The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 20, 1922, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE. BISMARCK TRIBUNE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, ’22 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE cit = Eth Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. | - + Editor) GEORGE D. MANN - - - Foreign Representatives ’ G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY | CHICAGO DETROIT | Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. | PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH ! NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. | MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The Associated Fress is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or| not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ‘All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved.. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE _|Work is slack. | Daily by carrier, per year .$7.20 | Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). «2 1.20] Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).. 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota... 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) se NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE Could you keep a fire burning under water? It} has just been done, 50 feet under the surface of New York harbor. : Near Staten Island, a 36-inch steel water pipe! on the floor of the ocean was smashed by a dredge. It had to be cut away. ‘ Divers came up out of the muddy depths and | reported that the water immediately extinguished their steel-cutting acetylene torches. | But an “underwater fire chisel” has been de-| veloped by a companyjithat:salvages submarine wrecks. This chisel was brought into play. As; it burns, it generates a gas which forces back the water on all sides, leaving an open or hollow space for the flame. * | That is scientific magic. If the inventor had lived 500 years ago, his ex- hibition would have made even kings kneel to him in superstitious terror. ‘ Suppose you were in the hands of enemies, about | to be shot, and they told you, “We’ll spare your life if you can light a fire under water and keep it burning.” | Your answer probably would be, “It can’t be! done”—even though your life depended on it. Yet it can be done, as in the device used under water near Staten Island, an electric.spark start-| ing the flame. Learn from this that nothing is impossible. | Archimedes, who discovered the principle of | the fulcrum, said he could move the earth if some | one gave him a fulcrum, a long enough lever and! something away from the earth to standon., : Nothing was impossible, to Archimedes. Yet, if he’d been asked to weigh the earth, he probably would have said it couldn’t be done un- | less he had a big enough pair of scaleg:and a star to rest them on. fags Modern scientists, with a delicate mechanism! which measures the attractive power of lead and | other elements, have discovered that the earth is about six times‘as heavy as an equivalent bulk of | water. Thus the earth, has been accurately weighed— found to tip the scales at 6000 billions of billions, of tons. P 1 Such staggering achievements should inspire | all. troubled and discouraged people. All problems can be solved. The solution is found»by the one whi fiever gives up the fight, who refuses to ‘re¢- ognize the phantom, defeat,’ | ; ' PARENTAL DEVOTION In your list of heroes and excellent citizens, in- clude; the Rev. T. C. Martin, Methodist minister, | now retired, at East Longmeadow, Mass. | For 40 years his salary averaged only $800 a year. Yet he put:his five children through col- lege. When money’: hort, he cobbled shoes | on the side. Millions of others, like him. Parents, in old age, would never be neglected if children realized the heartaches and self-denial | involved in that most difficult of all tasks, rearing children properly, and “giving them a better | chance.” | “levery man a roadbuilding job when his regular | \tities cf farm implements and machinery for! |ful. ivilization d Progress is measured by the degree to which His teachings are lived up to in daily life. SOLUTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT | Road building rapidly climbs the stairs as a| work at highway construction during the good-, weather season. | That’s more than are employed in the steel, coal lor automobile industries. | Roads, like transportation in cities, always are! at least five years behind requirements. To catch’ up, our eccnomic system might be changed to give | Road building could be made the solution of un- | employment. | DESTRUCTIVE GENIUS | Destructive brain of Gregorio Arias, retired | Spanish telegrapher, invents a machine gun that | fires-3500 bullets a minute. | One constructive brain, like the inventor of any | simple and useful device such as safety pin or) vencil, is worth more to civilization than millions | like Gregorio Arias. 2 Better news comes from Germany. The Krupp gun works announces it will make enormous quan- Russia. SHORT ON FARM IMPLEMENTS agricultural implements says official report. This result of Bolshevik economic paralysis. is a sorry plight for the Russian peasants. To America, it means that a big export market is being prepared for our farm implement in- dustry. ; All over the world, things are wearing out. Eventually they’ll have to be replaced. Business will hit on all cylinders then. SAFETY FIRST Coroner’s jury, investigating the Knickerbock- er movie house collapse with big death toll in Washingtcn, D. C., orders nine men held for the grand jury. Those held had charge of construc- tion and inspection of the building. Public memory is short. Knickerbocker catas-| trophe is almost forgotten. But all building owners should remember this:| Many badly constructed buildings have been erect- | ed in last eight years: Have your building in- spected by experts. Safety first. ; they owned before war, THE MAN THAT COUNTS ig The doughboy with, the bayonet still.is.the lead- ing and most important‘war device, army officers say. . Airplanes, artillery, machine guns and tanks are important, but in the background. Same in all walks of life. It’s alwas the man that counts, not the job, conditions or equipment. Best bookkeeper: the Standard Oil Company ever had was John D. Rockefeller, Sr. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. MR. TOWNLEY AND THE DISSENTERS “balance of powér” political’ formula as he had in his early flivver’ campaigns in North: Dakota. Then he was a prophet whose regnancy, leader- ship and counsel were not questioned by the faith- Now it is different. : Mr. Townley believes better results can be ob- tained in the future for.hisold adherents and sympathizers if they should. challenge their adver- saries with indorsement and support of old-party candidates willing to give friendly pledges than if they should follow the practice of putting separate tickets and duly labeled candidates of their own special choosing in the field. The Van Lear following in Minnesota backs | 10,000 THEFTS A YEAR | Ten thousand autos have been stolen in one year | in New York cities. That’s one in every 75 cars| registered. \ What happens in New York state is a fairly | good average of national conditions, according to, economists and sociologists. | So chances of your car being stolen are about} one in 75 a year. Using more New York statis- | tics, if your car disappears the police will get it | back in 56 out of 100 cases. i But which would you rather have now—car or! insurance? | CHURCH CENSUS You often hear this: “People don’t go to church} as they used to.” But a religious census shows that nearly 46,- 000,000 Americans are church members. No ‘so} bad, in population of about 106,000,000. | ~~ Guiding these members to salvation are 200,000 clergymen, including all denominations. If every | member attended church regularly, congregations | . would average 230. Many are outside the fold. Attendance is ir- jj regular: But ‘th e' churches are making steady || headway.- Membership has gained more than 4,- ‘' 000,000 in five years. No news is more important than this. Reali ‘ away from the Townley idea. It still pins its hope on a joinder of farmers and industrial workers} behind an indorsed home-made ticket. If we get the situation straight through the| Courier-News of Fargo, official Nonpartisan league organ, the Townley plan is not finding kindly quarter on the original battleground of Townleyism. The paper states that it and mem- bers of the league state executive committee are} receiving “hundreds of letters” in favor of a full ticket for the league and very few indorsing the “balance of power” suggestion” Mr. Townley seems to have done a lot of think- | [ing and arriving at conclusions during his late| would be und fimmurement in Jackson county. Running a gov-; 62° ernment, he says, is not child’s play, and he adds} that some of his old friends in office have shown) themselves to be novices at the business. More-| cver, he disbelieves that the time has. arrived) when,farmers and laborers can be counted on to muster efficient phalanxes against the old parties on election day. He is so convinced despite the’ political achievements of the Nonpartisan league ° as a party in North Dakota. American political history is a better pleader for the present Town- ley idea than it is for the policies espoused by those who dissent from his judgment. , Neverthe- less it looks as if Mr. Townley will not be able to put his program ‘over this year. — Minneapolis Tribune. r ’ | not begin until the bixthiof; Christi leading industry. Akcut 1,000,000 Americans now i. Russian farmers have only 14 per cent of the/’ A. C.- Townley, president of. the Nonpartisan a ‘League, is not having as smooth, sailing with his LL DEATHS ALIKE,” SAYS YOUTH DOOMED TO FIRST: GAS EXECUTION Aboy ber, of ada, wh. Leit, Hughie lethal ges death cham- d Governor Boyle hown at right. and, center, Gee Jon, condenned to dic in it. eo 8 ® BY GENE COHN Carson City, Nev., Feb,” 20—“The House of Creeping Death” is sched- uled to have its first try-out between April 16 and April 22. That is the time fixed for the execu- tions of Hughie Sing and Gee Jon, murderers, under Nevada’s new state law providing for the killing by lethal gas of persons sentenced to death. Unless the United States supreme court wills otherwise, these two Chi- nese tong. members willbe led from murderers‘ row—where a death watch already has been set over them—to become “test subjects” for the world’s first lethal ‘gas execu- tions. In the meantime the prisoners wait with fatalistic calm, wholly un- aware of the national attention they are attracting. Legal Battle On In the meantime, too, a bitter legal battle has opened in Nevada to stop the use of the lethal gas cage as a means of capital punishment. At- torneys will carry the fight to the highest courts. But since ythe has * voted ie lethal gi last word in... “human Governor Nevada y degislature “cage deaths of thei“test cases.”.’ As for Hughie Sing, 19, and Gee Jon, 29, they merely know that they are doomed “tt ‘‘dfe.Tifey have no conception of; the scientif device, born of the war,y,that may, y them to momentary fame a: ell as to death. They were convicted’ of a tong murder. sole Hughie Sing, who atte can schools ‘but’ could not forget les- sons in “tong vengeance ‘learned out- side the classroom, talks'freely. Gee Jon, known the length of the Pacific coast as a “killer,” says noth- ing. “One Way Like Another” Hughie is more interested in the course of the courts than in the means of death if the courts fail. “If I must die, one way is about as bad as another to me,” he says. He can’t comprehend what a lethal gas execution is. “I know I have been sentenced to death, that is all,” he says.” “I do not want to die, but what am I to 10?” The lethal gas execution, popular when legalized by the legislature, has stirred up a public tempest since the day the “test cases” for it were sen- tenced. Thousands of protest letters are pouring in on state officials, charg- ing that lethal gas’ killing is “inhu- man,” is “cruel and tnusual punish- ment” and is “the ‘last word in re- fined torture.” No plans have as yet, been drawn for the “house of creeping death’ that will kill Hughie and Gee. This lis the theory of it, as Governor Boyle explained it to me: i Death House Described ‘A small concrete death house, about 5x7x8 will be built’ in one corner of the prison yard. Through one wall a pipe leads to a large Ba8 tank. | This pipe would be operated either by a jet or plug, which would be manipulated by one. of three wires. Three persons, to be selected by lot, would pull the individual wires, So none would know which had turned on the gas: On thre opposite side of the death house would be an outlet pipe to carry off the gas after the execu- tion. eae From the center wall six witnesses would be able to watch the victim die, a small casement window being pro- vided for that purpose. The law sa that this number of witnesses may at- tend the executions., Entrance to the death house would be gained through a small, hermetically sealing door, Prison officials hold that within a few seconds after the condemned man entered the death house, he er the influence of the Law Allows Delay Chief objection to the lethal gas killings, and the center of the storm now gathering, lies in the wording of the law which says that “some time during the week of sentence the exe- cution shall take place.” Thus, the objectors hok man could live for da of terrible tor- ture, never knowing at what mo- ment the deadly gas would be turned State and prison officials insist that they have no intention of ad- the gas in this fashion; e condemned prisoner will be sd of the time of his death and execution will be immediate. will prove whether ors not cOUTE: rhigh the interferes, Hughie! the] the Forum column of the Bismarck execution,” | Tribune over the name of a state Emmett Boyle and state} employe, prison directors are’.continuing with} Senior Judge Robinson and the tax- plans for its construction,.and the] payer. nded Ameri-| happy and dissatisfied with his pres- s schoo] lad, who learned more of tong (Florence I Jove the hills, the massive hills, That catch and hold My heart with glowing rapture thrills, To know the Father thot of these. I wander oft in pensi High up amidst their And from the depths Catch glimpses of the distant towns, Ho, Mortal, of triumphant birth, My heart a thot of rapture fills— You may embellish all the earth, But God; alone can deck the hills. vengeance than of mathematics, and Gee Jon, the calculating “killer” of San Francisco’s Chinatown, will be the subjects of that test. PEOPLE'S FORUM | — oo Editor The Tribune: On Feb. 13 appeared an article in answering an article of The state employe writes he was only receiving $75 per month salary, and. supporting a family, and his hotise was only a shade better than a’ shack. : The taxpayer is certainly grieved and extremely sorry. for his financial condition. No doubt. he is very un- sent condition and seeking a change. I would. suggest that you try to swap your place with some of the farmers in the western part of the state. 1 have no doubt you can find plenty, of them who Will turn you a quart tion farm or up to an entire section’ farm, furnished and equipped through- out ready to start to sowing the wheat in the spring. The farmer will, probably ask you to take care of the taxes. interest on the farm loan and pay your own-grocery bills, seed, la- hor and then after you have farmed one of those places for one year and made so much more thar you used to'make at $75 per month working for the state, youckeep right, on farm- ing. We want to-seg you prosper and Because thejtaxpayer who has happy. taken your place 75 per month: will never begrudge you of your prosperity. . Mr. State Employe, come oct on the farm and try it once. We can prove to you that seven farmers [EVERETT TRUE | | things.—Timothy Titcomb. : MR. BARBER, VERY MANY WHISKERS BUT VERY Few WORDS. Iowant A Borner.) each passing breeze, ive mood, grays and browns, of solitude. out of every ten, west of the Mi river worked al) last year 1921, for less than 25 cents per day net. Doj| you begrudge the farmer who plodsj along all day in the boiling sun and dust 10 or 12 long hours for that lit- tle 25 cents. | The taxpayer only hopes that you} might be able to earn more money | and, God knows my heart goes out in deepest sympahy fcr the farmer and ordinary‘ business’ man of our state, with hopes that some day soon they will come into their just rights. Idle thought and. foolish prattle is only like the sparkling water rippling over the sand and rocks,, soon: forgot- ten. ssouri | found by digging down. deep in the fundamental principles of good busi- ness and practical. economy. —TAXPAYER. A THOUGHT FOR | TODAY Mortify, therefore, your members which: are upon the earths forniea- tion, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which Is idolatry: for which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh.on the children of disobedience.—Colossians 2 6. Be more economical in the use of your mother tongue. Apply. your terms of praise. with precision; use| epithets with some degree of judg- ment and fitness. Do not waste your best and highest words upon inferior objects, and find, when you have met with something which is really super-}look a: it, ‘Nickie,’ she cried. latively great and good, the terms by which you’ would distinguish it have all been thrown away upon inferior BY CONDO T'M A MAN OF SHAVE. | pointed Nick. | | | It's Twinkle, twinkle, movie star; how we wonder what you are. Peggy Joyce is writing a bbok on “My Husbands,” which probably will tell all about their wife. Alaskan railrpad is complete at both ends; but can’t make ends meet. One argument against cheek-to- cheek dancing is that by midnight all have the same complexion. at, drink and be merry and to- ‘morrow you will have to reduce. Chicago says she has jnly 10,000 criminals.» Lots of her jail birds must be south for the winter. The proper time to buy more coal seems to have been last fall. Yap island would be a fine place to put Hollywood. Some auto owners think a street car ought to turn up an alley when it sees them coming. Blessed are the poor in salary for they shall pay no income tax. Fine motto: Open your eyes and shut your mouth. Nice thing, about coal miners strik- ing in April is it isn’t ice men. Hush, little Shials. don’t you cry: Henry will get you, by and\by. _ Just one sentence from a woman is going to keep a man in 20 years. She was a woman judge. A wrinkle is a grin gone wrong. Headlin2 “Trouble in Ireland” has changed to “Ireland in Trouble.” Again we ask the phorie company for a book showing the wrong num- bers to call to get the right ones. All work and no pay makes Jill a dull wife. e Bryan started running for the sen- ate early; but perhaps he has a long way to run. Paris “Nothing-Nothing” gown was probably named when a man’s wife asked him what he was looking at. Time flies; it’s nearly fly time. Railnoad asks U. S. for $31,000,000. When did our government go back under railroad control? Gaily colored stockings are a fea- What the people want most: is|ture of spring fashions so bi; - the solid truth, which, can only be! ee bual n-ss is expected by hammock mak- ers, ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS | ~ —} By Olive Barton Roberts | Nancy and Nick ran to the house {and tot their goloshes, then back to | une orchard where they slipped them {on Gver their ureen ‘Snoes. * | ‘rns Magical ‘mushroom had gone, but in his place was a little brancu sticking up wiih a note on the end of {it audressed to the ‘I'wins. ‘Nancy opened it and out fell a tiny {red feather. ‘there was a note, tov, {and sho real: “My dear children. (‘this feather shall be your guide. Hold lit before you when in doubt and go Affection- Mush- | | > im tne direction it bends. ately yours. The Magical room,’ | Mick, put the feather in his pocket, but Nancy was mote curious. “Let’s is so important it must be different from other feathers!” So Nick\took it out. \ Nancy was very right. When the children looked close, behold the | bright little feather was made up of a thousand tiny barbs, sharp as tne finest needles, but set so firmly to- gether that:not the strongest blacx- ; Smith: with the greatest grippers in the world could pull out one of them. “It's very queer,” said Nancy. “It doesn't look as though it could bend (witout breaking.” ‘Eut scarcely had she spoken when |the feather instantly tied itself into |a. knot, then into a bow, and straight- ening lf did a series of gymnastics jthat was quite astonishing. “It must be magical!” declared Nancy. “Very magical,” agreed Nick. Suddenly the red feather bent to- ward the east and stayed that way. _ “That's the direction we must go to find the lost record,” pointed Nancy. “It's showing us the way.” “The seven mountains and the seven valleys must be over there,” “Let’s start.” Away they went, little guessing that |many days and events would pass be- |fore they reached even the first of the mountains, although it seemed so near. (To Be Continued) Copyright) 1922, NEA Service) (LEARN A WORD | | EVERY DAY | $4 Today’s word is ABDICATE. pronounced—ab-di-kate with | accent on the first syllable. It means—to give up power, to re- linquish, to quit, to dismount from the throne, to cease being king. It comes from—Latin “ab,” down, away, and “dicare” to proclaim. It's used like this—“The kaiser ab- dicated after he had been conquered jin the World War.” British museum has 46 miles of shelving for its 2,000,000 books. Dance -at_ Baker’s Halt every ;Tuesday, Thursday and Satur day nights. Best. musie and floor in state. 10c.a dance.