The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 31, 1924, Page 4

PAGE TAR SMAR Lae TRIBUNE N. D., as Second Class 1K THE Entered ¥ BI YF CIRCULATION E $7.2¢ og 5 00 . 6.00 IN ADVANG k) Wil. 1925 BRING YOU? { 4 vv tue you? Do you look back over Was } it with pleasi: : forever, and a things? ‘ yu glad it has gone into eternity u ig at hand that may bring better i will coucenplate 1924 with satisfaction. It brought, to them, increased money or wisdom or happiness. Others were less fortunate. ; An admirable institution is New Year’s Day, on which . we take stock of ou) condition and, tearing the old calendar i down, start anew with fresh enthusiasm and ambition. It is the time to forge! as well as the time to make good resolu- tions. We can proit Ly Errors teach what not t through the iuiure i! Experience is ness. Experience ; quite as. importan! « Tt is uni i Day only not to do,” natyor xporience—especially by our mistakes. ly again, They pilot us safely learned our’ lesson. | ual what capital is to a busi- es us what’ NOT to do. That is owing what TO do. tsor y peopl: see in New Year’s There is too much “resolving z to do.” Ideal is the combi- ative, time to as a cur ago is far less im; 1 Nl be « year from now. And his condi 1 j pond dargely on himself— on his a 1 rmination | sand wis ’ ' || Editorial Review _ Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. Th.y in order that ders may have both sides important issues which are jucuased in the press of e PW KINDS OF COLLEGE GOATS (Minneapolis Journal) d nuw Dr. Richard Burton of niversity of Minnesota the chorus of profes- pd against the blighiing re two great e situation. -the 's that go to col- because their parents ald, and the sons and daugh who go 10 college ‘because parents didn’t. Dr. Burton's picking out of these their two great groups is worthy of erivus consideration. The youth who, despite inaptitud ‘ol- ng” his forebears folks, ooviously lege just because it i to do, merely b were collegebred is out of place, especially at 2 State University, supported by public taxation. Perhaps he is without earnest desire to absorb the learning the institution offers. Perhaps he is without native abil- |ity to absorb this learning. Per- | haps he is without both desire anc! ability. Now we come to the group, the children who go to col- lege because their parents did not go. Pitiful is the plight of the fam- ily where the parents, denied col- \lege advantages in their own youth, harbor the folly that scme al @bracadabra cloistered in col- lege halls, can make intellectual ‘giants out of any sons and daugh- ters, regardless of whether those children have the natural ties for receiving ana! utilizing ad- ‘is packed off to college. The re- sults may be all that had been ‘ hoped. may be tragi: lly disappointing. Most of us can remember ambi- j him. tious youths of the long ago who} were toilsomely working their way through college and burning t well known midnight oil while packing a hodge-podge of stuff in- to poor overworked brains inca-j pable of properly sorting and pig- | Nick eon-holeing this crammed mass of | learning. these same ambitious pe uts | years afterwards, making a living at just about the same line of e! deavor by. which they worked their carefully around. way through school, and perhaps occasionally wondering what was the use of it all. And we can all Temember doctors and la Ts, products of our Universities, whose entrance into the learned: professions marked a distinct loss to. the truck-driving and shoe- clerking fields. | It is not intended here to dis- courage the boy working, or plan- nine to work. his way through school. who reaily ‘thas iv in him.” Nor is it intended to discourage the parent who seeks for his off-| spring those educational advant- ageg which were denied to himself, nor the father who wants ‘his son ' to be a college man because his forebears were college men. For */in each case the child may ‘be ‘good ' college material. it all gets down to just this. Some of us can “take” a college education. Others of us can not. It ig not our fault. Neither is it our parents’ fault. In the eyes of students of ‘hherecity, the fault, if fault there be, lies with a long line of ancestors reaching far back in- to the past. You can take a deliv— ery-horse colt and train it on the race-track every day till it reaches maturity, but you won't have a race-horse. Possibly in twenty or thirty generations, with the gen- ealogical