The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 13, 1924, Page 4

— oumo cart mn en ene Pr 4 ‘PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE| Editorial Review Entered at the Postoffice, BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. Bismarck, N. D., as Second Claas Matter. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - Marquette Bldg. . DETROIT Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. Publishers 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 AN ISLAND IS BORN Following a violent earth tre- mor which didn’t quite amount to a full-fledged earthquake, the Sea 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. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION ~~ SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily by carrier, per year........... Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)...... $ Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) . Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.............. 6.00 PAYABLE IN ADVANCE THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) WHY THREE PER CENT? Several taxpayers in Bismarck have raised the question and very pertinently too in connection with the $7,950 gratuity paid City Engineer Atkinson why he was not paid fiye per cent, the amount called for in his contract for engi- neering and supervision. It is contended that if Mr. Atkinson were entitled to any- thing he was entitled to what his contract called for or five per cent of $265,000. Why was less accepted? Was Mr. Atkinson paid this gratuity under the terms of + his contract and if so why was he not given five instead of three per cent? Under what contract or arrangement was Mr. Atkinson to receive $2,000 for plans and specifications of the new water works system when accepted and $2,000 more when said plans were used in addition to five per cent? Was this under the contract or by special arrangement? These questions have been raised in connection with the controversy and are asked without seeking to infer graft on the part of any member of the city commis ion. The Tribune will be willing to print answers to these .. ‘uestions from Mr. Atkinson, = the city commission. B. E. Jones or any member of THE FARMER HAS HELPED HIMSELF The farmer has received more gratuitous advice in the last few years than any other business man. It probably hasn’t- hurt; it may have helped him, for every business man finds suggestions in most unusual places which often = are of assistance. The farmer has been told by many that he must work his way out of the post-war difficulties. s Has the farmer helped himself? Dakota: He has, in North 3 A brief sketch of the trend of farming in this state since the after -the-war price depression of 1920 brought = despair to many agricultural communities, is sufficient to . indicate an effort of which the farmers may well be proud. *-cAnd the state as a whole may well point with pride to the efforts of its farmers. The grain crops failed as a money - producer for the farmer. A readjustment of his business was necessary, and he has made a tremendous readjustment in North Dakota. A few random statistics indicate something of the great’ millions of nails embedded in their fight he has made From 1919 to 1924 the farmers decreased wheat and’ other bread grain acreage in North Dakota from 11,135,000 to 8.402,000. During the same period the farmers increased corn, bar- ley, oats, tame hay acreage from 4,810,000 to 6,602,000 acres : The production of butter increased so that more than} 1,000 carloads originated in North Dakota in 1923 as com- pared to 732 carloads in 1921. “Right counties cream sales in the fir: t of the Missouri River increased six months of 1924, $250,000 over the corresponding period the year previous. Poultry, livestock, other diversified production, has in- creased. ‘+_Bhe farmers accomplished much of this great change on Imited capital. There is ample evidence in many individual ‘eases that the readjustment has profited the farmers. The decease in wheat production is declared by authorities to have a direct bearing on the increase in prices. There is in the situation added argument for those eco- nomists who have asserted that agriculture would come back thongh the natural course of business. A shortage in corn production sent up the price of corn, and hogs followed. During the past two weeks the Chicago packers have been florded with hogs, as corn prices outran the hog prices. Packers have been sorely pressed to absorb the young stock offered in the face of depressed condition in the meat pack- ire industry. Nevertheless, it is pointed out, the unloading of great numbers of pigs this summer means lessened hog marketing in the fall and winter, with probable high prices for hogs. m Probable settlement of European difficulties ins greater purchase abroad of dressed meats and other United States agricultural produce. Even