The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 11, 1929, Page 4

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Kresge Bidg (Official City, State and County Newspaper) BOY SCOUTS AND BISMARCK ‘The boy is father to the man. If the boy be a boy j scout, it is not beyond the possibilities of likelihood that the man is going to be a better one for the figurative fatherhood. For records show that few boy scouts go wrong. Al- most none, in fact, says Judge A. M. Christianson, who i has been making a study of the boy scout movement. They dc not show up in police courts nor juvenile courts. What is it that makes boy scouts lead such clean young lives? Honor. The scout oath is one of the most effective codes of Conduct ever devised. It is akin to the code of chivalry which animated Europe in the days of knighthood. It 4s somewhat as potent as the bushido ethics of the Japanese samurai. “A bushi has no second word” was one of the mottoes of the samurai. A boy scout might boast that degree of honor, too. Ther are other activities of the scout movement that contribute mightily to the upbuilding of a self-reliant and honorable body of youth. A community is that much the poorer if it does not have this organization among its boys. It means better citizens for the future that ideal future which one generation, failing to at- tain, dreams that its sons and daughters will be able to achieve in the next. Bismarci: is fortunate in having ten of these troops. Backed by churches and clubs and schools they are a splendid guarantee for the future leadership of the city. Boy scouts thrive of themselves but they also thrive | better if the community takes an interest in them. It | also encourages their directors and scout masters in the ‘work. Bismarci: scout leadership is especially strong, and such masters in the movement as W. G. Fulton, the Brea director, have won the right to the backing of the | community. So have the troop scout masters. Each troop is manned by a trained, capable and sacrificing scout master. They give their time to the work, and no suecess that they achieve is so satisfactory that they feel they can relax their activities. Such men are not al- ‘ways easy to find and enlist in such a cause. This is the anniversary weet: of the movement begin- ning in Sir Baden-Powell’s organization in England fol- lowing the Boer war, which had brought the general the idea at the siege of Mafeking, where the boys of the town. were organized for small services among the hard-beset defenders. The movement was adopted by Dan Beard and Ernest Thompson Seton on this side and, February 8, 1910, the first troop of scouts received a fed- eral charter. Hence the present anniversary observance. Sunday the churches gave the organization and the occasion recognition in their services. There are still Several observances in which the community can show its interest. Tuesday evening a court of honor will be held. Wednesday is civic and “good turn” day. Thurs- @ay the scouts will devote to home and will do “good turns” for their parents at home. An active future is ahead for the scouts in the coming Months, leading up to their summer camp at Chan Owapi. They are setting themselves right for these ac- tivities in this anniversary period. All they need is a Uittle help from the business community, which all has beer. explained to the service clubs of the city and in publicity through the press. So it was a good renewal of t:eir scouthood which they made Saturday evening, ‘when in troop asserablages they recommitted themselves 15 of Circulation i|The mentally subnormal are especially prone to apply | thos. things which society prefers to leave to the | perfection when every adult will think for himself or to tha’ honor-inspiring scout code in the words of their path: “On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to (God and my country and to obey the scout law; to help @the> people at all times and to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.” PUBLIC APATHY “Years ago township government was found to be in- efficient, so the public sought a remedy in centralization @t the county seat. The next generation found the County government inefficient in some respects and @arried the process of centralization one step farther to the state capitol. And that change was no sooner effected than a drift toward national bureaucracy was @etected. At the end of the centralization rope the People have awakened to the disturbing thought that ‘whatever efficiency has been gained through central- 4zation of government has been at great expense to the taxpayer. The trend has been away from “home rule,” hhecause the public has learned from sad experience that “home rule” is too often no rule. ‘The people establish government departments and pay + out large sums for the administration of those depart- i tty they promise. Herein lics the cause ot} ¢ and the basis for marked differences | fine the much opinion. ° i Somewhere the line must be drawn, for liberty is in| the moct literal sense the negation of the law, law being restraint and the absence of all restraint anarchy. To fix the line which will give both the individual and the group scope and opportunity for harmonious develop- ment is the overshadowing problem of liberty and law. Lawmakers have yet to learn to consider personal liberty when protecting public rights, and to consider ublic rights when protecting personal libertv. To be good legislation, laws must offend neither. 