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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-06-05
LIKE PAYING FOR A DEAD HORSE
BY Albert Apple

Railroad men estimate that it would cost ~ ollhon
dollars abolish all highway grade crossings in the Unteu
States This comments Barrons Weekly is about nail te
entire original cost of building the railroads.
When the roads built construction costs were very
low compared with Grade crossings could have been
eliminated in thousands of by bridging streets and
roads the steel tracks unneng them under at no
great increase in cost. u. a.Al = s.
But the builders not sufficiently prophetic in i'm
agnaon to look into the future and realize that grade cross
ngs would later become grave traffic problem
Now enormous expense the railroads are gradually
eliminating grade crossings their original bun-
der. It's like paying for dead horse.
The big traffic problem in cities today is that streets are
too narrow When the streets laid out originally no
one dreamed that the day would when they'd not be
wide enough The general seems to have been to
roads Just wide enough for two wagonoads of hay to
pass each other without going into the ditch
Despite this precedent many old cities continue laying
out Streets and mushroom towns fall To
build wide enough highways for steadily increasing conges
ton of traffic. bound to ..s ..... f.,
large portion human effort is devoted to undoing
the mistakes the past This is especially true OF nd
vdual For instance, the majority of people seeking health
middle age when they should be sturdy are the victims
LOT improper living youth III health rule is the pay
ment of a bill that has been ping up for years.
ways it's good thing can't rend the veil and
have our futures revealed to But if could see ahead
10 years ore most of would change our habits meth
ods goals and purposes abruptly and decidedly.
Most people drift with the current Only few inquire
carefully of veterans who have made the voyage before ana
then steer chared course to definite destination
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THE CLEVELAND CONVENTION

All eyes will be turned toward Cleveland Ohio next week
when the Republican National Convention meets One of the
of the convention that be forecast without danger of
miscacuation is the nomination of President Coolidge for
four term in the White House The nomination doubt
less will be by accamaon With this question settled in
advance the question of the VcePresdency becomes
most Formerly VicePresidentla candidate often was
chosen because of his ability to live in comfort Washington
four quiet years. his geographical location and for per
sony balance with that of the Presidential nominee Too
little attention paid to the fact that the conventions
nominating potential Presidents. But the death OF
President Harding the realization of the increasing burden
of the Presidency upon the physical powers and the proposal
forwarded by the late Mr. Harding to make the VcePres
idet distinct asset to the government by bringing HIM IN
Cabinet meetings, has laid emphasis this position
Among the suggested for this position Charles
c. Dawes who has risen to high place in the public eye
by of his work director of the budget and the
report of his experts reparatons Mr. Dawes would be
of the temperament which him notorety when be
discussed the budget in uncertain terms in Washington
would fit we'll into the VcePresdency Certainly he would
not ber for four and his elevation to the position
might do great deal in bringing realization of the import
of the position mild boom started for Senator
Norbeck of South Dakota Other Republicans have looked
Indiana Senator James E. Watson to other doubtful
timber.
With the Presidential nomination virtually settled before
the convention opens there every to hope that the
delegates will center unusual attention the selection OF
running mate Cor Mr.. Coolidge.
may DC too that the elevation of Mr. Coolidge to the
Presc1c uco1 the death of President Harding may have
t. erct of making the second place the ticket
less IT, 'orcc'l emphasis Senator Hiram Johnson tina
he would have been Hardngs running mate in 1920,
would have succeeded to the Presidency chance ap
parently gone forever
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ADVENTURE OF
THE TWINS
BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON.

