The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 14, 1931, Page 4

Ane Bismarck Tribune / An Independent Newspaper / THE STATE'S OLDEST’ NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and en- tered at the postoffice at Bsmarck as second class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher. Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year........$7.20 Daily by mail per year (in Bis- Marck) .......5 sane 4. Daily by mail per year (in state outside Bismarck)....... seeeee Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ...sccccessseeseeseeess 6,00 Weekly by mail in state, per year$1.00 Weekly by mail in state, three years .... se 2.50 Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year .. 1 Weekly by mail in C: YEA oececeeee cesses eee seseeees 2.00 Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or paper and also the local spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County | Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON; Leave Juvenile Delinquency to States Public opinion is heartily back of the recommendation of the federal) crime commission ‘that the United States department of justice “with-| draw from the prosecution of juve-| niles where such withdrawal will be| in public interest, and leave the! treatment of their cases to the juve nile courts or other welfare agen: of the states.” Dr. Miriam Van Waters, consult-| ant of the Harvard law school crime survey, has prepared for the Wicker-| sham commission, a report of federal treatment of juvenile prison: Hei report shows that 2,243 boys and gir: of 18 years or less were in federal) penal institutions during the last six) months of 1930. Conditions in the) Jails are described as “degrading.”| Some present “a situation of filth and| misery impossible to convey.” | It was even found that boys and| girls younger than 15 years were) housed with hardened criminals. The) offenses for which they were held, in Most cases, were petty and of the ,, misdemeanor type. In most cases the! violations were against the Volstead and Dyer Act, the latter governs transportation of stolen cars from one State to another. | Certain acts of recent years have| shifted the prosecution for rather) minor offenses to the federal gov-| ernment. As a result many children! have been caught in the drag-net Dr. Van Waters points out that in many cases it is only by accident) that these children have fallen within federal jurisdiction. The federal department of justice is not equipped to care for the juve- nile offender. It cannot serve as! guardian for the delinquent child. Elaborate machinery has been created in most states for the protection and training of the delinquent juvenile. In most states there are juvenile courts officered by competent welfare) workers who know the problems of! child delinquency. i No time should be lost in trans-/ ferring to the states a job that can! be done best by them? | Stutsman and Cass in Line Taxpayers of Stutsman and Cass) are getting in line for decreased city! and county tax budgets, Burleigh| has made a start, in a slightly dif-| ferent manner, through the appoint- ment of a tax committee to confer) with city and county authorities. If the drive for lower tax budgets is to be successful there should be! the widest publicity in the press re- garding these efforts. Promoters elsewhere behind the drive for de-| creased budgets and elimination of| luxury items in the tax levy are tak- ing the newspapers into thelr con- fidence and letting them tell the/ story to the thousands of taxpayers who are most vitally concerned. In Burleigh county there should be 30 | Teduced to 105.8 and by 1930 to 66.5. not otherwise credited in this news-/est in death rate among the five news of! been cut 22 per cent. In many others| there have been ,substantial reduc-} tlons in levies and budgets. If the! smallest taxing unit in the state can} Jaccomplish that, there is no reason; |why the county, large school districts | and the cities cannot accomplish the {same thing. { | Efforts Are Bearing Fruit Those engaged in fighting the/ scourge of tuberculosis should be cheered in their efforts by the fact jthat the United States had the low- {est pulmonary tuberculosis death rate last year since data were first jcompiled, Systematic compilation of information on tuberculosis was com-! jmenced in 1910, | In 1910, the death rate for 59 Amer- ican cities was 1744 per 100,000 of {population which by 1920 had been Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, writing lin @ recent issue of The Spectator, an insurance mazagine, gives the 1929 and 1930 records of 147 Ameri- can cities having an aggregate popu- lation last year of 39,345, | New York City is the second low- largest cities of the country and Chi-| cago tops the list having a death rate from tuberculosis in 1930 of 156.9. Los Angeles’ death rate from this disease jumped from 97.5 in 1929] to 1042 in 1930. These figures show that the con- stant campaign, waged largely by the Anti-Tuberculosis association of which North Dakota has an efficient branch, is getting results, Death rates are being decreased and thou- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, JULY- 14, 1931 The Special Escort! restored to normal living. It is a fine record and funds invested! in this k are bringing rich returns for society. For An Armament Holiday Curiously, the greatest demand for an arma mes from the! Russia and It ; stent cial upon a year's cessa- tion of military expenditure and Sec- retary of State Stimson has pro- longed his stay t issue. No one can explain that situation and there is noth cept the desire of Russia and Italy for less armament as sincere and in good faith. are motiv tic economic conditions than by any) in Rome to discuss} . | ie .