The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 7, 1927, Page 4

a ef L < ‘PAGE FOUR 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 Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year . is Daily by mail, per year, (in Bismarck). Daily by mail, per year, (in state outside Bismarck)......... Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to fhe use for republication of all news dispatches Gredited to it or not otherwise credited in this pa- yer, and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. $7.20 +e 720 6.00 Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DET Tower Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS NEW YORK : - 'ROIT & SMITH (Official City, State and County Newspaper) The Senate Ruling It was an extremely important decision which was made by the supreme court in the Mal Dougherty case, wherein he was accused of contempt for fail- ing to obey the summons of a senate investigation committee investigating certain governmental scan- dals. It affirms the right of the senate commit- tees, when dealing with a legislative subject, to force the attendance of witnesses, just as any fed- eral court may force attendance of witnesses, thus setting at rest a moot point that has prevented many times in the past an accurate investigation of conditions. Mr. Dougherty has furnished the test case. In that he was important, but his case fades to insig- nificance when compared to the major result, the affirming of a basic point of United States law. One result of this decision will of course be big- ger and better investigations. Congress has always been adept at this sort of thing and it is inconceiv- able that it will not take advantage of the oppor- | tunity to test its newly affirmed rights. The only fly_in.the ointment will be that now that the coun- try*knows there is nothing in the way of having every investigation complete, it will undoubtedly in- sist that every investigation produce some definite result since there is no longer any excuse for any- thing else. Oratorical Contests The 1927 contests sponsored by the New York Times and declared of inestimable value in pro- moting interest in secondary schools in public speaking and basic American principles, are now under way and promise to make an even finer record this year than last in the building up of a finer morale among American commonwealth. ; Under the plan as developed by the Times each region conducts contests until there is a winner from each section. Then these 64 winners compete in a national tournament for final honors. The value of the plan may easily be seen in the requirements, which are that the oration must be the original work of the student, the delivery not to consume more than ten minutes and the treatment of the subjects must combine historical background with applica- thon to conditions of today. The oration is judged fifty per cent for content and fifty per cent for de- livery. Wide latitude is given in the choice of sub- ject matter as long as the orations deal with the constitution and meet other general requirements. “ The contest not only has a regional and national scope, but also has an international application, for last fall representatives of various countries fought & out for the international title. This year it is Anticipated that there will be even keener compe- tition in every branch of the contest. It would cer- tainly be hard to imagine a way in which a news- paper could be of greater service to its country than by sponsoring such eompetition. Chinese Nationalism, We find many persons talking of “Chinese na- tionalism” as if they were talking of some terrible few disease, of which the whole world might sicken nd die overnight. Just*what is so awful to con- emplate in some millions of Chinese wanting China fo themselves, does not seem clear. Apparently to some occidental minds it is ungrateful, to say the feast, efter “all we've done for China.” _W they réally mean is “what we've done to China** with extra-territoriality and a thousand other ways in which we have forced our so-called Progress upon a people whose civilization antedated ours by thousands of years. We have done some things of value, chiefly through hospital founda- tions, but mostly we have exploited China from start to finish. This refers not just to America, but to the whole white race. Now the Chinese