The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 21, 1927, Page 4

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(Official City, State and County Newspaper) no better natu | the honor system plied to the and that the results of the experiment de tify its continuation. It would thus appear that gradually w quiring a more sensible viewpoi punishment for crime. sentimentalism isp: should all from a bad tenable a theory | victed criminal not jus- | Perhaps this wave of si ing, after all, and if it is w fervent thanks for our deliverance uation, For that makes a martyr of every con-| 1, just so long will our methods of punishment and correction prove ineffectual. Punishment means as yet found to curb lawlessn les members of for infractions of the law is the only It is use generally to the better natures of wiety, for many such members have | he honor system in p' s and rge is equally futile when ap- | minal element of our society. | As long as we look with complacence while senti- | mentalists handle the major problems of puni: ment for crime, just so long are we endangering the whole structure of law ol forcement of thi | the peace and North Carolina’s New Boom North Carolina, which has been up to its ears in an industrial and real estate boom ever since the } war, now has another kind of boom—a kind that | southern states enjoy all too rarely; namely, a pres- | idential boom. | North Carolina ernor, Angus McLean, would make cratic candidate for president in Moreover, the world—or at least that part of it interested in American politics—is listening. Giving the nation a president would not be ex- ‘attly-a new experience for North Carolina, although more than fifty years have elapsed since a Caro- Jinian has sat in the white house. Three presidents were native Carolinians—Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk and Andrew Johnson. True enough, only Jackson was an outstanding | figure. But he was born in North Carolina of | North Carolina parents, and spent his youth there, | moving to Tennessee after he had attained man- hood. Polk was prominent in North Carolina poli- | tics throughout his life, serving the state as con- gfessman and governor, Johnson moved tu Tennes- see early in life—for which North Carolina is per- haps just as well satisfied. Here is an odd circumstance: all of North Caro- lina’s presidents died in Tennessee. If Angus Mc- | Lean should be nominated and elected, it would be- hoove him to stay far away from Tennessee and | enjoy a ripe old age. But getting back to the question at hand: we are, undoubtedly, going to hear a lot more about Angus | McLean in the near future than we have previously. | MeLean, it appears, has genuine abil | cynical a commentator as Henry L. Mencken, who! delights in ridiculing southern politicians, recently | paid him high tribute as an executive. And North Carolna is coming to the front so rap- idly that she a right to be heard when she pre- sents a favorite son. Her agriculture and her in- dustry are booming, her cities are growing, her | educational facilities rapidly are becomffg the best | in the south. Furthermore, it appears that Gover- nor McLean, who is a S her citizens a new les: ment. So just keep his name in mind. it repeated many times during the months. s telling the world that its gov- an ideal Demo- the 1928 race. | Fe tek icotchman, has been giving | om in economy in govern-| You may hear next twelve | He Never Surrendered | There died in West Virginia the other day a very | remarkable man, a man who, throughout life, | remained in permanent secession from the unicn of the United States. | He was John McCausland, one-time general of | cavalry in the army of the Confederate States of | America, and the story of his life ds like the story of one of those old, unbending warriors who might die, but would never surrender. McCausland had not the fire of Jeb Stuart, nor} had he the picturesqueness of Nathan Forrest; but his name, for all that, was a name to conjure with during the latter years of the civil w: It was McCausland who, in 1864, when the south was being beaten to its knees under the relentless hammering of Grant and Sherman, led a desperate sortie across the border and burned the town of | Chambersburg, Pa. And it was McCausland who, | after Appomattox, refused to hand over his sword and went instead to Europe, where he wandered for years, a defiant, exiled rebel, Eventually he