The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 9, 1925, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. ‘GEORGE D. MANN - : Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY .._ CHICAGO” - : : - : 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| 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 are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year..... are wtae Daily by mail, per year in (in Bismarck) . Riese. Weed 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) BONDING THE STATE The legislature has not disposed of a proposal before it to bond the state for ten million dollars to aid in reimburs- ing depositors of closed banks. Two readers of The Tribune, in a communication to the Peoples Forum, are very insist- ent in their demand that such action should be taken, and cannot agree with the position of The Tribune against such an action. They are, of course, interested chiefly because : they deposited money in banks that closed. The state cannot go into the business of guaranteeing the word of every official or citizen and expect to avoid bankruptcy. These readers hold that the state should pay { because some banks hung up signs stating that their de- posits were guaranteed by the state. The argument, carried to its logical conclusion, might also hold that the state should reimburse farmers whose crops failed because some official thought the price would stay up and there would be plenty . of moisture, or that the farmers should be reimbursed be- cause some official advised them to hold their wheat and ; the price dropped. There is an old rule that every citizen is presumed to know the law, and newspapers of the state in all their discussions of the bank guaranty act made it plain that the state was not the guarantor of bank deposits. The situation which brought about many bank failures, however, was calamity, in.part, and the state can not enter ‘ the business of guaranteeing its citizens against calamity. Bad crop years, drop in prices, gambling with nature during the war and the unsettled period following it, all contributed to the general situation. The sympathy of every citizen would be with the position of the two readers of The Tribune. : but cold logic makes the proposal to bond the state unsound and dangerous in principle. The guarantee of bank deposits laws have been enacted chiefly in states in the Great Plains from Oklahoma to North Dakota. And in every one of these states the bank failures | have been more numercus since the enactment of the laws. The necessity of financial and moral responsibility, and reputation for business sagacity and caution, for, time im- memorial requisites of a successful banker, were removed. The bars were let down for the inexperienced and unscrupul- ous. Every citizen or official who lent aid to this breaking . down of the banking laws should feel a moral responsibility * for the situation which now exists. The wave of bank failures, and the consequent better- > ment of the financial condition of the state through the good crop of 1924 and diversification, has brought forces into} play stronger than our laws. The weak banks were wiped out. The number of banks was reduced. The situation which the guaranty fund act helped to create has been cor- x rected. 2. What the state now needs, for the benefit of those deposi- Publisher DETROIT Kresge Bldg. | kota (a large percentage do not live in the state), is a : strengthening of its regulatory laws, adherence to sound principles of economics, careful and conservative farming and banking. With the lesson of the past still ever present, this may be expected. SHOULD WELCOME THE ACTION Members of the City Commission, its city engineer and every taxpayer should welcome the opportunity now afforded to test out the legality of the three per cent commission paid - T, R. Atkinson on the purchase price of the Bismarck Water ~ “Supply company’s plant. 5 If the payment has been made legally the bars are: let down for future,extravagance. To pay over $7,800 in one + warrant without hearing or notice is a rather serious mat- * ter. If city commissions have such powers in absence of any contract or mandate from the people, it is a matter upon which the legislature can well direct its attention. + But the case will soon be in the court’s hands to be de- cided upon the real merits and not upon political bias or + personal feeling. Until that time editoral discussion can best be held in abeyance. 3 Whatever the decision after all facts have been presented fairly and without bias, the whole situation involved should ? be cleared up and speculation set at rest. : BY STEAM Pennsylvania Railroad is experimenting with a new snow * remover. Instead of using the old plow, it is blowing snow ig off the tracks by steam. A new device has been perfected by two of the railroad’s ‘& employes. It consists principally of a system of pipes and = nozzles attached to the locomotive. Hot steam is blown ie through it, melting the snow and clearing it at the same time from the rails and ‘ties. Think of some day being able to point some kind of hose contraption at a snow-covered walk, pressing a button and Iétting science do the work of the snow shovel! 