The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 15, 1923, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE) Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class EDITORIAL REVIEW — Comments reproduced in this Matter. column may or may not express ~ Se nee the opinion of The Tribune, They BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. - - — - > Publishers | tre prenented ner in ooier tte ne aE RE TE rg ua — | of tmportant issues which ° Foreign Representatives Gla ee SA G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - ce : f DETROIT we TS VALUED Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH Noah Webster's poh gives fai ‘ sh reds of words to defining value Sisal c zs SU a eich WBE aE what a thie will UF An eee — "1 ni cash,” says a by-stander. But cash OCIATED PRES The MEMBER OF THE A‘ is merely a measure of value. ceonomists all tell us what it The Associated Press is exciusively entitled to the use OF ju: the Romans knew. They gave republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other-! us the word itself —“valere”—to be wise credited in this paper and also the local news published | strong, to be valiant, to be worth, ‘The query above arises on hear- ing that the junior Rockefeller has given $1,100,000 for six fifteenth century tapestries, made in medite- val France, which depict the story of the “Hunt for the Unicorn.” | It requires a large and generous , financial education to make any physical object worth a million dol- lars to any man, along with large! s in addition to the million.| Perhaps all values are compi tive, that is, dependent upon many other things. Yet, in a general yo a thing’s value is what it will bring in an open market. A dia- mond may be well worth $1,000 to a jeweler, and not worth a hundred dollars the use of an individual who does not fancy that kind of nerein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are so reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUR SUBSCRIPTION RATES Jaily by carrier, per year... SAU OF CIRCULATION PAYABLE IN ADVANCE _ Vaily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) ................ 7.20 Jaily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).... 5.00 Jaily by mail, outside of North Dakota +» 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) 25,000 YEARS AGO The Stone Age people who lived in Great Britain 25, 000 ‘ é ‘adornment. We di y a com-} years ago were physically and mentally surperior to the! gortaple home, a fairly profitable average European of 192: | business, and e credit balance in bank, have more value to the; So claims the eminent authority on anthropology, Prof. Miliot Smith of England, i Smith o k’s, as accurate, Mackenzie’s book, “Ancient Man, in Britain.” This book, which is creating a sensation in Eng- land, vives this descriptior? of the Britons of 250 centuries nyo: “Th allessential features they were of modern type. would, dressed in modern attire, pass through the streets man than these superb] , if they might he only and not sold--Chicago of Commerce, HOTELS TOO SIMILAR They! Standardization has been {too far in the hetel busine ‘ haha ian Perea are eau el aken of | (OWES. according to a prominent of a modern city without particular notice being taken Of) yotei man. What is necded is more them. One branch was particularly tall and handsome, with] originality in construction and op-| an average height for the males of 6 feet 1/2 inches.” eration, especially in the touris \ | hotels \ According to this man, the office-| building type of architecture, fit-| ings and conduct is well enough | for the commercial hotelry in the} ‘The people who inhabited Britain 25,000 years ago suf- fered from many of the physical complaints that are com mon today. “There is evidence in skeletons of the effects of rheu-! Pee branes FGI AEA CA ECR LIER matism and of bad teeth,” says Prof. Smith, | teatur He has traveled widely Those ancients were clever surgeons. .They were skilled! throughout the country and while at performing the delicate operation, trepanning the skull | he finds modern conveniencee 15 a to relicve the brain from pressure or irritation. Skulls, ™#Ximum he has noted but few ho- tels which have any original ch which have been dug up, reveal this clearly and unmis-| ,cr64i to cakliotienrctociivall