The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 5, 1928, Page 4

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LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY | NEW YORK --- Fifth Ave. Bldg. CHICAGO DETROIT} Tower Bidg. Kresge Bldg. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) OUR GREATEST ME} Ten billion dollars sat down to dinner together in| New York the other night, and a reverent country gasped in its amazement. The ten billion was represented by nine men—such leaders as Henry Ford, Cyrus\H. K. Curtis, George Eastman, Harvey S. Firestone and Charles M. Schwab. They sat at a banquet, it seems, ate off of regular plates such as the rest of us use, handled forks and knives in the normal way, chatted amicably and acted quite as lesser mortals might. Our country rewards its leaders quite handsomely. Never in history were such huge fortunes amassed. Never before could ten billion in gold sit at one table in ‘small room. The power and the glory that were con- centrated in that hotel dining-room were of staggering dimensions, Yet one may wonder how the thing will look a couple of centuries from now. To whom will our grandchildren build statues? How many of the names on the guest list at that dinner will be remembered? There is no denying that such men have influenced the country profoundly. America, doubtless, would be a different country today if Ford had gone in for stamp collecting instead of automotive experiments back in the °90’s. The great advertising business, so big a force in modern life, would be different if Curtis had not lived. These men have put their impress on their gen- enation. But the men posterity delights to honor are not al- ‘ways the men who can marshal an army of dollars. The man who deals in material things sometimes appears, in retrospect, to have been less influential than had been thought. Mankind as a whole is not moved greatly by changes fn the outward forms of its existence. It exchanges Roman palanquins for automobiles and uses vapor heat in place of smoky fireplaces; but these things do not bring any essential change. Something within remains unmoved by them, waiting for the real leader who can strike the note that will call it into action. For man, after all, has a spirit as well as a body; a mysterious, incalculable presence within that hopes and dreams and struggles and never quite dies, knowing always that cities and towns and bank accounts and con- tests for bread and butter are, in the end, non- essentials. Whenever this force slumbers the world, for all its changes, stands still. When it is appealed to, the world moves. And the man who, in the long run, is remembered, is the man who can appeal to it. Not the soldier, the banker, the merchant or the builder—but the man with eyes and a voice. When we are shown a distant goal man. No one is quite so unhappy as the man who wanders into a situation for which he is not fitted temperamentally; and this man had the misfortune to board a transatlantic airship when he should have been occupying the presidential suite on the Leviathan. But there is another reason for sympathy. This man had the experience of a lifetime and didn’t know it. He was pitched into one of the greatest adventures of the ages as an active participant—and all he could -|think about was the fact that it was uncomfortable, nerve-racking and cold. And that is cause for real pity. Most of us have moments when we feel that we were really meant to be bold, daring and intrepid. We fee that we could have sailed with Magellan, trudged through the Amazonian swamps with Raleigh looking for the city of Manaos, followed Cortez down to bar- baric Tenochtitlan; but we never get the chance. We live out our lives in office and shop and never know the thrill of carrying through a dangerous achievement against long odds. The Graf Zeppelin’s flight was an epic feat like these. This man had the rare privilege of being a part of it. It was an experience to be stored up in memory; an ex- perience that could lift a man out of his prosaic shell and test him to the limit by confronting him with cold, darkness and death for 100 hours at a stretch. And this luckless rich man never guessed it! One could not get a decent shave; the ship rolled and pitched consid- erably; below was a foaming expanse of hostile ocean; it was not at all comfortable. Of all the Americans we have read about, we don’t know of one we pity more than we pity this airship passenger. He had the experience of