The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 10, 1925, Page 4

fyi PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ” Pntered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. : GEORGE D. MANN - Publisher Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO -. - : : - Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK : : 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.............00005 . $7.20 DETROIT Kresge Bldg. Daily by mail, per year (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 ONLY Some days ago the Association of Commerce asked the City Commission for a complete statement covering the purchase and construction of the water works system. Monday, the secretary of that association presented to The Tribune and other papers a voluminous document signed by A. P. Lenhart, president of the city commission, and trans- mitted to the Association of Commerce as a report of the city commission. Records of the city commission fail to disclose that this report was ever discussed or presented to the city commis- sion. Commissioner Thompson, the minority member of the board, never saw the report until it was filed with the Asso- ciation of Commerce. Whether Commissioners Larson or French saw it is not known. Doubtless Commissioner French as Director French of the Association of Commerce saw. it when it came before the Board of Directors of the AsSociation of Commerce. -At now develops that the report was prepared by City Attorney Young, partly from city records and partly from data furnished by T. R. Atkinson, city engineer and his son Myron Atkinson, city auditor. Instead of being a report adopted officially by the city commission at a regular or special meeting, it turns out to be a report gathered by father and son and written by Mr. Young. After submitting it to the Association of Commerce, a, majority of the commission approved it last evening. Com- missioner Thompson pointed out some serious errors in the report which is largely a political campaign document and refused to approve it. The Tribune is checking over the statements and the figures and referring the report back to the City Commis- -sion to ascertain the rather unusual method of handling city affairs. As the report now stands, it is merely an ex-parte state- ment from the Atkinsons and Mr. Young. The Tribune has referred the report also to Commissioner Thompson for his examination before publishing the pertinent portions. It will take several issues to discuss the Atkinson - Young report for the report published in full would take several full pages in any newspaper. It may make a very good serial story as the investigation proceeds. Of course the action of the directors of the Association of Commerce has accomplished nothing. It asked for a report from the commission and got an ex-parte statement from Atkinson and Young, city employes, signed by Mayor Lenhart. This is one of the methods which The Tribune has criticized at the City Hall. Affairs of the city seem to be dominated by the employes of the city rather than by the regularly elected commissioners. _ The Association of Commerce should write another letter and ask for a report by the Commission. In any event the facts will be aired and due publicity given as soon as the statements and figures can be checked and the real motives behind the voluminous report determined. It would seem also that Mr. Lenhart owes the taxpayers of Bismarck an explanation as to why Commissioner Thomp- son was ignored and why the report was never considered at an open meeting of the City Commission. 4 , It begins to look as though the tail was wagging the dog ‘at the City Hall. THE REAL ISSUE After everything has been said and done in apology for the city hall administration the inescapable issue is exces- sive taxation. It should not take 43 pages and lengthy ex- hibits to convince the taxpayers that they have an extrava- t.-gant administration and are getting less for every dollar spent for civic purposes than most cities due to the ineffici- ent and extravagant system under which the city is now operating. The contract cost of the present water plant has been _.. published time and time again. All the data of an historical nature has been published many times in these columns. , The final chapter can be written only when the plant is “finished. -ii: } But it has never been shown to the satisfaction of the taxpayers why T. R. Atkinson received three per cent on $265,000 when his contract for engineering services called for five per cent. If the commission on the purchase price of the old plant was for engineering expenses why was At- kinson not paid five per cent? Why has €ommissioner Henzler been drawing 940 a month for nine months of absence from the city? Why did the City Commission refuse to reduce the city budget some $5,000 to $10,000 in line with suggestions made by Commissioner Thompson and a group of Bismarck tax- payers last summer? - /@Nhy does the commission basis, of compensation for the city,engineer continue? ris T. R. Atkinson at the taxpayers’ expense receiv- ree telephones, free light, free office and free juice for “print machine at the city hall? y is 518,000 annually spent by the street cleaning ent ? and. many other questions are pertinent. main issue before the people of Bismarck is whether -want this kind of government to continue or whether want tax budgets reduced so civic growth and expan- sion ‘can go on. without being retarded. Railroads are buy! new equipment. We suggest they hire a taller man for 4 g. Pullman berths, runners ate not fish even though the biggest ones away. ! Fifth Ave. Bldg. Comments reproduced in this column may not express 3 or the opinion: of Hey Nar erase are presen’ Fende! have both lasues | wi in the press of our readers ma) of important being discussed ARE WE SMARTER THAN THE s (Edward S. Martin in Harper's) So far as ‘we Know we have beaten the ancient Egyptians and Hindus in applied mechanics. No Ford car has as yet been brought out of an Egyptian tomb. Possibly our roads are better than theirs: they are pretty good now- adays. Our pluntbing is quite goow and, what is perhaps more im- portant, ‘the great mass of people in our time—and for example in this country—are in a more for- ward state of intelligence and knowledge than the great mass of the people of any country ha ever been ‘before in the history of she world, so far as we know it. What knowledge we get seems nowadays to have a better chance for distribution and assimilation by great numbers of people than it has ever had before. So it seems to us; but perhaps we vaunt ourselves unduly, for we do seem to know extremely little ‘as yet about the anciet world. We cb not even any longer begin to know how far back what we call civilization goes. Less than a cen tury ago pious people put the crea tion of the world about 4,000 years behind us. Probably not even Mr. Bryan has contidence any longer in that esti mate. Everything that turns up, that is dug up, that is learned by deciphering inscriptions, that is suggested in any way (plausible or fantastic) puts civilization farther and farther back, and some things credit very ancient prehistoric civ- ilizations with extraordinary knowledge and accomplishments. SIAVS “SAYS It's spring, beautiful spring, when you feel so darn lazy you don’t give a ding. The sap is flowing in the trees, there is a weakness in our knee we've shed our heavy beeveedeeze. In the Tennessee mountains dude is a man who gets his hai: cut in March instead of April. Oh, what is so rare as a day in June? Our guess is a player piano in tune. An Alabama dude is a man who cuts a chew of tobacco with his knife instoad of biting it off. In Mississippi, a lazy man is one who hasn't energy enough to make his boys go to work. “You never can tell when a woman's going to change her mind.” That’s a new song. We can. “Al- ways.” And if you don’t know why one changes her mind it’s because “be- cause.” We kicked the moth out of our bathing suit last .night. He had eaten a hole big enough to make six doughnuts. In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of nothing. Sometimes a reckless spender’ starts out and ends on the rocks and sometimes he ends -on the rock pile. |. The first sign of spring is a bath- ing girl on a magazine cover. Where will you go on your vaca- tion this year? Better start getting all rested for it now. Better hurry to finish paying on your overcoat so you can start paying on a spring suit. Weather show the been even statistics for this winter mean temperature has worse than that, These people raving about the human race being lost fail, to realize it has hardly started. Work hard and save your money now so when you get old you can afford to have spring fever. Pay as you go and everyone will ask you to stay. Those who say the world isn't making any progress are not. Our guess is this man who says he has’a radio made like a wrist watch is just laughing up his sleeve. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) +—__________..__»#® | In New Yo | o—_______._____¢ New York, March 10.—How much of the emotion exhibited by stage players is felt by them to the ex- tent that it becomes real and a part of them? " How often does the hero mutter to himself as he is forced by the exi- gencies of the plot to kiss the hero- ine, “What kind of kalsomine does she use, I wonder?” Or the heroine, My he wouldn’t eat onions.” way around, hero and heroine wrout to a pitch of emotion in whjch caresses seem real and earnest? Thoughts on the subject recur as @ messenger gallops up post haste with a copy of a covenant entered into by Joseph Schildkraut and his ife, Elise Bartlett, in which they agree not to appear in the same show. They have been married inter into this THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE || OUT OUR WAY - Wipe HOLES. AN ww 2 S\\ \ Nou SEE CURL. THIS GAME 1S PLANED BN HOLES. 4 NOU CAN ETHER PLAN A NINE HOLE GAME OR EIGHTEEN on . SEVEN - EIGHT- NINE — RECKIN ‘GOT MORE'N,’” NINE Hoves Now, TLUUYHEPTOH MAKE YT RIGHT UNOUH {THIS A‘ EIGHTEEN, HOLE Game. TL - al el ‘By Williams | NINES ENUFE CORIN® CHINAS US. 