returned to America. But never, to the end of his days, did he take the oath of alle- giance to the United States. Never did he give in to the force that had beaten down his cause years | ago. Lee was a heroic memory and Stonewall Jack- son was become a name; John McCausland remained, to the very last, unbeaten and defiant. The civil war bequeathed to us of the twentieth century many memories, many gallant heroes and stirring tales; but it left nothing more striking than this. North cr south, it is impossible not to feel a vast thrill of admiration and respect for this doughty old war horse, this man who would not yield even when the stars in their courses had pro- claimed his downfall. Would that there were more John McCauslands! | Would that America might breed a whole race of men who could seize an ideal and cling to it even though; they were alone among one hundred mil- lion others! Would that we had more men who| could ery defiance to the whole world, saying, “Here | I stand, and here I remain, and no power on the eafth or under it or above it can budge me one inch —and curse you all who oppose me!” Henley, the English poet, probably never heard of John McCausland. But McCausland is surely! the hero of Henley’s best known poem: I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul! The Honor System Fails For the last fourteen years the Great Meadow | | prison in New York state has been the scene of a| + gigantic experiment in the honor system for crim- | away with an enclosing wall. Today the expe ment is a closed book and the prisoners are con- | structing a wall that will completely surround the institution. | As a result of this éxperiment a certain Polis | | ties, Di ance and the en- se measures enacted to guarantee curity of our citizens, ' st jiscriminating Readers aa iene Fane naaaaaendr ine 4 adler. a Bethe ht be kon IANO MEF iD eee Cpe aerate HEN! Nope THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Gosh! Isn’t It Tantalizing! For a long time it has been the custom for our | literary fclk to bewail the absence of a large de-| mand for serious literature. Trash, they copies; books shelves. Maybe this say, sells by the hundred thousand of real literary merit languish on the | was so once, but it isn’t now. To be sure, cheap books still sell enormously; but so do | good books. Studied biographies, works on philosophy, psy- chology, science and customs and so-called “problem nove! {American scene is painstakingly dissected—these | ‘ure among the best sellers nowadays America ha: The old plaint When Kans: of the sunflo certain solon, abolish mince men. But go | Spoken of in | It is not a des to be eaten lightly after a hearty meal. It is a creation of dignity, not to be approached { mon pastr; satires on our national ” in which the ory, s developed a liking for good books. is out of date. legislators were discussing repeal state’s famous anti-cigaret law, a satiric vein, introduced a bill to in pie. Bad mince pie may, indeed, be an offense before od mince pie is a thing apart, to be bated breath. rt like other pies it is not a com- | IWISA He'o HuRRY UP AND Take T OR Leave. IT doors in the mid-Forties she is gen- erally met by a middle-aged man, perfectly mated in grotesqueness of appearance. Their idea, of course, is to suggest the direst’ of povei but the actual effect, I have notic is anti-climax. y d, SAINE = SINNER tight-lipped” flushed | mi rs spilled over Faith’ lic-aged, ‘ ; ; : woman M oahaikaalty “ lightly; it is not for the dainty epicure, but for the} checks as she flung her clothes| scrubbed the basin which Faith hai A eee Et ale tit brawny, whole-souled eater who is wise enough net | helter-skelter into the smallest of the | used, wiping it with hard, vicious| them o t reubetere Nera eel three suitcases she had brought so | swipes of a blue-st?ipped towel, as if ‘4 © gorge before he tackles it. | hopefully from hom ill unpaek- | Faith h aminated it. 4 Mince pie is one of our greatest works. Let. us | ed the he . containin “That's ‘ e—you know, the not, pray, speak of its “harmful effects” even in| Cherry's “xoing contin Ste PM ODT MME Beals (ue one consi levity. |seau. She would ne: aith, returning to the dressing] ¢ whe neular clstice see to b eaaer sae if |rible Frankel ra forgotten toothbrush, evident that | schem ck between the folds of the E ditorial Comment Middle Ground Is Best Some news printing as mi to print and long fac withhold all