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PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNI Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGED.MANN - - - - Publisher x ‘Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - - - - - DETROIT Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Perss clusively 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 __ Kresge Bldg. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Waily by carrier, per year... .........-ssese wees see $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)............... 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) A GOOD SIGN Interest shown in the school election Tuesday is a good sign. Indifference to the welfare of the schools too often reflected in the indifferent vote cast for school officials. Such Was not the case yesterday. A most representative vote was cast compared to what has obtained in some of the school elections in the past. It is altogether a healthy sign. The selections were made without apparent contest or friction and are the choice of a majoriey of electors and citizens generally wish the winners success during their terms. Administration of school affairs is no easy task and usually a thankless one. There should bé greater coopera- tion on the part of all classes of citizens in the administra- tion of school affairss as they touch intimately practically every home in the city. The welfare of the young people depends to a great degree upon the efficiency of the school system. A JUST DECISION There is a difference between compulsory education and compulsory public education. The decision of the United States Supreme court will meet the approval of fair minded persons of every religious faith. The religious school should never be prohibited through legal process. Such action is as bigoted and intolerant as a law compelling compulsory religious instruction. The idea of compulsory primary education has become a fixed principle in practically every state of the union. It is better enforced in some states than others. Oregon’s law recently invalidated by the Supreme court was not merely a compulsory education law. It sought to do by indirection what could not be done directly. The law was defective in principle because it sought to interfere with the liberty or parents and guardians to direct the rearing and education of their children. In. brief, the Oregon law proposed that all children phys- ically able and living within a reasonable distance should ‘attend pablic schools unless educated at home by private tutors under state supervision. The court held wisely: “The child is not the mere creature of the state; those ‘who nuture and direct his destiny have the right coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for addi- tional obligations.” THOMAS R. MARSHALL Few vice-presidents won such a warm place in the hearts of both factions as Thomas R. Marshall who hag just died. His humor was unfailing and it made his way easy in the Senate during some of the trying sessions over which he presided during the strenuous days of the war. When his chief and close associate, Woodrow Wilson, was stricken he refused to listen to the suggestions of some cabinet members that he assumed the role of president. His high sense of honor was reflected in this instance as well as his fidelity to a stricken friend. He was widely known as a platform speaker and ever voiced a sterling Americanism. His first political office was that of governor of Indiana. He served his state four years and then his nation eight years as vice-president. He was a Hoosier by birth and possessed many of the kindly quali- ties associated with natives of that state whose qualities have been glorified in verse and prose by such fellow Hoos- jiers as Riley, Ade and Tarkington. Probably if Marshall had not chosen the law as a pro- fession, he would have been a humorous writer. He had the literary talent and bent. ,In great demand as an after dinner speaker, he was one of the most charming of enter- -tainers. mh wn But there was a deeper side to his nature which the nation frequently sensed during the trying days of the war. He had a fine conception of his position as presiding officer of the Senate and performed the duties of that office with great skill and tact. 2 UNIQUE SENTENCE A Minneapolis judge recently in handling a case involv- ing domestic relations of a man and his wife put special em- Phasis upon the value of owning furniture as a means of Bremoting connubial happiness and of curtailing the di- vorce evil. ‘The person at bar was a young husband who had violated the law. After questioning the culprit, the judge found ‘that he had been married three years, had lived in a small furnished flat. Bickerings had been frequent and the course of his wedded life had been far from smooth. He