The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 17, 1926, Page 10

= sccm x — mer reform. = ply increases the risks of loss and damage, ow- = middle cf November. Bhen the delivery agencies} Would have ample Lime to insure safe and sure de- |’ % Hveries. them, as to the clerk in a store, is no season for PAGE EIGHT The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. George ‘D. Mann. ....President and Publisher Subsctipnon Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year * Daily by mai), per year, (in Bis: Daily by mail, per vear. (in state outside Bismarck)..... Daily by mail, outside of North Dakot. Member Audit Bureau of Circul Member of The Associated Press _ The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news «ispatches eredited to it or not otherwise credited in this pa- ver, and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein, All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Foreign Representatives ea . KOGAN PAYNE COMPANY cHICAGO DETROIT wer Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH. sew YORK ee eS Fifth Ave. Bldg. (C*ficial City, State and County Newspaper) What Yardstick? have been largely responsible for ck). rary laws vpenditure of great sums of money to win elec- i ate and federal offices. Without the conditions said to hi sur- ion of Smith of Hlineis and Vare | what rules are to apply in such preth tions to va ndoning 2 nded the ef Pennsylvan t direct and devious have to campaign funds under the conven- the primary stems. When a poor ated at the polls his first complaint at him despite the fact that he may ckless in the use of the filthy lucre sful cppunent. In Pennsy! ja, as fi Vare is concerned, it so much an issue of the almighty dollar as s versus the dr; Vare is dripping wet will seek to oust him upon the high meral grounds tat he spent too much money. Had Pepper or Pinchot won, the size of political expendi- tures doubtless would not have had much weight at “Washington. Corporations in ways tributed s well is de ce tien is that mone; = have been as his su is not the v and the dry tion is slightly different. Smith, contributions from utility corpora- needs protection and there is ast but no proof that Smith was use his views were supposed to be safe rorporations are concerned, The issue *-of corruption has been raised inferentially, but there proof in Hlinois or Pennsylvania. If loon league spent a million to elect a smug senators at Washington zas about them in a gesture of | would never question the expen:li- ‘se morally for a dry organiza- n clectorate than a corporation? Where and when will the line of reason be drawn? hington can stand | ne purity and say, “I am the holy and The Miroi th not th s it any who dra anet it; 2th Pennsylvania and Illinois voters want Vare urd Smith, even though their campaign may have with the stench of unholy and crooked The electorate sees through some of | and fuss raise at Wash- usc money in polities of them guilty in a greater or and Vare are not seated ey used in their campaigns, there of resignations due in the senate and sahes number should, out of decency not » when the issue comes up, for it is not} for the kettle to call the pot black. recked alliances. the sham inert over which most of are loocer . If Smith Ik senators the of re political purity of | supposed to obtain, and encircle our own U.! s ina halo of perfection, the use of money | ago under the leadership of | Marse “Jim” Waters, Art Townley, | ased to pour in a golden stream into und St. Paul office of the Nonpartisan | A. organization. Per capita, at t, Nerth Dakota probably spent more money to elect men to humble as well as ornate offices than Vivre or Smith spent to go to the United States sen- Seme of the money came from doubtful sources was contributed through motives that would) stand no more pcrutiny judicial we ingy than * the funds used by a ora Smith, Consistency is a jewel. It is asking the United Slafes senate too much to demand that they use it occasionally. They so love to butcher a poor poli- ician upon the altar of clean p while they | cover their cwn trail of political chicanery, That Christmas Mail Gnee again the Christmas season has rolled around tune cf “do your Christmas shopping early.” or years that tune has resounded