The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 8, 1924, Page 2

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MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year...........¢....005 ooo $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)............. 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 REACTIONARY PROPOSAL President Coolidge, usually calm and impassive, can strike out forcefully in defense of a principle or in the ad- vocacy of a cause he believes is right. In an even-tempered, common sense manner, which he deems so important in the conduct of government, the President did this in his Balti- more speech on the Constitution and the Supreme Court. The proposals to abridge the powers of the court and destroy the Constitution are not new, but they are being emphasized more than ever in the LaFollette campaign. The proposals are called “progressive.” President Coolidge very properly labels them “reactionary” and he proves his statement. If there is no law there is anarchy. If there is no pro- tection for the weak, for the minority, there is no justice. The Constitution of the United States was devised by men who had struggled for liberty; their intent was to preserve, and not to destroy, liberty. As the President said: Publishers DETROIT Kresge Bldg. “Some people do not seem to understand fully the purpose of our constitutional restraints. They are for protecting the majority either in or out of the congress. They can protect themselves with their votes. We'have adopted a written Con- stitution in order that the minority, even down to the most insignificant individual, might have their rights protected. So long as our Constitution remains in force, no majority, no matter how large, can deprive the individual of the right of life, liberty and property, or prohibit the free exercise of re- ligion or the freedom of speech or of the press.” The interpretation of this basic document was placed in the hands of a high court by the founders of the Republic. There is now the proposal that the interpretation be placed in the hands of the majority in Congress, which in itself is a denial of the rights to the minority the Constitution guarantees. It is notable, as the President points out, that Congress, even when sitting in a judicial capacity as it has in deciding many cases, is inclined to a decision on partisan grounds, or upon what it may believe for the moment is the popular course. No more certain course for the breaking down of stability in government could be adopted than to break down the powers of the supreme court and the scope of the Constitution. There are those who assault the supreme court as tyran- nical, in the exercise of its duties of interpreting the Con- stitution. On this point Mr. Coolidge said: “It is frequently charged that this tribunal ig tyranni If the Constitution of the United § s be tyranny; i that no one shall be convicted of a crime save by a ju peers; that no orders of nobility shall be granted: th shall not be permitted to exist in any state or territory no one shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law-if these and many other provisions made by the people be tyranny, then the supreme court when it makes decisions in accordance with these principles of our fundamental law is tyrannical; otherwise it is exercising the power of government for the preservation of liberty.” The Constitution has raised certain barriers against ~hasty change. The change may come, deliberately and at the hands of the people. Stability of government, orderly processes, are provided, yet provision is made in the Consti- tution for such changes as the people desire by amendment. History is replete with the disasters which have occasioned | efforts to make great fundamental changes overnight. War and revolution have had such an object, the same object which is behind the present attack upon the Constitution and the high court. This is not progress, but reaction. Mr. Coolidge said: “At a time when all the world is seeking for the adjudica~ tion of differences between nations, not by war, but by reason, the suggestion that we should limit the jurisdiction of our domestic courts is reactionary in the highest degree. It would cast aside the progress of generations to begin again the con- test for supremacy between executive and legislative. Which- arr side has won in that struggle, the people have always lost.” § Doubtless many of those who are behind the present attack are sincere. But it is equally true that many are insincere. A direct assault upon individual freedom could not succeed. That autocracy necessary to a revolution to a communistic or socialistic form of government cannot be attained under the present bulwark of the Constitution. There is real danger in these indirect attacks which may blind the people for the moment. crying “wolf” when he told the people in Baltimore that the time has come “for Americans to range themselves firmly, | squarely and uncompromisingly behind American ideals.” iJ DEATH : There is‘no death — only a change. All religions agree on this. And millions believe that the “life spark” itself does not perish—that it merely passes into some other mani- festation of life, the same as electric current flows through wires. * How long can the life-germ, or whatever you care to call itj survive? Wheat, found in the shriveled hands of an aficient Egyptian mummy, has been planted in modern times ad sprouted into maturity after its thousands of years of sleep. And now, in Ottawa, Canada, they find a live clam tat’ Wad ‘been buriéd in solid masonry of a house founda- tion’ for 30 years. Dug out and placed in water, it “came te life.’ There is no death—only a sleep, a change. The President was not | __Editorial Review Comments reproduced -tn_ 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 day. WHAT CONSTITUTES (Grand Forks Herald) The general theory of government is that a_ political party is an organization of citi- zens who have bond of union in common beliefs and purposes in matters of government. It is neither essential nor possible that all the members of a party shall think alike on all subjects, but if the party ports to be its members must be in harmony on those principles and policies which are held to he basic, They must be agreed on the main issues. As party organization has de- veloped there has been evolved certain machin by means of which the sentiments and the will of the party may be crystalized, ascertained and formulated. It is manifestly impossible for all the members of a great national party to meet and discuss the issues which interest them, and in lieu of that a representative method has been devised. Sometimes through a_ series national )convention are elected. These delegates in the aggregate represent the entire membership of the party, and their decisions are taken to represent the will of the party fiself. In pursuance of this plan, which is followed where- ever the party system is known, the Republicans or the United States elected delegates to repre- sent them at a national convention held in Cleveland in June. That convention, by a vote which was almost unanimous, adopted a declaration of principles setting forth the policy of the party on what were regarded as the import- ant issues of the day, and nomi- nated candidates for president and vice president to be supported at the coming election. The platform there adopted is the platform of the Republican party. The candi- dates there nominated are its can- didates. There are no others. The party followed the only method that exists of determining its atti- tude on both platform and candli- dates, and this is the result. Any member of the party is privileged to dissent from the de- cisions thus recorded as to either platform or candidates. He is privileged to support the policy and the candidates of any other party, or to organize a party of his own which will represent his views. But his dissent necessarily severs this relationship with the Republican party. If, in the de- velopment of local politics, he has ‘been placed on the Republican ticket as a candidate for office, or if he holds a position as local or state committeeman, reason and honor demand that he resign. He is perfectly free, without criti- cism, to accept a nomination or an official position in the organi: tion of whatever other party meets his views on public affairs, but he cannot rightfully continue a rela- tionship that is false on its face. The man who cannot support the national candidates of the Repub- lican party and subscribe in the main to its platform cannot hon- estly hold an official position in the Republican party. Many appear to confuse party membership with citizenship. Cit- izenship is a permanent thing, in- to which many are born, and which others assume ‘as a lifetime privilege and obligation. Men may hold divergent views on a!- most every conceivable subject nd still be genuine and honorable itizens. But party membership is voluntary, and is based on the sim- ilarity of opinion of members on important subjects. If there is no similarity the party is a sham. The individual may change his opinions. If his party does not change likewise, he is out of step, and it is his business to seek more congenial surroundings. The par- ty itself may change, while the individual remains steadfast. Nevertheless the individual is still out of step with his party, and he cannot honorably remain in it. These plain considerations of political honor are utterly ignored by certain candidates who have been officially chosen ag candi- dates of the Republican party in j this state, and by others who have i een elected to official positions jin the party organization. The jcomplications are due to the in- radequacy of our election laws, jbut men rightly constituted would | Mot seek to take advantage of ; them. BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON. MISTER COON GIVES AN ORDER “Hello, Mister Coon,” . said. Nick. i“I'm ever so glad to see you.” | Mister Ringtail Coon. stepped into |the shop of “Nancy, Nick & Com- |pany,” followed by his two nephews, Corny Coon and Cobby. Coon,, who j had come