The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 5, 1927, Page 4

I . we’ve progressed far since then. ‘AGE FOUR he Bismarck Tribune! An Independent Newspaper THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Co Ys | amarck, N. D., and entered at the postcffice at smarck as second class mail matter. . sorge D. Manh........... President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable In Advance | iily by carrier, per year .... 1s aily by mail, per year, (in aily by mail, per year, (in state outside Bismarck) .. aily by mail, outside of North Da Member Audit Bureau of C ismarck) Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the se tor republication of ail news dispatches credited to or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also thé} cal news of spontancous origin published herein, All} ghts of republication of all other matter herein are so reserved. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO ower Bldg. DETROIT | Kresge Bldg. & SMITH Fifth Ave. Bldg. | | PAYNE, RURNS The President and Flood Control That President Coolidge is anxious to see} lefinite action taken by congress to pr ecurrence of floods in the lower M ‘alley is evident from the tenor of t ye made Monday before the Amer Sross convention. The president did not rush forth with any; yanaceas or nostrums as some less wise men} night have done. He advanced no cure for he flood situation. But, through his speech, 1e gave assurance that he is solidly behind any sane and sensible project which may remo he danger of further floods in the south, Certain factions have been free in their criti- ism with the president because, they claimed, | he took no interest in the condition of the} south. Because he sent Secretary Hoover to take charge of the rehabilitation instead of per-) forming the Bayard act by rushing there him-| self, they charged him with disinterest. If he had gone, they would have accused him of tr ing to swing public favor in his direction. But the president did show an interest in} the conditions of the south. He did not say | much about it, but the work done by Secretary Hoover indicates that he viewed the situation with concern and desired that everything pos- sible be done. There was one thing the president did not flo. And that was to urge that congress jump into the breach, in special session, and formu- late a temporary program. He wisely realized what a great many politicians did not or did not care to realize, that a calm survey of the problems and a sane plan, worked out after an opportunity had been given to review the en- tire situation, would be productive of greater and lasting results. The south will have occasion to thank Presi- dent Coolidge for his level-headed interest in their problems. By not calling a special ses- sion, he has done much to assure the best pos- sible solution to the flood problem. He has saved the country an untold amount which a hysterical congress might have sunk in the mud-flats of the ¥ ssippi, without any tangi- ble results. Thus his speech may serve to set at rest the doubts which some partisans have so vocifer- ously expressed.” The majority of the people have known for a long time that the presiden= was back of a flood control program, heart and soul. The minority now has the speech to prove that his interest in the south is very real, How We Do Progress! The world, thanks be to science and educa- tion, is now getting along nicely. It is a long time, of course, since flyers began crossing the ocean in land planes (weeks and weeks), but Every day us some little item that shows inexorable onward march the news gives how civilization’s proceeds. A district school board in Michigan has ruled that all ‘teachers, of the more deadly species, shall wear smocks that cover them from Adam’s apples to ankles. That much for the majestic and orderly headway of law against crime. A doctor in Chicago proceeds to the rostrum of public information with the startling dis- ’ closure that 60 per cent of babies born to cig- | aret-smoking mothers die before they are two * years of age. There will be those who will laugh at this. But never mind! There were those who smirked at Robert Fulton, too. A husband and wife were arrested for spoon- , ing in an automobile in Cleveland. They were ; so inconvenienced, humiliated and so forth by their trip to the station that they sued the city. The woman was awarded $3,675 damages, ' which she will now try to collect from the afore- said city. relations. A young man in Paris suddenly discovered So much for the uplift of our family | the other day that he could fly with no me- 5 1 chanical aid whatever, relying simply on psy- chic powers. He has bruises to show for bad landings, collisions with furniture, fences and other obstructions. This solves the threatened gasoline shortage we’ve been wondering about. We can just flap out of bed at 7:30 of a win- ter morning and soar to work, arriving at 7:45 utter a pleasant journey over the trolley wires, ete. Ghosts do not need the shade of night to cloak their movements, some Galileo of psychic research has just whispered to a waiting world. Ghosts have changed their habits lately, becom- ing much