The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 28, 1924, Page 4

atgen pened newer sere: Hesme comme ganas oe ‘PAGE FOUR ' T See HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. Matter. Foreign Representatives CHICAGO Marquette Bldg. G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK 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. . 5 Daily by mail, per year Daily by mail per year (in state outside Bismarck) Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.............. 6.00 (in Bismarck) . . THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) MR. WALLACE’ In the death of Henry culture, the president’s member. champion. cuiture in Iowa for many use at all times in W C. Wallace as Secretz abinet lost an able and influenti: Farmers generally will feel that they have lost a Secretary Wallace, intimately allied with agri- years, championed the farmer’s tand for North- stern farmers in grain grading and marketing problems hington. His made him a respected and trusted officer. THE BUSNIESS OF LIVING In his autobiography Benjamin Franklin tells how he He had a ledger, at the top of each page of which he wrote one of the several virtues he re- garded as fundamental for right living. One page he de- another to temperance, a third to indus- kept books on himself. voted to frugality try, a fourth to silence, At the end of each day he examined himself and if he hed failed in any of these virtues he gave himself a black In this way he kept himself informed of his makeup, and devoted himself Thus he kept the record in mark cn the ledger. vs to the weak spc coustantly to improving the ledger balanced. To Ben Franklin living was the most important of all He was more concerned in showing gains and ing losses in his living business than in his printing businesses. stop busine: ianklin’s bookkeeping system was practical application of the injunction, “know thyself.” fundamental of the living business. with other businesses to look after this most important of That’s why there are so many failures in that all business. business. and so on. them. EVERYONE VOTE Among the citizens entitled to vote for president in No- 4,300,000 who are illiterate— unable to read. This figure is furnished by National Education Association. This enormous army cannot read the printed campaigns Patriotic citizens must help the edi- To reach the 4,300,000 by word-of-mouth is a big job. Start a talking campaign. veinbe> are urging them to vote. it. out fail. The worst form of poverty, national and individual, is ig- norance. Of the illiterate citizens entitled to vote this autumn, 3,000,000 were born right here in America, the rest came More millions of illiterates, unable to read or write, are among the unnaturalized. from abroad. tion of grownups is telligently ? Urge all to vote wit! A vote by ignorance cancels a vote by intelligence. HOW HA LLOWE’EN ORIGINATED Memories of our ancestors who believed in goblins, ban- shees, ghouls and other evil spirits are called up by the modern celebration of Hallowe’en. In the early days of the Christian church, the first of ide as All Saint’s Day. November was set impossible to observe a The night before Al evening”—then as Hallowe'en. ing which the evi! spirits were believed to burst from their bonds and haunt the world, having a last fling prior to the sacred day. There was, however, marked the end of harv Renewing his contra separate day for each saint. 1 Saints’ Day was known It v a brighter side to Hallowe'en. I and the beginning of new terms of farm tenancy and landlor ship. ets with hi apples and sacks of nuts for a great celebration. Ten thousand million dollars and more was the Cost Of |---| gevernment in our country in 1923. This includes national, state and local expendit: It’s incom claimed that $15 out of every | went for government—$91 apiece during the year. This is what you are paying for the privilege of voting. TAXE ‘ures. Axe you going to use that privilege? Suppose you could collect all the wages and salaries paid | gui by every manufacturing plant in the United States. | Pooling it, you would have just enough to cover the cost of national, state and local government, claims National Indus- trial Conference Board. The public has left its income from farming, transporta- ; tion, wholesaling, retailing and other branches of business , ‘that are not included in :+ The high cost of government is one of the main factors ‘gn high cost of living. Economists foresaw this before we entered the war, though ; : A cablegram from Moscow says the latest official statis- -tics show the Communist party in Russia has only 336,000 “members. In a country with millions of people, that would be gov- érnment by minority in out of Russia. Yes, times have been dull. -only 37,000 million dollars