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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-10-13

Michigan and Sept. /, 1925, there were
1886. The legislative appropriation
in Michigan for state prisons was
$1.772,25O anu for 1925 $2,179,25
The prison inmates have doubled
while the state population has
grown about 20 per cent.
Jails Are Crowded
ut is fact" Governor Groesbeck
says, that there has been marked
increase in a certain class Of crimes,
such as robbery and breaking and
entering. The courts and the police
have been occupied with great
mass of minor, petty violations. That
is the real, so-called crime wave
The prohibition law has had nothing
whatever to do with the increase in
the prevailing serious type Of Grim.
inality in this, country: Court and
prison records in Michigan show
that the great majority of criminals
responsible for the major offenses
do not touch liquor at ALL
The increase of prisoners in Min
nesota state penitentiary and re-
formatory from 1876 to 1907 in the
past decade has been little higher
than the normal ratio Of population
increase, but the county Jail inmates
have increased far above this pro-
portion. Virtually all of the county
Jail prisoners are prohibition law vi
olators. The per capita cost main
tanning the prisoners in the state
penitentiary has risen from $243.5J
in 1915 to $43S.98 in 1925.
Illinois shows, also, a compare
lively small increase in state pris-
oners above the ratio of population
Increase, but almost universal con-
gestion of county jails. The Cook
county (Chicago) Jail which decade
ago cared for around 500 now con.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-10-13

tains 1,1l5, with scores sleeping on
the floor and the surplus overt low
ing into a dozen nearby county JAMS,
already burdened with federal prls-
oners.
Women Prisoners Fewer
The Illinois prison statistics show
that the number of women prison
ers has decreased compared with
decade ago. Minnesota and Michi-
gan figures show a similar decline.
Reformatories for youthful pris-
oners and first offenders, however,
show as large or larger increase than
the state prisons. Illinois reforma-
tory inmates in a decade increased
from 694 to 1,173. Kansas increased
from 400 to 995. Nebraska's new
reformatory houses 227, where ten
years ago the number was negligible.
Iowa's reformatory prisoners in
creased from CTS to GAS. Compare
tive figures of the total number Of
arrests in Detroit show that now the
greater number are young men, be-
tween 20 and 20.
Business Crimes Increase
Business crimes seem more prevail
ent than ever before, says A. V.
Lashley, operating director of the
Missouri Association for Criminal
Justice. The gunman escapes through
an alley, into an automobile. The
penman escapes through the ordi-
nary processes Of law, he said in an
address to the Missouri Bar Asso-
citation. In study of the county
law enforcement officials duties, he
pointed out the difficulties of con-
trolling crime in St. Louis county,
in a territory embracing 100000 peo-
pie, with the same machinery as ex-
lists in remote Ozark mountain coun-
ties of 10000 people.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-10-13

But there, too, many arrests are
made. Street cars and elevated
trains in Chicago and New York dur
ing rush hours offer golden oppor-
tuntics despite prominent display Of
warning notices, and signs.
Reports of large profits OF boot
leggers and beer runners have at
tracted few from the ranks of the
pickpockets,' said the Chicago de-
tectivc chief. There ale as many
now as ever. And the profession is
not so very hazardous, for legal tech
nicalities and continuances in the
courts usually free those who are
not turned loose after arrests when
their victims refuse to prosecute af-
ter having their money returned.
Different in Canada
"The situation is exactly the re-
verse in Canada. There justice is
swift and sure and as result Cana
dian cities and places of public gath
; erng are virtually free from pick
pockets. The prospect of a long Jail
or prison term does not appeal to
the pickpockct who knows most
judges in the United States will free
him unless he has been caught with
his hand actually inside his victims
pocket
! There are few women and many
negro pocketbook lifters. The women
! mostly prey on women shoppers in
large department stores and shops
F.. There also is n type Of male pick
f! pocket whose victims invariably are
women. Policemen call them mol
! buZZers.'"
! Extra precaut;on against the jost-
Ter, Chief Shoemaker counseled, is
| the best means Of foiling the deft
fingers of the purse litter. And the
stored rustic who kept his money
in his shoe or in Il trouser pocket
closed with a sturdy safety pin haC
about the right idea, he thought.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-10-13
PROPOSED DEPARTMENT OF
NATIONAL DEFENSE CNS0UND,
ARMY CHIEF TELLS AIR BOARD
Air Power Alone Cannot Win War. He Tells Presidents
Special Investigating Committee

Washington, Oct. Is -- LP)-The
army general staff presented to the
presidents air board today a state
ment in debuttal to witnesses who
have urged sweeping changes of the
national defense organization.
1t denounced as "unSound' the pro-
presidents air board today a state
ment in rehuttal to witnesses who
and control" of the army air service
actually does rest "in the hands of
| the chief of the air service" and
! presented general denial of charges
| of mismanagemeNt in the administra-
| ton of the air service itself.
Presented by Brigadier General
! Hugh A. Drum, assistant chief of
staff, the statement, covering 81
Typewriter pages, was prefaced with
the remark that the war department
! has considered with painstaking
thoroughness and care the various
propositions and views presented to
the board"
THE main proposals. it added
'have been studied in one form or
another before, during and since the
world war. Consequently the war
! department has crystalliZed its views
on air service organization into sane
definite, and wei Thought out poll
cies. These views are concurred in
| by the chief of air service, Major
General Mason NJ. Patrick"
Ideas Are Unsound
1T is believed" General Drum testi.
fled. that the ideas expressed by the
chief of the air service are funda-
mentally unsound.'
The general staff also was said tc
view as "unSound" The proposal for q
separate air corps within the army
urged by General Patrick as a ster
looking to creation of the defense
department.
Asserting that air units are essen.
tial to an army and must be an in.
tegral part thereof General Drum
added that I'VE must not be blinded
to the sacrifices of the American
| dou~hboyS"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-10-13
YI0LAT0RS0F
DRYLAWSF FILL
COUNTY JAlLS
Prison Population in Middle
West Presents a Finan-
cial Problem

Chicago, Oct. 13.-LP'-The prison
population in the middle west has
doubled during the past decade: ana
presents an increasingly difficult
problem to state and local law en-
forcement officials and state legis..
lative budgets. A wide variety Of !
causes is suggested by Judges and
police officials, but for the crowded
conditions in almost every county
Jail. prohibition violations are al
most entirely responsible: .
A decade ago correction institu-
tions in Kansas cost the state $435,
s94. This year the Legislature ap-
propriated $ss4,5s7. Warden W. H.
Mackey Of the Kansas state penl-
tertiary says large part OF the in
crease in his prison population is
due to autom obile thefts and the
bootlegger. Gov. Alex J. Groesbeck
of Michigan, however, insists there
is mo crime wave in this state, nor
in the country at large" In 1920
there were 2,l57 state prisoners in
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-10-13
All Branches Want Mere Funds

"The prance of horses" he contin-
ucd. the booms Of cannon and the
whirl of airplane propellers cannot
replace the logged determination, the
will to win" of the American infan-
tryman. The mechanical device can
never replace the mental. moral,
and physical qualities of man."
Discussing the "balanced army"
/. the general declared: Every branch
of the army desires additional funds
for efficient preparation for war"
! THE air service is no worse off,
/ he added, than the infantry, cavalry
and other branches of the army. in
matters relating to promotion, hous-
ing, rations, allowances and lack of
funds with which to purchase
materially
General Drum specifically denied
a charge by Major Walter G. kilner,
executive officer of the air service,
that it took a year and six days to
! arrange for the world flight, assert
! ing "the flight was approved.in prin-
ciple within less than three weeks
! Much of General Drums testimony
was in support of these three con-
illusions of the general staff:
"Air power alone cannot win war
~ hat there Is no separate tactical
or strategical mission for air power
THAT the present army organiza-
| ton is sound, and that the air corps
! as proposed by the army air chief is
unsound. stratcgically, tactically and
| administrativcN.'
Proposal Not Justified
Asserting that in "the tumble OF
ideas" presented for reorganization
of the air service real unity Of con.
ception and conclusion appears only
in the basic desire for separation
General Drum set forth in detail
the general staffs opposition to the
proposed separate air corps within
the army, and declared the proposal
cannot be justified on any grounds
| Whatpypr
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-10-13

ward to make connection with the
plane for New York.
Because of the flat nature Of the
territory, Robertson explained, fore
ed landings can be made safely al.
most anywhere.
INDIANA IDEAL FOR AIR MAIL
indianapolis, Oct. l3.-(P-Indi-
ana has every advantage for the
successful transmission of mail by
airplane, in the opinion Of army and
civilian aviators. One Of the pro.
posed new air mail routes as an.
nounced from Washington would be-
gin at Birmingham, Ala, and end at
Chicago, with stops AT Nashville
Tenn, Louisville, KY, and Indian.
apols.
The terrain Of the state is such
that it is one of the safest in the
country in which to fly, airmen as.
sert. State roads, railroad and in.
terurban tracks and splendid visi-
blity along the numerous landing
fields, make it flyers paradise
Forced landings may be made in
comparative safety almost any place
Company to Select Route
Robert Bryson. Indiana postmas-
ter, said the government would leave
it to the aviation company obtaining
the postal contract to select the
route through Indiana. Several bids
have been submitted at Washing
ton.
The route followed. however, in
all probability would be that air
lane established by army aviators
Men stationed at Fort Benjamin
Harrison say the mail planes prob
ably would enter Indiana from Lou
isville and pass over Scottburg, Sey-
mour, and Columbus before landing
at indianapolis. Three landing fields
are available at Indianapolis; one at
Fort Benjamin Harrison; private
field five miles east of the city and
another at the indianapolis Motor
Speedway on the west.
Several Landing Fields
Leaving Indianapolis. the probable
route would be over Lebanon. Frank
fort, Monticello and Crown Point.
Landing fields in good condition
are located in Franklin, Colum bus,
Seymour, indianapolis and Frankfort
Atm ospheric conditions offer little
trouble to the filler in Indiana, cx-
per!enced pilots say, although the
usual air pockets are to be found,
and an occasional storm is encoun-
tered.
OKLAHOMA CITY LEASES FIELD
Oklahoma City. Okla, Oct. l3.-(P)
The only scheduled stop in Okla
homa will be at Oklahoma City
where steps have been taken by the
chamber Of commerce to provide
landing facilities.
A field, officially named Munich
pal Aviation Park. has been leased
by the chamber from the city for
ten years. Construction of hangers
has been held up pending approval
Of the field by the company that is
awarded the mail contract.
Bus Service to Field
The field is on paved road one.
half mile southwest of the city lin.
its and approximately four miles
from the center of the bushes dis.
trict. Regular bus service to the
field has been established and ar
electric car line has its terminu.
near the tract. Official approval o.
the field has been given by arm!
aviation officers. 49,.
While the mail planes will fl!
over no other officially approved
fields in the state, nearly every cit,
on the projected route has landing
place for aircraft. Blackwell, PER-.
and Guthrie to the north of Okla
homa City, and Paul's Valley an,
Ardmore to the south, will be nea
the line Of flight.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-12
SCHOOL VISITS
SHOW INTEREST
KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THE
TEAcHER-lT's BEST FOR
ALL CONCERNED

Some of our worthy yeomen honest
ly believe that if they provide sup.
ply of stove wood some cracker box.
es, a rusty stove and a packet of
matches in the good old district build.
ing that their school duties have been
duly rendered. After this is done and
the man is hired to haul" the chill
dren back and forth, the term settles
down to its humming routine, varied
by a few juvenile rebellions.
The idea is that a country school
was made to run itself, and that the
parents need not concern themselves
much beyond packing the lunches and
providing the books, shoes and cloth
ing. Perhaps once year the school
board and few electors assemble for
the regular school meeting, but this is
in July when school is closed.
The point of this is simply to ask
what's the use complaining about
poor educational advantages in the
country when the men and women
who pay the bills so often show such
a lack of interest in what is going on
at the little temples of learning. Sure
y some of them cannot expect. to in
crest the urban taxpayers in sub
ect in which they themselves are not
apparently gravely concerned.
How many parents who read this
AVE paid visits to the district school
uring the last term? We know
lany have done so, but we suspect
lany more will answer that they have
OF found time. Instead of accepting
lmors and second hand accounts of
wv the teacher conducts the school,
dy not drop in there suddenly and
how she rules the realm of the
Tree RS? True you might catch her
cking the time" out of William, or
"disgraced" by the answer of some
peful But that is all in the days
TX anyhow, and we can all remem
lapses in our own school deport
mt and mental attachments which
y perhaps serve as extenuating cir
Instances in the case of our off
ing-who come by these short-com.
naturally.
chool visits by parents pave the
to better mutual understanding Of
problems and needs of the school
equipment and class work. They
| to discussions with the teacher
ut individual cases, and instead of
Tor and tale-bearing we have facts
go on.
Wisconsin rural schools are as good
the average in this section of the
ntry. The buildings and equipment
your own district may be splendid!
unless there is true parental in
est in the school of a social and
'itual sort the children are not go
to get the most for the money
mt in taxes, books clothes and
lsportatiOn
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-12

married, | begin saving for wedding
present. | know he is wading in deer
water and before he knows it he will
be sunk without warning, and before
he can come up for air some girl will
have him branded and hog-tied and
coaxing for permission to love, honor
and support her for the, rest of his
lfe-and he will think she is doing
him favor if she permits him to do
it. He forgets all about women being
created for mans amusement.
Possibly you have never heard the
story of the colored boy who always
whistled when he walked past the
cemetery Just to keep up his cour-
age"
Seriously, Billie, do you really
think and believe in what you have
written, or are you only trying to get
an argument? l hope you don't be-
lieve it-not that your out burst of
what you consider popular fancy
among men is going to cause any
great stir-but it is too suggestive Of
bitter establishment and disapoint-
ment, and sex conceit.
Don't exaggerate your own-or your
own sexs Importance. Both men and
women are equally important in this
world of ours. Use YOUR reasoning
powers-and if you really think that
women are inferior to men-don't say
anything about it. You may be laugh
ed at.
Ill grant you that the woman OF
the past was the. slave of man, com
handing respect as a mother; idol
airy, sometimes by means of her bean
ty, but with her sex looked down upon
with contempt, as being inferior men,
tally and otherwise.
But the elder Cato of Rome once
complained, I'VE Romans rule over all
men, but our wives rule over u.s. To
day, more than ever before, the higher
outlook on; life is recognizing the
woman, and her womans work, in
dependently pursuing her life to the
highest development of her power, or
living it out in wifehood. Beauty, in
tellect and motherliness even in the
old days made sovereigns at home,
Today they make women the equal
Of man and in great many things,
their superior. Now, what do YOU
think of that?
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-12
THIS is A LIE

Substantial checks have been re-
ceived by public officials here this
week from several mail order houses,
to be used in fixing up the park, i'm
proving the present municipal swim
ming pool and building another new
one, also some donations for the free
Saturday night band concerts and
liberal allowances to be used on the
streets and roads around here, to say
nothing OF big draft for the schools
and a still larger one to go to the
county general fund, sufficient to re-
lieve the present embarrassing situation
there. Mighty sweet of them and yet
so like them Exchange.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-12

Sam: don't feel so good lately
man, guess all got berkelosis."
Rastus Yoah bettah go see de
Doctuh, TO it gets yoah down"
Several days later Sam again en-.
countered Rastus shufflin' round.
We'll, Sam, how's de Berkelosis %
"Gittin worse-it am just twice as
bad. All done went and see de Doc
tub and he said ali don got TWO ber-
kelosis now"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-12
Il 49, " xzt snEsW 49,
S u kgIIlZIS1YNzlZIIIIZ
W. ~ kA5l
November l to z

If birthday this you exceedingly progressive
mind You always busy with inventive thoughts
You have positive and nfexble will Your pernaty grit
and determination pe Herclean achievements overcoming
difficulties You secreve and seldom dvulge pansnot be-
object having them
might make of them
demonstrative,
Because Of co distant intimate friends
entirely understand and readily make friends
cans writer's, elocutionists
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-12
Wool Embroidery
for a Little Girls Dress.

The frock sketched here is of
peacock blue Kashmire embroider-
ed in wool yarn in three colors,
brick-dust red, golden yellow ard
GROWN. The dress is made along
very plain lines with the embroid-
cry outlining the square neck, the
side front opening and the cuffs.
To make this embroidery design
first block in the main part with
cross stitches about an inch and
quarter long as ! have shown at
A. This part of the design is of
the brickdust yarn.
Next make horizontal stitches of
the yellow yarn over each of the
cross stitches as shown at B. Yer
tical stitches of the brown are then
made as at G.
The tassel is made of the brick
dust yarn, the threads being tied
together at the top with the brown
and the tassel bound around three
quarters of IN ir"h below 'he ton
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-12
NOTICE IN CITY PAPER

Appear smart! City people going
to the country should take along one
of our illustrated animal books, so
they can identify the horses cows
and pigs
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-12
That Proves #

How many years have we beer
making out Income Tax Reports .
Well, it was after George Washing
toms time!"
"How do you knows?
Because he never told lie!"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-12

Editors Note:-- Through special ar
rangement with The Educational Book Co.,
n. Y, this newspaper now offers its read
ers this interesting feature, QUIZ, being
extracts from that book. endorsed by Eu-
gene c. Gibney. Director of Extension Ac-
Invites, New York Board of Education.
These puzzles will be found intellectual as
well as instructive
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-12
FOR SALE

jsed cars, all makes. Buy now.
ces as low as $50. They won't
long at that figure.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-12

You are quite flattering when you
credit me with reasoning power and
try to convince me that my sex is
merely mans plaything. You'll change
your mind, no doubt, about my reason
ing power, when you learn that it
takes a slightly different turn from
yours. | heartily and most emphati
cllly disagree with you. Where do
you get the idea that women were
created merely for mems amusement
Possibly you have been attending too
Iltny heal comedies and reviews.
If So, you might be pardoned for com.
ing to such a conclusion, but no one
can have even a fair acquaintance
With the world of business women
Without being convinced otherwise.
Stencgraphers shop girls, waitress.
es and business women with their
own successful establishments would
probably answer that if what they
are doing now constitutes play they
hope they will never have to go to
work In the field of work with which
| am most familar-and remember
| am not exploiting my sex any more
than you are exploiting your sex
women are a match for the men any
day and in many cases, they are
more than a match.
Whenever hear man say that he
Is having so much fun being a bach
elor that he lis meyer going to get
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-12
M256dsncet
Readers desiring personal reply address %A9M#MxD
MISS FLO. n Of this newspaper >NsXlkSWLN.

Dear Miss Flo-After reading a
number of your articles, thought you
might also be interested in a bache-
lor's viewpoint toward women and
why he is staying single.
OF course you know, as every one
else with any reasoning power at all
knows, that women were created pri.
marily for mans entertainment and
amusement. Adam was lonely-there-
fore Eve, and women have remained
mems toys ever since.
Now women are refusing to remain
toys. In other words, they are forget
ting their places. Naturally men, re-
alizing that there can be no happiness
in the sea of matrimony, where there
is mutiny on board ship, do not care
to take a chance, so they stay single.
| for one am having too much fun
being bachelor to ever think of get.
ting married.
What do you think of that ?-BilMe
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-12
Puzzle No. 7

The following letters are inscrib-
ed on stone in a Church in Eng
land, followed Immediately by the
Ten Commandments. The KEY to
this cryptic writing is one letter
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-12

Solutions Next Week.
Solutions of Last Weeks Puzzles: No.
1.-THE boy turned the pumpkins Nos
1-6-8 upside down and they then read
8-S-1-and were divisible by H. No. a.
The presidents name was COOLIDGE:
No. 3:-The Arab added one of his own
camels. gave half of 18 (9) to the eldest
son one-third (6) to the next and one
ninth 90 to the youngest. He had one
y his own.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-12
Puzzle No. 4
= ----------- ---------,-
2 13 IS |
19 IL IL

With two straight lines cross
through nine of the twelve squares
shown above so that the three re-
manning will total sixty
Puzzle No. )
l. Take conscnant, the figure
fifty, nothing, five, and the end of
life, and find an article of wear
ing apparel.
2. Fifty, and nothing, and a
delicious beverage, and discover a
wsll-known Biblical character.
3. From nothing, and yege-
table, a prominent letter of the
alphabet, and fifty, you may make
a beautiful gem.
4. Five, and vowel, ard one,
and fifty, give something worn by
ladies.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-12
Snlntinna Navt WnoL

, R s VRY PRF C t M N
, R K P T H S P R PIT S T N.
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