The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 23, 1924, Page 4

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MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) THE PUBLIC IS CONCERNED Mr. Clarence Darrow, attorney for Leopold and Loeb, is provoked to vehement outburst. “The public,” he says, ; “thinks it’s doing a fine thing when it rouses itself from its customary lethargy and shouts ‘Hang them!’ But it’s ; damned unfair.” It is the lawyer speaking — the lawyer who can never : understand that the adjudication of crime is not a mere matter for bench and bar alone. The public is concerned, | Must be concerned, or its agencies of justice will have no! background, no authoritative potency. Moreover crime is not a mere attack upon individual | ..Tights or person. It is an attack upon society—the public—' ~and it is the part of wisdom and of safety for society to give active heed to all such assaults. When accused murderers plead guilty to the serious! ; charge against them, admit their sanity, and confess knowl-! = edge of the difference between right and wrong, as Leopold} <and Loeb did, the public naturally and logically believes | * there isn’t much to be done aside from administering the « punishment duly prescribed. | That has been the usual procedure in the past, but Mr.; = Darrow has discovered scmething new that, he thinks, neu- tralizes admitted guilt, admitted sanity and admitted knowl-! = edge of right and wrong. That something is the assumed inability of the accused to practice the right that they are admittedly able to disting-| uish from wrong. That is, while the young fiends are far advanced intellectually, they are as deficient emotionally as a child of four or five years is, and this timely discovery of the hired lawyer, backed by convenient and hired alienists, must operate in saving them from the gallows, the prison or the insane asylum, must relieve them from the grave responsi- bility of their crime, as if they were babies. It is a novel presentment in mitigation of a confessed crime committed by college graduates. Mr. Darrow thinks the public is “damned unfair” because it refuses to believe the plea as anything more than piffle whose introduction into the case reduces court procedure to a travesty most dis- gusting. The idea that men with nothing more than baby emotions would calmly set about committing “the perfect crime,” plan and calculate it for six months, anticipate and attempt to defeat every possibility of discovery, prepare loopholes of , escape and alibis, and even join in the hunt for the perpe- trators of the crime they themselves had committed—the idea that baby minds could or would do all this is quite be- yond even a gullible public to accept with equanimity. It is no wonder the public shows the roilly disposition Mr. Darrow describes as “damned unfair.” But neither he nor his clients are to be pleased in this matter. Pleading; “the baby act” will not do. The main result and the only safe one to be attained is that demanded by society through - its laws—the adequate punishment of the guilty and the vindication of justice. BAMBOOZLED How honest is the average person? Chapman and Bower, ticket sellers at the North Station in Boston, have lent $1000 apiece of their personal funds to stranded strang- t:ets. Of course, every one of the borrowers was profuse with tharks and fervent in promises to repay. The net result? Chapman and Bower say they have got- ten back only 5 cents on the dollar. But this doesn’t prove that the average person is dishonest. The two ticket sellers lent to only a few out of the great traveling public. Public averages honest. : BUTCHERS _ Again we are urged to buy the cheaper grades of meat, which require more chewing but are as nourishing as the farcy cuts. The butchers’ national association, meeting in €hicago, claimed the trouble is that housewives have for- gotten how to cook the cheaper cuts and make them tasty. , =. Trouble is: If the consuming public started a rush for tise cheaper cuts (now virtually a “drug on the market”), fhe prices would respond to demand and go sky-high. Round or round steak. The system gets the consumer, coming or County going. BODY . Not as puzzling as it seems. gut pf every 100 of its children, 48 are physically normal in cities and only 27 in rural districts, Others have defects. | and peace of the country, maybe is healthier than his coun- ; a! Do You Know— | Editorial Review Comments reproduced in this column may or 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 being GiscUswed ip) ths) (press) (of ne day. FARM COSTS ARE DOWN (St. Paul Dispatch) The wheat crop of North Dako- ta was produced this year at a cost of 81 eents a bushel; its rye crop cost 58 ¢ its flax crop cost $1.49. T the lowest production cost nee the war and the first time Guring that period that the farmer had received a price above the cost of production. He certainly made a profit. The figures are not mere guesses. They are the result of the tabulation: of costs from 100 demonstration farms in North Da- kota, compiled and fssued by Rex EK, Willard of the U. S. experiment ation and J. F. Thorfinnson, his stant. For nearly a decade a ‘lose record of costs of production have been kept by these expert using the experiment _ statio farms and privately owned farms all over the state to arrive at the average. The cost figure of $1.49 a bushel for wheat was arrived at in 1923 by the same careful method. Nothing is taken for granted. Every item of cost is in- cluded, except possibly the valu- able minerals, nitrogen, phos- phorus and the like, taken from the soil with the crop. The hope of the farmer has been that he could get cost plus for his {product But, previous to the work of Professor Willard and his assistant, there was no means of Knowing the cost. The farmer raised his wheat, took the market price and guessed at his profit or his loss. It is different today and the figures supplied the farmer as to costs have interested him in knowing how far above or below par his were. To assist him, the experts prepared simple records whereon hundreds of farmers now keep account of every cent that goes into their industry and when the crop is sold in the fall or win- ter, they know whether they have been running economically or wastefully. Once they know their costs they can set up a price that the buyer knows is fair. That will end in simplifying marketing. It is the primary step forward giv- ing the farmer the same deal as labor and industry now has. Se ea That we are harvesting one of the biggest small grain crops we have ever had? That prices are better than they have been in years? That will enable many of our yarmers to get on their feet anu will give the rest of them a chance to breathe and at least partly catch more of good weather ? That the corn, with thirty days will come through in very good shape? That at least 75 per cent of it will be safe from frost by September 15th or 20th? That our corn is still far better than it is in the so-called “corn states?” That even in Kansas, according to crop experts reporting in Sun- day’s papers, corn is not yet in the roasting ear stage while some of ours is? That frost damaged corn in this state east of Jamestown but ours is not touched? That we always have a cold spell in August and that we are probably over any frost danger for another month yet? That this crop is only the start? That while we have passed through the hardest years the state has ever had the coming years will see this state on the firmest foundation it has ever been? That the increase in corn, hogs, poultry, milking, sweet clover and all other things which go to make up a thorough diversification in farming will give us the best foun- dation we have ever had on which to build? That we are in for the greatest growth and on the surest and sound- est foundation this state has ever known? That if you will drive out in the surrounding country and see your- self the big increase in corn acreage and all those other things you will realize that Burleigh County and North Dakota are fast coming into their own? That your salaries, your living comes from the surrounding coun- try? That if you want your salary ta nd § keep up, your living to keep up. ies would cost as much as tenderloin if everyone clamored , That you must boost for Burleigh New York state finds that, The city lad, denied the fresh air and big playgrounds 4... and North Dakota. Bismarck Advertising Club. ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON “Let’s go and see Mr. and -Mrs. fry cousin because he has better medical and physical atten- Zebra,” said Weeny Elephant to the tion in youth, especially babyhood. : But he also has what’s a good deal | Twins. “They were very good friends mine in the circus.” . a of orse than physical «what do zebras look like?” asked ailments—more nervous maladies than the farm boy. They Nancy. 4get” him later in life. j LAND 2, Suppose Henry Fotd or some other industrial genius markets inexpensive and safe airplanes, enabling people to’ e far out in the country, flying back and forth to work town. f Transportation is the chief object to such a system. If the airplane overcomes this obstacle, there’ll be a evolution in land values, city properties dropping, country Sites increasing. If you’re buying land to make your descend. ants rich, the city may not be the best bet. . { ALIBI "’ The negro’s quaint sense of humor, often bursting forth aie wea by ae A colored man in Chatham; Canada, is arrested for fuelty to his horse. The charge is that he failed to keep ‘= nae-hitched in the shade. “The shade was there, but it | ed,” i hie alibi : _ gt | NR CNET EEE Tf specramarmineresmeiintenrtacnsse stn FRASIER MARINE DR RIL in