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

* : youthful murderers of Robert Franks. weennason 0 ea fo th of of th wh th th PAGE FOUR ° THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class $ Matter. =-BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. - : : 5 Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO os : - . DETROIT Marquette Bldg. ‘Kresge Bldg. SB PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK : - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. i MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS a. . The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or “tepublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not = otherwise entitled 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 PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year............. -$7.20 by mail, per year (in Bismarck) . cle ws sissies. 4ce0 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) - 5.00 *Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota........ seseee 6,00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) SS THE LEOPOLD-LOEB CASE “Guilty, if you are not going to hang us; but not guilty, if you will. “This appears to be the essence of the plea in the behalf of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr., the It is indeed difficult for the lay mind to follow the argument advanced in the case now being heard in Chicago. The defense counsel announced when it was decided that the hoys would plead guilty that it would not plead insanity a3 a defense in the crime. Now, however, in the hearing before Judge Caverly the testimony of alienists is introduced for the purpose of proving the boys mentally irresponsible in mitigation of the crime. The representative of the state, puzzled by the unique theory advanced, perhaps expressed the thought in many lay minds when he said that the ‘“‘men- tal disease” testimony which the defense was offering was the foundation of legal insanity. The plea of guilty ack- nowledged guilty responsibility; then the defense offered in mitigation of punishment, testimony which tended to remove that responsibility. When it was announced that the boys would plead guilty there was a wave of relief over the country. It would be spared the sickening flood of mental terminology, salacious details of the young men’s life, stories of depravity. That sort of murder trial lasting weeks, which has amazed foreign masters of jurisprudence, would be avoided. Then came the announcement that a hearing would be held to determine the degree of punishment—a hearing which has become almost a trial, with all the bickerings of attorneys over legal ques- tions and presentations of evidence that would mark a trial before a jury. i "he public is not spared the phenomena of the argument of the professional neurologist. These psychiatrists, hired at big fees, can and do, blithely, declare that youths who doubtless were envied for their brilliant mental achieve- ments in a university, yet are so irresponsible that they can commit murder without sufferiffg the penalties imposed on ordinary Chicago gunmen. Perhaps the most ingenious of the gems of reasoning advanced by a learned alienist was that of a “celebrated neurologist” who said: “The defense reseats the imputation that alienists must be fools, quack © bought men to find these boys insane. Every one of the coze: of us reached the conclusion that Leopold and Loeb, while capable of distinguishing between right and wrong, are mentally incapable to choose between.” Still an- other: presumed upon the credulity of the average person when he found Loeb and Leopold sane while apart, but moved by murderous impulses together. The finely drawn distinctions of the alienists are equalled only by some of the masters of foreign diplomacy in seeking to avoid a straight- forward statement. An eastern editor has found that Leopold and Loeb would face a far different situation in England. There ~ would be no trial there if insanity were offered as a defense. No jury would judge them sane or insane. But the moment they felt themselves sane enough to walk the streets they * would be promptly taken to prison and hanged. The lay mind on the one hand is moved by sympathy for cne who faces the hangman’s noose and on the other by . horror at such crimes and demands punishment. Courts and juries alike apparently are moved by the same sentiment at t mes and the average man concludes that justice is in- deed blind. Perhaps it is this ability of so many to commit murder and then escape the death, penalty that has brought “ Chicigo’s murder average to one a day for the last two months. Publishers * PHENOMENAL An artificial kidney, invented by Dr. John J. Abel of Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, will soon be tried out if. experimentally in Berlin. Its purpose is to relieve the kidneys ign them are letters. * dur'ng dangerous moments, such as when poisons like merc- :,ury compounds are in the blood. The imitation kidney, made of