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dj $F standstill, and has been for five years. E = * Between 1910 and 1919, the typhoid death rate was re- PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Ia ee ee 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 - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or Tepublication 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 &re-also reserved. 3 MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION =: SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year...... Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) betatcns Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.......... THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) CHINESE There is nothing new, under the sun. All ideas are old. The liquor problem agitates our generation. Many think we're the first, in the almost endless procession of drunken history, to try prohibition. jut Confucius, in collecting the Shu Ching or fragments of ancient Oriental history, found that China had a Volstead 8000 years ago. His name was Wen Wang. He ruled that liquor could be used only in religious ceremonies, and argued that the abuse of strong drink was the cause of national mis- fortunes and collapses of civilization. So the Chinese tried prohibition. Time passed. Today they have such liquid fires as rice wine and ‘yellow bark brandy. zx CONTAGIOUS A baker in New York, who has been handling food for 18 years, is a chronie typhoid carrier, it’s discovered. A ty- phoid carrier spreads the disease without succumbing to it himself. Maybe you remember “Typhoid Mary.” In New York alone 150 of these typhoid carriers are un- der observation by the health board. The very thought makes shivers run up a healthy person’s back. On the other hand, no one pays much attention to that far greater men- ace, the moral lepers whose sex writings are infecting the rising generation’s brains and morals. There are more dis- eases of morals and.brains than of the body. RED-TAPE : Death takes Elijah Watt Sells, born 1858. He was one of the original efficiency experts. Readers with long mem- ories will recall that in 1892 Sells and Haskins revised the bookkeeping system of the United States government. If the simplified Sells-Haskins system is still in use, it’s lucky we haven’t the system used prior to 1892. Especially .in the income tax auditing department. Thorough checking- up is necessary. The real trouble is that the tax law is too er plicated, a quite natural condition in view of its being framcd by lawyer-politicians. RUM-RUNNERS .‘quor ships have congregated so thickly in the vicinity ot N w York that they are a menace to navigation. So com- plains veteran Captain Schmidt. He says that on his last trip out he barely missed running down two hooch schooners. Liquor is plentiful at most places along our coasts. In some eastern cities, it’s even sold in most of the grocery stores. The interior of the country is drier. How long will it continue so if rapid development of airplanes continues? The flying machine will be the real prohibition problem. FIRES Over 500 million dollars worth of property destroyed by fire in the United States in one year, reports National Board »of Fire Underwriters. Lightning caused less than 12 million dollars loss. Rest ;of the damage was by man-caused fires. At least half of these are preventable. Teach your children that the match is the most dangerous force enslaved by man. And be care- ful yourself. NATIONAL DEBT The national debt (over 21 billion dollars) will be wiped .out in 31 years, according to present plans of the treasury. The more interesting part of this scheme is the depar' ,ment’s optimistic belief that we’re going to get back what we ‘loaned to Europe during the war—about 11 billion dollars, : including interest. The mortgage on Uncle Sam’s homestead is terrifically pulse: But it’s less than 10 per cent of the homestead’s value. FOREVER Another sure sign of spring — William Jennings Bryan, the hardy quadrennial, now 64 years old, announces that he would “consider the matter” if the Democrats decide to “draft” him as their presidential candidate. #2<He is receiving so many letters, urging him to run, that | < has had to print a form letter to answer them. Neither! sparty has a shrewder politician. He has manifested his | plea by his comparative silence in the last few years. 