The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 8, 1929, Page 4

al 2 ‘ s H night to carry him hither and yon he knew he would be The Bismarck Tribune impartuned to make use of it. As for a summer white t Ap Independent Newsmper house, he has shown # preference for trying out several Gs ‘ THE STATE'S OLDES1 NEWSPAPER trout streams in as many parts of the country rather rq i (Batablished 1873) than for one stream. ae | Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company Bis. reece ory * qparck, N. D., and entered at the postotfice at Bismarck A STORY OF OUR TIMES , &8 second class mai! matter. Tn a run-down suburban allotment on the outskirts ‘ Preside. a.biishe | George D. Mann .. : werictleliodits "of a big mid-western manufacturing city there stands @ 8 iption Rates Payable in Advance vacant house, windowless and forlorn, uninhabited for Daily by carrier. per year ........... $7.20 | years. | Dally by mall, pec year, (in Bismarck) i) One day recentiy neighbors saw th2 form of a man J ; > f : ‘ MAKING SPINACH PALATABLE ‘ sa itare Sruics wienarek) sou | Moving about inside the old house. They called the po- = : Wl PF i : Mothers often have “4 rest in \ Daily by mail. outside of North Dakota 6.00 |lice, who went to the place and found, unconscious on the / | yy ‘ t ——y pts pode ————— ee jfoor, 0 very old man, dressed in clothes that were no Weekly by mail. in state. per year 4 more than rags, wasted almost to a shadow. On the Weekly by mail. in state. three years for . |wall beside him was pinned a note. It read: ‘Weekly by mail. outside of North Dakota, ' | | “1 i POE VEAL oe cceeeeeres eee re ee sctececeeecerees . 150 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation i id “Loren Peters starved to death in this old e. Had bottle of chloroform and razor. "t know which to use. It takes so long to ve to death. It is getting dark. I can't write any more. LOREN PETERS.” i Hd i Men.ber of The Associated Press The Associated Press 1s exclusively entitled to the use | for republication of all news dispatches credited to it) Rees news es ee ai prone, GESn But the old chap hadn't starved to death—not quite. All rights of republication of all other matter herein |They took him to a police station, poured hot coffee are also reserved. down his throat, and put- him to bed. After a while he SOME Redlands Se up. They let him rest for a few days, and then ‘ him to a place called the Wayfarers’ Lodge—a frame building where homeless men can get soup and a [ : i i | z i 5 Z Forcign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY | - ui id rf i NEW YORK .... Fifth Ave. Bldg. 1, |ed for sawing a little wood. aver kno ies iby the So ae Kresge Bldg | Loren Peters, of course, was too feeble to saw any lished, (te 4) 5 Se eon ---—-——— | wood. So they gave him a bunk and a daily supply of actualy emg jal City, State and Coun’y Newspaper) food anyhow, and let him sit around the place all day, , ei “4 ——— | brsking in the sunshine when the weather was pleasant, seaitanbe' Clan EVOLUTION OF ADVERTISING |and huddling indoors when it was stormy. And there he : ~ Decl aries Things are reversing themselves in the ficld of ad-!is now, silent and uncomplaining, drowsing away the 2 vertising. It was only a few years ago that advertise- | spring days, a tired old man at the absolute end of his ments in magazines and newspapers were not widely | tether, waiting for the death that almost caught up with read by the subscribers. Today there arc ‘thousands of| him in the abandoned house. subscribers and newsstand buyers who read only the ad-| His story was quickly told. He had no home. He had ; : wandered into town on a vague hunt for some form fase Pate ove popular national magazine which owes alof subsistence. Failing to find it, he had’ crawled into 2 *y s which sfyge ti Mag rlagesa fre- very large portion ef its large circulation to the appeal of | the old house to die. Death had not come fast enough. Xs : Re quently encountered. I believe this is its advertising pages. The advertisemenis of all maga- For cight days the old man had cowered on the bare es f partly due to wrong method of zines arc carefully read. In the newspaper field a large floor, cold, miserable and hungry. He did not go out of . ? ee cooking the vegetables or a lack of circulation is built up first by able news service, then the house in that time. fi Hctbnd in the methods of preparing circulation attracts advertisers and tho advertisements} There are all kinds of interesting storles in the daily eo Spinach, ‘as it is usually cooked, is a attract additional subscribers. In all of the larger cities | papers. Some of them are unimportant, easily forgotten; = tasteless mass of green sub- there are newspapers which have successfully used the|and some of them are sharp and vivid, and stay in the “want ad” as an auxilicry circulation builder, selling|mind long after the paper has been thrown away. At thousands of papers to job hunters, emp‘oyers, owners times there are beautiful stories that reveal the devotion name in vain. Perhaps the senti- ments of this one member of my vast a q ublic may express those for many and finders of loct property, house owners and house and loyalty and kindness of the human race; and at y eon ee pelgiind T giggled in child has developing. to 5 and sellers of second hand articles.