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t cree coats nues Gates. tase an. sets sae sense ee eee eee a cart Serr ETAT eka ON FHA RNEDEE FOURS WARDS 6 UBER“ UBIES VOCE Bion doles. Almont half went to retail stores. More than 18 " for food, tobacco and soft drinks. ‘PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBU 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 Associated 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 Bismarck)... Bee) 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) THE NEW SPEAKER Representative Longworth’s easy victory places a pop- ular figure in the speaker’s chair, shorn of the old time power, however, that obtained in the days of Cannon, Carl- ilse and others. There was a time when the speaker of the House was powerful in the selection of committees and the direction of legislation. There is a justified suspicion that the Senate dictates the speakership and exerts powerful in- fluence over the actions of the lower body. But the speaker still is far from being impotent regard- less of the fact that he does not have the power that was once Cannon’s. There was a popular outburst against “Cannonism” and since then the speaker of the House has had his power curbed to a great extent. Working with the rules committee and exerting a personal pressure as leader of his party, he can direct the trend of legislation even under the rules that hamper his sway. But it is as an impartial and judicial officer that the speaker will wield his greatest power and give his greatest service to the nation. LEGALIZED LARCENY “Legalized larceny” was a new term coined by President Coolidge in his inaugural Ee in discussing tax reduc- tion. “The collection of any taxes,” he said, “which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond a reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny.” He does not put it any too strongly. Taxpayers have become so inured to this legalized larceny in one form or another that it is hard to arouse them out of their indif- ference. This season of the year when tax payments confront property owners is a most excellent time to drive home a few facts concerning taxation as it affects the nation, the state and smaller political subdivisions. EXPENSES -- Light is thrown on Americans’ requirements and tastes by Business Course, International, which figures out the na- tion’s expense account in per capita terms for a year. For diamonds the American spends annually $2.58. He spends 22 cents for dentifrices and $1.30 on pickles. He puts out $4.15 for near beer and 6 cents for ink. Three dollars is spent for ice cream and 90 cents for eggs; $3.75 for toilet soap and $1.10 for books; $27 for joy riding and $1.29 for the work of religion. Five dollars go for jewelry and 15 cents for art works: 11 cents for health service and 65 cents for coffins; $10 for public schools and $1.85 for shirts; luxurious foods, $45, and 8 cents for salaries of professors. Our daily plaint has been, “Where does the money go?” Now we know. SKATING Chicago’s health commissioner, Dr. Herman R. Bundesen, finds it worth while to issue a pamphlet describing the bene- fits of ice skating. It develops the muscles, heart and lung power, he says; improves circulation and stimulates the glands; aids digestion and increases the appetite; it puts pep into the soft, flabby, listless body. Dr. Bundesen recommends skating as a sport suitable to all ages and conditions—one of the most pleasant and bene- ficial of outdoor activities. Outdoor recreation, particularly in winter, offers one of the best ways of keeping fit, especially to those who work in offices and are likely to neglect physical exercise. Keep healthy and have fun doing it. NEW USE Department of Interior announces it is using radio to bring about the arrest of an imposter now operating in Ohio. WHK, at Cleveland, and WLW, Cincinnati, have been asked to broadcast his description and warnings against his oper- ations. ,., The fraud is said to represent himself as an eye specialist employed by the Bureau of Pensions. He sells spectacles on which he places a value of $40 a pair, but offers them to war pensioners at $22, on the understanding that he will obtain an increase in the pensioner’s annuity. Considering that about one-seventh of our homes are equipped with radio it seems reasonable to hope this newest of detectives will be successful. t OPPORTUNITY Don’t think that our Edisons and other geniuses have patented all the worthwhile inventions. The number of this country’s inyentions swells every year. Total receipts for the patent office amounted to more than three million dollars in 1924, largest year in history. * Number of issued patents, designs and trade marks in- creased from: 57,512 during 1923 to 63,062 last year. Inventing offers wonderful rewards for those who are puceenat Dl Apparently the fact is well recognized, judging from the increasing numbers that go in for it. es \ FOOD Americans literally eat up their income. Ten years ago one-fifth of. one’s earnings was deemed sufficient for food. Today the. figure has risen to 27 per cent — more than one- fourth, ~°'. / Last year, says Dr. Paul H. Nystrom, head of the Retail tion, our total estimated income was 68 so ig often due to gross neglect. {to ‘be at large. Editorial Review _ Comments reproduced in tis column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. Thay are presented here in order that our readers fet have both sides of important {issues which are ne ip the press of e A FIREMAN WHO SETS FIRES (Portland Journal) It is incomprehensible. He is a ) fireman. He ig a grandson of the first fire chief of the Portland fire | human beings’ as well ag the burn- ing of property. When he lit a match he put himself as much in the way of ‘being a murderer as does the man who aims a gun and pulls the trigger. Analysis falters when it deals with Buchtel. Explanation fails. He was under oath to defend life and ‘property. He was the city’s | and the public’s servant. He was trusted. But the went out and set fire to schools to which children go. He set fire to business buile ings and to dwellings. Is he a subject for an alienist? | ‘Isn't he? On what other ground can anybody account for his ex- traordina ts? But if he is, it is unsafe for him j If not, he should not ‘be at large, and the heaviest penalties of the law should be met- | ed out. | TO SIMS *SAYS Have you heard about the man so bowlegged he tried putting on snubbers to keep from bouncing when he walked? Once there was a cross-eyed man. You had to look at his fect to see which way he was going. Don't know much about the treaty against gun elevation. But we do; need one against nose elevation. | A farmer is a man who has to work so hard to earn his money he has no time to work to get it. What good is a national budget if the thing be budged? The Allies are taking their own swect time in leaving Cologne. Last man of the A. E. F. is back. Really the last one. Maybe he was waiting for those Christmas pack- | ages. Even though we spend meg than a billion a year on sports some of | Us are not good ones. | Does an annual payroll of $1,680,-! 000,000 indicate the government is living beyond our means? j Our government costs us more than our sports and isn’t as much fun, New machine makes hay without the sunshine. Nothing can take the moon's place in’ making love. Chemist has made artificial sugar. Which is nothing. We know artificial sugar, a stenographer. i an! Men are about the only people on, earth who think they have more sense than women have. They say men will wear lavender this spring. Picture the booze hound with his old nose and lavender. Straw hat time soon. Quit drink-! ing now. You can’t smooth out a straw hat that has been sat upon, What is so June as a day that's rare? (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) — ms {| In New York | >—_—_____ —— New York, March 6.—Warfare goes on between pigeon raisers of the lower East Side almost every day. Pigeon cotes are placed on the roofs of high tenements, The nucleus of each flock is a group of fine-bred homing pigeons which never fail to return to their own cote. A man is in attendance at each cote during all hours of daylight. When he sees a lone pigeon in the air he releases his flock. The pig- eons soar up to the lone flier and in their own way induce it to join the flock. When the flock returns home the stray pigeon comes along. Trouble begins when two pigeon keepers send up their flocks at the same time. The two flocks merge with each other and sometimes only the true homing pigeons of one flock} return to their home cote, the others, being of a gregarious nature, going with the bigger flock. Then words fly between the rival pigeon raisers. And sometimes fists and bullets. . The police have records of hiding crooks using homing pigeons to carry messages to and from confederates. Orchard street is the most color- ful spot in all New York, I believe. It is one of many of the East Side streets lined with pushcarts, but it ‘has the most interesting display of wares, A Walk along one block and in these two-wheeled carts you'll see display- ed bright silk scarfs, secondhand shoes and clothes, candy, cakes, used and broken hardware of all sorts, new and meaded chinaware, vegeta- bles, fruits, bread, cheese, electric irons and curling irons, new and old books, translating dictionaries, table delicacies from foreign lands and other articles, too numerous to men- department. But he gets fires. He confesses that he «ld. i He endangered lives. His kind of arson meant possible ‘burning of; THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ward gaining the riches of their promised land. F. Auckenthaler, a German music publisher, is in New York searching for material + for chamber songs and symphonies. Strangely enough he does not want any of our jazz which is so popular in Berlin. This is the first time that European publishers have come to America for classical music, Watching the antics of the first lionesque wind of spring I saw si en men lose their hats at one time and laughed in high glee as they chased them, Tall buildings here cause winds stronger than any to be -}encountered on the prairies. JAMES W. DEAN. NEA Service, Inc.) (Copyright, 1 ADVENTURE OF | THE TWINS .. * BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON « BUSTER BEAR'S INVITATION The folk in the Land-Of-Dear- Knows-Where didn’t know whether or not to ask Buster Bear to Mrs. Bunny’s party. “We'd better take a vote on it,” said Old Daddy Cracknuts wisely. “Because if Buster took a notion he could do a lot of damage and smash agreed Mister Prickles Porcupine. “We'll take a vote on it and see if Buster has enough friends to get him in.” So they called a mecting and passed around papers and everybody wrote on it tyes” or “no” according to the way he felt about the bear boy coming. There were more “yeses” than “noes” so it was decided that Buster |was to come, But Wally Woodchuck got up and said that he had one thing to say and that was that if Buster was to come it must be understood that. HAVSe TO Do WITH 'BOTH OF ‘ou HAVE VERY UiTTLS to’ SAY 1! tion. The whole blends into a mass of brilliant color in which move bearded patriarchs, squat ugly women, spruce young men and beautiful young girls. Here is the drama of the new Americans taking their first s music, here to meet'a committee of the men. Think a, strike is brewing. | Nothing will keep me from you on EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO —AND L Don't, SEG WHAT THEY _ ANO THERE'S A LOT OF REPUBLIGINS IN THIS TOWN THAT “THI—- [ SAY, DOBBS, SPEAKING OF REPUBLICANS, You RSMIND M& VERY, VERY MUCH OF PRSS|DENT COOLIDGS. i Hope Springs Eternal RAM FROM JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT TO LESLIE PRESCOTT Dreadfully sorry, dear, but I can’t make Atlantic City on Saturday, as I told you over telephone. Tell Mother Hamilton [ will join her at the Waldorf carly Monday morning. ‘ound some unusual complications just after I talked to you. They were brought about, I think, by Con- don’s brainstorm. Will have to stay hursday after 've seen your moth- er off. I have told Mrs. Atherton to setid any important letters that come to me up until Wednesday to New York. After that to Atlantic City in your care. -You can not know how disappointed I am at not seeing you on Saturday. , JACK Letter From Nurse Anderson to Mrs. John Alden Prescott My Dear Mrs. Prescott: As you probably know from’ your husband, his mother and I have been in New York for some weeks. Mrs. Prescott, | Senior, is very well indeed. 1 think this trip has done her a great eal | of good. It has given her some- thing to think about besides herself. For the last few days, however, she has got it into her head that she wants to go over to Atlantic City The Tangle Tans, MR. COLIOGE : and see you and the new baby. Of course, I have been trying to head her off by telling her that it would be better for her to go to Pittsburg after you were completely settled. But it is of no use, She is determin- ed to go. I am writing this to tell you that she will probably be with you on Monday morning. .'She ‘heard from Mr. Prescott the fif#t‘ofthe week'“Jay walking,” or even crossing at and he told her that you were com- pletely well again. She. says she hasn't been in Atlantic City in a long time and this will be a good time to go over, as she can stay with you until you go back to Pitts- burg. Of course, I will,come with her, for to tell you the truth, Mrs. Pres- cott, I do not think anyone but my- self can do much with her these days. I am very glad to know that you are getting along so splendidly and that your new son is such a fine boy. I'll telegraph you when we start. | Please do not tell her I wrote this, for she is writing you a note. Will you plase tell Mr. Prescott to write his mother. His last letter did her a great deal of good, but she is beginning to feel neglected again, I think that is one of the reasons she wants te come to you. Sincerely, JULIA ANDERSON. (Copyright, 1925, NEA. Service, Inc.) none of his family was to come ex- cept Buster himself. Another thing —Buster would have to wear a pair of squeaky shoes. “A pair of squeaky shoes!” cried everybody, “But why?” “Because,” said Wally Woodchuck firmly, “then we can all hear him coming, and after he comes we can hear every step he takes. I move that Buster Bear be allowed to come to Mrs. Bunny's birthday party if he iT, SITHER, IN WHAT | WAY brings a nice present and wears squeaky shoes.” Nobody knew exactly what he meant by saying that he “moved” all that about Buster, but when he said he had read it in the book of rules, they decided that it was important, and so Wally had his way. Buster was asked to the surprise party and told what he had to do if he wanted to come. “My, my!” said Mrs. Bear when she read the invitation. “I'll have to telephone to Mister Peg Leg, the peddler, to come and help us: out. It isn’t often that my son has a chance to get into such high society. I'l] buy him a new: red necktie and a pair of squeaky shoes, and a nice present besides.” So she telephoned to Mister Bags who spoke to Doctor Snuffles who mentioned it fo the postmaster, Mis- ter Stamps, that if the little peddler man and the Twins came in for their mail, to please send him over at once. When they got the message it didn’t take them five minutes to go to the place where the bear family lived on the side of a hill. “My, I do hope that Mrs. Bear will give me a big order,” said Mister Peg Leg. “I'll not have to peddle much longer. I have almost enough money now to buy my peg leg. This one. gets shorter and shorter every day.” They rang Mrs. Bear’s door-bell and soon the little peddler man was showing her all his wares. Mrs. Bear picked out a red and purple tie and a pair of white kid gloves for Buster to wear. “Have you any shoes with very loud squeaks in them?” she asked next. re Mister Peg Leg scratched his head. He had shoes but none with squeaks in them. He didn’t know what to do. Just then he heard something over in the woods that/ made him smile, and he winked at the Twins. “Sure,” he said. “I have the very thing.” (To Be Continued). (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) Se | A Thought - | —_ -—_—___ + ——_—_—__0 Let no corrupt communication pro- ceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearere—Eph, feo. e A good word is ap easy tion; ‘but not to speak only ence, WHich costs noth- ing.—BiNotson. © -FRIDAY,: MARCH 6, 1925 ould Be More e Jardine . By ‘Chester H. Rowell Honored be the public man who dares to tell his people the truth! This seems to be a quality of William M. Jardine, the new secretary of agriculture. ‘ He insists that 10 per cent of the farmers’ troubles can be cured by legislation, and he is for that legislation. The other 90 per cent must be remedied by the farmers themselves, and their associates, the business men of their communities, and he is for organization and education tu do that. He is no reactionary, who is against even the 10 per cent of legal remedy needed, and no conservative, who would do nothing and let the 90 per cent take care of itself, but an aggressive leader, who believes in doing things. ; Only, the first thing is to find out what can be done, and to have the courage to tell the truth about it. That is what you expect of an expert, in anything else. It ought to be commoner in politics and government. 6 Someone points out that the automobile has educated women, by. teaching them mechanics and training them in alertness and self-control in physical emergencies. It has done more than that. It has developed them in the one moral quality in which they had been by inheritance and training inferior to men. In hunting, in fighting and in work, men had been trained since before the cave age to act together and to recognize each other’s rights. During most of those ages, each woman sat in her par- ticular cave alone, and her chief purpose in life was to see that no other woman ‘supplanted her. Then, when women got out and courtesy began, the woman walked ahead, not even looking behind to see whether the man was following. 