The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 14, 1925, Page 4

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Wale sisi QURCO) fi Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) sateen: (ae) a Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck)... 5.00 i: Daily by mail, outside of North Dakot: 00 Ai ae ; = THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER DETROIT Kresge Bldg. 7 (Established 1873) a (Official City, State and County Newspaper) bi see soc ee ci POINTS OUT POOR SYSTEM A Two recent articles upon city affairs in the columns of “this paper pointed out the inadequate system of accounting tt in vouge at the City Hall and for the existence of which the a president of the city commission is largely responsible. He is a the executive officer and the driving force of any adminis- r tration and should see to it that there is a proper and ac- h curate check upon taxpayer’s money. “i Every department chief is a purchasing agent without g knowledge of his superior officer. Commissioners under the o present plan merely sign the bills, they do not enforce the proper control over purchases nor give bills adequate Bl serutiny. h H. A. Thompson, minority commissioner, has frequently p called the attention of the commission to the loose, slovenly e manner in which purchases have been made and has urged i greater care in the disbursements of public funds. He has "received no support and the policy of every city employe e being a purchasing agent has gone on. u losures of the manner in which payrolls are handled are starlting and should arouse the taxpayers of the city to ce 2 demand that the system be changed. Every employe should sign the payroll. There should be accurate time re- ports. The vest pocket payroll system used by the street commissioner is antiquated and should not be tolerated. It is easy to explain now how more than $13,000 a year is spent in the street department under such a loose system of auditing. With the streets under snow and ice for three } or four months, it means that the bulk of the $13,000 is | spent over a period of eight or nine months. Surely a ter- + rific load for the property owners of this city. THE PROTOCOL’S FAILURE The rejection of the Geneva protocol for peace by Great Britain and its consequent fall at this session of the League * of Nations gives rise to grave concern among friends of the League of Nations that its prestige has been injured, and has caused concern to those foreign diplomats who have based their hope of peace upon agreements to submit differ- ences to arbitration. The Geneva protocol substantially provided for the avoidance of war through international arbitration. The British view was that taken on many occa- sions by the United States—that there are certain questions which will arise which can be settled only by that nation. The rejection of the protocol is the second great obstacle encountered by the League of Nations in its attempts to bind nations in advance to peaceful settlement of disputes, and to outlaw war. The first important failure was when the United States Senate declined to approve the convenant with its Article 10 which the irreconcilables believed pro- vided for an international police force to maintain peace. Agreement to submit questions to arbitration, as provided , dy the Geneva protocol, formulated after long study by a committee of the League, was held by many diplomats to be ‘the savior of Europe. The League of Nations, it must be admitted by opponents, did make progress in its present session when it agreed to the entry of Germany. The advice of Lloyd George, given ‘ long ago, not to drive Germany into the arms of a hungry Russia was accepted. The way is open for Germany to en- tér-if she desires to do so on terms acceptable to the League. 4 “ETHICS” :,The British Medical Association has: up once more the qUéstion of medical advertising. The medical profession contends that the only answer is that they won’t advertise. Meantime, while all other advertising grows better, Jargely by the action of the advertisers themselves, medical advertising, for the most part, is merely less bad, and that largely by the refusal of publishers to accept the worst. The natural tendency of other advertising is upward; it takes #ipressure to keep medical advertising from going downward. Is not one remedy in the hands of the legitimate profes- sion itself? Not that individual physicians should proclaim competi- tively their alleged personal merits. But the profession collectively has something to advertise in which it has no rival—scientific knowledge and professional standards. H There are legitimate ways of saying so. Is it not possible to combat misleading advertising, not by an indiscriminate ban, but by offering something better? WEMBLEY They are fighting now in the British. Parliament, and shouting “scandal” as a result of the huge financial losses + sustained by the British empire exhibition at Wembley. Sir Alfred Butt, a Conservative, declares