4 WEALTH Americans are growing thriftier. Latest figures, as re- ported by the American Bankers Association, show an in- |: erease in saving accounts from about eight and one-half > illion dollars in 1912 to nearly 24 billion in 1924. £ In the same period the number of depositors increased from about 13 million to 39 million. , . Good times haven’t spoiled us. Each one of these depos- itors is a shareholder in national prosperity. Fi rt ea The people of Brook! es of miracles is no’ . The people of Brooklyn, t 5 Pave more than’a million dollars a year by VOL- UNTARY reduction in rates by the corporation that supplies The ee isscoconadt says: “We are able to this reduction because of lower manufacturing costs + pap othe? econonties in operation. : ¢ |@ happy thought. |a grave which many a man tors who lost money in closed bahks, who live in North Da-|' Editorial Review _ Comments: reproduced in this column may or mi yeicee express the opinion of The Tribune. are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides of impor issues which are ip the press of THE MEANS TO AN END | (St. Paul Dispatch) | Speaking at a meeting of farm- ers and business men held at En- deriin, N. D., on Tuesday, Edward Barr, agricultural secretary of the| St. Paul Association, gave. voice to | The big wheat} crop of 1924 and its high price was the means to an end, not the end| or aim cf up-to-cate farming. It had furnished the farmer with finances sufficient to get him out of the one-crep rut and buy live stock he should have, to balance his eperations on the land. In stead, therefore, of being an incite- ment for the ner to “go into wheat again” erthan before, it really should be taken as a lift out of the rut into which he was dig- ging himself. The rut, after all, er and merchant—has dug for him- self,, and in which he has been buried. If the farmer can see it in this light, if he can see that 1924 gave him the motive power to ride out of the hole and on to the level road- way, he is going ‘o ride easier hereafter. The road ipaved with | zood intentions is no thorough: | ; y paved with diversification has any outclassed that Commissioner Babcock ever huilt for smooth going to a desti- nation of prosperity. ' PEOPLE'S FORUM‘ ON PAYING DEPOSITORS Nome, North Dakota. To The Tribune, Bismarck, N. D. In its issue of January 24th The Tribune advises that any proposition to bond the State, to pay off depos- itors in closed banks should be promptly squelched, and quotes Gov- ernor Sorlie and Governor Hanna in| support of the advice. | A few days ago Governor Sorlie; was quoted as having suggested that the Bank of North Dakota do the job, but it created little or no com- ment because every person knows | that it was just mpossible as it| was impractical and the chances are} that Governor Sorlie was not cor- rectly, or at least was not fully quoted upon either proposition. Naturally enough men like Gov-| ernorsHanna jand the owners of the large ity banks, the railroads, the | elevator comapanies, the public utili- ties and other big interests would} be opposed to the State as a whole taking on the load, and would prefer to see it continued on the shoulders of the small country banks for an- other twenty years, without any! possibility of its ever being taken; care of. I have wondered if The Tribune is thoughtless, or just plain selfish. A few years ago North Dakota put on the depositors Guaranty Law, and invited every person to put his money in the state banks because there, and there only it was abso- lutely safe. Hundreds of us who were no long- er able to toil converted our belong- ings, and put our money in the guar- anteed banks expecting to live on it the balance of our lives. Hundreds of widows throughout the state took what little life in- surance money there was left to them, and did the same thing with it. The banks hung up artistic signs telling us that our deposits were protected by the state of North Da- kota, and the state banking officials visited these banks two or three times a year, thought the signs look- | ed pretty good, and’ permitted them to remain. In 1921 and 1922 began to blow up, Tribune advised us our money because even though the banks were broke, the Guaranty Fund furnished absolute protection to the depositors. Our banks have all gone, and those of us who believed we were no long- er able to earn a living, are forced to go out and look for jobs, and do the best we can with it. Mothers of families who believed that they had sufficient to raise and educate their children are: out working to earn, something to eat for them, and the children are taking care of themselves from morning to night. County, township and school dis- trict officials called on hundreds of us to sign depositary bonds for their public funds and hundreds of farm- ers have given up their last dollar to make good on these bonds, and hundreds are faced with debts which they can never pay, and for which they never received a dollar. The Tribune is the first of the big state papers to confess and tell us now that the Guaranty of De-| Bosits Law is a “delusion and a sham” and that our money is lost. Some wise legislator remarked that we should have kept our money in the Bank of North Dakota, but we had it there for a time, and a good deal of it is there yet, and we can never get it unless the taxpayers provide for it. In view of what has been, there are several thousand of us who be- lieve that the State of North Dakota owes a moral obligation, if nothing more,'and should make good upon it. We doubt very much if it is up to ‘The Tribune, or even up to the Leg- islature