The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 17, 1925, Page 4

Ears “(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. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The American Press is exclusively entitled to the use or Tepublication 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............ sce cece eee ee PT20 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) (Official City, State and County Newspaper) ROUGH ON GOVERNORS Oklahoma, Indiana, Illinois and now Kansas joins the ranks of states where governors are under a cloud or act- ually serving time for criminal acts. Gov. Small has been able to win his battles before the courts but the impression is that some of his acts while not criminal were hardly above suspicion. Governor Davis retires from office with his son to enter pleas to charges alleging bribery. The record of pardons and paroles in Kansas during the last few months has raised the presumption at least that there was an easy way out of jail in that state if recourse were had to the proper channels. ‘ The activities of Ralston are still fresh in the public mind. Davis of Kansas was swept into office upon a wave of popularity because the farmers believed that he would cor- rect some of the evils that beset the marketing of their products. His term has been a stormy one and unproductive of results. The state now faces the responsibility of getting down to the bottom of all the charges made against Davis and his son and if there has been actual bribery, the guilty should be punished. SHORTAGE OF CREDIT FACILITIES A new land policy, revision of transportation charges and a protective tariff are reported as necessary if the cattle industry is to be placed upon a firm foundation by the agri- cultural commission appointed by President Coolidge. Pres- ent financial agencies are held adequate to handle the credit emergency that now exists A shortage of credit ties faces the cattle business and this section of the nation is vitally interested in seeing that this want is filled. Adequate rediscount facilities should be provided and through the various federal agencies this end should be accomplished without much delay. i "BEAR fore the war. every 100 pre-war. These figures, which appear to be au- thentic notwithstanding that they deal with Russia, are ' from the Russian newspaper Rul. Russia is an agricultural rather than a manufacturing} So more illuminating, as to her general condition, is nation. the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s estimate that Russia’s 1924 crops total 46 million tons of grain. That is enough to feed her—if properly distributed, which is unlikely in view of her broken-down transportation system and gen- eral economic machine. PRISON “Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.” An inmate of Maryland Penitentiary tells Warden Sweezey | that he can escape any time he wants to. Warden tells him to go ahead and try it. Thirty minutes later, he telephones from outside the walls, then returns voluntarily. The honor system, applied with common sense, is the best prison wall. In time it may be the only wall except for the worst cases, notably convicts who would imperil the public if they were at large. FOOD Talk about over-production of food in our country ap- parently has been a case of barking up the wrong tree. Department of Agriculture reports that, while food pro- duction has increased 13 per cent in 12 years, there has been a decrease of 5 per cent in the amount produced for every man, woman and child. Crops are not increasing as rapidly as population. NAKED ts Speaking of great undeveloped export markets: It’s claimed there are 300 millions people on earth who wear no clothes at all. the cannibal’s precedent to prove that the naked can at least be induced to wear silk hats and celluloid cuffs. JAPAN Japanese begin to develop a deposit of a billion tons of iron ore in the northern part of their island empire. A deposit of this size would make Japan independent of i other countries for her iron and steel, which has both an economic and military significance. bs If some of the congressmen who are opposing the Under- wood leasing bill as a solution of the Muscle Shoals problem would study what North Dakota has accomplished under state ownership, they might withdraw their opposition to the leasing agreement. It certainly cannot lose the vast sums of taxpayers money that federal operation would. Wealth of the nation is now placed at $220,803,862 or an ' inerease of 72.2 per cent in the last decade, Real estate and its improvement showed the greatest gain of any one item. \¢ Despite the demagogue this is still a land of opportunity. ..* Those who met Mr. Houghton, ambassador to Germany, on his visit to this state will approve of his. promotion to tthe. London post. His scholarly attainments impressed all North Dakotans who came in contact with him. werth a fortune ahd is suing for divorce. This world is so full of a number of things. They found ; 268 needies' in a London womat,” 2.00 i °° One drives in one's automobile on noble roads planted with poplars over a green and fertile plain (it | was desert till the Mormons irrigat- ed it) to a canyon that drives a wedge into the foothills of the snow- | peaked mountains. ‘There is one long winding street of wooden houses, paintless, delapidated, some with| on which men in broad | sia is mining only 31 tons of coal for every 100 be-' She is producing only 9 tons of pig iron for) Why don’t our clothing makers get after them? We have} Editorial Review " Comments reproduced itn tbis column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here io orde! our readers may have both sides of important lasues which are ied discussed iu the press of the day. A MOUNTAIN OF COPPER (Rebecca West in New Republic) America is a continent with which one can have innumerable love-af- fairs. I am not monogamous my- self in my passion for the Missis- sippi. There are times when I think with as insistent a longi place named Brigham, whi state of Utah. It is a mining camp.| it in rocking chairs, spitting slowly and with an infinity of saga- city; some with plateglass windows, on which the washed-off word “sa- loon” still shows as a pathetic sha- dow, which are eating houses of in- credible — barene: and dinginess, some others with plateglass windows | that show you men on high chairs with white sheets round them being shaved, and tin cans everywhere. Then at the end of the street one comes on a mountain of copper, Just that, a mountain of copper. Pyra- mid-shaped it is, and cut into regu- lar terraces all the way up from the apex to the base, where lies a pool of water emerald as Irish grass. It sounds the hardest thing in the world, and the terraces have as sharp an edge as a steel knife. Yet it seems a shape just taken for an in- stant by the ether. One feels as if one were standing in front of a breaking wave of a substance more like cloudstuff than water, yet like the sea; for the whole hillside is luminously and transparently pale, and reticulated with mineral veins that are blue and green like sea wa-|each of you a wish, ter. of you!” I want to see that marvel again, | that mountain that is made of me- | (Copyright, 1925, tal, that looks as if you could put} your hand through it. I want to go back just as I want to go back to San Francisco, which is a day and a night further west from Brigham. For that is like the Bay of Naples, but it is all done in the delicate pas- tel shades and the gentle greyness of Edinburgh. Sailing ships lie in the harbor, with their lovely rigging. (To Be Continued) NEA Service, Ine.) THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE This Is Quite a Trick for a Novice iF RE Gers ACRoss wilhouT FALUN’ OFF ILL BE SurRPRiseD Think hard, all} LETTER FROM MRS. MARY AL- DEN PRESCOTT TO JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT ! My Dear Son: I am writing to you to know just what you are go-| .; ing to do about me—your mother— jin your new scheme of life. There is a dead volcano looking over] And sometimes we think maybe a| Both you and Leslie seem to go the bay at the city, whose musical; man’s wife is a nag because she is|°” without considering me at all. name is Tamalpais; she is shaped| married to a jackass. Of course, my own dear. mother like Fu ‘ died when I was a very little girl, love to swear she is as beautiful. ne ; ‘but Tam sure that had she lived to RgUAaEMerouevel daueRESTT The’ weather forecaster always has) je". “Ga as I am, I. would have hills running down to the indenting waters, their slopes blue and white with wild lupins. I love these places. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON SALLY WIGGLETON’S DOLLS “Do you know anybody else?” ask-|think.and still be quiet. | = ed the Fairy Queen. who isn’t. happy?” Nancy thought a minute. a little girl who treats her dolls something awful,” she said by and “Anybody else green | lots of competition. Only neighbor we think is out of debt is the one we owe. The chief interest in life’! ‘with some people is the 8 per cent they get on'their money. Never put on until tomorrow what the advance styles say put an, today. Some people could say what they When a man made her the first responsibility of my existence, 1 hope you will pardon me, my dear son, when I tell you that it seems to me that you allow both your wife and your busiriess to come before your mother—the mother who brought you into the world. You only seem to think of me when I bring. myself to your notice, When you were here you came to see me only once, and’ then you would tell me ‘nothing of your and Leslie's plans.