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mL bse Be pai dou pro une see ly tior if t to alle rats ind The inst vay clos an 201 ha sho cle T que othe had Gur tith dep clot clot law ° 13h The rigk Fan tim he’ dope fore acq pay: the late prio whie the tute over tors wha exis anty wou such quir resu ly ¢ eque stru tecti prot ties, ‘woul of U trati woul legis act ¢ cons the SL clain amin righ} have latig Th sion fect that whol clain allow the ¥ “PAGE FOUR i Daily by carrier, per year.............. : effect that good crops and price upturns were surely going | * see a new political consideration. rose . letters a minute, five times as fast as ever before. closmcertainly didn’t delay this improvement. THE BISMARCK Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. - - - Publishers Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO Marquette 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 ati cal " 7.20 DETROIT Kresge Bldg. Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) 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) JACK FROST IN POLITICS It was not unusual sometime recently to read of state-! ments of politicians far removed from the Northwest to the! to change the political complexion, An act of Providence, | so to speak, was to have more weight in the political cam-| paign than all the promises of political orators. Recently. with the corn far from maturity in the Middle West and the fear of Jack Frost upon all, the same forces began to An early frost destroy- | ing much corn in the Middle West would surely turn votes; in another direction in the campaign. Campaign specula-| tion has run about every gamut, but perhaps never has the weather played such an important part in the prognostica- tions as at present. TRIBUNE! Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class, | safety valve; that we have merely 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 He discussed in the press of iv the NOT A JOYLESS AMERICA (New York Times) Premier Herriot would seem to ‘be the latest participant in what is getting to look like a conspiracy | against the American intellectual. | Elsewhere he presents the im-| pression he carried away from this country last year. And the sum- mary of his feeling about America is contained in the following paragraph: To define the United States, therefore, as a land of big buildings and mass production is to take a very narrow point of view. For it is also the country of free living—of nat- ural living—it is the Land of Joy. Yes, the United States is a land of joy, of a free life beneath a wide blue sky. It is a calumny to represent it as the slave of mechanical civili- zation. Obviously this isa sinister thrust | at the favorite intellectualist dog- ma of our native sons, that the one thing which does not exist in the United States is joy; that our me- chanical triumphs have made us only the slaves of the machine; that the Puritan tradition squats | upon a people’s natural impulses like the Mi sippi nigger on the speed where other people have beautiful motion, and have only noise where other people have har- monious utterance. Not even the sight of Chicago’s stock yards— bly of Pittsburgh's steel s 11 convince M. Herriot that Chicago and Pittsburgh» are the real America. He has seen Americans on the beaches, in the It is human nature that a hungry man is desperate: that a dissatisfied man may inherently take a different view- point from one who is content. Peace and prosperity bring a rosy outlook, while conflict and adversity are apt to make men sour and hasty of action. But it is folly to assume that a mere turn in the weather is going to produce a turn in the vote. It is an insult to the farmer of the Northwest to say that an act of Providence alone is going to change his economic and political convictions, an insult to which | The Tribune does not subscribe. : Lessened production of grain and corn and adjustment | of world conditions, brought about .better prices, served, to expose the quackery of those radical politicians who sought to bring about a general belief that manipulated con-, ditions had been the sole cause of the farmer’s difficulty. | The change has served to impress upon all the fact that. forces over which no legislature and no politician has con- trol have a most potent effect upon the well being of agri- culture. They have served to emphatically point out that a general recognition of natural conditions and adjust- ment thereto have been effective instruments in the better- ment of the condition of the farmer, that his own action alone in limiting production has been most effective. If the change in fortunes has had the effect of dispelling unsound economic theories which may have been born in adversity. there may be a change of reasoning which will affect the political result. But Jupiter pluvius with his generous