The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 2, 1924, Page 4

48 SUR SeeaT eyase ose eaeeeT rey ee ies e PACE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class | Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. . - - Publishers’ Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO - -)-)S”SC”~S~S*Cé@S ERO. Marquette Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - Fifth Ave Bidg 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- fished herein All nights of erved. Kresge Bldg. republication of special dispatches herein gre U OF CIRCULATION IN ADVAN( MEMBER AUDIT BUR SUPSCRIPT yY Dy ca . y mail, outside of North Dakota. 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER \ (Established 187 Chicago authorities will receive the silent congratula- tions of citizens over the entire country for their apparent solution of the brutal murder of young Robert Franks. The crime shocked the nation, and the fact that the slayers were rich and intelligent comes as a further shock to the ‘sensi- bilities of the people. To the criminologist the case offers a rich field for study | and conelusion. It offers a field of study for public leaders in all parts of the nation. What could have moved two youths, intelligent enough to have graduated from college and to engage in post- graduate work at a University, whose fathers were wealthy ; | and who had a rich life to look forward to, to commit the revolting crime? him they were moved both by a spirit of adventure to engi- neer a kidnaping and by a desire for the $10,000 ransom they sought. Yet it would seem that the desire for money ought to have been the farthest thing from the minds of these young men, who doubtless enjoyed luxuries far beyond the average youth. It would seem that their intelligence would be suf- ficient to direct them to use other means in seeking ad- venture. The United States is the country of murders. The rate of homicide in this nation astounds Europe, particularly “England. Murderers ofte re allowed to escape with light punishment, too often set free. The number of unsolved murders in this country greatly exceeds the number in Europe. The common explanation of the increasing rate of homi- cide in the nation is the growing complexity of life, the in- creasing tenseness of the economic struggle, the popular en- couragment to the belief thtat wealth is the acme of succes There are students who see in the polyglot mixture of races in America a source of menace in the future. The least the average citizen can do is to teach the value | | isingle service The states attorney said they informed | pay is about $25 monthly above the Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They here in order, that ¢ both’ sides ue which — are discussed in the press of ae FORD'S RAILWAY EXAMPLE Heury Ford's account in World’s Work of his suc: in operating profitably the bankrupt railway which he took over as an appendix te his motor factory was not writ- ten for the urpose of opposing the pending railway legislation in Con- gress, It is all the more convine- ing for that he first reason for his success is that Le operates his | railway like ‘his factor: His rs do what they are told, re-| dless of the name of their job. An engineer works in the shops if he hog any time left in his day, ' n such thing as ove t was designed to create } nsboiy The Adam- give ten 1 ht hours’ work. ‘he pending pill to abolish the Labor Board is designed to com-! pel “recognition” of the national | unions. with particular intent to} continue their “feathered” rules. | On one of the leading railways there are forty-four rules designed | to restrict service within classifi- | cation and thirty-five rules to en-! force duplicate payments for a| There are scores of | other rules for classifications de- | signed to increase pay, or to pay for work not done, or to monopol- { ize jobs for the unions. Henry | Ford vuld not produce either service or profits under such rules. He is able to defy the railway unions ‘because he pays ‘higher wages than the unions ask or the Labor Board awards. That is his second explanation of his railway method. He no labor disputes and therefore the L»bor Board has mo power over him. Hig minimum general average of the’ highest | u rail » but his men earn! their wages. } ing 1,200 fe began by dism: men, and now employ company more to} worked to transport 2,500,000 Mr. Ford says that he onders withthe aid of ital. dt ap- opera- ely about as much new capital other railways. His result is creditable, but not markedly ‘better than the improv. ment on the change from Mederal administration to private opera- tion. There could not be a plainer lesson ugainst reversing that “progress” k to ‘Federal opera- tion. Its object is to “make work” tor the mass by reducing it for in-! dividual Henry Ford’s way is to production by making in- @rn their pay.—New é gle million of cap s that he needed in hi tion proportion: pe York Tim MORE NEIGHBORLI Ss =0° i 1 Ife, to encourage respect for the law, to insist upon str'et penalties for the transgressor of our moral laws to aid in steadying the public conscience to the end tha you'h may learn that maddening speed of living and gratifi- e2tion of selfish desire is not the goal of the worth while citize:) of a community. The British government in seck- ing, by way of negotiation with the tate department, to provide a} {remedy for an unintentioned wrong i ' which certain Americar legislation has done Britisi women. The American law providing for: the separate naturalization of wo- men and decreeing that a woman | THE MIRAGE Although the Leviathan, the great liner operated by the - United States government, was launched after reconditioning “under auspicious circumstances and with a volume of free dvertising that would bring envy to the thoughts of any private merchant marine operator, a report of the Shipping 3Board discloses that the liner shares with other boats the “huge loss of the government-owned and government-operated #fleet. In the net result of the eight trials which she made during the past season, before running aground in New York charbor, her books show a loss $70,897. This is simply a loss in operation, making no allowance for interest on the million :spent in making her one of the most attractively equipped ships on the ocean. Neither was any allowance made for the ‘repairs necessitated by her accident in the harbor. Millions of money was spent in reconditioning the Levia- han in the hope that she would counteract other losses of he government fleet. But she failed under auspicious cir- cumstances. There does not, in view of this situation, appear to be much hope that the United States Shipping Board can continue to operate government vessels except at a loss, to be made up by taxpayers. H WIZARDS 2 Fogs can be dissolved by scattering electrically treated |} sand from airplanes, according to latest scientific belief. - Government planes are experimenting around Boston. Ed Howe once said that everybody is forever talking about the weather, but no one ever does anything about it. But it may not be altogether impossible for future man to regulate his weather materially. Some weather experts be- dieve that we have already changed the climate in eastern States by irrigation in the west—damming up several hun- 7 red million acres of water in regions where evaporation is |s Yapid, thus generating storm centers. WHY + If Jefferson were alive today, what would he say to guide us? He predicted governmental corruption for a nation Zrown careless while too absorbed in money-getting. ,. Jefferson, a philosopher, thought clearly and saw far intv the future because he reasoned from cause to effect. Today e’d probably say that corruption and inefficiency, wherever they rear their ugly heads in government, are the natural sult of public carelessness and indifference. ‘Eternal vig- fiance is the price of freedom.” 4 Government.is a mirror reflecting the public, as surely a newspaper is a mirror reflecting its readers. Es FLIGHT ¢; Police in western Canada find an abandoned airplane Equipped with runners for landing on ice. It was rigged out fe carry heavy packages. The-police think it belonged to m-runners. Bootlegging is the first branch of criminal activities to e the flying machine. Not much imagination is required look ahead and picture police planes fighting machine gun ittles in the air with fugitive diamond smugglers, murder- and robbers. aid . The flying policeman and the flying criminal are coming. The most exciting movie in the movie-world is the speak- fl i ig. film, which, if presented, may. play. havoe with our mar. Verda i A great demand for politeness is being caused by its eee \ does not acquire or lose citizenship | by marriage, leaves a Bri’ wo- man who marries an American a woman without a country as long as she resides under the British jag. The British authorities consider her an American and the American consul says she is not. The inconvenience becomes es: | pecially great if she desires to) leave the country, although there are many other disadvantag and | legal disabilities connected with her status. The remedy sought, by agree- ment with the state department. is te entitle such a woman. for pass- port puropses only, to be consid- ered an American citizen in ac- cordance with common _interna- tion law and thus straighten out the tangle. It follows in a sense the preced- ent of the liquor treaty, which also sought to smooth out a wrinkle in| the jointure of international and American law. It issan invitation in the line of international comity for Ame relieve & grievance without ficing the principle embodied in s own statute.—Philadelphia Even- ing Bulletin. BELGIUM SERVES ITS OWN government of Belgium has ken on its own behalf to The under! examine all Belgians who propose to emigrate to the United States. Those who fail to come up to the ich dards w will be required of them at Ellis island are stopped in Belgium from embarking for this country. The result is a proper service to the people of Belgium y the Belgian government, as well valuable assistance to this country. Other European countries appear less loyal to their citizens and less ready to co-operate with the Unit- ed States in the matter of immi- gration. At least one of the lar- ger countries has been charged with encouraging the immigration | of undesirables who, if Ellis iskand | preserved full vigilance, could not hope to get into this country. Until immigrants enter the Unit- ed States they have a right t ex- pect ‘protection from their native land. The Belgian is a Belgian un- ‘til he has taken out his naturaliz.- tion papers in the United States. If there is danger that he may be! forced to undergo sad dieappoint- ‘ment and sorrow by being turned ‘back at Ellis island, then he has a right to expect his home land to protect him from that disappoint- ment and sorrow. Belgium, it ap- pear, appreciates this duty which she owes to her own pepole who are still her own even though they contemplate taking up homes in the United States. It would be better for all concerned if é6ther European ‘countries displayed as sensible and conscientious an interest in their emigrating peoples.—Grand Rapids Herald. Read Tribune Want Ads. abuot 300 fewer than the previous ; THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE 8 FL---—-—sf 7 Backyard ‘Playgrounds By W. C. Batchelor The modern playground is not considered complete without some provision for adult play, and the backyard playground is no excep- | tion. The one major sport which is ac- tively interesting more men and wo- men than any other at the present time is golf. The game may easily be adapted to the back yard! Any level spot, either grass or bare ground, will provide space for a putting green, If bare ground is used, it should be covered with a thin layer of sand. Mixing the sand with oil will prevent the wind and rain from carrying it away. The most common oi! used is a half-and- half mixture of fuel oil and distill- ate, but oil drained from the crank case of an automobile will do. For the hole a can should be sunk flush with the ground—a tomato can or any similar can about 4% inches in diameter. A net for driving practice is just as easily coristructed. A piece of canvas 12 feet wide, hung from the edge of the garage roof to the ground, is all that is necessary. Eye- lets should be placed along the up- per edge so that the canvas can be hung from nails driven in the end of each rafter. It should be left loose at the bottom but should touch the ground. Any awning dealer will such « net according to your specifications for approximately $10.00, or a tarpaulin commonly known as a ‘wagon sheet’ is suit- able for this purpose and may. be purchased at any hardware store. Made of 10-ounce duck, 10 by 13: feet, the cost is approximately $7.50, The ball should be driven from a point directly in front of the net and not more than 10 feet away. If the canvas is lobse at the bottom, there will be-no rebound. For the particularly “wild” golfer, it may be necessary to add another yard to the width of the net, but 12 or 13 feet will be found sufficient forthe average “dub.” A golf ball attached to a stake with. a cord and spring, known as the “captive golf ball,” is also a EVERETT TRUE ee ie {OC an® SHES A GRASS WIDOW. :CHAP WAS PAYING HER PRETTY STEADY ATTENs ITION TLL EF COOMED VP ON THE SKTLING, ‘AND NOW SHS CAN'T SEE HIM SHE'S PLUMB COONEY OVER Me. , BY CONDO AnomER A-TACTU. AND THERE'S | ANOTHER AROUND. Bowes THEM Ovet Cute UtrLce BOB-HAIRED STENOSRAPHER THAT CAN'T SEE ANYBODY SCSE WHEN T'M FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING % SOMETHING ABOUT ME THAT JUST NATURALLY ONS, CvSRettT, A RE‘ Forewarned Is Forearmed practical device for backyard driving practice. This is sold by sporting goods dealers for about $1.75. Copyright, 1924, by W. C. Batchelor ADVENTURE OF ' THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON —t “I want to buy one of those new things,” said Ringtail Coon, coming into Mister Bags’ store one day and marching up to the counter. “Whbt new things?” laughed Nancy. “Do you suppose we sell old things in this store, Mister Coon, now do you?” Mister Coon looked kind of sheep- ish as. he answered, “Oh, excuse me! I know that of course. But I mean one of those extra new things where you have to tack sticks on your chimney and have a lot of boards and wires sticking up into the air.” “Oh, you mean a radio set, don’t you?” said Nick. “Why, yes,” said Ringtail. “I guess that’s it. There’s a little | wooden box full of twists and knobs and screws and enough grimcracks jto start a hardware store. And you set it on a table and turn something jand it sings and talks and: plays musi: id everything like that.” “Yes, that’s 4 radio set you are talking about,” said Mister . Bags. “And you came at exactly the right time, for I have a fine oue I just got in today. Here it is in the show case. It costs two dollars.” “My, my! That’s a lot of money,” exclaimed Mister Coon, “That's about my entire fortune. Couldn’t you make it a littke cheaper, Mister Storekeeper?” “Well,.I might let you have’it for a dollar and ninety-nine cents,” said Mister Bags, thoughtfully. “All right!” said Ringtail Coon, “Tl take it. And then there was a busy time for everybody. Nick and Nancy went home with the coon gentleman and up to the place he lived in Old Oak * Apart- ments. Nancy sat on the sofa and looked at Mister Coon’s photograph album and Nick went outside and tacked up all the wires and queer wooden things to the tip top branches of the oak tree. Pretty soon everything was fixed and Nick showed Mister Coon how to run it. “If you. want to hear somebody making a speech in New York, you turn the little knob this. way,’ he said. “And if you want to hear some music in Chicago, you turn it that way.” “Goodness!” grasped Mister Coon. “Isn't that just wonderful! New York must be a mile away.” “It’s hundreds of miles,” said Kk, You don’t’ say so!” exclaimed Mister Coon . . “Yes, sir!” said Nick, “It is. And if you like you can hear things from away across the sea. You can get Africa where the lions and tigers live just as easy as anything.” “I'd rather not,” remarked Ring- tail uneasily. “That's all right,” said Nick. “You can listen to anything you like.” So he turned the little knob and in- stantly a band started to play so loudly that Mister Coon jumped. “What's that?” he cried, running to his window and looking out. “I didn’t know this was circus day.” . “It isn’t,” laughed Nancy. “It’s all coming out of your new radio set.” : ‘Well, I declare!” grinned Mister Ringtail Coon. “Isnt that fine, though! I'll write some invitations and ask all my friends in to a party.” ; (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) RED GARDENIA The red gardenia is as popular in Paris now as the white one has been here all spring. | / ‘ EAH pail ETRY The first\rubber road was laid in London in 1918 and ig’ still in good condition; z MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1924 BARLEYCORN’S GHOST By Albert Apple * ” e The first man arrested in New York City for buying liquor without a permit is fined $50., The hand of the law clamped on his shoulder a few seconds after he received two i f nosepaint in a drugstore. Pe Tetoopon the federal authorities announced to New | Yorkers that they henceforth will include liquor buyers as i well as ‘sellers in their drive against violators of the Vol- | stead act. | If that system were enforced all over the country, jails | would overflow with democracy—all the way from the pan- | handling “white-liner” to a host of piously patriotic promi- inent citizens. The customer, of course, incites the bootlegger to crime ‘by furnishing the motive of the crime—profit.. ‘traffic, buyer and seller are equally guilty. jany rate. In any illicit Ethically, at ; Wayne B. Wheeler, lawyer for the Anti-Saloon League. points with pride to the conviction of 34,067 people in 1928 for violations of the legislation called prohibition—rather a ;humorous name for it in some communities. | mitted in America very year. the law is directed. the individual. selling. any need for it. Its impossible entirely to prevent anything by law. ‘have law against murder—but some 10,000 murders are com- A bit of arithmetic shows that only one in about ever; 13000 of the population was convicted last year. What percentage is this of the total of violators? small, you have to use microscopic fractions. So We The very existence of a pro- hibitory law indicates the prevalence of the crime at which The main purpose of any law is to punish crime. Prevention is largely a matter of education. Compulsion restrains him only when the punishment is grave enough to strike terror to his heart. — This so-called prohibition problem is, today, just what it has been since the fight against liquor started—a matter of education rather than law enforcement. As long‘as people want to drink, they’ll be able to buy liquor—if they have the price. lem is thirst rather than quencher — buying rather than It is up tv The real prohibition prob- If the oncoming generation is prevented from acquiring the thirst, prohibition will succeed because there will not be he Tanglex. LETTER FROM MRS. LESLIE PRES- COTT TO JOHN ALDEN PRES- COTT My Husband: Of course I will be home for our wedding anniversary. I did not think I was going to stay here in New York as. long as. this, but you see, dear, one’s parents do not come home from a long stay in Europe every day. Three eventful’ years! Why, Jack, it seems as though I have always been married to you—that you and little Jack have always been a part of my life. Our whirlwind courtship and hasty marriage are only snatches of memory today. When I get back from New York to you, dear, I am going to look over again those love letters which you wrote me before the wedding. Do you remember them, or are the jokes in the newspapers true? I kept them all, all those beautis ful love letters, in which you told me how desperately lonely you were without me. I remember one para- graph in particular. After telling me that you did not think you could live through those weeks which would intervene before you could come and claim me, you said: “And to think that three weeks ago, my ‘darling, I did not know there was such a girl as you in all the world.” I kissed those words, Jack, and thought no} girl had ever had a more beutiful love letter. And when you came! I remember the very thrill that almost took my breath away compltely. As I write tonight I- feel your arms about me as they werg that day, your kisses on my lips, your caressing words of love. Perhaps you have forgotten the thrill of that kiss, husband mine. You had had many love affairs be- for you met me. I found out after we were married, and at that very time yqu were wondering how you could get your letters back from Paula Perier—the Paula Petter who has played such ‘an important part in our wedded life. Had I known of her at that time, Jack, I am sure I would never have married you. I. wonder, .if I Had known it,'and not married-you, would I -have married Karl .Whitney, ‘my childhood ‘swestheart, and now been jogging along. in luxury with’ him? Instead, as: you know, he-is going to marry. my sister Alice, : You would not know “Alice, Jack. During “her years abroad. she has grown up. into a’ most egostical young person who lets me see how very superior she is'to me. I am a little sorry for Karl, for he is al- | most sure to be managed until he is_miserable. You said in your letter that Syd- ney Carton is going to visit us as soon as I get back home. I hope this is true, but you know how many times he has made you such a prom- ise. I am glad he is coming to us. Hav- ing only seen him once, I want to know him better. I've got some spiffy new clothes to charm him with, I want hin: to like me, fur I have an idea that he is the most loyal and splendid man I have ever met. Do you remember, dear, that jcal- ous old cat of a Priscella Bradford. and how nearly she came to break- ing up our marriage? She did. at least prejudice. your- mother... very much against. me. She wanted to marry you herself.. I wonder where “@ar Priscilla,” as ygur mother used ta call her, is now. ‘ Fate was kind to you, Jack dear, as well as to me, Until quite a while after we were married she kept me ignorant of Paula Perier. I- really thought I was the only girl you had ever loved, and on my wedding day I was perfectly happy—so happy that my friend and maid of honor, Beatrice Grimshaw, told me she was afraid I could never keep on living on the heights, in the rarified air of ecstatic bliss with which I seemed: to have surrounded myself—and F could not, more’s the pity! Now I know that although I would have been very unhappy to have known then that no one ever can live in a con- stant ecstacy of bliss, yet tonight I feel our love has really been some- thing very beautiful. -I know, how- ever, that married life, like every- thing else, needs perspective. Ah, husband mine, tonight as-I sit here writing, I thank God that I was too much in love with you to let the greatest unhappiness and the great- est happiness that has ever come into my life, separate us. ‘That was our boy. For he is my boy, now, John, as well as yours, and although he is only mine by adoption, and you are his father in reality, yet I, am sure that you do not love him as much as I, 4 T shall be glad when I return -be- cause I want to feel his little arms about me, I want to feel his little wet: mouth pressed close to mine; I used to think at first, dear -John that I could not bear to feel that he was your child-born in love un- sanctioned by the world. But I must not write about this, because I’ do not want to live over those sad, sad days tonight. I only want to look forward to-our life together when I have become a habit to you—one you cannot break, one you do not want to break. Goodnight, dear one, : LESLIE, (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) The average man has to keep busy to be ‘happy. because if he gtops and thinks his. conscience starts hurting him. i The ‘average crop of’ @, cocoanut tree is 60: nuts, but the crop ef a general election yaries. Bid news from. England.’ Most of the war weddings failures. perkane they knew how to fight too well. r No: matter how rough the sea of matrimony you can steer safel; following the chart. ah , Good people seem to have a hard time finding something to do. Few people ‘tiotice you as Jon; a you are: good; see! put when you start! i out to borrow trouble the interest is very high, i The chief trouble with being a man is shaving takes longer than smearifg on’ a little, rouge. A conservative estimate would be that half the fruit jars have held booze at one time in their life, Wen you start out to get rich quick you are liable to get quicker, Se Ne “Another world war in fivesyears,” predicts a French general, so we had better start passing the bonus for it now. = * A congressman wants to dispense with the speech amplifiers in the House, and it strikes us as being a move in the right direction. at an ‘if new spring suit feels ‘spicuous as if he had it had his hair bobbed. ty ia \ A} 4 A small town is a place where ° the weather, is. always worse. than it has been since way bac! yonder. ” { e # "