The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 21, 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 - : MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or fepublication 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.... 5 20 Daily by mail. per year (in Bismarck) é G Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota...... THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) NOT DODGING IT The action of the House in taking up the McNary- Haugen farm relief bill, with a promise that the Senate also will do this, is welcome. Farm relief measures have been kicked from pillar to post for many months in Congress. Apparently a large number of the members of the National Legislature ve been unwilling to face the music and make a definite decision. Representative Nicholas Longworth, the Republican House leader, however, has shown qualities hardly expected of him. His tact and his willingness to give every interest seeking recognition in Congress a fair hearing has won him considerable respect, among political opponents as well as political friends. The McNary-Haugen bill is something new in govern- mental activiti It proposes a gigantic scheme designed to raige the price of farm products. Should it collapse the consequences would adversely affect both the national treasury and the farmers of the nation. There is no assur- ance that it would accomplish the desired effect. The bill is one which ought to be settled in Congress, after careful study, and not by the pressure of outside organizations to force a vote on the basis of sentiment or prejudice alone. It would have been sheer cowardice if Congress had dodged the issue. A little hard thinking on this measure will bene- fit the members, and perhaps the country at large. DETROIT Kresge Bldg. + 7.20 - 5.00 - 6.00 Hi-fi SE a in Mi) AME GH AE GE HP ty SAVED A serum that will reduce pneumonia deaths by a fourth or even a half is discovered by Dr. Lloyd B. Felton. This is not medical jzaz like monkey giand stories. Felton’s method has been tried out at Harvard school and announcement of ts success is sanctioned by conservative medical leaders. Felton is a young man from Ohio, only 32 . Banting, discoverer of the insulin remedy for diabetes, also is a young man. Watch the generation that now is reaching mental ma- \ turity. It and the generation now in the cradle probably will stamp out tuberculc and cancer. CAUGHT The inheritance tax was put into effect to raise revenue e°7 45 curb the concentration of too much wealth in a few “fami We were on the road where 100 or fewer families eventually would own 95 per cent of the United States, Cunning lawyers showed rich clients how to evade the in- + heritance tax by giving part of their wealth to their children before father’s death. This dodging would be effectively and ( properly checked by the amendment to the tax law, as pro- + posed by Senator Walsh of Massachusetts. He would tax gifts increasingly up to 36 per cent on those of more than five million dollars. INEVITABLE The first big railroad to couple its rail service with an extensive motor truck system is the New York Central. It ‘ is already using trucks for package freight and rapidly in- creasing the mileage. A former generations of railroad men would have fought motor truck competition by trying to strangle it. People are } wiser now. They keep the old and adopt the new, using , both— knowing that there is plenty of work for both. Steam ' railroads already are inadequate for transportation needs. Before long, progressive railroads will be establishing air- plane routes. BUNK § “Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations,” is an old saying. It means, as you know, that in three generations of rich heirs the wealth of a family becomes dissipated— passes into other hands. This old saying is bunkum in most cases. It is based on the supposition that all sons or grandsons of the rich are =-spendthrifts, which isn’t true. Especially in our day, when , crafty lawyers show rich clients how to freeze their money ® in trust funds so the principal cannot be touched even if the interest can be flung to the four winds. FLAPJACKS Mrs. Smith, mixing pancake batter, reached in the cup- board for another cupful of flour. By mistake she dipped into plaster-of-Paris. Her husband ate four of the plaster pancakes under their maple sirup disguise, before the mis- take was discovered. ‘x Latest report is that he’s had no bad after-effects. This happened in Corning, N. Y., where Smith is a con- tractor. His experience suggests that his stomach must have . had years of restaurant training. ede xeeeY HRMS isamey NaN carer FUNERAL The death rate lately is quite a bit higher than a year ago. An average