The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 9, 1929, Page 4

. i ‘PAGE FOUR tres lh OOO Ae OO ow The Bismarck Tribune| Ap independent Newspiper THE STATES OLVES1 NEWSPAPER (Established ?873) Published by the Bismarck Tribune Company Bis: marck, N. D., and entered at the pustoifice xt Bismarck ‘as second class mai! matter. George D. Mann . + Presideat and eublisher Suescription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier per year .. Daily by mail, per year, tin Bismarck) . Daily by mail, Jer year, (in state, outside Bismarck) .... 50u Daily by mail. outside of North Dakota 6.00 {steel ese tae ANCA RRS ae 1.00 fon +. $7.20) Tv | Weekly by mail. tn state. per year Weekly by mail. in state, three years for . Weekly by mail. outside of North Dakota. ber year .. 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But when they simply go ahead and do it, without ing anything about it, we don't mind—indeed, we rather like it. Instead of defying the young men who are push- ing us bodily into a new kind of socicty, we applaud them. The aviators are doing just exactly that. When they get through with us the United States, in common with the rest of the world, will be very different from its old self, The change, probably, will be for the better; but we don't even realize that there is a change until after it is accomplished. Read this little news dispatch from a recent paper: “Edmonton, Alberta—When ‘Pinch’ Dickens, Edmon- ton flyer, brought his monoplane to a landing on the Edmonton flying field the other evening he completed a notable flight of 1,600 miles from Fort Good Hope on the rim of the arctic circle. The plane carried a valuable consignment of furs from the northern parts.” In those two sentences there is compressed a volume about the new order that the aviators are bringing. ‘The outlying fur posts in the Canadian northwest have been, for centurics, among the isolated, unattainable sec- tions of the world. Each man was separated from his neighbor by long days of hard travel. To get to civiliza- tion was a task that took weeks; long canoe trips on lonely rivers, endless hikes across desolate waste lands, night after night of solitary camping in trackless forests and limitless plains. Now young Mr. Dickens, gifted with the flip nickname “Pinch,” soars off in his monoplane—and puts the arctic sirele within 24 hours’ time of the city of Edmonton. Without saying anything about it, he has simply taken she map of northwestern Canada and made it. shrink. The era of isolation and great distances is at an end, forever. That is what all the airplanes are doing, though we don't often realize it. The flyers are bringing us closer together. Our present form of society was drawn up to fit a country of long journeys and widely separated cities; the airplanes are in a fair way to make it as compact as Holland. If the airmen declared themselves in advance we might resent it; at the very least we'd probably ask them to wait while we figured things out. But they don’t. They are pulling all of us into closer contact with each other, wiping out old distances, killing isolation; and all we can do about it is recognize the fact and adjust our- selves to a changed era. TURNING OFFICERS INTO COOKS The old maxim that any army travels—is it “fights”? —on its stomach is given added confirmation in new tactics just adopted by the U. 8. War department. Army officers, under these new orders, have to learn how to cook. At Fort Sam Houston, in Texas, there is @ class of 13 commissioned officers studying the mechan- ics of preparing army rations. They are learning how to get meals—everything from beef stew to salad and pump- kin pie. The theory, no doubt, is that officers with such Knowledge will be able to oversee the work of the com- pany cooks much better, and thus will be able to make The European was pictured as the pitiful victim of en- j tangling, burcaucratic red tape. Every bureau of the Eurepean nations represents for Al an onlookers just so much more government intermed 1g in private af- fa at private expense. And every American taxpayer than! his lucky stars there were no bureaus in the United States. ’ But all this while this country was just about as bu- reaucratic as any European country. By giving the bu- s the name of departments congress and the state legislatures completely deceived the public. A synonym may cever a multitude of sins and delude a whole nation. THE FAMILY AND THE NATION