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y fi .must have been impressed with the effort of these young musicians. _ the institution. / “grounding in and a love for music of the better type. Never ~= Do you know anyone who uses snuff? PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. - - : Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - - - . = 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............ 5 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) .. rtrsrere 4 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).... 5. Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.............. 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) AWAITING MR. FALL Americans are noted for their sense of fair play. Hence, there is generally a willingness to await the completion ot the senate inquiry into the actions of Former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall in connection with the Teapot Dome Oil Lease. ‘ Mr. Fall’s case at this time appears very bad. He is on record before the senate committee in previous testimony as having said that in obtaining a loan to enlarge his ranch holdings in New Mexico he did not approach E. L. Dohney, cil magnate, or any of his friends. Yet Mr. Dohney tells the committee that he loaned Mr. Fall $100,000 a year before Mr. Fall permitted the government to lease certain California oil lands to Mr. Dohney. Mr. Fall also informed the committee that he obtained his $100,000 loan from Edward B. McLean, Washington, newspaper publisher and close friend of the late President Harding. But Mr. McLean telegraphed the committee that Mr. Fall returned his check for $100,000 without having cashed it. Archie Roosevelt, son of the late president and a wounded veteran of the World War, saw enough in the senate inquiry and in his capacity as a vice-president of one of the corpora- tions of Harry F. Sinclair, who obtained the Teapot Dome Naval Reserve Lease, to cause him to resign. Mr. Sinclair makes his denials from Europe, instead of before the com- mittee in Washington. 2 The former Secretary of the Interior retired from Pres- ident Harding’s cabinet. No explanation ever made of his retirement ever satisfied those curious to learn the facts. Many believed that President Harding believed that the Sec- retary’s actions were not in accordance with the high prin- ciples which should actuate a member of his cabinet, though without detailed knowledge of any wrong, and quietly asked Mr. Fall to resign. The former Secretary of the Interior, on the basis of con- flicting testimony before the committee, stands in a bad light. It is to be hoped that he may be able to do the seem- ingly impossible and clear his name. But it is also to be hoped that the senate committee keeps boring until every atom of truth in connection with the activities of the Secre- tary is brought to light. Publishers DETROIT Kresge Bldg. EIGHTEEN OF THE MOST LEARNED A most interesting referendum has been completed by the University of Washington at Seattle. The question sub- mitted was: ‘Who are the eighteen greatest men in point of learning and culture in history?” Following was the re- sult: Firs’ Adam Smith, economics; Second :—Beetho- ven, music; Third:—Dante, poetry; Fourth:—Darwin, bio- logical science; Fifth:—Da Vinci, art; Sixth:—Franklin, public service; Seventh:—Galileo, physical science; Eighth: —Goethe, poetry; Ninth:—Grotius, international law; Tenth:—Gutenberg, printing; Eleventh:—Herodotus, his- tory; Twelfth:—Homer, poetry; Thirteenth, Justinian, law and administration; Fourteenth:—Moses, religion; Fif- teenth:—Newton, mathematics and physics; Sixteenth:—- Pasteur, medical science; Seventeenth:—Plato, philosophy ; Eighteenth :—Shakespeare, drama. These decisions were made by the faculty of the uni- versity and the figures of these selections in marble or bronze will be used to typify knowledge and wisdom in the library of that seat’ of learning. For such purposes at least the referendum served well and the selections judged from practically every angle are well supported by weight of accomplishment. The referendum represents probably what a majority of professors would designate as the greatest of figures in their respective fields. Of course choice was limited to those who | had passed into history and for whom time had fixed a per- manent nitche in the annals of the world. | Musicians might not agree in the placing of Beethoven above some of the