The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 7, 1923, Page 4

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Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER » 7.20 ENDLESS CHAIN Western Europe’s population increased 6 million hetween 1910 and 1920, despite its loss of about 20 million lives in connection with the war and Spanish influenza. This fact, announced by mortality statisticians, shows that' nature already has more than restored Europe to nor- mal in the matter of its most important loss—human life. This, of course, will not hecome vividly noticeable until the babies and young children of the present grow to manhood and womanhood. Right now there is a decided shortage ot | grown men “over there.” Frandp\éHecks up and find that last year it had 759,846 | births, against 689,267 deaths. This was a population gain of close to 71,000, with the birth and death rates almost identically the same as they were in 1913. But France’s population is increasing so slowly that her military heads are" worried. They have not forgotten that, in the 50 years before the World War, Germany’s population nearly doubled while France’s showed very little increase. France’s nightmare is the German Cradle. In the carly days of the war, France began to have more deaths than births. Austria found itself in the same fix in 1915, Belgium in 1916, Germany in 1917 and Italy in 1918. The only important European warring country that did not fall victim to diminishing population during the war was England. It had more births than deaths all through the wr, though the surplus of births over deaths dropped from 377,000 in 1913 to as low as 50,000 in 1918. The figures in 1922 had crawled up to 293,000. The British will “come back”. rapidly in the matter of man-power. Their death rate in the last 20 years has been reduced from 17 for each thousand to 13. Watch the birth and death statistics if you want to keep close tab on the European situation. The m'litarists still control Europe. and their concessions in the direction of peace, also their degree of insistence on war preparations, are regulated by the supply of available cannon fodder, as compared with the enemy’s. The baby in its cradle represents the foremost arm- ament. PENROD High school girls spend an average of $4.15 a week apiece, boys $2.58, according to a check up in Boston. This may rile old-timers who recall when many a high school lad wore pa’s old suit made over by ma. In fair- ness to the youngsters, though: The decreased buying power of the dollar makes it necessary to divide spendings by two or three to make a just compensation with the for- mer generation’s youthful pin-money. The Boston average budget disclosed that boys spend 14 cents a week apiece for cigarets, girls half as much. < How long since you’ve seen a boy mowing a lawnj or col- lecting junk. DIAMONDS Americans are importing diamonds at the rate of 65 mil- lion dollars worth a year. But that’s only about 60 cents a year for each of us—5 cents a month—which certainly isn't extravagance in the modern sense. Making allowances for increased prices, the nation doesn’t seem to be buying more than before the war. * The figures quoted are wholesale prices, not what the cpnsumer pays. But, even at that, the price of several movies matghes qyr, diamond bill. We throw our diamond money séveral times over into the garbage pail. C ourt in New York, which has been try- 3 Essex Byers ifig prisont¥s!9%0" more than a century, receives the first drunken Chinese in its history. Did you ever see a drunken| ofiental? : The widespread use of drugs among the Chinese, how- ever, suggests that the scarcity of Chinese drunkards may be less a matter of temperance and moderation than of nerves. Chinese have no nerves, in the white man’s sense, most of them being able to undergo severe operations with- out anesthetic. This contrast will show itself in many forms 2g the two races increasingly come in contact with each other commercially. HINESE OIL : Mexican oil is eclipsed by the geysers of flowing gold in the big California fields. Oil exports from Mexico in the first six months of 1923 were a third less than the total of the corresponding months of a year ago, ~ Mexico begins checking out. California comes in. Dan’t ever worry about an oil famine. When California oil fizzles, cther fields will be open’ fr »_ Thdt has been. the experience im: the industry since Colofel Drake drilled the first well. i BORROWERS pe He are a nation of borrowers, as Jgwnmower owners al- éady know... Loans of all banks in the country now total atound 82 billion dollars or enough to put every American man, woman and child in debt . Comparing this with the average’ income, the American route--have their earnings mort- ‘gaged six months ahead. . ih if being fa EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced POLST miRY On aeiay nek the opinion of The Tribu Dresented here Jn order thi readers inay bave both aid important 91 of 1 which are the prese o: issue Aincnaced 4 he day THE NEW PRESIDENT i It is partly good fortune ana! pirtly a growing