The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 5, 1928, Page 4

‘AGE FOUR __ The Bismarck Tribune jewspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) : by the Bismarck Tribune Company, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at as second class mail matter. George D. Mann...................-President and Publisher aa Babscription Rates Payable In Advance Dally 2 carrier, per year «. mail, per year, (in Bismarck) by mail, pec » (ia state outside Bismarck) \Weekly by mail, in state, per year ‘Weekly i mail, in state, ee reaia for. c) [01 Member Audit Bureau of ber of The Associated Press The Auscelnted Press {s exclusively entitled to the se for republication of all news dispatches credited to it oF not credit also in this paper, and Iecal news of spontaneous origin published herein. a ee ——$—$—$—$——————————— Forel; tives G. LOGAN PA ‘NE COMPANY NEW YORK - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. : DETROIT omnes, xeenole —————_—_ (Official City, State and County Newspaper) The Highway Conference Success marked the first highway conference fn Bismarck last week. Much good should come of the exchange of ideas between Canada ‘and our neighboring states. There are many problems which these sections have in common and if greater cooperation results in standard- $zation of specifications, contracts, bonds, tying up of trunk highways and many other matters, this conference has really started some very THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Editorial Comment How an I.V.A. Paper Views the Situation (Editor’s Note—The following editorial, published under the heading “Who Rules North Dakota?” appears in last week’s is- sue of the Stutsman County Record, pub- lished at Jamestown, the home of John Ww. Carr, a candidate for the gubernatorial nomination at the Independent Voters’ as- sociation convention to be held at James- town March 7 and 8.) : The question has been raised in many parts of the state during the past few days as to whether the Independent Voters’ Association of the State of North Dakota is to determine the policies of that organization, or whether it is going to be determined by L. L. Twichell of Fargo and a few of his associates. It is a the | Well known fact that Attorney General George Shafer has aspirations for the United States senate. It is also a well known fact that he is not now, never has been, and does not in- tend to be, a candidate for governor of the state of North Dakota. A short time ago Mr. Shafer announced his candidacy for the United States senate. A few days later John W. Carr of Jamestown announced his candidacy for the governorship® of the state of North Dakota. Mr. Carr had been mentioned favorably for this position over the state of North Dakota for many months, but declined to enter as a candidate until Mr. Shafer had definitely de- cided he would not be a candidate for governor. It now appears that neither the candidacy of Mr. Shafer nor the candidacy of Mr. Carr appeals to L. L. Twichell and some of his asso- ciates in Fargo. As a result of this at a meet- ing called at Bismarck last Saturday attended by L. L. Twichell of Fargo and W. H. Stuts- constructive work and should make a contribu- tion to the cause of good roads. z The educational period of the good roads idea thas passed. People generally are sold on the idea of scientific highways. Matters of financ- Ing the improvement and the manner of con- struction, maintaining and other administrative policies are still matters of controversy. Each state and the provinces of Canada have done constructive work in the field of road building and some clearing house for ideas such as was afforded last week in Bismarck should be a vital force in solving the many problems that beset road builders of the nation. Permanent organization is not necessary with its resultant overhead. Calling the conferences informally in this state and now that state with ‘a trip across the border of a most informal na- ‘ture is where the real strength of the movement lies. So often the formality of organization places a deadening hand upon such affairs and often places the whole affair in the same rut in which so many organizations find them- selves when once they are reduced to by-laws, rules and points of order. There is too much mania for organization these days. When a few gather together in the most informal way, some “genius” rises to make the parley permanent, and right there often the seeds of dissolution are sown, it be- comes as many other organizations, staid, for- mal and lifeless. The strength of this mid-west international highway conference was in its very informality. The engineers and executives rubbed shoulders, “chewed the fat” as it were and went away ben- fited by such a swappine of ideas. Let the good work continue along such informal lines, for in the lack of any set plan is the real strength of ‘such a conference, paradoxical as that sugges- tion may seem in this age of super-organization. i Pleasures of Motoring | In a multitude of ways man has found the automobile to be a good Samaritan. In fact, is generally conceded now that