The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 11, 1924, Page 4

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THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) THE TURNING POINT Four hundred and thirty-two years ago came the turning point in civilization and government! - And so, on October 12, the world celebrates the discov- ery of America by Christopher Columbus. The fearless Italian navigator set out in search of a short- cut route to India, by way of the westward ocean. What he really discovered was much more than a new continent, for os he landed on the Island of Guanahani, West Indies, he opened the door of the land that made government by the people possible. True, the early explorers of America were lured by gold, but it was refugees from European political oppression that built the foundations of the mighty civilization that has yisen on the American continent. Innumerable millions enjoy, in their liberties and their happiness, the fruits of Christopher Columbus’ faith. Con- tinents are his real monuments. HE WAS ALMOST PRESIDENT You remember that momentous night eight years ago when everyone thought Hughes had been elected president over Wilson. Next day the public and politicians were not so sure. The remote districts of California were still to be heard from. You recall how the country waited breathlessly day after day while those scattered California votes were counted and reported. Those few thousand scattered California votes turned the t'de—elected Wilson instead of Hughes. If a few thousand Californians who voted had stayed away from the polls, Hughes would have gone into the White House. 2 How, then, can any one delude himself into believing that his lone individual vote “doesn’t count much?” Vote without fail! Vote without fail! fail! YOUR vote is needed! vote is needed! Vote without YOUR vote is needed! YOUR RICHEST The richest boy in Europe, young Duke of Norfolk in England, 15, is heir to 85 million dollars. News pictures show him in an overgrown romper suit of slashed velvet with Queen Anne collar—an outfit that a red-blooded American boy wouldn’t wear for 85 millions, except to masquerade. Consider what this pampered lad is missing. By a good many standards he is the poorest boy in the world rather than richest. A Tom Sawyer boyhood is worth 85 millions to any lad. : OFFSPRING The average marriage of our generation produces three children. University of Wisconsin learns this in a survey of native-born families in the middle west. Its expert comments that this number of children is “about one child short of what they should have in order to replace themselves.” Many of the offspring of course, never reach maturity, but die in babyhood or youth. People from Europe are inheriting America. that’s nothing new. inl ‘However, The original settlers came from over- Editorial Review Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. PRAISES SOO LINE (Valley City Times-Record) THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE An act that could be truly called “heroic,” was performed by of- ficals of the Soo railroad thi: vek near G D., whe Mrs. Frank M prominent | resident of ( D., who | «ied in a Bismarck hospital Mon- ! day evening from spinal menin- ; gitis, was rushed to a Bismarck hospital from her home on a!spe- | cial Soo line train, all business on | the line being sid ked to make | possible a speedy trip. If the life had been saved wouldn't it| have been worth the little trip; which was so necessary — and | above all wouldn’t the bereaved! husband and infant child who sur- | vive, been much happier? More acts of this kind which show kina-; ness and sympathy would make this old world a great deal bright- er. When we cooperate in our work with fellow beings every- | thing seems much i How true is that phra: unis there ig strength.” ' DOLLARS COME HOME (Grand Rapids Press) For the first time since the arm- istice thousands of American dol- lar ‘bills hoarded in German and‘ Austrian and Slav stockings are coming back to their native land. ‘That is probably the most prom- . ising symptom of Eyropean confi- dence in process of restoration which bas yet come to light; for these American dollars, sipped on remittance or obtained from tour-| ists and then secreted in walls} and closets, were the last hope of thousands of people in all classes of wealth. They were the barrier against the wolf at the door; the; last resource against the specter | of starvation. They were the only; pieces of paper in which Central Europe any longer would place a popular trust, at a time when Ger- | man marks and Russian rubles — symbols of mighty empires now; crumbled to dust—were selling at two pence or a nickel per several millions in the London Strand or | New York’s