The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 16, 1926, Page 4

“ PAGE FOUR The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper = THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) + Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck, as ond class mail matter. George D. M I Subscription Ra‘ Daily by carrier, per y Daily by mail, per Daily by mail, per (in state out: Bismarck). Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota... Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited == to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and als the local news of spontaneous origin published her in, I rights of republication of all other matter herein are al erved, Foreign Representativ: G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Tower Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK eae Si Tradition? A titled sophisticated traveler from Europe re- cently made a tour ef this country. He enjoyed his trip, he said, but was not very f impressed by much of the country roads of New York. ie trouble with the middle-west, far west and south,” quoth this gentl is that there is no romantic background tradition and history to give colcr to dull scenes and poetry ty local his- tories, he headed back for Europe, Having said this where the traditions and romantic store cach village and town go back a thousand From his own pcint of view, he probably had America sized up fairly accurately. But what he © failed to realize—what many of us fail to realiz: was that American civilization is and always has been on an entirely different tack from Europe’ ‘Traditions and folk tales like those ef Europe he will never find here, of course; but traditions and folk tales of our own kind there are without num- ber. bout The stories of the pioncer and inspiring than the tales of Europe’s kings. Skim through the history of any section of th country and see if it is not fascinating as a nove Loui Think of the turer: came down the M and foresaw a great empir like Lafitte, who de: e no less romantic na? who arly French adven sippi to the gulf fied even the federal govern- ment; of Andrew ‘kson, who held New Orle against the British; of the trading ships of all na- tions, that came to make it a city more cosmopoli- tan than New York, more picturesque than Cairo. Illinois? Think of the long, lanky picneers who drifted north from Kentucky or t from New York, building log cabins, enduring hunger and ** toil and pain to win the black prairies from the red man and the wild beast. Think cf the growth of Chicago, from a frontier fort to fourth city in the world, and all in a century’s time. Think of Lin- coln, an Illinoisan to the marrow of his bones; of Grant, who went from a country store to lead the earth’s mightiest army. € Utah? Long trains cf covered wagons dot the horizon, with eager men and patient women pres ing forward to establish a prosperous empire be- side an inland sea, turning a desolate wilderness into a fertile farm land. California? Tales of desperados : golden mountains and daredevil and gamblers and lumbermen thronging the state and writing, in a few brief decades, an epic of pio neer life that Europe turie Oklahoma The home of red men until a scant “thirty-five years ago; opened overnight and filled in _. & month, and now sending oil to all the world and “building rich, substantial cities on land where the wolves howled within the memory of living man. Such are our traditions, our folk tales. are picneer traditions, every one; stories of the men who dared much and built for the fature, even though they did not always clearly see just what the future might be. And they will continue to be our traditions. America came of age in 1917. The task the pio- neers began is not ended; for they dreamed of America as the greatest nation in the world, no less—and we, without knowinj: it, are doing our part to bring that dream nearer to reality, For the history of the world for some centuries will be determined, not by Europe, but by America. Leadership has come, and a great day is to dawn. And it will be built on the traditions and romance of America. rannot match in any two cen- Thirteen? The League of Nations is inquiring ints the pos- sibility of getting all nations to agree on a new calendar, which would wipe out the present division of the y into mgnths and make a new arrange- ~ ment with thirteen exactly equal months to each year. : It would be more convenient, doubtless. But , why standardize