The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 9, 1928, Page 4

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All rights of republication of all otber mat- per hercin are also reserved. vi Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY in NEW YORK - -- Fitth Ave. Bidg. ficuicaco DETPOIT Cyifower Bldg. Kresge Bldg. tk (Official City, State and County Newspaper) rane a A tk “Keynoting” With Nestos z At Carrington the oher day Former Gov- pernor Nestos pitched his voice in sonorous key Yqnd noted a few things that agitate the body politic in North Dakota. He merely tossed the/ wame old grist into the hopper—there was | naothing new or constructive in his address. | ‘y It is just as well to keep the record straight “en this campaign, as voters soon forget. Hones- oy of purpose should govern even a “keynote” Stpeech ; honesty of statement also. a; The voters will remember that R. A. Nestos| YNerved a portion of Frazier’s “unfinished” term | ind two years on “his own” as it were. | ™ Mr. Nestos and his board of managers ran he mill. He sold flour at a loss as others have. We purchased grain from commission houses yer farmers’ elevators, even from Canada—just ; gvhere he could get the quality, the price and/| whe service. ? Now there is no criticism because Mr. Nes- Sos? managers of the mill did this. They had| »0 do so just as the managers and wheat buyers dinder Governor Sorlie have to. It was hardly| air for Nestos to condemn the Sorlie regime} tor doing just what he did when he was respon- e:ible for the business and policies of the Grand| v'orks mill. ™ It was admitted at the special session that gvheat cannot always be purchased from farm-! nrs’ elevators. It was shown by competent vay and grain men that practically all farm- srs’ elevators are financed by the commission tgouses of Minneapolis or Duluth. In many in- tances farmers’ elevators are contracted to de- iver grain to certain commission houses. At cimes, ‘it is impossible for mills to purchase Pvheat anywhere but through commission or ld line houses. Now Mr. Nestos, if he knows gnything about the wheat or milling business, -hould know this. 2 The matter simmers down to this: As long 8 the state stays in business for profit, mis- Sakes of management will be made regardless. a@he farmers believe and honestly so that the ‘industrial program is a valuable club. Wheth- it is or not remains to be proved, but eighty- Fire per cent of the population in North Dakota ive on farms and they pay a majority of the ‘axes directly or indirectly. If they want to yamble a few dollars a year on an industrial _ 4rogram, the other 15 per cent of the popula- 4 will have to grin and bear it or move to nother state which is not so “bolshevistic” as e Independents are branding North Dakota. However, the Sorlie administration of every ment of state government so far sur- what obtained under Nestos as to make parisons “odious.” Revision of the so-called industrial program ist be made in the legislative halls. At sev- sessions the I. V. A. has had control. Their lers never made one step to cut off what ey refer to as the “socialistic” program or “ruinous” taxes. When in power they on the band wagon and passed out the po- provender in great glee anl elation. Their assault now on the records of a few te executives comes with very poor grace. en Nestos and his henchmen could have; leaned house why did they not do so? That might interest the voters of the state up on political buncombe. Let the voters get down to cases and elect tors who will tighten up on the purse The I. V. A. had the chance and fell . The Sorlie administration has actually the government more efficiently and more 5 lly than the Nestos regime. Cost Growth Index 4 The growth in general cost of government obably is fairly accurately indicated by com- on of the pay of senators and representa- es when the government was formed with hat of today. In 1789 the pay of members was fixed at $6 he Bismarck Tribune lislator has been increased nearly seven times. travel to the capital. In 1818 the per diem was increased to $8 and this scale prevailed until 1856 when a salary of $3,000 for the term was fixed, or $1,500 a year. After the Civil war closed, in 1866 the salary was increased to | $5,000 and this stood until 1907, except for the jnotorious “salary grab” of 1873 which fixed salaries a $7,500, but this was speedily ap- pealed. In 1907 the pay was increased to $7,500. There is no ready means of determining what member's drew under the per diem allow- ance, but in 70 years the pay of a national leg- It will be