appreciation of the importance of the Vice Pres-| icency that have given us President Coolidge de his ¢ ble hand on! the helm of the shin of state at this critical juncture. Both of the National Conventions | 1920 balanced their tickets with | trong men--the Republic with | Calvin Coolidge, the Democrats | with Frankl'n Roosevelt. They did! not, ag so many national conven- tions before them had done, regard! the second place as one to be filled | With a gesgraphical makeweight or | a political harmonizer. Each sought to name a man who would not only bring strength to the | 4, but would prove, if destiny | called, of Presidential size. Particularly was this the feeling | at Chicago, when Governor Cool- | ilge, of Mass.chusetts, who had al- ready figured in the Presidential list of availables, wag selected for | sccond place by a preponderant majority. We have had in all six Presidents who have succeeded to the office | by death of the incumbent, Nei- ther Tyler, Fillmore nor Johnson rose to tie greatness of the office, | and all were the causes of great | political irritation. All of Tyler’s Cabinet except Webster resigned when he vetoed measures support e1 by the Whig Party, which had nominated him. Fillmore g: creat offense to the North Whigs by signing the Fugitive Slave Law. He afterward ran for! President in 1856 as candidate of | the American Party, and received only the electo vote of Mary- land. Johnson came near wre ing the Union after Lincoln | saved it, and barely escaped im- | peachment. | Arthur made a dignified and ca- | treble President. Yet when named for Vice President, he was an of- fice-holding henchman of Conkling and Platt, whom the victorious Blaine faction desired to placate in- te support of Garfield. Rooscve't was, of course, the ex- ceptional Vice President, who made such a great President that he was re-elected with but feeble opposi- tion. Calvin Coolidge is a strong, firm, well-disciplined publicist. He brings not only high character, but great experience to his task. Owing to Mr. Harding's wise pre vision. he has been in effect a mem- ber of the Cabinet without port- folio. attending the semi-weekly meetings, consulted and conferred with by his chief. privy to all the Inuer workings of the Administra- ticn, close student of all its prob- lems. f As Mayor of his home town, as, Legislator and then Governor of ee State he had already shown him- self a master in the: handling of administrative and legislative problems as well as a: trusted lead- er of men, The instant decision with which he squelched the Boston police strike won him notional recognition. The new President, with char- zcteristic promptness, has pledged himself to retain the advisers and push the policies of the Harding Administration. Roosevelt did the same thing when the succeeded Mc- Finley and kept his word as well as any man invested with such etave responsibilities could have done. 1 In like manner President Conl-; idge may be expected to follow the general lines of the Administration in which he has sbeen an active consultant. But new situations und new emergencies are bound to arise and he may be expected to meet them with wise determina- tion. His task, which woukf not have been easy, if he had been elected to the Presidency, is made even mo! difficult by the fact that at eve juncture he must ask himself, What would Harding have done? But President Coolidge is abl alert, judgmatical. He is likely carry his brief — Administration | through the next nineteen months; with true Yankee gkill,—Minneap- clis Journal. A liar is a man who says he likes to work in August, A pessimist is a man who has to work in August. An optimist is a man who doesn’t have to work in August. { A cynic is'a man who thinks he will have to work every August. A grouch is a man who has had | to work every Auguat. Good luck consists of having » job | in an ice house during August. A dude is a man who wears a stiff collar in August. * Rem ‘ The height of ignorance your coat on during Aug A success is a man who can take ® vacation during August, % Getting away from the boss cures insomnia in Aagust, keeping yaa south. be! wokse: shin’ boty | anywhere about noon in\August? ? THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE SS. Ivin Coolidge, vice pr. ains-at New York. dge president of the United States, hurries to Wa | = 2 | : Coolidge—The Difference.Twenty-Four Hours Made ent, is pitching hay on his father’ssfarm near Plymouth, Vt. shington, guarded by motorcycle police as he Below oli. The golf wicows need one, un nuw to stop playing it. The wild waves are wild because they are’ crazy with the heat. Prohibition in Eng:and is jug} marking time, while in America it is just treading water. Never marry ex-kaiser, His, wife rides a bicycle. i Los Angeles bathing girls are get~ ting tanned this year jwhere they | were tanned before The mad college graduate informs us Dempsey is ,offered $500,000 just, to fight a little while. A Columbus, M swimming before cooling off got. res- cued, al] right: is Small picnic parties are’ being called Gipsy teas, which doesn’t keep