The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 14, 1926, Page 4

abandon the ultra comfortable, ultra smart sleeve- less and short-skirted gown in order to conform with His Majesty’s rather olf-fashioned ideas of feminine modesty, The Bismarck Tribune THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1878) | Tribune Company, Healthy Industry | *b. and entered at the postoffice at; 4 nation-wide survey, made by the National Asso- ; second clasa edna isa Publisher | “iation of Manufacturers, shows healthy business | ‘conditions in all parts of the country. ‘The survey | Subscription Rates Payable in Advance ec manufacturing plants in thirty basic indus-, by carrier, per year........... sees ‘tries and showed that the industry of the nation is| ail, per year, (in Biamarck). ++ 720| running on the astonishing rate of 84 percent of | | capacity, with unemployment practically non-ex- | istent—an unusually healthy summer condition, i When the industry of the country, is running at! 84 per cent of the maximum capacity at midsum-' ‘mer there seems to be no good reason for a pes-; simistic attitude on the immediate future, The re-| j ports current on diminishing sales are probably only | matter of postponement. Certainly the panic that | intermittently discussed, with the conviction that it may, at any moment, overtake us, has failed to; j arrive, and with industry in its present sound condi- | tion there seems little indication that it will. —. Published Yismarck, N. Sismarck, as Gegge D. the Bismarck " Member of The Asecciated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the, use.for republication of all news dispatches credited to ft or not otherwise credited in this pa) and also thelocal news of spontaneous origin pu! lished here- fa.? All rights of republication of other matter herein are also reserved. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT —— on Bidg. | Would a Lottery Help? Fifth Ave. Bidg.! Premier Poincare of France has suggested that | ToWleial € StF F—— | one Of the surest ways to help rehabilitate France| (Official City, State and County Newspaper) age be bala —<——— {financially would be to authorize a national lottery, | i is is eve y done in some other countries. The } Arsenal Explosion baa edited ; ; ; The <A eetles felt sale sympathy toward | gambling instinct is so universal, he thinks, that it hel hundteds nade ‘homeless, the maimed and the | MIeht Just ax well be capitalized for ithe benefit of dleajl—results of the explosion of vast stores of naval | the nation rather tna eo toe ee aminunition in the naval ammunition depot at Lake Yate gaming establishments, ' Detmatk, N. J. ‘The scene, after the two or three! It would mean legalized gambling, but perhaps days which followed the initial explosions, caused |the end would justify the means. Certainly under by lightaing, was that of a war-devastated, shell- government supervision such a drawing would be wn tance. f Hire: however, the. clement of chance fair and impartial and the losers could gonsole them- reg mischance was even more pronounced, for the | Sleves with the thought that they had helped their shells were not aimed but merely flew in all direc- | jcountry in expiation for the moral lapse represented | tions, spreading death and destruction throughout a\°¥ gambling. notmally peateful-and thriving community. a‘ The usual hysteria was somewhat allayed by the Track Inspection prompt and effective military patrol which was A number of railroad accidents have been re- thrown about the danger area and it was through ported lately where spread and defective rails have the hereje efforts of the men composing these mili- /caused a large toll of death and injury. Most of tary nnd naval details that many more were not , them, it would ‘seem, could have been avoided by killegfand injured. careful inspection of the right-of-way. It is to be} ‘Tie hysteria even communicated itself to Wash- feared that the railroads, in their fever for a for- ingt@for we find Senators Edge and Edwards tak- | ™ula for economical operation, are neglecting the ing some of the fireworks of the explosion to them- {Cardinal point of safety. They have no right to; selves in denunciatory statements concerning the Samble