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

gp PAGE FOUR The Bismarck Tribune were wondering what sort of a backwoods country An Independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, America must be and all that? ‘land is on trial before his church board because, }a.sermon, he said he wasn't quite sure whether the Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at' a sort of devil. Bismarck, as second class mail matter. George D. 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White, at Bay St. Louis, Mit issued a ukase commanding all newspapers to abstain from printing any testimony in the murder trial of one Jesse Favre, he unwittingly directed the eyes of the entire country toward his courtroom. A trial that never would have been heard of outside of Mississippi gained front page space on newspapers as far away as New York and Seattle. Judge White's underlying idea was excellent. Hv wanted to insure Favre a fair trial. But he went at it wrong. According to this judge, if details of the crime, the court procedure and so on were printed and rea’ , generally, townspeople would become prejudiced, un- biased jurors would be hard to get and veniremen already chosen would be influenced. Thus Favre wouldn't get a fair trial. The judge is falling into a common error—an error that Mark Twain, fifty ars ago, noted in one of his books. Mark Twain pointed out the fal- lacy of presuming that an intelligent man is dis-; qualified from sitting on a jury merely because h» has read about the ¢: that is to be tried, and he declared that this practice, if strictly adhered to, would result in filling juries with the most ignor- ant, unread men in the community. In one of the news stories from Bay St. Louis, there was an item that shows very plainly how the judge is mistaken. A prospective jurcr, being ques tioned by Judge White, admitted that he had been “keeping up with the daily new “That's a mighty bad habit,” said Judge White. Then, under the judge’s questioning, the prospec- tive juror said that at first he had had an opinion as to Favre’s guilt or innocence, but that ha had abandoned it later. “The more you read the less you believed?” asked the court. es the man said. There is the answer. Any intelligent person can do justice to a case as a juror, no matter how much he has read abcut it in the papers. The judge’s words as quoted above give his whole argument away. Olaf and His Barney “Barney could almost talk, We were never sep- arated, Barney and I.” It was Capt. Olaf Manning, cf New York, speak- ing, a sailor, born and raised on the bounding main, skipper of his own craft these twenty years. And Barney? Well, Barney was no less than an Eng- lish brindle bull dog that Capt. Olaf had found in Sydney, Australia, when the pup was two days old, raised on a baby bottle at sea and taken around the world three times. Ncw Barney had been stolen. On the wall in Cap Olaf’s home is a painting of two ships struggling in the grip of a vicious sea. Cap Olaf had painted that picture himself during these long evenings cn the tossing deep. Barney, who hail fought the storms with him, enjoyed the peace of the boundless calms with him, romped ashore with him, looked into the glowering skies with him, sat hy his side and watched him paint, Barney was gone. You can’t blame a man, whether he be a skipper on the high seas or a landlubber, for the honest little * tear he sheds in times like this, In Cap Olaf’s voice when he told about Barney’s being stolen there was a break no actor could repeat, and a bereaved look in his eye that no lion of the screen could ever copy. We hope Cap Olaf gets Barney back. We hope that when the Cap starts on his next voyage over the horizon that Barney will be at his side. It won't be the same old sea for the Cap, without Bar- ney along. Likeable Young John Coolidge, son of, the president, had 1 fight the other day. It was perfectly legitimate, with no hard feelings; he boxed another student at Amherst College in a tournament. He gives evidence of sportsmanship in expressing a wish to meet his opponent again. He conducted himself well in the ring, too; fought hard, got slightly the worst of it, but acquitted himgelf with credit. , | Who's provincial and backwoodsy now ? Bravery A sailor in the United States navy deserted, was caught, and got sent to