Broadway, and were not selling at all in their own countries. Blank despair, the ice that has bound and clogged the arteries of European commerce. is breaking up: The homing dollars are the proof of it. People who a year ago could trust only the shining re- public of the West have acquired a loyal belief in the recovery and stability of their own countries. And that is the first great alchemy of the Dawes ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON The Dream Maker Man and the Sand Man and the Moon were wait- ing for the Twins to come back from the star called Jupiter at the other end of the Milky Way. Pretty soon they heard the night mare’s hoofs going a club-a-lub, club-a-lub, club-a-lub. And in about two minutes the Twins arrived. “Do hurry!” cried the Moon Man. “T’ve got a cramp in my foot trying to hold the moon back.” z “Did you get the sleepy sand? called the Sand Man anxiously. “Yes!” said Nick holding up the sack. “Hooray! Little owls and bat- lets!” exclaimed the Sand Man do- ing a back somersault in his de- light. “You are not a minute too soon! It’s moonup on the earth this second. Hear that sound? It’s the kiddies yawning.” Nick gave the Sand Man_ the seas. JILTED A western woman, inmate of a poorhouse, jilted a suitor worth $50,000. Doctors scratched their heads and brought her before a board to test her sanity. -, Have we, in our materialism and vicious competition, actually reached the point where any one who rejects money, -though in dire need, is to have sanity challenged? Majority of Americans already have a recognized form of insanity— “pecuniary honorific,” highbrow name for “displaying abil- ity to pay.” BOOMERANG Nature doesn’t want us to be too healthy. Her purpose _is to kill us off after we’ve blundered along awhile, to make “room for newcomers. Science is getting fevers, diabetes, and tuberculosis under *<control. Nerve and glandular maladies correspondingly in- . crease. Like an individual—medicine frequently “cures” one organ of the body by wrecking another. .= _ So with economics and politics. In solving one problem “we almost invariably create several new ones. DARKNESS Z Marconi and others debate why radio performs better at “night. One theory is that sunlight absorbs much of the .e=8trength of the waves. At any rate, darkness admittedly is a better medium than light. i. On the other hand, scientists scoff when it’s claimed that “psychic phenomena is at its best in the darkness. If true -of radio, why not of other ether vibrations known hazily as psychic for want of a better understanding? CONTAGIOUS = In reading medical news, keep in mind the difference be- tween contagious and infectious. An infectious disease is “caught” by direct contact with -the diseased part. A contagious disease can be gotten in- ‘directly, by germs carried through air or water, no direct contact with a diseased patient. “Cancer is infectious. It is not contagious, according to ‘present medical. opinion—which may change. _ What would happen if Coolidge slept late one morning and failed to get to the office in time to meet the daily crisis? Btices can’t come down because they have nq parachute. bag of sleepy sand and the Sand Man threw it over his shoulder. “Good-bye, Mister Moon Man,” he said. “I’m ever so much oblig- ed for holding the moon back. Good-bye, Mister Dream Maker Man. I'm ever so much obliged to you and your three sons for your help. Goodbye, Snoozle, Snuggle and Snore!” “Good-bye!” said Nancy and Nick to everybody on the moon, With that all three of them hop- ped on a comet that hapened to be passing and started for the earth. But alas! Something more was about to happen. Troubles were not over. When they jumped off the comet onto a mountain peak, the Sand Man lost his hold on his bag and the first thing they knew it went| rolling, humpity bumpity, bump down the steep mountain into the sea, “Oh, goodness!” cried the Sandj Man, “It’s gon again! My beloved | sand is all gone and I haven’t a grain left to put the children to sleep with. The moon’s up ’n everything.” “We'll get it,” said Nancy.) “Don’t worry, Mister Sand Man. What if you are a bit late get- ting around. We'll get our sleepy sand at the bottom of the sea.” “You are very good children, I am sure,” said the Sand Man gratefully. “I don’t know what I would do without. you. But if we are going we'll have to hurry for if Tweekanose the Gnome knows where the sleepy sand is, he will get there ahead of us and steal it and then we'll have it all to do over again.” So they all climbed down off the mountain peak and came to the sea shore. Then they dived right into the waves and presently they found themselves at the bottom of the sea, “How d’ de said Captain Pen- nywinkle riding up on his sea- horse. “I am the sea fairy and look after all the pag eteis as the sea people are called. What ean I do for you?” “I am the Sand man and I lost my bag of.sand just now and it rolled down here into the sea some place. Did you see it?” Captain Pennywinkle laughed. “Looking for sand at the bottom of the sea” he said, “is like look- ing for a leaf in a forest. There’s nothing else but, excusing my grammar. But I will tell all my mermaids and sea-sprites to hel you. It must be here somewhere.” He blew a little whistle and all sorts of odd Wigglefin people came aswimming as fast as they knew ow. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) on" A woman seldom makes dough like her husband’s mother did. And a man seldom makes dough like his wife’s father did. Nothing makes the other furniture look worse than buying one new chair. The kitchen stove is mightier than the can opener. An optimist is a man who keeps his thermometer in the ice box in summer and in the stove in winter. A pessimist is a man who keeps his thermometer in stove in summer and in the ice box in winter. An opportunist is an old maid who keeps silk pajamas near to slip on in case of fire, A money waster is a girl who wears silk stockings without cross- ing her knees. Game is the easiest thing on earth to find when you have no gun. When a man becomes disappointed in love it is usually because love is disappointed in him. The leaves are dropping from the trees, this is the season of the sneeze. The fly in the ointment is price of beauty cream, the People won't feel sorry for you unless you feel sorry for yourself. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Yeur \Y‘UNDERSTAND ? ! i LETTER FROM JOHN ALDEN PRE- SCOTT TO SYDNEY CARTON, CONTINUED | I put him up on the bed beside | |Leslie and what do you think that ‘blessed child said Sydney? As if an uncanny intuition had {come to him from out of the Cosmos, he put his arms up and lai@ them on (Heres OtUab ren: gana aes cnlenevelaa quiver of the brave little mouth he suid: “Zackie goin to ’tay with you always. I yuve you best of all! Muv- ver yove Zackie best of all” His moist lips were held to hers and with a sigh of satisfaction he sung- gled close. Then the malign witches that stir the cauldron, seeing that we were too. happy, tinkled a little telephone picked it up, heard the voive of Karl? Whitney and saw red. 1 immediate- 1 ly suid: “Mrs Prescott is too ill to talk to anyone.” That would have’ {satisfied the man at the other end, ybut I ought to have known it would not satisfy Leslie, She asked me who it was, and when I did not answer, she snathced the telephone from me, and said: “Tell me what you want to know.” For a moment I was furious, Syd. “I won't have you talking to that fellow!” Then to some question he asked, she said: “Yes, dear.” She called him dear, Syd! Thenext thing she said was: “It was a very splendid letter—very brave, very self-sacrificing. 1 haven't had time to show it to Jack, but I’m gcin to.” Again the malign fates stirred the cauldron, and I blurted out: “You'll have to show it very soon, for I'm going home on tonight’s train.” Leslie said: “Goodbye, I'll answer your letter tomorrow.” _ “PM say you won't,” was my ugly remark; then my wife showed equal temper to mine. -: The Tangle :-: | “The Frost Is on the Pumpkin and the Mud Is on the Boot” | i ‘ NOW USTEN, MOMMA - For Th Luva mud J Don'T ; Give ‘er The Gas TAS Time | UNTIL | “I'll say I will, I'm tired of your sudden temper, John. I’M going to be a freeborn white woman from now on. I’ve made all concessions possible. Either you let me explain and you eccept my explanation at its face value, or we would better agree to disagree.” “I'd better say goodbye, then,” I said. At that moment Mother Hamilton came to the door. “Jack, your father wants to see you,” and I strode away. The whole thing was on again. As I stumbled into Mr. Hamilton’s room 1 said to myself that I would take the first train back to Albany. Again the fates seemed to con- spire against me, and it looks now to Pittsburg. 1 do not think, Syd, that Father Hamilton will ever again get up from his bed. Before I left his room ‘he told me that he doesn’t expect to get well, and you know when as brave a man as he says he has given up, he has practieally lost the fight, I was greatly shocked when I saw him, and was not able to keep all of my concern out of my face. He could hardly hold out a trembling hand to me, and spoke in a very weak voice as though to confirm what he saw in my face. “Yes, my boy, I have come to the end of the way; Except for my dear wife’s sake, I think I will be per- fectly content to go, for I am inex- pressibly tired, and a long sleep comes with an appealing gesture to- ward me.” Even that short speech was almost more than he could manage. Abrupt- ly, however, he gathered strength. “My boy,” he said, “you must take over my business and carry on after I am gone.” e (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) A toad can climb a brick wall. EVERETT TRUE FECL WELL ? sturr ’ A Thought | *— + A man’s pride shall bring bim low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit—Prov. 29:23. The proud are ever most pro- voked by pride.