The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 16, 1924, Page 2

a) ‘AGE TWO ‘HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ee, a ea re ntered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. : Matter. {SMARCK TRIBUNE CO. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY GE F NDR RIN OMU CHICAGO — arquette Bldg. gation * PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH Seay be BW YORK - | Fifth Ave. Bldg y Given | MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ss The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or ~~ publicution of all news dispatches credited to it or not NEV herwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- — shed herein. . Allrights of republication of special dispatches herein are jen I visited 56 reserved. f this city, MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Wings, as te ion it wo by an anon; SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAY 3BLE IN ADVANCE le like the juaily by carrier, per year. . ai 5g Bs Bury, said, “aily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). . = i, ‘ag nhs aily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck eae ily by mail, outside of North Dakota. . a THE S®ATH’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Publishers DETROIT Kresge Bldg. em improvenc and meth But wh +9 WHO WAS H dics Here is a mystery. In 1832 an artist took a block of still bel arble and sculptored a bust of one of the great men of thai uid not chorjod in the world’s history. Since then this marble bust Se plas been on exhibition in the museum of the Middlesex Hos- int hoping to tal School in England. the worst. Some time ago, a vi pw I wish thoas this great man?” me every ¢ No one knew! a ee "Now the London newspapers are printing pictures of the Pminded persarble bust, trying to find out who the man was and what ith me in bo did, avor of the — Isn’t, that irony? Great enough in his generation to be laundry Sonored by a marble bust in a museum! Today no one knows that laundho he was. from fe their hi up fo tor to the museum asked: “Who a ¢ visi mee What do you make of all tt Watson? Well, Sherlock, tecessful 8 SAfe to say this: The Unknown Man has had his per- body feel “Nality and identity swallowed in the quick-sands of time. - everyday wut, his work must live on, influencing people of today in e during myodetected ways, for he must have contributed a great ieee weryice or thought, to have his bust placed in a leading kodny edical museum. Saw Mu His life’s work is what counts, so it doesn’t matter much had expectqat no one can*identify him. We don’t know who he was. he aoe aeither do we know’thousands of humanity’s greatest bene- taxed a 'ctors—for instance, the inventor of the needle, the ham- hed in a Cer, the trowel, the button, ete. ved | People have been too busy erecting monuments and busts and dried > military destroyers, to remember the realy great. ft did the wor As long as people admire and fawn over the destroyers, mn out their 1€ constructors will be quickly forgotten and the destroyers n in the sprill be permitted to continue their destruction. What a lt that the ytten indictment of humanity it is, that Napoleon will be niler machinzmembered when men like Edison and Einstein will be for- hal picces;otten! pssds that we ton, the sta rt and colla “NIGHT OF BIG WIND” of several You've heard of “the Night of the Big Wind in Ireland.” J ee Oe was the real thing, not a myth. Ireland has been observ- s cio indole. its annive y. The Big Wind started the night of Jan. “is a great. 1839. It was a tornado, blowing 100 miles an hour, all mplicated aright and all next day. Loss of life and property was tre- every phasjendous. A fearful cold wave followed. So terrible was the storm that for many year: d events from the Night of the Big Wind. the Irish Some still ut the mac jef factor inate brid Aitep. Others date from the Year of the Potato Rot. It ab arily Nature, playing safe, gave the Ir the power to stand in. It wa lio Ay lot. Even strength has its disadvantages’. The strong man st skillful WS to carry double. being tl bnd syste nt the launc “ABIE’S IRISH ROSE” Cree wok “Abie’s Irish Rose” apparently is going to be the most und lots. 2aneially successful theatrical production since “Uncle indie and yom’s Cabin.” Along Broadway the shbwmen figure that Indie of the nne Nichols, who wrote the Abie show, will pull down a pown tozcthtal of two million dollars in royalties. It ran, for instance, prow t back 