surprise. ly like awnings. “Don’t you know?” said Weeny, “Why, they look exact- But I never could make up my mind whether,they were with white stripes. white with black stripes or black And they are all exactly alike.” said Nancy. don’t they?” “I know what you mean now,” “They look like ponies, “Yes’m! Weeny. Just exactly,” said “They used to walk slong in the circus parade pulling Cinder- you suppose they'll them?” ella in a silver slipper.” cried Nick. let us “Do ride “I remember,” “Wouldn’t be surprised a bit if they did,” id Weeny. “Why, here We are now, right at the place.” Mr. and Mrs. Zebra were out sun- ning themselves on a nice grassy spot in front of their house when the travelers arrived. A tiny zebra about knee-high to-a-duck was ploy- EE SG DIE LL 5B EA BT s THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, Comes Now the Thres 1 | i i | \ ing around and kicking up his heels like a spring lamb. | “Hello, Weeny,” called Mr. Zebra. | \“1 just kind of thought that was you.” “Well, you didn’t have to look| twice to see me, did you, Mr. Ze- bra?” laughed Weeny. “I've stopped growing, though, and ma says she's thankful, because she always had to | buy my clothes two sizes too large, I grew into them so fast. Oh, dearie me! I beg your pardon! I forgot that I had passengers on mv back. ‘Mr. eZbra, these are and Nick, the Twins. Twins, th is Mr. Zebra. Hello, Mrs. Zebra!” = Mrs. Zebra came over, too, and Weeny shook hands with his trunk and said how well she looked and was that her baby. And Mrs. Zebrn | looked as proud as a duchess and | said that he was, and his name was Tiny. EI So they all stayed and had a good | time, One day Mr. and Mrs. Zebra said they would take Naney and Nick for a ride if Weeny would mind the baby. “Of course I will,” said Weeny. “] just love to mind babies.” So Nick got on Mr. Zebra and |* Naney got on Mrs. Zebra’s back, and away they went. Weeny played with Tiny for at while and after a while he got So he dozed off, Weeny did. After a while Weeny woke up and couldn't see Tiny anywhere. Not a hair of him was to be found, “My goodness!” he said to himself. “I’m a nice nurse, I am, to let Mrs. Zebra’s baby get lost!” And he hunted and hunted. But no Tiny was to be found. i Pretty soon Mr. and Mrs. Zebra | came trotting home with the Twins.} “but “Pm sorry,” said Weeny, your baby is lost. I went to and when I woke up he was gone.” | “Why, there he is right under you!” laughed Mrs, Zebra. “He was hunting a shady spot, and you make | a good bit of shade, Weeny Elephant. When you moved, I suppose he moved, too, and you never knew he | was there.” “My goodness! ter!” said Weeny. tied, Mrs. Zebra.” (To Bé Continued) 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) I feel a lot bet- “I was some wor- Jom Sins ¥ SVs » After everybody gets well educated work for us. You never can understand women. One had a man arrested for cruelty to a rat. ry Some towns are so lucky. In St. Louis an insurance man is missing. j Chicago bandits robbed a poker game and the winners lost heavily. When a man tells a girl why his wife doesn’t understand him it usu- ally is because she does, Mud baths are being used to make people beautiful, but you don’t see very many pretty politicians. Georgia woman who wondered if thieves would get money hidden in a piano found they would. ‘ sleepy, for the sun was pretty warm. ' 9 there will be no one left to do our; sean = oe <2 Wa We) SS = worked up from the bottom is he has a son who is working down from the top. Only reliable thing about people is their unreliability. some Most people have to work. ~That is why they do it. . Every man knows he will accident- ally mail a letter in a trash can be- fore he dies. hing lb Truth is stranger than fiction. - It doesn’t come around as often. About the hardest thing to cure is injured feelings. Some of these stump speakers will | be up a tree soon. Men become intoxicated with love. That is why it is bootlegged. , Even in. this small, world there is room for more big men, New York, Aug. 23.—A flapper. with, a boyish bob, halted the noon- day. parade along Fifth Avenue ‘in front of the 42nd Street Library. when she sauntered out in a head band, on which was neatly embroid- ered, “I'm for LaFollette.” Hat checkers at Atlantic City are dying of starvation because of the new vogue of men appearing about town sans hats or caps. In one cafe with a capacity for 300 there were only 33 hats on the track the other evening. I'd never contribute a nickel to a fund for “starving checkroom at- tendants.” Mrs, Mary Clary Snyder had her husband, William, arrested for big- amy. ‘As he was being taken to the prisoner's pen, Mrs. Snyder No. 1 handed him a package. It was a lunch she had prepared for him. Such are-the feats of love. “{ killed him because I loved him,” is another popular slogan in this tinsel town of romance. On a recent rainy day, three men dressed as painters, drenched (ta EVERETT TRUE Me.TeVe, MY NAM] SOMG yYERY GOOD FR: On How. INSURANCE, MR. UVE BEEN HERE SOMG UTTLS TMG. AGouT SOME OFS TeVve ¢ the skin, went into a speak-easy. Although unknown to the bartend- er on watch, they pleaded threatened pneumonia, and with mercy in his heart the liquor dispenser took pity. on. them, , He:gave them succor. They. were prohibition agents. Shades of Izzy Hinstein! Living statues are not uncommon in New York. Night Watchman Thomas Tobin saw a shapely figure , silhouetted against the door of an office in the Standard Oil Building. He thought it was,a statue. Then it moved. It proved to be a 22-year-old girl. She was removed, to ‘a hospital. | a0 Etienne Chevenet, a powerful Frenchman, was found naked, pray- ing to the sun on the roof of a mid-town building. It required three six-foot policemen to subdue him. Stephen Hannagan. Auto dealer in Lansing, Mich., found college students best pros- pects for used cars. Only 300 autos a year may be ex- ported from the United States to Austria. C BY CONDO is r Wve ENDS WHO Hive SPOKEN Of YOU QUITS OFTEN, AND E MADE VE _MY MIND TO INTRODYCE MYSELE AND 7 People who live in rented houses should not write telephone numbers on the walls. Every man is entitled to life, lib- erty and freedom in the pursuit éf money, 1 ig ‘The * manners frequently. gets soup while eating it. into the ‘The chief trouble; of the msn who in ‘who ‘doesh’t' know’ gdod'| » SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1924 HOW ANDY MADE HIS MONEY By Albert Apple aE aE EEEEEERYT a Forty years ago a young fellow named Anderson, with- out a penny to his name, drifted into a hopeless looking vil- lage in central Ontario, Canada. He was among strangers. His pocketbook was empty. ‘And he didn’t have much in the way of education. The vil- : lage he started to work in was one of those backwoods com- ! munities which seem totally lacking in opportunity. i Anderson’s first job in this place was feeding cattle at | the railroad stockyards—cattle driven in by farmers and | awaiting shipment. | Today the village still is a village— about 800 people. Anderson’s hair is whitening. He shows the marks of | -hard work. But he is rich enough to spend his winters in Florida. He owns a general store. He owns timber land, also houses that bring him a steady income of $250 a month. He’s worth about a quarter of a million. ' That’s not a tremendous fortune, compared with some of the men who are known all over the continent. A But Andy has all the money he needs. He’s happy. His \life has been useful, helping his community. He has raised to manhood three fine boys, and they are taking his place jas he rests on his oars. All around, he’s a real success. | 1 Now, when Andy arrived in this village, he met a lot of other young fellows. Some got out. Some stayed. They had the notion that there wasn’t any opportunity locally. And they were right, as far as they themselves were con- cerned. Most of them are where they started.. They haven’t gotten anywhere. Andy is the only man in town who has made money. And he made it in a community, buried in the woods and rocks, where summers are short and winters 50 below zero— in short, a community that would look hopeless to nearly every man ambitious to get ahead. 5 The answer is that opportunity is not found, it is made. It isn’t the town or the job that counts, it’s the man. Natural ability and luck may enter into the matter to considerable extent. But that doesn’t alter the fact that opportunity is everywhere—for the right man. LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO RUTH BURKE, CONTINUED Of course, my dear, you know that I could not accept the little shop from Walter. One-third of it is yours, and if, as Walter says, I helped you to find that you were able to cope with the: world and make your own living, you certain); have helped. me to place an anchor to the windward.: If Jack shall holds to his unreason, J shall go back and try to run the little shop myself. There have been two or three re- porters here today. Neither - my mother nor myself would be inter- viewed. While we like to read about other people’s personal affairs, I find it is atways exceedingly an- snoying to have one’s own private joys and sorrows given to a curious and caviling world. I may see you earlier than you expect, if you are returning directly to. Albany for a few days. If Jack still persists in not coming or send- ing me little Jack, I shall go back and get my baby. I don’t think he has realized yet that he has no claim upon the child whatever. I would not want my husband to liye with me because of a child, for 10 not think that helps either the wife or the child, I am sure, however, that Jack still has that conventional idea that as long as the wife and husband live in the same house the family is still