rain- fall nor Jack Frost by remaining away or visiting us too soon, are not in themselves the case. ‘ CAPACITY The iron and steel industry within another fortnight or month will probably have recovered sufficiently from de- pression to be producing at a rate of 75 per cent of capacity or full-time operations. But the steel industry over-built during the war booms. Its capacity now is half greater than before the war. This giant industry, wailing because it’s operating at 60 per cent of capacity now, is actually producing almost as much as in 1913. The nation still measures by comparing with wartime instead of normal peacetime. MURDERED In the last 10 years 85,000 Americans are known to have been murdered. Thousands of others, never detected. Tn the next 10 years, at the present rate, 120,000 to 150,- 000 will be struck down by pistol shot, dagger, poison, etc. The murder rate is disgracefully high, and increasing faster than population. Whether capital punishment curbs crime is debatable. But we’re lunatics if we don’t put mur- derers where they’ll never kill another—and keep them there. Parole or pardon of killers is too dangerous for ex- periments except in very rare cases. FOOD Jhe number of Americans working on farms has in- creased 15 per cent since 1900. But they are growing 40 per cent more food. Figures furnished by the expert, Davis Friday. Scientific agricultural methods all the way from com- mercial fertilizer to tractors, have more than made up the shortage of man-power on the farms. The country, of course, is growing, and so is the food market. What is over- production of crops now will be shortage within a few years. CABLE The Western Union starts laying a new cable, to run be- tween New York and Rome. This cable, 5422 miles long, will cost a fabulous sum. The investment indicates that the telegraph people do not expect radio to usurp the cable’s place, at least not for a long time. We'll need them both. The competition will spur them om to improved service. This new cable will transmit 1500 Wireless WORKING *, European industries in 1921 were producing only 61 per cent as mych as in 1913. The figure now has risen to 84 per_cent, according to the economists, Jacoby and Stillich. * Wise Providence retards recovery until war hatreds cool off.: If Europe hadn’t suffered intensely after the World ai War, her politicians would have another one under way by than the‘ pets ; The headache of the “morning after” curbs a drunk- thirst. : AWAY + Thirty-eight out of every 100 women in four typical cities working and earning money outside their homes. This ealed by a government check-up in Jacksonville, Pas- Butte and Wilkes-Barre. ie i More than half of these bread-winning women are or have been married. And 61 per cent of the married women workers live with “wage-earning husbands.” The pinch of economics is destroying the American home. parks and on the golf links giving evidence of a capacity for joy that is not to be distinguished from happiness in other countries. It must be conspiracy, because less than six months ago a semi countryman of M. Herriot was s2y- ing the very same thing in the Atlantic Monthly. Hilaire Belloc wrote about us: Wherever you go, in the whole of the vast territory of the States, you discover that sort of freedom in the soul which is the breeding soil of happiness. The American peo- ple live in truth. They are the happiest white people in the modern world. Both Herriot and Belloc strike the same basic note of American | happiness; freedom. In addition, Herriot stresses youth and energy. Take. the mere joy of creation, which intellectualism will admit as a real element in human happi- ness. M. Herriot thinks tthat a people which can build and tear own as rapidly as we do, in a sheer sweep of exuberance, and free from the trammels of bureau- cracy and tradition, ought to be a happy people. That is sounder a! priori reasoning than the intellec- tual argument that America is joyless because. among other: j things, it is so contented. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON ' THE SAND MAN LOSES HIS SAND One morning the Twins were! gathering golden-rod in the meadow | when they saw a large red leaf fas- tened to one of the yellow blossoms. . On it were some written words and it only took Nancy and Nick about two seconds to discover that it was a letter for them from the Fairy Queen, “Dear Twins,” it went. “A dreadful thing has happened, !The Sand Man has lost his bag of magic sand and cannot find it. “If he doesn’t fing it soon there is | going to be a bad time, becanse none of the babies can sleep. “Besides that it is getting pretty late in the fall and a lot of my friends in Wood Land and Meadow Land want to go to Dreamland for the winter. . “Unless the magic sand is found, they cannot go, for the way to Dreamland is a secret and only those who have the magic sand