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Evening star., 1925-05-08

W T RS. COOLIDGE will accom-
IN IN pany the President to the
MI exercises incident to the
4 w oratorical contest TO be held
at the Washington Audi
rorlum this evening.
The President and Mrs. Coolidge
will probably attend the production
OF La Traviata" at the Washington
Auditorium Wednesday evening by
7he Washington Opera Company.
stars of the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany will fill the chief rolls.
Mrs. Coolidge was hostess on the
Nayflower yesterday afternoon to the
woman newspaper writer's OF Wash
ington. There was all the charm of
4 cordial afternoon tea between
friends, with the additional charm OF
the lovely scenery along the Poto-
mac. The Marine Band played all
during the cruise. which extended far
below Marshall Hall.
Mrs. Coolidge went on board the
yacht after all of her guests assembled
and held an impromptu reception,
later the guests in small groups JOIN
ing her for conversation. Tea was
served in the big dining room from
table beautifully decorated with pink
roses, Miss Harlan and Miss Randolph
presiding AS little tribute to the
rrepressible news sense of the guests
they were taken or permitted to rove
over the boat at will. The return trip
was made at 6:15 O'Clock.
The Secretary of State and Mrs.
kellogg will start this afternoon for
St Paul to attend the services for
the late Mr.. Cordenio A. Severance,
former law partner OF the Secretary.
Mrs. Kellogg has arranged dinner
party this evening in honor of the
British delegates 10 the quinquennial
conference of the International Coun-
eli of Women, including Lady Aber-
deem, the international president;
Lady Trustram-Eve. Lady Mott
Bower, Lady Adam Smith. Mrs.
George Morgan. Miss Sharples, Miss
Tamcred. Miss Cecile MatheSon. Miss
knight Bruce and Miss Zimmern.
Mrs. Kellogg will have a substitute
hostess and there will be other guests
from official life present.
Mrs. Davis, wife of the Secretary of
Labor. will be hostess at tea this aft
ernoon to delegates to the quinQuen-
NAL conference of the International
Council of Women in her apartment
at Wardnan Park Hotel. She will be
assisted by Mrs. New. wife OF the
Postma ster General; Mrs. Clyde Kel-
ley. Mrs. Adam NJ. Wyant, Mrs. E. ].
Henning. Mrs. Frederick Irving Cox,
Miss Mary Anderson and Miss Mary
JeWett, chiefs of divisions OF the Labor
Department, and Miss Florence
Welles, secretary to Secretary Davis.
Evening star., 1925-05-08

tional Council of Women in Esthonia;
Mrs. Albert Putney and Mrs. Stickney
of New Jersey.
Evening star., 1925-05-08

Mrs. Edwin Brewington Parker will
be hostess at a musical followed by tea
this afternoon in her home, on Wood
land drive, which Mr.. and Mrs. Parker
have. leased from Mrs. Joseph Folk.
widow of former Gov. Folk. The pro-
gram this afternoon will be given by
Miss Berenice Stalker, contralto, Of
New York. and Mrs. Won Boyer, plan
list, Of Washington. Mrs. Parker will
play the accompaniments for Miss
Stalker. After the program tea will be
served on the grass terrace.
Mrs. Coolidge will head the list of
patronesses for the annual fete for the
benefit Of Neighborhood House, which
will be given at Twin Oaks, the beau
tiful country place of Mr.. and Mrs.
Evening star., 1925-05-08

ton and New York, accompanied by
Miss Sarah Gemmell, Is at the Ambas-
sador, Atlantic City.
The former Secretary of the Navy
and Mrs. Josephus Daniels arrived in
Washington today from Raleigh, n. c.,
and are at the Mayf1ower
The Alaska fisherman., 1925-01-15
PSALM OF LIFE
With Apologies to LOngfellOw
 By An Unknown

