The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 21, 1925, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - - 3 S 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. i 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 an -$7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) . 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck)... Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.............. THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) (Official City, State and County Newspaper) WHY SUCH HASTE? Advertisements for engineering services in connection with the proposed four bridges entailing an expenditure of nearly half a million dollars of state mone$ are appearing in the various state papers over the signature of W. G. Black, secretary of the state highway commission. Why such precipitous haste? -Two members of the present highway commission retire from office April 16, Bids have been called for April 6. Is it the intention of the old commission to seek to tie the hands of the new commission? That is the construction everyone must place upon the advertisement which Mr. Black sent to the newspapers. Governor Sorlie’s administration will be responsible for the policies of the highway commission after April 16. His hands should not be tied by the letting of these important contracts ten days ahead of the time when control of the commission passes into his hands. Every particle of evidence introduced at the legislative investigation pointed to the fact that the secretary of the commission dominated and really was the whole commission. This latest development confirms the impression left by the testimony at the legislative investigation. Why advertise for engineering services? Is there no engineer on the highway commission’s rather extensive payroll qualified to prepare plans and specifica- tions for these bridges? Surely the state with its highway organization can em- ploy an engineer or several to perform this work and doubt- less the saving to the taxpayers would be material. Sentiment of the people seems to be against farming out these engineering plums to engineers in private practice or if not: WHY A HIGHWAY COMMISSION AT ALL? If such a policy as Mr. Black proposes is indispensible then Gov. Sorlie’s hands should not be tied in the matter. The new commission should make the awards. Publisher TORNADO DISASTER Sympathy and succor of a nation pour out for the stricken families of the great tornado area of Illinois, Indiana and Missouri. Illinois is the hardest hit of the three There the casualty list will mount highest and the loss in property will be greatest. As usual, the Red Cross society is ready with immediate aid. The manner in which this great agent of mercy func- tions is unappreciated by the general public until the horror of a great catastrophe visualizes this great agency for good in action. Day in and day out in a less spectacular way the Red Cross is administering to the routine needs of the vari- ous localities, without ostentation and anonymously. Unless Burleigh county’s quota is larger than is now anticipated, it may not be necessary to issue a general call for contributions. Local officials of the Red Cross are wait- ing to be advised of the extent of money relief needed and the usual generous response will result. “The local chapter has been building up and maintaining “B small reserve for just such emergencies which may be ade- quate in the face of present demands. “SATISFACTION” Armand Massard and Lucien Gaudin, sports writers for Paris newspapers, had a “falling out.” They called each “other names and then retired to the privacy of a tennis court tt daybreak to have it out with steel blades. ** Armand’s sword pin-pricked Lucien’s thumb and let loose «m little of his proud blood. == With which action, you see, Armand was “proved right.” Anything he may have called Lucien “went,” for had he not Piven the other gentleman “satisfaction?” is Laugh if you want to, but are not wars fought over as “trivial a quarrel as theirs? — We think we are civilized, yet duelling is outlawed and war isn’t. a THRIFT +. In October, 1924, there were in the United States 11,814 building and loan associations, with total membership of fMearly eight million, the New York Trust Co. informs you. : An increase of 10 per cent over the preceding year, both =in number of associations and their members. = Rapid growth of these institutions‘is oné of the outstand- #ing features of the trend toward greater participation bv wage earners in the fruits of capital. == Effect of this growth is a distinct social gain in thrift, Estability and morale. EUGENICS . Ohio is considering a law making it compulsory- for souples contemplating marriage to undergo physical exam- ations by some physician other than the family doctor. * For that matter, debate on the eugenics question, in some rm or other, is chronic in nearly every state in the untry. 