The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 24, 1924, Page 4

PAt(Lh PAGE FOUR Since TW /.. .ing a flock of turkeys, 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. Kresge Bldg. | PAYNE, RULING 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 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 6 ae 20) Daily by mail, per year in (in Bis marek) 7.20} Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) . 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota. ‘ 6.00 (Established 1873) CHRISTMAS 1924 | North Dakota’s Christmas this year should be a merry | and happy one. Bountiful crops have eased financial con- ditions throughout the state and the future is most bright. There is little poverty in the state and those who are un- uenate have had their needs well cared for at this ae tide. This has been a fortunate year for those engaged in agri- | culture. It is really the best in the last four years. Gov- ernment reports show that the wealth produced by the soil this year is valued at twelve billions. | Much of the grain grown is still held on the farms. One! North Dakota banker has estimated the wheat still in the farmers’ hands in one form or another at thirty-nine per | cent. North Dakota has swung into line in national politics | indicating a trend away from radical action. Expression at the polls recently along state lines was not so definitely | on the side of conservatism, but there is a general feeling | that the state will not embark in an orgy of spending or 1 { | launching into new fields of socialistic endeavor. Both factions are well represented in the new regim at as- sumes control next month and the promise seems ‘toward economy. If taxes can be held down in all the political sub- divisions ; during the next twelve months, much money will be avail- | able for new enterprises. There will be more jobs for the | unemployed and more business for the merchant. The new} administration can set itself toward no more beneficial task in behalf of the public. ' Bismarck has reason to rejoice this Christmas for an excellent holiday trade. Different phases of the Community Christmas have been carried out efficiently and no one should; go without the necessities at this season who has made his | wants known through the proper channels. | Nor are all the benefits upon a material side. There is! un ever growing spirit of civic cooperation in matters that are of a lasting benefit to the city working through churches, | fraternal orders and the various civic bodies. When the need is shown, the Bismarck spirit asserts itself and the goal | is reached as has been demonstrated in the various drives and other municipal endeavors. The blessings of the year are too many to list in detail, but The Tribune wishes to extend to all its readers a Christ- mas of cheer and merriment. It a great state in which | we live and one of the best little cities in the world where | we have cast our lot. e | A Merry Christmas-to you all. EVIL DAYS FOR TURKEYS i If turkey is eaten in more than a tenth or even a twen-! tieth of the homes dealers will be surprised. The turkey is our national bird. It originated on the! American continent. For generations it was as inseparable | from Christmas as Santa Claus. But the turkey is Hest out—each year becoming scarcer. In 1900 there were about six and a half million turkeys on | the farms of our country. It’s doubtful if there are half a many now. Why the shrinkage? Is it a matter of price? That improbable, in a nation accustomed to go the limit, That cially to get what it wants. Anyway, the average commun- | ity can buy turkey at retail for only about a fourth or fifth ; more than the price of chickens or ducks. This difference | ig not apt to sway the buying of a porterhouse-instead-ot- round-steak nation. | The nation’s taste apparently has changed. Turkey meat | no longer is as alluring as in the old days. No other con-} clusion seems logical, for price must certainly be a second-! ary consideration. To an old-timer, this is difficult to comprehend. There is a charm and flavor about turkey that is all its own. Other! fowl have their place and season. But Christmas without | turkey is, to many of us, like Fourth of July without fire- Be crackers. i Maybe we had better change our Christmas picture—and instead of symbolizing the holidays by a farmer creeping up to a turkey with an ax behind his back, have a housewife frying a steak or opening a tin can of potted chicken. The great bird expert, Audubon, who died in 1851, wrote | in one of his books: “At the time when I removed to Ken-|, tucky, turkeys were so abundant that the price of one in! the market was not equal to that