The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 20, 1930, Page 6

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All Tights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives 6MALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON ‘A Vote That, Vindicates Good Judgment Burleigh county can shake hands with itself on the outcome of the referendum for a new courthouse. The returns, while not complete last evening, left no doubt then, after a day of eager scanning of the dribble of figures from the county, that the proposed bond issue ‘of $250,000 for the new county building and a new jail had been ratified. This is good news. The vote required to assure a victory for the propon- fents of the proposed new building was 60 per cent of the | Dallots cast. A ratio of 75 per cent was indicated by the totals computed Wednesday. The vote on the new jail qwill fall a bit below this percentage, but still will ex- teed the required 60 per cent. So Bismarck and Burleigh county may look forward #o a splendid new building soon, with modern plumbing ‘and heating, lighting and ventilation, fireproof filing ‘both in cabinets and walls and with roomier accommo- ations for court and county officials. The old structure wwhich has grown slatternly in its years of service will be replaced by a structure of dignity and grace. City and county will move forward in the path of civic pro- gress as are other cities and counties of the state with- out the distinction of being the state capital. This is some achievement in the awakening vision of the city for an expanded future to be reflected in the com- munity structure soon to go up, ® new courthouse and then a new capitol. Credit for Tuesday's success must, first of all, go to the board of county commissioners. They discharged their duty to the taxpayers with intelligent fidelity and judg- ment when they proposed the new building and then laid ‘the plans for submission of the entire proposal to the electorate. They gauged the public pulse correctly. The county wanted all that was implied in the plan—an at- tractive county edifice, safety for the priceless public records that must be housed in it and which were liable | to go up in smoke and ashes any unlucky day, a county | building of adequate roominess fot the public business to be transacted there and decent quarters for the court, something that would not leave Burleigh county out- | shone by the pretentious public buildings of minor coun- ties of the state. ‘Then the public committee set up by the Association of Commerce and the service clubs is due for commenda- tion over their share of thg drive and the victory. But this committee would have been unable to exert the | push which it did had it not been so generously sup- | ported by the business community in indorsement and fn cash contributions to meet the expenses of publicity. The city electorate also deserves a pat on the back for rolling up the fine vote of 1808 for to 297 against. JAnd as for those communities which failed to support tthe project there can be no harsh feeling. They ex- pressed their best judgment, and, now that the proposal thas carried they will by the will of the majority be placed solidly behind the improvement and will share the cost of it along with its supporters. In time all will see that the verdict of the taxpayers, ‘Tuesday, was for the best interests of the county and | Yor all its citizens, and ultimately there will remain no egrets that the bond issue was ratified and the new building made possible. It now remains for the board of county commission- ‘ers to proceed in the same intelligent and loyal way to {the erection of the structure, hastening by every day ible the time when the county can know that it has passed from the menace of fire in its records to absolute pafety for them, In the Peace Museum . While the progress toward giving the world an in- jternational religion consisting of the single principle of eace as the political faith of nations is drawing down {eynicisms on one of its efforts—that of the naval limi- jfations conference at London——peace is steadily multi- plying its visible hopes in the number of scraps of pa- per of that character which the civilized nations are ac- pumulating among themselves. |, The League of Nations is making a collection of such lences of a tendency toward pacific settlement of in- ional frictions, Already it has 130 treaties of this ture registered at Geneva. This indicates again a ‘Id disposition to turn away from war to pacific rela- at all times among the nations. { As would readily be concluded, the United States is Bismarck Tribune| not keep an eye on the main chance. Apprentice Training a Solution Despite the decadence of the old apprentice system, due to the fact that so many febricating processes now- adays are monopolised by machinery, there still remains & field for this kind of training in America. In fact, there is such a preponderance of unskilled workers that apprentice training in skilled branches— artisanship—has been proposed as a relief from the pressing economic problem of unemployment. In con- trast to the surplus of unskilled workers there is said to be a dearth of skilled hands for the various crafis. The manval training schools do not begin sufficiently to supply skilled craftsmen. Industry itself should as- sume the task of special apprenticeships, seeing that there is a need of such trained handicraft labor and in view of the palpable fact that skilled labor subtracted from the vast numbers of idle should help adjust the unemployment situation. The point was made recently at a conference on this problem in Milwaukee that training of skill will be an advantage in the case of men advanced to manage- ment positions. Too many executives in industry, it was said, have grown up too exclusively in one branch of their business. Tt is true that machinery replaces workers, but not always skilled men. They still remain a necessity which unskilled labor cannot supply. This point was brought out by a striking test made by a speaker at a recent vocational conference for boys in a large city. He announced that he wanted some- body to clean his sidewalks from snow, and that he would pay a dollar for the work. When he asked all who would take the job to raise their hands, 500 re- sponded. “Unfortunately,” said the speaker, “I have only one walks are one in 500. But I also need help in installing electric fixtures in accordance with the building regu- lations. What boy is qualified for that job?” Only one hand was raised. “Well,” the speaker then continued, “we seem to have a big army of snow shovelers, but only one lone general for my chandelier, I advise that more of you boys train yourselves for jobs where there is greater opportunity and perhaps better pay.” That's the idea. There are too many snow shovelers and not enough skilled mechanics. And it’s just as bad in the white collar jobs. Both classes of labor are over- crowded. This is an era of mechanism. Even farming is becoming a mechanized vocation. The call is for} On March 20, 1852, “Uncle Tom's trained workers on every hand. The young men enter-|Cabin,” @ book by ing the wage-earning period of life should strive for this mechanical training. Otherwise he is apt to find |tisned in book form for the first time. himself little less than a serf or an automaton, , Many a man watches his step so closely that he can- The trouble with reform cant is that it breeds so many nagging little can‘ts. If every day were Sunday some people would work themselves to death. A man who marries for money can't get along with or without his wife. Every shocking flapper is followed by a gang of shock absorbers. Moncy talks, but it doesn’t hesitate long enough to say much, | Editorial Comment Amateuriana (Judge) : President Day of Union college, having proposed to get rid of commercialized intercollegiate games through a strictly amateur league of small colleges, Donald Gibbs of the New York World took @ trip around to see how the idea had been received. And the most encouraging thing he found was a complete indifference among the undergraduates. They aren't thinking much about ath- letics one way or the other. Dances, dramatic perfor- mances, the movies, week-ends, yes, even study, interest them a great deal more. Perhaps if we could just abolish alumni and leave this business of college spirit wholly to the undergraduates, How whole question of amateurism would simply settle; itself. if. . Staying With the Job (Toledo Blade) Ohio farm club boys and girls are learning to stick with the job. That is even more important than acquir- ing skill in planting and plowing. Perseverance is needcd to make possible any worthy accomplishment. It is fundamental. The Ohio extension service reports four out of every five enrolled in the farm club work last year completed the tasks. This meant pushing the project in farming or home ecbnomics, making the records, and displaying work at the county fair or some other public gathering. ‘There were 36,051 boys and girls in these 4-H clubs. The girls outranked the boys slightly in persistence shown by the records of finishing. Determination is a splendid quality. It is a most valuable trait regardless of whether it is developed along the corn rows or amid skyscrapers. Words” (New York Times) words—long ones. Thirty witnesses are su enough to 100,000 words. course of hearings before a senate committee represented in the Geneva museum in the in- | hed movement which it has been sponsoring in ‘@o many forms of activities. | Twenty-five countries were parties to 34 new treaties which were registered during 1929 in the seat of the Zeague. In 1928 there were registered 15 such treaties, and in 1927 only six. ‘The United States was a party to 20 of the new trea- ties. “While the washington government is easily leader in|’ wnumbers of treaties of this kind registered during the Past year, they are less comprehensive than most of those in which other countries are the parties. They Feflect clearly the traditional American policy of avoid- entanglements. Science and the Carbon Mon- oxide Hazard F Tribune) ‘The nation's 25,000,000 motorists, more of house, so the chances of any of you cleaning my side- ; Today Is the ‘Anniversary of ‘UNCLE TOM’S CABIN’ Harriet Beecher Stowe which is said to have hastened the overthrow of slavery, was pub- When the story first appeared in {the National Era of Washington, D. Synen service BEGIN HERE TODAY IME: Doris Matthews, LU maid, mur- Kime of guest of Dick Berkeley at crime, and discoverer of body at rine at i Captmn Hamilton Homieiee MEMBERS OF HOUSEHOLD: jeorge Berkeley, secial Seymout Creshy: Kew York se- elety widewer, under a cloud in the eyes ef police, but a close a of per. fame presented by Crosby to her ley: drunk Friday Deria: “c Rerke! nights infatuated with 3 had reed kno: to have been missing Wicket: butler, formerly tn employ ef both Mrs. Lambert and AS Dundee let himself into the house by the front door, hop- ing to evade the hysterical ques- tions of the servants, who must, have noted the arrival of the police cars, the door leading into the back- stairs quarters was torn open and @ young man in chauffeur’s uniform lunged toward him, pausing only long enough to slam the door vi- ciously in the face of a maid who “A VIOLENT young man,”.Dun- your father and mother know yet?” ‘was pressing forward inguisitively. “Excuse me, sir!” the chauffeur panted. “But will you tell me what's up? What are the police doing here? Della, the upstairs maid, told me Doris didn’t sleep in| Berkeley stepped forward. She bad her room last night. It’s not true,|changed from bathing sult to a is it? Nothing’s happened to Doris! | morning dress of dark-green jersey, The police aren't bere about her,|® color which made her pallor are they, sir?” He was almost sobbing, and big, freckled hand kept running|Doris had committed suicide?” she curly,| demanded coldly, “I imagine he One of the principal things that is wrong with our law enforcement is just plain verbage. Judges use five words where one would do, and lawyers use twenty-five Expert run on for hours. immoned where two would be establish a point. Briefs run to the length of Tt is the same with semi-judicial procedure. In the comeone always “reads into the record” a trifle of 600 pages and distractedly through jews ‘When Dundee hesitated to an-| {om you than from a policeman.” St ti C., as a serial, it attracted little at- tention, but a few weeks after it was issued in book form it was a universal | favorite. During the next five years more than 500,000 copies were sold in the United States alone. Although ,“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was written carelessly and sensationally, it aroused public conscience wherever it circulated. Critics say the secret of the book's effect upon the issue of slavery was less the story, or its de- scriptive power, than its sincerity. | ‘Homework’ Needed! — | HEALTH : Z x? “Keep cheerful and live a long time, Regardless of the literary merits of | logical."—Dr. Harvey M. Wiley. dee commented wearily to himself, as he plodded upstairs, quite ghastly. “Why didn’t you tell him that would rather have had the “Because I don't know that Doris committed suicide,” Dundee an- and shake it frenziedly. “For God's|swered, watching the beautiful, sake, sir, why won't you tell me?|somber face keenly. by the} “Don’t quibble with me!” she re- Berkeley chauffeur, and I'm en-|torted, in a low, arrogant voice. gaged to be married to Doris. 1I/“Gigi confessed to have a right to ask if anything’s|to the house that happened to her—" recogu! the ‘mermaid’ in the lake, and “I'm sorry, Arnold,” Dundes said] watched from my window as you slowly, “but I can't speak for the| dived for the body and took it into police, Will you please quietly as possible in sitting room until calls for you? the summerhouse,” Se Ai “Why didn't you tell me Doris had committed suicide?” she de- mended coldly, “No, I didn’t fancy the task,” Clorinda retorted cooly. “There's He hoped to gain the third floor |20thing Mother enjoys so much as without further interruption, but|* 800d fit of hysterics, and Father as he reached the second Clorinda |#"4 I are not on confidential terms just now,” she added, with bitter humor, “I see the police have ar- rived. They'll probably enjoy the sensation. I shouldn't.” Dundee proceeded up the stairs, grateful to Mrs, Lambert and Gigi for not bursting out upon him with questions he could not answer. Odd that Gigi should prefer Mrs. Lambert to her mothet, though Dundee could not but be glad that it was the social secretary's gentle understanding which was now cop- ing with the high-strung little girl's shocked ‘nerves, NNEsAUS TIN Sine Stack he's atill in dinner clothes—they're not in his closet—I don’t think he - could have got far without being noticed.” 6CTUST a minute, chief!” Dundee for most of your troubles are psycho- ¥ a ty IGEON; ETC. GUS, Strawn turned his back on the corpse, and jerke his head toward the immobile butler. “Got any ree- son to think the old boy's mized iy “Then don’t you think it might be @ good idea to let him in on the secret of your official connection with the police?” Strawn suggested. “It this thing isn't quickly cleared up by a confession from Dick Berkeley and developes into a firat- class mystery, we'll need Wickett as anally. No one knows as much about a family like this as its but- ler, and besides, he can keep the coast clear of other servants while you snoop around in the bedrooms and such—" interrupted, “I agree with you that I might be of infinitely more value as @ trusted guest, ratb- er than as a detective, but—hang it all, I am a guest here, and I simply can’t do it—snoop around in the bedrooms as you suggest—" “Resigning from the force, be- cause a friend of yours is mized up in this, Dundee?” Strawn asked, a sneer twisting his broad, thin mouth. “I don’t think you mean that, Captain Strawn,” Dundee answered quietly. “I want to be on the case, but I’d rather be open and above board about it.” “And jeopardize your future use fulness on the homicide squad? House murders that you could serve us best by not getting yourself tagged as what the people call a ‘common detective,’ With the edu- cation and social advantages you've had you can move in circles not open to the rest of us—" “I know the argument, and I've been willing to be of service in any way possible,” Dundee interrupted, “but in this instance I can’t bring myself to abuse hospitality so flagrantly. There's another thing, She hy 0B ees eae eee be | TTT 1) HH HE ily iran Ee a Eley gE il i ik 4 3i g 1 i H 8 lf ae : Belching =| Question: M. N. asks: “What causes belching, and what is the best treat- ment? Does this affect the heart?” Answer: Belching is caused by an excess of stomach gas which is in turn A l if pe EA ; ae 3 pal i i a i too: as a guest, presumably under person have little chancg to be of any real use to you. I couldn't be secreted behind screens while you were con- “Well?” Strawn growled. “Shoot! ‘We've got to get busy.” “You can give out that I am an Ele i ‘would be wise for you not “Then it ie Doris!” Arno! sence. “You don't like me, do you?”’Clo-| coroner, Dr. ae a f jie : l ii parti ii i i E g i 4 k | [ i pai i et i | | 3 & etie rupted, his voice going heavy. dull with despair.. Then apparently realization swept over him. His freckled, pleasant young face flamed with anger. “Did she elope i i E i | ! Hl ‘| ; : rinda asked, with amazing irrele-| met during the investigation Rhodes; House murders, vance. “So few people do! . ... Strawn, in @ voice ut that “By the way, Miss Berkeley, do] Wickett could mot bear. - And the hunt was on. (To Be Continued) |