Si HONEY : he was greatly relieved,” | writes Clyde H. Benson, Marlbrook, The best wemedy | for relieves FOLEY’S D TAR COMPOUND has 2 es The mond ® year 1924 will be what ‘stood the test of time. serving three but that | wondering | re sign of rain- cars are}, usually going the. wrong way. that, by | hard work al) Christmas billd will be | swearing prove {absolutely useless to most men, bol di whore L madd an That i: mis: But immed packing up the baby y a notice to the : umns of all the papers tell and that had son down to bid his would neve hing so clever while I am we 4! ing to sec truble ¢ You needn't try to get mie for precipitating you into t me of mine, because | a ra Ble enough as it fy ¢ y, ead of the st ac med JACK (Copyright, 1923, NEA Serviced 7 Q2 r ONLY 83—-WHY TH" TORK? QUI T WORK? Oy NEA Service | ow ny 0. HO, Jan The hadow has no Freder of Washington Courthouse. ~ | Swartz, although 83, is still hard oy Jat work laying his allotted amour | of brick at ‘the regular rate of § | He has been a skilled muson sin he was 18 and has no thought | qettting. Working in the, open, he says, has kept him in good health {and strong enough to continue | | wor : es midese back Civil ‘a¥ veteran, He wag born on be ¢| ship when hi ents came her | from Germany. | Errors @f as ars 25. | cent. ‘e@ not uncommon i heu |hold measuring cups now on t | market, investigation hy the Unite States bureau of standards his 1 | vealed. S rs | re hi | ee a AE i Bees | at EN s “Bayer” oe eaugain tn is ay ayer -Genuime! » | > Genuine “Bayer Tablets of Aspir; ve been proved safe by mil- | nd prescribe phy | {over twenty-thn for | and grippe mise t | twelve tables cost on ny drugstore. Each 7 tains proven dirce! |and tells how to prepare | | garele for sore throat ind tonsilitis. | a |. cay 4 Coavesinar to au theaters, railway rere Ry ie retail and Wholesale districts, by living atthe | lis ray