The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 20, 1924, Page 2

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THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) TRAFFIC PROBLEM Under the present system of parking, the Capitol Car -Line is a menace to the safety of automobilists and pedes- irlans alike. Several plans for parking automobiles have been proposed but none adopted. It is impossible under usual traffic conditions for an automobile to pass the street THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1924 » a WHERE YOU’D BE A KING By Albert Apple Editorial Review The Saddest Words of Tongue or Pen— - Comments reproduced in_ tl column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They ure presented here in order that Publishers our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. A tired man, figuratively chained to an office desk or a work bench or a store counter and yearning for the great outdoor freedom that people had before the coming of “ef- ficiency,” must have sighed enviously if he caught this little {news item: William Ingram of England sues a New Yorker for a bal- ance of $5500 due on the purchase of the island of Little To- \bago in the West Indies. The New Yorker claims the Englishman told, him there were 600 birds-of-paradise on Little Tobago. The buyer figured on selling these birds of gorgeous plumage to millionaires whose estates they were a pemarneut: Instead, he says, he found only 12 of the \ birds. The thing that will interest the reader most is that the entire island, a tropical paradise in the wonderful climate of the West Indies, sold for only $10,000. Imagine being able to buy such a place. There you would be king. CAN MAKE IT! (Minneapolis Tribune) Another important milestone | has heen passed. The heads of | the interested governments have signed the protocol providing the means for putting the Dawes plan into effect. The outlook for Euro pean recovery is, as a result, | brighter than it has been at any} time within the past five years. We should be careful not to jump to conclusions and assume that the matter is settled. The French Parliament must still give its endorsement to M. Herriot. rhe German Reichstag must still give its endorsement to Chancellor Marx. But, without attempting to minimize the opposition which is| bound to develop in ‘both these | parliamentary bodies, we think it unlikely that either would dare to torpedo the agreement. It is, after all, Europe's only hope. Herriot and Marx are to be con-} gratulated upon the spirit in which they conducted the negoti- ations. Bach had to make sacri ices and each did make sacrifices. And cach made them knowing that he was courting bitter attack and even retirement from political life. Fach had a nice appreciation of the other's position and went to| The lure of the South Seas is not the hula dancers nor the weird wailing of ukulele and stecl guitar. What fasci- nates people is the idea of the freedom from worry and {were supposed to be an inevitable accompaniment of island ife. Here is Little Tobago, for instance, selling for $10,000. There must be thousands of such islands. It is a marvel that peple do not save their money, buy these little kingdoms and go there to live—far from the income tax, politicians, traffic regulations, city stenches, nasty dispositions of nerve- wracked people, and the other discomforts of “civilization.” How’d you like to round up your friends and their fam- ilies, buy an island and flee for good from the maddening ear on lower Fourth and on Main street. If parking arrangements are not corrected soon, an acci- dent may force a change. Surely the city would be liable in case of an accident if the present parking system is allowed to continue. It is impossible to drive a car on either side of the street car between the line of automobiles pro- jecting at various angles. The situation so patent that the police department should without delay force parallel parking in the three blocks in question. It should not be necessary for an acci- dent to force such a change in the parking arrangements. There may be objections to parallel parking on some of the streets, but parking that calls for backing out against the stream of traffic is being discarded in most cities. Cer- tainly the parking arrangements can be improved in this city and make for greater safety in driving. LAFOLLETT: SOLE AIM Not even the most enthusiastic follower of Senator Robert M. LaFollette in his wildest moments of enthusiasm will admit that the Wisconsin senator can be elected pres- ident. The best his supporters hope to do is to throw the élection into Congress and there through the manipulation incident to such an impasse, dictate the presidential choie It is hoped also by the LaFollette bloc