with the lives of passengers for the sake of placing of the explosives so near civilization and ad- | a slight decrease in operating expense. vocating that the.ammunition should be stored some- eon ee er where far from corigested communities. Home Demand Strong These senators figured without their host, how-| At no time in the history of the world has the de- 1 ever, for immediately thésg statements were made, | mand for a personally owned home been so strong. the influential persons of the communities where the | This is the fact underlying the: unprecedented suc- arsenal was situated made he protest against cess of real estate developments and the unusual the rémoval of the ammunition stores, claiming that | activity of the building trades. these communities had grown up al the arsenal; The desire for a home of one’s own has always and that the arsenal was an economic recessity foniiieees a strong trait in the human character and it the affected district. They asked that thé-.arsenal'is encouraging to realize that this has not been sac- be not moved. ~ rificed in the modern struggle after material gain And that is the sensible viewpoint. The explosion} and a “higher” civilization. should be a great lesson that in the future no ex-).” "ae plagixes be stored where lightning can cause another major catastrophe. Under ordinary conditions yf Editorial arsenal is no worse than any other industry. Of Comment course, all things should be done to remove the ex-| plosion: hazard, but certainly there is no good ex-| A Railroad Finds Woman Wanting cuse for moving these vast stores of naval supplies. __ St. Paul Dispatch) saa ; Decision of the Union Pacifie to employ no more| Fe Taxi Medals women is a surprising-step, because it is an unusual Paris is about to try a pretty little scheme which | 0Pe. Pagis hopes will encourage careful driving on the ,i8 marriage, which has a way of-depriving industry aa of taxicab drivers. Briefly it consists of a sys-| of its most efficient feminine ‘dmployes. The sec- tem of the award of medals to the drivers who are ond recites that women lave -been slow to adapt tip operation of their conveyances, ble for executive positions. The twe ‘explanations hac time a passenger notes that his driver toots'ate not unrelated. Probability of marriage always hig horn, careful at the crossings, slows up for every , has influenced woman's attitude toward employment: traffic jam and in éther ways comports himself as’ and handicapped her advancement in industry. It a Super-careful driver, the passenger is supposed is difficult for a person who regards the task at: to:report this to the company. After so many “‘cita- hand as temporary to give it the study and time to tigms” of this character the driver is then awarded a insure fitness for enlarged responsibility which prob- “legion of honor” medal which he will, theoretically, ,ably will never come. The extra diligence is an ex~ prdudly display on his manly bosom, teellent investment for the future if the future is t6 Vell, perhaps a French taxi driver will, but it’s a be industrial employment, but the woman who hopes 8 bet that no self-respecting American taxi and believes she is to become a home maker natur- driver would. Why, if an American taxi driver at- ‘ally hesitates at attempting to master the intricacies tefpts to be careful and blows his horn’ for cross- of a business of another sort. Nevertheless woman ings-and slows down for traffic jams and in other has done handsomely by herself in industry. Her ways impedes the quick transit of his passenger, said success is one of the revolutionary developments of p r will very soon report him to the company American life. It has made her a creature with vast —unfavorably—and after vocally scoring him as | 4dvantages over her predecessor of 50 years ago. She engaged in a pursuit not fitted to his particular tem- | has been emancipated from dependence. She is not | perament. \compelled to play the clinging- vine role. She can gAmerican passengers like their drivers wild. They scale the heights of industrial management if she want them to make tremendous speed. They like ! makes up her mind to it. the sensation of being unerringly piloted through traffic jams that fairly turn