The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 15, 1928, Page 4

PAGE FOUR The Bismarck Tribune An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at Bis- marck as second class mail . ‘George D. Mann ........ ident and Publisher Daily ages tie Rates yy carrier, per Dail ail, Baily a mail’ per year, (im state (in Bismarck) ...... Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota . Weekly by mail, in state. per year seeceeeee 1.00 Weekly by mail, in state, three years for .secee 2) Weekly by mail, outside of North Dakota, r year ... . ee Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press “ The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to tl 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 blished herein. All rights of republication of all other mat- ter herein are also reserved. arcs) Foreign Representatives eee ve. . CHICAGO ‘Serrorr Tower Bldg. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Kresge Bldg. OUTDOING BOSS TWEED The story of Boss Tweed, who looted New York City @ generation ago of nobody knows how many millions of dollars, is one of the most interesting stories in the his- tory of American cities. Tweed’s insolent, “Well, what are you going to do about it?” when confronted with proofs of his thiev- ing is a classic. When we read his story, we comfort ourselves with the thought that our municipal govern- ments have at least progressed to a point where nothing quite so bare-faced and arrogant as a Tweed ring is ever possible again. But we’re just kidding ourselves. Tweed was only a piker. The behind-the-scenes high-binders of Chicago, Fhiladelphia, Detroit and Cleveland would consider him a weakiing. They are getting more money from honest folk than Tweed ever got; their defiance of the law is More arrogant and cocksure than Tweed’s ever was; and their immunity to prosecution by the officers of the law seems to be even greater then Tweed’s. Tweed’s dominance over New York was, after all, an affair that could be remedied without too much trouble. It was . »mparatively easy to arouse the indignation of the citizenry, and a shower of ballots soon ended Tweed’s reign. But the modern racketeer’s grip on our cities is something that will be a whole lot harder to shake. To begin with, it is harder to shock us than it used to be. Prosperity has dulled the edge of our civic con- science. We have grown pretty cynical about official nonfeasance and graft. We take it for granted that there will be shady doings behind the city hall and the courthouse. “Turn the rascals out” is no longer an ef- fective war cry. And in the second place, the modern racketeer is no pacifist. He is daring and desperate. Given a mini- mum of -fficial eye-shutting and he will work his ma- chine guns and bombs at all hours. Tweed employed a certain amount of finesse; the racketeer simply says “gimme!” over the muzzle of a revolver. Fear is his most powerful asset. The racketeer gets his chief support, however, from public indifference. We take the underworld too much s @ matter of course. We have not yet realized that ities cannot continue to exist half civilized and half e, The stratum composed of beer rynners, hi- rg, gambling “kings,” fixers, politico-criminal go- etweens and gunmen is more than a disquieting, scan- dalous phenomenon; it represents a force that must be got under control before it wrecks us. Unless we wake up, and do so pretty speedily, we are due for a condition not so very far removed from actual anarchy. Boss Tweed was a bad one, to be sure. But he wasn’t half so baneful an influence on the life of his time as are the modern racketeer and his satellites. NOT OUT OF THE JUNGLE YET Three people died in New Britain, Conn.,’the other day after drinking some home brew. Their death came so quickly that the police got suspicious; and, analyzing the beer, they found it had been doped with cyanide, one of the most, deadly poisons known. An investigation followed, and Samuel Weiss, brother of one of the victims, was arrested. In a short time he confessed. He had poisoned the beer to kill his brother, with whos: wife he was infatuated. He was sorry the other two men had died, but that couldn’t be helped. Instead of being remorseful, Weiss expressed sorrow that his brother had died s2 easily. He had hoped, he said, that his brother would “die like a dog, in the yard.” A little later he began to weep; but he ficers that his conscience was not bothering him. He ‘was weeping because he feared he himself would be That little tale, taken from the daily papers, is about as depressing an item of news as you could find. The shocking brutality and callousness of the murderer, coupled with his craven fear for his own hide, reveal those murky depths in human nature that we ordinar- ily keep covered. Worse yet, we know that there are re- that make us, remotely, kin to this prisoner; and it isn’t a pleasant thought. Yet we needn’t let it discourage us. .. After all, it is only a few centuries since that sort of conduct was the rule and not the exception.’ The ‘human race started its long upward climb by being cowegay, cruel, vengeful and murderous beyond belief. The: @ ‘vere few restraints or niceties of conduct in the stone age. If a man wanted something his neighbor _ owned, he knocked his neighbor on the head and took it, provided he was big enough; and in all the world there ‘was no one to say he was wrong. operate with parent, school and church. The several organizations in this field differ among themselves in detail. But fundamentally they are alike in implanting simple, natural and genuine values in the young at a time when boys and girls are apt to place too great store by the false values of our latter-day life. The codes of conduct, the laws and regulations of these orders are so ingrained in their members that the net result is a high type of training. But there is no immorality in organizations. They do not persist in good works without leadership. Boys and girls cannot be organized for sound recreation and training unless adults take a hand. The men and wom- en willing to give their time to such a cause have the satisfaction of knowing that they do not merely talk about the necessity 8f good citizenship; they help to oy build it. Organizations devoted to the welfare of youth have no difficulty in finding material to work with, but they must be ever on the lookout for men and women fitted for this important social work. The work frequently suffers from lack of leadership, not because there are few qualified adults, but because few men and women are willing to make the necessary sacrifices. A RELIC OF TRAGEDY It was rather a grim elew that was washed up on the coast of Iceland the other day. A lone airplane wheel, after drifting nobody knows how long, bobbed up and was found by fishermen. The wheel bore the name of the London factory that made it, and factory officials say it is just like the wheels car- tied by the 63-year-old Princess Ann of Lowenstein- Wertheim when she tried to fly across the Atlantic, Nothing has even been seen or heard of the princess since she hopped off a year ago. But the appearance of that lone wheel, drifting miles to the northward, tells all we need to know. If you will let your imagination Play for a moment you can picture the whole tragic story. CHURCH WINDO®WS; 1928 The Third Unitarian church of Chicago is putting in a new kind of stained glass window. Instead of the traditional Biblical scenes, its windows will depict mod- ern science, industry, justice and the arts. The church would seem to have more or less author- ity for this rather surprising step; a great Episcopal cathedral is to have a “sports bay,” with such pastimes as professional baseball, golf, tennis and the like fit- tingly glorified. Doubtless this is quite all right. But it reminds us, somehow, of the story that was current a year or so ago. In this story one man, meeting another, sug- gested that they go to church. The second man agreed, and asked where they should go. To which the first re- Plied: “Oh, let’s go to one of those quaint, old-fashioned places where they still read the Bible.” Editorial Comment | FORGOTTEN TOWNS (St. Paul Dispatch) Within 50 miles of Madrid, General Primo de Rivera discovered a forgotten Spanish town. Valdemanqueda, with a population of 350, has been isolated for many years and has lost even the semblance of civilization. Its inhabitants live in a state of semi-starvation and mental degeneracy. The tumbled-down church has no priest, the village school is without teacher or pupils and the inhabitants have reverted to a stagnancy and decay that deprives them of even the customs and man- ners of primitive people. This is not a deserted village such as Goldsmith pic- tu. ‘., new ab av ike the deserted boom towns of the min- ine regions of the United States which were suddenly populated and as sudden!v depopulated. The nearest approach to the Spanish condition is that of the moun- taineers of Kentucky, but even these preserved the traditions of their race and only stood still while the rest of the country advanced. They were the Robin- son Crusoes who though marooned fended for them- selves in some rude but energetic way. The Spanish villagers were the Rip van Winkles who slept and are found starved in rags and tatters. Modern civilization seems to be a matter of inter- communication and transportation, Without these the vast stretches of the United States might have more than one village of Valdemanqueda. FEWER AND BETTER PAPERS (Duluth Herald) The Editor and Publisher prints some interesting newspaper statistics which vividly illustrate what has pace going on, and is still going on, in the newspaper eld, In five years, from 1928 to 1928, the number of cities served by only one newspaper has increased from 782 to 915. The increase is 183, or seventeen per cent. In the same period the number of cities with more than one newspaper has fallen from 513 to 418. And in eighty-five of these ci ith more than one news- paper all of the newspapers are under one management. includes such important cities as Mobile, San Diego, De: Charleston,-Springfield in Massa- chusetts and Austin and Galveston in Texas. There are several reasons for this marked change, chief of which is that modern demands pon newspapers became so great and costly that it was utterly impos- sible to keep up the old condition under which Pitts- burgh, for instance, had seven newspapers where now it has three. The decline of political partisanship among newspa- pers has helped in this process. Where newspapers felt that taay. had to be party. organs. naturally a city must have at least one newspaper for each major party. Now that field often is filled by a single independent new: paper. e country has far fewer newspapers than it used to serves of untapped cowgrdice and cruelty in most of us |it has better newspapers than it ever hi have, because the pressure of costs and competition squeezed out the weaker ones. But for the same reason had before. HUGHES, WORLD JURIST Ukinnespe Journal) Honored as it was by the th service of John Bassett Moore-on bench of the World Court, the United States retains its position of international regard by the election of Charles Evans Hughes to succeed him, and stands in even higher respect through the succession. Nor is this disparagement in the least degree toward the distinguished jurist who is retiring on his own initia- tive from the Tribunal of International Justice. Justice Moore’s name will long continue among the foremost of international jurists, for his contributions to world justice have demonstrated that the member nations evaluated his judicial qualifications properly, when they That happens to be the sort of foundation on which |chose this jurist from a people holding no seat of mem- we have built. Amazingly, incomprehensibly, people | bership in the Court have groped upward from that rude jungle law. They Me have erected temples, written music, framed high codes | known of conduct for themselves, learned how to sacrifice their |tional court of justice in the world, as a statesman of marked achievement, and as Pa ce authority is own lives for intangible ideals, taught themselves to master their own desires in the interests of order and © deceney; and the spectacle is both astounding and in- spiring. It happens that the battle is not yet won. The jungle _y man still exists, below the surface. Once in # while he pase or a spectacle like this one in New Britain. But Charles Evans Hughes can match John Bassett loore’ with qualifications of his own, made to the world as a member of the greatest na- ipl ing with in the councils of of the World Court, need not bow to any jurist of “ we have reached the point where guch things can shock | Pilities. ‘we have the vision of what it should be. sod horrity ws, at least. If out victory ian't complete, |, Wnather the door organizations are intended to supplement and co- BY RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Sefvice Writer) Washington, September 15—A young man in Maryland recently sent the department of mammalogy at the National Museum a strange bone formation, which appeared to be the “pe of some very remarkable ani- mal, It certainly did look like a skull. Great holes mpeeared to be eyes and @ couple of places at each end were almost certainly ears. The bone structure that appeared to be the nose was huge, but it appeared to be the front end of a remarkable head. No wonder it excited the finder with the belief that he had made a dis- covery of enormous importance. As a matter of fact, it was the pelvis of an ordinary horse. The acetabuli had been mistaken for ears, the obturator foramen for eyes, and! So on. ~ Perfectly natural mistake for any- one who didn’t know what a horse looked like with its flesh off, but the mammalogy experts, who know all those things, are let in for a great many explanations through corres- Pondence by the fact that the Ameri- can people don’t know their bones. se * The museum, of course, is Ameri- ca’s greatest boneyard. But it specializes on bones out of the ordi- nary, and the trouble is that bone finders are forever finding bones which appear to be extraordinary, but are really very ordinary indeed. One man, for instance, forwarded the skeleton of a dog, minus legs and with the skull peculiarly bent. What species of fish, he demanded, | @. ‘was this? Bones of calves and cows and other domestic animals arrive fre- quently, and occasionally the skull of a seal picked up on the beach, or remains of some wild animal—deer, bear, squirrel or something like that. oe 8 Broken skulls are more likely to est of his bonanza times. It is then | perplex bone finders than anything |that moving vans work 24 hours a| else. Skulls of sheep also often be-|day, and even the old grocery wagon ' come mysteries, A year ago someone sent in a cat’s broken skull, picked up in Arizona. large section was missing. The | “tl sender was sure that his was a re- markable discovery, so when the { WASHINGTON - LETTE OUR BOARDING HOUSE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ea REE <———atk Museum wrote back that it was only sore. “Who ever heard,” he demanded, “of a cat with horns and hoofs?” Further inquiry developed that he had found the hoof of a horse nearby and was convinced that the relics came from the same animal. He still thinks so, for.bone finders are often \Very difficult to convince. The museum has more than once received a complete dog skeleton from a finder who hadn’t the slight- est idea what it was. | But the museum’s experts don’t want to encourage this sort of thing. you never can tell, |\ It doesn’t care anything about the bones of any domestic animals, but it is usually glad to get the complete bones of a wild animal, because the |Species of these vary according to separate localities, and the museum wants all collections as complete as Possible. Even the. skeletons of mice and rats aren’t scorned—though that jdoesn’t go for the ordinary house varieties. * Not that there is any money avail- able to pay for ordinary skeletons— But if you should find the bones of any mastodons or any other pre- historic animals and can prove that they aren’t those of any animal you ever saw, the museum will stand the expense of a collect telegram. f IN NEw YorK | ee i, New York, Sept. 15.—Mid-Septem- jber finds Manhattan in its most fev- jéred mood. It is then that a vast percentage of New Yorkers pul up stakes and move. It is then that any enterpris- ing ice man with a pushcart or wheelbarrow can retire on the inter- can afford to take on airs. Van Prices soar and voices at the other end of the telephone inform you that can’t make any promises but we'll move you as soon as we get around to it.” ~t IT LOOKS LIKE Youve POT YOUR “TALKING BOARD IM STORAGE SIGA- IN YouR ‘@ cat's skull after all, he was very | Some time somebody might—well, | Persons who have Septembered in New York for more than one season make moving reservations months in advance. Long before the hallowed date most available means of trans- Portation have been engaged. For leases in New York run from October to October or September to September and New Yorkers, taken by and large, are a nomadic tribe. Such is the restlessness of the city that the dwellers yearn for new pas- tures and tire quickly of them. Only those who have moved and moved and moved finally accept the inevit- ability of the fairly-comfortable. The others keep the side-streets cluttered day and night while whole |families turn out to carry bird cages, lamp shades and chairs. Kiddy-cars are pressed into service ... tired men and women plod by wit its of fur- niture dragging behind in the family jbaby buggy ... trunks pile along the sidewalks . . . hectic last-minute vacationers rush in from the country jto grab up the odds and ends in realtors apartment bargains . . hang out large signs . grow friendly and effusive lyweds, fresh from the hint @ry out against the rentals ried rearrangements of family budg- jets are made to meet the extra $10 Per month for a “perfectly darling ‘place” . . . the streets present a kaleidoscope of the grotesque, the comic and the wistful. ... It’s one of |Manhattan’s most amusing annual | shows, i eee Chronic golfers now play from morn to midnight. Yes, and into the wee hours of \the morning. For “roof golf” is the latest vogue |among the addicts. Upon the roof |of the Hotel Ogden, where one of the most elaborate roof courses is laid out, there are miniature reproduc- tions of some of the golf spots in the world—replicas of a famous tee, of a certain famous hazard, a lake and all the rest. Midnight dates for after-theater |golfing are quite the thing now that the first cool fall breezes are being jfelt. Brilliant arc lights stream across the course. Gents in evennig suits menace the trim tailoring of | their shoulders, Some hurriedly re- |dress into knickers and sweaters. Ladies in evening gowns and glist- ening jewels look out. Other gentle- men, who have stopped in the | “whoopee parlors” for a few cock- tails, grow boastful of their prowess, \but find difficulty connecting with their “tee off.” | sf . And while on the subject of sport- - By Ahern | MENTAL WAREHOUSE,~ ALONG } HME SO!~ You WITH ALL TH’ HUNDRED OTHER GREAT \DEAS “THAT RED For. A WEEK, AN’ “THEA WENT INTo A p ENVIOUS EYES WILL SEE meWAS ATIME WHEA WE'D MY “TALKING SIGNBOARD {SNEAK OUT AN" A REALITY, EGAD lun) FAD “THAT AHEM, =~ ARE MY HOPES IS NAIA, THAT POSSIBLY PORTION OF PIE REMAINS. FOR ONE WItH A NORMAL’ YouR BRIDGE~- WORK, BEAT . Us “fo TH’ R AND CONTROLLABLE most famous | A DOES YOUR CHILD DISLIKE GOOD FOODS? Young children, and those who are grown up Ree dislike car- rots, parsnips, milk, cabbage, spinach or other perfect! ” good wholesome liked foods are placed before these individuals, the stronger becomes the dislike. If our sense of taste is for our protection, why do we sometimes like foods that are bad for us, and dislike foods that are good for us? Although at first glance there may seem to be no reason for this dislike, there undoubtedly is. At birth we. have not much appreciation of fla- vors. After a few hours or minutes of teasing the baby, by rubbing milk on its mouth, it acquires a taste for milk—SWEET milk. Try to feed the baby unsweetened milk and see what a howl baby makes! During the course of the next few weeks an infant,may develop a liking for a few other things like water, orange juice or scraped apple. Each new flavor requires a pel of get- to regain lost strength. growing of finger and hy nai use of a lack of organic mi! ‘als which go to make up compo- ou of the nails, ome Chale and ¥ A. B. writes: “I have lf and others will- i Question: 1 lost confidence in mysel —also poy on control st power, wi causes me a nervous fear almost cons! . Will uu tell me what causes this, and yw to cure myself?” Answer: You should seek the ad- vice of a good psychologist or lore cea You can receive much elp by reading good books on the subject of mind power ahd mental control, but personal advice and the encouragement of a mental prac- ting acquainted. This process con- tinues throughout life, and unless @ new flavor reminds us of one that ‘we already like, we are very cau- tious about using it. This is a wise provision of nature to ard us against poisonous foods. We taste a thing cautiously and if it does not harm us, we will be curious to try it again until finally we acquire a lik- ing for its flavor. in this way, many people and races acquire appetites for a food that seems queer to us if we do not enjo) its flavor or appearance. One man’s tidbit becomes another man’s emetic. It is a wise policy to explain to a child that the vitamins in foods will make him grow big and strong, and that he will be able to beat other boys in games, or to sometime drive an automobile or an aeroplane. It is a very poor policy to say, “If you don’t eat your dish of spinach, you can’t have any ice cream.” Scolding is worse than useless, While it gives the scolder a feeling of superiority, it leaves the scoldee more obstinate than ever. i In training a child, it is ‘far more valuable to bri instinctive desire to excel t! “This is good for you,” or “That is bad for you.” 1. A boy may be indifferent to a Shower of facts about health, but suppose he wants to win a mile race at the school track meet? - He is willing to go into training, and will lp down the facts about simply gul healttl, Teach him to brag about the amount of vegetables he can eat. Give him helpings that are ob- viously too small and let him ask for more rather than force large helpings upon him. It is a good policy to make favor- able suggestions about food when talking to some one at the table so that the child can overhear as, “Gene Tunney drinks lots of milk and that makes him a big, strong man.” Many of our dislikes for food are associated with the memory of some sickness of the stomach, have noted severe cases of dislike for cab- bage that originated with vomiting a meal that contained cabbage. It is sometimes hard to trace the ori- gin of a dislike, but this can usually be done if one really studies the problem impartially. 4 One can usually overcome a dis- like by mixing a small amount of the unpleasant food with a very large amount of the good food. This can sometimes be done unknown to the person affected, and in this way the dislike will be gradually overcome. person who dislikes many foods only, makes life unpleasant for him- self, JUESTIONS AND ANSWERS uestion: Mother asks: “Will you please tell me what to give my chil- dren as a tonic after whooping cough? Also, is it a bad sign when a child’s fingér and toe nails grow very slowly?” rs Answer: ~ Tonics are only stimu- lants and should not be given to chil- dren. In recovering from whoop- ing cough it is necessary to take a carefully balanced diet and to in- crease exercises each day in order ing events, the boys at Sharp’s Cor- ners may "be pleased to learn that they’re tossing horseshoes now in one corner of Central park. And, if you please, the latest bright light signs on Broadway in- form us that those places’ wherein rou. juggle with long strings of Siar corn-beef are called “Spaghet- erias.” if ” ce 8-68 ton SWAN. (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) Our Yesterdays * + ‘TEN YEARS AGO Thousands of people from Kidder, The 26th annual convention. et the state W. C. T. U. opened here with a Hoover banquet. Mi Anderson of Fargo B,J. Cahill of titioner are often necessary to ced you in effecting a complete cure, af- ter you are conscious of having lost your mental control. “Dr. McCoy Suggests Menus For a Week Mls trelnondtec Ak odd pcre Dr. McCoy’s menus suggested for the week beginning Sunday, Sept. 16. Sunday Breakfast—Cantaloupe, all desired. Lunch—Baked potato, cooked let- tuce, cauliflower salad. Dinner—Roast chicken, offra, stuffed celery, ice cream. londay Breakfast—French omelet, Melba toast, stewed 7. ‘ind of fresh fruit, Lunch—One all desired. Dinner—Roast beef, squash, com- bination salad of tomatoes, celery, cucumbers, on shredded lettuce, rasp- berry whip. Breakfast—Coddle: caus, toasted cereal biscuit, stewed apples. hd ns, Lungh—Stewed corn, 8 celery. 2 Dinner—Broiled mutton chops, \: spinach, salad of chopped cucumber and metanerts, ineapple sponge. Breakfast—Crisp waffle with ma- ple syrup, 2 or 3 strips of well cooked acon, stewed apricots. Lunch—Melon as desired. Dinner—Tomtao jelly served in cubes, baked sea bass, cooked celery, ae tomatoes on lettuce, apple whip. ‘ Thursday Breakfast—Baked eggs, *whole- ‘wheat drop biscuits, stewed prunes. Lunch—Lettuce soup, salad of chopped raw cabbage, celery and to- , matoes. R Dinner—Salisbury _ steak, . stri beans, stuffed beet salad, carrot pud- ing. / Frifay Breakfast—Baked stuffed apples. Ignch—Rice with peanut butter en casserole, shredded lettuce, ripe ol- ives. Dinner—Broiled halibut, baked egg plant, combination of toma- toes, cucumber and parsley, Jello or Jell-well, no cream. : r > Saturday Breakfast—Poached egg on toast- ed shredded wheat biscuit, stewed raisins, ae Matlon or grapes, all de- sired, Dinner—Broiled fresh beef tongue, mashed turnips, salad of colds cooked string beans and celery, cup custard. R “Wholewheat Drop Biscuits—Two egg whites, 1 cupful of wholewheat flour, 2 level teaspoonfuls of baking Powder, pinch of salt, 1-2 cupful, cream. it the whites of the eggs until stiff, and fold in with as little sti as possible, the wholewheat flour, into which has been sifted the ‘ing powder and salt. Add the 2a drop the batter < small spoonfuls on an ungreased aluminum baking sheet and bake in a hot oven until brown. Miss Louise Sweet returned to Fargo after spending several weeks here. The Rebekah lodge entertained at a pink tea at the Odd Fallows tail, Work was begun on the trolley line between the state capitol the Northern Pacific depot. The line would be 8,400 feet long. FORTY YEARS AGO Mrs. W. W. Fowler of M: house of Mr. and irs. b milea from Oakes, buffalo’ weighed over 1700 pounds. ¥ ¢ [|_ BARBS "7 Mrs. Knapp, former secretary diate of New York, seneiary, ot 30 days for the funds Too mach,