The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 25, 1924, Page 4

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The practice grew out of the old dominance of Pittsburgh in the steel industry, and the . protests have arisen since the steel industry has moved into Comments reproduced column may or may not expres the opinion of The Tribune. ‘They are presented here in order that our readers may have both sid of tmportant issues 5 being discussed in the press the day. COWBOYS IN LONDON ‘The American rodeo outfit which ‘Tex Austin took to England for the empire exhibition at Wembley has sailed for home and an_ interna. tional incident is over. So far as can learn it was not so good. A owboy bull-dogging a steer ‘broke its leg. Austin and the; puncher were brought into court for baiting animals and released om condition that the bulldogging be cut out of the program. In the London Spectator Eng-| lish readers have ‘been conducting a spirited controversy over fish-/ ing. It is maintained that it is a double and prohibitive cruelty to} over a fish a morsel of food andj repay his confidence with a barbed | we hook. What chance has a rodeo inj that quarter? Sentiment was all with the ied steer who was naded into a burst of speed only i be manhandled. It seemed to invest the beefs with a dis- quieting realism. The English are,| not the only people who perfer to think of their meat products as inanimate in.the beginning. The cowboys made a general give a vividness to the American shooting statistics and as another Ing stunt they rode the roping hats off the citi- nry on foot. This was endured but no Englishman with inner pati- ence has his hat jerked off. The eudurance was remarked either 23 a fine display of hospitality or a sign that the bulldog breed was slipping. + various parts of the country. The practice has been de- fended by steel interests as having a stabilizing effect, but the Federal Trade Commission holds the practice is against :; pol'-*- and in restraint of trade. sol Minnesota is one of the great iron ore producing states. | It has not become a great steel producing center because of the Pittsburgh Plus plan. Being the source of iron ore, it! is probable that the steel industry would greatly increase in Minnesota if the Pittsburgh Plus plan is abolished. North : Dakota would profit because of a smaller freight cost in steel prices. Immense savings in farm machinery would! result, in the opinion of Twin City business men, since it is! estimated farm machinery contains four-tenths of all steel One Twin City manufacturer estimates that _ abolition of the Pittsburgh Plus plan would save Twin City ? purehasers of steel several dollars per ton in freight. Minnesota, if she develops steel producing industry in the Twin Cities and Duluth, must secure fuel and power from | other sources. The state has no coal. Coal would have to! be imported from North Dakota or from eastern states by | rail or through the lakes. It already has been shown that under favorable conditions North Dakota lignite coal pro-j| ducers can compete with the eastern coal in Minnesota. Im- proved methods of using lignite may result in a further ad- vantage to North Dakota. It is not beyond the realms of | vessib lity that abolition of the Pittsburgh Plus plan would} in time measureably assist in the development of the lignite coal industry in North Dakota. WHY? /. reader writes: “A friend of mine died recently in this city. .He was in his fifties, an active man, filled with zest for life, a man of! family, successful,.a good citizen. “On my way to work I drive past the city infirmary. There I see doddering old men of little use to society or them- selves. Doubtless, some of them would rather be dead. My active useful friend dies; they live on. “Why?” . os * The man died in accord with some “natural law” imposed by the Creator of All for the Good of All. This explanation must be accepted, or it must be admitted that the little dot in time called human life is merely a tremendous and most brutal joke. What law was violated is entirely another question, a question that is being more and more understood through the progress of the sciences. We have learned, for instance, whv yellow fever carried off thousands of the able-bodied, Life is full of the mysteries with which His wonders are performed and human progress will be at a standstill when we cease to study and discover the why of them and adopt ourselves to the good that is in them. The difference between a man dead in his fifties and a has-been in an infirmary may lie in what the two had at birth and how they lived, and no single instance of seeming urwisdom