—Cowper. WAITERS DEMAND PERCENTAGE Lisbon, Oct. 11—Lisbon hotel and restaurant employes have gone on strike to force their employers to grant them a percentage of the cus- tomers’ bills, instead of the tipping system. The employes claim that this method is being used in all the other countries of Europe, and that it has proved beneficial to the em- ployes and is approved by the tra- veling public. QUICK CHANGE ARTISTS Spencer, W. Va. Oct. 11.—Let's eat here,” Earl Lowe said to Brooks Greathouse as they drove up to H. B, Miller's restaurant. While there, a bargain was struck and the res- taurant with all its equipment was traded for the automobile. Miller removed his apron and drove away in the car, while the new owners took charge of the place, For Sale — Choice Canarie Singers, Imported German Rollers. Jacob Bull, Dickin- son, N. Dak. Box 728. of 1T, SHS 13 THAT OUT \ EAR GNOUGH RY CONDO WHAT'S THAT, EVERETT —You Don’ T 2 Aw, 34%, FORGET THAT CHeer uP!! gam) on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1924 THE HEAVY WALLET By Albert Apple | If a bank told you that you could walk into its vaults jand have all the gold you could carry away in one trip, | how much would you get? Off-hand estimates are certain to "be exaggerated, even though many would kill themselves ‘with the strain of trying to lift too much. One hundred pounds of gold is worth only about $30,000. | | a A gold robbery always appeals to the imagination of a ' fiction reader. And yet gold is so heavy that no man could | steal a fortune unless he used horses or a motof-truck There aren’t many people who could carry $30,000 in gold \a city block without sitting down to rest pantingly. The old ‘ saying, “worth his weight in gold,” doesn’t mean as much as | popularly believed. Silver is even worse. lugging around a stove. That’s why the silver dollar is not popular. Fifty dollars in silver coin is like Uncle Sam is trying to make the silver dollar popular again. His reason is that the upkeep of paper money repre- senting silver costs about 3 per cent a year of its face value. Silver certificates wear out quickly and new ones have to be printed in their place, after repeated launderings. This is expensive. To try to get people to carry silver dollars again is futile. The public simply will not do it. Furthermore, such an at- tempt is primitive and a reflection on public intelligence. People long ago insisted on having the actual precious metal. Education and confidence in the national govern- ment’s integrity have shattered ancient fears. We accept the silver certificate form of paper money quite as trustingly as we'd take the real silver—possibly more so. If the upkeep of paper money is too heavy a drain on taxes, why not use tokens? By tokens we mean discs of metal redeemable by the government at a value of $1, same as the silver dollar. To avoid confusion with other small coins, the dollar-tokens jcould be made of aluminum, provided it isn’t too easily coun- New York, Oct. 11—Applicants for burglary and hold-up insurance in New York are investigated as vigor- ously as men suspected of commit- ting such crimes. There have been so many hold-ups and burglaries, considered fakes but unprovable as such, that insurance men are locking the doors of their premium stables before policy hold- ers have a chance to steal the horse. Five years ago insurance agents were hungry for such business. To- day they sit at their desks and “take under consideration” all prospective clients. ? I was surprised when a prominent at the side of the bed. Naturally I¥as though I would soon be moving, Jeweler detailed to me a list of not- ables who would not be insured against burglary and hold-up. It was astonishing. All of them are pre- sumed to be immensely wealthy and many high in social regard. terfeited. There’d be no mistaking the light weight. A public that had confidence in beer checks and still sur- renders its hats for a bit of pasteboard proffered by the \checking girl surely would take kindly ‘to a light - weight metal token representing the silver dollar. Yet it was inferred that they would stoop to any level to gather in pre- miums. When one insurance company finds a client a poor risk for one reason or other, the information is passed on to all other companies through a channel organization form- ed to protect these companies against illegitimate loss, Padding