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PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Sig 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 : : 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 entitled in this paper and also the local news pub- :jished herein. ~ All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Waily by carrier, per year. aly by mail, per year (in Bismarck).... a 5 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).... 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.............. 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) A CHANCE FOR BRYAN William Jennings Bryan has ruled the Democratic party cn many occasions, and has made presidents, but his brother Governor Charles Bryan may possibly achieve the post of chief executive which his illustrious brother failed to win. Political observers are speculating on the ways in which Governor Bryan might achieve this post, even though the Democratic ticket might not win. In the event that no candidate obtains a majority in the electoral college, the elec- tion would be thrown into the House of Representatives. There, in the belief of some observers, the electiop would ‘oe deadlocked as surely as was the Democratic national convention. The chief executive beginning March 4, 1925, would be the Vice-President elected by the Senate. There would be the possibility that Governor Bryan might be chosen as Vice-President over Charles G. Dawes. It would, indeed, be a queer turn of political fate should the Nebraska executive reach the position of master of the White House while his more powerful brother failed. DETROIT Kresge Bldg. THEIR CHANCE TO ACT County commissioners in all counties of the state now are engaged in the work of making the county budgets of expense for next year, and in equalizing property values for taxation purposes. Whether or not the boards act solely on heir own discretion in the making of the budgets of expense lies with the taxpayers themselves. They have the oppor- .unity to interview the commissioners, to appear at board meetings with suggestions, and to express their sentiment en the question of what course should be pursued with re- pect to expenditures. It is expected, of course, that these boards in all counties will give the best.of their ability ‘to the task of keeping down ‘he expense of all county governments in the next year. “hey ought to have the advantage of an expression from the taxpayers. Commercial bodies and similar organizations ould render a real service by taking a healthy interest in he making of the budget of county expense in their respec- zive counties. ° WEALTH Nothing mysterious about making a lot of money, claims C. W. Barron, the Wall Street financial expert. He says: ‘Ford can make more money than any one else in the world because he renders more service than anybody clse in the world. He has given the cheapest transportation known for seven million families. “And he is now selling his cars near cost and making money out of parts sales.” Barron’s idea is that money making is incidental to and the natural result of performing service. Trouble is, many who perform the service don’t get the money. How does Garron explain Tellier, inventor of cold storage, dying in poverty? LATER Austrian government bonds, to mature in 1943, recently soared past 91 on the basis of 100 as par value. There has been a general rise in the long-time securities of many European governments, indicating a belief that these governments will be able and willing to meet their obli- gations in about 20 years. Europe by that time should be nearly out of the woods financially. But place your bets cautiously. There is noth- | ing more uncertain than Europe’s future, “America First” is a good slogan for the small American investor. : JOHN D. When the elder John D. Rockefeller went into business years ago, oil was used only for lamps and lubrication. Rockefeller’s organization is said to have “found 260 dif- ferent ways of making oil perform service to humanity.” As a matter of fact, the progress of humanity created the market for those 260 different ways—and John D. just hap- rened to be there. Chance has more to do with success than the platitudes admit. Good luck’ and bad luck exist as surely as day and night. Why deny it? : PEGASUS The winged horse of mythology, Pegasus, no longer fires our imagination. A breeding horse has been shipped by air- plane from Paris to Amsterdam. Mythology represented -the things the ancients considered humanly impossible. 