The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 1, 1929, Page 4

Bismarck Tribune An inéepenéent Newspipe: The THE STATES OLVES1 NEWSPAPER (Established 1673) by the Bismarck Tribune Company Bis- Marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice 2t Bismarck 88 second class mai) matter. George D. Mann ............... Presidest and r.tishe: . $7.20 - 1h 5.00 Member of The Assoriated Press fepublication of ai] news ditpatches credited to it Hot otherwise credited in this newspaper anc aiso local news 01 spontaneous origin publi‘sier herein rights of republication of all other matter herein also reserved. Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY NEW YORK .... Fifth Ave. Bidg. CHICAGO DETROI1 Tower Bidg. Kresge Bldg (Official City, State and Coun’y Newspaper) THE REAL PEACE AGENTS So long as the movement for world peace remains ex- clusively in the hands of the peace societies there is little to be hoped for from it. But if the bankers and busi- hess msn once get hold of it we may actually see war discarded forever. ‘This is not said in criticism of the peace societies. ‘Their rosters include excellent people, but a vague odor of the Uplift clings to them, and inspires a cynical world with distrust. The bankers and business men, on the other hand, have public confidence. Besides, they have power. When the world of finance and industry once sets its heart on something, that goal is usually attained. It is interesting, therefore, to read recent remarks made by Ralph Hayes, New York banker, in addressing & group conference of castern bankers. ‘Mr. Hayes took world peace as his topic, and he dis- cussed it in the manner of a business man. He recog- nized that war is first of all a spiritual] catastrophe, but he put his argument for peace strictly on a dollars and cents basis. “With nearly $10,000,000,000 worth of foreign trade each year, and with more than 25,000,000,000 of foreign invest- ments,” he remarked, “every salvo our artillery fired ‘would hit a debtor, and every bomb our airplanes dropped would kili a customer. Call that a vulgar calculation, if you will; the conquest of war is not to be achieved in terms of sweetness and fight. Let us appeal to the ” heads and to the hearts of men and of nations, but let ts not fail to appeal also to their pocketbooks.” What Mr. Hayes says, of course, is absolutely true. War is a fearful bit of economic folly. It is nearly as hard on the nation that wins as it is on the nation that loses. For that very reason it will eventually be abolished. Not because people discover that moral questions can- not be settled by force, and not because people come to realize that it is terr@!y wrong to indulge in mass claughter, but simply because people find that it doesnt pay. The pocketbook, it would scem, is mightier than the conscience. All of this, at first, is slightly discouraging and ex- tremely confusing. It isn't exactly pleasant to discover that we cannot take a great forward step of this kind until we find out that it is to our own selfish interests to do 0. We like to think we are altruistic and noble, but this makes it look as if we are pretty calculating and grasping. That, however, is the way the world goes. Most of b.00 | ‘The Associated Press is exciusively entitled to the use | | Much has been accomplished, especially the greet and small open spaces; if there is anyining that cemands, ironclad regulation, it is the iocation of hot-dog stands and advertising signboards OUTWITTING DEPRESSIONS The outstanding achievement of this ial era is diminution of losses due to fluctuations he business cycie, the aiternate swings from high production to jow, | trom boom times to hard times. Presid: Hoover once } spoke of it as “one of the most astonis! transforma- j tions in economic history. the epitome of which lies in the fact of the parallel increase in wages with decreas- ing commodity prices.” ‘The federal reserve system, which had first th and then for its continued Able for this stabilization of to tight | condit, jons more smoothly and more bene 1 evolution steadily increases its importan ovential ting development is the udustries to finance them: { capital instead of be {rush to the banks for assistance in ti: of fina lemergency or business deculture have helped mightily: | and their benefits should not be discounted because they | have not accomplished the impossibic. | Another cont: owing abil- | ity of the larger ‘ives out ot is obliged to ince the war. jin economy of production. The railroads have proved | they can carry more freight