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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-11-05
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

:" ME existence and action of the
league of nations is the obvious
cause of the cessation of war between
Greece and Bulgaria.
This is the fifth war the league has
averted, and it shows that even in the
Balkan powder magazine the moral powers
of the nations of the earth can preserve
peace.
1T is no longer possible to doubt either
the value or the effectiveness of the
league. Newton D. Baker.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-11-05

the chIldren's teeth are set on
edge?
A. THIS Is found IN tteo places IN
the Old Testament, Jeremiah 5f:29
and EEekieI is:2.
Q. Who was Nathaniel Greene In
American history7
a. He ioas the famous general Of
revolutionary tCdr fame, t0ho led
the Rhode Island troops no Boston
IN defense Of the colonies IN f775.
Q. From what is the quotation in
Shakespeare which begins That's
rosemary, that's for remembrance"
taken?
4. The quotation Is from act !.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-11-05

You can get an answer 10
J. any question OF fact or In
formation by writing Tho Seat.
tie Star Question Editor. 1912
New York ave. Washington,
d. c., and inclosing 2 cents in
loose stamps for reply. No
medical. legal or marital adj
vice. Personal replies conf.
Dental. All letters must bs
signed.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-11-05
A THOUGHT

BE kindly affectionate one 10
ward another with brotherly
love; in honor preferring ons
anothery--Rom. 1910.
LIE THAT falls In love with
IL himself will find no rival.
Franklin.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-11-05

THURSDAY, NV EAlBER 3
II so. you nrs nslf.rsllAnt.
You have n keen mentality.
You arc shrcwd in business.
You VIII be successful in every.
thing.
And have plenty OF money.
You arc generous and rcason.
able.
You arc In harmony with the
entire world.
You will marry early In lifo.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-04
Some Prevalent Illusions
Bv Chester H. ROwell

Somebody should get out dictionary of American stock
First on the list would the party responsibility
which the reforers supposed to have destroyed There
never any such thing
Then the notion that any actual American standard is
reflected in the efforts to make school children equal in dress
and social expenditure and to impose the simple life do
mats and high officials
If these are fine IDEALS certainly they not the
practice And then would the stock sob" story
of the who offers to marry the first conner sell
herself in slavery, to pay for operation loved
Operations do have to be paid for" if you have
pay for them Ask the president of your local med
cal society.
Finally most fictitious of ALL the illusion that this is
the most advanced Of free governments 1t in $780,
Now we are the most conservative people EARTH
Once more it is illustrated that the cause of murder is
the gun"
The last man hanged in California claimed he inno-
cent He shot policeman in scuffle, but said that the
revolver went off by accident.
The jury refused to believe that who fighting
policeman with loaded weapon in his hand innocent
The real point is that, Intentionally accidentally it
the "gun" that went off. 1@~,~
If he had been unarmed, that would long ago have
been released from short sentence for resisting officer
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-04
LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE
FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO
JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT

as this the office of Mr.. Pres
colt?
eyes, I'm getting along splendidly.
Why | didn't recognize your voice.
"Ies, I'm getting along splendidly.
Think I'll be able to come home the
last of next week, and how glad m
be to get home again.
Thank you, dear. 1t is nice to
think shat you have missed me. You
must Dome up the minute get
home. dear. and see the new baby,
" "Oh! John has just come in, has
he? Tell him l want to talk with
him.
Eyes, John. 1t is I, Leslie, speak
ing. Your voice sounds SO strange.
eyes, l thought | would surprise
you. l am sitting up, feeling splcn-
didly. Listen, dear, l want you to
get a suite on the Mauretania which
is sailing from New York on We'd
nesday of next week.
"No, Pm not thinking of going to
Europ. Mothers going. She wants
to join Karl as soon as possible.
He has written her a letter asking
her to travel with him on the con-
tinent. l think it will be just Won
derful for her, don't you?
"Of course, can get along with
out her. You must think I'm a real
baby. Don't you realize that l am a
mother with two great big children
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-04
THE WOMAN AND THE CICARET
(Rock Island Argus)

