The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 24, 1928, Page 4

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LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY NEW YORK -«-- Fifth Ave. Bld; CHICAGO ‘Tower Bldg. Serrorr Kresge Bldg. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) } MEN, CAUSES, LEADERS “What a man is,” say Rabbi Barnett Brickner of Cleveland, “depends largely upon what he is a part of »separate and alone he amounts to nothing.” The rabbi made this remark to a group at a Cham- ber of Commerce luncheon, stressing the importance of such mutual benefit organizations. His statement, however, applies to all of us, whether we belong to a Chamber of Commerce or a plasterers’ union. A good share of every thinking man’s life is spent in looking for a cause to which he can tie himself. Once he finds a movement which will demand his utmost } endeavor and fidelity, he is happy. If he fails to find H it he is unhappy. He feels confused and bewildered. Do you remember the days of April, 1917? There was a curious exaltation in the land then. We knew, in a vague sort of way, that war was a horrible thing; yet, somehow, we felt uplifted. We had found a ‘cause. Something had appeared, bigger than any individual, to demand that we give ourselves completely. The young men who left for the training camps went gaily, jubilantly. i Part of this, perhaps, was mere youthful love of Ha adventure. But underlying that was something more Pt Bignificant. The country was being asked to make a §reat sacrifice for the sake of a cause. It did not fail. After the war there was a let-down, The returning foldiers were disillusioned. The older generation for- got the high ideals it had been gazing on. The young- ters, just growing up, began a pursuit of excitement and pleasure that startled and shocked a whole army pf parents, This was the most natural thing in the world. Our tause had been taken away from us. Once more each of us was on his own. We were separate individuals gain, instead of parts of a great movement. Now this isn’t to say that we ought to go to war every few years just for the moral uplift involved. But it does mean that we need some unifying cause to lift us up and make us forget ourselves, Peace has its tauses no less than war. It is up to us to find them. All of this, of course, is only another way of saying thet we need leaders. Nothing in the world is easier than for a really strong man to enlist a following. } For we realize that what we are depends, largely, on | what we are a part of. If we can find a movement i greater than ourselves, and give the last drops of our devotion and energy to it, we are fortunate. | H WHY REFORM WAVES FAIL aa A Philadelphia police captain, a patrolman and a fletective have been indicted on charges of bribery and Corruption. An additional score of patrolmen have | been suspended, and one man already has pleaded / | guilty. : Thus the big investigation by District Attorney Monaglan bears its first tangible fruit. |. It would be very nice to assume that this investiga- will continue until every guilty man hag been tht to book; to assume that Philadelphia, after it over, will be given complete decency and probity in law enforcement activities. But surely one may pardoned for being a trifle cynical about it. No American city can go for very long without being by a reform wave. The noisome aroma of our jitan politics is bound to become too strong to ignored every s0 often; so all of us are familiar with sight of investigations, revelations, indictments and on, But the only trouble is that it is almost invariably Wh small fry that get caught. The higher-ups go free; are seldom even mentioned. And after the smoke cleared away they can usually be found doing s at the old stand in the old way—a little » perhaps, but essentially unchanged. And—worse yet—the system that makes all of this and corruption possible is pretty much the same as it was in the days of Tweed. Reform waves and go, but the system under which an unscru- Political machine can fasten itself on a large and have its own way is never touched. The fault, after all, lies in ourselves. Political cor- jion, on a greater or smaller scale, seems to be al- inevitable under present conditions. When half the electorate will not take the trouble to go to polls at all when the nominating of candidates is strictly in the hands of those who have an axe to 4 ; when the average citizen takes it for granted “4 Phat his city government will be woefully lax and in- sfficient in places; when all of these things are true, “ho wonder is not that there is corruption, but that Shere is not more of it. District Attorney Monaghan, of course, is to be com- “nended for his work in Philadelphia. It is only ‘through repeated exposures such as his that we can te eroused sufficiently to give ourselves consistently