The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 23, 1924, Page 4

a /)PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THE BISMARCK Editorial Review Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. : Publishers a are presented here In order the Of" important lasuen” whieh ee Foreign Representatives ime tee ree =e CHIGAGO G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY a a = Oo 5 - - - ETROIT SHINESE NATION- Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. apne ee PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK i 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............. $7.29 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). 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) OUR USUAL ELECTION LAW SUIT An election in North Dakota without an eleventh-hour jew suit of some kind would be a novelty. It would seem that every question that could arise regarding the procedure of elections has been threshed out in the supreme court in the past in law suits brought so late that often the printing of the ballots is delayed. But a new situation is presented in the suit before the supreme court to force four Republi- ran electors, alleged to be favorable to Senator LaFollette, from the Republican ticket. The LaFollette forces generally expressed the desire for a clean-cut fight and urged that the four electors withdraw from the Coolidge column. The situation is one of many queer ones which are a product of the primary system. Four men who were supporters of Senator LaFollette were named Republican electors in the March 18 primary. The Republican party chose President Coolidge as its nominee ~~e~for’the’ Presidency, instead of Senator LaFollette as the aw ay =four men hoped. Their names would go on the election --ballot, bracketed with that of President Coolidge. The voter who favors President Coolidge naturally would cast his vote opposite his name, but in so doing he would be voting for four electoral candidates who are not favorable to Coolidge and who might cast votes against him in the electoral college. By all ordinary rules of fairness these four electors either ought to announce they would vote for Coolidge if sent to the electoral college, or resign their positions and permit the naming of avowed Coolidge electoral candidates. WHEN A COW IS NOT A COW “Pigs is pigs’ and until recent years there has been a belief prevalent that all cows are the same. The curious scientist and expert, however, began investigating and reached the conclusion that a cow is not always a cow as the average mind regards the bovine. sumed to take a small amount of feed and give a goodly amount of milk. The expert has found that many cows take a lot of feed and give very little in return. The Blue Valley Creamery Institute has just completed an investigation and makes the statement that one-third of all the dairy cows in the state of North Dakota lose money for their owners, one-third make up for what the first third loses and the other third roll up profits for their owners. The Institute experts found but 7.4 per cent of the dairy cattle in the state are pure bred and that the average milk production is considerably below what it could be, if better stock were developed and better farming methods used. The daughters of good cows, sired by purebred bulls, will in- crease the production and still further lower the production cost, the experts find. FEMININE The four greatest American writers of fiction are all He lists these top- Willa Cather, Edna Ferber, Zona Gale and Doro- women, claims William Allen White. notchers: thy Canfield. Here’s room for more argument than Teapot Dome. White is close to this broad truth: ting to be a woman’s game in America. feminine literary supremacy, but to women’s willingness and ability to write the kind of stuff editors want. the ablest male writers drift into advertising jobs or be- come press agents. The best written part of the average magazine is the ad pages. SINKING Boston discovers many of its buildings are sinking. The land is sinking with them. Geologists say, not to worry, that the entire Atlantic coast line of our continent is grad- ually sinking, with a corresponding rise in the Pacific coast. The modgrn scientific theory is that the continents are floating on the more central part of the earth, like chips on thick molasses. The contents slowly move westward. The resistance encountered wrinkles the advancing side—making the Rockies and other mountain ranges, also causing earth- quakes. DANGER Captains in the North and Baltic seas report many float- ing mines still are drifting about, endangering ships. These mines were planted in wartime. More than five years of mine-sweeping have not entirely cleared the