to say that the people of the State should not have an opportun- ity to express themselves upon this important proposition. Be assured that if the Legislature does not put the question up taxpayers of the State and let th when the banks papers like the not to withdraw THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ‘pure Att RIGHT BUT WAY Does THAT OER BIRO ALWAYS HAF COME ALONG go) ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON BACK IN THE LILY POOL The Fairy Queen and the Twins could see everything from where they stood on the lighthouse. The whale that had once been a goldfish swam by and they heard him telling his story to a porpoise. “Yes, sir!” he was saying. “All I could see was flowers and water lilies and birds. and the people who came to feed me, How much grander it is to ride the waves and see the world! Here comes a ship. are coming to get a view of me.” “If I were you I think I'd duck,” advised the porpoise. “One never! can tell what they are after.” “Il do nothing of the kind,” sa the whale. “If people want td see’ me I am not going to be, mean.. I'll stay where I am.” i The porpoise dived from view but! the whale stayed on top of the water. He was so busily thinking of his! looks and of how high he could spout the water over his head, that he didn’t see a small boat leave the big boat and row out carefully toward him. He didn't see the coils of thick rope or the long spear-like thing! called a harpoon that was fastened j to the rope. Suddenly he felt a stinging pain in his side, Then he turned and saw the little boat—and the men and the rope and everything. “Dear me! I believe I’m stabbed,”| he cried, And he darted away, swim- ming as hard as be could although he felt very weak. “I didn’t know thé ocean was so dangerous!” he gasped. “I wish I was back in my garden again with the birds and flowers and water lilies, It was so safe! No one ever hurt me. My, but my side hurts. There- I guess I'll have to stop swim—” Suddenly he felt very queer. It seemed ag though he lost his senses for a minute. When he came to, there he -was back in the Lily Pool Again among his friends and the wa- ter lilies! 4Oh,; my! I’ve had such a queer dream,” be said. “I must have been asleep.” And he told them about {he oeean and the porpoise and the shtyand“the sharp thing that stab- bed him in the side. A big blue butterfly was just dis- appearing over the garden wall. On it were a fairy and two tiny children. Back to the Fairy Queen's palace they went, “I think the little fish has learned his lesson,” said the Queen. “If you cannot think of any more wishes for me to grant now, I shall take a rest. I find that most wishes are a mis- take anyway... I've had to unmake every wish I have granted and it is a waste of time.” “But I’ve had a fine time and thank you, my dears, Good-bye. Come to see me agein soon.” Nimble Toes took the butterfly and led him away. Silver Wings stooped and took the magic shoes from the children’s feet. And suddenly a clock struck seven, They were in their own beds at home, (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Ine.) o——__________._» | AThought _| —y In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my. soul.—Ps. 94 Of all created comforts, God is|/ the’ lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.—Rutherford. vote upon it, the fifty thousand de- positors in the closed banks will see that it is done very shortly after the Legislature adjourns. I passed one of the banks today, closed two years ago. The deposits guaranteed sign ie still in the wi dow, , Very respectfully yours, JOSEPH LAGEESE, ‘BE, ELYIOWGs | s DONATION BUDGET iS SET Grafton, N. D., Feb. 9.—At a meet- ing of the Grafton Civic club the committee on budget and. community |- chest reported and recommended the appropriation of $2,500 to take care of the club’s expenses and communi- ty contributions. The plan was adopted. The budget is intended to jtake care of the city’s donations to eo the Red Cross, Salvation Army, Flor-|/ ! Scale NIGHT LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO SALLY ATHER- TON I am coming home tomorrow, I am not even going to quote from Bee’s scenario and ask Jack “What do you want me to do.” Don’t tell him I am coming. I want it to be a surprise. LESLIE. Telegram From Mrs. Alice Hamilton To John Alden Prescott Come immediately. Leslie very ill. MOTHER. Telegram From Mrs, Walter Burke To Mrs. Sally Atherton. Shall depend upon you to have ack start immediately. Leslie very ill. Doctors have just taken her in- to the operating room. RUTH BURKE. Tclegram From Sally Atherton to Mrs, Walter Burke Tried to get you by telephone. Mr. Prescott left in racing car upon re- ceipt of Mrs. Hamilton’s telegram, Please call me if possible as soon as ence Crittenton home and North Da- kota Orphans’ home. SWEDEN LIKES AMERICAN METHOD OF TRAFFIC CONTROL Stockholm, Feb. 9.