The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 3, 1923, Page 4

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(Established 1873) animal sup ~ ‘THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER THE NATION’S CHIEF HAS PASSED The nation today mourns with Mrs. Harding over the passing of its chief executive. News of the President’s ill. ness after reaching America from Alaska shocked the nation but the shock of his sudden death is infinitely greater. parently ‘ins robust health he had last winter shared ithe concern of the nation over the illness of Mrs. Harding. The Alaskan trip was made in part for her benefit. The patient became nurse to the President when he was stricken in San Francisco. ;, History will write the verdict on the administration of Président’ Harding, perhaps a different verdict from that of He acceded to the Presidency in the midst of the nation’s period of readjustment from the war. He inherited all of the great problems which grew out of the war. He approached his task with an infinite patience. |, His predecessor, Woodrow Wilson, fell under the burdens of the war and the period which followed. was taken ill on a speaking tour in behalf of the League « Nations, President Harding was stricken during a tour in which he stressed his proposal for American participation in the World Court. Known as @ conservative and a staunch Republican, Mr. Harding adapted himself to many problems in a manner which surprised those who believed they had known his trend of mind. He believed that in spite of the turmoil of the post-war period the government should cling to funda- mental principles. His hope and ‘belief had been that natural economic laws and patience would result in the adjustment the country today. of many problems which vexed the nation. One of the first efforts of the President was to reduce the huge burden of ‘public expense. = reduction in the personnel of the government departments which had grown during the war to unusual proportions and by inauguration of the budget system the expenses of the government were greatly lessened, so that at the end of the = Jast fiscal year, June 30, the Secretary of the Treasury was | able to report a surplus of receipts over expenditures for the | © first time in many years. A mighty effort for world peace was made in the calling of the naval armament limitations conference in Washin By establishing the 5—5—3 ratio between Great Br * tain, the United States and Japan and obtaining pledges front! smaller nations for reduction of their navies, the President | * accomplished much in the alleviation of burdens for war . preparations and the danger of encouraging war through rivalry in navy building. The conference also concluded the ; treaty which brought an agreement between the great pow- ers on their conduct in possessions on the Pacific ocean, . broke the Great Britain-Japan alli: quishment of Shantung to China by Japan and brought about . a new and better understanding between Japan and the , ton. United States. The President frequently was shown in pictures on the golf links or on brief trips from Washington. 2 writer within the last week, stating that many people critici- zed the President because he appeared to have too much Jeisure, told of the enormous amount of work which is in- volved in the Presidency. The executive clerk who has been ™m the White House for 40 years said that the volume of business handled by President Harding was four times the ‘amount ‘during the administration of Theodore Roosevelt. _ Mr. Harding was pictured as working longer hours than most ‘ individuals, devoting himself to the business at hand per- sistently and swiftly, seldom leaving an important task un- 3 Though kind-hearted and amiable, stories were told of departmental difficulties which came before the President: = done. * and of his quick and decisive action. é In the life of President Harding was contained the truth’ * of the inspiration so long held out to the youth of the nation, that each native American might by his own efforts, without regard tewweéalthror birth, achieve the highest executive office! The son of a country doctor, President Hard- ‘ing began work in a printing shop. By dint of steady toil | éhe became the owner of a struggling country newspaper * which under his guidance became a modestly prosperous and / influential paper in his community. tics, served one term as United States Senator, won the ad- *miration of former President Roosevelt as temporary chair- man of the Republican convention in 1914, was nominated + of the nation. * and elected to the Presidency. } President Harding will be succeeded by Calvin Coolidge, Vice-President. He will bring to the Presidency the experi- | .ence of an executive of the state of Massachusetts. He will #-ce+the many great problems. now besetting the nation and Mr. Coolidge will carry with him the| * nope of all that he may succeed in the task which confronts | he will serve as President. the chief executive. , him in the time % ‘3 ightning recently killed 11 Americans in 24 hours. In imc time, the heat ended the lives of 12. Still, all of | DANGER us are afraid of lightning, while few fear heat. = has the better stage setting, and most of us are easily swayed eatrical. , by the th & Danger and fear affect us in peculiar ways, ddangerou edly we have cam fin the use of geet The railroads wound up June by moving wore cars of ae had 8 thing in the world is the slipping ‘ladder. “accidents result from it than from any other cause. Repeat.’ \igns for more care in the matter of autos fires. pen yo ever hear of a Safety First campaign lers * BUSY ni than used the big car shortage mane idle ight cars at the end iS it business boom: As Mr. Wilson He succeeded. Through the President, but it should not b2 hampered by utopian jpanaceas. velopment. The end of the tert: terial trail for Alaska is naturally nee, secured the relin- A magaz! He rose in Ohio poli-| io in ih t ape as riding & freight wit previous week in ‘istory. @ green flagman. | t the roads: in June emerge 4 ; Many resorts advertise as playground of the nation; June. | really, the fron¢ porth iat. EDITORIAL REVIEW Commenta reproduced column may or may not the opinton of The are in this of important belug diacnamed the day Not s‘ne the United States bought A. from Russia at the close‘of the Civil War, has publ attention ‘bee! irectly focus it as through President ’s visit there. For some tin has b growing th: great succ It is disappointing that]{ a land abounding in great natural | resources should show alos of ten | |thousand population in the last de- Two striking accomplishments however, stand to our credit in, Alaska. Thirty rs ago there were only wild reindeer or caribou Ly interbreeding the do- ind wild varieties, an great economic asset. Anoti hievement is the co: struction of the government r teed, This not only ig a re ions were hi finds Alaska | population. Such a people deserve | that their territory be spared ruin- ous exploitation. Any sweeping reorganization is! not to be thought of maintaing the | President, for steady and normel s is much better than a 1 mushroom growth based on loot-| te policy is urged. Conservation been somewhat effective here through the establishment of coast reserves, but further restriction is necessary, {f the wealth of hatch- tes and streams is to be main- teined at the desired: level. Coal mining can wait, the Pres- ident believes, but highway ‘build- ing and agriculture should ‘be rushed, through the jointure of; Iccal_ endeavor and Federal aid The line of communication shoul he shortened.between Alaska and Washington, Alaska hag a great future, says Its great natural wealth should be the inspiration for judicious de- atehood, and early statehood for the southern ‘part recommend- ed.—Minneapolis Journal. Here’s summer haif gone, and many of us more than that. Ford plans to distill coal, which ought to make a hot drink, Chinese are fighting at some town, but we can’t spell it. Pussyfoot Johnson has gone to! Arabia, perhaps .to stop those wild Arabian nights, What the United States needs is an eight-hour day for the sun. The world gets better, Chicago bandit shot at a man and missed. The shortage of farm labor is due, perhaps, to the shortage in the farm laborer’s. pocket. U Balance of power in Europe de-| pends upon their balance of mind. Here’s good news. Young men will control the next Congress. No- body controlled the last. A real mad college graduate in- forms us plasterers in:St. Louis are | petting $14 a day. . Washington will have new one- way streets; none, however, leading to the treasury building. An almost six-foot. New Yorker has married a midget of 40 inches, and we'll bet she’s boss. Politicak news belongs on the sport page. When it isn’t a fight some- body’s being scored, Among the breaks of a ball game fin Atlanta, Ga., were two fingers and one jaw. A city boy in the country thinks lightning bugs are mosquitoes hunt- ing him with a langern. This has been a bad year on sport champions. Ill rest the heads that wear the crowns, Upshaw of Georgia says the U. S. has been on q drunk, Said it in New York, which may be. why. When f% comes to getting elected president these candidates seem to think they can’t miss, ** Swimming in. atrange places {s a: ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE r to oth’ has been | produ These reindeer now! numbe two million and form ay le feat of engineering, but prom- | great economic development. { Although President Harding did‘ not attempt an exhaustive report in | tural growth. A case in point is! thé severe restriction on timber | jeutting, which the President be- eves should be eased off. \ In salmon fishing just the oppo- | Golf will not replace baseball until you get three strikes, With summer half gone the fish that get away are getting larger. j Many statesmen are returning | Europe. It can’t be helped. couple who invented : 5 : ER FROM ALICE HAMILTON that I could speak the English lan- apples or ere! > JOSEPH GRAVES “Why, Sir John, she. does speak answered’ Mrs.g. Stokley. “She is an ‘American, you’ know.” , “Of course,” he answered, “that is the reason she doesn’t speak’ English; | she speaks “American.” When I heard it I laughed until.I Women knowing how to raise chil- dren are kept too busy to tell. Why in tnp\ world doesn’t Leslie vrite to me, mother dear? I haven't jhad a letter from hér in over three! I wonder if she is angry be- cause I'am here having such a rat- tling good time, i A summer resort is a place- where everybody is from somewhere; It's getting too hot to even: wonder who is vice president. CanaLTo Control "Mouse Overflow 3.—-Construction city to care for ters of the Mouse river, bas-| fow estimate, would cost | y Engineer W: W. Pet id today in coanection with a report that he will muke tthe city ion this afternoon, is made on three canals—a distance of approximately gay, life if you don’t weaken ‘over people are so differ- . They seem to think that yaclf are some.| . Betty is a real”authoress. She has written a. very wonderful book. It isn't quite finished jyet. that“I was the gréatest she had in her story, and betwee you and me, mother dear, since. I have_read it, I find that I have: prac- tically given her the whole crux of Aren't, you proud of your younger daughter? Don’t tell Leslid this or ‘she will think I am more conceited than ever, 1 do think Leslie might write to. me. You can tell het for me: that, if she doesn’t write to me.soan I wilt marry this Englishman and go through the world 2 misunderstood woman until Betty,,Stokley and thing entirely unique. young man over here who h: |sort of a title, and’ the bro: cent yousever heard. he said to me, “Ah, Miss Alict, are {you whet. they call in the States a He made his “a” so broad sounded just like “flopper,” and although I knew what he meant, I answered, “Goodness no! flopped in my life.” know, Sir John,” I continued, “is to “To flop, you The canals have been proposed ab ing away the sur crs during flood stages, and.to avoid a repetition of the over- t occurred las “The figure of $266,250 is a “Peter out—peter blankly, “What does that mean?” I quite despaircd of telling him so that he would understand, but final- ly I said, “To peter out means to get 2 Still he didn’t under- “It means you are no good!” I said emphatically. ‘ THen he looked as if I had said sgmething improper. “Aw, I wouldn't Alice,” he said. food, you know. T had a cable from*Karl. yesterday and I am awfully: glad he is coming over so soon. Betty thinks she is going to marry and: stay in“England. But you needn’tWorry about ‘me, Td rather’ marry the butcher from home than his highness, the heir to throne—and he is. some boy, believe loubtful if priced as low as those used could be secur- ed in actual contracts.” Mention is made in the report that there also remains the item of right- of-way which would negessarily have to be purchased for at least a port y-—the 3,600 from the Soo y, to the Great Northern dam, ; The other part of the right-of-way being on city property. would cost mother dear. say that, Miss “You couldn’t be no I answered in exas- “{ meant T wasn't a flop-| .Th? other night we got to talking about American and English mar- riages, and Sir John said that Ameri- can women were too independent. told him we learned it when fathers wrote the Declaration of In- It was then that. tald England we: codld, “shirk” for I heard him telling Betty Stokley’s mother soon after that I was a very smart young woman and he did wish | EVERETT TRUE * BY CONDO SAY, VGISHGoR, You've GoT AN AWFUL NERVE TO ‘HERE IN WR CHICKEN CadiP AND Takes He asked me what the word meant and I told him it meant to get along without working, for anybody. while | we were working everybody. _| : He: opened his\-mouth, momgnt he could not qay anything, e finally managed to ‘get.’ ou Come over ovr eccs! “You are so quéer, Mias- Hamil- “Thank you,” said, “I have never been told that before. sider it a- compliment you are pay- He just ‘opened -| Mother, he: alwa; mouth again. ks like a fish that, but. he keeps fol- ind just the same and I don’t know what I am going to’ with him-when.-Katl comes o¥er. want to laugh. at, the English, but’ Betty thinks they are all right and takes them very seri- ously, so I’ canngt tél her what I am laughing at. * ¢ # Joving , daughter, RiaHt tf — ‘ou FURNISH THe CHICKENS awo. 2 FURNISH ‘tH Garvan Ih It they ‘hear mot Masts; ‘FRIDAY; AUGUST 3, 1923 ‘| Oyen service mciges , This unusual series of stories deals with the exploits of “Chinese” Pennington, a detettive-sent by his government to British North Borneo to run. to earth, The Yellow Seven, 1a gang of Chinese bandits. The man with the iron-gray hair |who was writing at a, table under the swinging oil lamp, looked up and his eye fell upon the figure of a tall Chinaman who had come noiselessly {to the top ef the steps that led to |the vernda, The intruder was as | dark-skinned as a Dyak, and an ugly scar ran the whole length’ of one ¢heek. Hyde, glating at him, classed him as a member. of ore of those many tribes of fisher-folk created by a.fusion of Oriental and Dusun blood. He pushed back his chair and con- fronted’ the newcomer. “Well?” he demanded ‘in fluent Mali “What the devil d’you want? The scarecrow’s features puckered into a grin, “As a matter of fact, Hyde,” he drawled in good English, “I'm in need of many things. I'm deuced hungry, for one; my throat’s a good deal drier than I like it to be, and I'd be gtateful for a decent suit of whites!” The planter scratched his head. “What the! Who are you, any- way?” “Pennington,” said the other humbly. “Peter Pennington, com- monly, referred to as Chinese Pen- ington.” ay “Good Lord!” He scrutinized the younger man’s features.. Presently he extended a hand and Pennington gripped it-hard, ~ A quarter*of-an-hour, later both men sat facing one another, a glass resting in the aperture made in the arm of each chair for that purpose. As the man with the gray hair looked across at his guest, he could not re- frain from wondering at the com- pleteness of the ‘transformation. The swarthy complexion, scar, every- thing was gone except the one great ‘asset that made Chinese Penniygton | the most dreaded of all detectives in | Borneo—that strange, unaccountable set of the eyes that made him look as if his origin had been partly Chi- nese, eh “There's a hundred-and-one ques- tions on the tip of my tongue,” he said, shifting a cigat to the corner of his mouth. — What's’ puzzling mf most, I suppose, is the motive that's brought you here.” “Chai-Hung!” The planter almost jumpéd from his -chair, “But, man alive, I had a chit from the Commissioner, ages: ago,..daying that Chai-Hung was dead!” 11. Pennington smiled blandly. “We.all thought so—once; but that was before we realized the pe- culiar properties of the man with whom we had to deal. “You remem- ber the Yellow Seven scare, when no white-man dared go out alone, when we all began digging jout fire-arms, the very existence of which we'd forgotten? That was Mr. Chai-Hung. He'd organized practically the entire Chinese population and a score of times I thought I’d run him! to earth, only to discover that the in- herent cunning to his race had suc- ceeded in finding a loophole in the wall I'd built round him.” The planter emptied his glass, “That's all wonderfully . interest- ing,” he said slowly, “but I still don’t see—,.” why I chose to invade your bungalow like a’ thief jn the night, eh? I am on a game of hare and tiounds—a form of paper-chase that a schoolboy might be beguiled into! Only the scent isn’t laid in bits of torn paper—it's blazed—positively blazed—in Japanese fans.” - “Fans?” “Sounds idiotic, doesn’t it?—but it’s true enough. The trail led me here—and then stopped. abruptly.” “What are they like—these fans “Just ordinary affairs—a ~ flimsy frame and a handle of polished cane with some sort of fight material FE YELLOW SEVEN ISLAND ‘N ag ‘ ing from nowhere in particular, fanned his forehead and he glanced back over his shoulder to see Hyde, in faded pajamas, beaming cordially at him, : “Morning,” said Pennington. “I was just’ admiring your landscape. The amazing thing about this life, Hyde, is that one never finishes dis- covering new things.” “Sach as—?” “Such as those islands, for ex. ample. I never remember seeing) them before.” = The planter joined him, “It’s a gray world—before the sun is up,” mused the younger man. “What d’you call that island?” “Which one?” “The larger of the three.” Hyde smiled. Strictly speaking, it has no name; but, for want of something better to do, I've dubbed it “Island No” ‘ “Any particular reason?” “There were once three tall trees on a hillock, that stood out from all the rest. During a cyclone, one of them fell across the two others— and it’s stopped there ever since. | It looks as much like an ‘N’ as anything else.” “Ever been there 2” “Can’t say’ that id (have... There used to be a colony of natives. | You can still see what remains of their houses, But they cleared out in a panic after the storm—and I've heard since that it’s suppased locally to be haunted.” Jo a Pennington drew himself , erect and inhaled a deep breath. “I can see those trees,” jerked out Pennington suddenly, shading his eyes, “I've a feeling in my bones I'd like ‘to run over there one of these. days.” , “There’s nothing to stop you. Only you'd have to paddle yourself across —or swim it. I doubt very much if you'd succeed in bribing anyone in the locality to take you there.” The boy appeared suddenly with tea and green bananas, and the -con- versation turned upon other subjects. , Presently Pennington was some- what surprised to see the figure of a girl on a short, sturdy pony wheel into view on the broad path that wound between the trees. She can- tered up to the bungalow, dismount- ed, and slung the reins over a post. She came up the steps, a trim, youthful figure, her eyes sparkling as they fell upon Hyde. “Morning, dad!”—and then she saw Pennington. Both menjrose to their feet. vides is my daughter,” said the planter by way of introduction. “Dora, I’ don't think you'ye met Mr. Pennington.” The girl dropped into a cane chair. /” “I've been ever' so far. I left Jack in the lines’ and rode through the native village, right into the jungle. I love the dawn, don’t you, Mr. Pen- nington?” = “Dora married young Bateson— my second assistant,” explained tne planter. “Are you a\planter?” The girl sur- veyed «Pennington curiously. He shook his head ° “I’ve never planted anything in my life,” he said. “As a matter of fact, I'm criminally ‘overpaid by a much. trusting Government to look after the interests of pretty women who go out riding, alone, before dawn.” Mrs, Bateson flushed. \e “Are you laughing at me, Mr. Pennington?” “On the -contrary, I was never more serjous in my life.” Pennington rolled his own‘ cigayts. He did so now and the girl, lying back in her chair, watched him in niutéd fascinatiod. He glanced up presently and passed her an: opgn tin that stood on the table near his arm. The corners of Dora pretty mouth dropped. “Is this a sort of special conces- sion, Mr. Pennington?” she deimand- ed, bending forward , toward’ the match he held out: (Continued in Our Next Issue) t 4 Bateson's stretched across—and a picture on it.” Hyde smiled, “Nothing very wonderful in that,” he ‘grunted. “I've a doten or so, of ‘em myself.” “I resay you have. Everybody buys them—and that’s precisely where the cunning’ of the scheme comes in. Chai-Hung’s up, against whites, particularly those who are,in @ position of influence. He kndws most wong are superstitious and, in this idstance, his eyergies are di- rected in ‘hitting at us through our womenfolk.-A woman wants a- fan. The shopman displays his usudl se- lection and then, awaiting an op- portunity: when. nobody's . looking, Produces ‘one of the other sort, en- cased in a ‘silk cover. This, it tran: ° | pires, is not for si PPO: it. All that is re- quired la@y to,look/ at it intently. every night. She must not show it to anybody, of even talk about it, for, in so doing, its proper- as Par lost.” .. hed “e a le rose, and: perched himself on the edge’of the table. ~ Gals he interjected, “and what do they see?” ly : the air.: < ‘What d'you make of it?” asked! the planter. - .. “Hypnotism!” He clasped both{ dy over his knee, “I: believe that th of thése' fans is prepared) for tim. for whom it {s intedded. mg te to Chel-Hang’s mea , His eyes blazed. it. do?” Pennington: , waved .both hands} Snookums, _brightenii it ADVENTURE OF By Olive Roberts Barton “Sure, we'll help to find the Jost Pee Wees!” said Nick when the Fairy queen told the Twins that she had had a letter from Snookums, the Tiny king of the Pee Wees, asking her help. “That's fine!” noddeq her majesty, smiling. “I knew you would do it. But remember, you and Nancy will have to wish yourselves small the Pee Wees themselve: going to hunt for them. “Oh, don’t, mind that!” said Nancy.. “We'll have lots of fun.” “All right!” nodded the good” queen. “You may start right-away.’ Pee Wee Land is under the burdock ~ patch just beyond ‘Farmer. Brown's sass-patch garden,” | i ai adventure, _Pretty:soon ‘they came to the bur- dock patch and without any, trouble found. Pee Wee Land at once, They’ foung King Snookums sit- ting under a toad-stool, looking as < fad as a fallen’ caki “Oh, I'm 80 wortied,” he groaned. “Y'¥e lost 20 of my: subjects since . last Sundsy a week!” “We'll find them for you,” cried Nick. “Don’t. worry any . more. ‘We're here! -We're Nancy and Nick, the Twin: know. nea en “You ‘don’t say sol” cried King “I'm much obliged: te meet, ‘You. going} down and we'll go ; al