admitted of course that we live on & more expensive plane than in the days before the Civil war but it is hardly probable that the average income now is seven times what it was then. Figures accepted as commonplace wou!d have appalled in the simple plain days of the fifties of the last century, Every increase in expense of government en- courages other increases in order thet pace may be kept. One makes an excuse for an- other and thus the process becomes a “vicious circle” almost impossible to break. | Editorial Comment | Life and a Pint of Gin (The Milwaukee (Wis.) Journal) Justice Walter H. North of the Michigan Su- preme court reveals the real difficulty with the “fourth offender” laws of Michigan and New York when he says that, “There are scores and scores of statutory offenses classed as felonies which involve no moral turpitude whatever.” He is doubtless thinking of the case of Fred Palm, Lansing, who has appealed a life sentence under the “fourth offender” act. Palm's fourth conviction was for the possession of a pint of gin. His first conviction was for rais- ing Uncle Sam's currency. For this, he served five years at I enworth. The other two were also prohibition violations. Justice North apparently feels with most of us that simple prohibition violations are not as serious as murder. He feels that they belong to a small class of felonies which are really of misdemeancr grade, Feeling this way, he con- dems as an “outrage” the Michigan law which makes it mandatory on a judge to sentence a person convicted of this type of felony for the fourth time to life imprisonment. He de- nounces “any law which prevents a circuit judge from using his common sense and judg- ment.” Either our conception of what constitutes a felony should be changed or the law for fourth convictions should be revised. Mr. Palm has already fully paid the penalty for his first three crimes in accordance with law. His fourth crime is trival. Yet he is sent to state prison for life, on the assumption that this fourth crime has now definitely established that he is an incorrigible whom it is unsafe to leave at large. If possession of a bottle of gin is a felony, Milwaukee is full of felons. But under Michigan’s law, the judge has no voice in the matter. He must imprison for life a man who is in no way a serious danger to the community. A Thankless Senator (New York Times) When Seantor Shipstead of Minnesota, Farmer-Labor insurrecto, was taken: into the Republican fold and given a Senate chairman- ship, it was predicted that he would file for re- election under the old party banner. But the winds from the prairies bring the blighting news that he will run as a Farmer-Laborite again. _ As the radical spirits in Minnesota se, and such objurgations as “turn-coat” are joyfully withdrawn, so do conservative spirits in Washington sink. The Democratic shadow falls again across Minnesta. Woodrow Wilson came within less than 400 votes of carrying the state in 1916; Governor Smith has power- ful bipartisan support there; and the failure of the Minnesota Republicans to lure back Ship- stead will mark Minnesota in red on the cam- paign maps this fall. Locally, Mr. Shipstead’s decision saves the Farmer-Labor party as a state entity. While the required affidavit for filing in the Repub- lican primaries would apparently have prevent- ed the senator from entering them under any circumstances, he had the choice of standing as an independent after the primary and letting the Farmer-Laborites sink like a plummet in the blue waters of Lake Superior. ‘That he did not do this keeps alive the only definite symbol of radicalism in the Northwest, for it is with- in the Republican ranks that the Wisconsin factions are fighting. From the Times Watch- By RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service Writer Washington, May 9.—Sporadic attempts have been made to recover vast acreages of public lands ob-/ tained by crooked methods and to; prevent further looting of-the pub- lic domain, Presidents Cleveland and Roose- velt did most effective work, and since the Taft administration thete have been no major land scandals except the Secretary Fall cases andj the events of 1920 now leading to an investigation of the Salt Creek ofl leases in Wyoming. As a conservation measure, Cleve- land withdrew from entry _ lar timber tracts in the northwest. He recovered millions of acres from the looters and the Democratic platform of 1888 bragged, aggeration, that he had “reclaimed from corporations and syndicates, alien and domestic, and restored to the people nearly 100,000,000 acres of valuable lands, to be sacredly built as homesteads for our citize eee Meanwhile, the conservationist cause was growing stronger and in 1887 the first real conservation measure was achieved with the e: tablishment of a division of for estry in the Department of Agri- culture. In 1888 an_ irrigation division was set up under the secre- tary of the interior, who was given power to withdraw reservoir and irrigation sites from private entry. Congress also granted funds for surveys of arid western lands which since have revealed that most of the plowlands on the great plains had passed into “private owner- ship. largely speculative.” ubsequent congresses often ham- pered these ventures, but they con- tinued to wax in importance. Then in 1897, Gifford Pinchot was made chief forester and for 13 years led the National Conservation fight which gave him fame. In 1 Senator Francis G. Newlands of Nevada at last put through his! famous Reclamation Act, by which money derived from public lands was to be used for recovery of arid 1 i tower at St. Paul the statement comes that Mr. Shipstead would have preferred to run as a Republican because of its effect upon his status in Washington. But the Gordian knot lay before him, and he had—however reluct- antly—to use a sword. Not since the 1916 campaign will the upper Mississippi Valley be so hard fought as this year, if the advance of Hoover continues and’ he is nominated at Kansas City. Observers agree, with more to support their view than is usual in long-distance guessing, that Lowden would have a preponderant chance to carry Minnesota and Iowa against any Democrat. But a Smith-Hoover contest would make a bat- tlefield of these states, and also of Wisconsin. The corn and wheat would bend before the breaths of the orators, and the prairie tremble with the tread of their feet before the snows : day for every day the member was in attend- ‘ymee. Mileage was allowed in addition for —————————$_$___—___—_9 celebrated Shakespeare’s at Stratford-on-Avon the Odd, but there were no by prizefighters. lling-bee season must be - Wa haven't heard of any , eee never see: EGYPT FOR HERSELF, BRITAIN. eee cow in Illinois fought a train Maybe it was an argument ; Frank O. Lowden. Ki all their lights. Democrats. slightly different ELTINGE 7 é drama, “One the Eltinge today on the mi in| Through strategy. nsas City. The speakers were right, of course, Senator Fess is keynoter for the Republicans, Mr. Bowers for the Their jobs will senator saying nothing while Mr. Bowers must say everything. A [ At the Movies | Florence Vidor has deserted the dramatic role for that of comedienne and will be seen in her first comedy Woman to Another” at It is a love story and the has to do with a romance that goes shoals for a time when a leaves two unruly children pearance of these charges and &@ quarantine on the girl’s home, the an takes an interest in a of November fall. love by placing him in an ing situation. But com- plications arise, and her scheme is almost wrecked. Chief in the support of Miss Vi- dor in “One Woman to Another” are Theodor von Eltz, the leading man; Hedda Hopper, as a_ breezy society matron; little Joyce Marie Coad and Jimsy Boudwin, the mi chieveous children, and others of equal importance to film fans. UNIONS WIN FAVOR Moscow.—A worker who does not belong to one of the trade unions in Russia is very much out of work. A recent order providing for the ra- Honing of dunes, soaps and eggs, gives double portions all members of unions. addition clothing, rice and potato flour may be sold to union mem- bers only. FOR SALE Fertilizer, Black Dirt, Sand and Gravel, phone 62. Wach- ter Transfer. according to be this year, the THEATRE and Thursday. in a girl's custody. As a resul the apy It of rr. she vlots to re- probably with ex- ae WASLINGTON LETTER benefit of home tracts for the seekers. . . In 1907 Roosevelt called a confer- ence of governors to consider the best means of guarding and pre- serving the natural resources. All the important officials in Washing- ton were summoned to it—and as many scientists as were within call. The result was the National Con- servation Commission, composed of (eit scientists and industrial leaders, which later recommended that remaining public lands be classified by mineral content and disposed of more intelligently. Con- gress provided opposition to the commission, even refusing Roose- velt’s request for $25,000 for its ex- nses. Theft of the public lands contin- ued, but not so openly—and strong means were being taken to cheek it. In Roosevelt’s administration, 234,000,000 acres of forest land, coal lands, phosphate lands and water power sites were withdrawn, most of this to become the nation’s per- manent property. Taft, however, appointed Rich- ard A. Bellinger secretary of the in- terior. The latter soon was in a bitter fight with the conservation- ists, who charged that he was wrecking the forest and reclamation services. Within a month he had restored 3,000,000 acres to entry, but the protest of Pinchot and his friends was so deafening that Taft withdrew them again, Ballinger became the central figure of the big scandal in Taft’s administration when Pinchot charged, among other things, that Ballinger was misusing his office to patent fraudulently-claimed Alas- kan coal lands. Progressive Repub- licans united with Democrats to force a joint congressional investi- gation. The Aldrich machine, which then controlled the Senate, barely kept control of the committee and Bal- linger gained a majority exoneration and a letter of endorsement from/| Taft. But the minority report was sational evidence against him, that Ballinger resigned. Louis D. Brandeis, now supreme court justice, and ex-Senator Pep- per of Pennsylvania were strong allies of Pinchot in the Ballinger fight, delivering scathing indict- ments of the secretary. Taft, however, withdrew govern- ment oil lands from entry in 1910. The Alaskan coal lands are still Public property, powerful interests which had laid hold of them hav- ing been driven out by Congress on demand of the conservationists. Some 375,000,000. acres of public lands are in Alaska, enw. Another important conservation step was taken when the 65th Con- | ews passed the Federal Water -ower Act, which disposes of power sites by lease rather than grant. In 1916 the government also recov- ered from $25,000,000 to $50,000,000 worth of timber from the Oregon and California Railroad Company, which sold restricted land to timber syndicates. The law providing for oil land leases was passed in 1920, with pro- vision for preference for those who. had continued to take oil from Salt Creek despite Taft’s order. Charges of fraud were then made against these oil men and have been recur- rent, but whether the leases were finally approved under the Wilson S Harding administration is not yet clear, On the whole, the conservation cause considered itself well en- trenched just before Albert B. Fall ce rr secretary of the interior in | EERE SSEEEpNEnEpeapemes [IN NEW YORK | _—_—— New York, May 9.—Those hand- Some, military-drilled ushers of the cinema cathedrals of Manhattan now have a personal following among the matinee girlies. Where- as in times agone the pretty maids tucked their marshmallows under their arms and went into raptures over the leading*man of a romantic comedy, they now demand to be seated by the very West Pointy- looking young men, who get some- where in the neighborhood of $20 a week. Recently a_ particularly Adonis-like doorman of a Broadway movie palace landed the heiress to a large fortune, through a lobby ro- mance. Some of them are showered so bitter, based on a variety of sen- OUR BOARDING HOUSE with mash notes. I know one who WY EGAD, SYLVESTER, A PITY You ARE NoT IW ONE OF THE BiG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS fam ~<"THERE IS SOMETHING So PLAINTIVE AND MELLOW ABOUT YOUR PLAYING !~ Hu-m- PUFF ~ WW Lis'en To HIS: ONE, THIS'LL BRING “TH GLYcERINE N To Nour EveEs!—T PLAVED \T UP To MooNEYS GROVE LAST SUMMER, AT “TH” SWITCHMAN'S PICNIC, AN’ MANY A STEIN, WEACT WARM, = AN’ THROATS, GoT LUMPY f TH” NAME (S, “ WHILE TH’ COWBELLS “TINKLE 1) GENTLY, Sweet /O Me OTLE SOME FINE OLD WELSH “TUNES, AND. T WILL BLEND IW WITH MY RICH BARITONE ! =, COLON CLEANSING We occasionally read of someone dying from breathing sewer gas, but millions are meeting untimely deaths because of the generation and retention of poisonous gases alti the body’s own sewage sys- em. The intestines are divided into two parts, the Il intestine and the large intestine which also called the colon. In the small in- testine food materials are absorbed after being changed by the digestive A natural fermentation takes place through which the various foods are converted into substances which can be assimilated by the villi of the intestines. When the body is enervated through wrong habits of living, and the small intestine does not have enough energy with which to force along the unused food materials, the result is that various wastes and toxins are absorbed from the feces which has been too long retained. When the fcod wastes and im- purities finally reach the colon or large intestine there is even a greater absorption of toxins if the membrane of the colon is not in a healthy condition. Most people suffer from colitis in a greater or less degree. This simply means inflammation of the large intestine, and when this con- dition exists there is bound to be an absorption of poisons into the blood stream, The intestinal ab- sorption of toxins which should have been eliminated is perhaps the greatest single cause of disease. ¢ When the membrane of the colon is in a healthy condition, such poisoning of the blood stream can- not take place. In a large percent- age of cases, however, there is not only a dangerous absorption of poisons from the colon but because of prolapsus and kinks in the color these poisonous toxins are occasion- ally forced back into the small in- testine, where they are even more readily absorbed than in the colon. Constipation and obstipation must therefore be overcome. Until one has learned to do this through using a sensible diet and developing a bet- ter tone of the intestinal and ab- dominal muscles, the safest plan is! to take one or two enemas every day to assure a thorough cleansing '‘c: of the colon. This enema treatment should be used by anyone suffering from any kind of disease or disorder. Laxa- tives are temporarily helpful, but! there are many objections to the continued use of such remedies which in the end produce more in- testinal irritation. The washing out of the colon with plain water cannot produce any injury to the membranes or produce a_ partial paralysis as claimed by many who are uninformed. The inside of the colon is always unclean, and ccr- tainly cannot be injured by wash- ing with clean water. After several weeks of such a cleansing treatment it is necessary for anyone to wait two or three days after taking the last enema be- fore the bowels will move by them- selves. This is just because the 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. bowels have been completely cleaned out at least two days in advance, Keep the colon clean! If you do not have two or three bowel mov-- ments daily, take one or two enemas each day until you learn how to overcome constipation. I will be glad to send you a spe- cial article on the cause and cure of constipation. Just send a self- addressed, stamped, large envelope and ask for the article called “The Cause and Cure of Constipation.” QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS , Question: Mary G. asks: “Are kidney stones really made of stone, and if so, how is it possible to dis- solve them?” Answer: Kidney stones are of various kinds. They are made of uric acid crystals, urates, oxalate of lime, phosphate crystals, calcium carbonate, cystine, carbonate of lime, xanthine, and indigo. These crystals and minerals are cemented together into differently shaped stones, but are rarely of the same composition as ordinary stones of the soil. Many of these stones can be dissolved under proper dietetic treatment. If the chemistry of the urine is properly changed, the ce- mented crystals lose their adherence to each other and pass out in the form of “gravel.” Such remedies as muriatic acid are sometimes used to dissolve these stones, but the safest and sanest method is through changing the chemistry of the urine by scientific dietetics, Question: Mrs. K. L. G. writes: “I intend taking a sea voyage, but as I am a very poor sailor, I dread being sea-sick. Do you think I could overcome this tendency to sea- sickness if I eat only cértain kinds of foods?” Answer: It is probably true that ‘a vast amount of seasickness is aused simply by biliousness. Yet, there are many people in good health who become nauseated when- ever they sit in a swing or are sub- jected to any regular motion such as they get when on a ship. i may be due to defects of vision which can be corrected by properly fitted glasses, or it may be caused by an improper amount of the balancing fluid in the inner ear. In the latter case, one may be unable to overcome the trouble except by staying in bed and lying in a hori- zontal position. This will generally overcome scasickness, no matter what the cause. This would be a good time for you to try a fruit fast, using only one kind of fruit jen any one day. receives more than the hero in the pete. After all, a prospect in the foyer is worth two in Hollywood. . A Broadway cafe that was enjoy- ing but medium patronage now jams its doors each lunch hour and over- flows into a second-floor series of dining booths because it employed one of the oldest of the French side- | walk cafe gags. A clever young artist was retained to make carica- tures of Broadwayites prominent in the theater, movie and newspaper world. Instead of charging for the sketches they were arranged around the cafe wall. Naturally this brought the vanity of the celebrities to the surface and they began to congregate in the cafe at lunch hour. When the celebs arrived the Broad- way “mob” followed. Today you'll see more of the Broadway cognos- centi at this place than at any other. It’s a variation on the old theme of seeing your picture in the paper. Which, in turn, is a variation on the personal columns in the small-town newspapers. And whether it’s New York or Saug Centers, the same formulas work. eee When I first took a newspaper job T used to have to start the day’s work by getting items of arrival and departure at the railroad station. At the time this struck me as an in- finitely useless waste of time and a typically small-town stunt. I felt superior to such trivialities. Today I know better. Here in our great- est American city; here in the world’s money hub and business cen- ter, individual followings are cre- ated on plans patterned exactly aft- er the tiniest community’s personal column, For years F. P. A., a widely-fol- lowed column writer, issued a weekly “modern Pepy’s diary” which is but a melange of names, addresses and goings on. the most vopular recent features has been Walter Winchell’s weekly assortment of slang personals issued in a New York publication. Herein you fill find that so-and-so will goon have a baby and so-and-so will soon be married and so-and-so will get a divorce. All the bright young wits of the other papers have done this small-town feature the honor of satirizing it and imitating it. Even the erudite contributed | Genevie columns of the New York press are but glorified improvisations on the ood. 6 erie "det + it we operated in years gone by on Oxnard (Cal.) Courier. And ae for all I know, may still be fune- tioning, as it functions on many an- other wise paper. Even the New Yorker follows the Main Street pattern, putting over its typical “home town” items the/] veneer of sophistication and adding a little snappy, up-to-date cartoon: ery. the material itself has the Zane river for its boundary eee Ant, while falling Ad ™ el town ingredients fou! are! jewish synagogue was down recently on Fifth Avenue to make way for a skyscraper, hun- dreds of pigeons were put out of their home. Whereupon a certain One of |the bo; columnist began to implore the builder to arrange the new struc- ture so that the birds would again have apartment space. And not so many years ago, I remember writing an excited editorial item in a very small city wondering what would |become of a family of cats when they tore down Scroggins’ barn. GILBERT SWAN. | | BY RUTH DEWEY GROVES Marye, my dear: I, too, hope that Norman’s aunt won't hear of his street brawl, for she would be sure to write it home if she did. And that would be about the last straw. Men fighting over you! It’s too bad you didn’t get some pepper in your own eyes. What can Norman be thinking of to run in to see you as soon as he gets to the city? I only wish it had been Alan who gave him the black eye. I told Frank he had to have a talk with him when he _ returns, But Frank said you were old enough to know what you were doing and that he wouldn’t interfere. I think he feels that way because Genevieve flew off the handle when he broke upa petting party out at the lake the other night. He didn’t like the wav some of ind girls were acting, and as it was a crowd that had driven out from her house, Genevieve said he was criticizing her friends. Just as though they weren't his friends as much as hers. Frank said she would break it up and come on home or he'd drive off and leave her to come back with another couple. That, I surmised, wouldn’t have pleased the other couple, and rather than be where she wasn’t wanted ve came with Frank. But she was pretty angry about it. Years ago a girl would have been proud of a boy who wouldn’t let it of the see 8 oars I'd like to give her a good old- fashioned spanking if she hasn't sense enough to appreciate a decent boy like Frank. I wish to goodness he'd been the girl and you the boy. wouldn’t have so much to worr; bout. Not that I think you won’ stop being so reckless and modern some day, but in the meantime you can do a lot of damage to other People’s feelings. It's strange to me to hear any- one talking about personal liberty and so on, Just as if anyone could live absolutely. independent of That's one all other 5 of your new fallacies, . Devotedly, MOM. NEXT: Mom blames Marye,