The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 22, 1931, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22,1931" he | Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published _by The Bismarck Tribune Comany, Bismarck, N. D., and en- tered at the postoffice at Bismarck as sécond class mail matter. ‘ GEORGE D. MANN | President and Publisher. 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(Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, LEVINGS & BREWER (Incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON The Old, Old Story Information that “Legs” Diamond, infamous New York gangster, was “broke” when he was killed by un- derworld enemies, serves to empha- size anew the old, old story that crime doesn't pay. Here is an underworld “king” whose coffin will be paid for by the charity of friends. He was’ “put on the spot” several times be- fore death finally came to him, s0 his; occupation could hardly have been a pleasant one and the money must have been his whole object. Yet he failed miserably in that. Older folk, of course, have seen often enough how these things work out and the prospect of easy money offers less temptation for them than for younger folk. This is proved by the tender age at which the average criminal enters our prisons nowadays. Statistics show it is somewhere be- tween 22 and 23 years. The difficulty, therefore, would seem to be, not ‘to prove that crime doesn't pay, but to convince our young folks of the fact. Every Amer- ican father and mother is an im- portant factor in this importani process of education. It is a respon-| sibility which cannot be shifted to/ churches, schools or any other agen- cy or individual. Others can help but the responsibility of parenthood: is inescapable. Considered in this light, it seems the greatest need of the nation in solving its crinte problem is wise and’ sincere fathers and mothers with an understanding of their own children and a desire to develop proper char- acter traits in them. For the temptations of “easy money” obtained by shady methods are very real to the young man or woman who lacks educational, social or family background. He sees oth- ers, no better educated and no wiser, than he, making an apparently good thing of life. He sees such persons| having a good time without much work. It seems easy. He hears that he is a fool to stick to a job which may be onerous at times when so much is offered to the bold practi- cally for the taking. Unless he realizes both that some things are wrong in themselves and that crime doesn't pay, the young person may fall when temptation comes. If his first few escapades are successful and unpunished, he has ample confirmation of an opinion that the authorities and the gray- beards are all wrong. He becomes a full-fledged criminal without realizing that every success in his illicit enterprises brings nearer the inevitable day of reckoning. Both the “big shots” and the hang- ers-on of the underworld. illustrate the truth of the old adage about crime. There have been none bigger anywhere than Al Capone, who sits now in a jail cell awaiting his almost certain transportation to a federal penitentiary for a long term of years. It seems almost as certain that the great Capone fortune, built upon a foundation of blood, vice and wrong- doing, is melting away. will have vanished. Only Capone has been a more im- portant figure than Diamond, who now has taken the other route, trav- eled by so many before him. A mis- spent life comes to an untimely ena because of the very things by which he hoped to profit. Life was as sweet to Diamond as to anyone. It was his) own fault that he did not live to en- Joy it. These are things which need to be Pointed out to the youth of America, for the crop of criminals which we shall: have in 1942 is now in the It consists of the boys and girls between 10 and 13 formative stage. years old. The Importance of a King Persons interested When Ca- pone regains his freedom it probably in the recent po- litical happenings in England may be ing in the current issue of the At-} lantic Monthly. Referring to the important interim during which the coalition cabinet ruled Britain before the recent elec- tions, we learn that the king pre- vented what might have been a po- litical and business debacle by stav- ing off the emergency until the na- {tion had time to find itself. | The crisis, we are told, came just before the fall of MacDonald as the labor premier. The country was in a bad way and he wanted to resign. This meant an immediate election. | Hurrying to London from his coun- try home, the king called MacDonald, 00| Samuels, the new labor leader, and Stanley Baldwin, conservative chief, into conference at the palace. There he told them the nation appeared to have gotten into a rather bad mess and that, in his opinion, an imme- diate election could only make it worse. “Therefore,” he is said to have added, “I have asked you three gentlemen, as leaders of the three parties, to meet here. I shall retire to another room for 10 minutes. When. I return I will expect you to have found a solution.” The answer was the coalition cabi- net which ruled until the