The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 6, 1925, Page 4

A nannaarecrtieetie PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ; Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - : - : Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - - - - - Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldy. 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. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year............ Oey eee cue GURU Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) . aos 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).... 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota. ese ies ermetiole: OOO THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Publisher DETROIT Kresge Bldg. THE FAVORED STATE Storms ravaged large areas in the United States Tuesday and Wednesday, and there was a bad one as near as the Minneapolis district, where a tornado killed®five, hurt thirty and caused a property damage estimated at more than two million dollars. Yesterday’s press dispatches state that at least 140 persons have died throughout the country in the last few days due to the heat wave, drownings and storms. But, as usual, there was no tornado in North Dakota and no terrific heat. Instead, there were gentle rains, soaking the ground and the seeds in the ground, alternating with warm sunshine to make the seeds grow. North Dakota from time to time reads of disastrous storms and prostrating heat in almost every direction—reads with sympathy and pity for the afflicted. .When North Dakota does that it ought to think: “Why don’t they all come to North Dakota and be safe and com- fortable the year around?” North Dakota ought to think that, but does it? It is much to be feared that it does not, but instead complains about the weather as often and as bitterly as they do in = places where there is really weather to complain about. COOLIDGE IS CLEVER President Coolidge is to abandon the mode of travel in a Pullman which stirred up no little comment last winter ? and will journey henceforth in a private car as befits a high dignitary of state. Press dispatches state that on his trip to Minneapolis , to address the Norse-American centennial next Monday the * President and his retinue will occupy elaborate, if not lavish, quarters. In themselves these facts have little significance. But to one who seeks deeper than the surface the workings of | Coolidge, the psychologist, are evident. When Coolidge ascended to the presidency in 1923 the country was just recovering from a severe period of defla- tion and depression. Something had to be done to keep the tendency for spending in check. In going to extremes the President impressed on the minds of the spending public that economy was a prime necessity of the times. And to a great extent the President accomplished his purpose. Now that money has become more plentiful Coolidge, again the master of psychology, seeks to set an example of being more free in expendituress in-order to encourage a lag- gine trade. i This does not mean that economy, once the shibboleth of the administration, has been abandoned entirely. It means that wise economy is giving way to judicious spend- ing with Coolidge leading the way. WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE MOVIES? What’s wrong with the movies? This question has become a by-word on all sides. Up- lifters cry that the movies are indecent, suggestive, con- ducive to illegal practices and crime. But a sane, dispas- sioned view brings out thte fact that nothing is wrong with them except the people that see them. American motion pictures are not produced for art’s sake. They are manufactured by an industry for the obvious rea- son of making money. The sole purpose of the motion picture industry is to make and distribute those pictures that will attract a public. And the pictures that are the most successful are generally far from uplifting. The whole thing is not a matter of morals but of taste. It is evident that as long as people will pay money to see bad pictures there will be no improvement. The problem, therefore, resolves itself to the proposition that the people should be educated to seeing “good” pictures. In their blindness the reformers have failed to grasp the opportuni- tiess to put this process into effect. The same is true of the stage, although several pro- ‘ducers have themselves so far felt the throb of public opinion as openly to make the avowal of purging their plays of objectionable features. The only thing that will make the movies fit for consumption by minors is a vigorous expres- sion of opinion by the people. Until then the reformers, can keep on ranting to their heart’s content. SALACITY A wave of protest against salacious magazines is sweep- ing the country. The best antidote for such literature is good literature, :and the best place to administer the antidote is in the home. Six thousand trees are being plante in Cleveland streets. Ten thousand cities and towns in the United States should follow the example. Trees cool summer days, improve the air, and make cities better places to live in. SCHOOLS ! William Jennings Bryan says that