other masters and putting Da Vinci concensus of cultured opinion, but the selection is better than what ordinarily comes out of such a referendum. \ ELEVATING STANDARDS OF MUSIC | Those who were privileged to hear the most excellent concert given Thursday evening by the Gold Star band of the Agricultural College under the direction of Dr. Putnam | Twenty-four of the forty-five are freshmen at! This forcibly brings home the work of the secondary schools of the state in training young people in the mastery of the band instrument which of course gives them also a before in North Dakota has so much interest been shown in the establishment of high school orchestras and juvenile Bismarck has just undertaken this work and Dr. Putnam congratulated the school officials and others who are making this work possible. But it is a community effort and re- sponse should be hearty at.all times. No great outlay of money is‘needed. Not one cent in contributions has been asked. Every benefit given was worth more than the price, of admittance. - If North Dakota young people were not being trained as they are in Bismarck and other cities, the Agricultural Col- lege could never have twenty-four freshman in the band. It speaks volumes for the work being done in this line and should spur public spirited citizens to see that Bismarck has a juvenile organization of the very first rank. ‘ BIG SNUFF DEMAND Yet 30 million pounds of snuff a year are sold jn our country—three times as much as in 1890. . h The average pees feet Prt a Perec ge part of hat “goes on” in the Uni tes. Judging from some at ling revelations we've had,-this is all for the best. The of life is in illusion and delusion. 4 ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “But I take root with equal eise, Or shutters, chimneys, roofs or trees, \ Then hang head downwards, holding tight, And grow and grow with all my might. “E love the cold and wind and snow, The colder 'tis the more I grow, The sun's the thing I mostly fear, If he comes out I weep a tear “Like sour grapes I hang up high, Where you can't reach me; please don’t try It isn't as plain as plain can be!” But I shatter at the slightest touch long, I'm really not so very strong, I only live a day or two, So must be careful what I do. “To guess my name can’t be a task, It's clear as crystal if you ask, As to the point, why you must see That it’s as plain plain can be!” “Is it a snowball?” asked one of the Old Shoe Woman's caildren They grow in winter!” “How could it be?” said Nancy. “They don’t grow upside down.” ger if you push them along the ground. We children made one one time as big as a hundred water- melons.” ‘Yes, and besides snowballs don’t like the sun,” said another Shoe Woman child. “They melt when the sun comes out!” and sharp and hard,” “And a snowball isn’t. an icicle!” “An icicle it is,” declared the Rid- dle Lady. ‘And as it is likely to be a cold winter, Nick gets this pair of red mittens (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Ine.) said Nick. I think it’s & *" Editorial Review | > THE TRAIL OF POLITICS ing way of sticking question. While the Treasury ex- perts have not yet finished their estimate of the effect on revenue of the tax plan put out by Repr sentative Garner, the Secreta ses no time in pointing out i vicious principle. The evil lies in thinking of lowered taxes in terms of politics, not of business. De- fenders of the Garner cheme have pointed triumphantly to the fact that it would relieve some hun- dreds of thousands more taxpayers than would the Mellon proposals. But this has nothing to do w thoroughly studied and scien! effort to reduce and adjust taxation jfor the general good. It ought not to be a question of how to win most votes, but how to confer most benefits on the whole people. This point Mr. Mellon presses with tenacity and force. What will it profit.a man of small income to save $10 or $15 in direct Federal taxes, if at the same time the high ‘surtaxes are left in force, and com- pel him to pay out indirectly five or six times the amount of ‘his ap- parent saving? Secretary Mellon drives home the argument of the economic effect of unnecessarily high taxes. He shows again that the Treasury has had a larger rev- enue from lower taxes, and could probably have it in the future if to the main What do thing of this riddle, my dears? Nancy and Nick guessed ; as hard as they could when the Rid- dle Lady read it. It's @ riddle for a very cold day |*i grow, not like sweet pears and plums, ‘Neath su skies when summer comes, But in the winter cold and drear, Just overnight do I appear. “Nor do I bloom on bush or tree! Most any place will do for me, Like birdie with the ycllow bill, Tmuch prefer your window sill “Although I'm hard and sharp and} “No, but they get bigger and big- | “The Riddle Lady said it was long | & Representatiy Secretary Mellon has a provok-!g, ” SS oN ' ) = SS / PP RITA is % K> ‘ap ~ ce BAH Jove | BLOOMIN’ WeLI / ( \ . ATRY E | given the chance. In any dase, the | demonstration is complete that the i surtaxes of today have a killing ef- fect upon the investment of cap- ital, which in turn means that or- dinary people have to pay more for rent, railroad fares, clothing and food. The high surtaxes were a war measure. They should cease in times of peace To base tax re- duction upon political motjves can only confuse and bedevil the whole matter. Minor technical questions being put to one side for the mo- femente the severest condemnation of ‘the alternative plan fathered ‘by ye Garner is that it not economic but palpably polit- ica The personal controversy which or Couzens has r ed, with ecretary of the Treasury we pasgiby. But the Michigan Senator unconsciously gives away his case as regards itax-exempt securities | and the high surtaxes. He points to the very generous and commend- able gift which he made in 1919 to the hospitals and crippled chil- dren, in the form, of 400 sh of Ford Motor steck. With dividends at the rate of 35 per cent., this meant turning over an income of $140,000 a year To equal that re- turn on the tax-exempt first Lib- erty 314s he would have had to give a princéple sum of $4,000,000 As it was, he gave stock of a par value of $400,000 on “hich, if ihe had kept it, he would have had tu pay a yearly tax of $70,000. In! the hands of the hospital the stock would not the taxed at all. There could hardly be neater proof of Secretary Mellons contention that the high surtaxes invite escape in- to tax-exempt securities and re- duce-the Government’s revenue. New York Times. Sometimes He Must THE VICAR—Your sons are real- ly terrible, Mr. Little. Don’t you ever inflict a little corporal punish- ment on them? MR. LITTLE—No. I never have hit them except in defense.—London Opinion. 2FhoTangle a first in such a complicated field as art may not meet the LerTER FROM SALLY ATHERTON, you are married, and a man looks’ TO BEATRICE GRIMSHAW j DEAR BEE: You will say I never write you. unless I have something to tell you/| that is not particularly pleasant, aj problem which I do not trust my moral stamina to work out. Sometimes, dear, I have wondered why you cling to me. Women as a rule don’t like me. In fact, I think Leslie never cared particularly for me, she only tolerated me because of you, 1 guess I’m too independent te fit into those conventions which women make for themselves. Sam says that my moral standards are those of_a man, Then, of course, I ask him why shouldn’t they be and tell him Tam human. After that the fight is on again. e je I wonder jf it is true, Bee® that marriage“is a cure for love. You know all those old loves, Goethe, Heine and the rest—even old Dr. Johnson, who always seemed to me to be a perfect old pig of a mar— declared that marriage was of .all things the greatest cure for love. I have begun to think so. You know I was desperately in love with Sam when we worked to- gether in the office and we were both poor. Our combined salaries hardly sufficed to make us a home. That is another fallacy, Bee, that has. gained undeserved crederce. Two people cannot live as cheaply as one. It costs two people who are married more than twice as much as that for which one person could live alone. You always want to buy things for a permancnt home. You are always trying to add this and that to your home. You are never satisfied after marriage with a hell bedroom and cafeteria food. There are so many things to keep up after so dreadful, Bee, when he siops around in his stocking feet unshav- | en and collarless’on Sunday morning. | Oh, I know it is comfortable and I don’t blame him for wanting to do it. I know just exactly how I look in my disreputable kimona and bare, feet, Bee. You know I adore to go barefeet, my hair straggling about my face. There is) a kind of | let- down and rest to your mind in all this. Consequently I do not think that any two people should live together in such familiar—shall I call