The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 31, 1925, Page 4

A Mee EA p,PAGE FOUR |7THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN g z Publisher Foreign Representatives ue 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 M/ republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise entitled in this paper and also the local news pub- An lished herein. ti All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SI cont SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ‘rese Daily by carrier, per year............. ee «$7.20 ror Daily by mail, per year in (in Bismarck) . .. 7.20 ‘ski Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck)... 5.00 inst prey Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota...... Societies 1600! THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Esfablished 1873) (Official City, State and County Newspaper) OUR CUSTOMERS WILL GO BROKE Those who do not like the idea that America needs an ("8 “unfavorable” balance of trade are pointing out that our 4 pump is not sucking the world dry of gold. The excess i which we make on trade we return, in the expenditures of our tourists, in the remittances of immigrants, and in the freights we pay on foreign ships. A All this is quite true, and is, indeed, the only reason we Manage to survive our “favorable” balance at all. But, in ' the first place, our whole national policy is bent on stopping ‘,, at least two of these outlets. We are taxing the people for ha the deficit to build up our own merchant marine, and we are limiting immigration, so that newcomers recent enough still to have dependents abroad to whom they remit money will pro -800n be few. The “see America first” crusade is an attempt par even to limit the tourists. And, in the second place these min“““invisible imports’—meaning the export of money without zis .Visible return of goods—are not separate from, but are a 1 "part of, the problem of the balance. ‘.. The balance will not really be “favorable” until it exceeds ‘“" =4hese counter-currents. If that ever happens, we will dis- anq-cover that we have bankrupted our customers and depreci- $ ated our currency. That is not good business. Hi WHAT IS NEWS? hy What is news? Two dispatches, a brief one about. the birth of a six-legged goat and a longer one about the eclipse, are a reminder that the most ancient news standard of all an Still survives. In the daily bill-posted newspaper of ancient Rome, the “Acta Diurna” and even in the much older annual ing eclipses and the birth of monstrosities. They are news iy still. Another record of that ancient newspaper further illus- ta; trates that the oldest things are still the newest. When the + Roman orator Cicero was proconsul in Cilicia, his Roman the “correspondent once sent him what must have been the sport. $134ing section of the daily “Acta.” “What do you mean?’ ‘ wrote Cicero in disgust. “Here you send me things of tha which no one would dare speak to me in Rome. There is out nothing but the biographies of gladiators and the scandals “af” of the divorce courts.” To which his correspondent replied: dec “I would rather send you many things in which you are not so / interested than overlook one which concerns you. I expect bei you to omit much.” No better direction for making or i’ reading a newspaper could be given today. 1 aa part BRAINS a aa Half of our population are morons—some 50 millions of bri them, and an additional 30 millions have intelligence no ‘wi. higher than a normal child of 12 years. So assert experts, wit “ quoted in the Illinois Medical Journal. ae <= It is a sorry picture. And it is a false one. The standard of intelligence of the common people is several times as high = : as some of the “experts” believe. Any one who has mixed with the public knows this is true. Trouble is that intelli- i gence tests usually grade people according to ability to think fast rather than soundly. Intelligence is mofe than quick +wits. IT PAYS ne A million dollars was spent last year in advertising ' coffee. A lot of money, but it reaped a harvest, for the average “per capita consumption of coffee was increased 80 cups a year at an advertising cost of less than one cent per capita: > A famous soup canner’s advertising expense runs to enor- :mous figures. But before he started to advertise his sales cost was 20 per cent. Today it is 5 per cent. A cent’s worth of advertising sells him six cans of soup. : Advertising pays both buyer and seller —the buyer in +smaller costs, the seller in increased production. HOMES i America is getting caught up on its housing shortage. =Building construction last year declined about 600 million dollars over the year previous. : This year, according to the Copper and Brass Research Association, prospects indicate a four billion dollar building ‘program, smaller by more than a billion than that of last - year. + Building unmistakably is slowing down somewhat. It signifies nothing more, however, than the passing of the war boom period and a trend toward normal in the industry. NAMES 5 2 We are quick at adopting catch phrases and “trick” names. Especially quick at applying them to diseases. 