The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 28, 1928, Page 4

PAGE FOUR i ita >The Bismarck Tribune An ladependent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) “marck, N. D., and entereu at the postoffice at Bis- marck as second class mai) matter. Ceorge D. Mann ...- President ana Publisber Subscription Rates Payable In Aévance * Daily by carrier, per year .... cence ee 87.20 Daily by mail, per year, (in Bismarck) ,....--.- 7.20 Daily by mail, per year, (in state outside Bismarck) . Daily by mail, yutside of North Dekota . _ Weekly by mail, in Weekly by mail, :2 Weekly by mail, outs! year Member of The Associated "ress The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news uispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper, and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other mat- ter herein are also reserved. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN P. E COMPANY NEW YORK - ‘ifth Ave. Bidg. CHICAGO DETPOIT Tower Bldg. Kresge Bldg. (Official City. State and County Newspaper) Isn't This a Grand Country? Oscar Backman, Wilton, longed for the homeland. So he went back to Sweden on a ‘visit. He finds things changed, he writes The Tribune, He’s lonesome for North Dakota. . Back among the old friends in Trolhatton he finds living costs higher than in North Dakota. A meal that would cost 45 cents in Bismarck icosts §$: to $4 in Backman’s old home town. * “TI wouldn't trade good old North Dakota for | anything here,” he writes. | Mr. Backman is simply having the same ex- rience many of his countrymen have had. e’s coming back convinced that as a home place there are few places in the world that -equal North Dakota. + Yet North Dakotans more often take that fact for granted than they appreciate this state. In North Dakota you can sit down at any day to a dinner where everything on the table is produced within the state. Choice butter, white bread made from the world’s finest mill- ing flour, potatoes that are the world’s finest, water-white honey from sweet clover fields, meat at its best in the entire range, the -choicest of all the vegetables, rich milk, straw- berry shortcake and pumpkin pie. And we take it for granted. Until we go abroad. Coal from our own mines here. Coal at 70 cents a bushel in Sweden. Yet North Dakota owes a debt of gratitude ‘to that land, for from it and the other Scandin- ‘avian countries came many of the men who ‘have made it what it is, who have developed its greatest possibilities and thus have aided greatly in its steady growth and progress. Prosperity Straws For several years there have been four ‘fundamentals of American prosperity so truly basic in character that genersi business has simproved or declined about in proportion as ‘their combined contributions have been favor- ‘able or unfavorable. These four factors are the condition of ease and availability of credit accommodations, and the state of three funda- mental businesses — automobiles, steel and iron, and building construction. , Credit accommodations at the present time sare reasonably satisfactory. Interest rates are ‘at fairly reasonable levels. Credit is available for business uses on easy terms. The steel ‘ iron industry is enjoying satisfactory pros- ‘perity. It is well known that the automobile lustry is humming along at a more than ‘average rate, and that it anticipates still better ‘business as the summer advances. As for ilding construction, the volume since the it of the year has been larger than the op- ‘istic had predicted. = To these pleasing omens might be added the jactivities of the stock market. Wall street P lently is confident of good times ahead, is not alone in that opinion. The present narket certainly indicates improved business. Circus Day : Circus day is here again. ‘dies could only know how the country children would envy hem, if they only knew of their histication’ about circuses and cireus day its they would want to go out into the thways and byways and bring the country ls in to participate in the happy events of circus day. 4 Every kid in town seems to be keyed up do a high pitch of excitement today. Its really big day of the year for the little folks and ’s a shame everyone can’t be afforded the ortunity to go and see. Grown-ups grow ed of seeing and hearing about the things | which delight and fascinate the kiddies. After fen ‘id ana’ are only children who have got- If the town kid- old and the only reason they don’t enjoy 4 same things the children do and to the game extent is because they have become “fed ap” on them. The March of Medicine Medical science still has a number of baffling oblems to solve. It needs to know a great deal about cancer, le paralysis and tuberculosis, for in- ince, than it now knows. But it has suc- in coping