The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 1, 1923, Page 4

PAGE FOUR .THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. - - - Publishers 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 PRI Fs The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. “ All rights of republi€ition of special dispatches herein are , also reserved. * “MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year...... ener ie a aa: $7.20 + Daily by mail, per year (in Bis 1) eee ere!) . 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) SMALLEST MAN The smallest matured man in the world is Peppino Magro. , In the big cireus the barker points him out as Baron Paucci, = his show-business mame. Magro is 29 years old, but he is only 27 inches tall and ? weighs only 36 pounds. Born in Sicily, at the age of 15 he went through the great * Messina earthquake. They dug him out from under a pile of 4 bricks and plaster that would have killed any normal man. *~ -‘fig“small”size saved him. Handicaps frequently ‘are blessings at critical moments. : The man who is afraid of the water because he can’t swim is not apt to be drowned. It is the accomplished swimmer, lured by overconfidence, who takes the dangerous i chaités. ; We know a one-armed man who views his handicap su philosophically that in his bluest moments he cheers up and says: “O well, one thing, I can never get my right arm cut: off,” Peppino Magro, world’s smallest man, has about as great a handicap as any ene living. And yet his very handicap is his means of livelinood, a sort of blessing in disguise. In September he will become an American citizen, and in apply- ing for naturalization papers he gave his occupation as’ “ex- hibiting myself.” Few of us would care to trade places with him and be only 27 inches tall. Many of us consider a shortage of a few inches in our height a misfortune or even an outright handicap. t Peppino, hewever, takes life jovially. His latest observa- tion—comparing himself with the world about him—is that he will fight Dempsey if Jack will train down to his weight. Let’s keep Peppino in mind and not take our troubles too ‘ seriously. It would be, to most of us, a handicap to be the world’s smallest man, Peppino Magro. And we would consider it a similar handicap to be Antonin, the French giant, 7 feet 4} inches tall in his bare feet. , In a world of midgets, Peppino would be.on equal footing with all. So would Antonin, in a world of giants. : Handicaps, physically, are handicaps only by comparison with the average of humanity. It is so with intellect, to some extent. The extremes — genius and sub-normal mentality—simultaneously are of this world and yet not of it. Possibly life is happier when We} mum salaries, small enough in all conscience, In most colleges it is no| i!nes: : better when qualifications required| heart worse if y1 are considered: In one of the finest | Upon your own small colleges in America, established | burse the nurse ightly | who are caring for Le are normal, just average people. Brilliancy, like inferiority, is born into miseries that the rank and file escape. In a world of monkeys, better to be a monkey than a superman. RED MEN F The American Indians have stopped “becoming extinct.” There are about 341,000 of them in the United States now, an increase of 13,500 in 10 years. And their death rate has been declining in the last decade. _. Now and then you read about Indians who have become “extremely rich by oil royalties. Others are plodding along like the rest of us, the business system gradually getting them in its clutches. Indians own 35 million dollars worth | of livestock, including over a nafllion sheep, a quarter of a Million head of cattle and about the same number of horses and mules. ‘ “Forty-four ‘thousand ‘Indian families live in permanent houses. Indian farmers number 41,000. Uncle Sam esti-; Ymates that Indian property is worth a billion dollars, or around $3000 apiece. P Not a very romantic situation, you’ll reflect as you read } fhese figures about the condition of the Indians. A Red Man tilling irrigated soil, dickering in oil leases, shipping | Steers to the Chicago market or engaged in the wool indus- , |up the savings of years to prov try seems rather out of nlace in popular imagination. *. Most of us prefer the open-country life of the Indians in the old days before the white men hunted down the majority @f them and cooped the rest in reservations. ~ In a great many ways the old-time Indians, lived an ideal geistence, close to nature. Would you trade places with em? =. Well, it’s too late. They are rapidly becoming “civilized,” and are even adopting our religion— 48,000 Indians are Protestants and 59,000 Catholics. $ WEATHER . » Holland has been sweltering in the hottest weather it has find since 1887. The heat wave struck other European coun- * tgies at about the same time. , Only a few months ago many scientists were predicting Shak 4028 would be “a year without a summer.” It certainly I that way during the cold, late spring. ><=But summer is on the job, as usual. It is typical of con- ditions and situations generally in our nervously appreken- ‘sive world. We are-constantly fearing a calamity or crisis ‘that never arrives. , ‘Most of our troubles, are imaginary—nightmares of fear. PRICES Retail prices in Germany double in one month: If we i I i forte, pom income to keep pace with mounting prices., , It uuldn’ i . We haven’t toured Germany lately, but we'll wager that bn price situation is THE THING to the average German, ' gather than revenge, indemnity or the occupation of the Ruhr. e | DANGER ‘ eoger meth, From about 16 to 86, in recent years, the , in recent years, the than men, But at! Genera, mayek. | oa there, one whose accumulations ‘sound investments and many luxuries | preach to them, It-1s not the task of | a business man’s paper to show them “| ginning, that they are among the most lin hele bel EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced this column may of may not express the opinion of The Tribune, They are presented here Iw order that our readere may have both of import: lasues which ‘e being disen: im the press of the day THE PROFESSIONAL MAN'S LIVING PROBLEM A young professional man, in a let-| ter yecently published in this col-| umm, expressed a desire for an ex- pert’ budget for a man in his class whose income ranges from $3,000 to $4,000 a year, showing “how he can save enough in 100 years to bury him- self decently when he dies.” young man at the age of income that has not average: 0 is wondering if it “pays to ed ucate oneself, to marry, to attempt to establish and maintain a cultured American home, to rear children, to be an active member of one’s society. working for better conditions and re- lations among one's fellow mer Brushing aside for the moment i nancial consideratiéns, we declare u qualifiedly that such a life does p: pays the man himself, pays soci and the cou the man di: of property to will to his family, cept an insurance policy. The 1 of tens of thousands of professi men whose useful careers possible only by closest and continuous self-denial, demonstrate this fact. The influ of the family whose life is intellect- ual and refined, who keep abreast of | the best thought of the times, whe| live always on a narrow cash margil and who stand for respectability | honor and righteous principles, is all-| important in the best American life. | i | The four leading professions—in numbers and in influence—are thos followed by the lawyer, the doctor, | the clergyman and the teacher. In almost any decade, except the mos: recent, all of these professions have | been underpaid as a whole—as badiy | underpaid, all things considered, as ever was common labor or the trades Now that wages have advanced bi yond all precedent, it is timely, our correspondent suggests, to give | consideration in an era of high living| costs to professional men who livel on fees and salaries, and who are} popularly regarded as highly pros-| Perous because their positions require | them to maintain at least the out-/| ward semblance of financial ease even when sorely pinched for lack of| funds. The public judges the prof sions by their leaders, and th them all fortunate—financially. B the landlord, the grocer and the bu cher know better. { big cities, but in the towns of from | 80,000 down to the little county seats of two, three or four thousand pop- | ulation, where their number totals largest, and what will one find? sv or three of a dozen, possibly half a dozen out of 30, with an income in excess of their necessities; and here compare favorably with those of suc- cessful business men in their com-| munities. No wonder so many of them seek to supplement their inadequate incomes by following to their sutter | ruin the ignis fatuus of political of- | {fiee. Teaching is notoriously the poorest paid of the professions— scandalously underpaid in man !lie schools that the State has compelled to establish by law min in 1835, now endowed with more than a million dollars, profes-| sors were paid only $1,500 a year in they scrape along unable to save a rifices of clergymen here. They are known to all; men from whom rad ven, doubtless, but unable, many of them, to give their children even a/ college education. Only the medical profession has within the last decade advanced to business basis. The dreadful “flu’ years put them on their feet, econom- | ically, but at heavy costs to tens of thousands of_bereaved families all over the land, many of whom g medical attendance and save the lives of loved ones during long periods of ill health following that awful scourge. Now the profession is well organized. Its fees for service have