The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 10, 1926, Page 4

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(Official City, State and County Newspaper) City Earnings More When the advecates of a Farmer Labor party start its active field work, they should explain to the farmers how the following situation will be corrected by such a political union: After year of study the National Indus- trial Conference Board reaches the following: con- clusion: The farmer's economic status, moreover, according to the board’s report, has shown a progressively declining tendency 1900, excepting during war when he had a temporary respi dellar of national income perscns in other lines of occupation, the farmer received in 185 cents; in 1860, 38 cents; in 1870, 40 cent: 1880, 31 cens; in 1890, 36 cents; in 1900, 46 cents; in 1910, 41 cen und in 1920, cents. Indications are that his share has not materially in- creased since, ever since If the farmer's condition is to improve he must either receive more for the products he sells or buy what he consumes reduced pri In either -in- stance, labor must pay more out of its wages in the fi instance and if the second condition is to obtain, labor must cither work a longer day or Tece! less for the products of its til. The hook-up proposed by a few idealists seems to fall far short of a perfect union. Part of the farmer's plight is explained on the ground that interest and tax charges increased h cyerhead about 100 per cent from 1900 to 1910 and nearly 600 per cent between 1900 and 1920, In summing up the causes of the farmer’s dif- ficulties, the report declares that while 60 per cent of the farmer's income depends on world conditions of supply, demand and costs, which are cut of his control, most of the elements entering into the ex- pense of operating the farm, that is the cost. of agricultural production, are determined by domestic labor conditions which place the costs for the farmer on a higher level of values than the world level cf values which determines the bulk of the Having to produce at a level of high costs, the farmer must mect competition whi producing at lower cost, limits the market for surplus in accordance with the abundance or scarcity of world crops. Employe Ownership Many great corporations have found that employ» ownership is the solution for much of the industrial unrest which unsettles ecaonomic conditions. The Standard Oil Company of Indiana has just an- nounced that it will turn over to its employes on March 31, $25,350,000 worth of stock. The experi- ment of employes purchasing stock out of their earnings was started’ five years ago and has proved a great success. The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey re- cently distributed $39,000,000 worth of stock to 16,- 8 employes. Nearly 40,000 employes of the Uni- ted States Steel Corporation hold stock in that com- pany. The International Harvester Company, Ameri- can Telephone and Telegraph Company and many others have found that employe ownership is a fine antidcte for socialism and general economic unrest. One of the reasons that Robert M. La Follette’s presidential campaign failed was his advocacy of ggvernment ownership cf railroads. He did not. secure expected support the great industrial enters. Employe ownershjp is possible without resorting to government ownership. Employes of the national telephone system Gwn approximately ten per cent of the stock of that cone =_The plan of. employe ownership is being developed along mere liberal lines each year and the result is quite disconcerting to those who seek to promote their political ends by fostering class struggles and by keeping worker and employer apart. Humanizing Ellis Island A couple of years ago this country adopted a new immigration law, stricter than any it had ever had before. ‘ ‘ : Tt was a law that was forced on us, so to speak. New conditions at home and abroad. had made ‘t imperative that the old policy of admitting to our shores anyone who cared to come be modified radi- cally. So the new law was given firm restrictions This was proper. The flood of immigrants was growing too great. America was discovering that new people, with alien customs and alien ideals, were coming in faster than they could be assimilated. ‘Nothing bas happened since the new immigration policy was adopted to call for an opening of the gates. The conditions that called for its passage still exist. America still has the right to pick and choose from among those who knack at its gates. But one thing has become increasingly evident during the t months; in minor details the pres- ent impgration law is radically in need of amend- There is, for example, the provision under which e Countess of Cathcart was temporarily excluded. commissioner st. New York—Mr, Curran—was r ‘ander the law, to decide her case There is too much re. matter. What is American wout- N. D., and entered at the postoffice at! { | Fifth Ave. Bldg. | nn ine tet eRe AUD ‘ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE who marry for | foreigners themselves. A Kansas woman, Mrs. Peggy Hull Kinley, whose parents and grandparents were born in this country, married a British officer. She came back last fall— and instead of being allowed to enter without ques- tion, as a free-born American citizen, she was ad-! mitted under the immigration law as a British sub- | Ject. Since the British quota was exhausted she could only enter for six months. Now she ist | leave—must leave desipte the fact that she was | born in this country of native-born stock. There are countless cases like this that fail to| attract public attentoin because the principles are | not so prominent as Mrs. Kinley. All in all, a great | deal of needless suffering and hardship is imposed | jon innocent people in this way. enate to iron out these | s. It would not relax the strict bars; against wholesale immigration. It would merely | make the law more humane and sensible. Let’s hope that it is passed. We must keep our | Veliey exclusion, but there's no on why we} shouldn’t make it a wee bit more elastic and leave | a little room for the exercise of personal judgment on the part of our immigration officials. | A Goal * British statisties show that only one passenger | was killed in a railway accident in England during ; 1925. Contrast this with the reports of: train wrecks that are so common in American newspapers. Railway travel in thi safe, on the whole; remarkably British figures set a goal that is still a | way off. | little | Pennsylvania has a grand opera debutante in Dorothea Flexer, 23-year-vld contralto. Little Rock, Ark., and Meriden, Conn., have contributed debu tantes to the Metropolitan Opera company. Is it possible the immigration laws are forcing us to recruit the grand opera ranks at home? | | ec | | | | | | Bryan's estate is valued mean that s it $668,303, which may lence is not always golden, Keep Your Eye on Bismarck (Duluth Herald) G Talking about lively towns with progressive citi- | zens who do things, keep your eye on Bismarck. The Missouri Slope country of North Dakota, has had a rapid and sub: growth during the last dozen years, and ems to have established | itself not only as the political capital of the state but the business center of all that rich river terri- tory. Last week the firsti automobile show ever hel: in that section was successfully staged. A feature was the thirty-two-pa automobile edition pub- lished by the Bi i Relief For Agriculture | | (Chicago Tribune) Farmers, particularly those of the middle west- ern producing center, make out a very good case in their demand on the administration that gov- ernmental help be given them to restore their ad- vantages to an equality with those of industry and | labor. Gevernors and agricultural leaders from the wheat and corn belts “are meeting in Washington and are asking a showd@wn. Their stand is that they endeavored to keep their case out of the realm of politics, with the result that they got no results. They are frankly threatening political retribution j now, and they look for a satisfactory answer. What tha answer will, cr should, be it is hard to predi The agricultural demand is for the Dickinson surplus control bill, President Coolidge has said he cannot approve such a measure. It is our belief that the remedy lies somewhere in between, just what we do not know, nor have encugh facts been brought out yet, as we see it, to warrant a final decision. What is important just now is that the adminis- tration, having recognized the need of farm relief, take active steps to supply it. The farmer's dis- satisfaction is not’ something that time will cure. The United States has alwayss been justly proud of its agricultural population. rope has peas- ants; America has farmers. In times of social un- rest it has been the country’s greatest comfort tr think of the sclid backbone of the nation, the farmer. To have the farmer justly dissatisfied is not a good thing for America. He has done too much, has meant tco much, for He welfare of the country, to be ignored. Too Many Laws (Danville (11}.) Commercial News.) From the midst of the lawmaking body of the United States comes a demand for a smaller out- put of laws. Senator Moses, New Hamsphire, has been lifting up his voice against the flood of legis- lation, and support for his view comes from the federal bench, A United States judge declared Saturday last that the courts are threatened with paralysis by the constant extension of federal ju- risdiction, especially in criminal matters, and by the vast masses of new laws that are all the time pressing for judicial interpretation and for enforce- ment. This is to say nothing’of the streams of enact- ments which pour from the state legislatutes. The plague of too abundant lawmaking seems particu- larly menacing when notice is taken of the way in which it is sought to bring private conduct more and more under regulation by statute. Senator Moses maintains that in addition to having too many laws they are too badly drawn. Efferts to correct’ this fault have, it is true, been made in some legis- latures and in congress. ‘But we are still without a sufficient body of expert bill drafters. In this matter English practice is superior to our own, It is impossible to imagine ‘an act.of parlia- ment containing sc. loose an expression as “moral turpitude.” : oN What was meant by this term in our own act of congress probably not one in ten wf those who} th voted for it had a precise idea. Yet here it is thrown into our federal law and now forced upon federal judges to make plain its 1 effect—if they can. Such loose lawmaking, when helps to explain that too commen, which Kipling described when he said t go lucky American flouts the law which he himself \ igners become, amma lone on a large scale,| Nick. = in Grafton. Police erchief and the stub of a yellow theater ticket. JANET RAND, hin daughter, breaks her engage! it with BARRY COLVIN, because of the | “divgrace.” JIMMY RAND, his non, goes to Mansfield, where the theater ix. The stub is traced to a political boss, THOMAS FOG- ARTY, who says he gave it to + OLGA MAYNARD, er. cabaret sing- Jimmy meets and falls in love with MARY LOWELL. Later he encounters Olga. She faints at hearing police want her for mur- der. lary, out with SAMUEL CHURCH, a wealthy lawyer, sees Jimmy lift Olga.into a taxi and | misunderstands, | Olga tells police the stub ‘¢ come into cme ‘man who “picked her up” two nights before the Jimmy reeeives mysteri ings to leave Manafield and later in attacked by two men but es- capes. With Jimmy and Mary es- | tranged, Church Pad Mary’s promise to marry him. Jimmy thinks she is marrying for mon- °. Jimmy and Olga, out one night, see a man they both rec- ognize—she as the man the stub, he as one of hi | ants. The man recognize hin that of IKE JENSEN. Church, motoring with Mi runs over a dog. His heartles ice picture as ness causes her to break their engagement. C8ga, at lunch with Jimmy, tells him that Church, because she had refused to have anything | to do with him, had persecuted her to the extent of causing her to lose several jobs. Jimmy sud- denly realizes that Olga is in love with him, and is deeply troubled. ft ANN NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXXVII utter a word; neither of them dared. It was Olga who broke the spell cast by the musie, She shrugged her shoulders and raised her hands in an airy gesture to utter a, platitude. “Oh well, and learn, Jim, But she dabbed at her eyes with the kind Chinaman, ‘You will find everything. You will also find your motorcycles repaired and waiting for Be. | You” ; into| “I’m sure we're ¢ ever so much ob a story? Ch| “EL should sa A NEW HOME story hind every girl who goes out | the world to work, is the: rund ever and said Nancy. said Nick. “No,” I answered Mamie’s query “T don't want to go home if I cai K a , ie ieky-|@, handkerchief, and something in pop’ frank: starving: Heters Walleel|aictoc or vel ye ines s| “Yes, indeed,” said Jupe and Hieky- spa itiatthd oy : ele M. nie, guess ‘pat SiGe caer | coon, ieee Home enemies dbus Are - : a Fey pnbe: ae cant een entoet 1 want to lead my life in my} I found the next morning that] “Don't mention it,” said the kind cen him and wrenched him. Then. he leaned forward and held her eyes with his, talking very f “Olga, if T do nothing else, I'm ing to see that you get a re after--after things are cleared up. I've got one or two things aga’ Sam Church myself. I~ think 1 make it a point to meet him and kee : if I can’t pound a few respectable notions into his head.” - “No, don’t do that, ‘ in alarm. “It won't do “| Chinaman. “And now you'd better 1 want to be independent. +4 Lex dea be going. own way. My father would think that I had gone straight to the devil if he knew I was working in a restaurant eheck-| went ov things up at ing men's hats, but I will stick it out. noon. She nted my order and until T can find something better.” | paid my Dill, asked no questions and| “Good for you, Julie! 1 knew you! answered none | had the right stuff in you the minute) © When her 1 : nks | I saw you. If you were . going to, @ming in, I I she Was very give up the very fitst minuge that! much disple She was one of aything comes up that makes you! those selfish women who thought she angry or hurts you, you're not fit to] was showing her for her daugh- working ‘girl. But I expect making her life miserable with Sellers had been over to the Black- tone telling all about me when. he found 1 wi But, Mamie fo Be Continued) (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) be } i expe: : Tell me what you have ag you're going to be a success, You'll on every subject. she knew ee Soon learn’ to weather the hard| nothing about, If she thought Mamie | Het repre ce eae Rp R AL kifocks as I have. You were almost! wanted to do something, it was just De oat ernee nie he anisms Fed, now,” he said hastily, “your frightened to death at Sterns, but|the reason Mrs. Riley decided it was | You sk you were determined not to lose your} the worst possible’ thing for her| Perhaps this Charleston dance was, ¢XPerience is something like the one 3 nerve. to do. started to boost the stocking trade.]!'ve just been through.’ “You'll work it out, old dear, and] The moment she saw’ me, she — Then he told her the circumstane TN help you all I can. If you can] looked upon me with suspicion, and| Those, who dance must pay the! ¥nder which he had lost his two posi- stand the gaff, stay with me on the job at the restaurant until you get a little money ahead.” “Why are you so good to Mamie?” The words came straigh' from my heart. “Because--because—oh, some! my dear, I'l tell you. my story. I cannot do it tonight. It’s too Tong. We must go to sleep now.” With this, Mamie Riley left me, but for a long time I was wide awake ions since coming to dow jansfield. hat do you make of “it?” he asked. you think somebody was behind it “If { knew that Sam Church could possibly benefit by it I'd think he Better sit in your old comfortable] “#8 behind it,” she said positively. chair all you can before spring clean- aceon, - cam eee iAb pene ae gc Sit. ig! vas in e 'y je firs! inmcenmes And eye tt time, but I can’t understand how he could get any satisfaction out of causing me to lose this latest job. She told him that he was being mysterious. “Why don’t you explain, Jim? Can't you trust me?” “It's just this,” he. said, with an attempt at lightness. I ‘imagine that ‘Chureh regarded me as a pos- sible rival when I was working in the railroad office.” “A rival? You mean for a girl?” He nodded. “But there was no yeason why he should continue to worry about. me. He's engaged to the girl’ now.” g Sh slowly, touching his hand with “And you—-cared for her?” It was some time before he an- swered her. » well,” he said miserably, care.” He over coming back from my room after I had deposited my trunk near the et door, I heard Mrs, Riley. say-| ing in that querulous voiee of kero: “I can't understand why you take in a strange girl, Mamie, who will probably work you out of your job at the restaurant. She looked like a Gesigning minx to me.” (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Ine.) corn doctor, To keep finger prints and dirty marks off your wall paper have it all pasted on the ceiling. Half the people who own pistols couldn't hit the other half. TOMORROW hean and Riley, Inc, y Blue », | Whiskers, the wizard, to keep people away from the palace ou know we were com- . + “1 was said Jupe. watching,” OLIVE ROBERPs BARTON | Chinaman. “I knew exact é stepped on the ele: So I pressed) It seems ta;work out that the more they reached China. That]}'a spring and do’ came and| silverware yay. sec-on the table the clevator on which the Twins,| brought you with it less food they. have. e and Hickydoo were riding,! Do you know where nogel aw ‘i hed China, 1 asked Nick. They all got off and looked around re all ready.” sa curiously. hey are in the elevator But no more curiously return at once. Chinese people looke coensnnentsa never seen ch hair or white. s fore, nor had th: much less kangaroo ; But the person who attracted the mosi} attention was Hickydoo, who stepped! jerkily along on his wooden legs und | stased stonily ahead. al must be the land whispered. Nancy Perhaps you are trying to use pull to open the door to success when you should just push ahead. Milk is healthy and besides the bottles are handy things for throw- ing at burglars. the kind when you There is a movement to make pa- per money. smaller. The man any of it already thinks:it is smaller. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) ‘Jim, was it the with that night?” His silence told her that it was girl I saw you of to An eager light leaped into his eyes, at sight..of which she clenched her ds tifl the nails left deep red ‘ks in her flesh. Indeed it seemed so, for the Chi nese ladies had dragon-flies embroid- ered cn their dresses and dragon- flies on their obis, or big hes, their fans had dragon-flies painted on them, the paper parasols were dec- erated with dragon-flies, and even the walls of the houses were orna- mented with them. “[ hope we can get a busirel some- where,” said Jupe. “We'll have to hurry, too, for that old bat won't let us past until we do.” Right then they passed a market. All sorts of things were for sale. nests, for, one thing, and vers, and rice both cooked and Then there were fish. Big fish, ish, and all sortsof fish. And Cherry ‘blossoms and iris! and big’red poppies-~all for sale! Everything but dragon-flies! Suddenly they came face to face the fat Chinaman with the pig. who had come down in the ele- vator with thein. He was still grinning saw the Twins and Jup y: doo, he stopped and repeated the|- very words he had said in the cleva- tor, “Ooly, hooly ony yang, sang werry But nobody knew what on carth, or what in China, he was gabbling abo Then suddenly he laughed and said in perfectly good American., “I just id that I was the Fairy Queen's ador to China, and I know why. you are here. She told me to be on ‘lookout for you. ‘but apparently she changed her mind.” harged him, and he «! starving . man clutches at a piece of bread. He thought, “If she was going to speal it was to. find. out—+jo get the ex- er.” ly though dismissed it. “She’ come to engaged,” AT HAVE~You Gor N THERE, EVeREtT'? the ‘8 not good enough to. be here's nothing I could do,” He felt as helpless as a swimmer car- ried along. on a relentless tide. He rose. “Come,” he said to Olg "ll take “you Where you're going. He managed a laugh. the lunch. It’s.becn a new experi- ence.” Ne m gding home,” she thld him: “Then Vl walk houre with you.” He would have left her at her door, ‘but she urged’ higr to come into her apartment. s ~“You've never seen it. Jim. You n tell née what you think of it.” He ‘went in with"her and looked around him and admired it. “You've got uncommonly fine taste,” he'told her, and failed to no- tice that she was trembling and bit- ing her under lip, as if to keep her- self under. contr . : He stuck out hand." “Well, 1" I suppose the z § + | teddle we ross old bat held you up on your adventures and wouldn’t let you past until you got a bushel of dragon-flie: for him. Isn’t that true?” - WHAT HAVE You Gor. IN: THERES , . stay: # while? You're in no. hurry, are you?” Mt have an Neel Colvin,’ es so much but he ‘thinks, them out of the way WEDNESDAY, MARC 2 i fet ae xa A long silence fell on them. The ‘Oh, we can't!” said Nancy. “We| A M have to get a bushel of Jersey mosey orchestra was playing | auitoes too, and a bushel of fuzzy ge Thy Sweet Veron tes oer tended to everything,” said) a" Delilah.” Neither of them coutd| G2 reasoned, Mand to al Thanks for| : 10, 1926 35 airs | He closed his eyes, throwing back his head and he clenched his hands ightly, conscigus that no matter it he did he was bound to hurt, “He's made life pretty bitter for both of us, hasn't he, Jim?” she half iid acta and raised her face to his... . And as he bent down to her kiss, this arms pressing her closely to him, he saw himself again as some cruel blunderer smashing the toy of a little ~~ child. Pas ated: Before Mary Lowell's eyts the keys of her typewriter, manipulated by her nimble fingers, clicked off the sentences as ‘she translated them from her shorthand notes. And in her fancy she could still ally to réad them over, two words,+ born of a troubled mind, kept danc- ing before her vision. ‘They were JIM RAND. And in her fancy she could still see his erect, broad-shouldered fig- ure, his smooth brown hair and level + eyes, his close-cropped mustache; and beside him, always, was a slen- der, beautiful girl—a girl with light- gold hair and violet eyes that were cool,” A girl with long black lashes {and black, high-arched eyebrows and delicately fashioned nose... . Her every waking thought was of those two, and her dreams, most of them, of him. The thought rose to taunt her that but for her unconquerable pride, he would have been hers... .‘* Happiness had becn within her grasp, and she had let it go, and that was the greatest tragedy that life contained. . . . She fashioned bitter thought into words: “And he said I was marry- ing, for, money .. selling myself for a iness of pottage. He was erucl; he tramped on me with his heel; -he didn’t care or he wouldn't | have hurt me so.” | Of a sudden she rose, passing her jhand nervously across her forehead, {and took her work into Mr. Hilton’s {office and laid it on his desk. j When she came back she sat a while in thought, the back of her hand pressed tightly against her “If only I had it to do over again,” she said. “I would never let it go again.” . And_then: “if it is not too late." god, please don’t let it be too late.” Hurriedly then, before she could change her mind, she wrote him a letter, ‘her checks the while as blood- less as the paper she wrote on. And the letter was a complete surrender- ing of the last vestige of her pride... . Abjectly it told that she loved him - that she had ‘broken with Sam Charch . ... that she would wait for a reply.... She sealed it and stamped it. two-cent stamp and a special deliv- ery—and, fearing that she would change her mind before she could reach the letter box, she rang the buzzer for the office boy... . “Paul.” she said when ‘he ap- ‘peared before her desk, “will you arop this in the mail box?” % “Yes, ma’am!” Paul was emphatic. “Thank you,” she |, and walked swiftly, to the window, where she stood and gazed with unsceing eyes, ‘fat the clouds that hung over the buildings of ‘Mansfield. Paul left her office, the letter in Halfway across the outer masculine voice, deep with . led him. aul, come here right away. want you to help the porter these désks around.” “Yes sir, Mr. Barnett.” Paul stuck the letter in the inside pocket of his coat and quickly and quite complete- ly forget all about it, ove Jimmy met Barry Colvin by ap- pointment and the two went to din- ner. together. “How about a show, Jimes?” sug- gested Barry when.they left the res~ urant and were waiking along the {iret ‘Something lively to cheer 8 up.” Jimmy was willing. His mind was filled with troubled thoughts. All through the dinner he had sat, word- less, as Barry chatted. He talked of the law busin ‘He had had a ‘busy baa i And Jimmy sat without hearing. Barry said, looking intently at him as they stood in front of the theater: “I hope the show is good. It will have to ‘be darned good to get you out of the dumps you scem to have {fallen in.” “Oh, excuse me, | forced a smile, : |. Barry strolled to the window and, {bought the ticwcts. *4Jed Black's” s here, Jim. He’s my favorite come- dian. I think he’s the greatest mas- ter of pantomime on the stage to- da: Barry.” Jimmy said Jimmy, quite without im. ot a tough job ahead of me,” went on Barry. “If I win this case, I’ have to be pretty good. I'm up against keen competition.” “Quite a feather in your cap if you iwin, eh? Well, here's hoping Barry. There was. a returning interest evi- {dent in Jimmy’s voice. “Yep, I met a-smart lawyer to-, jday, Jim. A heck of a smart lawyer. ‘His’ name was, lemme see. I’m not {much good at’ names. Oh yes, his name wae Church—Samuel Church. \a smart baby, Jim.” (To Be Continued) had) Se DET RYT {~ China imported 10,000,000,000 ciga- rets in 1923. > »