The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 18, 1925, Page 4

_ PAGE FOUR BISMARCK THE TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. Editorial Review . Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express GEORGE D. MANN - - - Publisher the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here in order that Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - - o Marquette Bldg. - DETROIT Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. FLOOD MAY PROVE A BLES: (Minot Daily News) 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..... Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) . _ Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) . “Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota..... ee $7.20 Sooo Usd) 5.00 6.00 THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) (Official City, State and County Newspaper) LAND SALES MORE ACTIVE One of the outstanding features of a news letter sent out by the Northwestern National Bank under date of April 15 is the space devoted to reported land sales in North Dakota. This is an indisputable indication of a turn for the better throughout the farming communities of the Northwest. “The greatest activity disclosed by our inquiry,” says the news letter, “was in southwestern North Dakota. Dickinson banker writes: A ‘Since about the first of Novem- ber, and even continuing at this time, a great many sales of farm lands have been made locally to farmers owning ad- joining land as well as purchasing improved farms on which to place their sons who have attained maturity and are de- siring to depend on their own resources. While we cannot state definitely how many farms have changed hands, we would feel safe in saying that from 100 to 150 quarter sec- tions have changed ownership in the section tributary to Dickinson within a radius of about 20 miles. Perhaps 50 per cent of the land which has been sold has not been, under cultivation during the past few years’. A Bismarck correspondent of the bank writes: orn “Some of the farmers are talking about wishing to buy some of the cheap land at this time, and in case there is a crop this; year there will undoubtedly be a good many purchases of that nature made.” Hettinger reports the sale of 16@ acres nine miles out from the city limits for $3,600. A farmer living three miles from Hettinger was reported as refusing $5,000 for his quar- ter section. These evidences of activity in land seem to promise a “gradual return to better days. The feeling generally is that _ land values over the Northwest are on the upward trend. Interest in land purchases is usually a forerunner of good times. most cheering of all. This feature of conditions in the Northwest is the The Ninth District Federal Reserve bank reports that customers’ loans have been reduced some 150 millions of dol- lars and borrowings by all banks in the district are the smallest since 1918. Those who are in a position to know, note that there will be much less land idle this year over the Dakotas and Mon- tana than for many years past. A northwestern North Dakota banker writes: know of a single farm in this territory that is not rented, everyday we have farmers in making inquiry for land to rent.” North Dakota enters the spring of 1925 under most aus- picious conditions and there is every reason for renewing optimism and faith in this state: The Best of the West. KEEPING CHILDREN ON THE FARM The McLean County Independent in a recent issue reports the purchase of nearly a hundred tractors in the vicinity This fact is heralded as a partial of Garrison this year. solution of keeping the boy and girl on the farm which has been a problem for a decade or more. “One of the most effective means of retaining the boy on the farm is to modernize,” says the Independent. present day farmer boy has no stomach for the old-time man-killing work of plodding behind horses at seeding, cul- tivating and harvesting.” “The The argument throughout the editorial is sound. Mak- ing the farm business less of drudgery is to make it more Many farmers are modernizing their homes so that the life of the woman will be more pleasant and her attractive. hours of hard labor lessened. “Farm the easy way,” is a new slogan coined by the This end may not be within the reach of all, Independent. but there is no argument against the suggestion as an in- ducement to keeping the boys and girls on the farm, happy and contented. SOME ACTION NECESSARY Elimination of the State Capitol Street Car would solve a vexatious traffic problem in Bismarck. As the car is now parked on Main street, it is a constant menace to traffic. Some near fatalities have been avoided by sheer luck and in some cases automobiles have been jammed. =. In cities under 20,000, the bus'is supplanting the street It probably would be practical for the Board of car line. Administration to operate a bus or make some arrangement with a private bus line to carry the capitol employes back “: and forth at no greater expense than is incurred through the operation of the present street car line. ties. -~---~~Main and Fourth street property owners doubtless would . .welcome the elimination of the street car as its presence has actually driven traffic away because of the danger involved. An early solution of the problem is contemplated by the City Commission working in cooperation with the state authori- THE STORY OF OLE KNUTSON This is the story of Ole Knutson as told in the Parshall Plainsman: “Dakota in the lead, that is the opinion of Ole Knutson, who has a homestead here, but has been farming in Minne- “gota, because he thought he was operating in a better state.