with some of the maladies hat plagued our fathers, nevertheless. The American Medical Association announces in 1927 there were seven American cities, h population over 100,000, that had no hs from typhoid fever. These cities were Haven, Conn.; Springfield, Mass.; Yonk- ts, N. Y.; Paterson, N. J.; Richmond, Va.; a » O., and Kansas City, Kas. ‘That is a significant record. Once typhoid ; as an unavoidable scourge. Now t is ing rapidly. It can be practically ped out; and it is probable that it will be in not-distant future. A Driver’s Temper group of young men were riding down the ect of a ite Wosbece city in a flivver the big sedan passed their car and| districts and states the election might, and in- Angered, the boys chased and | deed it may, be a run for anybody’s money. Published by the Bismerck Tribune C mpany, Bis: | overtook the big car. One of their number leaped on its running board and struck the driver in the face with his fists. As a result, the big sedan crashed into a safety zone, killing one pedestrian and seriously injuring several more. And the boy who hit the driver is under arrest for manslaughter. It is easy to lose your temper when another driver “cuts in” ahead of you. But you might remember that trying to retaliate may cause serious trouble. No man who lets his temyer get the better of him has any business driving an automobile. A Problem in Antiques — A New England woman has brought suit against an antique collector. She charges that he induced her to sell him, for $3,000, an antique table, when he knew at the time that the table was worth $20,000. If she wins her suit, antique collectors every- where will quake in their shoes. The whole game is finding a valuable antique collector who, stumbling on a Sheraton highboy in a New England farmhouse, voluntarily told the} owner what it was worth before offering to buy it, has yet to be discovered. Lindy’s Wit It begins to appear that our old friend Lindy has a sense of humor. A friend recently told how he and two other pals of Lindy spent an evening with the lat- ter in New York not long ago. They made the evening uncomfortable for the aviator by per- sisting in singing the song “Lucky Lindy.” Lindy begged them to desist, but they grinned and kept at it. Next day Lindy piloted them from New York to Washington in a big cabin plane. They had hardly taken the air before he began to guide the ship into an up-and-down, rocking horse motion. The three friends were not good airmen; they soon became extremely sea- sick. They pleaded with Lindy to put the plane on an even keel. Lindy turned around and grinned. “Now let's hear you all sing ‘Lucky Lindy,’” he ordered. And sing it they had to, all the way to Washington. Score one for the transatlantic aviator’s sense of humor. Editorial Comment | The Farm Veto (Chicago Tribune) President Coolidge’s veto of the McNary- Haugen bill was expected. The points on which it was disapproved were those which he had been expected to raise against it. The Presi- dent agrees with his legal advisers that the bill would be an unconstitutional act and he re- states his conviction that its operations would be contrary to economics and natural law. He is opposed to the bureaucracy it would require for its working, to its attempt to fix prices and its method of disposing of a surplus. In one respect the veto message was strange to Mr. Coolidge’s usual temperament. His ordinary habit does not include such vigorous rhetoric and his normal style does not contain so many adjectives and so many incisive phrases. This may indicate an out of the or- dinary conviction or collaboration, or both. The farmer is likely to feel that he has been the occasion of some unusually emphatic language. That may not be all he will feel. An assumption that all the agricultural re- gions were for this bill would be wrong. There were farmers who had no confidence in it. There were others who thought that as an ex- periment it would indicate that agriculture was not peculiarly removed from the fostering care given industries. There were others who were convinced that the bill represented their economic independence and that it proposed little more than a workable farm equivalent of the tariff. It may not have been altogether fortunate that the President in elaborating upon the economic fallacies of the bill used language which a free trader might have applied to the tariff with hardly any change of word or phrase, as for instance: “Incidentally this taxa- tion or fee would not be for any purpose of revenue in the accepted sense but would simply yield a subsidy for the special benefit of par- ticular groups of processors and exporters. It would be a consumption or sales tax on the vital necessities of life, regulated not by the ability of the people