The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 30, 1924, Page 4

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Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.......... 3 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) WORK WELL DONE The Agricultural Credit Corporation, which was formed by private capital in the Northwest several months ago at the instance of President Coolidge who urged private in- terests to step in and help meet the situation while Congress » also was being called upon for aid, has about completed its task, in the opinion of C. T. Jaffray, its guiding force. Sixty per cent of the $10,000,000 capital, subscribed by private » interests, including many large industrial concerns, was called in. Mr. Jaffray hopes this will be all that is necessary and feels sure that if the crop prospects mature and price levels are maintained, the organization will not need to con- ! tinue. As originally formed, the credit corporation had a ' borrowing capacity of $100,000,000. : The corporation during its period of existence has aided many banks through direct and immediate aid, and has aided farmers through arranging to carry their paper for a con- 1 siderable period. Many closed banks in the Northwest | which lacked liquid assets were enabled to reopen. The corporation gave an impetus to diversified farming through 1 placing cows and sheep on farms in one-crop regions of North Dakota and elsewhere. The promptness with which the corporation acted and 1 the voicing of confidence in the Northwest by leading insti- +1 tutions and citizens who put their money into the corpora- their confidence in the future of the great. y a hope it would be returned in full, had . abeneficial effect upon the morale of the region. It did much to encourage many to hang on that were on the verge of -quitting. It gave concrete evidence that institutions which had been regarded as cold-blooded had the welfare of the Northwest and its people at heart. Those who made the Agricultural Credit Corporation possible are entitled to the thanks of the people of the Northwest states which it bene- fitted. tion with only & WHAT HE FLIES WITH In the little bedroom of a modest house in San Francisco lies an old mother, bedfast. It has been a long siege of 1 ST peg only a kindly neighbor’s little girls to “look in occa- a ‘oually.” But it is not the physical distress, nor the lone- ess that hurts the invalid most. She worries about her married children ’way off in New York City and she knows that they worry about mother; and telegrams at 3 or 4 cents per word are too costly for the poor. But there comes a Monday. evening when husband sits ; down by the bedside and writes, for his helpless wife, a long 1 letter to their children. : There’s mother love in the letter, and cheer to the effect that mother is doing nicely, and affectionate inquiries as to the grandchildren, with some old-fashioned mother’s advice on, running a family, and all the tender things that mothers have to repeat again and again to those they’ve borne, worked for and somewhat lost through their little ones growing up. a “John,” says the sick woman, “mail it on your way to work tomorrow and they'll be reading it the day after and by Friday I’ll get their answer. Be sure, John. It’s almost as if I had them here.” Then she smiles in happiness, the : grip of worry in loneliness leaves her heart, and she sleeps. * * * The air mail service! We vision its business advantage almost exclusively. In 32 hours the San Francisco merchant can pour his orders, kicks, his whole soul out to his New York “connec- “tions” for 24 cents, and, in 64 hours, get a reply that would clog the wires and cost a small fortune if sent in the old way. ‘Quicker business, cheaper business, more business. Fine -stuff! We vision the profit, first thing and strongly. And hidden in this thing of human progress are such things as the happiness of that old mother who almost feels that she has her children at her bedside, ’though they are thousands of miles away. * The material greatness of man’s inventions and enter- * * duct — their contribution to human happiness. Son of Francisco explain the details of a big scheme to Mor- gan & Co. of Wall Street. And a lonely, suffering old mother pours her heart out to her children almost in their presence. Great is the flying postman! i HOT The thermometer runs up to 149 degrees during a heat wave in Algiers, northern Africa. You’d think the people there would pack up and leave for gocd, Not so. Volcanoes erupt and rivers flood regularly, but families! living nearby stay on. They flee when disaster comes, but alwavs return to the scene of periodic trouble. This peculiar weakness explains why the same politicians bunk the populace over and over. SUGAR-PAPAS ty It’s the middle-aged men who are taking Boston girls to the seashore. says Henry J. Hunt. He sells tickets to couples! bound for the beaches for a day’s or evening’s outing. He ; notices lots of young escorts. But “it’s surprising how many girls like to go about with men old enough to be their ; fathers.” ine Bis 4 The seashore isn’t the only place. The economic pinch | is getting so tight that young fellows haven’t the money. : Eating sugar soaked in perfume is a fad with Middleton * (N. Y.) girls, the sweet things. 