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Evening star., 1927-04-22
NEED OF MINISTERS
URGED BY JOHNSON
InterdenominationaI MiniSte-
rial Alliance to End SeS-
sions This Evening.

The lack of ministers to fill colored
pulpits was deplored, and the neces-
sity for the supremacy of religious
teaching in colored colleges urged by
DR.. Mordecai Johnson. president of
Howard University, yesterday after
noon, speaking before the 1nterde-
nominational Ministerial Alliance, at
the A. NJ. Z. Metropolitan Church.
DIR. Johnson stated that only 40 out
of every 1000 college students enter
the ministry upon graduation.
Rev. Arson Phelps Stokes. canon
of Washington Cathedral, who also
spoke. described the lack of religion
manifest today in America and plead
Evening star., 1927-04-22
DALTON IS UPHELD
IN PH|LB|N ACTION
Shipping Board Sanctions
Antedating Resignation
of Vice President.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Final action on J. Harry Philbin's
resignation as vice president and
trustee Of the Merchant Fleet Corpo-
ration was taken yesterday by the
Shipping Board
The board ratified the acceptance
by President Dalton of the Fleet Cor
poration of his assistants resignation,
upholding Dalton in the face OF Phil
bins challenge that he did not have
power to accept the resignation or to
change the date on which 1t was In
tended to become effective.
Philbin offered his resignation in
letter to President Dalton, asking
that it be made effective April 30.
Dalton, in accepting it, advanced the
date to April 20.
Reason for Resignation.
In letter accompanying his resig-
nation. which he made public yester-
day, Philbin told the Shipping Board
that the situation prevailing in the
Fleet Corporation was, in his judg-
ment, Incompatible with the public
interest"
He charged that President Dalton,
Evening star., 1927-04-22
PLANS ANNUAL DINNER.
Washington Readers Club Viii
Honor Shakespeare's Memory.

In celebration of the birthday of
William Shakespeare the Washington
Readers Club will hold its annual
Shakespeare banquet tomorrow night
at Gas O'Clock at the American AS
sociation of University Women head
quarters. 1884 | street.
Several members of the club will
appear in costume. representing the
famous bard and his family. Several
original entertainment events have
been planned.
Evening star., 1927-04-22
Water Color Brings
SI5,7OO at Auction;
Price Sets Record

By the Associated PTess
NEW YORK, April pa rec
ord price for water color at a
public auction in this country has
been established by NJ. Knoedler &
Co, purchasers of 'sThe Portage"
bv Winslow Homer, an American
artist, for S15,700.
The picture was sold at the
American Art Galleries from the
collection of the late Demond Fitz-
gerald of Boston. The water color
is 1915 inches high and 2012
inches long.
Evening star., 1927-04-22
Borah to Speak in Brooklyn.

Chairman Borah of the Senate for
eign relations committee, will deliver
an address in Brooklyn Monday night
on the Chinese situation at a meet
ing TO be conducted by Jewish or
ganization.
Evening star., 1927-04-22
CHARGES EVASION
Of PERSONAL TAX.
r.. R. Pickett Tells Trade
Board Committee Thousands
of Bills Remain Unpaid.

Thousands of local residents are
attempting to evade payment of the
current tax bills on personal properly,
r. r. Pickett, member of the com
mittee. asserted late yesterday during
a discussion of available funds for
road improvements in the District
which was held at a meeting OF the
streets and avenues committee OF the
WASHINGTON Board of Trade.
Rasing his assertion on informa-
ton given him "by local tax official,
Mr.. Pickett declared that 5000 per
sonal property tax bills recently
mailed out by the tax assessor had
been returned unopened and undeliV'
cred.
MANY fictitious addresses were found
TO have been made by owners OF auto
mobiles in making their personal
property returns recently, the speaker
said. Addresses were found to have
been given where no houses exist ana
some even where there are open helds.
Evening star., 1927-04-22

Unmarried travellers in Saxony.
Germany, are charged an extra fee of
25 per cent of the cost of transporta-
ton.
Evening star., 1927-04-22
Fund Greatly Depleted.

