The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 11, 1924, Page 4

forRnac te ir si pi ke tr m gr cl in. he tit Pe tic - de ji fre ke pr Ch op. mi Jay an 4 { FAGH Putin * PAGE FOUR - THE CHICAGO Marquette Bl NEW YORK BISMARCK Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. dg. PAYNE, BURNS DETROIT Kresge Bldg. AND SMITH Fifth Ave. Bldg MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAY Daily by carrier, per year... : Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) atest Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck)... . Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.............. ABLE IN ADVANCE THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) ES THE FIRST STEP The election of Senator Smith, Democrat, to head the Interstate Commerce Committee of the United States with the aid of votes of nominal Republicans, may be the beginning of an important change in the affairs of the national legisla- ture. It is the greatest stroke of bloc or group legis as opposed to party responsib: ation ity and it is not impossible to believe that eventually it may reach that state frankly de- sired by some politicians where governments will rise and fall with the change of power in the national legislature, they do in Eu The open repudiation of party responsib senators is an unwelcome event. lrope. ity by insurgen: The governments of Europe have for decades been made up of groups and blocs and the result has been a hodge-podge of legislation, an instability of policy, a breaking down of democrac . It is, as Secretary Hoover has ably pointed out, but one step from the break- down of party American government to a dictatorship. Although the em has been roundly condemned, although it is of course imperfect, yet it cannot be denied that progress has been made. that parties have developed and changed as public opinion has developed and changed, that a stability of policy and freedom of action have been given governments | which have materially aided in the building of a permanent! and lasting prosperi There has never been in sober minds a tendency to deny | the right of individuals or group: changes and propose a new course for an estal s to demand hed political within parti party, nor can one deny the right to any individual to seek to se up a rival political unit. There is, in the light of the history of the political and economic development of the nation, ample reason for viewing with alarm a policy of “bor- ing from within,” of usurping a party name in order to Nor is this apprehension founded merely upon a fear for the welfare of the political party in question ; but it is founded upon a realization that substitution of the assassinate i t aims of selfish individuals or groups for that of a grea: political body The po m™ , lead to a disastrous end. bility of the situation which has arisen in Con- gress, in which North Dakota Senators have joined with the Democrats, was pointed out by The Tribune and other news- papers when many men who called themselves good Repub- licans caused the election of Senator Frazier through their desire for revenge on Senator McCumber. The defeat of Senator Cummins for the chairmanship means the passing of a man who for many years has been ssive, who has been regarded by the people in his own state and the nation as an able and conscientious man: And it is quite likely that those insurgents who sought labelled a progr to break down the Republican party’s power in Congress will defeat their own announced purpose of forcing a change in the railroad policy of the nation by bringing about a division of power and responsibility. Every ten y Most of them die. CAN'T ESCAPE IT rs, diseases attack the rabbits in America. | minute.” Goshawks, the natural enemies of rab- bits, have to hunt something else to eat. The goshawks be- gin attacking birds, especially ruffled grouse or partridges. The grouse soon dwindle in numbers. hawks preying chiefly on grouse, the rabbits get a chance to |so that she couldn't speak for a Soon there are plenty of rabbits and very few multiply. grouse. And, with gos- Then the goshawks turn their attention to the rabbits and the whole process repeats all over again. nature’s intricate system of checks and balances. It’s part of Man in the long run is regulated by much the same sort of check-and-balance system as are other forms of life. know the old theory of Malthus, that population would in- crease beyond the earth’s ability