d government. But his work will be wasted if we conclude that everything will run sweetly once a few als have been jailed. The thing lies deeper than VALUE OF VITAL STATISTICS “invention and industry have advanced so of late that the human race {s inclined to “and excessive self-confidence. A wholesome is found in fact that five states do not oi stand: who years is the compilation of national totals from the records kept by states, Vital statistics have other uses than providing news- paper stories and assisting in the compilation of insurance mortality tables. They warn public health services of disease trends, reassure the public when they show a decreasing death rate, increasing birth rate and lengthening span of life, and give medical research invaluable information. While the keeping of accurate records of deaths and births is costly and necessitates efficient machinery, the benefits more than compensate for the cost in money and effort. Bureaus of vital statistics have not brought bureaucracy into disfavor. INTO THE UNKNOWN Time was when silence might have been added to the category of things to be endured by polar explorers, but this is another day. No longer is the explorer of the unknown lost to the world the moment his ship disappears beyond the horizon. Our roving spirits travel de luxe nowadays with all the comforts and conveniences that science can afford. Thanks to the radio, they are never completely cut off from the workaday world. Whether they be in mid- ocean or ice-bound somewhere in the frigid zone, they may’ dance to the syncopation of Broadway or grow sleepy-eyed with the tiny tots of Kansas to Uncle Somebody’s bedtime stories, Barring accident to its elqborate radio sending and receiving equipment the Byrd expedition will be in com- munication with the civilized world during the two years of exploration and scientific study in the Anb arctic. But even with such diversion two years is a. long time for a group of men to see only each other. If human nature runs true to form, they will be hating each other fervently many a time and oft before the two years of close association have passed. Theirs ia a test not only of courage but of endurance, endurance of each other no less than of cold and hardship; en- durance of peculiarities of temperament, of dispositions strained and perhaps cracked by the inevitable waiting and inaction. Long before the twenty-four months have passed they will understand why husbands and wives quarrel and why invalids demand frequent changes in at- tendants. CATHEDRALS The largest individual gift yet received by the build- ers of the unfinished Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. Alban’s in Washington was $1,250,000 from an anonymous donor resident in Paris. News of the gift caused many to wonder why anyone would contribute to the building of a cathedral thousands of miles away. It is clear that such a donor scarcely requires the cathedral for his own spiritual needs, Cathedrals possess an appeal that extends beyond the somewhat limited confines of a religious denom- ination and of the regular attendants at divine service. By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) campaign of offsets. If the design is sufficiently inspiring it becomes a community or even a national project. Such has been the case of St. Alban’s.in Washington and the Cathe- dral of St. John the Divine in New York. Both have received generous gifts from persons outside the com- munion of the church, Many of these contributions have been inspired by the aesthetic quality of the cathedral idea, and by its character, not as the place of worship of a religious sect, but as a monument to this nation’s present-day civilization, Centuries ago some of the nations of Europe im- poverished themselves and their people in executing extravagant plans for cathedral construction. The American people, with whom the cathedral idea is relatively new, have ample resources to rear in each great city a “majestic pile” that will rival in beauty and grandeur the finest examples of medieval cathedral construction. RUM RUNNERS ARE ANGRY A writer in a Detroit newspaper remarks that rum runners on Lake Erie are highly indignant at the activ- ities of border smugglers who make a business of bring- ing alien immigrants illegally into the United States. The smuggling of aliens, it seems, is interfering with the trade of smuggling booze. Federal agents, he says, eager to stop the influx of aliens, frequently stop peaceable vessels loaded to the guards with Canadian liquor. And, having stopped them, there is nothing for the federal men to do but confiscate their unexpected prize. Can you blame the rum runners for being sore? | Editorial Comment NOW IT’S JUST JOE (Detroit News) ; In the Congressional Director; well as in Who's i e is Joseph Taylor jinson, but now that ii jidate for