please give me ten cents worth OF
corn meal" said Mrs. Woodchuck
waddling into the little store in the
woods.
"Certainly, ma'am," said Nick
Here's nice package already put
up, and it's just 10 cents"
"Then I'll take it," said Mrs
Woodchuck. "Those children OF
mine have such big appetites | can't
fill them. Pm going to fatten them
up and let let them seek their owr
fortunes in the world. Corn mea
mush, l hear, is very good read ii
in the newspaper last night"
So away waddled Mrs. Woodchuck
carrying her corn meal under he'
arm.
"Ill make a lot and it will last
awhile" she remarked to herself
when she got home, and putting OF
her kitchen apron she got out the
biggest kettle she could find.
I Indeed it was so big that thu
grounding lady made her apple but
ter in it in the fall, and she als'
used it for making bread each week
And indeed it was whispered
around through the Green Wood
and the Meadow, that on wash day
the neighbors heard Mrs. Wood
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OUR DISAPPEARING FISH

| There has always been lot of
| good fishing in Minnesota. That is
one Of the attractions that has
brought US many visitors. OF late
years the automobile has brought
the fishing to our very doors. 1t
has made hidden lakes easily ac-
cessible. 1t has heightened the
brief weekend into period ample
enough for an excursion Of two or
| three hundred miles and for lot
of good sport with the rod before
returning.
The result is that we and our
| guests from other States are killing
| off the game fish at tremendous
| rate-far faster, indeed than they
can be replaced by nature and the
active assistance of the State au-
thorities.
The German carp, imported UNI
der mistaken notion OF it's value
as food fish. has spread with as
great rapidity as the English spar
row. the gypsy moth, the San Jose
scale and other foreign pests.
brought in or let in through ignor-
ance or carelessness. The carp
drives ont other fish species and
monopolizes the lake where it is
/ esta blished.
| To the German carp is due the
! decadence OF fishing in so many
! Southern Minnesota lakes. South
of an east-and-west line drawn
! through Minnesota, lakes where
. there is good fishing are the excep-
| ton, rather than the rule. That
region was once the fisherman's
paradise.
There are great obstacles to re-
stocking our lakes. Where there
are carp, it is almost useless until
they are cleaned out "a difficult
job. Then the artificial propaga-
ton of bass. crappies and sunfish
is not practicable. So the young
fry must be Melted in the pools left
by the reteding Mississippi, st.
CroiX and Minnesota Rivers in the
spring, and then distributed.
There are calls for ten times as
much as is available. Trout, pike,
herring, whitefish, pickerel, musk
alonge and suckers can be raised
artificially, and this the State
Game and Fish Department is do
ing. But it has too few hatcheries
to he able anywhere near to meet
the demand.
Another enemy of good fishing
as we'll as of hunting, is the sense
less craze for drainage which has
lead to the destruction of many OF
our lakes, as well as of vast acres
OF swamps and cover for aquatic
and other game birds. State Game
and Fish Commissioner James f
Gould asserts that about three
quarters Of our public drainage has
been not only destructive, but use
. less. For example, he says there
are two and half million acres o
drain land in the Thief River reg
ion, only ten per cent of which il
agricultural land. The remainde
2 is an ardid waste, where once mil
, lions of ducks found refuge.
These are some Of the things tina
threaten to destroy one of Mime
t sofas great assets-her fishing.
! we lose our fish, we are going t
lose large portion of our growin
and highly profitable summer tour
list business, as well as a lot of goo
sport and fine food for ourselves
Obviously. there is a prob]eI
here for the Legislature-one tina
= will require good head work an
@ some money for it's solution.-Mir
neapolis Journal.
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rush until Mrs. Bunny's kettle was
full, too. And then there were three
kettles on the stove boiling and 60
ing blup, blup, blup, all over every
thing.
"My, my! I never knew that corn
meal swelled up So" cried Mrs.
Woodchuck. "Why, l do belieye it's
still rising. I'll have to get another
kettle. Wobbly, run and get Mrs.
Muskrats kettle at once.
Wobbly did. But still it was not
enough. And before the afternoon
| was over, Mrs. Woodchuck had
every kettle in the Green Woods and
the Meadow full Of mush. And not
only the stove but the tables and
sink and chairs were covered.
And there were pans to set it out
in to cool. They had to be Dor.
rowed, too.
Such a time! And such lot OF
mush! Mrs. Woodchuck couldn't turr
her children out into the world al
all after that. She had to keep then
at home all summer to eat up the
mush.
Ito Be Continued ~.
Copyright, 1894, NEA Service, Inc.
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chuck getting out her big kettle and
putting it away again. DO you sup
pose she could have used it for a
wash-tub, too?
Well anyway, she hauled out her
sgreat big kettle and filled it with
water and put it on the stove and
" hen it started to boil, she slowly
stirred in the whole 10-cent box OF
corn meal.
Pretty soon the corn meal began
to swell, and it went blup, blup,
| making big bubbles on top that burst
with splash as much as to say,
"Stand away, everybody, we need
more ROOM"
Mrs. Woodchuck began to notice
! that the mush was clear up to the
| top of the kettle and running over
the edge.
'"My, my, I'll have to get another
kettle!" she cried. "If don't III
have corn-meal mush all over my
clean stove"
So she ladled out about half the
kettelful into another pan and then
she had two kettles on the stove.
Blup, blup, blup! they went, the
two kettles Of mush did, and the
first thing she knew, the mush was
up to the top of both of them and
starting to boil over like everything
"Oh, Wally, run and borrow Mrs
Brnny's kettle. Hurry!" cried Mrs
Woodchuck," or my stove will b'
ruined.
So away went Wally and came
back with Mrs. Bunny's kettle.
Mrs. Woodchuck ladled out tn
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DYNAMITE DAWES SHOCK

