The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1924, Page 2

ae of of B li B tr th te Se PAGE TWO THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE| Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N.D,, as Second Class | Matter. BISMARGK, ye CO. - - - Publishers! i a Representatives j G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - - - + - DETROIT | Marquette Bldg. Kresge 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 republicution of all news dispatches credited to it or not | otherwise entitled in this paper and also the local news pub- | fished herein. All right Iso res orve MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCU IN ADVANCE LST2 | of republication of special dispatches herein | | Daily by mail, per year in (in Bismarck)...... Daily by mail, pe’ (in state outside Bismarck) . Daily by m f North Dake THE LONELY TROT | y, power in the Rus: only to Lenine and perhaps the gr | towether the Soviet forces in the early days of the revolu- tion, must know that glory is fleeting. He is pictured | | | jan revolution, second est power in holding Leon Trotzl broken in health and spirits and living in seclusion at a Russian resort while his opponents hurl invectives at him without merey in Moscow. Trotzky once was in America. a tailor on the New York East Side. At night he lectured on socialism and communism, and told of the bright da of the future when the revolution would come in Russia. lle returned to Russia and with Lenine engineered the over- throw of the Kerensky government for the dictatorship of the proletariat. Lenine the diplomat, schemer, plotter ; Trotzky, the man of action. The latter took charge of the army, and built a strong force, every ready to mercilessly enforce the dictates of the revolutionary powers. Lenine died after he had been forced to abandon his plan for complete Communism in favor of “the new economic policy” under which private business was restored. He was { forced to this only because of the complete breakdown of | the Soviet administration. Trotzky preserved order with Lenine, armies won victories and kept the crowds in line at home. Now he is a victim of the une ng current of unrest in Russia, born of failure of Communism to bring the Utopia the peasants expected. | The position of the Soviet regime grows more difficult. It is supreme in that it can crush disorder and hold power. It is in dire straights in that it has not been able to make the policies of Communism function with success. Trotzky is a victim of the monstrosity he helped to create. | COST OF PAVEMENT The fact that the proposed paving of the National Parks Highway from Main street to a point beyond the peniten- tiary grounds is to cost some $40,000 more than a strip of paving an equal distance between Mandan and the bridge just laid by Morton county should cull for some explanation. While a hard surface road eliminating grade crossings to the east of the city is a welcomed improvement, why such an additional cos The proposed paving of the highway known popularly as the “pen road” covers a mileage practically that of the Mandan pike from the west end of the bridge to the streets of Mandan. What appears a most excellent job was done at $40,006 less than it is proposed to spend east of this city. Whether the state highway commission, the bureau of public roads or the railroads will participate in a project that means such an increased cost remains to be seen. It would seem that the same specifications as were fol- lowed in Morton county could be applied to the proposed Burleigh county project and a satisfactory highway result. If there is some pressing need of paying $40,000 more for pavement on this side of the river than on the other, the members of the highway commission should give the reason, The county commissioners would be hardly justified in spending more money than Morton county did on a like distance of hard surface road. The vote on the new court house indicated that the t: payers of Burleigh county don’t want to pay for frills and promotion. EW LABOR CHIEF William Green, secretary and treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, assumes the presidency of the American Federation of Labor. Closely associated with Mr. Gompers, the work of the federation will go along smoothly under his direction until the next general election. Representing the largest single group of delegates in the federation the chances of Mr. Green succeeding himself seem bright although contingencies may arise that will force him to give way to someone else. Mr. Green is not a radical. He voted to eject Dunne from the Portland convention in 1928. Opponent of the “one big union” idea, he fought any alignment with the Moscow International. His voice more recently was raised against