The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 14, 1927, Page 4

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PAYNE, BURNS & SMITH NEW YORK - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) 140 Years Ago tember 17 of this year will mark the 140th | of the completion and signing of the | ccnstitution. It is therefore fitting that Governor) Sorlie should have declared this week “Know the | Constitution Week.” Unfortunately, too few of us have stopped to con- sider what a great document the constitution is. | The high school student learns of its history and | how it came into being, but, because that is some- | thing taught to him in school, he usually proceeds to forget about it within a short time. And, in a} way, that is a tribute to the genius which wrought | out this document. Where there is so little dissat- isfaction, where a country can function in so well-| ordered a manner without the necessity of its peo- ple pausing to condemn or condone the government under which it functions, there is plainly a guiding | force behind it all which is as close to perfection as can be expected. The thing which must impress anyone who studies the ccnstitution is its extraordinary vitality and modernity. It was framed 140 years ago, but it is still as well adapted to the people of this country | as it was in 1787. Benjamin Franklin, shortly after the constitution- al. convention, wrote to a friend and commented oa the fact that so all-encompassing a document should have been drawn up by a group of men who were of such widely varying opinions. If the same atti- | tude toward it were followed in years to come and | | | — ‘pared in Lutin and Greek when, at 15, he started to Dartmouth College; but this merely indicated that he had had poor schooling. schooling, and poor home training, where they oc- curred, were undoubtedly a handicap.to these gen- iuses. In some cases, too, it seemed. as though |their success. The impressive thing, however, was j that these boys and girls took advantage of what- jever opportunities occurred. “Some parents have tried to force their children into a special pattern, but there is a limit to their jsuccess. Karl Weber's father tried desperately to |make him a second Mozart, who at the age of 5 jwas being exhibited as a concert pianist all over | Europe. When little Karl was 9 the father gave ‘up the experiment. What happened? Some years later the boy, this time of his own accord, went back to music, and at 18 was a distinguished com- poser. | “Parents should hold up models and heroes be- | fore their children, but should not try to make them into cheap imitations. The great thing is to bring out the individuality of each child.” Movies and the Government The motion picture situation has been temporar- \ily eased with the granting of a respite to one of the larger companies from an order which prohib- ited them from “block booking” and other practices which the government contends are inimical to in- dividual exhibitors. This practice of block bocking has worked pat- ticular hardships on the small exhibitors, They have had little or no choice of the pictures they would like to show. When they do decide on some outstanding picture, they are forced often to ac- cept a number of mediocre films. ‘There are other things which require straighten- ing out in the movie tangle. Sp it is, in a way, a good thing that the government has stepped in to take charge, for it means that the motion picture industry will eventually be able to follow a well- defined set of trade principles which will be fair to the small as well as to the large exhibitor. Editorial Comment | The Return of the German Colonies (Chicago Tribune) i _ The increase of the mandate commission of the league of nations will make a place for Germany, and this action, it is reported from Geneva, is said to foreshadow the restoration to Germany of one ‘or more of the territories taken from her by the treaty of Versailles. if those in public office administered it as ably as those in office at that time, he said, it would most’ assuredly prove a success, { It is a notable fact that during the many years: since the constitution was drawn/ up, this country | has-had at its head at all times men who preserved: the attitude of respect toward it which prevailed | ~in. Frank! day and administered it on the high plane for which it was intended. It can be safely Syuid that not one of the amendments which the passage of time made necessary has been adopted S@éighout the consent and approval of the great ma- jority of the people. ‘4t=the United States continues to have in office ich men as those who are now, and have been “@tiihe the past 140 years, guiding its desti the! constitution