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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-07-03
A THOUGHT

Whatsoever We do. do il heartily,
as to the Lord. and not unto men,
COlOssians 3:23.
There is no action so slight nor so
mean but it may be done to a great
purpose, and ennobled thereby--Rus-
kin.
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a new groom looks clean.

a new groom looks clean.
A straw vote makes the winds blow.
Cherries get by on their good looks.
The man who won't smoke another
mans pipe will kiss almost any men,
Der of the opposite sex.
Flies are too glad to welcome US
home.
Blessed are the peacemakers. but
cursed are the pacemakers.
Being on the right track is correct.
But if you just stop there you'll get
run over.
Watch your reputation. If you
stay out all night you may come
home and find it gone.
The world could be twice as bad
as it is. Suppose the seasons were
six months instead of three?
Some people who have been talking
for years and years still humble.
Only way to satisfy everybody
would be not to have any weather.
Nights are becoming almost as
short as ready cash.
Second hand informal Is usually
all out of shape.
Nothing makes your furniture look
old than buying one new piece.
Two in a canoe doesn't leave much
room for argument.
Who cares much about the price
of cotton stockings?
A puncture in the ego is harder
to fix thfn one in the auto
The trouble with getting somebody
to help you is they always look as
If you were SO ignorant.
Uneasy lies the head that's above
q sunburned back.
Being made at yourself isn't half
as bad as being mad at the world.
To make a man feel at home argue
with him.
Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)
HIS OFFICE
VISITOR Ito little girl by whom
she was being entertained)- Annie,
who is the man coming in the gate?
ANNIE-Why, that is Mr.. Lamb.
He is one Of the demons in our
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Editorial Review

Comments reproduced In this
column may or ma! not express
the opinion OF The Tribune They
are presented here IN order that
cur readers may have both sides
or important issues which are
being discussed IN the press Of
the day.
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CHRISTIANIA NEWS

Mr.. and Mrs. w. C.. Hoeft, Mr..
and Mrs. Dallas Barkman and Miss
Dorothy, and Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Olson and family were entertained at
dinner Sunday, at the NJ. j. Olson
home.
Emma Harding spent Monday aft.
ernoon at the W. c. Hoeft home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lesley French and
family of Bismarck spent Sunday at
the Carey Johnson home, north of
Sterling.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Nelson and
son, Harvey, spent Monday evening
at the NJ. Tollefson home.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. j. Olson and Miss
Alice left Wednesday morning for
various points in Minnesota and
South Dakota. The trip will be made
by auto.
A party was given at the Robert
Clark home Friday evening. A large
number were present and all report
good time.
NOTHING NEW
mr.: Lazybones left everything to
his Wife"
HE always did."-Pennsylvania
Punch Bowl.
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his summer home in raspberry
patch.
The Twins could see him out pick
ing raspberries.
Ito Be Continued.)
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BELGIUM LOAN IS FOR
CONSTRUCTION
By Chester H. ROwell

Why is it that American investors eagerly ovelsub
scrbed fifty million Belgian loan at the very time when
Belgium considering rather doubtfuly taking the first
steps pay day. part Of its American debt
"Amercan gulliblity the cynics But j. Perpont
Morgan and his clients gus They at least think
there is difference
The difference doubtless between loan for construc
ton and for destruction. There may be mora differ
in the obligations to pay But there is great practical
difference in the likelihood of payment constructive debt
pays itself It is invested in things that produce "the
wherewth" to pay it. destructive debt produces less
than nothing It must be paid by subtractng from the
subsequent product of essened industry after it's destu
ton done. If you loan to two men, of whom
to build factory while the other, in derum
burns up his old factory and the they may both be
still equally obligated, morally, to But which note
will the bank discount?
Take Plenty of Food If Visit South Seas
There is difference between and reality
Robinson Crusoe in the book might live for years the
of what Deoe thought tropical island would be
like but the survivors of the Chilean schooner Falcon after
year marooned South Sea set found much
ordeal.
Don't sigh, in your disiusoned moods for South Sea
island of your own The only Of them that fertile
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THE LIBERATORs