everything? There’s mighty little # real inccnvenience caused by the present system. Let’s stick to the old style, just this once. Paroles Figures ccllected by a University of Wisconsin student show that the great majority of prisoners put on probation in that state have “made good.” He studied 3766 cases and based his ‘report on them. These figures are illuminating in view of the out- cry + some insufficiently informed people make ‘whenever a prisoner is’ put on probation. Any _ eities contemplating revision of their probation laws would do well to study the facts first. Not |Im : mous arctic explorer, pd Dr. Cook in the latter’s prison cell and-re- | that he was still’ unconvinced that Dr. claim to discovery. of the north pole was it, he revived an ancient controversy and remark. is not, apt to phake the position ary as the true discoverer, or to erase and Publisher | Think of the pirates, | =| ae continue confident that They | ‘old friend of Cook. What more natural than that, meeting the old friend in prison stripped of hope, reputation and fame, he should try his hardest to say something good of him? Peary still stands as the di | ve overer of the pole. Why Net? German females, wearying of spinsterhood, are said to be agitating for a recognized “leap year” week in cach year, during which it shall be their privilege to prop to the hesitant male. Many will find this it contai rather humorous, but even so much that is sensible, and it doubtless far from a laughing matter to the ladies back of the | al to propose. There ng reason on earth why the ladies—God bless them!—should be inhibited by tradition from coming right out and speaking up to the men of | thein choice. propo { in it as “Crack a Smile Week” or “Buy a Loaf of Bread Week” or any other of the many-adjectived weeks that have becn devised by our clever adve tising men. \ Misguided | A New York pastor announces that he is going to spend the winter in Florida——no vacationing, but exhorting, with all his might. He is needed there, he thinks, because Florida’s prosperity has caused a increase of something the pastor styles as “worldliness.” | The pastor may be sincere, but he certainly is | misguided. Florida is being filled chiefly with geod, honest folk from the north and west who want to its marvelous climate for a month or tw re no worse t the rest of-us. : New York in’such a state of) grace that she doesn’t need a pattor cr twe her- self, this winter? And by the way A Queer World | Ronald Amundsen went all the way to the south | , pole, where the temperature is rather low. He also} | went most of the way to the north pole, where it | jis seldom warm. Most of his lifey in fact, has been | spent amid the arctie snows. And always he has | | enjoyed excellent health. | Now, in Los Angeles, he contracts a cold and has to take to his bed. This is a ve y queer world, and one of the queer: which have been referred back to him as arbitrator. in spite of occasional xcitements in the area itself and studied exag- | gerations of such incidentsambgoad, the final settle- ment will be a triumph for skillful statecraft. y Should We Mi (The Jamestown Sun) The Fargo Forum was and strong advocate of participation of the United States in the World Court., In view of this avowed attitude, there are several things in the Forum editorial, published in In? F under the caption “What’s the Real Reason Thursday evening’s paper, which are hard for us to understand. The Forum says: France and Italy and Japan and Great Britain have “The truth of the matter is, no, desire to reduce their armaments. They have no desire to attend such a conference, either under the banner of the League of Nations or under the call of the United States. The fires of international! good will and helpfulness, builded at Locarno, have largely burned cut.” If the above quated statement is true, why does the Forum want the United States to become in- volved in European affairs ? national good will and helpfulness, builded at Lo- ecarno, have largely burned out, and if France, Italy, Japan and Great Britain, the four strongest States, have no desire to reduce their armaments, does‘ the Forum want the United States to submit any question to a court of which they are the most powerful members? And if the United States can at all? , The treaty of Locarno was hailed as a great vic- tory of peace only a few weeks ago, and given as one of the most convincing reasons for the entrance of the United States into the World Court. If