The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 19, 1924, Page 4

# A ; PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUN Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. - - - Publishers Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - . - - - DETROIT Marquette Bldg. eee PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub: |: lished herein. * All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year....... $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck).... oie 120) Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota. . ein THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) DON’T LET BURLEIGH FAIL Bismarck next week will entertain the first state-wide corn show in the history of North Dakota. Because Bis- marck is the host, local business men in charge of the show and others in the county who have contributed their advice and aid have looked at the show from a state angle. But us the time is now at hand for the exhibits to roll into the show, and with the Hanna silver cup a pr for counties, the hope surges that Burleigh county farmers will step forward and capture the grand sweepstakes prize. Burleigh county can take unusual pride in the develop- ment of corn raising because it was here that that the famous hardy northern types were developed. Burleigh county seed corn this winter is being sent to Canada and other places in the Northwest. Burleigh county farmers are feeding corn to cattle that will command attention in South St. Paul and shelled corn ships are going to Minneapolis, Duluth and Chicago. There is every reason why Burleigh county should have fine exhibits in the show. Since the judges will be men selected from outside Burleigh countv there is no reason why this county, though Bismarck is the host at the corn show, should not make every effort to win the grand prize. It would be a fine feather in the cap of the county. A POINT TO CONSIDER A very vital matter to be considered by a public service commission in fixing local utility rates is the location of Bismarck in the midst of the lignite coal area of the state, where slack is obtainable at a low price and under an ex- tremely small carrying charge. To compare rates charged by the electric utility here with others in the state means nothing. Bismarck should enjoy the advantage of proximity to the coal mines and this situation should be reflected in the rates, especially for heat. Because other communities in the state are paying the same or higher rates for light, heat and power is no justifi- cation for the local rates. Probably they are being gouged. Such a comparison as a vindication for local rates is shallow and without merit. Tt would appear from a general survey that the commis- sion has upon its hands, if it has the affairs of the people of heart, a great t in forcing a deflation in the rates charged by power utilities. Their organization is a vast and powerful one, national in scope and militantly active in every locality where the powerful monopoly is attacked. The farmer, the banker and in fact every businessman has been deflated by the operation of economic conditions and the inexorable laws of competition. Not so with the great power utility combine in North Dakota whose earnings in lean as well as prosperous years are guaranteed, valua- tions accepted with but a perfunctory survey. Cities, state or county cannot enter profitably the realm of competitive business, but natural monopolies so inti- mately linked with the people’s welfare and fraught with such temptation to profiteer and gouge the people, as our power utilities, present indeed a most legitimate field for governmental control. The sooner Bismarck can financially attack this next major problem, the better for the city’s growth and continued prosperity of the people. CLIMATE CHANGES The climate of the United States is changing. So claims Elias B. Dunn, former weather observer for New York City Dunn says this change has been slowly but place since about 1895. Old settlers in various parts of. the country freqentl: make the same claim, especially in the northern and eastern states. They have in mind the very deep snows of former generations, snows so deep that horses pulled sleighs right over the tops of fences, with drifts 10 feet deep or more. Weather Bureau officials in Washington, D. C., have dis- agreed. They say that climate merely moves in cycles — very warm for a while, then very hot. They check up old records and say that, if you take the weather average over periods of 10 years each, the average temperature of these periods or cycles has never varied more than a few degrees since the first official weather observations were made. surely taking Dunn, nevertheless, is lining up with the old settlers. He is positive that the climate is changing and, he blames the big irrigation projects in the west. About 19 million acres are now under irrigation. This means a tremendous amount of moisture dammed up in what otherwise would be dry country. : Water in a dry country naturally evaporates quickly. This evaporation changes the moisture of the air and, affect- ing the barometric condition, generates