The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 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 Bidg. 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. 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. $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) (Official City, State and County Newspaper) EX-PARTE STATEMENT | While commendable solicitude over the welfare of the city is reflected in the letter written by F. L. Conklin, pres- ident of the Association of Commerce, asking for a state- ment from the city commission relative to the installation of the new water works plant, the directors, one of whom is a city commissioner, can receive at best merely an ex- “parte statement. City Auditor Atkinson has been directed >to:prepare it for the consideration of the city commission. City Engineer Atkinson doubtless will vise it, some of the commissioners will add to it and delete from it and when it reaches the Association of Commerce office, the result should the citv campaign which will warm up in a week or two. If the city commission’s statement is not satisfactory to the board of directors, a taxpayer’s suit has been instituted which should bring out all the facts incident to Atkinson’s three per cent fee. This case should throw light also upon other operations in connection with the expenditure of public funds. The record in this case should be a complete “answer to the Association of Commerce’s request for in- -formation. One exception should be taken to the Association of Com- merce letter. It is stated in the letter that the “good name” of the city has become involved. This is the usual back- fire when an accounting of the expenditure of public funds is asked. The “good name” issue is usually the smoke screen behind which the tax-eateg; take refuge. The good name of Bismarck is not involved especially, but the political wel- fare of some hencemen at the public crib is more vitally concerned. If the voters allow waste and extravagance in the handling of tax money to continue, ‘it comes out of their pockets even though there may be no graft present at all. There may be waste and inefficiency without graft in city affairs. Efficient, economical government is the issue at stake in this controversy along with the taxpayers pocket- book, not some vague and intangible hullabaloo about the “good name of our fair city.” Any statement the Association of Commerce gets at this time upon the eve of a municipal campaign will be largely + political. If it were possible to get some disinterested municipal expert to inquire into the city affairs and check over the waterworks contracts and disbursements, some matters might be explained. Whatever the forthcoming statement contains, the fact still remains that few of the taxpayers of Bismarck are throwing up their hats in the air or cheering because the city commission paid T. R. Atkinson three per cent on $265,- 000, the purchase price of the Bismarck Water Supply Com- pany’s plant. Any defense his son, City Auditor Atkinson, tight write at the behest of the city commission will be entertaining if not convincing. By all means the statement and complete publicity. Ample opportunity for a verification can be had if the com- mission’s statement comes two or three weeks ahead of the city election. An eleventh hour statement for political pur- poses should be discouraged. “CHARLIE’S WADDLE” Charles Chaplin is in court trying to protect the his- trionic title to his “waddle.” In this day of the cinema and mimic world of the screen, a “waddle,” a special make-up, “even an amatory style of acting may have a special exclu- sive value. Chaplin is very sensitive over his “waddle,” so the cus- tard pie comedian is spending good money to defend the ex- clusive right to “waddle” in his own particular “waddling ietyle.” Charles Amador, possessed of an expansive pair of flat ‘feet, limber knees and double jointed ankles that can sim- ulate the Chaplin “waddle” has been imitating the until “: now: inimitable “Charlie.” ,., But let Chaplin tell the story of his “waddle” in his own “words: ... “My inspiration was from the whole pageantry of life. »-}-got my walk from an old London cab-driver ,the one-foot glide that I use was an inspiration of the moment. A part ~“of the character was inspired by Fred Kitchen, an old fellow -'‘trouper of mine in vaudeville. He had flat feet.” Deprive Chaplin of his “waddle,” the peculiar cut of , trousers and hat and the poor house would loom in the off- “ing. No wonder he is fighting to protect his “props.” With- ‘put them he would be a mere mortal. te . IDEALS OF LIFE - Charles Evans Hughes recently in an address in Wash- -ipgton gave his ideal of character and a balanced life which can be summarized"as follows: “Faith without credulity, “¢gonviction without