The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 17, 1925, Page 4

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THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) (Official City, State and County Newspaper) THE WATER REPORT The adherents and friends of the city administration crowd in an effort to elect A. P. Lenhart next April are claiming that the Bismarck Association of Commerce en- dorsed and approved the report on the city water depart- ment which was presented by some of the commissioner and signed by A. P. Lenhart. This is unqualifiedly fal: The Bismarck Association not in polities and never ap- proved nor endorsed the report in any manner or in any particular. Such is the position taken by its responsible officers. What the Bismarck Association of Commerce did do was merely to act as an agent without approval or action on the contents of this document. President Fred L. Conk- lin of the association wrote the city commission asking them for a full and complete report on the water depart- ment. In response, the directors of the association received a document which was framed by interested parties, signed by the president of the city commission in his personal character with his official title appended, submitted to the board of directors of the Associati on of Commerce, read to them for their personal information, and without investiga- tion, approval or alteration transmitted by the commercial body to the city press with a request that it be printed. Thereafter, the president of the city commission submit- ted it to his board where it was steam rollered through as the “official” document of the city commission over the protest of Comm mer H. A. Thompson and despite the admission of Commissioner J. P. French that he had only heard it read at the meeting of the association of commerce of which he is a director and Commissioner John A. Larson that he knows nothing of it except a small portion read at the meet ing of the city commission last week. LET US KEEP THE RECORD STRAIGHT! ST. PATRICK’S DAY In the heart of every Irishman the shamrock holds a tender spot. Dear it is to the children of Mrin and in return it always blooms for them on every hill, valley and in every field on St. Patrick’s morning. There are many tales and legends told concerning this little plant and of the prickly, flowering blackthorn. It is told that when St. Patrick came to Ireland, to preach the gospel, King Laeghaire ruled at Tara. He was a stub- born adversary of the doctrines of Christianity. Laeghaire refused to believe in the mystery of the trin- ity. Although he had been brought to a point where he be- lieved the doctrines at least partly, the mystery of the trin- ity was an obstacle. St. Patrick, it is told, tried often to explain the mystery to the king, but could make no progress, the pagan king job- stinately refusing to believe the doctrine of three in one. One day while preaching before Laeghaire, without ap- parent success, St. Patrick beheld at his feet the little sham- rock plant. Stooping down he picked a spray and carried it to the king, showing him the three leaves on one stem, yet all a part of it. And the story goes that King Laeghaire immedi- ately embraced Christianity. Many other legends are recalled on St. Patrick’s day when the little shamrock is the greenest. There is a story that once St. Patrick was caught in a blizzard and hurrying to shelter, found himself beneath a blackthorn bush. No sooner had he gotten under the bush than the snow melted and a multitude of beautiful blossoms covered the bush. Now despite inclement weather the blackthorn blooms on St. Patrick’s morn, being one of the few bushes whose blooms precede the coming of its leaves. The blackthorn grows all over Ireland, but is especially fond of Tipperary soil. Perhaps the blackthorn of shillalah is often called “the Tipperary rifle” for this reason. FEET Paris is forever doing something new. Now it is announced that, in order better to show off some of the fantastic looking shoes now fashinobale in the French capital, dance floors are being raised to bring the dancers’ ankles on a level with the diners’ eyes. That’s not so foolish as it sounds. Most of us like to dance ourselves or watch others dance. And as the dancers’ feet are—or should be—the principal objects of interest, the idea of raising them to eye level will be an accommodation to spectators, CHEAPER Railroad managements are reducing cost of transporta- tion, according to figures compiled from 161 reports from 176 steam roads. Cost per freight train mile in November, 1924, was $1.57. In November, 1928, the cost was $1.65. 4 Costs per passenger train mile for the same periods were, respectively, 84 and 90 cents. A If this keeps on—who knows?—maybe we'll have a re- duction in freight rates and fares., TREES _. The week of April 27 is National Garden Week, set by the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. It is also Forest Protection Week. : : The American Tree Association of Washington wants you to celebrate the centennial of Arbor Day in 1972 by “planting trees now. As part of its educational campaign it _ wants thousands of new members in the tree-planting army. if For a two-cent stamp it will send you tree-planting sug- 4 oxy and a tree-day program. It is an army all might Publisher j 6.00 | i Editorial Review Comments reproduced ta Di columa may of may not fa the upinicn of The Tribune. ‘sy a@re presented here iu order that " wey WRIE — DYUNTANK Tis WORTH WALE TO Our readers may bave bor sides of important issues which are bolng discussed iu the prese of the day, “THE DO NOTHING SESSION” 2 ry | (Peoples Opinion of Valley City) | Many of the papers of the state |have been referring to the 19% | session of the North Dakota legis lature as “THE DO NOTH SESSLO: ome of the | howeve © taking to such statements and We trust that |soon Some of those members who are so proud of their record will AOvERcosy ‘PRESSED AGAIN Ng ay come out and enlighten the pecple | ring to the Independ- enty or the Leaguers, as there is no difference. It was a case of the pot calling the kettle back all through the session, Any measure introduced by the League was forthwith opposed by the Inde- pendents and measure intro r P duced or sponsored te Inde . n pendents forthwith ew the fire Granteanvengiers cer NelNee IMHCHOR Wel. Sweetie, | BELEVE ILL knew the meaning of the word Gat OUT TAE OLD GOLF CLUBS HARMONY nor did they wish any AND SHINE ‘EM UP » of that brand in polities. It was polities pure and simple with ‘both factions, both sparring for position for two years hence, Lota trying to make medicine that could be used for themselves and ainst che other factions in 19 ‘The ‘League and the |. V. A. has outlived their usefulness in North Dakota and until both factions are relegated to the rear there will be no harmony or reul prosperity in North Dako ta. There is*neet of a Repwolican Party, we co not need an Independ ent Republican Party, Republican or a League 4 Fusion Re- publican Democrs but just a plain Kepublics ! function for the r and one th wional P: at the of our state tion with the to he hoped t LETTER FROM LE of the siate anc her people alone and fot function merely for poli-;2"4 Pe thaps in a little while I'll go racing along again, becoming more and more battered until at last some day I will be thrown upon the shore of despair--old and useless, Oh, little Marquise, how I wish you could send me some communics [tion from that land where you jnow. I don’t think I am uniqu |}among women. Others of my , have passed through what I am pas:- jing through now, otherwise our | newspapers and divorce courts would not be filled with the sensational protests of embittered women. If I were free, if I had no children for whom I was responsible, I would go away, and as the fashionable novel of today has it, “I would live my own life.” Now, I think I would live it just as John has been living tical and personal place and pow er. MA SIMS ‘SAYS In Cedar Rapids, Ia., a mother and r daughter eloped and were mar- ried on the same day, this being a sign of spring. A Wykoff (N. J.) couple have been married 75 years. If you think this is easy to do just try it yourself. a of the state to just what they “ netonrAlened: Le intrle etheyere ‘eoNouThnx, pealed the old cigarette law and | ‘ IE NEED To enacted a their only de- | ORDER ANY fense of ¢ ure is that it \ MORE Car will bring some revenue to the state, revenue pmed their only ; abject at However in| The Tangle : ” Re ICE MAN WU: A®oun’ ASTIN’ 90 YOu WANT HIM To BRING ICE AGAIN TAS Yeaa © “ Jows,) SenT autour LiGAT WEIGHT CLOMES Te CLEANERS aay Legislature of 1925 wil, arouse the PRESCOTT his -oh, | am not quite sure if that people of the state and bring forth TO THE LITTLE MARQUISE, — | he true or not, but I am so hurt that again the OLD PARTY, the REAL CARE OF THE SECRET I want to hurt John as much as he PARTY, not the OLD GANG or the DRAWER, CONTINUED has hurt me. GLD GUARD, but men who are Re] Just now, little Marquise, I do) Here [ am, though, with a young publican at heart and have the real {not seem to care if Jack is true to baby in my arms, whose father is interests of their state at heart./me or not. He seems a stranger.|John Alden Prescott. Every chord Let us have a party guided by My brain and heart are numb, I/of my life is bound to my husband. who are willing to work for th can't even remember how he looks, | My father has made kim the cu terests of the State and Nation Perhaps after a while my heart) todian of my mother’s and iy prop- not all for self. Let us have a ‘will ache again and my brain will|erty. Dad evidently thought that party that will stand for Political (try to understand, but now I am|we were to be together until dea Party principies and do away just a kind of a log in the mill-race| parted us. I don’t see how I ea this factional or pers of life which is still for a moment out from under. 