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PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE FRIDAY, MARCH’ 20, 1925 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - - - - : DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise entitled in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year............... -$7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)... . cos Weed 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) INVESTIGATION GOT RESULTS Action of the Bureau of Public roads in rejecting the specifications furnished by Secretary Black of the State Highway Commission for the paving of the road to the state penitentiary east of Bismarck is a definite result of the legis- lative probe of the highway commission’s policy. It was pointed out in these columns that the specifica- tions on this stretch of the National Parks Highway differed from those on the Mandan concrete pike and that by virtue of these specifications the black, soft top, known as Bithulitic was given an undue advantage over straight concrete. The cost of the penitentiary road paving proposed by the Burleigh county board would have been from $20,000 to $30,000 more than for the Mandan pike under the highway commission’s specifications. This should direct attention of the state administration upon the policy of drawing specifications. Each type of pav- ing should be able to stand on its own merits. It is not a wise policy to demand more of the concrete type so as to ~ put it in a higher class of paying than its sponsors claim.’ The federal bureau demands that competition between the various types of paving shall be clean cut and above suspicion. Another point to be settled in the highway commission policy is the matter of engineer’s expense. The estimated cost of engineering .expense on the proposed penitentiary road is 10 per cent on an estimated cost of $125,000 for a project most of which is now a laid out highway. For little more than two. miles of road'more than $6,000 a mile for engineering expense seems excessive. There is no good reason why the state engineers cannot supervise this project provided the work is done for the trans- action if approved by the government, county and railroads will be performed under the very noses of the regularly em- ployed state engineers. Taxpayers are beginning to resent the farming out of these jobs to the county surveyor who is usually an engi- neer in private practice. Publisher M “CROSSWORDITIS” A new disease has been added to the formidable list of prevalent maladies. ‘“Crossworditis,” the Chicago Health Department calls it. But inoculations against the germ— and it’s very contagious—are neither necessary nor advis- able. One may even cultivate the microbe. For among its salutary effects, according to the Health Department, are -united family circles and happiness to convalescents and chronic invalids. Which settles the matter conclusively. The rule of the little black and white squares may continue unchallenged, and the much mooted question of their potential educational value may be left to academic circles. Addicts may thumb Mr. Webster and Messrs. Funk and Wagnalls to death with- out kidding themselves into believing they will remember C-O-LR means cocoanut fibre. For the Health Department has given its sanction on the ground that crossworditis sat- isfies the play instinct which needs constant nourishment. Have you ever heard the crossword puzzle defined? Hearken to Thomas L. Masson in the Dearborn Independent: “The crossword puzzle is an intensively rect- angular but essentially heterogeneous concatenation of dissimilar verbal synonymic similitudes, replete with internal inhibitions, yet promulgating exten- sive ratiocination and meticulously designed to promote fulminative vituperation, dispel hebetude- nosity and develop speculative, contemplative, in- trospective, deliberative and cogitative faculties.” Even some college profs. apparently agree with the cogitative end of it. How otherwise explain recent substi- tutions of crossword puzzle tests for staid and proper mid- term quizzes in several universities. Unless the inspired professors were merely exercising their own play instinct, which we strongly suspect. However, Viva la crossword puzzle, we echo! NEW This ought to be good news for everyone. General Amer- ican Tank Car announces a new type of milk tank which will revolutionize wholesale transportation of milk. Freight cars are equipped with two glass tanks with combined capacity of 6000 gallons. These are completely insulated and equipped with refrigerating systems and are easily loaded and unloaded through a pipe. Under the present method, the five - gallon can is the medium of conveyance. The farmer fills them and they are loaded into the freight car. Three cars are required under that method to carry the 6000 gallons that can be loaded into one of the new ones. Transportation of milk long has been a problem for farm- er and distributor. Methods of hauling it have been archaic, compared to the handling of other products. Producer and consumer both will welcome a method that promises sheer and more