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i. The 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 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 outside Bismarck) ........... Daily by mail outside of North Dakota ........ 6.00 ‘Weekly by mail in state, per year $1.00 Weekly by mail in state, three YERTS .eseccee had etshas Weekly by mail outside of North Dakota, per year . ‘Weekly by mail in C; year 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 not otherwise credited in this news- paper and also the local news of 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 & BREWER (Incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Responsibility of a Juror Finding of a Minneapolis juror guilty of contempt for failing to dis- close information which would have disqualified her for service in the Foshay trial will meet with general approval. Too many men and wom- en take the oath of a juror lightly and many others allow prejudice and personal spleen to warp their deci- sions. The federal court’s rules in pro- curing a jury expedite matters con- siderably and generally meet with the approval of litigants. Notice is now served upon potential jurors that they cannot practice deceit with im- punity at least in the federal courts of the land. It is time, too, that a few states tighten up their systems of examining jurors and prescribing their qualifications. In some local- ities the criticism is heard that slovenly tactics are used in selecting talesmen. Germany Gets Business Germany's favorable trade balance following the granting to her of a debt holiday is certain to raise in the minds of many here and abroad the question whether in granting Ger- many a moratorium the other powers) did not give her an undue economic advantage at a time when all coun- tries are starving for business. It would not be strange if the leni- ent creditor should become suspici- ous and envious upon finding the debtor apparently happier and more prosperous than himself. Nor is :t pleasant for the conqueror to find the vanquished in a happier state. Germany's excess of exports over imports is not, however, the result of the suspension of reparations pay- ments, which would tend to increase imports by releasing money for trade very culpable. The other day a 17-year-old New York boy was arrested for taking $60,000 worth of jewels from the apartment of a Park Avenue mii- lionaire. This youth worked for a firm of| interior decorators as a sort of er-) rand boy. In that capacity—he had {held the job three years—he entered| the homeés of the wealthy nearly every week. His salary was $13 a week, and he gave $10 of it to his mother to help support the family. The remaining $3 were all his own. His theft seems to have been im- pulsive and stupid. More out of curl- osity than anything else, he opened & wall safe in this apartment, saw @ glittering pile of jewels and pocket-| ed them. Frightened and perplexed, he had made no attempt to turn them into cash when arrested. A New York newspaper, describing the case, remarked: “He lives on a run-down street bo-} tween warehouses, cheap shops, gar- ages, tenements and old dwellings from which the paint is peeling. The {street meets Park Avenue beside a railroad yard .... In his squalid] home a reporter found his mother weeping. She did not know what she was going to do now, she said, as he had been her chief support ever since he left school.” There is no use, of course, in get- ting sentimental and soft-hearted about youthful jewel thieves. But when you think of this youngster’s life, and remember how, at 17, he was the chief support of a family, living in a miserable neighborhood and being obliged, almost daily, to look on the ostentatious wealth of Park avenue, it makes you wonder. Ought not our society, which puts its Park avenues so maddeningly close to its stifling tenements and breadwinners, to admit at least a part of the responsibility in this case? Lawless Liquor Trade It is announced in Chicago that the Congregational Education So- ciety is going to conduct a campaign to make people more generally fam- ilar with the fact that the liquor trade consistently and flagrantly violated the law before the passage of the prohibition amendment; and this, both for the dry and the wet, iz @ perfectly sound and sensible cam- Paign. There is no question at all that the liquor trade brought prohibition on itself. It made itself such an offense that it persuaded millions of citizens that it ought to be suppressed out- right, and the fact should be remem- bered. Right now there is certainly room for two schools of thought about the success or failure of prohibition.| But nothing will be gained by ignor- ing the manifold problems which ‘the old regime contained. If a new solu- tion to the liquor question is to be found, the lawlessness of the old-time Uquor trade must assuredly be taken’ into account. Saddling Posterity The exceptionally knotty nature of the whole war debts-reparations problem was never better illustrated than by Banker Charles F. Mitchell's testimony before the senate commit- tee the other day. one can expect coming generations of Purposes and improving German) Germans to pay a staggering war debt credit abroad. The moratorium put Germany in a better position to buy American goods without giving Ger- man exporters an advantage over American competitors. Germany's gains in world trade argue for more enterprise and effort on the part of American exporters. * Why are American exporters not get ting this business Germany is going after? The Japanese Method Perhaps the reason other countries find it difficult to reconcile the move- ments of Japan's army in. Man- churia with the official declarations of the government is ignorance of the Nipponese system of government. It is readily possible for the Japan- ese cabinet to decide one way and for the army to do the opposite. The army is answerable only to the em- peror, who may, if he chooses, ignore the wishes of the premier and cabinet. In the present situation it would appear that, if the premier and cabinet are sincere in their pro- testations concerning Manchuria, the policy of the emperor is not that of the rest of the government. The thing is done differently in most other countries. Those having parliamentary forms of government give complete and continuous control over their fighting men to the premier and parliament which makes it im- possible for the national policy to be one thing and the military program another. Japan's system is similar in some Darticulars to that of the United States. Here the president is com- mander-in-chief of the country’s fighting force and has the power %o send expeditions into foreign waters or countries without the permission of congress, which alone has the power to declare war. Taking the Blame Anyone who has occasion to drop {nto criminal court very often musi * “get the depressing thought, now and then, that one of the chief offenders ‘sgainst our laws never gets into the ‘gock as a defendant, All manner of people come be‘ore ‘the judge for sentence in the course Psd ® year, But Society itself—the ke that all of us have built b to work by and live by—never that they never contracted for. In- stead, he said, they would probably indulge in a revolution. p Senator David A. Reed then pointed to an equally obvious truth—that no one can expect coming generations of Americans to pay those debts, either, which is about what they will have to do if the debts and repara- tions are canceled. It would be hard to imagine a tougher problem. Neither side is apt to give in, because neither side can give in. The solution of the puzzle is going to take a lot of finding. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the {end of thought by other editors, ‘They are published without regard to whether they a emith The Tribune’ or disagree policies. Washington’s Example (New York World-Telegram) In these days of dictators, of black shirts, brown shirts and hair shirts the example of a simple American who believed in the rule of the peo- ple through their elected representa- tives should be an inspiration. At noon just 148 years ago this week, General George Washington entered Maryland State House at An- napolis to surrender his commission as commander-in-chief of the vic- torious Revolutionary Army to the Continental Congress. He might, with the lifting of a fin- ger, have announced himself his coun- try’s dictator as some of his officers Suggested. The impoverished nation would have followed him probably. He indignantly refused and rebuked the suggestion as traitorous. “The great events on which my resignation depended having at length taken place, I now have the honor of offering my sincere congratulations before them to surrender into their hands the trust committed to me, and to claim the indulgence of retir- he said instead. Next morning he set out from An- Mr. Washington, there to spend the happiest Christmas of his life. WHITE ELEPHANT’S LUCK Belief that white elephants are lucky spread from the cult of the white elephant, a religious order. In Siam, it is believed that a white ele- phant contains the soul of a dead Person. When one is captured it is baptized, feted and worshipped. comes to trial. And sometimes it is|/ turns boys of 17 into 613-a-weck! Mr. Mitchell pointed out that no| to congress, and of presenting myself ing from the service of my country,” napolis for his farm on the Potomac. He arrived on Christmas eve as plain New York, Dec. 30.—Quite as loud as the crashing of orchestral tympani have become the whisperings con- cerning “that conflict” among Metro- Politan Opera House sponsors. For two seasons the whispers re- mained muted, although one heard Then, overnight, Otto Kahn put on his silk hat and announced his resig- nation as chairman of the opera board. Oh, yes, he would keep his box and all that—but business mat- ters were so pressing he thought it best to retire from the Met's board. This had been threatened before. Kahn, after years and years of gen- erous contribution and active par-! ticipation in the Met's affairs, had become known as “the daddy of the; Met.” In fact, there were those who | said that his word carried far too much power. There were rebels who! insisted that the large donations were | giving certain people far too much! “say so;” that the actual selection of | operas and artists was at the mercy of the “big boys.” And Kahn's name came close to the need of the list. * * Then it was whispered about that Clarence Mackey had withdrawn his contributions. It was hinted that since the multi-millionaire’s marriage he had shown a kindlier interest in his son-in-law, Irving Berlin. There have even been rumors to the fact} that he might back Berlin in forth- coming music show projects. | On the heels of Kahn, three other | directors put on their silk hats and | walked out. | Hardly had their shadows rounded STICKEBS In the diagram there are 25 bars. The curved line passes through several of them. The problem 1s to form a contin- | ap ang et ong ago which passes every ly ‘once. The line may begin any place and end any place, and it is not necessary to ‘use the one shown above. much of brooding storms ahead.! :There’s no secret that this is the the corner when Paul Cravath, Radio Corporation official, was announced as chairman, And scarcely was the new appointment in effect before the | statement was made that broadcast- ing of Metropolitan operas would be- gin shortly after the first of the year. ‘The “mike” had never before invaded the venerable music shrine and there had been considerable resistance in jeertain sections. The hook-up would, }of course, be that of the National \Broadcasting Company since Cravath, ithe new chairman of the board, was {an official in that concern. i x oe OK | Bit by bit, the various social and jPolitical entanglements have been ‘unraveling. | One hears that John D. Rocke- \feller, Jr., expects the Met to be part of his fabulous Radio City. One {hears that Mr. Rockefeller has con- siderable “say-so” at the moment. | At which point, up springs “Roxy,” 'fresh from a considerab‘e tour of | Europe in search of future Radio City |talent. And Roxy announces that he would like the Met to come over jto Radio City. But if they don’t— well, then it will become necessary to organize another huge opera unit and give competition. Whereupon, the question rises: Could the Met stand competition? opera's toughest season. Almost every night shows a loss. “Schwan-; da,” the only importation to date, alone appears to pack the house. i (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, | Dr. Ellice McDonald, of the Cancer | Research Laboratories, University of Pennsylvania, estimates cancer causes 130,000 deaths a year. | FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: | Most women will fall for rising young men. THIS CURIOUS WORLD ARE, PERHAPS, MORE EFFICIENT AS AN ARMOUR THAN 1S COMMONLY lag eg i T 15 TH WORLD ANNI ER (9) SUBMARINE LOSSES On Dec. 30, 1917, the British admir- alty announced that in the week clos- ing on this day submarines had sunk 21 British’ ships and nine French ships, Eighteen of the British ships were over 1600 tons, and three were less. The none French ships were all over 1600 tons. Padua, Italy, which was raided by enemy airplanes on Dec. 28, was again raided on this day. Three persons were killed. Three were injured. Two churches and many other buildings were damaged. In Russia a provisional agreement was reached at Brest-Litovsk with the | central powers on liberation of war) prisoners, and resumption of com- mercial and treaty relations. on] \! R ARY T x || Petrograd reached an agreement with| the Bolshevist government for raising the blockade on ‘the White Sea. Bessarabia declared its independ- ence as the Moldavian republic to form part of the Russian Federated Republic. x ° | Quotations | emer lien tga REMOTE It is now possible to measure energy put into noise. If 1,500,000 people talked 12 months the energy of the sound wouki be equal to that required to boil water for a cup of tea—Sir William Bragg, English physicist. * * Business, and big business particu- larly, should work to leave to the states what the states can do better or as well as the central government. —Albert C. Ritchie, governor of Mary- land. *x* kK I've reformed.—Lilyan Tashman, movie actress. eee Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resem- bles.—Andre Maurois, French writer. * * * The profit of life is life,not money. —Henry Ford. x 4 % ‘ A man who has been a judge for years must have learned something, no matter how stupid he was in the beginning—General Sessions Judge Joseph E. Corrigan of New York. City Would Pay $90,000 Annually Under Pro- posed New Tax Levies (Continued from page one) per cent in the existing stamp tax on sales or transfers of capital stock. Postal rates—Increased rates de- Ohio Candidate ss Associated Press Ph Clarence J. Brown, Ohio secre. tary of state, has announced his candidacy for the republican nom- The German naval delegation at! Ination to the governorship. Dfily Health Service EPIDEMIC SORE THROAT By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Med- ical Association tiy Epidemic sore throat usually occurs in explosive outbreaks and is spread chiefly by milk. : It must be differentiated from cer- tain other types of infection of the throat by streptococci, which may oc- cur almost any time because of the widespread distribution of the various forms of streptococcl among people generally. There is, for instance, in scarlatina a sore throat which is due to invasion of the throat by the streptococci associated with scarlet fever in cases in which the rash of scarlet fever does not develop. There is also a type of sore throat and ton- sillitis which can be shown to be due to the streptococci but which is not epidemic in form. Any time that the throat is invaded by these virulent germs and the body is unable to throw them off, there occurs inflammation of the throat, the tonsils and the neck with fever, prostration, and all of the other Aa ied that usually accom- infection. - ‘aan * * * At such times an examination, of the signed to overcome $150,000,000 annual deficit. (Postmaster General Brown recently recommended three-cent let- ter postage and higher rates on other mail.) . ‘Volume Below Normal Most of the estimates were made on business here in the last year or in 1930, which were below normal in volume because of the economic sit- uation. If Secretary Mellon’s suggestions were made law, it is probable that the volume of sales in some of the lines affected might be reduced slightly. Some citizens believe the use of checks would be reduced greatly if the proposed tax on them were put in- to effect. On the other hand, other citizens declare that business has grown “check-minded.” They declare that the amount which would be saved by dropping the use of checks would not be sufficient to warrant the trouble and expense of securing money from banks, counting money out for payments, and delivering the money in payment of regular and miscel- laneous bills. They also say that Checks are of considerable value in that they are receipts for payments in themselves. The proposed tax on checks and drafts is not new. A similar tax was in effect several years ago. Neither are increased postal rates and the amusement tax proposal new. They were in effect during the World war. Taxes on real estate paper also were in effect in previous periods. No effort was made to determine the extent of capital stock transfers and the Northwestern Bell Telephone company here was unable to furnish an estimate on what the residents. OFTEN SPREAD BY MILK Proper Examination Is Only Way to Avoid Infection throat will reveal to the trained ob- server the redness and swelling typi- cal of inflammation. At the same time if specimens are taken from the throat, the causative germs will be found. They-can be raised on bac- teriologic culture mediums. ¢ This disease is usually spread from one person to another, except so far @s concerns the epidemic form. I> the epidemic form it is usually found that the germs are being transferred through milk, that-the milk comag from certain dairies, that the dairy 1s obtaining the milk from a herd in which there are cows with infected udders, and that these cows are be- ing milked by a milker with strep- tococci of the same type in this throat. The disease begins promptly and usually follows a rapid course. Most of the epidemics of septic sore throat hhave occurred in the spring or in the early summer, although of course they may occur at any time. Obviously the control of epidemic septic sore throat involves the tracing of the source of infection emd the elimination of the source. s* * In general, the only advice that can tion of the throat by a competent Physician who will recommend remov- al of the tonsils or of lymphoid mass- es in case there is frequent infection. {‘The routine gargling of antiseptics is not apparently particulariy helpful !n Preventing infection. It may be of aid in eliminating infection once such a condition exists. No doubi, if an an- tiseptic could be kept constantly on the tonsils, germs would find it diffi- cut to lodge there and to remain. The gargle merely cleans the throat tem- Porarily and the person may take in @ full dose of live streptococci just as soon as he gets into contact with oth- er people. BARBS | o Colleges have decided to de-empha- size football. Probably want to take the kick out of it. = * Some colleges have started to de- emphasize by hiring a coach who can win a few games. ee So football coaches are rolling all ovér the country, and there's likely to be as many coaches out of work as All-Americans. se But you can't tell, those unemploy- ed coaches might buy ail their stars back again. * *e * If football is de-emphasized, in the years to come students will be grad- uating thinking a “locomotive” is a steam engine. € * * And if that happens, co-eds and students are likely to go back to af- Proposed. telephone call tax would cost city|ternoon tease. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) BEGIN HERE TODAY - ANNE, CECILY FRANCES FENWICK ones chool. opens Anne has been to PHILIP ECROYD., young for eight yearn. jock company actor EARL DB ARMOUNT, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPPTER XII HIL loved her. She knew it. Their structure had been built, swiftly and beautifully, years ago— had been built and completed. Ard yet Ann wished to keep him tn- cessantly laboring at it: pounding away at old promises and making new, unnecessary ones; creating sentimental situations; tinkering with flattery; piling proof upon Proof, until he was tired—tired to death, He pulléd himself up sharply, He had been right: he needed th> woods, and the rest and sanity—needed them at once. “Proof upon proof!” It carried over in bis mind as he rode down in the elevator. Proof, Had he not been true to her, with never a thought of another woman (the persons of staunch, invulnerable feelings and fathomless understand. ing had been women, not a woman) for elght years? Knowing this she could still demand—did still de mand—proof of his love for her. Ho had reached to push open the door in the foyer when Letty King hailed him in her shallow, childish voice. She was standing by the counter where magazines and to- bacco were sold, holding a small brown object in her hand and laugh- ing ahd frowning at the same time. The heel of her shoe, the foul thing, had come off just here, She did not know what on earth to do. She had been trying to charm Emery—the clerk grinning behind the’ counter—into skipping around the block to the shoemaker’s, but Emery dared not leave his place. The boss had bawled him out for stepping over next door to oblige a customer last Tuesday. Letty tn- quired again, including the love of Mike, as to what she was going to do, She couldn't go limping like a wooden leg all over town. HREE KINDS. BY_ KAY CLEAVER There was a touch of adventure io chasing around the block with Letty King’s smallish pump and its high heel in his pocket, Letty was a filing clerk in the office across the hall from Philip’s off She was a elight, semi-sensil little thing, with reddish gold hair, baby-blue eyes, and a frankly sol- uble complexion, She carried her shoulders too high; but she dressed smartly and seemed always to be high-spirited, good-humored, and happy. Philip's and her acquaint- anceship had begun with remarks, made in the hall or in the elevator, concerning the weather; and through more than a year it bad rogressed only to the point of an occasional formal familiarity— pretty new dress someone has to- day—tacked on to the weather opinions. Three quick taps wedded heel to slipper again. Letty’s gratitude was lavish, and Philip put gratitude along with understanding and in- vulnerable feelings in his roster of favorite virtues for women. In the restaurant Philip ordered box lunches for two. All afternoon M. Sacht had been handing cardboard boxes.across his counter to customers in haste to respond to the wooing of hills and woods and streams. M. Sacht had met their pother and stew with tolerance and sympathy. But suf ferance was difficult fvr this tall, turbulent man with his white face and fidgety eyes, who eaid not once but thrice, “Make it snappy!” “He acts,” mused M. Sacht, as his customer went rushing away, “like the cops was after him. If 80, I hope they get him—him and his by-stair-icks.” Gran. his head bowed sp that ~ his top scalp shone pearly pink through the white silky fringes of his hair, went sonorously on and on asking the blessing in tong, carefully arranged clauses, while Ann worried about the macaroni and cheese cooling in the dish, and wished that Mary-Frances would stop squirming, and was slightly sorry, at last, that Phil had been disappointed about the picnic sup- per in the woods, He was, she supposed, eating his dinner alone as usual in the dining room of his boarding house. Philip lived at the Dammeron Apartment Hotel; but it was his mood, always, to call it a boarding house, as it was his fancy never to mention the dining room without prefizing the word basement. Ann thought the Dammeron Hotel, with its deep carpets and big chairs and mirrors and its orderly air of quiet com- fort, a wholly desirable' place in which to live. This opinion, Philip told her, was possible because she was not forced to live there year in and year out. Long ago she had stopped urging him to look for a place he liked better, because to that there was but one answer. For the money he was paying he could not do better. Always, when the subject of Philip’s living arrangements was introduced, Ann felt felontously guilty because she could not feel guilty at all. Granted that a man did need a real home. So did a woman, She desired that real home more strongly than Phil possibly could desire it, and {t was not her fault that she couldn't make it for him. Nor was it her faylt that Phil had to economize because he sent $50 each month to his mother, who lived with his rich sister Elise and Elise's husband in Oakland. The fact that Mr. Ainslie (Phil al- ways called Elise’s husband “Mr. Ainslie"—odd, Ann thought) was very wealthy was all the more rea- son that Phil should contribute to Mrs. Ecroyd’s support. That part never made sense to Ann, though Phil explained {t with almost Pompous references to pride. eee Gano said, “Amen,” and raised blinking blue eyes and a benign expression to his family, The be nignancy faded to sorrow when he noticed Cecily’s empty chair. “Ann, my dear, was it necessary to sit down to our evening meal before Cecily arrived to take her Dlace with us?” “Cecily isn’t coming, Grand. The spoon for the maearon! is right be- side it® Mary-Frances, don't eat your salad like that.” cae can’t help it if it strings, can “Of course you can. Cut it with your fork.” “'Stoo tough. It won't—" “Darlings, darlings,” Rosalle 1n- serted. “Birds in their little nests love one another.” (Cissy, the mean thing, said that Rosalie was bird minded.) “And where,” Grand demanded, not even looking for the spoon, “is our Cecily, may I ask?” Ann said, “She has gone out with Mr. McKeel, Grand. You liked him, didn’t you?” “I do not know that I did. I do not form my opinions of any per- son from one short interview. The fact that Cecily grants to a com- parative stranger all of her spare time, disregarding her home ties, disregarding, almost, I might say the conventions of polite society, I do not like. No—” Grand shook his head and began to serve the macaroni as if he had no idea as to what he was doing—“that I do not like. rely because a young gentleman is attracted to a young lady ts insufficient reason for the lady to grant him the pleasure af her company whenever and wher- ever he may choose to seek it. She does not gain his respect thereby. LOVE STRAHAN © 1931, by joubleday, Doran and Co, She may—I say only ‘may’—gain his disrespect. It is not wise. It is not—and this may appeal more strongly to youth than the issues of convention and wisdom—it is not expedient, It is not—" -Mary-Frances asked, “What isn’t what?” and took another bite of bread and butter. Gann frowned. “Interruptions,” he said, “are not, my darling, in the best of taste. However, since you have interrupted, you may now make your question more clear.” “What question?” said. Mary- Frances. Grand brought his white eye brows closer together and turned the wrathful expression so attained ot on Mary-Frances but hard on Ann. “Courtship,” Rosalie’s sweet voice arrived in the nick of time, “is not the same today as it was in our day, Jonathan dear.” “It {8 not,” said Grand. “It is not indeed. Nor does it,” he pro- ceeded, still frowning straight at Ann, “apparently culminate as it ‘was wont to culminate tn our day.” “How?” said Mary-Frances. “In marriage, my darling.” said Grand, choosing to understand the question so. “In marriage.” “All of them?” questioned Mary- Frances Intensely. Grand, who prided himself upon having @ sense of humor, though for long stretches of time he forgot all about having it, remembered it now and laughed heartily. (Grand always laughed “heartily” if he laughed at all, except the times when he “chuckled.”) Rosalie laughed with him. She had found one of the successes of married life in always laughing with her husband. Mary-Frances, at an age when laughter at her ex- Dense was the fron, squirmed and sulked, and Ann could smile but faintly. It was sort of mean: to laugh at the precious baby, and besides, Ann was still disturbed, by the notion that Grand blaming her for something, and she had no Aad of discovering what it could The telephone bell rang. The Fenwick family declared, along with several million other families in the United States, that their telephone never rang except at meal times. Mary-Frances jumped to an- swer ft. “Maybe it's Ermintrude,” she said. “If it fs," Ann warned, “don't make any plans for this evening. Phil has an engagement, and 1 want you to help me clean the front hall.” “Oh, Ermintrude!” said Mary- Frances, who was not one to hold & grudge against her best friend and sole confidant, “Yes, I have my algebra.” (To Be Continued) * wad « a i t ,