The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 22, 1926, Page 4

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PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK = 18 - Fifth Ave. Bldg. cr Lee Re Se SAL Mtn 5 (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Washington—The Leader A hundred and seventy-cight years ago, in a little stone office in Clarke county, Virginia, a boy sat poring cver the mysteries of a map. Twenty years later a soldier passed there on his way to Cambridge, M: The surveyor, the soldier was George Washington. ___ He was on his way to take command of the Con- ~tinéntal army. An army? Rather a handful of colonists, M4 arrayed against the military force of an empire. + But what a war those soldiers fought! The men who defeated the armies of an empire were led by 2 sense of oppression. But more than eAat. It takes more than an abstract sense of in justice to make a winning army. There must be we«Man among them who is greater than they, a man they can trust and confide in, 2 ~ He must be the one ready to step out like a flash at the proper time and call them to battle and to z death. He must inspire them. Mere sense of . oppression doesn’t do it. ? Such a man was Washington. But possibly the greatest test of his leadership came, not on bloody. fields, but at Valley Forge, where a miracle of brotherhood kept an army from disintegrating. Valley Forge remains a miracle in the history of all wars, a miracle of unselfishness, of heroism, wf brotherly love in the midst of ccnflict. Roaring guns break a man’s spirit, but it i: vom harder for the guns than it is for stalking misery. i And at Valley Forge there w: that comes with braving the guns. There was only starvaticn and a grim fight aganist an enemy that couldn’t be shot at. . the greatest leadership. Washington was the man s ‘who gave it. Mcving among the men like a brother ~ he went during that terrible winter, cheering, con- = soling, comforting. se Fighting under such a man as that, how would you have felt at Yorktown? To see Washington standing there, straight as the surveyor’s rod he of the empire. Would you have felt like cheering? The old elm at Cambridge, under which Wash- ington took command of the Continental army, is dead. But if you find yourself able to cheer such 3 a man now, the spirit of the Continental army still Fs lives, g $ ——_Bismarek’s first automobile show to be held next | week should attract many visitors to this ci * Every civic organization should cooperate to m 3 this event an outstanding one. This city is the Pt recognized automobile distributing center for a 2 wide area cf the state. No better equipped agencies Fi and garages are to be found anywhere. In fact F3 many of the establishments are of a size not usually 3 found in cities of 100,000 population. = The auto industry is one of Bismarck’s big enter- prises and the show will visualize what this great > business activity means to the city in capital in- ; vested, payrolls, service rendered and in the pro- meticn of this city as a real live commercial center. ~+-Kliminate the automobile industry from Bismarck and it would be missed in no small degree. This show is not alone for automobile dealers wh» look to this city for their supply, but for the general public. It will be interesting from many angles and Bismarck issues a general invitation for the people of this section of the state to visit this city and see the great strides made in the de- velopment of pleasure and business cars. Keep the dates March 4-5-6 open and come to Bismarck for three days of enjoyment. Tia Juana’s Deed It is a dreadful thing, this thing that has hap- pened at Tia Juana, in Mexico. It is almost un- believable that it could happen on the North Amer- ican continent in the twentieth century. American girls, sight-seeing in Tia Juana with their father and mother, were drugged and attacked, and how the entire family committed suicide because of their shame. ‘ This would be bad enough if it were an isolated case. But it is not. ="=wwn' to investigate, report that such things are not, out of the ordinary there. Men have been mur- dered, women have been assaulted, times without number, and the law has done nothing. Tia Juana, “apparently, is about as low a town-as there is on