The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 28, 1925, Page 4

PAGE FOUR The Bismarck Tribune’ An Independent Newspaper THE STA OLD: NEWSPAPER (Establishea 1873) Published by the Bismarck T: Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck, i George D s second class mail matter, Mann President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable In Advance Dally by carrier, per year ee 20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). . + 7.20 Daily by mail, per year cin outside Bismarck). ... .. 6.00 Daily by outside of North Dakota + 6.00 adit Bureau of Cireulation Member of The Assoc The Associated Press is exclu ated Press y entitled to the nge for rey ation of all news dispatches credite to it or not otherwise credited in per, and also the local news of spontancous ori lished here in, All rights of ication of all other matter herein are also re Forelgn Representathyes | G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Tower Bids Kresge Bldg. | PAY BURN SMITH AND NEW YORK = (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Minneapolis in Same Boat Fifth Ave, Bldg} ba candidate Phe system has been | litieal program is hostile to the put | Principles of the party of Coolidg, Minneapolis, dike Bismarck, is financing the city! water plant too heavily from general taxation in order to keep the rates down practiced so long that the Mill City couneil i to all sorts of subter ta seetre money to pay operating revenue an the same present low level of water rate Pie MUNNBATIOTN. JU THA) Bele cTOFUN: ChALAleATAA Ne parties subservient to the whims and i fie raviesstines iasiane fallae ry leather inged agitator, | The City Water Department faces a) dilemna | i Hither it must raice the rate on water, or it) must) | | PAG. MhatRe te olier ciy depattinouls; inchialig Editorial Comment | tie Fire Department, for the water they use i i | a ; n Te ” | The present rate of eight cents a thouaand gat A “Handsome Tribute’ i | lon tid to be the lowest charged in the country. | Sew Yok Fes | » revenue thus collected from water u 8 All friends of wit and genius will be Bad to know he oper ng costs. h a ” rn 5 cy ann i A » the operating costs with a surplus (1 last {that Mr. William Allen White, in spite of recent | Was BMGO00) that goes inte construction, | tomg attacks on the food supply of the world by! | “But the main cost of extending the water service | land and sea, is himself n. Reestablished in en 7 ee | 1 i 1 aie ' - | system and fwrnishing new machinery and equ | Empor ubmitting again to discipline and diet, ee e ang e ee \ ment is met by bom issues. the interest and amorti | be has had a wonderful recovery. His “vocabulary | zation of whieh are burdens on the general tax | laborate * as Daniel Pr 2 2 | | i | bie | deboraines 's Daniel Pratt, the Great American! CuipprNG FROM THE PI to a eushioned divan which wa ! | Payer, whether he uses city water or nol It tool Traveler, used to say, are producing thelr finest BURGIO SUN: standing near, | ay | $86,000 in taxes thi to handle matarities and | s. He bubbles with fun and mischief. He falls F 5 ii lie toa ne | interest o er wo 1" : “ A fs e| The home John Prescott; this that there Half the world’s gold is in the! nterest of water works bend Jon the neck of “Da Mulvane, that earliest of entered night and) while! asa man on the s untied States noiveanal dentists) ate| “From a practical standpoint, it may be well | renomination birds. He smears him with caress was ti it would confirmed by; of a deli! trying to put it into teeth. | 1 fidd " A thieves were s' in cate hid near the 7 worth whil ' Mudge of Unis for jand pertidions compliments, He calls him rightly || . Prescott's pearls. This bears piano with the monogram MC on it.| ‘The wheat market goes down and den, and to make the Water Department entirely | @ Scholar and gentleman, too ironically “the | ont the police theo that there is Mr. cott has petitioned for then it covers. B all the wheet self-supporting. For one thing, it would tend to} shortest talker tof Swampscott.” He hails the /still one man, and that man the chief) manicipal watchman” to seuard his] growers don't. recover. : iin buteul (it Shige Riwechet eae a. jot the band, at large; but it shatters’ property for a while. This will be geil rednee the tax rate, amd that i ays a good thing | bird in Kansas speech, too marrowy to lose: | the thenry that he had the jewels njuetion with two men he has| Some girls are so unlucky. Chicago to do. A high tax rate is a bad advertisement for | ae with him. i y E as or over by an auto the : : i If Kansas