The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 2, 1925, Page 4

2AGE FOUR HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE intered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class | Matter. v ORGE D. MANN Publisher | Foreign Representatives i G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY | DETROIT |, Kresge Bldg. | i CHICAGO arquette Bldg. 4 PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH pew. YORK - : - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The American Press is exclusively entitled to the use or | papecanon of all news dispatches credited to it or not :pherwise entitled in this paper and also the local news pub- wshed herein. 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The Amer- ban government has taken the position that the debt must ae paid; France has recognized the debt and has said it will | in@ paid, but makes no move in that direction. j + The French budget, when published, contained no refer- tmce to the American war debt, either for principal or in- yerest. One explanation given was that the French budget jflust be itemized and since the debt funding question was root settled there could be no accurate itemization of the debt. ts‘he principle of the debt, of course, is known, and the in- y2rest on bonds which the United States issued to provide doney for France is known. When the failure to make any ktebt payment provision was accompanied by a suggestion hicom the French minister of finance that war debts be doled, it was natural that many United States Senators and -pepresentatives should conclude that France was preparing B) repudiate her debt. French officials hasten to reassure lomhe Washington government that such is not the case. | a France has had a hard time raising sufficient revenues pnor her budget since the war, and has strained many means ef taxation. Extraordinary methods have been taken to leneep the franc up. Being infested with bureaucracy, France ™as a difficult time to reduce expenditures of government. ‘he American government will, of course, insist that France the mark in the debts question. Already the govern- aent has held the war debt is a just debt and must be paid. CHANCE Successful men, interviewed, usually talk platitudes about yard work, not watching the clock, and the like. lat Refreshing is the common-sense viewpoint of William E. knox, who came to America as an immigrant boy and is now hiresident of American Bankers’ Association. He says: forPhere is such a thing as chance. Don’t be deceived about ahat. A friend of mine commented the other day that he s:‘mew many men who had worked as faithfully as he, been 1g honest, and had just as much brains, yet they hadn’t got ie far as he simply because things didn’t break their way.” tec However, for every man who becomes successful by inhance, or luck, there are thousands who win by effort and ;wetermination only. ase sn FUTURE CITIES hae A city of 30 million inhabitants. That is what New York SSill be 100 years from now. predicts Joseph P. Day, one of ehe best - known real estate operators in the country. He as visions underground streets and skyscrapers 100 stories igh. “. Day thinks the airplane will come into common use in a veentury, and that it will greatly extend the suburban dis- iricts. “If planes do come by the millions the big cities are more en pt to dwindle instead of grow. People will live far out and | vily hundreds of miles quickly to work and to do their shop- waing. los pa WATER FOR CALIFORNIA H California engineers plan to divert part of the mighty ©“olorado river and make it flow westward to the Pacific. thThe water, needed in Los Angeles and along the way, will ybey man’s orders and travel across mountains and deserts. t is a great undertaking, and our civilization is proud of its Sower to do it. ta If Yuan, ancient Chinese emperor, could speak from the sugrave he would say: “I did a greater job than that, shortly tufter the Noah’s Ark flood. I shifted the entire water-shed NOt China, in some places as much as 600 miles.” len: a) FIRES pe Important fire losses in the United States soared to over co37 million dollars in November. Highest in 20 months. th Ordinarily this would be considered an evil omen for ih uture business. Fire losses traditionally mount ahead of nigard times, many setting fire to their properties to get in- thaurance. But experts say that big November losses were two- agiths due to poor construction of buildings, which permitted mes to spread swiftly. We seem moving toward the Jap- anese system of houses built of paper and glue. ch to a AUTOS a Auto makers have had a better year in 1924 than they xpected, even though they manufactured about a tenth ewer cars than in 1923. " The 1924 production of passenger cars passed the three Smillions mark late in November. A car for every family in merica is almost a reality. And soon the sales slogan will , “Two cars for every family, instead of one.” ; This will seem like extravagance, especially to many who recall when it was quite a matter