though fair prices have made a tremendous step toward a completely normal basis, there are some economists who declare, with Henry Ford, that there are too many farmers Development of labor-saving devices has increase: agricultural production beyond the dreams of some years w«ipast., There need be no fear of food shortage because farm- “ers are moving tg the city. in the belief of these men. Should there be a shortage of food which would send prices soaring, immediately there would be a rush back to the land. With all of the great steps made by farmers in North Dakota, there is, of course, possibility of further advance- ment in farming, as well as in other businesses. Agricul- tural College statistics, based on answers to more than 1,043 questionnaires, show one farm in 20 without a garden, one in 11 without dairy cows, one in eight without poultry, ene in four with no beef cattle, one in four with no hogs. Manifestly any business ought to live within itself as much 4s possible, and the farm that does not produce all the food stuffs possible for consumption by the family of the opera- af tor is not making the most of its possibilities. " \. The generally good crop in North Dakota this year, with fter ratio of prices, ought to be of great assistance in + enabling North Dakota farmers, who have already demon- strated remarkable capacity and sagacity in adjusting their ress to meet conditions, to further improve their po-, lunch and helped to clean up. sitions. ment announcement. . A radio expert in Marlboro, Mass., broadcast his engage- That’s the way love makes: you feel. * { 4Mr. Yevadokimoff has the loudest voice in Russia, maybe his name, ae) oe $7.20 - 7.20 + 5.00 of Azov has suddenly produced an island that was never even rum- ored in the geologic formation of the neighborhood. Of considerable dimensions, according to fragmen- tary reports thus far obtainable, the new land has erected itself fairly well in the center of the en- tance from the outside waters of the Black sea, and if it stays in place and becomes consolidated with the earth's visible terrain it ought to grow into an important strategi se, since it will guard the Azov sea approaches as Gib- raltar guards the Mediterranean. There are those among, Euro- pean diplomats who will undoubt- edly look upon this act of nature as ungenerous and_party-spirited. Nature is distinctly a nfthilist, building wp only to tewr down again; and it seems just probable that she feels an affinity with the Moscow Soviet government. At any rate, the island is born Rus- sian, and never having had a past under royalty jit. must be looked upon as a thorough going Bolshe- vist proposition, It is fitting, of course, that this slight accession to Russian terri- nerhaps the superstitious will even derive an omen from the fact. But looked upon in the Mght of geolo- gic precedent it becomes a less al- luring affair. and almosf any ex- pert who has studied the phenom- ena of mushroom islands would advise the authorities to wait a while before they begin to fortify it. Next week or next year the snot may be an excellertt place in which to go fishing. — Providence Journal. A CEMETERY OF HAIRPINS One hairpin, grows today where twenty grew before. owing to the popularity of bobbed hair, and this explaing the recent finding of thir- ty tons of wire articles, mostly hairpins. in a dump in Chicago. This large “cemetery of hair- pins” was discovered by sheriffs who raided squatters who were occupying shacks on the dump. The discarded hairpins covered 3 space of fifty feet square and the pile is four feet deep. This form of waste stimulates the Pure’ Iron Era, Chicago, to sneculate on the losses in little hits of metal. What becomes of the should arise out of chaos, and |, ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE TAKE IT UP IN THE atricl 1 DONT WANT TO ANNOY THE NEIGHBORS! matter. Wasn’t she sound — asleep,| with her chin on her chest, mind| you! “Wake up and tell us some more,” begged Weeny. . “Oh, oh! What's that?” criéd the hippo lady waking up with a jump. “I must have been dozing. Well, oncé there was a little boy named Sam—and he—had a—had a—” And off she went to sleep again, snoring like a sawmill. They woke her up six times, and six times she went to sleep.’ ‘It wasnt’ a bit of use. “Once there was +a little boy,” said Weeny, “and his name was Nick and he had a sister Nancy afd razor blades, for fnstance, after thev have served the purposes for which they were left around the medicine chest? In a few instances. however. one is able to answer the questioner more or less accurately. In the cellar of almost every house there is an old broken cigar hox filled with nails of all sizes which father intends to use in fixing the back fence, but never does. The build- ines we live and work in have woodwork, some, rusting away. and others eventually to ‘be sal- vaged and used again. And in this j salvaging process many will be lost and disappear from the sight of man:—Toronto Globe. ADVENTURE OF | | THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON —— Mrs. Bear did not coax Weeny and the Twins to stay any longer at her house when she came jome and found that Buster Bear hadn't done one earthly thing she had told him to, while she was gone. So they had to pack up Weeny’s satchel again and go and hunt somebody else ,towvisit. “I'l tell you who let's go and see,” cried Weeny, waving his trunk in the air like a banner. “Old Aunt Hannah Hippo. She’s as nice as she’s fat and she knows more stor- ies! Let's go and visit her.” “All right!” said the Twins, as pleased as Punch. “Let's go now.” So they hopped on the elephant's back and away he went—pad, paddy, pad, paddy, pad down the mountain side and away off to the other side of the world where Aunt Hannah Hippo lived. “My goodness!” cried Aunt Han- nah, opening her large front door and looking out. “If it isn't Wee- ny, the circus elephant!” “Weeny and Company,” said Wee- ny, kissing Aunt Hannah on her nose, because there wasn't anything but nose to kiss her on. “Aunt Han- nah, this is Nancy and this is Nick. We're all having our vacation to- gether and we've come to visit you.” “Pleased to meet you,” said Aunt Hannah, “but you've found me in a sorry plight. I'm in- the middle of wash-day and I only have hash for lunch.” “Oh, that’s all right, “If there's enough “Then do come i | Hannah hospitably. The three of them didn't have to jbe coaxed znd it only took Weeny about three seconds to hang up his toothbrush and shake his nightie and lay his specs on the table. What's that, my dears? You won- der why he wore specs when he i wasn’t 80 very old! Why, they were a birthday present from his grand- ma, so he just had to wear them. Besides, his eyes were so little and his ears were so big and his nose was so long, it seemed as though he was just made for glasses. Well, anyway, Anunt Hannah fin- ished her washing and they all had said Weeny. ‘said Aunt “Now, tell us a story, please, Aunt said Weeny| when they all went out to the front porch and sat down. “All right,” said Aunt Hanhah. “Once “upon a time—there was a— little boy—and—” Suddenly she stopped and every- body looked to see what was the a friend Weeny, and they packed up their satchel and went oh to the next place.” “That's what we'd laughed the Twins, (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Ipe.) In Mohtreal, a man lost $25,000 in 25 minutes on horse races, prov- ing how foolish.the human race is at a horse race. better do” Great Britain is elevating her eye- brows at the elevation of our guns. The political machine which slings] too much mud is easily stalled When the French ‘got into the Ruhr they also got into a rut. Coxey, leader of Coxey’s Army, is running for Congress now instead of walking as he once did. The world could be worse. Ex- crown prince’s son. has become a shipping clerk instead of a kaiser. The height of ‘foolishness is to start smoking with the hope that it will make you look like the cigaret advertisements. Peggy Joyce seems to think her count is no account. Every day will be Sunday by and by, thinks the optimist, but” the pessimist feels sure they will be Monday. Seven bricklayers fell 30 feet in New York, but there are no signs of bricklayers’ pay coming down. Half of the world’s supply of gold is in the United States now, most of it seemingly in front teeth. The wheat market has recovered, but all of the wheat growers haven't. In New York a man is accused of starting 100 fires, so perhaps he is a janitor crazy with the heat. La Follette has bought a straw hat with a felt brim and goes about hoping his campaigh will be felt also. Los Angeles ‘speeder was sen- tenced to read everv paper in the city every day for six months, which was cruel and inhuman pun- ishment. Making light of-your troubles may| help you to\see the way clear. Some girls ‘are so unlucky. In Dalles, Tex., a bridegroom broke his leg and couldn't be ‘at the wedding. A loafer may be broke, but you seldom see one without any hands in his pockets. It is so hot in Africa underwear is worn for an overcoat. Schools for teaching flying are to be establisHed throughout Europe mext spring. — A Ticklish Moment for Family Auth ority ‘ | | THe IDEAL BRING IT RIGHT WN “he Parton! | { | New York, Aug. 13.