The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 5, 1930, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, JUNE.5, 1930 a ican atmosphere of combined untidiness and peaceful- , ae The Bi smarck Tribun © ness. ‘There is a small crowd in the public square. A The Wrong Kind of Filling Station! i. ae eritws OLDEST NEweeAicn little band, generally clad in uniforms that do not match, : U (Established 1873) toots away at the old, familiar tunes. Three or four X ——<—<— | gray-beards in Civil war regalia walk slowly to the ceme- Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis-| tery, followed by the townspeople and a detachment of y oon ads eral aanen, Ce eee ey reeeren | BDL children, all carrying flags. t George D. Mann.......... ....President ahd Publisher} -There, at the cemetery, there is a word of prayer, and ‘ the graves are decorated. It is all very simple, very mod- i Daily iy ares years oh harveet anor est—and, somehow, very effective. It hits the heart in a i Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) EP MUTI LIN ie tat oslo teat) FURTHER STUDY OF MENTAL | avoid repression and its many undes Daily by mail, per year do not always do. There is a flavor of old times in it; CONFLICTS sirable consequences by trying to ac- k Gn state, outside Bismarck) ...4 a flavor of the days before automobiles, hard-surfaced There are people who refuse to ac- Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota. 00 | roads and swiftly-growing cities changed America from cept a world of reality, and who live i: seca wil " i as children in a world of their own i y gladly answer ‘Weekly by mail, in state, per year...... an agricultural nation to an urban nation. imagination. ‘Thesé le ‘ot || Personal questions on health and ‘Weekly by mail, in’ state, three years for. We are changing faster and more profoundly than we A 7 So diet addressed to him, care of well ‘adapted for the struggle of the ‘Weekly by mail, outside of North Dakota, 1.50 | Usually realize. The small town is not what it used to be. commercial world. There are some|| 72¢ THbune. * 2:00 | An excellent way to dip one’s self into one of the most People who find it difficult to accept uiveupe te ma. addressed Member Audit Bureau of characteristic currents of this vanishing era is to drop authority of any kind, either of their “ Member of The Associated Press SEO Oe OE ee Lee mame ee aupeniins abst hen ‘ine sntivtty | pe fatta/i6ASle Wie, SE. abd ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use : it becomes, severe, these people may ac- | making the best of one’s own abilities. for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or Return to Fundamentals tually openly rebel against it, or they| Society offers us many outlets for not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the| Reductions of tax burdens caused by war or prepara- may be crushed by the authority and {our emotions, and it is up to us tc local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All| tions for war, extensions of national debt over longer become pessimistic and morose. sublimate them to our best advan- Bu of eo of all other matter herein are/ periog, holding down federal aid to states and absti- ee ai originally laid great tage. For example, if one desires tc # also reserved. é "a em is on the sexual instinct as | fight, one can use the same desire by ——— nence of the government from private business, are point: (Official City, State and County Newspaper) ed out as ways out of the “nation’s tax muddle” by ete Ge Teaidier gate Oho any eeae creer the Foreign Representatives President Sargent of the Chicago and North Western now is to include many other primary He te emotions in the manner “” SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS Railway. motives, such as the ego instinct and | Which will be beneficial rather than (Incorporated) Perhaps the most important of these remedies, from hunger. harmful, and when one learns to dc Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. the point of view of the nation’s welfare over long per- Praacee sometimes ier themselves bord ah will be happier and healthier abe eed LAM Seed bined iods, is the warning to keep government out of business. as wien duate'to scooraplsh © duty aes —< 1 “We have compelled our government to perform too comes in conflict with the fear of in- QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS It di Harmful Military Comment etiquette | Many different services,” said Mr. Sargent, “and have au- juring a loved person. Usually the Mercury and Teeth loes cs thorized expenditures on the basis of what various spe- weak or sentimental quality is hidden] Question: Mr. N. D. A. writes: “) br common sense for U. S. naval officers, especially ad- behind a hard exterior. This form of|have been troubled lately with pains mirals, to make invidious comparisons with other nations | “ial elements and factors desire to spend, rather than on conflict prevents a satisfactory action.|in my shoulders and arms, They in discussing matters of military interest before con- | ® basis of what the entire body of citizens can afford to It frequently happens that when | bother me more at night and prevent ress committees. Yet the consideration of the naval] *Pend.” two emotions come in contact and|me from sleeping. They have a sore bd Much could be accomplished in tax reductions if some conflict with each other, one of them | feeling, and sometimes the joints in parity treaty brought back from the London conference : nape eae ‘ ra is represséd and hidden in the sub-|my hands hurt also. Have been told of the powers has been marked by the most unbridled | W2y could be found SO ISU a Mol Did conscious mind. One may only feel | that my trouble is caused by the mer- comment and comparison from high officers in the U.| bservance, he declared, saying: “To my mind it is the love or hatred and be unaware |cury in the fillings of my teeth. Do 6. navy. International sensitiveness has been ignored as| More important to preserve good government within con- of the repressed or opposite emotion, | You think I should have my present though ‘it were non-existent. The delicacy of discussion | Stilutional principles with a tax rate that the people can ideas, feelings and wishes. From this | fillings replaced with gold?” of a former day has been cast aside with a brutality that | Comfortably bear than it ts to pursue a policy of social SA pTore TEE ia STAR oie [ALAN SESE at Cin GERI could not fail of offensiveness over seas and to pain the|*eform and creation of statutory crime that is causing iy 7 the eect éppouite: Because sit this ver fillings could affect your health with whom wi nm u- | ou¥ tax rate to grow greater with each passing year.” 4 ——_— P| Inquiry Into the Nature and ‘Causes } dressed as a beggar played an expen- | repression, there may be an exagger-|aS you state. Of course, if there is pride of the nations with ym we conferred in the fi T I h of the Wealth of Natio: tile hope of cutting down naval armaments. ‘oday 8 t le Five alsin bho book were ihe wet ay ie states eer ci ED aa oe teed ite hoo a aed . = era . * ut attri n = = i We can see—our admirals can see very plainly—how An Ineffective Gesture Anniversary of printed within the lifetime of the au-| tention. Probably because he looked amples "A: stge. entuavoring: to. be ‘wculd dviss'yon 49 hive an ‘exam: {t must have irritated France to hear Mussolini recent-| Raymond Duncan, who goes about clad in Grecian ci Bison im botndi kaon which | so natural at shoulder alms, stern, and in repressing his tenden- |ination made and if you will send me ly roar forth a lot of military bilge about cannon and|Fobes and sandals as a means of expressing. his disap- ADAM SMITH'S BIRTH a $b Guanine coe cles toward sentimentalism and leni-|® copy of your doctor's:report I will machine guns being more beautiful than international | Proval of modern industrial civilization, drew a curious! On june 5, 1723, Adam Smith, a|}¢——————_______-5 id cusieee RASS ignberectien ency, may actually become oversevere|be pleased to give you advice con- sentiment in the direction of peace—a blast palpably | Crowd when he went down to the battery in New York | British political economist, regarded | BARBS || plain of his flat feet. ees iar SMLENTHATInthotn A oynioaT pore cerning: the bebe : leveled at Gallic rivalry for hegemony in western Europe.| City the other day, dipped @ bucket of salt water from |) fo tok, Sooner or human knowledge, | (Copyright, 1930, NEA Service, Inc.) |son may be a sentimentalist at heart; | Question: J. G. asks: “Do you be- But tranquillity in an international neighbor also can| ‘he harbor and carried it home to make some salt as @} (0) (oe Kirkcaldy, Scotland. Eskimos, explorers tell us, never or @ person repressing a feeling of |lieve in the theory of excluding meat, be upset by uncouth references to hypothetical warfare | Sesture of sympathy for Mahatma Gandhi. ‘After his education at the Uni-| spank their children.» Probably be- | SOCIETY'S cd PRIZES inferiority may develop conceit and | fish and eggs from the dietary, owing tn which another nation is singled out as the theoretical| Of practical, utilitarian value the stunt had nothing | versity of Glasgow and at Oxford he| cause the worst an Eskimo kid can IN ANTIQUE EXHIBIT | ageressiveness; or, © person, by re-|to the highly putretying nature of whatever. As a gesture it is probably very fine; bu‘ one | became professor -of logic at the for- | do in his mother's pantry is to swipe pressing his sensuality, may actually | these foods in the intestines, thereby a enemy. There is sure to be embarrassment in our inter- if the whole thi il make very much | ™er institution. When he was 25 he | a cake of ice, Chicago. — () — Sponsors of an!become prudish and censoring of |letting into the system various para- national relations as the result of such unwisely open | doubts, somehow, if the whole thing will make very gave a course of lectures on rhetoric see antique exposition in Chicago found|others’ actions. One should endeavor |sites, bacteria and poisons, with del- remarks. impression anywhere. and literature at Edinburgh which| An editorial writer sees injustice |*™0ng the art collections of promi-|to guard oneself against this over-|eterious effects upon the human It even suggests the military power ruling the civil] A New York newspaper irreverently suggests that) not only gave him considerable of a|in the arrest of a Montana woman nent society people rare exhibits.|accentuation of the emotions. When- | body, as being a sane and sound view authority when officers of either the navy or the army | S0me Englishman now ought to distill a flask of alcohol ettinie oe ee but intro- for “indulging in peals of laughter cate the owners willing oeraisiine scels no id rate bins jase TUARNNEE oa iadinvé " 1 . | duc im. the learned and accom- the streets.” Maybe the police . or e, one should endeavor is- : most people can strut in that way military views which trench upon | from potato peelings and send it to some American scoff. plished men of his time. One of these | thought that she'd die aaghiig. Mrs. Rockefeller McCormick's col-|cover whether or not this is simply an| Should use some meat, fish or eggs international politics, The conduct and the unnecessary | !aW who is in jail for violating the prohibition law; and | was David Hume, the great philos- * * 5 lection provided three chairs that|effort to compensate for something|at least once a day. Such foods odious comparisons of Admiral Nulton to the effect that | !t is probable that Mr. Duncan's act will arouse more | opher. ‘A black opal, worth $25,000, was| Were Napoleon’s, and some unusual|repressed within themselves. Fre-|should always be used in proper com- n why Great Britain should say what | Jocular comment of this nature than genuine sympathy | ~ In 1763 Smith became tutor for the | found in New South Wales recently |Dutch furniture. Mrs. Walter R.|quently people blame others most for | bination with other foods so they will oo ee en season why - for the famous Indian rebel ? young Duke of Buccleuch and accom- | with the distinct outline of a wo-|Kirk consented to the usage of three|/weaknesses which they, them-|be thoroughly digested. If the bowels kind of cruisers the United States may or may not build s : panied him to France.. In the year| man’s form imprinted on it. What|Heppelwhite chairs that once were| selves, feel. Gossipy people almost|then move three times daily there suggests that he has no capacity for balanced statement. ili he Rackete or more he spent in Paris, Smith was | you might call a very fancy figure. the property of Francis Scott Key,|always condemn in others what they,| will be no danger of putrefaction or * He misstated the situation as regards the cruiser provi- Foi ing the Racketeer attracted to a group of thinkers who * composer of “The Star Spangled | themselves, would like to do but fear|of harmful bacteria developing. All i z One way to foil the racketeer, evidently, is to refuse| styled themselves as Economistes.| Judging from the number of straw-| Banner.” Augustus S. Peabody loaned|to try. foods of a high caloric value are li- sions of the pact. to be afraid of him. ‘Their theories influenced him to such | berries they put in it, we know now|his collection of Currier and Ives] Repressed tendencies usually have | able to cause trouble if they are not + Still more inept was Admiral Day, blurting out that) “o., «tough guys” from Detroit dropped down to| #n extent that when he returned to why they call it a short cake, prints, and Mrs. Patrick A. Valen-|a way of finding an escape in some|digested, but allowed to remain too >, “the American plan” was to use submarines in defense of day, k t Littl his native town three years later he se * tine, a Rembrandt Peale portrait of| eccentricity, slip of the tongue, for-|long in the intestines. “the Philippines and for activity against the enemy in his debt be maa se tone taal chet noteg {began to write his famous work, “An| A violinist of some prominence | Washington. getfulness, or nervousness, One can| (Copyright, 1930, by The Bell s = ey lool -to~ a a Syndicate, Inc.) own waters.” pears dewey baa igehere beatles a 6-year-old son, and proceeded to call the merchant up! gj va . pee cord 7 apap en by telephone. Unless he paid them $10,000, they said,! § — ; a pea a 5. i & they would kidnap his son and bomb his store. i; : : % \ ions The New York World reads these admirals « rebuke) ‘This scheme usually works, but this time it didn't, 1n- ; - i | : that their technical s cia t ie br . aa ilitar- stead of getting scared, the merchant called the police. | “ 'Twould never do to let the news- ee oe a ee erniea it saye, | The two “tough guys” were arrested within 12 hours, and | p g [papers know everything.” ‘Trader sg ania aaa ae Soca icine ailing now cells in Ohio's terrible penitentiary are being pre-| & . \ em sal ga f DU DEWEY GROVES se power ham natal le rulcd by the miliary power. Under Pazed Tor them. a ene ©'1950 bY ‘NEA SERVICE! INC. TH x would aise noel to embark carte of government the military is subordinate The racketeer's method of operation is chiefly bluff. mother was right, and she wanted asked, be any more. bitter than he had oe @ major cr! a she has 4 " ‘These admirals, encouraged by the If the bluff is called promptly it is the racketeer that gets © Ja reconciliation? Miss: Brice looked up with ala right to be. fy Fat passed 8 successful ‘screen test. to the civil power. ee ig . into trouble, not the victim. Something like the wordless joy |frown, an objection ready on her} But Phillipa had never worn xk * hostile senators, seem to have forgotten that. The gen- 7 in a spring day came to him as|lips. But one glance at Phillipa’s|sword or shield. She had fought “Modern dance music {s like a party eral board acts as if it thought it was a body of elder = he asked himself this question; |darkened countenance convinced|from ambush. She was doing it of gorillas tearing up a wire mat- statesmen, whereas it is in fact a body of elderly admirals Edito <. Co i something like the push of a blade/her that a little extra work, no/now, following out the plan she tress.”—G. H. Markwick. which exists to offer advice to the civilian secretary of rial mment of grass up through snow-moistencd |matter what the imposition be-|had conceived at her desk, ze ¢ “ the navy and the civilian president of the United States. | ria apd pipet sae mare nee it, ent pete pore fes nets “I'm moving away from home,” “Riches are the antidote to poverty, = . A 4 r* nature’s ears alone, of lilac eo .D , and reached out her|she said, to begin the “discussion.” not the cause of it.”—Sir Ernest Benn. It iss gross usurpation of power for the general board The World Court Chicagoans See buds bursting into bloom. hand for the notebook that Phil-| Alan stared at her. eee ‘to set out to defeat an international treaty which its su- (Minneapolis Journal) fro eeking reco! jon, | With Alan it manifested: {itself in|lipa had put on her desk. “I’ve had trouble with father,” “Marriage is an adventure—like periors have negotiated.” Commenting on the obtrusion of the world court as aa alas sean to Fhillipa, whe | desire to get up and do some “Come to me if there's anything |she explained, and Alan heard her going to war.”—G, K. Chesterton. ‘The World continues: the paramount issue in the recent seviaiear pried Be Ate Yeap thing. Had he indulged his ‘de-|that isn’t clear,” Phillipa said. |catch her breath in a sob. a 1 ts if he | 2 Hilinois, the Charleston News and Courier opines that | @ es not write to sire, he might have danced a buck} “Well,” Miss Brice thought; “it| “But, why, I thought...” he be USES SURGERY TO TREAT ‘President Hoover would be fully within his righ | it would have been politically indiscreet, if the contestants he will beg her to rei and wing, thrown his hat into the|you aren't going to be so busy I Phillipa int ted his ‘TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS called these admirals to order and reminded them in no| had “discussed publicly in frank terms any question in allence spurs him o y ‘ busy I) gan, ipa interrupted him. She Pittsburg —(P)—Si at iad cncertain terms as to just where they fit into the Ameri. | which: the voters fre keenly interested and which they, | p mea or gone out to face two saat interrupt you, why don’t you|was turning his ring upon her tes. male fa patel fine deat 3 » ragons. lo them yourself?” finger, drawing attention to it, 4 can scheme of government. If this thing goes on there; ‘0,5 degree, lnderitng. only half knows its | Pallitpa,’Te Home again! With Natalle!| She felt a little better when she| “It satisfied mother that you're Tainnt Cl SEI AIA ARR cs Sane CIOM, is no telling where it will stop. Already the admirals| niinois or at least its Chicago. The rank and file of | intend to Wouldn't it be great? saw Phillipa go to another girl with|really going to marry me, Alan,” lpi OF Ee ey Tee have done enough mischief to embarrass the government | Chicago voters may not understand the world court, even Reece ra Sg and beers . ae any a eae Rane, and =n ani pecker: shat Dad won't pital. - | in the slightest degree, but it is an issue in which they juice. No. use. indulg- ie girl's desk. elieve jo I’m leaving.’ babi: mourns. 1 they eee Pin ea a Saleh as 3 are fig oad interested than perhaps any other, pro- er. ing in day dreams. Surely Nat- Then Phillipa went back to her| “But Phillipa, where are you go- poo the ridge Tie crs ha cited by reckless men like ator Jol » they can do prohibition not excepted. Ks Confronting her family with the |alie would have told hin) she|of#m desk, and brooded over the|ing?” giving it a rest, it having been found irreparable damage. They should be stopped now, and|~ and it has been that way with them for some half | fact of h goment. Paillipa’s | wanted to see him, if she had any-|situ&tion that faced her. She knew| “Oh, I don’t know,” she cried that the motion of a lung in normal q so decisively that our neighbors will understand they do| dozen years, Not because Chicagoans are so fundamen- thing like that in her mind. it was more doubtful than she had|helplessly. “I don’t know what to operation irritates the ulcers pro- not speak the views of those who control American pol- | tally different from other Americans, but because Chi-| @ To offset this discouraging angle, |thought. Last night Alan had at|do. It’s dreadful, when you've duced in it by disease. In some cases i cagoans have had their mayor, William Hale Thompson, he began to wohder why she want | least kissed her and he hadn't been|never lived alone before. Ob, of the diseased organ is rendered per- ley. to tell them all about the world court. And Big Bill’s con- ed to open the house, and engage|so “teamed up over Natalie.” course, I know thousands of girls manently inoperative, but in all in- “Mr. Hoover ought not to tolerate this business any | ception of the world court, and hence Chicago's con- @ maid, if she did not expect to ae ed are doing it right here in New stances, the operations are not at- ffurther. No head of a government, no American presi-| ception, is unlike any other world court picture ever | ‘ au stay. H’m, perhaps that was why FuNArty she got up and went] York, and we'll have some place tempted unless the remaining lung is dent, would stand what he has already stood. A Roose- | Seen on land or sea, or in the imagination of any man | GO ON WITH THE STORY |sho wasn't getting a cook too. into his private office, Alan|to see each other then, without be- though capable of sustaining the velt or a Wilson would have come down like a ton of | outside ue pate Michieas. meats. = Se ie ca CHAPTER XXVI. She would have to have a maid|looked up. questioningly from his|ing out all the time, but I just feel whole burden of breathing. i The international tribunal seen by Thomps' ig RS. JAYHUNTER’S letter toto help her close the place per-|papers. Phillipa stood timidly be-|as if I were forsaken, or somethin; Critical cases, Dr. Mary continued, bricks upon this outrageous insubordination and when |<trange machine for the delivery of Uncle Sam, bound ipa ig. d the dust cleared away America and the world would| hand and foot, to the tender of mercies of Old World ' Aun py him into a maze maenur. i Pueveey fe ey awe ge ae nae ‘a sorry 0) 1 ypnone Ale Ravine zether abuse 11 ribs on the side of the ‘diseased 7 of conflicting emotions. He re leve he had done Properly. urb you, jut we won’t|me that did it.” pac inge th de the, civilian, dower: ana not the adailrals Seay a Maren flanthices Cnleens erate te | ceived it at his hotel in the morn-|And she might be moving into an; have a better time to talk, and] The appeal to Alan was not in lung, resulting in the permanest fe- who make American foreign policy.” residents’ homes away from them, as soon as the world | ng, and read it in the breakfast| apartment in New York. She could|there’s something I want to dis-|vain. But he didn’t want to feel Sprrenion cf un Sane: Bub Wile Say : court has issued the necessary injunctions restraining | room over his untouched orange|take the maid. cuss with you this* morning.” tender toward her, so he couched aince ae ae se eats be- = Where the Nation’s Traditions Live | the United States army from interfering. The issue has juice, His conclusion about Nat-| No, it didn’t mean anything, her| “What's the matter with lunch-|his answer crisply. oo tise heaton, ‘en peas in! they still ivil ie been used successfully to nominate and elect coroners, | alie’s return, until then, had been|Teturn -to the house. He.pushed|ing together and talking then?”| “Nonsense,” he said; “there’s no tact. Back East, where they still have Civil war veterans! < eiitts drainage canal trustees and local tax review- | that’she was coming back to effect |aside the grilled bacon and eggs|Alan asked. He was-a little dis-|reason why you should feel that “We have had a fair degree of suc- - ‘with them to preserve the necessary traditions of the | ers, all pledged to keep the world court out of Chicago. | @ property settlement with him and|the waiter brought, and left the|quietéd by her words. “Something|anyone has forsaken you. We'll cess,” Dg. Marcy said, “having sal- < Past, it is necessary to get out ino the country to get the| So why should it not have been used in a fight for a | arrange for a divorce, table, ‘I want to discuss with you” sounded | find you a place to live. The idea vaged about 40 per cent of the cases real touch of Memorial day. police Po Ht Sora ave some connection with the | But now her mother said she was bite ominous. " if pace him ee Wes new to you, you know.” operated on.” handling of foreign affairs: Ae coming t EFORE he reached the office he | Because of his uneasiness, he made| “N .. . 00,” Phillipa agreed; ‘The cities of course put on elaborate celebrations, but |’ Tne News and Courler may be dead right in its belict |) Wu"etcedl et the letter oc tien Bera cece te senPe |e makwetion for lukentng to-| but I've. got to-0e8 a piace raat ‘The photo-electric cell is the most there always is the defiling feature of sports to rob the | that the voters of Illinois, or at least of Chicago, do not | § he didn’t bell hat od whatever sibility there was to|scther. away.” : sensitive device to light yet discovered. day of its reverential character. Very largely the occa-| understand the world court issue. But it is dead wrong | A elieve what was writ- hi ies i f Poe Phillipa shook her head. Tak Be Tt will distinguish between the light in its assumption that they have no interest in the | ten there, Certainly Mrs. Jayhunt-|Start over again with Natalie was ipa. er he “Have ‘ake an extra hour at lunch, Be {ar beyond th aait _ Sion is one of sacritege to those city dwellers who really roa are lense ‘ | er had been frank. as remote to her as it was to him.|you forgotten that you're lunching | Engage a taxi and keep it; it will graduations far beyond the capacity = appreciate the heroic things in America’s career. eis Ee a ate, | And Alen knew that she was not |He didn’t believe she planned any-|with Mr. Royden and Mr. Adams?” | save time.” - . the pumen: eye, Grin pound But in the small towns of the East it is different. There Immunity for Libel | being humorous when she wrote: |thing but the best way~to settle|She glanced at her watch. “They're| “But Alan, aren't you going to ee nastal apr iJ | “I hope you two will realize that | things. s : ilbiees the observance often is of a personal character to the entire population. The dead of the wars whose graves are to be decorated, if of the Civil war, still are remem- bered as old acquaintances by most of the townsfolk. To others they even are fathers or grandfathers or other Kinsmen. And the dead of the World war are still closer and more keenly remembered as sons, brothers, hys- ‘bands, old friends, buddies. All of which preserves the traditions of the day. It is in the small town that one really feels the inner meaning of the holiday pulsing beneath the festivities that have overlaid it. There isn’t, in fact, any better way to get back into touch with the oid America—the America that began to “evolve into something new about the time that Henry Ford. started to flood. the country with cheap automo- biles—than to take a little motor trip on the 30th of May. It is always worth while to drive out into the country, on Memorial day or any other day. The artificiality of city life shrinks to its proper proportions when you have - folled along through a quiet, green stretch of farmland > for an hour or so. But all of this is especially fitting and proper on a holiday that dates back right to the middle (of our reign as a land of farmers. It puts you into the proper frame of mind. Then you come to one of those diminutive country towns, identical the country over; a white frame church, @ couple of stores, a school house, a little cluster of houses, a water tower, a grass-grown public square and sp Uitte cemetery, all embowered in that peculiarly Amer- (Duluth Herald) Yesterday the court of appeals of the District of Columbia threw out of court a libel suit for half a mil- | lion dollars brought against Senator Couzens of Mich- | igan by Howe P. Cochran, a tax consultant who claimed | that Couzens had slandered him in an senate, address in the | | The court threw out the suit on the ground that the | constitution gives members of congress immunity from | responsibility for what they say on the floor of either | h, branch. The Herald is not passing judgment on this decision, whieh no doubt is sound, though it ought to be reviewed, to make sure, by the supreme court of the United States. But this is what that situation means: Anywhere in the United States, outs! Neither is it saying anythiag about this particular case. | ide of the few square feet represented by the halls in which the senate and house sit, every man is responsible before the law for what he says about other people. If he slanders a neighbor, he is liable for damages, and for criminal libel he may go to jail. Every man is free to speak his mind in country on any sybject whatever, providing he ac- ae his Tegal responsibility for the abuse of that privilege. But in congress a senator or representative may abuse anybody like a pickpocket, may slander anybody to his heart’s content, may blast the reputation of any man or woman, doing him irreparable hurt, and yet he has no more legal responsibility for the evil effects of his speech than the man in the moon. This may ional immunity may be beyond question. be @ sound decision, and the fact of con- But it ought not to be so, and congress itself should take steps to see that it remains so no longer than it takes to change it. i quarreling is.only a waste of your energy,-and turn to the real pur. Pose of marriage. Having devoted years of care to Natalie's rearing, I now expect her to present me with a grandchild." _ Alan snorted over that, but as he read on, he forgot about Nat- alle’s refusal to bear children, and began to wonder if she really was back to take up their life together again. ‘ At first he was inclined to be eve his mother-inlaw was. trying to patch up things by tricking him —if she could get him to go to Natalie . .. “she'd take a chance on the rest,” he reasoned. But almost instantly he rejected: the thought. Mrs. Jayhunter knew he would see Natalie. And if she weren't & receptive mood, he 5 ‘would soon find it out. But would he see Natalie? She hadn’t mentioned a meeting, Per- haps it would all be done through lawyers, ~ ‘ He was surprised at the let down in his spirits that this idea brought him, Ridiculous! Of course, he would see her! But was it possible that: her coming in, about eleven. A little conference before tunch.” She pressed air of eagerness, when he|Smiled. The “little conference,” met Phillipa, that augmented the}®he knew, was a very important condition of fear. she had worked {ne that might keep them there herself into overnight. until late, while they settled the Whatever he thought about his|f@te of oe fon Payne, after wife’s return, she told herself, one) Which they would join Payne to thing was certain; Alan was get-|™ke 4. fourth ‘at: their luncheon ting a thrill out of anticipating it:|table. Later Payne would learn ‘Well, Natalie shouldn't have him that. he was, if not ruined, at least back. She shouldn't. Ske shouldn't; | Uadly damaged. Royden and cae! Phillipa felt herself growing -bys terical. Pihe .turned abruptly me big etough. But they had needed walked away from Alan. It migut |bim Om this occasion. have infuriated her further, if she} Phillipa smiled, because she loved bad. known “he :did not notice the thang Pitiless battles of Wall Street. abruptness.. © ® $He'was becoming convinced that But, common sense ‘returning tq|Alan did not love her. She more her as she éat, hardyed and hard-|than suspected that he lov fat- mouthed, at her desk, she realized jalie. \And yet she wanted bim. ‘she could gain nothitig by being|Just as these men wanted Payne's belligerent. A quarrel with Alan,|dollars. She felt she had a right ® break, and there would be no|to take what she could get, just making up. She felt certain of it.|as they did. Her only appeal to him was in| Only she forgot that these «men Still there was about him a sup- look with me?” She seemed sur prised and hurt, quite forgetting she was a very capable business woman, Alan remembered.» “You won't need me today,” he answered gruffly. “Find a place, and. I'll look it over later.. But you want to be sure that you aren't mak- ing a mistake,” he added uneasily. Phillipa smiled at bim, a pathet- ically appealing little smile. “Aside from hating to leave mother I think it will be:heavenly to have a place where I can. make things for you,” she said goftly., Alan was not overcome with the Joy of anticipation. “Good_lord, I hope you don’t mean biscuits,” be exclaimed. is orn “Can't you-go. with me this after- noon?” Philipa coaxed, and Alan was so upset by her decision to leave her father’s house, and Nat alie’s immfhent return, that he quite failed to notice how suddenly putting him on his honor, and keep-|were fighting under a banner, fig- ing him there. \ _|uratively at least. . Everyone in the She got up and took some of} world, who knew that they were her work over to one of the stenog- |in the Street, knew what they were rapbers. there for. They were all.after the “Can you get these letters finished |same thing, Payne among them. in half an hour, Miss Brice?” she| When it was all over, he wouldn't she had lost bewilderment and dread of living alone. - He was about to say he would go if there was time, when he was interrupted by the office boy with a telegram. It was from Natale. (To Be Continued) FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: Beauty secrets are one kind women can keep to themselves, x r