the automo- bile is indispensable to civilized man. <Among the good things the automobile is dited with doing for humanity are: It pro- him with a valuable transportation ux 3 it places within his reach a constant source of much pleasure and recreation; it en- ables him to see more of the country and peo- beyond the horizon of the community in he lives; it takes the city man to the and the rural resident to the city. m there are the economic benefits of the obile, such as the giving of employment ‘millions of ree . . Reversing an ancient adage, it is a good win at blows no ill. The good that the automo- does is sreat but, like all things, it has its . ag bil save their dollars for a year and n to buy an automobile find after car is bought and paid for that they have r the time nor the money to motor to place their motor maps and imagina- . It is an obvious truth iat if every automobile owner responded to call of the open road as often as he hears At him the nation’s business and produc- ition would suffer a serious slump. ; The Immortal Mule At is encouraging to read that the United f army, despite a vast increase in the use -motor-propelled vehicles, today has as many 3 mule is a hard individual to oust. In- out ubborn and at times venge- combined efforts of Henry is to kick him out of man of Mandan and six or seven others, a political slate was attempted to be made for the voters of North Dakota. This small group of politicians meeting at Bismarck tried to in- duce Mr. Shafer to forsake his senatorial am- bitions, and to become a candidate for gov- ernor. Mr. Shafer refused to become a can- didate for governor, and told this gathering that he would not be such candidate. Not- withstanding that fact some of the persons who participated in that gathering at Bis- marck, as early as midnight last Saturday nisht called up various influential persons over the state of North Dakota, and informed them that Mr. Shafer had consented to become a candidate for governor, and he had agreed to support Mr. Nestos for the United States sen- ate. Telegrams to this effect were also sent to a large number of other persons. Sunday afternoon, Mr. Twichel] and Mr. Stutsman and a gentleman from Bismarck, who did-not appear to be much interested, came to Jamestown and asked Mr. Carr to call a few of his friends to meet with them in a conference. This conference was held and Mr. Twichell and Mr. Stutsman informed the Jamestown members of the conference that Mr. Shafer was going to be a candidate for governor. Upon further questioning it was disclosed that Mr. Shafer did not desire to be| id a candidate, and that he would not be a can- diate except upon certain conditions that could not be complied with. The Jamestown men were informed by both Mr. Twichell and Mr. Stutsman that it made no difference to them whether Mr. Shafer consented to become a candidate or not, that they were determined to place his name before the Jamestown con- vention, and that they were going to endeavor to create enough sentiment to draft Mr. Shafer for the place. Mr. Carr was bluntly told that he might be a candidate for lieutenant gover- nor, if he so desired. It appears therefore that Mr. Twichell and some of his associates and Mr. Stutsman of Mandan are assuming the authority to tell the people of the state of North Dakota who can and who cannot be a candidate for a state office in this state. Neither Mr. Carr nor the people of Stutsman county were in any manner consulted with rei- erence to the arrangements which were at- tempted to be made at Bismarck by Mr. Twichell and Mr. Stutsman, but were on last Sunday siven an ultimatum as to what place the Stutsman county people might receive up- on the state ticket. The question therefore arises as to whether the Independent state convention at Jamestown, North Dakota, is to decide and determine the personnel of the state ticket, or whether that is going to be deter- mined by Mr. Twichell and a few of: his asso- ciates at Fargo. Stutsman county has been one of the fore- most counties in the political fight for the last ten years, and has done an enormous amount of work throughout the entire second congres- sional district. It has never asked for a place upon the state ticket. It has permitted other counties in the state to select the candidates for thé state ticket. If the people of Stuts- man county had been approached in the same manner in this campaign they would in all probability have again stepped aside in the in- terest of harmony and good government. But they do not take kindly to the proposition of having a state ticket framed up by six or seven people gathering at Bismarck, and then told what they can or cannot do. These two gentlemen who are now attempting to deter- mine who shall be upon the state ticket come from the two counties whose candidates headed the ticket at Devils Lake two years ago. Many of the delegates at Devils Lake felt that a mistake was made at that convention. Subsequent events disclosed that they were right. Is the dominating spirit of Mr. Twichell of Fargo and of Mr. Stutsman of Mandan going to again wreck the chances of Independent suc- cess in the coming election? From what has transpired during the past three or four days it would appear that if these gentlemen had deliberately set out to create a condition which might wreck the chances of Independent suc- cess, they could not have adopted a plan that would work any better. Mr. Twichell is chair-| . man of the Independent Voters’ Association of the State of North Dakota, and as such it is his duty to try to elect the ticket which may be e . | selected, but it is not his duty to select the =| the can ticket. Again we ask, is the Independent Voters’ Association of North Dakota going to determine the policies of that association ani ape payed Pn ney dig ah mr bal- to ot ud to be determined by Mr. Twiche!l of Farso The mcdern three Look | . Gracious! What’s Come Over Father Lately? ZY We often hear of forty being a “dangerous age,” yet the most dangerous ages are those under four years of age. The reason that hu- man life has been lengthened within the past few years is use babies have been given better care and more have lived through the first four year period. Various attempts have been made to check the ravages of declining age which come after forty. The fault is that most physicians have been looking for some specific treatment such as gland transplant- ation from which they hope to create in the man of forty a kind of state of perpetual youth. There is no question but what the gradual decline in physical strength after forty is due to a large extent to a change in the ductless glands. The man or woman who becomes fat after forty often does so be- cause of a sluggishness of function of the thyroid gland or one or more of the other ductless glands. In the case of the thyroid, this gland no longer secretes its normal amount of thyroxin which has an influence upon maintaining normal budily weight. These glands of in- ternal secretion either become filled with toxic wastes or become hare- ened and fibrous, losing their power to secret the necessary fluids which the normal metabolistic functions der-and for their proper perform- ance, The one who either becomes fat, or thin and wrinkled after forty is one who is having harmful changes taking place in the duct- less glands. | Old age can be prevented at least for a much longer time if the per-' son after forty adopts some simple rules to keep these glands healthy. No matter how well one has been} up to forty, or how healthy look-| ing in spite of careless habits of | living, it is a wise plan to adopt good habits at this age which will} insure youthful activity of the glands and all of the functions of he body. : After forty it is imperative to cut down on the amount of heavy foods such as_ the proteins and starches. The body cannot be ex- pected to grow a great deal after this age, and consequently much less food is needed. It is some- thing like an engine that has reached its proper speed. After the hu- man engine has been speeded up till forty, it takes less fuel to keep it going, and any excess food material only interferes with the delicate functioning of the glands as well as all other parts of the body. _ More systematic exercise is need- ed after forty. Calisthenics should be taken each day, or an hour a day spent at least three times a week in a gymnasium. Golf is an excellent game to take up at this time if one has succeeded in mak- LETTER BY RODNEY DUTCHER political domination of the Carib- Washington, March 6.—Now that} bean. the Pan-American conference at Havana is over, it is permissible to wonder how the Latin-American delegates are making out following their return home. The question gained added per- tinency with the anti-American dis- turbance in Mexico City immedia- tely after the conference adjourned, but the answer probably is that al- though some of the delegates will feel forced to magnify for home consumption the extent of their defiance of the Colossus of the North, few of them will be lynched. There was and is sentiment in the One naturally asks, in view of previous predi-tions ¢hat we were inforafallat Havana, “How come?” Well, despite numerous criticisms of our State Department's policies. our government should get credit, ; even leaving out the masterly work of Charles Evans Hughes on the| Mom dear: scene. For we had been working} So you think we've given ro- on that conference for a year or mance the te with our peppy more with the one idea of seeing} ways? You're all wrong, darling. that it ran smoothly and without) What we've done is just to hang embarrassment to us. Our diplomats} more thrills on it. throughout Latin-America schemed} I know you wouldn’t have called to head off trouble, the jam r found myself in the We patched up the Nicaraguan] other day romantic but to me it e mess to the satisfaction of as many, was just one of those moments republics to the south which would ple as possible. We took Am- without which life would be as have delighted to rebuke the Cool-| bassader Sheffield out of Mexico du’i as the North Pole without a ige-Kellogg policies at Havana.| and substituted the genial Morrow. | radio. Some delegates did make isolated| We postponed consideration of the} Of course, it couldn’t have hap- attempts to hog-tie our State De-| Panama treaty row as we had put| pened in your day. Your buggies partment and Marines, but no con- off action on the Tacna-Arica dis-| didn’t run with gas, but even if certed action against us had beenj pute for the same reason. We made|you'd had motor cars a married lanned and none was carried out.| concessions to the Argentine on the| woman would have been gossiped tin-American nations may be so-called sanitary embargoes, and! out of town if she’d gone out in one bound together by a bond of senti-|so on. ele we sent Lindbergh.| alone with a man ote ment, but the ties of individual na-} Mexico, unable to pay her debt as] husband. Thank tionalistic interests proved stronger.| agreed, needs a loan from our|have changed! ae : ; bankers. The Nicaraguan govern-| Alan is steamed up about buy- For which we of this fair land| ment owes its existence to us. Most] ing a car and we can’t decide on have every reason to congratulate| other Central American countries’ the kind we want. I'm having sev- ourselves. If the boys of Mexico,! are in virtually the same boat and| eral demonstrated, which is some- Central and South America had) take orders from the American| thing you missed in your day, Mom. banded together to forbid us ever| minister. Our Marines control and} I’ve about made up my mind on to intervene again in a weak na-| uphold the government of Haiti. ‘one ducky roadster with gre-- tion like Nica or Haiti, we| President Machado, dictator of: leather seats. The salesman looks Cuba—which wants lower sugar| like Lindy. We were having a tariff—is our man, who jailed, de-| speed test day before ported and threatened those other ing over eighty. H: CTheir Letters BY RUTH DEWEY GROVES ing sufficient money to be able to lay off work three-half-days in the week. Mental exercise is just as though. We were going to be mar- ried next week, but when dad hears of this he'll give me a jail sentence instead. He's Judge Wendley, you know.” Well, mom, ’sfunny but cops are human and I really was about to ery thinking of what Alan would do. I don’t know if he fell for the story but he let us go. Maybe he did, because people say 'm a ringer for Beatrice Wendley. And just to make it more con- vincing Mr. Bartlett put his arm would have been in the position of the town bully suddenly unced upon all the smaller kids and than delegates, who might haveldown for a turn and I thought I around my neck to comfort me. Now acted _unpleasantly in Havana.|heard a motorcycle and sure that’s what I call sigeeced 5 ovingly, MARYE. “Mom” would spank tneoa ly trounced. The world would have laughed at us and we would have had to decide whether to play an open and urpopular game of imperialism or take our licking and do what we were told. It was not, obviously, for nothing that President Coolidge sent down the most brilliant brigade of juridical and diplomatic talent he could find. The Latin-American delegates are home, with no accomplishments to brag about, but obviously with the endorsements of their home governments except for Puerrydon of Argentina, who balked. But our delegation, although it apparently returned with naught but the satisfaction of preventing any succesful offensive against us, really obtained a ratification of our naval and economic if not New York, March 5.— Of all the Chile, Peru and Bolivia ail have] enough there was pean muzzler large stakes in our attitude to- afer us. I poked “Lindy”—Billy ward them in the Tacna-Arica dis-| Bartlett—in the floating rib and he pute. The Brazilian government is} looked around. he yelled} NEXT: constantly worrying about mnfore| something about having the cops| Marye. Posse Pie ened y : fie me ° Mases Aces, GS lost. of ese nations have an jut this was one cop he had over- | @ ———————-———-——-—_—--® eye to the jenefits of American} look-4 in his “get acquainted” week. IN capital and so many of them are | There we were, about te get a tick-|, . NEW YORK _ | so largely dependent on customs for ct, and I wes scared stiff. I could|” revenues that Puerrydon’s declara-' see my roadster going back to the tion Seainst tariff barriers had display room, for iq knew Alan] varied adventures offe: little cl of success. And of; would drop the deal if he hattan, that of roaming through the course the several dictators of the:I’d been burning up the road speakeasies offer the greatest Americas are friendly toward us for| I'd ised not to number of surprises and colorful experiences. Starting out on such a tour, one encounters everything from an old-fashioned home to the tricks of melodrama thrillers. sane a critic and reporter as Stephen Graham, the celebrated English wri- ter, after a visit to New York spert a large fraction of his “New York Nights” to records of experiences met while investigating the speak- easy situation. He declared it to be one of the few thrilling exploi eee safety’s sak to semething. drast _——_—__ “All right,” I said. sadly: “but The use of anesthetics was taught| give the ticket to me, Big Boy. It’s to other medical professions by den-| my fault. I insisted on a speed tistry. test. It will spoil our wedding day, OUR BOARDING HOUSE ; By Ahern YI DONT Kou wat WY’ pou'’ Worry ABOUT KIND OF A JOB You ME MARTHA Live NS Ny HAVE IM CHICAGO SAKE, GoT A PECULIAR — BUT YOUVE BEEN POLITICAL Sos, ity of liquor thus encountered be questioned, the studies in life more than compensate for the minor after effects, if any. a at api 1S 0. Foe, WHERE “TH'TAX- PAVERS Sort OF ATTeAsTion BY ) } Soe sose-AN AAT Tis TIME! ae I'm ee aa NoT HURRVING You ee Me oe AWAY, «YoU UNDERSTAND, ]| WE _CTMER HAND, fe BUT “THE NOVELTY oF He BF A HOOPLE vitTd A aa Mola JOB,“ AND KEEPING WHEN I AIT tf,~ CAUSES ME MORIN! “To ee FIGURE UP mucH Y (taxes ‘For IMPROVEMENTS! oA COMING, MORE MEALS| ~ AA” Stow Starting on a little exploration: of a taste- ppointed home. Two charming and unusually intelligent women of middle i in evening clothes, welcomed me at the door and led me to a roaring fire- place. All about on divans and sofas, under soft lights, sat a quiet, the hostess for a time and talked and and life and finally - in heaven's name She laughed trily: “ . | T'm_a widow with two children and pi gel ce to do? I tried to telligence to’ ordinary prof couldn’t bring up on the Ger out Heme TABLE, SAKE Is ©1000, oF aA OPES SeenON. -3-5 well-behaved company, I sat with| the important after forty as physical culture, and any man makes a be mistake who tries to retire from active mental work. My condensed formula for health ful living after forty would be this: Dr. McCoy will gladl; diet, addressed to him. care of the Tribune. Enclose a stamped addressed envelope for reply. Eat less, especially of the heavy foods, exercise more, and keep the mind active in some kind con- structive work which requires men- al Soy arti forty” , am givi you “over = ple the plan I am going to ses for yesterday was my fortieth birthday and I am just starting the second forty years ings are supposed to lest, Let’s stay young together! I will try to be here forty years from to- day to tell you how well these rules have worked. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Question: A. H. C. writes: “Fre- quently in walking some distance I experience a sensation of fullness in the chest—I assume of the heart. I am over sixty. There is no pain, but just the sensation of fullness. what is likely to be the cause? Have you any suggestion that might obviate it?” Answer: If the symptom you complain of is caused from some heart derangement you may be able to overcome this by regulating the distances you walk each day so that you start at first with a short dis- Lie and ney ue hg the istance each day, ling only a few steps daily to your walk. No matter how good you feel, this slow increase is always advisable for anyone, but especially necessary for those who have any kind of heart trouble. Always walk when the aoe is empty and not just after meals, Question: P. J. W. writes: “I have read examples of your health menus but have found none for elderly people. Will you kindly give a menu for one week appli- cable to elderly people (around 60’s and 70's) of sedentary habits? Would you recommend exercise? If so, of what nature? The writer has heard physicians say elderly people should not exercise.” Answer: The menus published each eras im sre sea are ones for elderly people to follow unless suffering from some definite disorder. If the meals suggested seem too large, a good plan would be to cut down on the amount of starch used, perhaps eliminating this class of food altogether. The best exercise for those of advanced age is to take long walks each day. Some additional exercise through light calisthenics is also helpful in keeping up the circulation, wall closed in after us. Thus I found, from late night until early morn, the wall kept opening and ced as the customers entered or ert, And there are speakeasies dis- guised as bootblack parlors and as brownstone mansions, as lunch counters and as hardware stores, and thousands that are not dis- guised at all. As Harry Hersch- field once said: “There are 9,100 filling stations in New York—not counting those that sell gasoline.” Incidentially, one of the most flourishing manufacturing plants in lower New York is a bar-making concern. The proprietor tells me that orders are heavier now than at any time in its history. Scores of the orders come from private homes who want “nice cute little bars” that can be put in the base- ment, or hidden away in a di room, it a fraction of the orders are for “old-fashioned” bars red by Man-| of healt ealthy dimensions. He was general’ furnigure-mabing ‘ouxtit : outfit when the orders started piling up Tes been and the general increase the pay few weeks. GI RT SWAN, noticed during > | BARBS | SEED EREEEEenEEeEee een doesn’ left in the world, While the qual-) We }' often soprano who has and won't be able to sing for a couple of . sees A tooth, millions of found in No has BGed Pas pig's. eos We refuse to believe that s toad laced in a corner stone in Texas, ived there 31 years, until we hear re were some tourist's initials on it. eee Herbert Hoover says be allowed to old, iden- hunt for oil a