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4 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY‘12, 1930 : e Promote hope and optimism. Who knows? Farmii may 4 The Bismarck 1 ribune be at the point where the lane turns toward the era Ap Independent Newspaper THE STATES OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) || Published by the Bismarck Tribune . Bis } Company, Cow f ar to ce re ag si te 1, 6 h Vv s a 1 i v s tr T c i N. D., and entered at the postoffice at second class mail matter. seccecececccoes President and Publisher (in state. outside Bismarck) ........ Daily by mati, outside of North Dakots . in state. per year . in state, three years for Weekly by mail oute’* of North Dako.s. Member Audit Bare of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled tc the use tor republication of all news dispatches credited to it or Not otherwise credited in this newspaper and 21x the loca! news of spontaneous origin pub'ished herein Al) tights of republication of all other matter hereir are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. OHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON —— Abraham Lincoln “Now he belongs tp the ages.” These final lines, uttered by a cabinet member in the Lincoln adininistration, bring to a close John Drink- water's play depicting the life and character of the Great Emancipator. Now keenly it is appreciated on Lincoln's birthday that the does belong to the ages. With time, his place in the world's history becomes greater. Here and there come to light a forgotten let- ter, a hidden speech, a new state paper from the archives or some anecdote from those still living who knew him. ‘These all strengthen rather than weaken his place in history. What a tribute lies in this. Many a great fig- ure in history has lost lustre and renown as time brought to light new side-lights on character and policies. Not 80 with Lincoln. He belongs to the ages and he grows in stature with ‘the ages. Albert Shaw, the briliiant editor of Reviews of Reviews, has just published a remarkable history of Abraham Lincoln. It is one of the many works on Lincoln which ‘each year discloses. Worthy to be ranked even above that of Ludwig, published last year. It is unique because it depicts popular attitude toward Lincoln as reflected through cartoons and there is just enough historical ™matter to explain the significance of the drawings. No man in public life was more viciously attacked by word or by cartoon than Lincoln, Mr. Shaw has given a new picture of this many-sided President. He takes the reader back 70 years and pic- tures Lincoln as he looked to his contemporaries and it is done with the skill of a greater reporter as well as a Great editor. Words are feeble to pay new tributes to one whose memory is so revered in this and other lands. Ruler over the destinies of a nation plunged in a bitter war of brother against brother, he was essentially a man of Peace. Never, however, was he for peace or compro- mise except with honor, His great fight to preserve the union established for- ever, @ high conception of national honor and patrio- tism. But he was no pacifist. idealist. His theories and his logic might well guide those who are today sitting in conference in London considering the great issue of world peace. Indeed, he belongs to the ages; he has done much by force of example and precept to guide the ages. May it ever be so! He was not an impractical Farm Relief in Economic Conference ‘The essence of the federal Farm board plan of agri- tultural relief lies in its purpose of providing for the farmer the means of working out his own salvation. Such relief is in accord with sound economic law. Other plans likely would involve unscientific methods ‘and conflict with natural adjustment of the industry— @t least such have been seriously pressed in congress. ! All that ails agriculture is maladjustment of supply and demand. Relief, therefore, must deal with this situa- tion. The key to the farm problem, then, if the farmer himself is to work out the actual relief, it would seem, ds, first of all, in cooperation. Without that step it is difficult to see how the ills of agriculture under the Farm board plan are to be cured. Every step toward cooperation and study of his pro- blems by the farmer himself, then, is to be encouraged ‘and to be embraced as a duty and an opportunity. This attitude should be assumed by the farmers of , urleigh county toward the economic conference set for Friday and Saturday, to be held in the federal building here. To be there is a duty for the 300 to 400 farmers swho have been selected as delegates so as to insure an intelligent, thinking and experienced body for the con- ference. The selections were made without prejudice to the attendance of any other farmers of the county and these farmers will be welcomed if they attend. For them it is an opportunity, ‘The very instrument that calls for such conferences— the Farm board—wisely has been made one of the topics f the conference. The gathering, thereby, is shown to be an up-to-date parley and one that must bring the filler nearer the realization of his desire for the better- ment of the industry of the soil, the pasture and the field. Had not congress enacted the Farm board law and set ‘up this machinery for assisting the farmer to adjust this business, there would have been equally as great an obligation resting on the farmers of the county to hold such a conference. Burleigh agriculture has reached that point in diversification where those following it should reason together and follow a program whereby their activities can be put on a basis of team work. Soil, Climate and marketing conditions call for such coopera- tion. In unity there is wisdom and strength. Besides Burleigh county h4s shown adaptabilities to certain crop programs and to certain forms of farming and stock raising. As these are clarified