5 Our generation accomplishes what once seemed impos- rible. A Greek god hurling thunderbolts has his counterpart in a modern scientist producing artificial lightnign, a million volts, ‘in a laboratory. WEATHERVANE Soft coal mines have been turning out an average of only 7 million tons a week. Normal output is 10 millions. This indicates that general business is only seven-tenths normal. Some economists believe soft coal production is the mogt accurate barometer of industrial conditions. Others ave pig iron output, railroad freight traffic and commercial fires. Watch these four and know which way the wind’s ‘slowing. oe LOST Hundreds of millions of dollars of slowly accumulated savings will vanish this year, consumed by bad investments. The first rule of sound investment is to put your money in’ a business or industry you know something about. — It is human nature for a man to, imagine there is more ;timbrels sounding, the Democrats Editorial Review Comments reproduced in 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 ate discussed in the press of je day. this DEMOCRACY’S OWN “SOB SISTER” In 1896 William Jennings Bryan stood up in the Democratic con- vention in Chicago and talked mov- ingly and mellifluously of the “crown of thorns” and the “cross of gold.” In the 28 intervening years he has been a thorn in the side of his ‘party and the heaviest cross of the Democracy. He led his party away on an emotional drunk into the wilderness. Eight years later it sobered up somewhat, in spite of him, and nominated Judge Alton B. Parker. ‘ Four years later, with the Bryan went ghost-chasing once more with ine ‘Commoner” in his “third bat- tle.” With one exception, the Bryan emotionalism has been a factor {n every convention since 1896. He assassinated the Clark hopes at Baltimore in 1912, when he tried to read Thomas Fortune Ryan and Tammany out of the party. In 1916 he could not raise’ his hand. He had eaten Woodrow Wilson's salt as a Cabinet member; but in 1920 he uprose at San Francisco and smote James M. Cox hip and thigh. Nor.did he lift a finger in ald of the Cox campaign. This year he is ‘back again, de- termined as.ever and as intolerant and emotional as of old. This time it was his keen pleasure to knife the aspiretions of a possible com- promise candidate. John W. Davis, son of West Virginia and once am- bassador to Great Britain, has one of the finest minds in the Demo- cratic party. As a very able law- yer, financial and other conporate interests are his clients. That is enough for Mr. Bryan. In his boyhood he came out of the post oak- flats of southern Illinois with a distrust of the shining tow- ers of Mammon. Along the sand flats of Nebraska's Platte he cre- ated a ‘political philosophy that is two-thirds emotionalism, mixed | with most of the economic fallacies i) wld the children of men are heir: His “sixteen-to-one” of 1896 ty- pified Bryan. He has never grown up. There always is something like that—government ownership, “soft money” or what not — that gets itself mixed up with. emotion- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE CC-CIMON IN TR’ W-W-WATER'S: W-WARM AS ANYIRING AM AINTCHA’ GOT ANY HoT Woler2 You WanT eT FREEZE T'DEATA ?- Gee WHIZ! Gee WHIZ Ma — ?_ GEE WHIZ~ were three times ag many mines producimg ‘between 10,000 and 50,000 tons annually as there were mines producing be- tween 50,000 to 100,000 tons, but the tonnage from each group was equal. It is also plainly shown that the ‘bulk of the tonnage comes from a small number of large mines. In fact. one-sixth of the mines pro- ducing over 50,000 tons produced more than three-fourths of the ocal. : The coal production during-June there small alism in the Bryan cosmos. He is the sob sister of the Democratic: party. ‘His handkerchief is always wet, His feelings overcame him when he thought of. John W. Davis writ- ‘ing briefs for those who, in the Bryan mind, sit on golden thrones that rest on the backs of the work- ers. Bryan may not be‘able to lead the Democrats any more; but he is a very expert hinderer. He has a long memory and the re- vengeful traits, politically, of an Apache. Bryan moved like a portent through the convention. Davis, he announced, is a child of Wall Street and a dweller in the tents of the Money Devils. Davis, he in- sisted, could not hope for a single electoral vote west of the Allegha- nies. LaFolletteism, in the Bryan opinion, would run wild in the West. Comparing John W. Davis with Calvin Coolidge, “the Com- moner” said: “I have no personal objection to Mr. Davis. He is a man of high character. So is Mr. Coolidge. There is no difference between them.” Thereby Mr. Bryan paid dhe finest of compliments to the New Yorker who hails from West Vir- ginia—Philadelphia Public Ledger. NOT ACROSS—BUT CROSSING The war-time allurement to get into the coal business has little or no impetus just now. One hears on every side that industry is over- manned, over-developed, etc., and the conversation rapidly assumes an inquisitive role and asks when will the ‘business pick up a little? It has been said, after food and water, coal is the most needed commodity. Accepting this as true, assurance can be had that in- dustry will survive and will move along in the usual way, plus a lit- (le gusto, in the very near ‘future. As a whole, business in general is fair, Therefore it is safe to say, ‘business generally is not prostrat- ed. This is verified by sound rea- soning. Freight loadings throughout the country are good barometric