The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 15, 1924, Page 2

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Daily by carrier, per year... ooo BUD * Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). . basen 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) SCHOOL ADMINISTRATI At best the lot of a school board member is hard. ty the Ina e of Bismarck, it is difficult to give equal facili- , tics at all times and to please every section of the city. , Giving the board members due credit for solving the diffi- culty presented in alloting grades to various schools along the lines which seem fair to them, it is apparent that the issue presented by the 500 petitioners has not been met in a way that will please the greatest number of school patrons. By locating the junior high school at the Will School. Richholt patrons are deprived of facilities they had, as well as are the patrons of the William Moore school, while the f Roosevelt patrons are not benefited materially. ! There has been a general shake-up in the location of various grades without material gain in the way of service. School patrons in the Wachter district are nearer to the Will school it is true, but at the expense of the patrons of both the William Moore and Richholt schools. The situa- tion as regards the patrons of the west end is practically unchanged. When 500 school patrons and tax payers petitioned for seventh and eighth grade facilities at the Roosevelt, they never dreamed that conditions that then obtained at the William Moore and Richholt would be disturbed. Patrons of those schools have a real complaint coming and probably will make themselves heard in no uncertain terms. At no time has it been the intention of the residents of the west end to seek any additional school facilities at the expense of the William Moore or the Richholt school patrons. The taxpayers signing the petition are willing to pay the additional cost a seventh and eighth grade entails at the Roosevelt. There seems to be money for gratuities, additional high school teachers—for most anything but a square deal for the Roosevelt school. The present solution will please few and gives no relief to the west end school .patrons. Why dodge the issue? GENERAL PERSHING Defense Day marked the passing of a great soldier in General Pershing —a name that will go down in history linked with Grant, Sherman, Miles and other great execu- tives of the American army. Whether planned or not, the demonstrations over the length and breadth of the nation last Friday must have had in them for his admirers some- thing of a tribute at least to this great soldier and great American. Always diligent, always fearless, always getting things done in an orderly way, his promotion was rapid and ex- ceptional. President Roosevelt who knew his military worth jumped him ahead of more than 800 officers who were his seniors in the service. Whether it was- fighting the Sioux, the Spaniard. or ‘bandits, in Mexico, he kept his head and _ insisted upon orders being executed in the right way. , Vigorous and alert at the age of 64, he retires from service with a great record behind him. Not among the least of his accomplishments is one well stated by Secretary Weeks: “To him more than to any other man is due credit for the fact that we have not sunk into that military lethargy which had followed all our other wars.” The retirement of General’John Pershing, marks the passing from the active arena ip vuiere of one of the nation’s greatest military leade: “Black Jack,” as he was called when he first lead a company of soldiers as captain, was given a herculean task in leading the Amer-| ican armies in France. He was called upon to lead an army} into the field of battle and assumed a place equal with Gen- erals who had been fighting the new kind of battles for three years. | . He was called upon to give the associated powers the! most friendly cooperation and yet to keep the American! army an entity. He was called upon to meet the jealousies of the European military caste, to flout them and yet maintain the dignity of the United States. One of the most interesting stories of General Pershing’s career in France detailed the struggle he had at the outset-with French and English generals, who desired to draft American troops into their own shattered regiments. General Pershing had beenj instructed that the American army must fight as a unit, after the preliminary training of American troops in. foreign } regiments had been completed. General Pershing displayed firmness and tact in meeting the situation. He created an} American army, supplying its own munitions and leaders, and at the same time he had much to do with bringing all the allied armies under the command of General Foch. General Pershing leaves behind him on the army records an honorable