to support it, if nature didn’t curb population by death. Malthus included wars as a necessary part of the death check-and-balance, but in this he was wrong. Diseases and You “natural” death( body worn out by use, like an old machine) are sufficient to keep population within necessary bounds. Scientists hope to make medical discoveries to enable peo- ple to live to an average age of 200 or more years. that be contrary to natural law? Wouldn't Obviously, for as fast as science conquers death in one form, death begins to attack in new w For instance, death-dealing nerve maladies are on the increase, counteracting the gain made by science conquering fevers, diabetes and other ailments that formally meant certai @ A fur dealer in New York City bought a live raccoon for $5 and displayed it in his shop window to attract attention.| “1 know where they are going!” - The raccoon knocked over its saucer of milk and got its feet | wet. This aroused the ire’ of a woman passing by. the furrier arrested for cruelty to animals. on $500 bail. fraceoon kept at the Waldorf. n death. TOO MUCH LAW She had He was released A sensible judge now tells him to go his way without penalty, and asks if the Humane Society wants the This incident is one of many, indicating that we are ulated by law. tame form of regulation. LOSES OWN DAUGHTER -/,A noted surgeon, Sir Frederick Treves, died recently in ; England. da _. if everything with roses. _ steadily approaching the time when every action will be reg- By contrast, liquor prohibition may prove a It’s cereal nad he . foperations for appen icitis, los : ter. All the other operations were successful. ; ‘ate: is like lightning. : ; gitke. However, fate’s uncertainty and irony are what make life really int Existence would become monotonous eresting. rformed or directed 1000 only one patient—his own One never knows where it will were cut-and-dried and the road forever paved TRIBUNE Publishers EDITORIAL REVIEW —__ Comments reproduced in this f The Tribune. They here in order that y have both sides issues which are v1 important of being discussed in the press of the day, | THE The Bok peace plan award will prove disappointing, no doubt, to those who expected the great prize offer to evoke some new and ma scheme, of making world pea permanent. But there is no royal| road to lastin. ce, The road, | on the contri slow and ardu- ous, bese jes, threat-| ened by Human | PEACE PLAN AWARD civilization goes upward and on- ward —-sometimes by leaps and} bounds, sometimes so slowly that progres is indistinguishable. sometimes even iby seeming to fall} back. But it does go. | The prize-winning plan is prom- ising, but not brilliant. It will re- study. It points out a in| h the United State: without abandoning or compromising its principles and traditions, may take} the international instruments that already exist and mold and shape them to a better usage. The League of Nations now func- tioning is a very different thing from that which the Covenant sought to set up and which the f an people so decisively re-) jected. It will be farther improved | by experience. It will become eventually an instrument whose use will be entirely based on morai power. When that y comes and wperhaps we Americans may hasten its dawn—the United State. an more fullly participate in its contributions to world adjustment. The prize plan is a real contri- bntion to the literature of world comity. Whether anything practi-| cal comes out of it in the near fu- ture, is perhaps to be doubte. But Edward Bok had a good idea, and the fruit it has already borne} well worth whil i \ | | At the very least, it set nearly twenty-five thousand competitors to thinking, | study and suggesting. At the most, i may prove the way toward | a better co-operation of the nations to prevent war. —- Minneapolis Journal. | | | The North Dakota Nonpartisan is the latest league newspaper to be launched in our neighboring state. John Bloom, one of the] league ni jugglers of eco- nomic sophis is in charge. It! is printed in Bismarck and will be | isaued weekly throughout the ; coming campaign at least—Duluth | Herald. | ADVENTURE OF | THE TWINS’ || By Olive Roberts Barton Nany and Nick and Tom Tucker and the balloon-mansall went fo hunt for the lost Tweedles, Dilnrand Dee. They looked all over the circus grounds, where men were busy get- ting things ready for the big show in the afternoon. They looked around the pop-corn stands and lemonade stands and