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

PAGE FOUR The Bismarck -Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) met Rublished by the Bismarck Tribune Company, debe N. he and entered Boag ite at Bism: seco! mail mat ‘° George | D. Mann.----------President and Publisher © i hint ethesmainaremenesenenreme la ttetsteblatataddatsatased Subscription Rates Payable In Advance Dally by carrier, per year ae Daily by mail, per year, (in Daily by mail, per year, lin state outside Bismarck) ... Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota . Weekly by mail, in state, per year ... Weekly by mail, in state, three years for.. Weekly by mail, outside of North Dako! Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news ‘dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Foreign Representatives | G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO ~~ BURNS & SMITH AYNE, NEW YORK ee Fitth Ave. Bide. ——— eee H (Official City, State and County Newspaper) i DETROIT Kreage Bidg. Messenger of Mercy _. The human body has been greatly classified ‘during the last few decades, and there is a ‘specialist for this and that ill which the flesh ‘is heir to. 5 But there remain those emergencies which no ‘specialist hidden away in a busy modern clinic ‘or office building can meet and for which there ~ ‘is one friend upon whom we must continue to trely—the old-fashioned messenger of mercy, the country doctor. ‘ : High up in the Thunder mountains of Idaho, tyemote from transportation, fenced in from the tworld by snow-clad peaks 10,000 feet high, a young miner the other day lay fighting death ‘from influenza. 3 Word of his plight drifted down from that ficy fastness to McCall, a village in central Idaho. The word reached the little office where fa country doctor—Dr. Don Numbers—kept his a of medicine and mercy with a far-flung eld. * “Seriously ill!” That was the word. It was gall that was needed. The message went rapidly jpround the village. Masters of dog teams— logs that had won famous derbies in the north- “vest—offered their swift, strong little racers ito the doctor for this derby with death. ‘= Up into the hills, over mile after mile of ‘Mangerous trails and over no trails at all, the untry doctor sped on his mission of mercy. Dver shrouded hillsides where a false step in she deep snow would have meant his own death, sarrying on and upward, with the dogs scratch- g, heaving, tugging, for the sake of a life. The feet of the dogs were bleeding and torn hen the first stop was made at Warrens. her dogs were quickly offered and the doc- or continued his spectacular dash against eath. Up over Elk summit, more than 10,000 eet high, covered with nine feet of treacherous yw ! Then to the tiny cabin where the fingers of Sleath were closing about the throat of its srouthful victim. A day with a boy who had al- nost given up the unequal battle. A day of ightness as though the sun had dropped out the skies into that crude cabin. A day of ward work and hope and struggle. 3 Then, a life saved, the long trip back to the | gittle office, and a longer wait for the call again. = Day after dull day there in that drab little ffice—then the call. That is the life of the ountry doctor, messenger of medicine and ‘snercy, hero and savior among men, Marconi on Work Only the feeble-minded or the prematurely d stop and abandon their life’s interest for e sake of idleness, according to William Mar- “oni, inventor of wireless telegraphy. Marconi himself has few idle moments. He s laboratories in Italy, in England, on his ht Electra, and in America where he is now litical speech has been made on a poorer text than that. But we read further: “It is estimated that crop production in the. period 1922-1926 was nearly five per cent greater than in the period 1917-1921, although the agfronate acreage in crops decreased slightly. Likewise the output of animal products is estimated to have in- creased fully 15 per cent. The Se TeraTat Tat ductivity of the farm worker is estimated at about 15 per cent. This increase in labor ef- .20|ficiency, probably never before equaled, is at- tributed in part to the utilization of more pro- ductive livestock and crops, in part to increased use of machinery and power on the farm.” That is, the inefficient and the unfit have 50/moved away from the farm and found jobs else- where, and the good farmers, who are left have been doing less work and getting more prod- ucts. That is strictly in line with what is hap- pening in all other productive enterprises in this country. | Editorial Comment ~ Costly Housing Scheme (Nation’s Business) The complete story of ‘the collapse of the British government housing scheme, the most costly adventure in socialism that has ever been tried in any country in Europe, outside Russia, is told by Herbert N. Casson. The one great result of the government’s gigantic scheme to build houses is an enormous unproductive debt of 2,405 million dollars, which will have to be paid by British taxpayers in the next sixty years. a The housing venture, which originated dur- ing the war, was as wild a scheme as the South Sea bubble. It was planned, by a small group of politicians, then known as the kitchen cabinet of Lloyd George. ; When the government's plan to build houses for the poorer classes was made public, gll the intricate mechanism of the building industry was immediately thrown in hopeless confusion. Everyone was tied hand and foot. A swarm of government inspectors sprang up and put a stop to anything that was not in accordance with the government plan. Many of these inspectors were mere political hangers-on. They knew nothing about house building. Some of them were mendacious ad- venturers, who expected bribes and penalized those who refused to pay them. In 1920, at the height of the state control period, only 16,000 houses were built, and at an enormous cost. These houses were the most costly that have ever been built in Great Brit- ain or anywhere else. The story of the collapse of the state control | qe bubble in the British building trades remains an object lesson to all the governments and bu- reaucracies of the world, to teach them to let industrial and commercial affairs alone. A Great Radio Leader (New York Times) There can be no doubt that the strenuous work done by Admiral W. H. G. Bullard, as chairman of the Federal Radio Commission, shortened his life. Not long ago he said whim. sically: “I never go to bed at night until every- thing has closed down.” By such a remark he endeared hiziself to the radio “fans,” but it had an application to the discharge of duties so onerous that little time was left for rest. His task was never “closed down.” before he died he was planning two weeks of relaxation, but so much time he was not likely to waste in looking after his health. As an authority upon the science of radjo and an in- defatigable pioneer in adapting it to the wants of the world, Admiral Bullard will be sorely missed. American in spirit, he was interna- tional in his conceptions of the uses that could be made of the electricity of the air. In an ar- ticle in The Times in September he proposed the expansion of chain programs as “a step closer to a national system for broadcasting in the time of a great emergency or calamity.” A separate operator in the vicinity of Washing- ton could tune, he said, to the Arlington broad- cast wave and start a message that might be conveyed all over the country from station to station. “Think,” he added, “what such a sys- tem as this would have meant to us at the time, ing. We know a man of 70 who owned a little ' where anything might be bought, from f goods to water faucets. He retired, sold =ut and moved to “a better climate.” In two tonths he was back and is negotiating for the i: hase of his old place. (“Every day here,” he said, “people would E in to buy some little thing and say hello. 5 he kids would buy candy. Next thing you fow the same kids would want a football. then they came around for a lawn-mower. : their kids would come in for candy. I’ve } three generations grow up here and I ‘* Bow them all. .“When I sold out I needed a rest. A week's } ist was really all I needed, because after that ‘thought I would go crazy looking for some the old friends to talk to, and trying to find thing for my hands to do.” A Wall Street broker sold his seat on the hange. After three months he was back and it his old membership at a higher price. clamor, the talk, the excited trading had come as much a part of him as the trolley ‘to the street car. He found that without it could go no further. of Marconi’s vs is his child-vhe io wate ie . wat the lawn-mower age.” It is the same with n and electricity, with Ford and his auto- | “he oe on, to bang pat ie know differently, " of the Mississippi flood or the Florida hurri- cane!” In