The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 30, 1924, Page 2

ewegezaro re swe ee e<mos Senses wone wae ges5 2 vee roe we _ @- Human effort eventually may be confined chiefly to manu- PAGE TWO THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Ontered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Publishers | CHICAGO 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 news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise entitled in this paper and also the local news pub- shed 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 «$7.20 Daily by mail, per year in (in Bismarck)............. 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) . 5.00, Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota. 6.00 ‘THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873 DETROIT Kresge Bldg. REVISION OF SCHOOL SYSTEM The surest conclusion drawn by the edu mission named by the last legislature to investigate the | stem of the state and make recommendations for the forthcoming session of the legislature is that proper | education is a matter of opinion in a world of progress; that | educators cannot agree upon the best method of preparing | boys and girls for the whirl of life, but that whether the | present system is right or wrong it is very costly to the ; taxpayers. The commission sees the danger of that point being | reached where the necessities of the system of education | will snap the ability of the people to provide for it. Progress | has been made in education, the commission found, but it believes there still is room for progress. The commission rightly asks careful consideration of the | ussertions made in some quarters that too much time is spent on non-essentials in education. An effort has been made’ to make school life, particularly high school life, at- tractive enough to retain the students interest during the four year course, and in so doing there is a hint on the part of the commission that school life has been made more | interesting than instructive. A list of fundamentals for every high school course is suggested. matics, history, economics, botany or zoology, chemistry and Latin taught, and perhaps a few elective subjects. Bet- ter a student be taught to think, his mind developed through | a few subjects which require study than to acquire a smat- tering of many subjects. And rightly so. Unless the high school can develop in the student a thirst for further educa- tion, whether it be gained in higher institutions of learn- ing, reading or observation, it will not have accomplished all that it might. There is solid sense in the commission’s suggestion that local rural school bodrds cooperative in business affairs of the schools. Consolidation in sparsely settled districts, it is pointed out, has been carried to a point where the ex- penditure is too great for the results obtained. The com- mission pointy to Iowa, where consolidated schools have been greatly restricted in the last few years. But a realign- ment of school districts, in accord with the population, is pointed out as a necessary step if economy in school oper- ation is to be obtaine The school commission’s report is not as definite in all its recommendations as might be expected. But if it causes smembers of the legislature, educators and citizens to join in a careful consideration of the whole school question it will have been worth while. tional com- | SPENDERS Prosperity is here. The American people are spending ag much money as during the war boom. Anyone who doubts it has only to look at the total of checks passing through the banks’ clearing houses. These are running around 40,000 million dollars a month. Comparing with before the war, you find almost three times as much being spent now. The increase is due to higher prices and to higher standard of living—the buying of a greater number of things by the average person. OUR NEIGHBOR Politically Canada is British. Industrially and commer- cially she becomes more American. Trade is welding us with this country to the north. Nearly a sixth of our ex- ports go to Canada. And two-fifths of her exports are sold to us. Business men should realize that Canada will increasingly be a larger market for us. Her consumers will multiply swiftly, including desirable immigrant stock that will flock into Canada by the millions. She has plenty of room for them—a larger area than continental United States. OIL Ours is the promised land. Typical is the estimate that more than seven-tenths of the world’s oil is produced in the United States. We lead in natural resources, in production, in prosperity. ‘ For all this, there is a reason. There must be. We are guardiang or trustees of the lion’s share of the world’s wealth, and our leadership is assured far into the future. European civilization is in process of