The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 30, 1924, Page 2

PAGE TWO : TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1924 ln THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered: at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNECO. -_ - Editorial Review Comments reproduced in this column may or may not expreee the opinion of The Tribune. They are. presented here in order that our readéra may have both sides of important issues which are Regn eceeeed in the press of the day. STANDING ROOM ONLY By Albert Apple En cn ae ana If you are alivé in 1950, you’ll pick up a newspaper and read the announcement: “United States now has 150 mil- lion population.” In 1974, the figure will have risen to 200 millions. So. predicts experts. i Even then there wouldn’t be any real over-crowding. The soil of our country can support a population of 300 millions without any more demand upon imported food than | exists now, according to Department of Agriculture. Some optimists even claim that Texas could grow enough food to feed the whole world. Any one who has traveled extensively in Texas is not apt to pick a quarrel over this claim. Publishers Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - - Ee a 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 ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year 's 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) TAXPAYERS SUFFER Retention of T. R. Atkinson upon a commission basis. refusal to combine certain positions to effect economy means that the taxpayers of Bismarck will continue to pay the piper. Mr. Atkinson will continue to collect five per cent on all engineering jobs of $500 and over. Money to run the city owned water plant will be taken from the conting- ent fund and the plant’s operation will continue a direct burden upon the taxpayers when it should be cared for from the revenues of the plant. The action also means that $1,000 a month will be squan- dered upon the streets although they are under snow several months of the year and the expense cannot be that amount legitimately. The tax facts have been put before the taxpayers by The Tribune not with the slightest belief that any retrench- ment would be forthcoming from the city hall. It was ask- ing too much that some $5,000 should be sliced from the city DETROIT Kresge Bidg. “TELL THE NORTH TRUTH ABOUT DAKOTA” BYERYONE 8 s | (Valley City The Greater North Dakota Agso- ciation has a slogan “Tell The Truth Avout North Dakota.” It is a@ good slogan and one worthy of adoption by everybody who has the} welfare of the state at heart. If! the truth is told about North Da- = Kota the resources of the state will | = | speak for themselves. Let any farmer come from Illinois, lowa, Minnesota, or any other state, who has not seen the wonderful | ‘opportunities this state offers, look us ovar and then go back home and tell the truth, this state will | gain thousands of good people as} permanent citizens on our farms in the next few years, The tale told by other men they visit the state is the best recommenda- ‘tion we can have. They come here, see the wonderful crops we can raise of wheat, flax, alfalfa, | corn, clover, anything that can be | raised elsewhere, and they 40 back amazed. In addition to all these crops we have mentioned, rth Dakota farmers raise as fine cattle, hogs, horses, poultry, etc., as can be found in any state in this Union. Our farmers have fine homes dotted all over the prairies that years ago were barren lands. Groves of trees, fruit orchards, everywhere, and in many homes in Barnes county all modern im- provements. It is true the past few years have been hard ones for the farmer, not only in North Da- kota, but all over the United States, but better times and ‘better pri re coming and a more optimistic feeling is prevalent. Right here we have wonderful educational institutions, not only in the cities, but on the prairies; the best teachers, the best of es Record) These figures are especially interesting because scien- tists lately have been having a recurrence of the “over-pop- ulation” fear that makes economists wear long faces period- ically. This time, however, they are twanging a different string. There’s not as much concern about adequate food supply for the future as there used to be. What the scien- tists fear now is rather a shortage of industrial power. But when the crisis rises, there’s always some one to step forward and solve it. ‘ Scientific agriculture—increasing the food yield of an acre —has been man’s answer to the problem of increased food supply for larger, population. Ang power sources will be expanded and new ones opened up when needed. We still have the tides to harness for power, and the winds and falling water of rivers, not to men- tion sunlight now wasted and the terrific power locked up in the atom. Why is the population increasing so rapidly, not count- ing gains by immigration, inasmuch as big families are no longer the rule? 2 The answer to this is that medical science has cut down the death rate among the young . The ravages of disease are being curbed in maturity as well as youth, further in- creasing the population. In the year 1830 the world had only 850 million inhabi- tants. Since then the population has doubled. Professor Ross estimates that in the year 2023 the world will have budget and additional thousands saved the taxpayers in commissions, gratuities and useless expenditures, A By the action last evening, the same policies are to obtain everything. Churches of every de- nomination are within the reach of all, and good roads are becom- ing the pride of the state, so that people traveling around can do so Green Wizard’s words about flower pots. : “Iminy Jiminy!” she said quickly. from a broad world viewpoint. three and a half times as many people as now. “Race suicide” is a mythological evil, doesn’t exist at all. The day may come when all habitable parts of the earth in the future unless the extravagance is stopped by a vote of the people which seems to be in this instance the court of last resort. You'd never be able to guess'what happened then. The old man disappeared and the rose and the flower pot disappeared, too. The sand that was in the flower pot jumped right into. the Sand Man's sack. ~ “Well, that’s part of it. I have enough sand now to put a hundred babies to sleep,” said the Sand Man happily. ‘Let’s get the rest.” ‘And they went merrily on their way. “Why here we are’s on Trixo’s mountain,” said the Man pretty soon after that. can’t be far away.” But they didn’t see anybody but an old man putting new bricks, in his chimney. “Ig this the way to Squeejick Land?” asked the Sand Man. - “It is,” said the old man grumpily. “Rut you'll never get there by stand- ing and talking.” Suddenly Nick thought of what the Green Wizard had said about mortar boxes? “Iminy Jiminy!” she cried. Instantly bricks and house disap- peared, the old man, too! And the sand in the. mortar box flew out and jumped into the Sand man’s sack. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) in comfort regardless of rain or weather. We have the best people in the world here and as fine a climate as can be found in the world, taking it the year around. We offer great opportunities to those who show a desire to earn 2 competency by work and _ thrift, but we have no room for the slacker or loafer. No man, no woman, ever prospered by being idle and no man or woman can prosper here or elsewhere unless they get busy and go after the wealth that is in our soil and in our mines. We have exhaustleas ; we have the finest in the world, all wait- ing the hand and genius of man to develop them, and we have room for millions on these prairies. Politics from time to time have played havoc with our state, but politics have no place in the real development of North Dakota. We have the resources and the bound- less possibilities and we invite all good people from other states who cannot get ahead there to come out here and get onto one of our splendid farms and prosper. Tell the truth about North Dakota, and no person need to feel ashamed of doing so. We could say many things we have not said about the state. But there is one thing we might say and that is that farmers are getting into real diversifica- tion with splendid herds of cows, along with corn, hogs and alfalfa, and they, themselves, are showing to the world the way to prosperity. Tell of North Dakota, boost North Dakota, and tell the truth about North Dakota—and darn the poli- tics. will be as overcrowded as China. But we'll all be gone and forgotten by then. And the over-crowding problem will be solved some way, is a pretty safe bet. As for the present, and America in particular, our farm- ers would be grateful for more mouths to feed with their surplus products. lt R : LETTER FROM ALICE WHITNEY TO ALICE HAMILTON GRAVES Dear, Dearest Mother: I haven't dared to think of you Since I left that day after confessing to the ter- rible thing which I did toward Les- lie. I know I probably have added years to your age in the last few weeks. I would not be surprised if Ihave made you doubt anything in the world—yes, and in Heaven above; for I know darling Mother, you believed in Leslie and me as you did in your God. ‘Looking back over the last few weeks I think I must havé been in- sane, e 1 know now how it is that sup- posedly respectable people can all at Once surprise the community by committing diabolical crimes, and I know how they feel when they wake up and wonder what devil has been living in their bodies and working upon them its satanic desires. Mother dear, I can tell th offe but you, but I have always loved Karl. As a child I named (secretly) my boy dolls after him, and you will remember I always loved and played with boy dolls more than those rep- resenting girls. As I grew older, he was the real hero of every play I saw upon the stage and every story I read. I used to think that Leslie was the most fortunate girl in the world because his face lighted up when he looked at her. But I used to ery myself to sleep night after night, when I saw how devoted he was to her; and I think from my earliest childhood I grew more and more to hate her for treating him as she did. I know that I should have hated her with a murderous hatred for to. sympathize with him, all the while trying to show him that there were girls in the world in whom great love such as his would beget like love. Mother dear, think back to the time when you were a young girl just budding into womanhood. Did you not have a great, romantic urge? I am sure most girls have it. You could not have made me ack- nowledge it then had you tortured me on the rack, but waking I thought of Karl, and sleeping I dreamed of him. Waking my thoughts were more or less unhap- py, but sleeping, Karl always loved me, he was always my prince, with whom I was going to live happy ever after. If you remember, at the time of Leslie’s wedding I was particularly disagreeable. I had times of grea elation and times of great unhappi- ness. Mother dear, you put that vdown, as did all the rest, to my youth, but I believe if ever I have children I shall inquire further into it than you did i yi s it than you did into my impulses) +c, smoked meats. A sleepy cat T'm not blaming you at all, You{Ruarding them. Socks and gula pink are the sweetest and best mother (Stockings. A pair and a half for 45 that ever lived. You only trusted to | cents. my common sense and sane intelli-| Eggs from 3 to 5 cents apiece. T gence too much, You did not take| Wouldn't want serambled eggs un- into consideration that most child-)!ess 1 had a dime. 4 ren must be taught, all the ethies of | Cigars made while you wait. Long life. and black «and. treacheroas. looking. Strange, isn’t it, Mother, dear, to| Bedding airing on the fire escapes. hear me making such a profound|Buxom women hanging out of thitd remark? But I've been thinking a| Story windows, lazily gazing at the Tot lately. In fact, T haven't much |bedlam beneath. Contentment _ in to do but think, Karl has been leay, | Sdualor. F ing me quite a little alone. He is|_ Traffic policemen at every block much disappointed: in. me, and| Poker faces and slant, peering whether I will ever gain back his FABLES ON HEALTH. regard I do not know. If I do not, ELKS BOOSTER TRIP Upon so many occasions the Elks Lodge of Bismarck has demonstrated its spirit of loyalty to the Capital City, that it is only natural that in promoting the interests of the. lodge on a pilgrimage over the North Soo country that it should work also for this city and especially for the Corn Show which will be held November 12 to 15. Whether urging the building of a swimming pool, quietly administering charity, or in other ways demonstrating their usefulness, the Elks are always ready to aid any forward movement. It is the cordial spirit of good-fellowship that makes the Elks lodge a real asset to Bismarck and a fine agency through which t& promote just such a trip as is planned for next Friday. There should be a representative gathering to carry the message of friendliness and hospital- ity to the sister cities of the North country. This is in no sense a trade tour or a business hunting trip, merely one in which members of the Bismarck lodge not residing in Bismarck can be visited and interest incident- ally aroused in the North Dakota State Corn show which promises to develop more and more as the years go by. Tricky Sand “He New York, Sept. 30.—Mulberry street. Down on the East Side. Where the kiddies use the sidewalk for a school slate. A medley of odors, rasping to alien olfactory or- gans. Tenement houses, with refuse receptacles on the front door stoop. There are no alleys. imy faced children, reared in defiance to all rules of sanitation, are -healthy, happy and industrious. Street peddlers. Offering fruit of the season. And bananas are plenti- ful. Fish, displayed in running wa- They direct the constant ebb and flow of vehicles and pedestrians un- consciously. Their thoughts are on other things. Desperate criminals in this area. Salesmanship at its height. f three young men approuch me. nger down here, eh?” he queried. “Whenever you want an booze call me,” he continued. I too! his card and promptly lost _ it. Wouldn't want to get caught with that in my wallet. Storekeepers who stand on the sidewalk and taking pedestrians by the arm attempt to steer them into their stores for purchases. They are more frequently successful than you would suspect. One to no HEALTHIER Americans were healthier the first three months of 1924 than ever before in January, February and March. So re- ports a big insurance company, the Metropolitan Life, whose policyholders numberainto millions. Death from diphtheria dropped decidedly. also. Flu’s death toll was small. Tuberculosis mortality showed a “gratifying decline.” Deaths from diabetes were 23 per cent fewer than a year ago. Science is curbing the ancient diseases. Nature will send new maladies to take their places. Already, for instance, nervous ailments are increasing alarmingly. have delicate appetites. pet store. monk, got hungry over the week-end and tear- ing himself loose began to devour cunuries. He had consumed $128 worth at current retail prices be fore small boy was boosted | throt a on chain Rocco to his perch. STEPHEN HANNAGAN, Monkeys Scarlet fever to Horseshoers held a meeting in Pittsburg, but we don’t know how much chewing tobacco sales in- creased. ‘ VIGILANTES The old-time Kansas Anti-Horse Thief Association is ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS being revived to campaign against sweet patooties who use public highways for petting parties, mostly in autos. As a matter of fact, there aren’t any more petting parties now than there used to be. Ask any veteran livery stable- keeper about “hoss and rigs” he used to rent to young fel- lows “sparking” their sweethearts. Sex appeal is about the same in one generation as in an- other. When it seems intensified it’s usually a case of less secrecy. INDIANS Indians will vote in the presidential: elections this year | for the first time, under a new law. There are about 1385,- 000 of them, or half as many as peopled this continent when the swhite man came with whisky, bullet and bright glass ads. In a close election those 135,000 Indians might come very near to swaying the result. The speakers will soon be' lauding the noble Red Man, on whose stolen domain we now live. FISH The gravest peril to our food supply is our vanishing coast fisheries, Secretary Hoover warns. The oyster and ‘| erab catches in the Atlantic are only a half of what-they used to he. The same inroad has been made on Pacific salmon. { © ‘This country increasingly will have to rely more on its. | fisheries.’ The oceans should be restocked and fish protected as scientifically and thoroughly a8 we now farm our soil. WHISKERS Taxpayers, who have to pay levies at every turn, can be . glad they didn’t live in Russia a couple of centuries ago. Peter the Great taxed beards. This was more because he’ ‘4 hated whiskers than to raise money for his treasury. | Pete was wise. ‘The result of his beard tax was to make most of the people shave. , Taxation curbs the use of things. It paralyzes. extinguishes, kills—carried to extremes. 2 L WI ee weteht instded of’ by’ quit a ( m shotild be sold by weight inst of by quart. 1 ane. resalation by the N. J. Weights and Measures Associ- ation. This, they point out. would checkmate the trickster ‘whto pumps‘air into icecream to swell its size, which is some- It even lied science. : . fairer to sell eggs by. weight in- ould ‘py-the dozen. ? of BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “Squeejick Land,” said the Green Wizard as he looked into his gaz- ing ball, “is between Jum Jum Land and the sea, The road to it is be- set with many dangers,” “That's too bad,” said the Sand Man soberly. “But I will have to go there some way and. get. back. my magic sleepy sand.” “We don’t mind dangers;” said the Twins. “Besides the Fairy Queen told us to help the Sand Man. That's what we're hpre for.” “Well then,” said the kind Green Wizard, putting his gazing ball back into his cupboard. “I shall help you all I can. .You will have to pass the forest where Twelve Toes the Sorcerer lives, and the. mountain where Tricky Trixo the Conjurer has his home. No doubt Tweekanose, the rascal who stole the sleepy sand has told them to be on the lookout for -you.”, “We're not afraid!” said Nick, © “That's the talk!” said the Sand Man, looking at watch. “Let's be going. It will soon be sun-down arid I can hear the babies yawning already.” “I can give you some good and a charm to take along, the Green Witard. “But that’s about all. Look out for flower-pots and mortar-beds. If you suspect anything just say, ‘Iminy, Jiminy,’ and see what happens.” “We'll remember,” said the Twins and the Sand Man starting off to- ward Squeejick Land, which lay be- tween Jum Jum Land and the sea. Pretty soon they eume to the for- est where Twelve Toes lived, but nary a sign of the sly old fellow did they sec. The only person in sight was an old man bending over a rose in a flower-pot. “Good-morrow, good sir,” said the Sand Man, “Can you tell us if this is the right road to Squeejick Land?” “It is,” said the old man. “That's a fine rose you're plant- ing,” said Nick. “Finer than some people's med- dling--manners,” said the old man sharply. Suddenly Nancy remembered the making poor Karl so unhappy when she fell in love and married John, if I had not had a. sneaking thought that perhaps now he would turn to me. I did everything in my power And at the Southeastern Lighting Association convention in. Birming- ham, Ala,, some shocking statements were made by the live-wires. Hay, of Cleveland, is said to be the most popular radio announcer, but he had better not announce any politics. The only tax. returns gn favbr of the taxpayer lately was returning part of his income tax. The school teacher with a room full of kids asking foolsh-quéstions knows how a presidential candidate feels. : .Markets show more timber is be- ing shipped this year. We don't know if this includes presidential timber. The woods will soon be turning over theix new, leaves. No man is old until he needs aj . shave half the time. | Los Angeles forger won't have any , expenses to worry him for 10 years, according to.a judge. ' ; | Father time has no reverse -gear, | but just the same he can turn his, head around. _ . . H (War brides have organized in Chi-| \eugo. These are real war brides, not jSust the fighting varicty. | { If these Chinese don't quit fight- ing soon there will,be nothing left in China. except chop suey. | ‘The fall dances have started, a lot! of things. “Bad news from’ London. People in one English town cat six meals a \day, which is’ more like one long meal. Women who smoke seem to flare { up easily. : There may be @ lot of money hid- den in old stockings, but there isn’t anything hidden in the new ones, (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) I do not want to live. (Copyright, 1924, N. To a skinny girl, a riding habit is a bad habit. EA Service, Inc.) CARE OF Most boys come in. with bruised ‘or cut fingers, particularly during the baseball and football season— and the Jones youngster was no ex- ception, So Mrs. Jones generally was pre- pared with a liberal assortment of finger stalls or covers. They should- be. made to. fit dll sizes of fingers. White cotton or wash gloves may be used. Sew on narrow tapes for tying around the wrist and place in the medicine chest for emergency. When the finger is cut ar mashed or bruised, wash it very clean and WOUNDS place a small piece of absorbent cot- ton. over the wound, draw on the finger pocket and deluge with spirits of turpentine. Keep the hand up, but resting easily, for 15 minutes. Unless inflamatiop —ap- pears leave the finger alone—other- wise see that it gets attention. Teach the children, ‘particularty boys, to take immediate precaution when they wound themselves in the hands atd feet. Sucking a wound is a good immediate remedy, but should be followed by a thorough wash and a solution of carbolic acid or iodine. MOFFIT. Threshing in this locality is mov- ing forward very slowly, due to the rain and slow drying weather which followed. Several machines made an attempt to start threshing stacks but found the grain very wet.. Stacks will not, be ready for threshing ‘for another ten days or more. Shock threshing is almost finished in this neighborhood. | The crop. reports. so far are ‘fair [to good”. Moffitdale Farm reports better results from fall. plowing. Wheat on fall plowins yieltéd 22 :1-2 lhushel to an xere, oats on fall plow- Cd ground 45 bushels an acre. The g blowing and sowing although done very carly shows a yield of 18 bushels an acre for wheat and 30 bushels an acre for oats. It pays to plow in the fall bélieves Fred’ W. Moffit, owner and operator of Mof- fitdale farm. Mr, and Mrs. Marion MeNally are moving to Kulm, N.’D. ‘where Mr. MeNully has accepted “a position at the Soo: Line station " * —— FX oe The auction sale of Henry Reeps- dotf ‘takes place ut the old Martin Knutson farm west of Moffit on Thursday the 25. Immediately after Mr. and. Mrs. Reepsdbr{ will [eave for their new home. Fhe» Prairie Home Schoo} opened’ "| far. the school, year Sept. 22, .with ‘Mikg? Charlotte Moffit of Moffit ns. to and front school daily, a distance of five miles each way, while the weather permits. Don’t forget the Ladies Aid meets at, the home, of Mrs. Charles E. Moffit on.the first Wednesday of October, at Moffit, N. D, Mrs. Jason Hoover has accepted the position of secretary to the Ladies Aid and will finish the term for Mrs. Henry Reepsdorf who is leaving North Dakota. Mr. De Haan, rural carrier out of *toffit hed the misfortune to break down near the home of Elvin Hoover ist week. Mr. O, Amundson helped Mr, Dahaan to continue on his way delivering the mail to the end of the route, then Mr. Amundson continued on his way to work, ‘The mail car after minor repairs is again traveling the route. Mrs. Johnson and two daughters are visiting in Morton township the former home of Mrs. Johnson, who was formerly Miss Nora Lamb. M Jghnson and daughter expect to turn to their home in Virginia very ‘soon. — _— I A Thought | Qe - — Only by. pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom: Prov. 13:10, _ Religious contention ix the, devil’s | teaehens Miss Moffit expects to drive | harvest. La ‘Fountaine, c