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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-30
ADVENTUREOF
THE TWINS
BY Olive Barton Roberts

Up to the top of Gun Powder Hill
in Bling Bang Land climbed Nick and
Nancy.
They carried two signal flags with
Them.
Gun Powder Hill was half way be-
tween tin army and the wooden
army, and the Twins were going 20
send messages to both.
General Gold Braid of the wooden
army saw them and put up his spy
! glasses to see better.
Nick started to wig-wag a message
with his flags.
This was the MESSAGE:
| "PLEASE STOP FIGHTING AND
MAKE PEACE!"
General Gold Braid turned to
Colonel Stiff Leg. "What do you
say, sir?" he asked. shall we
stop"
"Never!" declared Colonel Stiff:
Leg firmly.
"And what do you say, sir?" the
general next asked Major Starch
Front.
"Nevcr!' cried the major just as
firmly as Colonel Stiff Leg had
And Captain Short Jacket and
Lieutenant Chin StraD and Private
Buttons all said, Never" as firmly
as school teachers.
"Then signal back 'Never!'" Cen
eral Gold Brain commanded Privat,
| Buttons.
General Hobbledehoy of the tin
army got the message also about
stopping the war. And he turned
to his men for advice.
What do you saw" he asked
Colonel2 Batter Coast. "shall we
stop"
"Never!" Numbered the colonel
"Well never stop."
| what do you say, MAJOR" the
general next asked Major Straight
Back.
"Never!" roared the major.
| And Captain Bow Legs and Lieu
tenant Shiny Boot and Private
Knapsack all cried, Never" as
I firmly as professors.
"Then never it is" said General
HobbIedehoy, and nodded to Private
Knapsack to signal back the answer.
When the Twins told the Tinker
Man what the soldiers said he
! sighed.
"Thcn the war. in Bling Bang Land
will have to 60 on" he said. 81
don't know what the Fairy Queen
will say, or Santa Claus either"
(To Be Continued)
| Copyright. 1923, NEA Service. Incl
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-30
LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT
TO LESLIE PRESCOTT
CONTINUED

Less than a month after marriage.
and Jack and l have come to an
impa Sc from which cpch of us is
turning away in different direc-
ton. 1t is too horrible! Jacks man
ner of approaching this understands
ing, as he called it, gave me 10 un-
derstand that he thought I was 1.-The
woman who did not care" He was
particularly obstinate and foolish
about it, and we were quarreling
over a little old letter with probably
nothing important in il from Il man
friend to him
II the letter had been from
woman, | could see why he might
have made such fuss about it.
Why he must take this little silly
thing that | had done in opening an
envelope addressed to him I hadn't
even read the letter, he snatched it
from me before could do SOY as
text for what seemed to me was
going to be an interminable sermon
on personal liberty, | could not con
ceivc.
| determined to forestall him if
could.
"All right Jack. if this is to be a
mutual understanding party, please
let me state my case first.
From what you have just said.
and the anger which you have
shown at my misunderstanding in
regard to what must consider an
unreasonable requirement on your
part, | must. come to the conclusion
that even though you disclaim all
intention Of being despot you are
one
Jack raised his hand in protest.
but | went on. Il will in the future
grant your ungraciously implied re-
quest that | do not Ooen any letter
addl esscd to you, but | must in turn
ask that you do not make a spectu-
Gle of me before strangers. In all
my life have never been so morti-
fled as | was this morning when you
, so furiously snatched that letter out
of my hand. Surely you must know
what that SNUG clerk behind the
desk was thinking. The whole ac-
ton was one of those very things
that the cartoonists grasp so quickly
and from which they make the little
tragedies of married life seem only
ridiculous and laughablp episodes"
Jacks lips curIed dersively, and
I then and there learned that what
women call the tragedies of married
/ life and what are the tragedies of
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-30
Tom
Siime
Says

