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

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Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.... THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) LOOKING TO THE FUTURE The twin farm aid measures—the Burtness-Norbeck agricultural loan bill and the agricultural credit corporation | —are emerging as two of the most important steps toward a} permanent improvement of Northwestern agricultural con- ditions. Although there is much in the former measure that many have been loath to accept, because it smacks of paternalism and would tend to pile up the agricultural debt the measures appear to be based upon a sound and construc- tive policy of permanent gain. A third measure which ap- pears to have place in the administration program is the MeNary-Haugen bill designed to raise the level of prices of farm products. ~ The Norris-Sinclair bill, though sponsored valiantly by many in the Northwest, is doomed to defeat. It offers no hope of increased prices, but merely seeks to put the gov- ernment in the grain business. The experience of Wash- ington in the shipping business and in other lines of indus- try, together with the distrust that is being created by the oi] inquiry, makes any action of the kind proposed in the Norris-Sinclair bill virtually impossible, whether desirable or not. Price-fixing |has lost favor. It is realized generally that fixing of a price on wheat without controlling the pro- duction—and no attempt is made to do this—would in the ~ éhd mean greater demoralization of the farming situation. The agricultural credit corporation with $10,000,000 = capital is a private corporation, with a borrowing capacity of $100,000,000. It will perform a useful service by holding in what is virtually a suspense account assets which are -,sound but slow of realization, will place a large amount of “money into circulation in the Northwest through replace- ment of obligations resting in many banks, and generally exert a helpful influence to sound banks which will be re- flected in the general business situation. That there is a demand for the loans proposed to be made in the Norbeck- Burtness bill for the purpose of purchasing livestock is evi- denced by many communications from actual farmers who declare their intention of diversifying their efforts to a greater extent if the aid is extended. The testimony of Many communities in North Dakota, where diversification has been practiced, is such that its value cannot be denied. An increase in the ‘wheat tariff and elimination of the drawback provision, together with an export plan such as is incorporated in features of various measures offered in Washington, will give substantial aid to the Northwest. CONGRATULATING ZEELAND ; Zeeland, the little McIntosh county town, which’ claims to be the richest in an agricultural section of the Northwest from the standpoint of bank deposits, deserves the congratu- lations of the rest of the state—until some other community produces figures to tip over Zeeland’s new-found reputation. Zeeland is entitled to boast when it can tell of nearly $700,- 000 bank deposits in a town of 325 people. The secret a3 given by a leading banker of the town is mixed farming Such concrete examples ought to do more to preach the gospel of mixed farming than all the literature the Agricul- tural College can place in the mails. NOT REAL PURPOSE A celebrated New York detective sergeant, reduced i: rank to uniformed patrolman, commits suicide with a pistol. He leaves no note of explanation. The general surmise is that, despondent over his demotion, he considered life no longer worth living. Most people take their work entirely too seriously. Work is not the chief purpose of life. It is only a means to an end, the process of making a living while we conduct our real purpose of earth—the improvement of self. In the long run, improvement of ‘self, of character, is the only genuine success. GOLD About a million dollars worth of gold a week was mined during 1923 in United States, Alaska, Porto Rico and Philip- pine Islands. The output was nearly twice as big in the record year, 1915. y The national income—total of all American activities and labors—last year was about 800 times as big as the value of the gold mined. Yet gold is the basis of valués. Would it’be better and fairer to use human energy as the measure of values? Many think so, including Edison and Ford. RADIO PLANS Song and music writers’ royalties have been cut in half by radio competition, their organization claims, It continues its wrangle with broadcasting stations about payments for music sent by radio. e Eventually radio will have to be endowed, to provide suit- able entertainment, unless broadcasting stations are reduced to half dozen or so. ‘Step forward, millionaires, who want to do some real good. i ‘ : LESS BOOZE ~ : =--..bhe average Englishman is drinking only-a third as much = whisky, gin and brandy as 30 years ago. Beer drinking 4 similarly has fallen off nearly a fourth. 