Consumption OF cigarettes has
increased four times in the past
decade. The big growth in the de-
manG was first noticeable when the
world war came. Cigarettes and
tobacco were given away by al
most everybody that wanted to lie
a friend OF the soldiers, both in
training camps and on the field OF
action. Other countries show
gains in cigarette smokers also.
The decade has added women as
general consumers. Twenty years
ago you were shocked were you to
hear that a woman took a puff OF a
cigarette. You'll see her now, with
the unconcern Of the inveterate
male user, light flag over her
demitasse anu throw out the curls
of smoke as II she had been a user
since childhood. You will hear
women defend smoking on the
grounds that if it is healthful for d
man to puff cigarette it is sim
ilarly beneficial to those OF the
so-called delicate or weaker sex.
Just the same, no matter what
your argument in the presence Of
strangers may be, you don't plume
with pride if you see your mother,
wife or sister light up a cigarette
at the home dinner table or at the
table in the home of a friend.
There is a mannishness about
woman's cigarette smoking that
doesn't set we'll with the male. and
it is the wise woman who will re-
frain in his presence. If she must
smoke, let her do it in secret. 1t
may sound like jolt to her indie
pendence, but you'll notice that the
girl who is noted for her independ-
ence isn't doing very we'll with
men casting about for a sweetheart
for wife. Wise girls will see this
il they but keep their eyes open.
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on my hands to keep me busy. l
shall be very lonely, however, but
isn't it wonderful for her? She and
Karl can travel i'm that leisurely
fashion that mother has always
wanted to do. Father, you know,
never had time. Karl has always
been to mother like a real son. Their
tastes are much alike. / think it is
an ideal arrangement.
eyes, the Mauretania sails We'd
nesday. Be sure and get, passage.
Mother has already sent to Washing
ton for passports. Senator Blank is
going to put them through for her.
THANK you. dear. You had better
come over here not later than Satur-
day, and 60 from here to New York
with mother.
''Oh, I'll be all right. I'm feeling
splendidly, you know, and with this
great retinue of servants and friends
about me, it would be very selfish of
me to think that l could not get
along. s-..-..,
Eyes. If you can come back this
way after your trip to New York,
l am sure that will be we'll
enough to go home with you.
"No, ! don't believe mother wants
anything. I'll ask her. If you leave
for New York Sunday she will have
time to do some shopping Monday
and Tuesday.
eyes, mother is all excited over
the idea and comparatively happy
since she got the letter"
Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-04
COOLIDGE'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS

Reduction Of taxation is again the outstanding feature
President Coodges inaugural address it in his
Message to the Congress which has passed into history
IN this phase of his policy he says:
T favor the policy of economy, not because wish to-
save money, but because wish to people. The
md of this country who toll the who bear
he cost of government Every dollar that carelessy
waste that their life will be much the more
GER. Every dollar that prudenty that their
lie will be so much more abundant
truism most exceently phrased The public demands
etrenchment in governmental expenses Excessive
ion parayzes business and the first person feel the
inch of business retenchment that follows the wake of
ng home much needed lesson.
Half of his address is devoted domestic problems and
he rest to foreign relations He proposes to adhere
the traditional policies in handling of foreign affairs and
he attitude of his administration is reflected in these
1--WE have been and propose to be and Amer
can If we have any heritage, it has been that. If
any destiny have found it, is that direction
He has reiterated advocacy to American adherence to
Je Permanent Court of International Justice Firmly,
however, he says:
/. "But there is very definite point beyond which
cannot We only help those who help themselves.
In the final lines of his message President Coolidge sounds
! note that should inspire every American:
: America seeks earthly empire built blood and
force No ambition, temptation lures her to thought
foreign domnions. The egions which she sends forth
armed, not with the sword but with the The
higher state to which she seeks allegiance of all mankind
is not of human but of divine origin. She chershes
purpose to merit the favor of Almighty Cod"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-04
In New York

