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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-03
Editorial Comment
Higher Grades


The snow Of the past month has proven to some
of the members of the North Dakota Highway Com
mission that it will be economy and better all year
service to build grades somewhat higher. In MAX
ing survey of the situation it has been found that
where grades somewhat higher and the bitches
deeper and wider than the usual grade and ditch
that there has been less trouble with show. Mr..
Moe in recent interview stated, he believed that
if grades would be built up from twelve to eighteen
inches above the adjoining land and bitches made
wider and deeper there would be little trouble in
keeping the grades clear of during the winter,
he believes it would be economy in the end. 1t
would cost more it is true in the construction of
the same, but, maintenance being the eternal job, it
would cost less from that standpoint. This propo-
stion will be taken up before the commission at
an early date and undoubtedly some action will be
taken. The time has come, Mr.. Moe stated that
all year reads must be planned The business Of
the state demands all year transportation and it
the business of the highway department to work
for the best interests of all concerned in the ad-
vancement and development of the state
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Imperialism?


Some Of the critics of our state department point.
ing to our policy toward Mexico and Nicaragua
contend that we are embarked upon policy of i'm.
perialism.
The majority Of US cannot know what is in the
minds Of the nations leaders. But most of us rdi.
cule the theory that we already an empire and
are expanding our domain.
1t is in other lands however, that protests against
american Imperialism" have reached their loudest
pitch. In Europe, Ashland Latin America we'll
the ambitions of rulers, statesmen, nations and
races have powerfully influenced the course of
history and wrecked and reestablished boundaries
that suspicion has become of the most impor-
tant items of national defense as well as a chief
cause of war;
If the suspicion Of some nations is directed at this
great country today, there is little need for aston
shment. What nation of the past, becoming more
powerful than her neighbors, has set out on the
course of empire?
Consider imperial Egypt. Imperial Greece. I'm
pcrial Rome. Imperial SPAIN Imperial France.
Imperial England. Imperial Germany
And then consider what task we must have on
our hands to convince the world that the United
States always will stand as the great exception of
history!
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New York Finally Catches On

One hates to say it, but it is impossible to escape
the impression that New York, after all, is just a
little bit behind the times
The New York newspapers have become vastly
excited during the last few days because they have
found there lady barber, who a shop for tho
patronage of men. This estimable lady has been
held up as one of the modern wonders Of the world.
There is a sort of "what won't up-to-date New
Workers do next ?" note in all the stories about her.
Well, probably that is something to get excited
about-in New York.
But it is good many years since first saw a
barber shop run by ladies. There has been one to
be explicit in Kansas City for number of years.
Other western cities had them before Kansas City.
In most of them the idea is old that nobody thinks
twice about it,
Of course it isn't important.
But somehow, you can't help feeling that New
York, every and then, catches on to something
that is old, old story to the rest of the country
and thinks it has made discovery.
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chronicled, some of the worst bcgar
and ended in Happy Alley" The
underworld once bore it's bloody brood
there, sending them forth from dark.
cned easements and gloomy buildings
This was the stamping ground
Of Jack Sirocco,- and many Of his
mob.
But Happy Alley" had a merry
side, as we'll. It's beer shops, sordid
as perhaps some of them were in
their day, held many an Irish clog
ger, dancing beerfully to the strains
Of an Italian accordion.
At one time its population was al
most entirely Irish and nobody seems
to know it's exact antiquity. One
tenement, it is said, was built l2O
years ago and there were Irish in
Happy Alley" no doubt, who num-
bcrcd among the first Of the Irish
settlers in America.
And don't forgct-in "Happy Al
ley"s was Niger Mixes" now ia
nous because of Irving Berlin's APP
premiership. 1t was there, you may
recall, that Berlin got his start as q
singing waiter.
When the Irish left the Italians
and Chinese began to come in. Then
the Italians went and left it almost
entirely to the Oricptals and gang
guns were replaced by the hatchets
of highbinders and later by the auto
MATES Of modern tong warfare.
There is plenty for the tourist
stcerers to tell ab0ut as they take
their charges through Happy Alley"
There is plenty to bring restless sleep
to visitors from. snug farmtowns.
But this will not be easy when
Il modern apartment house rises.
1t is hard for the imagination to
penetrate steel and stone and see
the eerie, creepy scenes Of another
day.
The shrewd young Chinese have
long since built their noodle
joints" into ornate show places for
the tourists and many have made
such comfortable fortunes that
they have moved into Broadway,
flaunts lanterns and gold sign.
while jazzbands blare at noon hour
and midnight alike.
In fact, it took the products of
Chinatown, rather than Broad
way, to popularize the noon time
dansant.
GILBERT SWAN.
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Darest thou now, Oh soul,
Walk out with me toward that un-
known region,
Where neither ground is for the feet
nor any path to follow?
No map there, nor guide,
Nor voice sounding, nor touch of
human hand,
Nor face with blooming flesh, nor
lips, nor eyes are in that
land.
! know it not, Oh soul,
Nor dost thou, all is a blank be-
fore US
All waits undreamcd Of in that re-
giOn, that inaccessible land.
Till when the ties loosen,
All but. the ties eternal, Time and
Space,
Nor darkness, gravitation, sense. nor
any bounds bounding US.
Then we burst forth, we float.
In Time and Space, Oh soul! prcparcd
for them,
Equal, equipped at last ooh 10y! Oh
fruit Of all!) them 10 full
fill, Oh soul!
Walt Whitman: From Leaves of
Grass"
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0AllNE& Anne A2SstdIaN N ~

