The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 6, 1925, Page 4

h f i iN i it 8 i | beyond needs and means. 1PAGR FIGHT PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - - Publisher Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - : - : - DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. D SMITH NEW YORK Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The American Press is exclusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise entitled in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year............. $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) State and County Newspaper) PAYNE, BURNS AN (Official C THE LEGISLATURE’S OPPORTUNITY The nineteenth legislative assembly of the state has an opportunity to render to North Dakotans real service in constructive, sane legislation, and an equal opportunity to do great damage to the state through failure to comprehend or heed the real situation. Taxation will be an important problem. It is so in all legislative bodies, but the question of taxation is far more important in a growing state such as North Dakota than in most states. The state has grown and will continue to grow. It is to some extent still pioneering. Farmers with small capital are building homes and their farming business; business men with small capital but faith in the future are endeavoring to lay the foundation for continued suc- cess. Burdensome taxation is a severe handicap to these citizens. Just as they may do without the luxuries and some of the comforts of life while engaged in their task, the state can well afford to do likewise. Even though desirable in principle, it would be poor policy to clutter North Dakota with innumerable agencies of government such as are found in the older states. Inextricably bound with taxation problems are the state industries. Had sthey not been brought into existence, North Dakota would be free from bonded debt. Almost a million dollars of tax money has gone to pay interest on bonds for the state bank and the state mill alone, and up- wards of a half million dollars of state money will have been sunk in the home building venture before it is finally liqui- dated. The relation of these industries to taxation should be carefully considered in all legislation affecting the indus- tries, although finally they must be considered from the standpoint of whether or not they are right in principle. The legislature may well consider the banking laws of the state. The last two attorney-generals have recommend- ed changes in the penal code affecting banking practices. Every honest banker wants the conduct of the banking busi- ness safe- guarded by strong penalties for law violation. Therc have been too many banks in North Dakota. This situation, generally recognized as one of the prime causes of numerous bank failures, has been somewhat rem- edied by the bank closings. The last legislature threw some restrictions about the opening of new banks. The present legislature, if necessary, should add to these restrictions, so as to prevent ruinous competition and lessen hazards to the depositors’ money, as well as making for larger and sounder institutions which can be of greater service to the state in time of need. Many important measures affecting education doubtless will come before the legislature. An educational commis- sion named by the last session has suggested some changes to lessen the burden of taxation caused by the school sys- tem, as well as to increase its efficiency. Laws enacted in the last several years have failed to develop a clear policy toward the maintenance and control of schools. A curious mixture of state aid and control has developed, through the passage of measures designed to add new sources of revenue or create new positions. Millions of dollars have been paid out to some parents for transporting children to school, while others received nothing. Consolidations have been effected which have proved burdensome. Millions have been appropriated in state aid for schools, the wisdom of which is doubted by the educational commission. The state aid, when distributed, has meant little to the individual school district, but has been held out, in the belief of some, as a bait to cause local school officials to extend school facilities It is not a proper principle of state legislation to bribe any part of the commonwealth to provide proper facilities; they ought to be required by law. The legislature, too, may well turn its attention to higher institutions of learning. There is little to hope for in this respect, because of the pressure of various communities to retain institutions and log- rolling which results. Only a united and determined stand will produce constructive legis- lation in this regard. North Dakota has more normal schools than many states having several times the population of North Dakota. High School subjects are taught in normals and in the University and Agricultural College. Functions have been appropriated by the institutions which do not belong to them. If the state must maintain high schools, it ought not camouflage the fact in colleges and normal schools. One parasitical institution was eliminated by the last legis- lature, and a determined effort is to be made to have it re- stored. The effort should fail. The stage of the legislature is such that political man- euvering may be expected to find a prominent place. The strategy of politics is alluring. But it is to be hoped that all of the legislators here will keep their feet solidly on the ground and not forget that they are acting for the entire state. MAIL ‘The postoffice delivers 112 letters a year for every man, woman and child, striking an average. Nearly one and a half million letters an hour are dropped into the nation’s mail boxes. Every day except Sundays and holidays rural carriers cover a million miles of roads. The P. O. has a yearly payroll of 441 million dollars. United States postoffice. Its success explodes any claim that government is necessarily inefficient. Can you imagine any private company had the job? Neither can we. BONUS Only about half of the veterans who 4re entitled to ad- justed, compensation have so far applied for it. don’t delay, vets. Get your Bui "ters as soon as possible. leo It is the largest business organization in the world, is the | a letter being carried across the continent for two cents if, eligible still have three years to file their claims. apa application into headquar- Editorial Review Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The ibune. Thuy are presented here in order that have both sides ues which are in the of our readers ma} of important being discussed the day. EDWIN DROOD STILL UNSOLVED Henry B. Smith in Harper's Mag- azine. | In the fraternity of Dickensians there is an inner circle whose mem- bers may be called Droodians; for jto them the great dominant problem | of life is not sociological, metaphys- | ical, or how to make a living; but how did Dickens intend to solve the mystery that gave the title to his last novel. Unhappily for those who are ob- sessed by this enigma, his notebook (recently made public) affords no clue to the identity of the white wigged Datchery, no explanation of the Opium Woman's hatred of Jas- per, no evidence as to whether Edwin escaped or was efficiently murdered by his affectionate uncle. | There are, however, several notes which refer to this novel of many eries. One of these memoran- may have suggested the principal situation of the unfii ed story, the scene in which Jasper falls in a fit on learning that he has—or supposes he has—waste! a perfectly good murder and gained nothing by it. A similar situation is found in this paragraph in the | notebook: eaten || There is a case in the state trials, where 2 certain officer made love to a (supposed) miser’s daughter, and ultimately induced her to give her father slow poison while nursing him in sickness. Her father discov- lered it, told her so, forgave her and said: “Be patient, my dear, I shall not live long, even if I re- cover, and then you shall have all my wealth.” Though penitent then, she afterward poisoned him again (under the same influence), and successfully. Whereupon it appear- ed that the old man had no money ai all, and had lived on a small an- nuity which died with him though always feigning to be rich. He had loved his daughter with great af- fection. ved | ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON A STORY ABOUT CEMENT Snitcher Snatch was very happy for he was up to a whole peck of mischief, as he stood near the door of the beauty shop. “I know what I'll do! I know what I'll do,” he said to himself, “If only I can get’some cement before the Twins and Johnny Sweep come after me.” Down on the street below some men were mixing stuff for a new pavement. Right beside them bags marked “cement.” “ll get my pockets full of ce- ment,” snickered the little goblin. “Then I'll come back and mix it with that mud stuff they put on peoples’ faces.” Things worked finely for him, be- cause at that minute one of the ladies was all finished, and put on her coat to go home. She never suspected as she went down in the elevator that a bad little goblin was standing close be- side her under her coat. But he was, Snitcher Snatch was, I mean. He walked out of the beauty shop under her coat and into the elevator, d on down to the first floor—s\ ing right under her coat. Once in the street the rest was easy. He made a dive for the cement— dipped in both hands, and stuffed his pockets as full as he could. Hi, there!” yelled a. workman. “Did you see that kid stealing that cement?” Snitcher Snatch stuck out his ton- gue and was gone. He rode up in the elevator under another lady's coat, and there he was in the beauty shop again. He watched his chance and ducked in and shook his cement into the bowl | and stirred it up. Now everyone knows what cement is. When you mix it with water and mud, it turns to stone when it dries. Oh, dear! I'm almost afraid to tell} you what's coming! Well, pretty soon a lady came in to get plastered. “Whoop-ee!” cried the goblin for- getting himself. “What was that?” asked the lady sharply. “I distinctly heard some- thing.” “I think it was the pipe, madam,” said the beauty girl who was to plas- ter her.’ “It often blows off.” “Put it on thick,” said the lady. “It always does me so much good.” She meant the mud, not the pipe. “Whoop-ee!” cried Snitcher Snatch. “There's that pipe again,” said the beauty shop girl. But she looked| uneasy. H She spread on the mud with the cement in it, as thick as pie-crust. And it began to dry and get harder and harder. The lady tried to say that it didn’t feel just right, but mind you! She couldn’t open her jaws. When the beauty girl came back, there was, the lady all turned to stone. And they had to take a hammer} and break her out, and it nearly| ruined her. “Whoop-ee!” cried Snitcher Snatch. “Get out of here, you bad little boy,” cried the beauty shop girl sud- denly spying him. Snitcher Snatch skedaddled. The Twins and Johnny Sweep were just a second too late to find him at that lace. : were several (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) 1————————+ —___—_—_—————_ | A Thought { o———__-____. - —.____¢ In maltitede of counsellors there is safety.—Prov. 24:6. LETTER FROM SALLY ATHERTON TO BEE SUMMERS, CONTINUED I am afraid that John Alden Pres- cott is riding for a fall and if he is I hope to be here to see it for great will be the fall thereof. But enough gossip about my boss. I have troubles and annoyances of my own. You know that kid cousin of Sam’s who thought he was in love with me—well, he spends all his time with that horrible woman Ma- ble Carter, and, of course, since he knows my attitude in the matter he pays no more attention to me. I didn't realize that Jimmie Condon could be such a fool. You know the girl is rather pretty in a babyish sort of way. Her bleached hair curls around her face and her eyes are childishly blank. She probably tells him what a strong, brave man he is, and how she is leaning on him, Poor Jim! Looking into her eyes he does not see the thinnest, cruel- est mouth I have ever looked upon. You know he is working as as- sistant to Mr. Prescott and if any scandal should come out about him my boss would drop him like a hot- cake. So you like it out in Hollywood. I should think you would find some very amusing things happening from time to time. Do write and tell me about them. Seems to me I’m get- ting awfully serious. I almost have The Tangle a fellow feeling for Mr. Prescott I'd like to cut loose for a day or two. I don’t mind confessing to you, Bee, that if it hadn't been for Leslie, I think I would have gone to dine with my Boss.” getting too strenuous and s too engrossing. I think I'll have to annex some man to my chariot wheels. I wish I didn't care so much for Leslie. I would never have written that sentence to any- one but you, but, thank God, in all this world I know one person who always understands me. That makes me think of thing that I sajd to during our quarrel this morning, and I think because it was rather funny it made him angrier than anything else. He began to talk to me about Les- lie being “the sweetest girl on earth, too good for his unworthy self.” (I agreed with him there.) “But,” he said, “it is a tragedy between us. Poot Leslie doesn’t understand me.” Bee, I could not speak for a mo- some- greatly. Then I said sweetly: “Per- haps the tragedy is because she does understand you.” He again went out and slammed the door. If I have not made myself utterly heartless in your eyes, please when you think of me remember that you are loved the ‘best of anyone in all the world by SALLY. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) a Jon Sims The first metal discovered by man was copper, which is also the first discovered by a boy who likes candy. There were no multiplication ta- bles in ancient Egypt, so we don't know how they doubled the price of turkeys. A Hawaiian proverb says the world was made out of a gourd, yet sometimes it could have been made of a lemon. Now is the time to join a Christ- mas savings club. We warn you, even when we know we won't do it. Prunes now are dried by elec- tricity, and nine-tenths of them serv- ed cold to boarders. An Amsterdam botanist has found you can do if you try hard enough. Canada is making as much maca- roni as Italy. You know macaroni, it’s spaghetti’s big brother. Department of Agriculture has im- ported a blue poppy from China, so it no longer has any reason to be blue. Parent Eskimos never punish their children, perhaps just because being an Eskimo is punishment enough. Diamonds give a disagreeable odor when reduced to powder, so never reduce your diamond to powder. Cocoa was first introduced to Eng- land only 400 years ago, and we'll bet the two were glad to meet. Be careful when removing your tight shoes in a movie. You may forget to put them on ‘before leaving. To cure a bad eold laugh at every- body who tells you how to cure it until you are well again. pearls in cocoanuts, showing what | i | quicker than letting the finger-nails grow long. The zebra is the African member of the horse family. The African member of the dominoe family has dots instead of zebra stripes. A boxer who was knocked over the head by a robber in Chicago was given no chance to defend his crown. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) EVERETT TRUE Now, LISTEN, WiES | THAT ! —— Our objection to any month is the first brings bil it the beginning in- I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.— |Sicero. stead of toward the last. Washing the head with soap and (water removes dandruff a darn sight Mr. Prescott | ment, that old bunk tickled me so, MANDAN NEWS GLEN ULLIN RESIDENT DIED ON SUNDAY John Reisenauer, aged 82, one of the oldest residents of Morton coun- ty passed away Sunday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Frank Renner at St. Joseph, south of Glen Ullin. Deceased was a resident of Man- dan for 20 years up to seven years ago when he went to Glen Ullin to make his home with his daughter. Besides this daughter, he is sur- vived by three other | daughters, Mrs. John Roth and Mrs. Frank Kuntz, both of Ft. Yates and an- Jother daughter in Russia, | es FLINK-WEINHANDL Miss Rosie Flink, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, John Flink of Sanford, Mont., who has been head waitress at the Lewis & Clark Hotel for the past five years, was united in maz- riage at 6:30 o'clock yesterday morning at St. Joseph’s church to Frank Weinhandl, Rey. Fr. Clement Dimpfl officiating. The couple was attended by An- ton Weinhandl, brother of the groom, and Miss Marie Eifert. Fol- lowing the ceremony Mr. and Mrs Weinhandl left for a week's honey moon’ trip to Minneapolis. MACCABEES MEETING A state meeting of the Maccabees lodges was announced yesterday by D. McNamara, state commander, who was in the city yesterday, to be held in Mandan on February 24 to 26. A large number of members are expected to attend the meetings and a large class of candidates will be initiated. At the same time a dele- gation to the national convention at Washington, D. C. will be chosen. TWO LICENSES YESTERDAY Marriage licenses were issued yes- terday afternoon by County Judge Shaw to Philip Vogel of Sweet B and Monica Kautzmann of Timme: BY CONDO DON'T TALK LIKE ANY, STATE ELECTING A FEMALE FOR THS JOB Or GOVERNOR SETS JUST. WHAT THEY NEED —A GOVGRNGSS uo A WOMAN'S PLACE IS -—-- = 2 THAT THE WORLD L3 PROGRESSING STANDING. a TT RDN an re rk TUESDAY, JANUA RY 6, 1925 CHAMPION SALESMAN By Albert Apple How much insurance do you carry? The American peo- ple start 1925 with their lives insured for a total of 64,000 million dollars. ' This amounts to about $560 of insurance for every man, | woman and child. All records were broken during 1924, when 13,500 million | dollars of new life policies were taken out by the people. The public has three times as much life insurance as it has money in savings banks. The two are closely related | Life insurance is a scientific method of saving money. F A considerable part of the population lacks the thrift inj stinct. They are unable to save systematically. To such peo, iple, life insurance is doubly a blessing. It is, equivalent t¢ {buying a savings account and paying for it on the install ment plan. i A nation that has 64,000 millions of dollars of life insur ance, a third as much in savings banks, and fabulous sav ings invested in homes, certainly cannot be accused of bein: a spendthrift. The main purpose of life insurance, of course, is protec- tion for dependents in event the breadwinner dies. The fear that his death would bring financial suffering to his family haunts the man who has not provided for the future. Such a man is food for the great destroyer, Fear. Fear lowers his efficiency. It checks his progress. ' For, with Fear, comes Worry. And Worry scatters a man’s forces. It swerves him from success. These are just a few of the reasons why the American people start 1925 in a spirit of confidence, with a minimum of anxiety. . Behind them is the reassuring protection of 64,000 million dollars worth of life insurance and a third as much money in savings banks. The life insurance salesman, frequently considered a pest, is really one of our best friends when he buttonholes us with his facts and arguments. In: one year he has sold the American public 13,500 million dollars worth of life policies. In the broad field {looms as champion above all. New York, Jan. 6.—The unbidden guest is disturbing hostesses in New York’s upper society. Social con- ventions have been generally dis- regarded by the younger set for sev- eral seasons past. Acceptances to invitations are not sent and the hostess has no way of knowing how many guests she will have. Because of this condition it has been possible for a number of peo- ple, especially young lounge lizards who are not on the best lists, to at- tend the functions of the ultra-ex- clusive. Many of the younger girls are not a bit particular as to whether their young men friends are listed in the social register and, really, you know, those bounders have no business at some of the parties they attend. Yet they presume on their ac- quaintances and walk in on parties with a merry hello to everybody they recognize—and the poor hostess can’t recall for the life of her whe- ther they were on her invitation list. Indeed, she.may not have known by face half of those she invited. This is especially true of big functions given at hotels. Now in the very best circles a young lady who knows faces is sta- tioned at the entrance and if she is in doubt looks over the list of ac- ceptances ai4 aca the intruders to leave. “Really, I think you have made a mistake in the address. Your invita- tion possibly was to another party,” is her polite formula of ejection. Plan of a syndicate to erect Youngsters in the home of Jones of Anytown were not different from other youngsters in the town. Blackened eyes were common. Mr. But Mrs, Jones soon learned a remedy. She could not always re- move the cause, but if the youngster came home from school in time she prevented the eye from becoming discolored. She gave the bruised place IN NEW YORK FABLES ON HEALTH: FOR BLACK EYES of salesmanship he certainly. five-story business building in th block on Madison avenue between’ 85th and 36th streets, just announ- ced, heralds the end of a 20-year bat- tle between the Astors and the Morgans. The Morgan home is diagonally ¢ across the street and in the center of the Murray Hill district which has been restricted to residences only, for years. The elder J. Pier- pont William had opposed the plan of William Waldorf Astor to convert his 18 lots into a business site and backed up his argument with a re- strictive agreement drawn up _ in 1847. But times and customs have moved on apace and the present J. Pierpont Morgan halted court pro- ceedings when the syndicate prom- ised to have the new structure “con- form in design and construction to the general spirit of the Murray Hill restriction.” Peggy, a white bulldog, has been remanded to the S. P. C, A. to await hearing on a charge of obstructing traffic. Patrolman Scannell alleges that Peggy picked out the intersec- tion of Fifth avenue and Fifty- Seventh street for a playground and that when he tried to chase her away she thought he was joining in the play. She ran in circles about him and he finally called Patrolman Wanda from the next corner. The two finally ‘sugceeded in ‘lassoing her and in restoring tangled traffic # to normal. JAMES W. DEAN. s plication of ammonium chloride, one- half ounce; tincture of arnica, one ounce; dibute acetic acid, two and a half ounces, and water, two and a half ounces. If the eye was discolored when the youngster reached home she applied a poultice of bread and vinegar. The poultice was made by beating small pieces of bread in vinegar until the mixture became a paste. Liberious F. Friesz Schmidt, both of Flasher. ¢—__._______-+ | \ Cynthia Grey | Says: —— RULES OF THE GAME You may resemble a composite picture of Peggy Joyce, Nita Naldi and other girls de looks. And yet you will park yourself against a wall while others dance unless you know— That if a man is good looking, you must tell him how brainy he is. That if he is a mental giant, you must say that he could double for Valentino. That if he is dumb, you must rave over “those strong, silent men.” And that if he is the kind that talks, you must keep your mouth shut, but your eyes open with ad- miration! QUESTIONS—ANSWERS Dear Miss Grey: I was in love with a married years: ago, and I suppose I am what tl world calls a woman with a “pi Now I am about to marry a man for whom I deeply care in quite another way. I am terribly afraid that he will find out about me, for the other man is the swaggering type who bes Shee the girls who are in love with him, What shall — Mile. X. me ee There’s only one thing to do—tell the man you love all about yourself and take the consequences. Do this, not through fear of the other mi but. because truth is the only basis for a happy marriage. Many a wife has been forgiven for girlhood folly. see Dear Miss Grey: My be: jumps into his machine shead of. me. The other night he. did this and I refused to go out with him. Wasn't he in the wrong?—Furious, Of cou: he was.. But onieh'y svou bave explained this point: and Francis ,etiquet to him without spoiling your evening? Try tact next time. VELVA HAS WATER PROBLEM Velva, N. D., Jan. 6—The City of Velva has a water problem. A gravi- ty line from a spring to the city pumphduse has sprung a leak, mak- ing it difficult to, obtain an" adequate water supply. To augment the sup- ply, the water is being used from a creek, ——E—EeEe————ee——————— ’ ALL WORN OUT Se Was Mr. Pearce Who Tells His, Experience. Are you tired all the time; worn- out night and day? Does your bace ache as if it would break?’ Do you suffer dizziness, headaches, rhwu-\ matic twinges or distressing urinary disorders? You have good cause, then, t alarmed about your kid- neys. Do many of your townfolk recommend. Use Doan’s Pills—a stimulant diuretic to the kidneys. This Bismarck case is convincing? Chas. L, Pearce, farmer, 320 Seo ond St, “I used Doan’s Pills when suffering from disordered kid- neys and they gave good results. For a time I was lame, I could hardly stoop down to get’ a: bucket of water. I knew my kidneys re- quired attention, so got a box of Doan’s Cowan's Drug Store and used them until my trouble disap- peared. Whenever I ‘have needed Doan’s sin they have always brought the same good results.” 60c, at all dealers. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfrs. Buffalo, N. 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