The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 31, 1924, Page 4

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A es as 7.20 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) WEALTH The old saying, “Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations,” is about ready for the ash heap. Tendency increases to put big estates “‘in trust,” so heirs can’t squan- der them. Take the estate left by the late J. Pierpont Morgan. He created trust funds of about 10 million dollars. An account- ing in court shows that these funds have yielded almost five {niltions income in seven and a half years. Ard the prin- cipal remains intact. ~ The basic purpose of the inheritance tax is to break up huge fortunes. This purpose will be frustrated until “trust funds” are taken into account. A trust fund is scientific method of perpetuating wealth. ey LAZINESS A motor operated by waves and tides is far enough de- veloped by the Bulgarian engineer, Vodenitcharoff, that his government is financing his further work. It’s too compli- cated to explain or read about in warm weather. But it’s a forerunner of future devices that will generate millions of horsepower to free man from the slavery of toil. Going to waste in falling water is an enormous amount of power, and in sunlight an enormous amount of fuel. Our greatest natural resources are falling water, winds, sunlight and clectricity. Later we'll master them. A small start has been made, very small. EGGS China exports 1000 million eggs a year, says a U.S. gov- ernment bulletin. This traffic goes on in famine years the same as when Chinese crops are sufficient. Americans and others ship relief food into China’s ports as eggs and other foods move out to foreign markets. However, we'd have the same situation in America if we had a famine—unless the government stopped exports of food by declaring an embargo. “Bolshevism!” would be the wail of many plutocrats. i 3 SPENDING Jn June, when times were “dull,” the American people i rneant over 35,060 million dollars. This is revealed by the total of bank clearings, representing 95 per cent of the na- * tion’s commercial transactions. It is difficult to understand why times can be dull when people are spending 35,000 millions in a month. Before the war, June clearings averaged less than 14,000 millions. More is being spent than pre-war, even allowing for a 100 . per cent increase in average prices. RELIEF Curtain goes down on American relief work in Germany. By home crops and imports through business channels, Ger- many is able to feed herself. American forces under Gen- = eral Allen fed as many as a million German children in a day. Wise investment. A service that will not be forgotten by = the rising generation of Germans. Youth is all that really counts in diplomacy — the cannon fodder of the future. Friendship and reconciliation among nations must begin in the cradle. 1 ‘ 1 t ’ CIGAR One compensation for hot summertime is that less head- ache news is printed. Interesting things come to light. Professors Long and. Uh}man, chemists, at Lehigh Univer- sity. announce they have perfected a cigar that will not = break while carried in the pocket. The binder is made from tobacco leaf stems, pulverized and converted into paper. To a smoker, this is the most important news of the day. Nothing is important, except relatively. FAREWELL The oldest bank in England (Child & Co.) will pass out of existence, absorbed by a younger financial] institution. It did business for over 300 years. Nothing is permanent. Even the gigantic American * trusts will vanish in time — probably be taken over by the = necale, through their government. We hope you live that = Jong. FLAT -» The earth is flat, not round, claims W. Edgell. No, he’s not a follower of Voliva. He’s an English scientist. His - theerv about the world being flat is his conclusion after studying the matter for 50 years. The rest of us are hardly * competent to referee the dispute, for, while we believe the earth to be round. all we have to back us is hearsay. We = take it for granted, just as we do most of our knowledge. KILLED Two hundred Americans are killed by accident today. ‘That's the average daily toll, year in and year out. h & ... It, amounts to 73,000 deaths a year. And most of them are needless, for fully nine-tenths of all accidents are due to carelessness. Safety devices help a lot. But this can fever be made a fool-proof world. Personal caution is and always will be the greatest accident preventive. Play safe. Take no chances. Hotes eee somes BEER , Drinkers in England have been ceremoniously honoring ** the memory of Ben Kenton of London, who died in 1780. : Ben. is one of the immortals, to lovers of milder forms of firewater. He discovered the method of bottling beer so & ft could be sh across the rolling ocean and into any kind Of climate without the corks blowing gut of the bottles. * freland is competing