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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23
What Is an Education?

A certain national magazine the other day
planned that universities and colleges must be
falling down on the job, since they teach students
many things that will not help them to make
living after they graduate.
This plant is cid and somewhat stereotyped. 1t
can be summed up as follows: Don't load students
up with lot of useless classics; teach them how
to better their material condition; give them train
ing that will enable them To- make $4,000 year
where their fathers made $4,000; train them for
business, for industry make Solid prosperous citi-
out Of them and forget all unnecessary "frls.
This attitude represents the feelings Of consid
cradle proportion Of citizens.
Schools giving technical training undoubtedly are
highly important. These range all the way from
the post graduate schools of medicine and law to
agricultural colleges and business schools. They
include training in business administration, bank
ing craftsmanship, industrial chemistry and on;
and they do vast deal of good.
This much admitted, however, the question
mains: Should make this kind of training the
most important part Of education? Why? Is it
that we, nation, can comprehend and apprc
cate only those things which readily are convertible
into dollars and cents?
true education, according to the older school
of thought, has very little to do with the realities
of business and industrial struggle; its chief aim
is to equip the young mans mind 50 that he will
see business and industry in their proper perspec
tive; that he will be able to get from life
meaning and richness totally apart from money;
so that he will be able to provide his values
for the world and it's rewards. instead Of accepting
unquestioningly the values his fellows place on
them.
It is for this that our universities teach Homer
and Virgil and Horace 1t is for this that Dante
is studied, and Perarch, and Shakespeare and Mar
lowe and Keats and Whitman. 1t is for this that
students study the philosophers Of Plato and Spi
and Kant. 1t is for this that they delve in
the history Of ancient Rome, trace the courses of
the distant stars and study such things geology
and psychology
These studies perhaps do little to help the
age graduate gather wealth. But they do immeas-
urably increase the young mans capacity for v-
ing life full of beauty and meaning.
Which, perhaps, may be slightly more important
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23
Cleaning Up the Theatre
INo,,, Vox,l, T:,>.z,N
New York Times)

Nc will deny that the police authorities are
bound to act when complaints by responsible cti-
zens made that given theatrical production
violates the Penal Code In that case, as Acting
Mayor Mckee observes, the police are not acting as
dramatic censors, but endeavorng to ascertain
whether crime has been committed. Yet all mast
feel that the actual method Of procedure has been
awkward and ineffective. Actors and managers are
arrested but the play is not closed. The final deci-
SIGN is to be left to court trial which may be
long drawn out and followed by successive appeals,
while all the time the play may 60 capitalizing
it's new notoriety. What the police have done may
have been their duty but the method is most hap
hazard and unsatisfactory. 1t does not reach the
core of the real problem Of cleaning house in the
theatre.
Close upon the police raids comes the announce
ment of plan by Mr.. Ames and his committee to
keep the control of theatrical morals within the
hands of board jury, representing managers
! actors, playwrights and the public. 1t is pleasant
to note that District Attorney Banton gives his
hearty approval to this proposal, and wishes the
Ames committee all success. The great merit Of
the scheme consists in its being always function
ing, while its decisions would be prompt and final
A play found Objectionable would not be taken into
court to the long and uncertain hazards Of liti
cation, but would be instantly stopped, since no
actors would appear in it, Thus the proposal seems
to be of a strengthened and more efficient play
jury All complaints would be Instantly attended
to, plays about which preliminary reports were dis
quoting could be passed upon at special perform
ance before reaching the public, and the powe,
as well as the purpose of the decent theatre to
troll the dramatic productions in this city would be
indicated. All interested in this burning question
must hope that the serious and worthy attempt of
the theatre to protect itself from obscenty and
affronts to public sentiment will accomplish much
more and soon stand higher in general favor, than
sporadic and necessarily futile interference by the
police
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23
Lillehaugen Wanted
Normal School Grads
to Teach in Country