the taxpayer should ‘dictate the management of the schools. _ Mr. Bryan forgets that few states give tax exemption 'to idiots, imbeciles and morons. PROHIBITION There is talk about a plebescite on prohiibtion. . That would do this: It would silence these debates on ‘whether oor not the voters want prohibition. And they do become wearisome, even to the most interested. ="We must look to our laurels if we would retain our boast » A mammoth banquet of 8,000 Masons .sanved.by waitresses is to be held in lethargic London in August. Editorial Review _ Comments reproduced in this || column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here in order that ve both sides | PINNING DOWN THE POLE (The New Republic) Robert E. Peary, we are now! told iby a Canadian explorer, dil not reach, the true North Pole. At all events, the evidence by which | he identified the Pole was insuffi- | cient. But precisely what «iffer- ence does this make? No one de- nies that Peary reaciied the imme |diate vicinity of the Pole and no one claims that a «.oser identifica tion has any importance either for science or for sportsmanship. So far as the interests of scien tists extend, the 600-mile line of ceanographic observations which Peary threw acr the Arctic ocean has the greatest possible value and the presumed arrival at the polar spot, on a floe of con- stantly shifting ice, no value at all So far as sportsmen are concerned, moreover, the achievement lies in the successful completion of the trip of which the Pole is only the more or less incidental goal. Stefansson has paid the highest | tribute to Peary for his ingenuity and mental flexibility in adapting himsef to the conditions of polar travel. From this point of view his two major «tscoveries were the superiority of Eskimo clothing and housing to anything Europeans had been able to devise, and recognition that the winter is the safest speriod for travel over the ice pack. The actual dash to the Pol ‘as littie more than a reg- | ister of these broader accomplish: ments. ONE DRIVE THAT FAILED? (Boston Transcript) It has come to be theory pretty | generally accepted that an organ ized “drive” to secure money for almost any purpose under the sun is sure of success. But New York reports the drive that failed. The | house in which President James life has been sola! and will be de- | molished. For some years effort | has ‘been in progress to raise a fund of several hundred thousand dollars for the preservation of the But it would be unfair to ascribe | the failure of this particular drive | to lack of appreciation of Monroe and his services. To begin with, here was no movement for the pre- servation of one of tie historic ) homes of America. The house was | ‘built in 182 amuel L. Gouver- | neur, son-in-law of Monroe, It was one of the pretentious homes of New York in its day, but it re quires much stretching of the im- agination to picture it as the home of Monroe. He came there an ol man to linger a few monthe or years and die. The property was! sola! four years after his-ipassing. Further reason for lack of inter in the effort to preserve the house may be found in the fact that, of the original structure, litt.e was left in addition to tie walls and the roof. The interior offered few traces of former grandeur. ADVENTURE OF |! THE TWINS — || BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON TOBY IS MADE MAYOR “Let me see, where was I?” asked Mi O’ Mi, the Story Teller. “You got to the place where Toby changed the labels on the jars of magic oil,” said Nick. “Yes, that's right,” nodded Mi 0’ Mi. “What a good memory you have, sir! “Well, Toby went back to the vil- lage and as usual a lot more things had been stolen over night! “The butches had unlocked iis} door and taken down his shutters| just as the sun came up, and lo and behold! Another ring of bologna was missing! “A crowd of villagers had gathered around his door as Toby came along, and they were talking like magpies. ““Who is it who steals our wares?’ they shouted. ‘We must find the thief. Who stole the butcher's bo- logna?’ “Just then they spied Toby. “Now Toby had ideas of his own and was considered queer. Who knew but what Toby liked bologna himself? ‘Where have you been, Tob; they asked suspiciously. “"[ spent the night in Pixie Cave,’ answered Toby truthfully. ‘Aha!’ said the butcher. ‘And did u take a ring of my bologna to eat ‘No, the pixies took it,’ answered y still truthfully. “Pixies! Whoever saw a pixie? ice story and we don't believe it! said the butcher. ‘Come—we will go to the Pixie Cave ourselves. If it smells of bologna we will know that Toby has had a feast,’ “So they hustled poor Toby back to the cave as fast as they could go. “The pixies fled when they saw them coming, so the cave, of course, was empty when they arrived, But there, right on the floor lay the string off the end of the bologna, and there was the iron pot that still smelled of bologna, and indeed the very air smelled of it, too! “Toby came to the cave in the aS a } LITTLE JOE |! - ° Yeu CAN ALWAYS: CET THE ELEVATOR MAN ‘TO GWE You gA LIFTS, Monroe spent the last days of his | j, building. 