The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 2, 1924, Page 4

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Probably the best service the Association of Commerce could give the taxpayers of Bismarck world be to name three men well acquainted with real estate values and the cost of structures to act in conjunction with the City Commission so that all discriminations may be wiped out arid real scien- t‘fic valuations established. It is hard for the members of the City Commission to Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed In the press of the day. THE NOMINATING SYSTEM The high importance of the power to control or dictate nominations for political office is dwelt upon by. Mr. Kent in his recent book,’ which is so close a study of the workings of a party machine. He attributes ¢o} this power a very large part of the strength of a city boss, ranking the ability to nominate even above that to elect. The boss may now and then lose an election, but if he still retains, and is known to retain, such a hold upon his party organization as will place in his hands the naming of all the important candidates in| the next election, his grip may con- tinue unbroken. We have seen this truth illustrated again and again in New York. The late Boss Murphy frequently suffered disastrous de- feats at the polls, but so long as he could go on designating nominations for Judgeships, for Congress, even for the Governorship, he came up smiling after each of the electoral beatings which were expected to break his power. This kind of close-corporation con- trol national polities long since passed away. No one man, no small group of men, can now decide be- forehand who is to be nominated as President. The abolition of the old init rule in the Republican Party and its partial abandonment by the Democrats have brought about condi- not be satisfactory but which, at all events, have made an end of the open and unblushing boss system, as exhibited on the Federal stage. The existing gods of the machine have to be more refined and secretive in their methods. The avowed and even brutal dictation of other days would not be tglerated now. At least this amount of credit must be given to the later forms of the National Con- determine values alone in the short time alloted before the tax rolls are turned over to other authorities. They should have the utmost cooperation of the taxpayers. In the past there has been considerable criticism that ‘some places are assessed far below the average established for such places while others are too high. Whatever is done in the way of securing the cooperation of the Association of Commerce or some other civic body, it behooves the individual taxpayer to go to the City Hall smd see what kind of an assessment has been made in his ease, compare it with adjoining or like property and if there is an error, the proper corrections can be made, for it will be harder to adjust the matter later. Now is the time to act in the interests of a fair and just assessment of property for Bismarck. DOPE Drug traffic spreads. It’s a thousand times greater men- ace than bootleg liquor. This country of ours is using 36 grains of opium a year for every man, woman and child. ‘h'rty-six grains of opium, in the form of morphine, is enough to keep a man under the influence of an opiate for ‘20 Cuys. These are official police figures. i ‘fhe only real remedy is education concerning the perils «f narcotics. Same with prohibition — it’s nine-tenths a matter of education, of thirst rather than quencher. Main reason for the breakdown of prohibition is the vanishing of educational cempaign against evils of alcohol. WEATHER A long dry spell, with people praying for rain, is pre- licted by the aged weather prophet, George B. M. Potter of Middletown, N. Y. He says the weather is more upset and “out of gear than he can remember for 88 years back. A few scientists think the earth is getting ready for an- cther Ice Age, with the glaciers to creep down from the north. The majority claims we’re simply having a freak weather cycle that comes about every 123 years. Something, how- ever, is very definitely wrong with our master, the sun, which rules us in nine-tenths of our activities. GAMBLERS i Do you play the market? In one month nearly 14 million rhares of stock change hands on the New York Stock Ex- ‘thange. A big figure, yes. But it’s over 11 million shares less than in the same month, May, of last year—and nearly 18 million shares less than in May, 1922. The public is in’ a cautious mood, taking few chances. That’s a healthy condition, will help restore business to nor- mal. When money doesn’t flow into speculation, it does flow into sure things—production. STOLEN More than 1750 million