The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 21, 1926, Page 4

PAGE FOUR i H ~¢ 'states, a serious effo e cause oO! The Bismarck Tr ibun e iantiaiant and te pelle rere ‘aan ps: An Independent Newspaper | ticable is of the utmost importance, and it is there THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER — that the greater interest and benefit will obtain, | (Established 1873) ‘but any effort to increase the area of agricultural Publish: i l ctivity i i he whole country and! Bismarck Tribune Company, Productivity is cf benefit to tl y Bismarck, Bt De ned entered at the postoffice at should be so considered. Bismarck as second class mail matter. = bias nd_Publisher Scientific Giving i George D. Mann...... e Subseription Rates Payable in Advance + American philanthropy has become a househeld Daily by carrier, per year . -$7.20' term throughout the world. So widespread, indeed, ' Daily by mail, per year, (in Bismarck). 7.201 i. the spirit of benevolence in this country, so eff Bey ey lets camsite Hisilaret) se. 5,00 cient is its organization and so scientific its adminis. | Daily by mai, outside of North Dakota... .... 6.00/ tration, that it may almost be said that giving has | Member Audit Bureau of Circulation become one cf the leading industries, But with all aii ce Wika Kaueeati " | the benevolence, Americans insist that philanthropic athe Member, of, The Associated Ty centitled to schemes be practical and that their administration the use for republication of all news dispatches | be subject to the same scientific exactness as any | credited to it or not otherwise credited in this pa-/ other transaction involving large sums of money. { per, and also the local news of spontaneous origin) The old, haphazard giving is fast disappearing, ' i i H feation of all , HE Ne ERTS Ae pada j with the result that many frauds are deprived of —e— easy money and more real cases of need aided. There | Foreign Representatives |ix much less overlapping and duplication. G. LOGAN PAYNE COO THOI And to the aceaeavion that there is no longer +} cena. Kresge Bldg. | heart in charity, the answer is that there is pela PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH jof heart, but there is also a head. Which is as it NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg.’ should be. All sentiment and no sense is a poor (Official City, State and County Newspaper) | combination in any event and should apply to philan- | thropy as well as to any cther activity. — f Fun Too Complex Rite en ee Viscount Grey will find many in sympathy with ed Save the Children his assertion that fun has become too complex, too In anticipation of opening the schools, an eastern paatenical The phonograph, the player piano, city has issued special warning to its motoring pub- the radio, ‘the automobile and the moving pictures | lic to exercise particular care in driving, to safe-/ t oy of the mechanical devi which fur- | guard children who may be in the streets. It calls! i ¢ ‘ anlent of this age. We seem to have | attention to the fact that children are warned to be if 4 art of entertaining ourselves without these | careful, but easily forget, and that this does not | vanical ai it is to be regretted. jexcuse adults, who are expected to remember. } ee seat ‘f i s) i) st things. They | All communities seek the highest degree of safety | Our erandfat her oad one clea for thely pleas. |" their thoroughfares at all times. Still, a special be aiidiea nat -aiipeur that with all the artificial | YAEMNS woulll NBL be amiss at this, ‘paeesiatly Pi a ctu tdrainant sthabepetple-ate “any happier | dangerous season when millions of children through. | 0 ente | i | oF more contented today than they were 50 years | Out the country are starting back to school and; Indeed, it seems quite the contrary, for this | when, in the exhuberance of their release from par-! ago. indeed, s Ys is essentially an age of unrest and discontent. jental observation, they are most likely to be care-, The wonders of nature are still the same—sun- ‘less. rise and sunset, the changing seasons, the surging i patois seas and the tumbling waterfalls, the stars, the sil- | | ver moon; even a flower, a piece of star-eyed grass, Editorial Comment i or a feather fluttering down from the wing of a oaks Hie ee | startled bird. Why do we no longer walk so that ; The Prosperity Issue i we may enjoy these pleasures? What has become i (Grand Forks Herald) of the sketch book and the water colors? What! Persons who, for one reason or another, hope for has happened to the playing of games for the | an early political overturn in the United States, games’ sake instead of for stakes that we can ill | frequently refer with cynicism and sarcasm to the’ afford? Is the art of conversation dead beyond | tendency which they observe in the present admin-| hope cf resurrection? listration and those who stand close to it to con- We must certainly agree with Viscount Grey. Fun | centrate on what has been dubbed the prosperity is tco complex and artificial. We would do well to | issue. The party in power, we are told, having no discard many of the complexities that tyrannize our | definite program of reconstruction and reform, lives. But can we? Can we return to the simple / hopes te lull the voters to sleep by singing to them joys of our grandparents? Frankly we doubt it. jSongs of prosperity, and holding forth the prospect! The desire seems to be lacking, we have lost the | that if the ins are given another lease of power, power of appreciation for these things that cons | Prosperity will be continued, tute, after all, the sincerest pleasures. Civilization Well, there may be wo issues than prosperity. has ensnared us in its enervating coils and we are}We might, under some circumstances, be obliged doomed to an existence of jagz,and cabarets, road- | to make issues of unemployment, low wages, starva- houses and bridge parties. . |tion, general bankruptey and business stagnation. saith a SS Most people would préfer that the issue should be! Greatest Librarians |presperity and how to keep it rather than these Queting from the New York Times: “It was not | other things and how to get nid of them. so bing ago that every American student of the past! There are idealists who complain that our civiliza- had to go abroad for most of his original material.|tion has become tco materialistic and that the great Now Students of European history not infrequently | need of this nation, and possibly of other nations, have to come to America to look up the documents) js not so much material prosperity as the develop- which “are the first-hand records. of what has hap-| ment of moral and spiritual qualities, the rebirth of; pened. in their own countries. The reason is that} spirit of freedom, the raising of life to higher levels we have become, in less than a century since the/ of feeling and thinking. i meyement was started, the greatest librarians in} There is a great deal in that. Most of us would; the> world.” | benefit by the sharpening of our intellects and the} This has been made possible by the generosity of | enlargement of our souls. But it has not yet been) rich collectors who have either presented their ac-| pointed out how this uplift is to be achieved by any cpmulated books and manuscripts to existing li-| legislation which can be enacted by congress or by braries or have endowed libraries, still under their) the operation of the national executive departments. names, but devoted to public or semi-public! Our government is very largely a business in use. But to simply possess these records would bej tution. It must deal chiefly with such prosaic but a vanity. America has evolved a magical sys-|things as dollars and cents. Congress enacts few tem which enables people who use our libraries to! laws which do not include some such words as “For find what they want in the minimum time, and, if|the purposes of this act there is hereby appropri- the investigation is of importance, furnishes ccn-| nated the sum of blank dollars.” Without something venient quarters for using the books and docu-jof that sort most of our legislation would be inef- ments. fective. A very large part of the business of con- E'he greatest credit t> Americans as the “great-| gress is to authorize the spending of money, and t librarians” is not in the collection and housing|if the government is to spend money it must libraries, but in making their use easy and popu-j raise the money to spend. It must levy taxes. If Igy. Our libraries are designed and maintained for! it is wise it will so apportion the taxes as t> pro- ge and they admirably fulfill their purpose. ;duce the required revenues in ways which will in- ; convenience the public as little as possible. It must H , History: Yesterday, Today jplace as few obstructions as possible in the way of [Archagalonints dig with the most painstaking|the normal activities of the people, to the end that re fer! fragmentary bits of light on the life men’ the individual may enjoy the widest possible liberty Myed in the world’s far yesterdays. jin the pursuit of his lawful calling. ‘The history of centuries ago is written in para-' Materially this nation. is prosperous, more prs- gtaphs; yes, in sentences and mere hieroglyphic perous than any other in the world. Not all of its Phrases, if you go back far enough. | people are wealthy and happy, ‘ut the millions who +; What a contrast with the history of today! jconstitute the great mass of our people enjoy “*Count the newspapers and magazines which are higher average of comfort thaw any others. No Yecording it, and your figures will run into the thou- , where else is there such a low percentage of unem- inds. iployment. Nowhere else are the rewards of the ‘Count the bound volumes of historical impor- day’s labor, on the farm, in the factory, in the mine , and they run into the tens of thousands. or in the counting house so large, not merely in dol- ‘here still will be left to enumerate.the phono- lars, but in the things which dollars will buy and graph records, the great stores of public documents, which contribute to the maintenance of life in com- the archives of public organizations, the exhibits fort, culture and happiness, { Hl gathered;in museums— ‘ Accompanying this material prosperity, and cer- $iWhat a tremendous historical heritage—in bulk, tainly due quite largely to it, are increased oppor- at least—for generations yet to come! | tunities for the enrichment of mind and spirit. Na- $}Will H.-Hays, movie czar, would add to this tionally we are making a great deal of money. t¥easure a national collection of motion picture Much of it is spent foolishly. Some of it is spent films. He suggests that vault space at Washing-' mischievcusly. But an enormous amount is ex- mn for 50,000 reels be supplied. ceedingly well spent. In most of our communities jWill posterity chérish this heritage, either through | the expenditure on our public schools is greater sentimentality or for whatever educational value it than all cther public expenditures combined. In hess? [our state universities, teachers’ colleges, agricul- , Or will posterity incline more and more to the tural colleges and other institutions our state and view of » distinguished citizen of today national governments are giving college training to -an army of youth, which has grown to undreamed- of proportions. We have privately maintained in- stitutions of learning by the hundred, ranging from ‘the great universities which take rank with the best [ Both Cherry un:crupulous 'y tracted to Boh Hathaway, who, | on his first visit jo the shows plainly that he mensely intrigued beaut; ith Cherry's That night after Hathaway has left, Cherry slips ‘out for rendezvous ‘with Chris to whom her father, Jim Lat has forbidden the Wil jouse, He | tries to abduct her, she screams, arousing her father and Faith, but tells her father she does know who her assailant w: To Faith she confesses, and begs Faith not to tell her father and a In an effort to make . i when she buys herself one. She bri home a pattern that she that we all go to the movies. you enjoy that?” We're regular movie fans, Pruitt,” Cherry cut in before Faith} Lane, could answer. “Of course we'll be| toom delighted.” “You're coming in my car, aren't] smeared Would don’t go u, Miss Lane?” George Pruitt took] think you'd be ashamed of yourself. ‘aith’s elbow as they walked toward] What you're thinkin’ | y_lives., t the two cars\parked at the curb, | Lane, to let her poke her head out 0’! Cherry walk off with him! I've had| (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) i nth = brushed her sister-in briskly. ‘aith, pour me a cup of coffee! And if you've got a wee mite o’ toast left, you might pop it in the oven and warm it up for me. to no troube for me. I had Mr.| my breakfast hours ago—Cherry uu march right to the bath- d scrub that paint off your thin’ fierce. Easy for you ‘to Hattie, you strong as a mule. body knows what I go through. us' Hattie cheeks and lips! The idee! Her | | A REBUKE | want to keep me future, done your brother tiful’ mother you whi John was my broth “The great ‘rouble, Joan, that you | have ever seen and you and all the rest of those who love | Proud to be bi have not tried to interest him in any- thing except himself, Everyone about| Most wonderful, will pase peo- | himvhas made him the center of his) ple forget that he any lamen {little universe and it is @ sad little ‘Judy, what a loyal litle pei world, a you know. When he found | you are,” said Joan. “Every time I me he found xomeone who laughed! ee you I say to myself ‘I certainly and smiled and it was an entirely| made no mistake I asked you new experience for him and it would) to dine with _ not be a great wonder if he did not| you my trouble: “People would rather amile, my, love with you. I was not so e: dear, than cry, and U think you have not making him leave that camp up| that I there in the Adirondacks and come) |! out in the open even if he ts tame. expect that's true, my dear} #ay something more to you. Do you Judy, but if you had known our beau-| know, dear, that today I feel aa s rrief it was to her to know polit pl wi rept kod iin ier} that her only son was a cripple.” see! so self- jant a e 1 shuddered. “Joan Meredith, if} such splendid advice, but today en er as he is yours, 1 would banish | sive you some advice.” from my tongue, indeed I would ban-| I broke in. ish from sank my thoughts complete. | you can advise me, but did you ever ly the word ‘cripple, : “If 1 should ever think of ' my | takes advice?” brother it would be only to affirm D pane that which you as well as I know.) TOMORROW—Joan'’s Request, Own Way 28% FOR JOAN He is one of the handsom hing in worl ip i for his brain that night and told T wonder if you are going to marry that nice Mr. i Hathaway? He is head over heels in ~ « with him in the! ngrossed ce fe own Bidwell tae mane y| when I went to dinner with you P ee ae ot ould not see that.” 4 ted to Joan held up her hand, “Wait, Gudy, I want to would understand | though our positions were reversed? er, my twin broth.| Seem to be undecided end I want “Joan, you may think .: realize ho one in this world ever her brown leather she walked slowly whole day! “I come over to "| up to her tricks! on the sideboard, 4 Lane| like it. That blondined young snip| The same Jerome who prosecuted -law's complaints | that waited on me color all right—” scrawny little figu think of you o up like a Indian! 1 should] puuu. to sori of, Martha] youre Hathawa) the Lane amit “Chester'll be jealous, Faith,”| the house lookin’ like a chorus girl, Cherry called out gaily. with them short “1 hardly think to call on you,” qui as she stepped into George| Your own business: came| showin’ her garters- to, since he come) *ytAunt ‘Hattle, I wish you'd mind 1 Cherry. scraped Pevitt’s racy ldkne sondeter, her chair back from the table flung her napkin violently into the| next morning Cherry was| center of the table. like a bad child. She had day! well\knows Faith cannot wear, | Siptaied feeble, unenthusiastic| _ Hattle expecting to get it herself. Faith starts to tell her mother | the truth anout the adventure of the night before, but Cherry's frightened pleading stdps her. | Faith gets a telephone call from Junior, 21, who jor jing has been ar- She pawns every trinket she has to get him out of trouble without telling her father, and he pro back. mises to pay Cherry tells Faith she r Hi it vited Chester Ha: cr “steady,” who Faith’ Cherry her has ‘amped away from her- sister, to vi dinner, Traitt and_Prait ulously: CHAPTER “I don’t know what Pruitt!” Faith blush: confusion, in turn, has invited George to go to a movie with them, when duced to Faith, remarks, incred- “Good Lord! I didn’t + knew they grew them like you any more, Mixs Lane.” Vt ou_mea’ George Pruitt did not mediately. His eyes intro- | r, ful wer im- traveling with greedy interest over the fino column of her throat, al splendid sweep of her shoplders, down the rounded, bare forearms, along her perfectly proportioned tall body to her long, slender feet in their Cuban-heeled white canv: “Oh, Faith’s a corn-fet tinkling laugh rang out. “I artist this in naive horror, weight ninety-five!” jong the hoes. Cherry's tell her amateur “I only j “Reduce! My Lord, would you want to make a flapper out of the Venus de Milo?” Georve Pruitt