has to have a Republican Na Now the whereabouts of half al Alden Prescott, the | day before his wedding. n * any city, Ut must be our constant and untiring en ae deavor in Minn polis to keep the tax rate down “There remains the question whether the Water Department is economically and effciently operated ‘This year, for the first time in the City's history, the Water Department's budget is to be submitted to the Board of imate and Taxation. How much) ef a look-in this will give the City’s chief tax body, remains to be seen. Hitherto the Water Depart mont has been a! decidediy close corporation, the special satrapy of the Council Water Committee, which has been jealous of its prerogatives and loth to let in the light of publicity “This would seem to be a good time for a com plete overhauling of the Water Department's affai and a survey of its operation from both an engineer ing and a standpoint. Tt may well prove that econonties be introduced that would come near to making the department self-sustaining without Bi ness pr enly financing in its financial could any raise rek is still a warning can be taken from the Minneapolis edicament ult of y of department. in rates. Let's have a look gee.” new in the water supply busi which is the re slov water ew York Campaign getting its periodical raking over the Frank D the ‘Tammany coals, in the Gotham mayoralty campaign Waterman, Republican candidate, Tammany methods of doing business. his opening addresses, he scored the the following terms excoriates In one “The city has bought coal in $ without a bid. Tt bought $12,000 lots without bid. lumber and other material 10,000 lots in bought has oline ga It ha a in $50,000 Lots without a bid. It has bought automobile accessories in $200,000 lots without a bid. It has paid more than $500,000 for Imperial limousines and Imperial sedans—four for Mr. Hylan himself and one apiece for his Tammany commissioners and ‘Tammany deputy commissioners—all without a bid. It has bought sugar in $30,000 lots without a bid. It has built six new ferryboats for $1,490,000 without a bid. This is part of the list, a few of the contracts taken out of competition and bestowed on political favorites by vote of the Tammany Board of Aldermen and the signature of Tammany’s Mayor Increases in taxes summed up as follows: since Hylan’s regime were “Taxes come directly or indirectly from every pocket. We pay for them in the homes we rent, in the food we eat, in the clothes we wear. Mr. Hylan and his Tammany associates since Jan. 1, 1918, have increased the cost of the city’s government from $38 a year for every man, woman and child in the city to $66.” The mounting cost of city government is arous- ing taxpayers throughcut the length and breadth of the nation. ‘Long tenure in office firmly en- trenches a political machine and patronage and pelf are considered paramount to honest, econom- ical government. The drive to rid New York of Tammany’s grip will be watched with interest by the friends of good government. Under False Colors Bob La Follette, Jr., is running. upon a Republi- can ballot, but he is lambasting Coolidge and the Republican party. There are few systems of party government utder the sun where such a condition would be tolerated. Under the primary free-for-all, ' | | 1 | nomination which the party whose label he uses stands for. Speaking at Stoughton, Wis., recently, the Crown Prince of Wisconsin parrot like reiterat father’s dogmas. Despite the fact that he seeks the a while bune Company, | omination at the hands of Republicans whose leader Coolidge is, Bob, Jr., “The Coolidge administration has reached the end of its rope.” Continuing, he criticized the Coolidge administra tion and its policies, especially the Mellon plan All of this in face of the great endorsement the Coolidge program received at the polls last Novem ber and the repudiation dealt his lather’s at the same election, campaign in overwhelming potitical principles Arrogantly, the stated ssue the following terms ‘The issue Will the in this campaign is clear cut. people of Wisconsin the the Last years to on a United States senator who i to carry out the platform and the unfinished work of Robert M. Will they send to Washington a follow course and send LaFoliette or senator who is pledged to stand behind the president?” i A most amazing declaration of issnes coming from the of Republican is in the Republican primaries own selfish Republican, Hig po eat fundamental and of the ma such ecking Bob La Follette, Jt merely to use th political support party label to gain hi ends. He is not a jority in the