the fires kindled there have already burned out, then it would seem that the wonderful victory of peace gained at Locarno can no longer be a reason for States. The ‘Sun does not often agree with Senator Nye in opposition to the Fargo Forum, but if, as the Forum now gays, four of the most powerful na- tions of the world are\opposed to disarmament, if the statement is true that “it is more apparent than ever that the conference never was desired in the first place” and that “the ferver of the United States alarmed France and other European coun- tries”—if this is the kind of situation we have in Europe, and if we can not trust. the sincerity of France or Great Britain, Italy or Japan, the Sun is forced to the conclusion that Senator Nye spoke the truth when he said that the World Court: is an agency of war rather than an agency of peace. Just pause for a moment to weigh the final stat it of the Forum: editorial, which is re- printed in full in another column on this , that “Truth is, Europe has no destre to disarm, and will make every effort to keep from so doing.” If Eutope “will “make every tort — {covers a lot of territory—to defeat “Leap Year Week” has every bit as much virtue | nations of the world today cutside of the United | ¢} the adoption of the World Court by the Un'ted |, “every” always | wi i | | 1 | | than three o’clock and don’t you know that girls resent more than anything else, the that they must be i “One minute. think that I'm a thi wrong and by “Where | Cherry?” The Fairy: Quee that hung on hi kingdom reach each one.” nd finally she ! About sixty Yum Yum Land, from Nobo Hidy Go Land an know any should it. At ‘ow reach sho Suddenly poor If the fires of, inter-| had turned blue all over from drink- | is ink, beg: i ing up his in’ bluebottles Fort: ~ on the wall! nine t down a tl von't forget it, Quick, children, the Fairy Queen. “ be {never submit a question to the Court, why belong; If he did know, I would no lon posed to cure “Like. the Apple Queen. Suddenly the | Twinkle ything faded ward them on its that it was quite “Names, please book out of his didn’t you wicket?” “The wicket!” rise. is a wicket and if that bein, Nick: ‘did in m: all! The word thinking. But Y. : don’t get your viewpoint. Heaven and couldn't pos seal ENTURES 2 -TWINS OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON | so them, so I shall know exactl; he ran her finger up and down the Land of Dear Kno Il know the way.” n nine bluetbottles a’hang- | something to write on? I must put thousand times so I cured until he eats a No one knows exactly whe! all iil bluebottles—” Pen and th¢ s found themselves in a strange A large ‘kangaroo, was leaping. to- it. approached the wore a blue coat and hat. roo, stopping suddenly and taking a “Is there a wicket? And what the case—how?” In’t_ took an; any si in the afternoon | little angel from ibly do any- ext minute the ab the Land of the Blee Tf you had come e n wall. “I have so she said, “that I ly how to} imed, “Here it miles from! seven fa miles ht miles fron nine miles frou to ate your magic Twinkle Pen who| an to sing, “Forty- a’hangin; the | Where can J find go at once!” cried Poor Twinkle Pen! Blue Cl suppose the cherry there. It is sup- i of Life that saved began ry Queen and palace and away. And the tail. iT 4 wins saw blue, and thab it said the Kanga- coat pocket. “And come in \by the Naney in sur- so, how many, and mote, sur- f, She Hadn't speech at heats ge sriphout ing Was, tl came, eters a herse (Copyright, 19: | in’ the whole seeret of the blue ¢ nd you ju Med 2 est things about it is the fact that a life-long ¢ Ya 1 of Today Mie yn areasitdees plerer of the arctic could catch cold in California. ; - 3 aes DISCUSSION both you and she make me feel that 7 TST ATS know, Dad,” I asked, “if you think I am just waiting to be | as ng that 1 marry, atone w me Young man to iis 5 i stayed out with him | beh If, Ttell you, Dad, that Editorial Comment {unchaperoned unti! three o'clock in| being élone with a boy at any hour i the morning?” ay or night really means noth- ‘: | You know | ine in the bright lexicon of youth vag! ry n’t seen Mr.