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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-02-02
FOOL BILLS
IDick;uC0o prpcoA

Dickinson Press)
Ii would seem that at every ses-
sion CT the state legislature certain
chosen representatives OF the peO-
pie must break into limelight
through the Introduction of fool
bills and resolutions into either
house.
We learn of an instance where.
the other day representative
from Cavalier county iptrM.uced a
bill that would assess fine of
from 10 to Is cents per acre upon
land owned by farmers who fail to-
practice diversification. Tommy
rot! Whoever before heard Of
such fOolishness? This bill, so far
as its merit is concerned Is about
on par with the one providing
that all baby cabs must in the flu
ture he four feet and six inches
wide.
Then we have the perennial Of
flee seekers who are endeavOring
to make the legislators believe that
an immediate investigation Of .vari-
Gus state depa rtments is neces-
sary-sait! Investigations to-, be
made for political purposes only as
the Developments of the past week
have brought out. But neverthe-
less, these were the cause of the
introduction Of several resolutions
in both bodies. :,
Then we have the gentleman
from Williams county insisting
that the assembly memorialize
congress to recognize Soviet Rus
STA. -a.. (
Last but not least Biz Martin,
senator from Morton county, comes
along and asks that body to APP
point a committee of five to in
vestigate the stale highway COM
mission (that body is already un7
der fire in the jlostse), the guar
anty fund -cgnllHisSi0n,s the receiv-
ership of closed state banks, the
board of administration, ETC., etc.
All these are insisted upon de-
spite the fact that Governor Sorlie
has frowned. upon political investi-
cations of any nature and worked
consistently to keep harmony be-
tween factions. .
Senators and representatives
who propose such fool stunts not
only bring ridicule upon them
selves but upon the voters who
elected them and the state as we'll
from outside sources. ..,
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road into a muddy ditch and stopped.
Huh! Now ! can't move. won
der what's happened!" said the auto
mobile. "And the mud doesn't feel
so good after all. Goodness! Pm
getting up in the world. My master
IS pumping something under me and
I'm going up and up and up. Huh!
] wonder what that's for! =
Goodness! Chains! Are they going
to halter me? Oh, putting them on
my hoofs-tires, l mean! How queer!
They never did that when l was q
horse.
"There! Pm moving! I'm out Of
the mud again. Goodness! l thought
it would be fun but it wasn't" .
The automobile kept on talking and
talking to itself, although it all just
sounded like chug- chug-chug-
jiggle-jiggle! to anyone who was
listening. E
"Now Pm on my way again. Oh!
Honk! Honk! Do keep out of my
way. Those chickens will drive me
crazy.
VII! AHaL was d uoS tuNt IIiHS
I just missed him! I all but upset
keeping out of his way, too! Nui-
sance, call it. a.,
There! hear another car coming
behind me. never let horse beat
me and now Pm not going to let
another car pass. No sir, can GO
much faster. Just watch! Oh; dear!
l. promised that l wouldn't race.
forgot. But it's such fun to. race
/ wish I hadn't promised. n
81 don't think it will matter just
once. Honest, can't let that car
pass. I've too much pride. #.
"'There! I'll just let myself out a
little"
The automobile stopped talking
and got down to business. Faster
and faster and faster it went.
When it. came to the turn in the
road where the Fairy Queen and the
Twins were waiting, crash! 1t hit "a
tree and off went a step and two
wheels.
The Fairy Queen waved her wand
There stood the black race horse
again. is
"You're better as you were," said
the Fairy Queen. "Silly wishes often
bring us to grief"
(TO Be Continued
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The Grand Old Game of Bluffing
BY Chester H., Rowen