proceedings o! cf thinking, b newspapers’ right relationship with the public—the | her former as to its privileges, the latter as to its du-| lic In such reporting course for a s to give the r is entitled to, and keeping within the bounds of decency. | inclined to congratulate The Associated Press for | the tactfulness and the effectiveness with which | it handled this particular story. The middle ground | generally is a pretty safe ground, and it is: the/ ground on which a reputable newspaper ought to |} stand when it is confronted by the nec making record of unpleasant happenings. province of Everything el: tempt to do parison, the Browning;Heenan trial, (Sioux.City Journal) papers k to gain advantage by auch ni s it may be possible keep out of information regarding cer f any unsavory nature. both fall short in appreciation of the a dilemma, for instance, as that of the only especting newspaper to pursue is ing public such information as it ways deferring to good judgment We are If. sity of The first a newspaper is to print the se that modern newspapers do or at- is of secondary importance in com- “Molding public opinion,” exposing vice, engineering balloon races, making wet and dry polls, discovering most beautiful or most popular young ladies, staging baby shows—all these more or less worthy enterprises are merely incidental to the b business. of printing the news. When a newspap¢ accepts a subscriber's money, there and then it enters into a the limits of the extent thi breach of contract. contract to give him the news within saneness and decorum, and to just at it fails to do that it is guilty of But this does not excuse any newspaper for printing smut. What was Up-state Spring (New York Times) the matter with John Burroughs? impul disd | basket. a Ja s if il, and others take on and make announcement that they will! m tion and blind she realized that] self passionately, as she huddled in ousand dollars would be lite: er sua iting for nine o'clock and to app as | thousand dollars would be | rally her seat, waiting for nine oelock and 3 possible like Cruickshank's jing kin!” Oh! When Bob came mi toumnet| eee ee en euene, Opes Three times er, she caught eof the nein ae Acley paper he held in his hand: | Much has been written of the mon- 5 ‘s sister sells” The sheet | ey made by the beggars of New York Jed on the of it but she|and hardly a week passes but some had no need to see the actual words] revelation of the gay life of a pan- in which her shame had been| handler comes to light. news. | y to get it off at the next station he went to’sl comforted by Hathaway wou when she arrived, must have i | Careful search of his “Life and Letters” finds no | record of February robins, such as are now chor- | using up-state, as a rule collecting in musical cities like Rachester, where they are sure of a larger au- | dience than they are used to in the country. springtime reaches of Republican virtue. der A ten- swathes the bleak There are flies, one atmosphere is surprised to hear, on the Onondaga reservation. | Arctic Malone, in summer togs, throngs the con- | certs of the municipal redbreast band. The puss: willows of Saratoga Springé bloom and mew. The | traffic cops of Binghamton have been ordered to clear the streets of woodchucks. lerow, that sy A large supply of mbolic New York Republican food, is reported in Watertown, Caterpillar |All nature grins “when the sap begins to sti sumed. In traction has been numerously re: | such sugary days and tropic hights, Why does win-| ter, ruler of souls of Speaker McGinni, man? the inverted year, still possess the » of Knight and Low- mbly. Is it no omen to Tonight the Republican four-year amend-} ment comes up in the as. | Republican chiefs that tree-climbing rabbits have | made their app inals and today it is acknowledged that the result | poison with pol has been one of failure in three of its chief pur-| Spring? We hail’her and love her—but trust her! poses—creation of a workable honor system, limita- | Not, she’s fooling thee! These are old ironies. tion of employment mainly to farming and doing | March has given no bonds for good behavior: Though ‘ance in West Hurley? But why this pure breath of earliest Mad the robin and the bluebird chant And the crow caw out his gizzard, In this clime of sin you really can’t Be sure there won't be a blizzard. Somebody has prigged our copy of “The Old } sicn has been reached by the state commission of | Farmer's Almanac,” that secular, trusty and well- | prisons. It+is that an honor system and absence | beloved soothsayer; but surely that judicious fore- i of a confining wall are far more potent factors to | ¢8t, “About this time look out for snow,” is spread 4 prison visitor than they are to a prison inmate | ll over the February and the March pages. th nour tenn ain court | he th To our way | home | r his check to bits and | h AE tau A t fully fling it into the wi But « in her humili y green curtains, her cheeks , blood pounding’ in her e: he couldn't bear it, she told her ay ou Only a few days ago a man was taken inte a Manhattan court, charged with Legging, and it was te- vealed that after begging hours were over he appeared upon Broadway as a _spender,. rode in a taxi and visited the night clubs. He had a suite blazoncd, if . Bob!” she cried, involuntarily » [holding out her arms to him. TOMORROW: Bob reports gress, phot the night ¢ pro- bill sent up, but refuse ous offer to make a P in the Pennsyl- erva for her. Reporters | at 4 TIN NEW YORK ( : the | Hey ae vania hotel and maintained an she. could only “ escape IN NEW YORK | apartment in the early Fifties—all She istent |° OT | Os Deegar’s income. young men Moat} New York, Feb, 21.—No mardi gras] Cae her door, Si 1 ter the}or harlequinade ts an odder| Shortly before that a team of beg- bellboy carrying her su , but in| assortment of disguises than those! fats, who had long worked together, the lobby of the hotel she threw up| affected by side-walk peddlers and, %@4- a falling out and one appeared in court to collect several thousand a protective arm just n moment too of New York, : late to photogra Some of the most grotesque make | °llars loaned the other, i i was trailed by appearance in front of th Fo gocin nig fees mounting to t reporters and|a during intermission, packing | $750 were tun up by each and reve- photograph ays of gum and. dustylooking | /ations made in the courtroom in- dicated earnings up to $150 a day on good days. candy in their boxe: So slattern!; ly is their garb as to GILBERT SWAN, in pulled out, almost|be at times ridiculous. Whereas}. on . triumphant to have} the fawning, leprous beggars of the| (Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Inc.) escaped without hay alk Orient arouse a repulsion these wr Pullman port y|tatterdemalions suggest the vastly eved her she were a freak ‘OUR BOARDING HOUSE written te exaggerated costume of the musical f HT ' comedies or the screen slapsticks. | ATHOUGHT For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return—Genesis i1i:19. pat last, imn the thought that would be waiting for her But the porte a bit with tr e train late th bb her P long, gle k hair the next. morning, the women in the dressing room curiously, furtively, as_ if or a criminal. One There is one | woman who wears shoes at least five times too large for her feet and closely resembling those worn by Charlje Chaplin. She has a skirt of almost a dozen differ- ent materials, patched like a crazy quilt, and stockings that are not mates. The waist and hat are equal- ly extraordinary. After a couple of parades in front of three or four adjacent theater q d th _ Death is the wish of some, the re- lief of many and the end of all_— Seneca. A drop of water may contain as many as 100 forms of life, visible under a microscope. By Ahern DIDNoU EVER geet’ ov'-Bov DESCRIBE TH’ DAG UP SAN JUAN HILLY «THATS 1H YELL! RIDES A BROOM UP OVER i’ SOFA “To -TH’ -ToP oF “TH’ PIANO l= FF WARR-RUME ~~ I say A I AM SPEAKING “To {NOU LADO! + T FIND IT \9 UGELES9 “To ATTEMPT To WORK IN GECRECY AROUND HERE, WITH ALL OF You SNOoPING INTO MY AFFAIRS “To FIND OUT WHAT I AM WORKING ON, ~+G0 1 MIGHT Suet AS WELL-TELL Nou | ~~. AHEM~~ UM~* KA- HEM aw < WENT-o LEFNS HOUSE, ~ AN HIS UNCLE DRAGS OuT/4 A BASS HoRN TO ENTERTAIN Ug, ~~ ABOUT “wo ocLock-H’ COPS CAME, ~~ WE BRIBED ‘EM WITH CIGARS To Let -1H’ UNCLE OFF, ~ BUT PINCH Yr . asks for when she ‘Abie’s Irish Rose’ Is Presented to Two Well Filled Houses “Abie’s Irish Rose,” Anne Nichols’) comedy success which is now in its| | fifth year in New York, played to two} well filled houses at the city audi- torium here Saturday afternoon and evening, notwithstanding the fact that it packed the theatre here twice at a previous appearance. . The cast which is at present play- ing this section of the country is an entirely different one than that which was here a year ago, but with one or two exceptions is equally as gdod. This perennial attraction has an ir- resistible appeal to all classes, and especially to those who appreciate clean, wholesome comedy, projected ‘with ‘rapid’ fire speed and precision {and the target of one’s visible emo-/ | tions, for the play is one screamingly | hilarious complication following an- other so quickly as to give no pause to the roars of laughter. Its success is the more remarkable in view of the difficulty of exploiting racial and |religious differences and clashes 1 | terial, Miss Nichols, who is the author of the play as well as its producer, has accomplished this successfully _ in “Abie’s Irish Rose,” which deals with the marriage between a Jewish youth, Abie Levy, son of a proud and in- tensely orthodox Hebrew, to the! daughter, Rosemary Murphy, of a typical Irish Catholic. This couple is married three times in rapid suc- cession in an effort to appease their raging and antagonistic fathers, these ceremonies being performed by a Methodist. minister, a rabbi and a priest. The fathers, however, refuse to accept conditions as they have de- veloped, and the young couple are disowned. In the last act of the play everybody becomes reconciled, largely due to the effort of the rabbi and the priest, and the heart-clutehing baby hands of Abie and Rosie's first born. * BARBS | ——_———___——_—__+ Que: stionnaires are the order of the day. All questions and no answers make Jack a dull boy... . The only man who can successfully an- swer everything is the gent who comes home at 2 a. m. when he'd promised faithfully he'd be in at 10... . | Many a man can tell you but only his wife knows where to find the socks without holes in them. Some men’s pipes fur- nish the day’s burning questions. . | They used to pop the question but now they pop the corks, ion what Emaneip is Headlines you ne gland Manufacturers send wris tches to McNary and Haugen. willing—but delive: lus from the man who has gone in ‘for both radio and golf. | ..Toda | never told a y had’ a radio Hie, but then he | A New York legislator would tax all visitors to New York 25 cents a day, to be added to hotel bills. As. if the lily were black! (Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Inc.) . At The Movies | ELTINGE THEATRE Weather Report:—Rain, combined with local laugh showers and rolls of thunderous applause to continue until In| other words, Lean’s latest comedy, “Let It Rain,” arrives at the Eltinge for today and Tuesday. So that the title:may not Douglas Mac- be misunderstood, “Let It Rain” re- fers to a man and not the weather. “Let-It-Rain” Riley is a slow, easy- going marine, who believes in get- ting things as they come, and not in going after them. That is, he re- mains in this state till he falls for a girl and a sailor buddy does the same. Obviously, she won't come unless he proves his worth and that’s where “Let It Rain” gets off to a fly- ing start. : As no war is being fought, it's useless to go out and capture an enemy general. But the marines now uard the government mail and “Let- it-Rain,” with the girl's help, en- deavors to foil a gang of desperados. Most of the action takes place aboard the bascleahin aad inside a regular ; mail coach. ughs and gasps come thick and fast when revolvers start popping off, when the car is detached from the locomotive and they find themselves’speeding along on a run- away train and when—but why con- tinue? Shirley Mason recently known as “Kosher Kitty Kelly,” plays the lone feminine part. CAPITOL THEATRE Jackie Coogan, that mysteriously gifted child, has brought to the screen a new characterization which marks the dividing line between the oe genius’ babyhood and boy- ood. The news of the shearing of dackie’s locks was attended by the tears of his million of feminine ad- mirers, but they need have no cause for apprehension—Jackie Coogan is not lost to them. The tonsorial metamorphosis of Jackie Coogan is a radiant surprise as you will see }at the Capitol Theatre tonight, | where “Johnny Get Your Hair Cut,” is being shown for the first time. The story is that of an orphaned son of an erstwhile trainer of thor- | oughbred race horses. On the death jof his father the youngster makes jis way across the country in a horse car to the California tracks where he tries to obtain @ position as an apprentice jockey. With all the in- | |Seckio' works his way into. the confi- dence of “Mother Slapp,” a kindly woman who keeps a bourding house for jockeys, and whose only com ‘pensation for feeding hungry mouths | | is tips on the races, which are usually | bad ones. He meets Pop Siécum, a derelict of the race track who owns {a horse, and the two enter into a |pact. The events which lead up to | the big race are full of mischief and | fun with Jackie ever present on the | Screen, | In the supporting cast the femin- jine contingent in the audiences at | the Capitol Theatre will be espe- cially glad to see their old favorite Maurice Costello. This thorough thespian was in his youth the idol of the screen, and through the years he has lost none of the fire and bril- Maney which marked his beginning on the stage screen, PALACE-MAND. The vaudeville comes a Palace, Mandan, on Tuesday thi Mame Mi is known as “Master P rhri mf 3 comedy Scotchman clown character he does sensational tumbling and | which lies in avoiding offensive ma-|*| who-carried the message to Garcia,| enuity of a detérmined adolescent! “MONDAY; FEBRUARY 21, 1927 FLAPPER FANNY SAYS Some people work their way up—and down the aisies of a Jumping. Edna Brooks appears in a song presentation called “Songs De Luxe.” A “1927 Version of Now You Laugh” is offered by Jim Fulton & ' Co. headed by the superior character comedian, Jim Fulton, late of the Comedy ‘Theatre, New York City. Associated with Mr. Fulton in this sketch are Miss Flora Florenze who has appeared with Mr. Fulton for the past five seasons, Miss Frances Busby and Vernon Yale, both from musical comedy. Rich Rollinson & George are two boys having a clever line of talk, songs and dances which make up their “Just Fun From Dixie.” The Mystic Revue, a com- pany of five people close the bill with an act called “The Stage’s Greatest Novelty.” They promise cyclone of fun and scientific mys- tery. Dorothy Devore and Malcolm McGregor are featured on the screen in “Money to Burn,” a story of the seas and tropical islands, counterfeit- ers and a fight with U. S. Marines to the rescue. o—_______» NEWS BRIEFS — | —_—_____—_ | British charge d'affaires at Hankow \and Cantonese foreign minister sign | agreement described as of far-reach- | ing effect and importance but details not made public; similar agreement with northern government sought. Italian aviator De Pinedo again un- successfully tries to start seapiane on | voyage from Cape Verde Islands to Uruguayan flier Major Lorre- | ‘ges starts from Italy on first leg jo flight to Uruguay. 7 ‘ddie Hanlon, once well known oxer and referee, charged with mur- | der after death from stab wounds of J gurebes named Noonan in Hanlon’s i | San Francisco restaurant. Drug stores, cigar and réfreshment stands and gasoline stations in South Carolina close for greater part of Sunday because of enforcement of blue laws. Copenhagen, Denmark—Dr. Georg Brandes, noted literary critic, died Saturday after long iliness. Minneapolis—James G. Raine, Min- neapolis, was reelected president of International Bowling association. Di- rectors include B. C. Anderson, Du- luth; Edward J. Berg, Mankato, and Steve Gorman, Fargo, f Minneapolis—Dr. Alfred Owre, dean of college of dentistry at University of Minnesota, resigned to become dean of s¢hool of dental and oral sur- gery in New Columbia medical cen- ter in New York city. Fargo, N. D.—Creighton cinched north central basketball _champion- ship by defeating North Dakota Ag- gies, 25 to 21. St. Paul—Two bandits held up Comens Meide of Hankinson, N. and took $500 and his-automobile. —_—_—_ | Old Masters ! Sing me a song of a Jad that is gone; Say, could that lad be I? Merry of soul he sailed on a day Over the sea to Skye. Give me agin all that was there, Give me the sun that shone! Give me the eyes, give me the soul, Give me the lad that’s gone! Sing me a song of a lad that is gone; Say, could that lad be I? Merry of soul he sailed on a day Over the sea to Skye. Billow and breeze, islands and seas, Mountains of rain and sun, All that was good, all that was fair, All that was me is gone. —Robert Louis Stevenson: “A Lad that is Gone.” — | Justajingle Serre ee “Tye kis fricads hea shout, ‘0 Of course the poor guy didn’t know Friend wifey took it out. ORGANIZE. SHIPPING ASSOCIA- - TION Sanish—Orgunization of the San- ish Shipping Asbociation was effect- ed recently by a group of farmers and shippers of this vicinity. E, B. Larsen was elected president and O. - B. Glaheim manager loo MANY PEOPLE onl Se AND “THEN Z PUT OFF