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L e th k ii th 5 et Ww hi bu ne pi ar eo to Ai Li Te ea ce se a th Cc on an n & “PAGE FOUR 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 i, 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.............0.4 - -$7.20 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) BEGGING THE ISSUE Those supporting A. P. Lenhart seek to raise a number of fictitious issues. First they sought to drag the “water issue” into this campaign by inducing the Association of Commerce to ask for a report upon the water department. T. R. Atkinson, Myron Atkinson and the city attorney prepared a long hi: torical sketch together with a defense of Mr. Atkinson’s fees, some $29,000 in money. The Tribune urged this was not an issue in the campaign except the three per cent upon $265,000, the purchase price of the old plant, paid Mr. Atkinson. Commissioner Thomp- son refused to certify this bill for payment and protested openly and in private to the other commissioners against. paying the city engineer a gratuity of $7,950 of the tax- . Payers money. Outside of a discussion of Atkinson’s fees, which is an ex-parte defense of these expenditures and also a liberal smattering of political propaganda, the report is made up of data which was threshed out in these columns during two bond elections. It was not up to The Tribune to reprint a mass of figures and historical data at its own expense. The Lenhart com- “=<mittee did what was within its right, it went elsewhere and PAID TO HAVE the political document printed. There need be no misunderstanding on this point. There is no necessity for the voters to be misled. Com- missioner Thompson introduced the first resolution that sent the waterworks controversy to the railroad commission before Lenhart was on the commission and started the ball rolling toward municipal ownership and the settlement of a vexatious problem. All through the controversy lead- ing up to the building of the new water plant, Commis- sioner Thompson was for a city owned plant, but he urged greater economy and stricter supervision over Mr. Atkin- son who spent more of the taxpayers’ money than was neces- sary. He was overruled by Mr. Lenhart who allowed Mr. Atkinson his own way in practically everything even to the three per cent gratuity and in this he was supported by Commissioners Larson and French. The expenditure of thousands of dollars needlessly can be charged up to this at- titude. Mr. Thompson being in the minority protested but that is as as he got. He did manage to get some useless mains eliminated after a heated session. The water plant has been built, the city has been bonded and the debt must be met, but the only way to reduce taxes is to vote for greater economy in the administration of city affairs and that is what Mr. Thompson advocates and stands for. Tax reduction, more business-like methods, equality of taxation and more care in the handling of the tax-payers’ money, these are the chief issues. Vote your taxes downward April 7— Never was there a better opportunity to free Bismarck from a system that is plunging it deeper into debt as the months roll on. Apply the brakes next Tuesday. Publisher NAMES What’s in a name, as the poet once remarked? Surpris- ingly little, if you take seriously some of the answers in a recent examination given co-eds at the University of Chi- cago. Benito Mussolini, for instance, was described as an “Irish radical” and a “Bolshevik agitator.” Feodor Chaliapin, the Russian opera singer, was “an impersonator of Charlie Chaplin.” Charles Bliot, president emeritus of Harvard, was a “column conductor for a local newspaper.” Knute Rockne, Notre Dame football coach, was described as a “Scandina- vian author” and as a “Norwegian jockey.” ‘ In justice to the co-eds, it must be stated that more than 75 per tent of the replies were right. Still, it must have been rather mortifying to the Fascist leader and to the great educator, Dr. Eliot. One feels they had a right to expect every college student to know them. WORRY Worry has no useful value, accomplishes nothing, and makes the victim a nuisance to himself and to his associates, Says the Chicago Health bulletin. Bie there is plenty of food for thought in that for every- ly. Too much worry is one of the few real things you need worry about. A man who lives regularly, is engaged in a good active ‘mental or physical work, takes part in some regular health- ful recreations, and takes time to do.a good deed for some- one else once in a while, has little time to worry. It isn’t a bad idea to remember that the world is pretty Eprmamnch as we make it. Laughter is of real value to the worrier Pi _and cheerfulness is a bully good tonic. : FORESTS Perhaps, at one time, the American nation did have “trees to burn.” ‘And they have been burned—millions of ways. { That is why there is all importance in the week of April 27, which President Coolidge has proclaimed as American Forest Week. : } Every year the deforested areas grow larger, and nothing «can turn the balance in our favor except the raising of new -. When aos gem 1 oe reforestation. them. And other millions have been destroyed in