The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 19, 1925, Page 4

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Sele sles chine op URED 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) DETROIT Kresge Bldg. ALGEBRA Professor L. G. Simons of Hunter College, New York, in a bulletin issued by the U. S. Bureau of Education, quustions the necessity and practical value of algebra as‘a study. Arithmetic, he says, is “an important subject for prac- tical reasons,” but “we must seek some other reason” for tha introduction of algebra into American education. Algebra, however, is not the only study which practic- ality is being questioned and whose inclusion in school cur- ricula is largely a matter of tradition. There are, for ex- ample, the so-called “dead languages.” “Mind training” and a certain cultural value are their chief merit. But there is no reason why culture and suffi- cient brain exercise cannot be tied up with subjects of more practical worth. The day is not far distant when the “prerequisites” such as Latin and certain forms of mathematics, will be elective rather than compulsory in evan our most hidebound institu- tions of learning. INSTINCT Wonder what wonderful things we could do if, in addi- tion to our five normal senses, we possessed another — in- stinct. Newspapers tell you about Scottie, a collie dog, who walked all tha way from Los Angeles to North Dakota. His master last spring had motored out to Los Angeles and de- cided to stay. But Scottie didn’t know it, and one day, when the family was out for a ride, he concluded they had gone back home. So Scottie pointed his nosa eastward. Eight months later, his master received word from his former ranch home that Scottie had come back. A human being could walk that far, of course, but he would have to have roads and maps to guide him. Instinct is given only to dumb brutes, to compensate for inability to ask questions. OPPORTUNITY Riches well used are one of our graatest blessings. The number of foundations, scholarships and awarNy endowed by wealthy men increase each year and at the same time increases tha opportunity for young men and women. A recent example is the Guggenheim scholarship fund. Now announcement is made of the 1925 Good Roads Essay contest. The high school student writing the best essay on “Economies Resulting From Highway Improvement” will be provided with tuition and all “reasonable” expenses at any college or university in the United States. H. S. Firestone is the donor. The greatest good from «the contest will not be the winning of the scholarship but the fact that the best thought of Young America will be trained on a subject that needs thought. AIR LINE There is agitation now for an airship’ line from San Francisco via Honolulu and Guam to Manila. The distance, says Admiral W. W. Fullam of the American Aeronautical Association, can be covered in five or six days with ease by the Los Angeles. All that’s needed, says Fullam, is a mooring mast at each of these points and a “strong pull by business men to induce the Navy Department, the government and Congress to erect the masts.” Business men with “pull” can get lots of things. one case where you can feel like pulling with them. ee READ More evidence that the wealth of the United States is be- coming mors and more widely distributed. Stockholders in the basic industries of the country, reports Robert S. Bink- erd of the Academy of Political Science, New York, have in- creased three and a half million—in other words, have prac- tically doubled—since 1918. Binkerd’s survey, described as the first definite informa- tion as to the extent of the increase in popular ownership since the war, shows that of the new shareholders half a mil- lion ara employes of the firms they have bought into. And increased employe-ownership is a healthy sign—both for worker and employer. Here’s AT LAST The British Trade Union delegation brought back many intergsting things from Russia, among others one extremely good phrase. Speaking of the cruelty and grotesqueness brought into the fine arts by the cult of ugliness and the reaction against “bourgeois” refinement, ‘they spoke of “the more decadent forme of syncopated noise, known as jazz music.” “We “thank thee for that word.” Now we know where jag ‘comes from, and what it means. It is a Bolshevik re- n against refinemont, and a “decadent form of synco- pated. noise.” * aha FORGERIES if your signature is worth money on a bank check, be careful of it. The American Bankers Association points out that forg- eries cause losses of 100 million dollars a year and issues a warning against “signature snatchers.” These are a set of crooks that pick discarded deposit slips out of bank waste baskets to copy depositors’ signa- tures on fake checks. - _ Asensible warning. No use making the forger’s job any easier for him. ita (Ga.) men. who robbed a chair factory have to do but sit around in jail, if Editorial Review i ente reproduced im this may or may not express the opinion of The ‘Fribune. 4 are presented here in ot that Our readers may bave both, sides det: column THE BEST FAMILY INVE —AN AUTOMOBILE (Reprinted by Permission of the} New York Evening Journal) This is the season of the great automobile exhibition. This is the opportunity to use some money, a few hundred dollars, or if you can | afford it, several THOUSAND dol- lars, and to MAKE THE BEST POSSIBLE INVESTMENT. Automobiles, in quality anc; price, never offered such values as they do THIS year. Constantly the genius of Amer ican manufacturers has worked to produce in the automobile A} LONGER LIFE and A SHORTER PRICE. You can buy, for less than it would hive cost years ago to get a decent horse and buggy, an auto- mbile that will carry you two hun- dred thousand miles. And the cost of storage, the cost of the gasoline used, and the of], which if properly used, keeps a good machine from wearing out, are small. Repairs on the modern cay in the hands of an intelligent owner are negligi- ble. A horse doing ten miles a day. six days a week, would have to live about seventy years to carry you two ‘hundred thousand miles. And the horse would eat all the time. A car eats gasoline only WHEN YOU ARE USING IT. Dollars invested in an automo- bile, of modest cost or of high cost, ent ag good an investment § intelligent American family can make. If conctions make it important for you to consider economy, then the automobile rep resents the highest development IN ECONOMY. It saves time, increases efficien- ‘cy, addg to the working hours by cutting out the waste of slow transportation. Far greater than the cost of all the automobiles in the United States, millf ns ‘upon millions of cars, is the wealth added to ‘the na- tion because of time that the auto mobile has saved. Where the farmer lost 4 whole day going to the town or village over muddy roads, he goes now in half an hour. The well ‘paid mechanic can take jobs near or far, his automobile carries him. And above all, the automobile is important because of its contribu- tion to human HAPPINESS anu HEALTH. Things more important than Mere economy must be credited to the automebile. The small cost of an automobile cnibles the entire family to ihave pleasure with the FAMILY UNITED. A man can take his wife and children, the baby and the grand parents where he will, to the, sea- shore or the mountains, or for that matter all the way across the American continent. AutomeDile travel, which was once the luxury of the very rich, is now THE CHEAPEST FAMILY TRANSPORTATION UNITED STATES. You know it when you sée men with so-called “jitney” automo- biles carrying passengers at five cents and destroying the business of street car corporations, A father can take this family, with a camping outfit, to the moun- tains or the shore, at a cost one- quarter of what it would have been before the automobile came, al- lowing for the original cost of the automobile. IN THE Every year hao seen constant progress, improvement in quality, Production and cost. And in no year has there been greater prog- ress, greater offering of real value, than THIS year. There are, unfortunately, fam ilies that cannot as yet afford an automobiie. There aré also tens of thousands that THINK they can- hot afford an automobile, when the fact is that they really cannot af- ford to be WITHOUT an automo- bile. There are tens of thousinds of families that could move to the country, save in rent the cost of the automobile, store it in the home garage without garage charges. Automobiles that have already taken millions to the coun try are destined to take many more millions. And everywhere the automobile has been a Wlessing to this nation. The, desire to possess an automo- bile has caused many men, young and old, to work as they have not worked ‘before. It has inspired millions with the desire and THE ABILITY to save. ‘Only the foolish talk of the auto mobile as a. “pleasure car.”. That which means nomy, greater ef- ficiency, health, ‘happiness * anc FAMILIES UNITED ts a blessing and a necessity. ba It DOES give pleasure, ‘but it is primarily a USEFUL car, -the MOST USEFUL invention of the human race thus far. If you haven't a car, go and get one, If you have several cars, go and see the latest. Entiréiy new ideas have ‘been «veloped. Important improvements have ‘been added, not only without increasing price but often with REDUCTION in price. The genius of the American man- ufacturer has overcome the high cost of labor and materials in America. You can buy here for your dollar twice the automobile value that you.can buy anywhere else in the world. America leads the world in au- tomobiles, leads go far ahead that there is no second. _ | GET AN AUTOMOBILE. — New York Evening Journal, THE The Busy Man’s Newspaper BISMARCK TRIBUNE TELEPHONE MESSAGE FROM JOHN ALD PRE UTT 10 RUTH BURKE “Hello, Walt. This is Jack Pres- cott, “Oh, I'm ail right. I'm trying to get word to Leslie and her telephone does not to work. If Ruth is there will you let me talk to her. “All right, I'll wait. “Ruth, this is Jack Prescott. I've just called up Leslie and find that she has instructed the person who answered the phone to say that she was not to be disturbed, not even by long distance telephones. Wong you contrive to get word to her and persuade her to talk to me? “Oh, you have promised disturb her, too? Then she was not sure whether I would call her 8 not. Can't you break your promise, Ruth? Surely you know that I love Leslie, I'm perfectly frantic, — be- cause she will not talk to me. “Of course, I know it is all my fault, but that does me no good] now. It doesn’t make anyone any "happier to know they are being: punished for something :that they deserve, In fact, I think I could bear my punishment better if I were innocent. I'm perfectly willing to take all the blame, but I've got to/ have my wife and babies and have; them damn quick or I'll go insane. , “Ruth, it is a desperate man who is talking to you, and I swear to not to Spring is the mating season. The birds mate. But they don’t have any house rent or grocery bills. At last women are becoming men’s equals. Here and there you find one who really doesn’t want to marry. Women are nice people. But they sometimes refuse to agree with you in all the things about which you are mistaken. Many, single men think they can enjoy life more with their present habits. than they could with a wife. Trying to keep two people ‘from marrying results in a married couple for enemies, The female of the spring cleaners sn’t “as deadly as the male. Spring fever makes you feel as if you have forgotten something. Even if women do have more sense than men you never see a man with high heels on his shoes. The more you tatk the less it counts. A man is a person who thinks -be- ing late for his meals is ngt trouble. The first sign of summer is when you wish it was winter again, A baby's idea of heaven is a place where it is against the law for its father to sing. A grouch may be a man who mar- tied a woman to share his troubles and found that she caused them. Tell her she is better looking every time you see her and she will want you to see her real often. Sage tea is considered good spring tonic by the sage: + It is a wise man who works in the spring while others are loafing. Two's a couple. one’s @ chaperon, Three’ means seman ngnscemngieancen -: The Tangle ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON you that if Leslie will not talk to me today I'll put myself where she nor no one elsg will talk to me again, You will do your best. That's a The went in search of all March Hare and the Twins the circus clowns, and before the weck was out dear girl, Vl call you up in about an hour -and hear what you have|they had found every one of them. done, By that time all the elephants “Thank you, Ruth. You can be]were scrubbed and the camels well dusted, and the trained seals put in practice, and the white horses sure that I will never forget your nd kindness. Call up the Waldorf ask for John Alden Prescott. be waiting for you.” ‘Telephone Message From John Alden Prescott to Miss Anderson, Nurse to Mary Alden Prescott “Is that you, Miss Anderson? “Lam awfully glad you answered the phone. I want to ask your ad- vice. “Something up and I am can leave ‘for mi repaired and the wagons painted— and everything. Even the balloons were ready. And in no time at-all, the circus was ready to start on its travels to all the towns and cities where great crowds of people were anxiously waiting. As the big red wagons bumped along the road, the Circus Man came to the place where the March Hare and the Twins were standing. “I’m much obliged for your help,” he said gratefully. “If it hadn't been for you I never would have known that spring was so near. Down south here where the circus stays in win- ter, one loses all track of time. Would you like to come with us and have some adventures? Perhaps I could teach you to do a circus act.” Nancy and Nick would have liked to go but the March Hate shook his head. “No, thank you, but I have more work to do. Besides I'm not much good at acting. I was put into a story book once, something about a tea-party, I believe, and that was bad enough. I only behaved fool- ishly.” “Well, then, good-bye!” said the Circus Man. “Come to see me next year.” And he shook hands all around. “Good-bye!” “called Bimbo the Clown. And he blew them a kiss. “Good-bye!” said the March Hare, lifting his hat. “Good-bye!” waved the Twins. When the circus had disappeared in the distance and nothing but a EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO — AND THEN HS ASKED MEIEE KNEW, AnD % SAYS 4B-So-WvTE-Lv~ LISTEN, EVERETT I A®-So-wre-ly BEUCGVE THE FELLOW IS: AB’ SO-LUTELY CRAZY! NO KIDDING; I DO, AB-SO-WtS-LX!* ANDo--. 8 unexpected has come not sure just when [ Atlantic City. “Of course, I know just how she will take it. Mother always seems to think that she is being put upon by everything and everybody. “You say she is all ready to go. Great Scott! Then I think I will just leave it as it is until I am sure when I can go. I may be able to make it this morning. “Yes, I know she will probably call me up, but by that time I will know. definitely what I am going to do. “Don’t say anything about it un- til you hear Trom me.” (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) The new gloves have fancy em- broidery on the back. If you have a cold carry a handkerchief. While a scientitst claims man is yun hy electricity we know one who says he is run by his wife. Letting your children hide under the bed is dangerous. They may grow up and become burglars. L, ARE MoU ONS OF THose taught new tricks and the calliope, THURSDAY, MARC Unsustained scandal about gressmen, is an outrage. his own or his rival’s case. power in the Pacific. The only j should have been surprised. keep them so. designs against Japan. powerless for offense. them, but only at the cost of a war with America, and eventually with the world, which would ruin Japan. And Japan knows that we can take no hostile steps’ for which we are not willing to sacrifice the Philip- pines. All this is “old stuff". The only thing new about it is the verdancy of those who have just found it out. NEED SHIPS AND | AIRCRAFT TOO America needs more aircraft, as ‘defense against other aircraft. But jsince Canada and Mexico are the only nations that could send fleets of aircraft to us under their own | power, and they won't, we also need ‘ships, even as an anti-aircraft arm, to repel the ships on which alone a hostile air fleet could come within striking distance of our shores. | Let your imagination dwell all you like on the possibilities of aircraft, ‘and you still do not get away from ;ships, at least for this generation. “SOMETHING IN THE CHINESE METHOD Business depends on credit, and) credit depends character than on security. There is no “secutity” in China, and there is plenty in Russia, Yet ‘we do not hesitate to do business with Chinese merchants, while the Russian soviets get only what they pay cash in advance for. The difference is that in China, while there are no adequate cour or governmental means of enforcing |obligations, this very lack has made Chinese business honest. Dishonest courts make honest business. A Chinese merchant who will not keep his obligations with- out the need of courts is simply boycotted out of business. In Russia, on the other more on hand, Mrs. Jones continued with her story about germs by telling her husband that there was no need of being afraid of many things which our fathers feared in the early days of the germ theory of disease. “Clothing, books, toys and other lobjects, handled by a sick person, are dangerous if they have recently been handled, but the danger will not persist very long. “If a person, suffering from a cold, coughs in his hand, and then with that hand passes me an apple, cold. “If he puts the apple down, and I Impartial Judge Needed Here By Chester H. Rowell Of course the Philippines are i e They were already so, before the Washington conference, and one of the results of that conference was an agreement to It is a safety for the Philippines, too. FABLES ON HEALTH FACTS ON CONTAGION 19, A magazine writer had made charges of congressional neglect, in regard to the Roma disaster, which the congres- sional repudiated declared to be untrue, and therefore indig- nantly repudiated and rebuked their author. Congress, in the eyes of con- But the same committee had been listening gleufully to all sorts of canards about similar neglects of executive de- partments, and had given little hearing and less eradit to the facts presented by the department in refutation. a Which illustrates chiefly that nobody is a fair judge in What is really needed is some way for both sides to pre- sent their cases where the people can judge between them. Naval officers make the “sensational” admission that we have not enough airplanes to defend the Philippines. Asked if we have enough of anything else, they frankly says that we have not, and that the islands could be taken by any major foe from their own part of the world — which means, of course, Japan, since thera is no other major naval purprising thing about this is that any one indefensible against Japan. They are our bet, or our society, that we mean what we say whwa we assure the world that we have no aggressive The whole purpose of the naval treaty was to make both Japan and the United States invincible in defense and Japan can take there is plenty of property, and the soviet government hag it and offers to pledge it for security. But nobody will trust the word of those who recognize no moral obli- gation to keep it. Nobody will trust the Chinese government, either, But in China, it is not with government that you do business. One wonders, sometimes, if there are not advantages in the Chinese method. If courts were not so good, business might perforce become bet- ter, all over the world. PLAYING THE GAME OF BLUFF France will not “repudiate” its debts. Oh, no. That would hurt France’s credit, for future loans. The same with Italy. As they hope for future favors, they will not repudiate past obligations. Not they! But if America were graciously to remit those debts, that would be different. An old debt forgiven does not preclude later contracting an- other. These debts; they explain, cannot be paid. The money is not in sight, and the people, whose consent to taxation would be necessary, do not think they ought to be paid. * But the remission must come from us. They, to save their future cred- it, still “promise to pay.” We, for the same purpose, must take the ini- tiative in requesting them not to keep that promise, All of which is merely the game of bluff preliminary to finding out, soberly, on the facts, what they can and fairly should pay, and then ar- ranging, against the will of their people, for them to pay that, and against the will of our people for us to forgive the rest. do not take it for a day, the risk is less, and if I wait a week there is little chance that I ,will catch the cold.” 2 For the same reason, it seems probable that dust, in the past, has been overrated as agent for the transmission of disease. Some germs are harder to kill. It is possible to find tuberculosis germs in the dust of dark rooms where a patient has been. The principal danger from tuber- culosis sputum is that the germs I shall be likely to contract that|may be transferred while fresh and virulent by shoes, skirts, fingers, flies or in other ways, cloud of dust was to be seen, the March Hare looked at’:nis watch again. “Dear, dear!” he cried in dismay, “it’s the middle of March!” “Can you tell datés by your watch?” asked Nick. “Certaigly,” said the March Hare. “Days, weeks, months and years as well as minutes and seconds. It’s a Fairyland watch. The Fairy Queen gave it to me on my last birthday. Now it says’that it's ten minutes past four on the ay a day of March, two years after the year be- fore last. That means now. And not a chimney cleaned out!” “What!” cried the Twins. “You -shpuldn’t say ‘what.’ You should say ‘I beg your pardon.’ But this is no time for a. lesson. in man- ners. What I'said was, that there isn’t. a single chitney cleantd ‘out. We inust go at once and find Johnny Sweep and wake. him up. He works so hard that he sleeps soundly, and I doubt if he knows that spring is not only coming, ‘but. bére. “Where does he live?” asked Nancy. . ‘ “Beside the broom. store in a jjbarrel,”" answered the Match Hare. “Come on, we'll be going.” They traveled all, day and by maon- ‘up they arrived. at the broom store. Beside it was, a big barrel, from which sounds of snoring were com- ing. : “Just as I thought,” said the March Hare,, peeping in. “He is fast asleep, Johnny Sweep. is.” (To Be, Continued) (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) | In New York | —-———_—4 New York, Merch 19—There are many cities within this great city, communities in which. nationality or race gather tain the’ society of theiy own to kind | vegetable.” and ynconsiously to fight the in- evitable effects of the melting pot. Chinatown and the ghetto are’ fa- miliar to most visitors and New Yorkers. Yet in Harlem there is a city within a city little known to visitors and with which few New Yorkers of other sections are ac- quainted. This is the negro. settle- ment. * ie In one square mile of Harlem 175,- 000 negroes live. They represent al- most every profession and every oc- cupation, There are castes of society there as there are in any community of its size. % Several colored residents of Ha’ them are iy wealthy. On’ the other hand a large proportion of Harlem is composed of unskilled laborers who have ad- vanced but little from poverty and wretchedness, ¢They live im crowded tenements and are not nearly so well off as their brethren in the humblest shacks of the south. Several Harlem negroes have be- come rich conducting cabarets and night clubs. Prices charged in these clubs are as high as those in the niftiest Broadway lobster palaces. And many of the patrons are from high society circles of the whites. ore A nurse from the Henry Street Settlement called on a‘ negro mother in the lower East Side to look after naemic baby. “What do you feed the baby?” the nurse asked. “Boiled ‘Cabbage thyee day,” the mother answered. doctor told me to him a green time: “Why don’t you vary the diet and feed him carrots once in a while?” i “The doctor said a green vegetable and catrots is pink,” the, mother an- swered, with a show of indignation. — | *~ ¥