The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 27, 1929, Page 4

PAGE saa Bismarck Tribune Newsprper Published the Bismarck‘ Tribune Compeny. Bts- Ta. and entered at the postottioe at Bismarck ter. seoceese President and &ublishe: i! i 2 z ! 87.20 aw 3 fan orate, Daily by mail. q q See enna aa ‘Weekly by mail per y +e » i Weekly by mall years remy me en Men.ber ef The Associated Press Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use he lication of all news di:patches credited to it otherwise credited in this newspaper and also ot spontaneous origin publisher herein ay i republication of all other matter herein reserved, i Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY j NEW YORK .... Fifth Ave. Bldg. \ cuIcaco ‘Tower Bldg. geese i DETROI1 Kresge Bidg (Official City, State and Coun’y Newspaper) A LIE THAT HELPED Prom time immemorial fish stories have been the butt for incredulity and jeers on the part of the mocker and the scoffer. It availéth their narrator naught to impart fn air of veracity to his tales and to bring forward in- contestable préof of his wondrous experiences; he is still unhesitatingly condemned to membership of the Ananiag club. ‘Yet here in our midst is a scientist who, taking nothing for granted and making it his business to trace effects to their ultimate cause, springs on us some facts regard- ing fish which throw into the shade the reports of any angler, however imaginative, and remind us by no means remotely of the marvels chronicled in the “Travels” of Sir Jehn Mgndeville. It becomes casy to believe that light-bearing denizens of the deep living two or three miles below the surface of the water carry their 1l- luminating apparatus in little electric bulbs scattered over their bodies, if we first accept it as proved that there exist fish which knock down cows by Wireless. It appears, howevér, that this extraordinary phenomenon is no rare occurrence in southern seas. The aborigines of Brasil, who know nothing of radioactivity in theory, have brought it to a fine point in practice, for they drive cattle into the water and when thé bovines are bowled over by electrical discharges at long range from the fish, the fish themselves, with their powers of offense and Gefehse removed by the exhaustion of their clectric sup- ply, become a facile prey to the humans. After that one is willing to take it on the word of the said scientist that there:is one spécies of fish which eats & meal three times its own size and another that climbs trees and robs birds’ nests! Neither will anyone be dis- posed to cavil at what he says about eels, for the ecl is #0 naturally depraved a customer that you never know Not all lies are bad ones. Nor are all people who are Med to in need of pity. ‘The death of an aged woman in New Jersey the other day ended a lie of nearly eléven years standing. It ‘was a good lie, if ever there was one; and the old woman to whom it was told was saved by it from a good deal &@ young man named Robert Preiskal was serving with the A. E. F. in France. To his home in New Jersey one day came a war department telegram announcing he had been killed in action. His mother, Mrs. Mina Preiskai, was very ill. ‘The other members of the family did not tell her bout the telegram. Later, when she recovered, they still kept it a secret. They made her believe that Robert ‘was alive and well; and they continued to make her believe it until her death, which came just a few days 2 took f. lot of scheming. They had to invent adven- him, to explain why he did not come home. to learn how to imitate his handwriting, 20 could write letters to her and pretend that ie from him. Every day, for more than ten had to do something to carry the deceit SaSSGNOERL 95053 FAEITLEEEESST_ ise fEH #3 I rif it worked. The old lady never knew that her was dead. To the very end she was buoyed up the thought that he was alive and happy, having % adventures and attaining success. That's a touching little tale to read, somehow. We sym.athize and admire the people who invented and maintained the lie. We feel vaguely sorry for the old lady who was deceived—as if the happiness that she clutched so tightly were spurious and counterfeit. Yet, after all, her plight wasn't so out of the ordinary. Nearly all of us are helped on our way through life by the fact that we believe some things that are not so. Perhap: it is a belief in our own importance that sus- tain: ua; or a simple faith in the kindness of people who ar: really mean and selfish; or a trust that in seme tomo.row we shall rise above all our present ills and do cme of the brave things. we have always dreamed about. to Tt decsn’. matter. The point is that most of us, in some Ia way cr another, are fooled just as completely as the eld lady in New Jersey, : Bu. it’s what keeps us going. Few men or women are stron, chough and clear-eyed enough to know the worst there is to be known about life and maintain their poise. The real facts of the world are, usually, teo harsh. ‘We let ourselves be deceived—and, as a result, get some- thing like happiness and content. The New Jersey mother, deceived for more than ten years, and happy in consequence, symbolizes what hap- Pens to the whole race. We are incurable romanticists. ‘We must have our happy endings. ONE KIND OF BLINDNESS ‘The man who has lost his sight is greatly te be pitied. But the man who has eyes and does not know how te use them is in an even worse plight. 