|times there are stories like this story of old Loren Pe- iss - M badly prepared be caused some ition. hunters, and buyer: public because Mi nne Morrow other the " The Philadelphia Inquircr spent $1,000,000 on buildaig up| ters. sald “Augustus a speak for me.” Ree Ab re es Cefleg gels a ‘rt What does a story like this mean, anyway? How does rs, So-and-So says this to me: ‘J ok pha : “What difference does it make what the child has policy would redycing ‘Once the advertiser hed to force his advertising upon| it come that things lke that can happen in this pros- the public. Today the public voluntarily pays for the Leet Pee siete kh nea And what, if any- eae aatwniierannlae business is it? She ‘may call him the WEKGOnA vilege of reading the advertising of the same com- Ing, are we going to do abou ot by own a * {angel Gabriel, if she wants to, so far rong Why the change? ~ | phere isn’t, really, much that we can do right away.|ing, Mrs. Sarah Brown, 83, of LOS |as I am concerned. Is there no liberty By ALICE JUDSON PEALE panies. y th 8 4 That t 1 id wane pire As individ Angeles, told officials who were hold- | in this country? Debating the worth- | When Frances and Mary were lit Advertising has become as interesting to the public at homeless ol anderer was more than an individ-| ing’ her daughter, Sadie Brown, on @|iness of lovers’ pet names seems to tle they used to hold each other's ‘as the front pege news of the newspaper and the stories|ual. He was a symbol; a symbol of all the loose ends| charge of assault with intent to mur- | me to be nosiness to the nth power, |hands to keep from being afraid das ij ry g i "ALLENE SUMNER, | Miss Morrow calls her fiance? Whose i ge be a eeee il peed al if ag i i 3 i Be ry and desires. make us so proud. * the Indy is interested in knowing that |that nolse were to them the horrid eS o. vi The trouble, you sce, is that we still believe, with Cain, MANY IDEAS Anne calls him Al tus, cries of subterranean dragons and EL alleles alia! es a aie shalt that we are not our brothers’ keepers. Until we learn| One could write alittle homily wate, be Freie bb oi blood thirsty vampires. At any mo- gppeal to the advances made in the art of advertising about the eternal forgiveness of ment they might have risen through writing and advertisement typography. The modern that that blief is eternally false, there will continue to be] other love, and wonder if Sadie)» —___—__—— @ | the pipes and spread in horrid shapes Fy I 2 ff “ o ing noises made by the | possible woring of the gro should be articles in the magazines. The necds of humanity|there are in our current society. He belongs in the pic-|der, that “she saw too much of me,” | why not let the poor child alone? It of the terrifying noi td : » ri ; ments for the “news” concerning the things he needs|bright shop windows and sleck residential districts that | neignbors said, i eyes it probably iss shame, But |The roarings, suckings, gurglings of Loree ss making it re: boiling ; : i i ; ° Cover lace over newspaper advertisement is something more than a typo- | stories like this one of Loren Peters. would have been quite so tolerant if || BARBS through the bath room and nursery. | ® slow has been ‘graphical hodgepodge. Its aesthetic appeal is often as é es ert beetle ed aa could ! 2 aan told whe ieee a me ne nfm Tem maby be strong as its sales appeal. FOXES AND CHURCH BUDGETS wont Ore slong they were Fy i if ; a 4 as well as strangers, or opine that no| pr. Charles A. Beard says we spend | they used to hold each other’s hands American churches, from time to time, have devised | two people should live alone together, | more than $21,000,000,000 a setts ‘on | and whisper in unison a magic form- DISCONTENT various ways and means of raising money to meet their | or See on sea arsed ee all forms of diversion. Wonder if | ula of their ioe lnvention, “You can't Discontent was long considered a sort of sin, not the|expenses. It is doubtful, however, if any congregation | that a life jevoted to mother care s|that figure includes the forests |come up. You cant come up. < anpardonable sin, but one of the numberless other lesser jever tried the stunt which Grace Community church, of drab enough at best.” Or what have ! burned by picnickers. Grown women now, they still re: i 2 & S88 Z ze i g z E you? member that terror of their childhood allowed to evap- sins. In some quarters the dissatisfied-wiih-themselves| Denver, is now undertaking. ‘ zee Police Commissioner Russell of | which