The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 20, 1929, Page 4

4 Ap Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) fas secohd class mai) matter George D. Mann Subscrivtion Hates Payable tn Advance Member Audit Bureau of Circulation ee A Member of The Associated Press P ssociat ess 1s exclusively entitled to the use Poaication of. news dispatches credited to it or ts what has been called—prosperiiy.” in this newspaper and ‘isc the : Au tor republication of all not otherwise credited r ws of spontaneous origin pud'tshed herein ml ‘al ne’ NI: cents of republication of all other matter herelr arr ulso reserved Rick {Official City. State and County Newspaper) “ied cineca Cc Forcign Representatives SMALL. SPENCER & LEVINGS Incorporated) is Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. Fa CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Sleuth Torture Repudiates Self In a certain Pacific coast popped up with a bit help the police ever so mucl et criminals. ~ It was a pel sort of a machine guaranteed to detect ond such lics as a squirming prisoner, under questioning, might emit M under the arms of the p that w the truth hi normal; but if he began to He they would go up and betray him. It wasn't long before the police got a chance fe They had arr Bf of the murder of a man nam sett’s cutomobile . The Bismarck T ribune Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company Bis marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarck city not long ago someon? of apparatus which, he said. would | hn in their job of catching . were two leather plates that were to be fastened con being questioned. An elec- tric wiring system connected these plates with an in-/ culd show the person's blood pressure and . President and Publisher —_—$—$——— | | s that so long as the prisoner was telling ; iration and blood pressure would remain to use it.) ested a man named Mayer, accusing him ed Bassett. Mayer had Bas-/ and watch, and the case against him) © looked pretty good, except for onc thing, Bassett’s body could not be found. & So the police hooked up Meyer to their machine a began to talk to him. nd | TE For seven mortal days they questioned him, eight hours and more every day. Finally, when the man was worn out, bullyragged and exhausted, he confessed to Ride buried we them to Iet up on him. Deep everything and told them where Bassett's body was ‘The only trouble was that the body vas not to be found, | HY and Mayer, as soon as he had had a good sleep, repudiated his confession, saying that he had made it only to get © The courts, thercupon, ordered that the lic detector be = they are. There's moral to that little tale. 2 used no more. And the police don’t know just’ where ’ It proves, once more, that our modern police methods are only about two jumps ahead of the methods em- A ployed by the inquisiiion, years ago. For what, after all, was this “lie detector” rigamarole but a form of torture designed to wring out a confes- sion by foree? t ‘Tr in police stations. brain work. Soapbox Folly Hardly Crime « their too-fiery utterances. " seems to have been just a trifle witless. jg ment was “planning for war.” prison men for saying things like that. say of them said that on many occasions. If it had to be used seven days in @ tl row, to the accompaniment of a continuous fire of ques- tions, it could have had no other purpose. It was only ‘a step or two above the famous rubber hose that hangs Brutality is just a substitute for efficiency. It is easier | rate red ps cemegpecg i to hammer confessions out of prisoners than to go out R and dig up the evidence by real work. The first step in 9 tightening up on criminals must be to throw all our torture devices out of the window and put in a little ‘This country is so far from having any sympathy with radicalism that nobody seems to be paying any atten- Pi tion to the three reds who were recently sentenced, at | of St. Clairsville, O., to extended prison terms because of Yet that incident is worth a little study. If press dis- =| patches from St. Clairsville are reliable, the whole affair According to these dispatches, the three defendants} were guilty of the terrible crime of circulating literature in which the United States was branded as militaristic.+” ‘and in which it was claimed that the country’s govern- ‘We must be in a great deal more danger of revolu- tion than any of us have dreamed if we need to im- Surely, a government that stands on its own feet and enjoys wide-spread popular support can afford to ict worse than that without calling on the police If it is a crime to say that the United States is mili- on war, why were the late Senator constitutional guarantee of free speech seems to out something like this; if you are important and abluticns, in othor words, just naturally wasn't a:trac tive. But now? The bathroom. in most houses, is the mos' | Attractive room in the building. It is luxurious. gleam- ing in its cleanliness, efficient to the utmost degree. It fairly begs the householder to climb into the tub. Sma! wonder that the bath is more popular! Socialism Out of Faucets ' Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York cannot | y $7.20 sec why the word “socialism” should carry s2 muci | Daily by cartier, per year ...- Y | Dally ed mail. per year (in Bismarck 7.20 fright with it Bally Oy Prereniiiie phiehares) |... suo “Every time you turn on a faucet of cold water in this) Daily by mail. outside of North Dakota 6.00 | city, you get flowing out pure, unadulterated socialism. 