2 ee Radio is becoming very popular in South America and almost any night the fans can hear a revolution in the air. , and of loneliness, too, for husband has to work and} nrises sticks out but their real greatness is in their by-pro- | Banker &! 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. CONVENTION REFORM Whatever alse the political man- agers, the cal experts and| the practical politicians may do, they will no doubt try to take some action that will prevent the recur- rence of anéther such convention as that which has just closed in| New York if such a thing ‘be pos- | sible. Political managers are, of course, like other people, some- what the creatures of circum- stances. Perhaps the circumstan- ces of the convention were to some degree foreseen, but could not be ferestalled; but, however that may be, they were undoubtedly unde-| sirable both for the party and for | the public. When a national convention marks the ending of a long chas2| after a presidential nomination there ig likely to be friction and antagonism in it from the fall of the gavel. This is because such aj chase is not a chase by the people, but of the people. People, it would appear, are rather inclined to re- sent the determination of any man to ‘be a party candidate for Pres- ident whether or no. Whether the Democratic two- thirds rule should be , abrogated will no doubt receive the careful attention of the party leaders. In view of the long record of Demo- cratic National Conventions when it did not seriously delay the re-| sult, and when it even, at times, improved the result, it will hardly do to place on it the whole blame for the New York complications. The unfortunate situation that held the convention in session for more than two weeks was not the result of rules, but of human am- bition and human antagonism, and that is something that is pretty hard to regulate either by party laws or party foresight. With any other convention the| finish is generally rather of the; pell-mell kind, arfd the longer the vention is, the worse this con- dition is. | The delegates are tired, “broke” and want to go home. They are not in a deliberation state of mind. | They merely want to finish the | jcb. In this condition almost any man selected iby the bosses can be | named for Vice - President — the convention's last offical duty; or it may be that without the bosses’ approval some name will be sprung on the convention, and ac-! tion will be.taken with a whoop and a hurrah before anybody knows—or, in fact, anybody cares —what the after effects will be. This kind of thing hag undoubt- edly accounted for some of the Vice-Presidents whose names are written permanently in the eoun- try’s history. The candidate for! vive-rresiaent should, of course, be as deliberately and carefully selected as the candidate for Pres- ident, but “should be” is one thing and delegate weariness is another. And it is possible that in a con- vention unduly protracted, the se+ lection of a presidential candidate will be made in the same temper. In all the discussion that will noj dcubt take place in regard to con-| yention conditions and their im-| provement, the country may learn| much about what has been andj perhaps more about what should] |be. Some plan may be devised| | that will improve conditions. But whatever is done, it should! be constantly borne in mind that j reform, when its ramifications are | rot foreseen and provided for—or | recognized as impossible—is some- | ‘times worse than che old method. Scme rather tenacious deadlocks | have occurred in Republican Na-| tional Conventions, where only a{ majority is necessary for a choice. | Indianapolis News. | “Don't ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “Sh!” said Nick to Nancy. make any noise.” The Twins were standing very still under a burdock leaf near the place} where Flop Field Mouse lived. Hav- ing their magic shoes on they were so little you would have had to look twice to see them yourself. By and by the front door opened | and out came Flop all dressed up in a nice starched shirt and red neck- tie. w do keep yourself clean, Flop,” said his mother. “Every day I start you off to Happy Go Lucky Park clean from the skin out, and you come home looking as though you had been digging in a coal mine.” Flop looked kind of queer when| she said that, but all he said was,| “All right, Mammy, I'll be careful.” And away he went jingling