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PTR WD AR CIE ae a DAW Wrarn PAGE FOUR QNTTES WeNae ATES mewiemera rcs THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE : THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1925 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Waieues a ge at ; Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class, Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - : Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - - 5 5 A Marquette 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 DETROIT Kresge Bldg. republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not! otherwise entitled in this paper and also the local news pub- | tional ch 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....... Daily by mail, per year in (in Bismarck). G 5 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota........... THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) (Official City, State and County Newspaper) PRIDE Strange are the ends to which pride will lead us. A 19- year-old boy in Chicago, jobless and without food for four days, ate newspapers to ward off starvation and was carried to a hospital, half dead. Newspapers are good food for the mind but unsatisfying to bodily appetite. What one admires in this ,youngste though, is his pride, even though it did lead him to, suc dire extremity. > i Perhaps it wal foolish of him to reject the city’s charity, but determination‘sueh as.his, to stand on his own feet and make his own way un. sted, usually leads to succe: 4 CoTTO! : Farmers of the gouth are said to be disappointed in the low cotton prices. 'They,had a good yield of cotton and it had to be sold cheaper than anticipated — far below prices ruling a year ago. Bank clearings, a fair barometer of activity in the cotton country fell below 1923 figure: Banks, reports a Wall Street bulletin, are not getting a demand for funds such as they should like. Southern farmer: ering that it is impo: good corn and fodder crop at the same time. says the same authority; are discov- ble to grow a good cotton crop and a One of their probiems is to decide what kind of a crop should be grown. | HEA’ Fuel conservationists look forward to the day when sci- ence makes it posssible to burn little if any coal in its raw state to produce heat. When this time comes, it is said that the manufactured gas industry of the country will be consuming 200 million or more tons of coal every year, instead of the 10 million tons they now. use. Use of coal in this way would naturally represent a tre- mendous saving of fuel resources. But even this would be but a crude advancement. Some day man will get a}l the heat he wants from the greatest heating plant in the universe—the sun. PIGS A boy in South Carolina writes to the U. S. Department of Agriculture: “Five years ago I joined a pig club. I had a pure-bred pig, then eight weeks old. Since that time she has farrowed about 100 pigs. She paid for my clothes three years in high school and gave me spending money also. I am now in my second year in college and she is still doing the same.” He didn’t mean the pig had entered college. He meant that he realized when he had a “good thing.” The fabulous goose of golden egg fame had not a thing on this porker. BUDDIES That father is a failure whose son does not regard him as a companion as well as parent, a sharer of confidences as well as adviser. Parents too easily forget their own childhood. Father and Son Week, Feb. 22 to 28, is a reminder of paternal obli- gations too many of us do not meet. A good motto would be, “Grow up with your children.” No reason why father and son, and mother and daughter, shouldn’t be regular “buddies.” ‘i RIDERS The street car riding habit grows instead of lessens. A year ago 16 billion passengers were carried. In 1890 the number was two billion. Average street car fare throughout the country is now around seven and one-eighth cents. Apparently the big sale of automobiles has little effect on the trolley’s patronage. We are a nation of riders. It makes us wonder whether we are forgetting how to use our legs. ACCIDENTS . Traffic is the most serious problem of large cities. And it is becoming perilous even in small communities and the open country. : Over 700,000 Americans a year are killed or seriously injured in accidents on streets and highways. The dead alone total about 23,000 a year. The toll of both deaths and accidents includes roughly one in every 150 Americans yearly. The majority of these accidents are due to carelessness. fe FOOD Farmers worked hard last year. Agricultural traffic, measured in number of tons originated, showed a 15 per cent increase in the third quarter of 1924 over the same period in 1923. 