The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 2, 1923, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUN Mater. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY .., CHICAGO - - DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS" The Associated Press is otherwise credited in this paper and also the lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class | Publishers | clusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not local news pub- EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced im this | ie column may or may not expr the opiniwn of The Tribu: are presented hera tp order tha’ our readers may have both side of Important iseues which ar being discnesr4 ‘n the press the day TURKEY AFTER LAUSANNE \ twelve consecutive | {Years of war the signing of the treaty at Lausanne on Tues- day last. She at war for three | years before the breaking out of the! World war, with y limited in- | tervals of peace. Certainly sh2| needs peace; and the peace which | will follow this treaty will give the| ‘Turks a breathing spell. i Turkey has lost much by the| ) Wars which entered 99 wilfully.! Turkey en fe MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Arabia, Palestine, Mesopotamia and | s re Turkish no longer. The! SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Paily by carrier, per year. : ‘ Mees Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)......... Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) . Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota ?S OLDEST NEWSPAPE (Established 1873) AN EXTRA SESSION Whenever a great “movement” springs forth there is always in the minds of those who know something of -poli- tics the question of whether the vociferous appeals and de+ mands spring from a studied conviction or from a keen scent of possible political advantage. Just now price fixing on wheat by ‘Congress is the movement.” {An interesting conversation took place in Bismarck yes- ay between two men from different parts ‘of western th Dakota. One of them said that he had talked with hy farmers and found no demand for price-fixing, and he fisked the question: “Where does this demand for price- fixing come from, anyway?” If there is any price-fixing, h said, the farmer would rather have it on the things he buys than on the things he sells. The other took the position that the demand emanated from the farmers and was voiced by political leaders. He said the farmers realized that price: fixg was a dangerous precedent as a general rule but that in the emergency it was the only means to remove the dis parity between the sale price of his produce and the cost price of his necessities. ( Scnator Robert M. La Follette is against an extra session of Congress and price-fixing. Senator Brookhart of Iowa, R t No ma Senators Frazier, Johnson and Shipstead in meeting decided ; to call upon the President for an extra session of Congress to fix a minimuth price on wheat. A meeting yesterday in Fargo made demands somewhat along the same line, though chiefly with the idea of ‘reviving the United States Grain Corporation to purchase the wheat surplus. ; "it is interesting to note in connection a change in view : in North Dakota. Whereas a few years ago a large number of political leaders and followers voiced a demand for the state government to cure the agrarian ills the demand now ig that the national government cure these ills. They finally <cpme to the conclusion that the state government could not do what they wished. In their demands upon Congress they are met by a school of thought which holds the national gov- ernment is just as ineffective—that the condition is a world condition, cannot be cured by legislation. and can only be cured by gradual readjustment of economic conditions. The illness of President Harding makes improbable the calling of an extra session of Congress. Press dispatches tbefore his illness hinted that the chief executive did not favor the idea. In fact, the belief was expressed by writers :when President Harding decided to take his long trip that he was moved to do so in the belief that a long rest from political discussions and sessions of Congress would prove of great value to the country in its readjustment period. :* Everyone in the Northwest realizes that incalculable benefit would result from any action to restore agriculture +t a high plane. And no one can gainsay the fact that it is the duty of the nation’s leaders to adopt any means not