The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 16, 1924, Page 4

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CE $7.2 7.20 5.00 > 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) " PAYING THE WAR DEBT Whatever may be the divergence of opinion on the fam- ous “Mellon plan,” there is a very large proportion of the people that have a suspicion that if “Uncle Andy” Mellon were let alone in the United States Treasury for a few years he would have the United States out of debt and the greatly reduced. So quietly and effec- ly ury department under him retire millions of dollars of the war debt and report a surplus over current expenses that it would appear good business for the United States to let him stay where he is. The Treasury now has an ambitious scheme. It would pay off the entire war debt by 1954. The Treasury under Mel- lon seems to have a passion for ridding the country of debt, as well as the ability to do it. Each time the Treasury retires u great block of bonds the taxes paid by the entire people, directly or indirectly, for interest, are reduced. Money is released for use in trade channels. So it is good business to pay off the debt. The program of retiring the war debt by 1954 may even be accomplished if France and Italy do not pay their debts to this nation by that time. Of course, the program cannot be carried out unless the nation enjoys peace for thirty years end Congress does not insist on spending about everything the taxpayer can pay. The gross public debt on July 1 was +21,250,812,989.49. It had been decreased by the amount of 4$1,098,894,375.87 during the fiscal year, more than twice the sinking fund and public debt charges. “Uncle Andy” just took surplus from here and there and reduced it. The war debt was at its peak on August 31, 1919, when it amounted to $26,701,648.01. A reduction of more than five billions in few years speaks well for the ability of the nation to pay. It is estintated that the debt can be reduced more than » half billion dollars a year under present sinking fund ar- rngements, and this amount can be increased from time to time to wipe out the debt in thirty years. For the fiscal ry 1925 it is estimated that the sinking fund will amount under debts settlements $160,277,975. Careful vernments: tion. LEARN TO SWIM The usual toll of life is being taken in this state and in There always will be, rnfortunately, accidents which rob many youths of their chance for a full life. Danger of drowning can be minimized, angl in no way better than that each person who goes into ‘the-water know how to swim. Bismarck, with her swimming acl, offers a fine opportunity for every boy and girl to learn this sport. Classes now are being conducted at the swim- Minnesota by drowning this year. ran pool. Too many times a story of the drowning of some person ends laconically with the statement that the victim could vim but a few strokes. A few more strokes might have saved a life. for swimming is one of the best methods of developing the tuman body known to physical culturists, instruction in <ewimming under competent instructors in a safe place may Jster cn save a life or relieve many mothers of untold worry. ROADHOUSE Roadhouses in the air, riding at anchor high above the ground. are predicted by Lord Thomson, British Air Minis- ter. He pictures people in lightweight, inexpensive planes gliding slowly into garages attached to the roadhouses, leav- ing their planes parked while they enjoy relief from hot summer nights below. Would such floating roadhouses be within the law if they served hard liquor? How far up into the air does Uncle Sam own? The flying machine inevitably will become the great- cst problem of prohibition enforcement agents. FLASH An airplane that would travel 370 miles an hour! The French government expects this speed from its new “rocket plane,” now being developed. No engine. It’s shot ahead like a skyrocket, by a series of gas explosions one after the other. Will carry a man—reason not stated. Ten years ago, people would have said. “Bunk!” Now they merely lift their eyebrows and wonder how long until a plane making 1000 miles an hour will be perfected. JURY “No, I don’t know what the Volstead act is,” admits a man accepted for jury service. Pressed, he says he had heard something about the couritry being dry. ‘ Some think this is a joke on prohibition. It’s more a joke on the jury system. However, a defendant who doesn’t care 40 take a chance before that magnificent product of democ- racy—the