The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 20, 1925, Page 4

MORE CYMER ati epee tet Sie Teac siete. ga rtm wan ““PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ‘Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. 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. Publisher GEORG DETROIT Kresge Bldg. 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..... ti 3 5 fF - $7.20 Daily by mail, per year in (in Bismarck). eter - 1.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck)... 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.......... 6.00 a THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1875) (Official City, State and County Newspaper) WHAT IS NEWS? Occasionally the critic a newspaper for what is so glibly termed “destruct news or “adverse advertis ing.” These terms are often the last refuge of the tax-eater, the privileged one whose tenure at the public crib may be threatened. It is the function of the newspaper to carry the truth to the people. At times it is wise to promote and expatiate upoh the cheerful aspects of community life Again it beconi@’ 48 necessary to delve into the unpleasant sidé, shake the bones of the “village” skeletons as it were. Zoth are legitimate functions of a newspaper, The New York Times recently made a very good retort 2°10 the timid father of some timid children who stopped The ~ ‘Times because that newspaper reported the sayings of the “prophet of doom,” the fanatical Robert Reidt. Commentin editorially The Times says: “Just what news is ‘constructive’ he does not reveal, but he does say that there is a paper in Boston that contains nothing else and to that his offspring hereafter shall look for their information as to,what is going on in the world. a “Well, therein he exercises an indubitable and inalienable right, but. when one remembers how 5 many families there are whose children remained quite undisturbed in their little minds by the stories about Reidt and his vaporings there is difficulty in eluding the suspicion that either the children of this particular father are abnormally timid or e that they were not adequately guarded against infantile fears by their immediate relatives. * “On the other hand, why should all news be ed ‘constructive’ when so many things that are de- ey structive are occurring on most days of the year? There is, of course, a school of thought the followers of which pretend to believe that what is ignored does. not exist, but there is sufficient warrant for holding them mistaken to justify newspapers, or at any rate those not’ published ‘in Boston, itt going ahead: on about the lines now pursued.” «Col. Robert R. MeCormick, co-editor of the Chicago Tribune has given « most excellent definition of a news- paper: “The newspaper is an institution developed by modern civilization to present the news of the day, to foster com- merce and industry through widely circulated advert ments, to furnish that check upon government which no constitution has ever been able to provide.” A newspaper inot by the very nature of things be always right. But if can always have the courage of its convictions, to do less would be to betray its readers, One writer has put it aptly “The greatest importance of the newspaper comes from a function that has developed upon it, a function not mention- ed in the Constitution and without which the Constitution could not continue to function. his is the exposure and denunciation of corruption in government.” a , Per Cota se ste ae ort BUGS The olfactometer, a devicé to determine the odor that is most pleasing to a certain kind of insect, is being developed by the Agriculture Department’s Bureau of Entomology in its war against the insect tribe. Insects, after all, are akin to human beings in that an appetizing odor usually creates an appetite. This ordor then an be employed to lure the unsuspecting and hungry bug to his destruction. . Science has found that the insect’s sense of smell is its vulnerable point. (Once one scents its favorite food it flies straight toward the source. And if pgison is there, well and good, Mr. Insect is finished. THRIFT You learn through the Bankers Trust Company of New York that the savings movement in Great Britain is making steady progress. Last year there were national savings cer- tificates outstanding to the value of 1800 million dollars. This system of savings was inaugurated during the war and we copied it. From it the United States evolved the system of war savings certificates now know as treasury certificates. In fact, the features of the British savings movement were so good they were adopted by a number of other coun- tries. Mrs He wae ery rates ut “ NAVY When the navy gets a good man. it likes to keep him. Until he grows too old, the longer he stays the more’ he’s worth. 4 So naval officers are gratified at increasing number of f‘ ye-enlistments. For a while after the war a large proportion served only one short term and then dropped out. Now, one term finished, they’re enlisting again. And a great many who left the service are coming back. 2 ’ This is merely history repeating itself. Usually there is a period of disorganization in the service following every war, and then a gvadual building up towatd maximum effi- _ ciency. ; _ SPREADING Interest in athletics is spreading through the peoples of the orient, says C. J. North of the Department of Commerce. is popular in the Philippines, baseball and tennis in Japan. Football, tennis, hockey, horse racing, cricket—all have their devotees in the Far East. : “North tells you that golf is both popular and inexpensive sin the Dutch East Indies, In fact, our American golf bug | would think it heavenly to hire a caddy for 16 cents a round do in i s 48 holes, as the E ies, nd brs Fifth Ave. Bldg. | Editorial Review _ Comments reproduced in bia column may or mi Ay Rot exprene ribune. Th.y ted here’in order that Gur readers may have both of important lasues which ar being discussed im the press the day. the opinion of The Ale presi A MATTER OF DIGNITY (Detroit News) A contributor to column east of this submits his conception of a Little Dignity C ‘To-wit: | “Looking ove [ut the auto she lin your 1921 Lizzie. -O, MY. | With no idea of becoming pain {fully moral over the matter, it is our theory that the dignity a man loses by driving a mature home from an auto show is | { i} { i i | | th y und riding the Kind he can profitably get alony without. ‘Tre dignity rests on {things more substantial than the | appearance of a htly decayed | automobile. It might better rest on the fact that a 1921 Lizzie i | probably paid for. The car, as ‘chariots go, may be nothing to stun the neighbors, wut if the whole |Utle to it rests in the man who Jdrives it it is submitted that his i is better served than by ion of a gilded vehicle with more mortgage paper on it than | there is canvas on a covered! wag- Y¥. probably bought ais ie for two reasons. He could afford it and it promised to If it still carries him home from an auto show safe and sound, the mains good. If he now that offends nsibilities less than zzie he can make the invest ment with no loss of dignity. If he can't afford it and makes the in- vestment anyway his dignity w suffer immeasu does on account of of his venerable flivver. isn't a whole lot of real debt, especially unnece AS TO ABOLISHI G LAW . (Los Angeles Times) “Abolish the law ang you have fewer criminals’ was will the owl-like suggestion on the 16ti of | January, the anniversary of the birth of the ghteenth amend- ment. | And yet the higher we ascend in | the scale of life the more laws ave have to obey. «A crab in the sea does not have @s many laws to worry over as does the on the public thor- cughfare. A crab does not have to consider speed laws. There is yot a large danger th: lobster will exceed the speed lim A crab does not have:to ‘bother about the forty-five-minute park- ing limit. He may park himself big rock in the busiest the ocean without fear of a ‘blue chalk mark cn his feet. crab never has to meditate upon the right or left turn. None of these things moves him. On the other hand, a horse nee not Wvave matters on what he calls his mind, which a°pird must ponder over deeply. A horse need never fear falling out of a tr while a ‘bird must fact the laws of aviation squarely. Nor does a se huve so many laws in his life as man. A horse need not look at the head of the table to hether he should use his fork or his Spoon in his oysier cocktail, He need not know it is bad form to eat with his knife, A pig knows no Golden Rule. Ne may put his feet into his din ner plate if he wish to and make all the noise he cares to in «spos- ing of his soup, without losing caste among his intimates. His ife even will not be ashamed of him. Abolish laws of there will be no pigs! etiquette 99 ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “Hello!” said the Scare Crow to Mister Peg ‘Leg and Nan and Nick. “Where are you going?” “We're peddling,” said Nick. “What's peddling?” asked the Scare Crow. “Is it anything like plowing?” : “No,” laughed Mister Peg Leg, the fairy peddler man, “It isn’t like it at all. It’s selling. I’m trying to make enough money to buy a new peg leg for myself. Mine is wearing off.” “Well. well, well!” said the Scare Crow. “I hadn’t noticed it before, but our legs are. just alike—yours and mine. I must be a peg leg, too!” “That's right,” said Mister Peg Leg. | children here.” Scare Crow. “Everything,” said Mister Peg Leg. “Everything from spoon-hold- ers to wigs. Would you like to buy something?” “Yes, I certainly would!” sighed the Scare Crow. “But when my master, the farmer, dressed me, he didn’t leave any money in the pockets of his old clothes. I'm broke!” “Yes, I did\notice that you were bending,” said Mister Peg Leg. “But I didn’t think you were quite that bad.” g The Scare Crow laughed. “I don’t mean that way. I said I was ‘broke.’ That means I have no money.” “Oh, excuse me!” said Mister Peg Leg. “You're excused,” aid the Scare Crow, “My straw feelings are not easily hurt.” “Well, we'll be’ going,” said Mister bye, Mister Crow.” “Scare,” ‘corrected the other. “Please don’t forget my first name. It’s more important than the last. Sorry I can’t buy anything. I cer- tainly do need some new clothes, I fe fix Mister Scare Crow up,’ “Let's he cried. won’t need, Mister Peg Leg?” The little fairyman laughed. “Sure, I have!” he declared. “Clothes go out of date so quickly, I'm sure take him where he wanted to go. } “We're twins just like these| “What are you selling?” asked the, Peg Leg. “Come on, children! Good-} peautiful cars | home! flivver | | i | | i | i | It THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE He opened his pack and the .Twins ! took off the Seare Crow’s old and put on the new ones that Mister \ Peg Leg laid out. The Busy Man’s Newspaper | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1925 This Law Might Be A Good One By Chester H. Rowell Just to illustrate that when we “have too many laws” | we sometimes need still more laws, the American Associa- ‘tion for Labor Legislation sends aut reports on the stopping of dust explosions in coal mines. | America leads the world in the number of miners it kills from this cause. | The cure for the explosion, says the association, has been found. It is to blow a mixture of rock dust on the accumu- lated layer of coal dust, ' It costs a cent a ton, or less. “ England requires it, by law. Many American mines have adopted it, voluntarily, with fine results. ° i ‘They have to compete, unfairly, against ‘those which do not adopt it. If these facts are correct, do we not, need “an- other law”? ‘ i After all ‘the fuss, the appointment of Harlan M.-Stoné to the supreme court was finally confirmed by an almost unanimous. vote. And Stone had not truckled for it, a particle. It is one of the traditions of politicians to be timid to- ward those who hold your fate in their han Strong men, when they are in‘the right, can win by the opposite course. Witness the record of President Coolidge, and this example of Stone. Shanghai is to. be “demilitarized”; its arsenals, barracks and forts dismantled, and all armies withdrawn and forbid- den to return. Then for the first time it will be safe. clothes The Scare Crow was so pleased he grinned from ear to ear. “I'm sure I’m ever so much obliged,” he said. “Now I can stand straighter and take some p ride in myself. Clothes certainly make the ou’re welcome,’ Lez. be going now. 1 my fortune this way.” his old clothes. “What's the matter?” cried “What's happened?” id Mister Peg “Come, children, we'll have to will never make The next day they passed the corn 1d-—and there stood Scare Crow in Nancy. “The farmer took them,” said’ the Scare Crow gloomily. new clothes “He said that might make the man, but that it took old clothes to make a geare crow. same, folks.” Much obliged just the “Well, well, well!” said the fairy peddler as they moved along. ar knew it was hard to sell things, but I didn’t know it was so hard things away.” # (To Be Continugd) to give (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) Spring hats are trimmed It is better in all s of ways. So are the customers, to have worked and lost than never to have worked ut all. You must sing a song of expense to get a bottle full of rye. A woman who has never taken up }}law can lay down the law. The masses will be elevated soon. They ere making airplane flivvers. What this world needs is washing dish. a self- A ton on hand is worth two at the mines this time of the year. The argument in our navy is that you can’t keep a good battleship up or a good flying machine down. Times are so tough, you seldom find more than a nickel on the pave- ment. \ Our argument for slow eating is that what’s worth chewing at all is certainly worth chewing well. This is the first editorial graph we have ever seen about Con- gress which didn’t register a kick, + The reason you can find so much fault is because nobody wants‘it, The 1925 autos will do everything except jump out of the way when they see a pedestri A woman is a person who a trunkful of stuff into a suit case. The only. way some give is up, in or out. You can’t keep your hands Pockets if you have a family them—you certainly can’t. These fur coats you see made by ‘skinning dumb usually father, The early bird to return no: catch it. “Haven't you some extra things you | it Just look at the money ‘we saving on ice and watermelons, worrying about the past. people will para- can get in your on were brutes, rth will are The future ig too short to kpend oubles are like ‘secrets. Keep|' jthem to yourself and they will ex- aggerate their own importance, * : ee once more—just-as it has been, al-|Cump e Q? wW e ee ways, after similar prophecies, 'Church in Chrystie street. LETTER FROM SALLY ATHERTON TO LESLIE PRESCOTT, CONTINUED I am sure, Leslie dear, that I know you well enough that you won't be annoyed at me for writing you like this. You have always known that I could not take | any, man seriously for long, not . even your husband, and I think perhaps that that was the reason why Safn and I were not happy. A man gets very peevish when you don’t take him seriously. If he thinks’ yo through his little subterfuges he feels greatly hurt instead of proud that he is married to a clever wo- man. ‘ So it’s a boy. Good for you, de: J was hoping all along that it would he a boy. A mother has so much more to worry about with girls and whatever he might say “himself” immensely proud of you and the baby. Says they don’t make them any better than the both of you. I think, perhaps, dear, I am more envious of you than I am of the vamp person, Indeed, tonight as I am writing to you it seems to me that I am neither one nor the other. I to be one of those femal ; Mohammet’s coffin, is for- ever suspended betgveen heaven «and earth, Once in a while [ drop down with a thud, but I never have yet succeeded in bobbing quite back to that heaven which the vampish: la- dies sometimes attain and — which you, dear, should always have, for you deserve it. I hope you will be coming home very soon, for between you and me 1 don’t dare leave these two men with- out some woman to take care of them and I have got to get away. myself for a little while. Things have been too strenuous for even me lately. I think I shall go out to California and see Bee and for a ments; for this is the whole duty of | suffer, “because it made man.—Eccl. 1 giving the time to do This does not quite confirm the pacifists’ contention that the less protection you have the ‘safer you are,,but it illus- trates that it is at least true in China. If every soldier in China could be,demobilized, the country would have peace. The Chinese armies, collectively the largest in the world, are no protection at all against foreign danger or domestic disturbance. Their only use is to fight each other and to rob the people. Even the bandits, who are mostly ex-soldiers, are a less evil if the sal- * tp diers are not added to them. ! In New York > ne | THERE ARE THOSE \ aDTE IGE z j - a -| WHO NEVER LEARN New York, Feb. 20-The Bowery’s The world is still here, after all, first mission has just been sold by following its “coming to an end” an Irishman to a Jew. It was the Memorial Congregational But there are certain tempera-| ‘The church originated in Céntre ments which learn nothing by ex-jstreet across from the Tombs, in the perience, ‘cradle of crime and the nursery of The sort that sees “prophecies” |wretchedness. That was in 1839 in the delusions of disordered minds! when Yankee Sullivan, the prize- is one of them. ifighter, ran a saloon next door and There is nothing to set against 'before Salvation Nell or her sisters the prophecies but facts. And facts, appeared among the hoodlums. to these minds are negligible. The mission employed a creed that Jappealed to men of all faiths and it WE KNOW WHERE flourished while churches of various WE STAND NOW denominations failed. In 1889 it was The Nevada Senate asks Congress| received: into the Congregational to call a convention to propose ‘church. = quite proud of him and I know: you| changing the eighteenth amendment! One of the most memorable events are. from imperative prohibition to u that occurred within the shadow of : Dear, dearsLeslie, I am so happy|mere enabling act, empowering Con- the church was the Fourth of July that everything js all right with you} gress to enact either, regulatory or|riot in 1867 between the Bowery and-that you have a baby to bring| prohibitory laws. {Boys and the Dead Rabbit . Gang. you joy and happiness. Of course it won't be done. But Clubs, guns and. fists were used by rhe other day I watched one of|what would be the situation if it the men in the streets while women month live the quiet life of Holly- wood. After what I have been through js last combination of male y and deadly femininity, I Tam all in, will be glad to know, dear, You that Mr. Prescott has gone to work with new vigor at the mills. He seems to think that everything now is going to be all right and he cer- tainly is making things hum. “I am the women bringing the lunch, to; were? 5 juud boys on. housetops tore down “her man” with a baby at her} Prohibition is the one question on brick chimneys to’ get missiles for, breast. She seemed perfectly con-|which the minority sabmits only the fray. anita lavhen nite: The last use of the church was song although one of her eyes wa If Congress had the power to make that of a refuge for Mr. Zero and his bluckened, I presume by the “hus-Jany regulation it chose, and to,army of unemployed. It might have band to whom she was bringing a}change the law every year, that} continued as that, but the health and ser) would be the sole issue at every'police authorities interfered. ‘Then I am quite, sure that as far ‘as 1} election, indefinitely. P. Hennessy, a real estate man, am concerned that a baby would] Every congressman would be elect- S0ld it to Isidor Kempner. take some of this restlessness out of }ed as “wet” or “dry” and as nothing Bane my heart. : else. What other policies he favored, There! If 1 don’t stop I'll get posi-|we would find out afterward, and i tively mawkish, what other laws we got would be ac-,knew for eating purposes was “ham All happiness to you, de: cident. + jand eggs.” He had been in New The present situation has at least; York six weeks. As he explained Ine.) the ndvaniage of taxi. ‘e to Bob Dorman, the Spanish-speaking {snap-shooter and world-wanderin (correspondent, “I had to eat “ tent and I heard her crooning Carmelo Garcia has returned to Hevana because the only English he” LLY. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Servic , © | WHERE'S THE AEDs iors tomer A Thought ——_—_—__- —_-______ jand eggs three times a day. Al six weeks of ham and eggs is t much for any man.” |] DISTINCTION? A crazy little girl in Los Angeles, 5 who says she murdered her sisters, Fear God, and keep his command-| explains that she wanted to see them| ae “teel| An alley in the rear of a cheap lodging house. A “dead” wagon at the curb. A cop standing by. A stretcher is carried out by two men. It sags with something covered with dirty cloth. The stretcher is. slung into the wagon. A faded derby hat rolls into the street. One of the men good.” That is abnormal, But have most normal peraons—much. better reason than the contrary feeling for thei correct. conduct 4oward other peo- 1 see od never imposes a duty without —Ruskin. Saws ee Jn a London law court a witness le? Normally, to others suffer: EVERETT TRUE THING THAT Am --= Say, CHESTER, ARS ‘rou eR WITH THS MAN AHEAD or US Im YOU'RE WACKING WITH BACK IN THE RANKS AND Don't KEEP A COUPLE OF STGPS AHEAD OF ME | (i — AND THE BANKS ARG ALL -WICLING ENOUGH TO CEND.THE “MONEY, THE RATE OF INKERSET 13 THE OVE gave his name as “Vrbka Zeknko,” i kicks it to another who tosses it into He said he was a Czechoslovakian, |™#kes us “feel pad.” So, to saveitne wagon. “He wins the brown 5 hat personal pain, we refrain from! queers wins yt inflicting injury on them, Cari OO aed gaa ‘climbs’ to his seat. One of New But when we do-nat see them— when, to save the cost of safety appliances, we condemn 2 statistical number. of unknown. and impersonal. workmen to accident; when, by non- support relief mepsures, ‘assure much suffering from, riegléct—these things do not make Us “feel bad.” Not being in’ our presence, they do not make us “feel”? at all. There- fore, we do nothing. To one .in this ‘stage of develop- ment—and facts like these demon- strate that their ‘name is legion— ig there anything better than selfish shrinking fragi the persoftal _ pai of sympathy involved in their occa- sional impulsive charities and kind- nesses? Emotionally, they are sounder than this warped little crea-! go; ture in Los’ ‘Angeles, are they ‘on, any 1¥ork’s ‘Tittle comedies. BY CONDO: The seagull. is shaving hard times hereabouts.. A bill. permitting the city to kiN the great, flocks of them BUT And the oil-burn- vessels are’ another menace. Gulls, all innocent of oil and its ef- fects, settle on the water where the oil-burners have cleaned out their tanks and become so stuck up they can’t fly. —JAMES W. DFAy. A COUGH REMEDY WITHOUT OPIATES Many cough preparations contain me one or more harmful drugs But morally|which are added to take the place ifferent plane? of opiates. None, of these narcoti substitutes have evei SONG REHEARSAL PUSHED FOLEY'’S HONEY AND. “TAR COM. Grand Forks, N. D., Feb. 20—Song| POUND. The name of every ingred- y every Jient is plainly printed on every car- t ipates, ton. You know what you are taking are daily occurrences at the state |when you take Foley's. It clings to university this week. These are be-|the throat. Good for old and young. ing held in final: preparation for the |You have a cough, why not try. it. annual Carney song contest, which | Refuse substitutes.—Ady, ; is ‘scheduled Saturday evening. ; WALKING WITH MES: 2 The latest national forest, called the Benning ‘reserve, at Columbus, Ga., embraces 78,500 acres. the brain is doubled it nine . fe, The weight of in the fi KS FABLES ON HEALTH HOW TO GAIN WEIGHT Underweight is not considered ser- fat ane it.is due to some phy: cal condition, the doctor e: ined to Mrs. Jones, eaipine In. childre however, persistent In gaining weight strong muscles should be’ desired rather than jug fatty tissue; So the basis of dil should be ‘milk, rich and creamy, plenty of vegetables, . underweight should be studied, Often] fruit every day, ares ot sae: ie thére are apparent symptoms ‘of| cereals and other grain products, fat body aitments. If so, a physician} cream, and th should be consulted at once. ~ appetite might HE Ore eee Persons who desire to increase| Here i ‘their weight should go to bed early,| crea: ie fe ” fone kg fae sleep long hours with windows wide] Butter, cream, oil, salad dressing, open, relax as much as possible’ dur-| potatoes, milk, chee: ts ing the day, get out of-doors fi #n/| crackers, cereals, ‘ric caweve Hit g Bone or more each day, and eat | cuits, pant s and flour rep of, ? rea new EA 4 6