Some people will do almost anything tor front" We
have aavs had those who better clothes and lived
better hoses than they could afford not for luxury
travagarce, but as a business investment.
hev thought they could get ahead faster by pretending
to have got ahead already.
Now, since the income tax returns are public a new
variety is reported voluntary tax boosters who pay
more than their due get the reputation OF large incomes
lis strange game, this bluff and the blufest part
of It is butfing yourself into thinking you are bufing
others. 49,. -
Deccncy speech is growing almost respectable just
as damn becoming ladylike anything much worse
ceases to be gentlenanly
When the great Holy Name parades were held last
spring. they exhibited to the American people hundreds
thousands of members society opposed to profanity
obscenty and devoted purity of speech and conduct
They manly looking lot too-not smlrklng Sissy
dour puritan among them .
Now an international antbasphemy and antobscenity
conference being called and the king of England sends
his ambassador notify the Italian government of his
hearty approval
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POWER TO TAX

instances government agents fail to realize that
their power does not necessarily the ability of
the people pay and that always the to tax brings
with the power to destroy Taxes have reached point
in this city where many longer have the ability pay
and this fact if other should be warning to all taxing
President Coolidge recently appeared before the federal
department heads and told in address which in
this city picked out of the air. via radio how great
ing had been made in federal expenditures More than two
regime that the thrift and in the disbursement OF
public money will continue
tolls of the so-caled expersusuay three five per
city engineer whose bread and butter depends upon his
are necessary for the welfare of the community well
fare end of the promotion usually left to legal talent who
who apply the hot air. and then the horde of contractors
and other direct benefcaries The hue and raised
and those who have the boness to suggest that the tax
has rights and his ability to pay should be con-
suited attacked enemies Of progress.
1T possible that the city commissioners may par
tcpate directly indirectly in the sale of supplies to fav
ored So tightly knit is the community Of in
erests that the left out of consideration and
unless he organizes and veoes the he will
Cities are probably the worst offenders in the matter
of tax increases school authorities are close second and
often outstrp the city administration and then follow
in line county officials Taxpayers and voters and who
after all is not taxpayer directly or indirectly
make their strength felt at the polls against those officials
who refuse to handle public funds with the care as
they do their money.
Occasionally one hears this expression:
:. Thank Heaven, I'm not a taxpayer
analysis of the situation shows however, that
IL woman VINO mas remarked tnat she
not taxpayer she has only to scrutnze purchase
made in day and what portion went to meet taxes. One
writer has analysed it in this graphic fashion:
Downtown she had bought straw hat for Sc,
hooks and eyes and pins, for rs CENTS cotton
dress goods for So and had paid her months bill for
$3.50 Then tired out she had to soda fountain and
bought sundae for Is cents About ten cents of the price
of her hat went to taxes for the manufacturer whole
ser and retailer cents out of the rs cents she paid for
hooks and and pins went to the same taxes for
else Of the price she paid for dress goods about SO
cents had gone for taxes" .'-
might be extended this ind-
cate that everyone is taxpayer and when city commits
sion hands city engineer grauty of nearly $4,000 of the
payers hard earned money that piece of extravaganza
passed every individual in the community not at the
public crib. It cannot be lodged
The tax question is that every man.
and child in the community despite the dust throwing tactics
of The "tax-eaters.' .s
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The value of wishing is it makes
you so dissatisfied you go out and
see that the wishes come true.
Common sense is what makes q
college education valuable.
Concentrated education is about
like drinking beef tea instead Of eat
ing steak.
Nice thing about cussing cold
weather is you don't have to stop to
!. slap fly off your nose.
i al ~
Reading the wrong kind of books
is just the same as associating with
the wrong kind of people.
Success is living because you want
to instead Of because you must.
Truth is changeable like the
weather, and just because the wealth
err changes you can't say there isn't
any weather.
If today is a blank it is because
you regarded it that yesterday.
Perhaps modern music doesn't last
long because it goes SO fast.
--ttn
People spend years looking for
things to find happiness in without
realizing it is inside. .-.
The man who spends his time
Dragging about his >ancesters is not
likely to have descendants who will
brag about him. I'M
With the world on wheels so much
of the tine it is not surprising some
get into heads.
Circumstances do not make the
man who makes the circumstances.
These who have done great things
had only one life in which to do
them, which is the same amount of
time you have.
A flower is not as big as tree,
but flower never intended to be-.
While truth dwells in the inner
man it is improved by trip abroad.
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LETTER FROM BEATRICE SUM-
MERS TO SALLY ATHERTON