storms which are not only local but go traveling. So, Dunn’ reasons; we have cloudbursts, floods and general freaks of weather. Dammed-up water evaporates fast in a dry climate. In the Ohio valley, evaporation is 40 inches a year. It is over 100 inches a year in New Mexico, Arizona and southeastern California. , The old settlers often advance the theory that climate has been changed by the destruction of forests, which formerly stored up a lot of moisture and kept the snow from melting quickly. CANADIAN SYSTEM «> A notorious bank robber in Toronto, Canada, is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment and 30 lashes. Humani- -+tarians disagree with the whipping-post system, though it unquestionably strikes terror to the sub-normal criminal ‘mind. As for the life sentence, Toronto has put at least one safe-blower away for good. When they are put in jail in Canada, they stay put. A would-be crook, contemplating a dob, thinks twice up there. ee Kresge Bldg. | EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may. not express the opynion of The Tribune. They are pmsented here in order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. R CONSOL DIFFICUL The protest of the Hill railroads against separation in the reg! grouping now proposed under the consolidation plai strikingly il lustrates some of the geographical and financial difficulties that will inevitably meet such a process. The Great Northern’s represent- atives oppose any change in the present grouping, but say that if such must be, it is the Nor Pacific that should be sepa But counsel for the Northern I cific are equally emphatic in insist- ing that this road should be left in the present group along with the Great Northern and the Burling- ton. Representatives urge that any such break-up of groupings and formation of sys- tems not be enforced in this Country as it was in England. Be- fore this could be brought «about, they point out, Gongress would have .o confer on the Interstate Co merce Commission power of emi- nent domain, ith huge funds for the purcha and reorganization of the roads concerned. It looks as if voluntary consolidation and grouping of the roads along nat- ural lines was the only feasible plan The problem of tying the weak-! er roads in with the strong ones is one of the most serious involved in the whole consolidation pro- In a few instances they con ps be abandoned, but in most | they must be co-ordinated! cases into ‘the system. The problem of grouping the roads of the North- west reflects the geographical « financial difficulties attending road consolidation in general, It! y seoms possible that the pro-| an be carried far until toj ds to be retained and oper- onceded the 5% per cent their investment now and until they nple and sound five or! cess the roi ated is return atime in which to regroup throu separation or alignment the six- teen hundred railroad companies of the Country into self-sustaining amd reasonably remuner; h | | ht Under Bushel Yorkshire, Eng.—-E) ing tribute to y musical genius.” For years, during his idle moments, Edward) Green- wood, an attendant at the West Rid- ing Institution for Mental Patients here, has been composing difficult and highly classical piano and organ se- Icetions. But not until recently did he consent to the publication ef any Gf his compositions. They are w ning wide Fecognitio Hig Li Wharfeda nd today Japan Welcomes Autos. TOKYO—Japan’s great earthquake of last fall has proven a boon to the automobile industry. Before the eetastrophe, there were few motor vehicles inthe empire. Duties and taxes made this usage almost pro- Irgent demands for trans hen the relief workers r labors of merey, taught the government its folly. Now the automobile is playing a big part in Japan's reconstruction. Trucks ar admitted free, and pleasure car: half the old duti ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS i By Olive Roberts Barton The Riddle Lady was j to see the Twins as the F: had been. And the Twins were just as glad as she was about it. Such a dear, funny place Riddle Town was—with its question mark chimneys and its dear, funny people! In order to sharpen their wits and make them: the smartest people in ryland, once a day the Riddle Lady asked them a riddle. But iate- ly it seemed that nobody could guess a single thing! - “I don't know what's gone wrong with my subjects!” she remarked to tas plad ry Qufen LETTER FROM JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT TO SYDNEY CARTON Good heavens, Syd, I did not know you were going to make such a ter- rible howdy-do over such a little thing as owning a baby—and he is such a little corker, too. I would be damned glad, if I were not married, to say I was the father in reality, as I am by adoption, of John Alden Prescott Junior. But then you see I have Leslie to think of. You speak of ruining the lives of two girls, Evidentiy Paula, who is said to be getting two hundrd thou- sand dollars a year in moving pic- tures is not ruined so any one can Notice it just at present, and Leslie is ngt unhappy. From what you write me I gather Paula is sweeter than ever. She would have to be going some to be sweeter than she was when I krew her. x Isn’t it strange, Syd, that in this day and age women are overturning all the old laws, all the old rules, all the old traditions? According to the creed of our mothers and fathers I should be the one drawing down two hundred thou- sand dollars a year and poor little Paula would be walking the streets in all kinds of trouble. 