of course to keep more than one horse. SEXES: : More boy babies than girls are born to American moth- s, the census bureau reports. For every; 1000 female bies, 1062 males. : Rens wer, the mortality rate is higher among boys. In rat arity, there are more women than men. fling Me is why souls come into this world at all if destined to Editorial Review _ Comments column may the opinion of reproduced in this or may not express f The Tribun hey are presented here in order our readers may have both sides of important issues which are pane discussed in the press of je day. S ee | A WISCONSIN FARMER (New York Times) | In The Atlantic Monthly Mr. Glenn W. Birgtt, a soldier who began farming in Southeastern Wisconsin in 1919, liberates his| soul about legislative “remedies” for agricultural depression. He is a part of the distre: and equipped his 240-acre when prices scraped the skies. Aside from the ordinary annual loss in t three or four years, in his ear and a half there was a depreciation of 60 per cent in his investment. Naturally ‘he would jump at any ‘promising sound pro- posal to help farmers. Most plans of politicians for the ‘purpose would merely enlarge production anc! make the “agricultural prob- lem" harder. The Federal Govern- ment employs millions of tax money on irrigation and drainage products in regions remote from markets. ‘Let the waste land alone, says our farmer, till there is suffi- cient market for existing produc- tion. Whatever may ibe thought of this view, our farmer is on sure ground in objecting to expensive State and local imitation of paternal cod- dling: County agents, demonstra- tion farms, expensive equip- ment and personnel, all have aided in the uneconomic over- supply of farm products. “Diversification” is solemnly prescribed. The value of it de- pends largely upon the nearness of the farm to industrial centers. The comparatively better condition of the Wisconsin farmers is caused more by the great urban popuila- tion than the “job-holding farm advisers” who take the credit for it. The artificial uneconomic low- ering of freight rates won't give the farmers prosperity. Mr. Birk- ett says a good word for the meat packers and even for that horren- | cous ‘bogy, the middleman: The. general agitation against middlemen is not so great ag it was~several years ago. Instead of fighting them and looking upon them as rob- ‘bers —I don’t say they never are—we are beginning to look on them as a middle service and an agency which assists in creating a market value for our products. One valuable result of cooperative selling is the realization that there is a middle service and that it is expensive. When we join a “coop” we think that now we are about to overcome our ipro- duction losses by making the micileman’s profit. At least that is the way I felt, and nat- urally I was disappointed when the prospective profit turned into an actual loss. In the “coop” to which I belong we learned that middle service in regard to mk costs more than production, A farmer must understand and accept the hazards of business. Many farmers have been mislea by paternalistic legislation and the overflowing sympathies of politi- cians to think that the Government must keep on trying to help them out of a hole. As a banker who deals with farmers says, “the farmer hag-cheard so much about his troubles, about being a victim, about being a poor farmer, that he has settled down to being a poor farmer.” Paternalism sticks its nose into ithe schools and the tax- payer's pocket. “Local and pro- fessional boosters have begun to reform us through our children.” Steep local taxation depreciates farm values. “Everybody” admits taxes are too high. Every candi- date for office swears to bring them down. Even the fertile cre- ators of commissions anc! jobs, of “a host of advising and interfering public officials,” sigh over the bur- den on the farmer's back. Nothing is done. Taxes are transferred, not reduced. Mr. Birkett shows us the happy result in twenty-odd years of LaFollettism in its home: Taxes on farm property in the region are absorbing over half of the net rental value. Consequently land val- ues re decreasing. Owner- ship of land, instead of being an asset, is becoming a liabil- ity. Between 1900 and 1922 expenditures of the State of Wisconsin rose from $2,997,155 to $32,191,049 per annum. “There is no group of people who would benefit ¢o much by the elimination of public servants, of- fices and paternalism in general as farmers * * * We need help in the retrenchment of public expen- ses.” A self-reliant and thought- ful man, this Mr. Birkett. ADVENTURE OF He stocked THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON Nancy and Nick and Johnny Sweep looked everywhere for Snitcher Snatch, the goblin. They went from house-top to house-top, and climbed down chim- neys until the Twins got almost as black at Johnny Sweep himself. But none of the Sooties had seen him and it did seem as though he had become tired of mischjef making and decided to be good awhile. They were partly