3 a candidate, he might “run” amazingly. He usually does. | Ed SING-SING ss; . Fifty per cent of the prisoners in Sing-Sing are under 25, Sia 87 per cent are under 30. The number of boys between sian 20, who are serving sentences'in New York prisons, is | fger today than ever before. F These conditions do not reflect any sudden change in “the inger generation” of our period. The roots of it all were environment and training of as far back as 30 years ago. patiding adults are reaping the whirlwind of past neglect ‘zyouth. TYPHOID The campaign to wipe out typhoid fever is apparently at This is shown by tistics of the Journal of American Medical Association. rapidly, due to health education and protective meas- Since then the death rate has practically stood still. surest personal protection is to. boil all drinking water at least five minutes. Heat is the supreme germ killer. kag F some calamity scouts who go up and down the country e given North Dakota some undersirable publicity in re- EDITORIAL REVIEW Commenta reproduced in this column may or poay pet the opinion of The Tribun are presented here in ord our readers ma i im ce issues which are jussed in the press of SMOKING IN THE WOODS California forest fire statistics for the past year show the greatest number of fires for any twelve months since 1917. The total num- Ler recorded was 1,367. Some of due to lightning which these W is, of course, beyond human con- trol. Others came from sparks scat- tered by railroad trains —a c which is so far only partially pable of control, but can probably he made entirely so in the future. Other fires started trom the op- erations of brush burners, a nec sary work which can be such times, and in such a way, as to cause no danger. Some fires were the work of in- tentional incendaries —- a cause which can never be entirely elim- inated, but may be reduced by vig- orous detective work, and the dras- tic punishment of all offenders who can be caught. | All these reasons, however, ac- count for but 50 per cent of last year's California forest fires. OF the othe cent, not a single one sprang from a cause which should not have been trolle a matter of course by the person immediately responsible — the camp-fire builder or the smok- The Dispatch has never thought it wise to make an unqualified war on the smoking of tobacco. It has | no sort of sympathy, however, for the moker who will go use his ", cigarette or pipe as to ¢ n the slightest possible danger t fire. offense is wholly inex- » and the man, or woman who gives origin to a forest fire in that way should be subject | evere legal penalty, with no obligation on yr to prove mere part of the nrose- nythine more than that the fire LON SURGERY Is even surgery to be industrial- ized? A plan is under considera- tion in the Mayo sanitorium at Rochester, Minn., for utilization of the radio for long-distance opera- tion: The idea is to have charts made, through ays, of the bodies of persons in need of treatment. The charts would be conveyed by: telegraph or wireless to a central ation where experts would hold a diagnostic clinic to determine if an operation should be performed. t were decided such procedure was necessary, the knife would be guided by radio from the central station. All that the attendant sur- sxeons would have to do would be to: stand by. We may come to this some day; and if we do,-it will narrow the field of surgery to-q few qualified experts * However, it would ike some time for mankind to. ib tomed to mechanical absen treatment of this kind. The thought of submitting to a ghostly sort of service is rather disturbing. But at the rate the world is pro- ng in the science and the ion of them, an idea that tic today becom ality on the morro -Buffalo Evening News. and Thia is an awful country, isn’t ‘t —what with bobbed hair, high tax- es, oil scandalg and the low prices of eggs! Hard to make a decent living no chance to get along. something like this pretty often. But is it, ly, such a ‘bad coun- fe Ask the Chinaman, who is. try. ing to ‘bootleg’ himself into the United States. as witnessed by this statement of Secretary of Labor “Thirty thousand Chin ting in Cuba today, a chance to be smug- Sled into the United States. “They are willing to pay from $100 to $2,500 a head to any one who will accommodate them. Our chance in America ought to good as the “heathen Chi- nee’ We are already here, we know the language and the cus- toms of the country, and are in some degree established. If the man from China is willing to pay as much as $2,500 to get to Wiis Jand of opportunity to make his fortune we ought tovbe able to keep even with the ‘bill collector, at least—Farm Life. Germans of Volga Form Soviet Rep. atoff, Ri May 16.