The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 6, 1928, Page 4

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(Official City, State and County Newspaper) CHANGING THE BAIT Anyone keeping an eye on the foreign news can— especially if he has a sense of humor—anticipate just what part in the concert of nations the United States will next be asked to take. Only a little while ago Uncle Sam was a Shylock. Now he is a world benefactor, swooped down upon some bank, paymaster or rival gangster. One thing that shouid be of great assurance to the public is that the criminal class represents but a small Percentage of the country’s population. Some day society will get desperate and will learn that it has the power to disorganize “organized crime.” With able and incorruptible agents for the protection of , Daily by carrier, per year ... 20 society against its enemies there is no reason why Pees te minh ver rest, (ia Bi 720) society should reach the desperate stage, although : ‘lin state ae Bismarck) . 8.0u| much good might come from such a situation. Daily dy mail, outside of North Dak 6.00 pedteudipben tienen ster FOREIGN CRITICS . Local crises in Latin America have sometimes made it necessary for the United States to take a firm stand and deal with menacing situations in such a man- ner that they would not get out of hand or assume serious proportions. Things below the Rio Grande are comparatively quiet and peaceful now, but new war clouds may roll up at any hour. The sending of marines into Central America has more than once served to throw the press of Europe into a high state of excitement. Reputable newspapers both in Great Britain and on the Continent have as- sumed righteous airs and have insinuated or openly declared that the United States is playing the part of a bully and is oppressing its smaller neighbors, or at least brandishing a big stick in their faces. In Europe such silly charges do little harm. They are liberally discounted and pass current at somewhere near their deflated value. Unhappily, many Americans are overcredulous when our national behavior is under the fire of foreign critics. They seem to accept as gospel every word against America that is cabled across the Atlantic. America has no monopoly of friction with minor ates. Britain frequently has occasion to visit pu- Not long since, economic conditions in Europe were | represented as sorewhat more than bad—which was} partly true. Now conditions are being represented as | not only on the mend but almost mended—which also | is true, partly. ' Why should these great and heartening changes | have come about? We, as a nation, are acting pre- cisely as we acted at the zenith of our unpopularity abroad. Nothing of tremendous and instant signifi- cance has happened to change the economic condition | of Europe. A sourid prosperity is not built overnight.) The plain answer is that no great change has come about. We were never so much disliked as was rep- | resented; we are not so much liked now as represented. The nations of Europe were not quite so badly off as | they were officially presented as being; none of them today is as well off as it is being officially presented | as being. It has just seemed wise and expedient to some of the European governments to shift from the | vinegar to the sugar method of catching flies. The theory seems to be that, since America has pur- | chased all the European bonds offered, as well as much old furniture and many old masters, it might also fancy the interesting antique known as war-debt cancellation. | Uncle Sam did not fancy it with bitter words and a jeremiad, so it is being offered to him with a new dressing of honeyed words and prosperity talk. A FAIR TAX The tax on gasoline, used as a source of public rev- enue in all but two states, is under fire in the courts. An Illinois court has declared the levy unconstitutional under the fourth amendment. In other states its constitutionality has been upheld. The discriminatory features of such legislation have long been used as an argument by the opponents of the gasoline tax. It is open to question whether the tax is discriminatory in the required legal sense. It is true that users of gasoline cars pay a greater share of the tax burden than those operating steam and electric automobiles, the latter escaping the gaso- line tax, but the number of steam and electric cars is Telatively so small that it is hardly worth while taking them into account. The benefit of good roads, built, improved and main- tained to a large extent with revenue from the gaso- line tax, is shared more largely by the owners and drivers of gasoline vehicles than by any other class. If any considerable number of gasoline consumers protested against the discrimination against them and in favor of the owners of gasless cars, the courts might be justified in declaring the gasoline tax discriminatory and, therefore, unconstitutional. The fact is that few | have thought of the owners of electric and steam cars @@s exempt from the gasoline tax. ‘The greatest danger in the gasoline tax is that it ‘will be made ruinous. State legislatures are tempted to boost it to the point where it becomes burdensome and unpopular. The shortest route to the repeal of a fax is to levy more than the traffic will bear. ANTIQUATED METHODS An advertising man caused a stir in life insurance ' circles some time ago by a vigorous assault not only ™pon its sales methods but also upon the general atti- “tade of insurance companies toward the public. He | @asumed that people need life insurance badly, and if _ the companies would advertise more extensively and pdopt less of a sphinxlike, frozen-faced attitude toward public, customers would step right up te the counter 1 buy insurance the way they buy postage stamps ‘@ railroad tickets. He seemed to feel that the costly ‘Ged extensive agency or salesmanship system might upon, ‘The sale of life insurance is not wholly unlike the | gale of other commodities. Advertising can and does i felp enormously. It furnishes the salesman a back- ‘ground and the more extensively people learn to know ‘Swhat insurance means through advertising, the less | Meare footwork the salesman must do and the more he omes a true financial doctor. This fact is recog- and utilized by many progressive companies. is still an almost hopeless amount of educa- work to be done to make the public insurance- pit. Every other business educates its public through medium of advertising. It can do as much for life convinced that there is such a thing crime” and that it can with immunity at organized society. They fear the criminal *|aeenon as he |attempts to get a strangle hold on crime. | lessness. jthe best way to eliminate the underworld is to talk it to death, or if that fails, to abolish it by resolution. Reports on crime, without action, have become the comic literature of the criminal classes. less, been made. How to do it is the problem. Let alvertising | betra: “itive wreth upon Arabian villeges and Indian towns. Of course Great Britain does not have the least sus- picion that she is playing the part of a bully or oppres- sor on such occasions, Neither America nor England is an oppressor nation. Neither can escape the responsibility for keeping its relations with minor states on an even keel. PUBLIC APATHY There is no single national issue defined in party platforms which compares in vital importance with the local issues that are involved in the feeble and scattered The para- mount issue before every state, county and village is the suppression of crime. Few vigorous and whole- hearted attempts have been made to stamp out law- Here and there drastic action has been taken; but for the most part the impression still prevails that Here and there substantial progress has, neverthe- New York, Michigan and California, to their credit, have latedy adopted new criminal codes, from which great things may fairly be expected. They tighten up judicial procedure, speed justice and make punishment more certain. ‘Little Delaware, the silent state which rarely cheeps except when her peach crop is in danger, has not contributed much noise to the general hue and cry against crime; but she has done better, in that she has kept her own narrow borders almost free from serious offenses. Other states will inevitably fall in line with those named when conditions that are already far too bad become intolerable. Legislatures are not to be too sternly criticized for their inertia. They merely re- flect public apathy. | Editorial Comment AREN'T THEY ALL PROFESSIONALS (Kansas City Star) 5 Just what noble principle is at stake in the barring of Tilden from the Davis cup tennis matches is diffi- cult for the uninitiated to figure out. We should say broadly that a man was a professional tennis player if he devoted all his time to the game, irrespective of whether he supported himself out of an inheritance or out of his earnings as a writer. An amateur, we should imagine, would be a person who played in his leisure for sport. Any player who gives up enough time to the game to figure in international tournaments obviously is a professional. We undestand, however, that any such rule of reason has no part in the deliberations of the gentlemen who make the rules for the game. So we cannot take any particular interest in their hair splitting over the ob- servance of regulations by which certain professional players are held to be amateurs and certain others professionals. DR. TUNNEY AS A BANKER a (Philadelphia Record) It is pleasant to read that, after a year spent abroad in the study of philosophy, Dr. Eugene Tunney will think seriously of buckling down to the realities of life, with a preference for banking or industrial business. As between these two lines of activity we would rather think of our undisputed champion as a banker, with be sibly a partnership in such a house as J. P. Morgan or some other equally reputable firm. Many redecessors in the championship have gone into Governor Al Smith. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE: cad 1 Lo Lag } YA epee Whysf hl By RODNEY DUTCHER \e4 Harding-Coolidge foreign policies _ (NEA Service Writer) ‘ as “ignoble and cowardly,” and urged Washington, Oct. 6.