The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 17, 1924, Page 4

ree® PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE i Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class, Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. : Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Publishers | CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise entitled in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year............... see e $7.20 | Editorial Review Comments reproduced in 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. ANSWERING QUE (Chicago Journal of Commerce) | Ridiculing the statement of | General Dawes fn his Lincoln ad- dress that judicious plans for the relief of the farmers cannot be evolved until after consideration | by an impartial commission, Mr.{ Davis his Omaha speech de- clares that “if such a commission | is needed now, why was it not} needed a year ago, and why was the suggestion of its appointment delayed until the eve of election day?” And he adds, “The patient seems in a fair way to die before the doctors have finished diag- | nosis.” \E OF DAVIS’ IONS Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) sesseeee 7.20; Let us take the latter statement Daily by mail per year (in state outside Bismarck).... 5.00 first. Manifestly it is an exag- Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.............. 6,00 geration. The patient ig not in a THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) REQUEST BY PETITION When the request was first made for Seventh and Eighth grade facilities at the Roosevelt School, some mem-| bers of the school board suggested the circulation of peti- tions. A committee of women, some of whom had circulated petitions to build the school and on two occasions repeated the performance to have the first six grades established there, started out and got nearly 500 signers, among whom were some of the largest tax payers in Bismarck. During the circulation of petitions, A. P. Lenhart was asked how many signers he thought was necessary. He declared then that about 200 would suffice to impress the board of the necessity of extending school facilities to this j vj section of the city. More than double the signers he sug- gested were secured. No direct action as yet has been taken on the petition of the 500 signers. The women who worked hard to get the signatures have not received any word from the board members. Instead the announcement is made that seventh and eighth grades will be discontinued at the William Moore and Richholt schools and are to be concentrated at the Will, schoo). That action was never petitioned for and what the tax- payers asked was additional facilities at the Roosevelt. The board should either grant the request or flatly tell; the taxpayers on that petition that they cannot have what they are willing to pay for. Four teachers are now employed at the Will school to teach seventh and eighth grades. Two of these could be transferred to the Roosevelt, thus giving the: west end school, the William Moore and the Richholt school all seventh ; and eighth grades without one cent of extra expense to the taxpayers in the way of additional salaries for teachers. All schools would then be on the same basis. Congestion would be relieved at the William Moore, the Richholt school would retain its present seventh and eighth grades and the west end patrons would not be forced to send their children excessive distances to school. This arrangement would meet the issues involved fairly and squarely. The compromise proposed at the Will school suits nobody. Incidentally the women who fought to secure the Roose- ‘velt school and since have been kept busy fighting to keep it open are to be congratulated. Last winter many of them waded through snow to get signers to open the school after it was built. The last peti- tion presented is the third or fourth one'to be submitted to the board. The women believe they can get double the nymber signatures they have secured to the last one to open the school to its fullest extent. If the board wants more signatures they need only indi- cate how many. CANDIDATE ON THE JOB: President Coolidge thus far has resisted the insistence of organizations in many parts of the state that he make a campaign tour. At this time, it is recorded in dispatches, the demand for speeches by him has grown so strong that the Republican national committee is considering the matter. It is to be hoped that President Coolidge will continue _ his present course throughout the campaign, and he is pretty likely to do it. The personality of Calvin Coolidge seems hardly fitted to the blare of a special train campaign tour, with speeches in torchlight and parades with raucous noise- makers. The country has come to think of Mr. Coolidge as one who regards his job of being president of the United States as more important than his personal fortunes. He has remained pretty close to his desk since he has been President, and has undergone a very great strain for one who appears to force necessary recreation. The country likes to regard Mr. Coolidge as an industrious, honest ser- vant of the people. The fact that this impression seems to have spread into every corner of the country, and is felt by people of all classes, has contributed much strength to the President. MURDEROUS A lot of auto drivers still are indifferent about the safety of pedestrians. This is shown when they fail to apply brakes with excessive caution—let the walker “look out for him- self.” An occasional driver even swerves his car to make pedestrians jump back to the curb—and laughs. These people are murderers at heart, wihout the cour- age to kill. They vent their maliciousness or high nervous’ tension at the risk of the lives of people afoot. Assured of not being punished, many of them would run down a pedes- train with glee. pele bine ee ENMESHED .. The Michigan farmer who feigned insanity to join his beloved wife in the asylum acted quite as sensibly as a good many other people when they’re in love. '. Cupid has a wonderful sense of humor. You observe this when a dignified man’s love letters are read in some breach of promise cases. Unhappily, the victims get the laughs and blame that properly belong to the emotion that temporarily wrests con- trol from them. No one is entirely sane when in love. TALK That standardized individual, the average American uses the phone nine times as often as the average English- man. - "This pleases the utility companies, as a sample of our ‘eadership in mechanical progress.and conveniences. But it’s only what’s to be expected, for we're a nation of back- fe gossipers. So is every nation, for that matter. Only the pilious lieve that there is such a thing as talking too ROBE RE SERINE fair way to die before the doctors have finished their diagnosis. The farmer is not in a fair way to fail before this impartial commission shall have reported. Because of the upturn in prices, the farmers are in a far better condition todav ‘than they were several months ago. Despite all exaggerated complaints, the farmer can easily keep on his feet until after this impartial commission shall ‘have considered the entire problem agd shall have issued its recommenda- tions. Concerning Mr. Davis’ implica- tion that the suggestion of the ap- pointment of the commission was} delayed until the eve of election day in order that Mr. Coolidge might derive political benefit there- jfrom, it may be seid that Mr. Da- vis’ argument is at first sight plausible, but that it is not correct. A year ago the appointment of aj commission would have seemed a| futile ‘business. It would have ; seemed the mere birth of another commission in a government of many commissions. The situation has been changed by the success of the two commit-| tees of experts from many lands who solved the reparations prov- lem, General Dawes, returning from his successful labors abroad, no doubt had a full faith that the} tangled agricultural problem of this country could be solved by an impartial commission if the right men were appointed. After his; nomination at Cleveland, the gen-| eral visited the White House, and!/ it is probable that he then ad-/ | vised Mr. Coolidge that a commis-! sion should be appointed. When ‘Mr. Coolidge delivered his accept- ance address, he announced that jhe would appoint such a commis-| sion. | The inference that the plan for the appointment of the commission really originated with General | Dawes is borne out by the fact} that the general, during his long; experience as a banker in Chicago,} has had a close contact with the! economic problems of the farmers of the middle west and the north- west. Accordingly Mr. Coolidge | would be all the more ikely to; accept his advice. ! In the absence of an official ex- planation of the origin of the com- mission plan, we believe the above explanation should be accepted as most closely fitting the known facts. Mr. Davis implies that Mr. Coolidge delayed announcement ot his plan until the campaign, in or- der to win votes among the farm- ers, This implication should be tested by the known quality of Mr. Coolidge’s character. Do _ the farmers of the middle west and the northwest ‘believe that Mr. Cool- idge would deliberately delay the appointment of so necessary a commission merely to win votes? | ADVENTURE OF | THE TWINS '| BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON CUTIE COTTONTAIL’S SECRET “Well,” said Mister Snip Snap to the Twins. “Did you find out what it was that was wearing out Cutie Cottontail’s shoes so fast?” “No, Mister Snip Snap,” said Nick, “we didn’t. We visited the school in the woods yesterday and all the scholars did was to study spelling and ‘rithmetic and reading and writ- | ‘ing. They used their hands a lot, ‘but their feet hardly any at all, and there wasn’t anything that would , make