The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 10, 1927, Page 4

EPauh Ande headeniniep ett oisinbs.< nao s when her taxes also were low. ' writers would ; vulgarized with cuss words one of their na- ; tional songs, say, “God Save the King.” PAGE FOUR The Bismarck Tribune Independent THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Bismarck |N.'D, ‘and entered. at the postotfice ef . and en at the Bismarck as second class mail matter. George D. 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(Official City, State and County Newspaper) Trade Follqws Good Roads No more important issue confronts Bismarck | than the development of good roads through its legitimate trade territory. The graveled system of roads in this state is being shaped now and trade habits will be formed and di- verted along the lines of least resistance, which happens in this age to be auto roads. Some progress has been made in Burleigh and contiguous counties in the past, but there is much to be done before the trade area of Bis- marck is linked by good roads to the Capital City, such as obtains in the case of Valley City, Jamestown and Minot, A series of articles on roads and trade areas is running in these columns in the hope that comparison of our road systems with those of other sections might spur road authorities to greater efforts in the future. What appears to be the greatest shortcom- ihe in this state is the slowness with which road building contracts are carried out. Miles are put in the reugh, finished stretches are not graveled and detours either not provided or so poorly marked as to slow up travel. It may be possible that North Dakota has not the great contracting firms of other states and must let contracts often to firms which are poorly or inadequately cquipped. How- ever, it would seem as though some of the con- tracts could be carried out with greater dis- patch and that portions of the roads could be finished and be utilized. This is all constructive criticism with the sole objective of pushing road construction in the state. A fine record has been made by the highway department in the last three years, but there is room for improvement in the handling of work under construction. Prob- ably the engineering supervision is at fault. Let’s find it aut and see where conditions can be bettered. British Press Amenities + James Russell Lowell, nettled by carping criticism of our country, once wrote a stinger on “A certain condescension in foreigners.” Nowhere does one find this condescension more patent than in the British press. The average Englishman is probably the most tol- erant creature on earth. He respects other people’s right to their own political and re- ligious beliefs. He respects their privacy as he jealously guards his own. If he thinks about America at all, it is with a sigh of envy that we are so prosperous and that our income taxes are so low. He longs for the good old days when England was also prosperous and But apparently the men who write for the newspapers of Brit- ain do not know the feeling of their own peo- ple, They write in a tone that one never hears nt Englishmen in private life. This is the ines “Great Stars and Stripes! I went to five plays last week, of which only one pretends to - be English, but it tries to. disguise the fact by dealing with bootlegging and the two leading are Yankees from Yankville, Yank.” “Hell, Columbia!” One can ine how the English editorial h at the mouth if we thus This Civilization Civilization has buried adventure. are There no groove of routine is smooth and monotonous. Romance is dead. ‘@ Don’t ever believe it. You may hear it said everywhere, but that doesn’t make it so, either. Knights in their mail, two-gun men of the old west, s of the foaming clipper ships, Jesse Jameses, Robin Hoods—all have ge down the trail into oblivion, per- 4 it the bright eyes of the siren danger beckon—and men go. Adventure lives in Amozoc, Mexico, where ‘ten ; grubbing hooks and muskets hogan carried, routed a fed- ‘don’t have to go to Amo- 180! An elevator in an office building stalls with deeds of daring waiting around |be the streets, hand in hand with civilization. A street car conductor finds it in an unpreten- tious bar-room where a juror speaks not wise- ly but too much, causing the collapse of a great conspiracy trial that had been five years in the toilsome making. A man walking down the