it a “very grave scandal, attended with much corruption,” and demands an audited balance sheet on the ground that “the final cost of the exhibition would be found to be fully one million pounds more than the four million now disclosed.” ’ The Wembley affair, although a financial loss, cannot be considered a failure. Even its most ardent champions could paye hoped for nothing more than a lot of profitable adver- tising. If there was graft, of course, the grafters should be pun- -ished. But it was foreordained that the balance sheets should show “red.” NEW The latest is method of dedrunking drnnks. Inhale car- bon dioxide and oxygen, and the drunkest drunk is sober in an hour and rid even of his “holdover” in two hours. Doubtless by administering the beverage and its antidote simultaneously, one might keep them both up indefinitely, and never get worse than mildly exhilarated. There are those misguided enough to think that this epoch-making discovery came a decade too late, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE| Editorial Review reproduced tn tbis | | Comments column may or mai not express the opinion of The Tribune. Thay are presented here !n order that our readers may have both sides of important Issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. JAPAN WILL NOT FIGHT (The New Republic) The natural relation between Ja- | pan and the United States fs that} of frieny nations—t is, friend: | ly in a diplomatic gen If this | relation is disturbed it will not be by the initiative of Japan. What Japan desires is to be let atone, to build up her industry and | her trade and shipping, primarily | | | in oriental waters The Japanese are not a romantic people insanely yearning for mili- tary glory. ‘They have never enter- | ed upon a war without shrewdly | i calculating the chances of victory. They leave to the younger nations wars that result in defeat or in disastrous deadlocks. i America could make Japan fight by imperialisti ssion in China or by a naval policy directly aimed against Japan security. Such an outrage could find no justifica- tion in the protection of any real BB American economic interest. Jt could be explained only on the ground that America had more power than she knew how to use | wisely or well. FIND THE MORAL (Sandusky, Ohio, Register) The chief executive of a big cor- poration, whose time ig occupied from the moment he reaches his office until the moment he leaves it, has devised a new efficiency scheme. He has requested all his employes and all his friends and acquaintances, when they tele- phone him, to inform the operator in his office whether the conversa- tion they desire falls under the; heading “A,” “B," or “C.” “A” signifies that it is a matter) of great importance that requires immediate attention. “B” signifies at it is me a matter of ‘busi ness routine or of social engage- ment. “C" means ordinary piffie. It is only fair, however, to give the results up to date, of uhis exec- utive's experienc With one exception every tele- phone call fell into the “A” class. His wife, reminding him to send the car for her after luncheon, a friend who wanted to borrow a few vunuved dollars, his tailor an- nouncing that ils new suit was) ready to be tried on—all insisted | that their communication was of great importance and needed im- nediate attention. ! It was only his chauffeur who modestly told the operator that ‘his message came under PO merely wanted to repor e had collided with a track, smashed a $6.000 car ana injured a policeman, There {s a moral in this for re- formers to figure out. Gx | SIMS *SAYS Eating keeps you from feeling like one. more lemons in spring Spring is the time for lambs to gambol, but a lamb who gambled in Wall Street lost a fortune, A free-for-all fight is sometimes very expensive. The new college graduates will be with us soon. Some will have the polish of a college education, but no education. When a rum ship caught fire near the Florida coast not one of the boys stood on the burning deck. Paying congressmen more is all right, Take them longer to spend it. So they won't work so much. A girl should never marry a man who throws her money away as fast as she can muke it. The reformers have started worry- ing over what the bathing girls won't wear this summer. Ants have started reading the pa- per already to see where the spring pienics will be held. It has been about seven years now since a petticoat showed, Every man should have a hobby. And every woman a hubby. It is almost warm enough to prac- tice classic dancing now. Dancers exercise just about every- thing except, discretion. Friday is only one of the seven days on which it\is unlucky to think you are unlucky. Spring styles are so confusing. We can’t remember if they will wear sleeveless dresses or , dressless sleeves, A charming little bathing frock is not the correct costume to wear while sitting on broken glass. (Copyright, 1 NEA Service, Inc.) : ai A Thought | Faith builds a bridge from world to the next—Dr. Ydung. UNTHOUGHTFUL WIFIE (going through an old snapshot album of ihubby’s)—Ana who's this creature with her head on your shoulder? HUBBY—Oh, that’s a little girl I knew years before we met, darl- ing. WIFIE—Oh, George, how could you ibe so untaithtul to me—even ‘before we met?