Strange birds still show their
plumage now and then in Kansas
politics. For instance, there is the
honorable David D. Leahy, once
private secretary to the, also hon
orable Victor Murdoch That Mr.
Leahy is indeed honorable is not to
be questioned when once you have
heard his extraordinary story.
Three or four decades ago, when
this amazing individual first appear
ed in Wichita, he was heralded as
Dynamite Dave" Though he
came originally from Ireland and
invaded Kansas by way of Mis-
souri,. where he hesitated for few
years. Dave was no dynamiter.
But as his first two initials were
d. d. and he did not resemble ii
doctor Of divinity, the nitrogly
cerine nickname was conferred.
He became a reputable newspaper
man and as such won fame in Kan
| SaS.
Now the honorable gentleman
has done something which, it may
be suggested, should emblazOn his
name upon a national monument
For some years Mr.. Leahy has beer
Election Commissioner at Wichita
1t is job commonly known as a
sinecure. A sinecurc is a jot
where a man sits down and does
nothing and draws q salary for it
Commissioner Leahy drew $1,000
year. thought 'for several years
past. by reason of the growth O
his city, he has been entitled under
the law to draw $4,000 a year. No
only did he refuse to accept thu
extra $500, but he insisted tina
he really should be eliminated a
an officeholder by the abolition o
his job. Repeatedly he is said t.
have told the governor that tn
work he did was not worth ever
the $1,000 and that the election
commissionership should be mad
an adjunct of the city clerks OF
flee, thus saving the city It'd
sum.
And now Dave Leahy has resign
ed. refusing to continue taking TIL
money. Dave is the man Diogene
was seeking when he lit his Ian
tern.-St. Louis Post Dispatch
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never would have acknowledged
that you had been hurt.
You would have decided then and
there, after receiving the first let
ter, that he was unworthy of your
love, and forgotten him, for l know
that you have that modern spirit,
of which spoke to Dick, spirit
which says: II will love you as long
as you love. me, and not one mo-
.ment longer" Not having this
spirit, told Dick that l didn't know
just exactly what was going to
do-just how I was going to answer
his question:; and when l had de-
cided would write him again.
am telling you all this because
l want your opinion on Dicks let
ter, parts of which l am going to
quote you; and had to give you
some explanation of + the things
which, led up to it. Is ,<.+4.: 2sS,:
: Dick.is very contrite, and he says
that he has missed me; and hon
estly, Sally, believe he has missed
me quite as much as have missed
him. / have always known that
was his balance Wheel. He con-
fesses that he was infatuated with
Paula Perier at first, but he seems
to have found out that infatuation
| is not love. He still insists that
! Paula Perier is very sweet woman
and that they are great freinds-
more than ever since they have had
some sort of an understanding be-
tween them - an understanding
which he did not explain.
In this letter he asked me only
to allow him to love me- to try and
bring back my faith and trust in
him. Sally, do you. think that once
having lost faith and trust in man
you can evef got it back again?
Your bewildered friend, =
elt BEE.
| Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.)
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FABLES ON HEALTH
THE COST OF DAINTIES

it is likely to be found that the
dainty was quite unnecessary to the
we'll being of the diners.
An average dainty is likely to cost
from 10 cents to 25 cents per diner
particularly if purchased at cafe
In family of four this dainty
might add 40 cents to a single meal
or $12 month and something like
$3.50 year. Two a day would dou
ble this. -,
And how many of the unneces.
saries find their way to the table
when vitamine- containing essential:
are given little consideration?
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Each month the food bills attract
ed quite as much attention in the
Jones family as did the rent, light
and other bills.
"By gosh, where does the money
go tor Mr.. Jones would ask.
How many families find that ques-
ton bobbing up each 80 days-or
each seven days, for that matter?
And how many hunt out the
sources of leakage?
Checks in a great number of cases
will show that the little dainties
added to even one meal a day will
send the cost up considerably-and
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LETTER FROM BEATRICE GRIM
SHAW TO SALLY ATHER-
".. TON
MY DEAR SALLY:

MY DEAR SALLY:
They say that however much a
person inclincs to secrecy, there is
always a desire for self-expression
to some one-some one with whom
to share ones Utmost thoughts,
some one to whom one may recount
ones adventures, some sympathetic
person of whose interest one is al
ways sure,
With me, dear Sally, this is you.
Perhaps this, is why care so much
for you, though you will forgive me
when l say that L do not always
approve of you. Sometimes you
quite shock my old fashioned, mid
Victorian ideas; and I am quite
ashamed of myself in this particu-
lar, for l know you always SYM
pathize with mine, however, much
contempt you have for me.
l know, dear friend, that you
will feel return of some of that
contempt when 1 tell you that some
weeks ago again wrote to Dick
il had determined never to write te
him again, but 1 received letter
from him in which he told me thai
after all he had come to the con
clusion that was the one woman
in his life.
l did not know whether l shoult
laugh or cry over this letter-it wal
so like Dick, who with the usua
ma sculinc arrogance, thought n
had only to ask anything of me t.
receive it quickly. Finally, however
I wrote him that I did not inten'
to put myself in q position wher
he could again hurt me as he hat
done. 1 know, dear Sally, that yo'
would never have said this; 20,
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DRAFTED

Judge Gary tells how leaders of the steel indstry frus
ated proposal to have Uncle Sam take and operate
the steel mills during the Gary the committee
of steel men said to the government, in effect:
eff you think under government management, better
service will be rendered and you believe you legally do
You may undertake forcby to the management of
business. You will never do it with the consent or
the approval of the of these properties and you will
be held responsible, morally at least"
1t all right to draft the bodies and lives of young
But invading and drafting the sacred rights of vested
property is horse of different color in the eyes of the
privileged class.
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The picture above shows the
dismantling of the historic fortress
of Mcneil. at the mouth OF the
Niemen River. After the war
housing conditions became so acute
that bricks formerly dedicated to
defense were torn loose for use in
erecting homes for the population.
It is possible that this fort will
never be rebuilt. a coihinission Of
the League .of Nations. acting un-
der the craftsmanship Of Norman
II. Davis, former. under-secretary
OF State. : has secured from the
Lithuanians, now owners, of Memel,
m agreement giving free access Ito
the sea for Polish commerce. The
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upper stretches Of the Niemen are
IN Poland and the restrictions
formerly imposed by Lithuhnia
upon traffic. because of old hatred
for the Poles and the Polish seiz-
sure of Wilma, have gravely threat
ened war for {the past four years.
The council OF ambassadors,
representing the principal allies.
tried unsuccessfully to effect q
settlement. They turned the; .ag-
gravated problem over to the.
League In December. the comf1issf
sion under Mr.. Davis began wotk
i s:sas, d. I1lssa3ec sssss. g.
cerned, was announced last month.
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HOKUM

you within earshot of business leaders, you hear
them discussing the business slump and their explanation
of usually includes humble about chose Investigations
in Washington
Those Investigations have had to do with than
if they had taken place Tmbuku, the edge of the
Sahara desert.
Business slipped because the public curtaled its buying
Stagnaton the retail field naturally backs up into whole
sailing manufacturing channels The late spring started
dulness in buying.
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many years it was the social center
of the town.
The son of the. builder. James
Burrill, was appointed chief justice
of the Rhode Island supreme court
in 1916 and later served in the
United States senate. c. Walter
Burrill is the grandson Of James.
Workmen are carefully removing
the handwYought nails, the hand
hewn floor boards, some 80 inches
wide and an inch thick, the red
brick of the fireplace, the doors,
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1924 A. ID.

Five thousand years from scientists will view
ing pictures showing how industries and
featured the things in 1924 The films will be
sealed in vault in the Smithsonian Institution, not to be
opened for SO centuries.
Watching these films future will consider in about
the same light we'd consider the prehistoric if
had movies of the they did things. If you could
come earth in the year 1924 you'd find next to moth
ing you'd realize Imagine the difficulty explaining crystal
radio set to George Washington if he could return.
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Editorial Review

Comments reproduced In this
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 the press Of
the day.
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0LDH0MESTEAD
STRIPPED FOR
FORD MUSEUM

Swampscott, Mass, June 5.-The
interior of the Burrill homestead
here, the latest historical acquisition
of Henry Ford in New England, \ is
being stripped for reassembling in
his colonial museum, the wayside Inn,
in Sudbury. Mr.. Ford bought the
property from c.. Walter Rurrill.
The house was erected BY Eben-
ezer Burrill, born in 1879, and for
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RAGDAG

We Americans to be able to handle hot potatoes
with fewer burns than any other people.
It looks if American capital will operate the Bag
dad Railway Germanys determination to control that line
was of the main of the World War. And yet
Americans could take charge with little no friction.
We appear have sort of destiny international
referee Graybeard nations look to young America for ad
vice That's unusual However, they don't always take the
.advice.
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WHISKY RING

The whisky king Sir John Stewart of Scotland commits
suicide It's said he swindled out of five million dollars
nv American bootleggers They neglected to pay for the
Scotch whisky he furnished for transport to America
If Stewart had it to do again. he'd put more faith in
guarantees less in human nature Scotchman trust
ing booeggers with five million dollars is surely the eighth
wonder Of the world.
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SPEEDING UP

SPEEDING UP
An old Chinaman, delivering laun-
dry in mining camp, heard noise
and espicd huge brown bear shifting
his tracks in the newly fallen snow.
"Huh!" he grasped. "You like my
tlacks, l makee some more."-Evcry-
body's.
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A man who won't cuss a dull ra-
zor blade doesn't deserve to have
whiskers.
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the stills and wainscoting of the
rooms. 1t is possible that some part
of the exterior may also be utilized
by the Ford museum.
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In Chicago, the cops located q
bandit by calling him over the
phone, proving there is no safety in
telephone numbers.
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A Thought

He that is slow to wrath Is OF
great understanding but he that is
hasty of spirit exalteth folly.-Prov.
14:29.
Temperate anger we'll becomes the
wise.-Philemon.