line confined to delivery- horse blood, you could make that 5 colt’s descendants begin to act and citizens in 1925 may add to jook ike race-horses, provided fa gt . with benefit to the common- | each generation trained on the e ‘track. But that , the state now is shi vision, steady purpose weallli : nd too slow a pro- ; cess for the horse-breecer, Start- = ii ith that sa colt, he can BABEL obtain ‘betier results in two gen- A 301 of nie million dollars. That will be the cost | erations by a proper infusion of of the bigs si ding in (he world. Chicago’s forthcoming race-harse blood into the stock. Temple of Av: , skyseraper, of course, is chiefly s ent te lues which force tenants up into lll merenaes P into | ADVENTURE OF The gresi fiusicy naif a century ago said of America: THE TWINS “I cannot say thal | am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources as such. Size! is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. The great issue about which hangs a true sublimity and the ter- ror of overhanging fate is. What are you going to do with all these things?” BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON it “Oh, dear!” said Nancy. “I don’t suppose we will ever catch Snitcher Snatch now. And what will the Fairy | Queen think of us?” She picked up the white where the goblin had when he dashed up the chimney, and Nick picked up the wig and spectacles he had dropped. “I kind of thought that was a queer old lady,” he laughed, “I didn’t think anyone else could have on the war debt she js ne tong nose.” He | at long nose of his gets into Wwe can say of some | ee tet to keep a whole | police force busy,” said Johnny | ‘Sweep merrily. “But don’t worry, {we'll catch him all rightee. Come | }on. We'll go up the chimney after | him, and as it’s been snowing, it | won't be hard to follow his tracks shawl thrown it Engla had oe in foreign trade. Fi nd has a tough year in foreign e. ‘or every $2 worth of goods she exported, she imported $3 | worth. The close of 1924 finds her away over a billion dol- lars in the hole, as regards the years foreign trade. =, Nevertheless, England is payin; wes us, no lagging. That’s more tl of our other debi ient artis’ jewel! Pl eminine vanity ioe coe ago is dug up in India. The excavators also find remains of brick houses with marble water pipes. _ ** In another 5090 years they'll probably be digging for remnants of our civilization—and possibly find we left noth- fg enduring except state and municipal debts. Sure enough,'when they got to the roof, there were Snitcher Snatch’s tiny footprints in the snow. They went to the edge of the roof jand then along the ground to a wall, and over the wall and along the It ground again to a fence, and over | the fence till they came to the 4 , FUEL Ore a ee —. ‘Tremendous quantities of gasoline are ing used, will surprise many to learn that the oi} industry is selling |jouse where the Morris’ lived, ore fucl oils than gasoline. | ‘Phere wag a big thick vine that =. Coal men need search nx - what has put such a jwent clear up to the roof so the i taking the place | Tins and Johnny Sweep climbed easingly ACE | up'like monkeys. And just as they instability of the coal in- | oxpected, there were footprints lead- | h, ho!” said Johnny Sweep as ‘he peeped down. “I'll bet you any- | thing he’s up to some of his tricks | down the pitcher Snatch is. It gece) ey 4 [meter takes more than about thn Sion Players came to. America. | nds for him to get into trouble. n, Oberammergau, | ,,,°0 he called down, now??? ‘A little black Sootie stuck out his aan | - Ys ‘bur' niad national rush ‘for the Almighty Doilar con- ious) a ty. The kindly; spiritual "re home now.'. “And he Pai li | second | 1 magical influence, some | facili-| ‘vanced learning. Son or daughter head. Then, again, the results| | We have seen many of people can see him, | you change’ your habits, to the next place.” | ing across the roof to the chimney. | ing trip)—What do you think of: “Did a bad} : Beep oe | goblin go down here. Toit? Eighteen billig “stdfpa “NE "Esve - {been used in the United States mail sin 1924, it is estimated, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE YOULL Fix EM? soul DO YOuU-THINK I WANT You Wi LOOVING LIKE YOu WERE CARRYING TH! WEEKS GROCERIES IN YOUR STOCKINGS ? AND LOOK AT THAT SWEATER COLLAR - ILL HANE To PIN SHUM y VM i WHN MOTHERS GET GRAY_ Leann TAKING: UP THE SLACK. ‘and I'm “Yes, he did,” he said, he nearly took me with