1 POWER OF SUGGESTION Suggestion has a powerful influence upon the mind. to themselves or thelr condition ideas expressed by the normal or abnormal. Sometimes this trait of the sub- normal leads to disastrous results. ‘There is the case of euthanasia or the painlessly put- ting to death of persons suffering from incurable diseases. Public discussions of this highly debatable subject are thought to have suggested recent “murders for relief” in France, England and the United States. If they did not, they, nevertheless, stand as a constant threat be- cause of their vivid suggestivencss. It is a dangerous thing to put such subnormal sug- gestions into the minds of the illiterate and irresponsible. To be sure, the number that might be led to put the sug; ion into practice would always be negligible, but as the public can gain nothing but morbid thrills from the question that which would prevent one act of euthanasia would be worth while. Euthanasia is one of scientist in his laboratory. However, there is no possibility of overcoming all of the evils of mental suggestion. That is, mental sugges- tion will operate on a large scale until that age of mental herself on every question. Such a perfect mind is in the Process of evolution, to the extent that that majority which accepts the words of others without question is gradually dwindling. For the good of the masses the army of the innocently credulous is still too large. If everybody thought fcr himself probably it would not be! hearc so often that the “majority is usually wrong.” Americanism: Buying nickel and dime classics in order to get cultured; failing to read them. A cynic is a man who thinks everything rotten except his precious self. Many a woman has to apologize to her husband for what he does. Going without stockings isn’t expensive cnough to be- come a fad. | Editorial Comment ———— GOV. SHAFER KEEPING HIS PROMISES (Devils Lake Journal) Although not much significance may be attached to Governc- Shafer's veto of the bill to increase the bounty on wolve:. from $3 to $5, it is, however, an outstanding example of how the governor plans to conduct his office for the next two years, In vetoing this bill he made his first gesture towards fulfilling his campaign pledge that he would use the utmost economy in the conduct of the state government, and he no doubt felt that he might as well start with the bounty bill as with any- thing else. It is quite probable that when the host of appropriation measures are submitted to the governor much slicing will ensue. The executive seems to be his own boss, and his knowledge of state government, pecul- jarly fits him for this position. IMMEDIATE ACTION ESSENTIAL (Devils Lake Journal) Senato: D. H. Hamilton, chairman of the senate com- mittee on state affairs, hit the nail on the head the other day when he went on record as favoring an im- mediate investigation of the charges made against the State Board of Administration, the state penitentiary and the State Training School at Mandan, made in the senate by Senator Olson of Barnes county, should be started at once instead of leaving it to an interim com- mittee which would not submit the result of its findings to the state legislature until two years hence. “If the things stated in the resolution are true,” Senator Ham- ilton, who is a Nonpartisan, said, “it seems to me that the investigation should be made at once rather than permit the alleged abuses to continue for two years.” The most important reason why the investigation should be started at once, however, is that it is the duty of the legislature to give those whom Senator Olson accuses in his resolution an immediate hearing, that they might, if they can, clear themselves of the serious charges. Superintendent McClelland of the Mandan over all of you? I declare I can’t un- I thought your crowd so to training school is almost insistent in his demand that | Play together almost unconscious of the investigation be started at once, and R. B. Murphy, | €@ch other until they are ten or eleven chairman of the Board of Administration, feels the same | OF twelve years old. Then comes the Way about it. It should not take two years to conduct | awning of difference which we are such an investigation and the people of the state should not be compelled to wait two years to learn whether the charges are true or false. ai SHAFER PLAYS WISE GAME (Jamestown Sun) Governor Shafer's veto Wednesday of the wolf bounty | parents to become very close and bill is significant of two things, The first is that the governor really meant what he sald when he told the legislative body, at the opening of the session, that his would be an economic adminis- tration, The second is that he intends to stand on own feet and make his own decisions. Resentment at the governor's action in overruling the legislature appeared to be totally lacking. Those Non- Partisan League members who are disposed to view the matter in a political light are getting a quiet chuckle out of the fact that Shafer's first veto went to a bill Sponsored by an Independent, C. C. Turner of Stark county. They are frank in regarding it as @ “good sign.” The