Greatly increased sums would be
available for the conduct of the city 5
business if 100 per cent collection OF
the personal property tax were pos
sible, it was pointed out.
In order to correct the evasion OF
the automobile tax, the traffic COM
mittee Of the Board of Trade recently
suggested that as a prerequisite to the
issuance of an automobile license each
automobile owner be required TO pre-
sent a tax receipt indicating payment
of due taxes.
The committee determined to con-
duct a campaign for general improve
ment of streets of the District and
appointed a special committee headed
by A. j. Driscoll TO prepare data con-
cerning actual conditions Of Wash
ington thoroughfares and to seek
hearings before committees of the
next Congress.
18th Street Extension Urged.
Extension of Fourteenth street
Through the grounds of Walter Reed
Hospital again was recommended and
Improvement of Wisconsin avenue
from Tenleytown to the District Line
also was asked.
The committee decided to make
study of the Borland law, which has
been declared unconstitutional by
some in the light of two recent de-
cisions by the District Court OF Ap-
peals, and which, at the last session
of Congress. was modified to limit
its application.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-08
What the Railroads Do

When the average man sets out to discuss Ameri-
cas- present prosperity, you'll usually find him men,
tionng such things as improved manufacturing sys.
TENS better banking facilities, high wages and eff.
cient advertising as the chief contributing causes
They all have their place, of course. But-dont
forget the railroads.
Increased efficiency the railroads, during 1926.
meant prompter and more reliable delivery Of fac.
tory products to the retailer This in turn, enabled
trade and manufacturing to develop the practices
Of 'hand to mouth" buying, and this, in it's turn,
conserved credit and made it more flexible.
The railroads did their job better last year than
ever before We can thank them for much of our
prosperity.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-08
Dickinson

The hayseed dance given by the
Matthew Brew post Of the American
Legion at the armory was very
unique and interesting affair. The
large crowd that attended all enjoyed
q very pleasant time.
A new organization at the Normal
school known rs the Manual Arts was
formed recently. The five classes
which are included in this depart
ment are: Art fibre, mechanical
drawing, manual training, wood turn
ing, and auto mechanics. The purpose
Of this was to organize q club in
which the students who are interested
in this kind Of work would have an
opportunity to make it more interest
ing and to advance these subjects,
which are all practically new.
Feb. the Osborn studio photog-
raphers spent the day in taking
pictures Of the various groups Of
classes, clubs. and organizations for
the annual-Prairie Smoke-the
normal yearbook.
The high school basketball team
defeated the Beach quint by score
Of % to IA in the armory Friday
night.
The following is the report Of the
Normal basketball team who left on
their trip Thursday: Mandan, 10;
Normal, l6; Jamestown College, 70;
Normal, IL; New Salem. q; Normal,
IS.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-08

Churchill is not inclined to put
much stock in the worth of the clue"
Bob Hathaway admitted reluctantly.
"He says that every lawyer is pes
tered with crank letters Of this sort
written by prisoners who brood
over fancied wrongs. Every dis
trict attorney receives thousands of
threats and never pays any attention
to them"
But isn't Churchill going to trace
the sender of this letter." Faith de-
manded Indignantly. "After all it is
threat, and it was received during
the months that Cherry worked for
your uncle. 1t seems to me it should
be an easy matter--comparative
easy anyway--for Churchill to check
up on all the men defended by Mr..
Cluny and sentenced for ten years."
1.-The sentence was probably irfde-
terminate" Bob pointed out. "Or his
term might have been whitfield down
by good behavior. by the way, there
is one thing didn't tell you. BY
good fortune the original bears the
date it was received. All his letters
were stamped with rubber date
stamp and We can be sure Uncle
Ralph saw it, for it is marked in a
corner by his initials. He always in
itialed letters after reading them,
and If he intended to answer them,
made a pcnciled note or two. There
was nothing but his initials, how
ever, on this birds letter.
"He was sent to prison ten years
ago." Faith interrupted impatiently.
"Surely not so awfully many of your
uncle's clients were sentenced to
prison just exactly ten years ago."
"But we don't know how long after
the trial he waited for a supreme
court ruling on his appeal. But of
course Churchill will ferret out the
writer Of this letter, if it is humanity
possible"
"Court records are avaible,'
Faith protested. "And you at least
have his initial"
This bird is crafty" Bob pointed
out. THAT may not be his initial
ut all. If he took such pains to con-
ceal his identity from everyone but
Uncle Ralph it is at least conceivable
that he signed an initial that only
Uncle Ralph would recognize. Who
ever it is, he isn't taking any
chances on getting sent back to
prison for blackmail. This letter, if it
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-08
(official City, Stats and County Newspaper
Tribute to a Man Who Failed

