The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 24, 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 Publisher | CHICAGO : - - - DETROIT | Marquette Bldg. Kresge 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. ; " xt 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..... sd < é $7.20 Daily by mail, per year in (in Bismarck).......... 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota........... 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) ees (Official City, State and County Newspaper) THE USUAL REFRAIN ; When any investigation is started to inquire into the expenditure of the public dollar, the hue and cry goes up from the public crib that it is “personal in nature.” The Highway Commission probe is a case in point. Judge Gra- ham has said repeatedly that no one is on trial. Facts are all that the committee wants. Any department should wel- come such an investigation and it is no reflection on anyone connected with the department because an investigation is started. If it develops that there have been loose methods, extravagant expenditures of public funds, then a house- cleaning should follow. { The investigation probably will get down to “brass tacks” and “findings” of fact later. To date, the disclosures have shown rather unbusiness-like methods. Purchase of thou- sands of dollars worth of road markers without bids may not be venal in itself, but it is poor business and probably would not be tolerated in the best of regulated departments. Farming out of trucks and automobiles to favored engi- neers in private practice and supplying them with state gaso- line books on a credit basis may not be venal in itself, but such practices are subversive of efficiency and economy and bring the present system of highway building into dis- repute. \ Allowing a contractor of a federal road project to “nurse” a project along and then pay him thousands more for al- leged “extras” may not be venal, but it hardly makes for public confidence in the department ich is supposed to see that a dollar’s worth of value is given for every dollar spent for road work. There has been no evidence to date that Judge Graham + is conducting an inquisition or a “fishing” party for the “purpose of annexing political scalps. It begins to look, how- ever, as though the tomahawk and “Indian signs” were being used by the investigated and not the investigators. Lets have the whole truth and if there has been ineffi- ciency or graft use the broom and the “big stick,” Cass =+-eounty to the contrary. THIRD PARTY EVAPORATES Labor is not going to be “flattered” into a third party alignment with the radical bloc in Congress, under the leader- ship of Senator LaFollette. Gompers failed to hold labor’s executive committee in line for the traditional policy of labor is to hold aloof from direct political contact. In the endorsement of LaFollette last November, this = rule was broken, but the wisdom of Gomper’s past advice to * work through the established parties triumphed in the con- ference at Chicago last Saturday. The “Big Four” leaders representing the unions of those engaged in the transpor- station industry decided against a Third Party. This natur- ally sounded the death knell of such an alignment. The .n,dncongruity of a farmer-labor party is as self evident as it is “unworkable. Appeals to class consciousness and prejudices may win temporary victories, just as mob rule occasionally dominates for a spasm, but in the final analysis individuals @rift back to the principles of established parties and the union of “discontents” fades away. The process of “political unscrambling” has started. Congressman Sinclair of North Dakota is back in Repub- lican ranks again and will participate in the caucuses of the party whose label he wears. To what extent patronage will follow this renewed allegiance remains to be seen but doubtless after the necessary penitence and probation he will be assigned his old stool at the pie counter. How potent is the pork barrel in politics! Regardless of motives, the drifting back of the prodigals to the party and the “pork” is an encouraging sign. The people will get better government under the party regime than under the bloc arrangement. Elements that make up the labor organizations are too diverse to be welded into a forceful party. The only naturai reaction to the 1924 alignment under LaFollette was the un- scrambling process which has begun and will continue be- tween now and the assembling of the new Congress. vi ar a ED AD ote ini ais reali BESIDE THE ISSUE Just because the present city commission and its engi- Editorial Review _ Comments reproduced tn thi column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. Thay are presented here in order thet Our readers may bave both sides of important Issues which are being discusse@ in the day. | THE (. P,P. A. the press of (New York Times) j Today's meeting in Chicago of | the Conference for Progressive Political Action was called by the Chairman of the Executive Council to “consider and pass upon the } question of forming a permanent independent political party for na tional and local elections.” The was a melancholy meeting of Pro- er ves at Washington in De- cembe Senators LaFollette and Wheeler, Ladd and Frazier, all the faithful in Congress, were absent without regret. Young Mr. LaFol- lette was the on presentative | of the dauntles: rrior against | . The railroad brother: | nted no convention. The Fede ion of Labor formally with- | rew from the Progres Party. The armer-anu-labor movement had © ed to move. But there | vas ajority vote in the Execu- 1 for a convention. The conference dearly loves to confer. ‘Representatives of the three railway brotheriioods that took | part—or whose officers took part— in last year’s great amalgamated campaign for the glory of Mr. La Follette have been in session with those of certain other labor organ- izations to determine where they are at in regard to a Third Part Of the wishes and couree of the more important labor apgan tions there can be no doubt... Their heads made a ke last year. Organized labor has gained infi ence and power by avoiding separ- ate ipolitical action. The majority of labor unions resent any attempt to dictate how they should vote. Only some of tie radical unions and the Socialists want a Third Party. The temporary combina- tion with the So s and radi cals last year w rtificial and forced. The Socialists and various ineffective noisy little segm s Adullam are the main well- of a Third Party. Such a pa formed, would be essentially the same old Soc: E whether called Progres: As Mr. LaFollette has said, ‘par- ties are not made. They grow. But it is anybody's privilege to form one. The Committee of Forty-eight must have founded at east that number of new parties. Let the good work go on! It may be suspec' however, that Mr. LaFollette,.a wise old gird, is not fluttered by the activities and an- tics of some enthusiasts of last year. His group in Congress is in- tact. Blazing young “‘intellec- tuals,” Socialists trying to use. him as ihe has used them, and the little brood of chronic come-outers aren't numerous enough to help much the coming of that great All- forsLaFoliette-and-All - LaFollette Party which he has been dreaming of for twenty-five yéars. 4 ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON Mister Peg Leg and the Twins went along through the Land-Of-Dear- Knows-Where when all at once Nick saw a sign. It said, “Red Fox—His House.” “Oh, dear said Nancy. “Let's hurry past. I don’t like Reddy Fox. He’s always scaring people and Mis- ter Tingaling says he’s the worst tenant he has.” But almost before the last words were out of her mouth, who should open the front door but Reddy Fox himself. And he grinned until you| could see his long red tongue and away down his throat, “Where are you going, maid?, Please step ‘inside, don't be afraid,” he said. “I'm going with Nick and Mister Peg Leg to sell things,” said Nancy. “And I'm not afraid, but we can't my pretty step inside because we are in a hurry.” “Grrrr! You'll just come in if ¥ say so,” said the fox. “If you don't, Vill tear Mister Stumpalong’s pack all to pieces with my> shavp:teeth.” “His name's not Stumpalong—it's Peg Leg,” said Nancy. Then she whispered, “We'd better go in for you can’t tell what he'll So Nancy and Nick and Mister Peg Leg walked right into Reddy Fox's house. “Have you any money?” the fairyman uneasily. “Money! Ha, ha, ha! That's a joke. I don’t need money. What I want, asked neer ‘“‘cleaned up” the water gives them no perpetual license ‘to “clean up” the taxpayers also. The Tribune supported : their efforts in this respect until the orgy of spending was f initiated under the guise of “clean water.” The tax payer discharged that debt of gratitude long before the “$7,850 gratuity” and the many “extras” incident to the spending spree that followed the.bond elections. The issue before the voters of Bismarck now is whether want to maintain title to their property or allow the city engineer and commissioners to pile up additional mort- gages in the way of taxes and bond issues. PROPHETS To most of us the widely heralded “end of the world” was more than a‘ harmless bit of tomfoolery. We went ely about our business, confident that the “prophets” e talking through their hats. : But what was a joke to us was tragedy for some. News- record four suicides, all committed By persons who ved the end of the world was at hand.’ There is more easantness in. store now for members of the sect who t fate the jibes of their neighbors. : cruel of. all was the experience of the believers’ m. They didn’t want the world to end but. had to re” for it anyway by giving up their treasures. Now je: are back at. school, enduring the taunts of their play- "They are the true sufferers. ig Fd Brooklynpastor says a man must.be a hero to his wife. is be to.do.about it if she refuses to give up the I take. And I want a lot. Now show me everything.” Poor Peg Leg undid his pack and spread out his wares. “Now let me see,” said Reddy lick-j ing his lips and grinning again like a Chessy Cat. “Have you a nice roasted chicken?” “Chicken!” cried Mister Peg Leg. “I don’t carry anything to eat except cough-drops.” “Well, give Reddy Fox. Mister Peg Leg handed them over and the fox stuffed them into his mouth, box and all. “Crunch! Crunch!”.. was all you could hear for a few minutes. “That's fine!” said Reddy, “Now I shouldn't cough for the next year and a half. Let me, seet Got any overshoes 2” he? “Just two pairs!” said Mister. Peg Leg. “That's enough—give them to me. Now when I got snooping, no one can hear me. Got any kettles good for making chicken or rabbit stew?” them to me,” said THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE strong chicken or rabbit bag.” Mister Peg Leg picked one up, but | suddenly Nick grabbed it and pulled it down over Reddy’s head and tied the string tight. Then they put the kettle and the overshoes and the dress and sun- bonnet back into the fairyman’s pack and went on their way. : The Tangle e LETTER FROM PAULA PERIER TO SYDNEY CARTON Mon Ami: You cannot tell how I appreciated your letter. You cannot attitude, will be doubly understand. h “Good-bye!” they called. “You| possibly know what it all meant to| be, I would have may keep the bag and the cough-|me, for, being a man, you cannot] on loving Jack. drops.” 1 that women never forget. a Syd, I wish I could forget it all. I D unceasingly that I may. I want to just blot out that part of my life in which I knew John Alden Prescott. This may sound dnkind to you, my friend, who has always been so swéét to me, and to whom I turned in my darkest hour and found suc- cor ahd solace, but even at the cost of, forgetting you, dear Syd, I wish I could forget. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Ine.) cleanser. I tove my boy— unreasoning love much of hurt. hai kind of pride and member without si This Nurmi runs so fast he can go Yes, I want to forget it all, includ-| needed it most an to town about as quickly as hejgantimg you, because the memory makes stay at home. “4 {me ashamed. No, do not jump at < Néonclusions. I am not ashamed of] it there creeps no Babe Ruth isn’t having much-luck at golf, maybe because they won't giveyhim three strikes. that time when I knew John Alden Prescott. I am not ashamed of that time when I thought I was living in Sheaven and not on earth. I am their mistakes. Perhaps, Syd, # An Illinois town finds it needs Fy not ashamed of the Paula Perier who| there larger jail. We would if our cops|loved much and who for that love| this world is wor! worked a little harder, was crucified—I am ashamed of the| for it. The Prince of Wales finds he needs more money, so fnost of our young men are right in styl Massachusetts women’s clubs fing women inconsistent. We find them anything you expect them to be. Paula Perier of today, the worker, the woman of the world, the wgman of ambition. I am ashamed because after having loved a man as I loved Jack, after thinking the world well lost for that: man, I find I do not]! love him any more. I thought was great love was only finish this letter (Copyright, 1925, I fnd that what | | — time, opportunity and the call of the| New Yorks Feb It is hard to work your way|blood and I had not strength to re-| dirty as Flapper througy college at present prices sist. charged by bootleggers. 1 am ashamed because the passion —_— I felt was not deathless. In fact,;the most: & Florists say the outlook for spring|that passion has died a _ painless eae is very rosy. death long ago. Today I am not] He is one of the Gardeners are planning plots all vegetables and a yard wide. moved by the sound of my lover's name. Today I never think of him atiall and it makes me ashamed that all that has happened cpuld have happened and left so ‘small a scar upon my soul. It is hard, my friend, to make my- also. has consider: Coolidge has a mechanical horse in his room. Pushes a button to stop it. Saves him from saying anything. love, each other they are apart. is a woman of that kind Am called on the set now. ie ee In New York | arts and great temperament, Once when, the wife A Bolshevik Name For Treason 2 ‘By Chester H. Rowell The Bolsheviks are hanging men for grafting. It may seem like rather an improvement on most Bolshevik tactics, until you find out why it is done. The offenders are guilty of a double crime. As heads of state factories, they sold goods secretly to private businesses, and took a liberal rake-off for themselves on the transac- tion. The rake-off was mere stealing, and hence, by Bolshevik ethics, a minor pecadillo: . \ That is not what they are hanged for. But selling to pri- vate business was treason to Communism. ta | Treason, anywhere, is a hanging offense. It is ofily in Russia that property and business are crimes against the state. A bill has been introduced appropriating more than a million dollars for an embassy building in Tokio. « Whether a million is too much is a matter for investiga- | tion. But, whether it is a million, or half that sum, either no such house is needed or the man who has to live in it should have more than $17,500 a year to keep it up. Either “democracy” requires an American ambassador to live in a village house, in village style, or else it requires him to live in whatever house he has in a manner justifying that house. Our cowardly custom is to sidestep the issue, by expect- ing our diplomats to do as other national representatives in self understand my feelings and my| Consequently I expect it ard to make you As dreadful as it would liked to have kept It would make me feel as though I were a cleaner wo- A great love is a great soul but even that wild which held so s softened into a} affection. I know myself as I am and I sometimes am afraid that I am a light woman. Out of the whole cataclysm only two things remain which I can re- adness. , These are your great kindness to me when I id Leslie Prescott's wonderful .understanding—an_under- standing that is not human for into: Prejudices, that in th all I have paid a knowledge wil tomorrow. NEA Service, Inc.) -y >_> . 24.—Dishing the Fanny would say, ‘we repeat heré the two bits of scan- dal which muke rialto tongues wag best-known actors of the stage, a man of great talent and great temperament. His wife able talent in the They deyoted!y—when returned from We hasten to explain the mechani- cal horse Coolidge rides for exercise is not a jflivver. We will have a new secretary of agriculture in March. He should stress that. agriculture is more im-] portant than just culture. PARDON = ME; MR — AND WHEN | Be ag i CAMS ‘Out’ Mozart's opera, composed at 12, is being sung. Most operas composed at 12 are “I didn’t do it.” COMPARED WITH Mi A movie comedian says he doesn't want a divorce. Perhaps there is something in these predictions of the world’s end, Our philosophy is that the wotld ends every night and starts out ‘new again every morning. lost speech has Coolidge’s hasn't. Lincoln's found. been -IN ANOTHER THRES MONTHS BACK IN THE HOSPITAL AGAIN. DISTIESSING THROAT COMPLICA Sey In Fremont, Neb., @ crazy man was found in the street eating raw corn, instead of drinking it. ; ee \PERATE. Tom Edison and Henry Ford went fishing. Bet Tom caught a few big ones and Henry a million little ones. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Setvice, Inc.) VOCAL CORDS Pai iiifoxrarerrem Ese | A Thought | st The carth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.—Ps. 4:1. LS BORING EVERVYON We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our hom H. Vincent. ROYAL ARCH MASONS Mister Pi Leg set out three. Bede took the biggest and set it on tov e. ' ‘Now I'll have a dress and a sun- bonnet. so I can fool’ people,” said Reddy. “I want to pretend I’m a iy. - And didn’t he pick out the best ties end sunbonnet Mister Peg Leg sRlgr, mnt» begs. cteh phings Regular meeting Bismarck Chapter No. 10 Tuesday even- ing at 7:30. Degree work. Visiting companions cordiall invited. ae " FOR SALE Scratch Pads in three sizes, 15¢ PE POW Tribune Co, L HAD MY APPEN DIX CIFTSD OUT IN, AND IT WAS FOUND ADVISABLE SO THEY REMOVED MY WAS CONTINUALLY . GRAY, zt HAVE i] PERIENCE WAS NOTHING INS. L WAS A VERY TtON HAD BECAUSE <= BY no} patronage, only divine love for all creatures and a divine pity for all Europe the loving husband wag at the wharf to greq her and the warmth of his welcome was marked by all who witnessed it. Within half an hour they were engagéd in terrific combat. Now when these two disagree more than words fly between them. Indeed, the folk who occupy the apartment below invite friends in to listen to the bric-a-brac and furni- ture of their distinguished neighbors crash and echo. Their usual invita- tion is, ‘If you're not doing anything this evening come over and listen to the So-und-So's fighting.” In Tin-Pan Alley the choice morsel of gossip concerns a well-known or- chestra conductor whose mail is full of “crush” notes. He is as much 4 favorite among the ladies as any matinee idol. He makes “big money” and spends it in a large way. He lives in great style at a hotel. The story goes that he has been married for years and has a child almost in its teens und that he seldom sfes either his wife or child, having left orders at the hotel that they are not to be admitted to his rooms, Not so many years ago his wife carried his lunch to him, at the cheap cabaret where he performed. New York’s subway is a city unto itself. At almost every station there is a newsstand. At most of them, confectionery stands. Fastened to posts are gum and candy-vending ma- | chines, So through the day there are scores at work who have nothing to while collectors empty coin boxes of telephones. Others are cleaning up refuse left by passengers, | Others are posting bills upon the boards that line the stations. Without leaving the subway level one can buy a meal, get a shoe-shine, buy cigars or cigarets and even shop in the basements of large department stores, The latter venture entails the spending of another nickel if the! shopper re-enters the subway. Out-of-town visitors who are giv- en to the habit of visiting the shrines of famous Americans of early his- tory often search out the birthplace of Washington Irving. They have read that he was born in William stree%, between Fultqn and John. But when they seek out the place they meet with disappointment. The house of Irving’s birth has long since made way for great insurance offices —and there is not even a_ bronze plaque to mark the place where the founder of American literature first saw the light of day. ~ —JAMES W. DEAN. Financial experts say that about 60 per cent of the transactions in retail trade and 90 per cent of the wholesale: transactions are settled by means of credit transactions—checks, trade acceptances, drafts and notes. | the same capitals do, but to pay for it themselves. In Tokio, for local reasons, we furnish the hduse. most places, the ambassador rents it himself. In But even furnishing the house makes it little better, if it is the sort of house that can not be main- tained for less than several times the salary. Used to Long Distances Operators of Shipping Board boats announce .it has been computed that California provides much more than its share, in proportion to popula- tion, of foreign travel, even across the Atlantic. Naturally. wanderers. ; Every Californian either came a long journey to get to California, or is the near descendant of some one who did. Their wandetlust is: the product of natural selection. And in Caliy fornia, distances are long- People who, inside the state, think nothing of traveling the 500 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles to meet a dinner engagement or to “see a man,” and who, if they travel outside the state, must cross the whole great inter-mountain re- gion before they come to another thickly populated district, are not going to shrink from. Europe, Asia, Africa, or the islands of the sea. Californians are born Nature May Beat Congress If Congress debates long enough what to do for the farmers, nature will have come to their relief before there is any decision. The farmer comes out all right, in the long run, regardless of anybody’s help. The only trouble is the longness | do with:the maintenance of the trans-|0f the “run.” And many an_ indi- portationiays tens vidual farmer cannot outlast the Men collect pennies from the slot| Wait. _ 3 5 machines and fill the empty slots| He is pressed into the growing army of renters or laborers, and ceases to be, politically, a part of the farm problem. So Congress can w: while it con- siders whether, in helping tha farmer, it is necessary to cinch any- body else. Farming, too, just as an abstrac- tion, can wait. Its problems get solved, sooner or later, The only one who cannot wait is, the human, individual, personal farmer himself. He is, after all, the one that counts. But politics does not seem to know it. ‘ Of Reducing Fat Here is an extraordinary method of reducing weight—extraordinary because no starvation diets or vio- lent’ exercises’ are necessary. Mar- mola Prescription Tablets are’ made exactly in. accordance with the fam- ous Marmola Prescription. They re- duce you steadily afi easily, with no ill effects. Procure them from your druggist at one dollar for a box or send price direct to the Marmola Company, General Motors Building, Detroit, Mich. Once you start tak- ing these tablets, and losing your fatness, you will be happy again— ve After milk another important food is derived from grain products, Mrs. Jones learned. Bread, cereals of all kinds, maca- roni and rice. All. are high in en- ergy, and yield a large amount of working power. The man who does heavy work, the athlete, the child: that is very active, should have generous amounts of grain. products at every meal. These foods Will prevent the body from burning its own tissues. , They are easily digested, and quickly available. The wise cook will prepare these foods in various ways to keep them palatable. This may be done by pre- FABLES ON HEALTH IMPORTANT FOODS paring mush for breakfast, soups for luncheon, puddings for dinner;s also breads, cookies und cakes for all meals, ; Where the whole grain is used the ¢ Products have most food value. Such are oat meal, whole wheat, graham flour, brown rice and unbolted dort meal, In the refining of flour and the polishing of rice, the outside coating is remoyed: and with it most of vitamin B. The part remaining is still valua- ble for energy, but when used great care should be taken to see that the meal is supplemented with some ve- Getable, containing mineral, — thet’s before you. That's why It’ PRelieke “LL grant you it isn't @ feeling that’s greet when you look on a task thing that you know’s gonna bore you. Hoy “bteey Ty set haperyindy weahd os se mare eetuenly, ieee at. 0 easy to wait till too late, with a ‘9 something that’ mnt;