during September. tper cent of this grand total was in the form of bank checks manufacturing. citizens didn’t. REDS its most extreme degree. But how much can you believe, of what supposedly comes SPENDING ° As usual, _that passed through the clearing houses. Praise often turns a woman’s head. Passing another new dress has the same effect. j Publishers DETROIT Kresge Bldg. Fifth Ave. Bldg. 29 « 7.20 « 5.00 Self-knowledge is the Most of us are too busy Compulsory educa- just as needed and as sensible as com- pulsory school attendance by children. If they do not care to Jearn to read, can they be trusted to handle the ballot ins because it was s “Holy sa fearful night, dur- tenants or making ar- rangements with new ones, it was the Hallowe’en custom of Jsndlords to bring forth the flowing bowl, basket of red $100 of the people’s The American people spent 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 aides of important Issues which are boing discussed in the press of the day. If MAY BE YEARS FROM NOW (Detroit News) are taking in the Wash in| A mile of this great shallow bay of the North Sea is to | be surrounded by a dike this win-! the land so recovered, sur- faced with threc or four feet of | fertile soil, is to be planted to! grass, and two years hence given | to the plow. The cost of recover- | ing nearly 100 acres is estimated at about $70,000, or $100 an acre. It is believed that three years from today it will be worth $450 an acre. | Thus a natural work will be ex-| pedite’. The Wash was once a} much larger bay. which has been gradually filled by deposits from the sluggish streams that empty into it. Ti couring has failed to carry away this fertile soil, ing up and forcing the sea back- ward. But nature’s operations too slow for man, especially his ‘numbers are ine pressing on the food suppl land needs more grain, and the flat lanc's of Norfolk and Lincoln make excellent wheat Therefore the filling of the Was is to be hastened by the work of man. The time may come when pres- sure of population may cause sim- lar reclamation of land along our Great Lakes. Saginaw bay afore time was much larger than it is today; it is being gradually filled in by river deposits, The Mau- mee has dragged Ohio soil into the | western end of Lake Erie, forming wide expanses of shallows five or | feet deep. Much of this land n be taken from the lakes when ising values make the under- taking profitable. Even Lake St. Clair may some day disappear from the map through the opera- tion of the same factors. in COAL INSTEAD OF SHOALS (Minneapolis Journal) | Henry Ford has tired of waiting for the Muscle Shoals plum to drop into his lap, and has with- drawn hig offer of three years’ standing from the consideration of the Government. But Mr. Ford) does not fail to give notice that he | vill promptly consicer and answer | any counter offer the Government may make to him. He complains that “a simple at-| fair of busin has become a com plicated political affa and with-| draws his bid because “productive business cannot wait upon poli-} tics Mr timely owne! Ford has at least given a illustration of how public hip work: fails tol work. It tends inevitably to be-] come so incrusted with that it makes but slow If a private company owned the Muscle Shoals plant, and found it- self facing, as the Government does, a huge monetary loss, it would at least lose no time in ac- cepting or rejecting offers of other interests to take it over. But since the Government holding the bag, the question im- mediately becomes political. It is complicated! by all manner of con- siderations that really have little or nothing to do with it. Congress fights it back and forth across the So time flies far, while nothing is done. One interesting phase of the sit- uation ig the announcement that the Ford interests forsaking their waterpower plans in the South, will turn to the use of coal by the latest scientific methods. ‘They have vast coal deposits and will now undertake to bring the fuel to the surface and, after extracting from it various and vaulable by products, will turn it into powe h- is] | large scale. electrify their railroad and event- ually will transmit the coal-pro- duced current long distances to do the work they had planned to do by a water-produced current. This is a venture suyh 1 long been discussed, by engineer: economists, but not as yet tried on large le. If Henry Ford makes a go of it, as he evidently is confident he will, it will be ay contribution to industrial progress of far greater value than what he; might have accomplished with the huge power of the Tennessee River at Muscle Shoals. | It ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON | “So that's it!” cried Daddy Gan-| der as he and the Twins looked into | the Green Wizard's gazing ball and saw a surprising sight. What they saw was the House- That-Jack-Built riding wlong on a! cloud up in the sky, with dough sticking out of the windows. The | house had dough sticking out of the | windows, I mean, not the sky. | “What do you mean by say ng, So | hat's that’s it!” asked Nancy.