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- =+-erecting a community building, so this matter calls ? +-for Bismarck. is your neighbor. x mes 3 paved streets, knowing that this ruins cement andj behind parked cars right into the path of oncoming asphalt and means added costs for repairs—to him-! automobiles is amazing. And it is amazing that ¢ self.and to you. | more of them are not killed. But the pedestrian He does not choke his neighbors with pungent | comes to life suddenly and dodges, the driver swerves smoke by using his ash-pit as a smudge pot. his car, often at the risk of colliding with another, He does not leave-his ash-pit door neavered, 80; and the incident is over. that ashes spill over the alley. The pedestrian who undertakes to cross the street ‘A good citizen knows that uncleanliness and care-|in the middle of the block does so at his own risk. Jessness are the obsequious footmen of disease. The driver has a right to assume that the parked He does not leave his garbage pail uncovered to cars ahead of him do not conceal people about to| breed flies. The less he leaves rotting, the less he fyisk their necks. ~-is-swatting. Careful driving, especially down town, is another marek. Sandgithe various luncheon clubs should insure the oflean-up wagons. bia.place and breed typhoid, nor invite alley-rats to = wjank yard, nor pile his basement and attic with rub- One pest-ridden lawn will ruin a neighborhood. PAGE FOUR The Bismarck Tribune An Independest Newspaper which will'take in Atlanta, Ga., Tampa, Jacksonville and Miami, Fla., a route of 664 miles, wil] be in op- NEW Se Kh ieration. Fourteen planes ‘will be used on the link THE STATE’S OLDEST and they will be in charge of John Harding, Jr., one (Established 1873) ‘of the naval ‘round-the-world flyers. { Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company,! Each link that is thus forged in the air mail chain } Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at is valuable to the United States, not only from a} Bismarck, as second class mail matter. George D. Mann..........President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily dy carrier, per year... se + $7.20 Daily by mail, per year, (in Bismarck) . 7.20 Daily by mail, per year, (in state outside Bismarck) Daily by mail, outside of North D: Member Audit Bureau of Cire Member of The Associated Press = __ The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the co! for LS oe fot Ht ae niaiees credited | French Debt Settlement ie ES ibearars ot coe aabian cHete Pa Tithe ‘here: | Secretary Mellon's idea as to France's ability to} in. All rights of republication of all other matter! Pay should satisfy the most meticulous senator. herein are also reservéd. { Doubtless it will not and the French debt settlement Foreign | will become one of the issues to enliven the last few Representatives } ks of the present session. After many futile con- G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY yee ; CHICAGO JETRO! ferences the amount agreed upon has been fixed at | Tower Bidg. Kresge Bldg. | $6,847,674,104 amortized over a period of 62 years. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH | The first annual payment will be 30 millions, reach- NEW YORK - : Fifth Ave. Bldg. | ing a maximum of 125 millions. Interest is not to be <The oo rae ~! charged for the first five years. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) | The offer is an improvement over the one made by a ‘ | Caillaux and if approved by congress should go a ‘i A Community Building zi {long ways toward stabilizing European conditions. | It will be impossible for Bismarck to finance 4/ The French debt has been a disturbing factor and | | \ | mail standpoint but from the standpoint of develop- jment of commercial aviation. Air mail is one ‘ method by which airplanes can, and do benefit the | | business man, and when the business man is bene- | fited by anything he is ready to support it and pro- . 6.00; Vide for its expansion. Eventually the air mail will . 