5 i; - Much in the eugenic doctrine is sound and a little of it is p-trap. Admitting that eugenics is a means toward im- ing the human race, there are those who hold that it is doctrine of fatalism and that it deprives life of the stim- lus toward effort. Several big league ball players who merely beat about e bush last year will beat about the bush leagues this year. A government is a system of checks and balances which to become check books and bank balances. last rose of last summer faded without notice, but nose of this winter will be welcome, La ees SALLE ETE LOLI, Comments reproduced tn tbis column may or may not exprese the opinion of The Tribune. Thuy are presented here in order thet our readers ey, bave both sides of important lesues which are — in the press of A COSTLY OLD CUSTOM (Youngstown Vindicator) Since the grant of equal suffrage in politics and public ation for honors of office, but gen- erally to their sense of right and public interest. This wag shown the other day ‘by question that has set Washington to talking. She wrote to the con- gressman from her _ district: “Please inquire and inform us, if economy is the watchword of this administration, why the electoral vote is not sent by U. S. (reliable?) mail, and the needless expense of 25 cents a mile saved to taxpayers? Is such red tape and the necessary th fleeced from would-be honest peo- pie? I call it highway robbery. Recently when the emergency deficiency bill was before the house one member offered an amendment to strike out the $14,- 000 appropriation to pay the ex: penses of the elecioral gers at 25 cents a mile between their homes and Washington. The chairman of the committee on ap- propriations raised a point of or- der which wag sustained, and the government paid $14,000 for a service which could have been ren- dered at a cost of 96 cents for postage. The law provicing for 25 cents mileage for messengers was passed in 1791, the year the postoffice de- partment was established. Mail was then carried by stige coach and on horseback, and there were many delays which increased the expenses of messengers. There were few states then and none more than a few hundred miles from the capital. It is a costly old custom to which we cling. As one congress- man said of it, the waste is inex- cusable. “INEVITABLE (Baltimore Evening Sun) The executive secretary of an “extreme pacifist’ organization has been denied the privilege of speaking in the schools of Wash- ington. Aside from the question of whether school children ought to be forced to listen to propaganda of any kind, it is natural that cifist doctrine. For Washington is the capital, and hence full of job- holders and aspirants for jobs. It is axiomatic that war vastly increases the number of jobs and the pay and perquisites of jobhold- ers. Peace brings a painful sever ance from the payroll of some at least of these. Pacifism is, there fore, little short of Bolshevism in an atmosphere like that of Wash- ington. : Its protagonists should begin their work where jobholders are fewest and among those who would have to do the fighting when wars come. TO, ra />SAYS No wonder Philadelphia is known as a sleepy town. People staying up late at night look sleepy next day. Price of haircuts is up in Chi- cago. Just when it’s spring and all the folks needing them. Once, when a man was in love, his barber got rich. Now, when a man’s in love, his filling station gets rich. Dancing masters met in New York. Decided upon an interna- tional dance. The old one is the war dance. Opium parley failed. Nothing much done. A drug on the market will not be a drug on the market. Los Angeles man wants lights on baby carriages. Hardest thing will be keeping the mufflers on. Bored a California oil well thou- sands of feet. Next biggest bore is some of the movies they make. In New York, a woman kicked in a shop window. May have seen a hat there just like hers._ Women are good looking but pe- culiar. They want their clothes all just alike only different. Los Angeles doctor finds we all told the half of we look like what we eat. he must live on pumpkins. tow? being good. you wouldn’t be go foolish. we are ready for it. A Thought | | _A Thought | Faithful friend.—Prov. 27:6, ° eaerd . for me-—Charles IX, se neg myst mie Raa ae Et Th eRe REL Sas arr women have shown great interest affairs. Their interest is not due to aspir- a Columbus woman who jput aj 1 to a single individual to be | messen- | Washington should oppose the pa-; are half lazy. We find he hasn't And, there's the doctor who says We say Isn't it funny when you are mad at somebody today, and still know you won't ibe mad at them tomor- You can live a long time if you don’t do much\else. =—— The ideal existence is to enjoy A wife is a women who wishes ph The future is coming, but we|cept a wager in any sum. won't enjoy its visit much unless | too large for him to handle with | really are the wounds of a) a ; The wound is for you but the pain| prosecution. -. | | | to John Alden Prescott mother unhappy. If you do this I will never look upon your face again. ! LESLIE. Telegram From John Alden Prescott | To Leslie Prescott At last I have heard from you have maintained since you read those letters. the world that you ask of me. JACK. Telegram From Mrs. Leslie Prescott to John Alden Prescott with me. going to do I will write you. LESLIE. Telephone Message From John Alden Prescott to Ruth Burke. “Hello, Ruth. I called you for ———— + | InNew York | —_—__—_——* New York, March 21.