—Americans vis- iting Stockholm will be reminded of their own Fifth Avenue as soon as this city can carry out the plans for modernized traffic control from sig- nal towers which have been drawn up by Chief of Police Gustaf Haarle- man. Mr. Haarleman has recently re- turned from New York, impressed by the methods of traffic control in that city and is embodying many Ameri- can ideas in his scheme for regulat- ing the vehicular and: pedestrian traffic in the Swedish capital. se The Tangle you get this. Will await your ¢ele- phone message ut the office. SALLY ATHERTON. Night Letter From Mrs. Walter Burke to Walter Burke at Albany. mother of an eight- pound boy. |Born this afternoon at 4 o'clock. She is very ill and we are very much concerned about her. The baby is splendid, strong and healthy. Jack did not get here un- til after it was born, We are all hoping for the best. I shall come home ag soon as she is out of dan- ger. We had no idea the event would come off so soon and Leslie was making preparations to go back to Pittsburg, when she was taken ill, Everybody seems sorry that the baby is not a girl, but I knew Leslie wanted a boy just to show everyone that she would not love little Jack any the less. Seems ages since I saw you and I shall be glad to get back where I can look into your eyes. Lovingly, Jeslie the RUTH. Telegram From John Alden Prescott To Mary Alden Prescott You have a new grandson‘ born this afternoon, Leslie not as well as we could wish. She has hardly been conscious yet. Baby strong, weighs weighs eight pounds. I wish Leslie back to Pittsburg you must come over and see him, “With love, JACK. Telegram From John Alen Prescott To Sydney Carton Just to show ‘you that I’ bear you no ill-will, come over and see your god-son, He is a strong guy and weighs eight pounds. I wish eslie was better, although the doctors say that it is nothing serious, I shall stay here until everything is all right. Wire me here. SACK, (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, anc.) —_———_—_— EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO {i'n SORRY, sie, Bur I'M A STRANGER HERG, Too. HOWEVER, L_ NOTICED AN’ | INFORMATION {BOOTH DOWN THERE A PIECE. , THANK You, MY FRIEND, BUT M EXPERIENCS WITH INFORMATION BOoTHS HAS NOT BEEN-- . ~) COOH RIGHT HERG's A PLACE. ALWAYS SOMEONG IN WHO KNOWS (Tv eS THERS $s A BARBGR SHOP AND (8 WICCING tO, TELL THE WORLD. The “flu” has started on world. There is no reason for alarm, ‘but there is for cau- tion. While medical science ki tween are of steadily decreasi: science will have learned as —if the antivivisectionists do not prevent—may similarly unlock the secret of pandemic influenza. WHY NOT A MUSICIAN? Somebody has suggested. Walter Damrosch as ambassador to Ger- many. Of course it won’t be done, and Damrosch presumably would not consider it. But there is something interesting in the very fact that the idea strikes most of us as absurd. Here is an accomplished gentle- man, a linguist, a scholar, a leader of his profession, and a man of cos- mopolitan experience, allied by mar- triage with one of America’s most distinguished political families, and with a record of loyal service in the World War—but he is a musi- cian, and therefore not to be taken seriously. The present ambassador is a glass manufacturer, but. there is nothing peculiar about that. A musician—that's different. When the Italians made Verdi a senator, for his opera of “Falstaff,’» we thought it funny. Really—who was funny? WOULD TRADE DEBTS FOR PEACE William J. Bryan wants to trade “worthlegs debts for a priceless peace.” If the debts really are worthless, and if the peace is attainable, it would be # good trade. But Bryan will be a long time con- vincing American political sentiment on either of these two points, Even if he is right—and- it may turn out he is—it will take experi- “Flu” On Its Tour Around The World By Chester H. Rowell its annual tour around the nows less about influenza than about any other of the major scourges of mankind, it does know something, by the record of experience. Chiefly, it is known that the great visitations come about once in a generation, and that the ‘annual recurrences be- ing virulence. By the time the next great outbreak is due, doubtless as it already e knows of cholera, yellow fever, typhus and plague. + Science, by finding out what caused them, also learned how to stop them. Any day, some patient laboratory worker much of “flu” ence, not eloquence, to prave_ it. And then it may be too late 'to get anything valuable for what we have too hastily acknowledged a value- less consideration. Perhaps the present game of bluff, on both sides, is after all the only humanly possible way. : International negotiations are still conducted on the plane of the ori- ental bazaar, rather than on that of the one-price department store. PRICE OF GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP Workers on the Mexican govern- ment railways have agreed to a re- duction in pay, but reject any re- duction in the number of employes. This is one of the prices of gov- ernment ownership. It happened on the Ruhr, when the French took over the German railroads. The French administration was governmental, too, but, being for- eign, was free at least of German politics, So it‘earried more freight more miles with fewer men, at less cost, though with higher wages and short- er hours, than the Germans had done. The same thing is happening to the German railways generally, now that they have been — transferred from political to business control. The one part of the international settlement of the solvency of Aus- tria, which the Austrian government has been unable to meet, is a suffi- ciently drastic discharge of political functionaries. Government can.do justice to its employes; it can} derpay them; it can shackle them in red tape—but it can not “fire” them wholesale. New York, Feb. 9.