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

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DEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) THE FATAL SHOT You recall Gavrio Prinzep, the boy-assassin whose bullet } started trouble between Austria and Serbia in 1914 and thereby precipitated the World War. Prof. Stanoyevitch of University of Belgrade publishes a pamphlet attributing leadership of the assassination plot to Dragutin Dimitriyevitch, lieutenant colonel and former jlead- er ot the Serbia, ilitary party. At the last nffnute he apparently changed his mind and tried to call off the assassination, but the situation ha 1 gotten} beyond his control. Curiously enough, he had the idea that impending warfare between Austria-Hungary and Serbia ¢ould.be avoided by killing Archduke Ferdinand. } Dimitriyevitch was court-martialed and shot in 1917 in connection with another murder plot. He was about 30 year old when he departed this life. —— Prof. Stanoyevitch’s pamphlet is historically important, for he had access to “inside information.” He seems sin- cerely convinced that the Serbian government did not kn8w 6f the assassination plot. : Many people will comment: “The war had been brewing for generations, so it cannot be traced to any act of any one individual.” ’ However, is that true? The Socialists were close to gain- ing the whip-hand in Europe when the war rushed them off their feet. And it is, at least, remotely possible that the war might have been avoided if a half-witted radical youth, spurred on by a moron militarist, hadn’t loaded his pistol and set off the fireworks. The world is making a terrible mistake if it inclines to attribute the great war to fate—that it was inevitable. Yes, things might have been different—tremendously dif- ferent—if the boy-assassin hadn’t cut loose with his pistoi. It’s too late now, of course, to unscramble the eggs. But the pistol of Gavrio Prinzep should make us do a lot of seri- | 6us thinking about the dangers of allowing pistols in general to get into the wrong hands. + There’s a campaign gaining headway to stop the sale of revolvers except under police permit, especially by the mail order route. Back that campaign. It would partly disarm the criminal. Householders could protect themselves with rifles or sawed-off shotguns — which cannot be carried by crooks without detection. To stop murders by revolvers, take away the revolvers. POISON FUMES «We live in an ocean of air, the same as fish live in an ocean of water. In the Air Océan we are, to make a jovial comparison, like lobsters crawling along the bottom of the water ocean. Birds flit through the air like fish through the water, The air we breathe is more vital in many ways than water we drink or food we eat. You can go weeks without tood, days without water, before dying. But shut off your air supply and death comes in a matter of minutes. Close your mouth, pinch your nostrils tightly, and get the idea emphatically — what happens when your air supply is shut off. Few of us would knowingly eat tainted food or drink impure water. We take great pains, and go to considerable expense, to insure the purity of food and water. But when it comes to the equally or even more important life-need, air, | most of us are careless, negligent. Impure air lessens our powers of resisting disease. The air in the average city is impure to a frightful ex- tent, containing disease germs and fragments of filth, glass, rubber tires and similar destroyers of the delicate lung tissues. Most deadly of all is the poison gas generated by the millions of autos, a gas so deadly that it kills in a few min- utes if a man starts his auto engine in a garage with the | doors shut. Air in the natural state is pure. Man adds the impuri- ties, most of them. When our lungs become weak, the doc- tor sends us to the pure air of the mountains. Now, impure air of city life doesn’t start all into a decline by any means. health if we could do our breathing in the right place. 4 The next best bet is to get as much fresh air as possible, especially by taking outdoor walks, breathing deeply, sleep- ing with windows open. The air outdoors may be impure, but it is purer than stale air that has been breathed over and over inside the house and thereby become loaded with poisons cast off by people’ 's lungs. Summer is fresh air season. Take a dozen long, deep breaths whenever you think of it. | WALES ~The Prince of Wales plans to visit America again. next ‘autumn. He wants to travel incog, as a private individual. jto get a line on us such as he was unable.to get when he was ‘here -iaaeeaia! and was shown only what others wanted him ito see. Wise p ince. Prominent Europeans visit us, are handled ». iby the hokum dispensers. and depart with i impressions of the | i ,hokum which they mistake for impressions of the real Amer- | ». fica. age 00H They go home and report what they were told Delegations of Englishmen have been inspecting our y officials, what they observed at functions, when they'd shave to go up an alley and give three knocks and the high-! ign to learn the truth. Thirty iyrante tered the U States 1am mil imm: S have en’ the United Stat ‘since. Uncle Sam has checked up the 14 million of these ‘are living. Five million are‘in the Upper Missia- ‘alley, same number in Middle Atlantic states, two, ,;one million in the south, ~ The strongholds of the native-born Publishers | —, Ways willing to make promises is -» 5.00): {a sovereign state, lies within its But unquestionably all would have better | epee Editorial Review Cen EEE SS DTN AMERICA AND MINORITIES The period when Turkey was al- i over, It may return, but, for the’ time being, ‘Turkey° is not making ‘any prowises. The result of this: new spirit, as it manifests itselt on! the point of guarantees for Chris-! tian minorities in ‘Turkey, is that} the negouationgs between Mr. Jos- | eph Grew for the United States and | Ismet Pasha are held up while tne! State department decides whether, or not this country cares to con- clude a treaty wiih that country which omits ail mention of the de- sired safeguards. Precisely what the State depart-| ment expects we cannot say, Most probably yt only wants some kind of n ypression from the Turkish ment us will take the pow- urse off a treaty with a pow- er which is anathema to a strong | section” or the American public. ‘Turkey, perhaps naturally, does not care to understand this necessity. jue new Purkish government {s | rong and it has nationalist emo- | jGons. Il Goes nut propose to ad- | limit the right of any nation to de- | mand of it an expression which, in own discetion, and domestic question. ‘Mne United States can hard] cl to get trom Turkey alon ons which Great E «nce, Italy and the United States | could not get together. There can be no hope of obtaining a national home land for the Armenians. That was settied at Lausanne. Tne | Greek question was also left in a conclusive, if not satisfactory, state, There ig nothing to be hopeu for there beyond the exchange of |popuiations provided in the gen- eral treaty. In fact, on the broad question of minorities, the United States has nothing to claim except an innocuous and meaningless as- surance, without which a treaty, if} it ig worth entering upon at all, loses nothing important. Whether this question involves the rights of American mission- aries and schools in Turkey eae point not clarified by the dispat es. These rights are of great im- portance, and certainly no treaty should be concluded at all if they wre not tobe upheld. But there is lit- tle in the question of the Christian minorities to complicate the rights of American educational agencies. and unless the contrary turns. out to be the case, there is no :point in balking at something which can- pertaing to a not be remedied—St. Paul Dis- patch, WILL TAX PAYERS WELCOME GAS CUT? The great state of South Dakota has gone into the oi] busimess. Af- ter charging that the Standard Oil company was realizing nearly 100 per cent profit on its gas sales :Governor McMaster last week or- dered the state supply depot at Mitchell to sell gasoline for 16 cents per gallon. Pretty soft for! automobile and truck owners but we doubt if the majority of the tax- payers will welcome the thought of having the deficit that is bound to {accrue added to their tax burden.