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45, ™ gua “cle mer ter¢ Squ pas: gan to 3 T Red Nor ial the cific fare cont M the Mar the the Unit allov-; inde = vest and into Th: Marg curat! and B “Ww point same tions “Ve Wood Wa mana reliar Wh ‘were were yet t So out t tem « smile: “1! cent, “By t rear excey “Ve and f a da over ¢ colore “wi ily for a lieve, over; Wha! her hi “Yo —_ pointe “Lam Wayn workir could well o “Bie fly, Rest e wieh t fe S€gride by jum) t ws York City. Alas, he forgot that he had a cork jeg. It, kept inj him afloat until he was rescued, much against his wishes. This is an old story. It has happened many times. One| wctter,“phey would realise’ that, 8 ®cannot pay too much attention to details, even in: voluntarily | when 4 wise man seeks a wife. he Nort =to a large and well equipped standing army and military at th... peor that since the League rose to power in the state it really was! aftern: the League’s opposition that first refused to accept the ver- « the ae of the June state primary and again did battle in th} le ec fq 5 up the in the orient? Fine place to “Wl and so on. ily:‘me that it has 319 million population and 125 millions of these! had flu, 12 millions dying of it. speak of every 10,000 girls in India between the ages of 10 and 15 with were unmarried. Now the figure is 601 instead of 481—and id Indiv is boasting of this as progress! beara tween ages of 5 and 10 are unmarried. Wig PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1924 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, Marquette 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. DETROIT Kresge Bldg. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year........... «+ $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) . ase ewieiers 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) THE PACIFIST FLOURISH The War Department’s idea of a “defense test” in the United States on National Defense Day, September 12, has evoked many protestations from pacifist sources. The action of Governor Charles Bryan of Nebraska in first approving and then disapproving the proposal leads to the belief that the idea alss has aroused opposition of purely a political nature. The “defense test” plan is understood to have been evolved by General Pershing. He and the War Department have remembered the confusion, the difficulty, the wasted energy of the mobilization of the forces of the United States for the recent World War, if many citizens have forgotten them. It is the business of the War Department to profit by the experience of the past. It appeared folly to the War Department to allow the nucleus of the splendid volunteer organization finally evolved during the World War to be en- tirely dissipated. Thus, through the Reserve Corps and volunteer cooperation, the War Department has sought to maintain a paper organization so that, should the nation unfortunately be plunged into conflict, it would be able to defend itself promptly and efficiently, with a-minimum of lives and money. * The War Department plan calls for a test of the effective- ness of this paper organization —a test, virtually, of the worth to the nation of a voluntary organization as compared establishment. It proposed to find out if Army units and civilian units would quickly be in their appointed places on Beni amber 12, ready for action and knowing what action to take. ‘ President’ Coolidge, in defending the War Department idea, has pointed out that unfortunately the term “mobiliza- tion day” has been applied, and has led many to believe that a national holiday is being declared on which every force will mobilize for war and a great military flourish will be made, encouraging a militaristic spirit. The plans of the War Department as published do not indicate that any such militaristic demonstration is planned. It appears simply to be 2 common-sense test of the organization the Department has Luilt. Perhaps nothing could so impress upon the peop! rt } rge the gigantic task of preparing for armed conflict «arouse their horror at the prospect of being thrown into war, .as a real test of preparedness. The movement might well be encouraged by the pacifist. OUR FLAUNTED PRIMARY The primary system has never been fully accepted by many thoughtful citizens, who see in it a danger to good government, and a useless burden of expense on the people. On the other hand, certain forces in the country have clung to the primary system as an inalienable right, the only pro- tection, as they see it, of popular government. “The spirit of the primary law has been pretty well dis- regarded in North Dakota in the last few years by the major political factions. There has been no protest from the peo- ple. The primary has come to be regarded simply as an election, to determine nothing except an advantage in the fall battle. It is not surprising to see those who have maintained the primary system is at fault to continually disregard it. It is, however, rather inconsistent, though not new, that an organization such as the Nonpartisan League conference, shculd wholly flaunt the spirit of the