United States senate political time keep the | duplicity would be impossible were it not for the | primary system which permits betrayal of the party tional Committeeman whose high hopes hark back the first Grant Administration, “Dave” is the boy for us, ‘The editor of The Gazette once defeated e” for the Re- publican National Committee, and held the job just 14 minutes 3 seconds and .52; hav- ing chucked it to hit the siwdust trail to Armageddon with Theodore Roosevelt, and would do it again if the circumstances were the same. But that's neither here nor there. We nurse no grudge against D. W. M. In the cornucopia which a prodigal providence pours upon a famished world, “Dave” Mul- vane is the bright particular Elberta peach for which we pant the hart panteth for the water brook. And we hope “Cal” won't get jealous, Tho hunks of gay irreverence in this canto of the Williamiad are welcome. They show ‘that the re- turned traveler's health and digestion haven't been hurt by his wild Pacific pantophagy. And he en riches history with the forgotten fact that he is a veteran office holder. Who would have believed that old Father William could “stay hitched” for four- teon minutes? (St Cloud Journal-Press) We grow chesty when talking about the good ystem” in| roads of Minnesota, and as a matter of fact we have | some license to do it when we remember the con- ditions of the highways 10 or a dozen years ago. But when it comes to permanent construction Minnesota is in the kindergarten class. On January 1 it had 520.2 miles of concrete road. That is quite a stretch, but see what other stat have: ifornia, 3, miles; Illinois, 4,104: Indiana, 1,535.2; Michigan, 2,042; New York, 2,794.2; Ohio, 1,646. Pennsylvania, 2,707.2; Washington state, 1,029.7, and Wisconsin, 1,921.2 miles. oven little old Virginia has more paved miles than Min- nesota, 614.9, and West Virginia tops us by 40 miles, having 569.2. That is not quite the whole story. Several states have many miles of hard-surfaced roads in addition to concrete. New York, Michigan and New Hamp- shire have a lot of good roads surfaced with tarvia and gravel. The total concrete mileage in the United States is 31,698.3, and Minnesoa, which should be among the topliners, has only about one-sixtieth of the whole—and there are only 48 states in this grand and glorious Union. Many states issue bonds which must be paid by direct taxation. In Minnesota the entire trunk highway system of 7.000 miles is maintained with out a cent of direct taxation, all the road taxes g9- ing to the state aid, county and town roa And some lawmakerg think we are going at it et a dizzy, breakneck pace—while we are just trailing | along near the tail of the procession. Kicking (Wichita Beacon) Who said kicking doesn’t get one anywhere? Consider the case of Judge Wil:iama of Knoxville, Tenn. i; According to press dispatches, he took a youth into his chambers, and administered three solid kicks, a posteriori, after the lad's mother told him that the judge’s small fine would not stop her boy from drinking. Perhaps that can hardly be made a regular feature vot our judicial system. Gome judges are not fitted, either temperamentally or physically, for such work. But it sounds like a dandy scheme for some cages. In the divorce courts, for example. i After all, there’s nothing like making the punish- a socialist can enter a Republican primary and win|ment fit the crime, opposing every principle for his THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE i 4 | | | | | A BI million doll. rs worth of pearls is a greater mystery than before. All | Mr. Prescott's servants that were with him at the time the pearls were taken, are sti!l in the house. Most of them were with Mrs. Prescott [while her father was alive. All boxes, vases and other recep tacies in the library that could pose |sibly contain these jewels had been. overturned. When the case was res] jported to the polic orter —accomp: the Commis: | ner of Police, who took charge in| person, to the house. Mrs. Prescott had not allowed any- | thing to be disturbed, The room was in the s tion in which bur- seems to have heard the | slightest noise or disturba n the; 'house, vet there is indisputable evi-, h in the search. In| rchid-colored chiffon attached toa statuette that had | been brushed off of its pedestal on w York, Aug. 27 I have recorded here the magi the beauty wrought by night upon a great city. And here are some of the s din a “dog watch” kept with a newspa perman. ‘The window looks out upon one short block of the west side. Within that block are two second-floor Greek