street finds adven- ture when a motorist tries to flee after strik- ing down a pedestrian. Horatius at the bridge had no finer moment than this man when he leaped to the ruining board of the car and forced the driver to halt. An Ohio girl “minding the store” finds ad- venture when two robbers demand she throw up her hands. She throws not her hands but everything she can lay hands upon, and two very disgruntled gun-toters are put to flight. a load, a fire breaks out in a packed tenement, a baby breaks his bottle and is found chewing on a piece of the jagged glass. A trolley wire falls into a ‘busy street. A man in New Jersey, crazed with toothache. strikes fear to the populace until he is arrested and explains his strange actions. A newsboy leaps into the path of a truck to rescue a cow- ering cat. Day after day, tingling across the wires from one end of the land to the other, come a flood of the chronicles of adventure, glorious and sordid, pitiful and spine-chilling, sudden and bizarre. | Romance and chivalry have not gone from} ee world. They have multiplicd a thousand ‘old. | | Editorial Comment. | | If or When the President Whittles | (Minneapolis Tribune) There doubtless is more than jocular phras- ing in Calvin Coolidge’s saying to an inquirer | that when he quits being president he will go} bark to the old home state, Vermont, and whit-! tle for a year or two. It was a homely way of} making it known that he intended to rest for a year or two. HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | Well, Indiana Always Did batt 7 AUB O@ NOT When the president leaves the white house} he will have served in the office five and a half} years. Any man who has done that as con-| scientiously and closely as Mr. Coolidge has is} entitled to a generous breathing space of free-, dom from care if he wishes to have it, and that | appears to be his wish. | The president at 55 is’ still a comparatively | young man as mature statesmen go. So far as} the general public is aware, his physical con-| dition is good. He looks and acts as if he) might endure the onerous burdens of another, full term in office without shattering his] health, but that is a matter for him and his physicians to pass. on, with friendly advice, perhaps, from Mrs. Coolidge, who certainly has some right to a vdice in determining the fu- ture of the Coolidge family circle. Some men past middle life do too much whittling, others not enough. We should say that the latter group constitutes the majority, if by whittling we mean a getting away from a corroding grind of business or professidnal duty. A judicious portion of whittling inter- jected from time to time in the regular course of affairs pays dividends on a busy man’s phys- ical, mental and spiritual resources. In this case we may set up as synonyms for whittling the playing of golf, hunting, fishing, a motor trip, trampg through the woods, or just a plain tangent off into a space of rest and quietude aloof from the customary run of things. Some men are born, reared, live and die whit- tlers; others achieve whittling rewards, and still others have whittling thrust upon them. Calvin Coolidge belongs to the second group, William Hohenzollern the third. William whit- tles in Doorn against his desire, as Napoleon whittled first on Elba, and then on St. Helena. These two egoists were sentenced to whittling as a penalty. If Mr. Coolidge whittles for a year or two, the whittling will be a self-given bonus for constructive service rendered. The words “year or two” we take to be hy- perbole. It is probable that after a few months of self-imposed whittling the bonus would be- gin to irk like a court sentence. Film Bootlegging Next? (New York Times) Judge Goddard’s opinion in answer to three questions addressed to him by the grand jury not only legalizes the exhibition of fight films but exculpates those exhibitors who, with knowledge of but without connivance in the transportation, receive such films from any- one not an express company or a common car- rier. In law and common sense, and in ac- cordance with the terms of the federal statute, there was no other decision for Judge Goddard to reach. His opinion does-more than clear up the facts, however; it demonstrates that this illogical and outmoded federal statute should repealed or it will breed a new class of boot- leggers whom it would require an army of United States marshals to