The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 28, 1924, Page 2

. PAGE TWO THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. Foreign Representatives | G. LOGA CHICAGO Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, NEW YORK lished herein. Iso reserved. N PAYNE COMPANY BURNS AND SMI TH DETROIT | Kresge Bldg. 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- OE er ee et ene MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION ‘ SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE _ Daily by carrier, per year. , Daily by mail, per year (in E Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bism ' Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota... THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) CONFI in thi ate is regrettable. seen the ine willing to face the facts. TION BEGINS The closing of three mills of the Russell-Miller Company } ‘ But it ought not to be surpr ing—at least to those who have trom the first clearly for- | itable result of state socialism and have been $7.20 oe ea) 5.00 6.00 No more conclusive evidence of the folly of the program is needed than this announcement of a great flour milling company, backed by ample capital. But it must-not be taken] 4 as the final result of state socialism — it is just the begin- ning. What do the people of the state gain and what do ther lose? Take the farmer. There has been hauled to the Russell- Miller mill here wheat from a distance of 30 miles or more, | because a wagon market, created by the fact that the wheat is ground here, has resulted often in the farmer receiving a premium on his wheat. He gains the difference between cost of the wheat here and its cost in Minneapolis after be- ing transported 450 miles and handled. farmers now will lose this. The Burleigh county So do the Stutsman county farmers and the Barnes county farmers—many of whom doubtless voted to create the state mill at Grand Forks. Take the taxpayer. The Russell-Miller Company has paid It has probably paid more on its larger Jamestown mill and its Valley City more than $1,000 annually in ta mill. That is lost. up by the other taxpayers load placed on the taxpayers xes here. by placing It means the difference must be made And this is in addition to the $3,000,000 of non-taxed capital in Grand Forks, in paying interest on the bonds for the state mill, in making up the losses of the plant. Take the business man. ployes of the mill. Take the laboring men. "their jobs. He loses the trade of the em- specialists in the milling industry, must sacrifice their homes and become involved in hea work. Who gains? y expense moving and seeking No one has got materially cheaper flour because of the state mill. gainer apparent m Private initiative is dealt a blow. ly isethe city of Grand Forks y lose ultimately as we shall show. The only and that city The citizens of. that city may find they have sold their principles for a mess of pottage. The state mill at Grand Forks, at full capacity, can grind enough flour in two-thirds of one year to supply every family in North Dakota for the entire year. This is the statement of experts. While those who suggested the state mill had visions of the creation of an increased demand for North Dakota wheat, and a consequently increased price, by les in other states and foreign lands, the manager, C. E. Austin, announced publicly that North Dakota must bé considered the logical market for the flour of the state mill. known that the mill wa: establish a market—a which, by the way. ‘ floor of Congress and in the courts. If the state mill seeks to capture the entire North Da-| He allowed it to be selling flour at a loss in order to actice of destroying competition for ig Business” was assailed on the Publishers All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are These fellows are deprived of |- Many who have established homes, who are kota market, if it calls upon taxpayers to make up the losses | it sustains by selling flour in this state or other states at less than cost, it can and will drive out of business the 40 to 50 small flour mills dotting the state. The result is plain. Farmers in every séction will lose their favorable wagon market and will get less for their wheat; the business men will lose trade; laborers will have - to seek other employment; the taxpayers will have a deficit | to make up. The city of Grand Forks, which as a distributing cente depénds largely for its prosperity upon the prosperity o northeastern North Dakota may find its gain in the state mill offset by the blow dealt in its logical trade territory. The state mill is located on the eastern edge of the state. An example of what this means was pointed out in The Tribune news columns. Suppose the penitentiary uses Grand Forks flour instead of Bismarck flour. The wheat is hauled eastward. to Grand Forks and is hauled back as flour —a tribute of 61 cents per barrel is paid the railroads. ‘This will be true in other sections when other small flour mills aré.closed. The folly of locating the mill at Grand Forks is apparent. : None of the private mills in the state, many of whom are controlled by North Dakota capital, have protested | they have seen their business swept away by, the s' Yet their property is just as surely confiscated in free Amer- ‘ica aS* private property has been confiscated in Soviet ) Russia. though mill. The'plea was made in this state to give the state indus- to this program. en estopped en at aw We have found the whole thing w ; : tissslightly more than two years ago since those who took .gn:uncompromising stand against’ state. socialism, pointell'to the inevitable result, were charged with throwing wrenches and with being disturbers of the peace 1 ifare of the state. At that time the Nonpartisan Halal thinking, now ¢! 