—Democrats; the nation to act on “the biggest everywhere are wondering what part | ideas and purposes of international Mrs. Woodrow Wilson will take in! the presidential campaign. Policies.” The next night 20,000 Persons made pilgrimage to his S street home and he addressed them for two minutes. Mrs. Wilson favors the election of Some Dem- |___An Act on Which the ‘Critics’ Seem About Unanimous! Wan MTT anise e 91009 to some friends shortly after March ocratic leaders are confident that she will make some public appeal for the Smith-Robinson ticket be- fore election day. Mrs.; Wilson has promised some such con-} tribution to the campaign has not been clear, pending her return from urope. Heretofore Mrs. Wilson has re- frained from political expressions solely through her high sense of dignity and good taste. Devoted to the memory. of her husband, the! thought of any departure from his | standards has been to her one of the greatest repugnance. see Until now she has always re-! fused to be interviewed or to make! any public statement. Wilson died early in 1924. The conventions and camp2ign of that year were held during her period of greatest grief. | Even if Wilson himself had lived it is doubtful whether he would have participated in any way in the} Smith-McAdoo fight. But Mrs. Wilson, widowed, con- tinued to take an active though de- tached interest in politics, with spe- cial reference to Wilsonian princi- ples. She has been the most con- spicuous though silent figure in the National Women’s Democratic Club here. She has made pilgrimages to the League of Nations sessions at Geneva. And at the same time she has conducted herself in line with the promise which Wilson made 4, 1921, that he intended to “show how an ex-president should conduct himself.” eee Wilson’s subsequent _ aloofness from party squabbles was broken only by two letters to a friend con- cerning the senatorial candidacy of his old enemy, Jim Reed of Mis- souri, in 1922. letters were re- lies. The night before Armistice ay, 1923, Wilson gave a five-min- business, with often disastrous results. But as a banker the graceful and studious Eugene quite fills the bill. With what dignity, for example, could he turn down an ap licant for a loan of a million or two, and if the would-be borrower made any demur he would have full knowledge of what might be coming to him. TO MAKE STORIES (Helen Topping Miller in College Humor) Kathleen Norris—1 kitchen, 1 rosary, 1 baby (wet), 1 Irish grandmother. Arthur Somers Roche—1 pint gin, 1 high voltage flapper, 1 decollette roadster, 1 cold dawn. lary Roberts Rinehart—1 old doctor, 1 young doctor, 1 strong-minded spinster, 1 rowboat. Ben Willlams—1 sawmill, 1 tamarack swamp, 1 dog, 1 black bull. Cynthia Stockley—1 scarlet flower, 1 tarantula, 1 dumb blonde, 1 kaffir boy. Wilbur Daniel Steele—i swordfish, 1 Portuguese, 1 ved hter, 1 east wind. Martha Ostenso—1 cold winter, 1 load manure, 1 kettle onion soup, 1 dull ax. * The outlook for agricultural relief is that the farmers are going et more promises that sound all right crane ceca art pate is a hio State Journal. ee eR The scientists say the da: growing longe: the ate of one scond ever? 100,000 years. Me the Republican platform fails to claim credit for this, we suggest the Democrats grab it.—Chicago Tribune. Boys shouldn't smoke before they 21, Babe a ety akira ens on lo little ‘sister —Florence, Ala, Herald. te? and A returned traveler states that 90 per cent of Turk- toh mes lead wile Ai the women work. pice! seniors service LF nase tay Moor expected once.—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. f . a, went peerine lemet lone Pe oa w. lor an honest man, was that he pres’ 'y sto's his pos Colu~rbus, Ohio, ral. ‘ tion. ute radio address in which he brand-| la: | OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahern| [ Our Yesterdays | GO ON Witt MY EXPERIMENTAL _ It now seems likely that Mre. Wilson will go no farther than he did; that she will confine her ac- tivity to a brief radio talk or a re- Py to a letter from a friend, as ‘ilson did. , Mrs. Wilson’s interest in Gov- ernor Smith began to develop in 1924. After his triumphant reelec- tion in New York in 1926, which al- most insured his nomination this year, she began to study his record. In Smith’s political principles she found many which squared with Wilsonian doctrines. She came to regard Smith as a forward-looking, rogressive statesman, this writer s been informed, who was worthy to “carry the torch.” Otherwise she probably would not have attended the Houston conven- That convention marked a temporary re-emergence into the rere oe It ought to be said here that Mrs. Wilson was pushed into a lot. more limelight at Houston than she ¢: but accepted the sit- uation with all the good grace and good taste which has marked her since she became the wife of the late war president. °o-—___-___________+4 | IN NEW YORK {| > New York, Oct. 6.—It is necessary to join the dawn-greeters in order to meet a very dark gentleman who is intorduced under the name of Al- exander Flavius Abercrombie. But if, for some reason or other— such as a poker game—you were to find yourself up and awake at 4:30 in the morning a meeting with Alex- ander vius Abercrombie seems to me quite worth the trouble. This meeting, more likely than af would take piece ue the Garey paniment scram! eggs ant coffee. The locale would be, as likely as not, a cafe called the ge Grove which, in years agone, WORK ! RIGHT Now, (F I CouULD, Get $500. I Would BE ABLE\ To FINISH AS IDEA oF MINE,THAT WOULD MAKE ME AND MY BACKER, MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ! I BELIEVE You -fo BE AN HONEST MAAN, ~~ “<I AM WoRKIAG oN Ail IDEA -fo PRopUcE ASH-LESS CIGARETTES ! ~~ “THEY WoULD ‘You IN MIAD, AND SOME DAY WE MAY. “HE SMOKING PUBLIC Mi i! tia Bil Sit al | pone as a coffe house, but recently as blossomed into a broadcasting point. That which makes Alexander Flavius Abercrombie worthy of columnistic notice and Manhattan flavor is the strange and original performance he puts on. Alexander, etc., arrives with a washboard, three frying pans, six thimbles_and a little underslung negro. From his pockets protrude a couple of tin musical instruments. With these and the aid of a pianist he becomes a one-man jazz band. Fastening the frying pans to the washboard, he produces the strang- est jazz music to be heard on land oF eepred his thimbles as drum sticks. , In the early hours of the morn- ing it’s possible to encounter a strange assortment of these hat- passing entertainers. Most of them are to be found in the hideaways, appearing just before the dawn to awaken the weary sojourners and cash in on the results. - There are, for instance, four youngsters—from the East Side or the Bronx—who have practiced on their harmonicas on the back steps until they put on a very passing Program. + There is the crystal ball seer who! comes wrapped in a dust-stained tur- ban and ‘dustier brack cape, finding easy victims among the bibulous ladies of the evening in that hour when their drinks have worn out and their habits of life have begun to torment them. Wondering what the future may hold for them, what life may still contain—in walks the seer. He times his arrivals to the moment, looks mystically into his little erys- tal ball, and begins to cash in. Know- ing his customers, his reading be- gins with warnings and dire prog- nostications—just what they want. Then he allows a little sunshine to trickle into their lives and, with further warnings, closes his spiel. And, of course, his palm is crossed often in the process. There’s the revival of the sing- ing waiter craze. This went out of date with the old beer halls. But, NETTLE RASH Many people are troubled with t! appearance of a rash on the skin, accompanied by an intense sine burning sensation. This rash is the form of wheals, and they may become maximum size, varying from that of a pinhead to that of a half dollar, within a few minutes, and they sometimes disappear as rapidly as they‘form. These lesions may appear on any part of the skin, and they sometimes occur inside the throat on the epi- glottis, giving a choking sensation or feeling of suffocation. When they appear on the tongue, they may cause it to become greatly en- larged. The itching is so intense that it is almost impossible for the patient to resist scratching, which only increases the size of the wheals. Attacks of hives can only occur in people who are suffering from a form of chronic acidosis, and each attack is preceded by a period of lassitude, digestive disorders, coated tongue and possibly headaches. A fingernail drawn over the surface of the skin of these patients usually leaves a red line, and it is possible to write words on the surface of their bodies in this manner. Poorly fed and undernourished children are most frequent sufferers from this disorder. The eruptions are usually small and appear about the hair follicles, accompanied by the usual intense aire in some forms of this wisease, technically known as urticaria, there are also large swellings under the skin like small egg, occurring most frequently on the face. The di has a variety of forms. In some cases it occurs at regular intervals. Sometimes the irritations leave brownish discolorations or strains. These people usually become badly swollen as the result of mosquito or Ansect bites. One susceptible to’ this disorder may suffer an attack from a num- ber of causes, but there is almost always some irritation of the diges- tive tract. The foods that are most frequently blamed for bringing on these-eruptions are shellfish, cheese, sausage, pork, strawberries, cucum- bers, and an almost endless variety of foods and drugs. This disease may occur as a com- plication in the course of many chronic diseases, and in susceptible people the irritation of various sub- stances applied to the skin will bring on an attack. Some of the sub- stances which bring on this rash most frequently when in contact with the skin are rotogravure ink, from newspapers, the content of cer- tain plants such as the primrose, various types of essential oils and gases. Worry and nervous irrita- tion are also likely to bring on the eruption. Such eruptions are readily cured, since all that is required is to thors oughly alkalinize the blood. This is accomplished through the use of the acid fruit diet, such as apples, grapes, oranges or grapefruit for a period varying from five to ten days and followed by a well balanced dict | as outlined in my weekly articles in the newspapers. One should be particularly care. ful to avoid fermentation in the in- testines, and I am convinced that wrong food combination afte more responsible for skin troubles than most of the foods ghat are blamed by the sufferers. One with a ten-| dency to such a disorder must be articularly careful in this respect. Pvill gladly send without charge my article on food combinations to those who are :interested, provided they |: will send large, self-addressed, stamped envelopes. has a drawing card for the early morning slummers in the person of one Mandy. Mandy is a_ lovely “high yellow,” who may or may not be the best dancer of sinuous thanks to the success of Mae West's “Diamond Lil,” and