The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 4, 1927, Page 4

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PAYNE, BURNS & SMITH sEW YORK - Fifth Ave. Bldg. | (Official City, State and County Newspaper) 1 t 1 Zoning Laws Prove Popular { More than 30 million people are living un- ler the super ning codes, the de- jartment of commer s, and therein lies im answer to those © of zoning who have daimed that they will never be a success be- ause of their “unfairnes: As a matier of fact, the zoning laws should sontinue to prove of popular appeal. They rive dwellers in the residential sections of sities assurance that the value of their prop- arty will not be impaired by encroachment of} yusiness structures. They are eminently fair. The comparative flexibility of the zoning aws as now used by the average city is such chat in case of rapid growth there will be no} e of industrial growth. They provide st sane and sensi of dealing with ihe problem of maint ’s beauty and} keeping its residential districts unimpaired in| value. | Mapgna Fer the Taxpayers Ordinarily taxpayers know little about ad-} ministration in the maze of departments in Vashington. Now and then the correspond-| mts dig up a few fat morsels of fatuousness as exhibited by this or that “sub-department of the department of the department, ete.,” but the taxpayer travels mostly on hopes that everything’s lovely on the Potomac. Once in a blue moon, however, a man of Rear ‘Admiral Thomas F. Magruder’s stamp blazes out with a broadside at waste, politics, ineffi- ciency and other fault id it proves to be manna for the taxpayers to eat. The admiral wrote an article for the Satur- day Evening Post, entitled “The Navy and Economy. He charges that the navy is great- ly over-organized; that demobilization after the war never s consummated; that waste- ful methods still hang over as a relic of war- time administration; that several of the navy yards and tions are superfluous, and that certain ships, unfit for war service, are kept running at hee expense. Borah wishes “there were more Magruders.” Certain of Magruder’s superiors are all for wing and quartering the gentleman. But for the taxp: —this is like finding a vast reservoir of ice-cold lemonade in the heart of Death Valley. It is a glorious opportunity to find out who’s who and what's what. The Parade of the 15.000 You have parked your automobile at the side of the street and are waiting for the parade. There are to be 45.000 people in the | Editorial Comment | | would not accept the explanation, cither be- cause he did not believe it or did not consider Ct the forests can succeed. Levees, of course, will hold back floods to a fixed channel—while the levees hold. Artificial storage reservoirs will help. But unless we move for the naturai storage of water such as forests provide, there always will be that tremendous rush of flood- tides following storms and the spring thaws. Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the American Tree association, advocates state and federal acquisition of land for. forestry pur- poses, first in the Appalachian region. A large percentage of the water that flows past New Orleans, he says, comes from the combined sources of the Ohio, Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. These three rivers are the chief flood breeders of the Mississippi and all arise among the steep slopgs and heavy soils of the Appala- chians. In this section, more than any other, Pack asserts, forests can make their greatest contribution as ameliorating factors in flood control. There can be no real flood control without forest management. Cripples and Charity A philanthropist in a middle-western city, recently criticized because he had given large sums for libraries, education and the advance- ment of science and failed to give what “w: thought to be his share” in a local charity cai paign for cripples, made this public statement: “We are all cripples. Who shall decide which of us is crippled worst? Who shall name the most needy? Who shall measure charity?” That is a short statement, but it carries a world of thought and oceans of reflection. All! gifts of money to cripples are not charity. Just| as a kind word to or about one whose infirmity is not mere physical incapacity may be greater} charity than all the world’s gold could buy. None of us is harmed by charity. We're all; cripples. | A Snooper Fined (Chicago Tribune) A jury in Cleveland has awarded $3,675 to Mrs. Joseph Mack for her arrest by a police- man for petting in a parked auto one moonlight night last July. The other party to her of- fense was her husband, but the policeman it relevant. He seems to be fully in sympathy with the doctrine that any disclosure of the natural emotions is highly improper and an outrage upon the public morals, especially if] the emotion is pleasant. That a jury of his peers so emphatically dis- agreed with the policeman’s view of his duties that they fined him a very substantial sum seems to us a hopeful sign of wholesome revolt | against the regime of the snooper. There a ways has been a class in our country which h favored using the force of government to im- pose its own notions of morals or of propricty upon others. Our laws contain fossil remains! ‘ of such efforts, and some that are revived at times for dubious purposes. But in the main| the American people have had faith in the pri- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE inal Seance : ——— uin; attacked Cherry’s dis- room with angry hanging up dresses that had slipped 4.