The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 16, 1919, Page 6

(EDITOR'S |\NOTE: The phis Press, h completed term of ten torial criti tics and dishonesty in courts.) BY EDWARD T. LEECH Editor of The Memphis Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. WHAT A MAN CAN LEARN IN JAIL EDITOR E. T. LEACH, AUTHOR OF “THE SHAME - © - OF IT ALL” EDITORIAL, WRITES FROM CELL: “f Had Sadder Moments in Jail Than [ Ever Knew Before—1 Never Felt So Helpless and So Hopeless in My Life.” THE FRIENDLESS GIRL AND BOY THIEF writer, Edward T. Leech, editor of the Mem- his jail punishment for edi- n gf corruption in poli- A newspaper editor in jail—gets no rest. 1 never worked so hard in my life as during the ten days of my impris- onment. When I entered the jail I started to keep a record of my visitors, came with a a phonograph, cooler, boxes of electric fan, cigars and But i id lost count. but I left with water candy, I baskets of fruit, cakes, pies, a bottle of disinfectant, cans of insect powder, thermes bottle filled with hot coffee, cans of preserved fruit, jars of jam. book and a great stack of newspaper clippings, editorials and letters from every part of the United States. Every day the patrol wagon pulls up to the jail to get prisoners who have been sentenced to house or the penitentiary. ihe work- A negro prisoner to whom has been delegated the honor of calling the prisoners sings out their names with a wail like Caruso si: Will-i-u-m-m-m-m-m — Br-o-W-n-n. get all you got and come o: cries, in a voice that runs the whole} so to tenor. gamut from ba: And yet, it I HAD SADD THAN I EVER KNEW EEFORE. LT SO HELPLESS AND NEVER HOPEL FE SS IN MY LIFE. For on all sides of me were men ging the Sob Song. -n, | help—yet I couldn’t honorably keep ’'t been all pleasure. MOMENTS IN JAIL I and women, boys and girls; to whom BABY WOULD CRY “NIGHT AND DAY With Sore PimplesAll Over Head, Hair Came Out. Cuticura Healed, “ “My baby was about a week! old when his head broke éut all ‘over with sorepimples. They became hard andredyand dried up, making scales. When I combed his hair He would it came out. cry night and day. Short, Ridgeway, Ill? i5-Cuticura Toilet Trio ag It is so easy to prevent skin and scalp troubles by using the. Cuticura Toilet Trio for all toilet purposes. For pimples, rashes, dandruff or irritation, bathe with Cuticura Soap and hot water, dry lightly and apply Cuticura Ointment. At once the itch- ing ceases, sleep and rest: follow, ‘and complete healment in most cases results in continued use.- Do not fail to test the fragrant Cuticura Tal- ¢um for powdering and petfuming your skin. Sample Each Pree by Mail. “Cuticara, Dept. 'R, Bosto: Boap Be. Ointment 2% and Hc, Talcum vbe: BANK | Bismarck.ND. The Oldest and Largest Bank in this sectionof the State “I sent for asampleof Cuticura. Iboughtmore, and after I had used one cake of Soap and one box of Ointment his head was healed.” (Signed) Mrs. Lizzie Address post-card : n."" Sold everywhere, ,| Strings of rotting,. rusting and dilapi- AND STAND 'EM ON END, THEREBY. CLEARING “TH” SITUATION AND TH’ ROAD, - HEH-HEH- a ae the visit of an editor in jail, with friends calling constantly, seemed so strange that they have come to be- lieve I could get them out of the plight they were in. Last night in jail I was climbing the long iron stairs to my room, after exercising by a nightly walk in the lobby, when a girl slipped me a note through the bars. She and another girl were sentenced to one year each for shoplifting and with four other charges let to be tried. The jailer~ and he's a thoroughly good man, be- loved and respected by the prisoners —had told me of her. He believes she is the innocent and ignorant vic- tim of bad company. And so do I. When | got to my room I read the note. Misspelled and un- grammatical, it was a plea for assistance from-a girl who hasno friends, who says her baby is sick and her old mother in pov- erty—alone in jail without help or support of any kind. ~ And a negro back in the tiers of cells where scores and scores of ne- gro prisoners are confined, sent me out a petition by the guard, a petition 10 pages long, and every letter of it carefully printed, instead of written. A