— Dickinson Press. i ee ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS By Olive Roberts Barton “Anybody else lost?” asked the Twins when they had found Georgie rorgie’ Pee Wee ang brought him Lack safely to Pee Wee Land under the burdocks. “Well, I should say so!” answered King Snookums, ‘Jimmy Jumper went off riding on a grasshopper last night and hasn’t been heard from since,” “Then we'll take our magic shoes and go and find him,” said Nick. “Come on, Nancy.” So away they went. First of all they went to the stub- ble field where the grasshoppers | loved to play, Ang they asked all the grasshoppers if anybody had seen Jimmy Jumper, the lost Pee Wee boy. “Yes, I did!” cried Stilty Spring- legs, spitting tobacco juice on the ground beside him in his excitement, “He asked me to take him for a ride and I did. We had lots of fun jump- ‘ing fences ang playing leap-frog with | the other grasshoppers, ‘n’ every- thing so I came home. Next the Twins came to the pas- ture lot wheré.the cows were. | “Did you see Simmy Jumper any- | where?” Nancy asked Bossie Cow, who was chewing and chewing at ie nothing at all while she lay under a tree. Bossie Cow shook her head before | she answered. “No, I haven’t, but if you get this bug out of my ear I'll ‘help you.hunt. It crawled-in there last night just after milking time and I can’t get it out — no matter how I shake my head.” “Sure we'll help you,” cried Nick. “Now hold as still as you can while I get my lightning-bug flashlight. ; There! That's the way. Oh, my goodness alive! Look who’s here!” No wonder ‘he was surprised. For out crawled Jimmy Jumper Pee Wee right out of Bossie Cow’s ear! “Goodness. I was tired,” he yawned. “That was the nicest, | Warmest, softest bed I’ve had for » coon’s age!” i (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) —<—$<$<$_____________@ A Thought | o Seest thou a man that ts hasty in | hie words?, There is more hope of a fool than of hfm—Prov, 29:20. Common fluency of specch in many men ard,most women is owing to a-acarclty of matter. —Switt. Fogel ake ‘pYE*825,000 gal- in the world, was. re- cently completed Ge Dancing! Garden — {way it is going to be and if you de- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE LETTER FROM ALICE HAMILTON , TO MRS. JOSEPH GRAVES | HAMILTON DEAR MOTHER: Although-I know you intended pits be kind I think you should have’ told me of Leslie's accident the moment. it occurred. As it was you let’me go on for a long time feeling quite hurt because she had not written me. Now| I am filled with remorse that I could; have thought for a moment that my | darling sister would have neglected, me when I was so ‘far away. ’ However, I think had I received'ia! cablegram, I should have taken* the next boat home. It sickens me ey- ery time I think of the good -times I have been having while all the time she has been so ill. I want you to. tell Leslie’ .that I knew nothing about her accident and that if she wants ‘me or if she thinks, that I can.do her the least bit of good I will come home immediately. Poor girl! I believe I would die hed I been expecting such a wonder- ful event in my life as a baby and then’ had to bear the disappointment of losing it before it had ever been laid in my arms, Karl was awfully sweet in telling me all about it. We are still talking about you all. He said that you let him go in and look at Leslie for a moment while she was asleep, so that he could even tell me just how she looked. He told me she was “just like a Madonna who had beech deprived of her only child by Death.” He told me that Jack was thinking i of adopting a child. I think this would be a lovely thing. Let me know as soon as you decide which upon adoption, don’t christen I want to cide him until I come’ home, be godmother. Poor Leslie! I haven’t been able to get her, out of my mind all day. s being married, mother, isn’t cae a cinch after all, is it? Someway up until now I have al- considered’ marriage a kind of ed ‘courtship mnder ‘the sanc- tion, of the ~ church, but now I see there area great many responsibili- ties and cares connected with it. ° Karl told me that you thought he had better bring those pearl beads of ‘Leslie's over here, but he dis- suaded you from it. I wish you had let him bring them. I’ think they would go awfully well with my new pearl: ring. The ring of course is real, but ev- eryone says that the beads are such a wonderful imitation that I’m sure they couldn’t be told apart. Th one of her letters Lesli¢ inti- mated that she was going to break the string in two and give part of it to Beatrice Grimshaw for a wedding present. You may tell her that I will never forgive her if she does a thing like that. I wrote and told her how hurt. I would ‘be if she did it, but I want you to clinch the argument. I didn’t know that I would be as glad to