takably. ; : | He difficulty in remembering Similar operations, by the way, were performed by the! one trom another when asked to] \ztees who had a highly developed civilization, on the, "commend stopping places | aha icant i & axing Gnaniah axnlorers, Build artistically. with referenc .merican continent, until the plundering Spanish explorers | (, jandscape or surroundings, thi lestroyed it. | authori sugge-ts. Have some ——— | that are different, inter- unique. Combine comfc with originality and choose a dis-| tinctive name. It is something for| th who operate hotels, restan-! rants and tea rooms to think about.! Asbury Park Press \ The late Prof. Camden M. Coburn, who uncovered the} cities which the Israelites built of sun-dried brick before | they fled Egypt, had the greatest surprise of his life in; India. | There Coburn saw an ancient document in which a scien-| tist of 6000 years ago told how he had discovered and iso-| lated something like 38 different kinds of throat bacilli! * (disease bacteria). } According to Judge Cabot of the} Link this fact with Prof. Smith’s revelations about the; Boston Juvenile Court, actual bart Britons of 25,000 years ago, and it rather takes: the Stara) ie. eT aun ali a a out of our vanity. | tem of justice, recognizing that the How long will it be until exploring scientists of the future | crimes of youth cannot be treated! dig deep into the earth and uncover remnants of the civiliza- qui adult violations are treat- tion we have today—for instance, right here in Bismarck. SIOLOGICAL JUSTICE | s won its place in the chief ‘centers of population. The chil- satis Se jdren’s courts now try to under- i stand all that concerns the child, RIDICULE from his mental equipment to the Chesterton, English writer, ridicules our prohibition na condition of his shoes. The courts “that curious colonial experiment across on the other side.” | no longer serve the lega! system) Chesterton, who has mental hyperacidity, asks how aj @/one; they/ure boards of inquiry M loctors! for soc Ry send- nation which permits negroes to be lynched and burnt alive! “has any right to set itself up as an’exemplar of morality” for the rest of the world. The answer to this is that the average American doesn’t rare whether the rest of the world drinks or not, and knows! it’s none of his business. But get this, Ches: Prohibition| came in America, not as a moral question, but as an economic! one—a simple matter of efficiency. Wet England will event- ually have prohibition, or be unable to compete in foreign trade with dry America. Liquor lowers efficiency. young offend ing pital they can sometimes save the to the hos e from later tracking down|{ nd supporting a grown person, With a word of advice they are in} a position to do more for people in general than the most perfect chine for abstract justice.--N York Sun. WHEN ENOUGH IS A PLENTY n has just passed out of Co y, after having been Hl nt there for forty ye: He was a classmate of Nicholas Murray Butler, who is now president of the university. In the four decades of his| experience this man has accumulated | BARROOM a = Do you remember the famous old poem, “The Face\on the’Barroom Floor?” Hugo Antoine d’Arcy, its author, is! given a banquet by actors in New York, on his eightieth yout every degree the universit birthday. ein bestow, and has all but ex te D’Arcy wrote this rough-hewn classic to induce bartend-;' ed the study of kxown subjects. His | ers to be kind to aged men who had seen better days. In, most recent venture was a course in | other words, hobo-bar flies. He did not dream that his poem) Pajece"phy of | America, which | i z i ~ | means ancient writings or inserip would become a powerful piece of propaganda in the prohi-} gions. | bition movement. | \He gives as his reasons for with- D’Arcy was a dynamic influence in his generation, There drawing from the university that he should be a monument to him, also to the author of “Ten!” no longer abide the notoriety Nights in a Barroom.” Both are important historical eft. | Meus on iia hy abe euenane neters. ' extensive knowledge he has acquired | a student, he will have little oc- | sasion to grumble about newspapers COAL notoriety in the future for mene A shortage of 40,000 to 60,000 coal cars is being an- paper space is too valuable to waste nounced constantly by. the railroads. If there were more on “dead ones,? unless they are in cars than needed, the price of coal would tumble, for Amer- | ‘he ae eae Sen ne. natal ica has a surplus of mines, all eager to operate to capacity. | tr nis profound learning, on he may | Plenty of coal; shortage of transportation; that’s the situ-! simply drop out of sight. i ation. “A little learing is a dangerous =, Back of the car shortage is a shortage of motive power. thing,” wrote Pope, adfising all tu About a fourth of the locomotives owned by. the railroads; “¢"tk deep, or taste not the Pyerian 4 s é TOACS | spring.” Forty years of steady ap-! are laid up for repairs. Emphasiges that transportation is: trarance at the clas. room. would | ‘Br j “If you are not,” I repeated, eghiaeee THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE \s | | OH; WHAT A RELIEF! | ‘had a case of wine in the van, I pipe from a package of very good to- { Arter MONTHS NSS ) ano MONTHS OF SSS —> THis Sr (AnD This Ua ~= | You'LL PARDON US, WE HOPE, IF We Don'T AcT EXACTLY NATURAL. THE BEGIN HERE: TODAY Vendetta begins between MICHAEL SAYERS, noted criminal, and SIR NORMAN GR Scotland Yard, waen tiful housemaid, JANET, sav him from Sir Norman by shooting dead the officer sent to ar him, Janet becomes . 'S, once of avers’ beau- ers’ wife and accomplice. In many exploits, Michael escapes arrest by taking desperate caances. Jan et is an able istant, but be cause he greatly admires the many oot qualities he recognizes in er, Sir Norman deals leniently with her, Janet goes to work for Mrs. Trum- perton-Smith, a wealthy widow liv- ing at the Magnificent Hotel at hton. The widow is found p.ur- dered and her jewels missing. Mr. Sidney Bloor, adventurer and vre- tended admirer of the dead woman is accuse of the robbery and mar- der, NOW GO ON WITH STORY Sir Norman's Story “I should not have taought,” she agfeed, “that he would have had courage enough to wring the neck of a caicken.’ 1 régarded her fixedly. “Why don’t you try to earn the reward?” I asked. “1 am thinking about it,” she re- plied. “If 1 have any luck, I'l come to you.” She left me then, and I went for a stroll along tae front. Seated in one of the shelte a little way to- ward Hove, was a young man who I felt sure, from his description, wa Sidnéy Bloor. I looked around and found that one of Rimmington’s men was seated on the other side of the shelter. 1 touched the young man on the arm, and his violent start red me that I had not made a mistake. “I believe thtat you are Mr. Sidney Bloor,” I id. “Can I have a few words with you?” “Let us take a stroll along the sands,” I suggested, And taen, as we walked along side by side: “I have no official connection with this case, Mr. Bloor,” I began, “but e hotel company have asked me to make a few inquiries. If you are guilty, the police will probably bring the crime nome to you. If you are “I’am nat!” he sionately.. interrupted pas- am here for your assistance. Re- member; I am here ‘to discover the truth, not to try and fix the guilt on any particular person. ... Why don’t you tell me the truth?” He was silent for several moments —-probably, I decided, piecing toget- our leading problem. jem to be enough, however. Men wth searcely that many weeks or schooling have been of immense use = MYSTERY Scientists, spurred by the discovery of King Tut’s tomb, will dig into ruins in Yucatan to learn more about the Mayas, believed to have had the oldest civilization on the American Fone ma a hat could from this, — e most important discovery that could come from this ;@——-———_——_-—-® ntific expedition would be an explanation of how the | A THOUGHT | Mayas happened to have many of the same symbols as the |@—— -——® dacient Egyptians carved on their temples and tombs. One, then said his disciples, Lord if 1¢ must have visited the other. Which? | sleep, he shall do well.—John 1:12. i ‘ Ee, Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sor- * | row's eye.—Shakespeare. _ how weft the years of student con- ditign have prepayed an individua to help the cause ‘of humanity in any way.