railroad man on a charge of rob- bery, and others, appealed to me for even myself out of jail. Whatever 1 n do ‘for them ¥ shall, but I am afraid it will be little. Perhaps it will le to induce the court and secuting witnesses to drop the cases against the girl and ‘let her go home to. .her. mother. and ‘baby... I HOPE SO. Living in jail and. visiting in jai), I have discovered, are two very dif: ferent things. us a newspaper re- porter, I used to go around) many jails. But I never stopped to think what a jail was before. I never had seen so many men and women loll- ing around, day after day, in absolute idleness, nothing to occupy their hands ‘or’ their minds, wasted and sidetracked, It seems to me that a jail can be.compared to the railroad sidings travelers pass so often, where dated boxcars stand, seemingly for- ‘| gotten and abandoned; It’s the same ti way’ with these people. Because of somé deficiency, they, too, have been sidetracked ‘and deserted, left to rot and rust in idleness—and yet the world wonders why they’re not as good as new cars. when.the time fin- ally comes to put -them back into ser- vice again. c 7; The day I came in—almost at thé same hour—Manus Jones .17, negro, awkward and: ignorant and black ‘as a coal pile at midnight, registered at our ‘common lodging,” « Manus stole 85 cents from a. little boy. So the law ‘arrested him and put him back’ in’ the same. carridor with at least five.negro murderers, numbers of robbers :and ‘burglars, petty thieves. bootleggers and: what not. Three days ater Manus was tried’ and -senténced: to one ‘year in the reforatory, And’at 4 o’clock next morning I saw Manus taken away to start his sentence. . ' There ‘was’ such a clang and’ clamor and shutting down ‘in the corridor be- low me that I got out of ‘bed to ascer- tain. the trouble, I looked down and saw a long chain ‘lying. across the floor, with pairs-of handeuffs fasten- ed to it at intervals of every’ three or four feet. Two by two, negro prison- should be kept in a strong financial institution-such as the First” National Bank which for nearly 40 years has protected the money of thousands of people in this part of the country. Unquestioned safety is assured by reason of our large Capital and Sur- plus, Federal supervision and the conservative management of our offi- cers. Next time.you are in our neighborhood stop in and get acquainted. Established 1879 P MOVE \9 770, ROLL TH! LOG “ALONG WHILE. TH. (SAW BUZZES FRANCIS-JASINGK? yb RVING C: STORTE CO, PERSHING, THE ers were coming out of the barred door leading. back to the tiers of cells | and were, being fastened, by. their wrists to this clain. There were 13 of them, and the 13th to he manacled Was ‘Manus, 17year-old boy. Four of his ‘companions Were starting to the Penitentiary. at. Nashville to’ begin serving murder: sentences. The oth- re going for yarious. major Manus was going with. them to Nashville, ‘where he will be put in the reforniatory. | ‘He didn't “Icok ‘awkward and “scared as when ‘he’ entered. He swaggered and ‘laughed like the other nefroes. A’ week in jail had tadght him’ many’ things. ” i Only’a “few deys growing negro boy, capable of becom- ing a hard-working, Honest darky, or a, shiftldss,: id-account’ criminal negro £\just':as’ the “futuré “developed “for him. ‘He made his first slin—stole 85 tents—and “I BELIEVE THE LAW TAS) DEFINITELY DETERMINED ICH KIND OF A MAN-HE-SHALL Falmost forgot my. own: case in thé interest I take. in those around me, in the hopelessness of my. fellow pris- oners,. in, the. certainty that this idlé- ness and. confinement. and constant association ‘with criminals of all de- grees is simply breeding new crimes. ' But I can’t quite get away from the ‘big. point,: the fight. for: free speech, from fellaw. editors who. ‘have ‘also’ suffered imprisonment. “Many of the cases are quite similar to my own. ‘T ing. their convictions. ‘I NEVER KNEW HOW WIDESPREAD ‘WAS! THE PRACTICE OF USING JUDI- CIAL POWER TO ‘SILENCE CRITI CISM. wt , If my own case will go just a ‘little ways to arouse public sentiment until it. makes such judicial tyranny im- possible. I will ‘be’ amply ‘rewarded for'10 davs which—even without ‘any such result—will always be to me the Most