The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 9, 1926, Page 4

a PAGE FOUR The Bismarck Tribune! An Independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) hundreds of greater goblins upon our sci Until just the other day when it suddenly assumed | gigantic proportions, its shouts of “boo” were so | faint as to be scarcely audible. The trouble is an Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, invention of John Baird, a young Scot. He says he Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice ut | has tested his apparatus and it works. i “You turn a little knob,” said Baird, “and you see! in a frame attached to the set the face of whoever | jis talking at the transmitting station. .$7.20| move, laugh, talk and gesticulate, and simultane: | ++ 7.20! ously, of course, you hear everything he says.” ' Granting that the future will | bring radio telephones, cr that the invention will | work equally well with our regular phone, where is | your private life? i | Aman will cal Hismarck as second class mail matter. Georg D. Mann.. Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year . Daily of mail, per year, (in Bismarck). Daily by mail, per year, : (in state outside Bismarck)....... Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis; atches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this pu- per, and als» the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved, Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE deca) 4 sHICAGO DETROIT dove Sag. Kresge Bldg. YE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW yore” BURNS AND frifth Ave. Bldg. (Official City, State We Hold No Grudge d County Newspaper) The pages of ancient history reek with wars of plunder. Great hordes would gather upon the oe derland of a nation grown lazy with prosperity. "They would swosp down, burning, pillaging, butche ing—and later return to their own lands hea lnden with treasure. were kept underfoot and made to support the vic- tors year after year. What about the world war? Historians agreed at its conclusion that years must elapse before 2 proper perspective could be gained, Time has passed, and slow! is beginning to dawn upon us. The unknown something sown in bayonet-dug and blood-soaked trenches has blusscmed at last and is beginning to bear fruit. Many have claimed this fruit would be hatred, vengeance and spite. The, ‘vere wrong. All indications are that much of it will ripen into beauty, love and friendship. actions of the American Legion? aN young man’s body, evidently a suicide, was name was Johannes Riets ranks.of the enemy as a only of high school age. ehemies marked the beginning ef his long sleep. ; A similar case is reported from New Jersey. Rudi Peterka was drowned in Sun Lake. Preparations were made to bury him in Potter's field. But the Bridgetown, N. J., pest of the Legion discovered he had fought throughout the war as a Prussian Guard. So Rudi Peterka was carried to his grave with all the honors due a gallant soldier. “America holds no grudge.” This is the message that is going back to the two. German families whose sons, both veterans cf the Kaiser's army, have been buried with military honors in America. ; Will i: strike a responding chord? It will ameng the German people. And let us hope it will eventu- ally awaken the entire world. Perhaps the answer to the much asked question, “Who won the war?” ig going to be, “Everyone.” H Deferred Payments _ There is a diversity of opinion concerning the resent extraordinary’ extension of credit, espe- cially in retail selling. Many of the authorities cfaim tliat the benefits are real and the prosperity indicated substantial, Equally as many authorities brand the benefits as only apparent and the pros- perity false and without real foundation. Experts differing thus widely, the casual cbserver can be pardoned for being in a state of uncertainty. “This much, however, is cbvious. The installment buyer, while he may enjoy the merchandise while he is paying for it, pays for the privilege, inasmuch as he pays a higher price than he would for cash, thus tgansferrin; re money from the pockets of the sumer ets of the prcducer, As in- sfallment usually of very limited means , id uncertain income and the producers are of suf- ficient means tc have a surplus to invest, the in- stallment plan is a process by which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The result under this system would te to broaden! the gap between capital and labor, which is highly | noticed that “nature” in peace does not insist on an , absolute parity of the sexes. For the world as a | whole it was estimated before the war that 50.3 per | cent of the population was male and 49.7 per cent In Europe the ratio was reversed. There the preportions were 49.4 per cent male and 50.6) per cent female. This would indicate that before | © the war there were 6,000,000 more women than men |in Europe. The United States has nized exception to the Occidental rule because of immigration, which has been male in a heavy ma- jority. In 1910 the male population was 106 per cent of the female population. rable, and to place labor where its belonging? are subject to complete loss at the first slump in employment, which would be disastrous. tual purchase of definite merchandise, money that would otherwise be expended for luxuries and tfifles.