The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 18, 1925, Page 4

i This PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. duced in this Comments rep: | y not express || i column may or i the opinion of The Tribune. hey GEORGE D. MANN H : 2 Publisher || Sif Pésicrs'imay lave both sides arOReiENUReTreseNTALIVes | Seang'filscussed tn the pres Of 3 G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPA: | Sse deanna CHICAGO - - - see DETROIT AS THE TRAVELER ENTERS » Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. YHE CITY PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH (Christian Science Monitor) NEW YORK : 2 = : Fifth Ave. Bldy.| Upward of eigity cities in the MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republi- cation of all other matter herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Dally, by. CALTICr, PEL VEAP. 5 cece sis gees. ees $7.2 its il toll ily Wenen Venn inoBianiar’ 7.99 | their worst side, sc : vey iy mel ade: (in Bismarck) PRET An aa 7.20 ing. This is not a fact that has | aily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) .... 5.00! just been discovered. It has been Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota....... weteeee+ 6,00 | realized ever since the firs: Amer — ican railroad was built. There are THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER exceptions to the rule, it is true, 2 i , but in the yast majority of cases (Established 1873) i the Jots abutting the lines of steam = ape z railways are the least desirable (Official City, State and County Newspaper) jfrom the point of view of the —Jthrifty householder. There are} 3 aera cities in nearly every part of the WATCH BISMARCK GROW country in waich are foun grati- Announcement that many jobbing houses had ordered | tying exceptions to the rule. But salesmen to make their headquarters in th of its importance as a jobbing center. Bismarck is the natural trading point for an empire—The Missouri Slope. As its vacant acres become peopled, Bismarck’s growth will be rapid. Every inducement should be made to secure more jobbing houses and to impress upon manufacturers and job- bers the importance of Bismarck as a distributing point. Few cities of the state have more building activity thau Bismarck, especially in the residence district, which indi- cates a steady influx of population. With good crops in pros- pect, more people will come to this city this fall to partici- pate in the increased business activity that is sure to follow. city is evidence THE RIGHT MOVE Members of the Burleigh county board are to be com- mended for their action in creating two federal aid road projects in this county. The graveling of the Red Trail is a much needed improvement and if agreement cannot be reached as to the paving of the road to the state peniten- tiary that portion should be graded and laid out as a grave! road. Properly constructed, the gravel road would last under the traffic for years. Grade crossings could be iargely elim- inated. Several good gravel highways connecting the important towns and avenues of travel with Bismarck are highly de- sirable. A large volume of trade that naturally would come to Bismarck is going to other points because of road condi- tions. This i situation which has been caused largely by financial conditions. During the recent years of depres- sion, the county board has gone slowly seeking to make the burden of taxation as light as possible. Now, however, as conditions are improving, road work probably will be re- sumed on a much larger scale. A good road is a fine investment and contributes much to the welfare of the community. The decision to put through two federal aid projects is a move in the right direction and will meet the approval of a great majority of voters and taxpayers in this county. HEALTH CONDITIONS Dr. F. R. Smyth, county health officer, is to be congratu- lated upon the complete and interesting report of his work in Burleigh county. He is a trained worker in this field and has had a number of years of varied experience in protect- ing the health of this community. His work with the federal department of health has earned the commendation 9f stat: and national officers. Dr. Smyth never seeks the lime light or is given to publicity hunting, but works quietly and mal- estly but systematically and with a careful attention to; detail. He has given the people of this county an insight intv health conditions which are good because Dr. Smyth is alert to prevent epidemics and control contagious diseases. 