Stephen Churchill shrugged his
massive shoulders skeptically. "Shot!"
THE man who murdered Uncle
Ralph is a cripple, man who walks
on the toe Of his left foot. His left
leg is shorter than his right, or is
drawn up rs the result of an opera
tion on the knee, SO that he cannot
Like this!" And Bob rose from his
chair, placed his right foot flat upon
the rung, and, with the knee sharp
iy crooked, rested only the toe of his
left shoe on the floor. "He is a tall
man, probably thin"
How do you get that?" Churchill
asked, intensely interested at last.
''From these figures" Bob answer
cd, dropping into his chair again. 81
measured those footprints in the
snow before they were oblitcrated by
added layers of snow. Morehousc
watched me measure them-he can
verify what | say. Then | made foot
prints in the snow myself, and meas
nred them, to have something to go
by. ! am a pretty tall man myself
SIX feet--and ! wear i size nine shoe
on c last. Fairly narrow, you see,"
and he thrust out n foot for the law
yer's inspection. "But these foot
prints were made by man who
wore a size eleven shoe, on the mar
rowcst last made. That indicates
that he had a very long and narrow
foot. I've talked to shoe dealer
berc-showcd him these footprint
measurements, too--and he gave me
the dope on them. He says that a
man wearing long, narrow shoe is
almost invariably very tall, thin
man. If he were fat, his foot would
thicken. and he would wear a shoe
both long and wide. That is not in
evitably the case, of course. We
have all remarked on the oddity Of
thin legs supporting short, heavy
body. But the extreme length of
this mans foot, with the extreme
narrowness Of it, certainly points to
only one conclusiOn-that the man
who made these footprints is excep-
tionally tall-six feet two or three,
probably-and thin. Very tall men
are rarely fat, if you've noticed"
Churchill nodded. "Ill check up
on the detectives and policemen who
were first on the scene of the crime"
1--WE already done so. Morehouse
was interested" Bob told him quick
~. There is not man connected
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Philadelphia clubwomen have Join.
ed movement to have public libra
ries open on Sunday. Where it this
wave of dissipation carrying US?
Senator Jim Reed has discovered
that the presidential spokesman is
Coolidge himself. Next thing you
know some of these investigating
senator's is going to find out he's Il
Republican,, too.
Perhaps Uncle Sam, isn't popu-,
lar with his Maynard nephews and
nieccs just now, but did you ever
see rich uncle who was?
Chicago dentists say we should
eat alfalfa. Do we have to eat it
and smoke 1t, too?
Washington has seven debu-
tantcs who neither smoke nor
drink, says a dispatch. Social. tai
ents certainly arc waning in the
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dayton News)