a lifetime; and it simply bored him and made him unhappy. FINANCING CHRISTMAS For many thousands this year the Christmas saving fund has simplified and in some cases solved the Christ- mas finance problem. Through the medium of this most modern of money saving plans many millions of dollars were accumulated this year and are now avail- able for spending or re-investment. Without the Christ- mas saving clubs a very large percentage of those who have received checks this year would face Christmas virtually penniless. They have been helped to save and can enjoy the blessedness of giving, the pleasures of Christmas shopping and, if thrifty, the satisfaction of reinvesting all or part of their Christmas saving checks, But another Christmas is coming next year and money will be needed for more gifts. Christmas funds distributed this year will have been spent or deposited for permanent saving. To meet this future need those who must save to have should join a 1929 Christmas savings club now. Delay means getting behind in the small weekly payments. Also, the clubs should be joined now amidst the multitudes of object lessons in contentment and disappointment afforded, respectively, by those who joined and those who did not join the 1928 clubs. Again next year there will be the envied and the envious. . Perhaps the larger portion of the Christmas fund savings is expended for gifts. The economist might point out where great benefits would accrue to society if the Christmas saving fund in toto was reinvested at interest. Being a theorist the economist can not know | what usurious interest in the joy of giving and shop- ping is extracted by the recipients of Christmas sav- ings checks. LOCHINVARS STILL LIVE Never say that the age of Lochinvars is over. A Kansas City youth had a tiff with his lady love. They parted, and she began to accept the attentions of another young man. The first lover brooded; then he began to act. He drove down the street until he saw his erstwhile sweetie in a car with his rival. Crowding the handle, overawed his rival and forced the girl to get into his own car. Then he jumped in and sped away with her. As they rode, they talked; and presently they drove up in front of a minister’s house. License in hand, the that we had dimly sensed but could never find; when we are roused from our contentment with things as they gre, and moved to fight for things as they ought to be »then the race takes a step forward. A banquet of ten billion dollars is a magnificent spec- tacle. But it may not have our greatest men as its guests, BRIEUX ON MARRIAGE M. Eugene Brieux, the French dramatist, whose play, “Damaged Goods,” made such a sensation a few years ago, thinks that people are getting married altogether too young. To marry before 30, he says, is to court disaster. Such a marriage, he believes, may turn out well, but the chances are all against it. In marching to the altar one takes one’s chances, of tourse. But who is better fitted to take chances than the young man or woman of 22 or 23? has passed 30 one’s ideas, habits and emotions have crystallized. It is harder to make the concessions and sacrifices that any successful marriage demands. And, most important of all, genuine love—the basis of any real marriage—is not apt to wait meekly until one is 80 before making its appearance. Many marriages nowadays do turn out ill, to be sure; but it is to be doubted if the youth of the brides and gtooms is responsible. JAILED FOR CHIVALRY Chivalry is not yet dead in this land; and because it {s not, Frederick Brown of New York city had to spend @ night in jail recently. Brown was walking along the street when he saw a By the time one | those twenty-one yea Kansas City Lochinvar led his lady in; in a short time they came out, man and wife. They were laughing and talking like any other more conventional newly- weds. The day of romantic courtships, it would seem, is still with us. WALTER JOHNSON GOES HOME (Milwaukee Journal) The millions of admirers of Walter Johnson, boy fan and gray-haired fan, will be glad that he is returning to big league baseball. They will wish only that a new caree! opening up for him and that as manager of the Washington team he will be as great as he was for twenty-one years as its leading pitcher. _ : Johnson gave more than ability as a pitcher during He was an example of the highest type of profe: al sportsmanship. The Amer- ican boy who looks to his baseball hero was always safe in choosing Walter Johnson as his