average jury—can waive his right to trail by jury and let the judge take the jury’s place. CENSORED Spicy magazines, whose fiction stories are too close to be obscene, hereafter will be barred from sale in Massachusetts. This is the only kind of censorship that is ever justifi- fhble: There will be a loud howl from .the buzzards who com- mercialize sex. It will be claimed there’s no way of agreeing as to where decency ends and indecency begins. Some may even consider Boccaccio puritanic. The faintest common sense will find the boundary. KISSES A Seattle couple, celebrating their golden wedding, do spate ring and estimate they have kissed 74,000 times ~ ginee their Here is rurely the el Sa.tench mat marriage. one form of statistics that’s interesting, which is ighth wonder of the world. Maybe it’s the way O|dacy. LaFollette. would 10,000,000 and that there will be received from foreign | he government pays each individual. Let us “Mellon plan” at least is allowed to continue Besides offering fine sport for the youngsters, | | 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 LAFOLLETTE PLATFOM The LaFollette platform should be studied. It masks some subtle stabs at the very life of the Coun- try. Somewhere, some way, La- Follette is in touch with the alien forces that are trying to bore from within this Country for its control. LaFollette*is opposed to all war. He gives that as an excuse for his own questionable attitude during the War. We are all opposed to war, but we also believe in a coun- try known as America. We need to go further into the LaFollette planks to get at the real purpose of his independent candi- like to thave a Congress elected with him, because that would pretty nearly ‘spell the end of America. Listen to these proposals, put forward in a subtle manner: Curtail the eight hundred millions now spent annually for Army and Navy. Hold a referendum on war. Abolish conscription. Rewrite the Constitution. In other words break down the safeguards for the Republic. Fix it so that the Soviet can come in easily. That most sacred right of establishing a property for one's family shoull be placed in jeopardy, sc there can be no defense when the mob may come. One would think from looking over the platform that people are starv- ing to death in America, that be- cause of “monopoly” we are mere- ly scrabbling along from day to day. And this, while working men are drawing from eight to twenty dollars a day! These LaFollette platforms are danger signals. They are danger signals to the farmer, but because LaFollette cries out in the fashion of a demagogue against imaginary evils, with a few real ones mixed in, the farmer is tempted to act against his own interests. We have an instance in the re- cent North Dakota primary. Here is a State that has paid millions of dollars to the LaFollette followers for socialistic experiments that came near to bankrupting its treas- ury. North Dakota was just get-, ting on its feet and gaining a eplen- did reputation under Governor THE, BISMARCK TRIBUNE | Fishing Is,Not the Only Summer Sport i ly lamps of all colors under the sign and he had an idea. “Pll take a chance and maybe I'll win a lamp,” he said to himself, “It will make a fine birthday present for Ma, “I'll ask Nick about it.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Tac.) Jom Sims ? MRS. LLOYD TO RE-ENTER FILMS, CHANGED ACTRESS By Jack Jungmeyer NEA Service Writer Hollywood, July 16 —Mildred Davis, wife of Harold Lloyd, has done with weeping. Smilingly admitting that she once believed she could cry beautifully, she wants to shed no. more copious tears in picture playing, which she Nestos, when the voters, by a few slender thousands foolishly decid- ed to throw all this overboard for a wrong-headed leadership. This is not to say that the Re- publican or the Democratic leader- ship is perfect, but it is to say that the LaFollette leadership is wholly wrong, with the single exception that ‘he stands for ithe construction of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Waterway.—Minneapolis Journal. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON Happy Go Lucky Park was very popular with all the Green Wood folk. It gotsto be quite the style to save up penhiés for a week and then to take a day off and spend it ot. the amusement park, where Nancy and Nick were working. And as for Mister Zip, the little fairyman who started it, why he was getting richer and richer every min- ute. And the richer he got, the nicer he made the park. He had put in a stand for ringing canes and a stand for shooting at a target that went ting-aling-aling when you hit the bull’s eye, and a stand for taking chances. It’s about the last stand that this story is about. But there I go! I guess I was meant for a Chinggfey, for I’m al- ways telling thinj aekwards. To tell things frontwards, it was this way: One morning Mister Bunny woke up and stretched and said, “Hum ho!” and wiggled his ears and hopped out of bed. Mrs. Bunny was up already and he could hear her zattling pots and pans in the kitchen as she got breal-fast. “Ben, will you see if the children are up?” she called. “We want to get an early start. They ought to be nearly dressed.” “We're up—we're they called. And soon all the Bunnies were around the breakfast table talking about the good time they were going to have at Happy.Go Lucky Park and what they were going to do and everything. “I’m going to ride the giraffe on the merry-go-round,” said Ben Bun- ny Jr. Mrs. Bunny was too busy getting the work done to say just what she was going to do, but Mister Bunny was planning and planning and plan- ning. He wasn’t so much planning as he was worrying. “And this was what it was about. He didn’t have very much money and he had two or three places to put what he did have. The very next day was Mrs, Bun- ny’s birthday and he wanted to buy her a present. ‘And if he went to the park and took the family he wouldn't have enough money to buy her anything, unless he went to the savings bank and took out the rest of his money. And Mr. Bunny wouldn't do that be- cause his savings in the savings bank was for a rainy day and couldn’t be touched. “My goodness, Pa,” said Ma, Bunny when they got to the park. “You look more as though you were go- ing to a funeral than a picnic. What's the matter with you?” “Oh, I was just thinking,” said Mister. Bunny. At that minute his eye fell on the stand where thi ign said “Take a chance for ten-cents and win a lamp.” Mr, Bunny then saw a row of love- up, Mammy!” is about to resume. The advent of Mildred “Gloria Lloyd, now a few weeks old, .i3 re- And. it was during the first joint interview with mother and tiny daughter granted any news writer that Mrs. Lloyd jibed at her former inclina- tion toward lachrymose sentimental- ism. Staying up all night may make} “Reviewing some of my old ‘pic- you as wise as an owl, but owls|tures,” said the maternal Mildred, SD avavnbisenreraaring tkevdaee “I blush with embarrassment at my tearful vehemence. It was genuine enough, as I thought, very effective Tomatoes once were called Jove} at the time. But now I wonder apples. So that may be why they| what prompted my tears. How silly are best taken with a grain of salt {they seem in retrospect “No girl knows the richness of life until she’s a mother. If ever I had zeal tears to shed from awe, a deep sense of responsibility and {the cares that go with the happiness of maternity, I should shed them now But 1 only want to~ sm to smile here at home and in p tures I intend to resume making within the next few months. The arrival of little Gloria has put me into joyous humor,” * Gloria, encased in pink bassinet, honored the intrus press and en- dorsed her mother’s tribute by sleep- ing profoundly throughout +the in- terview. Instead of terminatjng her pic- ture career, advanced as ‘Harold Lloyd’s leading lady, motherhood has fired Mildred Davis’ ambitions anew. She will have her own pro- ducing unit under her }famous hus- band’s supervision. Her immediate iy Sus Many a pink complexion. hides a} sponsible for the change. blue girl green with envy. Those not careful about what they get into find it is trouble. Lawyer claims a New York cop beat a women in a dispute, bul we claim it can’t be done. A serious shortage of people with nothing to say is reported, A quarter looks like a dollar to you and a nickel to a fhrniture dealer. MILDRED DAVIS LLOYD Jem is reduction ‘of the ‘plumpness which graces her motherhood but which isn’t a camera asset.. She is going about that slowly and care- fully, beginning with tennis, and hopes within a few. month$ to ac- quire her former slenderness. Warold Moye somewhat old-fash- foned in his. domestic ideals, hi finally been won over to having his wife reappear in pictures. And she’s Birthdays are celebrated before 20; after that they are cussed. They caught a famous Oklahoma bandit in Missouri, possibly because he couldn’t show them. Never make a complicated will. Just leave the money to a lawyer in the first place. perparatory prob- EVERETT TRUE Teachers who have had no luck marrying are signing up for anothcr year of teaching. Conservative estimates show all photos snapped on vacations have been shown to everybody. People who don’t look before they leap land in disgust. Sharp eyes will not scratch a key- hole. There are sermons in stones, and a large stone in a *ing gives a girl the right to pr 5 A good shimmy dancer has the ad- vantage of being able to rock the baby to sleep standing up. The established fact that opposites attract- may be why poor girls like to marry rich husbands, While lightning only strikes ence in the same place some people get thunderstruck every day. The average man thinks the world would be a fine place if everybody had sense enough to be like him. Six Arrested On Booze Charges New England, N. july 16.—Six men were caught in a drag net spread single handed by Deputy Sheriff F. S. Sleight here, the con- traband liquor taken including everything from genuine pre-war stuff to newly made “Rocky.” Jack Heiser, Peter Herauf, Ziller, Tom Lee and Mike Lowas were all placed under bond for the next term of the district court, and W. S. Gallup was held in the city hall. The latter, excited by his arrest, suffered a stroke of paralysis ‘when ! under the ‘cystody of fthe city jailer and has been released and taken to his home by relativ Cook by Electricity. It is Safe. si NAH -~ wea’ zars TON WAe.- tee Ae mere oa ee ‘WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1924 TURNS OVER IN HIS GRAV ! : By Albert Apple : Colonel Thomas De Kay must have turned over in. his grave several times. In 1724 he traded 60 acres of land, in what is now the business heart of New, York City, for a farm over in New Jersey. ¥ The farm today is worth $25,000. The 60 acres in New York City are worth 100 million dollars. .. i The colonel’s great-grandson. now owner of the farm, has a faraway look in his eyes as he discusses how it might have been different. He says, philosophically: “I probably ‘would have done the same thing myself at the time. Who would have dreamed in 1724 that 60 acres at Broadway and Canal street would ever become the priceless parcel of land it is today? The De Kay incident will interest everyone, for it is just a big-scale. experience that no one escapes—the overlooked § bet. The man who doesn’t pass up a big opportunity himself} ¥ is sure to have an ancestor who did. oy The trouble is, these are not opportunities at the time. They are made opportunities by the passing of time. Many a reader will start reminiscing and say: “Gosh, 1 remember when I could have bought such-and-such a prop- erty for a song. Today it’s worth a barrel of'money.” People are passing up big future opportunities today just as much as‘a century ago when Colonel De Kay sold his farm. «For instance, cities as large as New York is today may spring yp on what now is remote farm land. Up to now, there have been three main factors in making cities large: Commercially strategic location at the seashore with good harbor facilities; location to drain large farming » territories ; lodation’ logical for manufacturing. A fourth factor will inevitably develop—location at points where air traffie will focus. Flying flivvers by the millions are not improbable; nor even flying freight trains. If you-can figure out the future traffic centers of “air lines,” a small investment may enable you to leave many millions to your descendants. Of course, by the time the descendants get on the job, confiscatory taxation may make the millionaire as extinct as a dodo or passenger pigeon. LETTER FROM JAMES CONDON | with Mr. Prescott’s. I know ‘that TO SALLY ATHERTON, you love your work, and I was sure CONTINUED that your pride would be greatly But I must confess, Sally dear,| hurt if you thought: for a moment that I also had a rather caddish|that anyone had the temerity to desire to still listen in, and so 1] misunderstand your motives. kept still. Oh, my dear, my dear, don’t put “Mrs, Atherton is friend wife's} yourself in false position.. The dearest friend,” said another man in| world is still censorous of a wo- a sarcastic tone of voice. man’s actions, even if those actions “Same old story,” .remarked an-jare of the most innocent. intent. other sapiently. “A ’man-will break I know you're. sa} i up the friendship. df any, two wo-| talking like a father,” a men.” 4 radue 'm glad to be able to'do 90; as,you | “How about a woman. coming be-{ have. always thought I was .'too tween two men, old chap?” inquired} young. the youngest member of the party,| Don’t be angry at, what I’ve wri who hadn’t said much. ten. I thought I could warn you “Well,” remarke the man who} better of Jack Prescott by telling had spoken first, “all I've got to say} you: what other people said ‘than to is that Prescott is walking on thin|give you my opinion of him. | I've. | tice with that woman, There i#]aiways felt sorry for. his wife, and something about her—an intangible] espedially so since jl ifound. him’ something—that will make any man] glowering at us that night in the leave home and mother, and Jack} restaurant. when we were dining to- Prescott’ is one of the most suscep-| gether. Why, he acted as though tible of men.” 3 he owned you, Sally. “Sure—don't you remember his af-| "Dear, I don't, want any man to fair with the little Perier girl—t'll] own your,-not éven myself. You're bet he’s sorry he thféw her over|too splendid in your own, pegutiful 4 now. “They sty’ she's draw strength and independence, andaso I three thousand “# Week’ only want to love you—love, yqy..bet- movies.” ter than all the world beside. _ By this time, Sally, I could stand] I can’t do it, Sally. I must keep it no longer, and I left my dinner] on loving you. You have made your § half eaten and got out of the res-|self a part of me, and wi taurant, z wish to or not I shall have I did not tell all this to you, de: carry you around i: when I was with you, for I was|long as I shall live. most unwilling to even let you know that your name was being coupled ing down in the | JUST JIM. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) FABLES ON HEALTH WATCH SURPLUS FLESH \ -When Mr. Jones of Anytown took out life insurance he learried a few things about weight that he had not thought about before. Many men to. whom: he had fo merly pointed as “fine, big speci. mens,” suddenly seemed less a cause for envy. " Statistics gathered by the insur- ance companies. cover a broad field of underweight and overweight fig- uring, and framework and general Physical structure enter into many of the considerations. However,’ mortality experience on youthful underweights has been un- favorable and mortality experience on elderly overweights has been equally unfavorable. The age of 35 becomes the divid. ing line. It is pointed out ‘that tl lowest mortality is found among those who average just.» few pounds over their normal weight before 35 and a few pounds under the aver- age weight after 36. After 25 any marked overweight is considered a “risk,” pointing’ to faulty living or its presence as a physical handicap. Some 15 or 20 pounds overweight after the age of 35 should be a sig- nal to get in and reduce. as happy about it as an extra se- curing her first important role. Mrs, Lloyd will make. “her new. screen debut with a -becoming dig- nity and maturity coupled to her characteristic winsome simplicity, free of pretence, Throughout her period of retire- for the insane for the 1 years, escaped from the institution some time Saturday and Morton county officials have been advised to watch for him. Young Suchy was apprehended in Wisconsin about three. years ago and committed to a hospital the: Wi dan and following with North Dakota state authoriti he ‘was tranaferred to the sta hospital, at Jamestown. a — % MANY AT WEDDING A large number of Mandan friends were at St. Anthony yesterday to attend the wedding celebration at- tendant upon the marriage of Rose, daughter of Anton Leingang, and Peter Leingang, son of Jartzin ‘Lein-{ gang,, which was solemnized at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. a HERE WITH SON Mr. and Mrs. W. 5S. Ru Dickinson arrived in the city and are spending the ‘week a of their son, H. S, Russe! developments: by ‘having pictur: run daily in the home proj communicatio: to return to her profession. And by temperament, “Mildred. D. vis Lloyd, -placid)- poised, stable, is admirably equipped: to’ make a dual success of motherhood and motion pictures. . ‘ MANDAN NEWS DR. SHORTRIDGE WILL BE TRIED _IN- DICKINSON Judge H, L. ‘Berry, {dldowing the plea of not guilty and, an applica- tion for change of venue sought by Dr. W. R. Shortridge, this after- noon sent the case/to Stark county for trial and it will be the first case tried é aot ph the seotmer, and Senta ry go out; yes, strife Teprosch ‘shall cease—Prov. 22:14 eee The reproach’ of‘ a friend shoul be strictly quent.— Budgell of $6,000 was ‘accepted for his appearance, ESCAPES FROM HOSPITAL John | Suc) Moa ‘son. of John 08