Rural schools would have received
more normal school graduates than
they could use had a bin introa"oed
in the house by Rep. M. T. Lille
haugcn, Walsh county, been enacted
into law.
The measure would require grad
yates Of normal schools or of edu-
cation courses at the university or
agricultural college tn teach ono
year in the rural schools before they
would be eligible to receive certli-
icate permitting them to teach in the
city schools.
The object Of the bill was to pro-
vide higher grade of teaching in.
struction in the rural schools BY in.
surfing an adequate supply of normal
scnooi graduates. At present most
normal school graduates try to OBJ
tain positions in the city schools as
soon as they have completed their
courses, educational leaders say.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23

against her, to force her into the
electric chair or prison FOR life
you forget that she Is young and
! ut;tul two weapons more power
full than any defense. except 4 nlur-
dcrer'S confession, that Churchill
could use against the prosecution. :
Bob reminded her. And she is no,
friendless. George Prui,t came to NE
today and offered any sum up TO
ten thousand doliars--;.ll OF his per-
sonai fortune before he receives his
inheritance from his father--to help
clear her. if it is needed He made
ii quite plain. however, that he was
thinking OF YOU, rather than of Cher
~. He still loves you, Faith |
con; see why YOU picked me out
when YOU could have had the only
son of the rich Lincoln Fruits. Oh,
forgive me, dearest I'm not jealous,
really. N pleased that others love
you, so long as YOU arc sure you
want me-
TOMORROW More about the mys
teriOus letter.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23
IN NEW YORK
TOMORROW More about the mys
FERROUS letter.

New York. Feb. 23.-Another Of the
sporadic outbursts of cleanliness,
sweeping through the Broadway
theater, has carried an unpleasant
odor across the nation.
And In many hamlet and city
the question recurs: just how
wicked is New York?
To which | hasten to reply: it's
Just as wicked as you want it to be.
If You care to have it wicked: if
YOU wish to find every form of ugli-
ness, temptation, lure and degen-
eracy--it will be pleased to assist
you. If, on the other hand, you
seek inspiration, beauty, the high
est national expression in every art
again it will be glad to assist you.
Now, in beginning this tour of
New iork's varied values Of good
and bad, il is important to remem-
Der that the reputation for wicked
ness has been built over the years
and is inground deep in the national
psychology.
Way back in the days of the ten,
twent'. thirt' melodrama, who was
the villain? Why, the city slicker
from New York! And where was
he going to lure the beautiful
maiden? To New York, Of course!
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23

And Why Because New York was
a wicked. wicked city. and all
strangers .herefrom We're betrayers.
Again. il the old days Of rube
hgrtor:
Where WAS ]. Uncle Josh was go
ing To New York And why? To
kick out the lights, And when he
came back what did he report ?
With winks and smi.ks and digs in
the ribs he RECALLED the boys with
sly insinuations of girls in tights
and lights that stayed on way after
half-past ten.
Ever was there this feeling that
once the rails had put a few
hundred or thousand miles between
the old home town and Manhattan,
the signal was automatically given
to be gosh-darn wicked, by gum.
The cheap novels have done little
to help the wicked city's reputa-
ton, and all the home and fires id e
magazines, and more lattcrly the
confession periodicals, have con-
tinucd the time honored device of
the girl away from home, strug-
CLING against every form Of vii
lainy and vice conceivable in little
old New York.
And in all of these pictures there
is an atom of truth. In hundreds
of individual instances the incred-
lille picture drawn by the old plays,
the novels and the movies is but
half the lurid story.
To this day they come in droves,
in hordes, in floods. leaving behind
for fortnight the inhibitions and
conventions of the home town to
rcvel in the flesh pots Of Gotham
They 20 home with the same smrk
and wink that characterized Uncle
Josh. The travelling men have been
modern troubadours of this naugh-
tiness, passing across the country
the boldness of this and of that
play or musical show; Of this caba.
ret and that.
Any hotel clerk will tell you; any
taxi driver will tell you that the
visitors to Manhattan-particularly
unescorted males-will at once
make inquiry regarding the where
abouts Of these hotsy totsics< and
speakeasies and naked shows and
vulgar exhibitions.
Yes, they are all here, just as
sideshOws are in carnivals; just as
hootch dancers drew the boys into
the little side tent of the circus.
There is leprous, furtive and
shadowy reality as we'll; Shiny
stream that runs just underground,
appearing now here and now there
ugly, sordid and more than mere
ly wicked
And now that the spotlight again
is cast upon Broadway and the ma
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23
The Veneer Is Still Thin