New York, March 4-"Whcre do
all these big doormen in front Of the
hotels come from?' friend asked
me last night.
II don't know" l answered. "But
III tell you some of their names.
There's Peter Martin in front OF the
Waldorf. And that tall, slim drink
of-water at the Pennsylvania is Will
liam O'Rourke. Ralph Davenport is
at the Plaza, John Woods at the
Commodore August Lee at the Ritz,
Michael Chilly at the Vanderbilt, Jim
Griffen at the Roosevelt and Patrick.
Clancy at the Biltmore. If had one
guess. Id say they came from Ire
land"
And speaking Of hotels, there is
one good story every day in each
ono of the big hostelries here. They
each have a population as great as
that" Of many incorporated towns.
The other day silver butter plate
was returned to the Waldorf from a
young man in the middle west. He
took it as souvenir in 1915 while
on corn boys trip and it has been
on his conscience ever since. Re-
Gently woman returned a Gideon
Society Bible which she had taken.
She borrowed it because she was in
"a state of great trouble and needed
it's comfort, then became uncomfort-
/ ob1O hnno,,cn che lol <ol,
out permission.
There are several small shops in
town where piano rolls are made on
special order for player pianos. On
the lower west side is a shop where
Syrians and Turks 60 with the scores
Of old world songs and serenades
scrubbed on scraps of papers. The
operator makes the master roll from
that. A reproduction is sold for a
dollar or two, but if the patron
wants the master roll he pays $25
and up.
Farther up on the west side is an
other shop where the italians have
piano rolls made. Gay young men
compose their own airs, have the
thing transcribed for the player
piano, buy the master roll and pre-
sent it with the proper inscription
to their fair ones.
Of course, if the young Romeo is
a bit tickle he may have II copies
struck off the master roll at one time
and inscribe and distribute them at
his own discretion.
Fortune Telling goes on in New
York in many forms, but it's never
called by it's name. The subject
signs paper, usually setting forth
that what is about to ensue is in
no way telling of fortune, but
is reading" either of bumps on
the head, lines of the hand or letters
in the name. Having signed, the
subject hands over $40, sometimes
less and sometimes more, and the
reading" begins.
JAMES W. DEAN.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-04
ATTITUDE TOWARD PUBLIC DOLLAR

When Commissioner Henzer decided to leave Bismarck
asst September demand made upon him to resign
Some eight months will have elapsed before his term
pes known when he left that he probably would
got return in time to the city Some feeble protests
we're made and the question of resignation raised but Com
missioner Henzr has continued to draw his pay since
some $40 month for period of eight or nine months
without rendering any service to the CITY,
The amount of money involved is not large, it is true
aut shows the attitude existing at the City Hall toward
he public dollar. Commissioner Thompson has made many
futile attempts to force economy and efficiency He has
been out voted practically every issue of rerenchment
When the matter of handing R. Atkinson $1,000 up,
he fought against the payment but he has been in the
minority on every move to save the taxpayer money
. 1t hardly possible that the commissioners would
duct their business in that way Why shoot the tax
payers dollars to the wind then?
If Henzer did not want to resign when he knew he would
be gone practically year why did the pay 60 on?
Commissioner Thompson authority for the Statement
that the salary of Henzer has been paid each month while
he is in the west on his vacation.
Y How fine to have the taxpayers help finance vacation
i 1t is easy to why taxes high in Bismarck.
And it should be still easier to correct the situation
the voters will only register their opposition to this
of conducting the pubic's business
4 Taxpayers get just the kind of government they will
stand for. newspaper merely point the way. The
rest is to them. Government is only good and
efficient the voters will it.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-04

