The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 5, 1924, Page 4

a Seen cet eet ae eres PAGE FOUR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1924 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 - - - - - DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - Q : 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..............eee000 «$7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)... Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) . Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.............. 6. THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) “YOU BAD BOY!” You get up in the morning and start out, feeling fine. You meet a friend who says, ‘“What’s the matter, have you been sick? You look kind of pale under the gills.” You laugh, but the suggestion clings in your mind. Now, if you happen to meet several friends and all of them express the opinion that you look ill, the chances are you will begin to feel ill. This is a very old lesson in psychology, but it is such a basic or rock-bottom truth that it cannot be emphasized too often. The whole theory of Coue and all other experts in mental suggestion or self-hypnotism—dating back even to Socrates —is that people react very decidedly to suggestions. If you tell a man that he looks ill, and tell him often enough, the chances are he will hypnotize himself into actual illness. Often, too, if you tell a nervous case—such as a hypochon- driac—that he looks well, you help him recover. All of us are subject to suggestion. If you doubt it, just watch a clever woman make a simpleton of a man by flatter- ing him. : Children, with their volatile imagination, are ten times as responsive to suggestion as grown-ups. Tell a boy he is brave, and—even though timid—he may become brave, if . the suggestion is indelibly impressed on his: brain often enough. Take even a naturally brave boy, and impress on him that he is a coward, and you can make him a coward— by destroying his confidence in himself. The worst thing parents can do to children is to say to them: “You wicked boy! You are bad. You’ll never come to any good end.” Many a man, now behind the bars in penitentiaries, is there partly because — in his youth—he had it constantly dinned into him that he was bad to the heart, evil to the core. If you want to help make a child good, impress on him that he is fundamentally good. Then tell where he falls downy Plant good suggestions, NOT BAD, in his fertile mind. FAMOUS ATHLETES We wonder how the athletes at the Olympic games, to be held this summer in France, would compare with the ancient Greeks who performed in the original Olympic games centuries ago. In brute strength and endurance, the human race probably has deteriorated in the matter of its picked “best specimens.” It is 2700 years since the first Olympic meet, in 776 B. C. The Greeks reckoned their calendar from that date, in Olym- piads or periods of four years. Olympic games were staged every four years for more than 11 centuries. At first the only Olympic event was a match between run- ners in the stadium. Other events were added later—sucl: as wrestling, boxing, jumping, four-horse chariot races, bare- back horse races and javelin hurling. At the height of their power, the Olympic games lasted five days. They were finally abolished, in the year 394, by Emperor Theodosius. In modified form the Olympic games | were revived at Athens in 1896, to be held every four years. To the lover of clean sport, the strongest appeal of the ancient Olympic games was that there were no money prizes. Victors received only the glory of winning and a wreath from the sacred olive tree near Olympia. That was genuine sport. You realize it in our generation when you watch prizefighters refusing to enter the ring except for enormous financial guarantees. Originally the Olympic games were local. Later they brought together in temporary reunion the scattered frag- ments of the old Greek empire. Similarly, the Olympic games, now international, should do a lot this year to bring the world’s nations closer together. LONG, LONG AGO ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON away if you can: “Buzz dizzy! “Zing! Zing! What a queer way to} sing! Darting this way and now darting that! Did he get the wrong flower? Per- | haps it was sour, Well, that’s