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Soe om bean PAGE FOUR The Bismarck Tribune An Independen THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Newspaper Published by the Bismarck Tribune Comp Bismarck, D., and entered at Bismarck, second class mail matter. George D. Mann..... President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable In Advance Dally by carrier, per year............005 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) seems Dally by mail, outside of North Dakota... Member Audit Bureau of Cireulation Member of The Assoclated 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 here in. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Forelgn Repre tatives G. IOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO I Tower Bldg. ‘ROIT Kresge Bldg AND SMITH Fifth Ave PAYNE, BURNS NEW YORK - (Official City, State and County Newspaper) The Worm fs Turning Out of the Golden West; out of its most Babbitt like center, gainst self criticism the public matter local circulation. Taudation, the of perennial squelching of government or of dollar from Vanderbilt's Weekly urges some attention to the local. problems and in doing so anticipates that many gocd people wiil up and protest that the truth is “hurting the town.” It is almost a misdemeanor in Los Angeles to criticise the weathe da felony to dispute the chemical pureness of the water, and to insin uate that in lot reached tie saturation point would be little short of fatal. But to quote what a Los Angeles paper say Los Angeles hiding climate, that city might any any scare a rise a in near expansion has town additions about “There are people in this town who be- lieve that anything you say about Los Angeles that hag any degree of truth in it that is not of a laudatory nature is prac: tically treason and possible — sacrilege. They seem to think that every word that is printed about Angeles is gobbled up by an eager world ag soon as it is in type. As a matter of fact, | do not think that the world is one-tenth—:possibly one one-hun dredt interested in what Los Angeles does as we think it is “Before we go any further, let it be here recorded that I live in Los Angeles. I live here for a very definite reason. 1 live here ‘because it is the most desirable and most comfortable place to live that 1 know any- thing about. The average person lives here for that very reason. Lither that or be- cause he hag not money to go to some other place that he thinks he would like better. But I think that the average resident of Southern California lives here because he wants to, I know of nothing compulsory about it. “But there are those who have a {else idea of what should ‘be said about Los Angeles. They adapt to Los Angeles the theory that a king can do no wrong. They believe that whatever is in Los Angeles is absolutely right and no foolin’. They think that because a condition ig here, if it is good, it is here because of a well-known and cer- tain favoritism of God. If it is bad, it 1s not to ‘be mentioned anc they attribute it to San Francisco. the Denver Post and jealous eastern cities and newspapers.” Los The situation is pretty much the same in every American city. So many crimes are committed in the name of civic pride; too many grafters ply their trade under the banner of city loyalty. Occasion ally the worm turns and utters a word of protest that sometimes ‘breaks down inertia and spurs citi- zens to action. The attitude of most cities is too “pollyannaish” for the good of the community. Most of them take their problems and their fair name too seriously. Political machines understanc’ the psychology of this situation and make the most of it to feather their own nests. William Allen White nearly had to move out of hig state for asking: “What is the matter with Kansas"? He innocently suggested that Kansas should “raise more wheat and less ‘hell.” In an- cient Rome when critics of the ruling powers became too insistent they were invited or forced into exile. Reaction to criticism of political conditions when- ever it disturbs those at the public crib is the same in every hamlet whether it is Los Angeles or Ypsi- Janti. But fortunately those who see evils that should be corrected go blundering along voicing criti cisms. It may be all a voice in the wilderness but at times the other side of the picture is a necessary antidote to the Babbitt philosophy which keeps the civic bubble always inflated tremendously neat the bursting point. “Where Men Are Men and Women Governors” An eleventh hour commutation granted a prisone: under