asked the prisoner before him if he had ever owned any household goods and was answered in the negative. The judge replied that he would sentence him to one year in the workhouse but would suspend the sentence. He called in the probation officer and told him that the man was to report every two or three months. At the end of the first three months, the man was admonished to be the owner of a rocking chair, the next period he was to buy a table and from month to month some other article of house- id goods until he had enough to furnish two rooms. Fail- ing to perform the conditions of his parole, the sentence was to become effective. _... Students of sociology know the value of owning a home or in absence of that owning some property. The psychology of the situation was seized upon effectively by the Minne- apolis jurist to drive home the necessity for thrift and pro- prietorship. There is no‘more potent antidote for discon- tent, no better cure for cynicism than title to a little pro- perty if it be merely the few articles that go to make a two room flat a “home.” There is a nucleus then to build toward the future. ' i The Minneapolis judge uttered a unique sentence but his Hlonophy., rag. konns. . THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Editorial Review Comments reproduced in this column may or iay not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here (n order that our readers may ave both sides of important issues which ure being discussed in the press of the day. TRYING TO STIR UP DISCUSSION (McLean County Independent) Bismarck correspondence in the Fargo Forum, that dearly loves {to foment trouble for Leaguers, |prints a cock and bull story ac- cusing our congressman, Jimmy | Sinclair of coveting the seat of {Senator Ladd. It asserts several active Nonpartisans (does not name them, however) propose to run Sinela tor United! States senator, “paving the way for F. A Vogel of Colelarbor, league leader in the iast ous. ut representatives, to run for congress in Sinelars stead.’ While the Independent has no brief to speak for Mr. Vogel, it would seem more than probable if he had aspirations in that direc- tion he would have imparted his confidence to friends in MeLean county. There has ‘been no talk, current or grapevine, to that effect in his home county, 5» we are jus tified in believing the Forum, as usual, concoets fancied politics! adventuring in the hopes it will breed ciscord within League ranks The only talk heard of Mr. Vogel is his services entitle him to pro motion as senator from this coun ty, which may or may not have reached him. There will nothing come of the attempt to make it appear there is opposition to Senator Ladd with Leaguers, for the very good reason there is none, Leaguers are mass ed behind the senator to a man. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON ‘The Fairy Queen appeared to Nan cy and Nick, the Twins, as they wer playing in the meadow one day. looked like rain,” said she, “and 1 stopped under this May-apple leaf for shelter. It looks so much like an umb: i “Is this part of Nick. “ Queen. it is always Fairyland. 1 always come this way when I have a jour- ney to make. It is so convenient to have all these umbrellas handy in case of a shower,” answered the Fair inly,” “Are you on a journey?” asked Nancy. “Yes, I was coming to see you,” the Fairy Queen answered with a little laugh. “Us!” cried the Twins in surprise “Yes, you!” nodded Her Royal Highness. “I overheard you say that you liked flowers better than any- thing in the world, and stories next. Is that true?” Yes, it is,” sald the children quickly. -"Did you hear us talking about it?” “Yes, and the funny part of it is, you talking about it, I was reading a letter from the Story Teller Man, saying that he had learned a lot of new stories,” said the Fairy Queen. “The Story Teller Man!” said Nick. “Where does he live?” “In another part of Fairyland,” said the Fairy Queen. “In one of my Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine { Kingdoms. He has a funny house sugar from the witch’s house, the roof is made of precious brought back by Sinbad the Sailor, the walls are of boards that Strong Arm saved from the Giant's house when he knocked it over, the trees are from the garden of the Sleeping Princess, the fountain is the one in which the Frog Prince lived when he rescued the golden ball, and—but there! Wouldn't you like to see for yourselves? Here are the magic green shoes that can take you any- where.” The green shoes had been there all apple patch, but they so exactly matched the grass and leaves about them that nobody except a fairy would ever have noticed them at all. waiting for you.” The Twins scrambled out of their eo The wild flowers were owt, an Nancy was just about to pick a May apple blossom, when her eyes fell upon the dainty little 1 