glass is tapped into veins and arteries to filter the :., bleod. Seems a wild suggestion now, but will scientists finally perfect artificial hearts, stomachs and the like? The body, after all, is just a delicate machine. If man can put a new engine in a flivver, why not in a person? Good gymnasium exercises for the imagination. ; PERSONAGE The pope.receives 27,000 pieces of mail a day. Most of Hugo Stinnes is believed to have ranked second among, the great personages of the world ‘in the amount of mail. , Henry Ford, not far behind. Secretaries who examine the. mail of the great observe : that the majority of the communications solicit aid, while only a relative few offer help. It is a peculiar kink of psy- ! chology that, as soon as the average person takes pen or 1 # 4, typewriter in hand, he begins to ASK fof something... t BONEHEADS _ : They built an emergency hospital in Oekland, Calif. Reautiful building, wonderfully equipped. It opens for eus- tomers. First emergency case arrives—and it’s discovered Editorial Review Comments reproduced column may or in this may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which are fede discussed in the press of the day. PLEA FOR THE WATERWAY In the Canadian senate on June 17, Hon. J. D. Reid, Minister of Railways and Canals in the preceding govern-! ment, spoke at length upon his mo-j tion “that it is in the public interest that immediate action be taken” in futherance of the St. Lawrence pro- ject. | He reviewed the preceding develop- ments, the need and benefit of this improvement, the findings of the In- ternational Joint Commission, and the main arguments for the im- provement. As to the objection against joining with the United States he pointed out that “the United States govern- ment has just as much right as we| have to use the waterway for trans-| portation purposes,” and he cited the| treaty clause of 1871 giving to the| commerce of the United States equal| rights of navigation in the St. Law-| rence “from, to an into the sea for-| ever.” “So far as navigation is concerned | the United States have exactly the same rights as Canada. If so, why should we build all the canals at our own cost when they are willing to join with us and pay their proportion of the cost?” He maintained, and gave figures to support his calculation, that on the grain movement from Port Col- borne to Montreal there will be a saving of at least four cents a bus- hel, worth to the northwestern pro- vinces $10,000,000 a year at least. He reminded the senate that the northwest is growing very fast. “There are 15,000,000 acres where the sod has not been turned lying right alongside railways. The great northwest must grow and if it grows in the future as it has grown in the past the people must have some bet- tem and cheaper mode of transporta- tion.” , He showed that it would facilitate coal movement from the maritime provinces to Ontario, and that gen- eral cargo movement from Lake On- tario to British Columbia is already under way. He gave figures also to show that it would cost Canada little, if any more to join in the complete project than it is now costing to carry out an incomplete project.—Toronto “Mail and Express. Establishment of great power pcols by the interconnection of transmis- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE you have anything else for them to do, to please send back the magic shoes and a letter. They'll be glad to do anything you say. “Your humble servant, “Mister Ztp.” So now you know just how much help the Twins were. It was the last day of Happy Go Lucky Park and Méster dip had made his fortune all but about 19 cents, when something happened. Everybody from the green’ woods sion lines. covering large areas, link- “}ed into 16 main zones. ing up electrical generating stations|{ according ‘to the socalled superpow- er plan in effect in many sections of this coentry, is proceeding rapidly in other parts of the world. Advan- tages gained from such. pooling of power are more complete and effi- cient use of generating equipment, particularly of hydro-electric plants where the water flow is seaSonal, and economies of investment and opera- tion. France has begun a.,super-power system that will extend from the Pyrenees on the Spanish border to the Italian frontier. Another system will make use of the water power in the Alps, and a third. will bring pow- er from the coal fields of Lens di- rect to Paris. England, following the plans made during the World war, has been divid- These, it is expected, will be interconnected and fed from a relatively small number of large-capacity central stations, like those at Manchester and Glasgow, while most of the six or seven hun- dred small plants now in use will become distributing units instead of generating plants. Italy has already developed her wa- ter power sites in the Alps and Apen- nines into connected systems, with enough power to supply her cities with current and to electrify the rail- roads in the north and on the Genoa coast. , Spain is planning & ¢uper-power system like a great wheél,Whose hub will be at Madrid’and whose rim will be high-tension power lines carrying current from hydro-electric plants in the Pyrenees and on the Portuguese border. Japan, remodeling ‘her electrical supply after the great earthquake, plans to connect the hydro-electric stations in the central hills with other generating plants into a wide- spread super-power system that will carry power to Tokio, Yokohama, Osaka and other cities and will at the same time supply current for the railroads of the empire.—Boston Transcript. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON Mister Zip painted a new sign. It said, “Happy Go Lupky Park Every one free! Come one, come all and have a good time.” And from that minute on he start- ed to make his fortune, for every- body came and everybody spent money to have a good time. The Twins were as busy as ants in a sugar barrel. They helped with everything—the merry-go-round, the lemonade, peanut, popcorn stand, and the roller’ coaster. The Fairy Queen smiled when she got a letter from Mister Zip one day which went this way: “Dear Queen: I am sure you will! be ‘much obliged to know that the | Twins have been a wonderful help} the elevator is too small to get a stretcher into it. So the ; emergency hospital is useless—and all on account of a mat- ter of four inches in the width of elevators, and shaft. One cent’s worth of mistake destroys many dollars worth has j; of effort. Safety first is a fine personal policy. It involves cs more than careful steering of: an auto. | The movies are using miniature glass castles, houses and | everything. People who. act'in glass scenery should not throw fits.. f : } | In: London, @ man was arrested for cussing in a show. we have | to'me. “They shave, worked like every- thing and I-qm sure that I never could have made my fortune if they had not been here tahelp. As it is, my fortune is made except sbout $2.69. When that is ymade I shall close up Happy Go Lucky Park, for this season at. least, and my vacation. “I shall leave the magic shoes you was there. And even some of the water peo- ple, like Granddaddy “Frog and old Mosey Mud Turtle and young Mosey Mud Turtle, were there. oe So I know it’s true, as so many people saw it. Somebody left the bars of the fence down and who should get out of the sweet clover field. but old Gray Tail, the horse, Old Gray Tail didn’t know’ there was’ such a place as Happy Go Lucky Park in the world. Or if he did, it just went in one ear and out of the other. He had heard Mrs. Yellowbill Duck talking to’ Mister Cockadoodle about having a good time somewhere or other, but he hadn’t paid much attention. And aJl at once didn't he almost 'you walk and walk—and lose step on it—Happy Go Lucky Park, I mean. i “Hello, here!” said old Gray. Tail.' “What's all this about? And what are those good smells I smell?” With that he dipped down his big nose and ate up everything on the Popcorn, peanut, ice cream cone stand! itors. “Go away, Gray Tail! You aren't allowed to-have things with- out money.” “Excuse me,” said Gray Tail. “I didn’t know that. I thought you got them for nothing. I haven't any money. But I can’t give them back. I'll go away now, though, and not bother you any more.” That was the end of Happy Go Lucky Pgrk. There wasn’t any use of staying any longer. : Nancy and Nick helped Mister Zip put up the sign. “Closed till next year.” 7 I don’t know where. Mister Zip spent his vacation. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) Making Writers Efficient A “scheme of work” for writing short stories !s given by Max Bonter in “Fiction Writers én Fiction Writ- ing,” the short story analysis com. piled by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman, from answers to a questionnaire he sent more than 100 authors con- cerning their creative: methods, The scheme is: 1. Be sure an idea is worth de- veloping from a “human interest” standpoint. . 2. Develop the climax first. 8. Start off the characters like 8 bunch of obstacle racers and bring thém to the climax as quickly, but as logically as possible. 4. Write tersely at first, expand. ing where advisable—rather thar write voluminously and chop out. 5. Write nothing that won't at! least put a grain of weight into the final wallop. There Is Much to See Often as I work I stop to see. really seey see everything, or tc Usten, and it is the wonder of won. ders how much there is in. this old world which we never dreamed of. how many beautiful, curious, inter esting sights and sounds there are which ordinarily makes no impres- sion upon our clogged, overfed and preoccupied minds. I have alsc had the feeling—it may be unscien: tific, but it is comforting—that’ any ‘man might see Mke.an Indian or smell like a hound {f he gave to the senses the brains which the) Indian ‘and the hound apply to them. And I'm pretty sure about ‘the Indjan! It is marvelous what ye do ‘when he puts his en- sent for the Twins besides the big stone under the chestnut tree. If it isn’t too much trouble will you please send Silver Wing or Nimble Toes to come and get them? _ “The Twins said to tell you that it, * ys tire one faculty and bears gnhgra.