and distinguished record. He holds a high THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE! Kresge Bldg. Creer _ Editorial Review Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. are presented here rdel our readers may h of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. THE OGRE OF U MPLOYMENT! (Montreal Star) | The problem of uflemployment | is a hardy perennial which is most | vigorous of growth in the winter. Many causes contribute to its c ation and its sever s modifi by a hundred intricate factors. It is only of recent years that | the problem has been approached from a commot e standpoint or that any serious effort has been} made to probe below the surface and determine the underlying causes that bring about this con-j dition. Such an attempt is now being made in Canada. A conference | has been called at Ottawa, at which representatives of the Do- minion and provincial _govern- | ments aré attending, with repre- sentativ from the municipalities, from private industry and from the ranks of organized labor. They have gathered in an earn- est effort to see if some practical | plans cannot be put into force which will transfer men and wom- en who would otherwise be idle| into the wage earning classes dur- ing the hard months of winter. Modern industry is a delicately adjusted piece of machinery that} is liable to sudden and more or violent fluctuations. The of supply and demand are regulated upon so many complex factors that output subject to the wildest variations often with- out any known cause being defi- nitely determined. In the past the only reaction to a Kening of trade in the fac- tories and workshops of the Do- minion has been the laying off of a certain percentage of the hands,! or the reduction of the hours of labor. What became of those who were laid off was not the concern of industry save insofar as the large firms were asked to make contributions to those charities that care for the poor and needy. Today not only Canada, but the whole world is getting away from this viewpoint of the unemploy- ment problem. We are beginning to realize that there is a moral re- sponsibility in this matter, and that our debt cannot be liquidated ‘by large or small donations to charitable organizations. 1 As a8 the question of moral | respon: ity ig acknowledged it! is only natural that those whose brains have created and developed our large industries should app] themselves to a study of the ques- tion of unemployment on scien- tific lines. Those who are responsible for the calling of the conference at Ottawa believed that the normal slackening of trade which takes place in the winter can be sub- stantially moderated by careful planning and by foresight. It is satisfactory, therefore, that representatives of our large indus- tries have been invited to the con- ference, for they can lay before the government the methods adopted in their own factories of spreading the work of the year over as many months as possible, so as to avoid the rush season, and to eliminate, so far as possible, the slack period. Competent engineers in charge of big works of construction, and leading builders, have made state- ments recently regarding the pos- {sibility of doing a great deal of building work in the winter months that at present is post- poned until spring after the first frosts. There is no reason for this, say the experts. There are few di in winter in which normal build- ing operations could not be car- ried on. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “Say, Mister Snip Snap,” said Nancy one morning, “school opened today, so I don’t suppose we need to keep our store open any more, do we?” “Hey! What's that, what's that?” cried the little fairyman in surprise. “What did you say about not keep- ing the store open any more?” “1 just said,” repeated Nancy, “that the Meadow Grove choo! opened today, because Nick and I saw Mister Scribble Scratch, the schoolmaster, dusting off the seats as we passed. He said he was going to ring the first bell at half past eight because it always took Mosey | Mud Turtle a whole half hour to get there, and as it was he supposed he'd be late.” “Just so,” nodded Mister Snip Snap, “but what has that got to do with closing our store, I'd like to know?” “Everybody is all fixed for school clothes,” said Nick. “There isn’t anybody let to sell things to.” “Well, I declare!” cried Mister Snip Snap. “I declare to goodness! Is that all you know about school place’in the hearts of the nation. He still is active, vigorous and keen. It is probably the nation’s loss that the law re- | | quires army officers to retire at the age of 64. General Pershing has indicated he would not remain inactive. It is | to be hoped that he finds opportunity to render as disting-! uished services.to the nation as a private citizen as he has: at the head of the army. i 4 DRIVERS Police are testing the eyesight of all traffic law violators; in Chicago. They find drivers who cannot see 20 feet away. Small wonder, there are so many accidents. * But why stop at arrested drivers? Every car owner should have his vision examined before giving him a license.! Also, he should be tested for sanity and quick decision. A! half-blind nervous or low-intleligence driver is apt to be as clothes? I suppose you think those things we sold to the Squirrel boys end the Bunny children and all the rest are just ndturally going to last them the rest of their lives. Well we'll keep the store open for a few | days and see. what happens. Why,| {my goodness, schoo! shoes wear out quicker than ice on » hot pavement. Just you wait, my dear! Just you | wait!" Sure enough! About three days later who should | come into the store of Nancy, Nick | & Company but Mrs. Cottontail. | She was so cross about something that her nose wriggled and wriggled and her ears kept going up and down and she just looked as though | somebody had stolen the ice cream| freezer off the back porch. dangerous as a speed maniac with callous conscience and hard heart. Fea The auto is as dangefous as a loaded pistol, unwisely handled. epee Besiccnmcae i “Nice shoes you sell, Mister Snip | Snap!” she said finally when her | nose stopped wriggling long enough s for her to talk. “That's nice, Mrs. Cottontai ‘ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE \ tea) «vit ————: said Mister Snip Snap, pretending not to understand what she meant. “We always try to please every- body. I'm glad you think that our shoes are nice. “You know well what IT mean,” she said sharply. “When I say you sell nice shoes I mean that they aren’t nice at all.” “Do you mean that you got some bad shoes here, Mrs, Cottontail?” asked Nick in surprise. “Do you mean the shoes I sold you for Cutie last Saturday?” * “Yes, sir, I certainly do,” said Mrs. Cottontail. “They must have been made out of tissue-paper or something. Why, the soles have holes in them as big as doughnuts and he’s only worn them three days.” “Do you mean as big as the out- side of a doughnut or the inside?” asked Nancy, who wanted to be sure just what the rabbit lady meant. “Why, I mean the—Say, lookee here,” id Mrs. Cottontail. “Do I have to go and measure those holes and tell you just how big they are before you'll believe that those soles are worn out? I'll just send Cutie in after school and you can see for yeurselves.” With that the rabbit lady walked out before anybody could say an- other word. And this time she looked as cross as though she'd lost two freezers of ice cream. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Eis Bad news from London. This city now maintains 90 municipal bands, in all of which are saxophones. The Prince -of Wales will visit South America next year, perhaps to compare its bathing girls with ours, | A new lamp, consumin, cent air, has been invented? 94 per but too |, Colleges are opening and if the | boys wear their trousers much laré ‘per they can slip them on over their ‘heads, There are about 70,000 auto repair shops in the United States, all doing a rushing business every Monday. Player pianos that will ran an hour without stopping are being made because there is no law against it. Buffalos, | pedestrians Indians, dodo birds ‘and are becoming extinct. Counting your chickens before they hatch isn’t as disastrous as hatching your chickens before they count. The quickest way to reduce is to have to pay the grocery bills. . The Swiss party planning to climb Mt. Everest this fall isn’t preparing half as carefully as social climbers. Denmark has nearly trebled its consumption of .tugar in 30 years, which certainly was sweet of her. Hammond (Ind.) boy whipped hi teacher at a Sunday school picnic, so may have had a fine time. Chicago man broke a rib driving | a golf ball and probably blamed it| on the caddy. i St, Louis woman broke her hus-| band’s nose with a billiard cue, so maybe he will keep it out of her | business now. | Man in Los Angeles tried to sell his wife instead of paying somebody | to take her off his hands. j Now the Chicago murder case is over, supper won't be so late. j (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Another Chinese Puzzle LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO RUTH BURKE, CONTINUED and fine in this. called me up and talked with about a half hour, So you see, dear Ruth, Jack and 1 are just about where we were when I came home to mother’s, He is absurdly jealous of Karl Whitney. I wonder why it is that a man is always more or less jeal- ous of the man his wife refuses. Cannot he understand that she has settled the question once for all which man she cares for enough to marry by choosing him? hows At that moment, when my mother] j, came in, it just seemed to me as though I could not go on with it all. Ruth, why do we women have to keep fighting, fighting, to keep our Karl, you know. tell his troubles. “He's very much Alice, and so am I. up with your hus! to yourself. worried Let me feel that I do are always telling women what they should do to keep their husbands still loving them? Why don’t they sometimes tell a man what he should do to keep his wife’s love? Why don’t they make him understand that it is just as hard for a woman as a man to keep on loving without some encouragement? * I turned to my mother, and for j the life of me I could not keep the tears back, “What is it, dear, what is it?” she we had just been having? tions of a man I have |marry—a man who i ried to my own sister? “Moth : . “Ig that what you've been telling Sibere 7 cannot abeat a Jack? Doesn’t he want one?” “Yes, he seemed very happy over the news.” “Then why are you i daughter?” “Because I've just received a tele- phone from Karl, and Jack was quite horrid about it.” before I can forgive him. he has hurt my pride, bly quite letter that I am going to stop. know what the next hour ing, my much interested in them. Of course, I know that Karl is perfectly loyal Why, yesterday he Long distance } telephone doesn’t mean anything to He does love to over Leslie, make it and at any cost Nothing in the world is worth the tears you are shedding e to worry over you any more.” “Oh, I expect we will make it up,” I said wearily, “but why should he forget instantly all about the lovely things he ‘had just been saying to ¥ better husbands’ love? Why do we have] jo” w, ; ; ne? Why should the fact that Karl to flatter them by word and deed alll wn} ae Zs the time? Why is it the manesines| Whitney was telephoning me to askt what he should do about the letter he had written to me blot out all the ecstacy and unity of soul that Why should he make me feel a kind of sordid and self-indulgent thing who inust still be flattered by the atten- refused to Iready mar-! “By implication he has made me one of the most immoral of women. He has made me feel that he thinks an I could be a traitor‘to my sister as id. i i well as disloyal to him, to gratify mee I'm going to have a! ny own pride of conquest. . Jack will have to make some wonderful apology and some very fair promises This time nd I can be as implacable as he.” sso long, my de ill bring WHAT DO YOU DO BEST? By Albert Apple On a camping trip, Rodger Dolan fished five days for salmon trout—and couldn’t even get a strike. He was deep- trolling, about 100 feet down. An Indian, bribed with $: itook Dolan’s outfit, leaded the line so it would sink only 75 |feet. Then he cut off a minnow tail and tied it with thread {in among the hooks of his “wobbler” troll—to make it look like the tail of a shiner. ee Pronto! — eighteen salmon trout took the line in a day. Dolan’s comment: “Well, the Indian ought to be able to catch fish: He can’t do anything else.” Specialization is what gets results. | A man who holds the world record in running or any other athletics usually can’t do anything else. He hasn’t time to do anything else. Keeping trained in his specialty busies his body and brain to the limit of action. So it goes in nearly every pursuit of life. There’s an old saying, that we’re all fools outside our | own businesses. | A’ few generations ago, when America was sparsely ; populated and settlers were scattered through the wilder- ness, every man had to be more or less of a handy-man_ or | Jack-of-all-trades except in cities where he could specialize. Specialization is an outgrowth of community life. It was discovered, for instance, that one man made better shoes than anyone else in town, and made them faster. Obviously, it was foolish for him to devote his time to anything except shoe making. Another man could saw boards and drive nails faster. He specialized at building. And so on, until nearly every man became a specialist, trading the products of his toil for things he needed that others could make faster and better than he could. The tendency toward specialization has increased with the passing of time. We talk about ours being an “age of specialists.” And yet, in our increasingly complex civiliza- | tion, specialization has barely started. When the lads of today mature to manhood, life will be many times as specialized as now. The boy, who is allowed to drift along without any definite idea of what he wants to specialize on later, will strike out into the world for himself under a great handicap. But a greater handicap lurks in the danger of parents opposing the line of work his instinct gravitates him to — trying to make a natural-born lawyer, for instance, become a doctor. uous methods are successful in their on the English girls. “We like them heaps; they are very amusing. “Under their blustry veneer the American boys are very conyentio:1 very frequently fe door New York, Sept. 15.—New York stage door Johns—the brave young blades who wait expectantly and with well filled pocketbooks for the footlight beauties—are more ardent in their midnight trysts than their we think English brothers of London, aceord-|—far more so than English men. ing to three chorus members of a! Why, they are very proper . about British musical revue whom I inter-| when and where girls smoke cig- wed last night, ‘ arets.” The English girls, pretty’ and far ene . dancers, as a group, than| Sing Sing prisoners often are per- ‘American chorines, have been here| mitted to leave to attend a funerg for months, so their observations are| The other day, a 20-y: interesting. sentenced for murder at 17, w “In London,” they related, “if algiven a day’s freedom for the fun- boy out front takes a shine to a girl; eral of his mother. in the show, he modestly sends notes| It will be his last dé side pri- in candy and flowers for at Iéast|son walls. His father also is dead two months before he would dare|and he has no brothers or sisters. braving a stage door meeting.” eee Then to contrast the situation, Raymond Beck, who a few years “But here in New York, the dash-jago was a choir singer and known ing American boys, rush up, take|as the “Angel-Faced Kid,” has out- you by the arm, and ‘I like your looks; you'll like me when you know me better; come quick, let’s waste no time becoming acquainted.” The strange part, they confided, the Americans boys with their stren- FABLES ON HEALTH BEWARE OF BAD AIR id you ever stop to consider the stages man has passed through in order to reach the state of a house grown his title. He has been arrested charged with grand larceny and felonious ult. There is no trace of the “Angel Face” any more. He is hard boiled. --Stephen Hannagan. kas worked for him. It has been gradual and subtle, for,he went from the outdoors into ¢ and then forth, but I will probably save that to tell you when I see you. Lovingly, “Karl is very silly to telephone you, my dear. He should have real- ized that men do not talk ovef the long distance telephone to other | men’s wives unless they are very LESLIE. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Servi , Inc.) dweller?” the pyhsical director ask- ed Mr. OM hous stick to them and dodge the much needed outdoors, Jones. t people take for granted that always were, and so they “Now, as a matter of fact, man is hurriedly built Tean-tos, tents cliff, huts with a hole to ventilate, cabin and houses, “And reaching a supposed civilized state in houses, he stood for such things as tenements. “The result is all the train of evils that come from bad air and indoo: lute to make specches this campaign. | EVERETT TRUE “NO, MRS. TRUS, Now GET You HEAD ~— ¥ BY CONDO yore a THAT OvuT OF IN UKI WITH YOu TODAY II! NOW, THAT'S Thai i GET ALL THE ExeERCcise t NEED wit SPRINTING AND JUMPING AND DODGING IAT THE STREET CROSSINGS Ih y AND Yo OQUSHT To BE ABLE To GET ENOUGH : EXERCISE, too, WITH ALL THE oS get Hj JQRZADDING You WHY, OF Course, THE SUNS HOT I! AND DON'T Say THAT WORD — SAY YOU/RE | “PER SPIRING!! . a WIDS, OPEN SPACES: WHERE MEN , 4RE MEN*—/ aH SosH!! 4 life. 7 “About the only way we can in any Measure overcome the evil is to sleep out of doors, when possible, and keep the houses well ventilated; get more out-of-door outings and practice deep breathing.” THE AUTO CARAVAN *-(Florence Borner) biologically an outdoor animal. In- vention of houses made it possible for him to live in all climates, yet this indoor life has been at the: root of much disease. y “Nobody will ever be able to fig- ure how much woe this indoor living From Maine to California The autos come and. go, From lands. of brightest. sunshine, To lands of ice and snow.; The poor and modest flivver, The costly limousine, Keep going ever onward, And form an endless line. We know more of our neighbors, Than we haye known before, Since autos by the thousands, . Have. brought them all next door; Each day we're rubbing elbows, With folks from évery state, And hearing homely phrases, And language most sedate. Oh, who would be a Midas. With all his wealth of gold, When you can be a member, Of caravan so bold? It storms the hidden places, And takes them for its own, While Distance flees before it. And calls no place its home, {is tezy bisew sald Adventure beckons to us, We mount our magic steeds, Fleet as the winds. of heaven, We follow where she leads; : No fear can ever daunt us, . No troubles vause dismay, The Auto stands before us, So hurry, and away, Tho rich man and the, poor man, The young man and the old, The careful and the reckless, The timid and the bold; oe - The toting car and roadster oll» The coupe and sedan. All go to form an endless chain— ir a The auto caravan, ry a