2 Instead, I seem to be the one that just steps out of one scrape in time to get into another, while she, from of the roads_ satisfactorily | | We sail : {And here our story ends.” uy Wh OW, | BEG YOUR PARDON SIR, FOR DISTURBING BT HIS LATE. HOUR- HAVE YOU NY GASOLINE ? MY : STALLED UP THE RO. on ay” iy! 1, cy" i \ i l NY SYNOPSIS, i im At a first night performance in New York, a beautiful young woman attracts attention by rising and leisurely surveying the audi- ence through ker glasses. Claver- ing, a newspaper columnist, and his cousin, Dinwiddie, are particu- larly interested, Dinwiddie declar- ing that she is the image of Mary Ogden, 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 efforts to establish her identity 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 tha house. She asks him in and finally tells: him she is\the Countess Josef Zattiany, a codsin of Mary Og- den's; that she had married a rela- tive of Mary’s husband; that Mary te ill in a sanitarium in Vienna. Clavering is skeptical. Though maintaining 4 strict aloofness from society, Madame Zattiany continues to attend all the first-nights. Clavering meets her there one night and she invites him back to her house after the ney and Nick, “But it does seem as though they brought dunce caps wlong instead of thinking caps. I have a riddle all ready now and I'm to read it in a minute v-hen We'll see what ere. happens today. Pretty soon when all the Riddle Landers had arrived, the Riddle Lady began her riddle. ‘This was it. if you, too, can guess the answer, “We're fat and round and jolly, | And cle silver bells, We gleam and glow with every hue Of bud or flower that ever grew In magic fairy dells. | “We're light as birdie feathers, Or breath! thistledown, f to lands of air To see the things that happen there, In castles of renown. | “Our birth was very lowly, | But we must tell the truth, : Our home was in a sudsy bowl} Then someone blew us thro’ a hole, And we escaped forsooth. “We're careful not to heads On poles or roofs or wires Or barns or apple-trees or such the very slightest touch, ch one of us expires. bump our “We haven't any engine, We never use a track, We never carry passengers, To be alone each one prefers, For we're not coming back. ye wave goodby and off we go, Nid nodding to our frierdls, To hunt for castles in the air, Where princes live—and ladies fair, Mother Goose had come over from Mother Goose Land, right next door, and she began to nod and grin, “I know what it is,” she said. “When T ride around in the air on my broom, I meet hundreds of them, But I always try to be careful so I don’t hit them for they go ‘poof!’ and dis- appear in a second.” “If you guess it, Mother Goese, you get a new broom,” said the Rid- dle Lady, “for that’s the prize.” I knew of two or three or four people who were going to say the an- swer, but when they heard what the prize was, they kept quict. Who, indeed, wanted a broom! It only meant work! joap bubbles,” said Mother Goose. “That's it, isn’t it. guessed for I do need a new broom.” Everybody else was glad about her good luck. Who could make betuer use of a broom? : To Be Continued) (Copyright, 19:9, NEA Srvi Ine) hic Tangle = all accounts, is the most feted young woman in all Hollywood. However, you can tell her for me that I don’t entirely take stock in that beautiful story she told of giv- ing the baby to Leslie for the sake of | saving Leslie's life. I think there was a little feeling in it, that as long as she thought the | baby belonged to me it was up te mej to take care of it. That's neither here nor there at. the present moment. I've got little John and I am going to keep shim. Leslie adores: him, even when she thinks he is yours, { Sometimes I think I would al1..ost! ° welcome Paula stirring up a fuss be-| se I am not happy keeping alll this from Leslie. Indeed, my nerves are so on edge lateiy that I haven't been a charming individual to live with. In fact, I have come to the conclusion that Leslie is altogethe: too good for me. oa She is away from me now. She has gone to bid her father and mother goodby, They are going across to see Alice presented at: court, and between you and me, Syd, I am wondering if Leslie thinks liv- ing with me is reward enough for | missing all this wonderful trip| abroad hobnobbing with royalty, This is my way, old man, of tell- | And I'm glad Tf \ BUTTON! Relic Retains Youth and Vi- tality in Bean Town Boston man wears a collar button 21 years old. This is older than a stenographer’s gum, A button old enough to vote should find its w: Jhome from the laundry without as ing. If aged buttons talked this one would say “I never smoke, drink, or sleep under dressers.” MARKETS. | Leap Year is influencing the bond | market, mgtrimony preferred causing quite a flurry. EDITORIAL Naples