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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-05-27
Personal and
Social News Of
Mandan Vicinity
ENTERTAIN AT SHOWER

ENTERTAIN AT SHOWER
Miss. Luella McCadams, bride Of
next month, was entertained Wednes-
day evening by Mrs. H. II. Williams
and Mrs. H. C. Funder ct . $3.50 din
ner and miscellaneous shower at the
home Of Mrs. Williams. A. color
scheme Of pink and white and dis
play OF tiny hearts decorated the
roops. The enterpiece for te dinner
table was fashioned with q miniature
bride and groom. Miss .McCadams
found shower of gifts in q large
heart which hung in = lowered bow
or. During the evening there were
five tables Of bridge In play, Mrs. 4.
II. Connolly and Mrs.. r. G. Tharp
winning the honors.
DELIVERS ADDRESS
8npt. ]. C. Gould delivered the
commencement address last night ut
9eulah. This evening he will address
tae graduates of the Holiday high
NAMED FRATERNITY OFFICER
George NewgaFd Jof this city has
been named Vice prssident Of. Theta
Chi fraternity 1T the North Dakota
agricultural Soilege. whore he Is a.
tendtng school. Neygard Ii junior
IL -,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-05-27

For SALE tractors with
plows. Also 2 teams horses.
-Gussner's.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-05-27
MdndQn Neus

in the school Of education, : football
letterman, ex-captain Of the basket
ball team, and charter member Of
Blue Key, leadership fraternity.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-05-27

Milton NJ. Greene, wanted in Fargo
on charge Of abandonment of minor
children, was placed under arrest here
last night by the police department.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-05-27
OHsERvE AscrNsYON nAY

niue Aey. leadership 1raternity.
OBSERVE ASCENSION DAY
Members Of Couer de Lion COM
mandery No. 10, knights Templar,
held the annual observance of Assem-
sion day yesterday. At o'clock in
the afternoon members Of the COM
mandery in full dress uniform drove
to- Riverside cemetery to decorate the
graves Of departed brothers. A ban
quet was served at the Masonic tenn
pie at 6:l5. after which Rev. w. E.
Water, pastor Of the Bismarck Meth
edist church, delivered an address.
RETURNS. HOME
Charles Mcdonald, who recently un-
derwent several operations at the
Mayo hospital, Rochester, Mimi, has
returned to Mandan.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-05-27

pure food color such a. Is used
In cakes and candies, pure cane
sugar and healthful carbonated
water. Nothing else. At the Amer-
lean Medical Association
Baby Show. where 10000
children were given g
clinical examination, Or
angc-Crush was awarded
a certificate of merit.
There is SO great DIFF.
ference between Orange.
Crush and the majority
OF SO called orange drinks 10y ]
that the public is warned
to ask for 1t by name and y
Insist on the genuine. s.
There Is only one Or =
ange.Crush-aFways In
the kriukly Bottle. AH
Evening star., 1927-04-08
guests who had been invited to the

guests who had been invited to the
demonstration.
| Two-way television was not attempt
ed. although telephone officials state to
an astounded public that there is no
inherent obstacle to this accomplish
ment. Several others besides Secre-
tary Hoover talked In Washington
and were seen and heard in New York,
but in so far as Washington was con-
| cerned those on the other end of the
line remained cloaked in the darkness
that is generally associated with tele.
phone conversations.
What the future may hold for an
improved television no one can fore
tell. It's development even to the pres
ent stage is remarkable enough to
stagger the average persons imagina-
ton. But whatever effect it has on
the happiness, comfort and conven-
ience of present-day or future civiliza-
ton, it shows clearly that only
beginning has been made in solving
the potentialities and harnessing the
forces Of electricity. Mans ingenuity
has been demonstrated time and again.
Yesterdays exhibition was merely adj
ditional proof that science is constant
" advancing. But who can tell what
lies Just around the corner?
Although the people inhabiting the
world two or three hundred years
hence will probably look back with de-
rision on our puny efforts to make
ourselves happy and comfortable. no
one living at the present time should
feel ANYTHING but the keenest apprecia-
ton of what science has accomplished.
II is nossible to travel under the water
and in the air. as we'll as on the land.
Fast trains and airplanes are available
TO carry us in comfort to any point we
select. Moving picture and the raulo
furnish entertainment and instruction
and distance can be eliminated by the
recent practical control Of ether waves.
A Washingtonian may sit down pe'
fore his telephone and talk with
London friend, more than four thou'
sand miles away. Ingenious contriv'
ances can be used to make existence
more pleasant, such as mechanical
hands to aid the housewife in her daily
duties. All in all. we have what ap'
nears to us every comfort and con-
venience.
Science is working day and night 10
add to it's store of knowledge and the
teleyision is it's latest accomplishment.
Tr,lv. we are to be envied for our Ire
in this modern, progressive ana IN
genious civilization.
Evening star., 1927-04-08
"Gold" Dear at Half Price.