of a common barn fowl now. A first-class turkey, weighing from 25 to 30 pounds,! was considered well sold when. it brought a quarter of a dollar.” Possibly this is one of the reasons we call them “the good old days.” i After all, though, the turkey is in no danger of becoming extinct. One of these days the turkey growers will band to- gether and revive the national craving for their birds, by ; advertising—just as the sale of oranges, raisins and other products has been stimulated. The turkey, both individually and as an institution, surely is worth advertising. You recall that the elder John D. Rockefeller made his first money, when a small lad, by rais- in America this Christmas, poultry |: lin the world twi {mony is paid yearly in this count eu 1 In} Women, try to keep out of ja Mt. Vernon, dl Deu a woman in ATTEN TNs 2 Tee ~~ weer THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | | |LETTER FROM | MERS TOL BEATRICE -$' ME PRESCOTT am M; i 8 tite aind® cold those words see ar Lesli®; (few months gained 15 pounds. Fou LENO RHUC a oricdout filandeak One celiogl’ bogmanob unctliee an althe sume words spoken by diffe Chicago cigssroom, Their ents] people take on entirely differen should teach them not to play sof meanings. : rough. 1 When f say 1 am sorry it mean that I sorrow and sympathize Been a big yeur for Coolidge. Got} You with al! my heart. You re-elected and besides 4 man return-|been in my thoughts ever since I re ed a dime he lost. J Sally's letter. You have had much grief latel It would be interesting to know ifthe deaths of your father and sist the man who returned Coolidge’s lost} Perhaps the greatest grief of ull Franklin | Tal Ben didn't it's terrible. | outside my grief crept into my brain] Hollywood, my dear, is a home of} Booze is by far the most populur| condemned fow! have been. sneaked Wonder if there Santa Claus? {and finally T realized that the only} beauty. I used to think that one had | Christmas present in Gotham. Some| out of the freight depots and sold in : Tway to live on wa und climi- | to New York or Baltimore or! firms buy it in wholesale lots to pass |New York, reputable poultry dealers Vhiladelphia minister says we are] nate grief as seou as possible, This} Washington to see the most beautiful] out to patrons or employes. Except} report to the health commissioner. world’s most tinal nation, so; May sound very hard but it is the] exuberant youth on the globe. far berececdl priees (guar ie an ened: Farce maybe somebody got his umbrella or! only way. Right here on the Hollywood! to obtain in New York as it’ was] -{t just had to come sooner or later! methine! {Sally sent me some clippings from] Boulevard I have seen within three|etore the cighteenth amendment|1 saw her in a tea room in the up- ing that you and your| squares more beautiful girls and| way passed. nani Mottin’ It eta anuplackt: ond Phe phonograph .with a soul” i ere going to Atlantic City) handsome young men than I have) ore are fully 10,000 places in] gold and extended from her throat the new slogan ‘of one house. Hope for a little while and that after that] ever seen in all the other three places} yo) York he. Maes aed Belitedher waist Ven vee cit eee not. Because last night a neighbor, you might eome out here, That] put together. ; iene, Sihaes ay CAI co ereallamrsae Ginter Soper th told ours where to go te. {would be glorious and I am sure it} Beauty is one of the things thatl poctiegvers who have to place ef | her dress, would do you good. a safe! it out here in our sleepy little town Fostoria (O.) burglars ble Got only 12 pencils. An ‘of E + now thought that one must go on 1 the same old life, doing the things, even thinking the sam thoughts, when one’s heart i found this out mys dime is a retired Boy Scout. Bet he| the Ibi jing as {old Navy will spend 111 millions for 14! old jnew ships. Work will be rushed in! desolate, a mad effort to « e them before, 1 they are out of il lost my father and mother in that ‘automobile accident many years ago when a most resented though You would lov Hollywood. sorry—how| in me G s If, dear, when ¢| ROY | wife thi t not only @ and fish. tongues, it they t] ties. e The Tangle |trouble is that the world ‘ well people th them and every lip to lip, egerated e. ously caught and flung: out again. Most of the motion picture actors| actresses: privacy as Irvin Cobb's famous gold- I sometimes wonder if those who roll the go actors and themselv where everyone might see their. an- 3 to I expect that sentence will make even you smile. It is a sleepy old town, dear, not-| ithstanding everybody outside Angeles think aring gateway to hell. to h time it have just actr were the while about in a gl and all the| on the sereen. sted enough in them ad ‘but to gossip about | little bit of seandal E e| igs caught up blithely and flung from /\—h ; bh owing more and 1 i — is as ip of their favorite es under. would come out any better disporting lass must be the stock-in-trade of those who want to be seen on the sercen. ht, f4924, NEA Service, Inc.) WEDNESDAY,’ DECEMBER 24, 1924 A GLIMPSE OF FAIRYLAND By Albert / Apple Germany originated the Christmas tree. It is one of the few institutions that have endured through the cen- ituries. A Yuletide without a tree is like Easter without leggs. Yet numerous well-meaning organizations are up in arms against Christmas trees. { Five million of these trees are chopped down and dragged {irom the forests every year. And, it is argued, this is 2 perilous drain on our timber reserves — which are swiftly diminishing. i H. V. Berry, addressing a forestry conference, recently jadvocated a national law prohibiting the sale of Christmas { tree: He said: “It is poor practice to teach children to ‘have trees at Christmas, and to teach them to plant a tree | next year. You are allowing them to do what you are seek- ing to prevent.” Bosh! says the American Tree Association. It points ‘out that the five million Christmas trees used in America |this year coud be grown on an aera of 5000 acres or less. You have to multiply this by 2000 to reach the figure of 10 ‘million acres, which is the forest area of all trees chopped idown in a year. Christmas trees, obviously, form only a very small frac- ition of the total of forest depletion. | The association adds: “Correct cutting of trees for {Christmas use in most cases permits sturdier trees to attain er eater growth.” In other words, this thinning out is neces- ary. Ther, too, nature readily replaces the small trees. H Our forests are diminishing dangerously fast. We are {headed toward a timber famine, unless the cut-over acre- {age is replanted the. same as a. farmer replants his fields |for future crops. | But the solution of the forestry problem is not in stopping ithe cutting down of trees, for legitimate purposes. To the contrary, the solution is in planting plenty of new trees. As ; We need more, we should use more—and provide more by i reforestation. | We want trees to USE, not merely trees to look at. | There would be as much logic in prohibiting the use .of !lumber for building homes, as in prohibiting Christmas trees. | Life is more than dollars and cents, more even than natural jresources. Happiness is worth almost any price—and. noth- ing brings more joy to childhood than our five million Christmas trees a year. [Se IN NEW YORK of! it a The his more much quor made in stables and tenements will flow at Christmas time. New York, Dec. 24.—It's a merry, merry Christmas in New York, In the past three days ten men and wo- men have died from drinking poison- ed booze. In the first half of the month 26 died from the same cause. The number will increase rapidly during Yuletide. their ‘: Booze isn’t the only thing boot- legged in New York. There is an embargo against chickens from cer- tain states because of a disease epi- demic among the fowl, Many of the bow] business but deliver orders to cus- jtomers at offices and homes. This is inot just a wild guess. The state- Perhaps you've wondered how jewel thieves meet rich women, gain they can write home for mone: i Moise interne acm lon neat will be before we have to try to open street car windows. candlesticks are given! wk all the nuts, Enough every Christmas to tool A ‘slip Do you use she: They are dangerous. euttle a burg tied 4 man with one. \ = | Bride shot her husband at Falls. This is one way. you can tell, when the honeymoon is-over. ' he just went out Chris ; through the front door, and he is go-; Santa missed, give them some of man for himself. They scheme ange They ‘seek out the poor and Neves vous wife or make. ite to leave you presents, | your candy. jagainst euch other and are .guilty|help liberally. All is peace, happi- faces at hen Alimast $20.000,00) ali’, And he will leave hurriedly, for] Or let them play with your toys.jof meanness, even crimes, in a|néss, good fellowship.” “Lower Coal Prices Soon,” line, Why call six months “soon' him head- al The man who spends his life 1ook-! ing for the needle in the haystack may find it after it is rusty. his | girls. Building up a checkered career} wouldn't be so bad if you didn't al-| ways find it your move. +Copyright, 1924, A hap} m Servi vice, Inc.) | what Santa has left’ for you, ust be happy. It will be impossible for him to se, Santa Claus is coming to visit yo ight. fter you are sound down the chimney or and girls who are waiting fo to come. All year long he has bepn wai ing! for the time to pay you this visit. a home in the far-north he ha: , Worked day and night to have a al {filled pack of joy for litte boys and He knows that he will make yo And tomorrow, when you see) And when you grow to be a great big you| min Santa will bring you joy py. asleep he will maybe| everything you have wished for, will leave you everything that he can. | He must save something for the ‘other little girls and boys. jJimmy Thompson must have « sled! Most of the whisky sold around fown and Mary O'Toole would ery if she | didn’t get a big doll to play with, | So tomorrow when you go out to} uw) C | will have. | play, yu. r s aving For their | others. remember jhas been very good to you, and if| that great amounts. of poisoned’ ti- a see a little girl org boy whom! = that Sar remembered to i | | A CHRISTMAS EVE BED-TIME STORY | ristmas without the happiness you Even though he may not bring you nta, he must see all the millions of little) For if you do Santa will like: you. boys help pread Christmas happiness, Santa loves those who {ment is based on observation. You cun find bootleggers in all walks of life here. Many of them are druggists, delicatessen _‘mer- {chants, apartment house -superinten- dents and cufe proprietors, One mun is known as the “Tiffany of Bootleggers.” He handles only the very best of imported liquors and’ , Wines. He lives on Riverside Driv Most of his patrons are milifonaines. Little; He gets $15 a quart for whisky. their good graces and find the op- portunity for their crooked work. I am told that a fashionable millinery shop in the Fifties is the agency for many introductions between the un- derworld and idle wives of the rich. A woman of means visits the shop to buy a hat, Upon a subsequent vis- Hit'e clerk casually remarks that she knows a man “who is just crazy” about the lady. The lady's interest in inttigued, Later the milliner’s clerk introduces the man and the Indy. The man usually is. a hand- some fellow, fastidiously attired. and well qualified to meet his victim on her own footing. The rest is easy. --JAMES W..DEAN. he und supposed to be the “reul, stuff” sells at $6 a quart, With such an active trade’in booze Claus; the year around it is to be éxpected i ‘struggle to get more wealth than jthey need. Life on earth is a hard itight, wearisome, disappointing.- ‘Phe carthlings are not yet. sufficiently jeiviltzed to retlize that they would al! be richer and happier ror sero erating--by helping instead pesing euch other. The plate ae, that in u world of plenty there are | ;millions of! unfortunates who ‘have ‘only the bare necessities of life. En, vies and jealousies’ are rife. Jt must be a wretched Pines. to ivés, The phantom explorer paused and eyed his bewildered listeners. “The remarkable part of Christ- mag; on: earth,” said he, “is that the aafthlings' realize Christmas is the happiest day. of the year by reason of ‘this’ Christmas spirit. It seems not-to occur to them that all other days could be as happy if the Christ- mas spirit were in force all the time instead of just one day u year. the ‘haps, later when ‘they sce 1 light; every day will be like Ch ‘True . happiness, is. in uns: ess, liberality and helping ,oth- for him mas, The Martiuns sent theirphantim love explorer baek to earth. He arrived every little boy und girl and ther er will he some, who, will! pase | A Thought { ia age tl ol? ‘The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can ren- der a reason.—Prov, 26:16. | s to nature what paint is} is not only needless, an ifs mate nes improve. impa, Pope.’ Se peer a | A Christmas BY ALBERT APPLE A phantom man from Mars, ex-| loring in’ ancuiapiane, visited our |The ea: rth, He landed ay ulght int Leavin, reat ¢! | visib’ ‘a Selfish, and mingled among the people. Now, this man from Mars’ had a magical power of making himself in- clearing at the center of a forest. ; his plane, he set forth to a for So no one saw him. Bee HH Returning to Mars, he reported: id me as EVENING Gown Brown late and brown chiffon, re- lieved with gold or with a touch of brilliant orange, makes a very smart evening yown. An’ airplane ambulance service has been established for the benefit of the: war¥era in, the isolated diamond re fields of British GuingssSeesemeger TT jon Christmas Eve, spent a few days and returned home waxed: This time he reported: “The earthlings hava a “most ex- |traordinary| festival known as Christmas. On this day, every one is generous, kind, happy. is the lonly day in the year when the goal of the earthlings is to give instead ig to get. With thrills of pleasure every they bestow gifts on. their days | loved