The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 14, 1923, Page 4

PAGE FOUR ey THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK TRIBUNE itered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Publishers sISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. _ Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY DETROIT Kresge Bldg. Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH Fifth Ave. _ Bldg. NEW YORK MEMBER OF THE ASS The Associated Press is exciusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other-' wise credited in this paper and also the local news published All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSC RIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE, Daily by carrier, per year... ‘ 7.20 * , Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) . . ide of North Dakot THE: STATE’ S OL DEST NEWSPAPER — __ (Established 1873) T ROAD THE The Biraient road often is a long and weary road to those el it, and oftimes there are some who hold to it but cast envious eyes at others or ponder upon how night reach a goal if they on Now and then an example Ie one who casts a Daily | by) mail, out: quickly they deserted the straight road. ses to encourage the plodding ide all temptation and keeps to the narrow s rck with high nted to start at the bottom and work up in at the bottom and while still but a few , he had reached a place of great ‘trust and responsibility, enjoy ed many friendships and the respect | The straight road for him apparently had not been a perilous road nor a long one, for For some reason, perhaps unex- | plainable even to himself in cold reflection, he chose the wrong road which seemed to have a pot of gold at. the end. SAll of the hard work of five years wa Instead a prison sentence to interrupt his! Progress and perhaps to make a new start more difficult. Justice demanded a penalty, however unpleasant to those who are charged with the enforcement of the law. penalty is not merely an act of vengeance of society s a warning but as an example to others the true Ameri he worked up. beyond his maj an fashion. He did start In five years. those with whom he dealt. his progre was rapid. s undone, and nothing was gained. stands not merely -who may he tempted to fail in thei JUST A SUGGESTION | Two of the platforms of candidates for city office con- ations in favor of municipal ownership of all public! Judging from the reports of the ‘mission on the profits railroad com- of the private electric utility in Bis-| “A: this time eve and the possibility of that company holding on to the| city, state or nation r-period profits for many months through court delays it might not be a bad suggestion to buy the electric utility | Hirst and build a water works system out of the profits. FUNERAL all when one’ social standing in the} ettled until death. ified according to the number of hacks) si Old-timers can r tommunity the deceased was cla in-his funeral. r was definitely in the home He never cut much of a figure socially. | family gave him a “30-hack fun social standing, also the family old’ German condition: Socrates Skagaway. I But when he died, hi al” | nipiting, and we are hopeful of ¢o responding common sense in his years to come. a time, village events were even referred to as so! jmany yeurs before or after “Socrates Skagaway’s ° Most pepole like big funerals. that’s probably why Old Tit has caught the popular fancy. | It wasn’t so much that Tut lived a long time ago, or that tne! unearthing of his tomb had important scientific value but | where that Tut had the “swellest funeral” in history—costing Jeast 15 million dollars. That beat even Attilla the Hun, dead in the year cording to tradition, this Chinese conqueror was buried in eunknown river, in a gold coffin ,packed in jewels. When all’s said and done, | IN THE COAL Ac-! As people get more civilized, funerals become more sim- The other day it w: ple and less expensive. William K. Vanderbile, who died in Paris in 1920, estate of more than 54 million dollars his funeral expenses, including bringing his remains back | to America. Henry Clay Frick, nearly 93 million dollars. his funeral cost only $11,489. These two multimillionaires: were buried at an expense of only $1 for each $7150 of the estates they left behind. You can imagine how gorgeous their funerals would have been if they had died in King Tut’s ti revealed that but $8040.54 covered left a fortune of An accounting in court shows that who died in 1919, A considerable part of King Tut’s treasure was buried with him. No way of knowing how much, for his tomb was looted by grave robbers a couple of thousand years ago, and