to use his candidacy to elect as many congressmen and senators of the so-called progressive school of thought as possible. If a considerable bloc of voters, who are normally repub- lican in states of well known republican leanings, however, vote the LaFollette ticket, the tide is liable to turn in favor of the democrats. Such was the case in the memorable Bull Moose campaign, but of course political conditions are dif- ferent today and probably it is not logical or safe to draw too close an analogy between the two situations. Despite the deplorable oil scandals, it must be admitted that the republican administration is bringing the nation back to normalcy. There is evident an honest attempt to lower public expenditures and President Coolidge has dem- onstrated a type of leadership, safe and American to the very core. In his acceptance speech, he quietly answered critics concerning the oil leases by pointing to the fact that every legal agency was at work to protect the interests of the people and to punish the evil doer. Those who expected a demagogic splurge over this incident were disappointed of course. That is not the Coolidge type of public service nor the theory of common sense in government which he so tersely defined in his memorable address. LaFollette’s candidacy serves no public need nor has it been received as enthusiastically in centers where it prom- ised at first to receive greatest support. Voters of this state can best serve the nation and safe- guard their own interests by supporting Coolidge. SOUND PHILOSOPHY Senator Cartwright of California has uttered some very salient truths in a number of his public addresses. Here are a few maxims that smack of the philosophy of Ben- jamin Franklin: “You cannot make the short man tall by cutting off the legs of the tall man. “I can’t make my hair grow by trimming yours. “You cannot make the poor man rich by making the rich man poor. “What is handed down to us does us very little good; what we earn for ourselves helps us to get more. “Every time we give a man something for nothing, we weaken his backbone. And if we do it often enough, we degiroy his backbone and leave him nothing but. a wish- one. “The more the state does for the man the less the man will do for himself. “The less a man knows about his own business ,the more he thinks he knows about the business of government. “Pretended friendship has been the subterfuge of bunco- steerers from the beginning of time. “Never take the advice of a failure. failure. “The true friend of labor is the man who by word and deed aids in establishing and maintaining conditions of steady employment. , “Had no one saved there would be no capital. “The more capital we create and save, the more employ- ment there will be, and the higher the general standard of living. “Every man who works and saves is a capitalist. “We have been agitating and legislating and regulating the business man out of business and the working man out of his job. “And we thought we were reformers. . From the beginning of time the mainspring of industry Yias been the hope of private profit. - “Rmployment comes only through the investmen He will lead to of apital. : Pe ary “Idle dollars mean idle men.” BOOTLEG A big submarine is reported to be landing German beer, Scotch whisky and French champagnes near Boston. New York has its rum-running airplanes. The country is far from dry, but liquor is getting harder to get when the bootleg gentry have to resort to planes and submarines. These-two Anveptions may shortly be the chief problems of the liquor sleut! At any rate, you'll live to see police and criminals fight duels overhead in the air. the uttermost extreme in subordi- nating mere nationalist vanity to the ideal of the common interna-, tional good. Both Herriot and Marx had to give up a great deal more than either of their respective nations care to give up. That the agrec- ment was essentially fair is proved by the fact that Paris and Berlin are alike cool towards it. Were Paris jubilant and Berlin indig- nant, or Berlin jubilant and Par! indignant, we would know th something other than “even-hand- ed justice’ had been meted out. But, as it is, each country, while feeling no enthusiasm for the agreement, appears resigned to it. Roughly speaking, France has had to abandon the attitude of act- ing as Germany's jailer. France has insisted that she should be scle judge of Germany's default- ings and that she should punish them when she saw fit and in any way she saw fit. The chief dan- ger of this lay in the fact that France was as free to punish Ger- many for imaginary defaultings as for real defaultings. With the Dawes plan in effect, Germany cannot be punished for imaginary defaultings. The Allies must have final voice in determining whether the