2 ‘was from plunging the state deep into debt been could not sell bonds, It was facing ruin because 0 continued and clossal mist: éd and. geheral stand: aga’ ts e time, if a broad. campaign in-ur en, some of the di might’ have been‘ avoided. . tries afair trial. The major political organizations agreed In view of the losses of ‘the state enter- prises,in view of the increasing tax burden they have brought,-in view of the latest evidence of. what state social- ism means, is it not time to say: “We have experimented. rong.” kes of its leade inst state soci who Ifa ism had of education isastrous. results of the ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “Ho, Ho, Missez Cross Pateb,” the Riddle Lady next da riddle for you to gu © where you like to sit and spin. ut I never did think you were as selfish as.the piece about you says.” “Em you don't,” answered 2 Cross Patch gratefully, Lyust love to have company in to tea, T never drink it up and then ask in the neighbors, But what is the riddl “Here it is!” id the Riddle Lady: “Crackle! Crackle! What am 1? Winking with my cheery eye, | Beckoning you to come to tea, And sup with pussy-cat and me, “Pussy purrs the loveliest tunes In the winter afternoons. We don’t bo! with the weather, {We love so be together, should hear it! ave some’ toast it’s my boast). and sputter, on the but- “Old Jack Frost just cannot bear ne, But T never let him scare me, As he | » street, | Nipping kiddie s and feet. “They come f And run to keep T roar flash and hiss, | They know that it's just a kiss. in he storm “I'm the cook's most trusted friend. I bake things for her without end. But the stov place for me, T love the hearth where folk tea “Where pussy purrs and kettle sings, And people talk of many things, And kiddies come and “warm their Sometl¥ng that is just as bad for an egg as a stone-wall. In fact when the Riddle Lady mentioned toast I had to groan. For it can poach an egg and put it on toast and boast about it.” “I thought x0,’ But she said it loud everybody to, hear. “I was just going to say the an- swer,” spoke up Missez Cross Patch tartly, “And now you'ye spoiled my chance for a prize.” But just then she caught the Riddle Lady's eye. “I mean,” she corrected herself, “that I am very glad you guessed the answer.” “That's right, smiled the Riddle Indy. “And I'm going to give the prize instead of Nancy. I nice copper tea-kettle. Now you can have all the tea parties you want, and invite the. Twins.” (To Be Continued) enough for you ‘Editorial Review | if ! i ° > AN ANCIENT SPEA v Y The 104th anniversary of the day of his birth~found Koppel Bier of Hoboken, hale and hearty. So well did he fem in spite of his century and twenty-fifth of that he put ina day's work at his dutcher shop. Unfortunately’ he did not stop at that and remain a strong, . silent man. He talked. Asked by those delegated by the 8 to discover facts for the edi- fication and delight of their read- ers he gave his opinion as to the way to live to escape an eafly death and reach what might well be termed a ripe old age. He suggested going to bed at 7 o'clock in the evening and arising t 5 o'clock in the morning. Un- pleasant as such a program would be to many, it is probably excellent advice. He urged those’ wlio want- ed ‘to reach the century mark to eat plenty of meat: Other scien- “Here is It's the} “for | have | toes, And shake the snowflakes off their clothes. “I can guess what it is," whispered Humpty Dumpty to Nancy. “But! it’s a name I don't care to mention. |* “Then it is a fire!” said Narey.|_ *| strong and lusty; e) living | @ . THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE . 4 men mee | i i i} | 1 i | | | i i | | | | | It’s Going to Be Hard Traveling © i ists, or at least some of them, isagree here. If he had stopped there he might rightly have expected to see his It ia name along stde of other centen- ans, honored, revered, respect- ed, the toast*-though that is hard- ly the proper word—of those who it at the feet of the aged p and acquire khowledge and so yeurs. But no. Possibly the first hundred years been harder on his mental equipment than on his mor- tal frame. There are those, finally convinced that he was not alto- gether wicked, depraved and base, who would explain his case by saying that his mind is wandering. H6 not only urged the early-to-bed and early-to-rise motto and cating of much meat, but he added, “Smoke and drink as much as you ; want.” : How different he than Polonius, so often quoted as having said: .. 3 Though I look old, yet | am For in my youth J never did apply blood. ee my ee Therefore age lusty winter. is as a It was not his fault that he dit |mot reap a still further extension of years and that Hamlet's: sword made an end at once of his ci living and wise homilies. Mr. might well have read Shake: when a boy, and who shall what old age “serene and bright and lovely as a Lapland night” he might -not in time have reached. ~Hartford Courant. refui A THOUGHT | ry The hoary head is a crown of | glory, if it be found in the way ‘of | righteoupness.—Prav. 16:31. Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that re- | mains.—Robert Collyer. , Sounds Serious. It was reported yesterday that Skeriff Williams, whose case was to; come up following the Willard case, was iff at his home with influence. | Whether the sheriff's illness is} serious is not known.—Ringston | (N. C.) Morning News. LETTER. FROM SALLY ATHERTON TO BEATRICE GRIMSHAW, CONTINUED You know, Bee, Sam wouldn't eh hintself to any other person as un- tidy as he does to me for anything in the warld, yet I caw fully under- stand his attitude and if |he . were alone he would be all right. Tl may scem to you 2 very fogl- ish little thing, and perhaps tpere are people in the world who love each other so de¥6tedly, sd, passion- ately, that they can clothe each oth- er exquisitely in. their imaginations and blind their material eyes to all slovenliness and imperfection. I can’t do jt. “ All this, my dear, is a.kind of pre- lude to tell you I think Sam and I have come to the parting of the ways. We haven't eld each other \this yet, but I ain giire I bore him | quite as much as he does me. He has a sort. of shanjed.fecling that will not let him confess this to me, but I know when he hegins to tell m¢ what a wonderful, wife I was to. him during all the time he: was blind, he is trying: to salve his con- science for not being able to keep he wishes were miles away. - We never did have anything in common except the glanior of sex attraction. imp malevolent? -'She: to our cries—aftei she has‘ sentenced us to long y of unhappiness, and hatred, and other people unhappy. Yes, Bee, I am very bitter and 1 am riding any hobby perhaps to a fall. Anyway I have decided that Sam and'I are ruining both our lives by trying to liye together longer, He is growing belligerent and, arrogant and I am growing morose and cyn- ieal. 1 am losing my sense of humor, which is fatal. Sam never had one, Now I have a chance to go into the. office of Leslie's husband, Jack Prescott.’ This seems ® way oul—at lest, it wauld seem so if it wasn't Leslie's -hushand. I'd rather be among strangers. p Now, my dear, I come to the crux of the whole matter, All thes other stuff that T have been writing te you iz only a. prelude. Would you ger Tow silly of me to ask When our temperaments are so. different? but would you, ‘advise me to do it? If I can there without making Leslie feel that she must look. after my social well-heing I should like to do it. In’ dther words, if I could go a3 a stranger and just live my life us ‘I want to, it looks to’me now as thovgh it would be ideal. By the why, dear, wher are you going to Los Angeles and marry Dick and settle down? Pethaps for you matriage would be‘all right, but for me no more marriagé—at least ‘not for a while. “ * no pity mnt us. together Affectignately yours, : “SALLY the] S she goes her way mating and making |, EXTRA! POLE EXTRA! vome tax with an adding machine and produce a correct answer, * ADVERTISING, | One way te save ,cogl, is marry }a fat woman and sit, im her lap. Spending the winter in’ Africa will remove goose pimples. to Return Shimmy Region’s Visit Denby plans to send the airship enandouh to the North Pole next | I i spring. Can't go now. North Pole SPORTS isn’t at home., It is spending this] French Boxing Federation has winter the United States. ruled fighters must ‘not kiss at the Only st night the North -Pole| end of a bout. Thus an old French slept with us “Hadn't you better go home and] great sport, pugilism. get ready for Mr. Denby?” we chat- BANK NOTES. tered. ‘No,” said the North Pole,| President of a Jersey bank is snoggling closer, “the north pole} ouly 28, so how can he look mad | cats are “attending to things up enough for the job’? there.” EDITORIAL al fr ing if she is a warm mama | have alcohol in the radiator you may add honey ‘to it. | to a little honey in the front seat is very dangerous. f tpcky University music h ——+ [~ EVERETT TRUE BYCONDO | (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Ine.) t so wide a few fill a street car and ying custom ends. It shook us awake y this morning AIRPLANE NEWS A good rule works both way wirrors you. haven’t..broken. BRO. TOM’S KITCHEN. Adding tabasco sauce to the cof- fee will keep it hot. COMICS. ng legal authority on Seven months until August. FASHIONS / ; ‘ Men's spring straw lid brims are in place of , “I want to know why a cohol to keep the’ radiator from ys Sir Taxes?” cezing. Also, a little honey sin the LADY HELPS. ont seat may keep you from freez-| Don't let your husband or furnace If you| go out on a.chilly night. SOCIETY. Upon Tearning French boxers have been ordefed to stop kissing at the end of a fight, Mrs. Glublub said: e husband and I are American citizens and will pay no attention to this rule.” 7s BEDTIME STORY. But adding alcohol MUSIC NOTES, “Jazz_is like measles, s Ken- But is much more catchy. GARDEN NOTES. Maybe Burbank could cross the in- | di vorce tomorrow, you Eskimo” SIF You MUST STRIKS SMATCHSS ON WOODWORK, SCRATCH THEY ON XOUR, HEAD — ig Rules are slowly } ably, teking all the danger out of the once 122d won in some sequestered spot If O., gets the Pulitzer} you break a mirror it means seven sic for next fall. It will rs bad luck. So if. you don’t! mirror it must -mean seven good luck. Think of all the “Open that window and I get a oa} | Published by arrangement Pletures, Inc. Lloyd with Corinne Griffith as Copyright 1923 by SYNOPSIS | Ata first night performance in |New York, a beautiful young } woman attracts attention by rising and leisurely surveying the audi- 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 manages to meet her, and ske finally tells him she is the Countess Josef Zattiany, a cousin of Mary Ogden’s; that she had married q relative of Mary’s hus- band; that Mary is ill in a sanita- rium in Vienna. y, Clavering does not believe» her story and next time he sees her frankly tells her so. As time goes on he becomes so distraught over the,whole affair that he finally goes for advice to his friend, Gora Dwight, a young novelist, who as- sures him that he ts in love with Madame Zattiany. , Dinwiddie, meanwhile, has been continuing his investigations and makes the suggestion that Madame Zattiany is in America’ tinder an assumed name, possibly hiding from her husband. bas ence through her glusses. XVII (continued) True, she seemed more than able to take care of herself, but she was very beautiful, very blonde, very unprotected, and in that wistful second youth he most admired. He had thought himself the chival- rous son of chivalrous : Southern- ers, excited and not too happy, but convinced, at the height of his rest- lessness and absorption, that she was put a romantic and passing episode in his ‘tife. : When Gora Dwight had ruthless- y led him into those unconscious- Y guarded secret chambers of his soul and bidden him behold and ponder, he had turned as cold as it ‘ce-water were running in his veins, although he had continued to smile indulgently and had an- swered with some approach to jocularity. He was floored at last. He'd got the inferhal disease in its most virulent form. Not a doubt of it. No wonder he had deluded himself. His ideal woman—whom, preferably, he would have wooed |beautified by nature, not made hid- jeous ‘by man—was not a wonlan at afl, but a girl: twenty-six was Aan ideal age; who had read and stud- {fed and thought, and seen all of the world that a girl decently may. He had dreamed of no man’s leay- ings, certainly not of a woman who jhad probably had more than one lover, and, no doubt,..would not take the trouble to “deny it. He hated as much as he loved her and he felt that he would rather kilt than possess her. It was half an hour after he reached his rooms before he fin- ished striding up and down; then, with a final anathema, he fiyng himself into a chair before his ta- ble. At least his brain felt clearer, now that he had faced the’ truth. Time ereugh to wrestle -with his problem when he had won his leisure, If he couldn't switch her off for one night at least and give his brain its due, he'd despise him- self, and that, he vowed, he’d never do. He wrote steadily untt two in the morning. 7 3 XVI He awoke at noon. His first tm- pression was that.a large .black bat was sitting on his brain. The darkened room seemed to contain a visible presence ef disaster. He sprang out of béd and took a hot and cold shower; hobgoblins fled. although be felt no inclination to sing! He called down for his breakfast and opened his hall door, A pile.of letters lay on his new papers, and the topmost one, {n large envelope, addressed in a flow- ing meticulously fine hand, he knew, without speculation, to be from Madame Zattiany. He threw back the curtains, set- tled himself in an armchair, read | his other letters deliberately, and glanced at the headlines of the pa- pers, before he carefully slit the envelope.that had seemed to. press his “eyeballs. The time had come Moreover, ho ‘was afraid of it. What—why had she written to him? ‘phoned? missal? His breath was short and letter. & It’ was sufficiently commonplace. ; “Dear Mr. ‘Clavering: — ‘hope you have not Cdlled: at balf after eight. 