ithe face of the earth. Indeed, it is charged that the present investiga- tion into the assault on the two girls is merely a whitewashing affair, and that none of the ringlead- ers will be punished. One or two men without friens or influence may be shot to satisfy Amer- ‘indignation, it is added, but nothing more , Juan s none of the glory | That was the hardest kind of battle, and it took | Des Moines agricultural conference repor people who have always wanted this country to ride roughshod cver Mexico on every pretext will have new fuel for their fire now. We will be urged to extend a little Christian civilization to our benighted neighbor—at the point of the bayonet. But before you get too indignant over it all, just | "t been such a terribly long imilar to the outrage of Tia’ remember that it has time since things THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Right in Style Juana could have happened in almost any large; — | Fh American city. Recall C) Deeds just as foul and revolting as anything borhoods, It is terrible that such a plague spot should exist at our very door, But it is not an excuse for inter- ¢ talk. vention or w Mexico has had a stable government for only a few years. We have had one for a century and a half, but it was only recently that we cleaned out all our sink holes—if we have them all cleaned out. This government can properly ask the Mexican government to push prosecution of the guilty in! this last outrage. It can properly do little more. Meanwhile, nd American tourist is required to go | to Tia Juana. Pests President Coolidge, like his predecessors, is find- ing the occupancy of the White House a wearing, trying job. And not the least trying thing about ist on coming to the White House to have their pictures taken with him, it is the host of pests who to deliver long-winded and useless speeches to him, to ask him to preside at this and that function, to get their names in the papers as “calling on the | president.” Some way ought to be devised to head these peo- ple off. Anyone having legitimate business with the president should be passed, of course; but the publicity seekers and the petty busybodies—these should be kept a block away. It Didn’t Work The U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Gerald Chapman must hang. He cannot es- cape the penalty by pleading that he has a right to serve his term in the Atlanta prison. Too many criminals escape punishment, not by denying guilt, but by raising some technicality in | which the plain rights and wrongs of the case are | lost sight of. It is encouraging to read of one cas? where it didn’t work. Editorial Comment An Undeserved Black Eye (Minneapolis Journal) The executive committee appointed by the recent after a survey that farm lands in the twelve States rep- resented at the conference, including Minnesota, are now worth but eighty per cent of their 1913 08" value. If a physician were to tell a convalescing patient i i | Yeu recall the ctreumstances, of course; how two Reporters, who have gone to the Mexican border that he was not convalescing at all, but suffering a relapse, the shock might send the patient into just used as a boy, and into his hands is passed the |S¥Ch a relapse And after that the neighbors who a ; ee skies z ‘knew the facts would be pretty likely to send for sword of a master tactician, the leader of an army ag pretty lees some other doctor. How about these twenty-two farm-doctors? Ag- riculture is convalescing after a long illness. And right at this time they bring in a necessarily ex- +} parte report that agriculture is suffering a relapse Farms worth twenty per cent less than in 1913! |How? Where? In dollars and cents? Surely not! ‘in Minnesota. Let's dig ba advertising in The Journal files and see. In the late winter of 1913 a Chisago County farm of “241 level acres, no stones or stumps,” thirty- four miles from the Twin Cities, with 80 acres un- der cultivation, 80 producing heavy crops of hay, and the rest wooded pasture, was advertised for | $8.000. In Februray, 1926, we find advertised a Chisago Ccunty farm «f only 200 acres, 80 acres under cultivation, for $50 an acre, or $10,000 for the whole, Thirteen years ago there was advertised a farm of 320 acres, 220 acres under cultivation, forty-five miles from Minneapolis, for $30 an acre, including good buildings, fifteen cows, five horses, chickens, hogs, machinery and everything else. In 1926 we find advertised a farm of 225 acres, 185 acres under cultivation, sixty miles from Minneapolis, at $150 an acre, with no livestock or machinery thrown in. The advertisements figuring in these two com- parisons were picked at random. But they are not isolated instances. The higher 1926 values are ap- parent in any study of farm advertising. Let’s look at some more of the 1913 offers, A 640-acre Morrison County stock farm, highly im- proved, was offered at $25 an acre. Try to buy it at that price now. A Hubbard County, Minn., quarter-section was offered in exchange fcr a good used automobile. At Palermo, N. D., a 160-acre farm was offered in exchange for a good stallion. The owner cf a quarter-section near Ross, N. D., wanted to trade for a second-hand threshing machine. . Instead of de!lars-and-cents shrinkage in North- west farm values, we find a healthy increase. “The committee, however, speaks of the present “pur- chasing power or exchange valuc” of farm lands as being only 84.4 per cent of the 1913 value. If it means the farm’s value in terms of purchasing power of the farm’s cutput, the committee evidently is making its case by using as the present crop price average, the average for the last six years. Which is hardly a fair way ta figure, the last six years being water that has passed under the bridge. Just the other day we published cn this page a price index analysis showing that the farm dollar had averaged par for the last year. he sells—is 58 per cent above the 1913 index. But wheat is up 90 per cent from the 1913 price, corn nearly 60 per cent, potatoes 400 per cent, live poul- neatly 50 per cent. In view of all this, why try to convince the | hicago’s tenderloin of two decades ago, | San Francisco’s Barbary Coast of the days before the fire, New York’s Bowery of fairly recent date. | can show were commonplace in those neigh: | into the real estate ; Right now the average price of leading com- modities—things the farmer buys, as well as things { “What's the matter, Rillie?” £ had been ill a month!” Oh, do I look as bad ag thi ee | she asked, her voice tremblia, “I really wanted to look my best today. You see, it’s the first time I’ve wbeen out of the house since that yawfnl story came out in the papers” abopt yman and me, ‘ : I wasn’t intoxicated, Judy. >: in that Lyman was drunk until ‘an into that tree while trying to kiss me.” “Well, Rillie, why did Lyme An- drews not take the blame for it all? Why didn’t he s: been drinking? I don’t know. I haven't seen him the story came out, But the Fr Dp is getting so scandalous that T don’t think Dad can stand it much longer. He said he was going. over to have a talk with Lyman today and T came out to find him before d could get to him. If my father d only let me call Lyman up the ext diy, I think I could have made it all up with him. Now, oh Judy, Vm afraid Lyman will never speak to me again.” “Do you w hed in sur; stand how girl could want have anything more to do with any man who had shown such a yellow streak as Lyman had, y that only he hac sin him to, Rillie?” 1 T could not under- \ You OL RePRoBar) | | ‘Ou OUGHTA BE | ASHAMED OF YOour- | Seur. WHO Tair ia | ‘You You WERE 4 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1926 BEGIN HERE TODAY “Well, Ee ce eg rae pare y to get a real chance, ie best I've cheap hotcl in Grafton. Police | cabaret singing, as you know. find a woman's handkerchief and “Some day,” he said, “you may the yellow stub of a theater [get your chance. Whi you do I ticket. know you'll be a success,” JIMMY RAND, hia son, goes to “Maybe T won't wait the “chance Manaficld, where the theater Is. (now if it comes,” she murmured, id Art eke aie he cae “Why, wos do you mean?” He to OLGA ‘MAYNARD, a cabaret | Stared at her, be * “Oh, nothing.” She shook her immy meets and falls in love head and glanced up at him brightly. DRESSMAKER So saying one whi pig took Nan- Duchess of Doldrums.” The Twins could hear it die out, down the line of little black pigs to die out again. Then the other’ white card and shouted out, “The von Hyanlow!” And it went on down the line and | rid.” it is, Jim, she no right died out three. times tek: a hg mote Reaper Sabet “You're announced,” said the Pigs.| so she miss @ expression pain en ir you.’ ” But be sure and keep on} that flitted across his features. dv. he cried sharply, putting all in the Blue Laws Te ANOTHER CASE me | ( ey al iy see, I've got to make up with him? claimed. “You look as though you, Don’t you know that although I did nothing. more than you or any other of the girls have done, yet I got into a mess by the accident and now the Ss grown so big that dif I don’t. marry Lyman? And, he hasn't usked me! awfully fond of him and 1 in this town if I thought making: love to any EA Service Inc.) } started’ about it the wrong Way.” man,” fhe asked Olga, “or have you made|said when they had hl up. your mind?” Pwasnt: And [ didn't know for T looked behind “There's your y girl I think you if you don't 145 him, come to terms immediately I'll leave you now to T haven't much time lie, for I am getting ready do your stuff. Some people are’ unlucky cnoug! to think there is such a ‘thing: a: being unlucky. “Are you?” she asked in 2 tone of h Many nuisances formerly foun h homes are enjoyed by the working man now. if we buy all the attachments w want for our flivver the sheriff will come along with another. cago than marry ine man that was slowly coming toward I only stopped long enough to hear him say: , ought to get married, Kill.” you want to, Lyman?” st 255 : Can't tell if a wild locking’ man is writing spring :poctry or making out his income tax. J was out of hearing. (Copyzight, 1926, NEA Service, inc.) TOMORROW: Chuck Again. We always wish we were in some ¢ TWINS OLIVE RORRDTS BADT: What a sight met the Twins’ eyes as they followed Jupe through the door of Blue Whiskers’ palace! Two fat white pigs dressed in blue satin stood on each sido of the door with card trays in their hands. _ Beyond them s!+od a double row of little black pigs dressed in red stain with large white ruffs around their necks. There seemed to be about two miles of black pigs, standing up a: straight and stiff as pokers, Indeed thev lonked like black eandv p made of shiny licorice, and dr up as favors°for a Christmas party Between these two rows of little black pigs stretched a long narrow carpet, which got so pointed away off in the distance that it disappeared into nothing, Beyond that was a high\affair that most probably was a clearly. “It’s too far away to worry about now!” thought Nick, “but he whis- pered to Nancy, “No doubt our roller skates will be useful now. I should hate to walk all that distance!” That is, he tried to whisper it, but his tongue would not work. The two white pigs in’ the blue suits stepped-up to the visitors and held out silver travs “Cards, please,” they said in high squealing voices, sticking the trays under the children’s noses. Jupe was about to explain that the Twins had dropped in quite informal- ly and really hadn’t thought of bring- ing any visiting cards along, when higqastonished eyes beheld Nick pull a card from one of his pockets. And furthermore, Nancy took a card from her pocket also, at the very same time! Jupe leaned over to see what the cards said. And you may imagine how surprised’ he was when he read on Nick's card “Count von Hvan- low,” and on Nancy’s card, “The Duche: f D ‘When the T w the gurprised look on Jupe’s face at these elegant try 80 per cent, eggs around 40 pericent, and hogs farmer that his farm is worth less than in 1913, atest wir bi CURE, fe 2° Why" ‘ ‘worried farmer to take less for his place et names. they tried ever so hard to tell him that when they started ‘out on their adventure. they had been-nlay- ing a game called, “I'm a Million- sire.” Each card that game has a different name on it. and when the Fairy Queen telephoned Nick the card marked “Count von Hyatlow,” and Nancy had the one marked the “Duchess of Doldrum.” But they couldn't explain--poor einen Their tongues were too sadiv ney tried to tell all she couid say it next: ‘tirthday,” “ friend’s place without: knowing that then we ould: be out of place. and all Niek could say was, “Judy had six new kittens last week.” “We shall announce you,” said the little white pigs picking up the cards and looking them over approvingly. “We see you obeyed the ind chose your cards in ‘iue. ks of them are quite handsome. done in little bicycles and sea- hells and pig-tails. And we are gled r ve handles. They much more elegant to pronotine thing -abaut: winter. i: skinny girl doesn’t have to explain she can’t go swimming because her ARE YOU THE PERSON WHO RONS ‘THIS Ym THe RESTADLRANT 2? = PROPRIETO throne, if one could ‘have -seen it |’ (UBL alll = Sere [ALL RIGHT. L HAVE JOST FINISHED MY FIRST MGAC IN HERG, A To SUSCEST THAT OV PRINT, OF YOUR BIccs CF FARG, THIS SLOGA i) = 7 5 AT THS TOP with MARY, LOWELL, Later he “Come on. Don't stop.” She grabbed encounters" Olga. She faints | him more closely, swaying her shoul- when she learns police want her | ders, and he fell into her mood, for- for murder, Mary, out with esting everything but the fact that SAMUEL:,CHURCH, a wealthy here was music and movement and lawyer, seen Jimmy lift Olga ifto |a girl. ‘ a taxi and misunderstands. ‘he orchestra leader was bowing Olga tells police the stub and ‘again. “I hate to stop,” Olga seid as handkerchief. might have come she sat in her chair, “I want to into possession of a man who | keep on forever. “picked her up” two nights be- “I do, too,” he agreed. He sajd, fore. Jimmy receives several eyiae with his fork, “I hate to wake mysterious warnings’ to leave up: thate to face tomorrow.” Mansfiel but, ignores them “Why 2” Later he is attacked at night by “Well, you surely haven't lost two men. He esc: after seiz- {sight of the fect that I'm here try- ing a blackjack one of ing’ to find the man that killed my em, -father. I've never got over the first With Jimmy and Ma: es- shock of Dad's death. It was so ‘ tranged, Lines presses his ad- | geeaae ae unnecessary. I'll never gets ‘s forget it.” Te merey: Mliae Mary tells Jimmy “{ know.” She reached out and this when they meet-in a laid her hand on his. “And that-s Jimmy,: trying "to hurt her, ac- |what they’re trying to connect me curses her of marrying for mon- | with. God! How can they believe ey. He goen ‘hack to his room [such a ig of me. You don't, do and caliz ap Olgs,-asking her to lyou dim? | i : “No. You know I don't?” , f isarinciane “You don't believe ai “ga bad NOW GO.ON WITH THE STORY { woman, do you?” CHAPTER XXIit BAK compat ipa “Why, Jimmy, sitting in the hotel mezzan-| what ever pu @. thoi in your ine, saw Olga ‘Maynard approaching | head? Way should 12” jand rose to meet -hi “Pil have to| “All I've wanted to do, Jim, is to apologize for my appearance,” she|live. I’ve done rome things that ere ord Making ‘his hand. “You didn't ‘approved of in the best give me‘ much time, and I’m 0 ‘ou know what Lieutenant dressed for the street.” hag Day said about me.” | She was wearing a Yur-trimmed| “I don't care what O'Day says—or cloth coat over a blue worsted street anybody else.” dress, and a small tight-fitting black! “Jim, I want to‘help you?’ I’ try hat, beneath which her light curly awfully hard to help you.’ hair showed, | “You are trying now—you' are “You look fit to go anywhere,” hc|helping me, Olga. I can’t ask any answered. “But we're only going to| more.” some place where we can eat and) She was silentfor a moment. | hear a little music.” Then she said, “What else are you “And dance,” she asked cagerly.'trying to forget, Jim?” a “You know I’ve never, danced with| He shrugged his shoulders. “Why, you and you're a wonderful dancer. nothing, Olge: Nothing else, What T've seen you.” clse could there be?" “You've séen me? Where?” “It's a girl, isn't it?” she persisted. “Why, that ‘night you first spoke “Was i girl I saw you with here to me. I saw you dancing with the that. night: as 2 girl you were with before you came| He laughed, and lifted his glass of over te see me. ho was she? She, water to his lips. “There's no other was awfully pretty.” girl.” ree Saas He ignored her question; turned, She looked at him intently. ‘You'd his face away and bit his lip. inever make @ successful lier. It's ‘All right,” he assented, “we'll true, isn’t it?” ‘. a ae e, too,” He said in a low voice. “No, it’s We'll fo tothe place where I first: not true. There’s’ no, gi met you,” she suggested, “the Med-| She ignored denial. She. was not looking at him, and. what she’s: doing. She isn’t good “The Madrid. it--will be,” he said’ up hi nd. i with forced gayety, and he thought, ,“I mean it... You're too good for “If I'm trying to forget I've certainly her. You're too good for any wo- ‘They found a-table for two, and He rose from¢his chair. “You're while-she studied her menu card he talking! honsense* now, Olga. Come - looked across: the room and picked; on, we'll have to be going. It’s get- out the table where he and Mary|ting late. Did J tell you d have a Loweil had sat oon, that mever-to-be- new job? ,1 start to, work at seven- forgotten’ night: . He shut his eyes,| thirty tomorrow morning. reliving that evening, conjuring up| She’ followed him. “No. What are the picture of Mary and him.chatting| you going to do?” together. “[m going to drive a laundry He shook his head, resolutely put-| truck,” and he laughed at her look of ting the’ thougit out of his mind. | surp “May I suggest something for you,”|) “[ , don’t underdiand yeu the itrect. “You go ahead and order for me.| “Don't try to,” he laughed, “Look,” ai wil Be more fan." he, flashed] ne ‘aid, “Hdo you, remember, thie him @ gay si the first he ha t? It was just up the > dsscen from her in weeks. you fainted that ‘might and I i t you in the taxi and took you “You haven’t asked me to dance,” tome” His face clouded at the hments we |She said a little later. “Don’t you}recollection. want to?” “[ was ni the end of my rope It occurred to him that he must) that ‘night,” she said, clutching at have appeared a very dull companion. } hi: . “Jim, did you get to He ‘had been answering in monosyl- riously of killifig your- lables ‘to her conversational common- ? That’s how J felt that ni places, his mind far away. T felt as if I didn't have « fri “We'll start right now “You have one now, hee swered, throwing down his nap! ‘im, it and pushing back his chair. And th certainly do.” He pressed her they were on the-floor end he aban- arm and turned at her to find an ex- ‘| doned tbimself completely to the pression of horror on ‘her face. Choose your enemies ag wisely as/ musi you ao your ftieniss - * Th 2 {" “Look!” she eried. “In thet car!” ey danced: encore after encore. She pointed to an automobile, halted They were stilt-standing on the flo them in | clapping r hands, saxophone’s plaintive “tha: they laughed when’ they that the} p. to orchestra leader was bowing directly| closer car was the man with whom to them and ghat they were alone on|he had had the fight that night he The chief danger of going visiting] the floor, was shadowed. is you may find them at home. BY CONDO “I must say,” she laughed when| “It’s the man I’ve bcen looking Faldo sat down ‘ain, Sahat when for,” seried Olgas, “the man I, told you get your mind o: ing about!” Goesn't get off quickly.” - you abe\(To Be Continued) “Meaning” just what?” he asked. — “Well, when you make your ‘mind to dai a: dance, don't yor x Wacn' it tusks, the tee of ws oor || ‘Temperatures and i it there all alone, clapping like tng ooh re a ene, seen Road Conditions >-———______.____© It was, pe amelne’ 2 ft tke y chan; e jee ‘Music is a great tonic, ion't itt| (Mercury readings at 7 a. m.) Dancing to music like this makes you! Bismarck—Cloudy, 20; roads rough, want to live, doesn’t it?” slippery. She nodded thoughtfully, “And ii ria Cloud—Cloudy, 15; roads good. Mincty-Cloudy,, Toads rood. iy hel forge a es,” he said slowly, “it helps you) Mandan—Clou “roads . to ‘ Jamestown—Cloudy, 19; roads fair. oestinte ae set taetyer saan tge| | Hibing™ Cloudy 2 roads fat, ait : cigaret and offered the package Bye ae tly cloudy, 16; er. * th—Cl “T almost forgot,” he said. “You ManuatocClotdy, dos rota geod. 2 Winona—Clear, 17; roads Bochester—Clear, 18; roads slip- ‘No. 1 don’t Loa more.” He frowned." » I wonder if you realize how much you've changed? Cutsing out smoking is another thing.” “I've tried to Fiaice sine The use of the nickname startled him,’ sent a sudden pain darting through him. She was looking at him intently... ; “Shouldn't I have called you that?” "Mwy not? 1 call. you Olga, don’t y not call you mn 1? But,” he said, twitching the topic, “you. know you've’. never told me Les ates I gu ‘ou_know my ‘history pretty well. What's yours?” She was silent for a while, lookin down at her plate. Then she ssid, Til tell you, sometime, but not just now. Let's dance,” ning to find 4 ‘was begin RY it was tru on ee n't, with yo? Ck on tie stews.” FLL —%