We're headed back toward Father Adam. We've
climbed just about as far nature intended; we're
pausng with feet on the topmost rung of the lad
der, and there isn't any way to 60 now but back
ward, back to where We started from. 1t has been
a long, devious road, that road leading from the
Garden of Eden to- here, and we've been a good
long time negotiating it. But now that the end of
the trail has been reached and there is nothing to
do but turn around and 60 back the going ought to
be much easier. 1t is always easier going down
HILL The evolution Of man has been halted by his
own civilization. We are at standstill.
If you are inclined to disagree, and if you are
optimistic enough to believe there is no end to the
road over which the human race has travelled since
its first members received notice to dspossess the
premises that had been generously allotted them,
take up your argument with Edwin Grant Conkln,
head of the department of biology of Princeton uni
versity. He is responsible for the statement that
we are going back to Adam. "Since the beginning
Of recorded history" he states, "there have been
few and wholly minor changes in the body of man.
and those changes have been mainly degeneratve .
He points out that the little toe has grown small.
er, and that the great toe has grown larger; that
teeth have decreased in size and strength and that
there has been general lowering Of the perfection
Of sense organs. Under conditions of civilization
he contends there has been q less rigid elimination
Of physical imperfections than in o state of bar
barism or savagery. He declares there has been
noticeable progress in the intellectual capacity
Of man in the last 1000 or 5000 years. "Even in
the most distant future" asserts the man Of learn
ing "there may never appear greater geniuses than
Socrates Plato Aristotle, Shakespeare, Newton and
Darwin"
Like alt who happen along to alarm their fellows
this man. offers no relief. He apparently doesn's
feel that eugenics can accomplish anything in the
way Of leading once more to progressive evolution
He merely says we are as far be we can 90, and
that we are now headed back toward Adam and
Eve. But isn't It possible the professor has beer
burning midnight oil over = modern fashion maya.
sine instead Of text book On biology?
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Americas 1776 Idea Now Moves China

When q new idea gets abroad in country you
may expect startling developments.
Ideas, in this world of ours, are things. An
idea big enough to grip the imagination OF whole
country comes along not oftener than once or twice
in a century When it does its results far
reaching.
: China, stagnant in the peace of nodding man.
darins and stately pagodas for many centuries,
has been seized by idea--the idea that is ex-
pressed by the word "natonasm"
: For countless centuries the average Chinese hard
IL had an inklng of that idea To the village coolie
the whole universe was included in the limited boun
daries of his own immediate neighborhood He
might have diluted loyalty to his town; loyalty to
China as whole was beyond his power Of concep
ton.
But now the idea is taking hold.
1t came gradually, born of oppression and mis-
rule. Slowly, painfully, there was impressed on the
mind of the coolie the idea that his country was
something than the few square miles surround
ing his birthplace. He began to realize, in mud
died sort of way, that what happened in far-off
Picking Shanghai had direct effects on living con-
ditions in his village
So now China is aflame. A national spirit
Is being born.
Nationalism is one of the strongest impulses that
can move a people. 1t can be one of the finest;
and at the same time, it be one of the most
dangerous. The 13 seacoast colonies of Great Brit
ain were FESTIVE under the hand of depotism for
many years; but not until true national spirit was
born, and given expression on July day in l776.
did resentment and indignation become able t.
strike.
When true national spirit people, out
siders can beware how they interfere. There is a
kind Of dynamite in human souls, slow to ignite,
but Notwithstanding in it's effects 1t gives birth
to French revolutions, Thirty Years wars, sends
armies forth to die and lays bloody sword across
fair countrysides
China is aroused. Even the American mission
aries, heretofore well liked by the masses, are in
danger. The nationalism is, among other
things, blind.
Il Do not make the mistake of thinking that the
Chinese troubles will elbow over soon." They will
not.
Outsiders repress the spirit Of nationalism
for time. But not for long.
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IN NEW YORK