see anyone as I was to see Karl. I wouldn’t marry an English- man if he were the Duke of West- minster or the Prince of Wales him- self. Please chble me exactly how: Leslie is. Could she read a letter if I should write it to her? I love you all so much, ALICE. u VERETT TRUE BY CON. R. TRUS, £ WOULD LINKS YoU To meer R. SCRIBE, THS POPULAR AUTHOR. IS FIRST VISIT TO GUR CITY. THIS (s S6éE, MR. SCRIGC, TH SHGLL RIMS, OR A SOFT Co {THE THROAT, OR A FLOWING = PreaseD TO Every presidential possibility thinks. he’ is the berries, ° Fire losses increase. . Insurance may go up, All this in spite of cel- juloid collars going out. Cider is being mace, Watch it. The stuff may try to act hard. Today's plan for universal peace: Burn the ‘phonographs. If Babe Ruth and Cy Williams in- tend to keep knocking home runs they ought to hire caddies. Philippines want freedom from us. Sorry, we haven't any. Good news from Hollywood, Movie stars consider divorce much more hu- mane than shooting. What officials call bootleg diree- tory in New York may turn out to be a city directory. Shoe men are happy. Fall trade is booming. We will need the shoes for hunting coal, Spokane couple stayed married 40 years before he was shot. Pershing advises girls to marry soldiers. We don’t. Soldiers get up at five o'clock, y Chicago man has forgotten who he is. Which is nothing. Most men away from home do that. Some foolish fellow swam Lake Erie with nothing after him. Tiffin (0. ‘printer's hen laid three eggs in one day. Why don’t these printer’s quit lying. Five Scottish churchmen say they couldn't find a drink in New York. You have to Day first. Spoon dated 1744 was plowed up near Berryville; Va, proving they had picnes in those days. 2 What's inca:name? Flypaper was originated’ by Hugo Thum. We get our thumbs and fingers in it, Dr. Koo is China’s new minister of foreign affairs. It is liable to run Koo Kookoo, ‘ f Jim‘ Jeffries, former heavyweight champ, is preaching. Jack Dempsey had better go to church, Harverd professor télls how to keep from being hit by lightning. Best way is to tell. the truth, Dayton (0!) man has invented 9 cycleplane. ‘It carries only one to be killed or injured. Cincinnati. judge’ complimented a woman ‘on shooting- her husband. She only did what others, do, ene Hunt the bfighter things, Cahta- loupes would cost meee if they were as big as watermelons, palthy- 1d eo getting: tanned hy . Pinel ape will inter- Fura ‘of ic with | marry Peter Pennington, detective. !comes to Jesselton and announces that he is-sent on a very important | want to get away as soon after lunch A Game OE£ BEGIN HERE TODAY Captain John Hewitt is Commis- sioner of Potice at Jesselton, British North Borneo, Monica Viney, Hew- at's widowed sister, is engaged to Pennington is detailed by the gov- ernment to ‘apprehend’ Chai-Hung, leader of The Yetlow’Seven, » gang of Chinese bandita. Major Armitage mission. He explains that his business will keep him in Borneo for several days. NOW GO'ON WITH*THE STORY ‘Armitage frowned. “You'll have ‘to alter that, Hewitt. I should give him a week in which to improve and if by that time there's no, sign :of improvement—fire him right away.” Monica, catehing the light in her brother's eye and scenting danger, chimed in quickly. “Do you golf, Major Armitage?” “My dear Mrs, Viney, the man whe carries out his duties thoroughly has no time for games. Which bring. me back to my original subject. as possible, Hewitt. I shall need some bearers, a week’s rations and platoon or so of native infantry. 1 shall require also an interpreter with a thorough knowledge of Chi- nese, Malay and English.” “I see,” said Hewitt. “Might take the liberty of inquiring the na ture of the expedition you propos: making into my country—and why this\ tremendous haste?” The major hesitated and looked a‘ Monica, who had already risen from her chair. “I'll see if I can hurry that boy,” she said. Major Armitage produced a cigay from an upper pocket of his tunie, bit off the end, and ignited it care- fully. Presently the preposterous circle of glass fixed itself upon Hewitt, “Mrs, Viney mentioned the name of Pennington just now,” he snapped. “I suppose this fellow’s still on your strength, wasting government money and making an infernal hash of this Yellow Seven business?” The Commissioner flushed. “I'm afraid I must disagree with you,” he said. “Chinese-Pennington is one