The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 16, 1925, Page 4

you warmer. But w PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN Publisher Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH - - Fifth Ave, Bldg. DETROIT Kresge Bldg. NEW YORK MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the or republication of ali 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. 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People love to learn that persons in high places have feet of clay. fF this reason the di 4 ures made in Saturday’s issues of The Tribune relative to the garnishment suits against the Woodrich Construction Jompany are the more regrettable. No doubt when the transactions involved were made th good business deal and donbtless neither of the parties felt -that such business relations would impair their integrity ‘nor fairness in their capacity as councilman. But it is axio- matic that no man can serve two masters at the same time and when personal welfare conflicts with a public fiducia judgment, one of the two must suffer and what would b more human than to take care of Number One first. The records at the city hall will reveal that many of the public officers in the past and some of those in office at present, not only sell to contractors but sell direct to the government of which they are a part. This too, in the face of a specific and clear prohibition of law. Many feel that the law is a sort of a dead letter anyway, or in other word or that both they and the general public have become so cal- | strict loused as to permit the constant breach rather than th observance of the statute. But is this a valid defense? Whatever may have been the state of the public con- science in the past, The Tribune believes that the public ideal has risen to the point where such things will no longer be tolerated. The time has come when men must make up their minds to serve the people faithfully and truly in their fiduciary capacity of public servants. If they feel that their personal business interest will not permit this, then j they must either resign the public office or never aspire to it. No man can serve two masters, and the public servant serves the best interests of his community, if he com- pels such obedience and service. BUSINESS (CAINS IN THE NORTHWEST The trend of busine. in the Northwest continues to be encouraging. The remary e recuperative power “inherent soundne ection of the nation has been proved a hundre 1 n the developments in the North- west since last !1 th deral Reserve Bank of Minne- ; apolis issues 2: t cular letter which gives added cheer to those onditions in the Northwest. The Money value ot busine transacted in the Ninth Federal Reserve District «1 i was one-fifth greater than a « improvement in grain and live- Pe pruary year ago, due large s stock pric Interesting com; sons of the agricultural. prices of February, 1925, and of a year previous are set out. The médian price of hogs in February was $10.50 per hundred- weight as compared with $6.75 a year ago; the median price of Jambs was $16.75, as compared with $13.25 the previous February ; butcher steers advanced in price in the year from $7.25 to $7.50. ‘The median price of No. 1 Dark Northern wheat in February was $1.9154 as compared with $1.271, a year ago. Corn, oats, rye and other agricultural products also showed an increase in price. The gap which existed between the level of agricultura! prices and other commodities has been closed in great de- gree by the increase in the price of farm products.in the Jast year. It is a distinctly encouraging sign. The combi- nation of good prices and good crops has accomplished much. The very fact that so great progress could be made in the Northwest in the recovery from disturbed conditions which existed over a period of years is an indication of what the future may bring. WALTER CAMP PASSES The world of sport lost a grand old figure in the death of Walter Camp. For nearly forty years he has been the outstanding figure and authority in collegiate football, and ..a Notable figure in all amateur sports circles. He exercised great influence in the changes in rules and the conduct of + collegiate and other amateur sports. During all the period when Walter Camp occupied this place of importance, and great influence on the youth of the country, he appeared to be an upright, honest, sincere man, who believed in sports for sport’s sake,’ and who stood only for hard fighting and square dealing. A less upright man might have worked incalculable injury