police. ~ A fight is held in Chicago; motion pictures are taken and developed; they are packed into small boxes and slipped into suitcases. By air, by. motor, afoot, afloat or on trains these films are then transported by individuals across state lines. Once across and in the hands of exhibitors, their showing is legal any- where, It is true that Judge Goddard urged the jury to. continue its investigation in an ef- fort to find the conspirators who violated the statute in connection with the Dempsey-Tun- ney fight. : But the task before them is harder than looking for a needle in a haystack. The film bootlegger may be known to an exhibitor as John Jones, bat 4 that necessarily his name, tor must an exhibitor -know where to locate intrigue and that followed, but you way down there to find rs of the clipper ships have gone, a wings now roam the skies they wanted. But you don’t have to hop off ctoo ta find adventure, either. him? By the expenditure of great sums: of Money and the employment of many agents the department of justice could make this bootleg- ging dangerous, but that is the most it could do. And aljl to enforce one of the most nonsensi- cal of our laws, passed by congress through a voting combination of those who opposed pugilism ahd others who objected to the wide- spread showing of the Jeffi fohnson _pic- tures! There is probably no f I law which ti seek to enforce with more + WONDER WHO ts MAYOR OF INDIANAPOLIS WHOS “DOYS MO RE Cty LOYEES WONT KNOW WHETSEC ZASHINGTO LETTER. BY RODNEY DUTCHER ___NEA Service Writer Washington, Nov. 10.—Back in the good old days before ‘the war our national debt was around a billion dollars and we could have paid it off by all chipping in $10 apiece. The debt is approximately 181% billions and the per cet share is more than $155. ° _ But at one timc in 1919 the pub- lic debt, which had jumped 23 bil- lion dollars in two years, was $26,596,701,000 and when that fiscal year closed, the per capita debt was more than $230. E Treasury experts estimate that, barring emergencie. or important depressions, the debt can be paid off in a little more than 30 years at the present rate. ** @ At one time, in 1920, the interest on the debt amounted to more than Seen ee a year—about a third of the federal expense. Last yea! it was only $785,000,000. Next year (the fiscal year ended June 30, 1928) it is hoped tu get this figure down by 50 million dollars or more. A rough estimate indicates that in addition to the $25,000,000,000 debt we will also have paid some- thing like $30,000,000,000 ir inter- est whet is all over. That esti- mate is little better than a gucss, however, as the figure is impossible to compute. These figures are of special in- terest at this time beccuse there will be some argument in the next Congress as to whether some of the treasury’s ets for 1927-28, which Secretary $455,000,000, should nct be applied to the debt instead of t+ tax duction. es 8 Qne objection to the $400,000,000 or $500,000,000 tax reduction by Democrats and business men is that it is likely to result in a treasury deficit because the cut will be 3 plied to next year’s reeeipts. surplus is diminishing because it, has been created only by what the treasury calls “non-current and fast vanishing items” such as back payments. Mellon estimates next yeir’s surplus at $275,000,000. The answer of those whc would again use the out the debt ic that debt reduction is itself tax reduction because it reduces the enor-nous interest bur- ZAn~~ \-Tds BUCKET ARE PART OF THE WAX REMAINS OF A MODEL, MR. D. WAX,: % AME WINNING CANDIDATE @ Yor SUSTICE OF “HE. PEACE | ~~ ON ELECTION NIGHT, WHEN. “iE MODEL WAS. i LEAD, Some Rt TIRE “To THE JODEL, AND DESTROVED ALL EVIDENCE AS TO IDENTITY, ne FoR“HE MELTE: Mellon estimates at.) acco! {den now carried by the country. |The tre ry days that w are pay- 000,000 less intere t this ear than last, Jareely beci.use the lebt was reduce] by $1,131,309,000. The reduction was $872,- 977,000, which resulted in a savin; of more than $36,000,000. ‘ In 1926 a eater of $377.767,000 was applied to the debt. Last year, when Congress again failed tovef- fect tax reduction, the surplus ap- plied to the debt +, 88 ,$635,809,000. “To the extent that we are able to reduce our public ¢ bt. and elim- inate the vast charges of interest thereon, we are ligtening the burden of the people of our country,” says President Coolidge. Perhaps