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| i 1 i ‘| 4 \ = separated from Spanish rule in 1821. The federa- _ ; far different from the peaceful “90's,” Fabulews 7 Napoleon, the Unfit | Napoleon Bonaparte, greatest soldier of all time, | — be turned down because of physical unfitness At " ‘a if he attempted to enter the army tolay. epee. 1. (Setablished 1675) | ‘This statement comes from Dr. Alfred Thooris, | Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company,| French surgeon. | marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at! He explains that at the age cf 17, when Napoleon | Bismarck as second class ai matter. be Was undéeweight, aid thereby| : : i 1 Publisher | became an officer, ; George D. Ma ident and Publis! “| ineligible for army service, according to today’s Py standards. | 7:29; At 30 he would have been rejected because of | | being cverweight. | 5.00, His heart, stomach, lungs and muscles were all | - eC 00 | wrong, too. | oles ee! Lashed al But his head was 100 per cent, and it was this | Member of The Associated Press. jhead, utterly independent of body, that made him | The. Associated Press. is exclusively entitled t0/ the world’s greatest soldier. | the use for republication of all news dispatches | ‘ ‘ ie -eredited to it or not otherwise credited in this pa-| It would be interesting to consider other mighty | per, and also the local news of spontaneous origin | men of history who would be barred from the | published herein. All rights of republicaticn of all | various lines in which they shcne by rules of thumb | other matter herein are also reserved. 4 of one sort or another today. | Foreign Representatives Modern science does some very wise things, of} G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY course. But the cld method of letting water and| CHICAGO DETROIT | men seek their own level without arbitrary restric- | peren Piet NE BURNS & “ih Bldg. ‘tions wasn’t half bad, either! | NEWYORK - | - - ___ Fifth Ave. Bldg. [ana | The Barefoot Boy | {Official City, State and County Newspaper: The Bismarck Tribune' An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER le in Advance ion Rates Pay . Deily by carrier, per year Daily by mail, per year, (in Bismarc Daily by mail, per y: (in state outside Bis Daily by mail, outside of North Dako “Blessings on thee, little man, | Barefcct boy with cheek of tan, | With thy turned-up pantaloons And thy merry whistled tunes!” “The barefoot boy” who is said to have inspired | that much-qucted poem of Jchn Greenleaf Whittier now is an old, gray-bearded man, dying in an east- | jern hospital. : Bee cithay aok cry vs vegacds Ges delving. ct | ee ora Oe ena, Tea Ne we : &utomobiles, but in all lines of industry and in| not Hantter ert yh ada ting! , Witt, does matter is that hundreds of thousands “The State Railroad Commission is cooperating .¢ people found meaning in the headline that said, heartily with all state departments as well as citl-| “Barefoot Boy of Whittier Is Dying.” i - gens and various civic bodies in the promotion of | We say that people in the mass do ‘tiot know| this, great movement to cut down accidents and | poetry, d> n+ care for literature. Perhaps so, But fatalities due to carelessness and lack of regula-| the poem that was held between the brown covers tion, |of McGuffey’s old readers and chanted by thou- A Forward Step Through the initiatory action of Governor Sorlie , and Frank Milhollan, North Dakota has taken an advanced stand upon safety in the regulation of . traffic. This state was the first to hold a safety coaneil and now has a fully organized and officered ety Comr ion, which will seek to promote the City officials have become interested in the | sands of school kids of a little red brick schoolhouse _ Maovement and in cne instance a Cass county cffi- | age was not forgotten! 3 | cial: agreed to underwrite the expense of placing in} People dc like .