to the youth of the nation in the position ‘Walter Camp occupied. The nation may feel gratified that such a man was the guiding influence in the development of amateur sports. GROWTH ‘oday’s curiosity, tomorrow’s necessity. hone. lew York’s first phone directory; in 1879, was a small containing 252 names. The telephone then was in its ‘stages. Just something ‘“different”—a luxury. Forty- Consider the 8 ve years later more than 3000 times that number of names were listed, in a book of five pounds and 2000 pages. The universality of the telephone has created an import- it industry in the production of the directories alone. In few York 100 men and women toil the year around on its preparation. wood is bei: used for wool. They claim it keeps alcohol will make you-colder. y appeared solely as a | and the} | Editorial Review _ Comments reproduced tn this columa may or ma: not express the opinion of The ‘Tribune. | Thay are presented here STILL AT IT hy Despite its own experience and experience of the contiguous 3 of Minnessta and South Da- state: kota in the busi f farm loans North Dakota ¢ anes to put the cr of the state behind such ' This is e ent by the an- nouncement that $2,000,000 more oi will be offered to on or before ndicated ig 434 4; will be soli doubt as to the tor ies state which have with and ayers, overy money, rai by these Hond loaned on ta lands. That xjti a pol ! owiedge of in selecting ap unquestioned or to the ex Dakota did—mor 2 wag un Actual! ne irapair edit saved the tate money! |} Now, un a law just enacted tate ban are required to carry | of their |and the state bank \proached as to t willingness {to invest ag law permits | the If they do, erest will jremain in tate and prove less lof a dr re the bonds dis posed of the past, In the} | Rastern mi markets. But un [16 ager is given the lift it | must will dis- | cover that fit idea th even remain wit 4 COSTLY interest uxury, though @sms NSYSAYS Los Angeles news today. Man larank mere Will recover. Won- |der if he will be taller in hot weath- Hees | Gibbons will fight Wills. . They want someone for Dempsey to fight. |We suggest the income tax collec- | tor. In Oklahoma a plumber was 5 There for five be they h y pipe. j to the pen. | may rs. al Spring floods are with us. Cause to the new bathing suits, er to come to the aid of the farm- \ers | Now, is the time for all good weath- | sheika are passing. An Egyptian tells us real sheiks are considered boobs, Same here, In Central Africa fatness is con- | sidered beauty. This is where the cannibals love their fellow men, * The Scotch average nearly an inch taller than the Irish. But then the Irish were kept down for 700 years, When an auto kicks back and breaks a man’s arm it is merely trying to replace the horse The Swiss have two women judges. That’s a new item. We have millions who think they are judges of women. That's a fact. Bad Indiana news. Her accidents ure increasing. These are real acci- dents, not new poems. When a man loses his temper there is always someone around who will help him find it. all players at training camps are suffering from sunburn. That is the skin you hate to touch, i A married man who knows said to us, “An eagle on the hat is worth ubout ten on the dollar.” 4 Wall Street broker is broke. Lost more than a million. One who fish- es is liable to lose his bait. You can't judge a movie name. by its Look where you are going. The Chinese have watched their noses a long time without getting any- rvice, Inc.) In New York | —- + New York, March 16.—-See-saw- ing up and down Broadway I saw A. Hamilton Gibbs, author of ‘Sound- ings,” just over from England and hunting for quarters in Greenwich Village. He's a brother of Sir Philip Gibbs and Cosmo Hamilton Saw Tim Murphy, back on Broadway after a long absence. Remembered here for “The Texas Steer,” which was written especially for him Saw David Davidovitch Burliuk has 40 fancy waistcoats and a fancy earring to match each.......... Saw Theodore Dreiser looking a bit under the weather......... »++.. Saw Neysa MeMein, proud mother and noted artist. . Saw Sidney Blackmer, the actor, who has the softest voice of any man on Broadway...... Saw Eugene Brewster, the magazine pub- lisher, resplendant im a green suit w (Copyright, 1925, NEA ¢ ' t perhaps, by the wild waters rushing! THE BISMARCK TRIB | “Now Then, Let Em Fight It Out!” | | | tripes Saw Rudo from Californ: | ready to write more tunea for | musical shows and phonographs Sa® Car! Van Doran, the author who has haircut like no other except his brother, Mark young