model. It seemed an irreparable loss when, after the years had taken their toll, Johnson retired to a minor league managership. We knew well enough that it is the same road in the end. But it seemed to us that somehow Walter Johnson must be an exception. We pictured him in our minds as the master whom age could not touch. However, in his new field he has the same great op- portunity, or even a larger opportunity, He can put into a whole team that thing, made up of skill and force of character and sportsmanship, which those who saw him play always felt was in him. Baseball should be the better because Walter Johnson goes home, CIGARETTES IN MORE BILLIONS (Wall Street Journal) other car to the curb, he got out, brandishing a jack |° THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE T | LET. By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, Nov. 5.—Regardless of betting odds and _ straw votes, there can be no certainty of the election result on Nov. 6, The Republican habits of the country give Hoover the edge, but the cross-currents developed in this campaign are so numerous and so powerful that prediction becomes im- possible. Smith may win, though not by any large majority. If there is a landslide this year Herbert Hoover will be found riding on top of it. Most of the signs favor Hoover. But the trustworthiness of the tradition- ally accepted signs has never before been so doubtful. 5 Thus Republican confidence. of victory is found to be a nervous sort of expectancy. The Democrats, who started with little more than a whispering hope, are not confident of victory but are convinced that by election day they will have an even hance. s 4 The result will be counted in elec- toral votes, of which there are 531. Between 175 and 200 of these are now allocated by most impartial es- timators to Hoover. It is generally thought that Smith is sure of the 114 votes of the solid south. The election will be decided by those states which may be broadly clessed as doubtful. Obviously, Smith’s task has been far more difficult than Hoover's. Hoover needs only half as niaoy votes among the states of whicl neither candidate is sure as Smith must have to win. Many forecasters have figured that the indications, if any, appeared to give Smith no bet- ter than an even break in a group of states which appeared to be “lean- ing“ one way or the other. se * Smith’s opportunity may best be described as an excellent fight- ing chance. Except for Wilson, he has the best chance of election of any Democrat since Grover Cleve- land, in the opinion of the keenest political thinkers. Most of the oth- ers, of course, now appear to have had no chance at all, And it is im- { WASHINGTON 4, | Those Anxious Moments—Just Before the Verdict! _ om portant to point out that they were regarded not only in many of the states now considered doubtful, but’ in others which Smith is expected to carry. Bright or dim, the existence of Smith’s opportunity is best dem- onstrated by the fact that so many states this year are “doubtful.” It seems safe to give Hoover, for purposes of this story, Californ' idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsyl- vania, Vermont, Washington and Wyoming. He probably will also carry Colorado, Illinois, Utah, New Hampshire and West Virginia. That would give him 208 electoral votes, 58 short of election. If he loses any appreciable number of those 208 votes it will be evidence of a de- cisive trend toward Smith which can- not now be discerned. * * The other states, outside the “solid south” are Connecticut, Ken- tucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, New York, Tennessee, Rhode Island; New Mexico, Mary- land, Arizona, Delaware, Massachu- setts, Missouri, Montana and Ne- vada. A large field from which Hoover has to get his 58. He could get them from Massachusetts, Mis- souri, New Jersey and Nebraska if he carried those states among the 19 named. * There are other combinations of states which might be suggested, showing that in these so-called doubtful states Smith must make a real clean-up in order to win. But it isn’t impossible. If he could be sure of carrying New York, Massachusetts, Missouri, Ne- braska, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Kentucky and Maryland he would have the 266 necessary votes. That would leave Hoover Connecticut, New Jersey, North and South Dakota, Oklahoma, New Mexico,’ Arizona, Delaware, Momeene and Nevada, which have ut 57, * Many readers will consider such a division