will continue to endure as the sublime | “example of government by thinking, intelligent. People. Courage and Foolishness | ‘ Nungesser and Coli were the first. They rode on _ the wings of the White Bird into a fathomless night. t Since their brave challenge a dozen men and two «women have gone to join the gay little band of daring spirits in Davy Jones’ locker. The women . who bear that hardy band company were a school teacher, Mildred Doran, and a princess, Lowen- sstem-Wertheim. St. Roman and Mouneyres, flying from France to Buenos Aires; Paul Redfern, winging his way alone from Georgia to Brazil; Pedlar, Frost, Knope, Scott, >Erwie and Eichwaldt, all in the Dole race from ‘Frisco to Hawaii; Bertaud, Hill and their passen-! ger, Philip Payne, an editor—all these gallant ad-. venturers of the air vanished into the Valhalla of * “courageous crusaders of the seas! The voice of criticism has begun to call these long ! “distance ocean flights foolish. A waste of human, life. Lindbergh was brave and his deed helped! * aviation vastly, but these ill-timed, mismanaged ef- forts are hurting aviation more than helping it. It is the ald voice that called Columbus crazy in the streets of Genoa. The scene has changed, but the voice is the same. The Dole air race was not well prepared, and such a contest was useless, the voice declares. We _ cannot deny that. But what we want to point out here is that the voice of criticism seems to have forgotten the main issue. That is the conquest of the air, an attempt ; to widen the boundaries of what man has found = possible in aviation, the charting of the unknown. All these people are heroes and they are not fool- ish, They are brave past common understanding. As for wasting human life, by the spirit of Nero, there are worse ways to waste human life than this! Great causes claim life. Men die to open doors that” others may crowd across the threshold. As $ long as the course leads onward brave spirits will * lead ‘the way, and there will be always those who : watch and criticize. "That's a brave band of men and women gathered ~ there at Davy Jones’ locker. Don’t be silly enough to call them foolish! “So Dull a Boy” = “Johnny and Mary are just slow, teacher says. They seem to be behind the neighbors’ children in = everything. And William is so dull a boy.” “ The mother is talking to the father. Not a very * favorable report on the three children? Oh, well, _ it could be worse! Dr. Catherine Cox of Cincinnati, seeking to find the precious stuff of which geniuses are made, for four years studied the lives of 300 famous men. She found that as children many great men had ? been reported dull. She says: “The poet Goldsmith's teacher said of him, ‘There was so dull a boy.’ It was recently stated st Daniel Webster was also slow as a boy. Now, “the real facts: Goldsmith had shown z i The league has reason to handle this subject mat- ter somewhat gingerly, for it is loaded with dyna- mite, but if it is disposed to be taken seriously on this side of the water, it will do well to move de- cisively in the direction indicated by this report. There is nothing in the proceedings of the victors in the war to end war that did more to disilfusion the American people, even many of the passionate partisans of the allies, than the scramble for loot at Versailles and the complete stripping from Ger- many of her valuable colonial appanages. There was no justification for this distribution of plunder | #! in the highly idealistic formula with which the allies captured the conscience of a people tradi- tionally opposed to participation in European af- fairs. There were reasons plausible enough, such as the claim for damages, but the groundwork of these had been considerably weakened in the revela- tions of pre-war diplomacy made since the war end- ed. The advertised guilt of Germany is now viewed in a very different light and -perspective, and her treatment at Versailles bears less and less well thepIn spite of his almost test of disinterested examination on the basis of the noble principles, the glow of which melted our | reluctance to enter a European conflict. | A restoration to the German republic of her for-) mer colonies or some substantial part of them would | seem to most Americans an act of justice, or at any rate of expediency, as in the interest of Euro- pean stability and of world progress. “Waves” and Facts (New York Times) At the height of the recent “suicide wave” among young people the vital statisticians warned against hasty generalizations. That caution is now con- firmed in a detailed study of extant figures by the experts of the Metropolitan Life Insurance com- pany. In the period between 909 and 1924 the sui- cide rate for the population