The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 26, 1926, Page 4

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Kresge Bldg bd PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK : : : Fifth Ave, Bldg. od ELS 4 9p a eae ee (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Getting Away With Murder Lawrence Veiller, chairman of the Criminal Courts Committee of the Charity Organization So * clety of New York, in the Febru number of World's Work presents a valuable analysis of crime statistics showing the chances of escaping the pen alty of the law for murder. in| The chances are three to one that a murderer will + never be arrested; if arrested twelve to one that ihe will never be convicted; if convicted more than a = hundred to one that he will escape the death pen 4 alty. Faflure of courts and juries to make the pun- ishment fit the crime is graphically set forth in the article, In Chicago for instance in 192: than one half of the defendants tried for murder were penalized. Of nine men sentenced to hang one. was put to death. This one criminal paid the full penalty of the law * because he was without means to employ attorneys and take advantage of the many and devious delays. lt is interesting to note that 146 homicides cost * the Metropolitan Life Insurance company $724,000 in one year. Out of these homicides, 114 were mur- der cases and only one individual was put to death. . Investigation showed also that punishment does act as a deterrent. It is related that when a certain judge took offic: tealing of mail in that district was common. This judge issued notice that cul- prits brought before him guilty of this offense would ‘be punished and not let off with a reprimand of suspended sentence as had ‘been the case in the past. | Stealing from the mails in that district practically stopped following a few prison sentences. The author of the article reaches this among other @ conclusions: “Punishment can deter only when it punishes. And when the criminal can continue in a life of crime and go on his way with perfect impunity (and immunity), why should anyone expect the nominat punishments that are enumerated in the statute to act as a deterrent?” In Chicago recently a movement was sion of various crimes, refused to defend him Lawyers went to tie jail to name their terms under which a defense would be conducted that would give Durkin the advantage of every locphole of law court procedure. At this writing Durkin has not been able to raise the money to hire these experts in artful dodging. «and shysters in the legal profession. Justice? A woman was being tried for murder in an Ohio city recently. In the middle of the trial her law- «yer received word that she had a possible claim to a large estate left by a man who had just died in the | Wien It was a sort of fashion to depreciate Dickens, | appeared a book called “The Origin of Sam Weller,” He immediately indicated that, in his opinion, the |°oMtaining a facsimile of an imitation of “Pick- _ tial ought to be delayed; for if the woman did| Wick.” prove heiress to the estate, she would have enough |©@tthed in curious’ number piratical plunderings of money to afford to put up an insanity defense, and | that astounding success. There was no Copyright “J act till 1842, The despoiling of Dickens had a large It is not often that such a splendid illustration of |?@"t in securing to British authors protection in the glaring weakness of our criminal court proced-| ‘Heir own country. These were the days when Bul- wer's portrait in the London buses was scraped off Think of it! If she should unexpectediy turn out|t® 8ive way to Dickens's, and collars, chintzes, to be rich, instead of poor, she could have the bene- | “84'S, candies, and so on, took the universal name, fit of expert testimony and might escape punish- ment; Otherwise—that is, if she stayed poor—she |‘¢™Ptation and the opportunity of the pirates were would have to face the ordinary processes of law | 'T'esistible. und might perchance spend the rest of her life in far west. pay alienists to come and testify for her. ure comes to hand. ,the penitentiary. As our courts are now conducted, the whole bust- ness of mental responsibility is in a frightful mass. |‘WeMty spurious “Pickwicks;” and more ara >A poor person does not get the same treatment in | *20W". “Mysteries of London,” Reynolds's “Pickwick | BI Abroad; or The Tour in France,” is said to be the The whole theory of criminal procedure seems ‘0 most meritorious of the Pickwick pickpockets. The the at fault, The accused person hires allenists to most impudent and worst is “The Penny Pickwic * testify that he isn’t; and the decision in the case is the Post-humoroug Notzs of the Pickwick Club » then left to the judgment of a dozen jurors, not one | 84 in 1837 in penpy parts. Old Mr. “Veller” has i” quot whom knows a single, solitary thing about pay- left the “Markis o’ Granby” and is keeping the “Pis and Whistle.” Sam is his illegitimate son by Sarah ‘Some day, perhaps, it will occur to us that it Suggs. Tosspos Stiggins has become “Smirkin: “might be wiser to have expert allenists kept in the In book form complete there are more’ tian 300 ‘pay of the state, just as legal experts—the judges wpcdcute, not as a rule trying a ape Seymour and e¢ 4 —are kept in the pay of the state; so that any per- Pas. ‘our courts that a rich person gets! “chology or mental pathology. _ “Bom accused of crime would be examined at once to ‘see if he were of sound mind.. \ ‘him be tried, with nothing said at the trial about au ‘insanity ‘a. All rights of republication of all uther matter | started to raise-a defense sum for Martin J. Durkin, a gunman who has committed several murders and for years has lived a life of crime. Be it said to his credit that Clarence Darrow, in view of Durkin’s confes- 4 Public opinion once thoroughly aroused will make Jaw enforcement more effective. It is not all the fault of the courts or the prosecutors. Every time _there is a wave of public sentiment for law enforce * ment, the people very often get what they demand. Some revision of the criminal code is necessary to break up the combine ‘between crooks, politicians he couldn't help? over. it or something like it? Better Students A report from Yale University shows that stu- dents who are working their w: supporting student. And it’s apt to. do something for him, too—which is more than yow can always say for the other student. An Even Break The leader of an organization of motorists an- nounces that his group will fight to secure laws which will see to it that “the motorist at least gets an even break with the pedesirian” in damage suits arising out of the striking of pedestrians by autos. There’s sense in that plea, The careless driver must. be curbed, of course; but many, many times the motorist is stuck for damages when the acci- dent was largely the fault of the pedestrian, We ought to get rid of the backwoods idea that the motorist can’t have the benefit of the doubt. A Catch in It An Indiana newspaper remarks that “giving a youth ten years in prison certainly gives him an opportunity to reflect an the folly of a criminal career,” Ah, but there’s a catch in it. First of all, it gives him an opportunity to associate with the toughest yeggs in the state, who will be glad to tell him all they know about crime and fill his mind with hatred for society. And, in the second place, some parole board is certain to see to it that he gets out before he's served a third of his full term. You certainty can't keep your hands in your Pockets when you have a wife on them. | EditorialComment —_—| Gcod Roads and Tire Cost (Valiey City Times-Record) arguments for better roads. The automobile jis here to stay. It has become an important part in the de- velopment of the country and inf rapid transporta- tion and so we may as well face the fact that the better roads increase tire mileage and a!so automo: There is a movement on foot for a higher gasoline sota, it stands to reason t! form of taxes as hi to move dirth with, Dickens and the Pirates 4a well and good; let him be | ™2° can do no more harm, be brought back to (New York Times) Some forty years ago, near the end pf the period “Pickwick”—a nomenclature still prevailing. ‘The In 1907 the Dickens Fellowsh'p exaibited some ' THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ? “The Bismarck Tribune youngster from being hanged for doing something [__the Ghost —-What a Pihert War | at a Piker I Was” Of course, the lawyers would object to such a Ee scheme. They always object to suggestions for eliminating red tape and technicalities. But the} lawyers aren't in a majority in thig country. Per: | haps the rest of us could get together and put it) The Ghost — “Wh Think it over. Doesn't it sound worth trying-—- (flaianiation. ofathe: eyelids are cote jtagious, by means of the. discharge versity are, as a rule, considerably better students | than those who are having all cost of their educa- | ee tion paid by their parents, That's normal, When a young man is. stoking | furnaces and waiting on table in order to get through college he's a whole lot less apt to take the whole thing as a pleasant, unimportant loafing period than the chap whose dad pays all the bills. A college education means something to the self- wasls Ta’ “3 a use? /~_.. self, the Tin Soldier was, which is a soldiers because they are brave, or because—well, just because— At last all the Hidy Go people were on board, everybody from Miss Pith- ers, the yarn lady, to Teddy Bear and the Twins. Poor Mister Havalook sat in the . (An intimate story of innermost. emotions revealed in private letters.) LETTER FROM RUTH BURKE TO LESLIE PRESCOTT After the burglaries and Zoe’s tragic death, I have always felt I never want to see another of little milk-white beads as long as I Walter has just come in and says: “Tell Leslie, that if little Jack be- haves himself and grows up as fine as he is now, we'll give him the first choice for baby Leslie's hand. “He'll have to be some young man though,” he said, “to be good enough to ask’ for the tiny little hand Miss Leslie Ruth . Burke.” Isn't he silly?