The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 21, 1924, Page 4

REE PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE 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. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use ar 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.... es s «$7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) .. 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).... 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.............. 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) SUPPORT A. C. BAND CONCER' At very reasonable admittance charges, the Society of Engineers has secured the forty-five piece band of the Agri- cultural College for two concerts on the afternoon and even- ing of January 24. The proceeds will be turned over to the Juvenile Band Fund of the Association of Commerce. The Bismarck Society of Engineers is bringing this band to Bis- marck as part of their service to the community and a packed house should greet the college band which in a very large sense is a state institution in which every citizen of the state should have pride. The Juvenile Band which is being trained under the public school authorities is making very good progress and a public appearance will be made in the near future. Funds are needed to continue the expenses of instruc- tion and later to buy uniforms. This band has never asked for any donations in the way of drives, but is meeting the small expense entailed through benefit concerts at a mini- mum rate. Not only will the citizens of Bismarck enjoy the pro- gram to be given by the A. C. band, but at the same time the purchase of tickets will enable the good work of the band to go forward. Parents of the children in the juvenile band should work for the success of this concert. BEATING THE SYSTEM Among the larger cities of America which own and oper- ates their own electric light and power plants is Cleveland. When mayor of that city, Newton D. Baker, secretary of war in President Wilson’s cabinet, conceived and carried to completion the project of a municipal plant. The total bonded indebtedness at the beginning of 1916 was $2,817,000 and the total number of consumers 15,508 and‘ the revenue for the month of January of 1916 was $62,230.08. It had for its competitor the Cleveland Electri Iluminating company, a private plant. charging varying: rates from 10 cents per kilowatt hour while the municipal plant had a maximum of 3 cents. But Cleveland is not alone in its success of a municipally owned and operated utility. Winnipeg supplies current at a maximum rate of three cents. Chicago probably owns one of the largest municipally owned plants at Lockport and enjoys the distinction of delivering current at the lowest cost of any municipal plant in the United States. The municipally owned plant at Pasadena, California, furnishes juice at five cents. Holyoke, Mass., 8 cents with a2 cent discount for cash payment of bills within ten days. Day power is furnished at 1.4 cents to 2.3 cents and night power costs 1.1 cents to 1.7 cents. Webster, Ia., had a maximum rate of ten cents and a minimum of four cents at the outset of its municipal plant and since these rates have been scaled down more than 20 per cent. This city in Iowa found that municipal control of the electric and power plant did these things: First:—Eliminated the inevitable conflict between pri- vate ownership and public welfare as regards this natural monopoly. Second:—Rates were not increased during the war. Third :—No dividends on watered stock, padded expenses, and excessive valuations. Fourth:—Lower rates than any privately owned utility in Iowa. Fifth:—No operation for enormous profits; profits that did accumulate distributed back to patrons in lower rates. Sixth:—Stimulus to greater industrial growth. EMBARGO ON FIREARMS Uncle Sam put an embargo on the sale of firearms by American private citizens to Mexican rebels. Common sense eventually will induce Uncle Sam also to stop the sale of revolvers in his own country, except to police and military forces. Most communities attempt to curb the sale of pistols by registration or sale only by police permit. This doesn’t keep pistols from potential murderers and \other criminals. They can buy by mail. The only way to disarm crooks is by a national law. Many hunters and sporting magazines are against stop- ping the sale of revolvers except to enforcers of the law. The man who needs more than a rifle against big game has no business hunting. ' As for householders, they could protect themselves with rifles and sawed-off shotguns—which a crook cannot carry through the streets without attracting notice. | 3 FARMER AND PRODUCTION The wheat exported from our country in 1923 was two- thirds less than the year before, measured in bushels, and | not much more than a third of the exports in 1921. The wheat farmers must produce less or have a larger foreign market, otherwise lag behind in their share of pros- perity. Through