dy. “Oh, dear! Excuse me!” she cried, pulling her hand away. “I didn’t | know you were here.” The ry Queen laughed. “It i “Wherever you see flowers that just when I happened to hear, with all sorts of interesting things in! it. The windows are made of arley| stones | —— a, ~~ Ue BS own shoes and into the others with- out another word. Then they turned jto thank the Fairy Queen for her ‘kindness and to say “good-bye.” But lo and behold! The May apple patch was gone, the woods and meadow were gone—and gone was the Fairy Queen! Instead, there stood a queer house covered with curlicews — different |from any house they had ever seen, It was painted a hundred colors and no two things were alike. | Suddenly they remembered what jthe fairy had told them. “It must be the Story Teller’s House in Fairy- land id Nancy. Before Nick had time to reply, the {door opened and a merry fellow dressed like a king’s jester appeared. He eckoned to them with a little ‘stick which jingled when it moved. ‘His eyes were kind and the children knew at once that they should like jhim “Welcome, my dears,” he said with |a bow. “I am the Story Teller Man.” i (To Be ed.) (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) New York, June 3.—Romance flows through New York streets at this Itime of year. Yet it is romance | mostly for the young and it is ever ‘tinged with the tragedy of old age on the outer edge of the scene. This tragedy is depicted in the great number of people here who walk along talking to themselves. Within the week four out-of-town visitors have called my attention to the great number of men and women they have noticed talking to them- selves. I do not know why this should be so, except that it be for the distrac- { tion of the great noise and jangle of the city. That might cause peuple jte shout out their thoughts in order |to concentrate, This probably is verted logic, but sometimes the city does seem so noisy that one cannot! think. On the other hand, no place is so lonesome to a lonesome man or woman as a crowded, merry street where others pass in gay conversa- tion, Maybe New York’s self-talkers talk aloud just to hear their own i voices in the surrounding babble, the time, standing right in the May pits coe sy Seen at one of the busiest corners in Manhattan during the evening rush hour: A traffic cop studying horse racing results while directing “Put them on,” said the Fairy | traffic, Queen, “and you will find yourself peat at the Story Teller’s house. He is And I am reminded of the story of Bill Newton, a-newspicture salesman, Bill rode up Eighth avenue, starting in at Thirty-fourth street, with a quart bottle of whisky. At each cor ner he ordered the taxi to stop so that he could offer the traffic cop a drink, When he reached Forty-sec- ond street there wasn't a drop left in the bottle. Inconsequential statistics: Enough chewing gum could be scraped off the floor of the passage way from the subway to the Pennsylvania Sta- tion to stick enough people together ) to reach from New York to Rising Sun, Ind. Age creeps on a fellow as he ram- bles about town. As he sees the passing of old landmarks he muses more and more upon the eternal truth that time is fleeting and art is not so long, after all, For in- j stance, the razi mansion on-Fifth Avenye means the passing of the finest ‘Gothic | door- way in town. It has been the shri! of many a youthful architect seek- ing examples of fine art. And the darkened windows in Jack’s restaurant on Sixth avenue recall the story of its opening. great parade was held and thousands ing of the Vanderbilt | . A ‘ The Happy Harvester The Tangle ER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO RUTH BURKE, CON- TINUED Ruth, I have never known such @ sickening terror as I knew at that moment, 1 couldn't speak, but al- unconsciously I took Jack's hand and pressed it down on the newel post and turning away from it, toward Jack I whispered, “It’s blood.” 1 felt Jack pull his hand away quickly and give a little shudder, but before he could speak we heard the noise of a high-powered motor driving off. I’m not sure, Ruth, if you know just how the house is arranged since I have had it remodeled. The big center hall I left intact as well as the two drawing rooms which are on the right, as you enter the front door. As you step into the hall, the staircase, you remember, goes up directly in its center. I threw the two rooms on the left side of this hall into a kind of a library-living room, which was where Sydney and I were sitting the night before. As the noise of the motor became fainter Jack profanely exclaimed at the lack of light, but providentially at this moment there was a flicker- ing glow from the other end of the hall under the stairway and we heard Benson’s voice saying quaver- ingly, “Mr. Prescott, what is the matter? Is anyone hurt?” “Burglars, I