what may be perma- nent decay.. America rises—as Rome, Spain and many an- ‘other rose in the past. IGNORANCE AND POVERTY Philanthropists gave 130 million dollars to education and health in 1924. _ These gifts eventually will make the average person more prosperous, according to the elder John D. Rockefeller’s theory. He believes that poverity is the result of ignorance and disease and that, with these two causes removed, poverty will vanish. It is a plausible idea, though a lot of near- poverty is due to excessive prosperity of others. There is just so much to “go round,” no more. CLAIMS RECORD . Christopher Hull, an Englishman, claims a world’s record by laying 809 bricks in an hour. Five hundred a day is con- sidered fair speed. The electric brick-laying machine puts even Hull in the shade. It lays 1200 bricks an hour, doing the work of 20 masons. : * This electric machine comes after 8000 years in which bricks were laid by hand. A machine now displaces human skill, and itis claimed, even does a better job. way almost an The commission would have English, mathe- | 1 Editorial Review i Comments reprodttced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. Thy 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. ‘VOUGH ON THE OLLEYS (Lowell Courier-Citizen) | I have been wondering how | much this prevalent habit among | motorists of picking up passengers | and carrying them is costing the} street railways. Jt must nrount in- ‘to ustonishing figures if only the total could be discov In the} endeavor to arrive at even a guess 1 have taken my own experience and italized it at 10 cents per | ride. It is wil a guess, but I must average more than one passenger a day the year around. ‘There have | been days when I have picked up! six persons waiting for the street car and brought them down into ‘There have been many n I give two or three or four a And there are days, of course, when no one gets a lift But suppose the average i; day tor 365 days in the y that case I cost the s 50 a year at 10 six cents I cost the street rail- n $20. Multiply my experience with that of many others and you will begin to realize why it is that the street railways are having such! financial hard sledding. If there are one thousand motorists dupli- cating my a ge, we ure costing the railway at least $20,000 a year. Incidentally, we are picking up passengers whose icentity we do not know, but who pleadingly ask us to give them a lift from point to point long distances apart. Otherwise these persons would be buying street car rides. We our- selves, who drive cars, are no longer anything but convenience riders on the street cars. If the snow is too deep or it is too cold for our motoring we adopt the street car. Otherwise we drive down town in our own machine and give half a dozen other pros- pective trolley payers a like chance. It is costing the street car companies a great deal of money and there is no help for it, j:0 far as we can see. But what are you going to do, if your neighbors are standing on the corner waiting for the street car? Are you going to wave merrily at them and pass on, leaving them to their fate and to the street cars? Hardly. The friendly thing to do is to pick up your passengers and hasten along with them. There e times when I have done this right under the nose and the open door of the patient trolley car and its operator. It superinduces “that guiltiest feeling,” but if I should ‘let my friends get on the car, I should feel worse. It is not that the dime for the fare counts with either the passenger or myself, but it certainly counts with the street railway. There are motorists, I am told, who do not pick up passengers, and who will avoid the necessity of do- ing it if they can. I confess I do not understand this attitude unless one ‘happens to ‘be in a great hurry ‘and every second counts. It is true, however, that this habit of motorless people, in demanding an invitation to ride with you is ecially pleasant. I do not al- | Ways accept their pointed request. Often I do. It depends on circum- stances. Those boys who swim in e Mystic lake, for instance, I habitually carry back and forth, because I know they must get a ride or suffer the long walk that would be inevitable. Now and then I take in a lone man who looks respectable and carry him along with me, because he is up against his own difficulties of mak- ing progress in the direction he wishes to go. 1 find that all such are uniformly grateful, just as I should be under their cireum- stances, But all this is costing the street railways and the steam roads much revenue and it looks to me as if, in time it would make street cars at least quit their job of serv- ing the publ two a ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON THE GOBLIN HIDES IN BED “Shi!” whispered Nancy. “There isn’t anybody’ here