Tell me not in mournful numbers
 Advertising is a dream, For the Business Man who slumbers Has no chance to skim the cream. Life is real! Life is earnest!
 Competitions something fierce, If for dividends thou yearnest,
 Learn to parry, thrust and pierce. In the business field of battle
 Mollycoddles have no place; Be not like dumb driven cattle,
 Be live one in the race. Lives of great men all remind us,
 We can bring the bacon home. And departing leave behind us,
 Footprints on another's dome. Let us then be up and doing,
 Otherwise we may be done; Still achieving still pursuing,
 Advertise and get the mon'.
The Alaska fisherman., 1925-01-15

mentalities should find their incen- tive and joy. The present reward of such institutions is in the quail fled Native voters of today; their worthy and attainable goal is liter ate native people.
 In the opinion of The Verstovian, attitude toward this goal is a test of vital interests in Native problems. It is better to deplore than merely to denounce illiteracy. To detest it without an effort to deliver from it is a sure road to detestation of the illiterate and this in turn leads to class hatred and racial antagonism,
The Alaska fisherman., 1925-01-15
TOTEMS

One of the finest and tallest tot em poles in existence is in the Sitka National Monument Park adjacent to the Sheldon Jackson School cam pus. Carved by Haida artisans and originally erected in the village of Kasaan it was procured for the World Fair at St. Louis in 1904 and removed to that city as part of the Alaska exhibit. At the close of the fair, through the efforts of Governor Brady, it was sent to Sitka to be erected and permanently preserved in the public park, along with other totems of similar origin.
 The totem pole, which is but one expression of the totemic system, is now a thing of the past in Alaska Aside from the diminutive and in ferior specimens prepared for tour ist trade totem poles are no longer made and the totem carver, a man of ability and distinction in former times, has vanished along with his outgroWn social conception. The passing of the totem pole and of the totemic system in general carries with it the disappearance of a real art and brings a feeling of regret even to those who have been most instrumental in supplanting old sup erstitions with modern truth.
 Totem poles were of four prin- cipal classes; genealogical, histori- cal, legendary and mortuary. In as much as the natives of Alaska be- lleved that men were once animals the principal characteristic of the totem pole is it's animal figures. From the construction or design of the totem pole native people were able at glance to distinguish the clan of the communal house in front of which it stood and to determine whether or not a welcome awaited within. These carvings were not worshipped as idols nor intended to represent deity. They were highly honored and revered because v1tally associated, in the minds of the Ma tives, with questions of origin, the supernatural, and the proper respect due to the great heroes of the past. The (Sitka) Verstovian.
The Alaska fisherman., 1925-01-15
FIVE FACTORS OF CITIZENSHIP STRESSED
 BY EDUCATOR

WASHINGTON, D. C.-There are five factors of good citizenship, ac- cording to Dr. Henry Lewis Smith, President of Washington and Lee University. These five great ideas, action according to which is essen t;al if citizenship is to attain it's true worth and dignity, are:
 First, the children of the Nation are at once the richest asset and the chief source of power, more po- tential than all of the other human sources combined; therefore, their proper development is of the first importance.
 Second, the supreme task of a Christian democracy is the right training of all it's citizens.
 Third, education of intellect alone is fatally inadequate. The heart and the character must be developed as the mind is improved, for if they are not, the work will have been in vain.
 Fourth, mere political and indus trial democracy may be it's triumph cause the downfall of civilization, unless education ard religion reach the masses before they seize the power.
 Fifth, when democracy has out grown it's experimental stage and has become strong, it will be seen that the real leaders are not politi- clans, bankers or statesmen, but those who have devoted their lives to training boys and girls. They will be known then as the real build CTS of nations and civilization.
The Alaska fisherman., 1925-01-15
POST ELECTION
 REFLECTIONS

Verstovian is moved ito say two things:
 The local campaign has largely centered around the so-called "Indian question:" It is regrettable that the bitterness and unreasonablenes of a partisan political campaign should be injected into the consideration of such a problem. Exaggeration, un- truthfulness and selfishness for par tlsan ends, obscure vision and kill conscience. The issue in it's essence is a racial one. The solution is not to be found in the sheer of the su- perior race nor the snarl of the in- ferior. Of the two we consider the folmer more obstructive to right solution than the latter. It is ever the responsibility of the superior race to be magnanimous. It is ever it's tendency to limit definition and re- strict constructive action under the Influence of class conceit.
 The firm conviction of The Versto- vian is that the remedy is in the Brotherhood and Kingdom Teachings of Jesus Christ. The race question will be solved when men are able to think more clearly and act more consistently in terms of the Golden Rule
 A second observation has to do with the privilege and duty of edu- cational institutions in the present Native situations. The crisis is a double headed affair. On the one hand we hope the politicians will pardon The Verstovian for it's enter taining scepticism as to the disin- terestedness of motive underlying much of the present agitation. If unfit Natives have voted it is largely do to the influence of those who have sought and obtained their votes. If boulder has been loosened from the mountain of our Alaska political institution and is menacing good government as it gains momentum it is the politicians, pro and con, who have started it going. This crisis may be in need of attention and remedy is possible. To change the figure we suggest that those who distributed the germs apply for "first aid"
 But on the other hand, there is undoubtedly a situation which is more properly a continuation than a crisis. All fair-minded persons must admit that there are many Natives of Alaska who are not only legally but inherently citizens of the United States. It would be strange and hu- initiating if this result should not obtain after fifty-seven years of con- tact with American institutions, in .l. u ].
The Alaska fisherman., 1925-01-15

