The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 17, 1925, Page 4

+“ 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 Publisher CHICAGO Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use of 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 DETROIT Kresge Bldg. Daily by carrier, per year... s . $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) KNOWING THE LAW Despite the fact that more than 11,000 new state laws have been passed during the last year, ignorance of the law is still no defense for violation of the law. One writer states that no man, no group of men, knows 1 per cent of the laws on our statute books. “The span of life,” he states, “is too short even to read the law—all of it. _can live 24 hours without breaking the law.” FREAK WEATHER California gets excited over the weather when it deviates from the twenty or forty year record. It rained several times while Los Angeles was entertain- ing the Shriners, and columns were taken up in the various newspapers to explain the “unusual weather.” Some fun lov- ing Shriners used the occasion of the rains and thunder show- ers to poke fun at the native sons, most of whom are sensi- tive on weather conditions, realizing that one of the greatest assets the state has is the number of clear days on which old Sol makes his regular and unvaried appearance. . The amount of rainfall in portions of California this year =-with the accompanying lightning and thunder has broken all records for twenty and forty year periods. In fact over the entire nation freakish weather conditions exist. IS IT PART OF OUR MORALS? The French have a convenient phrase by which they ex-! press their acceptance of that which they once used to dis-{ approve—“It’s become part of our morals.” ~ To no small degree this seems to be true in the United States as well as in France. Americans have become callous- éd-to murder and theft. We no longer become shocked at a killing; we become interested in the gruesome incidents that accompany the crime. We read of a great theft and marvel at, the audacity of the thief. But are we shocked to think that in our midst every day these things are going on? Crime is increasing in our cities. In turn these cities are appropriating larger sums to build larger jails and more courts. Every day the police records are crowded with the reports and records of bloody crimes and amazing robberies. Yet there is no vigorous move to curb these or to set the nation * aright. If we are to stop crime we must look to more than our ===Sourts and our law. The way to stop a weed from growing -to maturity and spreading its poison is to take it up by the root and not try to kill it after it has grown to its full height. And the way to curtail and prevent an increase in crime is to fet at the root and exterminate the evil influences. TESTING CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL Although only one county has availed itself of the oppor- tunity offered by the state highway commission for testing materials to be used in the construction of roads and bridges, the value of these laboratory tests has long been acknowl- Conspicuous is the man who 4 Editorial Review Comments reproduced tn this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which ure being discussed in the presg of the day. A FEW LAWS WILL DO IT (The Duluth Herald) If they ever detect the satire in| it, the legislature of Tennessee will ‘be highly enragea' at the student body of the University of | Tennessee at Knoxville over an open letter which the students have addressed to their lawmak- | ers. This ig the legislature which re cently passed a law—and the gov ernor signed it— forbidding that | any pubiic school teach that ‘thu- man life may aave evolved from some lower organism. In their letter the students fervently and gratefully thank the legislators “for faithful service to the public which elected them.” an« “in all seriousness and earn- estness” ask the law-givers to pass some more sorely-needed laws tu this end: That the amended That something be done about the excessive speed of light. That it be made illegal to bring Fords into Tennessee because they kill people. That pi be changed from 3.1416 plus to an even three. That the schools be forbidden to teach that the earth is round ive cause the Bible speaks of “the corners of the earth,” which contestable procf of its flat law of gravity be ne: That it be declared unlawful for | alcohol or nicotine to harm the human be. That all flappers be eliminated That a law be passed makinj; morphine nutritious. The intelligent world has been getting a lot of fun out of the Tennessee law, and now if some ‘bdy tells that legislators that the boys and girls of the university are “giving them the bird” they are going to be sore. | ADVENTURE OF | THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “I told you a story about “The Pot aid Mi O° Mi to the Twins. | showed that it is well to believe in many things that we do not see. “Now, I am going to t@l you a story which shows that we cannot= or should not—believe in all the things that we do see. “For instance, once upon a time a! man