The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 29, 1926, Page 4

etn OTEIND CA cares dances ib ante -_ setawoneteD ones eeten ee THeS, athe anen ote wees Ss “PAGE FOUR The Bismarck Tribune, ,,,, Ham, Fast Do We Want (6 Pay? TAL CTIID' Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper ‘THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER fBstablished 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at! "Blamarck, a second clase mail matter. George D Mann.......--..President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable In Advance Daily by carrier, per year. Datly by mail, per year (in Bismarck) Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck). Daily ‘by mail, outside of North Da’ Member Audit Bureau of Circal Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the | .. ase for republication of all news dispatches credited | to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and alsc | the local news of spontaneous origin published here- ta. All rights of republication of all uther matter herein are also reserved. Foreign Representatives @. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Tower Bldg Kresge Bldg. PAYNE BURNS AND SMITH ORK Fifth Ave. _Blds. | NEW Offic ie) City, State and County Newspaper) Nomin tions by Convention North Dakota to subvert and exigenc s of the various supplement the r old mother nece: primaries. y are the at nomi- Bepubl ans have theirs to name tickets which will be acceptable to the various factions and represent the two politi- cal camps. These caucuses and conventions reveal the in- herent weakn of the primary campaign. Party leaders of the various factions dy not want to pick a ticket in the dark via the primary method. They call in the boys and see by a careful canvass which candidates will prove the strongest. In this way many persons who may have cenflicting aspirations are gathered together. Differences are aired and the elimination proc effected with a minimum of acrimony. Sometimes these meetings which have no warrant at law fail to iron out all differences, but generally speaking they function did the caucus and convention before the direct primary came to confuse and to confound the ward peliti- cians. as The primary follows as a second elimination con- test between the two factions within the Repub. lican party. As far state ies go these two factio e not divided over principles to any great extent. It becomes mere or of a scramble for the political jobs with principles quite secondary t> the chief issue of political provender, It is probably a very good proceeding for the factions to hold these curtain raisers tx the June primaries. One wonders what would come out of the pell-mell of primary elections if the leaders did not call the boys jin and feel the parish pulse once in two ye A step farther should be taken and the primary legally discarded in the interest of direct and effica- cious party action. Practically every state has some scheme to vitiate the operation of the primary along idealistic lines laid down by its founders, some of whom have been gathered to their fathers. Peace be to their ashes. Their heirs and u have found a way to perpetuate the gentle gang politics. It takes more than a law t a political millennium. But under the present system, despite the clear violation of the spirit of the primary law, to produce some order is secured out of what would be political chaos. Under the form of popular government under which most American political subdivisions operate, party rule is the motive power and_ will continue to exert itself just as the bootlegger does in defiance of law. The cenvention, caucus or pow- wow are the chief instrumentalities of politics. Legally or illegally such forces will in some way influence the selection of candidates. It is merely the natural order of things. Politics must be served. This Smacks of Old Witchcraft The city fathers of Lorain, O., in solemn conclave assembled, have voted and promulgated that, be- ginning shortly, all dances except the “old-time” dances such as Henry Ford likes, shall be taboo in the city of Lorain. This according to press dis- patche In-fact, it is related, unless the city fathers un- expectedly reverse themselves, police will be au- thorized to sce to it that every dance hall in the city lives up to this edict. Not only the new Charleston must go; the fox-trot, the one step and the like are under the ban, too. One of the wise councilmen defends this legisla- tion by remarking that all modern dances are im- proper and suggestive. Now the year 1926 young, thus far, and it is impossible to foresee what it may bring forth; but even at this early date, it does seem as if it ought to be possible to award first prize for asininity to the men who voted this law. The odor of the 1874 tank tewn hangs over this little ordinance, shedding a musty fragrance of forgotten days. It takes us hack to the days of canal boats and-crinoline, to the of homespun clothing and wood-burning locomotives. ft is. still the nineteenth century, Big crayon portraits of. Franklin Pierce and Colgnel Fremont must sell well. in the city council chamber. Some smart salesman ought to go there with a new line of mustache cups, too; probably he'd sell the whole consignment, was a day when most good people in this felt ies nae ee ‘dances just as these councilmen s eel here was a feeling that all the “mew-fangled” dances—the waltz and the two- s step—were morally wrong. Many very good peo- ple devoted much earnest thought and discussion to ways to cope with “the dance evil.”