New York, Feb. "a modern apart
ment house is rising in New York's
Chinatown.
Long doomed by the inroads of
commercialism, this may be the
final blow to the Chinatown that
was.
From Times Squares, buses hung
with Chinese lanterns still set forth
many times q day, carrying their
loads of tourists to the snake-like
alleyways. From the bus seats the
barkers make promises of strange
sights and adventures that end in a
made-to-order jaunt through chow
mein parlors and public joss house.
But the old-timers have long looked
upon Chinatown as foredoomed.
The new apartment rises in "Hap-
ply Alley" paradoxically named block
of sinister memories.
OF all the grisly gang wars to be
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with the police department who
wears an eleven A shoe!"
you may have something here"
Churchill agreed thoughtfully. "Any
other clues? ?" His smile was a little
amused
"Ycs!" Bob thrust a-hand into a
breast pocket of his coat and drew
out the bit of stained, worn leather
strap. Il found this under the win
dow, buried in the snow. "The Grip
pie who murdered Uncle Ralph wears
some sort of brace, to ease the strain
on his bad leg. Probably knee
brace. In hosting himself into the
window-the open window" he en-
phasized mcaningly, "the strap of his
leg brace broke, and this bit of it
fell to the ground and was later COW
cred with snow. There was snow
under 1.-THE snow had drifted pretty
deep on the slope--as we'll as snow
covering it when l found it. That
indicates conclusively that it was
dropped there after the snowstorm
started, not before. Find very tall,
thin man, whose left leg is supported
by a brace so that he cannot touch
his heel to the ground, and you'll
find the murderer Of Ralph Cluny!"
TOMORROW: Bob Hathaway
agrees to become Il burglar in the
interests Of justice.
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Esthe,rviIle

Mrs. H. Arndt and son, Henry
Harold, have returned from Hague,
where they have been Writing Mr..
Arndt's parents.
MIR. and Mrs. Philip Zelmer were
guests at the A. J. Krause home SUM-
day.
Miss Clara Krause is still helping
Mrs. Englebritzen with housework.
Mrs. Rasche is getting better at
this writing.
Marion Marvin, Martha Aim, Ella
Funston, Hilda and Clara Krause at
tended the Christian Endeavor party
Saturday evening given In Regain.
Little Henry Harold Arndt has been
on the>sick list all last week.
Esther Krause has been absent
from school, on account Of . bad
cold. -
Mr.. and Mrs. e. Englebritsen at
tended party given at the Aug.
Lundberg home.
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Machinery Needed

= 1t takes major catastrophe to make people
realize the great need Of proper safety devices No
sRaatter how many fire extnguishers there may be
pm the market, an auto owner rarely buys one until
shis machine has caught fire. So It is with rail-
roads. real safety device that stops train auto
Fatically If the block ahead is occupied is in suc
Sfessful use on too few roads.
II such device had been in use on the Pittsburgh
division Of the Pennsylvania railroad recently for
S!I!stance. the Cincinnati Limited would not have
een able 70 crash into the Pittsburgh Warrington
Express, killing Is people and injuring many more
yen Il thu sngineer wished to disregard the signals
shdt against hia train 10 stated. The automatic
twice would have stopped the train anyway and
many lives would have been saved.
& i0f rOurse the railroads point to the expense Of
antalling TIE safety devices ana state that Il is
phibitive. but that + scarcely logical argument
- tsAvsains pnblie would chssrfnlly pay slightly
~ transportation Y the 3aetos 81 safety wss
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CrOIrlweu\

Edw. Morris was q recent caller at
the Lund home in Ghlyn district.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. C. Whitfield were
shopping in Regain Wednesday.
Harold Morris made q brief business
call at the John Engdahl home Fri
day.
Joe Marley spent Friday morning
at Martin Nelson's.
J. w. Jiras and son, Will, were
business visitors in Baldwin.
NJ. F. Parker, who teaches No. 2
Cromwell, was q dinner guest at the
Joe Marley home Saturday.
Enos Strandemo made q trip to
Baldwin Saturday.
+. H. Schroeder purchased three
loads of oats, which was offered for
sale from a car shipped into Baldwin.
Saturday. His sons. Arthur. Willie
end Martin hauled the iced home.
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Repeating Useless Laws

