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

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Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) 5 ‘i ase 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) NORTH DAKOTA’S DUTY Rhinelander Waldo, former police commissioner of New York, took to Washington a few days ago a plan to form a} Coolidge Non-Partisan League, the object being, he ex-| plained, to rally forces of Americanism behind the candi- dacy of Calvin Coolidge. He was acting on the slogan “Coolidge or chaos” and would make an appeal for votes for Coolidge to avoid a deadlock on the presidential nomination. | With political observers generally admitting that the | candidacy of John W. Davis is making little headway, with advisers urging the Republicans to forget Mr. Davis and! pay attention to Mr. LaFollette, the slogan “Coolidge or chaos” becomes more general in use. The complex situation which would result were the election thrown into the national legislature has aroused many voters to the danger to the country in such a condi- tion. Every presidential campaign has an adverse effect upon business, simply in disturbing the even tenor of thought in the nation. The prolonged deadlock would emphasize this condition. The possibility of selection of a President unresponsible to the majority of the people and out of har- mony with Congress is, of course, the chief danger in a deadlock. As the election nears, the Republican forces will doubt- less emphasize the possibilities of the situation—and to many a voter the election will become “Coolidge or Chaos.” North Dakota has five electoral votes. Not many, but in the event of a close election the state’s five electoral votes might make a decision which would have an important bear- ing on the destiny of the nation. It is folly to think that John W. Davis has any chance of carrying North Dakota. There is a chance for President Coolidge to win. A large part of the people of the state cannot help but have faith in Coolidge. His sincerity is unquestioned. The readjust- ment of the price situation with reference to agricultural products has proved the fallacy of the many nostrums ad-; vanced in opposition to the administration’s stand on agrarian questions. It has proved that natural law will work regardless of legislators. The North Dakota farmer and business man, burdened by local and state taxes, ought to appreciate the common sense stand of the President in the conduct of the public business. The state has registered its opposition to the League of Nations and cannot but help approving the foreign policy of the President which has done so much to restore conditions in Europe. The people of the state can appreciate the President’s disarmament stand; they know that farm products must have the protection of a tariff barrier which can only be hoped for under a Repub- lican administration; a large portion of the people will agree with the Republican program of more business in govern- ment and less government in business. Calvin Coolidge can carry North Dakota. His program ought to be carried into every home in the state. otherwise entitled in this paper and also the local news pub-| : « |down a rout. Editorial Review Comments reproduced 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 || ie j in of important issu: are being discussed in the press of the day. OUT ON “SWEET ADELINE” (Detroit News) A young man is to be tried in Flint for singing “Sweet Adeline” at a late hour of the night, to the! terror of the neighborhood. The | technical charge against him_is/ disturbing of the peace. But! nce the complaint is that he sang Adeline,” specifically, would seem that it is the song that is on trial. Had it been any other tune, no complaint, presumably; would have been made. ! Most cities have ordinances | against disturbing the peace i making a noise. Since these ordi- | nances are never enforced, it fol- lows that “Sweet Adeline” must, be more than a noise; it may come! under the head of “rout or riot.”! The police sometimes get caught in the vicinity of a riot, though no} one ever heard of them putting | Is “Sweet Adeline” a riot? We hear an objection from a gentle- man who insists that it is murder. | But clearly he has confused the) thing performed with the perform- | ance. There is nothing homicidal about either the words or the mu-! sic of “Sweet Adeline.” And yet—| and yet—. \ Well, the truth of the matter is that there is something about] “Sweet Adeline” that is different | from other songs. It acts on the} human em like moonshine whisky on an Indian. It is a sort} of vocal loco weed, which drives its perpetrators crazy. There is| scarcely a note in it that cannot be held, tortured, garroted. It is the only song in existence that can be rendered in all keys at once, both major and minor, and usually | is. One has only to look upon its | executioners, their vacant, expres- sionless faces