THE LIBERATORS
Among our literary scenes,
Saddest this sight to me:
The graves Of little magazines
That died to make verse free.
Keith Preston, in Chicago News.
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SCHOOLS

q SCHUOLS
Don't worry too much about the sort Of doctrines
your children may be taught in the public
The important thing u.s. they teaching your child to
think for himself
When he grows up will he be able to examine PROPOSE
lions on his hook and make intelligent DECISIONS or will
he have to take somebody eses decision all his life?
SC he's taught something that isn't he reject it
later provided he is taught how to think for himself
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HIS OFFICE

VISITOR Ito little girl by whom
she was being entertained -Annie,
who is the man coming in the gate :?
ANNIE-Why, that is Mr.. Lamb.
He is one Of the demons in our
church.-Answers, London.
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To make a man feel at home argue
with him.
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-07-03

Newsprint production in Canada
this year is greater than ever be-
fore.
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Being made at yourself isn't half
as bad as being mad at the world.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-06

more money than we can spend, is
THAT? Ask any philosopher, any
sage, any disillusioned and embit-
tered old millionaire you know.
But there is something worth
while, in this particularly disap-
pointing world; there is magic left.
For anyone of US who cares to find
it, there is a job so big, so sweet,
so soulsatisfying. that it dwarfs
everything else we have TO do. At
the end of a few months work
and those few months, remember,
may not be wholly easy-all other
work seems trivial.
America-greatest hearted OF all
the nations-is trying TO find a
home and mother for every Ameri-
can child.
ASYLUM is DOOMED.
There! That's the secret. That's
the job. The beginning of the big
gest job ever undertaken by the
world.
Bigger than the biggest war. Big
ger than the biggest scientific dis
covcry. Bigger than radio, motor
cars, sky-scrapers.
Because it follows the sure rule
for happiness, the only rule our civ
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-06

help poor guy what amt had nothing but hard luck
for years and years.
PA (Feeingly) You haven't had all the hard luck in the
world old boy. Spoken like honseholder)
RAGGED STRANGER: Well I've had than my
share Would you believe used have house and
country house and my Rolls Royce and my winters the
Riviera?
PA: (Vho had and ati, beligerenty) Well,
why didn't you keep 'em when you had EN-?
RAGGED STRANGER: 1t was the war; brother l sac
rificed all for my country While others home proeer
ing getn fat was there front lines throwing
and things All my business and my investments wiped
out-snap-lke that while l there fighting for my
country the rockets red glare and the bombs bursting the
air. And that wasn't the of it. When home what
do you suppose found to my great horror and surprise?
PA: (Ha-ayding gness) Twins
RAGGED STRANGER: (Mownfmly) No, nothing No
house. home, wife.
PA: (Softening) Well, that's not so bad You free
them wasn't your No place check nobody check up
What happened to the wife?
RAGGED. STRANGER: (Tensely) It months before
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-06
Fancy Every Delicious, Wistful, Soggy
Little Extra Baby Having
Enough to Eat"

to see their mother. Perhaps, like
thousands of others, she is only
a frightened peasant child herself
coming to us in the steerage at
fourteen, married after four years
isolation in somebody's kitchen to
one of her own countrymen-to a
man as ignorant of our customs as
herself.
To keep children with their own
mothers, changing the very natures
and lives of those mothers them
selves if necessary, and to give each
one Of them his own separate
chance, is surely @worth while"
The government thinks it is worth
while, as witness the continually
amplified and increasing laws to
that effect. and that those who
are experienced in the actual work
think so, too, is proved by the fact
that NONE Of them wants the old
way back, and NONE OF them finds
n word to say in defense of insti-
buttons. or is anything but eager 10
speed the good day when ALL chill
dren shall be handled by mothers
or foster mothers.
Homer Folks, secretary OF the
State Charities Aid Association Of
New York, reviewing what has been
done in % years, says after what
he calls FLOODED, scientific"
study of the facts, that rs per cent
of the hundreds of thousands Of
children handled in the new way
have become good citizens. OF the
rest, about half have been negligible,
doing nothing particularly bad. and
nothing particularly good. That
leaves II per cent for failure. and
some of that is mental failure.
Now considering the material, the
weakn, $, badness, ignorance. of the
stock from which these children
were drawn, the dirtiness and stu
pidity of all their domestic arrange
ments, their physical and moral
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-06

