The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 22, 1928, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) a blished by the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- ae Dp? and entered at the postoffice at Bis- marck as second class mail matter. 7 George D. Mann ............President and Publisher Subscription ‘Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carmer, per year ....... « 87.2 Daily by mail, per rear, (in Bismarck) Daily by mail, per year, (in state outside Bismarck) ........seeeeees 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota ........ 6.00 ————— Weekly by mail, in state, per year Weekly by mail, in state, three years for . Weekly by mail, outside of North Dakota, per year C ember Audit Bureau of Circu' Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches 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. lation Foreign Representatives G. L@GAN PAYNE COMPANY : wes Fifth Ave, Bldg. curcaco. *°** ot S&S SETROIT Tower Bldg. Kresge Bldg. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) ON HIS NATIVE HEATH Humanizing a presidential candidate is part of a campaign committee's job. Jim Reed, when he left Al Smith’s headquarters, said that if “Al” were elected there would be a “smile in the White House.” The in- ference was that the Coolidge smile was either non est or too contracted to be classed by the Missourian as a smile at all. ‘The chief value of the West Branch address of Her- bert Hoover was to present the Republican presidential candidate in a more or less “chummy” talk to the folks upon his native heath. Probably the Republican man- agers profiting by Jim Reed's criticism are going to put a few “smiles” in the campaign to capture Missouri votes. Another Democrat, probably it was Tom Walsh of Montana, remarked that if Al were elected there would be more warmth in the White House. He gave this interview as he left the top story of the General Motors building—it was part of the Democratic plan to human- ize their candidate or take the starch out of the cam- paign. Herbert Hoover unbended a great deal at West Branch and revealed a very human side to the American public. The opening paragraphs of the homecoming address are simple and direct: “This is a homecoming. It hardly seems an occasion for a lengthy political speech—rather it is an opportun- ity to recall old associations and renew old friendships. “I am glad, a son of Iowa, to come back to the place where I was born. Here I spent the first ten years of my boyhood. Here my parents and grandparents toiled, worshipped God, did their part in building this com- munity, and now lie in the cemetery over the hill.” Those in charge of the campaign decided well in bringing Hoover into the middle west for the first im- portant conference since his acceptance speech. Great good will come of the conference. Those who have battled for agricultural equality will be able to size up the candidate and get his views in an informal and most. informative manner, Herbert Hoover should leave the middle west a stronger contender for the presidency than when he entered it. He is not running away from one of the main issues of the campaign. He wants to study it at close range and he certainly is considering it with all the thoroughness that won him the place he now holds ' in the nation, COUNTY MUST SUPPLEMENT STATE Recently on this page, The Tribune reprinted an edi- torial from the Fargo Forum relative to the highway work of Cass county. The system inaugurated by the Cass county board of commissioners is worthy of study and imitation by other counties of the state if there is to be an orderly development of highways throughout the state. Under present conditions, the State Highway com- mission cannot assume the entire obligation of improved roadways. The fund available for new road construc- tion is far too small to keep pace with the demand for arterial highways not to mention lateral roads which must link remote portions of the various counties to the main pikes. Cass county has pointed the way for a development of a well rounded county road program which will link up with that of the state highway department. Until such time as legislation is passed and the cause of good roads so far advances that the state can take over all road work, the counties must revamp their own road programs. It is important that county effort should supplement state road activity and along much the same standard in so far as the engineering is involved. A COMPARISON OF WAGES If you don’t think that the American laborer is a whole lot better off than his European contemporaries, glance at these figures just issued by the Department of Labor. Bricklayers, for instance, average