the growth of the hideaway business, the boys and girls have come to crave th old sentimental ballads. And so the Singing waiters give them, “She Was Poor, but She Was Honest,” and “Frivolous Sal,” and all the Test. And 20 it goes. | At the present writing Harlem COLLABORATE OUR ~ GENIUS, AAD STUN dances in all New York. Her num- bers are done in a honky tonk at- mosphere to the tunes of a portable phonograph. Scores go to Harlem to see her. It’s my guess they'll be paying $4.40 per seat to watch hte young woman on Broadway one 0 ese fine days. GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) Al - Dr. N. O. Ramstad and Dr. W. H. Bodenstab and three trained nurses went to Steele to aid in the influenza seaaae Minnesota forest fires were blamed to I. W. W. propaganda. Alex Rosen, head of the Jewish Relief fund in North Dakota, was directing a campaign for observation of Jewish Relief Day. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO G. F. Williams, guest at the West- ern hotel, was accidently shot when Shin tucting Ee box, goel ie: il is al Charged. ‘The bullet’ entered ‘his foot, shattering the bones. : Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Baker Livona were visiting Felatives Bismarck. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1928 DOPE HABITS AND ELIM- INATION The dope menace is becoming ong of the most serious problems of the modern world. It was estimated the Opium Advising Committee of the League of Nations that while the maximum requirements of opium by physicians and allied professions does not amount to over 786 tons per year for the whole world, yet there is an annual production of opium that is estimated from 8,000 to 15,000 tons, most of which finds its way into the illicit dope trade, and the production of cocaine . is probably seven times the amount required under legal control. There are two classes of dope addicts. The first may have de. veloped the habit accidentally, per- haps as the result of opiates admin- istered by physicians to control pain. The second class, and by far the most numerous, are those who begin to take dope simply because of the desire to experience a new thrill. The opponents of prohibition claim that this type is on the in- crease because prohibition, by tak- ing away the alcoholic drinks, has forced these people to seek other types of thrill. It is claimed that many high isease | School pupils are started on the road to ruin by the agent of dope peddlers who, unknown to- their victims, places small drugs in the drinks and foods that are consumed until the habit has Placed its tenacious clutches in the systems of its victims. These dope peddler agents are one of the grav- est menaces of society, as they de- light in perverting the thrill seekers, who might be called borderline cases, ay who could be saved by a smali aMougt of constructive education. It is impossible to cure the dru; addict who is simply looking for a thrill, unless he changes his attitude of mind. These cases should be con- fined in public institutions where they will be enabled to do some use- ful work and will be removed from . the possibility of injuring others. But those who were unfortunate enough to have formed the habit without their own intention have an attitude of mind that permits of a cure, The desixe for drugs is gradually decreased if the patient is placed on an exclusive diet of acid fruits. Only one type of fruit should be used at a meal. Oranges, graves, apples, ‘hes and cherries are extremely valuable. By their use the liver is stimulated and regains its normal functions so that it can eliminate the toxic substances which are respon- sible for.the dope craving. This fruit diet should be adhered to for atleast two or three weeks, and all other eliminative measures used, such as enemas, sweats, and she---~ baths. As the/toxins are thoroughly eliminated from the body, the patient will actually develop an aversion to the though of using done, Of course, the ‘trestment should be accompanied by helpful suggestions and educational measures. A nor- mal, well balanced diet following the fast will be of great service in preventing the recurrence of the craving. Anyone who sincerely wishes to overcome the dope habit will find the fruit fast end increased elimina- tion the best and surest method. -_ I BARBS | —_—_—_________., John Galsworthy says the keynote of happiness seems to be unselfcon- sciousness. The secret of happiness in this country seems to be the same, with the “self” left gut. Pa a Maybe Emerson was right about compensation. If the feminine styles keep on demanding fewer and fewer clothes, pretty soon a lady won't have a place to hide an auto- matic. ees Add thi# to your list of similes: As hollow as a victory for the Phil- adelphia Athletics on the last day of the season. _ . China finally is awakening, says a mratehese oF history. at Hat's tras, read w! is going to nm after she gets her breakfast. ne Hard work is the, secret sot suc- cess, says Henry Ford. t we: suspected; there's a catch in it, Well, one thing doesn't hi to us in aera: anyhow-they don’t broadcast bagpipe music. In very ‘olden days, the legend hath it,* os pease en amed who _A headline sa: Take Up Golt; Go on Water Went on. a Ht "How uni (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) Watches exactly shape were made in Ni quantities of these ' Ourn = PB