6,00; be as the telephone, indispensable, and we will won- {der how we got along without it. Put Bismarck on the air mail route! community building in any other way than through | this agreement practically completes the work of the | # bond issue. To promote a venture of this kind | debt funding commission. through private solicitation is folly, and entirely too! much work and effort, and doubtlessly would delay | this much needed improvement far too long. The | decision of the, Association of Commerce to get be- { Editorial Comment hind a bond issue is a wise one, and should be sup- | ported by the taxpayers generally. \ Making People Laugh It would be folty to construct a building for the (Philadelphia Bulletin) i present Bismarck. This city has a glorious future, Frequently a comedy is heard described as “Oh, | ahead, and any building that, is erected now should it's an amusing little play, but very light. Often | he capable of serving a city at least double that of | that criticism is thoughtless and far lighter than | Bismarck’s population today. Plans should be care-| the texture of the piece. Great tragedy is sel-| fully formulated so that the exact cost can he ascer-| dom written, and when it is there is seen al tainéd and the venture kept within the amount of | great play. But tragedy of the ordinary sort can the bond issue proposed. i ., |be done by almost any budding playwright, or at | Bismarck is badly in need of a community build-|teast nearly every beginner attempts a “serious” | ing. It is not necessary to reiterate at this time just | play, There's a reason; it is so much easier to be | how great the need is, that ground has been gone i | ‘ious than humorous and amusing. | over time and time again, and is well known to every’ 4 comedy which makes people laugh by the em- voter of this city. ployment of natural situations or distorted as they | “It is probable that a two-thirds vote will be neces-| may be for stage purposes, and which is faithful to! sary to carry ,a bond election, for the purpose of | jife in its characterization, demands the gift of hu- mor, a faculty far rarer than is generally believed. One can be a buffoon without any sense of fun or humor at all, but one cannot be a writer of sound comedy without a sense of humor. For one really good comedy nine tragic or serious plays are pro- duced. The temptation to say, “Oh, it’s an amusing little play, but very light,” is strong after seeing a | laughing comedy, but it may be quite unfair to the author, for the heartiest support of the citizenry of Bis- The support of Company A, the American Legion most: emphatic approval of a community building Be a Good Citizen ° A good citizen is a man whom you like to have as MISS CLEAVER'’S SAD EYES Mamie said she could get away, or at least she said she would get away, and I started out to hunt another job, first putting two hundred and twen- ty-five dollars in the bank. I not going to take any chancés in the future, Tmade up my mind I would write Mamie a check for twenty-five-dollars for rent when I arrived back at the house. up.” THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE *S Funny How Some Women Thrive on Cave-Man Tactics “Pm was He When J first went in Morton's de-| tioned He does not throw tin cans, brush, papers, or rub- Headwork and Caution partment store T was a little bit flur-| lative He | x 7 ried, The young women clerks look- hish in alleys or on vacant lots, but places waste (Grand Forks Herald) ed so well ‘dressed and. fashionable | hadn't The fact that more people are not killed as a re- material in boxes or baskets, convenient for the city ¢ sult ofthe practice‘of crossing streets at other than that I was sure my own plain frock stood‘out like a sore thumb. A good looking man of about 45 little a very ‘He does not scatter lawn cuttings in the streets or| the regular crossings is due principally to luck and | walked Past me, turned quickly and Is alleys, but sacks them, and hangs them on the back ; what seems to be an inherent. capacity in human) came back with a smile. ‘ yor fence. j beings to react quickly to the unexpected. The un- anpehine oe Le ened Can 1 do or He does not burn leaves against curbings or on;concern with which many people will step out from Someway 1 could see that he didn't think mea back number and I told him I wanted a job. For a moment he scemed a bi a_vacancy,” was my reply, sur. tment where there’s “Come with me,” he forward and asked: fave you had any experience?” ‘one. dry goods, I think as a rule peoale like me.” But I am sure I can sell I like things to wear and sure they do,” he said. looked at me a moment. as though making a sudden resolution. “I believe, you Have you any recommendations?” “Yes. ~ Gerald Hathaway. will vouch for me if yéu will call him could sell goods, Senior, It seemed to me when I men- Mr. Hathaway’s name a specu- look came into the man’s eyes, said. He even asked my name. As we started toward the elevator stunning looking woman came there anything I can do for Mr, Robingon 3” thank Mr. Cleaver, to me that hing, Miss It seemed ‘obinson’s tone carried quite a little annoyance. t ‘The woman frowned and T saw she Was much older than I thought when she was smiling. She had the sad- dest eyex I have ever seen. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) TOMORROW In luck—Perhaps,_ He does not allow stagnant water to stand about/| requisite. Speeding is criminal, and dreaming is almost as bad. The driver who is incapable of be his guests. {giving his attention to his driving has no business A good citizen knows that over sixty-five per cent | handling a car where there is anyone else. of all fires start in the homes—that over eighty per cent of those burned to death yearly are women and children. The next time it may be HIS wife or HIS child. He does not use the roof of garage or outhouse as The Rise of North Dakota i (Minneapolis Journal) The historian of 1950, setting himself to the task of bringing the story of America down to date, will have. to devote many pages to the rise of North Dakota, commencing in the year 1926. For there is every present indication that the Greater North Dakota Association is winning out in its campaign to speed up ‘the agricultural and economic develop- ment of Minnesota’s western neighbor. And why shouldn’t the Association make a suc- cess of this work? Nobody ever lost when backing a sure thing, and North Dakota’s future comes mighty close to being a sure thing. If a forty-dollar acre in North Dakota can pro- duce, when properly farmed, more and better butter bish, These things are prolific causes of fire. He does not leave oily rags about his home or gar- age, knowing that they cause spontaneous combus- tion. HE breaks a match before throwing it away, for you cannot break a burning match. He does not throw away lighted matches or cigar- | ettes in the tourist parks, nor leave a campfire burn- jing. Others will want to enjoy these parks again— so will HE. ‘he good housewife does not keep oil floor mops in a corner, or closet, but places them in? metal con- tainers. She does not clean with gasoline, but uses non- inflammable cleaners, of which many kinds are on acre in Illinois cr Ohio can produce, then even al the market. schoolboy can figure that the forty-dollar acre is A good citizen thinks of public property and public | not going to remain forever at that low level. premises, as well as his private property—for he is} gush is the “selling talk” of the Greater North part owner of, the stteet, the alleys and the parks./ngiota Association in a series of display advertise- He knows that he must help pay for all damages. {ments in the agricultural periodicals, and in the He uses street receptacles for waste paper, and weekly newspapers of the so-called Corn Belt States. throws rubbish and papers in the containers placed And it is good selling talk, because the facts and for that purpose in the parks. figures to back it up are readily available. He does not commit vandalism, nor permit others!" “Tyinoig fand was valued at around fifty dollars to deface and scratch public buildings and statues, an acre in the late nineties, when mixed farming break or destroy benches—because it is HIS prop- |, introduced. By 1920 it had risen to a hundred Sat ae gaaiies Laren) He knows that and eighty dollars. In Iowa the advance in average izen is co! ive, . every sweep of the paint brush spreads sanitation, values in the first twenty years of mixed farming beauty and content. ! He knows that a well kept place attracts, but a! place detracts. That paint and varnish | are the natural guardians of property. A good citizen digs the dandelions from his laws: ‘Car and twenty-seven. The last census found North Da- kota land averaging forty-one dollars an acre and mixed farming in that state is just now getting a good start. In the light of what has happened else- | h where, it does not take much of a prophet to fore- | tell what is going to happen in North Dakota. In less than two weeks after the. Greater North Dakota Association's advertising campaign opened, inquiries had been received from more than two hun- dred farmers in the Corn Belt States, who already had perceived that. the operator of a North Dakota He plants flowers in his garden, and cultivates poses in the cheeks of his children. ‘He plants a tree—and takes care of it after it has ; HE makes a home out of a house by g shrubs and vines and flowers about it. p yourself. by helping the clean-up campaign. of gn older and higher priced farm, When market disaster for the cultivator of two- the cultivator of forty-dollar you. old aunt from the count “You don’t say si | Tingaling in surprise. | knew he had an