has*shipped to the United | States a cheese Weighing 180 pounds. | ‘This, however,, is not the biggest i cheese in the world. Biggest cheese lin the world is the man who thinks \he is the whole cheese. , WEATHER. When she filly i hot water bag every night to keep her feet warm {the honeymoon is over. CoMICs. Coolidge: My ‘hat’s in the ring. | Hi Johnson: I'll step on it. | ~ FICTION. \ “Making out the theome tax is jfun,” said a harassed taxpayer. SPORTS. We wish to deny a rumor that the 180-pound cheese recently imported from Naples wants to fight Jack | Dempsey. The cheese may be strong, but being a Provolone cheese, it is too good to fight . BEDTIME STORY. “Use your toothbrush or mother will use the hairbrush.” BEAUTY SECRETS. New York -broker’s wife is being sued for $888 laundry bill. ADVERTISING. Reducing“exercises. By exercising | ! | \ | judgment a man can reduce his fat head. Reduce expenses by exercis- BUTTON! | EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO | COME, COME, NOW ! — DON’T BEAT ABOUT THE BUSH !- ANSWER THE QUESTION theatre. He tells her frankly that he doeg not believe her story and admits to being half in love with her. Xi! (continued) “There are a good many women , of your class here now.” “Yes, with avowed objects, is it uot? And they do not happen to HE HAS IT | possess the combination of quali- ties that commands your interes: ing caution. Anything can be re- duced, except maybe taxes. “That is true enough. Perhaps FOREIGN NEWS. | your explanation is the real one. English doctor has a germ 20 years | There ig certainly something in it. old. Bet it wears sideburns and | we}, rll go now. I bave kept you uses a cigaret holder. fe New Yorker was worried about | @P Jong enough. his missing wife, but found her in| He was about to raise her hand Jersey safely married again. jt his lips when she surprised him Big tobacco erop in Turkey this , by shaking his warmly. year. You can put that in your pipe "I must get over that habit, It Js and smoke it. rather absurd in- this country ‘4 where you have not the custom, But ETIQUETTE. you will come again?” “Oh, yes, I'll come agatm.” Minneapolis man bit off his wife's car. This is considered ill bred in select Arcles. _—_ 3 WEEKLY RADIO PAGE. xu anging a tickler coi regenera- tive set to a Toop’set is simple if you keep your shirt on. Remove con- denser, vario-coupler, stigma, eso-'That broad placid brow, not the phagus and glyptodon. Next, re- Jeast of her physical charms, was rove your hands. Pour in one cup @¢rawn in a puzzled frown. Instead of molasses, two eggs, and more of turning out the lights she: sat Jasses. Do not stir until cops ar. down and stared into the dying Daeg Gre. Suddenly she began to laugh, ® laugh of intense and ironic Amusement; but it stopped im mid- Madame Zattiany adjusted the chain on the front door and re- turned very slowly to the library. HEALTH HINTS. Boston barber says dentist pulled out his mustache. This may be fyn, but it isn’t healthy. . SOCIETY. Joy reigns supreme at Mr, John’s heuse. His skinny’ daughter is get- ting plump. It was first noticed last night when her elbows didn’t tear thd tablecloth. “She's gaining,” said Mr. John to a man who called to put a new bottom in a chai: fA THOUGHT o e He that keepeth his mouth keep- eth his life; but he that openeth, wide his lips shall have destruction. —Prov. 13:3. He who ‘seldom speaks, and with one well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. —Lavater. “Bho cat down and stared into the dying fire”. DIReeeTLy — course and her eyes expanded with an expression of consternation, al- most of panic. She was not alarmed for the peace of mind of the man who was more in love with her than he had so far admitted to himself. She had been loved by too many men and had regarded their heartaches and balked desires with too pro- found an indifference to worry over the possible harm she might be inflicting upon the brilliant and YES or No!_ ambitious young man who had pre- cipitated himself into her life. That.might come later, but not at this moment when she was shaken and appalled. She had dismissed from her mind long ago the hope or the de- sire that she could ever again feel anything but a keen mental re- Published by arrangement with Associated First National Pictures, Inc. Watch for the ecreen version produced by Frank Lloyd with Corinne Griffith as Countess Zattlany. Copyright 1923 by Gertrude Atherton tially polygamous and woman es sentially the vehicle of the race. When the individual soul had been decreed by the embittered gods eternally to dwell alone and never yet had been tricked beyond the momeiht of nervous exaltation into the belief that it had fused into its mate. Life itself was futile enough, but that dream of the per- fect love between two beings im- memorially paired was the most fu- tile and ravaging of all the dreams civilization had imposed upon man- kind. The curse of !magination. Only the savages and the ignorant masses understood “love” for the transitory functional thing it wi and were undisturbed by spiritual unrest. . . by dreams . . . mad longings. . . . No one had ever surrendered to the {llusion more completely