it—in- decency, as do most married people. T expect that is why all. those sinug editors of the women’s magazines in- sist upon telling a woman that under any circiinstances she must always look nice and greet her husband with a smile. When you add, Bee, this most onerous duty to trying to get his lordship’s breakfast and scrv- ing it daintily you know all the wo- men’s pages insist upon that) on a gray morning when you would give almost your very reputation to have a few minutes’ more sleep before you must get up and make ready for the office, it is too hard work. I belicve that no love under heaven stand up under it—at least mine has not. 3 A *Sounds teryible, doesn’t it, Bee? could |’ STRING FOOD City man won a spaghetti- rds, eat- ing 1 1 feet which is After using the holes in thi of spagHetti for m: ig 1422 dough- nuts, you would have enough holes left over to feed two .moths six months, FOREIGN NEWS “Keep cool,” is Geddes ‘advice to England. The price of coal makes this warning useless here. CALAMITY NEWS Earthquake was felt in Belkofsky, Alaska. It seems as if one hit the tovns name béfore this. SPORTS Alekhine, the Russian chess champ, played chess and had a tooth pulled at the same time. with- out taking an anesthetic for either, and without taking ether for an anesthetic, the pain of one prob- ably counteracting the pain of the other. CUSSING NEWS This is not about Congress. Prom- inent Portland (Ore.) woman called a jury something awful. FARM NEWS Peru (Vt.) man offers six farms rent free, but an ex-farmer tells us this is not cheap enough. FISHING NEWS Scientists found a whale’s rib in Trabuco Canyon, Calif. What an absent-minded whale! JAIL NEWS Got the peg in Winnipeg. Crook there had $1000-jewels in his peg leg. Cops pulled his leg. SCHOOL NEWS Study your spelling lesson or you are in for a bad spell. ‘ tT NOTICE MR. DAY BANQUET, — AND THE SUBIECT INS KYAUSTIBLS, ANOTHER QUEST But it is true nevertheless. I’ve tried it and I know. . When Sam was blind he couldn't see all the disorder of my toilet and my pity for him made me very len- ient when he looked unkempt. “willies” if I am not the pink of. perfection while he arrogates to himself the privilege of looking like a tramp about the house, ‘ ‘I'll fipish this letter later, Bee. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) But | now I know that I give him the |* HEVERYIHING ELSE, NOW LETS GIVE This EVERYBODY HERS WOULD INO Douet, Like TO HEAR FROM, HIM. MR. DAY, WOULD ‘You ENTERTAIN US with A FEW _ WORDS & ! LTRiep | ADVERTISING Read Tom Sims Newspaper. — It won't take you long because Tom -| Sims _ newspaper uses yo. bathing- girl pictur MUSIC NOTES Portland, (Me.) man stied a sing- ing school because’ it annoyed him. Maybe he can sue our landlord. EDITORIAL Irving Cobb's story about a dog chusing a rabbit and the weather so hot both were walking, isn’t so good for winter. We saw a turtle racing a snail and the weather so cold both got arrested for speeding. | MARRIAGES Women 4ré nice, but: many foolish, erse City, Mich., had no weddings this Leap Year. MARKETS Never count your chickens until you are their only sheik. LATE NEWS Wiping your lips when leaving a date keeps them from chapping. SOCIETY “Rats,” says Mr. Shriek, “may foretell a shipwreck, but they also foretell other wrecks. When my wife sees a,rat she acts as if she would kick the hijcket, but she kicks the chandelier instead.” ’ THE DANCES The waltz is growing popular again, perhaps because the jumpy, dances are so hard on noses. BRO, TOM’S KITCHEN Stomping steak with hob-nailed shoes makes it very tender. HOME HELPS Row of tacks will stop grandpa from sliding down the banisters. are has 3 [ EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO | (3. PRESENT AT THE- ve IS PRACTICALCY CimtitceE ss. AND, NOW, THIS BRINGS ME TO TONS “THAT'S Exactly WHAT IT Does ! ANO THES QUESTION Is, Row MANY WORDS IS_A ‘B “ssi Publishec by arrangement Pictures, Inc. SYNOPSIS. ae At a@ first night performance in New York, a beautiful young | oman attracts attention by rising end leisurely surveying the audi- ence through her glasses. Claver- |4ng, @ newspaper’ columnist, and his cousin, Dinwiddie, are particu- larly interested, Dinwiddie declar- ‘ng 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 | this ie Mary’s daughter, but all efforts to establish her identity prove futile. Clavering manages to meet her, ‘and she tells him she is the Count- ‘ess Josef Zattiany, a cousin