ilization ever has found, the rule
carpenters son gave his few poor
friends, on a mountain-side, 1000
years ago.
"Inasmuch as We do it for the
least Of these, We do it for Me-" And
that "for Me" means for God, for
good, for the love that is God.
Practical America does not dwell,
in words, at least, upon the relig-
ious aspect of what she is doing for
her children. But she says quite
simply and flatly that she wants to
do away with institutions and or
phan asylums, that her hope is to
keep every child with his own moth
er, when that is possible, and place
him in some other family, under a
motherly woman, when his own
mother is gone.
All over the union the work is
being done, by education, by legis-
lation, through magnificent dona-
tons of money, and through the
more magnificent donation of the
time and love and labor of hundreds
Of intelligent men and women.
Get the facts, you club women
everywhere. Work for this mag
nificent end. How many Of you
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-06

realize that in fourteen years AZ
states have adopted laws that help
to break up the old, cold institu-
tional way Of dealing with warm,
living, loving little humans, and that
now many of the heads of asylums
themselves are working toward the
better method?
Get the figures about what juvs-
nile courts, mothers pensions, and
the individual guardianship of
small children are doing; doing to
develop and save the one real wealth
of the nation, its girls and boys.
If your town is a big town, this
work is already begun there, and
you have only to offer your services
along already organized lines.
EVERY BABY FULL.
But the women 1 envy are the
ones in small towns and villages,
where the field is narrower, where
it is actually possible to see the
whole situation at a glance. Fancy
the distinction of being the first
town in the Union-and that means
in the world where EVERY de-
licious, wistful, soggy little super
flrous baby had enough to eat.
where NO child ever knew cold
ness, or loneliness, or neglect.
And don't waste time reasoning
that the parents are not worthy
that one may "pauperize" some
body. Lots of your women friends
and mine are sitting elegantly
about idle all day-idling for years
and years and years-and we don't
speak of them as "paupers. Be
cause a woman is a slattern and o
man a drunkard only means that
their innocent children need MORE
rather than less help. Ignore the
parents, with their shiftleness and
whining and flattery and begging,
and go straight to the persons you
MAY be able to save, that fat,
sweet, dirty baby in the high chair,
that pale little creeper on the
floor.
When the father dies, they don't
have to go to asylums now. These
children, THINKS to a generous gov
eminent, are assets, not liabilities,
now. After she gets her S73 or
SS7 a month, as a widow, go often
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-06
Finding Real Homes for Orphans Biggest Job Left Says Mrs.

amazingly discrepant amounts of
coal, and the heaters and stoves and
lights generally have alrcady-in ten
days run over their monthly es-
innate.
SEES, OLD HOME.
Ones "sweet old English brick
wall, by the elm, with a lawn for
tea," sounds differently when the
cost Of bricks and labor comes in,
and it appears that the property is
restricted anyway, and walls may
not be more than three feet high.
The library wall settles just a lit
tle-not unusual in new houses
and the man who carries away rub
bish and weeds and plaster and
ashes charges S. a day.
One day Mother is in the old
street, and she passes the old house;
the great trees bend lovingly over
the shabby roof. the front windows
windows Of the room where Billy
was born on that panicky, amazing
afternoon five years ago-are wide
open. There is an air of comfort,
Of usage, Of ease, about the side
garden and the upstairs porch.
Mother remembers the sitting-room
fircplace-how beautifully it drew;
but she thought all fireplaces drew
beautifully then,
DOES 1T PAYe
They might have gone on paying
$50 for that house indefinitely, and
the new house has already run over
$1,000. Mother looks at it, when
she reaches it. Pretty, of course,
all white stucco and pink brick.
more luxurious of course. But SO
raw, so unfinished, with SO much
yet to do! Raw gardens. half-made
streets, slips OF new trees all
about-the water from the main
will wash out the steps again if
those stupid men aren't careful
Billy dances down the muddy side
walk singing that Hannah says
there isn't ever er ,ugh gas-force for
roasting
And mother asks herself: was it
all worth while?
The fight for beauty--the fight
for social preference-are these
worth while? We know they are
not. The age-old human war for
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-06

