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pattel — 1 A | to work out its problems. HE | ald & EE Member Adit Bureav of Circulation Member of ‘The Associated Press ted Press is exclusively entitied to the use tion af ell news dispetcbes credited to it oF ited ip this newspaper babies in published herein. AU spontaneous origi hts of republication of al) other matter herein are 7| ii pager 3 bay (Official City State and County Newspaper) Foreign Kepresentatives SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO SEW YORE BOSTON Marriage to a Genius A pen and ink sketch of Virginia Clemm, the girl who became the wife of Edgar Allan Poe, shared misery and hardship with him and finally died of cold, hunger and general impoverishment, has been discovered in the east; and it is given a strange, romantic interest by the belief that it was drawn by Poe himself. ‘There are other sketches with it, all supposedly drawn by Poe; but it is this one that~draws people’s attention. It shows a face that is calm, peaceful and happy; if Poe himself actually drew it he must have done it before privation came to wreck Virginia Clemm's life—or per- haps, like the genius he was, he looked beyond those things and sketched, not the girl that really existed, but the girl that might have existed if the fates had been a bit kinder. If this. portrait was really the work of Poe, it is an ‘extremely valuable discovery; and this is true, not merely because Poe was a great poet, but also because Virginia Clemm is such a pathetic and appealing figure. How we swould like to know more about her! How, indeed, we would like to see, not a portrait of her by Poe, but a por- trait of Poe drawn by her! For Virginia Clemm suffered that strangest of fates that can befall a woman; she married an authentic genius. Such being extremely rare—are not common; and the girl who gets into one of them is apt to find that the world is a place filled with wonder and terror, unpredictable and uncontrollable. But it may be, after all our pity for Virginia Clemm’s hard life has been expended, that she did not need quite as much sympathy as the world has given her. To be sure, she suffered the physical torments of cold ‘nd hunger. She was oppressed by poverty throughout her short married life. She died very young. But it may be that it was worth it. For, after all, she lived with a man who had eyes that could see and @ voice that could sing. Gazing into the circumscribed world thet was America.a century ago, he was able to find beauty and mystery and passion so freely that his songs and his stories are still alive today, and will live for many more generations. What girl would not be willing to go hungry now and then if the man of her heart could create, from the light in her own eyes, @ thing like “Annabel Lee”? Marrying a poet, even a poor one, even a poet who does not know that he is a poet, is risky business. Marrying a genuinely great poet is a sure road to disaster. But it is not the worst fate conceivable. It may mean sorrow and misery and heartbreak—but it will also, now and then, mean ecstasy. Not Quite So Certain Dr. Robert A. Millikan, who surprised the scientific ‘world some time ago by discovering the existence of mys- ‘terious cosmic rays, now announces that, he believes these Tays can be put to work. Finishing a summer devoted to the study of these rays, Dr. Millikan says that the rays can be used in 9 new kind | of barometer; so that the science of weather forecasting | ap be extended. | Tt fi interesting to think that this strange force which ‘was undreamed of a few years ago will shortly be in | ut much more interesting are the attempts of various Bcientists to explain just what'these cosmic rays may be. ‘Dr. Millikan believes that they come from the tremen- ous energies expended in the creation of matter some- ‘where in the profound abyss of space. He also believes that the rays themselves are ether waves of frequencies @ thousand times those of X-rays. . However, there are other scientists who believe ‘the rays come, not from the creation of matter, but from ‘the annihilation of matter, probably in the centers of dis- tant stars, Furthermore, they doubt that they are ether ‘waves at all, maintaining instead that they are high Speed electrons, All of this, of course, is quite meaningless to most of us. It is beyond our capacity to get more than a glim- mering of the nature of these rays. If they can be put ‘to work in barometers, well and good; we shall bother our heads no more with them. However, this conflict of expert opinion is worth think- ing about. For it is quite clear that what has happened 4s simply this: Science has stumbled upon a new mys- tery and is not in the least clear in its mind what this | ‘mystery may be or what may be the cause of it. There | fare some deep implications in that situation. Until comparatively recently, science has tended to be @ogmatic. It has worn an air of ponderous assurance, ‘and it has talked largely of “scientific truths.” But in date years this dogmatism and this assurance have begun ‘to evaporate slightly. The scientist who a few decades ‘ago was quite confident that the universe would soon be ‘ap open book is not quite so sure of himself now. He is, @uite often, gently disagreeing with his colleagues. As a result, this man-is-a-soulless-machine talk is al- ready beginning to sound a trifle out of date. Science, in widening its own horizon, is widening the horizon for the rest of us. Certainty is not quite so easily come-by. ‘There is still room for speculation and for