The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 20, 1924, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMAR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1924 CK TRIBUN A . A : hel| ied Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class _Editorial Review { Helmets Seem to Be Out of Style This Fall CITY DOOMED, SAYS FORD, % * ” -_-__ : nee Matter. column” may oprmay ‘not ‘express By Albert Apple BISMARCK TRIBUNECO. - - - Publishers | are treseated hots in’ arfor Whey ; a Foreign Representatives ie ne whic s | Ake Ba net pane o nas oe iris on sak plies Sg i je press of || us much. But the overhead expense of living in su: aC CHIC G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY i oe, | Pi io ee is becoming unbearable. The cost of maintaining Mar I nee : id : is 4 DETROIT THE ANCIENT DELUSION — | [oO Swee interest on debts, of keeping up water supply, sewerage and larquette Ma ANE RURNGUAND SUITE Kresge Bldg. eee ‘ | WORDS 2 sanitary systems, the cost of traffic cays Oe welsh I he Minneapolis ¢ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or fess to quarrel with the system of capitalism and they fain would rid rate his Socialist followers, pro-| This is Henry Ford’s idea, expressed in an interview in Automotive Industries Magazine. ; the people of their subjection to| republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not! capitalism. But the protest is| . iret er Prey A i i i i .| Teally against nature, against the | Ford says he believes that sharp competition will com- Meee in this paper and also the local news pub subjection Genny STE LwraVel and | eal Hele te move out into ae aa Over- ichts ienti : ; Bet Cones oe een es . | head costs and living expenses wou e lower there. eee of Ree enon of special dispatches Refela wills ents) fey eg cota , aoe years ee yore scene vie ees One Rousseau, as well actories in rural districts where farmers could work ii | MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Ruskin, that natur dull seasons -of the year. Growing most of his own food, — aa prey rede iaud| even) compass each industrial producer under this system would also be his ay ‘SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE | fie: ant that gat, hinders man) own boss part of the time. | Daily by carrier, per year............ seeeeeee + $7.20) pounty and having an easy time ot A handicap to this system would be if industries owned Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck).............. 720 it, ig some diabolical selfishness | the farm-homes and supervised them ruthlessly, as is now Daily by mail per year (in state outside Bismarck) .... 5.00/0n the part of some of us, which | done with homes and gardens in many mining towns. Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.............. 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) BORN TO MISS THE JOY OF IT You have to feel a bit sorry for the Prince of Wales. He seems to be a good fellow with an inclination to enjoy himself in a human way, and observe how he is pestered. Upon leaving home he has to observe the royal custom of traveling incognito—as Lord Rennet, or something equally as good—and yet, before he boards his boat, the world knows all about his incognito. He finds his steamer packed with folks who have fought to get passage so that they may say “Oh yes, indeed! I came over with the Prince of Wales,” and who riot for places from which to stare at him. ; Jf he dances, he is surrounded by a ring of brazen starers and is bound to feel that every female present has marriage or other social designs on him. He is entertained and slobbered over in some big Amer- ican cities until he’s tired and sick, mentally and, perhaps, physically. Then, he goes to the wilds of Canada, “for a good time,” with promise to be able to “rough it.” And what will he get there? ; Will he hang his necktie and white shirt on a bush and make him a bed of pine boughs? Will he put up a tent and fry his own flap-jacks and bacon? Will he carry a canoe over a portage and paddle it through the lily pads of the silvery lake? Will he tramp out his own crawfish bait from the mud, and smoke a cob pipe? Will he go out among the great pines, alone, as the sun sinks below the mountains, to see, hear and feel nature going to bed? Will he chop and carry wood for the campfire and sit in its glow to smoke, to think and to praise God for the rhythm of wavelets upon beach pebbles, the hymn of night breezes in the dark forest, the twittering of young birds being put to Bleep, the wonders of the stars, and the blessed freedom of a man who is being just himself? Will he get the relief, the joy of feeling “Here are just God and His great works, and myself’? Alas! It cannot be. His title is too precious. None of the enjoyable roughness of the wilds for him. His bacon will be served tied with ribbons, his crawfish will be served bathed and polished, his spotless clothes will be served by a professional valet from a palace, and a crowd of flunkies will spoil all the loneliness and naturalness of