good for folk who are | fat. } “Like prosperous people he wears a! rich cloak Of velvet striped yellow and black, But instead of gold money, he car- ries gold honey, Not a pocketbookful—but a sack. iy making a dive for The Twins guessed this riddle right } Buzz! That's what he does, Like a hungry mosquito at night, Loafs by the hour on blossom and flower, Sipping rose-wine with all of his might. “Hum! Hum! Does he never cft done? My goodness! He's dreadfully busy, T just can't see the use of so much | blossom juice, Indigestion will make him quite | \ ‘omy PoLirician A TOWN Nor UNDER INVESTIGATION Beng POINTED our To WSITORS FRAPPERS_ URGING: INVESTIGATION OF TARIFE ON UP STICKS “Now he’s his} house (called a hive). Do you think that he’s ill? It's a] question! | I don't know, I can't say, but it's | likely he may | Just be taking a pill for digestion.” | “It's a bee!" cried Nick. | “Yes, sir! Th: "s what it is,” said the Riddle Lady. “You are a smart little boy to guess so quickly. You get the prize, a piece of bread and butter and honey.” “I was just going to say the an- swer myself,” suddenly spoke up the Six-Pence Queen. “I just knew it was a bee. And I was about to open my mouth and say ‘bee’ just like that when that little boy said it. I think! I should have half of his bread and honey.” “Well, goodness knows, anybody could tell it was a bee,” said still an- other person. It was small Tom Tucker. “I knew it was a bee the minute you said ‘buzz’ Missez Riddle Lady. “I think I ought to have half of the bread and butter and honey , myself!” “We guessed it, half a dozen of the Old Shoe Wo- man’s Children. “We thought it was a bee, or a bug or something like that. And as we always get our too!” called out broth without any bread, we think we ought to have half, too!” cried the Riddle you But “My goodness!” Lady. “How y halves do think this piece of bread has? T have an idea, Nane and the Pieman and B: man can fix up a party. We'll have a real party and plenty of bread and honey and cakes for everybody.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Ine.) ee l Editorial Review NICOLAT LE e INE With the aims of Nicolai Lenine and the means which he employed in his efforts to’ettain his ends we have no sympathy, but it would be idle to deny that the dead despot of Soviet. Russia possessed in ‘his character many of the elements which make for greatness. The figure of Lenine stands out} in the history of the revolution; which created the Russian republic much as that of Robespierre does in that of the French revolution. The careers of the two men show @ certain similarity. Neither took any prominent part in the first steps which made the revolution a success, both came into power when the terroristic element be- came dominent, and each shewed the same passionless ruthlessness in striking down ‘those whom he conceived to menace or obstruct the course which he had marked out as that in which the nation must tread. Lenine’s vision though distorted was broad. His promises were false but he followed them to their logical conditions, and yet when the pressure of facts proved too much for his theories he had the Ac Tangles ; LETTER FROM SALLY ATHERTON , not brightened and whose shoulders TO BEATRICE GRIMSHAW. DEAR BEE: Although you were very careful to Night-riders, attention: Tarring-and-feathering was invented by Richard Coeur-de-Lion, King of England, about 750 years ago. He ordered that any sailor convicted of theft should “have his head clipped and hot pitch poured upon his pate, and upon that the feathers of some pillow or », cushion shaken aloft.” * + You use the expression, “That’s a feather in his cap.” Do *" you know what it means? Some 500 years or more ago, the Hungarians had a custom by which a man couldn’t wear a = feather in his cap unless he had killed a Turk. A feather for ®--every Turk, like notches on a@ gun. x * * In 1791, French slangsters coined an expression, “What will the frogs say to this?” Spread like wildfire, the public applying it to all ridiculous or absurd.proposals. “That’s the origin of calling the French “Frogs.” 