his 10} pennies in his pocket and whistling. But catching sight of old Mister Owl | looking out of his window, he quit and hurried away into the woods. The Twins went after him, still going as quietly as they knew how, and they saw Filop stop under the hazel bush where Mikey Mole lived and knock on Mikey’s door. “Hello, Flop,” said Mikey, coming out and closing the door behind him, “I'm ready.” Away went the two chums arm in arm through the woods toward Happy Go Lucky Park. Nancy and Nick were behind them. They were not eavesdropping, but} they couldn't help hearing what the friends said, for they were talking right out loud. “What are you going to buy to- day. Flop?” asked Mikey. “I think I'll get a pink lemonade and ride on the merry-go-round,” said Flop. “Mebbe I'll get the brass rine and get a free ride.” “That's what I’m, going to do,” said Mikey. “Copy cat!’ cried Flop. “You don’t need to do everything I do. Besides if I get the brass ring mebbe "ll keep it for a keepsake and then ' you can't get it and have a free ride.” “All right,” said Mikey. “All right, er Smarty Longtail. “Do as you like. But if I dont dig a tun- nel for you to crawl through and get into the park for nothing, you'll have to pay your way at the gate| sti and you won't have any money deft for either lemonades or merry-go- rounds. So now.” “Oh, I can go through one of our old tunnels,” said Flop airily. “No, you can't!” said Mikey. “The grounds soft. and they’ye all caved in. Besides we always fill them up partly so Mister Zip doesn’t | s them.” “I was only fooling, anyway,” said Flop. “I didn’t mean it. Come on. Heres a good place to dig. Right outside the fence.” And almost before you could say boo the little mole boy began to seratch and dig with his little shovel paws, and disappeared, hide, hair and all, right down into the ground! It didn't take Flop Field Mouse long to foltow. The last the Twins saw of him was his long tail. Finally that disappeared, too. When Flop and Mikey poked their noses out into daylight again under the roller coaster in the park, there stood Mister Zip waiting for them. “Ten cents apiece, please,” he grinned, holding out his hand. ' Flop and Mikey looked sheepish,| but they paid it without a word. All their quarrel for nothing, mind| you! i Most quarrels are. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) eu | A check on your living expenses, can always be cashed. When woman meets woman that brings on a lot of talk. You have to work your through the school of experience. way Most of us have an ambition not to have any ambition. It takes a good movie publicity man to make us see stars. The man who never takes a long. shot never shoots very far. A live wire is a much nicer thing to be than to fool with. You don’t have to be bald to be coming ou} on top. Don’t cuss summer too much. You will take it all back next winter. Hunt the brighter side. ent never lasts. The pres- The first thing to do to wake up and find yourself rich 1s to wahe up, Few former bartenders still hope} to be future bartenders. i On any subject, there is always more ignorance than iatelligence. You never learn much from peo-| ple you can read like a book. All people worry because they are| either married or single. Give a pig a chance and he will|' make a hog of himself. The faster a rumor travels the/ wilder it grows. 6 re RY | A Thought li, —_____--—____+ The honée of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the pent shall flourish.—Prov. M11, eee Peace and wickedness are far|, asunder.—Stillingfleet, 4 F “Now, don't get yourself imprison- ed in a tent. You might just as well home in your 8x10 city apart- ," warned the physical instructor . Jones was packing up for her vacation. “Most people think that tenting out is a healthful stunt,” he continued. But most people don’t know how to tent out and you have to be careful with tents of the old-fashioned va- riety. Most people treat tents as though they were dog kennels in which “to crawl, Unless the weather is stormy the tent flaps hould be kept! up to allow the freest circulation of air. “Tents, when entirely closed, al- low little or no air to enter and, since you go into the vacation coun- try to get fresh air, why coop your- self up at night? “It's far better to use the tent as a storm shelter and sleep out under the ‘sky—there’s a kick for you if you've never tried it. “There are many tents being made now, however, that lend themselves easily to opening and these are preferable to‘those of ancient vin- tage.” ~ Britisher Would Giv e Up Seat To A Dog! By Milton Bronner NEA Service Writer London, July 30.