other ‘ou consider that our forests are the backbone , the cornerstone of lumbering and the heart it is no wonder we all need pay heed to the call Editorial Review Comments reproduced im this column may or may not ex! the opinion of The Tribune. are presented here in order our readers may have of important Issues which are Deng discussed in the press of the day. ‘h. oY both sides WHAT ARE STATE ENGINEERS FOR? (McLean Co. Independent) The hand of the “Inner Ring” that has wilfully squandered! and mismanaged the highway depart- ment of this state is again shown in their latest move. The state press js carrying advertisoments for bids for the engineering on:the Williston and Sanish bridges to be let on April 6th. The majority report on the high- way investigation called the atten- tion of the people of this state to the fact that while practically a half hundred high priced engineers were retained on state pay roll, yet private engineers who were. on the “Inside” were getting all the way from $2,000.00 to $8,000.00 in fees from the state for work that the highway engineers could just as well do. And that is not all. The present term of two members of the com- mission expires on April 15th. The two members with the Governor will then control the policies of the commission. These bridge. bils were passed on the last night of the session and without taking the time to thor- oughly investigate the feasibility of the highway engineers now on the pay roll during this engineer: ing work and with the purpose in view of again allowing the “Inner Circle,” one of whom is Mr. Black’s former partner, to again get a swag at the highway fund, Mr. Black takes matters into his own hands and rushes these ‘id= through before the new commis: sion comes into power. GOV. SORLIE. RIGHT (Steele Ozone) In an interview in the St. Paul Dispatch, Gov. Sorlie is quote! as saying that prosperity could not be logislated into being. It rests with the individual. and collective action of the people, farmers and all. The governor said the de- pressed situation in North Dakota had passed, and that the entire state was on the whole in a good wav, though of course there were still some poor spots. : The governor told the plain truth. Legislation will not make any ‘body prosperous unless it iy of a kina of free gift nature, and that is not done much. It is re freshing to have one public official in a position like that of Gov. Sorlie, tell the unvarnished fact about legislation of any alleged beneficial nature in finances of the, individual. We never have taken’ any stock in any of the various proposals to get legislative or con- “help the gressional action to “ farmers.” It is a delusion and @- piece of polit camouflage. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON said the March Hare for “And now, “the next thing to get ready spring is the Old Swimming Hole. “Where's that?” asked the Twins. “Away up the creek where the boys go swimming,” said the March Hare. “Spring isn't rightly here un- til the swimming hole is cleaned out and fixed up in fine shape. Besides, | several people living there must be- given notice to move.” _ A “Then,” said Nancy quickly, “if it’s a case of moving, we'd better get Mister Tingaling, the landlord, and get him to go along with us.” “A very good idea, indeed!” agreed the March Hare. “We'll go to his house and get him.” “Sure, I'll go,” said Mister Tinga-| ling when he heard it. “I have to get around a bit and attend to my house-renting anyway. I'll get my ice-cream saucer hat with the feather in it, and go right along.” Then he called out to the kitchen, “Mrs. Tingaling! Oh, Mrs, Tingaling! I'm going out on business and I'll not be back to lunch. If you want me for anything, telephone to the Old Swimming Hole. I have to see some of my tenants there.” “Get on my back and I'll ride you,” said the March Hare. “You aren’t any larger than these children, being a fairy and everything. The reason they are small enough to ride on my back is that they have magic shoes im. that make them shrink, Mister Tin- galing, this is Nancy—and Nick. Nancy and Nick,’this is Mister Tin- galing.” ) “We're old friends,” said the fairy- man shaking hands with both of them. “Very old friends, indeed! They helped me to collect’ my rents one time on the thirty-second day of the month—or maybe the thirty- third, I forget which.” Well—away, went the March Hare, and after passing Lily Pond and crossing the meadow, they came to Ripple Creek. Then they went lippity lop along a little path beside Ripple Creek un- til they came to the woods. Then they still kept going along the lit- tle path and by and by they came to a place where the creek widened out into a sort of lake, and where the sun came sprinkling down through the tree branches—and there they were, The Twins and Mister Tingsling hopped off the hare’s back and look- ed around. “I knew it!” citedly: at. once.” “What?” asked everybody cried the hare ex- “We'll have to take it down in sur- P ‘That sign,” ing with o1 “No trespat language means tay out.” “Every year,” said ‘armer Greenway puts up that ign to keep the boys away. But he should know better by this time. I always see that it