The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 1, 1924, Page 4

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 Publishers CHICAGO Marquette Bldg. 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. 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The Tribune’s attitude on the place of party responsi- bility in our system of government and its estimate of the effect of the laws in this regard is too well known for repeti- tion at this time. As a newspaper, The Tribune will seek to lay before its readers the question and the arguments : both for and against the laws so that the voters may reach their decision after mature deliberation. They ‘are the final arbiters in this question, which is an important one, and it is to be hoped that the question will merit their most serious study. DETROIT Kresge Bldg. | NOT LIKELY TO SUCCEED It is only natural that the Democrats in Washington should utilizé the Teapot Dome oil inquiry as the basis for a frontal attack upon Mr. Coolidge, who has been found to wear few weak places in his political armor. -It is, however, rather more convincing of his political eagerness than of his fears for the country’s safety, that one reads the loose words of Cordell Hull, chairman of the Democratic National committee. Perhaps Mr. Hull depends greatly upon the short memory of the voter, whom he doubtless hopes wiil not contrast the war fraud scandals of the Wilson adminis- tration with the oil muddle. President Coolidge has lost no time going to the heart of the Teapot Dome situation. There has been no hesitancy upon his part of placing the full force of the government behind the most searching investigation. He did not mince word: He merely announced he would select two eminent lawyers, one from the Republican and one from the Demo- cratic party, to investigate with a view of bringing criminal action. Certainly there is no evidence that the President intends to fail in his duty; rather there is displayed again the incisive determination of the President to punish wrong doing. Tt was, also, only natural that the Democrats in the Senate should immediately train their guns on Mr. Denby, with a view of embarassing the President. Mr. Coolidge is in a rather trying situation. Secretary Denby is not his own cabinet appointee, but was the appointee of Mr. Hard- ing. Doubtless he will not feel as free to act with either Mr. Denby or Mr. Daugherty as he would with his own ap- pointees. There has been nothing produced thus far that tends to show that Mr. Denby was culpable. The country will expect both Mr. Denby and Mr.,Daugh- erty, however, to sacrifice themselves rather than to become a load on the shoulders of the President, should the situation proceed to a point where it appears that they are an em- barassment regardless of their culpability. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON Put on your thinking caps, ev. body," said the Riddle Lady. “It’s going to take a lot of thinking to day to guess the new riddle I've made up.” “I'm r “So am “So are we and the Tuckers und the nd the Crooked Man and the Widow undy and the Peter Peterses and aid the Riddle Lady. “Like Jack's maic beanstalk, 1 grow very high, And so thin that my ribs are quite plai | But I've never yet managed to quite touch the sky, Or discover the giant's domain, “But L look with great ease o'er your high garden wall, | J can see in your window at night, Ani to lean on your chimney’s no effort at all, So enaxmously great is my height. “At house-cleaning time in the spring of the year, I have barrels and barrels of fun, For I help with the painting andj serubbing, my dear, | And I'm in much demand till it's done. “I help to hang awnings and tack j on the ‘sercens, | And see to it that curtains are | straight; For cleaning the wall-papers I am the means, Oh, house-cleaning time is just great! | “And as for adventures I've many a thrill; When loudly blows, I rush like the wind and then brave- ly stand still, While the firemen climb up witn » the hose. the fire whistle “Sometimes I have two legs and | often I've four, | But I boast of no muscle at all, Divided I stand when I’m set on the floor, But united I'd be sure to fall. “Though high, I am lowly, I'd ne'er} raise my eyes To positions of honor and fame. n the world IT have helped many people. to rise, But they all step on me just the same. “T'll_bet you I know what it is,” cried Wee Willie Winkle. “Becaus: when I run around the town at night semetimes I have to have one to reach the children’s windows and tell them it’s bedtime. It’s a ladder.” “Yes nodded the Riddle Lady. “That's right. And you fet the prize. A hice new magic ladder of your own.” (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) (es | INCOME TAX | Ct —+ STATE INCOME TAX LAW Following is one of a series of-ar- ticles covering provisions of the state income tax law prepared by the state tax department. COMPUTATION OF THE TAX Under the amended income tax law of 1923 the rate of tax i$ graduated from one to six per cent. On the first $2,000..0f taxable income the rate of tax is 1 percent. On net income in excess of $2000 above exemptions and not in excess of $4,000 the rate of tax is 2 percent. On net income in excess of $4,000 above exemptions and not in excess of $6,000, the rate of tax is 3 per- cent. On net income in excess of $6,000 above exemptions and not in excess of $8,000 the rate of tax is 4 percent, On net income in excess of $8,000; above exempi@ons and not in excess | ANCIENT EGYPT Those ancient Egyptian undertakers certainly stowed King Tut’s mummy away where it was hard to reach. Aq Months of effort, tunneling in, breaking through masonry, 6 walls, then penetrating to the inside of an elaborate series | of coffins inside coffins. Maybe you wonder why Tut was hidden so intricately. The answer is: The Egyptians believed that the soul, 0 c Pi to an exemption of $1,300. f $10,000 the rate of tax is 5 per- ent. ‘On net income in excess of $10,000 bove exemptions the rate of tax is percent per thousand. A single individual not the head of a family but having one person de- | endent upon him or her js entitled In case uch individual had a net taxable after death, transmigrated into a series of lives as beasts, income amounting to $5,000, the eom- birds and fishes. After 3000 years, the soul was supposed natetion of the tax would be as fol- to return to its original human body provided that body still |'°¥* remained undestroyed. Egypt. The conversation usually winds up with the pyra-’ 1 mids and the unanswered mystery of why these tremendous 2: stone structures were built. 3 The Arabians of long ago believed that the pyramids were erected by King Saurid, before the Noah’s Ark Flood, as a refuge for him, his favorites and his court records. i Josephus, writing in the year 71, said the pyramids were built by the Jews during their captivity in Egypt. Net income Exemption . King Tut’s mummy has started a lot of interest in ancient: “ sees $5,600, sense 1,800 mount of income sub- ject to tax .. wee 4,300 % on first $2,0 ° '% on second $2,000 ... %o on $300 $20.00 “Total Tax In the case of a married individual living with husband or wife and hav- ing three children under the age of Qne theory is that the pyramids were constructed as observation places for astronomers. they were temples to various Egyptian gods; or monuments to kings. Aristotle’s theory, which has the most followers, was that the pyramids were built “to keep the people well employed 18 years dependent upon him or un- der the age of 21 years in case the children are attending educationai in- stitutions, the exemption would be ; $2,000 for husband and wife and $300 for each additional dependent, n:ak- ing a total exemption of $2,900. In case such individual had a net in: come of $9,300 the computation of Another notion is that and poor,” because “it suits tyranny to reduce its subjects to poverty, that they may not be able to compose a guard; and that, being employed in procuring their daily bread, they may have no leisure to conspire. against their tyrants.” If so, it was a sure-fire system, for Pliny recorded that it kept 860,000 slaves busy for 20 years building the Great Pyramid alone. . Modern industry reminds us, in some respects, of pyra- mid building. s BATTLE AGAINST LIQUOR The battle against liquor is thousands of years old. In ancient Sparta the Helots (lowest grade:of slaves) were kept beastly drunk to arouse in Spartan youths a feeling of dis- gust against intoxication. We find this in an ancient volume. The best and cheapest booze cure would be to take a moyie of a man, “in his cups” and show it to him when sober, . It’s\awonder the dry crowd have not used this idea in their da, the same as “Ten Nights in a Barroom” was ores former generation. the tax would be as follows: Total net income $9,300.00 Exemptions « 2,900.00 Amount of income to tax 1% on first $2,000 2% on second $2,000 8% on third $2,000 4% on $400 .... fA THOUGHT Sea e if ATHOUGHT | e He that hath knowledge his words: and a man of understand- spareth ing is of an excellent spirit—Prov. 17:27, subject » 6,400.09 -$ 20.00 40.00 60.00 | 16.00 Total Tax . +o+$ 136.00 Not only is there an art in know- ing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.