—The English are a “doggy” people. Which will. explain this scene: Into the crowded subway y train walks 2 prim, well-dressed young woman, She is Jeading by a chain a great big dog. She and the dog occupy about three seats. As the weather is hot and the dog is hot, that car soon smells like a kennel. If an American company allowed anything of the sort, it would almost ereate a riot among the perspiring people. But in the English car nary a murmur. In fact, men and women drop their newspapers, smile at the young wo- man and begin talking to the dog. He is the center ‘of attention. He becomes the topic of general conver- sation, And everybody is happy. When the King of Denmark was in England recently, one of the first places he visited was an agricultural show. Two-fifths of his own sub- jects are farmers and they like the idea of their king also being in the busingss. pelierinecsmess farmer, a real So one. He has become a fan on pig- raising. ‘And ha also has model dairy farms. EVERETT TRUE Won't RAISE * Suc! ( The produce from the places he and his queen own is sold not only in Copenhagen but also exported to 4| England andthe United States. During the war the French. got some new manners. They saw Americans rise and uncover when “The Star-Spangled Banner” was played. They saw the English do the same when “God Save the King” was played. So Frenchmen now stand at. atten- tion when the glorious ‘Marseil- laise” booms out. Going us one bet- ter, French audiences have adopted the habit of rising and doffing their hats when they listen to a discourse by their president. But a very democratic old bachelor is now in the Elysee and he doesn’t believe in that kind of homage. The other day when he rose to address an assembly of French newspaper men, they rose. Immediately Gaston Doumergue smilingly bade them sit down. 4 “Gone are the pouter pigeons of the Elysee,” said a grateful reporter who is rather fat. “We now have a simple president.” With all their hatred of the’ French, the Germans are so conservative that they won’t change certain thin, BY CONDO (F 1 JOLLY UP. THE missuUS A LITTLE SHE W/A HOWL WHEN T TELL J NER TM Soins TO — THE LoODG@e TONIGH Te: DARE, CANT & HELP Nou WITH THE DMsHes ¢ y (OURS VERY, WILCINS TO HECP WHEN THERE RE ONLY A FEW OF THEM ISTAY (IN THE KKITCHED PEWER THERE'cc BE 3 Ne AND _THS CONGER You WEDNESDAY; JULY’ 30, 1924 WHEN YOU COUNT YOUR MONE By Albert Apple 4 Your pocketbook’s contents fool you more than you jimagine. To realize this fully, we must take a deep plunge into economics. So, taking a deep. breath, -let’s plunge. The electrical industry is pleased as Punch because it ex- | ported 70 million dollars worth of machinery and’ apparatus Ifrom the United States Jast year, compared with only 25 million dollars worth in 1914. | On the surface, this looks as if exports are times as much as before the war. . But the gain is largely a hoax, for this reason: Every- thing costs more than it did in pre-war days. A dollar now buys less than it used to. If we measure “gains” in dollars, therefore, we’re apt to get fooled—because the buying power of the dollar has, shrunk. ae ~ Reduce electrical exports—or any other activity of Amer- ican business—to terms of pre-war buying power—and the actual physical amount hasn’t gained much. It’s a price hoax. : nearly three Another case is foreign trade. We didn’t build up a big \foreign trade during the war. We just kidded ourselves into believing we did. i The financial figures, representing the total of our ex- ports, certainly did move ahead by leaps and bounds, But this was just because prices were higher. ‘If you measured our export trade in. “physical units”..(bushels, bales, tons, etc.) the situation .was this: During the war and the boom to it. common sense call it 50 cents LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO LESLIE PRESCOTT, CARE OF THE SECRET DRAWER, CONTINUED “Since then,” I continued, “through a series of peculiar incidents, you know what has happened. Now it’s up to you to play the game, just as I played it when you came to me with a confession that was not so innocent. : must see that everything is made ready for the proper celebration of. our happy married state.” As I léft the room I heard Sydney Carton’s voice in the hallway call- ing: “Hey, Jack, where are, you? I went over to the office and that most decorative secretary of yours tdld me you had gone home. Ik Leslie ill? Certainly nothing else but ill- ness in the family could have kept you from meeting me at the train. I told you I was coming in this morning. Il] just have to charge you up the amount of that: taxi bill.” I had made my way into the room that we are using for little Jack’s nursery. It opens off to Jack’s room as well as mine. It never entered my mind, little Marquise, that Jack would not go into the living room to meet Sydney. To my consterna- tion, however, he: said: “Come in here, Syd. Everybody's all right. I confess I forgot that you were coming in today.” . Then he raised his voice a little and shouted: “Sydney's here, Leslie.” I. did not answer. ‘Instead, I locked the doors of communication For instance, one of the most prominent places in Berlin is “Par- iser Plaza”—Paris Square. It re- tained that name all during the war and it still’ does, Then their is the great Prussian “Ordre pour le Merite.” Although New York, July 30.