—See-sawing up and down Broadway I saw Walter | Huston, long a vaudeville favorite and now acclaimed by. the legiti- mate stage as one of its shining stars. Off. stage Huston has the jbearing and clothes of a country jboy unspoiled by the clamor of the great city..... . Saw Mademoiselle Herval, recently of the Follies Ber- ‘gere and oo, la la! what a doll she ist!!! Saw S. “Hurok, impressario of grand opera, esthetic dancers and concert singers and a dazzling figure jhe is in his fancy stripes and gor- geous waistcoat.... Saw George Ar- liss who always reminds me of some character in Dickens, but what one I cannot say...... Saw Hollywood McCosker, the radio man. He’s one of the best soft-shoe dancers I ever saw, although he has never been on the stage. Saw Gilbert Emery, the playwright and actor, and a long drink of water he is., Seeing the fanciest shoes for milady I ever did see. Spring styles have marble designs and alligator patches and .variegated heels. All of’ which means a busy summer for opticians...... Saw George Hackathorne, the movie character actor. In a large crowd he seems ill at ease, especially when People point at him. And who wouldn’t??22?? Seeing more chorus girls “at leisure” than is: usual at this time of year, the reason being the closing of several musical shows! and the suspension of Al Jolson’s show due to his illness. His illness made at least_120 others idle ...... Saw Flo Ziegfeld, looking not so happy what with the closing of Billie| Burke’s show and the demise of an- | -IN NEW YORK i ing in “Othello” for the fourth week which is the longest run that this poor bit of Shakespeare has had since 1881...... Many unusual characters are to be found in»Gotham, but one of them interests me just a little more than others at the present. He is called “the premier host of Broadway.” He is a curly-headed man in the middle thirties. He wears good clothes and a large diamond. From two in the afternoon till seven he sits in a Broadway restaurant near Fiftieth street. If an unescorted girl or woman comes in and sits at another table he orders the waiter to bring him her check. He has ne- ver been known to flirt with any of those whose checks he pays. If a girl appears to be a chorus girl or of the Broadway gold-digger type. he does not offer to pay for her ‘lunch. I asked him last night why he p#ys for so. many lunches. “Just my hobby,” he answered. “Every man has to have a hobby.” Dumbwaiter thievery is quite pre- valent here. The usual procedure it to call a grocery or delicatessen fr a small article and ask that change for a $10 bill be sent by the. boy. The number, of another apartment served by the same dumbwaiter is given, As the dumbwaiter passes the apartment from which the call came the money is snatched. When the boy rings\the apartment number given over the phone a surprised housewife or maid will answer that she sent no order. A check-up on ali tenants served by that dumbwait- other before it hit Broadway...... Saw Walter Hampden who is appear- er will not disclose the thief. —JAMES W. DEAN. Every man, woman and child should have strong muscles, firm bones, solid teeth, steady nerves and good. red blood, Mrs. Jones learned in her first lesson on foods for health. q Fortunately nature brings most children into the world with the power td digest foods, with veins and arteries to carry this food .to parts of the body, after it is. digested. And the various parts of the body have the power to select the foods needed. Teeth select calcium, mus- One of the new movements on foot which we favor is spring shoes are to be conservative again. People of the United States would. ‘own 87 per cent of the world’s autos if they were paid for. Wider skirts are: noticed in the new spring hions, which should give freedom of movement in beat- ing,carpets. Sy Feeding your’ goldfish on metal Polish will not improve their com- plexion, RES The latest bathing suits from Paris are little more than:belts’held up iby gaily colored suspenders. id A group of Seattle business men have told their wives they are mak- ing @ trade tour of, the oflent,. Japan hos adopted. the metric sys- tem of weights and measures, while we continue the-hectic system, “Wear your “oldest ‘clothes: wh; FABLES ON HEALTH HOW THE BODY EATS cles select protein, fat, iron, phos- phorus, other substances and. so on. Thus if the proper foods are se- lected by the individual, the parts of the body will take care of them- selves. There should be food for strength, food to build up resistance against disease, food to give a spring to the step. and: put energy and ambiti within. ----- : . For. these. every - normal man, woman: @nd-child needs milk, vege- tables, fruit, cereals and probably fat and-eggs, Mrs. Jones learned. 2 answering the doorbell because it is Mable to be a bill collector. An attractive costume for a cold night is a bunch of blankets thrown over a bed and tucked in. The United States has ubout 26,000 miles of concrete road, but it seldom reaches to where you are. going. Even though New Orleans:is rated our second. largest port it is not second-rate port, Just to preve that the world im- Proves, men’ of the fifteenth centu wore rings on their thumbs. Every state has a college of phar- macy, which teaches more than put- ting’ oil of juniper in alcohol, An atom is so small it cannot be measured, .and more than likely thinks germs are elephants,’ | The United States: has more than 16,000,000 telephones, and efjough ' |