the ants away at all. Many beer smugglers are> being seized in Detro‘t, and here’s August and September ye = D Liberty, where are you? South Da- kota man got shot just for wringing a crowing rooster s neck, man who .went} LETTER FROM MRS. JOSEPH GRAVES HAMILTON TO MRS. MARY ALDEN PRESCOTT MY DEAR MRS. PRESCOTT: I think I should have writteh you [before this, but -no ‘doubt your son has kept you ‘posted and you know how*dreadfully ill Leslie has been. She is, still’far, from well and we are ‘very much. .worried over her mind. She seéms to have developed almost a. case of melancholia, She no attention to anything or ybody, not even poor Jack, who broken-hearted. He has grown ‘y thin, and I’do wish that I could jade him to go away for a little while. However, he would not leave Les- lie, for anything, I am sure. He comes in when she is asleep and sits beside her bed, her hand in his, for hours at a time: But just the mo ment. she stirs as though she were going to awake he steals away, as though he is afraid that even his tpresence worries her. } Jack “has probably told you that Leslie Jost her baby after the acci- French and Moors are having a .dent. The poor child had not told Only a small one so we are not inviteq yet. 1 A spendthrift is a man who keeps a flashlight on without, worrying. Now is about. time to begin bad habits to swear off New Years. Keep away from Munich, Price of beer has gone up in Munich. 4 Fish never realize what a time you had getting bait. Our timber is’ being destroyed by men with wooden heads, {Jack anything about her great ex- ;pectation, as she seemed to have got- kten it into her head that he would |not be pleased, She kept the won- |derful secret to herself, and conse- quently,:since the automobile acci- dent, she has never asked Jack any- thing about it. * ! T-wish she would do so, It would 'bé* such ‘a: comfort to her, I know, to have her husband take her in his larms and tell ier how sorry he is \for her. They seem, both of them, |\to-be laboring under mistaken ideas of: helping each other. You and I, my dear Mrs. Prescott, know that | EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO TO READ THE ADS THE PAPERS YOU'D LTAS CLOT'S NO Goo UZ THINK THIS’ FICM WoUutD HENE SOMETHING to t+! (N D CAnP THE (Gan) MAN ‘Pawmmeiseesnceanse 1S A HEAVY FRost! THAT Fecrow Don'y Know HOW to AcT!—- No YoU HAVEN'T GOT. ANYTHING ON HIM »]-and ten days and the nearer ne can come to sharing all one’s seerets with one’s husband | °%: or wife, the better both can reach great happiness. Jack has told me you have been quite ill. I am very sorry, and I am writing this letter so you will not think I am quite a savage in not asking about your health before, but I have been so concerned over my daughter and so busy trying to min- ister to her mind, as,well as to her body, that I have thought of little else. Jack has told me you met Karl Whitney at your house while Leslie was: there, Perhaps you: will be in- terested to know that he has gone abroad to London, where my second daughter, Alice, is staying with the Stokleys. You, I am sure, will re- member Alice as a typical American girl. The letters she writes me are most diverting, the last one parti- cularly so, Ordinarily Leslie would be much interested, and pleased with them, but the last one \which I re- ceived from Alice did not awaken a smile from her. : { Jack and I have confe to the deci- sion today that tomorrow I shall go and find a healthy young baby and bring it to Leslie. If she shows the slightest inclination for it, Jack will adopt it. Dr. Samson scems to think this is the only thing that wil] do her any good. He says if something is not done very soon to awaken her mind to things about her, he fears for her life, if not her sanity. You can sce, of course, we are very much worried. I will write you immediately after Leslie has seen the baby and let you know how she takes it. Most sincerely yours, ALICE CARTON HAMILTON. Telegram from Mrs. Mary Alden Prescott to John Alden Prescott. Do not, I beg of you, adopt a baby until you heaXS from me. { YOUR MOTHER. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS pA ti. A ec By Olive Roberts Barton “There's another of my subjects missing,” said King Snookums \to Nancy and. Nick, “Who is it now?” asked Nancy. “It’s my wife,” said King Snook- ums sadly, ‘Missus.s Snookums. 