of ''‘Mary Ogden's; that she had mar- ried a relative of Mary’s husband; that Mary is ill in a sanitarium in Vienna, He does not believe her story and frankly tells her so. Each ts eware of a more than passing in- terest in the other, Clavering, as time goes on, becoming so dis- traught over the affair that he goes for advice to his friend, Gora Dwight, a successful young novel- | fat. Dinwiddie, meanwhile, has | been continuing his investigations, | with discouraging results. s XVI (continued) “I've met some actresses that | had very fine manners indeed, and | also the entree.” “Well, they don’t measure up ac- cording to my notion, This girl is the real thing.” “Then why, in heaven’s name, doesn’t your Countess Loyos know anything about her? If Madame Zattiany is what she says she fs, they must have met in Viennese Society a hundred times. In fact, she would have been one of the notable figures at court.” “The culy explanation I can think of is that Madame Zattiany 4s all that she claims to be, but that for some reason or other she is not using her own name.” “Ah! That is an explanation. But why—why?” ““There you have me . . . un- less... Ah!” The famillar glit- ter came into his eyes and Claver- ing waited expectantly. This old bird had a marvelous instinct, “I have it! For some reason she had to get out of Europe. Maybe she's hiding from a man, maybe from the Government. Zattlany may be one of her husband’s names—or her mother’s. Of course Mary would be interested in her—with that resemblance—and help her out She knew her well enough to trust her, and somebody had to represent her here. Of course ‘Trent knows the truth and natur- elly would kéep her secret.” “Another plot for the movies |... still—tt'’s a plausible enough ‘explanation . Bm omen shouldn't wond But from whom is she hiding?” “Possibly from her husband.” “Her—her"— “Like as not. Don’t murder me. I think you'd better go to Florida | and stay there. Better still, marry Anne Goodrich and take her | along”— | Clavering had flung himself out ; Of the room. | xvit He charged down Madison Ave- nue, barely escaping disaster at the crossings in the frightful con- gestion of the hour; he was not only intensely perturbed in mind, but he was in a hurry. His column was unfinished and an article on the “authentic drama” for one of the Uterary reviews must be de- livered on the morrow. In the nor- mal course of events it would have ‘deen written a week since. He was furious with himself. Passionate, impulsive, and often unreasonable, hig mind was singu- ‘larly well-balanced and never be- fore had it succumbed to obsession. He had taken the war as a normal episode in the history of the world ‘dealing mainly in war; not ag a ‘strictly personal experience de- signed by a malignant fate to de- prive youth of its illusions, embit- ter and defdealize it, fill it with a cold and acrid contempt for mil!- ‘tarism and governments, convert !t ito pacificism, and launch it on a GERTRUDE ATHERTON. with Associated First National latch for the screen version’ produced by Frank Lioyd wigh Corinne Griffith as Counte i Copyright 1923 by Gertrude Atherton Zattiany. God knew what. Their ego had been slapped in the face and com- pressed into a mould; they were subconsciously trying to rebuild it to its original proportions by feel- ing older than their fathers and showerlng their awful contempt upon ‘those ancient and despicable joadstones, “loyalty” and “patriot- ism.” Writers who had remained‘ safely at home had taken the cue and become mildly pacifist. It sounded intellectual and it certain. ly was the fashion. Clavering, whose ancestors had fought in every war in American history, had enlisted in 1917 with neither sentimentalism, enthus!- asm, nor resentment. It was idle to vent one’s wrath and contempt upon statesmen who could not set- tle their quarrels with their brains, for the centuries that stood be tween the present and utter ba! barism were too few to have ac- complished more than the initial Stages ‘of a true civilization. No doubt a thousand years hence these stages would appear as rudi- mentary the age of the Neander. thals had seemed to the twentieth century. And as man made prog: ress so did he rarely outstrip itt So far he had done less for him- self than for what passed for prog- Tess and the higher civilization. Naturally enough, when the Frank- enstein monster heaved itself erect and began to run amok with seven. leagued doots, all the pigmies