| today.” > No Cause For Excitement | what he | ve meant something to } \ (The Independent) it ' | , for you struck Charles Wasvupu ier. epaneia Pa little too far! “But I'm very much in earnest,| Becker hard enough to black his eve WS __ Newspaper cynicisin, -gegya little too fart Pee, out cour viewpoint. | fast night.” / S 4 in suspecting that Genax@l Pershing’s return Would you have made your fl) “Then he told you T struck kim,| ‘The ecptim the pessimist from the Tacna-Arica plebiscite area is due penta aN nary eee ae gi i at he tell you eet eel merely look at life through different ff a ee! it e clock ? got 0} 0 wr and walke: 0 7 $ e to es courabeneut rather than il ee ate fect “On the conte t aneaed eal A ee ow { are that the general is seriously ill, and that he; would do every Chuck Becker or any other If y Ke running a it i igaveaia Aearae behind him far more satisfactory | him from marrying her.” You can send a hundred announce-| hard tor Pa ee , \ alls : bn i ; “Great Heavens, Dad! 1 don't just! ments to the papers and that’s all than press accounts would indicate. Clashes be-' understand your eth It scemsj| the good it will do you. 1 will never , kissing a girl it is hardite tween Peruvians and Chileans have not been se: to me that you are trying to f y;any man but one of my own ve she es the same lips for | Ri ae des «upon Mr. and Mrs. Becker a girl that| choice. You don't scem to ri ng purpose jous. the boundary commission’s’ work has been in-' under different circumstances you| Dad, that the slogan of the modern t Bh ice i | terfered with by the rainy season, but has not been bls es not mare in your fee y ay is, ‘I an the tole pie of MY} Nev Na man a fool. If he is | . . a ri yt ‘4 re’'ve yi et shice | 4 y 2s wel e capta f y yon’! 3 4 tas isn’ jabandoned in disgust, and all the plebiscite machin i the car ee ea ha aie aise eaten perigee BE CARIN AOE SAY Onb: he wenit Gellave yous” If he: byt ery is being maintained intact pending further ac-; “Don't you know that three o'clock | Dad looked completely flabber-| wr ena : ery . . in the morning means nothing more | gasted. tion by President Coolidge on the disputed points ate ante 4 “That I should live to that_a daughter of iea | speak chaperoned? I just! her own father!” he s Mother, Mother seems to for it. 26, NEA I see. countr ou, aid that bout it that he et gate, all wou have the spell remo ¢ had to have a map made of | grd’s name is Blue Whiskers. The Twins had nothi this, so the Kangaroo w. “What are your nam laws in’ this Blue Laws, tten on biue paper, he r ! ¢ this to-any man, let alone | as though she were to blame Now you'll both havg to try st one more thing. ” said the Kangaroo. I happen to ‘know he wrote down, “Nancy and Nick Best way to sa our time is to ‘have it fastened to your vest with a good strong chain, o see the day mine should id, turning to; The modern girl doesn't keep it a secret when whe kisses:® man. She keeps it a secret when'she doesn’t. Service, Ine.) } You can trust seme men to the far ends of the earth and can’t trust others unless they are there. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service Inc.) old! spell | the only one the : ——_____—_—_——* Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them; otherwise ye havé no reward ef your Father which 6:1; 3. y by uld have been is in hesven.—Matt. oved. I'll tell The wiz- sian all we repine at a little mis- placed charity, we who could no way foresce the effect, when an all-know- i l-wise Being showers down y to and ages? id which are y day His thenefits on the un use they are jithankful and undeserving ?—-Atter. require it.” bury, -AND IN THE APTER- NOON — LET'S SES — (TWAS Wo, O’ecoct | 3. THINK — TL WENT. OVGR To SSG IF — NO, (TWAS QUARTER IT—A QUARTER HD wo— bt WENT OVSR TO FIND our ER THE DEAL WAS ON OK WHETHER IT — NO, BY GCORGG, THAT WAS AFTER Two — YEAH, THATS WHEN UF WAS IT WAS ABOUT HALE > PAST TWO — AND. . THINK TS Sour — NCE You BEGAN TRYING NO, By Gesecs, its EIGHT HVS MINUTES, 4 > TO.ome MINUTES tt BEGIN HERE TODAY HENRY RAND, middle-aged business man, is found’ murdered in a cheap hotel in Grafton. Po- lice find a woman's handkerchief and a ycllow stub? of a theater ticket. JIMMY RAND, his son, goes to Mansfield, where the theater is, The stub in traced to a THOMAS FOGARTY, who says he gave it to OLGA MAYNARD, a cabgret singer. Jimmy meets and falls in love with MARY LOWELL. Later he finds Olga Maynard, and she faints when he tells her she is suspected of murder. Mary, out wit! SAMUEL CHURCH, a wealthy lawyer, sees Jimmy lift Olga. into a taxi and misunder- stands. tells police the ticket stub dkerchief went hers Aut | might have got into possession of a man who “pic! her up” two nights hefore the murder. Jimmy receives several mys- terious warnings to leave Mans- field. He is followed one cve- ning and in the fight that fol. lows is getting the best of his opponent when he hears some- one running toward them in the darkness. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XVIII The patter of running fect drew nearer, but the darkness, intensified by the drizzling rain, was like an impenetrable screen, and Rand, with eyes straining, waited for the in- visible runner to draw nearer to the ight. The man who had psed against | the wall was gathering himself to- gether. Jimmy Rand, looking off in-! to the darkness, had his back to} him and did not see the stealthy ap-! proach, the. huge outstretched paws. | A sudden sound behind him caused him to turn just in time to escape! the other's grasp. Once more he backed away from his opponent. A form took shape out of the dark- s at his back. “Plug him, Kid!”, here was the light of recognition in the big man’s eyes. “Plug him, Kid, plug him!” . Jimmy wheeled and caught a fleet ing glimpse of a dark face and twisted nose and light glinting from a revolver. Without an instant’s pause he eft his feet and launched his flying body straight at the legs of the newcomer. The man’s feet shot from under him and he fell to the sidewalk, his right hand still brandishing the volver? He scrambled wildly to his feet, but the catapult that had struck him had risen in a flash and was flying down. the street. He raised his hand and dd. Rand was twisting and dodging in his flight. The shots went wild. Jimmy pulled up, panting, «at. the gate in front of his rooming house and ray swiftly up the walk’ to the porch, There he waited and listened, but there was no pursuits . evidently his assailants had decided to leave before some policeman, attracted by the sound of shots, should appear to spoil their plans. He opened the front door, went in and slammed it shut, and then stood leaning against it, breathing deeply he slamming door brought Mrs. King. the landlady. ‘“Oh, it’s you Mr. Rand-—- why, Mr. Rand, you're hurt.” Her -hands, buried in the capacious pocket in the front of her gingham apron, were hastily with- drawn. They fluttered helplessly about her head. “You're bleeding. “Someone tried to help me up, I guess, but I got away all right. My ear's cut a little; that’s the only damage, I: think.” He moved to the telephone. going to call the police.” Mi in a high state of excitemen' and returned a little later basin of warm water and a towel. He hung up the receiver, and Mrs. King, in spite of his protests, pro- ceeded to bathe his injured ear and to wash away the blood that had caked on his cheek and neck. “There was a telephone call for you yesterday, Mr. Rand.” “Who was it?” he asked. “T don’t know. I thought ‘it .wa: queer at the time. A man calle and asked for you. I said you had left_ town.” “Was that all? “Oh, no. He said, ‘Oh, is that so? and then I told him that you would be back in a day or so. He said, ‘Oh, he will, will he? and hung ae ‘And that was all he said?” “Yes, that was all. It was \just the way that he said ‘Oh, he will, will he? that struck me as being quee Jimmy had risen, “What do you mean, Mrs. King, when you say it sounded queer?” is “Why, I—I don’t just. know . ho to explain it. The man, sounded dis- appointed, in a way, when I told him you were coming: back, No, not ex- actly that, either. Not disappointed, br ort of surprised. I—I didn't n ‘ou mean he sounded as if he expected I had left town and, was rather taken aback to learn I was] returning, Is that it?” : “Yes, you've put it just right. I suppose. I'm’ foolish to imagine things like that, It might have been a good friend of yours—although I should think he'd have given his Jimmy .was on his Way up the stairs. “I aba h ehink you re imagin- ing anything, Mrs. King. 1 don’t! know who it was that called, but you may be sure it wasn’t a friend.” He turned away. “I'm going to| take a bath. Is there’ plenty of hot water?” “Yes, Mr. Rand. And you'll find Tiniment in the medicine che: “By the way,” he added, pect Lieutenant O'Day, a police offi-, cer. When he comes show him to my room, please. And—oh, yes, Mrs. King, the next time you get 1 queer telephone.call for me will you notify the chief operator and ask her to trv to trace it?” He was gone up the steps, leav- ing’ his landisdy-—hands; locked to. gether in het large aproh . pocket, mouth agape—agonized with curi- osity. eae “And now tell me all about’ thi little ‘party you had, me lad:” Lieu- tenant , comfortably seated in an armchair, removed ‘a fat “black eine