The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 25, 1924, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. - - - Publishers Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - - - - - DETROIT Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The American Press is exclusively entitled to the use or republication of all ne dispatches credited to it or not otherwise entitled in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. al rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also re Kresge Bldg. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year +. $4.20 Daily by mail, per year in (in Bismarck)... i 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck)... 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakot 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) THAT TEN PER CENT Paving of the penitentiary highway east of Bismarck to connect up with the National Parks Highway and thus climinate two dangerous grade crossings, meets with the approval of the taxpayers if the amount for engineering} expenses and promotion is not ex ive. The vote on the court house showed conclusively that the voters of Burleigh county want to catch their breath before plunging into unnecessary and expensive public im- provements. There are back ta to pay and other debts to be met by the residents of the county and any uncalled tor expenditures will be resented. It is hoped to lighten the tax cost of this improvement by interesting the railroads because of the elimination of the crossings. As it isa federal project some of the expense can be shouldered by the state and federal agencies, but nevertheless there should be a full statement to the people of Burleigh county on how the proposition is to be financed, type of pavement and estimated cost and why a ten per cent cdgineering cost is nee: upon a road that is virtually laid out now most of the w. Preliminary imates place the cost of the construction of this road at $125,000. If ten per cent is paid the county surveyor, T. R. Atkinson, this means some $12,500 which seems excessive cost for such services upon such a small stvetch of road. If the ten per cent is to be used for other costs than zineering the taxpayers are entitled to a statement of just what the ten per cent means. is a natural resentment among the taxpayers to ve engineering costs on federal road projects to Much better from a business exce neers in private practice. and economical standpoint is a policy that puts the’ sole |‘ direstion of the engineering upon the highway department, taking it out of local polities Bismarck has before it now the spectacle of a percent- age plan for paying engineering c The promotion costs of the water plant have been excessive even eliminat- -ing the three per cent gratuity paid T. R. Atkinson on the! purchase price of the old plant. There are features in connection with the engineering phases of the water plant which taxpayers of Bismarck do not want to see duplicated on the proposed state highway east of Bismarck. Permanent roads by all means, but at a cost reasonable and just. A bonus to engineers and promoters should not be tolerated or condoned by the county commissioners : A complete statement of the project before bid: called for would meet with the demand of the taxpayers. are MERELY “SITTING IN” It now develops that the city commissioners were merely “sitting in” at a conference between City Engineer Atkinson and representatives of the Woodrich Construction Company -—-yesterday in the city attorney’s office. This is the first time the commission has heard “both sides” to the contro- versy over the intake at the same time, although $15,000 has been expended by the contractor. There has been too much latitude given the city engi- neer in connection with the various phases of the new water- ! works system. Responsibility in the final analysis rests on the commissioners, elected representatives of the people not upon a city engineer whose business is to collect as large fees as he can. That is his business and the city will con- tinue to pay as long as they allow Mr. Atkinson to have his own way. Upon Mayor Lenhart rests the responsibility of a thorough housecleaning in the city engineering department and the employment at once on a salary basis of a competent engineer interested mcre in saving the taxpayer’s money | than in collecting excessive fees. ’ In the future the commission should not “sit in” at such conferences but control them and end what is approaching a nasty public scandal. MERGENTHALER | A memorial tablet to Ottomar Mergentahler is placed on the house where he was born, is a German village. His name cloesn’t mean much to a reader. But he invented the linotype machine which took the place of typsetting by hand and made large newspapers possible. tf he had led an army that