With little girls playing marbles
instead of dolls. posterity may find
it hard to get raised
While not as good as dollar, a
nickel does its best 1t goes to church
more often.
A baby's idea of heaven is a place
where it is against the law for its
father to Sing.
The back seats of movie are
usually the coolest, but sometimes
you find u row as hot at H.
No man is rs bad as he looks be-
fore breakfast.
Never worry about how late it is
because it never is as late as it will
be little later.
Beauty secret: Tell the barber
how you want your hair cut.
A crouch may be a man who mar"
ried woman to share his troubles
and found out she caused them.
Boat races are held to determine y
the champion ship.
A man is person who is late for
supper.
A summer resort may be whore
they resort to high prices.
No matter how great range a
singer may have, it never sounds as
good as the one in the kitchen.
Some gardeners have vegetables
right along now, according to the
empty cans in their gardens.
Nights are getting so short Just
before you jump out of bed it Is
time for breakfast.
Fashion experts say man should
have three straw lids. Most men
have. every three years.
Cleveander holds the dance record
for men with a wooden leg. The
wooden headed record is doubtful.
An anti-knock gasoline has been
perfected which will get some
knocks if it costs much.
Judge Williams of Oklahoma told
IL women to bake their bread, to
the dismay of IL husbands.
Egyptian clothes are the style.
They are digging up Hittites now.
Hope the Hittites didn't 60 naked.
Turkey is getting mad at France.
Just being a Turk is enough to make
a Turk mad at anybody.
Salem (Ore.) burglar stole l3 cents
and dropped S. of his own, showing
IL is an unlucky number.
Things could be worse. Suppose y
eating was unlawful and you had to
buy food from bootleggers?
Californians held stay. awake
contest. Snmeday we will start
sleeping contest.
You don't need money to burn to
have hot time.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-30
FINS

For three the allies have been dynamng the great
Notifications built by the Germans Hegoland German
scientists fear the explosions have shattered the under
lying rock that the will entirely annihate the
whole island. Too good to be true.
Another echo of the big from Washington where
becomes known that about 1888 million dollars will be the
damages demanded of Germany by Uncle Sam This
all government and citizens claims, including Lusana
losses Balancing this against what the cost We'll
realize about five cents the dollar And that's exrava
giant estimate But safety is cheap at any price.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-30
EDITORIAL REVIEW

Comments reproduced in this
column may or may not express
the opinion Of The Tribune. They
are presented here in order that
our readers may have both sides
OF important Issues which are
being discussed In tho press Of
the day.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-30
STARS

The petness of ourselves and the socaled troubles that
is emphasized by the Harvard report
that $50 nebuae discovered in photograph
heavens taken in Peru Each nebua luminous gaseous
Many Of them whole solar systems in the MAX
ing, just the sum- earth and other planets
swred together in the form of gas.
single grain of sand, thrown into the Pacific Ocean,
smaller by comparison than earth in the vast universe
Human vanity is the most ridiculous of all Jokes
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-30
COMMUNISN'S CLAIMS

Many good citizens of North Dakota who helped defeat
Senator Porter j. McCumber in the belief that they
merely exercising political prejudice, may feel comp
mened to read that representative of the Communist
Of America subserven to the Russian nternationale
gagged in formenng world revolution claims that the
muniss engnced the defeat of Senator McCumber
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-30
MANDAN NEWS
ReOrganiZe Mandan
Building and Loan

With $50 shares Of the Glass "a"
monthly payment stock issued last
week, making total of so shares
divided among Is members, the Man
dan Building e. Loan association is
ready to begin operation.
I'm addition to the monthly pay.
ment stool: at 50 cents per month
per share, the association has also
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-30
WRANGLE

France is not too busy in the Ruhr protest against
Turkey granting oil concession to American interests
She forges Napoleon who might have been successful if he
hadn't tried to eat too many pies at once
You probably think: what do care about this oil
concession? My money isn't involved won't get anything
out of it."
However, the big usually start the private af
farsspf few Individuals The World Wars original cause
the desire of German capitalists to build railroad from
Berlin to Bagdad.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-30
MOB

negro, caught picking stenographer's pocket
elevated train in New York City, is arrested Cries of Get
rope! and Stirring him up! 1t takes several squadrons
of police to keep the crowd from ynching him.
Alone NOT person in that crowd would have thought
of interfering at ALL let alone hang The mob spirit
tagious, temporary insanity quickly becomes epidemic
at war
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-30

at the home of his son.in-law and
daughter, Rev. and Mrs. w. X.
Thatcher left Saturday for his home
in Detroit
Miss Euleta Crowthwaite, n bride
OF early May, was honor guest
at breakfast given by Miss Ger
trude Hickey Sunday morning.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-30
A THOUGHT