cabarets, a basement bootleg shop and ar ‘oom dive, Also in this block there two’ brothels, four all-night restaurants and a gambling den. At midnight the vultures begin to gather. Men with glinty faces, the professional gamblers. Drifting into this back eddy of hell come trowsy i of the pavement, dope ped- and ‘hollow-eyed pickpockets th gaunt-faced bony-figured d boobs waiting for fleecing and a few sons of honest. seeking an evanescent and synthet! contrast to their drab day of labor. | After midnight when the passing stream thins out and the din of the street subsides the clatter and the | clamor of the honky-tonks begin. Crash! Discordant brasses and rhythmless beating of drums are | mixed with notes of the human voice which sound like the yelps of all | hell's whelps. Through an uncurtained window ;are seen waitresses, apparently na- |tive Americans and bearing fresh | |traces of youth, serving alien males of s nd sullen mien. The flow |of “stiga” and other poisons |con- jeocted on the place is continuous. | There is dancing and stamping of | feet and by daylight a general orgy. Nauseated and fleeced men strag- gle out. Some in a stupor and a: yet not wholly trimmed stahd be- fuddled along the curb. Gaudy,| writhing shadows slink upon them and the harpies claim a victim from ‘the bootleggers. Dawn breaks and a group of men are spewed forth from a dark en- trance. They argued with a short- sleeved bozo who is as hard-boiled as Plymouth Rock. “Call a cop, call a cop!” he shouts at the top of his voice. “An’ then see what I'll do!” A cop is standing 50 feet away. |He strolls slowly toward the group {and the loud-mouthed fellow as slow- ly strolls away. The cop engages in an argument with the men who com- {plain of being fleeced and makes ; them disperse. The cop stands for two hours in front of the den from which all the unearthly noises have been issuing. At 6:30 he bellows out, “Hey, shut them windows up there.” He dashes up stairs and does no reappear for 15 minutes. In the meantime the i re RP NOIRE MOE morning. a! 2 hours, just he. And two bricklayers fell 49 feet in fore daylight, she was awakened by] Chieago. But this no sign their something, she knew not what, and| pay is coming down, went to the window of her room|. oe where she saw a limousine wn! ,Some people hope every da Police ists that the fter All, It’s the Anticipation That’s the Worst T DONT puRl / r arly morning. up to the eurb and an getting: visit house was made with added to the finding of the gems the fur fly. He s: t lool like the work of i mecca someone who wanted to exeente There is no sign of relief from the revenge of some kind, inasmuch cold weather shortage. nearly everything in the ane q ae Lost sleep is hard to find. until the misereants are appre-| just plain. la hended. a — TOMORROW—Letter from Sally Taxes may be reduced next year. Atherton to John Alden Prescott. That's. only natural. They can't all in one blo more than cannot speak or write our language. y couldn't tell vou wh t means, but they know it is worth. doing things in a good AMES W. DEAN. They proba Half wit! h d ints in the nij 90 per c dol the colt, reports that Commissioner ‘e of herself and her children ork like it, rs, coined in 1836 and lettered-edge, about 60 cents each. i i | | day before his v will nd wom: Nhe Sunday by and b re did not! afraid that it will. t these two se the Preseott| Here's some striking news for to- k to her bed] day. About 5000 mat are lighted every second in the United States. Haidlaw in-| pees to the Prescott] A young lady tells us she unpacked other motive her fur coat and moths were making Some of th: fe pensive girls are 2 raise them if we can’t. windows are closed, but the drinking oes on unmolested. And this one scene of corruption is | there are other The | An idle rumor ean cause as much trouble about the house as an idle | roomer. Why shouldn't the weather be dis- more often than any other rhtly org en subject? It’s the closest to us. nt Some young people may not go to church very often, but just the same they love one another. And they When you see two men in the front seat and two women in the back they are married. If music is the language of love saxophone players are rejected. are worth IT, Yp, SSNS FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1925 It's Hard to Cover AM Your Tracks) or sing well, | You can't get away with it! Loeb !and Leopold, super-intelligent and ‘ super-educated. planned the “per- fect crime” and left behind the clues for their own detection Charles Henry Schwartz, chemist keen business man and amateur