2 ‘ the:causes of all this. Also it reflects the slow but steady progress toward world moderation in drinking, if not ulti- mate prohibition. i Fa i i labeled . “Canned Goods.” Ah, the canny Scot. Eyery boy take it. has a chance to become president, but few \ on They are busy in Washington throwing cold water bled oil s dread - High prices of booze and restrictions on drinking hours axe! } RELIE The Norbe dollar livestock loan bill, to ‘be, and that promptly: ler an indispensable constructive will re structive munities, service to these beck-Burtnes bill. It believes thar that plan, which proposes an ex- tension of government credit simplify and ho the diversified farming movement, will work out admirably in practi within designated scope ofits wsetuineds. It has been thoroughly! convinced however, that something more was needed to make constructive help- fulness far-reaching and clusive adequately the nmunities ed definite! substantfal needs of the farm co n question, It con- ut great industrial terests. busine Long before the 1 loan plan was conceived Tribune w: for co-operation by these inter to help the farmer help him ‘The representations were made termy of good ge al business, not in terms bf charity or altruism. The Agricultural Service cor. poration now provides the medium through which private capital may join forces with government credit to the end that the whole field of financial requirements in the sut- fering farm communities shall be covered, Each of the two will have its clearly defined field of helpful operation, but neither ean function ag efficiently as it ought to without the other. Those who responded estock available millions of private p- ital and credit, organized the ice corporation with the reasonable expectation that Congress would enact the Norbeck-Burt $ without wunecessary dele What they were to do in their important field was to be the logical com- plement of what the government Was. to do in its equally important field. There was to be hearted joinder of fore rate team work, in purgsua common good cause. This is primarily a problem of » but it hag come to be a problem of finance, indust and general Tt_} to do with the productive efficiency of the farm plant, but it has a vital bearing, direct and indirect, on the whole economic structure. When the scope of the question is understood it becomes readily apparent that a solvent, to ibe effective, must be an intelligent joinder of public and private resources operating to the same reconstructive end. Thousands of farmers were plunged into the gravest sort of financial difficulty mainly because labor and taxes were high, p of farm products were unprofi low, and crops failed or were li ed in vield. Country m had no other choice in many i stances except to “carry the farm- ers slone.” Country banks got in- to trouble trying to serve botn ‘mers and merchants. Their funds, which are mainly deposits of farmers and merchants, were depleted. No longer could they ice of a functions. The effect of all thiy, as anyone may see, runs with more or les- harmful stress all the way ‘rom the farm to the warehouses of industry, the counters of re- teilers and jobbers. the windows of city banks, and the desks of office men. The problem is general, not local. It is both financial and agri- cultural. With a rejuvenated farm plant must go a rebuilt and reor- ganized country banking structure. The livestock loan of itself would meet the needs of many farmers, but not all. Thousands Would be able to take advantage of it only if the financial stress of the ;community in which they live and ido business were relieved through an agency like that of the Agri- cultural Service ‘corporation. There must be an increase of liquid assets such as this corpora- tion can bring about, a relaxing of the deadening pressure of frozen paper. Private capital is almost imme- diately ready to play its large and necessary part in the economic re- Wabilitation. It has ‘been sub- scribed from near and far on the sound tenet that there is no part of the land which has not some economic interest in the construc- tive work it is to undertake. The banking, business and railroad concerns which have underwritten the Agricultural Service corpora- tion are to be congratulated and commended for what they- have done, but they ihave earned, some- thing more than that namely, the prompt enactment of the Norbeck- Burtness bill as the other twin of the two remedial enterprises.