death sentence by Mrs. Ferguson, governor of Texas, has revived the discussion as to whether ‘women are temperamentally fit for public office. The Chidago Tribune states its decision bluntly as fol- lows: “The instinct of women is to protect the person dependent on them and that brutal murderer was dependent on Mrs. Ferguson. The incident shows that a woman is tem- peramentally unfitted for such executive BN responsibility.” Mrs. Ferguson first received a telegram from the doomed man imploring mercy. She refused to in- tercede ‘but ag the hour approached for the execu: the postoffice at Blag. | Los Angeles, comes a word of protest | and) Vtion she weakened and as the man was summoned for the death march, she saved him from cath Society and the crime were forgotten for the moment as sentimentality and the maternal instinct held sway and made the final decision for Mrs, Fer guson. perience has shown that men in public offic deal with such issues abstractly while women take a more personal view and are swayed to a greater .| extent iby their emotions. When Congress declared war, Miss Rankin, mem ber from Montana, with flowing down her ‘cheeks voted rsion to dictated her vote. reasons swayed her against the overwhelming de mands of her constituents expre tears no. war But the situation presented in the cases of Mrs. Ferguson and Miss Rankin is not a blanket indict-| ment against women holding office. Many of them | {fill positions on school boards exceptionally well | In state, county and municipal offices calling for | straight executive talent, women are filling import | jant places acceptably, but where decisions pull at] | the heart strings and the instinct to protect a hit | Iman against execution is aroused, women find the {task hard. ‘There doubtless firmness is best dis ‘played by men. The ballot or office holding 19 too i new a privilege of women as yet to dull their em- | tional imagination as they grapple with the sterner jaspects of a public career | Coolidge More Popular | John T. Adams, | Republican national committee man for lowa, finds President Coolidge more pop ular in the west than ever ano’ sees less need for [legislation along agricultural lines than obtaine| la year ago. He doubts if there is any necessity for important farm relief at the next session. Secre tary Jardine after swing around the circuit voiced the same opinion as to the need of farm legisiation but he did say that cooperative market ing legislation would be all that is necessary at} this time. H Less agitation radical panac conservative leader the country through a than Congress can by | laws to fix price (tain ela | his | is being in rural sections! regard Coolidge «3| accomplish more business administration enacting many unworkable | and legislate prosperity for cer- ses of industry. This is Mr. Adams con-; clusion after a survey of the situation, Hi : “We have a big corn crop in the corn belt, and | prices are higher, The farmer's lot is improving |eteadily. Real prosperity is returning to agricul- sections and you hear less agitation for radi- AC6 When farm conditions are normal the are conservative.” i Perhaps this explains the increasing popularity | lof Calvin Coolidge among the farmers. If he con- tinues to maintain ‘the confidence of the American { for who farmer: peopte another term for him in the White House is within the realm of possibility. There is a demand in many sections that he be- come a candidate for the nomination despite the precedent set by Roosevelt. He probably can have a secona! nomination if his advisers play the politicai cards carefully. An lowa farmer even after death gave his fam-| ily a parting shot. He had two phonographs made | of parting messages that.were read at his funeral. One phonograph was “played” at the home and the other at the crematorium. Editorial Comment Highways in the Motor Age (Chicago Tribune) The other day a woman driving her car over a railroad grade crossing at Maywood was killed be-| use a thunderstorm drowned the noise of an ap proaching train. There should have been no unguarded | grade | crossing in the environs of a great city. In fact, the whole grade crossing question has got to be restudiéd. The automobile has given it a new | urgency. A generation ago we heard much of grade crossings and there was legislation to compel rail roads to elevate tracks. Some elevating was done, but it was not possible financially for the roads to complete the schemes propose, Public opinion subsided. Then appeared the automobile. It has made every street intersection a grade crossing. Millions