The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 10, 1923, Page 4

PAGE FOUR __ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1923 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. ! BISMARCK TRIBUNE 60. - - ~~ Publishers Foreign Representatives \ G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY \ CHICAGO - - - - - DETROIT Marquette Bidg. Kresge Bldg. TH NEW YORK Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | PAYNE, BURNS AND SMI The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to.the use or, republication of all news dispatches credited to it o*not other- | wise 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 ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year... vesa sOUeaO Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)... oO sevens (a0 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).... 5.00 aily by mail, outside of North Dakota.\... Sees) GIO0) THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER _ (Established 1873) SUPER-CROOKS William Allan Pinkerton, famed detective, says criminals of today are mentally far inferior to the old-time master | minds of crime. | Pinkerton’s explanation is that the clever crook has | turned to bootlegging, which among crooks is considered as | approaching respectabilit A bootlegger’s customers, to whom he sells stolen or doc- tored hooch, are more pleasant to deal with than the lower- gtade “fences” who buy the loot of conventional robberies | Another reason why so few men of intelligence are found among modern criminals is because the wise ones have realized that the mental resourcefulness, necessary for a | suce to legitimate pursuits. The man who invented the first gold brick, for instance, was a high type of scientific salesman, though it probably | never occurred to him that a man who could Sell brass for | gold could sell almost anything, even snow at the north | pole. - \ | | What the modern criminal lacks in intelligence, com- pared with the crooks of a generation ago, he generally makes up ina willingness to commit murder without hesitation, says Pinkerton. The old-time crook usually shot only as a last resort. Today ev city has a breed of erooks who will kill as quickly and indifferently as the fictional bad man of early days in the west. Murder and a crook’s willingness to “bump off” his vic- tim have become the foremost criminal problems \ In the old days when a footpad usually used a black- jack or a piece of lead pipe, his victim had a chance. Today ; the pistol has taken the place of blackjack and lead pipe. The average modern crook is a coward unle he has aj pistol and cocaine or some other drug to create in him the false courage necessary to make him use his “gat.” Control of the drug traffic and an absolute prohibition of pistols are necessary before crime can be restrained on a big | scale. Make it impossible for crooks to get pistols and drugs, | and crime news will become dull. | MR. METAL MIKE An uncanny new invention, known as “Metal Mike,” is perfected by Elmer A. Sperry, the marine inventor. Metal Mike is an automatic ship steeging device. It looks a lot like a street car motorman’s control box. Hook if to a ship’s wheel and it steers six times more accurately than the best human wheelsman. The Moffett, largest tanker of the Standard Oil fleet, re- | cently made a 4000-mile trip in which it was steered almost | continuously by Metal Mike. | ' If the ocean waves twist the ship off her course, Metal | | Mike instantly detects the deviation from the route mapped | out inside him before leaving port. Automatically Mike whirls the steering wheel and corrects the ship’s course. When you have a device like Metal Mike, by which a ship can practically steer itself from San Francisco to Hong- | ong, you have about the nearest-human piece of machinery ever made. H "It’s enough to have made a skilled navigator like Christo- pher Columbus drop dead from fright. Jt makes you wonder, is there any work we do that) eventually will not be duplicated by machinery? | Metal Mike, of course, lacks judgment ,the most import- ant quality of a human pilot. That is, Mike can steer a ship i .to destination—unless another ship gets in the way. Still, it would not be impossible to improve Mike’s cog- wheel brain so that ,nearing another ship, he automatically | would steer away from it. J | This would be just the reverse of the selenium torpedo, ' which automatically pursues its prey, no matter how many twists and turns are taken in the attempt to escape. We recall an “automatic man” that years ago toured the| dountry in cheap vaudeville houses. It walked. It bowed. It-did many stunts. Its operator opened its coat, display- ing a maze of machinery visible inside through a glass. ‘All went well until a woman, crafty in her knowledge of | masculinity, shoved a hatpin into the automatic man’s leg. | His career ended with a; howl. i But, at that, we woudn’t be surprised to wake up one of! these marvelous days and find a genuine automatic man | strutting the streets—and possibly running for poltical | office. { 1 j JAPAN | Japan’s population now is 57,658,00, reports census head- | rters at Tokio. This is nearly half as many people as} five in the tremendously large territory of continental | _ United States. And Japan proper is smaller thap California. | = The Japanese population is increasing one person every | ~ 4Bseconds. That is the real Yellow Peril. And it’s decidedly | ‘more of a peril to Japan than to others. : ed , DOWNFALL oi 4 Malaria caused the downfall of the civilization of Rome and Greece, say anthropologists at a convention of scientists iBoston. ° Both nations were free of malaria until it wax ught in by slaves captured in battle, then spread by mos- toes. i i Smal x germs, ost Taanvion against it, ravaged the Aztecs, weakened 5 until they were easily conquered. re Mociee guards of civilization are the laborary scien- fighting bacteria. i | survived only through the fan abund: | are the immigrants, and is bec sful criminal career, usually pays better when applied | j; tops of |Mary man carried by soldiers of Cortez who were|| mments reproduc th 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, COMIN BACK they ado of ¢ ation. Ame: about $41,000 Indians, 000 In ten years an ine The Indians were inured to the open air and and suc- | cumbed to civi and. still the longevity and health of modern | man surpags those of the ancient | da Sanitation and science were practically unknown to them. They hard ise, | physical strength, nce of fregh air, The primitive age is gone, and the Indian has adapted his cus- toms to those of the ruling race, vith all the benefits of modern s the descendants of the! al Americ should gain in number Put the genuine Indian is practically extinct. He has been or ig being “Americanized” just as mn- ing a product of the huge melting} pot. There 66,000 Indian chil- | dren in learning how to be! good ci i | ness, e ns of the United S' But when they look at Ameri today, with its tremendous wealth its world vision, must they not r gret the lost opportunities. Or | would Wey prefer the wild free-| dom of the past?—-‘Lansing State Journal OLD AT A daredevil motion picture ac-| about to retire. He is 29 old and has reached the age it for his sort of thriller stunts. He is getting old, Modern lite is. swift, thrilling and full of change, but it exacts its toH. Slim Cole is game. He refuses to Whimper. But if he had the past seven years to live over | again he might not he eager to} take such desperate ri: In his prime as the hero ing fe climbed ‘of thrill. ts in movie serials he has rope ladders from the and from speeding | automobiles to airplanes, has de- fied death in a hundred forms. He | has roused the admiration of fhou-| nds of motion picture fans. 'Now he pays the price. j Long search through the imag-| ‘inary tragedies of the films woull} be required to find a more de-) pressing fate than that which has} come in real lifé to Slim Cole; old | AND PRINCIPLES An eastern paragrapher recently | remarked that it is strange how| prone every radical agitator is to attribute the basest and wickedest of motives to. every person who happens to disagree with his pet ideas. This commentator merely set! down in a few worlds what every | citizen who keeps up with affairs has observed. And the fault, while perhaps par- ticularly glaring in radical circles, is not confined to them alone. Therg is, throughout the nation, | a spirit of intolerance, an impati- ence with disagreement, a tend: | ency to attack motives and per: alities rather than to conduct con. troversies on the broad ba the principles involved. The result of this attitude of mind is inevitably to rob the pub- lic of all confidence in leaders of public life and to create and em- phasize distrust of men in every variety of enterprise. And this distrust is at the bot- tom of many of the evils of which not only the radical statesman or | the soap box orator complaing, but of which the steady-going, ordi- in the street is con- scious. There are before the American { public today scores $f great public questions. On every one of these it is possible for men, animated ‘by the highest motives, — patriotic, earnest, sincere, to disagree with absolute honesty. | The fact that one man believes in a measure and another opposes | it does not mean that the first man is the tool of malevolent interests which would selfishly destroy the welfare of the nation to fatten their private purses. Nor does it mean that the second man is a eeking adventurer, intent up- ing on prejudice to advance his own interests regardless of the | effect. on the welfare of the na-! tion. Each may be entirely honest in | the ely his conviction, inspired by st purpose and sin striving for what he consider: for the people of Aho entire tion. Every one of the questions now before the nation is ‘big enough! and broad enough to the considered on its merits, without personali- ties, individual animosities or the attributing of base and ulterior motives to any party to the dis- cussion. ( The.sooner we get\down to this idea as closely as possible, the better it going to be for the country, Any casual student of human nature knows that the tendency to eccuse an opponent of ed motives can’t be abolished | completely. But a lot of that sort | of thing is being cone by men who know better, and if they would ston to consider the effect their methods | are producing, they might help ap- | prectably in creating a mor wholesome atmosphere. —Milwau- kee Sentinel. = j shrubbery, were it not for the ¢ Ann Arbor Times News. 1c s of|* | STARTING IN EARLY NEA BERVICE BISMARCK AND THE FUTURE Klein By J. Henry Bismarck needs p should resemble one on a Many there are who would be anx- ous to beaut fy their homes, would be glad to shoulder the initial ex-, pense of a lawn, suitable trees and co up-keep. With the immen, ume of water flowing by in the souri river it should be poss ble to obtan water at a minimum of cost. The qu s for Bismarck by asy for every resident to poss b.t of green about his place. The ‘anger Vv s.t.ng our city with a view to locat ng here will notice first of all the presence, or lack, of civic pride evidenced by the general ap- pearance of our lawns and shrubbery. And this general appearance Hinges largely on the water rate, Bismarck has been through a num- ber of cont on this very ques- tion, This paper is not written with a view to start a new controversy. In the I'ght of our new commercial organization it must be regarded as a mistake of the past, a mistake that never can happen in a city wide awake. For ths water question should have been solved before we had a foot of pavement. On the slo- , “Best Paved Ci lulled to sleep, awakening too late to on that_we had been out- generaled. What object now in ask- ing for estimates on a city-owned plant when a large share of the present cost must be for destroying a perfectly good pavement and put- ; ting it back again? What is the remedy? There is but one att tude advisable, “Admission of defeat.” If Germany had not taken this att'tude when she did there would have been today no Germany. For the sake of a bigger, better Bis- marck, let's take our defeat good- naturedly. Let's admit that we have For GoopNEss* SAKE, SON, BE MIGHTY CeREFUL Wil THAT Pane ay ae \ NN = STUFF # ask for a fair ant from cept the let us water let attitude » on the ers, Then us water at cost. Remember this, it would ke meaner men than we have Bismarck to exact from us an exorbitant price under’ such con- dit’ons, Who knows but ¢ present Bismarck Water Supply Company y see in the City's predicament opportunity for investment in the of the community, turn- ing actual cost, or le supply equipment. What m‘ght they expect in dividends from such an investment? Let some mercenary at- tempt, to make the estimate in dol- and cents. Certain it is that a Bismarck, united in its efforts attract the nger, would re- suit. The influence upon B smarck’s future growth would be tremendous. It would be a notice to the world that in this Capita, C’ty the hatchet is buried for good. Much will be said in the coming | weeks of other important problems | pressing for solut on, congestion in jour e'ty schools, Housing problems, | playgrounds for “our children with, | proper supervision, too many splen- did suggestion to touch upon here separately, But with this spirit of civ'e righteousness attained, as i dicated by your solution of the water question, “all these things shall be j added unto you.” pols nee THOUGHT —_—- 0 | So teach us to number our days, ; ; that We may apply our hearts unto | wisdom.—Psalm 90:12. It avails us nothing unduly to bez | mean our errors or losses. For hap- bungled our water question even | Pen what may to the man of s'mple EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO wecc, MR. KOINDOUGH, | JAtC! Ha! I See You Cor PINCHED FOR SPGEDING, WHAT ARS Nop Doing OvuT OF JAIL it Don't Go tof} JALC — 1 PAID A Fwe!? (p it hurts our pride, And in| | 1 NW fie tors ere devoting a lot of time to ZA, C4 the state institutions. There is be- 2 ; ing proposed a permanent fund for a | state educational institutions, on the ground that to maintain them by bi- ennial appropriations ts to make beggars out of the educators, They also are debating the results of an efficiency survey conducted of the state institutions. Minnesota capital punish- bobbed up again, and being considered much more serious- ly because of the numerous murders Minnesota within the last year. The phers also have the tonnage tax problem with them as usual, and proposals also are made for tax on sand and gravel, and marble. The | greatly increased cost of road build- ‘ing is causing some discussion there. Here in North Dakota repeal of several tax laws is being talked by individual members, who say that the laws did not work out as they anticipated. They did not square with the method of doing business in this state. One legislator called | attention to the fact that business in | North Dakota is built up on an an- | nual fall liquidation, and that this jhas great influence upon the attitude |of many toward certain legislation. The Mandan trip planned@this a*- [to the mortgage held by the seller jand makes the purchase price a prior ‘mortgage. Machinery houses said the author of the bill, would thus be imore able to give greater credit to |farmers purchasing farm equipment. |Judiciary committee. House bill 21, Cart, Burk-Divide, |(N.) and Anderson, Burleigh, (ind.) would repeal Chapter 116 session laws of 1919 which required that all |bob sleds, sleighs, ete., brought into jthe state in the future for sale must ‘be of 56 inch guage. The bill was passed on the theory that narrow {guage bobs made roads impassible standard guage automobiles and the Wn~~~~ | for wagons during Committee winter time. { faith, still, when the last minute | comes of the sorrowful hour, when | p i the week or the year is ended, still | ; Gnd Al [een el spre ven wel pute led vaeull (ye sc uccgen comnanonytomnCHnS eee nee een eee thine Mast, (Bill 8). The measure empowers all PEAY tes Maan + Mact- ‘cities of 5,000 to provide for the es- ura \tablishment, government and main- tenance of a city planning commis- ion, prescribes duties of such com- ion and vests in such comm ion jurisdiction over all new subd visions or re-subdivisions of land’ within the corporate limits of such city. The planning commission is described as an unpaid body of three named by the mayor or city comm jon president with the city auditor as secr mecting once each and general elections. The;month for the purpose of carrying ure leaves the opening hour of jout the provisions of the “zoningpact” polls at 9 o'clock tn both ‘rural andjand advancement of the cities y precincts, but requires that polls |through building regulations and re- }1 close at 5 o'clock in the after-|strictions of classes of building in noon in rural precincts while in the certain areas or zones; to map the incorporated villages and cities, the|city; make recommendations as to polls shall remain open until 7jall improvements; giving, in fact, o'clock instead of 9 o'clock generally ! as at present. The measure includes all elections—general, primary, vil- special—w':hin its tions committee. d, Stark (Ind.) Would remove requirements on the sale of e to which contains min- | ations. S. B. 13, Stevens, Ramsey (Ind.) | deals with the requirements for reg- istered nurses. ——____—!_+ | Senate Calendar | Bills Introduced S. B. 11, Carey, i Amends and re-enacts Section 869 and 983 (1913), and Chapter 119, ses- | laws of 1919, relating to the opening and closing of polls in pri- m and (Ind.) sion ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS By Olive Barton Roberts This is what Torty Turtle did in Dreamland! What's that, my dears? You are asking how Torty got there when he’s so very sow! Simple as A. B. C. or rather ag X. Y. Z. When he was snoring away through his pollparrot beak down under the mud in the bottom of Rip- ple Creek, not far from the place House Calendar a) Bills Introduced House biil 15, 16, 17, 18, Johnson, |Pembina, (ind.) are more of the group by which Judge J. E, Robin- son would revolutionize the present taxations systems and court proced- ure. House bill 15 provides that “a! Ph’l Frog had been snoozing before party appealing from a judgment} he went to Dreamland—well, when \may unite in the same appeal any! Torty was snor:ng away, Nancy and other appealable order made either] Nick in their Green Shoes, and Dusty before or after the judgment and no} Coat, the fairy sandman, with his such appeal shall be dismissed as| bag bag, came along and found h'm double.” and sprinkled him with magic dust: House bill 16 would have the court | Then, ker-flip, ker-flop, ker-flump! give judgments “without regard to| A little trap-door opened rght un- ‘technical errors or defects or ex-| der Torty and after about fifty som- ceptions which do not affect the sub-| ersaults he landed right in the mid- stantial rights of parties.” The pur-|dle of Dreamland. pose of the law is to “secure true] While he was blinking his eyes and substantial justice and not to|l’ke chewing gum signs (you know build up a nice system of technical|the kind that shine at night and | | |IN LEGISLATIVE HALLS | Down in South Dakota the legisla: ternoon spoiled the organization of the Third House. ,There were cau- cuses last night, however, at which things were thrashed out a lot more. A lively session is planned Thursday afternoon after both houses adjourn. When a representative arose yes- terday afternoon to move that the satirical remarks of Rev. Vogel toward Rep. Trubshaw be expunged from the permanent journal, Mr. Vogel gallantly joined in the request. The supreme court, with Chief Jus tice Brownson presiding; has taken the old supreme court room, used most of the time by the tax commis- sioners office, during the session of the legislature. The court usually sits in the house chamber, In certifying figures to accompany request for bids on state bonds, real estate series, Treasurer John Steet. shows the assessed valuat'on of the state (1922), as $1,308,490,421; the total general bonded debt, $9,902,000; sinking fund, $404,923.40; population of state, 1920 census, 646,972, and he also certifies that <he state of North Dakota has never defaulted in the payment of the principal or interest on any of its bonds. Senator Baker believes the biggest questions before this legislature deal with the banking system and taxes. Most of those who swore off are swearing on. Know thyself—but don’t tellevery- . body about it. He who hesitates is old-fashioned Shooting dice for a living is a shaky busines Curiosity killed a and a cat has nine lives. Some of these books being bound ought to be gagged. To'be a pictury of health a girl must have a good frame. Many a plan to get rich quick a poor ending. Next month you pay 30 da s the month in which s rent for 28 days. The concert of nations is singing on American notes. When a woman gets her husband complete power over future improve-' up a tree she makes a monkey out ments of streets, alleys, business dis-| of him. tricts, residence districts, parks, etc. Cities and municipal corporations. The most expensive thing on earth is the upkeep on a marriage license. What this country of ours needs is more spunk and less bunk. Wait for things to turn up ana your nose is all that does it. The only reliale weather forecast is: Winter, spring, summer, fall. An Towa hen has broken the egs laying record and more than likely the rooster is crowing yet, What is more costly than making history? Making love doesn’t take as long as it did once, but it doesn’t stay made as long. Farmers raise crops in the sum- mer and questions in the. winter. What a man has often has him. The best. part of will power is the won't power. ‘ ‘ Tf you are disgusted just think of the money you are saving on ice. ————— f ¢ court practice.” House bill 17 would} keep: going on and on) a fairy ap-| Ninety per cent of the men looking 4 provide for redemption of chattels| proached him. for trouble are single. sold on mortgage foreclosure within! “Welcome to Dreamland,” said she 4 five days by tendering the amount| smiling grac‘ously. Too mi i DE eee brought at the sale plus seven per! “Thank you, Ma’am,” answered ‘as-| gor roa teny pubis onert are used: = , cent, and provides treble damag.s|tonished Torty, “So that’s what this aan A for extortionate. demands.- These | place is, is ‘t? Well, I shouldn't 4 a eee three bills were assigned to the ju-| have thought so, for there’s my | Seemiend itaaworid) cusses iat, you. diciary committee. rival Ben Bunny over there who The fourth Jonnson-Robinson mea-| beats me in all the races. I'd lke sure, house bill 18, is entitled: “An ay get away from him for a {ttle ¢ § act declaring the purpose and spirit | while.” to C of the la It is brief, its one sec-; “Is that what you desire most?” assy ma tion setting forth that “It is the| asked the fa'rmy. “More than any- purpase of the law and the duty of | thing else in the world?” the court to recognize that men are| “Nope,” answered Torty quickly. | Bloating, Belching, Sour Risings, not equal in their physical strength; | “There’s just one thing I wsh for| Heartburn, Pressure—Be Sure to protect the weak and the simple| more and that’s to beat Ben Bunny To Use Stuart’s Dyspepsia 5 : against the strong and’ the crafty; | in a race.” i Tablets. _to prevent one party from cheating,| “Well, then,” smiled the fairy. defrauding or. overreaching another | “Your wish will be granted. I've] Chew one or two after meals’ or by any device, contract, snare, arti-| brought you an electr'e motor and|®8n¥ time and note how the stomach fice, contrivance or persuasion, and| four nice wheels. We are going to| Settles down, feels fine, stops gai y by any technicality of law practice,” | make you into a turtomobile.” acidity, sour risings, belching an ' Referred to the state affairs commit-|_ “For goodness sake!” declared | Such troubles due to indigestion. ‘ oe Torty witha delighted grin. “That They neutralize the sour acids, give SY N House bill 19, Trabshaw, Barnes,|ll_be fine! Put ’em on now, will| the stomach an alkaline effect and 1 Gnd.) very briefly‘ calls for an “act | you?” ~~~ + |you need have no fear to eat what- , i to repeal the state pool hall statutes.”| And the fairy did so, ever you like. Get a 60 cent box to- This measure is intended to abolish; 1" five ‘minutes-Torty Turtomobile|day of any druggist. No more the state licensing department of the | WHizzed under Ben Bunny's aston- | drowsiness or heavy feeling after a attorney: general’s- office ‘which: has | ‘Shed nose and back again. hearty meal. And you get the benc- regulatory and licensing power over| “Bet I can beat you in a race | fit of your food in more solid flesh. pool halls, theaters, taxiScab stands, | "°W>-Ben,” he cried saucily. Most people have a tendency to acid, soe lrink parlors, ance Halls, ates (To be Continued) gassy stomach just after eating or passed by the 1919 séssion when Wm.| (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service) | drinking coffee, ete. If a Stuart’s Longer was league attorney general) ———_ Dyspepsia Tablet is chewed at this State affairs committee, Regular ‘meeting Lloyd | time it neutralizes the acids, your ,House bill 20, Jackson, Ramsev, | Spetz Post tonight at 8 p..m.| %tomach is sweeteneed, the gas is (ind.) would amend present laws. re-1 Representati UL My) | Prevented and you feel good all over : lative to filing liens for repairs on | vePresentative Lynch will! try it, Remember, you can get { personalty. The present law pro- speak, ©. - Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets any- { vides that a labor lien o rlien for xe- where in U. 8, and Canada—Adv, ~ pairs made on farm machinery or ——— offer property must be filed within E ry Va 0 days. The Jackson measure RALG would increase the time to 90 days | or headache—r9b the forehead STOVEWOOD on the theory that “many fyil to file elt and inhale the vapors Dry Seasoned. liens believing, that with the first of i Delivered to P the month the party would: pay and Q ie Any Part .of lose the right to file “a lien.” A ) the City. . further amendment changes the pro- VAPr : ' “Phone 4943 ‘ vision making such lien a prior claim Over 1 Mon Jan Us A tise y