The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 24, 1924, Page 4

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SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year........... cece eeee eee es oh Ge20 Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)... . 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck). 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota. . 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) RAISES AN ISSUE Pleas of guilty to murder in the first degree entered by Loeb and Leopold raise the issue again of the efficacy of capital punishment as a deterrent of crime. Speculation as to what the judge will do is general in every locality. The cynic suggests that the millions in wealth back of the de- fendants will save them from the gallows. The fact, however, that these boys have thrown them- selves upon the mercy of the court indicates that their par- ents followed wise legal advice and opened the only avenue of clemency available. Whether any degree of clemency will be meted out by the course followed in the handling of this case does not alter the fact that a plea of guilty in this case has spared the public sickening details of a most revolting crime. Experience in every state and in foreign countries has shown that capital punishment has decreased the number of murders. The increase of capital offenses in some states has been great and alarming. Slowness of arrest, delays in conviction and abuse of the pardon power have caused stu- dents of crime in many instances to urge the general restor- ation of capital punishment. In North Dakota, the capital punishment statute left it discretionary with the jury whether the extreme penalty be imposed and many judges today will substantiate the fact that this law acted as a deterrent of murder. Most people will agree that the young men in Chicago who foully murdered a boy should hang. Their millions : should not purchase them immunity from the gallows. <A very good example of how jail sentences or commitment to ‘ asylums for rich criminals work out is to be had in the Thaw case. The murder of White was a cold blooded, premeditated ond unjustifiable crime. Harry Thaw is a free man today because public opinion is no longer aroused and the people : have forgotten the monstrosity of his crime. So it doubt- “Jess would be with Loeb and Leopold in twenty or thirty | years from now after the public had forgotten this most i -rtal murder. Society’s right to be protected in instances such as this is poremount to every other consideration. Capital pun- i “urent should be applied in this instance. There is no more - ¥oetive way to protect society from murderous assault than by exacting the death penalty when all mitigating circum- stances or doubt of guilt are absent. NEIGHBORLY EXCHANGE For many years the Canadian government conducted a highly systematized program of exploitation of the western provinces, and hundreds of thousands of American farmers * nm all sections drifted in to the provinces. The agricul- tural depression, with a succession of poor grain crops which » lowed too intensive wheat farming of the area and un- fy, verable weather conditions, has caused many to return to : the United States. This year the recent increase in wheat nrices has been due in large measure to the reports of crop fathere in western Canada. The effect of the situation may he to check the emigration of farmers of the United States to Canada, and also to cause the return of many who sought +o build new homes there. It is a condition which should be profitable to the Northwestern states. Always there is 4 ceaseless nomadic tide. Thousands of farmers in the middle west-are ready to seek new homes. The Northwest is in a more favorable position to offer something of value and at- traction to such people than Canada. While thousands of Americans have emigrated to Can- pda. there has been a large flow of Canadians into the United States in a neighborly exchange, as it were. Statistics: just made public by the Department of Immigration and Coloni- vation of Canada show that natives are returning to the ™-~inion at the rate of approximately 4,500 a month. In April and May, approximately 9,000 Canadians who had in the United States six months or longer recrossed the border on the way to resume their residence in Canada. It is suspected in’ some quarters that the Northward mvément is largelv seasonal, and that in the fall and winter many Canadians will be drifting southward again. For many rears Canada has sought to combat the problem of emigra- tion to the United States. While the government was seek- ing immigrants from the United States it also sought to check the drain from her cities and towns of young men and | women, who crossed the border to find better wages than at homg. Hundreds of thousands of them have become