The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 25, 1925, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE MONDAY, MAY 25, 1925 ‘THE BISMARCK “Entered at the Postoffic ce, Bismarck, N. D., as ‘Second Class Matter, ANN GEORGE D. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - - i - Marquette Bldg PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Perss 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 right are also reser MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULA SUBSCRIPTION TES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ily by carrier, per year 3 $7.20 ly by mail, per year (in Bisma Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarc Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota DETROIT of republication of special dispatches herein ed. oo oars THE STATH’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) (Oficial Cit State and County Newspaper) TRENDS IN TRANSPORTATION Automobile id trucks are forcing a complete revamp. ing of transportation for short distance ‘The improvement of the highways has brought the bus and the truck for freighting. Both these agencies of transportation within certain limits have come into keen competition with the rail roads, Governmental restrictions that hedge in’ the railroads have not been extended as strictly toward the supervision of the bus or motor track, have legislatures taken cognizance of the rapid development of the motorized stage and the gasoline driven freighter. Laws have been passed to regulate these new agencies of the of transportation to protect life. Rates as a rule meet mileage competition of the railroads, but the restrictions a governmental ¢ eter imposed upon the common carric that use iron ré instead of public highways curtail their activities while the few rules and regulations that hedge in the latést contender in the field of transportation are not onerous. Many railway companies are meeting the bus competition by establishing their own lines for handling passengers and : freight. But the limit will soon be reached by this kind of competition. Just now the division of traffic between the 1 two modes of transportation is to be regulated will be an interesting development of this generation. If all railroads supplemented their rail service by highway bus and trucks, the roads would not accommodate the traffic; in fact, in certain densely populated sections the bus and motor lines present a real transportation problem and have forced some modicum of government regulation because they were crowding the roads and main thoroughfares. It is apparent to all who have studied traffie conditions that within certain limits at least, the bus and the motor truck can give transportation s the railroads for very obvious reasons. however, if the railroads were crippled in service by this competing branch of transportation, the reaction would be acute for the bus lines today are local in their service while that of the‘railway company is extensive and contin- uous in all kinds of weather. The problem is one of partial competition but it cannot be met by seeking through legislation to impose restrictions on bus lines with an idea of destroying this mode of effee- tive transportation. Adjustments must follow, but it seems reasonably sure that great expansion of the bus and truck as units of rapid transit will be witnessed within the next few years. On the other hand. HISTORY History may repeat itself. During the siege of Paris in the war of 1870, out-of-town correspondence was written on very thin paper. Thi was valuable. Then again, the same kind of stationery was resorted to in the days of the pony expre: Now the animal is being extenc Colonel Paul Henderson to tap every important, city. And although rates are comparatively cheap, milady’s i heavy stationery may give way to something less weighty. It will be a good thing if all letters are written on lighter paper. Many a two-ounce letter can be written on half as heavy stationery. An ounce doesn’t make much difference in one letter, but an_ounce in 300 letters would bring a smile to almost any = postman. ded under the direction of ACCIDE} Traffic accidents, you are informed by Herbert Hoover, aré responsible annually for 23,000 deaths and 680,000 seri- € ous injuries. This represents the staggering economic loss ~ of 600 million dollars. ‘It will take years of effort and education before we ban- ish death from the highway. Traffic is our biggest problem. ‘=And yet traffic does not stand alone as a big factor in gidental death. Statistics show that nearly as many peo- = ple“are killed by falls as in traffic and, strange to relate, by 2. falls that occur largely in their own homes. 