is taken down. €ome and we'll give it a push.” They all pushed hard and over the sign face down. ‘hat's that,” said the hare. “Now can see some of the people who GGepyricht, 1928, NEA Se opyrigh s rvice, Inc.) + “(To Be Continued) Inauguration Day was first set as the “first Wednesday in March.” That happened to be March 4, and ever since the ceremonies have been held on that day, . the hare, point- The sign said, which in plain {judge gave THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE 2 TO JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT, CONTINUED Personally, John, 1 would hardly think that this reconstruction possible if 1 did not know of the absorbing and arduous work which : will engross your mind for the next a = year or two. With me, my two JGEHESHEntEGne cnane: boys will probably push out all Bee een GctWalEHE other considerations of anyone or enemaue ere anything in my mind. pions. You say that a man puts his wife on a pedestal and worships her. Worship, John, is a very cold emo- tion. Reverence always goes to passion’s why 1 should repeat this epigram to you I do not know; for, of course, 1 want you to realize that I shall ‘ask of you neither reverence nor passion. ‘}T will have no right under our plan to interest myself in your personal affairs except where we both must Time you get through reading «ll the divorces there’ isn’t time to write funny cracks for the newspi pers. Radio doesn’t work as well in sum- mer. But you mustn't mind that. You don’t work as well either. Baltimore doctor has a drug 50 times as strong as a carbolic acid, which is blame near as’ strong bootleg. People are becoming so honest it may be possible to reduce.the in-}}oy more or ss to the conven- come taxes again. tions of society and the speech of ar Dame G Had a big fire in Japan. Whole own tburned. All we can do is hope it got some mah jongg sets. T shall not require nor ask any explanations of where you go, or to whom you pay more than the polite attentions of everyday life. The only thing I shall ask of you, John, is not to bring open scandal into my life. I will waive my right to interfere with you in any way, prof- fering only one request: Do not make me ashamed in the eyes of the world. It would be hardly fair to you, however, and certainly not fair to myself if I did not tell you that f will also arrogate to myself the same consideration of my actions, from you. Mind I am not telling you that I shall do anything that Girls will be girls. Baltimore one of 107 had a birthday party. Her husband of 109 was there. Bet he cut up. Man broke a So the bad Los Angeles news. glass to get at some jewels. ‘him seven years luck. Dawes is giving away pipes in the Senate, which is one way for a vic president to be noticed. Gold has been found in Yakutsk, was | anding as_a_wife, rn you that if I find n interests me (and John, there are many _ interesting men in this world) I shall feel my- self privileged to ai tions, provided they ept this atten- are given in a way that does not stretch thej bounds of my self-respect and the edicts of socie Wheneve terest shall pass the limitations of friendship, I shall ask you to setj me free, for 1 do not intend to live a loveless life. Love is my due and if you can not give it to me, you must remember there is always some other man waiting just around the corner to do so. I also expec you to warn me if you find yourself in a similar predicament,, otherwise this com- premise of ours would not be worth thinking about, much less writing down here. Read this letter and think it over carefully, John. tional ravings of a woman who feels -her heart is broken, It is not the cynical observations of a woman who thinks she has been greatly abused. It is the acceptance of what ui have tried to impress upon me your letter that this is the usual condition in the lives of men and I would make those conditions usual in the lives of women. LESLIE HAMILTON PRESCOTT. Telephone Message From John Alden Prescott to Clerk at Desk, Ten Eyck Hotel “Please send a boy for my bags immediately. Have the cashier have my bill ready, and call me a taxi. I'am leaving immediately.” (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) Siberia, but how on earth will peo- ple ask their way to the place? States on lecture. condition that he won't 0. gets the 1926 bowling Bowling, as you may playing with grown mar- The annual report about the peach crop being ruined has been issued. Her first United We like Hungary now. president is visiting the EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO NO, SIR, NR. TRUG, I'M SoRRY, Boy LT HAVEN’ T ANY OF THOSE IN STOCK. = on iif YOU Waventr, cat Wecc, HOw AGOUT THIS STOR WU'RE WORKING ror — Have THEY Any A New Jersey man who flirted with a cop's wife won't do it again, not for at least 30 days. Even though a New York has been declared indecent not a single person was hurt in the rush to buy tickets. Spring cleaning’s due. Wash the windows on the inSide, only so you won’t need any. shades. A man is a person who wants to plant cabbage in the front yard. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) o—___________» { In New York | —_—______ ——y New York, March 31.—Girls in New York are unlike girls in any other city. They are at once the est dressed and the most unat- tractive, This is speaking eral terms, of course, They are best’ dressed because more attention is paid to dress here than in any other city. Many of the styles, both for America arid Europe, originate here. In most occupations wages and salaries are greater here —and the urge and need of spending is greater. To say that New York girls are less attractive than girls of other cities is.a matter of individual opin. ion, of course. But the Gotham girl uses more cosinetics than, her sisters in the hinterland. A great many of them use heavy mascarra on their eyebrows and bead their eyelids. They look like. nothing so much: as chorines awaiting overture. In short, the beauty of the Goth- am girl is largely artificial. in gen- No ‘matter what her academic education is the New York girl is more generally ignorant than others. She may be an expert in~some line of work and she may be exceedingly worldly wise and sophisticated, but she may not know that fruit evolves from blossoms on trees, or that but- ter is made by, churning milk, or that few babies have teeth Been they're born. On the ather hand she knows pretty well how to parry a smart re- mark from, a smart man and to go wherever she pleases to go, unac- companied. Opportunity to study the eternal feminine in is at every turn here, ince, 11,000 er- »| sons work in the Equitable building in tower Broadway. Three-fourths of them are women and girls. Many of them est breakfast and lunch in the ‘building amd, do their shopping during lunch hour without leaving show _ ‘TUESDAY, MARCH 81, 1925 to their predecessors. jent House of Representatives jand more diligent. have known. Legislatures, not legislators. be easy to get more of them, and better, if it were made worth ‘their while. The trouble goes deeper. Person- al inferiority, so far as it exists, is merely an external symptom. Little is gained by relieving the symptom alone, and if the under- lying cause is found and remedied, |the symptom will take care of it: self, Senators make much of their “equal prerogative” with the pres- ident in passing on nominations. Legalistically, the claim is of course undeniable. But practically, the unwritten law of the Senate has always made certain exceptions. One of these is former senators, who are always confirmed without even reference to a committee. Yet senators must know that states make mistakes in selection, as well as presidents. They: doubtless realized it in the case of Fall, but “senatorial cour- tesy” made his confirmation a: mat- jter of form. The other exception has been se- lections to the cabinet. Only three presidents have been rebuffed by re- jection of cabinet appointees, and there was open war between Con- grass and these three. Legalistically the Senate has the right to reject a cabinet appoint- ment, just as it has the right to vote to declare war on Canada, Actually, one ought to be about as likely as the other. A Smart-Aleck Performance “There more drinking among the young people than ever,” say the mock-seandalized “wets.” Those of us who have not forgot- ten our own youth in the glamor of | distance can certify that this is not the first generation in which there as too much drinking among the young. We could probably even point out our favorite cemeteries the graves of those who did it.. But to the extent that the modern fling is true--what does it mean? Obviously, that drinking “has be- come a smart-Aleck performance. ; Youth is the smart-Aleck age. | Our flappers and their adolescent ' jin Even if all this is true—what of it? The personal inferiority, but organic incapacity. System At Fault—Not The Men By Chester H. Rowell Members of legislative bodies are rising to defend them against the supposed imputation of being personally inferior Speaker Gillett, in his valedictory, conceded that the pres- might not be as “brilliant” as that of 30 years ago, but added that it is certainly soberer Similarly, the governor and lieutenant governor of Cali- fornia, who disagree in everything else, unite in pronounc- ing the membership of the present Legislature the best they / t : charge is not \ < The trouble is with Congress, not congressmen; with If legislative bodies. are so constituted that better men could not operate them, it makes little difference whether they are composed of better or of worse. There are good men in all legislative bodies now. It wouJ}d i swains are not dipsomaniacs. have no appetite for drink. ‘ But they observe certain of their elders drinking for smartness, so they do likewise. It is the adolescent equivalent of the earlier “playing hookey” or mak- ing faces at the teacher. ; As we grow up, these petty defi- ances of authority, seem less smart. Unfortunately, some people never grow up. These cases of arrested development furnish the examples which callow youth imagines it smart to imitate. No Romance Is Left The real war took the glamor out of even play war. Watch a group of college cadets drilling. Ten years ago their older brothers, who afterward learned the real thing in the trenches, were doing “dress parade stuff” in nifty blue or gray uniforms. Now, like as not, the drill will con- sist in. running down hill, open or- der, in overali-colored khaki, and tumbling into holes or behind hum- mocks at the bottom, each for him- self. To paraphrase a great American general: “This may be war; but it is not magnificent.” Not Exactly .