The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 21, 1924, Page 4

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THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) PARTY LABELS Using party labels seems now more a matter of political convenience or expediency than a question of deep seated conviction. Senator Wheeler of Montana, a democrat will he the team mate of Senator LaFollette, a republican while nators Ladd and Frazier of North Dakota, both republi- cans will support’ them, without leaving their parties. A so-called county republican committee meeting in Bismarck not so long ago refused to endorse the Coolidge - Dawes ticket. The primary laws have produced a situation most ridicu- lous, anomalous and perplexing as well as utterly subver- sive of party rule. Being a republican in many instances is merely a means to an end and that end is to get on the ballot. But are the Ladds, LaFollettes, Fraziers together with the Wheelers and others of both parties solely to blame? In the Congress which has just adjourned leaders usually of the most regular and standpat convictions have openly repudiated the titular head of the party—Calvin Coolidge Policies developed at the White House have been ignored and vetoes overridden. Republicans and democrats alike scem to take their party leaders seriously only as political expediency and their own tenure of office dictate. The nation faces a most unusual presidential contest. Republican and democratic labels have lost much of their intrinsic value. Neither Coolidge nor Dawes arouse any freat admiration for the party they represent. Modern political parties have been discounted largely because of the primaries and lack of leadership. The issue then becomes lurgely one of personalities. Party action, discipline or oy alty have practically vanished. When Senator Ladd calmly announces that he will sup- port the LaFollette-Wheeler ticket, he qualifies it by explain- ing that he “will not leave the republican party.” In the sod old days when a politician refused to support the nom- inees of the national party to which he was aligned, it meant } roading him out of the party, but today under the primary system little punishment can be meted out for refusal to cupport the ticket. The voters take such lapses lightly and ©. .v on rare occasions retaliate. North Dakota two years ago presented a fusion ticket wh'ch combined a republican candidate for governor with a om candidate for United States senator. This fall ciud'tions doubtless will be as badly mixed. The Nonpar- t'san League candidates holding places in the republican ¢oumn may and probably will be openly supporting the La- Fo'lette-Wheeler ticket, and independent nominees for such ttate offices as they failed to nominate in the primaries. The party under the primary system is powerless to pre- vent such an anomaly. Until some system is found that will prevent such a situation either through a return to the con- vention system or through some law to draw party lines more closely republican and democrat or other party appen- dages will be merely labels reflecting little political signifi- t.nce or demanding but scant fealty to principles. If LaFollette piles up a large vote in the presidential election, out of it may come a new party in North Dakota similiar to the Farmer-Labor party in Minnesota. Due to the absence of any political leadership in North Dakota, within the democratic and republican parties, these organ- izations are practically impotent, the recent primaries prov- ing that. Republican and democratic parties in this state ere suffering now for the various fusion arrangements which some of the leaders thought were necessary to defeat the Br gram of the Nonpartisan League. The net result to date s a practical obliteration of the parties and .in their place nae ely a Nonpartisan League organization and an Anti- Nonpartisan League faction. Unless steps are taken soon to form a republican party in the state based upon the principles as enunciated at Cleveland in support of the Coolidge-Dawes candidacy, there will be no effective state organization through which re-| publicans can function. The crying need is for a real leader who can put prin- ciples above pelf and office. If the republicans cannot unite under the banners of Coolidge in North Dakota, the party is no more. No candidate who refuses to endorse the pres- idential republican nominees is entitled to the party label and ie game should apply to democrats—that is if party rule is -46 continue as an American institution. Probably we are approaching an epoch of bloc or class -dictation superior to parties or their principles. The La- Follette candidacy is the logical conclusion of the bloc idea “fostered by Ladd, Frazier, LaFollette, Brookhart, Wheeler and the rest. =~ -The two great parties are facing the acid test weakened | in the contest by their indefensible record in the last session | =nf Congress. That a strong protest vote will be cast against wpoth of them and for the LaFollette ticket seems a very “probable contingency. VOTE SLACKERS F sz: One newspaper recommends a nation-wide hunt for the Yai vote slacker.” It is a most timely, suggestion. Indifference zat the general public toward their responsibilities as citizens “js growing. In North Dakota at the recent primaries this =¥'2° apparent. Unless we are to have rule by minorities, it behooves every citizen to exercise his right of citizenship eprd vote. ~.. Often in primary elections no great issue is at stake and Sthe voters not' keenly interested in which candidate gets the wed stay away from the polls. Interest must be aroused spver the issue. This fall the ‘question of tax reduction should pring out the vote. It is especially important in the case of 2 legislative or congressional candidates. Only those edged iged to tax reduction should receive support. * President Coolidge has made excellent beginning in ax reduction and promises even ter cuts in the national “ine if only. given a chance. & ‘As between his record of performance and the promises the semaerels and LaFollette, there should be little hesi- he pete of le. 5 tal in supporting the republican ie 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. RUSSIAN TIME The proposal to change the cal- endar and the system of reckoning time in Russia, submitted by a special committee of the council of commissars, is indicative of the Soviet desire to fool with things long established. That the plan is unscientific is apparent. Better plans already have ‘been suggested, but the units now in use have acquired a species of historic changelessness which cannot be ignored. The Soviets propose a year of | 360 days, divided into twelve months o§ thirty days each. This would leave 5% days unattached to any month. The Soviets would divide the days into twenty-six hours of fifty: en minutes each and put six weeks of five days each in every month. The effect of this arrangement would ‘be to have one rest day in every five. The length of the day and of the year cannot ‘be changed. One rep- resentg the quantity of time re- quired by the earth to make one complete rotation on its axis and the other is the time required for a revolution about the sun. The hour, the week and the month are artifical units that may be changed, although their antiqu- ity gives them a certain perma- nence. It would be within the power of man to divide the day up into twen- six hours as the Soviets ‘pro- pose, but no practical advantage would come of it. Also the week or month could be shortened or lengthened. Chronology thas no interest in hours and minutes. If the Soviet really desired to establsh a scientific system of computing the lapse of time, they might accept the year of thirteen months. However, that appears not to be the wish of the Moscow authorities. They wish to be different, and the rest of the world is quite will- ing that they should continue to be different.—Seattle Times. THE TERRIBLE HOOKWORM Twenty governments in various farts of the world are now fighting the hookworm. With them is working the ‘Rockefeller Founda- tion, an organization that makes. 2 business of subsidizing “the well- being of mankind throughout the | world.” In tropical and sub-trop-j ical zones tthe hookworm disease “handicaps and enfeebles millions of persons every year, reduci efficiency, causing _unhappine and increasing mortality government can exist half hook- worm and half free, the foundation believes, and it has declared war on the worm. Now, if the foundation would only set up shop as a better busi- ness bureau, say, it might find a cure for dry rot — certainly the most advanced stage of “reduced efficiency.” But good riddance tg the hookworm when the foundation | stoops to conquer, The pesky worms live in a vicious circle * * * they live off the flesh of their hu- man hosts * * * pass off their egzs to pollute the ground * * * the new generation seeks other hosts for board and lodging. Life in a hook- worm country is a continual round of parasites lost and parasites re- gained.—The Nation’s Business. THE SONS OF DEMOCRACY The paths of the two student sons of Attorney General Stone di- vide for the summer. One son goes into a Pittsburgh steel plant to learn his trade in the smoke and grime of a rolling mill. The other will spend his vacation in Paris and Rome, studying higher mathematics. That is democracy—a graphic il- lustration of how successfully, and fortunately, we have avoided the European conception of training sons to fit into the social position to which, their fathers ‘belong. — Milwaukee Journal. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON The merry-go-round in Happy Go Lucky Park was a jolly one. Nick made the music go, and a whistle went “toot-toot,” and Mister Zip, the fairyman, turned a handle that start- ed the merry-go-round. Nancy took tickets sometimes, and sometimes she held the babies so they couldn't fall off and get hurt. And, although the animals on the merry-go-round looked as fierce as they could be, they were only made j of wood and couldn’t hurt you any more than a fly. Besides, there was the brass ring. If you got the brass ring when you were whizzing past, instead of a black one, they gave you a free ride. Of course, everybody tried as hard as ever they could to get the brass ring, you may be sure. One day Cutie Cottontail got a job weeding a garden and, although they say that it wasn’t all weeds he pulled up, still he earned enough money to go to Happy Go Lucky Park and spend it and the ‘afternoon. He ate his lunch in’a hurry and put on hia best striped shirt and away he hopped: He bought a pack of chewing gum (really,.I never knew before what it* was that made bunnies wiggle their noses so), and went into the fun house and saw himself in all the fat and lean and lumpy mirrors, and got lost. in the Puzzle Patch on purpose to see how quickly he could find his way out, and did a whole lot of things like that. But all the time he was making his way to the merry-go-round, where Nancy and Nick were work- ing. He liked the Twins and they liked him and when he was a pas- senger Nick always tet it go around ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Journey é | A Rough a wicouklo of times longer so he would get an extra long ride. “Tm gonna stay till I get the brass ring,” said Cutie, as he drew near and‘heard the ting-a-ling-a-ling, hum-de-dum-de-dum of the music. “And when I get it I’m gonna keep it to show to my friends. Hello, Nick!” “Hello, Cutie,” called Nick. “Hop on. You're just in time.” The little rabbit boy got on the merry-go-roufld and climbed up on a fierce-looking dragon with a curly tail. “Hooray!” he shouted as the whis- tle went “toot-toot” and Mister Zip, the fairyman, turned’ the thinga- madadger that started the merry-go- round on its circular journey. What's that? What did you say? Who was it that went “hooray,” Cutie or the dragon? My goodness, it was Cutie, of course, for the fierce dragon was only made of wood, and even if he hadn't been, he'd have been lashing his tail and gnashing his teeth and breathing fire through his nose, and wondering how a nice tender rabbit would taste for his dinner. “Oh, I see! You think that’s why jhe was saying ‘hooray!’ Just be- cause Cutie climbed on his back!” Well, maybe he would, but as I said before, how could he when he wasn't alive? Round and round and-round went the merry-go-round, and every time Cutie passed the big wooden. thing with a ring in the end, he held out his hand and got one. He got so many iron rings that both his ears were full. For every time he got a ring he slid it over an ear, And then didn’t he get the brass one! “Hooray!” he shouted, louder than ever. “I’ll slip this one in my pocket and take it home.” Cutie was going to get into a peck of trouble. To Be Continued (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) ee Too hot to worry about politics. We haven't even learned the names of all the new soft drinks yet. The most important thing about a political machine is the clutch. Hunt the bright side. Even can- taloupes have their good points. They never squirt in your eye. If you buy your Christmas pres- ents from a mail order house it is time you ordered them. The dawn of a new era is frequent- ly obscured by clouds of pessimism. There is so much booze in New York now they have quit’ looking up to drunk people. Nothing tickles a real dog more than biting a pedigreed pup. Boys are not getting sick half as often as they did before vacation started. Nice thing about hot weather is a man can’t blame it on his wife. Even if sparerib prices are down, never hug a girl too hard. Many June husbands are forget- ting how to drive with one hand al- ready. Nothing seems to spoil a. mos- quito’s appetite. Isn't it strange how you buy a new phonograph record and in a few days the other side is the best? People going on’ vacations to fok- get things ‘shouldn't forget” how poison ivy looks. As # light summer pastime, we suggest lying on the floor counting the holes in the lose curtains. FABLES ON HEALTH SLEEP IS IMPORTANT §00 tion with keeping in the best condi- PRESCOTT TO SYDNEY at least, should CARTON be the allotted sleeping time, though eS during thetrfirst few months most] Great Scott, Syd, you always did women feel .an, inclinatfon’ to’ sleep a great deal, and fice "no advice. “But there are many. patients who sleep less than eight hours’ and.,to such I always give the. same.admon- ition; get recreation, air and: sleep and the chances will be vastly. bet- ke | ter for:the general health.during this| and you tell it in a way that almost important period.” DEMS SHOW WHAT REALLY ODD .THINGS. CAN. H. PPEN - BY. HARRY B. HUNT. NEA Service Writer, «New York, July 21.