dragon has aroused from his lumbers and the Chinese people are asking for their wn Iand to themselves. They want the right to itand on their own merits, free of foreign domina- ion @md free to carve out their own future. They, lon’t ;want foreign “concessions” on their territory ind can’t blame them a particle. iL are fighting today for what we once fought i m. Perhaps we have not meant to oppress fire’ but our official and unoffirial representa- have accomplished just thhat and it is ig, 1 rd reflects little credit upon us, al- Frouge less upon other white nations. Fy ee | means let us protect our nationals from | ry by a loot-hungry mob of desperadoes, if that ry, but let us make it so purely defensive put no obstacles in the way of those who :ibe free. Let us withdraw from China at Rest possible moment, Kresge Bldg. | Fifth Ave, Bldg. | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE little to batter the bars of partisan feeling | over the moot point of evolution. | No matter what one’s belief on the point may be, however, it is freely admitted by most fair minded persons that the prohibiting of the teaching of ac- | any arguments advanced so far. It amounts to sup- pression of knowledge, which, in this day and age, is a serious matter. During the middle ages it was , Policy for feudal lords to prohibit education, for it | might influence vassals to revolt against their liege | Probably the same theory is in vogue in; | masters, | some “anti-evolution” states today, where a certain 5.00 | element fears that too much knowledge on the sub-| | ject will influence thinking people to strike off the | fetters of venerated dogma and subscribe to a belief | that is more acceptable to modern mentalities and | conditions. Mr. Scopes in himself was not important, nor is lhe now. He was merely an instrument whereby {more millions of persons were stimulated to indi vidual thought and speculation. It is safe to say ‘that a majority of these millions resent any measure such as the anti-evolution law, the purpose of which | is to throttle intelligence. Student Suicides The number of student suicides lately is reaching {an appalling total. Convinced of the emptiness of existence they betake themselves to another sphere that is perhaps emptier. Melancholy overtakes them in the middle of a hard passage of Vergil and they calmly put a bullet through what few brains they have left and soar away to question the whys and wherefores of the cosmic universe. To what purpose? None. Every person who departs from this life before natural causes de- and because he takes life too seriously, He is a coward because a brave man would stick the tragedy out and see the game through. It takes but little courage to kill oneself. It takes more of desperation than courage. One looks ahead and sees a dreary outlook, broods into a melanchely state and then says, “Well, I might as well die. There’s nothing to live for and I’m afraid to face the future.” It would take real courage to face the music. Thus the suicide is primarily a coward and is certainly a poor sport to quit the game just because he is losing for a while. Last of all, the suicide takes life too seriously Really it is a grand comedy of errors. Things, if | they are well ordered, rarely show it. Everything happens that shouldn’t and very few things happen that should. From first to last it is a succession of comic dilemmas in which the joke is usually on you. If one looks at life too seriously, tance of these events and their outlandish proportions. This is rarely true. Life is too much of a farce to be taken very seriously. The least a real man can do i: game as he finds it with a smile on his face and adventure in his heart. | | then the impor- Editorial Comment | The Punishment They Do Not Want (Chicago Tribune) William N. Coffey, who had a taste, in his leisure, for welfare work, left his wife and children, mar- ried another woman without more ado, killed her with a ball bat and hammer, having possessed him- self of her money, dismembered her body, and bur- ied the parts in various graves. After many lies he finally came to what appears as a complete con- fession of brutality in murder. One thing has been in dispute, whether he killed the woman in Iowa or Wisconsin. If the killing was in Iowa he can be hanged for it. If it was in Wisconsin he cannot be. He says he is positive on this point. It was in Wisconsin. It was not in Iowa. He concedes that he lied a great deal about other details of his crime before he told the truth, but the state was Wisconsin. He knows why he is so certain it was in Wisconsin. They do not hang murderers in Wisconsin and he wants the advantage of that break. life in punishment for murder. There never was a murderer who was not of this opinion. In some opinion life imprisonment is a sufficient punish- ment.’ Every murderer agrees that it is and that it nearly always is too much. Capital punishment is the one punishment which a killer does not want. In that respect it makes its own argument. The Censorship Mania (New York Times) Judging by one day’s proceedings at Albany, the rage for setting up censors is still afflicting many members of the legislature. If they could have their way, somebody would be censoring everybedy. The latest proposal is for a censorship of broadcasting. This has nothing to do with the assignment of wave lengths, or with the pretty ways of announcers, but with the programs provided by the various stations. These would be severely scrutinized and, on occa- sion, eviscerated by some kind of public utility board. Then we have once more the bill to censor book publishers. Instead of acting with Governor Smith to abolish the existing censorship of moving pictures, that is to be kept, and there are to be cen- sors for the spoken drama as well. All these plans are put forward in the name of public morality, which is said to be certain to go to smash unless there is an official censor morum for every activity of social life. The probability is that none of these bills will be enacted into law. The arguments against them are too many and conclusive. Yet the very appearance of such measures, with the backing which they have from many good people, is a disquieting indication of the mounting desire in this country to control and standardize everything. The trait of Angle- Saxon character known as “earnestness” has been happily defined as meaning an overwhelming im- Pulse to make everybody else exactly like yourself. Something of that idea evidently underlies the con- tinued demand for censorships as varied as life it- self. Fortunately, the tendency, even of the legis- lative’ mind today, seems to be to depend more upon general laws for the protection of public mor- als than upon special statutes designed to fit a mul- tiplicity of things; and at the same time to call ‘upon and can call him a censor if they like. if he and they fail to meet the standards laid the criminal law, that can be in cepted theories of evolution cannot be justified by | | termine his end, does so because he is a coward— | ignificance assunies | to go through the | In some opinion it is wrong for society to take a | | i | | The mysterious. letter, copied from the original in Bob Hathaway's neat, small handwriting, like copperplate, engraving, was brief and ominow “I'll be out of this hell soon, Cluny, u've got to make restitution. n years of hell from which, you might have saved me if you had not lain down on the job. Drunk when | you made your summation before the jury. Drunk! Good God! And I've paid by ten years in hell for your spree, | “You cannot give me back the ten + years, but I shall hold you to an ac- | counting for the fortune you took from me to defend me. Defend me! God, I could tear out the bars of this’ damnable place with my bare hands when I think of you and the weak-kneed, doddering, drunken de- fense plea you put up for me. “[ shall come out 1 penniless, pre- maturely old man. But you shall re- store to me the fortune you took from me for what no right-minded lawyer would consider a defe If you do not—but you know me, Cluny. You kmow that if you do not meet my, just demands, you will pay. This is the last warning | shall give you. The next time I will warn you face a “What a horrible letter!” hands quivered away from the with disgu: It should be e trace the writer, darling. Oh, it is a clue, isn’t it? & g ES &. 