it. Poor Prince! None of the splendid wildness of the great outdoors for him. BUNK 2 When John Wilkes Booth leaped to the stage of Ford’s Theater after shooting Abraham Lincoln, he did not stop dramatically and shout, “Sic semper tyrannis” or anything else. If he said anything at all, he didn’t stop when he was saying it. He was fleeing for his life and he wasted no time on speeches. This is the version of William J. Ferguson, who was call- boy and prompter at Ford’s Theater that historic night. There’s a lot of bunk in history —to make it thrill us. Napoleon’s famed pose was not for meditation or effect, but ; to keep his cape about him for warmth. LOVE A Michigan farmer pretended to be insane, so he could join his wife who already had been committed to the asy- lum. He’d have won his wish if the judge had not noticed a gleam of joy in his eyes when the farmer’s commitment ’ papers had been made out. Love in extreme cases resembles the law of gravity or the force that pulls a needle to a magnet. It is one of the very few psychic or spiritual forces that exists in all people. Maybe some heartless scientist of the future will learn how to neutralize love—enable its victims to forget its lure ;—as we now can demagnetize metal, INFLATED Among other things, many farmers are the victims of land speculation—trying to earn a fair rate of profit on land bought at too high prices during post-war speculation. Industry did the same, only on a. gigantic scale. Most businesses inflated their capitalization, by stock dividends whiefly, to dodge the tax collector. They’ve been trying to earn the old-time rate of return on more capitalization than they are economically entitled to. COMING Inflated prices have been reduced considerably. There'll * ‘be more reduction, by waves or cycles, as the years slip by. The next major movement or cycle in industry will be , _A deflation of capitalization. Already it’s becoming necessary } ia and unavoidable. Many industries have seen the light and A business that valued itself at $200,000 in the boom, worth only $100,000 now, is not going to be able to earn the high basis during sharp competition. BRIDE f Massachusetts man married a pretty waitress. In the + following year she purchaged two new suits a week—104 in ;.the year. This comes out at the divorce hearing. Apparently this bride gratified a long suppressed desire M for fine feathers. _We all have some such desire. But few 1 ‘pte ever able to gratify the yearning, as did this ex-waitress. * She was Cinderella, though only for a year. Now she has cif@-the memories—and the gowns. ay ‘ PROHIBITION Phi but Mili at the rate of 50,000 a year. And convicting 35 out of coe 41. Fifty thousand arrests in’a population of about C fz millions! This is number eight to be added to the list seven original jokes. How many violators escape en- ? Hundreds of thousands or millions? The nets still ‘spread h.for minnows, not enough for whales. Uncle Sam’s rum sleuths are arresting liquor law Viola-| prevents us all from conforming to nature and from enjoying richly the emoluments that nature, like a fostering mother, hands out to but allowed her. That is the illusion of Karl Marx inherited from the French Revo- lution. And he was born too early in the Nineteenth Century and was too stubbornly immersed in his inner consciousness, so. to ow speak, to be effected by the sclen- tific thinking of Darwin and his successors, which went far to rec- tify the sentimental conception of nature enunciated by Rousseau in the Eighteenth Century and per- ; petuated even in our own day by ; Tolstoy. Capitalism, like feudalism be- fore it, is not responsbile for the | difficulty of human life on this planet, for the work, the pain, the scanty profits, the sickness, the death that attend man’s existence. Feudalism at one time aided men | in their wattle against nature. | And capitalism h: ainly done so in much larger measure {n the time it has béen developed. Marx’s fundamental notion that capitalism meant that the rich must grow richer and the poor poorer, is proved by the years since {his death to be untrue. Society j has constantly been growing ri er, except as nations have destroy- ed wealth in war, since capita ism obtained recognition. Capital- ;ism provides more to divide and} the division is fairer than ever be- fore. There are more goods to go around and more persons get an increasingly larger share, as the tistics of wages the last fifty ears, and especially the last ten,! disclose. The wealth of civiliza- tion has increased since Marx’: day many fold. So has the in vidual welfare. Henry Ford twenty years has made a stupen- dous fortune, and in doing so has: dispensed welfare to thousands of; artisans and provided millions with improved transportation. Of course, there are reforms to be made from time to time. But capitalism-so far has been the best | vehicle devised to carry men and ‘women on their journey through life. That journey never can ‘be made easy. The price of tolerable living is diligence, care, foresight, intelligence, devotion. And error, loss, sickness, despair, will attend man’s efforts to the last day of earth. The efforts of men like Senator |LaFollette to improve concrete conditions, to repress fraud, to punish injustice, are laudable. But their notion that the capital- ism system, so-called, is responsi- ble for all the ills that flesh is heir to, is not only a delusien, but also a danger. Given political power, they could and would make a sad mess of the complicated ma- chinery by which our comfort and in: |when she felt something hard in ette repudiates Moscow, but he would make a Moscow here, given the chance. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “Now,” said Mrs. Cracknuts severely to Scamper and Scramble | Squirrel, her grandsons, “you’ve both been naughty boys so you'll have to go to bed without any sup- per. I know smoke when I smell it, and matches, too!” “But—” said Scamper Scramble, “we—” “But me no buts,” said Mrs. Cracknuts. “Off you go.” So there wasn’t anything to be done but just do as she said. They \hadn’t a chance to tell her that it was only Indian-beans or Indian- tobies, as they are sometimes call- ed, that they were smoking just for fun. “And now,” said Mrs. Cracknuts when they had gone, “I’ll just send their suits to Mister Snip Snap at | Nancy Nick and Company’s store to clean and press. Then they'll be in good order for school next week.” : So she bundled up the two suits and gave them to Daddy Cracknuts to deliver. “While I’m at it,” said the old gentleman squirrel, “I’ll take that old smoking-coat of mine along, too. It’s all covered with spots and a good cleaning won't hurt it.” “Why, yes, we can fix up all the things as good as new,” said Nick, when Daddy Cracknuts came into the store and told him his errand. “How is everybody at your house?” “Fine!” said Daddy Cracknuts. ;“Just fine!” | But he did not say a word about Ma having put the boys to bed. I think he had very good taste not to mention it, don’t you? Now Daddy Cracknuts had for- gotten something. He had forgot- ten to take his pipe and matches out of one of the pockets of his smoking coat. So when he had gone, Nick took and aney while the?coat was being fix- ‘Nancy sewed on buttons and ,rubbed off spots and Misté Snip’ us, her children, or would if we} |put the pipe into the pocket welfare are afforded. Mr. LaFoll-/ if | all the things out and put them |h Snap mended tears and rubbed off more spots and Nick helped with everything. Then the fairyman took an enormous iron and pressed the clothes until they looked as good as new. “Here, don’t forget to put this pipe and matches back,” said Nick. “‘Lhey were in the pockets.” He didn’t say which pockets, so Mister Snip Snap absent mindedly of Scramble’s coat and the matches into the pockets of Scampe’rs coat. ‘then he tied up the bundle and Nick took it home. Mrs. Cracknuts was just going to hang the coats up in a closet Scramble’s coat. She put in her hand and found—the pipe! Then she found the matches. Next she went out to the yard and cut a birch switch. “I don’t like to do it, but there are times!” she said severely. 4 . “Ma, I'll have to go back and'get ‘my pipe,” called Daddy Cracknuts at that minute. “I forgot and léft it in my pockets and Mister Snip Snap didn't put it back.” “Yes, he did,” said his wife. “Here it is right here.” For she {suddenly understood all about it. Scamper and Scramble had all the pie and cake and candy and ice- cream they wanted for a week be- cause their grandma was so sorry for what she had done. But they got sick and had to go to_bed and have castor-oil. Isn’t that just like grandmas? (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Well, the Chinese are planning another war; either or just an encore to the last civil war. The only nice thing about civii war in China is the thing is as far from the United States as you can go. Trouble in Mexico, Bandits Both- ering Americans. We hold Ameri- cans wanting to be robbed should give their trade to American bandits. Prince of Wales’ trip to this coun- try will make men’s styles English. Wish a naked African prince had visited us in the spring. To make many a man’s fall cloths English the Prince of Wales should have visited us three years ago when the clothes were bought. Wonder if Bill Bryan thinks he is his brother's keeper? The Chinese are trained to move | forward only. If a Chinaman ever steps back he is farefooted. Shipping board has a new engine now, but an old reputation. While business is a little better all over. the country it still can't get around without help. The old newsless Monday is a great day for newspapers now, with their lists of killed and injured. More sad words of tongue and pen, “Darned old school’s started again.” The skinny sister greets the bath- ing season's end with a joyful yelp. Reports from various sources indi- cate picnic ants have stored away food for about # million years. When the thermometer goes down coal goes up. Buttermilk is just sweet milk that as been around too much; she will step on your neck, + Copyright, 1924;"NEA Service, Inc.) Throw