The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 3, 1927, Page 4

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CHICAGO PLAY Bidg. resge ig. sewer PAYNE, BURNS & SMITH NEW YORK - - : Fifth Ave. Bldg. | (Official City, State and County Newspaper) FR cee hist tes stad America’s 1776 Idea Now Moves China When a new idea gets abroad in a country you} may expect startling developments. Ideas, in this world of ours, are rare things. An | idea big enough to grip the imagination of a whole country comes along not oftener than once or twice ina century. When it does come its results are far- reaching. = China, stagnant in the peace of nodding man- darins and stately pagodas for so many centuries, faas been seized by an idea—the idea that is ex: | Bressed by the word “nationalism.” ‘S For countless centuries the average Chinese hard- jy had an inkling of that idea. To the village coolfe the whdle universe was included in the limited boun- daries of his own immediate‘ neighborhood. He might have a diluted loyalty to his town; loyalty to China as a whole was beyond his power of concep- tion. — But now the idea is taking hold. It came gradually, born of oppression and mis- Tule. Slowly, painfully, there was impressed on the mind of the coolie the idea that his country was #omething more than the few square miles surround- ing his birthplace. He began to realize, in a mud- led sort of way, that what happened in far-off Peking or Shanghai had direct effects on living con- ditions in his own village. ., So now China is aflame. A new national spirit Ys being born. Nationalism is one of the strongest impulses that €an move a people. It can be one of the finest; and, at the same time, it can be one of the most ‘dangerous. The 13 seacoast colonies of Great Brit- gin were restive under the hand of depotism for imany years; but not until a true national spirit was orn, and given expression on a July day in 1776, ‘did resentment and indignation become able to strike. ~ When a true national spirit moves a people, out- giders can beware how they interfere. There is a kind of dynamite in human souls, slow to ignite, but world-shattering in its effects. It gives birth ‘to French revolutions, Thirty Years’ wars, sends armies forth to die and lays a bloody sword across fair countrysides. China is aroused. Even the American mission- aries, heretofore well liked by the masses, are in danger. The new nationalism is, among other things, blind. » Do not make the mistake of thinking that the Chinese troubles will “blow over soon.” They will mot. Outsiders can repress the spirit of nationalism for a time. But not for long. = Repealing Useless Laws : Americans who deplore the multiplitity of laws ‘and ordinances in America may well take heart swhen they contemplate the state of affairs in Ger- Many where the ministry of the interior holds~out ‘® prospect of the repeal/of no fewer than a million "Police orders, every one of which has the full force of law. In the batch are many over a hundred years ‘od. y= The United States has very nearly the same cir- ‘cumstance to contend with. As the years have gone by legislation intended for temporary use has re- ‘mained on the statute books, later to bob up and onfcund those very persons who were instrumental Jn its enactment. Day by day we are struggling gwith an archaic system of laws and regulations which is unnecessary, dogmatic, oppressive and ut- rly useless. Among those may be cited the so- alled “blue laws” about which there is such a justi- @iable furore. _ We have the constant spectacle of the attempted ‘enforcement in twentieth century America of out-of- date laws that were enacted for the guidance of mineteenth century people and situations. The laws President and Publisher || 7 . jing to our policy toward Mexico and Nicaragua, ! Subscription Rates Payable in Advance }eontend that we are embarked upon a policy of im- | | Imperial England. Imperial Germany. increased’ by the installation of these devices. The Interstate Commerce Commission should take im- mediate steps to require all threagh and fast trains, on express tracks, at least, to be equipped with | these safety stop devices. Imperialism? | Some of the critics of our state department, point- perialism. ' The majority of us cannot know what is in the, minds of the nation’s leaders. But most of us ridi- | cule the theory that we already are an empire and | are expanding our domain. It is in other lands, however, that protests against “American Imperialism” have reached their loudest pitch, In Europe, Asia—-and Latin America as well —the ambitions of rulers, statesmen, nations and races have so powerfully influenced the course of history and wrecked and reestablished boundaries that suspicion has become one of the most impor- | tant items of national defense as well as a chief cause of war. If the suspicion of some nations is directed at this great country today, there is little need for aston- ishment. What nation of the past, becoming more | powerful than her neighbors, has set out on the course of empire? Consider imperial Egypt. Imperial Greece. Im- perial Rome. Imperial Spain. Imperial France. | And then consider what a task we must have on our hands to convince the world that the United States always will stand as the great exception of history! New York Finally Catches On ! One hates to say it, but it is impossible to escape | the impression that New York, after all, is just a little bit behind the times. The New York newspapers have become vastly excited during the last few days because they have | found there a lady barber, who runs a shop for the patronage of men. This estimable lady has been held up as one of the modern wonders of the world. | There is a sort of “what won’t we up-to-date New Yorkers do next?” note in all the stories abcut her. Well, probably that is something to get excited about—in New York. But it is a good many years since we first saw a barber shop run by ladies. There has been one, to be explicit, in Kansas City for a number of years. Other western cities had them before Kansas City. In most of them the idea is so old that nobody thinks twice about it. | Of course, it isn’t important. | But somehow, you can’t help feeling that New York, every now and then, catches on to something and thinks it has made a discovery! Editorial Comment Higher Grades (Valley City Public Opinion) The snow of the past month has proven to some of the members of the North Dakota Highway Com- ; mission that it will be econcmy and better all year service to build grades somewhat higher. In mak- ing a survey of the situation it has been found that where grades are somewhat higher and the ditches deeper and wider than the usual grade and ditch that there has been less trouble with show. Mr.! Moe in a recent interview stated, he believed that if grades would be built up from twelve to eighteen inches above the adjoining land and ditches made wider and deeper there would be little trouble in keeping the grades clear of snow during the winter, he believes it would be economy in the end. It would cost more it is true in the construction of the same, but, maintenance being the eternal job, it would cost less from that standpoint. This propo- sition will be taken up before the commission at an early date and undoubtedly some action will be taken. The time has come, Mr. Moe stated, that all year reads must be planned. The business of the state demands all year transportation and it 1s the business of the highway department to work for the best interests of all concerned in the ad- vancement and development of the state. Back to to Adam (Dayton News) We're headed back toward Father Adam. We've climbed just about as far as nature intended; we're pausing with feet on the topmost rung of the lad- der, and there isn’t any way to go now but back- ward, back to where we started from. It has been a long, devious road, that road leading from the | Garden of Eden to here, and we've been a good long time negotiating it. But now that the end of the trail has been reached and, there is nothing to do but turn around and go back the going ought to be much easier. \It is always easier going down hill, The evolution of man has been halted by his own civilization, We are at a standstill. If you are inclined to disagree, and if you are are so palpably foolish that there is engendered in he average man a contempt for all laws. ~ It is a situation that should not exist. Our legis- Jative and judicial systems are far behind the times. "They have been left far behind as the world has ‘advanced and their flounderings in the maze of a bygone era only complicate our present existence. ‘What seems to be necessary is a complete house- cleaning in every town, city and state in the ‘mation with the object of putting all the rubbish Bpptsiation on the scrap heap. Machinery Needed = It takes a major catastrophe to make people ~Fealize the great need of proper safety devices. No qnatterchow many fire extinguishers there may be apn the market, an auto owner rarely buys one until machine has caught fire. So it is with rail- A real safety device that stops a train auto- tically if the block ahead is occupied is in suc- ful use on lew roads, *If such a device had been in use on the Pittsburgh on of the Pennsylvania railroad recently, for the innati Limited would not have J ; | Darwin.” cptimistic enough to believe there is no end to the road over which the human race has traveled since its first members received notice to dispossess the premises that had been so generously allotted them, take up your argument with’ Edwin Grant Conklin, head of the department of biology of Princeton uni- versity. He is responsible for the statement that we are going back to Adam. “Since the beginning of recorded history,” he states, “there have been few and wholly minor changes in the body of man, and those changes have been mainly degenerative.” He points out that the little toe has grown small- er, and that the great toe has grown larger; that teeth have decreased in size and strength, and that there has been a general lowering cf the perfection of sense crgans. Under conditions of civilization, he contends, there has been a less rigid elimination of physical imperfections than in a state of bar- barism or savagery. He declares there has been tio noticeable progress in the intellectual capacity of man in the last 2,000 or 3,000 years. “Even in the most distant future,” asserts the man of learn- ing, “there may never appear greater geniuses than Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Newton and Like alb who happen along to alarm their fellows, this man, offers-no relief, He apparently doesn’t feel that eugenics'can accomplish anything in the way of leading once more to progressive evoluticn. He merely says we are as far 4s we can go, and that we are now headed back toward Adam and Eve. But isn't it possible the professor has been burning midnight oil over 2 modern fashion maga- instead of a text book on biology? bat oli THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE — sAbletoDigestit | Just as Soo SAINF 4a SINNER Fat SIs em, Stephen Churchill shrugged his | with massive shoulders skeptically. “Shot!”} We murdered Uncle s a cripple, a man who walks on the toe of his left foot. His left] a leg is shorter than his right, that is an old, old story to the rest of the country—- | drawn up as the result of an opera- so that he cannot ch the ground with his left heel. eleven A shoe!” something here,” Churchill agreed thoughtfully. ” His smile was a little Ralph 'Yes!” Bob thrust a~hand pocket of his coat and dre out the bit of stained, worn leather this under the win- dow, buried in the snow. ple who murdered Uncle Ralph w some sort of brace, to ease the st on his bad leg. In hoisting himse!f into the he open window!” he em- meaningly, “the strap of his ace broke, and this bit of it fell to the ground and was later cor ered with snow. under it—the snow had drifted pretty deep on the slope—as’ wel it when I found tion on the knee, te chair, placed his right foot flat upon the rung, and, with the knee sharp- ly crooked, rested only the toe of his left shoe on the floor. man, probably thin—” “How do you get that?” Churchili asked, intensely interested at last. “From these figure: ed, dropping into his chair agai vl ley snow. before they were obliterated by 1 t| mous because of Irving Berlin’s ap- watched me measure them—he can Then I made foot- prints in the snow myself, and meas- ured them, to have something to go dropped there started, not before. thin man, whose left leg is supported by a brace so that he cannot t verity what I ‘say. six feet—and I wear a on a C last. Fairly n; and he thrust out a foot for the law- yer's inspection. prints wore a size eleven shoe, on the nar- rowest lust made, that he had a very long and nar I've talked to row, you see,” TOMORROW: agrees to become a burglar in the interests of justice. a shoe dealer measurements, too—and he gave me the dope on them. He says that a man wearing a long, narrow shoe is almost invariably A modern apart: | ment house’ is rising in New York's a very tall, thin If he were fat, his foot would thicken, and he would wear a shoe both long and wide. Long doomed by the inroads of | commercialism, That is not in- blow to the Chinatown have all remarked on the oddity of thin legs supporting a short, heavy extreme length of with the extreme narrowness of it, certainly points to only one conclusion—that the man who made these footprints is excep- tionally tall—six feet two or three, probably—and thin, From Times Squares, busses hung with Chinese lanterns still set forth carrying their loads of tourists to the snake-like From the bus seats the barkers make promises sights and adventures that end in a jaunt through arlors and # public joss house. e old-timers have long looked upon Chinatown as foredoomed. made-to-order on the detectives and policemen who were first on the scene of the crime.”} The new apartment rises in “Hap- / chronicled, some of the worst began and ended in “Happy Alley.” The underworld once bore its bloody brood there, sending them forth from dark- ened basements and gloomy buildings. This was the stamping ground ,|of Jack Sirocco, and many of his | mob. But “Happy Alley” had a merry side, as well. Its beer shops, sordid 1s perhaps some of them were in their day, held many an Irish clog- ger, dancing beerfully to the strains of an Italian accordion, At one time its population was al- most entirely Irish and nobody seems to know its exact antiquity. One tenement, it is said, was built 120 years ago and there were Irish in “Happy Alley,” no doubt, who num- bered among the first of the Irish settlers in America, d don’t forget—in “Happy Al- was “Nigger Mike's,” now fa- prenticeship. It was there, you may after the snowstorm] recall, that Berlin got his start as a Find a very tall, singing waiter. “ When the Irish left the Italians "land Chinese began to came in. Then the Italians went and left it almost entirely to the Oriegtals and gang guns were replaced by the hatchets of highbinders and later by the auto- matics of modern tong warfare. There is plentyfor the tourist steerers to tell abéwt as they take their charges through “Happy Alley.” There is plenty to bring restless sleep to_visitors from. snug farmtowns. But this will not be easy when a modern apartment house rises. It is hard for the imagination to penetrate steel and stone and see the eerie, creepy sceneg of another day. ee The shrewd young Chinese have llong since ‘built their “noodle joints” into ornate show pl: the tourists and many hav: such comfortable fortunes that they have moved into Broadway, where every third cerner now flaunts lanterns and gold sign, while jazzbands blare at noon hour and midnight alike. In fact, it took the products of Chinatown, rather than Broad- way, to popularize the noon time “I've already done so. was interested,” Bob told him quick- “There is not a man py Alley,” paradoxically named block of sinister memories. Of all the grisly gang wars to be, (Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Inc.) OUR BOARDING HOUSE No ZIRwT WON'T FLIP A con WITH You 40 GEE WHO'LL GET 7TH’ UB FIRGT!~ You HAVE A WAY OF FLIPPIN' So ITLL Come DOWN YouR WAN! wT REMEMBER BACK HOME No ALWAYS USED-To WiN-TH! LAST PIECE OF CAKE, FLIPPIN’ FoR (Tle “—~ GIVE ME GEVEN WORDS To OPELL, AN' IF TL WIN OX ODT OF TH’ SEVEN, I Ake -TH’ FIRST BATH t= UM-M— VERY WELL “HEAL ~ B LET Me GEE NOW, ~ UM-M-o.. WELL, TLL GWE You “HE NAME@ OF SEVEN PREHISTORIC MONGTERG ~~ - DINOGAURG; ur BRONTOSAURL “ARICERATOPS,~-DIPLODOC I, “TRACHODONG PTIERODACTILG AND MEGALOSAURI !~ “8 Qe Mibnypatyoo bi ey dansant. GILBERT SWAN. last week. or one day last weel « her home Monday night by the ill- ness of her mother. Thompson, B: Moberg attended the birehday pi of Mrs. Walter Williams at Wash- burn last week. » dirs business visitor: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1927 : | SLAPPER-FANNY SAY: —_—_—_—e Able to Digest It | Wilton | The Tanadoona Campfire girls gave a program Monday night at the {1 0. 0. F. hall. | |_ Miss Janet McKeller, the National | | Field Worker, was present and gave, | \ | | a talk to the girls and mothers on) campfire wo Arthur on, who has been em- ployed at the mine blacksmith shop, {nad the misfortune of dropping a hehvy iron on his foot and crushing ithe foot so that he will be laid off; from work for some time. | The members of the Wilton Wo-/ man’s club entertained their hus- bands at_a 7 o'clock supper ‘at the I. O. O. F. hall Tuesday evening. | S. Viness spent Monday in Bis- marck. attending the meeting of the North Dakota Funeral Directors’ as- sociation. The Regan high school basketball team played the Boy Scouts here Fri- day evening. The Wilton boys won by_a score of 7-11. Mrs. F. M. Fertyarce, entertained the bridge club at afternoon. Mesdames N. E. Corrington, C. C. Cleveland and V. W. Fiegel enter- tained the Ladies’ Aid at the Legion rooms Wednesday afternoon, .. C. fT, Thompson of the Wilton Co- operative association attended the meeting of the Retail Merchants’ a: sociation held in Bismarck last week. Joyce Iverson was absent from on due to injuries received from ML on the ice while skating. ir. and Mrs. Burel Monrte were spel her sister, Mrs. V. W. Fiegel. Mr. Severson, the 7th and 8th grade teacher, left very suddenly for Wis- consin Thursday evening. The many friends of Miss Lucille Tibbits will be glad to know she has recovered from her operation and has gone to Bismarck to take up her school duties. Mrs. H. M. Goulson of Cole Harbor was a guest at the Rev. F. W. Christ home over Sunda: The infant chi of Mr. and Mrs. John Trodotsky passed away Satu: day and was buried in the Catholic cemetery north of town Sunday afternoon, Agnes Janiow had her tonsils re- moved at the St. Alexi hospital, Bismarck one day last week. Paul Dalager of Stanley visited at the Gottlieb Hochhalter home last week, The Mike Warner family are lea’ ing this week for Chicago to make their home. Mr. Warner has been resident of Wilton for many yea: and his many friends wish him su css in his new venture. Miss Dorothy Anderson was a Bis- marck visitor over the week-end. Clarence Flavin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Flavin, left ‘for Chicago Jack Proctor was a Bismarck visit- The Morris Christianson family are movng into the Waddington residence formerly ogcupied by Mike’ Warne: S. R. Livergood and Charley Mit- chell motored to Washburn Monday evening to attend the meeting of the; Masonic Lodge. Miss Regina Muggle was calléd to Mrs. George Christianson left for Washington last week to visit with her sster, Mrs. John Gilbertson. Lieutenant Sites of the Bismarck Salvation Army was in Wilton last night selling the Army paper, the “War Cry.” Mesdamer Fi iM, tyerqne; BLS. Spartholonee and a 8: arty Mr. and Mrs. Amond Thor of the Still district were business visitors in Wilton Saturday. Charley Pentice returned to his home Monday’ from Minneapolis, isting he has been for the past two weeks. The first week -he -atténded the Chevrolet school and the second week he worked in an Oldsmobile ei in Minneapolis, both of whi will be of muc to him here in his employment the C. V., Damaison garage. Edw. Morris was a recent caller at the Lund home in Ghlyn district. Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Whitted were shopping in Regan Wednesday. Harold Morris made a brief bus nae coll at the John Engdahl ho: ay. b: Joe Varley spent Friday. morni ae os Fe Na en's. ‘i bd and son, Will, were in Baldwin. M. F. Parker, who teaches No. 2 Cromwell, was a dinner guest at the Joe Varley home Saturday. Enos Strandemo ma a trip to Babvin Saturday. \ H, Schroeder ipurchased three loads of oats, which was offered for sale from a c: Mrs. H. Arndt and som, Henry Harold, have returned from Hague, where they have been yikiting Mr. Arndt’s parents. ~ Mr. and Mrs, Philip Zelmer were home Si r. geaste at the A. J. Krau: rvin, Martha Alm, Ella Funston, Hilda and Cl: 4 at- tended the Christian Bracers: party Savurday evening given in 5 Little Henry id Arndt has been on thevsick list all last week. Esther Krause has been. absent from school, on account of a bad cold. Mr. and Mrs, E. Englebritsen at- tended a party given at the Aug. Lundberg home. | ATHOUGHT | He shall rile them with a rod of iren—Kev. 2:27. ° : It is fii iat makes Lon our Sige voit weenie Justajingle Poor ‘The kitten said, “You bed, And then gave it a licking. ] er home Thursday ing styles will Jook better slender figure than on a sien: der income. [Bares] Philadelphia clubwomen have join- ed a movenient to have public libra- ries open on Sunday. Where it this wave of dissipation carrying us? Senator Jim Reed s discovered that the presidential spokesman is Coolidge himself. Next thing you know .some of these investigating senators is going to find out he’s a Republican, too. ‘Perhaps Uncle Sam isn’t popu: lar with his wayward nephews and nieces just now, but did you ever see a rich uncle who was? Chicago dentists say we should eat alfalfa. Do we have to eat it and smoke it, too? seven debu- Washington ha: \tantes who neither smoke nor drink, says a dispatch. Social- tal- ents © certainly are waning in the capital. (Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Inc.) ———_ Old Masters ‘ MESSER scl stad Darest thou now, Oh soul, Walk out with me toward that un- known region, Where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow? there, nor guide, ice sounding, nor touch of human hand, |Nor face with blooming flesh, nor lips, nor eyes are in that land, L know it not, Oh soul, Nor dost thou, all is a blank be- fore us— All waits undreamed of in that re- gion, that inaccessible land. Till when the ties loosen, All but: the ties etétnal, Time and Space, Nor darkness, gravitation, ‘sense, nor - any bounds bounding us. Then we burst forth, we float, In Time and Space, Oh soul! prepared for them, i Equal, equipped at ‘last (Oh Joy! Oh fruit of all!) them to ful- fill, Oh soul! Walt Whitman: From “Leaves of Grass.” At The Movies | -——___—___—_—_. K CAPITOL THEATRE A story of Young America has at last found its way to the screen in “A Regular Scout,” an F. B. 0. pro- duetion starring Fred Thomson which is playing at the Sn (hp Theatre. It is a story of the life and motives of the greatest boy organization on earth——the ”~ Scouts. The locale is the. West, with towering, majestic mountains for a background, and all the thrilling riding, so vividly a part of Western ‘pictures, is at its Bost with Silver King as the exponent of the cowboy’s Pegasus. A troop of Scouts and Fred meet accidentally one’ night ‘while camping on the desert, and. from then on their lives are drawn together, and the mutual friendship grows to such roportiong that the entire life of the man is changed, through the boys’ ennobling influence. Seven troops of Scouts are wi in the picture, while their national headquarters appointed a Scout Executive to oversee and han- bed thes torinles palate invol in e production, e cast inclu: Olive . Hasbrouck, Mai ry ‘ Carr, lie | garet Seddon. Buck. Black, William Courtright, Hai . Barnes and Bob sag " ail ELTINGE THEATRE “Mare Nostrum”: (our sea) the screen production of the story by Blasco Ybanes at. the Eltinge yester- day will be shown for the last times tonight, It dramatic story of spy Wiese ecieate tat son chee reluctant ° fale Moreno in a dashing. Ao Ak lon. J Dani vivacious queen of speeay comes be er Rilaee. for Fri- a a; 3 Sor 08 aang, a her tae le erience as an America: shop girl in a series of mirthful escapades pro- vide the excellent ‘cntertaintment which is expected from a Bebe Dan- fels picture. The presence for Ford Sterling in the cast is further agsur- ance of pleasing comedy and mirth, |: Ky a tag Bales company, Minot,| \ uy Adal 3 J. A. | | ler ex---