The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 5, 1929, Page 4

he Bismarck Tribune AD ladependent Newspaper THE STATE'S ULDES] NEWSPAPEXK . (Established 1873) ene ae Published the Bismarck [ribune Company bis bd tered at the postoffice at Bismarck Member of The Assuctated Press ‘The Associated Press 1s exclusively entitied to the use for republication of ali news dispatches credited tw It } os aut otherwise credited in this newspaper Fi the toca: news of spontaneous Ali rights of republication of all , Bre also reserved. origin published herein other matter herein Foreign Kepresentatives G. LUGAN PAYNE COMPANY NEW YORE .... Fifth Ave. Bidg. i F (Official City, State and County Newspaper) NEW GLAMOUR FOR GOLD ‘The builders of this country had a number of highly | picturesque ways of getting their work done. AS we cone tinue to modernize what they left us we tend, more and f more, to pick up again the methods they used—but we f leave out the picturesque parts. Nowhere is this more true than in the field of trans- GB see ROR Gs became established, there three main forms of commercial transport in Amer- river, by canal and by road. All were colorful, Tomantic and slow. "The railroads took business away from all three, being cheaper and faster. Now we are reverting to these three systems; but, going back to them, we are dropping the gay trappings that make the old woodcuts and the musty diaries of travelers seem 60 other-worldly and Until the railway network Fa Beers ‘The motor truck has revived highway transportation. ‘Where the old, springless, creaking wagons, drawn by multiple teams of oxen or horses, lumbered over wilder- " ness trails and mountain passes at a pace painfully slow, the modern ten-ton truck goes speeding along over con- crete highways. The truck travels in a day farther than the old wagon traveled in # week, and carries five times as much to boot; but somehow it is not so nice to look at. Nobody will treasure old pictures of it in years to 25.8. It is the same with traffic on the rivers. The Mississip- pi and its tributaries were almost lifeless for years. Now great fleets of barges are coming into being, and plans are being laid for @ comprehensive service extending from Kansas City and St. Paul to New Orleans. The be- flagged old packet steamers, brilliant in white and gilt paint, are gone—toa; inefficient. The modern barges are replacing them; more useful, and far uglier. ‘The story is repeated on the canals. The horse-drawn barges that once plodded up and down the Erie canal, + breeding a life and culture of their own, setting a leisure- Anto being « group that lived apart from the main currents of the day, are gone forever. In retrospect they make @ fine picture. Their slow pace coems attrective:to:our madern feverish haste. ‘The same canal is coming into its own again—with steel barges that do not need horses and that, like the _ motor trucks, can outdistance and outcarry their old predecessors. But the new barges, their river prototypes, are sadly unromantic, No one will ever write novels rs Et = “ly pace and siege And there we are. We have grown 50 big and busy that we need every form of transportation we can get, | and we are going back to the ways of our ancestors and ~ moving goods by river, by canal and by highway as | ‘well as by rail, But we have not gone back far enough | to pick up the lazy color that they had. _ Or—are we mistaken? Over the heads of the mod- ern bargemen and truck drivers soar silver airplanes— | Our newest method of transportation. We have dis- + carded the old glamour; perhaps we are in the process * of making a new one. 1¢ may be that the airmail and its _ allied commercial carriers will yet. give us the color and ) romance that are missing on our canals, our rivers and : WHY WE HAVE NAMES name is like a handle. It shows you where to take It is a great convenience. Every object and liv- creature has a name handle. Otherwise we are not intelligently about them. names are arbitrary. They have come into being accident. In most instances there is a calling # thing by the particular name it Indians have peculiar names, such as Big Braveheart, Lone Wolf, Sly Fox, Fleet wk, Strong Arm, Big Bull, and the like. give the name of some highly desired the child to shape his character to fit gE. iy E Hr bears. .The Chief Eagle Black eiy aE is E : are named in a similar manner and Abraham means “Father of a Multi- ” and so on down the cases it would seem that the the person had shown some , they seem to fit too well. We have i HTH fool.” stant learning; zest and enthusiasm for the job. falls most heavily. INDUSTRY’S GREATEST AIDE ‘What are the function and purpose of the stock ex- gambling machine with which fortuncs can be won and lost? Or does it perform a definite and useful economic function? Is it not both? To those who “play” the market it is a exchange is put to definite and useful economic pur- Posts. It is highly important to industrial development that no impediment be put in the way of long-term security financing. The stock exchange removes such impedi- ment. It is an institution organized to assist’ in the marketing of securities, without which new industries would be unable to obtain necessary capital. Since 1850 the stock market in Wall street has per- formed a vital service in the development of the Uni- ted States. Following the Civil war the nation embarked upon a program of industrialization that has reached its highest point in today’s great corporations. Fot three-quarters of a century industry has been crying for additional capital, and has been looking to Wall Street to furnish it. E. H. H. Simmons, president of the New York stock exchange, holds that new industries, particularly, have need of the speculative buyer of securities, because the risks involved in untried projects, as a rule, deter con- servative investors from giving their support. Even the United States Steel corporation as recently as 1909 had to depend for much of its capital upon the “gambling” investor. ‘Whatever the stock exchange is, it is not a financial octopus fattening upon the unfortunate investments of the unwary. Very few of the autos left at home on a bright Sunday afternoon are able to run at all. Nerve is a funny thing. You never lose it except when you need it most. Next to a secret, the hardest thing to keep is a beau- tiful complexion. A pessimist is a man who wants things different even after they are. Editorial Comment ‘| and the acceptance of responsibilities at all stages of the orderly procession of years. It is because some men ot years are tempted into méthods not suitable to their years that the saying arose, “There's no fool lixe an old Youth may have its fling; but no one ever remained youthful by having more flings of the same kind. Those who keep on trying to answer the call of youth may have unpleasant reminders that it is a long-distance call with heavy tolls. Better listen to the call of age, not by piling up compensations or even consolations, but by meeting the problem of years with the spirit that was made strong in youth. For most of the cherished and enduring prerogatives of youth may be continued all through life. Three are the first order of value: Creativé- ness or productivity; taking on new interests or con- So long as you can put out a new output and get absorbed in it, you are young. And if you can do some- thing that you couldn't have done as well in earlier years, you are growing old wisely. Mental fitness for middle-aged men is as important to the rest. of the world as it is to them; for they are the men on whose heads and shoulders the responsible work of the world change? Is it, as is at times charged, merely a glorified gambling palace. But the money they pour into the THE SCOT DEFENDED (J. H. J. in the Weekly Scotsman) To say that the Scot has no sense of humor is a libel. All these stories about Scotsmen are written by Scotsmen and sold for money to the newspapers to amuse their English readers, Apart from which only a nation with a keen sense of the ridiculous could keep up the pose the Scots have adopted for centuries without giving them- selves away. Nor do I believe that the Scot really prefers the bag- Pipes to any other form of musical’ instrument; but you can't make a grand piano out of the internal workings of ® sheep. Then, take the haggis. Contrary to the usual impres- sion, the haggis is not shot on the wing, nor is it caught in a trap. You simply take various parts of a sheep and pack them into another part of the sheep with suct, onions, salt and pepper and oatmeal. Then you tie a string around the monster's neck and boil it. After which you muazie it and lead it to table. No Englishman bred on roast beef could face it, nor could @ Welshman accustomed to a rabbit made from. cheese. But the Scot does, and why? Well, he knows that gluttony is an expensive vice, and not even a Scot asks for a second helping of a fearful dish like a haggis. ‘The kilt, again, is a feminine garment, and the Scots- man knows it. The inhabitants of that country wear it when at home, to tone down their natural ferocity; otherwise they would tear each other to pieces. Scotsmen have figured all through history. It was a Scotsman who invented the steam engine, because he hated to waste the steam that came out of the spout of the kettle. There was a Scotsman on board with Colum- bus, and it was he who insisted on going on after every- body else had had enough of it, because he was being paid by the week and he wanted the voyage to last as Jong as possible. But admitting for the sake of argument that the Scot is mean, in his heart he is generous to a fault, and he would willingly give you his last sixpence, only he knows that money is the root of all evil, and he is afraid of ples rae to sag Therefore he poses as @ skin- int in self defense, to prevent you taking advantage of his good nature, ad WILSON AND HARVEY (Ray Stannard Baker in New York Herald Tritune) * Wilson deeply regrettea the entire Harvey incident. . | While in Detroit on Jan. 18, 1912, he wrote out with great care an explanation of the controversy, but decided fin- ally not to issue it, and it has not hitherto been pub- “I must confess to being very much distressed that this matter should have taken such a shape as to in- volve me in an apparent ingratitude. Harvey that the support of Harper's Weekly Colonel was apparently embarrassing me in many country, without having first been asked, fre ciesuce ti pam fase By Selene Harvey himself. me, never have conveyed such in- timation to him. The question was asked at the close of @ most friendly and porta) fonterencs, which Colonel uggested, and was, I suppose, asked natural part of the discussion. It was very frank oe Laka hurd Ra Lecconp Parviy he ask it, and I was very h rrassed in hav auswer. I never dreamed ‘ eat tte truth would: rem an : . is very sincerely admired Colonel Harvey’ course. I have never doubted his editorial indépendence. In his support of me he has written in s ma ly lucid fective; and has alt p o wish to ha’ & YOUR CHILDREN