—Cicero. \ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE => ey Sa ZZ TENG DIS | Getting Ready for His Coming-Out Party | vas i T ality, a s , Many more blocks? The snow was .... STATION FAD CALLING.. Newspapers announee a radio de-) vice for curling hair. | All right girls, tune in on a marcel wave. You can expect some local inter-| ference if bobbing for the first time. | Dad and ma will provide loud speak- | | s traisformers, try putting the switch on and off. | No need to tell you to avoid fre- | quency or static in sty | | i | ion FAD signing off. DAILY SKOFF. i FFCAR—A bird that gives er the laugh. A dame that turns | movie) invitation, for a DAT down your dinner bid. SKOFFTOMB—A guy that runs in front of autos and strect cars on slippery street. | SKOFFPRUN: 4 boarding ho’ concerning it. EDITORIAL SHORTS. This time it was the oil that trou- bled the waters, People who work in gas stations shouldn't throw matches. When it gets too cold to swear— it's time to go to Florida, tors who tell us their troubles are weleome evet 2 COURT b New York lawyers asked an aliem- a 20,000-word hypothetical ques- on, Didn't bother him at all. He has a small boy at home, ADVERTISIN Our want ads bring Vietim either of or the ancient joke well ious d shoe. eAhicTangle. LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT, TO RUTH ELLINGTON, ' CONTINUED It was nearly a week, however, Ruth, before Jack acted as though he had forgotten what he had asked me about you. In the meantime it was very uncomfortable about our house. He did not pay a particle of atten- tion about little Jack, because you see I had countered his inquiries about you with inquiries about little Jack’s parentage and that always brings the blood to Jack's face. I wonder if I had a woman“friend that I would protect her as Jack does Sydney Carton. Some day he will have to tell me all about this Paula Perier's and Sydney's affair but just now there is nothing that | makes him so angry as any rcfer- ence to it. In time, however, act as though he had dismissed you | and your affairs as tri I think | in his own mind he had come to the conclusion that Harry had sent you some money and with my conni- vance you had kept it from his credi- tors, So you see where you get off with him after he finds you prowl- ing around in my safety vault trying to deposit a nice roll of bills—that) safety deposit vault in which he is not privileged to intrude, Iam so glad you have the pearl, dear, but to tell the truth I wish Karl Whitney had them—had never been so silly as to have given them to me. I do not know why I did no} send them to Alice. That would have saved me a heap of trouble. Before I come home I am going ta try and see if I can buy back thosé pearls I sold. Then I can send thé whole string back to Karl and he can give them to whom he pleases. Of, course I shall have to tell Jack that I lost them or make up some other story to account for their loss, I wonder, dear, if such foolish little es as Karl’s giving me thid i of pearls can make such great perils in the married life of other people. ‘ You see, everything is perfectly les gitimate and all right about them, There is-no other man considered in the case, The triangle is just Leslie and Jack and a string of pearl beads, It really is to laugh, dear, and yet I have a premgnition that some day something is going to happen that will make me’wish I had never scen them. Dad and mother left yesterday and after I have made the purchases you wish me to make for the shop and looked up my chances of getting the pearls back, I shall leave for home. Presume I will leave tomorrow morn- ing. b Our friend Prissy (what a lovely name that is for her) has returned to Mother Prescott with all her venom intact, for I do not see her about the hotel any more, I want you to meet’ that nice Englishman that I wrote you about. He says he is coming to our town.| You will like him ,Ruth, He is a real man. Until I see you, Lovingly, LESLIE. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) | cate our own pipe, but scores of peo- | ple have brought in pipes they found | and suspected of being ours. We not only have future Christ- mas presents but far better pipes than the one we lost. LEGAL NOTICE, Some lawyers you hire; and some you support for the rest of their lives. FASHIONS. Announcement that derbies are to be all the style again will put a lot of mothballs out of jobs. Which raises the delicate question: what would mothballs do for a living | if trunks hadn’t been invented. MUSIC. P. Liguattarri, trombonist extraor- dinary, received a distinguished dele- gatjon at his hotel last week. They asked him to rehearse in the theater hereafter. ART, Rumor has it that La Drauxe sold a painting last week. He paid his board bill. e SCIENCE. Experiments made on the latest thing in mouse traps indicate that they pinch ‘the