—Johannes Schwab, a German school teacher of the Volga District, who is regarded s tried and trusted Communist, the execusive committee of 50 which direvts the affairs of the new German Soviet Republic of Russia. This socalled republic is federated with the Union of Soviet Republics having its capital in Moscow. The German Volga government em- braces the fragments of the German settlements along the Volga which have survived the great war and the many civil wars which have taken place in the Volga area, Germans first settled here 160 years ago. Catherine Second promised them practical independence and exemp- tion from Russian military service. But the thrifty Germans became SO prosperous that the Russian gov- ernment would not let them alone and gradually limited their rights until the outbreak of the great war, when the German schools were clos- fring to the number of closed banks. One closed in St. Paul recently had nearly as much on deposit as the 150 odd forth Dakota banks now in the process, of liquidation. ey talks, but a dollar doesn’t say much’ to the tax ed, the German press was suppressed, religious liberty was limited and Ger- man men were forced into the army. done at} Not What One Wou | i | House Olympiad Contestants May 16.—The destined to house Colombes, France, “Olympic Village” the athletes and the variou 1924 games who m representatives of ations competing in the wish to avail ther elves of its modest but hygienic and up-to-date accommodation, has just been completed and turned over the contractors. Built about a hundred yards away from the Stadium, the village is com- posed of a series of villas of two and four rooms each. It provides accom- modation for 300 athletes. Up to the present only Japan has officially tified the committee that its entir team would stop there. Teams of other nations, however, for which housing accommodation as been- arranged elsewhere, have retained some villas where the men! who are to compete on the following day will remain overnight, The United States has asked for four, Great Britain three, Italy two, and Finland, Spain and Belgium one each. Supplied with all the modern com- forts, shower baths and hygienic ap- paratus the villas, tastefully decorat- ed and painted in bright colors, will provide a healthful home for the athletes while presenting.a pictures- que and agreeable aspect. Reading rooms, lounge and restaur- ant, post office and telegraph, a bank a cafe, two barber shops, all border ing upon “Avenue Pierre de Couber- tin"— the main street of the villvge, named after the president of the In- ternational Olympic committee —are be placed at the disposal of the for- eign athletes. | LITTLE JOE oe “AN IDEALIST MAY KNOW HOW TO DO TWO THINGS AT A TWE BuT A POLITICIAN ALWAYS KNOWS WHAT To do NEXxTil | ! —e Whitens The Skin The only harmless way to bleach the skin white is to mix the juice of two lemons with three ounces of Orchard White, which any drug- gist will supply for a few cents. Shake well in a bottle, and you have a whole quar- ter-pint of the most wonderful} skin whitener, softener and beau- tifier. Massage this sweetly fragrant lem- on bleach into the face, neck, arms and hands, It can-not irritate, Fam- ous stage beauties use it to bring that clear, youthful skin and rosy- white complexion; also as a freckle, sunburn and tan bleach. You must mix this remarkable lotion yourself. i Under the Bolshevist government the colonies suffered the loss of lands, cattle and crops, and many of. the colonists moved away. It can not be bought ready to; use because it acts best immediately af> ter it is prepared. hey. to the French Olympic committee by} some of the conveniences which will |” THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE “7'" °*"" Id Call a Perfect Fit ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON | Mrs. Bunny was baking d she ran out of sugar. goodness, I’m not dressed to go to the store! What shall 1 do?” One day ja cake she wailed. Just then she heard a whistling i outside, «There's that little groundnog boy,” she said. “Pll get him to run an errand for me.” So she put her head out of her window and called, “Oh, Grubby, will you go to Mister Bags’ store for me and get me a pound of the fresh- est suga “Yes, ma'am,” said Grubby obiig- ingly. That very day Mrs. Squirrel was having company to lunch, And here, when she went to salt the goup, she found that she hadn’t a grain. “phnds alive!” she’ gasped. “That's a njee fix to be in—no salt in the house! I'll have to get some from the store some way for I need salt for the meat and potatoes and vege- tables and salad and everything.” Just then she heard Gcubby’s che@rful whistle as he passed the flat where she lived. “Ll just ask the little groundhog boy to get it for me,” she said. , I'll get you a pound of salt,” said Grubby obligingly. “[’m going to the store znyway.” So off he waddled to the store in where Nancy and Nick . Squirrel,” cached