at less cost, and many in- | Custries have found ways to increase production with- out 4 pro; onate increase in operating costs. The dollar saved is the best dollar of all is not only a Collar earned but a dollar collected and produced by superior management. HOOVER GIVES UP YACHT The action of President Hoover in announcing that he will discontinue use of the presidential yacht May- | lower serves to call attention to a serious condition in jthe United States navy. | President Hoover is,giving up the yacht, not so much because he does not care to use it as because the navy’s Personnel is sadly short, and the crew of the Mayflower can be used to advantage on fighting ships. The Mayflower, of course, is a naval ve: is laid up, its in the fleet. There isn't much use in spending millions of dollars on ships and guns if the men are lacking. A navy is mo.: then a collection of expensive battleships, cruisers, | dest-oyers and submarines; it is, first of all, a body of trained men. If our navy ts so short-handed that the {| President’s yacht must be laid up, Congress would do well to provide for an increase in personnel without | any delay. cl. When it crew will be distributed among other craft MURDER PARKED FOUR DAYS The average American, it is to be suspected, minds his own business pretty well, after all. In a Detroit residential district an automobile was left parked at a curb four days. No one went near it, no one examined it. Its presence was highly unusual, of course, but the people living nearby didn’t give it a thought. Finally a policeman investigated. Looking inside the car, he found the lifeless body of a woman. Inv 7 tion showed that she had been murdered, and that the murderer had disposed of her body by the simple ex- pedient of leaving it in the car and abandoning the car. It is surprising to learn that that auto, with its ghast- ly freight, could have stayed at a curb for four days un- noticed. But the American city dweller has a way of minding his own business. He doesn't get nosey when something a little out of the way happens in his neigh- borhood. HATE IS ARTIFICIAL Few men are good, natural haters. The sentiment has {to be artificially injected into them. Agitators after | money or power wip up ignorance in one group against another group and produce hate. But it doesn’t last. It must be rekindled from time to time. Even in the case of our own Civil war, where the con- [ee _! TASS Tans tua, Ann! THE BISMARCK TRIRUNE NOW, STEN TO ME, DEAR! 1 DONT WANT You TO DO Sse § ANY MORE FLYING AROUND 7 ‘TO “UNANNOUNCED DESTINATIONS! = YOU'LL HAVE TO KEEP ME INFORMED OF YOUR COMINGS AND GOINGS, IF YOU EXPECT TO COME HOME TO A WARM | OE Lupe Velez, known as catamount lady of the screen, gets all bothered at her rumored engagement to movie star Gary Cooper. “What?” her long distance to confirm the re- Port, “me marry Gary? Why, he's only my sweetheart! We are only in love!” Thus does the Latin lady remind us Americans again that we are, after all, just about the only country which automatically assumes that love affairs mean marriage. or that marriage can be based on only love affairs. * * * LUPE’S IDEA ‘When Lupe marries, as she frankly indicates, it will be “the right mar- riage,” quite aside from indications of the heart. We Americans assume that the only “right marri: Prompted by the heart. In the face of marriage, it is hard to say which is right, and which works best for in- dividual happiness. x * * POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL ter of a wealthy banker, stowed screamed at a reporter who called | ” is one | of evidence pro and con in both types | Miss Hazel Cooke, described as a| San Francisco society girl, and daugh- the great reforms in human history have come in exact- ly that way. And it really needn't bother us. For, after all, the important thing is that they do come. flicting principles involved had been debated for decades; where all knew the issues, and after four years of devastating war, hate didn't last. r _ ite appearance in the United States? In movieland its _ Seene from New York to Paris. Is a foreign idea to sup- Any man who ever walked toward a spitting machine gun or cowered in the mud to get away from high ex- Dlosive shells will not be very critical of the spirit in which such things are made impossible. If the cold, materialistic bankers and industrialists can rid us of the curse of war, they will just about have Justified their claim to world dominance. SCRAPING ‘INSTITUTIONS’ Patriotic Americans must view with alarm the insid- fous battering