2 Weeks in Pittsburg, where there was a tradition that no But 1 foundoadway production could last more than a week. ce, from th The highbrow critics in New York panned the tar out of aye pe Abie’s Irish Rose” when it was first produced. The more rey ie; juit in the branches, the more clubs a tree gets. andled ti DOUBLE DECK CARS fd Ho-mestic Word has figured out another way to save money. He is pre inet ilding double-decked boxcars xo he can ship his auto “two finished—aiep.’” They say it'll save him $6 every time he ships a ing touchord car this way. __ We found this item buried on a financial page. It doesn’t nd the Prft 2S much attention as Henry in politics, for instance. ded repairttt it struck us as typical of what has “made” Henry Ford Wthical ravefrom a mechanic with next to nothing, to the world’s rich- ie laundry, { man. d left hom Six dollars on ever distressin them bae d their full butto In the less primarily, How P, y Ford car would give him in a year many millions as he has fingers and thumbs. FOUGHT FOR CAUSE From Ireland went 300,000 men to fight under the British | g in the World War. And 49,500 of thenr were. killed. is doesn’t include Irish from other countries. The’figures, | Me: announced by the Irish war memorial committee, are | azing, in view of the traditional relations between Ireland id England. The answer is that the Irish fought for a CAUSE rather! ild’s an for a flag. That>was true of most of the soldiers in the uniue,ied armies. At least they THOUGHT they fought for aj Califotyse, How many have been disillusioned? 2 A TERRIBLE RECORD, The géntlemen who eat statistics for breakfast announce ~‘at nearly six billion dollars were spent for building in the miited Mistakes during 1923. Nearly a fourth was for mes. This is real progress — construction — the forward arch of civilization. The procession of civilization had stragglers. Twenty- ght people were lynched in our country last year. A ter- Sle record. The only good thing that.can be said about it that it’s 29 fewer than the year before. MANY KINDS OF ALCOHOL © Chemists know many kinds of alcohol besides wood rohol and the grain variety found in good liquor. Com- ercial Solvents Corporation makes butyl alcohol, which is med by a certain bacteria on corn. An employe witha rst took a liberal swig of butyl. He regained conscious- ss in 24 hours. Chemists got busy at once and discovered butyl alcohol the mew substitute for cocaine—butane, it’s ‘A’ cautious drinker. will wonder how many other myseri- s narcotics and poisons may ‘be accidentally produced by me-brewers and moonshiners. A ' D., as Second Class | le jto see you EDITORIAL REVIEW this not express ibune. They Comments reproduced in column may or ma: nion of The the opp Ter are pi our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day, The present day college student hing besides study and y football, lly he who finds it ne Tn his way to a degr ords for the last y at Columbia univ ity show | that men students#earned money in | 72 different ys, excluding meth- “ ed as miscellaneous. Their t inged from giving up blood | to acting. | | 1,600 men at Col- worked |: ar. | Approximate umbia un One underwent’ blood trans‘usion, one was a lifeguard at a summer resort, 11 we Pullman cond | tors, two were models at house, one was @ furn ©Md manual labor, 90 0¢ ical positions, 144 wer 12 were employed by a agency, 22 were paymasters, were proctors, 30 were translators, » were umpires and one an} uctor, Another student w. a publicity agent for a show, 12 were one was a minister, | two hospital superin- tendents, messenge chauffeur: retake camp waite bank cler! yell boy, 29 companions, two jani- | tors, five lawyers, six 5; 133 postottice clerks, 11 resear. workers, 136 ushers, watche at the polls, 262 tutors, 14 mus “ ns, seven settlement workers, 2 salesmen and 46 traffic counte: workers in the list. show hat 777 women at worked to pay for tuition and room rent. Many served as mothers’ helpers, stenographe' s and tutors. The wom $ earned money in 41 occu- s a biscuit packer, 27 were | ses, 139 were stenogra-| phers, threp were tearoom assist-! ants, 182 did clerical work, 42 were mothers’ helpers, five were com- panions, one was a cloakroom at- tendant, five were Sunday school teachers, 10 were secrétaries. and UACLE GEORGE GAVE ME A DIME TO Buy pn ITH, PON CHA 2 Wie YOU SOME. (Copyright, W.N.U.) LETTER FROM JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT TO HIS MOTIER- IN-LAW, MRS. JOSEPH GRAVES HAMILTON DEAR MOTHER: T hope you will allow me to wish you the pleasantest of journeys on your trip abroad. I know you are going to be filled one was a seamstress According to Miss Bthel A. Breed, in charge, of the appoint- ment office at Columbia, in the full time work for women there is more demand for college women stenog- raphers than ¢an be supplied. In the placing of graduates who wished permanent business posi- tions, the report shows 45 men and 124 women obtained work; 24 grad- uates were appointed to teaching tions in colleges and universi- ties—New York, World! ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS By Olive Roberts Barton “There is one person we must go tu see before Mother Goose comes home, children,” said Daddy Gander to the Twins, “and that is the Crook- ed Man.” “Where does' he live?” d Nick “At che corner of Crooked Lane and Zig-Zag Strect,” answered Dad- dy, “And his house is so crooked that when you enter the front door you can see yourself coming out ot the back door i “Oh, Daddy Gander, I don’t believe at,’ ft laughed Nancy. ell!” Daddy Gander shoek his “Maybe it isn’t quite so bad, but it's almost. Anyway, we have te! go cand see him and help him to clean house before Mother Goose mes home. He spills many out of his pipe dreadful, and, his porch rugs get so dusty you could plant corn in them.” Pretty soon they arrived at~ the an's house and went tat- tet-tat on his crooked front door “Well, well, well!” the Crooked Man exclaimed. “I’m just as glad as if you were Santa Claus. Thomas Stout and I we: just having an argument and per- haps you can help us out.” “What was it about?” asked Daddy Gander, hanging his high hat on the crooked hatrack. Naney and Nick sat down crooked little stools to listen. “Thomas here says that the Man : the Moon couldn’t possibly burn his mouth on pease porridge if it was cold,” said the Crooked: Man. “No more he could!” © declared Mister Stout with a wag of his head. “It's ridiculous to speak of such a thing.” =a “Well, I argue,” went on the} Crooked man, “that it could be! stony cold and yet be full of pepper. And that would certainly burn his mouth. Or he may have put mus- tard in it—or chili-sauce or-—” “Tush! Tush!” interrupted Thomas, “There you go again, my friend! Chili-sauce would only make it more chilly. How could he possibly burn his mouth on that?’ “Oh, pshaw! You can’t argue ‘at all!” said the Crooked Man. “I know a.riddle,” said Nancy sud- denly “What can go down the chimney down and up the chimney up or down the chimney u?” on Well, they gucssed everything. but nobody could get the right answer. “An umbrella!” declared Nancy. Everybody had forgotten about the Man in the Moon and whether he could of couldn't burn his mouth. “I guess we'll be going!” said Daddy Gander. . And ‘do you know, it was half past nine that nicht before he re- membered about helping’ the poor Crooked Man to dean his house. (Copyright, 124, NEA-Service,“Inc.) DR. R. S. ENGE Chiropractor Consultation Free |hopelessly insane, mentally subnor- | |of mighty .intellects and ‘physical with pride when you see Alice driv- ing away for her presentation at I sometimes wonder if Leslie all has any regret in the los these privileges and festiv however scems perfectly s be a poor man's wife, since we adopted the baby. Leslie writes me that Mr. Hamil- ton is much taken with him. Of {course that makes her very happy and I am extremely glad that you have taken the kiddie to your hearts, especially as my: mother has not been so kind about it. She seems to think that because I gave him the name of John Alden Prescott I have done something very terrible, but I itell Leslie she is old-fashioned and we will have to forgive her. of espe! RMEMBER WHEN MY |: #AficTangle» You are not angry with me, hre you, John, and please do not pity me for not going abroad with mother and dad. I'd much rather stay at home with you and Junior. I\know I love you very much, John, because you have changed al- most all my tastes, even my disiike for beefsteak. (That is a joke, John.) Before I met you I was much more of a society girl than is Alice and the thought of being presented at court would have carried me to the seventh heaven of my highest desires. But now it seems to me the veriest and silliest of ‘nonsense to stick three feathers in the top of your marcell and wear a train which is so long that it has to be spread out by two splendid servants in plush par ties just for the sake of ‘courtsying to a stogy, old king and a dowdy old queen who probably are as bored as you are. It may be all right for people whp have-some reverence for rulers, but for us free-born, haughty I hope you will bring back the governor in perfect health and again please let me say/ that you have all my good wishes for a pleasant jour- ney and a safe return. Affectionately, your son, JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT. Letter From Leslie Prescott to John Alden Prescott * That was a sweet letter, dearest, you wrote to mother. Almost sweet getting one myself. | By NEA Service. St. Paul, Minn., Jan, 15.