—“The Franks”. are going on tour. For one-solid year they have been broadcasting their. harmony from every big station in New York. Their voices and ‘melody have circled the land. Now they are going on a‘tour that will take theni to many big broad- ing stations’ throughout the country; a. trip. that will consume ten months. Frank - Wright. is.the piano player songster . of : the. duo. while Frank Bessinger sings. Bessinger, who comes from Owos- s0,"Mich., has stored in his memory the words of every song hit since 1910. Wright can play them from memory. ~ Yet with all their memory for words and musi¢ they have to hire a man sto keep their appointments in order. Neither of them can remem- ber what they are to do next. The last time I saw Bessinger he had spent a thoughtful two hours trying to remember what it was his wife had told him to take home, Radio When New Yorkers go a touring in the cool of ‘the evening in their automobiles, they find the more popular roads jammed with traffic. But there is the Motor Parkway 45 miles in length, out on Long Island. It costs $1.10 to make. the drive through the parkway. There is no speed limit and the young bloods shoot their roadsters along the path at a rapid rate. There are few accidents on the road. The bar of the Hotel Belmont, a most popular pre-prohibition _ren- dezvous for visitors to New York at coektail hour in the evening, has been transformed into a cafeteria. Many well-known drinks were de- veloped to perfection-by- the Belniont bartenders: . notably the Doctor, Pineapple Bronx ‘and.’ Cloverleaf cocktails. Other: . favorites > were Shock: Absorber, New Orleans: Fiez, Tom Collins and’Sherry. Flip. Now iced tea arid coffee, roast beef and bread and rolls hold sway. Male butterflies like to get drunk, while’ the females ‘of the - species drink water to the‘exclusion of: rum, according to an: English -zoologist. It's that way on Broadway. Near- ly all the male butterflies, do. the drinking, while the female butter- flies, especially .the. smart: ones, re- main on a diet of charged water. Chorus girls are not the only ones who keep diaries. James B. Williams, who recently died, left a diary depicting incidents of the last 87 years of his life, Of the thousands of words: he wrote; he was most sparing 4% the making of his will. ©”* ‘ It contained but eight words. —Stephen Hapnagan. A Thought Oe Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification. —Rom, 15:2. © Fs Paradis —Beranger. . 6° Military training for junior cadets has been Sims Australia. Cherries apagibisaecea into Eng- land from. Flanders in 1540. TRAPPED ! ON Bee FREI! FiR| IF WU HVRRY WOU GAN Ge OUT YOURSELF, BoT HE EMoLOVEe Ss low THE UPPER FLOORS ARE You. SvED TOO MUCH MONEY EScaPes BY CONDO ? FAcse ALARM! AND, | OR DOES iré OF COURSE, THAT MGANS TRERE- NEVER WILe BE ONS Ww THIS THERE 13 NO Fire! Factory — open to all kind hearts. WEDNESDAY; AUGUST’ 18, "1924 OUR INVISIBLE SLAVES . By Albert Apple Harnessing the internal heat of the earth—-this is urged by E. W, Rice Jr. He's not an impracticable dreamer. He’s an executive of General Electric Co,, * Rice refers to. Italy, which already is b or | from heat that comes up through holes bored into the ground in volcanic regions. ‘ our feet. break of its own weight. visible slaves. ‘current for their needs. In the meantime, man is overlooking s For instance, we have barel ness our waterpower. The day will come when every creek ‘and rivulet will be dammed up by farmers to furnish electric ; obtaining power Rice champions the suggestion: made in.1919 by Sir Charles Parsons, English scientist, of bering’ a. hole 12 miles ; into the earth to tap: the terrific heat that exists far under Parsons overlooked the fact that a hole cannot be drilled that deep, because the cable holding the drilling tools would Maybe inventors will perfect suitable cables. veral other in-, begun to har+ | The ancients recognized the gigantic power of the wind. They invented the windmill. Since then, no. progress. Here iwe are, searching for power, while we watch wind uproot itrees and tear down buildings in a twinkling— work that ; wouhd take man days. | | | | ! j domesticated beasts. The reason is this: jcomforts for every one that The ocean tides will be harnessed in time. Everywhere, men toiling to create power. power going to waste in nature. Everywhere, Despite all this natural power that’s going to waste, we have enslaved an enormous amount of power. plishment, however, is less sweet when we ponder that the average man still has to work almost as hard as in ancient days when the only; power was from human muscles and The accom- We are, by our’ imprisonment and use of power, possessed of hundreds of useful devices and great-grandfather had. The standard of living rises this way—an increasing number of things used by the rank and file. . ‘If we were content to live as.simply as our ancestors, we rouldn’t have to work more than a couple.of hours a day. ‘is is, to date, the accomplishment of harnessed power. LETTER FROM RUTH ELLINGTON TO LESLIE PRESCOTT ~ Dearest Leslie:. It just. seems to me that I'm a pig when E realize how happy I:am and think for a moment in what trouble and” sadness: you must be. You have one little ray. of comfort, for I saw_by, the papers yes- terday that Mr.:Hamilton had comé through “his. operation’ successfully, and seemed to:be getting along’very well. : Now, of course, another. complica- tion confronts you. The item that I saw about-your: father-wax sent out by. the Associated :Press, and it will probably be. in Jack's home paper as Well as here in New York. In‘a week or two at the most, people will be wondering why you do not come home, and I'll bet ‘the. women are already wondering why Jack dues not go-to you. a Dear, why: don’t’ you try-sto-. get something out ‘of lise teeta jeal- ous viper! Isn’t there some way that you can make her confess to the let- ter, then send’for both Karl and ‘Jack and have it out? = Just at present I feel that your happiness and Jack’s—for, my déar, whatever you may feel, I am. quite sure that’ your “husband ‘loves you very much—is ‘mote ‘to-be considered ‘than Alice's and Karl's, Alice does not deserve. any,consifpration, and Poor Karl is so romantic that. this will givehim an added thrill, Leslie, I- n khew: that anyone could be as sweet hs Walter Burke is'to me. Ye through and ‘a! friend’s affair: : to marry him. .I'told him this the other day, and he ‘said I did not love after all I've ‘gone him. I wish we could remain just'as |we are at present. Am I selfish in wishing this? As a lover he is per- fect, and Iam afraid that, band he’ might be a disappoint SI told him the, other-day- that I could not marry.,him just now be- r cayse I‘could not dispose of the shop ° immediately,-and he said: . “Ohy give the shop to: Leslie.” She deserves.something for the way she stood by you, You knew you didn’t have one’ solitary, cent—it was all her money. No one else would ‘have believed in you or, helped’you but ‘me, and you: wouldn’t let: me do it. ‘onsequently-I don’t think the shop coy is yours. It belongs, Then, dear, I had to tell that Jack doesn’t know you own any share in the shop. You ought to’ ki heard him. whistle. Finally.he said: - “It looks to me, my dear, as if a very -good business. proposition was going to be scrapped in the near, fu- ture, Why,.don’t you buy, Leslie out, Ruth? “I'd be perfectly willing to pay @ good’ price for it. Then you can put’ it on co-operative basis and make a good thing for the wel- fare of all those people that you have sewing and- working for you now.” Resets ‘ “But someone will have to run it; Walter,” I said, « ; “Either you or Leslie could run it under those conditions. It’s no disgrace for a:mén ‘to let his wife work her head off ‘in welfare work, but it is disgraceful for an ablebod- i¢d~ man: to -have @ woman work to earn money: for. himself. If a man can’t support his wife; ‘he’s no. bus- iness to marry; her.” (Copyright, 1924, NEA Setvice, Inc.) $5 er) With the; coming of hot days, Mr. Jones Of Awyto@n was wont ‘to visit soda, founta d_ask: for butier- mille or Ran Few how important a part hat bball 4 any of its’ formé—-whéther “buttermilk or ope: of the:'many -especially: prepared concoctions:<playsi in: fighting intes- —*-— FABLES ON HEALTH BUTTERMILK BENEFICIAL milk germs in the intestinal tract manufacturing the:r belligerent Jlac- tic germs a constant enemy of intes- tinal poisons will be on hand. ‘ This does not mean that the mére swallowing of a little sour milk will do the work. The good germs must be kept alive and to do.this we must feed:them. . The foods which best aid in the propagation of these good germs in- clude a rather free ajsage. of milk, some céreal such @s oatmeal, cooked but for 10 minutes, or a slight amount of raw starch, HAVE TAG DAY of the Mandan Kiwanis donated , thirty: eets te-the Mandan Deaconess /hospital; have named a committee* composed of Dr. G. H. Speilman, Dr. A. 0.. Henderson, Geo. F. Wilson and Atty. C.:D. Cooley, secretary, to formulate plans for conducting a tag day in behalf of the Further announcements le by the committee, Committees of the Kiwanis club also reported on two other projects —one the. repair.of the Heart River dam, the other on installation of a city golf course.’ . — MARKETS WHEAT Joseph Renner, who farms in the Little Heart Valley ahout:seven miles ‘west. of St. Anthony, ‘is the first farmer of the Missouri -Blope, so-far wheat this Mr. Renner brow; than a bushel of t to iller Milling ‘compstiy. p! ret’ wheat to be ‘repel city. Tt was ‘gleanings headetbox, selfthreshed’ Prog ‘of catting: Cae i “The ‘wheat is a very" good’ quslity { No: 1 @ark,Northern and tested 58 pounds to: ubhel,” said H..A, Ri berts, manager ‘of the Russcli Mille: Milling company. ERIOUSLY INJURED 6D. \ WHEN HIT BY-AUTO Righard, aged 3, son of Mr. and Mrs, Jesse Fredericks of Gartison, hear his home and sustained injuries . which make his condition very eri ical, according to word réceived here, The boy is being brought to the Man- dan hos; Both ‘Je heliev internal injuries, mother of the boy, i of Dr. G. Hy Spielman. CANNIBAL ANCESTORS < Pals Ane. nad Sincarery of. pie of human ti the Neolithic period at feat 6.000 years 5 aon @.cave near Auch, in the s of France, has given rise to the theo: t at that yal was struck by an automobile shortly, before noon yesterday while ‘playing’ —<~