The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 3, 1925, Page 4

aL i THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N, D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN 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 entitied to ihe use or republication of al] news dispatches credited to it or not «1 otherwise entitled in this paper and also the local news pub. ‘ Pl 1 ine oct pa pla dor Re su } dri eq cre ing of ool un bly art ag: ure he As De wi! fig of the me joi Re 90 tio pre a ---~~-Lastest figures would indicate a need for revision of the! na da th Gr oh so Gr pu to ck + se eh ian th - sh si¢ pe of a wk Sa of lie se: a to th co: er: op thi siv the ho rat thé niz pu col mo in tio ed. out io [ j | 4; worth of service every day in the year to the indigent and . lished herein. a : 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). ..... ‘ Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.............. 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873 (Official City, State and County Newspaper) MORE SAFEGUARDS NEEDED A fence that will keep small children from the municipal pool should be constructed without delay. It is a daily oc- curance to see small children running about the walls of the empty pool. One near fatality happened Monday. Just what injuries the boy sustained will not be known for some- time. It was short of a miracle that he was not killed. Sev- eral playmates might have met the same fate, they were all playing near the lower wall where there is a drop of 10 or 12 feet. The fence is not antial. Little children can easily erawl under it. Steps should be taken immediately to pro- tect the children frorn tie danger which threatens as long as the present fence is not replaced. sub. STATESMEN, AND POLITICIANS The manuscript of a speech of Lincoln, made directly after the close of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, has just been published. Its interesting feature is the last sentence. Lincoln explained that he was not insensible to political honor, but added that if the principle for which he had fought in the campaign could be established, “I would in consideration gladly agree that Judge Douglas should never “he out, and I never in an office so long as we both or either live.” That is the spirit which makes the statesman great and the politician small. Lincoln subordinated his personal interest to the cause. The small politician seeks in the cause a means of ad- vancing himself. Yet Lincoln succeeded in the things the politician wants, “while the merely selfish politician fails, sooner or later, in even his reward. - BUILDING old theory that the war was entirely responsible for the building shortage. Steady increase each year since 1919 in construction totals is evidence that the normal standard of building activity, which before the war was about one billion dollars annually, has been raised permanently. Continued population drift from farms to cities is no doubt partly accountable... City population, too, has come to demand a higher standard of housing. Projects for construction work filed last year represent | an‘expenditure of three and a half billions, a slight increase over the year preceding, and only a fraction of 1923’s in- crease over 1922. ‘ ; Indications, therefore, are that the peak has been reach-. ed and that 1925 will witness a slight slump. | SUBSTITUTE You learn, through the American Chemical Society, of | development of German scientists of a non-poisonous, non- | habit forming drug called tutokain. It is to be used as a sub- stitute for cocaine. | The drug was isolated in the course of researches among | products obtained in development of artificial rubber. -“Substitutes” usually are inferior to the articles they | imitate. In this case, however, if the virtue of cocaine, with | none: of its evils, can be obtained from the new drug, the world will welcome tutokain. It would be equivalent to taking the narcotic, habit-; forming qualities out of one of our most necessary anesthe- tics—and most cursed drugs. LIVING Cost of living in Detroit is 82.2 per cent higher today than in 1914, Detroit showing the highest increase of the 19 | cities compared by the U. S. Labor Department. | You ask, “What items have advanced most—food, cloth- | ing, shelter, what?” In virtually every city, strangely enough, it was house | furnishing goods. In Baltimore, for instance, food went up | 53 per cent, clothing 76 per cent, housing 72, fuel and light | 89, house furnishings 126, miscellaneous 107. | Most of us thought the big rise was in food, clothing and | -housing. The reason—these are our heaviest items of ex- | pense. Even a small increase in them is felt keenly. WRONG History enshrines too many Alexanders, Napoleons, Caesars and Wellingtons and too few of our