intact. This is an unconscionably long letter, dear, but I had much to say to you, My heart was overflowin, and you are the only one to whom could tell the things that were in it. Don’t worry about me too much. Few persons\ are given more either of joy or sorrow that they can bear. Do write me all about yourself. With all my love and good wishes, LESLIE. (Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc.) I cannot tell you, dear Ruth, how terribly upset 1 was when mother read me that telegram. Up to that time, although I was not conscious of it, I must have had hope that Jack would come, Isn't it queer, dear, that men think women may forgive them everything, while they will not for- give anything? wee I threw myself’ face down upon the bed, and for the first time since I had arrived home I let myself go. It seemed to me that my life was entirely ruined—and my own sister had done this. So absorbed was I in my misery and grief that I did not hear my mother come in until she put her hand upon my ‘shoulder. “Leslie,” she said, “I am writing to John this afternoon. 1 am going ‘to tell him that Alice wrote that let- ter. I am going to tell him what I know about the pearls. Then, my child, if he does not come and ask your pardorf, he is mot worthy of you, and I counsel you to forget him forever.” I had never seen mother lonk as stern as she did at thdt moment. “I wish,” she said, “that this had not come at just this time. I am afraid if your father gets the slight- est inkling of it it will retard his convalescence.” Now about yourself, dear girl. 1 wish indeed that I could be with you and see your happiness. Just at present I would not wish my great- est enemy , however, to marry any man. But I expect I shall feel dif- ferently some time in the future, for I have a feeling that you are going to. be very happy. FABLES ON HEALTH: - “ TAKECARE OF CUTS ~~ But for simple scratches, abra- sions dnd cuts a healing preparation can be made and kept handy about the house for all occasions, Mix to- gether an ounce of spirits of cam- phos, 1-4 dram of glycerine, 1-8 dram of borax and about 6 grains of car- bolic aci This is a healing lotion for home use. If there is free flow of blood, some bismuth and glycerine can be mixed and applied, or a little collodion us- ed in covering it over. It seemed to Mrs. Joues that the youngsters’ were everlastingly run- ning in and asking ber to fix cuts and abrasions; particularly, in the “barefoot” season, ‘And she would patiently wash and clean them. Since the war jodine has been used more frequently for disinfect- ing, though it is well to see the fam- ily physician where a rusty nail has been trod on, or other injury has been sustained where infection is threatene : 1 WILL. AUDIT BOOKS The city commission at its meet- ing held Wednesday evening entered into a contract with Robert Cahn, certified public accountant to make an extensive audit of the city’s books, and work on the audit will be started shortly. Some months ago as a result of phone service so information is hard to obtain. PIONEER RESIDENT DIES Mrs. James Melarvie, pioneer res- ident of the city who has been ill for several months with heart trou- ble, passed away late yesterday afternoon at the Deaconess hospital. A Thought | coaperative action by civic bodies a| gj, e are bret! ; proposal was advanced to the com- ner ye. to bestarens Why Ae. 7° mission that inasmuch as no audit ~ eee ‘of the city’s books, nor check on its indebtedness. had been made for several years there was need for a complete survey to show just where the city was New members of jected last spring pledged themselves to have such audit made, the action of the commission e ig Mr, Cahn is fulfilment of the pledge. HAIL REPORTED - - ‘s IN SIOUX COUNTY Jos. P, Hess of the First National Bank re sd advic at hail had caused a‘fifty percent loss on a crop of flax about 14 miles west of Sel- fridge in Sioux county. This is in a sparsely settled section, and the However wretched a fellow mortal may be, he is still a member of our common spe neca, WASHINGTON U. INTERESTED IN ORIENT Aug. 23.—The Uni- Seattle, Wa: versity of Wi ington hi ® program of interpreting the life, institutions, culture and history of India, China and Japan. There is a department of Oriental language and literature, with Dr. Her- ly ‘ fridge where the crop is heaviest scholar, at the head. Dr. Gowen re- cently spent a year in China and Japan, bringing his knowledge of conditions up to date. fact that the message’-said ‘nothing of damage in the vicinity of Sel- leads to the belief that the rm. ‘was more or less local and that no| India: widespread damage occurred in th hers "of the faculty, i crowing Selfridge district. Selfridge has not'} tereit'in: thé Oriental dephrtnient is yet: completed installing its’ ~tele-| reported.:°--:" B aeeeRTS eck bert H. Gowen, a leading ‘Oriental < } |