only their mutual reassurance way it is much x are still preached at and pleaded with to follow the trail] This church not long ago was given seven silver foxes THE LADY’S CHAMPAGNE Chicago advises people to avoid walk- and the power of their magic held in af fa of complacency and conientedness. by a friend. The foxes were worth approximately $5000,) Lady Astor who talks prohibition : ing in dark streets by night. But we abeyance. or: io serves champagne at her parties, and | thought all the robbers in Chicago} Many of the fears from which chil- Through the ages and for generation after gencration and the trustees prepared to sell them and put the cash great is the havoc thereof, ‘The local | slept nights after such busy days. deen putter seen\. as deratl po the ignorant masses were kept in subjugation and want in the treasury. optioners say she should be kept off unfounded as this and Aaa quite by this creed, which considered ambition en evil and| Frist, however, they decided to investigate. They found) the temperance platform. But surely ‘A Hollywood star went to court over as real. It is easy to understand aspirations as temptations placed before the common|that the foxes were being cared for on a regular fox| they are forgetting that Lady Astor is} $750 bill presented by & masseur. why a child is afraid of a barking people by the devil. Twentieth century commercialism|ranch, and the rancher agreed to continue to look after | @" mewiteies min that Animes ie Maybe she was rubbed the wrong a [ere - oad ge oe potato ree * and standards of living have broken down this creed|them and their progeny in the interests of the church. Gilite anahee thing to keep ee gullet way: start Scone vn in the United States and elsewhere to that degree where| So, after using paper and pencils for a while, the trustees] dry, French Strother, fourth secretary a our national life? It is diffi- those without embitions and the will to fulfill them are|told him to go ahead. “ee to President Hoover, answers the let- it precisely, but it i - AMELIA AND CHARLIE ters written by those who feel they jerstood when I character- Philosophy Scornfully denounced by the more providert. Now they are waiting to see what happens. If they Amelia Earhart, first woman to fly | must write to the president. If you George Jean Nathan writes in a current magazine: |have bad luck, of course, they may lose their seven foxes] across the Atlan, had to come (must write to the Toresident, maybe Yet to the imaginative child the “Happiness is ruinous to accomplishment. Few men can|and get exactly nothing; but if luck is with them, they|down in @ cornfield the other day./you can get a reply quicker if you consideration do first-class work when they are bathed in a mood of|believe that their foxes may cventually pay the entire Page “ of most, etrine ‘Papert cay address Mr. Strother personally, taeritetng ten any barking. Petes in Iife."—Chief Justice Taft. (Out- t= : ae f th h. So thi her a line or so of type about it, re- ee look.) expansive cheer. A touch of unhappiness, of concern, nad in pee budget of the churcl cy are going minding us that when Colonel Char-| Dr. Crandall of the Bronx Zoo has | because one 5 j of discontent, is essential to vigorous enterprise and|to give it a try. les Augustus Lindbergh so much as | just returned from New Guinea and t overcome “To me ‘collegiate! means nonsense, . , { achievement. When everything is going with beautiful stubs his toe, he gets a banner head on | he reports the cannibals won't eat you fiddle-faddle—bumptious - social im- _ -the | smoothness in a man’s daily life, his work immediately A PREPOSTEROUS SUGGESTION page one. Just why is this? Amelia juniess they kill you. Apparently maturity complicated sometimes but shows the effects of it. He slacks up a trifle; he takes| The prize for sheer effrontery ought to be awarded. | Seems about as charming and poised |these people have been much ma- not always by acute class \ ‘conacious- i . @ bit too much for granted; he slides back, however im-| without further delay, to the American who wrote a s Fong oer ee cea esr inlfetees tenes: ness."—Dean Christian Gauss of Perceptibly. It is when things are not exactly hotsy-| circular letter to the hotel and restaurcnt men of | one ‘steenth part the to-do about her.| Why can’t Mexico copy Oklahoma’s al ME MET NN * * rs tacbeged ot " , 't go first, and she |system of getting rid o boty } Lae = totay with him that he produces the best that there is in| Paris, besging them to rovise thotr methcds of cookery ae iA ae ana 65 4 att, & ee aren Of Sete, f executives “Most of the great leaders and re- AG AM Bit api so that Americen tourists could eat as they are sccus-|and we are accustomed to believing | (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) pile ar de ourtny above As : ‘The men and women who are discontented with them-|tomed to eat at home. that anything a girl does is always Aisa Sasi baal orn had siberian Beers ios MI te; we} felves, their business, their environment, their station in] This man, it should be known, manages parties of |more interesting than anything a VETERAN BURIED humor.”