“psetry” which comes close home the.aut> tag envelopes a little pledge for each car | —poetry about themselves—about the barefoot boy | cwner. This pledge is a safety resolution for the | with a stubbed toe, a torn shirt, but with merriment ; New Year. More than 170,000 pledges have beer jand joy within his soul for which barefoot ‘boys, * circulated. grown tall, would give half of all they cwn tcday, | =As a result of the recommendation of the Safety SS a Commission, Governor Sorlie has suggested in ¥, his message that ~ certain hortion of the auto tar { Editorial Comment | license money be set aside (ten cents for each car) i | $o-support the various activities of the Safety Com- | ‘ 5 mission, A bill will'be introduced along such lines | The Goveritor’s “Nose For News’ and it should receive favorable consideration. There (Minneapolis Jounrnal.} : is need for uniform traffic laws in the various cities | Governor Christianson appears to be putting to| Indastries need to be educated in ways and means | g09d: use in State service, his “nose for news,” as to secure greater protection for their employes. In|developed while publisher. of a weekly newspaper fact; #here is a great field for educational work | before he became chief executive :f Minnesota. e along this line. In preparing his heat ora for paris “fo is | lature, the Governor has personally. gone out hunt- mlagon. Tes activities are. inline With. cocom: (ine 18 the Various iain Doren, fh Un ie ii newspaper repc r, for ie mendations laid down recently by Secretary Hoover. | pceinents aed he wants for the big “story” on the ‘A State cf Minnesota, which he is “assigned” to write a Rederatea cme a ea? yunder the State Constitution. A federation of Central America, uniting under) “1 i.6 an efficient journalist, h¢,goes after tho one government the five small republics lyirg De | ects, instead of wait‘ig for them to come to him. | eeeee Mexico -a0d/Fepeme, Fe. seg optaeaeth He is nct ccntent to use merely the scissozs and} of the present troublesome situation in Njcaragua, paste-pot, as a substitute for personal interviews With each revolution in this area, sentiment | snq intensive search for inside information on sub- grows among the cooler leaders for such a coali-' jects affecting the public welfare. He does not tion. With a single government, the unionists hold,| merely depend upon stereotyped reports of chiefs. | they could present an imposing front to the world. | naturally seeking to show that they not caly are | hey point first t> the United States and then to | earning their salaries, but are sorely handicapped by Mexico as examples of the great mutual benefit to| yngencrous appropriations. | Miderived from such a program. ‘ Some cf the most interesting truths in State “The fact that the Central American republics arc | affairs, may be like the mountain, which would not *heW- renting «mall legations in various nondescript |come to Mahomet, thus making it desirable, even if , buildings of Washington is explained, in the opin-| perhaps a trifle infra dig, for Mal:.met to go to the “fon of some diplomats, by a realization that some | mountain. ’ day in the not too far distant future Central Amer-| When the Governor goes nosing fcr news around | ica will have an embassy with a single ambassador | the State Capitol, he may perchance find some ex- _ to represent Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, |ccptionally good “copy” which will add much to * Costa Rica and Salvador. |the instructiveness, interest, afd value of his mes- = But~general peace, industrial development and | sage on the state of the State. And even if he finds | Prosperity, rather than imposing embassies, is the | no news of a particularly startling or sersational = lure held out by those who favor a Central Ameri- | nature, yet in this case a yee perhaps be! ~ ean union. geod news, from the standpoint of taxpayers. But = © Sentiment for union is strongest in Honduras and it is certain that, by applying the methods of the Salvadcr. Nicaragua and Guatemala are also en-|¢Mterprising reporter, when he hunts for accurate <visaging it some time in the future. Costa Rica|2? illuminating facts, without waiting for them) has been a comparatively peaceful country, is get- | ‘® hunt him, he can always find at Ieast some kind Sting along very well by herself, and is inclined to look contemptuously on her more turbulent neigh- F bors. Central America was a federation of states wher. to read. \ If more prominent officials, both