The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 22, 1925, Page 4

PAGE FOUR | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - : rena Publisher 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 cnedited to it or not otherwise entitled in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. ; All rights of republication of specia? dispatches herein | are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year.......... Fes eA) Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) . ... sieiaieinie ised a0 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) | ZONING ORDINANCE Value of a zoning ordinance has been demonstrated in a recent case where a property owner attempted to project his building so as to damage the appearance of a whole block and actually harm contiguous property. In the residence district, building lines should be adhered to strictly if the city is to have a beautiful and uniform appearance. Probably the easiest features to enforce in a zoning ordinance are the provisions which regulate the distance from the street a structure can be erected in the residence district. In cities the size of Bismarck, however, the diffi- culty lies in preventing commercial buildings from being erected in residential sections. Where to draw the line is! hard, but the ordinance should regulate the class of buildings in certain section and doubtless the present zoning ordinance is flexible enough so as not to work a hardship on anyone. Crowding homes closely together in Bismarck will be pre- vented by the ordinance. Cities are fighting the practice of crowding three houses on two building lots. Often two houses are built on a lot scarcely big enough for one. Reg- ulation of building is necessary for the health and comfort of the community and comes within the police powers of the Gity council provided the enforcement is not arbitrary or discriminatory. Intrusion of business structures into residential sections is a menace to the orderly development of a city and should always be resisted. A zoning ordinance well enforced will prevent such a civic blemish. There may be features of the present rules and regula- tions that are too extreme for a city of this size, but these can be ironed out through conference and cooperation. There are interests paramount to the desire of a property owner to extract the limit of profit from his land regardless of the rights of his neighbors. TAX ON FAT This will be unwelcome news for fat persons. Dr. Lulu Hunt Peters of New York, feminist author and authority on dietetics, proposes a tax on those who tote excess poundage. Newspapers quote her as declaring fat persons a social liability. She says they take up more room than the law allows in street cars and theaters, that they eat more than their share of the world’s supply and do less work. She would remove them, or have their fat removed, as a means of beautifying any city! % Most of those inclined, to embonpoint will say, ‘‘Very good; then show us how to get thin.” Man doesn’t deliberately court a “bay window,” So why penalize the fat for a condition even more annoying to them than to others? Why not tax the Adonises and “perfect thirty-sixes” for the complacency they enjoy? HOMESICK? Kovkoosh, six-months-old Eskimo puppy, died the other day in New York. Veterinary called it heartbreak, resulting from homesickness. A man started a frog ranch near Raymondsville, Tex..- using 50 pairs of giant Louisiana “leopard” frogs as breeders. Soon he had 10,000. Returning home one night, he says he found the road alive with frogs all jumping one way — toward Louisiana. Homesickness, he says. Plenty of evidence has been offered from time to time to indicate that animals sometimes do suffer from nostalgia. However, you feel sure that Kookoosh suffered more from improper diet and change of climate than a languishing for familiary scenery. As for the frogs—boy, page Ananias! PROBLEM Mental disease in New York is decreasing. Insantity rate in 1924 was 67.9 per 100,000 of population, against 69.4 in 1923. The 1917 rate, 73.6, was highest in the state’s history. Drug insanity also is lessening. Ninteen new cases were admitted to institutions last year, against 22 in 1923 and 26 in 1922. But against these figures the state hospital commission shows an increase of alcoholic insanity. Last year 373 such victims were taken into institutions. In 1923 the number was 276; in 1920, 122. This is due, no doubt, to the low grade liquor purveyed by our bootleg industry. The problem of prohibition. en- forcement is a tough one, particularly when so many hold the Jaw in such light regard. MOTORS ) wheels we live in. Last year new It is truly a world on , pends much upon the way of going THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE . Editorial Review _ Comments