defaultings are real or imaginary. An elaborate machin- ery has been set up which makes it impossible for France to remain the irresponsible master of Ger- many. Yet France is safeguarded. Tf she has any genuine case against Germany, the Allies will see to it that the proper and pro- pertionate sanctions and penalties are applied. Germany, meanwhile, is insured justice. Should she fail to live up to the spirit of the Dawes agreement, she will be tak- en to task, but she has nothing to worry about as long as she en- ceavors faithfully to carry out the provisions. Instead of being ac- countable to France alone, Ger- many, from now on, will be ac- countable, so to speak, to a board of directors—and a board of direc- tors not unsympathetic to her. France must cease being tyrannical and destructionist and Germany must cease being recalcitrant and obstructionist. Brilliant work has been done by the London conference. The job of smoothing out difficulties which looked insurmountable has ‘been successfully despatched. No one unfamiliar with the compli- cated skein of contradictory sus- pectibilities which had to be kept in mind could begin to understand the immensity of the task set be- fore the delegates. American in- fiuence played an extremely im- portant part in helping things aiong, and American ingenuity is to be given the credit for having found the way out of more than one deadlock which looked insolu- ble. We in the Northwest are en- titied to feel a special pride in the fact that Ambassador Kellogg rep- resented his country so well and acquitted himself so handsomely in a conference of such far-reaching magnitude. The Dawes plan ‘be- gins to loom up as one of the most impressive accomplishments of modern times. The dawn of a new era appears to ‘be breaking. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON BIMBO AND HIS PIG “Let's go to see Bimbo the Clown,” said Weeny, the circus elephant, to Nancy and Nick. i “Bimbo has a little pig called Squealy and we're quite sure to have lots of fun.” “Oh, yes, let's,” cried the Twins. “Clowns are jolly and kind, and we just love little pigs. Hurry up, Weeny, please.” “Let's see where Bimbo lives,” said Weeny thoughtfully. “I think he lives -between the five-and-ten-cent store and the movie: So away he went on: his big paddy feet as fast as he could go, with the Twins on his baek, to Jolly Town. Jolly Town had nothing but candy stores, and toy stores, and ice-cream stores, and five-and-ten-cent stores and movies. And.right between the five-and-ten- eent store and the movies was a candy house with an ice-cream cone chimney and lime-drop windows. The steps were sugar loaves and the bricks were caramels. There was 4 candy stick fence with chocolate drop trimmings. Weeny hurried up to the.door-and knocked with his trunk. “Does Bimbo live here?” he called in Jolly Town.” *never blame the cliff dwellers for be- crowd? veys.” bered by a mortgage. Few of us can escape the Radio and newspaper and magazines would keep you in touch with most of the things you’d miss. It is impossible for any man to be “monarch of all he sur- The closest approach is to own a strip-of land. There is no greater pleasure than the realization that a definite section of the earth belongs to you, even if encum- “system” and live on tropical islands. But we all can own a house and lot in the city or 4 small patch of ground with a “shack” and garden out in the country where we can spend vacations or week-ends. The real rulers of the earth are the land owners. down, the chimney. “Yes, he lives here,” answered a queer voice up the chimney. “But he’s not in.” “When will he be in?” Weony down the chimney. “He won't be in,” said the queer | voice up the chimney. “Why?” asked Weeny. “Because he can’t get in,” said the voice. “He can’t get in because I'm here.” “Oh, you must be a mean person to keep him out of his own house!” said Weeny, severely. “You ought to be ashamed of yourself.” + “T am ashamed,” said the voice. “But I can’t help it. I'd go out if I could get out, but I can’t get out. I'm too fat. I fill the whole house and I'd knock everything to pieces if I tried to get out.” “Who are you?” asked Weeny. “Pm Squealy the Pig,” said the voice. “Why, you were just a wee little pig when I knew you in the circus,” said Weeny, in surprise. “I’m your old friend, Weeny, the elephant, and I've brought some friends to see you. Whuat’s happened?” “I just grew,” said Squealy, sadly. “Bimbo went away and left me one time and when he came back I'd grown so he couldn’t get me out. I ate too much candy. Now he can't get in for I take up all the room. He just has to wait till I burst out. | Oh, goodness—I believe I’m bursting now. I feel the roof giving. Look out, everybody!” Suddenly there was a sound like a cannon-cracker on the Fourth of July and the candy house flew into a hun- dred pieces. Up rushed Bimbo, who had just finished his act in one of the shows, and threw his arms around Squealy's neck. “Oh, you poor darling!” he cried. “I’m so glad to see you!” “No use staying here now,” saidj Weeny picking up his satchel.