| George M. Col ng to do but ac-| 5. for a first appearance before the Mannerisms were hauntingly reminis- public. routine together. The kid was good, |Piayed by a younger man. Still, the ted more by severe domes-|SO it seemed! I d bit taller than his father is George, | New York, July 14—Life is like that, but it's also like this: It was at the Friars’ Club annual ‘olic the other night. ‘ated actors of Broadway took part, usual, in the benefit show. It was 1an brought out George, Father and son did a dance Slender and wiry, a The most cele-| Jr., who is still in college but who has the theater in his blood—as all| 8! of the Cohans have. Well, anyway, one of the numbers in the show was a sort of memorial |to famed stage folk who passed on. |Someone appeared as the shade of | David Belasco; a spectral Joe Schenck jonce of the famous Van ahd Schenck team, sang and played, and there were Sam Bernard, Raymond Hitchcock, Eddie Foy and a lot of others, | Many of the makeups were remark- ably accurate. But people in the audience commented particularly on | jon this occasion, for instance, that| the impersonation of Eddie Foy. The [resemblance was uncanny, and the cent. To be sure, the role was being Both tions probably/and not a bit audience- fous. Or, Old-timers could recall when Eddie mes is By Slender and wiry, a(looked pretty much like that. During an intermission I asked a other reason. Russia has her Five-| Year Plan and Italy's dictator has; trouble enough at home, so the re-/ sources of both nations are heavily mortgaged to carry out domestic po-| licies, many of which are a real source of worry to the parties in power. President Hoover is alive to the) situation and was looking ahead when, proposing a debt holiday, he 1 “I wish further to add that | while this action has no bear- ing on the conference for limita- tion of land armament to be held next February, inasmuch as the burden of competitive armaments has contributed to bring about this depression we trust that by this evidence of our desire to assist we shall have contributed | to the goodwill which is so nec- essary in the solution of this major question.” Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree with The Tribune's policie Taxing the Motorist (Minneapolis Tribune) The Minnesota motorist need not) consider Florida's new tax of eight cents a gallon on gasoline to ap-| preciate the fact that he is, in the) matter of state levies, a singularly! fortunate individual. j If he will take the pains to glance} at figures compiled by the fetleral government for 1930 and covering gas/| taxes and license fees, he will find that in only one other state in the| Union was the average tax cost less| than in his own state. North Dakota,! with an average tax coBt of $21.47, was | the low state, while Minnesota ranked | one step higher with an average of/| $29.22, as compared with an average for all states of $32.06. Our average auto registration tax, it appears, was nearly two dollars higher than the) average for all states, while the state's average gas tax was approximately | four dollars less than the national! average. | As was to have been expected, Flor- | BANA BEGIN HERE TODAY convent bred, went to a New York apeakeas: When LIANE BARRETT, 18 an@ dinner in ith casual could go your way, I mine. And I'd be free.” He was done at last. And sttll the young girl sat, motionless, her yard scrape DY Stincer, | sreat, soft eyes full on his, “ — pe Se SS He stirred impatiently, “You Stream, theater, McDe1 Liane meets 2 handsome here her mother whom she had encountered before, don’t need to answer at once. Think it over,” he urged. Liane stood up. She was trem- bling now. “I never was so insulted in my life,” she said, in a throaty He is VAN ROBARD. CASS BAR- | Voice. RETT, Liane’s mother, her eee Dy CLIVE CLES: HE ran upstairs ‘to find her he mother weeping, the dreary, = P | In’ tl It = atay with 3 and hia mother do m 3 She hears gossip a ZB and MRS. LADD an i Muriel seems to I 2 = Jo mg 1 u a At th F ¢ ' te young reporter, MOND, bi pI ‘What # to have some refei a terrific struggle Cai wins her fight for Jife. Mra. Clee paugh on having h insists brought back to Willow Stream for convalescence, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XVI bar. down,” began Clive Clees- paugh in a new, commanding voice. “I want to talk to you.” Liane obeyed abruptly, astounded at the change in his manner. Clive said in preface. this. Haven't a cent in my o' right because of a fool will my He left everything