—The mild- est-mannéréd, softest-voiced man lever met’writes about prize-fighters and their mauling pursuits. He lives at their camp, speaks their language, numbers countless sporting writers of national fame among his friends, and even boxes with a vengeance worthy of a top- notch amateur. During the war he w aviator, his companions of that period relat- ing many. instanc his daring in But to “talk ‘to ‘him you would classify him as a shy, retiring young blade from some crossroads hemlet where the cheese and cracker sales- . ber 1 He is Dean Snyder and ‘he dirccted the Publieity for the Dempsey-Gib-. bons affair “at ~ Shelby, Mont., which. although a:ggrgeous blow-up from a Promotion ‘standpoint, received more space in newspapers than any. other boxing encounter in history. Synder was the redeeming feature of Sholby, sporting writers contendes le go-between promoters of several coming fights; He was born in Wichita, Kan., where prize fights are seen only in the movies. New York’s aerial police are on the Job. Six police seaplanes were order- ed out recently. They patrol from sunrise to sunset each’ da; They will apprehend planes flyin, low over New York, search for mis ing bedies, and patrol water fron eee Gate cashiers myag be quick wit- It is perilous for people to ignore these 3 dollar out of your pocket. It is still a dollar, but it buys no more than half, at most, of what it bought before the war. We still call it a dollar, though we should by all rules of that followed, exports PHYSICALLY never averaged higher than 16 per cent more than before the war. The most important things of life are -so obvious that few people can see them. There’s an old saying, that fishing is always better five miles farther on. A} r about not being able to see a mountain if you’re Another old saying, too close ‘truths. Take a or less. What counts is not the number of dollars you are paid, but what your dollar will buy. dozen, and other commodities similarly low, most of us would work for a dime a day—gladl, If eggs sold for a cent a y. i between both ‘Jack’s agd my rooms and the nursery, In a moment or two I heard Jack call Nora and tell her to tell me that Mr. Carton .was here. Shortly after Nora informed, him she thought I had gone out, that Mother Pres- cott had told her she had caught a view of me getting into the eleva- tor. Just who Mother Prescott had taken me for, I did not know, but I “You must excuse me now, for I}determined to make her word good, and leave the house as soon as I could without being seen. I wanted to talk over matters with Ruth. Before I could do this, however, I heard Jack mention my name to Syd, and, then in a torrent of words he told him. the whole story. Evidently Sydney Carton did not say a word until Jack had finished; then I heard in the most contemp- tuously sarcastic tones, these words: “Jack, I have always known you were a fool, but it never entered my head that you were such an utter damn fool as you have proved. your- self to me by the conversation that has just taken, place!” “But, Syd, can you not see Leslie has put me in a terrible position? If this matter should get out I would never be able to hold up my head again.” “And yet you Jack.” “Oh, I didn’t mean it; neither does she mean what she said to me.” “I rather think she does,” said Syd. oi I was able to get out of the room then, and heard no more. threatened her, LESLIE. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) the “Germais could easily translate this French into German, they don't. Frederick the Great who at’ one time had a penchant for all things French, founded this order and gave it a French name. And so it will Probably remain. If they are short at the end «fa day's business, the aheen is with- held from ‘the weekly stipend. If they are “over,” which is, selcom, and then not more than a few cents, they keep the difference. I know one cashier who was short a month’s salary plus $65.95 in less than a month. She must pay from her own pocket the losses. “It is the only way we can halt carelessness,” one prominent — inn- keeper explains. This happened at the Aquarium. “Where will I find those’ ‘Gefillte’ fish one hears so much about?” 4 visitor asked, The guard was preplexed, but felt he should make some answer. h,” he said, “we don’t keep them carp.” ; ‘ Humor ‘and merriment dre often found in strange places. Three young women and a young man were laughing hilariously in the solemn, musty atmosphere of an’ un- dertaker's parlor. + T couldn't get the joke but it must have been funny. Uf —STEPHEN -HANNAGAN. Sa READ TRIRUNR WANT ADR. | | :