by the exper- fences of successful farmers and by the advice of ex- ‘Perts of the extension service, so will farming here move which must come to it sooner or later—the day of stabilization and prosperity which again shall Place it in the ascendancy, ‘ Foreseeing Burleigh county farmers, therefore, will make it a point to attend the county conference at the end of the week. History Turning Back a Century In one respect the nation is turning the calendar back @ century in the name of progress. That respect is wa- terway improvement in the form of canalization. The hectic demand for canals, for deeper channels, linking up rivers, launching barge lines and installing 0) dams as ald to navigation in the guise sometimes of flood control are but an echo of the programs of the 1830's and the 1840's, Those were days of feverish pub- lic improvements. The country rang with the demand for them, statesmen made reputations by their attitude toward the various projects. Largely these public im- provements took the form of waterway programs, the buliding of canals, as the Erie in New York and the Port- age in Pennsylvania. Rivers and canals thus played a large part in the carly development of the country. They were all-im- portant in the pre-railroad era, and their use continued even after the railroads were built; then, one by one, they gave way, people began to travel and ship their Soods by train and the canal boat and river steamer fell into disusc. An exciting and colorful era in our history died with them, The railroads, that killed traffic on inland wa- | terways, killed that era and ushered in a new one, And although there are signs that the waterways are going to come into their own once more, the old era will not come back with them. All of this is brought to mind by the announcement that business men of Ohio and Pennsylvania are putting on @ campaign to have a $100,000,000 canal dug connect- ing the Ohio river with Lake Erie, Manufacturers of the Pittsburgh-Mahoning valley dis- trict are said to have guaranteed at least 14,000,000 tons of freight a year for this waterway. They declare that the “Ruhr valley of America” would be benefited enor- mously by such an undertaking and demand early gov- ernment action. Sooner or later, this canal probably will be dug, and Lake Erie and the Ohio will be connected once more— it is only a couple of decades or so since the original Ohio and Erie canal was abandoned; but no matter how busy this new canal becomes, the old era, the picturesque old era of canal barge and river boat, will not come revolution will not be like the first. There is a glamour about those old days. The river steamers, immortalized by Mark Twain and described fondly by hundreds of lesser writers, were gaudy, ma- Jestic, imposing, and—for all their much-advertised speed—very leisurely. The people who traveled on them were willing to spend a week going and coming. And the canal boats, drifting lazily down their brown chan- nels, crammed full of farm produce and manufactured goods, were even more leisurely. People were busy, in those days, but they weren't in very much of a hurry, Those days won't come back. The new canal, like the Mississippi, will be marked by tug boats and steel barges, hurrying as fast as they can. We are committed to speed and it is no use trying to escape. Those of us who would like to see life paced in the slow tempo of the old days will get a melancholy interest out of the news of this new Ohio-Erie canal—but that is all we'll get. A Complicated Problem: Naval weapons and naval strategy are changing rapid- ly these days. This is one of the things that makes the Job of the London naval conference delegates such a complicated one. Limitation of construction of 10,000-ton cruisers is the most important matter at issue. Yet naval experts are beginning to wonder if a new type of small cruiser, not over 5000 tons in size, may not be the most potent weapon in future naval warfare. Such ships have already been outlined. They would have few guns, but woud have an extremely long cruis- ing radius; and each one would carry four or five air- planes. Their proponents declare that such vessels, as commerce destroyers, would surpass any existing cruiser as much as ordinary cruisers surpass the sea raiders of the “Alabama's” day, That's the sort of thing the delegates are up against. They convene to discuss one type of warship, and find that another type may replace it in value before the ink can get dry on any agreement they may sign. Only in Italy does a “duce” outrank a king. An Ungrateful Child (St. Paul Dispatch) 2 Back to seek the aid of his political child, the Non- partisan League, A. C. Townley may now sing with Shakespeare: “Oh, Winter Wind, thou art not so unkind; Thy breath is not so rude as man’s ingratitude!” The personal magnetism of this political adventurer led into the folds of his Nonpartisan League thousands of the dissatisfied farmers of North Dakota, out of whom he welded a political power with which he elevated into the seats of the mighty insurgent citizens of the irie states, over the futile protests of the regular leadership. His was the role of a king-maker. Gov- farms under the magic of his political geniu:. But for Townley those days are gone forever, appar- ently, for now the sceptre has fallen from his hand. The voice that once commanded now contends hhas fallen a prey to the most common of the Townley “sins of the children.” Lindy’s Glider Risks (Washington ernors and senators and congressmen rose from Dakota Today Is the Anniversary of LINCOLN’S BIRTH On Feb. 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln, back. The wheel has swung full cycle, but its second | All BEGIN HERE TODAY JUDITH CAMERON, typist ta a New oeblishing house, atten, To! ané a sen, JUN A honeymoon tn Bermuda ts ¢ ferrupted by a cablegram thi is on we te vi ANDY CRAIG, « Knight bas helped tence, calle ¢0, Tony. Crale ta to m= in the legal depart- ment of the publi house! One evening when Ton: to ae- dog show Ja- ‘Tony, alone with her tells Bim apitetully tt to whom comes wext day, Mi pointment ané ‘a ria Craig, whe explaina Ton: eiate (toe. ie meet her. (a arifel encegh to make dor th’ and. Crelerstpretenne tacriminating. A' Gone Judith fzplaia. the CHAPTER XXVI HE minute after she bad spoken Judith felt uneasy. She thought (or was it imagination?) that Ar. thur’s eyes, meeting hers in one swift instant, held reproof. paper and Judith watched him covertly as she lay back among the divan’s pillows. “Arthur,” she said presently, “tell me about today at the office. Did you get the Turner contract signed?” “Not yet,” came the answer. Ar. thur Knight did not lower the wepaper and he spoke as a man ing more than terse answering of questions, Judith was uncomfortable she could see of her husband—just a bit of dark hair protruding above the top of the evening newspaper, No, she didn’t think he could know about her chat with Andrew and she didn’t think he could object it he did know. Just the same Ju-|. dith felt guilty. The pink in her cheeks (which would come when- ever she was agitated) showed this plainly. “But it wasn’t a lie—really!” she reassured herself. True, she had been at home all afternoon since returning from her luncheon ep- gagement with Andy Craig. She tried repeatedly to convince herself that she bad not been guilty of falsehood. Of course, after her plans worked out, sbe could tell Arthur the whole story. If said anything now about Tony Andy she was afraid Arthur would spoil it all. a She was very sure her plans were bound for success. Arthur's aloof. ness and his strange manner to- night were the frst flaw. Judith turned to the radio for en- tertainment, found that the merry quips of Broadway entertainers and mellow music of old operas were equally boresome. After nearly an hour of this she arose. “I'm going upstairs, Arthur,” she said. “Will you be coming soon?” “After while.” It was after a considerable while that Arthur Knight cast aside the Daper he bad been reading. Thi fire in the grate was dying lower. Its soft blaze and the glow of the Parchment-shaded lamp behind him were the room's only illumination. For several minutes Knight the fames in the perfectly hen his eyelids lifted the man’s face was a perfect mask for He arose like a man thoro: tired and wont up the stairway. ee affectionate than usual as he kissed ber Goodby and departed for the ay. She hummed a belf-remembered tune happily as she went about the morning's routine. Great things were expected to take place this day. Andy Craig had promised to use his influence to bring Tony reason and Judith relied implicit upon Andy, igs As she bad for the three days, Tony Knight took iJ fast and luncheon in her Toom. Harriet seems to better today, ma’am,” “Yes, I think she'll be ter soon,” Judith said. [les SE es 5 siaeae A 2 OTN LAURA LOU BROOKMAN “But you know—" “Yes, Iknow! Anyhow I told her Ta be around this evening about, eight o'clock and expected her to change her mind.” “She will, Andy.” “Yes? Guess you mean maybe she will. Anyhow I'll drop in for & little while this evening.” “I'm sure she'll see you,” Judith told him, “Thanks a lot for calling, too.’ “Ob, don’t mention it! How's the housekeeping?” : “Find!” the girl laughed. “Good. by, Andy.” “Goodby.” Without any real reason to ex- Plain the fact, Judith felt cheered. The world was brighter—yes, seven times brighter!—when at Hated o'clock Arthur Knight arrived me, joo. finding the big house Quiet and lonely, bad curled up on a leather footstool before the living room fireplace, Her back was toward the hallway entrance of; the room. Sandy, who had become almost a constant companion, sat before her, his shaggy little head Testing in her lap, eyes lifted anz. fously to the girl's. 3 Judith stroked the dog’s head, thoughtlessly, She did not hear her husband enter the room, and his voice startled ber. “Hello!” “Ob — why, early!” Sandy was ignominiously disre- Sarded. Judith sprang to her feet and met Knight in the middle of the room. He was smiling and héld- {ng toward her a large round ivory box tied with violet ribbons, “Yes, I ducked out a little ahead of schedule this afternoon. Here, thought you might like some Posies.” ¥ Arthur! You're and why her eyes. were sudden! 0 glamorous-and starry since this ry ee e the. box. The lid tne ot aoa Ju we haven't given you very much pleasure in this house.” “Please don't say that!” “No,” be continued, shaking his head, “we might as well face the truth. I'm beginning to feel old, cee Never realised it before. “You're not old, Arthur. I won't have you saying such things. It isn’t true!” “Yes,” he persisted. “It's true, all right... . Judith”"—he paused watching her intently—“are you sorry?” “Sorry?” “Are you sorry you married me?” “Why of course not! What makes you talk Ike that? You've done everything to make me happy, Ar- thur. Sometimes when I suddenly think how much I have to thank you for, how much you've done for me, I feel I'm not half grateful enough.” He moved impatiently. “But I don't want you to be grateful.” She laughed at him. “All right then, Mr. Knight, I'm not grateful.” He refused to be cajoled out of his mood. ’ “There's one thing I want you to feinjgauid Lop he non on, eyeing er seriously. “You've got to prem: ise, Judith.” “What is it?” “I want you to promise that if there's ever — anyone else — 8 younger man—you care about, you'll tell me.” ‘f ‘The girl's face had paled. For an instant she hesitated. Then— “I promise.” she said solemaly. “I promise, but there'll never be Ll a TH A 3 =F g & id. The in- ia in the urine is a that there is an in- id in the body. (Continued tomorrow) She walked at 14 months, but hasn't started to talk yet. Would she be called a normal child? 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