1 shall oak any ong-efse. 3 ‘incerely, - 3) SHARD ZaTriany.” So her name struck. him,once or twice ag hu- morous GERTRUDE ATHERTON for self-discipline, consistently ex- | ercised. Why hadn't she tele- Was this a tardy dis- ; his hands shaking as he onaned the “Ihave been in Atlantic City for a few days getting rid ‘of a cold. 1 will | you dine with ‘nie’ tontorrow night not was Marie., It had| it he didn’t know the with Associated First National Watch for the screen version produced by Frank Countess Zattiany. Gertrude Atherton ‘ first name of the woman who was demanding his every waking thought. And ghe had ‘been out*of town and unaware that he had de. liberately avoided her. Had, taken for granted that he had been po-« lite enough to call—and had left his cards at home. Should he go? He'd have his breakfast first and do his thinking afterward. He did ample justice to the breakfast, which was also lunch, read his newspapers, cursed the printers of his own for two type- graphical errors he found in his Feeling as normal and unromantic as a man generally does when di- gesting a meal and the news, he concluded that to refuse her invita. tion, to attempt to avoid her, in short, would not only be futile, as he was bound to respond to that magnet sooner or later, but would be a furtjier confession of coward- ice. Whatever his fate, he'd see it through. He gave his acceptance to tha butler, went out and took a brisk walk, returned and. wrote his col- umn for the next day, then visited his club and talked with congenial souls until it was time to dress for dinner. No more thinking at pres. ent. Nevertheless, he ascended her steps at exactly half-past eight with the blood pounding In his ears and his heart acting like a schoolboy’s in his first attack of calf love.* But he managed to com. pose himself before the footman leisurely answered his ring. It there was one point upon which he was primarily determined it was ta keep his head. If he gave her a hint that she had reduced him to a state of imbecility before his mo- ment came—ig it ever did!—his chances would be done for—dish- + ed. \He looked more saturnine than ever as he strode into the hall. 4, “Dinner will be served in the library, sir,” said the footman. “Madame will be down fn a mo- ment.” A tete-a-tete by the fire! Worse and worse. He had been fortified by the thought of the butler and footman, An hour under their su- pereilious eyes would mean the most impersonal kind of small talk. But they’d hardly stand rourd the library. if However, the small table before the blazing logs looked very cosy , and the imposing room was full of mellow light. Two Gothic chairs had been drawn to the table. They. at least, looked uncomfortable enough to avert sentiment. Not that he felt sentimenta?. He waz holding down something a good deal stronger than sentiment, but he flattered himself that he looked as saturnine as Satan himself as he warmed his back at the fire. He hoped she had a cold in her head. But she had not. As she entered, dressed in a white tea gown of chiffon and lace, she looked like a |moonbeam, and as if no nforial in- disposition had ever brushed her |in passing. ¢ Instead of her pearls |she wore a long thin necklace of diamonds that seemed to frost her kown. She was smiling and gra- cious. and infinitely remote. The effect.was as cold and steadying as | his morning’s icy shower. He shook her hand firmly. ry syou've been seedy. Hope | didn’t lay you up.” | “Oh, no. I fancy I merely want. ed an exeuse to see Atlantic City. It was just a touch of bronchitis and fled at once.” “Like Atlantic City?” “No. It is merely am iterminable line of ostentatiously rich ‘hotels on a board walk! Noné ‘of tho grace and dignity of Ostend—poor Ostend as it used to be. The digne was one of the most. brilliant | Sights in Europe—but no doubt | you have seen it,” she added po- litely. y “Yes, I spent a week there: once, |, but Bruges interested me more. I was very young at the time.” “You must have been! Don’t you like to gamble? The Kursaal sould he very exciting.” “Oh, yes, I like to gamble occa. sionally.” (God! What banal talk!) “Gambling with life, how- | ever. is a long sight more exciting.” “Yes, is it not? Atlantic City might do you good. You do not look at all well.” i “Never felt better in my life. A bit tired. Generally am at this time of the sear. May take a run down to Florida.” “TY should,” she said Politely, “Shall you stay. lohg?” _ “That depends.” (Presence of servants superfluous! “Are you fond of the sea?” “I detest {t—that boundless flat gray waste. -A wild and rocky coast in a terrific storm, vert not that moving gray plain that comes in and falls down, comes In and falls down. It fs the moun. tains I turn to when I can., I often long for the Austrian Alps.‘ The Dolomites! /The translucent greed Takes like enormous emeralds, sparkling ‘in the sun and set in white walls. A glimpse of pine forest beyond. ‘The roar of an ava. lanche in the night.” (To Be Continued) ae “Sor. it you? wi eee. ‘COND STUDENT—They ought | gere to argued with them a whole LN hour about Gaboon, ’ it. ‘ | Well Informeg, FIRST SreREN EA you sure your folks kpow I’m coming home Hamilton Royal | must hays es pila 3 . Clever Deduction. _: “Bay, ain't you de teller vat I-met y in Philadelphia 2” , . “Philadelphia? 1 ain't never, been “Welly neider shave I. T guess it: been. two, odder felloys . Colgate firs Fak APRs . 1 column, then called up her bonse, uy —~_ |