labor going into the insurance business: as it has invaded the field of banking. He favors social legislation aimed at better working con- ditions and is the author of the Ohio Workman’s Compensa- tion law. On the whole Mr. Green seems a worthy succes- sor to Mr. Gompers. Z MULTIPLICITY LAWS More than 14,000 new laws have been proposed in the present Congress. A bill is introduced every four minutes, on, the average, while Congress is in session. Few of them are expected to get beyond a pigeonhole, of course. They merely make good on politicians’ promises to advocate certain measures. But, passed or unpassed, they reflect the national tendency to seek a new law as fast as a new problem develops. It’s a delusion, the notion that law is a magical solution. Most of our problems are beyond the reach of laws. } PRICES .. Wholesale prices are moving up. In November, accord- ing to Dun’s organization, there was an advance of more than two cents on the dollar. A higher cost of living is the price of a full wallet. For most people, the value of the dollar (its buying power) | shrinks as fast as their.income gains. ‘ RUSSIAN BEAR : Russia claims she is disarming. Says her army and navy have been reduced by 48,000 recently, which brings their membership down to not much over 550,000. be 1925 outlook is*fdirly peaceful along the Russian frontier.. The Reds have found that propaganda is more effective than bullets. rege series sek. en And he hurls him| headlong from the haunts of the | Muses together with the painted, He is said to have been |, Editorial Review Cominents reproduced th column may or may not ex; the vpinion of The Tribune, are pres this press They ed here in order that cur Teaders inay hi both slides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the da 1 aati nena 4 TRAL ( nes) Refuting ction, the West h ncountered difficulty in| making culture hum. From the Un versity of Michigan, Professor R. C.! Anyell laments that “eollege no} long ly a place for those who, wish e cultured.” But his woe i plaintive idyll compure to the gloom which eman: from t rsity of Minnes Through th of The Ameri Mereury, R d Burton asks Why | Go to Colle d finds no answ furton is for a proce exclusion. His heart is yainst the “gentlen victuresque, — butterf! That was to be e Professor of wholesale ned , the poler, the swatter- ies, the genus is the same.” | ithful plodder, monster | chine-like assiduity,” he de-| 1 monu p- sa ty nor © or worse calibre | personality and| h translate ing into gen fluttering butterfly. One wonders just who will be left The answer brings the tragic turtain fifth act. On the one hand Professor Burton excludes the young men of family and breeding who “take college as a matter of course because their predecessors did,” ad on the other he is even more down upon “those who go to college, not because their parents did, but , be- cause they did not.” Thus nobody remains but the Faculty, For such n institution, solely cultural, there; exists a happy precedent. All Souls’ College at Oxford is inhabited only by dons, except that they have four or five “scholars” —und aduates who do the chapel busin for them, It may seem to be a self-limited par- adise, doomed to extinction. But there are nineteen other colleges, swarming with sharks and swatte: with gentlemen butterflies and youths whose forebears went to col- lege or did not, from whose no cultural dons of All Soal are derived by-product, | Frou Professor Angell’s outgiving | one surmises that college was once a| place where young men were not at all interested in things “external,” i sted in everything} college life were eagerly embraced, while the “forms of achievement” now “coveted” were piou: scorned, namel: ces on athletic teams, editor udent publigations and presidencies of student organ?- tions.” That being the ¢ w: no possibility of the “ ship” of athletes, edito: dents which Professor Angell ‘so sternly deprecates. One wonders, what Carlyle would say—or Matt- hew Arnold, who described Oxford so lovingly nt of young barbarian Would they ave exclude activities most warmly human, nativ in young nd dynamic Surely ther thing to for the conception of culture, of which er Burton! seornful, sort of conta you get it by being exposed in fine, such a thing as “solely cultural,” a sort of d Mary of the Muses? Or is an overtone, a fine essence of other things—of personality and in- itiative und creative energy in any of the great fields of human endea- vor? Few men have ever been highly praised for their culture, even col- lege professors, unless they were first praised for something else. | ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON THE GOBLIN DOES MORE MIS- CHIEF “Oh, dear me!” chuckled Snitcher Snatch, the goblin. “What a good time I am going to have