The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 27, 1926, Page 9

; ¢ ‘ ‘ e ESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1996 ° THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Bismarck Tribune THE STATES OLDEST NEWOPAPER (Established 1878) show ‘coming difficult similar . powers of the maintenance of a American people showed in the equally ttoublous times they went ‘through years ago, then Germany will emerge successfully from all her present political, eeonomic and social dis- ress, \ the Bismarck Tribune Company, and entered at cron ent “ptoharnmce) George Mann. The Crime Wave While police ‘officials tMpughout the nation are; busy giving out that-here are no features of the present. crime situation to bé alarmed at and while: they’ are denying that any “crime wave” exists, er could exist under their well-nigh perfect systems | of protection, those same officials are asking dig; increases in their department personnel. In New) York City the present police commissioner has} asked for 2,654 additional patrolmen. ‘i If there is no crime wave if tMere is nothing to be alarmed at, why all the additional patrolmen? Why, if the city of New York alone, add an increase of $8,680,984 to the police budget if there is no need for it? ‘The answer is that there js a need for more effi- Subscription Rates Payable in Advance © Lehi by carrier, per ”, Tower Bldg. Krvege Ble | cient methods of affording adequate protection from wont”. BURNS cited pi aa Bldg. | the underworld than exists in most police depart-| beset Bibb 19 ments tocay. If the commissioners of police were to openly declare that a state of siege odtained, with the underworld on one side and the orzanized police force om the other, then that woukl reflect upon| their efficiency, they reason. But apparently they do not realize that they give themselves away when they ask for more men in their departments. If no crime wave exists, then what are the additional 2,654 cops in New York to! do? Play ping-pong in ‘the station houses? Ob-/ viously not. =“ tea | Anyway, the daily papers are a pretty * good barometer of the status of things in the modern: ‘world and with pitiless accuracy they record from day to cay hold-ups, murders and acts of violence which prove that the ordinary citizen is more and! more at the completg mercy cf the organized un- derworld, that the protection given by the average! police department is entirely inadequat> and that most of those departments need, not mor2 patrol: j men, but a complete reorganization. Editorial Comment — r No Economic Law in This Case (St. Paul Duly News) | What a little thing, s..nct:mes, makes millions of | dollars difference to the farmers of this northwest | country. yeh Poleee tay 200 toa eed oy 0 Hl Ne si Pig sot ng ove fh merci Red ; ite spotted condition of crops in some sec- ere. Thin state lenrned Ste lonson of. diversific- decade ago and hes consed putting its eggs General prosperity ts reflected in figures made by the bureau of public ronda, De- of Agriculture, Washington. This depart- ment of the federal government reports North Da- kota leading the northwestern states in the per- centage of increase in the number of motor ve- hicles, The percentage stands now at 14.3 as com- pared with the nat?:n-wide average of 10.8 per cent. This indicates « strong purchasing power in the state. ‘The Greater North Dakote association places the state’s agricultural revenue for 1926 at $815,000,000 | noting that a slump in wheat crop has beén made! up partially by better returns.from’ stock, wool, beets and other items that enter into diversified farm income. Sea Practically every city of the state has reported considerable building activity. In Bismarck the growth in“population is reflected in the demand for homes and the outstanding increase in new resi- dences erected. Local real estate men report sale pt sg Boa ys Saat te rea Take the recent announcement, for instance, of Vee poet who ed looking for an enterprising city | the decision of W. A. Jardine, secretary of agricul- in which to build a home and in which to engage ‘ure that the order-banring the use of the Perkins in Business. Few cities in the state have hed ‘as {cleaner in cleaning wheat samples is to be rescind- extended ‘< building program as ‘Bismarck, the jed. It is estimated by the evap experts that this f ateway to a great Missouri Slope empire. single governmental order will save the wheat grow- i . ‘ ers from $16,000,000 to $20,000,000 ‘profit on their Sacred Mail re 1926 crop. The The use of the cleaner makes it possible to grade | come of the house “L haven't ‘neg! work, Mother,” Fait tly. GONE BEFORE WHat HAS: These are projected, new homes in this popular