Periodically we are greatly disturbed by the news that are falling off and that divorcees are on the And then on the heels of this news there arations as to how scrious this evil even more numerous suggestions as to how it { mey be speedily checked. No intelligent man or woman who will give any thought to the problem needs to be told how serious it is. it menaces virtually everything we hold dear in our social order. It touches not only the lives of those immediately implicated; it involves somehow the very foundations ot It means that in something fundamental to ie] welfare and happiness we are not succeeding as it to. il any intelligent man or woman close his ear to any of the many suggestions which will presently be given as to how the solution of this problem must be approached to be effective. We shall be told that it ought to be made more difficult to get married, and less easy to get a divorce. We shall be told that the problem is not merely an economic cne, although it is that, too, in part; they will say that it is individual in so far as anything can be individual; and they will tell us that it is also a social problem. In the meantime there are those who have given much thought not merely to the present situation, but to the historical aspect of it also, and the conclusions of these th: rs may be worthy of consideration. They will tell us that the family is the basic unit of civilization; that where any community or nation has clung to this basic say- | family unit, its progress has not been endangered, and where the integrity of the family unit was assailed, there decay was inevitable. The historical significance may be clear to everyone; but more clear even than that is the logic of it. It is within this little group that the ideals are developed which are so necessary to human progress and perma- nence; and it is through this group that these ideals are maintained. When for any reason the integrity of this group is threatened, we are told, then all civilization is threatened, for, it can not be too often repeated, the family is the unit on which the whole structure of civil- ization is built. In proportion as we can bring ourselves to realize the importance of this fact; in proportion as we can keep out the theories of this or that, or fads of one kind or another from our thinking about the family, in that proportion we may avert the dan- ger of which the increase of divorce and decrease of mar- riages is only a symptom. Whatever can be done in the home or by any other educative influence outside of the home, to keep before us the fact that except as we maintain the family intact the outlook is a dark one— this is worth doing. No nation can continue to be great. except its greatness is based on an enduring family rela- tion. TOURISTS AND GODS The gods of ancient Grecce died a long time ago. Even so, however, they must be turning over uneasily in their graves today. For the Greek government is planning on turning the famous Mount Olympus into a national park, medeled on those in the United States and Canada. Mount Olympus was supposed by the ancient Grecks to be the actual home of the gods. Now, however, it is to become a haunt of tourists. Hot dog stands, no doubt, will encircle its base, and on new motor roads flivvers can spin to the cloud-kissed peaks where Venus, Zeus and Apollo once were devoutly believed to have their celestial palaces! The idea is startling—and, somehow, extremely at- tractive. It is all right to tell your wife everything that happens if you don’t tell her even more than that. SL TS | Editorial Comment | NO REFORM FOR MR. DARROW (Duluth Herald) For many years there has been criticism of prolonged criminal trials in this country and the technicalities of court practice that so often make it easy for clever law- yers and well-financed defendants to escape justice. ‘The Illinois legislature is trying to put through some desirdble reforms in that state, and as the bills in- troduced have the support of the Chicago bar associa- tion, probably they are reasonable. But they do not suit the lawyers who thrive by defend- ing the powerful criminal element in that state. At a hearing in Springfield the other day Clarence sure that their men are getting the proper kind of food. ‘The War department, to our notion, is showing ex- cellent judgment. The soldier is a great one to grumble over his lot; but the grumbling is never really serious unless it concerns the food he is