interesting and probably the hiost-worth-while I have ever put in. WILTON CITIZENS TALK BETTERMENT OF LIGNITE CITY Community Club, . Trail-Blazing and Highway Construc- tion Discussed meet called: for last Monday ‘evening in the Grand theatre to discuss several important measures for the welfare of | Wilton and ‘the community was attend- ed by’ nearly ‘forty citizens. munity club and the first order of busi- ness Was relative to the blazing of the Black and Yellow trails leading to and from the Lignite City. The marking of these trails is under the.supervision of the National’ Blazing association and Wilton was asked : to contribute $50 toward this work. The City Council at its meeting last Week agreed to stand half the expense and the Citizens attending the. mass meeting pledged the other half. S.-R, Tavergood volunteered to raise the $25 by voluntary subscription, “and was unanimously. voted this privilege. The second order’ of business ta¥en up by the citizens was the project of a Community, room in the Odd Fellows building. J. A. Pitzer, representing the lodge, reported that the trustees of the local I.'O. O.'F. would put the base- ment in shape for the use of, the com- Wilton; N...D.," Aug. 15.—The mass! ; The meeting was culled ‘to’ order by| } Président ‘R."B. Lewis of the Com-| } BISMARCK: DAILY TRIBUNE PARTS THUSLY. DIGNIFIED— 5 T LONDON. General: Pershing is very dignified and soldierly for everyday 1s : ¢;when dignity is in order;\as the picture at the left shows. With four or ee r. Hid dete hae sean ‘the Prince of Wales and Winston Churchill and :Ambassador Davis, he,is reviewing 3,000 American troops in Hyde Park. But he can also.enjoy a bit of horseplay as the snapshot:at, the right: reveals, never before realized how many news.| When he was given an honorary LDD at Cambridge university, he papermen have rone to jail for writ-|Was “chaired” by the undergraduates, according to an old Cam- bridge custom. The arrow points to the smiling face of the gen- ral, whose feet project over the shoulders of the foremost college joy. haya “HEN RAISE TH DWIDED A ENIOYS COLLEGE HORSE PLAY | te-established our consular agencies discussion and the Odd Fellows agreed | ea, ont., will have charge of the to this need. also. work in Montana, and Miss. Mae, Muck; President Lewis was instructed to} ley of St. Paul, will care for the work appoint a-committee from the Com-} in Minnesota. ity club t t with the -trust —— oF the Odd Fellows and: estimate the| SON-ABLE TO SUPPORT SELF CAN'T CLING TO cost of the probable improvements. The. commitee consisted of J. F. Brenton, P. { tat DAD'S PURSE STRINGS Fargo, N. D.,‘ Aug. 15,—Sidney Kit- J. Cahill and A. C. Wilde. tleson of Galesburg, Cass county, plain- SUPERVISOR OF DAKOTA ion which for six days occupied ‘ie attention of the Cass county dis- trict court, was ‘allowed $100 suit mon- ', $75 attorney fees and: $25 for main- ance until he finds ‘employment, in a decision handed down in Fargo today by Judge A. 'T, Cole. : Miss Nell Peterson of'Sti ‘Paul, has | { has been appointed by the nursing de- partment of the Northern division of the’ Red Cross’ to act as state super- visor’ for North! and South’ Dakota. Miss Peterson's original work wag for ovth Dakata only, wut che will also °} P “ poseore a ana aa. ale ‘The case was tried in Fargo in June, isov has heen hamed.’ which the issue being whether Sidney Kittle ina short time; a¢cording to | 80 being of age and not a minor was jcapable of supporting | himself. The jcourt holds, under ,the evidence intro- ed that if Sidney, Kittleson, now old, will properly conduct him- elf, he is. amply able to support him- self decently from his own earnings... In the action, the father, John Kit- tleson of Galesburg, N. 