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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 Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND NEW YORK - - MEMBER OF THE y 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 PAYABI Daily by carrier, per year.. Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) . “ Bee Wei Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) .. = Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota DETROIT Kresge Bldg. SMITH Fifth Ave. Bldg. "THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) State and County Newspaper) DULY ALARMED Decision of Gov. Sorlie and other state officials to use convict labor on the = small stretch of highway to the entrance of the e¢: building has provoked a protest from some Cas; organizations. pitol Such a policy is not feasible. There is a specific statute, * however, which permits the use of prison labor upon the penitentiary road and the highway to Fort Lincoln, The road under construction is an approach to the state peniten- tiary, in fact, much of it passes through the penitentiary grounds and the use of the prisoners to improve this high- way surely is above criticism and merely good business man- ; agement on the part of the state authorities. ' Why do not Cass county residents protest against the ; use of convict labor to make twine? There is a brick yard * that sometimes operates under convict labor. Why not = protest against that t8o? Prisoners are used to operate a big farm. Why not stop that? Taking them out of the brick yard or transferring pris- oners from the corn field to the penitentiary road arouses a protest probably because some contractor wants the job or some engineer sees a fat fee slipping on a project that + can be more economically shandled under the proposed plan. 3 During the last legislative investigation enough facts ~eoncerning the paving of the penitentiary, highway were aired to commend the plan which Gov. Sorlie has suggested. | It: may be a crime to save the taxpayers a little money in Burleigh county at the expense of a tight little clique, but if it can be done, the state officials:can even stand being slapped on the wrist by the Cass county patriots. The improvement should go forward energetically despite ? the “protest” of Cass county members of organized labor. It is to be hoped that the members of the Highway Com- +i mission will not allow this kind of propaganda to defeat a material saving. ' HB No one recommends the extension of the convict labor) + system to the highway system and the Cass county protest- ants read much more into the proposal than was ever in- tended. position at least consistent by insisting upon the suspension of the Twine Plant and farming operations. should be abolished as well as the printing office. the tailor shop should be locked up as that migh with the garment worker’s union. Evidently, the Fargo labor officials are merely the inno- j cent victims of a propaganda that opposes any reform in the working out of highway problems in this state. The “pickings” have been too fat in the past not to give them up without a battle. Organized labor should not allow itself to-be used in this instance. ! Then too t conflict 4 REUBEN N. STEVENS Reuben N. Stevens was an important figure in the de- velopment of North Dakota. A member of the constitutional convention, he assisted in framing the constitution that forms the organic law of the state. As a lawyer of note, he made his influences felt in that body. i Bismarck owes a debt to Mr. Stevens. With Alexander ae i McKenzie he fought every effort to change the location of the state capital. Schemes for locating the capital occupied the attention of the convention from its inception and they were opposed by Mr. Stevens, despite the fact that he was elected from Ransom county.* His power in debate defeated interests hostile to Bismarck and the location of institutions 3; as finally set forth in the constitution was determined in bi part as a result of his effective oratory. : He served Burleigh county in the legislature. The fed- eral authorities recognized his abilities and he was named an Assistant Attorney General. Few men in the state had such an active grasp of North Dakota affairs. Withal he was modest and the histories of the state contain but meager mention of the services he gave the public. He was an orator of no mean ability and as a, public prosecutor was well known in this county. Occasionally he did journalistic work and wrote in an effective and trenchant style. For three years he edited The Tribune and was a frequent contributor to the press of this county as well as the state. Mr. Stevens was prominent in the affairs of Ransom county and served the city of Lis- bon_as postmaster. F Few men of the state surpassed him in ability as a conyersationalist. He loved anecdotes and was good at tell- ing stories of the early days. The archives of the state are the, loser because he did not put down more of his impres- sions into permanent records. ; The number of the men who participated in the consti- tutional convention is growing fewer and fewer. They should be prevailed upon to write their memoirs of the early struggles of North Dakota toward statehood. j belonged to the Stalwart wing of the Republican y of this state and was closely associated with, the late ‘Alexander McKenzie. That group of political warhorses and warwicks is diminishing, but the state’s debt to them /2t and their clear vision grows with the years. Among the Hi purvivors are E. A. Williams, Fancher, Burleigh ‘Spalding, y William E, Purcell, W. S. Lauder and some others. ‘; Mr. Stevens was one of those in that convention who afterwards rose to high office in the state. As speaker of 4i the house, he directed the activities of the lower body of the legislature when North Dakota was young in statehood and H faced many serious problems, ' ‘The sympathy of the community and state goes out to Publisher \ the ving of the penitentiary road and a} county labor | They are unduly alarmed. There is no intention of using | prison labor to any exten§ upon the highways of the state.| Those behind the “labor” protest should make their op-) The laundry, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Editorial Review ener ees eal Cc in this pinion of The Tribune. They Are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. mments reproduced | THE HIRED MAN RETURNS | TO RUSSIA | » ew York World) { To pe ch cannot be ig jnored the jet government of ‘Russia has made one more con i | cession. fecal | Three months ago the Soviets agieed to abclish the system} | whereby Communists alone were | eligible to village office and to| [abandon attempts to dictate, via; proletariat, in village _com- | munes where no proletariat exists. Two months later came an ad- mission that state control of trade sa policy which did not work. “The Soviet government, then declared, “is again ready to make a seriou ange in its in- ternal epolicy and considers it ne- ary to foll the line of fav | orable concessions to private trade.” i Now come: third admissisn, within the space of a few months’ time, that the hard-and-fast prin- ciples of Communism cannot be [applied to p Thi time it is farm-labor undergo a change. In January, when Comrade-Am- bassador Krassin came to Paris} and gave a dinner for his diplo- matic colleagues, comrade-waiters in plush coats and breeches stood behind the chair of every guest. So much fer the brotherhood of man when Communism sent first ambassador to Neverthe! , at home in Rus its | the law of the land has denied the | | right of any ke. wage slave” 3 he same } aa d the ideeree which soc land in} 1917 forbade on use of hired labor. Everywhere in Russi s been ignored. Now the Se government admits that it has | becn ignored, abandons the last pretense of attempting to enforce it, and recognizes a fait accompli j with conmendatory legislation. 1 Russia is moving in the direc- | tion. of bourgeois democracy, of a! capitalist employment — system, | private ownership of land, pri-'’ LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT jvate contrel of trade. ‘The Soviet | TO THE LITTLE MARQUISE, government is flexib'e enough in | CARE OF THE SECRET its theories and sufficiently im- | DRAWER, CONTINUED pressed by facts to choose t9! | um enclosing, little Marquise, a jmove along, ‘clipping from the society columns of sea ss The Albany Express about Alice MORE OPTIMISM Hartley’s wedding. (Milton Globe) | It may interest you to know just The summer of 1925 should be | he greatest the Northwest has; had since the great war. We mav be assured of better times later if prospects continue and keep on getting better. how we of today conduct these af- fairs, 1 expect this is very different jfrom the way they were i when you possibly hoped that you might be the wife of a king insteaa of his secret sweetheart. You wiil that the raved a little as she said: “Today at high noon, Miss Alice Hartley and Mr. Porter Bieed were married at St, John's Episcopal Church, ‘The’ wedding was perhaps the most impressive and elegant that hus ever been solemnized in this city. Although the invitations were quite informal, as the wedding was rat a’ hurried one, every society matron and maid seemed to have purchased @ new gown for the occasion. “The whole interior of the church was a hower of spring blossoms The chancel was completely covered with lilies of the valley and orchids. Its beauty was so overpowering thit see reportey GOOD IN THE WEST, TOO (Beach Advance) verything in present conditions of sci] and climate in this seetion, gives ground for optimism., The il was in excellent condition for! eding and the weather fine for that class of work, No seetion is more favored than ours this year. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS _ |, BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON MRS. CUCKOO PROMISES TO DO BETTER it almost overawed the gu Nancy and Nick and Doctor Bill; There was little of the usual gay listened carefully to Mrs.| whispering while waiting the arrival of the bride, “It ‘is probeble that never in the row the nests of our friends to lay, history of Albany society has there our eggs in, because we are in Eng-;been such an exquisite wedd-ng land such a short time that we have] Pageant as proceeded the beautifu no time for nest building. In four, bride up the aisle of St. John’s months our children have to be big| Church. enough and strong enough to fly| “Mrs. Walter Burke, who was ma- away to Africa with us—a thousand! tron of honor, was in orchid chit- uckoo’s story, “Yes,” said she, “we have to bor- conducted The Tangle ,jall the “It’s No Use They Can’t Read Sagan ly jewels were amethysts and diamonds and ‘regally s puded the proces: sion of the fairest and smartest girls], in the city, Miss Bernice Oliver, in pale rose, chiffon; Miss Sally *Harriman, in blu untley, in pastelle green, adith Wharton, in light yellow, followed the radiant All wore picture | h. nifieent white h 2 rose-point; atrons of hgnor. s and flowers tom “The bride, in a brocaded h w wedding veil, was escorted to the! chancel by Mr. John Alden Prescott, where eI by? Mr, Breed} and hig r. Walter Burke, | “The un two people consummated a hoy and girl love af- fair, and brought into one two of, the oldest naimes in the society an- nals of the city. “Although the parents of Mis up for corn-on-the-cob season. Birds yuilding their nests larger than they did last year. The troubles of the world t your fromt teeth all tightened seem y. They don’t try to make them are chiefly imaginary, but imaginary ills ure the hardest to cure. Don’t worry radio, ing its first few years. about the future of Every infant has static dur- The more we see pictures of Hin- Hartley" are both dead, her father; haying passed uway «about year] ago, the older families can remem- ber when the Hartley home on the hill was the center of attraction for oung “people in the city. yenerations of Hartleys have the old mansion which un-{ Five lived i fortuna ed out of the family during the life of the bride's father “That the bridegroom had ms romantic and sentimental remem brances of the old home is evidenced! by the fact thac it was one of his magnificent presents to his bride on her wedding day. “The happy couple, upon whom fortune has seemed to smile, will go abroad for a leisurely summer among the Swiss and Italian lakes, where they will be joined a _ little’ later by Mrs. Joseph Graves Hamil- ton and’ her Karl or more miles to spend the winter,|fon, crowned with a great picture | Whitney.” 4 Otherwise they would freeze.” |hat’ covered with orchids. Wer] (Copyright, 1926 Service, Inc.) | “Of course! I see!” said Doctor) cat | Bill understanding! “I never eggs as well as their own, and after] Many scientists believe that fish thought of it that way before. But ean hear. ih a bit my little cuckoos hatched out ‘along with all the little sparrows and wagtails and chats and titlarks and yellow hammers and linnets and what not, I was very proud of them because they were so/much bigger and fatter than the. others, and ute ten times as much, “They were cute, too, the little rascals,” went on Mrs. Cuckoo proud: ly, “What do you think they did! When there wasn’t enough food for everybody, each of my children man- aged to get the other little birds on their shoulders one by one and give them a pitch ‘out of the nest. “After that they got all the food for themselves because the mother birds never seemed to know the d:f- ference and kept on feeding them: One young cuckoo fills, a nést any way—there isn’t room for more. 1 am very proud of my children.” Doctor Bags and Nancy and Nick ‘didn’t say a word at this news, “What is the matter? What do you look so funny for?’ asked Mrs. Cuckoo sharply. “Is the whole world going to turn against me? Isn't it enough that Mrs. Sparrow and Mrs. \Chat and Mrs. Yellow-hammer and | Mrs. Titlark all set on me yesterday and tried to drive me out. 1 can't {imagine what is the matter with everybody.” “I'll tell yau, Mrs. Cuckoo,” said ; Doctor Bill. “When your children push the other birds out of the nests they kill them, They are murder- ers.” “What?” shrieked Mrs, Cuckoo, “I jnever knew that. Are you sure?” “Perfectly,” said Doctor Bill. Mrs. Cuckoo looked sad. “Then I suppose you won’t cure me,” she said. “Yes, I will,” said Doctor Bill, “if you will try to remember next year to let other birda alone.” “Til try,” promised Mrs. Cuckoo. But I really think she won’t remem- ber at all. 53 . (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) do tell us what happened to you, | Mrs, Cuckoo! How did you get hurt?” | “Well,” said Mrs. Cuckoo, “when I got to England I began to look around for a place to bring up my; family—or places, I mean, for