of gasoline locomotives 1un the highways at high speed, not on rails and guarded rights-o7- way, much less elevated tracks, but in the public streets. They create a much more difficult and dangerous responsibility than ever the railways dic, They have transformed conditions on ‘the streets and highways, and new regulations and new policies must ‘be evolved to deal with the new conditions For example, in our suburbs, private and public planning must yield to considerations of safety. They must not make death traps of curves and corners as they do now. The automobile also compelg new consideration of safeguards on raiiway and electric lines. With all the world in automobiles, in a state of perpetual mobility, the older standards must go. Track ele- vation, track depression, safety devices, rules, and regulations must be restudied anc the common need \for greater safety must be met. « Too Many Easy “Lifts” (Louisville Journal an« Courier) Two Anderson, Ind., boys “hiked” from Indiana to Florida by way of Washington, D. C. The youngsters ‘have just arrived at home with the statement that they made the entire round trip “hike” with entire success and expedition and walk- ed only five miles of the distance. Which goes to show how difficult it has become in this country to function as a pedestrian. What will become of legs and feet it locomotion continues as we have it in this auto era? Is man to lose the use of his pedal extremeties and end by consigning himself and his useless stumps to a wheel chair at such times as he may see fit to leave hig motor car? Surely it} is time to start a revival of pedestrianism. The genuine “hiker” should wear some sort of conspicu- ous sign or decoration to inform the motoring world that he doesn't care for a “lift” but that he is actu- ally “hiking,” and not “faking.” The chief trouble She explainea! frankly that her} Sentimental | sed in letters andj wires to her before Congress voted on the issue of war. | lin this world. THE BISMARCK TRIB The Great American Invalid | KOW LOOK WAAT You WEN! AN’ DONE / LETTER FROM SALLY ATHERTON TO LESLIE PRESCOTT— ONTINUED | I felt like a cat, Leslie, to be think- ing all these things about poor Dick, even while I was trying to comfort him for his loss. That is why, I ex- telling it all to you. I am myself by letting you y horried I am in my own little inside. It sometimes ms strange to me. dear, that Fate lets me sta: m not particularly lovable, and I ainly have no one who loves me very dearly now: that Bee is gone. Why should Fate ‘still give me life while it takes Bee away, leaving a child behind? The specialist told me this morn- ing that probably Bee might have lived had he been called eatlier be- fore the child was born, but it would have cost the life of the child. He supposed that Mr. Summers would rather ‘have his child live than his wife. I looked at him in utter jsur- rise. could In fact, I e so cold-blooded. you love your wife?” “I have never mar- ried. “Tf thought so,” was my bri com. ment. “It may be all right for a man of science to carry it to such a | degree that he thinks only of carry- ing on the race, but I for my part prefer a man who has a little heart in him.” I couldn't think that anyone |. of e specialist. smiled, and said: rs. Atherton, you are a woman of courage. I like you.” “That's more tl "TT answered. fore little Bea called her Bea he of any go mother has good not onl of her fr teen y sood work happy. The specialist looked superior, but he held out his hand, and < 80 mad at him that I ignored it when he said good-bye. I presume, Leslie, that I shall miss Bee. more than anyone else, for some way I could unburden my heart. to hers more freely than’ to any other person T have ever known. I know vou will understand this, because I have never written to even you in thix way before. ; I wonder who will care when I go out? Probably no one. There—I'm getting morbid. Hope vou're well and happy, Leslie. Tell Mr. Prescott I'll be here only about three weeks longer which, although it will make my vi tion longer than 1 thought, will bring me back to the office about the end of the month. Lots of love, SALLY. NEA Service, Inc.) ice) “Sw 1 to the world, and her always been of great to Dick but to others d for the next si S would go on doing # making the — world (Copyrisht, 11 ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS | BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON |} THE LAND OF LOST THINGS Juggle Jump and the Twins knock- ed on every door in Keyhole Land. | But instead of doors opening, all they heard