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(Established 1873) R THAT TWO-THIRDS RULE The forces of William Gibbs McAdoo, with the Demo- cratic nomination ahead, are confronted by a stumbling block in the Democratic two-thirds rule. They find them- sclves in a most embarassing position. For in going great lengths to have the rule changed to permit a majority of the delegates to nominate a candidate for the presidency, they are in danger of creating an uneasy feeling on the part of the delegates that here is a candidate. who cannot com- mand the unanimity necessary to insure the party of suc- cess. It alw is bad strategy for a candidate to endeavor to alter procedure to win his own ends. The Democratic two-thirds rule was made by one con- vention and might as well be changed by another convention. But if the impression goes out to the Democratic delegates that it is necessary to change the rule to permit Mr. McAdoo ‘o become the candidate for the Presidency, it may not be changed—or another may be the beneficiary of it. HOWS OF TODAY Theatrical producers think a man wants to go to a theater and check his brain with his hat, claims Vivian Kellems, lecturer. Men, however, do not cut much of a figure in this prob- lem. Theatrical productions usually depend for success or faiiure largely on women. Wives and sweethearts compose most of the matinee audiences, and men consult them for their choice of evening theatricals. With the exception of sex plays, the standard of theat- ealyproduction is rising steadily. If you doubt it, recall the childish trash that made melodrama audience howl 20 or more years ago. SS AND AUTOS Charged with drunkenness, a man in Newark, N. J., is “Brought before a magistrate. He is sentenced to report periodically at the police station to have his breath smelled, «nd the first whiff of firewater means a jail term, Ontario, Canada, jails auto drivers who have the odor of Nquor on their breath when halted by a constable. “Henry Ford recently said that the American people can’t Lave liquor back unless ready to give up their autos. The *two don’t go together. You'can imagine the smashups if saloons were running wide open again, in view of the millions of cars now in use. DRUNKENE COMING The foundation of five years of the greatest prosperity America has even seen is now being laid, says C. W. Barron, the Wall Street financial expert. He gives several reasons, but overlooks the most import- ent one: A nation is like an individual. During the war we exerted ourselves tremendously. Then, tired out, we loafed until we recuperated. That period of rest was what we cailed business depression. Now we’re gradually getting back to top-speed work. Hard times are simply periods of national resting and recuperation. & Eeisaie ners INSTALLMENTS An auto salesman tells us 35 per cent of cars are sold “on tirme”—the installment system, so much a month. Sounds exaggerated. A convention of lumber dealers discusses selling mater- ials for building homes on the same installment plan. This would solve the problem of second mortgages. But debt is debt, no matter where the money is borrowed, whether owed to a financial organization or a builder. The burden would merely be shifted from one shoulder to another, EMERALDS Leonard Rosenthal sells more pearls, diamonds and other precious stones than any other man in the world. He handles 300 million dollars worth of gems a year. He passes: the tip that emeralds are a good buy for in- =vestment purposes, because he believes that the emerald will cclipse the diamond and pearl as the fashionable stone in the _hext,few years. Before buying, ponder whether Rosenthal is clairvoyant or merely desirous of stimulating the market é CHOCOLATE Just 400 years ago Aztecs in Mexico were teaching white % explorers from Europe the delights of chocolate, “the food of the gods.” Spaniards took it\back with them. | © | Prohibitionists of those days fought chocolate because, served as a drink, it cut down the use of alcohol. And if I makers fighting it because prohibition has jumped the sales of choc- olate and other candies. Chemically there are many “candy drunkards.” RUSSIAN EXPORTS Russia announces she has exported one and a half billion pounds of wheat and other cereals, ina year. And the over- head charges of marketing these foodstuffs in other countries Ate up three-fifths of the money paid by,buyers. Ours is not ‘the only country where the system distribution is 200 years behind the times. BISMARCK TRIBUNE! Publishers! Editorial Review Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune, They nted here in order that may have both sides issues in which are the press of RAL | RK TO THE ERVE SY The course of national banks’ during the six months before Con- | gress meets again will be interest- | ing to watch. How many of them | will resign thefr national charters | and