4 All other commodities, says the Interstate Commerce Commission, showed a decrease. The country is glad that the farmer sticks so closely to his knitting. A good thing for city folk that he’s not lazy. SUN In a 90-days’ growing season on the farm, an acré of ground receives from the sun as much energy, on the aver- age, as could be obtained by burning 1476 tons of coal. This, is estimated by Dr. H. A. Spoehr, California scientist. lost of this power goes to waste. In time, man will har- ness it to.do a lot of his work. In Wyoming, an Indian chief is wearing a monocle, prov- ing there atill are wild Indians in Wyoming, Never count your children before they return from & Publisher | Ie (Washington, Post) | producers Editorial Review _ Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. Thay are presented here in order that have both sides ues which are being discussed in the press of the day. HAYS MAKING SUNSHINE There are few ture to contest Will H. Hay’s} knowledge of the American pub- lic. His memorable career as na- irman during a period when his fellow countrymen were obliged to turn away from proph- | ecy and get down to the very reli- ties, the why and the wherefore of their existence, gave him unprece who would ve! dente! opportunity to observe them. He stood, for four years, at the very center of a web whith stretched to the utmost corners of the United States, and the became the spirit of coordination between an s, truly all things to all Americans, It was but natural, therefore, that when a great ional in stitution found at mission was in danger of being thwarted tirough lack of a contxolling, modifying influence, it should turn, for a solution of its difficul ties, to the one man who seemed most likely to understanad them, Hence in the — enjightenment| which sometin follows despair the great moving-picture magnates: voluntarily came together and formed the Moving-Picture Pro ducers and Distributors of Amer- ica, Incorporated, and placed their fate in the hands of Mr. Hiays. They have had little reason, in the three years which ave since en- sued, to regret th The task whic upon Mr. Hays 's experi. ment with wh ables seem like the From their earliest days, the movies were accorded a special license plot and = atmos partly, no doubt, because of their novelty which made the public forget the tests which it customarily upplies to wh the pictures, of roundings given vividly than the fox hope to reflect, made it easy for create another worl, e. Moreover, | people and so much which far as complete Uivorce from reality was concerned, they f did to the queen's taste. The commonest sort of restraint was! pitched overvoard and audiences the world over revelled in surrep- tious glimpacs of the forbid With the increase of eff in production and the rapid cumulation of profits, proc were able to hire extraordinary talent for their pictures, give them undreamed - of lavishness of scene and leave nothing worth thinking of to the imagination of their audi- ences. regolved industry into competition in suggéstiveness tickle the fancy of a public it could not afford to have ja If the awful vividness of “1 Vampire” became softened! in time into a less bald presentation of vice, it was only because directors, learned the secret contained in every art that the half-revealed is much less concealed than with no draperies whatever. The movie. ‘consequently, became adept in li erating the primitive, with a tei jMical control over subconsciou: ness which seemed to land Freud among the major prophets. Mr. Hays’s announced resolve was to bring this movie world back to decency. He believed that the American public not a breeding-ground for sex-neuroses, that its fundamental delight as : youthful people. was in ‘healthy | iency | ae- A decade or so of this soon a feverish! to ra romanc To this end he bent his vast en-! ergies for analysis and persuasion. In the course of three years the ‘has called the self-indulgent march of} both producer and audience to an abrupt halt, ana! has | firmly in the narrow, dry path| which winds upward to art and education. As an impressive testimonial to this a checkup just made among 8,600 exhibitors shows that the 25 plays leading in popularity are all of the sort: which the youngest mother's son might, attend with pleasure and profit. But that much remains still to be done is revealed by the succ of other pictures not 89 commendable. Plots can not always be of treas- ure trove or historic lore. Ro- mance has got to have its in- nings. This is where the movies still fall down. Every ‘boy and girl knows there is a clfference in the two sexes which can not be covered by luxurious play nor impossible acts of heroism. It can be both, met and explained by the simple expedient of fun-making and wholehearted laughter such as Booth Tarkington has voffered to his countrymen. done in this phase, which Mr. Hays frankly warns his producers, it seems to us that it might be ac- complished by «liverting some of the enormous revenue which the movies of today produc toward the maintenance and equipment of “literary staffs,” trained to read and recommend. There is a deal available without copyright or roy- alty. This fact moving picture producers ‘have so far failed sig- nally to recognize. What will probably one day be known as the Salacious Age seems now to be parsac', thanks to,Mr. Hays. Now is the time for the ytle dog to the big dog. ‘into a big lion with a mane and a combat, real adventure and joyous et their feet |!3 If there is a great deal yet to be! of good stuff in every language, | ® Morning, Noon and Night!’ Thal MEANS MORE GRAVY FOR ME ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON SCENARIO SENT TO SALLY AT- HERTON BY BE. ICE SUM- MERS, CON’ UED The woman watches the blush of appreciation that colors the younger woman's cheek’ as she buries her face barked the li “I wish | was a lion. I would eat you up.” “Ho, ho, ho!” laughed thg big doz. “You do, do you! You would, would you! Better get out of here or I'll eat you up.” “Bow, wow, wow in the violets, e little dog was so mad ‘‘he| Evidently her husband, who sits wagged his tail like an egg beater, | across the table, has said something “Oh, my!” he panted. “You big | very flattering to her and has asked bully! 1 do wish I was a lion, I'd | favor, for she stretches her hand— very pretty hand, by the way— cross the table and he gives her the single gardenia which was lying at his place. With a quick glance around to see that no one is looking she quickly s the flower to her lips and make you into mince-meat. He was still talking to himself as he trotted off down the road, “I do wish I was a lion,” he kept growling. “Vd show him.” “What's all this? What do I hear you saying?” asked a voice. It was the Fairy Queen on Two ds it back to him. Spot, her butterfly. With her werr His wife at the other table, some- Nancy and Nick, the Twins,,,.eleo | whut. screened by a large fern, riding Tio Spot. ay “™"Ycowers down ‘as she sées the’ look on It didn’tisurprise the little dog one {her husband’s face. He presses the bit to see three people riding a lurge | flower to his own lips before he blue butterfly any more than if they | carefully draws the blossom through had happened along in an automo-|his buttonhole. Never in his life bile. He was too cross to notice anything very much. e “I was just saying,” he sputtered, “that I wished I was a lion. I'd get even with that big shepherd dog that always steals my bones, so I would.” “All right,” said the Fairy Queen waving her wand, “That is what 1 am doing. I’m out granting wishes and you may have you So she waved her wand and in untly the nice little dog was turned r Then, as luck would have it, the man looks up, catches his wife's eye, and evidently his beautiful house of cards falls with a thud. The wife bows with a smile, as if nothing unusual is happening, and soon leaves the cafe. When she arrives home, she washes the cosmetic off her face. She tears down the burnished radi- ance of hair from its fashionable coiffure and arranges it in the old way. She divests herself of her new- ‘est extravagance in the way of her tassel on his tail. “Good-bye,” called the Fairy Queen Two Spot flew away. “I can't stay, as I may get eaten up for my as -: The Tangle usual cool steps back. has he asked his wife to kiss a flow- | matter. at luncheon. yle but which “What good did it do?” she as! “What shall I do?” the “What shall I do?” Soon the husband comes The husband looks at his wife “Perhaps that’s it.” The words, as he said them, see! each gown and pulls out one of her old soft white nun’s veiling frocks that has no particular s rather tasteful and suits her. ks the drawn face in the mirror, “for you to try and bring youth back— you only cheated yourself, and your husband, knowing that you are old, Isewhere, naps souentsyouthie womanTherself, she wants to. know what to think that it is only a happenstance, but she knows that it is the tragic ending of her one ro- mance. home. As he comes forward with careless assumption that all is as it has been and bends as if to give his wife the touch of his lips, she “Don’t touch me!” she| says. ; “Why, what’ ig the- matter?” he asks with anvelaborate show of sur- prise. “You know very well what is the| I saw you with that woman Why did you,not tell me that you were tired of me; that you wanted someone fuirer; that you ‘wanted youth ?” younger and in silence and then as if answering his own question m- ed to strike the woman as a blow. They stand looking at blankly and then the “What are you going to do?” other man asks: The woman looks at him and says: “What do-you want me to do?” (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) trouble. If you ever change your mind, Mister Lion, just telephone to Fairyland.” “Rrrrrr! Rrrrrr!” roared the lion ching his tassel-tail. “Where's that shepherd dog now? I'll show him what happens to bone-stealers. And he trotted back to where Shep lay in the sun, Minot accused’ of wheat stealing. Formal charges will be filed against the trio, alleging burglary, according to Shériff Spicher. ~ TO CUT MAGISTRATE PAY Minot, N. D., Feb, 5.