improbable. Perhaps it is, for the betting odds must be ex- piaines in some way. It means that mith would have to hold the south, , carry nearly all the east and most of the border states and still break into the farm belt in a large way. There are other methods of figuring out a possible Smith victory, but ours probably has been as good as any and demonstrates the point. Your correspondent will let it go at that without trying to swim in any of the cross-currents. Many persons believe that feeling in favor of prohibition and against Smith’s religion will bury Smith and Robin- son in an avalanche of votes. That is certainly one of the possibilities. But it is by no means the only one, en | IN NEW YORK | o——_—_—__—__—______ New York,’ Nov. 5.—October and. November, for reasons that remain mysterious, are months chosen by most of the stage-struck maidens for landing in Manhattan, with or with- out baggage. These are the months, too, when those struggling musicians who have fiddled or strummed the piano keys for endless months, come seek- ing that momentary chance to play in the great'city’s minor spotlights. They rent some small or large hall— according to their means—an agent circularizes the critics, columnists and such and sends out a great quantity of free tickets. Finally, with a scattered audienco—mostiy paper—the would-be artist goes through the program, so long and patiently aprensted. Upon the next morning music columns of the newspapers may or may not ca! a few lines to the effect that “Mary Jones of Ypsilanti gave a program of Brahms numbers last night. She is a pianist more earnest than in- spired.” 2 * Such a scene is duplicated hun- dreds of times each winter season. The would-be artist goes back home, Oh, ygs, she has had a New York appearance! Eye-brows lift. She spreads it on thick. The home town Papers have stories about her. The proud mamas and papas all but burst. It is a prideful moment back in the home town. She arranges a series of concerts, or becomes a teacher. She plays in the neighbor. ing towns and makes a little mone; Her programs read: “Direct from a New York appearance.” But they forget to tell what sort of an appearance that was. They forget to mention that the hall was paid for out of her own pock some agency took care of tails for a certain sum. Only the in- | OUR BOARDING HOUSE baw. re By Ahern SY EGAD,w-THis IME J-oMoRROW NIGHT, I WILL BE GETTING —HE ELECTION REMRAS OF “=e Rust MY BELOVED cITizeNs NVI DID HEAR NOUR - oN SAME MENTIONED “TODAN, ~~ Ii BROKEN ENGLISH $--TH’CHINK ATT’ LAUNDRY OLD MEWTO “TELL. MAT YouR ~~ REMEM Now, + WERE GOING OVER “To “THE DILLS ~ ‘woman struggling to free herself from a man. He did ‘what any chivalrous man would have done; he ran over ‘to help her, grappling with her assailant so that she could get away. She promptly vanished down a side street. Then Brown was arrested and taken to jail. The ‘woman, it developed, had just robbed a clothing store and the map grappling with her was the proprietor, try- ing to hold her until the police came. stay in jail over night, and was not released until he could explain things to the judge the next morning. You can write your pwn moral to that one. ‘THIS MAN WOULD FIND SOUTH POLE TOO COLD ‘A retired American business man, now living in Eu- ope, crossed the Atlantic as one of the passengers on Domestic luction of cigarettes in the United Stateseexceeded 10,000,000,000 a month in August for the first time. Output of 10,627,344,427 was 13.0 per cent greater than August, 1927, production of 9,328,- 054,107. More significant than record production in ne it is the fact that the total output for the first eight months of 1928 was 70,816,631.089, an increase of 6,151,050,592 over the 64,665,580, 4 rettes produced in the first eight months last year. Gain was approxi- mately 9.5 per cent ahead of the corresponding period of 1927, compared with an increase during that period Brown had to | last year over 1926 of about 8.5 per cent. Heavy increase in cigarette production, which is HAVE. IN ME’ COMTINGIAG AS STICE, FOR A-THIRD * ERA ace AH LAD, ordeRE is NO GREATER Honor oR You “TH a OTHER SHIRT AN COLLAR ARE A FINISHED, ~~ AN _ For. You “To HAN HAVING IME ” RELIANCE oF “THE, gauged closely to consumption, is a partial reflection of the recent cut in cigarette prices. Redu Pere ence brands, amounti cents a 1,000, or 11.7 per cent of the manufacturer, was i to approximately 31 n of the the price received by in the last week of April. Increase in production in May over May, 1927, was only 4.1 per cent, but June, July and August saw a shar} ickup in luction, Tig monthe of 1927 of respectivel; ON WITH THE DANCE (Detroit News) with increases over correspond- 10.9 per cent, 17.5 per cént and “To PLAY CARDS, ~~] ARE WE BECOMING HEALTHIER? 