sanitary delivery — and less waste. "WHAT PROFIT? Editorial Review ie Comments ceceaveen tm thie column may not express the opinion of The’ ibune. They are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides important Issues which are ie discussed in the prese of e PROSPERITY BY LA' (St. Paul Dispatch) If Mr. Arthur C. Townley is in the audience—and he is reported to be in the state selling “units” of Texas oil land—he will, if he still retains the ideas he expressed from 1915 un- til 1921, shake his head sadly over the dictum of the latest product of the organization he fathered—the statement of Governor A. G. Sorlie on Monday that “You cannot legislate prosperity.” Governor Sorlie was inddrsed as the Nonpartisan candidate for gov- ernor at a convertion held im Bis- marck in February, 1924, and follow- ing that was nominated as a Republi- in June and elected‘in November. Evidently the nomination and elec- tion were not misfits, for he talks Republican doctrine, pure and sim- ple. “The sound progressives,” he is quoted, “did not favor the degree nor spirit of public ownership enter- prises launched in the name of the league.” In that he is probably. cor- rect, for such was the dominance of the Townley machine that those who felt the state was plunging too deep- ly and those who deplored the class hatred and bitterness stirred up be- tween town and country, were per- force kept silent and carried with the tide. That era having ended, Governor Sorlie can speak of it now without fearing retribution. Having experimented, having spent money and much effort, having seq the state torn for seven years in ran- corous argument, North Dakota through its governor sp@aks: “You cannot legislate prosperity.” That may be treason to the old Nonparti- san program, but it is the most pro- found common sense. ASKING THE SCHOOLS TO vO IT (New York 1 Times) When any one has a pian for ths improvement of the social or cco- nomic order, in which children, or their parents through them, can take a helpful part, the temptation is to turn to the schools. Not only have the school teachers come to take on duties that once bélonged to parents; they have had thrust up- on them all manner of outside tasks without much thought wheth- er these added activities have any educational value for the pupils or can be performed by the teacher without causing neglect of more important things. Some of these “drives” quite worth while, from every point of view. The city remem- ‘bers proudly what was done dur- ing and following the World War for various national; and interna- tional causes ‘by the schools under the special «rection of Dr. O'Shea, then an Associate Superintendent in charge of such activities. Ther: were special reasons then that made these trespasses upon pupil attention and teacher energy a ne- cessity. Sacrifices were demanded of teachers which they met as un- complainingly ag those who were called into the combat service. But now that those necessitous times have passed, every extraneous ap- peal ought to have serious consid- eration in order to determine its Telative value to the pupils as fu- ture citizens. There are “drives” and other projects and appeals even in these days of peace that can ibe mace a medium of instruction more effec- tive than the textbook. Geography may tbe learned in a concern for others dwelling in remote parts of the earth; arithmetic may be made interesting in its practical applica- tion to problems of saving or spending; history may bevome il- luminated through a first-hand communication between the chil- dren of one country and another or through sharing in pageant or memorial celebrations. But all such things must not be admitted unless they can be fitted into the regular school program without putting an excessive ‘burden upon the teachers. “Let the school do it” is an easy way of shifting the burcen, but it is generally unfair to the teacher, for they are aireauy overburdened (and generally un- derpaid), and also unfair to pupils, whose time and effort the State has no right to appropriate to other uses than for their educa- tion. Only those “drives’ should be sanctioned that have for their purpose the mental, physical and moral cultivation of the children. It is not the cause, it is the chila, that the school must ‘have as its constant concern. | | InNew York | = ee New York, March 20.—Well, well, the world moves along. Men are now buying sets of various sorts of un- derwear for different purposes, such as riding, dancing and golfing. An underwear manufacturer named Men- denhall from Wisconsin tells me this. ‘It’s a far cry from the day when some people actually sewed their un- derwear on in the fall and cut it off with scissors in the spring,” he says. “Would you believe it? Men now carfy an extra suit of underwear to dances so that they may’ change be- fore going out into the cold night and thus prevent catching cold.” . Ps Ivan Zaikin, a huge Russian wrest- ler, is disconsolate because Feodor Chaliapin, the great opera singer, is not in town. They are. almost inse- parable companions, Chaliapin going to wrestling matches to see’ Zaikin and the wrestler going to the opera may be; to rid Chaliapin. When Zaikin cane | p P ATIORNNe SS GENERALSAyo FROM MARY ALDEN PRESCOTT TO JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT “I can not understand, John, why TELEPHONE MESSAGE this you I have not ‘heard from you morning. At what time are coming to take me to the train? “You are not going to take the morning train? You are not sure we will go today? What do you mean? Here, I am all packed up, my bonnet on and my outside wrap on achair. I have already had Mis? Anderson send my trunk to the sta- tion. “Why should I wait for you to do that? “I thought I would relieve you of as much ‘worry as possible. I must say, Jack, that. you are very incon- siderate of me. You should have thought of me the first thing when you thought it might be impossible to take me to Atlantic City today. What is that matter? Is it busi- ness? “[ must say, Jack, that I think you are paying altogether too much attention to your business. There is no reason why you could not have put off whatever is keeping you here and taken me to Atlantic City to- day. Your mother and your wife are entitled to some of your time. Have you told Leslie that you are not coming today? “Oh, that is the reason, is it? Leslie has been called unexpectedly to Albany, Don't try to excuse her to me. She probably left Atlantic City because she knew you were taking me over. I must say Leslie is more inconsiderate of me than even you are. What could have been more important to her than a visit of her husband and her hus- band’s mother? She certainly should have waited for us. She was anxious to go there, ‘Don't speak so impatiently, John. I don't want to go to Atlintic City without you. “’'m not sniveling. I'm crying because my only child for whom I have sacrificed so much has treated me with such great disrespect. “Oh, I beg your pardon. I didn’t know you wanted me to say goodby. That you had a long distance call in. Most sons would think that might wait until their mother had finished talking. All right, I’m used, to be- ing set aside for anything by y “No, I will not call you up ag: If you want to speak with me, will find me here waiting for you, I shall tell Miss Anderson to go down to the station and send the trunks back. “All right, I'll leave them, there for a little while if you think best. “I suppose you understand that you have made me a great deal of trouble and set my nerves on edge and set my heart thumping. No one scems to realize, not even you, that the slightest excitement is very. bad for my heart. “Call me up when you have made your plans. I shall probably not be able to leave my apartment today even if you wish to go to Atlantic City later. Goodby, my son, I'l try and not be too unhappy over your habitual neglect.” (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Ine.) been converted into a bedspring fac- tory. eee Marcel Garaud has surrendered his detective badge. A judge has dis- missed him on a charge of shooting Nick Martsekis in the arm with a small revolver, which was a gradua- tion present from the correspondence detective school in which Marcel en- rolled. Marcel is just 13. Every year for the past 20 years John D. Rockefeller, Sr., and John D., Jr., have sent a $10 gold piece to Harry Fairchild, baggage master at the Tarrytown station. Fairchild has just.died. He had held the job for 35 ytars, inheriting it from his father who held it 40 years. The revenue’ cutter.Seneca recent- ly captured a rum runner after pursuing it for many miles, directing a steady stream of bullets on it with machine guns. The revenue men found that the cabin was protected with bullet-proof glass two inches thick. “The only reason I surren- dered was because your bullets were going through my thin armor plate into the engine room and I didn’t want my engineer tobe killed,’ the smuggler told his captors. “I knew you couldn't get me behind that bullet-proof glass.” Thirty years ago four immigrants riding on a ferry between Astoris and Manhattan evolved the scheme of forming a company of 25 men, each paying one dollar a week into a “general fund to buy real estate. The company grew to 100, the limit Placed by the men in it. Each now two dollars a week. They now own real estate valued at more than half million dol and several large apartment houses. —JAMES W. DEAN. gan early last winter and has con- tinued according to regular schedule since. This league play ‘gives North Dakota the lead over all other schools of the. northwest in the num- ber of students taking part in ath- letics. knew 1] DVENTURE OF THE TWINS | BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON | A The March Hare looked over the edge of the big barrel where Johnny veep was peacefully sleeping be- le the broom store. “Zaza! Snrer! Gazz! went Johnny. Nancy and Nick laughed and even the March Hare smiled a sort of thoughtful, worried smile. “Wake up, Johnny Sweep!” he shouted. “Wh-—whaz at?” asked Johnny sleepily. “I won't do any sush zing.” And he turned over and began to snore all over again. This time the March Hare reached in and shook him. “Wake up, wake up, Johnny—spring’s here and there are about a million chimneys to sweep out,” he said loudly. “"S too many,” muttered Johnny. And off he went to sleep again. Indeed it looked as though Johnny was ready to sleep through another winter, but suddenly Nick had an idea. He ran off and: was back in two minutes with an old can full of water, “I'll sprinkle him,” he said. “That'll get him out.” “Huh! Rain!” shouted Johnny, jumping up and rolljng out of his barrel the minute the water touched hi “You'd have thought he was yelling “fire,” he was so excited. But if you ask, anybody will tell you that chimney sweeps simply hate water, i “Hello, here!” he exclaimed when he saw that the sky was clear and the moon out, and that three very interested people were, looking at him. “Hello!” said ‘Nancy and Nick and the March Hare. “Well,” said Johnny. “Now that I've had my bath and breakfast is over,’ will you please tell me what you are staring for—and why you are here, and what you woke me Snrrrt” | EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO | Tes VEC ABOUT SVERSTT,A HOW DoOivoU DWIDeEtnss WoRD af YouR Desk AND DIVIDS THE COVERS; OF THS DICTIONARY ! Too TIRED TO DO nde, = Tare 4 LONG Tae i Five ror FROM IF. KOOKS Gambling Is All They’re After , By Chester H. Rowell Once more the bill to “legalize horse racing” (which is already legal) is up in Missouri, and presumably in other states. And of course, as usual, there is nothing about horse racing in it. Cn It would be a useful reductio ad absurdum for some one to introduce a real horse racing bill, and see how these al- leged horse racers would skedaddle to oppose it. There are laws for the public encouragement of agricul- tural fairs and like enterprises, which could serve as a model. The bill could expressly, not only “legalize” but promote horse racing, with a commission, and even an appropriation, + to help it. If that bill was silent on the subject of gambling, and left the anti-gambling laws ag they are, these “horse racers” would not be interested. Gambling is the only thing they are trying to promote. ; Their bill should be so entitled. ‘ It s€ems only a little while ago when the first young men who had not served in the Civil War began to come to Con- gress. They were invaders of the rule that all offices, elective and appointive, must go to the veterans, and were the har- bingers of a new generation. Now the last of the veterans, General Isaac Sherwood, says his valedictory, and the Civil War disappears from the public life of the nation. . : : It is the end of an age, which began in heroism, exalta- tion and graft, descended into sordidness, intolerance and bar- renness of expanded into great material progress, and \culmi- nated, morally and politieally, din the Roosevelt era. Then came let-down, partial re- covery, the exaltation of the great war and the spiritual collapse that followed—and the last of the veter- ans survived only to see the first and most discouraging stages of the long cycle through which his own generation had also gone. Perhaps, having lived through it once, he is equipped to look with more charity than the rest of us on its cyclic repetition. soul, party, a liberal, movement in one or both the existing parties. It is the radicals who have, for the moment, prevented this. In their'present quarrels is perhaps. the best. hope of its revival. Experts or Politics—Which? The two schools of farm policy have, for the time being, apparently neutralized each other into inaction, and the farmer will be left, as usual, to look out for himself—which, in the long-run, and with much in- always manages to do. One school wants to “pass a law about it,” and the other wants to help the farmer to tools to do some- thing about it. One would put the government back into war-time artificial meas+« ures, of purchase, guarantee or poli- > tical export bureau, with the result, inevitably, of encouraging over-pro- duction in precisely the commodities of which we have already a surplus, leaving us to import the things which might have been raised in their place. The other would help the farmer, by organization, to solve his own marketing problem. The second school has the experts and most of the practical farmers behind it. There is more politics in the first. Between them, we wait a while. FABLES ON HEALTH DISEASE CARRIERS : | “Speaking of typhoid fevergerms,”| “In 1907 she was taken to a hos- Mrs. Jones continued, science has ;pital and found to be a chronic car- learned that some people are just|rier. She was released and was lost natural human carriers of the little |sight of for a time, but in 1915 26 parasites. cases pf typhoid occurred in the “These people, carriers, as they |Sloan Hospital of New Yor’, and are- known, may be perfectly well|Mary was found to have been em- themselves, but the germs hang on, | ployed there. and on and on. “Many other cases were probably, “One of the most ‘unusual carriers |though not certainly, traced to her was a cook, known as ‘Typhoid |activities, and it is even possible Mary. Between 1902 and 1907,|that she was the cause of the water- while employed in six different fam-|borne outbreak of 1300 cases ai ilies, she infected 26 persons. Ithaca, N. Y., in 1903.” TOM Liberalism Is Needed The pending split in the British Labor party further illustrates the need of keeping alive the almost extinct Liberal party. MacDonald and his associates are being driven by their own radicals into a practical position scarcely distinguishable from Liberalism. Their philosophic differences become academic. It is much the same in America. Reckless radicalism has driven Pro- gressives largely into union with, but. not into agreement with, the Conservatives. They do not ‘belong permanently there, and it is not best for the country that they stay there indefi- | nitely. We still need, if not a Liberal up for,.and a few thousand other things besides?” “All explained in two words, the March Hare. “Spring’s here. “Well, well, well! So it is!” grin- ned Johnny. “And that means work, doesn’t it!” “It certainly does,” said the March Hare. “I cleaned all the chimneys at Christmas for Santa Claus,” Johnny reminded him. “They're all full of soot again,” said the March Hare. “The Fairy Queen, has had a million letters, nearly, asking where you are. No- body can get his fire to draw decent- ly _and- “All right! All right! I’m going,” said Johnny. ,“I’ll have to go into the broom store when it opens and buy me a new broom though. My old one is worn out. Come along, please, and help me to pick a good one.” “Do you wish to hear some of the letters?” asked the March Hare, down into his pocket. “Sure,” said Johnny. “I'll bet they are \cranky ones.” “Judge for yourself,” said the hare.) Asylums are getting ready for “Here, Nancy, please read these out 'those who imagine they are income Joud. My eyes smart a little and tax. blanks. the moon doesn’t give much light. ‘But the’ Twins and Johnny Sweep knew that the March Hare’s educa- tion had bepn neglected and he never|they are facing ruin have two faces. got/ past the line in the First Reader that says, “I see a dog. Speaking Scotch is much more Nancy unfolded the first letter and | difficult than drinking it. began to read. Such sassy letters ao you hever heard! But you will hear] You auitat get down to brass sactalhe them next time, if you are very|to make a man see the point. patient. (To. Be Coutisned) Somebody's liable to come over (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) |here in an airship gome day and scare our dove of Peace. SIMS '° 7SAYS Government experts are advising us to set mouse traps for sparrows. The mice are willing. The world makes a revolution every day. But. China seems to make one every hour. While opportunity is supposed to knock at your door only once you can always find it somewhere down town, One thing proved by statistics is that you can’t always prove a thing by statistics. Slapping a man on the back is not always striking him in the right way. The impression ari that som It takes about a week to dodge a day’s work. Wealth maketh many friends: but the poor is separated from his neigh- bor.—Prov. 19:: \# ele A constant friend is a thing rare and hard to find, Even if a man does ass you with his auto he may be behind with his payments. Since it requires 17 processes to wash a stiff collar. they should drop the grindstone and make it 16. —Plutarch. (Copyright, 1925; NEA Service, Inc.) A COUGH REMEDY WITHOUT Next) time a man tells you talk is cheap ask him if he knows how much a ion of Congress costs. Many cough preparations contain dividual tribulation and injustice, ha~. of these foreign countries claiming (#, | | } ALPHA TAU OMEGA TEAM afew months ago ‘WINS ‘HONORS | Newspapers tell you of the death of a Los Angeles woman seme one or more harmful drugs! Lots of people are going to the j Grand Forks, N. D., Mer. 20.—Alph which are added to take the place of swith Aeshna, a “face peeling” pmaties bs Hollywood. ee Tau Omage este ei yd ay oplatg. Nan of Gene areata tab Beret ripe ape scour drops. 2 is reported that sam roman had go) I ‘ jonors in the ‘annual campus league utes have ever been in| Are th modeling operation last June at the hands: of a GE ibad tra aah oot iateremerits| play at the. University of North Da- FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR COM-|atcck ecchamsey Ames, round stock exchange? A Saou asks us. Ye Hogs and lambs. loctor” who fled to Germany after she had been charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of a patient. here tems to be no end tothe money that canbe made n vanity nd kota through its defeat Wednesday evening of the Kappa Psi Beta team by a score of 17 to 12. These two teams had won their re- | POUND. The-name of every ingre- [datas is gay yn on évery| - yn. ‘ou know wi you are! Spring dresses {taking when you take Foley’s. It clings to the thvest, “Good fer oid paecabean dt dic ‘and young. , You have » coug! y not Cal it. Refuse substitutes— ae se Fed utes Zou fetch Some of them continue in their old line, making beer with the kick taken oar Es big brewing et i = ronx ig now s mushroom spective leagues, outpointing: al FN tl al wn 0 Ing | other teams, madihad coche: oe de ws ONCE game from the other in She final bas ceries. Play in a be- |: capitalizin h ve | 7