—On' the Avenue de L’Opera, just a few steps from the American Express office, I found a man who has tapped the psychology of those thousands of tourists who want to “impress the folks at home” .. And thi gentleman helps them in this ambi- tion, and at the same time fattens his purse, by peddling stickers of all the fashionable hotels in Eu- brush, bringing order out of the chaos of Cherry’s stuffed dresser drawers. For lunch she had a hard- boiled egg and a rasher of bacon, er taking the baby for an in her perambulator, flung herself with feverish intensity | into the preparation of dinner. such a dinner as chance to recove asked_herself,| “chat I wanted} For a few francs you can have +| pasted on your luggage the sticker ¢|0f the Excelsior at Rome, the Di ieli in Venice, the Savoy in London or the Carleton House—and a dozen ough me, or am I not} 4 g to Bob over the sav- she caught herself up kening shame, she couldn’t brag to Bob about anything she had da How Cherry’s golden veyes would sparkle with malicious | amusement if she did brag! ecause the day was cool, for mid- ber, she made a great pot of For what corresponds to a few American dollars you can appear to have stepped at something like a thousand dollars worth of swell For a few cents more, pretend to the home folks © her neck and cheek antd to be praisad for she probed her motiv vate conscience and have not favored putting it in the keeping of government. Unreason able interference with private judgment has been and is rather frequent in our social and political history, but it has not represented the| as main current of our tendency and it has always} ” met successful resistance. Recent epidemics of} intolerance do not tepresent the abiding char- acter of the American people, which is kindly and open minded, wisely distrustful of govern-| ment intervention in private affairs, and of all forms of collective discipline or control. Their| appearance shows the persistence of the d position to moral bullying and the existence of certain areas of ignorance and consequent parade, men, women and children. It will take several hours for them to pass. but you like to! watch people, so you settle back to watch it. | First come a band of men, several thousand.| Some of them carry dinner pails, others have) white collars, some are young. some middle-| aged, others very feeble and old. ! Next come hosts of women, young, middle-! aged, old. There are some beautiful; some withered, lame, partly blind. Half an hour passes, They have marched on. | Lastly, children, their faces full of hope and’ promise. Bright, laughing-eyed little boys and! girls, playing, jesting, singing as they march.| Of these there are thousands, too. This is the parade of the 45,000 who might have lived. They might have lived if you had, just been a little more careful in turning that corner, in passing around that other car, if you had been in just a little less hurry to get! nowhere, if you had sounded your horn, if you had repaired your brakes. At the recent national safety congress in| Chicago, statistics were offered to prove that these people might be living today if you had observed safety first, that half of the motor car accidents that claimed 90,000 lives in this country last year were preventable. | It is a pitiful parade. It represents what might have been. Nature’s Great Sponges A sponge can be a godly gift, too, and we need no more Mississippi floods to tell us that. Yet we have gone on, year after year, denuding our forests—nature’s great sponges—by the millions of acres. The forests of the country are great reser- voirs that hold back rainfall. The trees break “the force of storms. Forest floors, at the head- waters of streams, absorb thousands of tons of water, preventing erosion and floods. The thick, fat carpet of leaves, needles, twigs, cones, seeds, fallen and decayed logs and vegetation mak up water and feed it gradually to the | rivers. _ According to Ward Shepard, forest inspector | of the United States forest service, we have ap- i tely 225,000,000 acres of logged off land that has not been taken for farm- SR aae ont face tave bas deen » have been denude into worthless barrens off as though from a duck’s 225,000,000-acre sponge thick litter on its s! ns of water, which must th the earth to the rivers, pell-mell down the stream poser of such control that leaves out bigotry, but we do not fear that liberty