old aunt. I fat, pork, beef and wheat than a two-hundred-dollar | knew that Colonel "Possum had any relations at all. every summer, from the sout {T thought he li | “Oh, did yo give me his rent money. It’ rent money I am after. dollar in fairy | tiful apartment ; Porch, awnings, screens, hot and cold; water, electric light: electric stove, elevator, and to a poor Colonel 'Possum’s ‘aunt with a loud sigh. | was from forty-three dollars an acre to two hundred Bsired. Nancy and Nick, thinking ‘what a kind old lady, this was, tired a bit.” * ‘Well, ost I don’t know where he keeps his money.” Tater. “Why, he keey ding-dish on his sideboard,” said he, “At least that’s where he all farm has » tremendous advantage over the operator | © jeer “Why, that’s so! am!” said the nice old lady he did tell_me it wi Just forgot, ll get i pe So ‘Nancy and. Nick and Tingaling sat Th room, little allt. On note, Tingaling and the rent of the woods, d_ rented quite tree, and they were going; The at And a little | sharp-/ Madam?” said “Your aunt h rent money,” sai “She's heen gone a good while. J gone to get the id Mister ‘Tingaling. told her where you kept it!” ° “What! My aunt! Why, I have no au cried the Golonel. CLIVE THE NICE OLD AUNTIE After Mister Twins got Mrs. Brown Bear's money, they went down the hill and across the meadow to the buttonball tree on the e Coloné] ’Possum a large,, beautiful apartment in the button! to collect his rent. So they went “tingaling—alin, his doorbell. nosed lady in a white lace cap an- swered the door. . “How do you do, y all rushed out to the dining and there on the floor lay 2 pile of clothes—lace cup and the empty pudding dish Iny a It said: “Dear folks: Thanks! Sorry I had to leave. ‘ “Your loving Auntie, “Snitcher Snatch, the Goblin.” money was gone! ‘To Be Continued) ¢ (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) Seven radio beacons have been es- tablished on the Great Lakes. 8 o—___________ | | In New York ee TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1926 HEALTH SERVICE In Exercising Always Remember Not to Attempt Too Much | BY HUGH 8. CUMMING General, Pablic Health Service Riding on horseback is a good form nf exercise and is especially bene- | ficial in stimulating the gastro-intes- tinal tract. The rhythmie vibration ‘seems to be of benefit to muscles and internal organs. 7 Swimming is also a good exercise. {it brings into play nearly all of the jamuscles of the body. A temperature {below 65 degrees Fahrenheit is usu- lally too cold for swimming. One jshould swim easily and slowly and | breathe regularly. The breast stroke or a glow trudg- eon are good strokes to use. The crawl stroke, while it is perhaps best ifor speed swimming, cannot usually be maintained with ease for any length of time, except by trained athletes. Half an hour is quite long enough to remein in the water and one ‘should not stand around in his wet Surgeon United States | in | bathing suit and get chilled but | ghowld dress immediately after com- out of the water. ‘here are many outdoor sports ic which can be indulged in as recrea- ‘tion and used as exercise. Golf, ten- nis-and handball are familiar and opular games. Se little exercise from golf, accord- ing to the rapidity with which he covers the course end the number of holes that are played One can get much Tennis and handball are much more vigorous games, For the aver- age man, three seta of singles in tennis or three ‘are generally sufficient exercise if 3 of handball taken daily. After 45 years of age, the ave man should not play sin- re in ‘Tennis or handball. Doubles, jowever, can be indulged in up to very much tater in tife. One should differentiate between the foregoig and similar games when employed as a healthful exer- cise and when played in sharp com- petition. Do not attempt too much. on schools and created zones of jet. Flat wheel cars, needlessly noisy motors and shrieking street vendors now claim her attention amd perhaps ishe ‘may be able to do something {about it. If che does she will doubt- Jess be immortalized by a monument jeome day. —GILBERT SWAN. ——_—_—_—_—_* Temperatures and | i Road Conditions | ?. {¢ (Mercury readings at 7 a. m.) | Bismarck—Clear, 51; roads good. St. Cloud—Cle: roads good. Minot—Clear, 56; roads good. Mankato—Partly cloudy; 60; roads good. Jamestown—Clear, 60; roads good. | Hibbing—Clear, roads good. | Mapdan-Clear, 58; roads good. Fargo—Cloudy, 52; roads good. Grand Forks—Clear, 50; | roads j good. | Duluth—Party cloudy, “45; roads good. ‘Winona—Cloudy, 48; roads fair. Rochester—-Cloudy, 46; roads poor. i { Study to be quiet, and to do your own eas tl {A THOUGHT | oe COMMUNITY ‘ BUILDING IS THE OBJECT (Continued from page one.) ment arranged to house the various community organizations of the city, a community rest room, a comfort station, two rooms for the use of company A, Bismarck’s national guard unit, two small assembly rooms for meetings of the American Legion, Legion Auxiliary, Veterans of For- eign Wars, and other organizations, and a kitchen where meals could be prepared. The large hall above would be available to the guard company for drilling purposes. The committee had at first plan- ned on a much. larger building, Dr. Arnson said, but after.inspecting the state training school gymnasium at Mandan, which is not quite as large as the building proposed for Bis- marek, it was decided that one 140 by 72 would meet the requirements of the city for from 25 to 50 years. building as has been planned can be erected complete for $50,000 with ible exception of a few of the details and the furnishings and equipment. Various community | organizations in the city, however, have already started funds to be used New York, May 3.—Perhaps netting! reflects the cosmopolitanism of New! York better than libraries of the big hotels. The true cpic of our times is not In_ one of 'these are many shelves “Arms and the Man,” but “Tools and of French, Spanish, German, Halien!the Man,” an infinitely wider kind and other foreign works for vigitors of epic.—Emerson. from those countries. No matter how great may be the: @— TO. Y * etic may be the clatter just outside DA | ‘the hotel, the library is so located in, x e ithe building thet complete quiet can’. (Continued frond page one.) a ‘tween sunrise and sunset, carrying a I know. several harassed business 7 | bi men who flee to one of these hotel Li Pesce Message to French: headquar- | » braries during the noon lunch hours, business, and to work with your: towards the community bpilding pro- hands.—1 Thess, ject and it is believed that these amounts will be sufficient to com- plete the basement and purchase the equipment. : A. A. Van Horn, called upon to ex- plain more in detail the proposal, said the main floor of the building would be seven feet above grade and would have a: 16-f0oot ceiling. In the front there would be two cloak rooms and a ticket office, with folding doors so that the space could be opened into the main auditorium if neces- Above these cloak rooms a structed to pro- le seats for spectators at‘ basket- ll games and other athletic pro- bustle in the lobby, no matter how | he enjowee, 70 miles acrosa the hot desert be- not so much ‘to read, as to find one} pyen iy 8. It is not planned to construct quiet place where they can forget the ofac" onesen wearin: Wadihe goe| # balcony around the sides of the hubbub and refex. et Ee in a six day tacein New Fork| building at the present time but : NGwy, tan. more than 000" miles, -be-| ttusses would be used of sufficient Speaking of this label of sound tween Monday and Saturda: k ’ y, and was averse Getafe Secicienagp i oriiione~a ‘That tough Irishman in the six days The fact is ‘that the average new seijoone ete ren ane horse inthe strength to take care of balcony in- stallation later. The main floor would be 70 by 113 in the clear. It would have fae sire ged f 8,000 feet of floor space, which could be increased to 9,000 by opening up the cloak rooms pl ee office. nee i e basement would be the same at pakersficld, | Cell;| size and would have a 12-f0ot ceil ing. The tentative arrangement call- ed for allotting 2, feet of floor space to company “A, 2,000 feet tor : Is there no way of stopping such mien -ponmronS iriees x0 j waste? What about a coating of. ré- per phere ga pag one Fa noises he or she becomes a civic hero. a : Inforeed concrete on the sides of the 7 Mes ae mae ey aa er Yank, or a coating of cheap re-| Aunitinsy, “Comaunity’ Council “amd done more than’ iv Jelaimed automobile tire rubber, cov-| Sther organizations, and 4,000 feet of th individual in! la Grarhatian to slay the giant diseords,|¢Ting the whole tank and ea ce for a banquet hall and kitchen, Hoe is pele ‘by ford symphony = angings ans ings and squeal A ‘i ings and hurries to write home about! ,, Lightnin it. fornia, strikes and destroys 500,000 barrels of oil in @ Standard oil tank —made of steel presumably. As for the permanent New Yorker. where is little he can do about it, ta ited whistles, school buildings and pital zones. et far cher ho: making the fight. - pied an. apartment. on. Ris into the question, she success has been ‘to Hudson River ferry And