The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 27, 1925, Page 4

+ i¢ if grea aemeereMA FN MAA Mira PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - : Publisher Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY 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 sathetwise 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 _ | Daily by carrier, per year............+.0. «++ -$7.20 Daily by mail, per year in (in Bismarck) . seve 120 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) i (Official City, State and County Newspaper) A FARMER'S VIEWS Farm and Fireside, a national farm magazine, under the caption: “A Farmer’s Thoughts on Politicians,” treats in serio-comic style the impression of a “first timer” legislator. His opening comment is: “I am still wondering how and « Why they make new laws.” “Fhe session lasted one hundred days,” he continues. “I was invited to something like 200 noonday lunches and about = the same number of dinners. 1 introduced twenty-five bills. ;. Three were enacted into.laws. The state paid me and each of my one-hundred and fifty ‘fellow lawmakers,’ $1,000 for the session. ( “Well as I said, I went down there and got about one hundred free meals, refusing twice as many more; and that’s all-I got—except cussing when I came back.” The farmer legislator says a politician is a man who knows what he wants, gets it most of the time because he - knows how to go after it. “I supposed laws were made on the floor of the legisla- ture,” he writes. “Not much! Then I supposed they were .. Made in the committee rooms in the capitol. Not altogether! = Most of them are framed, framed up and put through in the leading hotels and clubs. “A politician believes in the law‘of averages. ‘Wait until next time,’ he says when he’s licked, while the victorious reformers are shouting their heads off—and getting noth & ing or nowhere. A real politician does not begin until he’s ~ in’the last ditch, and pretty muddy. at that. .-You see there are as many committees as there are mem- * bers — somebody attended to that—+so that almost every = member is chairman of something or other. And as chair- man he is entitled to a secretary, usually a pretty girl. = Somebody attends to that too. “Now I never dictated a letter in my life till I got to the = capitol. What I couldn’t write myself at nights, Mother = wrote for me. But when I found.a few thousand letter = heads with the picture of the capitol and my name printed .. in big type and a pretty girl waiting for me to dictate, why. = J.waded right in and wrote letters like a regular lawmaker to everybody I could think of.” Another experience of the “first termer’ “One day an attorney came to my desk and slapped me familiarly on the back and reminded me not to forget what Y’d promised him the-night before. After I had voted against him, I heard he said something about the ‘obliga- tions of hospitality.” I didn’t touch any punch after that.” > + BROADEN ITS SCOPE Fa It might be well for the Association of Commerce to = broaden its investigation into city affairs and not limit it solely to the’water-works situation. How best to reduce = future taxes by a strict retrenchment of the city budget is the chief issue. Also another line of investigation should be to ascertain if the city received value for every dollar spent on the water works system. With the exception of the effort to recover some $7,800 alleged to have been spent illegally as a fee to the city engi- neer on the purchase price of the Bismarck Water Supply Company’s plant, opportunity to recover any other money wastefully spent is slight. Mr. Atkinson has been paid five per cent under a contract with the city. If reports can be * believed, however, he ordered in more water mains than was anticipated and changed plans to suit his own sweet will without express authority of commissioners, probably not so much his fault as the commission’s for the members 4, gave him a free rein after the bond election. “-Hf additional expense has been loaded upon the taxpayers through his directions, steps should be taken to recover money so spent and certainly no five per cent should be al- lowed on any engineering errors. The intake at the river * is far from completed. An explanation of why the old in- i take was not used would be enlightening to the city anc should come within the scope of the Association of Com- ry merce investigations. Then too a post script of the commission’s answer to the Conklin letter might well set forth the whole tax situation in Bismarck and what the commissioners propose to do to lighten the load and when. The water plant is not the sole issue that confronts the voters of Bismarck in the approaching election. THE AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT Bs Simon Guggenheim’s gift of $3,000,000 to endow fifty 8 fellowships for international study is the American supple- ment.to the Cecil Rhodes scholarships. This great endow- ment. should promote better international agreements through the contact between the students of the various na- tions. Men or women, single.or married, are eligible to these scholarships. while the Rhodes scholarships were confined solely to men. & “This great contribution to higher education has been * established as a fitting memorial to John Simon Guggen- : heim, a son of the donor who died in 1922. ; we on it a” eat. fie ee DOG HERO DEAD eka “» Balto, leader of Gunnar Kasson’s team-of Siberian wolt hourids, canine hero of the anti-toxin episode of the Far North, is dead from frozen lungs after his epoch making tace against death across the snow swept spaces of Alaska. human eyes were unable to see the trail through , the lead dog Balto, kept the path, never faltered on toward Nome with the precious seruin. pt. Amundsen characterized Balto as the finest lead i the Northern country. { yee 408 Died while ip the performance of his duty” is epi hero of the North... ; he Sel enna ee ee corEmENEmREERenenE a fitting 50 years. Editorial Review _ Comments reproduced in wis column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. Thy are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides oC, Important | agues which are eing discus: e pret the day. adie} NO CAULIFLOWERS FOR THE SHEIK (Milwaukee Journal) Rudolph Valentino has bought himself a pair of boxing gloves, fashioned ‘by the master who made the mitts that put so many cham- pions to sleep. It iooks promising — regular ‘he-man stuff. Ruabolph in the past has appealed mainly to the ladies. He has shown his dex- terity on a thousanid occasions with foot and blade, to their prolonged “ohs’ and “ahs.” ‘What a dashing figure he cut—for them. But all his swaggering and strutting lefi the masculine part of his audience sitting cold in their seats. Now if he puts wp a good scrap in the ring scene, giving and taking in true Dempsey style, he may make himself a hero with them, too. To double one’s audience isn’t a bad piece of work. But Rudolph isn’t going to take any chances. One smashing blow from an inconsiderate sparring partner might damage that Mon caire profile beyond re- pair, and lose him his feminine au- dience while ihe gained the mascu- line. So he orders a wire muzzle that woulw put Muddy Ruel’s catch- ing outfit to shame. Behind that the sheik is s1fe, and if the other fellow breaks his fingers that’s his fault. It looks as though—for Ru- doiph—art is only life but life plus safety first. Had newspaper office. be it was trying to say nice things about Congress. an explosion in a Chicago Six injured. May- Are aircraft better than battle- ships? That's the argument. Which will do more damage to our treas- ury? Taxi driver shot a man in New York, perhaps because he was asked to drive carefull Scientists excavating _ ancient tombs claimys newspaper comic strips are only 190,000 -years old. If convefsation were money, these European debt talkers would have some change coming. At last, it seems. the farmer is learning to raise his voice. Somebody is looking at gasdline prices with a lighted match. The tobacco grower is claiming his profits are only pipe dreams. in Nebraska, perhaps because it was fought by tea dealers. Prizefighters always shake hands first. A new picture shows Dempsey jwith his arm around his bride. The radical ery now seems to be, “LaFollette, where are we?” Finding out what is in a fancy salad is about as difficult as un- scrambling an egg. And eggs, no wonder a hen cackles when she lays one worth a nickel. We have seen very little decrease in the sighs of taxes. New gypsy king says his subjects must stop telling fortunes, but will a gypsy stop gypping? We tremble in our boots, expecting daily to see the flood of new soft ¢rink names heralding spring. Nurmi, the runner, may run faster but’ not as long as Bryan. German stamps will bear the por- traits of famous men, who, like stamps, arrive by sticking to a thing. Soon be time for the women to take off their heavy complexions. (Copyright; 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) ( ee eae aL BES { In New York | -——_ -———_+ New York, Feb. 27.