. But we've outgrown those days. We have come to realize that dancing is a splendid, tonic recrea- , that the impulse to move in harmony with 7g Heap gion impulse, not a bad impulse. fe ‘have, in other words, grown imore ci _ Apparently, however, tilt’ Jingers, 2 there are places where the the Democrati well as other states is finding | * How Fast Do We Want to Pay? | The nub of the tax reduction issue is whether it| is advisable to pay off the national debt in 25 or 32 years. Probably Mr. Average Voter does not care When we cannot worry about anything else there ig always the national debt. Secretary Mellon has | placed as a safe limit for federal tax reduction the | sum of $300,000,000. Democratic opponents of the | administration are partial to a $500,000,000 reduc | tion probably for political effect. The figure fixed by Mellon is probably the safer of the two and ar- rived at because of his grasp of national finances. Surface indications are that the factions have! ched a decision to push the tax reduction meas yugh with a few compromises as a sop to minority, This bill has been termed } so frequently “non-partisan measure," it would be a rude shock to Mr. Voter if the matter became So partisan as to fail of passage. The nation has {been prepared for a different fate. It will be a ‘fine thing for the nation if one tax measure at least passes in spite of polities, Bust | what to expect so that they can lay their plans wise ly in advance. Zoos city of Cleveland is confronted with more} Briefly, it needs replen- | Some wag proposes in a newspaper the folowing pian for collecting new animals: The Elks to donate elks. , The Moose to domate ‘mo EB to donate eagles, Republican clubs cle phan nd Democratic clubs donkeys and zebras. But what unfortunate organization will be aske to contribute a bull? Russia Hindus, writer and lecturer, says the United States may ag well recognize Russia now—- that it will be as much Bolshevik Russia generations from now as it is today. He says, too, that Russia is ready and anxious to recognize her debts to this country. “Anxious to recognize them and settle them,” he says, “but please note that I did not say anxious to pay them.” In this respect Russia is no different from cer- tain other of our debtors. The ‘best we have got from some of them is recognition —and no payments. Maurie e G. Jerry’s Candidate Jerry Bacon has brought out John Lee Coulter, president of the agricultural college, as a senatorial possibility. John Worst, who held the same place, tried it and lost, but-E, F. Ladd was more successful. Coulter probably can serve the state better where he is. Well, it’s a terrible world. The seh eh ala never gets } hot in winter or cold in summer. Editorial Comment Amundsen, Cook and Peary (New York Times) No fault can be found with Captain Amundsen for visiting Dr. Cook in prison. The fact that the man was there after a series of impostures ending of old friendship. Amundsen found Dr. Cook “old | and about worn out. He told me he was happy! and was doing needlework: for a pastime. What a pity!” This speaks well for Captain Amund- sen’s heart, but the real pity is that he is quoted as ttying to reverse the verdict of history and of science, and to maintain that Dr. Cook’s claim to have discovered the North Pole is as well founded as Admiral’ Peary’s. This can only make the judicious grieve and the learned world gasp in as- tonishment. Captain Amundsen recalls not cnly his own for- mer travels in company with Dr. Cook, whom he found so agreeable a companion, but the fact that he was in Copenhagen at the time when Dr. Cook jarrived there with what President Taft, with judicial caution, called the “assertion” that he had reached the North Pole. impossible faker. But ancther gentleman journeyed to Copen- hagen a‘ few years later and said to our Minister there, Mr. Maurice Egan: “Egan, if I had been ter here when Dr. Cook arrived, I should have done the same thing that you did, but I knew all along that he was a faker.” The man who said this was Theodore Roosevelt. The truth is that what he knew, the world—or every man in it capable of weighing evi- came to know, Dr. Cook’s pretensions