Our fathers have sinned and are
not: and We have horne their in.
iquities.-Lam. 5:7.
Let wickedness escape as it may
at the bar, it never fails of doing
justice upon itself; for every guilty
person is his own hangman.-Seneca.
New South Wales has no work
houses. and in 1921 the private
wealth per head Of the population
was $225O.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-30

Cigarets were introduced into
Britain in 1858.
Evening star., 1923-08-19
Die-Hards Shocked by Note
And Plot Baldwin OuertI,ro,v
Country May Turn to Birkenhead or
Lloyd George if Present Pre-
n,ier Fails in Policy.

ingratiate himself with the former
power on the Anglo French issue.
They would contemplate with greater
horror the possible return of Lloyd
George, another member of the
Birkenhead group.
Everything depends on Baldwins S
firmness and the continued solidarity
of his cabinet. 1t is clearly recog
nized that If the government now
fails to act upon the strong intima-
tionS of the note. British prestige is
utterly shattered and the hope of re-
storing Europe is diminished to the
vanishing point.
May Appeal to Country.
The next step presumably will be
for Baldwin to invite the powers to
send representatives to an interna-
tional conference to inquire into Ger
many's capacity to pay. If the oppo-
Sition in the conservative party
grows, Baldwin cenceivably will call
special meeting of parliament. or
he might, as defiant gesture, appeal
to the country in a general election.
That would cause a curious complex
in the situation. the possibility of the
liberal and labor parties pledging
support ITO the policy of clearly de-
fined active opposition to French
methods in Europe.
1t is undoubtedly true that public
opinion here at last is fully aroused
Since the reparations issue first dis
turbed Europe ! have never known
such serious. deep and widespread
discussion in the British press. This
seriousness is reflected as never be-
fore in the ordinary conversation
among all classes. Today the writer
heard a large group of unemployed
dock workers debating with violent
eXpletives not the latest race course
news nor the poor prospects for
winter employment, but French ac-
tfon in the Ruhr and the prospect of
renewed conflict in Europe.
Business men are thoroughly
alarmed over the turn of events in
Germany. They regard further dis
cussions with France as a probab BILE
waste of time. The time factor
may indeed render Baldwin's pro-
posals obsolete. If the German po-
litical and economic machine ceases
to function and Germany falls into
revolutionary chaos, what. they ask
is the use of inquiriHg into Germanys
capacity to pay?
The problem is growing into an
appalling magnitude. The motto must
be: Act quickly.
Copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1923-08-19
AUTO DEATHL|STS
SHOCK TO ENGLAND
BY Cable to The Star.

BY Cable to The Star
LONDON. August 1S-Popular agi-
tation is mounting in England with
extraordinary rapidity on the sub
Ject of motor accidents The public
is astounded and angered by the ter
less driving during the last fortnight.
Six children were killed in eight
days in one small town
1t is plain to everybody that dras-
tic action is necessary to check the
increasing peril to pedestrian traffic
everywhere. In the first quarter of
TINS year in London alone there were
! nearly $4,000 accidents of various
kinds. Prohibitionists will be inter
ested to know that 1t is seriously
suggested that no licenses be issued
to motorists who refuse to sign the
pledge of total abstinence. This sug-
gestion is too fantastic for the Brit
iSh temperament to adopt, but the
government will be unable to resist
the powerful demand that it impose
severe penalties on motorists who
treat other road users with contempt.
Drivers Heavily Fined.
Practical proposals are that
drivers convicted of recklessness be
heavily fined and that their motor
cars be confiScated. and that drunken
motorists be sent to Jail without op-
ton of a fine and be deprived for
ever of their licenses to drive.
At the present time in large towns
motorists are as dangerous to hu-
man life as air bomberS were during
the war.
Evening star., 1923-08-19