'D., was asked to provide the son with $100 a month for common necessities“ of life, pay for medical attention for-an injured knee and to pay for schooling’ to fit the Plaintiff for business life. 3 QUICKEST "° BEST PLACE To HAVEYOUR CLOTHES Dry CLEANED} SEND THEM To n ‘otiicials. ot ‘ “nter $03 fs Vat 2 staduats of St. Vato Shahes te warkjn.. public th. nursing in the University. of. Wisconsin extension division ‘in Mil- waukee. For some time she hag-been stationed in Sioux Falls and is now working in the division “headquarters: in ‘Minneapolis. ba Two-other state supervisiors have also beén recently named by tHe,divi- sion. “4Miss)Margaret. Hughes of Hel- ry ~- CLOTHES cleaned often wear twice ag long. * » “y~ your.old ones French dry cleaned by the NEVENS COMPANY Keeping:your clothes cleaned, pressed and repaired ia munity, provided ia guarantee of per- manent rental was provided. The question of: installing water and ig in the building was also up for *) clothes ecoremy. Minneapolis’ largest laundry and dry cleaning estal lishment. ‘ NEVENS CO,;'1201 Marquette‘Ave, MINNEAPOLIS titt in the famous son-against-fathtr | * c R only kruat pay” on’: the enna three times as much’ of their money ag would be /mecenary, it the iherk had itd noYinal! va}ve, ‘Also, the,more they .purchase here Athout counterbalancing the account ‘by salés or by ‘establishing cradit, | tye more they will debase' the mark. tt'is to the Interest of America to ie in rehabilitating Germany to.a tain extent, Germany, cannot, be gained industrially or ‘commercially ‘without lasting injury, to the, remaind- ‘er of the world, Germany cannot pay ier debts to the- allie comes what is termed a “going cqn- y ‘But, in aiding Germany, it'fs |Snsumbent upon Americatis not, to, go far as to ausist her so Bug. ot, tHe. cartel system, ; Id''trade’ has 1GERMANY. TRYING: :, "20 BORROW ~. US. 2 ,Geymany is, negotiating a loan in this fountry.,, She will have to pay # stiff price for the accommodation ‘but re is little dqubt..of the flotation Deing a succegs. len will. subscribe who hold Germany, in contempt. tw 4 2030s 1 Will lend ald beeaiile the low. ft. yss Relation | .| necessary. to) supply, the . Businéss Relations to He Re Throtgh the ‘money’ obtained in stored in Short Time, ,. | manner the raw and finished mai Says Spillane _ als Germany must have will be fur- nished. Through this Joan the fright- i) ful adverse state of German-American es exchange will be modified a little... TRYING TO BORROW NOW). But Germany will not buy.beyond Her most imperative needs. x You may expect remarkable, ship- ment of eggs to Germany. ‘Normally we shipped more eggs: to Gerany than to any other part of’ the world. Our exports went to hundieds of 8 of dozens, Tho, hen |has hecome, & rare bird in Germany and’? t well, a man must he a ‘millio; h afford an egg ‘diet: Of the food. step- Jes wheat, park and. pork products, eges, utéer,, ‘egtton, seed AN} +:t BY RICHARD SPILLANE Noted American Economist and Busi- nes3_ Expert, Who is Discussing very Piiase’ of “the American-Ger- jan Trade Problem Special Ar! ticles Pybl'shcd Exclusively in Ble marck in the Da'ly Tribune. There is abroad belief that -we soon will Qe doing a great’ business with Germany; that the. Germans make tHe principal jiems, have jarge stores of gvois» ja this] man hungers for nothing as country, “principally. raw materlals|and fats.’ We may kn purchased with a view:to use when|!n the prices’ the war is ended, and that, asido from | vécause of thé he' i the prejudices and ill feelings ingj-{n our stocks by the Germans... dental to war, little stands in {he way] Of raw materials the Germang: of’ a large: commerce With tao Gef-] reauire cptton, wool and. rybber first. mans. a i auaente .] The price he must. pay, for. cotto H This, would be encouraging, it true, make -him gasp, _ One. slight, adyant- but’ it 'is not true.” At one time the| age’ the German. has: today Js that. he Germans. did have large stocks ,of|uses.'a larger amotint dow, grade material 4a ‘fhis country purchased at {cotton per , spindle than’ any. other 4 sy. a with, the design oz] maker of textile progicts and, We..tor shipping , them ‘ta’, day havea far. Jarger, production of close of the war but, they had to dis-/low grade stuff than of medium or pose of them. In the latter part of| good grade lint. ‘It is likely the Ger 1914 and in. 1915 they accumulated| mans will abgorb the bulk of the, low Perhaps 1,000,000 bales of cotton, an| grade. cotton Jeft from Jast geason's imniense amount of. wool, rubber,j American crop and alsq will take such leather and other raw or. sem{-raw| East, Indje cotton as (Manchester. has materials. They got much of the cot-| to spare but no. matter how, much ton around 10 cents a pound and other] they take they. cannot. be expected. ta staft at prices that now seem ridicu-| compete with America or England in lously low. . They expected the ,war| this field for some years for eyery- would be ended in a short, time. Some} thing the German mills can ‘manufac: of this materjal, they managed to get| ture will be required. in meeting Ger: into, Germany ‘by way of. Switzerland, | many’s, domestic demands. . .... Holland, Spain‘ and the Scandanavian states but the vast bulk of it remain- ed here in warehouses until carrying charges became bothersome and the possibility of America entering the war,. in which eyént ‘the property would ‘be confiscated, made {t prudent to sell. The Germans disposed of. their holdngs at a handsome ‘profit but now they must ‘buy, many things and: the: prices they must. pay are ap- palling. @ os, : WHAT. GERMANY MUST IMPORT . They reguire. waal, cotton, belting, packing, whosphates, hogs and. hog Products, soaps,‘ lubricants, clothing, shoes, agricultura] machinery, yubber Roods, ‘metal. goods, railroad fupnish- ings, needles, threads, textiles ; ery kind ‘and ‘character, foodstuffs of every description, copper, spelter, and a thousand gther articles. — if But real and artificial barriers make it very hard for them to buy from us or to get goods delivered after they buy. In the first ‘place we have not many: at the THEY. MUST WORK BE os IF, THEY WOULD BUY, s We have een .inclined to believe the eCrmans: e going to rush in upon us,at the moment, peace was de: clared and buy of us,as a regiment.of women do or are supposed to do at:— bargain sale. Aaya] here is no bargain counter for.any nations or ations to line up around today. ae po cauit ‘The nations are 9 good, deal like. lot of men in a-mining camp after an unparalleled riot and#lebauch. They. aré , bruised and _'‘bleeding, ..tndir lothes are ripped and torn, they ‘have not worked for a long: time. and, fer nerves are ‘in such a state.gnd they are so weak bodily that they bave no arfent desire for -labor,. especially as In, their struggles they have thrown the whole camp’ into disorder and wrecked a lot ‘of. the machinery. - There ig no hope for Soma nla they repair what. they. damaged an resyme work. There is an old fellow named Uncle Sam who has the Pp commissary. He has been extending credit to some of the men. He has ‘been extending to all of them more or Jess. He has a fair stock of goods and foods. He is willing to give fur- ther credit, to any,or all of them in order to feed them and clothe them and strengthen. them. But he. insists that they go to work. They must go to. work or they'll never get on their feet. And it’s to Uncle Sam's interest that they get on. their feet for, while he .is well-to-do and can look after himself, business is business and without it we'd stagnate and dry up and disappear from off the earth. in Germany. The day after the Ger- man delegates signed the peace terms British consuls were enroute to. their stations in Germany and _ British houses were looking for German trade. We have been a bit slow. Even if our consuls had been on the spot thé: financial handicaps were almost prohibitive. Germany, it must be un- derstood, has dissipated on war not only her income but’ her ‘éapital. 'To. day the mark has only one-third of {ts former value compared with our dol- Jar, Therefore in the purchase of American goods the Germans not| SSOsces DEPOSITS SECURED _ BY OUR PARTICIPATION IN, .. | THE STATE DEPOSITORS .. GUARANTY FUND. . Resolve to Save «The time to save money is when you first get .it..: Save first, and spend afterwards. The other way. around, you never have anything left to save. Saving is much more important to your future success than spending. Most people waste a great deal of time planning how to spend their income, but put very little thought into the much‘more im- portant question of how to save it. Join this small rapidly growing minority who save systematically. Start a savings account at the Bismarck Bank and plan to deposit a definite amount every week. THE BISMARCK BANK Bismarck _ North Dakota SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1919 ‘