wonder. "The Problems of Oil / “Gil as the market calls for, has been tried in several im- 3) ‘Was given the unqualified approval of the foremost gov- f/ @enmental authority—the- Federal ‘Board. : f Another problem is the gasoline tax. At least three Teceive a larger revenue from gasoline than the pany which sells it. and the entire burden of collec- ‘harness as prosaically as any waterfall in a mill town; t tion is placed upon the distributor. Last year the tax totaled almost $450,000,000 and a tremendous increase is forecast for this year. The business of selling petroleum has become chaotic from over-competition, There are too many gasoline stations, too much duplication of service and too much price cutting by dealers, Ol! is one of the greatest and most necessary of American industries and ts entitled to fair and intelligent public consideration in its endeavor A Business Tragedy It has been a long time since the world of business has bred a tragedy as dark as the one that came to a climax in that eastern railroad president's office the other day, where a railway vice president shot and killed the prest- dent of his road and then took his own life. Investigation following the shooting indicated that the trouble really began when the president, 10 years younger than the other man, was promoted over the other man’s head. Years of brooding, years of thinly-veiled antagon- ism, years of sharply clashing wills—and then the ex- plosion. It is not pleasant to think about. Yet the same set of circumstances exists, probably, in almost any business organization you would care to name. Older men are constantly being forced to see their jun- fors go above them, and are constantly having to swal- low their pride and beat down their resentment. This does not, ordinarily, lead to a violent outbreak; but it is a safe bet that there are a good many business execu- tives in this country who can at least understand how the murderer in this case felt. Caught, But Not Punished - The Chicago and Cook County Bankers’ association has issued a protest—not, evidently, without some justifica- tion—against the unusual delay that has marked the dis- posal of the cases of three convicted bandits. In January of 1929 six men invaded a Chicago bank, killed a watchman and got away with $800. Two days later they were captured and they confessed, also impli- cating themselves in 60 other robberies. In April they were tried and convicted; three were sentenced to life imprisonment and three were sentenced to death. Then the law's delays began to operate for the con- demned men. A score of stays of execution were issued. The supreme court heard the case two times. Inter- cessions were made to the governor. And now, 17 months after their conviction, the three condemned men have been granted a second hearing by the Board of Pardons and Paroles on their plea of clemency. This chain of events speaks for itself. Hard as it is to catch a hoodlum in Chicago, it seems to be even harder to do anything effective to him after you have caught him. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors, They are published with- gut regard to whether’ they agree or disagree with The Tribune's policies, New York Gets Wetter (8t, Paul Dispatch) The Republican party of New York state joins the Tanks of the wets and incidentally makes a contribution to the anti-prohibition technique by tacking @ reserva- tion on to repeal. The resolution adopted by the party convention Friday follows in main outline the idea of Dwight W. Morrow as Republican senatorial candidate in New Jersey, with one new reservation. P The idea is that the eighteenth amendment should be repealed and the question of liquor control handed back to the various states to handle each as it may please. The reservation is that the states in exercising their dis- cretion whether to have liquor, must not allow the re- turn of the saloon or traffic in drink. This is the same thing as éaying’fhat efteh state that wishes to be wet be given the power of establishing governmental dispensaries of liquor. The chief function remaining to the federal government would be to help dry states to protect themselves against interstate bootlegging. The Republican party of New ‘York now has a wet Platform and a wet candidate for governor, United States Attorney Charles H. Tuttle of New York City. It has hadq wet candidates before but never a wet plank. Gotham may be wet and Democratic but upstate is Republican and dry. In its elections of governors and United States senators New York state has been going Democratic and wet for so long now that Republicans there have for- gotten almost what victory means. Like its earlier lib- eralization of water power policy this turn to the wets is an attempt of the Republicans of New York to re- habilitate their party at a time when new Tammany scandals seem to create most favorable conditions, Mr. Seymour Steps Out ‘ (Washington Star) 4 ‘The first essay of George W. Norris, thirty-one-year-old grocer of Broken Bow, Neb., into the field of national Grocer Norris’ filing for the senatorial race. . The Republican high command quite naturally does not care to have itself pictured as sponsoring such obvious trick to embarrass the party’s senatorial date in Nebraska this year. There are plenty of tor Norris, who abandoned the party ticket gave his support to Alfred E. Smith and sistently fought the Hoover administration during the last two years. They may believe tor Norris should not have sought, under the g 3 i gee Hane if Seymour had considerable financial this un- dertaking. The matter should be cleared up. If the witnesses appearing before the senate are to be believed, the utmost care was taken to “cover up” the tracks of those who were putting forward Grocer Norris as an opponent of the senator. t Mr. Seymour, when he appeared before the senate com- mittee some time ago, denied that he had anything to do with Grocer Norris’ candidacy for the senatorial tion. More recently, however, other witnesses, in- fair and had jorris with funds to carry out the program. ‘The whole business has taken on a farcical, if rather sordid, aspect. Much is forgiven in political battles. tH s i Ess } : i ! g 3 E lone nothing wrong.” Doubtless, however, committee will feel somewhat relieved at the . Seymour has taken. Hi THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1930 Lost, Strayed or Stolen: One Pair of Rose-Colored Glasses! eqnege re gia Epege Bs Bg <.: ett —-——_—__————_————?| Fox, Sheridan was elected to Parlia- Today Is the ment and soon became distinguished as a speaker on the side of the oppo- Anniversary of sition, For his speeches against the REE American War, the Congress of Arcot United States offered to present On seplanbee se, 105; masiatd wath 200000 pounds, but he declined “Sheridan, famous British] ‘accept. Sheridan’s fame is made secure by framatist and statesman, was born) wrne Rivals and ‘The School for He received his education at Har-|Scandal,” which are smong the best row and later under private toutors.|Comedies in Engl Just as he prepared for the study of|Pethan age. Jaw he fell in love with @ professional singer, one Elizabeth Linley. He | Quotations married her in 1773, after fighting a “There can be no conflict between ature, Sheridan in 1775 produced his! sence and religion.”—Benito Musso- Uni. t play, “The Rivals,” at Covent Gardens. A year bar the aid ee ® pene Rt the Meee Drury Lane} “An act of congress has small juris- theater, for which he wrote “The| diction over what men think.”—Calvin School for Scandal” and “The Critic,” | Coolidge. one of the wittiest farces in the lan- * * * guage. U “I don't make speeches and it’s the stump for Mrs. McCormick.”— Alice Roosevelt Longworth, ** * “The tendency in modern dancing will be more and more away from the jazz and increasingly toward the clas- sic and conservative style.”"—Thomas M. Sheehan, president of the Dancing Masters of America, “ie ¥ “It must be borne in mind that from. the relief point of view the burden of the problem in the acute drought area will show very much more vividly over the winter than at the present time.” —President Hoover. xe * “Religion is not primarily an affair of the voice, but of the heart and life.”"—William Lyon Phelps. (Copyright, 1930, NEA Service, Inc.) Greece has begun an extensive pub- lic-work program, including rigation projects and road construc- tion for the economic development of per- In 1780, through the influence of|fectly obvious that I wouldn't go on reseed Tapldly and is now under atudios,, Anne lives . with two other MONA MORRISON, a red_head, and EVA a quiet stl who at times fs very bitter and who has had a tragic leve Eva works only eccasi: pana eve Very rarely, and this. ta another El ue uel Bry ie He i if i 5 i i f i NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXVIII Anne heard him drive up, and she opened the door for him. “Paul's waiting in the car,” he told her, “just in caso—" She nodded, only half hearing him, “Eva tried—tried to take poison,” she said, and began to cry. Dan’s arm went around her. “Come now, Anne, bear up. She's all right, isn’t she? Did you call & doctor? Where is she?” by please? I think perhaps we'll-all need it,” and she turned at once and went to the kitchen, with Paul following. Anne had slipped into a dress before their arrival, and Mona had flung a robe about herself. She did thig now for Eva, who continued to struggle feebly against Rorl- mer'’s strength, making no sound beyond an occasional gasping in- take of breath. There was no light on in the room, but. light came in at the open door, and Eva Harley’s face was shocking to see. Mona sat on her other side, with an arm around her, murmuring soothingly in her ear, and while they sat thus the doctor came. owe Aut brought him to the room at once. Mona remained with him and Eva, but Dan, relieved of his duty there, joined Anne and Paul in the kitchen. And he got Anne to tell him what had, happened. Mona, who occu- pied the same bedroom with Eva, had heard Eva get up during the night, had followed her to the bath- room and there had seen her with @ bottle in her hand. J “And the wildest gleam in her cyes, Dan. Mona dashed it from her hand and Eva struggled with her, trying to get it again. And I woke up, then and came out, and we managed to get Eva to her ” Anne pointed to the closed bed: | OM.’ room door, beyond which he could hear a muffled sobbing and another “The doctor?” Dan repeated, and Anne told him that she had sum- moned one and he was on his way. “But when I called you Eva was desperate, She kept struggling with Mona and fighting her off, and I was-afraid.” Anne was shaking, He talked to her steadyingly and she became calmer, and he asked her to tell him what had but. before she could be- by her wrists and forced her gent Eiit chi i ane x nie E He lis But Eva had continued to strug- gle furiously, to cry out that she was going to kill herself, and both Mona and Anne were desperately frightened. “So I called you right away, Dan, and’ then I called the doctor. Tm sorry I caused you so much trouble, but I was so worried I hardly knew what I was doing.” “You did exactly right,” Dan said, patting her shoulder, “What are your friends for if you can’t call on them? Stop now; Eva will be all right.” He said, smilingly, “How about that coffee, Anne? Isn't it ready yet?” . Mona said, “No, Doctor,” and she ine, twent on to say that, in her opin- wood NEA SERVICE: Inc spt. the country. a: jon, something like this had been inevitable because of Eva’s silent, brooding ways. “I've always been afraid of it.” He questioned her, then, as to Eva’s attitude and behavior, and he considered her answers gravely. It might be dangerous, he thought, her pres- might be dangerous to others; he did not want Anne or Mona to run unneces- sary risks. His advice was that Eva should be taken to a hospital, where she could be kept under careful obser- vation for a few days. es ee Mox4 and Anne were appalled, and Mona made some protest. “But, Doctor—”" He interrupted, smilingly but firmly. “Then a nurse, at least,” he said; “but I advise the hospi- tal” He glanced at Dan and Paul in turn, and Dan nodded and said: “It’s best. If Eva is really— sick, Mona, you'll want her to have the best of care.” The -doctor said encouragingly that Eva might be all right in the morning, but Dan understood that he was concerned, and he accom: panied him to the telephone, where the doctor called the hospital and made arrangements for an invalid car so that Eva’s sleep should not be disturbed. Dan asked frankly: “Is there any danger of Eva losing her mind? Is that what you're afraid of?” But the physician shook his head and frowned. “I'm not competent to say; but I don’t care to trust &@ person with a suicidal mania, however temporary, in a house] gran with two girls. I’m going to have & psychiatrist look at her.” He talked to Dan privately for some minutes, and Dan was satis- fied that he was entirely right in wanting to relieve Mona.and Anne of Eva's care, Dr. Howson re- mained until the invalid car ar- rived. ‘When it departed Anne cried again, and Mona, even, was utterly cheerless. The two young men re- mained for a while with reassur- ing words, and then they left, and they were thoughtful and silent on the ride home. moments he heard her voice again and it sounded tearful. She said: been tome... . But I guess you're right. Only, Td hate to see her go—she's the best friend I've got.” “I know it, Mona,” Dan told her sympathetically, “but I’m thinking of what's best for Eva.” eee WHen Collier came home that afternoon Dan thought he looked like the cat that had swal- lowed the canary. He sat down at once at his typewriter, but when he had thrust a sheet of pa per under the platen, and twirled it, he sat and stared at it; and Dan saw him grin rather foolishly. “What's the matter?” Dan asked. “Out with it.” Collier turned a bland gaze on him. “Out with what?” — “There's something on your mind, you big stiff; you can’t fool me.” But Collier denied that this was so. “The only thing on my mind is this story—that and the fact that you and I have a date tomor row night to go to the opening. Anne’s still going, by the way, isn’t she?” Dan said she was, and he stood there and looked at Collier sus- piciously for some time, “You've been up to something,” be said finally, and be turned away and left Paul to bis work. His suspicion proved to be well- founded, but it was not until the next day that he heard the story from Johnny Riddle. saan. who | “I’m telling you,” Johany insiat- ed. “There were witnesses, The story’s all over Hollywood now.” The incident lost nothing in Johnny’s dramatic version of it, This was substantially correct, but a bit colored, Dan learned that eve- ning when he aceused Paul Collier as they were dressing for the “Holding out on me, eh?” “What “You don’t know, eh?” Paul said, “I ran into him over on the Lawson Brothers’ lot, Rorimer laughed at the terse rte “What did he do about grinned, “Did it hurt?” Dan asked, “How do I know?” said Paul. “It ‘wasn’t my nose.” (To Be Continued) i é very good foods, they should only be used’ by themselves or with milk, never with & bread sandwich. Your child will do better work in school if his lunches follow the rules which I have Just outlined, rather than if they Consist of bad combinations. It is even better to give a child nothing ‘but fruit, than to burden his little Brussels Sprouts Question: A. G. H. asks: “Is Brus- ” |sels sprouts & healthful vegetable?” Answer: Brussels sprouts is a va- Hlety of cabbage and may be used as ® non-starchy vegetable by certain Being of the cabbage fam- they contain tion with other vegetables, those with a strong digestion will be able to handle them without produc- ing any flatulence. Bronchitis and Asthma Question: T. R. writes: “I have bestbprhor all got ve with bronchitis asthma, are made worse whenever I get near goldenrod. How can I cure myself?” Answer: If you have suffered from and asthma for so many years, the mucous membranes in your nose and throat are so inflamed that they-are easily irritated by such ® foreign substance as the poilen from the goldenrod. If you will re- move the real cause, which lies in eating the wrong food, your nose and throat will soon get in such good con- dition that this foreign substance will no longer irritate. BARBS | —? The National Horseshoe Pitching Tournament is to be held in Chicago soon, but the experts are not picking the winners. It will be a toss up, they say. ek * thing about horeshoe is that you can throw the game and still be oe the level. * Completing a night baseball. : (Copyright, 1930, NEA Service, Inc.) School Editors to Convene October 30