The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 30, 1929, Page 4

Seacencor so5 a F a yy a t Co 4 z A oI HH ob ni m st te It | to ha oN me et SRE Edusaseee REBHQD tala are a ane 5 Aa RINKS The Bismarck Tribune! Ap independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDES1 NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) SSS Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company. Bis Marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bismarcs fas second class mai) matter. George D. Mann . Subscription Katcs Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year ........... sevees STL Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) vee 1.20 Daily by mail. per year (in state. outside Bismarck) Daily by mail. outside of North Dakota . ++. 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CHICAGO NEW YORK B ————____— as Railway Consolidation Obstacles ‘The Interstate Commerc: Commission's prop: solidation of the country’s railway systems into 19 regional groups, with the Soo Line and Vermont Con- tral—controlled by the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National—lett to thems a trial balloon, Tt has aroused a diversity of opinion, mostly hestile and with few approving comments. Even those were on specified groups, rather than on the general plan, for in some of the consolidations the commission coincided with the desires of the roads, such as the Van Swe ingen lines and largely so, in the B. and O. groupings The communication from Represeniative Bur printed in The Tribune Saturday, dissenting from ihe commission's plan and favoring new legislation dealing with the problem, is 3 eral feeling aroused in 8, W such new legislation are already on the calenda fact, with the reconvening of congress after the holi- days, this very subject will be taken up. "There is a difference of opinion whether the Interstate Commerce commission has the requisite power under the transportation act of 1920 to compel the consolidations it proposes. Senator Watson, Republican leader, thinks it has, but Senator Fess, who is promoting another proposal in conjunction with Representative Parker, of New York, believes the commission is estopped from authorizing any form of consolidation. ‘There seems to be no present wides in congress to consider making the commission compuisory. Each carrier is privileged to & ‘any part of the plan affecting itself or to con- Ives, 1s proving ad disposition proposal nt from est modi- fications which will enable it to accept the.commission’: | grouping. As far as the house is concerned, hearings will be begun by the interst commerce committee next month, on the subject of consolidation. The committee desires to get its facts and make a report before nits action can be taken by the inter: . commerce com- miitee of the sen: Two bills dealing with consolidation, M . educed ia the last congress by . Which probably will b> presented soon in a modified form, id that introduced in M: Representative P: ceted to form the basi pny consolidation legislation that may be aitempied in the current session. Each of the bills is permissive in character and does not propose that form of unification shall be en- forced upon the Consolidation conferences will be made the pr of the railroad exceutives while ¢ ss is considering the commission's plan. Such conferences were aban- doned in 1928 when the executives reached a deadicck. It was said that the commission's plan was of such a nature that it left plenty of cpporiunity for barg: ing between railroad heads. Five trunk lines visualized by the plan are given roads which they desire and also some that they might not desire. Thus the Wabash, which is given more railroads than it bid for in its petition of last summer, was allocated the Seaboard Air Line, a property which suffered irom the collapse of the Florida boom, although it recently strengthened its financtal <tructure The railroad executives at their coming meeting will attempt to lay the basis for a united front to the com- mission. virtually iden- | The chief interest for the northwest is in the proposed consolidation of the Great Northern and Northern Pa- | cific. That consolidation was app! for, but with the Burlington system, another Hill line, included. The plan of the commerce commission, however, omits the Burling ton and makes it the nucleus of another regional group. ‘This deprives the two Northerns of their Chicago connec- tions and forms them into a system having common ter- minal points at both their eastern and western ends. The chief objectives gained by this consolidation, it would seem, is in decreased overhead, as a result of possible * economies, and in assured large revenues and net earnings. There does not seem to bo any special gain in the commission plan of bringing widely separated points into contact as part of one system of rail service, as freight Yates likely will remain the same as if they were on