—Drama greater than that on the stage is enacted at the bdx-office during the opening week of any show on Broadway. Play production is the biggest gamble known in America. A play that achieves any success worth mentioning will return a thousand per cent or more on the original investment. A failure means the loss of many thousands of dol- lars. For instance, “White Cargo” is making a profit of $3500 a week in New York alone. It has been run- ning here longer than any“other show except “Abie’s Irish Rose.” In addi- tion there are eight other companies playing it in this country and Eng- land. i “The Show-Off” represents an orl- ginal investment of $10,000. It has just completed a year on Broadway and will run six months more. It cleans about $2000 a week for the producers. In addition picture rights will be sold for $100,000 or more each, and half of that sum will go to the stage producers. On the other hand, consider the failures that crowd the many store houses about town. san,” a spectacle produced by A. L. It ran less than » month Erlanger. An anti-gossip law failed to pass | © |thing funny. to “White Cargo” and @The Show-Oft” \ | 7 ten lie the remains of “The Prince of India,” a gamble that lost $150,- ! 000. When a play flops, the salvage from scenery and other property will amount to less than 10 per cent of the investment. Where is there » greater gamble? u x | In West Sayville out on, Long Is- land the four thousand inhabitants depend on the oyster industry for their living. Through the embargo because of the typhoid fever scare dire poverty has descended on the community, The only picture show has closed. The various stores have done little or no business for wee! Plans for a fine new school building have been abandoned. And here's the irony of this little story; . The poor people of West Sayville are sub- sisting almost entirely on a diet of of typhoid fever there in more. than 34 years! j —JAMES W. DEAN. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS ‘| BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON Mister Peg Leg, the fairy peddler man, wrote in his order book, “One magic lawn mower.” “Is that all today?” he asked Mis- ter Woodchuck. “Would you like anything else? Perhaps your wife would like to buy something. I have some lovely electric washing ma- chines—” “Sh!” said Mister Woodchuck cau- tiously. “Not so loud. If I buy a magic lawn mower I can’t buy any- thing else for ever and ever so long. |Of course my wife would like to have all those things you spoke of, but |there 1s nothing like a good pair of ‘hands. When will my magic lawn mower be here, Mister Peg Leg?” “Right away.” Mister Peg Leg as- sured him. “Right away—but you mustn't mind if it is a little stiff the first few times you use it. Magic lawn mowers always are. After that it will work: wonderfully.” When the little Peddler Man and the Twins had left chuck’s house and turned the first corner, Mister Peg Leg doubled up and laughed and laughed. “What's. wrong?” asked Nick. “Nothing much,” said Mister Peg Leg. “At least nothing much just new. But there is going to be some- Til tell it to you an- other time.” Now we'll have to skip a day and go back to Mister Woodchuck’s lawn mower had just arrived and Mister Woodchuck was looking it over. “Huh!” he cried. “It doesn’t look a bit different from any other lawn mower.” “Well, what did you expect?” asked Mrs, Woodchuck. “Did you think that it would be set with dia- monds?” For answer her husband just gave it a push across the grass and he kept right on pushing. At the end of the second row he stopped and wiped the perspiration off his face with his handkerchief. “Doesn't look very magic to me!” sniffed Mrs. Woodchuck. “Will you be quiet!” cried Mister Woodchuck. “I expected this. All magic lawn mowers work a bit stiff- jly # first. Tl have to keep at it and after while it will go with scarce- ly > touch. That day Mister Woodchuck cut next twenty. At the end of the week he cut the whole lawn without stapping. , “I knew it!” he called to his wife when she called him in to supper. “That lawn mower works like a charm. I scarcely touch it now, Magic it certainly is. “Best invest- ment I ever mi Z Mrs, Woodchuck sighed. “1 wish and cost $125,000. The Selwyns' lost 1 had one of those new-fangled wash- $125,000 on the imported “Joha isler,” + The Producing mad You Li Ike It” acne tenaade Managers, last year | arms,” said: her husband. in unhappy venture wit! 8 3d lost $50,000. “Aad ing machines,” she said. “Nothing: like a good pair of Suddenly, there stood Mister P Leg and the Twins. . ii “You're. oysters, and there hasn’t been a casg, ‘lin ‘the man they have Mister Wood-j} six rows, the next day ten and the]. | : Another Secret Hobby Has Been Uncovered \ LETTER FROM RUTH BURKE TO WALTER BURKE, CINTINUED ‘ew womeh, my dear Walter, can facts. When a woman finds her ideal shattered if she is not big enough to recognize that the blame is not wholly her husband’s—and few women are big enough—she is lost. Dear, don’t laugh at me when I tell you that probably this is why the tradition is grown up that widows make