The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 21, 1924, Page 4

Aeneas fem tl e ir ir ay ce ag tu ar ev sa th De su m we of he by Se en ast pre cor PAGEL FUUK THE. BISMARCK TRIBUN Entered at the Postoffice, Bi marck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. - -- Publishers Foreign Representatives § G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPAD CHICAGO - - - - - Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YOR. - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The American Press is exclusively entitled to the use or yepublication 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. NY DETROIT Kresge Bldg. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIO} Daily by mail, per year in (in Bismarck) Restate hetgere in Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck)... 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) THE GREAT LAKES TIDEWATER PROJECT The powerful influence exerted by the Suez canal on Asiatic and Oriental Trade and the changes being wrought by the Panama Canal are sufficient to cause a far-seeing citizen to vis ze mighty developments in the United States should the proposed Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Tide- waiter project be carried out. The project, in brief, would make it possible for ocean-going vessels to ve ports on the Great Lakes such as Duluth and not discharge their cergoes until they had reached Europe or some other desti- nation. At the present time, water routes with frequent unloadings or part-rail routes must be used in shipments from Great Lake ports to Europe. North Dakota, now far distant from both the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, thus would be brought close to the ocean. Benefit would accrue to the state in that five cents a bushel ev more would be saved on each bushel of grain exported. Cheapening of transportation would make the Great Lakes Region the greatest industrial center in the world. It now is pointing that way. New and close markets for North Dakota agricultural products would be created, with a con- w¢quent increase in population in this state. It is estimated that on heavy products like steel a saving of from four to eight dollars a ton in freight would be made; # great saving would be effected on scores of other products. Vlectrical horse power estimated at 1,646,000 would be de- veloped along the St. Lawrence River. It is a mighty project, and at first glance appears one 0: those visions often conjured up for changing the desti- of a nation. But engineers have found the project feasible from their standpoint. The estimated cost is $252,- 000,000 as compared to $400,000,000 it cost to build the Panama Canal. cate that many times the freight handled on the Panama Canal would move over the tidewater route. The Panama Canal now is showing a good profit on its operations. All North Dakota agencies should lend a hand toward the Great Lakes project. It probably will be before the next Congress. The Northwest ought to strike, and strike | hard, tor favorable action. BOOTLEG The Rum Fleet off New York harbor is landing liquor in airplanes. It may not be many months until the flying machine will be the foremost problem of revenue agents. A Canadian plane is reported to take advance orders from N. H. farmers and drop its cargo, attached to parachutes, here and there as it flies lov Criminals are quick to utilize new inventions. Airplanes will soon be widely used for smuggling and making raids and getaways. Some of the eastern cities already are ad- ding flying ‘squadrons to their regular patrol work. Elephants are the most intelligent of all animals, mon- keys next, dogs third, says Lorenz Hagenback of the noted German family of wild beast dealers. : Why argue about it? There never was an elephant, monkey or dog that had a tenth the intelligence of the aver- age three-year-old boy or girl. Patient training is fre- _ quently mistaken for intelligence. But that’s as true of * people as of animals. “ GOLD PERIL a : Our “gold peril” is nearing its end, bankers They mean, the great flood of gold into the United States from abroad has been materially checked. Recently gold imports have been the smallest in nearly five years. Economists hoid that the presence of an abnormally large amount of gold in a country tends to inflate prices. ¢Accordingly most of us, not having any of the gold, will say, “Ship it all back.” FAILURES «Number of business failures has been low, considering -duil times. So far this year, 1700 firms a month have gone =to-the wall. That looks like a lot, but not when you recall that the total of business organizations is around two mil- “lions. A lot of the men with small-profit businesses would . be better off if they failed and had to get into something ‘@lsc. Being your own boss is not always what it’s cracked ip to be. : DROWNED " 'The last few years have been rich