The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 18, 1924, Page 2

PAGE TWO THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. dD. 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. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year............. $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) . ~ 1.20 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) SPEAKING OF DEDUCTIONS T. R. Atkinson in a report to the city commission upon engineering expense reports the total of water works con- tracts to date as $359,528.91. On this he reports as having coming to him five per cent or a total of $17,976.45. Pur- chase price of the old plant was $265,000. Three per cent on this gives us the $7,960 gratuity. The total of the commis- sions is 926.45. Mr. Atkinson in his report states that the total engineering expense covering these items at three and five per cent amounts to a grand total of $25,386.24. There is a difference of $540.21 not accounted for in the city’s favor. Through his official press agent, the public is informed that $2,000 of the $4,000 to be paid for the plans and speci- fications of the water plant is to be deducted. It might be interesting for the taxpayers to know if the $540.21, the difference between five and three per cent upon the contracts and purchase price and what Mr. Atkinson’# bill calls for, is part of the $2,900 to be deducted. The Atkinson commission score to date then reads something like this. Fee on plans..... -$ 2,000.00 Three per cent gratuity Sie + 7,950.00 Five per cent on contracts....... eeeeee 17,976.45 DETROIT Kresge Bldg. Grand Total «+ + $27,926.45 Less $540.21 not accounted for brings Net Commission and Gratuity to.......$27,486.24 It is hard to get the exact facts upon city business. Ap- peals made by The Tribune to A. P. Lenhart, president of the city commission, to issue through its columns a complete statement of water plant costs and commissions to Atkin- son have been coldly denied. It is suggested that the city auditor Myron Atkinson, son of T, R. Atkinson and A. J. Arnot, city treasurer, prepare a detailed statement showing all items carrying a five per cent commission, what will carry a special three per cent commission, uncompleted: contracts upon which five per cent commission is still to be paid and whether or not the tax- payers will be forced to pay Mr. Atkinson five per cent upon additional cost of the intake at the river which is now on a _ cost plus basis as far as work additional to original contract is concerned, due to alterations made in the original plans. It might be edifying to know also whether Mr. Atkinson receives a commission on the tons of excess iron pipe piled in the boulevard on Avenue C and not utilized. In touching on deductions claimed to have been made but not shown in Mr. Atkinson’s statement as presented to Commissioner Thompson, it might be well to state also whether any deduction was made on the thirty-six inch san- itary sewer constructed to empty into the old eighteen inch sewer. This error in building a thirty-six inch sewer to empty into the eighteen inch sewer necessitated an additional out- lay of $11,000 of the taxpayers money across the bottom lands. Was Mr. Atkinson paid five per cent or $550 on this error? Will there be any deductions for the confusion over *the intake plans? When discussing deductions and in order to be fair to all sides, A. P. Lenhart should issue a cemplete statement of disbursements on contracts covering the water works sys- tem and the sanitary sewer. The Tribune is merely interested in giving the taxpayers the facts of how their dollars are being spent. If T. R. At- kinson proposed to deduct $2,000 of the proposed $4,000 fee for the plans and specifications, it should have shown up in the statement of August 5, all the press or the taxpayers have to go by. Before the next budget is made up the city commission as is required by law should publish a complete financial statement of the city’s affairs sworn to by the City Treas- urer. It should not be too long delayed. It should not be a mere perfunctory summary, but a comprehensive statement covering receipts and disbursements and especially those paid in commissions and for extraordinary purchases or pay- ments upon contracts. i This is the public business and the people are eatitled to know. Requests made by The Tribune for a complete statement have not been complied with. If Mr. Lenhart is adverse to giving The Tribune this information, he can pub- lish it in the county’s official paper. By all means let us have some definite statement of where the money is going and how much more is to be spent on contracts and commissions upon the water plant. Some heavy taxes are ahead and the citizens of Bismarck are entitled to know what they are facing. No graft is char; to anyone, merely lax business man- agement in the handling of the city’s affairs and even more laxity in telling the people about their own business. EYES