handicaps. those are amazing fig
ures. They might easily lead one
to believe that in q less congested
community, in one Of our Midwest
ern towns, for example, where
clean. brave, courageous pioneer
blood runs in the veins of the entire
commonwealth, the percentage Of
success might be 100.
NEW WAY CHEAPER
Town laws, state laws, national
laws-every law that can be made
to keep a baby with his mother,
and then all the help we older Amer
leans can give that mother to make
her care efficient. incidentally this
saves our pockets, too; the institu-
ton child costs S20.15 a month,
the child at home, $1,000.
Remember, it might be your child
or mine. That confident baby,
dragging his chco-choo about your
porch this morning, might be star
ing up anxiousiy into perfectly
strange faces tomorrow. In his
baby heart he might be wondering:
"Whex, is sheS The soft. warm
person who always was so kind TO
me. who liked to have me in her lap.
These new people all push me away.
they talk Of ne as The case
Where's my own mother, who loves
me?" But nobody would answer
him.
There is enough money In the
United States Of America for every
good mother and her fatherless ba-
bies, and there is a foster-mothef--
often more loving to the stray baby
than to her own older anes for
every orphan baby. Help to keep
them together. and bring them TO-
gether, by finding out this morning:
/. just what your state laws are.
.. Just what the persons inter-
ested in forlorn babyhood are trying
to make them.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-06
Remember, Your Own Child Might
Be Staring Up Anxiously Into
Strange Faces Tomorrow"
BY KATHLEEN NORRIS

oneself married again with n diff
fcrent house and name and hus-
band, to be sure, but still-still
with the problems and disappoint-
ments and the general tedium of
living, TO face?
So with the new house. How we
wait for it, plan for 1t, struggle
for it All, IL we can get that
corner lot--and weren't we lucky
to snap it up just before it changed
hands! All, if we can get Bates to
draw our plans-just before he goes
to Europe!
THAT NEW HOUSE.
And isn't it too beautiful on pa
per; the tiled Spanish roof, the
Moorish arches, the grills and gate
ways. He has drawn it with big
dropping pepper and eucalyptus
trecs-of course they aren't even
DidULeu ycl'-uHu lOE oOlhC lSucoh
he has put country club next to it,
with people in red coats playing
golf, although the country club is
four miles away. But never mind,
the proportions Of the house are
what we need, and how ideal it is
going to be-! The big rug in the
hallway, n jar of pink and white
phlox on the stairway landing-little
towels in the guest bathroom-a
niche in the kitchen for breakfast,
II we arc ever without a maid
But when we get into the house,
how often we secretly ask our
selves, is this worth while? Sc
cretly. because it won't do to let
our friends know that we are at all
disillusioned. Everything has been
so horribly, so unexpectedly expen-
siye. The street work and the
plumbing and the levelling, what
staggering totals they have present
ed. Then the furnace uses such
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-06

knew and then learned the horrible truth Three weeks after
l enlisted, she married the recruiting officer.
PA: Well you're with him. should say the did
pretty well by you
RAGGED STRANGER: 1t busted me- that's what it did
1t ruined mentally morally and physically On tones dra
mdficdiy)
have followed the hearse of all my hopes
have buried them by
PA: (Headiug him off in timc) Haven't you really had
square meal for long timer Honest?
RAGGED STRANGER: Not square one, a round
one, triangular My stomach thinks my troats
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-06
Mrs. Norris Says

THERE is something worth while in this peculiarly disappointing
world. There is magic left.
Amercagratest hearted Of all the naons-is trying to find
home and mother for every American child.
That's the beginning the biggest job undertaken by the
world. Bigger biggest scientific discovery.
Practical America dwell the religious aspect Of what
she doing for her children But she quite simply and fatty that
she do with institutions and orphan asyum that her
hope child with its mother when possible
and place him family under mothey woman
mother is
Get the facts, Work for this gnicen
Find things First just whateyour
matter; what the interested
trying to make them
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-06
SCENE THREE