they probably carried off the bulk of the gold and precious stones that were sealed up with him. Today the rich man’s fortune, instead of being hidden away in his grave, goes on as an active influence, represent- ing him after his death. His fortune carries on the indus- It-builds libraries and museums and en- dows schools and research laboratories — the finest kind of monuments. Among families spend more on a funeral than can be afforded. This is not 80 much to gratify vanity as it once was, but as an expres- | sion of respect and love for the departed. Then the years slip by — and it takes only a few of them to emphasize the folly and futility of costly funerals. tries he founded. s of smaller means, the tendency still is to! ‘la’ Florida man commits suicide by the gas route. leaging ‘over the stove, inhaling the deadly fumes until his Friends find: him, his hand still clutching the wateb with. which he had observed his life tick away. terrific force is the ticking of the watch or clock, as| observed when unable to sleep.. We can escape from! ig except time and death. heart ‘stops. ‘i cite | EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or not express the opinion of TI ribune, They are presented here In order that our readers may have both s of important issues which being discussed in the press “of the day, DOZEN FOR /ATORS Gifford Pinchow’s first weeks as Governor of Pennsylvania” have brought a slight flush of returning th to the taxpaying or earning part of the population, and there is now some hope that it may put ona little flesh during his adminis- tration. At the same tipe ther despondenc and that) dragging- down sensation among the tax rais- ing or spending contingent, for the Governor has recommended a daily dozen for the departments, and requested the legislature to provide less greasy and fat produc- | ing provender for them. In short, this Muldoon of governors gun his administration by out about w State will” be and by drawing up a budget araer which it can live) w thin its income. Long live Governor Pinchot, if that is his idea of government, and | y his tribe increase! Many leg- islators will how! like eur | , and refuse to do ; but the Governor at last prescribed the proper! imen. It is a prescription that is needed by the whole country It is time to call a halt and an{ sbout-face on all these free-taxing, | easy-spending gentlemen who are so tirelessly increasing old and | searching out new sources of tax- jon progressive program of con fiscation ig operating in America under the guise of taxation, —In- y r to real estate to’ pro- ductive capital and w: Shack er wealth alone is escaping, hiding | in the tax-exempts provided ‘by these same legis this money is wisely spent, much of it is wasted in worse than un- enc y extension of government | powers and in foolish paternalistic | schemes, and some of it goes up in gmoke between jealous and rival departments. Everyone who hi ence in private b how every new department that started tries to magnify its import." ance and to inerease its personnel In government there is the sams tendency, a hundredfold stronger. Swelled head and swelled expen are quickly deflated in — priv the income .of the wolves | ing burdens are being ute | ors. Much of| had experi- ess knows ate i | | ; il / dt THE THREE MALEFACTORS BY E, PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM Phillips Oppenheim of Copyright, i Arrgt business. If the boss overlooks them, competition does not. But; BEGIN HERE TODAY in government the heads and the; Vendetta begins between | experses have a tendency to keep! MICHAEL Sé right on swelling. {will to check the tax-raising | the hell-rais urrent spending mania ed legislators with ay and us a nice start tow: | come | ing t Governor Pinchot is ¢ recommendation for legislation. ature and the t are soon parted. ening Post. j pa vers’ Saturday BE FIELDS In one big bitu ining has been constant for at Sixty years, the mines are operated All two or three days a week. Average it at half time, with the micers ning from $9 to $10 a just about enough to get by on and we have a situation, as Winter yields to Spring, which is not cheer. ‘ing to mine labor. In this particu field reports are that all through the Winter the miners have been busy only two or three days a week, fol- lowing a period of more than eigh teen months of absolute idleness. and! ng that have been go-, | ing on ig a great asset to the coun try. We have been talking of dol- jlars as if they were rubles, and | spending them as if they were! exploits, Michael Wasteful executives with! by tuking desperate sicn for fool laws can easily give ard Russian and So we wel- ity im spent- ous coal field, noted criminal, and SIR NORMAN otiind Yard, when Sayers’ beau- ul housemaid, saves Light from Sir Norman 1 arrest_him. Jinevahecomes| Siy= nd ac et is an able a be cause he greatly admires the many qualities recogni: Norman deals leniently i Janet goes to work for Mrs. Trum Smith, a wealthy widow fiv y ut the magnificent hotel at ighton, who is the possessor of yidcrful diamonds, + Mr, Sidney oor, adventurer and pretended ad- net's mistress, plans to monds et also means to rob her mistres NOW GO ON WITH STORY Janet Tells The Truth | He said good night pleasantly and left. me, 1 went back to my room, undressed, and donned a complete suit of Mr, Bloor’s evening clothes, d theater hat, which I had taken the lib of borrowing from ‘ais room. At the same time when I knew ‘that the night-watchman’s back was turned, I slipped out, descended a few of the stairs which were exact- ly opposite my door, ascended them ain noisily, walked along the cor- iridor, entered Mr. Bloor’s room, waited there a moment or two, came | out again, and entered the sitting !yoom of our suite. In ten minutes I Under such circumstances what; was back in my bedroom with the | would workmen in other lines do? Seek more promising employment, undoubtedly. But the miner scems to be an exception. If coal produr tion ceases, he ceases to work, that’s, all, and waits month after month, | spurning all suggestions to follow, the course éf men in other vocations, Perhaps the situation in the terri-! tory now under observation is sub- stantially what it is elsewhere. Otherwise there would be an exodus from this field, for while the soft 1 digger will not work at any- thing else, he en,oys an occasional | change of scene, and shifts from, \the Kanawha to the Ohio river, o« the Hocking river, when he can get work. Obviously ‘the industry is overmanned, but that fact does not} icularly distur» operators, be- se it means that they have abun- of labor for the occasional | periods of unusual artivity. But} Toe much better it would be if min ers could have all the year around | j work, ‘and the excess labor be di- 8 dustrial vocation in which. so 4 porportion of workmen are chec fully idle so many ‘months every| convincing,” the manager assented. jagaesaehs ago Journal of Commerce, ee We doubt if there is any other in-| . a THOUGHT * ed diamonds. In an hour's time Mr. Bloor’s clothes were back in his reom and the diamonds’ safely dis- posed of, Greyes Tells His Side It really, in the first place, not owing to any request from my friend Rimmington that I became interested in the Brighton robbery ‘and murder case. Philip Harris, who was a director of the hotel company, wrote me a personal letter, asking me to represent the interests of the hotel in any way I thougat fit, and it was on the strength ofthis appeal that I travveled down to Brighton | and took up my temporary residence at the Magnificent Hotel. Witain a few minutes of my arrival the man- ager himself waited upon me. Ai- most before we had shaken hands, he had commenced to unburden aim- self. “There is just one small matter, | Sir Norman,” he “which | ries me a little, Mr. Sidney Bloor 1s | all the time practically under arrest ; He has left ‘tne hotel and is staying in lodgings on the front, but he is watched night and day.” “There seems to be a moderately | clear case against him,” I remarked. | “In many respects it would app {Si antecedents are bad, is tions to a woman nearly. 20 hi or are difficult to explain on any basis except that of self-advan- tage, He escorted her round to the Royal Hotel to play bridge, cut out No man, when he hathstighted d| during the evening, came back to candle, covereth it with a vessel, or! this hotel, and was seen by the fire- | putteth it under a hed; but setteth, man, who acts as night-watchman, { [Ae ‘on a candlestick, that they whica | t® enter Mrs, Trumperton-Smith’s MEN'S SHOES Men’s and Boys’ clothing. enter in may see the light—Lu. 8-16. | Suite. Mrs. Trumperton-Smith and “4 ‘ ight is- th bol of truth, -- lawa, where people are close enough to the soil to be! as Bee Ses La , the legislature passes a bill which charges the ven. er of poison hooch with manslaughter. That wi e pial alcohol danger in Iowa. y state should have a similar law. | | ut, be classed as first-degree. mur ler instead of| $2.98 er, since the vender of poison booze opérates with if the element of malice may be absent. he returned together early in the ; morning, between one and two, and | he escorted her to her suite. His ‘story is that he stayed there for | about five minutes and had a whis- | key and soda in the sitting room, Worth up Lo to $8. Going at | parted with her on friendly terms at Rosen’s Bankrunt Sale. Wonderful bargains in his story?” asked. and subsequently went to his room.” i “And what. is ‘your. comment upon “Just this," was the earnest reply: i IN THE RHUR RESTAURANT i gan s to be out. | the mes obscure.” “He came a terrible rst stated that bridge-table when he that the hotel for ier bridge he leaned over tie wall of the prom- night without , looking at the sed ea, the whole Afterwards he admitted “Mr. Bloor Suge 1 and = should take off her diamonds and a moment to Mr: peiton-Smith’s had ‘dropped his cigar-( “Yes!” whatever that once of fe ‘Trumperton-Smith’s suite | oon aatjourned hehe ouibng is at your disposal at any time.” to “lt with you t the de- fiaps Thad better talk to Mr. J in |4 i “whose viame was John | Would help you if 1 could?” sh uvery respect- . Noth- ris conviction that | Mr. Sidney Bloor, I should have | tdney Bloor enter Mrs. about |! continued. it O'Mara, proved to be stolid and obstina emerge from He admitted that! but ara wort against || “ADVENTURE OF . I dismissed him with the TWI conviction that, far as he knew | THE NS it, he was speaking the truth. Then nee “the maid. There was 1; By Olive Barton Roberts the sound teige and the opening and PGi of a door, of O' been ved, I think, the st shock of my life. With her ssed to the closed doar, her| “All right!” agreed Jack so quick-| yr welcome was joyous and free- nging to tae handle, stood ; the woman whom I had Janet Stantield. five minutes later, Spoor has two v n his possession, at once that th the deceased n't been able to collect were given him by to anyone outside, on his , Lam very sorry evidence whica nesand Tree the alleged Gute of his v way. the night- “watchman, y respectable fellow. that he saw r the suite, even though his spoke for several BY CONDO EVERETT TRUE TWELc, wecc I 3_SEE LADY NICOTING STICL HAS You In HER Totcs, eveeerrt ! SMOKED SINCE THE FIRST OF THE £ iMape UP MY MIND IT WASN'T GooD: FoR Me, 30 TQUITH 4% can Quit ANY THING L_ HAVEN'T “PUT 'ER THERSG !! ;o JoLT Some dF .I SUDDENLY RECALLED THE REEKING BRANDS ‘oe ROPE You vuseD To CONVERT INTO TRENCH BAS It IWUNG ON YOU OF You, WHEN BES ou’ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1923, Tom Sims Says Never talk too long or too loud. ‘An Ohio man has been jailed for im iverty is a hard mistress. When | jersonating a congressman, | momentd. Her lips were parted, but | lif she gave vent to any exclamation, it was inaudible, Her eyes were fix- | ed upon my face in a stare of a-| mazement. Janet came slowly over toward | me. bi! did not know that you were | her she said. “Nor I taat you had fetnien| domestic service,” I replied. | She flinched a little, but she an-| ed me quite quietly. you met me in Bond Street some { months ago, and I Junched with you, | I was engaged at a dressmakers es tablixament. Then my husband sen for me to go to Paris. You know) very well what Happened to us there. 1 returned to London worse off than | when IT had Icft it. T lost my s tion. Then 1 became a manicuris' 1 stood that for-about tiree week I had nine shillings in my purs when I saw M Trumperton- ; Smith's advert sement. I swered it and came here.” “You are better off now " IT ven- tured. “Hadn't you better warn me that anything I say may be used as evid- ence against me?” sae asked mock- | ingly. \ “Tt agrec. Yet I shall question, and one onls “I do not promise to answer it.” | “But you will answer it,” I insist-! ed, watching her steadily, “and you will tell me the truth. Had you any- thing to do wth Mrs. Tramperton- i 7 ck you one “Thad not,” she replied unfalter- | ingly. ! “You were not even an accom- plice? “One question you promi and one I to answer, ve finished.” I was thoughtful for a moment was thinking of the dactor’s e dence at the inquest. The coroner had asked him whether the injuries on the throut of the deceased could have been inflicted by a woman, The reply was there on the depositions before’ “I should think it ve to she sai y second question. Instead I will | ake an appeal to you. 1 am here to! | try and discover the person waa! robbed and murdered your late mis- . Can you help me?” \ f I could, why should 1?” she demanded. “We are in opposite camps.” “There will certainly be a rew: for the recovery of the jewels.” “I Should v much like to earn: it.” she admitted. “I do not know | who stole them. { ard | ne “Have you any idea.” I asked her.! “why Mrs. Trumperton-Smith laft marty that) y jewels at all?” She considered for a moment. sted that she! leave them at home,” she answered. | “And did she?’ | “You know that back to the suite?” i have been told so.” Bloor came Nor- |. “And you know that the evidence | is very conflicting as to what time | given at ho inquest | he paid his visit 1, Yess | know that, Why shouldn't | ‘he have paid two? is an idea,” I admitted. aia nk that Sidney Bloor is the! we want?” H Why should you imagine that 1! asked coldly, “From the little I have heard of | looked upon his as a nincompoop.” | | Straw, the ruler of Mix-Up Land. | Your house is’ in little bits and| you've no place to hide.” jly that the Twins looked. at each | known as | other in astonishment. He reached They're warm-hearted folks in Mc- G jhis hand toward his left thumb as ‘though he were going to take the ring off. when suddenly jhe turned it | and said: “Gooseberry jam and blackberry pie, | King Even-Steven’s no smarter | than 1, | = Now good littlé ring, on the top of | Yet somehow it fills us with glee-hee A town with a name like McGel hee; If you were to fleé-hee From where you may behee, ~Ayoiding colléctors or some court's | a mountain, Turn Nick to” a statute, make Nancy | a fountain.” Before anybody could so much as | wink’ an eyelid the work was done. | Nick tarned into a stiff white mar- | ble statute, and Nancy turned into a ; fountain in the center of a marble | basis, water spouting out of the top of her head and falling down in {For when people heard you had gone | sprays all about her. At the same time the ground | under them poked up- until it be-! |came a mountain. There they were | high abpve the rest of the world. And there they were likely. to stay. | | But the Twins could ‘still think | and talk, which was some comfort. i “We'll never get Jack Straw’s ring now,” exclaimed Nancy. “What will ; the Fairy Queen think when she | hears that we couldn’t turn Mix-Up Land back jnto Apple-Pie Land? |. “I don't know,” answered Nick’ in ‘a worried voice, and the other moun- |tains around caught the echo and repeated in worried voices, “We | don’t know!” | But Jack Straw hadn't thought of || something ‘when he turned Nancy | | into a fountain. He forgot that Mix- | Up Land couldn't hold any more | water. And the water soon flowed over | the edge of the basin and washed \the mountain away. Then it washed {all the other -mountains away and ees all over the country and yearly washed it away too. — | - Everybody -in it had to swim or climb a tree, and having a pet-leg, Jack Straw could no neither. “Now what shall I do?” he cried. {“1 believe’ I’m getting frightened.’ (To Be Continued.) | Conyri(eht, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) BANKRUPT SALE At: Rosen’s clothing house. | Men’s and Boys’ clothing, un- derwear, shoes, etc., at less than, wholesale prices...» ~ returned $5,000 ar, instead of thinking Boston tuxi driver (found in his is dangerous. Wheeling (W 1.) man dropped dead when he si load of beer being destroy z nd seeking hi ‘seventh divorce should be The airship Germany built Ameri ca will make its tes Alps, patina so it will not h Our ambition the Untted S tnot income ta s to be president Philadelphia has launched a safety drive and arrested about ists who were not doing it y wants a survey Our guess is that it isn't One job worse than being working jn a resthurant Trouble with laughing at 1 troubles is continuous mirth others think you a a wise woman who asks for compromise on what Some of the jonquil bulbs planted in parlors this jonquils and not onions. Many people are afraid of a We need more like them. ‘beauty and wants a divorce she refuses to stop raving, may go up to a dollar, it would cost endugh to drink some day. ifishing vessel recently landed with oad of fish instead of booze. A great deal of | European poli as brought on by the Europeans’ “Hands up” Girls are worrying over what they pring and reformer » nickel cigars. The flower that loonie too early is blooming idiot i | i | | | | IN ARKANSAW. oe you'll have to give us your | at present you'll notice that _we-hee 1| magic ring,” sald Naney to Jack; Have stopped at the town of MeGe- hee, you see-hee, Is right where we be-hee, in Arkansaw. So you will agree-hee We shouldn't tee-hee-hee |Or poke any fun at the town of McGehee’ in Arkansaw. I ‘think. you'd be safe if you picked” out McGehee, McGehee in Arkansaw. They'd say “Aw go on, quit your kiddin’ with me-hee, There ain’t no such village Tocalitee-hee, There ain’t any town by the name of McGehee!” Well, look in you atlas or geogra- ‘’ And there you will see-hee. This, place: where we be-hee, This nice little town that is christ- ened McGehee, McGehee in Arkansaw! —BERTON BRALEY, (Copyright, 1923, ‘NEA Service. Inc.) BEULAH COAL now $4:75 . per ton delivered. The veer : ter Transfer Co.