primary law. The Nonpartisan League failed to name some candidates for state office in the Republican primary of June 25. The con- ference which met here Wednesday proceeded to name the s#me candidates for office in the fall election, wholly in violation of the spirit of the primary as an elimination elec- tion. The opposing faction has done likewise in the past. From a practical standpoint, there is no objection to the , ection of the League. It simply is in conformity with the past.elections, Indeed, the Nonpartisan might point out The action here, if it provés anything, proves that the rd primary is a joke in North Dakota. GONE Ever consider how lucky you were not to have been born ing about—South Sea Islands} But an individual life doesn’t count much there. India, for instance, is delightfully glamorous in the mov- ! ies and fiction. But the recent census taken there shows’ Wo EARLY Orientals marry young, atrociously young in the case of males. Forty years ago a census showed that only 481 out Editorial Review Comments reproduced in this column may or ma: not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here in order that our readers ey have both sides of important {usues which are tale discussed in the press of pe day. GOVERNOR BRYAN’S SIMPLE | LITTLE REMEDY | Governor Bryan is a forthright | man, favoring simple remedies for complex diseases. He declares himself in favor of government opcration of railroads, other pub-! lic utilities, and cjal mines unless | service costs to the public are re-| duced iby 25 or 30 per cent. Mr. Bryan has no way of know-} ing whether the rates charged by | these industries are justified. He) merely notices that people would like to pay less for their fares andj for their freight and for the coal) they buy. If that’s what the peo- | ple want, let them have it. Let! there be a cut of 25 or 30 per cent in the service costs of public utili- ties and coal mines. Let it be done! But unfortunately the operating costs of railroads and coal mines do not precipitately plunge 25 or mand of Governor Bryan, any more than the sea waves rolled back in humble obedience to the order of King Canute. If Governor Bryan believes the railroads should cut their costs, what does he believe their earn- ings should be? Last year, when they were comparatively fortu- nate, the Class 1 railroads, in- cluding practically all the railroad mileage of the country, earned an average of 5.10 per cent, which is appreciably less than the 5.75 per cent which the commission says the railroads are entitled to. It Governor Bryan believes 6.19 per cent is an excessive return, to be eagerly sought by investors, why are the railroads utterly un- able to sell any stock? And how much of a return are !ccal mining companies entitled ‘to? More coal is being sold at a | loss today than at a profit. In this ; case Governor Bryan is not seek- ing a decrease in earnings; he is seeking an increase in the deficit. Let the coal operators cut their prices 25 or 30 per cent. If they can’t do that and still earn a profit, let the government ‘take over the mines amd operate them. The intellectual giants who composé our bureaucracy will show the slow-poking coal opera- tors how to run their business. Governor Bryan’s arbitrary rem- edy is admirable in its simplicity; and it is also admirable in its sismple-mindedness, if you happen cago Journal of Commerce. CONVENTION CHEERS A feature of American political conventions that is almost unin- telligible to visitors to the United States is the demonstration of ebeering that greets ene nomina- tion of a popular candidate... It Would "Ge Pconsidéred a ghastly breach of etiquette for a speaker to utter the name of the man he is about to put in nomination until he is about to sit down. He occu- pies half an hour or an hour in a eulogy of his candidate without mentioning him specifically by name until he comes to the end of his speech. Then the enthusiasm bursts out. The supporters of the nominee cheer themselves hoarse. They begin a parade about the ‘convention hall, seeking to draw into their wake other delegates who up to the moment have re- ‘mained unfrenzied. The hubbub dies down and is revived. Songs are sung. Hats are tossed in the air. If there is a lull there is another outburstof senseless noise. It has become a fine point of honor that previous records for cheering Shall be surpassed, and the thing has gone on until now the record stands at more than an hour. If ‘the thing is not abandoned the time will come when cheering or rather disorder, in favor of popular <an- didates will consume all the time allotted for the convention, and it will require weeks to make a final selection. An English newspaper- man now in New York expressed his astonishment at the custom, and remarked that so far as he was concerned ‘he could not cheer anything for more than two min- utes. He had arrived from South America where the people are sup- posed to be very excitable, but he testified that such an organized uproar could not happen there. His opinion was that it could hap- pen nowhere outside the United State.—Toronto Mail and Empire. » MODEST AND ATTRACTIVE ¢ DRESS. The Vatican, so the cable re- ports, has offered a medal of honor to the woman’s club that devises the most attractive and modest fashion in women’s clothing. The offer is made no doubt on the theory that the art of dress makes progress by imitatioi. So it does. Most people dress to please, others as well as them- selves, and in so doing they fol- low the impulse of imitation, per- haps the most primitive an] funda- mental of social impulses. If dress were constituted’ mostly of imitation and the effort to. keep warm, it would not be difficult to combine modesty and’ attractive- At present only 907 out of every 10,000 Indian girls be- * FRUSTRATED i Tired of life, an unfortunate man decided to commit sui- jumping into the ocean near the aquarium in New! roe ts shuffling off. The weak link breaks the chain.: If it were not for. the people you know ‘you would be a nger to everyone and that would be awful. ness. But fortunately or unfor- tunately, there is another factor. It is the desire for display, for or- namentation. This sometimes Makes it difficult to combine mod- esty and attractiveness. The de- sire for display appears ‘to ‘be part of the sex impulse. It reaches: in- to the kingdom of birds and of other animals, and also lays hold of humanity. f ‘But ¢ women really knew men generally selects a womanly wom- an who knéws how to dress mod- estly and'at the same time ‘becom- ingly. Immodestly dressed wom- 3¢ per cent at the imperious com- |} to admire that sort of thing.—Chi- | The Prodigal’s Return tween wise men and women. With such lies the promise of the Lest mating and the most endur- ing domesti¢ happiness. — Minne- apolis Journal. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “The very idea!” said Mister Zip, when the Twins told him what Seam- per and Scramble Squirrel had done. “If those ‘squirrel boys are getting into my park for nothing, sliding down trees. the way they do, ahd the mole boy is getting in by digg- ing tunnels under the fence, it's no wonder I’m not making my fortune. I shall have to put a stop.to it at once!” So he’ hunted all over his amuse- ment park’ until he found the squir; rels. They were buying peanuts at peanut stand. ve got a nickel left for butter- milk,” said Scamper to Scramble. “So have 1,” said Scramble to Scamper. Of course, you'll think it queer that they were not: buying lemonade or soda water or ice cream cones, but squirrels love buttermilk much better than any of them. ‘Mister Zip and Naney and Nick heard them. “I think if you have a nickel left, you'd better give it to me to pay your way in,” said the fairyman, “What for?” asked Scramble, “You came in down the sycamore tree,” said Mister Zip, “and that’s not allowed. The sign says ‘Birds and Babies Free, but you are not birds and you are not babies, either, so you will have to pay me. It doesn’t say anything about squirrels getting in free.” “The only differnece between us and birds,” said Scamper brightly, “is that we've got fur and they've got feathers.” “Hopping rain toads!” cried Mister Zip. “I suppose you could fly across the ocean then.” “Qh, no! We couldn’t do that,” admitted Scramble Squirrel. “And I suppose birds have four feet,” said Mister Zip. “Oh, no! We don’t mean that, either,” said Scamper Squirrel, blushing to the end of his nose. “And J suppose you lay eggs and ing sweetly and do everything that birds do,” went on the fairyman se- verely. “Oh, no, we don’t do any of’ those things,” said both the squirrel boys bashfully. “We guess we’re not like birds at all, Mister Zip. “Except that you want something for nothing,” said Mister Zip. “I see,” Then -he went on more kindly. “I don’t suppose you two boys thought you were doing anything dishonest. you had bought something and not paid for it.” “We're as sorry as we can be!” said Scamper. “And we'll give you all the rest of our vacation money. We were only in fun, Mister Zip, honestly we were.” i But you were—just the same as if|’ When it came time for his vaca- tion to start Mr. Jones of Anytown might be found busily packing the family flivver with tents and blan- kets and cooking utensils and foods. What to take for the vacation lar- der is always. a. problem. This depends ‘largely. upon the dis- tance of the :camp. site from some} handy store. : But a-camper can always bank on a few old reliables;. rice will’take the 'place of potatoes ahd is far more easily carried. Dried lima beans are r SAYS « Some men are too cautious even to make a success as a failure. There is more’ parking around a library than movie. space around a Every permanent wave is to give scme man a permanent rave. The real mod®rn parent . promises his son an auto if he doesn't smoke or drink until he is 12 yeats old. In St. Louis, a musician lost his fortune playing poker, which is much harder to play than a piano. Divorces are caused by Cupid’s orders to shoot on sight. Seeing her with her face dirty is & fine cure for love sickness. © | Nothing takes a man off his feet like seeing a place to sit down. When a bootlegger is seized with the grippe it keeps