alt the side-shows. And they looked around the fortune-teller’s tent and everywhere, But no Jweedles could | they see. i “My goodness! It looks as though | some big elephant ‘had run on with them or some big lion had swallowed them up,” laughed the balloon-man, | | who was very good-natured. “I just got some brand-new balloons from | Balloon Land and I'd certainly like to find them, for time is flying and | |I shouldbe out selling this very Balloon Land! Flying! ' ‘The words made Nancy uneasy. land without knowing just why, she looked up. | And what she saw surprised her |moment. All she could do was to point. Nick ang Tom looked up and the balloon-man looked up and then the circus people looked up—clowns and everybody. . “Oh! Oh! Oh!” shouted everybody, k! Get the big nets! They'll ‘or there, up in the sky, sailed Tweedle Dum, hanging onto one bunch of balloons, and beside him was Dee, hanging onto another bunch of balloons. The sun was shining right on them and there was no mistaking who it was—Dum, in his red stocking-cap, and Dee, in his blue. © The balloons shone with every color like big bunches of fancy grapes. “Come down! Come down out of that!” called the balloon-man, | But he might as well have called to the clouds or stars or moon to come don from their places. The balloons went right on up—up and ap and up! Indeed, they were get- | ting so small that it was impossible to tell by this time which was Dum and which was Dee. “Dear! Dear! This |said the balloon-man. | is dreadful,” “What can we do about it? Has anybody an | airplane 2” | But nobody had. said Nick. “They're going to the Land of Lost Balloons, up in the sky. Nancy and I were there once.” | “Well, do hurry and go after | them,” begged the balloon-man. Fortunately, Daddy Gander came along just then. As luck would have it he had his magic dustpan with him, “Please, Daddy Gandér, ask your magic dustpan to take us after the Tweedle twins!” cried Nancy. “There they are, away up in the sky. The balloons ran off with them.” “How dreadful!” exclaimed poor Daddy Gander. “What if they should happen to . meet Mother Goose? I'd never hear the end of it. Hop on!” For the dustpan- had begun to grow andi by this time was large enough to hold them all. y eel went skyward in the direction the poor Tweedles had taken. (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc. Read Tribune Want Ads. 5 ” s ) | met THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE I WoRDER Waar TheY’RE GOING To DO NOW 2 LETTER FROM SIDNEY CARTON TO JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT I haven't written you, Jack, be- I have been too damn mad. T afraid to entrust what I would write to the mail bag for fear it would burn up the other letters. Of all selfish, unappreciative, ego- tistical, silly asees that I have ever you take the cake. Do you think I am a man of sstraw to be thrown about a buffetfor your despicable carcass? It is all very well for you to write me that self-preservation is the first law of nature, but what-about me? Do you think it was’a decent kind ‘of thing to do to let Leslie imagine I was the father of your own baby? For he is your baby. I’ve got the whole thing from Paula. % Right here let me say that Paula Perier is much too good for’you and she only put that baby on your duor- step because she had an: idea Leslie was the true sweet woman she is and would take care of her child when it was impossible for her to j care for it. You really didn’t enter into calculations in the least. She saw that Leslie was ill and a was necessary to save her life. Think of it! If it is possible that thoughts can be born in that decp vacuum encircled by your skull. The woman whom you wronged was ready to give to the woman you mars ried her own child. Partly of course her only baby because she knew it would be well|> taken care of but more than all else{ because she knew the gift would probably save Leslie’s life. And you needn't tell me, you haven’t helped that damnable lie of my fatherhood. Why, Ill never dare to show my face to Leslie again. I wish I had told her all about yon before you were married. Jack, that EVERETT TRUE BYCONDO |; {— AND & KNow pee To Be A I suppose you thought it was brilliant idea, but I'd like to s that mass of emasculated molecules which you probably call your brain, in which the idea found lodgment. You've stretched our friendship too far, Jack. All my life I have been the one to whom you have come with your tr