to pay but only by the requirements and export losses of various trad- ing intermediaries.” si We who believe that the tariff is a necessary bulwark of American industrial life cannot well give this reasoning to agriculture in denial of a similar price increase. The President was clearer of controversy when he was insisting that the bill not only was unconstitutional but that the plan would not work because of supe- rior natural laws. Although there was a hint of encouragement in the veto message that farm relief was not gone out of possibility for this session, it is assumed that the chances are against any form of it, and agriculture may have to observe the fact that again it is where it started. It is a year of political consequences and here the question is just what they will be. The north- ern farmer is Republican for the most part. Ever since the civil war the Republican party, an industrial party, has held agriculture, which has been an achievement. Generally planters and industrialists do not run together political- ly. The early controversies of agriculture and industry had all the germs of secession. The natural alliance of farms with free trade has not found its place in northern American politics since the war and now the Democrats are in fact hardly anti-tariff enough to count. As the Republiean farmers feel that eastern industrial Republicanism is indifferent to them or against them, they probably will be against all its elements in the national convention. That will include Mr. Hoover. After the conventions they may find that if they are to carry their opposition into the election they must be for an eastern, urban Democrat and a wet, Mr. Smith. The city, the east, and to most of the farmers, the wrong side of the prohibition ques- tion. In that case revolt from the party will not be so easy. Otherwise with a wet Demo- crat making things lively in the cities and in- dustrial communities and Republican farmers backing away from their party in the dry rural THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE | Out of the Cocoons! WASHINGTON LETTER BY RODNEY DUTCHER For the death of Mr. and Mrs. NEA Service Writer Elbert Hubbard the heirs received Washington, May 28.—More than} $57,000—$25,000 to Elbert Hubbard 13 years ago the German embassy] II, $7500 to Katherine Hubbard here advertised in the newspapers a| and $25,000 to Miriam Hubbard. warning to Americans against sail-| Elbert and Katherine were chil- ing through the war zone on British} dren by Hubbard’s first marriage; ships. riam by his second. Elbert and That was the beginning of the! Miriam were heirs to Hubbard’s story of the Lusitania, which was| $400,000 estate. Two sons of the torpedoed six days later near Ire-j first marriage, Ralph and Sanford, land with loss of 124 Americans,; were awarded nothing by the com- whose deaths proved the greatest! mission because their father had single factor in pushing us into war| not contributed to their support for with Germany. a long time before his death. The incident is now being closed. It was within a week or two of| The estate of Alfred G. Vander- Mav 7, the thirteenth anniversary | bilt entered a $250,000 claim _and of the Lusitania catastrophe, that|was not allowed anything. Van- the heirs and survivors of the/derbilt had spent nearly $300,000 American victims began to receive} a year on himself and family, but the $2,500,000 damages awarded! he had left $15,000,000 to his wid- them by the Mixed Claims Commis-| ow and two children and it was sion against Germany. shown that he had not been adding Most of the monev has been paid| to his estate. He and the rest will be doled out as; that his death was no financial loss fast as the remaining successful | to the heirs. claimants file their applications Aged sisters of Charles Froh- with the treasury under provision! man, the unmarried theatrical pro- of the War Claims Act. That act provided for immediate payment of all death and personal injury claims and all claims under $100,- 000. The other claims are being paid by installments. The money will really come from Germany, but as it is being collected over a 75-year period under the Dawes plan, Congress decided to take care of the American claimants while some of them remained alive. vee principle. The commission felt no relief was needed, as Frohman’s movie stockholdings had increased in value. The two sons of Charles Klein, another producer who went down, are receiving $50,000. They were born in America and Klein had filed papers for American citizen- ship before his death. Mrs. Klein got nothin; she was a British subiect, and still is. . The widow and daughter of Al- bert L. Hopkins, president of the Newport ews Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. drew $80,000 on