I, Americans who deplore the multiplicity of laws
md ordinances in America may we'll take heart
when they contemplate the state of affairs in Ger
many where the ministry Of the interior holds -ou
q prospect Of the repeal of fewer than million
police ORDERS every Of which has the full force
of law. In the batch many hundred years
Sld.
!. The United States has very nearly the same cir
cumstance to contend with. AS the years have gone
by legislation intended for temporary has re-
manned on the statute books, later to bob up and
sonfcund those very persons who were instrumental
In its enactment. Day by day we struggling
with archaic system of laws and regulations
which is unnecessary, dogmatic, oppressive and ut
tery useless. Among those may be cited the
called "blue laws" about which there is such just-
liable furore.
We have the constant spectacle of the attempted
enforcement in twentieth century America of out-of
date laws that were enacted for the guidance of
nineteenth century people and situations. The laws
palpably foolish that there is engendercd in
the average man a contempt for all laws.
It is situation that should not exist Our egis-
lative and judicial systems far behind the times
They have been left far behind as the world has
advanced and their flounderngs in the maze of a
bygone only complicate our present existence.
What seems to be necessary is complete house.
cleaning in every town, city and state in the
nation with the object of putting all the rubbish
Legislation on the scrap heap.
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increased by the installation Of these devices. The
Interstate Commerce Commission should take i'm
mediate steps to require all thrc1gh and fast trains,
on express tracks, at least, to be equipped with
these safety stop devices.
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A THOUGHT

He shall .rale them with rod Of
iren.-iSev. 3:37.
II Is firmness that makes the gods
on our sides yoltaire.
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Justajingle

Peor motheT spilled . quaSt OF Mill
And On the floor twas sticking.
The kitten .aid. "You bed, Eed
Willk."
And then gave Il Z licklng.
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At The Movies
CAPITOL THEATRE


A story Of Young America has at
last found its way to the screen in
"A Regular Scout" an F. B. o. pro-
duction starring Fred Thomson which
Is playing at the Capitol Theatre. It
Is story of the life and motives
OF the greatest boy organization on
earth--the Boy Scouts. The locale is
the West, with towering, majestic
mountains for . background. and all
the thrilling riding, so wildly q part
Of Western pictures, is at its best
with Silver King as the exponent Of
the cowboys Pegasus. A troop Of
Scouts and Fred meet accidentally
one night while camping on tho
desert, and. from then ON their lives
are drawn together, and the mutual
friendship grows to such proportions
that the entire life Of the man is
changed. through the boys ennobline
influence. Seven troops Of Scouts
are used in the picture, while their
national headquarters appointed a
Scout Executive to oversee and han
die the technical points involved in
the production. The cast includes
Olive Hasbrouck, Mary Carr, Mar.
garet Seldom. Buck Black, william
COPYRIGHT, Harry Woods. +. Row
Barnes and Bob 11Kim.
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ELrINCE THEATRE

"Mare Nostrum" (our sea) the
screen production Of the story by
BIasco 1banes at the Eltinge yester-
day. will be shown for the last times
tonight. 1t is q dramatic story of spy
plots and sea warfares. Alice Terry
Is seen as reluctant spy with An
tonic Moreno in dashing character
ization.
Bebe Daniels, vivacious queen of
comedy comes to the Eltinge for Fri
day and Saturday in her latest pic.
ture, STRANDED in Paris" Her ex-
perience as an American shop eirl
In q series of mirthful escapades pro-
vide the excellent entertained emit
which Is expected from a Bebe DAN
iels picture. The presence for Ford
sterling in the cast is further assur-
ance OF pleasing comedy and mirth,
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CORPORATIONS

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TOMORROW: Bob Hathaway
agrees to become burglar in the
interests Of Justice.