The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 3, 1929, Page 4

« PAGEFOUR _ lp THE STATES OLDEST NEWSPAPER ’ (Batablished 1873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- -tnarek, N. D., and entered at the postoffice at: Bismarck President and Publisher Advance Member Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper, and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein fre also reserved. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY NEW YORK .... Fifth Ave. Bldg. CHICAGO DETROIT Tower Bldg. Kresge Bldg. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) GIVING FOR BISMARCK ‘The Scott fire tragedy has revealed Bismarck to itself. Men talk in dollars and cents on the hard practical basis of business, till one might think they are steeped in the material and are all head and no heart. John D. Rockefeller used to give a good imitation of the cold, unemotional business man. He was the most cordially. hated man probably in the country. Then, having made millions, he began that program of beneficence which set going so many movements for the welfare of human- ity. The subsequent attitude of the public changed and, while certainly not the mos: popular man in the world, he has won at least rather cordial toleration in the minds of his countrymen and probably has helped stim- ulate universal sympathy into a permanent emotion of the times, Galvanized by the tragedy of a fire that made a fam- ily homeless, took the life of a child and caused the par- ents serious physical suffering in addition, Bismarck awoke to the fact that it shares this spirit of general sympathy. It is now expressing that in a practical effort to ease the misfortune of the unfortunate Scotts. As the world talks business in terms of dollars, Bismarck now talks. its sympathy also in dollars, for it is dollars that most readily will ease the bodily and mental sufferings of the afflicted family. ‘ Charity often talks more in words of pity and lets it pass at that. The fund which has been started to as- sist the Scotts and which The Tribune was asked to sponsor to the extent of receiving the subscriptions, is the very best means that could have been devised to meet this case. Their household belongings and clothing gone, the fund ought to attain such a total that the family can set out again equipped for making its own ‘way. Every unfortunate who is not assisted to. better him- self is that much of a drag on the general substantial- ness of a community. What a town needs is self-sustain- ing citizens. In proportion as it has these, it is substan- tial to that extent. So when distress comes to any individual citizen, in one way or another the misfortune penetrates the general community. It is, therefore, wise , to keep a community healthy in the sphere of the general , Welfare. All can then keep perfect step. There is no straggling condition to drag upon the general progress and prosperity, : Such is the nature of the fund now being gathered for the Scott family. It is simply a means of keeping help- Jessness out of the community. It is for the benefit of the family primarily, but everyone who gives is doing the city a good turn. ‘That is the idea in which the movement originated. «The business man who first suggested it said this. was ““not a charity but a duty which the people of Bismarck owed to themselves to discharge. It meant they would be helping themselves, ° The fund has started off splendidly. The Tribune hopes everybody will catch the spirit of it and keep the subscriptions continuing splendidly. DULL VERBIAGE | Whoush he knew the market price, inch by inch, of cer- -:¢ain sections in Zenith, he did not know whether the po- lice force was too large or too small, or whether it was in alllance with vice. He extolled the advantages of the nearness of school buildings to rentable houses, but did not know whether the schoolrooms were properly heated, lighted, ventilated, furnished. He did not know how the teachers were chosen, and though he chanted: “One of the boasts of Zenith is that we pay our teachers ade- quately,” that was merely because he had read or heard it some place. He could not have stated the average ‘salary of teachers in Zenith or anywhere else. So Sin- tlair Lewis described Babbitt. , ~ What.if Babbitt had thought it worth while to know Something about the city government—could he have found out? Not readily, unless the Zenith newspapers were alert to the administrative side of city hall news. ¥or the ordinary run of official reports are not very help- ful to the layman who Wants to learn, without too much expenditure of time and effort, what the departments are doing. Asa city gadfly has pointed out, most of these re- “ports are.s0 long delayed that when they are published they find their way either to the waste-basket or the back shelf of the municipal library. They are filled with ®@ mass of statistics, frequently undigested. The com- ment is dull, the text too often merely a revision of that used in previous years, with a few new figures inserted. ‘There js no perspective, no attempt to view the year’s work in its setting of continuing service. . Public funds. spent for the compilation and publica- tion of public reports are not wasted if the reports are made sufficiently interesting to command the attention of @ large number of taxpayers. ot eoleremreece: , | the best: peopie of the eémniunfty would set up a clamor - The Bismarck Tribune seoceesee $7.20 seecccece 7.20 .50 far behind other countries in the matter of musical ap- and declare that the punishment was frightfully exces- sive? Of course they would. It remains to be seen, however, whether any such clamor will be raised over the fate