could do was to revert hysterically to Neanderthal methods and use the -Hmited amount of brains the intervening centuries had given them, to scheme for victory. .A thousand years hence the Franken. stein might be buried and man's brain gigantic. Then and thes only would civilization be perfect: ed, and the savagery and asininity of war a blot on the history of his tace to which no man cared to re- fer, But that was a long way off, When a man’s country was in dan, ger there was nothing to do but fight, Noblesge oblige. And fight without growling and whininf. Clavering had liked army disci. pline, sitting in filthy trenches, wounds, hospitals, and killing his fellow men as little as any decent man; but what had these surly grumblers: expected? To figh when they felt like {t, sleep in feather beds and shoot at targets? Disillusionment! Patriotism mur- dered by Truth! One would think they were fighting the first war in history. It was not the war they took aé- riously, but themselves. Like other men of his class and traditions, Clavering had emerged from the war hoping it would be the last of his time, but with his ego unbruised, hig point of view of life in general undistorted, and a quick . banishment of “hideous memories.” (His chief surviving memory was @ hideous boredom.) One more war had gone into his- tory. That he had taken an, in- finitesimal part in it instead of reading an account of it by some accomplished historian was merely the accident of his years. As fark as he could see he was precisely the man he was before he was sent to France, and he had only unmiti- gated contempt for these “war re- actions” in men sound fn limb and with no derangement of ‘the duct- less glands. ‘ As for the women, when they. began to talk their intellectnal¥ pacificism, he told them that’ jthetr new doctrine of unonresist- ance became them ill, but as even the most advanced were still wom- en, consistency was not to be ex- pected—nor desired, Their pa- cificism, however, when not mere affectation—servility to the fash- ion of the moment—was due to an obscure fear of seeing the world depopulated of men, or of repress. ed religious instinct, or apology, for being females and unable t fight. He was extremely rude. And now this infernal woman had completely thrown him off his balance. He could think of noth- ing else. His work had been de- Plorable—the: last week at all events—and although a#- month since nothing would have given him more exquisite satisfaction than to write a paper on the au- thentic drama, he would now be quite indifferent if censorship ha closed every theatre on Broadway. Such an ass, such a cursed ass had he become in one short month. He had tramped half the nights and a good part of every day try- ing to interest himself by the way- side and clear his brain. He might as well have sat by his fre and confused. but, strident groping after ‘Truth. . It was incredible to him ‘that any one who had read his- pests could be guilty of such jejuni- hy, and he attributed it to their ‘bruised but itching egos. After all, St bad been a middle-aged man’s » Not. a.single military reputa- ‘tion had been made. by any one of the millions of young fighters, - |-despite. promotions, citations and (medals. Statesmen and military -men long past their youth would alone be mentioned in history. | The youth of America was indi. ‘widualism rampant plug the, nation- al self-esteem, and the mass of ‘them today had nq family tradi- tions behind them—sprung from Outside the Law \| A salesmanlike looking :- inspector was surprised to find a dirty roller towel in the washroom. Indignartly he said to the landlord: ‘ é : “Don’t you know that it has been read a piffling novel. Nevertheless, until Gors Dw’ had brought her detached analytt- cal faculty to bear on his case, he had not admitted to himself that- he was {n love with the woman. He had chosen to believe that, be- ing unique and compact of mys- tery, she had hypnotized his inter- est and awakened all the latent chivalry of his nature—something the modern woman called upon, precious seldom, . He had felt the romantic knight ready to break a lance—a dozen if necessary—in case the* world r against. her, denounced her as an impostor. (To Be Continued) | \ against the law for years to put) up a roller towel?” “Sure, I know it,” replied the pro- prietor, “but no ex-posto law goes put up before the law was passed. Topeka Capital. rm. ree in Kansas, and that there towel was