eating. If he is fed properly, he doesn’t so much mind his other troubles; nd if he isn’t, his dissatisfaction rapidly becomes acute. THE MOTORIST PAYS ENOUGH The motorists of this nation are surely paying their _ Bhare of the taxes, In 1928, according to estimates of the United States bureau of public roads, various state gasoline taxes netted over $300,000,000. Increases voted in nearly every part of the country will boost the figure this year to the neighborhood of $450,000,000. Obviously, the motorist ought to help pay for the good Toads that his activities make necessary; and so long as the money is used for that purpose alone the situation 4sn't 80 bad. But some states are beginning to divert part ‘of this revenue to other purposes; and, in addition, many legislatures seem to have the idea that no gas tax can ‘be too high. The motorist right now is paying just about all that can in justice be demanded of him. SUBWAYS AND HIGH TAXES ‘The city of Detroit, in a special election, has rejected 991,000,000 subway proposal by a huge majority. 4 other fast-growing populous cities, Detroit is turned down the plan to bulld Darrow, whose reputation as a defender of notorious criminals is countrywide, strongly opposed the reforms. The impression and arguments he made were disap- pointing to those who hoped to find him interested, in his later years, in a high-minded administration of law. Expressing distrust of the courts, he said that the re- form program would enlarge the powers of the judiciary and made some vague insinuations that it was spon- sored by “special interests.” He charged that the courts would not allow time enough for the trial of ordinary cases because they “had to hurry into the hearing of thirty-million-dollar cases.” A member of the committee promptly reminded him of the time he took in the Leopold and Loeb case, one of the longest drawn cases on record, and a sharp ex- change between him and the committee followed, leaving the veteran criminal pleader in a rather poor light. Of course there is nothing very surprising in Mr. Dar: row standing up for a system that brought him promi- nence, but this and similar hearings reveal how hard it is to reform anything that gives lawyers of his type money and fame. A NEW WORD ; (New York Times) Readers of English industrial and political discussion during the past few months must have noticed the com- ing of a new term. It is “rationalization.” The word ap- Pears in print and in debate. It is not, as one might sus- pect, a mysterious Freudian adaptation. There is no subtle attempt to give a plausible but false reason for motives of which you are secretly ashamed. Boiled down to its simple meaning, the process of rationalization as applied to industry means simply the creation of vast mergers or combinations, with the aim, and sometimes with the result, of bringing together virtually all of the companies in a given line of productio: or business and estgblishing what amounts to a monopoly. is really happening is that England is going thing like the great American Trust move- ment of thirty years or more ago. English banks and} capitalists now insist upon the economies that can be made by a great simple unit, as against the wasteful competition io concerns fighting each other for mar- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE A all EEE OX LEE’S SURRENDER Sixty-four years ago today the two most colorful figures House, Va., and silenced forever the guns of the war of secession. Genera) Lee bore on his shoulders maddened north gs the greatest hero of the day. Of the two, Lee seemed to be better aware of the historic significance of . But Grant's diffidence ing a defeated foe. It is for the victorious recently told school principals that, “A good, old-fashioned spanking is still necessary in exceptional cases, but the spanking should be done in the presence of one or more wit- Confederates to “stack their arms.” ‘The terms of peace were liberal and within a few hours, Grant was on his way to Washington by train. STEALS CANNED MUSIC London.A van. containing 2000 phonograph records rolled along Old street, stopped and the driver got out. He entered a building and while there, someone made off with the in leaving the empty van stand- Parents Happy When Baby Sleeps Soundly Here's a way to soothe crying, wakeful babies to sleep quickly and easily. It’s the way doctors endorse, and milliqns of mothers have proved is safe and harmless. A few drops of purely-vegetable, Pleasant-tasting Fletcher’s Castoria, has the most fret- ful, restless baby or child asleep in a few minutes! And for colic, consti- pation, colds and upeet spells, there's nothing like Castoria. The Chas. H. Fletcher signature is the mark of genuine Castoria, Avoid imitations and be safe.