the vice presidency, he has become Joe T. Robinson: id it might be well to have a grand jury inquire into this sudden change from Joseph Tay- lor to Joe T. Is there more vote appeal in Joe T. than in Joseph Taylor? Is it more—er—democratic? Was the sen- ator thinking of his opponent from Kansas, who was presented to the Republican convention as Charles L. Curtis, and thereafter announced that he had no middle name and was just “plain Charley”? Did the senator from Arkansas thereupon decide that he would no longer be Joseph Taylor but just plain Joe T.? For Joe T. it is, even in the statements of the national com- mittee. Senator Robinson is likely to remind old-fashioned people who still read James Russell Lowell that there was another Robinson of whom Hosea Bigelow wrote: Parson Wilbur sez he never heerd in his life Thet th’ Apostles rigged out’in their swaller- tail coats ; An’ marched round in front of a drum an’ a fife To git some on ’em office, an’ some on ’em votes; But John P. Robinson he Sez they didn’t knew everythin’ down in Judee. And Joe T. Robinson he may think a short name the right sort of idea. * NEW RAILROADING HEROINE (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) When, in the course of time, a new bridge is required to carry the railroad across the St. Lawrence river near Drummondville, Quebec, it may well receive the name of Mrs. Donat Grondin of that place. For that is the traditional method taken to memorialize the heroine of a bra The Kate Shelley bridge now in Jows a5 aiteioide £5 tee darn Of A wornee, @ passenger a Just as it was about to plunge inte the river. The feat of Mrs. Grondin was of similar nature and already It appears that there are, after all, enough issues kicking around to tangle up with each other and to prevent the voters from making any clear-cut decision this year on any- thing. : If Hoover wins, President Cool- idge’s friends will say the nation has endorsed the Cooli adminis- tration and other Republicans will say the tariff and prosperity decid- ed everything. e Anti-Saloon League will say the nation has voted dry, the Ku Klux Klan will insist that America would take only a Protestant president and. someone | likely else will have the nerve to Washington, Oct. 24.—This is a! and superstitions now held by large | A fundamental question is whether the various convictions, prejudic groups of voters will result in a trend one way or the other or whether one factor is just going to offset another so that in the ager gate they won’t make much di enee. eae Take the religious issue, which appears to figure in the campaign in nearly every state. Smith may lose several states simply because of his religion. Correspondents tour- ing the country are unanimous in treating that issue as a factor wherever they go. On the other hand, it also appears religious : attacks on say that | Smith have solidified Catholic voters the farmer is prety well satisfied! behind him, improving his chances after all. The consensus at numerous after- noon teas will be that a majority demanded dignity in the White House and the public utilities will claim it’s a great victory for them. Employes in the Department of Commerce will explain that the voters recognized the greatest man in the world and the Democrats will say it prove that the electorate is deplorably dumb. If Smith wis it will be said by some that the voters have repudiated the Cooli administration, that they decided the Republicans had no monopoly on prosperity, that the country has made a mass protest against prohibition, that it’s a tre- mendous victory for tolerance, that the liberals and progressives put him over, that Al’s personality combined with his record was the main factor and so on. The Republicans will be- moan the supposition that an -un- grateful nation has gone crazy. There will be any number of ex- planations no matter which way -it | think turns out, because some of us we must save the country from Tam- many and the pope and others think we've got to turn out the plut j and Andy Mellon. In any event, iis bound to be saved from some- ing. FoR SOME KIND OF POLITICAL OFFICE ~<A MOUITTAIA APPEARS 1A Nour w TIS “OPPOSITION, << AH, « eTHE. MOUISTAIAS IS MADE OF - PEOPLE, u-THEY ARE “HE NGTERS,-THEY MOTION. FoR You - “STAY BACK, ue of carrying large cities and indus. trial states where there ere large Catholic populations. Arguments have begun as to whether the relig- ious issue will do more harm than good to Smith. Will the dry character of most western farm states offset the dis- content among them? How many farmers will vote according to their prohibition views and how many ac- cording to their views on the present administration’s farm policy and Smith’s promises? Here agam there is the possibility that there will be no change in the Political complexion of such states simply because one factor offsets the other. Peper Perhaps dry votes and wet votes will offset each other generally over the country, allowing the prohibition issue to cut little figure anywhere. Here and there, of course, the wets or drys will outnumber each other, but some other factor is likely to be Present to aid the offset. The east appears to be politically wet, but the east is also more inter- ested than any other section in pres- ervation of the tariff. If wet voters accept the Republican contention that Democratic victory means hard times some of them may prefer to | OUR BOARDING HOUSE _ By Ahern | \ FROMM KAFE ye E EGAD Yoo(, <THE PATH, wee continue to pay high prices for liquor. One might go on like this for quite a while. Because of the complica- tions of this nature, it is difficult to see any strong national political trend. Of course, it may be there, concealed, One® | INNEW YORK | | a New York, Oct. 24.—The “ticket spec” is a product of Broadway. His economic existence is as precarious as the physical existence of a Chi- in man. is vernacular for specu- up tickets for events that are expected to draw great crowds and who re- sells them at a premium of teehee £ 75 per cent more than standard ad- mission price. His habitat is any sidewalk, Whether this happens to be the gate of a baseball park, the doorway of Madison Square Garden on the night of a big fight or the many illumined theater lobbies, the “spec” will always be on hand with his inevitable chant, “Good tickets for the big show + a couple of ister.’ nearest thing to a good gambler that can be found in any racket. For every time that he “cleans up” he gets cleaned out; his rofits and his losses are equally eavy. He gambles against the ele- ments and against the uncertain and fickle tastes of the crowd. He gambles against the chances of stiff competition from unexpected quar- ters and against the possibility of a last minute reversal of public en- thusiasm. Many question why he keeps on going and still others ask how he keeps on going. Yet there seems to be an inexhaustible upply of his breed, ing for big or quick losse: ae The recent world series contest was a typical example of the down- fall of the “spec.” At the opening game his sales ran heavy. But thereafter, for some reason or other, a drop of 12,000 fans was recorded. He was stuck with his tickets. Furthermore, in the midtown section opposition had presented itself in the shape of a huge concern that sold at a 25 per cent premium and gar- need Fort of ~ ety oe ¢ Tunney-Dempsey it again landed the “spec” and uppercut. PICTURES OF DISEASE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1928 bout his he can at lean ut himeelf, acd 8a} Every student of. medicine, while| find @ compliment te mi studying the symptoms of disease, has undergone the feeling that he is suffering to some exten’ from symp- toms he reads ut. This is the secret of the success of the old patent medicine ads; by picturing many ordinary symptoms, such as a main in the back, headaches, flatu- Fence, disordered stomach and consti- pation, they were able to make the reader believe himself very ill and that he was really suffering from ably fatal disease. * en we meditate on suggestions of health or disease, we quickly live over again our past sensations of pleasure and may jump quickly from one sensa- tion or mental picture to another. Some of the most common words in our Innguage arouse mental een which are destructive to health, and the more we think and talk about these things, the more clear our mental pictures of these unpleasant symptoms beco1 ince our mental images are 80 easily aroused by words, it is im- portant for a sick person to avoid the use of those describing pain, de- formity, di and ing health, strength, vitality and happine: When one is asked “How are 74 feel ing, “I my back ach y eyes hurt, etc.,” one should say, “I am feeling wonderful today,” “I am, just out enjoying the th air.” One does not necessarily have to feel dishonest in making these state. ments, There are bound to be s01 pleasant happenings or anticipatio which can be spoken about. If one cannot think about something good Thousands of tickets “died” on the sidewalks outside the gates. In the patient into the cess; can help him to cli of happiness. imagination of the the nemo Ped become well. le even thot included in thelr 1 »| made it a point'to be fami the teacl the io someone else, or remark on the fine ia? or beautiful scenery. | octors al-vays have ‘the most dif. ficulty curing th tient some insidious, hidden, and prob- deecribe his symp hen Cagis minute detail. If the doctor is able to teach the pati ie ol in because the mind | recovery and ceo ms in the mos. to avoid talking and to substitute health, he has 1 into the hills The doctor must arouse in the itient’s = mind is going to i unconsciously, in their phil i S teanhiiee with hings of