Mr. Crane who ¢ ington Tubbs,” the com a very quiet, modest are most of the fellows who the roistering figures of Saw Olaf Fon on of the king of ‘to study stage and screen for hi ‘ernment. - He's another of thes lows who keeps fam: tance by wearing a monocle. Hs en street car | | iss , cops cha r hats windows, Coney Island sub mmed on Sunday, girls jumping rope, boys marbles, and I ‘know spring has come, tra, la! The girl who made the first drap-d turban hat, one of those little affa | put together by wrapping ong pifce of cloth around a working in the millinery d of a Fifth Avenue departm Many men became wealthy those hats, but the girl who originat- ed the idea got nothing. ore You can still see a bit of Old > York a step or two off Fifth nui ri in East Thirty-fourth al old frame buildings architecture of 1470 » do the passage leads to a court in the where several scraggly \The first floors are occuy stores and the upper floors are « pied as apartments but have no mo- jdern conveniences. I saw an old- | fashioned oil lamp burning in a win- dow the other night. Plans have al- ready been made to erect a modern office building on the s If the present rate of growth of commerce in Manhattan continues there will be no residential section below Central Park 25 years hence. —JAM (Copyright, 1925, trees | get my wife on the wire. making NOTE WRITTEN BY LESLIE PRES- COTT AND ENCLOSED WITH OTHERS TO JOHN AL- DEN PRESCOTT losed plea: find letters sent you #s per instruction, Although you told me to open your ail and telegraph you if there was nything important, I have, however, the liberty to send all > I opened first, as I was ight find others that I am ure you did not intend me to Sincerely, Telephone Message to Manager of Traymore Hotel, Atlantic City s this the manager of the Tray- John Alden Prescott. I ave been trying all the morning to She is | staying with her two children and four servants at your hotel. “What do y, She checked Surely you must be Why, I was to meet her morrow and go back to Pitts burg with her. Did her friend, Mrs. | Burke, go with her? “Oh, she told you that she had news that made her immediate de- parture ne ry. “Departure, departure for where? Did she just leave your hotel? Is he still in atlantic City? “What is that you say? She didn’t tell you where she was going? simply went in her automobile and told you she would send for her bag- gage later. “Thank you, that is all.” Letter From Leslie Prescott to the Little Marquise, Care The Secret Drawer At last, little Marquise, after months of ecstacy and pain of mis- understanding and belief that at las, I did understand, of great joy and great agony, I am here alone with cons DH MY AR so SOON BY CONDO DON'T You Reman. PeR MSE 1% Was INTRODUCED To Yo A: COUPLE or } DAYS ASO. my NAME 1S RoBert SRECN,: FORBGvVeE MGS THAT T SHOULD -opened with the exception| Marquise, all a !SLIE HAMILTON PRESC (piu, [ane i 4 MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1925 ! ’ U. S. Has Too Few Like McCormick, By Chester H. Rowell Meédill McCormick, frail of body, variable of tempera- | ment, brilliant of mind, man of knowledge, culture and world | acquaintance, heir to wealth and opportunity which he used | patrictically in the public service, intensely right in Most things, persistently wrong in some, is dead, burned out at 4%. | Even those who opposed him will mourn him. America has too few of his sort and can ill spare perhaps the most | promising of them, a quarter of a century before his time. |” There might be one compensation. If Senator McCor | mick’s place, not necessarily in office, but in the larger public life, could be taken by his even more brilliant widow, Ruth Hanna McCormick, that might become a real public asset. This unswerving progressive daughter of the greatest stand-patter of them all and widow of one of the most inter- esting of modern statesmen, may yet be heard from in her | own right. | Guston Borglum and the Stone Mountain Memorial Com- mittee are at outs —doubtless the inevitable clash of the> artistic and business temperaments. F They will settle their difference, by such lawsuits or com- promises as they please, and in due time they and all who knew them will be dead, and a little later forgotten, But meantime, under one sponsorship or another, the | great monument must be completed. This geneyation can not afford to let it go down to posterity a fragment, com- memorating only our incapacity to finish what we began. For this monument, with the other planned in honor of the Union, will be the most permanent