| Bagdad on the Hudson, swarming. on “He is back to the job on the old farm, where he is put-| ting in a crop and erecting farm buildings. A serjes of years in a state where |: ind rents are skyhigh has convinced him that he can operate his own land that is every iota as| fertile.” There are many more gradually returning who left the Phe find that the green pastures are at home, not over “IT do not Despite the fact that inconven- | fence will be caused by the pres- ent high waters, Minot has rea- son to rejoice from the fact that conditions have deveioped where the Mouse river must be conquer- ed. Before another spring season has rolled around there is every reason that more will have been done to solve the problem which ‘has been kicked about from year to year, than has been accomplish- | ed since the city was founded. An accurate topographical sur- vey is to be made this season by the state engineering crew, work ing with federal cooperation. Wicn this completed one finite step will have been taken which should lead to the desired solution. The Minot Association of Com- merce, working with the business interests of Devils Lake is entitled to no little credit for the passage by the e legislature of an act appropriating 100 for neces Sary survey work. With topogra- phical maps completed the ° re- mainder is an analysis and engi neering problem. The possibilities will then be in view. If the rem- edy is the construction of a large dam up-stream, making necessary the creation of a lake area in the| valley, then that is the thing to do. If the banks of the Mouse should be dykec! or the river bed dredged those facts will be appar- ent. At any rate the first step is to be taken. The ‘News believes that while this work is in progress that a fioo! control commission should be created, composed of representa- tives from the city commission of Minot, the county board, the Minot Association of Commerce as well ag representatives from any other communities along the Mouse river irterested in flood control. Such a body should ‘be created now and be in readiness to act when the sur- vey is completed. Flood control has passed the joke stage in Minot. The welfare of the city is involved to such an extent that cooperation should be forthcoming from every available source. The time has come to put | every choul'er to the wheel that ;the waters of the Mouse river may | be brought under control. | THE OWNERSHIP OF WEDDING PR TS (Cincinnati Times Star) “Wedding presents sent before | marriage belong to the bride, if addressed to her in her maiden name and sent to_ her: home.” This is the law of the land so far as a common pleas} judge in Hamilton county can make it so, and it sounds reasonable enough; but it gives the wife, in cases where there is a falling-out afterward, a noteworthy advantage in the disposition of the family chattels. When a young couple are married, ‘the friends and rela- tives of the groom usually send their wedding offerings to the girl of his choice, even if they have never met. She gets the china, the table silver, bedroom linen, the sectional ‘bookshelves, ihe pic tures, the mirro.s, the miscellane- ous bric-a~brac. The groom gets kind words and perhaps an ink- stand. If the decree of tie court seems inequitable to any young man con- templating matrimony he has at least two recourses. One is to have his brothers, sisters and close personal friends sen! their wed- ding gifts in escrow to a ‘bank with instructions to deliver them only on receipt of a paper signed by ‘both the contracting parties. The other is to keep in the good grace of his marital partner s9 that he may have continuing use of the china and silver. New York, April 18.—Raining. Not violets, but great slashing streams of water. Itshits the pavement and spatters up into a silvery spray, scurried along by the April wind, gleaming white puffs against the black. Rain transforms New York. It puts a sheen on its gray, drabness. it brightens exteriors. But it tensifies loneliness. ci Look through the restaurant win- dow at that girl there. Her meal finished, she sits there, alone, va- cantly looking out upon the dismal street. Shall she slosh along to a movie? Or shall she scurry back to her room and await another day of; toil? Is she thinking of a home in the country where a fire blazed brightly on the hearth while the rain beat a gentle tatoo on the roof? Four small walls of a rooming house on a rainy night! Thousands on thousands of them here. Is there a greater loneliness? But enough of that. Come along, where