The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 27, 1930, Page 4

AOC Were a SE Soa La * won his fame pioneering in Arctic flying, and it is the H i E | FEE Hy : E Et JOUT cccccrccccsccccsooees hill Member of The ited Press ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All Fights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives iis SPENCER & SMALL, ime Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON { A Link of History Snaps Death took one who thought in terms of empire in qwest, for he helped to fashion out of the territory of Dakota, to which he came 59 years ago, the two present commonwealths of the Dakotas. He lived to see them both grow to the stature of important states of the union. Also to see the curtain fall on the days of the old West to whose lure the young lawyer seeking to capitalize ‘Horace Greely’s advice as to where to go in the spring- time of life, 60 years ago, yielded in 1871. The men who had to do with the making of the Da- kotas in his day and generation almost all have flut- tered away. Few linger last leaves on the bough, as Oliver Wendell Holmes figuratively put the thought of such old age as General Williams was entering. Thus he ‘was one of the outstanding historical figures of this day. He had been identified with many of the chief events entering into the history of North Dakota. Speaker, legislator, member of the state commission, surveyor- General—his was an unusually active career in the mold- ing of the commonwealth of a bare 40 years ago, now grown to such stature that the primitiveness of its birth period in contrast to today’s maturity makes that less than half century ago seem quite remote and already a Jegendary period of beginning.’ General Williams had a wealth of memories ac- cumulated in the busy years of his public career, but he was innately modest and it was with difficulty that he could be led into narration of his experiences and his reminiscences of those who builded with him in the founding of North Dakota. Thus a vast store of his- torical details relating to the location of the capital in Bismarck, the division of the territory into the North and South state, the laying of the capitol cornerstone, the building of the Northern Pacific across the continent, boating on the Missouri, the epic of homesteading the prairies, the creation of an empire of wheat and of the Political intrigues that have marked the development of the state—all these have been impoverished by his death with so much of what he knew about them left untold. To Bismarck he had grown to worthy venerableness. He ‘had the respect of the community he so richly merited by his public activities. The city will mourn the fact of his passing. To it he was that civic personation which admiring communities, states and nations love to dignify 95 @ “grand old man.” Some of our latter-day biographies seem to depend ‘almost wholly on the campaign speeches of the Great ‘Man's opposition. Press Eielson Memorial Now Now that the state has paid its tribute to his heroism fs his home community took leave of him at the grave, ‘whe way is cleared for the consummation of a memorial to Carl Ben Elelson The committee having that project 4m charge should press for its achievement All North Dakota is interested in preserving in fitting memorial the memory of this young viking of the air. He Ploneer doers who always stand most conspicuous in the perspective of history and the minds of succeeding gen- @rations. So Carl Ben Eielson’s fame will continue to stand, based on his bpld adventures in the polar North, ‘where he gave aviation one of its greatest romances of gourage and daring and tragedy. North Dakota owes it to such intrepid sons to write heir deeds and memories into the traditions and sagas which fire the imagination and spirit of a people. Their examples are great inspirations to the racial and civic morale. North Dakota can not have too many such heroes to stir its pride in itself, to point the way of splen- dor to its future. Their fame should be preserved in graven stone or lasting bronze. That is why the Elelson memorial undertaking now should be pressed to com- Pletion while €he echo of his Arctic fate still vibrates freshly and distinctly in the minds and hearts of his home state. ‘The man who knows it all would be less objectionable if hhe could be persuaded to keep a modicum to himself. The Fulcrum of Loneliness Sometimes, in a newspaper story, the facts that you an read in between the lines are more impressive than. the ones that are printed. A short time ago the papers printed a very brief dis- patch from a little town in Pennsylvania. It told how @ man and a woman, 60 years old, re- ‘married one another after having been divorced for 20 Bis- | whom we can be in tune, someone with whom we can * liness, or love, or faith. And those are things that we cannot get along without. To be deprived of them is to know how terrible loneliness can really be. So it is that we reach out our hands and grope to one another. If we are fortunate, we find someone with share our hurts and disappointments; kemgorn Vail loneliness ends, as far as it ever can end-on this e But some are not so fortunate, and they have to go on Groping; or they think that their search is ended, only to discover later that the union and comradeship they sought is not where they supposed it was. ~ ‘They have to resume their search, and we may imagine that that is how it was, 20 years ago, with this Pennsyl- vania couple. And it doesn't take much imagination to trace the pathetic little story from there to the end. Loneliness grew until it was too much for them; and they discovered, at last, that-each, after all, was the comrade 2.00 | the other needed. Nowadays, when a politician discussing prohibition says he can take it or leave it alone, it signifies the issue. A Transcontinental Railroad If the Van Sweringens succeed in tying up a collection of separate railroads into one great transcontinental system a very old dream of railroad builders will be con- summated. Present indications are that that is just what these energetic brothers have in mind. One newspaper sketches their proposed grouping as follows: The Lackawanna, from New York to Buffalo; the Nickel Plate, from Buffalo to St: Louis; the Missouri Pa- cific thence to Pueblo, Colo.; the Denver, Rio Grande & Western from Pueblo to Salt Lake City, and the West- ern Pacific thence to San Francisco. Of course, there is no telling what the Interstate Com- merce commission may say to all of this. But the project, is fascinating, just the same. Many men have tried to weld together one great railroad system reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. It will be interesting to see if the Van Sweringens are to be the ones who will make the dream a reality. Movie matrimonial bonds are of a filmy texture. Most of us had rather be the world’s champion talker than the world’s champion fighter. ‘We are a queer people, and if sparrows were rare, we might be putting up boxes to entice them, r 7 One thing about going to church is that the Monday papers don’t mention the funeral arrangements, ‘The next generation may have no natural resources to exploit, but there always will be suckers to trim. | ‘The small voice of conscience does not always have a fair chance against the megaphone of temptation. ‘When it is said of a man that he has no ambition his uselessness in the community is quite well fixed, Many a man sits around all day wondering why he doesn't get his pay raised when that is the reason. A college education has its comforting features: A graduate never need buy bonds from a stranger, If he has begin to think he looks distinguished, he is @ little past 40, The hardest job a kid faces is that of learning good manners without seeing any. Still, an intellectual doubtless enjoys life when no- body is about to watch him sneer. Virtue is relative. Most of the people who boast of | their self-control haven't much to control, “Knickerbockers” is singular! They look that way. | Editorial Comment | Citizenship and Marriage (Pathfinder) A woman does not lose her American citizenship by marrying an alien, unless the alien belongs to a race not eligible to naturalization. If an American woman mar- ried a German or French of English citizen, for in- stance, she would not lose her citizenship; but if she married a Chinese or Japanese she would lose her Amer- ican citizenship. Previous to 1922 a woman who was an American citizen automatically lost her citizenship if she marrie¢ an alien regardless of his race. f Doctors Opposed Bathtubs (Kansas City Star) Bathtubs, back in the ’50s and '60s, were bitterly op- posed by the medical profession on the ground that use of them led to pneumonia. In 1853 the Philadelphia com- mon council considered an ordinance forbidding the use of bathtubs during the winter months, and it failed to pass by only two votes. In 1845 Boston passed an ordinance forbidding bath- | ing in a tub, without a medical order, but it never was | enforced, and in 1852 it was repealed. By 1860, despite | the hostility of the physicians, there was a bathtub in | avery Se New York hotel, and some boasted two and even three, A Notable Victory (Minneapolis Tribune) Last week saw some substantial agricultural increases into the tariff bill by the senate. special importance to Minnesota and the two Da- Present rate on sweet clover seed is 2 cents a Northwest agricultural economists felt that a ae necessary if the home market pledge rate now written into the tariff bill is 4 cents. farmer had full gropom of the 2 between 3,500,000 to 6,000,000 pounds have in from Canada, Hil FEEL gidce H i i 4 i j i ; i i [ ae | is iE 4 g i : I i i z : g i g E g lau! iil gi aa Ai! He at oil rT & i 7a E38 ri ‘and physics at various universities he|tique key. Beneath the book hap- ‘wag appointed ordinary professor of| pened tobe a photographic plate Physics :at Wurzburg. It’ was here| holder. The’ plate meant nothing to that he made the discovery for which Rontgen until he exposed it while on his name is chiefly known, the X-ray.|a walk one afternoon and noticed on -, The discovery. came ehout by acci- dent. Rontgen--had .been: studying the mysterious: green light of a new kind of vacuum tube when he was ‘suddenly called away from his labor- atory. Just before he left he laid the tube on @ book containing a large an- _, Today Is the | Anniversary of ee RONTGEN’S BIRTH On March 27, 1845, Konrad’ von Rontgen, German physicist’ and dis- coverer of the X-ray, was born: in Lennep, Germany. He received his early education in Holland, After teaching mathematics eek a i AW i e F i ushter INDA’ ment to SEYMOUR CROSBY. New York and a close a f> 8 E a] saw her go into Mother's room and followed her. I—I was telling her bow much I loved her, and—and I ir, when Mother and Arnold came in from J acart the skirt of the murdere@ girls GIGI Berkeley, whe wnaccount- at ity te eee [E: “36 we g i ! WICKETT, : : E : butler, formerly tm loy of beth Mrs. Lam! a Smee ae “In person, though, 1 admit I don't feel all here.” if BARBS a7 "ralsaina. Mra. Berkeley hysteri- | “And what were you doing there? o o to kill thems both om it | “And a devilish curious fellow ce ta Bulls are using Chole Heads ‘more sey they “doubl ° wee |you are, too, Captain, if you don’t 3 chi : : ley’s revelations are intere a sss rupted by the euddew mind my saying 60,” Dick People, mostly American, says = of Dick Berkeley hii cheerfully. “As a matter, of fact, news item, pay $10,000,000 a year to NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY |1 was sleeping there—sleeping, | nodded see Mont-Blanc. Is this regarded as CHAPTER XV _ that is, after about 12 o'clock, I the peak business? Sa tame wt 1 eS wl you go there to some success is the ” “su ou're Dick. Berkeley?" | sleep?” named. “Gorilla” Jones. Now watch “in person, though I-admit 1] “Well, to tell. you the ¢ruth, Cap- ond ween ee ae don't feel-quite all here. Terrible| tain Strawn, I didn’t go up there “tt. ‘Zot 20 fed. iB pera 4 B: Ll orl ug aot nal bolted. in the back” ff |accordion. tus poorer that maene middeniy sete jsabiagiead hall,.alone: for the:moment. The for music does not always run in the taale was playing: id I made her family, =... blue coat; he had just shaved, and/ strictly to may she'd mest ie ia th teeee ‘The new ruler of Afghanistan in- his Teddish-brown hair gleamed| © eee room after the family was in bed. tends to introduce prohibition in his wetly, betas J, %# nearly five minutes before) Told her I had import country. If it works there maybo ‘As to where I came from, dear) “Ly, the questioning could ant to ask her. her say this country will give it a try. old sleuth—if you must know, “ia she'd meet me. didn't know se came from my room, descended to whether ‘she meant it or. not, but Colleges are practicing football. the front hall on my way to snatch I. wasn't taking any chances of +. « Bpring’s here at last. & cup of much-needed coffee, ran missing her in case she did, 80 I (Copyright, 1930, NEA Service, Inc.) into old Wickett, who looked at me went upstairs. hefore the party as if he'd seen a ghost; also broke up, smoked drank if gE ie lided with @ covey of rare who sald they were detectives, of them said I was most ur, wanted up here—and here I @m!” “Well!” Strawn ejaculated, ‘was guilty of scratching his gray head like any comic sleut of fiction. He glanced at Dundee helplessly, then recovered suffi. ciently to bellow: “And how did you get to your room,-I'd like to know, without amg.of my men see ing you? Where did you spend the - Bight? f F: i ; 8 Eeeee i 558 i | & i the increased rate on sweet clover Dakota, “One question at @ time, Sher- lock,” | Digk Berkeley protested: then, laying @ hand to bis brow: “And would you mind more softly? ‘You're head—and . Mather’s, too, “My. BRE i j i j ii} HH il Z FS el Ea oe i e i i - E