Cutie’s shoes wear out so fast.” “I do declare!” said Mister Snip Snap. “It is the greatest mystery I ever heard of. It's as bad as the fairy tale about the seven princesses who danced their shoes to pieces! every night and nobody was able to find out where they went. Ha! I have an idea! I have a wonderful idea!” “What?” cried the Twins that. “Why, if Cutie Cottontail doesn’t wear his shoes out in school he must be wearing them out some place else,” said the fairyman. “So he must,” said Nancy. “Of course,” said Nick. “That's just it!” cried Mister Snip Snap as pleased as Punch about be- ing so smart. “The next thing is to find out where it is and what it is that is doing the damage. After school this afternoon watch and see what Cutie does. The great mystery is about to: be solved.” just like | out, Nancy and Nick were waiting. Freddy Frog came out first. “Here’s for the swimming hole,” he shouted, hopping away as fast as he could go, Then came Cob and Corny Coon. “Here’s for the sweet-corn patch,” they yelled, and were off. Then cai Scamper and Scramble Squirrel. “Frost last night, fellows,” they | called. “Let's see who can shinny up the chestnut tree first.”. | mother’s kitchen stove, he ito the shoes. isn’t wearing our shoes at all. That afternoon, when school was | THE BISMARCK out just what it was that Cutie’s shoes out so fast. But, although his cousins coaxed him to play hop-Scotch, he said he had to cut some wood and couldn't stop to play. He went right in the front door and slammed it. “I think Cutie’s shoes must have worn out by themselves,” said Nick, “It’s ever so queer.” But scarcely had he spoken than out came Cutie again and went straight for the wood-pile. But instead of picking up the ax and starting to chop wood for his reached in behind a log and pulled out his new shoes. “I'm never, never, never going to wear you as long as I live!” he said! “You nearly pinch my toes off after running in my bare feet all summer. Back you go.” And he stuck the shoes behind the log again, then he went on with his wood-chopping. Nancy and Nick laughed. Then they went back to Mister Snip Snap and told him all about it. “Cutie He's wore got an old pair on,” they said, “Well, well, well!” said the little fairyman. “I’d rather Mrs, Cotton- tail went on thinking we sold her bad shoes than have Cutie suffer. We'll not say a word about it.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Very often the girl who threatens to scream if you kiss her would be more liable to scream if you didn’t. Heaven must be a place where you don’t get tired of loafing. Skinny people don’t get as warm as fat people in summer, but then they don’t in winter either. It would be easier to quit smoking if you could gather up much admir- ation for the men who don’t smoke. Human nature is what makes a pair of rolled stockings climbing aboard a street car more attractive than a bathing suit. About the only way to get at the seat of this trouble with the rising generation is by using a shingle. Prohibition doesn't make it much harder to get a drink, but it does make it much harder to drink it. The best thing about these new baggy trousers is you can change without taking off your shoes. | The way to a beautiful but dumb girl’s heart is a round trip. Our objection to an old flame is she won't burn your letters. We had almost rather work than be a politician. Being popular doesn't leave you much time for making real friends. they won't go within miles of them. One job worse than being a wife is working in a restaurant where you feed men all day long. What could be worse than being in love and having no auto? Money may not mean everything,| but almost everything means money. Punétures are so afraid of Freee TRIBUNE HEY Sam / WelRE ALL GANGIN' ONTHS Bi BULLY. DONTCHA WANNA JOIN IN a LETTER FROM BEATRICE GRIM- SHAW SUMMERS TO SAILY ATHERTON, CONTINUED I can’t tell you, Sally dear, what a peculiar feeling I had when I went down on Hollywood povlevard the cther cay to do some shopping. it’s an nary little city street. Most of the buildings are low, some of them quite artistic and some of the bank buildings quite imposing. Sun- set boulevard and even Santa Monica boulevard are in time going to be ‘quite as busy streets. Yet I doubt if in the eyes of the thousand and one persons who step off the Santa Fe and other railroads entering Los Angeles each day, there is any other street than Hollywood ,boulevard. These people, as } did, expect to see New York’s famous Rialto transplanted out here in the foot- hills with its dust and noise and tawdriness left behind. They the little street will retain all the essence of New York’s theatrical atmosphere, all the echoes of its Bohemian gaiety, and all the whispers of its spicy scandal. Hollywood boulevard! No other street in all the world passes the little white house on the outskirts of Kalamazoo, yet reaches to the edge of the gold mines and oil fields of Mexico. No other thoroughfare climbs the hill at Mont Matre to Sacre Coeur, where all Paris can be seen below. No other road crosses Main Street in Des Moines, Iowa, yet is traversed by the myriads of people in Peking. No other highway in all the world is held up to criticism by a pulpiteer who knows nothing about it in the farflung land of always winter snows, or has its temptations pic- tured by impassioned -orators with a Freudian complex of the repressed desires which multiply in the tropics. In the lonesome places of the earth, Hollywood boulevard is known as the place where Gaiety and Love! EVERETT TRUE ¢ First sign of fall is when you find overcoats are too high. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) But Cutie Cottontail came out with his cousins, the Bunny boys, and started straight for} home, Nancy and Nick followed him, ing sure they were now going to feel- find The fish hook cactus is’a trust- worthy compass of the desert, for no matter how hot the sun, it al , Ways points toward the south, aug | It Surely Would Add Pep to the Scrap are continually passing on dancing feet. In Hollywood anything can hap- pen and generally does—just as it happens in every other corner of the globe. But because the screen is a part of the amusement life of every city, every town, every hamlet, one comes to know the shadowy men and women that flit across it quite as well-as one does one’s nearest and dearest friends. Living in Hollywocd is like look- ing behind the scenes in the theater, where one always is disillusioned at finding carpenters, scene shifters, mechanics, ¢lectricians, doing the monotonous work which must be done even in the Land of Make Be- lieve, Aready, Sally, I have found good friends and charming’ people among the moving picture colony. I think I am going to like it, but as yet I have only skirted along the outside, and of course you know: your cau- tious old friend never makes up her mind until the thing has been well analyzed and a rational judgment deducted therefrom. There, that sounds more like pedantic old Bee, doesn’t it? I love you, dear. Write me about everyone, especially Leslie, BEE. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) “WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1924 A HOUSE IN THE, AIR rt, el E, LENEMN By Albert Apple on A home on wheels was built by Will A. Harris, Texas educator. He constructed it on a motor truck. Painted | gray, this traveling house of two rooms is 18 feet long. | In eight weeks Harris and his wife and young daughter | traveled almost 4000 miles this summer. ficient | You’ve seen such homes on wheels. They are vivid illus- | trations of how the auto has in less than a generation virtu- ally placed the entire United States at the door of the car | Owner. Distance, which was like jail bars, has been conquered by the auto. A man of very moderate means can get into his flivver and take a vacation trip such as was available only | to the extremely rich not so many years ago. é The auto has given us a new form of liberty—releasing us from being confined to a very small section of the earth’s surface. With the invention of the auto, Americans have become a nation of rovers. Nearly every one can gratify the wan- derlust instinct that lurks in all human blood. Back in Spanish-American War days, a man who took a trip of a few thousand miles was the talk of the town for years. Now he comes back; few have noticed his absence; they merely lift their eyebrows politely when he recounts the marvels of his trip. ‘ Travel used to be almost exclusively available only to the rich. Now every one can travel, “see the country.” The next step in human liberation will be popularization of the flying machine. Wandering airplane houses will come, just as surely as we now have traveling homes on motor trucks. It may seem a wild dream, but that’s merely because people are afraid to ride in planes. This fear will disappear when flying becomes primarily a useful business instead of a sport — when the aviator’s craze for speed and doing dis- tance gives way to concentration on how to make planes safe, fool-proof and cheap. , Flying homes would solve New York Sept. 17.—The story book character of the round-the- world fliers is Lieut. Eric Nelson. He looks like an adventurer, the type who would be a modern Magel- lan and skirt the globe, high above the surface of the earth. His face is as red as g blister, fanned with the winds ‘of many climes. His hair, rapidly thinning, is ‘grayed. He is large of stature and commanding in appearance. His smile denotes a happy-go-lucky demeanor that takes defeat bravely and success lightly. He is the type authors write about. Three years ago I saw him for the first time. It was during the Pul- itzer air races in Detroit. Unknown to the large crowd that watched the feats of the airmen, it was Nelson who was firmly imbedded in_ its} memory. As might be expected he won the race in which he competed. Nelson was born in Sweden. There still is a delightful mingling of his native accent in his speech. In Brooklyn the busy time for the larger stores begins when New York's day ends. Much of Brooklyn’s Spends the working day York. The Brooklyn stores are empty during that period. There is no one to shop. ’ population in New \ _A Thought. 