The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 16, 1928, Page 4

.PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Bismarck Tribune it Newspaper » THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER ; (Established 1873) | Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, ireck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at ismarck as second class mail matter. George D. Mann......no-.----.President and Publisher Subscription Rates Payable In Advance Dally by carrier, per year oo 87.2 Daily by mail, per year, (in Bismarck) .. . Daily by mail, pec year, (in 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. soe 8 Weekly by mail, outside of North Dekota, per Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the nse for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All 60| The situation is further confused by the con- cation. If they come back it will only be in those states with greater traffic than finan- cial resources. Even the wealthiest common- wealths are lagging behind in highway con- struction. The extent to which a toll road would relieve public highways would be clear gain for those not paying the tolls. - Problem of the Ships It_ is well that congress is thoroughly dis- cussing the merchant marine question before enacting new legislation relating to it. The problem is a complex one, and one on which there can be two conflicting opinions, both sin- cere and supported by convincing arguments. flict of opinion between the president and some of the leaders in congress, and more especially by the change of front on the part of some of the legislators. President Coolidge favors turning the mer- chant marine, which has been given a good start under government ownership and man- rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY NEW YORK «+ «- e Fifth Ave. Bldg. CHICAGO DETROIT Tower Bidg. Kresge Bldg. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) A Good Public Servant Retirement of Frank Milhollan from mem- bership on the State Board of Railroad Com- missioners will be regretted generally and More especially by his wide circle of loyal friends. Commissioner Milhollan has been a valuable public servant. Swept into office dur- ing a bitter factional fight, he has not allowed the platform of the organization or the lead- ers of the movement to dictate his decision cr dim his vision on the merits of controversies tried before him. He has earned the respect of the officials of those enterprises regulated by the board which he served as chairman. The resignation of Commissioner Milhollan| merely emphasizes a situation that is common .in public service. State salaries are not suf- ficient to meet competition of private enter- prises. When a man becomes trained in pub- lic service, of great value to shippers and re- ceivers as well as patrons of the various utili. ties, he is often compelled by necessity to seck more remunerative work. Commissioner Mil- hollan received $8,000 a year, ridiculously low, when one considers the magnitude of the cases coming before the commission. The same is true in a like degree of judicial salaries, the wonder of which is that men of such high standing can be induced often at great per- sonal sacrifice to run for such offices. There are in some branches of the state gov- ernment situations which should not be encum- bered by such low salary limitations. The tax- payers would be money ahead if in some in- stances at least better salaries could be paid to hold men of honesty and ability in important and strategic positions of public trust. All of this is especially true in the case of Commissioner Milhollan, and the state suffers a loss in his retirement from a position for which he has been trained by years of active and conscientious service. The Billboard Nuisance From persons who. motor over the improved highways of the nation come vigorous protests against desecration of the scenery by multipli- cation of signs, of every conceivable size, advertising everything imaginable. Many stretches of beautiful landscape are completely obscured from view by unsightly billboards. agement, over to private ownership and con- trol. There is one camp urging a privately- owned merchant marine generously subsidized, but the Jones bill, now before congress, con- templates continuous government ownership and proposes to spend $250,000,000 for new ships. This is the measure favored by some congressmen who a few weeks ago were talk- ing private ownership. The public is not concerned whether the merchant marine is operated by the govern- ment or by private interests, but it does seem to be of the opinion that there should be a merchant marine and a larger one than the present. All the taxpayers ask of congress is perpetuation of an American commercial fleet at the least cost to them. 4 | Editorial Comment ‘Down Below’ (Des Moines Tribune) “Argentina is having its first hot wave of the summer season, with temperatures of 104 degrees Fahrenheit recorded yesterday and to- day. Forecasts give little hope of relief.”— Associated Press dispatch. . Of course everybody knows that when it is winter in the northern hemisphere it is sum- mer in the southern, and vice versa. But how much of the time does he know it? It is a powerful human tendency to figure, subconsciously at least, that the conditions af- fecting us are the conditions of the earth, that if we are chilly, everybody is chilly, that if we are hot, everybody is or ought to be hot, and so on. : So simple a reminder as that “down below,” in the southern hemisphere, they are having summer now is a gentle little jolt to our selt- important assumptions. If a President Had a Third Term (Duluth Herald) Senator La Follette of Wisconsin is asking the senate to go on record against a third term for any president. At this writing it is not known whether the senate will co it or not, but it is not very im- portant. A third term for a president is not likely to happen soon, and the palladium of our liber- ties would not be destroyed if we did have a good man in the White House and kept him there twelye years, Though no doubt this resolution is prompted by opposition to the reelection of Mr. Coolidge, it wouldn’t epply to it. Mr. Coolidge has been There have been attempts in many states to legislate obnoxious signs off the scenic highways. Most of these attempts have been balked by indifferent legislatures. About all Bny of them has accomplished has been to move the signs from the highway right-of- way to private land beyond, which compelled their owners to build them larger to be visible from the road. Virginia highway experts have hit upon two plans full of promise if they can be put into effect. The greatest obstacle is obtaining the prerequisite legislative sanction. The motor- ists’ lobby will have to be far stronger than the outdoor advertising lobby if either plan is to be adopted. The most feasible of the two Virginia &chemes is a highway department policy un- der which the state will improve or maintain roads only where the owners of adjoining prop- erty agree to bar advertising signs from their land. In states giving their highway depart- ments broad discretionary powers legislative approval: of such a policy might not be neces- sary. And such an agreement would not be hard to obtain from the modern farmer. The alternative Virginia plan is imposition of a high tax on every square foot of billboard. The one argument against this plan is that ic would tend to discriminate against the small advertiser who could not pay the higher rates pend -_ca advertising space it would neces- sitate. Pri ital pen ivate capi permission to build @ broad: $15,000,000 toil road connecting Phila- a yi New Jersey seashore resorts, Its believe such a road would pay good | dividends if it afforded the motorist a route ~ gees speed limits and dangerous New Mexico has confessed that she is with- ways and thet if the hundreds of thousands of, motor yp sia who Le oo state each bed want to travel on -surface highways‘ pri- vate must brid them og cellect its Virtually every ctate has high and traf- fe oe necessity if fast and ero to be szparated. They differ on tne question whether trucks or pas- cars should uze the to!) ff and the old turn- fee evety out public fuxds enfficient to build trunk high-|Just one man. That man will be available in elected but once, and he could be elected again without raising the third term issue except as a quibbic. We l face the third-term issue only when a man who has been elected twice is being con- sidered for 2 third election. And even then, if the man can stand the physical strain of twelve years at this hard task, no harm would be done if he were electe.! for the third time. The Examiner-in-Chief (New York Times) Senator Curtis of Kansas is the first to an- swer Mr. Borah’s examination paper on pro- hibition. It is hard to see how even Senator Willis of Ohio can show himself a more stern and unbending dry; but can anybody get a “good mark” from an examiner whose require- ments are so stiff? Further examinations in other branches are probably preparing. What- ever candidates flunk or squeeze through or dodge the examination, the replies of Mr. Bor- ah’s present or ostensible favorite, Senator Norris, are awaited most eagerly by the stu- dents of comparative Progressive virtue. The orthodox Progressive Blaine-La Follette church of Wisconsin in.its platform for delegates to the Republican national convention includes many high principles and large praise for Mr. Norris, its beloved. _ Yet what a poisoned chalice it holds to his lips! Avoiding the abhorred word “beer,” it asks that the Volstead act be modified to agree with the Wisconsin referendum of 1926. Thus ‘the largest body of genuine Progressives, ador- ing Mr. Borah’s provisional nominee for presi- dent, bends a fawning knee to 2.75 beer. The Milwaukee Journal must be misinformed when it attributes to Mr. Norris the saying that he “sees no harm in 3 per cent beer.” But Mr. Borah’s candidate must be above suspicion. To whom can he turn? Whom can he trust? 1929, sass Lng led Fee agg ha he will iron out : ‘is vote the straight ticket and thereafter describe his usual curves and tangents, ses tees lea lapfully sevepted hoy til wi long pi e most il- een of ag pe od and charged him, like the 0 Prune, vertising account, winks as it cries. solemnly: “God give us men. * * * America needs men who will dare to be wrong.” Has anybody else dared to be wrong so often, acquired so thoroughly the habit and the pref- erence of being wrong, as the senior Idah ator? eee happens to be right, al en his Protest agai pussyfooting on prohibition, rightness but a placard to be the fly-gobblers and WASHINGTON & | LETTER BY RODNEY DUTCHER Washington, Feb, 16.—Probably everyone who ever wrote a story about the tariff wondered whether anyone else ever would read it, The doubt has discouraged many tariff) Was reached. In that stories which haven’t been missed. Recent developments, such as the Senate's passage of the McMaster resolution, however, indicate that some day the tariff may be put on a business basis, Meanwhile there may be more tariff stories to read. The question is tied up with such The beet sugar companies want some curb put on Filipino sugar. Up to 1918 Filipino sugar was duty free up to 300,000 tons, which never tion was removed altogether. Now! the anual importation from the! | islands is 500,000 tons, an increase of 300 per cent since 1918. The beet sugar industry wants the duty free importations limited to 500,000 tons, recalling that the Cuban pro- duction once doubled in three The Pinch-Hitter | SRST USI sea) Det year, restric- This is the fourth of a series of intimate letters exchanged by a modern dau: Marye— and_ her “old-fas! ” mother important prices, wages and inter-| © ss i i t| .—“Mom"— to be printed dail national velations, so why not? | the Peer ruieat nse eentiie in ‘The Tribune.” Another, will The key to the tariff situation) a domestic industry for a posses- ppear tomorrow. is that those interests which don’t benefit from the tariff don’t want any and that those which benefit from a tariff want all they can get. Theze two classes, no doubt, will clash endlessly, with occasionally \ paid at a fixed rate, compromises, an of $55,000,000 a year, owe Perhaps one way to make-a tariff story more or less interesting is to tie it up with some jicular com- modity. Present efforts for legis- lation by the beet sugar industry. come to mind and will be cited be- cause the industry is not asking for the earth, and its arguments concern the national’ consumption of sugar, which nearly all of us have eaten at one time or another. The world eats 25,000,000 tons of sugar a year. About nine millions tons of it is beet sugar. The Uni- ted States consumers 6,000,000 tons a year. Half of that is Cuban cane sugar, a sixth . is domestic beet sugar and most of the rest comes from Hawaii, the Philippines, and Porto Rico, with 50,000 or 60,000 tons of cane from Louisiana. Beets furnish nearly, all our domestic ing any bars against should be developed, pound for the stuff. vegetable. An acre as much human food josal of the leavings. sion 7000 miles away; that pino sugar is raised by a cheap a ae sree “hha has some- Imes almost approac' peonage wherezs American beet farmers are The beet sugar industry hopes to develop to the point where it may supply half the domestic sugar con- sumption. It has no ho} and Porto Rican cane sugar crops. Contending that the home industry time when dependence on Cuban sugar cost Americans 24 cents a The beet plup, after sugar has|were leavi been extracted, is usede for cattle feed, along with the tops of the this manner, is supposed to produce of meat as an acre of corn and the industry claims to create 240,000,- 000 pounds of meat a year by dis- mver the world’s greatest sheep Fili-| Dearest Mother: ten-|" Remember you asked me to try and epee I would feel if ell, ow! coinei- an aggregate | dence! Norman and I happened upon a quaint little tea room the other day and I never gave a it _to its being in Alan’s thborhood until he came in and sat down at a table near ours. He had a girl I didn’t know with him. I can’t say she was attractive but I suppose a man would con- sider her pretty. Alan didn’t intro- duce her. He just nodded casuatly to us and didn’t come over until the: of obtain- the Hawaiian it recalls the _— en to Norman. of beets, in in the form com lot. That night I asked him who she was but he said, “What does It has made sugar production. feeder market. our en, it T can't Hawaiian, Filipino and Porto! This being the plea of the do-|tell you any more about But, Rican sugar is imported free of| mestic sugar industry, as Alan said, what does it matter? duty. Other for nations are! will have to determine whether it| She is his friend and I guess i subjected to a tariff of $2.20 a ton.! deserves to be helped. had wanted me to know her he'd have except in the case of Cuban sugar. pil ne yp ag brought her over. on which the duty is $1.76. oo ince then I've been thinking that eee ! A Thought \\he ought to come home to lunch if Lately the st industey. has PEERS Otic e | to. eat in such places. been cursed with ove! luction One thing you will have to admit, eet wiane dare thine bave Yea, he did fly upon the wings| mother: even we members of the been low in recent years as a result| of the wind—Psalm 23:10. Sencneore cult know more about and some factories have been a ee than people used to know. closed down. There are, incidental-| Though I am always in haste, I/ Alan likes those rarebits and chicken ly, now 84 such factories operating} am never in a hurry—John Wes-/a Ja king and they only take a mo- in 19 states. ley. ment to prepare. But perhaps you'd OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahern “EGAD LAD. ~T AM SORELY A VEXED! u“THE DOCTOR REMOVED THE CAST FROM MY Foot “TODAY, AND BROKE “THE CAST IN SEVERAL PIECES fw wu 1 INTENDED-To HAVE A Few BRONZES OF MY FooT STRUCK FROM “THE CAST, AS A WoRK OF ART,~~< AND “THEN AUTOGRAPH “THE CAST-To MAKE IT AN INTERESTING SOUVENIR FoR SOME PAPE HAVE-To STUMBLE ALONG AS Best’ IT CAN«-“THeRE WERE GREAT POSSIBILITIES IN HAVING A BROAZE MADE OF YOUR Foor, wtf COULD HAVE BEEN DEPICTED AS RESTING ON A BRASS RAIL, SHOWMG “THE STANCE USED INTHE. OLD HiccoucH AGE, ‘FoR {2 Future | mechanical contrivance jumps out -do| to impress the eye. No penny, nick-| 1) tation of a nearby slot machine of ¢| extent of the mechanical invasion. oH MISLEADING INFORMATION An article on “The Health Value of Physical Culture” recently ap- in The Journal of the Amer- Medical Association. er would The read- ite naturally expect the writer of this article to advise that more systematic exercises be taken. But instead, the Journal article said: “There is no evidence that physical Wie hagmaity wiper on Sa: evity. the uence of exercise on health, there is little scientific information. Except for the health value of corrective exer- cise for the feet, for posture, for musculature or for constipa- tion, there is no scientific evidence that a exercise in a well conducted gymnasium under a trained gym- eae director influences health at} “The health value in conditioning fe at springs, resorts, and ealth farms is testified to by many. It is the experience of numerous ns that exercise makes one feel ter, but this is opinion and not scientific fact, By analogy of all the detailed facts of growth and development it must be argued that exercise has hygienic possibilities; uate proof it it has, is not available at present.” An article written by a physician recently appeared in a magazine read by millions of people. In this article the writer argued against sr oad exercise, ‘ing to prove is points by the well known facts that athletes often injure themselves by over-straining in competitive athletics. Such points should not be used to try to emphasize that phys- ical culture is injurious, while the title of the doctor's article, “Why Lazy People Live the Longest,” is very misleading and can only do harm to those sick ones, weary with disease, who lope for better health through such simple hygienic means as better diet and more exercise. Are the physicians and the health culturists becoming farther apart in their viewpoints? I think not. I cannot believe that the rank and file of the. medical profession will agree to such “piffle.” i Bas Ch everywhere are advis- and eat less in spite of the fact that some of them, who write for publi- D » he deat Mey 20 Alb TER SIUSOn einen moe ote ee eir patients to exercise more |i ‘THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1928 —_—_—_—_———_OA—XX! HEALTH’DIET ADVICE r Frank Mc cation, say that exercise is harmful and that there is no scientific proof that the use of certain foods or food combinations is ‘conducive to health! We need more health writers who e Enclose envelope for reply. a stamped addressed will give the masses the sensible, understandable rules of life which the people in their own homes can use for health-building. If the physician does not learn to ‘ive health advice, he will soon only e called in for accidents and emer- gencies. UESTIONS AND ANSWERS juestion: C. W. S. writes: “Kindly tell me through your ques- tion and answer column what you think causes my right arm to shake when I am taking a drink of water or shaving. In fact, it does so in anythir do. Being a professional violin p! ver it is a great handicap in my work.” Answer: You are suffering from occupational neurosis, In case this may be from the effect of play- ing the violin. A~ general dietetic treatment should be helpful, gether with rest from your work for some time. You should also take massage treatments on the arm and upper back. Chiropractic or osteo- pathic treatment should also help in restoring better nerve tone to your arm. Question: M, A. D. writes: “My trouble is an abscess near the liver, and I wish t. take a week's fast. Will you please tell me what pro- portion of orange juice to use to two quarts af water a day? In the hos- ital they use six oranges, six lemons, and some grapejuice to two quarts of water for a 3-day fast whatever the case may T follow this regime?” Answer: The amount of orange, lemon or grape-fzuit juice required Helge entirely Pde the case, but it is usually all nig! it to use as much as two quarts a day of the juice in addition to an equal amount of water. better send-me those cook books that I left behind with some of the other wedding presents. Why do people ave such perfectly trashy things as those lamps we got, I wonder? I haven’t been feeling quite up to myself these last few days. Nor- man’s going home and I’m glad of it, After all it takes a lot of time to run around with people from home. That’s one of the disadvan- s of living in a nearby city. jut to get back to how I felt when I saw Alan with that girl. Why, I didn’t mind at all.. Why should I? Please don’t forget to send me the cook books. . Lovingly, MARYE., NEXT: When a baby comes. (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) o | IN NEW YORK | a \ New York, Feb. 16.—Wherever one turns in Manhattan, some new el or dime is safe from the temp- some sort. A leading patent at- torney told me the®other day that some 5000 ideas for trick machines go through his hands en route to m each year. Certainly, a tour of Manhattan leaves one a bit staggered, by the Beginning at the drug store with the stamp and gum machines, or in the subways with the money-chang- ing machines, the peanut machines, the sandwich machines or the old- fasioned chocalate machines, it is ible to pick up the trail on Broadway and there locate soda water machines where, for a_nick- el, one’s pet soda is dispensed; or photograp! -while-you-wait |‘ ma- chines; or machines that polish your finger nails and give you a partial manicure; or the pie and coffee machines of the Satomats; or ci- aret-vending machines, or cigar fnachines. There's a six-cent em- porium where you can tune in on your favorite radio station and, ear phones to ears, spend a pleasant af- There's a machine for checking, your hat and coat; a machine for protecting your umbrellas and canes; a machine that gives you a shoe shine; a machine that dries your hands in the washroom and u special liquid po Ng Ff ga @ mac! lor a machine for uffs. And it goes. . haircutting - machine will soon appearance in the up-town eee Lj fel [ay ey ne T’'m going to get some castor ou Much obliged, Al; come again! Speaking of hotel paper reminds me that some of the bie New York hostelries have been im on so much by persons droppi into the writing rooms that they now give Siew thst slv'e 6 registered weet, shows sle’s a . Some of them have handel ou thousands of dollars worth of very fancy stationery to peo} who never buv so much as a ci or a cup of tea, ’ GILBERT SWAN. > | BARBS The flyers Costes and LeBrix. who flew to us all the way from France, have been sadly neglected. We haven’t even seen their names in a cigaret ad. es A $1250-a-week movie star was haled into debtor’s court the other lav. One place where his pub- licitv man wasn't, needed. A yawn which dislocated Bin ems caused the death of a Kentuckian, aged 82. Probably reading about Mayor Walker of New York going on the water wagon, In accordance with our custom of Of egal news, it heceby formaaly news, rel announced that the defendant in & recent trial for automobile theft in malas, N.C, was named Will ‘ake. We've signed a treaty with France. Next thing for some far- seeing statesman to work up is a protocol with Switzerland, Lapland, other - Rumania, Lil » OF some country that has us. Al Smith says McAdoo doesn’t know the Constitution of the Uni- ted States. But maybe the tle. men who wrote it wouldn’t even recognize it now, Strange that haven’t found Sandino. You don’t“ some Marine down there has, away as 2 80) uvenir? 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