13 ,| seized them. Some t THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | The Question Now Arises | Our NIECE HAS WASH DISHES Yer DRESSUP voTeEL GAIN FoR OUR VA CATON ? watch your | I tell! W But they wate i “That night the themselves with wh was the invisible oi changed the label visible o they_thought But Toby had they put on lage. They and shutters of the and baker shop and And they stole everyth their hands on. thinking could see them “But the people were watching. | “Toby was right, they whispered! te each other. the after all.’ “And as the pixies off with their arms fu some they chased. “But the pixie power was broken and they moved away and never came back,” said Mj 0° Mi “But what became of asked Nick. “Can't you guess?” asked the Story Teller Man. “They made him mayor and he ruled for fifty yea For the town-seal he had a pic A VACATION ? SAUX! WONDER IF We'ge Tv SWELL PLACE TAS SUMMER Telegram From Harriett Mable to ] Mr. Carton not here yet. Clippings From the Pittsburg } pisses! John Alden Prescott’s Home Looted; pacity of ; | 2ppeared ; Whether she was abducted or mur- of a ring of bologna and in it the ae i . el dered and the body spirited away ord 0 r ) way, words; ‘Do not judge by @PPe@t-|the police have not yet determined : : Some one, however, was wounded in “That's a fine story,” said Nancy, If I lose anything, I'll know the ixies have it.” “Well—maybe!” said Mi O° Mi thoughtfully. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 19 EA Service, Inc.) \Was found on the newel post, This On DEAR! I WONDER IF OH HECK! {U. HARTA. PUT UP WHERE SHAUL WE HOW CDN. WE ue HAFIA Pu! GO ON OUR Ar FoRD! GOON Win TAAT LAZY COTT TO HARRIETT MABIE, | SECRETARY TO SYDNEY CARTON ton arrived” y se tell him wi rouble here. Ask him to com- with by telephone im- JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT. John Alden Prescott Expected three or four day r message the m arrive HARRIETT MABI MYSTERY AND MURDER spected Murder of Governess ght the home of John Al- was entered by burg- jewels of Mrs. Prescott the safe. Among them ebrated pearls valued at because of the fact that » Ellington, a friend of the was acting in the c nursery governess, has dis- hallway of the house, for blood NEPHEW AGAIN ais SuMMeR IF (lu AAVE To SHIFT FoR NNSELF AGAIN Tis Summer The Tangle WIRE FROM JOHN ALDEN PRES-} might have been $ Prescott’s, their house guest, and who also has disappeared. One theory is that 3 Ellington, slipped down- stairs and was safe for the robber Carton, hearing her scream, descend- ed to her rescue and was either shot or struck on the head. and that Mr. Z bothering the police the faintest cle to their disposal. { There is one other theory looks plausible and Detective Della- hany insists that he will have the thieves within 24 hours, ' Mrs. Prescott’s pearls are of inter- national repute and they are usually kept in the safety that young girl, Miss Zoe Ellington, tha , and* he a today that no money would be spar- ; cd to bring the murderers or abduct. have the affected veins removed. ors to justice. Prescott was prostrated !ex-General Wladimir Something-or- ‘other has deserted his position of sword-s amusement | swallow jlong and it stuck in his larynx. The ‘experience proved so painful that he |fled from the show in the middle of the performance and hasn't yet re- ported for duty. | (Copyright, 1925, ) The United States allower at one of the local parks. He tried to blade more than two feet ot A THOUGHT The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; wash charcoal white.—Kabir. Proverbs 16: soap cannot —JAMES W. DEAN. EA Service, Inc.) rmy now is New York, June 5.—One great experimenting with aerial bombs six tragedy which lies under the surface times as large as those dropped on of things and well hidden from c. ual observation is the great number! of persons here addicted to the use of opiates. ‘A noted authority on the drug habit recently estimated that there are 500,000 persons in New York City who are using drugs as a habit. inat! seems to be an exaggeration for it would mean that one person in every, 12 here used drugs. . i However, there 1s heavy traffic in drugs in several sections of the city| rand it seems to be heaviest along the Rialto. | *am intormed that ove) Broadway cigar store sells opium! wrapped in cigarets and that another| sells the drug in a trick cigar which has a container concealed in the filler. A new organization has for its pur-; pose the eradication of the arug habit among people of the stage and| screen, ont that the habit is more! prevalent in that profession than in| some others but it is more noticeable | to the*public. It is estimated that} among the stage and screen players} ;there are 800 drug users. Special attention is being paid to! a famous composer and vaudeville | star who will soon resume public) appearances totally cured, it is be-j lieved. Children of one of America’s} most noted dramatic stars and a hus-! band and wife who recently co-j| starred on Broadway are others un- der observation. If the plan proves practicable here it will be extended to include the screen colony in; Hollywood. Hees | Chinatown is pretty much a town by itself, an