seas. Floating mines appeal to the imagination, which makes them vivid as dangers. But the most dangerous “mines” left over from the war are national and racial hatreds, far mcre explosive than T. N. T. Time may sweep them up, but slowly. No war is every really over until both sides forgive each other. FARMERS The average person working on a farm produces a third more than in 1900, government report estimates. Manu- facturing has made just as good a record, if not better. The problems of production are largely solved. Prob- lems of distribution are not much nearer solution than a decade ago. We produce the stuff, all right, but don’t know how to distribute fairly after we have it. Our generation has specialized on production. The coming generation will specialize on distribution. DEBT The national debt now is about 21 billion dollars. This is nearly four and a half billions less than the peak which was reached in 1919. A considerable part of the reduction was brought about by salvage—selling surplus war supplies. m now on, the debt will decrease more slowly. Any _eut will come out of taxpayers’ pocketbooks and repaid al- loans. For a cow is pre- Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune, They t (Indianapolis News) It might perhaps be plausibly | argued that China is going through the process of nation-building, | which always has been costly and painful. Certain it is that China| is mot today a nation. i The war now going on ig waged by powerful provincial governors against one another with armies which are their personal poss sion, though paid for out of taxes levied on the people. According to Dr. Schurman, our | minister to China, four-fifths of the taxes go to the maintenance of these armies over which the so- called government hag no control. That government is powerless to preserve peace or maintain order. }. Whether any of the warring chieftains have any object except their aggrandizement may be doubt ed. Nothing has yet been brought out that indicates a patriotic pur-} pose on the part of any one of them. Yet apparently it is out of just such strife as this that a Chinese nation must be born. In_ his statement Dr. Schurman say: ‘The situation in Shanghai is the mirror of China. The fate of the ‘Chinese people today is in the hands of the militarists. It may te long before an effective na- tional government is established, the personal armies of the military satraps abandoned, and the unifi- cation of the country permanently and satisfactorily established.” ‘There are people who do not even know that there is a central government. Their interests at- tach only to their neighborhood, or at most to their province. It is possible—indeed it seems likely—that through the triumphs of one powerful man the nation- making process may be hastened,| ° as in other countries, when tribes TRIBUNE | The Football Season Opens | were welded. into nations. But And as for the Sand Man, Twins. much more than this will be need- he could go any place at all. ed, for China hag known, and been Up in the branches the Green subjected to many strong men. Wizard had a nice house. The result of their rule was 4! The Green Wizard stroked his government—such as it was—rath- er than a nation. There is no bet- ter material anywhere than the Chinese people. beard and thought and thought. “Have you any idea who has your sleepy sand?” he asked finally. “It might be Tweekanose,” said As for the strong man, he must] tne sand Man. be more than that if he is to ac-|° "so it might,” said the Green complish much for China, There] wizard Mid HOH (again ie is great need for railways, roads, mightn’t.” “Or it might be Eena Meena, the gician,” said Nancy. “So it might, but then again it mightn’t,” said the Wizard. “But I'll bet you it is Tweekanose, the Gnome. He always likes to keep the babies awake, If he has it, he must be found at once.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) telegraphs, not only for purpose of commerce and industry, but to bring the people closer together,)~ and closer to their government. DEMOCRATS—AND WALL STREET (Stuart A. Rice, professor of soci- ology, Dartmouth College, in Cur- rent History Magazine) Within the Democratic party in | America today verbal hostility to “the Wall Street interests” still; provides a semblance of unity be- tween the diverse elements. Upon this ground Mayor Hylan of New Yerk city and the senators from But Fiction writing is get- This is due, not to’ Naturally, ' Arkansas or Texas can still unite; yet this is more sham that real- ity. The Democratic machines in New York or Boston are controll- ed by “interests” as unsympathetic or hostile to the need of the South as the “money power” which both attack. Governor Alfred E. Smith, idol of the New York proletari: is himself accused by William J Bryan of being a representative of Wall Street. Moreover, the new South has developed a manu- facturing and commercial interest more opposed to labor and the masses — because less constrained ‘by public control and labor organ- ization—than is the capitalism of the North. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “I haven’t any more idea where to look for my—achoo —lost sleepy sand,” said the Sand Man, “than Bo Peep had when she lost her sheep. It’s absolutely—achoo!—the very first time I ever lost it.” “Don’t worry Mister Sand Man, we'll find it,” said Nancy, comfort- ingly. “I hope we do,” said the Sand Man, “because—achoo!—It’s time for | the babies to take their afternoon naps.” “Have you looked on the moon?” asked Nick, just as though he was saying; “Have you looked in the ice- box?” “Why I—achoo!—I never thought | of that,” declared the Sand Man. .“You don’t suppose the Moon Man would take it, do®you. Why, we're the best of friends, the Moon Man and I are.” “Oh, no, he wouldn’t take your sleepy sand, I’m sure,” said Nick quickly. “But there is a tricky elf called Tweekanose who tries to keep all the babies awake. He lives on the moon sometimes when the Moon Man doesn’t know he’s there. Per- haps he stole your sleepy sand.” “Why Pll just bet you anything— achoo!—that he did!” declared the Sand Man. “Who's that sneezing?” suddenly asked a voice that seemed to come out of the air. “It’s just—achoo!—me!” said the Sand Man. “I sneeze all the time. T’ve got hay fever.” “No, you haven't. I’ve cured it,” said the voice. And looking up who! should they see smiling down at them but the kind old Green Wizard { who lixed in the tree tops. “Oh, thank you, Mister Wizard,” said the Sand Man. “I’m just ever and ever so much obliged.” “The Sand Man has lost his sleepy sand,” said Nancy. “And we're go- ing to help him hunt for it.” “Well, that’s news,” said the |Green Wizard. “Come on up and | we'll talk it over. Perhaps I can help you.” So they went right up the trunk, of the big tree, having their green; shoes made it very easy for the’ > Tom Sims Says Well, the women in Deauville are wearing nose rings. Not led around by them though. They are led by pocketbooks. We have looked everywhere and can’t find a single war veteran buy- ing bootleg and airplanes with his federal bonus. Isn’t it about time the two Chicago murderers were asking for a pardon? They say a man recently made two millions in Wall Street. Even if he didn’t make it, he got it. The annual baseball big league race to see which teams will come next to New York is doing nicely. Reports from various sections in- dicate heavy winds are damaging the crop of political plums. Chang Lin wants to be the head of China, We don’t. The head of China is so liable to be cut off. Situation in Chile is said to be chaotic. Let’s hope it won't be that way here when we are chilly. Defense Day has to be defended. Women are entering all branches of industry. Girl got arrested in New Orleans for bootlegging. The new Pact of London will nelp tobacco growers, but just the same it isn't a cigaret pack. Three-fourths of our explosives are used in mining operations, we read; and add, and the other fourth in electio1 Ducks are smarter than chickens. Ducks eat with a shovel. Baby seals are actually afraid of the water and must be taught to! swim, the same being true of bathing | beach babies. Vienna produces operas and sau- sage, the general public knowing lit- tle about what either contains. Going sout® to wear our your sum-, mer clothes is cheaper than staying home and buying winter ones. The law helps those who help their lawyers. i | A Thought | ee So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.—Ps. 90:12. I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.—Shakespeare. +: The Tangle : LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO RUTH BURKE Dear Ruth: I am enclosing Miss Anderson’s letter to me. You’ can imagine my furious anger when I read it. What will that old woman not think of next when she is aided and abetted by Priscilla Bradford! It is no wonder to me that poor women were burned after being ac- cused of being witches in the Saiem days, with such gossipy and scandal- loving old maids and women always looking into their affairs and putting their own interpretation upon them. Of course, my first reaction was to take the letter to Jack; then I remembered that 1 was angry at him and had said 1 would not for- give him until he had made me the abject apology which I think I de- serve, That is the'reason, my dear, I sent you the telegram, and why I am writing this explanatory letter. Of course, I know I am getting you very much disliked by my moth- er-in-law, but I know you don't mind that. Iam very much discouraged, Ruth dear. I seem to be confronted with all sorts of problems that as far as I can see have no possible solution. Is this because I am a woman of less decision of character and strength of mind than most, or are they the ordinary daily problems that everyone has to work out? I know you, my dear, have had many in your life, and you have sur- mounted them splendidly. Indeed you have proved a bulwark upon which I have built strength of char- acter for myself. First ang foremost, Ruth, I must tell you that I am much_ worried over my baby’s coming. The event which should make me the happiest of women fills me with worry and doubt, which is particularly acute since I have told John. I know that John loves children, I know he will be glad to have me have more than one; but the first thing he said to me, as everyone else has said whom I have told of my expected mother- hood was: I hope it will be a girl. Of course, I suppose that is what they would have said to any pros- pective mother who already had a boy, as I have. But you can see it is different in my case, and every time I hear those words, whether. they are spoken unthinkingly of the circumstances. of my adoption of little Jacky or whether, like John and my own dear mother, they have a feeling that-I shall come to wish my dear little adopted child out of the way of my own son’s birthright, tt always stabs my heart. I try to quiet my fears by quot ing to myself the ‘words of my mother’s old laundress, who was talking to me one day of a child she whom she said she gave exactly the same love and thought she gave to her other four children, who were scrambling about her knees. I asked her if she felt any difference between them, and she answered: “Not a bit. I tell you, Miss Les- lie, it doesn’t make so much differ- ence in who does the bornin’ as it does in who does the lovin’.’ Little Jack has given his whole loyal baby heart to me. He is like a frolicsome puggy dog who has no eyes or ears but for the one to whom he Hee attached himself when that person is near, He expects love from everybody, but- some way he has got into his inmost. soul that I am his and he is mine, and Icouldn’t break his childish heart by trying. to disabuse him of. it. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) had adopted, The greatest British-built ship in the world, the Olympic, weighing 46,000 tons, was recently towed into a floating dock and lifted 40 feet out of the water. py . TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER .23, 1924 BETTER TIMES AHEAD By Albert Apple The iron and steel industry, which leads the way for all other business activities, is slowly but steadily climbing back up toward full-time operations. The gain in pig iron production in August was only 6 per \cent over the July output. But it was the first check to the | drop that started late in March. . | With the national election out of the way, and uncertainty and superstitious public fear allayed, times may boom sud- denly. The iron and steel industry not infrequently leaps | upward with rather amazing speed. In Aug., 1922, pig iron output had dropped to 1,816,170 tons. In four months it was up past 3,000,000 tons. |. That may happen again in iron and steel—and in general business. All hope so. b Lots of business rainbow in the sky. Election will soon) be over. Steel industry on the upgrade. Europe, having finally settled the reparations problem (for a time at least), should convalesce faster; this, in turn, would stimulate | American business. : ; | The farmer is in better shape, his buying power grad- jually being restored. Business failures recently have been |the lowest of the year. Railroad freight loadings have been lrunning the highest of the year to date. All these point infallibly to better times ahead. America went through severe hard times a few years back. That always occurs after a big war. Here’s what happened after the Napoleonic wars and after the Civil War: War’s end brought a boom, -followed by depression in which prices dropped. Then came another boom, and prices went up but not quite as high as before. Later things slumped and prices sagged. Then recovery. And so on. We've been going through the same process—a post-war boom, depression, another boom or secondary period of infla- tion, and recently the reaction, downward. The stage again is set for a turn upward. e We'd be better off if we could have good business all the time, instead of booms and depressions alternating. The thing could be arranged—and will be later, when men under- stand more about controlling the buying power of the dollar, or, in other words, how to stabilize prices. Business conditions and prices are Siamese twins. New York; Sept. :23—Mother Machree is in. deepest mourning. She is the foster mother of all veteran automobile racing drivers, the confidant of the men who diced with death in four wheeled bullets. Three of her “sons” have accepted the checkered flag of the finish of a last race by the Great Starter. First was Joe Boyer, the Detroit millionaire who was killed at Al- toona, Pa., wheeling his car at a speed of 126 miles an hour. The following day Dario Resta, a champion in the days of 1916 when he won $85,000 in a season’s cam- paigning, died in a crash at Brook- lands Speedway, near London, Eng- They told her their secrets, their with them and cheered them. Every driver carried into his races a sacred medal, given to him by “Mother Mac.” “Three more of my boys have gone on,” she sobbed, “all of them dying in the sport they love so well. Boyer, Resta and Murphy had each won an International race at Indianapolis and were such daring pilots as well as brave, true lads. “Boyer died as he would have had it; he was travelling at top speed, but the irony of fate is to have Jimmy Murphy killed at a speed of joys and woes, and she sympathized . | land, travelling 122 miles an hour. ‘A few days ago Jimmy Murphy, the smiling son of Erin, a flash of a lad who came from a mechanics position in a Pacific Coast garage to the highest position in racing, died in a smashup at Syracuse, N. Y., travellng only 80 miles an hour. Mother Machree lives at Sheeps- head Bay and she mothered the driv- ers in the days of speed duelling on the famous Harkness two-mile Sheepshead Bay speedway, before it was dismantled a few years After the hygiene class opened at Anytown school, little Mollie Jones came home daily with a new list of “dos” and “don'ts.” The garbage can came in for an overhauling. It had to be emptied diily, aired and washed. . As for the house in general, the following rules were enforced: Bedroom—Air the beds and bed- room for an hour or more. Prevent 80 miles an hour when he a car 154 miles an hour.” ad driven { Last night I saw the man who walks along Broadway on stilts. He towers nearly 20 feet in the air, as he struts about on his wooden legs, advertising various stunts, In his normal attire he is a real Beau Brummel and appears to be 40 years old. He wears a flowing black mous- tache. Walking on stilts is highly remunerative. —STEPHEN HANNAGAN. FABLES ON HEALTH. PLAIN HEALTH RULES the collection of dust in the springs and crevi : Laundry—Keep soiled clothing dry and well aired until washed. Do not Jet odors cling to soiled clothing and do not wear until odors appear, Cellar—Ventilate thoroughly. If used as storage be sure to keep it sanitary. If there is but one window run.an air flue’ to some point near cellar floor. Prevent collection of dust through- ut the house. Do the dusting with mpened dusters,’ PROBE MANDAN ELECTRIC CO. Gross Profits of $24,000 in One Year Shown The state railroad commission yes- terday afternoon heard evidence in its investigation into the rates charg- ed by the Mandan Electric Company. Witnesses included E. H. Morris, chief engineer, and Charles Martin, who presented. results of an examin- ation of the company. Mr. Morris valued the electric plant as follows: construction cost, $136,521.00; depreciated: value on baste of construction. cost, $114,873.- 00; cost of reproduction new, $2: 964.00, depreciated value. reprod tion ‘basis, $187,355.00. The anditor’s report showed that, the company during the year ending; June. 30, 1924, ecelved $86,209.6 from’ sale “6f _eleetricity, ete. . a operating expenses were $62,044.39 ‘eross earnings being $24,154.28 ie -year. The: capital stock of tl cogipany is $100,000, Ga A. Rende president of th He asked add an DEN-PINN Fling Attendants were Miss Mur- je} Mackin and Harold Porter, close friends of the bride and groom. ) BUYS NEWS STAND (H. H. Williams has sold the cigar ahd news stand in the lobby of the Iewis & Clark hotel to B, E. ,Pomer- Yau, manager of the 57 ‘Taxi line. ae deal was made on Saturday. Mr. lomerleau plans to install new fix- res, news racks and other equip- ent and enlarge the stocks carried. SHIP MORE CATTLE Farmers of the Flasher and Solen cinities during the past few day? ve shipped seven additional car ads of fancy beef stock to the So. Paul market, The cattle were bilected and the large shipment pade under the agency of Fred Wes- rman, { The famous crown of the Emperor Iheodore of Abyssinia has heen re- rned from England to his former jome in Africa, “LITTLE JOE} h he, OWLY THING THAT MAKES SOME HUSBANDS g iN Weird animals of immense size are|’ rumored to exist in an unknown Arctic region between the Colville and Porcupine Rivers, Miss Theresa ter of Mra 0. jola Funden, daugh deni, Pinn were quiet;