—The God- dess of Chance rules New York. Gambling is in the very fiber of the place. Monte Carlo, Deauville, and Bradley’s Club in Florida can’t hold a candle to the adventures in chance to be witnessed in New York. The game or business of risking money on purely speculative mat- ters starts out at sea. Besides the various card games and other or- dinary means of gambling to be found on the big liners, passengers wager on the number of knots the vessel will make each day. At Quarantine they bet on the number of minutes it will take until the! boat is docked. As the vessel swings past the Battery it passes the greatest gambling center in the world, Wall Street. Of course, you may say that the business done in Wall Street is banking and investment. But the business done there drives men to suicide. I know at least a dozen men who are so worried over their speculations in Wall Street that they are hardly capable of pursuing their ordinary lines of; work, | Crap games can be seen in prog- ress along the river fronts any day. On Sunday afternoon when down-town streets are free of traf- fic a passenger on the “L” may witness a dozen crap games on the sidewalks. A million dollars a day is wag- ered here on the horse races, a prominent bookmaker estimates. The bookmakers have “runners” in every office building in New York. These runners are paid a commis- sion. of five cents on the dollar for all the bets they bring in, regard- less of whether the bets win or lose. The business of some runners is exclusively among girls, many of whom wager as little as a quarter. Others make the rounds of apart- ment houses collecting bets from housewives. In contrast, there are a number of men who plunge $1000 at a time. , Any bookmaker in town will ac- If it is his own capital he telephones the ¢Big Book” in Hoboken, transfer- ting part of the wager. “Big Book in Hoboken” is the clearing house of all re in America. It oper- # direct lines to the various race tly it functions as talk to me? ng “Yes, \ had better do now? “But, Ruth, j stand it. you.) probably go out and get drunk and Anything is better than that silence get into a worse mess than ever. “Of course, 1 know I’m a fool. Do I'll do anything in, you think it would do any good for {me to hop on the train and | over to Albany? ure she won't see me. Well, I think Pll come over anyway Do not try to see or communicate! in the morning. When I decide what I am talk to her from the hotel than from here. “Yes, I know you have done ‘the best you could. | minute that I get th (Copyright, 1925, “You are |are a number of lotteries based on the standings of clubs in the major leagues and on the number of runs scored by the teams. There are a dozen or more pools being operated here in which the participants wager on the combin- ation of numbers in the daily bal- ance of the U. S. Treasury. Like- wise several each week. A iy as Wall Street, unafraid of During the baseball season there Sot oprene o em cree we te somestot ice oa te i Hurrah, Eats!! Do you think she will Do not do anything that will make! ever forgive me? 1, this is awful. schedule of figures in the daily re- hi port of the clearing house. In addition to this there are lot- teries in which each participant se- lects a number and color, a number and color being drawn from a box If you’re looking for a bet you EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO WHAT BPO Mou MEAN KGE7sog € — HOW DO “OU FIGURE OUT ANY SUCH AMOUNT AS THAT, WHY, THAT'S GASYe HUSA LITTLE TocKETBooK, DONT Ou CRY, WE'LL MAKE A KILLING, BYE AND BYE rene an investmen “You'd better be hurrying,” said the March Hare to Johnny Sweep who was buying a new broom. hurrying,” TELEGRAM FROM JOHN ALDEN you had called me while i was PRESCOTT TO MRS. LESLIE Iking to mother. She is pretty * PRESCO long-winded with her complaints, i you know. She seems to think there Unless I hear from you today will,1s something brewing that she send cablegram to your mother ‘o doesn't know about. take the next boat home. She would| “Oh. yes, I'm quite aware that advise you to see me just once. I there is something brewing, but did can not stand this suspense. you get in touch with Leslie? What JACK. Telegram From Mrs. Leslie Prescott! she even promise to “Dm good-naturedly. but what do you think I I can’t wait. I can't| about me.” If I try to wait I shall “That’s so,” “This he says: ‘Dear Chimney come It will be easier to there : do besides. I'll phone you the NEA Service, Ine.) pools operate on a ] ad somethin; clothes. Hare. ST THERE'S cee ooo or auto li one_ is Man,” said Nancy. “So you see my chock full of soot. | “‘When I take my cakes out of/in 1903 and 1909 two hired hands the oven they all look like choco- late cakes, the soot comes down so—so please tell Johnny Sweep | came notorious for its high rate of that if he doesn’t come around soon I won't make him any more waf- fles with powdered sugar. on them. “Your sooty friend, “‘The Baker Man.’” Johnny Sweep laughed. “I'll go there first,” he said. can find it in New York, on any- thing from a poker hand arranged from serial numbers on paper cur- icense numbers to a Broadway play. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON said the March Hare. “Please begin, Nancy.” from_ the Baker “This is what Fairy Queen: Sweep doesn't round to my bake shop pretty soon, there is going to be trouble. It’s been a long cold winter and I have had an extra lot of baking 2 In 1878 his daughter had typhoid. “It’s from The-Maid-in-the-Gar-|them until they look den,” said Nancy. “Read it, please, ’ said the March | black—really they are swifts and MR. FRissy % XO BEGIN WITH, A First MORTGAGES OK 46250 AND A SECOND --- i DON'T BOTHER To SET DOWN THE SECOND MORTGAGT —THS JANITOR WALL HAvS JUST THAT SCOURING To Do MUCH CEess SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1925 May The Coolidge “Luck” Continue By Chester H. Rowell President Coolidge enters on his first elective term under extraordinary auspices. Chosen practically without opposition—for most Demo- crats, hopeless of their own candidate, welcomed his success, and the third party was a consciously futile gesture—with the country prosperous and-growing more so; with no bitter domestic issues and with foreign relations smoothing; with the good will and confidence of the nation and the world—the path before him is almost too smooth. He is to be congratulated on his good fortune and wel- comed to his great responsibility. May the “Coolidge Luck” continue—and the fine character and ability which has al-" ways risen to its opportunities. said Johnny “But you said you were going to read the letters the people wrote to the Fairy Queen If the come landings on the top of that. and putting the heaviest vehicles on stilts. Bracket sidewalks, one story up, would be practical almost every- where and cheap. They would make a revolutionary relief of con- gestion. Will We Recognize It? What will the city of the future be, within a time near enough to be seen by many who read this? For residence, let us hope, it will be scattered so far as to obliterate the difference between city and country, e Then at least all children can live in the open. This will also mean scattered centers of retail shopping. But doubtless there will remain congested districts, of sky-scraping business and barrack residences, into and out of which more people must move than can be carried by the present one-story and individu- alistic streets. If the whole city belonged to one man, what would such a pri- vate owner do? Doubtless just what private owners of great buildings have already done. There is no “fare” on elevators. Their cos covered in the rent. A city administered in the same way, with moving sidewalks and faster street carriers, with ade- quate tubes, to get further out, all admin red to carry the traffic, is physically and financially possi- ble. A private owner would do it. The only question is how soon dem- ocracy can do it, too. We Cannot Survive Contempt The “attacks” on Congress may Mrs. Jones related another story of a typhoid fever carrier. A farmer in Wisconsin had ty- phoid fever in 1864. He recovered, and moved to Camden, N. J., where he set up in the milk busi- ness. In 1886 his son-in-law had typhoid, big chimney is[In 1893 another daughter had it, and in 1897 ancther daughter, and had it. Meanwhile Camden, N. J., be- typhoid fever, and three-quarters So Nancy read: “‘Dear Fairy Queen: Where is that little rascal, Johnny Sweep? The Queen says to tell you—the “The Baker|king says, too—that every single Man pays me in waffles. It’s much] chimney in the palace is stuffed up better than money. As long as one| with soot. Here it is almost spring to eat and a barrel|and he hasn’t been around yet. in, what good is money!|have to hang the clothes out be- Especially when I never wear new|cause the weather is so nice, but What's the next letter?” down on FABLES ON HEALTH | ANOTHER GERM CARRIER | ! the soot comes rainin; Tike cross- word puzzles. Even the birds get live in the chimneys—but they get as sooty as crows and everybody thinks they are black birds. The other day they got so mad they picked my nose right off and flew away with it. ' “‘So please send Johnny Sweep as fast as you can and maybe if he gets the chimneys cleaned out the birds will bring my nose back. “*Yours in hopes, :__ “ *The-Maid-in-the-Garden.’” “Well,” laughed Johnny again. “It was an-ugly nose, so it doesn’t matter much. But since her clothes get so dirty, I'll really have to hur- “There are a lot more letters,” said Nancy. ‘ “The March Hare looked at his watch, “No time! No time!” he ex- claimed. “Just tell Johnny Sweep where he is expected. Then we'll have to be starting.” “There’s a letter from the Dream ‘Maker Mail, and the Toy ‘Man, and the Professor, and the Wea- ther Man, and Mrs. Tweedle, and the Candle Stick Maker and the Miller and—” “That's enough,” said Johnny. “Here’s my new broom and here’s me. I’m ready to do spring-clean- ing.” ‘They all got on the March Hare’s willing back and away he went to the Baker Man’s House, (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) pease abs Ttanah KISSES Why are crosses used to represent kisses? Centuries ago very few people could write, so in signing legal documents they simply made their mark, usually a cross. After doing this the document was made binding by both parties ing’ the cross_they had made. And 90 @ cross marked on a paper be- came associated with kisses. The first recorded instance of spontaneous magnetization of iron was in 1587, when Rimini, an apo- thecary, found that an ornament on Nae steeple possessed magnet- ism. : We used to speculate about two-story streets. Suddenly New York arrived with three-story ones, built all wrong, with the wrong things on, about and below the ground. Now they are planning, at least on paper, to make Penn- sylvania avenue, in Washington, five stories, with airplane And even this grandiose theoretical plan still reverses reason, by keeping the light foot traffic on the firm ground, be “paid propaganda,” as an emi- nent statesman recently said, but the contempt which they express is wider and older than anything propagandists could hire. Admiral Sims told an investigat- ing committee the other day how the mavy got Guantanamo fortified. Fearing that if the fortification proposal came ap, some congress- man would ask: “Where in hell is Guantanamo?” and there would be nothing doing for 10 years, the navy undertook the geographic ed- ucation of Congress. To get the name of the proposed station into the only literature con- gressmen read, naVal maneuvers were staged in Cuban waters, and newspaper men were taken along to put the name “Guantanamo” in- to their stories as often as pos- sible. Then, when the appropriation later came up, congressmen had heard cf Guantanamo, and it went through. = Failure to do the same thing with Guam accounts for its de- fenseless condition. That was 20 years ago, so “now it can be told.” It is a gooo.' story. But what of the service whose members had this estimate of the ,~ intelligence of Congress? And what cf the people who share that estimate? + It is not enough to demonstrate that it is untrue and unjust. If the people continue to think that, even mistakenly, it is the be- ginning of the wreck of democracy. A government may survive the hatred or the fear of its people, as many have, but not their contempt. of the cases were of persons using the farmer’s milk. Finally in 1909 some of the farmer’s milk was sent to New York and caused an epidemic of 380 cases. This was enough, and too much. So an investigation was started, and the man was found to be a ty- phoid fever carrier. “Well, did they stop the man from selling milk?” Mr. Jones asked when his wife had completed her story. “I should think they would have been doing some check- ing ip long before he invaded New ork.” AUTO OWNERS NOT EFFECTED BY NEW LAWS ., ¥argo, N. D., Mar. 21.—North Da- kota automobile owners will soon be taking their cars out of storage or getting them in shape after this winter's use. They will be able to drive them under practically the- same conditions as far as automobile laws are concerned as were in effect last stimmer as the result of the state legislature closing its session without materially changing present laws regarding motor vehicles. Busses are the most affected by the new measures. A bill was pass- ed ‘giving the state railroad com- mission greater power in dealing with bus lines. This raises the ad- ministrative power of the rail gov- erning ‘body over the automobile transportation firms by giving the commission more power in the set- tlement of rates, safety of bus pa sengers and traffic of busses. cense fees for passenger carryi cars and trucks were materially in- creased; also. Following the failure of a pro- posal to: increase the state gasoline tax from’ one cent a gallon to two cents, to provide for a state highway fund, the legislature provided for A, creation of a‘fund to meet the fed- eral government’s requirements on federal aid appropriations, by trans- ferring all but $200,000 of the in- come from the present gas tax to [the state highway ‘department. License fees for motor cars of all. \ types were slightly increased by doubling the mileage tax which forms ome of the units for determining the license fee. It was explained that the license fee is i factors: weight of car, its cost when new, and its horse power T! ure increased the mileage ment on the cost of ‘3. In this the provision for in- uck licenses. HARD TIMES—NO WINE Vienna, March Z1.—Because of the general impression prevailing here, the annual carnival was tame. Champagne was too expensive ‘for most of the revelers, so they had to try to have a good time on lemon- ade and soda water. ’ ee £ POST CARD RECORDS Berlin, Asa 21.—Sending of ages by ‘tiny phono; h rec- ords attached to post aah Prey deen patented by Charles. Rammelsberg. A small phonograph is used by the Teceiver-ot obtain the message... =