} “There's no house to visit.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) It takes dollars to world you have sense. asked | convince the and up a Our ancestors lived in trees the average man of today is tree much of the time. Some men remind. us of postage stamps. They must be licked before they will stick to a thing. » Barbers say men are having their hair waved. Males are. Men are! not. Talk about short measure, there's many # quart foot in a pint shoe. The head of many a house is less than 10 years old. pode Y People who live on second floors coming extinct. There is no use in starting trouble. It is a self-starter. A man on top is just standing on his friends’ shoulders, . No matter -who you think can’t do, you are right about it. you The man who acts like:a jackass is the goat and leads a dog’s life. doesn't take the knock out of the engine. People often will for something they anything else for, ve three cheers wouldn't give It is estimated the hand shaking from one election would milk every cow in the United States twice. < Some women won’t be happy in | heaven if all chenw ines are alike. LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO RUTH BURKE That sister of mine, dear Ruth, is a mighty clever girl, In my last letter to you, you will remember I ‘ou that mother had started to igate the whole matter of se pearls. (Truly, Ruth, I wish I had never seen them.) I'm be- Rubber heels on dad's shoes are fine chaperones. The hard thing about being a poor man is you are liable to get shot instead of sucd for breach of prom- New York, Aug. here go bareheaded during the mer. It brings about some amusing sit- uations. A hatless friend of mine, standing in an aisle of a large department store was mistaken for a floorwalker. “Where will I find woman's ready- 4o-wear clothes?” he was asked. In a men’s store a short time later, a man with two ties and mone: his hand rushed up to him and said, “Pil take these two, wrap them up, I'm in a hurry.” The following day my friend was in another store. He chose several ar- ticles and took them to a man stand- ing in the store. “PN take these;” he said. “Sorry,” said the supposed clerk, “1 don’t work here, I left my hat in my car.” men| sum- Families in the East Side tene- ment section consider it irregular to be without a “boarder.” Often a family of five or six will live in two rooms. Despite that fact they have a “boarder.” Two rooms in a tenement cost $12 “meattee EVERETT TRUE Bnew BECAavse FOR INSTANCE, THe (AW (3 TO ‘A rolling stone gathers no work. You see hand-painted pictures of health, but painting an old car IN ENGLAND, ginning to believe in the legend that pearls bring tears. Of course, you will say that they also brought me a great deal of joy and happiness, but if that string of beads is the cause of a separation between Jack and me, nothing else will matter. Mother sent a telegram to Jack a month, There is running water in the hallways, meters geared to accept quarters, The boarder pays 5 a month toward the upkeep of the home. It is payable in advance. One room serves as a kitchen and dining room and sleeping room for the children and the boarder, The mother and father live in the other room. here. I can just see my husband’s face when he got the telegram. He realized that it is war to the knife with us. I wonder if he remembers that Jack is legally my child, and if any- thing should come in the way of a separation, I shall insist upon having him. I haven’t confided this to anyone up to date—in fact I shave hardly voiced it to myself until this moment. I don’t think Jack. can refuse to come on mother’s ‘invitation, es- pecially as dad particilarly wants to see him. He will see from the kind of tele- gram which mother sent that she apparently does not know ything about our quarrel. diplomatic telegram. Rivington Street down on the Side. A show place for older deniz- ens of the tenement section. Cus- toms and habits brought from an- other country persist. Men with long beards, Women with wit The “Mikwah” bath each Friday night be- fore sundown. Pushcart fish sales- men, And the day is warm. Peddiers. Bargaining. Apples. Two for a penny. I'll give three cents for five. Kusherneer....Ich hob dir in dreat ....Nem an a misimeshine. The Irish policeman. Seems out of place down here. The friend of everyone. Views all with a sympa- thetic eye. Plump housewives. Life seems to agree here. Mother wired that dad wanted to see Jack very smuch, and as I wanted the baby, he