with the children’s toys, now that Christmas is over. Let’s see! Where shall I go first?” He sat down on the edge of a chimney, his knees under his chin, and thought and thought. “I know!” he cried with u wag of his head. “I'l go to the Reilly’s, They have about a dozen children and there will be no end of things to smash.” So off he scampered over back- yards and fences until he came to the Reilly’s, and then he slipped in at the kitchen door when the grocery boy came. ! He sneaked up to the nursery and stuck his head in, ‘There was nobody there. Nobody except the toys, Miss Tootsie Bobb, with the latest shingle cut on her brown yarn hair and gra: reen eyes embroidered on her jersey skin, She was gaz into her tea cup, and sitting very informally on a doll trunk, having tea with Daddy Long Legs, a cotton gentleman whose width was dut of all proportion to his height. Indeed, Daddy might be said to be three dolls long and half a doll wide, Daddy, in order to get his entire length off the floor, was installed in a high chair, Evidently his thoughts were not on food, for he was bent far back, staring straight up at the ceiling. These two were the only people in the room when Snitcher Snatch poked his head in. “Ah, ha!” grinned the goblin. “I am now going to have one merry, time.” “ And he looked around at al the other toys—trains, tracks, aero. planes, musie-boxes, blocks, horns, doll bureaus and books. Suddenly he had an idea, ipal purposes” of | , b THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Eggs Make Bad Hatching Bad | into the seat of the ueroplane that] dangled from the ceiling Daddy was much too senger, but by hanging h and feet down like a clothes line, he stuck on p 1 Then the bad little goblin wound up the engine with a key and gave it a push, . Round the room started the aero- plane with Daddy. Every minute it went faster and higher until it al most touched the ceiling, Daddy Long Legs could no longer. Out he flew, and ing he knocked over Miss a Bobb, who fell onto the hearth and| inst a hot coal. | Daddy Long ag: Legs fell on the| arth, too, his long cotton legs and} his long cotton arms sprawling in every direction like the fingers of a1 old glove. = ghtly, r wi the chi the Twin * | They were just in time to reseuc| the poor thin but not quick) enough to catch Snitcher Snatch, who ju ed out of the window, i Ja-la-la-la-la!” he sang as he| and Miss Tootsie lowly singing, whe came Juhuny Sweep and Bobb’: down | ne went. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) wae. Despondent Atlanta (Ga.) man swallowed a glass of kerosene, so the antidote was to keep away from fire. Bad Paris news: Big fog stopped traffic, Maybe it was so thick you couldn't see what you were drinki Virginia legislator weighs 425 pounds, perhaps in answer to the call for bigger men in state politics. They think a Richmon(l (Va.) who shot his wife is crazy. If could cook and didn’t spend much, he is, Grasshoppers are increasing year- ly in Texas, so what Texas need is more streams for fishing pur- poses, American investments abroad} amount to ten billions now. Why,| that would be enough money for a man in love, Here and there you read of plans| for more happiness in the world,! yet we only use a small part of what's already here. Chicago woman shot herself he- cause hubby wanted her to” play bridge. We extend our sympathy. St. Louis news is good. Man threw a plate at a waiter. While a little rash, this will keep one awake. Our stand on the farm question | is that culture should not be placed ahead of agriculture. It is not against the law to think your neighbors are awful, but it i an awful waste of time. The coal situation, according to a official report, is very good now, but we don’t know who for, (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) o——_-_________« | A Thought | | ee rasa...) A Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fepl i of him.—Prov. 26:127 \: elieves himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is wort Goethe, A man on his way to execution in “TM give Daddy Long Legs a ride!” he cried, and seizing the long’ cotton gentleman, he stuffed him His coat tails had stgrted to burn | © ean \ ves ss = : The Tangle LETTER FROM Leslie, Known either life. I told b in «bit has no p any tit questions hen she added “Oh, I hope it will be he ked me so ake it as she m send you some little coming baby. - ful Iam to Madame L “for what she did for home town of Albany, taken me up I am of the snobbish s BEATRICE d to come one’s great mission on} I see a great deal of Paula P. ho has just built and furnish never known her ished me hd could a one she has adopted? as © t it if she should “No one will ever know how gra afraid that some SUM- dame Leslie, whom all PR 0 set followe came forwa ED