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The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-12
LEAVES THUS EVENING"

8 LEAVES THIS EVENING
h Rev. j. D. Cawthorne Of Marmarth,
\. D. will leave for his home this
Sening after having filled Rev. S.
4 Halfyard's> pulpit at both the
Forming and evening service yester-
by.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-12
Community Food Sale

'-.- Community Food Sale '-
8, Saturday afternoon at 2 O'clock
will occur the last food sale to be
given BY the Community Council
this season. Tht proceeds 60 toward
the milk fund and it is hoped this
will be well patronized and all soli-
cited will contribute generously ana
thereby help the Finance Committee
Of the Council.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-12
CHANGE MEETING NIGHTS

CHANGE MEETING NIGHTS
The regular meeting nights of the
rotherhood Of American Yoeman
lave been changed to the second
nd fourth Tuesdays of each month.
he next meeting will be tomorrow
vening at o'clock at which time
,ere will be initiation and work by
ne degree team. All members are
rged to be present. A general good
me 10 anticipated.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-12
Child Dies

Child Dies
Vivian Minick, 13-year- old daugh-
ter Of Mrs. +. d. Grantham of Terre
Haute, Indiana. taken i'll at Wash
burn. died in d local hospital this
morning. The parents were making
long automobile trip, and had
stopped at Washburn to visit rel
atives. The child will be taken to
Washburn for burial.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-12
Announce Birth

Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Osborn Of this
city announce the birth Of son at
the Bismarck hospital.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-12
ernor Nestos.

ROYAL ARCH MASONS
Regular meeting Bismarck
Chapter No. 10 Tuesday even
ing. Work in the Royal Arch
Degree. Dinner 6:15 in
temple.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-12

PROGRESSIVE MOTHERS CLUB
A regular meeting of the Progress
i've Mothers Club will be held to-
morrow afternoon at the home OF
ars. w. J. Wilcox, 1912 Broadway, at
ID. m. .ts
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-12

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
A regular meeting of the Theoso-
nical Society will be held this even
e ut $500 p. m., at the Mohawk,
orner Of Fifth and Rosser streets.
hese meetings are free and the pub
Z are invited to attend.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-12
Fourth Team Chosen

Fourth Team Chosen
The fourth team in the CONNER
cial baseball league will represent
French and Welch and Sorensor
Hardware Companies, jointly, it
was said today by A. F. Bradley, sec
retary Of the Association Of Com
merce,
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-12

MISSIONARY SOCIETY MEETING
"A regular meeting of the Catholic
1omen and Girls Missionary Socie.
will be held Wednesday evening
t 8 o'clock, at the School Hall. A
ood attendance is desired as those
charge of the evenings entertain
ient have promised some surprises.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-12
Condition Very Serious

Condition Very Serious
The condition of William Dave
port, one Of the victims at the fire
of the farm home of his parents 10
miles north Of Regan yesterday, and
who was brought to local hospital
for treatment was reported to be
very serious, late this afternoon.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-12
BUSINESS VISITOR

BUSINESS VISITOR
A. j. Bosch of Linton arrived in
the city, Saturday and transacted
business in the city and spent Sun
day here.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-12
SPENDS SUNDAY HERE

Rev. E. J. Bechtel of Fargo spent
Sunday in the city, calling on friends
and looking after business interests
today.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-12

PRISON TEAM WINS
The prison baseball team. In q
iouble- header yesterday, defeated
Futile II to. 4 and Bismarck team
IL to 8.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-12
METHODIST MISSIONARY socIE-

The Women's Foreign Missionary
Society of the Methodist Church will
hold their annual thank Offering
meeting on Tuesday afternoon at
2 80 at the home of Mrs. William
.Noggle, 322 Second street. A splendid
program has been prepared by Miss
;Gilliland who will be the leader. Re-
,freshments will be served during the
social hour following the meeting.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-12
SEWING CLUR TO MEET

The Wednesday Sewing Club will
meet Wednesday afternoon at 2:3O
at the home of Mrs. NJ. Zvorist, 3O7
South Seventh street.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-12

- VISITS IN FARGO It.
Z Mr.. and Mrs Phillip Elliott are
he week end guests of friends in
largo. e
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-12

/ SPENDS WEEK END HERE
/ Mrs. o. F. McGray Of Garrison re-
urned to her home today after he
ng the house guest at the home of
Ter sister, Mrs. G. w. McGray over
he week end. y 48 :. {,
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-12
NOTICE TO VOTERS

NOTICE TO VOTERS
Requests having been made
of me by several mothers to
enter my name at the school
election June 3, / have filed
for this position and ask the
support of the voters of Bis
marck.
Beatrice Mann.
Cook by Electricity.
Ii is Cheaper.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-12
e. P. WOMEN'S DINNER MEET