father made. “My mother’s gone for a drive,” “IT made sure of that—didn’t want to be inter- rupted. Look here, the situation is You probably don’t know ft but I am tied to mother’s apron pitiable weeping of the convales- cent. “We can’t go on like this, staying here,” Cass moaned to her in- quiries. “It worries me.” Liane tried to soothe her. “Mrs. Cleespaugh wants us to stay. Please, please don’t worry about it.” “It’s far too much. It doesn’t seem right to a€cept it,” Cass pro- tested. “Darling, you're not to worry. The doctor said that expressly. Just get well and then we'll talk finances.” “But I can’t go on being a—well, a pensioner,” moaned Cass, raising herself on one thin, bare arm. ‘The young girl flushed and shrug. ged. But her attempts to change the subject were fruitless. Cass was determined to be up and about. Only her weakened condition prevented her from struggling into her clothes and going back to join the company. “It's not that she isn’t supreme ly kind,” Cass pursued, warming to the subject. “She is. And that makes me more uncomfortable than ever.” She began to weep again, the helpless, devastating tears of utter weakness. Instantly Liane was on her knees beside the bed. “Dar. ling, you mustn't. It'll be all right. Honestly, you're torturing yourself needlessly.” re er wn few questions and glanced at my pro- ‘am. The father had been played by his own son—Eddie, Jr. * * * For many a week heads were turned when a good-looking young man ap- peared in the night spots of New York in a wheel chair. At each appearance, and the ap- pearances were frequent, he would be wheeled to a ringside seat. There, Propped in his seat, he would be- come one of the most enthusiastic celebrants in the city. The beautiful girls dancing by would all seem to know him. Seemingly, he had been around before. And thus, through the night, he would go from place to place, unable to risé from his chair,|of but seeming to enjoy evérything that went on about him. The other day someone told me the story about him. His name is Thomas Pierce, Jr., and he is the son of one him. We met in Paris in 1910 wien my husband was alive.” ee [2 agreed that the = was agreeable, She dressed with unusual care. Her old white frock, fresh from the cleaner’s hands, seemed to have taken on a new lease of life, She spilled a few drops of jasmine on her hand- kerchief. When she went in to sit with Cass over her alluring ly, “You look sweet, lamb. As if olan had given you a million) she was mystifed. She said, a A 7 “Tell me what to do, and I'll do it.” “Y, ” her, Spr esey cali Cannone “Why, it'll be nothing but the The nurse bustled about. “Doc- tor says she'll be up in a week if she keeps up this progress,” she said. In her heart Liane thought, “She shall keep it up. that.” And yet she went downstairs with strangely leaden feet. Clive, looking unusually big and formid- able in his black and white, held out bis arm formally and they fol- lowed Mrs. Cleespaugh and the apple-checked Mr, Williams in to I shall see to dinner. Liane experienced an un- wonted thrill as she curled her fin- goers around that broadclothed arm. What a stern and gloomy young’ man he seemed tonight! He scarce- ly spoke, Liane glanced at him timidly now and again across the delft bowl with the late roses, the waxen candles in their silver hold- ers, “—Louis XIV,” Mr. Williams was finishing some argument magister- fally. “I always said the piece was definitely in that period.” In a daze Liane listened, watched, crumbled bread. Dimly she knew that this night marked a crisis in her life. She seemed to be moving, acting in a dream. She had the sensation of having spoken these words, made these selfsame ges- of the most britlin Louis, belt that he leaves about $25,000 be- hind him every year—though that May turn ouf to be a typical exag- ation of the bright lights belt. the other hand, it may cover up 8 vaster sum. But whatever he may toss to the lovely girlies of the chorus and to the cents a dance, plus tips. But this man seems to be about 90 years old. And aware of the, fact that he cannot dance well, he slips a $10 bill in the palm of each young partner who struggles through. GILBERT SWAN. TODAY 1S THE- ANNIVERS, WILLIAMS’ SENATE SPEECH On July 14, 1917, Senator John Sharp Williams of Mississippi deliv- ered a speech in the United States senate in answer to Senator Stone’s assertion that “we are in the war un- wisely.” Extracts from the speech follow: : “The president and the adminis- tration did do everything that hu- man intellect could conceive for the purpose, if possible, of bringing an end to the war. The president came to this chamber and made that speech which was criticized, not only abroad, but here in this chamber, as being a ‘peace-at-any-price’ speech—the cele- brated speech in which he said we must have peace without victory... . “Now we are in it, we have got to see 4t through—not only to a suc- cessful issue of this war, but, while we are about it, to a just and perm- anent treaty which shall, as far as possible, make war cease to be a game national athletes. ... i “We. propose now, in fime of war, to prepare for peace, and