4 New York newspaper writer, crossing to Europe for ® midwinter vacation, writes a chatty little article about the trip and remarks that an ocean voyage is a bit of ‘& bore. ; “There is only one interesting ocean trip, and that is 4 Mi the first,” he says airily. “Take it from ene on his 16th Scrossing. The rest have a rubber-stamp monotony.” A great deal of empty water, covered by an equally ‘Filarge expanse of empty sky, may not be the most excit- ing of spectacles, Yet, for a man who has eyes in his d and a little imagination and appreciation for beauty back of them, it is far from monotonous. ‘Every ocean trip, for the landsman, is a venture into The ship lies in the center of an empty always toward an unattainable horison The things that can be deck do not vary much—yet they are &@ sure way of escape from close to earth. Beyond the Ue anything—the island of Avaion or or the yellow beach af San Salvador, &@ beacon for a roving admiral. At Gets up to see it, there is an empty light that are not of this world; at there is a gleam in the sky from an untraveled a5 what he will be up to next. Great is Diana of the Ephesians, and great, too, are the wonders of science! THE POLICEMAN’S JOB CHANGES Few people stop to think about how greatly the duties of a policeman have changed in the last decade. A few years ago his chief function could almost be said to be to appear on the scene. He rarely had to use his revolver; if he came upon men in the act of committing a crime they were almost sure to surrender without further trouble or to run away as fast as they could. His gun was useful, of course, but he did not have to use it often. Now, however, the policeman, first and foremost, must be an excellent marksman. If he goes out to catch criminal the chances are at least even that he will have to shoot it out with him. If he catches a man in the act of committing @ holdup or burglary he almost cer- tainly will have to shoot to save his life. His job, in other words, is more perilous. We seem to have a tougher breed of criminals nowadays than we used to have. The policeman has to bear the brunt of it. THE DEFEAT OF TUBERCULOSIS The time has arrived, writes Dr. Louis I. Dublin in the April Harper's magasine, when we may look forward to the virtual elimination of tuberculosis as a major pbreblem in public health. Dr. Dublin quotes figures to support his view. In 1900 the death rate from tuberculosis in the registra- tion states e? America was 195 per 160,000 of population. By 1910 it had dropped te 16¢, and by 1036 it was down | Just comes natural to her. toa. S More striking yet, he points out, the rate is diminishing at an ever faster rate. The dreaded “white plague” is slowly being brought under control, and that fact repre- | @! work, happy in his marriage, happy sents one of the major accomplishments of the twentieth in century. mi . vital or significant. The simple life SONGBIRDS IN HAWAII of their home was profoundly satis- fying to them both. are likely to do intuitively what those of us whose lives arc arranged less | bols. This conclusion is emphasized all the more as a man comes in intimate contact with sincere and earnest men who belong to churches and groups very different from his own.» When men of genuine goodness come into iniimacy with one another the good- ness that is in them becomes larger The chamber of commerce of Hilo, Hawaii, is urging every resident of the island te buy a songbird. Birds make pleasant pets, to be sure. But the Hilo chamber is wise enough to realize that a cage is no place for a pet of that kind. It wants Hawaiians to buy birds on the mainland, take them to Hawaii—and then turn them loose. ‘There is something extremely fetching about that sug- gestion. The people of Hawaii will be serving themselves well if they follow it. Setting the birds free will restock the islands with songbirds and make life more pleasant for everyone. id Now Is the time to build a few houses and get your share ©: the early spring cussing of landlords. Drunken metorists should be déprived of their licenses after completing their jail terms. | Editorial] Comment | MORGAN NOT ‘COLD’ (Forbes Magazine) J. P. Morgan is a devotee of art. If he were forced to choose between wealth and his books and art treas- | », ures he probably would choose the latter. This became evident to Wall Strect newspapermen 4 few years ago when they inspected the J. P. Morgan library as the guests of Mr. Morgan himself. The financier, usually cold in manner, threw off his diffidence like & cloak when he began to. exhibit first editions and origisal manuscripts gathered frem the ends of the earth. hen he displayed was that the newspapermen realized that they had not known the real J. P. Morgan at all. They chatted win him like schoolboys and finally went home feeling that he was “a jolly good fellow.” So is it of many of the “big men” of Wall Street. Their position in life forces them to don an armor of cold- ness where, as a matter of fact, they are as friendly