the lights are bright. Now) look at the streets. Mirrors of dan- cing light. Pavements of gold, Bril- liance growing on brilljance. Double Spenpalment of the Great White ay. Above the electric lights streak and blink and whirl in a refulgent | glory. And under foot they dance along in fantastic pattern. Alice in a wonderland of a thousand mirrors, a magic carpet. Drop me there from the outer darkness and I'll stand in awe at Broadway, the street paved with ‘old. And you can have the milk and come up, the street umbrella salesmen here make! small fortunes. - They find trade at who from a report of housing conditions THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE of those umbrellas as through a| sieve. sen | | When August Marhold was found dead, a suicide, a note was found in| which he lamented the lack of real beer. His act was needless, as a mil-| lion men, more or legs, could have | told him where to gel real beer in| New York. Fred and Adele Astaire, brother and sister, on a few occasions have | played as hero and heroine in musi- Such brother and sis- have been rare in d ings. Reginald Sheffi coined the cast of the sweet-| heart of his sister, Flora Sheffield. Living conditions for some? ne- groes are today not as good as when they were slaves. Here are items in Harlem: Three persons sleep in a dark room hardly bigger than a! closet. Four in one small room with| use of bath and kitchen, six in three | small rooms with no bath or toilet. Flats that have only cold running water rent to negroes for $26 a month. —JAMES W. DEAN. Few men are heroes in their own home Coolidge’s son, in filling out; a form, gave his father’s occupation as “lawyer.” Eight years ago the United States entered the war. We'll let you know when we get out. vem Navy flyers will map the arctic. Useless expense. They should have done it recently when the arctic was! ere. Man in Italy jumped 100 feet with an egg without breaking it. They think he is crazy. So do we. It's none of our business, but some people look as if they were raised on lemon juice instead of milk. Los Angeles woman butted a rob-, ber in the stomach, laying him out,! which was using her head. | Men become exasperated too easi- ly. In New York, a man took his girl out and shot her. Haste makes waste In Chicago, a man running from a cop fell aad} broke a’ leg. News from Turkey. They have! called off a war, perhaps to end it in| time for their next one, St. Louis woman stuck her hus-j band with a knife. Well, wasn’t he! her husband? New York phone company has! awarded ‘six medals for heroism, none| going to phone users for-being polite. It’s spring in Boston, millionaire will marry his keeper. where a house- In Russia, they try out‘all sorts of strange ideas. Now they are even trying to lower taxes. Italian queen has ordered ladies td wear trains.. Couldn't do it in this country. Would be worn out first’ jay. There is nothing more dangerous than an irate husband. (Copyright, 1925, NEA’ Service, Inc.) | Evening Pick BH Following is a ‘food variety of ‘broadcasting for tonight WBZ. (333.3) 8 E, T.—Special ser- vices on 150th anniversary of Paul Revere'’s ride. KTHS (3748) 9:15 C.. T.—Fiddle band with Hawaiian guitar numbers. WGY (379.5) 8 E. LY French pro- gram, music and readings. WTAM (389.4) 12 to 4. E. T.—Lake. Erie night caps, jazz. - LOOSE WOVEN WOOLENS one-man last night ‘sell about 50 amb in 15 minutes at $1 each. He probab! 5 Vanes May Soak poet Wrote ene “ Wool fabrics with a loose weave which m: them appear to have ‘been kni are made into most de- lightful sport coats and’ capes. A Some Folks Have All the Luck oT DOGG, This 1S RE LIFE/ NO RAFFIC PROBLEM. NO NO NO DRE ee FOR DINNER, NO FLAPPER PZOBLEM, NO BALLOON PANTS, NO JAZZ MUSIC. NO VISITING, Y / -: The Tangle LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO THE LITTLE MARQUISE, CARE THE SECRET DRAWER I expect it is by some real plan of e that I received the three let- ers at the same time that I am putting in the secret drawer today How many times letters tell much more than the people who write them intend to tell. In all these letters I am sure each one of the writers has written be- tween the lines something each per- son had in his or,her mind, but |which they had nd idea they had told. Here is the letter I have just re- ceived from Bee Summers telling me about her coming baby. Bee thought she was telling me that she was id of birth pains when all the w she was agonizing over the fact that she is afraid when she loses her one beauty—her beautiful tigure—she may lose also her hus- band’s love. She also unconsciously tells me that she has always been more or less jealous of the lovely girls with whom Dick comes in gontact every day. Then she really—although she does not know it—makes an open apology to Paula Perier for being jealous of her when she herself first came to glollywood. She has now come in some way to sense the fact that for a time at least Paula is done with men, The most particular thing about her letter to me, however, is that long conversation she had with Paula in which the actress came to