1 ——_—_—_—__-—_—__+ Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be hon- ored.—Prob. 13:18. False shame, only is harmful. Livy. The greyhounds can’ travel a short distance at a speed of 35 miles an hour. BY CONDO WAN Hi | fT “After a day. of considerable walk- ing and the feet become tired or in- flammed’ bathe them in hot antisep- tic solution for 15 or 20 minutes,” Mr. Jones was advised when his feet were troubling him. “When the feet have been dried excrescences and callosites can be rubbed off with a coarse towel. “After this thoroughly massage the feet, using some healing foot lo- tion, An astringent solution can be used if the skin is naturally moist MANDAN NEWS | EASTERN BANKERS HERE A. B. Larson, formerly of Fort Clark and now with the First Na- tional Bank of Alma, Wis. was in the city yesterday.’ He has been looking after interests of some in- vestots in this section in western North Dakota., J, A. Alvstad of the Kandiyohi County Bank of Wilmar is another eastern: banker who is here on the same thission. The lat- ter is the second oldest bank in the tate of Minnesota. Both men have made extensive tours through the West Slope district and’ report that everywhere is to be found the same splendid crops. aca ° FAMILY REUNION Mr. and Mrs, Chas. Dow left last evening for their home at. Missoula; Mont, following visit at the home of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F, L, Dow. ‘Mrs. Dow has been spending a few weeks at the home FABLES ON HEALTH: CARE OF THE FEET the rent problem—if govern- ment provided free parking space. You may live to see the day when giant corporations will be fighting for a monopoly on desirable airplane parking grounds. In the evening the Brooklyn stores do their rushing business. They re- main open until 10 o'clock. Children in the slums of New York often have to use extreme in- genuity in getting the most from their playthings. Yesterday I saw two urchins hav- ing a wonderful ride on one roller skate. One of the boys had the skate attached to his right foot. The other climbed atop the first one’s back and perfectly balanced the two rolled along in glee. William H, Anderson who as an Anti-Saloon League executive was sentenced to Sing Sing for forgery, no longer will be pointed out as one of the interesting inmates of that institution. On complaint of Anderson, that he was being made center ring of a side show, guards were instructed not to point him out to visitors be- ing shown about the prison. There is an automobile parking yard in Tenth Avenue that is the most unique innovation I have seen in any city in the country. Every car has its own individual garage to protect it from the ele- ments, The charge is 25 cents. —Stephen Hannagan. or softy’ There is not a great deal to be done for perspiring feet unless it is 50 excessive as to become annoying. The best day-in-and-day-out treat- ment is a good bath in astringent and antiseptic solutions, Frequent changes of stockings in which foot powder has been scattered is about the best home treatment. Cold and clammy feet must be blamed on the general physical con- dition and not the fect themselves. of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Thompson at Wilton. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Dow, who are making their home at Wishek for the summer were also visiting here Sunday. TWO MEN HURT Two Northern Pacific employes received painful injuries yesterday morning, Charles Sampson, employ- ed in the N. P. shops suffered a badly crushed and cut hand when a side bar of a locomotive dropped upon it. The tendons in the fingers were cut and he’ will be crippled for some time. August Fricassi, employed on a section gang, had his right hand caught between’ a rail and a rail levelling device sustain- ing a rather deep cut on the fingers. The heart of a patient in Charing Cross Hospital, London, continued to beat for four and a half hours after she had stopped breathing. Mustard gas is being used in New York ‘to kill the bacilli of colds, chronic bronchitis, whooping cough, and influenza, ~ CONTENT isa (Florence Borner) It's not so'fine as some, perhaps, That:line the Avenue, : With ‘brownstone fronts and pilldrs grand, And rich and costly view; But how I love it none can tell, Because it is my home, Paid for by years of honest toil, And it is all my own. ‘ T envy not those millionaires, Who live in castles grand, With servants at their beck and call And-wealth at their command; T have a home, a charming wife, Warth's: richest, best reward— A little child who looks like me, A-playing in the yard, vt