to which certain cherished traditions, ‘customs and institutions of the land have been subjected of late. There has been boring from within. Alien prac- tices have been dangled before good Americans to tempt them to desert things truly American for things as Proving the quality of all animals except folks, peculiarly foreign. Has not that distinctively European telephone device which combines mouth and earpiece in one piece made introduction into the picture was sufficient to shift the ‘plant the native instrument merely because the latter 4s clumsier and bulkier? ‘That, true nationalists will agree, is serious enough. But the situation is aggravated by the announcement that American railroads are soon to put. into opera- tion sleeping cars of the European type with private | Compartments and real beds, but, impossible as it may #eem, without upper berths. ‘When an American traveler is deprived of his inalien- able right to sleep in an upper berth things have come © & pretty pass. The worst sort of suspicions are ." No patriot can without misgivings any threat against the ” spared. twisted off; and low ‘breed of hunter makes targets of sound ‘Christmas approaches and a new pack of van- , 4 evergreen suitable for a ! ; I if i te Give the common people all the facts and there will be no racial, group or national hatreds. Many of the fashionable divorce suits show yellow streaks. herself away on a ship bound for Tahiti the other day. She had crossed the Pacific a dozen times in her 18 years, so it was no case of a poor only way possible for her. ents for instructions, they right back, “put her to work,” which was done, though the captain said the beds were very poorly made. Most funny bones are in the elbow, but some go to the head. Perhaps they keep on making new laws because the old ones are broken. Hazel Cooke, heiress, utterly impossible to get the thrill of @ poor girl really on her own. She becomes a “refreshing novelty” by her | again. act, probably dines with the captain ** *& HARD TO CHANGE ROLE Even'so, here's wagering that Miss is finding it By careful selection, civilized man is Sradually im- | Editorial Comment | FOUR DOLLARS A WEEK (Newark Star-Eagle) Plans have just been approved for merger of the Na- tional Bank of Commerce and the Guaranty Trust com- pany in New York with resources exceeding $2,000,000,- 000. It will be the greatest bank in the United States, if not in the world. The chairman of the board is to be James S. Alexander, who is one of the directors of the Prudential Insurance company in this city. In the files of the National Bank of Commerce is the application from Mr. Alexander, who had only a public school education, for a position which paid $4 a week. It was followed in 1835 when he was 20 years of age, by a clerkship. He did not start with influence to aid him, but he was advanced, attracted outside attention, because as- sociated with other interests and reached the place where his was the influence which others now seek. The record is another of the many romances of Ameri- can opportunity. Other financial leaders have declared that new opportunities for success and prosperity are constantly arising, and concurrence would be given ky Mr. Alexander, the man who, with only a public school education and the modesty to ask for $4 a week. now penebes one of the supreme financ'al positions of the world. USES FOR 2LANTS (Indianapolis News) Tn his interview with reporters on hfs birthday, Thomas A. Edison said he hed found more than 1,200 rubber | Producing plants that’ will grow in this country and is concentrating on 40 of them. Mr. Edison said that gol- den rod is about the best he has discovered thus far. Hitherto golden rod has been known chiefly for its bad effect on hay fever sufferers. Golden rod grows pro- fusely in most sections of the country and in Indiana is ERERE eee every night, and is no more able to get the experience of being a poor girl than as though she had cngaged the ;man, who pleaded guilty to a theft royal suite on the boat. ** * THE WIFE'S MONEY “In these modern days is a wife’s}a sentence, you will money no part of the family fi-|electric chair,” said the prisoner. ZB pork, —-L DOWT THINK Buster HAS HAD HE PLEASURE OF MEETING SHAKE HAMS, wT ~BY Jove, PRoFESSOR ] girl bound to see the world in the | wise bootlegger. He had a parrot, and jevery time the cops would raid his When the captain radioed her par-j place, the parrot would scream, i You Yet / w Buster, MEAN HANDS, WITH THE CELEBRATED PROFESSOR ‘DORK YY OF DRESDEN / |. “In law. is a rich wife