—but right down in my heart I wish that some day it “Do, please,” he was saying over and over to himself with a chuckle. “I must remember.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1926, NE; I am writing, dear let you know 1 am «well enough to write, for 1 know you hated to leave me when I was still so very ill, Sec- ondly, I wish to introduce to you, by letter, the loveliest baby that was ‘ever permitted to come into She is lying beside my bed in that gorgeous bassinette that you bought while you were here for your god-daughter, Leslie Ruth Burke. Walter is getting well fast with the advent of the baby and my convalescence, he has become his old self and we all are very happy. I wish I were going to be enough to go over to see the taking ‘A Service, Inc.) Increasing tire mileage is one of the outstandiny, | Heb While I’ve been lying here in bed, the last few days L have been think- ing what a wonderful friendship has been and is. Leslie, I thank God that it has been my privi- lege to call you “friend.” a time in my life when if you had not stood beside me I would not. have wanted to live, ble, you were things we will have to talk about when we are grandmas. It will give him a laugh. Dearest Leslie, I want you to know that many, many. times a day I para- phrase that couplet of Whittier’s and New York, Jan. 26.—From farm and from village, from hill-top and bile mileage and build for the future accordingly. from valley the old fiddlers are com- Steel,” at the mill. ‘is very glad, however, that I shall not be able to come. very nervous for fear everything will not go right, after that accident at. T suppose Jack | f Always in any trou-| Their vogue is|as great as that of the tungo stepper of yesteryear, or the Charlestoner, of last ‘week. tax to be used in road construction. Inasmuch as im- proved roads have increased tire mileage from two thousand to twenty-five thousand miles in Minne- in this state if the‘ about it, however, consumer paid an increase in gasoline cost in the ag five cents he would still profit by the-transaction in tire saving alone, It! your pearls? was nothing unusual to wear out a set of tires: fifteen years ago in making the trip to Minneapolis ! and return, whereas one hardly expects even a flat in making the trip now. Good roads have made this | jeweler. possible. No class of people are more interested | in this than the farmers themselves so far as the! gasoline used in cars is concerned. Arrangement | _ should ‘be made if such a law is passed to take care of the gasoline used for power and that undoubtedly will be done. A large per cent of the gasoline sold in this state in the summer months is sold to tour- ists. Thus the visitors would be compelled to pay for the roads they help to wear out. By all means a good stiff gasoline tax to build roads, with a tax I’m sure he is many of whom! have heroes to their own little communi have come jnto thi Contracts that must m fabulous to;the hard working, mple living old gents are waved for such things do not come in pairs. Don’t you feel rich with all the money you got I must tell you that Water brought kome to baby Leslie a wonderful pearl the other day and declared his intention of adding to it until he got a grand string, and I made him take it right back to the One woman friend my life made.T have never been betrayed.” Whittier would probably turn over in his grave if he heard it, but it's the truth if not poetry. face: Mellie Dunham ‘came to town from his Vermont cabih, New York considered the old fiddler as half way between a romantic myth and a motion picture character. way he was the ‘bozo who appeared in the barn dance scene af “Way Down twenty years ago, But no day passes without an an- nouncement of a new arrival, of a fiddlers’ contest, a vaudeville en- gagement or an orchestra stunt. In one night club I saw Cy Spring- er, aged 80, from Sinking Sprin; Pa., (wherever that. is); tanan, a veteran post office c! Monocacy, Pa. Pau tra leader, had A short time later I was told that “Uncle Joe” Shippee, New England, ha a week to appear in a Broadwi .