fingers just as hard as the ancient varicties, i Editorial Review SHIRAM, THE HOPE OF THE WEST” “Hiram, the Hope of the West,” is the title given Senator Johnson ot California, who will make a; campaign in North Dakota before the March presidential «primaries. Johnson carried North Dakota four years ago, but it appears to The | Independent that ‘he will have! “tougher sledding” during the_ present campaign. For one thing, ‘the North Dakota farmers thave a great deal of confidence in the ef-' forts that. President Coolidge is) making in their behalf. The Pres-| ident in his message referred | ® muttered apology, when the girl ; Caught him by the arm with a light FRIDAY, Published "by arrangement Pictures, Inc. Lloyd with Corinne Griffith as Copyright 1923 by XX (continued) He walked down the avenue as rapidly as possible, his hands in his pockets, his head bent to the wind, no longer transported; fore- ing his mind to dwell on the warmth of, his rooms and his bed. His head ached, He’d go to the of- fice tomorrow and write his column there. Then think things out. How was he to win such a woman? Make her sure of herself? Convert her doubts into a passionate cer- tainty? She, with her highly tech- nical past! Make no mistakes? If he made a precipitate ass of him- self—what comparisons! His warm bed . . . the complete and personal isolation of his rooms . he had never given even a tea to women . he gave his dinners im restaurants. . . . How thicker. He couldn't even see the arcade of Madison Square Garden, although @ faint diffused radiance high in the air was no doubt the caown of lights on the Metropoll- tan Tower. . Had he made a wrong move in bolting——” His thoughts and counter- thoughts came to an abrupt end. At the corner of Thirtieth street he collided with a small figure in @ fur coat and nearly knocked it over. He was for striding on with laugh, “Lee Clavering! What luck! Take me home.” He was looking down into the dark naughty little face of Janet Ogtethorpe, granddaughter of the redoubtable Jane. FEBRUARY 1, 1924 years Bes! book ly Americats bes? woma LACK GERTRUDE ATHERTON (OXEN with Associated First National Watch for the screen version produced by Frank Countess Zattiany. Gertrude Atherton sandwiches, a slice of cake and two bananas. “Great heaven!" exclaimed Clav- erfog. “You must have the stom- ach of an ostrich.” ‘ “Can eat nails and drink fire water.” “Well, you won't two years hence, and you'll look it, too.” “Oh, no 1 won't. I'll marry when I'm nineteen and a half and settle down.” “I should say you were heading} the other way. Where have you been tonight?” “Donny Farren gave a party in his rooms and passed out just as he was about to take me home. [ loosened his collar and put a pil- low under his head, but I couldnt lift him, even to the sofa. Too fat. “IT suppose you pride yourself on being a good sport.” “Rather. If Donny'd been {11 I'd have stayed with him all night, out he was dead to the world.” “You say he had a party. Why didn't some of the others take you home?” “Ever hear about three being a crowd? Donny, naturally, was ail for taking me home, and didn't show any signs of collapse till the last minute.” “But I should think that for Gey cency’s ‘sake you'd all have gore down together.” “Lord! How old fashioned you are, I was finishing a cigarette and never thought of it.” She opened a little gold mesh » took out a cigarette and Mt it. Her cheeks were flushed under the rouge and her large black eyes glittered in her fluid little face. She was one of the beauties of the season’s debutantes, but scornful of nature. Her ollve complexion was thickly “What on earth are you doing here?” he asked stupidly, “Perhaps I'll tell you and per- haps I won’t. On second thoughts don’t take me home. Take me to ‘one of those all-night restaurants. That's just the one thing I haven't segn, and I'm hungry.” He subtly became an uncle, “I'll do nothing of the sort. You ought to be ashamed of yourself—alone in the streets at this hour of the night. It must be one o'clock. I shall take you home. I suppose you have a latch-key, but for two cents I'd ring the bell and hand you over to your mother.” “Mother went to Florida today and dad’s duck hunting in South Carolina. Aunt Mollie’s too deaf ‘0 hear doorbelis and believes any- | thing I tell her. “I am _ astonished that your @| mother left you behind to your own levices.” “I wouldn’t go. She’s given me \p—used to’ my devices. Besides, lve one or two on her and she floesn’t dare give me away to dad. He thinks I'm a darling spoilt child. Not that I'd mind much {f he didn’t, but it’s more convenient.” “You little wretch!. I believe rou’ve been drinking.” “So I have! So I have! But Uve\ got an