s, brought on by your own as e acts. Now I am through. I may as well tell you that Paula is wild to have her baby,back. She yeems to think she has done her duty by lending it to Leslie long enough to save your wife’s life and now the boy should be returned to her. Of course I told her that, as you had legally adopted it, she could do nothing. But you know Paula—al- though she has almost lost her ac- cent and become a woman of the world, yet she has it in her to kick up yore trouble than any woman I have ever known, if she thinks 7 is necessary to gain her ends. In the meantime you might well know that I shall not lift a finger to help you out of this despicable scrape you have gotten me mixed up in, as well as yourself. The only thing that worries me in ithe least is that fhese two girls— yes, I can call them girls for they are both on the threshold of life—will have to suffer long, long years on ac- count of the shameful and utterly contemptible baseness of man’s de- ire. I'd like to write more to you but I can’t find words to express the fury | with which your letter filled me. I'll) never forgive you for this. | (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) | A Distance Man | “There goes a great track man.” “tHe look like a hobo to-me.” “He is.”—Oregon Lemon Punch. \ BEcausSGS ALL THE Sv PencS U/ AW - €GE- AW-CEE-AW Il! eR ORRIN NOW [Lt Go On AN' Do mY STUFF ON NONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AN’ Fine ! FRIDAYS AND I'LL £O AINE | . ON TUESDAYS, TAURSDAYS AN' SATURDAYS He's 70 and she’s 69. ° They live in New York. Both go to dances and dancé, That shows sense. A bride of five months left home in Detroit. A man can’t shave every morning bafore breakfast. Leap Year news from Chicago. School teacher shortage reported. New Orleans cops caught a Wil- liam Desmond Taylor murder sus- pect, the first one this year. A Denver judge gave a iiovie ac- tor two years in the pen, but it’ wasn’t for being a movie actor. Rodolph Valentino, the sideburn movie | star, would make an ideal brother. He has 150 suits. Movie stars are getting to be as bad as many other people. Fortune is their misfortune. A pumpkin in Frésno, Calif., 2ighs 80 pounds and would make pies enough to keep 300 people awake. Los Angeles song writer's wife got a divorce. We don’t blame her. Leap Year news from Spokane is alarming. Woman’s Club head says women should, propose. About 40,000 schooners went down off the Florida coast when a beer ship ran on the rocks. Michigan bean growers will meet in Owosso. Fine chance for board- ers to get in some dirty work. — oe Poor sailor married a rich girl in Manistee, Mich., poor, sailor. Here’s great news for the soap makers. A woman in San-Francisco is refusing to wear stockings. Boston had ai cat.show. When we get mad enough we will say the first cat show was a sewing circle. Fire destroyed’ a $250,000 school in Woodland, Calif., and proved that wishes do come true. Ttalians and the News from North Africa. are fighting the Arabs, Arabian nights ate bad. ‘Needy old women will be given thé chorus girls’ jobs in Germany. Sherman spoke a mouthful. FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1924 Published by arrangement Lloyd with Corinne Griffith Copyright 1923 by SYNOPSIS. \ At a first night performance in New York, a beautiful young woman attracts attention by rising and leisurely surveying the audi- ence throngh her glasses. Claver- ing, newspaper columnist, and his cousin, Dinwiddie, are particularly interested, Dinwiddie declaring | that she is the image of Mary Og- iden, a belle of thirty years ago, | who had married a Count Zatteany and lived abroad. He is convinced \ that this is Mary’s daughter. At | Clavering’s suggestion, Mrs. Ogle- | thorpe, a friend of Mary Ogden’s | in her youth, is asked to solve the | mystery. She calls.on the young | woman, receives a denial that she is Mary Ogden’e daughter, but be- | yond -that learns nothing. Clavering, determined to find out | who she is, follows her home from the theatre one night. Luck ts with him, for she has forgotten her keys and he hglps her get into the house. She invites him in and finally tells him she is the Countess Josef Zattiany, a cousin of Mary Ogden’s; that she had married a relative of Mary's husband. Vit (Continued) She met his eyes calmly. “That was’ the cause of his interest? Cousin Mary always said that the likeness to herself as a young wo- man was rather remarkable, that we might be mother and daughter instead of only third cousins.” “Ah—yes—exactly. Is—is with you?” “No, alas! She is {n a sanita- rium in Vienna and likely to re- main there for a long time. When Judge Trent wrote that it would be well for her interests if she came to New York she asked me to come instead and gave me her power of attorney. As my hus- band was kiiled in the first year of the war and I had no other ties, I can assure you I was glad to come. She shivered slightly. “Oh, yes! Vienna! To see so much misery and to be able to give so little help! But now that Mary’s and my own fortune are restored I can assure you it gives me the greatest satisfaction of my life to send a large share of our incomes to our agent in Vienna.” : This time there was an unmis- takable ring of truth in her deep tones, And she was human. Clav- ering had begun to doubt it, not- withstanding her powerful disturb- ing magnetism. But was he falling in love with her? He was attract- ed, dazzled, and he still felt ro- ‘mantic. But love! In spite of his jsuspicions she seemed to move on & plane infinitely remote. “Shall you stay here?” “Oh, for a time, yes. I cannot jsee Cousin Mary, and even Parisis |spoiled. Besides, Judge Trent ‘wishes me to learn something of \pusiness, He is growing old and says that women nowadays take n interest in their Investments. I certainly find it highly diverting.” | “No doubt. But surely you will jnot continue to shut yourself up? You could know any one you jchoose. Judge Trent has only to give you a dinner. Unfortunately most of his respectable friends are ® great many years older than | yourself”— “I have no desire to know them. In Paris, off and on, I met many of those elderly New York ladies of position. They all have that built- up look, with hats too Small and thigh for their bony old faces, | which they do not even soften with powder or the charming accesso- ries of the toilet known to every European woman of fashion. And feathers! Why are they so fond of feathers—not charming drooping feathers, but a sort of clipped hedge, all of ashe, like a garden plot; sometimes: oblong, some- times round? “And why do they never look a la mode, {y spite of their expensive furs and mate- rials?” 5 : “That is the sign manual of their intense respectability. he old regime would jot compromise with fashion in all its ‘extravagant she What could be more daring than |changes for the world: Moreover, a French soldier getting shaved in a |{t ig their serene belief that they German barber shop? A St. Louis conductor stretched 4 his neck out of place. Another evil result of longer skirts. In this land where alimony is legal our soldiers are refused a bonus, and it_isn’t right. may dress exactly as they choose, and they choose to keep anvold t @ition alive, Are not English @uchesses much the same?” “So. . Well, I do not bore my- self.” s ; “But the younger women. They are the smartest in the world. There is not the least necessity If the scientists find we really did | you should bore yourself with the come from apes what are they going /elders. Surely you must logg for to do about it? We tremble at the future life. And yet, we all think we will have friends in both places. Blowing an’ auto ‘horn will drive the wolf from your door. not | terest me. the society of women of your age.” She moved restiessly for the first time. “They were always in Europe before the war. I met many of them. They did not in- with Associated First National Pictures, Inc. Watch for the ecreen version produced by Frank Countess Zattiany. Gertrude Atherton done to her?” thought Clavering with furious indignation, and feel ing more romantic than ever, Could it have been her husband} For a moment he regretted- thal Count Josef Zattlany had gone be yond human vengeance. “You are too young to hate men,” he stammered. And then he went on with complete banality, “You have never met the right man.” “IL am older than you perhaps think,” she safd drily. “And | have known a great many men— and of a variety! But,” she added graciously, “I shall be glad if you, will come and see me sometimes, I enjoy your.column, and I am sure we shal] find a great deal to talk about.” Clavering glowed with a pride that almost convinced him he wat not as blase as he had hoped. He Tose, however. “T'll come as often as you will le} me. Make no mistake about that Byt I should not have stayed s¢ long. It is very late, and you ar¢ —well, rather unprotected, you know. I think you should have a chaperon.” “I certainly shall not. And ff ! find you interesting enough to talk’ with until two in the morning, | shall. do so. Ding with me tomor row night if you have nothing bet ter to do. And” She hesitated @ moment, then added with a cu rious smile, “Bring Mr. Dinwiddie It is always charitable to lay # ghost. At half after eight?” She walked with him to the froni door, and when he held out his hand she lifted hers absently. He was a quick-witted young man ané he understood. He raised it light ly to his lips, then let himself out As he was walking rapidly towaré Park Avenue, wondering !f he should tramp for hours—he ha¢ never felt leas like sleeping—bh« remembered the broken window The “crime wave” was terrorizing New York. There was no police man in sight. To leave her unpro tected was unthinkable. He walk 4 ed back slowly until he reacheé the lamp-post opposite “her house; finally, grinning, he folded hi: arms and leaned against it: There he stood until a policeman came strolling along, some two hour: later: He stated the case and told the officer that if anything’ hap pened to the house he would hoit him responsible. The man was in clined td) be intensely suspicion, until Clavering .mentioned hit newspaper and followed the threat with a bill. Then he promised te watch the house like a hawk, and Clavering, tired, stiff, and very cold, went home to hed. is vi “Tommy rot. .Don't believe a word of it, Mary's mother was ona of the Thornhills, Don’t believe there ever was a Virginia branch. But I'll soon find out. Also about this Josef Zattiany. That girl is Mary Ogden’s daughter.” They were seated in a corner of Mr. Dinwiddie’s favorite club, where they had met by appoint- ment. Clavering shrugged his shoulders. He had no intention of communicating his own doubts. “But you'll dine there tonight?” ‘Won't I? And I'll keep my ears open.” \ Clavering privately thought that the Countess Josef Zattiany would be more than a match for him, but replied: “After all, what does it matter? She is @ beautiful and goes, but I’ve never been so inter. ested in my life. Of course if she’s Mary's daughter I'll do anything to befriend her—that is {f she'll be honest enough to admit,it. But [ don’t like all this lying and pre- tence”— “I think your terms are too strong. There have been extra- ordinary resemblances before in the history of the world, ‘doubles,’ for Instance, where there was no known relationship. Rather re- markable there are enough faces to go round, And she confesses to be of the same family. At all events you must admit that. she has not made use of her alibi ta force her way into soclety.” “Probably knows her alibi won't stand the strain. The women would soon ferret out the truth. What I'm afraid of is that she’s got this power of attorney out of Mary when the poor gir! was too weak to resist, and ts over here to corral the entire fortune.” “But surely Judge Trent”— “Ob, Trent! He's a fool where women are concerned. Always was, and now he’s got to the stage where he can’t sit beside a girl without pawing her. They won't have him in the house,’ Of course this lovely creature's got him: un. I hardly knew what they were talking about.” “But men, Surely @ woman as If a grouch followed his nose he| young—and beautiful”— would go through the floor. \ ——————————ee | -A THOUGHT | ct o Let not him that eateth despise him which eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth; for God hath received him. —Rom. 14: “Oh, men!” Clavering had nev- er heard as profound disillusion in any woman's tones. And then a curious expression of fear filtted through her eyes and she seemed to draw herself together. “What has some brite of a man Parental Wrath “And did her father follow tyen The most genérous and merciful in| when they eloped?” judgment upon the faults of others are always the most free from faults themselves .—Aughey. ’ ‘Sure, he's living with them yet.”-Hamilton Royal Gaboon. \ ' der her thumb. (I'll see him today and give him a piece of my mind for the lies he’s told me.) And if this girl has inherited her mother’s brains, she’s equal to anything.” “I thought that your Mary was composite perfection.” “Never sald anything of the sort, Didn't I tell you she always kept us guessing.” (To be continued), An Idyllic Existence “ Your son must be the idol of his family.” “Yes, he has been idle for 21 years.”—Penn.. Sfafe Froth: sv erenbsona sma tn MER ON MYR SR SSM A saceiassiaa Saheb = » xf ‘