The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 1, 1928, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMAR The Bismarck Tribune Aa it Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published b; Bismarck Tribune Company, the seared N. ., and entered at the postoffice at tek as second class mail matter. George D. Mann._................... President and Publisher . Subscription Rates Payable In Advance Daily by carrier, per year .......... Daily by mail, per year, (in Bismarck) . Daily by mail, per year, (ia state ou Bismarck) ....- Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota . P henend by i Cae per “hl Ra . he state, three years for.. . 8 Weekly by mai, outside of North Dakois, ‘per of The Associated Press The Asereisted Press is Ci Bolen Bhd Nel 11 news dispatches credite: it BG st therwise cesdited in this paper, and also the 2720 6.00 * 6.00 been put to is to raise money for erecting mon- ; uments. All in all, they are more expensive than beneficial to the nation. Those who would honor great Americans and great American events should adopt the suggestion of Secretary Mellon that they cast suitable medals. Thus would the federal gov- ernment be spared unnecessary expense and from the. sale of the medals could be obtained sufficient money to erect a more lasting monu- ment to the memory of their inspiration. Lawyers, and Right and Wrong A famous New York lawyer, whose fees run around $1,000,000 a year, said recently that all prominent trial lawyers have to win their cases or drop out. “Three defeats in a row would about finish me,” he said. He ought to know. what he’s talking about; yet it hardly seems that this state of affairs is going to work out for the best interests of the public. It would be so easy for a lawyer local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All tights of republication of all other matter herein are Forel; Representetiren G. LOGAN PA NE COMPANY NEW YORK - - « Fifth Ave. Bldg. , Al DETROIT dower Bide. Kresge Bldg. aa (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Do We Still Have Votes? These are great days for those who like to bristle with indignation. The man who is not satisfied except when he is viewing with alarm is right in his element. | N ; To begin with, there is Indiana. The gov- ernor has just been tried for various unsavory acts, winning acquittal because the statute of limitations had expired. A former klan offi- cial has been telling the attorney general about assorted skullduggery at city and state elec- tions. The Hoosier state’s dirty linen still is going on the line. f At Washington there is more of the same. The odor of Teapot Dome still hovers, and the despairing fight to send somebody to jail for it continues, four years after the odor was first noticed. ; y New York City is discovering unbridled graft in a sewer job, and is struggling through festoons of legal red tape to see if something can’t be done. i Now it would be comforting to assume that the troubles of Indiana, Washington and New York are the work of unspeakable villains who, in some strange manner, had fastened them- selves on the government. But we can’t let ourselves down that easily. The responsibility is ours and we cannot escape it. Corruption in politics never is the work of a few rascals. Its roots go down to the very center of our social organization. Every na- tion, every state and every city gets exactly the kind of government that it deserves. Has someone taken away our votes? Have the newspapers stopped printing news about our councilmen, our mayors, our congressmen and our political bigwigs? Are. our legs pal- sied, so that we cannot get to political mass meetings? Is our power of speech gone, that we cannot tell our fellow citizens what we think? ; The guilty officeholder’ who uses influence to get charges against him dropped is blood’ brother to the private citizen who gets his councilman to fix a parking ticket. The man who dodges jury service has no complaint if a Remus is set free. The man who votes to put a typical “machine politician” in high of- fice, knowing the man’s record, has no kick coming if that man, after election, connives in the theft of public oil lands. Political reform must begin at the bottom. It will be a long task, but there is no other to forget all about rights and wrongs under pressure like that. It might even be possible that a lawyer in such circumstances would be induced to take a side that he knew to be against the welfare of the community—if he thought he could win with it. Every day is payday for the man who en- joys his job. Editorial Comment Lions Not Man-eating (Martin Johnson in Delineator) The lion is a sportsman and a gentleman} who attends to his own business and will leave) you alone, so long as you leave him alone, it you are a person who has never seen a live lion in his own haunts, a lion unaggravated by the ruthlessness of man, you will know him only through the catch-phrase, the twisted legend and the humiliating still-picture of him as he lies helpless in death. You will think of the lion as a cruel, treacherous, bloodthirsty beast of prey. You will imagine him slinking through the underbrush toward his victim.) You will picture him crunching flesh or roar- ing, a ruthless enemy of all other animal life. Actually the belief that a lion is a man-eater is generally incorrect. Lions enjoy zebra and giraffe meat best of all; human flesh does not appeal to them. In my six years’ residence in Africa in lion country I have never been able to trace an authentic case of a man-eating lion. Often I have heard of them; but when I run the facts to earth they always turn out to be nothing more than wild rumor. I went through with the late Carl Akeley which illustrates my contention that the lion won’t touch men first. Abruptly and without the slightest warning we came upon 11 full- grown lions. Some of the lions were squat- ting on their haunches; some were crouching; others sitting or lying. Two were taking the air from the top of a five-foot ant hill. One was lazily yawning under a big mimosa tree. All looked our way as we came up, but none showed any more concern than might a Sun- day crowd in a Central Park exhibit, if two or three more loafers drifted up to enjoy the sun- shine, Idle Prisoners and Bad Roads (Minneapolis Journal) A Wisconsin prison warden, speaking re- cently in the east, told of penitentiaries—in other states than his own—in which he had seen convicts marched around in circles for ex- ercise, because of lack of facilities for their employment at useful labor. With prison populations ever growing, this problem of penitentiary unemployment is way. a, Limit of Endurance That Kentucky mule which is reported to have demolished a small car with its bare hoofs appears, from the disclosed facts in the case, to have a fair measure of defense. The fliv- ver crowded the animal and bumped it in the rear. That in itself was an insulting injury which no self-respecting mule with a pair of heels in working order could be expected—- even by the most zealous pacifist—to ignore. As the flivver foolishly remained within range, the mule, acting within its rights and main- taining mule traditions, proceeded to loose a volley of kicks that reduced the offender to a junk pile. It is a fair supposition that into every lunge of hoofs went vengeance for innumerable and cumulative wrongs and. insults debited. on the mule ledger to the account of the flivver—for cigs epee of horns, for stifling clouds of Highways, for blinding ‘flashes of lights and 8, ig flashes o: S$ an many other injuries to mule dignity and pride peace. Truly, there are limits to endurance of ‘wrongs and insults beyond which no mule, any more man, is upon to go. And : al =. Bn Ragpotaid and men poraelimes . aggressors at their peril. . In “Gulliver's Travel ”’ there is a race of horses, the Houyhnhnm, that rules man, and him as he is -accustomed to treat his If there is ever a Houyhnhnm race of in real life, let automobile, truck and beware. Many have been the wrongs lered by the equine race at the hands of ? Lindbergh Coin Disapproved Colonel ergh would be the first to ap- the stand taken by Secretary Mellon Sfrainst minting $20,000,000 in special half pso'lars commems-ating the young flyer and nis history-mak’s; flights. The aviator and ablcadA of the Ciosartd differ ny. in Lid : for opposing the special coin. Lind- would not admit that he was deserving flyer, eg! emb: vor teyeebed an embarrass costly or become valu- they have steadily becoming more and more serious for many states. Nearly every kind of productive labor at which convicts may be employed in- side prison walls comes into competition with free labor on the outside. Vigilant unions are constantly objecting to any extension of such competitive activity. In Minnesota the situation is well above the average. The state prison industries employ the convicts both to their own and to the state’s advantage, though there is not enough for state reformatory inmates to do. But in other states scattered here and there over the country, there are some thousands of convicts who are either idle or working at fruitless tasks. These men have been sentenced to serve varying terms at hard labor. The law requires that they work. Yet they remain idle. And this, despite the fact that virtually every state in the union has on its hands a highway construction problem, growing out of a demand for good roads that exceeds the sup- ply of cash to finance good roads. Why not work the idle prisoners on the roads? Too risky? California has two thousand convicts working on roads, with some of the camps hundreds of miles away from the near- est penitentiary, and California finds the plan satisfactory. So does Colorado, which has built most of its fine roads with prison labor under Warden W. Tynan. Virginia has more that fifteen hundred convicts working in twen- ty-two camps on state road building. That would seem to dispose of the risk ob- jection. What are the others? Too humil- iating, from thé standpoint of the prisoners? )A felon owes any such humiliation to his own cussedness. The work too hard? The law prescribes “hard labor,” and is presumed to mean what it says. . In the public mind, the chief objection to working convicts on roads rises out of mental pictures of southern chain gangs ruled by “whipping bosses”; mental pictures of men beaten to death in logging swamps, overtaxed sick men felled by sunstroke at their toil. Such things doubtless have been. But they are no more necessary to the successful em- ployment of prison labor on public work, than a whip-swinging Simon Legree is needed to get the potatoes harvested on a Minnesota ‘arm. It is better, of course, to teach prisoners trades, that they may be better fitted to earn Sonest livings when their terms are ended. Bu‘ it is better to teach them that a fair day's in the is not fatal, than it is to let idly lessons in criminality in- side prison wails. There is no rational excuse for any state to have a prison unemployment problem and a highway construction problem omits hands at one and the same time. }which the machine can be speeded up oH EYES, POISE AND ACCIDENTS There is an appalling increase in the number of deaths due to auto- mobile accidents, ard the number of injuries creating temporary or per- manent disabilities is, of course, even hundreds of times larger than the actual number of deaths. A certain number of automobile accidents, must be expected, for the automobile! will doubtless always be a dangerous | instrument. Great changes could be made at once if laws were made and en- forced, to compel eye examinations of everyone driving automobiles motorcycles, or other fast moving vehicles. In some communities those applying for chauffeur’s licenses are compelled to pass eye examinations, but this law is usually not extended to include owners of automobiles, who make up the greatest number of automobile drivers. While mak- ing so much other restrictive legisla- tion, our public officials could do well to see that such eye-testingj laws were passed and enforced. Each city should employ as many optometrists as necessary to give! examinations without cost to all who; apply for automobile licenses. A little money spent in this way would save much more in the reduction of needless accidents, the results of! which cost the taxpayers of America millions of dollars each year. There will always be a certain number of accidents due to nervous- ness and carelessness on the part of the driver. It is difficult to see how any law ean be passed to con- trol this, but each individual can help a great deal by understanding the mental causes which lead to the accidents caused by nervous persons. There are few people who can have perfect poise under all kinds of try- ing conditions. The one whose nerves are jerky is one who has not retained control over the vital energies which are surging through his nervous system. The out and out neurotic is al- ways in danger of creating an ac- cident, but even those who do not consider themselves nervous are stimulated to a kind of nervous ec- stacy when riding behind the steer- ing wheel of an automobile. The hum of the motor and the ease with have undoubtedly a definite effect upon the nervous system, and a pe- culiar wild desire to “get tere first” jossesses the driver. Before he nows it he is stepping too hard on the gas, cutting in and out, as well as cutting corners, and doing other unreasonable things which he seldom feels like doing while sitting on the back seat. Standing on a corner, he curses and condemns all the “fools” who race past; but once behind the steering wheel he too often loses all of his accustomed poise and becomes as foolish as the rest. I hope not one of my readers will | think I am only referring..to the/ “other fellow”, but will take the | BY RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service Writer Washington—It may be true, as Secretary of Labor Davis believes, that current estimates of _unem- ployment are exaggerated. But his comment on estimates that 4,000,- 000 persons are out of work has emphasized the absence of any agency which kept accurate track of the facts. Such facts and fig-! ures as are availabl: furnish little; nourishment for those who agree with President Coolidge’s assertion ; in his message to Congress last De-} cember that “employment is plen- tiful.” In round numbers, the 1920 census showed 40,000,000 Americans engaged in gainful occupations. There were 10,000,000 employers! and self-employed, including 8,000,- 000 farmers; 26,000,000 wage earn- ers and 4,000,000 salaried workers. The employe class included 2,700,- 000 farm workers, 1,000,000 miners, 12,000,000 manufacturing workers, 2,500,000 building trades workers, 3,000,000 clerical workers and 3,- 000,000 transportation workers. Now to take up the available facts for these various classes. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, part of the Department of Labor, has com- piled since 1923 a monthly index showing the percentage of employ- ment which uses the average em- ployment for 1923 as 100 per cent. It is based on payroll reports from 11,000 industrial __ establishments HEA!TH“DIET ADVICE std Ihe Vast Aly to Mell. IN REGARD TO HEALTH € DIET WILL BE ANSWERED ADDRESSED IN BAPER ENCLOSE _ STAMPED AODRESSEO ENVELOPE FOR REPLY ’ WASHINGTON LETTER ‘s¢ CK TRIBUNE _ OF THIS suggestions I am giving you to heart. Learn to stay as poised while driving a machine as you are at other times. Don’t race, hurry, or try to Dr. McCoy will gladly answer | personal questions on health and diet, addressed to him. care of the Tribune. Enclose a stamped addressed envelope for reply. “make time”, and don’t let the hum of the motor make you so nervous that you drive recklessly. Don’t think of other worries when driving. You will have enough to think about to avoid injuring your- self and others, Have your eyes examined by a competent optometrist, and use your influence to get the necessary laws passed to compel everyone who ap- plies for a license to drive an auto- mobile to submit to an eye examina- tion. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Question: W. B. K. Writes: “I have been reading your articles on health with interest, and wish your advice in regard to my grandchil- dren, ages 3 1-2 and 5 years. They are very healthy looking children, but the older one quite frequently eats his breakfast and vomits it up immediately. They both grind their tecth at night till one can scarcely sleep in the same room with them. Will you kindly tell me the cause, and what should be done for them?” Ans‘ Your grandchildren are probably overeating, and using bad combinations of food. The grinding of teeth at night is usually caused by some form of indigestion. The older child who vomits his break- fast doubtless does so because his stomach is upset from the meal of the evening before. Try giving the children a lighter dinner, and sure the: Question: troubles will disappear, Thank You asks: “Will you tell me through the Question] % and Answer column what it is that|¥ makes me dizzy when I turn my head? ing around. congestion in the vertebrae or in the muscles of your neck. Consult some doctor from one of the schools of|% manipulative therapeutics. Question: fish a good food in rheumatism, when the most misery is in the swell- ing of the joints, and continuous|¥ pain?” Answer: of salt fish at any time if fresh fish is available. In a case of rheum- atism it is better to almost entirely eliminate salt, so salted fish could no tbe considered a good protein food for the rheumatic patient. Assuming that there were only 10,000,000 such workers in 1923, some 580,000 factory workers had| ¥ lost or left their jobs since Decem- ber, 1926, when the percentage was 90.9. veyed showed decreases for 1927, eee Farmers and farm laborers who! ¥ left the farms in 1927 and years ' just before can’t be accurately es: timated, but Secretary of Agricul- ture Jardine estimates that more than 3,000,000 persons have left the farms since 1920, thrown on the labor market. total of 1,749,439 persons earning livings on farms left the farms be- tween 1910 and 1920 and if the same ratio continued some 1,225,- 000 have departed in the last seven| % years, As for mining, a surplus of metal-| % mining workers was general in the west as late as January. About 160,000 bituminous coal miners are|% ° on strike and 15,000 anthracite] % A sur-|) has existed for} % Workers in this] ¥ industry have been especially hard| % hit and union officials estimated i ¥ Transportation workers: Class I| % 100,000 fewer) % employes Nov. 15, 1927, than on|¢ miners are said to be idle. plus .of miners years. Building trades: cently that 300,000 were out work, railroads reported Noy. 15, 1926, including a drop of employing some 3,000,000 workers. It has been said that this omits manv smaller factories which have been hardest hit, but let that pass and assume that the average for these holds good everywhere and— for want of actual figures—that there. were still 12,000,000 manu- facturing employes in 1923. employment in the last month of 1927, as compared with the 1923 average, was 85.1. mean, discounting the 1920-23 drop in employment, that some 1,800,000 jobs occupied by manufacturing workers in 1923 were not occupied the first of this year. — f "IN NEW YORK | ————————— ° New York, Mar. 1—New York snap-shots—Corn poppers in an un- derground shop in Pennsylvania sta- tion. . . . Which reminds me that there’s an opening in Mat.hattan for some enterprising young ..an who wants to start we paperen stand. In all the length breaith of Man- hattan Island, I have never seen one. Those green, orange and red be- r'bboned bunches of spaghetti in the cafe windows. ... who for countless years has imper-|nights.... And most of Manhattan zonated Anebriates, yet never takes a fib in its beds what with the wail- 55,000 in the preceding month. eee There are more clerks, more sales and other white collar jobs and|§ but ab-| ¥ sorbed some of the huge labor sur-|% more new occupations 0) while such opportunities plus pouring from factories, mit farms and railroads they have iene ‘he percentage of manufacturing since reached a virtual saturation point. however, is that an accurate esti- mate of it is impossible, Even in most prosperous times Labor De- partment officials say about 1,000,- ¥ 000 are jobless. drink, . . . Llewellyn. Powys, critic and novelist strollir the through his brown English shoulders. .. . The matinee-looking men in the mid-Forty tea rooms, . . And the rather tragic youthfulness of the girls you see these nights in the speakeasies. ... And those be- | ginned college -students tryin; | sober up over oyster stews in Grand Conheel station. ... It’s all a-bit'sad. mn young grass sprouting in Central Park. . .. And another ‘Lefcourt. . . . They call him “man who owns a skyline.” the h| more than 100,000 persons occupy is un-, his pangs, during able to tell anyone anything. , . .|hours. And he started out as an aioe’ ? a dre wearing atthe te Tete taast their tire-| sweaters id on ing ‘, the Avenue. . Bill Van, the comic, | less ddiscords through the “murky of one and the groaning of an- other. eo.r.e They’re passing around that com- muter story about the young mar- ried couple from Connecticut wh come to New York to attend the theater. “Darling,” suddenly burst out the husband, fumbling in his pockets. | “We should have brought the piano.” “Why?” asked the puzzled wife. “Because the theater tickets are on it.” eee And they’re also passing around that one about the vaudeville actor who trained doves and rabbits and pigs. Then he went about the ‘ies trying to get bookin, for his act. But everywhere he met with discouragement. Of course, he went through the routine f leaving his name and address “in case any- thing comes up.” A iew months later he received notice from an agent: “Come right over. Have arranged 20 weeks Ket ils To which he replied: “It’s too late. T ate the last of my et yesterday.” A notice from the annual Man- hattan dog show informs me that the highest price to date was paid for a Chow. It amounted to $9,500. Which am} When I lie down or turn over in bed everything seems whirl- | ¥ There are many causes of | ¢ but from your short de-| % scription it would appear that your] % trouble is caused by some lesion or|% Reader asks: “Is salt} % I do not advise the use| Eleven of twelve groups sur-| ¥ many to be! % Alg tl One of the most important things| ® This would! to remember about unemployment, the twilight like a broodirx Hamlet, | % cape over his|% to skyscraper rising under the name of It's ceased to be a skyline and is almost a city by. itself,... For a city of some Reople T used to know in the small Michigan towns considered a sufficient sum to retire on—that is, when I was a boy. A prize Boston terrier brings $2,000. One wealthy dog fancier in the upper Seventies has a kennel valued at $20,000. The dogs, I am told, occupy three rooms of this woman’s apartr ents. GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) BY RUTH DEWEY GROVES Dearest Marye: rf Betty called me up this morning and asked me to come over and sce the layette you sent her. Dear, it’s just too sweet! Betty says she doesn’t know how she’s go- ing to thank you and if she has a girl she’s going to name her after you. I stayed to lunch and helped Betty fix a peach cobbler. It would have been a lovely time but Florence came in all upset about some trouble at the store. She wouldn’t go back to work and pretty soon she had poor Betty so nervous she didn’t know what to do. I asked Florence if she would not come home with me and stay to supper with us and she said she’d like to. As soon as we were out of Betty’s house she burst out with the whole trouble. It seems that Mr. Martin got fresh with her, as Florence ex- pressed it. She told him what she thought of him and walked out! I was dumbfounded to think of Mr. Martin doing a thing like that so I asked Florence how it happened, thin! stood him, “paw” her. | I guess she deedn’t have ne all the | blame on Mr. She had | a blue chiffon dress and from all | outward appearances nothi: maybe she had misunder- jhe said he had tried to Well, Marye, I looked at her and in. ou under- neath but those next-to- af- fairs you girls call scanties. It was way up al her knees and she'd gone to work without any stock: on because word got around here that that’s the way they went in Hollywood. So some of our girls had to be like movie stars. Z I told Florence if she would dress like a chorus girl on the stage she couldn’t blame a man for taking lib- erties with her. She said any decent man was too used to seeing girls’ legs to get excited about them. That’s another idea you young people have that amazes me. You think that the biggest part of the world is moving as fast as you are, and when you find someone who doesn’t act like you expect him to, you're surprised. Don’t you believe you will get the same treatment from all men just because they all live in the same world and maybe ought to feel the same about some certain things! I hope you have too much respect for Alan, if not for yourself, Marye, to dress as some girls do. arest bees (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service Inc.) The founder of the linen thread industry was a woman, Christian Shaw, who first made thre-? near ; Paisley about 1700. A. W. Lucas Co. 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