—David Grayson: Kish, the ol Tor beHeved to capital of Baby. nia, is ed after the flood. ‘been found- “Oh, oh, oh!” shrieked all the vis- | 8%t into society. FABLES ON HEALTH | Why the Delay? RETURN TO BOYHOOD You know it isn’t altogether the mere fun of fishipg that matters,” said the physical director to Mr. Jones, when the, latter started on his summer vacation. “Whether you follow a trout stream or sit in a boat, fishing is a means to a healthful end. Suppose you go trout fishing. You're all atingle to land one of the babies, aren’t you? And_you start following the stream. Your mind is twenty. miles away from care and all track. of time and distance. With- out knowing you cover seven or Says ‘Sée things as you trave] along, be- cause life is a one-way street. Trying to choke some of the cld- fashioned ideas down peoplé is like trying to make an auto run on hay. Common sense is what makes a col- lege education valuable. Breakfast bacon is fat meat that The only time some men think they have no kick coming is when it comes time to kick in. : Thinking you know is never as im- portant as knowing you think. This world seems worse than it is because you never hear much about the bad things that don’t happen. - After a man sows his wild oats “Now suppose you had stayed at the hotel or camp? You would have lolled around, and your mind might have wandered to affairs at home; and the flies would have bothered you, and maybe you would have found a newspaper and been bother- ed by a market report. “Instead of that you are ,out in a primiti literally to boyhood—and what you need on a vacatio: “If you go boat fishing, are likely to get the exercise of ‘rowing and the relaxation of lying in the sun waiting for a bite. Jt’s hard to beat a fishing vacation!’ gather them. fountain pen gets cussed for acting . like a fountain, Everynew and, then a When the worm turns it doesn’t always. turn into a butterfly. The only ‘hunter who, ‘trails race tracks is a fortune hunter. When the, madern girl; has 10! com: plexion she will make up for it. There are too many nights in the week to stay away from’ the ‘picture show every one of them. Cheap umbrellas. last’ the longest. will take it Carry one.and no friend by mistake. . What good is: your past if you don't use it for the future? You are not getting old everyone else seems younger. When a men turns green with envy he is ripe for, trouble. Too many who catch on to things he expects some woman to help him| @uickly let go.the same way. EVERETT TRUE GooD MORNING, SiR. {ay NAME 13 SMITH. ty @EPRES@AT A Good, RELIABLE HOUSE THAT ISGULS, ORFICS jSveeUs.. ALL RIGHT, SIR. THS Same. INTERRUPTED YOO, GAN SEcL Wu HOLD ON, MY FRIGND!S 20 DIDN'T HANG. ON AND INSIST... % THANKS xou JU8T: SORRY TO HAVE. Nexr TIMS, So LONG, SIR. BY CONDO NO, SIR,.JU3T > PRESENT WE'RE IW NEED CF NOTHING, IN: THAT CIN], WE ARS AmPwyY: SUPPLIED. ~ May ee 1 SOMETHING AFISR-1- SAID * THAV]e, A CHAIR AND PULL CWT YouR’ ORDER Book, P=) 4 SALSSMAN CIKE. You ‘COULD Seuc, ME RUBBER -SHINGLE NAILS EVEN RAINWATER HAIR Tone $ OR === "10,000 STORES IN A CHAIN: << By Albert Apple,” ” The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. now has 10,000 stores scattered over the country. That is worth reading fevice. «Several times, in fact. It is a weathervane of the way the “trade winds” are blowing. Ten thousand stores owned by one rantic chain. sys- tem! It‘ is almost beyond the imagina’ United cigar stores and agencies’ number about 250). The Woolworth 5-and-10-cent chain has around .1300 stores. There are more thin 100 Childs restaurants. And these, are only a few of the many chain store sys- tems. . Chains of hotels are being established. Chains of de- ; partment stores are growing. Pe e * The’ retail business—bridge between producer and con- sumer -in. the marketing of commodities and services — is | steadily amalgamating into gigantic chains. 4 shes This movement or tendency is strikingly similar to the industrial combinations among producers that began to get under way about two decades ago. U.S..Steel, formed in 1902, was-the. big leadef. Now the same thing is taking place in retailing. ._ The growth. of chain store systems has been swift and far-reaching. But the thing has barely started. It is a bit discouraging to the’ young fellow who wants to get into business for himself. The obvious lesson is that the day is at hand when _a¢complishment will be impossible withont capital and the co-operation of others. ¢ The sun-has not yet set for individual’ accomplishment, but it’s late afternoon and the sky is dark and cloudy. The economic law: of checks-and-balances. comes to the rescue. On the average, this is.the tendency: As organiza- tions become large and pass a certain ‘point, the economies made possible by their size usually are to considerable extent absorbed by oyerhead costs. Production*in industry already has the earmarks of mili- tary organization and combination. ‘And ‘retailing seems headed that, way. ’ » The 6utcome apparently will be one or a few gigantic business organizations controlling all sources of production and all channels of distribution — and even regulating con- sumption. FROM THE: DRAMATIC PAGE. OF “THE MORNING ARGOSY” Last night at the Irequois Hotel, before a brilliant \ assemblage | of guests, Mr. Richard Summers and bought a’ beautifal home in the foot- hills. ‘Telegtam From - Leslie Prescott to Mrs. Richard Summers You cannot tell, dear, how sorry I until Miss Beatrice Grimshaw were mar- ried. Rarely have there been seen as many flowers ‘at a soctal function as &t this wedding, the whole wall be- Wind-the improvised altet‘being hung with ‘a canopy of La France roses, the bride’s favorite'floWer. This was done at the request of Miss Paul Perier, the brilliant young moving picture star, who has many friends in the city. Miss’Perier, on the arm of Mr. John Alden Prescott, .made one of the party following the pride. The best man and matron of honor were Mr. Sydney Carton and’ Mrs. Sally Atherton. s A‘ congratulatory telegram,was re- ceived from Mrs. Prescott, whose fa- ther shows a slight improvement. The bride was w#ery., charming ‘in the maid-of-honor, cogtumje that she ‘had worn three years before at Mrs. Prescott’s wedding. Mrs, Sally Ather- ton, a recent widow, was gowned in orchid chiffon, and Miss Perier was radiant in ceil blue chiffon heavily embroidered in pearl beads. The corridors’ of the, Iroquois were filled all. the evening. with a curious crowd, hoping to,see the famous mov. ing picture. star, but:no one of the Party made.an appearance down- stairs. Mr. and Mra. Spmmers: will accom- Miss Perier back to. New: York y, where, after. a gay week: or two. with friends, they: will start on their trip across the -continent to Hollywood, where Mr. Summers has was that we could not carry through our arrangements for your wedding. I know it was very beautiful from the wite which wis sent me by Syd- ney Carton. He says you looked very happy, and that Dick had the beatific cast of countenance of the cat’who as eaten the ‘canary. Dad isa little better and some hopes. are held. out for-his recovery, “Sorry I. will -ot see you before you | Remember, you hia y love and good wishes for. your: hapniness. pee ans ; From Leslie Prescott to Sydney’ Carton Thank you.so much for. wiring me about Bee’s wedding. Otherwise I should have known very little about it. My father is a shade better, but the crisis. has not been: passed yet. Knowing all that-you:do you will not expect to see me before you leave for home. - Will-you wire me if the baby is all right? Did Paula Pezier see him when she was there? . -Have written both to you and ‘to my friend, Sally Atherton. Have not heard'from Ruth and did not see her * ni Telegram he has gone to New York to meet Walter Burke. That was the reason I could not get hold of her when I left. WHI you please send me her New York address: if possible? You can get it at the shoq Thanking you, Always, : . _ LESLIE. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service,’ Inc.) TEACHERS ‘ae v4 (By Florence Borner) When I’m taking retrospections of my early recollections, THere’s a ‘pittare comes before my dreamy eyes; ! faa I see: myself a scholar, in the schoolhouse ‘in the “holle: nd the teachers: of my youth before me rise. . Teachers tall an teachers taller, teachers smail and teache a smaller, aerate fat and thick, and teachers thin and* lea: ripe ; eachers young, and sweet and pretty, teachers grim, atid old and gritty, With @ lot of other: teachers tn betw ate a ise Teachers called:from ali ‘positions to fill idcitete id iitions, 2 Just to make true menand women of our: raci Set aad ‘s for the thorny path of Knowledge leads from gchoolhouse to the college, Where we're fitted to be winners in life's chase: Oh, the teachers, «don't: you love them, and Tho we cannot.gny werdid in days gone ’b: Who in fondest -retroppection but recalls in recollection When some teacher the ? Grafton on -Thuraday . ‘nearly cost the read be held , next dead n ‘ord and; baby daughter were Medel Vit Ps! thrown from. aed inty the water mittee, will ‘recommend to the! but fortunately the machine” Board of Park’ Gominissioners tha‘ Saved by a few inches from ti ng the budget ‘for the yeat be fixed at} jor The yougsster was thro eine 97000.. ‘This is'a very mist¥rial ‘redue-| to ‘simaet thease : tion from the budget for 1924 which was several moments totated $10,190. The budget of $7000| Picked from @ bottom of: the: poo! includes as and‘only'-the-quitk work of ‘the party in uscltating ‘the girl averted: « ful th sccldent wah not worke, |: | A Though .. ) * to cut expefiditurés to the very bone. Mr. Hess'in commenting ‘upon ‘the abvay sped tated that’ it’ was e duced, and he is going to see to it prsadits funds with which he has ti} - shag st zed the sary i SATURDAY, AUGUST'2, 1924 i i