—Adv. 8 OKEHS SPANKING 4 a : Youngstown, O.—Although: school q “Gilt fy f days, past and present, have changed, seis! ‘ ¢ they still have one common denomi- nator in spanking. A champion of the cause is Supt. J. J. Rocheson, who at Bea il business, and that very move killed the kids. Perhaps the same officials who met the bootleg liquor curse by languidly opining that everybody who broke the law and drank ought to be ,D2. SUMNER, poisoned by bad liquor, will also opine that if a few more babies are killed Mrs. Myrtle Flanagan, 24, a road- | by still explosions, it may help to stop - | the business. show dancer, willed her little five. ew “Mamma, I want « nickel,” says the * ~hectinettert oh aeal tall eth statot phd “UNWRITTEN LAW" 4-year-old.’ “Give me a quarter, dad,” she was dying. The law is saying.) ‘The famous “unwritten law” func- | says the grade school child. “I need however, that a parent may not will | tions very well when husband shoots | some money,” announces the high a child as it would a tract of land or | the “destroyer of his home.” Mrs. | school girl across the breakfast table money in the bank, and that re-|Olive Adams, 29, widow of Harry | with dignity and reserve. They say gardless of the mother’s will, the | Adams, former head of the weather |it differently, but to them all, nickels, child must go to whomsoever the law | bureau in Hartford, Conn., is wonder- | quarters, dollars mean the same thing. designates, probably to her father. | ing if it will work so well when a mere | They spend them with a light heart * * * wife invokes it and. slays not the |that literally takes no thought for FAIR ENOUGH! third person, but the immediate the morrow. Feminists might grow inflamed at | faithless spouse. She chloroform: Children who never have earned this, citing the injustices of women|ed her husband the other day be- ; money, whose father and mother give bearing the pain of childbirth, only | cause of his various infidelities. them generous amounts to spend al- to have no right to direct the destin-, If she'd killed some of “the other | most whenever they ask, regard their ies of their own children. And yet,|women” she'd probably have had an | Parents as a kind of miraculous pitch- | % here's opining that such a law is aleasier time with the jury than she |er. One may pour from it again and good thing. If women could legally | will because she killed her husband. | again, but it remains ever full. will their children away like so many | Human nature does love to sce “the | Although from time to time these puppies, there would be as many in- |! destroyer” pay and pay and pay! | Parents protest at the apparently in- justices done to fathers as the present * * * s&tiable demands made upon them, it state of affairs wrecks them on MOTHER LOVE is evident that on the whole they mothers. There are no more wise| Little Edith Reynolds, 6, of Fort|find the situation a pleasant one. and just women than men. Worth, Texas, was burned almost to |The faith and utter independence of * * * death while playing with her dolls in beast children flatters the wish for} ¢ BREAD BEFORE STYLE -|front of a gas stove. Her mother ! power and importance that dwells in Women workers in a certain cotton) gave 80 square inches of skin to be;even the most devoted parental mill in Salem, Mass., are learning the | grafted on her child. An obvious| bosom. It makes possible an abso- evolution of fashion as it goes hand | comment might be a reflection on the | lute control which can be achieved in hand with industrial safety. A| superiority of maternal to filial love, | Under no other circumstances. few months ago they were ordered to | with some glib comment to the effect | _The policy of giving money to chil- substitute low heels for high; a little that while a mother would make this ;@ren on request is, however, most later, skirts no longer than knee|sacrifice for a child, few, if any | Unfair and short sighted. It teaches length were suggested as necessary | children. would make it for a parent. nothing of economy and planning, for safety, and now the company sug-| But that’s not so. Just about as|nothing