him. still shaking.” “Come on, s here. ees The Tangle We'll go down and get ! LETTER FROM RUTH BURKE TO} WALTER BURKE, CONTINUED In my heart, my dearling, I am a little ashamed to be so happy even with you away when I find so much unhappiness about me. What do you think could have pos- sessed Jack Prescott tp have stayed away from Leslie when she needed someone near her so badly at the time of A sudden death? I won- der if he realized wher he came on| just in time to go to the funeral it} was too late to ever repair the hurt} leaving so much money to little J he had inflieted upon her bruised) It is rather strange when you think heart. ‘of it that instead of leaving the But when they got as far as the playroom firey and peeped in there was no sign of Snitcher Snatch anywhere. Only Billy and Bobby Morris playing train, as nice as pie. “He can't be here!” whispered was hers when she expected her first boy. Like all the rest I am wondering if this one, too, will be a boy and if it will make any difference in the love she gives little Jack, Even Lesli mother spoke to me about this the other night, and I tried to assure her that I knew it would not. Mrs. Hamilton told me thought. th: possibly her husband might have had something of — this kind in mind when he made his will “No, he doesn't stay around where ’ said Johnny. “We'll go on down to the kitchen.” 0 they erept down the big dark chimney to the kitchen, and looked that she Cook had gone out and left every- thing in fine shape. At first the adventurers thought nobody was there. And then they heard a lid dro; Suddenly they spied the little gob- lin on the shelf where the cans were kept. money to Leslie and Alice he divided the She has not spoken to me of him since we came over here to Atlantic City and yet as I look into her face leven while she is making the most vo-thirds after the one-third giving to a child who was no And he was as busy as a bee in a’ commonplace remarks I see some-|kin of his as much as he gave to buckwheat field. thing just behind her eyes which|¢ach of his two daughters, Into the can marked sugar, he makes me always catch my breath] Only a man of great soul and broad > pouruig salt, and puting the io keep from sobbing. mind could have done this and, hav- r into the salt can, He was Qh, Walter, I know, I know how|ing known one in her father, I am ng the tea and coffee and shak- mustard inta all the spices, But the worst thing of all was the ‘loar bin, The goblin dumped a xhole pound can of baking powder into it before anyone could stop him. ‘Oh, catch him! Catch him!” cried Nancy. “He’s ruihing everything.” Of course Snitcher Snatch heard afraid that Leslie asks more of Jack, her husband, than even I would of you, because I have never known until you came into my life, my darling, that a man could be great and broad and unselfish in his deal- ings with a woman, one can be hurt. I know what it means to iive on and on with scme- one trom whom you have asked for brezd and received a stone. The awful tragedy of it is that I am al- sost sure that the stone has been tossed unthinkingly, and the bruise that is given to the one it strikes is not deeper than the hurt that it I love you always, RUTH. [our OUR WAY By Williams | given to his wife into three equal ; \ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1924 | - PARKED CARS AND TRAFFIC By Albert Apple \ { In Europe you see tiny one-man autos, develop similar small cars to help meet the problems of America will ‘increasing traffie congestion. So predicts Roy-.D. Chapin, ‘addressing a conference of auto makers. : No, he is not joking. : In fact, there already is a distinct tendency that way. |The percentage of small cars manufactured in 1924 was ‘greater than ever before. | But the real traffic problem is not in size of cars or in | street facilities. | The primary problem in cities is PARKING, which blocks | the highway. | Park a row of cars along each side of a street, in the | congested district, and the effect is the same as-if the width !of the pavement were reduced by a half or more. | Prohibit parking in downtown sections, and in effect the | pavement is doubled in width. ‘ | It is exactly the same as on sidewalks, where traffic be- {comes blocked unless pedestrians keep moving. On occa- ‘sions such as a circus parade, people loiter and the walks ‘become almost impassable. You know this, for you have shoved and twisted through the crowds. You do not mind it occasionally, but as a steady thing it would be out of the question. Yet this is precisely what is permitted constantly in near- i ly all cities. a4 It is true that complete prohibition of parking in con- gested districts would be inconvenient to the parkers. But the*culmulative effect on parkers would be only a fraction of the inconvenience caused to general traffic by the park- ing now tolerated. : It is just a question af time until the downtown streets will have to be made highways exclusively, with no parking privileges except possibly in hours when traffic is at low ebb. Water cannot flow readily through a clogged pipe. Nor ‘can traffic flow smoothly through streets that are 50 per cent monopolized as private garages. ' Surely this is common sense. i IN NEW YORK New York, Dec. 31—The Subway Sun is a placard news bulletin pasted in subway cars. The states that the subway is the safest railroad in the world. It doesn’t say it is the most crowded. Then it car- ries this message. “Whether you see y or the elevated you must walk down and up or up and down. Why not ride on the elevated and en- joy comfort?” The same company and elevated. It of- fety and comfort, but not both together. New York has had many bad elevated wrecks. It lhasn’t had its worst one yet, unless i h some, of the rotten superstructure is soon replaced, current ue! The Old Half Way House in West 35th street sells more pigs’ knuckles than any other restaurant in 'New York. In this day of nearbeer the ¥ | total reaches only about 200 a day. ) For 35 cents a patron gets a pig knuckle, a generous helping of sauer- kraut, potatoes and bread. In the old days the same dish was sold in this cafe for 10 cents and more than \ 500 were dished up every day, the high record for one day being 625. In those days the Old Half Way House was the summer rendezvous for actors “at leisure.” FABLES ON HEALTH REMOVING SPLINTERS Splinters, driven into the flesh, of- The suction. will draw the flesh ten are very painful and dangerous,| down and in a minute or two the but Mr. Jones of Anytown learned «| Steam will extricate the splinter and | ee 2 inflammation together. simple remedy for removing them. | "sometimes a wood splinter may be Here it is: extracted by tweezers or, forceps, Fill a wide-mouthed bottle almost] To remove a splinter under the full.of hot water. Place the injured| nail, cut out a V-shaped portion of {part over the mouth of the bottle|the nail above it and then the end jand press tightly. g | the subwi joperates subw jfers the publ | | we} may be seized. would only place a premium upon dishonesty, as it is‘natural much of the oil purchased would be specified for tractor purposes, i Another matter of consideration is Here jaind the next thing they knes, makes in the soul of the one who| (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) | People’s Forum ! the kitchen door slammed and he t{eveq it go lightly. ° é Dear, dear!” cad JohanysSweep.|. Lumeemwill Hever: ibe the sane|(¢————_---——— —O| PAYING FOR ROADS “We'll never get him at this rate.” sent beeeeens conn Alden Prescott] | A Thought || To The Bismarek Tribune: a and his wife, Leslie. sites | ene ‘ (To Be Continued) ae eeu ca acudiii onseven Oe | The matter of each individual sub. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of neiful when I say this, for I kno boy, I know. Many a night I e gone to sleep with the hot tears burning my cheeks because of some ‘lightly spoken word or some thought- lessly selfish act of Harry’s, Al- though to him I probably seemed unduly sensitive, yet there came a | time when they didn’t hurt any more and he instead of I was the great | Texas man claims an oil stock loser. swindler got his fortune. How quaint, Leslie looks very sad and frail. 1 and old-fashioned. {am worried for her, She seems to have forgotten all about the baby! THE GROCER—I suspected they that is coming. She has none of the; were. I’m going to fix ’em when I enthusiasm, the radiant uplift that|get time.—Answers (London). EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO —Acts 24:16. The Unknown is an ocean, What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.