as a whole has steadily declined, and the most notable improvement has been in the very group age between 10 and 19. But to the fervent believer in the wave thecry of social phenomena this will not be a conclusive answer. Developments covering a period of fifteen years would constitute not a wave but a tide, and a sud- den upheaval in a direction contrary to the general trend is not inconceivable. The somber. records cf} self-destruction do, as a matter of fact, show such peaks. The complete answer will come when the | definitive figures for the year 1927 are studied and it is shown that the suicide rate was not above the} normal, Sounder justification exists for the popular belief in a “crime wave.” But here, too, there has been exaggeration. Even the progressive penologists who decried excitement over the “crime wave” admit {that in the number of serious crimes, murder, bur- | glary and highway robbery, there was an increase, though the total figures for law violation show a decline. The effect of the Baumes laws in this state as recorded in the police statistics has been marked. The results should be welcomed most of all by! those who believe that crime is conditioned by deep- | cr and more permanent factors than police efficiency and severity of punishment. If a crime wave can be made to give way speedily before prompt law enforcement, it is proof that there is nothing rad- | ically wrong with the body social. Were there deep-rooted forces at work for the encouragement of crime, they would not yield so easily to public action. It is reassuring to know that crime waves | are, after all, only aberrations. This fact is overlooked by those who go panicky over non-existent suicide waves or refuse to recog- nize existent crime waves. Whether the wave be there or not, it would be well to refrain from gen- eralizing the isolated phenomenon into an ominous “situation.” No time was lost in explaining the | late “suicide wave” as due to the general decline in moral fiber, the insurgency of modern youth, the break-up of the family, the automobile, jazz, and what not. Now that it is shown that the recent at an age when he could scarcely |tragedies among the young were at most a tem- was distinguished for his verse be- ‘he was'10 years old. Webster was poorly Fee | begin to look xather foolish, gs porary upfiare, all such harrowing social diagnoses ’ re teange. picny Bee tat tert esteem tt: “I found all through my investigation that pocr |} chance opportunities had played a major part in} THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE so deathly ‘sick of water that the; “leven drink the stuf! dim Lane, plodding about his réom in squeaking new shoes, was com: pleting his packing. He refused to allow Faith to help him, but seemed to be glad to have her sittin, in the big old rocking chair he ha brought with him from the Myrtle Street house when he had come to live with his daughter and her bus- band. She watclmd his patient, stoop- shouldered tigure, his sad, humble face, and the lump in her throat threatened to melt into tears. “You're sure you want to gt Dad?” she asked at las! 'You knot dear, I'm so glad to have you he! I thought you were comfortable and and contented.’ ‘Couldn't have been tre: the Prince of red her with to be jocular. “But Junior's been after me for weeks nd I guess maybe it's a good thing for a useless old man like me to circulate among his children a little so’s he won't wear his welcome out.” matter how much I cessories bi bile ac he 3 he’s goin, to pay Joy’s board. little tad ever “Ol Dad, it is, he'll be glad dollars,” Jim Lane understand—Have say anything?” A cl 80 preoccupied latel; he fotd het fat! astened to she detected a note tion of which s! “You're staying aren’t you, Dad?” sl back the fear and naturally. “Bob's y. led, brown old with hi and emotion as he crammed his cheap “best suit” into his suitcase. old-maidish passion for order he left it a little wrinkled to go to Faith, to stand] to behind her chair, his hands falling} 1 heavily upon her shoulders. * ‘Honey, I wouln’t hurt your feel- ings for the world,” he told her husk- ily. “But I'm getting old enough now to have a_ little sense, and I know you and Bob would be mighty re.ieved if I could shift the whole family off your shoulders, instead of just my own worthless self. Young married folks have a right to privacy, a chance to fight t s out all by ‘themselves. ‘andpa_= and Grandma lived with me and Martha when we was first marri ind look- ed like there never was anything but trouble.” “But you haven't made trouble, Dad darling,” ith protested. her hands going up to grip his. “You've been oil on troubled waters many a time.” ‘Thank you, daughter. And now I want to tell