The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 2, 1930, Page 4

a wii es The Bismarck. Tribune mR STATES OLDEST. NEWOPAPER (Establiahed 1873) remotely acquainted? Not at all. It is collection of blazing suns, whirling in complicated orbits through an immense emptiness, moving in obedience to some incom- Prehensible but immuteble laws, like an enormous and mysterious clock-work whirligig. Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis-| But to the rest of us the universe is simply the sky; a cima vaulted bowl of blue or gray or black, spangled at night with pinpoints of distant light; and it works some queer sort of magic, so that when we look up at it, on starlit nights, we get the foolish notion that the whole business is simply a stage-setting for our own lives, and that we ourselves are the most important creatures in existence. Any astronomer can tell you that that view of things is Juvenile and mistaken, But there is more nourishment in it than in a volume of talk about “light years.” It is the same with these other bits of knowledge. Per- haps we shall be able to visit the moon some day; but who, in his senses, would want to? Isn't it better to take the moon for what it seems to be—a strange, glamorous adjunct to romance? Any high school lad, wandering down a moonlit valley with his arm around a pretty girl, knows more about the true inwardness of the moon than all the scientists that ever lived. And 50 it goes. What if a group of wigglers in a test- tube do give some scientist a new hunch about the me- chanics of living? A six-months-old baby, gurgling and jabbering in a crib, can tell you of infinite mysteries, more profound and fundamental, if only you happen to be that, clase matter. George D. Mann .......... (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives child’s parent. There is more to this world than chem- GMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS ical equations. i (ncorporated) x There are various kinds of knowledge. The most im- ehee ae ee ge pressive kinds aren't always the kinds that are the most help in the business of living. We Granted, Didn’t Ask It seems to be the chief function of visiting Europeans to give advice to the United States. Since we are grad- ually learning how to ignore such advice, and since the giving of it seems to give pleasure to the donors, the whole system is all very nice. However, it might be well for our advisers, now and then, to get their facts straight, A few days ago two distinguished European journalists were in Waskington. Entertained at a dinner party, they arose afterward to speak their minds: Ote of them, Andre Geraud of Paris, had this to say: “Your present position is unexampled in the history of the world. Recently you only had to take the trouble to. file a request to get from proud England a 50 per cent share in the imperium of the seas.” The other, Wickham Steed of London, said this: “You have asked and obtained only parity of strength. You have not sought parity of responsibility.” ‘Those two remarks—worth noticing because they repre- sent so well the condescending attitude of most Euro- Peans—seem to us to be somewhat wrong-end-to. Someone should tell these visitors that America did not “ask” for naval parity. America granted it. In 1921 the United States had, in warships built, build- ing and appropriated for, the most powerful navy on earth. No other nation was able to build up to us. If this country had desired it could have kept itself in first place without the slightest difficulty. i But America did not choose to do so. Voluntarily, at the Washington conference, it threw away millions ‘of dollars worth of new warships and gave up the chance of having unchallenged naval dominion. ‘That needs to be remembered. We are being told, too. often, that we are too intensely nationalistic, too selfish. Let the visiting Europeans bear in mind that we gave parity; we did not ask for it, or “file a request.” ‘This “proud Britain” that M. Geraud speaks of was very glad to get parity... 