The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 25, 1926, Page 4

oe ceases nthe arene Bismarck, N. Bigmarck as second class mail matter. George D. Mann..... + Subscription Daily by carrier, Daly PAGE FOUR The Bismarck Tribun jlependent News = THE STAPES OLDEST NEWSParER by moti per an? mai r 2 (in state outside Bismarck). Daily by mail, outside of ) ‘Member Audit Bureau of Circul 'bond of common knowledge. Day after day, in aut! e sorts of weather, he plays a vital part in rural Pa Teaching Youth to Live { munity life. | a A Cincinnati girl, 16, eloped with a 19-year-old postoffice St boy the other day. The two were married, and veaeePresident and Publisher |came back to face the world/together in all their} oo youthful, helpless ignorance. \ + The girl’s mother, while refusing to interfere, "20 | with the match once it was accomplished, was bit- ‘ter against the public schools. | 5.00! “If the schools, she said, would devote less time to we \“eye and ear” stuff and more time to teaching chil- | ———j|dren and young people how to live, her daughter (Established 1873 the Bismarck Tribune Company, | .. and entered at the Rates Payable in Advance per year e Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to; the.use for republication of all news Siig credited to it or not otherwise credited in thi per,and also Pi jublished herein. All ri other matter herein are also reserved. | would have realized that she wasn’t ready for mar. | | riage yet. 3 pa-! Perhaps she’s wrong in placing all the blame on: the local news of spontaneous origin; the schools. It’s possible that parents, too, have a, hts of republication of all) responsibility there. But her main point is correct,! | Our children aren’t being taught how to live. é Gi | rather a large task. Perhaps there are very few CHICAGO pean 1g. | of us who really know how to live ourselves, But! Tower Bldg, vn BURNS AND SMITH [it’s something that must be taught. You can al-| NEW YORK 2. - Fifth Ave, Bldg. | ways learn it by bitter experience, but that’s a har| —TOlficial City) State and County Newspaper) way, and your life is apt to be just about over by (Official City,’ State an vewspaner’——| the time you've learned. Foret resentatives ban PANE COMPANY | To be sure, imparting that bit of information is deficiencies the shoulders Drinking, he complains, is very prevalent. Dances are simply terrible, There is much petting. Every- thing is wrong. 2 ! ‘And the girls are to blame. They are, he cries,| often fails to become any of those things. And the; “des@nding to the level of the men,” and it is due|fault—nearly always—lies in the things that the; to: their example that the general moral tone of | older generation chocses to teach to the younger. | uridergraduate life has sunk so low. The boys mean well, but they simply have to keep up with the pace|turn ure sinning against our children, set by the girls. This sounds very, very bad, indeed; but maybe there’s a bright side to it. possible the young man is talking utter nonsense. — Somehow, we can’t help suspecting that this iat the case. Tt Happens ple in various colleges and universities, And they aren’t depraved; not(noticeably, anyhow. They're | ambbiticus ‘and full of spirit, very eager to prepare | themselves for an encounter with whatever life has to offer, very sure that after they graduate they can’t possibly make much more of a botch of the jee of running the world than the elder generation has done. ‘and then, when you stop to think about it—do, supposedly—deader than Samson, ydu really believe that the men in our universities | are so spineless and simple that the co-eds are lead- | ing them around by their collective nose, forcing them to drink drinks and dance dances that their) cajlective soul revolts against? wonder the colleges find any men with backbone enough to play foctball. And yet, one way or an- other, they still do, Dh, it’s really too silly tc talk about. bad that this aiwarped view of life. It’s ours ohly if we take him too seri- hard luck. ously. Some rich nation by leaving a substantial fund as an endow- ment for a foundation whose sole duty should be, at regular intervals, to hire men to go about the streets shouting: “The younger