great humani- tarians. Take, for instance, the long list of medical heroes. How. many know that— i Edward Jenner discovered the value of cowpox vaccine in preventing smallpox? Aouis Pasteur laid the foundation for modern bacteriol- ogy and showed how rabbies can be prevented? | Emil von Behring discovered the antitoxin of diph- | rles_ Louis Alphons Laveran discovered the parasite | 9, contributed most to mankind—the warriors or sae | ‘ DOCTORS | @on’t begrudge the doctor his money when he does ac-! mulate a “pile.” Remember that the average yearly in- infa.of the physician in the United States is $2000. © on this sum he is expécted to' be well housed and well bd, to present a better appearance than the average ‘and @ run an automobile. American doctors give away about one million dollars’ to those who-don’t pay their bills. When the physician does ea bank roll, he usually deserves it.’ Publisher {to make tea. There’s trouble brew- Editorial Review Comments reproduced column may or maj the opinion of The are presented het our readers may of important lesue: belng discussed in the press of the day. in wis not express ribune. ORGANIZED EMOTIONAT i (Oakland Tribune) If this country rged, the most | lize! nations, is it not { some blame may | Organizatio: formal j mal, who swing every conviction wide attention as has been ss of civi- possible that le and into action” with and have for their laws? This question 1s being asked in many places, right now in Illinois, where a large fund has been sub- scribed and many persons have en- rolled in an effort a man who has been conv: Obviousty there cases wh the human sympathies are aroused and in which the action of the court seems overly severe. But what is one to say when he confronted with organized emo- tional writers anc ‘with persons whose interests are entirely re- | moved from justice or the law? In the Illinois instance a num- ber of those who are working in the interests of a condemned man were asked for the reasons hehind their efforts. One replied she had “sympathy” for the ma ed parents, another said he was “sim- wly interested in the case,” ana there were many who had no ex- planations at all. Whenever any verdict in a trial court ig questionable it may be cverturned without recourse to pri- vate subscription. These per: who are giving their efforts an individual (have not expresse’ themselves a8 ne < ed to the methods so- ciety has taken to protect itself ‘from the criminal. Admittedly, their's is an interest centering up- on the man in the case, With the’ ‘best of intentions they are, and without realizing it, attacking the laws made for their own protec- tion. In the abstract they believe in the laws, but when the time comes for the application of a se- vere penalty under those laws they carry their emotions into the courts. In those cases which attract the wildest attention they are to be found seeking to make an excep- tion which canhot fail but encour- age others in the ‘detief that pun- ishment for wrongdoing is not cer- SIAVS ‘SAYS An income tax. payer got so mad he told us he considered the Statue of Liberty a memorial. Are. in New secretary of agriculture asks for a better break for farmers, but others consider them better broke. | Wild Chicago news today. They found a single man poisoned. 1 Denver musician’s missing. He's drummer, a trap drummer. they ‘searched out at the sorks ? boiler It never seems to occur to Europe that debts may be settled in a sim- ple way by paying them. How are your teeth? Now is the time to get them in shape. Corn- on-the-cob season is due soon. In Louisville, Ky., a boy admits! he burned 14 buildings. Hasn't Ken-| tucky a child labor law? | epg i They are talking about adding a’ month’ to the year again. Let's add | it right after February, to postpone | income tax day. One safety razor company reports a net income of ten million. When will necking parties be stopped? Prizéfighters lead a hard life. Kid MeCoy may be sent to the pen, and Jack Dempsey is married. One bad thing about an auto wreck is it gives your friends a chance to tell you about the wrecks they have been in. An auto concern has given the Prince of Wales seven cars, It is hard to stay single with one. Can he do it with seven? Bad news from London. English cook coming over to teach us how ing. What's in a name? Coolidge has} appointed A. St. Sure as _ federal judge for northern California, In New York a famous violinist’s wife asks divorce, perhaps because she is tired playing second, fiddle. Canada has 150,000 unclaimed war medals. You can’t eat a war medal, In St. Louis a man who stood up for his rights in taking a drink has be laid to those | infor- which attracts | ; Purpose the breaking down of the Have! 7 <a fOr DU FINO BY Gou/ AIN'T THAT WUN ERFUL ? \ Pretty Soft! | AH AIR. CONGRESSMAN , il GIVES me GREAT PLeasure jo INFORM You THAT Your HonesTy, EFFICIENCY AND LOYALTY HAS BEEN REWARDED, You WILL INYOUR FAY ENVELOPE AFTER MARCH FOURTA — SHAKE / A NICE JUICY INCREASE s Youre WELCOME i The Tangle : LETTER FROM KARL WHITNEY TO MRS. JOSEPH GRAVES | HAMILTON make me feel that those artists who d and loved and wrote out their |lives in great music, great paintings or great poetry, were, after all, only shadows of their dreams. Dear Mother ‘or a long time I have been waiting to write you this| 1 think if you would come over I jletter. I could not write it while! would be happier. If I am not, I \ Leslie's health was precarious. It|um afraid, dear mother, that unless would seem too selfish. Now that her new boy has made his appearance in the household and she is regaining her health, F want to ask you, ‘mother mine, if you will |not come over here and travel with jme for‘a while. You know, dear | that you are:the only mother, I have ;ever known. You known that ever {since I was.a little boy I have come to you: for sympathy ‘and comfort and { have always gotten it. Now that I am completely alone and Leslie has her husband and two children to fill her life, don’t you |think that you can devote a littk | time to me? 1 | I need you, need: you perhaps more |than you realize, dear mother. You know I am a queer, solitary sort of a jman. I don't make friends ..easily and yet no one would like - friends more than I. I confess I am selfish ‘enough to hopeé*that you, withy your | sweetnesé and understanding, will | make friends for me. As it is, 1 wander, about these Old World cities sand' 1 wonder what I am living for anyway, I only see the sadness and the futility that is always present in the gayest crowds which } sometimes frequent in the hotels and restaurants. The glorious paintings and the art of yesterday you are as much interested in me as I think you are I can not make you happy. You should get away_-from all your old" life and griefs) We have been through most of them together and I think we should have each other to forget. i Come on over, mother dear, You may make. all the plans and it will be my very great joy to carry them out. John cabled me of the birth of the boy and I sent him a little present, ag you probably know. I sometimes wonder what would have been my life if I had had a boy té Work for—a boy who would carry on: thy name. John wanted to call that baby Syd- ney~Karl, but I wrote him I wished he-would not; that my name was that of too unhappy a man to hitch it"td an unsuspecting child without ius knowledge and consent. I will await your reply with the greatest impatience, mother dear. Will you cable it to-me? Tell Les- lie my need of you is greater than hers, Tell her anything that will make her advise you to come to your loving son, KARL. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) took’them up in the elevator and they all got out, . Tap, tap, tap! they went on Mrs. Cragknuts’ own door to her apart- ment. Mrs. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON Cracknuts answered it her- self, MRS, CRACKNUTS’ ROSE SHAWL There was to be a ‘party in tHe Land-Of-Dear-Knows-Where. A birthday party! A birthday party for Mrs. Blossom Bunny! But although every Tom, Dick and Harry and Susy, Jane and Mary, knew all about it, Mrs, Bunny her- self never knew a word. Because it was to be a surprise EVERETT TRUE WHICH WAY You TURN — AND “ov CAN SAY WHAT You PLEASE, MR. TRUS, BUT THERE ISN'T A BLAMED THING IN THIS TOWN THATS FOUGHT ! “Do you need anything today?” asked Mister Peg Leg. “Well, I should say I do,” cried the squirrel lady happily. “Come right in. I haven't a thing to wear to Mrs. Bunny’s birthday party. It’s been so long since 1 was out in so- ciety that I’ve let my clothes run down something scandalous. Have you something extra pretty?” “Show her that blue silk shawl with the red roses on it,” said Nancy. “You'd. look like a queen in that, Mrs. Cracknuts.” “So Mister Peg Leg undid his pack and brought out the blue silk shawl. “Oh, laws a daisy met” cried Mrs. Cracknuts the minute she saw it. “I'll certainly have to have that. I hope it doesn’t cost a millién dol- lars.” “No, sir. I mean, no ma’am, it’s a real bargain,” said Peg Leg. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) > a | In New York | + : o New York, March 8.