were ifted in a corner. They were examined by scientific societies, tested by other explorers, sub- mitted to the closest scrutiny in the press, chal- lenged and denied by newspapers in a form which would have enabled him, had he had a case fit for trial and dared to press libel suits, to recover large sums in damages, with the result that his defense broke down and he became an object of. derision and contempt throughout the world. For Captafn Amundsen now to endeavor to rewrite that long melancholy record of an attempt to deceive is sim- ply amazing. .It will make his best friends anxious to know what can have suddenly impaired his judg- ment and rendered an ecrdinarily reticent’ man so foolishly voluble. It was bad enough for him to seek to rehabilitate Dr. Cook, but it was worse and almost unforgivable | © fcr him in the same breath to try to discredit Peary. The latter’s claim to have attained the North Pole was subjected to the same searching ordeal ‘as Dr. Cock’s, with the difference that Peary came out everywhere triumphant and acclaimed. His proofs were accepted as conclusive. He brought back with’ him actual records, day-by-day astronomical observations, nct the incoherent, jottings which the Danish scientists declared td be unintelligible and which Dr. Cook afterward sought secretly to bolster up by purchased falsifications. Besides this differ- ence in scientific evidence,there was the great moral | gulf which separated Peary from Dr. Cook. It was ® case of a man of lifelong integrity pitted against @ man who had been exposed in one gross impos- |2 ture after another. That Captain Amundsen could have ignored this vital distinction between.the two men passes belief. ». Happily, his utterances ‘can at ot ee Peers fe the fair i a ness men are entitléd to know as soon as possible in crime did not destroy the claims and impulses | ¢ Amundsen declared it | for him to believe that Dr. Cook was a j' ee ee i a ee BISMARCK TRIBUNE (An intimate story of _innermos: emotions revealed in private letters.) From the Pittsburgh Sun OPENING OF THE BAZAAR TOMORROW Everything is ready for the open- ing tomorrow of the greatest charity bazaar that ever hb been held in Pittsburgh. Not even during the war, when Pittsburgh, along with the other bi ies of America, emp- \ tied her pockets for the warriors over there, was th benefit given on ee one commencing peo ome of the s the ame time being given has consented, at the request Sally Atherton, one of her great friends, to speak from _ the stage of the auditorium every after- noon and evening. M this |éach have given ‘toward stocking {tiful young ladies every possible flow: from the humble da orc s Perier will start her picture on next Mond ly after the clo: is_causing al ick and poor Mister aia alone decided 49 callee ibe gob- bier to the drain where, according to the story, he had seen the Rag Doll, “We'll go along and take the testi said Sniff Whisker, the rat tomato colored velvet motioning to the ‘rest. of his pe r nen to follow. “We like drains any- ‘ou can’t go Calamity Jane, this thing out, “Yes, and we ne we can hout us,” cried re eee ty sete want all the shouted wit the be able to. apeak quietly ever since she had lost her skirt. “We'd better let them g poor Mister Havalook to the “ff we don’t give them their way in| everything, there certainly will be a revolution.’ “Shall we start?” asked Sniff Whis- ker. *Do, please,” said poor, Mister Havalook. And as usual he repeated, “Do, please,” beceuse he liked the sound. It sounded exactly like a king or president or something. So off they starte: “Where's the train puffed Mrs Jiggs. “I'm much too fat to walk “Yes, where's the train?” said| Limber Legs. “I'm much tuo thin to walk.” “And 1'm much too stiff,” said the Tin Soldier. “Where's the engineer? I wish to ride.” But no Gingerbread man answered when ‘they called. “Where is the Gingerbread Man? Where's the engineer?” all the dolls be an to shout. “We can’t ride to drain without an engineer to run jthe train. Ho, Mister Gingerbread! Where are you?” Suddenly Belinda began to stare with her China-blue cyes and follow- ne the direction of her glance, the jothers beheld the gobbler with his ‘head in the air,emarching away on tiptoe. (‘Murder, Thief!" shrieked the Hidy Gb people. “You ate the Gingor- ‘bfead Man.” “Honest to corncribs, I didn’t,” id the turkey in surprise. “But I'll confess I.was looking for him.” “I thought you were pussy-foot- i for something,” said Sniff Whis- ker, the rat, then reniising that a forbidden word had slipped out, he looked at his policemen out of the an of his eye and started to us ih the dust off his shoulder as By Ernest ‘Lynn BEGIN HERE TODAY HENRY ply aaa see credit manager store, is remind: that the next da; MES RAND’S 27 don’t know, but evidently with soime- thing very similar to a sand he was struck hard eno Hie! plans a i- nd ulster, ANT and her fiance, The following evening Henry Rand, a stickler for Deactaal oid to arrive home for di accustomed time. While the family is wondering, police telephone with word, that he has Lo Mo dead in the Canfield goes to the hotel. in a gas-filled room that had been registered for by H. A. Jones of New York. Police believe it in suicide. Jimmy doesn’t agree. A woman's So is found in the Jimmy ane on the coro- “I don’t know anything. I think ¢ possible, but we'll seterey to sec what caused his A strange youtg fellow ‘had en- tered the room. porter, for he had been conversing quietly with the ‘pausing now and then to jot. down a word or two on some twice-folded sheets of rough paper. fover to Jimmy. “Sorry, Her Rand, a supply me with your father's e the number of childrer he had? I most of the details police sergeant, but will you ae STORY es ona wir re,” answered Jim- He had a ‘wife, and engine litule of- ister Janet and Detective Socniy, ficer with a disfiguring ning from the outside corner of his eye and across the cheekbone to the mouth, fumbled in this coat pocket and withdrew a small handkerchief. He held it out to Jimm: It was a white hand! dered with fine lace, and smelin, strongly of perfume. dl PeThere were no initials, nothing mbout it to make it different adel any other woman’s handker- wu.” He turned to th? coro- Vihat is it, Coroner, suiide?” rder,” interrupted Jimmy 'He seized the reporter. by ‘You'll write nothing about ond juntil you learn the coroner's rdict Kerchief, ‘vor-' You seem pretty sure. Welle I'll stick around a while, pie What's ie jen of what took place?” ” replied Jimmy, “is that. hisher was lured to this hotel. Toom under some false pretense, probably by some telephone call to Anyway, we can check up tomorrow and find out what time he left the department store. “I think that the man who r tered as H. A. Junes of New n this room waiting When father aid arely seated before struck on the ‘head and You noticed t his overcoat is still t is sufficient indication that h was not in the room ver; least, that he was on when he was struck. ‘Then whoever hit ‘him turned on the gas, shut the window if it wasn’t id walked out, lock- St whe ipinkon the dresser,” vol- That's all we found. only clew whatsoever.” “And your theory, Sergeant?” Jim- my turned away from Mooney to ad- ns aut policeman who ‘had taken acts ‘Jad, P’m not tryin’ to hurt your feclin's, but the way up was just like this. cuse me for sayin’ so. ured that your father possibly Hea got mixed up with some woman and takin’ a short cut to avoid trou-| th, to your faces) arrive, he was T hate to say but you'll welcome the truth and ¢l sort of thing isn't new to me.” ‘ou think there was a woman in vA murder has, come along to “What's that?” ask the hissing engine. I don't know what ti did at first. What's all ont already’ closed, ing the door behind him.” ‘And how about the chief?” asked the reporter. I can’t account for i “Don’t you think it is at indication that a woman was in this room, at least for a while?” “Not necessarily, ner, who had been “Did you see any woman come up- stairs this afternoon?” Jimmy had wheeled to face the clerk. I didn't see any come in or go out.” “In this hole they are careful not to take notice of any women they remarked _the sergeant, staring grimly at ‘the little bald clerk. A newcomer entered the room, a thin man with ¢hin iron gray hair carafully parted in the middie and slicked down closely to Mi large, red-veined heavy for his face. The bald hotel clerk seemed to weld you're. going to the drain, he E e great cha in the city as the great charity sale. 307 iyoeniiai Ithough all are admitted to the who have the price of udmis- very few will be allowed in the the Gingerbread Man looking out of the window. hen what are those crumbs?’ fred Sniff Wi Miss Perier's picture. ne * confessed one “I snipped it off wasn’t looking and divided it with my friends.” “PN get my ‘skirt Crincline, Doll_ha (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) » put in the coro- stening to Jim- derable.interest. of ‘the policemen, ally ‘Atherton and Paula Perier planted it here, you know. it was found in plain view nent on that dresser, and you hi the dresser to get to the door. seems to me it would be @ pretty. even by some- wz. Did Mrs. Prescott tell you when she hard thing to one who .was it we're all shooting have to take the Bay to the morgue The reporter spoke to the police sergeant, “Mind if I take a Ga ‘round the room, Sarge?” “Oh, go ahead, Howard. med nuisance, will lunch with us at the opening diay, the night clerk,” he announced, ap- parently relieved to escape the at- tention of the sergeant. “Bride,” snapped the policeman at “were you ‘here last night when a man registered for this room under the name of H. A. Jones wpptie rhifted his feet uneasily.