1 mean Queen Snookums. That's what we quarreled about. I wanted her to have Missus Snookums on her calling cards and she ited on having Queen Snookumess. I am sorry ag anything that I didn’t let her‘ have her own way.” / “But I didn’t know queens called,” said Nancy. “They do,” nodded King Snook- ums, in other queens. Well, any- way, she’s gone.” * Le “Oh, don't wory,” we'll find _ her. Haven't we found alt your other mis: ing subjects?” Nancy. wanted to know. “Didn't we ind your > lord high chancellor sticking’ in the icing on a cake and another*Pee Wee stick- ing on the fly paper, and— “Ye 5) yest” ‘said the king. “Oh, yes indeed! “But they weren't my wife. © When she gets’ insulted she stays ingulted for six months wenty-seven min- ever -| to. the ‘stable for her fastest fly and ode h, h, Ill never see “Shucks!” Nick. . We'll * They: tool ‘ind her.”” © TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1928 China NEA Service, Inc. 1923 This unusual series of stories deals | with the exploits of “Chinese” Pen- nington, a detective sent by his gov- ernment to British North: Borneo to run to earth The Yellow Seven, & gang of Chinese bandits. A Chinaman leant warily on’ the rail of a bamboo bridge, gazing down- ward at an oozing sea of black mud. | Beyond the narrow barrier sof coco- palms, an ocean of azure was reced- ing, leaving an ever-widening stretch of glittering sand_where a’ turbaned syce exercised a Bajou pony. The bridge that spanned the swamp serv- ed as a link between the shore and the mainland and from the inner ex- tremity an ill-defined. .path wound through stunted forest-wastes, teem- ing with chattering monkeys. To the student of character, here was the prosperous Chinese trader come to keep an appointment he had made with someone, possibly a stranger to the district. He had se- lected an unmistakable landmark for his rendezvous... He wore a white drill tunic, buttoned up to the neck; wide-legged trousers of black ‘silk, and boots with elastic sides, An umbrella of oiled paper-— yellow inside and red without—was tucked under one arm, and a solar topee of surprising whiteness con- trasted strangely with the swarthy skin beneath, The thundering of a pony’s haoves died away into the distance, a sud- den, momentary silence fell upon the hidden monkey-colonies, and the figure of a white man appeared at an opening between the trees. He stood for a moment gazing round him. Presently his glance fell upon the still form on the bridge. It was perhaps strange that atthe very mo- ment the Englishman’s eyes were turned in his direction, the Oriental should become aware of the piercing rays of a tropic sun—and open the umbrella for which he had hitherto found no use! The newcomer started visibly and came forward with swift strides until he halted within a couple of feet of the Chinaman. “Morning, Hewitt,” said the Celes- tial in surprisiigly good English, “Glad you managed to roll up.” The Commissioner of Police start- “Good Lord, Pennington! I didn’t know you.” , “That's precisely as it should be,” returned the other. “I’m delighted to, see you, because for one thing, I know you'd like to be in at the death and, for another, I’ve a hazy notion in the. back of my mind that you don’t altogether agree with my methods.” Captain John Hewitt raised . his helmet and mopped his forehead: “I don’t say that,” he returned, “but I venture to contend that you don’t give yourself a fair chance. It’s perfectly natural for you to want all the kudos for the capture of Chai- Hung, but you ought to begin to realize by this time that our murder- ous friend is not likely to be caught single-handed. Besides, this, affair's gone on too long. I'm getting chits almost every day from the Governor asking when the Yellow Seven gang is likely to be run to earth. You’ve had two chances already, you must remember—” The man with the Chinese eyes frowned. "I've had the luck of the devil,” he admitted, “but I'd like to impress on you that, but for me, nobody would have identified Chai-Hung with the gang at all. And,” he added defiantly, “there have been a lot less gang murders on the island since I landed.” ; ‘“There’d be fewer still—if we could bring Chai-Hung to justice.” They left the bridge and, threading their way through the trees, came presently to a solitary hut, raised high on poles, a bamboo ladder -giv- ing access to a hole in the wood- work. It stood in a wide clearing, waist-high with lalang, and both men held’ their hands above their heads to avoid cutting them on the leaves of the treacherous weeds. Hewjtt followed Pennington up the ladder into the single apartment of which the edifice boasted. Th! latter pushed forward a box and, squatting contentedly on the yough flooring, felt behind him in’ some mysterious redess for beer. “And so,”:said the Commissioner, withdrawing his lips from the mouth of the bottle with a resounding smack, “I'm to be in at the death, am I?” Chinese Pennington nodded. “Pll admit I've been a long time over this job, Hyng’s a genius, had every Chidaman on! the island under his thumb—once.” “Once?” Hewitt echoed blankly. “Before I drove him to the black- woods, hounded him to' Island N., and‘cut off his source of supplies ef- fectively. No, sort of organi can thrive on air!” ; He shifted his position on the bare boards and felt for his pouch. “How’s Monica?” he inquired pres- did, in every squirrel hole and in every bird nest but one.’ That ‘one had, s robin on it—just sitting there—and when the Twins ‘came along she called out: “Someone tried fo pluck one of my said Nancy. “Come, on, | ' 9 everywhere, so they tail feathers. I'm sitting on he: feather for a hat.” “Why, ‘it’s Missus Snookums,” said Nancy. “If we, let’ you-out. will you get over being insulted and go horhe ?” " es, yes, yest” ‘You'd better get: up,” said Nick the robin. “You're sitting on a J : (To Be Continued) (Copyright, '1928, “NBA Service’ Inc.) Dancing!MeKenzie Roof Garden — Tuesdays, Racy 4 rustling |, SHE YELLOW SEVEN: Tea ! By Edmand Snell, ently, screwing up his eyes until they disappeared altogether behind those strange diagonal slits that had been directly ‘responsible for the ad- jective that invariably preceded his name, , The Commissioner smiled. in one of my pockets.” The lines of his handsome face hardened sud- denly and he began stroking his black hair with the flat of lus hand. “Look here, Penn, When are you two going to get married. Monica's fretting her soul out because you're still prowling about, carrying your life in your hand. If yougwere actual- ly the confounded idiot you appear to be sometimes, I wouldn't tell you all this, I'd be the last man to teli any ordinary feller that a sister of mine was missing meals on his- ac- count. But I'm counting on you to understand my motives. Ménica's had a deuce of a hard time up to now, and—I want to see her happy.” Pennington’s long fingers closed suddenly over the Commissioner's and held them tightly. . “Thanks,” he whispered huskily. “It’s uncommon good of you—and I appreciate it, It won't be long now. I swore I'd wait until I'd got C Hung by the heels—and, by heaven! —I mean to have him this time. You = understand the most of me, Jack, but you've missed a certain side of my . character I, wasn't thet even aware of—until I met ber.,The white men that the cursed Chinaman, has murdered in gold blood lie heavily on my soul, In a queer sort of way, 1 feel directly responsible for every- thing Chai-Hung has done since T first came here. The feéling ‘has grown upon me until it’s become an obsession. I’m no longer the in- strument of a European Power, using my facial peculiarities and knowledge of dialects to wipe out a Chinese faction: It's Pennington against Chai-Hung, his life or mine.” He paused for a moment, the muscles of his face twitching, the points of his his fingers pressed together. “I've worked damned hard since 1 came here. I've had a score of identities. T’ve posed as a coolie, a Dusun trader, a mandarin, a rickshaw-boy— anything—everything . . I’ve been‘ in the hands of Chai-Hung's mer- cenaries—and wriggled, out of them again. I've held the bandit twice— and lost him because I was alone and the odds against me were too great.”’ His eyes blazed with a strange light. “But I've got him this time, Jack, because the luck is on my side at last.” He broke off, trembling with emo- tion, and the Commissioner, obse1v- ing him curiously, saw that great beads of perspiration ‘stood out on his temples, “Where is he?” he asked quietly. Pennington was clipping the stray ends of tobacco from a freshly rolled cigaret.., “In a lone hut in a gully with a wall of solid rock behind him and a: many of your agents as I could mus- ter watching every possible ap- proach.” Hewitt shook his head. “Still the persistent optimist,” he said grimly. “How many times have you drawn in your net—only to find that Chai-Hung has escaped it?” “True, oh King! And yet, old son, I've got Chai-Hung! He’s down with fever and none of the followers who still stand by him dare shift him— if they could. A queer thing that, Jack! He who has successfully defied every effort of a white civilization to entrap him, has all but succumbed to the common enemy of us all!” The Commissioner bent forward until the box on which he sat tilted dangerously. “How do you know all this?” “I’ve seen him!” Chinese Pennington blew out thin wreath of blue smoke a and “f scouted round until I bribed one of Chai-Hung’s men to take me to his lair. It was a mighty tough Proposition, and if the feller had guessed for a moment who I was— said, “but Chai- | th he'd have thrown in his hand. (J pitched a yarn that I had heard "of the great bandit and had‘téme’ all the way from Singapore to settle n dispute that had arisen as to whether such a man as Chai-Hung existed at all, He took me to’ be a’ Chinese magnate with more--money than sense, and consénted?dn ‘the ‘condi- tion I went alone and unarmed. wormed my way to the hut—and peered through a convenient crack where the timbers had worked apart. Chai-Hung lay on a sort of stretcher. I saw enough to satisfy me that re could be no possible deception. There were a dozen or so of/his fol- lowers in the room and a pack of Chinese playing-cards spread face- downward on the table.” “I know,” broke in Hewitt grimly: “They were drawing for the Yellow Seven, I’m not likely to.forget the time when you pulled me out of a tight corner, when they'd got me and were drawing lots for the pleas- ating me. Go on.” inued in Our Next Issue) ° —— EE) A Thought | ° Blessell is he that considereth the ‘poor: the’ Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.—Ps, 41:1. ‘ Then gently scan your brother, man, Still, gentler, sister woman; Though they may gang a gennin’ ‘wrang, _To step aside is human, —Burns. NOTICE! a Continue boiling city water. ‘City Health Officer. eee ——_<—<=<$<$—————————— TYPEWRITERS “Pretty fit. I've got a note for yo® | v watched it as it ascended roofward. ” va