The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 15, 1929, Page 4

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LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY NEW YORK .... Fifth Ave. Bldg. CHICAGO DETROI1 Tower Bidg. Kresge Bidg (Official City, State and County Newspaper) NO ANIMUS, ONLY NEWS ‘The Tribune is not a court wherein it cares to have causes between individuals tried. It is a newspaper and its function is to gather and disseminate news. When \ this news is of a legal character, the usual course is to state that an action has been brought or a charge made before an established authority or court. When such ac- tion or such charge is heard in the proper tribunal, it be- comes the function of the paper to report the proceedings to the public. When a decision is made it is its function &s a newsgatherer and disseminator to make public this decision, acquittal or conviction. The Tribune Monday departed from this general policy of newspapers to throw its columns open to an aggrieved reader and, it hopes, a friend. It did so out of courtesy. frederick E. McCurdy Saturday was made the defendant in an action before the supreme court, seeking his dis- barment, and The Tribune obtained the facts of this ac- tion and published them, solely as news. However, Mr. McCurdy seemed to feei that the situation required that he be able to present his side of the matter to the public, he felt that disposition of the proceedings against him ‘would be so tardy that he could not gain full and timely benefit of any absolution from the charges that might eventually come out of an investigation by the supreme court. So, out of courtesy and in a desire to put beyond the pale of controversy any doubt as to its neutrality be- tween the two principals in the matter, The Tribune opened its columns and allowed Mr. McCurdy to have his say. It was hoped he might feel that the fullest possible justice had been accorded him by the paper. Mr. McCurdy, however, treated as an offense the pub- lication of a public matter in which he is made to figure, and attributed to the paper an animus that has no ex- } 4stence whatever. He seemed to feel that The Tribune —having ascertained the fact that he had been proceeded against by another citizen and taxpayer in a matter in- *olving public interests—should have concealed from the wblic the steps taken. The Tribune does not think so. It would have been tecreant to the public which supports it as a medium for i information or public doings if it had concealed what it hhad learned. The public buys a paper to get the news, not to have the news kept from it. Sometimes it is suf- ficiently difficult to uncover news, and suppressing others ‘would be preposterous. Not all news is good news, of course, and some men are unfortunate at times to be rather conspicuous in this latter character of publicity. ‘Then the paper must think with its head, not with its heart, nor its sympathies. It must print the facts though they are painful to someone. That is their misfortune. Making it public is the duty of the newspaper, and it is a legitimate and honest duty. Mr. McCurdy’s grievances, it seems to The Tribune, are against his accuser. There can be no basis for a griev- ance in the fact that The Tribune published the institu- tion of the action against him. Publication was neither an indictment nor a conviction, just a detailed recital of the fact that he had been challenged to defend some of his actions—actions not as a private citizen, but as a public servant in a former term of office. Neither do the means or methods or scurces by which ‘The Tribune obtained the tip or the facts of the disbar- ment action become an issue in the case. The issues are wholly in the action itself and in the accusations therein made. As a matter of holding the confidence of news| scanty attire and jazzy behavior, and pf gleta biol) good cause for it. tablishing the heart suit. than it eninar:. Zo ‘gpurces, all papers are necessarily seCretive about these.| as the latest adaptation of an old institution—the cup- ‘News often is imparted in confidence, leaving to the Paper the development of its details out of a mere tip. Tt is obvious that no paper can afford to go behind its mews stories in this respect and engage in dispute as to the source of the revelation. i) t ie ‘ever, the fact that there were proceedings entered against thim ought to divert his mind from so impotent @ con- | $oversy as to how the paper got the news and concen- trate it on the proceedings in court. There, The Tribune ‘would remind him in the kindliest spirit, is the import- ant matter for him to combat. _ JIM HILL ACHIEVES AGAIN Some of the triumphs of the career of Jim Hill have - been of his lifetime and in the full flush of his activities 8 an empire builder, some have been posthumous, be- ‘cause, though achieved by others after his death, they Yet are of his vision and his inspiring genius. Great Northern, blazing its way through the wilderness fecundity, with young and vigorous towns strung gems to its trackage, was the crowning achievement the lifetime of this builder of the Northwest. Saturday night another tremendous achievement, this me.