The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 19, 1927, Page 4

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(Official City, State ang,County Newspaper) es When Dignity Falters The spectacle of faltering dignity, of staid Foreign G. LOGAN PAYNE CHICAGO Tower Bldg. « ceremony outraged by human circumstances is | the basis of rare comedy. So when the Lord Mayor’s parade marched up London streets the other day without any Lord Mayor all Britain i got a good laugh. Arrangements for such events are usually pepféct. The Lord Mayor, preceded by a gor- geous burst of mediaeval pageantry, rides pompously through the streets, after the an- cient manner, to take the oath of office. But, as_when the Prince of Wales tripped over his sword and set all parliament to tittering, there can be a hitch in the most dignified program that reduces it to delightful comedy. the parade passed, and the peo- plé, talking together excitedly in little groups, * had commented on the absence of the main : cheese, when— Galloping along the streets came the capari- | soned horses, the time-honored coach clatter- : ing and careening behind them. Fifteen min- * utes after the parade had passed, here came the wide-eyed principal, hectically trying to catch it. It was a scene to melt the hard mouth of the stoic Zeno into a merry smile. : There is a human lesson in the comedy, too. It.is that the most austere demeanor treads . very near the verge of the ridiculous, and it takes only a little push to send it tottering over the brink. ' 4 Gin, ’Coon Coats and Roadsters From Yale University comes news that sur-' prises us, and should prove not a little discon- certing to those who think youth’s main ambi- tion today is to drink gin, wear a raccoon coat and ride in a’sport roadster. Figures from the secretay’s office show that a total of $593,679.67 was earned in a year by the one-third of the Yale student body which is self-supporting either in whole or in part. Of this sum $350,856.17 ;was earned while the university was in session; the balance, during the summer time. The ways students earn money now are in- teresting. At Yale there is the Student Laun- dry Agency, with 32 men, which earned $4,957. group collects and delivers laundry, hav- ing its own automobile truck. The Student . Pressing Agency, with 56 students employed, and operating its own plant, earned $10,328, By waiting on table in the University and Lela dining halls, 516 students earned board which would have represented an outlay of $122,249. By aeling neckties seven students earned $1,509. Raincoats, shoes, furniture, a, football programs and other lines em- Pl still more. During the year one man ed more ¥han $4,000 in his spare time. e tigaret holder, the raccoon coat, the gin flask and the sport roadster? Certainly! But from this report it looks as if the students are me them to people who don’t go to school at 4 : : Mr. Taft on Juries Former President Taft, now chief justice of the United States supreme court, calls for an examination of the way jurors are selected so “jurors of weak intelligence, of little ex- and subject to emotions may be elim- with the chief justice in that sev- lately have given ample evidence of telligence intelligence at all, but We eral ju little or no still are not quite ready to subscribe fully to remedy. : jury cannot be more intelligent or more re than its community, since it is a Faike cf the penpla.. Pertect joria onal be . ect juries chosen under Mr, Taft’s plan only in perfect i thls, Goebteys the. ‘suapestion "veacticall ia ie 01 ly either would do away with the jury system or the Chi- cago juror who had served as talesman twelve and whose boast it was that he “never a case.” “We don’t want that kind of Salish be, dailencins thet ro or un- Thus, in a mining town you hard- 3 to choose a jury with the same ‘twelve men in a university Soe te toe tens oS Sth cn choca. - He became disgusted wit siog- nomy that nature and hard knocks had com- ~-veiad ame for him—and decided to change Wolheim happened to be working for a mov- ing picture firm in Hollywood when he decided to become beautiful. When the officers of the company found what a pretty business Wol- heim was about, they fought it tooth and nail. There are plenty of beautiful men in Holly- wood, they argued, and here they were about to lose the uncomeliest mien they had come across in many years. They went to court about it. The judge granted a ten-day’ injunction. Then a permanent injunction, restraining Wol- heim from interfering with that unholy coun- tenance. Wolheim must wear it. And somehow we're all fad that the judge so decided. For who would change the ru beauty of a moun- tainside into a Louis torze drawing room? St. Mary’s Golden Jubilee The children of St. Mary’s parish have shown a very fine example of what thrift and coopera- tion can accomplish. By saving their pennies, nickels and dimes for three years, some four hundred children of this parish have paid for the new organ now installed in their church. St. Mary’s parish is to be congratulated w on its Golden Jubilee. This church is close! linked with the social welfare of Bismarck, and much of its history is bound up with that of the capital city. The citizenry of Bismarck, regardless of creed, congratulate this parish on the progress it has made, and rejoice with it in the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary. | The main trouble with the girl of today is she refuses to act like the girl of yesterday. Fable: on the highway and the drivers conferred thereafter in whispers. An easy way to make a friend is to tell somel| one else he works too hard. Editorial Comment A Little Prophecy (New Age Illustrated) Five years ago aviation was still in the ex- perimental stage, commercialy. It is beyond that point now and growing rapidly, as the fol- lowing figures show: Planes manufactured, 1921, 302; 1928, 587; 1925, 789; 1926, 1,258. American planes will become the most desir- able in the world market. Many more changes will take place in the near future. The next five years will see a doubling of bus lines.. Our prosperity will cease to be independent of our export trade. The building pace will come back to normal. = estate values in boom territories will be le Fordization of plants will continue to increase. In 1982 91 men will be able to produce 175 or 180 pieces of machinery instead ‘of 128, as in 1925. They are to share in their increased pro-' ductivity in the form of higher wages and, pos- sibly, in shorter working hours. The new super-power era is coming. By 1931 the entire middle west will probably be served] i by four or five consolidations, and by 1987 by about 25 super-power organizations, instead of several thousand, will be supplying the greater’ part of the country. Current will be cheaper and the use of electric power almost universal. In five years more the great electric power con- solidations, using the long distance power transmissioy recently invented, will bring elec- tricity to flearly one-half the farms of the United States. This will make electricity the power of the future farm. A Le For a Pint (Newark Star-Eagle) : __ Aman has been sentenced to prison for life in Michigan because a pint of gin was found in his pocket. That state has a law similar to the Baumes law of New York in that it im- poses a life term on a fourth conviction for a felony. That Michigan man’s fourth “felony” just happened to be the possession of liquor. The cruelty of this case lies not in the fourth conviction principle in general, but in making it a felony to have liquor on one’s person. Only vicious offenses were made felonies prior to the Volstead law and fanatical legislation in states its advocates happened to control. This view would make felons of millions of Ameri- cans all over the country if the Michigan view were general, Nebraska has a similar statute, but, as the Omaha Post explains, it is a dead letter “be- cause juries will not send a man to prison for a crime no greater than having a pint of liq- uor.” Congress, in passing the Volstead law, could never have intended that life imprisonment should be the ty of a trivial infraction of that statute. It is safe probably to assert also that the lawmakers who enacted the Michigan statute did not contemplate any life sentences as one of the penalties for having any amount of liquor in one’s The Michigan episode shows to what inhuman extremes zeal fer controlling the liquor traffic may go. Overheated Houses (Pathfinder) Father has a new job again. He must start right in stoking the old furnace, or he may have to get up and make the fires in the morn- . But just beeau hav \f =) jus ise you ve pay « coal woodshed, don’t our be keep y THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [___Did You Bver seeichaTangiet cada Once upon a time two cars collided SS Did You Ever See Sich ZASHINGTON LETTER BY RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service “Vriter Washington, Nov. 19.—The prin- ciple of state rights, instead of be- ing immutable, has long been a po- litical footbali alternately carried for a touchdown or touchback on the gridiron of expediency. Persons who go along for years without caring a whoop about that honorary principle are often sudden- ly to emit loud yelps of an- guish when it appears that their own interests may best be pre- served or safeguarded by such tactics, . Albert C. Ritchie, governor of Maryland. The state rights cry, for in- stance, was used against such moral reforms as the prohibition and child labor amendments. Ap- penty it got nowhere in the first instance and emerged triumphant in the second because money and industry favored prohibition and were somewhat cold toward the child labor measure. The principle of state rights is again an ue as Bill Vare and Frank Smith undertake to clinch their seats in the Senate despite the charges against them. eir friends, Republiacns of course, are beefing to the effect that it is the only real principle the Demo- crats have haf since the Civil War and here they are turning two men legally elected by the peo- ple of Pennsylvania and Illinois. Most recently of all, the National Council of State Legislatures came before the House Ways and Means Committee as it held tax bill hear- ings. Its members announged bellicosely that they would laufich “a new era in government,” that “it is time to call a halt to this} tendency of Congress to usurp the powers of the state governments” and that “it is incumbent upon us to,warn Congress that usurpation of state powers must cease.” But it developed that the “state ights advocates” had nothing in mind but repeal of the federal in- heritance tax which, in effect, makes it difficult for states to at-, tract wealthy citizens within their borders by relieving them of such Regardless of the merits of the tax, the Ways and Means Commit- tee appeared unimpressed by the be-|flaunting of the states rights ban- ner. Thus bearded in their den, veteran congressmen handled the mere legislators like a faculty sitting on a group of recalcitrant school boys. Down here it’s not enjoyed themselves, soe @ At the flood hearings on the same floor, your correspondent had an “excellent interview” with Mayor Broad Bill Thom of Chicago. “George Washington's *!going to be a nero as long as I’m mayor,” said Broad Bill, grinning. “The whole trouble is that when .you change from one anti-Amer- ican history in the schools you have to turn to another. Now we have a $10,000 prize up for a real Amer- ican history. No, I don’t know who the judges will be, but I know damn. well they'll all be Americans.” Yes, Broad Bill says “Amur- rica” just like a Bowery character in a book. He very nearly hogged the show at the flood control hear- ings, although the speeches bored him. Strangers of various sta- tions in life, including many from down state Tllinois, approached him deferentially to introduce themselves and shake man’s hand — just as if he were Andy Mellon at a meeting of ordi- nary bankers. eee I 2 f ie i often that a congressman can /|li high-hat anyone, so they probably | Fran! ‘Aimee alse atin ees 1 r tales still come from day to rod along the high- uncommon to four “Tattered Tom's” money for the rent and f mother, if not an ck cg takes in the great | he Illinois politicians along for the] ing. flood hearings invariably described the political situation back home as “a mess.” “We got too many presidential jeandidates, in the first place,” said nee —“There’ pomded, resale jompson ineen, Thompson isn’t taki ipens seriously. We get the Mlinois delegation/r or how be we don’t know whether Frank Smith will be turned jin Washington so we'll have to elect split up; |ing another senator next 3; we don’t know whether ‘Small wi run | bejewel for governor again; we don’t know yet who's going to run in the pri- maries: for state and congress offices. “Everything's up in the air Act AimmeL !~ Besser L vos: GIFFING VIOLEEN LESSoNS—To A 1 MONGKEY OOP A PALMTREE, ODDER MIT A DUMMER LIKE Nou, ALFLAS fs ~ NEI !-STOP FROM VATCHING OUDT, AN’ BLAY DER BUTTERCUP VALZ! = ALFUN! ~~ You DER VINDOW © HEAR ME Qe. BAY ATTENTION DER MUTZIK, AN’ NOT PY DEM Bovs: or a good suppl wood: in the] too 90 L CAN Go OUT AN GET WM “TH? 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