separate systems. What would be an advantage in the Proposed consolidations would be to unite profit-making Toads with those which are merely breaking even or Tunning into deficits. Contiguity would have to be a factor in this, however. would have a moral obligation to assent to the mergers. + Then the element of competition must be retained also. And future waterway developmcnt, with its competition | should be taken into account. There may be less gair in thrusting an existing system into territory far out ‘of its present area than in building it up in its own “The goal now to be driven at is to shape the commis- tion plan into a praciical grouping. The country has fot to the stage where haphazard railway building is no longer wisdom. Such invesiment of capital should not b2 duplicated for mere selfish competition. The nation _hesds orderly rail systems based on the idea of service. For the same reasons that would apply to the construe- ton of new lines, those existing should be formed into ‘tystoms by regional groups, as proposed. And these should be so consolidated that the provision of the In that case the profitable lines | Hoist by His Own Petard Senator B. K. ‘Wheeler, of Montana, was among the senators who discussed the appointment of Senator Joc Grundy, from Pennsylvania, in criticisms that did no! reach beyond the range of ordinary adolescent mentality. It was “an insult to the intelligence of the senate,” bh simperingly protested. He was one of those who blew hot | and cold with the same breath, a habit he contractea OUR BO ARDING HOUSE By Ahern Boel aecota aac pic a ar | by being for and against the Anaconda copper by turns + \in Montana, for he voted to scat Grundy after the slap on the wrist he administered to the Mark Hanna o | Pennsylvanta Later Wheeler broke out in one of his soap box rage: | and suggested that the interstate commerce committe: should try to establish government con‘rol over radio | what mad him yearn for such control was an exposure of his own unfitness to sit in the senate in view of his share in rejecting William S. Vare on the grounds of ex- le ve expenditure in election campaigns. | For William Hard, a well known correspondent at Washington, in a radio talk had called attention to the fact that, whercas Varo's campaign expenditure had beer on the average of 54 cents a vote for the entire Vare, ticket, Wheeler and his backers had spent an average of $1.02 a vote in their Montana campaign. If all senators who are the beneficiaries of a campaign ‘expenditure of 54 cents or over believe as they voted when the ed Vare, there must be a lot of hypocrites in the upper chamber. Mr. Hard has exposed only one. it is safe prediction that he wiil not have unliness to take his own prescription and get out. Byrd an Admiral The graceful thing has been done in the casc of Command:r R. E. Byrd and he now takes the title of admiral in the United States navy. ‘The bill promotins the adventurous explorer of the North and South polar | regions has been passed by both houses of congress and ‘has been signed by ident Hoover. | It is men of the Byrd typ2 that should be et to the fore in both the navy and the ar By the regular | route of promotion it is the swivel chair that gcts the big honors. In the case of Byrd, the basis of his honors and rank are his renowned exploits in the frozen seas and in his polar and transatlantic flights. It is a rea! hero who has been promoted in his case. | As the New York Times said of his promoiion, “the dar- i ing explorer proved himself worthy of the highest reward | that his country could bestow on him. What an example he has set the junior officers of the navy! At 40 Byrd has become one of the greatest in the long list of polar | explorers. | imagination of officers of the sea service in all nations, and Antarctic explorations by airplane will follow until | {the whole South polar region is known and mapped and) | its resources determined. | “tt is now 18 years since President Taft signed the act of congress promoting and retiring Peary with the rank ‘and pay of Rear Admiral. Peary’s claim to the discov- ‘ery of the North pole was contested in congress, and even line officers showed hostility to his advancement, /Rotwithstanding his many expeditions for the glory of the service and the renown of his country. It is inspir- | | Peary. and have brought immense prestige to our service. | We can only be honored in our grade of rear admiral by | your addition to our list.’ And so it may also be said of Byrd.” { ‘There'll come a time, of course, when the only place | i | Ervine, but why draw the line at the drama? \ The really vital objection to riding seven in a coupe 1s | that in time it will make you knock-kneed. i Marricd men, statistics show, are the best auto driver's | but their wives won't believe it. | | | i} j | | ditoria) Comment | ‘Mitigated and Benign’ | «Columbus, Ohio, Dispatch) ! Harry Elmer Barnes, whose presence on the Smith | college faculty doubtless helps to convince the Smith | girls of the truth of the old saying that “it takes all | kinds of men to make a world,” has now decided on a , plan for making over that part of the world called “the | United States of America.” | | Ina talk before a New York audience, a few days since, \ he delivered the dictum that democracy must give way | to some “mitigated and benign form of dictatorship. Now, if the trustees of Smith college were to propo: putting a dictator over the faculty, however mitigate and benign he might seem to be at the outset, Prof | Harry Elmer Barnes would be onc of the first to insist , | phate man is fit to be a real dictator over a college | | faculiy. Those who believe in the present government of Italy insist that Mussolini's dictatorship is prce-eminently | | “mitigated and benign,” but if Prof. Barnes had been | {on the faculty of a girls’ school in Naples, instead of | Northam»ton, his professorial head would have been in | Mussolini's waste basket long ago. Most of our American critics who find our democracy ; an absolute failure would find themselves insufferaly hobbled under any other form of government. Promoters and Pirates (New York Times) There is one field in which America, the land of! magnificent possibilities. distances and sum totals, mus. | d the palm, to an older civilization. Our get-rich- | quick financiers and promoters fail to measure up to: their English prototypes in the size of their peculations | }and the number of their victims. In the aggregate it is) | probable that Americans hand over more money than | |the English do to wildcat corporations and outrighi | swindlers. So much one would expect from our larger | | population and resourets. But as individuals our Ponzis | {and cur “520 per cent Millers” simply are not in a class | with the long succession of modern British adventurers | and buccaneers of whom Charles Hatry is the latest and, | in the amount of havoc he has wrought, the greatest. | The losses involved in the crash of his various promotions | | are estimated at nearly $70,000,000. If. like the lost angel | | Mr. Hatry should take pride in the ruin he has worked, | he may with some reason count beyond the tens of thou- | Sanés of unlucky British investors a much larger public | in this country. It is held in some quarters that the suc- tion created inf the British financial markets by the | sud and enormous Hatry vacuum compelled the with- drawal of London moncy from Wall Strect and helped to; precipitate cur own October panic. | Hatry’s predecessors in the realm of finance plus felony are by no means forgott@. Jabez Spencer Balfour | crashed in 1892 for about $50,000,000. The picturesque | Ernest Terah Hooley failed in 1396-97 for $7,500,000. | best known of all, because of his dramatic finis, ts | i Wright, who between 1900 and 1903 ate up! nearly $50,000.000 of other people's money. A. L. Car- penter failed in 1910 for something short of $10,000,000. G. L, Bevan accounted for that amount in 1922. Especial- ; ly the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first | decade of the present were rich in thes captains of the | financial Spanish Main end in their raw material—a ;eredulous populace. In Franco this was the ! 2 Alabama has ousted Senator There is no doubt that he has fired the! What, o { Put A Little MORE OBBLIGATO ON “H" GINA BERT! uw _ Now NoUR VOICE IS GETTING A HINGE f SQUEAK SAKE. FROM NOT ENOUGH AGAIN. ~ "CARRY USEs m~ WE'LL ME BACK HAVE “Ta GET Gio cb 55) eo ee EVERY NIGHT-TILL Mt VIR-GiNN IS (tt GETS BACK oe t yy THAT MELLOW t tag + ¢ “Tlo-FINGER \ ae WG-BOAT, THREE -FOLD ANNOYANCE =o Wemen zre wearing their dresses longer. The way some of those tocks acted the other day the men 1 be doing that same thing. De: f 2k * A Louisiana woman shot a man ready! | who wasn't her husband. She's like- * * * :ly_to get into trouble that way. General Smedley D, Butler was | ‘Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) The calfed on the carpet again the other | | day. whom carpets were made. fr \tery is dead there isn’t nauch any of President Hoover's commis- | General Butler is the man for |©——— ; ¢ I Quotations | see le. @ When the snow is piled high in! «Tho secret of boring is the prac- ‘ont of the garage door and the bat- | tice of saying everything.” t | ss —Voltaire. sions can do about it. | “Al charming people I fancy are ing to recall how Admiral Sigsbec, representing what was | prohibition enforcemeni officers here- | i he navy. wrote: ‘You have made good, my dear | after must be hard-boiled. Won't | best in the navy. wi | Hat be ee OManaee you'll sce short-skirted ladies will be in the family album. lé sees spoiled. It is the secret of their at- Senator Brookhart declares that | traction.” —Oscar Wilde. * “I am not aware that any com- Night drinking is ruining the drama, says St. John| 3 ©.1929 by NEA ‘the upstairs porch; that he had) seen