beneath as the corner grocer or the next door neighbor, GOLD (Omaha World-Herald) Considering all the fuss that has becn made over gold, it is reasonable to st that it ought to bulk rather magnificently in any ving of the mineral wealth of the nation. Conedering Bie Ue megs: & Waited to & very few select one might expect it to shine with dazzling brilliance in its home arcas. But it doesn't. From the standpoint of mineral value Gold is rather small potatocs and few in a hill. The department of commerce the other day publish & list of the chief mineral products of the United Siates, including Alaska and the Distriet of Colymbia. Gold in that list is still visible to the naked 5 A micrecscepe weuld be a distinct locate it. handles eur little Margie. achieved in her less gifted in the subtle art of parent- hood must set out to learn con-: sctously. fect home, cannot for long hound the life of a child. The school and neighborhood, of particu- lar social currents, are outside the! than their differences. A man may not understand at all | the opinions of another; in fact, he may think these opinions all wrong; but he can love the man who differs with him, and if this man, in turn, has a loving heart, larger than their disagreement. It is when we interpret religion in terms of love that we see how deep immediate control circle. during these first simple years find, themselves so gaily compcient in tire | task of parenthood. soon will mect preblems which will require more than intuition for their solution. As the child emerges from hoe penn.) apes years his needs become increasingly | truth there is in My. Shaw's saying. complex. It is a rash parent who! | ties, the fact remains that, on general feels he knows it all, and that the wisdom flous. between alimony and bigamy?” part. “And bigamy?” apart.”—Judge. GILDING THE LILY By ALICE JUDSON PEALE Said a young father proudly: “My Everyone It seems The man who spoke was a rare in- vidual, for he was happy in his his fatherhood. His wife had love and in her otherhood, all which to her seemed leally or who temperamentally are Yet even that rare thing, the per- influence of of the family Margie’s mother and father, who from wide expori- “Hey. pop, what's the difference 1 “Alimony is keeping a woman “Bigamy is keeping two women! fellow the sai THE RISMARCK TRIRUNE ; Daily Lenten h > Thought By WILLIAM E. GILROY, D. D. (Editor of The Congregationalist) One does not think of George Ber- nard Shaw, the playwright, as being feularly a prophet of religion; yet Mr. Shaw, once in the preface tol wife doesn't need any of this training! @ volume of plays expressed one of in motherhood. All the books on | the deepest truths concerning religion. child psychology and child training | Referring couldn't improve on the way she| Pleasant and Unpleasant” to various attitudes and controversies in the ro- says there never was a more well) ligion of the day, Mr. Shaw said, behaved child nor happier one. We | “There is only one religion though never have to punish her. The neigh- bors ask my wife how she does it, but she doesn’t know how she does it; it in volume II of “Plays, there are a hundred versions of it.’ The bigot who is convinced that he 4s right and that everybody else is Wrong, can, of course, see in such a me tliat all this training is fool- | remark only something that is mean- ishness if your heart is in the right place.” ingless and untrue. But the man who realizes the infin- itude of God and the immensity of | truth understands full well how small ja part of the truth he sees, or how essentially he sees truth only ‘from one standpoint, and he learns very quickly in his own thought of his en the fact that men may see thing from different angles Such parents; and thus may hold much the same ‘ truth under different forms and sym It broadens our minds, and it gives the deepest emotion of our hearts a CAN’T CONVINCE HER “These talkin’ movies are wonder- | ful, ain't they, Mae?” “Yeah—but I bet what we | ain't what they REALLY say.”"—Life. Wor Jum You DRY 1 TELL MS A ABOUDT DER TADIO?——ME VOT FS, ISS PROFESSOR OF ELECTRICAL ’ ENCHINEERING IN, DRESDEN COLLEGE ~I LAUGH IN Your SiuPip wHA- DER RADIO PERFECTED LONG eZ BEFORE You PUMBSKULLS OVER , HERE KNEW Vor iT Vos Aut AgouT!= ~~ You TINK YouR RADIOS OVER WERE BuT MOUSE -TRAPS COMPARED MIyY OUR Ny RADIOS. / ; Face / ih DRESDEN VE HAD © } 'SS_UP To Dare? “BAH fo Dey ARE HoppiNG wee 2 love becomes hebr Another ‘Flood’ Dist rict Wanting Relief! ae Miss Ruth Timmons, 19-year-old school teacher of Richland Township, O., is just one of the girl teachers re- cently dragged forth on the carpet before an accusing Board of Educa- tion to meet charges that she de- moralized her pupils by teaching them the Charleston and other ne- farious bits of worldly wisdom. The Board pulled in its horns a little at finding that the dance taught their progeny was not the Charles- ton, but folk dance steps taught in the young lady’s college. The Board was forced to meet, too, parental charges that Miss Timmons: “Failed to come to school on time—” “Failed to maintain proper dis- cipline—” “Neglected to keep proper over- sight of her pupils outside the school Tooke” “Failed to instruct her pupils in