The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 15, 1929, Page 3

~~ FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1929 LIVED NIGHTMARE IN SANTTARIUM AS PRISONER DUE DRINK Brilliant Publicity Man De- scribes the Brutalities of Private’ Institutions ,. STATE ASYLUM WAS SAME Former ‘North 3-1’ Found Wife Buying Grave Lot When He Escaped on Rainy Night New York, March 15— (NEA) — Those many fleeting hints of night- mare life behind the walis of both public and private institutions for the temporarily unbalanced, or per- manently deranged, have suddenly been supplemented by a document of fans and almost incredible revela- ions. Under the title of “Pick Up the Pieces,” and signed “North 3-1,” this document reveals the story of a man who literally “went through hell.” And because the author is who he is, the warning he has for society is worthy of the wide attention it is likely. ta excite. “a Today Emerson D. Owen is a pros- peraqus, happy and healthy business man whose name carries much weight in advertising and publicity circles. Far behind him, like bad dreams, are those years when he was “North 3-1” —which was the number of his room in a state institution. He has fought his way back to success and self-re- ‘spect. Owen was a brilliant newspaper man who drank too much. Relatives and friends decided that a private sanitarium might be the means of bringing him back to normal life. And therein lies his first warning to the public. Solemnly Owen will tell you today—“As you love your dear ones, don’t send them to such places un- less you have given the resorts the most careful investigation. The na- tion is cluttered with such inhuman yPlaces as I found myself in. Met With Brutality “My family wanted me to have care and attention. The words ‘pri- vate sanitarium’ had a comforting , Sound. The fact is that many states “ allow these sanitariums to function, whether competent or not. All one needs is a site and an advertisement in the papers. But hardly had I been left alone when I was shuffled away to a room with a barred window. ‘When I revolted against being a pris- oner, I was stripped of my clothing by burly attendants who wrestled me into a heavy sack, dumped me on an iron cot and tied me down with ropes. For five weeks I was kept thus, and will be scarred on my wrists and arms for the rest of my life. Each day they doped me with pareldehyde, . pore) narcotic. It deadened my rain. ’ “One day my brother got in to see me—my relatives had been told that my condition was such that I couldn't be seen— and when I showed him my scars he was horrified. But the doc- tor—who had no qualifications for an M. D.—soothed it over by saying that I had been raving and that it was the bad liquor. “Then, on a rainy night T got away and, going home, founc my wife was . Out buying a lot in a cemetery. They had told her I was as good as dead— and I probably should have been soon. Anyway, the experiences and SENDS SARGON TOHER SISTER «No one can know, unless they have it how much distress stomach trouble can cause over @ period of three years. And no one can realize, unless they have experienced it, what blessed re- Nef Sargon can give by restoring MRS. MARY L. CLARK “ was in & serious condition. gig whseke 3 | Defies Dry Law | TREASURY SURPLUS ASSURED BY TAXES| = 4,000,000 Citizens Must File In- come Tax Returns Before Midnight Today Washington, March, 15—()—The weary forces of internal revenue of- fices throughout the country today _| faced the annual last minute rush of Declaring “you can't law people into anything,” H. G. Casebier, 79, of Oklahoma City, declares he has a tight to make whiskey and asserts his belief won't be cooled by thirty days im the county jail. He says there always has been whiskey in his family, that he never gets drunk and that he will keep right on making it, “not for profit but for the principle of the thing.” treatment and inability to get work sent me back t@ drinking. A friend made it possible for me to get into a state hospital. State Asylum No Better “The first state hospital I enteres had 3,000 inmates—200 of us muddled together on cots and on the floor in some wards. The war veterans’ ward is like that! Going through at night you are likely to step on someone's head. Imagine 3,000 of us—all need- ing attention—and only 20 doctors and 75 attendants. The state law pre- scribes one attendant for each 15 pa- tients—but that means money. And that, in turn, means action on the state legislatures. You'll never make me believe that friends or inmates know the facts—they’d be certain to take action if they did. “The low grade of attendants is to blame for the terrible care and treat- ment. Men filling these positions of- ten are not more than a degree bet- ter than the inmates. Most of them are lazy roughnecks. Their brutality often is more than merely inhuman. Furthermore, the title of doctor is nothing you care to remember after such experiences. God save the pub- lic from pay-roll doctors—who, broken and ambitionless, toss themselves on the state! My own cure came, not from private or public treatment—but from pure unadulterated selfishness. And what I’ve tried to do is to show those who put loved ones in such places what may actually be going on behind closed doors. Don't take any- one’s word for it—find out for your- self!” JACK, ESTELLE USE TONGUES New York, March 15—(AP)—Jack Dempsey is ballyhooing fights and Estelle Taylor has a job in the talkies. “The Broadway Kid” will be her first effort. NICOLLET thousands of the 4,000,000 persons who must file income tax returns be- a little more than one-third are esti- mated to have