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NS Xe 7 x a oe NS ee. _ THE SODBUSTER, VE Mn SH AS. play calls for such whole-souled ef-| forts on the part of an actor or ac-j tress, the prospect of expressing the | same degree of affection in private life toward the same person with whom you have just expended every! z atom of artificial love expression you| LETTER “FROM MRS, JOSEPH Possess ina play, is too great | GRAVES HAMILTON TO MRS. strain on the cmotions.” | N ALDED ES . 9 oeeitees ; | CONTINUED That's a pretty fair story, but it} For the thousandth time, Leslie, I reminds of what George Arliss re-|teld my: t the telephone was the cently scaide MSuldi Ney araanl lace most impertinent thing on earth |really lived his part he very ofte well as the most insistent when would find himself acting out in the|the maid came to tell Juck that he middle of ‘Times Square while his|*#S wanted on the wire. audience would be facing jan empty) Hastily saying that he would finish the conversation when he re- stage.” | ¢ Sone = |turned, he left me. There's an occasional smile in| | He was gone a long while: In the stories that come out of the/fict, he did not come into my sit- Vihentsical vGMiGen: shone s ieen ting room for at least ten minutes, Mary Newcomb is quoted as saying #"4 he was looking much annoyed. “You knew, Mother Hamilton, that : mother was in town,” he said. Well, she phoned me from down- irs and although ‘I tried to ex- to her that I would meet her n the lobby, she insisted upon com- ng up here.” I called a ‘waiter and had him place two more platas on the table. This was hardly aecomplished be- that she really feels the part of the | street walker she plays. She know how one of those creatures feels be scause she went to Chinatown walked the sidewalks on a night. ! It is to laugh, Chinatown is the last place in all New York wh such a character would be found, and on a rainy night I doubt if one d rainy | P : ne) 4 ¢{fcre Miss~Anderson, looking apolo- coulda feand in all the streets of! getic, and John’s mother, looking ea aye very belligerent, came -in. | Mrs. Prescott had evidently not Patrolman Oscar Hettler iss: never to have been seen on d without a smile. He tends traffic at Lafayette and Grand streets. A yea or so ago he won a fine big home Forest Hills in a popularity contes’ Now he’s trying to keep it and «| family of five children on a cop’s| jexpected to find me wath her son for she said stiffly, “I expected to find you alone, John.” { rl)" “That is why I told you I would */ meet you in the lobby, mother,” said John. “If you wish to see me alone, you had hetter come with me to my ¥ pone own room. This belongs to Mrs. salary. Despite that, he’s still smil-| Hamilton.” ; ing. | Hastily I interrupted to ask Mrs. Prescott to breakfast with us. She accepted as though this was quite her due. She was hardly seated be- fore she began to uypbraid John for not writing her, “You seem tg be quick enough to go traveling aBout tthe country for your mother-in-law, but I must say that you neglect your own mother shamefully,” was her first remark. This made John furious. Both Miss Andersom. and I tried to change the subject, but every few moments that old woman would re- turn to her attack. EVERETT TRUE BY, CONDO On the crest of a hill overlooking the Hudson, just above what is now 182nd street, several of the most important engagements of the Revo- lution were fought. Fort Washing ton stood there and it was occupied first by the Americans and later by the British. Apartment ‘houses now surround the site and unless the land is purchased by private money or a public fund it Will be covered entire- ly with modern apartment houses within the next year or two. —JAMES W. DEAN. OH, t BES NMouR PARDON L WAS NOT COOKING Alc MY FAUCT. | -< The Tangle I don't reatly think, Leslie, that Mrs, Prescott is as old as I am, but she looks much older. It is probably because she has always thought of no one but herself. I hope I will never get to the point where I think the world revolves around me. It is a sure sign of senile old age. As I watched Mrs, Prescott that morning I wondered if she knew she was reverting to second dhood. You probably have learned, Leslie, in your own babies that a child is the most self-centered human in the world. He pays no attention to any- thing around him, unless it is somes = ch This is also the case with an old person. In the case of the old, how- ever, this selfishness is most annoy- ing. (Copyright, 1925, NEA. Service, Inc.) ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON ‘Nancy and Nick were playing un- der the chestnut tree in the meadow. It was warm and springlike although it was much too soon for the old tree to be showing any signs of green. And even the grass was brownish looking from being buried under the snow all winter. But the sky was as blue as sum- mer, and the big white clouds were scurrying. across it like kites. The wind blew and blew and blew {ext everything, even the dignified old ‘chestnut tree, was acting a bit mad, The tree waved its arms this way and that like a dancer, and the other trees over in the forest could be seen bending first one way and then the jatiee like an audience keeping time ‘to the tune. The little dry weeds danced, and out on the road the dust danced, and early moths seemed to be dancing in the sunlight, The whole