2 One naturally thinks he is safe in his own home, yet the 2 Hndividual is in frequent peril of his life within his own four = walls. However, he wouldn't be if he were always careful. ay COTTON A 18-year-old boy shows the way to southern cotton # growers. \Claude Craighead Jr., cotton club member of », Athens, La., following intructions from the Louisiana State @ University extension department, produced 2967 pounds of seed cotton on one acre, ginning three bales of cotton. = sOlaude entered the “bale-to-the-acre” contest conducted bythe cotton club. He won first prize of $50 for the greatest yield per acre, another prize of $10 for the best record book. His cost of producing was $123.50, his net profit $167.35. bale to the acre. Yet this boy produced three bales. A won- erful achievement. 4 MEDIEVAL i » Paris, metropolis of continental Europe, dictator of -women’s fashions, gathering place of “smart” people, is de- cidedly old-fashioned in, at least one respect. Paris has and nearly 400 thousand are bicycles! of the “Old World. TRIBUNE Publisher Kresge Bldg. | ws to scores of friends of Je Hagher in Wahpeton and Breck- dpe. ~| The Parmer can remeraber Joe | {Gallagher for mere than 25 years. | {It is mighty glad to know that he | Jis stil braking on the Mitaca | loc | “There is quite « story behind the litle announcement that doe Gale | lagher isa erent man although for | the best yeas of hes life he has! filled the htmble po ition of a] brakema on a little passenger train traversing a section of th. Great) Northern in most: section none too thickly populated, — He! has ylorified a job. doe was grow. | Only within the last few years | ervice at a lower cost than | was because mail was sent out in balloons, and space | Average cotton yield in the south is less than one-fourth thousand vehicles of different sorts on its ts. Yet only 50 thousand are privately owned automo- Imagine any American city of any size with eight times as many bicydles on its streets as automobiles! This is in- It is a wonder we still ‘let Paris _Editorial Review ribune, tn order | | |] our readers may have both sides |] |} of important: tesues whieh are |] being discussed in the pres of |] the day, | JOE CALLAGHER GLORIFIES | 4 JOB Tarmer) bach Ga his job Great North. | between Walle mn, and Milaca, Minn.,| {hi from California, where he has been spending the winter, by lthe way, according to the April| issue of the Great su thorn Sema- | phore, all of which will be pleasing | ing old pracefully a quarter of a century ago but he was an inspir Fation to all whe kuew him, He | was immune from criticism or the unkind word among his kind. | sverybody had 1 word for him.” No «rails had a} more loyal or courteous trainman, He took his job seriously, even in ‘the days when it paid only $75 al ‘month. He made it a never fail- | i pensibility, He eapitalized | r Mothers liked to ride with yer beeause he un. | ‘derstood the baby. Old folks , Jaunching: en a journey waited for | Joo jJoe Gallagher's train becaus Monkey Business "Tey ANENT DANCED muck AT AAT * —~- They caniT , MAKE _A MONKEY \ OUR ME 7 : Rear Wa Ge) \ {ano t aN ) \ Onw Big y S NS Mev He had a ready trish wit. He had | off the jobeon the local passenger Jtrain that runs away up into the} jackpine country. doe Gallagher should never he retired. It would rd on his friends j is who know this man fied a jch, seattored all t, would be sin-! Joe had 1 out of | last iwho plori jover the northw the hed ‘the. Willmar for time. | He has proven to the v there is real joy ins faithfully serving oth found — happine: ond “s. | |There are many Joe Galiaghers in itho husiness of life. | What wou'd the world be with-! out them? | uecess. | | ADVENTURE OF * THE TWINS || BY OLIVE ROBERTA BARTON MORE BIRD PATIENT | Some very queer birds came | Doctor Bill's hospttal. | One was the hoopoe, Did you ever of him? He is a nice little fel- low, a bright brown, with wings all black and white. | He has a hard life, indeed, becal not only men shoot him for sport,| but hawks love to chase him. { He doesn't live in America, but I am sure we should love to have him if he would come. “What happened to you, Henry?” asked Doctor Bill | “Well, PI tell you, Doctor," said Henry Hoopoe. “It was this way.| I hadn't been at my breakfast five minutes when I saw a cloud sort of p over the sky. And looking up I beheld a terrible hawk, | “He was swooping down right at me, so I dropped the big bug I was eating, and spread out my feathers | flat and sprawled out legs and! closed my e and pretended I was} \dead. They say I do it nicely, you know, playing dead, | “I twist around all sorts of ways| and ruffle up my feathers until I look exactly like an old bunch of rags.” to! \t : sy If you are’so start that you think jas welt. \trigued me, ‘remember exactly who you are.” i }do you do, Jimmy! ind jwas the soul of kindn thy and — servic avelin’ men made doe their friend ndt confidant and sent messages him to other men und te friends, Joe never forgot. Local | ; news reporters on county seat; ene) eo Jweekly newspapers never met! e Qan e jJoe’s “train they weren't handed | ene oe |some personals “and sometimes 1 {“bir” story. Joe Pked folks and 'y ALDEN When I first fanced with her, she Junderstood them. And folks liked NEY CAR- {was very nervous, and she asked me Hoe. the man who glorified a job. if we were going tg take an early Told for he Pittsburg. a religion he y little | Perhaps, Syd, 1 haven't reached | train me jact of his life simple tevt {the place in the spelling book where | hated Albi nd altogether evinced Ie Iden rule and he infalli- |! 4m apt to spell proximity, affinity, | more feeling than I have ever know but J um trying hard to realize that| her to 1 was really quite alarm- ‘the sophisticated epigrams of the] td when I found t she had gone | The Farmer is sure it did for {modern writers are usually just] back to the apartment, but, finding Joe now spends his winters in) Word juggling. you had gone, 1 concluded you had California, He ust be pretty | Speaking of proximity and affin-| taken her. Did you, before you left, Houp in years, but it is pretty | ity, | noticed you were quite taken drop her at the apartment?) [I am ertain no greater sorrow could) with that Little Ellington girl. very curious to know come inte his life than to take him} Did you or did you not take her Which e again to the sen- t wrote in this Any one of three or four] fence 1 fir letter: men might be guilty and Leslie says] Why did you run away? = Zoe not mentioned the name of JACK. the man who took her home. You] P. SI know that Leslie would know Leslie is so particular in giv-} send her love. if she knew that I were Writing this letter, but she told me as I was coming home to dinner e was going to t the time to make out a list of some Spanish fur- niture she wanted for the big stu- dio room, she has added to the old house, She is going to send the list to her mother who intends to spend part of the summer in Spain. ing every one the right to exercise the living of his or her own life that she would not question her. [ con tess though that I did and she just smiled at me that inexplicable little smile which is as provo ve as that of Mona Lisa and ag secretive i makes me think of Harry! Syd, more and more, and you inow| The old home, by the way, is grow T could not be very angry at Harry] ing very beautiful under — Leslie's even when he double-crossed me, | regime. I never appreciated before I saw you dancing with her a good| what the God of the universe did deal that night. Also, Melville Sar-]when He made a woman becauce toris seemed to thi man was growing sick of his own only woman worth dancing with-af-| company in the Garden of Eden. ter my wife. I myself, as you know,] I stopped here for a whife, Syd, danced with her a good deal at the beginning of the evening. She in- 1 came to the conclu- sion there were things in that clever brain of hers that neither Ruth nor had dreamed were there, as my long distance message came in, and now I'm on my way home. Goodnight. JACK. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Ine.) “Didn't it work?” asked Doctor CONDITIONS SHOCKING ! “Friend of mine visited the “Just wait until I tell you,” said] prison lately.” ‘ the little hoopoe-bird excitedly. “Ye: “How did he find the condi- it worked all right in some tions?” The huwk swooped down, but either Shocking! In. fact, he was he didn’t see me or he didn’t want a dead bird, for he flew right away again. The thing that hurt me was something altogether different.” “What?” asked the Twins who were getting as curious as Doctor Bill himself. \ “When I flopped down on the ground there was something right under me I’didn’t see as there were a lot of old leaves lying around. It was a snake and he bit me in the leg. How | got away 1 don’t know.” “It does seem too bad,” said Doctor Bill sympathetically. ‘Come, we'll fix you up as good as new, sir.” “Why don’t you do like us?” asked another little bird who had just ar- rived. “Then you can’t get hurt.” The newcomer looked like a spar- row, yet he was different. He was gray and had a black head and tail and fat white cheeks. “Hello, here! ‘What's your name?” asked Doctor Bill, “I don’t seem to electrocuted.”—Princeton Tiger. EVERETT TRUE “Jimmy Java Sparrow,” answered the littie bird, “Weil, well, well! I declare! How And what is it you do that is so wonderful?” | “I adopt something,” said Jimmy proudly. ! | “Humph! | What good does that | do?” demanded the little hoopoe bird. |‘ |“It only adds to your troubles.” ‘No it doesn’t. What I really mean is that I get somebody to adopt jme. I usually pick a nice kind big | bird like a dove or pigeon. I go where he goes, and at night when he | goes to sleep I roost on his shoulder, j Other big birds let him alone and I'm safe, too, “Then how did you asked Nick. “It was a mistake,” said he. “Someone shot at the dove and hit me by mistake. “Then it works both ways,” saia| Doctor Bill. “But it doesn’t matter.. I saved {his life,” said the little Java Spar- | Tow proudly. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) ged hurt?” «Dogs cannot be landed’in England except under a special governmenc icense. x ms GREAT MONKEY Cases / Hey wsler WHERE'S Your Aw 2 yi 7 RDR BAR HAR LOOK WHAT SEZ ! CAME. DOWN FRom A MONKEY “ SS EDUCATION HAS IFS DISADVANIAGES TO SIMS e ae ia J The paths of glory lead but to the gray hair, : } a Keeping your nose to the, grind- stone never wears out the stone, Most people’s aim in life is happi- ness. And most people are aiming so high they miss it. We didn't know a couple were married until we saw them yawning. First patent for balloon tires has beep issued. Oversized heads need protection also. This is the silly season and in New York one policeman arrested another policeman, ' How busy isn’t as important as why busy, The bee is congratulated. Mosquitoes are swatted, Detroit woman pushed her hus- bard out a second story window. He should rent a bungalow. Onions up to $4 a crate will hurt the chewing gum business. Canadian, blacksmith inherited $60,000,000,"s0 now he can sit down under his chestnut tree. lowa man shook hands with the King of England, but failed to sell him any life Msurance. “Little Brown Jug” was sung by soldiers in one war. Will bootleggers sing it in the rum war? Pugilist in San Quentine wants to become a writer. glutton for punishment. prison He is a BY CONDO Saal EGYPTIANS ARE LOGICAL, BRITISH PRACTICAL By Chester H. Rowell Just a brief paragraph from Cairo, announcing the com- pletion of the Makwar dam, on the Blue Nile, illustrates the - real issue between England and Egypt. This dam will irrigate a vast area of rich and cheap Su- danese lands with water which otherwise would have flowed through Egypt. Egypt lives on water which flows first | through the Sudan. - Whoever controls the Upper Nile can rule or starve Egypt. As a matter of people, the Sudanese ‘ are better off under British rule, and the Egyptians are will- ing to take the risk of ruling themselves. But as a matter of water, the Nile is one unit, and the whole of it should be controlled by some one interested in ithe welfare of Egypt. Therefore, England says both parts should be British, and Egypt that both should be in Egyptian control. \ ‘ The Egyptians are logical and the British are practical. Let it be hoped that they will muddle out some illogical solu- tion that works. The reported German “death ray,” to paralize people 40 miles off, is doubtless a myth. \Practically the whole series of theoretically possible wavelengths.is now known, and there is no place in that series for such a ray. Because we are used to seeing science work miracles is no reason for crediting the incredible. But what a boon to humanity if such @ thing were possible! It would | make war first harmless, then use- less, and then impossible. Every- body being able to conquer every- body else, without killing or perma- nently disabling anybody, it could no longer be tolerated that anybody conquer anybody, There would be no alternative but the rule of justice. There seems to be no prospect that we will learn justice because it is right. Such @ machine would make us just be- cause we dared not be unjyst. | FRANCE ATTEMPTS THE IMPOSSIBLE Paris papers, perhaps not too seri- ously, are discussing _conscripting women as well as men for the army. One of them suggests that the wo- men may serve their time bearing either arms or children. The whole purpose, avowedly, is “cannon fod- der” against the bugaboo of the ter- rible German birth rate. Of course .it will not be done. In fact, nothing will or can be done |to make France “safe” on that basis. France will always be smaller than Germany and weaker than England. It can only be safe in a world in which Belgium and Denmark and Finlund are also safe. Until the weak are safe in their right, France can not be safe in her might. To breed cannon fodder from conscript mothers, or import it from African. barbarians, is to at- tempt the impossible and prevent the possible. WE MUST PROTECT PRECIOUS PRODUCT Look into the nearest pond. About this tima of the year you are’ likely to find it swarming with myriads of tadpoles. A little later, the banks will be crawling with tiny frogs. And, only a little after that, the half-dozen survivors wil! croak the summer through, That is the way the frog popula- tion is kept up. So many are hatched that some are bound to be left, no matter how many die. “The human race is getting partly beyond that method. When the av- FABLES ON HEALTH 2. erage woman had 15 or 20 children, the