100 | he told an audience in New York the other night mail in state per year | ° ‘ " Worn “4 nail in state. three years for 2.0) That is good sense. So, also, is the following from Weekly by mail outs'* of North Dako a. 1 the governor: POF YEAT oe. eee cree ee eee ee seers nesses eee ees “One of the benefits of the Wall Street crash may be that people will now pay closer regard as to how much they are being charged for utilities such as gas and clec- tricity. In boom times they do not scem to care. That! Health is wealth, but hard to cash. | A little learning is an expensi hing. You can't gst on your feet by sitting around. If you want a man to grovl at you treat him like a dog. | Th moacrn woman's magazine has more beauty hints | | than cooking hints. Hl | A London doctor says our girls work too much. Our! experience is they work too many. | i} ! Editori Prison Riots Prove Nothing (Minneapolis Journal) Because imprisoned criminals want out so badly that thoy are ready to risk their lives in mutinies, as demon- Comment must be something se: ‘wrong with our prisons. | The evidence is inconclusive. If penitentiary life “| f to get out, then, indecd, would there be something wrong with our prisons. For, the moment penal captivity loses all its terrors for the eriminally inelined, then penal captivity also fails signally as @ crime deterrent. It should be remembered that the purposes of imprison- ment are three: To kecp the convicted offender away {from society, so that he will not have opportunity to; repeat his offense for a time to punish- ment outweighs the spoils of crime, will offend again, after his term is up; less atiractive in the minds of criminals outside of penitentiaries. If prison life is made so agreeable wants out, then imprisonment serves three purposes. It does keep the criminal out of as long as he is behind the bars. him think twice before repeating out. And it does not impress very seriously criminal, who so far has Doubtless there are forming. Criminals incubators of disease, k attaining ft. Ths desperately wanting their freedom, is prison as attractive as life outside prison. done, prisons will fail of their purpose. Uncle Sam’s Resources (Francis H. Bisson in Review of Reviews) & | changed. due & country of almost limitless the conviction that there | © | e SY MEN! aw THE OWLS CLUB COUNT ME our? IS Ti Sons You! SP 1S SORELY W NEED OF A wl SANG ui A Nw used RADIO ! we L HAVE THouartT {NY QUARTET ONCE, SING SAILOR oF A SPLENDID iDEA How ON A PICNIC N BASS! THAT To OBTAW ONE AND IT STEAMBOAT AAI’ Hi MEANS iL 1S THiS ~~] am DRAPTIG SOMEBODY ON HAVETA FILL uP Td UPPER DECK }| “TH” BATHTUB A “THREE MEMBERS wiITH GooD SINGING VOICES AND AH ~~ 4 INCLUDING MYSELF, WE Witt Re SING CHRISTMAS CAROLS, DRESSED) . In THE MANNER OF THE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH % MINSTRELS $—~ WE WILL ToR “THE CITY AND tie SING FoR DowaTio = AS. our, a |< BARBS | ° chestnut tree. { ee * i count nowadays. They are kept ty busy counting at this time of year, | int though. ee Yawning aitcr a meal may mean that you have eaten too much, says || a physician. Undess you are at a man wonders whether he ought beardiag beuce, te ateangled to death, MONNIK DUN- SLT. STRAWN tw tbe tavestixa- fale oo eM. bearder whom resources, which are at the disposal of a comparati' sparse population. How much further our natural advantages will us to go in providing an ber with the necessities and comforts of life, no one can tell. It has been estimated that ao eene arts i 22 Hat ue Bee at E z é efi | i Eg i H 7 i disanpenred. ieee, ogg aoa reffen jer plenlet. thought Red an s@ale with Revier, te ar ted an a material fal SHEPHERD. Beanie Deedee trarne fram pa- He Oe eek oon ee the ALLY GRAVES fer i i 2 s 3 ry 3 > iit ite ilies z fi i ij i i z z itt 8 C3 i Us that?” Dundee leave it in the street and forget about | and “MYSTERY IN RESTAURANT,” In London a blacksmith went into | says a headline. A newspaper report- | vaudeville. No more than natural, er evidently at last decided to do after standing under the spreading something about the hash. A boarding house is a place where A woman writer says men hardly |@ man not only has to wait for his | any pret- | bath, but to hear someone else cing- | t it. | Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) ceded. the second of which was only half full of trash. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1929 |OUR BOARDING HOUSE NECK f NN ep Met THRew A dime THAT WEAT Down My Few TiMBS AN” Get WW CT FOR iy , 3 i fH i ** * ' se2e8 bout Dundee asked. ing with excitement. “Reckon it is,” Mrs. Rhodes con- eee MVE minutes later the landlady was pointing to two big sacks, q' “When did he begin to use that one? Dundee asked, pointing to the one which was overflowing. “Let's see—must have been about jthe first of June. Yes, those two of the new bags that I bought the last week in May.” “Thanks awfully, Mothcr Rhodes. You're wonderful! if everyone bad a8 good a memory as you have, a detective's wotk would be a cinch,” the boy assured her gratefully. “Yea, I've got a good memory— too good for my own good. maybe,” Mrs. Rhodes retorted, as she turned toward the stairs leading to the kitchen. “Now what did she wean by pussied. Then he suddenly remembered another mat- answered Dundee's telephone {n- quiry at soon that Tuesday. “But we could hardly expect anything before the middle of the afternoon. He dido’t arrive ta Belton until this morning. But as soon as that description of Griffin comes in, I'll phone you . . . Anything from “your end?” “Nothing of importance.” Dundee confessed. “I've been going over the house with a fine tooth comb. but haven't found a trace of the $10,000 yet.” “Why should you?” Sergeant Tur- ner chuckled ma'iciously. “Sevier's got it—wherever be is!” “Probably you're right.” Dundee conceded without resentment. After tuncheon, the most cheerful ter that had bees nagging uasuc céssfully at bis own memory. “Just & minute, Mother Rbodes!” called, and the landlady paused on the top step. “Didn't you mention say!” she gibeo at tim fondly. “Wheeler is the mai and leaving nothing to pay ft but that trunk of electrical juak {a Bert's room.” sald he sneaked out the aight be fore Magnus tam. bere to board, E HH HF isk ie;! i ge i EF i it i i it i Hl & Lj may become respectable again, | hatred becomes vg “Tish printing, 2 a “Every vice was once a virtue, and f & respectable in war —William Durant. 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