-Omaha Bee. i _ . RUHR ™ French government believes German resistance Wroken by the first of May. i '.; Meantime. its minister:of war, -Maginot, informs the E¥ench cabinet that troops in the Ruhr and Rhineland must, will be| afterward apply gently— he. doubled for at least a month. ieee | } The French venture in German territory will aintnes| n to the simple business proposition, whether or. not it is VAPORUB ially profitable, - « nee aes ee pot, eae 1? Million Jore to the’ big world; we may now see) BURNS, ncaa ‘wher the story he had made up his | mind te tell. He went farther, how- j ev than | expected. | ©They were stolen before I could | get at them. I made her take them | off before we went out to bridge. | They were left in a drawer, not leven locked: up. The first time [ ; cut out of the rubber, I came back to the hotel. I went up to aer room and searched the drawer where the | jewels had been put. They were | gone. I went back to tne bridge- party, came home with Mrs. Trum- | pérton-Smith about two o'clock, said | goodnight to her in her sitting { room, had a whiskey and soda and ‘went to bed. That's all I know about lit, #o help me God!” | “Wen you couldn’t find the dia- | monds, didn’t you take the jew- el c . asked. as we turned | back, ™*, | “1 should havé\been seen carrying it,” he replied, “an@.I had no tools i.with which to open i, I am not a professional thief.” by: “You are aware that; thONgvidence THREE MALEFACTORS BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM Copyright, 1922, by E. Phillips Oppenheim Arrgt. NEA Service, Inc, looks rather black against you?” I pointed out. “LT can't help he answered sul- “1 didn't ‘J lenly. its I left him on the and ade, prome saw him stro!l across the road to a chemist’s shop for a pick-me-up. I went back to tie hotel, and discov- cred that my 1 Inspector Rim- on from Scotland. Yard had arrived and hid taken 0} formal conduct of the case. He was waiting for Bloor, jwhose very un- envinble dossier had brought down wita him. I ¢ without any — particular — interest Rimmington watched me curious “The young man is a thoroughly bad lot.” he observed “There's only one thing in ‘ais faver,” 1 nodded. “When you talk to him, you will re t he isa hout nerve ow | don't decadent or any mant know whetaer it has ever oceurred to you, Rimmington, but 1 should imagine it would take great strength of n woman by the throat and watch ‘er die.” Rimmington unconvinced, “I shall know better when I have talked to him, perhaps,” ae remark- ed. * I took the midday train to town, and traveled in the Pullman with Mr. Leon Grant, the manager of the hotel, wao was vn his way up to confer once more with the directors. He showed me a cable from Mr Trumperton-Smith’s son, who ack from Egypt. It ran was anced it through { i Grently © shocked, Arrive — 17th. | hope police will discover criminal. | Relieve jewe' ipaP part mot- her's estate. reward immed- iately for return anyone not con- nected with crime “I am sugge ng a tenth part of the insured value he announced. I shall see tue solicitors before I return.” As we drew into Victora, I offered my companion a lift. He refused, however, on the ground that he had a case of wine in the van, which be was taking back to a wine-merchant. 1 made a few calls, dined at my club, and traveled back again to} Brighton by the late train. I met | Rimmington jn the hall of the note} and we strolled ‘into the manager's | office. Mr. Leon Grant, looking more tired than. evér “after his long day | in town, was speaking passionately into the telephone. “It is“absurd,”- be declared as we | came’ ing#I spoke! from. the umber 1 am asking’ for several times this afternoon. The ‘telephone is in per- feet order.” ‘If you. are speaking of Mayfair 1532, Mr. Grant,”’ I intervened, “f am afraid the supervisor is correct The number is disconnecte His face, as he looked at us, grew horrible. The receiver slipped from his fingers and fell to the floor. “What do you mean,” he gra: mply that Scotland Yard connected your flat in town, for fear | you should ring up and find out that the case‘of wine you brought up to | London has been opened,” I explain- | ed. “Rimmington, this is your job. Rimmington was quick, but. not quick enough, Grant’s right hand was in the dtawer by his side in a moment, and the silver-plated little revolver at his temple. I believe that he was a dead man before the In- spestor laid hands on him. Rimmington came to my room later on, and helped to a whiskey and soda. “A little secretive this morning, weren’t you, Sir Normon?” he ob- served, sitting- himself JARVIS, L Becieve, SAY, C4N ‘rou TSLE MG WHATE ts 2 Lo @anw Twecu ir |} WHEN You LEAVS THe Poor CPEN AFTER You !!! WHY, 3% KNOW WHAT Iv US ALC RIGHT, i 1 i i ‘ments were, to say the least of it, | were n scratch upon her tnroat, and a few | ‘The reward “will éertainly | bit. I'l spread the goad | away he hopped to tell the other THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1923 , “We wanted the jewels,” I pointed | out. “Directly the man told me ae knew that everything was alright.” | “When did you get his dossier?” ! “By the second; post this morn- ing,” I replied, “ and a pretty bad one it was. He has a flat in town under another naj he owes one! bookie alone, over two thousana | pounds, and his domestic arrange- | inegu nee . He was desperately in| money.” j o n absolutely simple,” my companion | mused, “Leon Grant evidently made | his way to Mrs. Trumperton-Smit2’s | rooms er her. return; she woke up while he was making off with the | jewel-box, and he strangl x. But | what about the two from Bloor, carlier in the evening, and the H missing diamonds? I think you said | that they were not in tae jewel-case | which you have recovered ?” “I imagine that the night-wa' man must have made a mistake told him. “On the other hand, Bloor may ‘ave already disposed of the diamonds. Again, they may been mislaid and will,be brought in | for the reward.” “What first of all made you think of Grant?” Rimmington asked a 1-t- | tle later, as he was preparing to take his le “A very s know, although the undistinguishable. finger-marks There was ‘ops of blood, evidently caused by the fingernail of the murderer. Now, Sidney Bloor's fingernails are bitten almost to the quick. The manager's, on the other nd, were really no- ticeable. They were long, and brot to a point. The nail on his right forefinger, however, was broken off short.” Rimmington replied. I sat up for some little while, waiting for what I felt sure was in- le. It was nearly one o'clock when there was a soft knock at the door, and in reply to my invitation, Janet entered. She closed the door j behind ner and came over toward | me. “I have found the diamonds, announced. “1 congratulate you,” I replied. “I have heard all that has aappen- ed,” she continued. “There no trouble about the reward?” None whatever,” I assured ‘er. She laid them upon the table- the necklace, the bracelet and the ear-rings. “Where did you find them?” I ask- ed. she n the small silk bag which Mrs. Trumperton-Smith took with her to the bridge-party,” sae replied. “She came back to her room and 4, mo- ment just before starting, ang must have taken them ‘without saying anything to anybody.” mést ingenious supposition,” I murmured. —? She looked at me for a moment with the strangest light in her eyes. I opened the door for her. “Good night, Janet,” I said. “I have stood in the way of your for- tunes more than once. This time I am able to’remind myself that Mrs. Trumperton-Smita_ is not my glient, ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS By Olive Barton Roberts Off went the Twins to Sugar- Plum Land waich lay between Cas- tor Land and Plaster Land. “What'd you come for?” someone. asked And there stood a chocolate rab- bit with white icing done all over him like an embroidery pattern. “Hello,” answered Nancy. politely. | | “We came to set things to rights.” “Well, it's. high time somebody did,” said the rabbit. “King Ginger- bread made a new law yesterday a body can obey and we'll all have | #0 to jail unless he takes it back.” “What law?” asked Nick. “He said bathing was a good hab- it and every Sugar-Plum Lander would have to take a bath twice a day.” f “That’s awful,” replied Nick. | Even once is bad enough.” “It won't do even at that,” said attern' rabbit, wag- ‘We can’t even bathe | once, any of us, except the Kewpie off the top of the wedding cake. It’s made of bisque and ‘won’t run; but how in creation can folk made of cake and sugar take a bath? We’d all run away and mix together and when we dried off, like as not I'd have an ear off the knick-knack dog, |a leg off the lemon cookie sparrow and a tail off the gum-drop pig.” “I never thought of that!” declar- ed Nancy. “We'll go to see King Gingerbread at once. Mebbe he'll take the law back.” “Goody!” cried the chocolate. rab- news.” And Sugar-Plum Landers