yourself at a girl's feet and LETTER FROM ANNETTE AN- DERSON TO MRS. JOHN AL- DEN PRESCOTT MY DEAR MRS. PRESCOTT: I hope you will forgive me for bothering you, for with your fear and grief over your father’s illness, I certainly do not wish to add to your burdens in any way. But I have to tell you—and I may as well do it first as last—that I am going to leave Mrs. Prescott. Miss Bradford and I cannot live in the ysame apartment. I do not know what there is about that old maid, but there sure- ly is something that brings out every critical and unkind faculty in your mcther-in-law’s mereansl tg] Mrs. Prescott does not strike one as being a woman who is readily influenced, but in her case I have found how easy it is to appeal to the worst that is in all of us. Miss Bradford makes Mrs. Prescott feel that she is not only abused and her more than wonderful, infallible judgment absolutely disregarded, but she is all the time flattering Mrs. Prescott’s narrow egotism by telling her that her opinion is much better, on account of her long life and experience, than yours could possibly be. Of course I do not mean this is being done in so many words, but the intimation is clear. I have been long enough, my. dear Mrs. Prescott, with all’ sorts and conditions of men and women, to know that age has nothing to do with judgment. A child of 16 is sometimes better capable of judg- ing the affairs of modern life than 4 man or a woman of 60, who has ment and is full of narrow-minded prejudices. Miss Bradford seems to sour all {the milk of human kindess that is in Mrs. Prescott’s heart. She has made her think thdt her son, _|through your influence is not treat- ! EVERETT TRUE Say, MR. How 4 You CEND He Your EVERY LAWN= Mowe & A t LAWN-MoweR, BUT grown up in a secluded environ-|I You'Re AWFULLY HARD- PUSHED ing her as a son should treat his mother. Nothing I can do seems able to change her thoughts to something happier or more kindly, for, Miss Bradford has succeeded in making Mrs. Prescott think that. I amsin league with you to curtail her importance and influence in her son’s eyes. Since Mr. Prescott went away, Miss Bradford has persuaded his mother that the thing to do is to give your apartment a thorough cleaning. , Of course I think this is only an excuse to go through your most private things, but I dare not suggest this to Mrs. Prescott. In act, I think Mrs. Prescott also has a sneaking. curiosity to know exactly\what you have.and how you Keep: it. 53 You of course know that your cook has left. .I believe Mrs. Pres- cott wrote that to you. As her son took Sarah with little Jack, of course your mother-in-law has usurped all the authority in your apartment. Yesterday when I re- turned from my daily walk, I found them emptying your clothes clos-; ets, and the rooms were a sight. Trunks had been emptied, bureau drawers turned out on beds and sofas, and all the clothing that you had put away in closets as well as that on hangers, had been taken out of the closet. Your mother had hired a ve ordinary scrub woman to wai down the walls and the floors, and she told me she was going to have her brush your clothes and put them back tomorrow. The woman was slovenly in the extreme, and am quite sure she will never get. them back in the places where you had them. a Both Miss Bradford and Mrs. Prescott were exclaiming over your extravagance in ‘clothes. Next week Mrs. Prescott says she intends to send your beautiful BY CONDO TRUS, Bour CENDING ME Your AWN- Mower £ SAR, NEIGHEOR ONE AFTER ANOTHER, You've BoRROWED ON THe sTReey ND NOW IT'S Tive FoR “Mou TO ROcc ‘Sure OwN au eee FoR A Im “OU EVER ASK FOR MING AGAIN, You’CU Be sSTiec Today the big city is an industrial center. Ford predicts a time when the industrial center will be a chain of small towns, each with its factories and mills, farms nearby. Ford does not seem to reckon with the part the airplane may play in breaking up the big cities. If planes get safe, fool-proof and as inexpensive as auto flivvers, father could live far out in the country or even in the woods and fly hun- groups of families. By NEA Service New York, Sept. 20.—George Buch- anan Fife is the most. distinguished appearing newspaper reporter in New York. . He is an assignment writer on an evening paper and has been engaged in newspaper work since 1892. Fife dresses the part of every story he covers. He blends his wardrobe to match the scene he is to enter. He has been “covering” the Prince of Wales and his party. I saw him on several occasions and it was im- possible to distinguish him from i timate members of the royal group. It was easy to pick out the other newspaper representatives. Fife has gray hair, a sandy mous- tache and is tall. In court trials, Fife frequently is mistaken for an attorney. Golf paraphernalia-dealers make it FABLES ON HEALTH dreds of miles to and from work in the city. The city would no longer be a residential district on any big scale. It would have factories, mills, stores and theaters. With airplanes cheap and fast, and radio bringing movies and music and news