received sufficient in= comes last year to put them in the taxable group. Of more than 4,200,000 individuals who must have their returns in the hands of the collectors or in the mails before midnight, 1,700,000 will not have’ to pay anything because their incomes were below the taxable lim- its. Secretary Mellon expects the re- turns to show that the treasury will finish the fiscal year next June with @ comfortable surplus on hand de- spite that a deficit has been threat- ened, 6 ‘The first quarter’s payments of in- come taxes last year total $597,137,752 with a total return for the calendar year of $2,169,417,231, but taxes this year, Secretary Mellon says, were ex- | said. ceeding the estimates set by the tax experts. Thus far, for the first nine months of the fiscal year, ordinary reecipts have been $423,807,100 less than ex- penditures. The receipts have to- taled $2,276,361,756 while the expend- itures have aggregated $2,700,168,856. YES, OF COURSE The Young Wife: How do you like the joint, dea Husbai the gravy. The Young Wife: I wondered how soon you'd miss it, you absent-mind- boy. You didn’t bring a drop with the mei Fine; but where's Our Gang Comedy - “Election Day THE RISMARCK TRIBUNE Organ Business Is Bad Due to Talkies har) Tale hens and FOUR PENTENTIAY INMATES STILL FRE Quartet Escaped From In Asylum, Where They Were - Undergoing Treatment Four penitentiary ary inmates who es- caped from the state hospital for the | insane at Jamestown last Sunday tiary warden. ‘The men had been taken to the hos- pital for Lcigaioed and were to be Ber pg the prison, the warden said. They picked a lock at the state hospital to effect their escape. | The men sought are William Bald- win, Bob Marson, T. B. Stout, and P. L. Sandburg. Posters bearing descriptions, pho- tographs, and fingerprints of the men and their Bertillon measurements have been distributed by prison au- thorities in an effort to bring about their early capture. None of the men was violent Brown Baldwin's term was to have expired Nov. 8, 1929, and Marson’s next June. Stout’s and Sandberg’s sentences ex- tended to Nov. 18, 1931, and April 6, 1931, respectively. PURCELL’S BROTHER BENE- FICIARY Wahpeton, N. D., March 15.—(#)}— Property valued at $60,000 was ‘left ‘to a brother, Richard E. Purcell, Helena, Mont., under the will of the late W. E. Purcell, former United States sen- ator from North Dakota. Five rieces and nephews received $1,000 each. There are 90,000 members of the American Medical Association. = eee Tonight and Saturday News Events COMING MON. - TUES. - WED. The Film of Films—The Best Picture of this year, last. year and all the years before. —N. Y. Daily News. Ca pital Chevrolet Co. of Bismarck, N. D. offers a prize of $25 cas to nearest guess of mileage covered in ENDURANCE TEST OF CHEVROLET SIX ° Traveling Continuously for 4 Days and 4 Nights! GUESS MILEAGE seseessssseestieeesssereens Name Pd hate SRM RTE EU ph ap ons tint peneas om Address, ...... leaving. this coupon with us and not winning the cash prize gtd to $6.00 cro ved wn Ae Ist, oe he een SECRETARY HYDE 1S ‘BUSY ON FARM PLAN Confers With Hoover and Farm Leaders as Problem Daily Grows in Importance Washington, March 15.—(7)—Farm relief legislation has crowded almost everything else off the calendar of Arthur M. Hyde. the new secretary of agriculture. The new secretary has found himself in a round of confer- ean be on the subject. between such conferences he has talked with chiefs of the many bu-| orga ET STOP child’s | | istol chy wp as sien Ueves snuffies. Makes breathi ea uasees Geta bottle today. Your druggist hasit. MADS BY THE MAKERS OF NUJOG for nearly two hours yesterday he conferred with President Hoover on the subject. Previously he had talked to & number of farm leaders. and plans to confer further with them before actual consideration of the bill begins ip the house and senate. Next week the secretary's engage- inent book shows conferences with Senator McNary, who will steer the farm _relicf bill through the senate, and Representative t.augen, chairman of the house committee on agricul. partment on farm relief matters, ~ from them probably will coz the special session of congress was called to consider. William Triebwasher Dies in San Francisco Jamestown, N. D., March 15—(P)}— ‘The body of William ‘Triebwasher, 28, former resident here who died in San Francisco Saturday, was expected to arrive here today for burtal with mil- itary funeral Sunday. His mother, Mrs. Maria Ritts, of Anamoose, sur- vives. Rev. J. Maurice Hupp of Val- ley. City will conduct services at the Baptist church here. Among 4314 cases of bankruptcy Mothers Georges suggestions for the legislation which an oa dino ture, Out of these conferences is ex. in England in 1927, farmers: with pected to. grow the policy of the de: 868 cases, top the list. Regional Championship BASKETBALL GAME State Training School Gym., Mandan TONIGHT 9:30 P. M. Bismarck H. S. Demons vs. Mandan H. S. Braves 6th District Champions 5th District Champions Winner Represents Region C in State Tournament Next Week Preliminary Barneck Jewelers, Bismarck, vs. State Training School Independent District Champions Mandan Field in front of Gym is too wet for parking. Autos will drive behind main building and turn left to baseball grounds to park. Autoists must park as directed. er EE EEE REISE EEE NSS SRE REELED seneenene erence nee eee ern IO No reserved scats except those already sold in connection with district tournament. Admission $1.00. Tickets on sale at Lewis and Clark cigar stand for those who wish to buy in advance. 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