the naval prison at Ports mouth, N. H. On the expiration of his term he wa to get a dishonorable discharge. | hero, He jumped into icy water, risked his own life, from drowning. So Secretary Wilbur has commut- ed his sentence and restored him to good standing in the navy. Secretary Wilbur acted wisely. A chap like that cught to be valuable to any nav, j Pipi SS wie “The Good Old Days” A dispatch from London says coaching is coming back. Regular stage ccach trips are to be inaug- urated between London and Brighton this spring for of travel. lete; then, having done so, we bring the coach back modern equipages lack. Was there ever an era when men did not look back to “the goad old days?” | | Useless |The word, if you're interested, is “pitilacker.” Lovely, and expressive. But don’t stick it in you, dictionary yet. Remember “scofflaw”? Some men are so henpecked they call their Bem: room slippers mules. suit to wear. { | Aiming high | Editorial Comment —_—| Walking as an Art (New York Sun) setting prices. | | \ pass upon the vocations cf life, if only they do nov yield to the softness of modern comforts and con- veniences of wheels. The women who in certain parts of the world still carry their burdens for miles on their heads have kept a carriage which queens must envy. The men who walked or ran in the prim- itive chase had a physical development which ten thousand years of civilization have nct improved up on. Walking is the one universal art to save the race from physical degeneracy. Millions are dail; yielding to temptation of wheels when they would be better off physically, not to say financially, if they accepted the transportation of their own feet. Modern Youth (William Allen White in American Magazine) The pious activities of the grown-up world, all these movements t6 uplift the spirit of youth which theoretically should have made the modern a sancti- monicus prig, have merely sophisticated him and left him decent. He knows more than any other boy in the world, and on the whole is a better boy than any cf his grandfathers were, clear back to the Gar den of Eden. The “stable lore” of his immediate forebears has passed from boy consciousness. Even the farm boy knows less about horses and stock today than the town boy knew 50 years ago. And all boys, ccun- try boys, tewn boys and city boys, have an immense area of mechanical information about motors, spark plugs, mechanically applied electricity, mathematical calculations affecting the wheel. The boy of today in whose heart is throbbing the glory that shall be ours tomorrow knews much that the world must have. He knows it exactly by rule, by route and by measured reason. This boy lives in a world of copper and steel. He toys with the beau- tiful mystery we call electricity. He makes magic with static out of the ether. He and his kind are learn- ing the white magic of physics as their savage fore- bears of the jungle played with charms and amu- lets, signs and portents. The new boys are all medi- ciné men of the new voodoos. Their contact with motor cars and radiog gives them such a schooling in the practical aspects’ of mechanical engineering as no other generation of boys ever carried in their heads before. The extent to which the modern boy must use his mind is ap- palling. Oldfashioned men feel that the world is falling into decay since the woodbox was taken from behind the stove and the horse from the stall in the barn by the alley. They do not dream how much more mental activity the boy of today musi assume, if he lives in the world of modern boys, than He seems to be a mighty likeable boy. And that’s | "is father and grandfather grasped. more to his credit than it is in the case of the aver- age lad, for it would be so terribly easy for a young- ster in his position to get awfully spoiled and con- ceited. No hioral Here The boy of the 50s working with an adz and a draw- ing knife, made his bow and arrows, his turning bar, and a score of simple things around: the yard and barn. With these things and his work he built a strong body. The boy of today, whcse work is done by machinery, who lives in a house heated by oil, or ives ii itor | 9 jo T gas, or who lives in an apartment where the janitor ; HeaaAbee Sou Le chanla cae 1 oo a Remember the stories you used to be told about | does the work, would grow flabby and weak if he hari how such and such a man owed his life to the fact that he carried a vest-pocket testament? How hejhcme. “~~ “was shot and would have been killed if the bullet | and the ball field, renewed in body, and takes up his hadn’t lodged in his Bible, over his heart? There was quite a moral attached to it. It sup- ported the idea that it was good to carry a Bible. to depend upon the work that he could do about the But he comes home from the gymnasium task of mastering the intricate problems of the ra- dio and the motor car, a young giant refreshed. He is building a better brain than his father had, Mery well; what moral is there in the following? | equipping himself better for the modern life than A news dispatch from New York tells of a man who | hisfather equipped himself 50 years ago. He is not was shot at close range but escaped injury. He hadja prude. He knows how the world is made and the a deck of cards in his vest pocket and they stopped knowledge does not hurt him. He and his sister Modern Youth, lock the modern world squarely in the eye, free born spirits, unafraid of their prob- All right. Now let us laugh. A paster in Hol-— serpent in the Garden of Eden was a real serpent or | But one day at Portsmouth he showed himself «| those who admire the picturesque old-time method | So it is, always. We rack our brains to invent ; automobiles and airplanes to make the coach obso- ; anyway because we find it has something that more | | A New Jersey woman wins ‘a prize offered by 2) humane society, which asked for a word defining one | | who is indifferent to the sufferings of an animal. | One worry a poor man never has is about which | {but don’t you wor Walking is an art that most men and women are | able to acquire or recover, and without serious tres}! If at First You Don’t Succeed BYGoun / | iS A BLoonm' BLL POSTER. IVE TURNED OU | “To @F | | EXPLANATIONS: “Of course, will keep me here you are rooming at our: apar I bet you'll hardly get out the when he'll come her enough for that man “Say, Judy right there, went out. “You'y your friend Mami had in all the world, is my best friend.” Judy, not your best friend, sent to count me. i one on earth will be a better £ you than I if nting along T hardly Jimmie. You know friend.” Jimmie Costello looked so hurt I hastened to assure him that 1 he w us good # friend as nie “But not » Remember that, THE MARCH HARE IN ‘SCRUB: LAND everything. Naney. “Do I scrub them?” asked Rub: th my soap called ‘Fairyland $ jcial’ and then I take my big brush here and finish the job right. Their Years! Oh, their {their hiding-holes, 1 mea Dreamland.’ spectacles and a big book, over und oyer to himself, “Thi the other one to follow.” “It’s the March Hare!” cried Ni: “Hello, Mister Hare, don't you r | member us ?” ; then snapping his book shut, ear, | “Well, if it isn't Nancy and Nick he almost shouted with jo: the iz people?” “The spring people? Who we they?” asked Mister Rubadub cu {all about it. eae Man and the Hurdy Gur an lems. Of such, despite the cackling dolor of the|” and—" ! “Oh, those?” said Mister Rubadub,| | “Sure, I know them alt. They’re oldi friends of mine.’ z: ae ea iriiereseniageot and the Coons al foud and, oh, just every cleaned and they would like to slip! he sticks in hix pocket without right off to the Land-Where- ated showing Jimmy. us,| NOW GO ON WITH TE STORY You see they do’ WN WAY i not take any- nice thing that would be for wouldn't it, Rubadub, with the Fai Queen depending on us to have every thing all spick a “T should think so, “L should think so. ly 1 Mamie, “Sterns ust as long as he jcan tonight, Julie, for he knows t ucked me a little elo: don’t, Jimmie, for tail, as good a friend pu Wane) (Copyright, 192 it. T've never come off second best Rs t and I do want a when he’s tried to baw! me out yet. “What do you , take x taxi or do want to go into the first eating place | we come to?” “That's much better. Jimmie remarked zs we said something,” 1 an- Mamie Riley is the best never dreamed a girl could=be #0 sweet, and sincere and honest, Why, Jimmie, when I see her smiling at all those satyrs who think that the are flattering her, I can only thin| of a lily in a muck bed. Yes, Mamie ‘As we passed in liantly lighted window, Jimmie Cos- | lo stopped short and twisted me} Fine thing about summef ik when you get your underwear on ‘outside in the buttons don't feel cold. ‘Judy, how long have you heen ” bout two months.” nd have you had to stand the in solence of those men all that time?” “No, I didn’t nave to all the time,, but if I were not listening to their insolence, | would have been listen: | the ir compliments which was | come to the conclusion | i n, Onions are cheaper than’ twin beds. you'll let me be so.” d like to sec a centipede doing you in our old home town and now The weather's been in cold storage u want me to let you be my best Man who adds up cur bills must he a spreading add Service, Inc.) | ps is often a fish line, TOMORROW: Nat-Cheeker's | moncy. require deep thinking. ju will learn when The most fun in the world is when ip hites her tongue. foresight is better than e saves nine. Tha' e it Now to busi-| has been give: OLIVE ROBER?s BARTON with candy 2” Rubadub, peering o i ch Hare’s shoulder Ms in telling your the big book again. are Isn’t_ much harm “What can we do to help you, Mis- enough divorces atr ter Rubadub?” asked Nick when the fairyman of Scrub-Up Land had fin-, ished telling the Twins all about “But you have no idea how hard it is ind some of the rascals. “What rascals?” asked Nick. Squirrel boys and the No matter how much you belittle tl y come back strong. pe U didnt 1920, NEA Service, Inc.) |} think it might have been better for “Oh, lots of things,” said Mister Rubadub brightly, “Icertainly have my hands full. You have no dea how stubborn some of the woodfolk get when I go t» give them a good scrubbing to make them presenta- NO, SIR WAIT A MINUTS — “Oh, do you scrub them?” asked | dub shaking with laughter. “Oh, not Not at all! I just put them into 1 washing tub and lather them ail over ALLIANCES 4» UstTH 8. Just then who should come around; the corner but a large rabbit with! next and that one after that, then! that one next and the other one to} follow. This one next and that one} | after that, then that one next and recognizing the rabbit at one The March Hare looked at them over his glasses: for an instant, and he} hurried over, grinning from ear to | How could I ever forget the way you, helped me one tiie to waken up all! j ously. Fairymen are like other pco-| ' ple, you. know, They hate to be left out of things and he wanted to know “Don’t you know!” said the March! Hare jin an astonished voice. “The ly Man the Scissor Grinder and the Cir- cus people and the Easter Bunny “I. started out a bit carly — thia: y the March Hare. “I rang} all their doorbells 2 week or two} ahead of time to warn ‘them they would soon be needed. That's why I} | “need much help, my dears, As! ” TUESDAY, MARCH 1 BEGIN NERE TODAY HENRY RAND, 55, a business man, is found murdered in a cheap hotel in Grafton. Police | find a woman's handkerchief and the stub of a yellow theater | Uekef. JANET RAND, his daughter, breaks hee engagement — with BARRY COLVIN, because of the “dingrace.” JIMMY RAND, | his son, goes to MANSFIELD, where | the theater in. The stub in t fo THOMAS FOGARTY, a politi- | cal boss, who says he gave it to | OLGA MAYNARD, a cabaret | singer. | | | { Jimmy meets and falla in love with MARY LOWELL. Later he e Lali tad ise oad at hearin, want ber for mur- Mary out with SAMUEL wealthy lawyer, nees Olga into a taxi and Jimmy li | misunderstands, | Olga tells police the stub | might have come into possession | of a man who “picked her up” ; two nights hefore the murder. 1 Jimmy receives mysterious warn- ings to leave Mansfield and later | is attacked at night hy two men, | but escapes. | With Jimmy and Mary es- | tranged, Church gets Mary's ; promise to marry him. Mary tells Jimmy this when they meet ; and he, trying to hurt her, ac- | cuses hee of marrying for money. That evening Jimmy and Olga see, in an auto, a man they both | recognize—she as the man who got the stub, he as one of his at- tackers. The man and his com- | panion escape. Lat they rec- | ognize his police picture as that of IKE JENSE: | Church, motoring with Mary, | runs ove? a dog. His heartless- | mess causes her to break their | engagement. Mary writes Jimmy i a letter, telling him about it. | The office boy sticks it in, his | pocket and forgets it. Jimmy gets a phone call late at night from Olga, saying she ; has found Ike Jense Her voice | ends in a gasping cry. | Jimmy calls police and rushes pee her