Two million American school children are backward in their studies because of defective eyesight, claims an organ- ization with a name as long as the number of German marks in circulation. Proper spectacles, furnished free, would correct this de- fect. Wisely cities are realizing that brains cannot be train- ed to function at their best unless expert care is devoted to pupils’ eyes, teeth, diet and other physical factors. : SUNDAY He has preached 22,000 sermons—Canon Hay Aitken, England’s greatest revivalist. Aged; but in good health, so he may pass John Wesley’s record of 27,000 sermons. Vicar Aitken’s observation is that church-going habits \ have been broken down by the invention of the bicycle and auto. ‘He overlooks golf. “Every new benefit which science haa ¢onferred upon:us has been used to take men away from the churches.” | Pee. An exception, is radio, which has created an invisible church‘ audience humbering into the millions, Editorial Review Comments reproduced io’ this column may or may not express the opinion of ‘The Tribune, They ale presented here in order that’ our readers may have both sides of important issues which are Deing discussed in the press of ne das ne | SUPER-POWER DEVELOPMENT Muscle Shoals, according to Carl ‘Thompson at the Epworth As- nbly, is on ely one link in a chain, This is a fact which the country is gradually grasping. re lest at this | away | much j One needs to b point his imagination run with him, ‘but there isn’t doubt that revolutionary “s power” development is. i prospect for this country. By “super-power” is meant the | developing and linking together into balanced system, the i country sources of mechanical power. This _m s development and inter-linking of water powers | and the burning of coal at the! mine and the transm jon of its} energies by electric ble instead of freight car. Developing water | power involyes flood control and} reclamation of arid lands. Out of | it all flows to the point, where needed, the electric current which to turn the wheels of the fu-! ture. The little individual power plant is to go. For our factory wheels as well as our dining room lights we are to tap a common | stream of electric power. The country’s ablest engineers, including Herbert Hoover, enter: tein this dream as something ready underfulfillment. Thecentra zation of electric power into lar- ger and larger mills is going on ut apid rate. We see this in prog- | s in Nebraska as well as else-{ where. And along with and_be- yond it lies what may well be a paramount political issue within another four or eight years. We have thought of railroads as fear- ful in their power over us all for weal or woe. Thr guperspower of tomorrow will control the railroads with the rest. How is the new Frankenstein, having in its keep- ing our very economic breath of life to be controlled? Subject here for a political struggle of first: magnitude.—Lincoln Journal. DRUNKEN DRIVERS , = Two men are in the city jail charged with driving an automo- bile while intoxicated. One hundred thousand people are in this community wondering when the highways of the country will be even as safe as the battle- Hea of France. America lost 48,000 killed in France in eighteen months. In the last eighteen months in this country 96,000 per-| sons were slain by automobiles. Twenty-five thousand of those were children. But, this matter of drunken drivers is the most serious menace to the public safety today. It is a problem that the police and the courts can settle. It is a problem that the public will demand that the police and the courts settle. With the num- ber of drunken drivers increasing, even though every one of them does not kill some one, it appears that it is time for drastic penalties to be meted out to the offenders. A man who takes a gun and goes out to commit murder is safer than a drunken fool a the steering wheel of an automobile. The former is the enemy of wemen and children, and is as likely to mow down a dozen with one turn of the wheel as he ig to run his car into the Ohio river—- Evansville Journal. MANDAN NEWS | MEN TRANSFERRED Seven men have already been transferred to the mechanical de- partment of thp Northern Pacific shops here, all of them coming from Dickinson where "théy have been in the employ of the railroad, the shops being cut down to a minimum force. About the same number of men have been transferred to Glendive. Running of the passenger locomo- tives for the two hundred mile jumps, the reason for the closing of the Dickinson shops, began definite- ly this week on the Yellowstone di- vision. Still more men are to be added to the various departments of the Mandan round house. No in- creases have been announced in the car repair or supply departments of the shops. Promotions for some of the heads of the round house departments are expected in the Dakota, Yellowstone and Montana divisions and numer- ous changes are now pending. TO TEACH IN PANAMA Three Mandan girls, Miss Wilifred