— Minneapolis Tribune. | ATHOUGHT | ° v the judge standeth —Jas. 5:9, divine to joyléss dread, and makes' the loving heart -with hateful Spenser, Waiters on skates serve tea J skaters: nt-some ofthe ‘wim hotels whole- | first-) Grudge ret against another, bre- thren, lest’ ye’ be. condemned ;- behold, before the door. 3,Foul jealousy! that turnest Ipve k-Burtness 60 million | ibd enacted by Congress—as it ought | will ren-, service in rehabilitating economic ally the farm communittes of the Northwest. which long have -been | and still are under eritical stress The 10 million dolar Agricul- | tural Service corporation, which | has just been financed with pri-| Jvate capital with a lending power | of 100 million dollars or more, also | pr an indispensable con- | com- From the very outset of its offer- ing as a remedial meagure, The 1 bune warmly espoused the plan | which js now embodied in the Nor- | to} the of that something | istance from the | ng The | making” ite appeals | in} to the calls made on them to make} ill} had better not be late home to | | | | | Snap? . Snap spied a é n ‘perform the usual country bankine | THE BISMARCK TRIBU: | . The Gourmand Published by arrangement Pictures, Inc. Watch for th Copyright 1923 by XXIX (Continued) She was totally unprepared for the beginning. She heard him shut the Ubrary door, and then it seem- ed to her that her entire body was ‘encircled by flexible Hot bars of iron and her face, her mouth, were being flagellated. If he hadn't held her in that vise-like grip she would have fallen. She lay back on his arm as he kissed her and for the moment she forgot the past and the future and was happy, although she felt dimly that life was being drained out of her, She was pas- sive in that fierce possessive em- brace. She had lost all sense of separateness. “I won't listen to your story,” he muttered. “This is no time for | talk.” His voice, hoarse and shaking as | 1t wag, broke the spell; with a sud- den lithe movement she twisted herself out of his arms, Before he ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “Well, well, well!” Jolly giant when out of his pocket. s'pose those id the big ‘y and Nick fell “Where do you children have gone, But if you can’t find ’em and I can't find them, just the same we din- So come along, Snap; maybe We will have fried elephants for din- ner, and if you are a good doggie you have one. ancy and Nick kept very still! Nobody could see them away down in the deep wool on Snap’s back. Thé giant dog never dreamed for’a min- ute that the little boy and girl were using him for a street-car. 3 Once when Nancy took an extra tight hold of his wool so as to keep from falling, Snap sat down and started to scratch with his foot. ‘ “Is it a flea you have, 2 asked the jolly giant. “Come on and let the poor little flea alone.” Snap stopped just in time, for his. great foot had about® knocked the bit of breath out of both of tie Twins. ner. ” SOMETHING SHOULD BE DONE Rgdio bug in Capetown, South Asri- for New York, 7880 miles awa: Now he won't be satisfied until } tells 7880 people about it. That seems to be the rule, a man must tell some friend for every mile he gets, Before radio came in fish- golfers second. ers third, The only way to get a raise these days is by discussing radio, with your ,boss. Most broadcasting is done about receiving sets. TEAPOT NEWS “We are sailing along nicely,” says a Teapot Dome investigator. Well, they have enough wind. The latest evil of ‘thé Teapot was brought to light by the capitol architect who says the capitol needs a new ventilat- ing system. POLITICAL POEM The writings found in old Tut's tomb may tangle Tut in Teapot Radio talk puts golf- “Oh, goodness!” gasped Nancy. “Jimineczers!” exclaimed Nick. J it was a close shave!” iverything went all right for af minute nu then suddenly { d before his | went gun. few master could a word, the dog like a shot out of nd Nick held on as