dollars is stolen every year from the American people, says the district attorney of New York. He doesn’t include theft by violence, such as holdups. His list is 150 millions stolen by commercial frauds, 600 millions through fraudulent insurance claims and 1000 millions through worthless securities. Experts say the total of all thefts is over 300 million dollars a year—or roughly $1 out of every $15 earned by the people in salaries and wages. NAPOLEON . Napoleon’s early ambition was to be a writer. Short stories in jhis handwriting are. pronounced authentic by experts. Later he chose the sword instead of the pen. And his career proves that the pen is not always mightier than the word, It is, in peace. But, so far, the pen is not mighty cnough to keep the sword sheathed. And it will not be as long as patriotism ts intensified into a form of insanity. CHANCE = For every passenger killed, the railroads carry over 13 Million passengers a year safely. For each passenger in- jured 610,000 are carried safely in a year. It was a different story before the safety first campaigns, = tarted by the Santa Fe. Accidents get the attention. Ja... afety is so common it’s ignored. With our speed and con- stion, the marvel is not that we have so many accidents that we don’t have more. Especially with autos. ‘ BUNK ‘An Italian is released from prison in the old country. It’s ed he: served 54 years for a friend’s crime. A bachelor, ‘sacrificed himself for his friend’s family. __ . ‘Here is applied idealism of a sort rarely encountered out- de story books. Fiction writers glorify such martyrs. The "aig rie truth ‘is that this. Italian was foolish. Sentiment is ly sane. 2 = _ A Seattle milkman a arrested for net. putting enough milk inthe water before delivering it. ''-’ vention. "Not even its stoutest defenders, however, could maintain that it is a wholly admirable institution which functionsswell. Both at Cleveland and New York this year things were done to make the judicious grieve. A forgign observer planted in a Nat- ional Convention to study the ways of the American democracy in action would certainly get some disagree- able impressions. He would see the delegates too aften conducting them- selves like crazy people or small children. He would see an immense amount of time and energy absolute- ly wasted. If he were asked to men- tion any political organization on! earth which seemed so inefficient, so often absurd, so frequently par- alyzed’ as A National Convention in the United States, he would not know where to find it. The thing is not always so bad as it seems. Behind the silly demon- strations, the empty speeches and the enthusiastic marching up hill only to march down again there usually exists a definite purpose and a mc#3- ment of concentration which in the end have their way. Often a happy result leads the public to forget or pardon the most unhappy prelimin- aries. Yet something ought to be done to remove the impression of aimless dawdling or insincere and infantile manifestations which almost regularly mark the first days of a National Convention. One conven- tion cannot, pf course, bind its suc- cessor. But it might recommend a few sensible rules, and get the Nat- ional Committee also to urge them, for the purpose of preventing the grosser abuses and the fantastic and futile performances which occur un- der the present systems. It might be provided that applau e for any can- didate should not be allowed ‘o ex- ceed five minutes. Some of the things which happened in New York last week strongly indicate that the National Convention is in need of being saved from its own professed friends——New York Times. Fom.Sims Says ‘J A June husband tells us she washed the ice and put the stuff out iny the sun to dry. Even hot weather has its lesson. If you don't want to go where it is hotter start being good. Many a woman watches pork chops on a hot stove while her hus- band watches the thermometer on the front poreh. Golf will not replace baseball un- til you get three: strikes. Vacationists are taking to the tall and uncut hair. A hero is a boy with enough mon- ey to buy drinks for the crowd. Time it gets cool enough to go to work it is time to go to bed. When you slap a man on the back and he kicks you in the eye you can easily see he is sunburned. Night and day are both fairly good for sleeping purposes, but the very best time is while the baby is asleep. Cantaloupes are fine find a good one. if you can It takes a marriage license to get married on and .an auto license to get a date on. 7 A man can be happy without a home if he is only staying away from one, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE and the rest of the year it stands for anything. An optimist is a man going fish- ing. A little sense will hide a lot of ig- norance. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON A queer flower was growing in the magic garden the ‘next night when Johnny Jump Up, and the ‘Twins climbed down the rose vine. It was bright red with long nar- row velvet petals and a yellow cen- ter. It looked very bright in the moon- light. “Why, that’s a Christmas flower,” cried Nancy. “Mother gets a pot of them every Christmas.” “Yes, you’re right,” said the little fairy man. “It is a Christmas flow- er, but it has another name—a long queer name that I suppose you will forget the minute I tell you. But that doesn’t matter. It is called po- in-set-tia.” “Does it grow up where Claus lives?” asked: Nick. “No,” said Johnny Jump Up. “It grows in the south. Even further south than we have been on our travels. In fact, it grows in another country altogether, called Mexico, Just then Tommy Titmouse came hopping up. “Say,” he said cross- ly. “It that where we're going to- jnight—to !Jexico?” “Yes, sir!” said the little garden fairy. “That's where we're going, Tommy.” “Then for the land’s sake,” said Tommy, “why aren’t we moving? That’s some distance to travel be- fore sun-up. Where are your tick- ets? I can’t take passengers with- out tickets. “That's so,” said Johnny Jump Up. “I'll have to find-out if the Fairy Queen sent them.” “Yes, she did and here they are!” cried another little fairy, suddenly appearing on one of the red velvet blossoms. She was very beautiful, the new little fairy was, and she was dressed in a sort of Spanish dress. She had a high comb in her hair with a lace scarf over it, “Oh, are you a Mexican fairy?” asked Nancy. “Yes!” nodded the tiny creature. “And I hope you will like Mexico.” Before Nancy had time to answer Tommy Titmouse hopped up on a green stem beside her. “Just Jet me see the tickets,” he said, “and I'll punch them with my bil All aboard for Mexico!’” Away went the three .of Santa them, Up, on Tommy's brown back. “Keep on going until you come to the Panama Canal, Tommy,” said Johnny Jump Up. “Here we aré. Stop on top of this mountain.” So Tommy stopped and they all looked! down at the canal, which is a sort of river through the moun- tains, “A few years ago,” said Johnny Jumy Up, “the canal wasn’t here. It was all mountains just like this mountain we are on. The Atlantic ocean was on one side and the Pa- cific ocean on the other side of these. mountains. t “But some men thought they could fix it so the boats could go through. After digging hard for several years with thousands of men; they got enough of the mountain cut away so that the oceans could meet. And that is the Panama Canal.” Johnny talked so much, I'll have to tell you about the rest of the trip tomorrow. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) As as man doesn’t’ think so isn’t he. A ; A man who says he is too poor to marry is not in love. “Make the flag stand for some- thing,” cry the July Fourth orators: —__-_—_________4 A Thought | —_-—____.¢ Faith, without Jas. 2:20, Faith is the continuation of -rei son.—William ‘Adams, ES Nw Nancy and Nick and Johnny Jump} ‘ Gee wine / AWTCHA GLAD SCHOOL'S OUT SO WE DON'T HAFTA WORK ANY MORE sy HAO TY {Ww is mi Poneil’s Wi RUNS NURS i YAN Fy yg Os »\ NY \ | “This Freedom” | ‘Y s $ FABLES ON HEALTH BEWARE DUST! Dusty days that follow in the trail of summer are likely to prove irritating to noses and throats and send people scurrying for sprays of one sort or another. At least this was the case in Aay- town and Mr. Jones would try many remedies. But, like most ‘people, he was us- ing wrong methods. Regular use of nasal douches should be avoided. A congested condition may develop membrane of the nose objects to watery substances. Only where certain conditions have developed and the advice of a doctor has been given should nuse baths be taken regularly. If, however, the nose becomes clogged with dust or dirt in the dry, hot season, a spray may be made from luke-warm water, containing a weak salt solution. But the use of this should not be made a regular practice. Only oc- casionally should such a spray be and become chronic, for the mucous | applied, Dems Want Platform To Please The Farmers BY HARRY HUNT NEA Service Writer New York, July 2—New York is having forced home on its con- sciousness the fact that the fighting farmers of the west and middle west mean business. Above all the din and clamor of kian and enti-klan, wet and dryj league and anti-league factions at- tending the early days of the Dem- ocratic convention, the one clear, steady, constant call comes from delegates representing the great ag- ricultural states for a platform and a ticket that will win the confidence and support of the men who produce bread and butter