student of crime, killed his man and burned ‘and disfigured the body, but left his own hand-| There | victim's own name, in h writing, for his identifie: ton. Writing Is Real Hard Labor “Writing is just hard work,” mod- vs Corra Harris, who writes well indeed. Of course it is than that. Most people can not write well, just as they can not draw FABLES ON HEALTH no matter how hard work. But also, no one, how- they Stunted, can write well without ‘hard work, Language easy to read lis necessarily hard to write. And the knowledge, the thought, the feel- ing, the imagination, the observa- tion and experience of life, without which there is nothing to write about—these come only after ex- ceedingly hard work, Writing is a talent, a trade, an art and a life re undetected crimes, but not the! Only the intensest concentration of | “smart” ones. The obscure common] all these can produce anything burglar may have the luck to get] greatly worth while. awa unperceived, and sonte do. The| a intelligent man, planning an elabor-)@———-————___—_———-® ite crime and catefully covering hi | A THOUGHT | tracks, leaves his trail in the very = ' coverings. o ——___—--—_—_—__ He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man—Prov. 21:17. There is no such thing as pure vn alloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.—Ovid. | | Tuberculosis Often Can Be Cured | BY DR. HU H S. CUMMING Surgeon General, United States Pub- lic Health Service Despite the educational campaigns that have been carried on during the past few years to spread widely knowledge concerning the nature and prevention of tuberculosis, the fact s that many people are still formed of the simple facts is di That tuber- ed. this lose. through meglect their chances of again becoming use- ful citizens and prove to be only a menace to society for a substantial portion of their li Active tuberculosis strikes more often at those between the ages of twenty and fifty, at a time when people are most free from other dis- ile tuberculosis mon in you is most com adult life, it may ing age. Tuberculosis tack any part of the body and one form of it may eccur in many organs of the body at the same time and in such cases the patient may die of general tuberculosis. However, the form in which the disease most com- monly occurs is tuberculosis of the lungs. In this article the Public Health Service wishes to ave with you a very brief message, it wants you to know that. tuberen- losis is a contagious disease. It wants you to know that in practi- cally every existing case the victim contracted tuberculosis by breathing in or swallowing the germs wh cause that disease. It is practically never inherited. Children of con- sumptive parents sometimes become United States because they contract their parents or | tuberculous the disease from surroundings. Tuberculosis is not intensely con tagious like measles and scarlet fever; it is not contracted by merely coming in contact. with a consump tive nor even by living in the same house with one provided that the consumptive is careful and clean Tuberculosis is less contagious than typhoid fever but tuberculosis fur nishes its danger of infection for # much longer period, for years inst of days. No one is so healthy or so strong that he may not at some time develop tuberculosis. Constant at tention to the duties of prevention is nece: wherever children live under the same roof with a consump tive. An_o¢ nal exposure to tuber culosis is not without danger and therefore it is necessary that ca boats, waiting roomsy restauran’ and all public places be protected from infection by careless patien suffering from tuberculosis. The danger of a person suffering from consumption infecting others in the same house may be reduced to a minimum provided he will take the proper precautions but this means constant care on_ his part. Children ng adenoids or en- larged tonsils should have them re- moved as the obstruction to breath- ing caused by these adenoids and en larged tonsils favors the develop- ment of tuberculosis and other dis eases as well. If tuberculosis attacks the intes- tinal canal, the bones, or the glands of a child, that child shall receive careful treatment at once by a physi- cian or surgeon in order that a cure may be accomplished before it is too late. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON Tick Tock gathered up his key and oil-can and bellows and motioned for the Twins to follow. “T have to do alot of clock mend- ing tonight all over the world,” said he. “We shall have to be moving. The next place we must go is to the house where an old grandfather at et eA gy, URCHINS a BY HAL COCHRAN I often have wondered why mothers will fret and fuss about kids keepin’ clean. How much does it matter how dirty they get if their interest in playin’ is keen? A The health of a child gets its start when he's young and the seed for the future is sown. He climbs up the ladder of strength, rung by rung, or he turns out a weakling when grown. The builders’ most need are sun- clock lives. He is quite a pet of the|light and air if a youngster’s to family, but, like a lot of old people.| really advance. To rob. him of is crochety and cantankerous and{ playin’, to give too much care, is nobody can do anything wi but me. Come one, kiddies.” It was very dark by this time ex- h him cept for a baby moon and the stars. But with magic shoes it is no trouble to find one’s way anywhere. So as Tick Tock, the little clock iry, trotted ahead, the Twins fol- ved, Nancy carrying the big key and Nick the oil-can which Tick Tock had trusted to their care. They went on and on, and by and by they came to a big’ stone house set in a grove of trees. “Sh!” whispered Tick Tock. “I putting a crimp in his chance. Go on, le tem run in the open and free, Aw, shucks, let ‘em play in the sands, Just let ‘em get dirty as dirty can be, and smear up their faces and hands, There's always warm water and soap to be had, so wash the kids daily, and then, you'll find they won't mind it. In fact, they'll be glad to go and get dirty again. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) HARD TO BE FOOTLOOSE “So you are going to Brazil next Music INSTRUMENTA week. It must be very hard for you to leave the dear homeland and all the tender associations it has for you?” “Oh, that doesn't trouble me—but I'm awfully sorry I have to break off the serial now running in our daily paper!"—Fliegende _Blaetter, Munich. OUR START IN LIFE Astute Prof.: Students of today have too much money. Now, when I was young I started out as a bare- foot boy. Sophisticated Frosh: I_ wasn't born with shoes on either—De Pauw Yellow Crab. think they are having a party as there is music. and so much light. But the old clock is in a back hall so they won't know the difference. We'll go in by the study window. It, too, will be empty tonight.” Soon the three of them were inside the big house, tiptoeing softly through a room:lined with book- shelves on all sides. Tick Tock opened a door into a dimly-lit back hall and beckoned the children to follow. “Ho's asleep,” he whispered point- ing to a dark corner where an old grandfather clock stood on the floor, his hands drooping listlessly. Not a sound was he making. Suddenly he woke up and started to tick furiously. “Who's there?” he said hoarsely. “Is that another pesky mouse?” “No, no, Grandaddy, it’s only me,” said Tick Tock quickly. “We have come to fix you up.” ‘Oh!” said the old clock in a re- lieved tone. I do need a tonic, I guess. I’m all run down. e peo- Be ple here are kind ‘but they don't un-| 2mple of coincidence. derstand me. Times are not like| | Student: My father and mother they used to be and people have lost] Were married on the same day.— the art of patience. I remember well| Herald and Presbyter. when I was being made that the man who made me took days and days on one wheel alone. You don't find patience like that any more.” “Tut, tut, Grandaddy,” said Tick : aock cuintbing: af and sitting on ve ——__-—___________@ ol clock’s wooden bonnet. “You mustn’t get sour. It never does any LITTLE JOE |! good. Besides, I am here, and I am 4 going to you up like new. A|- little oil and a good dusting out with my bellows, a tightened screw here and there, and your weights wound 8. 0. 8. Sober Brother: I’ve come to bail you out. Intoxicated Brother (in jail): You don’t—hic—need to bail me—hic— out. I'm not full._—Lehigh Burr. ANOTHER COINCIDENCE Professor: Give me a good ex- It would take the potential power of 35 Muscle Shoals to equal the po- tential power of one Niagara Falls. B NOU REALLY KNOW WHERE NOURE GOING, IT'S Lor up snugly. on their spools.” ‘That's BASIER TOGET THERES all you need.” i q, ty “My, my!” sighed the old clock.| “Teal” 4 “I feel better already.” And his old 4 face, with the moon painted on his forehead, became bright with happi- net ‘hat oil loosens up all my rheu- matic joints. Tick—tock, tick—tock! I certainly feel better!” THOSE FLOATING CLOUDS Teacher: Have You been smok- ing in here? Co-ed: Er—no, Miss Pinch. “Well, then, what makes the room look so hazy?” “Why—er—I opened a window and . cloud blew in.”—Rutgers Chanti- cleer, 2 A AORN ARS BE TSN ! \ ) t a oage at , wie