in- struments. The total revenue freight car loadings for the first 23 weeks in 1924 was 20,471,942 cars, In 1923 during the same period 20,970,211 cars were loaded. This shows a decrease in 1924 of 2.3 per cent. Reasoning from this, if the mines bave only produced in the first five months of 1924 a tonnage of coal amounting to 197,118,000 net tons as against 227,780,000 net tons for the first five months in 1923, a re- ‘duced production of 30,662,000 net tons is shown. Figuring a freight car to hold 50 tons, and if the coal production had equalled that of 1923, there would ibe required an additional 613,240 cars to move this coal. Ad- ding this to the freight loadings for 1924 would give a figure: of 114,971 cars in excess of the 1923 loadings. This reflects a general healthy business condition. | The large surplus stocks of coal or April 1 approximating 70,000,000 tons, had to be reduced to normal. The normal stock of the country is from 20,000,000 to 30,000,000 tons at this period. I The consumption is now greater than the production by approxi- mately 2,000,000 tons per week. It will take but a short time now to tring the stock pile to its danger line, and this will follow with a profit in almost any other industry than his own. : That’s the weakness preyed on by the fakers. revival of the coal business, is slowly increasing. At all indus-, tries the semi-annual stock-taking period or rather stock-reducing period is in effect. It is the time when excess stocks are worked off, and when any vistble market ad- vantage is taken by consumers.— Coal Trade Bulletin. ADVENTURE .OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “Good morning, Mr. Zip!” said Mrs. Yellowbill Duck as .she — waddled through the turnstile of Happy Go Luéky Park, followed by her six children. a “Good morning, Mrs. Yellowbill!” nodded the little fairyman in a friendly way. Mister Zip was in a very good humor because business was so good. “Good morning,,Mrs. Yellowbill!” said Nick and incy as the duck lady and her family approached the lemonade, lollypop, ice cream cone stand. “Good morning,” tuacked Mrs. Yellowbill pleasantly. “What kind of lollypops do you have today?” “Crab, watercress, cornmeal and lettuce,” said Nick, picking out the flavors that he thought the Duck children would like. “Crab! I want a crab lollypop,” quacked Davy Duck. “I just love crab flavoring.” “Do you have any lollypops flavor- ed with frogs?” asked Dolly Duck. “I thing frog flavoring is better than vanijla or peppermint or anything.” “What's that?” boomed a big voice nearby. “Who is it that likes frog flavoring, I'd like to know?” And there stood big green Grand- daddy Frog looking over his glaaée: as cross as two sticks. : “We were just saying,” remarked Mrs. Yellowbill loudly, as she wad- dled up close to Granddaddy, “that we all liked frog flavoring very, very much indeed.” and as she finished speaking, she didn’t close her mouth at all but held it open so wide that Granddaddy didn’t need his glasses to see half way down her throat. “I--I heard you the first time,” said Granddaddy hastily backing away to the place where his grand- sons were waiting for him in the weeds. “Come, boys, we'll go and chute-the-chutes. I can’t stand here all day talking about lollypops.” at was he saying about asked Mrs. Yellowbill, nervously. “Did I hear him say that he was going to shoot some- thing?” “He’s just going to chute-the- chutes,” said Nick. “It’s a sort of roller coaster that slides you off into the water and you get all splashed. I think*that you and the children would like it.” “Why, I believe we would,” sald Mrs. Yellowbill. “Hurry, children, pick out your lollypops and we'll be going. Whatever it means to chute- LESS FOOD AT 40 “What most men forget as they grow toward 45 or 50 is that they require less food to maintain an organic equilibrium,” Mr. Jones’ physical director pointed out to him one day. “It's difficult to realize, particu- larly when you're around 30 and have-led a pretty active life; per- haps’even an athletic life—I say-it’s hard'to replize that less food is re- acquired when he changed. “And the trouble is that, as men advance in life and become more comfortable economfeally they in- dulge themselves in food; acquiring more luxurious habits of living, they exercise seldom, if at all. “It has been found out by science that more than half -the disease which embitters the upper and mid- dle classes is due to avoidable errors in diet.” was, younger, are not OLD- TIMERS ARE REAL DISCOVERIE ~~ BY HOLLYWOOD DIRECTORS _: By JACK JUNGMEYER NEA Service Writer ‘Hollywood, July 14.