I lay; about seven good-sized eggs and one} small nest wouldn’t begin to hold them. “So I found Mrs, Yellow-hammer’s nest with one egg in it. She was out. So I laid an egg beside hers and left it. I al choose a nest with one | or two eggs in rather than an empty one, because I know that the mother will return soon and take care of my egg along with hers. “Then the next day I found a chat’s nest and laid another egg in| it before Mrs. Chat got back. “Then I found a sparrow's nest—a field sparrow. The next one was a titlark’s nest, and I think I also found a wagtail’s nest.” “What happened then?” asked Nick who had never heard anything like this before, although he knew a lot about birds. “Well,” sigHed Mrs. Cuckoo, “I'll tell you, The other birds never knew the difference and sat on my Carr sere eee | LITTLE JOE No wonver sone veome DONT GET ANY WHERE, WHEN THEY SPEND MOST OF THEIR TIME WONDERING WHY A literal translation of the Persian word for wine is “sweet poison.” When tea was first introduced it cost from $30 to $60 a pound. MONDAY, MAY 11, 1925 ing peace of the world. Ford, like Bryan, is likely of a righ principle. of a right principle. all have. zled nerves. nerves—sleep for instance. If Ford could make Where Ie “Government by the People” Legislatures have been meeting all over the United States since the first of the yeur. Most of them have adjourned, or are about to adjourn. Every one of them had dumped into its hopper ten times more bills than the wisest of its members could di- gest. A few of them passed, mostly by influence or log-rolling, during the main body of the season. In the final days, everything was rushed through, without thought or consid- eration, and dumped on the governor who, in many states, vetoed most of it, and was generally applauded for so doing. To examine critically all those bills was beyond the physical and mental capacity of the governor, too. So he called in istance, from official and unofficial friends, none of them chosen for this purpose or responsi- ble to anybody. On their advice he acted—usually wisely; for we are, after all, surprisingly well governed by this system, But whetein does it resemble “gov- ernment by the people” or their rep- resentatives Scholarship Does Not Bring Applause Members of this year’s graduating class of the largest American uni- versity were asked which they would rather have won, the “Big C,” repre- senting athletic prowess, or the Phi Beta Kappa key, representing. schol- astie honor. They voted, two to one, for the athletic trophy. It would bé interesting to analyze the reasons for this apparently cynical choice. It was certainly not denburg the better we like Pershing.| that these hundreds of intelligent Most of our pipe dreams are! onder where we can find a match ?” TRE One advantage the boss has is when he is too lazy to work he can think he is thinking. You can’t be wise in all ways, Even a wisdom tooth has its aches. Famous detective says women are poor investigators. We say we doubt he is married. Can you imagine the surprise of a Boston woman when a jury found her husband perfectly sane? About 900 tons of sugar burned aboard a freighter, smelling just like a husband was making candy. Ambulance had a wreck in New York, proving you are not even safe there after you are hurt. One tells us it is better to be mar- i ried than lonely. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) EVERETT TRUE 4d HAVE “ou ANN Two- POUND PACKAGES OF BY CONDO Hominy & — HOMINT Do vou WANT? Treatment of prickly heat is sim- ple. bees If the eruption is local, bay rum or cologne is a cooling application, and should be followed by the use of powdered starch or a mixture of starch and oxide of zine in the pro- portion of four to one. The skin should be dried with a soft towel. If there is much itching a lotion of bicarbonate of soda and water, one part of powder to 100 parts of water should be applied to the af- New York, May 11.—Saw Elliott jNugent who belongs to a family represented on Broadway probably more than any other family, He is acting in a play written by himself and his father........ Saw Vivienne Osborne, a very ‘beautiful young thing, all astir ‘because Mister Be- lasco has asked her to play the role vacated by Lenore Ulric....., Saw Lowell Sherman who has become very “high hat” since graduating from the movies. Saw the dusky Florence Mills who has stepped up from cabaret performances to vau- deville Saw Mabel Reflow, sprightly burlesque ‘actress, who lays claim to concocting a cure for snake bits which is being tried out Saw Lou Holtz, the comedian who has been singing a parody on “O Sole Mio” for seven years and is still in- venting new verses. He started as a chewing gum and newspaper ven- dor in San Francisco and. was “dis- covered” by. Elsie Janis while sing- ing in a. cabaret .. Saw Margot Kelly who has, as, pretty a head of red hair as you'll, see along Broad- way Saw Helen Westley whose roles. on the stage have been more diversified than those of any other actress in this generation. She, me- thinks, is the ideal ‘troupe: Saw Marion Davies, back from fornia after a long absence, and she appears to be much slimmer than when I last saw her. + Saw Bebe Darfels, the blsixk-cyed (Susan of the fillums, and she wore a solitaire on the engagement finger, but 1 know -not. whether she be betrothed, 5 Saw Marguerite Namara, the soprano,! and she wears the: longest string of pearls to be geen in this town. strand is fully eight feet long Saw Marcus Loew, the movie magnate. always looks hke he is ready to laugh... ,.. x The other day a man ésked tor » 70-cent railroad ticket at the Grand Central Station.. Having po money to pay for it, he left five radio tubes for surety, He return | Henry Ford proposes to apply ‘old maxim, “feed the brute.” : | wholesale to study foods, with the hope of teaching people |how to eat, and so, by keeping them good-natured, promot- | i FABLES ON HEALTH - TMENT FOR PRICKLY HEAT SSS “STATESMEN” NEED MORE THAN MERE DIETING By Chester H. Rowell quantity pr to. So he has hired dieticians to make a wrong formulation Scientifically, he probably is mistaken in this hasty gen- \eralization. The people of the world may need dieting, but They already have a varied diet, composed of the usual thing, and this is exactly what the dieticians say we should If they are dyspeptic it is from other causes than food, but in the larger principle, of course he is correct. calse not mereiy of war but of most of the ills of life is fraz- The If you could keep the world good-natured you could keep it peaceful and prosperous, but more things than food frazzle Who that hag seen the final decisions made in a political national convention can doubt that they are made by men who are literally non compos mentis from lack of sleep? the world’s rulers sleep more, drink less, eat right ‘and think with their brains, instead of their livers, he could reform the world. and educated young men regarded muscle as more honorable than brains. Probably not one of them personally would admire a robust hod-carrier above the leader of one of the learned professions. But it doubtless did indicate that they regarded prominence in the sight of their fellows as the most desirable human achievement. Under the competitive system, a successful athlete has had the chance to earn applause before audiences of tens or hundreds of thousands and to have his name blazoned by the press to millions. . Scholarship, while admittedly a nobler achievement, brings no such reward. Measured by this standard, the choice, while not altruistic, was not foolish. Don’t Blame the French For Re- fusing Payments The French object to the payment “in kind” of several hundred rai)- way cars by the Germans, in spite of the fact that it is provided by the treaty and by the Dawes plan, and that it is in return for French ears carried off by the Germans. What we all want is that our creditors shall pay us, in full, in money. There is, to be sure, not money enough in the world to do it, and if there were, its transfer in such quantities from one country to another would destroy its value by the very process of transfer. All great international debts must be paid, directly or indirectly, in kind, or they cannot be paid at all. But don’t blame the French for re- fusing to recognize this. Do you, for our debts? fected parts with a soft cloth and allowed to dry, When the whole body is. affected take a bath in alkaline or bran wa- ter. The followir; lotion is good to apply to the skin after’ bathing: Carbolic acid, one-half dram; boric acid, one dram; zine oxide, one and one-half drams; glycerin, two drams; aleohol, two ounces, and water suffi- cient to make six ounces in all. ‘A good powder to dust on prickly heat mas be made from: Subnitrate of bismuth, one-half ounce, and car- bonate of zinc, one-half ounce. —————________., money and took his tubes. Then he engaged the clerk in conversation, about radio and offered.to build a set for the clerk at the cost of ma- terials. After the clerk had paid $15 for tubes which he never received the fellow quit calling. And New York ticket clerks are generally be- lieved to be well calloused, against all forms of flim-flam. This just shows what radio will do to a man. Two young fellows ‘have a new scheme fqr making easy money. They Prepare each week a list of “easy ones,” individuals who: have money and would listen to a proposal to back a new stage production. The subscription price for ‘this list ran- ges from $60 to $100, depending on the amount of money the “prospect” has and on how much information regarding financial ratings, ete., is given. The lists are sold to Pro- ducers who have never been able to “produce” a Broadway show of suc- cessful proportions. —JAMES W. DEAN. FLAPPER FANNY saya people are their: own worst they certainly believe in If some - oN