bigotry, charity without céndescension, courage without pugnacity, self-respect without vanity, rhamility without obsequiousness, love of humanity without ~bé an excellent campaign document as a curtain raiser for} Editorial Review Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. Thy are presented here in order that Our Fenders may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. THE COUNTRY IS SAFE (Kansas City Star) An investigation conducted by this fireside companion among the ‘hills of Kansas City during the re- cent period of snow has revealed a comforting fact. The youth of the Jand is living up to the great tra- ditions of its elders. It is still sliding down hill belly-buster. You recall, of course, when you got out on the top of Putnam's hill at night with the thermometer hanging around zero and the moon- light sparkling on the landscape just like the pictures on the frost- ed Christmas cards? You wore your ‘boots with red tops and brass toes, your tippet and your mittens, and you hauled behind you the sled that was the pride of your Hfe with the name “Reindeer,’ painted on its green ‘back. If you were ex- tremely bold you asked one of the giris with pigtails sticking out from her snug fitting turban to slide. She sat in front with her knees all humped up, and you half reclined ‘behind with a foot stick- ing out as wrudder. A shove and away you went down the slippery s:ope for a quarter or maybe half a mile. But in general girls were a nuis- ance. Nobody wanted to sit a sled girl fashion. Belly-buster was the thing. Ah, there was a thrill. If the sled were light enough you picked it up, ran a few steps, flung yourself down, and shot away down the long slide. If the sled were heavy you ran pushing it in ‘front of you and then when it got well under way you gave a jump and were off. It was a great sensation, the speed, and those red top boots fill- ing with snow as they scraped o the grounc as you steered. In time the snow would melt and the ‘boots would shrink and it would take the combined efforts of the family when you got home to puil them off. But it was all great, and you can still get the thrill looking ‘back across the years. As we have said, the country is safe. The boys of today still stick to ‘belly-buster. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE. ROBERTS BARTON The next. place that Mister Peg Leg and the Twins came to on their travels was old Chris Crow’s house. Chris was at home with his throat all! tied up--as hoarse as I—I was going to say “crow,” and just re- membered in time. Well, anyway he was very hourse. “What's wrong, Chris?” Nick who knew very well. “Pip!” croaked Chris. asked “You should have Doctor Snuf- fles,” said Nancy. “Stuff!” croaked Chris. “Stuff and nonsense. I won't take medi- cine. There's only one thing that would make me feel better and that’s a corn sprout! But one may as well wish for a slice of the moon as corn just now. Next to that I'd like a mouse—a nice, juicy, young, fresh, tender, fat mouse.” “Tut! Tut!” said Mister Peg Leg. “You mustn't wish that. Munch and Flop Field Mouse and Johnny Jump- ing Mouse are all driends of mine— as well as the apple-mouse and the house-mouse. They are good cus- tomers, too. I sell them cheese and candles:” “Customers! Are you selling some- thing?” croaked Chris in surprise. “Well, what do you think I've got this pack on my back for?” demand- ed Mister Peg Leg. .“ Did you thin I was carrying it for exercise?” “Oh, no,” said Chris hasti thought perhaps you were bringing me a present. But anyway, never mind about that now. What have you got?” “Everything from a mouth-organ to a nut-pick,” said the fairyman. “Ha, ha, ha!” laughed Chris. “A lot of good they would do me. Have you such a thing as a mouse-trap?” Now Mister Peg Leg had a mouse- trap, the very newest kind, but he didn't want to sell it to Chris after his remark, And he said so. But Nick had an idea. “If Chris deesn’t buy it, somebody else will.” he said. “You'd better sell it to him, Mister Peg Leg. That will be ten cents more toward your new peg. leg.” The little peddler was pnzzled and was Nancy, but anyway Mister Bt Peg Leg opened his pack and fished out the mouse trap and handed it over. Chris almost shouted for joy and paid the money without a word. | _gentimentality and meekness with power.” *-2% Strength of character is reflected in the great Secretary ‘of State who is soon to retire to private life. His message tis-to seek life more abundantly., Noting that the tendency e times is toward nervous irritability he urges the youth pan fast to those things which lead to self control, poise abd mastery. But it is not a dark gloomy regime he pictures -in his advice but urges life’s “joy, its untiring pursuits, its fresh victories.” f i BH NORTH CAROLINA AND EVOLUTION ‘. , North