think, Bring those candles here. They’ve evidently cut the electric wires.” Jack snatched most the candlesticks hastily from the butler’s hand and marched into the library. Everything seemed perfectly all right until I caught a view of the open safe. “Jack, the safe is open,” I almost screamed. Without a word, Jack went the hall to telephone, candies with him. Benson and I fol- lowed the light. Ruth, it must have been terribly funny if anyone could have seen it. There was Jack stalk- ing forward in his mussed pajamas, a candle in each hand held out stiff- ly in front of him, his hair absolute- ly on end and trailing behind was I, in a very thin orchid nightdress, into taking the while close beside me was ena | our butler, who is English and pro- per to the last degree, his long lean, shanks hanging below his flapping flannel nightshirt. Jack listened at the phone for a moment, frantically clicking the hook. Then, throwing the receiver down, he exclaimed, “Damn them, they’ve cut these wires, too.” “Benson,” said Jack handing him one of the candlesticks from the table where he had placed them when he tried to telephone. “Go for the chauffeur immediately.” Jack picked up the other candle- stick and went back to the library. T followed. He dropped on his knees in front of the safe. “Did you leave this safe unlocked, Leslie?’ he asked. “No, Jack. I saw Zoe lock it ter she had put my pearls in it, be- fore she took the children up to bed.” (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) jaimed. But Jack’s is closed. And just this week Joel’s, on Forthy-first strect, a restaurant almost as fa- mous, closed its doors for good. JAMES W. DEAN. NEA Service, Inc.) (Copyright, 192 PSHAW! READ THIS “Every time I have an argument with my girl I enter it in a small diary.” “Ah—I see. You keep a little scrapbook,"—Denver Parrakeet. EVERETT TRUE wathed the procession to the East will never close,” @ banner pro- re) River where the ceremony of throw- Some wives make men good el the keys away was held. “Jack's BY CONDO WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1925 ARMIES AND NAVIES ARE NOT OBSOLETE YET By Chester H. Rowell The airplane is too valuable an implement of war to be hoodooed by over-praise. ‘ It is not an army or a navy, nor a substitute for them. It is an arm of them. It is a weapon; a shell that can aim and propel itself a hundred miles, and return for another charge. It is a fight- ing top a mile high, a scout on the wings of the wind. Finally, it is the supreme weapon against other aircraft. These are surely enough to justify increased air service, without pretending that it can supplant the other services. Even with unlimited aircraft, of ideal efficiency—con- sider the things they could not do! They might conquer enemy territory, but they could occupy it, They might, in clear weather, repel an attacking fleet at our shores, but they could not go out to sea to meet it. Neither could they protect commerce at sea. 2 Enough carriers might distribute them over the sea, but these carriers themselves could not go to sea without the protection of battleships. Enough planes might sink a battle- ship, if they could hit it. stronger the better. TOO MUCH MEA Persons suffering from gout should not eat meat. Gout is due to an accumulation of uric acid in the body. The diet best adapted for persons suffering from gout is such as will enable them to eliminate uric dcid from the system. Since uric acid is one of the re- sults of meat-eating, meat, of course, should be discarded. Doctor Hindhede, an eminent Scan- dinavjan physician, who has given much attention to the study of diet, and who has, for many years, advo- cated a low-protein and non-flesh diet, has published the results of an TOM SIMS ‘SAYS aay Men may be dumb, but very few of them wear stylish clothes. “Down with liquor” is the cry of both sides in the rum war. Your luck may be bad. But they kicked a Boston man out of jail. Arthur Train, author, is writing a ‘lurk opera. What's’ worse? Prohibition costs "year. $100,000,000 Yet we get little of it. Prince of Wales saw a wrestling match, then went to a dance. Must be different in Africa. Telephone pole fell onan auto in Seattle. It was self-defense. World’s biggest ox is on exhibition in Chicago. The world’s biggest monkey is at large. . King of Brussels is a member of the Rotary Club, and no doubt it helps his kinging business. Reichstag voted confidence in Hin- denburg French haven't. Milwaukee boy burned a candy store. Who can explain that? Someone should tell ,Bryan that Wayne Munn, the wrestler, is climb- ing trees for training. Bryan’s all right. He'll run for anything, but from nothing. Germany had a $4,000,000 fire, maybe from heated arguments. Fireworks plant blew up in Chi- cago, amusing the children. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) gj) Se l People’s Forum | > Bismarck Tribune: You are doubtless an interested onlooker to the controversy betWeen certain engineers of the state and State Geologist Leonard-as to the good sense of spending the $25,000 on surveys to turn the Missouri into Devils Lake, It becomes pretty pointed! Leonard is in my estimation, and that of the federal engineers ABSO- LUTELY ‘right in holding that this. scheme is unfeasible, and a foolish waste of taxes to spend-them on this, The very fact that the legislature was ever inveigled into appropriat- ing to this—in this of all years of. stringency—to. set taxes to. such a vague purpose, is entirely beyond me. : While diversion’ of the Missouri to the Lake ig a possible “stunt” “feat”, standpoint, I take it the taxpayers are not. interested in a solely scien- tifie novelty, these years of bleud- ing taxes. While it is often valua- ble to have exact topographic maps made, at their necessarily great cost, when there is some practical defin- ité end to be served, there is none at this time. There are many useful’ surveys that the recent ‘act can legitimately cover, ‘along’ the line: of irrigation and flood control, but the engineers should ‘waste no funds on such chimerical scheme as, are plans to pour the Missouri into Devils Lake! Even if maps were made, no group of business men or legislature would ever stand for a minute for the out- lay of the many million dollarg that, it. would require to carry out con- struction demanded by the susveys. No legislature, with.» gzgin of money | ! FABLES ON HEALTH Make as strong a case for airplanes as you like; the You have not thereby made a case against armies and navies; against forts, guns and tanks, artillery, horse and motor cavalry, and infantry; against bat- tleships, cruisers, destroyers and submarines. Neither have you made a case for an air service for the army that is not of the army, the navy. or for the navy that is not of T CAUSES GOUT extended experiment with varius ex- clusive diets, especially in relation to-uric acid. He has found that when the diet consisted of potatoes only, the urine was but slightly acid, and contained no uric acid. He finally discovered that the urine from a potato diet was capable of dissolving from one-half to a dram of uric acid daily. This was found to be true also when strawberries or milk, or both, were taken with the potatoes. A diet consisting largely of apples or tomatoes produced milar results sense would ever appropriate a penny to back up these surveys. The fed- eral engineers will heartily back Leonard and me in our position. Sur- veys to this end will only be toler- ated by those in authority who are unacquainted with the facts. Lastly, much of the CRITICAL {area involved in the proposed plan {HAS ALREADY BEEN. SURVEYED {by the state in previous surveys! Does the state want to pay for it again, giving engineers a job, which they may not know is already done? A part of the surveys were made by a state engineer years ago. These surveys were checked up by the writer four years ago, while conducting ‘surveys for the state looking to jflood control, and other areas ad- jacent ‘were surveyed for another i project. At that time it was fully determined that the then side issues of diveiting the Mouse and Missouri into Devils Lake, while interesting “stunts”, held no practical use ta interest busmess men or araicae The benefits to be obtained were so small and uncertain as compared j with the millions of dollars cost, as to make the whole look very ab- surd. The writer is vigorously interest- ed in any truly feasible plans for irrigation, flood control, ete., and ad- mits that the state has strong pos- sibilities in other areas, but by no stretch of the imagination can the Giversion surveys be justified in terms of values receivable; further much of the essential work has al- ready been afforded from other sur- veys—all that is necessary to dis- card the scheme. Let the engineers the appropriation for useful sur- . s. I do not know how the Tribune stands on this but know it wants the truth, Thanking you for past co- operation, I am Yours very truly, Herbert A. Hard. -—__—____—______-@ | A THOUGHT |! ee The tongue is a little member and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth. —James 3:5. i _I think the first wisdom is to re- strain the tongue.—Cato, A CLOSE RESEMBLANCE MRS. OBRIEN (to caller)—- Faith, Norah, yez risimble yure mother that much Oi’d know yez wor ther daughter if Ol'd never geen ayther av yez.—Boston Tran- script. THE INSTALLMENT BABY “I just paid the doctor another ten dcilars on his ibill.” “Oh, goody! two more payments and the aby’s ours.”—Saturday Evening Post. American tobacco is increasing in favor of Egypt. OO | . LITTLEJOE | | AER Lecce Sie rea TS THE CHANGE VOU. « EARN, THAT PAYS FOR ‘THE CHANGE YOU CET, \N VACATION ‘TIME