to the far-off home, the problem of city congestion would be easily solved. The public, however, might object to isolation—even in City dwellers are responding to much the same spirit that makes bees flock together in a common hive, wasps in a paper nest, ants in a hill as convenient as possible for busy business men in this town, They bring their wares to the office build- ings and use the private office rug as putting green, driving tee and the desk as a hazard to demonstrate to prospective purchasers. Singing, dancing and flag waving is profitable. George M. Cohan, Broadway’s song and dance man, has just sold his country home. The price was $347,000. A newspaperman bought it. ue Vaudeville is being depleted of its funny people. They are -moving into Broadway musical shows. Never be- fore has there been such a dreath of new comedy and laughing material. Comedy acts are being looked for two years solid. A fortune awaits those who can amuse people. —Stephen Hannagan. FIGHTING A COLD “Once a cold has been contracted the rules for prevention should be reversed,” the Jones family doctor admonished. “It is then advisable to avoid drafts, various fluctuating tempera- tures and skin exercises. “The great idea then is to keep the body warm, and the feet in par- ticular, A hot footbath is a good thing right off the bat; then a hot old French desk over to the cabinet makers and have it \thoroughly gone over and taken apart if neces- sary to find the secret drawer she is sure is there somewhere. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) | MANDAN NEWS | MAY NOT LOSE LEG Steve Kubisiak, care repairer in the local N. P. shop force, who Thurs- day suffered severe injuries when run over by a freight car while he was employed at repair work on livestock equipment in the Sunny yards, may not have to suffer am- putation of the limb, it was stated by Dr. W. C. Allen, railroad surgeon. The physician marveled at the fact that a freight car could roll over a man’s leg without necessitating am- putation. While removal of the right leg about midway between the ankle and knee was considered al- most necessary yesterday, the con- dition of the injured man was sur- brisingly favorable today. Good cir- culation prevails in the foot and the leg below the badly crushed bones and muscles. The broken leg was the only injury sustained. Kubisiak, at present a’ patient at the Deaconess Hospital will soon be removed to the Northern Pacific hospital at Glen- ive. : . a AWARD CONTRACTS Contracts totaling more than $13,- 000 were awarded by the building committee of Mandan Lodge No. 8 A. F. & A. M., in connection with the completion of the basement floor of the new Masonic temple as tempor- ary quarters to be used until the whole structure is completed next year, Agaton Larson was awarded the contract for the carpentry, cabinet and other finishing Work and Carl Winbauer was awarded the contract for the plumbing and heating fix- + ..., These. are worthy drink; then a good purgative and a good rubbing of neck and chest with camphorated oil. “When the foothath is being taken it’s a good idea to wrap the body in a blanket and then immediately go to bed. A bath with water at 95 to 100 degrees is restful to the nerves and skin., “Eat lightly, preferably vegetables. And, afterward, build up the body and skin to avoid recurrences.” tures. The total contracts awarded last night also included the cost of connecting ins with the Central Heating plant. Mr. Larson assured the committee that he would ‘begin work at once and believed it possi- ble that the building might be ready shortly after Thanksgiving time, and at least by the first of the year. A Thought | | A The ——__-+ They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.—Ps, 124:5. As ye sow, so shall ye reap.—Pro- verb, May Contract Much Fibre Flax Grand Forks, N. D., Sept. 20.— Possibility of 2,000 acres being contracted for the growth of fibre flax in the vicinity of Greater Grand Forks are seen by J. C. Cady who has been here for the past three weeks looking over the 200 acres of this flax that has been grown experimentally here this jyear. In view of conditions under ‘which the flax was aroma this year several of the ‘fields have shown up a rmeeptionally well, Mr. Cady sald, It will, be advisable to thresh several fields for seed, according to Mr. Cady, since some of the flax became overripe before it was cut or contained too much weeds. “Farmers whose fields warranted eubane for manufacturing purpos- es will renee $30 a ton for their crop and it is practically assured that this amount will also be paid next year. One requirement for fibre flax is that the land be clean and Mr. Cary says that th yield should. be two tons wus acre, canals in Holland. .. FRIENDSHIP BS: (Florence Borner) Welded together for weal or woe, Heated in Destiny’s fiery flame, Proven and, tried on the Forge of ‘Lite— of Friendship’s name. Sharing, each others joys and cares, together. Life’s solemn ‘main; ‘oth, Knowing and reading x vo). \ieseare worthy... ie There are almost 1000 miles of