|4 make the bazaar a $8 ng to go-over every day and eon aoe flower and the joules booths, “The publicity man seems to think that if you and she are seen taking ch together, nothing more will be began an ie. 'spection of the dresser and then the Some women are’ sich social but. know, Sarge, they say terflies they want to see a new pic- ture show every month. “I'm rather sorry, Sally, going to he more secluded, Leslie says that after you get through chogting your picture, she wants you to come to her we'll all have a luncheon he knew you'd t “About eight or eight-thirty, near’ bed I can remember, i ‘that it’s almost impossible for a mur- fever mind the captain. That derer, to avoid leaving some kind of apple sauce doesn't work with me. What did this H. A, Jones look like?” |* “I don't remember much sbout ack, ja Lemme see—nope.” las “Was he a big man or a tittle! pursued the sergeant. t to remember that much.” Well, at that I guess the was alto the fi He had his over- Two-faced people are kept so busy looking in both pe can’t see where they are goin, We seized the bedding and threw it ing the bedatead violently g fall from the “You | horizontal railing-that supported the foot end of the springs and flutter ie a + Lots of odd-looking pe with the world. toh trait a minute, wait a minute, a haven't got through talking _Married men shouldn’t drink and shave no cause for drink-| Pretty big man. coat buttoned up around his cold—and his hat was! x, Seems to me he didj NEA Service, Inc.) “Tgonow: ~ Conversation con- Be vase tel neck—- floor it looked 1i .@ plain yellow quare of cardboard, torn at one end. “oeWhat have you got, Rand?” have pretty uy big ears and—oh, yes—| was the police sergeant, a ‘had red hair, a kind of sandy sort «Thought ape said he had his hat ai “He did. But 1 could see the hair ame before las It was cut close, (To but you could teil it was red. {| just asked for a room, and when I gave it to him he went right upstairs. Thaven't seen ‘him since.” “Did he sleep in his bed? “L don’t know. clerk here, pi Some people live 50 or GO years ith tight shoes always ‘hurting their litdie ‘ile of erauiba, are crumbs on three of your pel It looks pretty bad, Jimmy turned it over. (yellow stub of a th “Paragon Theater,” he raat tri- men’s weir: The world asene worse because much comment about the bad things that don’t hap- Hidy Go people kore Nick was pointing, “And T think!” said ‘the gobbler, |” vivo had ‘the first right. he felt, to put the blame on somebody else. “And we all think!” said Calamity “It's a plain case of the Rene ‘pens pane as Christ- mas presents are still writing. 1926, NEA’ Service, Inc.) EAST INDIAN PRINT Vivid Bast Indian. cotton print makes delightful kitchen windows, . BY CONDO — NOR WOULD Yoo HAVE So MUCH DIFFICULTY IN ADJUSTING YoURSECE “To HS INTRICATS RELATIONS You're Too HASTY, ITO READ UP ON THE SuBIccT OF —————_—___——_-+ Temperatures and Road Conditions ON rage ada ™.) jereury Cfearr 23 a Evie Jane shollowly, Schwartz the day ly would know if “Did he, Schwartz?” “L guess he did, maid would have told me if the bed hadn’t been slovt: in.” do lot of drinking, don’t 2” growled the sergeant. he’ night Sierk flushed. a drink onec in a while.” “Well, by the looks of that nose ee yours you take a damn sight too Oh dear!” volybed Miss “Now Til never get my ve'll never be able to get atch that old Rag Sergeant. The Mandan-lesrs’ Fargo—Part cloudy; Minot—OClear; 34; roa clgprstenersinth agai: a roads 1 Hibbing —Light snow; . 5; Binover Ciests Rochester—Clear; 15; ro: Duluth—Partly eloudy; 2 Grand Forks—Clear; The sergeant turned to “Did you tell ’em at 1 Station to notify the coro- 7> HUMAN SOCIETY. ‘You OVENt one of his men. when in the devil To Jimmy he said: have is leave the body just as it is till the coroner arrives. him to the morgue long enough to determine the cause of. then they’ll turn him over to. your WEAR CLUB GARTERS London.—Women’s garters in club ‘or regimental form are a new novelt; being displayed in the shops. Many girls are wearing the colors of their sweethearts’ schools. A pure silk semi-fashioned A. W. Lucas Co. about the coro- ner?” K large ittle black satchel, breezed into the room. With a brief glance around him he knelt in bu: beside the bod; hose, $1.00. siness-like fashion of Henry Rand. dead mae "s heart. Wie sergeant’ told him briefly, ent he knew. tersely remarked the c rene looks tke 2 plain case of wun his: hands expertly|’ ty Rand's head. He a : right hand at “the WHILS VD Be READING UPON ‘P3y. CHOLOSY” k COULD B& OUT FASTING. THS SPEED MANIACS, ANS THE AMATOVR SAXOP HONS PLANSRS,” AND & MIGHT Cven MCET UP. WITH feeling’ with hii bese of Ke, sku Ms ‘it? ward eagerly. “What is it, eee coroner frowned. ie the back of Henry "Ran a bakidy at the ha ‘tte bot Jimmy sprang for- ify “Rayos here know is man?” “He’s my Tether, Coroner.” ‘i ooh of heed? ly ina Fae ae ang carefufly over