—Here's a little tale of the long arm of coin- eidence that’ reached across the sea. Bernard Bendicksen recently bought an old Morgenruder and took it to Even Olsen, a shipbuilder in Sheeps- head Bay, for repairs, Olsen spied a patch in the hull and recognized the craft as one owned by his father. and in which he had made many trips when he was 14. That was in Nor- way 60 years ago. Olsen immediate- ly negotiated the purchase of the ship and is converting it into a mo- tor pleasure craft. A trio of Gordons prominent on the stage is the cause of much fret- ting among newspaper copyreaders. Jeanne Gordon is a contralto with the Metropolitan Opera, Jean Gordon is playing in.a light comedy and Joan Gordon has a character role in an- other play. The janitor of an apartment house BY CONDO NO MATER THEKe'S = — and she wasn’t to know a thing about it until the very day. But you may be sure that business was good for Mister Peg Leg, the little peddler man. He and Nancy and Nick were as busy as—as ants in‘ a sugar barrel. And the way he was selling things almost made him dizzy with happiness. “My, my!” he declared. “At this rate I shall aot only be able to buy me a fine new peg leg, but mebbe I'll have enough over to buy me another wooden leg and a couple of wooden arms. They might come in handy some time—you never can tell.” “Oh, don’t forget your head, Mis- ter Peg Leg,” laughed Nancy. “You might need a wooden head sometime, too!” “I have one,” answered the little fellow merrily. And then they all laughed again. Everybody was very happy. Business was fine for two reasons. DON'T WORRY AGOvoT been stretched out for his last rites, Hard-boiled bandit iserobbihg New Orleans filling stations. Grabs cash and runs. Regular three-minute yege. ‘ Take care of youg health.\. Don't, get sick. If you. stay home: your wife will make you help with the work. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Sexvice, Ine.) Russia has established a general federal state monopoly over the man- ufaeture of playing. card. Don’t forget the “Basket Ball Game tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. High School Gym, . j One reason was that everybody had to have something new to wear to the party. The other reason was that every- body had to take Mrs. Bunny a pres- ent. And Mister Peg Leg did have the nicest carrot perfumes and things like that as well as lettuce-leaf hand- kerchiefs and’beet pin cushions. But everything wasn’t all roses ‘and daisies. There was trouble, too, And it is one of these affairs this story is about. It’s about the red and blue shawl that Mrs. Cracknuts bought to wear 2 the party and what happened to it. Nancy and Nick and the little ped- dier man came to the grounds of the /Cracknuts building (which was called Maple Tree Flats) and Munch Mouse STRAIGHT AHEAD —You'le STRiKe THe CITX CIMITS, AND i | Scientists have dug up a whose ruins it was found. ee parchment and paper of later t ‘in their older forms they last |destroys them. still unfaded. : | It has been reserved for able materials. We may write our letters the ink will soon fade. of the future can read them. married, and I never expect to on Twelfth street is a negro who owns a fine auto, several valuable pieces of real estate and a big bank account. He hires another man to do the janitor work and pays him more than he receives for the work. He wants only to have his rent free in the basement apartment set off for the janitor. Those who know her call her “the lady’ who moves.” She is a widow whose children have grown up and married. She will not live with any of them, but she is restless and moves from place to place with great frequency. Last month she packed and unpacked her furniture four times. One ‘of the most interesting occu- pations in town is that of bric-a-brac surgery. Expert menders of old heirlooms here find more work than they can do. , Their art lies chiefly in being able to glue together shat- tered bits of china and porcelain and then deftly extending the origin- al design of the article to camouflage the scars, . Telephone pay stations are no in- considerable adjunct to many busi- nesses. Two cigar stores in the Times Square district employ men who have no duties other than to ‘serve telephone users. They see that those waiting to use the phones keep their proper places in line and that they enter vacated booths with dis- | patch... They also carry change for patrons who need nickels. Some stores have as many as a dozen or| more-phone booths for each of which they receive commission rentals from ithe telephone company, Each subway station has one or more telephone pay stations dis- playing the familiar legend “Local and Long Distance.” The joke of that is that when a subway train passes through the station, which happens about four times to each telephone conversation, you cannot hear yourself shouting. —JAMES W. DEAN. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) Silk alpaca, which teally is not a silk at all, is made from the hair of the Peruvian sheep. Are You Fat? Just Try This Thousands ,of overfat people have become slender by following the ad- vice of doctors who recommend Mar- mola’ Prescription Tablets. These little fat reducers are made from the same formula as the famous Marmola Prescription. If too fat, don’t wait—go to your druggist now and for one dollar (the same price the world over) procure a. box of these tablets... If you. prefer you may secure them direct by sending price. to the Marmola Co., General Motors Bldg., Detroit, Mich. They reduce steadily. and easily, No need for tiresome: exercise or starvation diet and no, unpleasant effects.