5 8 heart. The origin: ten by a very craft course, but crafty with the cunning of the insane. As you see, there is no date. The original was not even written. It was’ done entirely in words and letters cut from a news: Paper and pasted upon a sheet plain white typewriting paper, which hasn’t even a watermark to help us.” “But if ‘B’ was in prison, and had been defended by Mr, Cluny, it is safe to assume that he was in a state prison here, isn’t it?” Faith asked. “He might have been a federal prisoner in Leavenworth or Atlanta, or in some other prison,” Bob point- ed out. “Unfortunately the envelope was not kept.” “But he says this was a ‘last warn- ing,” Faith reminded him. “Didn't you find other letters from him?” “Not a trace of one,” Bob answer- | \g | 3-0 LEND! w BESIDES ] I vet Nov-tace $2. 1 Ripe “tH FERRIS WHEEL ATT’ CHicAGo J? WORLDS FAIR, AN T AINT GEN HIDE OR HAIR OF IT SINCE! - wu WITH INTEREOT THAT WOULD BE I ABouT #12. Now! | i SITs LU What This Country Need OUR BOARDING HOUSE Z Za WECK»IM BROKE! T WAVENT ANY MoWEN ERAH! DONT BE WME. A MIGERABLE! ed gloomily. “Uncle Ralph pro! des ved them or there is possibility that he turned then over to the distri I doubt it, though. Une ot_afraid of God, m 1 don’t understand how he happened to file this one. Probably dropped into the file baskets, instead of destroying it.” “The writer accuses your uncle of ving been drunk during the trial,” th shuddered. “Do you think ‘s true?” I don’t believe it for a minute,” Bob asserted defiantly. “Uncle Ralph was never a hard drinker, and ever heard of his being drunk on a e, or any other time. This chap simply brooded until he’s lost hi: He undoubtedly id Uncle ph.a big sum of money, and the jury found him guilty. The fact that he was evidently denied a new trial jndicates that the supreme court ought the sentence was just.” “What did. Churchill say?” Faith dsked hopefully. TOMORROW: Faith begins asking uestions, Jopyright, 1927, N Service, Inc.) o—————_. ARBS | o_O The king of England has invented a uew buttonhole, says a dispatch. A strip of elasti ross the lapel to hold a flower. We thought most of the kings nowadays carried their lilies in their hands, but this new announcement is important if true. he kings could organize a union of buttonhole ‘artisans, Mussolini would lend the organization King Victor Emmanuel, who could paint them. King George could specialize in some'kind of buttonhole which the prince could fasten to a button on his steed. . King Ferdinand could help out with a durable buttonhole for Marie, hers being badly worn by. the thumbs of American publicity haters. The kings could convene annu- ally’ and play “Who's got the ‘btt- ton?” The monarchs have the but- tonholes but the dictators certainly have the buttons, | Don'tsay dentist any more. The new word is gnathologist. Probably 60 PENURIOUS!. You HAVE AT LEAST A DOLLAR “0 LEND ME FoR ‘A DAV I we FOR WAN FoR A‘ Gueet-o-TREAT Hia Hoot, T MUST GAY INDEED! s Is a Little Cooperation |of the Crimson WoULDAIYT DO LONG, IF HE EGAD,« SURELY, 1 A Goop-URW || “Dye Dowd ANOTHER NEM BIKE 5 from the verb to gnash, An for the car scrubbers—“gwashol- ogists.” Havard accusses the Princeton football players of biting the necks lads. And Cam- bridge doesn't look like Hollywood, either, A stenographer who has experi- ence in shorthand is being adver- tised for in Boston, What a‘quaint, old town Boston is! Aimee has received a vaudeville offer, but isn’t considering it. She probably prefers to manage her own. show, Persons. who enjoy’ the average motion picture, says a Pittsburgh professor, haye a mental age’ of. 12 years. The sun is getting up eaflier, Days are getting longer. It’s al- most safe now to go down . and ask the price of that winter.over- coat: we've had our eye an since last ‘fall. yee thd , (Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Inc.) PO tice tc commmner=eSa | Old Masters : —_—_——_ When our two souls stand. up erect and strong, a Face to face, silent, drawing nigher| Kappa at Syracuse University, won al p, and nigher, ia Until the lengthening wings break into fire : - At cither curved | point—what bit- ter wrong Can the earth do us, that we should not long Be here contented? Think, In mounting higher, The angels would press on us and aspire | To drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence. Let us stay Rather on carth, Beloved — where the unfit Contrarious moods of men_ recall away And aolaye pure spirits, and per- m A place to stand and love in for a jay, a With darkness and the death-hour rounding it, Elizabeth Barrett’ Browning: From fortugiese.” “Sonnets From the ——_————_——— A nape of the first edition of Bun- yan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress” was sold at auction in England recently for $30,000. ‘ +” FB tid MONEN GO ose A yEEP ENOUGH IN HIG POC HE'D FIND CONFEDERATE BILLS! 4 A) 4 and landmarks. PE ee |[ LIN NEW YORE | | New York, Feb.:.%—So rare *are | lawns in Manhattan that, when they | appear almost in midtown, they be- come veritable points of interzst spot in Greenwich } as “cottage row,’ not because it was bought by John Rogers in 1799 for $5,000, but because it boasted 11 lawns. And luxurious lawns they are, running leisurely back to a | series of latticed and baleonied {flats of Spanish architecture on Seventh avenue. 5 But they were too beautiful to live. I note that an apartment | hotel will soon extinguish them, } Thus a little | Village known gained its fame Over on the Fifty-seventh street belt, where art galleries blossom } profusely, they tell of a recent vis- itor from Hankins Centers, or some way point. ‘One gallery displayed a sign the window: “Exhibition of Marines.” “I didn’t know that. marines. ever had time to paint,” marveled the dear old lady. | Among the horrible details of the Browning-Peaches suit were ee tl of the baby bride sisted on such insanities as bringing home trick rubber eggs, collapsible forks and the like. Well, the first time I met W. C. Fields, the comedian, who has taken to the films, he reached in his pocket and handed me a cigar. It was rubber. . Frank Henderson is president of the Rubber Exchange in the Wall Street belt and is considered somewhat of @ success in the bysi- ness world. Yet on his desk may be found a plate of inviting ap- pearing. doughnuts which he cor- dially invites friends to taste.) They are made of rubber! The late Houdini was extremely fond of offering trick matches and it has been said of Chauncey De- pew that no one loved «a practical joke more than he—providing it wasn't too impractical a practical joke. - The horses ridden by Manhattan’s traffic cops become immediately sus-.| picious when they see a crowd. Just as the old-time fire horses would begin to raee at the sound ot a gong, so the traffic ponies spring into action at the sight of gathering hordes. The other day a toy motion pic- ture device was being shown inthe! window of a prominent store and soon a great crowd gathered. A few moments later up galloped a! traffic policeman. The horse made his way through the crowd, peered into the window and, seeming to} know what was going on, watehed the film for a moment’ and then | casually backed out. GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1927, NEA. Sexvice, Inc.) penn a ibeera arcane a ee et | FLASHES OF LIFE | OO (By The Associat Press)* Topeka—It's lucky for Washburn college that its president, P. P. Womer, lost his way. in a gflowstorm in Worcester, Mass. He asked di- rections at the nearest house. It hap- pened to be the residence of George I. Alden, mechancial engineer, educat MONDAY, FEBRUARY: 7, 1927 FLAPPER FANNY SAY: Be sure you've settled up before you settle down. aie, itizens kill three bandits in state of Jalisco, and federals slay nine rebels in state of Durango. Farm relief legislation is expected to occupy attention of congress for one week and reach Coolidge shortly. for his action, . Princeton University professor an- nounces decomposition of molecules igh t-raga3 =: accomplished emite ord: pheric conditions. Moorhead, Minn.—Leonard, Cros- set, and Riley of Cincinnati, chased a 400 carload capacity brick warehouse from Minnesota Potato Growers’ Exchange. Olivia, Minn—People’s First Na- tional Bank of this city closed its doors by order of directors. Virginie, Minn—Max Moody, Uni- versity of Minnesota, swam 100-yars free style in 53 6-10 seconds, ‘better- ing national -intercollegiate record by 1-5 of a second. ——.: So ST | Radio’s Rialto | ——_—__-—_ (By The Associated Press) Sergeant Alvin C. York, acclaimed 's. greatest individual hero Ameri tf the world war, will speak WSM at 8 o'clock tonight. (283) Nashville, He will give a talk regarding his untain school for boys, which he has established in eastern Tennessee. This talk will be followed by a spe- cial program by the Nashville Ameri- can Legion post. ‘ Donald “N) Ferguson, fessor of niusi Minnesota; will speak on the story and illustrations of the sonata form in music,” during the University hour to be broadcast from WCCO, St. Paul- Minneapolis at 8 p.m. A_ dinner rogram will be heard from:-WCCO at 15 p. m., a farm talk at 7:16 and at ‘wealthy manufacturer and descendal of John and Priscilla Alden. Now it is revealed that prior to his death last ‘year, Mr. Alden gave the college $100,000 to found a department of citizenship. Syracuse, N. Y.—Blind since a child, George M. Carmody, made Phi Beta master’s degree, and became an ex- pert. pianist and a professor of ro- mance languages. He is dead at the age of 43. A remarkable memory and 5 typewriter enabled him to conduct classes. Montclair, N. J.—Charles Evans, Jr., of Chie: has played some high rfect rounds of golf in his career. low comes Charles M. Evans, Jr., no relative of Chick, with a perfect bridge hand. He held 13 hearts and, without an opposing bid, got the con- tract at six hearts. Some wise fel- lows would have bid only what was necessary, hoping for a double. et New York—Governor Ritchie and Governor Al Smith had a telephone conversation when the | ee ex- ecutive was in town. The only details given are that friendly tings were exchanged. It is not exp! wheth- er the greetings. were the sam {ieee of the goverpors of the Caro- Key West—The oldest white man in the country is dead. Michael Cul- er lived on a key to be 122 years old. New York—Chicago ‘is to have the biggest ballroom in the world with room for more than 7,500 dancers. Charles Galewski, New York realty operator, and assistants are to build it at 47th street and South Parkway at a cost of more than $1,000,000. Bucyrus, Ohio—Wandering Jew hay come to an ignominious end. delight to all admirers of fast s' pers, he was struck by .an automobile when plodding along with a milk wagon and he had to be destroyed. Wandering Jew, 2:16 1-4, was a pacing gelding. ° C New York—Warren G. Harding would rather have been ambassador to rey than president. He is quoted. in ‘| Collier’s as saying so to Riehard Washburn Child, New York—Clarence H. Mackay, father-in-law of Irving Berlin, is enthusiastic patron of music. He ranged for broadcasting of two certs by the Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Arteuro Toscanini, and later entertained the maestro at a re- ception. Songs by Elizabeth Rethberg, Louise Homer Richard Croo! given during the concerts, were cut oe the igs? One reason assigned is at the singers’ ‘managers asked $4,000 more if their voices were to be broadcast, “F See: Kellogg makes public texts of direct Is tranamitted to Chinese warlords for exclusion of inghai from hostilities zone; Lon- uation at Hanwok and nghai are more hopeful; Chen at Hankow says nationalist armies will not try to take Shanghi by force. Pca ot forces in Nica: re inandega; . town Population reported eral Savesnesiative st © ' don beget in * Jack: Well it 330 there will be a New York pro- gram at 9 p. m. WCCO will broadcast gh orchestra program and at 1 wings Program with a pianist rio, a and WMAD (244) Minneapolis, besides having a dinner program at 6:15 will broadcast a musical program’ by en- tertainers “and an orchestra 205 m. WRHM (253) Minneapolis, has a dinner concert scheduled for 7 te 8 p. m. and a dance program from 10:15 to 11:15, The Little Symphony Orchestra will be heard at 7 p. m. from WGHP, (270) pete adrgen IR oe) Detroit, has & concert program. at the same hour, WLW (423) Cincinnati, will feature entertainers at 7 p.m. and WHK (273) Cleveland, a novelty program, Concerts will be heard from KFKX (288) Hastings and WSOE (246) Mil- waukee at 7:30 p.m.» WOS (441) Jeferson City, has a studio program and WHO (526). Des Moines, a vocal program for 7:30, while WHA (536) Madison, will feature a woodwind en- semble. WBZ (833) Springfield, will have.a drum, corps at 8 p, m, KMA (451) Shenandoah, has a trio scheduled for 9 p. m: “Cavalleria Rusticana,” by the New York grand. through m, opera company will be heard WDAF (386) as City, at WHK (375) Cleveland, ha: 9 a.m, Atl a.m, CPAC ( gary will broadcast a specia’ gram, | H —_—_——__ A horie f in eli i ane. peurd ce el ee when ‘At least he gets some places ‘'"® | .A THOUGHT 1 -——_—__—_____»« Sorrow is better than laughter; te te at see ea _— Ecclesiastes 1:3, by iis Sorrow is not evil, -since it stim: ulates and purifies—Mazzini, aga EARLY PERFECT ' hey say ‘that Evelyn is an erfect disguise. —Pele Mele, Paris, * For the first time since 1 ‘lant arum lily bloomed’ in Kew this year. be “ % ° é 2 > 4 ~~ -