human thing on this planet. It will literally outlast the geologic ages. Further into the future than the Neanderthal man is in the past, through a period of longer than the whole evolution of man, from his subhumanfancestors until! SE tand as the h glorified, Better men could not do it, with- out that organization. Until Con- guess, by reorganization, makes itself an operable institution, nobody will want it in extra sessions, even when there is work for it to do. now, that monument will s last record of the age wai | war. Archaeologis century will describe it as o ja little later than the Egyptians.” Even longer, if the earth's crust] |nas now reached relative stability, it | may outlast Man, and even life it Thousandth fa period) of the GET AWAY FROM “MERENESS” Theodore Roosevelt was of the 4 you, the confidante of my most se-) cret and sacred thoughts. When |I left this house some months ago it was after a quarrel with Jack. I have passed through many quarrels with him since then and I have come back u alone, more so than wh away T have alr told you, litele/ those letters of | Jack's that I read at Atlantic Ci _ letters which again made me unde stand how in ible it is for Jack to-be true to me under any circum am I going to do about it I don’t know. (Copyright, ADVENTURE OF | THE TWINS . BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON GETTING THE CIRCUS STARTED! The March Hare took the Twins to the place where the circus was, away down south. They sat on his back and he cover- ed the ground with leaps and bounds until he got there. Down south it was summer andj the circus was very comfortable— although it wasn’t doing anything. It was just sitting still, you might say, in winter quarters, Now jump off,” said the March Hare. “I've business to attend to.” Then when the Twins were off, he put on his glasses and took out @ little book and began to turn the pages very fast. “Where's the manager?” he said to the gate man. “In there,” said the gate man pointing over his shoulder with his thumb. “Come on,” called the March Hare to the Twins. “We're going in.” “Hi, theref’’ called the man. “You're not allowed—” “Fairy Queen’s orders,” said the March Hare shortly, and the three of them went right along without any more words, ; Pretty soon they came to a tent with a sign over it. The sign said, “Circus Manager— His Tent,” so in they marched with- out knocking, How could you knock on a tent! “Hello, look who's here!” cried the Cireus Manager. “Are you looking for a job, my friends? Have you got a new act?” 'No,” said the March Hare, look- ing sharply over his glasses, “but it’s time you were acting, my dear sir.” “What! Me act!” cried the Circus Manager. “Why I never did such a thing.” “Well then, start something,” said the March Hare. “Children, tell this! gentleman what we have been do- ing.” A Service, Inc.) jetting spring started,” said the Twins together. “Well, you’re queer ones,” laughed the Circus Manager, “And now I suppose you think you are going to get me started. Is that it?” “Yes,” said the March Hare look- ing into his book again. “The snow is off the ground up north’ and soon it will be all green. The children be playing out of doors and the first; thing they will think of is a cir- cus, Are the elephants scrubbed?” “No,” said the Circus Manager. ‘But I guess you are right. It takes a month to get a circus ready to start. We'll scrub them at once,” “Are the clown suits washed?” asked the March Hure next, “No,” said the Circus Manager shaking his head. “There's a- big washing to do,’ |self. Some future ga ked expe- dition from Venus, ten million years} hence, may photograph it as the onl surviving document of the creature. that once inhabited the now and airless planet It may have been foolish to unaer- take a thing so stupendous and destructible, and so artistically d putable, but, having put our h it, we dare not turn back. NOBODY DOUBTS IT, BUT— Senator Borah proves that ought to be an extra session of| | Congress. There is work to be done| which can not be done now and ought not to wait until next year. Nobo#@y' doubts that. The trouble} nobody believes that an! ion of Congress would re. is that also xtra lieve i Congress doubtless does not de-| serve all of its reputation, but it de-| serves some of it, And the trouble is not, as we are likely unjustPy to! suppdse, chiefly with congressmen. It is Congress. Congressmen are} good, bad and. indifferent, just —as| they always were and always will be. They could do the work, if they| were organized for it. is uncommon, This