+ When that horrible tragedy of Leslie's sister occurred Stepping to one side never gets] she did not write to me at all, and “I know] you any nearer to the front. I was not asked to go to the funeral or anything. Leslie’s friends must is full of himself] have thought it strange that I was by. “She carries them around -by|there isn’t room for much else. not there. the arms and even sometimes by as x : I tried to get you at your place of the hair. And she never washes} Business is back. Next time it} pusiness but 1 found that you had their faces at all.” ; Bees away we hope it gets a round-} zone over to Pittsburg. Neither you “How dreadful!” exclaimed the | ‘tip ticket to return in a few days.J jor Leslie have written me since the Fairy Queen. “We had better go there at once and see about it. Tell Two Spot where to go.” to the butterfly, “She lives in the city on the corner of Orange street | and Walnut avenue.” “All right,” said Two Spot flapping | Clothes. his blue velvet wings with the rose- colored edges, “Stick on tight, everybody, I’m going to start.” Away he flew over fields and for- ests and ponds and little villages sitting comfortably on his black vel- vet back, everything that happens if you don't “It's Sally Wiggleton,” said Nancy |tell her even more than that, sits next to the mus This last. word you hear [women raving is the last word 9] ° PEOQPLEPS FORUM | oe » ; n # death of her sister. I have waited Tt is all right to tell your wifef ang waited, thinking that either Leslie or Mrs. Hamilton would write me a letter with all the particulars. about 2 JULIUS MEYER WRITES ic. Editor, Bismarck Tribune: As our lawmakers now are in full We know a woman who is trying] swing, I wish to call their attention with the Fairy Queen and the Twins|to reduce by dieting between meals.| to’ a bill passed in 1923, which I think imposes a penalty upon per- A man may be down, but he is not} sons who really did not intend to The Fairy Queen was driving, but | Ut until he is down in the mouth.Jcommit a crime, and if this particu. EVERETT TRUE then she hadn’t much driving to do because Two Spot knew every place and everybody. e Very soon they came to the city. They had to go up narrow streets and back ways, for a great blue but- terfly with three passengers on his back would be sure to attract atten- tion. By and by they came to the corner of Orange street and Walnut avenue and Two Spot settled on the roof of the garage so as to be perfectly safe, From there they could see into Sally’s room where she was playing house. And at that very instant she had a doll across her knee spanking it. Then she shook it until you could hear its eyes rattle. “Oh!” cried Nancy. “My, my, she’s no mother at all said the Fairy Queen, “I do think we came just in time.” “Oh, dear!” Sally yawned sudden- ly. They could hear through the window. “I'm tired of dolls. They're a nuisance. I think I'l! go out and skate.” And she stood up suddenly and the doll on her knee fell to the floor— thump! right on her nose. When she had gone the Queen said, “Come.” What with her. wings and the ma- gic shoes the Twins wore, they had no trouble at all. And in a very little while they were standing right in Sally's room amongst all her dolls. There were about fifteen. “Why, you poor things!” said the Fairy Quepn picking them all up and setting them in a row on Sally’s bed. “Now tell me all about it.” “She's pulled half my hair out,” Fairy “” Your luck may be bad, but in St. Louis a man’s wife is| other. said one. “If you lift my dress you'll see that I've lost a ” said another, “T’ve got pneumonia,” croaked an- “She stuck me in a bowl and|’ never dried me, My insides are soaked.” . They all had # grievance. “You don’t have to stay here,” ye Fairy. Queen. “J will give BY.CONDO I only knew that Leslie was in Atlantic City by seeing it in the papers. Surely if she had had any consideration for me she would have asked me to have gone with them. It would have been ‘a nice outing for me. And now this morning, piling in- sult on injury, I received a type- written letter from that unspeakable red-headed woman whom for some unexplainable reason you have kept on as iyour stenographer, encloging your check ‘for four hundred dollars, to “pay any bills that may be due at the beginning of the month” and asking me to send her receipts for the same, Since when, John, has your moth- er become ‘such a stranger to you’ that you send her? great happiness ‘to little wants without any accounting on my part. Mrs. Atherton to send me four hundred dollars at. said this money would be sent to me until further notice and you had decided that one hundred dollars wag adequate for keeping me in comfort, Comfort, indeed. I can not under- stand, John, your ‘intimacy with a perfect stranger whereby she could take it upon herself to tell me how. much I could live upon in comfort. (Copyright, 1925,:NEA Service, Inc.) lar law is going to be enforced, I be- lieve some county’ fails may not be big enough to hold them all, besides the expenses to the taxpayers. for prosecuting. The bill I refer to is “Chap. 199, S. L. 1923. Depositories of Public !Funds.” This law as it is now holds the treasurer.ofa public corporation and his bonds ‘tjable for the loss of any money belonging to the public corporation, if deposited in any bank, except the.Bank of North Da- kota, if the board of such public corporation did not first designate ‘such bank as @ public depository for such public corporation, as provided in this law. twenty dollars nor more ($1000.00) one thousand ‘dollars imprisonment in the county -jail not six months or both for each offen: the. goose is a weaker being. jeopardy and. providing a upon the officers of such bank (ex- | stati cept the Bank: of North Dakota) for taking any ey belonging to such public corporation, unlegs such bank has furnished the proper bond to such public corporation? How many officials of public corporations, (at least rural public corporations) have posited in the porations shall be, provided: Bank of North D may ‘solicit any board of a’ public |Dakota for the depositing of the their bank Bond with the county auditor, or with the secretary of, state, if it in- volves the State of North. Dakota, This would take the responsibility away from the godse and make the gander responsible, is that not right? This would be a good way |cent on th "\ment they have given themselves. that she must account for any money'do not flatter yourselves that this I should think it would be yourjit. ‘All they need to ‘know is that supply all my]it is “easy.” also had the im-|bership in the American Association | matically, science ‘and pertinence to'tel] me that after those|for.the Advancement ‘of Science w: bills were paid. you had ordered her] the beginning of each month. . She] This law (S./18).provides a penal-|arment center in ‘the west Thirties ty for the violation of this law upon | of New York, The people who wi the officers of any public corpor- | Work in them will have light and aii ji ich is,“ 25) | and cleanline: pilophaied: stimannen vets sine 02)) | hancaa Wars) woapliisi marteacia, aay or | foul’ sweatshops on the ‘Bast: Side. less than ten days nor more than | I believe in protecting the goose | reception roo! more than. the gander, for as a rule|and suit hou Why | new building: can this law not be amended so as to| are on the floors and fine put the officials of the bank .into|tries on the walls. Beautiful paint-| are Statues of Liberty without flam- penalty | ings, hand-carved. furniture and fine | ing torches, the education that officials of banks | or head the flow of- blood is more have? Furthermore, the law could] difficult to stop, Mr: read, “That all money of public cor-| in. her study of fir: the officers of any national or state| thick layers of musele, or. guided| ful‘of-flour on bank, in the ‘state of North Dakota! them beneath bones. corporation in the State of North] js not so likely to be made. money of such public corporation. in | doctor immediately, if:the blood is| directed toward hi by ‘filing’ a Surety | coming fast.: ua os SATURDAY, JANUARY. 17, 1925 CONGRATULATIONS TO MEXICO! 4 ~~. By Chester H. Rowell | Congratulations to our neighbor republic of Mexico on ja political: miracle! An elected president has been inaugurated, just because jhe was elected. That is the final test of self-government. There is, to be sure, the additional ground: of congratu- \lation that President Calles will apparently continue the good government so happily begun under President’ Obregon. A scholar teacher; risen from the ranks of Mexico’s land- !less poor, his ambition is to give his people the two things they most need—land and schools, But the real test of sta- bility is not good government. It may even be bad govern- ment. ' | It is the acceptance by the people of whatever govern- A nation in which the defeated candidate goes home, can govern itself. In, Mexico, jhe has usually gone on the war path. ye The new Mexican government will haye'to meet one more even harder test. Mexico is undertaking a.great business job in establishing its landless on the land. The emotional, moral and political part of that victory has been won. But strong feelings and good intentions do not settle land. That takes intelligence and. efficiency. ‘ There have been government land offices in. Mexico seek- ing to distribute millions of actes of land with less equipment than an American real estate firm would have for a suburban subdivision. Peons, without capital, tools or training have been trust on land where only organized, financed and scien- tific development would have hope of success. Favoritism, dishonesty, fincompetency ‘and inefficiency have jeopardized theoretically sound schemes: A great business task-is handicapped by the lack of busi- ness men to run it and of business principles to run it on. It takes only eloquent language to promise the people land, but. it takes practical efficiency to give. it to them without doing them more harm than good. Mexico has at last met the political test. The business test is ‘more difficult. High School’ Spanish Meantime, regiments, brigades and divisions of American high school | réalized that in’: studbitacarcteubinge: sheniant on: realized that it is one of Dr. Pupin’s tensibly because it will be useful in| 1iscoveries that makes radio broad- the future closer relations of this | Casting possible, he would have been country, vale Mexico and the rest of|news, too. But begt' of all (because Latin America. what a president ‘says is always ie one the, rear, fictions and news) was President. Coolidge’s briet minds of parents and of some teach-4#@dress at a reception to the dele- ers. But not to the pupils! gates. Not one in a thousand of those| “It has taken endless ages to cre- students has any plans of engaging |ate in men the courage that will ac- cept the truth simply: because it, is in business in Latin America, or cares whether the relation of the;the truth. Ours is a generation! of two Americas is to be close or dis-|-pioneers in this new faith.” tant. : That was. almost like a direct Some foreign language is “re-|challengé to Bryan himself. For, quired” and Spanish ‘is notoriously|in his whole anti-evolution crusade, easy. French is next-easiest, and so|Mr. Bryan has appealed to almost is next in popularity. every mental attitude except the sole German was gleefully given up,|‘courage’ that will accept the truth when the war made it unpopular, | simply: because. it is the truth.” because’ German is hard. Latin is| He has asked of evolution, not hard, too, if you really learn it. whether ‘it is ttue, but whether it But the “small Latin} which is so}is wicked; not whether it comports popular now is not beyond the men-|with the facts, but whether these tal continuity of the jazz age. Par-|facts accord with his preconceived ents demand it, because in their | theories. t : generation ‘it was the hall-mark of| And the strength of Bryan has educational gentility. 5 been that this was precisely the at- Spanish is a greht, a beautiful, a|titude of most of his hearers, too. noble and a useful language. But] The’ sense. of..fact is the last achievement of ‘the hyman mind. Even this “generation of pion- eers” has not, attained it, but only the really pioneer part of the gener- ation. Popularity, ‘politically Perhaps if telegraph editors had is what high school students find in Bryan and Science Advancement William J. Bryan's check for mem- and dog- anti-science are still two factions, with all the weight of emotion, prejudice and tion of Professor Michael Idvorsky | tradition on the side. of anti-science, Pupin as ptesident of the associa-|and only the rare and inchoate sense ltion was scarcely noted, of fact. on the side of science. front. page news, though the -ele IN NEW YORK New York, Jan. 17.—Smaller and smaller I grow from month to month, Great piles of brick, steel and mor- tar rear themselves above me. Four years ago I looked from the office, window and thrilled with the wide perspective:I had. Now I look from the window only to see that I am, hemmed in, withthe front line of bricks creeping closgr and closer until. soon I shall have no perspec- tive but a wall and its windows across the street, and the sky only t blur above me. Buildings in the. garment center step back eight or.ten feet every two or three stories. Those that stand apart from other tall buildings look like. notched , pyramids... Those Brouped together look like Pueblo cliff dwellings. ‘The erection of these buildings, scores of them, presents the greatest change in New York to one who has been away for a year OrtWO on imps , Many of the* builders of these Most of. these. towering buildings| great structures live in sumptuous of the new New York are being built| apartments on Park avenue and on with needles, needles held in nimble,|the Drive. They: have art galleries soft hands of girls, needles held in| and ‘book collections. which are us- gnarled, hard hands of women, need-j ually gotten together by profession- les held in the thick, clumsy hands|al-<connéisseurs who are paid big of men, needles that whir back and'ifets foriselling their “taste” in art forth in machines, “| subjects: ‘They have summer homes :These buildings constitute the new|and go to Florida for the winter and evety so- often tour Europe. They do all the things the “best people” Sre doing or are. supposed to do. Yet: sonte of these men were’a decade or two ago working in East Bice paced ape Or'their “fathers : ’ ‘and mothers their and An elegance rivalled only by stage | burned out nele oven to give their and movie sets is to be found in the| sons opportunities and advantages of: the dress, cloak | for advancement, quartered in these| These buildings built by needles Thick oriental rugs] stand as "mdalunerita to ite, ii ty tapes-}and the pursuit of happiness, They The people who 4 “JAMES W. DEAN. FABLES ON HEALTH——— FOR CHAPPED. HANDS _When the wound is on-the body| déwn, and press on the wound with clea gauze or -cdtton, Ice on the , wound is effedtly. hidden imost| Mrs. Jones also tearned that. bind- here under| ing a bunch of ‘cobwebs or a hand- a. iqund, or bathing it in strong vineger'ip ‘sometimes ef- Thus a dangerous bleeding wound| fectual, ’. eed: m Bleeding when it becomes If it, should occur, however, call a} coagulated. Every,-effort should be Heel i a accom- plish tl y ever able means. In the: meantime isy, the patient| (Copyright, 4988 NEA Service, Ine) ture through the. columns of the Bismarck Tribune to ehact a law that es people ener. worth 100 per ry decorate them, ned to help get the taxes down, it would | times, ‘for: be a great revision, at least for the |that effect’ is nat ‘enacted this wii rural public corporations. ter ‘by our. Legislature In- speaking a féw words upon our }sion, a' comm! banking Isws of ‘North Dakota, my {here in Bald opinion’ is, the individual depositor |.initiste a should be protected the ‘same as a | depositors’ u oration: showld be; spd -I [ali banks;-we-need—banke, orudonerabla Legisia- | public :poliey:to) keen rowsitn er Japanese’ widows desire to: marry again; is indicated the