The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 13, 1930, Page 4

Cee Cet oe ASI~LBAL ELEGANS Tee ero jaa, i gl pian fourth offense The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use news dispatches credited to it or in this newspaper and 1isc the origin pub'ished herein, All all other matter hereiy are (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS (incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO YORK BOSTON : Joys of Buying a Home ‘There are dozens of ways of classifying the people Of | fication is one of the widespread manifestations of the United States. You can divide them up as wels and drys, modernists and fundamentali: pacifists and ‘militarists, conservatives and liberals, and so on; but one of the most obvious, all-inclusive divisions is one that is seldom made. It is the division that you get when you classify peo- ple according to their views on the desirability of owning | their own homes. In the one camp, where dwell the home-owner: will hear much talk about the economy of maki ments on a mortgage instead of payin Jord. You will hear, also, of the joys ot ly ship; the joys of yard and garden, the pl ing a house all to yourself, the happine: from ownership of your own roof. ‘The other camp will be quick to scoff at all of these points, Its adherents will tell you that the qu st way to make yourself poor is to saddle yourscif with mort- gages, interest payments, taxes and the like. They will point out that the apartment-house dweller has his fires built, his walks shoveled and his ashes removed by a Janitor whom someone else pays; and they will add that tending a lawn or making a garden is more like hard ‘work than fun. ‘You know all about the arguments on both sides. Prob- ably you've shifted back and forth between camps, off ‘and on, for years, And we wouldn't take sides for the world. But here's a new angle on the thing, contained in @ letter which a young home-owner recently wrote to the editor of the Lakewood (Ohio) Post. Part of it is worth reprinting here, as follows: “when a fellow like me suddenly begins to get an ac- tual kick out of going to a very ordinary job, the fact deserves mention. And when the same fellow begins to work seriously to get a raise out of the boss, instead of ‘@ rise out of a blond stenographer, that fact also be- longs in the book. I did get a raise. Six months later I got another, and I didn’t ask for it, either.” ‘The change that the writer of this letter describes came, he says, because he was buying a home—and was, therefore, obliged to keep his nose to the grindstone, economize to the limit and tend strictly to business. He had to give up his “kitchen gin” parties and his poker games, and he and his wife had to substitute hamburger with onions for tenderloin with mushrooms; but, in the end, they found out they were having lots more fun. All of which, of course, is only another way of saying that life doesn’t taste just right unless we have a defi- nite objective in it. The purchase of a home, for many thousands of people, provides that objective. It's hard ‘work, and it often pinches pretty hard; but sooner or ater they discover that they're getting a kick out of it. ‘That’s an argument that the opposing camp has a hard time meeting. of hav- that comes ‘Will Rogers dispatches from the London front are about as intelligible as the other war correspondents! The Baumes Law Perverted Another of the striking reactions of this period of re- pudiation of law on the part of a public seemingly not im sympathy with various drastic enactments is the very patent hostility to further prolongation of the Baumes law in New York—a law ‘originally created to deal with habitual offenders, but, like the Mann white slave act ‘and some other drastic specimens of fiat morality, since diverted to fanatic penalization of offenders of a really minor character of felony. Michigan also has this law.and there the governor has been moved to grant clemency to some of the of- fenders sent u> for life terms. Onc of these was a wom; an who sold a pint of liquor. At the time the case stirred up @ great hue and cry, but Michigan was in such: a righteous mood that not even the fact that she was the mother and support of two children gained any consid- eration for Mrs, Miller, Ruthlessly she was thrust into prison for life. ‘There has been the inevitable reaction to this and other cases in not only Michigan and New York, but Sikewise in other states. The pendulum of opinion as to ‘what is law and what is fanaticism has been swinging peck and the public is regaining that balance which should always be the basis of enacting law and then re- @pecting and observing it, Unfortunately, some of the {nspiration that has been behind lawmaking might be @iggnosed as a temporary attack of St. Vitus hysteria. ‘There also has been a good deal of busybodyism on the part of people who should have had some useful occu- pation to take up their time rather than to have idle moments in which theiy vanity to reform can devise legal oppression capable of being diverted, as the Baumes law, to persons not by a wide stretch of the imagination @nimated by criminal turpitude. Such laws as referred to might not in themselves, tf by diverting them'to unreasonable application they eome obnoxious to the general sense of right and break Gown the respect for lew in itself. f New York is now dealing with an example of this kind, ‘A commotion of sympathy’ has been aroused honestly administered, be such a reproach to justice, but der the operation of this provision of the Baumes law en the penalty seemed to be wholly disproportion- ate, ‘The Baumes idea was not devised to deal with such cases as these, The idea is being perverted. It was meant to deal with real, hardened habitual criminals, not mere weak brothers and sisters. It was set up as an axiom in its advancement, that after a third of- fense the violator palpably was incurably criminal and that the protection of society demanded life im- murement when another offense should be added to the previous three derelictions, There was no basis in fact for this theory. It was a purely arbitrary assumption. Now that the law is being oppressively applied on the basis of a technicality, the public conscience is aroused against it. It calls for a discarding of the theory of a fourth offense proving habitual turpitude. Why may not some offenders released after a third offense prove even | more menacing to society? It all depends on the charac- ter of the crime in which they specialize. Surely a homicidally-inclined offender would be a greater danger on his first release than, fo rexample, the woman who sold a pint of liquor or the woman drug addict who stole some cheap finery and perfume. Warden Lawes, of Sing Sing, feels very much that way and he has come out with a declaration that many of those who, on conviction of four felonies, were sent to prison for life, should have received a less drastic pen- alty and might with entire safety to society be freed from prison, weReEErE fe th at g ae z plat E City Planning ‘The foresight which would control city evolution on reguiated lines of zoning, planning, parking and beauti- municipal thought these days. Bismarck has been feel- ing the urge, both through the city commission and the ‘iation of Commerce. If the latter can develop ‘ome program, the commission is disposed to enact some legislation to put the city on such a foresighted basis. Bismarck has lots of company in its trend toward a policy of planning, according to a survey made recent- ly by the division of build and housing of the De- partment of Commerce, A tabulation made from returns to questionnaires sent Today Is the to various cities, towns and villages in the United States ‘Anniversary of * shows that at least 691 of these municipalities have of- ficial planning boards or commissions in existence. Of THE TEMPERANCE SOCIETY intemperance was largely this number, 208 are cities having in 1920 a population | _ On taped 13, Pepe Reh wetnor against the use of spirits only, of over 25,000, comprising more than two-thirds of all ‘ance was founded in aon reagent [biog et Bed ‘and “adopted the cities in that population group. The other 483 vary|in this year also that Dr. Lyman|holic drinks in And piedee oe The large number of municipalities of all sizes whic! at this time have planning commissions, and the fact that the interest in planning activity is not confined to any one region of the country, indicate a general appre- ciation of the need for modern city planning, according to the department. “Cities having planning commissions are believed to be more apt than others to exercise foresight and true economy in controlling the laying out and improvement of streets, the location of parks, playgrounds and public works, the development of transit and transportation, provision for street traffic, and in the equitable regula- tion of private use of land through zoning ordinances,” JINOINCC. He had com - Pere Bors Scewunieranen some show or other.’ i the department said. New York publishing house, The tabulation, in addition to summarizing the total cae. her employer, ARTHUR Set pe prised. number of planning commissions now in existence, ». Malght to 0 wisewer | groups them according to states, presents data as to the ch nama sen smal ae an she “Oh, because be talephoned hte number of members of each commission, the number echeol. everiooked morning and asked if he could appointed and the number serving as ex-officio mem- A Dilestal Reneymocn tm Ber me feeite Gumiccce ttm eee, bers, the terms of office and the titles of the executive pomagicligmrseariag ba Siping ie found ik whe ate = pony ‘was for. officers. It also indicatesa, which of these cities have zoning ordinances in effect. eee ‘The figneres otet — Yo ined. Astave KNIGHT made no an- swer. Presently he spoke with & gayety which strove not to seem i 7 te apologise. s Editorial Comment .TB* it spends mack of ner “Well, shall I go down and tell ime with MICKEY MORTIMER, the young man you'll be with him Marks of an Educated Man Pa dagen ey erepeseon geadt Tony hung her head. al a pred ‘want to go, daddy,” she a & moment's pause, “I formed in Arthur Knight's brow.