The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 8, 1930, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1930 ‘ce eee, Ui 9 aOR Sh A Nahe nn sla dann of he Bismarck Tribune indepenéeat ee { zy “El a fl aie E g®ggg EBEE i iti fsqsg ; i : é ib the loeal news of spontaneous origin published herein. All tights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. (Offical City, State an@ County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives 6MALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK Murder at 16 The officials of a certain middle-western city are in something of a quandary these days. They have caught and convicted a murderer, but they do not know what to do with him. ‘The murderer’s name happens to be Robert Ross. He Killed a gasoline station attendant during a hold-up and pleaded guilty when taken in custody. He is just 16 years old; and it is his youth that ts causing all the trouble. ‘Under the law—or under one section of it, at any rate —he must be confined in the state reformatory, where all criminals under 21 are supposed to be lodged. But ‘under another section of the law, which rules that no murderer can be sent to the reformatory, he must go to the penitentiary. Since he cannot obey both sections of the law, he is at present waiting, in the county jail, for the officials to learn what they are to do with him. It's all very puzzling, and the authorities have our sympathy. Cut it seems odd that it should be this red- tape conflict in laws which has them guessing and not the simple, appalling fact that they have on their hands, in the first place, a confessed murderer who is only 16. That fact, when you stop to think about it, is rather disturbing. There is enough in it to keep our best social research workers busy for quite a while. One need not go all the way. with the determinists in order to see, in the mere fact of this young culprit’s ex- istenee, 2 damaging indictment of the kind of civiliza- tion we have put together for ourselves. It may be, of course, that young Robert Ross had more than his share of original sin in his make-up; yet even the most con- tervative judge must admit that the fault cannot be altogether his. Somewhere, in the childhood and adolescence which his middle-western city forced upon him, there must have been forces over which he had no control—forces that pushed him along a path that ended, at the age of 16, in murder. ‘There isn’t any use in getting sentirsental about it, of course. His life has gone to pot, irretrievably, and that’s that. Life isn’t sacred in this country. It’s cheap. We kill 20,000 people a year with our automobiles and it never worries us. The fate of one more, or less, product of our metropolitan back-alleys won't make us lose much sleep. But Rober: Ross, after all, is a symbol; a symbol of the sort of thing that the modern American city turns out. A murderer at 16! There is a problem there that will not be solved in a hurry. Baseball’s Man of Tragedy ‘There are some men whom we have never met and yet toward whom we feel as close as a brother. One of them 4s Walter Johnson, baseball's grand old man. In the newspapers, we have followed Walter Johnson's career for years, We have never known him to do a single thing that was unsportsmanlike or ungentlemanly. ‘We have felt, as only a real friend can feel, the tragedy t that has so often marked his path. Back in the world series of 1925 we got the thrill of our lives when he came back in that final game after having twice failed, and won a championship for Wash- ington by pitching his heart out against the Giants. We sympathized that rainy day in 1926 when he pitched a near the point of death. Hard luck seems to have pur- sued him. And now the latest in his long series has been 20 | piow by taking away a big slice of the passenger traffic, 2.00 | senger revenue fell in the same period from $1,148,000,000 to lose on lottery tickets that will bring them nothing whatever, If the news excites you, you might remember that for every story like that that gets printed there are several thousand that do not get printed—the stories of those who bought lottery tickets and got nothing. “Buying lottery tickets is foolish business, even if one Person in 10,000 does get rich out of it. Autos and Railroads Although the automobile has hit the railroad a severe it has furnished enough additional freight traffic to offset it. Figures released by the Alexander Hamilton Institute] - show that the number of miles traveled by passengers on Class One railroads in the United States dropped from 38,000,000,000 in 1923 to 31,000,000,000 in 1929, while pas- to $874,000,000. On the other hand revenues from freight; mail and express have risen, so that total operating revenues for the railroads in 1929 were 96,352,000,000, as compared with $6,360,000,000 in 1923. Just another illustration of the old truth; the rail- roads need not fear any form of competition if it serves to increase the general prosperity of the nation. The Mail Pilot’s Courage Consider the things that keep life from being dull for the air mail pilot. Pilot H. A. Seivers flies the night mail from Cleveland to Pittsburgh. The other night he was flying over War- ren, O., when ice began to form on the wings of his plane, | © weighting him down badly. Then came a hard snowstorm. His plane became unmanageable at a°2,000-foot altitude and went into a spin. Seivers wore parachute, and he tried to jump. The centrifugal force of the spin kept him from doing s0. He and the helpless plane shot down together. Finally, 200 feet from the ground, he got out. His parachute barely opened. He landed with « thud and was knocked unconscious, but was not seriously hurt. Thrilling? Undoubtedly; but every air mail pilot is always prepared to face something similar. You might think of that the next time you hear a plane whirring over head—think of it, and give a salute to @ brave man, ‘When you find a man who has no prejudice, you have found one who has no convictions. After all, a hypocrit isn’t guilty of anything except synthetic riety. What you think of yourself doesn't count until you Prove it. In these days prizefighting is mainly a banking pro- Position. Where the Puzzle Lies (Kansas City Star) Ex-Secretary Fall, convicted of acvepting = $100,000 bribe from Edward L. Doheny for a government oil lease, considers his own conviction a “puzzle” in the light of Doheny’s Scquittal. But in view of the supreme court's opinion in the case that the Fall-Doheny was “consummated by conspiracy, corruption and fraud,” ne Fraaie ‘ net'ia Falls ‘conviction, bt tn Dekeny’s acqui Dr. Cook Takes a Job (New York World) Dr. Frederick A. Cook, recently released worth penitentiary, where he served a term for mails in the fraudulent sale of oil the injury of his young son in an auto accident. All over the country there are baseball fans who would like to grasp his hand and tell him, as sincerely as they know how, that they hope that boy gets well in a hurry and grows up to be as fine a man as his Dad. Canada and the United States Ths {act that United States capitalists have invested more than $3,300,000,000 in Canadian enterprises has not, perhaps, drawn the attention one might expect. The -sanest bit of comment on it we have seen comes from _E. W. Beatty, president of the Canadian Pacific rail- “It’is not = penetration to which Canadians object, because it only helps to accomplish that which they all _ desire to see accomplished, namely, safe, sound and Power from Tropic Seas (New York Times) ; H i it aEgE : ii i & i [ é F i ll rey. HH, He frttlt il wile f Hy iG HH i I re tr | When Day Is Done! | Murder Backstairs by ANNE AUSTIN “8 OF BLACK PIGEON; ETC. f it “Guess whol” @ disguised voice demanded from behind him. said he was Dick Berke- ley. He's in bis own room up front now.’ i afl i t asked ber to marry she'd have slapped to kiss her. Asa , ff i 5 i | i ead f i i § i I i fs JUNDEB opened the unlocked his chief precede him into the mur- dered girl’s room. It was very smell, not mvcb bigger than a closet, but Doris Matthews had suc. ceeded in making it homelike, ty. 3 3s ag : i Without another word she tore her arm out of Strawn's grip and fled to the house. “But she’s right, Chief. This is the very devil of @ case and jumping i i Dundee smiled. Fy if f E I if if H ll Only the carpet on the floor was out of keeping with the! immaculate daintiness of the little cubicle. It square of gaudily gow. ng. In the closet they found four Bowhere. iy ebout John Maxwell? Arnold said seemed to ring a bell in your brain. Do you know Maz- “Slightly,” Strawn replied. “Son al fe i Ff 3 3 S% = iA see 3 H Hy Ess i mi fe boy's bad pretty rough sledding: | pweeq had to step in and be a daddy younger brothers and a sister. : ! ze ‘i taining a saucy green beret close-fitting cloche of silky, dark- “Go8d taste tn clothes,” Dundee ‘1 i E z & 8 z 8 A it Fy is iH fi et Ih i 3 i 3 Hes d i : KE ' i i how he can possibly marry 80 soon. It seems like \day that that awful inquest—I, one, will never forget Miss the loveliest, sweetest, ki gon that ever lived, I i i i i Z i E sf . i af elt e li of 3 H i ii ie i 1 A Hi sil i ul 5 i HF H i el He ee. 55 a H Ey ir late inlet 8 Hy E 5 i Bs diseases syphilis or diabetes. Any condition which tends to load the body or blood with harmful material, such as reten- tion of poisonous wastes from the colon, too much uric acid of the sys- tem, or the improper utilization of sugar in the body, will tend to bring on an unhealthy state of the blood stream which affects the arteries more or less, and often the valves of the heart. When the arteries have become *7THE AVENGING PARROT®: TRAWN chuckled. “Wonder how ‘Abbie’ is going to like that, when the papers get hold of this letter?” They went on reading: “For instance, she slapped my face this evening when I was dress ing her for dinner. 1 probably shouldn't have said what I did, but I simply couldn't hold my tongue any longer. Of course it had to do with what I wrote you about be fore, and I spoke for Gigi’s sake. - T've told you how adorable the child is, how crasy I am about her. We are the best of friends, and Miss Clorinda is still kindness itself to me. She will make a very great some day. “And now for some real news for an darling! Guess who arrived Mr. Crosby! 1 baven’t seen him yet, but of course I shall, I dread it, in a way, be cause— Oh, well, you know all about that! Bever flush with delight at another wy. turned to the table and was gather. ing up i Seay written sheets letter. “This ought to tell us a lot about pee segtetineatt; pt i i 3 2 badly affected, a cure is necesarily tedious, A person in this condition with time. The use of and gentle massage is also of great benefit in improving the circulation. I have seen many patients, who ‘were apparently far advanced in ar- terial hardening, improve in a re- markable manner through following this regime. 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