—If civ- ilization is to survive, each city, | county and state should begin keep- | ing records of family history; a sort | of human pedigree where citizens | can obtain accurate information on | the past lives of their fellow men, | where persons contemplating matri- | mony ¢ imperfections. a \ This is the suggestion of Dr. Charles F. Dight of thi8, city, one of the foremost students of cugenics and ‘heredity in America, who de- | ilization is poised on! 3 utter as | wus the downfall of. Babylon. To avert ruin, Dr. Di the present system of marriage mz ing will have to be changed. “The United States is becoming populated at an alarming rate with | socially unfit, including cpileptics, 8, | | | de- | mal and feeble-minded beings,” de- | clares Dr. Dight. The character of man, he contends, is determined largely by heredity, and no environment will materially alter human behavior. Superman Possible. “Idiots,” he asserts, “Cannot be transformed into! intelligent human beings; nor will brains, only partly complete, rise above the limits placed up them by heredity. “As scientific selection and breed- ing of plants have produced super- plants, so can the wise propagation of human beings ultimately result in the superman, a race of human thoroughbreds. _ “Psychglogists have determined that the average mental age of citi- zens of the United States is about 13 or 14 years and that only four aud one-half per cent of the people are exceptionally intelligent. “It is not only impossible tp de- velop a. high civilization’ with poor human stock, bug an excess of such humans will resWit ins the decay of the highest civilization that exists. Although it will be @ giganti¢ task to alter the average human nature, we can safely say that with a wise application. of modern eugenics we could make over the human race in 100 years transforming it into a race giants.” Building New Race. These, are the means by which this shange could be brought about, ac- cording to Dr. Dight: Pe 1—Education of all the people on Lucas Blk. Bismarck, N. D. e inheritability of traits and the ! consequent development of “higher | enough to make up to me for not| out of the chair and kick them out of the White House at least every eight years it sounds ridiculous, doesn’t, it? . | Bonight; dear, when I knelt by the [baby's bed an dwatched his — soft breathing, [ thought of that mother who bent over the cradle in the man- ger and concluded that my Zot, even | a vicarious child, was much bet- |ten- than Was Alice’s who has only a | presentation at court to look for- ward to. I love you. LESLIE, Save' Civilization, Cries Eugenist a rae sea eR Ee | and more intelligent ideals of mar- riage. 2—Segregation of defectives. 3—Marriage Jaws consonant with the principles of eugenic 4—Sterilization of hopeless defec- tives. “The permanent betterment of the human race through the use of eu- select mates of good stock | genic measures,” says Dr. Dight, “is | and eliminate those with physical | certainly possible, and we may he/as rai saved from the fate which has be- fallen past civilizations.” English | ¢ ly. W. C. A. WORLD TRAVELER «New York, Jan. 16.—Sixteen y of traveling for the ¥Y. W. C. / is Miss Clarissa Spencer's record. |Her home is the world, for she | doesn’t know where shg maybe to- | morrow. General secretary of the ¥. W. A. world committee, is her of- ficial position. Her headquarters are in London, but she’s rarely there ‘or any length of time. Miss Spencer was one of the pio- neers in association work in foreign countries. She was one of three wo- men to gain admission to Russia dur- ing the war and was the last Y. W. C.'A. secretary to get into Berlin after the declaration of She came to the Y. W. Cc. 1902, when she returned from 4 five- year missionary term in Japan. A. in 3 DAKOTANS: GIVEN PRIZE Indianapolis, Jan. 16.