The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 1, 1925, Page 2

GE TWO * THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered‘ at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORG ae D. MANN Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Publisher CHICAGO Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - Fifth Ave. Bidg. 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 rights of republication of special dispatches herein | are also reserved. DETROIT Kresge Bldg. J OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year. . «$7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) . Niscatete 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) . 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota............... 6.00, THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) (Official City, State and County Newspaper) WHAT'S THE MATTER What is the matter with American college education? Professor Richardson of Dartmouth was commissioned to find out, and after a year’s survey reports that the chiet need is—to make scholarship respeetable. The scholarship ftself might doubtless be improved, in curriculum and methods, but the main obstacle is student scorn of any sort: of scholarship. : College opinion reflects the popular American contempt of.the “highbrow.” It may overlook lack of personality in the athlete, of scholarship in the social leader, or of intellect in the “good fellow,” but not the lack of anything in the scholar. In the college of liberal arts, whose ostensible purpose is education, the pursuit of that purpose is stigmatized by the longest list of epithets in the college vocabulary. It is, of course, the business of colleges to solve this prob- lem if.they can. But the real responsibility is on the rest of'us. Students are not a monastic caste, immured from the world. _If we do not respect the intellectual life, neither will they. If we measure values by money, so will they. If we suffer the numbers of jeers of the mediocre majortiy to impose compulsory conformity, and call it democracy, the student democracy will do the same thing. *We spend more money on colleges, and send more students to them, than any other people in the world. But the spirit of culture cannot be manufactured in them, if it is not living and honored outside. It is not from colleges that callow youth learned that bootlegging is smart, and learning con- temptible. AUTOMOBILES AREN’T “UN-AMERICAN” Several eastern universities are passing rules against students having automobiles in the university towns. If the rule is due to local traffic or other conditions, or to the’ too frequent abuse of motor cars for carousing and! immorality, it is understandable. “But if it is under the pretense of preventing “un-American false class distinctions,” it is nonsense. In the first place, who shall define as “un-American” that which exists anywhere in America? The visible signs of differences of wealth may be bad things, but they are not “un-American” things. The student has only to stand on any street in America and open his eyes to observe that they are precisely the most universal and visible thing in America. And, in the second place, what is the mental date of any- one who thinks an automobile a mark of exceptional wealth? When many American states have literally more auto- mobiles than they have families, when workmen habitually go to work in their own cars, and when a student can get a second-hand Ford, which student opinion makes it reput- able for him to use, for a few dollars, the automobile has won its right to be called democrati It has its evils, but “un-American” is not one of them. INCOME TAX UNPOPULAR They are trying to simplify the income tax. The more it is simplified, the more injustices it’ will work. The more it is made just, the more intolerably complex it will. become. Somewhere between, a line must be drawn, probably by rule of thumb. Wherever it is drawn, it will still be com- plicated enough to be a nuisance to somebody, and arbitrarily uniform enough to be unjust to somebody. Any other line would produce the same situation, with different victims. There is no such thing as a tax that is both simple and just. There ought to be none that is either to the exclusion of the-other. The only popular tax is the one the other fellow pays. We cannot all have that, and if each of us tries to get it, the only result is confusion. BRITISH INVESTORS PROFIT AGAIN 4 oes it make a country richer or poorer to invest money abread ? Editorial Review & Comments reproduced column n y or may not express the opinion of ‘The Tribune. They are presented here tn order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. LADD (La Moure Chronicle) ; AS TO “DITCHI No doubt a generous modicum of salt should be aqded to the story that Nonpartisan league leaders in th wher senatorial toga of Hon. E. F. Ladi! would be stripped from that gentleman's shoulders and draped about the form of Con- gressman James H. Sinclair of the Third district. In the first’ place, the leaguers are excessively proud of Saving in the United States senate a member who poses a an adherent of the political and