isolated community even though surrounded by a heavy populated section of the city. It as its own mayor. He is Louis Fook. He succeeded Jim Cum who held the post four years following the incumbency of Tom Lee, China- town’s first mayor and a powerful) factor in the lite of the yeliow men here. Fook is an American citizen, having been born in Sacramento. He is a merchant supplying Chinese; restaurants with imported foods and is secretary of ‘the powerful On Leong tong. =| |, Sword-swallowers, I have always believed, employ some sleight-of- hand trick in thrusting a long blade down their throats: I have always thought that it was a case of the hand being quicker than the eye. or the sword being a collapsible af Mir: - Paris or London during the war. NO FELICITATIONS First irate gentleman—Be careful, sir, | know myself. ‘Second irate gentleman—Well, sir,| Big Dipper Will Be High in Iam unable to felicitate vou on your] Western Sky With Handle acquaintance.—Le Rire (Paris). 4 iy Tt appears now that I am wrong, for DID ov yvusTt GST HeRe ¢ AY TEN-THRTY THIS FORENOON ¢ i iW AND “ou OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN A. HUMORIST $666 Hi | \r willie EXAMINATION BEGINS, & SUPfose! MY DEAR, You OUGHT TO HAVS LaWwYeR. SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1925 EEE ISSIIERnnen | ical seminaries, were true sons | say, “here stand I; I can do no not important. Probably most out it. you smoke or not grows intolerable to a grown man. The ultimate result, if this de- mand continues that preachers and teachers shall: belong to the neuter sex, and, like the mule or the worker bee, shall never reach adolescence, will be to fill these professions with neuters, and drive men and women out of them. That would not be: good, for church or for schools. America Is Merely Using Judgment Adjusting ourselves to the psy- schology of a creditor nation comes hard to some of us. We had been too long trained to think as ‘debtors. When our resources were being developed, in part, by British capi- tal, we did not think that was bad for us, and we knew it was good for England. But now that the tables are turned, and many of our people are buying foreign securities, critics cry that we are being drained of our gold, and are conferring undeserved favors on foreigners, out of senti- ment. Of course, w! :t we are really do- ing is cold-blocdedly to invest our | money, on business principles, where it, pays us best. We are the bankers of the world. And the banker finds it desirable to have his money out, working in other people's business- es, to his profit and theirs. Back to Standards of Our Grand- father The same people that cry for “few- er laws’\are the ones that complain of “fads” and demand fewer sub- jects in the schools. Doubtless they are right, both ways. But whose fault is it? Each of the multitude of laws came in res- ponse to a demand from the people. from varicose veins. The water .|_ Another excellent remedy is to {wrap the legs in gauze, or wear elas- ‘tic stockings. ‘The bandages and stockings act as , supports to the weakened walls of the blood vessels. Varicose veins are a result of a in! diseased condition which destroys her home today and unable to see| the valves of the veins. Overfilling the veins often brings this condition (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) | #bout. JUNE HEAVENS STAR GAZERS Nearly Due North (By The Associated Press) | EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO Washington, June 6.—You may Lt Jost think summer is here, but officially it does not begin until June 21 which will be the longest day of the year, in the northern hemisphere. It comes on Sunday, which will doubtless make tennis and golf players rejoice. June is the month to look for the Big Dipper high in the western sky with the end of the handle nearly due north, says a bulletin by the Ameri- can Nature Association. Bootes, generally spoken of as the Herdsmai is also known as the Ox-driver and is supposed to’ be driving the seven plough oxen, as the seven stars of the Big Dipper are also known, around the north pole of the heavens. Arcturus, the “brightest star in Bootes, is the Bear-guard, as its name signifies, and it can be easily found by prolonging the line of stars in the tail of the Great Bear or the handle of the Big Dipper foward the southeast. Some see in Bootes a hunter pursuing the Great Bear with his two hounds. Bootes is easily "found because its chief stars form the outline of a boy's kite, with the bright orange colored star Arcturus at the point where the tail joins the body of the kite. This kite has two tails, how- eyer, extending to either side from Arcturus. Some prefer to see the five fairly bright stars in Bootes to the north of Arcturus as corners.of a pentagon, a five-sided figure with its sides of equal length. - Arctarui peculiar orange color makes it easy to'find, is also one of FABLES ON HEALTH VARICOSE VEINS—SIT DOWN | ae the] Bathing with cold water has been} ~ | recommended t turned from Albany, where she ha cap asia renboracy, relied given a large farewell party and she! should be applied night and had neglected to send them to the ing. CE Bai a vault here on her return. . The jewels were insured for $450, 000, but Mr. Prescott is more alarn ed over the disappearance of his life- the three brightest stars north of the celestial equator. The other two are Vega, now far over in the northeast, ella in the northwest. The rs differ greatly in color, for Vega is bluish-white; Capella, yel- lew; and Arcturus orange. Vega is a shade brighter than the other two, which are exactly equal in bright- n it "Natiire 'As-! sociation points out, is one of the ' , \ MUST PASTORS BELONG TO THE “NEUTER” SEX? By Chester H. Rowell Well- meaning delegates who tried to put through a resolution to exclude students who smoked from the theolog- of the Puritans. For Puritan morality puts its chief emphasis on the tabus. Tobacco is not wicked. But it is tabu to two sexes—the female sex, and that neuter sex to which teachers and preachers are supposed to belong. . There are those who put the tabus above the Beatitudes. It is not demanded of the aspirant to the clergy that he have the mental integrity and moral courage of a Luther; that, if he believed a certain thing, he shall nail it to his door and other,” though it cost him his place and his gown, and the esteem of his fellows. ; In fact, just the contrary is required. The great quali- ties of positive character he may or may not have. But to the small negative tabus, he must conform. It is just these petty supervisions that often keep virile men out of the pulpit, and out of the schools. Tobacco is of us would be better off with- But a situation where it is anybody’s business whether required list in California schools was put there by some group which lobbied it into the law. The onl way to keep down legislation or sim- plify curricula is for legislators and school trustees to misrepresent their constituents. Perhaps that is what they should do. But their constitu. ents‘ at least are not the ones to blame them if they do not. The ideal “simplified list,” by the way, is an interesting atavism. It will’ consist mostly of the study of words and figures—reading, writing and arithmetic. Half the time will be devoted to these, or their devel- opments. By no means, all the other half is free for the study of things. There will be little that would not have been equally appropriate to these children’s grandfathers. The history and literature were already old be- fore the grandfather was horn; the geography is a map of ports and realms, and the living world enters the scope of education only when it can’ be identified in a book. The elementary school pupil scarcely has his attention turned to the forces that move a world of electricity, automobiles, airplanes and radio. At the age when the in stinct to question is most active, his questions are not answered, But he must spell and write well as his grandfather did, because in his grandfather's day, that the test of “education.” Then he goes into business, and his stenographer does his spelling for him, on a machine, while another machine does his arithmetic. The things his grandfather learned at home, he must not learn at all, be- cause they are no longer done in as, And each of, the 13 subjects that) homes, and it would be untradition- {have just been eliminated from the] al to do them in schools. This is caused by standing on the feet too long at a time. The blood flows to the lower limbs, and the walls of the veins are strained. Violent exercise also may bring about this diseased condition of the j veins. Often, however, it is necessary to’ Violent exercise and standing. too As these things cause varicose veins, it is but reasonable that suf- ferers should be particular to avoid long on the feet. It is not difficult to detect varicose veins. Most often they are on the legs. The vein stands out like’ a cord, and looks as if it were right on the surface of the skin. nearer stars to the earth though there is some uncertainty as to its exact distance. It is placed between 21 and 36 light years. A light year is the distance light travels in a year at the speed of 186,000 miles a sec- ond. Arcturus is also quite a giant sun, the stars being all suns, of course. Its diameter is nearly 20,- 000,000 miles. That makes our sun with its diameter of only 864,000 miles look pretty small, though com- pared to our planet earth, with its diameter of 8,000 miles, it seems large. | Corona Borealis, next to Bootes on the east, is the Northern Crown, and it is indeed a beautiful little crown of six stars in which the second mag- nitude star, Gemma or Alphacca, the brightest star in the semi-circle, is the jewel in the crown. Far over in the northeast is Vega, brightest star of the northern hemi- sphere of the heavens, easily recog- nized by its diamond-like blue-white splendor and by the two small stars that form with it an equilateral tri- angle that has no counterpart in the one of the smallest and most inter- heavens. Vega is in Lyra, The Harp, esting constellations in the sky. It lies next to the huge constellation of Hercules, which separates it from Corona and Bootes on the west. READ TRIBUNE WANT ADDS siderede. crot While one person cannot be ¢ apetting parte |