1” handling quarantine, Dr. Smyth has used safe, sane and sound methods. In his capacity as health officer he is enabled to alleviate distress in cases of poverty, and his work as poor relief official for both city and county before that work was taken over largely by the local social welfare bureau was as efficient and painstaking as is his adminis- ‘tration of the affairs of the county health office. Dr. Smyth emphasizes as a remarkable record that not one case of typhoid or tuberculosis has been reported during the period covered by this report, which is a tribute to the health conditions of this county. In view of the small stipend allowed a county health‘ official, Dr. .Smyth’s efforts constitute largely a labor of love. This county is fortunate in having as the head of its health office a worker of Dr. Smyth’s experience and com- mon sense in handling delicate situations. AUTOMOBILE FATALITIES The Tribune has been asked by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce with headquarters in New York to supply the chamber with figures on fatalities resulting in Bismarck from motor vehicle traffic. Newspapers throughout the country are making a study of automobile accidents to determine how fatalities may be diminished and how a more stringent enforcement of the} traffic laws may be accomplished. The figures to be sent) by the Tribune to the National Automobile Chamber of Com-; merce will be included in a national survey and reports for} the nation will be issued monthly. Bismarck is fortunate in having an automobile accident only once in a while at the time when other cities are ex- periencing a steadily-mounting death rate from accidents resulting from the operation of motor vehicles. But at the same time, five suggestions offered by George M. Graham, chairman of the traffic, planning and safety committee of the National Chamber, are worth considering. They are: “1. Enforce the Law.—We have enough laws to meet the situation. Public support is needed to punish the reck- less and publish their names, as is now done in New York.| { “2. Educate.—Schools, newspapers and motor clubs can ké@ep alive the sense of responsibility on the part of the citi- -~--gen whether on foot or at the wheel. - # “3. Clear Up Congestion—Traffic efficiency can be g@auch improved if competent men are placed in charge of Fegearch: and regulation, with power to act. = 4° Centralize Responsibility—Get a traffic adminis- _ trator, support kim, and demand results. 5 ova. “§, Jail for the Drunken Driver.—An intoxicated driver is a potential murderer. No penalty is too severe.” program has been adopted wholly or in part by a umber of states. North Dakota, with its local jurisdiction ‘over automobile fatalities. has no great problem in this par- ticular, h : d in our present laws. but these suggestions contain features that may be} « United States have begun system-| jatic and effectively directed ef: | terts to dress up, with flowers and | gardens, an! to render more at tractive by the removal of un- ;sightly accumulations of refuse, (dilapidated buildings and Yoards, the right-of-way of the railroads over which travelers | and visitors enter them. It is, or! has been, an unfortunate pecwiiar lity of American cities that they usually present, in the first view }in the main the first view offered to | the tourist who journeys by. rail is | not ay inviting one. | Credit is claimed by the National | association of Real Estate Boards for organizing this constructive campagin. But the movement has ibeen aided by women's clubs, city \councils, chambers of commerce, enterprising newspapers, and. the |railroad companies themselves. The determined effort, now that (the work has been weil begun, is to arouse sufficient interest to sus- tain it throughout better still, the y a profitable money year round. investment of The railrcad is, unavoidably, the of every city. No ' wowd expect to at- and prospective cus and labor. i laying to public lview the rear entrance to his | building. No householder erects |his residence so that the back door will be toward the street. But the railroad, for obvious reasons, can- not ‘be constructed through the reet. Like water, s the lowest pos- ‘sible common level. Tuis carries jit along banks or through {valleys, and almost always awav/ {trom the attractive center of the center of Main S it naturally se town. The show windows and dress parades are all. up-town.) (The casual tourist or interested visitor always gains his first im-| | | i: |pression from something which he |should never be permitted to see. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON THE FAT BOY'S STOCKING “I shall tell you a story about a fat boy's stocking,” said Mi O’ “Punch was the little boy. It w not his 1eal name, but he was so fat |—so very, very fat—that people call-! ed him that for fun. | “It was Christmas eve and Punch’s ther said after tea, ‘Punch, you} ust go to bed early. Santa Claus come this way first and it is absolutely necessary for you to be} sound asleep.’ | ““Yes'm, said Punch, although he really should have said, ‘Yes, | Mother’ And at haif past seven he! {marched upstairs and undressed and then went to the bathroom and washed his face and neck and ears,| and scrubbed his teeth and then went | to bed. “He was so fat that he never! looked excited, but indeed he was so} very much excited that his poor; ‘heart was going pit-a-pat in his enest | hike a hammer. H “Well, he got into bed, do you} | think he could sleep? “No, sir! His mother came and said good night and fixed the covers and window, and his father came and said good night and slacked the coal | fire. ‘hen they went away. “But although Punch added sums and recited his tables and counted | j sheep, he couldn’t sleep. He kept thinking about the toys he was going to get—or hoped he was going to get. | And he kept watching his stocking dangling from the chimney piece. He could see it plainly, for there was a dull glow from the fire—besides, the moon was coming out. It had stopped snowing. “It was a pretty fat stocking, just like Punch himself. Punch stopped counting sheep and looked at it. That was once he had it all over the Let them poke all the But ut other fellows. fun they wanted at him! Christmas they didn’t get half as much in their stockings as he did! “But he couldn’t sleep and couldn't sleep. Be began to get nervous. ‘If Santa Claus comes—even if I pre- tend—it’s no use,’ he thought. ‘For he knows if your shamming. I guess Til go over to the guest room and| stay till he’s gone. It’s better for hint ‘to find an empty bed than a | wide-awake boy.’ | “So away he went. | “Just then a fairy looked in at the window and saw the empty bed. “sDear, dear! Where’s that fat boy gone who lives’here?” she cried. ‘And here comes Santa’s sleigh now. {If he sees an empty bed, he won't —__—-______+ LITTLE JOE We NEVER APPRECIAT:, THE TROUSLE WERE MISSING WHEN OUR AUTO ENGINE ISNT THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE leave a thing! There! He’ roof! He's coming down the chim- “With one bound the fairy jumped into bed and pulled up the covers. “‘ah, ha!’ said Santa Claus as he looked around. “Clothes folded, everything neat! I'll just see if his ears are nice and clean. And he stooped over the bed. “*M h’m!’ he said. tiny person for so huge a stocking! Funny! I thought a little. boy lived here and I find a girl with curls—a very wee girl at that.” “What did he do?” asked Nancy. “Do? He left a baby-doll and dishes and some perfume and - bons. Punch’s stocking was only one- third full.” “Poor Punch! What did he do?” asked Nick. “Woke up to find his stocking crammed full to the top and the very things he wanted all about the room,” laughed Mi O’ Mi. “He was right in his own bed, too!” *, “I don’t understand,” said Nancy. “How could that be?” “He had fallen asleep counting sheep,” said the Story Teller. “It was all a dream about the fairy end the doll.” (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) TO SIMs 5 Ad ‘I see! A very What's become of the girl who zouid keep a fellow in love with her just by talking to him? There isn’t any law against a man who.smokes carrying matches. A last year’s June bride tells us she is using her fifth can opener. It's easy to be popular with your friends, All you have to do is get rich first. The reason more people don’t stay at home is because they don’t feel at home there. We predict a very hard July. No man can cuss an income tax pay- ment properly in hot weather. You can’t tell if a man is working too hard or has a radio, The road to success is fast becom- ing lined with advertising. If we come from monkeys we have picked up a lot of bad habits along the way. Summer makes some people stop missing booze and start missing beer, Days are longer now. It stays early much later.’ Fat men make the best salesmen because they are too lazy to get mad, ils used cars would erman or golfer. A man who make a good Two-can live as cheaply as one until the first of the month. It_ is’ easy to shorter again. The cook book tells you how. The why skirts are | bank book tells you what. A rolling stone gathers nothing but speed. Among the things that seldom happen is a last summer's suit being in style again. Marriage is an institution from which too many are Quitting before graduation day. Some of the June couples have a hard time trying to act enough to please their friends. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) A NT RPE Re ETE A | A THOUGHT | ¢—___—_-—_+ . It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, who thinks himeelf superior to others.—Plu- SAYS. foolish 7 LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO RUTH BURKE Ruth Dear: Instead of going into all the details and paralyzing my right hand, I am sending the en- closed clipping from the Pittsburgh News, which will give you a good idea of what happened at our house on Wednesday night. It was a terrible experience. Why, do you know one of the men put his arm around Jack’s neck £0 he could hardly breathe. I was up- stairs with the babies and the sus- pense was something awful. Vl give you the story here from where the newspaper left off. Ruth, I learned something very thoroughly and that is the fallacy of the old saying, that there is honor among thieves. When a man gets into a tight place where his life and liberty are concerned, he is going to get out of it just as quickly and easi- ly as possible, and in the case of thieves, he has no scruples in regard to the other fellow. It seems that the man who planned the entire thing got away that night, and Commissioner Laidlaw and two } or three detectives took the other | four back to the Central Station, where they cross-examined them until almost morning. of the men who was in the automo- bile—for they were questioned sepa- !rately—was promised leniency and confessed. 