4 In olden times, when a man lost his right arm in battle hé! } so incapacitated that he had to have a servant accom- - pany him to take the place of the lost hand. This originated the saying, “He's my right-hand man.” 44 Heels were put on shoes to prevent a horseman’s foot _ goldiers using their cuffs as handkerchiefs. The wedding ring originally symbolized a chain. ‘So it goes. Thousands of the things we use and things we and do: remnants of a long-forgotten past. Habit meaning is a8 e, even though their real origin... in the stirrup. Buttons on the coat cuff date back to| that the Great, who put sharp buttons there to stop | Jimmie Congdon; in fact I shal say in your letter that you were not advising.me, what you wrote me, Bee dear, decided me. I am going to accept Mir, Prescott’s offer of a sec- retarial position. I told this to Sam tonight. Bee, I had to smile inwardly, for Sam's eyes are nearly well now. He sees almost as well as I, and he watches my face every moment he is with me. I could also see by his face that he was really relieved that I was going away, yet he felt called upon to.make the worst fuss about it possible. He said he could not under- stand why any woman, let alone his wife, could give up a splendid posi- tion, as I had here, for one which at first atleast would bring me in less money than I was getting now and would certainly take me away from my husband, “a4 I am glad to say, Bee, that I was brave enough and truthful enough to tell him that because that posi- tion»would “take me away from my husband" was the real reason I took it Then he turfi@d nasty—“Is it your intention of takingydimmie Congdon with you,” he asked sarcastically. “I. can’t understand "you ask Sam. I have nothing to dd:with be, very glad to get rid of all the men | I know and start all over again with @ new crowd.” ‘ “That's thé new woman for you,” Sam ejaculated bitterly. “Well, have you never felt that way yourself? I have never known a man in all my life whose eyes have | Lenine was a menace to tbe pres- \ EXPECT To CLEANING AND DYEING WORKS, BE INA ' OL SPOTS REMOVED cone oF FROM FROCK COATS : CONGRESS AUN LEAVING a, FOR FLORIDA perce aD BY J 24> FAMILY PRYSICIAN ONEYE. OF 5 ‘ \WVESTIGATION i oo D Bac capiTon. Sauwrers INVES Troan SWORIAGE oF nurs VM GETTING WORRIED. HES COVERED az3t \NVESTIGATIONS ‘SINCE NOVEMBER. intellectual honesty to admit con-] ditions as they were, and the prac- tical statesmanship to meet these conditions iby his compromise: with capitalis In these respects he stands far above his French pro- totype; Robespierre was destroyed by the very whirlwind of terror which he had raised. Lenine re- mained at all times the master of the storm, although had he lived longer his mastery might have failed him. —TEAPOT POKERS POKED Eleven Detectives Get Detected The first poker game was played when a woman chased her husband with a poker. But in Cleveland three cops arrested 11 detectives for siuf- ent gocial order. The triumph of the ideas of which he was the ex- ponent: would .be, jin the opinion of post of us, & would calamity. Un. {ite the pasteboards, That made a Ter these conditions wartare| full house. Instead of seven come neainsd him and his aim was a| ‘leven it was just “come eleven,” and the: eleven came. Set w thief to catch a thief is an old suggestion. It should be changed to set a cop to catch a cop. SCHOOL NOTES Teacher married the superintend- ent of schools in Barnesville, 0. Only 11 more months of leap year. FOREIGN NEWS They claim a Mexican plot is being hatched in the U. S. ble with plots, th duty for those who did not wish to see his red communism attain world wide dominion, but even now when the strife is still in progress it is impossible to survey his figures without perceiving its greatn twisted, and perverted, but unmistakably evident. —- Grand Forks Herald. ~ That’s All The wai at the restaurant MEDI had taken his order some time ago, Many quack docto: but now she stood behind his chair | ¢,. cover. with a perplexed frown on her fair face. At last the prospective diner broke the silence. ‘A penny for ” he said. She blushed deeply. ADVERTISING w York girl got on her ear be- 4 man stepped on her tue: Is, we are putting out ladies knucks to be used an men who shave too much brass, Buy now and avoid the mush, EDITORIAL Figures show very few men gain weight during a your thoughts, | replied, “and I was whether you were a stewed rabbit or a boiled fowl.”—Answers (Lon- congress- session, ot This may be because they had rather AAS, Mabie talk then eat. While very few gain weight, many gain weighty argu- Quite Fair 7 jus ii i “Here is that suit 1 bought of| ents: But just as in gaining weight, a weighty argument makes onesshort of breath. Every congress- man should take a course under Jack Dempsey before going to work. MARKETS .The spring building boom plans are under way. you last week,” said the angry cus- tomer to the tailor. “You said you would return my money if it was not satisfactory.” “That's what I said,” responded the polite tailor, rubbing his hands “but I am happy to tell you that I, £ A building boom found the money to be entirely sat-| S°Unds like prosperity. isfactory.” — Reynolds Newspaper (London.) EVERETT TRUE The first can opener, made neces- sary by the growth of the canning industry, brought its inventor a IS POLITICAL POT— OIL BOILS OVER IN OILY SCAN- DAL The political pot right now is a teapot. The kind of tea made in this teapot is T. N. T. Instead of serving this T. N.-T, at four o'clock in the afternoon they are serving it at all hours. As could be expected, many: offi-| cials are being blown up in the T. N. T. trouble. They claim somebody's palm was greased with oil. Now they want to use this same ‘oil to put skids under the greased. ‘ We have a slick bunch in Wash- ington. SOCIETY A doctor wants to take an. X-ray, of Bryan to prove his ancestors: were monkeys. The doctor says this will give us some inside information. HOME HELPS .. “U.S, Loses Fight on Sugar, Prices” —headline That isn’t very sweet for the housewife, f~ A THOUGHT 7 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace,‘is counted wise; and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. —Prov. 17:28. Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good ‘substitute for wisdom; but si- lence is the best that has yet, been discovered.—H. Shaw. Not So Dumb} DOROTHY—How long is it to my birthday MOTHER—Not very long, dear. “Well, is it time for me to begin) to be a good girl?’—Life. -BYCONDO ' large fortune. CAR AND TILL DRive ou Out THERE. COME ON, EVERETT, IF YOURS INTERESTSp) IN THAT PISCS OF PROPERTY. YD LU i H4v© You LOOK AT IT. KS To Get In my < ‘calmly eating her dinner. jek peremptorily. i plished your revenge and I've had 5 ears bee book ky Americas best wenn era? Published by arrangement Copyright 1923 by XX! (continued) People about them were titter- ing. One young man burst into @ ‘guffaw. Madame Zattiany was The , tirade might have fallen on deaf : ears, Clavering’s skin had turned al- most black. His eyes looked mur- derous, But he did not raise his voice. “Go back to your table,” he “You've accom- all I propose to stand, By God! If you don’t get out this mia- ute I'll pick you up and carry you cut and straight to your. grand- mother.” “Yes you would—make a scene.’ “The scene could hardly be im- \proved. Will you go?” jhad been to a party and her host |turous youth. There will probably He half rose, Even Madame Zattiany glanced at him apprehen- sively. Miss Oglethorpe laughed uncer- tainly. “Oh, very well. At least we never furnish material for your uewspapers, That’s just one thing we think beneath us.” She rose and extended her hand. “Good night, Madame Zattfany,” she sald with a really comical assumption of the grand manner. “It has been & great pleasure to meet you.” Madame Zattiany took the prof- fered hand. “Good night,” she sald sweetly. “Your little comedy has been most amusing. Many thanks. Miss Oglethorpe jerked er shoulders! “Well, console dear unky. He'd like the floor to open and swallow him. Ta! Ta!” She ran back to her table, and its hi- | arity was shortly augmented. Madame Zattiany loaked at Clav- ering aghast. “But it is worse than I supposed!” she exclaimed. “It is really a tragedy. Poor Mrs. ‘ Oglethorpe.” Then she laughed, silently, but with intense amuse- ment. “I*wish she had been here! Afterall! . . . Nevertheless, it is a tragedy. An Oglethorpe! A mere child intoxicated . . . and truly atrocious manners. Why don’t her people put her in a sani- tarium “Parents count Our as MUERTE? day as women counted in the e era, But it is abominable that you should be made-conspicuous.” “Oh, that! I have been conspic- uous all my life. And ypu must ad- mit that she had the center of the stage! If any one is to be com- ‘miserated, it {s you. But you real- ly behaved admirably; I could only admire your restraint.” Clavering’s ferment subsided, and he returned her smile. “I hope I, didn’t express all I felt. Murder would'have been too good for her. But you are an angel. And for all her bravado you must have made her.feel like the little vulgarian she is. Heavens, but the civilization varnish is thin!—and when they deliberately rub it off”-—. “Tell me of this adventure.” “It was such a welcome adven- ture after leavifig you! She told Practically the whole of it. She was too drunk to take her home. She couldn't get a taxi, so started to walk. After I had fed the little pig I took her home. Of course I had no intention of mentioning it to any one, but I hardly feel that I sing my honor as a tlempn!” ‘ ‘But will Society permit this state of things to last? New York! It seems incredible.” “Heaven knows. .It might as well try to curb the lightning as these little fools, Their own chil- dren, if they have any, will proba- bly be worse.” “I wonder. not generally indu! Reformed rakes are nt to, adven- be a violent revulsion to the rigors of the nineteenth century.” “Hope so. : Thank Heaven ‘we can get out of this.” Pletures, Inc. Watch for the screen version produced by Frank Lloyd with Corinne Griffith as Countess Zattiany. have not Straightened a little when someone has suggested that he make ; the acquaintance of an unknown wo- man.” “But that’s different,” interrupted | Sam, | “Not a bit different, my dear, and one of the reasons. why you and Ij have not gotten along together very well, except the time when you were | blind and you depended upon ‘me, is! because you have never allowed! ‘yourself to get out of the notion that | men and women. are alike.” | “Sally,” broke in Sam angrily, } “you are positively indecent.” | I added insult to injury by laugh- | ing, and he fairly shouted at me: | “Do you want me to think that women have the same instincts, the same passions, the same general cus- sedness, that. men-have?” “Certainly I do, my dear. Have your ever realized how inconsistent men are about women? In the first place they are always saying that women are so much better than themselves yet nothing terrible ever happened that they did not imme- diately say, séarch for the woman. “They don’t seem to realize that women lie and steal murder’ and break the other com- and commit |, mandments just, as, men do. Per- haps, Sam, we women are a little. more forgiving than you men\ are, because we know that you are’ hu- in, and you will not confess that ‘human beings even to your- selves”, + Here shoppin, letter job.; (Copyright, 1924, es Jimmie to take me DF itor Male ee a t SALLY. NBA. Service, tne.) ill Write you another}. ! WHEW WS Qert Ovt THeee 2 WANT TO SHOW ‘SCHOOLHOUSE HAs . Been — They left the table. As he fol- jlowed her down the long room and ‘noted tle mafy eyes that focussed on the regal and beautiful figure in |its long wrap of white velvét and fox he sét his lips grimly. Another 6rdeal before him. For a moment ,he wished that hé hadfallen in | love with a woman incapable of fo- cussing eyes. He hated being con- | spicuous as he hated poverty and -\Ugliness and. failure and death. Then he gave an impatient sigh. If he could win her he cared little if the entire town followed her every time she appeared on the with Associated First National Gertrude Athertan creature exalted by pai her voice seemed to have regained its pristine freshness. She had done many things to irritate New York- ers, but in this scene, whether they forgave her or not, they surren- dere passion were lost memories felt a dim resurgence under that goldem tide. Clavering had no desire to sur- render. In fact he endeavored to close his ears. He had received a cold douche and a hot one in the course of the past hour, and he f. that his equilibrium was satisfac- ‘Yorily established. He had forget. ten to warn Madame Zattiany of the step at the front of the box, down which so many novices had stumbled, but she had taken it and settled herself with the nonchal- ance of custom, Odd. Once more something béat in the back of his brain, But he dismissed it impa- tiently, No doubt many bores in Europe were constructed im the same fashion. He had seated himself a little to the right and behind her. He saw her lids droop and her hands mov; restlessly. Then, as the curta’ went down and Farrar was accept: ing the customary “plaudits, her