subdivision, Jas: opencd to the public.” Builder dames G. Lane! Now, what do you think of that, Mother?” }\ “I just hope you ain't made any mistake on your figgers,” Mrs. Lane| ° sighed. “When you're workin’ on a Job ut eight dollars a day, we know What to expect —" “Oh, listen to thi from church. this Cherty Lane is utterly differs ent from her sister, Faith, whe breed at home ang does al} of for the family of six, swered sulkil; nk i 't of dishes.” the flirt, is carrying on | = ® ith a dozen admi ine [Lanes all over the pi | } § The mail is sacred. It haps of the ost thor spr aiaraieds hs t to 10 cents] cledieg Chesien tant fotceay- fing! (Minx Selma Pr | cuthly Protected ane ee eee doeut ohig yoart the] Or ® bushel.to.the aries paid the farmer, It had| ‘cvoted to Falth:, Bob Hathaway, ied promptly ‘ in our modern America. been used for almost two years by the state grain! a married traveling ualeaman: bridge" and other of achoe idea has been inculcated in employes “of the ‘poat- office department that the mail “must go through.” It takes precedence over everything else. men pry or ae pe root fa deed road and warehouse commission, got the other state at the United States mail. Isolated instances ve wean officials together and they proceeded to Wash. cur, of course, but as @ general rule the éibok has {ington to ask that the order be rescinded. They learned that it is distinctly unhealthful to temper) Were soon able to convince the secretary that it/ with the mail. For years it has been the aim of| Was ® mistake. : : every postoffice investigator to solve his problem} This incident serves as proof, if further proof be, and get his man. The result has been an encour-! needed, that price of wheat to the farmer does not depend upon the workings of the usual e¢onomic aging number of convictions for robbing the mails, ike a? xapely 00 /deheand, jancing and ‘music being -the 8. = Present employer, old Mr, inspection department. Then- suddenly an order’ fo the ¢ame from Washington banning it. O. P. B. Jacobson, member of the Minnesota rail- The lovely young ; sisted by her friends, M rances Warren, Isabel. Piper, F id Cherry Lane, served 2 de lap stipper of fruit salad, straws, sandwiches, ice cream" | “Gosh!” — Junior shouted with) “That was* sure a lapful, ay, whom Faith surprises in the act of making love to Cherry, and Chris Wiley, over whom a girl has committed suicide. rge Pruitt, rich man's son a mateur artist, falls in love with Faith, who has already lost her heart to Bob Hathaway, who in infatuated with Cherry. The two girls a ited to a party at George Prult('s, but at the last minute, af Faith has worked night and day te finish | thelr party dresses, Mrs. Lane is | us kids .made it, uj shower, so's she wi fi cheese | was a reg’lar old hel You're just jealous be- | j; eren't invited! like that th ‘Faith gaddin’ nday and. ou; week, and Jun witl get fi “and listen’ to this, | Junior flung the sports’ section (o! stricken with a heart attack and Cherry goes to the party alone, mall ge 4 . If a simple order by a federal department can| leaving Faith aurse het |the floor. “If it wasn't for Faith.| hand ‘Ford ahet’ eral ided bi val t#ke away $20,000,000 from the wheat growers, how trying tor land,” because gts AR | 3 met have a look-in the! campaign has been greatly aided by fede dita Sakar.awhy by other grachiees which decreo od Tob Hathaway to. | [ruitts, and you know it darn we judges who have passed extreme sentences so often the Lane home with/a that they have had a salutary effect in discouraging what the farmer is to be paid for his crop? of refreshments, Faith bas hast. 1. Particula od eeeeereenertrememmenseiesoo, ily dressed herself in her party “And if 1 vou, | criminals from tackling the mail ty Bast ‘The Road Reason of Minnesota frock, ‘hoping to attract him. | when's the wedding coming off? i/]" wouldn't, begrudge, Faith “n Ittle have these judges heen those members (Cedar Ray ‘lows, ‘Ra ) but she realizes that he is deeply | gotta have plenty ‘of notice, so I can| fun once ina while—" department who have been found guilty of purloin- : pids, a, Republican troul ov: A get_me a Tuxedo made to order. Me Who's begrudgin’ her i ‘and other packets, Thus, a| [Ww doesn’t know what good roads are. callg, tells her that he has seen | ine Tuxedo and a stiff boxom shirt! |; igs see 9 aed iar y To be sure, in some practically isolated cases it| Cherry in Chris Wiley’s arms, | Oh, baby!” | own children without gettin’ my head Brooklyn, N. Y., was recently ee of hi favorabl: although Cherry had- Feith slipped three more piping| snapped off for it, Jim Lune! ; a few miles of highways that compare favorably! she loved him, Bob, and had |hot