The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 26, 1924, Page 4

--~—as_it. is of biceps. conan “PAGE FOUR ° THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Publishers CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge 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- lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. is MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year «. $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)... . wclet's O20 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) DIFFICULTIES IN MINNESOTA Minnesota has a good sprinkling of what may be termed real radicals. They do not object to the designation. They shout their radicalism. And just now they are giving some who declare they are not radicals, but progressives, an ex- ample of the difficulties that attend any sporadic political movement which has a rather nebulous definition of dis- content as its basis and which seeks to seize power without recognition of the rights of all of the people. i The situation in Minnesota has reached such a point that North Dakota’s: rather confused politics in the past may seem to be clear and mild. Senator Magnus Johnson was renominated by a huge majority and certainly has appeared as radical as he said he would be, but a group in the state labor convention d2nounces him by inference and charges he failed to support labor’s measures as he promised. The state labor convention, too, found itself divided on the advisability of a third party in the country, which should be made up frankly of radicals. A large group, Communists, voted against the party because they are opposed to the La- Follette group. A larger group voted against a new party because they desire to adhere to the policy under which or- ganized labor has grown so powerful in this nation—recog- |’ nizing the chief purpose of the unions, that of bettering their economic conditions. Again the political situation in the Gopher state is mud- dled when various factions strive for the honor of organ- izing LaFollette for President clubs. The Socialists want to organize them. The anti-Socialists, who say they are pro- gressives, want to organize them. The activity of the radical minorities in Minnesota in many organizations makes it quite evident that they are not concerned with anything except. power for themselves. They do not wish to become members of an organization and through a laborious process of education seek to make their views prevail. They, by intrigue and manipulation, are striving for power for themselves. and they are willing 2crfice most anything to that end. y be poetic justice that some of those political hy have encouraged radicalism and socialism, are iighting the same political thought as well as the wholly BICEPS OVER BROW Some 1200 graduating students, in caps and gowns and with joyous faces, marched before their president the other day to receive their diplomas at the University of Minnesota. J. Ward Ruckman was not among them. He stood on the sidelines and sadly watched the significant procession on its course to its big goal. And yet he had been one of the star students of the university. In his first year, Ruckman engaged in extra-curricular work, kept ahead of his studies and edited the college papers. In his junior year he was president of his class and he ac- cumulated scholasti¢ honors in every subject he selected. In his senior year he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the honorary scholastic society, and was scheduled to receive his degree with high honor. In his four years as a successful student he played tennis, hiked and indulged in a dozen other sports of the college. lias‘: summer he paddled a canoe from Minneapolis to St. Louis, landed a job on a river boat as a laborer, and worked his way to New Orleans and back to Minneapolis. Physically and mentally he showed himself to be of the right stuff and a real credit to the educational institution he attended. What was the matter with Ruckman? Why was he de- nied his graduation papers and honors? This and nothing more: He had failed to take the freshman course in the college gymnasium! Higher education is a queer thing in these days, as Ruck- “man has discovered to his sorrow. It isn’t so much a matter of brains as it is of brawn—not so much a matter of brow A people are taxed to support a college that lives by that rigid and inane rule. PAPER ‘ In the year 1939 Canada will furnish four-fifths of the newsprint paper used by American newspapers. So esti- mates Lord Rothmere, the foremost British publisher. Can- ada already supplies half of our newsprint. This would be a dangerous near-monopoly in the hands of any but