of 4200 Americans a day are passing on into: the Hereafter. As they exit from one side of the stage of life, newborn babies arrive to take their places. It’s thé same show, gen- eration. The actots and scenery change, but the plot never. «Whether life is a tragedy or a comedy; depends largely on.our mental attitude. The choice of being happy or un- happy is up to us. A HIKER “’ He walks across the continent in 109 days — Harold L. Mackay, hiking from Los Angeles to Boston. Made the trip on a bet and beat the time limit by 11 days.. Good roads made it possible. Fifty years ago the trip would have been next to impossible except by a man with an iron constitution and the pbility to shoot straight and fast. Roads are good now, | 3 but the trip even today is no job for a weakling. ‘Some people will do anything: to save money. ' In New sick millionaire married his nurse. ©... « ‘ ) Fifth Ave. Bldg.| si traitor to the German people. EDITORIAL REVIEW er United ber of President Ta one of our foremost cit W. Wickersham, has used in acterizing Senator Lodge's impro- visation of a “world court” whieh is offered by ‘him for the permanent court in current use by more than fifty nations. The proposed “world court” looks very like the permanent court. In fact, Mr. Lodge has tak- en almost bodily the statute estab- lishing the permanent court. The coin is the closest po: simu jon. He has, however. erasing whe superseription of |i present authority, made it valu less until at some remote time, ever, the nations which have cepted the existing court organize a new authority It would be 1 even if the ibte in practically nate were to put amp on it, and would only d ceive the ignorant. The improy tion even holds out the hope of a association of natit ¥ deferred only because of practicability of organizing present an association independ- | ently of the League of Nations” and yet in the same document pro- poses to establish a new world court independently of the existi world court. | Mr. Wi sham uses the word “buffoonery” at first in speaking of the proposal of the chairman of the senate foreign relations com- mittee, but before he comes to the signature of his statesmanlike let- ter uses the graver a. For one in such po jon as S j ator Lodge to play the buffoon be- fore the world is tragic enough. The charge is more serious. We quote the language of the former attorney general, of Sen-| ator Lodge’s own party: This new appraisal (of a party repeatedly advocating @ world court) will be made by the people and I cannot doubt that they will readily disting- uish between true coin and a counterfeit imitation, and will regard Mr. Lodge’s proposed substitute as counterfeit, too obvious to be accepted even by the most simple. New York Times, substitute | ne- | worth- | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE a lifelong, | i | | 1 { The Question Now Arises—Can He Put His Idea Over HEY FELLAS = 4 HOLE LIKE ANT SO 2 FULL OF MOLES iate mock convention: u ps to the test. ‘They f y of hope, too, for statesmen whose only chance for preferment ir these querulous times lies in some mock performance.—Cleve- land Plain Dealer. Pres yterians a Of South Give Relief San Antonio, May 21.—Presby- GERM Count von Bernstorff, who was jerman ambassador to the United ates until uhis country went to ar in 1917, is a candidate tor re- jelection to the reichstag on the Democratic ticket. ! He is opposed by Herr Jahncke, a. Nationalist. Jehncke, it seems, ; Was a German agent in this coun- try during the period between the outbreak of war in Europe and the entrance of the United States into the conflict, ‘his chief busni be-| ing to foment harbor es in American munitions ports, to stop ithe export of war materials to the Allies. He now charges that $20,000 was necesssary to keep the strikes go- ing, and ra yhen the applied to| Bernsterff foF Money the ambassa- dor failed to reply to his first re- quest, and later declined to supply the fund. msequently, Jahncke now attacks von Bernstorff as a! ie an interesting sidelight on activities in the United States before it went into the war. | There is no American concern over von Bernstorff’s ploitical for- tunes, but it is important to know that large sums of money were he-| ing spent to promote strikes in this | count Just why von Vernstorff refused to supply the funds does not ap- pear. He ‘has not yet replied toj the charge. Maybe the ambassadorial chest was exhausted. Or perhaps Jahncke’s method of asking the embassy directly was too crude. Von Bernstorff in his book maintains that he made no disbursements for militant propa- ganda in this country. Undoubtedly there was a buffer between the embassy and the “agents” who were stirring up la- bor troubles and destroying plants. Actually thove most interested in the charge of Jahncke are the peo- ple who were induced to strike in the munitions ports. It would ‘be valuable to have a full story of how these troubles were managed and who got the money.—Washington Evening Star. war ‘ONVENTION MBLED This is mock convention time in} the colleges. How many times Mr. Coolidge thas already been nomi- nated is not a matter of record, but his victories are growing num- erous. ‘0 man in national political life| }is quite safe from the academic; lightning. | Once in each college generation comes this playing with practical ‘politics. . When it began no one} | knows, | The first pominee at Oberlin was Abraham Lincoln and ;that early hotbed of abolition has been turn- \ing out presidential nominees at |the rate of one per quadrennium ever since. It is a matter of pride for the staid conservators of tra- dition in most colleges that their conventions shall foreshadow. in their chief nominee the work of the Teal convention a few weeks later. This does not, however, digcour- \age students who would rattler be j Tight than regular. 4 ;_ Insurgency is rampant. Dieci {les of LaFollette placard thér in- | tention of Wisconsinizing Americ The sloean “As we go 3% g0e the natton” has no terror for,stud ent radicals who know exactly what’s wrong with the body polt- tic, having learned it perhaps i teries of the General Assembly of resbyterian Church in the Uni- ates have under their care 646 cundidates for the ministry and mis- sion serv§ce, exclu of + We candidates for mi i the report of th cutive commit- tee of Christian Education and Min- | isterial Relief, made today before | sembly in session here. \ committee aided 452 ¢ for the ministry and miss » in the year just closed, 29} than in the previous year, the | report stated, and in this connec tion spent $77,962. “In our campaigns for equipment and endowment funds for schools:, and colleges of the church, the $1,- | $50,000 sought for schools in Texas! is becoming a reality,’ continued! the report. “Collections amounting { to more than $8,000,000 in other synods ure reported, “The endowment fund for ministe= rial relief is now more than $1,470,. 000, and in keeping with the re quest of the fassembly, effort is being made to increase this fund to $2,500,000. The total amount receiv- ed from the endowment fund the past year was $21,621, which is $34,- 141 less the amoynt received the year before. “Total receipts from all sources were $351,159, a decrease of $44,730." e and more SOMETHING TO SAY Husband—When I married you out of the chorus, I didn't expect you to nag me all the time. Wife—Well, you see, this is my first speaking part.—London Mail, | LITTLE JOE oe ‘THE DOCTOR SAYS THE WAY To GET THE MOST OUT OF A VACATION IS JO LET NO ONE KNOW YOURE TAKING (Tw ANYONE DODGING BILL COLLECTORS WILL AGREE # _~ \NITH THE DocToR’ Piles Can Be Curec Without Surgery ‘An instructive book has been pub- lished by Dr. A. S. McCleary, the noted rectal specialist of Kansas City. This book tells how sufferers from Piles can be quickly and easily cured without the use of knife, scis- sors, “hot” iron, tricity or any other cutting or burning method, without confinement to bed and no hospital bills to pay. thod has been a success for twenty-four years and in more than eight thous- and cases. The “book is sent post- id free to persons afflicted with’! piles or other rectal troubles who clip this item and mail it with namé and address to’ Dr. McCleary, D542 class, « -oAR.excelient idea, these UNI ENTE ROR ENTE 8 Parkview Saniteriam, Kansas City, ARGENTINE SPECULATES _IN PEARS Papeete, Tahiti, May 21.—There has been much speculation in s here since the close of the d season in Hikueru, where an ¢ ordinarily large number of pearls were taken, “Besides unusually high prices for pearls’ of quality, there has been a quick market for seed pearls at figures unheard of in past years. The heavy increase in the demand comes, it is said, from Ar gentina. Redwood Forests Saved By Land Donations: San trees with a $1,000,000 h: lue of approximately been saved for all time in central and northern Calif- ornia through the efforts of the Saye-the-Redwoods League, it announced here recently by Dr. Wi Bade, counsellor for the or- ganizatior gue was organized less than urs ago. Its membership is made up of tree lovers who are fight- ing to save the giant trees for pos- terity. Individuals and lumber com- panies have donated lands valued at $500,000 to the movement. The state, Humboldt county and citizens have coritributed $475,000 in money to the movement for purchasing other lands. “And yet the movement has just begun,” said Dr, Bade. “While 14 miles along thet Redwood highway have been preserved, there are sev- eral hundred “miles, many of them heavily timbered, which should be preserved. We look forward to the establishment of a national redwood park of at least 20,000 acres.” EVERETT TRUE | Coneose WANT ANY THANKS! Cree, BvLT. My DUTY. Ut | br anciseo, May 21.—Redwood j on the Gang? | Have a talk with a man at the top afd you will find he is at the) bottom of a lot of things. The older a man becomes. the younger everyone else seems. Two heads aré ‘nétter than one in| a porch swing aténight. j Maybe love went blind reading’ love letters. : Any girl who “goes through col- lege’ without having her . heart! en twice will make a fine schoo. teacher. - Next to loafing the one. thing that | tukes' up more time than anything else in’ the’ world is work. Some men seem to stay at home when they don’t need a’ shave. Politicians seem; tg think that to tarn about is fair play.. Only a few more shopping-months before overcoats. CRYSTAL BEADS Crystal Beads on pink georgette are a combination that fashion: is powerless to put out of business. For yung women. particularly there 4s a charm to such frocks that is quite irresistible San-¥-1 03 Book rite Weite tor Ghrewite YOURSELE, MR. NAY GALCER ! Iv Jusy save: 3s ONLY Din Ruth, you are jin time of trouble. ‘Twi j beet! here I have been panicky for fear that | would not make the right decision quickly. You know I am rather slow to make up my mind jabout things, and when 1 found that Alice thought I should give her the pearls back I didn't know what to do, Your telegrgm, however, con- firmed my idea that it would be wrong for me to give them to her. Afterward,’ when Jack sent me the telegram to have father draw on him I was again up in the air, and your Wire, telling me to have father I had rather a hard time with dad, however.. He wanted to’ know what I wanted so much foney for. He seemed to think that ‘$6000 all at one time was more’money than one woman should have. I told him that Jack wanted me to do something for him with the money, and that he had asked me to have him draw on him for that amount,’ then dad could give it tq me, .Then. he sub- sided, but I could see him looking at me very. queerly—at least I could feel’ him doing so. Perhaps it was my guilty consciencé, although you know, Ruth, that I did not really to pay his debt. him pay father. I went dut ifor a watk'in the after- noon toward the park, and whom should nfeet, sauntering rather forlornly along, but Karl Whitney. He fell into step beside me, and we talked for a while on the weather T am just letting it to me ‘instead of to 7 And that was what happened. ing to most readers. is 5-4-3. the ‘extreme view. do it quickly. ment of 178,065 tons. present. ADVENTURE OF BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON MISTER BAGS SENDS SOME BILLS The next day the old cronies met as usual in Mister Bags’ store in the woods, - Old Daddy Cracknuts came in first. “Howdy, Mister, Bags,” said he. “Howdy, Nancy! Howdy, Nick. morning this morning,” “Yes, it is, Dagdy,” said Nancy noticing that Daddy took the chair nearest to the cracker barrel. “P11 just. rest. a spell, if you do: mind,” said Daddy. ered out today. Ma's been’ cleaning Nice “Think yow'll, stay away until it’s over, do you?” Jaughed Mister Bags, noticing that Daddy had absent- mindedly..reached {nto the cracker barrel and begun to munch at a scda cracker, > At that minute the door opened with a tingalingaling and in came Mister Groundhog. i ‘“I need a match, Mister Bags,” he wheezed. “I just thought I’d drop in and get) one if you. have any handy, Thanks! My old pipe doesn’t draw any too, well, Why, hello, Daddy! You're out bright and early this morning.” 5 So Daddy told him. all about his wife's house-cleaning, and | while he was listening,,,.Mister, Groundhog picked up a cracker and began to eat it. t At that minute the door opened again and in came Ben Bunny. “Please, may I use your telephone. Mister Bags?” he asked. “I, would like: to telephone to my cousin across the meadow and ask ;him,how. the sass-patch garden. is ,coming along. The lettuce ought to be big enough to eat by this time... : >. “Certainly,” said Mister. Bags ob- ligingly..;.“Help yourself!” . ‘When-he was through telephoning, he ‘came. oven:to the;eracker barrel and dipped in... : Then came Ringtail Coon: to loo at MisterBags’ .theemometer. and talk.,about the weather, 603. 1 Thon: came; Mistes Muskrat, etd next came Mister Chipmunk, and tell an untruth; Jaek, did want me! draw upon him again cleared up the |s | situation. --.- “Tm all tuck-| eslie, will you do me a very favor?” nything I possibly can do, Karl.” “Then will you remember that however much Alice importunes you either to give or sell her those fool- ish pearl beads that I gave you, you will refuse o let her have them?” I felt sorry foe him, Ruth. I knew that it was something that he had hated to ask me to do, I knew that in his, heart he felt that he was in some, way being a traitor to the girl he was going to marry, Yet he didn’t dare trust to my avaricious- He knew [ didn’t care enough, arls as pearls to keep the 's own sake. * Alice will bring all sorts of argu- ments to bear upon you,” he suid. “I know this, because she told me she was going to. But, my dear, I could not bear even to see my wifa wearing those pearls, which all the years of my adolescence and young manhood had been something more to me than merely baubles which I should hang around the neck of the girl I loved’ ‘The mere gather- ing of them togethef kept your face always before me, atid put into my heart a wish to be worthy of you. They were really an anchor to the best of everything I knew. “You won't let them out of your possession for anyone, will you, Leslie? And then, Ruth, I told him that I had sold three of them to help my husband out of a very bad debt. hat is like you,” he said softly. “But I will never let one of them go again, Karl, even for him.” Karl turned quickly, and held out his hand, said “Thank you, Leslie,” and other very safe subjects, then'and left me. DANGERS OF A WEAK NAVY BY ALBERT APPLE Uncle Sam probably would gladly sink ‘his entire navy if all other countries would do the same. _When Uncle Sam , called: the disarmament conference in Washington, he was willing to reduce his navy as far as was possible with safety. Our naval experts figured that, to be reasonably well pro- tected, our fighting fleet must be on an equal footing with England’s and two-thirds stronger that Japan’s. gram went into effect, giving Great Britain, United States and Japan the respective standings of 5-5-3. Lately you have been reading a lot of controversy about the navy having fallen behind the 5-5-3 standard. Just what its actual fighting strength is, must be confus- It is weaker in-some classes of ships than in others. Elevations of guns, determining how far a shell can be fired, also enters into the. discussion. The thing to keep in mind, however, is the navy as a whole — as an organization, ready to give battle when at- tacked. In this connection, we must remember that no chain is stronger’ than its ‘weakest: link. This pro- Our Navy Department announces that the relative fight- ing strength’ of the fleets of- Britain, America and Japan Some experts go as far as to claim that the ratio is 5-1-3 —that in actual. battle strength our fleet is only a third as strong as Japan’s and a fifth 4s strong as Britain’s. This is The fact remains, however, that our navy is claimed. to have become weakened—fallen below the relative standing that our best experts consider necessary for safety. If, as claimed, the navy is: weaker: than is necessary for national safety, the thing to do is to bring it back up to its strength as agreed on at the disarmament conference—ang Japan is building. 84 fighting ships with a total displace- And Uncle Sam is building only 24 ships with tonnage of 64,494, ‘This obviously means that we are headed toward even a weaker naval standing than at Congressional watchdogs of the public treasury, inciden- tally, before spending a lot of tax money ‘should ascertain } where truth ends: and militaristic propaganda begins,,, , 7 next came old’ Mosey Mud Turtle, and before long the store was ‘full of gossips, all talking at once ‘and dip- ping into the cracker barrel. Nick stood by with a little book and every time anybody dipped down for s cracker he put a mark beside his name, The next morning when Daddy Cracknuts opened his mail, there was a bill from Mister Bags. It said: May 10—15 crackers—15c, And when ‘Mister Bunny opened his mail he got ‘a bill, too. It said: May 10—20 crackers—20c. And Mister Groundhog got a bill and Ringtail Coon got a bill and so did all of them, - They were all hoppiig mad and rushed to the littie store in the woods at once, ee “Why. I never bought any_crack- ers here in my life!” said Daddy Cracknuts “Neither did I! criéd the others, “No, but you ate them so it's all the same”, suid Mister’ Bags. “f open a new. barrel every day and you éat them all up. Youwsdo jt*without thinking, but I decided that I'd given enough’ cracker “parties,” i “Why, that’s so, J yuess we di eat a good ‘many erackers,” said Daddy. “I .never ‘thought of | that. Here’s my “money!” + “And mine!” cried everybody else. (Copyright, 1924, NEA’ Service, Inc.) Neither did wel [A Thought >—_____.__¢ A whisper separateth chi jends. —Proy, 16:28, lates: phic Lae ER Cook ‘by Electricity.: It is Cleaner, | aa, _ +} DE. R. S. ENGE | . Teeey j ¢ \