3. “Flu” was one of the best advertised epidemics in all * history—largely because of its name. And now we have its variations. * “Stomach Flu” is the name applied to a now prevalent intestinal ailment. The same thing in a certain eastern locality is called “Devil’s Grippe.” + }However, it is as disagreeable under one name as another. , We are interested less in the label than in the ‘cure. me EMPLOYES ‘National City Bank recently announced that its employes 1, would be permitted to buy stock in the company at $275 a + share, compared with its market value of $410. + .A big lumber company distributed free between two and three million dollars worth of its stock among its 124 em- if thre | i "t is a dull day when the news does not bring a similar i y—businesses sharing their accumulated wealth and ning power with employes. A big movement, reflecting a ‘fs rf mene Editorial Review __|} eee Comments reproduced itn this column may or express the opinion of The Dune. Ea are presented here in order that our readers Fey? have both sides of important iesues which are Bere al lscussed ‘in the prese of the day. NATURE AND DRUGS (Arthur J. Cramp in the American Mercury) In the barter sale or exchange chandise save one, the purchaser has a chance of learning, event- ually, whether or not he hag been swindled. Even to the unexpert, time through its agencies, wear and tear, makes clear whether one has made a good or a bad bargain in the purchase of an automobile, a piano or a suit of clothes. Conversely, the man who sells cars, or musica] instruments ‘or raiment has nature as an oppon- ent. If the goods are not up to specifications, it is but a matter of time before’ the purchaser learns the fact, and so acquires knowl- edge which, if he has brains, may prevent him making the same er- ror the next time. But there is one commodity in the ‘purchase ‘of which the public never aves and never can get an even break; products or services that are sold for the alleged allevi- ation or cure of human ills. For here the seller has nature, not as an opponent, but as an as- sistant. The healing power of na- ture is such, fortunately for bio- logic perpetuity, that the general tendency of the disordered animal economy is to get well. Not always, it is true; there come stages and conditions in which the tendency of the ailing body is to go on to dissolution. But in probably 80 per cent of all human ailments ‘he afflicted per- son gets well whether he does something for his inc.sposition or} does nothing for it. Herein lies the opportunity of the quack and the nostrum vender. There is no hope in seeking happi- ness unless you are happy in the seeking. i of practically every item of mer-|- mAs en PLA Nee aesecace THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | On ‘Another Rampage! HAPPENED LITTLe LEAGUE O'NATIONS For The Luva Pie BE CAREFUL! HOW CROSSTAS FIELD WEARIN' ANYIAING RED Such AS DEBS AGREEMENTS OR FOREIGN ENIANGLEMENTS OR SUCHTAINGS an automobile. You would s to race everything on the road.” “No—honest—cross my heart, 1 wouldn't,” whinnied the horse. “Then you may have your wish,” said the Fairy Queen, and waving Hea a remarkable thing took TO THE LITTLE MARQUISE, The black horse was nowhere to CONTINUED be seen. Instead, a fine new black Good times are bad times unless you do more than have a good time. chronicle of the Pontiffs, two items were uniformly entered |. The only thing worse than ‘béing in a rut is being on no road at all. Popularity leaves very little time for steady thinking. 1 : Weal do things without thinking, and one is being bored with life. Life's amusing. People save so many things to see even though there isn’t any return trip. The importance of things close to you are magnified, like a cinder in your eye. Today is what we were all look- ing forward to yesterday. It makes a man mad to be dunned for a bill, because he knows he may have to pay the thing. Patience is considered a virtue when it often is merely a case of not knowing what to do, You can only make interesting friends by being interested. Tell others everything you know and they soon will find you don't know anything they don’t. The lark is an early riser among birds; not proving, however, that rising early is a lark. Every new school is a memorial to the future. Half the trouble with working is knowing you can't be loafing. stomach, but you can’t think best on an empty head. A telephone girl who can’t cuss has @ very poor memory. Forgetting a grouch will make it run away from home. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “Have you heard any more wishes lately?” the Fairy Queen asked the Twins. ; “Yes,” said Nancy. “We heard a horse wish that he was an auto- mobile.” “The idea!” said the Fairy Queen. “As. though a horse wasn’t ever so much nicer. Where does this horse live?” f “He belongs to Mr. O’Neil and his neme is Frank. He's very fast— he’s a race horse.” “A very dangerous person to be an automobile,” said the Fairy Queen shaking her head. “But come along. We'll hunt him up and see what we can do. Two Spot, the big blue velvet but- terfly, flew off with the three of them to the place where Frank was. l this about being asked the Queen. 7” whinnied Frank, id Nick. “Didn’t you say you wanted to bs one? I heard you.” “Sure,” said” the horse. “Every. horse wis that, especially a race horse. How do you s’pose I feel when I’m out on the road to let everything pass me.. They go by— zip—zjp—zing, like bullets out of a gun. It’s most’ mortifying.” “No doubt,” said the Fairy Queen. “But most dangerous, too. If you feel that way now—you'd still feel that way if’ you: were changed into You can eat best on an empty{* automobile was standing w horse had been, right beside the fence. “With a honk, flonk that something like a whinny it r of the gate onto the road. Mr. O'Neil came out and surprised. tell me it was here,” he said, in ‘and starting the engine. Little Marquise, I laughed.’ 1] than ever by her foolishness.” he would | ‘aughed heartily. Jack was furious;| I could not speak, little ot only furious, but hurt. That, of| It seemed such a terrible thi If he had turned his head a funny noise. It sounded —no racing! I jiggle!” promised! the smooth road. “It’s risky business to turt horse into an automobile,” ¢ Queen was saying to the pens.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1925, NEA Servi New York, Jan. 31.—Th o'clock subway rush........ You have a superiority perhaps, when you enter the hole in the ground. It is soon smothered stamped out, ground under heel. This milling mob reduces all its ele- ments to its own level. The Great Unwashed. ‘Kike licky Wop Slav.... Pushed about..... Stepped Jammed in on all sides..... against by unclean clothes. . : }Newspaper knocked from hai Can't stoop to pick it up... Look at that guy diving door already filled with bodies Pulling, hauling, straining, inorith Well, he got in.. You push me once more knock your teeth loose..... _ I can't help it...... They’ Aw, gwa A girl 5 . Let her 0} form, * See that, “It’s funny that the man whe brought my new automobile didn’t have seen an enormous blue butter- fly with three people riding him— disappear over the tree tops. gle-jiggle! jiggle-jiggle! but really it was muttering to itself, “I'll to remember—I'll have to remembei Mr. O’Neil released the brake and let out the clutch and away ‘went the new automobile like a bird over “Let's stop here and see what hap- oo |. In New York +—__- ———_—* I don’t care who's pushing you, you quit pushing me, you get me??? ! tries to catch the sleeve of a man pushing his way into the car. He brushes her aside and she falls, strik- ing her head on the concrete plat- till want here the sounded ‘olled out | Mabel Carter. seemed , getting sourse, made me angry. attention to her.” ice, Inc.) -: The Tangle :: ee a LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT) strange as it may seem to you and “{ have another grievance against Sally Atherton,” said Jack in, telling me the news of the plant. ‘I can not understand why she is so nasty to that poor tortured, misunderstood “It is easy to see, Jack, that you| Sally’s detriment. The engine of the automobile made vere.not in Pittsburg at the time of} We quarreled. People quarrel like jig- [the trial,” I told him, “Why, the| over such little things. What dif- iudge.when he sentenced her hus-| ference did it make to-us what al band to the, penitentiary for life said|the other people in all the rest of Vshiat he was sorry that he could not|the world did. But we quarreled Jiggle-] send‘her up also. He told her that about it just the ‘same. quilty) I can’t write You ahy more, little than the man Who had actually done} Marquise, for Jack has gone back to the killing. It made a great sensa-| his office in Pittsburg, and things tion. at the time, Jack. Lots of peo-|are just about the way they were ple thought the judge had no right| before he came down. You may be nm race fo say this, but I was glad that he|glad you did not marry your kingly he Fairy I'did. It labeled the woman in such a| lover, my dear, for then you would Twins. f vay that she will never be able to| have learned quite thoroughly what man|many women have learned to their he thought she was more ruin another man, No other will have the temerity to pay any| cost. “There's where you are mistaken,| it may be a great thrill, but it is lear,” Jack said rather sarcastically.