different schools of psychology, mental science, Thought, Christi pets to the opinions of many mare e opinions 4 dists, I have never seen pa ai who was injured by these teachings. ‘and psy- schools, par T always advise my read every book or pam can secure on the sub; fect of the mind on the studyi us losoph: there en the teachii f jools, th ean st last minutes before the bout started, they were selling for less than ad- mission charge in an effort to get a lees of their money back. is is a common occurrence with i Sinner that rales ught up” on prospec which, somehow, fail 8 catch the public favor. : . Our own Gotham Who's Who and Who Isn't. . . . . . . Andrew J. Maloney, the new millionaire = ident of the Philadelphia and - ing Coal Corporation got his start as a Broadway usher. . . . Jeffery Holmquist, who writes Broadway paragra| for a New York paper, is really a member of British royalty and can lay claim to the title of “Lord.” Barney Gallant, Maestro of Green- wich ee snappiest night club, was a police reporter in St. Loui! and got his start by making loans to the other scribes for a small mar- gin of percentage. He went to Mexe ico on a news came back spoke Spanish s0 well that he made his entree to Man! ltan as a Mexican and an authority on that natic Anne Sutherland, who conducts an atmospheric ham-and-eggery in the Village, was once heralded as the most beautiful blond upon the stage. She was leading lady for a Chicago stock company in a day when seats could be purchased for 50 cents, Now a veteran in the theater, she makes but her hair has grayed and she gives most of her attentions to res- tauranting. Van Dine is the name taken by Willard Huntington Wright, one of our leading intellectuals, when doc- tors sent him away with a nervous breakdown and he decided to write detective stories. GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) Our Yesterdays | TEN YEARS AGO A Red Cross nurse made a tuber- culosis survey df the city schools under the direction of Dr. Fannie Dunn Quain, chairman of the Bur- leigh county -anti-tuberculosis com- mittee. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Burkhart were at home at the Van Horn hotel after a several weeks’ wedding trip. A “Get Together Information” dinner of United War Work cam- paigners was held at the Grand Pa. cific hotel. District director George M. Keniston was in charge. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Ashbridge of Bismarck announced the birth of a daughter at the Bismarck hospital. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO | Dan Foley, formerly of Bismarck, announced the opening of the Foley hotel in St. Pi of Bismarck high school entertained at a dancing party at the Atheneum. face, i Wincheiar and 6h. Walser wer mon; reunion of ichean county pioneers at Wash- A sacred Bismarck talent Pla a " church, oo, ONT We 400 rs. announced sem jeheraiag Ord- nained Ex-Governor Ordway Dakota. Mr. and Mrs. G. 0. Pitcher family arrived from Rochestat Minn. to make their home near Glencoe. Katie Putnam Atheneum in “rms the eiten* Rev. Calebn Ben-Ham left Bis- marck to answer the call of an east- ern church, 1781. —— it acer that anc jt wos re i "cig dealers in reappearances from time to time— ae romerepcrenl igre seems to be fata the wellknown fal pes’ °°" (Copyright, 1928, NEA Serviee, Ine.) Mott Residents Order New Trees and Shrubs ing: lergehy ior of successful Salt sale sult in additi near futu ns_who have trees increas! trees. aera er Gen. E. A. Williams, Farmer Wal- R. Sm; h, . October 24 1774—The Continental Congres: al paoliones suspension of a * ai geome oh ‘ashington’s dispatch an- nouncing the victory at York- Rovélution, read in Cosgrene 1862—Daia Webntee, ps ce states 1861—People fest Virginia voted to form a new state, 4 An atheist from New York was arrested in Arkansas the other day. He had to go a long way to be suc- eee Women’ outnumber: the see It.may be hapten gd @ point, but it Messrs, Stretch s lady next door machines to cities Then we have the used in election in man: this fall were the Tammany kind. see The wave-length of a human be- ing is 3.66 meters, accordi a R. Englund. We’ arul to o le broad people le think it was 1,( n We are grateful for information; the way some we had begun to erm) : The issue of this political cam- Mott, N. D., Oct. 24.—()—New trees and shrubs to the value of $9,000 recently have been ordered by Mott residents and will be planted soon. Interest in the work of beautify- homes and farmsteads and the in this ion is re- al plant in the number of ordered trees ana re is placed by local enthusiasts Som re. their plantings of mentation *w with trait alae if Hi i i M4 A iH mefi_ by ~ fourteen to one on the island of Tag- awa in the Pacific. Good place to lecture on sex equality. ® ; 1 384 "p tay tert bret "6G sion cour wer M Es Tn M «stall Rai ple. M ‘wort ity;