sprinkled in their eyes can find the path. “Will you please put on the magic shoes you will find under this plant and go to the Sand -Man’s hous¢. He wants you to help him to find , the lost sand. “Lovingly, your friend, “The Fairy Queen.” A lot of words to get on one leaf, isn’t it, my dears! , But then it was magic writing, and magic writing doesn't take up any room at all. The Twins were “Hooray! j cried Nick, ! “T just know we shall like the Sand Man,” said Nancy happily. “Of course, we'll put on the magic shoes and go and help him.” So anxious’ were they to get on! the wonderful shoes and go on an-| other adventure, that they forgot all about the golden-rod they had | gathered and ieft it lying on the ground while they took off their own little leather shoes and put on the others. | “Achoo! Kerchoo! Achoo!” sneezed somebody very loudiy. And there, standing right beside! them was the Sund Man, You| couldn’t have seen him any more! the Twins could before they | put on their magic shoes. But now everything was changed. Quite! It Was remarkable the things the children could make out that they had never noticed before. And the Sand Man was one of them. + “How d’ do—achoo!—children,” he sneezed, “I—I have hay fever and golden-rod always makes me sneeze. Achoo! And there is nothing worse for my business. It wakens people something: awful—sneezing does. Achoo!” i “How do you do, Mister Sand Man,” greatly excited. Another adventure!” THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE This Is the Flashy One | said the Twins. “We're so sorry you lost your bag of sleepy sand. And we'll try ever so hard to help you find it.” “That's just—choo! fine!” said the Sand Man gratefully. “Then let's do start at once because if we don't get away from this golden-rod I'll sneeze my head quite off, and what the children would do then I can’t think. For there wouldn't be any me to put them to sleep any more.” ‘And away they all went. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) He who gets all lit up on bootleg | may shine for a while but soon will find himself out. Chasing something is always more exciting than catching it. Very often, even in a seven-pass- enger car, three’s a crowd. : Putting your best foot forward is all right, but you only move along by dragging up the other one. There isn’t any use in worrying over where we are headed. All of us have round-trip -tickets. Better be laying in a good supply of baths before the long cold spell. Still waters run deep, but are full of snags. they More people would be good if be- ing good was interesting. The chief objection to a stenographer is words fail her. new The harvest moon seems to govern not only the tied, but also the un- tied. Some people dqn’t marry for fear it won't last and others for fear it will last. You seldém hear a man brag that he has gotten 50,000 miles out of one suit of clothes. The key to success locks the door to excess. You can’t tell from how a politi- cian stands which way he will jump. Cheaper farm produce might come to us if we would mend our ways of transportation. A pair of beautiful eyes are all right, but need looking into. Two can live on love and kis: if love has a job. (Copyright, 1924, s NEA Service, Inc.) MANDAN NEWS MANDAN MERC. CO. ° ° ' BUYS ELGIN YARD ‘The Mandan Mercantile company which operates about 60 lumber and farm machinery yards in the state and eastern Montana, has pur- chased the stock and equipment of the Thompson Yards. company at El- gin and will close out the plant. Arthur Reed, manager of the Thomp- son Yard at Elgin has been trans- ferred to a South Dakota yard. Pease ear | A Thought | ———_—_—__- —__—__ Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.--Prov. 16:19. Beware what spirit rages in your breast; for one inspired, ten thou«™ sand are possessed— Roscommon. : The Tangle LETTER FROM ANNETTE ANDER- SON TO MRS. JOH ALDEN PRESCOTT, CONTINUED. I was perfectly aghast, my dear Mrs. Prescott, when Miss Bradford told me she was sure you would feel very kindly to any one who would discover that secret drawer. I knew you left hurriedly, and of course I do not know how many private pa- pers you have left in that desk. But when I tried to remonstrate—and I did rather heatedly—Miss Bradford interposed by saying: “I'm sure, Nurse” (she always calls me ‘Nurse’ when she wants to be particularly disagreeable)’ “that Mrs. Prescott Junior will be as glad to have the secret drawer in her desk found, as she will be to have her rooms put in complete order without any worry to herself. I'm certain that it has not had a thorough clean- ing and careful going over since moved in the apartment. “When I saw the condition of her| thing is of any use except what Miss | first had to be able to improvise cor- closet which we are cleaning today and which has presumably been used daily and therefore more apt to be in order