1 haven't the gandist. Then let us because it has rolled up against e or the strength of character the legislature who ('{ something which holds it. The mad|to end it all. their sixty days in enacting und re-| waters of consciousness are begin-| I told Ruth, little Marquise, be- pealing laws for the best interests} ning to swirl about me, however,|cause I knew that she had been th ugh this experience with Harry Ellington. I asked her what I should do, I knew that she took a long while before she decided to divorce her first husband, even when she was in love with Walter Bur! There is no men on th that I care for, little my husband at present ed with bated bre: Ruth would advise me to do, She said.she could not advise me. She told me I imust follow my own impulse—my own reasoning. I am not able to think, little Mar- quise, I do not even feel very much. T am only able to live from day to day. —not even and 1 wait- h to hear what Your unhappy, LESLIE. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) In New York, a prominent min-| other day many stopped in wonder. ister has resigned. Quit the church.| Newspapers were bought and the But he may not go where some| front pages scanned for news of think he should, great importance. = Finding nothing unusual in the Congress has adjourned. Left a] papers some made their way to the lot of bills. Wish we could adjourn tabernacle. There they learned that and leave our bills. Henry Percell, humble sexton who had heralded the march of the world for 40 years, was dead and the bell was tolling for him. Postmen are making more money now, but not enough to hurry through with their walking so they eae aa ean play golf. y For four weeks he waited in a hallway and took the cream off two bottles of milk left in the early hours by the milkman, Also he took two crullers from the bag left each morning by the baker. Weeks later while calling on a young lady her mother remarked that she was glad that the milk and doughnut thief . was leaving her alone. More weeks More than likely half these people | later, and the milk thief and the girl criticizing congressmen wouldn’t do| were married and the mother was much better if they were there. told of the identity of her son-in-law, —_— Today the milk thief is a successful man, well known and popular in the | newspicture business. Being good at argument has one disadvantage. You prove to yourself the other fellow is wrong, even when be is right. Bad news from Paris. The French have caught Germany making them another offer of some kind. Now that New York has an Amer- ican Grand Opera Company maybe it will hire a singer with a United Bek Sacre States name, f Mike Cassaza, a taxi chauffeur, once broke his arm cranking a ma- chine. The other day his car stalled in the middle of traffic at Eighth avenue and Thirty-fourth street and despite the imprecations of a traffic cop and other drivers he refused to touch a hand to the crank. He kick- ed it till the engine started. Prominent actress married again. Her fifth time. They swear off mat- rimony as we swear off sméking, Your luck may bé bad, but in Des Moines, Ia., & woman has taught school for & They are wearing socks of many colors. Some day maybe we can wetr socks of different colors. The world’s a stage. full dress rehearsal. A Broadway theatrical man loaned a friend a large sum of money with the understanding that it was to be returned on a certain date, The theatrical man went abroad and went broke at Monte Carlo. He wanted to collect the debt but did not want to cable a direct demand for it. After some thought he wired his friend just one word, “Well?” The friend wired back, “Well, well!” —_—_________—___6 | In New York | ee ONES Adc -————@| The superintendent of the upart- ment house in which I live tells me New York, March 17.—Only a doz-|that 90 per cent of his troubles in en times in the past 40 years has the|the past year have been caused by great bell in the Broome Street Ta-| radio. “When the new families mov- bernacle tolled, The man who, toll-| ed in the first of October there was ed it those years was Henry Pércell.|a great scramble. for positions for + The last time till now was Nov. 11,| aerials on the roof. There are 32 1918, when peace for the world was| radios in this building sand almost acclaimed, It tolled when America| everyone has a wire on the roof, entered the war. It rang its dirge| There was a fist fight up there the for the sinking of the Lusitania. other night when one man caught The booming of the bell always has} another hooking a wire on meant the coming to pass of some| aerial” great occasion of which the whole Sunday’s a An optimist is a man who starts out to work a crossword puzzle with pen and ink instead of a pencil. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) —JAMES W. DEAN. { [roe knew, So when it rang the | (Copyright, 3925, NEA Service, Inc.) | . \ his]. ee F A Thought | — coke By long forbearing is a prince per- suaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.—Prov, If thou wouldst be borne with bear with others.—Fuller. | We'll Give You Three Guesses at What Is Coming | No ” WELL FOLKS =) DONT BELIEVE WE'LL MAFIA RENEW Tie ANTI FREEZE MXTURE IN OUR RaialoRs * ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON | | BIMBO THE CLOWN us Manager to “Yes,” said the Ci the March Hare and the Twins, “It’ is time for the circus to get read: for spring, so it eun go around to the cities and let people see it. Wil! you please find my clowns for me. Bimbo is the best clown of all. You’d better look for him first.” “We'll go at once,” said the March Hare, putting his book away and folding up his glasses. children, jump on my back and we'll be off.” Away they went to look for Bimbo, the clown. First they went to the Hippodrome ; a great theater in New York wher people do all sorts of acts, “Is Bimbo here?” the March Hare; asked the man at the ticket office. The man was so accustomed to se:- ing and hearing strange things in a place where people were always do- ing and saying strange things, that he thought nothing of it when a large hare, larger than any Jack Rabbit he had ever seen, suddenly spoke to him in plain English. “No, he was here two weeks ago, but he’s gone,” said the man, “You might try the Million Dollar Theater in Cleveland.” “Thank you,” said the March Hare, “Hop on again, children, There is no time to lose, and from New York to Cleveland is quite a step.” Away they. went, the three of them, down Broadway until they came to the end of New York. Then they swam a river—a great wide one—as easily as you can slide. down the end of a bath tub. For with so much magic along, one can do anything, really. “Come on,; is in favor of it. district in the United States, tled it. ;tion becomes grotesque. It is creditors, not debtors, that drag debts into courts. And, in the court, if it were possible to get it there, nothing could be considered but the legal validity of the debt, which is not questioned by the French themselves. The sentimental are described even by those who make them as “political.” Thev might be considered by a political, but not by a judicial tribunal. | Besides, neither France nor Amer- iea can be got into that court except by its own consent. ‘And France does not have to go into any court to avoid paying debts. All it has to do is just not ‘pay them, H There is nothing the world court could do about the French debt - or, if there were, it would have to be on our side. counter-claims The Chicago Tribune advocates per cent beer, on the ground that “in common usage it is not intox- icating; in abnormal usage it might be.” It would decrease bootlegging and stop- much drinking of poisonous liquor. So the Tribune asks, “Why not?” The real question is not “Why?” but “How?” Even conceding for the sake of the argument that the Tribune’s 3 per cent beer would be desirable— how are you going to get it? | That is, until the 13 dryest states ‘give their consent to a change of the Constitution? The Constitution prohibits intoxi- ating liquors. Congress can act nly within the limits of that Con- titution, and the Supreme Court has already declared that it can enact no law permitting what the amendment prohibits—that is, intoxicating liq- uers. The Tribune itself concedes that 3 per cent beer could be intoxicating in what it calls “abnormal usage,” but everybody knows that this is ex- actly the “usage” to which thou- | sands of people would put it. For that matter, whisky is not in- They Know What Nation Wants By Chester H. Rowell toxicating, either, unless you drink too much of it. “Why, from reading this book one is likely to come to the conclusion that all of us are sirrounded by deadly disease germs,” Mrs. Jones declared, looking up at her husband. “Not only that,” replied Mr. Jones, but many of us have the germs crawling all over us. They get in our eyes, and mouth and nose and—” “Oh, sure, sure,” exclaimed Mrs. Jones, “but not all of them are dangerous. “Some of these tiny microbes are animals, and some of them are of the plant kingdom, and only a few are really dangerous. “Some are friends of man. How could one flavor butter, make vinegar, or wine even, if it Were not FABLES ONHEALTH GOOD GERMS AND BAD Any citizen, or even any editor, has the right personally ‘to be opposed to the world court, but there can at least be no longer any question that the predominant public opinion When the House of Representatives, composed of men just returned from campaigning among the people in every went out of its way to vote 302 to 28 for a resolution advocating the court, that set- These congressmen might conceivably be wrong, on the | abstract merits of the proposition, but they can not conceiv- ably be mistaken as to what the people think about it. And when public argument finally sinks to the bugaboo ‘that France might drag us into the world court to get out {of its debt to us, the intellectual ‘barrenness of the opposi- Either any beer with a “kick” is intoxicating, or else whisky is not. And as to kickless beer, nobody cares whether its kicklessness is of the half per cent or the three-fourths per cent variety. So the question is not “Why not?” but “How do it?” And the answer is, “You can’t.” Not until the,13 dryest states con- sent to a change of the Constitution. And that is at least for the life of this generation. : A Defect to Be Remedied Now we have a president and vice president, and everybody, even those who voted against them, is satisfied. No administration within the memory of any one now living ever entered on its responsibilities with such universal good will, It is all so easy and acceptable that we take it as a matter of course, But it isn’t. Only a few short months ago, we were in the throes of a real fear that we might have no president at all. If the vote had gone as earl. the campaign looked easily po: that might have been our exact situ- ation at this moment. Doubtless the realization of that fact, was one of the reasons for the overwhelming character of the Coolidge victory. Thousands, perhaps millions, voted for their second choice, for fear that a Vote for their first choice might result in no choice. We escuped that. But the me- chanical defect in the Constitution which made it possible is still the Some other election may see a three-cornered difference of opinion too irreconcilable to be compromised merely, to make a mechanism me- chanically workable. When the old electoral mechanism broke down, with the development of a two-party system, our fathers revised it to fit. e should make haste now to re- vise it against the possibility of breaking down under a three-purty system. The only safe machinery of elec- tion is one which will elect under any system. for the small bacteria which pro- duce fermentation? “The really dangerous kind of bacteria are those which have formed the habit of living off the human body. . “And science has learned how to fight these. It has learned that these parasites, if removed from the body, do not know how to make a living. “Some have learned to live in milk, when kicked out of the human body, but in water, dust, earth and air most of them die quickly. “Water often is blamed for ty- phoid fever. Ahd the fever can be caught from drinking water, but if it is, it is because the water is drank before the germs have had time to die.” And then off they went like the] along Euclid avenue until they came] good’ turn out. Everything’ went wind again, and after while they reached Cleveland. And then they went lippity loppity EVERETT TRUE ' BY CONDO = THAT'S “HOMO R ESQUE ” YOU'RE WHISTLING. Do You ANTON DVORAK WROTE THAT HE WROTE THE PIANO! DAY 'T FOR ru Bite — WHAT DID_HE IXNOW WHAT to the Million Dollar: Theater. “Is Bimbo the Clown here?” the March Hare asked the ticket man. “Yes, he’s here. He is back in the dressing room now getting ready for his act,” said ‘the man, “Come,” said the March Hare and he marched right in and went through a big red velvet room all hung with pictures and crystal lights as though he owned the place. He pushed open a glass door and walked down the aisle of the theater followed by the Twins. Then up onto the stage he climbed and pushed back the edge of the big curtain and squeezed in—the Twins still following, “Where’s Bimbo?” he asked. A man in his shirt sleeves pulling at a rope, looked over his shoulder. “First dressing room,” he answered. On went the Hare. He was a most determined person, so it is easy to see why the Fairy Queen chose him to help her to get things started. Bimbo was just putting on his white paint when his door opened and in walked the March Hare and the Twins. “Hello, here,” said Bimbo, “Are you a new act? : “No,” answered thé Hare. , “But they will be needing’ one. You'll have to leave at once and come with me. It’s circus time.” “You don’t say! cried Bimbo jumping up and looking at a calen- dar on the wall. “Why so it is.” “Would you rather be there than here?” asked Nancy in surprise. “Oh, boy! Would 1?” cried Bimbo. “You just bet!” (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) BRITTIN—March 11 Mr. Elvin-Hoover who has been sick is improving fast. ° ; Mr. Clarence Hoover was a Brit: tin caller Saturday. 3 Route No. 1 out of Moffit has changed drivers. The new driver h: @ new car. ent Es ) The preaching has stopped in the Buchanan ‘school, The people were sorry to see them go. The sale of Will McCurry was a high but the horses, Mr, McMurrick has gone to Idaho. His wife is going later. We all hope they will like their new home. Mr. Jason Hoover and wife went to a dance at Swanson’s last Satur- day night. Mr, Fred Moffit is going to have a dance the 20th of March. SELECTIVITY ‘Two Emporia men were discus- sing their radio. Said one: “Ours is the best little set in the world. The other night we got Los Angeles and Havana.” . “Well,” said the other, “ours ts a selective set. I heard a violin and banjo playing Sunday night at Pittsburgh and I tuned out the vio- lin.”"—Emporia Gazette. SaaS Safe Fat Reduction Why be fat? The answer of most fat people is that constant dieting is hard, continual exercise is tire- some and exhaustive—and then, too, it might be harmful to ‘force the weight down. That was the oli- fashioned idea. Today in mola Prescription Tablets all these dif- ficulties are overcome. 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