4 All women took precedence over all men, and each woman deemed herself entitled to personal precedence over all other women. The “rule of the road” was not for them. Now the auto- mobile has cured all that. : Half the drivers are women, and they have had to learn that on the road, one automobile has no precedence over an- ee and each must follow the rules laid down for the good of all. With business teaching women honesty and the auto» mobile teaching them equality, man’s last remaining"super- ‘ iorities disappear, and he takes his place frankly as the lesser sex. ! FINES NOW FOR “JAYWALKERS” : There are two ways to cure things, one by machinery and the other by people. ) Engineers rack their brains for mechanical solutions of the traffic problem, * Now comes Los Angeles, and, hav- ing exhausted everything that me- chanics could do, begins on’ people. Foot passengers as well as vehi- but few of us uplift rs anybody to march; have experienced the moral -of that training. IMAGINE THIS IN NEW YORK At the opposite extreme of traffic reQutation is Paris. There it is leap for your life, and woe to the slow. Only a few principal corners have “traffic cops”, and even there the chief rule {s “go faster.” _ Last summer the writer traffic officer stop to answer question of an old lady. A taxicab came rushing down. on them at breakneck speed. The officer leaped for his life to a safety station, dragging the old lady with him. His only comment was a shrug of the shoulders and “what's the use?” Imagine that on Fifth avenue! And yet they say accidents are sur- prisingly few in Paris. cles have to obey the traffic signals. saw a the street intersections when the the traffic is moving the other way, are prohibited. : They enforce it, too, Leave the curb before the whistle blows. and you are promptly yanked back and fined $5. It has speeded up traffic immense- ly. Perhaps even more. important, it will make of the Angelenos a dis- ciplined people. A little training will drill almost FABLES ON HEALTH OVERHAULING THE BODY Mr. Jones of Anytown. laid away] his afternoon paper. “I have come to the conclusion that every person should have a phy- , “When are you going to see the doctor ” “Oh, tomorrow, or maybe Satur- day. I'll not forget it.” sieal examination made at least once a year,” he said. “A mechanic looked over-the car today, and he found some loose bolts, which, if ignored, would certainly have resulted in a big gurage bill later.” “I am glad you have come around to that conclusion,” replied Mrs. Jones. “I have argued for a long time that a physical examination should be made at least once a year. “No, I don’t think you will,” said Mrs. Jones. “Now that you have mentioned it, and agreed that it is a good thing, I'll not let you forget it. “And what's more, when you see the doctor, make an appointment fot me, will you ” “Fine! I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll go down together Saturday af- ternoon,” Mr. Jones agreed. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) FORMER PROFESSOR .-.. 4 WRITES BOOK Grand Forks, N. D., March 6.—Dr. John Harrington Cox, professor of English in the University of West Virginia, who was formerly pro- fessor of‘English at the University of North Dakota, has recently pub- lished a volume entitled “Folk- Songs of the South.” The book is published by the Harvard Univer- sity Press. Dr. Cox is the author of several other books. SPEED DETECTIVES Tokyo, March 6.—To prevent the speeding and racing of the city auto busses: with other motor cars, which caused many accidents lately, the police have decided to placé a plain- clothes detective on cach bus, Happy Again “{ had four large ulcer sores as big as a half dollar for 2 years and Peterson’s Ointment has healed them all and I am very glad to let anyone know about your Ointment. From a true friend. My address is 30 Wal- nut Street, West Haven, Conn. George Hempstalk.” “I guarahtee it for eczema, old sores, running sores, salt rheum, ulcers, sore nipples, broken breasts, itching skin, skin diseases, blind, bleeding and itching piles as well as for sore feet, chafing, burns, scalds, cuts, bruises and sunburn,” says Peterson. 60 cents a large box at all druggists. : Mail orders from Peterson Oint- ment Co., Buffalo, N. Y.—Adv. FAME {iorence Borner) Since Fame f§ such a puny thing, And lasts so little while, Let us forget our dreams of fame, And work and sing and smile; Tho thousands may not praise our names, «In story and in song, We, will have done our very best, To help the world along. i ‘Since Fame is such a fleeting thing, With sorrow in its wake, ’ Let us avoid that thorny road, And other pathways take; The road that leads to Friendship's door,’ Is well and widely trod, Ps, And ‘those who follow it will find. A something next to God Since Fame is such a tiny thing, Compared with other Let us decline to ‘seek the ane Surdens wale a lifte ; r when our hour of fame hag gone, Discarded with the past, nee Trance still will linger on, us to the-last. —- ‘Reme! To taun' bee prizé,’ ( a? + Since Fame is such a trivial’ thing, ‘Oh, who would seek to gain, ‘That which if won is fntermixed,: With sorrow and with pain? Love, truth and honor, greater far, compare, ivi 7! Are ithey, de: