The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1925, Page 4

as ne pr * have to try at least 100 to learn the truth by the law of | Bi * says Dr. William A. Bryan, head of the Worcester State FAGE. FOUR ° — , THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE - which states and cities have embarked in an orgy of spend- -and kept is easier. _ industry is not so sacred as this! . years ago. week-end vacations. ‘ and succeeded in earlier years. TLAT meen Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Publisher CHICAGO Marquette Bldg. DETROIT Kresge Bldg. | PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH I - : Fifth Ave. Bldg. | NEW YORK 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 | the face of the earth. Their broth- | are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION | SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE _ | Daily by carrier, per year...... i wieleieialersiere oe ere pawl) Daily by mail, per year in (in Bismarck) . senate’ G20) 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) | CITIES EXTRAVAGANT \ During the period between 1912 and 1922 the debt of cities in the United States doubled. The per capita public} debt in cities of America is $71.73. State debts have in- creased three-fold and the federal government’s debt due| largely to the war has increased in ten years from $4,850,-| 460,000 to more than thirty billion. These figures reflect the increasing costs of government, | the ease with which bonds are voted and sold and the mort- gage which posterity must discharge together with taxation to defray the running expenses of the government. To meet the payments of the state and city government, the people! must be assessed for interest and sinking fund and the issu- ance of bonds goes merrily on. In the face of the present national, state and city public debts, it behooves each municipality to move slowly in the incurring of fresh obligations. Greatest economy should be practiced in the matter of city and state budgets so that the burden can be decreased. Some of the states which have been going the fastest pace in adding to public debts are Oregon and Florida. Oregon has increased its debt some thirty-nine million and Florida more than twenty-eight million. i Economists everywhere and students of civic affairs ' have been issuing warnings against the abnormal increase in bond issues for every conceivable form of state and muni- cipal venture. Tax exempt features of these securities have | made them attractive to investors and the recklessness with ing is measured only by the ease with which the various issues are floated. The federal bureau is doing a good work in getting out analytical reports showing the trend toward greater and greater public debt. It all should have a most sobering ef- fect upon the people. Just because bonds are easy to sell, and run for long terms, the pay day begins at once and is more burdensome as time goes on. This is food for thought during Thrift Week. While in- dividual thrift after the recipe of Benjamin Franklin is: desirable, the various political subdivisions through their officials could well initiate a vigorous thrift year during 1925. Thrift was the biggest issue in the 1924 national cam- paign and now if states and cities will only follow the ex.’ ample, set by Coolidge, a way out of the stupendous debt will! be found. ' By all means not one thrift week but fifty-two of them. ! TOO EASY TO GET A GUN Once more, there is agitation over the disgraceful statis- | tics of murder and violent crime in America. Literally, we | murder a larger part of our population every year, and catch! and convict fewer of the murderers, than any other people on earth. And if many of these murderers are foreign im- migrants, it is also true that these immigrants do propor- | tionally far more murdering here than an equal number of their countrymen do in their own countries; so, whatever it is, they learned it here. There may be many reasons; but two, at least are clear, and one of these, fortunately, is simple. The looser admin- istration of our criminal laws may be slow to cure. The absurd facility with which pocket weapons may be procured | This is the only country in the world in which, when the impulse to kill strikes an angry, a drunken, a weak, unbalanced or criminal man, he usually has the weapon in his pocket with which to do it. Business may be the most sacred thing in America; but surely the revolver al | WEEK-ENDS ! A ditinguished Englishman visits America. He was here He says the change he most notices is that, Americans are learning to play. This is especially evidenced by “Saturday afternoons off” and the growing custom of We are beginning to learn that work is not the supreme | goal of life. It is merely a means to anend. The goal should! be to enjoy life, see the