history, it has,not been the tendency of! farmers to cut production. They need organization, but work singly. Isolated life and organization mix like oil and water. INSURING AGAINST TWINS Nothing is impossible, according to the laws of chance. That’s why Lloyd’s, of London, insures parents against hav- ing twins, and actors against train delays interfering with performances in the next town. These. “law of chance” figures will interest mothers: In America, quadruptlets are born only once in every 400,000 pirths. Triplets arrive once in every 8000 births. Twins are not rare—one in 90 births. i “Hiram, The Hope Of The West” is the alliterative of the Johnson state headquarters. Somewhere else is to be found the slogan: “Keep Cool With Calvin.” There Swill be many ‘neat phrases turned out by the overworked publicity agents from now until the big show in Cleveland ul fi \ next, June. ws ins aaa aint ciaacaieaanesette: fie t This company was jonly reason she is trying to make a EDITORIAL REVIEW — Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express |] the opjnion of The Tribune. They are presented here in order that our readers may have both sid of important issues which being discussed in the press of the day. NATIONAL PURPOSE do and onal w tof political moral the American people endorse maintain? What our na purpose? Are the genfus, sp: and inherent nature of the citizen- ship of the United States evil and perverted from the principles of hteousness? These que nst raised by two utterances with- i past week by leaders of i considerable minority. They were spoken at two political celebra- tions of the memory of Andrew J son, . AN EMPTY KEO Y C ( D At Woodrow Wils ty the one ‘to which must be en trusted the redemption of the na- Pittsburgh a message from! on_declared his pa tion from the degradation of p pose into which 4 in r days heen drav At Columbus, € overnor © of Ohio, four ago his party’s Presidential id “the Democratic t still believes in the practical humanitariani Woodrow Wilson,” and ¢ four years the American ¢ tors from whose sins untold mil lions ‘nave suffered, have vainly wished that the League of Nations would die, and those in control of our government have shared this unholy desire.” Mr. Wilson's bitter charge is not! one which presumes to deny or doubt that the present government of the United States has been de- | voted to the general welfare of the American people, or that its poli- cies have favored reduction of tyx- ation, prosperity, and happine: within our national boundaries, flis whole indictment rests on the fact that his fellow-countrymen by prodigious majority repudiated his visionary scheme to entangle years candids part us in foreign affairs and pledge our res ces of men and money to the u of Europe. Mr. Cox, whose suffering from a record de- feat is quite as acute as Mr. Wil- son's, still harbors hopes that our| national purpose may he diverted from the promotion of the wel of American industries, agriculture, education, alence, to a wholesale D in all the quarrels, rivalries, a domestic affairs of European na- i Neither he nor Mr. V ly to ever see their wishes; gratified, and it is well for both of them that the, not. demnation as within a few years, if Amer tered the turmoil of Europe, upon those who lured the nation into it. would be without precedent. | Both: th gentlemen America as degraded for following W. advice and standing by Mo wholesome doctrine. may deplore the wisdom of a peo- ple who oppose the squandering of their resources over seas, but they ean against either the lonor sound sense of American who rejected their bad : 1920. If thi of the de¢ision then rend them review the issue this yea and completely wreck their hopes. -—Chicago Journal of Commerce. may 1 and no true indictment or the Taking No Chances. NERVOUS GENTLE) — Would you be good enough to tell me ia time? POLITE YOUTH ( malting watch)—Just ten mintes pas’ a NERVOUS GENTLEMAN — Thank you so much. There have been so many holdups in this neighborhooa that I didn’t dare take my water out.—Life. Doing His Bit. PASTOR— Won't you come tu church today instead of motoring around the country? REPROBATE—Sorry I can’t, par- son. I tell‘ you what I'll do—I’ll go with a friend, and park my car out- side your church, so it'll look as though you had somebody inside.— Columbia State. Anxiously Waiting ETHEL—So Arthur proposed last night? ‘ MAUDE—Yes. ETHEL—And did you accept hi MAUDE—I was so awfully excit- ed, I don’t know whether I did or not, If he comes tonight, I did. If he doesn't, I didn’t.