| very different from love, Sadly, ‘Jimmy Condon is head over heels LESLIE. in love with Mabel Carter, and| (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) Sally Athertop and al) the rest of the kitty-cats, I can understand it.” I could not help, little Marquise, of drawing myself out of Jack's arms. “And what does Sally say to all this?” I asked. “Oh, she, of course, is perfectly furious. .At the present moment she “{ told her she ought to try toland Condon do not speak and they! make her forget that unhappy epi-|wetch each other like eats amd mice sode that made the whole world tutn|y think that M.t. Ath : igainst her. “And what do you think Ws LG i Ea ce she said to me: ‘Shut up, you fqol’."| ing Jim think more of the poor girl! watch each other like cats and mice.’ ing a mistake for she is only m wise. 1s compare Sally with Mabel Carter to! | | Marriage is a new experience and Chicago stockyards. Cattle, dumb,| hundred years from now. Why e_ nine- | driven cattle, lashed and beaten. Never mind, some day they'll put JAMES W. DBAN. \ gory giant at the top of the run- : wav with a maul in his hand and Sei aes he'll crack your skull for you and} The Wesleyan church of England complex the picture will be finished. We'll: never -know the difference a} dained as ministers. worry? has decided that women can be or- on...., «Rubbed nd at the crac! and I’ re push- jut! She snarling, sputtering impotent rage???2?? What a nice picture ist!!!!! Looks like an ug- ly, wild Just see how far manican degenerate!!! Yet he thinks dred per cent American”. he is, with a name like something like tha : where yoy belong! The sluggish stream moves down the platform. Heels are ste would have more sense than to get in| into | car like thi é Step lively!!!Come on, get outt!¥: Let ‘em out first!!!!! Get back there " ’ he’s civilized....Looks like a “hw Yes, Dean or pped on. Packages. are knocked from hand: ft You cannot stand still and go with it until the rfass i pent. ed by this great underground the crowd “to pass. You must be a part of it. It is strenger than y It moves’ involuntarily. You ‘mu: disgorg- Move along. Step along this way, fenced in by iron bars. Just like the | EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO DOING — TIGHTENING IT Joyce vs P. 8, Chaffee and his bonds- | has. - SATURDAY, JANUARY 81, 1925 Yes, Evolution Is a Theory, But—— By Chester H. Rowell California is the latest state to face the demand that teaching of evolution be forbidden in the schools. A committee of college presidents has just reported to the state board of education approving the existing text books and pointing out that “evolution is presented as a theory and -not as an established fact.” This is tactful, and, of course, quite correct. But do not be misled by the word “theory.” Popular speech may contrast “theory” and “fact” as meaning “sure” and “doubtful,” but in science a theory may be as certain as a fact. ‘ : Most of the major truths of science are theories. Gravi- tation is. So is the molecular, atomic and electronic con-' stitution of matter and the wave transmisbion of light and sound. ta . So are all the “laws of nature.” So are the hypotheses on which your son constructs his. radio, ioe Much is unknown about all of these, but nobody doubts that they represent reality. The reality of evolution is as little doubtful. f paneer we A fossil is a fact. Evolution is the meaning spelled by millions of such facts. It is as clear, to those acquainted with the facts, as is this sentence to those familiar with letters and words. . . ae Yet even the first step beyond the fossil, to the assump- tion that it is the imprint of a living creature, is already in the realm of theory. There have been blasphemers who pretended to honor God by the theory that He miraculously placed the fossils to deceive mankind. : ’ We prefer faith in the Finger} crawling animaleulae on a speck of that traced the records in the living} star dust. rock. But also they may realize that in ‘| all the stupendous cosmic sweep, the RECORDS SHOW HOW only greater thing is the Mind that LIFE PROGRESSES apprehends it. These records show ‘life progress-| From the very throne of the uni- ing from simple to more complex| verse, man looks down on his own forms, in manifestly related family | insignificance. He knows himself groups and lines of descent. smal! because he is great. Son of the This is Evolution, on which scien-| microbe; brother of the archangel— tists are agreed. + this is man, and Thou are mindful It is true that there are things|0f him! about evolution