The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 8, 1924, Page 4

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THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT CRISIS Ramsay MacDonald, the English premier and head of the first Labor Party government, received support more general than might have been expected for the first radicai government. The news that the government’s fall is im- pending, therefore, has occasioned surprise among the casual observers of its progress. The Irish question again has become troublesome, but|to Her literary limitations. | an the rock on which the party may smash itself is the Russian neu ne cat lecaa parents i treaty. A commercial treaty was negotiated with Soviet] jet us pictures of the life there - we Russia. The Russian government, needing money perhaps} was the daughter-in-law of John ba more than anything else, sought to have the British govern-| Tyler, who was the He i) ani a ment guarantee a loan. There was hesitation and rejection se Rneitleratta Mee Tiiaeee are a of the proposition but now the government is preparing to} sprightly, humorous, very human, | fic do this. England has never guaranteed a loan for herfaltogether delightful. But she ba colonies or for any other foreign power. It is a precedent TRE Ivana aee wee altar: | Tr which strikes alarm in that nation, especially when ‘Russia | 07% rom that Which. elie! tad! ole Ha owes British interests huge sums which she apparently | lowed on the stage. -No one can| fly does not intend to repay. read these letters without-a regret toi Mr. MacDonald has been found in disagreement with|that more have not followed her ri his party often. A faction of his support has been steadily Poe lal ! * endeavoring to drive the government to commitment to . ' sawn nif absolute socialism, and even to communism. Mr. Mac- BE OE aL | tie Donald finds himself unable to hold to a middle ground, Haar | a and finds, too, that the reason he commanded united radical] (Konrad Bercovici_in Harper's} ce , Support at the start was because the ultra-radicals saw his) ,.... ae eee, sooiounuanl op administration as an entering wedge in furtherance of thei¥ | 499,999 colored people in Greater | tor ultimate aims. New York. In the last census | an The Conservatives and Liberals have had the power at|there were not one-tenth that) ss any time to force the downfall of the government, but Ree Matra GarenenT wel through lack of united action, in part due to their desire tO)jumbering Africans as black as| give the Labor Government an opportunity in a serious situation, have not done so. They appear adamant in their Opposition to the Russian treaty, and if they remain so the government must resign or call for a general election. Mac- Donald indicates he will choose the latter course, and Great Britain faces the prospect of the most important election in her history. 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 reade! may’ have both sides of important Issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. MEMOIRS OF THE WHITE HOUSE (New York Evening World) Unless gossip is irresponsible we have the promise of a flood of memoirs dealing with the White; House and its life from women who have presided there, or who have been conspicuous in its so- cial activities. Mrs. Wilson is said to plan the | editing of the personal letters of | her husband for publicatjon. Mrs. Harding is quoted as intending to prepare an elaborate biography of | her husband in colaboration with an experienced biographer. And} —most exciting of all—the gossips This is unusual, thus making it all the more interesting. Mrs, Taft is the first of the wom- | en of the White House, we believe, | to have written memoirs. Her book is very human and will be of real value to the future historian | of the mansion of the presidents. But no other “first lady” had tablishec! a precedent. Compa tively few of them would have been capable of a literary venture. | Dolly Madison could have given us a fascinating volume of incalcul- able value if she could have writ- ten—but her personal letters point pitch. Brown-colored* bronzed men | and women, mahogany blondes, down through all nuances to the almost white negro, straight-| haired anc blue-eyed, whom no-} jbody suspects. | T have seen perfectly black ne-| groes of long Spanish faces, with! the cruel penetrating eyes of the: Moor and the elegant gait of : HELP PREVENT A DEADLOCK Many decades have passed since there was as much talk about the presidential election being “thrown into Congress” |trom New Orleans, where they by reason of a deadlock, as there is this year. have so thoroughly mixed with the | In the 1920 election, less than 27 millions of citizens French that they are hardly to be| Tberians. I have met red-haired negroes with a wistful Irish smile. I have friends of a lighter shade, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE avent the black mare’s hoofs as she galloped through the sky. At last the Twins and Snuggle came to Venus. Tap, tap, tap! went Snuggle on the great gate in the wall. “Who's there?” asked a _ voice.) “And what do you want?” “We're messengers of the Sand Man and we want the bag of sleepy! sand,” said Snuggle. { ‘Say the multiplication table back-| wards up to ninety,” said the voice} and I'll open the gate if you get it| right. We're very particular about | the people we let in. If you're not good in arithmetic, we don’t want you. It’s the law of” But he got no further. “Iminy Jiminy!” said Nick quickly and instantly the door opened and! the horse started ahead. The charm had worked again. The people of Venus were even| queerer than the green beards’ of Mars. Their chin whiskers were made of shavings that hung fn long curls. ' The Busy Man’s Newspaper Trisur ane T Easier To SWALOW LETTER FROM RUTH BURKE TO} LESLIE PRESCOTT CONTINUED | I was greatly annoyed with that} woman customer, but I think I was| to blame after all. ~“I-brought it on! myself by ‘giving her a :ehance to draw the wrong inference about | Walter and myself. I shall never do it again. x I'm not going to advise you about yeur husband. 1 think that is one| of the silliest things another person can do. Although John loves,you de- votedly, from a man’s point of view, I know that John thinks he is well within his rights, and you, loving and loyal as you are, I now think | he is quite outside them. But, oh, let me tell you something, Leslie—unless you feel that your life is unbearable, unless you eau look ahead to an old age without your husbund, try and explain to mothers something. husband or a child, a cat or a dog, an ideal or a business, an institution It may be a or a crusade; but she must have something in her life that satisfies the maternal urge. I think at times I should have gone mad if it had not been for the little shop. I have said something of this kind to Walter, and ‘strange as it may sem—he being a man— he has understood the feeling. He says it is because he lived and felt the want of me so long before I came to him. He thinks the time has come for you to let it be known that we are in partnership in the lingerie shop. Both Walter and I are sure that married people need a little vacation from each other occassionally. It is said that we all grow tired, physical- ly, mentally and spirtually, and those who are nearest and dearest WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8 1924 KEEPING UP YOUR END. By Albert Apple Your cost of living is only about 42 per cent higher than it was before the war, according to economists. In other words, you can buy as much for $1.62 as you could for $1 in 1914. This claim must get the average man’s goat in a while, as he checks up and discovers that he’s spending a lot more than in the good old days when he could buy a meal for a quarter. ; The joker is in the fact that the economists fail to make allowances for the advanced standard of living. a ee It may be true that your bills for basic foods, rent, cloth- ing necessities ,etc., are only 62 per cent higher than before the war. And that, by spending $1.62 you can buy as much as you formerly could for $1. But, since 1914, an advancing’ standard of living has added items to the list of “necessities” that were without question in the luxury class back yonder. The “cost of living” is more than the matter of enough to ‘ Glethe the body warmly, supply it adequately with food and shelter. #The “cost of living” also includes non-essentials which the average person imagines he must have in order to main- tain his social standing. A lot of foolishness is included, such as the waning of the respectability of patched trousers and mended furniture. ~ It isn’t so much the increased price of what we used to buy, as it is a matter of the price of things we formerly never dreamed of buying. And that’s chiefly why the aver- age man finds he has less cash on hand after paying his bills, not to mention that the average income may not have in- creased apace with the so-called advancing standard of living. i Para i It is possible to live almost as cheaply now as 60 or 110 years ago—provided one would be satisfied with the old-time standard of living which supplied only the simplest and most urgent wants. And, as a matter of fact, none of us would have to work more than a few hours a day if we returned to the old-time standard of living. We have to work long hours because we demand more commodities and services in daily life than was the custom long ago. The increased cost of living is to considerable extent the price of increased standard of living. FABLES ON HEALTH. EXERCISE IN BED “I guess the trouble with you, as with most people, in doing your setting-up exercises in the morning is that you don’t want to get up,” comments the physical expert to Mr. Jones, That’s all right. Don’t get up! Then stretch! Make it a good long stretch and roll over, stretching again and again. You still don’t have to leave the bed! Some leg exercises can be done Start your exercises in bed and soon you will be awake and ready for them. : The thing to do is this: When you have awakened, begin to yawn. Keep it up! Yawn four or five times for you will be stretching your chest and getting a good inhal- ation. once the covers have been kicked off. Lie on your back and bend your knees forward, inhaling deeply and then exhaling, relaxing for a mo- ment. Then kick both feet vigor- ously and pump the air with them, as though riding a bicycle. After that you can leap out of bed and start some floor exercises. buying a home here in Albany. You|an “hour or two a day at the shop know Walter’s family many years|the same as he would at his office, ago used to live here. Of course,/and you could probably do the same. when we are in town,I could spend | (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) a SE ee a few seconds te write the name voted, while over 25 million citizens neglected to vote. If a considerable part of those 25 million negligent vote- siackers can be induced to vote this year, there’ll be less chance of the election going into Congress with attendant possibilities of the winner being someone the majority of the citizens never intended. The law of averages does not intrude to any great ex- tent. It’s true that 27 million voters are apt to vote much like a million—that is, divide their votes among candidates in the same percentages. But the more-than-25-millior? who did not vote in 1920 are an unknown quantity, because most of them are chronic nonvoters. They must have a voice in the decision ,for real government by majority. So, then, spread the word: Vote without fail! Vote without fail! Vote without faii! YOUR vote is needed! vote is needed! YOUR vote is needed. YOUR RIGHTS Sixteen states band together to sue the national govern- ment. They seek the return of 300 million dollars of direct taxes that were paid after the Civil War. These taxes were ievied on certain manufactured goods, The claim for re- fund is complicated. This lawsuit reminds us of something most of us have forgotten—the matter of state rights. Our national govern- ment is a league of small countries or states. Uncle Sam is vital. But he is not all-embracing and supreme,in every- thing, even though police power is about the only remaining major function of local government: that hasn’t been cen- "|g. tralized in Washington, D. C. i fing - TB. at | The death rate from tuberculosis has been reduced 68 =2Z- pe- cent in Framingham, Mass., after seven years of effort. R. Th’s town was selected as a “laboratory experiment” by the National Tuberculosis Association. A disease, whose death rate can be cut 68 per cent, can eventually be wiped out entirely. If the time ever comes when man completely conquers germs, the problem of over-production will be worse than all diseases combined. Over-production, of course, will by its mary nature breed new diseases. There is no escape from leath. E Ee ; UNEXPECTED ae a ~#We live very close to the Thin Wall that separates us evi - from the hereafter, even though many do scheme and act | @* as relentlessly and without conscience as if they expected ( sm™@ _ to Jive forever. 4 wa William Olson of Chicago came home to his rooming- Bie F : house so happy and full of pep that he danced a jig. Sud- © su! denly fell dead. His engine was worn out and he didn’t i ia . know it. New York City checks up and finds 65,000 horses still work in its streets. No danger of Dobbin becoming extinct by competition with:the auto. ‘More horses now than when horseless carriages were inverted. There'll be stilt more | pe when airplanes swarm by millions. Inventions no longer displace. We need both, old as well as new. Progress is extension rather than displacement. ame | The wife of one of the best golfers in Detroit has secured ..@ divorce, so if he hears about it he may go home. distinguished; with all the love of color ahd softness of one race and the precision of mind and clarity |. of the other. The Italians have mixed with the negroes, and the Slavs and the English, Mexicans and the Indians. | Of these mixtures the ones with Indian blood are the finest. And} there are Jewish negroes—Abys- sinian Jews, squat and long-beard- ed, hooknosed falasites, real Jews —who because of their color are compelled to live among people of an alien faith instead of among their own coreligionists.. Four hundred thousand negroes in New York! There has never been such a number of negroes in any one place, not only on this continent, but on any other conti- nent before or now. Every twelfth person in Greater New York is aj ; hegro or has negro blood. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON Back from Mars to the Moon went 'Snoozle and the Twins on the jWhite night-mare. Snoozle came first and Nancy next and then Nick. | “Well, did you find Tweekanose and the lost sleepy sand?” asked the Dream Maker Man when they ar- rived. “No, he wasn’t on Mars,” said the Twins. “We looked everywhere.” “Well, then!” said ‘the wise old ; Dream Maker Man, “we'll have to look some more. It’s almost moon- up down on the earth and the sleepy sand simply must be found.” “I should say so,” said the poor | Sand Man who was getting discour- aged and a little nervous. i “Cheer up. We’ll find said the | Dream Maker Man heartily. “Twins’ | you may go with my second son, | Snuggle, on his black night-mare, to look for the lost sleepy sand. Per- | haps Tweekanose has gone to Venus. | You might have a look there. “Oh, do go as fast as you can,” begged the poor Sand Man who was really at his wits end to know what | ,to do. “Tweekanose must be some- where.” | “Perhaps he’s gone down to the} earth to put the babies to sleep him- | self,” said Nick. “Little hope of that,” sighed the | Sand Man. “I know him too well, the rascal! Time and again I've just gotten a kiddy to sleep when along he'd come and give its nose a tweek and wake it all up again. Then he'd | jump out of the window and laugh and laugh on his way back to Gnomeland—as though it was fully!” ; “Come, on if you are going!” cried Snuggle, jumping up on his black night-mare and sitting well forward and thé! i | is, “How about the odor of bootleg?” eS eee {him so that he cannot fail to under- called ;stand your position and your point to of view. I am sure, then, you will scome together. to us feel the consequences of nerves’ filled ‘with the poison joff fatigue and boredom. Do not stand entirely on your} If I told this to anyone but you, rights, dear. Marriage is wholly ajdear Leslie, that person would think is it?” life in which there is giving andj that already. Walter and I were Snuggle and the Twins rode on|taking every day, and I, who know,) grown tired; but you know, my without telling him. There had been! must tell you that after two people | dear, this is not so. We are sdill so too much talking already. have been married and lived ito- | deliriously happy I am afraid it is (To Be Continued) ‘gether in close companionship; ‘after | too good to be true—too good to last. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) ;they have mingled both tears andj I think he feels the same, so we are ‘laughter, joy and grief, they cannot! trying to insure our future against ipart without great unhappiness toj-that terrible, corroding weariness | both. ~ {which monotony—even the monot- I think I showed you that letter! ony of great and constant happiness from Harry to me, I know he has }—brings. been quite unhappy since he left] Walter does not want me to give me, and it has saddened me greatly; | up. the shop. He has come to the for 1, you know, have found happi-| conclusion that a woman should have ness. I did not tell you, however,; something outside of absolute do- my dear, of the loneliness that was | mesticity,“and the catering to her mine after Harry left me. Some-j husband, to ‘take up her mind. I times I was almost ready to forgive! know he would"be perfectly con- “Did you Tweekanose 2” see a gnome asked Nancy ge the subject. se called Tweekanose? No, I sdid Shaving Beard. “Whose eu A Mount Vernon (Ill.) man who poisoned his wife may find he made a mistake in not being a rich man’s son. would just come back to me. Nature has put something ‘into a j casionally Another Senate committee is mak-|woman’s heart that makes it impos-| your care. ing another probe. This is regarded , sible for her to be happy unless she ; as a sure sign of a hard winter. EVERETT TRUE HELLO, BY CONDO — — One big vote getter for Coolidge is the Washington baseball team did so well this season, 1S THAIS Think of the Washington baseball team winning so many games, and the field probably covered with oil. The auto industry uses more than | 80 percent of the rubber supply, the rest probably being used for necks. Women are good looking, but funny. One in Ilinois who poisoned her husband says she loves him, Robbers stole a Springfield (IIl.) bank’s safe, the building itself be- ing too heavy to carry away. What people want to know it not, “Will it kill the odor of onions?” It ME, TELE, THE PRSSIDENT CF OVR COMPANY WISHES TO SPEAK TO You — PLEASE HOLD THE Live A MINUTS — * The papers are so full of the presidential campaign news it is hard to find anything to read. 3 Bobbed hair is about like all mod- ern improvements. It isn’t the in- itial cost, it’s the upkeep: There is talk of a balloon trip to the north pole. Well, the pole will be near here before long. A puncture in the ego is harder to fix than one in the auto. PLEASE TELL YoUR PRESIDENT THAT T HAVEN'T ANY MORE MINUTES TO WASTS THAN HE HAS! TESCO Him THAT WHEN. HSS READY TO TALK, COME TO THE 'PHONG AN ICace ME UP ane : Schick => j Marriage is becoming an incident to men and an accident to women. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) | A Thought i poder 2 La, aE He which seweth sparingly shall to make room for the Twins. |. As soon as they were seated,’ Nancy in the middle and Nick last, the magic horse started along the Milky Way to the star called Venus. | Club-a-lub, club-a-lulff club-a-lub! and spent well.—Vespesian. i reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also ‘bountifully—2 Cor and forget all he had done if he/tent if I supervised the shop part [of the time, and allowgd myself oc- to leave it entirely in We are thinking very much of OPPORTUNITY IN AMERICA WILLIAM E. KNOX Radical demagogues sometimes &ecuse the capitalistic system with favoring the rich and powerful as against the poor and lowly. Fifty- three years ago an Irish lad of nine 8 brought to United States by his parents. He went to the. public school and then began work as an office boy. A few days ‘ago, on October 1, he was elected president of the American Bankers At lation, the world’s largest finagcial organization. He is pres- ident of one of the largest savings banks in the United States, the Bowery Savings Bank of New York City. This election of William E. Knox, who has risen fram Irish im- migrant to chief of American bapk- ers, is the most striking reminder of the year of the democracy of opportunity in capitalistic America, STRAIGHT TALKS WITH AUNT EMMY On How Not~to Make. Out +" Checks, “The most annoying thing has happened, Aunt Emmy,” exclaimed Helen, -“I.sent a check for $6 to the hospital to help them in their drive and some one cashed it. Isn't it a shame, for I simply can’t afford to send another.” “I don’t see how that could hap- pen,” said Aunt Emmy, “if you made out the check properly.” “Why, of course, 1 did,” Helen sald. “I made it out just as I al- ways do, to ‘beare Aunt Emmy laughed. “No won- der you lost it!” she said. “Any one at all could cash a check made Riches are well, if gotten well out like that. It’s very careless of you to-do it, no matter to whom the vehéck 18 given.’ It would only take of the payee properly. A check made out to ‘Bearer’ may be cashed by any one who gets it. It is re grettable but true that not every one is honest. You know that lots of people would take a five dollar bill if they happened to find it. A check made payable to bearer or to ‘cash’ is just tempting to them asa five dollar bill would be.” “But, Aunty, it was so frightfully mean to steal from the hospital!” “You invited this particualar theft by neglecting to make your check out properly,” Aunt Emmy admonished Helen. “You may be glad your loss is no great Even when you go to the bank for money yourself you should not make your check payable to cash. Suppose you should lose it on the way? The same thing that happened to the hospital check might happen to it. Better take an extra minute and make the check out to yourself, sign your name to it as usual and indorse it just as though it were one you received from someone “That seems like a lot of times to sign your own name on one little check, doesn’t it, Aunty?” ob- jected Helen. A “It's ever so much better to be money ‘through carelessness,” re- torted Aunt Emmy. — Anne B, Aymes. Government Does Not Reserve Banks In the discussion of the Féderal Reserve banks and their opera- tions, undue emphasis has fre- quently been placed on their rela- tion to the government, and they frequently called “government banks.” As a matter of fact, they are not “government banks” in a true sense, but are corporations or- ganized under an act of Congress, and owned entirely by their me: ber banks. The government does not hold a single share of theiz stock. The control of the ban! operations fs also largely im the hands of member banks, who two-thirds of the Federal Reser bank directors, the Temaining one third being appointed by the gov. ernment to represent the interest of the government and the public. The Federal Reserve banks, it fa true, are agents ef the gove: ment in addition to their other ac tivities, and in this capacity they must follew the instructions of the government in handling transac: tons which: they perform simply as agents. We believe that it is important that the fact that a clear Rederstanding of this point should generally had, as many of the criticisms made against the Fed- wal Reserve banks have | been based on a misapprehension as to their relationship to ment.—Americon Bankers ton Journal, ' ’ '