—You hear a good deal about this “discovery” and that in the screen world, about newcomers who “give great prom- ise,” who have “undoubted” stellar caliber”—but the real . discoveries of 1924, paradoxically, are players who have acted for many years. Actors who have been hauled off the shelf, out of the rut, salvaged from enforced mediocrity by shrewd and stimulating directors. That their light should have been hidden under a bushel while pro- ducers chased after new names and faces merely phosphorescent, is an uncomplimentary reflection upon many movie moguls who pose as star makers, Corisider the rise, the spectacular screen rejuvenation, of. Adolph Menjou, Marie . Prevost, Rod Rocque and: Willard Louis, for in- stance. All old-timers these in the movies, but their names meaning very little to the theater public until a few months ago; names now widely blazoned in connection with re- markable recent performances. Miscast or casually assigned to type roles, their full talents pre- viously unsuspected—just sort of geod and dependable—these play- ers were virtually resurrected by discerning directors, to the amaze- ment of some of their old associ- ates. Adolph Menjou found his own stature under Charlie Chaplin in “A Woman. of Paris” a year ago, and by virtue of his performances in “The Marriage Circle,” “Broad- way After Dark” and several other recent pictures, today ‘stands bril- liantly alone as the polished devil, the suave man of the world. Willard Louis, after 20 years of hard and conscientious work on stage and screen, came into sharp prominence under the guidance of Harry Beaumont as “Prince of Wales” in “Beau Brummel” and in- trenches his new position in his characterization of “Babbitt,” also directed by. Beaumont. Marie Prevost, one time Mack. Sennett bathing chorus girls, re- cently forged to the top under the adroit guidance and inspiration of Ernst ch, who rates her among the finest dramatic actres- ses in Ametica. Marie’s work in “The Marriage Circle” made the eyes cf a good many of her old film cronies pop. They didn’t sus- pect her capacities. Miss Prevost herself was stag- MONDAY, JULY 14, 1924 WHY YO The peskiest enemy of a of the soil. of all. lifetime. She sends. destroyers like unnecessary annoyances. experiences the trouble and conquer it. oe 7 LETTER FROM JAMES CONDON TO SALLY ATHERTON DEAR, DEAR WOMAN: I arrived in Pittsburg this morn- ing. 1 never realized until now how lovely Pittsburg is.. I.was miserable before I left this place, to go to see you, but also my. visit. to you has only made me: more , miserable. . You are growing -away,.from me, Sally, all the time. really I was happier when Sam was alive, for at least you depended on me to help you take care of your blind husband, and at times you acted as though I made Jife -a little eavicr, a Tittle brighter for you. i At the time’ of’ Sam’s death you seemed to lean on me a‘little, and I was inordinately happy- perhaps I was too happy, because poor old Sam had to, die to make me so. I thought ‘then that maybe in time you would grow. to love me a little, but you went back to ycur work— and—forgot me, as I wired you twice, but you did not answer. You had put me az much out of your life as Sara in his new- made grave over there is the ceme- tery. At last, dear, I-could ‘stand it no longer. 1 determined tv go and see you and put my all to the test. Then I said to: myself that it wos weak that I would not go, that I ought to know you didn't care for me. -I steeled myself over and over again to kiss the rod,and I thought a thousand times to stay away from you—and then the glorious witchery of you; the gleam’ of your bronze the cutworm. ‘Other pests anrioy But for sheer cussedness, stantly fighting to earn our living. : Neture doesn’t want us to have too easy a time: If we had, we’d get lazy — wouldn’t supply the toil that develops our brains and characters and makes humanity. progress. No muscular strength without exercise. No wisdom or knowledge without hard thought. No strength of character without temptations and ordeals. g HAVE GOAT-GETTERS: By Albert Apple farmer or home gardener is the man coaxing food out the cutworm is worst Maybe you ‘know how the cutworm operates? ‘ He waits until night, when the gardener is asleep dreaming of his harvest. Then the cutworm starts along a row of, say, He nibbles through at the soil line until the bean stalk falls over like a chopped-down tree. 4 plant, doesn’t bother.to eat the rest of it. The cutworm is an out-and-out destroyer. would: mind so much if it devoured the whole plant. But this thing ‘of operating like a logging crew felling trees.and then leaving them to rot strikes a gardener as Every form of tee exists for‘a definite purpose. It has its function in creation. The cutworm simply does what he is intended to do.- He is a destroyer, pure ‘and simple, for he llevels a whole row of vegetation before he gets through, though one bean stalk would feed him throughout his entire beans. Then he leaves the fallen One wouldn’t cious vandalism. Natyre makes us pay the full price for everything we get. the cutworm to keep us cor: Life is full of cutworms—pests, goat-getters, ‘seemingly But that’s because life is to the mind and spirit just what a gymnasium is to the athlete. _ There is always more purpose or destiny in trouble than in a “soft time.” No man is ever a top-notch canoeist until he gets caught out on the water in several big storms. No man really knows an_auto or other piece of mechanism until it breaks down and he has to repair it. And no.man or woman real purpose ‘of life until they go through It is like competitors or enemies—they are more valuable than friends and associates, for they make us fight for the worth-while things that can be obtained ‘no other way. gold hair; the glances which always beckon; night after’ night I used to lie in my bed and think of them, until, sleeping or waking, I couf¥l the stars in your eyes, and grimy and gray and altogether un-|: to the. park where we when you -were -here, I could hear pboye all the noises of the busy k| street the lisp-of your footfalls be- side me, and in’ the dust among the grime and dirt that others had left upon the sidewalk, I only saw the print of your. feet in memory’s path. (Do you. know, Sally, I've always wondered “how you could stand so sure and straight upon ‘those little feet’ without asking support from anyone to help you keep your equi- librium.) At last I reached a point where I could only pray that once more I could know, instead of this aching silence, the ‘rippling la ter with which you were wont t understanding. silences. listen for the ‘rustle of your gown and I was almost angered wher other women would brush past me and I caught the swishing of their skirts, Then I took a sudden resolution. I swore I would come through, that I would go to you, and although grou might turn the sword in my sid&, would pull it out and throw it away and come back, cured for evermore. But oh, Sally, Sally, the wound is deeper and more terrible than ever. 4 (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, — gered with the revelaaion. Rod La Rocque, for years with Paramount, suddenly enlisted the ap raising interest of Cecil B. De ille and demonstrated what he could do in “The Ten Command- | nients.” Now Rod is Rocqueting to- WHEN 1 Go: INTo A STOR UKE To GET CHEERFUL service, Bur the-chutes I don't know, but if it is something that splashes you, I’m sure we shall like it.” She paid for the lollypops’ and tucked her big pocketbook under her wing, and away they all went, wig- once, and by. and by ‘they came to the place where a’ big sign said “Chute-thé Chutes. , 5 cents a Ridet” “You get six tickets for a qual ter,” said Nick, who-had followed. along to see that the duck lady didn’t get. lost. The depressed condition of the business will have the effect of eliminating high-cost mines,. An illuminating statement the U.S. geological survey aie 4 “Make it seven and I'll come; Mrs. Yellowbill. ce “All right,” said Nick, - (To Be Continued) gling their tails and all talking atf | ia] E LROSpytight,1004)INEA Service, Ine)! WHEN 1 DON'T Ger: itr, 1 “QNEGRFULCY ward the zenith. Directors—directors who search and see behind the mere label with which many potentially superb layers have been tagged and cata- logued- ey, are’ the answer. *. These ¥e-discoveries have started a period of intensive cultivation, of careful stock taking in Bolly wood. Quite a, lot of pure id seems to have “overloo! right in the home Jot..while pro- ducers went prospectifig abroad. Wealth gotten by: vanity shall be diminished; but-:he*that -gathereth by labor rease.—Prov. 13:11. 7 ve Nothing is denied,..to wel ed labor.Sir Joshy Reynolds. b e spelling contests tonight and tommorrow night to be held in te ch and ‘Sentinel Butte etween. the ru: ind city pupils in the grade The eottonte have been arranged under es leadership of peg ‘Wentland, county superintend- ent. é Local and. district contests have already bee held, and it is the win- ners. of thesé who will compete for the — county ~-thampionship. Beach cohtest will *b¢ held on Mon day and the i ned Sorby tees ena — Persons’ living -in sparsely settled or ‘rural pegionsiage believed to be more susceptible to ‘diphtheria than clty residents, : A silver’ wire: . inch’ in‘ diameter’ By some queer twist of our lan- guage they are making moonshine from sunflower in Kans: Maybe, Jack Dempsey has lost his punch, as one sport writer says, but just the same no other fighter has found it. It is not true that one of the presidential candidates has signed up Houdini to get him out of fool- ish statement: St. Louis wife says she will fol- low “around ‘the world. Not so ro- mantic, though. He ran away with another. woman. 5 People ‘liking turtles better than cops" willbe: pleased to learn a t tle bit. off’ a cop’s toe in the Bid son River. ° 5 mine his future isn’t as sire a way as asking his neighbors. they are busy swapping _ politi 1 bunk for-easy berths. This is the season of the year an 2 The worst thing about running after a girl’is you have to run still faster after you get her. Nothing looks better on a girl than a bathing suit; but not, how- ever, absolutely nothing. — Going) riding alone on a beautiful night is wasting gasoline. lial i Permanent waves and summer re- Sort romances Jast about six’ months. Every, man. wants to. make. the for something, chiefly in. open almost any- thing’ except ‘a’ bank accou! aw Inc.) 4 aD bo