would better bring him himself. That was literally all. Dear girl, this is not what I in- tended to write you at all when I started this letter. I had made up my mind it should be all about Alice. Yesterday before luncheon, without a word ‘to anyone, my sister slipped out of the house. At dinner time she had not returned, —Stephen Hannagan, BY CONDO Protect your food from flies and various insects while on camping trips, the Anytown Board of Health notified residents anticipating a sum- mer trip into the hills or country. With a little attention it is very easy to insure sanitation in an out- door camp. It may mean a little éxtra work to construct an outdoor cupbourd, protected by netting; or tocarefully cover the food supply against in- roads of insects, but it's worth it. Many a lazy camper has been awakened to action only after his asking him to bring little Jack over | It was a very| | out of it all. mother grew very much worried. ‘At last she confided to me that after she and Alice had left. my if by ever |room, she would kill herself | a | bility Karl should she had done. “What have you done” ther. Evidently Alice thought I had told mether what IT suspected my sister of doing, but when she heard her question, she shut up, and after a few more sobs, said she wanted to be alone. Two or three times during the morning mother rapped at Alice's door and was told again and again that Alice would rather not see any- one. The last time, just before lunch, however, there was no answer, and mother thought she was asleep. She waited all the after- noon, and when at dinner time she found from one of the maids that Alice had been gone ever since be- fore luncheon, she was sure the girl had made away with herself. I told her that my sister would never do that—that she was a good fighter whatever tlse she might be To calm her tears, however, D finally called up Karl’s house. L could not find him. Mother felt better after that, as she surmised they were together, and would be coming in later. I confess, Ruth, I was a little bit worried myself, for I didn’t just see what Alice was going to do to get She had virtually con- fessed to me at feast, before Karl, when she frantically asked my mother not to tell Karl what she had done, that she had written that letter to Jack. ‘Ruth, I'm ashamed to say that I have no love for my younger sister, and I am ashamed that one of my own family has proved herself so unworthy. asked mo- and| (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) FABLES ON HEALTH BEWARE OF INSECTS supplies have proved nests for flies and bugs, Other pointers that might be re- membered are these: Keep the campsite clean for the next fellow. A clean camp will not attract insects, Nothing makes a camper angrier than to come upon a once clean site and find it clut- tered with debris from the last occu pant, It takes but a little work to dig a hole for tin cans and left-overs and it helps camping places in de- cent sanitary condition. | MANDAN-NEWS | WILL RECOVER Joseph Soucy, Jr, well known farmer of south of the city who was seriously injured Monday is resting easily at the Deaconess hospital, say attending, physicians, An X-ray examination showed se- vere internal injuries from 2 badly fractured pelvis received when he was run over by the wagon which a few minutes later tipped over behind the runaway team, causing fatal in- Juries to his son, aged 13, who died just after being brought“to the hos- pital. Mr. Soucy's condition is. such ‘that he will be confined for hot less than Relatives and neighbors nity in which he lives have offered all assistance possible to get in his crop which is one of the finest of the district. The funeral services, for George Soucy were tretd this morning at 9:30 at St. Joseph’s Catholic church, burial to take place in the local cemetery. - RETURNS FROM COAST Attorney W. H. Stutsman has re- turned from a visit in California and Washington where he has been. since early in July. Mr. Stutsman spent a few days at Iowa City on business and stopped at Omaha and Denver while enroute to the coast. He spent part of the time at Los Angeles and with Mrs. Stutsman and his in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs, Leslie Storm at Seattle. He returned home on the Canadian Pae- ific. Mrs. Stutsman who has been on the coast since spring will return to Mandan in September. ‘BACK FROM -ORIENT Attorney Joseph Sullivan has re- turned from a two month's trip to the Orient on the S>S. McKinley. Mr. Sullivan was drummer in the North Dakota University orchestra on the steamer which made stops at Yokahama, Tokio, Kobe, Shanghai and Manila. EVENING WRAPS Evening wraps are more sump- tuous for this season than ever ibe- fore and are made of velvets and tissues, heavily embroidered and furred.