economic principles of that organization, even if his record as such is a bitaskew. And the leaguers must realize that Sen ator Ladd ig their best bet — for campaign punposes, We mean. Congressman Sinclair may be re garced as a more sincere devotee of the league, but his “running” ability outside of his own district ut is problematical, best. Tuer fore the logical ion wou ‘be that to ditch Ladd for Sinclair, thus running the risk of a total loss, woukd be ag foolhardy as trad- ing horses amid stream. Theo retically the league is ready and willing to sacrifice anything and everything for principle; but in practice it isn’t being done. In the second piace, Senator Ladd might well demur at this “ditching” idea and refuse to stana, for it. What then? Why, then it would ‘be a lead-pipe cinch. for the independent candidate. It may be taken for granted that Senator Ladd thas a substantial political following, and that he also has a little political machine of his own. United States pnators always have. As Exftor Gerald P. Nye of the Griggs County Sentinel-Courier sapiently observes. “‘Pie’ will be the main issue in the approaching senatorial primary election.” And ‘pie’ is what a United States sen- ator hasn’t got anything else but. / In the meantime, independent Republicans are none too sure of what is going ‘to happen in their own ranks. It is quite generally assumed that Hon. L. B. Hanna is “receptive”’—to put it mildly—and |! former Governor R. A. Nestos, who was quite palpably tricked out of renomination in the primary elec- be in the race. There are others; who could be induced to run—and without a great deal of persuading, at that. Thus there is every prospect that the forthcoming senatorial primary election will not be de- void of a certain element of in terest. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON THE EAGLE AND THE HORNED OWL “Please finish your story,” begged Nick when the jackdaw stopped to take a breath. “Yes, I'll tell you ail about it,” said Johnny Jackdaw. “How far had I gotten? Oh, yes, I told you that when I sat in a certain position in the tree, I could see something shin- ing down in the leaves below, and I kept it a secret because whatever it was I wanted it for myself.” “Well,” said Doctor Bill, “I sup- pose you found out that all that glit- ters is not gold, did you, Johnny?” “I can’t go so fast, the bird. “I haven't gotten tha# far yet. But I was very curious,” he went on. “What could it be shining out there; in the woods that I didn’t know about? Whatever it was I decided that I must have it. I marked the spot well with my eye, and never let on. “So at sunset when all the other birds were going to bed, | slipped off to the same tree. “But I couldn't see a thing! There Was not enough sun. I hadn't thought of that. Even a diamond won't shine in the dark. “So I scratched .around on the ground to see if I could feel it with my feet, whatever it was, when— snap! Something bit into my foot like a crocodile’s teeth, “I couldn't move a step and I thought my foot would come off with the dreadful pain, I knew right away what had happened. I had heard about traps. It was the sun shining on the steel trap that had Ask Britain. British investors, under governnmnet en- couragement, developed the rubber industry of the East Indies. For a while they lost money, then made it, and then lost=again. As a whole, it has been profitable, even with the develop- ment. risks and the stress of war. And now, it is figured that the rubber.exports to the United States will alone pay all the huge war-debt installments. To pay such a debt as this in money is impossible. Britain remains solvent because it ean pay it in rubber—a commodity which we are anxious to import, and against which we will erect no political or business barriers. _ The bread cast upon the waters is returning again, after many days. MUST MATCH OUR BUILDINGS After all, if we insist on building many-storied cities, we cannot serve them with one-story streets. It is like trying to administer a skyscraper with one elevator. You must -either spread your cities outward, or duplicate your streets ‘And in cities already built, even this choice is no longer ~ open. People who are piled forty layers deep all day must evening. New York ‘already has three levels, with no safe soe. for pedestrians, and not enough for automobiles, on any built human hives, tier ot tier,’ and ‘stil’ tried’ to into holes in the bottom, from the same old streets. nothing left but to adapt the public streets to have’ more than one‘ level to get in and out, morning and |had caught my eye before. If I had on- ly told my companions they could have warned me. “I found that when I was quite still my foot didn’t hurt so much. So after while I began to look around. “They don’t set traps for birds”, thought I. “They set traps for rab- bits. I hoped a rabbit would come and not a fox. I would have made a nice dinner for a fox, I got very nervous!” “Did anyone come ked Nick. i Weil, just wait unt tell you!” cried the jackdaw, “But it was someone I never dreamed of. “Right near the woods was a nigh cliff and on the cliff lived a family of eagles. They say they have