to spend the fall and win- wer with their uncle and go to tae Meadow Grove School. : “How d’. @o,. Nick,” said Mister Ringtail. “I came to see if you had any suits that would fit these little rascals. And if you haven't that will fit, can yeu make some to fit? look as nice as poss:blo,” “Certainly,” said Nick politely. Mister Snip Snap.,the fair them ate A ilo : THIEVES ,/ *y Yoday’s dream is tomorrow’s accomplishment — just as iirély how as when men first dreamed of flying with arti- fidial wings. ; -, & Pig scientific dream is tranmiission of ‘electric powér bt ‘ratlio ‘ Collectitig pavment from consumérs would be difficult, flext to impossible. The cost will have to be paid Dy ZOV. ent from tax funds. One instance of many, that 8 ialistic. condition, whether. we ae 3 wi a ’ some lovely things and that,,if Mis- ter Coon would just step to the back of the store he would show them to! him. -"You take the measure of Master Cobby and. Master Corny, Nick,” he said, “and be sure you don't make any. mistakes. Don't get everything erooked like Nancy, did. when. she made a dress for little Miss Bunny. By, the ty ave A PARTY?) party | is really what it pur-j of conventions, | and sometimes by the direct vote| of party members, delegates to :1| THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | NOW AS I WAS REMARKING, INASMUCH AND ROTWITA STANDING — “This kind?” grinned Corny, open- ing his mouth. “No, I mean mosquito bites,” said Mister Snip Snap. “The bunny girl couldn’t stand still while she was getting measured and that’s why her dress was crooked.” “Oh, we'll stand still, all rightee,” said Cobby Coon. “We'd just love to have nice new suits with white collars and big bow-ties 'n’ every- thing, wouldn't we, Corny?” “That's the talk,” said Mister Coon in a pleased voice. “I thought you boys would come to your senses. any | I want. my nephews to | came in then and said that they had | unty an hour ago you said you didn’ want new suits because the boys at school would make fun of you. But I guess you see now how nice it would be to have some new clothes. Mister Coon went with Mister Snip Snap to pick out the kind of cloth he wanted to have the suits made out of, and Nick measured the little coon boys all over for their new suits. “May we go and pfay now, Uncle Ring?” they asked when they were all through with everything and were on their way home. “Yes, indeed, you may, boys,” said their uncle. “You've been very good and now you may go wherever you like. Off they went to the corn-field. “Bet I can hold more’n you,” said Cobby. “Bet you can’t,” said Corny. they both began to stuff on juicy grains. That night they didn’t want. any supper. “Are you sick, boys?” asked Mis- ter Coon anxiously. “No, we're, dieting,” said Cobby. “We think we'll look better in our new suits if we're a little thinner. That's what you said when you got your last new suit.” “Why, bless your hearts. So I did,” laughed Mister Coon. “But that’s different, I’m old and I need to diet, but you're young. Come on and eat now like good boys.” But nary a bite did they touch. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) And the They caught three bank robbers in New Jersey because they made the mistake of not becoming cashiers first. Mars came within 32 million miles of the earth and escaped without in- jury. About the oily way to stand sum- mer heat is to sit it out, In Paris, a man blew his head off with a bomb, but it wasn’t worth very much, anyway. An Illinois tailor arrested for bootlegging may claim he had it for trying on hip pockets, Big meteor féll in Idaho, 86 maybe it was after some post. Los Angeles aviator fell two m and lives, but just the same it said to be a very dangerous habit, is The Turks are holding cockroach races. We often race them, but they usually get away. fi If crying makes a baby healthy we know one who can get @ job as | moving truck when he grows up. Married men are, more safe than they once were. Women can't hit as hard with can openers as they could with rolling pins. Only 20 cents. per person is spent for soap each year in spite of the fact that Saturday night comes every. week. Being as graceful as a swan is no compliment to a girl who has seen wall§ng. ‘Copyright, 24, NEA Service, Inc.) LETTER FROM RUTH BURKE TO LESLIE PRESCOTT here we are back It doesn’t seem like home to me, Leslie, without you here. I haven't been able to get hold of Jack, and I may as well tell you that there’s a pretty kettle of fish at your apartment, That Bradford woman has kicked up the wsual! muss. Your cook has left and if Sarah hadn't been with you so long, I am sure she would do so also. Mrs. Prescott tells me her son is so busy he has not been home for a week except to sleep, coming in very late at night and leaving very early in the morning. Sarafr tells me privately that he hasn’t been home at all, but has contented him- self with calling up to find about little Jack. Miss Anderson visited me at the shop today, and told me fhat even she could stand it much longer. Last night Walter and I dined at the Little Club, and over in one cor- ner we saw Sally Atherton and Jack. ‘Now, dear, I don't think there is one solitary bit of harm in Jack’s attention to that woman, He's ver: and what a lonely man will s not to be conceived in the mind of woman. Mrs. Atherton spied Walter and me first, and said something to Jack. I knew he was embarrassed, but she seemed to be as cool as ever. I think she told him to invite us over to their table, for rather reluctantly, he came over and after greeting Walter, whom he had not seen since we got here, he asked us to come over and eat with them. I asked Jack when you were com- ing home, and he said he did not think you were coming for quite a while, that he was going to take the baby down to you us soon as his business would let him. It was then that Sally Atherton said a most pe- culiar thing. “Why didn’t you tell me, Mr. Prescott, that you wanted to get away?” she said. Well, again. EVERETT TRUE CHOKING. home} out not 1 stood her, and yet I fear her. “I'm sure I could} manage perfectly well. If Leslie wants to sce her boy, she ought to have him immediately. Why don't you go tomorrow It seemed to me Jack was sorry he had ‘spoken, for he evaded an- swering her, but all through the din- ner she kept referring to it, and finally she said to me: “Isn't it possible for you to per- suade Mr. Prescott that I can take care of his business?” Jack seemed very much annoyed, and grew very sulky. That did not worry her, however. She wouldn't let him alone until he had promised to start to you tomorrow. Later, in the dressing room, she think Mr. Prescott should take the baby to his wife, and bring them all back here as soon as possi- ble. His mother and some old maid friend of hers have absolutely turn- ed his house into chaos, and he is not staying home at all, “You probably know Mr. Prescott better than I, Mrs, Burke, and you probably know that for all his cry of bus: cannot attend to it when his mind s all shot to pieces by that exigent mother of his.” Do you know, rather liked the girl. time in Leslie dear, I For the first my life I think I under- She is absolutely a law unto herself, al- ys—I can see that. will probably be with you by the time you get this letter. Why don't you come back with him. I want to see you. RUTH. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) ee para ale A Thought | ————__-—_—_—_—_—_ + Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are His delight—Prov. 12:22. Be sure no lie can ever_reach old age.—Sophocl BY CONDO . MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1924 GOLD SPOONS FOR MUSH By Albert Apple Ninety-five out of every 100 children in American public schools will have to work with their hands for a living after they leave school and strike out for themselves. So claims A. W. Frye, supreme commander of the Macca- ‘bees. His figures obviously are approximately correct. Ninety - five per cent will work with their hands. Yet about 95 per cent of their education is brain training rather than hand training. Providing gold spoons for eating mush. The man who makes his living with his hands certainly needs all the brain training he can get. With his brain developed and alert, he will advance more quickly. It is \brain power, not muscles, that makes an occasional iron puddler rige to, be head of a big steel company. It was brain training that made Abe Lincoln the rail-splitter into Pres- ident Lincoln. Yes, the man who makes his living with his hands, needs all the brain training he can get. He needs it not only in his work, but for individual im- provement in spare time. With a trained brain he will not Submit ignorantly to industrial slavery. And he will recog- ‘nize the wisdom of giving his children “a better start in life.” Despite all this, our educational system spends too much time developing the brain and too little time training “the hands.” Theoretically, the boy who gets his brain educated in school, will have plenty of time to learn how to make money with his hands after he leaves school. But the seemingly perpetual tendency of educators at large is to cram brains with as much impractical knowledge as possible. By impractical knowledge, we mean knowl- edge that can never be converted into cash. i All this is idealistic, and we have to have idealism in life, but the world is very matter - of - fact, after all. Children would be a lot better off, for instance, if they got less hi: tory or botany and more of the fundamentals of economics— reasons why cost of living is so high and hard to meet — reasons why 95 per cent of children have to work with thetr hands after they leave school. . If we used more tin spoons instead of gold, there figura- tively would be less mush and more ice cream to be eaten. Practical training first; impractical knowledge second! At least, until we catch up with and solve some of the eco- nomic problems, created by too much teaching of the useless. FABLES ON HEALTH. AVOIDING COLDS . “Get used to temperately heated rooms,” advised the Jones family doctor when Mr. Jones consulted him on avoiding colds. « “Try to wear loose, porous cloth- ing. Heavy wraps and fur coats employed indoors spend the greater part of the, day at summer temper- ature and too heavy underclothing, under such circumstances, impairs the resistance powers. “It is better to have heavy outer- should be worn only during unusual exposure, such as is encountered when out automobiling. “Outer garments should be adapt- ed to tha changes of weather and medium-weight underclothing worn. “Office workers and all persons garments, so that when the warm indoors place has been left behind, the more rigorous temperature can be faced. “In ordinary offices or homes the temperature should not be’ allowed to rise above. 68 degrecs.” BY HARRY B. HUNT NEA Service Writer Washington, Sept. 8—Evidence is accumulating that the storm-center of the Republican campaign will be Charles G. Dawes, G, O. P. vice pres- Bra his ery | idential nominee, ess he is not, 5 t, or rather he! paves destined to be painted as a political Jekyll-Hyde, a dual personality, alternately a hard-as- nails capitalist and disciplinarian and a pensive, dreaming sentimental- ist. Democrats already have been able to capitalize the - “hard-boiled” Dawes, he of “Hell-and-Maria” fame and of strong expletives. Also, they claim to have found a definite reac- tion against Dawes’ ever-present pipe, citing. the instance at Portland, Maine, where lithographs of Dawes, pipe in mouth, were withdrawn lowing protests by local W. leaders. As a result of this line of attack on their vice presidential chndidate, Republican publicity is engaged in presenting the other Dawes, the one which is less spectacular and vocifer- ous, but which they claim is the Dawes that would be in the ascend- ant in high office. This Dawes is a cultured, aesthetic gentleman, a patron of the arts, himself a musician and composer; a humanitarian who establishes refuge homes where hungry, jobless men can find shelter and warmth. To back up this picture of Dawes, his “Melody in A Major,” perhaps his most tuneful ‘composition, has been produced on phonograph records and is slated for extensive distribution. G.-O. P. headquarters cites that a Chicago violinist,: touring | Europe, has included the Dawes composition in his repertoire and is making’ it the hit of his concerts. | periods with +) talks DAWES TO BE REAL STORM ihe CENTER OF 6. 0. P. FIGHT So impressed was President Mas- aryk of Czechoslovakia with, the Dawes composition that the violinist felt justified in sending a cablegram telling about it. Gen. Dawes’ composition is the logical successor to ‘Humoresque’,” Masaryk is said to “have said. “Amer- ica has produced in him a man whore vision is as large as your country.” Naturally, a verdict like that jus couldn’t be suppressed by the Repub- lican party publicists While Republicans are emphasing more and more the Dawes of culture, the musician and composer and phi- lanthropist, the Democrats continue hammering away on Dawes as a “hard-boiled egg” who points his profanity, chews up pipe stems, slams the desk when he and raises ‘Hell-an’-Maria generally, , It is from these two widely diver- gent pictures that the public at large must make up its estimate of Cool- idge’s running mate. Republicans are hopeful, however, that even the Democratic likeness will be helpful in lining up the votes of red-blooded, vigorous voters, while the dilettante . Dawes, the musician and dreamer, are counted on to win for him the ballots of the less strenuously em- phatic. eae Possibly never before did the sec- ond-place men on the presidential tickets get, by comparison, as great a part of the campaign publicity as they are getting this year. Just as Dawes is made thé target of the Coolidge opposition, se’ Bryan gets more brickbats from the Re- publicans than Davis, and Wheeler draws the fire of both old parties from his Independent chief, La Fol- lette. CAMPING OUT (Flerence Borner) Out where the treés stand huge and tall, Out where the lake ripples in the sun, There is the place where I’m going to go, When my vacation time has come; Get me a rod, and @ hook and line, Seems as if I could alrhost shout, When I think what a fine, old time, 1 will have when I’m camping out. Ott..where the bul! frog sings his song, “Chunky ker chunk,” all the livelong night, Out where the wind is a-roaming free, And the'moon shines down in her silver light; There is the place I am longing to be, And, 99 would yot, I have no doubt, If you could know what a thing life is, When you are simply camping out. Up in the morning before the sun, Take @ dip in the rippling lake. ‘My, how you. shivver, but, ain’t it tun, Helps:to get you-plumb wide awake; Hustle and ‘bustle, you’re back on shore, Jump in your clothes in a jiffy, then, ‘ Mike you'a pe on the sandy beach, Cooking yéur breakfast; (enough for ten). rice for your breakfast fresh from the lake, Coffee a-boiling on the red hot coals, Send up ai afdtiia fo tempt the Goda, Making them wish they had mortal gouls; roe ee it Hos a crime to-ftay,iul to veh . Here in the city’ when Sprifigis: t, + Bluebitd-and robin areeeming yes “Why in the world ain't you camping out? ®