half the saving on in- terest last year was due to the treasury’s ‘refunding operations. The average rate of interest on opr interest-bearing indebtedness was brought down from 4.09 per cent in 1925-26 to 3.96 per cent. Most of the debt is represented by the five Liberty loans, the re- tirement dates of which were, in order, 1947, 1942, 1928, 1938 and 1923. Those loans raised $21,- 433,000,000. Congress, in providing for a sinking fund and other reducing measures in 1920, hoped to have it all paid off by 1944, But that hoy envisioned prompt payment of the approximate $30,000,000,000 we had Toaned to the Allies in the war pe- riod, so 1960 is now a better guess, although cogs Ag illion dollars has been pepe off by debt pavements. Roughly, the sinking fund has sunted for some $2,000,000,000 Of the approximate seven billion dollar reduction since the end of the fiscal year of 1919. Another billion was applied when the treas- ury cash balance was redticed from its war needs to its present size of approximately $200,000,000. Sur- pluses have cut, the debt about two and one-half billions. Other do- mestic sources and the foreign pay- me:.ts have enabled the balance of the -eductions. Bankers and business men sug- gest that the normal treasury sur- plus ought to be about $100,000,- 000 each year, It is ex that our own war} id by 1945 if th are no complications, but the re- duction- period must be prolonged because of the terms of payment > agi BUT I VoucH ? D WAX IN “THIS BUCKET, AS BEWG ONE ANDTHE SAME PARTY, MRD WAX!= ALLEGORICAL FIGURE, “EFFIGY “~ PROXY CANDIDATE, —~ OR “HE CONDITION FT IS Now . praca Wit aa RT er Produce Lots of Talent A CLEANSING DIET Many who have been reading m; daily health articles have been suf- I benefited by the oran,» fast, stricted, cleansing diet. The first thing to do is to deter- mine to stick to the orange fast for five days. For these five days I ae ope to ing = Sate tae ss of orange jui Oo fours. Keep to ‘a regular schedule, and you will find that you will get better results and have no distress- ing symptoms unless, it is the first or two, wi you may fave a slight headache, due to the stirring up of systemic toxins. ‘| shove baths daily to granted to foreign governments and the tardiness and reluctance with which those governments are pay- ing. + [INNEW YORK | Somewhere at Sea, Nov. 10.— (Homeward Bound) Sea-sawing up and down the “frantic Atlantic,’ I find myself in a deck chair ad- joining that of Dorothy Caruso, widow of the great tenor, who will be wed this winter to Alexander Moore, the former ambassador to Spain. . . . Moore, you will re- call, was married to the late Lillian Russell. . . . And Mme Caruso,| upon a certain fine twilight, con- fessed how annoying become questions of the breakfast food of world as-to the M. Caruso, hew he shaved. himself and how he be- haved on the nights of great’ tri- umph. And so, she said, she had put it all into a book. . . . « And, upon another twilight, she told me of poor Michael Arlen, whom she had seen in St. Moritz. said, ttles in the agai death. . . . What a trag- ic ending for a fellow so young and clever! . 2 « « And so to a game of bridge with The most famous prodigy, af tie e most famous pi is ren oe are At 2 She crete speak dozen languages, or something, recite the history of the world and all that. . . . And my! partner was Mona Morgan, the! Shakespearean actress, who was former . leading for Walter Hampden. . . brilliance of Miss Stener, we col- lected several dozen francs. . . - Will someone please tell me how one wins a ship Pool ? eo eee Thence for a walk with James Gerard, our ambassador to Ger- many during the-war. . . . And he told me a tale of how, when America was __ hesitating spout plunging in, the kaiser remarked: ‘But America can’t get in. We have 500,000 Germans in America to take i. arms if war is declared.’ -_. + To which Gegard replied: “Yes, your majesty, and we 500,000 lamp posts to hang them on if they try it.”