-In this way it may be considered as adding the wealth of the nation. .President and Publisher | : BEGIN HERE TODAY MRS. PRENTISS sees lights mysteriously aj HEATH househ next door one night, and the next Island, is agog with the murder of MYRA HEATH and the dis- 5001, Horrible thought! . Bi 6.001 Il his wife and say, “I've got to work jlate.” She will look at him, over the phone of “You're drunk, and isn’t that a pool | table behind you?” or “There’s rouge on your coat: and I see your stenographer powdering her nose.” Perhaps the phone will ring and mother will say, It’s one of the neighbors and course, and say, ests of the Heaths ere LAWRENCE INMAN, yea’e fortune, and Bi , to whom suspicion pol e of her refusal to anew. “Den't answer it yet. | this room is in a terrible mess.” jeath was peculiar. She sed coametica, never Wore colors, She had a mania for col- lecting glass, and it. was a rare old whiskey bottle from her col- lection that the murderers used Candles were burn. ing at her head and feet nearby was a card Work of Perry Heath.” est of all, she was heavily made i | Mosquitoes, one might say, are blood relations. ainwater is soft even when it rains hard. | Editorial Comment No Quarter For the Drunken Driver (Minneapolis Tribune) i Those who felt that proposals to increase the ‘severity of penalties for driving motor cars when ‘drunk were ill-advised would do well to study the | More modern history contains account after ac- | details of the tragedy on Nicollet avenue. count of financial wars. The conquered nations ; lieappearance is that all the windows and doors had locked on the inside the night before and were found that way in the morning. of Bunny Moore and Inman were found on the bottle. At the Country €lub, the mar- discussed by SAM AN- Finger prints A car with a husband, wife and child in it was{ lcrossing Nicollet at Twelfth. A heavy roadster | ‘driven, according to the’ testimony of an eye-wi I ness, at terrific speed, came thundering down Nicol-/ let—not a car, really, but a monstrous projectile hurtling through the air with death and destruction igment—and a mo- who is trying to sol: crime, and others. Some believe TODHUNTER B nephew of Mre. Prent love with Bunny, - the realization of what happened / only too plainly awaiting its lod; dhelietolny ced [ment later struck the first car, In vain had the {first car attempted to dodge. This flying dinosaur {with wings of lightning could no more be evaded The first car was hurled into an iron lamp post and two Minneapolis lives | were blotted out. ‘The occupants of the death-car, if this second car er sai beitak illustrate this than’ the recent | AY OP 8° Crecribed, sboeretl vacesraliis ee es { witness, no special interest in the event. An effort / was made to resume the ickly ceas ractive, wil sult that Beit Avpalgees.avave gown’ cl wonecaccaicia cin; wei beet until an honorable discharge from the German army | was discovered among the effects. The dead man’s chel. He had entered the fense against. The machine he drives is like the e year volunteer” whe) crazed cannon which Victor Hugo once depicted. It jis as swift as the cyclone and as terrible. It is = Immediately, the American Lesion took ce simply an insane fury taking form and substance Fifty members of the Harvey Seeds Post compos: the escort which conducted the body to a fitting burial ground. The post’s colors were carried it. His honor. A firing squad volleyed a last salute and) taps from a bugle which once awakened Rietschel’s Detective Mott. man confides to Buck saw Bunny ascending the stairs after the murder, and Mott tions all the servants, Kat! maid, tells of seeing a man leav- ids the night of the Mott is - inclined than a shell from a gun. interrupted ride, but this Anderson and gees to his house where Perry Heath suddenly ap- 2 ‘ pears out of the night and be- It is a noble chronicle. Here is the type of dr Anderson invites Cunningham to his house and there, while waiting for his host, Cunning- ham is suddent; er whom there is no de- confronted by comes in and he upbraids Cui and darting through space. It scatters lives into eternity as a bowling alley ball scatters pins into th. ‘odhunter Buck, who is in love with Bunny, is nocturnal meetin; «irl and Heath, Bunny to explain and when she refuses he calls in his friend, Steve Truitt, « famous detective. Bunny tells Truitt she had gone downstairs the night of the mur- There is no use talking quarter for the aenaken| He gives none, and can guarantee none. \ One might as well try to talk compromise with a leopard springing at one’s;throat. be fought as ruthlessly as the poisoned rat is fought.| We have no mercy on a mad-dog; but a mad car is; inccmparably more dangerous than a mad-dog. We. have got to stop temporizing with this merface, and treat the drunken driver precisely as the scourge of humanity that he is. The evil should CHAPTER XLIII “I don't believe we can work t gether, Mr. Truitt,” “You're too ready to pick on me. jot at all—not at all, Mr. Moti and Steve loked almost distresse just taken hold of th Mott said, rising. Numerical Sex Balance (New York Times) Something of a social and moral revolution has been forecast for western Europe as the result of the numerical disproportion between the sexes, cre- ated or accentuated by, the world war casualties, In! haps we'll both have something Great Britain, shortly before the war, the female| ‘ell’ Population was 106 per cent of the male population. In 1921 the ratio had risen to 110 per cent. in ten was a “superflucus” In Germany before the war, the female population was 103 per cent of the male population. | ;, In 1919 the ratio was 110 per cent. In absolute numbers, the female majority in Germany had risen from 850,000 to 2,840,000, and in Great Britain from 1,300,000 to more than 1,700,000, These would be the women for whom the chances of marriage were non-existent and who accordingly would proceed to readjust their lives to a new economics and a new tion your deductions, at what there is bac! we shall meet again soon, and pe: it’s only to get went away, and Steve Truitt looked had to fire him,” he said apolo- getically, “I don’t want to antagon- can’t work with him. Now, Tod, let’s go over to the Hea! ,, | can’t go any further until | hint, right.” and the two aving Bunny. Moore in ahe had been since| Prent 4 had come dewnstairs, ‘and was ready one English woman f jetter spirits tha: Tee had ‘learned He met them with a pleasant word, but with a worn, tired look, as if fternoon had been a terrible strain for him. Such prcphecies have failed to take into account the mysterious operations of “nature,” which has a way of restering the disturbed sex balance after every great war involving a decrease in the male Only the other day a British scientist alluded to this well-established phenomenon in popu- lation growth, and now Austria reports that the proc- ess has been well under way. Of those under the age of 20, the men outnumber the women by 12,000. There is reason for believing that the same process has i cperated elsewhere. The next detailed census in| & |Great Britain and Germany will show. thought to himself, “if he is the} Sam we'll see if he is.” in authorized investi- tor, at once assumed a non-com- ; mittal attitude. He was ready to answer questions up to a certain point, but if they became personal or leading, he took refuge behind a all of chilling ccurtesy, and; either evaded the inquiry or sat in; > well admit going’ that! ittle ; mi night,” Truitt said, at last, a sharply: “for Mis: | watch her come up, and the cook said she saw you go down.” “It does clinch Larry almost smiled. know Miss Moore has suid she went; What did she go for?” ; Yet, on the other hand, installment buying, by its obligation upon the purchaser, diverts to the ra hes did you go for?” down to learn what it been that Miss Moore had seen downstairs to u in such a pitiable state of fear and | The; rs Truitt looked him squarely in the been a recog. | It issdifficult, if not impossible, to determine the int at which time payment ceases to be a benefit a menace, depending as it does upon case, but buyers should be urged to} $their financial situation thoroughly before in Pt @ any considerable amount of deferred pay-| “the whole} i, “Mr, Inman,” he investigation turns on whether that, ‘speech you just uttered is the truth; Larry looked at the detective with almost a. quizzical { had, looked back at In 1920 it was 104 Why “nature” should operate iv favor of the male Asia and in favcr cf the female in the countries the west may be explained in part, though only in part. It is really not “nature,” but man. The: similar an exoression. that’ the two. sex proportions at birth may be very nearly the same in east and west. But wherever the man- men seemed to look alike. ‘od = Buck, observii “Yes,” Truitt resumed, “if: that is then you did not know what the studio, and co: you are not the mui ng, tarveled, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE If Larry Inman resented no spoken objection, Hi suddenl, “Lit ber with doubt. that were puzzling him, ron the glass.” 4 Truitt. Jord, man, I don’t know.” ; neck.’ Why, yes: ely.” jth neck are of any value.’ it’s the way of it.” Forbes and Mr. Anderson. turn the thing over to you. iy fingers!” porch. ‘derer.” his wife. But he told me In ‘myself, and be back at your ise in time for dinner, Steve Truitt, alone and une: made his unquestioned way wherever he chose to go, through the rooms the Heath house. French window. and noted, as they had don solute security of latche: tisg house next door, Lo “I'M come ri ! for a conference, search of the Heath house. § (To Be jaued. muc! | giving "s such dirty looks. ral that It, is only hoald worry al sén himself, once. and gored several who may been singing that song. alarmed, | where we-will get the money. i Dempsey-Tun |i Congress is in session, | make mo comment, pea clean. he has been to several ban: the house, ; ment of your poor friend.’ I ai { treating him as I would treat, any! th his other man who is interesting and ap- barefaced dissection of himself and Porat eee a ee ee rH i imi: iLiti y a told me tl his criminal capabilities, he made treating “Mrv Meredith any differs] tad, ie shrugged his shoulders, lighted an- other cigaret and sat placidly silent. | cWhat do you think of | Mi Moore's story?” Truitt shot at him) intimations are insulting, k it is all right—if it is! true,” Larry returned, his face som. ntly, “It does not necessarily follow that he has intentions which are serious, or that I have designs, very wealthy man.” Al Cunningham came in ‘and as an amateur detective him- self he was glad to see Truitt there. Al had no petty jealousy as Mott !had; he was only too glad to have some one to talk to about the things]. A%, fat as) 1. am concerned, you peditjon weuld be a great help in bringing John Meredith into hie own, especially if accompanied by the right companions.” “You see,” he said, after they had mulled over the case, “the Gardens people suspect Inman”—Larr; not in the room—“and the Parl ple think the little girl did it. say that a baby could have thrown a bottle like that with fatal effect. And Miss Moore's finger-prints are wince, but he quickly recovered him- self and snid: in _what part of the glass?” “But, my dear, sir, as a detective, you should know, See here, ever wielded that bottle as a weapoi ‘in all probability grasped it by the ‘ot only likely, almost positively. it was flung, and the doctors} — say it not. Well, then, a number of people looking in tat pick up pieces and finger a put them back where they i ‘ound. But only the finger- prints of the one who grasped it b: and said distinctly: “The whole a = ‘IN NEW YORK | _IN NEW YORK | h! I never doped it out that “T see it is. Say, I wish you'd have a talk with my, prineipals, M They're about fed up with me, and I'll gladly I let Perry Heath slip through little shamefacedly, Al Cu: told about the interview with Heath on Sam Ande: ot remembered the meeting in the woods of Heath and Bunn he said quickly, “Then Heath is still jabout. | You know he's my pick for t Al objected, “I could tell by he talked to me that h jisn’t the murderer. Why, he loved f like to see those men you speak of,” Truitt said to Cunning- am. “Can you fix it up for to- 4 es, sure, They'll all be at the elub, or if not, we can get them here.’ i “All right, Mr. Cunningham, Buck il bring me over at whatever hour nobody objec! ive this house, 73 e little group dispersed, ‘an: rte ms of Mr.-and Mrs. Heath, nt seant attention to the studio or-any part of the lower house. But he wandered for some tim and down the terrace, the east race on which there was a small lat- treed window as well, as one long, F He spent most of his time in the Truitt scrutinized the windows, as other detectives had done before him id Suddenly he spied something, was, about to investigate further, when he heard a cry from the Pren- joking round quickly, he saw ~ Sandwich bars are now sweeping Buany at her window, staring at} this fair city. fi ! “Good girl,” he called out gayly,| # block ‘over. sort the} Near beer is sold and an home, and found Bunny|of sandwiches served. a they’re not ! 30 mi ony ot the old beer bars they ate backed by Mrs. Prentiss and Tod were also] brewe! waiting, and Truitt described his| | ht ‘ove: He trolled, leisurely back to (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) ? Tustajingle | We dnt ind dodgi je wouldn't mi ing autos h: if the drivers would out son. Father was The son wrote home for money till It peeved his dad, The father sent. a p A‘bull escaped in Valencia, Spain.| Which said, “Enclosed find ten.” Eloping isn’t what it used to be, the girl is gone a couple of weeks ‘now. before the family becomes mode presented now at Har-| |ris-Robertson’s for women’s wear. |Flapper Fanny Says: {Few of us worry about the cost of jivine, Whet we worry about is Perhaps the man who invented Pullman cars had insomnia, anyway. re full of fight you can’t tel! While an Eskimo visiting New York ate six eandles it may have! been because he was on. a light diet. A politician is suing a novelist f Fe something about him pe es School has started, ‘but it will. be we a ied nial are Eve’s husband called it Paradise i because no bills for fig leaves came! the first. Gertrude. Ederle hasn't f, I merve. Since braving the ery too much if your boy ~. Hell outgrow that brute fs 6. man who leaves hi i all day one without : = : JUDY SPEAKS OUT ‘=| trouble with John is that you and all I was furiously angry. the other syco “In the first place, I cannot under-| completely rol stand What you mean by ‘encourage-| ance so that he is completely depend- only| ent upon all of you. Whether or not fi mn done hens disinter- “I cannot understand where that concerns me,” 1 answered quickly. | “Perhaps, however, it concerns you You seem to be afrail that more. something will interfere with your| To}! ‘expedition into the wilds of Africa. “As far as I am cone you This made the man in front of me ‘Were you thinking of joining the expedition, Miss Dean, or are you go- ing to pe as planned?” “Just at present it looks as though 1 were going to do neither. However, you know, ao man sometimes changes her 1 left him and followed Joan into the house, where she had followed her brother when he turned away. ‘When I reached the door I turned| Broadway per- ‘he blank lool'in, je for sale. He says he does business around midnight or The theatre crowds say {but seldom buy. But if a chorine jpasses on the arm of her fohnnie jand says “how ¢ the sale is as good as made. Yet, having passed | this man every night for a week, 1 would swear the two puppes are ai- ways the same. But, ther, I never was good at faces, No. 2--The good-hearted, grinning cop who makes the gesture of chas- ing the Charlestoning kids off th street, but gives them plen’ to pick up their dime: su met this same fellow the Horatio | Alger stories when I was about i3. He was the copper that nlways helped the poor hero arriving in New | York and then and there I swore to | monument to him. Here | -The loud shouting salesm: No. of rubber chickens and 10-cent ai “Take one home to the chil- ; Ah, ha—fun for everyone!” he t: | cries and snaps a ‘piece of trick rub- ber to prove the durability. But I've never known anyone who was able to blow the darn things up without bursting. them. Some night I’m|" guiug to Broadway armed with a pin. Notice to ophone vlayers of Kalamazoo and way points: dtay nome! It has been a tough, summer, parently, and the’ Broadway stone where jazs band play: hile waiting for: jobs. musicians out of work here now than at any other time, inent night club dancer ioe cage Lioyd’s to cover the loss of the event of her marriage. He ex- plains that he spent.many years de- veloping her as-a dancer and her Presence mal possible a $500 a .| week income. Why doesn’t he marry: her himhelf, you ask. Perhaps his wife won't let ‘him, is pretty dancing part eee at least one of them to particular novelty of these { places lies in the effort to make the rvants as much like European 1 sel ‘bar-maids as possible. Strapping andinavian women nd joke robustly with GILBERT SWAN. . Fore-runners of the fall THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1926 ——<_<$<_<___—_—_———? | _A THOUGHT Woe unto you, Pharteces! seats In the eyn: grectings in the markets. —Luke 11:44, aed hants about him have a Nich of Mtn, senbee Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery—Matthew Henry. that his sister “T only ki 'y afternoon ear i! It forgive you for what you have said to me if you can think your help make Joka Meredith, keep a forgettin, imself and build up his “Mr. Meredith, Miss Deas, is al courage to @ point where he will be strong enough in the future to over- urt that might Give the Bank Book its own way! Start saving today. Don’t put it off till to- morrow. The longer you postpone it, the harder it will seem. 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