that the nation may eat. While the Smith and McAdoo forces battle to emphasize or sub- ‘|ordinate the klan and _ prohibition issues to suit their own situations, an increasing body of delegates are wondering how these can be handled to satisfy the country’s demand for economic relief. And it is on the outlook for economic assistance, particularly to agriculture, that the hope of the Democrats in the com- ing campaign admittedly rests. In this situation,’ pending the breakdown of the McAdoo-Smith deadlock, delegates are turning more EVERETT TRUE works, is dead— and more to a consideration of what candidates can satisfy this need. Among the “dark horse” possibili- many “WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1924 _ WORTH A-DOLLAR AMINBTE Mee By Albert Apple How would you like to earn $1 a minute? It would give you an income of about $150,000 a year. A great many Americans make that much and more. The system that permits them to, pile up so much wealth is countenanced by the public because every one figures that, as long as the sys- tem exists, there is always a chance for-him to get into the $150,000-a-year class. We are all millionaires at heart. : The millionaire merely represents the common goal. Here’s an iriteresting experiment in psychology. Take almost any man with an income of $4:@ minute. . Let him by accident .drop $1 through a elie arti What will he do? You know. He’ll’stop, no matter how rushed he is, and try to recover the lost $1. He’lt spend at least $10 worth of time trying to get back that tantalizing $1 that his slipped away from him. Many millionaires attend directors’ meetings just to the $5 goldpiece that is paid for attendance. We smile at the man who wastes $10 of time trying to recover a lost $1: And yet we all do the same thing ii principle. ; We continue to, use worn-out devices long after they be- come more expensive than new devices. For instance, many a farmer—rather than buy a new faucet for his oil. barrel— uses the leaking old faucet. He collects the drippings in a tin can — but by. evaporation loses every few weeks more than the cost of a new faucet. ' Supposed economy ofttimes is extravagance. No matter how much or how little money we have, our greatest wealth is time. Nature gives us just so many min- utes to spend between birth and death. The precious minutes are ticking away fast. But how many squander their most valuable minutes? - It’s foolish to overwork. Man needs-to spend minutes as well as. dollars for recreation to keep him balanced and efficient mentally and physically. Few of us, though, spend our spare time as shrewdly as we spend our spare money. : Money fortune depends on not being a spendthrift with time, quite as much as on saving money. LETTER FROM ALICE HAMILTON| know, for I can tell you right now TO LADY BETTY CARNOVAN | that I am not going to allow any MY DEAR BETTY: one, even if she be my own sister, Sometimes 1 wish I had never|to come between me and my hus- come back, for, Betty dear, I’m not] band’s love sure that I shall be a loved wife if I stay in America. Since Karl has|women dress in America, Betty— come back to this country he is very| much more splendidly for the street different from what he was over|than they-do in England. Leslie is there. I have found that since we| wearing a tailormade suit of silk al- came back and saw my sister, all his| paca, very beautiful, but oh, so ex- old emotions have welled up within| pensive, in black and whit.” Every. him. And she is particularly nasty.|body is wearing black’ “asd! white, Betty, she’s really. grown prettier,| you know, and I must say'’that if and, although she is rather plump, it| well combined it is universally be- is becoming. She has also developed| coming. Leslie looks very béautiful a strain of independence of her fam-|in it. Karl remarked,upon it and I ily which is particularly exasperat-|remarked that it really looked too ing. exensive: for a comparatively poor I told her the other day. (in so|man’s wife. Karl made no comment words that I, wanted her to|on that, but I am afraid he was en- ties for the top of the ticket, the! give me back the pearls. Katl was | noyed, quest is for a man who at least un-|in the room, and what do you think derstands and appreciates the prob-|he said? lems of the farmer and who might|low me to take them. be.expected to give it consideration at least equal to that given manu-|he gave. me. another, more gorgeous | very well; facturing and merchandising. Of the three leading figures in the “dark horse” group—Ralston, Glass and John W. Davis—Ralston and Glass find most favor with the farm contingent. Both have had direct and intimate touch with farm life and farm prob- lems. Davis is not so well known west of the