you that Junior won't hear of me paying any board, no honey. I guess I'm thi But—one more don’t take it ami: and the baby take got a (Copyright, 197, y substance is used in of artificial pearls. SAINE = SINNER he’s getting rich with that autom me rent for the house—sixty do! @ month, you know, you to know that I’ll be in a position ten dollars a week will be all ri Course I never ean repay you having been a mother to the “{ reckon, with Bob’s business like| come dered along her nerves. the’ reason Bob had been. so silen' h,. just bad times generally,” her| sincerity in his voice, every modula- knew so well. tion to meet Joy, you know. Shed feel wretched if her Dad wasn’t here isten to her excited tale of camp when she’s peen gone all sum- me! “Course I'll be here for see my baby than she is your time ‘that you'll forget you've od-looking husband who needs a lot of attention—if you don’t want him to look for it elsewhere. Now, where in Sam Hill are them old carpet slippers of mine?” ly see something is wrong. NEA Service, Inc.) hed a new indus- jing pearl essence from the scales of herring and shed. The Daily Health Service BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American And| Medical Association and of Hygeia, ying the Health Magazine Some 's ago it was found that when carnations were shipped by ex- ress, under some circumstances, the lowers went to sleep and the buds id not open. want to. Sa; of his. right on Sol wa Do you think ight 2 a for] 14 met Poor! illuminant b sists lene hi responsib! she! physiol anesthi an ais ne a ese wrioayl “eH one 0: e most wide to have the ten) general anesthetics ‘American answered. medical practice, largely replacing “What do you mean, Dad? I don’t} ether and chloréform. you heard’ him hill of fear shud- that 3 din’ “About four years » physicians of the Gaited ‘States "Bureau, of Chemistry. reported that the color of ranges and lemons could be made natural. by, exp) ft green fruits. to an atmésphere lene, and since that time this method has become a general practice. Applica- tions of cthylene are being used now. to speed up th ripening process of bananas, tomatoes, celery and ‘other fruits and vegetables, >. * Cheap to iy? Why. hi reassure her, but of fluttering: in- ill after dinner, sked, beati trying to cap . Apparently ethylene removes ex- gone to the sta- acidity, increases sugar content _ removes tannins and oth jectionable A sing! dose of ethylene, about two or three cubic feet, co less than 40 cents to a carload ‘of fruit, and is suffi- dinner, | cient to produce a remarkable change more anxious to| in the time-necessary to ripen bana- .|nas-and to change their color, flavor ing, F : “ee phrtiologié chemists and th Den’ 1 e physiologic chemists and the up Me a6 ee biologists are now making serious studies to determine the mechanism bv which these results are brought about. Apparently ethylenc increases the breathing rate ssociated with this, the concentration of the fruit acids and of the tannins be- comes less, Some estigators be- lieve, however, tha’ ethylene acts as a catalytic agent. of Vitamins In the. meantime. The Journal of the American Medical Association points out that many additional stud- ies are needed. in relation to the use of ethylene on substanc Re- cent investigations show that irradi: tion by the sun confers upon fre: fruits and cereals, particularly th north Pacific the manufacture OUT OUR WAY WELL~ WATCH YORE FooT. EF THET MULE SHOULD DUMP YUH OFF AN GIT YoRE FEET . CAUGHT IN TH STIRRUPS— YORE SO YH Know Een GOT ONT A BRONG ALT: ERWAY FUM DE TOP ER ME AN PUT IT AT DE BOTTOM, € BUT, UNLIKE ‘CERTIN’ FOLKS AH KNOWS ~ SHE LEFF ERNUFF AT DE TOP ER ME “TER TELL ob | y jas! My . Boomboom MeWhert politician an tesman, has looked over the fiel and outlined his impressions of the political aiteatien in an exclusive in- terview. | ng the candidates for the presidential nominations, the senator, strangely, enough, has neg- lected tp mention hi f. oe ues analyzed everyone's stre ut his own and whether the omission is due to the overwhelming McWhorter! modesty or deep-laid strategy to avoid a pancake boom is. known only to Mc- ent with- jan Hen: ige! it. y tf Trout is the best bait we have fo the farmers. and would: bri: er ericultutal vote. “His nose bears a remarkable re- semblance to an Idaho: potato, he has a ci idh Ld ear and oe othe p jbage and his fect re- mind one of watermelons. “I am aware few. other .cand: ites ate bpasting that these men either look Itke cows! the issue or act like donkeys, but those fann- ers know the! “Ancther strong nossibility is Sen- ator H. Woofwoof “Woodroof, wha could carry every flood state without oppor ion. Sehator Woodroof had not washed his neck since he wag operated upon’ for goitre in 1913. Those people in, the flood aréa are y would go wild over a candidate so violently opposed to water asm: colleague Woodroof. Why, he won't “Governor , Peter mn Potts}; can have the delegation of his own vegetables, state and doubtless those’of states! d 8) of i jat’ supporters ‘of al” ane Potts, . you. know, has been alm a jonal hero ever seit estat | his home one night down e corner re: without letting his wife know" where he was going. | ‘ox “Or the convention might to into private life for its candidate. Take je Hon le ‘Wetmore -Peabod: Goot, president of and a director of scores of co porations. Mr. Goot would find strong support from the business interest: and would appeal to the masses |: cause he himself ro from | the rani Goot started week, bial in a textile factory whére he had the lowly job of re- moving splinters from the wood fiber used ‘in making synthetic silk so the firm’s lingerie wouldn't scratch. “One night as he lay in bed a flash nius hit him. He went to work and soon had patented a method for removing splinters from wood alcohi 80 it could be used for synthetic gin. At that time-the country was yearn- ig even more for As gin with- out splinters in it than for synthetic silk without splinters, so his fortune was made and he still has a large personal following. ie . if Senator Hokum should be nominated, pT “ yee feet pre- an in c le Slocum boasts the diatingtion at tay “Of cours joaken SI houncing the every speech and often work: ences to‘pitches of frensy as he tells % pe ihe cruelty and the danger of the “Yessir, if Slocum’s nominated he will ‘run ‘on an anti-Indian platform ind, because I think the country’s aching to get excited about some- thing, he wotld be a very strong can- ite indeed.” gacre in his audi- certain vitamic! importanc rap! . their -presence, decreases it, or terially affects it in any way. Here is a field for studies of prac: ical importance in which promp' demanded’ because of the commer- cial significance of the rapid ripen- ing proce ( eo | are interested in the fellow hewed 112 sticks of gum only to wonder, if he did it in an i parlor and where he stuck § cr ° king of juries, some cold be of juries, si oo . ee RS ac ’ New York has been having ‘a milk of thei ung atid you'd ever Hee graft in tion. It seems snl of the wesc “were wetting: the! cream. ; We who cl enol ice ' { ene) cee modern jazz on. the jell: , to the m faded thirty policcinen’ i ment ‘store. ‘An. argument Women al-; who could Mayor Thom; of Chitago hut indertaken to Pind the epabtce Hpi a nominee for:the presiden ‘on’t there be trembling in Buck- ingham palace now!) a -depi there foi Muasgiini hag béen on the job se eral years now,.and that tower n't been straigh' to April’s breeze un- furled, » Here once the embattled farmer stood, . - And fired the shot Beard round \e world, The 'Al foe long :si ke iy ‘And bes jtream,.. set, today 8 votive 's memory may thelr’ iri ‘made those nig 4 aie ‘and. leave bevel may. gh is tt i dance’ must go i 3 {evil words once spoken cannot ‘onfucius. wept: : . "|" Flashes of Life) Pedi abies ical aiaaeY Miia pe ing in wait with his artificial res- piration. intruments. Here you find a certain middleaged man whose judgment is considered final by half the:producers of Manhattan and who will travel as far as Buffalo to “catch” a, performance and give his pert opinion on its chances for sur- vival. ‘o run three nights in Great Neck omes as rtant as to run five onths in New York, If you would see the sreates: var- iety of assorted tempers ‘o ve found beneath the sky I invite you to any é of these “try-out”? towns on the ‘o ivel on te ti a agers to raise a ‘over some last: minite ch , dech made. Or Nibwhng ike scenery allowed his. play, the author is. screeching to a dumb heaven for an swer, bewailing that hig drama is utterly id ‘irretrievably ruined. thst he And there..are the wily “hangers- on” who ‘hope to old ‘a. flop anil get ‘the scenery’ at a bargain tht they ;may ‘use it ‘in another pi: Og Hey ava He sealed ie ulti- ate.failare, is trying t re out re: tl ery, Ironia tit'in a fu- the “back’stage” view: ‘ ‘asseenediag its tmost chaotic Here one finds the real personality ‘that is. the actor, the manager and the banke: i . ‘ } Here: in the little. suburbi great city is the theater a juman moments. : GILBERT SWAN.. ‘Here are ‘ They threw shoes as the wedded Went Fanning down the hall. This made the groom feel bed He found them much too small. Ost of thine. own mouth will I wee hairline 19153. A blemish may be removed from s° diamond by careful polishing, ura ef- (By: THe Associated Pre i ur gobs are. 0 oad ir conduct is such that Bid. 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