. . . .But I gath- ered that the kaiser had his human moments and that of all the fun that has been at him, is an intelligent and fellow. Next morning: for a walk sround the deck General “! Mitchell, who raised have and son, in 8: so much AZ SORRY, MADAM, BuT AS ZB Z WEAD OF “THE. ELECTION - jBOARD, I CANNOT SANCTION HE ELECTION OF “HE WAX ~ EITHER AS AN DWSTICE GOES -To. THE CANDIDATE OF URE I~ T ? . « And this merry wag, it is| cepti i mountains . And for all the] 80, sweet to sEzee. porcs-of the ski open and to as- sist in elimination. This fast will give your alimen- tary canal e rest, and you will elim- inate ast quantities of impurities ‘which will relieve the body of ac- cumulated ein and help eae overcome Be aie, from which 7 De ering. After the foll diet fast: One egg, prepared in manner except tryings three tow pieces. of Helbe toast; small dish of stewed fruit. # Lunch: Choice of as much as desired of any one of the { fruits: sibeles,, apricots, Leet 78, ranges, grapefry Plums, ‘pineapple, tomatoes "oF melons, Dinner: Choice-of one pretein, such as lean meat, fish or fowl. Goand.)” ‘Choise of one or more of cooked for a itr day fast try| shrink the several leaves and flowers soci lettuce, small urnips or parsnips, parsley, cucum- ber; asparagus, ‘spinach and celery. No desserts, Continue this diet for several and then sradielly change to using the menus which I print in this column each week. You. will find this s true cleans- ing diet, and you will be surprised Dy. McCoy will gladly answer diet adarensed to hitabare nt Enclose a stamped addressed envelope for = mallow, oyster beets, “carrots, at the results you will receive from | following this strict curative regime. { and Answers stion: Martha Jane 8. asks:! “What causes the white cellular formations which periodically form in the throat opewite the palate? They. cause ‘a slight soreness until they loosen and come out. What can be done to prevent their forma- tion?” Answer: The cheesy, masses which form in the of the tonsils can be form- ing if you will be more careful with your diet. A good local treatment may be taken with the ultraviolet light. This application of actinic rays will kill any bacterial growth in the tonsils, and also tends to membranes to normal size. If your physician does not have this equipment he can treat your throat th some medicinal preparation such as silver nitrate. geen C. T. asks: “Does chili contain any nourishment?” Answer: Chili is very high in nourishment, being made mostly of meat. It is high!: wored with pep- pers and. fore is irritating to the stomach and cannot be ler- ed « wholesome food except for those who have been accustomed for 3 E. S. writes: “Will you please tell me what to ey. ai yamuat| up to\ the ebow every taht L-ans, sagged cerenarten Plant, beet to) nip to) sent Neate, ph gr theron small ors feving"Tor Sed vege raw vege- : Ripe olives, alligator pears endive, nasturtium Before Jim Lane and his wife pai There were = grat tate in Faith’s eyes as walk to front door with them, his. arm about Jim Lane’s shoulder in comradely, man-to-man fashion. i When Bob ‘returned to the din-| ine, ome where C! was still sobbing intermittently, Faith | i up at him with ‘shining, ador- e Sorhank you, darting, for being’ FARFiE, 8 ea) not F £ his} and Answer: You are Ur meld suffer- ing from some kind of circulatory disorder; possibly due to some heart mt which is usually cal by the pressure of excessive gas in an “overloaded stomach crowding the heart. Try eating a smaller meal at night, and be care- ful about the food combinations. ‘lo like your Bruce Patton may shy off if the papers get hold of the story, but no real man would let: make any difference. I’ve got: voice was so brutal in its mpt for Cherry’s behavior that Faith winced for he? sister, but at the same time a thrill of joy ran along her nerves. If she could speak to” Seopa Bre that did work for her living at the only we for ‘her ie a only kind of job for which she was fit- ted? She’s good stock, was every bit as good as the Lanes socially when her husband was alive, : It makes me rather sick to sea you it * fogs tocanee Are you coming?” bt y ing contem; 7 taking on as if were a Lad; .| Glare’Vere de Vere—" e “We're ping 40 miss you ter- ribly, Joy,” she could not refrain from s Jn. gently reproach- ful voice. sip i a ens a me, joy woun furth- f Srith childish Ives. I heard Mrs. Har- so—said she was. sorr: for that nice Mrs. Hathaway be- cause she had to have her sisters with her—” “You mustn't repeat things you sceidentally ovechesr, honey,” Faith + an anxious eye on » “No matter what Mrs. Bob and I love hav- with us, and it’s go- awfully lonesome with- of it! Only four and Hope and The is going to champagne in edgy 1 sheet, a ‘was afford mY Puree was te BERT SWAN, winter to wis! oie dary a dal 4 & v2 t