of thought and conscience has ceased to be cher- ished by the American people as a whole. Brutes and the Fear of the Law (Minneapolis Journal) As St. Louis was burying her dead, nursing her injured and digging herself out from the debris piled up by her second disastrous tor- nado in thirty years, the order went out to the police and militiamen to shoot looters on sight. In every catastrophe that takes human life! ; and leaves human dwellings wrecked and un- protected, whether the scene be St. Louis, San Francsico, the Mississippi Delta or Timbuctoo, society, despite the other heavy cares imposed by dire emergency, must make shift to protect itself against ghouls who are ready to pilfer the shattered homes of the unfortunate and even to rifle the pockets of the dead. Indeed, were a great flood, a great fire, or other sudden disaster to overwhelm Minneapo- lis tomorrow, there would be scattered in- stances of ghoulish looting, just as there were in St. Louis Thursday night, just as there were in the Lower Mississippi Valley last spring, i San Francisco twenty-one years ago, or in Ga!- veston in 1900. 7 _ That there are in the world, and seemingly in every part of the world, so-called human be- ings so depraved, so devoid of heart and con- science, that they will not hesitate even to rob the victims of a great natural calamity, is deplorable, but nevertheless true. , That there are, in virtually every large city in the country, men willing to assassinate, for hire, utter strangers who have never done theta harm, is likewise deplorable, but likewise rue. Equally deplorable, but equally true, is it that there are in every sizable community in the land men willing to burn buildings and en- danger the lives of sleeping innocents, just to swindle insurance companies, Since the dawn of history the race has al- ways included an incredibly depraved minor- ity of men and women lacking that something which makes the rest of humankind “go straight.” Possibly nine-tenths of all crime is attributable to this group. 4 For tens of centuries society has striven to protect itself against such as these, and with great measure of success. How? By invest- ing heavily in policemen, courts and jails and scaffolds, by relying upon the fear of the law i. hele bratedons in Sheek had it not m for policemen and courts and jails and scaffolds, civilization would have toppled and crashed long ago. And still there are, and they can be found everywhere, well-meaning men and women who scream their protests every time society sets out to strengthen the only defenses that have ever proved effective. that you visited Monte Carlo, Vien- Meanwhile the street vendor has the stickers copied and struck off ootleggers fake gin h| Savory Mexican chili con carne, of which the family was inordinately n| fond; concocted a_ beautiful salad, and then, although she was al- ;most dropping with fatigue, she Q blueberry pie, whose glazed, brown crust was as servantless da; { her soul, so caref! the press, like and Scotch labels. him but a few cents them at sums that vary with the ap- pearance of the “sucker” quite the most amusing “1 e myself!” she moaned. about me. I have & sRaGge ie a at| bathed and dressed, determined to ae eee look her best, just to show Cherry that she was not a martyr! people would And if you would be reminded of “home, sweet home” there’s the New York newsboy who cries his papers on the Rue de la Pai: his arm are the Paris editions of the New York dailies. ... It is a par- ticularly American note caught up- on a thoroughfare typically Parisian. + « « Ike, they call him, and thi i brought over years ago by one of the American papers to make the purchasers feel. at, home. There is, too, that other shrewd purveyor to the rich Americano abroad—Joseph Zelli. . in the Montmarte. ... Zell from Manhattan, or at least spent some time there. ... Then h peared in Montmarte wit +» » He built, in a central section of » which he refers XT: Cheering news. (Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Inc.) js eepereeererreee Old Masters Peace to the slumberers! They lie on the battle-plain, With no shroud to cover them; The dew and the summer rain And all that sweep over them, to! She can be ag selfish and useless Paix... . Under about the house as a Pekingese pup- py, but it is Cherry who has alway: been loved. If she were Bob’s wife she would cheerfully let him spend every cent he could earn or borrow al, and he'd adore her for do- But in return she wouldn’t give him a_ hundredth part of the love I give him. Does he know how I} Peace to the slumberers! adore him, worship him? And would| he care if he knew? Wouldn’t it just bore him or embarrass him if I tried -to tell him? Cherry wouldn’t try to She’d let him do all the Oh, it’s the Cherrys who have the best of it in this world!” It was a long, bitter, heart-break- y And in a fury of self- stisement Faith made it a back- king day as well. floors that were already glass-like; scrubbed linoleum that was spot- less; strained a tendon in her should- er washing the big living room win- dows which had been spattered by a | OUR BOARDING HOUSE - “OH, MISS HERZOG } I AM GOING - HAVE MY Fox MADE WSTo DEEP CUFFS AND A COLLAR-THis NEAR, FoR MY Vain was their bravery! The fallen oak lies where it lay Across the wintry river; But brave hearts, once swept away, Are gone, alas! Vain was their bravery! Woe to the conqueror! A Our limbs shall lie as cold as theirs d; Of whom his sword bereft us, Ere we forget thé deep arrears Of vengeance they have left us! Woe to the conqueror! Moore: Peace to the/ bo: course, that this is a section re- it, a special lo; SOAs the ko bo: og sm mericano appears who betr: his wife’s jowe , that he AZZ ORIGINAL. WOLF OF RED RIDING WASHI Washington, Oct. 4.—Handsome Henrik Shipstead, the senator from Minnesota, still seems to be his own man, If he can keep it up through the next session of Congress, he will at least be able to enter his campaign for reelection next year with a clear conscien:.ce. He will also flabber- gast many of the local cynics who thought that they already had wit- nessed the first act of a drama of intrigue entitled “The Seduction of Shipstead.” . ince he began to be regarded, more or less accurately, as the man who would control the next Senate by virtue of being a lone Farmer-Laborite in among an equal- ly divided assortment of Republi- cans and Democrats, great fear has been held for Shipstead’s soul, Tremendous social and political pressure had been brought to bear upon his stalwart frame, it was gen- erally agreed, with the object of relieving him of his burden of pro- gressivism, of which Shipstead had plenty. The capital had seen many other bright, promising young men weaned away from progressivism into lives of regularity and desue- tude and it required little imagina- tion to picture Shipstead turning coat also—that is—if one didn’t know Shipstead. The idea was that Shipstead was to be seduced by flapjacks, social honors and prom- ises of an easy re-election. Well, it may be that Shipstead will accept some Republican help next November and it may be that he will help the Republicans or- ganinze the next Senate. That would’t be the same Shipstead, be- cause Minnesota has only a_ half dozen Democrats and as Republican votes helped elect him five years ago he would serve neither his con- stituency or himself by turning Democrat. - * The point is that the effort to make a gentle, innocuous conserv- ative out of this Minnesota pro- gressive has to date been as success- ful as an attempt to tame a Texas capt by pouring turpentine on its tail. Shipstead furnished a most pain- ful moment for his would-be seduc- ers when President Coolidge made his peculiar “choose” announnce- ment. Here was an opportunity for a cautious Shipstead to say some- thing quite perfunctory and harm- less. Instead, he indulged in the most shocking comment about the ineffectiveness of cowboy pants against embattled farmers. Some of the more aroused crit- served for royalty and that, by some rare good fortune, it has suddenly become available to those outside the pale.... That one will pay plentifully for this horror goes with- out saying. * ¢ It_is at Zelli’s also, that a slice of Broadway seems to have been lifted and transplanted in Paris. . . . Here come most of the “big street’s” theatrical folk. . . . “In season” one can find more important stage peo- ple here than at Tex Guinan’s... . Furthermore, after the second bottle of champagne, or the third brandy and soda, these Broadway folk decide to entertain you. «.. Within a few hours a million dollars worth of headline attractions will have given their best just for) the fun of it... . On Broadway any night club owner would give his silk shirt to learn the formula by which this miracle is achieved. It is at Zelli’s, also, that a slice usherettes pay the theatre for the privilege of holding a job... . Fif- teen francs a day is the amount they 1 | are taxed. . . But, since they charge each patron a franc for showing him to a seat, they get their money back with interest. Oh, yes, Broadway, which prides itself on so many good “rackets,” might well come over for a few les- sons from the shrewd Frenchman, GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright 1927, NEA Service, Inc.) Betis ee [Daily Health Service * Daily Health Service | BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine An investigation made by the United States public health service revealed the fact that lead dust is to be found regularly in the air of many industrial establishments. In cracker factories, underwear factories, machine shops, groceries, cigar factories, tailoring and press- ing shops, and even in an ice cream plant some lead was found in the dust in the air. Lead pipe still is in use in most of the larger cities, ‘|particularly for connections.. When lead is absorbed into the able numbers, some means must be pe vent further absorption poi Two prominent physicians inves- ited amount of lead poisoning in pee Peete an in ‘was an inspector, one.a furnace man, one a foreman, one was a grainer and one was a mixer. Thus the lead appasectiy. attected the men in all parts of works without reference to the amount of contact with lead,, but apparently with relationship to the attention pod they paic to their personal nty-six of the men said that they smoked while at work. Most of them were careless about wash- ing their hands before eating. In- et, many re sham ote in the poo we , thus ng thelt food to Toad deat. washroom itself was dark and ventilated, and there were no TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1927 LETTER NGTON ¢ ics of the Kellogg Nicaraguan pol- icy felt that Shipstead hadn’t ex. erted himself to get at the truth during his foreign relation sub- committee’s hearings last spring, but Shipstead, in an issue of the magazine Current Affairs, has come to bat with such a terrific clout at the ball that the cynics who held that Shipstead had promised to soft- pedal in return for other promises are again left holding the bag. The senator tas ploughed back into the records to give a picture of what he calls “Dollar Diplo- macy” in Latin America, supple- menting this with whet he learned of the Foreign Relations Com- mittee and during his recent visit to Haiti. He intimates that the keynote of our Latin American policy lies in William Howard Taft’s ‘state- ment of it as providing for “inter- vention to secure for our merchants and our capitalists opportunity for Profitable investment.” Republi- can administrations, he finds, have perverted the Monroe Doctrine un- til it has become an instrument of conquest. But Wilson also “did everything to sustain this very policy.” eee “We are holding them under a form of military and financial dic- tatorship,” says Shipstead of the Latin American Republics. Espe- cially with reference to Haiti, h tells of national congresses dis- solved by American marines, of elections and plebiscites dictated by American bayonets, of extortionate financial conditions -imposed upon sovereign republics and other items of police work. Behind the Coolidge-Kelloge Nicaraguan policy, says Shipstead, “is a shadow of financial intrigue and imposition so shameful that American public opinion would in- stinctively repudiate it if the facts were widely known. : “Any well-informed American citizen is now aware that our pres- ent Latin-American policy is frank- ly one of economic agression in- volving political dictatorship.” Shipstead’s blast is well docu- mented and he winds up by cast: ing serious doubt on the comme: cial wisdom of our policy by pre- senting figures to show that the eight Latin-American __ republics north of Panama spent $57,000,000 less for American goods in 1926 aoe in 1925—a decrease of 14 per cent. Some folks will disagree with Shipstead, but no one will disagree with the suggestion that he has not been lured into the fold with a lump of sugar and made to say nice things about the administration. shower baths so that the traces of dust could not be removed before the men left for home. Taking Precautions When proper sanitary arrange- ments were made and the men were cautioned about chewing tobacco at work, when a suitable exhaust sys- tem was supplied for carrying off the dust, and when a system of supervising was installed so that men affected by the poison might be properly advised, the conditions were overcome, Out of the 39 men in the plant concerned, not one could be given an absolutely clean bill of health. Many of them suffered with phys cal defects in addition to the dis- turbances brought about by the lead poisoning. Sanitary control of in- dustries is one of the most impor- tant steps in modern extension of preventive medicine, ¢—__________-, | BARBS $$ —+ “So far as I know, not a single member of the American Legion need be ashamed when he gets home to tell everything that hap- pened to him in Paris,” said the Paris commissioner of police. He’s a nice fellow. The old-fashioned husband who used to have to wait while his wife was dressing now has to hustle to catch up. European nations are trying to fix the blame for starting the war and they haven’t even found out who won it yet. A Missouri man admits he has been arguing for 35 years and never scored a victory. He shouldn’t start controversies with his wife, Good chance for everybody to rest up when the boss takes his vacation, Coolidge deems a special session of Congress “unnecessary.” Isn't he a gentleman, though! (Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Inc.) $$$ > Justajingle | “Yep, this is cider,” said the man, When he took just one whiff, ‘Twas vinegar, but in three drinks He didn’t know the Paris grocers who are making to¢ finch money Ge a Rigid = Pe ing penalize ice, who forbi: them the Tight to show their mer- chandise on the sidewalks. AEB. U.8. PAT. PF, O1087 BY NEA cance, me. Two cannot be loved as cheaply as one.