—Joseph Cook QUICK REPAIRS THE INSPECTOR—I find your scales absolutely correct, Mr. Short —16 ounces to the pound, Man went crazy downtown in Phil- adelphia, not, however, because he, saw where he was. | Now we know why bathing girls, left the magazine co s. They have better jobs on the 1925 calendars. | Dencing half the night is good training for # girl; enabling her to walk the floor with her baby later. SveRett Rue, DEAR SIR: X AM DESIROUS OF CATING BEFORE OU A Bvaness PROPOSITION, THE MODYS OPERAND! OF WHICH WILL DISCLOSS THe RAISON D‘ETKE --- MR. kill New way to searlet - fever germs is found. Better than paint- ing one red, white and blue‘ so they will cheer themselves to death. The great advantage in making love in a flivver, we hear, is you ean start the thing so quickly. { Have a good time when you are young so that when you are old you! will be sorry you did instead of sorry | you didn’t, Everthing is a habit, and succe: depends upon the ease with whic Anticipation is almost all of reali- zation, : “Every normal man should have! a hobby,” says a doctor. Every nor- mal man has. It is raising a family.| H<M-n-1P!— SOMETHING ABOUT PRAISING tf ~PROBAGiY A ReEcPE rok. HOmMS Brew !!! j ooo Dog bit a debutante in Nashville, Tenn. She wouldn’t run. Maybe she thought it couldn’t eat without a knife and fork, And that’s what might help, more, hum and le. “ho hum.” (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)! ——_—__,— UNDER COVER HUSBAND (returning from angl- these beauties? WIFE—Don’t try to deceive me.’ Mrs. Nabor saw you in the fish shop, {Of course she did. Why, I caught; ny I simply had to try to: sell} Tit-Bits (London), ~*~ H offense toward God, and toward men. | seribing their part to the maintain- ance of our public benefits, should be closely followed by us all, and lespecially this should apply to par ties in particular who use any line! of public property, say such as our ‘public roads; for instance the large) |bus lines that carry traffic for pro- fit, as now only subscribe a very small part to the maintainance of ‘roads upon which they. travel and use }much more and severe than does the | average farmer, who pays a much out of proportion cost for the same pri- vilege. | I believe it would be well for the | coming legislature to look into some jof the laws governing this issue as ‘tried out in other states. Say for | instance New York has a 50 cent per thundred tax, which requires. heavy cars ete. to pay accordingly as to the use imposed upon said road, as heavy buses and trucks certainly do much more damage and wear upon roads than do small cars ete. Minnesota for instance, has a 10 percent cost tax of car applied to said fund an- nually, which would require larger and more expensive cars to subscribe more equally their share of upkeep of such roads. Much has been said as to an oil or gas tax, but thie I believe would place the burden upon many who would not use the road much if any, as it would place the tax upon gas straight, and the tractor man whose tractor would not use the road at all would be paying much more tax per day while running in his field than would the manager of some big bus who uses the public road daily for profit; and should you relieve the gas from tax used in © tractors, it that the large bus:lines do and are cutting into the profits of the rail- roads which form the arteries of our country, and the rates established j by them depend largely upon their | earnings, and in the end Jones pays the freight, and in all due consider- ation it is not right nor fair that the railroads who pay over 13 percent of our entire taxes, should be re- quired to keep and maintain their roads for traffic purposes unless the other fellow is. F am:not saying that they should not, but what I wish is that these bus lines do pay their share of cost and maintenance of our public roads, especially if they:.are stepping in and picking off the choicest traffic, and only during the fjnest season of’ the year, while the-‘railroads work the year round, day in and day out. Lets try and be fair, require all to supply their share to the support of that which they use especially, and require just those and in such a manner that it will not be passed on to the other fellow too directly, say-as would the tax upon gas. Yours, J, E,- Sullivan, Garrison, N. D.~ FEW WORDS Mr. Jones, ‘who is a man of few words, went into the music store to buy some music for his wife. 2 “ ‘Mikado’ libretto,” he said to the clerk, : The clerk started. he asked. “‘Mikado’ libretto,”* repeated Mr. Jones, “Me no spika clerk.—Judge “What's that?” Italian,” said the lhaCar® T are you chirpin’ for, little canary? Why-are:you feelin’ 90, gay? Hoppin’ around, you are quiet for nary e minute throughout ‘the whole day. x le ae a! ~< {| av