with Egypt. A skeleton dug up aid to be 3000 years old. Men and. worries... Editorial Review 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 belng discussed in the press of the day. TIME TO JOIN HANDS FOR | NORTH DAKOTA Observers making the trip on the Red Trail from the Minnesota state line through to Dickinson, report a wonderful crop outlook at the present time. Green wheat fields are commencing to turn a light yellow shade and rye cutting | has already started. Every kind of grain crop now presents a beau- tiful picture, and as far as known, no real damage has been done by black rust. That plant disease, and hail, are now the only agen- cles that might cause some loss of the yield. If nothing out of the ordinary occurs within the next two weeks, or even less, the grain crops of North Dakota will be practically saved. From any elevation in the state, a wonderful panorama of fields of waving green, clumps of trees surrounding farm houses, and hends of cattle grazing in pastures, | is presented to the eye. It reveals an aspect of prospective and pro- ductive wealth, and_ beautiful farm home locations, that cannot be excelled in any state in the union. For many miles in every direction the same vista of waving fields of grain, including great patches of flax now in blue dress, fields of growing corn and red and sweet clover in blossom, can be seen. In a short time the green pros- pect will be changed to a golden hue. The fields ot standing grain will -be converted into immense areas of yellow shocks of wheat, oats and barley, dotting the land- scape an endless perspective. It will then remain for the thresher to complete the final picture in disclosing some of the results of nature's efforts in maturing the wonderful crops of this state. If photographs of the farm scenes now visible in North Da- kota, could be secured and repro- duced on the screen in natural colors it would convince the most skeptical of the natural richness of the soil of this state, and the real values in North Dakota lands, now going ‘begging for purchasers and home makers. In a region like this “where every prospect pleases” it is only man himself who creates adverse conditions and gives the state a black eye. The wonderful evidences of North Dakota soil and climatic united and friendly co-operation etween hostile and political fac- tions in the state, which have de- tracted from the good name and growth of ‘North Dakota. It is time to drop these artifical and unnecessary controversies and pull together for the well being of everybody in this great undevel- oped and much maligned state.— Jamestown Alert. A TREMENDOUS SERVICE The effective manner in which the Fargo Clearing House Associ- ation met the emergency created ‘by the condition of the accounts of the Northern National Bank, disclosed to the association on last Friday by directors of the bank, will go a long way in continuing ‘the confidence the people of Far- go, as well as the people of this entire section, have in the Fargo benking situation. Today, depositors of the North- ern National Bank, threatened for a time with the possible loss of at least a part of their funds, are assured against such loss; the whole banking situation has been stabalized, and the confidence the ‘public previously had in the local banks and the Fargo Clearing House association, is greatly en- hanced. Between last Friday at 6 p. m., when the dirédtors of the Northern National Bank called the attention of the Fargo Clearing House Asso- ciation to the situation and about 2a. m., today, there were almost continuous sessions of the mem- ‘berg of the association, to the end that a settlement might be per- saving of the Northern National Benk, which resultant benefit, not alone to the depositors and stock- holders of that institution, but to the unmeasured ‘benefit of the whole community. How well the association did its work, and how unreservedly the members of the asgociation devot- ed themselves to the task in hand, is evidenced by the announcement that was contained in the extra edition of The Fargo Tribune, published early today, of the merger of the Northern National Bank with the Security National Bank, coupled also with the affili- ation of the Security National Bank with the Northern Trust Company. By this arrangement a new banking combination with footings in excess of three mil- lions of dollars ig established in Fargo. x Fargo. as well as the whole State of North Dakota, has reason to feel renewed confidence in the whole banking situation as a re- sult of the action that has been token during the past 72-hours in Fargo, The effectiveness and) promptness with which the situa- tion was met must be reassuring. It has demonstrated conclusively that the failure of this or that ‘bank officer to live up to the trust imposed in him will not be per- mitted to result to the detriment of the depositors, or to the business life of the community as a whole. The Fargo Clearing House Asso- ciation, an organization made ud of all of the commercial and sav- ings bank. of Fargo, has done its work well. It hag performed a tremendous service, ‘the ‘benefits of which will be more lasting that is even now realized.—Fargo Forum. possibilities, ought to encourage a1 fected that would result in the| 4; ALL WRONG WIFE—You seem worried, dear. today? hie, BANK’ PRESIDENT—Yés, the cash-| for.—Judge. Did anything go wrong at the bank|- ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON | “Have you made your fortune yet, Mister Zip?” asked Nancy. The fairyman counted his money. “No,” he said sadly shaking his head. “‘Not yet. There are too many people getting into my park for nothing.” “Flop Field Mouse and Mikey Mole always come in by the gate, now,” said Nick. “And they pay their way.” “Yes,” said Mister Zip, “And ‘1 think they learned a good lesson, in honesty. But there must be other people getting in free, for yester- day there were more people than tickets in the ticket box. I know for I counted noses. You Twins might do a little more investigating for me. There are more ways than cne of getting into Happy Go Lucky Park, I am afraid.” The Twins said goodby and went off into the green woods. It was a lovely day and the sun- light, coming down through the green leaves, made the trees look like lovely green lace. Chippy Chipmunk was sitting on the roof of his stone house enjoying the weather. “Hello!” said Nancy and Nick. “Hello!” said Chippy. “Whefe did you come from?” “We just came from Happy Go Icky Park,” said Nancy. “We are helping Mister Zip, the feiryman, who owns the park, to make his for- tune.” “It's a nice place,” sighed Chippy. “I've been there. If I was like Scamper and Scramble Squirrel, Daddy Cracknut's nephews who are visiting him, I would be there ev- ery day.” 2 “What do you mean?” asked Nick. “Why, you see,” said Chippy, sad- ly, “I can’t elimb so very high. 1 can only climb up stone piles and fences and things like that. My climbers are not sharp enough to climb trees.” “Well, what has that got to do with the squirrel boys going to py Go Lucky Park?” asked Nick. “Oh, lots,” said Chippy. “All they have to do to get into the park is to climb a tree outside the park. Then they jump from~tne branches of that tree to the branches of an- ether tree inside the park, and then there they are. They go every day and they have all the money their futher. gave them to spend on their vacation, just for rides and things like that. There they go now. 1 wish I could go along. I’ve got 5 cents to spend, Dut that wouldn't even take me in.” Sure enough the two frisky squir- rel boys were coming out of their uncle’s front door in Maple Tree Flats at that very minute and the ‘wins watched to see what they would do. Instead of toming down to the ground, they ran nimbly out to the end of a branch where it touched the branch of a pine tree. Then they ran from branch to*branch of the pine tree until they came to a plac? where the pine tree touched a maple tree. maple ‘tree until they reached an elm tree. From that to a chestnut tree and so on until they came to the edge of ‘the woods. where Happy Go Lucky Park was. ‘A big sycamore tree grew right in the park. When they reached it, they slid down and there they were! In the park as nice as pie, and ull for nothing! , “No wonder Mister Zip isn’t mak- ing his fortune,” said Nick. “Come, Nancy, «we'll “have to tell him.” But I’m sure the squirrel boys didn’t think’ they were. doing any- thing dishonest. f (To Be Continued) OTHER WAY AROUND “Well, Art, I can tell you're married man, all right. No holes. in your stockings any more. “No. One of the, first things my ‘wife taught me’ was how to darn ‘em.—Amerigatt Legion Weekly. They did the same with. the! (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) |’ What sort of a medicine chest should be carried on a vacation? Mr. Jones began to wonder after he had packed up his flivver and made ready for the “open spaces.” Now, most healthy poople take a|. little mosquito salve and a little sun- burn ointment and‘ let, it go at that. It isn’t a good idea to’pack a met ene chest along on an excursion in- tended for health, unless ordered to do so by the docter. However, there are one or two|} things that may be taken along for precautionary purposes. lodine swabs, in handy packages, may be purchased almost anywhere. In case of accidents involving cuts, etc. these are most useful things to _FABLES ON HEALTH TRAVEL MEDICINE have along, as immediate cleansing can be insured. There are other handy ‘first-aid packages to be had but one small icdine outfit is about as good as anything. Also, if you are fearful of snakes, a “first-aid” preparation. is: now to be had at drug ‘stores and sporting gcods places. A serum injection is generally-contained inthis package, which is so small that.it.can be-car- tied in a vest pocket. : A little gauze and cotton may be itaken along. if desired, though in any simple emergency, a clean handker- chief will do. : With the possible exception \’ of seme mild cathartic, this is-all an average person should require. e id Being a picture of health does no good if it is hand-painted. A hair on the head is worth six cn the comb. What makes a Woman madder than a new dress fading? When a man gets disappointed in leve he goes around blaming the world in general. Stand on your own rights and you can’t be told where to get off. Fire broke out in a Chicago police station, but they caught it in time. A pessimist is a man looking at a thermometer, Here’s a slogan some presidential candidate can have: The dollars that or THEIR PRODUCT. OH, You'Re A\ GRA! ITY OF HARD kwOCcKs ! AND IF YouleL | Stck SS FURTHERMORS, MR. TRUS, WE MADE A\SucceSs S$ we Cc I've MADE Good IN SPITELOP HS Fagy. THAT i NCVER WENT To A RESULAR\ COLCESE,. GBuT VLU STACK UP MY Aor ASA AGAINST THC BEsy BS NoU'R= NOT KNOCKING WURSECE?! i PROFESSOR INTHE UNIVERSITY OF HARD KNocksS, AROUND A PEW SECONDS" Sec. GwS'wou:A Poste’: QRADYVATE COURSG, : run the government run the taxpay- ers, Only a few more months in which to do something to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. Years ago they got the bifggy and went sparking;;..now-they get the auto and go parking. Now is the time to start letting your whiskers. grow as.a prepared- ness against Christmas neckties. “Don’t worry” makes to when you add “Ot! better mot- Entirely too many girls get mar- ried to keep from being old maids. One corner of an eternal triangle usually gets knocked off. Loafing is easy but hard to. suc- ceed at. Sleep is: a great-thing., It keeps some people from thinking about themselves 24-hours a day. Tigies are so bed now some people aving to go to work. BY CONDO A’ GRADUATE IN THE UNIVERSITY or OF. KnOcKS, A SELIC-MADE-... Cc INTHS UNIVE: LC, IT'S A_CING rm A Re 4 IR OU SST WHAT i mean tit ‘tain place in your drawing THURSDAY, JULY. 81, 1924, IN DEBT TO THEIR EARS ". By Albert Apple Europe’s troubles now are mostly matters gf money. Things wouldn’t be half bad over there if the terrific war debts could: be wiped out. Rebuilding in the war devastated ‘regions has progressed amazingly. Even man power is be- jing restored to normal. It’s over five years since the armis- | tice, and millions who were boys then ‘are maturing now. Another way of looking at it is that there’s a new crop of cannon fodder ripening. Europe will rebuild: the property destroyed ‘during the war. Her population will become as big as ever — which means, too many for European soil to support, and millions {leaving for foreign lands. All this, in a generation. But the real trouble—debt—will linger. The debt is so huge that much of it will be permanent, unless heavy levies afe made on capital and bonds ate re- pudiated. 4 France otves her own people (war bonds, etc.) about 52,- 000 million’ dollars. She owes other countries some 28,000 millions. Total is in excess of 80 billions. Great Britain owes her own people about 33,000 million dollars, and to other countries 6290 millions. Total about 40 billions, A Italy owes her own people over 18,000 millions and still more to other coyntries. if The internal and external debts of these three war vic- tors amount to a total of about 157,000 million dollars. Say the average rate of interest on this indebtedness is 4 per cent. It means that the three countries must pay, out of their people’s labor and badly crippled industrial machinery, 6280 million dollars a year in the form of interest charges before a penny can be applied to reducing the prin- cipal or war debt itself. The war debt of France, Britain and Italy is equal to al- most a third of their national wealth. On the other side of the fence is Germany, with war debt }and indemnity bill beyond the calculations of higher mathe- matics. © p : Yes, Europe’s troubles are matters of money. And the final solution, if: any,- will probably be by revolutionary changes of’ money systems. % i TELEPHONE FROM | BEATRICE: GRIMSHAW TO LESLIE PRESCOTT ay “Dick, this is Bee. I have just been talking with Leslie, and she thinks it would be lovely for us to be married at her home. Isn't that sweet. of her?” “Anything is sweet of anybody, Bee, dear, that will let me take you back to Hollywood’ with me. 1 know that if I am, married, however, with- out having Paula Perier at the. wed- ding, she never will.forgive me, I promised. her, that I would do this. Do you think we could get Leslie to invite Paula?” “I.don’t know, Dick, I know that I wouldn’t: care .to.ask Leslie. You know there was more or less talk about Jack, her,husbapd,. and Miss Perier before she went into pic- tures.” “I'll ask, Jack,; anyway. Maybe he'll persuade his wife to let her come. You know Leslie paid her a great deal of attention when, she was here before.” “Now look here, Dick Summers, I don’t’ intend ta. have my! wedding made a publicity affair for .some moving picture actress. If you want to, after, our marriage, we will go home on the same train with Paula Perier, but I don’t care to have her , at my wedding, particularly as I “Hello, Leslie, this is Bee. Where have you been? I have been trying to get you for a half hour.” “How are you, Beé? I did not thear’the phone because I was in the nursery. I did not’ expect you so soon.’ I'm so glad to:hear your voice.” a “I didn’t expect to’ get here so soon, ‘either, but I came through from Cleveland by motor with Dick.” “How lovely! Is fick over at Salty’s with yon now?” -“No, dear, he’s at the hotel. He has some movie picture business to attend to here. I have a stupendous piece of news to tell you. If you want us to, Dick and J will be mar- ried at your apniversary party. I have promised to marry Dick tomor- row and go back to Hollywood to- morrow. Don’t you think’ it would be nice to have the wedding party Leslie? Then when we reach a cer- room Sydney Carton could ‘step back, Dick wgild step forward, and supported by you and Jack, we could be mar- ried.” * “Beatrice Grimshaw, you never in your conventional mind ‘planned such @ marriage as this! It's a reg- ular movie picture affair. Come. up in half an Hour’and I'll get a hold self.” “That’s the first time you have owned it, dearest, and for that we won’t say a word about it to her of Jack amd’ we'll get it all fixed] When are you going to let me come up. Goodby.” i over?” Telephone From Beatrice Grimshaw} “I'm going over to Leslie's tin to Dick Sumimers.': about @ half an hour, You can call “Will you please connect me with| for, me there about an hour. after- Mr. Summet’s room?” Goodby, dear. “Party on’ the line for you, Mr.| “Goodby.” i Summers.” : (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) New York, July 81—New York is a deserted village over week-ends. Everyone, it seems, rushes to the beach or country for a breath of puri- fied air. Consequently it ie the oné time vf| i the week when it is’a ‘pleasure to be in New York, No rush or flurry; no one’to disturb the. tranquility of @ great, de: ity; it is as peace- ful as a ci hamlet gone a- fishing. aes: It is then the quiet: open spaces of ‘beach and country adjacent.to New York become seething, swarming, steaming cauldrons of humanit: Six hundred thousand ‘people visit- ed Coney Island last Sunday,,* When the Saturday ‘rush out of New. York takes place railroad sta- tions are jammed, suburban trains are’ filled, ferry boats are ‘taxed to capacity. = By Sunday. afternoon New.,York is delightful‘ to the few. whe’ remain behitid.* Thete “ate: stnté- ow’ bus: subways: street cats. -Qne can cross the’ streets in comparative safety. Sunday traffic is but a bleached skeletbn' of its week-day self, =. Saige a, morning .the ‘frenzied in- flux bi ‘Sunburn’ and aching bones make New York irritable. The cro plain, until ‘Wednsday, then start”planning for:the coming holiday. ; og I love the country, but New York is too restful on Sunday to leave. ry The. most popular place in New. York for sailors off Uncle Sam's men- They. row © Berleni’ siver at the north end of Manhattan Isle in a bungalow made from a beached house- boat. The stilts have slipped, per- mitting the kitchea“df: the’ house to sag'into the rival’? 7 An observer ‘#umarks”that “the’ oc: . + cupants get out of bed in thé morn- ing and slide into the kitchen for breakfast,” adding that there is “run- ning water in the kitchen.” “My Home Sweet Home In Dixie” the name of one of these’ river yank abodes. It has a roof garden and front porch. re With traffic: signals, similar to those placed in’ use on Fifth Avenue long ago, the vogue. on Broadway and:\Sixth avenue, one can. walk 10 of 12 blocks more quickly than-hp can make the trip in a taxi. Taxicab drivers contend that the new trafic signal system has cut down their profits, that people are actually walking to save time. Before the traffic signals, the art- ful, drivefs: could worm their way through traffic. Now. they have’ to, wait the signal lights. ore Moored to the docks at Battery Park are two floating swimming pools for the children of the neighborhood. —sone for the’ boys and one for the girls. — With an ocean at hand, the pool “ is filled with fresh’ water from the city’s reservoir.” * a“ The porter in a night lunch stand is a young Chinaman. He attends night school. Last night he returned from school, elated with a new word added to his vocabulary. It was “ceiling.” : eee, i The Democratic: convention left # sociation execu jac. He attended every on of the meeting, writing thousands of .words. Now when he goes to sléep, dreams the convention is stilt in sion. He dictates stories. and inte biped prominent floor leaders in his slee| “T° Gant get’ the” convention ad- Jourhed,”''he walld.'.9 cra Mek he « have been a little jealous of her my- */ as” ¥ * . ¢