Alleghenys and senti- ment concerning him is not so well crystallized: Davis sentiment, how- ever, has been steadily developing and the West Virginia lawyer must be taken into serious account in any re-shuffling of ballots following a deadlock. eee The five names with which the agricultural delegates are chiefly concerned, however, are: David F. Hquston, tary of agriculture, Edwin T. Meredith, also ex-secre-|man should keep any secrets tary of agriculture. Carl S. Vrooman, farmer and for-| will come..when I shall feel it my | dear. BY CONDO former secre-| will’ not tell to me,.do you? Leslie went back to her own home He said he would not al-|last night. Dad wanted her to go home with us and I was afraid she Of course, two or three days later|was going to accept, for dad is not A buat-you know that Leslie string than hers, yet, it made me|will have the third anniversary of feel that there was. something in the| her wedding next week. She wants love that he had given to Leslie that] us all to come over for it, but I do he had not given ta.me. I don’t|not think dad will be able to go, and want to be jealous of ;my own sis-|certainly 1 shall not. I feel as if I ter, but sometimes I, cannot help it.jhad enough of my sister to last me Now I must tell you the most}a long while. We do not worship thrilling and exciting part of the|the same gods,’ my dear. whole business. Leslie has never] She is all the time talking abo, told her husband that those pearls|some young: woman who has opegfed re real or that Karl gave them to!a shop, and I never could associ@e her through me. You know she] with shopkeepers, you know. found this out while we were in Eu-| I'm going to try to persuade Karl rope through breaking them and|to return to England to live, or at having them reset. But back of all|least on the continent somewhere, this there is some mystery which I|right after we are married. It will am sure that Karl knows. I am go-|be hard work, for he has such silly ing to get at it and then, Mrs. Les-|ideap on the subject of America and lie Prescott had better look out! I|his home. ° I'll tell you what I think do not think Karl should share ajof both after I am married and have‘ secret with my own sister which he| lived here a little longer; but.I don’t anticipate that I am going to like that a wo-| America enough to establish a home after|in it. she marries him? Perhaps the time] Lots of love to you and yours, my ALICE. duty to tell John Pasgeolt all that 11 (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) mer assistant secretary of agricul-) More than 70 per cent of the Chi- ture. : nese people work seven days a ween. Jonathan M. Davis, 3 : governor of Kansas. ° France registered more , births Charles Bryan, governor of Ne-| ‘han deaths in 1923. braska and brother of William J. B. Of this group Houston seems like- ly to develop greatest strength as a possibility for the presidential nom- ination, should a protracted dead- lock develop.": He can win a large following outside the! farm groups. He carries the aura.of having been one of~Woodrow Wilson’s trusted advisers and can hold much of the Wilson strength. Also, he is well known to eastern financial and’ busi- ness interests and would be much more ‘satisfactory to’ them than a man whom they had had less op- portunity to gauge. He is, of this list, the only one likely’ to be ser- iously considered in @e ‘showdown for'the top of the ticket. 5 eee Do you think, Betty, “dirt-farmer” On the Steel Steamships of the four, while _ being] GreatLakesTransitCorporation ‘ The cine joosted by small groups as president-|“TIONESTA” “JUN! y ate, aeally. being TMOCTORARAY ATA iat _Boraibilities, 2 jockeyed for second position on the ‘ ticket. | Any one of the quartet, their | PLAN your. vacation ehis summer ec backers believe, would be more ap-| cose Tasericuits ey ene Brea nian pealing to: the sons ort! vcuoaeed ee per Fouenser metyice eae raver thice “, hy ste at for Niagara rh. peer Auer Falls) ‘Cleveland, Detroit, Mackinac Pe tion, too, 88 an Island, Sault Ste. Marie, Houghton and sanitiahyl reason for “taking definite} put, 2 P steps to’ pla Agricultural discon- Erie-Detr , looms ‘the LaFollette conference Souda Hee re in Cleveland ‘which will follow this] inacLake Superior end nomerne athe: convention, é bodies of ‘water making the Great Lakes group. Tickets and Reservations at of President ALBERTA RICH IN PULP Edmonton, ‘Alberta, July:-2—Enough pulpwooil to. supply ‘the western part of ‘the ‘United: States: with news- [Rent Someta a "soer| a Temiat an RA. hat Os, o ‘| sources’ 4n the: 0 ‘ Pt compiled by.'C, H:-Morse, chief ran- er forthe province. Pulpwood re- ‘province total 247,- G. C. Williams, 800,000 cords, You don’t know how queerly the” {