entitled to o full support from a husband who is she {$35 to pay for her living expenses? nances?” This question is asked in a New York editorial commenting on the Mrs. Muriel Vanderbilt Church divorce. Mrs. Church's complaint was that she was obliged to support her- self from her own pocket. Her di- | vorce was granted on non-support | grounds. * * * HIS JOB ONLY? in moderate circumstances?” asks the | editorial. “Can she, with a full purse at her command, refuse to spend her | own money for rent, food, clothes and | service, and have her husband or- dered by the court to provide them } for her? “Other questions arise from this de- ; cision. Suppose a wife, who remains at work on her own choice, earns $100 a week. while her husband does | not turn over to her enough of his It would seem so. * * * SHOULD POOL “Yet this hardly appears just. If} marriage is a partnership, then the combined assets or income should be taken into consideration in matters of support. A very rich woman pre- sumably knows in advance that a husband with a small income can hardly supply her needs. But is he compelled to divide what he has with her while getting none of the bene- fits of her fortune? “This is extending ‘women’s rights’ to the limit.” + To all of which, I put ditto marks. A pretty pass for husbands, indeed! NO RESPECT FOR LAW Canton, O.—George Caprica was a “Here come the cops!” very loudly. By the time the cops broke into his home, Caprica had the liquor dumped. But the cops put one over on the bird, and broke in and took it. the liquor, id Caprica to jail. Caprica paid his je and started bootlegging again, this time with a dog as his warning it ¢ tool. The cops came, the dog bit the ecps and Caprica was sent to jail THIEF WANTS CHAIR Binghamton, N. Y.—A 14-year-old charge, petitioned Judge Baker to send him to the electric cnair.. “I hope and pray, Judge, if you give me SEEMS ‘To ME I'VE SEEN PROFESSOR DORK BEFORE, ~ LETS: THINK How, w~ WAS IT IN A RAID? ww ~No,~I REMEMBER "Now, — iT WAS IN VAUDEVILLE, ~~ YaH, ~~ A MAGICIAN Toor You ouT oF His HAT, wo AN THT FELLA SITTING NEXT To ME THOUGHT You WERE A RABBIT, ~~ YEH, Wie You of date but living still in ma: home. He aims for absolute and un- questioning ‘obedience. If you ask him why he will tell you that such obedience character,” that “if you give a child an inch he will take an ell,” ete. GZ <M FOR OBEDIENCE SAKE By ALICE JUDSON PEALE While her father and mother and I sat at breakfast Suzanne found some smell, brightly colored coffee cups, just right for dollies’ parties. Unobserved she brought them from the cupboard and set them about on a Lost to everything but her play she sat in her sunny corner quietly pass- ing cups and plates to her imaginary guests, serving them with make-be- lieve cream and make-believe sugar. ‘Her small light voice arose and fell in gay tea party chatter. little wooden bench for a tea table. Suddenly words like so many bullets shot through the room, “Suzanne— put—that—down!” Her father’s eye had lighted on the sacred demi-tasse in her hand. The cup clattered from her fingers and crashed uy pon the She sat trembling, terrified, wordless. Her father turned to me, “I guess | She knows her father’s voice! I guess she knows how to obey!” Unaware of + Suzanne—unaware even of the pre- cious cup which had occasioned the scene, his voice rang with pride. Suzanne's father admittedly is put is the “cornerstone of The ideal of obedience for obedi- erce's sake was outmoded long ago along with the theory that children are the property of their parents. But in practice children often are to obey arbitrary orders for -w! there can be no reason other than to exhibit the power of parental author- ity. ° BARBS ' ° A New York critic says the talkies, in bringing to every Main Street the movie shows of Broadway, will give the small towns a new kind of civil- ization. They may be able to over- come it, however. . Etiquet Note: The young man daughter's give me ‘the| asking a father for his hand has to be prepared to answer | OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahern Bismarck —_———— Not 2 who, ~Z ME 2 SAY; MAJOR, VOT DOES DISS MAN MEAN? ~HE VILL HAF JO -EXBLAIN, ~I DON” UNNERSTAN? HIM @ i—- Zz. Z UM-M- NoT $0 GooD FoR A START! wm~ HE RUSHED RIGHT our oF HIS CORNER AT THE. CLANG OF THE BELL, AND HIT | ME ON TH” i, CHIN f SS ®/so many of the cities along the given. The fever of mumps is usually slight, seldom reaching more than 101 degrees. If mumps runs its course of the usual time, the patient will recover in from seven to ten days. Even