throughout the 1, with the result that some people ly do its their shopping earlier than the day before _ Christmas. Another veform started within the last ~ year or two is the one of “do your Christmas ship- ping early,” and it is fully as important as the for- > Of what value is it to shop early and thyn wait] until late to send the stuff off? By doing that one ing to the hurry and bustle during the holiday sea- scn. The mails are crowded, the express companies _.Tushed to death and all is confusion, How much - better if about three-quarters of these packages could only be mailed and shipped not later than the Consider, tov, the men engaged in the transmis- ~ sm cf these Christmas packages. Christmas to dellity, tut one of intense work and hurry and they would chop and ship early. It | Unive! of deciding on the gift and the physical work of purchasing it, while the stores are still uncrowded, ‘Then, too, by that method, one may take advantage of various sales that will help reduce the total cost of Chris. ! They Walk Apart ‘The specter -f that hip which culled juicy bits from so many of the millions of letters which lugsishly crept from one side of the ocean to the * the last war, has been walking in Washington these days. tem of letter censorship in effect over rors in the recent Fall- It is the all mail re Doheny conspiracy trial. ions of loneliness” ived from hte by AIL “sympathy” and were culled from all lett the doughty jurymen. Such expressions as “How we miss you, Daddy Dear!” or “Susie prays cach night that her Daddy will come home soo: I baked such a nice ap- were here to ent it!” cil, and die a quick by a gob of purple ink. y for the cel 1 painless death, suffocated A Trinket Bought Abroad A young woman citizen of the United States bought a jade green vase in Paris last June. The shopkeeper of the pottery shop up on the he'ghts of Montmarte ccu'd speak no English, but the buyer was convinced he understood that the vase was to be packed and shipped to the address | given him, he shopkeeper asked for 15 additional francs for packing and mailing, which was paid. The young woman citiz tember. ‘Nu jade vase pure $1.67, awaited her. ased for 49 francs, or She wrote to the shopkeepe There was no an- swer. She wrote to the American embassy. Some more weeks elapsed, Then came a nbte from a New York concern, beling itself “Customs Brokers and Forwarding Agents.” There was a Dill enclosed for $7.01, in- cluding $1 for duty, $2.76 for foreign charges, $1 for cartage, $1.25 for appraiser's stores, $1 for ap- raisement entry, total, $7.01. The young woman thirsted for information. Was it ever thus? Did all purchases made abroad land in the hands Gf “customs brokers and general for- warders 2” She wrote b: ‘The “customs brokers” answered that the c 1 to them by a forward- ing company in Paris h which most French me’ chants placed their wares, as they did not unde stand the exp: requirements, They were very sorry that the vase now cost al- most four tim s purchase price, but then it was as much trouble to clear a $2 package as a $2000 one, and that was that! Well, so it wi The jade vase is still there in New York. = But the story isn’t quite ended. Eventually there came a letter from the American embassy giving the full history of the case. There seem to be two morals to this tale. One is that when you buy things abroad, you don’t really knew what you're paying for them. The other is that the American embassy will watch over Ameri- can citizens, from missing jade vases to what have you. Editorial Comment Congress and the Primaries (New York Times) In the ordinary course of things the senate of the seventieth congress will not meet for some thirteen months. Then the enthusiasm for summary dispo- ition of the cases of Colonel Smith of Illinois and Mr. Vare of Pennsylvania, senator-elect and to be thrown out, may subside. Mr. Borah and Senator Overman would follow’ precedent. Hitherto sena- it tors have been admitted upon presentation of the proper certificates of election and unseated, after vestigation, only by a two-thirds vote of the sena- tors present. This is often a long process and the unseating impossible. Mr, Norris and Mr. Ashurst would reject Colonel Smith and Mr. Vare by a ma- jority vote, ratifying immediately