dance-mad. The Twins were too. They ran across the field from one fence to the other to see who would beat. Then they spun around like: der- vishes to see who could keep from getting dizzy the longest. They did everything that popped into their heads. It was such a hap- py day and nothing was still. With the wind moving so fast everything else seemed to want to move, too, Suddenly a gray figure came hop- Ping out of the woods, right across ‘the meadow to the place where the children were playing. Just half a dozen Jong hops and it was there. “Hello!” cried Nick. “Where did you come from?” “Never mind,” said the visitor. “I’m here and that’s enough. I’m one of the first signs of spring. I’m the March Hare and I’m supposed to 'be mad, But I’m not. I'm a very sensible person and a hard worker. I've jpst come from the Fairy Queen. I've got a dozen things to do for her. Do you want to come along?” , “Oh, yes, yes, yes!” cried the Twins. “Is it an adventure?” “Call it whatever you like,” said the March Hare. . “I don’t know what it will be before we get thru with “it. But as you are only chil- dreh you can’t go where I go without magic. Look behind the big stone and you'll find the magic green shoes. Put them on at once and hop on my back. I’m in a hurry. It didn’t take the little boy and girl 4 minute to jump into the little green world seemed to-be shoes, and in another minute they Merch Hare's back ready to start. Either the Hare the Twins once you have magic with you, size matters were sitting on the had grown! very tall had grown very small, nothing. > But not only the Hare had changed —everything else had c! I TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1925 Lay The Blame On The Long Ballot By Chester H. Rowell The Chicago Tribune, which originally supported the direct primary, now “regretfully” advocates its repeal, or its limitation to the few most important offices, on the ground that it is a failure as to the multitude of minor offices. The people cannot vote on these offices intelligently, at either the primary or the election. Therefore, argues the Tribune quite illogically, they shall cease to vote on them at the primary, but shall continue to vote on them at the election. Of course the logical conclusion is that they shall cease to vote on them at either. fices should be elective at all. They are not, in the national government. Nationally, we elect the president and Congress, and nobody else. In the states, we should likewise elect the governor and legislature, and nobody else. Similarly in the local govern- ments. Once adopt the short ballot, and the direct primary will be a success. With the long ballot, any system is a failure. The Tribune’s scheme is really a proposal ‘to make these offices appointive, but to give the appointing power to irresponsible party organizations, instead of to the responsible governor. thing which happens to attract him. hanged, too. They understood everything the two birds in tthe tree were saying. And per cent in eight years. gress. the people will rise in their might to reform it. The ‘one place where gvif doesn’t go is over the radio. The refusal of a New York actress to go on with a nasty part has brought the issue of obscene plays to a crisis. “We have to do it,” says the man- agers. “The public demands it.” Well; the real public will see to it that that part of the public does not get Unless the managers show them- selves capable of cleaning up, the censor will do it for them. And censorship is the last thing in the world the theater should invite. The censor is always arbitrary, rarely artistic, and usually stupid. Nobody wants him. But. art does not have to be indecent, and, in this country, it is not going to be per- mitted to be so. Unless the managers clean it up intelligently, they must expect the censor to do it stupidly. There are ‘worse evils than stupidity. Not Too Much For Good Work There are bills before Congress to raise the pay of members from $7500 to $10,000, and before the Illi- nois Legislature to raise its pay from $2500 to $5000 Neither sum would be toc h for good. legislative: work—if that were what we got. Nothing at all is much too high for some of the legislative work we have been getting. A Congress ‘that would quit log- rolling and cooperate in real econ- omy would .be cheap at $50,000 a year, or twice that. In fact, a million dollars a year apiece would be a low estimate of what -congressmen are costing us now, by present methods. The sal- ary part of’their cost is negligible. Tue Wed Cities Contribute Less To Good Government In every state where there are big cities, the reapportionment question is up. We are moving at dizzy speed. heard Wilson’s inaugural address. amplifier, was heard by 125,000. radio, was heard by 25,000,000. This is a gain of 500,000 Perhaps 5000 people Harding, by using an Now Coolidge, over the The next thing may be to broadcast the debates of Con- Then watch for revolution! buried in the Congressional Record will be spread to the four winds, for all to hear. Either Congress will reform, or What is now mercifully The constitutions of all the states call for a reapportionment after euch census; but here