the conclusion that “the wife is not only the housekeeper and the home- keeper, but also the lovekeeper of the family.” This is’ a new thought and, taken in connection with that letter which Jack wrote to Syd, it is a great in- sight to me. Jack says to Syd, “It is. perfectly astonishing how implacably unfor- giving a good woman can be.” I don’t quite understand his atti- tude, little Marquise. I forgave him wholly and adopted his ¢! other woman. What m ask? Of course, I happened before we and, perhaps in my taken more pride than I should in my niagnanim The fact remains, however. I find I do have a tiffer- ent code. I can see from Svd’s letter that he thinks I am too hard. He thinks I make too much of strict justice and not enough of cha: Perhaps I tuke it all too seriously. Jack is evide honest in his be- lief that he ioves me devotedly and he is very unhappy just at present. He tells Syd that 1 seem happy only means that women are actresses; they never tell to anyone just what they think or feel. From the cradle to the grave they always ‘seeming” somebody something else, w a ways be and usual himself. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) ADVENTURE OF | THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON SNITCHER SNATCH ESCAPES ONCE MORE When Snitcher Snatch rolled out of the Muffin Man’s ack door and spilled some of the magic snuff out of the gold snuff-box that he had stolen from the Fairy Queen’s uncle, Mister Whizz eried out, “Shere he is!” \ But just then the fairyman had to stop to sneeze because some of the magic snuff had gotten up his nose. ‘And when Nancy and Nick tried to say, “Where?” they started to sneeze, too, and by the time their sneezing party was over, Snitcher Snatch had jumped to his feet, grabbed his snuff box and run down the, street. Nobody knew all the damage the snuff had done. about Mother Goose’s feathers or the | EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO | AFRAID OF {lA TERARFIC They didn’t know. EXECUTIVES year than any other governor. on another ground. ing governors and presidents, we have come to look 6n our or reject them. ament conference v security of France. armament. Of course, if America were be worth much. new key. that basis, the unity of Europe be assured Pre-war Germany was proud of having no friends, and of lying on its “own fist.” No nation the remade world, not even Amer- ica, can ever do that again. THOSE WHO FETTERS HOLD MAN SHOULD PUT ASUNDER Practical jokers thought it funny to send a honeymoon couple handeuffed together fr Denver to nM , forwarded em at their » so no great harm was if they thought it # joke, lanesian savages, in the South , have a more serious and per- manent method of guaranteeing the “sacred indissolubility” There, if a.wife tries to run away from the husband who has bought her, they put a red-hot stone under her knee, and tie the leg bent over it until the tendons are so burned that the joint will never straighten again. There is no danger, for the | rest of her life, of her ever hobbling far from the marital hut. The 2 those who would protect the “sacredness” of Christian mar- riages by methods scarcely less Christian, only they sear the soul instead of the flesh. Those whom only ‘“fétters hold together, man would better put asunder. COOLIDGE POPULAR ‘FOR are! APPROPRIATIONS SAVED ory President Coolidge is popular with that might open the door, too. of doing that, either. So the preliminaries are likely to wait on European settlements, before the American invitation can Fortunately, Time and Fate are on our side. essaying to play a larger role in Europe than it is equipped to pay for. Sooner or later, the sure test of the franc will set a was| yy, of marriege.| SHOULD BE LEGISLATION LEADERS By Chester H. Rowell They are again booming Governor “Al” Smith of New York for president, on the ground that, even out of a politic- ally hostile legislature, he got more of his bills passed this It is too early for speculations on presidential candidates to be worth much; but this particular boost is interesting It illustrates our recent habit of judg- not by what they do, but by what they make the legislatures or Congress do. Regarldess of the “literary theory” of the Constitution, executives, not simply as ad- ministrators of the laws which the legislative branch passes, 'but as the leaders of the legislative branch itself. We have made it the function of governors and presidents to propose laws, and of congresses and legislatures to accept The French make it plain that their interest in a disarm-. . begin only after the settlement of the Whoever will agree to help France to keep the Germans out, in “the next war,” may also invite France to discuss dis- Since America shows no disposition to do the first, it is not encouraged to do the second. to offer the remission of debts, But America shows no sign France is It is easy now to say, “help us, or we will help ourselves.” Then it will be, “help us, for we cannot help ourselves.” On and the peace of the world can tor or congressman who comes home appeals for popularity for the ap- propriations he has “got.” -And each has his reward. = 1p | Ing“economy, for securing ¥ or state vy ors the ‘them. The , the better we: Ore each congress- better ongress think of it. a man induces it to spend, the his constituents like it. And we expect to get an economi- cal Congress composed of extrava- gant congressmen! In_ mathematics, the whole is equal to the sum of all its parts; but not in politics. The President represents the whole peo- ple. Therefore he can lead in the econ- omy which the whole people want. Congress represents the sum of all the parts of the peuple. Therefore, it tends to the extravagance those parts want. —————-————__ | A THOUGHT ! 