the expected con- clusicns of the Reed committee. ‘This course, how- ever ccnvenient wr supposed to be popula which thoughtful senators will be slow to accept, and might ‘return to plague its inventors. As the senate is “the judge of the elections, the terms and qualifications, of its own members,” we may leave it to decide. “Meanwhile, Senator Borah, ‘al judge, has issued a charge to the people. He goes into a long argument to show that congress has the power, under Section 4, Article 1, of the Constitution, to regulate primary elections and ex- penditures in connection with them. It is not nec- essary to toil aftcr him. In 1921, after the supreme court held the federal corrupt practices act uncon: stitutional, Mr. Borah and his fellow-prophet, Hiram J-hnson, were ceger for a constitutional amendment giving congress the power denied by the majority cf the court. Now he finds that congress has that power. While fcur members, including the great authority of Chief Justice White, agreed that con- gress had power to pass the act, the law remains as stated by Justin McReynolds for the majority: Primaries are in no sense clection for ‘an office, but merely methods by which party ad- sherents agree upon candidates whom they intend to offer and support for ultimate choice by all qualified electors, ‘The constitutionality of any provision by” con: gress, under the power to regulate the “mantier holding elections for senators and representative fixing a maximum of expenditure in’ primary elec- tions, has beccme clear to Mr. Borah after thiee years of meditation. The simpler method of Pre- venting such abuses as have been extremely mani- fested in Pennsylvania and Tilinois and are in posse wherever there is a bitter tight for political’ con- trol, rests with every state that has submi to which carries other evil excessive and appears to be disin usefiiness, However, Mr. Borah loves it. ke 9 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE “tt | ‘, | | | | on arrived home in Sep-| | | When Faith reached home, she was’ | greeted by her father with the news| \that Dr. Atkins had put her mother| |to sleep with a mild bromide, and a |not so mild lie. H |. “He told her Cherry would be; home by morning, safe and sound,”| Jim Lane shook his head despairing- ly. “I don’t know what we've de-| jserved to have this trouble fall on us A reporter has been here and| |told me the news—about Cluny's jdeath, and a detective has been here acking Cherry's room and snoop- | ing over the whole house. | “Oh, Dad!” Faith took him in her |arms as if he had been a forlorn lit- | tle boy, instead of a tired out, bewild- | ered father. “If only Cherry had |listened to yo “They think Cherry done it, \ father quavered. “This will kill poor mother. do, where to turn. Young Pruitt was * his voice rose on a slightly opeful note, “when the reporter chap told. me about—about Cluny. And George spoke right up for the Lane family, I can tell you; said he and his family would stand by us in our trouble. It’s because he loves jyou, Faith. He's a noble young man—” 1 know, Dad,” her) your Faith held him |tighter. “They don’t come any finer lthan George Pruitt. But, Dad—f've | been wanting to tell you, but was ing until after—until after to- day. Bob and I love each other, Dad, and we've been engaged for weeks. I tried to release him tonight but he told the chief of police that we were engaged, that he wanted everyone in tewn to know that he was on our side, even if it was his uncle who killed. But I won't marry him until Cherry is clear of all suspicion. If she—if anything happens to her, I couldn’t let him be disgraced—" “fm glad we've got such good friends,” Jim Lane said heavily. “Dad, you don’t think Cherry did ” Faith cried. “I don’t know what to think, honey,” he turned his face from her. “You've got to believe in her, you've got to know she couldn't do I don't know what to) f% it!” Faith sank to her knees beside him and gripped his gmarled, brown hands. “for Mother's sake, for Cherry’s sake. The reporters won't give us any peace now, Dad. Don’t you realize that we've got to help Cherry by showing in every word nd look that we know she couldn’t possibly have done that terrible thing?) Cherry has disobeyed you, flouted your authority, but she’s good, Dad, in spite of everything. You will stand by her, Dad?” she pleaded. Jim Lane’s tired, dim brown ey filled slowly with tears, before he ai swered. "Cherry's my daughter, Faith. I reckon she can count on} her Dad.” j Faith kissed him with passionate gratitude, then she asked, “Where's; Junior, Dad? ‘ine cetectives told him to stay here until he was called ARP It was a few minutes after eleven when Bob Hathaway came to the little house in Myrtle street, bringing Junior, grim, white-faced, with him. “The coroner hold his inquest tomorrow morni ten, at Unele Ralph's house. They won't remove! the—the body until after the in- quest, Bob told Faith and her father. “Dr. Mu nson the coroner, you k Ralph had been killed between eight | thirty and a quarter to nine. They may fix the time more definitely to- morrow. I got there at a quarter to nine, or a minute or two after, and| N offhand I'd say that looks as bad for me as it does for—for anyone else,” he finished lamely, unable yet to link Cherry’s name with the crime. “Oh, Bob! ‘aith breathed, new terror stamping lines into her rav- aged face. (To Be Continued.) TOMORROW: Dawn brings news! of Cherry and newspapers shrieking, insinuations of murder against her. NO BEARDS TODAY 3 Office Boy: There's a genfleman outside with a long black bearl. Manager (preoccupied): ‘Tell him to call back with it tomorrw.—An- swers, London, (Wece, JAND EVERETT TRUE - BY CONDO | BROWN , You KNow THAT CIME TREGS IN YOUR FRONT “KARD THAT EXTENDS THE SIDQ@WACK @ OR TAKS ONE TYOURSG ON THS Gve tT A TRIMMIN = re! é ow, told Morehouse that Uncle! wh, j unresisting blanket, By Tom Sims Vaudeville is 100 years old, says a headline. Well, well! God bless the mother-in-law, after all, God bless them! A Roman theater in a cellar h been discovered in Baalbeck. They must he days, too. A gentleman is a man who agre: with you, Mexicans, before arried banners ri Want American sistance.’ wish some other countrie: would follow that exampl A_ prohibition silting on a ke; went shot a man Judges should not sit on too many c¢ (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) and —— Old Masters Roll on, thou ball, roll on! ‘Through pathless realms of space Roll on! What though I'm in a sorry cas v though I cannot meet my bills? though [suffer ft! Wh toothache’s het though I swallow countless Roll on! Roll on, Through Roll on! It’s true thou ball, roll seas of inky air I've got no shirts to wea It’s true my butcher's bill is du It’s true my prospects all look bluc But don’t let that unsettle you! Never you mind! Roll on! (It rolls on,) -William S. Gilbert: To the Terres- trial Globe (by A Miserable Wretch), IN NEW YORK ! New York, Dec. 17.—The white blanket of silence once more smothers’ “The voice of the city.” It is this first snowfall alone that can gag the giant’s wouth. Sudltenly the whole great city secins to pass on. ided feet. There comes a sudden relaxation of all the nerve centers; lines of tenseness pass for a moment from faces; the quiet of a peaceful countryside ro- places the sual din, 4 It is as though a ditty giant had come upon gome miraculous spring that’ cleansed ‘him’ and turned his flesh to a glowing silver-white. All about for 4 féw hours the great city | glows in its seraphic rebe “The skyscrapers rise like snow- tipped foothills. Eddies of feathers whirl about their peaks and dance about their cotners. They seem ‘to mock the impotent’ solidity of the aR Lone. hey. at Toa, are ree to dance for an hour jn the sun, The steel land” atawe is doqmed to stand in hypnotic gidity i ge remove them. or changing times 5! wang aules, thet all New 5 rumbling wheel: sink. silent nto the “th e streets be- come. narrow, rut t Remnied in by ‘ aged bene Tae endless rows of, suddenly to shut Thaniuites in, like remote farm houses. =” ‘At hight all the Golors, of the rain- bow are caught and crawl snake-like through the shadows .cast hy the buildings of the elevateds. Broadway indeed becomes a “great' white way”-—and it, I feel, the only time it’ seems to, vwhite seems ime to be truly The millions of, lights find a per-|. Th fect reflector and seem, to echo, them- selves in ie dazzling White mirror. But this illusion d Yt long., A few Rekics “ae most! it Then out comes t! f ie are apo army of clean. 10,( lor it “| snowfall and many Aes oe for.a | plier, : , pi ese are bonanza se for jobless. The city chrome | i EYE. | to almost any able-bodied eonlowh ethey remove the muffler Slow! and, bit by bit, the gisnt’s yo! begins to rise again—now in one part. of the city; now in another. The wheels churn again on the resisting n who a ¢ had play censors in thgse | “ | The We! punch and_w | A Gorn Belt Santa Claus: | | by overheated w | covered by insurance. P.O. | ward to a big season. \ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1 ra Secretary Kellogg, White-haired and 70, Bats Way Around Course in 86 : BY RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service Writer Washington, ‘Dec. 17.—Seeretary State Frank B, Kellogg, despite h 70 years, still manages to get around a golf course in creditable fashion. He returned from Pinehurst recently, telling of a first round made in 86, which is not so good for a Bobby dones but net so bad for a white- aired secretary of state. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, however, is «i better preserved spec men than Kellogg. » Mellon is 7: but he looks younger, and active than his fellow cabinet mem- | ber. Both men recently have been the subject of resignation there is no surface evidenc hese are well-founded. As ws near, with the important taxa- tion problems which must be worked out in the interim, President Cool- idge and his party will need Mellon | more than ever. Kellogg is by no means tired of his post and if the intends to resign b tore March 4, 1929, he presumably would prefer to wait until he has had opportunity to achieve some im- portant strokes in international rela- tions, Perey 38 Secretaries to Vice President Charles G. Dawes axe preparing for the congrats annual crop of gavels and pipts. Dawes probably has the LE al collection of each if the capi- tal. More than a dozen gavels have been presented to him since he be- camo president of the Senate, al- though the one he uses i ‘house is not really a ga h only the ivory head of a gavel, which Dawes cups in his hand The last gavel to come was made by Henry Paustian, instructor Manual Arts at Junior Hi School, Grand Island, Neb., and from the wood of the old Supre Court chamber at Lincoln. doubtless that his gavel was, : » Teposing 0 i resident’s desk in the dent i while less gavels were tucked away in obscure places along with the Othes gavel-givers include son oldtime whittlers in backwi istricts. Owing to the fame of Dawes? underslung briar, the mails bring twice us| many pipes te him gavels, -They come in ell shapes and sizes.” Pipe manufacturers, produe- ing a new variety, generally sendhe one to* Dawe ing that he use it und insure the type a big sule. The Dill bill, out of which radio. legislation seems, bound to come dur-* ing the present session, was really born when Senator C. C. Dill of Washington began to experiment with a self-built one-tube set hi home back in 1923. mall stations in the northwest bed) n to close down and Dill inyesti: gated this curtailment of hi 4 Dill's first radio to provide that ni tisht laws should not apply to usi¢ reproduced from broadcasting began to charge for®- ting time and the situation vement. Nerves, rested for a mo- it, grow tense again. The giant begins to bellow his raucous song! But if you would catch New York in an almost pastoral mood, come some day just after a light snow —GILBERT SWAN. | has fallen, | Dickinson ” 164th — Infantry, Wednesday for i en are compelled to wear the com- mil. It is also tainment, refreshment stmas tree, ‘The entertai 1 be mostly i al- “d. refresh: tre have instructed the bring two presents each ee, Th ts in d that the party sful and will be 926, e of D. A. Cutnaw y Sunday morning, damage resulted. Price caused returning from Killdeer. The fire w: stoye. Three garage but no dam done to them. The garage w. were in the E. 1137 held its an nual ball in the Elks auditorium, Sat- urday, Dec, 11.” The attendane large and a good time was reported. A free supper was given to the mem bers before th ‘The Forum Debating society of Dickinson rmal is looking At a meeting ith the Friday they decided to debate both Jamestown College and Univers: of North Dakota. The question in either case will be on rohibition und both debates will be eld here at the Normal School. The ex of these Webates are not yet definitely decided upon. The Normal I alsa debate with two other Normal schools on the question of a department of education in the president’s cabinet. The wording of the question and the date are un- decided as yet. Oné debate will be here and the other will be at the ather schools. The presidents of the North Dukota will decide upon, the different — schoe fhat will mect for the conferenge question, “ Friday the state budget, board paid its yisit.to the Dickinyon Sta jor- mal mon! aut the. experimebt, sha: tion, this gard cans of RB. ur a eRe h yates aire one members af the board of administra- tion, and Representative . Mrs. Ceaiz and Senator Kretschmar. ie duty of making falls, to. Fresident May, Diektihen jormal pre: % budget is made, out to shar ‘propriations neded to carry on stork of the school. It must, how- ever, be aparoved by the budget board before appropriations are set aside. 4 aed ame volcerrl Kings Good conscience is sometimes sold jor money, but never bought with it. —Augheye oe viva The: Crowd: “want a. touch- orn. We. want . touchdown! WE ‘ANT A TOUCHDOW! alesse shoes ; A.want.a kag ry. Bante, Tar Compound, tells why, ‘3 opiates or chloroform, it is so quick- ly effcetive in stopping coughs and In healing {ie distressing aise it alone combines the curative virtues of pure Pine Tar and other healing ingredients, together with the mollifying demulcent effects of clear fresh Honey. From 651.8. 46th St.,-Chicago, com 1. “A stub. born cough worried me, kept me awake’ nights, resisted other cough medicines, but quickly yielded to your good Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. . My. druggist. recom- mended it.” Ask for it. —ady, pines The: the | biggest > hidihibaia .. é |Enderlin Study Club : | Forms Loan Fund to Educate Local Girls? Enderlin, N. D. Dee. 17.) Cakes and sewing are the bases lwhi¢h the educatior \Enderlin girls are 4 the work of the Enderlin Tuesday? {Study club show: 7 A few years ago, an orphan girl who had been reared by a widowed jaunt desired to obtain 2 better educ: tion but she had no mon 3 B. Overstreet enlisted the aid e women of the community 4 they resolved tl the realize her ambition. They cakes, did sewing and did othe work § and svon they had one hun 1 dol- rs. The girl produly off ‘to ‘hers’ colle; . Enderlin clubwomen » kep* he and today have $10 fund which is »: rving girls through be is growing at the rate of §109 a ye up! in a Joan r. At first the loans to « no interest but many the idea of charity and no jloans bear three per cent intere:t. An all loans have be Promptly. Applications for jcome in faster than the igrown but to date no aid has been refused. A c three club members adiin. | fund. | In addition to cake-bai sewing the women’s clu! [have catered for luncire Counties May Buy | Gravel Land From. | State Land Boardf} Counties may purchase gravel bearing lands from the state in the future, under a ruling given by At- ‘torney General George Shafer to Carl R. Kositzky, state land com ner. ‘Seven counties have applied fo; permission to buy gravel land owned by the state, Kositzky suid, but in each insti the state has refused tu make the sale, acting under a prior opinion that “the state laad bvard had no authority. In his opinion, however, Shafer holds that the coastitution and the state law permits the board to sell | lands to any coun ality to be used for Gravel for road-b purpose, he said, and therefore the board has authority to make such sales. a The decision should tend toward better roads in several counties whe: the state has owned the best and ‘most easily accessible gra containing gravel suitable Es réal- building purposes, Kositzky ¢aid. LEOPOLD BROKE Berlin—Prince Leopold, last of the royal governors of Lippe-Detmold, is broke, although he is one of the iandowners in Germany. Re- cently he wanted to sue Dr. Thyssen for non-paymentof $60,000 for a tract’ of land he had sald, but did no have” the necessary $500 to post to cover court cost: New books and pamphlets arriv- ing at the British Museum library amount to 40,000 a year. The library has to preserve copies of all books printed in the United Kingdom. FLAPPER FANNY.S Y' j ah Git de Ge wo! CVISrSr Sr Sie: ALU EEL re eee ererererererere: