The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 12, 1926, Page 4

* “PAGE FOUR _The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Ne' THE STAT OLDEST N WSPAPER ( cu Fey the D., a il matter. Subscription Rates Payable in Advance ily by carrier, pe lis hard to s | merit. Bismarck Tribune Company, ! dents in the United States in 1925. 5 1 at the postoffice at : ¢ sident and Publisher | "J! ' Princeton University, , the present would do away with the se Member of The tree Pre: The Associat exc! y el use for republi to it or not oth tion of all news dispatches credited ise credited in this paper, and also the local news of spontaneous origin published here- ‘in. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also resery Foreign Representatives LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICA DETROIT Tower BI i Kresge Bldg. | BU RNS AND SMITH - Fi fth A and County Bldg. | ‘ewspaper) ad secluded district there stands a rude, pi ‘ate little building, ef the stant, of the ri tive Ic most a hoy buildings In W water, r ) is ene n the world. ashington, fronting a wide, placid pool of s a building which is everything the , beautiful, built of nd it wa ad lor abin is not. It s marble to endure for cen! to honor the memory of the man who was born in! the squalid cabin, The log cabin was Abraham Lincoln's birthplace the building at Washington is the Lincoln Memorial, | most beautiful of all the capit Qonsidering first the one buil other, one wor not almost myth. For the whole story of the man seems more. like | a tale that someone invented than the actual biog- of a real man. It is perfect 's. monuments. ding and then the ers if people, centuries hence, wi think that Abraham Lincoln was boy born in a mean hut in a primi- settlement - n obseur i than that ich he dug out for himself by the light of tallow cand! entirely without those tages | which the poorest citizens have today boy growing a Titan, ri stands forth as one of the greatest figur World has produced! Is that not like a f. And, man ing the common touch; sympathies were as limitless as his v homely, commonplace, one ef the v: man with whom, we feel, we could tale? re next door, And that, perhaps, is the greatest miracle of all. Lincoln is the offe hero ‘whom we, who never saw We feel that he is one of us, for all his greatness—that his awkward, tender smile flashed for John, the boot- Dlack, and Tony, the street cleaner, as warmly as who used to bounce on the him, can truly love as well as admire. for little Tad Lincoln, great man’s knee. So we—Lincoln’s people—have preserved the rude Kentucky hut from destruction simply because he lived there, and we have built a dazzlingly beautiful i—not to keep his memory ie, but to show to the world something of the depth of our feeling for the back- building in our cap’ alive, for it can never ¢ woods boy who rose to the seat of the mighty. And day emancipator s of the Washington monument ri And as we look at the silent, ma that he and de shining goal that he saw so clearly; watching u: with love and understanding, for the flannel-mouthed politicians who invoke his name so glibly; knowing that he was not mistaken in his people; and that we will go cn and on, for- ever, in the path he found for us. In the north and the south men with tall hats step onto stumps and play silvery accelerandos, lashing a people with a whip of words. The brawny west turns its eyes toward Wash- ington and waits for the next pony express. The clouds of war blot out the sun from the mag- nolia covered cottages and the snowy hills. It is a nation about to fight a labor war within : its own boundaries, a war over a black man’s skin and the principle that all are born cqual. ; From the prairies of ‘Illinois stalks a gaunt, tragic figure, the father of sorrows and the man of ; Mercy, the awkward gawk of a rail-splitter come into man’s estate. The boy who scribbled on a shovel in a hut goes to the desk in the White House to live a chapter in the world’s days that no Homer ‘or Hugo, no Shaw or Shelley could have, written. _. Father Abraham writes the chapter with a hand that never flinches. » a mother of lost men over the, ashes of heroism at Gettysburg. ‘d the sky his countrymen, as And the bright flame of his goule of his life, of his courage and immortal sadness burn as a bright torch forever. Compulsory Insurance Nathan Strauss, Jr,, 4 member of the New York jealls the state div | his new plan sa e, Will representation would be h 4) will than is now the ca |men, Prof. Carpenter system to take the place of one th \fairly well despite some handicaps which are not | so vital when closely examined. ing how well our national government | ~ almost un-| -doomed, one would | respond | rh we have this | d expanding to the proportions of | ing in majesty and strength until he |, s the New| the as if that were not enough, we have this a man whose | sion; a man | crowd; # sit down and joke as comfortably with as we could with the man | high power station | mended. ;help to fix this city after day the stone figure of the great s in the marble building and looks cut over the blue lagoon to where the white finger tic figure we feel we gTow elop and struggle on toward the distant, | even with tolerance | them well. and call this a rough old world. willing hands and a cheerful mind, she assailed the to martial drum or sprang to battle at the bugle’s call, dier. And after it all he weeps like’ senate, has_a novel schem@ to reduce accidénts lttion is compulsory in- » The legislation he would set up an organization to be known the “New York Motor Vehicle Owners’ Mutual P tion ‘Astociation.” All owners of auto- ; in the Rstesg would be the sole atorship, the be allowed ‘insurance which would debar him from operating an automobile. Whether such a plan would work out in practice ay, but on the surface it possess There were 20,000 deaths from auto acc average of These figures should bring about some ; drastic action on the part of the state. tin ‘This Generation ul Carpenter, professor of politics ut advances a plan to abolish He William Se tem of national representation. place a form of representation based en social and | ceonomie rights. Of course his Convention. He for a Constitutional consistent with the plan calls considers as in ‘spirit of a democracy that Nevada with a popula- {tion of 79,000 should have the same representation jas New York w He of 10,009,000. in his book: “The people cf the United States into six more or less distinet groups w differ in dd econom! interes’ For the most part the States which are fall ich social included in the sectional groupings contain homogeneous populat But in some ases the sectional differences cut across te beund: It is clear, for example, that the southeastern cornties in Wiscon- sin, belong to the old Northwest, while the interests of the rest of the State coincide with these of the territory immediately be- ippi. would this new s economic yond the Mis: “Not only regionalism the v: interests to y their strength in the elections, but it would also make for greater ease in the decentralization of administration.” If this nation were to be represented social and econcmic lines, doubtless the s s responsive to popu ase. Like so many sets up a highly compli t has. worked theme © It is surpri to popular will when the occasion ari: de w little state lines or so ly count when he welf: al or economic groups re of the Republic rea stake. Other great national issues have been settled in ame spirit. The present plan of representation as served reasonably well the national demands. Hismianele on-the Air Valuable publicity is being given Bis gz station. ime goes on distance will be greater This st demonstr: wisdom of Governor Sorlie’s state capital in the 1 The enterpri Bismarck on of firm is to be com. the metropolis of the Missouri Slope. The East is getting the weather it tells the world North Dakota gets. within a week, Fer r must come west of the M Editorial Comment Death Cannot Stop Her Work (Jamestown Sun) Again that dark deep shadow has fallen across | our mother and faithful friend h: ever growing ranks that are \they speak by deeds of the past. midst and into its 1 noble mystic darkness ilent, excepting as Mrs. Kate Blewett, whose sudden death Satur- jday shocked the community, lived beyond the aver- 5 {age allotted three score years and ten and lived! She found bad spots in that detour | here on earth from eternity, places hard to travel | on the trail from the cradle to the grave, as all of us have found, but she did not grow discouraged Instead, with bumps and smoothed the way that others of human- ity might find the path pleasanter where she had trod. Though she never shouldered a musket, marched Mrs. Kate Blewett was a noble and heroic sol- With home Active years in community, state and national to detract from her first duty to humanity, the rearing of a family and the keeping of a home. And so from the otherwise silent ranks beyond the | behold but bur vels ‘and ban grave she speaks back in noble deeds to hosts of | mourning friends; words of encouragement, still | smoothing the paths her sisters of manity are to cation ‘ Nestos Refuses to Be Sidetracked (The McLean County Independent) Mr. Nestos has finally come! out in the open as candidate for United States senator. He flatly re- fuses to make way for Mr. Hanna or become a can- didate for governor. He’ is quoted as expressing the conviction the big fight in this state is the sen orship very secondary, * Our guess is Hanna will either control the IVA at Devils Lake ob both himiself and Neatos will lose. ad 2 in @ compromise on Judge Chris- ans saree court, or Coulter of |* this time ‘are Nestos will 1s some This means a} 5 killed and approximately 1,370 | ate and substitute in its | and in discussing | along | out | of the League of Nations plan indicated | considerable area by the Hoskins-Meyer Dicens { Ne ee for “1 Andrews, bat % | stood up-for hi each evening will | in the minds of many as the} North Dakota has had only ne | real blizzard since the eighties: that could ecmpare | as though with what hit New York twice in bee same aaa visiting s stepped to join the | ter pennies that rolled down the cuac to Hidy Go Land and I want the: all his to build have my washing done right. one is about worn out, and every time I send my laundry, Answering, early in her life, the double call | s, to motherfiood and a leadership among the woman: hood of her state, she shirked no duty wih either | and died in the front ranks of both. and family her first thought, she nevertheless has given more time to women’s lodge and club work | than perhaps any other woman in the state. for 35 affairs of women, she never allowed these affairs lose my temper. and wall did exactly as the first wall had done-—folded knife. have, not one body, Soldier bravely. “THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ABRAHAM LINCOLN THE NEWS TO MOTH- my moth. it's much 1 to Aure- h a don't uphold Bill's Neither do I uphold ¢ I think it is d “Lyman 4 and the co Rill has our r days out. » could she “Whe your pennies?” roared in thundering tones i where all the from, for Mister Sno adow. But any had the voice tucked 1e- where, for he kept 4: until | the very lights 1 led on the wall “Where are all your pennies, M Ha ook? You've » ed all t At oncet” he roared. “Well,” sighed Mister Havalook who seemed suddenly to h spunk. “I was, saving a new laundr; My old clothes to a public they lo It’s a fine * said Mister | y, “but mine. is'sti!l finer. I want those pennies to buy me a tbody. I’m tired of being just a shadow and I saw a fine body in a window with a smart t and hat and overcoat pn it’ ma “All for i nine hundred pennies. Mave qu sit, before 1| Mister Havalook went to the wall res: another button. This itself up like a jack- And there, what’ should they of pennies, Mister Snoopsy jumped in and bent e barrel after the other. "he said. “Aha! I sha) but six, and ‘I shall be called Mistet Snoopsies, ‘and it can eat six dinners at once six eduntries all at once and six enemies all at onse. thing revolution start, don’t you?” whispered the Tin Svidier vo Mister Havalook. . , “Yes, yes! 1 do!” said that gentle- ‘He thas no the Tin ht to your money, si “E have my gun,” said “And 1 have my drumstick back- ‘bone if ever I can get it untied,” said Lins “It would make ‘Where that?” said Mister Snoop- sy suspiciously. “What's that about Foci and backbones? And did’! hear foe Sree sarees: ru Laivis you, paying tie ‘gave one leap into jest where the lost umbrel'as out with a per; Long Legs. chub.” . iy et tt R-OWN WAY 4 Girl of Today so 1 could) Hur-- The que nd U didn't hen, thinking. 