her flat. basket and Grubby put in‘ene of the bags and she hauled it up ufter throwing him a penny. Then she put a latge pinch in the soup and a pinch” in, the meat and a pinch in the mashed potatoes and a pinch in everything’ but the pud- ding. Grubby went on hi way whistling. r, Mrs, Bunny,” EVERETT TRUE ld MORE BUSINGSS THAN PUT TOGETHER IAG SOLUTELY THE MOST YES, Uma tim Acso A BUCO HGRTER, WHSENGEVE & HEAR ANY IN! es we aa CCV}}”WC Ey | ne) = -- (Sane THE ORGANIZATION THAT L REPRESENT ! STANDS HEAD AND SHOULDERS ABOVE THE COM> PANY THAT YOU PATRONIZE WE\ARE, WITHOUT QLESTION, Chi LEADERS IN THE FIELD ! Bosiness: man, Bor he called. So Mrs. Bunny gave him a penny and took the sugar, saying she was| ever so much obliged to him, and} then finished her cake baking, put- ting a whole cupful in the batter and one in the icing. “I think that I'll send Mrs, Squir- rel half of this cake for her party,” she said to herself, “It looks so very delicious. It's the nicest cake I ever baked. y Now you'll think it funny that Mrs. Squirrel could have people like Mrs. Bunny and Mrs. Groundhog | and Mrs. Muskrat at her party, when she lived so far above the ground. But she had arranged for all that. She had borrowed Mr. Coon’s hall —-way on the ground floor and set her table there. “My, my! How good everything tastes,” said everybody. “That meat! And these potatoes! And such grand salad! And such delicious cake!” For what do you think! Grubby hadn't got the salt and sugar mixed at all and Mrs. Squirrel and Mrs. Bunny got the very things they need- ed. And Mrs. Groundhog was com- plimented on her smart son, which made her very proud. Nancy and Nick had something to do with this story after all, for it was Nick who wrote the names on the bags and that’s why Grubby could tell which was which. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) CUT THIS OUT— IT IS WORTH MONEY Send this ad and ten cents to Foley & Co., 2835 Sheffield Ave,, Chicago, lll, writing your name and address clearly. You will receive a ten cent. bottle of FOLEY’S HONEY AND TAR COMPOUND for coughs, colds and hoarseness, also free sample pack- ages of FOLEY PILLS, a diuretic stimulant for the kidneys, and FOLEY CATHARTIC TABLETS for Constipation and Biliousness, These wonderful remedies have helped mil- lions of people. Try them! —Adv. Read Tribune Want Ads. BY CONDO CAST EAR We ALC OUR COMPETITORS OGRES 3IVE AND DARING NOW, MR.TRUG, Youlee A BUSINGSS MAN, AND “IF You --- LETTER FROM ALICE HAMILTON TO BETTY (LADY CARNO- VAN), CONTINUED he fact remains, my dear si ter,” said Leslie in a nasty but de- cisive manner, “that Karl did give them to me, and unless he wishes me to return them to you, I should feel as though I were slapping him were children through the years un- til she married—and after. I do not disguise from myself, either, that I am entirely different from my sister, who if-she could have loved Karl would probably have made him much happier than I shall, for they both have the same romantic and senti- jnesday in June, whiely is, as mental ideas. But I know one thing—I shall be better for Karl. I shall make some- thing of him besides a dreamer. I’m going to be a leader of socicty in Pittsburg. I can see you smile, Betty, for after being a member of the smartest set in London, to be a leader of sociefy in Pittsburg means nothing except that one is a leader of something, you know. I do not intend to stay in Pitts- burg long anyway, for I hope to per- suade Karl to return to England to live, By the way, Betty, I saw Edger- ton Santly last evening. Tell Lady Roke, his sister, that he is looking especially well. Much to my sur- prise he came over to our table and after the most cursory greeting to me and to Karl, he became most cor- dial to Leslie, who it seems had met didn’t bring the child with her. him on her last visit to New York. I have quite decided that my mar- I don't quite understand, Betty, riage will take place the first Wed-| why my sister is always such a fa- vorite with men. She never scems to be a flirtatious sort, and yet 1am sure that she only has to look at one with those big brown cyes of hers to find him immediately groveling at her feet, The queer part of it is, she all times, yet I am not una is clever enough to seem unconscidus Leslie was Karl's first,lave, and that | of it. that love lasted from the time they! (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) in the face should I do it.” I never knew that Leslie had so much spirit. She must have gained something in her marriage with John Prescott, wha, by. the way, did not come with her to meet us; neither did Leslie bring her adopted baby. Did you ever know anything so ridiculous as a young and healthy woman, in the first years of her marriage, adopting a baby? She is certain to have some of her wn, and there will always be a difference between them. I said as much to Leslie, and she politely told, me I didn’t know what I was talking about. I rather resent this adopted child in Leslie’s family, but dad and mother seem to, think it is wonder- ful, and have poured out all their old-fashioned — grandfatherly and grandmotherly love upon it. Mother quite disconsolate that Leslie ( know, only about a month dista Karl ha& not seemed as happy since he returned as he did in England. 