bolder, operating now in broad day- light, -chains and all. Their thumbprints can be by mediums, properly trained medi- ms to be sure. This will prove valuable ad- for the police files. astronomer steps into the scien- for a few minutes and cpmes news that the eart* is to come to will be a few million years, of e all very much interested. is going to bring the quaint now can be laid as to will be in darkness when 7 brakes. “his will cause a flurry in Wall Street, no doubt. we march, the torches of civilization high. Is it declining to run for presi. |tourage at the Ascot races, the derby, at the} jlaunching of a new battleship. jpartial judges,” said the lord chief ju A King Has to Be on the Job There is no pro and con about it, a king has to be on the job these days, and that’s all there is to that. What do you suppose would happen in Britain if King George failed to go grous shooting in Scotland on the first day of the season? Well, there’d probably be much ado | and a few Magna Chartas. | You’ve seen pictures of the king plus his en-} Perhaps you have thought “pretty soft for that fellow.”| But the truth is the king has to go to these things. He has to keep up his job just like the rest of us. Perhaps there are days when the king would! prefer to sit quietly on the back fence talking with the queen and let the Ascot races go hang. But no. He must scurry around for a stiff collar, place the gray derby at the proper ma- jestic angle and heave to his business. Thre seems to be some kind of a catch in} most every job under the sun. The obvious | thing to do is improve your own. Editorial Comment | Justice and Revolution (Springfield Republican) “Where there are just la administered | without fear or favor, by incorruptible and im-| tice of | England in his Buffalo address, “there is not much cause to fear popular outbreaks or revo- lution.” Lord Hewart’s utterance might apply to any form of government, yet it must apply to democracy. Where democracy controls, the} people will overthrow governments, or even) institutions, that fail to provide justice, im- partial, fearless and incorruptible. Reflect on the difference between Lord Hew- art’s statement and Pascal’s in his “Pensees.” Pascal lived in the seventeenth century, in the great days of Louis XIV. The French philoso- pher observed: A nation “does not obey the laws because it believes them just. Laws must be obeyed because they are lav one must submit to superiors; not because they are just, | but because they are superior: | i} after Pascal’s death because the French people} had been so long obeying laws not because they upon them by their superiors. Behold a Thoroughbred (Emporia Gazette) Up in Garratsville, New York, is an old preacher. He is making $600 a year. By sav- ing he was able to buy a little bank stock in the State bank of Summerfield, Kan. The bank closed the other day with a deficit. The stockholders were required by law and were instructed by the bank commissioner that they | would be held for double liability. The preach- voted by the stockholders to meet a deficit. He wrote to the bank commissioner stating his THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Y, The French revolution came about a century | ; were just but because they were laws imposed}! er in February had paid $250 in an assessment | * case. The bank commissioner would liked to have made an exception in this case, | but it was impossible. The old preacher might possibly have lawed and jawed his way out of | which the Kansas bank department could lev But like a soldier and a gentleman, he used the credit he had and is sending a draft for $500 back to Kansas. When Diogenes goes out with his lantern) looking for an honest man, he shou!d turn his} toes toward Garratsville, New York. There in| that preacher’s humble home Diogenes will find the end of his journey. Our Army Is Decaying (Chicago Tribune) There were sent to us recently clippings from} the London Daily Telegraph, an aristocratic English journal, giving’accounts by special cor-| respondents of the autumn maneuvers of the| British army. The dispatches themselves were not illumin- But what was of interest was the fact itself that elements of the British army had carried! out extensive experiments in the tactics of the| modern mechanized art of war. _ At almost the same time, so the same Eng- lish journal declared, the French were holding similar maneuvers with a similar end in view of testing out the latest developments in war material. Contrast with the enterprise of the British and French militarists, with the manifest sun- port by the two governments of their military establishments, and with the evident interest of the people in their armed forces, the lack of aggressive military policy, the meagerness of governmental aid, and the popular apathy in the United States. Compared with the scale and method of the British maneuvers, such tactical evolutions as are performed by American troops are mere platoon drills. Our whole army numbers less than 120,000 officers and inen, and these are so widely scattered about the United States and the American possessions that it would be difficult to gather enough soldiers in one spov to represent even one side in a war maneuver of worth-while magnitude. Added to that difficulty is the fact that the army is chronically pressed for funds. Con- gress appropriates only enough money barely to feed and clothe the army; it does not appro- priate enough to house it decently. And as for money for maneuvers, it is as much out of the question as funds for developing and perfecting army ordnance. have} i the liability, having no available assets upon! } on her ating, for your English journalist with his firsi! a person dissertations is not a good reporter. Ten years ago Americans were telling each other brightly that they had learned their les- son. Never again would the sudden oncoming of an emergency find this country unprepared. The war was going to teach us a great lesson and after‘the war we were going to build up an adequate army machine. That talk has gone for nothing. We learned no lesson and in comparison with our greater prosperity and its need for better protection are more poorly prepared than before, ~ we not suffered so greatly except who insisted pleted on virtually giving away com- tonnage to foreign powers. But our any wonder all) army has been abandoned and left to fall into state of comparable to its condition fol- advised generosity of gentlemen|- SAIN = SINNER e ° was set for dinner, with| curly-petaled mari-| blue bowl, when ved from the of-| i them talking ani-| jealously wondered g jasmine a-ball, and reso- her contralto y i lenly from} ij eine room and “A hundred a month tempts me ! But can’t’ strange! Bob grinned at her. tnote about dinner,| Then, turning to Faith, “Honey, this starved. Umm!” he) is the best chili I ever tasted. Oh, he sniffed the} by the Klein, the fur man, you know, 1 me today to draw up ried, making he: rful as hi g to i promised. | j al rel that possible ting ttered an} Bob! Al- was aching! ¢ was a serene smile| | ce when she sat down at table, the big tureen of chili before her. in a bubbling good hu-} s excited over a school to take place the! Bob was almost | mor; Jo} picnic that her big brown eyes trav y from one fi to anoth ' spasm of econom: fected Bob,” Cherry 1: ed, arly this morning he that little office in our suite with a renting agent and this afternoon we| had three licants for it. I’m try- ing to pe Bob to leave the renting of it to me.” “Ye: Bob grinned at his in-law. “You want to pick out young sheik, whose business will be so light *hat he can devote most of his time to ing with you.” Ce EGAD LADSww IN A MY CANDIDACY FoR ~WHAT, ~* WITH men veed rent the pla wan tle, as he! | (Copyright, 1927, NEA Service, Inc.) > The morns are meeker than they The berry’s cheek is plumper, The maple wears a gayer scarf, Lest I should be old-fashioned, ° en ere A Thought | i ae eer arn | important :'e! bidden fruit which still sticketh in | the throat of a natural man, some- times to the danger of his choking. Fuller. DAY oR “Wo I WILL FORMALIN ANNOUNCE RE-ELECTION To “HE HONORABLE OFFICE OF DUSTICE OF THE PEACE, FOR ANOTHER VEARI. “OF COURSE, IT WOULD BE FOLLY FoR ANYONE “To OPPOSE ME, ——~ “You said it, big boy,” Cherry winkling her golden eyes at el'eve me, it’s no fun work- brother-in-law. I’m used to ement along with the I think I'll pat an ad ‘For rent—nice private in architect’s suite; all con- including beautiful sten- onlv tall, handsome young apply.’ I'll bet I could office for a hundred a month, if you'd let me put that ad in ie paper. How about it, brother- in-law?” new store for him. He omething especially distinct- ive in show windows, and a ‘swell’ s says. He intends to y trade with a enue stuff.” o glad!” Faith glowed. en dinner was over, Bob imme- began to remove the_ big ‘Come on, Cherry. Let’s! No, Faith, the big) you're to sit in the par- dy of quality. You’ve arned the right with that gorgeous inner you gave us.” NEXT: An embarrassing question, $$$» Old Masters | were, The nuts are getting brown; The rose is out of town, The field a scarlet gown. Yl put_a trinket on. —Emily Dickinson Autumn. Remember let's wife.—Luke 1:32, ae Curiosity is a kernel of the for- z= “Ti CITiZENs WILL: RUN Yous FOR A NEAR | ~_-THEY @ CAN FISD PLENTY “To FILL Your SHOES, ~~ BUT NONE BIG ENOUGH “To FILL “HW CHAIR, LIKE No CAN fe. MWY WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1927 | He Won't Be Happy Till He Gets It ea Paris, Oct. °.—Lafayette, we are there! Thanks to the legion, if you will, the sidewalks of Paris are even as the sidewalks of New York, the sidewalks of Chicag o or the side- walks of Kansas City. Alabama, of Democratic conven- tion fame, may have changed its vote from Underwood to the fife and drum corps, but you can find “tout ensemble” in its front of the Cafe de la Paix and its sons and daughters are taking their “cafe finn” at the “Trois Magots.” The American invasion of Paris is complete. Just behind the side- walks life may go on as before. But Colorado, Pennsylvania and way states are in possession of the pave- ments. * * Now it may be tl boys go to heaven * hat good little when they die. But bad little boys go to Montmarte when they live. And go where you will in Montmarte, from the Para- quette to Josephine Baker's, the Americans have arrived and the situation is well in hand. The prob- lem seems to be one of “How’re you going to keep them back on the bootleggers now that they’ve tasted champagne?” pagn Peasy * Champagne cocktails, I might add, are three shillings in London or about six francs—18 cents— here. In fact, it is about the cheapest beverage to be found in Paris, in- cluding water. But by the time you have ti all the available waiters, including | whe the “wine garcon” garcon,” by the time you have paid the cover charge, the tax and the necessary stampr, the francs are}; considerebly depleted. and the “food In fact, the business of tipping in Paris is one of the and outdoor sports. favorite indoor Living, eating and tipping in Paris i. cheap up to the moment when the tips pe And since they both any expe! begin and end ne. they constitute an In the theaters the ushers receive ward no pay, :v one is ex] > ret them with one franc a seat. /. friend attended the the other night and Grand Guignol mode the sie take of buying a program. In addi- ice tion to the a healthy tip. the usher expected B YOR OFFICE SEEKERS BAN’ DUCKS! <TH (| WOMEN'S CLUB IS WAITING FoR Vous TO START YouR, POLITICAL QUACKS, AN -THEN’RE GONNA teT You HAVE | W BY RODNEY DUTCHER Washington, Oct. 5.—If the Dem- ocrats actually are going to nomi- nate a dry pregressive, as many of them have threatened to do these last eight or ten years, Huston Thompson of Colorado stands as good a chance as anyone. Thompson is quite dry and he is very, very progressive. One hears that he may have the Colorado delegation at the conven- tion. The trouble is that, -Ithough they may nominate an accomplished straddler, the Democrats are not likely to nominate a dry progres- sive. * The anti-Smith leaders will have to have someone to rally around when the convention gets under way, but whoever that may be can promptly decide that he is definite- ly sunk. The drys will be looking for temporary parking space and not for a bandwagon. The eclipse of McAdoo left little hope that a man of the McAdoo stamp could be nominated. se & The nominee now seems likely to be Smith or Reed. But if not, the honor can ha. ‘ly go to a man like Blass, Owen, Meredith or Thompson, although any of these men may be chosen for the job of holding the anti-Smith strength to- gether. Under the circumstances, one of these men would do about as well as another. All of them are high grade. But there will be a great many good Democrats who won't believe all that and because th-y hold that this is the time to nominate a dry progressive you may hear a great deal more from Thompson at the convention. Nearly everyone has heard of Thompson as a chairmen and mem- ber of the Federal Trade Commis- sion, but he is not a popwar, widely known figure. jomp: n might remedy that almost single-handed if he were nominated, however, for his Republican opponent would most certainly know that he lad been in a fight. First and foremost, Thompson is a trust-buster. In there days when “big business” is ridirg and is yet more popular than ever, the fact might not be much of an asset for Thompson, but the man is loaded with smmuni‘ion and he probably knows more about monopolies and the mysterious ways of the trusts than any other, man in his party. To the extent the Temocrats are getting excited over “invisible gov- ernment” and “Wall Street control” of the administration, Thompson benefits. It quust also be remem- bered that he*carries a strong ap- peal to the so-called Wilson faction of the party. On March 26, 1923, Woodrow Wilson wired Governor Sweet of Colorado: The story goes about Paris of an American. who, attending theater, refused to tip an usher. For one hour and forty minutes the usher camped by kis seat, suspending all work for the evening. and was forced away only when the rest of the audience threw cigaret butts, programs and other available am- munition at h:m. It was a classic precedent, still talked about when tips are mentioned. At the railroad stations, old fel-| lows open your doors, They do not merely accept your tip, they de-| mand their price. If they carry vour bag and you give a franc, ex- pect an argument! The same is true to some extent of London where begging is openly indulged in. There they will tell you your shilling insufficient and only two shillings will placate them. I told one fellow that any in New York would bow to the floor at the receipt of two bits, he cpenly demanded two shill- ings—about 50 cents—end there seerned little to do about it if on was t avoid 4, Seene. There seems little doubt that we Americans are spotted as far as we can be seen and the “hold-up” wad is out to get o2r last dime, if any. For servility where the French are concerned, I have yet to see the cervility record broken. And for this we are expected to dole out our last “cing franc” note. The tipsters . re everywhere. They are disguised 4s newspaper vendors, barbers, t:.xi drivers, bootblacks, waiters, and what not. But any adventure from which you emerge without a healthy tip is indeed a fortunate one. T understand, last, why there are so few beggars in Paris. They have all gone into a morc profitable pase: GILBERT SWAN. ee BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine The adherents of the notion that cancer in the human race is due to the modern diet and that the discase would disappear if all of us were to return to primitive methods of living commonly support their views by the citation of general impressions. ‘ : answer to their claims comes in a series of articles published in various portions of the world rela- \tive to the incidence of cancer i le, Ce en, J. A. Des- the incidence of the disease among the people of South Africa, He found 291 cases of tumors among 13,170 patients. Macvicar founc 141 cases in 10,000 ‘native patients. ‘In Ceylon the rate for cans cipaay Seve “ig ink found that men that the percentage of tu- Leleeliery ‘the people was about same as is f in European hos gt There were pro plopeas many cases »! r ¥ Ww me aa ths internal female organs as occurred among Many Aas suffering with tu- mors die in tropical countries of nia, dysentery or scarry ». Can- fm relation to A report from the gold coast of Africa indicates frequent appear- ZASHINGTON LETTER 4 “I trust you will not think it an unwarranted liberty if I express the hope that you will select my friend Huston Thompson for the vacant seat in the Senate.” Sweet didn’t, but it wa: the only time Wilson recommended a man for office after he left the presi- dency. Thompson was the only man who had three appointments under Wilson. He was assistant attorney general for five years and served eight years on the Federal Trade Commission, of which he was twice chairman, As assistant attorney general, he argued 70 cases before the supreme court and cleared up a docket of 22,300 cases hefore the court of claims in five years, bring- ing that court up to date for the first time. 7 * On the Federal Trade Commis- sion, Thompson led the fight which abolished the Pittsburgh plus sys- tem in the steel industry and its oppressive effects on the west and the south. It was Thomnson who exposed the aluminum trust mon- opoly of which Senator Tom Walsh made such a red-hot issue. He fought successfully business meth- ods in North Dakot.. end Minnesota which were destroying the farm co- operative associations. During Harding’s administration, Thompson was asked by some ad- ministration leaders to suppress the complaint charging unfair practices leading to monopoly by the Famous Players-Lasky — Corporation. He promptly moved to issue the com- plaint, which resulted after a long trial in an order against the com- pany. When the Brookhart com- mittee was investigating Attorney General Daugherty, Thompson testi- fied for days and exposed what the Department of Justice had done or had not done with more than 50 anti-trust cases referred to Daugh- erty by the commission. * % Thompson has fought constantly against price-fixing and price con- trol by interests dealing with the necessities of life. He asserts that the only way to help the farmer is by “making his purchasing dollar equal in value to his selling dollar. “This can be done,” he says, “first, by restraining monopoly — stopping price control among the monopolizers—which the Depart- ment of Justice can do in six months; second, by enforcing the Sherman anti-trust act to what the supreme court found it to mean be- fore it introduced the ‘rule of rea- son,’ and, third, by reducing the tariff. on all monopoly-controlled articles to the point where competi- tion would be revived.” Thompson is one of the foremost experts on co-operative marketing, but he does not believe that the federal government should control their administration through the in- fluence of loans. ance of malignant growths among the African natives, and E. B. Ved- der found records of malignant tu- mors not infrequently among the Filipinos; indeed a figure higher than that for Americans. He pointed out that excessive meat consumption cannot be re- garded as a causative factor in the development of cancer in the Fili- pinos, because the diet is mainly vegetable and consists largely of rice. The savages of Hawaii, Philippine Islands and similar Pacific islands not infrequently have cancer of the mouth due to the influence of chronic irritation from the chewing of betel-nut. ee f BARBS | 0 rn: An easterne doctor ‘has proposed a law against face-lifting. ‘on’t the ladies’ faces fall when they hear that! a # A safety council officer calls mov- ing day the most dangerous of th year. Doesn’t that depend on wheth- er or not your rent is paid? The league has ruled war off the books. Hereafter when Europear nations desire to go to war, it must be on the defensive, Cheer up! If you swallow your collar button, at least you know where it ‘is. v* Consider the tack and the auto- mobile tire and don’t go around blowing yourself PP, If wives only knew what stenog- raphers think of their husbands, they’d quit worrying. Don’t. marry trombone players, girls; they always let things slide. [ Justajingle | He bought himself a real cheap suit. He thought that it would please. The rain came down and soaked it. Now It reaches to his knees, Try our modern high pres- sure greas.ng service for all cars. Prices le. — Short Stop Station. FLAPPER FANN There's no use working yourself t¢ death to make a living, ay ii y