veto was regarded in some circles as the gover- nor’s method of serving notice on the legislature that appropriations must be held down. It is believed to have dimrred the prospects for any substantial increases in state expenditures this session. With a demonstration before them of what the executive will do if necessary to hold down expenses, legislative leaders of both fac- boil vere ere to be! the pruning knife them- rather than force the governor to kill swinging his veto club. is Fiesate® Be Althoughly the governor explained his veto wholly on the ere that it would be poor business to increase wol unty, some were disposed to regard it as good pallies These iri the veto at the governor, while not attempting to dictate to legisic ture, nevertheless to exerclae his own ude ment and not let the legislature dictate to him. They Lhe) Bos rei Faved veto an indication that the governor stress economy rather than polit administration of the office. Pee ae CHILDREN party.” | know Jane so well—you've played | Seattle where he will make his future with her all your life, Jane isn't just want to go. | Parties. They don’t like girls at all.” | derstand it. were all little gentlemen, but you're acting iike a bunch of ninnies. Jane’s | 4aughter, Mrs. John D. Lawler. The mother has gone to a lot of trouble | 8eneral has visited Bismarck many and I know she won't understand it. ; times and has a number of friends You'll just have to go, whether you want to or not. And I think the other boys’ mothers will | make them go too.” went, but they hung around like ¢lod- hoppers and were about as agreeable and polite as young Tomcats. ally bored to death! Jane's mother invite one of them to her house again! were so chagrined they didn’t know what to do. Christendom, and then some, other groups of mothers were despairing about other groups of “ungentleman- ly” boys who had lost their taste for girls, just as these were now doing. And that mothers of girls were almost as desperate because their daughters had turned shy and awk- ward and self-conscious and lost their ability to’be pals with the boys they had always played with. rawal that perplexes so many par- | stantly killed yesterday when his car findings.” ents. It is entirely natural, but it | struck a rock, breaking one of the will disappear. Later they will be | wheels and causing the car to tip | sioned letter, the friends again but in a newer relation. | over. fe) ¥ OUR BOARDING HOUSE 'HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE * MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1929: Just Another Busy Day! HEALTH DIET ADVICE] a itty! zegi BB # ge QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Sleeplessness ‘Question: Mra, M. E. writes: “I have suffered for a long time from sleeplessness. Can you tell me a temedy for same?” Answer: The principal cause of in- somnia is digestive trouble, such as excess of fermentation of food, which Produces gas pressure against the heart or diaphragm. Even if you are not conscious of such pressure, it is sufficient to unconsciously irritate you and keep you from getting a deep slumber, Blood Tests Question: Subscriber writes: “Will you kindly advise us if a test of blood taken from the ear could locate a disease, such as tumor or cancer, and what organs are affected? Is such ‘8 test possible or plausible?” Answer: Such tests are not accur- ate as far as being able to discover from these tests whether you have a tumor or cancer. I know the tests you refer to, and exaggerated claims are made for them which cannot be substantiaed. Seasickness Question: Mal-de-Mer writes: “I am thinking of taking a trip to Europe next May or June. (I am a bad sailor, always seasick on sea or lake.) Would you advise a fruit fast just before sailing? I am middle aged, in excellent health. Answer: If your seasickness is caused from the fruit fast will be helpful, if taken just be- fore starting on your voyage. If you become seasick because of defective from a lecture by Robert G. Ingersoll, | vision, you must secure proper glasses. may be interesting in showing the |If you always get sick and remain so - value of water drinking for fevers: | all during you beige} it is doubtless in It is advisable to drink large quan- tities of water, as this assists the body in washing out and eliminating toxins. Orange and lemon juice may be added, but it is advisable not to al interfere with the natural eliminative Processes going oh. tion should be induced even = C) | children, and in a tactful, kindly way, | as friend to friend, tell them some of | the truths of life. A book on social hygiene would be of help. [i ] | Our Yesterdays FORTY YEARS AGO But, Richard, it’s Jane’s party. You! R. L. Durant will leave soon for oy we YOUR around the body. In every fever it is advisable to use enemas, sometimes 102.5 degrees and if it rises beyond this height, cool sponge baths along the spine and abdomen may be used at intervals of about an hour apart. But if the fever is below this tem- perature, tepid or warm sponge baths should <2 substituted. There is very little danger of a fatal termination to a fever if these simple methods are used. Beware of any method or drug which will in- terfere with throwing out of the toxins which were responsible in the first place for the development of the fever, and be sure not to use any rich food until the fever is over, as it cannot be properly digested during @ fever and might cause serious trouble. The following extract, which is & Ove Barton ©1928 by NBA Service,Ine. “I don't want to go to a girl's The Secretary of Labor is playing the role of grand arbitrator in one of these “fool women” quarrels. To be sure, he’s too polite to call it that, but we can just imagine. The Wo- men’s Bureau of the department of labor recently finished a job of re- search on the effects of labor legisia- tion upon the employment opportuni- ties of women. The report was to the effect that such legislation helped rather than retarded women’s Ployment opportunities. * * * CLAIM REPORT BIASED The National Woman's Party which, of course, resents Protective legislation for women, claiming that women lose jobs, cannot get jobs, and must take lower wages than men be- cause of this so-called protective leg- islation, claims that the report was biased, being made by an organiza- tion which has always sponsored pro- tective legislation and which, there- fore, would not report any findings contrary to their own platform. | home. girl.” | “Yes, she is. None of the fellows! Homer B. Sprague, president of the They don't like girl's’ Grand Forks university, is visiting in “Well, what on earth has come | the city. General Sturgis, valiant officer of {the regular army, is visiting his “All the advance that has been made | becat in the science of medicine has been made by the recklessness of patients I can recall when they wouldn't give &@ man water in a fever—not a drop. here. Richard, Hon. P. J. McLaughlin, formerly a member of the Dakota legislature, but now practicing law in St. Paul, is here for the session. All Self-Conscious And so it happened. The boys all wholesome food,” one might believe their motives a bit more concerned with a whole-hearted seal for public welfare than they probably are. Inj other words, it’s pernicious to permit | any firm to say “smoke” when the association would say “cut yourself a Piece of cake.” « * * x “IF I WEREN'T MARRIED!” Many married women pine and sigh for the things they might do if only they hadn’t married! Mrs. Mary L. | Lewis of Pittsburgh has built and sold | 150 homes during the last 12 years, : though she is a wife and mother of several children. She attends to; every detail of the building from the | attic to basement, explaining that her H success is because, after all, homes are | sold to women rather than men, and that she knows what women want for TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Mrs. T. H. Poole returned from a visit in the east. Never had a crowd of boys acted | terribly before! They were liter- | Never would Richard Boyle has returned to his work at the Northern Pacific office. Word went round the various mothers, who in turn An exhibit of grains and grasses grown in Burleigh county, prepared by J. H. Marshall will be displayed at the St. Louis fair. Well, how gtout it, all ye poor working girls, have you suffered or benefited most from laws which pro- tect you in industry? Have you been unable to find and keep jobs because P. J. Lyons and E. 8. Elliott, of | of these laws, or do they merely make Steele, are sinking a shaft near that| you bless someone for city where they believe they have|sanitary wash rooms, comfortable struck paying gold dirt. chairs, and shorter working days? * * * TEN YEARS AGO "NOTHER ROW Lieut. Col. E. P, Quain, who has} Here's another cute little row in the been commanding a base hospital unit | works, The United Restaurant Own- on the west front, has arrived in New | ers’ Association vigorously protests to York, the shensiy Radio Commission the permit of cigaret propaganda on Eddie Edmundson ‘has returned to| the ai, The association calls the his work as linotype operator after |cigaret talks “a it assault a nine months absence over-seas. He| against public welfare, trying to was joined at Spooner, Wis., by Mrs, | transform the school girls, the grow- Edmundson and their baby. ing boys and girls ania tree confirmed cigaret Albert Borkhart, Baldwin, was in- | of the established medical and health Page of the impas- United Restaurant They didn’t know that all over 86, IGNORING LAW OF PRO ABILITIES ‘orth A 5 Q K Z (Dummy) — I 6 5° a fata re] The Old Story Tt will always be so. Boys and girls OSD West— Leads 9 6 East-< leased to call sex. The first reaction to it is this with- If, in the last i] eclarer)—= o this time it is excellent for us that it is especially dastardly for a | house, anyway. nation-wide network to encourage cigaret smoking “as a substitute for H. J. Lake, Portland, Ore, is a le to~their developing | visitor in the city. i 2 7. Ake! ar 8 Nous To UNDERSTAND HAT ouR NEPHEW ANUS, IS BEING RAISED IN AN ATMOSPHERE OF “THRUTH, ~ FACTS, ~ AND ConstRUCTIVE TEACHING !/ aw WHAT I Tere THE LAD, Is ALWAYS A KERNAL . ; OF WISDOM “To oe STORE I His Wake GRANARY OF KNOWLEDG' : ’ . : E UNCLE AMOS,~-D'You. KNow WHAT wAlcLE DAKE WAS “TELLING “ME 2 ~THAT HE Flew WITH LINDBERGH OVER “To PARIS, ~~ BUT HE NEVER “TOLD ANYBODY ABouUT fT, ‘cause HE WANTED LINDY flo GET ALL TH’ CREDIT! —~HE SAID. WHEN “THEY REACHED FRANCE, HE DUMPED oT Ih A PARACHUTE. So LINDY CouLD LAND = a pitt eel YY OOM] J} fll ry day sctoanne dake ip 8 i asf ff agi z. i