Simpson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Simpson, and the Misses Louise and Antonio Grunenfelder, daughters of Mr,.and Mns. Anton Grunenfelder, will teach during the next year in the Panama canal zone. They will sail from New York on September 22nd and will be as- signed their schools on reaching Panama. Miss Simpson plans to leave some- time during the next week for Cros- by, Minn., where she formerly taught, to spend several days with friends, leaving there for’ Oma Neb., to visit with her sister, Mrs. Thomas Lough. She. will also visit in New York with friends before sailing. The Misses Grunenfelder plan to visit in New York City and with their brother, Francis Grunen- felder at West Point, before leaving for Panama. MARTIN-BRINSMADE A quiet but very pretty wedding, and probably a surprise to many friends in the city, took place Sat- urday morning at 10:80 o'clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. L, Means, when Miss Ellen Martin be- came the bride of J. C. Brinsmade, Jr. Only the immediate members of the bride’s family, Mr. and Mrs. Means and Thomas Killand, were Hgesent at the ceremony which was performed by Rev. F. H. Davenport THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE An Alienist in Every Home AUENIST Gold waar! AGAIN? Psycnosis! of Christ Episcopal church. The bride was charming in a gown of peach colored printed chiffon and carried an,arm bouquet of bride’s roses, Miss Martin is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nels Martin, who re- side southwest of the city. She is a graduate of the Mandan High School and the State Teachers Col- lege at Valley. She taught in the local schools for two years. ims Vs y It something if it is not yourself. is all right to be sorry for Some people think every season comes at the wrong time of the year. Caution is a great asset ‘in fish- ing, especially if you are the fish. When a gitl wants a man to save his money he is going’ to need it. Only way to prune the national budget is to pull off a few plums. Houses are not as scarce as the rent is. Some neighbors will borrow every- thing, including trouble. When picking your friends be careful not to pick them too much. All the world loves a lover, but all the world quits a quitter. The worst man we know of got married because he heard a wife was cheaper than a janitor. There are a great many tollgates along the road to success. Worst second-story men are those who tell the same story twice. Why work on when phoneless work? wireless phones phones need the A man will bawl out his stenog- rapher because he helped with the dishes before coming to work. You can't convince the men who take up tickets in the movies that marriage makes two people one. Why don’t they make hinged windshields for drivers to go through without Wyeaking the glass? When a man with but a single idea gets where he is going he hasn’t seen much of the trip. The political pot boils and gets someone into hot water. What you hear never important as what you overhear. ad ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “Is your vacation nearly Weeny?” asked Nancy. “Over!” remarked Weeny in sur- prise. “I should say not! When I take a vacation I take a big one. T’m a big person and I never do anything little. No siree! My vacation isn’t half over yet. Why? Are you Twins getting tired?” “Oh, no!” said Nancy. “I only asked because I was afraid maybe it might be, and I’m having such a good time, and I want it to last as long 4s possible.” So do I!” declared Nick, + “That's just fine!” happily giving with his long trunk. “So now I sup- over, t seems as ch of them a hug|_ Pavewosig || PSYWOMS MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1924 , TWO THOUSAND CHANCES By Albert Apple There are 2000 different lines of work that a boy or girl jean follow when they strike out into the world for them- jselves. This figure is unearthed by Doris Maddow, the voca- {tional guidance expert. Meaning, that she specializes at {helping young people select the work they are best fitted for. ; Two thousaad different lines of work mean 2000 differ- ent kinds of opportunity. For there is opportunity in every field, always leaders and plenty of room for more. Success comes to relatively few. It depends on natural ability, concentration and luck or the law of chance. Do you ever stop to think how much easier it is for a man to select an occupation with great possibilities, than it | used to be? of vocations was limited. He might become a farmer, a tradesman, lawyer, doctor, dentist, railroad man, keeper of a livery stable, carpenter, mason, blacksmith, machinist, | Jack-of-all-trades. That didn’t complete the list. But his selection was not nearly as varied as today. Consider, for instance, the new {forms of work created for millions of people by the auto— ‘the various stages of manufacturing, selling, repairing and | the great side-fields of gasoline and accessories. Radio has created many entirely new vocations. So have the movies. So have airplanes, industrial chemistry and other new activities. Choose your career as carefully as you would choose a life mate. Miss Maddow advises. She speaks words of wisdom. One can get rid of an uncongenial husband or wite easier than to change lines of work after years of training in one line have bred habit. With 2000 different ways of making a living to choose from, there is no excuse for anyone not finding work he loves. | Nature distributes our inclinations shrewdly. There are just enough “born mechanics” or “born doctors” to meet | needs, and so with every activity. Many get into the wrong line—are misfits—and, discontented and half-hearted, fail. Instinct will guide most of us to the right work. | - Much failure is directly due to well-meaning but misguid- jed parents who sway the child from his natural inclination and try to make, for instance, a lawyer out of a born me- Many now living can recall when a young fellow’s choice ‘ pose you want to go with me to visit some more of my circus friends.” “Yes, we do!” cried both Twins to- gether, “I've visited so many there aren’t very many left,” said Weeny thoughtfully. “But I think we'd bet- ter visit Tommy Tiger next. He'd feel awfully upset if he thought I was visiting around and left him out. ‘ So to Tommy Tiger’s house they went. “Hello,” said Tommy when he saw them. “Where are you going?” “No place!” said Weeny. “We're |not going. We're coming. We've | come to visit you.” “Hooray!” d Tommy Tiger. “Leave your tehel on the porch and come on over to th: with me. I was just s “Sure,” said Weeny. “We'll come right away. Slide down off my back, Nick, will you, and set my satchel on Tommy’s front porch.” Soon everybody was ready and off they all started for the playground where Tommy Tiger and his friends had such a good time. There were swings and slifting- boards and sand-piles and see-saws and .everything you could think of to make the jungle children happy. “Let's try the see-saw first,” said Tommy Tiger. “Nancy and Nick can take a turn and then Weeny and T can take a turn, Then we can go turn about until we get tired.” So the Twins took their turn on the see-saw, and then it was time for Weeny and Tommy to get on. Tommy got on his end of the board and Weeny was just going to sit down on his end of the board, when his feet slipped and down he went on it—smack! coal, And Tommy Tiger flew up over the tree-tops like a stone out of a slingshot and disappeared from view altogether-——like a shooting-star, as Nick said afterwards. “Oh, dear! Dearie me!” exclaim- ed Weeny. “Now look what I went and did. We'll have to find Tommy and bring him back. If he’s lost his mama and papa will bite my head off.” So Nancy and Nick and Weeny went to look for Tommy Tiger, and at last they found him sticking away up in a palm tree about a hun- dred feet high. If he hadn’t been a circus tiger and used to jumping he never, never would have gotten down.’ .But he did at last. And he was so good natured that he only laughed about it. “That w the best ride I ever had,” he d. “Let's go back to the play- ground and have some more fun.” So away they went. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) FIRE DESTROYS BATHING TENT Braddock, N. D., Aug. 18.—A cig- arette left burning in the tent in which they had disrobed and where they had donned bathing suits start- ed a fire which completely destroy- ed the tent and forced four local young men to travel 30 miles in “next to nothing.” Four couple of local young folks wentéto Lake Isabel for the day’s outing and two tents were erected. As the party was en- joying the swimming they noticed the one tent in flames but were un- able to scramble to shore fast enough to save their clothing. The second tent in which. the girls had donned bathing suits caught fire but their clothes’ .were- saved. Square coins, made /of a mixture of ‘copper and nickel, have been issued in Spain, EVERETT TRUE WELL, WIEIE, YOU HAIR BOBGED AND ro MS. MY CITTLCS ee: BY CONDO RAVE HAD YouR IT WAS A GREAT SHOCK Now, THEN, HOW Do OU CIKS mut aa) Tait : wee, IT'S VERY Timecy — JUST WHEN THE DooR BELK RANG = SPILT SOmMe GREASE ON THE KITCHEN Cb rrr CW pn like,a ton of chani¢ or a mechanic out of a born lawyer. He has to live with his job. Let him select it. NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—Rom not dead. A spinster of 45, retiring inthe presence of men, lives‘in a pictures- que abode in Westchester county, a short car ride from the bustle of New York. { She has the idealistic, romantic view of life of an adolescent girl. For years, I am told, she has clung to the outer fringes of life. The nearest she has come to entering the abounding places of the sophisiacated life she sees from a distance, is the time she sold some hand-beaded bags to a shopkeeper in Greenwich Vil- \lage. Independently wealthy, this naive maiden of middle age is not without personal charm. : Beside her home, on a rolling lawn, she