1 _———— ae. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. 12:25, | Life is a problem: mortal man an can al- the American peonle for the apnro- Y priations he has saved. Each sena-|blem, right or wrong.—J. was made to solve the solemn pro- Q. Adams. FABLES ON HEALTH TEETH SHOULD BE BRUSHED “A clean tooth never decays,” reads en ad. Whether this is a whole truth, or just a catchy trade phrase, Mrs. Jones never questions. She believes in clean teeth. So she sees that each of her chil- dren‘ are taught the proper way to use @ brush. And she also sees that the children’s teeth are examined regularly. i Most schools now have dentists whose business is to examine all the children’s teeth, and recommend to the parents measures to remedy any defects. , Teeth should be brushed at least twice a day. They should be brushed Miller Man's wheat and flour er. about Mrs. John’s birthday cake. All they knew was that the Pie- man’s pigs had blown into the Muffin Man’s shop and that Snitcher Snatch had_gone. 5 “Dear me!” said Mister Whizz blowing his nose loudly. “That ras- cal has got away again and:we're as far as ever from catching him and getting the magic snuff-box back. The Fairy Queen will wonder what has become of us.” “And your aeroplane!” said Nick. “Where do you suppose your aero- plane is, Mister Whizz?” i “Yes, where?” the little fairyman wanted to know. “If you tell me, I'll tell you. I’ve no more idea than Paddy's pig.” Daddy Gander ‘Town was no differ- ent from any other town and there | were always a lot of boys about— particularly around the pastry shop where lollypops were sold. Instantly a dozen voices shouted: “We'll help you to hunt, Mister, We'll find your aeroplane for you.” And Jack Horner and Bobbie Shaf- toe and Nimble Jack and Tom Tuck- er and Peter and Peter Junior scat- thred in all directions to look for the lost aeroplane. “If you see a bad little goblin, catch him, too,” called Nick after them. 3 An aeroplane isn’t an easy thing to hide usually—that is, I mean, a regu- lar one isn’t. | . But this aéroplane, being a fairy aeroplane, wasn't much bigger than arocking chair. : The boys looked first of all’ in Mrs. John’s orchard on Pippin Hill, then they Jooked behind the old mill, next they looked in Mrs. Spratt’s cis- tern that had gone dry. After that they looked ‘behind every chicken coop and rain barrel and fence in Daddy Gander Town. _ : But.no trace of the fairy aeroplane could they find—or of Snitcher Snatch, the ‘goblin. They were all standing under a big button-ball tree wondering what to do next, when they heard a buzzing sound overhead. * There was the fairy ‘aeroplane parked in the tree! And over the edge of it a long nose was hanging. Snitcher Snatch was grinning down at them. hi *e “Good-bye, fellows,” he (called. “Sorry I can’t stay to si ood-bye to Mister Whizz and the Twins, Td take them along. but.I’m too much Gaver lat hy ae F wi a buzz, rattle, buzz, he nde. off. (To Be Continued.) , (Copyright, 1925, NEA’ Service, Inc.) not only up and down, but crosswise as_well. Food particles have a habit of lodging between the teeth where they escape the brush unless the brush is moved up and down as well as across the teeth. Many tooth brushes are too soft. | Gritty tooth powder and paste should not be used. The substance cuts the enamel, and opens a way for decay. Tartar -gathers around the gums, causing them to loosen from the teeth. This should be removed by a dentist. Tooth brushes should be kept clean, and sterilized at least once a week. GRANT CITIZENSHIP TO SEVEN PERSONS Dickinson, April 18.—Citizenship was granted to seven applicants at proceedings held here last Friday morning, April 10. One applicant died, one case was continued because certain affidavits pertaining to the case failed to arrive and several were continued until next hearing due to the failure of the applicants to appear. Judge Thos. H. Pugh, district judge, presided at the hear- ing and the examination of the ap- plicants was conducted ‘by Robert A. Carlson of St. Paul. ¢ Following are the new citizen Henry Abersoh,> Dickinson; Chas. Schindler, Dickinson; Annie Faulk- ner, Dickinson; Ottilia Kessel, Di inson; Edward Feininger, Dickinso: Frank N. Lefor,- Lefor; and Anna Hegel, Dickin: NILE GREEN FAVORED The Nile green evening frock is one of fashion’s favorites, particu- larly: if it is made very sim many pearls are worn with Many a gi who time never gets; snywhe: