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The Bismarck tribune., 1931-07-07
Finds Paving Pays

Minnesota has adopted "a highway
system which will give the state a
network of paved highways. In 1882
more than 400 miles of paving will be
laid. Paving jobs finished or to be
completed before next winter will
total 439 miles.
Experience has shown in Minnesota
that each mile OF paving increases
the proportion of the states revenue
that can go to paving in succeeding
years. Extension Of the concrete
roads reduces the amount of money
to be devoted each year to the MAIN
tenance of graveled and earth roads.
Anticipating income, highway Off
cials of Minnesota struck out boldly
and accomplished bond issue which
is to be retired from gasoline tax and
other sources of highway revenue, so
that the waste of keeping up graveled
roads for arterial systems will cease.
This is the vision which North Da-
kota must catch if it Is to keep in step
with other states in highway prog
ress. To the politicians the gravel
roads mean good payroll-a polit-
ical machine Of maintenance men
and their assistants and juicy con-
tracts for road machinery.
North Dakotans are alert to the
system of highway expenditures here
as contrasted with that in Minnesota
and other states They are going to
be reluctant to vote more money to
squander on hit-and-miss highway
policy. When the administration of
our highway policies has the courage
of Babcock, plus his vision, there
will be plenty Of money forthcoming |
for the building of permanent roads
but little to provide heavy payrolls !
and jobs for needy henchmen.
Minnesota's policy of financing
roads is not new. 1t is practiced in
most states and is responsible for |
new records in highway |
mileage. Real economy results in the
final analysis as the highway expe-
rience Of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin
and Illinois will attest. These states
have emerged from the dark ages of
road building. North Dakota is still
using methods long since discarded
IN other states.
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are being erected and steps taken to
care for the grounds. It is expected
that the place will attract thousands
of visitors during the tourist season.
Col. Lindbergh visited Little Falls
in 1927 following his flight to Paris
His old home town had gala day
and after the excitement died. down
Lindbergh stole away from the crowds
and with his mother wandered about
the old homestead. There is an at
tractive wooded tract about the place
and through it flows Pike creek.
1t is befitting that Minnesota
should give some recognition to the
achievements of one of her native
sons who has won world wide recog-
milton in his particular field. There
is no better way than to preserve his
birthplace for posterity.
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Here and In England

When James Rannon was COM
mitted to the North Dakota peniten-
tiary, Warden Turner declared that
the prison population was the highest
in the history of the state. That Sit
uation exists in most states and the
tragedy of it all is that the problem
OF unemployment is as acute within
as without prison walls-except that
the unemployed behind the prison
bars get three square meals day.
AS a contrast with conditions in
America, it is heartening to know that
crime is abating In some nations OF
the world and more especially in
England where the prison population
has decreased to an amazing degree
since 1913.
Since 1913, the British prison CEN
sus shows, there has been decrease
in population from $4,000 to 10,861
and the number of prisons is now 20
instead of Sc. There has also been
. sharp decline in indictable Of
lenses.
A record to boast of.
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Member Of The Associated Press
(Official City, State and County
Newspaper)
OF Little Service

Little space was given to the de.
mise of the Wickersham Crime Com
mission which started out with high
hopes Of settling some Of the dis
tressing social problems of the ma
ton. On June 30th, the commission
expired, leaving behind it most
conflicting report on prohibition and
a frank admission that as a fact
finding body little had been accom-
plished.
Accurate data" declares the COM
mission, ARE the beginning of wisdom
in such subject" Members of the
commission found that crime statis-
tics were meagre, unreliable and in
complete. This situation was the
chief handicap of the commission
whose reports will gather dust in the
national archives.
The commission, however, recon-
mends that the federal government
take steps to standardize crime sta
tistics. 1t is declared that without
reliable data it will be impossible to
measure the problem of crime in the
United States.
Many states maintain departments
devoted to prevention and detection
of crime. There is still another step
to take, the compilation Of actual
crime statistics. If uniform methods
were used by the federal government
and the states in compiling informa-
ton about crime, it would be easier to
cope with the problem.
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Meeting Truck Competition

From st. Paul comes the announce
ment that the Northern Pacific rail-
way will inaugurate door door
freight delivery service between Seat
tle-Tacoma on the west and the Yak
lima valley from Gle Elum to Ken
newick east Of the Cascade noun
tains. The service will be conducted
by the Northern Pacific Transport
company, a subsidiary corporation
owned by the railway.
The Northern Pacific is arranging
with local trucking companies to call
for the freight to and from the rail-
way direct to the consignee's doors.
In this manner the shipments will
be In direct charge Of the railway at
all times.
Many railroads throughout the ma
ton are meeting truck competition
and they are also becoming associated
with air transport agencies. It is all
q trend of the times and other new
services must be installed by the rail-
roads to keep pace with the rapid de-
velopment Of transportation. Dimin-
ishing revenues, due to many COM
petitive factors, have forced the rail-
roads to abandon their old policy OF
sitting tight while others scampered
off with their business.
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Wild Rose q.

Most Of the residents Of this COM
munity plan on celebrating the
Fourth of July at Pursian lake.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Carlisle and son
Roger were Bismarck visitors Tues
day.
Mrs. John Peterson and children
attended the Swedish Lutheran picnic
at Braddock Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. B. Swanson and
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Brownawell
members Of the Farmers Mutual Fire
and Lightning Insurance company
attended the 21st anniversary picnic
at Driscoll Friday.
A number from this locality spent
Sunday at Pursian lake.
Mrs. John Peterson had the mis-
fortune to lose q valuable COW when
it was struck by lightning last week.
The road supervisor and crew fin
ished installing culverts in tne road
last week.
Clarence Baird and Homer Brown
awell Of Moffit were here on business
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. B. Swanson were
capital city callers Thursday.
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Fort Lincoln Second

If the War Department is in doubt
as to the part Fort Lincoln plays in
this section of the nation, it has only
to study the Procurement Report on
c. M. T. c. just issued by the Omaha
area headquarters. Arkansas is the
only state which surpassed North Da-
kota in percentage of quota obtained.
In that state 313.9 per cent OF the
quota was obtained while in North
Dakota the percentage was 202.6.
North Dakota's quota was 352
There were 7l3 applications received.
Minnesota and Iowa failed to meet
their quota.
These figures are interesting in
view of the proposed abandonment of
Fort Lincoln. Investigations show
also that the percentage of desertions
at the local post is relatively small;
that living conditions are ideal and
the housing situation is much better
CIldn at many posts.
In these piping times of peace,
when disarmament and reduced
quotas in all branches of the national
defense are being urged, it might be
well to consider how some of these
posts can be used for the kind of
training which is now going on at
Fort Lincoln. Here in the middle
west, where the army has its severest
critics, might be a good place to dem
onstrate that there is still need for
maintaining military forces and that
army discipline is often fine way to
instil the principles of solid citizen
ship into the American youth.
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Coney Island, July 7.-For an init
mate chat with the worlds greatest
playground, I always choose q rainy
night. Or a Monday mid afternoon.
Then you have Coney to yourself.
On the way out you can read how
2y000, 900 people somehow got there
and back just the day before.
But now a chill, drizzling rain blows
In from the sea. The boardwalk
| glistens with strangely shaped re-
Elections from the abandoned miles Of
bulb-studded parks and carnivalia.
Ticket sellers for the l1undred-and-
one attractions squat under gayly
striped umbrellas and shout gossip to
each other. Ballyhoo men pick on
lone stragglers with an intensity Of
salesmanship that is nothing short Of
hypnotic.
Only few dozen people are abroad.
and yet, all the tinsel and illumina-
ton beckon as alluringly as though
the millions were pushing and crowd
ing about.
X X X
In Luna Park a great spotlight
plays suddenly on four figures
perched high in the air on ladders
and trapeze. Their audience consists
OF few relocated musicians from
the Slovakian band, some park en-
ployes and dozen hardy visitors.
Yet, with that disciplined routine
that marks the circus act, they risk
their necks for "the big free show"
The white tights must be soaked;
In fact, the drizzle forms a sort of
fantastic screen that often makes the
figures seem like those jun1py scenes
in an fashioned moving picture.
What II the slender bars on which
they balance should prove too slippery
for their grip, and they should fall?
=
Without crowd around, a circus
act becomes q more intimate matter.
Given cheering crowd, the "free
show" has the irnpersonality Of most
public exhibitions.
But now, with no one around, the |
philosophic young lady on my right |
watches white figure swing against |
the night, and comments:
did it ever occur to you that those |
people have probably devoted a life
time to balancing on one hand? Or
balancing on chair? =. And there
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er, Chester who Is a member Of the
senior class at the agricultural COL
lege.
MIR. and Mrs. L. Hopkins enjoyed a
fishing trip to Painted Woods Thurs
day evening.
Miss Enid Christianson Of Harmon
is the guest of Mrs. B. o. Lein this
week.
Mrs. s. Jensen and children OF
Wolf Point, Mont, were the guests OF
Mrs. A. Fisher several days CT last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. StrattoE were
Bismarck callers Wednesday.
Andy Garnes, Jr., spent the week.
end visiting with relatives at Sanger.
Mr. and Mrs. A. l.. Garnes and
daughter Margaret, j. S. Penner, Mr..
and Mrs. l.. Hopkins, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. F. Tourtlotte and the Misses Bes-
sic Wilson and Gladys Burdette were
among the Regan people who attend
ed the Shriners' dance In Blemarck
Friday evening.
A large number of Regan people
motored to Wing Friday evening to
attend the Farmers Day celebration.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Lein attended
the program given by the Ladies Aid
Of the Lutheran church in Lein town.
ship Sunday.
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LVOFF'S U. S. STATEMENT

LVOFF'S U. S. STATEMENT
On July Z, 1917, Prince Lvoff, Rus
sian premier and minister of the in
terror, made a public statement at
Petrograd for the information of
America.
Discussing Russo American and
Russian world relations, Lvoff said:
For decades of darkness and op-
preston America has been cur ideal
OF freedom and intellectual and ma
terial development; rather, not our
ideal, for we had considered it un-
attainable, but remote fairy tale of
happiness. Now We have in one
Jump reached Americas condition of
freedom. There remains the slower
but not impossible task to overtake
her in education, material progress.
culture and respect for order.
We are on the right track. The
spirit Of new Russia is closely akin
to the immemorial spirit of free
America. and where the spirit is.
work follows, That means Russia's
salvation. -. I am convinced that
our revolution is no mere domestic
affair, but stage in the new world
movement toward liberty, equality,
neutrality-suspicious. the greatest stage
IN the worlds history"
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-07-07
BY DIR. MORRIS F1SHBEIN
1ifna. Inaprraal NJ the Amef1C

Editor, JOurneI OF the American
|. Medical Association
In recent years there has been a
gradual tendency to return to the Ola
Fourth Of July holocaust that aroused
CONSERVATION 20 years ago. In the
old cannon cracker-shot gun days IL
was not surprising to read IN the
paper on the 5th Of July the records
Of hundreds of deaths due to explo-
sions and, during the months that
followed, reports Of deaths from lock-
jaw due to infections sustained IN
Fourth Of July celebrations
Fortunately, some sense has been
brought into the situation. Many
periodicals conducted campaigns OF
education, ordinances have been
passed, and the total number of acci-
dents and deaths is much less than
1t used to be. However, q new gen.
Grafton has grown up and apparently
there is q tendency to relapse into
the condition that formerly obtained.
Lockjaw is particularly likely to
occur in injuries caused by fireworks.
The germs of lockjaw develop in soil
and in manure and on dirty clothing
Any time an injury occurs in which
dirt is forced into the wound and
sealed in. there is danger of lockjaw.
That is the kind of accident that oc-
ours in explosions of cannon crackers,
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At the Movies
PARAMOUNT THEATRE

Good luck" may be only SUPER
stition, but Elizabeth Patterson. wei,
known character actress, played a role
with Alec Francis and Janet Gavnor
IN The Return Of Peter Grimm" for
FOX Films five years ago, and when
director Frank Borzage saw Miss
Gaynors performance in the picture
ne chose her for the lead in 9th
heaven" the offering that swept the
petite ingenue to the heights of
fame. '' ~
Miss Patterson is also playinp ono
OF the principal supporting roles in
MISS Gaynor's latest vehicle, Daddy
Long Legs" which is rapidly proving
70 De the most popular film of her
entire career. - -eA
Perhaps Miss Patterson doesn't
Dr!ng luck with her-but it would he
ullllcult to convince dainty Janet on
that point. ' VA
Co. starred with Miss Gaynor in
Oaody Long Legs" now showing at
,lle paramount Theatre is the popu-
iar 1aVorite, Warner Baxter. who was
!ast seen in Doctors Wives" This
Is tne 1lrst picture in which the two
sVarS nave appeared together. How
ever II IS not the first time Baxter
lbs played the role of Daddy"
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surveying It in disgust. II must
throw some Of It away"
She leaned over and flshed out a
pile Of old letters, q battered scrap
book with an imitation leather
cover. Liane. sorting stockings,
looked up. Anything interesting
there?" she asked.
Cass swept the pile aside with
a rather pettish gesture.
Nothing you'd care about" shs
said.
'Tel.le-phone!" Mrs. smithers
shrilled at the foot Of the stairs.
For Mrs. Barrett. ."
Liane sat there m the hopeless
confusion OF the room winding rib.
bons and smoothing out wrinkled
finery. Her glance strayed to the
pile Of papers. Out Of the heap IDLY
she selected the book. She smiled
fastidiously at It. The odor of
/shabbiness and disuss favored its
pages. She tipped them back, read.
ing . clipping here and there.
Tho older woman glanced sharply
at what Lame was reading. said In
= rather nettled tone. DO give me
that old thing. I told you there
was nothing to interest you"
"But there is-scads Of stun"
protested Lame. ''Why didn't you
ever let mo $50 It before? I'm Ia.
ciuated."
do sivs II to me. Lame. I'm
serious. ! want to put II away. It
should have been burned ages ago. =
cried Cass. strangely impatient at
the delay.
Liane glanced up. dimpling Imp.
ishly. I'm craSy about It." she
cried. "All about what Q riot you
were in Syracuse stock In 1908"
Cass stamped her foot in III
frayed satin mule Almost there
were tears In her Ane syes.
'Give It to ne this minute do
you hsar?"
Lame arose with exaggerated
dignity and handed her the book.
As she relinqnished It Z photo
gfaph fell to the floor. 'You can at
least let mo see what you looked
like as Juliet" grumbled the girl,
STOPPING to retrieve It. She gased
curiously q the inecsiptlon o. the
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Lindbergh State Park

Citizens Of Little Falls, MIMI, have
succeeded in having the legislature
provide funds to create the Charles
A. Lindbergh State Park, on which Is
located tbs home in which the illus
trious aviator was born.
Ever since Indy made his historic
flight. tourists have been nautilating
Tho place. Souvenir hunters have
been busy for years, but now ample
protection win bs given the birth
place of Coz. Lindbergh.
The little house on the west bank
IT the 1lissiSsipM has been repaired
md lost ~ 1ilApidated look. Fences
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Regan


The American Legion Auxiliary me:
at the home Of Mrs. Clarence Scott
Thursday afternoon at special
meeting and elected the following Of
ficers for the ensuing year: Mrs. A.
F. Ghylin, president; Mrs. L. Hopkins.
vice president; Mrs. H. D. Watkins.
secretary .treasurer, and Mrs. L. Cor
nell, chaplin. The next regular meet
Ing will be held on July 10th at the
w. D. Sundquist home.
Mrs. II. D. Watkins will be hostess
to the Congregational Ladies' Aid At
her home July 18th.
MISS Hazel Rhines of Bismarck is
spending the week at her home In
Regan. Miss Rhines also attended
the graduation exercises Of her broth.
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Cass determined to take the
plunge.
"Mrs. Cleespaugh wants you to
stay with her this winter" she said
tremulously and was surprised at
the response the young girl gave.
She flushed and smiled. Her soft
eyes were lighted charmingly.
"You like the prospect" Cass
asked in amazement. She thought
the old lady something of a Gorgon
herself.
TIT might be fun" Lame fal.
tered. "Oh Nuns. not that 1
shouldn't mind being away from
you! OF course I'd hate that. But
you said yourself that you'd have
to be going on the road and I can't
trail along. This-honestly now
doesn't it look like a gift from the
gods?"
Cass had to admit It did. With a
heavy heart she said. "It's settled
then? You want me to tell her
you'll comet"
"Well. mother" Lame looked
grave. ut seems a sensible thing to
do. l could at least earn my living
that way. It'll be better than the
ribbon counter"
Then with a mercurial change
the girl rushed across the room.
enfolded the older woman in her
arms and cried. In . muffled voice.
DO let mo come along with you.
Vernon will let me play bits. Maid
parts. walk.ons. I'd rather. Why
do you so hate tho idea Of the stage
for me?"
That passionate outburst settled
Cass. Never" she said. firmly.
Lets not talk about it. You'll 70
to Mrs. Cleespaugh in September" /"
Lame thought, II can't tell her
now about Van Robard. It would
upset everything"
NOV they were packing. CasS'
- big old trunk. the one which
had Travelled with her to all four
corners Of tho continent, stood
yawningly open. It spilled tar.
nished evening dresses, faded
scarves. shoes run down at tho
heel.
"All this 1unk!" noaued Cass,
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BARBS

The matinee idol of yesterday Is, by
virtue of the talkies, the matinee idle
of today.
\ X
Then there was the ignorant
Scotchman who called in the plumber
to repair his bag pipes.
X *
Few ornaments become a gangster
more, according to the public, than a
bracelet-firmly about the wrists.
4 = i
Nothing goes to a fellows head so
much as strong attack Of hay fever.
Copyright, 1881, NEA Service, 1nc.)
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is but one step away from state So
cialism.-Prof r. E. Rogers, Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology.
y = =
Telkies are an art-or rather they
can become one-but silent pictures
were merely pictures.-Richard Ben
nett.
* X
1t is not consistent with my con-
ception of the Deity the He Is respon-
sible for every ill-assorted marriage.
Lord SalveSen.
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gumption and first-class brains
Bishop Of Chelmsford.
4 i i
Economy is womans question, but
the wise mother does not begin to
economize on her children.-Lady
Astor, M. P.
X \ X
1t is in democracies that the power
of the press is most evident.-Dr.
Chaochu WI, former Chinese min
lister to the United States.
X X X
We are headed for something which
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back Of the small cardboard.
"Luisa Emerson, May, 1909"
why. she looks astonishingly
like you. Mother" marveled Lame,
turning 1t over and regarding the
smiling features. The pose of the
pictured girl was consciously dra-
matte. She wore swirling pompa.
dour, a rose in the curve of her
neck.
"She's lovely" said Lame. "But
Mother. you never told me you had
a sister,"
CASS. ominously silent. received
~ the picture from her hands.
Nov that you're quite through ex.
amining my belongings" she said
In q voice furiously low. All this
was so unlike her even tempered
self that Lame glanced at her,
amazed. I'm sorry" she said. II
didn't mean to tease"
Cass went on. II never have spo.
ken Of Luisa because her death was
such a shock to me. To oil Of ua
It's all too painful"
Lame said pityingly. "Don't tell
me about II. Mother. I'm sorry.
honestly am. I didn't mean to
snoop."
mo. no. There's no reason you
shouldn't know" Cass continued.
"She was beautiful and talented.
She died Of brain fever when she
was 21."
"Oh. mother. I am sorry.
mourned Lame. Cass' eyes were
filmed. II didn't get over it for
months-years. really. I never want
to talk about It,"
lis that why you never 60 back
homer"
~Partly. Besides. there's no one
back there ! want to see." Cass was
putting the picture away now. She
was self.possessed once more.
That was Mrs. Cleespaugh call
Ing" she said. "She will send the
car for you tomorrow morning. It's
all settled and she's delighted you
are coming"
whatever made you decide 50
suddenly" Lame asked.
Cass was tossing papers and clip
pings into the trunk. She looked
around as II In surprise. didn't
you want me to say you'd conner"
Lame drew her brows together
thoughtfully.
II don't know how I'll at in IN
that Srand house."
Cass said. "Don't be silly. You've
besn properly brought up. You
know which fork to use."
Il didn't mean that. Perhaps III
feel like q pensionsr." Rebellion
swept over her soul. Why need
they be 80 poor. to accept such
favors at the hands Of strangers?
I'D rather take bits. walk-ons.
anything, and stay with you," Liane
grumbled. II don't want to be any.
b0dy's man Friday"
Case came over ana shook her
gently BY the shoulder.
You're = naughty girl to talk
like that This is a business ar.
rangement, not charity. You know
trouping always ruins your diges-
tion and you catch such terrible
colds. I won't have to worry about
You this way"
She watched Lame anxiously.
II hate being poor" famed the
girl bitterly. II hate all Of It. cast
Of clothes and patronage and the
rest What wouldn't do to be In.
DEPENDENT" It was more . chal.
lenee than I Question.
Cass paused In tho act Of sorting
shoes. She echoed Lanes words
with . sigh. "What wouldn't do
to b independent Anything short
of MURDER She sat down. She
locked weary and old. The girls
heart smote her. "I'm . beast" she
cried. contritely. "Of course Ill 60.
TAatTl be one worry ~ your mind.
anyhow" LII
(To Bs Continnedl. -
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Depression seems to affect all walks
Of lie. An Arkansas spouse offers
only 80 for the return OF her hus-
band dead or alive.
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I would sooner have man with
first-class gumption and third-class
brains than a man with third-class
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Quotations

Men who rise when a woman en-
ters the room go about their work
needless Of the millions of men in
this country who are unemployed
Rev. Frederick 3. Newell.
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ELSIE rose. gathering up her
- bag. her discarded hat and
white gloves. "See you at supper"
she said departing.
"Dscide what?" repeated. Lians
apAt'snt'y. ft..s.sss, = il y. l.. -es4si