than she. No one had ever hunted with & more passionate determination for that correlative soul that would submerge, exalt, and com- Dlete her own aspiring soul And what had she found? Men. Mere- lymen. Satiety or disaster. Wearl- ness and disgust. She had not an illusion left. She bad put all that behind her long sinc It seemed to her as shé sat there staring into the last filckerings of the charred log that it had been countless years since any man had had the power to send a thrill along her nerves, to stir even the ghost of those old fierce desires. No woman had ever had more cause to feel immune. Too con- temptuous of life and the spurious fusions man had created for him- self, while destroying tho even balance between matter and mind, even to be rebellious, she had felt a profound gratitude for her com- Plete freedom from the thrall of, sex when she had realized that with her gifts of mind and fortune she still had a work to do in the world that would resign her to the supreme doredom of living. Dur- in the war man had been but a broken thing to be mended or eased out of life; and she knew that there was no better nurse j Europe; it had always been hér pride to do nothing by halves; and before that she had come to look upon men with a certain passive toleration when their minds were responsive to her own. Whatever sex charm they possessed might better have been wasted on the Venus in the Louvre. And tonight she had realized that this young man, so unlike any she had ever known in her Euro- pean experience, had been more or less in her thoughts since the night he had followed her out of the theatre and stood covertly ob- serving her as she waited for her car, She had been conscious dur- ing subsequent nights at the play of hfs powerful gaze as he sat watching for a turn of ‘the head that would give him a glimpse of something more than the back of her neck; or as she had passed him on her way to her seat. She had been even more acutely con- scious of him as he left his own seat while the lights were still down and followed her up the aisle. But she had felt merely amusement at the time, possibly a thrill of gratified vanity, accus- tomed as she was to admiration and homage. . But on the night when he had hastened up to her in the deserted street and offered his assistance, standing with his hat in his hand and looking at her with a boyisk and difident gallantry in amusing contrast with his stern and cynical countenance, and she had realized that he had impulsively followed her, something had stirred within her that she had attributed to a superficial recrudescence of her old love of adventure, of her keen desire for novelty at any cost. Amused at both herself and him, she had suddenly decided, while he was effecting an entrance to her house, to invite him into the } brary and take advantage of this break in the monotonous life she had decreed should be her portion while she remained in New York. She had found him more person- ally attractive than she had ex- pected. Judge Trent, whom she had deftly drawn out, had told her that he was a-young man of whom, according Dinwiddie, great things were expected in the lit- erary world; his newspaper career, brilliant as it was, being regard merely asa phase in his progress; he had not yet “found himself.” After that she had read his col- umn attentively. i But she had not been prepared for a powerful and sympathetic Der of naivete and hard sophistication, sponse to the most provocative of men. No woman hag ever lived who was more thoroughly disillu- sioned, more satiated, more scorn- ful of that age-old dream of human happiness, which, stripped to its bones, was merely the blind in- tinct of the race to survive. Civ- ilization had heaped its fictions over the bare fact of nature's orig!- ing you that,I feel rather sinall about the way I used’ you, But 1 couldn't he]p ‘it, Syd. Honest ° I couldn’t, I wish you would write me again and tell’me if Paula says anytiing about me. | She always was a nice girl’ and I am glad she is getting on. i JOHN. (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, : In nal purpose, imagination lashing generic sexual impulse to imposs!- ble demands for the consummate union of mind and soul and body. Mutuality! ,When man was essen- Nice Place, Too! SOPH—I suppose you've. been through algebra? - SENIOR-“L-went through st night {but couldn't the place—Denver ,|...Dhe roof of Westminister hall is unaupported by columns. vorms jn Australin® oot and she had ascribed her intere in him to curiosity in ose what to her was a completely for- eign type. In her own naivete it had never occurred to her that f@nen outside her class were gen- tlpmen as she undérstood the term, and she still supposed Clavering to be exceptional owing to his birth and breeding. It had given her a distinct satisfaction, the night of the dinner, to observe that he lost nothing ‘by contact with men who were indubitably of her own World. ‘ (To Be Continued) His Alarm Clock. HUGHES—How do you know when it is time to get up? ° PROUD. (2) FATHER—When! 1 ‘have got the bab; ‘ sleep,—A1 Condy rc eee There -are.<200. eurth- lity, that curious mixture | i