satisfied with the new cabinet. There
is difficulty in securing even the mini
mum nourishment. The fall of stocks.
as the result of the unexpected and
gigantic new taxes, and the general
shortage of money occupy the peo-
pies attention more than does the
change in the personnel of the cabi-
net, which contains only the well
known figures in new groupings.
Is Industrialist.
The new chancellor, like his pred
ecessor, comes from the industrial
party, which calls itself the peoples
party in order not to frighten off the
voters. This party especially has
been attacked by the socialists and
accused of being merely the servant
of capitalism. Now four socialists sit
in the cabinet headed by Chancellor
Stresemann. The leader of the sus-
pected peoples party and the minister
of finance is DR.. Rudolph Hilferding,
a follower of Karl Marx. who once
published a scientific work attacking
finance capital" and then became
editor of Berlin's most radical social
ist newspaper. He wasn't merely
born in Austria. but possesses the
almost unforgivable failing of being
Jew.
Adversely makes strange bed fell
lows, ana duNeiSllS cum
sells abstention from characterizing
the chancellor for a time.
StreSemann was an enthusiastic
mouthpiece of the army command or
the monarchy and of unrestricted
submarine warfare, and still in 1919
he was regarded as so militant and
reactionary that even the meek dem
ocrats refused to admit him to their
party. For nine years he helped to
make every variety of psychological
and political mistake. He made
speeches favoring most of the mis-
takes. and only a few days ago de-
clared himself in agreement with the
indescribable Cuno, the peacemaker
of the blind natpnalists.
British Note Aids.
But all this will be forgiven if he
succeeds as chancellor in solving the
chief problem-a decent ending of
the Ruhr conflict. Even the taxes,
approved in an atmosphere of panic,
which endanger the very existence
of industry and trade, cannot close
the gaps of the national budget II
1000. 900 people in the Ruhr, who are
not permitted to work, must still be
paid: if the richest district in Ger
many remains not only unproductlve
but also devours trillions of marks
monthly.
The solution has been facilitat ed
by IL hostile tone in the newest Eng
lish note, which now, eight months
after the occupation, declares that
the Versailles treaty does not au-
thorize the occupation of the Ruhr-
an occupation which Lloyd George
himself once threatened as a sane
tiOn.
French loneliness regards this as
a grave insult and will be reader to
open the way for negotiations with
Germany direct. Negotiations are
necessary and must not be delayed by
childish hopes of English aid
StreSeman's cabinet associates will
not hinder him in going ahead.
Copyright, 1871
Evening star., 1923-08-19
CANAL TRAVERS|NG
EUROPE PROPOSED
New Route Would Open
Water Transport From
North to Black Seas.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associa ted Press
BAMBERG, Bavaria, August IL
Charlemagne would have a bad half
hour If he could come back to life
long enough to see how canal diggers
are gashing up the eastern half of his
old empire to connect the waters of
the Rhine and Danube and make it
possible for ocean-going ships to
travel from the North sea to the
Black sea by inland waters.
The Rhine ne-Main-Danube canal
which was begun in 1921, contem-
plates revolution in the transporta-
tion system of Europe and Indirectly
or the entire world. Freight routes
VIII be changed and cargoes loaded
on ocean-going ships of not greater
than l,5OO tons capacity Will be able
to sail from Rotterdam to GalatZ. at
the mouth of the Danube, touchinr
Cologne, Mayence, Frankfort. Nurem.
berg, Vienna, Budapest and Belgrade
on their way to the Black sea.
american cotton is promised a
through trip from New Orleans To
practically all the countries of cen
tral Europe which have no seaports
Evening star., 1923-08-19
FACES
GREATOPPORTUN|TY
Political VaciIIation Will Be
Forgiven if He Brings
Peace, Says Hardin.
BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN.
Germany's Foremost Publicist.