National and State, had“the “nose for news,” and the ability to play up, with some snappiness, but without inac- curacy or ynfairness,. the oytstandipg features for public interest and attesiticn, thi jwould> ¢ more popular interest in their. mesgs#resi j ches, _-tion also included what are now the Mexican prov- =inces of Chiapas and Soconuzo. But whereas the Spanish control had been strong, when Spain left u i the states acquired too much power and the federa- | larger circulation of their thoughts and recom- stion retained not enough. The Guatemalan clerical mendations, and a stranger support for all sound Sparty sought to dominate the whole and failed. Aft-| Pclicics advanced. | ..er almost constant warfare from 1828 to 1842 the RR TSE A SECA Mel = federation went > picees, too weak to hold to-|. “The Old Life” Is Gone | geether. . | (New York Sun.) i = Ever since, sporadic efforts have been made to| Frank J. Simpson, night manager of a Broadway gTeunite the republics, sometimes involving all five hotel, of whom it was once said that “he can call} and scmetimes but two or three. everybedy that’s anybody on Broadway by their firs: | = Central American diplomats declare the issue is names,” retired the cther day, after fifty years on =by no means a dead duck. the Great White Way. ‘i | Fifty years in New York hotels, beginning with | The Place Called Home the post of cashier in the days when you cvuld get A bit of the “good old days” when crinolined ; 4 rom and four meals at the best hotel in town for “Tadies and plum-colored waistcoated gentlemen rode | $3 a day. Breakfast, Incheon, dinner and after in landaus along cld Fifth avenue in New York, | theater supper were the four mealg. still exists in that very modernish city. “But things like that are all gone,” Mr. Simpson, | A dignified old house, muslin-curtained, with a | ruddy, gocd humored old gentleman with a ‘twinkle | real garden shut off from the roaring street by a| in his eye and a twist of humor in his lip, tcld the tboard fence, stands there, It takes up half a block | interviewers who flocked to see him the day he re- ‘of the highest-pricéd “land in the world, shadowed | tired. “The old landlord doesn’t exist any more. | iby towering skyscrapers, those symbols of a day |! the old days life on Broadway wasa dream. | “There’s none of that old spirit of ‘Hello, Bill, | gosh, ‘I’m glad’ to see you. Let’s go in and have | one.’ “Mr. Simpson discussed the old hotels, the larges: of which was the Fifth Avenue with 409 rooms. The | ‘Sects { masses of geld have been offered for the old house and its green garden trying to keep ‘bright under a pall of soot and smoke from the Bat the owners, sisters of one Gottlieb Wendell. dants of the Wendells who were partners cf | fifty privat bath Astors, only give weary and bo; ms in the Fifth Avenue, which refusaljagain | W288 considered luxurious in its appointments. They | fe ef “story” worth his while to write, and the publie’s | * largest.in New York today has 2,200. There were! HERES WHERE We Qui, TW DONE/ ike a marrying Chris. Oh, I’ thing in the world to be back wh: was just three short months ! To that dear Just Cherry Lane, a_ stenographer who had never dreamed of marrying a rich man. Oh, I've been a foo., Faith, a conceited, headstrong I wonder that you don’t h je ‘twas leaving. So loth we part from all we love, From all the links that bind us So turn our hearts, as on we ro} e To those we've left behind us. As travelers oft look back When eastward darkly goin; To gaxe upon that light th ey faint behind them glowine, 've always loved anyoné else, Cherry,” quietly, but her |v when ,the close of pledsure’s “Bob's” scow! ! e To gloom "hath near consigned us, that, honey,” jaughed shak We turn:to catch one fi “You see, Cherry, Bob insists on teil-. Of joy that’s. left behind ing the world that w engaged. ~—T. Moore: Selected verses He wants the right to 5! fea “The Journey Onwards ! Lrowb) h Je. e" A large ne: for 24,000 flie: in one day. BY CONDO I CAUCED UP THE OFFICS Two TIMES TODAY, AND BOTH TIMES THEY Sain You HAD BEEN IN, BUT THAT YoU HAD GONE OVT AGAINS EVERETT TRUE THERE YOU GO. LANDING ALL aGcain | THANKS FoR THe SUGGESTION // Dissolving the Partnership Fennant still looked} hope that MCMXXV! to use than Sixty-nine found in Volstead act Selamat eae and friendless, haye "been found 1 New York just after New. "Year's,| homes in the Old FeopleaHiome, Work Cheyaler Model o60T atess” rite ich proves conclusively that ‘the portant. factars Rieseti ao senieani linder model from the plants of i (Copyright, 1927, NEA Service Inc.) tors’ Equity street, is the ps will account [temperaments, Befure it comes theater, because the The heavy demanding comely her salary when she quit in Kansas ticket for a Before it New York, Jan, 10.