world and acquire knowledge. These} can come in the evening of life if a man has worked hard ' HAIR Shaving doesn’t make hair grow faster. Dr. Builliard, | the Frenchman, proves this by long experience, he claims. Unfortunately, he used only one man in his tests. He’d averages. The thing that really makes hair grow (also fingernails) is the mysterious chemical substance manufactured by the thyroid gland in the neck. A shave soothes the nerves and has a certain psychic effect that may stimulate the work of j the thyroid. CRAZY H One out of every 25 people in Massachusetts is crazy, Hospital. He says a twenty-fifth of the population of that state “spends some portion of his life in a hospital for men- tal diseases, and 20 cents of every dollar appropriated by Massachusetts goes to hospitals for mental disease.” It’s a rare state that can show a better record. | And at times we're inclined to believe that the craziest ones are outside the walls of institutions. i jnorth toward the shores of the Me- jin the store window, “how she jthem so! Editorial Review _ Comments reproduced “in bis || column may or may not express the opinion of The ibune. ay are presented here in order have both that our readers ma: sides are of important issues which being discussed in the presse of the day. | | | ARMENIANS ON (Herbert Welsh in the New Armenia) The Armenians, established in | their newly conquered country, have | remained unshaken in all vicissitudes | and by their courage have preserved until our days their nationality, their language and their customs. The races that the Armenians knew in their infancy have vanished from crs, the Phrygians, are ‘today only a vague memory. Among the con- temporaries of the Armenians, only | the Hellenes, the Italiotes and the] Gauls have survived, not, however, | without undergoing many changes, und abandoning many of their form- er customs. Except the Greeks, one, must seek the kinsmen of the Ar- menians among the nations who were! brought from the steppes of the! diterranean by the same flood that brought the ancestors of Haik to-| ward Thrace, Tt can clearly be seen that the, titles of nobility of the Armenian| roce date back to more than three! thousand years before our era, and that they are much more ancient! than those of most of the European | peoples, About the time when Rome was being founded, Haik the| eponymous hero of Armenia, led the Armenians to Ararat. The Persians were just commencing their political life when Armenia had already con- stituted herself into a state. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON IN THE STORE WINDOW “We wonder,” sald the wax ladies is taking it. We just wonder” ‘I'll tell you what they meant. | They were really not wax ladies at} all, They were baby dolls—Sally | Wiggleton’s dolls that she got for! Christmas. | One she had spanked, and one she | had soaked, and one she had almost | scalped, so they begged the Fairy Queen to take them away. That she did, by changing them into wax @gures that wear pretty | clothes in store windows. H So when they said, “We wonder! how she is taking it!” they meant | “We wonder how Sally Wiggleton feels about us being made into wax ladies, and being left without a sin- gle doll to comfort her in her old lege But Sally didn’t know they were wax ladies, ! All she. did know was that they were gone. The Fairy Queen had left a note for her saying that they! had gone back to the store they came from. “Oh dear me!” sobbed Sally throw- ing herself on the bed. “I did love I didn’t mean to spank Beiinda, or soak Mary Pickfora, or pull the hair off Mrs, Jiggs. I'm so sorry.” ! She got up and put on her hat and coat and went out. { “I'm going to the store and sec how they look,” she said. i Sally had to pass the window that | the wax ladies were in, but in her anxiety to get into the store she! hardly saw them, “There she goes,” they said staring at her with their distant eyes. Suddenly the wax lady who had. She called me to the telephone and, Leslie would make a charming wi- been Mrs. Jiggs fainted. Fell clear| over in the window—she did. ! “I knew that fur coat was too, heavy for that figure!” cried the! store-keeper rushing out. i He didn’t know that it was a faint and that the little girl beside him had caused it. ! He set Mrs. Jiggs—I mean the wax lady in the fur coat—up again. | She had quite recovered. The store-keeper went back into, the store but Sally stood still andj looked and looked into the window. | “They do look familiar somehow,” | she said over and over. j The wax ladies were talking to-| gether quite silently. | “I like her,” said Mary Pickford) suddenly. “I don’t care. if she did! soak me. I like her and I'd tathery be a doll than a wax lady any day. It’s nothing to stand here like aj dummy from morning till night and| get nothing but stares. I have aj feeling that it’s only my clothes peo- ple admire anyway.” “Me too!” said Belinda. “A spank- ing does one good now and then, I hate being a pink wax lady. That room at Sally’s house had a good smell. It smelled like home and this doesn't.” i “Oh, dear!” said Mi> Jiggs had recovered completely. “I wish I was back. What if she did, pull my hair out! It wasn’t worth much to begin with.” Sally just stood staring. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) = i A Los Angeles craftsman has com- pleted a miniature of the. famous Uln cathedral in Wurttemberg, Ger- many. lee ee i | TTLE JOE } low HOW TO SPELL | WINTER EVENING IN TEN LETTERS? — A British candidate is writing poetry about his fiefents this being the first sign of spring in Great Britain. : : woman. accuses 3 her maid of stealing her hus- lew, York . These girls will take anything. These 4 THE BISMARCK The Qnly Safe Route to LETTER FROM JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT TO SYDNEY CARTON T haven't had a minute of time, old man, to thank you for all the trouble you took with the Hamilton family at the time of Alice's death. Of course you know I got in aw- fully bad for not flying to Leslie’s aid the moment she telegraphed me. ‘The more I live with a woman the less I know about any woman, It never entered my mind that Leslie would mind whether I came Alice's funeral or not. — Certainly Karl Whitney, Alice’s husband, was here and he is not such a chump as not to be able to do something in} the way of keeping the reporters off che scent and burrying his wife with unostentatious simplicity, seems to be what they wanted. Honestly, Syd, I didn’t dream that I was hurting Leslie beyond pardon, Of course you know that she didn’t speak to me after I came and the’ only time that I have had a word out of her was the other night when Dan Mack got drunk and called her up after 12 o'clock in Atlantic City to tell her what a hell of a fellow I was, and that he was afraid that she didn't appreciate me. Leslie was perfectly furious. She couldn't see the humor of it at all. You know, Syd, that I always thought that people were mistaken when they said that women had no sense of humor, but now I know it. said that my drunken companions had insulted her and that she hated me and all my friends. a Comfortable Future | The Tangle to, which | TRIBUNE ‘aN Qi \\ So you see the position I am now in, I don’t mind teHing you, Syd, that I have been hitting it up pretty hard lately, but what could a chap do when his wife acts as unreasonable s Leslie. She doesn’t seem to un- derstand that this new business of ine is worrying me to death, She insists that I must also remember her upon all occasions, and this morning I gota letter from my mother insisting that she will re- ceive no letters dictated to Mrs. Ath- jerton. Sie calls Mrs. Atherton an unspeakable redheaded woman.” Can you beat that? Atherton is the only woman y comfort to me at the ! present ‘crisis of my life. Leslie and her mother’ are at At- lantic City and I know that unless jshe comes back to me soon I shall throw up this whole damn game. Go over there, Syd, won’t you, and fix it up for me. If you can't do thac write me and tell me how I can fix it up. A bachelor knows a great deal more about women than a mar- ried man. JACK. Telegram From Sydney Carton to i John Alden Prescott I am washing my, hands of the whole affair, especially you. You must run it now to suit yourself. Would not blame Leslie if she never spoke to you again. Why don’t you go jahead and drink yourself to death. | dow. SYD. | (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)| Frostbites rences in Anytown where Mr, were common occur- and Mrs. Jones lived. Small boys, after school hours, just would not stay in, even if the EVERETT TRUE BY THE WAY, HAaVG You PAID UP THE PARLES ON HEALTH FOR FROSTBITE HPREMIUM ON YOUR} temperature was around zero, What's a little matter of cold weather when boys want to play? Then one of Mrs. Jones sters complained that an ear was BY CONDO WHAT MADE YoU OF A SUDDGSN, MRS, TRUE = AM LOOKING THAT BAD # ’ i | i {o———_—_—-- | sore, and it itched and itched and itched. “Frostbite,” said Mrs. Jones, who had been expecting just this thing. So she mixed some spirits of tur- pentine and sulphuric acid, each one- fourth ounce; olive oil, one and one- fourth ounces, and after she had shaken the mixture up, she gave the ear an application. “Now, the next time you must play out in zero weather, you pull the ear tabs of that cap down,” she admonished, “Why do you suppose I bought any- that cap for you Christmas, TOM way?” SIMS “SAYS St. Louis women who was given one dollar in a breach of promise suit found her promise wasn't worth much. More thap a thousand families live in. one¥New York apartment, so wouldn’t you hat@to be the janitor? One of old Chris Columbus’ men shouted, “I see dry land.” That’ was back in 1492. The land hasn't been dry since. The speedometer seldom tells .a lie, yet it is called a liar almost as often as the cook book. Does money talk loud enough to drown the voice of the people? - The differences which cause the j most trouble in most families are just the indifferences. One college advises its girls to get jobs as cooks. This would never do. ; There are not enough canned goods. Our radio kick is we never have {been able to get one that wasn’t a young: party line. They have. airplanes which go straight up aow. Only thing wrong j with them is they come straighter down, They say the movies have been cleaning house. We knew they had been cleaning up at the box office. Model husbands, so a young lady tells us, are not built for speed. It often takes just a little -knock- ing to drive home a point, The ‘only real argument advanced against prohibition up to date is it makes it so Hard to get a decent drink. You must stay on your toes to keep others off of them. There is a sliver lining to a cloud, but not to # bubble. When g man tries to rest on his laurels he finds his laurels droop. It is easy to catch up with a lame excuse, Shut. your mouth and open your eyes, if you would be healthy and wealthy and wise. Fall in love with yourself and you won’t have any rivals, Isn't it funny when nothing seems funny?. Ws (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) ‘ A Thought The sonlithgt Ianeth, it shall di —Esek. 18:4. # gp: , Death is th vil, be- RADIO, CLIMATE AND FOOTBALL ok © \ shh By Chester H. ‘Rowell; '* We Public regulation once had to be forced.on public utilities against their wills. selves. Now they are demanding it of them- When the war authority of the California Power Admin- istrator expired, the’ compani man to regulate thern by consent.” ies promptly hired the same Secretary Hoover is trying an even more novel way with the newest industry, the radio. With little or no law, the industry regulates itself. Doubtless these regulations should ultimately have legal sanction; but they will be practically self-imposed, even then. Everybody is for regulation, now, even the regulated. i Every report of eastern blizzards tempts the Californian to boost. New Year’s Day, complained of the heat the sun. Nobody wore an overcoat in the bleachers; trees were green and the roses Eastern football teams, playing in California on and brightness of the grass dna were blooming. Climate is not everything, as we Californians are inclined to imagine, but it is much. Forgive us if we get the superiority complex in Cali- fornia when we read of blizzards and zero: weather, or of thaws and mud. Fifth Avenue has its superiority complex, too. Fifth Avenue may be right. how, we prefer Yosemite. And But so are we. And, some. Those. football games, by the way, played in the great modern stadiums, tempt one of the future. longer than the Coliseum. There will never be any’ temptation to quarry it. rubberneck spieler of the fortieth century will say: your left you see the ruins of where they taught law, justice and the institutions of civilization. “On your right, the mountainous pile which fills the landscape is the Stadium, whese they held their glad- intorial combats.” GERMANY’S SYSTEM SETTLES NOTHING Read of the tribulations of Ger- many, you who would substitute blocs for parties in America. The Germans have had two elec- tions within a year, neither of which settled anything though the people voted right, bot times. With the multi-party system, the decision is made, not by the vote of the people, at the election, but by the trading of politiciaps afterward. No party ever had a majority in the Reichstag. The coalition, after the spring election, lasted barely long enough to squeeze the Dawes plan through, by buying votes for a consideration which it proved im- possible to deliver. The coalition after the fall elec- tion is precariously just forming. There are two possible majority’ groupings, one on foreign - policies and the other on domestic issues. On whichever basis the . govern-' ment is finally formed, the other is able to undermine it, and certain to do so. American parties may have be- come absurd enough. Bloc coalitions ; are worse: | WHAT WILL WE GET FROM FRANCE? If the early reports of the French proposals are correct, we shall .ulti- mately get from France about Half the interest and none of. the princi- pal which we ourselves have to pay to those from whom we borrowed the money. Doubtless this is merely one move in a sparring for position, from which we shall ultimately get a bet- ter bargai But cherish no hope that we shall A modern concrete stadium is | ments, to consider the archaeologist likely to’last The “On Kent Hall, the small building ever be paid anything like in full. If the debt is ever balanced, it will be by.a bookkeeping fiction. Also,, dismiss all the usual argu- These arguments are based either on moral or business princi- ples. The problem is economic; which is different. France should.do what is econ, ically possible. France can Iti- mately raise the money. If it were oné business firm owing another, that would mean that it could pay the money. It may or may not mean that, in an international debt. If you think that the cases are exactly alike, ypu have not begun to study the ques- tion. And if you think that this means that there is a moral differ- ence between the two obligations, you do not understand. There is a difference, and it is not moral. If a business man has the money, he can pay. That is the whole question. With a jon, it is only part of the question. CHARGES “NAGGING” icago, Jan. 20.—“She nagged me,” said Allisén Reynolds, a deaf mute, in answering a charge of non- support filed against him by his wife also a deaf mute. He said his wife continually scolded him the deaf and dumb language not make more moni THEY'RE PARTICULAR London, Jan. 20.—Animals born in London zoos must not be named “Bob,” “Prince,” “Billy,” “King” or any other such common names, au- thorities have ruled. The infant ani- mal must be given distinctive names that will set. them apart from the prosaic titles bestowed upon their four-legged ancestots. The value of perfect: djamonds %s exceeded by flawless emeralds of equal size and weight, according to experts. | _ INNEW YORK. ‘| New York, Jan. 20.—Many a young swain and the light of his life stroll through soft evenings planning the home of their future. It takes some nebulous, enchant@d shape, the plan- ners realizing in their deeper con- sciousness that few’-dreams come true. But this was not the case with John W. Prentiss, now a successful Wall Street broker. He and his sweetheart -years ago’elimbed among the rocks of East Point, Gloucester, Mass., and located the spot on which they woulg some day build their home. And on that spot, in the cen- ter of a 100-acre estate, they built their house, just as they had plan- ned. They call it “Blighty.” Twenty-six years ago Prenti started in as messenger boy in a Bos- ton brokerage house at $3 a week. Recently he, was the hero in a series of articles, “The Making of a Stock Broker,” in a weekly magazine. The lowly movie is aiming high. Request has been made for the use of the Metropolitin Opera House for the premier of a flickering dram. mer. it Vincent Lotez—no, not the. or- chestra leader, but 2 young news photographer—stépped the other day at one of these electric shoe- shining machines. He dropped in al I, hurries off to town. ‘Three “goodbys” are quickly said, the home work that is fitting for a pome. Just the teat, cause it\ ices Salta Canadian detectives have develop- 1, ed'a system Other folks start moving ‘round, aroused by furnace, din. “~ jights the water tank and eer the fire up high. _ These. things , you can bank, euch time a night Z nepany in the tnorning does the household hop from bed. Then there is @ constant buss as things ure done und suid Sister Bue must curl her hair, and Dick must shine his shoes. Mother helps them, here and there, while dad gets more confused. ae z ‘Breakfast coffee’s uhortly made, and eggs ure put t fry. Speed, in all things, must be made for time 1s fying by. sit to, gulp @:treakfaet down. Each une makes the. best of it, then . and mother waves a hand. "Then' gues uhead. us mothers understand.’ Just little story penny and stuckhis shoe under for a hurried, shine,..“I’m off this econ- omising game,” he says. “The brush was caked with snow and I ruined a pair of socks. “The one-cent shine cost me 50 ce! for a new pair.” In a cheap movie house on. the East Side the following slide is ex- hibited between reels: “LADIES ANNOYED BY MEN WILL PLEASE NOTIFY, THE MANAGEMENT.” A fine, life it, is the New York cop leads. Simon Decker of the Clinton street station stopped an East Side restaurant hold-up after a gun bat- tle in..which three bullets struck him. One, aimed at his stomach, hit the steel “nippers” ended from is belt, another imbedded itself in a book of tickets for the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Ball and the third went through his coat pocket. Patrolman Ray Mopney walked into a West Side dairy’ which two men were shooting up. He laid out one thug with his night stick while the other, three feet away, kept clicking a gun that wouldn’t go off. Then Mooney laid him out with his night stick and called the wagon. When the’ judge complimented Mooney, he replied, “I only did my best, Your Honor.” —JAMES W. DEAN. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Servic ALF |OMEONE shakes the furnace down und throws some new in. Father drifts by, "Round the table soun they, way they start the day'in just most’ _- --o~ 5