was sent to prison for life be- cause his pipe was found in a house where there had been a robbery. And once I knew a boy who was kept back and not promoted in school, be- cause at examination: time he was caught copying. He wasn't copying at all, but watching a fly on his neighbor's desk, which had fallen into the ink-well.” “Is this a fairy story?” asked Nancy, who would rather have lis- tened to one fairy tale than a dozen of any other kind. “Sort of!” nodded Mi O° Mi. “At least it is about a giant.” So he began: “Once upon a time in a country where the high mountains seem to rise right out of the sea, there lived @ peasant and his wife and two chil- dren. “Their cottage was on acliff above the sea and to find pasture for their sheep, the peasant had to climb a steep mountain path with them every morning to a place where it was level and covered ‘with green grass. “At night he had to bring them down again, for even in the mildest weather it’ grew very cold in the edged by federal and state road officials. The state highway commission has taken over the work of the Federal Bureau of Roads in testing all materials used in federal aid construction and about 350 tests of sand and | gravel used for construction of state highways were made last year. In 1924 the state highway commission awarded : contracts for $1,801,111, of which about one-third involved material which the commission tested to ascertain its purity, strength and usefulness. More than $34,000,000 was spent by counties, townships and cities in North Dakota on roads and bridges from 1916 to 1924. State reports show that in 1923 alone more than . $3,600,000 was thus spent. Assuming that only one-fourth of these sums was for material of the same type which the highway body tests for its use, it would mean $8,500,000 for the eight years and nearly. $500,000 for 1923. Poor material means speedy disintegration and results in early replacement and repair bills. Certain kinds of gravel and sand will not make good concrete and unless county construction officials are warned they will proceed indifferently to use material which contains too much for- eign matter for good construction work. The taxpayer is willing to be taxed if he knows the as- sessment he pays is used to good advantage. By having its material tested in the state highway commission laboratory Burleigh county can save considerably on its construction bill besides using material that will make for more perma- nent construction. Here is a real instance where the state is seeking to co-operate with the county and a real oppor- tunity to meet the taxpayer half way. EQUALIZATION OF TAXES State Tax Commissioner Thoresen is making sugges- tions to city and county boards of equalization. He says that an improvement in their methods of equalizing taxes is necessary and proper and he has as his aim a more equitable assessment throughout the state. He does not only make a general statement but also cites specific instances to show that discrimination has taken place. We hold no brief for the tax commissioner or the boards of equalization, but we believe that Mr. Thoresen is pursuing the right course. Small taxpayers who have no means of recourse to law complain that large taxpayers are “getting away” with re- ductions in their assessment because in case they are pow- mountains after sun-down. After, the shearing there was danger of them freezing and it would not do to leave them unprotected. “One night a heavy mist arose from the sea, that looked like a solid gray wall. “The sun was just about setting as! the peasant approached the level pasture land at the top of the moun- tain. “As he reached the top he stopped to look at the heavy fog below him. Suddenly he started back. For there right on top of the fog bank stood a huge giant in the sky. He stood with his arm on a long staff, as though gazing out over the world. “The peasant did not look for his sheep, but rushed frightened down the mountain path to his cottage where he was met by his wife, wring- ing her hands in despair. “<The children are lost!’ she cried. ‘I was down at the beach scourin; out the big copped cauldron wit sand. I left for a few minutes and when I went back they were gone. T have searched everywhere.’ “‘The giant has stolen them!" cried the peasant, telling his own t what he had seen on the moun “You see,” said *Mi O° Mi, they jumped at a conclusion without waiting to find out the truth.” “But had he?” asked Nick. ¢ “Certainly not,” said Mi O’ Mi. “There was no giant at all. What the peasant had seen was his own huge shadow reflected on the sky. ae erful enough to do so and in other cases hire able attorneys to fight their suits. No one can dispute the right of the small taxpayer to complain if such a condition exists. It is no wonder. that those who feel that they, are paying gn assessment of unjust proportions are alarmed at the z mounting tax rate. The duty of boards of equalization ip to equalize and if, according to the tax commissioner, they are not fulfilling their duty in an unprejudiced and reason- from the state commissioner 4 ee for this rushing. ee Kiss stealing ig “petty” lercery. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ™: | The Urge of the Wand rlust = Others had seen it, too! It sometimes happens when the sun : ion and there is ut the children!” said Nancy. “The copper cauldron was so big that the children had crawled in- side,” said Mi 0’ Mi. “The tide came up and carried it off to sea to a little island not twenty yards from shore When the fog went away- they were, safe and s: do to guess at things (To Be Con (Copyright, NI All the people hunting trouble are not policemen. Some marry for petter or worse. Some just to kill time. While speaking your mind must. mind your speaking or will be spoken to about it. you you Many a heartless girl has a dozen or so of them. of a shady business. You can't make a clear profit 7 About the most expensive thing on the earth is money. The unhappy ending of most nov- els is when the publisher sees them. All's dare in love and war. | The hardest thing about loafing is, buying things on credit. A man doesn't reap what he sowsehere every week and several of the unless he works the crop. | The weather is too warm to have a date with an old flame. | Sometimes a man gets so mad he quits being a hypocrite for a few brief minutes. Marry a manicurist if you fun out of playing hands. get any There are sermons in stones, and a large stone in a ring gives a girl the right to preach The college boys are back home} again for their vacations. Three months is a long time to stay sober. | One thing youl bare: which very} few of your friends can get is a! phone number. | You can’t trust some people out! of your sight. You can't trust oth- ers until they are out of your sight. Who remembers when th discretion was the parentage? Re of} These June college graduates had better almit it to their bosses before| it is discovered. The burning question of the day now is the sun. The world’s a stage. exits as long as you can (Copyright, 1925, NEA Dodge the; rvice, Inc.) New York, June 17—Most New Yorkers are just rush mad. They rush when there is nothing to rush for. This is especially so of the commuters. They may have 15 min- utes in which to catch their trains at the Grand Central or the Pennsyl- vania, but they run through the de- ots. When a ferry lands at the ttery, people who have taken the ide to cool off, rush up the gang- planks and to the subways as though they were going to a fire, although they have the rest of the evening to. reach their homes. The result is benefit of their Each morning and a stampede at the to and from Jersey d There is no particular rei It just seems to be in the blood, One indoor sport that flourishes in, all_sorts of weather is dancing. A new public dance hall seems to open ITeLL Yun FELLAS. Im GETTIN TigeD OF THis OLD HOLE - FIRST CHANCE 1 GET I'M GONNA GeT OUT AN? SBE SOME OF Tie WORLD, TAATS. WAAT I) GONNA; Po/ The Tangle CLIPPING FROM THE PITTSBURG NEWS, CONTINUED most sure the man had a gun and 1 was certain the men were old hands at the game and had grown reckless their success, for no one else would have come back the second The butler waited until they had rung the second time at the Prescott residence which gave Mr. Prescott| time. and Commissioner dlaw time to “I took a long Thance and speak- take strategic positions ing said: ‘Nothing is the matter, Benson, the butler, as per hiss William. I hoped by calling Bill orders, let them enter and tried to| Laidlaw William, which I had never show them into the drawing room,| done before in'my life, that he would but they walked across to the left} understand that there was some- side of the hall instead of to the] thing desperately the matter and right and entered the library. would come at once. in the meantime, Mr. Prescott] “Commissioner | Laidlaw never, came down the stairs and said loudly,| misses a bet and before the words were hardly out of my mouth, I heard a shrill blast from his police whistle. “The man holding me suddenly let go and turning quickly snapped. off the electric lights, saying, ‘Game's up. Beat it.’ “Who rang the bell, Benson?” He then went into the library. Although Mr. Prescott told the re- porter from the News that he had never seen any of them before, one of the men turned and came toward him saying, “Hello there, Jack!” Taking this for a signal they clos- ed_in upon him, It took just a second for one of them to throw his arm around Mr. Prescott’s neck from the back in a way that effectively shut off “his voice, while with his other hand he twisted Mr. Prescott's arm back of him. The other two men quickly started their ransacking again. At this moment there was a noise in the hall. “What's the matter, Prescott?” Commissioner Laidlaw asked. The man loosened his hold of John Alden Prescott and whispering in his ear fiercely said, “Answer him and say that nothing is the matter.” Mr. Prescott when interviewed bed the man around the ankles’ with a football tackle. heard the glass in the French, wi dows at the other end of the room crash. Simultaneously the were switched on and I saw.a man through the window.” lands up.” law was s,inding in the with an automatic pointed at the third man who was near the safe The two men in the house ‘were tured without further struggle, an the cordon of police at the signal whistle captured the two’ men who were in the automobile.. The fifth man escaped, although it is expected that he will be in the ne! thin the next twenty-four hours. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) said: “I had to think quickly. I was al- themselves than several, dollars to be larger ones broadcast half an hour| entertained in a theatet. of their music over the radio once iy or twice a week to give prospective patrons a sample of their orchestras’ worth. Several chains of dance halls are being projected, with various or- chestras rotating over a nation-wide circuit. The backers of this plan be- lieve that people would rather pay 50 cents ora dollar to entertain These are hard days for vaud ville booking agents. The heat kee people from the theater and hou: managers are generally in a fault- finding mood. This results in the cancellation ifor many acts, especially igher-priced ones. One of the most successful | EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO » MEYERS, AN INSURANCE! AGENT CAME IN'TO SGE. Me YESTERDAY AFTER- YEAH — TE@ -HEE X WANTED To GET RID OF HIM. e BETTER LATE THAN Never lv — THis \S THe SAME FAcE tts! At this moment I. to lights* WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1925 Shanghai. revolutionary movements. centers see in their dreams. else. students know neither, The “trust-busting” era is the administrative ing them. to use them. COOLIDGE'’S ATTITUDE GOOD TO FOLLOW — “Peace is an adventure in faith,” President Coolidge, at Annapolis, quoted from Ambassador Houghton. So, for that. mattet, is: most of life. An excess of faith in others, to be sure, makes the gull. But are as often the dupes of our suspicions as of our. confidences. He who trusts nobody is wrong oftener than he who trusts every- body—and much more unhappy. President Coolidge belongs to neither class. He assumes the good faith of ‘all nations, but is prepared if one of them should break it. It is a good rule for the things of personal life, as well. Be ready to stand up for: your rights if necessary. But assume, until-in any case it is shown other- wise, that. it is not necessary. Most people will grant most of your rights, unasked and unenforced. So will most nations, as to mog rights, most of the time. WHY CITIZENS AREN'T {COMING OUT TO VOTE Simon Michelet, president of the get-out-the-vote league, presents sta- tisties to show that Americans are the worst. vote-slackers in the world. From New Zealand's 84 per cent and Germany's 82, the figures run fer upon himself is to wear shoes that fit comfortably. _ Hurting feet give one a miserable tired. feeling, in addition to a-minc- “I dropped to the floor and grab-| ing, unattractive gait. Special attention should be given the purchase of shoes for wear in warm weather. It is then that the feet perspire, and sometimes swell. If the shoes are not of the ‘right kind of material and are not proper- Commissioner Laid-|ly fitted these conditions are aggra- doorway | vated. Hard leather ‘shoes. and _ patent leather shoes skould never be pur- That happens everywhere but in America. think it a lark to “scab” in strikers’ places. ; In other countries universities are centers of radical and American students talk football and take traditional conservatism for granted. Don’t ‘worry about the “faculty reds” that our 200-per- And our students are immune to it, anyway. requires either hardship or intellectuality for its soil. over. decided, in practical effect, that “good” trusts are legal, and“ departments have no intention of prosecut- FABLES ON HEALTH ARE YOUR SHOES TOO SMALL OUR STUDENTS ARE ONLY ONES NOT RADICAL By Chester H. Rowell Chinese students ridted on the side of the strikers in Here, students _ What they teach would rank as conservatism anywhere * ee | Radicalism Our The supreme court has They will merely watch, to see that they remain “good.” It is all in the course of progress. gressives of a dozen years ago were the first to proclaim that © the evil is not in size or combination, but in the use made of them, and proposed, not to “bust,” but to regulate the trusts. Individualism and competition, as the ultimate regulators - of great business, belong to an age so far past that reliance on them is not even conservative. The problem of the future is not to smash the trusts, but The Roosevelt Pro- It is reactionary. gtadually. down to America’s 50. And yet 40 years ago we were in the 80 Per-aent class ourselves. Forty years ago we were a rela- tively homogeneous, political-minded people; the rivalries of the Civil War parties were still intense; we were. not yet distracted by a surfeit * of other amusements, and we knew our neighbors. . Now all this is reversed. And we still have the preposterous long bal- lot which nobody—literally nobody— can vote intelligently. Thrust this ballot on New Zealand and the vote would go down, not to 50, but to 20 per cent. So long as we have a ballot which noone can understand, we must not be surprised if some people con- clude that their most intelligent vote is not to vote at all. —<—_—_______ + | A THOUGHT |! ——— We know that: all things work to- | gether for good to them that love God.