The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 22, 1929, Page 4

The Bismarck Tribune Ap Independent Newsptper THE STAVES OLVES] NEWSPAPER * (Established 1873) THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE CHICAGO—AND OPTIMISM Sscretary of War James W. Good seems to have qual- ified as the country’s leading optimist. Arriving in Chicago the other day on a business trip through the middle west, the secretary remarked that News Note: Ex-President Coolidge Goes Into Insurance Business! rr { Published by the Bismarck Tritune Company Bis- | the troubles of Chicago, centering about the gang wars, Avem!..- ' : marck, N. D., and entered at the postoffice xt Bismarct | booticg rings and racketeering combines, were nothing BLANK! fF as second bord mai) matter. ain bebe more or less than “growing pains.” Pensa f George D. Mann ............... Preside. me | “Perhaps.” he said, “It is t use Chicago so 8 ta see T f Suoecription Rates Payable in Adrance pieteiy and emphatically represents the problems, dif- \! 1a, Do NE: ete!) 20 | ficulties and perplexities of modern cities, grown to un- ~~ ' P aS exampled greatness in amazingly short time, that it has hed more than a fair share of attentiongto its derelic- tions.” ‘This, on the whole, is the most optimistic view anyone has given the Chicago situation in a long time. Some people, far from calling the gangland mess a species of growing pains, have seen it a token of the last days —a symbol that not only Chicago but all of America is on the verge of a breakdown, in which democracy, as we know it, is going to smash. Yet the secretary is probably right. It is no use try- ing to gauge what happens in this country by the old standards. The outstanding fact about us is that we are headed toward something entirely new in the world. Just what that will be may not be quite clear yet; but it' will be unlike anything tat has gone before, and our way of arriving at it, likewise, will be unique. The nation began as a place where every man could be free. The old tyrannies were thrown off; any man who ATAVASTIC MENTAL TENDEN- CIES Attached to each ear are three muscles for the evident purpose of wiggling the ear upward, forward and backward, and yet there are very few individuals who have the power to flap or otherwise wiggle the ears. Scientists claim that these muscles, together with certain other anatom- ical structures, such as the coccyx or rudimentary tail, and the hairs of the face and body, are evidences of man’s development from a more primitive form. This belief is held by most scientific men at present, and if it is true, it is also ble that we still | destruct use a number Or mental by living in society, it becomes processes which were very necessary in the ear- sary for us to‘sublimate our powerful lier stages of human history but| primitive, but often tactless, emo- which at present could be discarded | tions. Weekly by mail. in state. per year Weekly by mail. in state. three years for ... Weekly by mail. outside of North Dakota. per year Member Aedit Bureae of Circulation Men.ber of The Assortated Press The Associatea Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also | the loca! news 01 spontaneous origin publ'she herein All rights of republication of al) other maiter herein are also reserved. Foreign Representatives G. LUGAN PAYNE COMPANY NEW YORE .... Fifth Ave. Bidg. CHICAGO DETROI1 to advantage. hae ar Tower Bldg. Kresge Bit cared to cross the Atlantic and try his luck in the new If the body has evolved, the mind QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ted tosh must also have evolved, and many of Reducing land could be sure that there would be both oppor- tunity and freedom awaiting him. In the carly days, that was a new conception of things. No such thing had ever been tried. Naturally, people did not quite know how to handle themselves—and a long Question: K. L. L. writes: “Some time ago I answered an advertise- ment about a method to reduce. I (Official City, State and Coun’y Newspaper) STEMMING CRIME THROUGH PARENTS | Chicago is to try something new in the way of peno- | our fundamental emotions may only be developments of the archaic. We are striving upward and onward, but some of the impulses must be changed to fit our social customs. logical experiment upon the wave of crime and lax moral- ity. Instead of depending on political reform, it is going to enter the home and discipline indifferent parents in cases where children come before the courts under cir- cumstances indicating that their transgressions are traceable to absence of family training in right conduct, insufficiency of that influence or viciousness of it. American family has become too largely penetrated with an indifference to the welfare of its children and there is a tendency everywhere to blame parental neglect for & growing contempt by young people for balanced and orderly behaviour. The American home is regarded as breaking down where that collapsé has not already taken place. The Rev. Walter E. Vater made an impassioned analy- sis of these conditions at the recent state Yeoman din- ner here and pleaded just as fervently for a return to the old ideals and of family life. He traced his indictment through the evolution of the house-home—so largely now a mere sleeping apartment that its social values of the past have become extinct and its group influence in the molding of character has deteriorated where it has not become actually impossible. There are those who will dispute so comprehensive an indictment, for there still are homes of the character that made the great men of the nation in the past. It is the other type that creates the picture—the impression —of what the modern home is. It occupies the stage of public attention daily and so dramatically in the volume of law violations, in the varied range of crime and in tragedy that the nation cannot but view aghast the situation and the conditions that are revealed in the newspaper records and in the activities of the courts. | The Chicago experiment has developed out of one of “the episodes of tragedy that recently stirred not only that city but gave the entire country an uneasy feel- ing over the future of the young generation. George Lux, a grammar school youth, was killed in an over- turning automobile after he and a party of school boys and schoo! girls had participated in a cabaret gin party and wete going home in the condition resulting from their drinking. A jury of six distinguished educators, Professors Sherman Steele, of Loyola university law school; E. W. Burgess, head of the sociology department of the Uni- versity of Chicago; Samuel Stevens, head of the psychology department of Northwestern University; Edward J. Tobin, county superintendent of schools; Paul T. Buzin, superintendent of Lutheran parochial schools, and Benjamin F. Buck, assistant superintendent of Chi- cago schools, called by Coroner E. N. Bundesen to in- vestigate the Lux death and to determine whether there ‘was an unusual amount of drinking among school chil- dren, held that Lux died as the result of an accident, but * added “it is our opinion that the fatal accident was at least partly due to the intoxication of this boy driver, Frank Cekanor, 18.” series of mistakes, ranging all the way from the Civil war to the recent oil scandals, were the inevitable result. Yet, on the whole, it worked, and it would be unfair to judge the system by its incidental mistakes, no mat- ter how dismaying these may have been. A new element has entered the problem now. On the basis of this old concept of democracy there has come The experiment will be watched with interest by the/a new effort—an effort to give men freedom in the remainder of the country. There is a feeling that the | economic as well as the political sphere. The age of ma- chinery is being welded on to the old foundation—and the ultimate result will be as amazing and as unparal- leled as the new-born democracy was in the year 1800. The job, inevitably, is being accompanied by turmoil. It is producing a big crop of mistakes. Chicago, typify- ing the new America more than any other city, shows them at their worst. But thére is no reason for despond- ency. Lawlessness and corrution will pass. The same tremendous vitality that produced them will conquer them. Secretary Good's optimism is not unjustified. THE ARMY IS READY Try to imagine the emotions in the breasts of the U. 8. army men now stationed along the Mexican border—and then ask yourself what would happen if the Mexican rebels should again drop bombs on American territory. The soldicr’s life, in peace time, is a bit dull. The end- less round of drill, guard mount, fatigue duty and the like gets irksome, at best. Now, however the brawny youngsters of the regular cavalry and infantry are being held ready for combat; and it has been announced that they will move on the rebels bodily if any more bombs fall north of the international border. ‘The soldiers, you can bet your last dollar, are just ach- ing to have some misguided rebel aviator overstep that line. An unexpected fight, even if it only lasts half a day, would look like a godsend to them, The closer a man is the more distant his friends are. Some people think every season comes at the wrong time of the year, There is one thing a family skeleton {s good for. It good for about two columns on the front page. The two people able to make it hottest for you are woman who can’t have her own way and a reformer who can. One of our minor regrets has always been that nobody in the family went to medical school long enough to know how to set the leg of a card table. Editorial Comment | S DAY ou Looking out of my window a few minutes ago I saw a woman slip on the sidewalk and fall. At least half @ dozen women, dashing on about their own affairs, looked curiously at her, hesitated a moment as if won- dering what they should or could do about it, then hurried on, ‘The first man who came along helped her to her feet, collected her scattered bag and gloves and hat, took her to.a cab, tipped his hat, and passed on. There is a line concerning “man’s inhumanity to man.” The word “man” is used in the general sense, of course. The line refers to hu- manity’s inhumanity to humanity. ‘There is occasional evidence, how- ever, of woman's inhumanity to wom- gn, with the wonder why it is. * * & A PARADOX Dr. Richard Hoffman, author of a fascinating new non-fiction book called “The Struggle for Health,” reminds us that long as wom- en tended women in childbirth throughout the long, centuries when no one dreamed that a man might be of service at this time, not one discovery or invention to alleviate her pain was ever made or even attempted. He writes— “There were two problems which, almost from the beginning of time, had challenged the skill of all peoples alike: Birth and War. Birth had been a most mysterious and pexplex- ing phenomenon to early man. Yet, is so far as birth itself was concerned, ° little or nothing was done to improve the method of its accomplishment. “Midwives had this field pretty much to themselves over countless West na — into the field that inventive minds sprung into action and obstetrical Progress began. “It may be that the very tireless- ness of their task inured women to their ancient methods, and that men looked more sensitively upon the scene, coming to it with fresher eyes | J —the eyes of an opposite sex, looking compassionately upon Nature’s most fundamental, yet often cruel, expres- sion.” xe ® FASHIONABLE THING! | It seems that once again it was {fashion which determined a vital thing. It was not until the court ‘world made a male doctor as an assistant to the stork fashionable, when kings began using the court surgeon for the delivery of their own offspring, that the lesser peoples per- mitted @ surgeon at the bedside of the new-born child. Those who were not kings some- times summoae4-a shepherd who had been successful in the lambing season. Many questions arise with this re- minder that woman herself took her agony as a matter of course. Are women slower to accept change, slower to demand the better way, than men? Are they more accep- tive of things, without questioning if there might be a better way? When it is only a matter of their own welfare and freedom from pain, womenare notoriously acceptive; when be concerns their children, or those near and dear to them, they are any- thing but that. | Women have gloried in the tradi- tional pain of childbirth, too, for a reason which they would be the first. todeny. By clinging to the hardships of it rather than accepting the casier way, they have become more securely anchored to male protection. Al Smith is going to write for the magazines for $2 a word. Mr. Cool- BARBS j | villages sprung up magically. The ‘earn, of course, that that was the wrong thing to do. A Columbia professor says the alarm clock is a shock to the nervous system. It is also a slight shock to some people suddenly to be out of a A New York doctor urges thiit col- leges establish compulsory courses in {parenthood . Few people know more ae one thing to do with four safety pins. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) eC LLAS SS OPENING OF OKLAHOMA Shots fired exactly at noon 40 years ago today on the borders of Okla- homa signaled the opening of that territory to settlement. Vast throngs of homesteaders had been gathered for days and weeks waiting for the moment specified in President Ben- jamin Harrison's proclamation to en- ter “Beautiful Land,” as its Indian name has it. | The race for claims and home sites wasascolorful at it was hectic. It \has no parallel in history. Hundreds of the hopeful were crowded in trains on the only railroad to enter the ter- ritory. Thousands were on horse- back with little or no provisions. | Other thousands were in buggies and wagons. Others, more cautious, drove ox-carts, heavily laden with supplies. Still others were on foot. Within a few hours after\ its dra- matic opening, the territory had practically all its obviously valuable land claimed by settlers. Towns and i city of Guthrie, which did not exist at all at dawn, had a population of From our environment and early training we probably learn selfishness, cruelty, deceit and combativeness. These were once essential to our sur- | My vival, but at present they have be- come largely unnecessary and in some cases actual handicaps which must be overcome. These savage remnants still persist in man, but they have been modified or repressed by the dic- tates of custom and civilization. Jt is difficult to realize how strongly these primitive emotions may_ still dominate us unconsciously. In a panic, fire or disaster, the savage hidden within a civilized man casts aside veneer of culture and one will seek personal safety even at the ex- pense of others. We know that a mob loses all sense of reason, and justice becomes a thing forgotten. In fact, many of our penal codes are only for the purpose of regulating the atavis- tic tendencies of human beings. A man may be a perfect gentleman when in society or when surrounded by his business associates and yet in his own home where he is freed from social restraint these hang-back primitive tendencies may assert themselves. The human reasoning power is still in its infancy. If it were fully de- veloped, we should be able to recog- nize all things in their true propor- tion. We would never be troubled by trifles nor would we neglect import- ant duties. We would be able to dis- pense with bumpers on our automo- biles, because we would never make mistakes. However, we all know that the man or woman who has never made a mistake does not exist, and we still find use for the rubber on our lead pencils. , To each of us, this life is a con- tinual process of learning and experi- menting from the day we are born was appointed adjutant general by Governor Mellette. Leonard A. Rose, Fargo, has re- ceived an appointment as superin- tendent of public instruction. Mr. and Mrs. C. John Alloway, Grand Forks, are here for a few days as the guests of friends. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Harry L. Call, Minneapolis, is the guest of his mother and brother for @ short time. ‘Webb Brothers are removing their furniture department into the new store building just completed on Fourth street near Broadway, just north of the Cook Music store. E. G. Patterson went to St. Paul condition I can eat very few things without vomiting immediately. But as I am only 20 years old, I am afraid if I don’t continue with these treat- ments I would soon weigh 200 pounds, ‘What can I do?” Answer: The reason you have had so much difficulty in reducing is probably due to some glandular de- ficiency. The tablets which caused you to reduce very likely contained thyroid extracts and this treatment is never advisable unless you are under the strict care of a physician. I am sure that you will be able to reduce your weight if you will exercise your will-power enough to keep away from food for a sufficient time. I would advise a straight water fast, using a glassful of water every half hour dur- ing the day for three or four days followed by the orange fast. If the fast is long eneugh it will usually re- sult in the correction of the glandu- lar condition so that a gain of weight will not result after you begin eat- ing. It would be a good plan for you to avoid starches and fats in your diet for quite some time. Milk Question: Mrs. B. K. writes: “I have been told that milk hardens the bones—that if adults take it at all it should be curdied. And what do you think of junket?” Answer: Milk does not harden the bones and may be used to good ad- vantage in the diet at any age if used in the proper combinations. Junket is quite wholesome and should be used hope you will find it interesting and helpful. could grow enough cress and radishes, enough lettuce and spinach to supply the table even a few times, he would be accompli quite as much centuries, And if there be one in- stance where biting criticism can be directed at woman as 8 professional 10,000 by nightfall. It was the cap- iat of Onanone. until 1910, when ; lahoma, iy, closer to the = figure, this is it. Amazing and in-| Reading and study aren't the only | graphical center of the state, "yas credible though it seems, woman com- | Ways for a man to acquire g vocabu- | chosen. pletely failed to take any step that |Jary. He can marry one. R Our Yesterdays j WHEN TWINS ARE NOT ALIKE (8t. Paul Dispatch) Medical men are asking why twins are alike and going beyond the popular theory that the c! of birth and environment are responsible for likeness in feature and physique, inquire if twins think alike and have the same emotions. Dr. H. H. Newman of the University of Chicago set himself to reduce theory to scientific fact. He found yesterday. TEN YEARS AGO F. E. McCurdy, Bismarck attorney, returned yesterday from a week's} li business trip in the east, st Mrs. Harry Thompson, Minneapolis, who has been visiting friends in Bis- marck and Wilton, returned today to her home. idge ought to ask for a raise. : ‘The jury called on “flaming youth” to work out its "own salvation by discarding the code of “the boy, the girl and the bottle.” This gin code was propounded by two girls of the party in a way to reveal young Lux as @ martyr to the binding influence of its convention. ‘Where it dominates the social contacts of the young, none has the hardihood to hang back in the general | bandonment to its corruptive ethics, i The Lux tragedy took on a wider application when | One would aid their fellow women and themselves at this crucial event. Marion Talley says she will quit her “In all the thousands of years dur- | opera career and take up farming. |), ing which agony and death were ob- | An ambitious young lady. observed in @ thousand ways, no ,| woman invented or contrived any * # “No matter how many of F FORTY YEARS AGO , Because she “didn’t know anything] George B. Dunbar, St. Joseph, Mo., business , the courts fan to shape their action with a view to method or intended to| about it,” Senator Laura E. Naplin of |is in the city looking after j cimee oo spirit and practices of the “gin code” Jessen the pain attendant to child-| the Minnesota legislature voted “no” | interests. Se ee ee ee the school boys and girls. The bench decided it | Dr. girl birth, or to make it a safer experi-|on a bill. After she has been in the — ~ 4 sa Die to the G2 die evil and believing that pounds heavier and several points in intellectual rating | °°: It was only when man came | legislature a while longer she will} James S. Huston of Spink county,/ mrs, J. P, French entertained the pisiadng of above her London sister.. Emotionally and temperament- —— —— naa coreaner cre twelve members of the Crochet club it all may ie ee ough ne ig by marae sagen ally aes ieee cer) but the Beraniass 0 en and at her home yesterday afternoon. examples type father other were haled | body who was brought up on the prairie. = before the Inv. A big drive under the auspices of the| DF. Newton, indicates that better food gave the Can- | OUR BOARDING HOUSE By Ahern school authorities was instituted to suppress the wild | Sian twin her superiority. Talks To y Dr. John Monroe of : Seaiepstes among. the Inland university, who asserta that the opts wh Lux boy’s death having tend sul . ) : ' boys and girls tn'the publls schools of Pevibault: aMirnesota, in 1013. { EGAD, M'DEAR,—~ I WILL LEAVE IT To You To BE i continued it through his career at Carleton college, HAVE To APPEAR IN couRT UP AT “THREE IN THE morNine:] i cotta goes on Convinced” he saya, “thas much of the low intelligence | faa WEDNESDAY AS A WITNESS FoR MILK WAGON AcciDENTS? fie ities is due to the fact that for gener these people have fa “To a Arey on. Qo ur EVIDENTLY THE DRWER pg eget geo ey ot SAWRDAY EVENING fu al. 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