—Rabbi__ Israel Goldstein eu Roeseue | Aife, are the men and women who are accomplishing the | American tourists, and says he has taken at least 7000 | man does. Fertile, Minn—Color guard and bgt pay z Temple B'nai Jeshurun, New York = he things worth while. ‘They are making the world gojof them about France. Many of them, he said, suffered esas rifle stung. Of Wk | The ions . MORE ON AUGUSTUS Legion post here assisted in burial eee It does not behoove a “colyumist” | services of Knute Johnson, last re- to take Colonel Charles Augustus’ | maining G. A. R. veteran in the town. that his country's greatest claim me ——-- to fame is not the tremendous sacri * round, not the contented laborer and the satisfied clerk.| indigestion due to French cooking; would the Parisian ’ Every invention is the product of discontent. Discontent chef. bc so kind as to revamp their style? 4s the foundation for every new home. Discontent trades} There are meny reasons for going to Paris. Not the ‘ the automobile for a new and larger model. least of them is the fact that the cooking there is dif- fee hes = pode vi ferent, and in $9 per cent of the cases, infinitely better.|1 OUR BOARDING HOUSE * at. Review of Livers: | RECORD TAX RECEIPTS than the cooking in this country. For an American, iy Secretary Mellon’s habitual conservatism in cstimat-| fresh from this land of hot dogs, lunch-counter dough- | Sng federal revenue, due to anxiety lest the government | nuts and abominable coffee, to ask the Parisian cooks Fun “in the red,” has supplied the basis for several at-| to adopt @ new style is nothing short of preposterous. {tacks by partisan rivals. His estimates—pessimistic in . t with those of sponsors of congressional ap- OUR NEW ATTITUDE Propriation bills—have brought upon his head the ac-| ‘To appreciate to the full the way in which Ambassador ' usation that he has deliberately underestimated reve-| Morrow has given all of us a new attitude toward Mex- | ues to defeat appropriation measures. ico and her troubles, consider the way in which the 4 Last year the secretary of the treasury warned con-| American public has reacted toward the latest Mexican | | (gress that the federal government faced a deficit in 1929 | rebellion. 4f certein sppropriations were made in disregard of| Before this, any Mexican revolt always brought forth ‘budget limitations. The backers of those appropriations | lot of loose talk north of the Rio Grande about the anid he was not taking into account possible revenue in- LT Gh mses souive eine oF | you Gnu wa MINUTE JOUVE “To! rs) ‘sal R 1 Your ‘TALENT IW PAINTING Aon, gaa On ee THRU LANDSCAPES AND MARWE Pictures, — SUBTLE TRICKERY /~BAH M/W we How) EXPERTLY You CAN «I MIGHT HAVE SUSPECTED HANDLE THE BRUSHES AND THe ALIEN INTBREST You ‘PALETTE, ~~~ VERY WELL, ~~ > DISPLAYED BY ASKING IF Now ‘THAT I KNOW THAT, —~ A I EVER PAINTED WN ols 7%.Nou CAN BRING UP ALL THE —- BUT THERE 16 A VAST Fie on You, WOMAN! W~ —. pe WOOT AA L necessity for armed intervention. The idea was never E OF DIFFERENCE IN rN Greases, and congress spent with reckless abandon, leav-| widely popular, to be sure; bi ‘ WINDOW SCREENS FROM SPAC ,t0 Mr. Mellon to worry about deficits. si gio apr portman pli paige peed THE BASEMENT “his ‘WEEK PAINTING ScENic CANVASES, J. 1. Banders, ; ee ‘Not until this week was it considered ‘possible for the |{o send an army down and “clean up that mess.” AND PAINT THEM /u. 4 ANDTHE DRUDGERY OF nl’ ¢ treasury to escape running short of funds. A| Not one peep of that kind has been heard during the : DAUBING WINDow screENs !s pe Dy was considered inevitable until the March income " ; : present turmoil. The whole United States’ has waited -EGAD, ~ AS GREAT A sympathetically for the Calles-Gil regime to restore order. ; Soe SEPARATION .AS No one has ever suggested that we ought to intervene. , BETWEEN A Ambzssador Marrow, we think, is largely responsible, : Nera they 3 GOLD AND ANGER CARRIES FAR aes TNSMITH / A small act may have far-reaching consequences. j tax returns brought the reassuring news of an increase of $80,000,000 in the quarterly payments over those of March, 1928. Now everybody is happy. Secretary Mcl- 4 for good housekeeping, which congress hard to ruin, bas been saved and his critics in con- say to him “I told you 80.” =" ~~ ‘ Forty-five years ago there was a strike in an Ohio coal HOOVERIAN ECONOMY mine. A group of enraged strikers took a car of coal,.set mist, Herbert Hoover it afire, and pushed it down into the mine. ‘That fire is still burning. For 45 years it has ‘The fire that a moment's anger started 45 certainly turned out to be a bigger thing than ‘who started it ever imagined. . AY you use it. :