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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
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"Oh, Mrs. Prescott is out with
the nurse and children for q ride!
Will you please tell her when she
returns that Mr.. Prescott is at the
Ten Eyck Hotel, where he will be
all day, being detained until he
hears from some very important
business. Ask Mrs. Prescott to call
me up as soon as possible. Tell her
am most anxious to hear from
her."
Letter From John Alden Prescott to
Leslie Prescott
Leslie, Dearest Wife: have wait
ed for you to call me up for hours.
l can not wait any longer and now
l am going to write to you.
Leslie, dear, am not going to
say am sorry for all this mess, be-
cause have said it to you so often
before, and just as often l have
done something else for which l
have been sorrier.
am just going to ask you, wife
of mine, to put me out of this sus-
pensc and tell me what you want
me to do. ] am at your service. II
you want me to blow out what few
brains have. just say the word and
it shall be done.
| hate to put up an extraneous
plea of any kind, but l must just
remind you that the steel business
must 60 on. and ! know that at the
present time no other man can carry
it on as your father wished but
myself.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
SEMPER PARATUS
New York TimeSl

New York Times)
One of the greatest achievements
OF modern times is an organization
always ready to respond instantly
in case Of any great disaster from
fire, food, plague, earthquake or
hurricane the American Red
Cross. 1t provides human SYM
patty and intelligence in the wake
of what are called "acts of Coo. "
The, office of the Red Cross is ex-
pressed in the motto:
Who're flood or fire or fam
inc goes
There, too, 60 /,
to carry relief where prevention
was not possible. Save earth
quake. there is no "act of God" So
nearly impossible to foresee as
such a great wind as swept across
the borders OF several States in the
Mississippi Valley on Wednesday.
1t was not a mere figure of speech
that made the voice OF God speak to
Job "out of a whirlwind." In no
phenomenon of nature is force
majeure' so impressive and over
whelming. Nan is utterly power
less in the face of it. If he es-
capes, it Is not of his own resource,
as is witnessed by the one left sit
ting in what was room when the
roof and four sides of the house
were blown away, or of the men
swept from an automobile and left
unhurt at the roadside. When
Thor asked in the Edda: what
call they the wind?" the All-know-
ing gave it several names: "The
Waverer," 1.-THE Waller" but in
hell it was THE clustering Blast"
1t was in this character that 1t
made it's devastating way out OF
the Ozarks across Southern ILL
nois and Kentucky, sweeping down
to crush whole villages. then leap
ing over great stretches to de-
scend again and again in fury until
its force was spent.
Yet the still, small voice" of
human sympathy after the strong
wind gives alienation to the story
of this tragic occurrence. 1t is or
ganized sympathy, with means at
hand with which to express it, that
gives one more proof Of the prog
ress that mankind has made.
What is done 80 promptly to give
relief to the living, especially
through the Red Cross, should
make more Of our citizens ready
to sign at the next roll-call. Only
general enrolment enables the
Red Cross to be ever ready to an
swer such a call as has come sud
denly from villages that seemed
three days ago to be as free from
danger as tens of thousands OF
other communities in this country
First help in such emergencies
cannot be effectively given if i'm
provised. 1t must be prepared in
advance. Fortunately, the Red
Cross was ready and the American
people should keep it ever so.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
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Wet feet are said to be one cause
of spring colds, SO we have about
decided to give them up.
Russian news today You can buy
house for a dollar there. But you
couldn't bring it home.
In Italy the girls out of jobs are
asking for husbands. which is one
way of finding work.
And in Manila, the horse races are
held early in the morning, leaving all
day for cussing.
California reports new coreless
apple, reminding us of the regular
juiceless grapefruit.
Dog team broke all records in the
arctic, it ran so fast. So maybe a
dog catcher was driving it.
The Pacific Ocean is being meas
it is fine place for singing school.
They have dug up another an
name like a dozen radio stations.
A congressman wants to protect
oysters, which are little backward
about speaking for themselves.
A man can be pretty smart. but
never both pretty and smart.
A family may come in handy. You
ran ask the judge to let you off just
this once for their sake.
Moving all the seasons up about
three months would satisfy all of us.
The man who tells a girl he would
die for her wouldn't be so rash if
he had ever tried it.
1t won't really be spring until we
get the street car windows open.
Now and then you see fellow
who expects to become bowling
success by nothing but bowling.
With 10 hours day to worry
about everything some people spend
it all worrying about how they look.
Short skirts don't give the March
winds much to blow about.
One certain thing about spring is
everything seems SO uncertain.
We have given up quitting smok-
ing.
An Arkansas man sent Coolidge
an owl. He has lot of pets. But
Congress isn't part of them.
Bad news from Paris. High heels
for men are stylish. We would hate
to be in their shoes.
Copyright, 1925, 'NEA Service. Inc.)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
In New York