Screen goods" are not being sold
nowadays, because that particular
form of swindling has been too thor
oughly exp sed. besides involving
double risk to the buyer, TO be con-
Quoted safely. 1t had been thought
that gold bricks" had likewise
passed into the limbo of the discarded
schemes for separating the gullibie
from their money. But here in Wash
ington a few hours ago man was
mulcted in the sum of nearly $1,1OO
by q variation of the gold brick"
game that appears too simple to fool
even the most innocent and trusting
person.
In this case the swindlers sought
out a. man with some cash, not well
versed in business affairs outside OF
his own trade. They planted him
phrewdIy, one Of them first securing an
acquaintance. Then one of the other
two dropped in, ostensibly looking
for the first one, offering to sell him
some gold. The first man, Inter
ested" in the proposition, summoned
a friend, posing as a chemist, who
applied tests" to the gold and pro-
nounced it genuine and worth in all
about $4,000. Schemer number two
offered to sell the lot for half the
assay price. The selected victim
agreed to take part of it, went out
and got the money, paid the cash and
took i'm return a box full Of tin bottle
tops, worth in all perhaps 10 cents.
II seems incredible that so simple
a trick should be worked success
fully in any city in this country. II
is so obvious that anybody with gold
to sen would never take big dis
count for commodity that is always
marketable at par. 1t would seem
plain that anybody purporting to buy
such stuff as a lure TO the chosen
victim must be party to a swlndle
In the green goods game there was
a certain degree of plausibility about
the transaction. The swindlers pro-
fessed TO sell a commodity at a profit
10 themselves that could be turned
into genuine cash. by criminal pro-
cedure, by the buyer. The victim
was TO have a share of the profits oi
the counterfeiting enterprise. If he
should get what he thought he was
buying. bogus money, AS nf4tter Of
Evening star., 1927-04-08
Clearing the Way.

The first operation in the park de-
velopments under the broad new plan
for the Greater Washington has been
started in the wrecking of nearly
threescote of buildings standing with
i'm the area, designated for the broad
boulevard between the Union Station
and Pennsylvania avenue. The razing
of these structures will clear the way
for a. landscape treatment in conform
itv with the general plan for the i'm
provement of the Capital.
Unfortunately, the Senate deadlock
which marked the closing days of the
sixty.ninth Congress prevented the
massage of certain bills which pertain
to this general plan, notably that
which authorized the acquisition OF all
the land within the Mall-Avenue trl'
angle not already owned by the Gov
ernment for public building purposes.
Had that bill become a law, good
start would have been made on the
completion of the building emplace-
ment project. It is fairly we'll assured,
however. that it will be passed at the
next session, and it will then be pos
sible to proceed with harmonious,
systematic location of the structures
that are to be erected under the $780,
600 900 program already authorized.
The cleaning up Of the Capitol
Station Plaza will not be completed
until further legislation is had author
izing the removal of the Government
hotels, erected during the war period
for the accommodation of department
workers. The need for them has
passed, and little doubt is felt that
they will be vacated and destroyed
shortly. 1t will then be possible to
complete the plaza development,
which has Jagged for some years
through delay in finishing the land
purchases.
Another operation remains toe be
performed before the parks are fully
cleared of Government trespassers.
The concrete structures on the Hortn
flank of Potomac Park, generally
known as the Munitions Buildings"
must eventually go. They are a de-
cided intrusion upon the park space.
Though designated as temporary"
they are of such substantial construc-
ton that they will not depreciate as
rapidly as have the other buildings
put in the parks in war emergency.
These latter are decrepit and. will
barely serve their present uses until
the time when the new structures now
about to be erected are completed.
But the two buildings on the northern
edge of Potomac Park will physically
endure for good many years. That
fact should, however, not deter Con-
gress from making provision for their
early replacement in other locations.
Evening star., 1927-04-08
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