that nobody need endanger his life by taking a bath. “Say,” he called, stopping sudden- ‘ly. “You’d better stop at the Cut- Out Lady’s house and ask her to sew King Gingerbread’s butt6ns on straight. She sewed, them crooked and he gets mad-and ‘makes silly laws.” h “All right!” called Nancy. BY FLORIAN LAMPERT. U. S. Representative From Wiscon- sin, Sixth District. T like the old story of the Scotch- man and-the American. They were ‘traveling in a railway carriage in Scotland. The American took out his pipe Jand asked the "Scot for a match. Grudgingly the latter dug one’ ap and laid it onthe sill of the car wihdow beside the American, . \ now the reconstruction isn’t | | have | at thing,” 1 answered. | “The woman was strangled, as you | will be | be dpaid.’ | “Thanks,” smiled the visitor. He watched the Scot fill his own bacco, then began to feel in his own pockets and finally observed. “Gosh, that’s funny! I don’t scem to have any tobacco.” “Then,” said the — Scotchman, “yell no ned the match”—and re- covered it from where it lay on the window sill, Tom Sims It might help if we worried less after here and hereafter. ‘about what we are more about what we | One spring sign is “Eskimo piv.” America’s birth rate is declining. | We have too many people who think |we have too many people. The biggest liar we know is a |bootlegger claiming his stuff came {out of King Tut's tomb. Another spring “Onien | Sets for Sale.” sign is All of these, old clothes collected Iby the Salvation Army should he !sent to the bathing beaches. | And nother spring sign is “Fresh | Paint.” { | One day Florida fish for Harding, perhaps because tdidn't know who he was. i poteiar {Still another spring | Blank’s Chill. Tonic.” failed to bite they sign is “Use | Minnesota farmers are demanding ‘a fixed wheat price because present prices go against the grain. | Distances at sea are deceptive. A iman may thik he is all at sea over jsomething when he isn’t. | . aed | And still, another “Swat the Fly.” One thing worse than having a job jas a wife is working in a laundry jwhere every is wash da spring sign is Pennsylvania legislator wants law against stunt flying by aviators. Leave them alone and the law of gravitation will get them. This language of ours tickles us. When a man comes before dinner he lusually comes after dinner. The ship subsidy fuiled, but we evi- dently have a hip subsidy. A lazy, impudent clerk is a com- bination in restraint of trade, | The-early bird may get the worn, but not the sleep. Z i ees Woman wants but little here be- low her ankles. Rousted peanuts are not always ‘what they are cracked up to be. 1 Only thing you cfocks is what time it isn’t. San Francisco man who has been living in a boiler 17 years should be hard boiled by this time. Another couple that should not he divorced is hot cakes and sirup. { i} 1 —— i { THE SOUTHLAND. ANYWHERE IN THE SOUTH. iI like the South—a lot of it—though now and then some spot of it, Does not exactly thrill me through and through; And in this southern latitude I sure am full of gratitude. For all the. friendly things tha: people do. . {They have a joyous way with them pe brightens up your stay with them, And they’re not out to rob you of your chink, But one unkindly reference I make with all due deference: I wish that they’d make coffee fit | to drink! It's. muddy as their rivers are? I wonder what folks’ livers are Who drink this, souhtern coffee every day; A spoon will scarcely sink in it, there must be lye and ink in it, It’s strong enough to pull a heavy dray. By some infernal trickery they {iil it fall of chickory And then, as if that were not quite enough, ‘ They stew it for an hour or two, thus giving it the power to 5 Compete with T. N. T. as potent stuff. Sometimes, by luck. that’s naantty you find the, coffee potable, A drink that anybody can imbibe; -{ But mostly it’s incredible, a beverage so dreadable That nothing in the language could describe. superbably, and me With courtesy wherever 1 stayed; IT love you most adoringly, but still I ery imploringly,. “I wish you'd learn should be inade!” --BERTON BRALEY. (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) BEULAH COAI. now $4.75 per ton delivered.. The Wach- [ter Transfer, Co. .Phone.62.° you've greetetl have how coffee Oh, southerners, you’ve\ treated me ‘ n tell by some