butchered a few million peo- plg, everyone would know his career in detail. The machine invented by Mergenthaler will, along with typewriter, paper | ill, and printing press. put the military butchers out of siness eventually. It’s largely a matter of education, and about as easy as teaching an elephant to do “fancy work.” A “BEST” SELLER - 2obinson Crusoe” continues as the world’s best seller, j though it was first published 205 years ago. The Bible, of course, ranks first. “Robinson Crusoe” is printed in 33 languages. Its tre- mendous popularity is sometimes explained by pointing out that i‘ is, in effect, a history of civilization. Its strongest appeal. strangely, enough, is to people who'd like to get away from civilization. NAMES The most ancient stone buildings ever found are two chapels recently uncovered under Egyptian sands. On their beautifully carved columns, tourists, 3500 «years ago wrote their names and date, much after the mod- ern fashion. Human nature never changes. The ancient, «leaving his mark on a stone column, lives teday in the trav- eler with his defacing pencil.. .. ..Melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, and all of us-are sad because of heavy underwear. SAE is Saar 10 sine Aetna soni emi ge OPS Editorial Review 1 Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented in order ti our readers nay have both sides of important jssues which are abr discussed in the press of the day. COSMETIC FOR MEN Albany Evening News: It like equal rights at last. ident of the Wholesule Beauty association inform cal world that within five y en will use cosmetics us openly as women use | looks them now. He e breaks the hu- miliating news that hundreds of thousands of m use them now and he says this isn't effeminacy but} good sense. It is a blunder, if not a crime, to look old, he says, and cosmetics, skillfully applied, make man appear young. It is a good advertisement and good pro anda for the beauty trade, but gencration or two of men will have to die off before the male sex gets his cosmetics first- ha When men use rouge and lip- sticks generally, it will be about time for the apes in the jungle to rise and deny the theory of evolu- | tion. They'll have to in self respect. v, there'll not be any general use of cosmetics by men. There are enough sensible fathers in the land who will go back to the woodshed with their sons and whale them properly if they attempt to rouge | their checks or paint their lips. The birch stick will come back if the lipstick is attempted by the male youths of today. The present gen- eration of fathers isn't going to raise its boys to he cosmetized “beauties.” Not so long as there's «shin bald head or a shining nose left among the fathers of to- day. If men want to continue to look young, they'll exercise and eat prop- erly and keep their health. If they want to keep young by the cosmetic process, they are likely to de killed off ut every street corner by ever redblooded, self-respecting man thats wears trouse a INN, TAVERNS AND TEA SHOPS = i Columbus Dispatch: “At Ye Sign! of Ye Pig and Whistle”—how often | does such a sign confront a traveler when he arrives in a quaint little | town in New ngland. “The Old Trail Tavern”—what: a lure such a| legend exercises when it is encount- | ered at some likely spot on the Na- thoroughfare. It is the charm of the antique, the out of the ordinary, with food, either of old English | wholesomeness and munificence, or of a sort of hybrid, French-American tiness, to await one, and perhaps “lodging for the | a Stevensonian night.” But so numerous has the progeny of inns, taverns and tea shops of these magnetic names become that one can never be sure that an od- dity in name beckons to a pleasant + prospect in either cuisine or room accommodations. Ye Olde Thynges have been overdone and even. the sign “antiques” over a doorway sometimes beckons to broken down ladderbacks, to. unattractive drop. leaf tables, to corner cupboards with doors awry, or to hook rugs with which one would be unwilling to decorate a garage. Thank all the gods of gastronomy, there are still a few places left over the country, where one can get a mutton chop, Canadian style; a min- ute steak done to a turn, or chicken | Maryland. Thanks be to ull chefs and caterers that there are still a few spots where the memories of Colonial days are evoked or where | he savors or perfect Western or | Southern cookery come to the nos trils with a pungency that sterniy | commercial institutions can seldom, if ever, properly imitate ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “A shaggy old fellow is Towsel- | inead His whiskers make a most remark-! able bed, Wor chickens and turkeys and kit- tens and such— | Al: their seratchings and gobblings the grass, Not minding the nibbles of creat- | ures that