are confiscated; in theory. at least,
they are burned. The dead letter Of
flee handles that part of it, Some
times samples" are retained in the
files to facilitate quick yeriflcation II
subsequent duplicate copies turn ur
in the mails from abroad. The de-
partment likewise maintains list OF
titles of books. or of particular editions
of books, which have been ruled ''un.
mailable." This list comprises several
thousand names and is constantly
growing. 1t is a closely guarded
secret. Booksellers have repeatedly
sought access to 1t for their own guild
ance. They are refused on the plea
that the information might be used
to stimulate bootleg" sales at inflated
prices. What more potent sales argu-
nent than to whisper. "See, here it is
on the Post Office Department Off.
cial list of banned books"
X X X
What seven States sin the Union
have motor vehicle registrations ex-
ceeding the million figure? Try this
''ask me another" question on your
friends and see how many will in
clude Texas In the list. The 1926
auto statistics, just published by the
Department of Agriculture, put Texas
In this group as to number. In point
of amount of revenue derived from
registration fees, Texas ranks in
fourth place of the entire 48 States.
Her income from this source totaled
14,362,883. Texas has more motor
vehicles than all of New England put
together.
The oratorical duel between Senator
Borah and Nicholas Murray Butler of
Columbia University on the prohibit
ton issue, which is taking place in
Symphony Hall in Boston tonight, is
rated by the Presidents closest per-
sonal and political friends in his home
State as a distinctly anti-Coolidge
demonstration. This phase of the
affair was emphasized by the public
declination of Frank w. Stearns, the
Presidents political godfather, to at
tend the Borah-Butler meeting, coupled
with Stearns' resignation from the
Roosevelt Club of Massachusetts,
under whose auspices it is being held.
Robert M. Washburn, erstwhile legis-
lator, lecturer and Coolidge biog-
rapher, in his capacity as president
of the club is the impresario of the
occasion. Washburn has long been a
stormy petrol in the Bay State Re-
publican camp, with a penchant for
the spectacular. He has been "off
the Coolidge reservation" for some
time. Borah and his debating
antagonist were in agreement on one
point-namely, that prohibition as a
political issue cannot be sidestepped
or smothered. Borah privately has
considerable contempt for the brand
of politics which seeks to dodge the
issue.
(Copyright 1922
Evening star., 1927-04-08
A Move for Permanent Peace.

The desire of the United States Gov
Rrnment for peace in revolution-torn
Nicaragua is emphasized in the deter
1nination to send Henry L. Stimson
there as a representative of the Presi-
dent and the State Department. Mr..
Stimson's task, it is assumed, will be
to bring about a settlement between
the warning factions-such a settle.
ment as would mean a more enduring
peace in the Central American republic
than it has experienced for years.
The United States Government,
charged with imperialistic designs in
some quarters because of its policy
in Nicaragua, is bent on peace in
Nicaragua which shall be satisfactory
to the Nicaraguans themselves and at
the same time safeguard the real and
great interests which this country has
in Nicaragua. This Government has
no desire to maintain Marines indef1-
nitely in Nicaragua. 1t has no desire
to duplicate even the thirteen years be-
tween 1913 and 1925. during which an
American Marine guard at Managua.
by its mere presence, resulted in a
peaceful administration of Nicaraguan
affairs. The fact that the Marine
guard was withdrawn more than a
year ago should be evidence enough
to any one that this country has all
along wished the Nicaraguans to gov
ern themselves.
The withdrawal of the Marines, how
ever. was followed almost Immediately
by revolt and revolution. The pur-
pose of this Government in sending
its Marines again to Nicaragua has
been the protection of American and
foreign lives and property in that
country and nothing else. They Will
be withdrawn again when conditions
warrant. The mission of Mr.. Stim-
son, Secretary of War during the
Taft administration and conversant
with Central American affairs, is to
deal. it is believed, with the various
elements in Nicaragua and, if possible,
to solve the differences that exist
there.
The United States has recognized
the Diaz government: 1t has sold arms
to that government. The aid thus
given has enabled the Diaz forces re-
Gently to gain successes in the field.
There is no disposition on the part OF
this Government to withdraw its rec
ognition of the Diaz government. But
II would be glad to see an end brought
to the ever.recurring civil strife in
Nicaragua, not only for the sake OF
the Nicaraguans, but because 1t may
become advisable some day to con-
struct an interoceanic canal across
that country. Already President Cool
idge has been represented as taking
an interest in the problem. of greater
facilities for shipping through the
Panama Canal or the construction
of an additional canal. Mr.. Stimson
may find time during his trip TO Gen.
trail America to give the canal problem
some attention, in order to lay the
facts before the President on his
return.
Evening star., 1927-04-08

fact, he was only buying worthless
strips of green paper. But In the
gold brick game, or it's later variety,
the victim is gulled by the suggestion
that he is getting something genuine
at remarkably low price, the quota
ton of which should in any case
warn him that he is being swindled.
Gold is gold and is not discountable.
There are no bargins in the yellow
metal except when it is dug out of
the ground.
The operators of this game are
shrewd performers. They are good
actors and they are astute judges of
human nature. They mark down
their victim carefully, work him up
adroitly, get his money and fee, per-
haps to work the game in another
city. 1t can seldom be worked twice
in the same town. because exposure
of it puts everybody on warning.
Perhaps a few years hence they, If
they are not caught meanwhile, or
some other gang, will come here and
take the savings of another Wash
ingtonian. fooling him just as the
latest victim of this elementary trick
has been fooled.
The advice, before you invest in.
vestigate," applies to the buying OF
gold from strangers, or from anybody
else in fact. as we'll as to stocks and
bonds and other securities. For all
is not gold that glitters any more
than everything that is printed from
an engraved plate on crackly paper
is a sound security.
Evening star., 1927-04-08
Manners of Bandits
At Least Improved

From the Nashville Banner.
Inasmuch as it seems there is no
immediate prospect of eliminating the
criminal from American life, 1t is
really very gratifying to be able to
note instances of better manners dis
PLAYED by bandits and their ilk here
and there. Formerly, it is deplorable
to be obliged to say, practically all
our thieves and thugs were persons
conspicuous for their lack of educa'
ton and refinement. Their voices
were rough and harsh, their dlction
coarse, their manner always threaten
ing and often insulting, and at times
they even so far forgot themselves
as to gloat over their victims. Thank
goodness there are signs that all the
old uncouthness is to be abandoned
in the course of time.
st. Louis reports, for example, that
a polite, well.dressed robber held up
and robbed an automobile party head
ed by a wealthy contractor. The
bandit took all the cash the party had
and S1,5O0 worth of jewelry. He did
not, however, indulge in any of this
rough stick -'em-up" stuff. On the
very striking contrary, he said: Il m
very sorry, but this is the way | make
my living. | hope you Will pardon
me and 1 hope you won't make any
trouble" How much is this method
of separating the general public from
it's possessions to be preferred! There
was no more nervous shock than alb
solutely necessary. The conventions
of polite society were infrlnged upon,
it is true, but to an irreduclble mini
mum. The robbed must have felt that
they were almost due credit for
charitable contributions and as though
they were really aiding a gentleman
in distress. BY all means, if we must
be robbed, let us be robbed with the
courtesy and consideration shown by
this modestly anonymous st. Louis
knight of the highway.
Evening star., 1927-04-08
Japanese Language
in Hawaii Is Upheld
From the Sacramento Union.

| From the Sacramento Union.
| The United States Supreme Court
has handed down a decision that it is
permissible for the public schools of
Hawaii to teach the Japanese Ian.
| guage. Unquestionably this decision
| was based not so much on the mar
row Interpretation of statutory law
as upon broad considerations of JUS
| tice and reason.
Hawaii is one of the busiest ports of
the meeting of East and West. Con-
| ksidering the rapid intermingling of
| racial characteristics, Hawaii is con-
tinually giving abundant proof of it's
capacity to accept its responsibilities
as well as to realize on it's oppor.
tunities.
There are more Japanese Americans
in the Hawaiian Islands than Ameri-
can Americans. 1t must be assumed,
both for the credit of the Japanese
and of the Americans charged with
the conduct of the government, that
the Japanese Americans are just as
proud of their citizenship as any other
residents of Hawaii
1t is no offense for Japanese or any
other nationality in Hawaii to de-
sire to learn to read and write Japa-
nese. Indeed, if the people of Hawaii
would make themselves wholly COM
petent they would strive not only to
learn Japanese but several other lam
guages as well-English, Russian,
Chinese, Tagalog. FIench or Poly
nesian.
The people of the United States
should realize that Hawaii is some
thing more than the abode of dusky
native girls garbed in grass skirts; it
is an important. center of world busi-
ness and world politics where different
civilizations meet and fuse.
The Supreme Court has made
sound Interpretation of the rights of
the citizens of Hawaii to study for
eign languages.
Evening star., 1927-04-08
Ford Mishap Serves to Show
Strong Place Auto King Holds

| Henry Fords unique place in the
| public mind perhaps has never beer
so strikingly illustrated as it has by
newspaper comment on the automo
| bile collision which nearly cost the
manufacturer his life. 'Why should
any one want to kill him." runs
through most of the speculation which
| followed reports, now discredited, that
| the seeming accident actually was a
deliberate attempt at murder.
I'm spite OF all the reasons a body
| might have to disagree with Henry
/ Ford, one is at a loss TO explain why
any one should want to kill him. OBJ
serves the Omaha World Herald, add.
ing: 1T is altogether new view of
Ford which is presented by the con-
lecture that he is a man marked for
death by assassination. He has been
the public's beau ideal Of all the indus
trial virtues. Where other rich and
successful men have been accused of
having their heels ON the necks of the
poor, he has been welcomed as the
poor mans friend"
Hardly any one would be stupid
enough to try to kill a man by so
uncertain a process as to butt his
machine with a heavier one, insists
the Louisville Times, while the Water
town Times asks: What could be
accomplished by making way with Mr..
Ford? The great organization which
he has built up would go right on.
The steady stream OF Ford cars would
keep right on leaving the assembling
plants"
The Worcester Telegram. which
also asks why" hopes, 'for the
sake of the reputation of the human
race" that 'the accident may De
proven to be the fault Of somebody's
stupidity, or, at the worst, the result
of reckless driving by drunken fool"
Any attack is viewed by the Santa
Barbara News as explainable ''only on
the ground that it was the work of
an unbalanced fool"; that "only a per-
son of this sort could wish to bring
about the death of the man who has
been an important factor in improving
the conditions of the workers of the
country and making life more pleasant
and enjoyable" The Columbus (Ohio)
State Journal also holds that Henry
Ford does not seem like the kind of
rich man any one not entirely crazy
would think of killing" The Pitts
burgh Gazette-Times says: killing
Ford might prove harmful to thou.
sands of people. 1t could not possibly
benefit any one. And we may be
certain that no one capable of such
scheming would go about the horrible
work in clumsy fashion"
The Boston Transcript and Brooklyn
Evening star., 1927-04-08
big Bills" Pledge.

Mayor-elect Thompson of Chicago
promises to drive the crooks and
gangsters out of that city within
ninety days after he takes Office. He
is going to clean up the town, to show
up his predecessor in Office, to DEM
onstrate that Chicago is capable of
law enforcement.
Time will tell whether big Bill"
who has talked this way before, can
really deliver the goods he is
pledging. Chicago is probably smil-
ing now at his words. 1t has heard
them before, or something like them.
Doubtless most Chicagoans wish him
we'll and hope he means what he says
and that he can accomplish his re-
forms. Most Chicagoans are greatly
distressed at the evil reputation the
city has gained in the last few years
as a town of turmoil, of crime, of
corruption, as the happy hunting
ground of the thug and the bandit,
the battle-ground OF the murder gangs.
The only indication Of Mayor-elect
Thompson's prescription for this
municipal disease is his statement
that the police will be put back on
police duties, instead of shifting
around for home brew and tanning
mattresses for pints." In other words,
the new mayor proposes to let up on
Volstead law enforcement and con-
centrate on the other aspects of
crime. This may be a compromise.
Perhaps it is part of the price of his
election.