has had erected a tower, soaring many feet above the top*of her house. Much of her time is spent here. From its glass-eneased cupola the gay lights of giddy Broadway are visible at night. | Men with waxed mustaches, wear- ling perfect-fitting riding uniforms, hasten past on spirited horses, They, are the gallants of today. There is little doubt but that she medieval days of knights and fairy princes, hoping that one of the charmers who ride past her castle, will awaken her from — romantic dreamings. It i in direct contrast to the ag gressive coquetry of today’s maidens. Poverty and affliction usually de- serve sympathy—but not «alway There have been many exposes of public beggars, who collected alms on prominent corners by da them in secluded, luxurious after sundown. However, yesterday I paused talk with an aged, blind beg wag accompanied by her gr: was standing before the en’ an uptown hetel, Playing a ukelele, she was attempt- ing in a creaking voice to mingle age- old lyrics with the flapper’s delight. Neither her voice nor her ukelele carried above the din of heavy tra She was worthy of aid, 1 am posi- vive. After talking to her for five min- utes, an unusual lump came in my, throat, She was an optimist. y After I left her I sent my mother out in Lafayette, Ind., a present. to She json and ‘ance of lives, in thought at least, in the —Stephen Hannagan. LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO RUTH BURKE, CONTINUED Karl Whitney stopped, abashed. “I beg your pardon,”*he said, «“] did not think I ‘was ‘interrupting anything private.” Baie Mother turned to him. “Karl,” she said, “I want to ask you some questions.” ~ “Don’t tell him, mother, don’t tell him, I did it because I love him. I did it because I love him. Don’t tell him.- He will always hate me, if he knows.” : Poor Karl, Ruth, ‘stood there look- ing very uncomfortable. Mother raised Alice to her feet, but looked at her in horror. It seemed to me that my mother was looking at her daughter as though she were a total stranger, ‘ Finally she found words: “You'll excuse me for . a little while, Karl,” she said. “Then I will clear this matter entirely up to your satisfaction as well as my own. “Leslie, I am telegraphing for your husband to bring the baby over him- self. I think it’s important that he should be here. I know your father will want to see him as soon as he’s able to see any one.” As soon as ‘mother and Alice had left the room, Karl turned to me and said: “What does. this .mean,, \Lesijie? What is the matter with Alice? She hasn’t been herself for quite a while. In fact, I came over today to find out what was wrong-with her.” “Ym going to ask you a very per- tinent question, Karl? Are’ you very fond of Alice?” Karl hesitated, turning red, then white. “Yes, I think I.am as fond of her as I will ever be of any woman. I suppose, Leslie, I am what they call a one-woman mang but that is all gone by. -We won’t talk about it.” “Karl, may I give those pearls’ you gave me back to Alice for a wed- ding present?” “What is the matter? Is all this fuss being made about that foolish string of pearls again, Alice doesn’t want those pearls.” “Yes she does, Karl—so much so that she is perfectly willing to break up my home-to get them.” “Leslie, 1 can't hear this, even from you. You must be mad.” The nurse came in at this moment, saying that my father’ wanted me. I spent the whole afternoon with him, and so here the matter stands. Mother has sent for .Jack, Alice hasn't left her room ‘all day today, and Karl has vanished. Just what the next day or two will bring forth I haven't the slightest idea. Lovingly, | LESLIE. x (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Vacation days at an end, Mr. Jones was inclined to slip back into his careless. routine of living. “Doing any swimming?” the phy- sical director asked him when they met one day. bs “Not since my vacation,” answer- ed Mr. Jones. “That’s what they all say. They all go away, for two weeks or a month; start getting their physical selves built up and then come home feeling pretty peppy; they go at top speed on the little energy newly ac- quired or slide back in their chairs and take on a large-sized bay win- dow. . “You fellows have an idea ‘that you can get through the year on the two weeks or a month that you use ——FABLES ON HEALTH - SWIMMING HEALTHFUL in getting back to nature.’ “The least you can do is keep up one form of exercise. For chest,i shoulder and body development gen- erally there’s nothing like a good course in swimming. It’s fine for the wind of gents like yourself; gets 1 you in the habit of breathing more regularly and forces deep breathing, There’s a good tank at your gyin- nasium, and the reaction from the plunge is enough to help you tone up by itself. ercisez and then jump in the tank. Or get down to the lake or seashore on Sunday, if you can, And if there’s no place to swim, take a good shower and rubdown after your e: ercit “Go through a good course of ex-/*