raised to the sky, their glazed eyes fixed on nothing, to know that they are intoxicated by a drug more powerful than hashish, bhang or majoon. “Sweet Adeline,” in our opinion, violates the Volstead act, and should be| suppressed with the utmost rigor of the law. NORTH DAKOTA GROWING UP, (St. Paul Dispatch) At the end of the fiscal year, the state dairy commissioner of North | Dakota reports that the production | of butter fat, cream, milk and cheese has reached the imposing total of $15,000,000, for this yea: Statistics on record in the com- missioner’s office show that there has been an increase of 1,000 per cent in dairy production in North | Dakota in ten years. His records show that, on January 1, 192%, there were 1,177 cream buying stations in the state and on July 1, 1924, there were 1,504—427 add- ed during eighteen months of de- pression. In addition there are in operation sixty-one creameries. North Dakota is a young state. It is about 35 years old the com- ing October. Too much may have been expected of it, considering its youth. But it is growing up rap- idly. It has passed the dangerous period of adolescence, when youth’s recklessness and want of care for the future laid it open to distresses and difficulties it might have avoided. Youth will have its fling, but when that is over, if youth settles down to work in soberness and in earnest all youth- ful follies are forgotten. That i what North Dakota is doing. Fif- BISMARCK’S “DEFENSE DAY” The Reserve Officers and citizens of Bismarck are to be congratulated for their demonstration on “Defense Day.” It was a splendid outpouring of patriotic citizenry. The object of the War Department was to find out how the ma- chinery for national defense would operate — whether the skeleton units named for mobilizing an army could be filled rapidly and effectively in time of need. Bismarck was ready to do her part. Any one who participated in or watched the demonstra- tion can well laugh at the protestations of Governor Bryan of Nebraska, Senator LaFollette’s followers and others that ‘Defense Day” was planned as a militaristic gesture to fos- ter a war-like spirit. The demonstration, by recalling the days of 1917, is more likely to solidify public sentiment for any honorable scheme which may be devised for preserving peace. THE BLUSH OF 80 YEARS They opened the Mark Twain Memorial Park at Florida, Mo., a few days ago, and a very considerable number of old- timers were present who “knew Sam Clemens when,” etc. Reminisced? Of course they did, and had a fine time do- ing it. “That Clemens boy” certainly made his mark in the .com- munity of that early day, and some of it was dark but most of it was white —all of it was humorous. Anne Levering, Bower, aged 83, went to school with Sam and moved in the! circle that knew him best and most at the time. ~~ “Sam,” said Mrs. Bower, “had one habit the girls used to talk about.” She paused and her eyes drooped in confusion before her auditor, and pink of the natural kind colored her aged cheeks. Then she brightened bravely and continued: “I guess it’s all right. for I’m thinking you are married and will un- derstand. Sam,” she continued still with some confusion and searching for the most chaste manner of expression, “Sam used to have a habit of pulling up his—his—his socks when he was with a girl. He didn’t wear any supporters, I ess.” ie More blushes and a long sigh of relief because she had finally relieved her gentle old chest of the scandalous doings of Sam, who brazenly adjusted his hose in the horrified pres- ence of the young ladies! This is 1924. We of the time know and have seen legs of | all kinds, colors, shapes and lengths, clothed and unclothed. They are on parade anywhere and everywhere. They mean = but little in our blase existence, excite little attention or . interest. ‘ i a But Anne Levering Bower, at 83, can still blush con- fusedly as she recalls that Sam Clemens, some 70 years ago. : pulled up his socks in the presence of a lady! teen million dollars in dairy prod- ucts in one year—the biggest out- put it has ever shown is the best measure of the state’s advent to maturity, and of its abandonment of the one-crop gambling, of the intoxication of a seemingly ex- haustless soil and—perhaps soon —of the red light-o’-loves, whose doctrines put men’s feet on the path downward to destruction. Yes. indeed, at this rate North Dakota will have reached man- hood’s estate before we know it. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “Mammy!” said Cutie Cottontail one day. “This is the day Charlie Chipmunk asked me to go to his birthday party.” “That's so, Cutie,” said Mrs. Cot- tontail as she finished cutting off the edges of the carrot pie she was making and put it into the oven. “I almost forgot about it.” “and I haven’t any present for him,” said Cutie. “I can’t go to his party without taking him a birth- day present, can 1?” “No, that wouldn’t do, Cutie,” said his mother. “I’m going down street now to Nancy, Nick & Company's store to get you some new clothes to start to school in next week. “and while I’m out I can buy you a nice present for Charlie. I think something to wear would be nice, don’t you?” “Yes, I s'pose so,” said Cutie, but really he was thinking, “I guess Charlie would rather have a knife | or a box of candy or a sailboat or | something.” “Goodby, Cutie,” she said. in a; few minutes. “I'll be home as soon | as I can, I suppose I ought to take | you along to get you fitted, but | you'll have to stay at home and see | that my pie doesn’t burn. Goodby.” | And away she went. Cutie went out and played marbles | with his cousin Billy Bunny and! then he went in and looked at the pie. It was nice and brown, so turned out the fire. Suddenly he looked at the clock and it said ten minutes to two. Just ten minutes to party time! And he wasn’t washed or’ dressed or anything, “Jimineeze he exclaimed. “I'd better hustle. Mebbe by the time he! THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | Who Wants to Be a Prine | sl Tank oF { WEARIN ALL THEM COWBOY SUITS AND PLUG HATS AND TH LIKE = (NEVER COULD 6TAY OuT_ALL niGhT the doorbell rang. thing now,” he cried. So he ran down and answered it, and there was Nick with a box. “There’s some- “I hurried,” said Nick, “because your mother wanted this to get here before you went to the party. I'm glad I'm in time.” “Thank you,” said Cutie. “I'm just ready to go now.” “It’s the birthday present,” he said to himself. Mammy must have sent it because she couldn’t get home in time herself.” So he tucked the box under his arm and went off to the party. “Oh, Mammy!” he said when he came home. “I had the best time. Mrs. Chipmunk said to tell you that that was the nicest birthday present Charlie ever got. helpings of ice cream and—” “Birthday present!” cried Mrs. Cottontail. “Why, here's 4 your birthday present! I bought Cutie a necktie. I was sorry I couldn't get back in time. What on earth did you take?” “Why, Nick brought a box and said it was for the party and—” “What!” Mrs. Cottontail. “That was your new suit and you were to wear it.” But what do you think? The Twins heard about it and Nick said it was all his fault, so Cutie got another new suit after all. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) It may be more blessed to give than to receive, but paying isn’t half as nice as collecting. Eat, drink, and be married, for to- morrow winter may come. To the pure all things are pure, and to the crazy all things are crazy. The rain falls on the just and the unjust, especially on the just shined shoes. Good cooking isn’t as much an art as finding something geod to cook. The height of folly is looking to see if Mars is inhabited. The female of the species stands between people and the light more often than the male. Saddest words of tongue or pen: be get some coal for our coal in.” We don’t know about business, but all the cheap cigars will be smoked up after the presidential election. The light that lies in a woman's eyes is the light of wise guys. Boys will be boys, for a while longer, and then indications are they will be girls and girls will be boys. Utopia is a land where summers are cold and winters are hot. Too much money makes a man unhappy, especially after he loses it. It takes a financial contortionist to make both ends meet. caused the shooting of some men. We have found that very often when you see a couple of men cal! ing each other the truth. A green apple a-day will keep the doctor away from the poorhous I'm dressed Mammy will be home ' We have gone far in one firestion ‘a Anetner — 90 far, r oct 8 0 be abou le only ones eiies us ‘ iow to blush, | with Charlie’ Just as aie i You can get over a lot of things by thinking them over. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) She gave me four | Jom Sims | that fools a lot; A little loving now and then hasj{ *s both are telling; LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO RUTH BURKE, CONTINUED “IT won't have you talking to that fellow!” exclaimed Jack. I shook my head at him. “What's the matter?” said Karl. our voice does not sound at all like you.” “There is nothing the matter except Jack just got in last evening ‘and brought little Jack, and I guess my nerves went back on me, for I faint- ed, but I’m all right now. When you first called up, Jack. seemed to think I was not well enough to answer the phone, but when I knew it was you I insisted upon taking your message myself.” 