2s A study of census reports brings out some interesting facts about sickness. Some diseases are’ be- coming less fatal with the advance of civilization, while others are be- coming more deadly. The average length of life has almost doubled within the last few centuries, and there is every indi- cation that longevity will continue. I have made a study of some of the diseases having the most pronounced changes in the death rates, with the view of determining which diseases are becoming greater menaces to society, and which are being suc- cessfully overcome by society, also endeavoring to discover the reasons for these changes. To do this I have taken an average of the last years and compared it with the aver- age of the previous eight years. Typhoid Fever The number of deaths from typhoid fever has been reduced from 15:34 to 8:45 per hundred thousand. This is one of the most remarkable achievements of modern civilization. The number of deaths has been re- duced almost 50 per cent in the course of a very few years. I believe this is chiefly because of the pre- ventive measures that have be- come possible because of our knowl- edge of this disease. The increased use of sanitary toilets and a better care in selecting the position of wells has reduced the possibility of con- taminating the drinking water with the typhoid germ. We also have a careful quarantine of all typhoid cases, and all large cities~have per- iodic inspections of the milk and water consumed. Smallpox The average number of deaths from smallpox has increased from .28 to .56 per thousand. Although this is not a large proportion of deaths compared to other diseases, you can see that the average has ex- actly doubled within the course of sixteen years. If vaccination is as effective as it is supposed to be, what is the reason? My experience indicates to me that the methods of treating this disease, at present in vogue, can be improved. Tuberculosis The number of deaths from this wasting disease has been decreased from 128.8 to 88.5 per hundred thousafd. I believe this is largely because we are beginning to realize the importance of protective vita- mins and mineral elements in foods and also because of the better treat- ment of this disease through the in- creased use of fresh air and sun- baths. The number of deaths from tuberculosis will undoubtedly be still further reduced as the correct treatment of this disease becomes more universal. Cancer This dreadful disease is slightly on the increase in the number of deaths per hundred thousand. Formerly there was an average of 80.21 and now there is an ai of. 87.23. of the Although meny of . McCoy will gladly answer peeiial chestions on health ae ee the “*nclose a stamped addressed envelope for reply. Leena ee eee ee ne Emenee’ causes of this disease are as yet und known, I am of the opinion that it can only occur when preceded by a condition of prone enervation, Since in this hurry-up age all types of nervousness are on the increase, it may be that the same causes are responsible in some degree for the cancer incrcase. (To be continued in my next article) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Question: R. J. H. writes: “My Adam's apple is too large and sticks away out. Is there any way to have this operated on to make it small- er?” Answer: The Adam’s apple is normally larger in a@ man and it cannot be operated on to reduce its size, but it is usually possible t? develop the neck muscles to such an extent that they will hide the large size of the Adam’s apple. Pus in the Blood Question: R. M. asks: “Is it possible for pus to enter the blood stream, and what would be the re- sult if it did?” ¥ Answer: It is possible for pus to enter the blood stream but usual- ly the lymphatic circulation takes care of pus, which is composed of toxic material along with the dead white cells. Pus in the blood cannot usually travel very far, as the lym- phatics save the patient’s life by carrying away the toxins and dead cells and rendering the toxins less dangerous. Gas or Novocain Question: K.G. asks: “Which is best, gas or noyocain, for pulling teeth?” Answer: Whether a local or gen- eral anesthetic is used by your dentist depends entirely upon the