—Adv. Sweets make a good servant but a bad master, Mrs. Jones of Anytown learned in Her study of foods for health’s sake, They contain ‘concentrated energy, which makes them capable of being transformed very quickly in the sys- tem to energy. : This explains why one, when fa- tigued, feels freshened up ‘so quickly after eating some sweets, This re- lief does not last long, however, and if more sweets be eaten the edge of the appetite is dulled so that one does*not eat enough of the Proper foods when meal time comes, TURNING! Keep WL STAY WitH We Think Too Little of Posterity By Chester H. Rowell’ * is the original manuscript written on clay. There are manuscripts a thousand ‘ the day they were written, and the oldest printed books are Sumerian tablet, giving the \catalog of the even older relics of the ancient museum, in ¢ The imes are more perishable, but until somebody or something years old as fresh as \ this, the most historically. | minded age of all, to entrust its records to the most perish. on lasting “bond” paper, but We print newspapers and books in imperishable ink, but on perishable paper. ‘ | Newspaper files of a hundred years ago will still-be fresh when those of today have crumpled to dust. We should put away-at least some of our archiyes where the archaeologis ' The “eternal feminine” is still eternal. A woman who thought she was 93 died of the shock when her birth certi- ficate was looked up and she found she was 103. “My name is Sally Brown — Miss Sally Brown,” said an old lady of the writer’s acquaintance. “{ have néver been be.” She was 101 at the time. is a limit! But let us be thankful it takes a hundred years to reach it. So there TOGETHER Irreconcilable differences of opin- ion threaten in the plans for reor- ganizing the “third party.” In the nature of things, they could not have been avoided. Old parties may hold together on a name and a tradition, but’s new party has no coherence but a common view or purpose.’ Moreover, a radical party is bound to attract the “lunatic fringe” of temperamental panaceists, The personality of Senator La Fol- lette held the discordant elements together for one campaign, .and a great personality or a great issue may unite them again. But logically and instinctively men divide into less or more than three parties. With two parties, internal differ- ences may be adjusted in each. With three, the groups tend to still further subdivision, It is either the two-party system or the multi-party system. Perma- nently, there is no such thing as a three-party system. TO REMEDY TWO EVILS The Republicans, in the last cam- paign, spent roughly four and a quarter millions, the Democrats not quite a million, and the La Follette party a quarter. of a million, The effective results were about in the same proportions. This is, of course, not to say that money did it all, It works both ways. Money helps to win votes, but the situation that attracts votes also makes it easy to collect money. Practically all the money in mod- ern party funds is used legitimately. It is a good thing for the People to have it available, The danger is that a party with disproportionate funds may over- whelm the other, and that. those who contribute it will expect fayors, How would this do, to remedy both evils? Require each perso. who votes in @ party primary to contrib- ute, then and there, 50 cents to the party campaign fund. If he does not vote in a party pri- mary, let the tax collectar collect two dollars from him, and distribute it, less costs of collection, propor- tionally among the parties, to use for his better education next time. ——_———————_ | AThought | Make me to know mine end, and. the measure of my days, what it is; haar may know ‘how frail. I am.— 8. 39:4, He that dies this year is quit for the ne: Shakespeare, " (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) eee ‘Neither’ white hair nor white ]flowers contain a ‘white pigment, FABLES ON HEALTH BEWARE OF SWEETS Children, especially, are. too apt to satisfy the pangs of hunger by sweets. They have learned that they get 8 not appreciate the danger. isfaction from it, but they do Sweets are a good food in their place, but ‘they should be in cooked foods or at the end of the meal. Overcome the ‘candy ‘habit in. chil- dren if you would have them ‘strong and healthy and able to resist dis- ease, Too much gandy. robs the cheeks of their roses—fruit helps to keep * them, they have been lost, or to bring them back when