5 “You got my letter, did you?” “Yes, dear.” There was a smothered exclamav’ tion from my husband behind my back, “It was a very splendid letter, very brave, very self-sacrificing. I haven't hag time yet to show it to Jack, but I’m going to.” “Will you tell him that if he wants to see me, or even if he wants to see an explanation to him. Of course, you must remember that Alice was not quite herself. She still is very unsettled and nervous. She must have some kind of excitement all the time, then again she is very melan- choly. I am not sure that Fwill not have to take her out of the country. Poor child, I do not know what she would do if it were not for me, as she has seemed to take a sudden fear that her mother and father do not love her any more, and of course she says that you will never care for her again. I called you up to ask if you would not write her a little note to let her know you have forgiven her?” “I think it would be better, Karl, if you would insist upon Alice com- ing home. If she gets over the mor- bid fear of meeting us and knows | that we still care for her, I. think EVERETT TRUE ExCuse ME, SiR, BT ARENT OU ATTORNGY FATZBLAH, OP TAS Qty ¢. YOU TRIED To MaKe «A MonKeY | *¢ Alice, I shall insist upon her making! everything will be all right. Why don’t you try to get her here while Jack is with us, and we'll have a kind of family reunion.” “He'll. have to come pretty sud- en,” Jack interrupted. “My busi- ness won't let me stay away more than a day. I’m going back not lat- er than tomorrow night.” I was in a quandary, Ryth, I didn’t know how to finish my conversation with Karl with Jack standing there. I didn't want him to know that my husband was still angry with me, and I knew that Karl would want me to make some explanation. Karl happily said: “Here comes Alice, I do not think we would bet- ter talk any more, She has become very suspicious of everything I do.” “Goodby, then. I'll answer your letter tomorrow.” e “I'll say you won't,” again came the ugly voice behind me. , Ringing off with a jerk I turned and faced my ‘husband, . “Tl say I will, I’m tired of your sudden tempers, John. I am going to be a free born white woman from now on.” “Then I think I would better say goodby and return,” came in cold, eutting accents. “You can do quite as you please. I have made all the concessions pos- sible.” Fate intervened, however. came in and said to Jack: Mother “Jack, your father wants to see you.” Without a look backward, he strode away. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) | A Thought | ee Many that are first shall be last; ou the last shall be first.—Matt. 19:30, Honesty is the best policy.—Cer- vantes, BY CONDO | don, England, 10 hours a day Hart, won. ‘the race. | Power wins battles. beaten.” race for success. than endurance. work hard for success—these or lazy. WHY WEAKLINGS CAN WIN By Albert Apple A 59-year-old man raced a jockey-ridden horse in Lon- for six days. The man, C. W. He ran 345 miles, the horse 337 miles. The horse could easily out-distance the man—early in But Hart had more endurance. Endurance wins the war, It’s like the prizefighter who “didn’t know when he was Not knowing, he refused to give up—fought dog- gedly until his superior lasting powers overcame his oppon- ent’s superior strength and skill. In this race between a man and a horse, the man win- ning, you have a clear-cut illustration of why brilliant men are often left far behind by men of inferior ability, in the Natural ability and influential friends often count less In this case, endurance involves several things: ONE—Superior physical power aids an average brain to “beat out” the superior brain in a weak body. light burns out quickly if it has a weak battery. TWO—Reliability and thoroughness are frequently more desirable than intellectual genius. depended on will outdistance a man with a better brain handicapped by a tendency to be slip-shod and unreliable. THREE—Petermination, ambition and willingness to A bright A plodder who can be make a man forge ahead of a rival who may have more ability but is easily discouraged New York, Sept. 13.—There 1s one spot in New York that is as provin- cial as any mid-west hamlet. It is Staten Island, 28 minutes from the water front by ferry. Although a part of New York City it is apart from the general living attitude of the great community. There are old-fashioned street cars and dinky engines pulling old-fash- ioned wooden coaches, which make a station of most anybody's back yard. Thousands of people live in the various island communities and neighbors go from house to house without head covering, much as they do in the congenial neighborhoods of the mid-west. In the evening they go to the moving picture shows and recognize each other, After church on Sunday they stand in groups and hear the petty information of the various families. ‘The ferry ride from Manhattan Isle to Staten Island is most pleasant and in the run the Statue of Liberty and other landmarks are passed, Dur- ing the warmer months many people make the trip for an excursion, It costs but five cents. On Staten Island people live in homes—flats are practically taboo. It is an ideal place to rear children. Within a few years a subway will be built that will whisk people from the jam of Broadway to the quiet of the island in a few minutes. When Ferdinando