apartment. She ix gone. | He and O'Day search the place finds a picture, which CHAPTER XL Jimmy swung around suddenly, to ‘face O'Day as the latter was button- ed Mister] ing his coat. The police lieutenan' But | colored guiltily and tried to hide his first,; fi behind a sudden fit 0: But if he: had not: liar in the y did not betr demeanor, y it. Instead, ed anxiously, Vhere do you suppose can we even begin to look for her?” O'Day, relieved to find that his ac- tion of hiding the picture — in pocket had been unnoticed, said loud- y ive me time, Rand, give me “These women.” he added. half dolafully, half humomous! al ways causin’ trouble. It's’ cherchic Ia femmie--or whatever you call it in your faney French—-for sure now. The policemen that O'Day had {sent out to search the neighborhood ume straggling back. |“«Nothing do reported. “We've to’ every house in the block. rooming (2 in the neighborhood, and they all, swear they never even saw any one like Jensen hangin’ around O'Day: turned to Jimmy. hat time was it you got the phone call? “| don’t know exactly. It must ave been about midnight. I called you immediately afterward.” it was just midnight when He turned to his men. Jensen wouldn't dare to this neighborhood. I ind anything.” addressed himself again to Jimmy. “We showed poor Maynard locked up when we had her. flowers., Fei hae We should have kept an eye on her all the time.” Jimmy’s anger flare didn't think you'd say ‘I told you so’ at a that about her and the poor girl might be dead for ail we know, Why--” aby ‘There now, lad, don’t take it to heart. I didn’t mean anything. But if she'd been in jail.” “Lock the, barn door after the horse O'Day challenged. “You seem to take it for granted that she has,” restorted Rand. “If I go, you'll understand why later. In the meantime we're not gettin’ anywhere standin’ here and arguin’.” “Have you got any what took place?” “Theory, and that’s all. Here it is; She called you, you say, to tell you that she had seen Jensen go in the house, across the street. Her hat and Oat aren’t here—-at least, not a hat, that’s ordinarily worn on the street—so we'll take it for granted she was out some place and had seen Jensen just before she came in the ‘house. “At any rate, she evidently wasn't watchin’ from the window, or her ‘coat would be here. “We'll say, then, that she was com jin’ home from‘ downtown—mayb from a theater or something-—and’ that Jensen was hangin’ around the | neighborhood and trailed her home, “We'll say that he shadowed. her from the other side of the street, an’ she got nervous or something’ an turned around an’ saw him just as h passed under that street lamp on th other side of the street. _ “She said he-had gone the hous right across the way. All right, that’s the one oppostes the lamp. See?” He led the to the window, theory as to her turn an’ look at him, tried to cover up by turnin’ into the yard of ‘that house, By -walkin’ up on the oul # Nt the impression ‘was goin’ inside.” = _ ssed. “Followin’ me?” he ! ” Jimmy begred. “ icundegioveibie eheteh eer tae | “AN tight. Just a theory, mind ‘ou, but good as far as it goes. -.| There's\nothin’ better to go on yet. “Now then. She has seen Jensen an’ recognized him, Mayhe she jumps or bétrays herself somehow so Jen- sen knows that he’s been recognized, ‘Maybe “she gtarts runnin’ into the house after seein’ him. At any rate, rit say ot Jensen. we he's n recogn’ an’ it. Ole doesn’t know that Jer 4 = Shadowin’ her. “Now then, what does she do? She judgment. in not keepin’ this Olga! ‘time like this. You're talking like; “Then we'll say that Jensen, seein’! 6, 1926 the door. We'll say she doesn’t even jturn the light on, because, in the | first place, she knows the lay of the land in here an’ she doesn’t need it. In the second place, she’s in a hurry an’ got her mind on phonin® you. In the third place, the light from the. dow might hetray her to Jensen across the street. | “All right. Now it's my opi ithat Jensen, if he's got y dirty | work on, has got someone with him, | Maybe the other guy’s followin’ in jan automobile.” | Jimmy nodded. “That's reasonable. , There were two ofthem, you know, the night he and Il—" “Exactly,” broke in O'Day, and | dimmy felt a sudden admiration for ‘the shrewdness the other revealed in his clear, straight thinking. { “We'll say, then,” O'Day con! d, “that Jensen had someone with him. On that theory, we'll say that the signalled for the other fellow to catch up with him an’ then the two of them came in this building. | ‘The girl's at the phone, Maybe it takes her quite a while té get your number—” i Jimmy interrupted. “It must have * been quite a while. { heard the phone ! ring downstairs in the hall and, not {knowing it was for me, I didn’t an- i it away but sat there and j ig. Then I went down—" {. “All right. That fits, then. It at jleast is long enough to let Jensen and whoever’s with him come in the {door downstairs and sneak up here. | There's heavy carpet on the steps. [ ‘ noticed it-as I came up. Now, she’s got you on the line an’ she’s tellin’ you’ she’s seen Jensen, an’ for you to-hurry up an’ get here. Just about that time, Jensen an’ the {other one with ‘him tiptee in here ‘an’ grab her. That'd be when you j heard her holer. | “Or maybe she hears them an’ ‘turns around an’ then gives out a yell when she sees them. At any ‘rate, we'll have to suppose that they clapped a hand over her mouth, or | hit her on the head, or did some- ‘thing to keep her from screaming. If ‘they hadn’t, an’ she had yelled, she'd ‘have aroused everyone in the build- ing. My own opinion is that if they came in here at a}l they chloroformed her, if they had been bent’ on killin’ 3,” put in Jimmy, “they ted to question her to see ho’ id on Jensen.” admitted O'Day. “Now opinion about the i can’t imagine anything different from what you have described. It looks very much as if Jensen” had kidnaped her. Probably he and who- ever was with him did chloroform her to keep her from si 3 just a !O'D: ive ‘us any kind of clew to what hap- ipened. The only thing at all was that mussed-up rug. Looks as if she might have kleked it when they grabbed her, { “And,” O'Day added, “that's just fone theory. “Do you want me to tell you the other one I have?” , There was a mysterious ring to h ‘words, Jimmy thought, and a qu teal expression about his’ eyes. “Yes, go ahead,” Jimmy answered. | “Well, before 1 tell you, let_me ask you not to rear up an’ get hot- iheaded again. Wonest, every time I air my views about ‘this Maynard rl you get on your high horse an’ act like you're goin’ to take my Jimmy lsughed. jtenant. I'll behave.” | An’ you'll let me finish?” | “Yes, PIL let: you, finish. I won't {interrupt once.’ ! “All right, then. Now I've just ex- plained that what I've heen sayin’ is one theory. An’ you'll admit it ounds reasonable,” dimmy nodded, “An’ this one is just as reasonable. [v's just this. Supposin’ this girl really was implicated. somehow in your father's murder, Suppose she hasn't been elfin’ the whole truth about it. Now she's succeeded in con- vincin’ most people that she’s en- tirely innocent, “but there's. still a cloud hangin’ over her, you might say. : Nom, apnnen eke thinks it’s time ‘or her to do the di arin’ ? What could be better, of more. con venient, than to frame a |tike this here?” He waved jabout him. “Let me finith now,” jhe reminded Jimmy as the other was ‘about to interrupt. ; “Now, that’s every bit as’ reason- jable as the other theory, an’—” | An interruption came fom an un- 70 ahead, Lieu- ‘Of course,” said Jimmy hoy. expected quarter. It was the tele- - 0 EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO coe 0 “Well, how,do you know she hasn't! instrument in his hant taken this way of flyin’ the coop?”! AND /T’/s OUR MORAL DUTY To ENTER THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS BE- CAVUSC...- aay waved icked up the 8. “Probably from headquarters,” he jareated, ane aa, “Hello.” \ le pressed the transmitter against his chest. “It's for you, Ran ia ‘He held out the telephone to Jim- my and the latter, about to take it {in his own hands, abruptly stopped. |A queer expression came over his | face, i “For me?” he repeated. “That's ae es oes, i le raise is hand, checking | O'Day, who still held the phone a | tended. | (“You take that call," he shot at O'Day. “No ané “on God's green eh is supposed to know where I {am! i (To Be Continued.) ig HO! | ‘As T live, saith Lord Ged, 1 | have no fi ‘ickede eat Oe eth of the | O mighty Caesart dost i low?” Are all thy Mnaeatts ies ries, triumph: ils, shrunk little measure “TShakespeare. ‘ate i saa phone bell _ringin ithe others aside ss 3 it | be ba i | i i \ { | a ee =