statement is made in the face of a popular con- ception that persons, suffering heart trouble, are likely to die at any mo- ment. This conception has been built up because sudden death is so spectacu- lar that it makes good news, and newspapers “play up the story.” There are certain types of heart disease in whice death may come very abruptly, but these form a very small group as compared with the total number of cardiac cripples. As a rule heart patients, even when they do badly, carry their de- fect for many years, and in the end there was so much to do. I dfdn’t think spring was so near up north. It’s a good thing you came.” And he hurried away. But he called back, “I don't know where my clowns’ are. They don’t stay here in winter, but act on the stage.” “We'll get them,” said the March Hare, “Then get Bimbo first,” said the man. Away they went. (To Be Continued). (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) TO TRY FOR KAPPA PSI OMICRON Grand Forks. N. D.. March 16,— Fifty girls were scheduled to try out for membership in Kappa’ Psi Omicron, public speaking society for women, at 1:30 Saturday afternoon at the state university. Three-min- ute speeches are being given by each speaker. FABLES ON HEALTH _ HEART ATTACKS Sudden death from heart diseasey From morning until evening th Gust a-flying through the alr. cme wallow in their play, are men who ‘They pile their bricks in as you know, are ward come moth er knows, “Is the calliope cleaned out so that it’s last note doesn’t squeak when you play a tune in the parade?” “Not yet, sir!” “And are the gold wagons all painted up and oiled and have the horses. new shoes and has the bal- loon man—” ‘That's enough, sir,” almost shout- ed the Circus Manager. “I forgot avin: ‘AY, I'd lke to catch the fellow w! 7 now ot how ais feel about Foul ‘doubt er ble ts, and if you hi bunch .of yor ly this trade, thet eects un wallways that will tempt a tiny Wont to climb. Tommy. Then they do it, like as not, and they're the youngsters who have helped to Ste tl a ae ne a the. ’ stuff right in, opinion that the “mere lawyer” was not superior to, but rather the in erior of, the “mere” dentist or mere” bricklayer as a public official, Dodtbtless he would have preferred sqmething beyond, the “mere” grade of any sort. Certainly the “mere” politician, though not the most in- competent, is decidedly the mos | dangerous of all. Ald the “mere” publicist. who in library has studied, it all out, is | likely to be an invaluable assistant, | but a useless leader. The best thing is to get away from “merene: of any sort. But that is not easy, in this day of specialism, when we absolutely must act on ex- pert knowledge, and the man who is not a “mere” something in particular | is likely to be nothing in general. It is sometimes a choice between the rank amateurs, who know noth- ing about anything, and the “mere” specialists, who know everything about something and nothing about anything else. Only .once ‘in a while we find a Roosevelt, who is-an intelligent ama- teur of everything and something more than a “mere” expert in some- thing. the changes are very slow an ual. Fainting spells are not always due to heart disease. There is a car- diae condition in which fainting is a prominent symptom. But this con-' dition is rare. Headaches, nausea, dizziness, in- somnia, weariness and fevers may possibly be caused from 3 weak heart, but the chances are that these are. caused from some other disabli- ty. About the only safe course for a person in doubt is to consult a repu- table physician. His tests can tell if there is: something wrong with the heart, and he can advise what to do to remedy the situation, if there be a remedy. . \d grad- « SS | A Thought | -—— I believed not the words, until I came, and mine cyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity ex- ceedeth the fame which I heard.— 1 Kings 1 The ‘temple of fame stands upon the grave; the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ‘ashes of dead men.—Hazlitt, OUNCE OF PRECAUTION REILLY—Step up here, O'Brien, and let me have a good look at ye. O’BRIEN— What's the idea? REILLY—I've got ie insuitin’ things to say to ye, an’ I want te be able later on to identify ye posi- tively ag the man ‘who-shtruck me, Life. ho invented paving-streets, it, ‘The trouble that it brings yous ave ‘some youngsters, you won't are digging up the clay, like a. Seqreeed “We'll build a house,” says busy from the morn te Dave the, There's upon their feet Gag is troublesome and yet | Fe clad to use the highway whed it’s paved. . 4