claims is a comnion of- fense of the insured, it is claimed. Two hundred dollars is often stretch- ed to a loss of $2,000 by dishonest premium holders. In many instances when an apart- ment house in a neighborhood is bu- glarized, insurance clients through- out the section file a claim. It is practically impossible for the insur- ance investigator to disprove the claim, though in many instances it 18 unquestionably false. —Stephen Hannagan. Expensive foods do not, of any necessity, mean healthful foods. Mrs. Jones had long since learh- ed this and made application of the moral in her household. Thus, tomatoes rey cost 10 cents each in winter but they do nor do they furnish fuel for the bcdy so necessary in the cold months, As a summer food they furnish vitamines and minerals, FABLES ON HEALTH: BALANCED MEALS | but when their cost rises their food value is negligible. So it is with many other costly things as well. The appetite is not always a safe guide. Don’t let it rule your menu. Thus the responsibility that de- scends upon a housewife is great nothing to build up body tissues! when it comes to planning meals, Much expense may be spared and general health of all diners improv- ed by arrangement of a carefully balanced meal. By HARRY B. HUNT NEA Service Writer. Washington, Oct. 11.—Army and navy officials are, unofficial- ly, having no little fun out of the hornets’ nest stirred up by Rear Admiral Charles Plunkett, com- mandant of the Third Naval dis- trict at New York, in seeking to censor a Broadway play in which certain marines indulge in lan- guage and discuss situations so startling as to cast doubt on the efficacy of the marine corps as a medium of moral uplift. The “Old Tars” and “Devil Dogs” about the navy building are getting a lot of smiles out of Plunkett’s efforts, particularly, to exmuraate the profanity in the play. They concede that as an officer of long experience, Plunkett prob- ably is an expert judge of pro- fanity; but most of them were un- der the impression that he had lost his sensitivity to strong language, even by men in uniform. That profanity is not. unknown in the service, and that it is even indulged in under provocation, by high officers, is asserted by one officer who recalls that when Ad- miral Plunkett was in command of the big naval guns which Uncle Sam sent -up to the front on rail- way mounts, shortly before the armistice, he himself was moved to picturesque and expressive ex- pletives on one occasion when one the big guns wouldn't fire, “But,” observes an officer of marines, “the cussin’ done “by Plunkett when the gun wouldn’t go off wasn’t a whisper to the stuff our boys ripped out when the thing Was fired. ek a I was with an outfit of 75 ar- tillery that had its horses parked about a quarter of a mile from where his Naval. Nibs had his big roarers lined up, and when those babies cut loose—wow! “The concussion blew our pup tents away. It gave us headaches, It woke us out of a sound sleg) after 35 hours of hauling aurmunte tion. It attracted German bomb- ‘8. It played hell with the nurses. “From battery commander down to the lowest redr-rank private we all blasted the admiral from stem to stern. We raked him and his crew with all the cuss words we had known before enlistment, with others we had learned in a year and a half of service, and with still others which bubbled up out of sheer inspiration. “How the admiral must have changed since those days, to let a few ordinary book cuss words get his goat.” The admiral’s concern over the “welfare of the service,” through possible slight cast upon it by the play in question, also stirs an old side-kick of his to reminiscence. “Where is the admiral’s sense of humor?” this old officer inquires. “Just because a play intimates that our marines drink and have their little affairs, he fears this will stop enlistments. When he wae supereeta marine construc- jion in dear old Quincy, Mass., knew better than that.” mee “And does he remember the trip TAKEOFF ON MARINES PEEVES PLUNKETT? | of the special squadron to France“, 18 years ago?” alte what these old-timers re- call, or claim to recall, i i “kidding” of Plunkett’ and "ei, moral crusade against “What Price Glory” would make almost as thrilling a play as the drama against which the admiral has turned his heavy batteries, His navy fellows are enjoying it fully. Doubtless the producer of ene play. is also, for the publicity given it is packi; to the galleries ae Hara He far from harmin, enlistments, it eA be helping tl Ae er seeing that play,” visitor remarked as he stambled out of the theater, “I’d join the marines myself if I was five years gaunger ned not married, eee was just five ee ‘University athletes have b. \- stalled as bouncers in several “Mil. waukee dance’ halls,