My Dear Sally: From the letters
you have written me lately l have
decided that we of the moving pic
ture colony, whom everyone seems
to think are different from everyone
else, are just human beings after all.
We eat and sleep and love and hate
and live and die out here in Holly
wood just as they do in Pittsburg
or Kalamazoo, New York or Cairo.
Poor Leslie, I am sorry for her. l
never could understand Jacks great
appeal to her, but l heard yesterday
that one of the moving picture
queens had said that she could not
understand my appeal to Dick. So
I guess these kind Of conundrums
will have to be left unsolved.
have made the acquaintance,
since 1 have been here, of a very
charming woman. She is a woman
about the age of Leslie's mother.
She is playing grande danes in one
of the companies on the lot. Dick
makes fun of me because he says
that. I have picked out the oldest
and 2staidest woman in Hollywood
to be my friend. But l can't help
it. I have missed my mother so
much although l was quite young
when she died.
She has been very wealthy wo-
man, child of an old and very aris-
tocratic family, who married a young
salesman in her fathers employ.
He died some years ago and left
her penniless, SO the story goes.
She has a very dignified and
charming presence and you have
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ca some OF them among other men on
the roof After the eclipse these
Fellows slipped the negatives in their
pockets and carried them home. Lat
er on Mr.. Cohn discovered that the
1ilms showed bathing beauties. A
person with imagination might write
humorous domestic comedy about
the situation that arose when the
wives OF the eclipse gazers found the
negatives in their husbands pockets.
In Central Park there is a NINA
ture farmyard where cows mob.
sheep baa, chickens cackle, ducks
quack and pigs squeal. It is here
That many New York children gain
their only glimpse of domesticated
ANIMALS and fowl. And there are
some New York children who do not
see even these. They still believe
milk comes from bottling works,
ana does soda pop and dads hooch.
The problem of the missing person
is ever present in New York. but sell
dom comes, to the attention of the
general public. One Of, the. morning
papers prints a. list of missing per
sons who are. sought by relatives or
friends. AT present there are 70 in
the list. About one-fourth Of the
names are of seamen.. About one
haif are t!of persons separated from
relatives by emigration to this coun-
Try and about ne-fourth of the
names appear to be of young women.
~
charlie, bartender in speakeasy,
was bemoaning the good old days.
Many and many a day had as
many as four or five shirts torn
from my back" he said, "but + hard
~ ever have SCRAP now. We bar.
tenders always hit first when sxe
saw we were going to have trouble.
most OF the fellows who hunted
iight in saloon had all the fight
taken out of them if they were hit
first" ~,
JAMES w. DEAN.
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~ADVENTUREO OF.
THE TWINS
BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

Nancy and Nick and the Fairy
Queen came to a place in the road
where the new little black automo-
bile would have to pass.
Then they watched and waited.
You never in the world would have
guessed that it had been fine race
horse not fifteen minutes before.
But it had--and the Fairy Queens
wand had changed It.
This is what it was saying to it.
self. "My, but this is nice! But !
must not forget what l promised.
promised the Fairy Queen not to
race. 49,
"There's chicken! Lob good
ness. l almost stepped on it'll mean
ran over it!
There's some mud beside the
road. It looks cool and soft. Il feels
SO good on ones hoofs--I mean tires.
II wonder If my master would
mind If / ran over and got into it .
little. think III try"
+ AHd the first thing you know that
silly automobile slid right off the
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in NEW YORK