than any other rooms less used, I know that if I were Mrs. Prescott and through my devotion to society and my friends had left my place in such a way, I would be very glad and thank my husband's mother very much for putting the entire place to right: This bit of righteous pretention on her part led to a discussion, in which I was completely ignored, of the dresses and wraps and other things which were found in your closet and bedroom bureau, The probable cost of all this paraphernalia seems to worry them very much. Miss Brad- ford made your mother-in-law think you were culpably extravagant. Perhaps, my dear Mrs. Prescott, 1 should not tell you all this, but 1! know how infuriated I would be to have a perfect stranger go through my small possessions when I was not by, so,I determined to write you, that youmight better understand why I am Jeaving Mrs. Prescott Senior in two weeks, even if you’ do not return. Unless you are willing that med- dling old maid’ should go through your entire house in the hopes of making you out.an unprofitable wifo, you’ would do well to wire me, or better still, wire your friend Mrs. Burke to lock up the whole place and forbid them. admittance. I want you to understand, my dear Mrs. Prescott, that hefore Miss Brad- ford came I was delighted with the place. I enjoyed your husband and yourself and little son immensely, and although your mother-in-law was able to originate musical expression at times exigent, she seemed to be growing more tolerant of new ideas. e | However, now it is perfectly impos-|ago to be a member of the famous sible to make her understand any- Bradford tells her. Sincerely yours, ANNETTE ANDERSON. Night Wire From Leslie Prescott to Ruth Burke Immediately upon receipt of this wire, demand the keys of my apart- ment from Mrs, Prescott. Lock it and return the keys to the manager of the apartment house with instruc- tions that absolutely no one except yourself is to be aligwed in the apartment. Above all .¢lse let no piece of furniture of mine be sent out of the apartment. eave every- thing just as you find it.' Do not tempt to put clothing that has been removed from clogets. ack.’ This rand mit xplanatory letter “fol LESLIE HAMILTON PR (Copyright, 1924, NEA. Service, Inc.) EVERETT TRUE romero a _—— WHAT DO You Me4n BY WITH AN OUTFIT UKE THS 2 A TAXICAS, NOT A NEGCECTED circus case BY CONDO WERE DO j You WANT T’ Go Tot SHOWING. UP, HERS I CALLED See Aw-ww WAN NOTHING \3 GATING ME, BUT JUDGING FROM) THE CONDITION OF THS INSIDE or eis IDOVERED WAGON, THERE WOULD BE eee MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1924 tional conference will be held {the problem. They will urge (drugs for addicts. joutput of raw materials. industry. Opium farming is orient. ing the drug traffic. used to kill. sells concealable firearms. and sale, all along the line. The tiger will bite as long time trying to muzzle him? By NEA Service New York, Sept. 22—There nothing new about jazz music. is as old as time. : This is the view of Guy Maier and Lee Pattison, figures of importance in the musical world, who present a concert program on two pianos. One of their most important: offer- ings is a jazz concerto by Edward Burlingame Hill, a Harvard pro- fessor. “Every country,” says Pattison, ‘“has its’ jazz ‘feeling’ at some. de- velopment of its history. “In good jazz each player must be is It that fits in with the next fellow’s ,improvization. Three hundred years Peri and Monteverdi orchestras one tly. The Russian and Hungarian psies have done the same for years, their music throbbing with & restless communicative beat. “We think of ‘blues’ as a very recent addition to popular music. The truth is that the great Richard Wagner composed the first ‘blue’ chord for a mere graphic description of the word ‘blau’—blue in German Could any way be more direct and sensible? It is too direct to suit countries that make out of growing the raw materials. posal put up to them a year ago. stepping, talking about curbing manufacture of drugs, ap- pointing committees .. . anything to avoid curtailing the —in his opera, ‘Tristan and Isolde.’ One day little Molly Jones came home with a card on which was printed the slogan: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Mrs. Jones smiled as Molly an- nounced: “We've got hygiene at school now, and I’m going to help you keep the house all cleaned up.” “That’s fine,” nodded Mrs. Jones. “Well, teacher said first to start with the kitchen,” said Molly, “We've got to keep it well aired all the time. And the sink must be kept clean, And did you know that if the pipes under the sink are not FABLES ON HEALTH. SOME HYGIENE RULES ON PULLING THE TIGER’S TEETH * By Albert Apple To curb the traffic in habit-forming drugs, an interna- in November in Switzerland. The American delegates will strike directly at the heart of limitation of the growing of | the