of the value and limitation gests that overalls would be prefer- | many children would surrender skin | Of money. It fixes in the child the able to even the shortest skirts in! for a parent, as vice versa. They'd | dea that money is obtained in return consideration of whirring machinery. ! give the dramatic, momentary gesture | for love rather than work, that it is Meekly the women are submitting. | of affection, even if they couldn't | his by divine right rather than as the We hear a great deal about fashion | stand a long continuous gesture such | fruit of his own effort. being first in a woman's life; it looks | as living with a parent or supporting | The wise parent will see that even sometimes as if the urge for bread | him or her. the littlest child has opportunities to and butter were even a sterner neces- * * x earn his coveted nickel, and he will sity. “CRADLE OF THE DEEP” encourage the older ones to find ** * With all the excitement about | Work for which they may be paid. He BABIES KILLED Joan Lowell, author of “Cradle of | Will fix an allowance in accordance The two little youngsters of Mr.|the Deep,” who spent most of her| With the state of the family purse Talks TOS, “I WANT A NICKEL” By ALICE JUDSON PEALE Main Floor Bargains Small Assortment Ladies’ Hand Bags Each - $1.00 These are high priced bags, slightly scuffed, and of- fered at this low price to close out. We are sure this is the biggest value that we have ever offered in hand bags. 3 A Cleanup of Ladies’ Sweaters, ea. - $1.00 Wool and rayon mixtures; good assortment of color combinations ; sizes 34 to 42. Values in this lot to $1.95. | % Combinations for Average Figures Each - $1.00 Fancy stripe batiste, with or without inner belt, sizes 82 to 44. Pongee Slips, Bloomers, Step-Ins and Mrs, Martin Wallach of Beth- life till she was 17 on her father’s| 2nd the needs of the child—and from eben, Fa Se killed when their | trading schooner, and who has writ- | {ts tnstone he will admit no ap- Each - $1.00 father’s si exploded the other j ten of seeing sailors torn asunder by | Pe ii A morning. The father explained that | man-eating sharks and the wild sid Made of 12 momme pongee, neatly tailored; range of it was his first attempt at making | gin dances of savages, ni seems URGES SAFETY s81zes. . moonshine, and that he did it be- so amazing as the fact that her shore | Indianapolis, Ind.—The American cause he could not support his fam- mother would let her go with a sea-| Legion through its 10,000 posts has- ily on his weekly wage of $18 a week. | faring father. The maternal instinct | begun a national safety campaign to Here's a dramatic tragedy. The; generally fights to keep all the off- | cut down the total of accidents that paternal urge to do more for his kids | spring with it, even if there are eleven | occur yearly. reading “Protect Baby Blankets, 36x50 Inches, Each - $ Double woven Esmond blankets, sateen bound, pink or blue. Signs sent the father into the moonshine | of them. Our Children” are used on highways. Baby Blankets, 29x39 Inches, 2 for $1.00 | An assortment of pink and blue mixtures, shell stitched - edge. Feather Pillows, Full Size, Each - $1.00: 21x27 inches. Fancy ticking filled with real feathers. Linen Lunch Cloths, 49x49 in., ea. - $1.00 All new tinted cloths with colored borders. Extra qual- ity of all linen crash. The Radio Special Lamp Shade, ea. - $1.00 Bridge lamp, table lamp and ‘floor lamp size. Bright color crepe paper with shellac finish. Just the thing for the summer shade. A Dollar Table of Small Lamp Bases and Shades Values in this lot up to $1.95. Each item $1.00. An Assortment.of Odd Pieces of Stamped Art Needlework Fern Stands—Including Stand and “Copper Bowl - $1.00 These t $1.39, | , ther wil net nos Wag, senak for thane carte” | OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahern : Heck MAJOR, THATS WorK! w~ IF I WAS A SURGEON AN” OWED You MONEY, You"D THINK UP Some KIND oF A TouGH OPERATION oN YoURSELF TO Take onT IN TRave /. we WELL, & GET TH" PANT AN’ TLL Do 17 / BUT, WLLL BEA $12. 30B,~ AN” THAT'LL LEAVE A $3, DIFFERENCE Youll OWE ME, I CAN TAKE out IW TRADE ~ EGAD, SNUFFY, ~ You KNow THAT I HAVE NEVER PRESSED |! AMY OF MY PALS For “He Payment’ oF A DEBT, HAVE LT 2. ER--UM— You OWE ME $9,, w.% AND, AH,~-% You Are AN EXCELLENT PANTER BY TRADE, WHAT say You © PANTING The WINDOW ScREENS oF MY HOUSE. AS PAYMENT OF THe DeBT 2 left and SKILLED “LABOR ‘ee DoDGER Busy Style and Bee bh ® ™