The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 8, 1927, Page 4

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PAYNE, BURNS & SMITH NEW YORK - - : Fifth Ave. Bidg. | (Official City, State and County Newspaper) — Tribute to a Man Who Failed dust exactly what is a man’s real “life work?” How are we to tell whether he has made a success or a failure of it? Those questions seem a bit strange, perhaps. Yet, a few days ago, in more than a dozen states, business was stopped so that the people might pay | tribute to the memory of a man who failed utterly | to gain his ends and who went down to an over- whelming defeat after years of heart-breaking struggle. The man was Robert E. Lee, one-time commander | of the armed forces of the southern confederacy. _ Our nation does not worship failures. We have | no palms to spare for those who could not succeed. | Yet—Robert E. Lee is one of our chief heroes. Why | —since he failed? | Perhaps it is because we are growing to realize! that there are failures more dazzling than any suc- | cess. Perhaps we are coming to understand that it is not altogether what a man does that counts; that how he does it may be more important. Time has swallowed up the mighty armies that | ciation at Muskegon heard Charles P. Craig, execu- struggled along the banks of the Rappahannock, the Mississippi and the James. The hosts that fought | at Gettysburg, at Shiloh and at Chancellorsville | have marched on into the dim mists of the past, so | that blue and gray uniforms alike are hardly dis- | tinguishable. Green grass covers the remains of j the trenches at Cold Harbor, and Fort Sumter is only a relic. The battle flags are in museums. Yet Lee has not been swallowed by ‘time. The ‘cannon smoke has drifted away only to reveal his heroic figure looming larger, more majestic than ever. The country has forgotten, gladly, that he fought for a lost cause; it remembers only the valor, the skill and the shining manliness with which he fought. He rode, to be sure, at the head of a lost battalion that marched for a bivouac over the borders of the land of darkness; but, en route, he taught us that there can be failures which shine as gloriously as any success. How We Dread It! “We must take the drudgery out of housekeep- ing and set women free to develop,” Henry Ford is quoted as saying at Wayside Inn, Sudbury, Mass “The old-fashioned mother is out of date.” Ford made his remarks as he sat in the tap room of the ancient inn, built in 1686. Old-time kitchen utensils and a spinning wheel, signs of a day when ‘women were little better than household slaves, in- spired the manufacturer's remarks. Ford heralded synthetic days in the kitchen, a fature without the messy and bothersome beef, pork, lamb and chicken, a day when foods will be made by" formula. In the laboratory at Dearborn, Ford experts already are working on synthetic foods, and Ford says they'll be ready when the people are. Trips to the arctic, where men have lived entirely on canned foods, help sustain Ford’s belief that lab- oratory production of foods is feasible from the con- sumption as well as the production standpoints. There vanishes, as Ford speaks, the vision of the old-fashioned mother who moved with such grace among the steaming kettles and pots, or sat long ours at the wheel turning out homespun for man’s comfort. In Wayside Inn her ghost must have hovered be- fore Ford as he made his prediction, a wraith of a beautful woman holding a steaming roast beef, trimming a flaky pie crust, or spinning as she sang the cld songs. Even now her ministrations live largely in mem- ory—this old-fashioned mother’s—and there must be days when man, however scientific he has be- come, however he has mastered the preparation and digestion of synthetic foods, longs for that old- fashioned mother with a longing that will not be stilled. There is a little corner in a man’s life that syn- thetic food cannot fill up. Of course we'll change. Of courst we'll progress. But how we dread it! The Browning Case Just now the country is avidly reading the sala- cious details of the sordid “Peaches” Browning mar- ital, difficulties wherein a 54-year-old real estate operator and his 18-year-old wife are trying to get rid of each other with a maximum of smutty pub- licity. It furnishes a spectacle that may well re- valt:all decent people and raise the proper ques- tion as to whether there is really any justification for full publication of such filth. If any point of public welfare was concerned, that the details should be published, then much would be understandable, but the’ action of certain tabloid newspapers in printing certain testimony Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, | °“ be Bismarck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at|stincts and home training. D. Mann...... ..++President and Publisher the ‘une for republication of all news eee | The innocent must suffer with the guilty, in: this as in many other instances. The telling of the news in many instances involves the exposition of un- fortunate and, in too many cases, repulsive details, but the better papers have learned how to handle such stories without offense to persons of decent in- I¢ Must Be Spectacular | A boy skater on Lake Erie was marooned on a) cake of ice that became detached from the rest and drifted out into the lake, bearing the helpless lad | to certain death. ; Someone saw him. A whole city was aroused. | | Tug boats tried to fight their way through the floes, | airplanes flew over the lake to look for him. For | several days the search was the chief topic of eon- | versation. We need the spectacular to arcuse us. We are unmoved by the fact that slums and factories and | plantations grind the life out of children; we realize that it is regrettable, but we do not take much ac- | tion. | But let one lad go to his death in a spectacular | | way and we are stirred to the depths. If commonplace tragedies could only stir us as | colorful cnes do! | What the Railroads Do | When the average man sets out to discuss Ameri- ca’'s present prosperity, you'll usually find him men- | tioning such things as improved manufacturing sys- tems, better banking facilities, high wages and effi- cient advertising as the chief contributing causes. They all have their place, of course. But—don’t forget the railroads. Increased efficiency on the railroads, during 1926, meant prompter and more reliable delivery of fac- tory products to the retailer. This, in turn, enabled trade and manufacturing to develop the practices of. “hand to mouth” buying, and this, in its turn, ; conserved credit and made it more flexible. | The railroads did their job better last year -than | ever before. We can thank them for much of our | prosperity. | Editorial Comment | Let’s Have Both Waterways (Chicago Tribune) H The meeting of the Great Lakes-Tidewater asso- tive secretary of the association, say he was in fa-, vor of the Mississippi waterway because “the na- | tion needs i There has been too much acrimony in the discus- sion of the waterways. This has led to the belief | sense the rival of the St. Lawrence plan. It is not. | There is no reason in engineering’ or in public policy why both routes cannot be developed. The routes | are not rivals, but complements one of the other. If they are rivals in any real sense, so are the Illinois | Central and New York Central railroads. If one of | these roads takes export business away from the other, it is certain that the loss is more than made up in the general prosperity of the country to which both contribute and from which both profit. The representatives in congress of the Mississippi ; river states have had to fight so strenuously against the lake states for water from Lake Michigan that they have come to view the great lakes seaway as the enemy of their own project. This is unfor- ; tunate, though easily understood in the light of hu- | man nature, and it is hardly likely that the M sippi river states will consent to appropriations in nine figures for the benefit of the lake states if allowed to grow, the result may be a stalemate. It is therefore a good’omen for both projects that the spokesman for the Great Lakes association showed so tolerant an attitude toward the Mississippi wa- terway. Mr. Craig’s point of view was also that of a Cana- dian delegate, Frank H. Keefer, formerly parlia- mentary secretary for external affairs of the do- minion. Mr. Keefer made no mention at all of the \Lake Michigan diversion which, we have been asked to believe, is creating so much ill-feeling in Canada that it is endangering cooperation between the two countries in the St. Lawrence project. The moderate tone of the meeting suggests that Mr. Hoover's ad- vice to let the engineers rather than the lawyers solve the waterway problem is beginning to triumph over selfishness and suspicion. The Browning Case (St. Paul Daily News) ‘ There is a good deal of talk about the propriety ef publishing the details of the proceedings at White Plains, N. Y. Ordinarily, we would say much of the unpleasant testimony in a divorce case should remain unprinted. But a question arises in our mind in this particular instance. Suppressing details of such ugly stories usually is done with the purpose of keeping them from, young people, especially young girls. Here, how- ever, is a case where it seems necessary to present some details in order to drive home a lesson. It is a lesson newspapers should not be required to; | teach—a lesson that should be taught by mothers. | | Mercenary marriages end in misery. | | It always has been so and always will be, But mothers are to be found every day handing over their daughters to men who have money, and little else, to give them. A mother gave Evelyn Nesbit to Stanford White. A mother gave Lita | Grey to Charlie Chaplin. A mother gave Frances | | Heenan to Edward W. Browning. | It seems hard for some mothers to learn. When the present sickening story first opened with little Mary Spas (misnamed Cinderella) re- pudiating her adoption by this same Browning | (misnamed Prince Charming), there were New York mothers by the bedraggled dozen toting innocent daughters to this ogling millionaire to be adopted of a pornographic character word for word and then using the most reprehensible newspaper tactics in in Mary's place. It may be that such mothers are not to be blamed they-continue to interfere with the legitimate and aa if he oentet to answer tons 4 : . srati . | made a penciled note or tw ere relatively ii xpensive aspiration for the gulf Was! yan metning- but his in ie hawet terway. If ill-feeling between the two sections is| ever, on this bird's lette “playing up” those features is certainly to be hearti- | 00 much. Victims of poverty all their lives, they ly condemned and in no uncertain terms by those | *eek something better for their children. But they newspapers who stilh feel that their place in the | 8¢ek it where nothing better is to be found—nothing community is to elevate and uphold the morals of | Ven 80 good as poverty, C0 grime g apes. ganged bata Adults too old to be harmed may read the story instinets in humans by printing page after being broadcast from. White Plains and get a sof matter that might very properly be included | Sneaking thrill from it. That cannot be avoided THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | Gosh! Ain’t There No On e to Save the Fair-Lady? | e— “Churchill is not inclined to put} | much stock in the worth of the clue,” | Bob Hathaway admitted reluctantly. “He says that every lawyer is pes- in some quarters that the gulf waterway is in some | tered with crank letters of this sort) written by prisoners who brood| over fancied wrongs. Every dis-j trict attorney rece! thousands of threats and never pays any attention to them.” “But isn’t Churchill going to trace | the sender of this letter?” Faith de- | manded indignantly. “After all it is a threat, and it received during the months that Cherry worked for your uncle. It seems to me it should e@ an easy matter-—comparativel, easy anyway—for Churchill to checl up on all the men defended by Mr. Cluny and sentenced for ten yeaps.” “The sentence was probably _irfde- terminate,” Bob pointed out. “Or his term might have been whittled down by good behavior. By the way, there is one thing Isdidn’t tell you. ~By| good fortune the original bears the date it was received. All his letters. were stamped with a rubber date’ stamp and we can be sure Uncle4 Ralph saw it, for it is marked in a corner by his initials. He always ing itialed letters after reading them}| “He was sent to prison ten years | ago,” Faith interrupted impatiently. “Surely not so awfully many of your unele’s clients were sentenced to prison just exactly ten years ago.” lever ‘had a visit from a newly re- “But we don't know how long after the trial he waited court ruling on his appeal. But of course Churchill will ferret out the possible.” “Court — records Faith _ protested. have his initia’ “This bird is crafty,” Bob pointed out. “That may not be his initial at all, If he took such pains to con- ceal his identity from everyone but Uncle Ralph it is At least conceivable are — avaible,” nd you at least Uncle Ralph would recognize. ever it chances. Who- is, he isn't taking any on getting sent back to WERE, ILL UGE You ¥ WEEK-To MAKE writer of this letter, if it is humanly , OUR BOARDING HOUSE A uaAGTAND STILL BEFORE I JAB A PIN IN NoU,~_ AND HUGH UPLee. TM NOT MAKING A DUMMY ‘QUT OF Nou, I CANT IMPROVE ON NATURE !