reproduced in this | column may or may not express | These Are Hard Day the opinion of The Tribune. They ate presented here (n order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of || the day. AN ARMY AT LARGE (Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman) Graver words are rarely spoken than those of Judge Marcus A. Kavanaugh of Chicago before, the St. Louis Bar Association when he said that there are at large in the United States today 135,000 men and women who have taken life unlawfuly and have gone unpun- ished. Such a situation is almost un- believable; yet if you will only look about you (no matter where you live) you will probably see some citizen, who has escaped the penalty imposed by the law for the commission of homicide, nothwith- standing his hands are red with blood. Every year that runs its course sees 10,000 murders committed in America. Even that ghastly total is incieasing and ere long America will be known as the land of 20,- 000 murders a year. Thus far the unsolved murders in Chicago alone are 36 per cent greater than they were for the first four months ct 1924. Long ago Americans made their nation safe for democracy. They also made it reasonaby safe for individual liberty. But at the same time somebody has made it safe for murderers. In no other civilized nation on the face of the earth is there so much safety from punishment for those who wantonly take human life. LITTL (Houston Chronicle) Do you go on the plan that little errors do not amount to much? At times you wonder why your employer is so agitated because of some mistakes you have made. They were just little slips, you knew better—you argue. It’s because he wants things as nearly perfect as is humanly pos- sible and that is just the reason why he is your boss. It is easy for you to laugh and pass off any mistake which is call- ed to your attention; it is a small matter in your life., But would you not be better off if you had a more serious concep tion of life? The matter of going forward de- MISTAKES. LETTER FROM JOHN PRESCOTT TO SY CARTON Don't think, old man, that because I didn't send you a telegram imme- diately, I was not concerned with 4 Paint your abrupt departure from the and your self-discipline, | party, but you see Leslie and I left Are you not too high spirited? ; * ee i ‘rite {for Pittsburg the next day and when Herhpel youletivaur neh suey I returned to the office I found my lig you tee vOUL OE Hobe eae piled up so high I could not After all, things are either right | =e over it. or they are wrong. You know me well enough». to ‘And little errors have a way of|know that I have a one-track mind getting themselves magnified. I have thought of nothing but steel and the steel business since I re- turned. Tonight, however, I am sitting the office waiting for a long-distance teiephone call from New York and while I am here I will write to, yoit: What's the matter Syd? W8y did you leave the party without a word to anyone? $ I thought you were going to see us off on the train the next day. There was quite a delegation at the station. You probably saw the pic- tures of some of the women in the ALDEN Y WORK EASIER THAN LOAFING (Grafton Record) The present system of confining prisoners in jail without any use- ful work for them to do is wanton- ly wasteful. If every man ‘knew that a jail sentence meant a sen- tence to work on the roads, there would be fewer viclations of the laws. newspapers. There were as many ADVENTURE OF | ooc"conr tat ing’ ot charging of the Light Brigade. Mother, who arrived at the party unexpectedly just ag Leslie was fin- ishing that tango, has come home with us. At the train she said she “felt like one of those moving pic- ture actresses and,the sensation is nothing I desir She talked a lot about the dis- graceful notoriety of it all, but I could see that she was much flat- THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON THE PARADISE BIRD “Well! Well! Well!” cried Doctor Bill. “Who is this coming?” Nancy and Nick looked out of the window and saw a big bird settle down in a nearby tree—a bird such as they had never seen in all their! s for Slapstick Artists | Youre AUL OU LUCK = Tis PLACE WON'T OPEN UNTIL DECEMBER tered as she basked in the warmth of Leslie's popularity. What did you think of Leslie's dancing? I confess I was greatly surprised—and a little apprehensive. You know, Syd, dancing is not my strong point. Some way, I never expected Leslie to excel in such social activities either. Queer isn’t it that a man is never quite happy when he sees his wife, the center of interest and ad- miration among his friends, if ‘he does not share it with hér. I don't just know that I can de- scribe the mixed feelings that were mine when I saw my wife going through the sensuous measures with Melville Sartoris. There was one emotion, however, of which I was perfectly, conscious. I ‘hated the good-looking devil who was dancing with her with a hatred which made me want to walk out upon that floor, snatch my wife from his arms and knock him into smithereens, Of course, you can see how silly that was of me, Syd. I myself saw this only a few minutes afterward= when | heard my mother, who had arrived on the scene most unexpect- edly, making caustic remarks of dis- approval of Leslie for ‘making such an exhibition of herself.’ I didn’t know that Leslie could dance the tango, but I found out later that knowing she was to have this party and thinking her dancing was a little rusty, she had been tak- ing daily lessons for the last: two weeks both in Atlantic City and Al- bany. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) lives before. “It’s a perfectly beautiful bird!”| was beautiful, this new bird was a tied Naney using ener the door | hundred times as lovely. He was and rushing out. “Come on, Nick! . Gome on, Destoy Bill—and sco him.” |ack endopamle apd violet. eng brown with feathers like silky yellow Nick and thé bird doctor were 4 nN close at her heels for they were just| Plush on his head and neck. His eyes and throat were two colors of as curious as Nancy was. Doctor Bill settled his glasses on his nose long beak was a sky blue and peered up into the green depths leet as pink as June roses. But that was not all. Out of h of the tree. ; : wings grew great sprays of soft “Why I do believe—yes, sir, it is, as sure as you're born.” he cried,|orange-colored feathers that arched “How do you do, sir! Come on down.| UP over his back in a great shower— We are ail friends here. No one will) almost hiding him . hurt you.” These soft plumes kept waving gracefully this way and that as he moved until they looked like a shower of pure gold in the sunlight. “Oh!” cried Nancy. “Oh!” exclaimed Nick. Even Doctor Bill cried out at the great beauty of the bird. “Why! What is it?” asked the bird “Are you sure?’ screeched the bird. “Am I at the right place? Is this Doctor Bill's hospital where he fixes up sick birds?” “Yes, sir! This is the very place, and I am Dortor Bill himself. These Twins are my helpers, They won't hurt you. Come on down.” M at is | 1 “All right. I'l come,” said the|2nxiously. “Don't you like me? bird, “But after all I have gone| What's wrong?’ ay through, I am even frightened at my Nothing,” said Nancy. “It’s just own shadow.” that you are’ so lovely! We never saw a bird as beautiful as you are.” “What! Me!” cried the bird. “Am I pretty? I knew I was called the Bird of Paradise but I never knew 1 was considered handsome. Is that why they tried to catch me?” Down flew the bird, and Nancy and Nick almost forgot to breathe in their amazement If the peacock “Some little brown meh,” said the Bird of Paradise, “They had queer little arrows and shot some of my brothers. i ® wounded foot.” sadly. “These brown men sell birds like you to white men who sell them motor vehicles cost the world dollars. ‘ : ‘2%, Department of Commerce informs you that during the year there were assimilated 3300 thousands passenger cars ‘and trucks and 200 thousand motor cycles. Average price per car was $1000, per motor cycle $300. Twenty-five years ago the automoble was an experiment. ‘Today there is one to every six ns—or nearly so. 422 Twenty-five years more will Hs ection and universal use, and the family garage will be omplete without its aerial flivver. MUTUAL INTEREST - taking greater interest in American news, our ions r ee aed snd the, olek of Von Hin rg and three and a third billion Avire association “This indicates a see: the -airplane brought to | to people to put on hats.” “Dear me!” cried the poor Bird of |Paradise, “It's terrible to be pretty. I'd rather be ugly. Then I'd be safe.” “You may stay here at my house,” said Doctor Bill kindly, “and you will always be safe. I'll have a look at your sore foot now.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) .| There is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; nelther hid, inet shall not be known—Like 12: “Who?” asked Doctor Bill. ' But I got away with only|, “Yes, that is why,” said Doctor Bill | KEEPS HANDS NICE When you have finished washing the dishes do not neglect to rinse your sink and your mops, and towels, then scrub your hands and bathe them with a glycerine lotion. “AHA, — Ever Ot A HAT BOX. ERRAND ONCE MORE I'M » t T ONE ONMARRIGD Spring's so lazy we eat marshmal- lows instead of chewing candy. Florida man wants pay a tax, maybe a luxury tax, Nothing on earth bores much as people with gimlet eyes. Ancient Babylonian ruins show So do our ruins. they had flappers. Russian children are starving. The Moscow doesn't give enough milR- London girl says 110 pairs stockings are reasonable. they would be for a centipede. Auto bumpers on telephone poles may be the next step. When did paperhangers making patterns for bathing suits? American battleship shot ‘up iceberg, down to the rum fleet. Scientists find 1800 thunderstorms! Spring hate going on every minute. do seem expensive. ILLINER’S SHOP. Sarah Ghosh, a Hindu, left $5000 could buy so two artists’ models some clothes. Good Ghosh! Hotel men ‘held a convention in Hope they were forced to Boston. sleep four or five in a bed. There are fish, but none for suckers. The hard thing about dollar is keeping on saving it. ing Synthetic love's awful stuff. | EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO | Conine out Has A MADiEs FOR tns WIFE. 2 SL4D t NEVER y ee MATRIMONY, = ci ats x. D Harll everert, turd Bossi! : PLESSEdNESS =a The craftiest wil The girl who is taken out to din-’ and oe i ea ta coven: hee ner isn’t the one who fg “out” [bear water, “ \ f bad} HAR? H4R- Hae! ONG OW “SINGC] cot oes bachelors to us so oft We siy start tropies for food, says Dr, Frank .Les- an and the chunks will drift! laws to protect game FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1925 .. Naturally, his conclusion is home” and that ‘nobody would jof the Senate rules. thing. Former Senator Walsh points the center of power and its. chief men were the most famous leaders of the nation. Now nobody knows the names of the small clique that runs the House. The change of rules did it. APOLOGISTS OF REACTION IGNORE FACTS The trouble is that, like most men who boast themselves “practical,” these apologists, of reaction are theorists, who ignore © facts, The lower house did, indeed, change its rules 35 years ago, but the change was not to cut off debate. Tt was to cut off filibustering by other means than. debate—by con- tinuous roll calls on dilatory motions and by breaking a quorum by refus- ing to answer to names. Speaker Reed ruled that if a member was actually present, he should be count- ed so, whether he chose to answer to his name or not. As to debate, the House had al- ways had the cloture, and the hour limit. So has the British House of Commons, still the most conspicuous center of debate in the world. It was not curtailment of debate that extinguished the House of Repre- sentatives. It was the abolition of leadership. NOT NECESSARY TO LIMIT SENATE DEBATE Nobody will ever propose to limit debate in the United States Senate half as drastically as it is already limited in every other legislative as- sembly in the world. The body is too small to need it. Any senator who has anything to say on any measure will always have the chance to say it. The “de- bate” it is proposed to give the ma- jority the power to stop is not dis- gussion. It is pure obstruction, re- sorted to by a minority, and some- | mate by one man, to prevent the majority from acting. If that is a good thing, it follows that the Senate is a bad thing, and } should be abolished. H me ‘WORLD NOT READY TO STARVE YET . The world is about to move to th lie, to the Society of Tropical Medi- cine. Modern advancements in med- Eye strain, often a cause of head- ache, may be due to reading too long a period at one time, or read- ing in a poor light. Sewing and> needle work also is hard on the eyes. In the school room near-sighted children should have seats near the blackboard, or near a window to en- able them to see without straining the eyes. Good sometimes eyeglasses are "| There's no place like home, ex- | cept, sometimes, a mad house. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) New York, May 22—This vast city is composed of, many © little world: cked one against the other and one hag to step’ only’ across a street to be in an entirely changed environment. Last night I walked for several hours through the streets,of the East Side, First avenue, I found, was black and dark and a sinister quiet prevailed. The block of Twenty-fourth street, east of First avenue, is the ‘calmest spot in all the city. At ten o'clock only three windows in the tenenients were alight. There was not one pe- destrian or vehicle on the street. On First avenue the people seemed dull and spirit and dark as their surroundings. Fourteenth street I crossed over to Second avenue and there 1 found the brightest patch in all New York. They call it ¢t! “Times Square of the East Side, Times Square never saw such spon- taneity, such sheer joy of living. From Fourteenth street to Houston street the thoroughfare is lined with oft drink stands » All about are bright lights, laughter and the spirit of carniva}. Here, if anywhere in this broad ‘country, “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is achieved to its fullest and the expression of it is ag varjed as the characters who seek it. f One cafe has tables on: the side- jelded only by a light lattice, lan. restayrant serves “a ir for 65 cents” while a three-piece string orchestra rend music of the highest quality. Boys and girls stroll along singing new ditties to the accompaniment of uke- lele and mandolin. At Tenth street, in front of the FABLES ON HEALTH GLASSES OFTEN NECESSARY 'blstorie' St, Matks-on-the-Bouwerie,.« 1. THIS IS THE TIME OF REACTION AGAINST EVERYTHING By Chester H. Rowell This is a time of reaction against everything. The gov- ernor of Washington even reacts against “child welfare.” He thinks the social workers should stay in the “‘old-fashion- ed American home” and attend to their won business, in- ‘stead of galivanting about coddling children. not troubled by the mere fact that there is no such thing as “the old-fashioned American live in it if there were. Why seek facts when phrases are easier? The same tendency is evident in the commonest argu- ment against Vice President Dawes’ crusade for the reform “The more helpless the Senate is, the less harm it can do. Why make it efficient?” The mood of the moment seems to be that everybody is “agin” every- Senators themselves have invented a new argument. They hold up the House of Representatives as a horrible warning. out that the House was once icine have made it possible for white men to live and work in the tropics. The “land hunger” of the world will scarcely stop at the tropics or even at the land itself. Commander Brandt, in charge of navy oceano- graphic research, predicts also “ocean farming.” Most of the sur- face of the earth is covered by wa- ter. This water teems with life. It is not, like land farms, confined to one plane. It is a many-storied world, growing its drops one under the other as far_as light penetrates, with the creatures of the Abyss, lighted by their own efficient power plants, indefinitely below that. In these plant and animal resources of the sea are stores of potential food more than all the products of all the lands. They need study and con- servation now, and perhaps cultiva- tion ‘later. The world is not ready to starve yet. DEVELOPING OF TROPICS BRINGS RACE PROBLEM The sea, fortunately, will present no social problems- If the nations can agree on its division, or on a way to administer it in common, nothing will be left beyond our pres- ent power to solve. Not so the tropics. The white man, to be sure, can work in the tropics. The delusion that he can not is ex- ploded. But he won't. And why should he? There are others there who can do it better, and cheaper. So the white man goes to the tropics, not to work, but to com- mand the work of others. There is room for the white man only at the top or the bottom—to rule or to prey, The main body of his race must stay in the temperate regions. And this is permanent; for the white worker could find place in the tropics only by displacing—that is, exterminating—the races already there. White leaders find it more profitable to exploit them. Thus, the more the white man de- velops the tropics, the more critical becomes the problem of the relation of races. And that is the only hu- man problem in which humanity, so~ far, must acknowledge itself abso- lutely helpless. We shall — sooner farm the wastes of the deep than we shall learn to do justice to men of different color. necessary, even for small children. Before using them, however, oneJd should be certain that other natural means of correction have been ex- hausted. Poor glasses may only aggravate the condition of the eyes, and lead to other more serious disorders of vision. Also it is a difficult matter to- see well without lenses, after one has become used to them. hobo is beguiling the tenement dwell- ers with tales of the woods and the open road and thus inducing them to buy his poem for a dime. minutes I heard him quote Rabelais, Longfellow, Chaucer, Plato and Dar- win, At Houston street there is a dou- ble theater, In one classics are giv- en in Yiddish, In the other is pre- sented the vilest burlesque, in this country, with the oldest and ugliest chorus ever assembled. When these theaters let out taxi- cabs cause a greater congestion at that corner than that of the theater hour in Times Square. The drivers bargain with patrons, giving excur- sion rates to parties going to distant sections of the city. Night life as it is on Second ave- nue is one of the, five most interest- ing sights for visitors to see, I be- lieve. “ On First avenue an old man with eight dogs passed. I was told that: he works as porter in a butcher shop in return for the bones and scrap meat andthe rent of a room in the rear of the store. In this room he keeps 16 dogs which he at various times has found on the streets. Each night he takes them out for a walk through Stuyvesant Park, -LJAMES. W. DEAN. ee | LITTLEJOE | »—_—_—__________» CANT’ 1S THE. BYWORD F OF THE FELLOW Wilo In five ‘