buckwheat cakes to his syrupy | Faith's going to marry this rich fel- with anything one may find any place, hut they are Peet mg 2 Fey cm plate and sat down to her own break-| ler 1 eres Ws all wight, but 1 dont registered ‘3 t * "tt iy posse ‘nly jumping off places—intervals which one br ol detains | “Done order your Tuxedo—yet,”| the wool over your eyes but 1 kues i i & into the mud again. she said caliqly. “Pass me the but-!2 mother’s got a r g f her return. Faith that Praitt ie coming the: next afternoon te take for other Taken by dnd large, this state has no compre-|/ Sirive, ter, Dad, please. Everybody had|her da Fig the hensive system of all-weather roads over which one| 9” — . r ‘There is can travel any distance with any comparative assur-| NOW GO Pipa gg ee | ee ec ee In enclf ance of antving at tis dpstination. During the week “that followed, need to go farto-find this out. A cue Lane wondered. rathte eneily,| the nei - ‘ ‘Dhinnesota not ju unhappily, e has > convince t any: lowan ‘that his wee Chery ad al Sexual e has done little more than make @ bare} She could not believe it, looked the matter of all-year-round highways. 3 fee he ba Fe MY DEAR WOMAN, AST BOUGHT A WASHING WASH THe CLOTHss } [ : z 8 humbly for explanations of the strange fact that it was to -her he Ey | i 4 coal innesota there are just two kinds of roads—| sent the daily box of, flowers or D SAVE TIME FOR OTHER, a conerete, If one is within 50 miles of| candy or basket of hothouse fruit-- YOu WANT A DISH WABHING — he is on paving. If he is 100 or more | flapper: Cherry, who had alwapy had | WHAT NEXT wicc away from Minneapolis or Duluth he is.onj such attentions, by the divine right! Finding dirt roads in Minnesota is like! °, i paving in Iowa—one has to hunt for it. Whether one chooses to go from the southern end, beauty. ‘ But the family, just as puzzled as Faith, were not slow to accept the new, incredible situation for what it MACHGTo: ' Xou Sarp “I ain't got any appeti mother answered piaintively. | ae you girls doin? today? ib to, ing to give our tencher, leat!” G | ~-I_ don't know what's goin’ to id the house- answered gen- I've got the dinner on in the less cooker and Cherry can dish t up when Dad and Joy get back You haven't a date afternoon, have A to give her a 1 be in a good humor the first day anywa: fourth grade kids said last addin’ about, out to all hours of the night e- you, know T haven't,” Cherry an- “Bob's coming four, und we're going to drive vr to Marlboro for sup} it’s mean of you junday date, and ‘I nner and wash up a whoie er Bur I ikea ve ny do it seven days a week, Cherry. ot going to hurt you this once, y'll help, won't you, honey?” IL if Cherry'll give me a dime,” doy “Tomorrow's the first day>ef echool-and L-owanta fruit shower we're fot. of The ‘ar she Leave the table this _min- d march right into the bath- | r nd wash your mouth out with ! And let me fell you if 1 ever hear youu ugain—oh, young , lan- day ight in the pre! i ht oul st ind all econd- oughta well with ile accessories job of dim Lane told her with better than to let him buy, If yes but I guess protect hter from high-flyin’ good- | for-nothin's that led Lord knows what ~ EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO | JUDY'S DILEMMA “Judy, do you know you have com- pleted my cure,” said John Meredith, “Never again can I call myself curs- ed by life; never again can I say that 1 am not as other men are, for I find | that I can th moved by pure emotion -~thank God*for that! And you do love me, Judy, do you not? The question brought me back with a thud. 1 stood up and shook my soft feather trimmed evening wrap into place. “You do love me,” he whispered | { \ again, ' “1 don’t know,” I told him honest- y. |. “But your soft lips did answer my | kisses, your yielding form did not | stiffen in my arms; you acted as though you loved my caresses, and surely no womun does that unless she loves the man who gives them.” “My gear John,” I said, “that is an exploded notion, Our mothers were taught that no girl could love caresses tor their own sake, as men | 00; but suddeniy we have found out | that we are human; there is some- uhing very sweet John.” Again he pulled me toward him. | “Juay, you do not deny your emo- tions, you do love me, you must love me. Darling take pity on me, I have missed so much. | have never had any joy or real happiness before in ‘all my life.” “Ju Med in your kisses Joan, “are you “Yes, dear, I was just coming.” “Well, then, I'll send, for John,” she said as she came through the drawing room door out into the hall. * John also stepped forward, “I am here with Judy, Sis,” he sald, In spite of all his efforts to keep emotion out of hix voice it slightly trembled. Joan looked at me rather curiously but only remarked, “I never saw you looking So lovely, get T don’t think I ever saw you in white before. If anyone ‘anked me, I do not think that I would have said that pure white, without ao vestige of color to telleve it, would be the most beeom- iit you.” would have said so,” broke in John impulsively. “From the mo- ment my eyes rested on her yester- day I knew that only the absence of all color that we always associate with angelic purity would bring out her radiant beauty.” “Jack, anyone would know you had always lived with books,” ex- claimed Joan. “Of course that poetical language sounds perfectly natural to you, but probably any other of Judy's young men would have said “Gad, Judy, you are certainly .some chicken, decked out in ostrich feathers : “Don't be silly, Joan,” I said, for John’s face shewed his acute morti- fication. TOMORROW—John's Night. jew York, I never seen that meant any good | kinda lite un artist yet to u pure young girl.” a movie villain “You're making Mother,” Faith out of George, laughed. ' —poke at met” Mrs, Lane sighed bitterly. “But what I want to know is—has he usked you marry him ‘Oh, Mother!” Faith protested, her ‘face flushing richly with embarruss- ve only known him for ten s, tea days, and he's been hang- in’ around here every day for a week, clutterin’ the house up with his candy and his flowers and his dol lar-a-pound grapes! A rich man di poor girl with expensive gifts, and expect no return! Been makin’ love to you, ain't he?" “No, he hasn't." Faith laid down her fork und rose from the table, her Every last you is dying with curiosity about me and George Pruitt, and I'm -—I'm tired of it! Please don't get mad at me, Mother! 1 don't mean to be ‘sassy,’ but I can’t stand all of you picking on me like this. G Pruitt is the first man I’ with that I really respee better tell you—all of you not one tiny bit in love with him, und I haven't encouraged him to make love to me, and don’t intend to, “And what's more, if he pe ask| the me to marry do it! vom i shack with u man I love than to {marry a millionaire! Now, won't you all let me alone. and let mp he riends—just friends—with y pushed back her chair and nattered around tho.table in her heelless slippers, to put her arms | hewn of around her moth- er. “I must say that’s a fine way for you to talk, Faith Lane! You're always giving ‘me ‘Hail, Columbia’ for flirting and leading man on, and now you admit that you're letting George Pruitt hang around you day and night, when you have no inten- tion of marrying him. Practice’ what ou preach, saintly Miss Faith! isn’t that right, Muggy?” “You're being ridiculous, Lows a it Faith controlled her voice with fieulty. “I'm not leading George Pruitt on, as you call it, and I can't very well forbid him to come to see {me or refuse t@accept his attentions, without any explanations at all. I'd simply be a -fool to tell him, I can't have him for a friend, because I have no intention of marrying him: when he hasn't asked me. Oh, let's don’t quarrel! We're always ‘quar- reling. We all love each other, yet we are at each ather, tooth and toe- nail, all the time.” She dashed tears from her eyes, then turned to Joy, who een drinking in her words, open-mouthed. “It's half past nine, honey. Better run along to Sunday school. It would be nice if you stayed for church and walked home with Dad.” At eleven o'clock Faith had fin- ished her housework, had made the salad and dessert, leaving them to chill in the ice box, and had dressed herself hastily in her two-year-old white flannel suit, freshly cleaned and altered and touched up with new collar and cuffs of hand-embroidered white silk. “Just what are you and George going to do today?” Cher! padding in listless! slippers, to sit on Faith’s neatly made bed. “I told you—drive over to Sulphur, Sprii We'll get there about on o’clock—| forty miles you know. We'll have lunch there, George is going to sketch a while, and then we'll have a swim in the lake, and drive home toward evening.” was worth. ey discussed it with cruel frankn. or friendly ‘curiosity 'y meal, commenting on ever: ft, ‘every “date,” every expression of the obviously infatuated young man, At breakfast;on Sund. just ten days after’ G Pruitt had first} come té> call? +Faith was serving buekwheat cakes to the entire fan | ily, Junior hawng finally emerged from the bathroom in Sheiklike splen- dor, his Indian-straight black hair mining, Ne, eat deptnet bie an ned cheeks closely shaven ust ed with ited tal bisstne har ‘eoppetumente 10, 1e 1 sun nwet and lemon-fragrant from had given them, wa: constantly’ at| little face, Vick iee bau Rose, shin Minnesota ing’trom’ water, was alread; and 4 \*% ed for | ‘vecasion for a morn- say at Lyle where the Iowa-Minnesote state line be- gins, on up to International Falls where the Cana- dian boundary Hes, or whether he prefers to. shoot ‘across country from Duluth to Bemidjj he has either gravel or paving all the way. 2 Signs are plentiful and conspicuous, gis one information on the distance, turns, curves, hills, rail- mitted is this ebrosd that Germany is being urged. AND DRICD, CALL ME, AND use it mode! for its republican form of gov- THe DISH For miles iles and miles, from “great half ‘or and miles mi ‘great caine ! taillion cities up into dense impenetrable forests arid busy lumber. camps, they stretch, these roads that an age wd eas? seted ina . faded ‘and Mr. Ser ancora u lame | eet i BEUeEve You Sel MSH WA MACHINGS IN Hees. LAST EVE INALLY PERSUADED MY Wi [TACL! AF You ¢ * r SOeig E |iow «pron, eatton - TILL SHOW SoU WHERS SEACH —-AND WHEN You-SST THEN SCALDED “You don’t know “luck when it hits you in the face,” Cherry told her re] ed as an entertainer repath| enviously. “You could marry George ———_________ | IN NEW YORK | o_o New York, Sept, 28.—8i; Proaching winter in Man! Announcement in the papers of the Sunday night “concerts. Which are somewhat carelessly dis- Ruised evasions of the metropolitan “blue law”. . . . ‘hentrical per- formances on the bath tolerated, though merrily along. . vaudeville and the stage and appear in “concerts,” which are allowed. . . Showing that anything can ioe bootlegged, including amuse- The oyster peddlers on the je. . . . Oysters at one cent All’ you can eat and plenty of'diners. . . The increasing rng of sweet potato vendors. rical feheorsals in almoat any windows look . . Commuters moving in necticut and way states... garden cafes begin to pack ove indoors. + Partieu- larly Greenwich Vill . « No city in America like outdoors mote than ‘Manhattan, vial «And just now the very “arty” paintings that adorn the back fences begin to look like the scenery of a succesaful atrical road show. +. Those pathetic window-boxes with their niums begin to-give up . . Ah, me, winter is seraggly ger the . not far One of the sprightly night clu! certain goes ing the ques: reading their tel table to tabl tions of gu MIREB) = nye mre esrb The other night he halted at the table of three youths who plain} showed the ill effects of too muc! i Whadda we thinkin’ of—tell me con demanded the soberest of the rio, Without hesitation the “mystic” replied: “You are wondering wheth- er you'll be able to pay your check of get thrown out,” “My Gawd, how'd he know?” pon- id the perplexed collegian as he e sidewalk fifteen minutes the three had been found insufficien® to meet the bi The “mystic” was hailed upon an- other evening by two strangers who had ordered one of those stale night club sandwiches which nobody is ex- pected to eat but which, nevertheless, add $2.40 ta the check. “You're so wise,” in the tour- ist, pointing to the sandwich, “May be you can tell me what the devil this is?” “My friend,” came the prompt an- swer, “I claim merely to be able to fathom the human mind. I lay no chaim to supernatural powers.” GILBERT SWAN. 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) ._, By Tem Sime Mussolini has a lot of troubles, but we doubt if he is bothered much hy life insurance agents. Maine goes Republican again and there are seven days in 2 week. A man in Indianapolis who stole @ conerete mixer didn't need any of its output for hie head. If saving the surface saves all there are many facts which will last a million years. We never see pumpkin pie that we don’t think it needs cheering up a Pruitt, and you turn up your nose, bit. at him. If you really don’t want him, I wish ede give me a chance.” “Do you mind if I wear your white; felt?” Faith ignored her sister's sug- ition. “This old tan straw of mine Seoking terrible. Don’t bother. erry gave an ungracious assent, Faith went to her sister’s room her closet for the last » The hat was not on where she expected to Thinking it might have fall- the floor, Faith knelt and lov- and to the find it. en to searched in the dark closet. ing a suitease to look behind it, wes surerined to find it heavy, as if it were nacked full. Lifting it with ae are Sat e and tri open Tt was locked. A auick search of closet. revealed that nearly all of Cherry's clothes were missing. Bewildered, fighti back a dark suspicion, she was about to confront Cherry with a demand for an ex- planation when she heard George Pruitt’s cheerful voice, greeting her mother one! fi floor of er. Continued.) He who hesitates gets bawled out by a traffic cop. Blue is 2 wonderful ~selor’ but. » terrible feeli: (Copyright, 1986, NEA Service, Inc.) ———.