-The uncer; tainties of politics were never bet- ter demonstrated than in the clos- ing’ sessions of the Democratic con- vention, where the pentup. votes. of a thousand restless delegates, break- ing the deadlock that had held them back through nine days of balloting rushed forth like flood waters when a dam has burst and, catching Davis and Bryan on the crest of the waves, swept them swiftly to the nomina- ‘Next to recreation and air, sleep is next in importance to the expec- tant mother,” the Jones family doctor told Mrs, Jones. “Sleep at night isn't enough; should take scheduled naps. a nap of’ at least one hour every afternoon, particularly house or have taken a°good walk. “Getting to bed on night is “also important in -connec- tica] ¥easons, would have to go tol that she is pulling down some one who would help “balance and The first man turned to was Senator Thomas J. h Chine? Meer, dee al Pe enact Cs ae GE ion, who had. directed senatorial investigation into the Sin- clair-Fall-Doheny oil leases. Walsh could have had the nomin- ation in a minute. emptorily adjourned the convention, in's giving. the baby following the nomination of Davis, without putting the question, in or. Ron siranee wen atlie's der to head off a move to noi him to second place by acclamal Walsh then explained it would be most un- wise to place him on the presidential He is up for re-election to and is sure of convention Delegates who were their feet on the final da: ir ballots into the , make no apologies the In fact, he -per- “What else could we do?” they Waa eee tne “We had to do something. And after all, isn't it a good ticket?” i No phase of convention activities were -more interesting than those hich immediately followed the nom- ination of Davis for the top of the -{soon.. Things are still'rather strain- party The vice ‘presidential could not be crystallized until after the presidential selection had been For everybody conceded the second place on the ticket, for poli- the Senate this fall, sweeping his state for that office, But the fate of the Presidential ticket is not so certain. He would be much more valuable to By (0 — Democratic EVERETT 7aee MONDAY, JULY 21, tae NOTHING CAN STOP HIM By Albert ‘Apple Schulz wanted to fly. Being a school teacher | in East Prussia, he didn’t have any too much money. So he gathered together some poles and tin cans and made a glider, one of those flying machines heavier than air and without a motor. Schulz got his machine finished and entered the big glid- ing contest in Germany. The committee in charge decided his outfit was ae So they barred him. That was a year ago. Schulz went to Bork again. He got more tin cans, some baling wire and a lot of old broom handles.. He built another glider, gave it a coat of paint, got past the committee. With this crude homemade affair, Schulz broke: the - world’s record, remaining in the air over 42 minutes. Reminds you of a boy building a radio out of such things as a hairpin, a cockroach and an old watch case. Take another case, Earl F. Olson of Galesburg Ill. He wanted a piano. Didn’t have enough money to spare. So he builf his own, a baby grand. It took all his spare time, five hours a day for two years: Patiently he shaped and assembled 5000 separate pieces of parts and materials. Experts are amazed when they hear Olson play this nentee made piano. It looks and sounds like a factory-made instru- ment. You appreciate such an accomplishment if you are a musician. One man builds his own flying machine. Another, his own piano. Not many years since Ford, a mechanic, built his own auto — engine included — and then began building them for others by the millions, over 10 million cars to date. Farther back, we find Howe laboriously figuring out and building the first sewing machine. So it goes. None of these men had opportunities. They created their own opportunities. > Handicaps and obstacles can be overcome. That’s been proved thousands upon thousands of times. What count ate ambition, determination and willingness to work. Given these, nothing can stop the progress of man—except the most exceptionally bad luck. LETTER FROM JOHN ALDEN | ‘dear Priscilla Bradford’ had bobbed hers. Leslie persists that she is going to invite her for the wedding anniver- I cannot understand why she manage to hand me the biggest pos- sible kick and I believe your last one is almost more than I can get away with. You sit down and write me with the greatest sang-froid that Paula wants to make my, boy a rich man My business is going on pretty fine, Syd. Since I have come to my- self and let my stock . gambling alone, I have. made quite a little money. Enough to pay off my in- debtedness, and before long I will have enough to make a tidy little investment in something. I stippose you know that. Walter Burke ison his way home and Les- lie tells me that he comes to marry Ruth Ellington. I. can’t conceive of a marriage that could .seem any more incongruous, but Ruth’ seems 3. very happy about ‘it. week in moving pictures and that} On the other hand, Leslie is quite she wants to e little Jack half of} unhappy because she is afraid’ that makes me believe it, for you seem not only to believe it, but expect me to .accept the money for. little Jack. Queer girl that Paula Perier and she is always getting. me in some queer kind of a mix-up. To think With ait’ ‘eastern’ man for, presi-| jt. Good Lord, can you not seershe'l Burke will ‘take Ruth away for’ an- dent,.a’ western man must be chosen.’ wants to give it to me and takes|other long trip. Sometimes, although The ticket mustn’t. be sectional. nomination, ‘therefore, at} And you, old fellow, who has al-]little jealous of Ruth Ellington: She .once eliminated Silzer of. New Jer- bi jickity, advise me i Gem. gCopeland sof News: York ways been so pernickity, advise has made good, however, in. her Ritchie ‘of, Maryland as real’ ‘con- Wiis could the, west offer tig wouldtibe of real help? ° this way to do it? I kind of hate to confess. it, I am a to take it. Say, what is the matter| lingerie shop, something. Leslie never with you, old man? Don’t you know] lets me forget. Every time I praise it just isn’t being done in our set| Sally Atherton’s . busine: ability, this year? she comes back with some wond Paula's’ sudden slike for Sally|ful coup Ruth has made in the shop. ‘Atherton rather. amuses me. In|It seems she has made 100, per cent in, the last six months. What ‘do you suppose my wife as I did her sudden liking for Leslie. Strange as it may seem, to you the| said to me about that shop the other two women are a great deal alike.|day. It.was since she came home Leslie would do. the same quixotic] from New York that she asked, things thet Paula ha: In fact, I} “Jack, if Ruth went away and lefty think she’has, for:you know.in your| her shop. would you let me buy it Of course I sa “Certainly Not Must close and you may tell Pau! for me that there is nothing doing. Since I have. acknowledged my son I am letting no one man or woman support him. So long, old fellow. See you soon. jmrbon ed Squmeinthabeme Nae) Shia ctu Ng ty ROMs adopting it. I am awfully gl: you ‘are coming ed over Leslie bobbing her hair, but it. did rather ‘make me. ridiculous when-I found that old maid of a after senator than as a problematical vice] August 1. president. In deference to. his wishes—in fact jh was reluc- ON VACATION TRIP Dr. Lloyd Erickson has gone on a two weeks’ vacation He will be. guest of his pai Dr. and Mrs. Erickson at Minneapolis where be. will join his wife and son, who have been visiting in Sherburne, Minn., and St. Paul for the vent month. ‘Second choice of the large ma- jority of delegates ‘from the western field, to which the choice was limit- Edwin: Meredith: of Iowa. Meredith lives in: the. center. of the great agricultaral region. which is the seat of the cramps which threaten to bring on political’ con- vulsions this fal The ‘trouble has ut there as too Irish Trade Is Disappointing Dublin, July 21.—Trade reports covering “the commerce of the Trish it. Meredith, publisher of farm periodicals and in close ‘touch: with the party, he [ie Subir us eile ald nea. oonl laos, gusikiiavencabaetnwaat couse as a reall 408 Sixth Avenue northwest. t, Free State for the first quarter of 1924 were described as disappoint- would have to be done, to. convince ping by Free State authorities, who the mid-west that a New York at-|Pointed out that imports totaled torney, ‘with his office on Broad | 15,048,961 in value, while satohe street just around the’ corner from Were worth only £ 10,965,069; With ‘Wall, and with J. P. Morgan-as his client, is not. to a. considerable de- gree influenced by, if ‘not irspresen- but, little exception, the. exports were destined to Great Britain org the six Ulster counties. We now have about 81,000,000 acres of burned-over forest land: . 01 Republican Lowden— red. the. G. O. P. vice pr Two Democrats—W. “fe! * TITTLE Je hur: L. MAE JOE: ; “Some OF THESE * POLITICIANS BRING TO; MIND THE GARDENER: WHO PLANTED FRIED FAITH HEALER MOVES “Doctor” Anton’ «Pi. Ness, ° “taith healer of McClusky, N. D., the has been visited: by: probably 15,000 peo- ple in the course of the last three years and practically all ‘of whom swear by the “marvelous cures” he has effected in their, cases, will “practice.” FROM ‘HONEYMOON ‘Mr. and Mrs. John A. Timmesman | (Virginia Cullen) who were married at 8t. ‘Paul, Thurs July’ 10th, re- turned to Mandan ‘évening fol lowing’ a couple of weeks at north- ern Wisconsin summer resorts. They will be at Led to their friends at