ilized people.
In Trip, S. D., members of a religious cult tied
woman in bed and kept her there without food, for
three days. ito drive the devil from her body Press
dispatches say these folk became nearly hysterical
when officers finally drove them away and rescued
the woman.
:. The superstitous, cruel man Of the dark ages is
still with US, covered only by thin Of civil
izaton. few centuries ago such practices in
dulged in by the most educated people in the COM
munity; today there are many who consider then,
efficaciOus.
Verify, the work Of public education has much yet
to accomplish!
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23
Chaff From the
legislative Mill

i Spectators at the general assembly
sessions evidently keep as we'll in
formed Of events in both the senate
Ind house of representatives as the
members themselves.
Through long weary sessions when
routine matters are being considered
ths galleries ct the rear Of each
chamber will remain pFactically
empty. but when the time arrives
for either house to consider anything
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23
VinOl Helps Nervous,
Rundown Man

Before taking vinol, was run
gown; nervous and irritable. Now,
! feel like another person."--R. Me-
Coy. Vinol is simple, strengthen
ing iron and cod liver compound in
use for over 25 years for sickly, nerv-
Gus women. rundown men and weak
children. The very FIRST week YOU
take Vinol. you begin to feel stronger,
eat and sleep better. Contains no oil
NouIi like its pleasant taste. Hut
chlnson's drug store.-Adv.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23

George Il. Iwem. George {. Meyers
and Clarence p. Gullickson.
Hebron Radio company, Hebron,
$1,000; Joseph Hauser, Theodore
Hauser and Joseph Rebling.
Scranton Ignite Coal company
Scranton. $4,000; Andrew Kesiak,
Stanly Szymanowski, both Of Scran-
ton. and Thomas Kalisiak, Chicago
Melville Credit company, James
town. $4,000; J. B. McManus and O.
w. Wiseman, Melville: Charles Ben
nett, Edmunds; H. c. Fulton, Pin
gree; and c. L. Leverson, Mont
pelier.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23

expected to cause a fight the word
seems to spread like magic and
spectators gather in large numbers,
apparently from nowhere.
Many who come to hear remain
only to see, however. since the
speakers usually face the chair and
the galleryitcs are required to strain
their ears to hear even a smattering
Of what is Transporting on the floor.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23
Old Masters

What delightful hosts are they
Life and Love!
Lingeringly | turn away,
This late hour, yet glad enough
They have not withheld from me
Their high hospitality.
So, with face lit with delight
And all gratitude, stay
Yet to press their hands and say.
"Thanks.--So fine time! Good
night"
James Whitcomb Riley: "A
Parting Guest"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23

ton listens in on the broadcasting
of filth in the theaters, it might be
interesting to take little tour of
the thcatcrs, cabarets and side
| streets.
1t will begin tomorrow in this
column.
GILBERT SWAN.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23
Editorial Comment
The McNary-Haugcn Bill
(St. Paul Pioneer Press)
What Ii Will Do


1t will add about s25O,0OO,OO0 year to the value
CT the farm commodities raised in the northwes.
states.
Through the elimination of violent price fluctua-
ton, it will give the farmer the maximum benefit
Of the prices his products command on the market.
Price sterilization will also eradicate the worst
evils Of grain gambling.
1t will give the farmer himself degree Of
troll the marketing Of his products COM
parable to that enjoyed by any well developed and
organized industry.
How This Will Be Accomplished
The purpose of this law, in general is to give
the farmer the benefit Of the tariff, and to mini
mize far as possible the untoward results Of
plus production. 1t is also intended to advance and
encourage cooperative effort among the farmers.
The creation Of this machinery necessary be-
cause it found that the tariff not working
properly on the major crops of agriculture. This
due to the existence of surplus which had to
be exported to find market.
The law sets up farm board which will direct
the buying up of such SURPRISES through existing
agencies, private and cooperative. The upward
price is limited by the tariff since Importation
would begin at the point where it became profitable
for foreign producers pay the tariff enter the
American market.
The farmer will thus get price for his crops
equal TO that on the world market plus the amount
of the tariff, in other words tariff protected price
such industry gets.
The surplus which cannot be consumed in Amer
lea will be sold abroad as before. The loss will be
made good by the levy by the farm board of an
equalization fee on each bushe other unit Of
the crops that is marketed
An Example
Assume that America raises in given year $780,
100000 bushels Of wheat. Also assume that the
price of wheat the world market at Liverpool,
is 81. The tariff wheat is ~ cents The de-
nestle consumption is 60O,000000 bushels and the
amount remaining for export is 200,00O,000 bushels.
The farm board directs the purchase of the sur
plus, 20o,OOO0OO bushels, at sl.40. Since the
amount that be got for the surplus determines
the price for the whole crop, the farmers get Sli0
instead Of only 81 the whole 100000, 900 bushels.
1t is gain Of 40 cents bushel and the whole
crop brings $ll20,00O 900 instead Of $500 900 O00
gain Of $320,O0o0OO. The 2O0,OOO,0O0 bushels of
surplus will have been sold at less Of 40 cents
bushe to foreign buyers total loss of 900
To make this good, the board will have levied fee
Ct 10 cents bushe against each Of the 800 900
bushels Of the crcp The net gain to the farmer
will thus be 80 cents a bushcl, or $24O,0OO,O 900.
The crops to which the law directly applies are
wheat, swine, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23
NEWS BRIEFS