become state banks in order to | enjoy the branch banking pridi-| leges which are denied them by the present banking law Congressman McFadden, co-au- thor of the MeFadden-Pepper bill, rightly declares that the failure of Congress to pass the pill means that the federal reserve system is in jeopardy. This is so because no banks except national banks are compelled to belong to the federal reserve system. If national banks continue to ‘be handicapped by their inability to establish branch banks to compete with the branch- maintained by state banks, natural result will be a further de- crease in the number of national banks and pnsequent weakening of the stabil of the federa) re- | serve system. The McFadden-Pepper pill con- s two principal provisions: First, no member of the federal reserve system, whether it be a state or national bank, is allowed to open new branches outside the y in which the home bank is sit- ted. Inasmuch aS most large state banks a members of the federal re: stem and wish to remain so, this provision would discourage the opening of branches outside the home cities of the banks. concerned. Second, if a national bank is sit- uated within a state in) which branch ‘banking is allowed, the bink is permitted to operate branches within the corporate lim- its of the city in which it is situ- ated, and its branches are permit- ted the same rights as the branch of the state banks. If the state should later enact legislation re- stricting the branch banking oper- ations of state banks, the national bank would be subjected to the same restrictions. Thus it is evident that the Dill would not give privileges to nation- al ‘banks but would remove some of the disadvantages under which national banks operate when com- peting with state banks and their branches. These handicaps are now so great that already, in large cities where State banks are a lowed to have branches, many 1 tlonal banks have surrendered their charters, As state banks, their membership | ' in the federal reserve system is no| | longer compulsory. Thus the tem loses that perma ter. which is its principal ‘ mene enaveh, national banks which become state banks usually remain members of the federal reserve system; but with the Increase of branch banking, a group of branch banks within a state might well be- come more powerful than the fed- eral reserve system within state, as has happened in Cali n If this were the case through- | | a en structure, It provides elastie cur- rency. It supplies mobile credit. It prevents panics. It is general- ly agreed that, except for the fed- eral reserve system, the country would have suffered a serious panic in 1921. Few sound economists have any good word to'say for branch bank- ing. Regardless of what it has ac- complished in certain countries, it is contrary to the whole American theory of the banking business. Destruction of the entire branch banking system, with equity to all involved, would be a happy con- summation for the country. - But at present it is not feasible; and the best we can do is to enact the McFadden-Pepper bill, which would prevent state banks which are members of the federal reserve system from opening new branches outside their home cities, and \weuld remove some of the disad- ontages now suffered by national unks. This course is vital to the | preservation of the federal reserve svstem.—Chicago Journal of Com- merce, . ims Vs 21 eu | of j te se re re Coolidge has signed a bill to pro- tect Alaska salmon so boarders wili have something to eat for years and years, s Germany is still promising to pay. If promises were money Germany would have some chenge coming. Many blushing~June brides are back from ‘their honeymoon already and blushing over a hot stove. More trouble in the Jap cabinet. We are not worrying about the yel- low peri} as much as they are about the whife peril. Mexico will have an election soon if she doesn’t run out of ammuni- tion. ’ Ruasia’s total-exports in 1923 fiscal year were 105 mil- lion dollars, compared with 786 millions jin 1918. A long way to go before’ getting back to normal. .. MAD DRIVERS f ‘Accused of endangering life by reckless driving, a man in Mar)boro, Mass., is sentenced never to drive an auto again. Ifthe same sort of justice-were applied to all, at least one driver in 10 would have his car. m away from him. The time is not far off when no one will be allowed to ycrive a car unless he passes tests for.sanity, eyesight and ‘éaution. Many madmen drive cars, ‘incliding ones tempor- ~atily, crazed by liquor. Mee . Isn’t it funny who will put on a bathing suit? Wouldn’t it be great if every suit lasted as long as the vest? Every naw and then this wenther, a man gets so restless he sets in and does a little honest work. e New York chorus girl says she had tried suicide only twice. But she should be careful. It is a very di gerous habit. Canada has signed’ a new rum Pact, perhaps to keep the United) wait but tune he ihe needs a#have, Scones eS humbled, and ried out by Couneil, doctors admit they do nov know either than rural district: patients die and tes from booze shipping Canada, You need money to burn to havé hot time. A man often tells a @irl he would seldom does it. Some gardeners have vegetables mpty, cans in their gardens, Even if a man's face isn’t his for ually feels cheap when = A Thought —’ Ra The lofty looks of man shall be the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down—Isa 2:11. In yveneral, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes-—Ruskin. Sleeping Sickness Increasing ov! the country, the federal re-| London, June 21. (A, P.)