perma- nent residents of the United States. It is probable that there will be for many years such an exchange between the two countries, just as there is migra- tion within the borders of each. ' WANDERLUST Occasionally one sees scribbled on the top of a car some legend celebrating a wanderer’s return to his native heath. Some of them are humorous in phraseology but many of these trips across the continent in search of greener pas- tzes reveal profitable lessons and teach eloquently the truth that “rolling stones gather no moss” — : ‘Back to Kalamazoo” read a sign scribbled over the hood ef an automobile parked on a Bismarck street recently. On the back of the car was painted “Sunny California” and un- dérneath a most derisive reference to the overworked slogan that,has coaxed thousands to leave their own progressive * eemmunities for the green hills far away. This car showed every evidence of “hard pan.” The oc- {steamer from St. John a similar ; number went to Boston. Editorial Review Comments reproduced | in Co column may or may not expres the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which pane discussed in the press the day. are THE BLOC AND THE GOVERNMENT While the Democratic convention wag wallowing in the muddle tt made (for itself, (Robert E. Lee Saner of Texas, president of the American Bar Association, was discussing the activity of minority groups at the meeting of the asso- ciation at Philadelphia. Mr. Saner especially addressed himself to the fact that 167 differ- ent amendments to the Constitu- ticn were proposed at the last ses- sion of Congress. Nearly all of these emanated from minority gioups, proposing to fix minority notions in the fundamental law of | the land. How far this tendency has ‘pro- gressed and how serious its pos- stble influence on the course of government was pointed out by Mr. Suner, in hls comments on the sit- uation in Congress: “We saw in the organization of the last Congress the overpower- ing influence of a small insurgent tut highly organized bloc. . . E This, too, ‘has encouraged the ac- tivities of highly organized minor- ity factions who seek by intensive (propaganda to convince the repre- sentatives that their peculiar wish is the voice of the people. “To this disproportionate power in the insurgent blocs and subser- vience to popular propaganda may be traced the present tendency of Congress toward the enactment of sumptuary laws increasing federal interference in affairs of private concern and then denying to it that measure of faith and confi- dence which it might more credit- ably strive to attain.” There is a stern {ndictment of the bloc as such. In the platform adopted at New York is a boast that through the assistatice of the blocs the Democratic minority was enabled to defeat the administra- tion in its principal program. The insurgents are given no credit, but the Republicans are blamed for not controlling them, even at the very time when the Democrats were giving them the utmost aid and comfort. A The bloc or group, insurgent or otherwise, can not be denied under our form of government. Only when its effort becomes destruc- tive does the minority become subject to severe criticism or an object of suspicion. In the last Congress the purpose | of the bloc was manifest from the outset. It was not to secure any constructive work, to make sure of any lasting benefit for the people, but simply to thwart the adminis- tration in its efforts to enact laws that were deemed necessary. Be- Hind this effort was the admitted determination of the leader of the insurgents to run for the office ox President of the United States. All the business of the govern- ment, of whatever kind or nature, had to pass the scrutiny of the bloc leader. He royally exercised his private veto through the activ- ity of a handful of followers, in- significant in numbers, yet render- ed-absolute iby reason of the fact that the Democrats, themselves a minority, afquiesced in and sup- ported the bloc in all its major operations. Representative government, a9 Mr. Saner declares, was suspended for the dime, dnd bloc control ruled. The expression of a highly organized minority took prece- dence at all points in Congress.— Omaha Bee. IMMIGRANTS FROM CANADA Migration from the Canadian maritime provinces to the United States, stimulated by bad indus- trial conditions, began to alarm the business and political interests of the three eastern provinces — Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island —early in 1923. Through the Port of Yar- mouth, \N. S., Canadian terminal for a steamship service, with the United States terminal at Boston, the exodus has numbered from 4.000 to 5,000 per month. By By rail approximately 10,000 per month left the maritime provinces. The majority of these emigrants set- tled in New England, although many thousands made their homes in and about New York city, and many thousands also went to De- troit and other cities in the Central United. States. Some thousands more proceeded further west to California, Oregon and Washing- ten. It is estimated that the year 1923 saw about 200,000 people leave the maritime provinces to ‘settle in the United States. Most of these were young men and women, with an extraordinarilv lange proportion of married men transferring their homes from Canada to the United States. A serious consequence of the depression hag heen that talk of secession from the Dominion on the pert of the three maritime prov- inces has become rife.—P. C. Arm- strong in Current History Maga- zine. CAT RINGS BELL , London, July 24.—“Oscar Oofus,” a black cat owned by a London gro- cer, has been taught to ring a bell when it wants to be admitted to the dining room. The bell has teen fitted up outside the diningroom and Oscar claws a string when he wants to come in. The cat also has been taught to imitate the barking of a dog. © eupants of the automobile showed signs of hardship and ‘apontheir faces, turned toward “Kalamazoo,” glowed con- ee “pave turned back to thetr homes in the mid- Minnesota, the Dakotas, Iowa and other states former. vocations which mean to.them a happiness among friends; a satisfaction r west, the land of their dreams. - Big match forests are being plant- ed in Scotland. THE BIG ONES GET AWAY By Albert Apple hooked by_a fisherman in He landed it in his row- in a rowboat is about as A 20-pound muskellunge was Sparrow Lake, Ontario, Canada. ae a a. 20-pound anes nial and active as a wildcat. : a This fisherman, Bill Sparling, was alone in his boat—no one to advise. . Also, he was a “city feller,” had never before caught anything a fourth as big. Nothing in his rowboat to kill the “lunge” by a whack behind the eyes. But he hap- pened to have a loaded shotgun. * ‘ if So he blew off his head—also blew.a big hole in the bottom of his boat. . An” Ojibway Indian rescued him before he drowned among the weeds. , ea Fishing is an exciting game— when they’re striking. That’s why hundreds of thousands of Americans are vaca- tioning with rod and line. Fishing and hunting are the most ancient industries of man. They existed long before agriculture. When a man fishes, he answers the call of the wild inherited from barbaric ancestors. ) P No real sportsman ever catches and kills more fish than will be eaten. To do so is vandalism. All anglers know that the streams and lakes of our con- tinent are gradually being “fished out.” Restocking is unable to keep'up with catches. Accordingly, good sports will make use of this fact: When you catch a fish too small to keep, always handle him with wet hands. A dry hand is almost certain to kill the fish, for it ruins the oily protective film over the scales. — Another thing: An agler, enraged because the fish isn’t large, often hurls it viciously far from the boat. This is apt to kill the fish within a few days. _A fish isn’t made of iron. And water is hard, as you know if you ever hit it flat with Even if wealth is a burden, lack of it is more so, "Progress seems to consist of find- ing new things. to. worry about. It once took nine tailors to, make a gentleman, but now it takes nine months to pay one tailor’s bill. Autos and men are alike in that both go faster down hill. A red nose is no longer a sign of drink. He may have a girl who uses too much rouge. There's nothing new under the sun, but a lot of strange things are hap- pening under the moon. _ The peanut crop is good, so maybe we won't have to shell out so much for them. A June bride tells ws she stays broke because her husband gets up first. If most people were as bad as you think, they would be much worse than they are. The only way to exist without working is to be an automatic cigar lighter. Many movie actors can’t afford a new divorce suit this summer. Now the politicians will see if it all comes out in the whitewash. When money talks it counts, A small boy tells us he can't see why they call it heaven when the big fire is elsewhere. It is hard to tell whether money makes fools or fools make money. . From the way they tussle about the floor, “dance haul” is correct. Sometimes a man has so muca to his credit he can't pay. Nobody knows why wives seen to have more relatives than husbands. OF ae ee ANS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTO! Mrs. Prickles Poreupine came to Happy Go Lucky Park one ‘day all dressed* up in her Sunday, best, “Hello, Mrs. Porcupine,” cailed Nick. “How nice you look!” ” “I should say so,” remarked Nancy kindly. “Where in thé world did you get such a becoming hat?” “Why, I got it at the store,” said Mrs. Porcupine modestly. “But real- ly, I couldn’t make up my ‘mind whether to take it or«not. Yellow never was becoming to me and these brown-eyed Susans on the hat make me look sallow, I think.” “Oh, no, they don’t,” said Nancy. “They look lovely on your straw hat. Really they look exactly as though they were growing right out of a flower pot.’ “Well, ’m glad of that,” said Mrs. Porcupine, in.a relieved voice. ‘% do hope it won’t rain, for I came without an umbrella I'd hate to get my best hat spoil “How do. you do, Mrs. Porcupine,” id Mister Zip, the fairyman. “Wel- haven't seen you here much.” “No, this is my first. visit,” seid Mrs. Porcupine, looking around. “I didn’t want to come until I got my DR. R. 8. ENGE Consultation Free hfe bat. I just, got it this morn-i ing, At that Mister Zip said how be-' coming it was. ’n’ everything, but, he added to himself, “I do hope she come to Happy Go Lucky Park. We|- saved enough money to speng..’ For|’ 4 F ‘ABLES ON HEALTH MATERNITY CLOTHING The type of clothing she should! recommended; and they should be wear greatly interested Mrs. Jones hefore the arrival of her first baby. “The main thing is to keep warm,” the family doctor instructed het. Attractive maternity clothes can be found in any town of any appre- ciable size, . Light.“ yndergarments should be avoided when there is any chance of. chilling, for chilling i quite dangerous. ’ Low-heeled shoes,- are generally of comfortable shape and size. High heels' are likely to put an added strain on the patient’s back fiusges at such a time. Tight-fitting garters should be avoided because of the pressure against the veins of the legs. . In brief, every effort. should « be made to insure the maximuny,com- fort, and .there is no.reason why in gaining this, persona! “appedrance need in any measure be ‘sacrificed. Mister Zip liked to have people spend monty ‘in Happy Go Lucky Park., The .more they spent the quicker he would make his fortune. “Show Mrs. Porcupine argutd, Nancy,” he said out loud. “And see that’ she‘has' a gtod time.” “What's that thing?” asked Mrs. Porcupine when they came to the roller coaster. “That's the roller coaster,” said Nancy. “You pay 10 cents and get into one of those little cars and it takes you for a lovely ride on a track.” “I think I'l take a ticket,” said the porcupine lady, fishing around in her pocketbook for a dime, Nancy got her a ticket and put her into’one of the cars and away went Mrs. Porcupine all aflutter with ex- citement. She didn’t notice the sign which said “Hold your hats.” Indeed, when the little car began to shoot around curves and whiz through tunnels and dip into’ hol- lows, and leap over bumps, it was all she could do to hold herself tn. She grabbed the sides of the car with both hands and held on for Mercy me!” she cried. “Oh, dear me!” And suddenly off went her hat. “Help! Help!” she screamed ag it disappeared over the edge of the roller. coaster., And she was still screaming “help” when the little car That’s all I saw.” honest things.— cher. brought place. j “Why,,where is. your hat?” cried Nancy. “That’s what I'd like’ to know!” declared “Mrs “Poreupine tearfully. “It blew off.” “We'll go and look, for i Nick. “It can’t be far away.” “A hat!” cried Bossy, Cow, her, back to the starting said who was eating grass over in a field. “No, I, didn’t see any hat...A bunch of straw and some brown-eyed Susans fell out of: the ‘sky andi.I' ate it, “Oh, dear me!” wailed Mrs, Porcu- pine. “Pll pay you for the hat,” said Mister Zip kindly, “Don’t cry.” “That was: luck,” said Mrs. Porcu- pine to herself on her way home. “I didn’t like that.hat and I couldn’t take it back. Now I can buy a new one.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) a evar : A Thought A fals the Lord: £ delight.—Prov. by . abominati SRT di ane is His Honest minds ‘are pleased with umont and Flet- WHAT'S THE TITLE OF “THAT TUNE You're WHISTLING § SSS wuy, ivs “I'm WILD, Simecy WICD, OVER: your stomach in diving. Play the game fairly. the vanishing fish resources. YORK” TO: JOHN ALDEN PRES- COTT, OPENED BY MRS. ATHERTON , DEAR MR. PRESCOTT: For a long time I have been try- ing to make up my mind to disclose to you something you ought to know. = Do you know that beautiful string of pearl beads that your wife wears, that you have always thought a fine imitation, is real? Instead of being given: to her by ‘her sister at her wedding as it was‘ listédamong her Presents in the’ news re,’ it was @ gift to her from hefforrtigs: lover: ‘ The man has‘ just réfaurned from England, and I have sqpn them to- gether.in New.-York..As long. as this man was in England,’ did not: wish to disturb your happiness, but now i of those in goad m I am afraid your wife will be tempt- ed by the wealth':and loyalty of this former sweetheart whom she has. known, ever’ since she was & young girl, I have seen them together in New York lately, and they seemed very much interested in each other. Ask your wife why she has not told you about these pearls. Notation on bottom of letter . A WELL WISHER. te by Mrs. Atherton ‘his letter was not marked per- ‘sonal, consequently I of course opened it. Now that I have done so IT cannot help saying that no one should pay any attention to an anonomous letter. I'think this note especially demnable. * 8. A. Be a good sport. Help conserve LETTER POSTMARKED “NEW.| Letter From Leslie Prescott to Leslie Prescott, Care.the Secret Drawer: It has. come, little Marquise, it has come; and I am sure that never in all your gay young life could you have been so miserable as I am at this present moment. Yesterday in the midst of. my preparations for my anniversary party, I received a telephone from Jack saying: “Leslie, whete are those pearl beads you used to wear? T haven’t seen them lately.” Before I thought I answered: “They're in my ‘wall safe.” “Isn't it rather foolish to* clutter up a wall safe with a trumpery set of pearl ‘beads?” he asked, and I thought there was a sarcastic ring .in his voice. “That's. just it, Jack,” I. said quickly. “They're not a trumpery set of beads.” “Oh—what are. they. then?” “They're a string of real pearls, Jack, and I have been trying to tell you about them ever since before I went away to New York, but I didn’t know, just. how.” “That’s all very well to say now, Leslie, that you know I have found out about them. I’m coming home directly to get them and return them to the gentleman who gave .{ them to you.” “You will do nothing of the kind, Jack.” “You have nothing to say about what I shall do, Leslie.” _ “I certainly have nothing to say over the phone. I will tell you the whole story when you come home.” Personal Peek At The Dems’ Candidates By Harry B. Hunt New York, July 24.—“The Good Gray Candidate’. is the title likely to be appended ‘to John W. Davis, the Democratic chofce ‘for. president, be- fore the campaign has, . progressed many weeks, ~ 5 outstanding | factor in crown’ of ce is that well-kept, snow-white ‘hair. | age well-fed, aven.-man, of 51, a trifle florid after exertion, but with not tog] high a color and-; devoid of any wrinkling of age. His white hair, however, is that of a patriarch of the 70's. Davis is a ‘‘comfortable” sort of person. Thoroughly at ease himself in any cémpany, he makes those around hifn feel at ease. He is also easy and'cemfortable in his cloth preferring .soft-cojlared shirts and roomy lightweight: suits to the more dignified. habiliments of many near- great lawyers. This e of ring which iends him distinctiow tany garb and any company, once led an English jour- nalist to say of ‘him: that, even at court receptions and for fune- tions which he attended as Ameri- can ambasgador to .Great Britain, where gold. braid and, glittering uni- forms are the rule, and where even our “George 'Harvéy appeared in knee pants,’ Davis, -in ordinary. eve- ning ‘dress, earried.-an. air which marked, him ai of the striking figures in any: grou Notwithstanding the ociety _ ‘writers the contrary, Davis is' not a hand- some'man. His features are not suf- ficiently symmetrical for that. ‘His foreKead is too bulging, the heeks too flattened, the mouth téo thig: and restrained to ‘qualify him in-a beRuty contest. He is, however, “unq! ‘Anyhow, in picking t Calvin it ered necessaty to search for an Adonis. «Strength and. person- ality were much more desirable qual- ifications, and Davis supplies both ure, ous and much-nominated. brother, William Jennings, “The Commoner,” has ‘a, shining bald head which der'e little black skull can cartoonists will do to that? Charles came to the convention and occupied ‘oom at the Waldorf with his brother, Bill. a delegate, and -therefore kept off the floor of Madison Square Garden, but he spent much time in’ the run- way under the speaker's platform, listening to the proceedings and waiting for something to turn up. Perhaps the nomination was the re- ward: for his patient persistence. : oe Other, considerations than his, per- sistence, however,.had the deciding hand in placing him as second’ man on the ticket. William Jennings Bryan is. still a power in. the party. Even his bit- terest enemes admit that. And in: the speech by. which he sought to break the deadlock, after the first five days’ balloting, Brother Bill enumerated half a. dozen candi- dates. whom he considered as good timber for the nomination. In this list he did not include Davis. Davis he was frank to say to any one who asked, he considered too close. to Wall street. e After Davis had been nominated, the question then came of picking a-running mate that would hold Bryan—William Jennings Bryan—to the ticket. The: obvious answer was: “Brother Charles.” . With Brother. Charles on the tail end of the ticket, Brother Bill cer- tainly would trail’along. 3 So Charles was nominated. + Bill gays he’s satisfied. ——___—_. = > |... LITTLE JOE © | ——______ _-—_——_@ SKINNY PEORLE NEVER, FORGET TO PULL. DOWN THE SHADES And He was not ¢