nation could prepare itself for an orderly election. LaSulle’s Lost Ship Several years ago bits of wreckage |of an old sailing vessel Were found along the shore of Manitoulin Island, in Lake Huron. These were believed to be the remains of LaSalle’s famous old ship, the Griffon; now French experts who have studied bolts taken from these timbers lend confirma- tion to this tHeory by stating tnat the bolts were typical of French iron- work of the 17th century. This, perhaps, is not very inter ing to a nation that keeps its atten- tion chiefly on the present and the) future. Yet there is something fasci- nating about the tale of LaSalle’s lost ship, first vessel of its kind to sail the Great Lakes, and one hopes that. its last resting place, its few surviv- ing fragments, have really been dis- covered. For the tale of the Griffon is made up of two potent kinds of romance; it contains the essence of the mystery of the sea, and it represents explora- tory adventure at its highest. LaSajle’s men built the Griffon near the present site of Buffalo in 1679. It was @ tiny ship measuring some 70 feet over all and mounting five small guns, and it sailed at once for Green Bay, Wisconsin, where 1 loaded @ cargo of furs and other mer- chandise. Then, in the fall of that year, it cleared fer.the Niagara river. Indians saw it pass through the Straits of Mackinac. No one ever saw it again, There is something haunting and compelling about the tale of any ship that is lost with all hands. One's mind automatically forms pictures of the final tragedy, in a turmoil of wind and waters and over-arching darkness, and the pictures stick in the mind and evoke shudders. But the thing is heightened, in the case of the Griffon. For those early French navigators and traders were almost literally at the uttermost erds' of the earth. Green Bay and Lake Huron were definitely farther from Paris, in the 17th century, than the Antarctic continent is from us today. The Great Lakes were seas qf mys- tery and terror, and the Griffon was their only ship. Now, counting the threads on rusted bolts, scientists believe they, have identified its wreckage. Can any man who has any feeling for ro- mance be indifferent? A few persons depend too much on themselves, but a lot more depend too much on others. Editorial Comment Editoriale printed below show the frend of thought by other editors. They are publis ed wvithout reg to whether they or disagr with The ‘Tribune policies. Careful! (Duluth Herald) Shortly after noon yesterday a group of unemployed raided a store and stole some bread and sausages to the value of fifty dollars. Later in the afternoon, as prepara- tions were under way at the old city hall to feed several hundred unem- ployed, an attendant was attacked by another group of men and was beaten and stabbed. In both cases police charged the initiative to the Communist agitators, who are busily taking advantage of the present situation to cultivate the soil made fertile by the temporary breakdown of the industrial system they seek to overthrow. Communist leaders deny this. They say that such tactics are not in their program. They do urge “mass ac- tion” and the overthrow of the exist- ing order, but they are against such footless skirmishes as these. It may be that the Communist leaders are correct in the sense that they do not actually tell their dupes to storm grocery stores and beat up those who are feeding them. But the Communists are fomenting discontent, which is right enough in itself because to be contented with present conditions would be stupid- ity, and they are directing this dis- content toward the highway of vio- lent methods. Such stupid acts as those of yesterday may easily be the misguided reaction of ignortant and weak-minded men to the suggestions of Communist organizers and orators. At any rate, there is great need of care, both on the part of Communists, who are likely to bring down a storm on their own heads, and on the part of the unemployed, who now have public sympathy but could easily and sgsiers to learn that King George| quickly forfelt it by such silly tactics ‘V, usually regarded as ® mere figure- as those exhibited yesterday. head, took an important part ia| For one thing sure, regardless of them. Yet such is the case, accord- all else, is that such tactics cannot and will not be tolerated in Duluth ing to James Truslow Adams, writ-| for one moment. A Smoky Chimney for Santa th Gilbert. Swan New York, Dec. 22—One of the sights of “old New York” I shall al- ways regret missing was that of Barry Wall, the “king of the dudes,” strolling the “Avenoo” in all his bi- zarre sartorial splendor, Apparently this was one gent about whom exaggeration would be impossible. Recently I encountered an ancient photo showing this fash- ion plate wearing tight gaiters to the knees; an eye-crashing plaid and striped coat came to the waist and looked as though borrowed from a minstrel parade; a low silk topper perched at an angle on his head. A top hat, it seems, was the mark of a banker, a lawyer or an actor out of work. Identification depended up- on what part of the city the person happened to be haunting. Today every third clerk encoun- tered at theater hour affects a te | See per” and even drama critics have been observed wearing them. In Barry's day no “dude” was complete without a pair of shoes so thinly pointed that they could have been used for toothpicks; bulging and loud- ly designed short coats and high stiff collars. One or two of the oldsters still appear to be slowly choking themselves to death with skyscraper collars. Dan Frohman deserves the collar altitude record of Manhattan at the moment. * * OK Another “dresser” and “sport” of the old days whose photos and leg- ends have made me slightly wistful was Diamond Jim Brady. An old drawing I lately encountered revealed this famous figure wearing cuff studs as large as coal lumps; a diamond on the left hand that covered the lower section of several fingers and another in a coat lapel to which was attached a watch chain. All of which, glitter- ing down the street, must have made a dazzling sight. Diamond Jim's most fabulous ex- cursion into the land of finery was an American flag stickpin imbedded with vari-colored stones and flashing, so they tell me, like a Broadway sign at night, * * Ok , While remembered for years as & playboy and flashy rounder, the old- timers insist that he never drank or smoke. He was to be found where everyone else popped champagne corks and he is pictured buying lav- ishly, but refusing to touch “the stuff.” Old-time waiters recall that, instead, he encouraged them to keep on hand for him a quantity of orange juice. His lunch was seldom consid- ered properly under way until he had consumed a pitcher of it. Half a A THMBLEFUL OF ORDINARY WAR ore LIVING CREATURES THAN THE HUMAN POPULATION OFTHE EARTH. ofa ite be was Gecend peceniy. oiscoveneo RESEMBLE BARK, ACANI was, BARK, CONCEALED THE dozen glasses of orange juice was a mere trifle. His amazing capacity for stowing| ¢, away food is still discussed in the older Broadway eating places, The other night I heard a waiter relate that Diamond Jim would take four helpings to any other diner’s one. The place where this waiter is now employed now specializes in “fast or- ders” and Diamond Jim would doubt- less have raised a large rumpus over the size of the portions. Tt was no surprise when Diamond Jim would order two lambs roasted whole and carted in after the fash- ion of a boar’s head in “Merrie Eng- land.” * * * ‘The theater folk relate that he in- variably fell asleep if a Broadway show lagged or failed to suit his tastes. It was a commonplace to see him dozing merrily along in his seat. Managers frequently used him as » thermometer of a show's success. If Diamond Jim stayed awake, they fig- ured they had a hit; if he fell asleep, they began to worry about their fu- ture gate receipts. (Copyright, 1931, NEA. Service, Inc.) am TODAY & a Ae pany beste dah Eley PEACE PARLEY Dec. 22, 1917, peace negotia- (oes began between the Central Powers and the Bolshevist govern- ment. Count Czernin, speaking for the Central Powers, proposed an im- mediate peace without forcible an- nexations and indemnities. The Allies lost heavily in naval warfare—France lost nine ships of over 1,600 tons during the week end- ing on this date, and England suf- fered the loss of three torpedo boats, | 18 officers and 180 men off the Dutch coast. Torpedoes or mines wer? thought to shave caused the explo- sions. England successfully repulsed at- tacks near the Bapaume-Cambria road and southwest of Armentieres, while Italy regained the ground lost in the region of Monte Asolone on Dec. 19. STICKERS "Tl — THINK A > HEAVY == |S — TOMORROW." Three words are missing from the above sentence. Each word is pro- nounced the same, but each one is spelled diflerently. Can you supply the words indicated by the dashes? THIS CURIOUS WORLD A HOLLOWED -OuT, O9OR, PAINTED TO ENTRANC: ee ee ? BARBS Manhattan—Ford Madox Ford, Eng- They're going to fight it out to the} lish author. last rubber. And the losing system ee * will probably get bounced. ‘The modern girl doesn’t need de- * * * fending, God knows.—Dorothy Mack- Many a word is likely to be mut-/ aill, movie actress. xe * tered in their bly gag Bridge enemies in New York are settling their differences in a six- player even if he’s (Copyright, 1981, NEA Service, Inc,) | €nce of hookworm in the bowel would [ Quotations ___Quotations || ane ‘Ti mel as a. te zon. You get embroiled overnight.— the southern states, with thé ald of Major General Hanson E. Ely. ee * weeks’ match. Which is enough ‘o burn them up. * * * Although the reputations of the Lured may be damaged, it will in play. And the man that stands on the bridge at midnight will be still stand. ing there at dawn, so fer as body cares. xk ‘We learn practically nothing from a victory. All our information comes from a defeat—Coach Chick Meehan oN. ¥. U. xe Oe to have atace I merely happen that looks as if I knew about women. | the —Adolphe Menjou, movie star. ek & Labor cannot be called through wage cuts to pay ® dole to idle capital—D. B. Robertson, man Railway Labor Executives’ 2830- ciation. xe * A college graduate is not a man, but an intellectual infant.—Professor Gordon J. ne up Ms Chicago. Democracy is rather a ridiculous thing among college studentse—Dr. Alexander Meikeljohn, Wisconsin U. xk * ‘War is no longer the private affair of belligerent nations.—Frank B. Kel- logge, former pot: of state. *x % A man of Rye, England, was the first to lose jhis life capes eles arrow In I know nothing that so much makes for bolshevism as the failure 4 BB ga 8 as any- By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Two decades or more have passed since the attention of our people was turned prominently to the existence of hookworm disease in the southern Portion of the United States, At that *| time every one knew that the pres- ae @ man lazy, and that back- among some children in the south wae peobebly due to infestation wane oe application “of public health by public health officials in the Rockefeller Foundation, has: served largely to bring this condition ‘under control. Daily Health Service HOOKWORM IS STILL PREVALENT THOUGH DECREASING EACH YEAR Victims Usually Infected Through Skin of the Feet year. The most heavily infested sec- tions of the country continue to be the southern states, and there are some counties in which 75 per cent or more of school children are in- fested. The negro is troubled wita the condition much less than is the white population. Furthermore, the disease does not exist in areas with clay soil, but is limited to those with sandy soil. Ahy person who has the disease is a carrier and must be handled as such. Investigations made in hundreds of thousands of cases have shown proper disposal of the excretions of those who ate infested and treatment of every one found to have the disease with any one of several well estab- lished remedies is effective. It would be exceedingly helpful in cleSring up the condition if everyone in an in- veloped by scientific students of the subject. The careful records now being made by public health invest!-' gators indicate that hookworm is be- coming much less prevalent each as a human being.——Cameron Beck, personnel director, New York Stock Exchange. xe * Higher wages can come only of higher and better production—Henry Ford. Busses leave the terminus in the forecourt of Victoria Station, Lon- don, at a rate of 260 an hour during A to look upon and treat the employe rush hours. fested area would wear g0od shoes. FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS:| girl doesn’t have to be a good skater to cut a pretty figure. BEGIN HERE hegre + ANNE, ° CECILY. FRANCES FENWICK ‘ee ir grandparents, ence ‘The tw eins ‘make to meet him. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORE CHAPTER VI oyu going over to stay all night with Ermintrude.” Mary- Frances announced. “Who said that you might?” “Rosalie.” “After Cecily had said you might not, I suppose?” “I asked Rosalie first.” “Did Cecily say you might take her overnight bag with you?” “Pooh,” said Mary-Frances. “What makes you so quarrelsome here lately, Ann? Cissy practically gave me this old thing the Grat time I asked her to borrow it.” “It isn’t an old thing at all.” said Ann. “It fs a very bandsome piece of luggage, and it was a gift to Cecily. If you use it, you must take care of it.” “Quarrelsomeness,” said Mary- Frances, “is just awful. I've ao ticed it a lot im you lately, Ann. T'll bet Phil notices it too,‘and I'll bet—" * “Mary-Frances, you must stop saying ‘I'll bet’ all the time, I won't have it.” “Quarreling again,” deprecated Mary-Frances, and opened the front door. “Wait,” said Ann. “It 1s nearly nine o'clock. You can’t go running around alone after dark, and you know it. Phil will be here any minute now. and we'll take you over je in the car.” “'Sonly five blocks,” sald Mary- Reaioete and edged through the “Mary-Frances, come back in here and wait for Phil. You are not to go alone.” “Stop pinching my arm, Ann Fen: wick. Rosalie said | could go. I'm not going to stick around here all night waiting for your old Phil, and like as not he won't be bere for hours, and Ermintrude and 1 have to get our studying done, don't we, and—" Ann beard a outside. Phil was coming. She always told bim that she never quarreled with her sisters, “Mary-Frances, honey, here’s Phil now, What makes you act like this to me when you know I had a big company dinner to get and that I’m tired?” . “Angel Ann,” Mary-Frances, as susceptible as a puppy, snuggied close to her, and so Philip eaw them, through the open door, in loving sisterly embrace; but bis, “Hello, there,” suggested no par ticular enthusiasm for the tableau. He did not kiss Ann (she bad de clded that it was wiser for them tot to kiss in front of Mary-Fran- relsomeness,” said M ticed it a lot in you lately, Ann.” ces), but he took her hand and squeezed it'before he turned to the hall rack, eee NN said, “Phil, Mar}-Frances 1s going to spend the night with her little friend. I thought we might take her over there in your car” “Sorry,” be hung up his hat and took off his raincoat, “It’s in the Barage again. I’m convinced that the piston rods are clogged.” “Oh, my word! Again?” frowned and shook her head. “Should I have said ‘yet’?” Phil often was clever; but when he couldn't be clever he tried to be, anyway. That was a silly old joke. He kicked off his overshoes. He stood there, slicking bis hair back when it didn’t need slicking, and when he should have been interest- ed in how Mary-Frances was going to get to Ermintrude'’s house, “Well.” Anp decreed, “we'll have to walk over with her, then. It is Just across to the new addition. She can’t go alone after dark. You'll not mind walking a few blocks with Mary-Frances and me, will you?” “Not at all,” said Phil, and began to put on his overshoes. “Delighted, of course.” He stamped his feet into them. (Ob, well, if be wanted to be silly and stiff and formal like that, let him!) “Better take your umbrella, 1 didn't bring mine wore my raincoat.” The rain had stopped, so Phil carried the umbrella under his arm, and they bad gone a block before he said, “I watked over here this evening.” “Walked!” Ann protested. “All the way across the river? It’s miles Ann HREE KINDS of LOVE BY_ KAY CLEAVER STRAHAN‘. ‘vances, “is just awful. I've no- from your place. What possessed you?” “I felt Ike a walk. Needed the exercise.” “But, Phil—I shouldn't have dreamed of dragging you right out again, if I'd known. You must be very tired. Why didn’t you tell me?” Ann, in the darkness, could not see his shrug; but she could hear it plainly in his voice as he an- swered, “Ob, well, what's the differ- ence? We had to bring her, didn't we?” eee MAB*-FRaNcES delivered safely into the Hills’ bright front hall, Ann said again, “But, dear, I wouldn’t have asked you to come over here, not for anything, if I'd known you'd walked so far.” “Not even to escort Mary-Fran- ces?” “Phil,” she questioned, “what ts the matter with you lately?” “Nothing whatever. But what is the matter with you, Ann?” “I,don’t know.” “You admit that something is?” “Well,” she hesitated, “it is only, I think, that you have been acting 80 sort of funny lately.” “I haven't felt sorta funny,” be said. She would not answer. She had not sald “sorta” like that. He was always criticizing ber lately. He said that she was stubborn, She was not; but since he thought so she'd give him a reason for think- ing it, She would not speak again until be spoke. He was the stub- born one, if it came to it. How could she love a man like Phil— ® 1931, by bleday, Doran and Co. stalking along beside her in. that stupid silence, when -he knew he hurt her feelings? How could she? Perhaps she didn’t. It would | be easy for her to say, “Isn’t it pleasant after the rain?” No, she would not. She might say, “Have you heard from your mother late ly?” No, she would not. “Mary-Frances,” he said, “spends ever so many nights with that girl friend of hers, doesn’t she?” “Yes,” Ann admitted reluctantly. “She does go rather often. But why?” “It seems most unwise to me. Mother never allowed Elise to spend a@ night away from home until she went to Eugene to the university, During the romancing, daydream- ing age it is better for them to do it alone, if they have to, than it is for them to huve someone to talk it all over with—make it more real, you know.” “But Mary-Frances is only 16 years old.” “My point, exactly. It is a dan- gerous age, Not a woman—not a little girl, Also, unless I'm mis taken, she is badly boy-struck and at the silliest stage of it.” IL said, “Don’t misunderstand me, dear. I do like Mary-Fran- ces a lot. That is why—” “No,” she interrupted, “you den’t lke Mary-Frances, and you don’t like Cecily. You don’t like either one of my sisters. You never have. You don’t like them a bit. You don’t like any of us. You don’t like me—” He patted her on the shoulder. “Behave,” he said, “You Beautiful.” It was one of the old love names, He had not called her “You Beautt- ful” for months, and she thought that be had forgotten it. “Sweetheart?” said. Ho put bis arms around her and Kissed her. The trees there in the yard were still shaking the gath- ered rain from their leaves, and drops fell like big cold tears on Ann’s upturned face, but she did Bot notice them. “Dear, dear,” she said. “I love you so. I love you so.” He kissed her again. He had not said that be loved her, and she wished to hear it, so she said for him, “And you love me. 1 don't see how we can quarrel when we love each other so much. Do you?” His answer was the old complaint and apology of lovers: “Our quar- rels are never with each other, dearest. They are always with ex ternals, If we could be away al together, all alone, you and 1, we'd have such a paradise that we'd for- Set, even, that other people ever quarreled.” “Only,” said Ann, “people so sel- dom are—all alone, away from everything, 1 mean.” He brought a handkerchief trom his pocket and dried the back of his. neck where the raindrops had fall- en, and sald as he put his arm around her and began,to walk with her toward the house, “I didn't mean out of this world. I meant that we could be happy here, any- where, if we were ever allowed to make our own world slone to gether.” “But,” Ann questioned, “are peo ple ever allowed to make their own worlds anywhere, Phil dear?” “We aren't,” be answered, and stopped on the porch. Ann hoped that he would kiss her again, but he did not, He repeated, “We cer- tainly aren't,” and opened the front door. (To Be Continued) v 4)° ~~ ‘ {