the best wives. You see, widows have gone through all this shattering of ideals. They know {what to expect, and as a rule they expect mighty little of a man, Con- sequently they are surprised and ‘de- lighted at the slightest conformity married to that which they wish their husbands were. There, dear, I am laugh long and loud, You'll have to acknowledge that it is true. You know I am a splendid wife and I was a widow. You know how happy I am when you do something that is in the nature of unselfishness. Be- sides this I am glad you are able to laugh at a truth. Most truths either make peopie fighting mad or very weepy. Leslie’s baby is a fine one, they say. Between you and me, I think new babies are very ugly, with their uncertain colored eyes, their little button noses, their slobbery mouths, their bald heads and their red skins. If one could not see the potentialities and if one did not appreciate its face hearing you DOESNTHE LOOK CLASSY ON THAT ee ee aN helplessness, no one would think a new baby was pretty. A new-born puppy or a new-hatch- ed chicken are much nicer to look at. I wish, however, you could see little Jack holding that bundle of lace and flannel which encases his “Buddy.” It would prove a thrill to you. Already Leslie is.making Jack | understand that his responsibility for his little brother is limitless. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1925 Vice Presidents Should Be Used By Chester H. Rowell Vice President Dawes gives a reason for not wishing to sit in the president’s cabinet, which proves either too much or too little. He thinks it is a bad precedent to put an official in the cabinet who is not selected by the president, and who, in some future administration, might not have his confidence. If the precedent were once established, the failure to in- vite some future vice president would be embarrassing. If this proves anything, it proves that we ought not to have a vice president at all. A vice president out of harmony with the elected pres: ident ought not to be in a position to succeed him, at any moment, by a pure accident. If it were known that the vice president was to be an active part of the administration, there would be less temp- tation to choose him merely to placate some discordant fag- tion. Unquestionably, President Coolidge’s training in the cab- inet was one element in his instant grasp of the reins when he succeeded. A vice president who cannot be trusted with this oppor- tunity to prepare himself for the succession ought not to be trusted with the succession itself. It is not at all sure that we need a vice president. we have him, we should use him. But if The Germans have invented a unique excuse for opposing co-education. They have finally yielded to it, in the universities, but in the Prussion secondary schools they abolish it, on the ground that the girls are so much brighter than the boys and that it is not fair to subject the boys to the competition. After 16, they say, boys are as bright as girls, but before that, the more mature girls outstrip them. Of course, like many bad arguments, it works both ways. One of the arguments against co-education, in the old days of women’s supposed inferiority, was that the women in the universities would hold back standards. Now, in the high schools, it is that they will put them too far forward. : The only thing absolutely certain is that the womens shall do whatever is best for the j men. Are the Germans alone in that absurdity ? clothes, having the same manners, ideas, prejudices and education. A grammar school graduate, or 2 high school graduate, in one part of the country has studied abouf the same things, and about the same amount of them, as in any other part of the country. Everybody has seen the same: movies, read the same magazines and the same news in newspapers taking the same news service and syndicat- ing the same features. We are the nearest the world ever saw, on any such scale, to a stand- ardized. people. e The world over, there is nowhere else so great a space where the peo- ple even speak all the same language. { Now comes an Austrian professor, and complains in a book that our The national immigration Jaw, and the local speed laws, have produced an “epidemic of lawlessness.” No- body feels very disgraced at being arrested for speeding. Bootlegging in illegal immigrants is an organ- ized and increasing industry. Mak- ing these things artificial crimes: has increased the statistics of cr while decreasing the recognized heinousness of jt, Therefore—or is it therefore? Does it follow, after all, that laws which produce these results must necessarily be repeal- ed? OUR STANDARDIZATION Zoe Ellington is growing very beautiful. In many ways she re- minds