BY Cable to The Star.
BERLIN, August 1S.-Chancellor
Stresemann steps to the fore on the
political stage of Germany as Cuno
retires. And in the wake of the lat
ters retirement one sees the whirl of
political parties-parties once the
avowed supporters of Cuno, then his
repudiators, and now the staunch pro-
ponents of the new regime.
This not very dignified vacillation
is easily explainable. The street had
spoken. Despite trade union warn
ings, low wages had caused many
strikes. The printing presses. which
had been turning out 5000. .0O0. 900, 900
marks daily, stood still. Prices
climbed steadily. German money be-
came so scarce that foreigners were
glad when they could exchange their
currency for half the Official quota
tion. There was no light, no street
cars, no food, no money-all this was
too much even for the occident'S most
patient people.
Saw Hold Slipping.
The socialists and the trade unionists
saw their hold on the people slipping.
They feared competition from the
communists and decided to save them
selves by sharply disavowing the
hated Cuno cabinet. Other parties
also feared the loss of votes if they
continued to support the most pitia-
BILE of all German cabinets. The same
factions that had maintained an in
competent chancellor in office over
threw him.
The socialists. who had joined the
new coalition, were really equally re-
sponsible for Cuno's chief mistakes
and their participation was contrary
to the desire of the mass of their
voters.
The communists general strike
broke down. but the atmosphere was
still unhealthy. If the daily struggle
for bare existence was not paralyZ-
ing all political activity. il would be
seen more clearly that the lower
classes. whose anger compelled the
sudden change in cabinet, are not
Evening star., 1923-08-19

$1.25 Night Shirts 25c
now
Evening star., 1923-08-19

and new tourist routes are to be
opened up for excursion steamers
which will rival the Rhine trip in
beauty and historic interest and make
it possible for visitors to eliminate
the annoyances of frequent changes
from steamer to trains.
The new waterway will touch the
territory of nine states-Holland, Ger
many, France, Austria, Hungary,
Serbia, Bulgaria. Czechoslovakia and
Rumania. But it is really more than
canal of continental Europe, as it
will put all maritime powers in touch
with central Europe and afford
new entry to the near east by way
of the Blak sea.
If the canal attains the success it's
promoters prophesy it will drain
much business through Rotterdam
Evening star., 1923-08-19
BY A. G.. GARDINER.
Britnin's Liberal Editor.

By Cable to The Star
LONDON, August IS. The cold
severity of the British note produced
tremendous shock in France, whe-e
evidently 1t was supposed that our
der Premier Poincare's arm because
it was too timid to venture an open
break.
The shock was almost as great as
to the die-hard tories in England
Their policy, Historically abetted by
the Harmsworth newspapers. has
come to be known contemptuously
as hats off to France"-that is, to
say. they desire Great Britain, with
blind devotion in memory of the
comradship of war. to follow wher-
ever France may lead-over the
precipice even if Poincare issues the
word of command. This policy has
the merit of extreme simplicity. but
is an overwhelming menace to world
peace.
Question of Debts.
The only thing that gives the die
hardS pause is the question of the
French debts. They do not wish and
dare not propose cancellation. Their
position undoubtedly is embarrassing
u the prime minister. The Morning
Post. the de-hards' chief organ
among newspapers. comes out en-
phatically against the British note
and there are other manifest signs
of new die-hard intrigue to coerce
or overthrow Prime Minister Bald
win. Even the die -hards, however,
would shrink from dethroning Bald
win in order to elevate Lord Birken-
head. who is making bold bid to
Evening star., 1923-08-19

into the heart of Europe which nov
goes past Gibraltar into The Mediter
ranean. Much business which nov
finds its way into the Black sci
through the Turkish straits is ais,
expected to enter the Black sci
through the mouths of the Danube
Odessa, which lies only a short dis
tance east of the Rumanian ports n
the Danube's mouths, is expected q
be greatly benefited by the new water
way.
Evening star., 1923-08-19
SPEAKS AT REUNION.

William ID. Nicholas of this city was
one of the speakers at the sixteenth
annual reunion of the Nicholas fam
lily, at Allentown, Pa, last week
More than two hundred members at
tended. Mr.. Nicholas was elected his
torian to compile a history of the
family.
Evening star., 1923-08-19

The cynical bachelor observes tha
ii is quite possible for fellow to b.
broken hearted over a girl who ha
the reputation of never making an.
bad breaks.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-01-11

Among the things that delight little
folks are dolls and small animals
made Of eiderdown flannel or Turkish
toweling, and painted with water color
paints. The doll and dressed-up kittie
pictured here. are among them. The
dolls face may be made of a piece of
ribbed stocking and the kitties face
and clothes are painted on.