on which they are not agreed, “Some ‘explanations | AND NOW THB e which once seemed adequate are|CHESTNUT TREE evidently incomplete. New things throw light on old. Isolated sentences by scientific The chestnut tree, once a common writers to this effect have been torn | American species, is rapidly becom- from their connéction to misuse as|ing extinct. “proof texts” to show ‘that thesc! Ages earlier, the mastodon, e scientists deny evolution. camel and the horse also became ek The writers themselves. repudiate| tinct in America, though two of any such interpretation. They are | them survived in Eurasia. no more doubtful of evolution than| The explanation, in the case of the they are of the equally “theoret-| chestnut, is known to be an endemic ical” hypothesis that the ‘earth moves | disease. : around the sun. Did some Pleistocene plague sweep America of its most notable mam- MAY NOT FRIGHTEN mals, long before the advent of man? BUT IT WILL IMPRESS STILL BREED This month's eclipse will have] CANNON FOOD been seen by more: people then ever idently the chief end of man is witnessed a like spectacle before. still. the. breeding of “cannon fod- Since the world began to be dense-| der.” France proposes to increase ly inhabited, no eclipse evc\ travergy|the bachelor tax and to raise the ed so populous a region. And none} allowance to parents of large fam- of these people’ will be afraid or su-| ilies, Perstitious, So much for modern] Why this solicitude? France has enlightenment! people enough, and its population is But if the eclipse does not fright-| not decreasing. e en, it'should not fail to impress us.} More inhabitants will not make There could be no more imposing re-| France richer or hapjPer. But Ger- minder’ of the littleness and the|many is breeding potential soldiers greatness of Man. faster than France, and France is Observers will feel their place as! afraid. Kanonenfutter! FABLES ON HEALTH AIDS TO SOUND SLEEP Sleeplessness may be caused from| soothing effect upon the tired mus¢ excessive fatigue, Mrs. Jones of Any-|cles. Also it is soothing to the town learned. frayed nerves, Seemingly a contradiction is this.) A good sedative that is sodthing A tired body and aching limbs often] and restful when one is fatigued is are inducements to sleep, made of camphor, ammc§/a, salt and But when these are accompanied] alcohol. * with nervousness, often a natural re- sult of fatiguc;: sleep -remains an elusive thing. ' A hot bath proves beneficial in many cat The warm water has a into a quart bottle, and the bottle filled with boiling Sponge the body with the solution, and at once lie down. FORESAKEN (Florence. Borner), You stole my heart with your roguish smile, But your love just lasted a little while,. Then you carelessly went uway; « You vowec your love would ibe firm and true, ‘That nothing on earth could love subdue, But you left me that selfsame day. You won a heart that was,:pure end ‘good, Fast wrapped in the fancies of\Maidenhood, - t Then carelessly cast it aside, °° What cared you tho it should fade and pine, What cared you that it ‘was heart of mine, ‘When you sought outa. richer pride. - You won @ sweet anc a trusting life, A heart that had known: no thot of strife, Shielded by love and blest;, © - You turned aside and deft 'it to die, - Each tender word was a bitter’ lie, A snare. was in each carets.. ~~ ‘ Forgive you? Aye, if would but ask, Forgiveness would’ then be'@ toviug table, F 4 0. your. way. a e, And pity for me I cannot trace se Nor a, conse! on: a change ‘of venue and involved ithe limbility ‘of ‘the defendant in the injunctional « rt Chaffee: ‘and: pebere enjoined the SET TIME FOR SENTENCE county commissioners from repairing The time for sentencing-in the Bia Marcar cei 7 Neary sbeuke st case of Mike Barth convicted of Si posing of mortgaged. property, pod the defendant in fe case of the stat a eT TEA against Slocum for carrying ce I: A Thought { ——_——— -_____. + —____ 6 ed weapons was set for Feb. 27, The delay ix occasioned because of the fact that Judge Berry will lea day for Fessenden to hold a court. If thon hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed. from under thee?—Proy, 22:37. _ a er ei a Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open enemies.—-Aughey. night, February 23. when “Seven Da Pa , Days,” a three.act comedy, will be AT WAS A SURPRISE presented at the Palace theatre. : Suitor—I hope my proposal for the hand of daughter hasn't taken 4 RETURN VERDICT ‘:} you’ by “surprise, ‘slr, The jury in, the ease of Norbert} eather ve |, to tell the truth, it c an je been so jolly slow. ii Ocha aTeat ects Mn ig nan aa Hat ‘ : ‘ wasn’t - ~The cave came from ‘Mercer coun! were. fish g “ Mt allerhioadon: Ap ‘These ingredients should be poured lence burdened thot, F mn