the most friendly of neighbor nations. A monop- oly in newsprint would be more powerful than almost any form of political power—if it weren’t that the thing that oounts is the message the ink carries, rather than the paper itself. The Declaration of Independence would fill only part of &@ newspaper column. But look at its power. Message, not space, is what counts. Your newspapers are going to get smaller at the years slip by. STIMULATION If you have an exceptional craving for candy or liquor an get rid of it by eating moregvegetables, according to Gillett, the nutrition expert. lowever, sugar and liquor are Siamese twins. And the desire for them is more mental than physical. If there is any mental or emotional stimulation in vegetables, it has yet to be found. People stimulate their pancreatic gland by sugar or alcohol to get mental exhilaration rather than physical: : HE: WILL DISCUSS HIMSELF Senator Brookhart has been heard. from on the presiden- tial campaign. He will support neither Coolidge nor LaFol- ise ‘says, but will “discuss the issues” of the campaign. t is euspected that Senator Brookhart will’ not be adverse » Oat cae need ‘ oat Be At. that - fealled”'to’ Nick, “Nick, Comments reproduced in this column may or ma not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides of importang issues which are Padbe discussed in the press of e lay. THE MUIR CASE With the judicial procedure df our neighbors beyond our north- ern border it 1s neither wise nor! expedient for Americane to inter- fere, even to the extent of com- menting on it adversely. And e@s- pecially should we, with our far from proud record of homicides, find any except the most cautious of fault with the way in which the Canadians deal with their mur- derers. With this preface, it cannot be objectionable to express wonder, an something of regret, that the Cenadian authorities could not cee in the circumstances of the shooting of Menry Laviolette by | Walter Muir any reason for com- niuting the latter’s death sentence or granting him a new trial. There is some foolish talk going about to the effect that because Muir was an American who had killed a Canadian the mitigating circumstances of his crime were ignored. That is so nearly unbe- lievable that it can be dismissed as presumably false. Yet Muir was little more than a boy, and his state of Intoxication at the time goes no small distance toward proving lack of the inten- tion and premeditation which are as necessary in Canada as here in establishing the crime of murder. Mitigation of his punishment, too, was urged by reputable persons on both sides of the border with these and other arguments seem- ingly of not a little weight. The case has attracted so much attention that the Canadian au- thorities, forgetting the fact that they owe us no explanation or de- fense of acts “by their duly con- stituted courts, might give us scmething ‘of both, It is not, de- nying that they were right to ask the reasons in a case where leni- ence appears to have been more tnan excusable—-New York Times. THE CURE FOR GRADE CRO: aS According to a report just is- sued ‘by the North Dakota highway commission, forty - two grade crossings — representing the most dangerous in that state—have been eliminated the past year, and the commission announces that it has committed itself to a settled pro- gram of a similar reduction of grade crossings each year. Pre- vious to the issuance of this state-! ment, a petition largely signed by locomotive engineers and firemen for the abolition of grade cross- ings had ‘been ‘presented, in which; it was urged that the deaths and accidents due to the existence of such crossings were not the only evil result, but that the shaken nerve of the men at the throttle shortened their lives and made possible an increase in the num~ ber of accidents. In the building of a highway system in a young state, the avoidance of these death traps should be the first consideration of the engineers. It is then pos- sible. Later, when money has ‘been expended in building a high- way, it is exceedingly difficult to aoandon the route and get finances to rebuid. As an instance, on a stretch of seventy miles on the Glacier trail—one of the trunk highways running west of Fargo— the road performed a perfect zig- zag across the Northern Pacific railway tracks. Not less than & dozen crossings were made. By a little planning and the building of a few stretches of new road, the highway commission reduced the number to two or three, keeping the highway for the most part on the north side of the railroad. The railroad was “there first” and by priority was entitled to this con- sideration, tf humanitarian mo- tives were left-dut of the calcula- tions. The highway that weaves | buck and forth across a railroad, |as for example, the St. Paul-Du- luth road, jeopardizes ‘both rail and automobile traffic and lives.