pass, calves or of colts, young friskers, That never go by ing his whiskers. the greed; keep off the rain, But L think he’s ashamed of it-——lcw- selhead is looks li a Granny, it’s fault of his. if he Scare Crow told nie, H talk to each other—they're cousins, you see) One reason ‘the hates so his night} cap on top-— children can’t slide. Brown made them stop.” (They i The Farmer , That was the next riddle the dle -Lady asked the Mother Goo: people at Mrs. John’s orchard party. “Who is Towselhead?” she asked when she had finished. “Please, ma'am, is it a cornstalk?” ed Little Boy Blue. * No, it isn’t,” said the Riddle Lady, “although cornstalks are tow- sel-heads, I must say. They never comb their hair.” “I'm not sure that it isn’t another scare-crow!” remarked the Old-Man- All-Clothed-In-Leather ‘to Solomén Grundy. “Why I knew a scare-crow once who was just eaten up by the farm creatures. He stood near a fence and every time Ned Nag or | tional road or other main-traveled | | “How cas usually set by don’t bother him much. Yeu “He lies in’ the, field, all brown in] ' without munch- | “Towselhead wears a night <ap,} thick and plain, Farmer Brown says it’s really te no} “Cne day he told Scare Crow and} | show why the |the prices if guests wouldn't steal, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE WH: WH WHY ie WALTER * ‘ OH WHAT FROM ARM! T BE STABBED! WY WERE ONY PLAMIN’ KNIGHTS. IT ANT stuck IN HIM= IM JUS PuLuNn tT OUT UNDER HIS HES SPOSED ie pate Ai ii or aad “No crow,” “l Towselhead isn't id the Riddle Lady. ould think he would aid Old Moth- Hubbard. etting chickens t in his hair! It’s the most un- thing I ever heard of.” they even make nests in his hair,” daughed the Riddle Lady, “and lay B ashamed of himsel: er Rt {LETTER FROM JOHN ALDEN | PRESCOTT TO LESLIE PRES- COTT, CONTINUED. | | 1 have been worrying, Leslie dear, | about you getting settled in our jnew home, Carpenters and painters | are alwa train on one’s nerves laimed the Old cried everybody. sa and just now you want as much Spratt. e and quiet as possible, "ersonally 1 was weetheart, we are going to call I know you think uginative and apt to be hard a times but I yal castles since I knew that baby was coming to us, Leslie, da ys glad that one cat over the moon” “I know the: answer,” said Mr John, “I've been thinking and think- ing. It’s a hay-stack.” “Why, of cours jumped | said everybody. | the ng. no man in “It’s always easy when you kuow | world ever had a wife like mine, 1 how,” laughed the Riddle Lady. do not think any other woman in (To Be Continued) {the world could live with me, but 1 (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) | love you, love you with every ounce of of my body and every thought ’ my soul, F want you to realize this 1C* | for I know my Shortcomings — per- [haps better than anyone else km bg {them. T know I probubly will m: {you unhappy many times in the fu- iture with my thoughtlessnes: but I want you tou and thoughiles j Tam I love you able of loving Ke { Please, please, wife of not forget that I do not rea feetly that all the great things that have come to me the last few years Ihave come to through you. I ‘cannot talk of it to anyone, least of all to you, but deep in my heart I ow that without you an your ever-redeeming love L would be noth- Well, in Cleveland, a man was jailed for spanking his own child. Just the same, others should jailed for not spanking. mine, do Norway has voted to continue pro- hibition, so the bootleggers will be warm and comfortable this winter. Coclidge spent a weekend aboard | the Mayflower. If we had no rent eonasator four yearsiwe would 4ishilmhere, Gexlic) deur) I have gotten e HE Lit out of my system and I feel bet-} It is becoming inex atti. |r s becoming. ine! : E : ; : ; I wish 1 could say to you alw cult to pity the blind lial thel| siifthe dese hall Nett an mie he aulvists seem to be blind. libubamalean: not. I have writ- f | Whig is the first te One great improvement noted in! ten with my own hand for a long the world recently is it has about) time, but Leslie dear, I wanted: to quit “Ain't gonna raining no more.” (tot) you all that you are to me and }1 could not let any other know the blesseq truth, Darling mine, I hope you will be forgiving in the future as you have been in the past for otherwise EVERETT TRUE % person’ is a banana short- u in shortage, but! a song shortage. | The year we will never have ison of forest fi men who should be! This is the s caught in them. y have radios which you can} your pocket, but it could be worse; suppose phonographs were that small? Muskogee (Okla.) man got one vote and was elected, It was his own vote. Now he can criticize himself. WriN MOTHERS GET GRAY. BACKYARD KNIGHTS. The Tangle | present moment I have every inten- —~ANo Now, YoU! SEG WHEN THEY WANT TO BRING OUT Some