—Romans 8:28. But noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the’ stronger.—Longfellow. The kindest favor @ person can con-|chased by persons with sensitive feet. ‘Patent leather: is not porous. it excludes the air from the feet, caus- ing that hot, burning feeling, Fine grade of calf skin, kangaroo leather or vici kid offers the softest leather. The shape of the shoes. has much to do with their comfortableness. ‘Toes should given given room enough to spread a little bit, at least. If given play toes add to the springiness of the step. If cramped they are almost useless, and they be- booking agents is a woman, much of her success being ‘due to the fact that she is a woman, I am told that when she fails to book an act in a vaudeville house she will sit in th manager's office and. cry until he books the act to get, rid of -her. Signs: One'on the rear-of a pass- ing auto- if you're close enough to read this sign, yot’re ‘too close.” y On.» Broadway corner where the thermometer reads 100 in the shade —Do you know that it is now sum- mer time in Miami, Fla.?” On a house on Long Island—“Pets and children boarded during the summer.” Much of this talk of the high cost of living is unfounded. I know a phot; hic printer who won $500 in a baseball pool and celebrated by buying a new outtit of clothes. He urchased a suit of clothes with two pairs of trousers, a straw hat, a pair of shoes and a necktie at a total cost of $17.75. Asked how he-did it, he answered, “It all depends on how you shop. Most poor people pay for their pride by going to stofés where rich ople go.” boi ac —rJAMES W. DEAN. {PEOPLE'S FORUM | —————— WHAT EVERY MAN KNOWS Editor Tribune: -» “What. Every Woman Knows” is the title of an article published in May, 1925. The average husband was pictured as earning most of the money in the Unitel States. His wife was pictured pending most of what he earned. An article may ‘We timely. Its view may-point to facts, Facts may just be passing, in or. out of time. This point of view- should appear \ printed matter under the title, “What Every Man Knows.” mick, for sometime assistant district attorney at Brooklyn, puts the case this wi “Taking the col possi- ble view of the matter,—say a wom- in is married to a man with an arning capacity of $5,000 a year. He represents in terms of money approx- imately $75,000, yielding six or seven per cent dividend.. Let him become itated, the $75,000 investment ped out.’ To estimate the average husband as you would stocks -and bonds is éertainly the coldest possible of the matter. To leave his wife en- tirely outside of this cold estimate, on a really vital subject, is worse than cold matter; Certainly it is not fair. ¢ Do you ‘realize who is using her money?. What became of her earn- ing capacity of $5,000 a year which she had- single-handed. before. married? Did she become inc: citated, or was her $75,000 inv: ment simply wiped out when she be- came “his partner?” ‘Most. men occasionally use thought igh to rememtbe: Times ere Time will answer these correctly. _ 2 ital of the household (in ticle) used. to bring -b In the article, Helen P. McCor-| come covered with corns and bun- ions. Portion of his earnings, with or without love, commanding his wife: “Begin and end at home, but be sure to make both ends meet!” He felt perfectly free to dispose of his other Possessions, gs it pleased him, out- side of the home.’ Perhaps those white wifely fingers (in the article) have a perfectly good right, even in his trousers pockets, in order to conserve hi ning ca- pests: Sometimes, for days, when jis ever-decreasing. store of latent energy (in the article) falls asleep like a log, she with the empty. pocket book manages to make their living. Perhaps sometimes the boss hands her $10 with the words: “Go and buy us $10 worth of living!—And if dollar, please spend it on Thoug! efaily she takes Thoughtfully she dis- top ten-center of each ready been smoked off. But this perhaps sometimes leads far from the average. Time is writing good straight words in our law ‘books, words not deviating from truth or fairness. rights is now often understood plural, meaning partners who both own, in the marriage certifi- cate of the two contracting parties. Today, in the affairs of home the average w fearlessly meets the average man upon equal-grounds. She succeeds where he would fail if conditions were made as severe for him as they are made for her. If you men will play fair, pay due respect to your partners. You will find much to estimate, more to love, but very little to kick about. Really a “nartner,” rich or poor, * is the only true type of man for any honest girl to marry. William R. Schwartz. La Moure, N. D., June 15. NO COCKTAILS HE—Dear, every kiss just intoxi- tates me. Won't you let me be a drunkard? SHE—Well—er—yes; but on the condition that you won't mix your . drin| S. N. A. Log. The custom of knocking on wood dates back to the ancient tree wor- shipers. | LITTLEJOE 1° w=. furans, Yoo ean Stitt Mi Dies TH