‘ it.” The Green Wizard looked at Dad- dy Gander and Daddy Gander look- ed at the Green Wizard and they | both nodded wisely at each other,| and then Daddy Gander said, “The bread sponge. That's what's it. It’s all the fault of the bread sponge.” “We don’t know what you mean, sir,” said Nick in a puzzled voice. ing about.” i “Why,” said Daddy, “don’t you er, went outside the house to hang up her tea-towels to air on th clothes line, she began to talk to her neighbor, Mrs. Spratt, over the back fence, about the best way to make apple-butter, and she forgot all about her bread sponge. “Well, it began to rise and it kept in;on rising until it raised the lid off |the pan. Then it kept on rising 95 “We don’t know what you are talk-' see? When Mrs. John, Jack's moth- | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE OUT OUR WAY AYE NO SEG DA FACE .“YuSsT DA SWEATER IN DEES PLACE. faster and faster until it filled the! kitchen and began to poke out of the windows. | “The next thing it did was toj raise the little house up in the air} and float away completely.” “Yes, sir! That's right,” said the| Green Wizard. “And there it is, up there in the sky with no more in- | tention of coming back than last Christma “Oh, dear!” said Nancy. what will poor Jack “There is only on said the Green Wizard. } “What is that?” asked Nick quick- ! “Then | “To get the magic fork,” nodded Wizard wisely The magic fork!” cried everybody | in surprise. | “Yes—the magic fork,” said the} Green Wizard. “If you find it you! can poke it into the bread sponge,| and let the air out. Then when the | air gets out of the bread sponge, it! will do like a balloon, the house will, It will settle right down to the ground again.” “How can we get the magic fork?” cried the Twins quickly. “There's the rub,” said the Green: Wizard. “I'm not sure just where, it But it is usually to be found with the magic teapot. “1 see you don’t scem to know any more about the magic teapot than you do about the magic fork. So I'll tell you about it. Whoever has the teapot has only to say: do your best, Go do your worst, Or teapot, dear, I'll die of thirst! “And instantly the teapot returns with any kind of refreshment one| needs. Milk or water or lemonade or even ice cream soda, Anything at all. It is the same with the fork. Whoever possesses it says: “Oh, magic fork, I'd like a treat, Please see what you can find to eat.” “Instantly the fork goes on a hunting trip. Whatever it touches sticks to its sharp points and it has been known to bring home a whole course dinner.” “Well, well, weil!” said Daddy Gander. “There are more reasons than one why I should like to find the magic fork and the magic tea- pot, Twins. Let’s be off at once.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) th Gn The rum ring which causes the most investigating is that left by a glass of home-made wine on moth- er’s tablecloth, In Boston three men stayed drunk three days after they were jailed, showing wishes do come true, In Sioux Falls, S. D., a man of 88 has just seen his first movie, but maybe it won't corrupt his morals. The wild rumor that packers, who use everything about hogs except the squeal, will make whistles of the squeal, is without foundation. Our idea of a catastrophe is aj football hero‘with arms so sore he can’t hug a woman. In Atlanta, Ga. three men who thought they were eating mush- rooms should serve us a warning to others, Once mushrooms were the dangerous things in cellars, was back before prohibition. most | That A failure is merely a man who thought the worst things in life were the best things, / The late chestnut has manuged to secure the early bird’s worm. e All the good men are not dead. From the suits filed autoists run across a few now and then. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) 4. WID DA Stripe, |, ROON LAK DEER j with her —o THESE ARE ALL “THE BOYS IN THE SCHOOL WHO HAVE STRIPED SWEATERS, PERHAPS You CAN Pick OUT THE ONE WHO HIT YOU WITH ATOMATOE. WHEN “Heres SAFETY IN NUMBERS. The Tangle LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO RUTH BURKE Well, it’s all over, dear Ruth, With all the barbarous ceremony with which we surround our dead when we put them away from our ight forever, dear old dad, who loved and lived life so fully, has been laid to rest. The pussy-footed men the urdertaker’s shop, with their mad dening aits of sympathy; the over- powerful scent. of tuberoses and lillies of the valley; the stifling pall of crepe veils; the harrowing