Diaz Of Nicaragua proposes treaty
whereby United States would protect
nations interests for 100 year. and
IN return retain rights Of proposed
:, kear Admiral Latimcr, in charge Of
y. >. Naval forces In Nicaraeuan wa
ters: orders neutral zone to within
S'oVO yards Of American marine posts.
borah IN senate introduces resolu.
uon aut1oristng foreign relations
committee to visit Mexico and Central
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23

Edison promised 30 years ago
that when he reached 80 he would
take up bridge and talk foolishly
to the fair ones. He's so, but we
don't know whether he's played
bridge yet.
Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, 1nc.)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23
A THOUGHT

For the love Of money is the root
Of all evil Tim. $40.
lie that wants money, means and
content is without three good friends.
Shakespeare.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23
(By The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Press)
A group Of farm talks will be given
over WCCO, the Twin Cities station
from 7:l5 to 8 p. M, when there will
be New York program by the Ipana
Troubadors. At $3.50 string ense m.
BILE will be on the air from WCCO for
half an hour. Trade and Mark Smith
will entertain from New York at 8
p. M: over WCCO and at $3.50 there
will be a musical program. A dance
program is scheduled at 1880 p. m
WAND (244) Minneapolis has q
piano program at 6:15 and an or
chestra at 1880 p. M. WDGY (257)
Minneapolis, has the Pep Hour" at
p. III. and an orchestra for 10 D. IN,
Oney Fred Sweet, a former Chicago
newspaperman. will give another OF
his weekly talks on the human race
over WON (303) Chicago at $3.50 D.
m. "The city and civilization" will
be the subject of talk BY William L.
Bailey, professor Of sociology. North
western University over WMAQ (448)
Chicago at $40 p. m.
The band, mandolin club and choral
society of McGullivy will present a
concert at 1880 over CNRM (4ll)
Montreal, at 1880 p. M.
WHO (526) Des Moines has the
little symphony on the air at 6 and
WSAI (326l Cincinnati will feature
the United States Army Hand at $50,
WLW (423) Cincinnati has a concert
at $3.50 p. m. WGN f3O3) Chicago has
. string quintet for Gas. VOL,
(27O) Amcs. will broadcast the swim
ming meet between Iowa State col
lege and Drake University at 7:l5
p. IN.
WGHP (270) Detroit. will feature
the little symphony al 7:30 - y,
WHAS l4O0) Louisville, has a concert
and WBz l333) Springfield a mus.
Gale at 1880 X m. The Philharmonic
Symphony will be broadcast at 9:15
bv KOA (322) Denver.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23
! Justajingle

I'll we'd you when the cows come
home"
Said she. with knitted brows.
1t made her lover happy TIN
lie founnd they had no cows.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23

America to investigate conditions at
first hand.
Three American army Goodwill
planes reach Valparaiso, Chile, from
Santiago.
Three editors and two photogra-
piers in Baltimore serve one day Jail
sentence for contempt Of court for
publication of photographs Of White
more murder trial last summer.
President Coolidgc's voice eulogiz-
ing George Washington heard in
London, Paris and Berlin.
NorthfieId-- Bernhard Cole of
Granite Falls was elected captain of
st. Olaf hockey six.
President Coolidge has taken no
action yet on Norbeck- Johnson seed
loan bill.
lnkster, n. D.-V. f. Rcmis gem
eral store was destroyed by fire with
loss of $4,000.
Minneapolis Minneapolis and st.
Louis railroad telcgraphed Interstate
Commerce Commission asking 60
days to prepare arguments and data
for possible rehearing in its fight to
establish reduction Of rates on ship
ments of grain and flour to Atlantic
saaboard.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23
ORPORA'l1ONS

Great Eagle Investigation bureau,
Fargo, $4,000; John c. Storlie.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23
REALLY SERunrC

What ails Jones these days."
His wife's insomnia, his daurh.
ter's nerves. his sons headaches and
his fathers sm."-Judpe
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23
At The Movies
ELTINCE THEATRE

Marion Davies in 1.-THE Red Milf
and Charlie Chaplin in shoulder
Arms" are both featured at the Ell
tinge for tonight and Thursday. "The
Red Mill' is adapted from the fam
Gus musical comedy by the late Vic
tor Herbert and Henry Blossom
Mr.. Ross at the organ will use the
musical numbers from the stage play
throughout the picture. Marion is
seen as Tina, little Holland beauty
in pigtais and wooden shoes; lit
tie drudge in her Uncle Willcm's old
Dutch tavern known as the Red Mill
Owen Davis is Dennis who Inspires
Tina's golden dreams. The story is
entertaining and the settings most
picturesque. shoulder Arms
Charlie Chaplin comedy classic of
the World War which created such a
sensation several years ago has been
reissucd by the Pathe company
through arrangements made with
Chaplin last year. Charlie as Il sol
der is Il scream and his experience in
the trenches with his brother sgd
Chaplin as his buddy will make an
audience howl with laughter.
CAPITOL THEATRE
Olive Borden, noted Virginia
beauty and star in Fox Films pro-
auctions, is announced as the stellar
attraction at the Capitol Theatre to-
night when Irving Cummings power
full and dramatic photoplay, 1.-THE
Country Beyond" will be given it's
premiere presentation in this city.
Miss Borden, who is a versatile ac-
tress, appears in an exotic and color
full role. In the early sequences she
wears nondescript garments-a fiery,
yet pathetic figure of a girl, born in
the Canadia.. Rockies and taken care
Of, after fashion, by her guardians,
who are shiftless French Canadians.
She attracts the attention of New
York theatrical producer, on tour
Of the primitive forests of the North
land. He takes her to Broadway and
in the course of time she becomes the
vogue as musical comedy dancer.
In this sequence, Miss Borden wears
strikingly original creations. which,
IN themselves are visual delights.
1.-THE Country Beyond" is Fox films
screen version Of one Of the most APP
pealing of James Oliver Curwood's
great novels. The host of readers
who have followed this fascinating
tale of love and romance will be de-
lighted with the beauty Of the coun-
try brough home to them through the
lifa-like medium of the camera.
The cast embraces list Of notable
names, Gertrude Aston, J. Farrell
Mac Donald, Fred Kohler, Evelyn Sell
bic. Lawford Davidson, Ralph Graves
and Alfred Fisher.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23

The New York Edison Co. reports that churches
in increasing numbers using electric signs.
There are electric crosses, church announcements,
illuminated texts, Dubbed posters.
Time was when many people thought it rather
irreligious for church to use electric signs. That
idea has passed Churches have proven that they
adopt modern methods without losing in dignity
service
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23

President Coolidge's voice eulogiz-
ing George Washington heard in
London, Paris and Berlin.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23

"Sky Pilot" in an airplan
crash. Good to the last drop.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23

WAND CAD Minneapolis has a
piano program at 6:15 and an or
chestra at 1880 p. M. WDGY (257)
Minneapolis, has the Pep Hour" at
p. m. and an orchestra for 10 y. M.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23

Three American army Goodwill
planes reach Valparaiso, Chile, from
Santiago.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23

America to investigate conditions at
first hand
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23

A social lion must be very
cagey.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-23

A missing shirt button may mean
that Il mans single. If three or
four are gone, he's married.