or injustice impeaches the Great Purpose. We are a long way from qualification as a jury of peers for trial of Omniscience. HUSBANDS __Towns where women own all the property and are per- mitted to divorce their husbands if they get tired of them. These are discovered in the wild parts of western India, by The visit was more or less of a strain on the international tie, but Mr. Hughes is over to attend the ‘bar association meeting and any lingering irritation remaining from the hat roping may be re- moved. He will not knock any off. —Chicago Tribune. A WASHINGTON PATRIARCH Ezra Meeker today is 93 years old. He ig? known as the oldest living man who, as an adult, had a part in the founding of the com- monwealth now known as the state of Washington. He has crossed the continent, three times by ox- team and once by automobile with “schooner” equipment mounted on the chassis. On that trip ‘he jour- neyed 3,560 miles from Olympia to Washington, D. C., to obtain ma- terial for a report to submit. to! congress ‘showing the probable cost of building a national military highway across the continent. That trip took him about one-| ‘tenth of the time required on his; first: journey, when he took five months in reaching the Pacific coast. Ezra Meeker has lived Pacific northwestern history. As a nono-genarian trancontinental ; traveler he has*a unique record. ; He has seen virtually the entire development of Washington, hav- ing been a continuous resident here. Recalling the primitive his first trip, the development of transportation stands out among the interim. A journey that took Ezra Meek- er and his associates five months of hardship is done by railroad to- day in luxury in less than five days. By automobile it can be done in comfort in twenty days and an airplane yecently made the transcontinental hop, coast to coast, in less than twenty-four hours. This is but one of the ad- vancements in the span of one man’s life. —Spokane Spokesman- Review. ‘ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON | After Mrs. Woodchuck decided to Willy, home for the summer, the next thing was to find things for them to do. And my, but they did love picnics! So one day she said, “Boys, we're going to have a picnic. How would you like that?” “Fine!” cried all the little wood- chucks. “Just fine. Where is it going to be?” “At Happy Go Lucky Park,” said their mother. I know you'll be surprised at that because the last time Mrs. Wood- j chuck went to Happy Go Lucky Park she vowed up and down that Mrs. Ernest Thompson-Seton. Divorce mills certainly would work 24 hours a day if we had a similar system in America. The ability to live to- gcther without getting tired of each other is the real test of. marriage. When you’re dead, you’re a long time dead. So with marriage. It’s the most important decision of one’s lifetime. Young people should venture cautiously. SICK How many days work a year do yon lose by sickness? It’s claimed by authorities that the time lost by American workers, through sickness, is equivalent to keeping a million men idle all the time. : A greater loss is the inefficiency of workers and execu- tives who-are ‘neither sick nor well, but halfway between— “out of sorts.” “Health first” should be the goal. Health is the greatest asset. No personal sacrifice is too great to pay for it. DRINKER There seems to be no limit to unique ways of earning a ‘living nor to the things men will do to get money. . Leon Valens of Belgium, now playing American vaude- ville, drinks for a living. He claims the world drinking championship. . Downs 10 quarts:.of water or near-beer at one performance: His official record is 14.5 quarts in 2 hours 60 minutes. : How many would desert the greatest’ political, gathering. to see Leon “do his stuff”? We are a serious minded people. “Compound insanity” is a new phrase to come out of the Loeb-Frank murder case. But then the alienists are being ell to evolve new theories. The nation can expect a before the jury finally reports. / aga she never, never, never would go back again. But then the days got so hot and Happy Go Lucky Park was so cool ; that she changed her mind, “Hooray for Happy Go Park!” cried all the little chucks. So Mrs. Woodchuck made a eh colate' cake and three kinds of sand- ; wiches and ice cream and a meat | loaf and salad and fixed deviled eggs ‘and everything, and put it all in a {great big basket. | And off they started, | “Good morning, Mrs. Woodchuck,” i said Nick when he saw them com- jing. ‘Let me help you with your basket.” Lucky wood- “Idon't care if I do,” panted Mrs. |’ | Woodchuck, for the day was warm and her basket was heavy with good- | ies. s | So Nick took the basket and hid | it under some bushes. Mister Wecd- chuck was to come in the evening |in time for supper. | “Do you think it is safe there?” asked Mrs. Woodchuck. “I would jhate to have it stolen.” | “Sure,” said Nick. “Dont worry ny more about it.” Mrs. Woodchuck’ hunted up a swing ahd got out her knitting and | watched the boys. Wally and Willy and Wooly Wood- chuck had the time of their lives. | First they played in the sandpile , for awhile and made tunnels and Laos and bridges and forts, Then they slid \down the sliding board:-sbout -50; times apiece, * display of guns which seemed to]. methods of travel when he mede| keep her sons, Wally and Wooly and} THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | The Big Question Now Before the London Conference | NELLY WHADDA We GONNA Do - STAY STuck OR accerT “THE FRI \his predictions about. weather claimed by James H. Scarr, ‘ on forecasts in his territory. | It’s probable that the same \ weatherman is usually wrong. and fair.” The weatherman’s supposed inal jokes—and unfairly so. Like all the rest of us, than by his good work. An unwise vote on a bit career of a congressman with credit. tation. S Qne inaccuracy céunteracts accomplishments. THE MISTAKES YOU MAKE By Albert Apple The weatherman is right 88 times out’ of every 100 in ! York City’s weather bureau for 15 years. he’s | People notice that he misses an average of 12 out.of 100. That makes them forget the 88- out-of+100 in the matter of accuracy. : DAY, JULY 25, 1924 — and temperature. This is who has had charge of New His claim is based figures hold: true for the coun- i |try at large, striking an average. Nee ‘ | * Uncle Sam, in fact, does not appoint a student forecaster to a job as official forecaster until he demonstrates that he can score 85 out of 100 accurately in his predictions. All this doesn’t line up with the popular notion that the You often hear a person say: “I gee rain is predicted. I suppose that means it'll be bright inaccuracy is one of the orig- Why has he gotten a false reputation? That's: easy. judged by his mistakes rather Take a star juggler in vaudeville. One blunder gets by. Two blunders start a laugh.. Three blunders counteract his entire 20 minutes of accurate performance. He’s judged by his mistakes, rather than by his accomplishments. of legislation can wreck the years of “good work” to his A breath of slander can blast a long-established repu- 100 accuracies. Yes, we’re all judged by our mistakes rather than by our ie man with wisdom enough to over- look the occasional error is rare.1 The human brain inclines to destruction rather than to construction, primarily. ra | Next they all got a ride on the merry-go-round and everything. Next they went in wading in a tle puddle pond. All this time something was hap- pening to Mrs. Wondchuck’s picnic basket and this was it: When Nick put the basket under the bushes no one knew that a pair of greedy eyes were watching him. Those greedy eyes belonged to Reddy Fox and you may be sure that Mister Fox licked his chops when he saw such a gorgeous meal not 10-steps away, and all his~for the taking. sl “Um, yum!” he grinned. “I°al- ways did love picnics. I'll wait un- til everybody goes away and then I'll feast.” 8 * But just when he was slipping quietly one’ step at a time toward the basket, Nancy . happened, along. “Why, somebody’s left a basket here,” she said. “I'll have to put at where it’s safe.” - v: And she picked it up and walked off. 7 Tl tell. you the rest tomorrow. , - (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) . puecebnaiciaes e on Sims Says Soon after father gets home with his pay on Saturday night he finds he is clean for Sunday. lit- x The man who refuses to do hon- est work usually expects to do hon- est workers,” An optimist is a man who can make a molehill out of a mountain of trouble. * 5 Guess the weather man has gone away on his vacation and left a two-months’ supply of “ warmer” predictions. Many fish would starve if it wasn’t for the man who tries to catch them. The midnight oil doesn’t make so many successes as the midnight gas makes failures, Another kick against summer is the hotter it gets the easier it is for flies to get off fly paper. A women who can’t understand why a man stays single can readily see why another woman does. and then gone away convinced we should have free speech. If a man wants to marry a good job he must learn to love, honor and obey it, An auto speeder discovers his mis- take by accident. and’ pike it up. more than two ants in the. ark. Neighbors should remember’ small than they are: to small, boys. work, . . The average ‘ job. how important Who hasn’t paid to hear a lecture “Where are you going for your vacation?” a friend asked Mr. Jones of Anytown. “Same ol’ place. plied Mr. Jones. “Why don’t you ever change?” “Too much ,trouble finding a new place.” That's the attitude of many vaca- tioners. And it .isn't a particularly good one to adopt, if the proper re- sults are gotten, The fundamental purpose of a va- gation is-to, allow. complete change of life, habits, surroundings and peo. ple, There should ‘be-a. change of scenery, a change of food, change of the ‘preparation of ‘food. Davis Chief Is “Little Salt Creek!” re- By Harry B.’ Hunt NEA Service Writer Washington, July 25.—Clem L. Shaver, whom -John W. Davis has asked to run the Democratic presi- dential campaign is a “little shaver,” physically, but apparently measures up to all major league specifications as a political fox, Shaver, who managed Davis’ pre- convention campaign, never let it loom,as a threat to other hopeful would-be candidates. He maintained it always as a sort of “last resort” candidacy, which in no way inter- fered with the fights being made to build up’ support for McAdoo and Smith, or even Ralston, Underwood or Glass. ‘He didn’t allow the Davis boom to push ‘or crowd, or to get puffed up unduly to a size where it might invite the'barbed hatpins of jealous rivals, Shaver didn’t swell around the corridors of the Waldorf or the aisles of Madison Square Garden, telling how, at the phychological moment, he would “put” Davis over. A little gray-faced, stoop-should- EVERETT TRUE The failure waits for business to. pick up while the success gets out ! Picnic parties believe Noah had boys are no more a nuisance to them Many a man’s idea of prosperity is when everybody is too rich to Any poor man can spend a rainy afternoon’ in pleasant contemplation of the taxes he doesn’t haye to pay. made’ man. keeps quiet about it because he did a bad The Way to leave ‘footprints on the sands of time is to. get out and-dig. Germs’ don’t care anything about FABLES ON HEALTH TRY FOR A CHANGE are psychologically off ‘key. - Shaver,” But Big Fox ”| bles. and got the good will of afl groups for his candidate, coming campaign, Shaver would seem At CAST! TVE.BGEN TO THIS 2 , -SBIRD'IS OFFICE ON TARES DIFFERENT + . DAYS CALYX To BE INFORMED THAT HO HAD GONG TO LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO LESLIE PRESCOTT, CARE OF THE SECRET DRAWER, CONTINUED ; ‘i Of course, little Marquise, 1 In such vacations lie psychological | 4 oe ene ee seations for” my values that result in the greatest benefits of the vacationer. A return to the same place year after year; a meeting of the same people—all such samenesses leave little to the imagination and offer few -surprises. In brief; they are all right but .they party and just sat down and waited. I wonder if you know what it means to wait for the inevitable? No torture in all the world is so terri- ble—when you know that ‘nothing you can. do will-change in any way what is coming to,’ you, and you must wait and worry. : 5 I thought over ‘carefully all ‘the peculiar incidents that “had occurred; since Alice had- clasped the pearls about my neck on-my wedding day. I told myself. that, although “I’ had not told Jack about them, yet I my- self did not know they were ‘real until, months afterward. Whatever I thought, however, 1 The ideal vacation would be one in always.came back~to the fact that Jack, filled. with rage, ‘would’ soon be ‘with me asking for information, which all persons could go back. to boyhood simplicity of mind and play; a complete making over. : Since this is impossible to most folks, get',the next best thing::-as complete a change as is possible each year. Sr and that:he would probably be more furious .when he ‘learned the truth. I wondered wearily if I could go on with the.party if the whole matter was not settled some way before the next night. . * Through all © these“ ° unhappy thoughts .came the “question: Who: could have told Jack? No one but Karl, Alice, Ruth and myself knew the whole.story, and,I am sure: not one of them would have told. I was sure of Karl and Ruth, but—surely my sister would not do such a de- spicable thing! The clock kept ticking, “Wait and see—wait and see—wait and see—" While I was trying with what pa- tience I had to take the insistent little clock’s agvice, the phone again ered man who lodked _ constantly tired, almost dejected, he simply told what a great chance the ‘party had ‘if it would” only look to John W. Davis to save it from its trou- He - rubbed “nobody the wrong way, stepped -on. no tender toes, for himself personally as’ well as If it is @ political diplomat Davis needs to weld his forces for the to have qualified. A: much less passive sort of per- son} one who believes; in strong words and agressive methods, is John M. Nelson, the manager of Sena- tor La Follette’s independent cam- paign, Nelson, next to Nick Long- worth, is the baldest man in Con- gress, But instead of the sym- metrically rounded. cranial dome of Longworth, Nelson’s bare expanse of scalp exposes a rough-hewn head, suggestive of ability to withstapd many bumps ‘and to deliver as good as is sent—even butting in ram-fas- BY CONDO hion, with his head, when feet and fists fail. - a It was ‘Nelson who, led the La Follette fight- last fall for a revi- sion of the House-rules. He stood up, unmoved, against the most witheing and. ‘devastating cynicism and satire the word wizards of Con- gress could direct against him. He didn’t care .what the regulurco thought of him or hig fellows, or what: they called him, so long a» they antended the rules, He checkmated every move to entangle him in parliamentary’ red tape, or to substitute for his pro- posgis any political panacea of. the “just-as-good”. brand. His bald head and. bald speech were the highlights of that menor- able battle. = \ ae’ The title of “Bleeding © Kansas,” wor by the Sunflower state because of the ‘bitter battles between the abolitionists and pro-slayery groups preceding the Civil {way proper- ly be revived before the coming poll- tical holocaust is ended. For Kansas is slated. to become. the geographical storm center of the politica] tornado, centering over-the middle west, dusting fhe presidential campaign. ba aaa es Orders have gone “dut from: Re- S| its. tha lollette fore 8 {l pal i WI BRIDE LIKE“THE CORSET a Ae rang. Sally Atherton was, on the wire. , “Say, Leslie, I don’t want to butt in on your affairs, but I just want to put you Wise to something I think you ought to know. I heard your husband telephoning you about a string of pearls. I didn’t mean to listen but he was so excited he was talking at the top of his voice, and you know. my desk is in the same ‘room. “This morning, 1 opened a letter from New York that was not marked .\personal,. and: found tHat some < scoundrel .:had written Mr. Prescott an anonymous letter asking him if’ he knew that lovely string of pearls you had.been wearing was real. : “Now, I don’t know whether those beads: are real pearlsor not, but | just wanted you to kriow that Mr. Prescott got-his information anony- mously, : . ' , “I'm going to.break my, solemn vow and. come to your party. I had not intended to’do-so, but I am so angry over this’ anonymous letter that I want you to know that if I can do anything to help you in any way, I will do/it.” Of ‘course;- I, thanked :Sally, and I was glad to know where Jack found it all out, but I cotld-not help feel- ing unhappy that any one knew that Jack and I were quarreling. All the while she was talking to me I was wondering if it could be possible that’ my own sister could be so horrid as to have-written a letter to Jack. I could think of no one ‘else who knew about them who would do so. Pretty soon Jack came threw a letter into my lap. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) in and Ndge cohorts will deprive the presi- dent of a majority and send the election into Congress, will send their shock troops ‘into action there, And the Democrats, hoping to sal- vage something from hy, S87 for their candidate, will join in ‘the, gen- eral free-for-all. E i MANDAN NEWS MARRIED .IN MANDAN County Judge B. W. Shaw united in marriage William Michaels of Yountown; Nv D., and. Miss Sophie Frederick. of New Salem. TO. YELLOWSTONE Mre. J. A, Vetter and daughter Mrs. Ollie Kossick of Springfield, Mass., who has been visiting here for several’ week: ft for Glendive and Livingston, Mont., to visit with friends, They will: go through Yel- lowstone park before returning to Mandan, MOVE TO WING Mr. and Mrs.°J. J. Hoerner have left for Wing; N. D., where Mr. Hoerner will, become manager of one of the Mandan Merantile company’s yards. “The, former’ manager has moved. to Caligornia, to make his home.’ Mr. Héerher has been in the employe of the local: main branch for the past’ thi re" years. , GUESTS FROM OHIO Mr. and Mrs. W,, H. Lee of Cleve- ay —— ee t the. home of al ! NEVER. EXPECT TO FIND | y. Eta bore 2S aos A. GROOM LIKE THE . in eltieg on the west soe COLLAR ADS GR: A © | cettt: Mrs, Lee ins cousin’ of Mrs. Hunke, BACK FROM:’MILES ‘CITY Mrs. C, P. O'Rourk: Mrs. F. G. Tharp and,‘son;Frederick returned by: auto from Miles. City, Mont.; accompanied ‘by Mrs. L.. B- Fellows of ity who will visit with he r, Mrs, Tharp and Parents, Mr. .and:Mra,.Dennis Tobin.