The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 14, 1925, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUN Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. : Publisher , GEORGE D. MANN Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY .« _ CHICAGO Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - The American Press is exclusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise entitled in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. i All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Waily by carrier, per year. .......5..6:.c00cses cess eG hel 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 en THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) (Official City, State and County Newspaper) MOST PERSONAL INDEED In order to discount criticism aimed at the’ extravagant ‘city administration, agents of the beneficiaries and the ‘> “taxteat themselves are constantly harping upon their contention that the entire controversy is a personal feud between the publisher and 'T. R. Atkinson. Such charges are childish and pterile. As a matter of fact, The Tribune . does not believe that:T. R. Atkinson is as much to blame for taking the money as the members of the city commi are for paying him. ;Ddubtless as an engineer, he honestly : believes he earned every penny he was paid even the three i per cent gratuity on the purchase price of the old plant. 1 The tax payers have no strings on Mr. Atkinson. He i: 1 an employe of the city; an engineer in private practice whos bugingss if is to get as high a fee as the commission will pay him.* *He is doing ‘probably what any other engineer would do who was hired under a contract where the sky is the limit. Mr. Atkinson therefore can be dismissed from the con- troversy for the responsible agents of the people are the members of the city commission under oath and under man- date from the people to guard against unwise and extrava- gant expenditure of funds. DETROIT Kresge Bldg. y « gesture or through a statement of their publicity agent that it is a personal “row.” It is a most “personal” matter as far as each and every taxpayer in Bismarck is concerned, and everyone in Bis- marck is a tax-payer, direct or indirect. As far as it affects Fifth Ave. Bldg. The city commissioners cannot dismiss this issue with a! Editorial Review {| Comments reproduced in this column may i or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. Thay |] @re presented here in o! thet |] OUF Teaders may have both sides of important issues which ure being discusved in the press of the day, OVERLAPPING OFFICES There is somet? or the imag- ution of the citizen to} p hold of in the that the | | | | (Duluth Herald) { fa | bill proposing a reorganization of | {the Minnesota state government} | abolishes the offices of state fire | , chief oil inspector, com | of weights and measures j their duties under a in the te industrial commis- | sion. That commissioner would be charged h the duty of seeing that the inspections neewed to in | sure the enforcement of regulatory jlaws were made, and no doubt he could do ii with fewer men and less cost than it takes now One of the m widely visible s the present form of overnment 4s that it,is possible to have ‘half a dozen state inspectors, each engagéd on a special mission which will take only a little time, jin the same small town on the same day That, locks extravagant, and | ta | is. It may be that one man couldn't do all the work. tor probaly to know some thing about boilers, ana perhaps the same man could not inspect \ boilers and test sc But the work could be done by fewer men than it takes now. The consolidation does not yet | seem to be complete, for there are other inspectors, like the hotel in spectors and agents of the state ‘board of health, who are not in {ciudec! Yet it looks like a step in the right direction, though the taxpay f Minnesota should net ‘put too great ¢ n this step. If | every worked free for a in in would be astoni re would be a saving, ate of tite public mind toward taxation, any saving at all will be gratefully received. taxe Yet in the present s ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON it} A boiler ingpec: | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [OUT OUR WAY WS OuR oe AMES BONS’ 1S PURTY GOOD THIS WEEK. I READ tT MNSELF. THAT DETECTIFF 15 AFTER EM HOT AN’ HEANY. MOMENTS WE'D LIKE TO LIVE OVER. FAVORITE BOOK STORE. TRetlaus ut inspection” most of her few privil ure rescinded. * She may go to the theater only four tim r except in such in- nees as When the student bedy attends a play for purposes of study. ing the theater she may a us are on the sored list of the school. © may go shopping only on per- jon of the principal. She must |make out a list of purchases before lgoing, eny intended purchase — nou lcountenanced by school authorities jbeing stricken off the list. ett NOTE FROM MABEL CARTER TO JAMES CONDON It has come, Jimmie boy, just as I told you it would. The time has come when you have to make the great sacrifice for me or turn me out in the world to eventuaily be murdered by that brute of a man who Is himself my husband. -: The’ Tangle You must take me away, Jimmie boy, just as soon as you can. s a boat sailing for South America before daybreak tomorrow morning. We must leave on it. Jim, I have no one in the whole world’ to help me but you. You are not going to fail me now, are you? MABEL. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1925. There is no law — more’s journalistic freebooter. There is no lower creature, fession, than the publisher who pro- stitutes his opportunities by extort- ing hush money. He is to journal- ism what the quack ‘is to medicine And the Human Mind Did It “Man is the measure of things,” said Protagoras of Abdera, half a thousand years before Christ. What would he have thought if he could have foreseen the extent to which that “measuring” was to go? Consider the newest items of scien- tific news. The earth is at least 16 hundred million years. old, accord- ing to the latest calculations from the oldest rocks whose transforma- tions can be measured. The earth, the sun and the stars are all composed of atoms, and these of electrons and protons. The proton has just been meas- ured. It would take 72 thousand trillions of them to make one inch. The most distant heavenly bodies recently measured are certain spiral nebulae, whose light has taken a million years to reach us, traveling 186,000 miiles a second. Yet all of these—the nebula, the solar system of which the earth is an electron, and the atom—have identically the same structure. But the most remarkable thing about them is that they are all measurements, and that it is the human mind that has measured their No Tourist Tax in California! e . By Chester H. Rowell Please broadcast denials of eastern rumors that Califor- ‘nia has imposed some sort of a tax on tourists. Trust California to know better than that! There are, ta be sure, two new California taxes, of doubt- ful merit, one a poll tax, and the other a lower—not higher —rate on foreign securities, but these taxes apply only to residents, and have nothing to do with visitors. If there is to be any “taking away” from one of Califor- nia’s chief resources, that will be left to hotel men, pro- moters, and other licensed extractors. } | If you are tired of blizzards, or of the worse thaws follow, and want to go where the sun shines, the grass and trees are green, and the flowers bloom all winter, Cailfornia invites you, and is not foolish enough to fine you for coming. and the shyster to law—and worse. |" to the pity—against. bribing an editor; but if the editor extorts the bribe by blackmail, that, fortunately, comes within the penal statutes. It ig a matter of congratulation to the whole profession that this law has been enforced on a particularly flagrant no worse disgrace to any pro- quadrillionths of an inch and their qiintillions of miles, and reduced them all to one generalization. Man is, indeed, “the measure of things.” Up to the House To Do It Now let the House of Representa- tives exemplify its one virtue, and “railroad through” the postal sal- aries bill, just passed by the Senate. The lower house of Congress -long ago gave. up all pretense of being a “deliberate body.” Instead, it has developed what the Senate never had ~-the capatity for action. Its committee on rules can report a special rule, setting aside a defi- nite number of hours for debate on this bill, and bringing it to a vote at the end of that time. Members know how they are going to vote. They have heard the Sen- ate debates, and have nothing to add to them. It they want to make explanations for horne consumption, the “leave to print” custom tekes care of that, and requires no time. This way of doing things may jbe all wrong. So is the whole institu- tion of the “lame duck” session. But, having these conditions, the thing is to use them. : It can be done, even in the brief time remaining, and it is up to the House to do it. FABLES UN HEALTH Mister Peg Legrand Nancy and! Relatives and friends wishing to Nick sat in Mrs pmunk’s parlor |telephone or visit the girl must first with all the t spread out .on the DIET FOR MOTHERS s out, Jim, Some way he has 4 the progress of Bismarck, taxation is most personal and I had_a letter from him he Letter From James Condon to Sally ' | | | intimate and the time has come for tax retrenchment, if t : business interests are to forge ahead, build and expand. It ! ' ' excessive sums are to be paid without hesitation to engi- the floor; all the things that Mister Peg Leg carried in his peddler pack. make an appointment through hool office. If it is desired to ac- company the girl from the school for lany purpose the purpose of such an excursion must be stated. Vhat’s just part of the conduct. code of Mrs. Chi k was s ‘ited sh '¢ neers and other experts, the load) comes back not on those | ic.eg pina pis ihinesiad aan t who shout the loudest but upon the rank and file of tax- | another. 3 payers, few of them by the way at the public crib and few) “What a peau fan!” she ex- r 4 ei reais r . claimed, “Isn't it lovely! It would r of them neglecting to pay their taxes as are some of the ys, eRe as see tnase ona critics of The Tribune’s policy of carrying the truth to the |¢ The publisher of this paper has asked no favors of the |do for a center piece on my table to very smarte i people about their city affai t 1 It has no hencemen to reward and chal- city commission. lenges as an unmitigated lie the charge that this paper or its owners ever asked the commissioners for personal or q political preferment. a4 ‘Another point needs clarifying. The Tribune does not ‘e believe that the citizens’ water works committee ever form- a § ally approved the three per cent commission to Atkinson. It is just possible some of them did, but at least one member of that committee vehemently denounced it in an_inter- :¢* View with the publisher. Be that as it may, a citizens’ uM committee cannot be made the goat in this controversy. The h responsibility comes back upon the shoulders of the city commissioners, it cannot be shifted to Atkinson, B. E. Jones kt or any other adviser and confidant of the commission. rs It might be enlightening to the citizens of Bismarck to | know that when the three per cent gratuity was paid Atkin- te son, this city fac and still faces a bonded indebtedness of w $1,577,009.5 H 2) should have invited some care and economy in the disperse- ment of public funds. ‘t8 The taxpayers are looking hard and long these days at v the little slips coming out of County Treasurer Flow’s office. eh: Atkinson, Jones and some of the commissioners cannot throw th dust fast enough to obliterate those hard cold figures of a ,°’ most “personal nature.” in “THAT OLD FASHIONED GAL.” 3 tet Down in Minnesela, S. D., the other day, a cake bearing ls 106 candles helped to emphasize in a gustatory manner, the :" fact that there are still ‘some of those old fashioned girls ot who don gingham, wear poke bonnets ahd even lean on a rake be in May time and in haying time. 8% Mrs. Catherine Sophia‘ Stevens, 106 years young, unper- i” turbed by radio, bobbed hair or super - flapperism, calmly ‘se negotiates her housework. Woman’s suffrage has not made ‘no her a pronounced feminist for she 101 years old before } 4 she became interested in the ballot. She is not worrying pe] over the proposed amendment to give the men and women * equal rights. si Surrounded by twenty - six, grandchildren, thirty - three ' “, great grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren, the | equality of sex is not agitating her philosophy. Her advice ‘ 4 to the world is “grow old with me, the best is yet to be. wi j * But despite the fact. that she came into Dakota territory 4 forty-two years ago in an ox-cart, she likes the purr of the motor and automobiling is one of her favorite recreations varied by simple household duties and sewing. Its a great life when it is well lived and full of service ! to the other fellow—those 106 candles or the table of that plain American home in Minnesela lit up the face of a woman who found that contentment is not in the material things alone but also in service to others which helps to round out a successful life. = NOT ENOUGH A freshman at Marshall College, W. Va., says 90 minutes’ sleep a day is enough for any mortal. For five years, he says, he has averaged just 10 hours’ sleep a week. This goes the great Edison himself one better. And what are we to say against this college boy’s theory, when he is successfully carrying 20 hours of school work, is making excellent grades and working his way through in th it i. aS: Doctors will tell you that it is impossible to continue such zegimen.without harmful results. Sleep is the great heal- er; it is then that our worn-out cells are replaced by new can’t cheat nature very long and get away with it. ———— ding up Ls shores career wouldn't, be:so bad if you ywevs Tind J or: ge dres “And what a lovely mat! It would lput under my geranium pot, or on jthe back of my big plush chair. do finely for pickles, or I could use jit on my bureau to put pins in. How ‘much is it, Mister Peg Leg?” | Mrs. Chipmunk admired thing and asked the pri There was a silk apple pin-cushion, and a picture and a clock and a silk shaw) ‘and a shiny kettle and some beads and bracelets: and a dish mop and thandker and everything almost. | “Oh, dear!’ ‘sighed Mrs. Chipmunk, “1 do wish I was rich! Chirk and I ‘have a little money saved up in the ;tea pot on the mantel for a rainy every- “Wh don't you ask Mister Chip- said, Nick who was very anxious for the little, peddler man to |get enough money to buy a new peg is sum total for a city of 8,000 people jleg. His old one was worn off so! awfully. “That’s a good idea!” declared Mrs. Chipmunk. “He’s out doing the lunch dishes in the kitchen. He al- ways does them on washing day.” But no Chirk was to be found. There was the kitchen just as she had left it—the dishes all piled up in the sink. And so sign of her hus- band. “The very idea!” she exclaimed. “Then I'll just take some money out of the tea pot without asking. It’s mine anyway for I’ve saved it.” But, lo and behold! The tea pot was empty Mrs. C munk rushed back to the parlor. “I can’t buy anything,” she cried. “The money has disappeared and so has my husband.” “That's too bad!” sighed Mister Peg Leg starting to gather up all {his things again, Nancy and Nick helping him. i “But it’s not your fault, Mrs. Chipmunk,” he said. “And don’t be too hard on your husband. Something may have happened.” Just as they were leaving who should come rushing in but Chirk Shipmunk himself. “Wait a minute! Wait a minute!” | he called. “It's my wife’s birthday | and I want to buy her a present. I've been out earning the money.” “Wh—why, Chirk Chipmunk!” gasped his wife. “You got that money right out of our tea pot. It’s gone!” “What!” shrieked Chirk, rushing | back to the dining room to have a} look. “I never took a cent.¥ (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) In New York “And what a pretty dish! It would} “It wouldn't be so bad,” complain- ed one of the young ladies, “if the {school were in the middle of a desert, jbut here we are in the Fifties, inthe with all sorts of ducky affairs going lon around us and we can’t take part in them.” Fashion note: Men's pajamas for spring are being shown in bright and, jvariegated colors in the. batik mo- tive. On Fifth Avenue they are Ning at $30 and $40 the suit, Most of the hair-bobbing done here is behind screens or in private com;, |partments. In a barber shop patron ized by men and women the chairs jfor the fair bobbees ifrom the rest of the shop. But in a |second-story bobber shop cn Forty- Second street the operation is per- formed in full view of the public. And ‘the other evening I saw a fat) Jady in the first chair of a barber shop while a gaping throng watched ‘the scissors snip. | “Be ambitious,” advises Walter Catlett in a musical comedy. a lemon but took it.” look where ambition —JAMES W. DEAN. TO ex There might be more divorces if a woman could smell her husband's breath over the telephone. In Boston, a bandit shot a man after robbing him, which, we lieve, is absolutely contrary to burg- lar union laws. Just to show how scarce marrying men are, in Nyack, N. Y., a woman married the same man twice. This fever in Alaska is terrible, but it won’t kill as many men as the gold fever did. About 40 gallons of beer found on a Dutch ship was dumped overboard but it’s a long time before summer. Only a few more cussing days be- fore Congress adjourns. Chicago man got six months for stealing $10,000, which is good pay even for stealing. Yale professor finds the cost of living has advanced two points, but spection” is held at frequent inter- vals at one of the most exclusive girls’ finishing schools in the east. Now this school is attended by girls from some of the most promi- nent families in the country—ah, me, -yes! by girls from some of the most “exclusive”, famili If you “have an idea that these young ladies do nothing but frivol it is still worth the price, Now that they have found Legin, ska, missing New York pianist, we hope radio singers soon learn what's become of Sally. Kentucky man claims a hen Iaid three eggs in one day, it being the first sign of spring’ in Kentucky. away their time at parties and such goings on your are quite in error. © Here are some of thé regulation: ‘at this particular school: Evéry girl must wear three layer: of. clothing, ineluding a petticoat. If; They found 800 skeletons in 2 cave ear Benhanis, Va,, which may be a former bootlegging joint. iy little Los Angeles and she section of New York,! are screened’) “Be! like the grapefruit. Once it was only | be- | today saying he is on his way to kill me, and oh, Jim, I’m afraid, I'm afraid. I sit here with my — teeth chattering, and I am cold although the perspiration is standing on my face in beads. can't claim she thought they-were her husbands, i “Morris (1l1.)° farmer hanged him- self because he was summoned .to | Chicago, which was a little too rash, Temperature jumped | up 49 de- | grees in one day in Harv Mont., in- in town. j dust when the world hoped for a beautiful spring they started an- ‘other Stokes trial in Chicago, Quebec's tobacco erop is reported at 6,575,000 pounds. You put that in your pipe and smoke it, They think they have found the {missing link in South Africa. UBvery day they find the missing drink here. Sydney, Australia, has reached a population of one million, which per- mits its quota of murders to be in- creased, The man who formerly published seed catalogs seems to be editing} tourist magazines now. | (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) Atherton—Left on Her Desk At Office. Enclosed you will’ find the reason why I am leaving the country for- ever. I cannot resist the terrified plead- ing of that poor little girl. » This is also. the reason why I am ing with me fifty thousand dol- belonging to the Hamilton Steel Company. As you see, Mabel’s life depends upon her getting away from here immediately. We shall have some- thing to start with in a’ new coun- try. I am only borrowing it, you know, and as soon as I can I will send the money back. Yen know, I haven’t got one cent saved up butsI would murder rather than to fail her now. / The steel company will never miss the money, which is:a part of the payroll due day after tomorrow. Goodby, Sally. Qur-boat sails a little after midnight and we will be well out to sea when you get these letters. If you hhad- been a better friend to Mabel it is very probable that this would never have hap- pened, but I might have expected that no woman could be particularly kind to another one, especially if there was a man in the case. Just forget me, Sally, or if you think of me at all, remember that I am slightly different from the man who “loved honor more,” om. , (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) EVERETT TRUE: BY CONDO | | ‘tn NING Wears, twit BE WARMER — BU SAY, MR, GMER SON, Court AND HAVS ‘ouR WHY DON'T You Go To FROM J. H. EMERSON —— oe re —AND THE DAY BEFORE WAS THE COLDEST X .SvPeVese Tomorrow Tou CanyT TEC. Lh WOULDN'T BG A BT SURPRISED IF Iv RAINED Tos NAMG CHANGED WHATS THE "w. R” FORE of the mother Proper feeding should bégin in the earliest founda- tion period of the prenatal life, Mrs. Jones learned. It seems to be one of Nature's mistakes that the mather’s teeth of- ten decay during this period. 4 This defect in the teeth is brough' at least’a quart of milk daily, and eat some green, leafy vegetables every day. Here's a proper diet for an .ex- pectant mother: Milk, one quart a day; bread, ce- real or macaroni of any kind; oat meal, two kinds of vegetables every day, one leafy and one bulky; fresh about by the growing child requiring} fruit two or three times q week; much caleium for the development meat, fish, eggs, cheese, beans, peas, of its teeth and bones. The moth-] lentils and any fat in moderate er’s food does not contain enough! amounts. of this mineral substance for both| © She should avoid: bodies, so the mother suffers. Fried or highly seasoned foods, To protect both her own teeth and and an excess of tea, coffee, candy, the child, the mother should drink| sweets and rich °pastry. ‘EVENTIDE (Florence Borner) Who does not love the eventide, When Night flings her curtain far and wide, As the sun sinks into a Golden Sea, Enwrapped in the silence of Mystery; When ithe cky birds gieep, and the night birds call, And the roses cling to the garden wall, ‘While thé soothing vespers far and wide, Rechant the’ music of eventide. ' Who does not love the close of day, When the cares and worries have passed away, As we think of the triumphs we have won, Some good accomplished, some task well done; Have we helped a friend? have we done our part, To aid some brother, and olieer his heart? . As we sink to the joy of a well earned rest, We will know that for one day we stood Life’s test. Who does not love the gladsome Night? . An! the twinkling stars in the heavens bright, They speak of worlds far beyond our ken, ‘That re-echo the sound of a grand Amen; . Fair worlds, bright worlds, wonderlands of bliss, Far, fat, removed from such. world ag, this, Bright stars that gleam thru the livelong night, To vanish away with the morning's tight. Who does not*love to ponder well, Those secrets of which no man can tell, The mysteries, all unrevealed, Things to this world forever sealed; We prate of knowledge, fame and power, Yet cannot see ahead one hour, We know not what tomorrow will bring, What -eards capricious Fate may fling. Who does not love the zephyns low, Which softly ing come and 60, They fall then. rise, first low then ‘high, And bring a message from the sky, A pean of, pure sweet content, With harmony forever blent, Like. angel hosts on Eden's shore, | Chanting their praises o'er and o'er. Who does not love to sit and dream, ‘Besicsa slowly flowing stream, As: night-shades hover o'er the tree And still the songs of birds and (bees; <Then Fancy comes with her fair train, THe “by, Ro tS FOR WEATHER - And makes of us a child again. Turned ‘back in Time’s relentless flow, When Fic; cons softly glow. ——— MANDAN NEWS PREPARE FOR COURT Clerk of Court John Handtmann has prepared the copy for the calen- dar for the “March Term” of Mor- ton county district court which will open for a call of the calendar on February 24, * Judge F. T. Lembke of, Hettinger: will preside at the term, Only one new case is: listed: on the criminal calendar dy.,. State's Kelschane’burglary ehevue F. Filabek, Glen-Ullin—but there ere a Supaber a tA Pals actions of dark inorease Gabe. sa ee re Wine le previous Maal lt cael 2 . |years.- Morton, Grant, Oliver, aad er eae ue Mertsr song wi e Sioux te Carl “Schiller and” Miss Agnes | most deumien ae ariel : avaenampveAN eR: in 1920 to 41,800. ta TURE |Sweet Briar were |at 6 o'clock Thursday evening’ a ;the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ole Syver- ud, 8th Ave. S. W, They were .at- tended by Thomas Johnson and Miss Emma Baltruschat, . C. J, Fyl- ig of the Lutheran church offici- ated. Both of the young people are well Known: in’ the Heart River district. RECEIPTS DO ON RED A, seport en, the Red Cross. drive in North’ Dakota, just. issued by’J. P. Hardy of Fargo, shows a 12 per- ye t