such a manner as to enable them to show evidence of reasonable profi- ciency in the subject studied.” * * STANDARDS DIFFER Though Miss Timmons was not re- moved, it was only by some miracle, for hundreds of young school teachers are actually fired each year because parents whose ignorant and provin- cial way of living gives them an utterly different set of standards and values than a girl who comes into their community from a college and a larger environment, seem to think that they have the right to demand that the teacher of their young react exactly as they do, or she is all wrong. Granting that not all school teach- ers are as efficient as they should be; granting that they are not always superior and less prejudice-ridden than the parents of their communi- principles, I am inclined to favor gossip and criticism of their children’s gleaned new meaning when we come to think a ence and scientific studies is super-' of religious differences in that light. Seacper 10 Meet BIN ENENE : ManRiaD Moreover, our own version of the one | religion is none the less vital because RELATIVELY SPEAKING | of cur realization that the one reli- gion has many versions. ever; in fact, I would favor some neat punishment for parents who carp at their children’s teachers, for the bare fact is that 90 per cent of the time the teacher is right and the parent is all wrong. « * * THIS NEW AGE In the first place, a school teacher is generally much younger than par- ents; she or he is much more atune, | OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahern SHY, LsTEN! ~ we INVENTED Ti" RADIO OVER HERE.~ AN T'tu BET MONEY AGAINST ALL P Wt WALLETS AND WATCHES You *Z cal Frisk! You AN ELECTRICAL £% ENGINEER, w— WHY, You"D. Se SAY WET. FLOODED JAIL / uw TH" TROUBLE WITH. You Is, —— VE SPENT So mucH OF YouR TIME IN DRESDEN WITH YouR NOSE INSIDE , OF BEER-STEINS, You DIDN'T BREATHE ENOUGH _> 4 FRESH AIR + | CELLS WAS A THIN “TH” ZI FAT IN our heany GROWING UP WITHOUT FEAR Parents take upon themselves a Grave responsibility when they bring children into the world without them- selves having the proper\knowledge of the newer science of child psychology. Children are more in need of models than teachers, and the education of the child must begin with the parents. These parents who are not well either mentally or physically can still help themselves by studying and applying the best methods for help- ing their children. The habits of most children are controlled principally through fear. Their little minds are constantly in @ muddle with the “don'ts” and “do nots” and the fear of what will hap- pen if they “do,” Children like to be active. This is the first point to remember in child training. Let them be active at some- thing which is pleasing to them and yet constructive at the same time. If you, as @ parent, think it wise for your child to pay in his own yard, sce to it that he has interesting toys to play with. If you want him to read good books, buy them for him, but don't make the mistake of ha ing these books too “highbroy Simple, wholesome stories can be se- lected which teach admirable traits and ideals and still without the re- volting tales of murder and disaster. Children love such toys as bicycles and kiddy-kars, etc. The use of these helps in the development of their bodies. Children like to “go fast,” A bump or two will show them how fast they should go. Avoid scaring them about the dangers of falling or running into something. Probably not one child in ten thousand is ever seriously injured by falling from a bicycle, but almost without exception they are injured mentally from the teaching of what might happen but voy han does except in the imagina- lon. Courage, fair play and pride of achievement are ideals which can be inculeated in the young mind, where there should be no place for imagin- ary fears. Most people are afraid of every Policeman they see, This is because as children they were warned that if they did certain things the policeman would be called. Policemen are hired and paid by the tax payers, to help people and not to hurt them. Your child should be taught to depend upon police officers for help, and still many children will scream at the sight of a policeman. I hope this illustration will shock many parents because. of youth and educational Opportunities, to the modern world of the present—the world which chil- dren are meeting rather than the world which their parents met. In the second place, parents have the well-developed genius of making teachers responsible for all the things they themselves wish to evade, be- cause they don’t know how to handle the situation. The complaint that Miss Timmons “neglected to keep proper oversight of her pupils outside the school room” is one of the most ridiculous charges ever made. This idea that a teacher who puts in her good eight hours’ work should in turn be responsible for her pupils after school hours is as archaic as “The Hoosier School- master.” 4 Our Yesterdays Se ee FORTY YEARS AGO M. H. Angenvine of the Standing Rock Indian Agency is spending a few days here. E. F. Hoyd, Dawson, was transact- ing business here yesterday. Charles Cushman has returned to Bismarck after spending the past year in Duluth. R. E. Wallace, public examiner, came up from his home at Jamestown to call on Governor Mellette. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO A four inch snowfall with a fifty mile gale made one of the worst storms of the season last night. Travel in the country districts is impossible, and train service much delayed. Brooks Hoskins returned last night from the state university at Grand Forks. Miss Dunning is spending the spring vacation in Jamestown with her parents. Miss Clara Struble has gone to Minneapolis to be with her mother, who is ill. TEN YEARS AGO Major Russell D. McCord, former- ly of Bismarck, has been made ad- jutant to the provost marshal gen- eral of the district of Paris, The Current Events club celebrated its sixteenth anniversary this week with. a banquet at the home of Dr. and Mrs. H. C. Postlethwaite. _ Mesdames O. R. Thue and H. C. Loy, Stanton, were here to meet their sons Oscar Thue and Arthur. Loy, who arrived today from France. Mrs. A. b, Maxwell, Turtle Lake, ts visiting in the city, Hi ] 5 | cay He ally dc "Face § tal ie nl UE sce ieee TEE 2 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1929 HEALTH “DIET ADVICE Dr Frank Mc / thts Ihe Sast ay.70 IN REGARD d abncetas MCA OF THD OPER Sr LACCIY Wr OW OF ADDRES ot CME OF } mapeR, who are reading this article into a desire for more study about the value Dr. McCoy will gladly answet personal questions on health and diet, addressed to him, care of the envelope for reply. of teaching children to do GOOD THINGS, and the harm which comes from an education through fear. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Is Cancer Hereditary? Question: Mrs. C. M. B. asks: “Do you believe that the tendency toward cancer is inherited? I have heard of several families whose different mem- bers had cancer.” Answer: There have been a great many different opinions on this sub- ject, but I am satisfied from my own observation that there is a tendency in some families toward successive members of the family having dif- ferent kinds of tumor formations. ‘This is probably not only becausé of physical similarity between members of a family but also because of cer- tain psychological factors. These tendencies, however, should not b> important if proper rules for health- ful living are followed early enough in Hfe. Evaporated Milk Question: Mrs. A. C. asks: “Is there any difference in the whole- someness of canned milk and that of pasteurized milk?” Answer: The main difference is that the water has been removed: Unsweetened evaporated milk is we ran as wholesome as pasteurized milk, Spider Bite Question: Mrs. A. B. asks: “Is there any cure for a spider bite of ten years standing? I am able to stop the eruption for a time, but one toe will heal and another will be covered with blisters. I have con- sulted the best of skin specialists in different cities of the United States.” Answer: I am sure your present trouble is not from the original spider bite ten years ago, but due to an acidosis from faulty habits of eat- ing. Your trouble may continue to show up in your toes due to the fact that the circulation is usually poorer in the extr:mitics. Treating the skin of the toes is of little use; it will not stop the source of poisoning which is probably three feet away in the in- testines. ticles. After all those costumes he wore in Dakota you can’t blame peo- ple for expecting some wild west stories. Henry Ford says his only formula for success is “work.” The most original recipe we've seen to date. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) CZ AANA SS SS OUR FIRST NAVY Today is the birthday of the Ameri- can Navy. On this date in 1794, President Washington signed an act providing for the construction of six frigates, four of 44 guns and two of 36. Although the act specifically pro- vided that the ships were to be used only to protect American commerce from Algerian piracy, and that “if a Peace should take place between the United States and the regency of Al- giers, no further proceedings shai} be taken,” the fact remains that this law marks the beginning of a per- manent American Navy. Work on the frigates was promptly begun and the design of the new ves- sels was in charge of the finest Amer- ican shipbuilder of the times, Joshua Humphreys. It is a significant trib- ute to his skill that toward the end of the War of 1812 Engl built a number of frigates, to the London Times, “exactly upon the plan of the large American frigates.” The Constitution, “Old Ironsides,” became the most famed of the six . ships. Their total cost was about $1,500,000. The Colorado, one of the Pi U. 8. warships, cost $25,030,311 alone. NO MORE ‘FLATFEET’ idence, R. I., March 26.—Flat feet, the characteristic of a “cop” since the Irish first started running & police force, will eventua"y ec Gooepes, Policemen of this city, who Pavement for weal hours,» have been treated by a foot specialist. The cops walk on a special treadmill, so designed that the spe- cialist can point out faults in their walking. This remedied, the cops arc able to avoid flat feet. ee Edward 8, Harkness of New York has given $25,000 to the Quinten- cenary fund for the erection of new buildings at Lincoln college, Oxford university. nt