was “come in” and th three of them had to squeeze in through about a hundred keyholes, which is a most difficult thing to do. No one had even heard of Puff, let} alone Puff's lost buttons, so the three travelers got tired and left that place} for good and all. “Now where do we go from here?” asked Nick. Juggle Jump stopped and con- sidered. “I'll look and see,” he said,) touching the button that said} “stretch | So off went his neck again, like a| skyrocket on the Fourth, or pulling| taffy on Hallowe'en Night! Indeed, his head disappeared altogether. | By and by he came back. “I've! just been to see the Man in the Moon,” he said, “and he advised me to go the Lund of Lost Things. Hej} says that most everything goes] there, even balances.” “Balances!” cried the “What are they?” “I don’t know. He didn’t say,”) remarked Juggle Jump, “but I've} heard of people who lost their bal- ance. And tempers, too!” he added.; ‘No doubt lost tempers go to that queer place, too, to say nothing of niinds and patience and all the things people are losing all the time.” Off to the Land of Lost they went, then, stil! looking for Puff’s lost buttons. And pretty soon they came to the biscuit-tin house of Ruby Joan the rag doll. i “What are you doing here?” asked| Ruby Joan, trying to took pleasant, but only succeeding in staring—star- ing without any eyes, for her eyes were completely gon “Looking for Puff’s lost buttons,” said Nick. “Puff’s the Fairy Queen's cook, and he sneezed so much shak- ing pepper that he’s lost the last but- ton off his coat.” “Coati” cried Ruby Joan. “That's nothing to a head. I've lost both my shoe-button eyes off my head, and I can’t see a thing. I'm trying to find them. We might go together.” “Just bang onto my tails,” offered Juggle Jump, “We'll go in a Left, right! Left, cried Nick. “This street is paved with buttons. “Of course it i said General Pershing, the tin-soldier who had. Twins.| hings with many of our present-day pedestrians or s0- called “hikers,” is the fact that “hiking” ie the thing they want to do everything else but. been lost down a crack in a boa! walk and couldn’t find his way home. “Of course it is. Where do you sup- lost in the wash. Down the drain, of | You may all loc Down on their hands went the four of them. and knees Ruby Joan course! Then where? Why right here | §, to the Land of Lost Things. But all of them aren't-washed off. sneezed off and some just lucily found two shoe-buttons a once, which she said were just good as the ones ad lost. know it sounds she “put buttons aren’t like medicine. You can change them around.” Nancy helped to stick the shoe- buttons into place and the rag doll seemed very happy. “Now I can see rot eperss Vfl DYN HELL EveR GET WELL ? ' DUNNO, HE DOESNT RESPOND TO ANYTHING | We've Teer ve) Vim heip you," she cried as they all went at it again. And what do you think! They found one of the precious buttons! That made two. (To Be Continued , 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) New York—There are almost as many folk aspiring to fame through writing popular songsias those who would snare the elusive bubble by going on the stage. The procession up Tin Pan Alley is as steady as that which passes through the the- atrical producers’ doors. And, as in the theatre, merit does not always win out. Publicity and exploitation of the name of a song counts for as much as the publiciz- ing of an actor's name. When a song publisher accepts a new air for publication he immedi- ately arranges with phonograph rec- ord and mechanical piano roll manu- facturers for the recording of the song. Then the song professionals who “plug ing it in theatres, by “hi orchestras play it and: by having it broadcast over the radio. Thousands of dollars are spent in exploiting @ tune until it becomes popular. In the meantime there may come into the hands of the publisher a song of similar theme but of higher merit. Yet he will not accept it be- use he has already set the ma- inery in motion to popularize the first song and a campaign to exploit the second and better song would bring about a loss of money on the song already started on its way. And then the personal equation enters into the thing. A composer may walk into a manager's office and play his tune. The manager will say it’s rotten and the composer walks down Tin Pan Alley to an- other publisher who thinks it is a great tune, publishes it, exploits it and makes a fortune for himself and EVERETT, Cou WUST LP THE STREET ! MONKEY HELD OUT HIS PAW. mMisseDp A_ PICNIEe WHEN THE ORGAN Gernvers FOR MONGY i PUT A PENNY IN