my ste out | 1, , only 1 know how was ove we of one of our mutual fr ct that her love M tid was, “If ive a boy of ‘one does: girl” if you would Arthur C. Scott, present to the|M arriage by Rev. H. ,| manse. Mr, and Mrs If she had not | friends knew of y women who) dvi ap- with his inn., and the ‘ott has been at were riend just gone on the rock: is dead now Ashburner were They will spend the holidays relatives the younger | M rd and made have much I here when I married Dick, I never} &. ta : » wife of John{the next day the old boys got to-|the Weathér” is the sign that pr thought I would like these childish | 40" Which to thank the wife of Johny i Oh ep culnboudties aed ie- | china dleermwesiitton Gian. Lschy | ly gay people. It ed to me that] “ : : _., |ported themselves generally in the |of winter weather has brought about they were without any responsibility.) | | expect that was her French wavy] y,cnner of the college frat man, very substantial losses by all New Career however, 1] Heslie dear, of expressing herself. |" “Members belong to most of the|York merchants depending. on the think IT have learned that to be as|_ She is a most interesting eraals clubs in town, but form new|cold for trade. This is probably h s inbaal MGM Nd Mek tray Nan and 1 get a lot of “kick”, 2 in, the various groups of|the worst: season the local coal men n thi 1 old world will} CS WOR) ROU USS GEE rollers, ever have had. t night when she talking who: new home, We talk a great] said: “I don’t think that Ail bout you, should be sod ely unhappy You completely captivated her] sie was deliriously in love for a when she made herp appear-| feast a Why can she not re. wnice in your city tnini , instead’ of bem are “the lovel he has ever ion or in real t that you o inter | red that when we Usually sh from where we can for gossip nt right perspretive orrow are but inci MANDAN NEWS | ASHBURNER-SCOTT et er of the state training s ary-treasur- hool ui ited H, Owen at rriag 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Scott left immediate- ly after the ceremony before any of the event. and at 8. twin cities. ing the trai CONCERN 1 AND THEN SAY, WAT Arabia is safe from punishment if he can lay hands on the skirts of a woman, f BY CONDO — AND WHGN TL TOOK HOLD OF THS ov Dp INMGPIATELY REORGANIZED IT, KINS, HOW MANY Hours DO ‘You SLEEP CUT OF THS TWENTY> Four % =) On, ABOUT - oN EIGHT HOURS. = : aiid ——— Fre ; xT .feral Bullard FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1924 TEN THOUSAND MURDERS A Y EAR! Lay By Albert Apple eee eee eee ee ae eee eee = aa SEEaESEEEEEEEEEICEEEERAm ee i Sears, Roebuck & Co. stops. selling pistols by mail, Butler Bros., another big mail order house, recently an. {nounced the same ban. % {American police will have less work when all mail order houses discontinue the sale of pistols by mail, either. volun- | tarily or under compulsion of a national law. ‘ | Uncle Sam undoubtedly has the power to end this traffic in death-dealing weapons by interstate:-commerce, | | | {At Jeast 10,000 murders a year are committedih ‘the | United States. That is the known number, according to police statistics. There must be thousands of unknown killings, where the victims are never discovered. By far a majority of murders are done with pistols. You | read often of pistol murders. You read only o {a human life taken by blade, club or poison. To stop the shooting, shut off their pistol supply. It is sometimes argued that, even if revolvers could not’ be bought in the open market, crooks would be able to buy pistols under cover. That is true, to some extent. But the supply would be smaller. In most states and cities, revolvers can be purchased only by police permit or by registration. Effectiveness of this regulation is lessened by mail order sale. An argument frequently advaneed against stopping the sale of revolvers, is that the law-abiding householder would be defenseless against intruders. The answer to this is that the householder can arm himself with rifle or sawed-off shot- gun, which cannot be carried through streets by crooks with- j out detection, A pistol is a constant temptation to the lawless and weak- | minded. The national government should prohibit sale of pistols by mail. It can be done. It should be done. | IN NEW YORK - | New York, Dec. 26.—The Strollers | diy their own bait. Most of them * Club has taken a new lease on life.