The Business ,and Professic nal
Women will hold their regular
monthly dinner meeting at the Club
ooms, Tuesday evening at $3.50. 1t
desired that there may be a
plendid attendance as it is the last
,ceting before the state convention
nd practice of chorus singing is to
held and two delegates are to be
lected at this meeting. One is for
he state convention which will be
eld this next week.
Miss Inez Jones is chairman of the
hub activities program for the
lonth and arnounces that all men,
ers are es cted to be very prompt
this NEE ling as q fine will be as
assed in proportion to the number
f minutes late the members may be.
IVES PRETTY BIRTHDAY PARTY
Mrs. II. G.. Anderson entertained
ith birthday party, Saturday ut.
arnoon for her son, Vernsl who
Celebrated his 11th birthday. Eight
riends helped cel 1rate the happy
.casi> n. Games were played during
le fternoon following which a
Airt,. lay luncheon was served in
INK and white May baskets. The
irthday cake was decorated with
le IL lighted candles.
The hostess was assisted by her
other and daughter, Irene .
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-12
CUT YOUR LAWN

Lawn Mowers Sharpened
expert work guaranteed.
Peterson 4 ZandvOleit. IA
Thayer St.
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-12

Miss Marie Mole of Hazelton ar
red this afternoon to spend .. few
|ys in the city.sa Z e
The Bismarck tribune., 1924-05-12
NROM MINOT
HERE FROM HAzELToNl

J. II. Donivah Of Minot3was a week
Pd visitor in, the city. !.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-17
AN EMBARRASSING STATUS

It is somewhat humiliating to Amer jeans who read the accounts of the Lon- don conference to find the oft-repeated phrase of the American ambassador: "While cannot bind the United States government to similar stand, yet my view is so and so." To be sure, no pre- mier can absolutely bind his government, for all such acts must be properly rati- fled. But no other envoy of high rank holds his commission on so delicate an authority that he must continually call the conference attention to the fact that his opinion is not ultimately binding on his government. We presume that the other delegates are torn between de- sire to feel sympathetic with the ambas- sador's embarrassing status and an im- pulse to laugh in their sleeves at his dilemma. Were it not for the command ing position America holds in the world $ finance our status in foreign councils would be insignificant indeed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-17
LEAVING TIT no THE MINORITY

Efforts to get out big vote at pri- maries have not been very successful. Even in the presidential primary race in Alabama, when the contest was reason ably heated, the voters did not go to any great lengths to interrupt their, daily routine in order to vote. They voted when it was convenient, or when they had some strong predilection; but the majority remained away from the polls. Tn last Tuesdays congressional primary in Tennessee, according to the defeated Senator Shields: "While only about twenty per cent. of the eight hundred thousand Democratic men and women who are voters participated in the pri- mary, and only about eight per cent. of the voters supported the successful can 'didate in the primary, the result is con elusive upon my candidacy"
 That is always true. If a majority of the people do not vote then the elections are decided by a minority. In recent years indifference to the ballot has be- come so pronounced that it may very well be said, while potentially we have the rule of the majority in this country, in reality the minority rules, and a small minority at that, for it is a majority only of a minority. The people are paying dearly for that attitude of inertia on election days. If the caliber of public officials is constantly becoming smaller and if the public affairs are managed in progressively incompetenia manner, it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-17

future is but 8 temporary proposition that will result in waste of the peoples money, for it must be done over again when Twen- tieth street is ultimately solved. Let us not forget that Twentieth street will be solved some day It may be fought off until the city has population of 500,000; but as the nearest street to being true north and south axis it will force a solution. But on account of property damage viaduct there is even now prohibited. There is only one solution. and that is an underpass. An underpass ne cessitates track elevation. Track elevation would mean tearing down any viaduct that is built at Eighteenth street, which at that would be cheaper than trying to pay damages for any viaduct at Twentieth street
 6. Track elevation with an underpass at Twentieth and Eighteenth streets would give the railroads many hundreds of feet of down town frontage for acrades made up of bril- hantly lighted shops and restaurants affording an enormous revenue There would be oppor- tunity also of supplying a tremendous pack ing area for automobiles right in the heart of the city. Who can estimate the revenue that the railroads could get from both sides of two attractive arcades on Twentieth and Eighteenth streets reaching from Morris ave nue to Powell avenue?
 C., It would be most shortsighted to build viaduct at Eighteenth with the consequent serious marring of First avenue as an axis and the utter neglect of Twentieth street, the north and south axis. Such a temporary makeshift must be thrown away when Twen- Etieth street ultimately forces.its one and only lsohition, namely, an underpass with track eie-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-17
AIn FOR THE CHINESE