me of Harry, She. ‘makes! friends just as easily and throws them off as quickly as she finds one she likes better. Up to date she has only shown this characteristic in re-' gard to the young men who hover, about her. She is a perfect little! flirt. I am afraid that Leslie will not keep her long as already a num- ber of the young men about the hotel ure her devoted slaves and shower on her a great deal of attdntion, That this attention should be of the right kind, I have taken her to some of the tea and dinner dances, and explained to some of the older women that Zoe is a kind of relation of mine. I have said that as she wanted to be independent after her| magnificent education abroad, I had placed her with Leslie as half gov- erness to her children and half com- panion to herself. This, of course, makes her place with Leslie a kind of a family af- fair, and sets her right with all the snobs. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) said the fairyman. “A week ago your arms were all fat and no muscle. Now they are all muscle and no fat. That isn't a magic lawn mower at all, It’s just a plain every-day one. You are stronger and that’s why it works so easily. And as that only cost one-fifth as much as a magic FRIEND, a Gee . INou™ Don't Know, (AS fe Wecc, WHAT Yfou COOKIN’ AT = MY DEAR HARD-B_OILGD I WAS COOKING AT THE WAY Nou WEAR YouR HAT COCKED WER ON ONG SIDE OF YOUR HEAD — “av. 13N'T_ON STRAIGHT, iS), one, { threw in a washing machine for the extra money you paid me. It's outside.” “There's nothing like a good pair of —” began, Mister Woodchuck. Then he stopped. “Ha, ha, ha!” he cried, “That's # good one on me.” (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) ART Tect Me DYONETHING. S Don't KNow ! THREATENING EUROPE? The most ‘striking thing America is its uniformity, movies, bobbe@ hair and jazz are standardizing Europe also, Which may not be so terrific a Travel across the country, from! thing, after all, if, with this uni- side to side and from corner to cor-|formity, which shocks’ the artistic, ner, and you. fifd people speaking|we may include American peace and the same language, wearing thessame efficiency. FABLES ON HEALTH | UNCOOKED VEGETABLES about Putting soda in the water. to help soften cabbage, string beans or other vegetables in cooking is a bad prac- ‘tice, Mrs. Jones Rarhed. This is but one suggestion. A re- sourceful housewife will be able to prepare many dishes from uncooked vegetables. Vegetables should be cooked with the skins on as much as possible and the skins eaten when conven’ ient. The skins of baked potatoes are useful in helping to overcome constipation. ; Water in which vegetables are cooked should never be thrown away It contains much food material an health-giving quality. Save it for soups and gravics. THE NEW YEAR, AND THE OLD 5 (Florence Borner) One ‘of the most valuable food ele- ments in vegetables is vitamins, and these vitamins are more readily de- stroyed in an alkaline medium, such as is produced by soda. Cooking destroys so much of the best in many foods that it is well to eat some uncooked food every day. In addition to green loaf vegeta- bles, such as lettuce, young carrots may be grated’ and served with dressirfg as a: salad. “T bring. you, joy.” said the glad New Year, . “As I wend by way from the distant sky, I catch the sunshine ag I pass by; I bring-you hope on my lifted wings, ft bring you youth from eternal springs; Gladness. and joy I spread around, Wherever I go these things are found; 1 sing a song with a carefree lay, . (1 skip and dance on my earthward way, For, I am happy, and glad and free, As all New Years must forever ‘be.” “I bring you peace”; said the Year grown old, “And sunsets ringed with a tinge of gold, A task complete when the day is done, The dlistful joy of a conflict won; I briag you joy; I fulfiil, your dreams, I take you ‘back to your childhood scenes, Glad Friendship's links are forged by my hand, To blossom again in a better land; é I am your friend; thru your woe and pain, , 1 brought a promise of joy again, I have ehared alike all your joys and tea And now’I must go to the Vale of Year: Pom as wh “But, ere I leave you, one thing I'u! say, 2 Remember that Hope ever points the way, To live your lives in the way you should, And to serve each other for the world’s good; Try to be cheerful, tho.clouds pass by, Dimming the sunlight in yonder’ ‘sky; Love one another, and ever be! kind, ’ Then truest happiness you -will find; For, Life ig the same thing over, my dears, Tit! you vanish with me, in the Vale of Years.” . which surely command long, as it surely must do, and youth passes away, I wonder. just what it is bringing to you, ~ what thoughts come'e drifting your way. td