PART Is THe FICM STORY THEY THROW THE pretures Ve CARGS CIKE THIS, ANDO THATS CALLED A “CLOSE-UP” — Aw- 00-90 I AM UNDONE TERRIBLE vill TReallons Iam afraid that 1 will be a very unhappy man. It is only forgiving wives that make marriage a success. In my heart I know this is true, for no one has ever needed forgiveness | more than I. No, dear, I am not asking you to forgive me anything yet and at the tion of being very ture, but Tam q you know, suspicious and jealous— there, I guess I've enumerated all my worst faults where you are con- cerned. T have a telegram from Syd, He will not be here until the last of the week, [ am rather sorry because good in the fu- ick-tempered, as TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1924 THE DEATHBED WEDDING By Albert Apple Racing with death in an auto, a Boston girl arrived in Albany, N. Y., in time to marry her sweetheart four hours ‘before he died from injuries received when he fell under a jrailroad train. | These deathbed marriages are not uncommon. In one jcase, an English woman sailed for India and married her jlover, whom she had not seen for three years, barely before ithe death-rattle sounded in his throat. a | It is inspiring to know that, in our blase generation, there | still are multitudes who believe love is eternal, and not mere- ‘ly an episode this side of the grave. Are lovers re-united in the Great Beyond? A belief to | this effect is the supreme comfort for countless millions who ij have found “the right person.” ve In true love, men and women are closest to the spiritual. Time does not lessen affection. Tears dim the eyes of | the aged as they summon in memory the mate or sweetheart ‘who passed long ago. | The unhappily married must fervently hope that death |will be an absolute divorce from their unfortunate choice. |Many would vote for extinction in preference to eternal life iif they thought they would be condemned forever to their ‘earthly mates. ae : Behind everything is a wise and definite reason. | The reason for unhappy marriages has baffled philoso- |phers in all centuries. Socrates believed that when a soul jenters the world it is separated into two beings, a male and | female. These wander the earth, seeking reunion. If a |man or woman weds the “wrong half,” misery follows. " j Many mystics believe that an unhappy marriage is an af- liction visited on the unfortunate—a burden through this life, a problem. Apparently agreeing with the reat AS urely, for people who “make the best of a bad bargain.” them, death should be an eternal release. cane like that of a blind man fecling his way. There is something as in- sistent about it as the morning alarm. Pedestrians do not just get out of his way. Most of them stop to put coins in his hat. New York, Nov. 25.—For the first time in this country a Chinese res- taurant, that is, one for which Chin- ese are wholly responsible, has gone into bankruptey. It is the Bamboo Gardens, a base-| I saw this fellow selling news- ment chop suey ¢afe in the Broad-} papers the other night. So many way bright light district. other blind pencil-peddlers have copied his novel method of cane tap- This Chinese venture might not have gone on the rocks if its celes- tial backers hadn't aped American methods. The restaurant accommo- dates 1000 diners, and $88,000 was spent on decorating it when it op- ened recently, The first move made by the re- ceiver was to greatly reduce the number of employes, although many of the Chinese waiters were investors you know I don't like my own so- ull, and with Mrs. Atherton tomorrow I shall be Presume Pll cultivate Burkes. Ruth has already asked me to dinner, and I shall expect I shall have to gine with mother soon and then, of course, I am in for all sorts of complaints. Why is it, dear, in the venture. For several years a blind youth has fared very well along Times Square by beating a staccato tattoo on the sidewalk with his cane, His is not a casual tapping of the ping that he gave up the ficld to them. Street fakers ate increasing in number daily.’ They are fellows who have roamed the country during the summer months, but with the com- ing of winter they head into New York to pick up a few easy dimes on the sidewalks. With one eye for the cops and one eye for business they generally can sell enough gim- cracks to buy bed and meals. If a a cop heaves into view they pick up their paraphernalia and disappear as thought the earth had swallowed them. —JAMES W. DEAN. that old people get settled into a rut and make themselves so unhappy Y when they might be just the oppos- CHILDREN ite. You and I won that way, will we? We'll be D: and Joan] .,, ; ee with our children art Piultucay, Sot tne ebildeeh donee ine stround us. It pleasant though}|food that is good for them,” the but truly I never dreamed that it}neighbors would sometimes