in severe cages the proper i the possibilities of serious after-effects. As with any kind of fever. a fast should be started upon the first symp- tom of mumps. This fast should be continued until all swelling in the glands has disappeared. The pa- tient may drink as much water as desired to which may be added orange juice or strained non-starchy vege- table soup if the patient has any appetite, but no starchy food should be permitted. Hot applications should be made to the side of the neck, keeping up such applications almost continuously day and night. There is a strong tendency toward involvement of the sexual glands and it is a safe plan to keep the patient in bed until all of the soreness and inflammation have disappeared. walk- ing about only invites the spread of the disease to other parts of the body. If the sexual glands become affected it may produce sterility and the question of whether or not he can furnish alimony sufficient to sup- Port the girl in the style to which she has been accustomed. Today's question: why do they call Florida coast line “watering places?” The Massachusetts legislature has a bill that would permit deer hunting with bow and arrow. Probably,a con- servation measure. The saying that women’s work is never done is becoming nearly true these days, with so many labor-sav- ing Gevices to keep working. A manufacturer proposes that used cars be shipped to. Germgny. But aren't the Germans having it hard enough as it is? Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc) I Our Yesterdays ] FORTY YEARS AGO J. C. McManima, successor to Audi- tor Ward, arrived from Pierre yes- terday to assume the duties of office. Miss Kate Brady, accompanied by her sister, returned yesterday from an extensive trip through the cast. C. M. Young, Tyndall, came to yesterday and called on Governor Mellette. Samuel J. Johnson, Minneay is visiting old friends in the ple TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Miss Laura Conner has accepted a Position as stenographer in the offices of attorney T. R. Mockler. Mrs. Marion Conklin, Jamestown, and Mrs. R. T. Conklin, New York. Haneald for a visit wun their sons grandsons, Fred Ray Conk- lin of this city. y General E. A. Williams left yester- day for Fargo to attend a meeting of the members of the North Dakota irrigation association, care | Obtained by boiling substance ; QUESTIONG AND ANSWERS Eye Defects Question: R. M. G. writes: Your opinion, is it possible to cure ypermetropia dieting and exercising? And do you know @f any cases or efrors of re- fraction being cured by exercise and diet?” Answer: A fasting and dieting treatment will almost always be bene- ficial in any form of eye defect. If can seldom be completely cured. Help yourself all you can in a general way by proper dieting and be sure to . |Wear suitable glasses if your optom- etrist tells you they are necessary. Decoction and infusion Question: W. A. P. asks: “Will you please inform me of the differ- ence between a decoction and an in- jfusion, and of their method of prep- aration?” Answer: A decoction is the result in fluid. An infusion is an aqueous prep- aration made by steeping a vegetable substance in water without boiling. Nightmares Question: Mrs. R. S. writes: “Dur- ing the day I feel perfectly well, but at night, about thirty minutes after I jhave fallen asleep, I take some kind of spells, as I call them, when I wake up feeling as though I were dying—all out of breath, and my arms and legs ‘asleep.’ As soon as I am raised into & sitting posture I am all right. The doctor says I am nervous, and tells me there is nothing wrong with my heart. Will you please advise me?” Answer: If your heart is in good condition, and the doctor finds no other disturbance, the nightmares are Probably caused by some digestive disturbance. The best policy would be to eat a very small evening meal |and be sure that it is of the right combinations as outlined in my week- ly menus in this newspaper. ee SSSSSSS THE FIRST RAILROAD Today is the anniversary of the humble beginning of railroads in the United States. Just 103 years ago, the Granite railroad started to operate. It was built by the state of Massa- chusetts and those citizens in particu- lar who were interested in erecting the Bunker Hill Monument. Its purpose was to haul stone for the monument down from the quar- ries at Quincy, Mass., to a wharf on the Neponset river, from where it we: shipped to its destination. The plo- network of syste: i Gan ms, wit! ir 250, miles of track. . si Ei E E g i a3 Eg ae ai Ba eg a if et ‘In. am