1 am not at all jealous of my sister, for I can hold and keep my own TRADE OUTLOOK IS BRIGHT | BY ALBERT APPLE How about business conditions? Things have slowed down a bit lately in several of the basic industries. But there’s nothing in the situation to make us uneasy. All indications are.that the slow-down is temporary. Business is a lot like a man hiking across the continent. He can walk fast just so long, then he has to stop and rest. , That’s the real business situation—production was on too big ? a scale, so now there’s a lull to “size things up.” These lulls come periodically even during long-range periods of prosperity. Trade goes up and down. It always has, and it always will. Take steel. This giant industry is operating at about 80 per cent of capacity, maybe 85. But in recent months production was smashing all records. Now the industry slows down to catch its breath. Then, too, buyers are buying hand-to-mouth, holding back for lower prices. Makers are slowly making concessions — small price cuts to serve as bait. This also is a periodical and inevitable reaction. When prices stabilize, lots or orders. Auto industry also is quieter. ,Buying movements by the ‘public comes in waves. The last big wave, during January and February and March, made the factories turn out more cars than ever before. A lull now, but only temporary. Place your bets on another big movement, to start soon. A lot of the lessened activity in business generally is sea- sonal—always comes at this time of year. THat’s one reason why coal production is so low. Spring always brings a dull spell. Furthermore, there’s a tremendous over-production of coal—and no national strikes in sight to create a shortage. But business leaders are expecting good times. They’re getting ready for it—providing the capital to carry on work. In April 298 million dollars worth of new stocks and bonds were floated, compared with 305 millions in April last year. In the first three,weeks of April (latest figures availabie), the railroads of the whole country loaded and moved 2,620,- 818 cars of revenue-producing freight. This was a bit less than in the corresponding weeks of last year, but away ahead, of 1922 and 1921. From the first of the year to April 20, the” roads moved 142 cars of freight for every 141 a year ago in but in general business. You never realize how, high silk stockings are until you see them worn with a bathing suit. Half the fun of fishing is knowing you ought to be working. instead, When a speeder arrives at his des- tination without an accident it is an accident. ’ They do not shake hands at all in China, so wouldn’t China be a funny place to hold the political conven- tions? When some. golf players put their mind on the ball it just fits. People without endugh sense to come in out of a shower of rain are having a fine chance to learn this spring. A highbrow is a man who thinks everyone else is below the average. The lark is an early riser among birds, not proving, however, Mat ris- ing early is a lark. R OO me er, cr creer 7, - rye, SM OCOCTH, SO ee. S22) GG ma SG ceed Thinking they were having a free- for-all. fight, six: men in Scattle found it cost them $50 each. ' 3 A girl's great, advantage over a man in the buginess, world is that she can marry the boss. Going broke -i short trip by auto, 9b PRE Boys who don't-cut their feet anu have stone bruises every summer never will amount to very much. "The proper place for ‘a vacation is off in the’ woods ‘whe over-what year it i } Never get’afong nicely while your wife is away: visiting her mother. It Phos do it will make your wife mad, the corresponding period, and 120 in 1922 and 111 in 1921. This is the long-range tendency, not only in rail traffic That’s what really counts — the long-range activity, not temporary lulls. . AThought | Hearken to thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy . mother when she is old—Prov. 23:22. Next to God thy parents.—William enn. Weather seasons are not changing, say United States weather bureau officials. 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