that is no mean eccomplich- ment. She all but lost her health in It seems that Mrs. Rice has occu- verside about lightning rods? Are thi @ delusion? \Franklin’s idea s- worth nqthing, and did’ the French- man .Danton, impose on the public, when he peddled lightning is, be- fore he took charge of the French revolution? mvpli- St tthe ‘Chicago's crime situation is 4 eccordi: the head Drive: ‘The tboting of whistles rasped | cated, ¢ Ly SS aga ‘terribly upon her nérves nd, ooking Union : League “Club; whe says Mr. found ‘thet no Crowe, state's attorney, is unfit to because of be | subdivided with folding doors. so that smaller rooms could be formed for gatherings. ,The hallway down the center of the basement floor could be used by the national guardsmen as a rifle range. A. C. Favors Building H. P. Goddard, secretary of the As- sociation of Commerce, and speaki: in behalf of that bod; ly, said the ass: ciation was not. di to load any fe had ever. tried to find out wheth-| prosecute the crimine! er the whistling could be. stopped. tical affiliations, cHosen to hunt down debt onto the Cyl that was not nec- She swung into a eee ‘and wes sponaite Tor ive legislation. essary, but that it has been forcibly jn: ed of late that it ij Then she went after the fafyman landlord, tipping his ice-cream saucer hat nnd making a grand bow. ; “I'm pretty well,” said the little old lady. tism, and a cold toga che: Just come in.” “Is asked Mister Tingaling when they all stepped inside. ' “No, sir! He isn’t! “All except for my rheuma- my pipes, and a Colonel ‘Possum at + home?” said the lady, 1 do anything for you? I'm his! never He comes up here and t id “Well, Is there anything 1 can ou?” 4 pose the «his! He owes me ney for this beau-! ie rented, with sun- electric ice-box, | very- cheap at the price. ound like a lot of m id lady like me,” ey ssaid “You poor dear children must Arent you We aren't tired,” cried “We're not just sit down,” sai \ Tingaling looked at his It was getting Inter and it in the silver pud-|, ways kept}; when I came around to How forgetful 1 ‘the noise-| Products of our makers. in the vicinities of hospitals ithe “machine gon murderers,” latest | de bootleggi ing era, What political affiliations could make a state’s attorney unfit to hunt murderers? Are there actual affitia- tions with the killing class? Some find it difficult to understand that Assistant State's Attorney William 'MeSwiggin should have been riddled by @ machine gun hidden in an auto- mobile, le “as gireremly friendly two notorious Americans eat more sardines per capita than any other race, wiiich is good for sardine men, bad for sardine eaters. If this country depended less on a can opener and more on cooking it be — healthi Ci ned, toad, Tooloting canned. sar- i ise tgs ‘@ convenience, economy. But it should not take'the place of competent: cooking, and too often it doe is.taken up raising, ° jae, 501 4 trop. alae See ai >| ties. equally: + yield.of Boner cent higher, ~ 4 . Twenty-two per cent of the slfalfa 4 seed received for purity. test ‘at a4 riment ‘station re spring contain: @ larger per Setant! inn” spring 7 we alfalfa seed ieee, | Genera) expansion in agricultural this year might’ place favorabje economic accordin, solute necessity for - Bis: ik to ect a communitf building of suffi- cient size to care for the many large meetings held here and to provide quarters for the national guard and other organizations, if the cit maintain its proper place in this sec- Het wns, poluted out chat with $50, out that witl 000, bond issue and allowing $4,000 0 for maintenance of guc! the average annual tax rate for th iba Mie teay te 20 yess ‘wo onl of = sessed Pineatlon. In Oth ‘! nay tax. payers in th 'v uy t taxes per 9 pay: of 25 per year additional 1, of sed valuation to pro- vi with the much needed iiding. ; the cit community Would Be Ready November 15. The special election will be held dating same hours on Tuesday, June a regular city election end voting places will be established: in the 10 precincts of the city in the Ne ber in| $3me manner as at a regular election. It is probable that the voting booths will be at the same locations as on previous electic The architect timated that it | would require about six weeks time after the special election to prepare yess and specifications and secure ids on the building and that con- struction would require from three to four months. He assured the com- mitt ind the city commission that specs election set for June ding could be completed iy, for Use not later than No- vember 15, \ NOTICE TO.WATER - CONSUMERS