® posthumous triumph for Jim Hill, was brought to ‘@ulmination, when the eight-mile tunnel through the <@acades was opened to the traffic of Great Northern as. It was part of his great dream of changing the of the Northwest, for years ago, in the latter part of Is life, he had- foreseen the necessity of the vast feat in wing that was completed Seturday night. i Budd. who svoke at the ceremonies of inaugur- tunnel, said Mr. Hill made his last trip over ‘in 1914. He was, as usual, full of restless dis- }of future plans for the road. Among the projects ‘was s tunnel such as the Cascade bore. ‘will live to see this mountain eliminated,” Commented to the party in 50 at the front. They dodged in when they could to do their |) Mr, McCurdy should not argue this point. If the news|, The Tole of a reformer is uny ‘ {| tory published in his case had been ® figment of fiction, | { also OUR BOARDING HOUSE ; there would be point to his quixotic complaint. How- ns. - - ‘9f another day, now developed into a vast realm of agri- of drilled and blasted and mucked their way in three years time. Thousands of feet under the mountains, working at times in water knee deep, with fresh drenchings at each round of blasting, there was no stopping or even slackening of the pace. “They changed shifts at the handles of the drills, as the saying goes. A thrilling sight it was; members of one crew splashing in and taking hold of the machines before the others let them go. A constant battering was kept up every minute of every hour of every day and every night for 35 months. “Think of it! Drilling, blasting, mucking out the broken rock, then over again; eight feet gained at each round, five rounds in 24 hours, all by machinery, but machinery in the hands of enthusiastic, expert workmen. There was no letting up until the last foot of tunnel had been excavated and the entire bore lined with concrete. “Another group equally determined was always present WARDING OFF OLD AGE (Cent.) |that the only difference between the learn | legendary gods of sncient Cirece and tn the course of time we man human beings was that the gods were work without delaying actual excavation; yet without them there would have been no aim or direction to the drifting, which went on at such feverish pace. They were, of course, the engineers who gave the line and grade. Contending with the many handicaps incident to the job, they nevertheless made their calculations and did their work so accurately that when they had carried the line eight miles over a mountain 3,500 feet high and back from the portals nearly four miles into the blind ends of the tunnel where the last barrier was removed, the two lines were only nine inches apart and the levels only three inches different. “The completed tunnel symbolizes the main idea be- hind the railroad career of James J. Hill; namely, the importance of economy and efficiency in railway opera- tion. From the very beginning, his policy was to be sure of the country through which he was to build; then to i g os ’ strive for the lowest possible operating costs for the ben- ‘ : Heh Atta nd atl ah datas Biel tae HL ity qa a i efit both of the railway and the producers. This idea ~ ‘ Ae R j une feng oousanaea to be Decite seems to have been as clearly in his mind in the very > ed after the skin has become quite first days of his railroad venture as it -ver was.” Y jf ‘ - : # This is the third time the Great Northern has over- ~*~ ae EL ad oat hac 4 come the mighty Cascades. The line began with switch- 4 E> _ ral dics 1c buenas ao caesar back construction to cross them. Then, when the road could consider expense for the sake of eventual economy, a three-mile tunnel was built near the summit>of the range. This sufficed for nearly 40 years, but the grow- ing necessities of the Great Morthern as a transccnti- nental line finally forced the present project into being. It cost the company $14,000,000. In the end it will pay itself by its economies, for though it cuts but two hours off the schedule, it will permit heavier hauls to Puget Sound than were possible under old conditions. Ther- is this to “ + said also of the cc-"sion of such a feat: Its accomplishment as part of a $25,000,000 pro- gram of improvement on the line through the Cascades 4s proof of returning prosperity to the railroads, and that has always been a healthy sign for general prosper- ity and well-being the country over. chronic, it is likely that strain is re- sponsible. Che Often children have to wear glasses CHII DRI , N only for a year or two; seldom per- ent manently, unless the trouble is serious, & Ole Roberts Barton eee a eae is Set oa te @ nave shel pores at can cured en lands absorbed x & Barton th tirely disappear before one or two (©1928 by NEA Service,Inc. years have elapsed. = There is much hope dieteticallvy for As a rule parents can tell if chil-. “ prolonging youth. The key probably dren have anything wrong with their , special balancing of the eyes, but not always. I knew a girl who reached fourteen before it was eet Cee eee ON Prints portraying You need fear no trouble with any of ‘When she got her glasses and went # bees i waitsighigrttae to school the next day, she acted as/| WHO IS INTELLIGENT? The Pennsylvania Education association at s recent convention urged legislation “limiting the voting privi- lege to those who can exercise it intelligently.” ‘The assembled teachers pointed out that when the|tHough she was seeing ® circus for) ‘Nrew |ciplteted inte the tia functions of government were simple, little education was| ghe came home in great excitement | Lf Mauch can be ‘accomplished by liv- required to exercise the duties of citizenship. Now, how-|and cried as she opened the door, | ing on a@ carefully selected diet, ever, government is complex, and only an intelligent |“Mother, I saw the blackboard to- ¥ adopting a youthful attitude of mind, day!” Her mother determined to in- enters can handle it properly. Hence the need for vestigate the exact meaning of this. restriction. See the blackboard. She should hope Unfortunately, however, there are objections to their|sol pion. How would we put such restriction into effect?| So to school that afternoon she went and after dismissal she and the ment can be lovel Is there any rears that the highly-educated man} teacher did some experimenting. | HAND story of our ptindin rich past, more really votes more intelligently than the man who never Couldn’t See Board at All! power to it! reason for fewer |knitting with the late Mrs. George finished high schocl? 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