it is 1925, and the reapportionments of 1920. are not yet made, The “cow “counties” are deter- mined that the citics shall not have the representation which the con- stitutions give them, even though, in some states, that is already less than their numerical share. Partly it is, of course, a recog- nition that the country has certain primary interests independent of population, which it is not willing to have subject to city majorities. Chiefly, it is a feeling that country is fit for self-government and the cities are not. There in a shocking amount of evidence for this startling assertion. Tn every state where there is a great city the legislative represents fan of that city is and always has been the worst in the legislature. The cities have contributed much less than nothing to good govern- ment in the states, and much less than their share to the nation. Nevertheless, we must face the fact that this is fast becoming an urban nation, and that, unless the vities become fit to participate in self-government, the nation will be- come unfit for it. For better or for worse, we are going to be governed by. our cities. They may us well get their repre- sentation. Then we can begin some needed missionary work, to arouse them to make that representation fit. Is Marriage a Bar To Education? Even universities are not exempt from absurd technicalities. Mill- stead, Yale football star, was drop- ped from the-college, under its rules, because he got married. Now he will enter the Yule law school, A married man may study contracts and torts in Yale, but not history and ceonomics. He may prepare to.earn his living at a profession, but not to be a well- informed citizen, FABLES ON HEALTH HEART TROUBLE There is no reason why these minor administrative of- 4, ry thef Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Jones were upset very much over what the doc- tor told Mr. Jones about his heart. Both were tickled, and‘ could hardly realize that they were not more seri- ously ailing with some sort of mal- ady. The hint of a possible: heart weak- ness, however, stirred their interest, and they began a study of the heart, its troubles and what to do, to keep from “dropping dead” suddenly as folk do in the papers. Their interest was heightened when they learned that heart trou- ble is responsible for one-ninth of the deaths at’ all ages, and for one- sixth of the deaths in persons of 40 and over. Heart trouble kills more people than tuberculosis, more than cancer, apoplexy, pneumonia or Bright's disease. or ‘Th addition there are thousands suffering from some kind of heart disorder. It is estimated that more than 2,000,000 persons in the United States are subjects of serious heart defects. Tuberculosis once was the prime killer. “The anti-tuberculosis cru- sades throughout the country have served to educate the people against the “white plague,” however, until today, the death rate from tubercu- losis, is comparatively low, in com- parison to the death rate from heart disorders. they usually never saw him from one week’s end to another. Now, however, they saw Wally carrying home a bucket of water, and Mrs. Woodchuck hanging out tea towels to dry. ‘The’ whole world had changed in a minute, Pe i Away they went on the March Hare. (To Be Continued), (Copyright, 1925, NEA. Service, Inc.) "A Thought | ee ——_—_—<« According ‘to yor you.—Matt. 9:29. faith be it unto Faith loves to on time's de- stroying arm.—Holme RIFLE TEAM IS ORGANIZED Devils’ Lake, N. D.,”"Mar. 10—Mem. bers of the Howitzer’ company of the National guard’ have organized a rifle club and will begin practice Sunday a€ therifle range. Several practices will be held within the next few weeks and it is-planned that th members will be. prepared for com- petitive jooting within a month. A regular army instructor will Sunday and will start the members off in the right manner. It is plan; ned to enter several of thé team in competitive shooting at the encamp- ment. at the military grounds this have charge of the practice shooting |’ itzer rifle club, Bud Vogel was elect- ed president and the following mem- bers taken in: Privates Ulstead, Moguson, LaFrance, Madsen, Hog- haug, Larson, Moyland, Vogle, ior, Williams, Rankin, Art Timboe and Corporals Floyd Timboe and Chester Limboe. ae Spiders were found by the Mount Everest expedition 4000 feet higher than any other vegetable growth. They lived by ‘eating each other. Cod Liver Oil in Sugar Coated Tablets For Puny Kids Forget the nasty tasting, stomach upsetting cod liver oil’ and give the thin, puny, underdeveloped children MeGoy’s Cod Liver Oil: Compound Tablets if you want to give them a good appetite and put pounds of good, healthy flesh on their bones. know all about them. and Pinney Drug Co., Cowan Drug Co. A. P. Lenhart Drug Co., and all good pharmacists all over America, for ‘they are in great de- mand, becauge they are not laggards but show results in a few days. They ‘are not expensive either—604% tablets—60 cents and children take them like candy. ‘A very sickly child, age 9, gained Pounds in seven months and is strong and: healthy, 0 kinny woman ne. i 24! days. Lg nas i get McCoy's, the ori- Cod. e Oil