Casolina’s legislature has defeated a bill to pre- the teaching of evolution in its State aided and sup- schools, The vote was ‘close and the debate upon After all, s boy who is raising 3 ustache may feel a little down in : Tne eens Soe nee “1 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE “Now all I need is some cheese from the store and I'm all ready for sup- per,” said he with a hungry snap. “Whatever made you talk that way they were on their way again. “Don't you see?” answered Nick. “We'll go right away and tell our u.ouse friends where to look for the trap and beware of it. “It’s much better to know where it is than not— besides vou made ten cents and no- body will come to any harm.” You are a smart boy,” said Peg Leg. “I never thought of that.” “Come on,” said Nancy. “We'll tell Munch Mouse first. So they told Munch Mouse and after a hunt they found Johnny Jumping Mouse and Dick Apple Mcuse and Flop Field Mouse and everyone of them. I hope Chris Crow isn’t waiting yet foxy. his supper. < (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) Girl in Chicago forgot her name. Could have been worse. We know some girls who forget themselves. go up, this being regarded as a sure sign of an early spring. Algona (Ia) man shot at his wife and missed her. Judge gave him 30 years, but not for missing. Senator wants to probe shoe prices. Let's hope he intends starting in at the foot and working up, The new spring hat may be felt, but not as much as its cost, A wise old farmer planning his crop tells us that as he sows so do the brokers reap. Says her husband hated bath tubs. And it isn't cold in Los Angeles, either. Three jockeys hurt in New Orleans races. They will recover. Many bank rolls injured. They won't re- cover. News from Switzerland. on bread prices. Maybe they could make it chéaper by putting cheese holes in it. Better wear out all your old shirts now before the weather gets warm enough to leave off your coat. fore spring fever gets you. ; In Chicago a couple of buddin; young bandits were nipped in the ud, : Does higher education pay? Not always. A West Virginia professor of 76 has married a woman of 28. There is one-consolation about be- ing a college professor; you know you are married for love and not for | money. The child labor law is being d cussed. The school boy wonders if his teacher has heard about it. Fifty years is usually enough to decide a question, but a South Bend Ind.) couple asked divorce on their golden wedding day. Big hotel caught fire in Savannah, Ga., but not from what a guest thought when he got his bill. A spendthrift, according to some people, is a man who buys a home when he hasn't a single auto. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) FOR SALE - said Mister Peg Leg when| Indications are that gas prices will | that Jack and I | Los Angeles woman asks divorce. | Kicking; Better kick for a raise in pay 1 ‘TER FROM PAULA PERIER TO SYDNEY CARTON CONTINUED Syd, I could never have done what Leslie did, but, thank God, she has showed me that to have done it was perfectly natural after all. She showed me that she loved John Al- den Prescott and respected herself. She made me understand that I only loved love and neither respected my- self nor my womanhood. Oh, I've learned many things, Syd, since I've become a working woman, besides the English idiom and the ability to express myself in it. I expect I am telling you all this, because you wrote me that wonde: ful Ietter and told me what Leslie was teaching her two boys. When I got that letter, Syd, I at last gave up all the moral rights I had‘in my boy as I had given up all the legal rights nearly three years ago. John Alden Prescott Jr. belongs to Leslie body and soul and she will teach him to be the man his mother feould not conceive, because she had never met a man that Leslie evi- dently has known. In spite of his father, that boy will be honest and sincere—something never were to each other. I am enclosing the telegram that Jack sent me and when you read the comment I have written upon it, “it is to laugh,” you will know that I, at least, have enlarged not only my sense of humor but my sincerity. Syd, you know a formal message like ‘that from Jack to me is the ueme of foolish hypocrisy, It only made me laugh, however, and I won- dered if this was the usual way such things end. I am glad I got your letter for the picture you drew in words of Leslie and her two boys makes me hope Balking Again! | that after all my boy is not going to suffer for his parents’ sinning. Now I am_ going to tell rather surprising thing. I am really very happy out here, I am happy in my work and I hope that never again will I let anything come into my life to trouble the deep waters of you a my emotion or stir up the depths of! ugly regrets. Time, my dear Syd, is a good friend to everyone, no matter how much we hate to follow where it leads. I think I am coming east to make a picture this spring. that I shall see you, friend of mine. You know we will be at the New York. studio and that is only a little way from Albany. Although everybody tells me that I am looking very strong, this morn- ing I found my first gray hair. Whether I see you or not 1 am happy in the thought:that you are somewhere wthin hailing distance and that you will still allow me to call myself Your friend, PAULA. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) fA Thought | o—___—__- When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servant: we have done that which was our duty to do—Luke 17 Men must be either the slaves of! duty or the slaves of force.—Joseph Joubert. An old document recently found at Belgrade says that the first success- ful glider flight was made at Foca, Belgium, in 1649. At TH oF OR. EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO [—ANO IT: DOESN'T MAKE AN DIFEECRENCE WHAT WAS SAID// ae AT TMG $ ‘Your CROWD DIDN'T DO THE RIGHT THING ! Im ACc THE is Men BAes-) GACH OF WSSe INIZATEK 2S WOUCD PVce, TOGETHER Ir WOULPN'T BS ANY TIME AT ALG UNTO Xt HAVEN'T BEGN ABLE TO SET IN A WORD SDGEWISE } au’ ooo BROADSIDE “SCE WHAT Tt CAN DO If Idol hope, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1925. civilization. jcently amended it. — Is there much difference, {of us to push the button. must lead. much of: government itself. of government. Ignorant leadership may Liberals and Fundamentalists gether. It is easy to be tolerant of norant, but it does not seem essentials. mentalists. But by the time they have recog- nized this, they are already liberals, and there is nothing more to recon- cile. A WAY OF GETTING EVEN “Pll get you when I get out, if it’s the last thing I ever do,” a convicted prisoner said to the prosecuting at- torney. In a few years that convict will be out of prison and the attorney will be out of office and in private practice. Then the criminal, as is the way of his kind, will get into trouble again, And the first lawyer he will hunt up, to ask him to help him in his trouble, will be the prosecutor he now threatens to “get.” For he will want competent ser- vice, and will vividly remember the competence with which he was him- self prosecuted. WHAT'S WORTH MORE, SEEING OR HEARING? If you want to sce’ President Cool- idge’s inauguration, goto Washing- ton. If you want to hear it, stay at home. In Washington, if you pay enough for a seat, you may see the parade. The weather predictions for the day are: “snow, sleet, rain, thaw, sun- shine, fog, cold, heat, wind and calm. In Washington, on March 4, you usually have all ten. If you are one of a few dozens ceremonies in the Senate chamber. If you are one of a few hundreds, also with pull enough, you may be on the platform on the East .Front, and if you have a front seat, and if it is not too cold or windy, you may hear part of the speech. But you will see,‘and you will have been there. If you stay at. home, near a radio, you ‘will have a front seat to everything. You will hear all the speeches and ceremonics better than anyone in Washington except the official sten- ographers, But you will not have seen, and you will not have been there. It all depends on which you want. MISCHIEF-MAKING KAISER BILL Kaiser Bill is reported as regard- ing the Japanese-Russian treaty as confirmation of the “yellow peril,” which he imagines he discovered. If the visionary kaiser had not seen so many things that weren't there, there might have been fewer actual things to see. Because of his hallucination that he was the only one whq knew that Asia was awakening, he sent his brother to rob China of a province, and then conspired to keep Japan out of the legitimate fruits of vie- tory. The result was to delay for gener- ations the legitimate reconstruction of China, and to divert Japan to the ambitions which are now the sole yellow peril in the world,’: The mischiefs of Wilhelm der +—____—_____» |..In New York. | a New York, Feb, 26.—A dilapidated old boat buries its nose: in the dry sand of Mariner's Harbor, Staten Island. Rickety planks lead to/a tumble-down’ cabin.’ jAcross the rot- ting bow is scrawled ‘The Disgusted | Ad: If women in their quest for beau- tiful complexion exercised as much care in the selection of vegetabl for the table as they do in the tion of massages and face cre ms they would obtain more satisfactor: returns, . TEA CAR PAE 5 This a bres conclusion of Mrs. lones o} nytown afte; foods for health’s sake. , bine Many a doctor's prescription con- tains nothing more. theo the el ments contained in vegetables housewife may buy. for,» {1 at the corner grocery, ** These elements are phosphate: in,” bullld But these few we must have, and, in electrici The very life of democracy depends on leadership. Unless democracy can make that leadership competent as well as representative, it must give way to some other form with pull enough, you may hear the! j than ever before, FABLES ON HEALTH VEGETABLES IMPORTANT hthem high in ener, ' Democracy Depends On Leadership By Chester R. Rowell “A race between education and catastrophe,” Wells called “Leadership by the educated,” Professor Max Scheler re- after all? Life has already grown so complicated that its maintenance depends on the application of more knowledge than most of us can have. There has to be some way of fitting those who have the knowledge to its use by everybody else. If a few men know electricity, it is enough for the rest ty, they As life grows more and more complicated, the same thing is true in wider and wider fields, until it includes, finally, be less vicious than wicked leadership, but it is just as fatal. A religious publication has just awarded prizes for es- says on how liberals and fundamentalists can get along to- Naturally, the winners were all liberals. those whom you regard as ig- even right to'be tolerant of those whom you regard as false to their trust. The liberals are charitable on what they consider non- essentials — but to the fundamentalists these are the very Logic, on this assumption, is on the side of the funda- Truth and knowledge and Christian charity may not so certainly be their exclusive possession. Millionaires.” The decaying hulk seems to stand there as a symbol of shattered romance, the dead echo of the call of the. deep, Around this old ship is spun a legend of two seafarers, Norwegian brothers who built the boat at the beginning of this century, put it up-1 der sail and set forth for ,their homeland. Once in Norway, they in- tended to fit it out with engine and boiler. And so they set out with braye heart but became stranded on a sand bar when only a few miles from shore. Towed back to the beach, they refitted their craft and set sail again. That time they met up with a storm off Cape May and were all but lost when rescued by a govern- ment cruiser and hauled back. to Staten Island. E Discouraged, the boys sold their boat to some yotng fellows who or- ganized a yacht club in 1904 and used the boat for_a club house. Wjth an ironic sense of humor they paint- ed “Disgusted Millionaires” on the boat. : And the years passed, as the movies put it, and the boys one by one married and left the club. Irony was added to irony and the old boat now has been converted into a store- house. Interest in Wall Street speculation has abuted but. little since the big bull market of November. I hear more pcople talking about quota- tions, margins and such subjects The one sure winner in stock speculation is the broker. His commissions are based on the amount of sales and the mar-" ket price of the stock. The present table of commission rates is as fol- lows: A minimum $26 for 100 shares of stock selling from $10 up to and, including $25 a share, $80 for each 100 shares selling from $26 to $50, inclusive, $35 for each 100 shares selling from $51 to $76, inclusive, $40 for each 100 shares selling from $75 to 100, inclusive, and a commis- sion of $50 for each 100 shares sell- ing from $100 up. What is Love? In a recent Broad- way play that flopped it was declar- ed to be “a misunderstanding _be- tween a man and a woman.” —JAMES W. DEAN. ASKS WOLF BOUNTY Fargo, N. D., Feb, 25.—Cass county, in which the metropolis of North Dakota is located, is not without its wild life. It has been some time since the early settlere-heard the howl of the wolf pack and many Far- goans have probably never heard that cry, but eight wolves have been killed in Cass county since the first of this year. > Harry Crookes of Ayr recently ap- plied to the county auditor for boun- ty on seven wolf pelts and Leo’ H. Butke of Embden brought in another pelt a few weeks ago. NIGHT COUGH QUICKLY RELIEVED This is the substance of a letter * received from H. W. Webb, 2uin TIL, “I coughed a great 1, espec! ly at night. Tried almost every- thing and have found nothing to equal FOLEY’S HONEY AND TAR COMPOUND. One dose relieved my cough and I rested well all night. One of the largest selling cough dicines in the World. Contains no opiates. Safe for children. upon Foley’s. Refuse sul ve in the body and! make ‘There are root vegetables, such as onions, carrots, turnips, beets nd Parsnips, There are leafy vegetab! les, such as spinach, cabbage, brus: Spryesss estags, kale, endive, es role, dandelion greens, b ti tops and chard. eet, ae All of tl are especially valus- ble for iron and vitamin A, and some of Ae should be eaten every day. otatoes are ‘an ‘excellent food: I addition to mineral slementa aes, contain starch as: well, which? makes » and one of fhe