the claim that Hopkins had always spent his $25,000-a-year salary on his family “because of business and social connections.” He had left no estate excqpt a small insurance policy and the commission held that he had invested his salary for future benefit. Mrs. Andrew Bilicke, widow of a Los Angeles realtor, got $50,000 and each of her children $30,000— the largest award for a single The Mixed Claims Commission, under the nopireahip: of Judge Ed- win B. Parker of Texas, started out with nearly 12,500 claims for an aggregate of nearly $1,500,000,000. It scaled them down to awards of about $200,000,000. With one American and one German mem- ber, plus Parker, it handled both American claims and those of Ger- many for war-seized property of her nationals. Four millions were awarded for 384 American death and personal injury claims, the greater part of this involving the Lusitania fa- talities. These Lusitania awards were made strictly on the basis of what the death of a passenger meant in Hence the decision | ducer said to have died with the, assertion that death was life’s most | beautiful adventure, filed a claim} which was also denied on similar | Bilicke’s earning capacity as a re- altor had pyramided an_ original $16.000 investment into $2,700,000 in less than 25 years. He ha spent up to $68,000 a year on _ his family and the commission decided Germany ought to pay for the loss of his earning power. eee Samuel M. Knox, president of the New York Shipbuilding Co., was awarded $15,000 for injuries in the Lusitania sinking and $1330 for property loss at the time. He bare- ly escaped with his life after going down under a smokestack and being rescued from the water by a life- boat. He died in 1924, so the money goes to hi3 estate. Many other claims were made to the commission which were felt to be poorly grounded. A _ distiller brought an unsuccessful claim for $500,000, claiming that Germany had brought on the war and that the war had brought on_ prohibi- tion, ruining his business! Darling Mom: I think I told you about Shirley Wells being in an accident. That bump on the head, I mean. Her. father was going to sue Ted be- cause Shirley claimed she begged him to slow up and he wouldn't. At first she didn’t want her dad to do anything about it, but as it turned out she had to have an X- ray taken and it showed something wrong. She’s been quite sick. So her father engaged a lawyer. Shirley got a letter from the company Ted works for, asking her to give them an account of what happened. Shirley didn’t show the letter to anyone, but she answered it and said that she had received an injury while driving with Ted when his car hit a rise or some obstruction in the road. She said he was speed- ing. Well, the next day a man came to see her and said he was from financial loss to the heir. Lusitania death. It was shown that | Ted's employers. He showed Shir- OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahern | MLADIM< HAR-RR-RUME Foo BETTER COME BACK-ToMoRROU ES INFORM “THE EDITOR, IN YouR Best AZ MISTER! ~. SUST Now A ENGLISH, -THAT. MADOR HOOPLE, FAMOUS SCIENTIST, EXPLORER, BIG GAME HUNTER, AND POLITICAL EXPERT, —-DESIRES AN INTERNE WITH HIM! ue DELIVER MY REQUEST IN HASTE, AND. IMPRESS “Te EDITOR “THAT MY MISSIONS \S OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE, ux. “OF VITAL INTEREST ~To “THis NEWSPAPER f wr Your, PRESS AGENT CAME OUT OF THERE IA A.YELL AN’ SUMP, — WITH —TH? BRIM OF His STRAW HAT AROUND HIS NECK! uso, N'BETIER WAITHTILL “ToMoRROW!~ LEAVE 4 SLIP (Ton HIS DESK INTH? MoRNIAG ! CARD, AN” TLL heer “to eR one CONVENTIONS ¢ = AN ELEMENT FOR KEEPING YOUNG Potassium is an element that re- laxes the tissues of the body, mak- ing them soft and pliable, and for this reason should be of particular value to counteract the tension that many people labor under in this age of speed madness. It increases growth, strength, longevity, and is essential to reproducing the species. This does not mean that you should go out and eat a quantity of potash, such as is used for fer- tilizer, because if you did your rel- atives would probably have the task of selecting suitable flowers. Neither potassium nor any of the other mineral salts can be properly assimilated by the body unless they have been first prepared for our use by lower forms of organic life, particularly the plants. You pecbetly know that protein foods that are so essential to life because of the nitrogen they con- tain, leave powerful acid end-pro- ducts which must be neutralized or thrown out of the body, or they would destroy it. These phosphorus, Halen and uric acids are neu- tralized by potassium and sodium. Potassium also protects us against many of the virulent poisons of in- testinal putrefaction as it is uti- lized by the liver for this