The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 7, 1929, Page 4

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Kresge Bidg 7 oe - beat ‘al | (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Statem Firy HOUDINI’S “MESSAGES” to NZ It would be very odd if Harry Houdini, who spent a are ‘{good share of his restless life fighting the theory that Sharsthe dead could return and speak to the living, should Sgn now be trying himself to send word from beyond the contigerave to his widow. com} Mrs, Houdini believes that a New York medium has cont Seiven her an authentic code message from the great a ‘ian. And while some close friends of Houdini are lt openly skeptical about it, scenting a fake, Mrs. ‘Tt din! seems to be persuaded that the message was ted uine. appt During his lifetime Houdini demonstrated beyond a conr bt that a great many mediums are fakes. Yet, ob- linet *yiously, that does not necessarily mean that ghosts can- able “not walk or that those who have passed on cannot speak. If the spiritualists were wise, they would ruthlessly 000{ put such fakers out of business themselves. For while Q: avery living man has some loved one beyond the grave, whe! with whom he would give all he has to speak, there is no cir denying that most people are more or less actively hos- Y plar tile to spiritualism. We long to communicate with those b drec whom we have lost; but the thimble-rigging hocus-pocus trie’ sf darkened parlors on cheap streets, tinkling bells, ig- sery 0rant mediums and nonsensical “controls” disgust us. witl We feel that if our loved ones wanted to speak to us with shey would not be bound by any such cheap clap-trap. nec” Yet too facile skepticism is as bad as over credulity. syst Just as in Hamlet’s day, there are more things in heaven — 1nd earth than our philosophy dreams of. To doubt “ahese messages from the dead because of the odor of fraud which clings about the average medium is one shing; to doubt them because of a cocksure assumption shat a world of radios, airplanes and organic chemistry as no place in it for disembodied spirits is quite an- i | other. * It is this second attitude which too many of us adopt. Perhaps, for that reason, it would be a good thing for us *.it could be definitely proved—as it can’t, in the nature agit things—that the message Mrs, Houdini received came Itt ‘tom Harry Houdini. It might jar us out of our com- rea placent self-sufficiency. bre In spite of all our modern science—in spite of our ter aealthy preoccupation with things that can be séen and aandled and Built up or torn down at will—we still are sel ripped by the necessity of finding a satisfactory answer sht :- the old question that was put in Judea 20 centuries pe ago: If a man die, shall he live again? It is still true fa} ‘hat this is one kind of universe if the answer to that 8 question be Yes, and another kind if the answer be No. Ne ‘We shall always hunger after that answer; and we of ‘ball always know, in the bottom of our hearts, that we ch ‘re lost and helpless if that answer is not what we hope. hha This business of Houdini’s code message may mean 46 yothing at all. It may be only a clever swindle. But, s bg m the other hand, there is a chance that it may be gen- co une. And any cocksure assumption to the contrary is a Mk rifle out of place. i THE DISCORDANT NOTE } Anyone who follows closely the debates in congress on it questions must be impressed by the broad prasp of the subject under discussion shown by some Members. When a revenue bill, for instance, is up for tion in the house of representatives, those hav- the program in charge display a command of prin- which cannot but excite admiration on the part the best informed outsider. Plausible but superficial unsound suggestions from the floor are disposed of terse, effective fashion, and there is rapid progress passage of the bill. | It is true, of course, that any student of a particular who reads every word in the Congressional Rec- or in published proceedings of committee hearings, t swallow an immense amount of heated atmosphere. matter how serious the subject, there are too many e who feel obliged to weave about it an intricate of empty words, a turgid flow of rhetoric indica- ive today of an empty and shallow mind. ')-Xet somehow every important measure finally throws iff its slough of mere cheap speechifying and reaches a ‘selnt where further progress is in charge of the real cool-headed men, utterly unmoved by the fan- ; antics of the noisemakers. V More is the pity, therefore, that the proceedings of should be marred, even in a slight way, by uses of the leave-to-print and extension-of-remarks 1 ‘The Congressional Record prints many so-called hes which were never delivered in congress. And ‘public must pay for printing and mailing this irrele- bi matter. “This is cheap, petty stuff, ill becoming a great body. Many important problems need handling by our it legislators for them to waste time and money in ‘display of silly little egoisms. SeaaEdEnEEemereel STIMSON AS A CONCILIATOR the ‘World war there has been just one Asiatic see SI RAT BH opposed ideas regarding the future of the islands and pursued their antagonistic policies with equal deter- mination. If General Wood helped stimulate the nation- alism of the Filipinos by opposing an early independence, his predecessor, Francis Burton Harrison, certainly made them conscious of their deficiencies for self-govern- ment by showing too much leniency. There must be some significance, favorable to the present administra- tion on the islands, in the fact that for a year not one cry for independence has been heard. FOOTBALL AND AMITY Football, king of college sports in the United States and of American origin, is slowly becoming a world sport. Newspapers a few days ago carried dispatches telling of an accident at a football game in Central Europe in which several persons were killed. And from Mexico comes the news that President Gil, after witnessing a football game in the United States, expressed the hope that the sport could be introduced in every school and college in his own country. He goes even farther than most Americans and foresees international gridiron classics played between championship teams from both sides of the Rio Grande. Relations between these two nations have been on the mend, but if, after Ambassador Morrow's benign labors any hidden causes of friction remain, the pathway to in- ternational good will has been cleared by the Mexican president’s blanket endorsement of our favorite scho- lastic and collegiate game. » President Gil is a pronounced idealist and conceives the whole venture in terms of amateur sport and phys- ical culture. He is not thinking of the gate receipts, at least not yet. But if he carries out his vow to intro- duce football in Mexico he will soon discover that the sport is capable of paying generous dividends as well as encouraging amity between nations. From the Mexican executive has come an idea which has a strong appeal to many followers of football. In- ternational gridiron contests can be looked forward to with keen anticipation. CHANGES IN A GENERATION To her list of celebrities England has added a man who has never spoken over a telephone and boasts of it. Being a titled gentleman and 75, it is doubtful if his case! could be paralleled on this side of the big pond. Here we can point only to a few old ladies who still keep their own horses and cabs and never set foot in a motor car. There are few business men so old-fashioned they refuse to permit typewriters to be used in their offices. Occasionally a man will be seen wearing hat and clothes in the mid-Victorian style. Even the custom of serving punch on New Year's day persists among some old-fashioned Americans. But the United States is developing a generation fancy to all manner of new inventions. Gone are the days of oil lamps. The gas range has displaced the old wood stove. In fact, a modern child has been known to proclaim that a flatiron of the old brand which has to be heated on a stove, instead of by electricity, is no good because “it has no string.” All this is easily explained. Isolation is all but im- Possible in this day of good roads, automobiles, air- Planes, radio and telephones. Crones, who have never traveled far from home, can go through life without see- ing or hearing a locomotive, but only the blind are de- prived of the privilege of seeing an automobile. People who still have their first automobile ride to look forward to are almost as scarce as wearers of homespuns. BOYS WHO WORK Society, at least in America, has long since passed the stage in which it believes it economically or socially wise or necessary to exploit child labor. Employers of minors, @s @ general thing, support this national policy. Useful employment, however, aids the development of child character. Frequently children have to contribute to their own support. Often a child would be better off if occupied by suitable employment. Sometimes orily which looks upon life through eyes accustomed from in-|' TIME TO CHANGE ENGINES! YOUR CHILDREN 6y Olive Roberts Barton ©1928 by NEA Service,Inc. We should teach our children that “no” means “no” and “yes” means “yes.” It isn't fair to them to give the idea that “no” means “perhaps.” One of the commonest things in the world is to see a child to whom @ mother has just said, “No, you may not do that,” hang around and coax and plead for an hour afterward, hoping that she will change her mind. And, of course, for the sake of peace she usually does. * ek x Very early in his young life, Johnny began to experiment. The amount of experimenting a young child does would probably amaze his parents. His experiments usually go some- thing like this: “Johnny mustn’t touch, No, Johnny mustn't.” Johnny calmly puts out a small in- vestigating hand and touches, all the while keeping his eyes on his mother. He is measuring up her reaction as carefully as a jeweler weighs dia- monds. How far shall he go? Be sure he'll go as far as he can. The same psychology goes on in his mind a little later on when he is old enough to ask, “May I go over to no, through gainful employment—household tasks and farm chores being usually unrewarded and irksome—can hab- its of industry be taught. Exploitation of child labor must be prevented to a cer- tain degree. There must no longer be long hours in sweat shops for the immature. At the same time the right of children to work, or the right of their parents to Place them at work of the proper kind, should not be violated. Certainly there is much to be said in favor of boys working as store errand boys, messengers, newspaper car- ricrs and chore boys as long as these occupations do not keep them out of school. These part-time jobs are never So arduous as to be physically injurious, and usually they help to build character and mental powers. BANDITS BRING BLESSING The Mexican bandit, villain of countless stage and sereen 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 lines to various Parts of Mexico is the roving bandit. Trains and auto- mobiles carrying payrolls or important personages often get held. up. So Mexican and foreign capitalists are 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 help- ing his country along the path of Progress. —_—_—_—_— . . Editorial! Comment GONGRESS TO “GET THE AIR” (New York Times) The senate may have more comfortable desks and chairs and lobbies, but the house has been Stealing a march on it lately in other facilities. ‘The representatives have a gymnasium where they may flex their muscles in anticipation of the perfect gesture, and now they are to have a ventilating system all their own. For years congressmen have been crying out against the existing system, or lack of one. Whenever a phy- sician, like our own senior senator, finds his way to the Frank’s?” “May I have a piece of cake?” He sums up quite carefully with that keen perception of his exactly what his mother means when she says “no.” If it is a floppy “no” with room on either side to slip past, be sure he is going to stick around and coax until she says “yes.” is date in MAAMERICAN HIST ORY FEBRUARY 7 1863—Federal cavalry defeated at ‘Williamsburg, Va. 1864—Federal troops went to Florida to = aa @ loyal state govern- ment : 190¢—Fire in Baltimore, Md., burned over 145 acres; caused oss esti- mated at $70,000,000. l | [ Our’ Yesterdays | FORTY YEARS AGO | Hon. George A. Walsh, Mrs. Walsh and small son, Grand Forks, are | spending the winter here. in size and already Squatter Hanna- fin’s legislature outnumbers the dig- nified members of the house and senate, Members of the supreme court who have arrived in the city are: Judges Bartlett, Tripp, Thomas, Spencer, McConnell, Carland, Rose, Crofoot, and Templeton. Chief Clerk Young of the supreme court has arrived from Yankton. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Miss Ara Waggoner hes returned from San Diego, Calif. She reports her mother as much improved in health. Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Lyon, Mandan, celebrated their wedding anniversary with a fancy dress party. Guests in- cluded several from Bismarck. William A. Swett, formerly of Bis- marck, is now stationed with the U. 8. Army at Fort Apache, Ariz. Mrs. R. D. Hoskins is able to be out, again for the first time since her re- cent operation for appendicitis. TEN YEARS AGO Franklin and Warder Roberts are spending some time here with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Roberts. A farewell reception was held at the Grand Pacific hotel fer Rev. and Mrs. Bruce E. Jackson and their LENSE, who are leaving for Grand J. F. T. O'Connor will speak at a meeting at the Auditorium Sunday evening. The Junior section of the Thurs- day Musical club met with Miss Lu- cille Lahr. i IN AND OUT She: If you tell a man anything it goes in one ear and out of the other. He: And if you tell a woman any- thing it goes in at both ears and out of her mouth.—Answers. The third house is gaining rapidly ; he S DAY... The wish that one were a man, if one ‘is a woman, and the wish that one were @ woman, if one is a man, are perhaps about as frequent as any human wishes. It’s not often, though, that a human being can really try it out, being first a man and then a woman, as did Orlando, hero and heroine of the book by the same title by Vir- ginia Woolf. Some of the amusing comparisons of Orlando on the two states are in- teresting: “It is a strange fact, but @ true one that up to this moment she had hardly given her gex a thought. It was not until she felt the coil of skirts about her legs and the captain offered, with the greatest politeness, to have an awning spread for her on deck that she realized with a start, the penalties and privileges of her position. * ek * A LAZY LIFE! “‘Lord,’ she. thought,’ “‘this is a pleasant, lazy way of life, to be sure. But’ she thought, giving her legs a kick, ‘these skirts are plaguey things to have about one's heels. Yet the stuff (flowered paduasoy) is the lovli- est in the world. Never have I seen my own skin (here she laid her hand on her knee) look to such advantage as now. Could I, however, leap over- board and swim in clothes like these? No! Therefore, I should have to trust to the protection of a blue- Jacket. Do I object to that? Now do : 12’ She wondered, here encountering the first knot in the smooth skein of her argument.” * Oe x DEMANDS OF MEN Then Orlando begins reflecting upon what she, as a man, demanded in women, and is appalled at the job before her if she cares to please men, “Upon which a gloom fell over her. Candid by nature, and averse to all kinds of equivocation, to/tell lies bored her. It seemed to her a round- about way of going to work. Yet, she Teflected, the flowered paduasoy—the Pleasure of being rescued by a blue- jJacket—if these were only to be ob- tained by roundabout ways, round- about one must go, she supposed. She |vemembered how, as a young man, | OUR BOARDING HOUSE SEEING THAT MY Toa YY SSN] capitol he is apt to choose this as his special theme. The air of the two chambers is conducive neither to vigorous mentality nor long life. At the last session congress appropriated $323,000 for new ventilating systems. That for the house is already installed and will be ready to try out when that body Seembles this week. It will “wash” the air in the most approved modern fashion, and deliver warm in winter, cool in summer, like a movie palace. PENN’S GRAVE FOUND Pathfinder: DAVID, CAME: IN YESTERDAY AND PAID You $20. FoR HE week HE STAVED HERE UNDER “He NoM DE PLUME OF “SIR ANTHONY % ue WELL, ~ AH * UM-M<THAT IS, ~~ DoT You FEEL THAT I SHouLD eet AH,~ SAY,~ AH $5. oF “He MoNeEY 2: . SEEING “THAT (7 WAS I BROUG! 1 Nou IF You ww FRIEND Ho A mn “te * By Ahern BIG PARLOR PELICAN! BURNED THe House Dow, You'p HAVE NERVE ENOUGH “To ASK FoR A CUT WItH-THE INSURANCE MONEY, FoR SAVING oN “THE HEAT ASD LIGHT BILL? = es, I'LL GIVE You $5, ~~ “fo BUY SOME ARNICA AND BANDAGES, ~~ IF You DARE ASK ME AGAIA ! mths QNCLOSE STANPEO is the most common crossed eye, Twill explain in as simple a manner as this condition ean a be corrected without means. Tt 4s of the utmost importance that the proper treatment be started in time in arder to insure good results. The first symptoms of crossed eyes usually appear in children between the ages of eighteen months and four years. As soon as the parents notice any deviation in the child’s eyes, this condition must not be ignored or only lightly considered as only some- thing that the child will outgrow. AS the days go by the case becomes in- creasingly more difficult to cure with- out surgical measures. As I explained yesterday, an operation can accom- plish only one effect and that is to make the eye straight, but curiously the patient is only able to sec in either one or the other of his eyes afterwards, | The non-surgical treatment of | crossed eyes will succeed if started in time, and the results accomplished come from the simple plan of exer- cising the weakened eye muscles so that finally all of these muscles func- tion normally as nature intended. The mother will first notice that one eye occasionally turns toward the nose. If she will observe carefully, she will find that this happens when the child is especially tired or when he becomes overly excited. When he has thus wasted his general energy there will be less vitality for the eye muscles or any other special part of the body. The fact is that the weak muscles are unable to move the eyes normally, although ~ after a good night's sleep the general strength of the body will be sufficiently restored so that no squint is noticed until the child again becomes tired. At the first sign of the squint the child should be taken to an optome- trist for a careful eye examination. It will be found that one eye has a poorer vision than the other. Glasses will be advised for improving the vision of the poorer eye. The good eye is bandaged at given in- tervals so that the poorer eye will be forced to see better. It takes a great deal of time and patience, but fi- nally after a few months have elapsed both eyes begin to see at the same time and diplopia or double vision oceurs. That is, the two eyes for perhaps the first time in the child’s life can see at the same time, but each eye is a separate picture caus- ing everything to be double. Do not she had insisted that women must be obedient, chaste, scented. ‘I shall have to pay in my own person for those desires,’she reflected; “for wom- en are not (judging by my own short experience of the sex) obedi- ent, chaste, scented, and exquisitely apparelled by nature. They caw only attain these graces, without which they may enjoy none of the delights of life, by the most tedious disci- pline. There’s the hair-dressing,’ she thought. ‘That alone will take an| hour of my morning; there’s staying and lacing; there’s washing and powdering; there’s changing from silk to lace and from lace to padua-! soy; and there’s being chaste year in and year oe *% ! THE MALE PARADOX i ‘Then Orlando who now is a woman, and who has been a man, muses on the male sex. | “She was horrified to perceive how low an opinion she was forming of the other sex, the manly, to which it had once been her pride to belong. ‘To fall from a masthead,’ she thought, ‘because you see a woman's ankles; to dress up like a | Fawkes and parade the streets, so that women may praise you; to deny @ woman teaching lest she may laugh at you; to be the slave of the frailest chit in petticoats, and yet to go about as if you were the Lords of creation.—Heavens!’ she thought, ‘what fools they make of us—what fools we are!’” BARBS \ ae NOT A COUGH IN A CARAMEL! Comes now an important dispatch stating that Yehudi Menuhin, candy makers and cigaret ad writ- ers? . .. The candy men seem to and you won't ever have to wear glasses. .. . Not a cough in a cara- mel. . 4 Men be masculine! Have a * eK Spain has been having a revolu- tion. Can ade i“) os behind? i 3 i Bed Rx i - ya g 5 i al : Fist gr Hee : Z a i i IN REGARD TO HEALTH ¢ DIET WILL GLY Vd C08 ADERESSED Lda SX be Resting up some wonderful | Same » however. Why don’t they chocola\ ild’s are ruined think that the chit condition 18 ex- this stage, for Sy what the optometrist is trying . MoCoy will gladly answer Psi questions on health and diet, addressed to him, care of the dbune. “noose a stamped eddressed envelope for reply. the amblyoscope, the kratometer and mayoculator. It is struments as only a short time from the ies ot double vision to single vi- sion and no cross eyes, and a dis- tressing lifelong handicap is removed. Let me repeat that the success of a cure depends upon early observa- tion and treatment. UESTIONS AND ANSWERS by Massage for Broken Hip, Question: Mrs. P. A. asks: “What about massage for broken hip that has been in @ cast for a long time? It is very painful.” Answer: The massage, which should be given while the broken hip is mending, is sometimes rather pain- ful if it is necessary to break down adhesions, Otherwise, there should be little discomfort felt and in fact the shail usually has quite a int effect. bags onnaise and Arthritis Question: Mrs. P. D. asks: “Can one have mayonnaise on the salad vegetables mentioned in your cleans- ing diet, and also can anyone with arthritis have creamed vegetables or put butter over them when cooked?” Answer: I do not advise the use of mayonnaise on the salad vegetables while following the cleansing diet. With arthritis one may use butter over the vegetables but it is better to avoid cream and milk until the painful symptoms have subsided. Never use flour for thickening the vegetables. Normal Temperature Question: Mrs, F. V. asks: “Is a temperature of 99 degrees considered a fever temperature? I have been told that 98.6 is the average normal temperature and that a person in good health may have a temperature Of 99 degrees. Is this correct?” Answer: It is undoubtedly possible that some people have a normal tem- perature of 99 degrees. However, if this temperature only comes on from two to four in the afternoon it may be a sign of some inflammatory pro- cess going on in the body. (Copyright 1929 by the Bell Syndi- cate, Inc.) @. ~VAILURE TO ESTABLINA SECOND RE-ENTRY North (Dummy)— ass 84 K8s54 53 O39 CT edad West— Leads 9 J East— bh (Declarer)— 3 96 76 of clubs and now is how to finesse the Dlay Ace of d’a- monds, and Queen of diamonds. After that 6 of diamonds is lead and over- taken with ggg ad King tul - clarer to frame. yids ies re-entries may often {f Blocking le avelded. (Copyright, 1929, Ready. Reference Publishing Co.) cards of = sult evenly divided, two v established