poppy, cocoa plant and other raw materials that furnish big ‘profits They had the same pro- Result: They’re side- As long as the poppy and other raw materials for drugs are grown, they’ll be made into drugs. It wouldn’t, by the way, be difficult to put on the brakes. The growing of raw materials for drugs is a highly organized a common occupation in the Curbing murder is a problem strikingly similar to curb- As long as pistols are manufactured and sold by mail to any one with the price, pistols will be Local or state regulations, such,as compelling registration and police permits for revolver purchase: and possession, are easily frustrated by buying from a mail order house that It’s a problem in interstate commerce and it should be ended by the proper interstate agency—a national law. There’s an organized hue and cry against this proposal. Quite naturally, for money’s to be made in the manufacture The mainstay of the propaganda is that a ban on sale of pistols except to officers of the law would disarm the law- abiding householder. Nonsense! He could protect his home with a rifle or sawed-off shotgun—which cannot be carried concealed through the streets by murderers and thieves. The quickest way to control anything is to abolish its existence. pistol. Stop growing opium, etc., except enough for legitimate medical purposes, and you stop the drug traffic. - as he has teeth. Why waste Stop making pistols and you stop murder by “It is absurd to take a highbrow attitude toward jazz. Jazz has bor- rowed tonal combihations from the Negro and Indian, rythm from the Congo River, color from the Slav, stopping now and again to luxuri- ate in the harmonious senses of the Semite.” ace ‘ Downtown, where elerks storm the streets during the noon hour, is a piano store that keeps a player piano thumping through the recrea- tion period. Crowds park before the store each day. I saw one young man reading the words off the ‘piano roll, as it wound out the music, while @ second young man scribbled down the words in shorthand. One of them could play the piece by ear. All they needed was the words, A basket of fruit was being aired on the fire escape of a tenement house. Above a father and son were passing Sunday morning hours. The father whittled a stick to a sharp point, ettached a string to it. and afcer several attempts plunged the stick into an orange in the basket below, drew it up, handed it to h son and returned to reading the Sun- day newspaper. A Ia carte service. —STEPHEN HANNAGAN. cleaned regularly they will draw bugs and things? “Yes, and it causes smells, too. Then we have to scald all the milk bottles so that no germs can collect. “The refrigerator is important in summer. We must be very careful that no old food stays there and de- cays. It’s a breeding place for germs, the teacher said. And the ice should be washed before: being put in, so that there can be no dirt.” “Well, I guess that’s enough for one afternoon,” suggested Mrs. Jones with a smile. “And mind, you re- member those rules when you are my age as well as you do now.” Stark Institute Oct. 13 To 16 Dickinson, Sept. 22—Dates for the annual Stark county teachers’ insti- tute have been fixed at October 13 to 16 inclusive, H. O. Pippin, super- intendent of schools, announced this week after receiving advices to that effect from Miss Minnf® J. Nielson, state superintendent of public in- struction. The conductor and prim- ary instructor have not yet been chosen, Mr. Pippin said. The institute this year will be held for Stark county teachers alone in- stead of for Stark and an adjoining county as has been the custom for the past several years. The sessions will open Monday morning at the Normal school auditorium and con- tinue until Thursday afternoon when adjournment will be made in order to permit all teachers who so desire to attend the annual sessions of the Southwestern district meet of the North Dakota State Educational asso- ciation Which’ opens ‘in Mandan that night. Official sessions, of the dis- trict meeting will be held on Friday and Saturday, stitute. While doing so they are giv- en credit for teaching time. This 80 applies to attendance at the sdis- trict meeting. Whether many Stark county teachers are. planning to at- tetid ‘the-convention-at Mandan is not, kpown. at this time. © Dickinson teachers’may also attend the annual. convention of. the state association to be held at Grand Forks October 22, 23 and 24, on full time with the consent of their respective school boards. Electric Cookery. Is Better Cookery. ” READ TRIBUNE WANT ADDS. Youth and Age Flies ay ed hands in an ge. j airplane flight ekently, ‘when an aviator took William Bane and Danny Gerber up for a 40-minute spin near. Dayton recently. | Bane is 105, a veteran of the Mexican War and . lives. the National Military Home.,in Dayten. Danny is just 18 months old and the son of a farmer. ve