specific purpose. When your doctor tells you that you are ‘uffering from acidosis, he probably means that you are lack- ing in potassium, sodium, calciu and other alkaline-producing el ments. The bes: cure for acidosis is to use the fruits and vegetables that are richest in these elements. Potassium, like nitrogen, can not be used in its pure state by the body. It has to come to us in an organized form. Many people who are underweight and easily exhausted are starving d| for potassium because it is neces- sary to <ssist in the changing of certain food products so that they can be used by our tissues. For in- stance, grape sugar is stored in the tissues as an animal starch called glycogen. A portion of the latter may be converted into fat. Potas- sium is required to bring about these important changes. It is al- so needed to reconvert peptones and amino acids into Muscles and blood. Potassium as well as being one of the lightest and softest metals is also one of the most electro-posi- tive, and it is this latter fact that is supposed to account for its being so essential to the vigor of the brain and nervous system. There eould be no life of either plant or animal without potassium, and I am ing you a list of those proteins of our ley a typewritten copy of her letter and asked to read it. He explained that he merely wanted to verify it as her story of the accident. Shirley didn’t find any changes in it, so she signed it on the dotted line. The day after that, the lawyer her father had engaged asked her to come to his office if she was able. Shirley staggered down town and what do you think he showed her? signature, in which she exonerated Ted from all blame for her accident. The lawyer was furious and wanted to ayes wae and ate au had signed such a paper. Shirley was flabbergasted. 2 if At first she denied having sign- ed anything but she admitted it was her signature all right. Finally she realized what had happened. The first page and a few lines on the second sheet were taken up with the typewritten copy of the letter she had written to Ted’s employers when they asked her to give an ac- count of the accident. But she had signed the second page near the bottom, leaving plenty of space to be filled in later. As it was all done Ly typewriter Shirley could not prove that she had signed only part of it. Some- one had typed in a lot moze that her lawyer said ruined her case entirely. The other side offered to settle for a very small sum and Shirley’s lawyer advised her to take it. It won’t pay for the treatments she must have for several weeks; and it was a lesson about signing in the right place. Lovingly, MA TOMORROW: Mom about driving companions. f IN NEW YORK | ° writes New York, May 28.—Whenever and wherever Broadway characters are charted, the name of Kate Red- dy must occupy a place close to the top of the list. Of course you've never heard of Kate. She is no impresario of the “gay white way,” such as George White or Earl Carroll or Flo Zieg- feld or Gene Buck. Kate is a ward- robe mistress. And for 18 years she watched the chorines come and go; she has put away their hastily discarded spangled gowns and watched them don their dollar-down street clothes; she has seen them marry millionaires and beheld their start toward the eatin they have wept on her shoulder and snapped their fingers triumphantly under her nose. ‘And Kate has gone on, sitting on the sidelines mending the endless assortment of rips and tears in the costumes. If you were to ask Kate what con- stitutes the greatest tragedy in the life of any chorine she would not, in all likelihood, mention drink or parties or wild living—but the pass- ing of youth. Only the woman who sits on the sidelines knows how anxiously a of the ensemble watches her mirror as the years slip by. To be sure drink, high liv- ing and all that will contribute to the wrinkles and the lines and the circles under the eyes. But Time is slowly cruel. Kate has more than one youngster who came out of the small towns to the big city without the slightest idea of what Broad- way was all se But, like = such personages, she reserves her philosophy ‘and advice for those who want it bad enough to seek it. She HEALTH “DIET ADVICE \ Dr Frank poeneone iS oe eles CT mee | A typewritten statement over her} ty? ae MONDAY, MAY 28, 1928 Mec Wy to Molle foods which I recommend that are richest in this valuable efement They ai Tomatoes, turntpt, celery, ndelion, rutabagas, wa- 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. tercress, and cucumbers. Rhubarb, lettuce, sorrel, cabbage and Swiss chard are also as rich in potassium, but I do not recommend them unless the other vegetables are hard to ob- tain, If you want to keep your muscles pliable, your arteries from hardening, and your glandular secre- tions sufficiently alkaline, eat plenty of potassium. As a preventer of many diseases, it is valuable. It is an interesting fact that plants which become infested with par- asites are usually grown on _ soil that is deficient in this element. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Question: W. Y. T. writes: “I cannot drink anything cold. If I do, it gives me a cold, and a heavy feel- ing in my stomach which I don’t get over in a week or two. What is my trouble and can you help me?” Answer: Some stomachs are par- ticularly sensitive to cold, and it seems to me the sensible plan for you to adopt is to \se warm or only slightly cool drinks, but never cold ones. It is never a good plan for anyone to drink very cold liquids. Question: Butterfly asks: “When was oleomargarine first used, and what was its composition?” Answer: Oleomargarine was de- vised in 1870 by the French chem- ist, MegeMouries. He used beef oleo (oleo is the oil obtained from animal fat), milk and water, churn- ing them together and using an- natto, a dye obtained from the an- natto tree of Central America, to color it. Question: Mary J. writes: “I have been troubled with my hands sweating. Will you please publish a cure for this?” Answer: Excessive sweating of the hands is generally a sign of some nervous disorder. If you will search out the cause of your trou- ble you will no doubt find that your nervousness originates from dietetic errors and lack of exercise. If you will get up a good sweat every day this will help materially in throwing out irritating impurities which may be causing your nervousness. Send for my special article called “A Daily Sweat.” ee isn’t likely to be intrusive. The shor business is the show busi- ness—just as any business might be after 18 years; an endless round of costumes to be attended to and mended! eee Manhattan snapshots: Mrs. Les- lie Carter hurrying to a_ matinee performance. . . . Remember when “Zaza” was the last word in naugh- and the “Sapho” was wicked beyond imagination? ... A revival today would probably get a big laugh. . . . Ina Claire, one of Broadway's favorites... . She’s an- other who ‘came out of the ranks of chorines. . . Let’s see... . So did Dolores Costello, Louise Brooks, Mae Murray, Marion Davies and Greta Nissen. . . . David Warfield, white-haired and wraithlike, start- ing for Europe. . .. And quite an- noyed because a newspaper confused him with a ticket scalper of the same name. Taxicab drivers who regulate their own tips and then ask you “Is that all right?” . . . Of course you can start a fight! ... The in- creasing number of urchins who open your cab door for you on Broadway and expect at least a nickel. . . . Jean Hersholt, the film character man, who I have always thought could be quite as good as Jannings if they gave him the right pictures. ... Do you remember him in “Gi "2. . . Or, more recently, as the Jewish father in “Abie’s Trish Rose.” .. . He runs away with the picture, if you ask me... . Lynn Farnol, the rising young publicist who, I am told, is heir to a south- ern fortune but is determined to show the “folks at home” he can make his own roll... . Tex Rickard, who gets his whatever happens to the other fellow. ... The popularity of horseback riding in the park this season. . . The tired-looking song pluggers, milling around Tin Pan Alley. ... And the endless banging of pianos that one hears in that belt now that the windows are open. GILBER? SWAN. [Bares Oysters and Sopranos Undersea radio experiments off Hatteras and Beaufort, N. C., h to be discontinuei “because singing oysters made so much noise that the lelicate radio mechanism was af- fected.” We suggest some of these oysters be si; opie piece of the sopranos... . bably the oys- ters threw a wrench into the radio works with a few ditties about those old crustacean mothers of theirs . . .. Or, probably the urge to song was provoked by thoughts of going back, back, back to where the slimy seaweed grows. . . . But it’s barely possible some oyster has written a hit and called it “Bye, Bye, Bivalve” and the oysters are all car- oling it in their beds. . . Any- way, it seems to be a job for some censor or other. It sounds like a shell game to 1 e A rookie policeman in New York heard shots, investigated and caught g gunman. Well, he’s a rookie, atid it can be overlooked this time. A Kansas woman was granted a divorce because her husband struck her with one of |.er own bis- cuits. The judge decided it was ex- treme cruelty. | ae The farmer gets only . dollar a bushel for corn. It seems to be much more profitable to sei! it by the quart. (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Ine.) “” <2 . oee ee —— oe te - a a Po oe a ee a ee Ne aS ae ee awn Pe a a ee ee ee a ), es >» . 0 SS a aia,