~-- GINCE Nou'RE Not DOING ANYTHING AROUND FORM, FOR THE FINE KIMONAG I AM GOING “To: MAKE! rth “TAKE ME ATLEAST A SAINE 24 SINNER NF aad SINNER [2 s= rom | IN NEW YORE 7 ' would could be nailed on anyone, convict him, you know. : “Then as Churchill says, this may | be from a completely demented | crank, whom Uncle Ralph, if he were alive today, could not possibly | identify. But don't look so distressed, | child, Of course Churchill is going to investigate.. But he doesn’t want us to pin much faith on the thing as a clue. He says if I went through the files I would undoubtedly find other ‘such letters”, - “How are you sdfd that this is the one that Cherry remembered?” Faith asked’ suddenly. “Because she remembered that it was en as I have described—not written at all, but pasted, up from words cut from newspapers. She re- members being interested in it when she filed it, but she says Uncle Ralph was not in his office at, that time, and she didn't remember luter to speak to him about it.‘ She does say, too, that it was the only threatenin; letter of its kind that she filed dur ing the time she worked for Uncle Ralph. He had as few enemies as any criminal lawyer ever made, I be- lieve.” “Did she remember if your uncle leased prisoner?” Faith asked, frowning thouehtfully at the copy of the letter she still held in her hands. “Churchill asked) her, of course, she doesn’t remember any such visit. Of course such a man might New York, Feb. 8.—Within sneez- ing distance of some of Gotham’s gid diest boast of modernism are em- ployed methods reminiscent of horse- drawn canal boats. One such is the “dummy boy.” And 18 such may be found oper- ating but three blocks off that weli- known highway called Broadway. “Dummy boys”. are the. Paul Re- veres of the freight tracks. They ride ahead of New York Cent freight trains to warn pedestria and vehicles that a train is coming. In a day when signal systems have reached a high state of effi- ciency this seems, indeed, a homely custom. One might expect some such custom in Tank Corners but surely not in Manhattan. The riders keep 100 feet or more ahead of an incoming train, riding along the track shouting as they go. They have perfected a cry that might find favor in a hog: callin, contest. At night they come gallop- ing out of the darkness, swinging a lantern and chanting their-unique warning to the traffic of a -super- modernized city. It might be explained that the “dummy boys” are no reflection upon the railroad or the ‘metropolis. They are demanded by a city ordinance passed some 76 years ago when modern equipment was tak- ing its first toddfing’ steps. never been repeated and so, archaic though it be, its enforcement is con- ‘tinued. Through the years the small boys. have called and not been noticeable enough to make an impression on business to his secretary.” “[ know!” Faith exclaimed, “Ask Mr. Neff, your uncle’s law partner. He ought to know.” TOMORROW: Black veils, o—_—_________________» | A THOUGHT p For the children of this world are becomes that he signed an initial that only in their generation wiser than the, good people who devote tl children of light-—Luke 16:8, ing se The wisest man is generally he whol known actors : prison for blackmail, This letter, if it thinks himself the least so,—Boileau.| about ten times that many little- Hid IG A A@ A TITTING FOR i “dummy boys” her memory. Uncle Ralph saw a lot! the awe for n supremo of callers who did not state their|on the cowpuncher,. It is the bik SOB “To HANG ON A DEPUTY GHERIFF!: SS PUT T=. HAVE ME Dow’ “THiS “WELL DAKE, I SEE WHERE Nou CATCH “TH’ W315 TIGHT of Manhattan have viewed the with something of that all boyhood bestows town's substitute for the buckaroo. eee Speaking of city ordinances, it now becomes possible for the little people of big stardom to have their names emblazoned on Broadway in bigger and better lights. Two extra feet have been allowed so that Betty |] Twinthetoes can now shine forth in nine-foot lett The life of. actor, meanwhile, worse and worse. Those ir time to gathering figures have statistics showing something like 200 well- out. of work and BUT Goo MARTHA, 'f HECK OF A A WEEK, EHZ~ BACK FOR CHICAGO! Tt has | th TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1927 known ‘stage folk’ “seeking jo! Something like 2,000 musicians were reported as “being at liberty.” It ‘has, perhaps, been one of.the hard- est winters in many a year to hun- dreds of stage folk. Since they fig- ure on winter as the. season for gathering. in their. meal money, it looks like a twi shard summer. : GILBERT SWAN. | (Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Inc.) ; | ° BARBS .. |' Soft collars for warm weather and sports only is fashion’s new ruling. Out of the trefches by; July 4th, boys. How about indoor sports? What color pants-guards should a parcheesi player wear? | Who remembers way back when men used to wear wire collar- shapers under their coats? The funeral of the late Em- peror of Japan cost $2,000,000, says a dispatch, No wonder the people shout “Long live the emperor!” John D. Rockefeller made eight holes of golf in 45, according-to a dispatch from Florida, Two Sunday school teachers verified it. We don’t know whether they got dimes or not. Potatoes grown on the Coolid, farm are still bringing $3 a pec Those Vermont folk certainly know their onions. Bobbed hair has been doomed again by the hairdressers, Add to your slogans, “It takes a doom to bring a boom.” (Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Inc.) | Old Masters O yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; That nothing walks with aimless | feet; That not one life shall be de- stroyed Or cast as rubbish to the void When God hath made the complete, pile | That not a worm is cloven in vain; | That not a moth with vain desire Is shriveled in a fruitless gain, | Or but: subserves another's gain. Behold, we know not anythi: I can but trust that good s! At last--far off—at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream; but what am I?| An infant crying in the night; | An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry. | Tennyson: from “In Memoriam.” if At The Movies ie oe CAPITOL THEATRE “The Canyon of Light,” Fox Films’ latest thriller starring Tom Mix, is based on Kenneth Perkins’ story of the same name published recently in one of the nation’s largest magazines. Ben Stoloff, creator of nineteen other Fox Filmg successes, directed the production from a_ scenario by John Stone, who has written most of Mix’ Western dramas... It will show tt the Capitol Theatre Friday and jaturday. Stone ‘accompanied Stoloff to Yel- lowstone National Park, where scenes for the produetion were’ made. Later they toured the “Ghost Cities” of the West as the deserted mining towns are now called to determine just the proper settings for the final scenes. ELTINGE THEATRE “The Potters,” pa, ma, Mamie and Bill will be seen at the Eltinge for y last times tonight. W. C. Fields as Potter again puts on a good comedy entertainment. While “The Potters” is not as hilariously‘ funny as “So's Your Old Man,” it is good for many laughs. “The White Black Sheep,” Richard Barthelmess’ latest feature, comin, to the Eltinge for Wednesday an Thursday, is a story of a boy who, disgraced and wrongly accused, joins the British army in the Near Eas! and there preves his true worth and incidentally wins a great love, role of Robert Kincairn, long line of British soldiers, and Patsy Ruth Miller portrays the role of Zelie, the Greek dancing girl, with whom he falls in love in a pic- turesque cafe in tine. Constance /H@watd has the un- sympathetic role of the girl who be- trays him and thus sends him to a distant land. ‘ The hayseed dance Matthew Brew post of jon at the armory was a very unique and interesting affair. The large crowd that attended all enjoyed a very pleasant time. A new organization at the Normal school known as the Manual Arts was formed recently. The five cl which are included in this depai ment are: Art fibre, mechanical drawing, manual training, turn- ing, and auto mechanics. The purpose of this was to organize a club in which the students who are interested in this kind of work would have an opportunity to make it more interest- ing and to advance these subjects, which are all practically new. Feb. 1 the Osborn studio photog- raphers spent the day in taki pictures of the various groups oi classes, clubs, and organizations for the annual—Prairie normal yearbook, The high school basketball team defeated the Beach quint by a score of 22 to 34 in the armory Friday night. The foll is the report of the Normal basketball team who left on their trip Thursday: Mandan, 19; Normal, 16; Jamestown College, Hore 11; New Salem, 27; 5 ay iven by the fie ‘American Smoke—the Mi istmas. dead. *. faut lothin’, -fadde; chit An act. of Pati ks in’ the British Civil Bertice ac set gual holiday, and they must i year's | highest average yield on record, 9.7 jon d, t mares: in McKenzie county. si nacts the gion of a) 5, FLAPPER FANNY SAYS. | People who have a tot of gond baad are wise If they keep part " FLAX OUTLOOK Prices for flaxseed will quite like- ly not be any higher on the average in 1927 than they were in 1926 ac- cording to. Paul C. Newman of the U. S. Division of Crop and Livestock Estimates. With another large crop of 69,000,000 bushels now being har, vested in Argentina the world’s sup> ply of flaxseed is approximately the same as a year ago when that coun- try secured a record crop of 75,000,- 000 bushels. Although the demand for linseed oil may slacken ‘some- what’ in 1927 the domestic require- jments of flaxseed for all purposes are likely to remain around 40,000, bushels. So where flax can legend duced ,Profitably at present prices some increase in acreage could be made without increasing production sufficiently to materially affect PTEhe United 8 fl je United States flax acreage i 1926 was estimated at 2,897,000 ‘ocres we an bib Bhs of 6.7 bushels r acre resulting in a crop of 19,- 459,000 bushels. For this 1 295,000 acres were in North Dakota and the 48a in this state was 7,273,000 bushels, _ For the United States a 10 per cent increase in 1927 acreage with an 8 bushel crop would, result in a crop some 14,000,000 bushels below last consumption. Should the bushels, be obtained the supply would still be below domestic requirenuats, However, such a large crop would do doubt exert considerable influence rices. The world crop so far as reported is about 5 per cent smaller than last year but trade reports indicate a larger carryover than usual of old seed in Argentina and India. About 67,000,000 bushels were exported from Argentina and 11,000,000 bushels ‘rom India during 1926. Prices were lower and these prices were reflect- ed in the United States markets, the 1926 prices ranging from 20c to 40c per bushel’ below those received for the 1925 crop. W. S. Graham Recalls When Co. Officials Lived Miles Apart Watford City, N. D., Feb. 8—UP)— hile crews are toiling away on bridges at Williston and Sanish which will make McKenzie county more ac- cessible to tourists from the rest of North Dakota, old-timers look back with a reminiscent eye on the days when Monday’s train came in on Thursday and county officials lived 50 miles apart. One old-timer, W. 8. Graham of the Watford Guide, has not forgotten when seeing the set of McKenzie county officials comparabl round-the-worl , and he it plain that times have ch: it was necessary for a person to transact business with the. county treasurer he had to travel to the Northwestern part of the county, If then sought the register of Seeds, @ had a 50-mile jaunt to make be- fore night overtook him. A trip to see all of the county officials neces- sitated careful preparation. The bare necessities included a cooking outfit, provisions and a bed roll, Graham lo telephone connection was avail- able for law-abiding ciigena he wished to reach the sheriff and if an oul man wished to remove, lawfully, from his front ® man whe showed evident f; with a pistol, he had a 60-mile trip to a Point opposite Williston, The count; ii schools had ry “zoft job Gees for he had no-pupils andina schools. He also appa Was free from visits from the-state department of public ‘instruction. - pee Alexander had been designated as the temporary county seat and public. spirited citizens had bought a vault door and railroad iron and con- structed a vault. Then Schafer was elected county seat by six votes, de- spite outraged protests from Alexan- der. While Alexander residents were protesting the results of the election, Schafer. residents went up one dark night and hauled the vault away, to- gether with the records it contained. Alexander citizens were wrathy but Judge Winchester of Bismarck. took judicial notice of the new county seat y holding court th he mat- ter way dropped, id. 5 _ 80 THATS IT Flora: How long have you been calling him by bis first mame? “Dora: Since I forgot his ‘ife, er