—- St. Paul Dispatch. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON When Nancy took away Mrs. Wood- chuck’s picnic basket and put it in a safe place to keep for her, Reddy Fox was so furious that he could have bitten his own tail off almost. “Just when I was all fixed for a scrumptious pienic dinner!” he cried, “to think of having it taken from under my very nose.” He didn’t dare to follow Nancy, for Reddy wasn’t allowed in Happy Go Lucky Park at all. Master Zip put up signs every- where which said, “Foxes and weas- els not allowed in.” Reddy’ Fox thought of every way he could to get Mrs. Woodchuck’s Picnic basket. But i wasn’t a bit of use, After a bit he just had to slink off into the deep, dark wooks where there weren’t any woodchucks or picnics or anything, and think how badly he had, been treated. In the meantime, Nancy put the basket in a place ‘that said, “Baskets and packages checked here.” She got a check for it and went ‘and gave, it to Mrs. Woodchuck, “You'd better put this check in your pocket,” she said. “When you want your basket just give it to Mister’ Zip and he’ll hand your basket out. r that. way, I was afraid something might happen to-it on the ground.” “Thank you, ever sb much,” said Mrs. Woodchuck, and went on with her knitting, wondering what time Mister Woodchuck would be there for his supper and if she had better eall her boys out of the puddle pond where, they; were wading, and get on their shoes and stockings. very minute Mister wasps’ nest over on a tree near the gate. Come along and help me get it down, will you?” “Certainly, sir,” said Nick, oblig- ingly. ¥ ring a basket,” said Mister Zip, “and hunt up .a long stick and be sure you get a lid to cover the bas- ket. We won’t want to get stung.” “All right, sir,” said Nick. So he got a chip basket and a did and a stick and away they went to find the wasps’ nest. Prettyssoon they found it. Nick gave it a poke with his long stick and it dropped plumb into the basket—Mister Zip smacked on the lid. “Ha, ha!” laughed the fairyman. “That was slick. Never got stung once, did we! Now carry it over and put it under those bushes and we'll dump it over the cliff tomor- row when we have more time.” So away went Nick and. Mister Zip. After awhile Reddy Fox came. out of the deep, dark woods, hungrier than ever. It did seem as though he just couldn't keep away from the spot where Mrs. Woodchuck’s basket had been. Suddenly he stopped and blinked his eyes. There was the basket again as sure as anything! Nancy must have brought it back. “Oh, boy!” he cried. “Now fo: a gorgeous meal or my name isn’t Reddy Fox.” The next thing he did was to poke off the lid with his nose. “Ouch! Murder! Help!” he yelled. For the wasps were pretty cross by that time and ready to sting any- body that came near them. Poor Reddy couldn’t see out of his eyes for a week, but I think he learned a lesson. If he didn’t, I’m sure he should have, don’t you? (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) om Sims GS Nothing ‘makes a defeated candi- date madder than going back to work. A wife is a great comfort to her husband during those distressing times a single man never has. After a girl contracts to go through life with man she natural- ly hates to make most of the trip alone. The ‘law ‘helps themselves. those who help When a fisherman begins telling about his trip remember this: The largest bass ever caught weighed only 18 pounds. ‘5 You can’t always take a man at his face value because some are two- faced. Statistics show women haves charge of spending 90 per cent of the money in circulation and th figures don’t have to be proven Birds of a feather knock together. The nice thing about a bad start is it gives you more to brag about after you do win out. After eating supposedly. young chickens in restaurants we have de- cided youth will not be served. When you see a railroad ‘crossing remember the power of the express. | We are anxious to see the -first signs of surhmer and ‘we will be just as anxious to see the last signs. Make a mousetrap better than thy neighbor and you will catch all of his rats. . The cookbook tells you how, but Mister “Zip| you mustread the bankbook t0 spe] ! eres a wi ; : b jongg. ‘ of Mrs. Jones. \ And yet. the ‘ pinochle. of resorts. go on vacations and d boredom. These people:could well\ take les- sons from. their children, ‘who use this opportunity to let loose, pent-up FABLES ON HEALTH- VACATIONS When Mr. Jones of Anytown ar- rived with the \Mrs. and youngsters at the vacation resort, there sai the usual assortment \of: fat gents piay- ing pinochle and uucomfortably garb- ed women playing bridge or mah “What the: dickins'do they go} on a vacation for?” Mr, ‘Jones ‘queried ridge scene may be found at countless thousands Grown meniand women (little: more than play cards or similarly dodge LUA TLL Yf about shouting and playing. ows. less he is ‘an invalid. clubs of a gymnasium, THE DESERTED HOME - Alone it stands besid 1 the dusty road, Where are the friends it used to love to know, Who gathered round is welcome beaming hearth, And called it ‘Home Sweet Home’ go ‘long ago? fy \ No more glad echoes stir its dim old walls, 3 No more the laughter and the merry glee, ° Resound in sweetest music through its rooms, But all is wrapped ‘in silent mystery. Adown the garden path the’ roses bloom, The purpling grapes are hanging overhead; But all is sadly vacant and’ forlorn, Like to a world whose inmates all have fled, The jasmine's perfume, ‘borne upon the (breeze, Brings back sweet memories of days gone by, I see the faces of friends loved and lost, And wipe.a burning tear drop from mine eye. As fledgelings leave the nest when they have grown, The children from their homes fli Their parents fondly hope and wait alone, . r- away, Then die; and leave the homestead to ‘decay. Florence, Borner. BY CONDO “RART war! Har! “pip - Kou NOTICE THe DEAF SSEZER t suppressions of’ the year and run Of course every fat paunched gent can’t play Indian or tag, but he can learn a Yegson of letting his mind across, sweet-smelling country mead- There area thousand, things he can do that‘ would reduce his girth and put him in far better condition when the vacation ends—that is, un- If a card table and a hotel porch is the best a man can do, he would almost be better off to stay at home and spend his vacation at:the,Ind:an JULY SATURDAY, 26, 1924 BETTER CHANCE FOR BABY By Albert Apple : Ider generation is a bit bewildered as it watches Sonus ot 8 new tangled scientific ways of-rearing babies. We quote a white-haired grandma. : “Land’s sakes! If these modern baby doctors are right, it’s a wonder to me that all the infants didn’t die in the cradle back yonder when I was young., ”. “Everything has to be sterilized—spoons, can Openers, nipples for nursing bottles, rattles, cooking utensils. We never thought of boiling things baby used long ago. “My children drank water right out of the spring. Now it has to be boiled. Cow’s milk isn’t good enough—has to be pasteurized. i 2 “Baby is isolated. Room of his own. No one allowed | near him except mother. We used to cuddle them right into bed with us. And everyone who came to the house kissed. and fondled them.” The answer to this is that a much higher percentage of babies died in the old days than now. You frequently read about some scientist boasting that the average duration of human life is longer by years than it used to be. This doesn’t mean that people who reach maturity live much longer. It means that fewer children die in babyhood and early youth. This brings the average up. i . For this, thank science and its “new-fangled ways” — especially sterilization. ; uy ‘ Another ‘thing: Babies have to have greater care: now because there are more things to be careful about than there used to be. More reasons, that is, for being careful. More germs—particularly common colds, so dangerous to infants. Our generation. is living unnatural lives, compared with grandma’s generation. Physically we are weaker, and this shows in the inheritance. The health environment into which a modern baby is born is decidedly inferior to that back yonder. Water, food and even the air are more polluted. Each year, fewer mothers can nurse their young. That’s a result of livirfg unnatural lives. ‘ Young mother, obey the doctor’s instructions unless you want to endanger your child’s life. Don’t let the old-timers stir you from yourdetermination to give baby the best pro- tection available by modern science. The health of woman- hood and manhood is largely determined in the cradle, LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO LESLIE PRESCOTT, CARE OF THE SECRET DRAWER menced at the beginning and told Jack the whole story. I told him get into healthful paths. He can CONTINUED cent and accepted the pearls as a get away, from the hotel steps and —— gift of beads from my sister Alice, hike along:.tree-covered trails, or] As Jack threw th® letter down in| who in a foolishly romantic com- my lap he said: . “This is a nice thing for a hus- band to get after three: years of un- bounded confidence im his wife.” __[ immediately forgot to» be hurt in my sudden, overpowering rage. Before I had even read the letter I