notes of music, and the long sermon wherein the minister drew a moral for the unregenerate from the blameless life of my father, have gone into oblivion. Poor, dear mother! Never before did T realize how terrible are our funeral ce I sat beside her hand in mine, shudder when the hymn began. I heard her suppressed sobs as the minister re- ferred to her as “the widowed and med to me that al] thi like sticking a knife into a wound and turning it around. Then the great line of filled with business friends and cquaintances of my father, the marching men of the different so- cieties of which he was a member, ind the automobiles filled with flow- Perhaps it all was necessary. Perhaps all this was paying respect to my father’s good deeds but to me it was ostentatious and unneces- was ping motors. the house, mother “Have all the flowers po: ent to the hospital, dear, so at | some poor, tortured iving being will be gladdened by the sight and odor of blossoms that were given to honor lifeless clay.” As we entered the cemetery, we met another procession headed by a band playing a funeral dirge. Fol- lowing were vehicles with flowers, then innumerable motors filled with men, women and children. All these were poorly dressed, and John re- whispered So YouR WILLIE BROWN, KNIFS By Williams ‘| movies is not so easy to explain. TRuwithanas 1926 ay wen SERVICE, WO marked: “What a pathetic thing! Some poor woman is giving all the ‘insurance money’ ta pay proper re- spect to her man.” Mother looked up with the first gleam of interest she had shown in anything outside of her grief and her own family sinee dad’s death, and as we descended from the motor she glanced toward the cheaper part of the cemetery, where about an open grave stood a group of people, evidently foreigners, while the band still played dolefully. Then her own grief overpowered her, and Karl had to fairly carry her to the place reserved for the last rite of all. When it was all over and we re- turned 4o the house from which all signs of death and dissolution had already been banished, mother, went immediately to her room. 1 knew she wanted to be alone. John began to plan about getting back to his business, and how quick- lv he could move to take charge of father’s. Just then mother came in and said: “Leslie, I've been thinking of that other poor woman we saw at the cemetery today, and I want someone to go immediately and find out if it is true that she has paid out all her little hoard to. give her husband a grand funeral. If that 1s so, have someone pay all those ex- penses for her. I cannot bear to have her suffer more than is neces- sary. I took my dear mother in my arms and kissed her. She may not be scientifically philanthropic, Ruth, but she’s a regular human being. (Copyright 1924, NEA Service, inc.) HANGS IN DREAM Ashford, England, Oct. 28,—How George Lazell, an ex-chief warder, worried so greatly over the 20 to 30 executions he had seen at Wands- worth Prison that he dreamed of them and finally hanged himself in his sleep, was described at an in- quest here recently. Lazell would brood for days over the hangings he witnessed, according to members of his family. NAne ts ent sot nT nl cvr YouR SARS.orr, THERES, THERS, SO NNY, Don't cry, < WON'T. ~~ iy TS als Xovu. F ISTENS— x HSeAR ‘> PLATING t— eA 366, THERE THex Gol RUN DOWN THERE, AND Loox — It'S A Eleven American stations were heard in England during the inter- a eeonel tests last year, circus ce PARADS } ER < L's THE CLE PHAN THE ANNOYES YOU AT MOVIES By Albert Apple | The pest who reads the captions or sub-titles at the in psychology, the science of w | annoyer of his neighbors. H Always there is some one wi He is an intricate study vhy men do as they do, is this ith them. In fact, he wouldn’t think of reading the titles aloud if he were alone. So, then, his motive is mos t apt to be to create a favor- able impression on his companion. He is vain; feels super- ior; fears that the party he is with is not as quick and alert as he is—that the printed words will vanish from the silver ;his companion’s dull wits by without realizing. But it is b; | themselves. of speaking to themselves. peating of sub-titles. Behold him, temporarily h A third explanation is that the attitude of the man who, One of the big hazards of life in Ne’ long tube of heavy silk encased in New York, Oct. 28.—Cross-section of a monologue heard on Broadway: “I was walkin’ up the street, you understand? And the first thing I knew there she was, right in front of me, you understund? She was dressed like a dog-fight. You know what I mean? And I says to her, ‘Where you goin’?’ Nothin’ out of the way the way I said it. You know what I mean? But she flew off the handle, you understand? And she says to me, ‘How'd you get that way? Of course, it wasn't none of my business, you understand? We ain't engaged, but I'd given her a friendship ring. You know what I mean, So I says to her, ‘I don’t mean nothin’, see? But I thought L was your best ‘friend and I'd like to know. Maybe I ain’t in love with her, you understand? But she’s on my mind a lot. You know what I mean? Anyway, she wouldn’t answer me and walked on down the street, sorta haughty-like, if you understand what I mean.” Probably nothing ubout the New Yorker is so irritating to the visitor here as this habit of asking, “You MORE Some. other handy hints for emer- gency that Mrs, Jones of Anytown always had at hand in case something happened to the children were these: For sills Cie may be caused by upset stomach or result from get- ting chilled. Put heat against the pain and make the child vomit through administration of mustard in water or salt in a glass of warm: water. A teaspoonful of ginger in a gluss of hot water is another re- cognized homé remedy, For frostbite—Rubviggrously with snow or very cold water. Cold and rubbing are the best remedies—not heat, Burns or cuts—If the burn is large or has formed a bad blister it is well to have a docton see ‘it. It a minor burn prepare a paste of wet baking Again, there may be another motive. ‘alone, as in the woods, for any length of time — or women alone a lot doing housework—they are apt to form the habit Even carrying on a conversa- pen with an invisible presence —a sort of twin or second self. H A spectator at a movie is not alone . . ; the growls when he feels his way through the dark to a seat, stepping on others’ feet, tripping over sprawled-out legs or |sagging onto hats. But the movie may so interest and fascinate him that all else vanishes except the plot unfolding on the screen. His mental attitude is that he is alone in the universe. watching a drama or comedy staged for his special benefit. He forgets.that he has neighbors. ually alone in the wilderness, he talks to himself—occasion- ally a comment. to the screen players, but more often a re- unconsciously expressing his approval or pleasure. | Screen before his companion can read and grasp them. Hence, in his vanity, he calls the neighbors’ attention to reading titles aloud for him. Quite unconsciously, though. Does it by instinct, often y such acts that men betray their real selves—their repressed emotions and opinions of When men are . as he learns by And, like the man act- ypnotized. he repeats aloud as he r Hi hearing a wise saying, turns and repeats it, giving it his endorsement, pleased that he has had same identical thought playing tag in the back of his head and now recognizes it. Or it may be, as Rodger Dolan claims, that he’s merely proudly exhibiting his ability to read. Complicated motives are behind some of our simplest acts, just as simple motives are behind many complicated w York is the fire risk. Squads og firemen are organized for special drills in life-saving and they try od every new «<evice that may help them. Pictured here is the latest, a thick netting. Persons trapped on upper floors of burning buildings atve into the tube and slide to ground understand?” or “You know what I mean?” or “See?” This habit prevails in both low and high places. On the surface it seems to spring from an exalted egotism, an attitude on the part of the New Yorker that he knows more than the man he is talking to, The reverse is probably nearer the truth. In this polyglot city many tongues are spoken. English-speaking chil\i dren are never sure whether their Italian, Russian, French or German parents fully understand. And the same time they are never sure that they can clearly express themselves to the native-born American, These New Yorkers are wise birds. You'll never catch them falling for the old shell game or short-change artists, But the Saturday after the ZR-3 arrived two slickers reaped a harvest at Lakehurst, N. J., collecting ten cents “admission” from New Yorkers- who went there to see the great dirigible in its government hangar. And they hoodwinked some auto drivers into paying « quarter for the privilege of parking their cars ond government land. ¥ —JAMES W. DEAN. FABLES ON HEALTH. HINTS soda and wrap carefully, Or cover with grease to keep out the air, Or spread upon a cloth olive ‘oil, un- salted lard, cold cream, cream or ¢ vaseline, Bind these gently upon the ” burned section and renew from time to time. Be careful not to break the blisters if there are any. SECRET OF HAPPINESS Rome, Oct. 28.—Two young mar- ried people of Rome have found the secret of matrimonial happiness. Whenever they start a quarrel, they up two telephones that are only a few feet apart and do their talk- ing ovet the wires, the absurdity, of their quarrei ap-” peals to them, and they are laughing ra0NeR tex Mere fighting,