The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 26, 1924, Page 4

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They are America’s | ambassadors in ‘Ri a, destined | in my opinion, to wield a more | profound influence over Russian | social and literary official American been sent from Petrograd. It ig easy enough to guess who | one of thes thors is. Jack Lon-} don has alw: been a favorite in Russia. He still is, though not as much as he was in the day when 1 attended school in a Russian village. The school children do not read him as much as they once: did. life than any | that has ever Washington to | German militarists have a new goat. They’re blaming Colonel Hentsch, member of their general staff in 1914, for! ordering the retreat that lost the Battle of the Marne and shortcircuited what might have been a speedy winning of | the war. | What really lost Germany the war was the fallacy of the h-ng she fought for. In a titanic human upheaval like the Weor!d War, Providence has a hand in the result and permits no error in the decision. Militarism, rather than Germany, lost the war. Time will prove this. Militarism seems very ~-much alive now ,but it’s like a chicken after its head is chop- ped off. i FORMS OF WEALTH The “principal forms of wealth” in Pennsylvania total about three times as big as the wealth of the much larger state, Texas. This is the latest estimate by Uncle Sam. Texas, farmed intensively, could support the population of the whole world, many experts claim. Its natural re- sources, as yet barely scratched, are fabulously profuse— undoubtedly many times greater than Pennsylvania’s. Pennsylvania is ranked higher because it has had the popuiation to produce and accumulate. Man-power, in the last analysis, is the greatest form of wealth—in many ways the only. GAMBLING Almost 164 million shares of stock changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange between the first of the year and Sept. 1. That’s at the rate of over 240 million shares a year, and a good many observers are alarmed at the “gamb- ling craze.” If they will consult old newspaper files, they will find! that stock trading was on even a bigger scale in the years 1905 and 1906 and even as far back as 1901. Since the doilar in those years bought twice as much as now, there really was more than twice as much speculation as in 1924. FATAL ACCIDENTS Fatal auto accidents have increased by half in five years. This is due, however, not to increased carelessness, but to the larger number of machines in use. The element of danger accompanying the average car is slowly but surely growing less. All this is the result of safety - first campaigns and more intelligent handling of traffic. We’ve made a good} start in this direction, but there’s still a long way to go. Accidents, almost without exception, originate in some- one’s carelessness. Bey ac GAMBLERS Fifteen and 20 years ago, on the New York Stock Ex- change, speculation centered in railroad securities. Roughly, two shares of railroad stocks were sold for every industrial | share that changed hands. Speculation has shifted to industrial securities. In the} first eight months of 1924, four industrial stocks were | bought and sold for every railroad stock “traded.” Quite a revolution in gambling—a shift from transporta- tion to production as the stakes. NEAR-INSANE Experts claim 200,000 people in New York city are “on! the border line between sanity and madness.” If you know Nev York, you’ll comment that the estimate is too low. Cn a population basis, there must be at least a couple of miltions of such borderline cases in the whole country. And the craziest ones are not locked up. Their votes count as much as the ballots of the intelligent. Democracy is not | without its handicaps. Sensible mentality tests would be a wise safeguard at the polls. | AVE The average bricklayer now handles 500 bricks a day, employers estimate. Invading their industry is an electric machine that lays 1200 bricks an hour. The three men operating it do the work of 20 masons. This situation gives you an almost clairvoyant picture of the future that lies ahead in every basic industry. “Skilled labor” of future generations will be skilled machine opera- tors. é PIPES Suppose an enemy fleet discovered our navy and began to bombard New York City. Presto! Pipe liges are thrown open, relays of pumping stations start oil flowing from Texas or Wyoming. The soil spreads rapidly, is set afire, soon the ocean is blazing for 100 miles out. Quite possible. The oil industry has a network of nearly 83,000 miles of pipe lines underground in 23 states. TAX New York state collected 25 million dollars income taxes | from its residents in 1928. New York City gets nearly half. State income tax is spreading. Income taxes levied by cities may come later. Money wll have to be raised some way. Municipalities in most cases are dangerously close to the saturation point or limit in mortgaging the future. i SPIRITUAL The growth of materialism has far outdistanced the It is easier still to surmise who another one i: It is as natural | for the Russian to ‘take to Upton! Sinclair as it is for the American | to take to Gene Stratton-Porter. | Both strike at a responsive chord! in national character. It is a backward Russian proletarian who hag not read and grown excited over Jimmie Higgins and “The Jungle.” In my recent wander- ings in European Russia whenever I called upon editors of provincial journals one of the questions I was always sure of being asked was whether I knew Upton Sinclair. Communists took it for granted that he was a member of the par- ty. They talked of him as “our Sinclair.” If it is easy to understand the appeal that Jack London and Upton Sinclair make to the pres- ent-day Russian reading public, it is quite baffling to explain the re- markable vogue of O. Henry. What is there in him that can stir a revolutionary people? What in-| spiration can the apostles of the| so-called proletarian culture or | the Russian masses draw from him? He has no message for the revolutionary populace. Not one of his stories has the flamboyant class appeal that the tamest of| London's or Sinclair's tales pos- | sess. True, he has written of common folk burdened with packs of every- day worries and troubles. But so: has Chekboff, so has Gorky, s0 has many another illustrious Rus- | sian writer. And Gorky is ever! the passionate rebel. And Chekhofi, | too, manages to squeeze a goodly portion of biting dissent into his pages. But O. Henry at best only ripples with good-humored protest. Yet Gorky and Chekhoff are pushed into the background and O. Henry is elevated to a high pedestal . . . The most surprising literary phenomenon in Russia is not the popularity of O. Henry or Sinclair or London, but of an American au- thor who has not the slightest af- finity with any of these men, and who has not the faintest trace of a message of social protest. Edgar Rice Burroughs is the rage from one end of the country to the other. Anybody who reads any- thing reads the Tarzan stories soldiers, proletarians, peasants, intellectuals. State and private publishing houses are keeping their presses hot churning out edi- tion after edition of the Tarzan tales, which are Snatched up as soon as they are placed on the market. While on a train once from Mos- | cow to Nizhny-Novgorod, came acquainted with a salesman from one of the leading private publishing houses who was on his way to the big fair to sell books. He unpacked his case and showed me his “sdmples,” quite an assort- ment of publications on engineer- ing, hygiene, agriculture, chemis- try, social problems, and then pointing to a copy of Tarzan of the Apes, he said: “I’ll sell more of this than of all the others put to- gether.” I have not the least doubt but he did. I do not recall a single bookshop in any of the cities I visited or a single news- stand at any of the railroad sta- tions but had a prominent display of the Tarzan hooks. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “Lands alive, gracious me on us!” exclaimed the Sour Old Woman when, she lifted the board in her kitchen floor and peeped down into her cel- lar. “The Twins and the Sand Man have escaped and taken the magic| sand with them. They must have had magic along and I never knew it.” But suddenly she heard a snore and upon looking more closely didn’t she see the Sand Man him- self with his head on a sack of po- tatoes, fast asleep. “Humph!” said the Sour Old Wo- man. “He must have used some of his own sleepy sand for snuff. But the sand’s gone, that’s sure, Sand Man or no Sand Man—and now all the babies will get their naps. Won't Tweekanose be cross, though, after me promising to help him out.” The Sour Old Woman left the Sand Man sleeping and went to her front door under the water-fall. She caught some of the water in a cap and sprinkling some drops on her door-sill she said a charm. “Eena Meena, quickly come, mental and spiritual development of man, warns Sir Marx Muspratt, the celebrated chemist. Strange words from a scientist. But he is right. Nearly all of what we consider as economic and social ‘oblems are really spiritual problems. No solution, as long A baby grand cost more than a grand baby. Some say ds. better.and some say it doesn’t. f : es we deal with material effects instead of spiritual causes. | nos And see the harm the Twins have done.” Instantly there stood Eena Meena the magacian, in his flowing robes, his nose making a bow to his chin and his chin making a curtsy to his hat wouldst?” said he. “You have summoned me with the magic cup that I gave you on your thou- jsandth birthday.” THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE I be- |? WURRAR CHIEF / WERE WINNING ON ALL SIDES, UP OUR WAY - THE ENEMYS LINES ARE ALL BREAKING ti me BoB! “Fee enemy iS: DESERTING EVERYWHERE AMO Oning OuR The FIGHTS Just ABOUT over “I wouldst that you wouldn't say wouldst,” said the Sour Old Woman. “Talk so I can understand. You and I were brought up together and you don’t need to use any fancy words. I’ve got trouble enough.” “Well, then, what do you want?” asked Eena Meena. “Tl tell you all about it,” said the Sour Old Woman. “This morning Tweekanose the Gnome stole the Sand Man’s sleepy sand and brought it to me to keep for him. “So I hid it in my cellar. “But the Sand Man and_ the Twins, Nancy and Nick, found out from the Green Wizard where it was and came after it. “I didn’t know they had magic along and I put them all in the cel- lar. “But the Twins got out and took the sleepy sand with them. The Sand Man is still in the cellar, but he’s asleep. There! Now you know all about it.” “By the great jumping puppy dogs and kitten cats!” cried Eena Meena. “This is a pretty kettle of fish!” language, didn’t I, Eena Meeni said the Sour Old Woman sharply. What’s to be done?” to get the sleepy sand back. sure!” said Eena Meena. know a still better way. “Or they were so smart. sleepy sand to wide-awake sand, way.” “Sh!” said the Sour Old Woman. “Here come the Twins now. “You hide in the cupboard and I'll hide behind the stove.” (To Be Continued) (Copyrignt, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) en Wealth is a burden of which some- one always stands ready to relieve you. Uneasy lies the head that fears s crown of long hair. The honeymoon jis over when he realizes it isn’t the stove as much as the fact that she can’t cook. If every night was a moonlight night there would be no bachelors. Time whiskers. cures everything except Home is any place you.hang your hat where you please. Our big naval guns, it seems, are aimed at peace. Nothing looks more- funny to a small boy than his new teacher. Slapping a man on the back is all right at times, but at other times it isn’t striking him the right way. A young fellow tells us that while he was as busy as a bee someone else | stepped in and got his honey. A crank often gets things going when the self-starter fails to work, The question of the hour is, “Doesn't it get dark earlier?” A doctor is a man who means well. The ‘only way some men can feel. at home is to feel bored. Being mad at the world in general tells on you quicker than a small brother. Indications are that jazz music was going so fast it will be some year, before the stuff canbe stopped, “We'll have to help Tweekanose| you Karl wanted me to write That’s | an invitation to come home. I} do that, but I am When the] mother do it. Twins come back to get the Sand|ever be the same to Alice. Man, we'll pretend to be glad that| were not my sister I am certain I “But before they leave I'll wave| fact, I should not do so anyway my wand and change each grain of | it were not for mother and father. “When they find that the sleepy|to come back before John goes. H sand is no good they will throw it] will say something to her that will LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO RUTH BURKE, CON- TINUED You, dear Ruth, have probably gone over all this phase of married life from another angle; yet it could not seem so terribly bad to you, for at least you have married again. You deserve everything now that life can give to you, and I sincerely hope you will have it. You were not such a baby about it all as I have been. You kept all your unhappiness to yourself. I re- member the only time you ever said anything to me about Harry was the time he came into the restaurant with that woman he ran away with finally. It was the beginning of the end, n't it? Isn’t it strange, dear, that we never know just when the beginning f the end begins? Perhaps it’s just as well. You would have been “I told you not to use any fancy}even more unhappy than you were {f you had known it then. Another one of my problems just now is Alice. You remember I told her I can't going to have I 80 not feel I can If she In if should never speak ‘to her again. I am not sure whether I want her He precipitate a terrible quarrel, yet I wish Alice could be made to tell John all about the pearls. I think, then, everything would be all right, as far as those troublesome old beads are concerned. Of course there is still the shop, the dear little lingerie shop that has given us so much joy. What are we going to do with that? However, we can let that wait until I get home, : The Tangle I've taken up this entire letter with telling you my troubles, yet I haven’t spoken to you of the most terrible one of all, the thing that hangs over me like a pall and keeps me from looking at my other trou- bles with any degree of sanity, for in all these other troubles I am bank- ing on time. He is such a beneficial old fellow he usually brings things out all right in the end; but once in a while even he cannot make the two ends match, particularly if one makes a mistake in making up one’s ac- count of debit and credit. I said something of this kind to dad the other day, and he told me a story of an old man who kept a gen- eral store in the place where he w: born, who ‘kept his accounts in a unique way and never answered any letters. At last his affairs got in such shape that he had to call in an expert who brought him to task for it and explained to him that the reason his affairs were mixed up. He said he didn’t think that was possible, for he had found through a long life that if you kept letters long enough, very few of them need- ed an answer. It was only another way of saying, my dear, that if one just has patience, Time will give you the right perspective on all things. In looking over the man’s ac- counts, the expert accountant brought him up short one day be- cause in going over his books he had found a man’s name and nothing be- side it except a great, round O. “What is this?” he asked. After looking at it a few moments, the man said: “Mr. Blank owes me a cheese.” (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Some photographs of the moon in natural colors were shown at a re- cent meeting of the British Astro- nomical Association. EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO Vcc Fitc THIS ONE THIS TeRrp, AND PUT A! TemPoRaRY FILLING IN TNE OTHER ONE TILE Later. © YOU THINK jPRESIDENT € “BY THE WAY, MR. TRUE, WHO {3S GOING TO BE Our NEXT No!- No} — KeEeP KOUR MOUTH WIDS open! —_ ALL RIGAT, THEN, Yours SHUT KEEP we PATH OF LEAST RESISTANGE By Albert Apple Electricity follows the path of least resistance. So does falling water, rushing back to its source, the sea. - So does the agile mercury from a broken thermometer, oe gravity by darting down to the lowest level it can reach. 5 Man, too, obeys this natural law — follows the path of least resistance. In other words, man inclines to the easiest way. While it is natural for man to follow the easiest way, his progress comes by taking the more difficult roads or paths. Progress is not unnatural. But nature makes us ‘pay the price. We never get anywhere by following the easiest way. It is easier to sleep on the ground, exposed to the weath- er. But man, beginning with his first crude huts, on to the, luxurious skyscraper apartment house of the modern city, has taken the more difficult way—knowing that effort’s re- ward is worth its price. The comfortable home is well worth the energy expended in getting it and in maintaining it. Work is not the pleasantest thing in the world, despite + the Big Talk of the platitudes—most of which are written by lazy dawdlers. The philosopher who urges mankind to toil is rarely,energetic himself. But that does not lesser the truth and wisdom of his teachings. Work is not the most enjoyable way of putting in our time. It certainly is not the easiest way—the path of least resistance. Yet we all know that work is what moves us ahead—brings us our necessities and comforts. Men are resigned to their lot and are not following the line of least resistance—when they work at their daily tasks. But when work is over and man relaxes, he slips into the easiest way. Particularly in his reading matter. He drifts through the entertaining, recreational news—scandal, crime, the un- usual. These are the easiest ways—requiring no brain effort. Too bad, that political news and speeches require thought and, accordingly, get little of the attention they deserve. * Yet if people every four years gave a bit more thought to national politics, it might lead to easier ways in their job of making a living. It’s a mistake to kid national politics. Admittedly a dry subject, it is really a prizefight in which prices and living conditions are to large extent determined for the coming four years. New York, Sept, 26.—The most en- lightening writer on New York so- ciety, its doing and undoings comes from Philadelphia. For more than 10 years he has been mingling with the select, and telling his findings via newspapers. He is Maury Paul, born in society himself, his mother a Biddle and his father a Paul. He is the only azure blooded society reporter in the big city. As a young man in the banking busi in Philadelphia, he became incensed with the manner in which the doings of society were chronicled. He appealed to an editor and in re- sponse to a challenge became a so- ciety writer. Believing that people were not in- terested particularly in the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Jones gave a dinner, he worked on the theory that people were interested in just what type plate Mr. Jones threw at the missus during a trying six course meal. He was successful, . later he accepted a in New York. He knew little of New York society and his first assignment was to cover the opening of the opera season. He went—then bluffed through a story. Tie next day his managing editor approached him and said, “I’ll give you one more chance. In yes- terday’s story you opened every grave in Woodlawn cemetery. You had persons attending the opera who have been dead 30 years.” Then Paul began to study New York’s family tree, much as one Keeping the pantry and kitchen in sanitary condition was another problem Mollie Jones took upon her- self when the hygiene course was started at her school. The Jones kitchen was a bit old- fashioned without the tiled floors and such as go into many more up- to-date places, Food chambers should be closely watched. They should frequently’ be washed with and scrubbed with hot soapsuds. Use a brush. A few drops of ammonia in the water will help. Clean the ice box thoroughly and MANDAN NEWS MAY CHANGE PRECINCTS Plans to request the Morton coun- ty board. of commissioners to create ® new voting precinct ir the city of Mandan, ‘were approved by the board of city commissioners at the regular meeting. ‘The first, fourth and fifth wards will remain the same as. at present, it was indicated, the city commission- ers recommending that three wards be made? the’present second and third ‘wards. This ~ redistricting | would redace the voting strength of the second ward by mail number and -cut more than-a third of the vot. ing strength from the third ward's preeant registration of more than WINS ELKS PRIZE Miss Ruth ‘Wildet of Mandan has led the first. prize of $60 in the “Mother” essay. contest. as con- ducted by the North Dakota State Elks association according to an an- noun nt made today by H. K. Jensen, president of the state organ- ization. The local girl won the first Prize in the contest conducted by Mandan, FABLES ON HEALTH SOME KITCHEN HINTS would study law, medicine or boiler- making. “The public has a misconception of society,” he “Society does not want publicity and society people do not hire press agents. In fact society shuns public mention and it is the most difficult news to gather.” In all the years Paul has been writing about society he never has used his own name. He has written under the names “Delly Madison” and “Cholly Knickerbocker.” In quaint old Sixth Avenue, sand- wiched between the aristocracy of ~ Fifth and the glitter of Broadway, is @ penny arcade that does a thriving business. The shooting gallery, with its metallic rabbits and ducks, scamp- ering mechanically across a horizon seems to prick the imagination of all New Yorkers who try their skill in it. For on the way out there is a booth where pictures of the shooters in cowboy clothes are made. Nearly all patronize it. New Yorkers love 1 New York and boast of it in a super- ior manner—but they all have yearn- ‘ ings for the West, the open spaces 7 where they are sure Indians fight with tomahawks. ' Skirts are getting shorter. Just now they are 11 inches from the sidewalk and will be higher within % few weeks according to fashion’s decrees, The transition period from the long, flowing garments to the shorter, strictly tailored models, will/ be slow, however, as Fifth Avenue is d bearing evidence.. The shorter skirts ! are still in the minority. —Stephen Hannagan. frequently. Do this when the ice is low. Hot, soapy water should be used on the ice racks. The ice chamber should be particularly well scrubbed. The waste pipe should be ‘removed and boiling water poured through -it. The pantry should be most care- fully watched to see that no fruits or vegetables are rotting and that no foods are giving forth bad odors. Keep the shelves carefully washed and disinfected, for it is from here that the food for the table comes and no chance of contamination should be taken. Lodge No. 1256 B, P. O. Elks and her essay was entered in competition with the prize winners from the nine j other lodges of the state. Judges ‘ were Dr. S. T. May, president of the Dickinson normal, Judge A. M. Christianson of the North Dakota supreme court and L. F. Crawford, state historian. Gy i °a eae | A Thought Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.—Pa. 37:8. eee Keep cool and you command every-- | body.—St. Just. ——— STOP HAY -FEYER You don’t need to suffer from hay fever if you will’ just get a bottle of McMullin’s formula at Lenhart Drug Co. You'll be amazed how quickly you'll get wonderful relief. If your lungs are weak, or you have a stubborn cough, summer cold, bronchial trouble or asthma try Mc- Mullin's Formula, Mfrd.. only by Tilden McMullin Co., Sedalia, Mo. 4—Adv. Bet the man who invented kissing ran, all th ond hid, under te,