—In a large from| room on the upper floor of the Ae- damages because and and work of an actress made fail. $20.50; herad Pres Set ————————? "At The Movies | The ‘soul, regenerating influence of a lonely life on the edge of the tt Sahara Mevert;“under the des- discipline of the famou rench Fofeign «Legion and the constant harrying of fierce Rift tribesmen, is.-vividly portrayed in Milton Sills’ new plevare “The Silent Lover,” the feature attraction at the Eltinge for today and Tuesday. Pulsating. with, .hard-riding action of the most jing variety, punc- | tuated with: treason and intrigue an imming with. novel twists of plot! turns of sympathy, there is still ple room in the story for not only ‘one but three romancey invelving the fate ‘of the handsome: young hero who, after a bad start, regenerates himself in. a most amazing way among the Morocean foothil Sills, with the. professional gen- erosity for which he has come: to be famous, shares, much of the import- ant action of the picture with his associate artists—Natalie Kingston, Arthur Edmund .Carew,< William V. Mong, Viola. Dana, Claude . King, Charlie Murray, Arthur Stone, Alma Bennett and Montague Love—in what is: regarded by .previewers as one of the most pictur e_ vehicl the versatile star has /had-in, his long career on the se ‘Lloyd Hamilton: ith: his * rs as‘a fam- i Sunday, Morning” in “One jay Morning’ and the trials ‘and tribulations he ex- periences in an attempt, to enjoy a motortrip make half. an hour of al- most solid laughter. CAPITOL THEATRE ‘The jingle and clatter of:a gallop- ing “troop of horse” will stir, it is said, the blood of even a pacifist, much @s he may. deplore the grim business which the gallant cavalry- = represent. ‘The Flaming 'rontier,” the Universal Production now showing at. the Capitol Theatre, hundreds: of U. $. Cavalrymen take Part in reproducing as the sensational climax to a thrilling spectacle, the: Battle of the Little Big Ho! ther wise known as the “Custer Massaci It was on this tragic occasion t! Gen. George Armstrong Custer and five troops of the famous Seventh U. S. Cavalry, were utterly wiped out by a band of thousands of Sioux In- dians under Sitting Bull, the most eae disaster in the history of the wil ene eee Monday, January 10 6:30-7:00 p. m.—-Dinner hour pro- gram. 7:00-7:15 p. m.—Weather forecast, market reports and news items, a: 5 Sa dia aca 8 -7:15 p. m.—Weather forceast, market report and news items. 7:15 p. m.—News items. Cavalier County oes ‘Operis Pure Bred Sire Campaign Langdon, N. D., Jan. 10—Although or i nw tlie Sed, iy a poclid a } EE e conducte y the agricultural | ang | A THOUGHT = | ’ committee of the Great North ‘Dr- ie the six hundred.’ kota association, in cooperation with s A <n | Cavalry’s old-time blue an the Minneapolis Tribune and the ‘ Yy Aust una Watch .and pray that ye enter not | uniform return as one watches the|North Dakota Agricultural college, ae ~ into tempation: the it indeed in| troopers on the screen swing into| opens in Cavalier county today, the Since Cherry was not under officis; knew you were in love with| Willing, but ‘the flesh is weak.—Matt.| their saddles at the sound of the/first order for a pure bred sire was alal atrest—she had given herselfup| each other, of course,” Cherry lune | 26:41 eta sales : Reta tel 4 Se So ee para and had come Back voluntarily for|uo her ile Teo bees Pe lt 9 eo ce de Questigning-—she was permitted” 4o| through, ‘her tears. “I'm “awiuiry {yt Know and love the goed, yet, ah!| Much Work Has Beem |chares of the work in Fargo, received join Faith and her father in thepglad. {’ll try to be a better sis.er) Me Wrong pursue!