New York, Feb. 2.-See- saving
up and down Broadway'1 saw Jim
Corbett,; the boxfighter, and he has
not SO much of a paunch as I, albeit
ne knocked out John l.. Sullivan a
year before / was born :. ~.
Saw Myrtle Stedman, veteran of the
Pickering drama, and she looks not
day older than her son, though he
is o., He weighs 225 and seems
quite a man of the world. Saw
Lila Lee in a glittering green frock,
running around with Jim Kirkwood,
her husband. ...... Saw a man step
from a door Of the Times Building
strike a man passing by in the face
and walk away. No word was spoken
by either. What was it all about???
Saw snow shoveller stop work, look
up at the eclipse and then yell at
another laborer, "Hey, Tony, lookit
the moon shining in the daytime!".
Saw Eddie Cantor, who has the
brightest eye on Broadway. Saw
my North Carolina brother who tells
me flivver joke | have not heard
before. 1t is: swell, there's one thinp
you've got to say for Ford-it
ratties before it strikes.
Saw Marguerite de la Motto and
John Bowers, players in the silent
and dumb drama, as it is ometimes
called, and Marguerite was radiant
in red chiffon. :. $3.50 Saw Herman
Gantvoort, whose dad used to teach
me music. n high school and whose
brothers and sisters are all verv
musical Herman is now full.
1eathered producer, his first plav ON
Broadway being ~Hefl's Bells"
Saw Fanny Ward and a. good old
scout is she. She tells me that a
movie company wanted her to NAV
"stella Dallas" but decided at the
last moment that She is too young
Gene Cohn, the talented vouno
scriyener, Witnessed the eclipse from
skyscraper roof. Tie carried a
pocket full Of old Photographic me-
gatives to protect his eyes. He PASS
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LAY ONE TROUBLE,
SET UP ANOTHER

New China is trying TO remove the
barrier between it's people and the
sources of knowledge by adopting
new alphabet, which will make it
almost as easy for a Chinese child
to learn to read as it now is for an
American or European child.
The trouble is that, in thus re-
moving one language barrier, the
Chinese will be setting up another.
The one bond of unity of all China
has been thS written language. The
Chinese provinces and districts all
speak different languages.
|" If the written language, in China,
were what it IS in our languages
merely a. way of writing down the
spoken language-there would be
no common means OF communication.
But the Chinese written language
is something different. 1T is strictly
written. 1t can not be spoken-or, if
it were, nobody could understand it.
Only the highly educated can read
it we'll, and most Of the people cam
not read at all.
But those who do read, all read
the same things, no matter where
they live or which language they
speak. g,,f =, wi. Nas- ,....,,
- They are the leaders OF the peo-
pie, and the 'consmon written Ian
guage makes them consciously one
people, of one culture. 'F.,' 49,
Now, if an alphabet is introduced,
it must, like all other alphabets,
simply transfer to paper the spoken
language. More people, >ill learn to
read--but they will read as inahy
languages rs the 'polyg.lot peoples of
-EurOpe. :. - t.h.l .-L-.a
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:: The TQnQle :: =:

seen her often on the screen. You
| will recognize her name when give
it. 1t is Marta Selwyn.
fell in love with her on the
screen and went over to the lot on
purpose to ask her over to my house
Since then have studied her care
fully There is something in her
face that would lhadA to mead
know from looking into her clear
yet somewhat worl,..weary eyes,
eyes that show enough. interest and
enthusiasm to still question that
some Of her experiences must have
been soul-scorching.
But for all that her mouth does
not reveal any hardness and her
complexion has much of the fresh
ness Of youth. knew she had a
| story. n .. - 4- -.
How Dick laughed at me when j
told him Of my theory that ugly
selfish, suspicious thoughts and ac-
ton worked havoc with ones 'com-
plexion. -.
"You can hardly tell, what man
or woman will be befOre.. 40, but
believe, Dick, that cans tell what a
man or woman has been hbS looking
into his or her faceo hftefo4. Vs..
snow l KNOW" l went on full of
my theory, shat poor Mrs. Selwyn
has a face made beautiful by sad ex-
perience."
Dick told me was too fanciful
but as though to make my theory
, come true the next afternoon, Mrs
Selwyn told me this story, am
writing this to you because l have
made a scenario out of it and Dick
is going to put it on for me. =
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ON HEALTH
FOR BROKEN LEGS &;