Ma win ofely emphasis and continuity Well, I'd like
to know where you get the big idea of dragging tramp here
to sit down and Thanksgiving dinner with us? Who do
you think you are, the Good Samaritan or something?
PA: Shhh he'll hear you.
MA And what if he does hear me want him to hear me,
hope he's got than you have going butcher
shop and getting turkey that isn't any bigger than canary,
and then if that wasn't bad enough you have add insult
injury by going and combng the for all the buns
you find not that it's difficult for you find buns birds
of feather flock together and there you but suppose you
think you got great big heart something but how about my
heart asked you question how about my heart?
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-06

Why pardner I'd fight bulldog for a bone.
PA: (Gouoing suddenly Nth Christian charity Well to-
days Thanksgiving Day. and I'm going to that you have
at least thing be thankful for How would you like
home with for Thanksgiving dinner? Turkey and every
thing.
RAGGED STRANGER: (Gleaning avolfiShly) How would
you like be left aont subtreasuy Lead brother we're
wasting valuable time here in idle persiflage.
pa leads on).
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-06

PROLOGUE

THEY had the least bit of consideration the Poes would
go and hide themselves out in the woods place today
and give the congregation something be thankful for
But the Potters being Poers would think of it in
fact they quite busy Thanksgiving Day themselves trying
to discover for being thankful and finally gave
p and fell to eating with the result that they had still less
be thankful for if possible All of the trouble
through the noble generosity of Pa the original Big Hearted
Herman. from the great Suburban Spaces.
SCENE ONE
There is alyo,s CLEAN of Clysan delight in the eyes
of the jolly old butcher sUhcn Pa into the shop
Selling Pa piece of eCng for double boyfcrhonse
the south side of tired old for tender zeal is aVha the
butcher calls Great Fan Imagine hoaV his happy heart
mast be pounding and hov the gay blood must be eosug
through those cked old arteries Pa comes in to buy the
Thanksgiving Turkey Who said there Santa
Cians?)
BUTCHER (Seeying his eapaeions abdomen around the
block, and advancing upon Pa sh guile than
agent) WE'LL WE'LL we'll Mr. Potter and what do for
you?
(Yon give him good meat for changc).
PA: (Overeome sh this royal reeeptiom) Why, lots of
things, lots of things. want turkey, for instance
BUTCHER: Laughing heartily and avsH he shond)
Turkey, eh? Sos your old man.
PA: (Paying this genealogical thrMst) NICE big, fat
juicy turkey
BUTCHER: (Beamng) I'll fix you up, Mr. Potter Leave
it to me.
PA: (Gaiy BELTS the fssve season You wouldn't fool
girl now, would you?
BUTCHER: have just the turk for YOU (He has,
You'll be surprised (He ,). Want to look at it?
PA: win that beautiful faith in humanity sphieh makes
democracy oha Isl No. I'll leave it all YOU know can
trust you to do the right thing by me.
BUTCHER: (Simpy and impressive) When say
thing Mr.. Potter it There's turkey in this place
good enough for you You just leave and the little
old Thanksgiving dinner will be all jake Yes sir And don't
almost. No sir
Pa Tonchcd almost tears BY the sincerity his big,
honest fae) And vegetables Lots of vegetables You know
er, potatoes and vegetables.
BUTCHER: We don't have vegetables.
Pa (ADtascd by the intaeics of american commerce.
You don't have vegetables? Well who has (Srnck by snGdcn
flash of saperhnon incgeuee know the grocer internal
applause from the old snbconco guess I'd better hurry in
there and get the vegetables for Mrs Potter I'm doing the
shopping for her you know
BUTCHER: (TrnthfnlyJ Yes know
PA: (Snddeniy arrested the threshold by that influence
1Vhieh call intuition and Just plain horse sense
You're that's going to be nice turkeya big, fat
juicy bird.
BUTCHER: win hurt look in his big brotOn eyes, How
could you ask Mr.. Potter? Believe you bird