population increased scarcely at all, Now, in the Occident, anything over three means rapid increase. But we are not yet at the goal. Last year, according to the chil- dren’s bureau, 187,000 babies less than a year old—over 500 a day— died in this country. Every one of them cost the agony-of birth, and the sharper pain of death. There is knowledge enough to save most of them if each ong knew and practic- ed it. In telephones or electric lights, whatever the most expert know, we all get the benefit of. Until we can do as well in thé most precious prod- uct of all, we shall not be entirely civilized, PAPER MONEY ANNOYING TO CALIFORNIANS! . The government presses are work- ing overtime to print paper money, especially $1 bills, as fast as we wear it out. The crusade to teach the people to use silver has apparently failed, And yet, the custom of using the actual coin is not beyond the reach of human nature, Most of the people of earth, and even those of one American state, had this custom be- fore the war. i In England, silver was used up to one pound, gold sovereigns for single pounds, and paper only for five pounds and multiples. In France, it was silver up to 20 francs, gold up to a hundred, and paper over that.. In Germany, similarly, paper to 10 or 20 marks, gold to 50 or a hundred, and paper. for larger In California, we used silver up to $5, gold in $5, $10 and $20 units, and paper over that. Califcrnians still use silver coin and are. §n- noyed, when they go east, at the $1 bills thrust on them. Old Califor- nians would gladly go back to gold also, except that the Federal Re- serve system makes the banks en- courage uniformity of’ custom throughout the country. At any rate, the custom which millions, including one state-full of Americans, found convenient ought not to be beyond the capacity of others to acquire. INSOMNIA LARGELY A HABIT | Insomnia,, or sleeplessness, is largely a habit. . A person retites with the set be- lief that he will‘not.be able to drop off to sleep. . And when this is the case, all well- known remedies, such as counting the black sheep, jumping over the fence, or counting up to 100, often | fail to send one into slumberland, One prominent, writer says he al- ways sleeps with his head to the east. If-he sleeps in a strange room he takes ont his pocket compass, finds east, and then turns his bed around, if it is not already in the correct position. Of course the fact that’his head is toward the east has no material ef- fect on his body. The psychology of the thing, the establishment of a be- lief that “now I can go to sleep, be- cause I always have gone to sleep this way” does have an effect, how- ever. It relieves worry, and makes the man confident. So he sleeps. Some people, after rolling and tossing for an hour or so, and after their minds are in a whigl, get up, dress, and walk around the block. They say they get results this way. Hot baths, just béfore bed time, prove effective for some. For other however, the hot bath only aggra- vates the sensitive nerves. Insomnia victims should remember that the worry in trying to go to sleep is often more injurious than the actual loss of sleep. You look at a horse's teeth to see] @————-. how old he is and at @ man’s to see how rich his dentist is. Richest girl in-the United States married a lawyer. He should be very handy around, the house. Two Boston men. caught a girl who fell from a window. ‘They usually drop, their handkerchiefs. Teacher married her pupil in St. Louis, Same as shost weddings, What's so rare’s beer in June? (Copyright, 1925,,.NEA Service, Inc:) THE WIFE WAS ‘RIGHT Jones and his wife were talking about the remarkable discbveries in King Tutankhamen’s tomb. “Isn't it wonderful, my dear?” said Jones. “They mcrBely found in the tomb couches and chairs 30 centuries ‘old and in~good condi- tion.” “Well,” replied his wife, “I’ve aways said it pays in the long run oy buy the best.”— Londen Tit- its. ‘ VICE VERSUS HE—Please come out in the. gar- den with me. : SHE—Oh, no. I mustn’t go out without a chaperon. iP HE—But we don’t need one. SHE—Then I don’t want to go. —Columbia Jester. MODEST MARVIN ,UMNI—This schoo} has turn- ed out seme good men... FROSH — did you grad- uate? i ot ALUMNI ts the Pein I'm bringing: ou! i : ——————EE* | A THOUGHT | |. —— A righteous man regardeth the life of this beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel—Prov, 12:10, A loving heart is the truest wis- dom.—Dickens, ONE LOOK ENOUGH “I couldn’t serve as a judge. One look at that convinces me he’s guilty.” “Sh-h! That's the district attor- ney.”—Columbia Jester. - - TO THICKEN GRAVY Two level tablespoonful of flour will thicken a cup of liquid for erivy and sauces, juror, fellow —— —___— LITTLE JOE |! na OME YOUNGSTERS THINK W @AKE 1S MADE MERELY FOR SOMEPLAGE TO PUT THE FROSTINGN. | | |