of the most efficient men it’s ever been my luck to meet.” Armitage had a knack of hearing only those people who agreed with his views. “I heard of this affair when I passed through Singapore. It didn't take me five minutes to see that the thing had been hopelessly bungled. The way that man was making our status in the East look ridiculous simply ate into my nerves. I could see for myself that it wanted a sol- dier at the head of affairs. I offered my services and the ‘offer was ac- cepted.” i Captain John Hewitt gasped. “They've sent you out here to rout The - Commissioner's hand had slipped suddenly across his mouth out Chai-Hung?” “Those are my instructions.” and his shoulders heaved convulsive- ly. “Sorry!” he apologized presently. “Bit of ’bacca went the wrong way.” With an heroic effort he choked down the mirth that consumed him. “So you're setting out this afternoon with, let’s see, a week’s rations, a platoon of native soldiers and some bearers. Oh, I was forgetting the interpreter. You'll scour the coun- try, of course, until you knock across the bandit and—..I say, isn’t a week’s rations cutting it a - trifle fine?” “When you know me better,” re- turned the other with dignity, “you'll understand that when I’m on a job— T go straight at it.” “That’s extremely comforting! I only wondered if you quite realized that the area of Borneo is roughly 290,000 square miles!” Major Armitage wavet his cigar in the air, “Naturally I'm relying on you to give me every possible assistance. 1 have a letter in my dispatch-case to that effect from Trevelyan. I shall want a pushing-off place, so to speak.” “Such as?” “The~exact spot where your pet bandit was last located. A list of his places of refuge would be of service and a rough memorandum as to his appearance, ‘personal habits, etc.” “You can have a photograph, if you like, together with a copy of the circular I sent round to all white settlers. There’s a slight amend- ment, by the way: Chai-Hung has lost his left hand during the last few days, This gentleman was once the most respected Chinaman on the island. He enjoyed liberties only ex- tended to white people—and he would still be enjoying them if it hadn’t been for, young Pennington Chai-Hung is a big, ‘fat rientel, speaking perfect English with fairly guttural accent. He is scrupulous, merciless and has a dis- tinct aversion to Britishers. “His sign is a yellow. Chinese playing-card with seven black dots upon it and he dishes these out as a ‘warning of death or an indication that the sassination of a victim was carried out by the Yellow Seven. With searcely a single exception every \Chinaman on the archipelago is in are This does not mean that Fuad has Hussein “on the . carpet” for any cause. It simply means that the Egyptian monarch insists that-a de- tachment’ of Egyptian doctors shall accompany ‘the annual pilgrimage: of to. Mecca. Hussein atgues th: Hedjaz produces excellent doctors of its own and:-he desires no Egyptian i tions, No settlement of the controversy is in sight;~and King Hossein has appealed to Great Bri- in for.a solution, At the season of the annual _pil- ‘grimages to Mecca the Egypti ernment habitually organized a siderable medical detachment’ to hip WaselpPralag Ries’ Hossall, Se IGEGs Gio’ Gollard of tha vlisrin oa brother ruler, King Hussein of the. Hedjaz, over the Holy . Carpet. the faithful with their Holy Carpet: Bae YECLOW SEVEN: Chance ‘By Edmund Snell, league with Chai-Hung. It means that any undertaking against the bandit must be carried out with the utmost secrecy.” The other pressed the tips of his fingers together in front of him. “All exceedingly interesting, Hew itt, I must admit; but, if I may say so, a little far-fetched. Res tween the lines, you're all ed to death of this Chai-Hung fellow be- cause you have every new outrage fresh ‘bn your memory. You men- tioned the area of Borneo just now. ‘That has very little bearing on the present question, because more than half the place under Dutch man- agement and the Yellow Seven con- fine their activities to British North Borneo, the area of which—if con- siderable—is certainly not vast.” He emitted a little, self-satisfied chuckle, Five minutes later, when the maj had retired to the spare-room, the ead of Chinese Pennington was thrust through the office window fol- ‘owed almost immediately by that of ’ Monica. “Oh, I say, Jack, isn’t it perfectly oriceless. Chai-Hung'll eat hin— glass and all!” He won't,” retorted the Commis- sioner, him!” “Know any more jokes like that?” “I’m not joking. I'm deadly in carnest. Where d’you imagine I'm likely to discover an interpreter who speaks Chinese, Malay and English »xeept among eho Chinsaa popula- tion, and I've already explained to ‘he gibbering idiot that no China- man’s to be trusted. -Ring up the yarracks, there's a good’ chap, ‘and get me on to Fyfe.” Monica caught sleeve. “Are you really serious?” “Rather! I can’t allow- Armitage to make a fool of himself over Chai- ul Hung... Penn’s got to act as guide, 4 philosopher and friend to this already misguided lunatic. He’s to change into suitable gear for the part and gently lead this disciple of blood and iron into all those portions of the Lanes where the bandit’s least likely ‘0 be. “because you’re going with ow -—e - her brother's ‘ “Ye gods!” murmured Penning- ion. “Is this stunt going on indefi- = nitely 2” “Until he gets so confoundedly fed-up with the entire concern that he decides to chuck his hand in. At any rate, he’ll be back for rations within a week.” “Before we start,” insisted the other, “there are just one or two points I'd like to mention. This Chi- nese interpreter of yours is going to be of the high-brow variety; not one of, the sort, you understand, that Squats round camp-fires with dirty bearers. He’s entitled, moreover, to a tent to himself—and full rations.” Hewitt grinned. “I think I can manage that for + you.” see Chinese Pennington carried out in- structions’ to the letter. It was no easy matter to avoid Chai-Hung’s band of brigands, because a crowd such as Armitage insisted on taking with him could not fail to attract at- tention, There were other difficulties that beset their troubled path thronch the stunted jungle-wastes, difficulties for which Armitage was directly re- sponsible and which he, treated with such fatuous unconcern that Pen- nington wanted to knock the offend- ing monocle into the eye that it adorned, Together with his other faults—Major Lacy Armitage lacked grace. He was the exact opposite to that type of British officer men will follow to the ends of the earth, tak- ing the smooth with the rough of recognizing errors but still following, drawn on by their leader's per- sonality and persistent optimism. One by one the bearers began to , drop out and on the morning of the, fourth day it was apparent that two’ of the native soldiers had deserted, The bearers took their load of sup- plies with them—and the two de- faulters were eventually tracked to a clearing where they lay aside by side, their throats slit from ‘ear to ear, and the sign of the Yellow Seven pinned to their breasts} It stands to Armitage’s credit that he did not turn a hair. The dis- covery had, as a matter of fact, the Lopposite effect. to:that» which Pen- nington had imagined -It merely whetted the other's appetite and en- couraged him to push forward, un- mindful of the fact that he was al- ready four days’ march from his original base—with about two and a half days’ rations still in hand, “We'll get him yet, Sing-Ho,” he declared, “I may as well inform you, now we're on the subject, that up to this moment I’d regarded you as an unholy fraud.” The interpreter evinced consider- able surprise, ty. “A fraud, tuan?” he echoed blank- a, ‘m. not a man accustomed to making mistakes.It has been grad- ually dawning upon me that you were out to earn your money easily: You never intended to encounter 4 this countryman of yours and you had fully made up your mind to profit by my unfortunate ignoranc? of local languages. I have a habit of inspecting the camp before turning in. -On three occasions recently I've. found your tent empty. fae aceon PAR ri 2am mek es ONE Next Anvte) in Ouf Next Issue) gure the welfaré of the pilgrims on their trying journey. This year the usual course was followed and, the ‘oquivalent of the personnel of two/ field hospitals was enlisted, King Hussein, however, suddenly declared against the Egyptian physician Egypt holds a high card in its hand in the dispute in the fact that the Holy Carpet, an indispensable fea- ture of the Mecca ceremonies, resides in a Cairo mosque. The fiat, there- fore, has gone forth, “No doctors, no fe carpet.” The subject has aj the whole of the two countries and has become the subject of formal diplomatic representation: &