of Mrs. Etta Mae Miller of Lansing, Mich., who faces a life term in prison because, a fourth offender, she violated the prohibition law. Her husband {s in prison and she has four young children to support, and she sold liquor to do it. Now under Michigan's law, she must go to prison for life. {aed Now suppose you start listening for protests from the best people. OUR NINE ORCHESTRAS If you have been harboring the idea that America lags Preciation and musical ability, listen to these words by Deems Taylor, New York critic and composer. “There are nine orchestras in America which stand su- perior to the orchestras of any other country in the world.” Mr. Taylor made this statement at a meeting in Cleve- land, where the ‘tenth anniversary of the Cleveland or- chestra’s existence was being celebrated: His remark upsets the notion that to get the best music one must go abroad. Indeed, it even shows that one need not even go to New York to enjoy orchestral music of the highest class. Such cities as Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, Cincinnati and others have orchestras as good as any music lover could ask. The country is no longer lag- ging in the world of music, RED TAPE ‘ If the new administration that takes office next March can manage to work a little common sense into the red- tape-ridden matter of naturalization it will be a good thing. A change of that kind is very badly needed. A Kansas woman, who had supposed all her life that she was a good American citizen, recently applied for a passport so that she could make a Mediterranean tour and discovered that she is a woman without a country. Her parents brought her to this country when she was 11 months old, and she has been here ever since. A month or so after her 2ist birthday, her father became a natur- alized citizen. The ordinary mortal would suppose that she would be a citizen by this time. But she isn’t. Some inspired bureau- crat has ruled she is not an American. Lef’s hope this red tape can be replaced by a little com- mon sense. SPAIN’S REVIVAL It might interest you to know that Spain is undergoing @ cultural and industrial revival right now that may eventually restore it to a leading position among Euro- pean nations. And, oddly enough, America is in large part responsible. American machinery and American commercial meth- ods, gaining popularity in Spain every day, are working @ transformation in the country. The old sluggish leth- argy that dropped Spain to the rank of “second-class Powers” is vanishing. Spain is becoming progressive, It would be very strange if the United States, which killed the last trace of Spain’s once mighty New World empire, should help bring Spain back to her former emi- nence among the peoples of Europe. But it may well happen. The liberty loving are being hard pressed by the lib- erty taking. “Love at first sight” may cool with more sight. | Editorial Comment HELPFUL BANDITS (8t. Paul News) The Mexican bandit, villain of countless stage and screen thrillers, who has given his country many a black eye in the past, has at last rendered it a service. He has taken a leading part in promoting civil aviation. It was unintentional, of course. But it seems one of the chief reasons for the spread of air linés to various parts of Mexico is the roving pent Trains and es mobiles carrying payrolls or impo! personages often get held up. So Mexican and foreign capitalists are Di maoen Pretty Ruth McConnell, heiress in the news, who was pursued in a plane when she sought to run away from home on an overland train, collapsed in nervous hysteria after a day with reporters who insisted on knowing why she did it. Whatever the reason and whatever the grief, there should be some com- fort in the fact of being sufficiently ee to be thus expensively pur- sued. For marriage isn’t the easily achieved thing for today’s girl that it was for yesterday’s, and many a maiden would be delighted at being even mildly wanted in that institu- tion, let alone wanted so expensively and with such difficulty. see THE GOVERNOR'S LADY Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the new governor of New York, has always been very much a person in her own name and not just “the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt.” She has been teacher, editor, social worker, speaker, factory manager, clubwom- an, and state committeewoman. But now that her husband becomes gover- nor she is resigning that last job, explaining that it is not wise for the wife of the governor to hold any such Political connection. ‘ Thus do even the most “modern wives” subordinate themselves to the husband’s job when it becomes neces- taking to the air. No spurred and pistoled horseman ever yet forced an airplane to stand and deliver. The Mexican bandit, without at all meaning to, is helping his country along the path of progress. STILL A BEST SELLER (New York Sun) In November, 1628, John Bunyan was born. He was & tinker’s son, and out of the wealth of his religious ex- Periences he wrote a tale that must be kept in stock to- day by every bookseller who hopes to satisfy the require- ments of a mixed patronage. There is nothing to sug- gest that “Pilgrim's Progress” has been outmodeled by modernity. This year it appears in special editions, many with biographies of its writer. They supplement the supply of plainer editions printed and circulated in response to the call for modest volumes for readers not collectors, No new fashion, no new mechanism, no new theory of physics can render obsolete the tale the tinker told. It is @ record of the spirit, set down in words and phrases that have grown old. 4 “Pilgrim's Progress” is old-fashioned? ‘ies... 80, too, is man’s soul, RAZOR