—Passing Show., this y ( \ KNOCK OFF, + THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | Hell ’n’ Maria! the New Kid’s Tough | Pe . GWwan- KNOCK a \ \ \ 2 Ney * = EVEN BEEN ARouND LONG ENOUGH Fore ME TO GET ACQuaINTED wi You YéT ° Tre Sensve GOSHI You ain ee LETTER FROM MAMIE KEELER, TO JOHN PRESCOTT—OPEN- | ED BY LESLIE PRESCOTT, CONTINUED I need not remind you, Jack, that I saw at the end of my world that night that you came along and turned my face again in the other direction. Of course, I should hav gone on freezing, starving, but I could not, when food and warmth and life were offered me. Of course, you should have taken the pharisaic course and passed me on the other side, but you did not. The world has its opinions of sach ings and the world tells us what to do under such circumstances, but nature takes a more liberal view- and for the breathless, blissful inter- lude of the last few months I-hi not cared. what the world thoy; You call yourself a bounder, Perhaps the world would eall you s To me you are a very human and lovable man with perhaps a few more contradictions than the aver- age. \ I love you, Jack. I expect man women have said this to you. Your great mistake, my friend, is that you let them do it. You reach our for the always tintillating thrill. Your wife is a wonderful woman. If she were not your wife and al- ways there beside you you would be crazy about her. The whole trounie is that she doesn’t keep her sense of humor working and you are just as chary of using your imagination. I am sorry for her, Jack, very sorry for her, but I am also sorry for you, for honestly I believe there is no one in the world who could or does make you as happy as your wife does, I expect neither of you ‘would ap- preciate my pity, but it is yours, nevertheless. I don’t pity myself. I'm not going to pieces because you have gone out The Tangle dying, | y I think I bigger and finer and! of my life am going to} do somethin more splendid than I ever thought| of doing before, and that is the reason that I have written you, I wunt you to know that from now on am going to sail a straight course. t you to know, John Alden rescott, that it isn’t possible for uu to make me lose my self-respect. ou see, I have a man’s outlook on ife and living and, Jack, I must be grateful to you for that—you taught that to me. 1 know you told me not to write to you, but like all women I must have the last word, and these are the words I want to say: “Don’t be fool any longer, Let your wife be hing to you. She can be that. She is beautiful, she is clever, she thas charm.” I know that, for r have made it! my business to watch her when you have been with her. She is too good for you, k, but alas, she loves you and that tells the story. Thanks for the check, |I have no seruples about taking it. I am go- ing to use it to help me to rehabili- tate myself among my own sex. In the future I am going to steer clear of yours. MAMIE. NEA Service, Inc.) | (Copyright, 1 o—_________ ‘ i InNew York | o——__——_. ——_—¢ New York, ch 14.—The Man With the Earring——I saw him first at a performunce of the Moscow Art Theater. It was an earring of a mosaie design with red ‘predominat- ing. “Why does he wear my companion. “Why wear one on each ear?” “Oh, I suppose he has a title and the earring is the mark of his title,” ked he etl: doesn't I CALLED You uP TO AT QUARTER = PAST TEN, BUT YoU were Not TNE OFFICE To KNOW, WHERE” Sh! "WHY ?’ — 1 Don's] know “QJN 2" THATS THE REASON UM ASKING. DAY IN WELL, WHAT'S es THE OCCASION, | MX DEAR, wor. ALK THIS EXTREMELY --- my companion answered, “Look how gracefully he kisses the hand f the lady who has just come in!” is time he wore a gold ear- | ring and a gold vest. At the time this is written your correspondent has a terrific neural- gia in the head, but please don't think the man with a gold earring and gold vest is a plantom born of pain. Indeed, this man has 40 of the most distinctive vests in town, Fur-| thermore, he has an earring for each of those 40 vests, This man is David Davidovitch Burliuk, artist and poet. He cun afford those vests, nevertheless, be- cause he was born of wealthy par- ents. That was 42 years ago in Khartov. He is half Cossack and half Tatar. He wears the earring in honor of his Cossack ancestry and, the fancy vest in honor of his Tatar ancestors. ‘ Burliuk belongs to the futuristic school. He paints a horse half orange and half blue, the orange standing for vivacity, the blue for energy. His poetry contains no words, only sounds, for it is “inter- national poetry.” He came to this country two years ago and in that time has sold 70 paintings, besides doing the stage sets for plays given by wealthy Long Islanders. He did not have such success when he began painting in Russia, He was one of the first disciples of the new school and had to hold his ex- thibits on the streets. He even went down into the coal mines to acquaint laborers with his art. He left Russia, going to Siberia, Mongolia and Japan, He held an exhibit of his paintings on the peak of Zuji, 15,000 feet above sea level. Now that he has found a market for his paintings and an appreciation for his strange art he intends to re- main in America. And if The Man With the Earring puts into practice his own pet theory he will leave an everlasting mark in American architecture. He believes the outer walls of buildings should be decorated with immense paintingsand foundations and ledges with quotations of lit- erary masters, —JAMES W, DEAN. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “We must go and see the Toy Maker at once,” said the March Hare, “why?” Christmas.” “Of course not,” said the March Hare, “but spring is here, so that’s quite as important, 1 must look over hié stock and see that he has the proper things. Get on, my dears.” So the Twins got on the March Hare’s willing back and off he ran like the wind to the Toy Maker's. asked Nancy. “It isn’t, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1925 _ Facts Easy If We Pay For Them By Chester H. Rowell “I ery again for facts,” said Owen Young, speaking at Johns Hopkins on the proposed Walter Hines Page founda- \tion for a school of international relations. Facts! They are easy, if we will pay the very little they cost. Research experts are cheap—much cheaper than advo- cates or propagandists. Practically for their board, if we will endow foundations to pay that, they will dig oud the facts. The harder thing is the mind to heed these facts. 'mindedness is our scarcest quality. Scientists may have it, but they are not our leaders. The clergy exhort, lawyers argue, politicians orate or intrigue, business men “sell” ideas or “talking points,” and journal- ists “play up” a “story’!’—what have these pseudo-mental processes to do with facts? By these we have been trained, and are led and ruled. Fact-mindedness is the last achievement of human enlight- enment. There is no such incorrigible theorist as your self- styled “practical” man. Mr. Young and his associates can get us the facts far faster than we can develop the mind to utilize them. Fact- Another educational foundation which is not seeking funds, but announces that it has them, is the Guggenheim endowment of scholarships. This, too, marks the new emphasis on facts. The Rhodes scholarships are primarily for the culture of men. They seek out young men of promising personality and gather them into England, from all over the world, to profit by its best cultural advantages and return to their own countries equip- ped as leaders of men. new knowledge. Personality dominates in the one case; results in the other. The world will profit by both. ONE WAY OF DOING IT RIGHT It is hard to fit political machin- ery to business methods. Witness two examples, now in the news. The House of Representatives, de- spairing of getting a log-rolled pub- lie building bill signed, finally pro- poses to surrender uncontrolled dis- cretion to the postmaster general and the secretary of the treasury, by appropriating 25 millions a year, for six years, to be spent where and as they please. The Senate may or may not agree. The scheme is at least more en- durable than log-rolling, which, un- der existing methods, is its only al- ternative. But the real business methods, of controlled discretion, will only be possible when Congress is ready to admit cabinet officers to its sessions, to hear and question them, as busi- ness boards do with their executives —and as, for that matter, practically every other national legislative as- sembly in the world does with the executives of its government, The other illustration is the pro- posal of the United States Chamber of Commerce that increases in pos- tal salaries shall be graduated ac- cording to the places where the em- ployes are stationed. That ‘would, of course, allocate most of the increase té the cities, where living is most expensive. Fancy a majority of Congress vot- ing to give benefits to the constit- Most people suffering \from an ‘Organic disease of the heart are not conscious of any pain, Mrs. Jones learned. But pain in and around the heart is frequent with a large number of people, and when felt is a fair warning that something is wrong. The pain may be a symptom of a serious heart trouble or it may be due to one of a great variety of con- ditions having nothing to do with the heart, such as gas in the stom- ach, intercostal neuralgia, muscular rheumatism or pleurisy. Being a bit “puffy” after climbing a flight of stairs may be the result FABLES 0) HEART SYMPTOMS | The Guggenheim scholarships will search out tried specialists, competent to delve for truth, and send them out of America into all the world, to discover and bring back uents of a few of its members which are denied, or granted in less de- gree, to the constituents of most of | its members! LET THEM HAVE IT OUT IN OPEN . “I charge that the Department of Agriculture is lobbying against this bill,” said Senator Ashhurst, in a speech delivered in the Senate, but addressed to the Arizona cattle rais- ers. : } Of course! Lobbying by cabinet officers began in 1790, when Con- gress refused to hear Alexander Hamilton, secretaryof the treasury, explain his finance bill, and rele- gated him to the Jobby, where he and Jefferson (for once agreed, passed the bill by trading the present location of the city of Washington for the necessary votes. It has continued sinc last until Congress inds that original blunder and invites cabinet members out of the lobby on to the floor. Then, visible, responsible leadership. will be substituted for in- and will ' visible, irresponsible influence. Con- gress has chafed under the conse- quence of that mistake for a cen- tury and a third, while practically every other legislative assembly in the world has demonstrated by prac- tical experience that the other sys- tem works better. Let Senator Ashhurst and the sec- retary of agriculture have it out openly, in the Senate, where: the best man and the best cause can win, or the people can find out why aot. IN HEALTH of over weight, nervousness, lack of physical exercise, pleurisy or one of several other conditions. Still it-is wise to investigate. Heart trouble may be at the bottom of it. Swelling of the ankles is a sign which at once suggests a poor cir- culation in the legs. This may be caused by a weak heart, an obstruc- tion in the veins, disease of the kid- heys or anemia. + The swelling usually, is more pro- nounced when the patient has been standing on the feet all day, Often the swelling subsides after a night's rest. . Maker was writing “kites” in his order book. “What word means to spin around and round when unwound from a string—three letters?” went on the March Hare. “Top!” cried everybody just like that. “That’s right,” nodded the hare looking out of the corner of his eye again. The Toy Maker was writing “te in his order book, ‘Let’s see—what is the next” nt on the March Hare. “Oh, yes! What game do boys like to play after school with comies and glass- ies and agates and—” “Marbles!” shouted Nick. The Toy Maker wrote “marbles” in his order book because that was the answer. in the puzzle book, althqugh you may have guessed that he wasn't reading at all—just miaking things up. But lbefore he had finished the Toy Maker had_ written jack-stones, roller- skates, jumping-ropes, _base-balls, bats, fish-hooks, and I don't know what all in his order book: “Good-bye,” said the March Mare. And they all’ walked right in as though they owned the place. “What have you got?” asked the March Hare. “Cross-word puzzles right up te date,” said the Toy Maker over his TIME YOU OUGHT TO THINK VP we AN ALIBt specs. I mean said the Toy Maker looking over his specs. ch Hare looked carefully 1 right, I’ll take one,” if you help me to guess the Toy Maker smil- “Sure,” said the ing. “I'd like to.” Nancy arid Nick thought it queer for s hare to be guessing, crossword puzzles, but they said never a word. He was pretty smart, the hare was, and knew what he was doing. “The first word,” said the March Hare, opening the book to the first puzzle, “says ‘What word in four let- ters means something the children like to fly on = windy day.” “Kite!” cried everybody. “That's right,” said the March Hare, looking, at the Toy Maker out of the corner of his eye, The Toy “We must be going.” “Well, I certainly am glad you stopped in,” said the Toy Maker. “I never thought it was so near spring, land I'll have to hurry up and get all those things we have been talk- ing about. It will keep me hurry- ing.” “No wonder they call me the Mad March Hare,” said the hare when they, were outside. “I can’t help get- ting cross with people. Every year I have to go around and wake. them up and tell them that spring is here. They keep, wishing for it all winter and then when it comes they seem surprised.” “Where do we go to next,” asked Nick, who was having a fine time. “I think we'd better gd and see what the circus is doing,” said the March Hare soberly. (To Be Continued) | (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc:) ness Ae The tirat “expres” elevators. in Germany are now. being operated in the Hotel Excelsior, Berlin, The March Hare went‘on reading | GUM TO AID SCHOOLS Oklahoma City, March 14.—To maintain schools in districts too poor to sypport them, the state legisla- ture is considering a tax on tobacco and chewing gum. It is estimated that the levy would produce more than the amount needed, The most powerful electric search- light in:the world has a range of 50 miles. It is a part of the equipment of the U. S. Lighthouse Service on Staten Island. withdcepj breathing for qui Coucg Hey fever ond ever 3) : Catarrh. At your DRUGGIST MADE BY M'CABE DRUGCO NEKOMA NY my s \ 4 ’ . 4 “ )