-Exchange. I cannot understang why you should take the word of that med- dling old maid, mother, when you must know all the time that the fuss between Leslie and me is be- cause she always wanted to marry me herself. T know this sounds rather egotis- tical, at least I expect Miss Bradford would say so, but you know, mother, I, that Prissy Bradford s always been on the hunt for me ever since either of us could talk and I have always told you I would not marry her if she were the last woman on earth. Please tell her this, or better yet, let her read this letter. She may then come to the conclusion that it isn’t worth her while to play detective on Leslie any more. You can’t make me think Provi- dence had anything to do with her being around. Neither Providence nor I want anyone ty spy on Leslie. Prissy is just an old snoop, that is all. And while I am about it I may tell you that marrying Leslie Hamil- ton was the one decent thing I ever did in my life, She has been an angel to me. _If Prissy Bradford saw her dining with a man im the Waldorf restau- fant I can hardly see what sin she can make out of it. Probably the man paid for the dinner and that is | Wood y|Tiough we're f hemor. ' eAhiclangles "ALITTLE CONFIDENTIAL MATTER \ WANTED TO SPEAK TO You ABOUT- 1 WONDER IF YOU HAD ABOUT THE STORE A RECEPTACLE OF SOME SORT WOULD DO VERY NICELY — THE JUICE OF GRAPES I ri eEN id SYNOPSIS, n At a first night performance in 'New York, a beautiful young ‘woman attracts attention by rising and leisurely surveying the audi- ce through her glasses. Claver- ing, q newspaper columnist, and his cousin, Dinwiddie, are particu- ‘arly interested, Dinwiddie declar- ing that she is the image of Mary Dgden, 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 ull 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 pet into the house. She asks him in and finally tells him she is the Countess Josef Zattiany, a cousin of Mary Og- Wen’s; that she had married a rela- tive of Mary’s husband; end that Mary is ill in a sanitarium in Vi- enna. He meets her at the theatre a (e nighte later, goes home with er afterward and telle her frank- ly he does not believe her story. He is keenly aware of her fascina- tion for him, and Madame Zat- ADVENTURL UF THE TWINS By Olive Roberts Barton The Ridd had brand-new 1 next day, and it was a good she had, for a a lot of com come to Riddle Town from Mother Goose Lang to try their luck at guessing. Nancy and Nick Dumpty to ive how-do-you-do and all that! his e riddle the Riddle | dy aske ing a song of wash-day, A basket full of clothe A line hung with damp things In long flopping ro oh, without us, ¥ Would be a useless thing, another -day .| About as foclish as a crown That hasn't any king “We're now known for beauty, Plain as we can be. -heads they call us— We're dumb, too, don’t you see. Now you know who w Now you know our name from beautiful, | We'fe needed just the same “1 and all my brothers Ride one slender horse. Poo rthing’s so thin he can’t stand up, So needs a prop, of course! “We love the syn quite dearly, But oh, we hate the rain. Umbrellas we can’t hold at all. For we've no arms, it’s plain. | “We've nice straight legs—we need | them, toa! ‘ To ride our steed so high, For it's out job to hold on tight And see that the clothes get dry “I knew it! I just knew it!” cried { a voice indignantly when the Riddle dy had finished. | Everybody turned in surprise and were still more surprised to dis- ccver that it was the Maid-in-the- Garden who Wwas doing the scolding. “Here I am on my vacation and the first thing I hear is clothes- pins. For that’s the answer, I’m as sure as anything. It can’t be anything else. The king and the queen they “sez to me this morning, | sez they, ‘Hannah, this is such a} nice day, 'n all, and your nose be-, ing better ’n everything, leave off your washing and go to Riddle Land with us in~our golden coach. It'll do vou good to get away from your | work for a spell!’ “And so I came and here I am and the first thing I hear is clothes- pins. “Ugh!” : The Riddle Lady smiled. “Oh, but! you’ve guessed the answer and you) get the prize,” she said. It’s a new dress, with lovely trimmings. You can wear it to chureh Sun-, days.” i “wet, the Mai that's’ different!” declared -in-the-Garden in high good “I'm glad I came.” For the peace of mind, however, I will say that Leslie went to New York to big her father and mother goodby before they went away on their trip abroad. She took the baby with her, for she will not be sepa- rated from him one night. H I have been perfectly miserable in my loncliness while she has béen gone. I did not think she was so necessary to me, and I care so little about her dining with any man, one that I know or one that is strange to me,!that if she forgets to tell me about it when she comes home I shall not even ask her, Don't even dream for one moment that if I were the loneliest man on earth I could live with you and that | meddlesome olg maid. This may sourd harsh to you, but you have brought it on yourself. I am no longer a boy to be scolded and punished. ¢ ’ We have grown very far apart in the long years I have been away! from you. Our codes of life are en- tirely different. ! You have stayed shut up among \the dead and gone Paritanical tradi- tions of your home and while I shalt always take care of you because you are thy mother we have nothing in common, I shall be glad to see you here for a short visit when yoy can treat Les- tiany, on her part, though long since free of illusions in regard to Editor Offers for Bonus Famous Solution So Cops have cl son in Cleveland ia. This is fir cs out our and Philadel- Now is the time, bonus solution. to y Moke it legal for all war vets to use loaded dice and then they will collect their own bonus. FOREIGN NEWS A young Argentine girl swam in 24 hour she was after n he got away ed the crap-shooting | ‘men, admite to herself that this ‘particular young man has aroused her interest. X11 (continued) “There was no snobbery in her G IS ALL SHOT too secure in her own exalted —...__ | state for snobbery, too protected HOME HELPS. from climbers to conceive the If your chickens feel mad, let them |“T will maintain” {mpulse, and jTead the pictures in the seed cata- | she had escaped at birth that over. |legs being mailed out powering sense ef superiority that HEALTH HINTS. " carks the souls of high and low Boston cops captured 9,600 pints | ine py, lof hair tonic. When drinking such, | lke, But 1t was the frst time use hair remover for a chaser. she had ever had the opportunity THEATER PAGE. to judge by any standards but Spooky plays are making the those in which she had been born ghost walk at-New York box offices. }and passed her life, As for Clay- Ghosts drink booze in © “Outward Bound.” That may be what made han barbie ee sentomen and them ghosts. Spooks play harps in | ‘Bt was the end of that phasé of “The Spook Sonata.” That may be |the matter as far as she was con- worse than drinking. cerned, Autoren eau : an FASHIONS. It was only tonight that she ha Pembina cae pees ene sre | News comes that a Dorchester | beem conscious of @ certain youth- (Mass.) man’s collarbutton is 33] fut eagerness as she, paced up and weather Johnson, in Wash wears no his own y your man's Wh years old). Ufjshoulasauit work: down the hall waiting to hear/him COMICS. run up the steps. She had paused Magnus Johnson wears no pa- once and laughed at herself as she MOVIES = ee ss , [Peatized that she was acting like a y Arbuckle is now a Buster| Then he isn't ready for burglars... |) Su eae legate wbeatene eurectcr undet he name of ETIQUETTE. was merefy a coldly—no longer 3ood,.s0 maybe he will Besides being impolite to chew jeven bitterly—disillusioned woman, POETRY tobacco at a dance, you seldom find |bored with this enforced inaction Walt Mason is starting a bank |® Place to spit. in New York, welcoming a little with the ine made on poetry, SPORTS. adventure to distract her mind proving g can happen. Dr. Coue, world’s champion. op- | fom its breoding on the misery she MARKETS. timist, is in America again. This Bediiett behind her in Europe, and Hartford (Mass.) man he has | may ‘revive the indoor sport of /on the future to which she had eeiibo. Heav We to ask} atguing with yourself over how you |committed herself. And a mid- him about coal prices therey SOCIETY. Since a Chicago University sor says it is all right for g smoke, Miss Livewire has quit. on hearing a Los Angeles And zourt awarded a girl $10,000 for a stolen kiss she said. “I got-an ice cream soda for one once.” ADVERTISING. Minneapolis man bit off his wife's night adventure! She had shrugged feel. Long ago his formula was her shoulders and laughed again shortened to “Well, I’m well.” ‘ as she had admitted him. e But she felt no disposition to ' A THOUGHT | |taugh as she sat alone in the chill- Es @\|ing room. She was both angy and {appalled to remember that she had | Man is like to vanity; his days /teit a quivering, almost a disten- Bre as a shadow that passeth away-\gion of her nerves e had sat re: 14azh. there with him in the silence and There is no limit to the vanity of | solitude of thb night. That she | this world. Each spoke in the wheel | had felt a warm pleasure in the \interest that betrayed him into Positive impertinence, and that a | sick terrot had shaken her when she saw that he was making up his mind not to see her again. She ear. Why let your husband get this | thinks the whole strength of | the hunery? Buy one of our concrete | wheel depends upon it.—H. W. Shaw. | frying-pans. Here is@ concrete ex- | = ample: You can cook with it or; Westminister hall is 240 feet long) argue over why you didn’t cook. | by 67 feet wide. EVERETT TRUE ANS WHEN X Come BUT I'M NOT GOING more than any man would do for Prissy if he were sane. 5 lie as your daughter, and not before. L : ¢ AH, THERE YOU ARE, EVERETT! L DROPPED IN TO SEG WERE OVT, So X DECIO had not betrayed herself for a mo- ment, she was too old a hand in the game of men and women for that, and she had let him go with- out a sign, secure in the confidence that he was at her beck; but she ; knew now, and her hands clenched and her face distorted as she ad- mitted it,-that if he had suddenly snatc od her in his arms she would have flamed into passion and felt herself the incarnation of youth and love. “ Incredible. Unthinkable. She! ‘What should she do? Flee? She had come to New York for one purpose only, to settle her financial affairs in the briefest possible time and return to the country where her work lay. But she had been detained beyond expectation, for the slow reorganization of one of the companies in which a large portion of her fortune was invest- ed would not be complete without herg final signature. There were other important transfers to be made, and moreover Judge Trent ad insisted that she become thor: ughly acquainted with her busi- ness affairs.and able to maiitain an intelligent correspondence witn her trustees when ho himself had retired! She had shown a remark- able aptitude for finance and he was mefciless in his insistence, de mending an hour of her time every day. a Business. She hated the word. What did it matter—— But she knew that {t did matter, and su- premely.': She might have ‘the Desuty,.. the-brains, ‘and the sex domination ‘o win. men to. her cL asian aie tes Things He Overlooked. _ BY CONDO xau, BUT You ED TO WAIT. (Nn LYFIND You out! to wait i! the jew ‘popular. songg,. (Of) News.' Published by arrangement with Pletures, inc. Watch for the ecreen version produced by Frapk Lloyd with Corinne Griffith as Countess Zattiany. Copyright 1928 by Gertrude Atherton That philosopher. who says no new heard many of , Astoclated First National tics, but she was well aware that her large fortune would be half the battle. It furnished the halo and the sinews, and it gave her the pewer to buy men who could not be persuaded. She had vowed that Austria should be saved at e could not go now. must remain for another month— two months, possibly. She was no longer in that undisciplined stage of youth when fight from danger seems the only solution, To wreck the lives of others in order to se cure her own peace of mind would make her both ridiculous and con- temptible in her own eyes, and si bad yet to despise herself. She would “‘stick it out,” “see it through,” to quote the vernacular of these curious American novels she had been reading; trusting that she had merely been suffering from a flurry of the senses . . . not so rémarkable perhaps. . . « But her mind drifted back to the past month. Senses? And if it were not that alone, but merely the inevitable accompaniment of far stranger processes . if it were what she had once so long sought and with such disastrous results . . . She had believed for so many years that it existed somewhere, ‘in some man . . - that it every woman’ ight - 4 « even if It could not last for ever. . . . But while it lasted! After all, imagination had its uses. It helped to prolong as well as create. . . . She sank back and closed her eyes, succumbing to an ineffable Isnguor. It lasted but a moment. she “She had been conscious of a youthful eagerness as she paced up and down the hall.” . ¢ started up with an exclamation of impatience and disgust; and she shivered from head to foot. The room was bitterly cold. There were only ashes on the hearth, xu Clavering turned hot and cold several times during his walk home. He had been atrociously rude, impertinent, If she hadn’t ordered him out of the house it must have been because she was a creature of moods, and he had merely amused her ‘for the hour. No doubt she would wake up in a proper state of indignation and give her servants orders. . . . Or—was she sincere when ‘she de- manded his friendship, willing to put up with his abominable man- ners, trusting to her own’ wit to defeat him, lull his suspicions? Friendship! The best thing. for him to do-was to avoid her like the plague. He hated to admit it, but he was afraid of her, not so much of falling in love with her and go- ing through tragedy, which was probably what it would come to, as of 'the terrible force so skillfully hidden in that white and delicate body, of -@ powerful personality fortified by an unimaginable past. She gave tie impression of a wom- an who had beensat grips with life and conquered it, from first to last. Formidable creature! An extraor- dinary achievement if true. But was it? Women, no matter how Deautiful, wealthy, highly placed and powerfully organized, got the worst of it one way or another, ‘When they fell in love they were apt to lose their heads, and with: that the game. Technique crum- bled. For a moment he imagined her in love, dissolved, helples: then hastily changed the subject, He liked women to be strong—hav. dng long since abandoned his ear- lier ideal of the supine adorant— but not too strong. Certainly not stronger then himself. He had met a good many “strong” women in the last twelve years, swathed, more often than not, in disarming femininity. A man hadn't a chance with them, man’s strength as a rule being all on the outside, = y| Women grew up and men didn’t That was the infernal truth, i (To Be Continued), Elsie Tells. Him. FATHER—What do you think of your new, mama, Elsie? SMALL DAUGHTER—Well, papa, if-you took her for new, I think you Got cheated.—Answers (London). she \ i MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 192° 4’