de-; manded. “If you only knew how we fellows have scoured New York for just your type for models, Lane,” and he brushed Cherry aside as if she had been a kitten frolicking at his feet, “you'd be able to imagine | my surprise at finding you “Oh, George you old Chester Hart slapped his thich and chortled with glee. “Some line. that! Gosh, you artist guys can get away with murder! When I want to tell a dame I've fell for her hard. all I can say is, ‘Gee, kid, you're somo baby!’ but old George tells ’em they're the Venue bag-o-meelo and he's sittin’ pretty all right!” here.” ! rascal!" Oh, to be an artist! Faith, you better watch this bird! He’s the swift one all right, “Oh, take a tuck in your mouth!” ned on him wrath- George Pruitt tu picture, if to nell wholesa a living, but by ce make ‘m not going to up a cl to ik. Will you pose for ~tanced @t Cherry, saw that a modelv me, Mias \ the lovely little fa hi org eto hy ed face Somes again. With miration, me for a E| complaining, sighing voice, ese real old, a uare ie yer = oulders o° ng’s run mache oa hae ae a im. You doit with paraffin 'n’ mouthed little spinster, Mr. Landa ken to Faith since. George| Hattie'’s a lot older than you! itt, and Chester Hart had taken| make Mama ashamed of you!” ie Yo hi be ‘in, their leave at eleven-thirty the night| Lane chided the girl half-heartedly.| N° i “get erage oi for, Junior? I declare, I believe the} While the fellow with a big baby wants @ kiss! There, now!| may get along, there are lees when light Clear out and let us women folks git before. “If she was a chi mi aitelle; folks! Here's your old| Hattie Lang, began heatedly, . erry ha rom ee te tend tte eeka. flemisg.- bensatn; the Lane family, breakfesting,| dusting of mandarin r Remember your ouge. turned her steely b: | grecti eyes upon. Junior, who” du ee ieee eer See SLitaing Ain ‘tars oithcem aon, tm sister, who lived away over on the} mock terror. The lively spin South Side with randpa and| face softened, ... it ulways did when Grandma” Lane. her eyes rested upon jim, Junior. let skirts on,t MY eve on him for you for a month{ o” Sundays! Now, and Aunt Faith, 'n then I'll +,{ rooms while you stick the shears in| that the quitter gets laughed at by erly this mess o’ yellow stuff o’ yours,| the guy who hasn't the nerve to be- voile, » her busy! bout this time “What's Cherry got her\dander up right ney, ont Hattie askea, Swe: 8 never come singly, This as she wielded a vigorous dish elgth ee rig] Ver an ba 4 plate. A good doctor has to know almost art and George Pruitt were aver here laut night.” Faith an- shade tonne medicine se be knows eo icked, | “Chester swered hesitating); “How are you, Hattie? How’s Ma/ “Ain't no call to act as if J ae] siping against C Lane took the chair which her, necktie? and Pa Mrs. Lane asked in her| ein’ to slap you, Junior,’ arinned wryly at fas Where the “Pretty well, i be name of tarnation ou ‘Pretty well, considering.” Hattie Toone tikate, y nat brother gave up hastily, as if glad bowl 0” beet ‘ule to escape. “I declare, Jim, you're Martha, you've put on ter| for him. if you've put on an ounce| paints 'n' pa een you last. You're scandal-| “That will do, Joy!” her mother But you look better’n you| reached over and thumped the tow have in a coon’s age. Been taking| head with her thumb and middle that Indian Herb medicine I brought| finger. yout” brown 13 snapped angrily. “I don’t sleep ur a hight, and the pain| mouth!” in my legs and shoulders is some- Aunt Hattie!” Fay Alle: “Go to the bathroom wash your knees this minute! 3 “I. ain't Wetter, Hattie.” Mrs.| clare to. goodness, you, always look| 84° Cherry's Lane’s face flushed darkly and jher| like you'd been crawlin’ through the alley! And wash the egg off your TRUE Uvq@ Gort To HAVE No rivGS § — ANGRY, COUNT TEN BY CONDO I de- the Joy} all! And who’ this Ae ae i them rich Lincoln , s, is he?” nin’ around with made it! Cth any son.” Faith anited| relied ce ster invi im to come ani go to the movies with us. I euppose| tenesear ro Ohester was feeling prett: boss. i about me, pay ‘know—and ea to| nirhe fellow who really is boss ia Wand George ‘Pruitt fell f jeorge Prui ell for you, mad and mentioned pov here’ answer it.” When Aunt Hattie returned to the kitehen, she was ment. mae eee asl ry! ae Hathaway, I'su th to go pose. ahead and ‘accomplish whet others “Guess ‘again, young lady!” Aunt, ‘attempt. for ih cramed el te v a a ¢ fol ne | for abt ” m the} What this coi ry needs is lip- American beauties: Be Continned.) clit aime ieee Br cain i (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) be familiar. to you. real = Giencine epson 1 probably ‘América’ and juatly, historic “Do as I tell you, and no back § talk from you, young lady!” her) Monte Carlo, 9133 “ mother told her sternly. To get by the deotmal, wast: “Here’s a coddled egg for you,| mere matter of kaowing'some™ Aunti Hattie, and two nice fresh'sign or password. Canfield's’ pieces of toa: seid Faith, hurrying! not the methods of tl in from the kitchen, her face flushed | One had to be sponsore and anxious. Aunt Hattie for a mm! Only one of t! and Aunt Hattie looked up at Faith] not,'as you wished. There were no with twinkling eye: a igh hand” metho This, if you me cut out my new black and white voile, Faith. I brought you a piece, social status: had been established, 0’ goods, too. I was doin’ a little! what you played or what stakes you tradin’ at the Banner Store yester- day, wher Cherry was buyin’ up| boasted the gentility of his cli that, flowered stuff for herself.| But reat were those wh iked He her tell the clerk that you| fortunes. wanted some maize colored chiffon,|vorite pastime. ‘ talk, | but she thought you'd like that bij barca, No-| figgered stuff better. Humh! I’m|_ It-was none other than William “Oh, Aunt Hatti Tears furred| Jerome the other day—with immacu- Faith's voice, as she lifted the lovely,! late hair and mustache of greyish soft, yellow material from the wrap-| white, nattily clad in linens—sitting But pings. “It’s exactly what I want at the defense table of a former ui} You're a darling to give it to me!” cabinet member trial for bribery. She flung her arms around the stiff, ie eh on a withered cheek. ‘All “Humh! Guess somebody's got to; unless | am mistaken, there is a mil- have set around this breakfast, table|| BARBS long enough, scoot—all of you! Me | and Faith's ot a pile o” work to do iy “Let's tackle these dishes first, very hard to hoodwink Aunt Hattie. ‘hoses tal come Goes ‘herr: ‘an any world so full of men and women, “Your beau?” Aunt Hattie. de- © UP! manded. “Well, if that don't beat| nertavare, wendy ee Zou think are nails in two,” Auntie huckled triumphantly. “Well, land o" livin! ‘thon cremeete of any baseball league ‘a ae & farm to a-seen her face! “L already washed!” Joy scuffed) And here T a grinnin’ to myselt Bob Hatha pends. _what was. -most. colorful sandals sulkily as' cause of its exclusiveness and the out of the room.| wealth of those who there, it ave challenge to the more public gally sponsored before the rtu- penta ated arenas eat family | midst of el wou! . id Tead Once inside the visitor could i out,”} as a clubroom. You could gam get you to help | peered wi a gentleman’s game. | Hence’ the exclusiveness. Once your asked were of no import. Canfield And roulette was the fa- Open thut bundle} Travers Jgrome who dethroned Can- and see how you! field. said it was: maize rry Thaw, Which reminds me that I saw re and kissed her| And, oh, yes, I was passing the old Canfield place not so long ago and, in a while! Got a! linery shop, or something of the sort on? Hear that there now... found out where! Sic transit, etc.! Don’t. let! —GILBERT SWAN. if you lazy folks: @——__—_____________@ -—_—_—________ By Tom Sime 4 It’s a queer quirk of the world red up the bed- ker face most of us think it needs poking. ubles are pikers. . SI athed gos- » but it was} Mistakes are bound to happen in necet wouldn't be mi: is George Pruitt?| you didn't think they were necsneret, Nothing seems to make is ts more quickly than his own home need: thet ‘Is to get married Une 8m enough to bite! A mpjority of the voters can name League of Nations, petticoat The lady who wore a red has a daughte name! | even a white ae renee, y int Oh, — / the doorbell! I'll] Having to work & 1 ri then i about that, Keeps ; us from smoking ourselves to death. Raising would be more respected if they would quit carrying in her flori Ch ids.“ ” 2” Faith — m Bob| Some” have nerve have top much sense hey're they’re them sticks with giue in them You would be surprised if you realized the importan: which ‘should surprise “egg seines Cranberries don't make good choury ple, " such very gambling resdrt.