4 Of course, the first question askea -of him was where Zoe and Syd were. From him they found out that Syd jhad been left in an old barn on an Finally one; ‘oolie Killed in China | | Extra! Extra ther C OW DEAR, OHDEAR! \\ WONT They EVER BE ABLE SOP TRESE_AWFUL abandoned farm about twenty miles put. Zoe was held captive in an upper room of a ramshackle ware- house down by the river. This ware- house had been turned into a boot- legging joint below and it was here that the entire band met to plan their raids and divide their hauls. They found poor Zoe in a terrible condition. She is here in my home now while I am writing, with two trained nurses, but even opiates seem to have no effect, for every little while I Rear a wail ending in a scream of terror. Her body is cov- ered with bruises. Oh, Ruth, it is too awful for words. One moment she will be calling for the babies and the next one screeching, “No, no, no, no, no.” ’ She did not even: recognize me when I went into the room, for she said, “Tell Mrs. Prescott how good she is. Make her understand that I went straight this time.” Then her voice trailed off into this terrible, “No.” Evidently those fiends tortured her to find out something. Jack seems to think that they believed we kept a large sum of money in the ‘house, for as you know they: were fright- ened away the first night and then came back for something. Jack came when they brought Zoe to the house about’an hour and a half ago and started immediately with the police after Syd. As yet he has not returned. I do hope nothing has happened to him. © Detective stories are wonderful to read, Ruth, but it is terrible to live them. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) FUGUE FORMATION OBSERVED IN WORLD'S EARLIEST MUSIC (By The Associated Press) Berlin—The oldest known musical manuscript has been deciphered by ‘Dr. Curt Sachs, music historian at the Berlin University. It is of Babylonian origin with cuneiform ideographics inscribed on ‘clay plates, and was found at Assur in Asia Minor. This music is said to date back to the 2nd century B. C.| Half tones are not employed at. all, but five tones of the scale are used in fugue formation, ment to the melody is furnished by a harp of 18 strings, for which double stops are frequently prescribed. Jupiter, measuring 85,600 miles in diameter, is the largest planet; Mer- cury, 3030 miles, is the smallest. | Yes, MY KNIFE 1S S000 AND SHARP. A THING WITH ING, SITHER Ill | | EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO The accompani- | .. THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1925 CHANCE OF G ETTING BACK OUR MONEY IS SLIM By Chester H. Rowell “Fellow citizens: Please vote for me! “This is my-platform: Our government owes you sundry billions. It will pay you 25 cents on the dollar. “It owes foreigners other billions. It will pay them 100 cents, and tax you to do it. “Other foreigners owe us money; but, at the requuest of the creditors who will not forgive us our debts, we have forgiven our debtors. Please out this program.” elect me, to tax you to carry How would you like to run for office on a platform like that? From the French standpoint, this is exactly what we are asking French politicians to, do. And our chance of payment depends on their chance of election on this policy. Prove it “right” all you like. What would you bet on getting it, on these conditions? Bootlegging is one thing. Rum-running is another. And rum-running in armed and armored ships, as now threatened, is still another. Bootlegging is law-breaking. In this, the most lawless country in the world, there will doubtless always be some of it. Rum-running is law defiance, plus smuggling. ‘No self- respecting government could overlook that. But armed rum-running is war, which no government dares meet with anything less than war. ‘If the armed vessels are foreign, they are enemies, to be swept from-the seas. If American, they are pirates, to be destroyed at all costs. Friendly foreign governments should forbid their ships to arm, and outlaw them if they do. Then any unlicensed privateer coming with arms to make war on America will have no rights, except to be blown out of the sea on sight. Cherish, if you must, such sneak- ing sympathy for the sneaking boot- legger as your personal self-respect admits. But not for the armed na- tional enemy, who makes open war on your country, even if it is the cause of smuggling in your booze. TRYING TO CHEAPEN THE COST-OF COAL Mine operators are working to cheapen coal, at its point of dearest cost. They seek to reduce its loss of lives. from three to one per mil- lion tons. Even that seems a shocking price, but it is less than most industries pay. Industry kills more people than war. Fortunately, it is also more useful. And we have at least become civil- ized enough to put on industry the money cost of its human wreckage. We may kill and maim men for our comfort, but we have quit pen- alizing them and their dependents by pauperizing them also. BUY YOUR WINTER'S COAL SUPPLY NOW Incidentally, the’ coal business has always involved another human wastage, which only better organi- zation can save. Coal requires more workers, at higher cost per ton and lower’ in- comes per year than ought to be necessary. Consumers pay the extra cost, and workers suffer under the lesser incomes, to the disadvantage of everybody. : If only as many. mines were oper- ated as are needed to supply the necessary coal, and these were oper- ated evenly all the year,. many fewer workers, better paid, could prestce that coal much more cheap- y. The situation is better than it was, but it will not be right until there is better co-operation between now competing mines, and better large- scale storage. Meantime, consumers can help, and save money for themselves, by buying as much as possible of their winter coal during the slack sum- mer season. Buy your coal now. AGE OF INTOLERANCE WILL PASS SOON It is an age of intolerance—Ku Klux; fundamentalists and anti-evo- lutionists; 200 per cent super-pa- triots; Mussolini, de Rivera and Trotsky; and all manner of compul- sory conformists. Perhaps war bred it. In war we had to assume that there was no good in our enemies and no wrong in our friends, and we had to propa- gandize_an instant unanimity of opinion, ‘where before had been divi- sion. and confusion, But ‘the reaction of peace to have promoted its growth. Narrow nationalism; the pseudo- democracy’ which sets the prejudices of the ignorant above ‘the knowl- edge of the wise, and the final stand of the doomed representatives of a dying era, in religion and in politics —all these tend to medievalize this supposedly modern age. It is soon over, but it is annoying while it lasts. seems FABLES ON HEALTH HOW TO FIGHT MOSQUITOES Not only is there danger of .com- municable diseases from the bite of mosquitoes, but there is quite a bit of unpleasantness connected with the process. Mosquitoes breed in dead, still water. Often this water is in empty tin cans in the back yard, a rain barrel, or tile on the roof of the hous Tin cans should have a hole punc: tured in their bottoms before they are thrown away so they will not hold water. should be water. Mosquitoes do. not travel far from their breeding places. However, they are driven by the winds, and are car- ried on persons sometimes for quite a distance. : Many solutions prepared to ‘kill grown mosquitoes may be purchased at drug stores, ‘A. good old-fashioned _ preventive against their crawling through. the screens is.a woollen rag, soaked in kerosene, and hung in the center of examined for stagnant Gutters, spouting and tile roofing New York, June 18.—Now, who wouid think that the skeleton of @ dinosaur might stand as the memor- ial to a great love? Or that between the time-marked trunks of a masto- don romance might reach full flow- er, that the bones of a brontosaur might screen the plighting of a troth? Yet if you were to visit the gal lery of skeletons in the Americ Museum of Natural History on ernoon you would find it ing place of many a maid Undeterred by the spectacle o ghosts of the past pointihg the wa: that all flesh must go, they sit there tting time pass swiftly. by,. saying Tittle, holding hands, look ‘ both ecstatic and sick. ’ Think not, that these youngsters the screen window or door. the-communion table-an -old negro woman and her blind son. there is Jim Sheridan, New oldest cabby. atill driving a cab, but k tral Park because he doesn’t like th traffic and one-way streets, In hi day he has seen as much of life a those who circle the i see it. He has had as f tors, Vanderbilts, Goulds ai monts. And: many newly-weds —JAMES W. DEAN. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Seryice, Inc.) CANADA REPORTS GREATEST BUILDING ACTIVITY IN SIX YEARS (By The Associated Press) Winnipeg, Man.—Value of building construction authorized in 60 cities of the Dominion in the first three months of the year totaled $19,672,- 637, the highest of the bureau of Permit figures for March totaled $8,457,791, a gain of nearly $3,000,000 over February. Repo cities co} 1 ings values $5,200, nd}, permits for other bujldings walued tet Cet MG TAKE IT,. Hy IKNIEG/S So DULL Tt CAN'T Cut A THING bitty IT. $2,900,000 during March, find some enchantment in the pre READ TRIBUNE WANT ADD3 ence of the great of odd bones. It is to be doubted if they know the difference between a dinosaur‘and @ diplodocus (and who does?), but they do know that the- cavernous boneyard is cooler and more comfort- able than any place in Central Park. ch great skeleton. e- mn from the ‘casual vi isit the place to, stidy the story that lies in the bleak, exhibits, i Fourteén yea Ritter became paralyzed been . bedrid in the Brooklyn Lutheran Hospital since then. And each day of those 14 years John Rit- ter, 85, has cailed at the hospital to sit the girl he married 29 years ‘ago.. Ohce a prosperous merchant, he spent all hi vings in a vain effort to cure her. And now at 85 he does his best at odd jobs to earn enough for flowers and little -tokens of his love for her. Be ‘ . ago Mrs. Margaret and has Stories of men who have served’ long and faithfully in one job al- ways havé appealed to me, probably because my. own inclination is to thrqw the typewriter out the win- dow and start hoboing.. Yet the fel- lows who keep at their seem to! enjoy life more tl “here is Dr: Henry Motte rovers. for instance., He has been rector 0! | th of the Holy Communion. ae, ‘52 years’ and was -choir boy in me church 67 ars ago. ‘He: remembers when ‘ 36) P 7 ‘Jacob work always K ie