for a just and lasting peace, and we are going through with it ... until we have ‘wooing? Clive fumbled with his impec- cable tie. “We've got to make some sort of show of being pals, at least, before we spring it on mother.” “Of course, I understand that." She was demure. “Look here,” said, giving her a shrewd glance. “This will be your show, run as you want it. You're nothing but a supper tray her mother said, fond-| kid. I'll play it according to the rules.” regular thing,” he said. about together, sending flowers, and whatnot, Mean to say you've never been beaued before?” asked this astonishing young man, Liane shook her head. “It just isn't reasonable,” Clive objected seriously, looks like you—” “What—what do I look like?” cried Liane, struck by his tone. “Oh, dryad.” Pics put her hands to her hot dl about the young man’s, gaze that set her to blushing. “You don’t have to say things like that,” she told him. He turned moody again. Strange, incalculable young man! voice suddenly cold and expres-. sionless he said, “Of course not. Sorry. I won't offend again.” Liane, sensitive to the change in his mood, caught him up abruptly, “Ob, but you misunderstood—I didn’t mean—” Clive said, “It’s to be kept on a strictly business basis. Isn't that what you meant? Right. Sorry I transgressed.” Oh, well, she thought, ff he’s going to be mulish about it, let him! seen it through not only to peace, but the young man “Going “A girl who @ sort of glimmering ks, There was something In @ How to Treat * * * ‘ Removing Victim to nia Maeainy Will Help EDITOR'S NOTE—This is the fifth of a series of seven timely | articles by Dr. Morris Fishbein on | “Summer Care of Health.” | xR OK BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American | Medical Association In his guide for people who are) living in the tropics, Professor Aldo) Castellani suggests that the first step in heat stroke is to loosen the cloth-| ing, to get the person into as cool a| Place as possible, to put the person} on a bed covered with a large rubber ‘sheet and then to rub ice and cold water over the body. In order to aid) heat radiation from the body, electric fans may be used. At the same time that the ice is rubbed over the skin, or massage in order to promote the circulation. One of the dangers of the cold sponge is collapse. For this reason the patient’s temperature is taken regularly and when it falls to 101.6 degrees (taken by the bowel in | unconsciousness, Daily Health Service Heat Stroke * * * Cool Spot, Ice Rubs and Restore Circulation to watch him carefully in order that he shall not collapse. —. some instances serio aa have resulted, because of 1n« crease in the cerebrospinal fluid. Hence, in serious cases spinal fluid is removed by the physician through spinal puncture. Not infrequently it {s also desirable to remove some of the blood from the patient by opening @ vein in order to restore normal cir- lation. tt breathing stops in this type of as well as in any form of unconsciousness due to elec- trical shock or gas poisoning, or some similar cause, artificial respiration should be kept up. This should not be stopped after a few minutes be- cause of failure. It should be kept it is well to apply vigorous friction! up for hours; indeed, as long as there is any possibility that the heart and breathing may be induced to continue spontaneously. "A person who has had a heat stroke should not be given large quantities of food. He should, however, be given stead of by the mouth), it is custom-|small quantities of nutritious food re- ary to stop the application of cold | peatedly, water sponging or the ice rub, to)broths, eggs, cover the patient with blankets and | including milk, soups, and similar soft and easily digestible substances. Wants Divorce al Jane Aubert to a just and lasting peace, eous peace.” —>—_—_——— BARBS ‘ The United States may have the re- Putation of being tight-fisted in Europe, but there's no denying that cur aviators “come across.” @ right- When John D. Rockefeller, on his 92nd birthday, said, “I'll beat 100,” he was reffering, of course, to his age, not his golf score. Billie Burke, new golf champion, was formerly a foundry worker. Which may -have something to do with the excellence of his iron shots. The French had visions of starva- tion if Germany’s war payments were withheld a year. That's why Hoover, perhays, gave them Mellon. In the understanding of gangland, it is a ride that goeth before a fall. Even a draftsman, says the office sage, would have a hard time draw- ing up vacation plans. pose Sermons st | | Quotations ‘ T fully expect we will all live to spend a week-end on Mars, with side trips to Venus, Neptune and the les- ser planets—Heywood Brown. After the advent of prohibition nine-tenths of the drunkenness in the United States disappeared. — Commander Evangeline Booth. Only a relatively rich nation can stage a panic or even a depression in She stole a side glance at the widest kind of publicity surround-| ida’s average gas tax of $41.66 was i strings. = to mother, stipulating that I was to tures in a previous existence. ing the actions of the Bismarck As- sociation of Commerce tax commit-|margin, yet not content with this| It is not necessary to hide their|S0wing, its legislature has now re-| tee. light under a bushel. Let’s drag out into the open the cost of operating the city so that community effort! can be directed toward necessary economies. Talking behind closed doors and in star chambers will do) no good. The tax committee should insist|@nd lucrative forms of levy ever de- ‘upon an early publication of the city’s financial condition and a list of sal- afties paid and all information touch- ing upon budget matters—in advance of the budget making, NOT AFTER, so that citizens and the tax commit- and much can! E nigh among the states, and by a good! jvised its gas tax upwards to eight! cents. Its action is of more than merely local interest because it is illustrative of the tendency, in cer-! tain states, to ride a perfectly good tax horse to death with all possible (dispatch. No one, we believe, has! ever disputed the fact that the gaso- line tax is one of the most equitable d, and that the ease of collection| makes it a particularly desirable source of revenue. But the very fact that this tax has been so heartily and universally approved has been respon. sible for the growing tendency of leg- islatures to forget that the tax may be subject to abuse quite as readily as it may be made to serve legitimate revenue ends. In Florida, apparently, no effort is being made to keep the tax within reasonable proportions. The rural Politician can think only in terms of the rich county subsidies which are tiage. He was nuts” (said this | 3 ‘reverent young man slangily) “on the subject of youthful marriages. Now I’m almost 26 and I don’t seem to have found a wife. Oh, yes, I forgot to tell you that another im- portant fact fs that mother mi course, it’s practically out of the question to find such a parag til now.” Tho girl did not answer. & moment he went on. “That's why I wanted to talk you,” eyes on his lowering face. to talk it over. The thought was cut and dried she'd be do gradually. come into my own (a few million) only in the event of my early mar- That is, I had thought it was, Un- After blurted out Clive embar- rassedly. “I have a plan which concerns you. D'you want to hear about it?” Liane nodded, her thoughtful “Look, you'll probably think I'm all sorts of a fool but it’s no harm this, how would it be if you and I fixed up some sort of agreement? Never let my mother know about it, of course. If she knew the affair on us from the start, But she likes you so much. She wouldn't sas- Dect anything if I went through the Motions of falling in love with you Little by little. Then we could have s—what-d’-ye-call-| shall get some cribbage. it?—a marriage in name only. You| ful creature he is. You've Cass nodded, like a spent child. “You'll promise to stop worry- fr- “Tl try.” But Liane knew the promise was a half-héarted one. She thought suddenly, “If I were a prospective daughter of the house mother would accept Mrs, Cleespaugh’s hospital- ity without question.” It was as if a way had opened to her, dazziingly clear. There was nothing else for her to do but ac cept Clive’s preposterous proposal. That would justity her mother’s presence in the house indefinitely. She stood looking dowa at the pale face, the hollows and shadows in the thin cheeks. Hadn't she said she would do anything in the world for her mother? This was her chance. Now-she could prove her devotion, to herself at least, because Cass must never know there was an element of sacrifice fs| in the arrangement. When she went into Mrs. Clees- paugh’s room later she found the dowager magnificent in gray satin and real lace, “Clive’s honoring us with his presence for dinner tonight,” she said anfmatedly. “Most pected. I thought he was to dine at the Hunt Club. And Mr. Wil-| light,’ met ust approve the girl I choose. Well, of on, to wo gg When the bong, pompous meal was finally ended the four sat in the small drawing room and Mrs. Cleespaugh poured amber coffee into cups of eggshell fineness. “You children run off and amuse each other,” she said firmly as Nora carried away the tray and set the table in place for the sribbage game. “Come along to the music room and I'll turn on the radio. Get that what-dy’e call her?—that as- trological person,” Clive offered awkwardly, Liane rose, Now that the moment of decision had come she wanted to push it aside, But she followed hith meekly. Clive twiddled the dials for a moment, then turned to her with an abrupt movement, “Well, let's have it,” he de manded. “Tell me what you real- ly think of me, I know I was no end of @ fool to have asked you Ue, 1 Ae. eae. I ask your par- eee GEE 216 quietiy, “Its I who must ask yours, I was stupid sehool-girlish. I've been thinking it over—" “You've reconsidered?” She nodded. She could not quite trust her voice. “Good girl” Liane stifled the hysterical laugh which rose to her Ups. Was there ever so quaint a, the mutinous profile, “Let's see, could we break it to them in about three—say four weeks?” Clive asked a few mo- ments later. “That will be all right,” Liane “Well, how's for starting right now with a bit of dancing,” the young man wanted to know. He turned the dials and presently the throb and best of a far off dance orchestra entered the room. He held out his arms. ‘The young girl, after an in- stant’s hesitation, sli@ into them. Ab, but she hadn't known he would dance like that! She had danced with Van Robard and had loved it. She had been joyous dancing with Chack Desmond but never before had she experienced this fluid per- fection of motion accomplished by the born dancing man with wings on Bis heels, ‘The tune beat its insistent way into her brain Be Ae A ed . and fleetingly follo wo themselves into the pattern of the music. A singer broke in rau- “Moanin’ low, my sweet man, I love you so. If you die, where'll I ber" The frohy of it, thought Liane the money markets.—Cora Harris. You can get rich, and die rich, anywhere on the round earth, if you know how.—Arthur Brisbane. What twenty million women want is good clothes, cigarets and culture — Anna Steese Richardson, PARAMOUNT THEATRE Dorothy Jordan, recently seen with Robert Montgomery in “Ship- mates,” plays a prominent role in the Fox Movietone adaptation of the New York stage success, “Young Sinners,” coming to the Paramount Theatre. Cast as a pert, headstrong, laughter- loving society girl-who knows what she wants when she wants it, Dorothy Jordan is seen in a modern, vivid role that should win for her many new rs. Others in the cast include Hardie’ Albright, as a likable but spoiled millionaire’s son; and Thomas Meighan, making a notable return to the screen in one of the better roles of ae career. “Young Sinners” is fast mi 4 pointed and often gay entertainment, Packing a dramatic punch that is convincing and believable. It is a Picture that will appeal to all those who are young themselves and to those who are interested in the pro- PARIS IS SHAMED AS DIVORCE CENTER BY MEXICO AND RENO Long Fight of Jane Aubert Illus~ trates Slow Action of French Courts Paris, July 14.—(?)—Reno and Mexico have put this once celebrated center for quick divorces to shame, What used to be dreamland for de- crees now has been shot to pieces by competition and perhaps hard times, which seems to have turned disillu- sioned Americans to the mails or a train for Nevada, which is faster and cheaper than an Atlantic liner. The Paris machinery, which never worked too smoothly when the prin- cipals could not reach an agreement out of court, has not been. oiled up, as may be scen by the unhappy ef- forts of Jane Aubert, musical comedy celebrity, to divorce her American husband, Colonel Ira Nelson ?forris, millionaire Chicago packer. Her suit, which was filed two ycars ago, has now been set for trial before the Versailles Civil Court July 22, And still another adjournment might be anticipated. Marry in Haste The blonde and pretty Jane fell in love during her first professional trip to America and married Colonel Mor- ris with considerable speed in Chi- cago. They came to Paris and took up residence near Versailles in a beautiful villa which her husband gave her and which cost him, he has told the court, something like $50,0'v. But their marital joy was short-lived, and since then their private affairs have been aired in various continental courts. When and where it will all |end is now as uncertain as ever. The trouble is that Morris doesn’t want Jane to have a divorce and lawyers for both sides have had a busy time, trying to prove various courts incompetent and shifting the wife's nationality from French to American and back to French again. In the meantime Morris has been trying to keep his wife off the stage. He claims she made him a solemn promise when they were married that she would not act professionally again, and that she violated this as soon as they disagreed by starring in ® local theater. He was successful here when he invoked the Napoleonic code which stipulates that a wife can do nothing without the consent of her husband, and he was awarded $2,000 damages from the Palace theater for allowing her to play against his wishes. Art Conquers Jane said her art was more pre- cious to her than love and tool: her @ art elsewhere, but his lawyers pur- sued her on the continent with more or less success, However, they could do nothing to restrain her from act- ing in the United States, where no Napoleonic code keeps a clever wife down, ‘The court of appeals has alread rejected Iorris’ plea that his wife is an American citizen through her mar- riage to him, and has ruled that the French courts are competent. But their speed is not so Promising and canes pions are wondering if she give up hope and try he: a regen field. ius other victory so far gains Morris was a ruling cutting rid Aubert’s separation allowance from $1,000 to $200 a week. This she con- sidered scarcely enough to feed her 28 little dogs. Other money troubles must be thrashed out, however, and this takes a lot of time in Paris courts, pei Breakfast is served in one York hotel by being shoved fest @ small trap door in the bottom of the room door. This is done without arousing a guest. FLAPPER. FANNY SAys: REG.U. S. PAT. OFF. blems of youth. No brunet beliey in love, all's fate bh a ow