well as they could for a little while, but all at once Snap leaped a fence and thar was the end of it! \ Off went Nancy and off went Nick, ! rolling over and «per and over like | They turned so many cari vhat when finally they éame stop, the whole world seemed to | pinning. i “Wh—where are we ey when she found her voice. { “I—in Beanstalk Land, of course,” | replied Nick, feeling himself all over for bruises. “I know that,” declared Nancy. “But where H Whatever this is we are on, it’s blue | with white checks on it. Do you | suppose they have blue and white | checked grass in Beanstalk Land! ick cried out, “Be care- j Don’t fall over the edge. | We're up on something high. Hold | tight!” Both Twins peeped and what do | you think they A giant wo- | man milking a giant cow! And they | were on her blue and white checked | sunbonnet! When Snap jumped over | the fence, and they flew off his back, that is where they had lande “My!” cried Nancy. “It must be a mile to the ground, Nick. ‘1f we fell off, we'd be smashed as flat as butter.” But just then Nancy’s foot struck a piece of starch on Mrs. Giant's sunbonnet brim and she tripped. Away she went head over heels right down into the pafl of milk. Nick tried to save her but down he went, too! “Help! Help!” they screamed as loudly as the could. - But Mfrs, Giant never heard- a thing. She would have gone on with her milk- ing, only suddenly her sharp eyes spied something dark splashidg around in the milk pail. “There are two pesky flies!” she said. “I have to fish them out!” and she broke off a broad blade ‘of grass and stuck it in. Both wins grabbed it and held onftight. Then Mrs. Giant threw the leaf away and went on with her milking. (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) w: Beanstalk Land? | — ean More than $300,000,000 has been ” panted Nan- | Dame. FOREIGN NEWS. Honduras tips on war's brink wait- ing for a little nudge. ADVERTISING Perhaps business is shy because you haven't invited it to your place. That's the way things are with Dan Dobb. Why don’t you folks adverti#e in Dan Dobb’s Daily? Editors eat! D. Dobb. SOCIETY A St. Louis woman who thought she had her husband under her thumb learned he was carrying on a flirtation right under her nose. Some men are little enough to do any- thing. RADIO BUG PLAGUE GROWS ri ermen were the biggest liars with}! ED|TORIAL An explorer has fofind a place in bet where every woman has seven |husbands. Every year must be leap year in Tibet. But no American wo- |man would stand for seven husbands, one husband tracking up the house is enough to keep her busy all day. SPORTS This. may sound too good to be true. The champion golfer of St. Augustine, Fla., is Judge Obe Goode. This reminds us of-a recent Wash- ington wedding where the bride's father was, Judge Nott. FAST NEWS : ‘ Charlie Paddock, ‘the sprinter, is! being called the world’s fastest’ hu- man, but we claim the world’s fast- est human was the Pennsylvania man who married 22 women. HEALTH HINTS A truck load of nitroglycerin being driven too, fast near Altoona, Kas., was heard 41 miles away. WEDDINGS * The largest diamond-in-America is for sale, price $300,000. ‘'What'a leap. year opportunity! JAIL NEWS One of the best known popular} song writers is an ex-pickpocket, but | we still contend pickpockets can re-/ form. HOME HELPS “Somewhere the birds are singing} all the time,” wrote Longfellow. Tell! it to your canary. . MOVIE NEWS The world gets better. Three were! fined in Detroit for reading moyie! subtitles aloud. __- | COMIC The Irishwan’ carries ‘4 bottle, The! Scotchman carries a glass. LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO LESLIE PRESCOTT, CONTINUED I must talk to you, dear little Mar- quise, even though I am bored to death with my troubles, I could hardly wait until Jack came'home to tell him my fears of Paula Perier wanting the baby. Jack, however, did not come home until late and by that time I was nearly in a state of hysterics, “Goodness, Leslie, why did you stay up for me? I told you I was going to be very late,” Jack exclaim- ed. He bent down to kiss me and I found he had been drinking. “Jadk, you promised me you would never drink anything outside of your own home,” I reminded him. These were the first words 1 spoke fand they seemed to infuriate Jack past all control. ; “Why do you try to-have me make impossible promises, Leslie? You might know, if you had any reason- ing power at all or any knowledge of men, that when a man makes