“Snobbish” The world moves too fast even for our prejudices. Only a little while ago we were agitating lege students having automobiles, on grounds of “aristocracy” and “class distinction”-—qualities which we per- ennially reprehend in youth, thoi@rh, obviously, we are the ones they learned them from. But now that a fourth-hand Ford can often be bought for the price of a cheap bicycle, and the boy with the most battered ‘relic is the proud- est of it, the menace comes from the very democracy of the cars. The alumnt inagazine of a mid western university complains that the streets of the college town are unsafe, not merely from the num- ber of cars, but chiefly because so many of them have loose brakes and steering wheels that there is no guessing which way they will jump next. FABLES ON HEALTH THE “FLU” EPIDEMIC | “Why did the first wave of influ- enza over the country in 1918 cause so marty more deaths than the many It is not the emo- ¢Pidemics since?” Mr. Jones of Any-| with vaccinations. town asked, | “The reason lies in the fact that the. human body, when attacked once, builds up a strong resistance in order not to be caught unprepared jthe next time,” Mr. Jones explained. | “It is something like locking the door after the thief has [already made a haul, except that the ques- tion of disease is much more im- portant. “Measles do not cause nearly so | many deaths as they did when they first. attacked society.” Scientists have learned. this, and come to the assistance of humanity A person is vac- cinated against smallpox. The vaccination causes sickness, in fact the result is a slight case of smallpox. It is enough, however, to start the fighting agencies cf the body to pre- paring for a general onslaught of the disease germs. The result is that thereafter whe the ‘person comes in contact smallpox, the person is not affected. The bodv has built-up an immunity against the disease. the building. A total of 127,000 peo- ple pass through the entrance to the building every day. There are other buildings, especially those in the new garment center, which house almost as many, gi A greater proportion of girls eat three meals a day in restaurants in New York than in any other city, it seems to me. They stand two deep Jat a quick lunch counter at the Long Island railroad terminal for breakfast in the morning. Or you see them at lunch counters in office buildings, The sandwich and soda stands are crowded with them at noon. In the evening fully a third of the diners in the restaurants are unescorted women and girls. This may be construed as. an index of the artificialty of life in New York. Or it may indicate the progress of wo men's emancipation, her growing dependence and her participation in equal rights even to the extent of going home when she pleases. —JAMES W. DEAN. KILLED THE DEAD SEA YOUNG BRAGGER — My grand- father built the Rocky Mountains. UNSYMPATHETIC LISTENDR- Aw, that’s nothing. Do you know the Dead Sea? Well, my grand- father kill it. — Stanford Chap- arral. . A sheik is a man who gets 80 dif- , ferent kinds of f Saboulder of bis ding ner coat, Powder on the j MANDAN NEWS MANDAN TO HAVE INDIAN MUSEUM Mandan is assured of the greatest collection of Mandan, Gras Ventres, Arikara and Sioux Indians relics in the United States it Was learned yesterday when a special committeo of Missouri Chapter No. 1, Royal Arch Masons, announced its inten- ition of recommending to the Man- dan Masonic Temple building com- mittee, acceptance of the offer of (Major A. B. Welch, Indian student. \ Recently Major Welch offered | to donate his entire Indian collection to the Masonic temple committee if ‘it saw fit to establish a museum in the building which is now partially completed. With assurance of the Welch col- lection as a nucleus, other collec- tions will be added including the magnificent Indian collection of F. H. Motsiff. Mr. Motsiff’s farm two miles south of the city, is located on the site of what historians be- lieve to have been the greatest of all the Mandan Indian villages. FINED ‘FOR CARELESS DRIVING Dorothy Hensel, Bismarck, driver of the Ford car owned by John Wy- ciskala, also of Bismarck, _ whic struck Mrs. Minnie Davidson a1 daughter, causing very serious in= juries" to “Mrs. Davidson, was ar- raigned in police court late Satur- day afternoon on charges of driving faster than the speed limit, and with ,out having her car under control aril in a careless manner. A fine of $10 and costs was assessed against ; Miss Hensel by Justice J. E. Camp- ell, DL | A Thought Men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts; and I will declare thy Sreatnent—-Pe, 145.6. For he that once is ‘good, is ever great.—Ben Jonson. A new company has arranged air- plane trips over the Alps for tourists. Our Optical Service “The Best in the West.” F. A, KNOWLES Jewelers = Opepmatetats . f ee ee me ee oe. ee t i -