New York, March 25.-All beauty
is not stifled in New York's tene-
ment life. 1t buds and flourishes
and seems the brighter because of
its background. like a red rose grow
ing in black loan.
Out of the dark byways Of the
tenements have come some of our
greatest artists. But those left be-
hind are not without their beauty.
They pillow along from day to day in
their dull, drab occupations but with
their heads in the. clouds-potential
Carusos driving trucks, Barrymores
laying bricks. poets selling fish and
painters digging bitches.
This thought occurs aS I become
acquainted with William Gowrie. He
is q letter carrier, but for 20 years
he has been an amateur actor, play
ing some Of the greatest roles Of all
time in little cut-of- the-way halls
and clubrooms. Just now he has a
leading role In Bret Harte's ''Salomy
Jane" being presented by the Cellar
Players. It IL the first revival Of
this classic in New York for many
years.
The Cellar Players have been or
ganized shout eight years. The men,
bership Of 10 includes truck drivers,
piano movers, clerks, and stenograph-
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
TELEGRAM FROM JOHN ALDEN
PRESCOTT TO SALLY
ATHERTON

Thanks so much for your message.
The signature for the check is not
forgery. l am sending you another
signed check, the amount of which
will leave blank. ish you
would fill in any amount up to my
bank balance if necessary and buy
the finest, diamond and sapphire
bracelets you can get at Maltby's. l
want two of diamonds and one
sapphire. You know the kind
mean. The kind that all the women
are wearing now. Send them to me
here at the hotel. l have just re-
membered that Lcslie's birthday is
next Wednesday. Do this and will
be very grateful.
JOHN PRESCOTT.
Telegram From Nurse Anderson to
John Alden Prescott
Arrived safely with your mother.
We are at the Traymorc, as you
suggested. Mrs. Prescott is as de-
lighted as child with new toy,
Do not worry any more. about us.
Your mother will be pleased, indeed,
ANDERSON.
Telephone Message From John Alden
Prescott From Albany Hotel to
His Apartment
81 wish to speak to Mrs. Prescott.
"What's that? l don't hear you.
at is Mr.. Prescott speaking.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25

You probably remember Winifred
Sackville Stoner as child prodigy,
not 50 many years ago. Newspapers
and magazines printed stories ga
lore about her. At the age of she
was making public speeches. At IL
her mother proudly declared she
knew as much as a college graduate:
Now she's grown and has adopted
three little children. She. is teach.
ing them Esperanto, the universal
language, among other high-brow
things.
And instead of nursery rhymes.
these babies are learning some OF
Winifred's own poems. called Gin
glelays."
Here is one of them:
1.-TWO active kidneys, a liver for bile,
Folks with good livers always smile;
Let's work our l,vers-make life
worth while,
Smiling and smiling a big SMILE"
Now, it's all very we'll to know
that we have kidneys and liver,
but why should we be worried with
the fact at the tender age of four or
| five?
Sooner or later we find out all
about them, anyway-just as we learn
that it's our tonsils that give US
sore throat, or our appendix that has
to be operated upon!
And such sober knowledge can
never take the place Of nursery
rhymes in a chld's life.
For the first years Of its life a
child should be nothing but a
healthy little animal. Play is as
necessary to it as food and sleep
and sunshine. Play is part of its
growth part of the happi-
ness habit that grownups need to
help them bear the hard knocks of
life.
30 Peep and Peter. Peter the
Pumpkin Eater, are almost as real
to children as the people around
them and almost as real as
Santa Claus!
1t seems to me cruel and un-
wise thing to rob a child of these
people from the Never-Never Land
And to give him verses about the
liver and kidneys instead!
Look back at your own childhood
If you haven't memory or two
tucked away of sitting at mothers
knee while she read you all about
The Frog Who Would A-wooing Go,
Or Jack and Jill, am desperately
sorry for you just as I am
sorry for the three adopted children
of Winifred Sackville Stoner, who
are reading their Mother Goose in
}, Esperanto! Aren't you, too?
| "Let's pretend" is one of the fin
est phrases in the English language
It's not fair to starve a child's ina.
|. gination by never giving it any OF
the fairy stories and the magic
things that belong to childhood.
I For we all need to say LETS pre-
tend" once in while, even after
we're grown up.
i Often and often we have to "kid'
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-25
ADVENTURE OF
THE TWINS
BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

Now, this story is about the Cot
tontail brothers who lived across
Ripple Greek.
it isn't about the Twins and the
March Hare at all.
The only thing is that they had
dug a lot of sassafras root, and as
sassafras has something to do with
this story, they are in it after all.
At least a little bit.
Cutie and Chubby Cottontail
stayed with their aunt, Mrs. Bunny,
so they could 60 to Heller Shelter
School and get an education.
They were really needed at home,
but there wasn't any school near
their house and it was most neces-
sary that they learn their x, Y, rs
and so forth.
But they didn't like school and
every chance they got they played
Rookie.
Rookie means that you go some
place else instead Of going to school
and never let on. And it usually
turns out so awfully that you wish
you'd gone to school and behaved
yourself.
Well, one day along late in March,
it was like summer. Just, almost,
nearly, like summer. The sun was
out and the wind blew sort of softly
and sleepily, and you could almost
see things growing. The last few
days had brought the pussy-wi!lows
out as thick as rain, and the skunk
like twists of green paper, and the
big as half-a-dollar bills, and, oh,
everything.
So, of course, you could scarcely
blame two lazy g.od for nothing
young scamps of rabbits to be crazy
about school. All they could do was
to poke around fence corners and
nibble green stuff and sigh. "ho-
hum" and say that the weather was
the "cat's whiskers" and so on.
| They kept poking and nibbling and
nibbling and poking-accidently on
purpose, of course, and they never
heard Mister Scribble Scratch ring
the school-bell.
The first thing they knew it was
ten minutes after one by the sun.
"Jimineezers!" cried Cutie. "We're
late!"
$50 we are!" gasped Chubbie.
"What'll we do?"
"Huh!" said Cutie. 81 dunno. Stay
around here, I guess, until schools
out and then 60 home same as al
ways"
Well get lickin'," said Chubbie
fearfully.
"Well, we won't say anything
about it," said Cutie.
| Wasn't he wise one though-and
bad!
| Yes, sir. that is what he said. And
what's more that's what he did
what they both did.
At four O'clock they hoped home
looking as though butter wouldn't
melt in their mouths.
But the first thing their aunt sale
was, where have you two been?"
"Why we had sort of q headache
so we did" said Cutie. land VI
thought the air would do us good.
"Spring fever! That's what 70,
have" cried Mrs. Bunny. give Jus
made sassafras tea and mixed VI
some sulphur and molasses. I'll Civ
each Of you a big dose Of both, an,
then you mustn't eat any supper an,
60 to bed at five o'clock. II you d,
that every day for five days you'll
soon get better"
81 II wish we hadn't played Rookie,
whispered Cutie to Chubby whe
thew were both tucked in bed.
Next time you can play II b