a Promise purely at some woman’s re- quest his first inclination as soon as he is out of her sight is to break it. “I cannof go to any man’s apart- meft without being asked to drink nowadays and I'd not, want to 1léok like a fool by refusing perfectly ood liquor,” he said in that ugly tone that T had grown ‘to connect with great anger on his part, © Usually, little Marquise, I keep perfectly. calm when I know that realized in sales of British govern- ment wool stock’. The Dominions got more than $60,000,000 of this gum. thoughts to languish and to pine,— to hair, I wished I pi His Wish Came True. JOR—Have any of your childhood anibitiong: been realized? ‘ CHARLBY<-- Yes, one, anyway. When, my mother ysed to cut my nadn’t any.—Ex- Jack is in one of his black rages, but I had been so worried and anxious since Ruth left and until he came home that I blurted out, “Ruth says--" | I did not get any further— “I don’t care a damn what Ruth says. I thought I told you it would be very much agafnst my will if you rer spoke to her again. If, you will rem ir, Jack, J you I) would 0t give up Ruth. My, you do not care what Ruth says, you ' probably will care to know that Ruth insists you pay her that six thousand dollars of hers that:you have in ygur Possession at the present momeft.” “The money isn’t hers. It is mine,” he replied quickly. | “What reason have you for think- | ing it is yours, Jack?” “You know very well that she! could not well six thousand dollars) worth of women’s lingerie in one day.” “Well, she sold over cight thou- sand dollars worth today.” “Then she had better be paying some of her husband's debts.” “Ruth Ellington is under no ob-! ligation to ‘pay her husbind’s debts. ' He left her without a cent, and when he left he took another woman with him. Don’t you-think he treated her worse than he treated you? She is. a very, wonderful woman, and she |; says—” 4 “I tell you I won't hear what that woman says,” ‘ f “You will have to, Jack, for what she says is very vital, not only to our happiness‘ but to your reputa- tion.” ‘ (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) You Bet She Will! {Do angles have’ wings, Mummy?” ” 3 3 “Yes, darling.’ “Can they fly?” “Yes,' dear."= “Then when is Nursie going to fly, ‘cause Daddy called her an} angel last night?” | -“Tomorrow, Darling.” — Tit-Bits (London.) No matter what may happen in: the referendum on ithe Bok peace plan, one thing is certain: The dove of peace has settled: over the finan- cial affairs: of the winner—Fargo LCN. D.) Trigune. ae Sodom and Go-+ ‘Fealized what was bappening she | the key from the door and locked | it on the other slde;: He heard her | Tun up the stairs, “party—lit a cigarette ‘and threw moment hig heart/fatled him. He had | your word?” had run across the room, snatched Clavering did and sald most of the things men do and say when dalked In mid-flight, but in a mo- ment he took the little key from the drawer in the table and poured itmself out a whiskey and soda— he had taken almost nothing at the himself into a chair. He had no desire to stride up and down; he felt as {f all the strength had gone out of him. But he felt no appre- hension that she had left him for the night. Nor should he take pos- session of her agajn until she had told her story; he reflected with what humor was left in him that when @ woman had something to say and was determined to say it, the only thing to do was to let her talk. Words to a woman were as steam to a boiler, and no man could control her mind yntil: she had talked off the lid. ' She was giving him time to cool off, he reflected grimly, as he glanced at the clock., Well, he felt heavy and inert enough—hideous Teactioa! He was im a condition with Associated Fi@t National reen version produced by Frank Lloyd with Corinne Griffith as Countess Zattiany. Gertrude Atherton Monday unless you wish. You may write—or, for that matter, if 1 do not hear from you on Monday by four I shall understand——” “I—for God’s sake, Mary-——” “You must do as I, say—this time. And—and—you could not overcome me.again tonight. I can turn myself to stone when I choose.” > “On” He ground his teeth. His own nerves might be Idlled for the moment, but he had anticipated reaction when she finished her story, “Very well—but it is for th last time, my dear. And why Mon. day? Why not this afternoon?” “You must sleep and write your column, fs {t not’ so? Moreovgr— and déliberately—I am tunching with Mrs, Ruyler and dining at the Lawrences’.” “Very well. Monday, then. You have set the stage. If I must be a puppet for once {n my life, so be it. But, I repeat, it is for the last time. Now, for heaven’s sake, go ahead and get it off your chest.” “And youWwill let me go without a word? Otherwise I shall not speak—and I'H’ leave the room again and not return. “Very well. I promise.” “I told part of it the other day at Mrs. Oglethorpe’s luncheon—I had told her before. -But there’s 80 much else. 1 hardly know how to begin with you, and I have not the habit of talking about myself. ~ But I sppase I should begin at the beginning.” \ “It is one of the formulae.” “It is the most difficult of all— that beginning.” And although she had announced the torpidity of her nerves, her hands clenched and her voice shook slightly. “Let me remind you that to be- gin anywhere you've got to begin somewhere.” And then as she con- tinued silent, he burst out: ake God’s sake, say { a “Is—is—it possible that the sus- Picion has never crossed your mind that Iam Mary Ogden?” “Wha-at!” zs “Mary Ogden, who married Count Zattiany thirty-four years ago.. | was twenty-four at the time. You may do your own arithmetic.” But Clavering made mo answer. His gigarette was burning a hole in the carpet. He mechanically set his foot on it, but his faculties felt suspended, his, body immersed in > ice water: And yet something ia ~ “For the moment she forgot the past and the future and ‘was happy.” to lsten to anything. If she was determined to ‘work her will on him, at least he had worked his on her for a brief moment. She knew now that in the future she might'as well try to resist death itself. Let her have her last fling. He rose as she entered, and for the never seen even her look more like marble, and she did not meet his eyes as she crossed the room and seated herself so that her profile ‘would be toward him as she talked. As she had chosen the large high- backed chair, Clavering, knowing i her love of comfort, hoped that her ; ‘discourse was to be brief. - “When I finish,” ‘she'said in her low vital voice, “I shall leave the room immediately and I must have ‘your word: that you will make no attempt,to detain me, and that you will go at once and. not return until Monday afternoon, 1 shall not wish to see you again until you have had time to deliberate calmly on what I shall tell you. I do not ‘want any embarrassed protests from’ a, gallant .gentleman—whose confusion of mind to his chivalrous di “It never takes me long to make up my mini “That may be, but I intend to save you from an emba:rassing @{tuation, “You need not come o2 mo hick” Wii ‘bea relief to thohé who are tired of hearing the inside dope about Hollywood.—Life. “Woman is learning to stand on her.feet.”.. That's fine. Perhaps, she, {will keep off the feet ‘of men . who} ybewn senty out’ have: the. atreet’ car ‘atats:—Long if.) Telegram, Branch (Cal his unconscious. rose and laughed + + . and tossed upakey .. , it he had, not fallen in love with her he would have found that key long since. His news sense rarely failed him. “I've told a good many lies, I'm afraid,” she went on, and her voice was even and cool. The worst was over. “You'll have to forgive me that at least. I dislike downright . lying, if only because concessions are foreign to my nature, and Tqufb- bled when it was possible, but when cornered there was.no other way out. I ‘had no intention of being forced to tell-you or any one the - truth until I chose to tell it.” “Well, you bad your, little com- , “It did amuse me for a time, but I think I explained all that'in my letter. I also explained why I came to America, and that if I had not met you I should probably have come and gone and no one but Judge Trent-been the wiser. I had Prepared him by letter, and to him, I suppose, it fias been a huge comedy—with no tragic sequel, Be sure that I never entertained the thought that I could ever love any man again. But-I have made: up my mind to disenchant you. as far as possible, not only for your sake but my ‘own. I wish you to know exactly whom you have fallen in love; With.” ~ Yes “You grow: more ‘interesting every moment,” said Clavering po- Utely, “and I have never been one halt'ss interested in my life.” 4 | Teachers are to have freed 0) ¥) | Speech at ‘V. ir, but it’ is n pected“that, they. ‘will sayiall that . sdme' of students ‘make™ ithem think —New ‘York Evening Post; . — Poussp Of course -Amerigans’ ti jod. Yow..can tell’ that ey drive.—Sharon oe neraid t