condition of your health, the teethy to be extracted, and many other fac- tors which your dentist alone can decide, Feeding Baby Question: Mrs. H. L. asks: “What is the best artificial food for a baby? How old should a baby be before he may have vegetable juice?” Answer: After changing from breast nursing the baby should be given nothing but Holstein milk and orange juice up to about two years of age, after which he should take @ little less milk and begin using the minced non-starchy vegetables. You may send for my free article on Infant Feeding, care of this news: paper. Be sure to enclose a large, self-addressed stamped envelope. dividual knows the defeat that was hers or his. . Now and then, someone comes. who is “different” —but, it isn’t often. Returning to. the stage-struck girls—the » records of the Chorus Equity Association show that there are about 4500 prospective jobs for chorines in every part of the United States. But there are more than 25,000 stage-struck girlies trying to get them, The average is at least six ‘irls to every available job. In in- Sividual cases it is even greater. Walter Kingsley, who handles Flo Ziegfeld’s affairs, tells me that the “glorifier” actually inspected 10,000 girls in the present season alone. When Shuberts sent out a call for a musit show, “Music in May,” near- ly 2,500 showed up. terlund, Emma Coleman, Mayme Mc- Hugh, Nannie Mudgett, Ara Wag- oner, Florence Satterlund, Miss ‘schirhart, and Messrs. William O’Hara, Burt Finney, N. O. Ram- stad, V. J. LaRose, P. E. Byrne, H. J. Duemeland and Anderson, . The Dickinson Recorder announced that Fred Conklin of Bismarck would open a real estate office in Dickinson in the near future. Bismarck lodge of F. and A. M. elected the following officers for the M.; William O'Hara, S. W.; G. F. ensuing year: Henry L. Reade, Wi Dullam, J. W.; E. S. Beardley, treas- urer, and Burt Finney, secretary. FORTY YEARS AGO Mrs. J. E. Keyes of New Yor? City arrived to spend the winter Where do they come from? The trains dump them off at Grand Central and Pennsylvania daily. .And they come fuller of as- surance than ever before. Because the United States has become the dancingest nation of the world. Few indeed are the pretty maidens who can’t step off a few “hot” steps. Furthermore, there is a vast over- supply of figures that are more than possible. There are tens of thousands of girls who can dance well enough to get by any one of the‘many chorus-providing organiza- tions now flouris| hing in New York. These, individual trainers are more and more, coming into demand. Time was when the Tiller Girls were imported from England in whole- sale lots. Today organized choruses, capable of executing any number of fancy stunts, are ground out by the dozen. The Markert girls happen to be one of the season’s fancies and are well distributed through the musical shows. There are the Hoff- man girls, the Sammy Lee girls, the Denishawn girls and any number of others. But still they come—and some stay and some go home again. And when they ae 8 Jobe, Le tempted to. it ? toque, Woe TUBERT SWAN. i ILBERT 5 (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) foe Ey ER TEN YEARS AGO ‘Mrs. Henry Suttle returned from Brighton, Ont., where she visited relatives, Mrs. Suttle was at home in Bismarck at Dunnraven. 4 in Jove lose their a with her father, J. W. Phelps. Dakota citizens were being inter- viewed by authorities as to their choice of location for the capital case of admission of North to the union. Grand Forks was the favorite of Grand Forks and Graf. ton. Bismarck was the choice of ‘Wahpeton, Mandan and Aberdeen. The Jamestown public schools were closed on account of an epi« demic of scarlet fever. t i November 5 ~ 1500 -Colamboe landed in Spain in chains, 1814—Americans evacuated “and de« stroyed Fort 1860—South Carolina legislature met in special"session; gov- or recommended secession, 1861—Kansas voted Topeka a capital, COUGHS DANGEROUS GERM SPREADERS comes germ aprender An ‘cid? es @ germ 3) : ol health officer says he had rather be shot with a pistol than take or sneeze in the fs tiga face, B] air with infectious gens.” Te. ar: rest an oncomi cold, absolutely stop coughing, . Foley’s Honey and Tar’ Compound, a medicinally scientific, ' -careft compounded cough and cold a ingreds jent of which is Beet | potent, No opiates. Safe for children, tive for grown the family medicine. Ask for it—Adv. a It is an erroneous that theed The 10th is the last + discount on Gas bills. fav. 06”