the hair gray. Pub- | ligy, the passengers rail at the careless taxi driver, but actually they wouldn’t ride in.a slow taxi if a | Now it is old Georges Clemenceau who makes a! fabter one was to be had. [grand gesture for France. He takes his pen in ‘hus we think that the medal system may work hand and writes a letter to President Coolidge, first ders in Fran¢e, but we doubt very much that it . taking care that copies shall be supplied to the press would be a great success in this country and it is our | in advance. Q) injon that our hard-boiled taxi driver would care It is the payment of that so detestable war debt more for the tips in their pockets for fast and furi- ‘that arouses the ire of the octogenarian “Tiger.” He ous driving than medals on their chest for slow and (serves notice that France shall not be enslaved. & ae driving. France is not for sale, even to her friends. Her : —_ treasury is empty, and she must not be asked to| a The King’s Wish ,sign promissory notes that might mean eventually, of the most amusing bits of news which has | taking over some of her sacred territories. “Inde- out of England in a long time is a dispatch | from Cowes, where the famous yachting regattas e place, to the effect that King George has ex- pendent she came to us,” he says, “and independent. we shall leave her.” pressed his disapproval of the sleeveless, short-skirt- gown for women and that in consequence there There is much more of the same tenor. The valor of France at Verdun is cited, the pouring out of been a “remarkable reversion” to former styles athong the younger women. blood and money to save the world. But it all comes leavens and earth! Can the authority of a king down to the old proposal, that the people of the! United States and not the people of France shall nowhere? Why should the fact that King does or does not like a certain style change pay back the Liberty Loans whose proceeds were dress habits of anyone? Are these younger lent to France. It is a gesture and nof an argu- ment. hoping to indulge in flirtation with His Maj- d do not wish to displease his eye when they polio cE i The Clemenceau Gesture (Minneapolis Journal) | Secretary Mellon says that the war part of the French debt has, in effect, been. forgiven in the set- tlement now pending, and that France is called upon to repay only what was ‘loaned her after the Armis- tice. But when gesticulation begins, facts like this are forgotten. The generosity of the American set- tlement, adjusted to French capacity to pay).is over- silly as this seems, it is as sensible a rea- ascribed to such a silly action on the And yet, behind the tears and is in Two reasons are given for the move. The first! § t often cited by the traveling public for care in| themselves to their work, so they havg been ineligi-| by { And the second trip, | In a Political Grave-Yard | moosed afterward, as many suppose, why would he want to make it ap- pear that there was no way. for him to get out? Why not do his killing and walkeoff leaving the front door open behind him? f can’t get the reason for his secrec: For his try- ing to make it look as if he escaped by supernatural means. “That’s a point,” cried Todhunter That's a point that’s zzling me, -and I've got my 1 ae ae BEGIN JIERE TODAY MRS. PRENTISS, who suffers from insomnia, sees lights mysteriously appear and disappear in the HEATH household next door one night, an the next morning HAKBUn GAR- DENS, Long Island, is with the der of MYRA HEATH and the d@ivappearance of Perry, her husband. in, neither. But Mrs. Heath, now, she gave her orders, and then she just took for granted they was ci ried out! Yes, that’s ra Heath all over. She'd give’ implicit and ex-| plicit directions to that bunch of servants over there, and she'd as- sume they’re all obeyed to the letter. Land, they .ain’t! She always held her head so high — regular Johnny Look-In-The-Air, she was! Well, poor thing, she’ll never hold her head high again!” 5 “Her then?” ‘ 2 {'Oh, loyal, in a way. They liked = for all her airs, but of course, ’s human nature to scamp service if nobody's looking.” “Oh, sure. But do you think the servants were up and about at that hour of the night?” “You heard what the girls told at the inquest.” “Yes.’ And they seemed honest) awd .straightforward,. Emma let Katie“in and then went back to ‘her room. Katie visited the icebox, and then went to her room.” “Ye Mrs. Prentiss spoke dubi ‘That's what they said. And enough ‘twas true. But what ie of Perry Heath? How did said Cunningham. hat is it?’ “Well, you ‘see,” Toddy was. a lit- tle excited at befng made: asprincipal in the discussion, “you I'm not at all sure that Heath: wi he mur- derer.” “No,” Cunningham said; “I'm: not, eith _ Toddy went on, “suppose, just suppose, that the murderer was that Inman man.” “But why should: -he* kill: hi cousin? . They say he. was. in: love "Thi Prenti OORE. Inman might have a motive because he is heir to Myra’s consider- ible fortune, she having cut off her husband in her will. Suspicion F points’ to golden-haired, viv: 8 Bunny Moore, because of her refuéal to answer questions at the inquest. Myra Heath was a peculiar woman, She never w fies, never wore: lors, She had a mania for collect- ing glass, and it was a rare old whiskey bott ment of her ith. ning at her head and feet when’ a majd discovered her body, and near- was a card marked, “The Work of Perry Heath.” Strangest of all, she was heavily made up and dressed with gay colors, Fe The strangest thing about Heath's cece ee fact Lees att windows and doors hi ™ he get out and where did he go?” locked on the inside the night before = “Was he a man to be friendly with were found that way in the morn-' the maids? Would Emma, say, have prints of Bunny and let him out as readily as she let servants were not loyal, with her, / Mace “1 ee the: pose he wasn't. Suppose ed to be, but he come to him-by her e-he: killed her, and.fis ‘cosmetic .stunt and the. can all, with the idea of imp! husband, who, ‘they vs wanted her to royge up and alt that, Well, then, suppose, he shut‘ of the lights, all but the candles, and just lay ‘doggo and waited: And:‘stppose Friend Husband: comes creeping down to find out what's ep. And suppose the cousin. kills him, too. And,—conceals his body—say, in the cellar-—on : ’ . “Why, Todhunter. Buck, what 9 terrible idea!” cried his aunt, gasping for breath. “But it’s all terrible, Av@t Emily. And that would account for the dis. appearance of Perry Heath without leaving any “door ‘or .window un- earn in theory, Cann “Ingenious in theory,’ unning- ham said, deeply interested in Tod. ie water?” I've no gel ce are et on the ee A ‘atie in?” case -has strangely disappea “J wouldn't put it past her, as far sey Thraiclans determine that the as Emma's concerned. But I don't twas applied to My ce think Mr. Heath was like that. Not ‘after sent that yau can tell a single thing about At, thm Country Club, the murder any man, But Perry Heath is so up is discuteed by SAM ANDERSON, and ing, so sort of straightfor- Heath’s rival for the club presidency; ward, that it seems to me, if he AL CUNNINGHAM, who is trying to, wanted to get out of his own house solve the e: and others. Some be-' unbeknownst, he'd manage it hi ae murderer. Others, self without the aid of any serv- jnelur ninghems bell Cunningham concealing on Mrs. “that’s the way I size up Perry Prentiss, who telle Rim about’ the, Heath, .Now, vhere’s another thing. mysterious lights, , ! NOW GO ON WITH RAR STORY CHAPTER XVU EVERETT “Might have been some of the serv. TRUE ants,” suggeste irs. Prentisa, “Yes, it, might easily se Ne NO, 114 NOT IN A POSITION TOTMAKETA bpp <4 TMENTS WHATSOGVER. “THS USS call the when the big light.wes| |INVGS again, flashed on for hort tina, IM MONGY JUST NOW IS REQUIRED IN THE may have been other servants, coi MY BUSINESS. THAT M@AN ta, confirm (the: news. already tol BULCDING UE OF Ete 1@ ANY A nd “Now you're romancing,” To: ‘CAN'T CON BUYIN Bons, No er Buck broke in. “t on My, Co a Vz MATTER HOW SOUND ningham, I’m keen on tl letective ; 1 business myself. I wish you'd let} AND ALLURING me help you. Ti promise not to be: & nuisanc Glad to have you. ions regarding my own T have @ capacity for work, and a bale tenacity for digging at a clue.” “Good. Well, then I think you've i pect ihe servants any| of the house-| any more reason to s ct them) than that the murderer, himself re-| turned to the scene of his crime two, or three times. There's no argument that he shouldn't. He killed the lady.