—Salary of the Disraeli wore corsets. police magistrate of Minot, set by ordinance at $2,400 per annum, would be cut to $1,200, under a new ordin- ance introduced and passed on first reading by the city commission, its Shep saw the big creature coming. “Good gracious!” he cried. “If this fellow is as cross as he looks,| Til just be going.” And without waiting to ask, he jumped in through un open window and hid under the sofa, ; Mister Tassel Tail the Lion saw ni -“Ha, ha! That’s no good, | know Now, THEN, MISTER ¢ WAS THATE é ANSWER THAT BvERSTT TRYGS, wHy} Can. i I THN £ IN THE First PLACe —- where you are,” he roared. Fou @an!! Sg he went up the steps anal | to> 9 tapped on the door with the tail. Dinah, the colored girl, opened it— the doar, not the end of his tail, And before Mister Tassel Tail had time to so much as ask for Shep, she made a leap for the pantry door and slammed it. I can't help thinking that the broken dishes Mrs. Sands found next day were knocked off by Dinah trying to reach the top shelf. “Huh!” roared Mister Tassel Tail in surprise. “What was her hurry I’ wonder? I wouldn't hurt her. She doesn’t steal bones.” There is some more to this story. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Ine.) {PEOPLE'S FORUM | PEOPLE'S FORUM | AW, FIRST PLAcE ANSWER ITH ALSO SAW FORMER ECLIPSE Linton, N. Dak., Feb, 2, 1925. Editor Tribune: I read in the Tribune that Mr. C. A. Miller states the total eclipse was in 1878. 1 wish to correct his state- “Czar's” subjects to start reading good ‘books. —— | A Thought | o—_—-—__— Seeat thou s man diligent in his business? he shall stand before ment, as it was in 1868 instead of 78. I was ten years old and I had to hunt the cows in the woods in Wis- consin and I cried, because father wouldn’t let me go for them as soon it began to get dark as there were bears in the woods at the time, C.'| s: Miller is correct as to the time of jay. 7 ANY kings: he shall not stand before ’ t : ‘Wn. Pagel. eR La TOdR ss WHEAT THEFT LAID TO THREE Minot, N. D., Feb. 5.—Three men, Donald Mayhtw, Oscar Roberg and Alloye Perron, all residing in the, YOU SIMPLY CAN'T Bony ASKS You, Teccu THEM £ NOTHING] wi ‘TRUGD ll! | EVERETT TRUE ; BY CONDO | It Doesn’t Pay To Get Too Smart By Chester H. Rowell Beware of smartness! There is no telling where it will lead. Here, for instance, is our friend Don Seitz, who, in his right mind, is the able business manager of a great news- paper, but in his flights indulges sometimes in literature. He has an article in the “Forum” on “Our Presidents” in which he soberly names Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur and Benjamin Harrison as our only great presidents ; apologizes for Washington and Lincoln, and stigmatizes Roosevelt as a public nuisance and Wilson as worse. For Coolidge he holds out some hope. He is “mean” and small enough to rise perhaps to the Hayes standard. the “World” is a failure, because it has achieved wealth, cir- culation and influence. : Los Angeles has just celebrated a record. It went 24 whole days without a single murder; something that had never happened before. : And yet, Los Angeles is at least as virtuous as other cities. It has been berated as more so, by those who think ‘“chem- ical purity” a sin. London, with more population than all California, and half a dozen other western states besides, would regard a murder every three weeks with horror. And London is far wickeder than Los Angeles. The contrast challenges America ‘with a question whose answer we may not know—but which we should try to find out, PRESIDENT’S PART A HARD ONE It is easy for the Senate to “au- thorize and request” the president to call a disarmament conference, but the president's part is far hard- er. He has first to find out whether the invitation would be accepted. And that is a matter, not of Amer- ican, but of British and French poli- tics, The League of Nations has already tentatively proposed one conference, which Britain is anxious to avoid for precisely the reasons which move France to favor it. Until England and France are both ready to accept our invitation, it would be futile to issue it. You can not disarm the world by leaving out precisely the two powers that have most of the armament. France will go: to any conference at which these questions are dis- cussed together; we will attend none in which one of them is not excluded. It is to be feared that senatorial prodding does not make the presi- dent's difficult task any easier. GOOD MEN WIL) GET THEIR PRICE A California Jegislator introduces a bill that no public utility officer Shall be paid any higher salary than the governor. It happens that the governor of California is rélatively well paid. He has $10,000 salary, plus a residence and upkeep alfowance, ke In some ftates, this principle would reduce/the salary of a railway president to fess than that of a loco- motive engineer. But even ‘at $10,000, the public utilities wduld be bidding against private cogporations eager to get the same men at five times tlfe sal- ary. ' Unless /publicly owned or egu- lated buginess can pay the going wage, it eannot get the going men. You qan get governors. and good ones, to work for no salary at all, if you think that is democratic, We do get ambassadors on prac- tically, that basis now. We require them ‘to pay out their salaries in rent for a place in which to do their U. 8. POLITICS ALSO AN OBSTACLE And here comes the obstacle of American polities, too. France insists that and security must be the two halves of one indivisible subject, If she is to agree with other nations to give up the means of security she has provided for disarmament treated as i they are willing to agree to do to- gether in place of those separate] job. / But when you want power com- measures. Pang executives, and have to compete This is precisely the question] with. banks and factories, you must which American politics will not let] pag their prices or be left with the us discuss. « HN oft-overs, ds FABLES OW HEALTH SALT IN THE BATH A handful of salt, preferably sea salt, thrown in the bath water, hélps|® cent or two. to prevent one from catching Bh rs ain excellent bath bag is made as terward, Mrs. Jones learned if her! Make the bag from cheesecloth, next lesson on the bath. f and put a running string in it. Save Salt also is a good tonic for the| all pieces of toilet soap, and when skin, An ounce of ammonjh mixed| they are perfectly dry, pound to a : , we") powder. with the water is excellent for un-|" Miz four tablespoonfuls of bakax strung nerves, . But ammghia is not ; with four ounces of the soap, and very conducive to beauty, go it should| stir this mixture into four quarts not be used frequently. of bran, Use of bran or cornmeal bags in I i A half pint of this mixture, tied the bath is very good for the skin.]in a bag, should be used for each These not only soften the water, bath, using the bag as a wash cloth. MANDAN NEWS | + where MR. NICHOLS ILL A, L. Nichols, veteran Northern Pa- cific conductor is/ confined to his home by illness. ! ; PURITY DAIRY ROBBED The cash register of the Purity Dairy company was rifled of about $5 some time during Tuesday night. Entrance was gained by forcing a door at the rear of the building. | trai 5 ; * Home talent is bélieved responsible |trenqane Saltese ae ot for the robbery. | » 1 ‘ ——_ New‘ auto’ bumper has a net for ia OTH RAIRED has, se.{‘atehing ‘pedestrians, but we can’t ounty Agen’ mer S S€~|see'what they want with 3 cured the full quota of boys and fer eset or BeGentriane girls who will take the large number 4 of bacon type hogs this year and the stock will arrive soon and be dis- tributed to the farms on the slope, where they will be. raised. More requests {have been received but the Mandan, commercial club di- rectors feel that the number reached at- this time will be: sufficient for a start. The project‘will be increased next year. rica but also the skin, and they cost but But we have found that there’s smoking there’s fire. Insurance agent got arrested ia Dallas, Tex., but not-because of is. National balloon races set for May 1, which is spring, and people wiil he up in the air anyway: Just to show you what’ can be done, in New Orleans, La., a man lived 74 years before being arrested. Arkansas prisoner leaped from the Our language changes, Pedestrian once meant one who walks. Now it means. one who runs and jumps. sae y Life’s a puazle to which the an- swer is never. published. Lots of money is lost in trying to make. it. multiply instead of add. Only .a. few: more reading months before. bathing girl pictur. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) TOM IMS ee SAYS Consider the busy bee, and how quickly he works himself to death. There is a report, true or untrue, that U. S,.senators. now sleep in their clothes ready to rush out if @ conference is started. New England ‘ Schools Close New England, N. D., Feb. 5.—Upon order of the board of health the New England sehools closed this week for a period of 14 days in an attempt to check the epidemic of scarlet fever. The Farmers Institute to be held here this week, all moving pictures and public ‘gatherings, have n called off, There are about a half dozen cases of scarlet fever in this com- munity and several of these cases developed while the children were in school, It feared that pupils in the schools have been exposed. A strict quarantine is being enforced and children are. ordered not to leave their home yards during \fhe b Another arms conference may ‘e called. The world’s planned 10-year naval holiday seems to be ‘up ready. though i Idier shot at.in W: ington, jouldn’t have done it. Even ist next 14 days. y LIGHT S=NTENCES Moscow, Feb. 5.—Unusually light sente! for murder now are being imposed in Soviet. Russia, 'Convic- tion for firat degree murder usually results in a five-year sentence. ‘It But about this’ arms argument and thd’ big guns others" are ‘making, wonder what they are aiming jat? . They. do strangé things in Texas, Resideselecting a woman governor they, arrested an .6il stock salesman.| very rarely exceeds 10 years. The — ith sentence is ‘given'only for re- t de Veasar have] volutionary it; ainst” MapSENN steve viet govetnient) wns im te” ~ We shall be having somebody next smartly proving; that i