Instead, the officer is dead (his
own "gun" did not prevent that and
his assailant is hanged. The "gun"
did it.
Music Not the Only Thing
A Disguised college critic attri-
butes the jazz age to musical ignor-
ance. .
Students do not know the great
music, he says, and, unfamiliar with
it's language. they can not follow it.
True enough, as to the "great"
music. But few people can appre-
ciate greatness in anything, whether
in music, art, literature or thought.
Good things do not have to be
great. There are great stories. which
anybody can enjoy, which do not as
pirc to rank with the Divine Com
cdy, or The Ring and the Book.
So there is plenty of genuinely
beautiful music, which, if not
great" is good.
1t takes no technical knowledge
to enjoy it. If, between good light
music and bad jazz, people prefer
the jazz. it is not ignorance, but de-
generacy of taste.
Intolerance of MajOrtties
Majorities are intolerant. Witness
the might riders" who used to co.
cree growers into the. organization
to which their neighbors belonged,
and the recent recrudcscencc, on a
small scale, of the same thing among
the raisin growers of California.
In Greece and Brazil, the govern.
ment enforces membership in the
currant and coffee associations.
Other countries have done the
same thing with sisal and rubber.
Here it is constitutionally impossi-
BILE.
If nine-tenths of the producers
want to cooperate. and one-tenth
sclfishly stay outside, to enjoy the
benefits without sharing the bur-
dens. that is their constitutional
right.
No law can coerce them in. There
fore their neighbors are tempted to
do it lawlessly.
Of course it is not only wrong.
but worse than wrong. 1t is useless.
1t defeats its own purpose.
But it does illustrate that major
tiles are intolerant, and that only
the constitution can protect minori-
ties in their sacred right to be wrong.
Who Makes q Better Leader?
The chairman of the legislative
committee of the American Farm
Bureau charges that Secretary
Hoover "is seeking to dominate the
agriculture of America"
OF course nobody can or should
dominate" agriculture.
But if anybody is to "lead" it,
who is better adapted to its present
crisis than Hoover?
The urgent problems of apricul-
ture are business ones. Farmers
have learned much from experience
and something from the scientific
bureaus of the government on meth
DDS of producing crops.
What they now need is to sell
them. That is pure business.
Who better can lead in that bust
ness task than the accepted leader
of American business?
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-04

Another bad habit, INDUCED in by
many, many children, is eating be-
tween meals. This takes away their
appetite for food at mealtime.
OF course if the child gets very
hungry. he should be given some.
food. But this food should be plain
bread and butter or crackers and
milk, providing the milk lunch is
taken two or three hours before the
next meal.
The school child needs three good
meals day, and substantial lunch.
con in the afternoon. :.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-04
FABLES ON HEALTH-
NO COFFEE FOR BABY

Many mothers foolishly begin Civ
ing the baby sips of coffee while the
bahv is quite young. :
And in thousands of families chill
dren take their one and two cups of
coffee regularly just like their par
ents.
This is all wrong, Mrs, Jones learn
ed.
Children should never be given tea
or coffee, not even to flavor milk.
They will more often like the milk
if they have not been taught the
combination Of milk and coffee.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-04
DECLINE

Depreciation Of the French franc is creating almost
much uneasness in international financial circles the COL
lapse two years ago of the German mark.
According to Wall Street authority, students won
4erng whether the world is about to witness fight from
franc similar to the flight from the mark which resulted
carrying German currency down to point where ri
hon marks would not buy decent meal"
But France herself is worried than the inter-
national nanciers AS the French premier put in adj
to the Chamber of Deputies Ater having borrowed
he most possible by paying the least possible have
to the moment when have got to pay the most pos
tsible in borrowing the least possible"
WELL SPENT
Nobody in this world is useful than the millionaire
Tho spends his money wisely.
iSimon Guggenheim, mining magnate, has given three
Millions to the John Simon Guggenhem Memorial Founda-
Ion to endow feowshps for advanced study abroad The
rogam will be larger than that Of the famous Cecil
Rhodes scholarships.
This means opportunity for maryland more knowledge
pr none intelligent world. We be thankful for
&ockefelers, our Carnegies-and Guggenheims
The world would be better of if you could whistle with
y pipe in your mouth
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-04
ADVENTURE OF
THE TWINS
MRS. CRACKNUTs' ROSE SHAWL
BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON


Mrs. Cracknuts took the lovely red
and blue shawl that the little ped
der man handed her out of his pack
and held it up with little squcal
of delight.
II never saw anything so gorge
ous!" she cried. IF | buy this and
| wear it to Mrs. Bunny's birthday
party, l shall certainly be the belle
of the ball. How much is it, Mister
Peg Leg? Not million dollars,
hope" Asse
"No,' said the fairyman. IA mil
lion dollars less nine hundred and
ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred
ninety eight dollars and no cents
81 can't count that much" sighed
Mrs. Cracknuts. IL never was any
good at geography. But it sounds
awful"
"It's only two dollars" Nancy hur.
ried to tell the poor lady. "Miste,
Peg Leg was only joking
Laws daisy me! That's differ
cnt," said Mrs. Cracknuts in relieved
tone. Then III take it. I'll just try
it on to see how it matches my COM
plexion."
And she threw it over her should
crs and went over to mirror.
"The roses just match the tip of
my nose," she said proudly. "Now
don't tell soul have it, please, as
l want to surprise everybody"
"Certainly not" promised Mister
Peg Leg.
"Not word said the Twins.
"Anything else?" asked the fairy
man.
"Wcll,' said Mrs. Cracknuts, Il
suppose I'd better buy little pres
cnt for Mrs. Bunny. It's all the
style when you go to birthday par
ties, to take a little present along.
I'll have two-ounce bottle of your
best carrot perfume. please"
When the little peddlcr man and
the Twins had gone, Mrs. Cracknuts
put the shawl away carefully in her
bureau drawer.
She was so happy that she made
up little song. 1t went:
"Fine feathers make fine birds they
say,
Ira dunn de ay, ira dunn de ay,
Over the hills and far away,
Ira dunn de ay, ira dunn de ay!'
Every little while she would 60
and look at the shawl and even lay
it over her shoulder and walk up
and down. Once she even walked
out on to her porch to see how it
would look with the sun shining
on it.
At that very instant Mrs. Bunny
happened to be out emptying gar
bage into her garbage can. And
didn't she spy her neighbor in the
bright shawl.
ooh, DEAR" she sighed. II do wish
that Ben would buy me blue shawl
with red roses on it," Then she re-
peated it quite loudly so that her
husband could hear through the open
window. 81 do wish that Ben would
buy me bright red and blue shawl
for my birthday"
When she went in she peeped to
see how he had taken it.
But he went on reading his paper
and never let on.
BY and by the day of the party
arrived.
Mrs. Cracknuts took her shawl out
of her bureau drawer in the morn
ing. and it was simply a mass Of
wrinkles.
"rll have to hang it out to air."
she declared, "or it won't be fit to
be seen. I'll hang it out while l 60
to market
Mister Peg Leg and the Twins saw
it there and though it was queer,
but after all it was Mrs. Cracknuts'
shawl and she had right to hang it
out if she chose.
(To Be Continued)
(COnv<Oht 1Q0H NEA Corvicp Tnc
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-04

Friends and old neighbors of this
township received the sad news, that
Mrs. Chas. Knoll, former resident
of this township, had died at Rugby.
She was buried at Bismarck Feb. 20
in Fairview cemetery. Mrs. Knoll
was we'll known to many people Of
this community, helping many times
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-04

They say Pullman designed his
cars after seeing hunks. And his
sheets, probably, after seeing hand
kerchiefs.
The number of autos in Tokyo is
now 10000. Wonder what make the
500 are?
After years of research we beg
to offer an abbrcviation for Czecho-
slovakian. Let's call one Ccz-etc.
The National League used 43,224
baseballs last year. Fans should be
asked to close their mouths while
the ball is in play.
There are 5000 bee-keepers in the
United States. We are thinking of
getting a bee and grazing him.
A young flea, we read, can GO
without food for weeks; but, we add,
a young bedbug can not.
Wild boars still exist in French
forests. In America, the wild bores
are chiefly at bridge games.
Nearly two million bushels of
onions were imported last year, but
love conquers all.
Being a deep thinker does not
necessarily mean good thinker. The
water in many we'll is unfit to
drink.
The man worth $4,000 worries about
its not being six instead of realizing
it isn't four.
In India the moonstone is con-
sidered very sacred. In parts Of
America, so is the moonshine.
British golf balls are being ex-
ported to the United States, but
We fear they'll never see the jokes.
Brick made in the U. S. in one
year would build wall II feet high
around the entire country. Let's do
it.
China produces more anthony
than any other country, while we
seem to produce more matrimony.
Somebody's always knocking Chi
cago. Now it is claimed she has
more telephones than all of France.
More than $4,000 tourists camped
in Yellowstone Park last summer,
which certainly is lot of trash.
Our contention is man should
be at least 80 before he carries
cane and twice that before he wears
spats.
Sawdust bricks are being sold for
fuel. Well, it's fine wood.
Statistics show an ordinary pipe
can be smoked in 18 minutes. if you
don't run out of matches.
Very little is being done to save !
our forests. chiefly because of the
log rolling in Washington.
A man tells us he forgot to give
the cook something one Christmas
SO the next day she gave him indi-
gestion.
This is hog killing time. Hope
they get few of the road hogs.
Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)