generation is no worse than the ‘How ordinary and human the great people of the} kota that is encouraging. land must be, under the skin, is best demonstra-; been a steady diversification going on since James | ted by the pains they take to prevent the world frem finding out the least thing about how they look and behave off dress parade. Where died Afthur Brooks, who had been valet to four presi- We Can't Believe Him Chas ‘ : A young student at the University of Mlinois—| of life, how to tackle the world; how to bring realitv| pardon us, he is an ¢: in grad A wail inn denominational publication, declaring uni-| complete, instead of letting it become a mere proc- versity undergraduates are, on the whole, a rather! ess of eating and sleeping and working and get-| soilden:lot, and that the blame must rest chiefly on | ting; to learn that life may be joyous and exuber-, To learn how to live! To learn, in the morning | student, because of certain} to those shifting, sunlit visions that youth engen- —publishes an impassioned | ders; how to make life something rich and full and! of the co-eds. jant instead of cramped and narrow—those are a! few of the things for which youth is hungering. [ | We all know that life was meant te be beautiful,| | free and brimming with zest. Yet somehow it so! We were sinned against, in our youth, and we ini We don’t really mean to, and we try to teach them the best we! can— \ Indeed, it is just barely But mostly we fall down on the job. Maybe the remedy is simpler than it seem: Maybe—this is just supposing, of course—maybe if; we older ones really learned the meaning and im-! portance cf words like freedom and kindness and! love— Our children would have a better chance to learn how to live, that we know quite a few young peo- That Inland Fleet For nearly a decade the United States govern- ment ‘has operated a fleet of barges and steamers; on the Mississippi river, where river traffic was—! sahegiaceghe stot ha Cherry ine, 18, tiny, beau- tiful, copper-haired, is’ as. differ- ‘from her sis faith, as girls can be. Faith ix com-+ The annual deficit at first was enormous. Then,! year by year, it was whittled down, due to business- like methods. . Now it has been wiped out. | The government barge fleet—operated by the In- land Waterways Corporation—is making a very neat profit. And the outlook for the future is very | promising. There are a lot of remarks one might make about It is too} it. But—well, don’t you suppose that pretty soon | particular young man has gained suck'| the country will be hearing a loud clamor to the ef-! But after all, that’s hia fect the government now should retire from busi- ness and sell its river fleet? Government operation always is so inefficient, man could do a great service to al know. —Wateriat Comment | In Northwestern North Dakota (Minneapclis Journal) Word comes down from northwestern North Da-| In all the state there has Poor boys! It’s a The other two children are Junior, nicknamed “Long” Lane, Joy, nine. « Cherry's long list of admirers includes Chester Hart, formerly an admirer of Faith's; Bob Hath+ away, a young architect whom Mr. Lane, contractor in t Cherry, and Chris Wiley, whom a girl has commitied sui- clde, and many others. rge Pruitt, rich man’s son amateur artist, falls in love Faith, whom he compares (0 i 7 ie de Milo, but Faith ' has already lost her heart to | Bob Hathaway, who has eyes | But They Never Tell only for Cherry. H L the two girls ta ruitt invite: a studio party in his father’s gatage loft. Faith works all day and most of the night to mane ai penty dress for herself and er ry. While Faith is sewing late at night, Bob and Cherry return J. Hill organized. his famous campaign nearly twen- ty years ago. This year more than eight thousand sheep have been placed on the territory adjacent to Minot, running over about eight counties. in Washington recently an old negro, : And you caused it all! | sick, I'm afraid, j and Joy, playing in the streets, had jot been summoned. “High blood pressure, tricky heart, the heat,” sunimed= up the doctor’s diagnosis, when he had administered a sedative and had given directions for Mrs. Lane’s care during the night. , = “Oh, Dr. Atkin startled to see Cherry, fully dressed, ready for George Pruitt’s party, step! out of her bedroom and accost the ‘ood-looking young physician. “Is there any—any--danger aw; She'll be all right now—for to- ht, at least.” The doctor's ap- ciative eyes took in the copper- cBrled little figure. “If you were Planning to go to a party, go right ahead. She'll be all the better for the quict. “I wouldn’t go a step if I thought re was any real danger.” Cherry him, her golden eyes filling with rs. “It’s just a litle studio party you know.” When the doctor had gone, Cherry irled on Faith, who was looking ag with steady, scornful eyes. n't look at me like that, Faith Lane! I do see any reason why both of uw hould stay at home! if you hadn't her, I told said it made Muggy angry by it wouldn’t have happened—' “That’s not true, Cherry. the doctor all about it. He Weic likely to happen any time now. really sick, Cherry, awfully It's not fair of you to put all the blame on me. I feel The crops are not entirely favorable in six of the| (fom & “date” and Cherry sue: | ceeds in making Hathaway derts—William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson,|northwestern counties, but they are excellent in| her. She admits as much to Warren G. Harding and the present White House | four. eines nay Sepia Sade tenant, Calvin Coolidge. Undoubtedly he knew; The rains have been extensive, and have reduced “ if mere intimate details of the personal lives, in the executive mansion, of the four men than any per-|the tremend:us improvement in pastures, giving son in the world outside their own respective fam- ilies. Such information may seem trifling. Perhaps 't is, but it’s interesting. There were many more im-! inflation and is today on a sound basis. Porggnt things in the life of Napoleon than the mea! ! Ciera ae. he We on the eve of Waterloo. | with<him, his stomach was upset, so he lost the battle. This was a trifling detail, which Napoleon’s chief unquestionably did his utmost to hush up, but {murder mystery in New Jersey are reported to have it sheds a flood of light on Napoleon. greedy. Indeed, it isn’t a trifling detail. It reveals his whole character. Arthur Brooks probably held the key to many riddles of the Taft; Wilson and Harding administra- tions. It wouldn’t do to refer to the administration of President Coolidge, for he’s contemporary. But Brooks’ key was buried with him. Brooks was a talkative old chap—in all capaci- tie But. as a presidential valet, good stcry. He had a sense of humor and a nose|Portance which he ‘persisted in withholding, and for the newsy, but what he knew, as a valet, was as|the purpose of the long session was to wear the - sacred to him as a physician's knowledge of his|™an down until he was powerless to resist longer Patient. He didn’t tell his closest friend, or his} and would disclose the information which he had wife, or his children, ~ ‘wasn't ungive. Who ever heard of a presi- dential private secretary who made any: indiscreet | f what is known as the third degree by means of disclosures 2, _ fices?, Or a White House chief usher? Or a door-| ¢T® . keeper? Or a secret service attendant? _ body, connected with the White House? That’s why we know so little dents—even our Present one. way, replies that she will not mai im if she can get Prui who Is interested in Faith. | Practical assurance that the buying of feed will not NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY be necessary. CHAPTER XII “It’s too long, Fi ae North Dakota can be happy that she escaped land eq pos i ane the grade of wheat, but- there is compensation in Cherry wail-} “f’ told you T wanted’ it] j just to my knees, and it’s two inches ‘below them.” ‘ Faith, on her knees before the little figure in the new printed chi: fon, pushed damp wisps of hair from But it disagreed | 1 Methods (Grand Forks Herald) Representatives of the state in the Hall-Mills' h; ‘But I keep telling you that! skirt can’t be clear up to obtained from a man examined as a witness an ad- Wiper yon dance, mission which they hold materially strengthens Basie, tere er une to do a their case against the persons charged with the Poa ee ae seven | murder, That admission, it is said, was obtained * OA danehioe at ate nee er after something like twenty hours of continuous | questioning in which the detectives worked in relays, the proceeding beng so arranged as to keep the wit- ness under a continuous bombardment of questions during all those hours, The theory of the detec- tives was that the witness knew something of im- He was Jim Lane walked from. the cluttered | dining table into the living room, spectacles pushed high on his fore- head, the sheete of the afternoon | r trailing from his hand. “It's! He could tell a ! Mrs. waddling | heavily into the living room, waving! a palm leaf fan to cool her face. | “It pfOu're, Roing to sew for Cherrs,| Faith, I should think you'd make her dresses like | “Oh, Lord’ baru sink- ing back upon her heels and flinging! an across her eyes, as if to shut them all out. “Here I've worked ally night and all day to get her dress; insisted he did not possess. . We have all read descriptions of the application Or a chief clerk of the executive of-| Which confessions have been expected from prison- and in which gross physica) brutality was fre- bende, and this is the thanks I get Or any-j quently practiced. The courts and society general-/f0F it! I UN PA Never stick. the ly frown upon such practices, and it is believed that “Faith Lane, how dare you talk about our presi-|they are less common than they once were. But|'o your mother like that!” Mrs, Lane; while physical violence was absent, the New Jersey, Pent over the ee. brig bung hae foo ease seems to have been one in- which a refinement: slap peer, fe of torture was used, the one practice being as rep-| even if—” go for you, young lady, rehensible as the other, le scarcely imagine one! the i! voluntarily to such an ordeal. Obvious. | lane was [her father got into bed, whi re dim with all his them, Faith and on ee si ds help ly. 4 ' worked over with Ii tefere the ore Lane a bed “Tied her bed- ber. perebiving forehead wit? a weary) it would swirl way above your knees, ! like a dog anyway.” She covered her face with her hands and began to: sob heavily. “Oh, Faith, I’m a little beast! I'm sorry! But you will stay with her and let me go to the party. won't you, honey? I—I just couldn't bear to miss it, and you don't like parties much anyway.’ Oh, there’s a car now! I wonder it it’s Chester or jeorge? George said he was going to come early for you, before the | other’ guests arrived, didn’t he? |. “If it’s G Faith was} a§.the Pruitt's—the Lincoln Pruitts,| SERRY HANGS UP hurry you had forgotten them, or At this point of the conversation | thinking we were going to sail se with Jerry { decided that talking love! soon you had decided it would be bet over the phone was absolutely futile.| ter ¢o send your more formal ward- |1 hd already learned that the eyes| robe directly to the boat.’ ey ‘and the expression always said much; “You may tell Miss Meredith that more than the to: % sequently | I will wear the white chiffon embroid. J had long ago decided that long dis-| ered with pearls and rhinestones, un. fence love making was not particu-| less she is going to wear white,” larly thrilling. said, taking it from the ieee “Are you telling me that you are} “No, I’m sure that will ti ’ my lover, Jerry?” I asked I know that Miss Meredith is ra \ uaa Know, dear Judy, - eae green and her emeralds en your unacknowledged a ri ince ‘the first moment my eyes met it was sweet of Joan to save my jyeurs. But before I ring off I must] face before that rather snobbish maid tell you that I am going to be your! of hers, I thought, after the girl had acknowledged lover after tonight or| left the room She knew. I had ne he oe tam going out of a poet life forever.” “Pretty stuff to come over the venin; wa that would be elabore pity enough to go with gee that wires, Jerry,” | .rejoined. “Perhaps rr we had better leave: all promises a she would wear and she is unselfish th Jaye always to want me to look Feats until you cen speak teal of the teleph ht, what I said goe: theless,” Jerry slammed up tite re esiver. For some reason the mere fact that jerry haway terminated the con- versation instead of myself, bg me. It was the first time in all our asquaintance that Jerry had not linr red on the wire until I had shut fim off, ‘ A discreet knock at oy, door and loan’s maid eatered.with three beau: tifal evening dresses over her arm. “Miss Meredith sent these in te you, Miss Dean, hoping that you will tind one of them that you: can wear with the gown,” she informed me. tonight. She said-that she knew you} (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) had not yet brought over 4 ur Own oT. x evening clothes. Probably in your] TOMORROW: 4 Fi Kise, ties indeed... One drainatic’ writes’ ix id to have her confidence and to material for an authorited auto- blogs y to be issued after her Her business life is carried on with equal mystery... She is known to have some film invention which is being experimented with..... A year ago she went to England watch the filming of Kipling’s story, place after my rather hurried bath, for it was growing late. Then I picked up the beautiful frock and drew it over my head. It fell inte nea | pokes ot may if in th Il length mirror. I had never hi uch @n expensive dress in life and none so ming. Again there was a low tapping at my door and ges maid seria made her appearance with a white evening * wrap which seemed almoat entirely made of ostrich ost feathers. “Miss Meredith said she had for- gotten to send this wrap which goes je, and over all the Ynaize chiffon dress she Gresthed (0 Diaree thet. h re B prayer. e failed notice that her black satin ero re breaking in the creases, into the gleaming lodp of smooth brown hair on the nape of her neck/}“Kim,” in which she is intereste she stuck a high nish comb,|... She took passage on the’ boat studded with imitation enierald: under an med Ke it made her look queenly, she told| porters who went her reflection in the mirror, holding| were greeted by her head with new pride. Darting| denied that s! into cere petra ae nn eorge Pruitt, 1 can’t see in the top dresser drawer a him, looking like this!” Faith lifted| found a lipstick that Cherry had dis- a corner of her kitchen apron, which| carded because it was too dark for she had not had time to remove, and complexion. Stretching her lips wiped her eyes. “Tell him I’m sorry {as she had so often seen Cherry do, to miss the party. I don’t suppose) Faith emphasized the natural Cu- he’ll mind,” she added, with a tinge] pid’s bow of her lips with the rich | of bitterness, =e The result was startling. | It was George Pruitt, and Faith,| The Warm pallor of her cheeks, we One bright young reporter e: plained that he had been too young when she was upon the stage to see and appreciate her, but that he felt he would know her anywhere... . He could not be mistaken. must be Maude Adams. . that it must... . The aging lady in the deorway merely smiled sadly. A few tears overflowed her e: os She thanked him, banged ti and was pot seen again... . In Europe dusky at the cheekbones with nat- her hand to her throat, listened at ith | the closed door between’ dining room| Ural color, was. inimeasurably heigh | and living room as Cherry's subdued] ched by the vivid splash, of | color voice explained, on the lips, Red-brown lights sprang “And Faith's awfully sorry she], life in her great eyes, which | can’,*come, George. 1 wanted to looked serene in spite of arrivals and departures were always i stay ‘with darling Muggy, but Faith] Ment, and a sheen glimmered on the| furtive. + And, just as .furtively, [says ‘I'm ao. dittle couldn't lift| smooth bands of hair drawn like a/she returned 'to America. ... Again Muggy if she needed turning over in| Satin cap about ‘her ears. under an assumed nam 1 am pede anithing like thae” ‘Faith's| “Please, God, make him see me told that: only a few, who kept it such a big strong girl, you. know. now—-now ‘that Cherry isn’t here to|close secret, knew of her >resence. Isn't. it awful to be litle ‘and: good-| dazzle him, : Of the hundreds aboard sh ppbippalfen lee Site Gepvilse tu garde Rima: Se Make Seeae, ite ee aes in 3 for her!” 'y a 8 one Ww 5 ants Pet gandnnent the: bleod fim beppy.” Although ‘she had only| You. see. she must have changed. into Faith's cheeks, But, oh, why|vttered the words in her -rapidly|..:. She must have become @ myt! couldn’t itvhave been Bob Hathaway beatiig heart, she ftushed suddenty,| ical figure... . \ who had so quiékly and unaccount- seta as if’she had bet her secret] The same is true in New York. ably taken’.a real liking to her? In| out into. a jeering world. «+. She. is reported going to cei her humbleness, Faith did not dare{ She found him in the living room,|tain laboratories from time to time use the words “fallen in love.” a hamper upon his knees. And at|/to watch the film process in which When at last George Pruitt had|*ieht of his face she forgot the in-) she is. interested; ...%f she ap- gone and Chester Hart had come in| nocent scheme which had wade her|pears publicly she is seldom recog- his roadster and taken Cherry away| 9res# herself to attract him. : He/nized.... 7 intimates who see with him, Faith refilled tl was very pale under the tan of his/her do not talk about the visite... . and placed it gently on h cheeks, and his mouth looked) Certainly I should never mother's forehead, Then she slipped t and twisted with pain. His! known her had she not been poi ly out of the room, to her eyes looked at her blankly, as|out by a friend and, like Peter Pa om, when she flung herj if they had heen wrenched from/when I reacher her side she was arms about. the pretty new maize] some dreadful vision. He Le fone. .. A most mystetious and chiffon, with ite allk-petaled| ly, se:ting t Maoh. — i Siguss. + Perhaps she has crimson. flower, and gave herself up| tne wide arm the old! wicker a and darts only to grief, . chair, through windows of memory, plead- At half past ten she heard a car| “George wanted to come himself, ing with you to believe in the fairies stop at the curb, but she,did: not] but he could hardly. get’ ay I of a bygone year, rish, \ leave her vigil at her mother’s bed-| asked to be allowed to come, and I've; Gi RT SWAN. side. Two minutes father| brought our supper with me. George (Copyrig! Service, Ine.) | came ti beckon] packed the hamper himself, and I ine Faith to jo the hall. {think he put in enough to feed an @——__________ “Its young Hathaway, Faith. He] orphanage, judging by ‘the, weight of 3 | wants to see you—come from the} it. Hope you're hungry.” ‘He smiled party ‘specially to bring you some!s faint caricature of that boyish fri Of the refreshments, Pretty white| which had so ch her the first . By Tom Sime g jof him, eh time she had seen Tot A salesman has to strike a man | “Tell him I'll be out—right away,”|. “That was awfull: peiittel of right to make a hit. Faith gasped, her eyes widening| George—and fai ith said gently, —— THI" chtnge my Sevan, Dad. ‘Mothe| “Mother to*sleeplag, and 1 was 20] perepivation Temes itopitennine. there ti change my dress, Dad. . - is al a H ration A, er’s sleeping.” to know it 1 was ing to - Obeying a sudden, ma ; make the most vouchsafed her by fate, —: a all,| The to heeprecol over ‘1 ross T hed made atuation a pant We 2 dagen | stripped off her bungalow apron,| He looked over the tall, erect fig- ¥ utilitarian white slip and underwear,| ure, and slow; reciation, recog-| and, with hands that trembled with) ition of Fait Ape dawned in his eyes. Some le o as @ person. think fond secilt aging whet taay, WHAT DO You THINK OF THAT wear « dress shorter than that.”! | ROOK. WITH TSS ON THe Ch = voi i as ‘The shadow : ets darkened their beillianes American jazz: is aad as “I say, 2 nn" 2 | EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO | be oid ‘Sag PAT Rae g/m nto | ~PAND HERE, CVERS TT, |S A .PHOTOGRAPH :O ONE OF THE MANY T CAUGHT UP THERE. that had lor @ moment, 2 many and she may demand. Oh, I ae t bi ‘Chats a peach Saty justo shame a be, fair and ling one she is can’t * —he's Chies omg ind tonight, Mins Patt. lace Berl ys the tho upher lave h smiled up ‘at him without will'be forthe crooks, but her re fl — jiance. “dean make several rican le, spread.on_ the brary table’ abroad’ wns verak American girls here? And whi English Channel. Perhaps be- tell me why you were ey can’t swim. the tlehtoging of hie mouth At you | yaip Paaet 8 shears says “Betior ‘oO Better de that Tat hak T do,” Bob Hathaway said Mees ee slowly, his eyes setdae iy. vert jet Civilization Ne ful and very ) hurt. /then someone. oe ane (he Be Cootiansay {than some ae —e lidn’t mean it that awful blunderer. 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