—Petrarch. 5 . a letter Saturday from J. W. Nicker- 4 drawing room. thin I. was ‘a swecthars, Bob, Done By N. D. Society |s02,0f Hannah, who is spending the aeotigckon Wa better get long to the|-treated you rotten, but Teuess! I've| Justajing) For th Friendl forsisked cotstiorae jospital to see your ma,” Jim Lane} paid for a lot of my. sins ” endless shed a Shorthorn sire. said awkwardly, after he had kissed Pra uttaidit's going to tai me alge! ein aed “ Z ee Pete iene cae | erry in a pathetic attempt to show | little while longe: sive y . cd + Lge SB eae tlie hadsforgiven her. DS Wie aanie beki onl Raa Phe akota ety for the| in North Dakota and-says he believes “Hospital?” Cherry cried, her pale} ' a S| We really need no more.’ riendless from June 1, 1925, to De-| — number of his friends there would | cheeks going even whi ‘then: tial She didn't know that pop had hit | cember’ 1, 1926, shows that this has|do better to move up to North Da- | ‘day's. borrope: had: mate ther? Mae ‘The ice box night before. been a period of constant activity, ac-| kota. Weather has been bad down Faith, is she worse? Is she going to a cording to officers of the society. The| there, he says, and a large percent- die? Have [ killed her? Oh, Pll kill PT RA DRG aeett®, been in the hands of Rev.| age of the small grain was ruined myself if 1 Her little hands} It was a little than an ho BARBS - - [|ana Reve Eo'M. Sticknen, De Deas, | pyectet, Weather and willl: not be clung to Faith; sheer terror sharpen-| after the coroner had withdrawn ——— Teme Since on, att | threshed. Farmers, who rented their ed her voice to a thin, high wail, his jury of six men when a stir | ayant “ vals suffered by, De.|und, and moved into town a few “Don’t, -ho the hall indicated that the men Fei diecamee ed Stickney in Oe Ri 1 Zeare age, abe moving Meck onto their one -eye on coming back into the drawing room,|, What, with the rainy days and tickney in, October, Rev. Earl has | farms, he declared. ee at the door. “Ss Where the sheeted body of Ratnn| al, and the ladies going ous with- Kee ees in the work. | The sire campaign .in Cavalier thing about Mr. Clun: Cluny on an improvised bier wa:ted,| Ut Umbrellas, water on the knee|, Some figures showing: the activi-| county will be ander the joint dirce- only. knows ‘that* yoi in the impassivity of death, for ven.|!§ becoming very common. + Son ot Os eee Cees tion of Mr. Groom as chairman of the Chris at the last minut eanics. =" les and communities visited | 872! committee; and County Agent W. L. really not fhy , wors s'* When the room was filled with wit-| Famous January ‘lines: “Thirty san Johns... George Baker and A. M. Chal- took that. means of sa et | nesses, reporters, detectives and rela.| (v8 after date, I, we, or other’ of 685 | ley, live stock specialists. of the ex- i from hearing of the y | tives ‘of the dead, man, and the cor-| "5: Promise to pa: tension department ‘of ‘the ayticul- dl and of making it ce ¢|/oner had taken his place at the long] y.. ae So tural college, are.assisting Mr. Johns | wouidn't be called on to te table, a hush fell upon the crowd. With a new sci Popping 310, i" getting the campaign under way. doesn't know you've retur Dr. Murchison rose, his tace in-|¢Very day, we are waiting now to 101 A very successful series of meetings thinks you're on your honey Schiiables te Wakedic sabre hear how much those Philistines : o| was held some time ago and local “You ‘thought of that, z . got for being bowled over with the|, Sudiences .. 19,752] bankers and stoekmen are also co- Cherry raised awed, adoring TOMORROW, Cherry's arrest. | J8¥bone of an a Number of miles. traveled in operating with Mr. Johns to make | eyes to her sister's. “You t of jase Rea ikl a | this work see. s..- esa . 9942) this campaign a success. It is be- ¢ everything, darling. 1 wonder what @——______________g|than 1 was a sweetheart, Bob. 1| Help has been given needy, families | lieved that a large number of good the ‘Lane family would have done Old M The world ‘moves apace. We and individuals,’ $850, having, ben; €x-| sires will find their way to Gavatier without you these las: fe 1 asters haven't. seen a burnt-wood -necktie| Pended in purchasing food and cloth-| county farms as a result of this un- | ~I'm just beginning oe $$ —_____ | holder for several years. * ing. Cripples have been ministered | dertaking. | you, Faith. ow-our ship her fo: ck t¢ to, $300 being spent on their caye. } me, made ime vind was cleavi Well, the least wi Assistanee has been accepted in set- Roomy Size Wins For.Chrysler ‘50’ | tling domestic difficulties. and hoi have -been kept together; the employed haye been found work. A number of old people, left alone “do is to no worse gold pi MCMXX’ $5 ces were Ff e Chrysler Sales Corporation, that has exceeded all ‘expectations of com- pany officials, continues to test the roectten. facilities nie rtd moje com| "a: Detroit factories. Company’ officials indicate : that Present, orders on hand and future orders Did fair to continue at the record breaking -point. for this ‘full “in ‘suaipais Zor he eka see ee -£08. this unprecedented sucoos a accOra, was enforced. ; and imbecility are increasing pid rate, Rev. reports. Medical ‘clinics shave: given free | service to the society and the rail- ways and Interstate, Bus. :compai have granted free, trdnsportation. ‘ —— T and- | Road Conditions | Building in West 47th tribunal of a thousand the manuger of nie anaes asking thousands — in in®, o J. E. Fields, Vice President lay failed and| (Mercury readings et 7 a. m.) in charge of sales of the Chrysi Siteiations in the cexe| _Bismarcke-Clear, 10,2 reetp. fair. ration, reveals the fact St. Cloud—Clear, 2° below, roads good. Minot—Clear, zero; roads poor. Grand Forks—Clear, 2 below; roads fair. oo 2 Jamestown—Clear, :9;, rogds fair. Duluth—Clear,..2;.. roads, . piece, istol “Of course, the fact that this car is a. Chrysler and built under the well known Chrysler plan of Stan- dardized: Quality is ‘a -basie hegaus: villain of Me sera, ‘4 i ing "girl. Winona—Cloudy, 10;: roads good.. |£0r the. success Mod 5 seems that $82.60 was held’ out of Hibbing —Cleasy ‘8. below; roads | declares Mr. Fields, “and in addition a show| drifted. Ew Gt fine recognition been accorded City, ‘the price of | Crookston—Ciear, ,2. below; roads by the public to. this feature of ex- substitute. rifled. SRE Ge Se tlt ‘ Snkew Sagminest. Hho 1 ft] Rochester—Cle ‘ sands of: Chrysler ‘560’ own- ie all. manner. of blecked, | * ‘gas aller. are enthusiastic ove complaints actors, The tribun bitration As uncertain peace of the Act | Association, the Chorus Equity, with’ 4000 mem- bers, and the Producing’ Managers’ Association, representing most of the theatrical producers of the east. The proce of the burlesque: and’ saps pepattek signer with “a wound to eal. t ample room for their family in this car. Unanim ll ,our repre- they tell oo ais selection oft the Dhestiee "50", es “Phis ‘ies in every. y ideas of Mr. Walter P. Chry: eae ES eat conte as cs le Fargo—Clear, t.bejqw; roads good. ; Monkate~ Clash if" below; roads fair. z Devils Lake—Clear, 7; roads poor. 4 Mandan—Clear, 11, above; 1s. air. and stars, ladies of the is the American Ar-| ociation, guarding .the ’ Equity ith its 10,000 members; CHANGE FIRE ORDINANCE‘ Beach.—Action taken by: the city council last Monday in the form of an amendment 'to the fire ordinance will ‘premit considerable building im- provements: that. the origioal ordin- ance prohibited. While the. amend- dure is simple. On the bench | site un arbitrator and) ment makes the-—restrictions for a clerk. fore eben come | new bui os stri it. per- | Toom passengers. two dispdtants, with perhaps| mits impravementa which, do not in: this been completely Wee an heigh manager donot fulfil ther sped tienes “ise | seanimous “mubli, Asceptance at th X a ie 1e. ‘| sign’ a contract, OOF ag is ly | new buildin Leen eatege .F Chrysler ioen always Brokers, professors, a clause, iding arbitra- tion before this come aa eee Aa nian viata rene Li s as yea 3 without health ts burdensome @ lack of it ¢ editors, * publishers, Life presidente 0 i LITTLE JOE | es mt masts Es rominent “who ate pe i. Ber regular, u rs * tir ad jedgeee, The: ‘toute are $10 @ NEW LEAF a. f the bo eet Saree {or each’ side. The. cou recent day sons were settled’; court of New : Le rt is out ‘of the body in a natural Promptly through- the gompt,- During a Misvutls halt efant ca y,