IT THAT I HEATED CS : st sli a ep THE PICNIC, BUT RQ THE BARBECUS !!! pose all the buttons go to that are THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1925 DON’T BE SURE YOUR RACE ISSUPERIOR BY CHESTER H. ROWELL BY CHESTER H. ROWELL Some interesting lights on racial “superiority” or the claim of i been brought out in recent discus- sions in Hawaii, As a sentiment, all races have it. The Emperor Chien Lung, reject- ing a proposal of the English king for commerce between their nations, jon the ground that China had every- {nuns it needed, congratulated King George on his becoming humility, and closed with the salutation, “fear and tremble.” The Tongan, islanders have a tra- dition that God made the Tongan first, the pig next, and the white man last. If there have been certain great men in the outside world—the Ton. gans have heard of George Wash- ington and Napoleon—these, because they were great, must have been shipwrecked Tongans. The Greeks called all outsiders “barbarians,” and the Jews were the chosen people.” Just now it is the “nordics” who claim superiority, because they hap- pen to fill, in this generation, the place held in earlier generations by other peoples. The sense of superi- ority is a form of racial egotism. First the Jews, Then the Chinese When it comes to scientific exam- ination of the facts, as distinguished from peoples’ feelings of them, very little exact knowledge exists, but that little suggests some interesting conclusions. There are undeniably some races really inferior. The Australian ab- originies are so; the Pacific Island- ers may be so; whether the negroes are so is debated, and therefore de- batable. But among the superior races, the Jews rank first, the Chinese second, and the Japanese, Caucasians, and certain Indian peoples third. ' This in average capacity and mentality, and subject to revision when data are available. This conclusion is still only im- perfectly scientific, but popular ob- servation gives no reason to doubt it. The Jews have a larger propor- tion of very superior individuals than any other race, and very few idiots, imbeciles, morons and incap- ales, to bring the average down. The Chinese, at their top, are the equals of any other race at its top,. and they have no bottom. The Chi- nese too stupid or lazy to take care of himself starved long ago, leaving no_descendant: The Caucasian average is kept down by the large number of surviv- ing incapables which our institutions have preserved. Where MacDonald Was Illogicall Ramsay MacDonald moved a vote of censure on the present British government for not seiing the prob- lem of unemployment. It was the natural move of the opposition. But it must have worried MacDon- ald’s logical soul to pretend to cen- sure his enemies for not doing what he himself had not been able to do. and which he believes nobody can do while the present social system lasts. Electing Widows Is Not “Modernism” One more Congressional widow has been elected to fill the place made vacant by her husband’s death. - The sentiment which leads to such a choice is natural, and, fortunately, in most cases, the lady had been ac- tive enough in her husband's career to indicate her competency. But is an old-fashioned, not a “modern’ sentiment. Whoever else may approve it, the women’s party and other feminist organizations should protest. The sentiment, by their standards, be- longs to the masculine and feudal type. It represents, not women's right to stand on their own merits, but women's title to the protective chiv- alry of the “stronger” sex. It is a mai notion of what he wants women to want. It belongs to the pre-suffrage age. These women represent, not themselves of their constituents, but their husband's memories. It is fortunate that they have usu- ally done well. But this is not fem- inism. Fthe composer, The manager who re- jected it might have been bilious or headachy when he heard it. Often a composer who is not a good pianist ruins his chances of having his song published by playing it for the pub- lisher when a more accomplished pianist might play it in such a way ‘as to put it over as a success. Phil Kornheiser is manager of one of the publishing concerns. He hears about 50 new songs a week and Poor digestion and overweight re- sult from overeating. Statistics have definitely shown that persons who are overweight when they get past 30 years of life have less chance of living long than those who are normal or slightly underweight. If a person finds that he is con- siderably overweight he should im- mediately begin to reduce. This can be done by taking more exercise, so as to burn up more en- ‘ he tells me that his biggest prob- lem is to keep in physical condition so that he may judge a tune on its merits unaffected by any disturbing ache or pain. “The mammy song and the ballad have always been popular and always will,” Korn- heiser says. “Any time a new com- poser can get up an unusual mother song or love ballad his future and his fortune are made.’ —JAMES W. DEAN. FABLES ON HEALTH DON’T USE ANTI-FAT REMEDIES ergy in the body. It can also be ac- complished by regulation of diet so that less fat is consumed. In reducing weight, however, one should go at it slowly. Patent medicines heralded as fat removers should not be used. They are dangerous and many have suffered serious consequences from their use. Watch your diet carefully, drink plenty of good water and exercise often in the open air. TOM SIMS ‘SAYS If you will get up about daylight you can get the weather all cussed out before it starts. Explorers found a new deep hole in the Pacific ocean. Fine place to drop a player piano. Terrible news from Paris. are wearing wrist watches. mean they are war? M Does it ready for another Truth is stranger than You can buy button holes. Talk about cleanin, cago woman cleaned” show by yelling “Fire! fiction. house, a Chi- out a picture . Food and people may become too rich to agree with one. Might as well get your shoes all shined up for the millenium, New York chorus girl married a poor man. - Seattle doctor says many have died from kissing. We say maybe there are more dying to be kissed. Robbers got $800 from a Boston filling station at noon, which is poor pay for running in the hot sun. Good ‘news from. Turkey.. New law says have only one wife. But they may change it when the weath- er is cooler. In St. Louis, a man fussed at his wife 36 years before she finally de- cided to shoot him. Life is short enough without drink. ing moonshine and then trying to eat a watermelon. t Experience is a great teacher, but the tuition is rather high. Distance lends enchantment which must be paid back in some way. ‘Time will cure everything and so will carbolic acid. / Life is too short to use it all up impressing other people. Nobody wants the man who gives himself away. (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) +—_—_-__________ A THOUGHT ! All the ways of a man are cle: in his own eyes; but the lord weigh- eth spirite.—Proverbe 16:2. Judgment for an evil thing . is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two; but it is life, it is as sure as death. WAR FLOTSAM DRIFTS ASHORE Porthcawl, Glamorgan, Wa! -At- tached,to some wreckage, a plate has been washed ashore he which belonged to the American coast guard cutter Tampa. The Tam- a, with heavy loss of life, was sunk yy a'German submarine in British Reporter Makes Good on Beat Though Blind Gary, '™md.—(@)—Total blindness has not interfered with the success of Allen Naive, ‘31, as a newspaper- man. Naive, city hall reporter for The Gary Post-'l'ribi accepts all a: signments and, according to fellow ets more than his share e turns out “clean copy” on_a regulation typewriter. One of his recent accomplishments was the writing of a feature story on a circus which came to Gary. His story was as bright and colorful as though he had been able to see the gayety of which he wrote. Fourteen Points Guide to Successful Movies Hollywood, Cal.—(#)—Through a recently established system of se- lecting plots that conform to the covenant of 14 dramat tion picture producer: e practically assure the success of a photoplay before it is made. Of thousands of films produced in th past many were failures from the standpoint of audiences. The photoplay when adjudged by this method should contain a major- ity of the fourteen following dra- matic ingredients: ambition, con- flict, conspiracy, devotion, pternal triangle, greed, intrigue, love, moth- er lover, the quadrangle, retribu. tion, reconciliation, sacrifice, fem- inine appeal. HERO HONORED IN PAGEANT Calgary, Alta. —)—Daniel Davis, 70, a constable of the Royal North- west Mounted Police 50 years ago, who lone-handed escorted 1,100 hos- tile Indians from Fort Wal the United States border to an In- dian reservation at Eagle Hills, Saskatchewan, 180 miles, was on the program of a historic pageant here this summer. LONG TRAMP FOR 850 - London — A Scotchman recently walked from his home to Wembley exposition and return—a distance ae miles— to win a wager of LITTLE JOE Ww WEN AMAN 1S BROKE, AT LEAST HECAN SIT BACK AND LET THE REST OF THE WOR! waters, September, 1918,’