—Sleeping serve system would be enormously} sickness. is ig weakened. : The federal reserve system. is| this country f wes the foundation of our financial] notified by docters in the first three s of April’against 468 in March, in February and 75 in January. While investigations, into the use of the disease are being car- the Medical Researeh a cure or any the spread. to be more ot and the disease pread westward. officer of health says ourth to onehalf of the not many of the maining have, so far, completely covered. preventing wns appear ms to Young men and women are quit- ting the farms at the rate of about million a year. million years to marry her, into} right along now, according to the | breathin, 4 FABLES ON HEALTH CONSCIOUS BREATHING “Conscious breathing” was a term Jones of Anytown had never d before. s long as there is air and a en’s lungs are all right, he'll he—whether he’s conscious of it or not,” Mr.\Jones ‘reasoned. Which is perfertly true. were not-we'd all suffocate sleep. But there's a proper Ineathe, and a lazy man’s way. The lazy man breathes enough air to keep him slive—and that’s about all, Then the doctor told Mr. Jones about the benefits of | “conscious i at: in our way to “On your way to the car in the morning,” said the doctor, “just fill your lungs to their capacity about a dozen times. Try long, quick breaths—gasps, so to speak. Exhale forcibly through the nostrils. Ex- ercise your diaphragm, ‘You'll be surprised how your chest expansion will increase if you cultivate this, habit. Your cireula- tion will improve and you'll feel like a new man, “It’s the. easiest kind of exercise 1 know of—and: one of the best.” Cal’s Going Into Movies-Politically Speaking BY HARRY B. HUNT NEA Service Writer Washington, June 21—A new na- tional movie star is to be featured on the screen of American theaters this summer, He's no shandsome Neither if he a stalwart, . dashing figure from the plains. The role in which he will be, cast is neither one of love nor of adven- ture. Instead, he will picture the part of a quiet, plodding, earnest, y sort of individual —the us-minded, conscientious, _un- c life of he average Amer- ican who recognizes that to live is to labor and who accepts the bur- dens of existence without protest, seeking to solve his own problems for himself, not asking that soeiety solve them for him. Perhaps you've already guessed his identity. this new star to be featured in the films is none other than Calvin Coolidge, the “calm and courageous candidate of the Cleve- land convention!” Coolidge’s campaign managers in- tend that every movie-goer in the United States shall feel a personal matinee idol. BY CONDO i WONDER IF TOU'RE AS TICKCISA ‘IN THE FACS AS t AM IN THE Bacic OF MY NECK $f cove | they held. acquaintance with, and interest in, their candidate before election day next November. They believe that his “New Eng- land face” and his “New England qualities” as they can be portrayed in the movies, will be a tremendous asset in assisting his election. very, grimness, his Puritanie severity of countenance, his tacitérn- ity and his disregard of, if not his actual contempt for, the pleasures and the soft things of life, as they will be presented through the movies, are expected to kindle a feeling that he represents a return to the type of Americanism and ideals on which this nation was founded. And this appeal, his backers be- lieve, will be far more effective in winning support from the great mass of movie-going voters than any other sort of ‘plaim that can be made for any other candidate. . No such elaborate program of. press-agenting ever was built up to popularize a theatrical star as is planned to “get across” the character of Coolidge. The effort is to .be to create a “Coolidge tradition,” the effect of which will be to endow him, in the popular mind, with all the wisdom and virtues associated in the minds of Americans generally with the New England forefathers. \ The opposition, naturally, expects to picture this “Coolidge tradition” as a “Coolidge myth,” but they realize it will be one of the most difficult impressions to counteract. This widespread