A neighbofA across the way called
Mrs. Jones. -
;. Johnnie has broken his leg, / be-
level she said excitedly. "Fell
down the stairs!"
:. MRS. Jones hurried over. The doc.
tor was called at once. and in the
meantime Johnnie was made as com
Portable as possible. RI,
Mrs. Jones and the mother were
part,
There always is asaker, of the
rough ends Of the. bone forcing them.
selves through the skim" Mrs. Jones
explained.
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before the doctor arrived some
splints were improyised from, an old
oox the mother had brought home
from the grocery. $500. .,N...., !,
They were. careful that the splints
were longer than the bone, and then
some old clothes were obtained for
padding. The padding always should
be placed under the splints next 70
the flesh. so t{ ~
well, you have handled the case
very well SO far" the doctor told
them when he came.
"Now we'll see if we can't fix hin
up, just fine" N5g
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munity have felt the need of a place
in which to hold their worship for
some time, and recently decided to
build,a church in Hazelton. q.
Last week committee were, out
working among the members and
others Of the vicinity with the result
that they have gathered enough
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Editorial Review

Comments reproduced IN tbts
the opinion Of The Tribune. Tn ~
are presented here In order that
our readers may have both sides
Of important Issues which are
being discussed In the prS1s Of
tho day. '.'.
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coopesseowns Gid b., .1Feb. 2-rbe
debating team of the Cooperstown
high schs q ~ a contest here, won
: t*oto sbhs' deciAfoh' JJ1er the Han. .
nafofd team. in the Schools openins
debate OF the 1925 interscholastic
state championship series. .'.'
The Cooperstown team, comnosad
q Ross Phipps, Selma Tsns esq
Iheodcre Turnquist,, upheld the If.
t g, y q ths; Question: Resolved.
shat the tinted. States government ~
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KEEPER OF
THE GATES

England is to build an air base,
as well as a naval base, at Singa-
pore.
The two go together. Look at the
map, if you want to see why Eng
land builds this base.
There are four gates to India, all
in territory held by other powers
and England holds all four. E'
Gibraltar, geographically. in Spain;
suez, in Egypt; Alden, in Arabia, and
Singapore, at the tip of the Malay
peninsula.
The first four are the western
gates. Singapore commands the
eastern entrance.
The choice is long detour around
Borneo and Java. Whoever holds
THE gates, holds India ; "a ,i"'''
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money to warrant the building opera
tions. : ssf, ~
This. week anothefs committee will
select and negotiate for the purchase
of a site, and i is expected that all
the preliminaEies will have been. at
tended to SO that. building operations
can begin as soon as spring opens up.
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IS JAZZ MUSIC
IMMORAL?


"Jazz may be bad music. There
are even fastidious puristss who
think it is immoral music.
But, at its worst it at least de
serves q better fate than being made
the, synonym Of life consisting
mostly Of lewd and drunken orgies.
"The, Jazz life" does not mean a
life devoted to confederation of
barbafic f}6ises which some people
suppose is music.
1t means a life from which So
briefly, virtue and honesty are lack
ing.
If jazz, as music, has any defend
ers, they should protest against tTiis
misuse of the word to. design:re
crime and debauchery.
Or else-are the purists right,
after all? Is jazz, just as music =,
something immoral in itself, and the
instigator of other immoralities?
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CROWDED

Interesting facts contained in the New York Depart
rnent of Health bulletin.
Among them is the conclusion that density of populato
itself appears to have effect the cys death rate the
index being found in the increase in number of
occupying
Infant death rate says the bulletin is twice great
when five persons live in when two occupy
similar room.
Overcrowding is of the biggest problems health
institutions have to contend with. 3 f.s~i.e
Number of deaths 1882, decrease of 2180 from
the preceding veyear average This is greater progress
than at first apparent considering New Yor
population increase in the last six years.
Most important fact of ALL however, is that New Yorks
great saving of life under five years of The best
crrion of peoples civilization is the rate of infant
tally. K
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LICENSE TO WE'D
A Thought.

He that worketh deceit Shall not
dwell within my houses he that tell
eth lies shall not tarry. In my, sight.
.-Ps. 1o1:7.
You should not live one way in
private. another in pnblic.-Syrus:
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AUTOS

Automobile travel the luxury Of the rich Now
IS about the cheapest family the country
Autos also are cheaper buy in this the twsntyfth
year 81 the industry than they They cost lAss
than gobd horse and buggy did not many years ago
The automobile has just about passed the stage where