eyes all over their heads and I do believe it, Either Mister Eagle saw me go into the woods or he visited the trap every night to see if there was any- thing in it. “Suddenly 1 there he was. “Before I could move, he, grabb me and gave a pull, and I was free, said the jackdaw with a shiver. heard . wings, and “lat all, because I really thought it THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO RUTH BURKE, CONTINUED Under any other circumstances I would not have written this to you was the story of some disgruntled woman who.blamed Zoe’ for her hus- band’s misdemeanor. All day yesterday I kept it to my- self, I did not even mention it to Jack. Now I am sorry that I did this. Sydney Carton came over yestet- day noon to be our house guest for a few days. I wanted to confide in Syd and ask his advice about this letter from mother, but somehow it did not seem right to give it even a second thought, because I ‘could not make it fit in with what I knew| of Zoe and her love and care for my children and her devotion to me. As I have told you before, I have never known a face that expressed such madonna-like purity or a smile that expressed such sweetness. _ I wish now that I had talked to Syd. But to get on with my story. Last night I was sitting alone with Sydney Carton in the library,\ Jack having been detained at the office. Zoe had taken Little Jack and the baby upstairs some time before. Naturally when the telephone rang I thought it was Jack and went to answer it. It was almost eleven. What was my surprise to hear a The Tangle P | This Style Is Always Popular With the Little Boys | LITTLE FELLOW LeT ME SUGGEST A Raiecu SOMETHING LIKE This strange voice—I say strange because it was so gruff and uncultured, ask- ing for Zoe. I called her from the hall \and she came downstairs. 1 could tell frome the way she said “hello”—for I could not help hear- ing—that she was very much per- turbed and frightened. I think Syd had the same feeling, for we both sat silently listening unashamed, Truly, Ruth, I felt that Zpe was in trouble and 1 wanted to help. Also I could not get the letter from mother out of my mind. Zoe's conversation was all nega- tion. I heard her say: “No.” “Em- phatically no.” And then after she had listened} a bit, she said, “I do not care what it means to me. I want you to yn- derstand that I am refusing once and for all.” A few seconds later came the words: “I don’t care what I pro- mised. I will not do it.” “I'm hanging up the phone,” she said next in staccato accents. “No! No! No!” We heard the click as the re- cégiver was banged into its socket. Then, without coming into the room, where Sydney and I were sitting, she went up the staircase to her reom with no explanations whatever. I know I must have looked blank- ly at Syd, for he said: “I’m sure Zoe will’ explain in the morning.” Jack came in soon after that and we talked of other things, for I had pledged Syd to secrecy. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) owl is very savage and is not afraid of anything.” “Then what happened?” “The eagle had to drop me,” Johnny Jackdaw thankfully. “Ill never, never steal again. Oh, my toe! But there! I don’t-fly with my! feet, and I think I'll be going, and thank you ever and ever so much for your kindness everybody.” Away he went toward home. Just then a carrier pigeon arrived with a telegram for the Twins. It was from the Fairy Queen. It said, “Come home.” Nothing more. “That's all right,” said Doctor Bill. “You have been a big help and I want you to come back as soon as you can.” id (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) CIRCUS RIDERS OFFER TO RIDE ANY; WILD BRONCO In these days. of the. rodeo, wild west riding, bucking bronchos and aspiring daredevil performers it is interesting to note that the Robbins Bros. circus, which sis to show in Bismarck on June 10, has issued a challenge accompanied with 2 $100 bill, that if anyone here has an out- law horse which they think cannot be ridden to bring said horse to the circus lot and if one of the cowboys of the show cannot successfully ride the animal and subdue him, the own- tler of the outlaw will be given the $100. This is a bonafide offer. The show carries with it fifty cowbo} ifty Indians. "The cow- boys are headed by the famous ro- deo expert, Ponca Bill with his Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders. Miss Lulu P. Parr, the — world’s greatest. girl broncho buster will give daily an ‘exhibition of her ability. There myst be some wild horses in this country that have not been | subdued or ridden and here is a chance to pick up some easy money. The federal. government now em- left my toe nail in the trap, but he the rest of me. It was awful!” ‘How did you ever get away?” asked Nancy. “¥ou'll never believe it,” said the little bird, “but it was getting: dark ‘and: ® great horned owl was just starting out to hunt. It saw the eagle with me in his claws aud went right at him, besk and nail. They ji bad @ dreadful fight. The horned | They ploys “women: as chemists, geologists, - -Relbeved and 1. AMBERLAIN'S bacteriologists, plant pathologists and micro-analysists. : EVENING WRAP, TOO The white flannel coat may very easily be pressed into service as an evening wrap. New York, June 1.—It is noon, The human ants are swarming out of great honeycombed piles of brick, out of the darkness into the soft sunlight. Pell-mell they rush to lunch counters and settle down be- fore their food, enlarged insects de- vouring enlarged crumbs, Then the curbs are lined with them, basking in the sun’s warmth and comfortable with filled stomachs, looking at their watches and count- ing the minutes until they must re- turm to the great brick ant-hills and resume the daily grind, There before a millinery shop are clustered female of the species, theiz stomachs not so full that their purses may be the fuller to purchase a new hat or some bright badge to set them off from their sisters in the throng. The age-old striving for indi- viduality, for petty distinction. And there before another window another cluster watching a monkey in a cage, cutting didoes to attract attention. He, too, seeks individual- ity—and achieves it. Goldfish lazy about in a_ bowl. Pampered things, doing nothing to earn their living except to show off their gaudy bodies, to please their vainglorious keepers. There’s a hu- man parallel, too, but we'll pass it. ‘And here in the corner is a cage of white mice. The cage sping around in a mad whirligig. Around and around it flies, the little white things chasing each other to the end of the cage, only to find there is no end. Futility! Men and women press their faces to the window to watch the mice. They smile at the little fools in their cages, laugh at their futility, But here is one sharp-eyed, wrinkled lit- tle man in shabby clothes who does not laugh, He seems in a brown A | EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO | HISTER TRUS) WOULD . OU MIND = SS < Believe 1, wou Few THES: I. WAS GLAD to ACCoNmMoODatS You, BUT "w—. —- Cp! THe Flest MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1925 LUCKY THAT TENNESSEE LAW IS IN LIMELIGHT ‘ By Chester H. Rowell-- - The harm is not in Fundamentalism. That is a doctrine once historically respectable, whose chief proponents are | models of piety and virtue. If it seems narrow and ignorant to better-informed per- isons, so are most of the things that most people think on |most subjects. The world has survived too much ignorance to be men- anced by so innocent a form of it as this. The trouble comes when it is sought, by law or other compulsion, to enforce these limitations on others. It is a delicate enough matter even to enforce knowledge !on ignorance, as the public safety sometimes requires us to do in matters of public health and sanitation. To enforce ignorance on knowledge is unconditionally intolerable. No other liberty or advancement is worth much, or can long survive, when knowledge is not free. The ages when Authority censored Knowlegde haev been ages of oppression and stagnation. And it makes little dif- ference whether the authority proceeds from king, or priest. or people. “The truth shall make you free.” Nothing else can. And it is not Truth unless it is free. Both forms of Fundamentalism, the theological and the scientific, are'rampant in every day’s news. Baptists object to a Baptist church that wants him calling Dr. Fosdick, con- ligious life in America. |fessedly one of the ablest and most inspiring leaders of re- One Presbyterian assembly wants to expel the whole Pres- bytery of New Yark. If a militant faction could have its way, nearly all the teachers of religion in all the great insti- tutions of Christian scholarship in the world, practically all its recognized Biblical scholars, and most of the distinguished clergymen of most of the Christian denomina- tions would be expelled from their churches on the ground that they are not Christian, Certainly, Dean Inge, one of the highest dignitaries of the Church of England, would have to go. He said, just before leaving, that he had heard little of Fundamentalism while in America, because he had associ- ated mostly with intelligent people. If this faction is in the majority, and has historic doctrine on its side, it has the theoretical right to say that those who wish to preach modern doctrine must be driven out to found new churches to do it in. That might even be a good thing. But the price of it would be the des- truction of great historic institu- tions. If Not One Church, Then Another The educational part 9f it is more serious. For the law affects us all. If modernism can not be preached FABLES ON HEALTH in one church, there are others. But if science can not be taught in the schools of a state, there is nowhere else to teach it. It is therefore fortunate that the Tennessee law has attracted so much attention. A test case will de- termine whether bald literalism shall compulsorily supplant the consensus of informed conclusion. If it does, it should be also nec- essary to teach that the sun moves around the earth, that the earth is square, and has a roof over it; that insanity is a demoniac possession, and that witchcraft must be punish- able by death. Taken with the same absurd liter- alness, the Bible teaches all these things. Astronomy and _ penology are forbidden, as well as evolution. Let Mr. Bryan, and his cohorts, have the courage of their convictions and demand these things, too. Regular passenger airplane serv- ices now are being operated in Swe- den. “AMERICANITIS” CAN KILL YOU “Americanitis56 kills 400,000 in the United States every year, according to an estimate of a representative of the Gorgas Memorial Institute, Chi- cago. By “Americanitis” is meant the hurry and bustle and incessant drive of the average American tempera- ment. Deaths from “Americanitis” occur more frequently between the ages of 40 and 50 years, the report says. Many a man is driven to his grave, years ahead of his time, by an in- ordinate ambition to forge ahead, 4 In Europe men ' take life more calmly, They mix play and leisure with their work, The result is that their death rate from old age disorders is much smaller than in America. “American| thinks the Chi- cago physician, can be remedied on- ly by teaching the public that heart disease, Bright’s disease, apoplexy and high blood pressure can be checked. A yearly health audit by a physi- cian is advised to detect danger sig- nals. study as he peers into the window. With a sudden start he pulls-out his watch and nudges the man next to him, They look at the watch and hurry away. Others“ glance at their watches, turn on their heels and walk away. Back they go to the piles of brick. White mice in a cage running on to an endless end. White men in their cages running their owh treadmills, as unwitting as the little white mice. And so passes the noon hour for one to whom the New York looking glass reflects images of insects and animals in the shape of humans. —JAMES W. DEAN. FOLLIES SCORED GREAT TRIUMPH IN.NEW YORK CITY An exceptipnally: novel and tentious theatrical event for the Au- and Mister Shean, those “unique and extraordinary” comedians, in person,| o¢ in America’s greatest annual revue,|1¢ see the Greenwich Village Follies, which| ang cla: was the outstanding success of this and last season in the metropolis. Like other famou, id popular Gree! wich Village Follies, it offers in bounteous plentitude gorgeous stage pictures, beautiful costuming, novel interludes, new and novel surprises in individual and ensemble dances, persistent vein of comedy by those master farceurs, Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean, whose whimsical and humorous pitter-patter and slang become by-words of the world. Last season Messrs, Jones Green, managing directors of the Bohemians, Inc. rescued Mr. Gallag- her and Mr. Shean from three month’s exile caused by the litiga- tion between Flo Ziegfeld and the Messrs. Shubert over the services of these masters of comedy. The com- edians could not work for Ziegfeld, because of an adverse court ruling, sgrvices. The Bohemians, Inc. spon- sors for the Greenwich Village Foll- ies ended the controversy by pur- chasing their contract from the Shu- berts and immediately incorporating them in their annual Greenwich Village, Follies. Immediately this Follies began to make new box of: and the fame of Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean flew skyward. At the con- -clusign of the Follies tour the Bo- hemians, Ins., approached’ the comedi- ‘ans with an offer to star them in a revue especially written’ to efcom- pass their unusual and. marked tal- ents for funmaking and the enticing offer to star them in a World Tour on which they are now enroute, o¢—___—_ -————+ THE AUTO C/V:AVAN By Florence Borner From Maine to California, The autoes come and go, From lands of brightest sunshine, To lands of ice and snow; The poor and modest flivver, The costly limousin Keep going ever onward, And form an endiess line. We know more of our neighbors, Than we had known before, Since autoes by the thousands, Have brought them all next. door; Each day we're rubbing elbows, With folks from every state, While hearing homely phras: Pre-| And language most sedate. ditorium theatre for, one night only,| Qh, who would envy Midas, Tuesday, June 2, is Mister Gallagher) with all his hoard of gold, When one can be a member, an 0 bold; the hidden places, them for its own, While Distance flees before it, *| No fears can ever daunt us, phrases have’ girded the globe and| 7), in every country The ane The fice records heretofore unheard of,| Expenditures, firat class And calls no place its home. Adenture beckons to us, We mount our magic steeds, Fleet as the winds of heaven, We*follow where she lead: No troubles cause: dismay, The Auto stands before us, So hurry, and away! rich man and the poor man, young man and the old, careful and: the reckless, timid and the bold; The touring car and roadster, The coupe ifid sedan, * All help to. make that endjess train— The Auto Caravan, suakarar FURS ARE DYED, TOO Not only: laces, but furs this year The and would not work for the Shuberts}9%@ dyed to mateh the costume to whom the court awarded their| ¥!th which they are worn. ANNOUNCEMENT —_ ‘ I am_a Candidate for Mem- ber of Board of Education at Election June 2nd.. Have been.and am for Economy in Teachers and fi accredi High School. p> es joe good: Seheols, : :Let’s keep hem so. ‘ GEO. M. REGISTER, :