the following daily wages: in France, $1.57; in Germany, $1.84; in Austria, $1.35; in the United States, $12.56. Carpenters fare thus: in England, $2.96; in Ger- many, $1.86; in Italy, $1.82; in the United States, $10.16, Building trades laborers draw these daily rates: in Austria, $1.12; in Germany, $1.47; in Italy, $.80; in the United States, $4.00. And that difference isn’t eaten up by higher costs of living, either. Wages in this country now average 129 per cent higher than in 1913, while living costs are only 75 per cent higher. In other words, an hour of work today will enable an American workman to buy 30 per cent more than it would buy him before the war. wasn es SEEKERS OF THRILLS Thousands of thoroughly domesticated Americans have implored Commander Byrd to admit them to mem- bership in his proposed expedition of exploration to the south pole. This mass hunger for adventure is either a protest against modern home life or a testimonial to longings usually hidden from public view. These would-be explorers and adventurers are not lured by the hope of fame and fortune. Most of the fame will go to the head of the expedition, and the chance of winning a fortune is lim as that of find- ing a diamond-studded iceberg. Conquistador, colonist, explorer and pirate had in general one hope in common. Th2y dreamed of wealth—much or little, legal or illegal . Dut still wealth. The new seekers for strangeness Bave no such thought. Perhaps historians of a few centuries hence will be impressed by the present evidence of poten- monotonous sameness of life in civilization. This en thusiasm for the south pole is not a new phenomenon in Mundane existence. LET LINDY ALONE Quite a bit of fuss is being made over the fact that an unidentified young lady rode with Col. Lindbergh in a flight to New York recently. Nothing much can be learned about her, it seems. Dispatches say she was “a tall, beautiful girl with gray eyes;” she left the field with Lindy’s mother, who also was a passenger in the plane, and couldn’t be found by reporters, It’s too bad the boys couldn't learn her name. But, after all, isn’t it about time the young colonel had a rest from this sort of prying? Suppose he did take a “tall, beautiful girl with gray eyes” up for a flight in his plane; what of it? We say that we think a lot of him. Why not prove it by letting him go his own sweet way for a while, unbothered by reporters and camera- men? NARROW ROADS Smooth, all-year highways have been built connect- ing city with city but the traffic problem is as acute as ever. Such states as New York, California, Ohio, Penn- sylvania and Illinois boast of their complete systems of improved roads but the traveler over those roads finds them badly congested. The motorist can go almost anywhere without en- countering roads impassable with mud but he cannot approach a large city or drive far on Sunday or a holi- day without finding roads nearly impassable because of traffic congestion. Road construction in recent years has gone on at a rapid pace in every section of the United States, but few roads are wide enough to meet present traffic needs. That highway is rare which can carry peak traffic without congestion. On a 20-foot road, with one line of traffic in each di- rection, a car traveling 20 miles an hour can hold up a long line of cars for miles. If traffic in the other direc- tion is heavy cars coming from the rear of a slow-mov- ing vehicle cannot pass without endangering life and traffic. Two-track roads are not adequate for present-day needs. In the motor age they occupy the same posi- tion as the one-track road of the horse age. With the number of vehicles constantly increasing, with cities constantly growing, with the movement of express and freight by motor truck and of passengers by bus constantly expanding, it is becoming evident that new highways should be of not less than three-track width. Editorial Comment | ABOUT HEADLIGHTS (Minot Daily News) The first move to regulate traffic on the state high- ways comes from the state highway commission with the launching of a drive against glaring headlights. Despite the fact that the use of glaring headlights has been in law violation for many years, there has been not the slightest evidence of any effort to enforce the law jn any county in North Dakota. As a matter of fact many motorists consider the country highways a @ no man’s land where one can operate as he sees it. The time is fast arriving when patrolmen must be provided to regulate country traffic. The fact that an officer was ranging through the county on motorcycle pone have a splendid effect in creating respect for jaw. The Fargo Forum commends the action of the high- way commission in the following terms: There should be a dozen rousing cheers immediately for the State Highway Department. It has decided to launch a State-wide drive against the use of glaring headlights on automobiles. It has asked the co-opera- tion of police departments and sheriff's oifices throughout the commonwealth, and it will get it. In this connection, it is proper to call attention to one point: it is absolutely hopeless for the City of Fargo, for example, to make any headway against the use of illegal lights unless there is a concerted drive against them throughout North Dakota. One city can- not fight this menace, when other cities and counties Pay no attention to it. Mr. O. C. J.indvig, Commissioner of Police, pointed this out Wednesday, and his state- ment is commended to the Highway Commission. North Dakota his a very strict law against the use of glaring lights. It is definite and specific in its re- guirements, and there can be no mistaking its mean- ing or no misunderstanding. Doubtless the Commission means business. Its an- nouncement is forthright and sincere. It commends and should have the active co-operation of peace officers in every community and county. Unless this co-operation is given, there will be little success. It is hoped the officers will be vigorous and strict. The law is also clear and definite in regard to penalty, and a severe penalty should be given every offender. There has been enough loss of life because of blinding lights. There is too much danger from them, and that danger must be wiped out at once. THE RUSSIAN PEASANT’S METHOD (St. Paul Dispatch.) In America Herbert Hoover and others consider ways and means of keeping the crops of the farmer from flooding on the market in too great quantities, but in Russia, the principal granary of Europe, the problem is the opposite one of inducing the peasant to part with what he has. The Russian Council of People’s Com- missars has just issued an order arbitrarily fixing the prices that shall be paid on the new grain crop from 10 to 20 per cent above those of last year. These prices are to be maintained by the government and will remain in effect without change for the entire marketing sea- son. The purpose is to anticipate any attempt on the Part of the peasants to withhold their wheat and other grain in expectation of still higher prices. The Russian present has been rebelling against high prices for the things he buys, low prices for the things he sells. He either raises just enough for his own needs, or refuses to sell his crops after they have been raisi This is a serious matter for the Russian government, which counts on the sale of wheat abroad to build up foreign credits, Russia needs capital with which to buy BUCY for its factories and must export grain to get it. The Russian grain grower can rebel in this manner against low prices because he is.a peasant, needing little more to live than what he can grow and make with his own hands. The American farmer, scale of living and business, cannot but must accept what he sible crop he can raise. having a higher be so independent, can get for the greatest pos- _ In America the farmer rushes his grain to market, in Russia the peasant embarrasses the government by holding back. So the peasant is given a better price to put him in a more helpful mood, and this price is made Permanent for the season to counteract any tendency to squeeze a still better bargain out of the government. FARMING INCREASES i z (Minneapolis Journal) Discovering on a motor trip that Iowa’s farms have decreased in number, but that the acreage cultivated hi ncreased, a writer in the Boston Transcript himself with the change in working conditions. Io zara, be says, decreased in number 1,529 in the ear, but the cultivated the same time. las acreage increased 1.1 per cent There was @ decline in rural popula- tion, but it was partly offset by the increased use of Hye cot he says; and he cites the combine harvester and r, panties eee eee for yer ‘aa This observer mi ve found ‘eet, he looked about him. It will be found in diversified farming. Not fairly because ti the BY RODNEY DUTCHER . (NEA Service Writer) Washington, Aug. 22.—Despite all the bolts from the two party tickets reported from day to day, the party organizations seem to standing the strain. One has yet to observe any Political office holder turning down the choice of the party which gave him his job. Most of those who have deserted Smith are ex’s—ex- senators, ex-governors, ex-bosses. On the Republican side one ob- serves that even the ex-boys are sticking to Mr. Hoover with loyal unanimity, The Republicans always did have a superior ability to close ranks with healed wounds after ev- ery internal fuss. Thus, one has to look’ outside the ranks of politics to find the Republican bolters, ee 8 If the farmers happen to prove sorer on the administration than they are currently supposed to be, the leaps of men like George Peek and Frank Murphy into the Smith camp may prove to have given im- petus to a trend in some farm states toward the Democrats. The fact that John J. Raskob and Pierre du Pont are now working Democrats indicates Big Bu: isn’t afraid of Smith. It hi beer pretty solidly Republican for many {© years and has no reason to desert the party now. On the other hand, the recruiting of a few important business men un- der the Smith banner has chilled some of the progressive leaders, who begin to feel that one party is as re- actionary as the other. 8 * The outstanding progressive to date who has thrown Smith over for Hoover is ex-Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma. It is not supposed that his influence will be felt, as he has long been out of Oklahoma poli- tics. Smith, with his uncanny fac- ulty for spearing his noisiest ene- mies, rather dulled the edge of Owen’s slash at Tammany when Owen virtually admitted that he had sought Tammany support for his presidential candidacy in 1924, Probably the most important Dem- | OUR BOARDING HO “HAT RICH BANKER TH’ MAJOR AND Yous Must HAVE BEEN PRETTY LONESOME UP AT -THAT Bia LODGE ALL ALONE, WERENT You DASON 2. | Why Strong Men Go Mad in Dog Days! ocratic bolt was not a bolt at all, but the resignation of Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons of North Caro- jlina from the Democratic National Committee. Simmons has run the politics of his state for 30 years and Smith’s nomination, in the fact of his hatred of Tammany, was a se- vere blow, aided as it was by insur- gents in his own state. But although his machine at home has been re- ported as in something of a panic, lit is pretty certain to fight tooth and nail for the ticket in order to save its state control. There is nothing on the Republi- can side to match the Simmons case. Men like Senators Hiram Johnson, Charlie Curtis and Jim Watson have roared their curses at Hoover in the past. But look at them now! ay f_INNEW YORK | o———_ —_____—__ New York, Aug. 22.—“Curb mar- kets of hope,” they call certain cor- ners of Broadway. For here, upon the curbstones, gather clusters of work-seeking folk of the amusement business to ialk of prospects and lack of them. At 45th treet, or thereabouts, you'll see the itti, their saxophones, d such parked cn the ‘aiting for something to turn up.” Not far away gather the folk of the midway world... ets, giants, high divers, and all the rest. Hubbard's cupboard, is bare—for the tent shows are on the and there'll be no activity until early Kaye There’s a gathering place in e “Shubert ‘Alley®™ for chorines and 2 point at which the burlesque boys rowse. ea The latest is the “dumb” act rendezvous at 47th street and Broad- way. And when “dumb” acts meet they’re not exactly silent. A “dumb” act, in the vernacular of the theater, refers to a juggler, a family of tum- blers, a tight rope performer, an ac: robatic number or an “aerial artist That is to say, they are performe: who, when on stage, “work silentiy.” (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) USE _ JOANN HEN-A-ERY!- VF YOU INSiStT OAL GOING TD THE THEATRE: Without “OUR COAT AND LOOKING HALF-DRESSED| WA STAYING HOME! -- YOU WANT TO DOOSGRACE us?! The particular choice of location is based on propinquity to the Palace Theater. The Palace, insofar as Broadway is concerned, is goddess of the “big time.” Achievement of a place in the big lights of the Palace is as manna from heaven to the struggling “small timer.” ‘ee The lot of the “dumb” act is not exactly a happy one. At best it’s a question of opening or closing the bill. If placed at the opening, they “work” to a partially filled theater, the audience straggling in and gi' ing little heed to what is going on. If they close the show, they must in- deed have a tremendous novelty to keep a restive crowd in its seats. Ordinarily their act goes on to a ‘banging of seats and grabbing of hats as the spectators begin to make their getaway. | ae Just now times are not as good they might be in the “dumb” act bu: iness. ‘the other day I came upon a pretty fair equilibrist giving out handbills on the corner. And again, watching a group for a short time, could see a few slip away and dis- ; appear into a doorway of the theater, only to return later shaking their heads. The pantomime is dramati- cally expressive. A shrug of the shoulder means that there will be no work that week, or the Next. ..6 The “dun.b” acts speak in many t-ngues-—German, Hungarian. Rus- sian, Bohemi: They are, for the most part, “imports.” If hard times has placed its hand upon them, it’s difficult to note its effect. They seem well-fed, broad shoul- dered, robust and hearty. There is little to suggest the theater in their appearance. They do not affect the yellow cloths and the loud shirts of midg-| the sone ane aanee wise to be en- counte! a few blocks away lolling near a burlesque house. Many, met Just now their corner, like Mother | upon a continental street, could eas- ily be taken for honest burghers. Their women-folk, when they aj Pear, remind one of a husky barmai dressed for their fair. There is lit- tle of the Broadway flair and snap to their attire. A few might be mi taken for burlesque queens of a! other day. A prominent is generally revealed when they smile and hair is likely to suggest a visit to the peroxide bottle. Of all the play-folk cone in plain, pecsaut’Zolk—and, Tate plain peasant fo |, I gather, the most by. the uncertain- ties of an uncertain profession. GILBERT SWA! » BS LONESOME 2 ~ MAN, DAT WORD WASNT EVEN (Ai -TH’ RICH BANKER'S DICTIONARY DS RADIO BROADCASTIN’ UP DERE AT-TH’ LODGE f= He HAD HIS OWN PRIVATE Dy SENDIN” 1M PROGRAMS “To His SUPER IODINE SET sun BESIDES, PRESENT COOLIDGE AN" A GANG OF MEA USED “To COME OVER’ EVERY AIGHT AN” “TALK ABOUT “TROUT FISH ! ~~ “ PRESENT COOLIDGE AN’ “TH’ MAJOR WAS GREAT PALS !u« i To sit - “TILL THREE *cLoc! vr TW’ MAWAIA® TALKIN’ (28. U8 Par corr, Ly cenlidilonalianthinnetiansad IN DASOAS = H BREATHING IN ASTHMA Most people understand that diaphragmatic breathing is superior to chest breathing, but do not know how to go about it in making the change. When one is asked to take a deep breath, he invariably raises the chest and attempts to expand the tibs which apparently fills the upper chest with air, This may be called chest breathing, and is wholly un- natural and really harmful in certain ‘ways, Tf you will watch an animal such as the horse when he breathes, you will see that the breathing is done in the upper part of the abdomen, and that there is practically no move- ment of the chest or of the lower ab- domen. Every successful athlete either unconsciously breathes this way or has developed the diaphrag- | matic breathing through practice. If you will stand sidewise before a mirror, you can watch your faulty breathing, and practice how to cor- rect it, Remcve all of your clothing and stand so you can watch the en- tire torso, from the pelvis to the chin. When you inhale you will pede notice that the chest gets larger in the upper part, the upper abdomen smaller, and lower down the belly will protrude. This gives you @ sort of hour-glass appearance, which is all wrong. Now try, when you to make your abdomen just below the ribs, Imagine you are drawing the air into the upper abdomen, swelling it out and keeping the lower part from pro- truding. The position of the ribs should change but slightly, and no movemeftt should be noticed in the upper chest. After you have inhaled, exhale slowly, contracting the upper abdomen, and holding the entire ab- domen rigid, now allowing the lower part to protrude. Keep on practicing until you can do all of your breathing with the up- per part of the abdomen, just below the sternum and ribs. In this way you will learn to develop the dia- phragmatic musele which you must do in order to be healthy and to com- pletely overcome asthma, If you do not seem to get the idea at first, go outdoors and take a short run up and down the yard, then rest and place your hands on various por- tions of your chest and abdomen and you will notice that you are naturally breathing hardest in the diaphrag- matic section. For practice, just keep up this same breathing, and if you again forget how, take another run and again make a careful examina- tion to see where the most contrac- tion and expansion occur. After the asthmatic has properly trained the diaphragm, he will find that the practice of sineing will be inhale, larger j BARBS | ho A woman artist announces she will paint no more undraped figures. If all the artists were to do that, where would the dadies go for fashions? o— General Coxey says we are in the hands of burglars, bootleggers, bankers and brokers. The general must have forgotten all about the league between chewing gum manu- facturers and stenographers. Candidate Hoover says the 12-hour day has been abolished. Maybe he’d revise that slightly if he would drop in to call on an editor about mid- night of election day. Lightning killed a barber in South America as he shaving @ man, Those who have listened to insistent declarations that the hair “needs a little wash, some tonic and a singe” know now that Justice occasionally takes that bandage off her eyes, One thing nice about Russia— there is Falggecd no used razor blade prol lem there. | Just because ou're @ prune you e | don’t have to fall for a lot of apple- sauce, (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) o —_—________________—_9 | Atthe Movies | —_______—e AT THE CAPITOL A modern Cinderella is the term that can be applied to fascinating Maria Alba, winner of Fox Films beauty contest in Spain. What chance has any youngster in far-away Spain of ever, ever see- ing the inside of a motion picture studio? Then in a few exciting weeks Maria found herself transported to Hollywood and was actually a part of this eran industry. “Eet is just like a dream,” says Miss Alba, in her rapidly smpennne English, “and sometimes I think will wake up and it will all be gone. “All my life, since I was 80 leetle, I have wanted to be an actress, but in Spain I never thought of pic- tures, Then one test, I make my best appearance, the camera turns, and even though I am half scared of my h Me owing at the Capitol. theatre Showii today (¥ fednesday) and Thursday, ELTINGE THEATRE “Telling the World,” which is fea- fay end Thursday i Posbaps the da: is aps the best of the line of starring pictures with wich Willie Helpes aan tr rears: Ti ly convulsed snd thrilled these: United The si concerns a youthful ne'er-do- who when ejected into the cold world by his wealthy father @ job on a newspaper with his to interview his ton the subject of why he him out. With that hilarious opening, the tale moves rapidly through Haines’ period as a “cub” wherein he solves a night club murder and incidentally rescues a little cabacet girl (Anita Page—and what a beauty she is:) from the clutches of the police, HOUSE PLANTS Keep the dirt loosened and culti- vated around house plants. Put them into the tub t's pore bath once a fee a little fertilizer le HEALTH’DIET ADVI Dr Frank Mc pee AUGUST 22, 1928 CE Coy a pleasing way to keep the dia- phragmatic muscle properly exer- cised. Any good singing teacher Dr. McCoy will gladly answer personal questions on health and diet, addressed to him, care of the Tribune. Enclose a stamped envelope for reply. understands the necessity for breath control, and will give the pupil exer- cises through the practice of sing- ing. A steov~ resonant cpeaking voice can be thus developed. The tone of the asthmatic o r tu- bercular voice is alw: very ry due to the tight diaphragm which al- ways exists. The cure of either one 'of these disorders cannot be accom- ‘plished with the development of a \normal diaphragm, T have prepared a special chart of exercises that I will be glad to send to anyone who will send a large, self. addressed, stamped envelope, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS , Question: Alex M. writes: “Spe- cialists tell me I have no hydro- chloric acid in my stomach. Have taken bottle after bottle of it until it has affected my teeth. What is your idea of a cure?” ‘ Answer: The cure of too much or too little stomach acidity depends en- tirely upon living on a well balanced diet, The more hydrochloric acid you take internally, the worse your con- dition will become eventually. Question: Housewife asks: “Are carrots, string beans and beets a good combination with meat and istewed fruit? If so, is it all right for me to have this combination reg- ularly every day?” Answer: | The combination you ask about is an excellent one, and can be used with benefit at least onGuestion: EM, aske: A juestion: E. M. asks: “Are cold shower baths daily each morning good for a person?” ,Answer: Cold baths are very in- |Vigorating and help to increase the blood’s circulation. Some people who are anemic or nervous cannot take a real cold bath with benefit until they have practically recovered from their trouble. Question: Mother asks: “What do you suppose is the cause of a boy of thirteen always picking at his ;nose? I have given him the worm ey but still he picks at each side.” Answer: Your boy may be troubled with adenoids or chronic catarrh. In some cases, the nose picking is simply a habit which you can correct by having him wear mit- tens or gloves as much of the time as possible. Montana Democrats to Hold Convention Helena, Aug. 22.— (AP) —Demo- cratic State Chairman W. W. Mc- Dowell today issued a call for the Democratic state convention to meet jat Helena Wednesday morning, Sept. 5. The convention call is sent to state and legislative candidates, hold-over state senators, and state committee- men, Among the things for which the meeting is called is the adoption of a party platform and the election of a state chairman, Capital Funeral Parlors 208 Main Ave, Licensed Embalmer Phone—Day cr Night—@2 Jos, W. Tschumperlin The Taxi Driver I Dependable for Every Bugine a Ne “sy - ewe sew eee. pee