1 o mother” then as| id: what Rill, Winston | what’ Dm going tion know can do, but 1 kno to do, After last night's experience [Hve fonnd out that what I've: bee! ¢ lately doesn’t get me anywher: and it isn't yoine to get. me except perhaps a spill from ntomobile and a scandal. What » do is to get out and T'm sure I can earn my x and I shall let everybody | nothing better to do than ves black in the face, at me in consterna- ents of de- room: shall ed in ac AS nat left pe tell my wildest imagination, T ‘never really thought he would do what he di (Copyright, 1926, NEA icc, Inc.) TOMORROW Facing the Music. | that must have belonged to Greeley or Robinson Crusoe ter . the lawyer. Sr before anyone hi as faint or shriek ryone of the and ¢losed it a pie of e topéshut. took string and tied ut All but M tat eeooped him. wins into along with the oth stout | ie the bir ub 4, é HENRY RAND, 55, a business man, is found murdered in. a p hotel in GRAFTON. a woman's handkerchief and a yellow ticket stub from a thea- tee Mansfield. got your te * ram, reese ‘m going to need You know the et An old friend Well come on, then, We're going . down to sec him: Stee Henry's son, xoex to Mamtigia. tub is traced to 4 THOMAS FOG- RTY, who says he gave it to OLGA MAYNARD, a cabaret sing- A search is ‘statted for her, Jimmy yh on falls ta tove i Mother,” he called. rict Attorney Gilbreath was ity itself when Barry Colvin ced Jimmy as his beat friend, ,but.a frown creased his brow when Barry explained what Jimmy wanted. possitle, Barry,” he said. “De- in to see me rom what he told me, this woman Olga Maynard, isn’t actually the murderer, is cer- tainly mixed up in it in some way. The only way we'll ever run on to ‘her partner is to keep her until she wears out and tells on him. all do sooner or later. encounters oi ga Mayn: she faints er) he tells her she is suspected of murder. out with SAMUEL CHURCH, a wealthy lawyer, sees Jimmy with Olga in his arms and breaks with Police arrest Olga, who admits she used the ticket stub and identifies the handkerchief as hers, but tells police a man who was out with her two nights be- fore the murder might have got hold of them. Police ask her who the man was and she docsn't know. She says he “picked her up.” ves her story and decides to That night he finds a note in his room warning him to leave Mansfield. A telephone call ‘alae s, telling him the same Now Go ca rat ie Raat STORY tective Meone: “I'm about ready to grand jury now and ask for an in- djcfinent,” he added. rafton.’ “We want her ou don’t kriow it all,” nard’s story of the red-headed man who had taken her to the cafe. the man that registered at the Can- field Hotel—I'll bet my “Maybe that’s all very true, Rand, but how do you know she isn't ih ack his’ name? She might be afraid to tell on him.” “She's telling the truth—I know it,” Jimmy persisted. for the sake of argument, that her How would we ever run onto this fellow? If she’s turned loose she probably will find him in The sndhyetaet ‘eta terious telephone call, Jimmy Rand bewildered. tle sleep on the train ride to Grafton. He was not suré whether it was ryor whether the note Ne who really had an object in getting him out of town: He tossed about, recalling in se- quence the swiftly moving events that had transpired since he came to Mans- field, and trying vainly to unravel the plot that seemed to be weaving ubout “Just grant, story is. true. @ practien! joke! Mansfield, cheezfully ignorant of the fact that we're looking for him.” The district attorney picked pp a glass paperweight and toyed with it got to make an arrest in this case aside from ‘the to be cleaned up. a selfish point of view. The town is worked up over it, and they look to the police and to me to clear it up. “Suppose, now, Maynard woman loose and she clear- Why, I'd look like the big- gest sucker in. the world. think of next November, know. That's election time.” _ the other hand, f she turns up this man, case will be cleared u run for ‘governor. Perhaps his father’s actual murder- er, or someone who was involved learned he was in {Mansfield and feared dctection if he speaking from That sort of never run him off, the told himse!f. His mind refused to work as i Invariably his thoughts would come back to Mary Lowell. It hurt him that / im coldly without gi to explain the soutieat she had found him in with Olga ey Why should people-—esp ~be so ready to believe orst of him? His jow set grim- Snoopsy rushed out of and you could member this, All you've got on the woman circumstantial evidence, going to convict her.” “If I were sure that she wouldn't breath answered slow- the hous whirled it six time around hi: Tike baseball piteher, whi befor is on a ¢ hang there foreve | save it a fling:bich up into the rafton, he went straight 's mother’s ‘house old sharp air and scolding In their place was an a ‘titude of ‘resigned. dejection. without being told that she C "be Te responsible for j earth now, ; sJed voice a: jithe the, umbrella sped on to thing is even stronger than yours. That’s why I'm staying in Mansfield. T'H see that she reports every day to the pelice. can't get away if she ilbreath smiled at Jimmy’s earn “That would be pretty hard to' do, Rand. However, your inter- miles “do y "she asked while his arms still about her. Just for » day. Briefly he told id she wept silently. Janet?” the asked. She had gone to do the marketing, Long Lia (Copyright * got to see Barry.” PP but I'll do it, Marthe Rand told -him. Just then he saw Janet coming along the old fa- miliar boardwalk, her arms full of met Barry and Jimmy at the door with a telegram i She greeted him with a long kiss] “It just came, Jimmy. and clung to him, but she seemed cheerful ‘and composed. I've come home to_ar- range with the district attorney for] Si the release of a woman who may lead us to the murderer. S|ious, doesn’t it? And it i: got me all up in the air. her of the ‘progress they had made After this we are going to mention 4 i 'the Prince of Wales when he doesn’t | fall off a horse instead of when he does. He Saned it and read it, then crumpled it slowly in his hand. “No, i ot Barry into the living-rgom, Janet where she stood.: s|at hint curiously, then turned away. threw the telegram toward ” he remarked, and and then the Prince of Wales Sounds myster- |travels horses off and on. sat down. . job playing] “I don’t get it, Jim.” ving picture theater. Martha Rand sighed audibly as Janct the piano ina r where you are.” It was unsigned. “[ don’t get it mysel: With hands clasped on. his knee and a puzzled frown wrinkling his forehead, he made Bai ness to that last night in in Mansfield— the findin anonymous note and the phone call that followed. Barry sat in thoughtful silence. Then—“It has something to do with the murder, Jim: body’s way and they wan't hesitate to remove you if you don't get out. I'm beginning to think that's the answer to your father’s murder—~ he, too, was in someone's a fe “Jim, just how much of fe at you know? 7, Did the: know, anyont ‘Mother doesn’t smiled at bim. have me out in the evenings. “I don’t either, Sis. ii You don’t have There’s enough money to keep things going for quite a while without me. Besides, I'll be ‘back home before very What does Barry think of it— or don't you see Barr: _ ep she saw Barry ¢ her working, one bit. Told her he was a fool. “That's the second time he’s called n Sy 5 n im Spain. sent Coolidge, presi a legates Why did. you his folkenincew b gave him the air. Before a man’s married there isn’t much use in working and after he is ed he hasn't time to work. You're in some- marr Englishman won $251,000 in Cannes- ‘That's as much as, a Florida realtor makes in a week, “Yes, I know, y fe was right both times. Sis, there's | for you to keep this job. It’s enough te make a man smoke a cigaret. hesi | EVERETT TRUE juit it. ‘ She would not, she told him. He didn’t get her viewpoint. i father dead, I’m sharing the respon- BY CONDO WECL, EVERETT, = See YOUR OLD FRIEND, WALTER, FINALLY TURNED UP Ss ToES! Jimmy shot him pi facing look. His mouth set in a” hard, straight blamed well, thi to sit back and sec you take it ell?” “You've groumt hs re along wie a rry— Uy dade la misunderstand me, eae Did your father ever ha sh to get along on, yes, Jim- in his private life that—’ “His private life, Barry, was like an open book.” “You'd be surprised,” said Barry how little we know of one rs private dives. This thi out of ene fathers I'm not satisfied that way. I'm Deiae ahead. I’'vébeen coddled ‘in this family never said so, but my music lessons represented quite they’re going to pay di ‘m a producer, ree “|now on, Jimmy.” The doorbell rang. . It was Barry nr writing championship here. five-minute trial. she made ah aver- ge of 13% touches a second, writ- ing 4078 characters in the five min- (Mercury readings at.7 a. m.) * Bismarck—Cloudy, 28; roads rough. Minot—Cloudy, Si; roads Mankato—Clear, 30; roads good. Fargo—Cloudy, 28; roads fair. Duluth—Cloudy, 24: Cloud—Cloudy, ing night, roads good, dames tome Caney, 27; roads fair. roads g 30; snow dur- Aa Forks—Clear, Milbbing—Cloudy, «Roch Paps agate rough ugh, roMftiona—Snow, 28; ai \Fough, Ss A THOUGHT