say to would come to me. Mrs. Jones of Anytown when the Always your husband, JACK. ee, Ine.) (Copyright, question of proper feeding aro: Mrs. Jones would answer: “ Hh, FABLES ON HEALTH AND FOOD home-cooked, and getting the chil- dren in the habit of eating them is much the same sort of thing as get- ting them to do errands, or go to school, or wash their faces or do any other thing that is habit. The parent should take the child = why don't you train them to like|aside and explain to him that eating > ——__________- —__—__—__¢ it is more than a mere matter of ’ ° C Children can be spoiled in matters} “taste.” The child should receive | a Il trentinedjast aiiitieauitjeasion (sdn||anveaneatipaeingeha) tacretne eating | H they can be spoiled in any other|for health is a mighty important aot rt! ay | way. thing and that, if left to do as he "There are very few, if any, foods| pleased, the child: will suffer the TUESDAY 25.—Persons| which are unpalatable if properly | consequences. born this day are natural lea * need only to cultivate initiative to| g, nee ° IN. HIS: WARDROBE carry themselyes to great heights. “Ah's gwin to de pahty t'night whence el Heit "| BOE S CORNER || "Avs vine co tote ray niet apt to ¢———_ if they conflict with their own, not be intolerant. Be broad-minded in your every endeavor. See to it that your natural ability is not permitted to smolder and die. BY CONDO The office girls kissed Al Smith {when he was re-elected. That's some { 1 jo? the. graft in publie office. Only cent of the voters | veted, but tl won't stop 100 per| |cent from kicking if anything goes ‘wrong. | The children may enjoy lerning an Alabama teacher broke her finger |whipping a boy. The Pullman, people lose 750,000 linen articles @ year, which may r sheets are so short. Hotel people say they could reduce NOW Etc YouR FRIGND WHAT A "FADE-OUT IS I! eco but that’s a poor excuse. The most expén: home is carelessness. thing about a Very few parents are on spanking terms with their children, All compliments received are the property of the person giving them and should be returned. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Ine.) _——— i A Thought | ee Of making many books there is no end.—Eccl. 12: Charlie Colt came near the fence, tiey chewed up his arm or his head, Every day he had to be fixed up all over again, and finally Farmer Brown had to shake pepper’all éver him to teach those horses a lesson.’ é sc RRNA RITE oN To divert at any time a trouble- | some fancy, run to thy books; they [presently fix thee to them, und drive the other out “of thy thoughts. ‘They always receive thee with the same kindness.—Fuller, Eeeeenarennets ce ona «ons AN AMERICAN THANKSGIVING Lord, we are not like other men, True, and for this we praise, Our faith is sure, our home secure, Our land through all time may en- dure, Let us a paean raise. Lord, we are not like other men. Yes, and of this we sing. For moral height, for civic right, For Freedom in her regal might Let allelulias ring. Lord, we are not like other men, Ah, and thy grace we ask World ills to share, the conflict dure, To carry with the crowd their care. We thank Thee for this task, change mah clothes.” “Change yo’ clothes? Boy, when you’ buttons yo’ coat, yo’ trunk am locked!”—American Legion Weekly. WEIGHT FOR LAMBS The right weight for marketable lambs is not much more than 80 pounds. “When they get up to 9 or 100 pounds the cut in price is usually heavy regardless of the condition or quality. : SWINE LOST TO T. B. Tuberculosis has caused the loss of more than 100,000 hogs, out of the 54,000,000 federally inspected last- year. In addition, more than a million parts of carcasses were condemned because of the disease. The first monarch to own u pri- Fannie B. Williams. vate airplane was the king of Spain. A THANKSGIVING HYMN (Florence Borner) We thank Thee, Father, for Thy care, Through this, the closing year, — As we now gather ‘round the board, Of feasting and good cheer; For Thou ‘hast ever ‘been our friend, Around us Thou hast flung The sweet protection of Thy love, To Thee this song is sung. We sowed the seed und trusted Thee, To send forth sun and rain, And now our barns are bursting With the newly ;ripened grain; Ba we TOF lift cenined n u grand, Thanksgiving song, For, had not Thy tender care, We could not live here long. We thank Thee for Thy guidance, Lord, Too oft afar we stray, But Thou iu tenderness and ‘ove Seek for us night and day; Look down upon us from on high, And hear our humble ptayer: Upon this day of Thankfulness, We thank Thee for Thy care. We thank Thee, Father, most of all, We owe our lives to. Thee, Thou knowest all we do and say, Fran Ne art Sepie plea; ee’ is wh ere ‘tis concevepy.y biigut Be fs euch passion, Lord ef Hiicuf) gral at we each day may live, . Obedient to Thy "Word, adele Yh« th «