Dust exactly what is mans real life work."
How are we to tell whether he has made a success
or failure of it?
Those questions seem bit strange, perhaps.
Yet few days ago, in more than dozen states,
business was stopped that the people might pay
tribute to the memory of who failed utterly
to gain his ends and who went down to over
wheming defeat after years of heart-breaking
struggle.
The man was Robert f. Lee, one-time commander
of the armed forces of the southern confederacy.
Our nation does not worship failures. We have
no palms to spare for those who could not succeed.
Yet-Robert E. Lee is one Of our chief heroes. Why
since he failed?
Perhaps it is because we are growing to realize
that there are failures dazzling than any
cess. Perhaps we are coming to understand that
it is not altogether what does that counts;
that how he does it may be important.
Time has swallowed up the mighty armies that
struggled along the banks Of the Rappahannock the
Mississippi and the James. The hosts that fought
at Gettysburg, at Shiloh and at Charlottesville
have marched on into the dim mists Of the past so
that blue and gray uniforms alike hardly dis
tinguishable. Green grass the remains Of
the trenches at Cold Harbor, and Fort Sumter is
only relic The battle flags are in museums.
Yet Lee has not been swallowed by time. The
cannon smoke has drifted away only to reveal his
heroic figure looming larger, more majestic than
The country has forgotten, gladly, that he
fought for lost cause; it remembers only the vaor
the skill and the shining manness with which he
fought
He rode, to be sure at the head of lost battalion
that marched for bivouac over the borders of the
land of darkness; but, route, he taught US that
there be failures which shine as gloriously as
any success
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-08
II Must BE Spectacular

boy skater on Lake Erie was marooned on a
cake of ice that became detached from the rest and
drifted out into the lake. bearing the helpless lad
to certain death.
Someone saw him. A whole city was aroused.
Tug boats tried fight their way through the foes,
airplanes flew over the lake to look for him. For
several days the search the chief topic of con-
vcrsation.
We need the spectacular to arouse us. We are
unmoved by the fact that slums and factories and
plantations grind the life out of chdren realize
that it is regrcttablc, but do not take much ac-
ton
But let one lad go to his death in a spectacular
way and we are stirred to the depths.
If commonplace tragedies could only stir as
colOrful Cncs do!
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-08
(St. Paul Daily NeWs)

There is a good deal of talk about the propriety
CT publishing the details of the proceedings at
White Plains, N. Y. Ordinarily. we would say
much Of the unpleasant testimony in divorce case
should remain imprinted. But question arises in
our mind in this particular instance.
SURPRISING details of such ugly stories usually
is done with the purpose of keeping them from
young people, especially young girls. Here, how
ever is case where it seems necessary to present
some details in order to drive home lesson. 1t is
a lesson newspapers should not be required to
teach-a lesson that should be taught by mothers
Mercenary marriages end in misery
1t always has been and always will be.
But mothers to be found every day handing
over their daughters to men who have money, and
little else, to give them. A mother gave Evelyn
Nesbit to Stanford White. mother gave Lita
Grey to Charlie Chaplin. mother gave Frances
Heenan to Edward w. Browning.
1t seems hard for some mothers to learn
When the present sickening story first opened
with little Mary Spas (misnamed Cinderella) re-
pudiating her adoption by this same Browning
(misnamed Prince Charming), there were New Yor:
mothers by the bedraggled dozen toting innocent
daughters to this ogng millionaire to be adopted
in Marys place.
1t may be that such mothers are not to be blamed
too much Victims Of poverty all their lives, they
seek something better for their children But they
seek it where nothing better is to be COMMUNICATING
even SO good as poverty
Adults too old to be harmed may read the story
being broadcast from White Plains and get d
sneaking thrill from it. That cannot be avoided
Il the story is published. In any case It can only
damage. something past damaging.
Young girls with overambitious mothers. NAV
read the story with profit. Better that they should
read and Be warned than that they should walk into
similar disaster through ignorance.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-08
FLAX OUTLOOK