2 ~ © And what is this talk about “seeking parity of responsi- bility’? It does not, really, mean anything; but what the gentleman evidently had in mind was that it is some- how our duty to embroil ourselves so thoroughly in Eu- ‘What, in view of such a fact, becomes of our “splendid | rope’s various intrigues that we would inevitably become fsolation” that some politicians seem to prize so highly? | involved in the next war that breaks out over there. Per- 4b . | haps he.can demonstrate that that is really our solemn A Word for the Ambitious duty, but it will take some tall talking. ‘ . It is just as well that this country has developed a Roc pbb suart apie tori knack for letting this advice pess in at one ear and out try, But the Welfare Council of New York City has a| * the oiler. sigecai tae a seal ecns tallied Heras word of warning for young women who plan to go to the | °° ea i a ca weret Tore. imetropolis to seek their fortunes. “Stay away from New York,” says the council's most recent bulletin, “unless-you are assured of an income of at least $25 a week.” The bulletin adds: “Young women throughout America apparently are till of the opinion that it is easy for a girl to get work in. New York City and that it is possible for her to live on es litle here as in her home town. The day-to-day ex~ perience of our room registries shows that there is little justification for either of these assumptions. “We are convinced that it is impossible for a young ‘woman, new to New York, to live comfortably and inde- pendently for less than $25 a week.” ‘Youngsters who have the New York notion in their heads would do well to heed that warning very atten- tively. : Speaking Out in Meeting Alexander Legge, chairman of the federal farm board, is frank in his criticisms of the. United States Chamber of Commerce. As worthy as, that organization may be in its field of action, it has won no blue ribbons for serv- ite’ te. the solution of the farm problem. Mr. Legge is right when he challenges its attitide toward the farm board, which doubtless has made mistakes and will make more, but its members have been fearless against attack from quarters which always oppose any innovations in the marketing of agricultura] commodities. % Mr. Legge felt that the time had come for speaking out in meetiiig and he gave Mr. Julius Barnes atid his national Chamber of Commerce a fine bit of advice. Con- structive criticism the board’ wants, but it is not wel- coming any members of the wrecking crew headed by Julius Barnes and a coterie of. men who have not been especially interested in the farmers’ marketing problems. Let there be more frank speech. In the end some: of the distressing conditions may be improved. From the opposition stirred up, the farm board may be nearer the solution than most people had suspected. Where Is Our ‘Isolation’? Business conditions weekly, issued by. the Alexander. Hamilton Institute, point out that Great Britain's un- employment situation seems to be getting worse instead of better, and that signs of an improvement are not as vet very clear. That, of course, is already known. But the publication points out that it is more of our concern in the United States than we ordinarily think. “Great Britain,” it remarks, “is exceeded only by Can- ‘ada as-a market for exports from the United States. Last year Great Britain bought goods from the United States amounting to nearly $850,000,000, or 16 per cent of the United. States’ total exports. A business revival in the United States.depends to a certain extent upon improve- ment in Great Britain. This helps to explain the un- reasonableness of expecting a quick recovery in business | as a result of efforts by the United States to solve, do- mestieglly, a problem international in scope.” _ . Where Taxes Are Taxes If you think your American income tax is a burden, consider the plight of the British taxpayer. Under the new rates recently proposed by England's chancellor of the exchequer, a married Englishman who ‘earns $5090 a year will pay an income tax of approxi- mate.y $527, In. America, a man of the same earning capacity pays $5.62—just about 1 per cent of the English- man’s tax. i In other words, we don’t know what high taxes are, over here. With a tax load like that to carry it is small wonder that England, is feeling an industrial depression. Indeed, the wonder is that the nation is not having more trouble than it is. A tax of that size is s thing to lie awake nights about. Lost: 1,500,000 Years It takes cold figures to make one realize the importance tf cutting down America’s annual toll of accidents, Figures issued by the Travelers Insurance company show that American adults last year lost just one and one-half million years because of accidents. ‘These years were lost as a result of occupational acci- "dents, on the one hand, and traffic and home accidents on the other. The traffic accidents alone represented ® monetary loss of $3,000,000,000, and the other accidents would prove fully as expensive, ‘Those figures hardly seem reasonable; yet insurance fompany statisticians have ® way of being accurate. They emphasize anew the great importance of finding some {way of conducting our lives im greater safety. Baseball at Night ‘The Des Moines club of the Western league is going fo try playing its baseball games at night this season, wocording to ‘press dispatches, Huge flood lights have fbeen installed, and engineers promise that conditions of Wisibility, for players and spectators, will be quite as good es they are in the daytime. , The Public Loses esday to. grocery chain, which no doubt offers better pay and less @rief than his former employment. Advocates of the city manager plan will pluck some Daaeneaitan encet east, attrach talents city sometimes, at " nt - fat mehr? high enough to command a good premium vate employment. And it is true that you don’t often hear of a mayor pa being hired in private employment by The Optimist With Feet. on the Ground srestee’ Poa (New. York Times) Oace upon a time there was a citizen who was thrilled by the latest achievement in man’s conquest of the air. uickened breath the radio bulletins com- minute from the winging plane, thou- the Atlantic, to the trained navigator unerringly pin-point destination invisible 8 i 2 | (game of sunlight. The long shadows, slanting across the @iamond as the sun draws bsek of: the grandstend, are ‘an essential feature. Ha Se. toe. Se oh AMEnerRE. & | womneoNeete! sitewes, eee fe se Naess of her. home game comes from - sea, gaa CSE Et og deel wold baal be witout ts wn tatty evens re teen” eso —____—_— His face flushed and his eyes grew wet as he read the Star Gazi gant IA beraaagheen sgs ty upants of the boat ives ives al ‘The scientists seem to have been the midnight | He was proud of the courage.of ‘his countrymen when ‘bil lately. One professor, having taken thought, an-| steamship offered to take off the plane’s crew and mounces that it would take s ray of light at least one trillion years to cross, our universe. Another predicts that we shall be able to travel to the moon within the foming century. Still another finds some unexpected wigglers in a tube of sea water and believes that he is lose to uncovering the facts about the origin of life. All of this is interesting and stimulating, and gives us B pleasant sense of the power of the human mind. How- bver, there is no use getting too excited about it. Knowl- | 0 ing age’ of this kind'may be very useful and important, but | ist office and engaged passage for the there isn’t a great deal of nourishment in it for the or- , steady steamer. inary man. be Moral: While man’s conquest of the air is being thor- hie “inverse” thatthe ‘astronomer talks ‘about~ for | UeY consolidated, the bonds of the established railway {netanée; is it anything with which most of us dre even | ment, % f % and steamship companies ought to be am excellent invest-.|. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1930 The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table! | tice. into throne in 1762, following the’ murder of her husband, Peter III, and ruled for 34 years. One of her first official acts was to summon to Moscow representatives of all the provinces to discuss the re- forming of the administration of jus- laws of the empire were reorganized. Determined to transform her country ‘to clear his brain of all specula- , “Someone transferred more than OO | Quotations \ ep “If I had my life'to live over again there has been nothing in it that I would:wish to change.”——Charles M: Schwab, steel magnate. -s ® “We appear to have reached the bottom of the business valley but we do not yet know how wide the valley As a result of-this meeting the body. one of the most powerful in —Thomas A. BEGIN HERE TODAY When DETECTIVE DUNDEE Meta th Dol would-be murderer had to remove bod: ws, indy's ald, trom nike about two and a half ounces of perfume before putting that amount of wood alcohol into the bottle. eee Seow, it is not at all likely that the “sutplus “péerfime was'| poured down the drain pips of Mrs. Berkeley's bathroom basin, for the Very good reason that Mrs, Berke ley would have been almost sure to smell it when she came up to bed. Therefore it seems logical to {diot I've been! Shoes! day night! |hind Doris.” and what more logical than a per- fume bottle to hold perfume?, “Mrs, Berkeley’s. would-be: mur- derer probably counted on ‘several days elapsing before the victim drank the Fleur d’Amour, since she had another new bottle of perfume on’Hand, a8 the plotter could have. ‘and. is |80en by glancing at her:dressing- table—or could have known already. |@b, “Now—why the choice of Fleur @Amour instead of the new bottle of department store perfume? To incriminate Crosby, provided the would-be murderer was not Crosby himself? Or because the Fleur @Amour had come from abroad? You see, my dear Watson, if the yrood alcohol causing Mrs. Berke- ley’s death were traced to perfume she had drunk, it would be much safer for the poisoner if the per fume had come from France, rather “It my reasoning is correct #0 far, the would-be poisoner expected to have ample leisure in which to dispose of that incriminating sur. plus of Fleur d'Amour before Mrs, the girl's, Doris herself or from deduction, house, but she change his shoes—and he did!” ing out the murder an@ would-be murder mystery. . NOW GO ON WITH THD STORY ‘CHAPTER XLVI Bone DUNDED had -cheer- fully endured a good deal of kidding from his uncle, Police Com- missioner O'Brien, and from his chief, Captain Strawn, because of his use of a parrot as a “Watson,” when he felt the need of an audi- ence for his summing up of a case, “I’ve tried talking aloud to’ my- self, but I feel foolish. Cap'n is an ideal audience, for while he some- times laughs at me, he can’t waste my time by arguing or telling me T’m_a fool,” he answered them. Now, after, five hours of sleep, “Good night! Good night!" Nofseléss shoes .. . Bedroom sli rinda’s, “Let's problem which confronted the pol tions and ‘conclusions—wortbless now, in the light of his new dis- coverles—he sat with the parrot’s cage before him, his thick sheaf of typewritten notes ready for ref- erence. “Now, ‘my dear Watson,’ that ‘ts the crime which you. and I must try to solve,”"he Summed up. “But. behind that crime lies another, which did not come off. Our, pri- mary problem, therefore, {s to find the person who plotted Mrs. Berke ley’s death by wood alcoho} potson- ing, but who was forced, by fear, to murder Doris Matthews instead. Is that clear?” A “Perfume!”* Cap'n - croaked’ syd-|Benjemin rag Droud of the new addition to his vocabulary. , “Exactly!” grinned. struggle, that Diris was pushed sp| Ding. But ‘partum ‘violently against the bathroom mirror that the smudged print of] most:successfully?... By her rouged mouth was left—as ona|the shoes? Not so good. of our few clues to what took place. |is 4 Dersistent. stuff.” ceeds In wresting the flask of pel murderer, flees with it—not taktng | fist. time to get her coat or the key to the back door. summerhouse, where she belii Freshly she will find her finance, Araold, waiting for her. » ./that,-uniess: I’ve been “But the poisoner knows Arnold | thé wrong tree . . . Now, | Smiths home. So pursues Doris, But he dees not r leave behind him, in Mrs. Berke-| Berkeley is a perfume Dundee ley's bathroom, the bettle contain-| :“Setond: He knows two ounces of deadly wood alco- lire. Berkeley's itingvoom, tthe 's. Berkeley's sit to the flask of Fleur @'Amour which Sey- mour Crosby presented to his hostess Friday evening. And was caught in the act by Doris Mat- thews.” “Perfume!” Cap'n repeated and flapped his: wings excitedly, “Exactly—again!” his master ap- plauded. “Where is the perfume which Mrs. Berkeley’s would-be are removed from the flask |bottle to make way for the wood alcohol? ” Gigi had: wasted about ee of Whe ia > thas nl A ato va. ba itvgrd ree DUNDEE paused for a long min-|- 82 ® uch was left in ute, fi ed the bottle, for she took the flask idaapbasar ee aye ie H*, casi raed ning ei pon i en TT ne eee ee ee when he follows Doris to the sum-|ting room. with the fragments of the crystal {ley flask. Those fragments have been fitted together, Captain Strawn tells|not meet Doris in found on the bottom of the lake. the car. “Therefore he stopped long} “Fifth: See necessary.” P “Make yourself necessary to some-| "—Emerson, : “Fame doesn’t mean much to me.”| Edison. : ay fs ‘wy, Sy ANNE: AUSTIN 288 FRETS BROT from Gigi herself. Therefore, the; “Of course, ‘Watson’! - What anjputting them, one by one, to the No won-| best of his fifth conclusion. Fin- der we couldn't smell Fleur d’-|ally he spoke aloud again, very so- Amour when we sniffed at the shoes we knew had ‘been worn Fri- The poismer- was be- Doris." She fled first, and the Dolsoner “had ample opportunity to ‘observe ‘how: silent her’ flight was in her rubber-soled, rubber-heeled shoes, Not even when she ran down the uncarpeted backstairs did she make any noise. But in or- dinary'shoes the poisoner could not hope'to be so noiseless. He stopped and changed to shoes as silent as It would have taken less than a minute and undoubt- edly the poisoner knew, either from what she meant to do. Doris would not find Arnold in the summer- would wait, for a “short time at least, ex- pecting him to arrive any minute. yes, the poisoner had time to He was silent again for so long that Cap'n turned rapidly about on his perch three times, then croaked “Good night? Why, I've just be- "Dundee reproached the bird. “Let's see now, where we stand. 7 je murderer back. to the house from the.summerhouse, after his ghastly -work there had ‘been done. “It.-is* almost certain Berkeley’s death. But consider tha| that the perfume splashed upon his y polished tennis shoes would cause no comment... Well, that’s enough on his way-out of the hor ees apneal taka y Doris, so | wolaing close out of use | W] mercy Mat. her small in pursuit of Doris, to put the|thews, a kind-hearted girl, must|against his heart. Hig Dr. McCoy’s menus the week beginning ham, applesauce. “spring baked apple a la mode. Monday bers Grapefruit desired. iE as Dinner: , Broiled “Breakfast: French omelet on toasted Shredded Wheat raisins. Peanut butter, pear sauce. Jemnly: “So far as .we know, Cap'n, there were only two people in this house~whont- Doris “could” possibly have hated—judging from her let- ter to her sister and from all the evidence, we have in hand. Those two people were Mrs. Berkeley and Seymour Crosby—provided it was Seymour Crosby whom Doris knew or suspected’ to be responsible, di- rectly or indirectly, for Phyllis Crosby’s death. Let us say she only suspected, until she saw him plotting the death of another wom- an. Her suspicion would have be come, rtainty then. She would hown no mercy. If she had come.upon anyone else than her beloved ‘Miss :Phyllis'’s’ killer, pre- Daring sp. pols. ‘woman she dis- would she not have been easy. to. ‘move ‘with : protestations of re- Dentance and promises not to re- peat the attempt? ... I think so. I-do not indeed think so, if I am hed judge st ell of Doris Mat- ews’ character!” . He ‘broééed for several nilnutes, while the parfot dropped sleepily on his pefch: - What would he do? ip-|.When ‘at last the answer came he pers, or—tennis shoes? But I've stooped and snooped and sniffed in every clothes closet in the-house and I've not.caught a single whiff of Fitur. d'Amour, except from Clo- uttered so sharp a cry of triumph that the bird protested with one of the oaths he had learned from his mischievous old mistress, Mrs. Em- ma Hogarth. ¥ It “was nearly one o'clock when Dundee concluded his long mono- logue to. the parrot and covered the long-suffering bird’s cage: Weary but triumphant, he unlocked the tower room, descended the steep shoes when. the bottle broke. Of/stairs to the third floor, unlocked . goner when‘he—or she—but let’gjcourse it splashed upon his clothes, say ‘he’ for the sake of convenience|too, but that didn’t matter, since —was caught in the act by Doris) Gigi bad helpfully anointéd every- Matthews. We know there was a/ one with perfume earlier in the eve-|something soft but unyiel je on soft shoes + ++ Now, how could he remove it/And then he saw that she was washing that door and was about to step down into‘the-‘hall when he found that the door-was pushing. ‘against -“Gigi!" he whispered angrily. ‘asleep, @ wooly bathrobe wrapped . Perfume;about her say silk pajamas, her curly brown head sunk upon her - “Then what happens? Doris suc-| . Very earnestly-he stared into the|knees, ’ a beady eye, then suddenly! ie stooped and Soned” perfume from the would-ba|he smote the table with triumphant | into” kis % bat sighed, then the topaz eyes flew “Teants’ shoes—white shoe ide. *~ Her goal is th|ish!":he cried. “Easy and oe ce “I thought you'd never come out, Bonnie,” she murmured. ' Then an- ger ‘routed’ sleep. “T've been wait- et oe is not there, that he is driving the it we know about this would adnititing that “Be “gia he |be poisoner. ee = tame to my toom ‘Friday~night -“atid- that “I—1 “First: He knows that Mrs.|told him—” She hesitated, obvious- ly not sure just how much Dundee ‘Mrs. | knew. ing the surplus Fleur é’Amour,|Berkeley bas a Ughter fountsin| “That you told him you hated And he does not take it with him | filled ‘with wood aleohol.in her sit-| your mother and wanted him to divorce her?" Dundee finished the merhouse. If he had, he would| “Third: He has what seems to| sentence for her, we cast it into the lake, along|him good cause to wish hive, Deke renee ae she tumbled into the trap. “Z didn’t. mean it,”.Gigt whim- “Fourth: He-knew Pooled could porns Bode o awfully sore summer le she slap) me me, and they form one ¢omplete| house; theréfore he must have been|. . . I guess he told you what else crystal flask. No other bottle was|Dresent when Mts, Berkeley ordered|I said?” “No, Se int You're going to Dundee said gently, “And in ex- Sway—most probably in his/have turned a deat ear. Otherwise|change I'm going to tell you that her murder would not have been | You're not to worry any more—your “|tather did not: try to polson your mother, then kill poor Doris to keep 1 | her_t#om teliing.* suggested Sunday, May 4th: » Sunday . Breakfast: Crisp waffle, with a little maple eyrup;- small piece Lunch: Creamed sweet potatoes, Dinner: - Baked chicken, asparagus, salad of raw celery, Breakfast: .Coddled eggs, Melba By steak, squash, cooked. celery, salad -of lettuce and Biscuit, jednesday. : Wholewheat muffins, 2 g g 2 5 8 a 2 3 5 a cut in cubes, Blend with = iti olive oil if desired, or use cream-| for of cheese og peanut butter dressing. Serve on shredded lettuce. a x QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Question: A. 8. asks: “What should I do to cure a small fistuls my mouth? It isin the soft flesh be- re-| tween the tonsil and the palate. It is @ small sac filled with food and is painful. It ‘is nearly one-quarter of may be.”—Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, Today Isthe — . {|re-established schools in cities. and| Cleveland economist. pore tng ‘Anniversary of __ || countries to bring ‘beck the best in egedes Friday scalp may be « form of ri countries ie in “ a ” i poe , a eczema due = —¢|foreign culture. She also secured fr| teaches: running. <-Carntne wollen | piereneiaet?. Cottage ‘cheese, aliced to an already torlo state of blood in CATHARINE’S BIRTH Russia great portions of land from|pjaywright, Lunch: Choice of any of the acia iH le young Speed This must come On. May 2, 1729, Catharine the}Poland and Turkey. * 2% - | trulte—as much as desired. Glass of | trom wrong feeding, either from the Great, empress of Russia, and regard-|, Towards the end of Jher career her! «Qur people drink’ too much for] milk, fr pipe ce trom artificial feed- ed as one of the most remarkable] intrigues with lovers and the corrup-|their own good.”—Premier Mussolini| "Dinner: Baked sea bass, baked| tsiy cited we tettiny es oe sont modern times, was born at credit in Ri Masatas wenihs ‘ainiong the of Italy. ene pees toes, string bean salad,| proper diet, ‘A forceful character and shrewd|"ulers of Europe. She died in 1896. | «r xnow liquor is being sold in .... , Saturday Quantity of Orange Juice politician, Catharine came to the Dearborn; but what doT care? What| ‘Breakfast: Baked tonstea| Question: 'T. ¥. asks: “How muQh and Stripes Forever* apparently pre- ferred a martial instead of a marital march, * * * a ‘The railroad official who predicted American tourists would lease a sum COWBOY BALLADS WILL es r i A 8 i é z i a i EB is ie) l i i a i ie _ [ E : i i 3 ‘Al 8 4 c=} ee] : -# 4 ,