said: “Does that mean, Jack, that you have lost confidence in me?” “Read the letter, Leslie. You will see that it would be almost,impossi- ble for any man not to lose confi- dence in his wife when he finds out that she has been keeping from him the fact that a former sweetheart of hers gave her a two hundred thousand dollar wedding present. Why, the whole thing is like a De Maupassant story.” “I-didn’t lose confidence in you, Jack, when I found that a, former Sweetheart of yours had ‘given you _|@ child. In fact, I took that child and made it my own.” “Well, I can’t very well wear + string of pearls, Leslie, even if I were as self-sacrificing as you were.” “Don’t insult. me, Jack. I have in- tended for the last few months to tell you all about them, but a cer- tain series of unfortunate episodes has come up in’ connection with them, and I’ naturally dreaded to do so. However, I never thought that under the circumstances you would not understand exactly my position in the matter.” fee don’t know your position, Les- ie.” “All right, Then, pact with Karl Whitney, “had given me the. jewels. I told him how Karl had been all-his life collecting them for me, and that I did not know they were- anything but a string of beads until that night ‘at the res- taurant when they were broken and I took them to be .restrung. “I should have told you all about it then,” I said to'him, “but you will remember that that was the time you needed six, thousand dollars ‘and asked.me-to.go..and.get it from my father. I did not want my fam- ily to know you had been gambling in stocks, and naturally I did not want to ask my father for that much money, particularly as he was very ill at the time. I took the eas- jest way,’ Jack—i suld three of the pearls. : “I couldn’t tell you this, because I knew you would be perfectly furi- ous. However, I thought after you had given me the money to pay back the loan which you thought you owed my father, I would tell you all about it. “In the meantime one of the wait- ers had picked up that missing pearl and tried to blackmail me for it. Ruth Ellington, whom I told about it, advised me to cable Alice, which I did, and I received. a cable from Karl telling me to go and fon- sult his lawyers. f went to see them , and they insisted upon buying the ¢ stone back from the man rather than to have any trouble and pub- licity for’ me. I have Ka letter *| to, me which I will show you if you | wish, Jacl I said to him. (Copyright, 1924, NEA’ Service, Inc.) 4 Tl tell you.” little Marquise, I com- five miles south of the city was painfully bruised, and Mrs, Savage escaped injury. when a rick of hay on which they. were riding. Yipped IN aad partially planed bene: the ay load. ,fright- Is UNDER WAY Ann and ESA are pe edad ran away, On coming to a hill one of the animals, stumbled and was badly trampled by the other and may have to be shof. After having been delayed for nearly a week-due to the repeated rains, the Woodrich . Construction company’s ex” was put into yesterday mornin; and by noon haf’ completed the al ing of the Main street alley, between First and ‘Second avenues, : ~ The paving. of the alley to: Fifth Ave. N. W. will be completed and the machine then moved te the east end of the city where ‘a grading crew is now preparing the. roadbed east of the N. P, underpass for paving for a nce: which, will add about. three- fourths of a mile to the Main street Paving.: a ae . 4. On competi sf that work the 7 crews wi emi ri N. W. ‘and the two other blocks on| NO dance at Wildwood. to- First Avenue ‘X., W., and Second st.| Might. Come to Third and N, E, between, Collins and First Ave. Main streets instead and help for worl re; ‘The’ icontract for rtai rom the five additional blocks of paving pate nour genet . - was let by the commissioners on %s std s Wednesday evening for concrete and at the same. pricéas the balance of the city. \The new. contract’ alsa : | -LITTLEJOE | calls for installation . of concrete | @———+——____ curbs on nearly a doren other blocks pais ae ‘now graveled and not to| WOMEN LIKE LONG: : fe paved, ; PRAYERS SO THEY & ‘CAN GET A GOOD LOOK AT: THE HATS! OPERA BY TELEPHONE Munich (Bavaria) telephone sub- scribers may now. listen to their fa- ™Mous opera company by paying an additional fee. The music does not interfere with any conversation along ‘the same line. | WORN BLANKETS.“ When the. bindings, of blankets have become frayed and worn, re- place with a ribbon or crochet on an edge in pink or blue wool. i Pome DICKIN: b ‘has ‘don, “eons Ain years’has: annouriced Hg ! make his home in shereafter. He has made his home in Dickinson for the past five 8 and ‘will a that at first I was perfectly inno- 4 ‘s \ | my | « v