Cora in Mrs. Hogarth’s room, | had realized the old lady was dead. | {| murdered; and that he bad, scrambled back down the rose! trellis in mad fright of being! caught on the scene of a crime he dor beside his desk. “H jas hell. Smart, too. mitted everything he was sure you | already had against him, what you told bim you had on him. And he) , killed Cora Barker because he was } sure she'd told the police the whole truth against bim, or to keep ber {from doing so. He knew he , couldn't stay under cover forever— | probably bis girl forced him out— {and he figured he could only swi once anyway, and he might as well! get even with Cora before he got ; bis rope necktie. Remember, he knew she'd been zrrested as a mate | ‘rial witness, and he had no way of | jknowing just how much she had} {already told.” | | “But why would Cora let him jkiss her?” Dundee asked wearily. | | “Maybe he stole the kiss—then j kept on ki till the braids were; |tied so tight she could never ob- come back t (iect again to anybody's kisses,” NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY | Strawn surmised callously. CHAPTER XXXVI | “Don't!” the boy shudcercd. At half-past eight that Wednes-! “You're all shot, Bonnie,” Strawn day morning an exhausted| was brusquely contrite. “Better young detective was hauled back | get hack to the Rhodes House to to consciousness by an urgent but | breakfast and to bed. . . . Ay the kindly hard upon his shoulder. He | way, see if you can work that sat up, dazed to find himself not in| speech stunt again, to keep the his hed Sut tm a creaking swivel | boarders where they are until after chair, and that his pillow had been | the inquest today, anyway. There’ his own arms crossed upon an un: | just a chance, of course, that som tidy desk, |thing may develop this afternoon “Wake up boy!" Lieutenant) that will make us it to keep Strawn grected him with brasque|them all together. Or maybe I'd sympathy. “Better go grab a bite; in and make it an off- of breakfast and get into bed You'll need some rest before the double inquest this afternoon.” “You're back?" Bonnie Dundee ran a shaking band through bis disordered black hair and blinked dazed blue eyes at his chief. “Sure! Just got in. Got a morn ing paper at the station. I'm sorry | about Cora Barker. Have you got! “I wish yoy would.” Dundee ad. mitted. “1 don't feel up to plead- ing with anyone to stay iu that house any longer.” “‘Murder Mansion, the paper calls it," Strawn grinned. “See?” “Thanks—I'd rather pot.” Dun- dee repudiated the newspaper with a confession out of that swine, Se | ” foto Rn genni a ihe vier, yet? The paper says he's/ terial witness, not on charge of been on the grill since be was| murder yet. The district attorney nabbed at 2 o'clock this morning.” | advised it, 80 we could set Sevier’ Dundee shook his head gloomily | testimony at the inquest this after- as he rubbed bis aching arms. “No.} noon. . . . Well, « believe I'll go i was a bim bammer and tongs for | now—" more than two bours after Gis} “Good idea,” wo covered Cora’s murder, but hestuck] “what ae Dr. Priee as to his story. Fainted when t broke! “That Cora was strangled be- the news to him, but in between | tween one and two He got being sick as a poisoned pup be/ busy immediately on the autopsy.” kept denying he'd beep spy nearer! “Good man—Price. . . . And tae Rhodes House thap the spot | what else has Turne: able to where Patrolmen Callahap e0¢/dig up? Any residen jhe block Lunt picked him up.” -| who saw or heard anything?” “And what was his story?”| “Absolutely nothing, so far, to Strawn demanded. Drove Sevier or any other prowler Dundee told him briefly, wearily.| was on the scene of the crime,” what Sevier had admitted: that he | Dundee réplied heavily. had gone to the Rhodes House on! “Hmm. Eighth and M: Saturday night at half-past 11, tm-| where they nabbed him, isn’t tending to make one more effort to | is near eno for any jury. Just enlist Cora Barker's aid in robbing | four blocks from the Rhodes Mrs. flogarth; that be had waited | House,” Strawn exulted. “Well, {n the greenhouse until Cora hud! get along with you, Bonnie. The entercd the boarding house at 30) case is solved, whether Sevier con- minutes after 12° and that be aad | fesses or not. Get come sleep now. then climbed up the rose trellis to} You've earned it.” ACCOMPANIMENST # ~~ SAKE IS SouR ~TH’ PIANO 1S out oF “TUNE BERT IS A f SELF =<TAUGHT PIANIST aw HE Took UP PIANO PLAYING WHILE WAITING FoR A BROKEN LEP PIANO GUY IS AS MUSICAL f- AS A WINDow! THE CURE FOR MEASLES Measles spreads so rapidly that case of measles in a schoolroom had not committed. i rs 1 eee |seys you wired that you badn’t ares | OT!" Strawn spat Sone | trader “aun ‘ ie ously into the big brass sere | i | formation I'd been able to collect, tween the years of six and ten, first. years of grammar be attacked. In most cities, epidemics of may run through the sc! average of every two explained