| would not know where to dig for jay gone by, of New] worms, or what kind to take when leaders in art, sport, society | they found them. Along the Long ce belonged to this club. | {sland railroad stations in the neigh- y Depew and John Drew]|borhood of Jamaica ~Bay are to be Jused to engage in a battle of wits|seen many signs advertising worms 1 along would come Theodore|for sale. Others dig bait for the sevelt’ with some humor-laden| tackle stores who retail them to remark and vanquish Them both. patrons, Very comfortable livings The first cabaret in New York was|are earned by he worm diggers, introduced by the Strollers, when|some of them making as high as $30 May Irwin and Marie Dressler en-|a day.with the aid of their children. jtertained at club supper They own ‘radios, yachts and autos. At the reorganization supper Gen- wee d Admiral Fiske and others spoke on serious subjects, but sionally of » A mercant on Seventh avenue is selling out his stock. “Tricked One of the most unusual occupa- tions to be found in New York is jthat of worm-dig Hundreds of folk go fishing on Sundays and urdays. They haven't time to Howard Chandler Christy, the ar- now paints to radio accompani- it, or so the story goes on Broad- ~JAMES FABLES ON HEALTE— WHOOPING COUGH cough is a malady likely hildren during the win- was the cuse with one ters, W. DEAN. Whoopin to visit the ter period of the Jone: | Of cour: face and his side. Cold water may be dashed in the child's face and mustard packs placed against the feet. A piece of ive placed upon the should be call-| stomach has been known to furnish ed, but the event that a doctor is} relief. - not immediately available and the When the weather is mild see that child should be ed with a paro-| the child gets out of doors as much xysm of coughing try thi Raise the child's urms high above the head. Bring them down and press them against the chest. Or turn the child alternately. upon his as possible. Fresh air is a fine tonic, but be sure the child is well: wrap- ped. It is well to fumigate the room in which the child has slept. school offices since 1920 and the bride been teaching high school classes since 1922 and both have made a host of friends. They wil make their home at the schodl upon } their return, organization of a new school district from’ territory previously embraced | within a school rict lying within wo or more adjoining counties rust ue presented for concurrent action to the boards of county commission- ers and county superintendents of the counties within which such ony ginal district was embraced, Appeal from the District Court of DECISION OF SUPREME COURT From Benson County The State of North Dakota, ex rel F. W. Bowman, the Clerk of Riggin| Benson County, Hon. C. W. Buttz, School District No. 4, a public cor- |Judge. poration of Benson County, North| Affirmed. Opinion of the Court Dakota, et al, Respondents, vs. Even Laman, et al, as the Board of County Commissioners of Benson County, a public (corporation, Appellants. Syllabus: Under Chapter’ 197 of the Session Laws of 1919, amending Section 1147 of the Compiled Laws of 1913, a petition proposing the THE SNOWBIRD . (Florence Borner) by. Birdzell, J. Christianson, J. dis- sents, Cuthbert & Adamson, Devils Lake, Attorneys for Appellants. Sinness, Duffy & Wheeler, Devils Lake, Attorneys for Respondents. READ TRIBUNE WANT ADDS. | There’s a spry llttle fellow out there in ithe snow, Who comes to myhome every day, No matter how loudly the angry winds blow, » They never can dtiye him away; y He picks up-thesicrpmbs that I throw on the ground, And his neighbors:all answer his call, As they hunry tagee what it is he has found, For they know he will share with them all, He is not so handsome as gome of the birds, That come with the birth of the spring, Ana his voice is not cuitured to chirp in the words, That gladden each heart as they sing; . But ‘he thas a system to cheer all his own, And his bright little face makes us glad, As he’ flutters each;day round the doors of our home, What soul. could ‘pe cheerless and sad With his ‘Chick @ dee dee,’ how he warms up our hearts, The cold has no terrors for him, With a’nod of hig head! as true firiendsitp imparte, Till his form in the distance grows dim; How we save up the crumbs for his coming each day, And then wait till he's hoving in sight, For with many companions so boistrous and gay, He is happy from morning till night. maura j He’s a smart little fellow, this Snowbird of note, 3 With his suit of a deep bluish gray, And a little white vest buttoned tight ‘round. his throat, So he cannot catei cold on his way; i He is joy and glad when the sun’s shining bright, ~ And he chatters away in the storm, He is/singing and dancing, his heart is so light, And he never comes‘ in Where it’s warm. i Little Snowbird, a lesson to me you, have taught, And something to me you have given: Thru storm and thru sunshine Barth’s tasks must be wrought, 4, If we'd merit the raptures-of Heaven; No day must go past. but some good has theen done, f No night pass ‘but: Hope shows the way, ‘To battle along with the lilt of a song, ; i Little Snowbird as you do this day, i v ely ‘ ’ i } | '