Grecio came in from a night of celebration he found his wife and two children waiting up for him. He was in jovial spirits but insist- ed on “just one more drink” before going to bed. Going to the dark closet he reach- ed for his bottle, took one long drink—then dropped dead. The bottle contained rat’ poison. His liquor was beside it. —Stephen Hannagan. The “I-have-no-timers” were as prevalent in Mr. Jones office as any- where, They had no time to eat properly or to exercise or to relax, it seemed. The world is filled with men who believe they “have no time” until nature forces them to take it. There are actually people who be- lieve that an hour a day devoted to exercise is wasted. Yet experimenta- FABLES ON HEALTH TIME TO TAKE TIME economizing their time. Such an hour more than pays for itself ita very short time. Physical exercise helps keep the mind in‘tone. ‘It shows in an im- provement in the quality of work and instead of taking up time, it makes possible more rapid work and hence more than counterbalances the lost hour. Inevitable later suffering is sched- uled for those who will not “take tion has shown that they are really + time,” investigations disclose, MANDAN NEWS IMPALED ON FORK Joe Stumpf, who farms about five miles west of the city near Sunny is in the Mandan Deaconess hospital in a critical condition—the Missouri Slope farmer to sustain serious injuries by being impaled by_pitchforks, Stumpf, shortly after noon Thurs- day, stepped from a grain separator in such @ way as to be impaled upon the handle of a pitchfork. The handle penetrated his abdomen about a foot. He was rushed to the city imme- diately and a surgeon who was call- ed had, him on the operating table within an hour after the accident, occurred which, it was said, is re- sponsible for his having a fighting chance to recover. OLD RESIDENT HERE Mrs. John H. Hagar, one of the earliest settlers in Mandan is reg- istered at the Lewis & Clark hotel and will spend a number of days here looking after business matters and with old friends. Her husband was one of the Hagar Brothers con- tracting firm which built the old Inter Ocean hotel, in its day one of the finest hostelries in the north- west. The Hagars also for many years operated a large ranch south- west of the city along the Heart river which has changed hands a number of times in recent years and is now owned by Charles Seaman. For many years since leaving Man- dan, Mrs. Hagar lived at St. Lonis, Mo., but now makes her home at Asbury Park, N, J. IN JAIL AT MANDAN Mrs. Charlotte Houghtaling of Beach, N. D., charged with first de- gree murder in connection with the death of her two-year-old daughter was brought to Mandan Thursday by Sheriff Stone of Golden Valley coun- ty and will be held in the Morton county jail until January, when she will face trial. Mrs, Houghtaling was housekeeper for one Charles Holland who pre; viously had confessed to the slay: ing of the child. Following his con- fession Mrs. Houghtaling was ar- rusted as an accomplice to the mur- er. PRODUCTS DISPLAYED A splendid ~ display of* Morton county products is to be shown at the Union City Fair at Union City, Indiana in October thropgh arrange-. ments that have been been completed by the officials of the Northern Pa- cific Railway Company in the Im- migration Department, bee of thiey, and iy W. Ste ms will i ‘Gi furnish the material for this exhibit third | Mr. Pulkrabee furnished an assort- ment of native North Dakota grass- es, and Mr. and Mrs, Stephens fur- nished their usual splendid vege- table display. —_—_—_—_-. —_ 6 i News of Our Neighbors WILD ROSE Mr, and Mrs, Ernest Saville and son Lee, motored to Bismarck Mon- day on business and took in | the Show, “The Covered ‘Wagon” at ‘the jEltinge Theatre. The Ed. Kruse and Billy Carroll threshing machine is threshing at the Carlisle farm this week. Harold Swanson, who has been on the sick list the last few di ii much better. Peioalnt Mr. Henry Reamann of Hazelton, was out in this vicinity Thursday, repairing the telephone lines, Ernest Saville made a bi trip to Bismarck Friday, ustnans Mr, Dexter of Braddock, who has the contract cleaning and painting |the schools in this district, finished :Painting School No. 1 this week. Mrs. H, A. Carlisle had the mis- fortune to sprain her ankle one day last week, but it is rapidly improv- ing. Donald Snyder spent Sund: his parents in Bismarck, svat The Jake Voll and Mike Glovi threshing rig finished threshing on the Reuben Feltheim farm and’ are now on the O. B, Swanson farm, Howard Brownawell, who has been having an attack of the summer flu has been staying at the home of hic parents for several days, Miss Laura Swanson is hel; ping her aunt, Mrs. 0. B.S aa un wanson during A heavy rainfall struck this 1 *. I- ity last night thereby delaying threshing for s couple days, For Sale— Choice Canarie lers. Jacob Bull, Dickin- Singers, Imported German son, N. Dak. Box 728, 4 w if