but a little bit of an old lady in bed. She's sound asleep, so don’t wake her up.” Nick and Johnny Sweep walked over and had a good look, “I won- der where Snitcher Snatch is!” said Johnny Sweep. “I was perfectly sure I saw him come down this chim- ney and there’s no place else for it to go but right into this room.” “Maybe he’s somewhere else in the house,” said Nick. “Maybe,” said Johnny Sweep wise- ly, “and maybe not.” Now the little old lady in bed was really Snitcher Snatch, the bad little goblin, who had dressed himself all up, He had put a lot of powder on his nose, too. Suddenly some of the powder got up his nose and he went achoo! achoo! so hard that his glasses would certainly have jumped off if he had not made a grab for them with both hands. After that he couldn’t even pre- tend to be asleep. “Oh!” said Johnny Sweep. \ “Do excuse us, please, for being in your room. We are looking for a goblin by the name of Snitcher Snatch. Did you see him?” “Please excuse me for staying in bed,” begged Snitcher Snatch with- out answering Johnny’s question. “But you see I usually rest at this time every day.” “What your—er—goblin look ike?” he asked. “Well,” said Johnny Sweep. “He had a long nose—about as long as THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE aN ie AS MANY say,” said Johnny Sweep. “Without the glasses,” “Oh, dear!” said Snitcher Snatch | squirming. “Isn’t it strange that a horrible goblin looks so much like me.” “He isn’t horrible!” said Naney. “He’s just full of mischief.” “Oh, dear!” said Snitcher Snatch. “That's better. Much better!” “Why should you care so much?” asked Nick. “I don’t care,” said Snitcher Snatch. “A goblin more or less is nothing to me. And what was his complexion like?” “Just about like yours, too,” said Johnny Sweep looking at the open| rouge pot on the dressing table. “Only not quite so red.” “And what was his hair like?” “Well,” said Johnny, “not a like yours.” At that Snitcher Snatch sneezed again. And his hair flew off and his glasses flew off before he could catch them. There was no use pretending any longer. He made one spring over the foot of the bed and bounced up the chim- ney before the Twins could get their breath, bit ‘ (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Texas news today. Arrested a man dressed as a golfer in Fort Worth, but, sorry to say, not because of it. Women mustn’t smoke in the De- troit Athletic Club, so now where there’s smoke there are men. They caught a man setting apart- ment houses on fire in New York; probably a reformed janitor. Charged with extortion, a Chester, Pa., man was charged with electric- ity as he reached for the ransom money. In Troy, O., the will of Mrs. Hon- eyman has been set aside because she wasn’t sweet to her kinfolk, _ Since income tax lists are pub- lished, no doubt some will pay too much next time just as a bluff. In Toledo, 0., a bear attacked four prohibition agents, We hate to, but we must say there was something bruin. New York man whipped his wife because she smoked his pipe, and we'll bet she wasn’t feeling well either. Christmas brought many electrical gifts. They can do everything by electricity now, except pay bills. No one ever became a star merely by staying out at night. Watch where you place your con- fidence or you will lose it all. So many things happen these days a plan to make the days a few hours longer is needed. We got some underwear for Christmas. It was timely.’ Our bathing suit was just about worn out. There are around six million illit- erates in the United States, which is ignorance on the part of their friends, (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) OVERCOATS IN TROPICS London, Dec. 30.—A consignment of overcoats sent from London to Un- iontown, Scotland, strayed down to Uniontown, South Africa, where baf- fled postal authorities distributed yours, I should say.” facturing machinery and operating it, even in agriculture. very wonderful about nature. : ‘A bald man with wiré-like whiskers can’t see anything |, “Oh, dear!” said the little old lady, T mean said the goblin, “How hand- some he must be! And what were is eyes like?” ( tives. ni e Baume ay" yours, Tahobta | 160 them for a nominal fee to the na Joseph Aspdin, an English stone- on, invented Portland . cement. years ago. HA: IN Kin’ ALMOST AS You ARE. 