in discoveries of } ancient ruins and tombs, indicating that man has lived on ‘ this planet longer and more civilized in ancient days than previously supposed. Civilizations seem to have flourished * eve’ ‘where, from Egypt to Mongolia and Nevada—and now + fp :the southern Mediterranean a wonderful submerged city “18 located, 30 feet under the water. Count Prorok’s divers ? will explore it. : SPENDING Politically the nation has overwhelmingly proclaimed. by } its: baliots that it is in a conservative frame of mind. ,Unfortunate for all of us, if this conservativeism as- serts itself in money matters. ~ «Spending is what makes prosperity —keeps factories tand stores busy. Se HATCHET-MEN ‘ , Even in their criminal ramifications, our Chinese popu- lation is more desirable than some others. You may have noticed that when Chinese conduct tong wars, blackmail, mur- “der or otherwise run true to sensational fiction, they confine weir operations to members of their own race and leave the a lite’man alone. Exceptions are rare. t # Cleanliness may be next to godliness in some localities, in others it is next to impossible, Great Lakes tonnage records serve to indi-) (, Editorial Review Comments reproduced in this column may or may pot express the opinion of The ibune. hey 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. FARM RS “ON THE AIR” (Boston Transcript) It_is estimated that there are | 370,500 radio sets in use on farms in the United State: The total is impressive, in view of the fact that the racho has come into gen- } eral use within the past several years. But the process of getting | the farmer in touch with tie world | ‘by communication through the ether ig only beginning. The to- tal number of farms in the United States is about 6,500,000. If the present estimate is correct the ra- dio has found its place on about one ‘m in twenty. While that is remarkable development consid ing the short time since the d when the radio, for practical pur- poses, Was unknown, it leaves more than 6,000,000 farms yet to be so equipped that the entertain- ment and instruction broadcast day and night may reach the dwei lers upon them. To the farmer the rauto is tak- ing its place as a business neces- sity, as well a means of enter- taimment, and the dissemination of a vast quantity of general in- formation of more or less value. It enables him to receive daily price quotations from the citi together with comment on p! vailing market conditions. He is placed on equality with the man xo far as information is concerned, when it comes to the sale of his products. The time is at hand when no intelligene farm- er will want to be left in that state of darkne: implied ‘by the absence of the radio set from the farm house. TRU CW: ington Post) A New York ric declares that public cpinion is no longer a com- spetent guide in morals. He is wrong. When it comes to the real things of life, in America at least, | public opinion holds fast to the] standards that have been main- tained through the ages. It still rises in righteous wrath against corruption in public office. It still demands justice for all ele- ments of the population. It still resents exploitation by profiteers. It still condemns Pub- ic opinion is the champion of the virtues, and can be counted on to maintain that against all_ attack. The trouble with the y York j cleric is that he mista the chatter of New York for the deep | voice of the American people. "OPINION ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON CROSS PATCH GETS TROUBLE INTO “The last riddle id the Riddle Lady. [hey are more fun when they are easy,” said Nancy kindly. “They are not,” declared Patch. “I like them hard.” “Oh, dear me! What very bad man- ners!” whispered Miss Muffet to Bo} Peep. “But he’s had no bringing up, poor thing, so what could you ex- pect.” i “Well, perhaps this one will suit you better,” said the Riddle Lady. “It is very short and it doesn’t rhyme: “What is as crooked as a pretzel, as hard as a bone, as tight as a new shoe, as safe as a bank, and as} puzzling as a riddle? It comes in shoe-laces, wood and was too eas Cross} rybody lovked at Cross Patch. “Can you guess that one?” asked | the Wise-Man-Of-Our-Town. Cross Patch shifted from one foot; to the other. “Oh, that’s easy!” he | said. “It's a—it's a—why, it's Oh, I think I'll have to go and get my coat. I feel as though I was catching cold.” “Isn't that the way!” laughed Jack Spratt. “Some people are never sat- isfied.” Nobody could guess the answer. They guessed everything from ships to a shoe-button. And finally what do you think! The Riddle Lady had to tell them. “It's a knot,” she said. “Knots come don’t they?” | id Nancy, | “And in wood? You often sce those} round funny places in boards that sometimes drop out and leave holes. Well, they are called knots, too!” “That's right,” saiq Nick. “And in the ocean nobody miles,” went on the Riddle | “Captains of ships always say that a boat can go so many knots an! jhour. A knot is a little more than a mile.” “That's a good one but a hard one.” said Doctor Foster. “I never could have guessed it.” \ “Here is an easy one then,” the Riddle Lady, “Roly Poly is as fat as jyet you can see his ribs. Indeed he has to have hoops to hold him to- gether. “He has two crowns to his head, but no eyes or ears, Nothing but a nose. “Who is Roly Poly?” “Is it the Fat Man of Bombay?” asked Little Boy Blue. “Oh, ho!” shouted Nick. “He has aid butter - eyes and ears, hasn’t he? And you can’t see his ribs, can you?” “That's right—you can't,” said Little Boy Blue. “I know what it is,” said Tom Tucker. “It’s a barrel. I know be- cause we have one in the cellar to keep molasses in, I like it on my bread and butter.” “That's right, Tomiy,” said the Riddle Lady. “What would you like for a prize?” “A knife,” said Tommy quickly. “No one can ever seem to find one championship | |them. i But, if in matchless wisdom i i Ncoeae Uo wa it.” smiled the Riddle Lady. bread-knife for Tom Tucker.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inte.) Chinese is spoken by about 400,- 100,000 people, not counting Amer- ican babie: A sea lion will eat 40 cans of sal- mon a day, thrive but on 10 to boarders seem to! 12 cans, H iN ase from smok- anking will stop a boy. A reformer is a man who consid- ers a good time a bad time and a} bud time a good time. The push that makes many a man a success in life is done by his wife. ; Germs are so small a million can} it on the point of a pen and still} be lonely, One lighted gas jet consumes as much air as four ordinary people or | one insurance agent. Your hair has muscles, but don’t | consider this an excuse to be strong headed. They will worship the sun in In- dia, We may do the same this, winter. New stockings last longer if washed before being worn, or if the toc nails are trimmed closely. sir] for her hand and she ep you under her thumb. Ask g may k The difference between our last! year’s suit and our this year’s suit is merely a matter of time. Time cures all things by killing | The stingiest man on earth sucks his chewing gum. i (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) ! POET'S CORNER > «| | % , ARMISTICE THOUGHTS By Emeline E. Sifert, Golva, N. D. | X years have possed in making Of a world since dawn Six years of fear and wi And prayers that strife may cease You send the scorge again— God, for the life of freedom Send us your dauntless men. 1 Bred in the hope of nations, Sized in the brain and brawn | Of those who carried our banners | high In the light of freedom’s dawn, Sons of the World's War veterans Son’s that can ne'er be priced Sturdy and strong in battle Meek in the lowly Christ. Give us an understanding If war with its ceaseless fears. Let us kneel again on that foreign field With its crosses; row on row And pledge anew to our country The work shall never cease That they gave their all to. conquer; Then grant us, O Lord, thy peace. Let us pledge’ to the Jiving veterans And the memory of those who died, |To work for the peace of nations Though our son’s be sorely tried But, if from the tattered patchwork Of the world, epmes war again Send to the folds of Old Glory Sons of our free-born men. Slight grease marks and signs of wear upon suede, velours, felt and to cut my breag for me.” “A queer prize, but-you shall have | other soft materials will disappear if the surface is rubbed with a THE BISMAKRUK 'TKIBU { future | acknowledge that all is good within love without more or less unhappi- | feel Why Not Sentence Speedeers to Public’ Humiliation SURE CUR i ‘It’s an idea borrowed from j hoods, grasping big banners Wouldn’t it be a good idea ‘endanger human life? j help, but are not sufficient. LETTER FROM PAULA PERIER TO JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT, * CO ED 1 am sure our baby is not a child h tures and we had nothing to lay the fect of Fate to make her give more to our child than . thou- of other misguided men and ‘omen who have not counted on the while living wholly in the «damor of the present. I have come to the conclusion that all this which is to be our boy’s is because of your wife Leslie—I am not sure that she would like me to call her Leslie, but I do it to myself and to my God when I thank Him for her daily. It is not to you, John Prescott, that I owe my belief in a God and a feeling that somewhere, sometime, someway everything wil} be all right, but to your wife. The other night I heard a man— a moving picture actor--talk upon” the new kind of religion which has for its basis one’s attraction of the All-good.to oneself. The theory be- ing that if you are good, that if you any you, you can not help but have all the good you ask for and believe is yours. To us little Jack was a burden. He was @ constant reminder of our sin. I loved him more than anything in my life, but I never thought of that ness. I could always see the bar- sinister across his forehead. The Tangle ! judges! A fi | front of the Waldorf buy ‘horse race charts, cagerly turn the pages and read down the columns of winners and also-rans. Two sportive chosus ‘girls, me- thinks. Not a bit of it! Their grandmother is just a pace behind them, ‘ “Did you win, dearie, she asks. | “No, the nag ran third,” one of the girls answers. Handbooks do:an enormous busi- ness in New York. A’ fellow who knows quite a bit about that sort of thing told me'the other day that an average of $500,000 a day is bet in New York on horse races, win- ter and summer, by people who sel- dom, if ever, see a race run, Bookmakers have agents in almost every big office building. Some of these agents accept as little as 26 cents a bet. That is true especially ferent letter than ‘I intended. What I meant to say wag that little Jack ‘having become a ‘very rich baby, he doesn't need anything that I can do for him. He has love, wealth and position and the best thing that I can give to him now wilk be to for- get that he ever: was mine just as I have forgétten you, mon ami. I am going from now ‘on to forget that I have ever' lived before I came to this beautiful ‘place. When Ii knew you I was still quite French. ‘If you remember I could not speak’ the language without put- ting it, into (French idioms. Today I am entirely American—except when I want ito be'French.. - So you are. going over to Pitts- burg to} live and little Jack will pro- bably be one of the great captains of industry of the future. You will probably} take him into the plant as soon as he comes out of college. For once Ihave written; you just what was\in my heart, I am not go- ing to write you again—unless some- thing comes up which’ is very import ant to me} I dare {ou to tell Leslie that you have received a letter from me and that I am‘sending my love to her be- cause L know that God has been good to me in letting | ow at least one good woman who is not a bore—in letting me know one good woman who is worth all the men in the world, “They may not be stylish, but they're comfortable.” . Mr. Jones, of Anytown, frequently would say in connection with his shoes or his eol- lar or his clothing. The matter: of being comfortably dressed plays a great part in the hu- man’ state of mind.’ It may be that certain styles are essential if certain social successes are to be enjoyed, but creature comforts are best for BY HARRY B. HUNT NEA Service Writer Washington, Nov. 21—One day in every four years Washington takes a back seat. On all other days Washington may strut and put on airs.as the nation’s capital, but on election. day it, be- comes merely a bystander among cities, an onlooker, pvatching and wondering what the verdict of the country is to be, but itself without any voice in the outcome. . For in voteless Washington there is no election. No city in the coun- try is so intimately affected by the results of the nation’s balloting, but the smallest town or cross-roads hamlet has more say-so in the result. PAULA. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) o——_ With Leslie it has all been differ- ent. She loves you much more than I ever did who do not love you the least’ little bit now.’ She loved you so much that she could love your child without prejudice, Her love was better than mine ever was and because “she loved much” I almost el ‘that even’ my sins have been vicariously forgiven me. It’s a strange thing that I have been writing to you an entirely dif- UGS OW DEAR-OH DEAR Poor FIDO'S LOST! PLEASE BROADCAST \T 70 THE WIDE WIDE WORLD — clean piece of chamois leather. YA Thought i Ie ce | Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelicf.—Mark 9:24. The whole structure of official life, around which the governmental and social life of the will revolve for four years, is decided for Wash- ington by Walla-Walla, Keokuk and Kalamazoo, So on election day, when other ci- uerbagh.|ties are rampant with the spirit of pee y an enfranchised electorate, empow- More than 100 ships, carrying!ered to make or mar their well-be- 30,000 passengers, pass through tbe |ing as they may choose, Washington English Channel every month. Plods along in its old rut, waiting, watching, wondering—hoping, per- By Roy Grove |*#?s—but witheut a vote to cast or REAR Ye- EAR — @ word to say. LOST ONE POODLE - LOOKS LIKE FIDO — I MEAN —AH— ANSWERS ~® FIDO - CALL ‘em Being alone when one’s belief is | firm, is not to be alo: Apparently the least interested man if Washington, during the per- iod when the country was balloting to decide the next president of the United States, was the slight, se- vere-faced, sandy-haired man whom the outcome most closely affected. Whether it was his supreme con- fidence in the result or whether it |was the New England discipline by which his mind is ruled that enabled him to