by the extrem: nature of this disease. year when it is prevalet (available school children {and by taking it home the younge ones as well. jyear the potential crop of munity has a right to force another to be civilized.” —J. 8. Mill. ek * “Women, thanks to education, have become fact instead of fancy.” —Lady Bourden. WATCH YOUR STEP, BOYS isa tor The flea has sucking, not biting, mcuth parts and cannot chew a hole in cloth, Service, Inc. T= nerve-shattered young detec. jhis handwriting, but had turned uve was lurching unsteadily | them over to the police, along with toward the door when he remem-|the card he'd filled out when he bered something that had once! went to work for the bank. They seemed of vast importance. were burned, too, of course, but “I forgot to ask you about your |Sou've got his ‘John Henry’ there trip, chief,” he confessed, his tired |Sll right. Keep ‘cm as a souvenir eyes brightening a bit. “Turner | of the bad penny’ that didn’t turn up!” eee sorPHANKS! “Dundee replied : quietly, as be placed the pa- ‘Why worry about Griffin now, | kid?" Strawn chuckled indulgently, | PeT® Im his own pocket, “It was a swell theory, but Emil] “Don’t think I'm trying to ride Scvier’s thrown the monkey wrench |J0U. Dundee,” Strawn apologized into it. The detective from New|*¥kwardly. “You've done mighty York arrived in Belton just before | £00d work on this case, and 1 want 1 left, and I turned over all the in-|¥0U with me on the next one.” “Thanks,” Dundee replied again. and thrust out his band. There was no use in arguing. {[t would only sound foolish for him to per- sist: “But why, why did Mra. Ho garth call Sevier a ‘bad penny,’ when she hated and feared ? Why didn’t she scream?” But until those questions were answered to his own satisfaction, the Hogarth case and the Barker case would not be closed, ta bis eyes, at least. “Say! 1 nearly forgot it, but here's something you may be in- terested io. The newspapers will love it,” Strawn halted the boy at door, “A picture of the old been very successful, but | suppose you got a description of Dan Grif- fin’ which wasn't much,” “I belicve I'll sleep better if my curiosity 1s satisfied,” Dundee per- sisted, with his disarming grin, as he again slumped his weary body into Strawn's swivel chair. “All right, boy. It’s your sleep you're losing!” Strawn conceded, \caning back in the straight chair and hooking his thumbs in his suspenders. “Remember the Belton chief told us over the phone that their police headquarters bad been destroyed by fire two years ago? het Griffin's br went wu in smoke, as well as the descrip- tion of him they had on file. So|!ady and ber daughter, when they I had to paddle around and pick|were Mrs. Emma Harkness and up what J could at the bank andj Miss Sally Harkness.” from neighbors who had known the} Dundce almost snatched th cabinet photograph trom bis chiet’s “And what was he like? Dundee | and. The picture was dated by urged, bis fatigue almost forgotten. | the photographer—1921, the year “Ask me another!” Strawn | before Sally Hai‘ness’ marriage to grinned ruefully. “It was funny,|Dan Grifie. The mother, dressed but everybody I questioned had a|!® black sitk, overflowed the ornate slightly different picture of Uan| chair in which the photographer Griffo in mind. That frequently | bad seated her, but her bulk had happens, of course, after @ crime] been many pounds tess then has been committed, and the crimi./!t was at the time of nal bas skipped. Some folke'll say| Her little, lightbiue he looked like @ fend tncarnate,|¥p0® Dundes with the others that ‘you'd never have|Seceace of a chi Buessed to look at him,’ etc. Same | Delleve that way in Belton. hers. The pally doped it cut that Dan | Side and “1 fi Grif one. For instance, one chap at the bank said he had blue eyes; an- other that be bad pale gray eyes; another that they were hazel; an- Coli other v-wed they were light brown. And some sald be bad sort of sandy. others that it was a kind of darkish blond. He dido'’t wear a| “Chief, I've got a request to tustache or glasses—that much|™ake!” Dundes spoke suddenly, they all agree on. And he wWas|Ctensely. “Let me keep this pict: neither tall nor short, but their|® While, please! Don't ture it estimates of his height varied from | ver to the papers yet! Don't tell fGiv> feet seven to five feet 10.” |them anything at all about Mrs. “Any doctor or dentist /who|Hogarth’s really being Mrs. Hark: might help to identify him?” Dun-| Sess, whose has dee persisted. in—that's | on. takers is exhausted, but the thi ‘school, the disease may occur at any age, ant | every once in a while an adult QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS trained Heart 3 W. P. asks: “Will you advise me if anything can be for a strained heart? Would Ti See 5 E i i g [ i [ ae 5 RE é fis i i? 5 aE g i i | i 5 E Ed i i 2 i E zi f i The first clectrically driven mer- chant vessel to ‘sailed from a ly the seven seas Ll ha