in- ‘consistent with the fundamental laws to improve conditions. EDISON Hdison’s discoveries now have over 15 billion dollars of capital invested in them industrially. Putting it another jvay,, that much money is being employed keeping his ideas at work, applying them for the good of Americans. Further ig_investment in other countries. In view of this, how much money should Edison have.as Yeward? It’s rather a “poser” for the man who believes that 2 million dollars is too much for any one. As is true with all of us, however, Edison’s ideas are not really his, they come rom somewhere out in the invisible, he’s merely the radio receiver, also the amplifier and loud speaker. aay Eent a REWARD |. 2. finds a purse containing $3080, returns it to its owner 3—and gets $5 reward. This experience happens to Giuseppe “upilo, trackwalker for the Boston Elevated. At any rate, he luckity-was-nof charged for finding it. , Speaking of the rewards we get for services rendered in this life: Dr. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, Russian, winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1904, recently had his pock- ets picked of his $2000 bankroll in the Grand Central Term- inal, New York City. Emerson’s law of compensation occa- sionally seems to get short-circuited. PRICES ;' Stéel prices continue their “softening” tendency. Pig iron, at $28,27 a ton f. o. b. Pittsburgh, is $7.50 a ton cheaper than it was last September 30. Prices of the eight leading steel products are averaging $2.56 a ton less than they were | at the beginning of. May. __ Steel and wheat prices are‘ the leaders of general prices. Whe situation. resembles a train with the cars going uphill and the double-header locomotives over the crest and start- ed downhill. The engines, of course, may back up. i. FLUNKERS _.. Sixteen out of every 100 students flunk at Northwestern University’s College of ral Arts. But Professor Howard ‘who pass their examination. Like life in general, success is s much (or more) a matter of application and work as of bility. ; : Regarding the college flunkers: Judgment must be re- Served. until later in life when some of them may. outdistance he‘star students of college days. Failure can be an incident, not a permanent decision, the game ag an army may lose many battles and still win the war. a Bee BANANAS t _ “Yes, we have no g bananas,” ‘Professor Irving Fisher of Yale. Solemnly analyzing . Its misleading at times, but it is tech- + $7.20 | ¢ | computation. finds the flunkers average as high in intelligence as ones | is grammatically ‘correct, | is important matter, he comments < “It is correct upon a! status of these is known, and the Star and Crescent has been suc- reéded by other banners. ‘She has lost in Europe much of the hinter- | land of Constantinople. Her in men, in money and gen-| 1 development are quite beyond | And yet Turkey survives, She sesms Victorisus. That idea can | only be held ‘by those who think | of her ag she was at her worst dur- ne the war and not as she was n the fighting began. It is true | at Turkey is not so broken a3 | the armistice left her, that she has | |made a partial recovery since, but |she is by no means the Turkey of | 1911, territorially speaking. Consider her status. She gets | hack Constantinople. But she has had that city for ages. And is it | an advantage that the capital of |Tarkey shall he under the guns of | {Western powers? It is agreed | | that the straits shall be open at all! jtimes to ships of war and peace of fall nation Is this a Turkis1| gani? As to the freedom of the straits and this exposure of the {Turkish capital, no dowbt the Tur- | kish thought that it can controi | these pzssages when there is need. | ith a few score of torpedoes, and | that no paper stipulation can hin- der this, e ey The shaven and shorn Turks | made. however, certain definite gains in the direction of free sov- eveignty. All ‘capitulations are | wiped out. The Turk is to be mas- | ter in his own house, however hum- | ble. Then they forced a monstrous | thing upon the jangling Allies.) Constantinople has a large Greek ropulation which has lived ther?) in part even before the Turks came. | These wretched men must leave | Turkey, their wicked native land, in which they: are aliens. And} then, to offset, Turks in the pro-| virces of Greece must pack up ani} go into Turkey leaving behind them londs cultivated by them and thei: ancestors for hundreds of years Such is the bargain. But after all, | ‘the Turkey of today is a weaker} Turkey by far than the Turkey of 1911. It behooves her to, be on! god behavior hereafter. Some dav} protect her through their mutual | rivalries.—Duluth Herald. i | THE EXTRA SION TALK The Country has been tremend- | ously moved by the election of| Magnus Johnson: to the Senster more moved than most of us here in Minnesota appreciate. One can | hardly take up any American news- paper nowadays without finding some discussion or reference, di- rect or indirect, to the overturn; rnd what it may presage in the po- | litical developments of tomorrow. | One of the reactions has taken the form of a demand for an imme- diate extra session of Congress. ator Brookhart returns from ia. unprecedented feat of having thoroughly investigated fifteen Furopean countries in ten weeks, and having arrived at incontest- able conclusions about what is the matter with the world and how to fix things up. The first item‘in his program is an extra session. And he adds menacingly that. if the President fails to call one, he ani others of his bioc may go over to the Democrats and help them or- ganize the Houses of Congress when they do meet. In view of the even balance of | parties in Congress there is small chance that Congress would be able to do anything decisive if it did meet, or even that it will be able to accomplish positive action, |when it gathers in regular session ;next December. Senator Brook- hart’s threat is, therefore, an empty cone. The organization of the Houses, whether it is Republican or Democratic, will not amount to very much, except to the prospec- tive officeholders. The present Congress will probably he in a firm deadlock during .most of its life. Even Senator La Follette, on th2 eve of departing for Europe, con- ceded that an extra session would {accomplish nothing. Recently help has come to the extra-sessioners from Representa- tive Treadway of Massachusetts, who wants Congress called togeth- er to take immediate action on the recommendations of the Coal.Com- mission. He fears that otherwise New England ig fn for another win- ter of coal famine. He wahts the President authorized by Congres to take over the anthracite mines {and opertate them, and to oversee the distrbiution of the coal, in the event of a nemergency. There is more merit in this con- tention, especially now. that the | miners and operators have failed to get. together and a strike in the anthracite fields now nds. . In any event, it will take the actual and minent ‘menace,-of coal famfine to perspade Congress to do anything. Any less cogent situa- tion will see ess tied: up in the tightest —Minne- apolis’ Journal. ; Gi Complete with operating thea- ter, kitcherr and. saloon, a de~elict | hospital train in Mesnvotamia.”-w | serves 9 native sheik as a Tur- jeally, correct, in answer to the question, ‘Do you have 10! Dancing! na See : ‘| Garden — Tr ‘Dr. Fisher, the southern negro lines: “I i \inyousine I asking you, ‘Als you! watt, 8 the Western nations will cease to) / | they h THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE LETTER FROM JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT TO SYDNEY CARTON DEAR You your let: ine, old chap, how nerves. ds of ovr friends we would find| there are y secret places where they sed to themselves, as we hi 0 wonder you moralizing,. y but to tell e truth I don’t feel like I fee] like kicking my 1 the lot. Poor darling, esLlie! Poor little Perier! Actually, Syd, you are right. “The woman pays.” And yét I think I would probably rather have the eon- science that belongs to either ene of these girls than my own at this mo- nt. I tell you the torments of the damned have nothing on me. Some people might think it very terrible for me to speak of Paula in the same breath in which I speak of Leslie, but poor little Paula was more sinned against than sinning, and I am sure that Leslie, bless her heart, would understand. I am the one that should not be mentioned to Leslie, and unfortunate- ly I am right under her nose most of the time. She is not at all like herself, Syd, She hasn't mentioned in the slightest way that she would care t6 leave her bed. ed up my emotions cepts, with that , all that the nurses do But she dogs not seem| to liwe. She hardly speaks a uring\the whole time she is even when I come in to at night, or in the morn- just lies there looking out of ow, as though she wanted ce through the sky into the izeat Beyond—into that Never-Never Land, which Barrie has described as being the abode of baby souls wait- ing to born. She b never said a word to me about our baby. In fact, I do not think she has mentioned it to any- body. B y one of us can see that because she knows now this child which she has longed for will meyer be hers, she herself does not|: want to live. I had a long talk yesterday with one of the specialists that Mr. Ham- ilton has brought down from New York, and he suggested that jhe was pretty near! t the end of his string as far she was concerned. He said that it was her mind, and not her bo He told me that there was really nothing the matter with her, except the fact that nothing in- terested her. “If you could take her out of her- self,” he said, “or she should receive some great physical shock, it might. bring her back to normal. As it is, as far as I can see, there is noth- ing the matter with her physically, but I am sure that she is only think- ing of one thing. “If she does not get any better. within the next two weeks,” he said, “I would advise you to take her out sHSY, SVERSTT 5 DIONIXT YOU AGAR 4. MS WHISTLE £ —— SS “WHEN You WANT HE | DON'T | WHSTLS a ‘Pon s*hot stove while hubby watches pariaes| _|collar job during. Aygust. in the country and see if the un- familiar surroundings will not touch up-her interest in life. If nothing jelse does any good, perhaps you had better suggest to your mother-in-law that she go over to the Children’s Home aad pick out a little baby and bring it to your wife. I have known | that, in some cases, to do the work.” | Tomorrow we are going to take} | Leslie to a gonvalescent home. When I asked her if she wanted to go she | answered, “Yes, if you wish me to,” in absolutely a lifeless voice. Syd, if Leslie dies, I will never for- give myself. ‘JACK. | Wonder if Mrs. Harding forgot to stop the newspaper before she went away with Warren? Dusseldorf is a nice summer resort. Coffee is so high there they have to drink beer. While wheat makes flour, wheat prices don’t make flour prices. Detroit girl of 17 has a divorce al- ready. There is talk of making her an honorary movie star. When a man kicks his radio on a hot night he has been listening to} MacMillan in the arctic. . Salt Lake City man. shot at a wait- er five times. Why not quit serving green cantaloupes? Doctors took 12 stitches in an In-| dianapolis man who stepped off a d. Birth marks, considered harmless, led to the arrest of a Missouri bandit ! who showed them. a Political doctors say the governor of New York is some wetter. . New star was found by a’man in Flagstaff, Ariz., wheré there is noth- ing to do but count them, ) One might say a Spdkane fireman who rescued a little girl climbed the pladder to fame. There is:no such thing as a white " The anti-tobacco bugs are at work again. Spraying with a little com-- mon sense is good for them. A hero ts a boy with enough money to buy drinks for the crowd. “They are using rye for money in Saxony, the rich, of course, having @ pocket full of rye. the darn hot sheet that felt so blame cold last winter., ; , pes /Vacationists are taken to the tall and uncut hair. °°” % \ A June Bride tells us she washed the ice and put it out in the hot sun to, dry. es 2 If you see a man ‘talking to truck driver, it may be @ college head after football players. ¥ Many a woman watches pork ‘chops the thermometer on the porch, 5 PE ios spe ‘ don't play tennis in hathing their: tennis pictures {John Hewitt, Commissioner of neo, Peter | comes | great j awful These are the nights you kick off | ah brother, “there's nothii AME YECLOW SEVEN: \ The Bronze Jar, NEA Service, Inc, 1923 , BEGIN HERE TODAY Monica ‘Viney, beautiful lives with: her’ brother, widow, Captain Po- lice at Jeuselton, British North Bor- Pennington is hired by the government to apprehend Chai- Hung, leader of The Yellow. Seven, a gung..of Uhinese. band.ts. Li Yin, tormer agent of Chai-Hun, to Captain ‘Hewitt with a bronze . jar which he de- res contains the ashes of Chai- ¢ | Hung. Hewitt doubts the report of Chai-Hung s death, NOW GO WITH THE STORY , He placed the jar carefully on a corner of the desk. “I'm sorry, Jack,” she said weari- ly, “I didn’t want to disturb you, but the sheer loneliness of the place is getting on my nerves. I just had to come in.” She slipped into the chair he had pushed forward, and the kitten, freeing itself with an effort, began chasing a giant cock- roach across the floor. “You've got a touch of fever,” suggested Hewitt sympathetically. “Better take avstiff dose of quinine —and turn, in.” « She smifed faintly. oe “I don’t’ think, {gis fever. It's this uncertainty. I’m worried about—Mr, Pennington. He’s been on the island too long. The natives must We getting to know him. I haven't slept! for nights. ‘I've been picturing him wandering through the jungle on this wild-goose-chase for that creature’s tomb, with the followers of Chai-Hung on his ttack.” The Commissioner perched himself on the table. “He'll come back all right,” he de- clared, aware all the time of a cer- tain unaceguntable huskiness in -his throat. “Pennington always does.” Her \gaze traveled: to the bronze jar. is that the thing?” she demanded dully. Hewitt nodded. She left her chair and crept for- ward, half-fearfully, her hands out- stretched in front of her. Presently she stood before the jar, looking wistfully down at it. is ‘ “And to think—that everything depends. on that!—everything, at least, that matters!” The Commissioner jerked up his head and stared hard at the wall,in front of him, He did not want ‘to cover how Monica knew, but the very fact that she did know startled him. ‘In the silence that followed, he caught the measured ,tread of the sentry on duty outside, the insistent hum of nocturnal insects, the pat- tering of the absurd kitten across the boards. On a tray by the book- shelf there reposed a decanter and lasses. He went ovér to it and poured out a stiff tot. She took it una face ‘asthe’ ionably, making ipirit burnt her a thr - “So—Pennington does he said quietly. The warm blood mounted to her matter?” cheeks, “Of course.” “I’m glad of that.” He was placing the glass back on the tray when he realized that his sister had followed him across the room. ‘ “Must we keep that ‘wretched jar here? Can't you -just look in—to make sure—and send ‘it back them again?” He shook his head and laughed to dispt] a certain uncomfortable’ in- ward feeling. that Mohica’s present mood inspired. “That’s the devil of it,” he told her. “I can’t find out how it works.” She surveyed him for some mo- ments, her head on one side, Z “Why don’t'you send for a black- smith—or somebody—and force it open?” ; “I should scarcely gike to do that. You'see, it wouldn't be policy to pr: voke any further unpleasantness by deliberately committing sacrilege. Besides, it’s an uncommonly fine urn.” He looked down at his watch. “Time, we got to bed. Lien-Yin’s coming round in the ‘morning—and then we shall know ‘all about it.” She clutched at his sleeve. “Jack, I can’t sleep here with that thin, the house. I've been feeling perfectly horrible ever since they brought it here, You call it nerves, I know, but I’ve seen things at the win- to ‘What sort of, things?” “I can’t quite explain, Just vague, shadowy objects. That was what made me come to you. I could have sworn I heard them breathing and once—for a fraction of a second-- two hands—like claws—rested on the ‘sill, I should have gone mad if I stayed.” t In spite of: himself, the Commis- sioner glanced atthe wide open aper- ture through which the cool night air filtered. His keen gaze fell upon nothing but the rectangular patch of | blackness she had expected to see. He walked deliberately: to it. and tossed ‘the end of his cigar intp’ the garden. “There is Hothing ‘there, you ee he declared. “I tell you what it is, Monica. You're worrying too much about young ‘Pennington, want a holiday. If you tak vice, you'll get, married he comes back—and get him to take you for a long sea trip.” » “Aren't you looking’ rather far 1d?” said Monica demurely. “You forget—he hasn't: ed me yet!” The Commissioner tapped the bronze jar with his, finger -nail. “No, will as soon as I show ‘him nly wi ting for proof that our enemy was dead. She came slowly: backtoward the urn, “Proof,” low that it was scarcely audibl wonder if this: clumsy thing proves anything. For all we know—it may be empty.” Ms Inwhich case,” smiled her earth to prevent, us going* to:' Aid But Monica was not ing. She was passing ‘her fingers over the metal surface. * : “I fancy that band. has something to do with.it—the band with the four little gold studs”, «+ She held her, thumb poised over |the nearest of the four’ gold knobs. she echoed in a voice so| I} says: By Edmund Snell, inch from the metal, and then—a form plunged wildly through the open window, landed in a crouching attitude on the bare boards, and, ex. tending a lean arm, thrust her bodi- ly into a corner, The bronze jar. toppled awkwardiy® and,rolled to the floor, where the Siamese kitten fell upon it in a frenzy of delight, Hewitt wrenched open the drawer in which his automatic lay, and Monica, her eyes wide open with terror, leant helplessly a; the wall, gazing into the s swart face of a Chinaman, truder's greasy coat was torn weather-stajned, his feet were swathed in'sandals of plaited straw, and his features wore an expres that she did not altogether under- stand. “Put them up!” said the Commis- sioner coldly, andthe celestial, com- plying readily, bestowed, on the tonished Hewitt a broad, boyish grin, : “Don't kepp me like this for long,” came the familiar, measured draw! of Chinese Pennington. “{'ve got Lien-Yin trussed like a chicken out- side, and I’m as hungry as a hunt- er!” The Commissioner tossed his wea- pon back into the drawer in disgust. “Look here, ,,old son,” he ¢ plained. “What the deuce mean by giving us shocks, like this? The scarecrow produced a rubber pouch and began rolling himself a cigaret. “I'm sorry if 1° hurt and you, Mrs. Viney, only I didn’t like 't6 see you fiddling about with that’ jar.” “I wanted to see what was inside. She has recovered from the sur- prise his sudden entry had given her. Her cheeks were flushed = and thé folds of the kimono at her bosom rose and fell in tune with her quickr breathing. i Pennington ‘ran his lower lip along the gummed edge of the paper’ and looked: across at the Commissioner. “What did you suppose was in- side?” He flung out the words like a chal- lenge. “The ashes of our deeply-lamgnted* friend—Chai-Hung.” The younger man surveyed pityingly. \ “The ashes of fiddle-sticks! Chai- Hung—of all men—starting out on anew line-—-and arranging to be cremated! Doesn’t sound very prob- able, does it? And yet I suppose even I might have been deceived by the delightfully plausible story—if they hadn’t chosen me to be one of the bearers!” “Good Lord!” Hewitt passed a clammy hand over his forehead. Suddenly Monica uttered a little ~ scream and ‘pointed wildly to the f floor. The Siamese kitten that had been playing with the bronze urn was lying on its back, kicking spasmodi- cally. The movements ceased abruptly and before the Commissioner -could reach it, the wretched creature was dead, More amazing still, the bronze jar lay open, its gaping mouth, dark and hollow like a tunnel, displaying no.sign of the remains Hewitt had expected to see. . “Poisoned!” said the Commission- er hoarsely. “Poor little devil!” “It was playing with the gold stud,” declared the girl sorrowfully. “Mr. Pennington, ‘you don’t think—?” “I do! I knew it before I came in. Iwe been hanging around here all evening, trying to give Lien-Yin thg slip and prevent you both makirg fools of yourselves.” He turned the jar with his foot and all three recoiled in horror, There fluttered out on to the flour a strip of pasteboard. By a freak of chance, it fell face-uppermost, show- ing seven black dots on a vivid yel- low. ground—the dread sign of tie Yellow Seven! The Commissioner to move. “Look here, Pennington,” he shouted, “where’s this fellow Bien- Yin?” pa a The other nodded toward the door. “Your ‘man’s got him-out there. D'you want to see him?” “I'want to make certain he doesn’t get away.” He fumbled with something in the drawer again ahd! madéifor’the ve- anda. wt tend of him was the first and there were tears in her eyes. “I'm heart-broken about Peter,” she said softly, “but I'm awfully grateful to you for. what you did.” “My. gear Mrs. Viney,” protested Pénnington, screwing up his eyes.» “For the love of heaven, call her ‘Monica’!” bawled the Commissioner over his shoulder. He went out, slamming the door after him, ‘ ., “Island. ‘N’,” the next épisode of this gripping series, will start in our The eyes of the Lord-are im every Places beholding the evil and the good,—Prov. 15:3, aa ie) The Divine mind is as visible in its full enérdy of operation on every low-/ ly bank and moldering stone In the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth. —Ruskin. Asthma & Hay Fever, E. H. Jamison, ~ Walker, Mo, “I was a victim of Asthma for dbout 3 years and after taking two bottles of McMullin’s Formula I felt. ke a pew man. It’s the best juedicine for Asthma I ever used.” St you suffer trom Asthma or Hay Fever try McMullfi’s Formule and you'll know ‘why so. many people preise it. Just fine for building up tun down peo! ¢ tive troubles, It hovered: for @ senond—s bare half- Drug. Monica ‘looked up at Pennington, wha: ' ‘ '