| rose chiffon supposed to be a hand-/ want to stay here with youl™ from his wife ané écep in a tien with Tony. As éaye state of armed neutrality (Forbes Magazine) i He keeps his mind open on every question until the | evidence is all in. i He always listens to the man who knows. ! between Tony and Judith, He never laughs at new ideas. i ‘ANDY CRAIG, a young man | 0 Discell s hand on the railing of/ kerchief. She bid her face against| Kalght smiled. He cross-examines his day-dreams. | Knight hed helped through col- Slowly ascended. her father’s arm and then she} “Ob, mow, come, come! You He knows his strong point and plays it. lege, calls on Tony. He has been ACH looked up at him. can’t expect your old father to be ne Xn0ws the value of good habits and how to form | tu love with her—eather hepelese- | Fi, parton of ae Plager) ne a so miserable!” choked em. ly—fer a long while. Craig comes from 16, my it. He knows when to think and when to call in the ex-| - oe aee em, poh iagaectg in to pert to ink for him. a cone You can’t sell him magic. vinee her father the young man 1 He lives the forward-looking, out-ward-looking life. ta carrying om an aftaie with Jo- “Yeu she interrupted “Quite He cultivates a love of the beautiful. | MG. Wash eames eck ae sure. Tell him, daddy, and then 1 Auéy Craig inte a luncheon en- come back upstairs and talk to me.” American Genius Abroad | i 5 E (Detroit News) Every so ofteh one reads of some mammoth achieve- | There is an estrangement and ment of Americans abroad, which has been in process | them a reconciliation between Ju- everything. for a long time out of sight of Americans at home, and ith and Knight. Tony ené Mor any the completion of which is a great surprise to them. timer are arrested for reckless to me, Such a work, now almost; finished, is the Marathon dam, | driving. Knight brings his daugh- and which is impounding water for the municipal supply of | ter heme. Mer days the girl to gone Athens. . ! sullen and rebeliiows, Her father ali the ‘The capital of Greece has never had an adequate water | storms. Affairs reach such a piteh and no supply; spring water is sold for drinking and cooking | that Judith appeals te Anéy Craig. No purposes, and a bath is almost unobtainable. The Knight sees the pate together but lates Judith denies that she spent Marathon dam will give it a per capita supply of ten gallons a day, little enough compared with Detroit's 125, | i but a fair average for a European city in that part of the | KMatght tries to overcome his continent, a be dj | suspicions. He brings Judith | “What ‘What is the American contribution? An American firm and they spend an evening | you doing contracted, for the work; American engineers planned it, hevotly together watil Andy Craig | There ro i They found marble in the adjacent hills, and made it their material. They embedded the ends of the dam in | a porous Jenegiage dike, which they reinforced with clay | and liquid cement. They built observation galleries in Wit obvious eagerness Judith the dam, equipped with automatic devices for signaling hurried to greet the visitor. any trickle of water. They built a tunnel through the | “ r mountain separating the newly-created lake from Athens, ‘Andy—how nice of you to and found and utilized subterranean sources of water come!”. ‘The tall young man in the door if & NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXVII - ie i | i #3 H i E E i 2 £ Hi i i ; i which nobody had known about, but which the engjneers | had predicted. Finally, they planted fish in the new |! lake to eat the larvae of mosquitoes. | The work is the wonder and admiration of the Greeks, and American stock, in so far as is concerned. has gone sky-high all through the Near East in con- sequence, é g : tae i s 3 & i ih pel} a $ Loe Ris TY Hits . ; E i i i i E i i H 3 To Stabilize Wheat | (St, Paul Dispatch) Creation of .a wheat stabilization corporation, with power to purchase almost unlimited quantities of wheat, Hl | “ F F HF E Fal : A Bi 1 ke H | i : FRiy Hl az t 7 : E E i é ie i I A rth re ft i el Hi A i j i | t il a: aE fi # iu i i by the government to the corporation keting purposes will have to be repaid, but. there is no. . ly, “you wanted to see Tony? Sorry. Sho isn't feeling well.” “You don’t think she'd care to it