The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 2, 1925, Page 2

‘sion hands a city engineer a gratuity of nearly $8,000 of the ‘is passed on to every individual in the community not atthe’ _publie crib. & : + Among them is the conclusion that density of populat#™ liad who makes the circumstances. PAGE TWO THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Hiitered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. | Publisher GEORGE D. MANN Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO Marquette Bldg. D SMITH PAYNE, BURNS AN 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 ar@also reserved. >-MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year............+00. «$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) i (Official City, State and County Newspaper) ne DD fo Pe data Pe aa RRA PR PENNA ET POWER TO TAX In some instances government agents fail to realize that their power to tax does not mean necessarily the ability of the people to pay and that always the power to tax brings with it the power tp destroy. Taxes have reached a point ‘in this city where many no longer have the ability to pay. and this fact, if none other, should be a warning to all taxing bodies to move slowly. President Coolidge recently appeared before the federal department heads and told in an address which many in ;this city “picked out of the air” via radio, how great a sav- ing had been made in federal expenditures. More than two billion have been lopped off and the prospects under his regime are that the thrift and care in the disbursement of :public money will continue. Too many cities and Bismarck is no exception are in the oils of the so-called experts—usually a three or five per! cent city engineer whose bread and butter depends upon his | ‘ability to promote public works under the guise that they ' are_necessary for the welfare of the community. The wel- | fare end of the promotion is usually left to legal talent: who | profits, curbstone conversationalists usually non-taxpayers | who apply the “hot air” and then the horde of cotitractors ; and other direct beneficiaries. The hue and cry is raised and those who have the boldness to suggest that the tax- payer has some rights and his ability to pay should be con- sulted are attacked as enemies of progress. ¢It is even possible that the city commissioners may par- ticipate directly or indirectly in the sale of supplies to fav- “Qred. contractors. So tightly knit is the community: of: in- DETROIT Kresge Bldg. “terests, that the tax payer is left out of consideration and ' unless he organizes and vetoes the extravagance, he will continue to pay. Cities are probably the worst offenders in the matter of tax increases, school authorities are a close second and often even outstrip the city administration and then follow in line county officials. Taxpayers and voters —.and who after all is not a taxpayer directly or indirectly —should make their strength felt at the’ polls against those officials ‘who refuse to handle public funds with the same care as they do their own money. Occasionally one hears this expression: . “Thank Heaven, I’m not a taxpayer! ~ “An analysis of the situation shows, however, that we are -all taxpayers. If it is a woman who has remarked that she is not a taxpayer, she has only to scrutinize every purchase made in a day and what portion went to meet taxes. One writer has analyzed it in this graphic fashion: Downtown she had bought a summer straw hat for $6, some hooks and eyes and pins, for 25 cents, some cotton dress goods for $3 and had paid her month’s gas bill for $4.50. Then tired out she had gone to a soda fountain and bought a sundae for 15 cents. About ten cents of the price of her hat went to pay taxes for the’ manufacturer, whole- saler, and retailer; 5 cents out ofthe 25 cents she ‘paid for ; hooks and eyes and pins went to pay the same taxes for some- ‘one else. Of the price she paid for dress goods about 50: cents had gone for taxes.” ° 4 : * ‘The process might be extended but this is enough to indi- _cate that everyone is a taxpayer and when a city commis- tax payers’ hard eatned money that piece of extravagance | It cannot be dodged. The tax question is one that concerns every man, woman and child in the community despite the dust throwing tactics | of the “tax-eaters.” : x CROWDED Interesting facts are contained in the New York Depart- |land owned dy ™ment of Health bulletin. . itself appears to have no effect on the city’s death rate, the | true index being found in the increase in number of persons | occupying one room. H “Infant death rate, says the bulletin, is twice as great | when five persons live in one room as when two oecupy:a} similar room. | GOvercrowding is one of the biggest problems our health! institutions have to contend with.. | Number of deaths was 71,252, a decrease of 2180 from | _ Editorial Review a Comments reproduced in tia column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. Thsy ace presented here in order ¢! our readers may have both sides of, impurtant issues which are béing discussed in the prefs of the day. FOOL BILLS (Dickinson Press) It would seem that at every ses- sion of the state legislature certain chosen representatives of the peo- we must break into limelight through the introduction of fool bills and resolutions into either house, We learn of an instance where, the other day a representative from Cavalier county igtracuced a bill that would assess a fine of from 10 to 26 cents per acre upon rmers who fail to. fication. Tommy- rot! Whoever before heard , of. such foolishness? This pfil, so far as its merit is concerned is about on a par with the one providing that all baby cabs must in the fu- re be four feet and six, inches, wide. Then we have the perennial of- fice seekers who are endeavoring to make the legislators helieve that an immediate investigation of ,vari- ous te departments is neces- sary—sai! investigations to, be made for political purposes only as the developments of the past week have brought out. But neverthe- less, these were the cause of the introduction of several resolutions practice diver: in ‘hoth bodies. Then we have the gentlemah {i from Williams insisting that the congress to recognize Soviet Rué sia. Last but not least Bill Martit senator from Morton county, com@s, along and asks that body to ap- point a committeg,of five to in- vestigate the state ‘highway com- mission (that body.is already un: der fire in {hey jyoyge), the guar- anty fund com idn, the receiv- ership of close tate-banks, the board of administration, etc., etc. All these are insistec’ upon de- spite the fact that Governor Sorlie hag frowned, upon political investi- gations of any nature and worked consistently to keep harmony be- tween factions. Senators and reprep#ntatives who propose such fool stunts not only bring ridicule upon them- selves but upon the voters who elected them and the state as well from outside sources. county “SAYS The value of wishing is it makes; you so dissatisfied you go out and see that the wishes come true. Common sense is what makes a college education valuable. Concentrated education is about like drinkéng beef tea instead of eat- ing steak. Nice thing about cussing cold weather is you don’t have to stop to slap a fly off your nose, lig Reading the wrong kind of books is just the same as associating with the wrong kind of people. Success is living because you want)” to instead of because you must. Truth is changeable like the weather, and just because the weath- er changes you can’t say there isn’t any weather, If today is a blank it is because you regarded it that yesterday, Perhaps modern music doesn’t last long because it gdes 0 “fast. People spend years, looking for things to find happiness in without realizing it is inside. ° his pee The man who spends time} | bragging about his.ancesters is not likely to have descendants who will) brag about him. fee With the world on wheels so muth of the tire it is not surprising some: get into head Circumstances do not make the These who have done great things had: only one life in which to do them, is the same amount of time you A flower is not as big as a tree, but a flower never intended to be. While truth dwells in the inner man it is improved by a trip abroad, ‘the preceding five-year average. This is greater progress | (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) : t . : i i than at first apparent, considering New York’s enormous population increase in the last six years. i i .Most important fact of all, however, is that New York's gréat saving of life was under five years of age. The hest | critéricn of a’ people’s civilization is the rate of infant mor- | tality. : SALESMAN ; -1 Unele Sam is a great salesman: His purchases from | foreign countries in-1924 were 181 million dollars less than ' His: gales, however, were 420 millions greater than in % ‘And last year his exports exceeded imports by 1100 ‘Shall wonder that the United States is the Croesis among, Was'the luxury of the rich. Now ig , ; iy ag gig’ in-the country. ° Autoa also are cheaper to buy-in this, the twenty-fifth r of the.industry, than:they-ever were. They cost less goud’ i did not so many years ago. t auto about passed the stage where @ lexury. As a matter.of tact, ADVEN OF: THE NS | BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON Nancy and Nick and’ the» Fairy Queen came to a place in the road where the new little black automo- bile would haye to pass. ‘hen they watched and waited. ‘ou never in the world would have guessed that it had been a fine race horse not fifteen minutes before. But it had—and the Fairy Queen's nd had changed it. This is what it was saying to it- self. “My, but this nice! But I must not forget what 1 promised. 1) © h promised the Fairy Queen not to race, “There's a chicken! Yoh good- ness, I almost stepped on it—I mean Tan _over itt “There's some mud beside the road. It looks cool and soft. It feels ‘80 good on one’s hoofs--I mean tires, “l wonder if my master would tuind'if Iran over and got into it » Tittle. E think Ib try.” exe Ard the first thing you know. that ri of ith assembly memorialize }i- TOM STAN The Last Soldier and Still Going Strong! toad into a muddy ditch and stopped. “Huh! Now I can’t move. I won- der what’s happened!” said the auto- mobile. “And the mud doesn’t feel so good after all. Goodness! I’m getting up in the world. My master 1s, pumping something under me and I’m going up and up and up.- Huh! ;I wonder what that’s fort “Goodness! Chains! Are they going to halter me? Oh, putting them of |my hoofs—tires, I mean! How queer! | They never did that when I was a horse. “There! I'm moving! I'm out of the mud again. Goodness! I though lit would be fun but it wasn’ | The - automobile kept on talking and jtalking to itself, although it all just sounded ike chug—-chug--chug+ {jiegle—jiggle! to anyone who was istening. “Now I'm on my way again. Oh! Yionk! Honk! Do keep out of my way. Those chickens will drive me crazy. z “Oh! That was a dog that, time. I just missed him! I all but upset keeping out of his way, too! Nui- ‘sance, I call it. “ay “There! I hear another car coming behind me. I never let_a horse :beat me and now I’m not going to let another ear pass. No sir, I can, go much faster. Just watch! Oh; dear! I, promised that I wouldn't race. I forgot. But it’s such fun to..race. \I wish I hadn't promised. “I don’t think-it will matter just jonce. Honest, I can’t let that car s. I've too much pride. “There! ll just let myself out a little.” The automobile stopped and got down to business. ‘and faster and faster it went. When it came to the turn in the road where the Fairy Queen and the Twins were waiting, crash! It hit a jtree and off went a step afd two wheels. The Fairy Queen waved :her-wand. There stood the black tate ‘horse again. 4¢ “You're better as you were,” said the Fairy, Queen. “Silly wishes often bring us to grief.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) talking Faster |’ MANDAN NEWS RECEIVES WORD OF FATHER’S DEATH Mrs. M. K. Fread received word Saturday that her father had died at Mt. Vernon, If., and was buried Saturday. Mrs. Fread,had been call- ed to Illinois because of her father’s illness, and while away her little daughter died at home in Mandan. FUNERAL OF JAMES A. KEY Funeral services Saturday at. the St. Joseph’s Catholic church for the late James A. Key, veteran employe of the Northern Pacific were attend- ed by many friends of the deceased, especially’ among the railroad work- ers, Pallbearers at the church and at the grave were: J. J. Kelly, James, Gorman, O. A. Richardson, Herman Tavis, John Foran and R. B, O’Rourke. Relatives who were here ta attend the funeral services were: Mrs. D. C. Sullivan of Milwaukee; Richard Clarity, Mike Hanahan, Mrs. Brittner, Mrs. Duflan, and Mrs, Ruttledge, all of St. Cloud, Minn. LICENSE TO WED A marriage license was ,issued by County Judge Shaw to Emil Haugen nd Edith Weisser. eth « tS not my hoyse: he. that tell- 1 nat tarry, in my, sight. a a) —Pe. 101. » You should not live one way in private, another in spublic.—Syrui Z New Hazelton _ Ghureh Planned | Hazelton, N. Dy Péb.-2-—Haselton % to have another new ‘churet,. The Baptist people of this com-) | SONEONE OUGHT To \ TELL AIM WAAT | DEMOBILIZE MEANS i i i The Tangle LETTER FROM BEATRICE -SUM- MERS TO SALLY ATHERTON My Dear Sally: From the letters you have written me lately I have decided that we of the moving pic- ture colony, whom everyone seems to think are different from everyone else, are just human beings after all, We eat and sleep and love and hate and live and die out here in Holly- wood just as they do in Pittsburg or Kalamazoo, New York or Cairo. Poor Leslie, I am sorry for her. 1 hever could understand Jack’s great appeal to her, but I heard yesterday that one of the moving picture queens had said that she could not understand my appeal to Dick. So ¥ guess these kind of conundrums will have to be left unsolved. "I have made the acquaintance, since [ have been here, of a very charming woman. She is a woman About the age of Leslie’s mother. She=is playing grande dames in one of the companies on the lot, Dick makes fun of me because he says that, I have picked out the oldest and<staidest woman in Hollywood tobe my friend. But I can’t help it. I have missed my mother so much although I was quite young when she died. She has been a very wealthy wo- man, a child of an old and very aris- tocratic family, who married a young} salesman in her father’s employ. . | He died some years ago and left) her penniless, so the story goes. _ She has a very dignified charming presencé and you and| have | munity have felt the need of a place in which to hold their worship for somie..time, and recently decided to build’a church in Hazelton,, * Last week a committee wege out working among the members’ and others of the vicinity with the result that they have gathered ugh.) juail BRONSON, ALLOW MG. ONG MORGiiadIY be Ee You MAKS ME MSGR4BLE WITH THAT CONSTANT. GRABBING AND TUGGING AT Sour, CLOTHES AROUND [THERe'S A GENT. i : : S FURNISHING StoRS THIS BSLock, AND tle “oun aecr s HOLD uP Your TeousEeRs, 4 fa HOLD NOUR JOB IN THIS, CPEICE, SAY IT WITH seen her often on the screen, You| will recognize her name when I give it. It is Marta Selwyn. I fell in love with her on the screen and went over to the lot on purpose to ask her over to my house. | Since then I have studied her care- | fully. here is something in her! face that I would lied! to cad. I know from looking into her clear, | yet somewhat world-weary eyes that show enough’. interes dy enthusiasm to still question that! some of her experiences must have been soul-scorching. But for all that her mouth does! not reveal any hardness and her The Grand Old Game of Bluffing Some people will dc have always had those better houses than; travagarice, but aga They thought théy ¢ to have ‘got ahedid already. business variety is reported. more than; their du Tis'a strange «¥: of it is bluffing yourself others, ame, this ceases ‘to be gentlemanly. spring, they exhibited to the hearty approval. If this keeps on, even sobriety may become ‘fashionable. LAY ONE. TROUBLE, SET UP ANOTHER New China‘is trying to: remove the sources of ‘knowledge by adopting a new alphabet,’ which: will make: it almost as easy for a Chinese child to learn to read as it now is for an American or Europeén child. The tfouble’ is ‘thiit, in thus re- moving one langage barrier, the Chinese will be setting up another. The one bond of unity of ail China has been thy written langua e Chinese provifiees tind’ di speak differnt « If the written: Kanfuage, in China, were what it is oar languages: merely a» way of writing down the spoken lInnguage—there would he no common means of ‘communication But the Chinese written langua is something different. “It is strictly written. It can not be spoken—or, if it were, nobody: could understand it. Only the highly edueated can read it well, and most of the people can- not read at all. : But those who do read, aN read the same things, no matter where they live or which language they speak, : They are the leaders ofthe poo- ple, and the ‘common 'w¥ittén” lan- wuage makes them conseibydly’ one people, of one culture: ‘3 Now, if an alphabet is ‘introduced, it must, like all other alphabets, simply transfer to paper the spoken language. More peonle ill learn to ‘ead—-but :they will read as inany complexion has much of the fresh- ness of youth. I knew she had a, story.. 4 2 . ‘ How Dick laughed at me when I‘ told lim of my theory that ugly,j selfish, suspicious thoughts and ac-} tion worked havoe with one’s 1com-, plexion, ’ “You can hardly tell.what a man up and down Broadway‘I saw Jim or woman will be before 40, but I; believe, Dick, that I cawtell what“; man op woman has beenby leoking into his or her facestiftetsi#, “Now I know,” I went on full of; my theory, “that poor Mrs, Selwyn has a face made beautiful by sad ex- perience.” Dick told me°I was too fanciful, but as though to make my theory come true the next afternoon, Mrs. Selwyn told me this story, I am writing this to you because I have made a scenario out of it and Dick is going to put it on for me. ° (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) money to warrant the building opera- tions. i This. week anothée* committee will select and negotiate for the purchase of a site, and ~expected that all the preliminagies will. have been. at- tended to so. building operations can begin as soon as spring opens up, Heve vy } ELE you Make To" iy THE BR ue CAD, LING : Nate uO Ie “OU CARS} = “(| state championship sg languages ds the-polyglot peoples of Europe. wt they could aff Now; since thie income tax returns are —the voluntary. tax boosters, who pay to get the reputation of large: incomes. Decency:..of speech is growing € ‘as “damn” ‘was pecoming ladylike, anything much wo barrier between its “people and the} By Chester H., Rowell » almost anything for “front.” We who wore better clothes dnd lived in ord, not for. Juxury or ex- investment. ould get ahead faster by pretending public, a new bluff—and the bluffiest part into thinking you are bluffing ‘i ing almost respectable. Just When the great Holy Name parades were held lasi American people hundréds of , thousands of members of a society opposed to profanity anid obscenity and devoted to purity of speech and conduct... They were a manly looking lot, too—not a smirking si or a dour puritan among them. ‘ : Now an international anti-blasphemy and _anti-obscenity conference is being called, and the king of England sends ‘his ambassador to notify the Italian government of his v 18 JAZZ MUSIC IMMORAL? “Jazz may be bad music. are even fastidious puristse think it is immoral music. t its worst, it at least de better fate than being made nohym of a life consisting y of lewd and drunken orgies. “THe Jazz life” does not mean a life devoted to a concatenation ‘of barbartenbisés which some, people suppose is music. : It means 4 fife from which so- briety, virtue and honesty are lack- ing. There who music, hag an: misuse of the word to érime and debauchery. Or else—are the purists right after all? Is jazz, just as music, something immoral in itself, and th. instigator of other immoralities? des: SEEPER OF THE GATES England is to build an air base, as well as a naval base, at Singa pore, The two go together, Look at the map, if you want to see why Eng land builds this base. There are four gates to India, all in territory, held by other power’, and England holds all, four. Gibraltar, geographically in Spaiti; Suez, in Egypt; Aden, in Arabia, and Singapore,.at, the tip of the Malay peninsula, The first four are the Singapore n entrance, ‘The choice is a long detour around Borneo and Java, Whoever holds ‘thd gates, holds India’ * Helle western commands — the New York, Feb, 2.—See-sawing Corbett, the’ boxfighter, whd he ‘hus not so much of a paunch-As'L, ‘albeit he ‘knocked ‘out John L.“Séllivan a year before I was born. Saw Myrtle Stedman, véteran of the flickering drama, an@ she looks not a day older than her son, though he is 22. He weigh’ 225 :and’ seems quite a man of the world Saw Lila Lee in a glittering green frock, running around with Jim Kirkwood, her husband../.....Saw a man step from a doot df tHe Times Building, strike a-man passing by in the face and walk away. No word'was spoken by either. What’ was it all about??? Saw a snow shoveller stop work, 1ook up at the eclipse and: then yell at another laborer, “Hey, Tony, lookit the moon shining in the daytime! Saw Eddie Cantor, who has the brightest eye on Broadway Saw my North Carolina brother who tells me a flivver joke I have not heard before, It is: “Well, there’s one thing you've got to say for a - Ford—it rattles before it Strikes”... Saw Murguerite de la Motte and John Bowers, “players in the silent and dumb drama, as it“is sometimes called, and Marguerite was radiant in red chiffon.../."..:2/Saw Herman Gantvoort, whose dad used to teach me music, #1 highschool and whose brothers-and sisters are all very musics Herman “is” now a full- feathered ‘producet, his first play on Broadway* being “Hell's “Bells”. Saw Fanny Ward and &< good scout is she. She tells me movie’ company Wwante “Stella ‘Daffas,”: bet? -deci last moment that she’ is ty ere Te old that a her to play ided at the ‘too young... Geno. Colin, the tale: serivengr, witnessed-the -eclipse f: a skyscraper” roof. Me eign Pocket full of old ‘photographic ne. Batives to protect his ey. nted young ‘A neighbo¥ across th Mrs. Jones, “Johnnie has broke: lieve!” she “paid down thé stairs!” Mrs. Jones hurri e way called n his leg, I be- excitedly, “Fell d over. “The doc- ie | tor was called at once, and in the Pr a atndesd fig ahitige te explained, i Bie Cooperstowini ti B,, Reb. 2—The debating team of the Cooperstown Cate igen ae naford team, inthe school’s 6; debate of the 1925 intsrechcleatle iy The Cooperstown team, com Phipps, Selma 7; ed some of them among other mén on the roof. After the eclipse these fellows slipped the negatives in their pockets and carried them home., Lat- er on Mr. Cohn discovered that’ the films showed bathing beauties. A person with imagination might write a humorous: domestic comedy about the situation that arose when the wives of the eclipse-gazers found the negatives in their husbands’ pockets. In Central Park there is a minia- ture farmyard where cows mdb, ‘ sheep baa, chickens eackle, ducks quack and pigs squeal. It.is here that many New York children gain their only glimpse of domesticated animals and fowl. And there are some New York children who do not see even these. They still bejieve milk comes from a bottling works, and does soda pop and dad’s hooch. hari we ,_ The problem of the missing person 1s ever present in New York,-but sel- dom comes te the attention of . the general phblig, One of. the. morning papers prints, a. list of missing per- sons who .are. Sought by. relatives or |friends. “At present there are 79 in the list... About one-fourth of the names are -of seamen.. About: cne- half are vof persons separated from relatives by emigration to this coun- try and about one-fourth of the names appear to be.of young women. Charlie, bartender ‘in a. speakeasy, was bemoaning the good old ~ days. ‘Many and many a day I had as many as four or five shiyts: torn from my back,” he said, “but E hard- ly ever havea sctag now. We bar. tenders always hit first when «we Saw we were going to have trouble. Most of the fellows who hunted 2 fight in a saloon had all the fight taken out of them if th, first.” ere eee Before. the’ doctor arrived . “some splints were improyiged from.an oli box the mother had brought hone from. the grocery, |. _ Crees They were, careful that the splint? were longer than the bone, and them 480me old clothes ‘were obtained for |] padding. The pad i padding alwa’ be placed under the eplint the flesh. ss eon e “Well, you Wave’ handjed the case very well’ so far,” the doctor told them when he came, | ‘* : “Now we'll see if we can’t’ fix up, just fine.”