| vaudeville house, but wrote —bacl that he “wanted a little stage prac- ethane ol ok You see, what you have done to You have kept her Letter from Paula out of a gorgeous string of pearls. Perler to Sydney Carton. your god-child, TOMORROW: With @ little practice I shal! tesra to control these people very niccly.” “I shan’t move a step!” roared the K Tin Soldier indignantly when ne TWINS “Hurry up!” cried the Gingerbread Man, engineer of the Hidy Go Land “All aboard for Tin Can, ve st every drop of paint I ever own- and my eyes into the bargain.” The only way tc shut him up was to paint him, so Nick took him back to the tinkering’ room and did the best he could. His gun was pink, and his uniform green, and bright red, while His pint-pot/hat was a rich purple with a yéllow cocka But He was rather pleased with him- “How can I get on when you ‘haven't a car long enough to -hold me?” Limber Long Legs wantcd to | offered the little Collectors and Dickens Fellows have un- It CANT POSSIBLY Take UP THAT ToD4y BECAUSE IT Wit. BE UTT PossiBLly OO KNOW THE K. IF 1M POSSIBU! “A very good idea indeed,” said Mi “No doubt a good ig in a hot oven I should never have thougi. : thing myself.” complained Limber “It's all very well, if you don’t turn There’s the rub.” “suppose you could bend a bit,” said the Gingerbread Man crustily. “But do hurry. I have to be there ‘and back before I again he tooted his whistle impa- All’ the \Hidy Go to crowd in at thi Doll pushing her wi: elbows, in quite an ner for so elegant a lady. But then fine manners go on with fine dresses sometimes anu yuu can < blame the poor thing for being rude. crinoline skirt that x Dinah had so kindly starched, had been stolen off the wash line, he looked most ordinary in her ight underslip without & smidgin of lace on it even, She climbed on and sat down in the car behind the one Rimber Legs oc- low will the rest of nrrv?” she remarked: | Rag Doll is gettin, every minute and’ i: started, we'll MATTER SRG (Me | wl li ult Landers started! the Crinoline} with two sharp inelegant man- In The Connoisseur, Mr. F. Gordon Roe teils the story, writing of ‘“The Penny Pick- wick.” further away we don’t get. Rever catch her. we don’t catch her soon I shall faint again, I know I shall.” “Couldn’t we-go in a boat?” said Sailor Sam. “I’m afraid I land-sick on @ train. one kind of legs and they are sea legs.” This reminded poor Mister Hava- look of something. yh, 1 say,” he cried ohd H at the bottom of the water pail where he went to get the stiffness soaked ‘I'll go back and get him,” ,, try him off an remarked . Mister gant sha remene: He oftenert "Do, ‘please! 0, please’ ‘muttering over}. yet it is not unkind.) ” @ woodcut title pages and colored ; “jackets,” such as today are the chief value of many books. A prize for the collector wheter of D:ckensiana or J If the alfenssts find him sa: si spans Bes an |. ie, Ciéyl wad the, pabsieher. “Tha: cheavcul ealf: ou find he Possession of the editor, “Bos,” can't be admired tor oi Seer bry Tepeagi In 1838 he produced “The Sketch Book by in 1839 “Nicholas Nickelherry,”* Dilfering the hook in which Dickens pounded his’ plagiariats, “vermin” that were “not worth killing for the sake of thelr carcasses. “Bos” of. the triple brass’ set “Mister Humfries’ Clock” a-going in 184 Mr. “That Boe's is an edifying study of betore-copyright ber ta morkis, « branch of ethics Americans were so slow “Do, CONS 4S MR As THe t - WITH “eu tl! HOW TO CARE FOR STYES , DR. HUGH 8. CUMMING Surgeon General, U. 8. Public Health Service PracticaMy ‘all forms of: severe mm through the agency of towels, hand- kerchiefs,, soap and washbasins, or in the case of chiNren, through the exchange of toys. “Pink eye,” s0 called, is a severe epidemic, form of conjunctivitis caused by a specific germ known as ithe Koch-Weeks bacillu With regard to the treatment of conjunctivitis, it may be said that all ‘but the very mild grades, which ‘ast but a short time, should be tre: ed by a physiciah skilled in the d nosis and treatment of diseases of the eye, in short, an oculist. “ A mild astringent and antiseptic lotion, such as a solution of boric ‘< TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1926 grains to the ounce, or of of zine, one grain to th ounce of water, or argyrol in & to 10 per cent solution, are about as good as any thing you can use at home. A stye in nothing more or less than it on the eyelid. If one stye follows another, it is well to have the eyes examined oculist, as eyestrain is frequently a contributing cayse of the trouble ‘and this can be corrected by the use of proper glasses. The immediate treatment for styes consists in'bathing the eyelids for 15 minutes at a time, every hour, wi @ hot solution of horic acid. paring the solution of boric acid, put ill tissolve in the self may be wash- ed with warm, not hot, borie acid n dropped into the eye with a pper as already de- an old-fachioned in as much as tice near home before I go to them big towns.” Mellie has brought down all of the Vermont neighbors he can think of and put them to work dancing reels and things. Meanwhile there is no nook or cranny so small that it can-hide its pet fiddler. Broadway expects a hun- dred or more before the winter ends. A recent announcement in this de- partment that New York is a great winter resort seems to have brought a laugh froth those sunny climes where “winter resorts are winter re- sorts. But ere the laugh dies on their lips, let them try to get a room at v of the big hotels just now. A friend, in for a few days from Cleve- land, appealed to me almost tear- fully, to help him get a room. He had ‘called 14 of the largest ho! in town. Appeals to the hotel p: agents had fallen upon deaf Nothing could be done. The rooms were filled and there were waiting lista, to say onthing of telegrams from persons en route. The average capacity of each hotel ‘Palled is 1000 to 2000 persons, which means some 20,000 visitors in the _— hostleries of the central dis- tricts, Add to your stock of stories about Scotchmen this new one: A Seotchman opened a lunch count- er. A friend, visiting him late in the evening, found the proprietor sweeping up the little circular bits of paper that fall from. punched checks. “And what are you going to do with them, Sandy?” asked the friend. “Weel, mon, I’m thinkin’ I kin sell, ‘em for confetti New Yer-r-r’s eve.” —GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) Yor Ye, | TEARIN’ IN There’s a heap of satisfaction for the man who swings to action when ‘he has a job that really should be done. He’s the live and: snappy step- per who has got the brand of pep- ‘per that can make the hardest labor |@. turn to fun. # Has no time for lazy frettin’, as to where he will, be gettin’, ‘cause his time is taken yup with tearin’ i: Frets and fumes are only brewi for the man who's shy on doin’, and as fuse a bit too lazy to begin. ; After all, where life will find us quite depends on what's behind us, and a man ‘is what he makes him- self, I guess.’ If you've left a trail of shirking, in tho place of honest working, well—you ‘can’t expect , to reach to much success. All we've got to do is learn to know the proper one to turn to, and the proper one is you, it’s safe to say. Though we're all created eq after that our own sweet sequel q depends ‘on things we're doing, day by day. When angry, count ten—then swear, Boke One of these bright days °* the car companies are gonna °* decide that giving people a lot of evens to hang on is all ng—and make us bring eee A motion picture\ company, taking pictures of real ‘Ameen life, ni caught a farm hi: in action. Shor ing what science gan, do. At trying to. mont oupetace. he Was never known Hie sake set be feaed:8 labs Then sent his wife to wo ce te cryin’ fer a drink yellin’ fer his slippers, Tha two boys can’t find their: The dishes are waitin’ in ink. Somebod: ringi front mor bell, mo! but two hands. ~ NOW, HONESTLY— You hav been to @ movie or a show for weeks. x Gosh. how you hi it pr ge you s headache. Imagi- Aas ali dust sticking. around the house— a 70a ener ae it at}. day, ‘amo le, “4 satiated to seu daw Cy ing. \ But, how Mrs.? When she's ‘real the: Ede just watch -Betchs she to the movie, or show ads. i “Take the hint, old man, She'll get @ kick out of it—end that ought to give you i, eae) i Ya can’t blame some neople for not claiming to self-made. aes Apple Pie got Its Na me: Once . ‘at fousewtte madee ase et as i it. 2? phe asked der so. it ‘was a Jot: 1k tae: "PAI aN co the reply, ‘ D B eT AND: COMMA. AS UBUAL COMMA Bae heath any DABH D DAsH Ul DOWN ON The weather ‘man could vacate now and leave a few weeks supply of colder prediction: rd ship now he isn’t The only branch of the air service that hagn’t had any serious accidents lately is Congress. One is born every minute. why some of the towns larger than this are larger then this. When one says she suffers in si- lence she may mean that when she is in silence she suffers. Figures don’t If you want to cut a figure, make it the cost of living. Most farmers would ahead and let rabbits hurt crops than run the risk of amateur hunters. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) A THOUGHT. re awifter than a post: good.— There is nothing of which we are ept to be so lavish ’ BETTER LEFT UNSAID Editor, Tribune: The interview of Henry Ford in Farm and Fireside carried’ on. the Associated Press wires hast Saturday purpose except. to stir up st. Few men have fought race through the, printed word more bitterly. than Ford. alleged tribute to them in the most recent effusion:is in reality t thousands of Jews who, are patriotic Americans, mat served on the battlefields of France and made greater sacrifices in that conflict than the man or the son of the man who continuea his foolish tirades against their race. If the Jew is to be criticized be- cause he makes money and is sycersse ful in his business relations the same token Henry ‘there probably is no Jew in the Unit- ed States aac is no Jew in the Henry Fi n He certainly cann one of the “boob gen- wro} tiles” to whom he refers in his ar- ** our own. “* | tied ry Ford and his si jewish race the better. ignorant of the Jews and their to: ‘he showed himself rally misinformed on most etions during hi Vibe] suit with th There should bes clo: Ford anti-Jew. intervi HOME, SWEET HOME— (Bight! kery something tet tute ebm, o'clock in the evsoing) Tha baby’s but his tomo! jorance about the Ji water. Dad’s race is self evident. by’ __________. ani CORPORALIONS | nf United Motors Inco 4000; J. T. Blaisdell, G. F, Kiel- more: it. likely, but it's od | N. “Sy ah a ‘A. Mickelson.” CAR-SHY Native: “Waal, how d'ye like up here is “Oh, the coun- think your pedestrian: de wi che.