The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 4, 1924, Page 4

_ eause they don’t wear petticoats. _ a 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 SMI’ DETROIT Kresge Bldg. TH NEW YORK Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year... Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). Sesianete 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) . 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.. sicaranss G00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) BIG Small banks earn a higher percentage of profit than big banks. This is discovered through a survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. For instance, one big bank with a million dollars to loan will usually make less money from it than if it were distributed among 10 country bankers, each using $100,000. The reverse often holds true in busine in the high cost of living. and is a factor There is a point in the develop- ment of luge corporations and semi-monopolies where the econem made possible by size are eclipsed by overhead and other expenses due to s We might all be more pros perous ay of our large corporations were dissolved into chains of small businesses, if not too small. PROPHECY Wise old Thomas Jefferson, who drafted the Declaration of Independence, more than a century ago made his pre- diction. “Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. The people will forget themselves in the sole faculty of making money and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights.” After reading this and pondering national conditions in 1924, few will deny that Jefferson was uncannily clairvoyant. . CROOKS Thiee hundred thousand professional criminals in our country, reports the National Surety Company. That’s a low estimate. It doesn’t include the profiteers and petty cheaters who operate within the law. The professional criminals each year steal 3000 million dollars of American money and property. This is only a shadow of the stealing by the aforementioned profiteers and petty cheaters. Dishonesty begins wherever full value is not given for ‘ce pad or services rendered. p FIRES xd 508 million dollars worth of American p.cp-riy in 1923, the underwriters estimate. Enough to pay several solc’er bonuses. Fully three-fourths of these fires are preventable. cially forest fires. Camping season is at hand. Never break camp until absolutely sure the fire is completely exting- uished. Never throw away glowing matches or cigaret stubs do str. Espe- | ° Editorial Review Comments reproduced in thi column may or may not expr opinion of The Tribune. ‘Th presented here in order t both sic which ure the press of r readers may bh f important issu veing discussed in the day A WORD TO GOY. SMITH The om gers of Governor Smith's presidential reported to be end duce the New York Democrats in Congress to support: the 2 Haugen bill in order to win mid wes Gc or Smith rm yotes for in Democartic National con- | vention. ‘There is something like despera- | tion among the proponents of this | measure creation of a $200,000,- | 600 corporation to dump American | farm products abroad. — The bill is | y ‘de! Its congressional | upporters privately admit that the ‘| would do no good, but | they must enact it in to save their faces with their constituents. And now it is de- elfred that Tammany Hall is seek | { ing a bargain whereby votes in| Congress Would be traded for yates | in the convention | Governor Smith must know that | the McNary-Haugen bill is a pre- | tense, ats hollow as a loving cup. | He must know that there is only | one Kind of farm relief bill wiffel | is justifiable by the laws of eco nomies, and that that kind of Dill | is nothing but a subsidy, a meas- ure frankly voting a gift to need | farmers because they need it, just gifts of mon ave been sent ope has need- se facts must be well known to Governor Smith, for he is a man of intelligence. As governor of New York, he hay demonstrated knowledge of great power. how He to exercise h has given an ficient’ administration which won opr throughout the state | and which has put him among the j ading contenders for the Demo- ie presidential — nomination. ‘The trust of the business commun ily of New York State is one of ihis principal ass He would be throwing this trust to the winds, he would be depriv- ing himself of the opportunity to st of the entire Amer- community, if he per- mitted his managers to make such a trade as is reported. With the death of Charles F. Governor Smith is the! of Tammany Hall. If now vote for| bil, which | y Democr Nary-Haugen al burden of at 1} dollars upon the Amer sumers, Governor Smith held largely responsible. Journal of Commerce. t a billion can con- will be Chicago A CHAIR OF JAZZ The great Guggenheimers have ever ‘been the supporters of typi ally American institutions and it is therefore not surprising to find one of them advancing the cause of | ‘an mus Charles S. Guggenheimer, man of the Philharmonic O ociation of New Yo ng the establishment n academy at Rome of jaz: This seems startling propos senheimer jus' well. t a sufficiently} M firs) 1 but the She finds in j + the in the woods or from the window of a train. caution on the part of all of us will hold down one factor of high cost of living—fires. COTTON England’s running a campaign to make the British Em- pire independent of American cotton. This campaign is “assuming alarming proportions,” reports Bartlett, president of N. Y. Cotton Exchange. In Australia and South Africa. cotton plantations are springing up galore. And yet it will be many years before British growers can begin to replace the losses due to the boll weevil in America. This little beetle may destroy our cotton export trade. MOVING STATISTICS Nearly a fifth of the nation’s farmers moved in 1922, the government learns by checking up. Some were driven away by financial necessity. More were lured by the cities or by lands at 2 distance. With a fifth of the farms changing occupants in one year, farming loses, much of its old-time stability. The migratory spirit apparently is stronger in the country than in cities. The readjustment of owners and tenants continues. In the long run, farming probably will be better off for it. BIKES This is hard to belive, but it’s trues Americans are using more bicycles now than during the “bicycle craze” 25 years ago. The auto didn’t put the bicycle industry out of business, though it did paralyze it for a while. The process will repeat when airplanes come by the mil- lions. We’ll need all the planes we can get, also all the autos. There is room for both. The new no longer displaces the old, they help each other. LEADER . The big telephone company will put 150 million dollars worth of additional stock on the markets. This will give it a total of about 900 million dollars worth of stocks, passing even U.S. Steel and making it the world’s, leader among cor- porations in the matter of stock capitalization. ee certainly pay a lot of money to gratify our desire to talk. STOLEN Auto thefts increase steadily. In 28 Jeading cities last year, about 40.000 cars were stolen. Over 32,000 were re- covered. The “not found” cars were 18 per cent of the total stolen, compared with 29 per cent in 1920 and 1921. Auto theft is becoming a more difficult game. Another factor is the increasing number of cars stolen temporarily, for criminal expeditions, and abandoned after the crime and getaway. Telling a girl her petticbat is showing is not polite be- Keep your receipts when you pay the coal man. They will A little more |, |of this city, is a candidate for gov- turbulent, typmanum _ torturing iscord which was first I'beled but the refinement of synco- pation which has inherited the name—the first truly Americi xpression. Its 1 appeal, s sts, proves tivat it is worthy | of study and development. And | | since it is one of the great Guggen- | heimers who speaks, one feels that | she must ibe right. | The reputation of jazz has profit- he recent bruiting abroad of ct thit Brahms mide fre- use of syneopation. A an adaptation of the same musical principle has ccr- tainly its allurements and the very real contribution which the better exponents of jazz have made to music in the matter of orchestra- tion tend to justify it furthe The argument that the virtue of jazz will ‘be degraded by self-con- scious experimentation does not apply, for the reason that i: has ‘been from the first a soph ated exposition. Those who especially admire jozz even repudiate the negro mel- ody as the ancestor of the present form. Whether jazz will be a perma- nent contributor to music no one, can safely predict, but certainly it | is wrothy of study as a very ex-/ traordinary phenomenon. It is not impossible that out of it will come mething which will truly record tone the genius of America.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. FOR PLATOU Dr. L. S. Platou, former mayor qnent ernor on the democratic ticket, and from reports from the country precints in this county, he is going to get a nice vote in Barnes coun- ty. In Green township nearly one hundred farmers have signed up as democrats in order to give Dr. Piatou a ‘boost, which shows a mighty fine spirit on their part. The same thing thas been done around Kathryn and other points. | If we are to have a democratic governor this paper is strong for Dr. Platou. We belive him to he the best man now running on the democratic ticket and we hope Barnes egunty will give him a rousing démocratic vote. Platou should by chance be elect- ed governor ‘of ‘North Dakota—he wottld be governor—and he would de the very best in him to give the state a good administration — and he would do it. Givé the former mayor your vote if you are voting the democratic ticket—Valley City Times Record. If L. S|. 5 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Picnic We andidacy are, oring to in OA WELL = “CMON! weaBe TLL BLOW OVER ather | GAINING AND LOSING As in most cities the qu ions of jroni and flour mixtures for starch- gaining weight and reducing were |es and plenty of milk. popular topics for small talk in| Dyinking of milk, between meals Anytown, | : i |is advisable. If possible, milk rich How to take on a little weight was | in cream should be secured. a matter that attracted as much dif-]| A short rest after eating helps ference of opinion as how to get| where persons affected can take the thin—and few agreed. jtime. Such a rest will greatly |speed up the weight gaining pro- cess. The chief trouble is that a great many thin persons of the “ten- sion variety, and it is difficult for them to ‘gain unless. they can ar- range for more rest and take from their shoulders the weight of the world. . Otherwise nervous indigestion is likely to follow an attempt at weight gaining. Certain fundame: weight gaining are accepted and agreed al foods for now. generally upon by _per- sons who have made a study of die- first: CREAM AND AND ‘PLENTY OF THEM. at breakfast, with plenty of Toast butte: Oil, salad dressing, milk ter in “cream sauces,”. r Groundhog. “They do have queer voices in New York, don’t they, Mrs. Groundhog?” “It isn’t just right yet,” said Mis- ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS ter Coon, “The air isn’t right.” BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON | “No, I'd say it wasn’t exactly right,” grinned Mister Bunny nudg- All the Green Woods people were | ing Old .Daddy Cracknuts. “I've dressed up in their Sunday best at] heard a good many airs but none Mister Coon’s party. exactly like that.” a most fashionable party,} Mr. Coon pulled out some more Nancy and Nick and the little !krobs and pushed in some other man were proud of the coon| knobs and the little lights went gentleman and his new radio set. ink, and suddenly there wis Mister Coon’s new Boulikeithen dmc cloak et that the party was about. iverybody ‘had come to hear a con- cert. “Ladies and entlemen,” said Mis- ter Coon! importantly, getting up in the middle of the floor where a lit- tle square box with a horn was sitting on a table, “ I will now tune | in We shall hear a concert that is | i in New York.” | going on in Everybody clapped and ~ Mister | Coon bowed and then he pushed in} some knobs and pulled out some- knobs and turned a thingamadodger, ece—rattle—rattle—rattle! went the | big horn, or rather they were the sounds that came out of it. “My!” said Mrs. Muskrat to Mrs.’ bedtime story.” EVERETT TRUE whistle. “Oh, oh, oh!” shrieked the Green loud sin; ing that way in New York, Mister Coon?” 2 Mister Coon blushed. “There something wrong,” he explained ner. vously, “Sometimes it’s a li hard to make it work right.” The Twins and the fairyman. tried to help him fix things. “I think i all right now,” said Nick. “Try to get some other place, Mister Coon. “I will tune in on Chicago,” said Y CONDO —————_-—_______—_———_+ AThought . | make good reading for hot summer days. _ <;A,St. Louia woman has legally adopted. her son-in-law, and driven another nail in the mother-in-law joke’s coffin. Prove all things; hold fast, that |’ which jood,—1 Thess. 5:21. , One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays,—Plautus, curfew | Wood ladies, covering up their ears. | “That must be Grand Opera! Such | inging makes us deaf: Do they | | Mister Coon, “and we will hear a} “That's better,” whispered Daddy Cracknuts. “It won’t split our ear- drums, So Mister Coon pulled another ‘thondle and instantly a voice came out of the horn, saying, “Once wpon a time a Tittle—squeeec—squeeee— squeeee—squeeece—roar — roar whirrrr—whoop—eeee!”” “My goodness!” exclaimed Grand- {ma Frog, “I should think that would waken up all the babies this side of Canada. That's a most remarkable bedtime story!” “Yes, isn’t it,’ remarked Mrs. Chipmunk. “Oh, there! Listen, now.” The voice in the -horn went on: “And one day he went to school and—bang; whang, squeal,’ roar, shriek!” it finished with a wail. “My, my! I'd hate to send my child to that school,” said Mrs. Groundhog. “It’s very late and we'll have to be going,” said Mrs. Bunny. “Good- night, Mister Coon. “We've all had a nice time at your party.” And out they went—all of them. But they hadn’t any more than turned the corner when the radio set began to behave itself beduti- fully. The Twins ang the fairyman stayed and hgard ten pieces played by a cireus band. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Ts F If there was a federal tax on act- foolish, we could pay our entire ionai debt in-a couple of days. is famous for its rugs, most [of which wre made in America. Hodearriers in Denver have been | raised to $6.50 a day, much to the disgust of men who couldn’t carry a hod thirty minut ‘ivny a political pie hunter finds it, is a lemon. \ | ! By going slini®on the ice this sum- mer you may get your last winter's vaid for in time to start on winter's coal. ’ 60 | when he is ridin, In Atlanta, Ga, a bandit got $35,- 000 worth of stamps, so now he could open a drug store. + The Jap problem seems to be keep- ing them out without excluding them, Even if things are quieting down a little ‘in Washington they already have enough to talk about for the next ten years. The nicest thing about being a poor man’s son is you don’t run any risk of being married for your money. With airplane traffie you soon may. be able t6 cross the Atlantic as safely and as quickly as you cross the street. There are about 10,000 known va- rieties of fish, and often a man at a swell summer, resort thinks he is all of them. % A man is as*old as he feels, but a woman is only as.old as she acts. ‘An: optimist is a man who is al- ways surprised at the weather while a pessimist is’ a man: who is always disgusted with it. These are the good old days we will be longing fora few years from now. There are no free scholarships in the sthool of experience, but you can get eff much lighter by studying . ‘The trouble with ‘being a follower ig you’ sepianet ta; BOOTLEGGERS LAUGH By Albert Apple in so many parts of the shértage of enforcement agents. Nor to bribery. Nor to increased cunning by the liquor ring. re The real trouble is the disappearance of the campaign against John Barleycorn as an economic evil and destroyer of lits victims. When the United States went dry,’ about 2200 of its ap- proximately 2500 counties already had adopted prohibition, jeither by local option or state legislation. NATIONAL prohibition really affected only the remain- ing wet districts—a mere fraction of the whole country. These 2200-odd counties had gone dry voluntarily — by consent of a majority of the people. They went dry as a result of years and years of educational and emotional cam- paigning against alcohol as an evil. A King Alcohol was preached against, lectured against, written against. He became disreputable, was banished. ' But as soon as national prohibition went into effect, the educational campaign against him ceased. Temperance ‘b¢- came a matter of obeying the law rather than of personal common sense. Public memory is.short. People are forgetting the evils of alcoholic abuse. A new generation, that was too young to be impressed by the temperance campaign, is growing up and toting hip flasks. i Prohibition is a farce in many sections because: it is an ‘attempt to stop the SELLING of booze instead of stopping the DRINKING of booze. Booze is a temperance problem. But few look at it in that light. Instead, they look on it as a matter of obeying a-piece of legislation rushed through Congress when millions of voters were overseas in the army and soft drink and other lobbies manipulating wartime patriotic hysteria to their own |purposes. Prohibition is a problem of thirst rather than of quencher —of the desire to buy rather than the eagerness to sell it for A pedestrian is never safe except profit. And prohibition will contin approached sensibly as a temp disagree. One of these days t! nue to be a failure until it is erance problem. Some believe that light wines and beer are the ways to temperance. Others here’ll be a showdown. BAlicTangles. LETTER FROM MARY ALDEN PRESCOTT TO MRS. LESLIE PRESCOTT | MY DEAR DAUGHTER: I hope you will not think me sel- fish when I tell you that I shall be glad to see you when you return, and I know ‘that Jack misses you very, very much, However, he has been very busy since you have been away. He has not had time to have dinner with me but three times, but he has always made quite a party of it—once he invited the minister to dine with us, and twice your friends, Mrs. Ellington and Mrs, Atherton. PRD I like your lady friends very much, particulary. Mrs. Atherton, who. at first rather shocked me by appearing so soon after her hus- band’s death in a hat. with pink roses ‘on it. However, during the course of the evening she remarked that a business woman had no right to indulge in great grief or great joy to the detriment of her work, and either one of these would be no- ticed by the stranger who came into ‘the office where she worked daily. I knew immediately that she didn't wear mourning on that account, al- though I couldn’t just realize ‘how | she would make her great happiness | visible to strangers. I'm wearing the beautiful \that Mrs, Ellington had made | caps for me. The other day Miss Anderson land I went down to the lingerie | { didn't know that good lwomen, wore such delicate and ex- ther won- eld up an| which — she | indi ib called a teddybear, made of chiffon what my mother would have sai had she seen it—my mother, who always ‘insisted upon us wearing red flannel underelothes in, the win- ter. I know that she would have said that’ there was something wrong with the mind of a! woman who would wear transparent’ under- clothes, und I have the same feeling. Neither Miss Anderson nor Mrs. Ellington seemed to htink anything about it, so I didn’t make any re- marks; but to you, my dear daugh- ter, I can unburden myself, because when you were at my house I no- ticed that although your underwear was of the finest of linen and b: the utmo! and embroi tiste, and made with care by hand, its laces eries perhaps more expensive than I haf been accustomed to, there were no colored chifons among them. ‘ It may be a modern idiosyncracy, my dear, but Iam glad you haven't By the way, I think I have found a place where: that secret drawer , might be concealed, At least’I have found a place on the outside of the desk: that doesn’t seem to be filled by a corresponding receptacle ,on the inside. When’ you come honk: I will show it to you and we can open it together if we find I am right. Little John Alden, Jr. is wonder- ful. He knows his grandmother al- ready and reaches out his tiny arms to me whenever I come near, He shows: signs of trying to walk. I think he will walk and talk very cae svingly your mother, MARY ALDEN PRESCOTT. WANY WOMEN “PARTICIPATE. ~ TNCONVENTION { Cleveland; Ohio, June 4.—(A. P.)— Among the-numbers of unusual wo- men who will participate in the Re- publican national convention here the week of June 10 is one who un- dertook to. conquer Democratic wea- ther. ‘In her state, Kentucky, the elements” are said to conspire per- culiarly’ at times with the topo- graphy of the eastern section, and to oppose their combined forces is compared with the defiance of Ajax to the lightning and the attempt of canute to command the tide. She is Mrs. A. T, Hert of Louis- ville, Ky a ‘member of the national committee on arrangements for the convention. It was during the last gubernatorial’ campaign in Kentucky that Mrsa Hert opened her fight to redis' ii Mr. Firth writes that ho- suffered Yor 12 years from constipation and his friend for 10 years—a total of 22 years’ suffering permanently Te- lieved by Kellogg’a Bran, ‘cooked and krumbled, el i 3 i i i thal i ed by votes cast and not by the amount of rain that falls,” as the iepublicans put it. A number of nesy precincts have’ already been ed out, in response to her agita- tion. Mrs. Hert represented that the various. precincts were sometimes divided by streams, with the polling places on one side of the stream, at the foot of a mountain. Most of the Republicans. in Kentucky live in the mountains and it was contended that when ‘elections follewed heavy rains, many a man on his way to the polls either got ‘stuck on’the mountain- side or was unable to ford the swollen. creek. Mrs. Hert succeeded in having a number of new precincts formed in such .@ way that the polling-places are accessible to the mountaineer even during Democratic weather. Mrs. Martin J. Caples of: Norfolk, Va., alternate at large, will be the special representative of Bascafn Slemp, Mr. Coolidge’s seerétary, Mrs. Charles Sabin, daughter of Paul Morton; a member of Roosevelt's cabinet, will: be a delegate-at-large from New York state. Mrs, Anna W. Vaile: of Denver, Colo., is an as- member of the nati 1 ar- rangeme Tries Kellogg’s Bran—restores health after 12 years of intense suffering could not find anything to give him relief’ Three weeks ago I advised him to try Krumbled Bran, as I had told him what wonderful results I bad gotten from it. The gentlo- mai In question purchased a box, eae eae “ten years without taking medicine, cual Yours for success, ‘William Firth, Jr,, 56 Volan: St. N. J. Eaten regularly, Kellogg’a Bran is guaranteed to relieve the most chronic case of constipation, or your grocer returns your money. Eat two table- spoonfuls daily—in chronic cases, wigh Toten Se flavor is delicious. in’ ipes on every package,