'self off the steel pier tonight if I “Rivals” FOLKS _AOW Sera sal : The Tangle ::- LETTER FROM RUTH BURKE TO WALTER BURKE Dear Man of Mine: I am smiling} to myself as I write “Dear Man of Mine” for I never thought that Ij would ever want any nian to be mine again, and now my whole being thrills when I think of you, dear, as my man, Isn’t it strange that a person can come into one’s life and in a very little time make himself so indis- pensable that when he goes away for ever so short a while one is dis- consolate. Dear, I am g0 lonely that this gay city by the sea seems a howling wil- derness in which I am lost and all the while calling, calling for you. I did not think it possible, dear heart, that your absence could pos- sibly make such a difference in my life. Although it may make you more conceited than any man should be, T can not resist telling you that I think I would go out and throw my- knew you were not coming back to me. I would not want to live with: out you. I do not think I could live without you. If someone had told me a few months ago that you or anyone else in all this world could have possibly made himself a part of me as you have, dear one, I would have thought he were crazy. It is so wonderful to know that somewhere in this world tonight there is a man who is thinking of me, wishing for me, as I am thinking and wishing for him. I feel your kisses, dearest. your caressing voice. I see your lovelit eyes—oh, what is the use! I am an old married woman and pro- bably you, my husband, will think that it is foolish to write you such rapsodistical thoughts as I have just put down here. I hear VICTIMS A FIGHTING CHANCE For THEIR I do not care whatever you think NEBBE So - AT LEAST, GIVE NY of it. Iam going to send it anyway, for lover mine, I believe I have been al ize what a great—what a miraculous thing it is to be able to love anyone as I love you, In all the books, in all the drama, in all the poetry one reads of the pain of loving and the joy of being loved. Dearest, I have proven to myself at least that to really love, love un- selfishly, loyally, faithfully and stfully is the greatest bliss on this earth, Of course, I am unspeakably happy in the knowledge that you love me but more—even more than that—I am filled with the joy that I did not know was.of this earth because I have found that in my frozen heart has crept the power to love you. The sunshine is more golden, the moon ig more radiant in its silvery sheen, the trees are greener, the sky is bluer, the flowers more fragrant, the birds sing more sweetly and al] the world ig so beautiful that the thought of golden streets and pearly gates do not intrigue-me in the least while you are alive and I can love you. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) geneity | A Thought | pence, = Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself, as he - that putteth it off—I Kings 20:11. Men of real merit, and whose no- ble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be en- dured when they vaunt their own ac- tions.—Aeschines IT’S DIFFERENT SOPH—Between you and me, what do you thing of Jack’s Prom girl? OMORE—Between you and me, not so good; but alone—Oh, boy—Wes- leyan Wasp. EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO NO, NO, MR. TRUG, YOU FAIL ‘To SENSE THe ‘PURPORT. ORIENTATION, DID You BRING A DICTIONARY wite You > THIS \S_ PROBABLY DUS ‘To FAULTY CASTING A VERITABLE PENUMBRA | | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1924 WHERE DO THEY COME FROM? By Albert Apple | | Epidemics of hiccups have been traveling around the ;country. It seems to be a wandering ailment that stays jonly a few days or weeks in a community, then moves on, 'A victim “hics” for 24 to 72 hours, and abruptly recovers. | Annoying but relatively harmless——just one of those nasty | little nuisances that are forever bothering people. | What started the hiccup epidemics? Doctors cannot an- ;swer. Some students of psychology and mental pecularities assert that it is all a matter of imitativeness or suggestion. | Their theory is that a few people have hiccups and others {unconsciously copy them. if — Last winter, colds “ran to” bronchitis. This year the | tendency is for colds to cling to the head. Here we have ‘more nasty little epidemics. A definite type of cold does» the rounds. For instance, the head cold accompanied by an { earache. { Medical specialists observe that each of these epidemics | has definite characteristics of its own. It indicates that | what we call a “cold” covers thousands of strange ailment: i Each year, as cities become more congested and the air more poisoned by .auto exhaust, we have more and more j epidemics of colds and flu. As fast as the medical profession makes progress in curbing a disease like, for instance, typhoid or diabetes, nature sends new destroyers—new ailments to attack us. | Lately her destroyers have been re-enforced by wide- spread nervous disorders and multitudes of peculiar “flus” and colds. 3 | Nature’s system is to keep us so that she can strike us down to make room for oncoming generations. That’s why jnew maladies develop as fast as the medical profession gets old one under contro]. And it is the reason why man will never find any elixir to enable him to live to an extremely {old age. By right living we might survive 150 years, but somewhere is a natural deadline to prevent the earth becom- ing overcrowded. ; It is a natural law. You see it at work everywhere — {constant building up is balanced or offset by constant disin- tegration. Orange and lemon trees, for instance, have been aided a lot by science. Now they have a disease called chlorosis, which among other things cause fruit to stop growing. The scientists are fighting back by injecting medicine into the “sick” trees, Or take the animal kingdom. “Chicken flu” has: been | going the rounds—so severely that a fourth of the chickens delivered to New York died upon arrival.. To protect itself, New York placed an embargo against shipments of chickens from eight states that supply it with nine-tenths of its live poultry. So goes the eternal program of destruction. Py {4 x Y , | _ IN NEW YORK | NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—New Year's) whenever the spirit so moves me to jresolutions of a “typical New York-|do, regardless of where I am and er” who is about me. RESOLVED: That I shall push} AND FURTHER: That I~ shall everybody who pushes me, in the| stand about street corners and ogle subway cars, on the subway plat-| the women who pass, whether they |forms or on the street. be accompanied by escort, or wheth- | FURTHER: That I shall not sur-| er they are married or single. render my seat to the aged, the halt,|| AND FINALLY: That I shall en- everybody I can, Ragan AND FURTHER: That I shall not] W. J, O'MARA is the only man return excess change given to me| telephone operator left in New York. through error. He handles the switchboard for pub- AND TOO: That I shall bathe on-| lic booths in the basement of the ly once every six months, and shall] Times Building. Twenty years ago do all I can to prevent proper venti-| most of the operators were men. All | lation of subway cars. but O’Mara went into some other MOREOVER: I shall not be court-| branch of the business. “The only cous to any visiting yokel who might difference between being an operator ask street directions. j now and 20 years ago,” says O'Mara, AND IN ADDITION: That I shall|“is that people are crankier now.” utter profane and obscene remarks —JAMES W. DEAN. FABLES ON HEALTH THROAT TROUBLES When the cold weather begins many people are bothered with min- or throat troubles, such as, hoarse ness, Smoking or living in. smoky, dusty faetory towns also brings this trou- ble to many and other throat trou- a gurgle of a boric solution. One old d remedy consists of allow- vgs in the mouth, Take a bit of borax, about the of a bean. Let it dissolve sldwly. Two of these may safely be taken bies are likely to. result. Public|within an hour if a clear speaking speaking snd singing are also caus-|singing voice is to be desired, es. Many singers use the white of an A simple remedy for hoarseness is | egg, beaten to a stiff froth. CRUDE OIL IN RUMANIA REINDEER TODAY COULD REPAY VAINLY SEEKS A MARKET WHAT RUSSIA GOT FOR ALASKA Bucharest, Dec. 30.—The increas- ing keenness of competition in the Balkans from the United States and Russia is having a disastrous effect on the Rumanian petroleum indus- try. The price of crude oil has now declined from Lei 38,000 a tar- load of 10 metric toms, recorded in the spring of this year, to Lei 14, 000, In other words, crude oil in Washington, Dec. 30.—General use of Alaskan reindeer venison in the United States as an article of diet soon will be possible, depending merely on the matter of transporta- tion, the Bureau of Education pre- dicted today in an annual. report which said that Alaska’s: domestic herds now are worth $1,500,000 more than this government paid Russia the lame and the blind. Let them] deavor in the coming year to make stand! my skin thicker and tougher than it) | ALSO: That I shall shortchange| is now—if possible. » nail am t a Lip 4 nount of borax to melp, \ \ Rumania today is: worth less than $1.25 a barrel, which is below the cost of production. Many of the purely Rumanian oil companies have heen compelled to discontinue their field operations, and most of the foreign companies have considerably curtailed their drilling programs. Crude produc- tion has now reached the highest level in Rumania’s history, aver- aging close to 1,250,000 barrels a month. The export tax levied on a barrel of gasoline is about 50 cents, in 1867 for the entire territory. The industry, which began in 1892 when the bureau imported the first of the animals from Siberia, has de- veloped until the herd at present numbers some 850,000,-about 235,000 of which belong to the natives who rely upon deer for a livelihood, as well as for food and clothing. A problem confronting the bureau is to reorganize the industry on a cooperative basis so as to handle the increasing herds more ' efficiently and to market the meat more eco- nomically. | | | | : |