The disaster Tn China in which ten mil lion people are estimated as sufferers from loss of homes, crops and storesSem- phasizes the degree in which large per- centage of the worlds population dwells eternally on the verge of privation. In addition to the destruction by flood in one part of the country there is a serious crop shortage in another wide area due to drought Thus the untouched portion of the population finds it impossible to come to the relief of the stricken part. The sum regarded as necessary to fur nish the required relief is ten million dollars, three-quarters of which the Chi nese government expects to raise by spe- cial imposts. The rest must come from voluntary sources if it comes at RI. The American Red Cross has already tele- graphed one hundred thousand dollars to help meet the initial stress, but that is only drop in the bucket of want.
 While this nation always is ready. to respond cordially to world distress in any quarter, yet it would surely be charity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-17

 is in large measure because the minority which is intimately concerted in govern ment for personal profit or interest is permitted by the great majority to carry out it's schemes without the hindrance of constructive ballot.
 In the coming election for president of the United States the people of this coun- try should not allow it to be truthfully said that the preference of the minority prevailed. There are issues; there are principles; there are candidates; there are aliegiances of important and far reaching significance which must be de- feated or sustained in November. No minority should be permitted to assume the responsibility of this decision. What ever president is elected, whatever party is. given. the power for the next four years, let it be done only on the authority of the majority of the qualified voters of the United States. In no more practical way can public spirit and patriotism dis play themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-17

One of the perpetually debatable questions of the banking world is whether small ac- counts-the little fellows with average bal ances of $1O0 or $20O-ever pay. Viewed in- the cold light of arithmetic there is only one answer: They don't-that is, if the bank is a city bank with high rents and heavy overhead costs. Boston has just chosen to look at it mathematically, her Clearing House Association having passed rule re- quiring a service charge on accounts of less than $500 and establishing a line of 800 below which no interest may be paid on de- posits. Boston says rightly that as a result of competition banks have been doing more and more for their depositors without charge and at positive loss. that the amount of work in connection with accounts has in creased enormously with the growing use of checks, and that profitable accounts should not be expected to pay for unprofitable ones. They point out that there was a a5time when the depositor as matter. of course paid for his own check book and paid exchange for purchasing draft on another city.
 True, but many bankers see another side to the matter. They attach considerable value to getting new depositors on the books, many of whom are young men whose small ac-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-17
THEINMENSE COST OF cARELEsSNESS


 Carelsssness, according to report of the National Fire Protection Society, cost the people of the United States last year more than $2O0, ,00O.O0O in fire losses. Carelessness in the use of matches and in the disposition of cigar and cigarette butts is charged with more than one-eighth of the total; to careless ness in connection with chimneys and flues, stoves and furnaces, the report attributes losses of $35 5000. 900, while open fires, hot ashes and hot coals burned up close to $5,000O00 worth of property.
 The lesson of exercising reasonable precau- tion against fire is one which the American people refuse to learn. Children are taught of the dangers of playing with matches at least once year the insurance companies warn of the dangers of defective flues, but in- struction and warning apparently go for naught With the fire losses of the last year, the greatest in history with but one excep- tion, there is considerable evidence to show that less care is, taken now to prevent losses
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-17

on highef plane if some practical means were formulated for widening the mar
 gin of safety for the populations that
 now.liye from day to day and from hand to mouth without hope of accommodating reserve to cufhion them against ad- versity 9erhaps one practical plan of immediate result would be to replace the extensive poapy paintings with fields of the appropriate food products. As long as China depotes hundreds of thousands of fertile acres to the production f this enemy to mankind called opium she does not deserve so well at the hands of the world as if she were straining all her resources towards legitimate production. Better methods of crop production, irri- gation, flood control and the like would undoubtedly spell all the difference be- tween poverty and comfort for the Chi nese rural population. If we are in reality philanthropic by nature and not by emergency, we should render our as- sistance far more effective by making it possible for the Chinese to help them selves when disaster comes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-17
ALABAMA GUARDS IN GAME

The intelligent interest which young men and their employers are manifest ing with respect to the national reserve forces is shown by the fact that Alabama has more than sixteen hundred young men in the National Guard encampment at Camp Mcclellan. This is the largest number for this state that have gone into camp since the World War. The Ma tional Guard drill and activities are healthful and inspiring. The interest of the men is kept at high intensity by the competitive events that are continually in progress. Skill at rifle practice, pis- tol practice and drill is developed by the spirit of rivalry and is stimulated by prizes and citations. There are also con- tests of athletic prowess, either of teams or of individuals.
 With all this, however, is the solid instruction in tactics and in the various knowledge deemed essential to effective civilian military units. Eminent officers of the regular army are on the ground to lend. the dignity of their presence and the wisdom of their experience to the success of the occasion. The National Guard is an integral part of our national defense, and an essential supplement of local or state police authority in times of emergency. Each year it should grow in numbers and in public support.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-17
SMALL BANK. ACCOUNTS

counts of today may be the large ones of to- morrow. They calculate that the proportion of fixed overhead, such as rent and other general expense properly chargeable to the small account, is Ineligible, and they are will ing to carry the account even though it may barely earn the cost of the check books and monthly statements.
 Even in New York there is no uniformity of practice. There are banks which will ac- cept an initial deposit of $50; others which require a minimum balance of $200 and make a charge when it falls below, others which expect balance of at, least $500 but make no service charge if it is not maintained pre- ferring a semi-personal relationship with their depositors; and others which require a minimum ranging from $1 900 up.
 The answer is that there is no answer. Boston's rebellion against the small account will only add fuel to the discussion. Every banker decides the question on the basis of his own accounting, and another banks poison may be his meat. It is an open ques. tion whether Boston, by using the clearing house authority to make the charge compul- sorry is really going forward or backward Commerce and Finance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-17

 from fire than formerly.
 Yet the exercise of every reasonable precau- tion against the destruction of property by fire is the first principle of conservation. Mil lions of dollars are appropriated every year by federal, state and local governments to prevent the ravages of fire. The public pays taxes for this purpose, willingly, admitting the need for fire protection. But individual taxpayers, while urging the need of better protection, carelessly drop cigarette butts in the waste paper basket or permit their hues to become defective and burn, down their own homes.
 Fire insurance, it is to be feared, has put premium upon earelessness. But insufance, it must be remembered, does not diminish fire losses. It merely distributes the cost of bearing such losses, and, to the extent that fires are caused by carelessness, compels the careful cautious property owner to share losses with his careless neighbor.- Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-17
WORDS .OF WISDOM

nightingale dies for shame if another birds sings better.-Burton.
 Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleas ant.--John Oliver Hobbes. T make good the old saying, we sailors get money like horses and spend it like asses Smollett.
 My very chains and grew friends,
 So much long communion tends
 To make us what we are.--Byron.
 England on thy knees tonight,
 Pray that God defend the right
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-17

vation. Even the pres6nt-day property dam age of viaduct at Twentieth street forces the conclusion that track elevation is the only solution for both streets
 8. It is time to watch our step. Naturally the railroads would probably be pleased to postpone this whole matter again. We venture the suggestion that they will gladly sign up with the city next Saturday for a yiaduct at Eighteenth street on as25-75 per cent basis. realizing that this will result in long de- lay and bring on a court fight between the city and its own citizens, which welcome con troversy they can claim is surely not their responsibility. If we must go to court, let us go to court with the railroads and win or lost on the approved underpass plan and not fight our own citizens for relief only tenn porary at best. CHAPPELL CORY.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-17
Forum Of The People
Appreciatss chIld WslfaFe Edltorial
the Editor Of The Age Herald

To the Editor of The Age -Herald:
 The editorial, May Day. Welfare Results,' in your issue of July % was handled So in teilisently that I am anxious to have several copies of it. Will you pleass send me airee or four, If possible, for would like them for my files, since was responsible, in the main for the May Day movement launched by thii association this year.
 Thanking you, believe me, sincerely yours
 tMRS.l AIDA DE ACOSTA ROOT. Director of Promotion, American Child Vel
 fare Association.
 New York, August 12, 1924
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-17

trol of the government. :" Yet the At lanta Journal calls it 'the greatest speech since Woodrow Wilson led'' The Louisville Courier-Journal believes that the speech proves Mir. Davis to be the ''ideal leader" for the forward march of America" The Tampa Tribune finds itself deeply impressed" Tn the view of the Commercial Appeal it lis a ''trum- pet-call" And so the comment runs.
 Nobody denies that it was an able effort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-17

It is reported that half million dol lars is being spent by the families of two Chicago young men on their defense, and that the state of Illinois is spending a hundred thousand dollars on their pros ecution. Apparently something is sought besides justice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-17

A close observer says that worthwhile women are more troublesome than non- descript ones. Most men discover that undertaking to manage women is likely to create troubles where there had been peace. o
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-17

Destruction of the big powder mill near Nashville, with fortyyfive million pounds of powder, will, in the minds of the pacifists, no doubt bring us nearer to lasting peace. t.G
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-17

More than eight thousand people have been killed in the United States within the last six months by automobile acci- dents. It is harvest enough to make, even the Grim Reaper smile.