him in longer EVERETT TRUE SAY, MISTER, WHAT FABLES ON HEALTH THE VACATION LARDER als easily carried and many good dishes can be made from them. Dried fruits of all sorts are easily carried; prunes, apricots and apples being more generally favored. A slab of bacon should keep with but slight attention. Hardtacks, }rusks bread. : Flap-jack‘flour is.a' general favor- ite for. breakfast; also a goodly-sup- ply of ‘coffee of téa, tinned milk and, if ‘desired, eggs and almost all vege- tables can be. obtained“ in’ a dried condition. than when he is seized with a suit- Hease. Never worry if a boy hates to get his hair-cut.. He may. grow up and become an orator. Lots of people will interrupt a phonograph record: to tell you how much they are enjoying it. When a man_ shoots himself :he gets the one to blame for ‘his tiou- bles, Life is‘ups and downs. Like hills and valleys, if there were no downs there could be no ups. What this country needs is shoe- strings that last as long as shoes. The reason so many don't get ahead of the game if they don't play. o———___—____.______¢ | A Thought | He that refuseth instruction de- spiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understand- ing.—Prov, 15:32. y eee, Wisdom alone is a science of other ‘sci s and of itself—Plato. BY CONDO IS THATY You Aare “Well, if you are really and truly sorry,” said the fairyman, “you may stay.” 2 Nancy and Nick had slipped off and now they canré back with more news, “Say, Mister Zip,” cried Nick, “what do you think? We just saw Wally and Willy and Weoly Wood: chuck come into Happy Go’ Lucky Park through a tunnel they dug from their underground house. ,They -all got in for nothing.” “Hopping rain toads!” cried the fairyman in dismay. “Whatever shall Ido? Iam ruined! Now I can never make my fortune.” Suddenly Nancy had. an. idea. “Why don’t you let everybody come in for nothing, Mister Zip?” she said. “Then stacks and stacks of'| people will come and they'll all spend money pn good thingy to est and on do not command the highest re- ehect of good men and true. Mod- est and attractive modes of dress play a pert in the p: of ra- tional attraction and selection be Oh ABE a a having a good time. You'll make twice as much,” eee. z “Hopping rain toads!” cried fairyman in. glee. “What a head -you have, Nency, t's: what TH dof tea! vt or zweiback substitute for]. STRANGE MAN PASSES . : “By Albert Apple | He became a town character in Grand Rapids, Mich., and‘ wén his nickname, “Home Made,” because for years \he lived up to his boast that he could make every article he ‘needed except food. As for food, he could have ‘grown ‘enough to keep him alive. The telegraph wires neglected to | say why he failed to garden. Maybe he was so busy making | thi he needed. me name was Frank Way. He died the other day at 69. They buried him+in a coffin he made a year ago when his health- began to-slip. ace , “ Here was a man'with personality if there ever was one. We don’t know what prompted Frank Way, 23 years ago, to try to make himself entirely independent’ of the , | labor of others. Psycho-analysts probably would say he had{ | some sort of “‘self-complex.” : : He made his own shoes, hats, trousers; shirts, even his own cigars and false teeth. Far’ back in the mists of time all men did this. They had ito. Then they observed that, for instance, one man made arrow-heads faster than any one else—and was slow at kill- ing wild game for food. Another had a knack for erecting ‘houses. So each specialized at the thing. he could do best— land, since he produced more than he could use, he bartered | the products of his toil for the products of others. , This started commerce and specialization. It made life \easier for all. Frank Way didn’t need to prove that a man {can be self-sustaining. It’s been proven before, millions ot \times. The: idea, of course, fires popular imagination—this | being completely independent. itness the popularity. of | the exploits of Robinson Crusoe. Even he, however, had to get help—his man Friday. | | i | | | { i | There’s a bit ofa joke on Frank Way, after all. To be “self-sustaining” over a period of 23 years, he had to work an average of 12 hours qa day: ‘And he wasn’t self-sustaining jat all. f ; ‘ é | He boasted that he made his own cigars. A tot of us roll our own cigarets and fill our pipes.. But we don’t grow the tobacco ourselves. We don’t cure it, blend it, haul it to us from the source of production. Nor did Frank Way.’ It was so with everything he made. Hundreds of men had each his little share of effort represented in every bit of raw material. Frank Way used — for instante, thé’ nails’ he drove in his home-made shoes... : There is no independence from our fellowmen as long a3 we live among them and want even the simplest of neces- sities. We are all interdependent, though usually we stup- idly forget this-‘truth and oppose each other. FATHER OF MRS. JOHN ALDEN - PRESCOTT VERY ILL (Extract from “The Morning oss) Argosy") " The invitations toa large party to have been given by: Mr: and Mrs. John Alden Prescott this eévening have been recalled,‘ and.’ Mrs: Pres- cott has left hurriedly ‘for the home of her father, whose illness is se- rious. : i Mrs. Prescott’s parents, .accom- panied by their youngest daughter and her fiance, Mr. Karl Whitney, returned from Europe about a month ago, and they were joined in New York by Mrs. Prescott. Mr. and Mrs. .Hamilton and their daughter have been some months in England with Miss Hamilton's ‘fiance. Mr. Hamilton ‘was not well during the latter part of ‘his” stay abroad, and’ during his ‘stdy in*New York his illness became more apparent. Since arriving at his home he has grown steadily worse, Yesterday the invitation for Miss Hamilton’s wedding to Mr. Karl Whitney were stopped just as they were being delivered at the post- office, and the inyitations to Mrs. Prescott’s party were recalled. Marriage of Paula Perier’s Publicity Man (On the Dramatic Page of “The Argosy”) This . evening at the Hotel the marriage of Miss Beatrice Gtimshaw and. Mr.‘ Richard Sum- mers will be solemnized. The Bride has many friends-in the city. ‘She had. come over to be present at the party to have been given by Mr. and Mrs. Prescott, which has been called off because of the serious illness of Mrs. Prescott’s father.” Miss Grimshaw was Mrs.: Pres- cott’s maid of honor. three years ago, and her marriage to Mr. Summers had been planned as a surprise for Mrs. Prescott’s guests at“ her third anniversary. 2 Mrs, Prescott’s -hurried departure for. the home of her -father made necessary a change of plans, and Miss Grimshaw will be married at thé Iroquois Hotel tonight with 'Mr. Sidney Carton’ as best man and Mrs. Sally Atherton as matron of honor. Mr. Summers is one of the staff of the Pinnacle Moying Picture Pro- duction. Co. and as such he has piloted the Deautiful star, Paula Per- ier, to fame. It is expected that Miss Perier will come up from New York, where she is staying at pres- ent to ‘attend the wedding. Telegram From Leslie Pres- cott to Johm Ajden Prescott Father no worse. He is still un- conscious. Don't know when I will return. LESLIE. Iroquois | (Copy: strewn about for Mike’s aged ene- mies, mice, Six years ago the cat appeared at the postoffice and displayed signs of remaining. A thoughtless ' postal clerk nameg the cat “Mike.” A few weeks later Mike led a troop of kittens in defiance to her name down the corridors:of the postoffice. In ‘six years of revenge Mike has Produced 99 kittens in 17 litters, t New. York, Angust 1.—Any state- ment that. mentions “poor fish” is good for a laugh any place.in New York, except the Aquarium, in Bat- tery Park. | The chamber maids,who care for the fish on display take their work soriously and resent,all fish jokes. The Aquarium, by the way does a dig bbsiness ane the ‘summef. Admission is free.’ The visitors, for the most part, are tourists, those in- tensely interested in fishology from a scientific standpoint, and park bench-warmers. who ha nothing else to do. A California sea lion has held the center attraction bowl at the Aqua rium for 18 years., On many occa- sions I have ‘seen’ the: lion, ° an never once have 1 seen him resting. He just keeps ploughing’ through the water of his circular tank. The fish fed him are cleaned and dressed. The shark sucker, ‘a amall fish that clings to the side of the man- » Davenport Pogue, of East Orange, N. J. who has been driving his mobile without a lingense 4 y was arrested. “I never knew I had to have one,” vas his excuse. He thought the plates on. other ‘cars were ornamentg Snd ‘frankly he didn’t think they gdded anything: to the appearance of his car. -* ! Having no bail mofey hé left ‘his car for security. If it is ‘the same car he started driving \without ‘a li- cense 16 years ago, he will) make money by jumping chis bail« Dan Cupid finlls strange :ways to foster romance in Naw York: x A truck” driver ‘left a note ad- ares “to ahy pretty girl’who finds this” in the woman's test room of a railroad station. ‘The note ‘read, “I am very bashful, but when I'm ‘alone I'm a wonder. Meet: me in the ‘park: tonight. I'll bring -Jots of dough, I'll wear a the laziest of swim @ stroke, making the shark pull them along. 3 Funny fish are the angels, who are mede up like biack-face comedians and circus clowns, After one glimpse of them you'll be conyinced that aly though “fish many, n rspire,” as ® vaudeville song they do have circuses: (!%" otha The most: conceited are the red and blue patrot fish. They ea mirror in their tank | white carnation. - Romeo.” and they spend niost‘of ‘their time| Thatnight he wore the white car- adjusting their fink béfore it, nation in the park., And that night ‘There may be many.“poor fish” in the Aquariu and cold running \ i rooms, equipped with électric lights. Their meals are served . promptly. ‘They don't doa bit’ of work and never. ‘teased with -hooks..’: he ‘ "Make, solpanesed abl, at favor! 1 eda pte : the pretty girl who found the note met him. in'the.park. And thet very Sante night. Romeo: found . himself down {nthe jail behind ‘bars. , The pretty girl-who found the hote was a police: Peis —SsT rend, and the voices of the possible in the * a t. £ ’ x ’ ‘me 4r 4 wt