BLADES (Chicago Tribune) ) Relief for the troubled chins of modern men, like the farm problem, is always on the way, but somehow never comes. New blades, new stropping mechanisms, a highly featuured new design of cut instrument, come in with great eclat, only to hush off again after their little day. The chins of men are not yet in adjustment to the mod- ern age. Raw and knife marked they appear each day, bearing mute witness. : ‘Transport and great navies, flood contro) and tariff all have their place in modern of fair average. Whiskers will return—it is only fair to warn the na- tion—if American does not solve this problem. Whiskers do return, daily, and that is the trouble. -A -}policy.of. good blades, with consistent edge, should re- ceive Mr. Hoover's immediate attention. SOAP FROM COAL. , (New York Post) Representatives of the bituminous coal industry from 20 nations heard cheering reports at their second in- ternational conference at Pittsburgh, itish German technicians sary. ae ve “FOOL “WOMAN TRICK” A 20-year-old girl of Elyria, O., cranked her car while in gear on an incline and paid with her life. Again we'll hear the comment, “Just like a woman driver.” But figures prob- ably prove that just as many men have been killed or maimed in this same way as women, just as they Prove that about as many traffic reg- ulations are broken by men as women. They'll have to get a new song and dance on this subject. People act as individuals and not as members of one sex except as that sex has prohibited them from certain valuable experiences. Woman's tra- ditional timidity, for instance, and her too-personal a cosmos, are pro- ducts of her woman heritage which has kept her from the public market place and in her own home until just about the present. | CHILDRE 1 nearer SESE | 0 It increases rapidly in size until the / carefully selected food. I occasio! by Olwe Roberts Barton shell hardens again. _ ally hear of some doctor who THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1994) Peep een .\EVCLOSE STAMPED HODRESSEO ENVELOPE > i _: AER CRUSTACEANS pecially when X am talking for ar ‘The "lobster, “erab,. crayfish and |length of time. The doctor told m at Dr. answer ‘which becomes red upon being boiled. health ahelifiah, instead of having bones inside the flesh as do most. Answer: -You.may be ferin from nasal catarrh, but I will guarazi tee that the real cause of your f% ing of suffocation is because you ha’ ® weak diaphragm, which is th large, flat muscle separating th chest from the abdomen. This is muscle most used in breathing, ang if it is already weak, it easily tired from the effort used breathing exercises for developing strength of your diaphragm. : Too Much Blood “Question!' O. J. F. asks: “wi can a person do who makes blood fast?” - Answer; You need never fear .| you will make. too. much = long as. it is good blood. The idea too much blood originated in the mi '|dle- ages and is still believed in by! | lobster may. produce from ten.to sixty | some - physicians: At one time th :| thousand - 7 there is- no. actual. practice ‘was to -treat. every one who danger .of suicide was sick by “blood letting.” This re- 7 ™ ae 4 e- | he ties : |dieves certain cases, such a: those After the larva. stage, the young/ with high blood pressure because it | un lobster. assumes.the shape of the full| simply reduces the pressure inside of YOUR _.'+ sfgrown Jobster and begins to live its|the arteries. But even this method oy) life at the sea bottom, its principal | now seems foolish when it is possible food being: fish. As the lobster in-'to reduce the quantity of blood sim- creases in size it casts off its hard/ply by cutting down the intake of outer shell, revealing a soft inner one. | jiquids, and improving its quality b ©1928 by NBA Service,Ine: I do not believe that parents as a rule possess the ability to put them: selves in their children’s place or they. 4ee Die pare : tices blood letting and this is . QUESTIONS: AND ANSWERS haps. excusable with the physicia! Feeling of Suffocation treating high blood pressure Cases Question: A. G. writes: “I have;he does not understand scientifi ‘At times'a feeling of suffocation, es- | dietetics. HISTORY: | 3. REMOVING NECESSARY North (Dummy; ° rey South (Declarer)— REMOVING NECESSARY REENTRY CJ FEES ¥e Ag i RSE ae 5 WENFLUG f wee MY wT KNow You Mes 7% MRS, WEAFLUG, WHEA Yous MRs. HooPLe,~ I Ms MRS. WILBUR JUST CAME Home “THIS ¢ MORNING AFTER BEING AWAY SIACE NEW YEAR'S EVE fe mM AMTER MUCH QUESTIOING AND SHAKING, HE ADMITTED HAT HE SPENT His-ime WITH NoUR HUSBAND,-THE MASOR ! “Ee FoR ME. Ey \ “To YOUR HUSBAND Sie wth TWEATY YEARS a. BUT THis EVENING: | f ZEEE ! ‘ '1820—Congress passed bill to adn Be obtained weeks in advance if a Maine as a state. special location is desired and the; 19g1—Delaware legislature refused scale depends on propinquity join the Confederacy. to the ringside. 1898—U. 8. treasury recalled all $10 into | | Thus is a long-needed slap taken at silver certificates on account 4 and cut counterfeits. ier 1912—President ‘Taft announced h candidacy for renomination. | Our Yesterdays FORTY YEARS AGO Mrs, John Thornvald has gone ‘Minneapolis for a visit with relativ ‘and friends. ae Fl EE ik 8 ‘BF night ¢lub-world-has encountered in| : “Burial relent las foal Beh Bell | Se maces males, no pretense OF |iodge in charge of the services. Mr, and Mrs, tained large company of gue: on New Year's eve. Miss Emma Laist entertained at birthday party on the occasion of ht twelfth birthday. , H. L. Michelson will open‘a gro store in connect aan: ie: the: Icha ie B pEREEEE ad ¥ aE “ i ag H F E GIVE | WILBUR, “te HEAD, : te RE sgn 3 af i FE A FAULTS, “HE: ne ce E AS He BEE Ha in i i