right, for, in mixing up the spices in the kitchen cupboard, Snitcher Snatch had got- ten pepper in his eyes. And they hurt so terribly that he had to go to old Doctor Hokus Pokus and get them cured up. “You'll have to use an eye-cup and wash them out with some stuff in a bottle three times a day,” said Doc- tor Hokus Pokus. “And you'll have only a few days, months or. years. Their mission “be for effect on parents. a thief them. to catch a, thief is you may (getting more and more bottled THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Cart Before the Hor: him for three days, but to the bad little follow it seemed like thyee hundred years. | And all the time his spirits kept up until at last if something hadn't happened, Snitcher Snatch would have exploded altogether. And it certainly would have saved some people a lot of trouble if he had. Well, the minute he was better he came out of his house in Goblin Land and ran to the gate by the root of the dog-wood tree and look- ed around. It was all snowy, never mind the cold. Across the valley he could see the tall smoke stacks and chimneys of the city. “Ha, ha! Ho, ho!” he cried. “Here’s where I have some fun.” So now you know where he was while Johnny Sweep and the Twins were hunting for him. Well, the first place he came to was a grocery store. A woman was just going in with a market basket on her arm. And what did Snitcher Snatch do but give a little run and jump and land in the basket. So when she went into the grocery store, the goblin went in, too! It was pretty smart of him, for there wasn’t any fireplace by which he could enter and swinging doors frightened him ’most to death, | When the woman put her market basket down, the goblin jumped out and nobody saw him. He hid behind the cracker-barrel and planned what he was going to do to have some fun. It didn’t take him long. “Mister Winklehouser,” said the! woman, “how much is flour a sack?” “Three dollars!” said Mister Win- klehouser, the grocer. “The idea,” said the woman. “The sign says ‘Two for 5c.’” Mister Winklehouser looked hard. “Why so it does!” he declared. “But but goblins there’s been a mistake, That's off the apples. They're two for five cents.” “Why no it isn’t,” said the wom- an. “The sign on the apples says ‘Free. Take home all you want.’” “But that’s the sign off the ad- vertisements,” said Mister .Winkle- houser, scratching his head. “I can’t understand it.” Behind his barrel Snitcher Snatch laughed and laughed, (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) -:. The Tangle LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO BEE SUMMERS Dear Bee: terested in your letter. that husband of yours you as you deserve, I had many letters of condolence, but they were of the stereotyped kind. No one except you told me that in a short while time would blunt my grief over my little sister Alice, Already I am beginning to forget these last few months of unhappi- ness with Alice and remember her only as a bright, loving girl. So you see I know what you told me is true. I was tremendously in- I wonder if appreciates All those other people knew it, too,| ! but they did not take the trouble to tell it to me, or else they had an idea that I could not stand the truth. I read your letter to mother and she smiled that dear comprehending smile of hers as she said: “Bee is right, Leslie, but I am afraid that sometimes she will come to the con- clusion that all her knowledge is not happiness. Those who know as much about life as she does must understand this. “Those who always know why a thing is, realize how unnecessary’ it is to make others unhappy if they will only give to their impulsive acts a little thought. The things that hurt us most are not those which are intended to hurt us but those which we know are done without thought because the one who does them does not care enough to re- frain from doing the thing that hurts us.” Bee, my mother is a wonderful woman, Almost everything she has learned she has acquired in the great school of experience. She did not find her place in life, she made a place for herself. She has always marched with her regiment and now, being a veteran, she is wearing many medals for bravery in life’s battles. She has been wonderful since dad died. One almost seems to feel that she is nearer to him than she was when he was alive. After I read your letter to her we began talking about some of the stories of the moving picture ac- tresses and this new freedom which so many young women are embrac- ing today, “It is only because they don’t know what to do with their knowl- edge,” mother said. “All of them know so much more today than their mothers did before them. Keeping girls innocent—which in the last only means keeping them Leslie—has gone out of “The moving picture tells more secrets of life to the child of today than her grandmother ever knew.” “Do you think, mother, it will make for greater understanding and con- sideration between the sexes?” I ask- ed. Mother looked at me somewhat queerly and I knew she was think- ing that even I had fallen into the new way of bringing sex into every discussion. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) geo | A Thought | —— Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.—Prov. 19:18. The clue of our destiny, wander where we will, lies at the cradle foot.—Richter. MYSTERY GALORE “Seen any mysterious strangers around here lately?” casually inquir- ed the detective from the city, “Waal,” answered Uncle Eben, “there was a feller over to town with the circus last week what took a pair of rabbits out o’ my whiskers.” —Arizona Whe Doo. EVERETT TRUE oo News from dear old London. Cop is singing in Grand Opera. If we were a cop we would do dangerous things like that. Too many people seem to wish they were someone else. Missing Texas man wired he is ik jail in Mexico, showing there was no cause to worry about him. Time is so contrary. If you ask it to go slow it speeds up and if you ask it to speed it goes slow. This is the first editorial para- graph we have ever seen which said it was all right for women to use rouge. Bryan gets his name in our paper so seldom now we just decided to put it in here like this. Kentucky woman presented hubby with quadruplets, but when they cry it is a quartet.. What's become of the old bachelor who used to call a crying baby a lap organ? A bootlegger died in Chicago, per- to have bandage over your eyes for three days. After that you'll be all right. So Snitcher Snatch went home jand bis goblin mams took cate of haps from overwork. Nine-tenths of those saying they will shop early next Christmas won't. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) BY CONDO come A our! BUSINGSS IN THE HACC — tT CITTCS BIT OF VENTILATION !! als WS CAN TALK AS, WN + at fi FRIDAY, JANUARY 2; 1925 school than anything that can cational advantages. sharing the national craze to to get.as many thousands of tendance. ; Alumni help. culture their characters, are athletes. for years? has increased ten-fold. the general rule. thing. New York, Jan. 2.—It is generally believed that the night clubs of Broadway thrive on illegitimate traf- fic in liquor. Many .of them do, no doubt, but the new Ciro cafe in West 56th street is under $200,000 bond not to break the eighteenth amendment. The bond was demanded by the {managers for Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, owner of the property. The backers of the new cafe are Herbert and Belmont Gottlieb, who made their money in the fur business, and Felix Young, shirt manufacturer. One stores movie of Broadway's big department soon will jnaugurate a daily show on its top floor. Pro- will consist of short comics Mothers and the kids in the grams and educational films, fathers may park Mrs. Jones of Anytown, after she had determined to dissipate the wrinkles which had begun to spread around her eyes, learned there were many remedies for their removal. A Berlin treatment, if patiently followed, is said to be a permanent cure. The treatment begins with steam- ing the face. Narrow strips of court plaster are then applied to the wrinkled portion, after the wrinkle has been stretched out smoothly with thumb and forefinger. BY HARRY B. HUNT NEA Service Writer Washington, Jan. 2.—The cost of courting isn’t so high in love as it is in politics. Despite current rates on candy, flowers and theater tickets, the tax on ambitious young suitors is no- wise comparable to the outlay that must be made by the ambitious “old boys” anxious to make a hit in the courts of Europe. It costs approximately $100,000 a year for an American to qualify for the title, “Former ambassador to the court of St. James,” for instance. The title, “Former ambassador to France” costs almost as much. In a nutshell that is the reason the tenure of our “diplomatic” repre- sentatives in the major capitals abroad .is comparatively short. George Harvey had enough of it in London after a little over two years. Frank Kellogg, former senator and “trust-bustef” from Minnesota, is reported as desirous of getting out from under the expenfe, al- though he has not yet served a year. Myron T, Herrick, Cleveland multi- millionaire, to whom the cost of being ambassador is no financial hardship, is the only ambassador to any of the major courts of Europe in recent years. who has been able or has cared to hold his post for any extended term. Financial independence is, there- fore, a determining one in the selec- tion of ambassadors. And it is one of the qualifications that has brought the suggestion. of Medill McCormick, lame-duck senater from Illinois as a possible successor to Kellogg at the court of St. James. McCormick, slender, rather lanky, sandy-haired scion of the immensely wealthy McCormick and Medill families of Chicago, is financially able to pay the cost of admission to the super-diplomatic set. His wife, * too, formerly * Ruth Hanna, Waughter of Mark Hanna of Cleveland, who built up a for- tune of millions as an iron’ ore ang ARE COLLEGE SPORTS OVERDONE? By Albert Apple Colleges and universities are devoting. too much atten- ition and money to football and other sports, says a Uni- versity of Michigan official. He urges members of the West- ern Conference to get together and call a halt. Intereollegiate athletics have been overdone, he warns The athlete has become the school hero. The real student is | pointed out, in a spirit of half-pity, as a “book-worm. | These higher schools are beginning FABLES ON HEALTH. MRS. JONES’ WRINKLES ! Universities do not like to admit it, but in most cases |the main purpose of their athletics is advertising rather than sport. Years ago it was discovered that a champion ship football team apparently will pull more students to a be offered in the way of edu- to pay the pertalty for ‘ The goal usually is be big. sidan and the students as possible, buildings and endowments that necessarily go with big at- In the competition to develop championship athletics, |many athletically capable but intellectually apathetic’ “stu- dents” have flocked into the palaces of higher learning. As long as colleges and universities want to be large busi- ness organizations, they must advertise. And athletics are their best bets in publicity, to attract customers. , It often strikes an outsider that these higher schools, whose primary function is to educate students’ brains and famed principally for their But is the situation really any worse than it has been We recall a small college with about 300 students. This school was breathless with excitement for days before a foot- ball game, especially the star event with a traditional rival, and the contest itself was fought out before frenzied spec- tators. Today that college has grown until it has 10 times as many students—and quite naturally its athletic fervor Student for student, its athletics haven’t any greater “per capita” grip than in the old days. i Universities are larger, and interest in athletics accordingly is on a larger scale. The critic sees 4 sporting event in an amphitheater that looks as if two na- tions were competing. He forgets that this is a pooling of what amounts to a score or more of old-time small schools. However, college sports are overdone. They always have been and always willbe. Americans incline to overdo every- And that, we believe, is IN NEW YORK theater under care of attendants while they go’ shopping. Rye now tops the list in New York’s bootleg market, It is quoted at $105 a case. Champagne is $70 and Scotch whisky varies from $45 to $60. “Good beer” is now quoted at $33 a barrel and there seems to be plenty of it around town. A correspondent. writes in, “Why do you have so much in your.column about bootleg?” Dear correspondent, I have so much bootleg news in this log of New York life because bootleg is so much in New York’s life. The pic- ture would be far from complete if mention of bootleg and bootleg drink- ers were left out. —JAMES W. DEAN. The treatment must be followed for a long time before results are seen, and even then it must be done twice a day. : Another wrinkle cream is made from spermaceti and white wax, each one-half ounce; melt and add to them two ounces of oil of sweet almonds and one ounce each of lan- olin and cocoanut oil. ° Stir this in an ounce of orange flower water and 10 drops of tinc- ture of benzoin. Ambassadors’ Jobs Too Costly to Hang On To shipping magnate before becoming Ohio’s political boss and United States senator, would be qualified by experience and training to up- hold the social essentials of the post. { eae In a wi an, ambassadorship for McCormick seems tb be “in the cards.” His father had a long re- cord in the diplomatic service and it is felt that this increases his eligibility. Robert McCormick, father of the senator, was the first United States ambi Austria-Hungary. Later he was ambassador to Russia for tHree years and served in a similar capacity in Paris, as ambas- sador to France, from 1905 to 1907. cee Gossip in Washington _ political has it that Senator McCor- hance at an ambassadorship, after his term expires March 4, de- pends largly on Coolidge’s willing- ness to “forget and forgive.” These stories have it that the Illingis senator was not favorably inclined to the Coolidge candidacy for - re-election and that when he was invited to help line up Illinois delegates for Coolidge, prior to the Cleveland convention, the declared. that Coolidge could neither be nomi- nated nor elected. ~ ‘ The immediate result of this is declared to have been the support, by the Coolidge for within Ili- nois, of former Governor Charles S. Deneen, who “beat McCormick for the nomination in the prima- ries and will take his seat with the beginning of the new Congress. After the Cleveland eonvention McCormick “ the error of his way” and campaigned actively for Coolidge’s election. And he accom- panied the White House party to Chicago the other day. But only time will tell whether he has. com- pleted his political rehabilitation in Coolidge’s ¢; Chronic laziness should in. many. s be regarded as: a disease, says ominent, Landon physi . Eaweset sant me ese ae a j | i | | | i t C7)