a speech before the National As- ecalion of Broadcasters in this city recently e said: We stand at the threshold of an amazing new development in civilization. The radio is the most marvelous means of linking to- gether all the people of our nation, and ulti- mately of the entire world, that has ever been devised by the human mind. One thing, and only one thing, should govern its use. It must be employed for the ben- efit of the public. It must be a real serv- ice, not a plaything or a means of self- seeking publicity, him chairman of the Radio Commission it was said that the President had picked a man “who knows more about the phases of radio than any other man in the country.” It was not con- sidered an exaggeration 5 Ay who how long Admiral Bullard the practical aj radio before his to do than any radio industry in i a slits G Esl Bgei ce i s. A few days |p, WASLINGTON 6, LETTER BY RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service Writer Washington, Dec. 14.—The chief trouble with the Seventieth Congress is that it looks so much like the Six- ty-ninth, Congress is like a pair of pants. country never has had a new aS and never will. Each elect finds some new patches at a point where the voters either perceived a hole or a threadbare spot instead of serviceable material. In the course of two o: three decadessomany patches are necessi- tated that the pants are all patches and thus in a sense new, but patches themselves are being pat two years with the result that each time the country puts them on they appear to be almost the same as be- fore but not 5 bout a dozen new senators showed up this year, more than a third of the 32 up for re-election last year havi been There were only 96 se some slight difference ~ to y ci scrutiny. But over o7 the House side, where 485 represent- atives sit, it mit just as the very same House that went last March. Congressmen in mass certainly do look like congress- — in the ape . ssions of are after the chaplain, Lavin sthoed's prayer of his own, conc! the Lord’s Praye: son, neither the members nor the alleries. oe) an on the ‘pedis rayer as practic other assemblies. oe te of fact, the a ma Directory doesn’t whether the general is chewing tobacco or whi OUR BOARDING HOUSE oe By Ahern |i tisttering between them EF " CG BUST AS WELL TOR AN" GUS! — PLAYING & onal iter but if it’s gum the wad must as big as his fist. Politics makes strange bedfel- lows — and seat mates; witness the Senate. Often one observes a couple of good hell-raisers of similar sen- timents sitting alengside ex} cther, such as_ Borah anf Norris, Jim Reed and Joe_ Robinson, cr even Shipstead and Howell. On The other hand, you'll find the radical young La Follette parked alongside the reactionary and ancient Gillett of Massachusetts. And Dave. Reed of Peansylvania, the lieutenagt and scr- vant of Secretary Mell along- side Jim Couzens of an, pro ably the . itterest enemy Mellon has in public life. @ general thing. in the Senate everyone shakes hands - ~ pats ev- eryone on the back, regardless of ‘what they call each ‘her in debate. ‘Two senators from a given state often hate each other in their hearts, but manage to conceal it. That doesn’t go for Brookhart nd Steck of Iowa, however. A senate’ begin- a new term is smarily i corted down th _:.ter aisle to the rostrur for the oath by the other senator from his state. Like.so many us brides, they take th> prof- red arms of their sponsors. But when Brookhart’s name w called, Steck refused step up anc do the honors. Pare Mrs. John W. Langley of Ken- tucky, eleeted to her husband’s seat sen he pasion pent to ie fed- penitentiary on liquor ‘harges, is the most eran coe spot of color in the House. Shc is the only grand- mother in Congr ss, but she’s good for a beauty contest with the other three congresswomen any old time. She made her debut ‘. a :ig't, styl- ish afternoon dress and br w.. stock- ings. i CS as IN NEW YORK | .New York, Dec. 14—They are go- ing dowg the headlines of New York again in search of Santa Clauses. bo yg ci street corners, will tand red fellows in gay uniforms of red and white. y will bells. and call upon the city to the poor. Children Me | while Ss wai ary Ves <7 Xt OTHER SMASHE will stop and hold out little hands, crying out in glee. The children will not look behind the whiskers in- to the hunted, hungry eyes; nor will d they look at ‘he shoes and notice that the heels are run over and that the soles flop a bit in the soggy rain. It is enough for their illusion that the ee before them con- forms to the! , favorite symbol. - The breadlines of Manhat:an are tea first chance at the Santa laus jobs. It js one of the great city’s most sardonic gestures. who have not known where their Christmas dinner was coming from; men without homes, without hopes, without jobs find suddenly that by playing ‘the role of the-merriest character in all the holiday calen- veer they may find a temporary way out eee I stopped the other day at one of the stations where Santa are rigged out and sent forth to tinkle bells at the city’s corners. It was a drab, cob: ebbed room on a street that smacks of squalor. Two or three rough tables, made of boards and sawhorsés, were piled high with cast-off clothing. About the tables swermed, like birds picking seeds, the; thread- bare folk from the slums, to whom clothing is somethin to keep them warm, rather than something to dec- orate their bodies. % After a time # scout came in with rof- | half a dozen potential Santa Clauses trailing after him. One by one they were questioned in an effort to find which was most in need—for, after all, a Santa Claus can make $3 or $4 a day for three or four weeks. prey il belonged to that clan of defea' men who stand. ‘with shoulders stooped, in lines before the employment bureaus. They were all hangdog looking men, most it mid-life. A quple seemed still in their thir- ties. They talked in monosyllables, as if words came ¢o their tongues with difficulty; as though they were ‘not used .o conversations ‘vith their lows. You can se> them by the hundreds on the New York side street the world goes chatting by. Half an houy. lat.- far men walked from little storeroom dressed in the gay ings of San- ta Claus. Fopr creenneeet their shoulders and -walked dejectedly the street. Almost wear- re fortunatesones pickedup back ily the my IN AMATEUR CANDLE LIG WOULD. HURT OUR Books ON “TH” BIG “TIME Pe Clauses | © silent men, standing alone had p: TRUE DIABETE~ MELLITUS ’s artic. I gave a * ferenca liabe"es mellitus 1d dia- betes insipidus. I -xvlaiued that many of the symp‘o ~ +r the same. The presence of sugar i the blood or urine is the distinguishing char- acteristic of diabetes meliitus over oth-r disorders where there is an ex- cessive thirst, and climination of large quant:ties of urine. is true diabetes is a lisease of metabolism, and comer 0. because the body cannot normally utilize the carbohydrates. ‘ihe result is that there is an increase in the blood sugar, and sugar is also eliminated in the urine. The excessive thirst is crented he- cause of the large amount of sine thrown out, and even though ty. pa- tient drinks quart after quart of wa- ter, he often urinates away more wa- bid than he can consume during the lay. As soon as the disease is well ad- vanced the patient loses weight rap- idly. This is mostly due to the fact that so much liquid is thrown out through the kidneys. Aretaeus was the first one to use the term “diabe: ” and said it ap- Peared to, he “a melting down of the flesh annd limbs into urine.” He suggested that the name of the dis- which signifies a syphon. The first cause of diabetes which must be consid-red is the use of an excessive amount of carbohydrates, th in the form of sugar an‘ starch. It is thought by many that obesity is a primary cause of diabetes, as it usually occurs only with those over- weight, while the true facts are, those who are overweight are exces- sive users of carbohydrates, which burden the body with weight, and overwork the pancreas which must supply the pancreatic fluid fur their itior. len exeess™. amounts of sugar are found ir. the blood or urine, it is a sure sign thut the pr > is un- able to take care of the large mount. of carbohydia:zs which the patient is using. Of course, the simplest thing to do is to cut out ’*~ carbo- hydrates entirely if necessary, and ive the panc.ca’ a chance to re- gain its normal functioning ~ wer. The discoverly of insulin has en- tirely changed tkc treatment of dia- betes so far as most physicians are concerned, but the disappointing re- sults of such treatment are now ap- parent, and many clear-thinking physicians have abandoned its use altogether as I predicted they would do when the first ‘announcements were made about insulin’s discov- ry. fi The only object in using insulin is to allow the patient to use carbo- hydrates, but, as carbohydrates are aneesaaey in the first place, it is nothing short of “idiculous te use in- Dr. MeCoy will gladly answer personal questions on diet, addressed to the Tril health and him, care of ibune. E addressed envelope toc Teele sulin or any other remedy to ar the use of foods which can be just as tay cee ercates Gite Ait bedi the car! ates are ni body uses protein in their and the ‘diabetic ca: use vertain limi amouuts of, the different proteins and provide a satisfa the addition of non-starchy In tomorrow's plain the simple me’ the treatment of QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Qustion: B. C. Writes: time my pt'se will register 60, at another time 80, for no apparent rea- son. jis change in pulse any ae) for a well man of ‘Answer: Your pulse will be much lower when you are and much faster r exerch: 1g. | perfectly normal, but such while you ate quiet, If le you are 80, cause of a varying amount of pressure against your heart. is due to improper food, eating too hastily, overeatins. cnd gassy foed combinations. Question: Reader buttermilk tend to p; on account of the | tains?” Answer: A ilk | died, butterm: or the use of butte..nilk in place of meal has a tendency to cure acidosis rather than to cause it. The lactic acid of the buttermilk has a bene- ficial effect upon the intestinal flora, or vegetable growths in the intes- tines. Question: L. D. P. asks: you kindly give me e information about yellow jaundice, its cause and cure, and how it lasts if taken jiately?” care of i Answer: Ji ‘be caused: by a serious disease of the liver, such as cancer or cirrhésis, but when it first ay it usually is caused by catarrhal inflammation of bile ducts or by the bile at ‘ment which I would suggest would of course di upon the found Ce an nero on general pi a would be effective in stim flow of bile and removii dice, at least, ° Orally, asks: luce acidosis ic acid ‘t con. bu fas the SAIN = SINNER Faith’s first emotion when C erry announced to Bruce Patton her de- sire to have “a quiet evening at home for a change” w: nger. It was lanation: jealor sherry could not r out of an eVening at. the opera with Bob and. .cda. | Faith knew well that’ her sister’s impulsive decision had but cne ex- planation jealousy. Cherry could not tolerate ihe mental picture of Faith and Nils Jonson spend 5. an eve- ning alone the. Wasi. possible that all of Cherry’s absurd conduct and inexplicable moods of the last hectic twenty-four hours sire she hed first set cyes on the young king-farmer could be attributed to which had the fact that she had failen in peal ac over the ave awkwardness with Nils? Within meeting her, Nils had askc her to gu to the opera with him and his sister; early the next morning he had sent her an almost ridiculously expensive box of roses, which she to scorn; a few hours peared at her office ic: her away to lunch with him against her will, But rather than go to the opera with him fons ni summo} rescue. And now the three of them —Cherry, Nils and Bruce, a str: triangle—w-re confrontin each oth- er with cold politeness which did not at Hy fnstantanenys agtikes le . Cherry, almos beautiful in her golden costume, was after ri tl 5 Faith, after her perfunctory greet- ing .of Bruce Pat! watched sister with narro brown eyes clouded . with resentment+and dis- gust. Had Cherry ever ‘n her life played Zale with any man? . Like a y's army, the procession of men whom Cherry had giver. bits of their “Merry Christmas” signs and ambled off toward Broadway. Such, then, are the purveyors Christmas cheer in the i she hac imperiously | ace Patton to her! again— ly | fiance, then her peeve and of whom mae L. grown as soon as ‘ wholly in love with her, across the motion picture screen of Faith’s memory. ly she re- membered them far better than Cherry did! Ha married one of Cherry’s « dis suitors, Faith told herself bitterly that she had had small chance of f » How she preened herself, between these two men, ihate each other ai Faith, absorbed thoughts and study of t'em on to to de. ire her! in he of the com in of this ween "Ss jtwo latest jirers. But she ‘aroused herself to her duties as a hostess when suddc *y flew to the radio and in on a orchestra. Faith was reer to . EF Hl i i <5 $F as very much want to havea you.” NEXT: Nils takes Faith int- his! 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