| igh Why, if the guests or servants had gone there inadvertently, and had that. awful sight, they would rm at once. dy,” sald his, aunt,! ly at her nephew./ looked more carefully on. the blind, 1 did! | | for i! . didn’t see Bay one out of doors? Any one leaving the prem- No Kk of It, it low, you speak o' }) seems an 1 did see some man sort of sneakin’! out, But it wasn't feath. tt thickset wanted her money, which. was tot Myra Hi “1b SATURDAYTAUGUST 14; 1025" \ THE MATERNAL INSTINCT. \ “If you wish, Joan,” I eontinted, “t will ‘go with you to your lawyer | tomorrow morning so that if any- i thing unexpected comes up I can | tell someone all about it, or at least | supplement what {In things like this you know it is well to have a witness.” “J expect,” said Jerry, “an much as he will hate it, your-brother will have to come: out here and be ent at the settlement time you know.» loss to know why he has not spoken of that before.” “Perhaps he has,” said.Joan, as a slow blush of shame spread over her . “There are three letters, one ‘an airplane special at the house. But to tell the truth I was so wor- ried about my own affairs that 1 did not open them. John often sends me special letters when he wants books of instruments or somethin: done for him in the city, and thought these lettéfs were about some of the things that could wait until I knew what was going‘to hap- pen to me. I'll go home now: and read — and let you know in’ the: morning. 3 “But you ‘must know, Mr. Hatha- way, that if we find things all right a0e if all my brother and I have: to do is to sign a few old pape: 1 shall expect you to book Judy's: and my passige on the next boat.” you have to say. I Jerry at ome ingly. I saw his hand tremi he t to hick white was an ¢ jon on face made my heart beat o little faster. had. never seen Jerry Hathaway when he seemed so troubled. All at once I found that there was new fecling-.within.my sout as I ‘watched him. I wan to comfort him. .I wanted to hold his head against my heart. I amooth his hair which had mussed in our long ride from Ring when he had mn without hi For the first time in my short life I felt that motherly instinct that merciful Providence had planted in the soul of every woman. Until now I had been so interested in my af- fairs and the exciting experiments that I had been making in every day living, that the idea had never come to me that my own way was thie hate f of eve man. It was the fulfilling of great plan. It was the great thing that makes a ‘woman ape ae more or less di- vine. It was the thing that has made great. inters place a halo around the héead of Mary—it was the thing which’ makes all men at some times in their lives look upon some woman and adore. : MORROW—Si Looks Ahead (Copyright, 1926, NA Service, Ine.) then, locks the doors and goes off to “Maybe,” Cunningham said, shak- ing his head thougl tfully, “maybe.” CHAPTER XVIII *That evening Larry Inman and Bunny dined alone. It was an ordeal, but they had agreed that it was wise for them to keep up the ordinary routine of the house as far as possible, and be ready at any moment for the returh of Perry Heath. ~ As @ matter of course, and also because there was need for a master, Inman assumed the head of the house, while Bunny naturally filled Myra’s place in affairs of domestic detail. “Bunny's eyes filled as she remem- bered the gay party at the table the night before, but she conquered her emotions, and contrived to manage, a little tight conversation with he said, gravely, well do the best we can to keep- “Keep the home fires burning, Bunny: said, with an effort to speak lightly. be he responded, “against Per- ry’s return.” “Where is he, Larry?” Bunny said, for Herrick was momentarily out of the room. ~ ‘There was a note of intense a: guish in her voice, a hint of tragedy; that was breaking her young heart. know, Bunny,” Inman ii td. to know what to 4d Unless he comes home: soon, I shal have to look after some of Kis bual. matters for him. ‘A note-of his falls. due tomorrow and such things should not be neglected.” “Oh, no, of course "not. Nend ‘to ‘it, La: come tonight. gone?” Ey y, you know Perry” law unt Mivaselt. He may have Pe night; before—before Myra! She, may haye known all about artd:‘sald goodby to him ,—aftér’ you and 1 went up-! it wouldn’s ‘be an unheard of ppose not. But in see about the—the' papers, and he’ of course.” “Yes, of co! - urs ‘ But again, Inman: did not look at her. He seeined to avoid her eye: and turned his-glance aside when he rh spoke to her. “What about Myra’s will?’ the said, suddenly,—so nly that we a start. jart, is away. very 1 Do at- doesn’t fo, I su » he'll in ‘tonight . You what she said to Heath last night. itt a . I shall be glad, for the money. belongs in our family, and can elways make his own live jis house M: too?” se acy was weed to'buile. It, Don't lk about i things are bad enough without drag-| wae uate ot Myre wa ‘gloom, treated as mere! ik eer household in th's absence was . part of the usual tever these pending re . They were not contlen ‘but they were as one in preserv- ealm exterior and a courteous they went into the a comm “9 though unspoken Ise they avoided the yi I that reniained poooticye director's men, obi Pl for the ‘obsequies were in abey- ance pending Perry's return. wt studi ‘the been red to its usual condition of or- derly informality, it was and would ever be a room ef mate of the.Heath household. . ry ny, a érumpled and pathetic ‘big davenport,- Inman st ub r reat ‘room, cigaret in , and coffee cup in the, , rést, both of bigot Mee tine themselves of Myra, ¥ to “ home,* Bunny 1 at “Swon't’ they let ign “ him?” * Biches pekerioes hunting doss! did not look at her. “It! . jo. + kt ,—it-—Af he "Where ‘could he have: and. | nn dy | —until let at good such] of. Yet she was learning. Already she was beginning te-see that she must s on herself for decisions and ac- tion Her thoughts flew to the rather nice woman who it moming offered to help her. Who had even offered her a temporary home—and, who seemed to consider one neces- down his cup and seated himself by her sid “No, Bunny,” he said, “you ought not, tion like this, a terrible cri C ne liberty to break laws of Pegreleamunt 144 convention seem a tri: thing. But, conventions remain, when situations pass. 1 wish I knew what is best for you to do, I'm sorry to tell you, that I-know you will not be allowed to go home H is very busy with his inquiri he’s only waiting a little lo: Perry’s reappearance, re he loose with some terrible de- velvet do “What do you méan, La ou seare me to death!” “ie dae "t frightened till the time keep you advised and all ny, for “What do y mean?” the girl cried. She was ashy white now. und her blue eyes were big and dark with apprehension. Larry,” she whispered, now that awful man dl mt oi finger prints -wei What doce thet putea, at does that mean, Larry?” ‘Well, Bunny, what does it mean?” yn change came over the queer, elfin child, ‘ sprang up from, the couts ropepran pert ele eprint Lae esi erself bolt uj as M, ht chai: that, but, storm: Si lv mouth pursed itself into a it of mutinous rebellion. noted “am not afraid of them,” she 'said, defiantly. “They:can say what they choose, do what they choose! Tm net. afraid. Are you, La “No,” be ry 2” A replied, puzsied at ber pasiaeorn attitude.. “Why sh “Ah, why should zoe ” she re- peated, “1 should 1 be? Why should prageead be?” ‘Bunny, hush! ‘You're talking non- sense,” Inman exelaimed, fear comii , 2 vague ing to him, that the matter 1 say, Larry, over Perry's papers “No, of have i to meee he'll, never come back. I it at first he would,+-now, I *t, And I miss him so voice ishing in- ‘had affected her mind. No—no, I'm fot. ju looked course not! do that?”, know ‘won' ——I miss him so—" her trailed away like a dimi: ; echo. Inman sighed. She was child. Yet the next moment si uch 8, poke se- ‘Larry, the Jady next door,—that Mrs. Prentiss, you know, has me to go to stay with her for a while, I can go home.” ny, that’s “Has she? Why, th ry thing! do hope you'll ‘Are you.so anxious to be rid of met” “Yes,—for your own good. For Acnow, to look ove: Pehl and . sil that, Piesse, Busny, et me urge a to mo.’ Spent attempt to boss me! You know it always makes me obstinate!” “Well, coax you, then. Go, girl, Yoo will, horror to any in-|- “I'm sure you iman, the interest and anxiety by the Country C! ne tay con't de wamcae a asked me to i ea an “What do you: think they ought to