y Olne Roberts Barton (©1928 by NEA Service_ine. Parents often fail to see defects in their children when they are quite apparent to other people. ~ It is natural, of course. Old sights and sounds fail to register on our senses. We fail to hear the street cars pass the house after a month or two when at first they bothered us to death. A spot on a damask chair distresses us at first—then in @ week it passes into the discard of ‘impressions and we notice it no longer. We are not half so likely to make an effort to remove it after it has been there for a month or two, as we were upon first discovering it. | Unseen Faults i And so it is with habits in our . We get so accustomed to them that we do not see them at all. Or if we do see them they don’t dis- turb us as they should. How resentful we are if afi,out— sider dares to mention that Silly blinks his eyes or Dorothy is getting round-shouldered! For habit comes under various heads; it can be habit of behavior, habit of carelessness, or more serious still, hebjt of physical nature. : s Parents would be wise if they Kept themselves alert to the impression their children were making on ocvher People. It is a splendid way to get real perspective on one’s own family. If an aunt or cousin comes to visit at your house it might be a very ex- cellent opportunity to frankly ask for honest advice. “Of course we think that Billy and Dorothy are perfect, but tell me hon- estly, what do you think?” “Well—to begin with,” may be the answer, “we think Billy needs glasses. He blinks constantly. I don’t believe you notice it, but to strangers it is very apparent. And if Dorothy docsn't straighten up she will be ill, She needs to be watched carefully. I'd take her to a doctor right away.” More Happy Advice Or: “Now that you ask, I'd make Billy lift his feet. He drags over your floors until he has them ruined. And make Dorothy stop biting her nails. Her hands are in dreadful condition. You could get something at the drug store to put on them, or make her wear mittens.at home when ° she's TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1928 3 Ee i § E hy g i gis : i EF Fi af aes i i : g i ri i F Hq F F i g 8 8 EB 5 isa? it Le ri ze hi ; d i a studying. You don't realize it but she's at them all the time.” “O wud some power the gift to gie ai a zl i E To see oursels as ithers see us!” goes for children too. The power to see them is there if we ask for it. oo Our Yesterdays 5 8 Ey Usual! E Qaz Harvey O'Higgins 1s author of an ‘® | article entitled “This New Morality” in a recent . issue of “The % which no parent, youth, should fail to read without Prejudice. It may grate and rasp and elicit denials that “such things are so” from those who have the ostrich habit of sticking heads in the sand, but it cannot be FORTY YEARS AGO Joseph Swanton left yesterday for a trip to Centralia, Wash. heating afterwards used in preducit curls or waves. Water waving to be the advisable method in these & Hon. Alex Griggs of the railway commission arrived in the city yester- day from Grand Forks. cases. Where the hair is partly gray, it desirable entirely white. Hair can not be dyed a lighter color, but it may be bleached with ammonia or peroxide of hydro- gen. When properly perft treatment is not injurious and may enhance the appearance. ‘The question of dying ha‘r is largely a matter of individual preference and of tribal custom, and they are suffer- almost against the con- scious ideals which they have been, taught from childhood, and enduring all kinds of self- psychic tortures in consequence.” FREE OF MORBIDITY Col. and Mrs. Sweet have come to Bismarck to be with their daughter, Mrs. William Hollenbeck, who is dangerously ill. ignored. At risk of quoting more than copy- Night allows, here goes: He explains that a little automobile which any farmer could afford took the young folks out certain cheap W. H. Stimpson has returned to the of the parlor away from the sutveil- (city after a trip through the south- bp TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Judge J. R. Gage, who has been ill at his home for some time, is now able to be about. ing for it. They variably, sinning Owing to the deep drifts thé Lis- ton branch of the Northern Pacific is not yet open. Sheriff Welch and deputies re- turned last night from Wilton where they have been for ten days guarding the mines of the Washburn Coal company. Miners employed there are on a strike, and Sheriff Welch was called upon to keep peace. Mrs. L. W. Slaughter has received Senator Reed Utah, thanking her for her efforts in TEN YEARS AGO Miss Ruby Shuman has resumed her duties as chief clerk in the high- way commission after ah attack of Dr. H. 8. Sowles left Thursday for | they Fargo to attend the funeral of his brother-in-law, Dr. J. 8. Hill, which took place today. ton clearly visible to everyone in thi neighborhood. For some reason, ever, practically all the witnesses de- some it was a brawl betweer. J. J, Osterhaus, state dairy com- is attending a state dairy- men’s meeting in Grand Forks. more intelligent conscious the control of the sexual instinct. “But here again, as in prohibition, the appearance ity is more glaring young people tainly offending against the morality George Messer, employe of the Valiey Motor company, was badly in- jured Monday when an oil which he was blowing out with an air pump, burst under pressure. ON A MONDAY“ By Ahern z OUR BOARDING HOUSE 4 if g Hf a i i eyF ~ FRIEND, Ww. AS A PATRON OF The Fine ARTs, I Do NoT. 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