—Judges in e second annual American Legion ay Contest are to announce , Winners about February 1st in the Americang who pull our presidents| national competition which called | 00,060 United ‘forth the efforts of nearl. |school children in the | States, N | The winner of first plac [national competition wil |scholarship award of ito be applied at any . college jor institution of higher learning. |Second in the contest is to rec 1$500 aud third will be given lfor the same use. The subject, “Why America Should Prguibte Im- ‘nigration for Five Years" 48 in ac- iéord with the American Legion {stand for dJimitation of immigra- jtion. Winners Ihave been !W. Powell, ¢ in the different states nnounced by Garland ecfor of the Legion's Americanism Commissiom A. sil4 jver medal uwarded to the win- ier of first place in each st bronze medal was second p jand a certificate of merit was third. The state winners include: | North Dakota — Edith J. Pettar son, Fargo; Irene Schulte, Man- jaan; Elizabeth Barber, Westhope. Of every 100 young men who begin road “firemen, only five ever | reach the position of passenger ngs |neer. [| EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO H FOR PETE'S SAKE, WOMAN, How. MUCH CONGER ARE WES Gone To STAND AROUND HERE wi RUBESR IN AT THE JUNK 2 ed Xo AVE 4 HEART)!!! - Mary is ill in a sanitarium in Vi- 's |hér expression as she listaned to Published by arrangement Lloyd with Corinne Griffith as Copyright 1923 by SYNOPSIS, At a first night performance in New York, a beautiful young woman attracts attention by rising and leisurely surveying the aud ence through her glasses. Claver- jing, a newspaper columnist, and his cousin, Dinwiddie, are, partio- | larly interested, Dinwiddie declar- | ing she is the image of Mary Og- den, a belle of thirty years ago, who had married a Count Zattiany and lived abroad. He is convinced that this is Mary’s daughter, but | all attempts to establish her iden- tity prove futile. Clavering, determined to find out who she is, follows her home from the theatre one night. Luck is with him, for she has forgotten her keys and he helps her get into the ‘house. She invites him in and | finally tells him she is the Countess Josef Zattiany, a cousin of Mary Ogden’s; that she had married a relative of Mary’s husband; that enna, She asks him to join a small dinner party at her home the nezt night. Madame Zattiany proves herself a delightful hostess, talks brilliant- ly on European politics and fur- ther, enslaves her guests. 1X (Continued) There was something of anx- jety, almost of wistfulness, in jone or the other doing his admira- ble best to entertain her. ‘They had the charm of crisp well-modu- lated voices, these two men of her own class; she had met no better- bred men in Burope; and their air was as gallant as it had been in their youth. He had a fleeting vision of what gay dogs they must have been. Neither had married, but they had been ardent lovers once and aging women still spoke of them with tender amusenient. And yet only the shell had chang- I 7merreas bes! Woman Wriler ty GERTRUDE ATHERTON IOXEN with Associated First Nationa! Pictures, Inc. Watch for the screen version produced by Frank Countess Zattiany. Gertrude Atherton tinguished minority who refused te be enslaved by the Ancient Idea, that iron code devised by ‘fore thinking men when Earth was ‘young ard scantily peopled. ~ Still—why this curious eagerness, this-it was indecipherable o no doubt his lively imagination was playing him tricks, ~ Probably she was merely sympathetic. .. And then, toward the end of the dinner, her manner®changed, al- though too subtly for any but the detached observer to notice it. To |Clavering she seemed te go dead under her still animated face. \ & saw her eyes wander*from Din die’s bald head to Osborne's fla tened cheek . her lip curled, a look of fierce contempt flashed in her eyes before she hastily lower. ed the lids. He fancied she was glad to rise from the table, x “Well?” he asked, as he and Dinwiddie were walking away from from the house; Osborne had driv: en off with Judge Trent. “Do you still think her a base impostor?” “Don't know what I think and don't much care. She can pack nfe in her trunk, as we boys used to say. She’s a great lady and. a charming woman; as little doubt abowt-the first as the last. She's like Mary Ogden and she isn't. I suppose she might be merelf a member of the same family—with several thousand ancestors where types must have reappeared again and again, If she wants New York Society, especially if sha wants money for those starving children, ll go the limit, But I’m going to find out about her all the same. Vil hunt up Harry Thornhill to- morrow—he’s a recluse, but he'll see me—and I'll get on thé trac of some Hungarian refugee. She can’t be the usual rank tmpostor, that’s positive. She has the same blood a8 Mary in her veins, and if she’s Mary’s daughter and wishes to keep it dark, that’s her business, ‘ed. They had led decent enough jlives and no doubt could fall hon- ‘estly and romantically in love to- flay. In fact, they appeared to be ,Jemonstratipg the possibility, with ithe eternd] ingenuousness of the ‘male. And yef-nature had played them this scurvy trick. The young jieart in the old shell. Grown-up boys with a foot in the grave. De- ‘pendent upon mind and address alone to win a woman's regard, while the woman dreamed of the han with a thick thatch over his brains and the responsive mag- setism of her own years. Poor old j ghting-cocks! What a jade na- {ture was or was it merely ‘he tyranny of an Idea, carefully ‘nculcated at the nativity of ‘the social group, with other arbitrary laws, in behalf of the race? The fetish of the body. Stark mate- Malism. However, it was “atYhe falling. of the fic chair.” sticurtal * not as hard on them as on’ women ‘outgrown their primary function. | Theirs at least the privilege of ap- proach; and their deathless‘mas- culine ¢onceit—when all was’ said, Nature’s supreme gift of compen- sation—never faltered. It crossed Clavering’s mind that she was experimenting on her own account, not: merely bewildering: and enthralling-.these estimable | © gentlemen of her mother's génera- tion. But why? Joining casually in the conversation, or quite. with: drawn, he watched her with in- creasing and now ‘quite impersonal Interest, He almost fancied she was making ah ‘effort to be ‘some- thing more than the polite and amiable hostess, that she was de- liberately striving to see them as men who had. a perfect: right to fascinate a woman of her age and loveliness, Well, it had happened before, Elderly men of charm anil tharacter had won ‘and kept wom- ‘n fully thirty years their junior. Possibly’ she belonged to that dis- Vill never give her away.” “Well, good luck, Glad it went off so well.” They parted at the door of Mr. Dinwiddie’s rooms and Clavering walked slowly home in an extreme-! ly thoughtful mood. He felt an un- easy distrust of the Countess Josef Zattiany, and he was not even sure that he liked her. » On the following Monday night however, he was ‘by no means averse from making a notable per- sonal score, As Abbott, a dramat- ic critic, who happened to sit next to Madame Zattiany, mado his usual hurried exit at the falling of the first curtain Clavering slipped into the vacant chair. She smiled a welcome, but it was impossible to talk in the noise. This was a Sreat first-night. One of the lead- ing actresses of America had re- turned in an excellent play) and her admirérs, who appeared to be a unit, were clapping and stamping and shouting: handkerchiefs fiut- tered all over the house. - When the curtain descended after the . in Clavéring slipped into the vacant fifteenth recall and the lights went up and ‘demonstration gave place to excited chatter, Madame Zatti. any. held out_her hand toward Clavering> ‘ “See! I have split my glove, I caught the enthusiasm. How gen- erous your people are! I never heard such whole-souled, such—ah —unbelf-conscious response.” ‘ “Oh, we like to let go sometimes eS and the theatre is a safe place, One of the best things that can be Safd for New York, by the way, ‘ig its loyalty to two or three ac- tresses no longer young. The |whole country has gone crazy over youth, - The most astonishingly bgd books create a furore because ffom,end to end they’ glorify post. war youth at its worst, and the stage is almost as bad, But Now Yorkers are too old and wise in the theatre not, to have a deep appre- ciation of its art,‘and they will ren. der tribute to old favorites as long as they produce good plays,” (To Be Continued), SSS ee ¢——_+—___________“*g| A THOUGHT “| Cast out the gcorner, and conten- tion shall go out; yea, strife and re- proach ‘shall cease.—Proy. 22:18, | + I have lived one hundred years; and TI die’ with the consolation of snever having thrown the slightc ridicule upon the smallest virtue Fontenelle. His Job's Sate. | “How's your new office bey getting | along?” . : Fine! He’s got things so mixed up that I couldn’t get along without him! —Weekly Telegraph, LS