from “his ¢ap and'‘asked for a mal , . a ‘ \ “It’s against fhe’ regulatiops— smoki di before midnight, but jes ‘ne mont to look a ie | with the first of those premonitions tof the other man.” ,of stickup guys ‘got another phone o >: RUARY 1 tions that counts so much, lieuten- ant, but the spirit in which they're broken. I'm glad to find that you con't take things too literally. “But here’s what happened,” and he told O'Day of the adventure he had just been through, beginning that had made him so nervous and ending with his flight from the man with the gun, fi Just this and a brujsed sttoulder, “And what do you make. of it? asked O'Day. ‘ “Tl tell you after you give me your: opinion. O'Day puffed reflectively on his Did you say ‘this ith the gun came running cigar. “Hm-m-m. direction of this house fellow wi: from the here?” “Yes. Evidently he was a partner “Yeah, no question out that. Well, Rand, it might have becn a holdup. The smaller fellow with the gun went around the block to hcad off ut your house and the other man trailed you. They had you ded off both ways. The trouble is‘you upset their plans by not wait- ing. You got away with it becaus you surprised this guy off his feet. “You say you think“it might have been a holdup, but doesn’t it strike you as funny that those men should now where I lived?” “Well, MIGHT ves. Mind you, I said it ave been ah attempted holdup. I’m not sayin’ I think it was one. And, of course, it’s not out of the qugstion that a couple should take the trouble to find out where the party they're after lived. They might Have been watching you for some time, waiting for the opportunity.” “They were watching me, all right. Listen.” And Jimmy tdld’ O'Day of the Warning note he had_ received the night’ he left for Grafton, and of the phone call that followed. “And now the landlady tells me I call yesterday from someone who seemed sur- prised to learn I was coming back 40 town.” O'Day whistled. “Jumpin’ Jerusa- lem! Why didn’t you say something to me about this before? You've had a narrow squeak und no mistake.” “Well, I'm no alarmist, but I con- fess this thing has got me guessing now. That letter and the phone calls and’ now this thing tonight—they all connect up pretty closely, don’t the: onnect up? J’! say they con- nect up. Whoever awvrote that note meant it. He wasn’t bluffing. But after you, and what for? Are you holding something else back, Rand?” “Not another thing.” He smiled. “Hereafter, lieutenant, you'll know every card that's played in this game. I didn’t believe it before, but now T'm convinced. that whoever is behind this thing will murder me if he gets the chance. I think ther plan tonight was for the man with the revolver to stop me in-front of the house on the pretense of rob- bing me while the other sneaked up from behind and. hit me over the head with that —bluckjack.. Oh—I n't show you that blackjack, did ‘No,” grunted O'Day. Jimmy climbed down off the bed and walked over to his coat. The weapon was still in his pocket and he threw it down in O’Day’s lap, a rough con- trivance of leather with a crudely fashioned handle and a_ heavily weighed end. O'Day pulled out a pocket knife and ripped the xtitches, “Filled with emery,” he sai@ after a short in- spection. “Heavy as lead almost, and in, a strong man’s hands capable of breaking a skull without cutting the scalp. It’s home-made, which proves that the owner knew what he wanted with it.” . He bit his cigar viciously. “Rand, who in the devil’s behind this?” “Find the man that murdered my father and I'll tell you,” said Jimmy. ; “You mean the same people who got your father are after you?” “Exactly. Somebody's afraid I’m going to find out something. Per- haps whoever it is thinks that be- cause“I’m here in Mansfield I know more than Ido, And another reason fot connecting the two. I believe it is more than a coincidence that the weapon that killed my father was, as far as we've been able to make out, exactly like that blackjack there, It might even have been the same one, lieutenant.” (To Be Continued) | Road Conditions | a Temperatures and (Mercury readings at 7 a, m.) Mandan—Clear, 10; roads rough. Minot—Cloudy, 18; roads:good. * Jamestown—Clear, 17; roads fair. Fargo—Clear, 16; ‘roads good, Duluth—Partly cloudy, 4; ‘roads good, . Hibbing—Clear, 2 below; roads rough. ot raat Forks—Clear, 16; \ roads ‘ood. ' Mankato—Cloudy, 17; roads’ good. Winona—Cloudy, 20 above; roads +, icy, rough, Rochester—Cloudy, rough, “FLAPPER FANNY s 18; roads