Prices for flaxseed will quite like
~ not be any higher on the average
in 1927 than they were in 1925 ac-
cording to Paul C. Newman of the
Y. 5. Division of Crop and Livestock
Estimates. With another large crop
of 100000 bushels now being har-
vested in Argentina the worlds sup.
ply of flaxsced is approximately the
same as year ago when that coun-
try secured record crop of 75,OOO,-
600 bushels. Although the demand
for linseed oil may slacken some
what in 1927 the domestic require
ments OF flaxseed for all purposes
are likely to remain around AZ. 900 900
bushels. So where flax can be pro-
duced .profitably at present prices
some increase in acreage could be
made without increasing production
sufficiently to materially affect
prices.
The United States flax acreage in
1926 was estimated at $780,, 900 acres
with an average yield of 81 bushels
per acre resulting in a crop Of 49,
$4,000 bushels. OF this 1926. 600
acres were in North Dakota and the
bushels.
For the United States 10 per cent
increase in 1927 acreage with an 8
bushel crop would. result in a crop
some 100000 bushels below last
years consumption. Should the
highest average yield on record. 81
bushels. be obtained the supply would
still be below domestic requirements.
however, such large crop would do
doubt exert considerable influence
on prices.
The world crop so far as reported
is about per cent smaller than last
year but trade reports indicate a
larger carryover than usual of old
seed in Argentina and India. About
O., OOO, 900 bushels were exported from
Argentina and 1900, 900 bushels
from India during 1925. Prices were
lower and these prices were reflect
ed in the United States markets, the
1926 prices ranging from 2Oc to 4Oc
per bushcl below those received for
the 1925 croD.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-08
OAllNE Annee A2SstdIaN N y:

could be nailed on anyone, would
convict him, you know.
"Then as Churchill says, this may
be from completely demented
crank, whom Uncle Ralph, if he
were alive today, could not possibly
identify. But don't look so distressed,
child. OF course Churchill is going
to investigate. But he doesn't want
US to pin much faith on the thing
as clue. He says if I went through
the files would undoubtedly find
other such letters.,"s
"How are you sdfe that this is the
one that Cherry remembered Faith
asked suddenly. go
Because she remembered that it
was written as ! have described-not
written at all, but pasted up from
words cut from newspapers. She re-
members being interested in it when
she filed it, but she says Uncle Ralph
was not in his office at that time,
and she didn't rene mber later to
speak to him about it. She does say.
too, that it was the only threatening
letter Of its kind that she filed dur
ing the time she worked for Uncle
Ralph. He had as few enemies as
any criminal lawyer ever made, be-
lievc."
"Did she remember if your uncle
ever had visit from newly re-
leased prisoner Faith asked
frowning thouphtfully ut the copy of
the letter she still held in her hands.
"Churchill asked her. of course,
but she doesn't remember any such
visit. OF course such man might
have called and not been noticeable
enough to make an impression on
her memory. Uncle Ralph saw lot
of callers who did not state their
business to his secretary"
81 know" Faith exclaimed. ASK
Mr.. Neff, your uncle's law partner
He ought to know"
TOMORROW: Black wells.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-08
Editorial Comment
Let's Have Both Waterways
Chicago Tribune)

The meeting of the Great akes-Tidewater asso-
citation at Muskegon heard Charles P. Craig, execu-
tive secretary of the association, say he was in IA
vor of the Mississippi waterway because 1.-The ma
ton needs it,
There has been too much acrmony in the discus
sion of the waterways. This has led to the belief
in some quarters that the gulf waterway is in some
sense the rival of the St. Lawrence plan. 1t is not
There is no reason in engineering or in public policy
why both routes cannot be developed. The routes
are not rivals but compliments of the other. II
they rivals in any real sense so are the Illinois
Central and New York Central railroads. If one Of
these roads takes export business away from the
other it is certain that the loss is than made
up in the general prosperity Of the country to which
both contribute and from which both profit.
The representatives in congress Of the Mississippi
river states have had to fight strenuously against
the lake states for water from Lake Michigan that
they have come to view the great lakes seaway as
the enemy of their own project. This is unfor-
tunate though easily understood in the light of hu-
man nature, and it is hardly likely that the Msss-
sippi river states will consent to appropriations in
nine figures for the benefit of the lake states If
they continue to interfere with the legitimate and
relatively inexpensive aspiration for the gulf wa
terway If ill-feeling between the two sections is
allowed to grow the result may be stalemate. 1t
is therefore good omen for both projects that the
spokesman for the Great Lakes association showed
so tolerant an attitude toward the Mississippi wa
terway.
Mr.. Craigs point of view was also that of a Cana.
dian delegate, Frank H. Keefer, formerly parlia.
mentary secretary for external affairs of the do.
mnion Mr.. Keefer made no mention at all Of the
Lake Michigan diversion which, we have been asked
| to believe, is creating much -feeling in Canada
that it is endangering cooperation between the two
countries in the St. Lawrence project. The moderate
tone of the meeting suggests that Mr.. Hoover's ad
vice to let the engineers rather than the lawyers
solve the waterway problem is beginning to triumph
over selfishness and suspicion.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-08
IN NEW YORK

New York, Feb. S.--Within sneez-
ing distance Of some Of Gotham's gid
diest boast Of modernism are EN-
ployed methods reminiscent Of horse
drawn canal boats.
One such is the dummy boy"
And IL such may be found oper-
ating but three blocks off that we'll
known highway called Broadway.
Dummy boys" are the, Paul Re-
veres Of the freight tracks. They
ride ahead Of New York Central
freight trains to warn pedestrians
and vehicles that a train is coming.
In a day when signal systems
have reached high state of eff
cheney this seems, indeed, homely
custom. One might expect some
such custom in Tank. Corners but
surely not in Manhattan.
The riders keep 100 feet or more
ahead of an incoming train, riding
along the track shouting as they
60. They have perfected cry that
might find favor in hog calling
contest. At night they come gallop-
ing out Of the darkness, swinging q
lantern and chanting their unique
warning to the traffic of super
mOdernized city.
1t might be explained that the
dummy boys" are no reflection
upon the railroad or the metropolis.
They are demanded by city
ordinance passed some 75 years ago
when modern equipment was TAX
ing it's first toddling steps. It has
never been repeated and so, archaic
though it be, its enforcement is con-
tinued.
| Through the years the small boys
of Manhattan have viewed the
| dummy boys" with something of
! the awe that all boyhood bestows
on the cowpuncher. 1t is the big
towns substitute for the buckaroo.
Speaking Of city ordinances, it now
becomes possible for the little people
| of big stardom to have their names
emblazoned on Broadway in bigger
and better lights. Two extra feet
have been allowed so that Betty
TwinKletoes can now shine forth in
nine-foot letters.
The life Of an actor, meanwhile
becomes worse and worse. Those
/ good people who devote their time
to gathering figures have statistics
showing something like 200 we'll.
! known actors out. of work and
! about ten times that many little
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-08
How We Dread II!

eve must take the drudgery out of housekeep-
ing and set women free to develop" Henry Ford is
quoted saying at Wayside Inn, Sudbury, Mass
"Thc old-fashioned mother is out Of date"
Ford made his remarks as he sat in the tap room
OF the ancient inn, built in 1886. Od-tme kitchen
utensils and spinning Wheel signs of day when
women were little better than household slaves in
spired the manufacturers remarks
Ford heralded synthetic days in the kitchen, q
future without the messy and bothersome beef, pork
lamb and chicken, day when foods will be made
by formula. In the laboratory at Dearborn Ford
experts already working on synthetic foods, and
Ford says they'll be ready when the people are
Trips to the arctic, where men have lived entirely
on canned foods help sustain Fords belief that lab
oratory production of foods is feasible from the
sumption we'll as the production standpoints
There vanishes, as Ford speaks. the vision of the
old-fashioned mother who moved with such grace
among the steaming kettles and pots, or sat long
hours at the wheel turning out homespun for mans
comfort
In Wayside Inn her ghost must have lowered be.
fore Ford as he made his prediction, wrath Of a
beautiful woman holding a steaming roast beef
trimming faky pie crust, spinning as she sang
the cid songs
Even now her ministrations live largely in mem.
ory-this old-fashioned mother's-and there must
be days when man, however scientific he has be.
come, however he has mastered the preparation and
digestion Of synthetic foods longs for that old.
fashioned mother with a longing that will not be
stlled.
There is little corner in mans life that syn
thetic food cannot fill up. OF course we'll change
OF courst we'll progress. But how we dread it!