and intensive pic- turization of Coolidge was part of the consideration that entered into the permission given the four news reel movie concerns to set up Kleig lights and make movies of the pro- ceédings inside the Republican na- tional convention, The old powers that were in the G. 0. P. headed by John T, Adams and George Lockwood in the ar- rangements for the convention, frowned on the proposal to make movies of the convention show. : It wouldn’t be decorous ‘and dignified, Working together, through a rep- resentative speaking for the four news. reels—Pathe, Fox, Kinograms, and International—the matter was put directly to the Coolidge man- agement, “Unless we get these pictures, we will not tuyn a crank in photograph- ing .Coolidge.for the campaign,” they threatened, - . That threat was enough. Adams et al, were overruled. The pictures, were made. es AOR x ‘And (from now® on the Coolidge countenance, is. to be made a part. of virtually every.reel of “news” films issued until after next Nov. 4. CARPET STEALERS \ Berlin, June 21—Kighty-seven carpet robbers—members, of a bur- glars’ union—were arrested at a sup- per party in a Berlin restaurant re- cently. The supper had been given by the organizer of the union. to celebrate a successful carpet-steal- ing season. “SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1924 OTHER ANIMALS CAN’T DO IT : By Albert Apple Fish in the underground rivers are blind.’ ‘They don’t need eyes. So nature took them away. Put the same fish in waters aboveground. They’d need eyes. And nature, after generations, would develop the eyes. Life adapts itself to its environment. A The giraffe’s long neck was developed by craning and stretching to nibble the most tender leaves, at the tops or trees, / The rhinoceros developed its thick hide to protect itseli from poisonous jungle snakes and insects. : It.all comes by the extremely slow processes of evolution. But life—vegetable and animal—is constantly adapting itseli to its environment. Man, having intelligence, reverses this old revolutionary law that has prevailed for millions of years. Man’s body stil, adapts itself to environment. But man also adapts his en- vironment to fit himself. Where the giraffe grew a long neck to get the leaves at the tops of trees, man if he couldn’t climb would use a ladder. Instead of growing thick skin to protect ourselves agains rattlesnakes, we wear heavy boots. If environment doesn’t please us, we change it. Instead of fleeing from the barren desert, we irrigate water into the desert and make it bloom. Birds evolved from fish which, wanting to fly, developed their fins into wings. Man invents the airplane. A few other forms of animal life have the power, though meager, to change their environments to suit themselves and their needs. The beaver, for instance, instead of building underwater makes a dam that backs up the water around a house con- strueted, originally mostly on dry land. But man has, to a phenomenal extent, the power to adapt his environment to himself instead of vice versa. We empha- size this power because it is the main reason why we should never yield to discouragemtnt. ‘ If you don’t like your lot in life, you have'the power to change it. Hard work and self-denial may be necessary, but every man within certain bounds is master of his own des- tiny. Where he is limited in the matter of change, it is chiefly due to restrictions created by humanity at large . The race can have almost any kind of environment it wants — if it is willing to pay the price. Finally, however, I managed to calm myself ehough to explain. “You see, Miss Bradford, 1 bobbed by own hair when I was in New York and Jack has been expostulating with me as we drove up here from the station Among other things he seemed. to think. that mother would be hor- rified when she saw what I had done. : “From what he said I felt, Mother TO LESLIE PRESCOTT, CARE SECRET DRAWER CON- TINUED I confess, little Marquise, that my heart ‘sank a bit, as Jack wondered what his mother would say about my bobbed hair. She is so hide-bound with traditions and conventions that I was sure she would be horrified. "little violet ; houses ‘There are bout 9000 farm co-oper- atives inNthe United States, For a moment, I felt as though I had made a mistake. You see, I had tried so hard to make. Jack’s mother like ane and I felt I had succeeded. At that instant I was afraid that I had undone all that it had taken me the whole three years of my married life to accomplish. --1 told myself being in fashion was not worth my family’s displeasure. But things never turn out just as you expect them. When we opened the door, I found not ony Mother Prescott in the liv- ing room but Priscilla Bradford. Mother Prescott seemed rather fuss- ed, but she rose to the occasion. “You know Priscilja Bradford,” she said, as she came forward to kiss me. “She telegraphed me yesterday to ask me if she might come to see me and, of course, I afswered with an invitation to «all. However, I did not realize she was coming quite so soon or I would have asked her to wait until tomorrow, knowing that you would be in today, my dear.” Priscilla Bradford came forward slowly, almost hesitantly. She had removed her hat. Both Jack and I caught a good view of her simul- taneously and with one accord we both burst into laughter. Mother Prescott looked much cha- grined and rather unhappy and Priscilla Bradford surprised’ and ‘in- dignant. Yet for the life of me I could not stop laughing. LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT Prescott that you would think I had tommitted the unpardonable sin. Then we came in here to find you sitting with your old friend, Miss Bradford, who, evidently not content with a plain bob, has had her's shingled. “Naturally, we both laughed; we couldn't help: it.” At this Mother Prescott joined with us and even Priscilla Bradford gave a wry. smile. “I had just been telling dear Pris- cilla that I thought her hair was ¥Yery becoming. and that she looked 10 years younger. Take .off your hat, Leslie, and let us see how you look.” Slowly I uncovered my~ shor, locks, and looked ‘into the th: faces before me. Mother Prescott’s was unqualify- ingly approving; Priscilla Bradford's was slightly envious, for my bobbed head made. me also look. 10 years younger; and Jack—dear old Jack— at first looked:hurt and then a smile curled up-his lip as he came for- ward saying, “You're. right, Leslie ‘ou are more of & beauty, than ever.” Little Marquise, it wee event- ful homecoming, a rapturous wel- come, almost a quarrel, -nervous fear of disapprobation turned into joyous approbation and a. knowledge that after all almost everything” comes out right if you wait a little. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “Rain, rain go. away, Come again some other day, Little Johnny wants to play, sang Johnny Jump Up, the little gard- en fairy, on the Twina’ window sill. “What's the, matter, what are you singing that for?” ugked Nick, sit- ting up‘in bed and rabing his eyes. “Because,” said $he ilittle garden fairy, looking all.funny and for- lorn under his umbrella, “it’s rain- ing. There’s no “moon’ or anything and the ‘magjc garden‘ is as wet as anything.’ The flowers ‘are soaked and all of my playmates are in their sound asleep . and—" “Goodness alive!” “tried the tit- mouse flying down from his tree to the. window sill beside Johnny. “I heard:your whole conversation, and the People fuss about a little bit of rain is the limit.” : fl “Don’t you mind it?” cried Johnny Jump Up in. surprise. “Humph! If we birds minded every little shower that came along we, might. just as well dry up and blow, sway," sniffed the little ‘tit. mouse. purse I don’t mind gists ? ‘eried Johnny, turning ia somersault right where he was, um- brella ‘and dll. “Then we can take our trip tonight after all, can’t we?” “Yes, ‘certainly, if you have the tickets,” said the titmouse. “I'll take you to Italy.” “Fi get them, said Johnny, and away he went. He was back befpre you could say Jeck Robinson, and all three got on the little bird’s back, and hold- (jing the umbrella over, them, they flew happily qway. The rain soon stopped and with a = E whisk and a whiz, they were fly-« ing over Italy, a country that looked like’a huge boot sticking out into the ocean. By this time it was daylight and they could see every- thing. “Oh, look at the mountain with smoke coming out of the top!” cried Nick. “That is called a volcano, Every once in a while it boils over and melted rock pours out,” explained Johnny Jump Up. “It’s called Mount Ve-suy-iug.” “I should not like to’live near it,” said Nancy. “Oh, it doesn’t do that very often,’r, said Johnny, “and the rest. of the country is so pretty it more than makes up for it. That fine city there is Naples. See how blue the ocean looks near it.” + ' Next they came. to a beautiful lake with old gardens around it. “Italian gardens are the mo: wonderful in the whole world,” sai Johnny Jump Up. “Oh, look!” said Nick, as the tit- mouse flew. on, “there is a city with streets of water. The people have boats instead of automobiles.” “That is, Venice,” said Johnny Jump Up, who seémed to know everything. “The houses are built on tiny islands right in the sea.” “Many fine painters lived here once,” he went on, I think that. if 1 lived in. Italy, I would’ paint, too,” said Nancy. “There are so many lovely things to paint.” “I never thought. of Johnny Jump Up. “Suppose you think of going home now,” said the titmouse, “Your tick- ets were good for both and I’m tired.” % that,” said (To Be Continued) ‘ (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.):* British ‘postal: authorities have is- sued 720,000 licenses for receiving se! ; EN cre N HS tees St ae tree ’ aa ay