proceed with “business as usual,” possibly he himself doesn’t know. Probably both had a hand in it. Anyway, while in other cities voters were rushing to the polls and strife and suspefise regarding the outcome were monopolizing men’s minds, President Coolidge reported at his office on schedule, ready to tackle a normal duy’s: grist in the executive mill. General Lord, director of the bud- get, who Was first on the president’ election day schedule of callers, emerged from the executive sanctum after an hour's. session frankly flabbergasted. | * Comes a voice ; i Saying T see a Cross. beg, ia} Unto a land afa L-gee & Star. E FOR SPEEDERS By Albert Apple You read the Kansas City judge’s threat to make wife- beaters stand on prominent downtown corners, under police guard, holding placards advertising their offense. | for centuries. More recently they have made convicted pro- fiteers parade their downtown district and home neighbor- crimes and ringing bells to attract attention. | Stiff doses of this brand of medicine to auto speeders who i American autos kill 50 victims a day. Each year there {is one auto death for every 760 cars. j ,. Educational campaigns seem unable to cope with the {situation; compulsory inspection of traffic victims at |morgues; occasional’ trials on manslaughter charges; these | Why not banners to be carried by speeders? ~ Mos | New York, Nov. 21.—Two girls injin buildings where girls wager on the Chinese. They’ve used it carrying the story of their for local judges to administer Ahoy, | Pe the horses. Most of the bookmakers are affil- iated with the Big Book in Hoboken. Hoboken in the center of all race track gambling in the United States. New York layers of odds who are acquainted over there have certain pass words on the telephone. If they receive more wagers on a horse than they care to chance in cashing they call Hoboken and “lay off” part of the money. The Big Book in Hoboken will take a bet in any amount. The op- erators know that in the long run they have everything to gain and nothing to od. Every horse in every race is a’medium of play. And only one horse can win. Eugene is a cynical headwaiter. FABLES ON HEALTH. COMFORTABLE CLOTHES Washington Interested But Has To Look On Down in the depths of Saduess, Into the Vale of Pain, ; i \ Far from all -joy and gladness, oof é Striving, but all in vain; » & “People who come in here don't know what boobs they are,” he told me the other evening. “In all like- lihood the booze we sell is watered before we get it. We add enough. the nerves and feeling of well being. It is doubtful if man was ever in- ~ tended to make a hatrack or clothes- line out of-his body, and uncomfort- able clothes are uncomfortable be- cause they are bothering some organ or body member. Thus tight vests, corsets and belts may be cramping the abdominal tract, pressing gas around the heart, interfering with circulation or‘doing a dozen and one other things. “How'a man running for president can keep his mind on the intricate details of budget estimates on elec- tion day is beyond me,” Lord de- clared. “But that fellow did it. His brain was functioning as keenly as if he didn’t have any interest in the world outside these budget figures. I know them pretty well, but he caught me up on one or two items. Believe me, he travels some!” ‘ That superstition has no part in the Coolidge makeup also was dem- onstrated on election day, when that date was chosen for the removal of the summer decorative shrubs around the parapet of the wings flanking the White House and the substitu- tion of winter greenery. The summer shrubs consisted of two score or more green bay trees, worshiped by the ancients as sym- bols of victory and success. During the early. hours of elec- tion day these trées of good omen were carted from their places, And in their ‘stead were placed dozens of cedars, signifying gloom, melancholy, grief! But no such interpretations were read into them by Coolidge. The symbolism, which many saw in the change néver occurred to him. To him the change was only part of the day’s work; a full chore which the White House attendants looked after. And election day scemed as good a day as any other to do it. , FRIDAY, NOV. 21.—You must school yourself. to be broadminded . and to. approach all matters free from prejudice. - f Natural ability, of which you have plenty, will be smothered if you per- mit yourself to be too headstrong. Everyone has faults. Do not look ‘ for them in others. Happiness will come to you in ‘abundance if you will extend yourself and develop the { many good. characteristics you have. / Ants can easily éarry twice their own weight. ‘AITH (Florence Borner) filled with Mercy, . “All ig not loss” ge Over the precipace gleaming, \ ‘Out from the depths of sorrow, Into the vale of Hope, Seeing a new tomorrow, , ing a wider scope; each day d ir, High in the heavens beaming, ) for guidance,