asbestos Mning and could stand another tall one. Ah!” Her eyes sparkled. “Suppose you take me to your rooms——” “I'll take you home——” “You'll take me to one of those ticularly to the plight of the North | “l-nighters——” Dakota’ wheat farmers ‘and thas; “I'shall not” shown since that he is willing to; “Then ta ta! I'll go home by |myself. I've had too good a time EVERETT TRUE tonight to bother with old fogies.” She started up-the street and Clavering hesitated but a moment. Her home was on st Sixty-fifth street. Heaven-only knew what BY CONDO |might happen to her. Moreover, WELL, IF You'Re NOT HURT MUCH, COMe ON Go OVEE TO THS SIDEWALK, - WERE SHAVING CGVERETT TRUE. WHY Did He THROW — Xov ours WERE You TALKING ,Too MUCH ‘although her mother’ was one of} |those women whose ‘insatiable de- mand for admiration bored him. he jhad no more devoted friends than | her father and her grandmother. Futhermore,, his curiosity was jroused. What had the little devil | been up to? < | He overtook the Ogléthorpe flap- 'per and seizing her hand drew it through ‘his arm. “I'll take you where you can get @ sandwich,” he said. “But I'll not take you to a restaurant. Too like- ly to meet newspaper men.” “Anything to drink?” \“Ice cream soda.” “Good Lord!” “You needn't drink {t. But you'll get nothing else. Come along’ or Tl pick you up and carry you to the nearest garage.” ‘ She trotted obediently beside him, a fragile dainty figure: car- ried limply, however, and little more distinguished than flappers of | Inferlor origin. He led her to a rather luxurious delicatessen not far from his hotel, kept by enter- prising Italians who never closed their doors, They seated them-j selves uncomfortably at the high; counter, and the sleepy attendant | served them with sandwiches, then retired t@the back of the shop. He was settling himself to alert repose! when Miss Oglethorpe suddenly; changed her mind and ordered a chocolate ice, cream soda. Then! | she ordered another, and she ate six | 1 You SAY You TALKING. £ NO, £ WASN'T SAYING A WoRD. L NEVER \ ‘Lee Clavering! What luck! Take me home.’” powdered and there was a delicate smudge of black under her lower lashes and even on her eyelids. He had never seen her quite so bla- tantly made yp before, but then he had seen little of her since the ve- ginning. of her first season. He rarely went to parties, and she was almost as rarely in her own home or her grandmother's. Her short hair curled about her face. In spite of her paint she looked like a child—a greedy child playing with life. “Look here!” he said. “How far do you go?” “Wouldn't you like to know?” “I should, Not for personal rea- song, for girls of your age bore me to extinction, but you've a certain L sociological interest. I wonder it you are really any worse than your predecessors?” “I guess girls have always been human enough, but we have more opportunities. We've made ‘em. This {s our age and we're enjoying it to.the limit. God! What stupid times girls must have had—some of them’ do yet. They’re n@turally goody-goody, or their parents are too much. for’ them. Not many, though. Parents have taken back seat.” “ “I don’t quite see wiat you get out of it—guzzling, and smoking your nerves out by the roots, and making yourselves cheap with men Mttle older than yourselves.” “You don’t see, I suppose, why girls should have their fling, or’— her voice \wavered curiously— “why youth takes naturally to youth. I suppose you think that‘ts a criel thing for a girl to say.” “Not Im the least,” he answered cheerfully. “Don’t mind a bit. But what.do you get out of it—that’s what fm curious to know.” She tossed her head and blew « | perfect ‘ring. “Don’t. you know that girls never really enjoyed lite before?” “It depends upon the point: of view, I should think.” “No, there’s a lot more fn {t than you gness. Tha girls used to sit around waiting far men to call and wondering if they’d condescend to show up “dt the next dance; while the men fairly raced after the girls with whom they could have a free a easy!‘time—no company man: ners, on) chaperons, no prudish. af fectettons about kisses and things. No feer of shocking if they wanted o let so—the strain must have been awful.” } To Be Continued). 5 UKE To TALK - do whatever is in his power for the betterment of their conditions. Johnson, who used to ibe consid- ered a: radical, does not appeal, to the -radica], glement.any more. He is neither a radical nor a conserva- tive. He appears to have gotten out of step with the people some- how. The “peepul” havé not been calling very loudly for Hiram and the. main reason is running is because ‘he seems’ to have gotjen . the habit.— Ward County. 1 pendent. : fF ‘ Tribune Wapt Ads Bring Results.