been greatly increased everywhere, and the outward signs of its pros- perity are visible in improved homes, the physician of 20 years ago never dreamed of possessing. ‘What shall the lawyer, the teach- er, and the clergy: do in the grf of present living costs? It is easy to jay unite in demands for larger fees and salaries, but that will not suf- fice for this week’s or this month’s budget. With multitudes of men in these three professions barely ‘get- ting by” on their present incomes, and in many cases dipping into the mall savings of foPmer years, it is little less than insulting for “the high priests of thrift and economy” to the way. But we may im all sincerity give them full credit for the nobility of their service to mankind and de- clare again what we said in the be- useful of men, that their lives are of hhad a similar situation you can imagine the time you'd have, | the srestest importance to the wel- fare of society ‘and of the state, and that ¢ re glad to.do what we can to promote their financial interests . ntiment f. ‘gotten that museli skill never did and nevercan take the ard education ai ization and enlighten- “Ch Journal, of % THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BREAKERS’ AHEAD? cidence of babies has got my goat. LETTER FROM SYD: TON TO JOHN AL Take the lawyers first—not in the! DEAR JACK: Glad to get yo' t the child ince that first wire | the slightest idea whether letter. I’m aw. a queer thing, isn't Leslie who, if what | ie ase her child, born in share of troubl uu, now that you k is getting every p | that could be given her and jis given with much [than you cculd g down to your work. in the sick room too much My advice. t- ct The thing seems to be spreading. ho probably did not} Mexico Will have a presidential it was a/|electicn next spring also. {Tie m her, and psor lit “What,” asks a Los Angeles pro- r, “can the modern girl do?” you'd be surprised. as much derision | fe: yourself, and help you pa = few dollars for Lé I believe if I] England and Franee couldn’t get i an I would start out to/ much madder at each other if they man J know as much} were baseball umpires. read this and I} In Paris, nine bakers were ar- “What an | rested and fined come dough: Seattle man of 76 has married gain; the spirit of 76. yself upon a wo- fi, What the United States needs is e least werthy | summer only. every other day. hen I marry I want a for my wife. | If falling | eating = daughter want for th thing to make her com 1 consider that you pnate in falling it whore father I have had a le dollar, yet performing a service to/from Paula Pericr. the sons and daughters of well-to-do! ject P. P. into your life just at men, of incalculable value to society | present.) at large. We need not discuss the sac-| perhaps be interested to know that e is going out to Hollywood to You remember h Sea Island rivals end it\by the girl. We have seen them ; Want to do it here. 1910. In 1920 they got $2,060. Now| slighte they are getting $3,000. But all around|fortable and them are business men carning much, re Vv: 1 more, even men in the trades, andjlove w ‘nccumulating property rapidly while |as,;much 1 ‘n love I find myself a: have you got to give “man?” and I draw back immedi-| | house is you are more liable to move to a sanitarium. We ask so much and give ‘le; we become bored so easily and| all the while it never minds that bs i stupid at time: There, I’m going te stop writing. It isn’t like me to ‘snow that, Jack. myself up in a pos 3 “better than thou” critics,/ but someway this blooming coin-| M@hat’s in. your telephone?” asks an advertiser. wrong numbers and a boiler shop. I thought you might Two’ million ermonize, you! If we ever learn how scarce hen’s teeth are we can tell you how Scarce peace in in Europe. ate the finest influences of life,! sh What’: in a name? Mr. Grinsav- | age of ‘Sioux City, Ia., has just been arrested for eruelty. EVERETT TRUE So Yow weRe RGAUL FOXY IN YOUR DEAL WIth THE GREEN BY CONDO WELL, SOoMe BoDY GLise WOULD Do je IL Didn't. SomeBopy'S Gor TO CPEN His EYES. More bedtime stories by radio. Presidential candidates will use it for delivering speeches. “Flapperitis,” says a Chicago doesn’t keep them at home. What tickles, a boy more than| parsing” the school during vaca- When a woman gets all her bills paid she thinks the neighbors are not her kind of folks. This is the month you are dirty again before. you clean Hair nets last’ much longer if worn with perfect’ gentlemen. Unserambling eggs and reading monograms. ate pbout the same. "Take ‘x ‘bottle. of fodine to the used -after opening Cold cream helps sunburn, but it doesn't help enough, iiminate _ superflous AND: XKOURS: NGED A CITTES ATTGNTLON hair with lastin to bite a wildcat. It is getting wa pose for soap ad People in ji ut eve: of cite are ol : a 4 The hardest strange town ip *t ‘| who is dead,” “Go on,” he commanded. “Present- I ave something to say to to find in «| “WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1923 AGE YEW SEVE . The Bronze Jar NEA Service, Inc, 1923 BEGIN HERE TODAY . Peter Pennington, knawn as “Chi- nese” Pennington, because of slant eyes, is detailed by the govern- ment to run to earth The Yellow Seven, a gang of Chinese bandits. He suspects Chai-Hung, influential Chi- nese, of beng er of the gang. Pennington is in love with Monica Viney, sister af Captain John Hewitt, Comanssioner of Valice at Jesselton, British North Bornco, Monica te- ceives a Siamese kitten for a present and nam it Meter after Pennington. NOW GO WITH THE STORY Pennington held a roving commis- sion, ‘The extraordinary accident of birth that had condemned him to go through life with two dingonal slits for eyes, had been mainly responsible for the unusual career he had se- lectéd.) When occasion demanded, he assumed the guise of a half-caste trader, of a Chinese shop-keeper, 4 coolie, or even, a mandarin. And in his jungle wanderings, ‘the natives who had dubbed him “he ‘who sees in the dark,”;had endowed him also with sundry other powers. As far-ap: was humagly possible, Pennington worked along, and the Commissioner of “Police. was never surprised when ke disappeared Zor weeks ‘at, time, nor bothered his head about this extraordinary youth until he turned up again. It was shortly after his interview with Chi- nese Pennington, however, that cer- tain incidents occurred that gave food for reflection. On visiting the shop of Lien-Yin—the agent of the notorious Chai-Hung—Hewitt found it closed, and none of the neighbor- ing traders appeared able, to supply him with the information he sought as to the where abouts of Lien-Yin himsel He returned to the bungalow in search of Pennington, onty to learn that he had gone out half an hour before, and had left no mes- sage, The Commissioner swore softly to himself and sent the boy for Moni- ca. It occurred to him that his sister might be of help. At any rate, she was probably the last ‘person’ who had seen Pennington. ed with sudden fierceness. The Chinaman started violently, “Nothing, tuan,”. he stammered, evidently taken off his guard. Hewitt’s brows converged. “What were you doing there—if | you bought nothing?” ‘The -creature opened: his méuth, ‘but nosound came. He'stood befor the Englishman, twisting ‘his. fingers together, glancing from: Jone: object to another as if in search of ‘in- spiration, he announced suddenly The .Com to an orderly on duty outside. “I am going to arrest you, my friend,” he said grimly. The servant’s eyes dilated with terror and he shrank, back against the wall, both hands outstretched in front of him. “But, why, tuan?” “Because I have seen a certain men who was in Lien-Yin’s shop when you went.” He paused to ob- serve the effect of this feat of imagi Yin that my, men were take. him.”, The features of the swarthy face hardened as the Chinaman’s eyes fell upon the figure of the orderly who lurked inguiringly on the threshold, “It is a lie, tuan,” the servant pro- tested sullenly, “because there was nobody in the shop, when I went.” Hewitt turned abruptly to conceal the ‘smile that played at the corners of his mouth, _ , “Take him away,” he commande “and don’t let him out of your sight, It was on the evening of the fourth day after Pennington’s departure that the new bgy—engaged in place of the one who was’ under arrest— came in with the announcement that a deputation was waiting in the gar- den, “Who are they?” The boy shoek his head. “There are six of them ,tuan, an they have come a long distance.” shoulders, He passed a hand through his hair and vanished through the open door- way. i The night was unusually dark and a cool breeze met him.as he reached the open veranda, A broad rectangle of light, coming from the house, fell upon the soft earth at the foot of the steps and, just beyond it, he saw the forms of six men, their white garments contrasting weirdly with the intense blackness . without. A short, uniformed figure, in a round hat and bare. feet, came. smartly to ched. it?” inquired attention as he appr “Well, wi is Hewitt. Before the, native © non-commis- ig results by. trying sloned office? gould reply, a tail 5 Chinaman. pushed to the top of the ‘steps and stood: before Commia- sione! “Great jtuan,” he began, speaking rapidly lay, “E am Hani Yip) the agent of the great ly fn dead,” The servant returned with a mes- sage that Monica was suffering from a severe headache and that he was j not to wait lunch for her. The Chinese servant shuffled in and placed a small tray on the table before him. The Commissioner reached out for the glass, looking down all the while‘at the man’s bare t “What did you buy at the shop of Lien-Yin this morning?” he demand- “The shop of Lien-Yin is closed,” nation. “He heard you warn Lien- coming to The Commissioner and Mrs, Viney were at dinner, Hewitt looked ’up. d The Commissioner shrugged his By Edmund Snell, Chai-Hung, paid to do his bidding. It is to further carry out his wi: that I have come to you to There is a boat leaving for Sing: poré tomorrow, tuan, and it is de- sired that the remains of my late master should be conveyed in it to the tomb of his ancestors.” The Commissioner gasped. x “The remains of Chai-Hung?” ne echoed, “Yoh, tuan.” “Where are they?” “There, tuan.” He pointed a long finger-nail toward the garden, indi- cating the case Hewitt had already seen. x The Commissioner drummed on the woodwork of the table with the tips of his fingers. He found it diffi- cult to reconcile the enormous figure of the Chinese bandit when ali with the ridiculous box that was sup- posed to qontain all that was left of him when dead! “How do you mean—there?” he demanded presently. “What does that case contain?” “It contains a bronze jar,” said Lien-Yin calmly, “and in the jar are the ashes of Chai-Hung.” Hewitt sprang to his feet and be- gan pacing the veranda. “What nonsense is this?” he jerked out over his shoulder. “Sinc> when have you commenced burning your dead?” For the first time Lien-Yin smiled. His evil, pock-marked face puckered up into innumerable ‘wrinkles, , and he groped in the depths of a volumi- nous sleeve, He produced a yellow document, wound on a rod, of black wood with tassels of red gilk at ¢ither end. 1 AY “These are the last ‘ great Chai-Hung,” he said, “State them briefly,” commanded Hewitt. “That, because I have lived both in the West and in the East and hav, seth’ customs that are bad and some that are good, I would wish my body to be disposed of in a manner that [ believe to be good. That, in the event of my death in. any place out- side China, my body shall be burnt and the ashes placed in an urn made by my people and suitably inscribed, and shall be transported with as lit: tle delay as possible to the home of ™my ancestors- “I see,” broke in the Commission- er ,taking the scroll from his hand. “You will'come to me iy the morn- ing, Lien-Yin, for my decision. In the meantime both this and the package must remain here. Do you under- stand?” . The Chinaman appeared to hesi- tate. “They are the ashes of the dead,” he reminded the Commissioner. “Precisely,” agreed Hewitt. “But you forget, Mr, Lien-Yin, that I still hold warrant for the arrest of Chai-Hung—dead or alive!” o es of the sf “He stire® thé’ thing on the top of the safe’ in his office. Captain John Hewitt had long ago given up ‘collecting curios, and yet this great bronze jar fascinated him. If indeed the ashes of the great Chai- Hung reposed within, his own trou- bles were at™an end, Pennington was free to return to Singapore, and the whole of the scattered white com- munity of the island were at liberty to retire tranquilly to rest. More- over, it seemed as if within tha funeral urn of Chai-Hung lay the key to Monica’s happiness. He rose presently and, lifting the jar from its perch, turned it round and round in his hands, The thing was a masterpiece of Orierftal crafig~ manship, and the lettering that he had believed to be painted on the ‘bronze surface—was inlaid, a process that. must have taken years of pa- tient toil to accomplish. And yet Chai-Hung had only been dead for a matter of days! He found himself wondering what the ins plied, and wishing that Chinese P. ningten—who could .have speedily enlightened him—had chosen any other time but this to be away. For some reason or other, he began to feel dissatisfied with the way in which the trophy had perl, his possession, It was a perftctly na- tural sequence of events)’ After all, and perhaps it was that which wor- ried him most. Hewitt flicked the ash ‘from “his cigar. Turnin; thle he saw Monica standing! in'tHé’ doorway. She was wearing thé" sane ‘kimono as when Pennington had surprised them in the office, and the Siamese kitten was tucked snugly under one arm. It seemed to the Commissioner that she was unusually pale and there were dark: fines under her eyes that he not had noticed before. (Continued in Our .Next Issue) INCORPORATIONS Articles of incorporation filed with’ the Secretary of State follow: incorpeators, D. D. McKee, E. H. Koehler, E. Kleiter Jr., all of Tappen. Trustee Holding Company, Botti f eau;-capital stock $100,000; general finance; incorporators, F. W. Cathro, W. H. Mcintosh, R, R. Smith, Bottin- eau. The Divide County Credit Com- pany, Qrosby; capital stock $10,000; incorporators, E. M. ‘Rosseau, R. bf Rosseau, J. C. Rosseau, Crosby; C. ©. Rosseau, V. M. Rosseau, Minnea- poli ; ‘Manvel Elevator Company, Manve' capital stock $25,000; incorporators, J. P. Poupore, Grand Forks; Geo. Udenby and C. E. Colosky, Manvel. _ ©, -H. 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