eyes opened and moved over the tich and beautiful auditorium with & look of hungry yearning: This was too much for Clavering atid he demanded abruptly: “Why do you \ok like that? Have you ever been here before?” $he turned to him with « smile. “What a question! . . . But opera, both the silliest and the most exalting of the arts, is the Youth of Life, its perpetual an® final expression, And when the house is d I always imagine it haunted by the ghosts of dead op era singers, or of those whose fate ts sadder still. Does it never affec; you in that way?” “Can't say it does. . . . Bui + « « I vaguely remember—so: ten years ago a young singer witl @ remarkable voice sang Margue rite once on that stage and ther disappeared overnight ... lost hei voice, it was said... .” She ‘gave a low choking laugh ‘And you think Iam she? Really!' “I think nothing, but that I an here with you—and that in anothe Thomént I shall want to sit on the floor—Oh, Lord!” The house was a blaze of light. It looked lke a vast gold and ret Jewel box, built to exhibit in the fullness of their splendor the most Muxurious and extravagant women in the world. And it was filled to- night from coifed and jeweled or- chestra to highest balcony, where plainer people with possibly jew- eled souls clung like files. Not a box was:empty. Clavering’s glance swept the parterre, hoping it would be occupied for the most part by the youngest set, less likely to be startled by the resemblance of his guest to the sirl who had sat among their grandmothers when the opera house was new. Buta there were few of the very young in the boxes. They found their en- tertainment where traditions were in the making, and dismissed the opera as an old superstition, far top long-winded and boring for en- terprising young radicals. gainst the red backgrounds he saw the austere and homely faces of-women who represented all that was oldest and best in New York Society, and they! wore their haughty bones unchastened by power. There were many more of the ‘succeeding meration, of course, many more whdse ancestry derived from gold- not blood; and they madé up in style and‘ ritual what they lacked in pulchritude. Lack of beauty in the parterre boxes was as notorious as the “horseshoe” {tself, Dame Nature and Dame Fortune, rivals always, thaving been at each other’s throats some century and three-quarters ago, and little more friendly when the newer aristocracy of mere Wealth Was founded. All the New York Society Beauties were his- torical, the few who had survived the mere prettiness of youth enter- ing a private Hall of Fame while still alive, “It had begun! Clavering fell back, folded his arms and set his teeth, First one pair of opera glasses \in the parterre, then an- other, then practically all were lev- eled at Mrs. Oglethorpe’s Young men and old in the feta ‘box remained in their seats. Very soon white shoulders and black is the orchestra chairs began tog change their angle, attracted b: \\ \ i\ P () street, And she had’ ‘been very sweet after that odious flapper had taken herself off. He had ceased to feel at arm's length. XK They entered the box during the nuptial hymn, Farrar, almost su- Pine in the arms of the seducer, ‘Was singing with the voluptuous abandon that makes this scene the most explicit in modern opera. She ‘had ating it a thousand times, but she was gtill the beautiful young Xe MRS./SLOW=-Maiy,» tell’ Mr, Slow I'm regdy -no I\ thought he was dressed and waiting. MARY. (réturning)—Please, ma'am, he was;-but-he says now you'll have to wait until he shaves again —Pa: the-stir in the boxes. That com: : ment was flowing freely, he made, no doubt. In the boxes on either side of him the ‘occupants were staring less openly, but with fre quent amazed side glances and much whispering, Madame Zatt!- any sat like an fdol, She neither Sought to relieve what embarrase- ment she may have felt—it ahe felt any! thought Clavering—by talking to her escort nor by gazing idly about the house comparing other women’s gowns and crowns with her own, She might have been 8 masterpiece in a museum, : (To Be Continued), si; og or They, Were, Late! ‘ Hard To Please = “T hear ye were at McDougall’s He night. What kind o° me is eg . | “Leeb'ral wi’ his whisk . But the geaty. ae ied that “indifferent I near * some.—S| i. ia steal. ee ydney Bul. ene. = 4» —---