The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 7, 1919, Page 4

PAGE 4, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE es ee Ee Batered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N, D., as Becond Class Matter. ED. MANN -_ - Foreign Representatives . LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, carcaco OCN PAT - DETROIT, | Bld - + = Kresge ombeatie PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEWYORK, - - - __ Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use tor publication of all news credited to it or not ot! eredited in this paper and also the local news ‘All rights of publication of special dispatebes herein are reserved. = 'T BUREAU OF CIRCULATION MBER AUDI’ SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVAN OO by carrier per year ......+ by mail per year (In Bismarc ys3 ily by mail per year (in stave vursiue Baly by ail Dutside of North Dakota ....+ Daily by m ‘ JHE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. Eat et Oe. (Established 1878) RECONSTRUCT THEM, TOO The total amputations among American sol- diers in the war was under 4,000; the total in American industrial plants every year is 26,000. During, and since the war much was said about “reconstruction of broken bodies,” the teaching of new avocations to men so crippled that they could not return to their old jobs. This is fine! ‘ But let us, also, consider the wounded in in- dustry, the legs and arms lost in feeding, clothing, housing, warming the people of this country. Let us reconstruct those unfortunates, too. While doing all we can for the 4,000 let us not forget the annual 26,000 toll of arms or legs. COBWEBS Cobwebs are all right for a spider to galavant about on, but they haven’t much prestige in 1919 business or on the brain. Cobwebs are a symbol of carelessness. Noth- ing so embarrasses a housewife as to have her friend discover cobwebs in the corners of the rooms of her home. Cobwebs in business are a sign of methods and manners of doing business that are antiquated. That are out of date. They are behind the times. Cobwebs on the brain mean sluggish thinking and ideas that have long passed their period of usefulness. Ambition in all three cases is the broom that will keep the cobwebs brushed clean from the walls. If your ambition is a bit jaded give it a vaca- tion or a tonic, then go after the cobwebs and clean them out—and keep them out. THE AUTO’S AFFINITY Fire insurance actuaries say the fire losses in America may be reduced considerably if a means can be devised to effect a complete separation if not a divorce from the fire hydrant and the auto- mobile. At present, they say, there seems to be an affinity between the two, especially in cities. An automobile rushes upon a fire hydrant with such fervor and smacks it so resoundingly that the hydrant never is the same again. All sorts of efforts have been made to restrain the auto but without avail. In fact the records show its attentions to the hydrants have been so persistent of late as to be serious. Unable to get the autos to behave, the fire gen- tlemen say they see nothing to do but remove temptation from its path so they have suggested to the authorities of various cities that some method of concealing fire plugs be devised. Otherwise, they declare, it may be necessary to increase in- surance rates in some districts for the losses, ow- ing to demoralization of fire plugs, have been too busy to bear. THE CREDIT FOR THE FLAG In American schools for a century or more the youth of the land has been told that Betsy Ross was the mother, the maker of “Old Glory.” In Philadelphia the Betsy Ross home is a shrine. Now it comes out that Betsy played only a part, a small part in the creation of the Star Spangled Banner. Edward Hopkinson, great grandson of Francis Hopkinson, points out that the acts of the Conti- nental Congress and the records in Washington establish the fact Francis Hopkinson, at the re- quest of congress, designed the flag and Betsy merely acted the part of a seamstress. The statement of Mr. Hopkinson is confirmed by Dean Arthur Hobson Quinn of the University of Pennsylvania. Francis Hopkinson was one of the foremost poets, painters, musicians and writers of -revolu- tionary days. It always has been a -puzzle how Betsy Ross, who was not noted for originality, ever designed such a beautiful thing as the Amer- ican flag, undoubtedly the most beautiful of all national emblems. The Hopkinson explanation is clear and con- vincing but it is doubtful whether the American people ever will be weaned away from attributing to the renowned Betsy practically all the credit for the flag. The senate is making a frantic and final effort to keep.from’ doing the sensible thing. FROM SIX TO. ELEVEN A national business magazine tells the story of success in the business life of an American woman. She began.with a capital of $65, and now is worth hundreds-of-thewsandsrr—--— , Nearly every. American-made doll wears hair fmanufactured in this business woman’s shop, or py machines she invented. 4 7, amsan i psstiomrt’ siennipeein Res boreal’ atrven ,|it necessary to earn extra money. Truly it is aremarkable story of a remarkably successful woman. We admired the way she climbed to business success until we came to this paragraph: “So she summoned some of her former women employes who had married. Many of them found Children and housework keep them at home during the day; night from six until eleven.” And then this business woman’s “success” didn’t look like success to us. the mothers who have to leave their homes, their babies, after a hard day’s housework, to work from six to eleven in a factory. It may be profitable— for the business woman. It is unprofitable for the mothers and babies. We read on: “Most of these women workers (speaking of the mothers who toil in her factory from six to eleven) are of foreign birth—chiefly Firlnish, Bo- hemian and Slavic.” Now then, let us ask ourselves this question: Has this practice of working foreign mothers in America from six to eleven at night anything to do with the readiness of the foreign element in this country to arise in revolt at the behest of the agitator? That $55,000,000 appropriation will be enough to finance a high old time for the air service. By sinking his own ships, Heinie saved us a lot of argument about the proper way to dispose of them. | WITH THE EDITORS | HOW OTHERS SEE US The socialism with which North Dakota has begun to experiment is a middle class socialism. It is an uprising against the capitalist and the banker, not by the disinherited proletariat, but by a community of prosperous landowners. Between 1900 and 1910 the number of farms in the United States increased from 5,737,372 to 6,361,502, or about 11 per cent. In the same period the number of farms in North Dakota increased from 45,000 to 74,000, or about 65 per cent. In the same dec- ade the value of farm property in the United States increased from $20,000,000,000 to $40,000,- 000,000, or 100 per cent, and in North Dakota the increase was from $225,000,000 to $975,000,000, or 280 per cent. The growth of farm wealth in North Dakota during the decade was greater even than in golden Kansas or Nebraska, If, therefore, a social revolution is under way in North Dakota it would be the kind of revolution which arises, not from the misery of a people, but in a community that is well off and is determined to be still better off. The North Dakota experiment is of interest as a bourgeois movement along socialistic lines; and not the least valuable lesson we may wait for is to see how North Dakota goes at the solution of its own labor problems in relation not only to the town worker but to the farm laborer.—New York Post. LIGHT BREAKING IN NORTH DAKOTA While Townleyism was able to maintain its hold on the state government of North Dakota by carrying the referendum election on seven of the socialistic and graft laws enacted last winter, the results show that political reason is dawning in that state. A scant majority of seven thousand is all that saved the Nonpartisan league boss from defeat, after he had imported into the state hun- dreds of his hired speakers, poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the campaign and per- sonally canvassed the state from one end to the other. In 1916, the year that the league first appeared as a political force in North Dakota, it swept the state clean. It carried every single county, some of them by majorities as high as six to one. Lynn J. Frazier, its candidate for governor, received 87,000 votes out of a total of 110,000, and had a majority of 67,000 over his principal opponent. That was before Townley and his associates had made their record in opposition to the war, and before they had developed their socialistic program. Last year, the voters of North Dakota began to get their true measure, and while Frazier was re-elected governor he had only 17,000 major- ity. His actual vote fell off 30,000 from the pre- vious election. The cutting of this majority to a meager 7,000 in the referendum, notwithstanding that the total vote has increased, indicates that the reaction against Townleyism has lost none of its force. Many counties formerly dominated by the league have turned against it. The insurgent leaders— Attorney General Langer, State Auditor Kositzky, Secretary of State Hall, State Senator Mees, and Simon Nagel of the board of control—have all been sustained by the voters of their home coun- ties. The eastern part of the state has definitely repudiated Townley, while the central and western sections show a decided trend.the same way. The Townley victory in North Dakota is of a achieved at Bunker Hill, when a. prominent mili- tary man on the British side said of it: “One more such victory, and wé have lost the war.” Keep your eye on North Dakota. The election next year will be the most interesting of all. If signs are worth anything, the complete and final downfall of Townleyism in that state is due about the first Tuesday after the first Monday in No- vember, 1920.—Lincoln, .(Neb.) tar, eran \hacie Sores Moyes but they eagerly responded to a chance to work at It is hard to call it success when one thinks of kind with that which King George’s troops! BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE MONDAY, JULY'7, MELODRAMA, was when melodrama was somewhat sw)-par. American play- goers associated the “melodram” with Nick Carter and Old Sleuth and other heroes of the yellow-backs, and to announcé, in advance, that a play was a melodrama. was sufficient. to keep the high-brows away. It later years we have come to recognize as Time the stage offers us in the way of the dramatic. We would have had to forego ‘“Trilby,”. and “Camille,” and “Paid in Full” and a majority of friend Shakespeare's tragedies had we applied this rule against the melo- drama too closely. Therefore, it is not in criticism that we refer to “The Masquerader,” which swept a large house off its feet, or, more literally, almost out of its seats, at the Auditorium on Saturday even- ing, as high class melodrama, “The Masquerader” uses all the tricks of the old time melodrama, and does it exceedingly well, and never were there more delightful villian and hero than the John Chilcote.and John Lo- der done by Guy Bates Post. GUY BATES POST. In our estimation, Guy Bates Post is one of the really big actors that Bismarck has had an opportunity to see in recent years. His is a ‘rue art Hig exercise of repression. in his big scenes, in which he always appears to be playing a trifle under rather than over his climax, shows real gen- ius. We cannot well conceive of any man on the stage today fitting better the dual personality whica Katherine Cecil Thurston hag created in John Chileote, M. P., degenerate. slave of morphia, and John Loder, rough- hewn product of the Canadian north- west, free-lance journalist and soldier of fortune. Twenty years ago Guy Bates Post was playing stock on the Pacific coast and doing it well. His EVERETT TRUE SAY Gov CHANGE pure melodrama most of the best that, “The Girl of the Golden West,” and} GVSRETT, HAVE YoU THE CHAMPION ON TOUR | 3) mm nmi “THE MASQUERADER,” HIGH CLASS PROVES GREAT HIT rise to stardom, however, has been { gradual, and jie has-won his way only by hard work. Today he is reaping his ‘reward. Supporting Post was a company of unusual excellence. Lionel Belmore’s interpretation of Brock, a faithful ser- vant of three generations of Chil- cotes, was one of the finest and mos‘ consistent bits of character acting we have ever seen. A ‘more lovabi2 Eve Chilcote than that of wholesome, sweet Alice John’ we could not im- .agine. If memory is not playing tricks upon us, we first saw Alice John some ten years ago as Emma in the original road company of “Paid in Full,” and we ~ know we are not ‘mistaken when’ we say that the “Cap- tain Williams” of this original. com- pany was Clarence Handyside, who was the Hervert Fraide, leader of parliament, in “The Masquerader.” Handyside..on Saturday evening did not have as big a part as he had in Gene Walker's great- play, but he showed all of his old-time ability in the comparatively little that he had to do. Reginald Carrington presented a very smooth picture of the Lord Northcliffe type of newspaper man, “Mr. Lakely” in the play, and Ruby Gordon was excellent as Robbins, slavey finrst to John Lodre and then to John Chilcote. Everyone is familiar with the story of “The Masquerader.” A few liber- ties were taken with the plot, and the story was modernized to permit hang- ing its big moments about the open- ing days of the world’s war. It makes a play of wonderful appeal and offers unlimited scope for the talents of Mr. Post, of whom the audience, af- ter sitting cold through the first act, ; demanded repeated curtain calls. ;81G SHOW CANCELED. Bismarck playgoers will learn with Tegret that Margaret Illington, Wilton BY CONDO A T TAKE GREAT PLEASURE, 6 LA-DEES AND GENT-L- MEN Ht! toe IN PRESENTING THE EAVYWEIGHT CATCH ace CATCH CAN,OR BARE KNUCKLE WALLOPER. OF THE WORLD, M\S- TER. LEAGUE OF < Pile Lackaye and Robert Edeson, perhaps the greatest trio of players ever book- ed for the Auditorium, will not appear here. The present vehicle of Margaret II- lington and her co-stars, “The Good Bad Woman,” is not a great play, ac- cording to reports which have pre- ceded the company. Margaret Illing- ton, however, has never failed to fiil the Auditorium, whether the lines her playwright had given her were good or bad, and when there wer: to 9¢ associated with her such no‘ables as Lackaye and Edeson, we do not doubt the venture would have 52en protit- able from a financial stan{poini, even though the local msnagcuient nad been forced to sacrifice something in the matter of percentage. Edeson quit the company at Fargo on Saturday evening, but Illington and Lackaye would have been attrac- tion enough. WHY A MUNICIPAL THEATRE.—— Our ideas of what a municipal the- atre should be may differ from those of the management. We have thought that in building and controlling their own theatre the people did it with the thought that this would enable them to enjoy things which private enter- prises could not or would not bring to the city. The Auditorium has never paid any great dividends. The interest and principal on the bonds are being paid by taxation, The tue- atre earns so few hundred dollars a year over the expense of operating, under the present system, that a hun- dred dollars more or less would mat- ter little. But it does matter much when Bismarck is deprived of an op- portunity to see and hear such artists as Illington, Lackaye and Edeson. Bismarck has not had much good from its theatre during the last year. For some months the big playhouse stood absolutely dark. Even after show-houses at Grand Forks, Fargo and Jamestown were opened, the hiatus continued. We were particu- larly disappointed’ when Fiske O’- Hara, with one of his inimitable shows with music, came as near a8 Jamestown and the Auditorium was not opened to him. We are more than disappointed with the cancelling of the Illington show. 195 BAD BREATH Caused by Acid-Stomach y pyone with a sour, ga neuene enya constantly belching, heartburn and suffers from indigestion hi anything but a bad breath? 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Get a big 50 cent box from your druggist today. He will return your money if you are not satished. EATONIC Let us get after. this play-ground- sWimmin’-hole proposition and keep af- ter it until we get it. Let us calla mass meeting, start a dog fight or: hold another election to make the people take notice: Let everyone ask his boy what he thinks about it—I. Care. SENATOR NEW’S SON ADMITS HE KILLED LOVER. Brings Body. to Police Station in Automobile—Girl Refused to Marry Him Los Angeles, July 5.—'I killed her be- cause I loved her and she would. not marry me as she promised. I love her still and am ready to die for my act, because I ‘vant to go to her.” Lying op. a cot in the city jail tonight, Harry S New of Glendale, who said he was the son of United Sttes Senator Harry 5. New of Indiana, thus concluded-an account of the killing of Miss Frieda Lesser, his fiancee, in Topanga canyon, about 25 miles northwest, early today. TELLS STORY CALMLY. Calmly-and without apparent re- morse, New review in detail to news- Paper men and police his actions, which included his driving to the central po- lice station with her body in‘the rear seat, and surrendering. “We had planned to be married to- day,” he said. “At the last moment Frieda interposed objections and I pro- posed that we take an automobile ride to some quiet spot, where we could talk things over. Reaching a lonely spot, I started pleading with her to marry me at once, “She remained obdurate and told me she was expecting to become a mother and that she had decided to undergo a surgical operation rather than marry me. That made me mad. I lost my head, and almost before I knew it I had snatched a revolver from the ma- chine and shot her through the head. I believe she died almost instantly. INDIANA GRADUATE. “For nearly two hours I drove with Frieda lying beside me. Then it dawn- ed on me what a horrible deed I had done. I decided the best thing.to do was to bring the body to the police sta- tion and surrender.” New, who is 30 years old, is a grad- uate of an Indiana military academy. | He said he later attended Notre Dame university. He met Miss Lesser at a local manufacturing plant, where he was employed as a truck driver and she as a stenographer. The young wo- man was 21 years old. Bringing with him the body of Miss Frieda J. Lesser of Los Angeles, whom he said he had murdered at a lonely spot in Topango canyon near Burbank, when she rejected his proffers of mar- riage, Harry 8, New drove to the cen- tral police station early today and ask- ed that he be arrested. He intimated, but’ did not directly tell the police, that his father is Sen- ator New of Indiana. BUSINESS ENOUGH FOR ALL.—— We are glad to see our moving pic- ture houses prosper. We do not, how- ever, feel that it is essential to their prosperity that our own municipal theatre, in which we are all stock- holders, should be slighted. We are even of the opinion that in addition to the good road shows which we could get and are not getting, the ‘Auditorium could stand four weeks or more each year of good stock, and there are good stock companies to be had which would offer at prices the average public can afford to pay all of tye modern successes. We are willing to venture a guess that if the Auditorium catered a trifle more to the public it could almost be made to pay the interest on the out- standing Auditorium bonds, It would be worth trying, at least, and we humbly suggest that the city com- mission give this question some con- sideration. f } PEOPLE’S FORUM ——$_________- FOR A PLAYGROUND. Editor Bismarck Tribune, Bismarck, N. Dak. Dear Sir: Still notice a mild agitation in favor of a public play- ground. Bismarck citizens are as lib- eral as the average and any good move- mcnt has met with a ready response. Why shouldn’t some good busy leaders get at the head of this movement and give the people a chance to decide whether they want. such a place or not? The public library didn’t lack sufficient support. The Auditorium had the support of the majority, yet the benefits derived from both these insti- tutions are enjoyed largely by grown people. Pure-minded American boy- hood and girlhood is not measured by dcllar marks. It is not produced to any large extent in back alleys or on “I'VE KILLED HER.” “Y’ve killed her,” he nervously but quietly told the police who met New in-higs)sedan as it stopped in front of police ‘headpuarters, Detectives peered into the rear com- partment of the natty closed car, and there, beneath a robe, lay the body of Miss Lesser. A big bullet hole through the right temple had caused her death. “This is the gun,” New half sobbed, as the police carried the body from the car. He handed over a .38 Colt auto- matic, Inside the police station, New told detectives that he and Miss Lesser had left last night for a ride through To- pango canyon. At a spot where the rcad was darkest he stopped the car and soon asked Miss Lesser to become bis wife. She refused. CLAIMS BAD TEMPER. An arugument followed, New said, and in a fit of temper he told the po- lice he shot the girl whom he sought to make his wife. She died instantly. Realizing that he had killed his sweetheart. New said he ‘moved the body from the seat beside him where she had died, placed it in the back of the car, carefully covered it with a robe and drove with all speed down the miles of dark road, through flitting shadows from the moonlight, to Los Angeles, where he gave himself up to the police. LOST —Black leather handbag con- taining $5.00 and two rings. Finder may keep money but please return rings and bag to. Tribune office. 7T71t CASTORIA For Infante and Children “ the street. As well expect the Wool- worth building to stand erect upon a fcundation of sand as to expect Amer- ican manhood to be built upon a, foun- dation of neglect,” eas In Use For Over 20 Years Always bears,